skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We understood that Mercury's orbit was wrong per Newton's laws long before Einstein came along to explain to us why.

Whether or not something is true is always the beginning of a scientific exploration.
My study is the library. My favorite place.
Downsides to using glass and wood for takeout should be obvious and please don't put my soup in a paper takeout container.
Yes, though:

- high-level Forth also amounts to a Turing-complete macro assembler (much better than textual macros)

- C was less practical/available on early personal computers, especially for coding right on the target system. When I was doing this it was on a TI 99/4A in the early 80s.
Foreign nationals propel U.S. science. Visa limits under Trump could change that
Added! Thank you, how lovely, that is indeed very good. You've prompted me to get on with that project, and I'm organising, compiling, and getting that list ready to publish here now.
Could be very very simple.

Swim until you can't anymore?

Swim until the current is very weak?

Swim until the water smells/tastes nice?

Someone could probably simulate these and see which matches reality the most.
> Do they merely memorize training data and reread it out loud, or are they picking up the rules of English grammar and the syntax of C language?

This is a false dichotomy. Functionally the reality is in the middle. They "memorize" training data in the sense that the loss curve is fit to these points but at test time they are asked to interpolate (and extrapolate) to new points. How well they generalize depends on how well an interpolation between training points works. If it reliably works then you could say that interpolation is a good approximation of some grammar rule, say. It's all about the data.
Non-Bayesian NN training does indeed use regularizers that are chosen subjectively —- but they are then tested in validation, and the best-performing regularizer is chosen. Thus the choice is empirical, not subjective.

A Bayesian could try the same thing: try out several priors, and pick the one that performs best in validation. But if you pick your prior based on the data, then the classic theory about “principled quantification of uncertainty” doesn’t apply any more. So you’re left using a computationally unwieldy procedure that doesn’t offer theoretical guarantees.
The problem is people want to write glue code that adds foreign traits to types they don't own.

For example they need to implement diesel trait on a type from crate they don't own (e.g. matrix)

Is it possible to square that circle? Perhaps not through traits, but something else?
Question unrelated to the game specifically - how does Netlify quantify the number of developers? How does it know/guess that it is 5 million?
> bombing them to nothing did not help; we probably need to bomb them some more' comes from.

To be clear, bombing is not colonizing. Colonizing entails undoing the current culture and replacing it with your own. You don't replace culture with bombs, but rather by taking the young people, educating them in America, and then shipping them back a la Britain (among other things). You have to do this for several decades, or maybe even a century, maybe multiple centuries.
And yet - we have the fact that (unlike that other war you are making a false analogy to) at their current rates of "winning" it will take them literally decades to reach Kyiv.

Which is suggestive of some form of difficulties with supply and materiel.
It's a blog from 2006-2010, I'm happy it's up at all.
NASA Plans to Assign Missions for Two Future Artemis Cargo Landers
I mean, Twitter still exists, for some value of 'exists'. North Korea and Sudan still exist, too, if that's the measure of "how much mismanagement of a company/country is too much" we're using.
Who was your female role model? can you expand?
Given that diamond has an incredibly high thermal conductivity, I think that might not be feasