skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never crawled. My parents were worried, they went to doctors who assured them that I was mostly alright, and then one day, I got up and started walking.

I saw the exact same behavior with my ex-gf's sister's son, who we took in after he was in foster care from birth. The child had clearly not been engaged with properly... the back of his head was bald because he was always on his back in a cramped bassinette and at 11 months he hadn't even learned to turn over. Within 3 months of being with us, he was walking.
You mean the song in the trailer? It's the japanese OST for Kenshiro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenshiro

The story is quite simple, I just loved the anime when I was a kid :)

The italian version is also incredible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPIcdhjPG5I
"AI uses the same amount of power as Bolivia per day to craft 80% accurate powerpoint slides for consultants to present to executives who are outsourcing their primary job function for 900/hr"
Ask HN: Folks(technical) interested to work on an AI Infra startup idea with me?
I am looking for a technical co-founder with experience in infra and scaling to collaborate on an AI infra idea I’m working on.

The role would be as a Co-founder & CTO, so you’d be involved in shaping the core architecture and direction of the project. Ideally, you’re based in Bangalore and open to working closely to build this out.

I'm technical too and I've built the initial MVP and I've got a couple of companies as beta users already.

If this sounds interesting, drop a comment here, and we can chat more about it!

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No worries. I would still consider these methods to be very different from each other. SPH, FVM and so on are methods to discretize continuum equations. If you have a continuum equation that describes your granular material you can use them and DEM kind of interchangeably. But often times such continuum equations do not exist for granular media or they break down in certain flow regimes.
DEM on the other hand is not based on the continuum representation. Instead it is based on interaction forces that originate from particles being close by.
While it might be possible to link these two, afaik nobody has done this, but I'm no longer active in the field.
I'm pretty convinced that it's ruining fun.

We moved a few months ago, and even now about 90% of their toys are still packed up in boxes. No exaggeration. We didn't make a thing of it, we just quietly decided not to unpack anything by default - neither kids' stuff nor parents' stuff - and instead only unpack specific things when someone specifically wants them. Because how often do you get such a good chance to find out which of your possessions you actually care about?

So far what we've seen is:

1. Less sibling conflict.
2. Less complaining about being bored.
3. More creative play.
4. Zero complaining about not enough toys.
Thanks for the kind words.

I wrote a previous deep dive into database cryptography, which talks about things like searchable encryption (which may offset some of the relevant inefficiencies): https://soatok.blog/2023/03/01/database-cryptography-fur-the...

Happy hacking :3
You’ve gotta get ahead of the problem when they’re little, get rid of toys early and often. Kid doesn’t play with it, away it goes. If the grandparents don’t like it they can keep them at their house.

Exceptions made for the kids or parents favorites that aren’t broken: Barbie, Hot Wheels, Lego, etc.
A lot of this behavior is only a major problem if you're putting arbitrary input in, and especially, externally sourced input.

The "good news" is that bash is so full of ways to get command execution that people blow their foot off and get compromised long before these little details are what are compromising their system. People get popped putting in user input at the base string layer where all you have to do is slap down a semi-colon to get arbitrary command execution long before they're getting popped by obscure "test" behaviors.
My team (third party) has developed WebGPU support for Unreal Engine 5, along with an asset-streaming system that solves the large download, multi-gigabyte game in your webpage issue by only loading in what a player needs to see at any given moment. It's constantly loading and unloading data, which helps tremendously with memory management.

WebGPU is going to usher in a new era of web games, the biggest benefit being compute shaders which have never before been possible inside the browser.

DISCLAIMER - Will only work on a Windows device running Chrome or a Chromium browser. Mac and iOS isn't well supported yet.

Space demo - https://play.spacelancers.com/

Forest demo - https://play-dev.simplystream.com/?token=bd4ca6db-522a-4a73-...
It might if AI/LLM safety is a concern. We can't begin to really judge safety without understanding how they work internally.
The key term is 'close-up' here. Some context:

Edwin Hubble [...] in 1925 [...] identified extragalactic Cepheid variable stars for the first time on astronomical photos of Andromeda [...] In 1943, Walter Baade was the first person to resolve stars in the central region of the Andromeda Galaxy.—https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy

The List of stars with resolved images (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stars_with_resolved_im...) contains all those stars starts (unsurprisingly, on hindsight) with the Sun of which the first photograph was made in 1845; the next star to be visible on a photograph as a disk, not a point, was only made in 1993. I grew up in the knowledge that all stars (except for the Sun) are too far away for them being resolved; that became obsolete 30 years ago. Sadly, the list ends with 2014 and does not (yet?) include the new observation.

So yeah, even big, close stars like Betelgeuse (1995) are hard to resolve.
> He said legal costs were increasing exponentially while the value of old email was only linear

Uh this sounds cool at first when you say it, but what does it actually mean? Can't he just say legal costs of keeping that email is more than the value of it. How did he derive exponential?
...the ending from Marshall Brain's short story, Manna
Times have changed a bit. Some CSU campuses do guarantee admission based on GPA but only to students who graduate from high school in a limited set of local public school districts. Like CSU East Bay requires a 2.5 GPA from one of two school districts (SAT scores don't count). Other campuses like SJSU have no guaranteed admissions but do give preference to locals.
so am i struggling with my art or my financial situation? genuinely trying to understand what you're saying.
Plus all of the food hygiene and logistical implications of handling products in bulk, multiplied by the 30,000 different products in a typical supermarket.

I don't know about the US, but in my country butter is packaged in waxed paper, which is fully biodegradable.
Fil-C: memory safe C/C++ compiler
The only law is what you have the capability to enforce.
Great write up, and you're absolutely right that implicits are moving towards ML modules. Quite possibly a production system would end up being synonymous with ML modules out of the need for named impls.

Small nit in terminology, the implicits described are coherent. Part of their value over previous implicit work is that they are coherent and stable. I have generally seen the property you're referring to called canonicity, which they do lack.
"if (( num==42 ))" can exectue code from $num too.
This was shared on some online reptile communities, and a lot of people there take issue with it. The ball pythons were cramped together in a tiny enclosure with no enrichment, red light that bothers them, no cover or clutter, nothing to climb, no way to burrow, etc.

Not exactly a test of whether they are 'social' and frankly it's cruel. Those animals are in so much stress that no data gathered is useful.

Now, if you made a giant vivarium with plenty of space for each, things to climb, substrate to burrow in, etc, would they still choose to congregate? That would be a more interesting experiment. But unfortunately, the answer would most likely be 'no'.

There definitely are some social snakes out there. Garter snakes, for example, are very well known to form colonies and do much better together than alone.

But 'forcing' this conclusion for other species by putting snakes in this situation is awful.
but LLMs seem to be the only one delivering.

something something RNA Moderna something -- yeah, okay, in niche fields.

what, specifically, is AI doing to fix climate change? outside of creating a shit-ton of carbon burning through electricity, that is.
The book in which they read the essay but not it seems the essay itself.
Figata spaziale!!!!
Sono qui a mascella spalancata
Oh no!!! But what about all those Docker files, and k8 clusters!!!

Serious, please view the curled file from a link before piping it to bash/sh.
Sounds like mindfulness - set your intention before you use something and keep checking in to make sure you're not getting distracted (by something other than the game!)
You jest, but if that kid weren’t wearing glasses…

I was thinking more of lawn darts. One look at those, and you just know that one is eventually going to end up in the back of someone’s skull.
Wondering if you have tried AnythingLLM, and if so what you thought of it.
I think kids get overwhelmed by too many toys the same way we get overwhelmed when we have too many things laying around. Every time we get a new toy for my kid we ask him to give up one of the older toys they're not playing with. It worked out pretty well so far.
>Yes, I don't even know what it means to say its 1800 strength and yet plays illegal moves frequently enough that you have to code retry logic into the test harness.

People are really misunderstanding things here. The one model that can actually play at lichess 1800 Elo does not need any of those and will play thousands of moves before a single illegal one. But he isn't just testing that one specific model. He is testing several models, some of which cannot reliably output legal moves (and as such, this logic is required)
Or can't be overruled with the veto power of the 5 permanent member states.

"International Law" is a joke if China, Russia, France, UK, and US can unilaterally decide not to enforce it.
Social media is like owning a bar. If you let a nazi biker gang cook meth in the back room, you now own a nazi biker meth lab bar, no matter what you say about who should feel comfortable there.
In a way the opposite, I'd say: the archetypes in Plato are the most stable reality and are akin to the logos that the past and future tradition hunted - knowing it is to know how things are (how things work), hence knowledge of the state of things, hence a faithful world model.

To utter conformist statements spawned from surface statistics would be "doxa" - repeating "opinions".
Yes, but it was Einstein's imagination that provided the theoretical framework that allowed the longstanding physical measurement to line up. If his imagination was limited by Newton's laws, he would have never come up with GR. If he had said that mass causes time to vary, he would have been laughed out of the room, with much ad hominem shouting.

What I'm saying here is that we need to push beyond our current scientific paradigms to find out how these inexplicable corner cases actually work. As well, I do realize that the depth of exploration required will be further than most people are willing to plumb, which is demonstrated by the in-their-feelings reactions to my ideas.
i'm building in the ai infra layer, could I reach out too?
This is only tangential but with more solar and nuclear, more and more projects like this will become possible.
Maybe if they would legalize Kid Beer, we wouldn't be in this mess.
evolution uses whatever hook it can find to tune behavior. Brains of sufficient complexity have to learn, you can't fit even enough information in DNA to manually wire up a brain, and its hard enough to guess how a barin will end up being wired. you can attach a squirrels optic nerve to their auditory cortex and they'll learn to see. (I may have the animal wrong). You can grow a brain completely inside out that will function.

Instincts are deterministic, but learned behaviors.
I wouldn't. I never progressed beyond chess clubs in public schools and I certainly remember people making illegal moves in tournaments. Like that's why they make you both record all the moves. Because people make mistakes. Though, honestly, I remember more notation errors than play errors.

Accidentally moving into check is probably the most common illegal move. Castling though check is surprisingly common, too. Actually moving a piece incorrectly is fairly rare, though. I remember one tournament where one of the matches ended in a DQ because one of the players had two white bishops.
Okay so now your solution involves banning takeout.

Also leftovers are a thing.
The only reason we care about this law is that the end users matter.

If we can change a misused API such that things break only for the misusing developer, then that is usually a who-cares.

Sometimes that developer is in the same organization that you're in, and their users are your users.

Sometimes that developer is no longer in your organization and their code is your code.
Question: why does the evaluation inside a[] (which does not produce a value) not result in a bad array subscript error in this case?

if you try to evaluate this kind of things as an arithmetic expression directly, it will fail with an error of a bad subscript (mind you, the attack will still work though).
I honestly can’t believe he pulled it off. Even Epstein and Weinstein couldn’t escape justice. Maybe they should’ve run for president.
is that 50-100 as a 1099 contractor, where they have to pay their own payroll tax, plus unemployment insurance, and their own healthcare and retirement?

or are these full-timers.

I'm sure they're almost certainly the former, and that 77/hr doesn't look so amazing after taxes and other overheads. I'd bet that gets down closer to 40/hr actual spending money, and that's not as amazing around big cities like DC, NYC, or SF.
Show HN: Open-Source Database of Banks with Logos, Names, and Websites
The Case Against Deli Meat
> The article is clearly not written by a parent because it barely touches on Buy Nothing Groups on Facebook.

The author very clearly indicates they have children. I don't think the author wants to make it an article about themselves.

Keep in mind: Toys just show up from well-meaning people. There's a lot of social momentum around gifting; I started dreading Christmas because it means a bunch of toys my kids won't play with.

And, not only am I drowning in toys, I'm drowning in books too.
Is it? Can you provide a reference, please?
This only applies to intra-distribution "generalisation", which is not the meaning of the term we've come to associate with science. Here generalisation means across all environments (ie., something generalises if its valid and reliable where valid = measures property, and reliable = under causal permutation to the environment).

Since an LLM does not change in response to the change in meaning of terms (eg., consider the change to "the war in ukraine" over the last 10 years) -- it isn't reliable in the scientific sense. Explaining why it isnt valid would take much longer, but its not valid either.

In any case: the notion of 'generalisation' used in ML just means we assume there is a single stationary distribution of words, and we want to randomly sample from that distribution without bias to oversampling from points identical to the data.

Not least that this assumption is false (there is no stationary distribution), it is also irrelevant to generalisation in traditional sense. Since whether we are biased towards the data or not isn't what we're interested in. We want output to be valid (the system to use words to mean what they mean) and to be reliable (to do so across all environments in which they mean something).

This does not follow from, nor is it even related to, this ML sense of generalisation. Indeed, if LLMs generalised in this sense, they would be very bad at usefully generalising -- since the assumptions here are false.
Thanks. Now, after almost two years of incomparably explosive growth in LLMs since that paper, it's remarkable to realize that we still don't know if Scarecrow has a brain. Or if he'll forever remain just a song and dance man.
Is it possible to make an orbital death laser with this?
That is not "on the flip side" but "now that the damage is done".
nice example of poisoning the well!
Given the size of their camera, you could glue it to the center of another camera’s lens with relatively insignificant effect on the larger camera’s performance.
> Thus it's impossible to draw any meaningful conclusions. It would be similar to if I claimed that an LLM is an expert doctor, but in my data I've filtered out all of the times it gave incorrect medical advice.

Not really, you can try to make illegal moves in chess, and usually, you are given a time penalty and get to try again, so even in a real chess game, illegal moves are "filtered out".

And for the "medical expert" analogy, let's say that you compare to systems based on the well being of the patients after they follow the advise. I think it is meaningful even if you filter out advise that is obviously inapplicable, for example because it refers to non-existing body parts.
I'm lucky enough to have a salmon-bearing stream on my property here in the northwest. They are an extremely inspiring species to watch through their lifecycle. Tenacious.
I have not .. but this seems to be something I must try.
The point is that "internal database of statistical correlations" is a world model of sorts. We all have an internal representation of the world featuring only probabilistic accuracy after all. I don't think the distinction is as clear as you want it to be.
>multiplied by the 30,000 different products in a typical supermarket

It's almost like we're going to have to reduce our consumption or something. Maybe we don't need 200 different kinds of cereal and 300 different kinds of coffee available every single day.
And now dark matter is throwing a wrench in Einstein’s stuff. Like Newton’s laws, Einstein’s stuff gets is mostly right (impressively so, even!) but breaks inside black holes and doesn’t seem to exactly line up with what we observe about what keeps galaxies in tact.

And I’m sure whatever we discover that “solves” for dark matter will eventually start showing cracks as well, prompting another deep inquiry into the nature of our universe.

Good times.
Do they have good aim at that age, or is it just "spray and pray?"
Yeah, they really should be some kind of powerup so you're incentivized to hit them.

Right now learning about the company feels like a penalty which I doubt was the intent.

Also for anyone who hits a dot and is confused how to get out of the information screen - you just press the arrows. I tried escape and clicking for longer than I would care to admit before I realized this.

Super cool idea though.
Clickbait headline. It outsold any of The Beatles singles *in Africa*:

> “Sweet Mother,” his 1976 one-hit wonder, had sold at least thirteen million copies across the African continent – more than The Beatles’ bestseller “I Want to Hold Your Hand.”
SS-Sturmbannführer von Braun, at best, looked away from the labor situation at the Mittelwerk complex that was building his rockets.
I think this is the first time I've ever seen an online game correctly tell me to use WARS keys for movement. Big props for handling non-qwerty layouts.

Great job optimizing too. Runs totally smooth on my 2012 macbook and its decrepit HD 4000 iGPU, which is no small feat for web-games these days.
Physics collision bugs are more likely to occur during frame rate drops. We’ve tried to address this by implementing an auto-respawn mechanism to handle cases where the ball gets stuck inside a collider, but it seems this sometimes fails. Anyway, thank you for playing!
> Some very intelligent people, including Gödel and Penrose, seem to think that humans have some kind of ability to arrive directly on correct propositions in ways that bypass the incompleteness theorem. Penrose seems to think this can be due to Quantum Mechanics, Göder may have thought it came frome something divine.

Did Gödel really say this? It sounds like quite a stretch of incompleteness theorem.

It's like saying because halting problem is undecidable, but humans can debug programs, therefore human brains must having some supernatural power.
Having young relatives, I've noticed this issue. I attribute it to several factors:

1. Declining birth rates. There are more adults in a given child's life;

2. Delayed child birth. Not only are there less children per year because of this, but it also means the parents and relatives are older and tend to be more affluent;

3. Larger houses. Possessions are like a gas. They will expand to fill available space. This affects every possession type, not just toys. Where once a family of 5 might be in a 3x1 1100sq ft house, now it's a family of 3 in a 3000sq ft house;

4. Toys are generally cheaper (the article mentions this) and easier to get thanks to Amazon;

5. Increased information. You're now aware of many things you previously weren't before the Internet. So an aunt or uncle could bring a toy you've never heard of. Now? You've seen Tiktoks about everything the second it's available. So with increased means and knowledge of pretty much everything, there are fewer unfulfilled needs.

6. Guilt. People generally have to work longer hours, more jobs and harder than they did 30+ years ago. As necessary as that is, you will find people "compensating" for the lack of time with material things;

7. Children spend less time playing with each other because now everything is a "play date". We've come a long way from the TV ads of "do you know where your children are?" that would play at 10pm. Now you get arrested if your children walk to the store by themselves [1]. As much as people bemaon video games, computers and devices, it's often the only social outlet with peers children have.

8. A single device (eg console, phone, tablet) can replace the need for many toys so these things tend to collect rather than breaking and getting thrown out.

[1]: https://abcnews.go.com/US/georgia-moms-arrest-puts-free-rang...
We signed Mistral AI from a Hacker News post
Manage Home Lights in Smart and Open Source Way: HomeAssistant and Zigbee
My kids have a doll castle.

So many barbies and barbie-like dolls have shown up, that they are often laying in a pile at the bottom of the doll castle.

I dread opening the doll castle because the sight of the dolls laying, stacked on the castle's floor, just brings back images I've seen of ethnic cleansing.
Tragically incurious comment that doesn’t belong at HN.
yep it could be just as likely that they enjoy building the dam whenever they hear water. seems much less stressful on the system
its been almost 50 years... seems unlikely now.
Do not forget the very linear reality of those people that shout "The car does not work!" in frustration because they would gladly use a car.
I would love if anyone could contribute data, code, or just free time to help grow the dataset!
A lot of the local opposition to dam removal is because of this guy specifically. Here's his article on why the toxic cyanobacteria that was in the former reservoirs is actually good for the river:

https://www.siskiyou.news/2024/01/24/blue-green-algae-in-cop...

It pretends to be a regular news site, and even "scientific", to the point where it fooled Google and his site was often at the top of search results. He was also aggressively promoting his articles on Facebook.

The guy is confusing green algae with bacteria. He's also ignoring the fact that the kind of blue-green "algae" in question, Microcystis aeruginosa, isn't the nitrogen-fixing kind. He has no clue was he's talking about, but that doesn't stop him, and he's unfortunately a major source of "knowledge" (confusion and misinformation) for the locals here.
Turning automotive engines into modular chemical plants to make green fuels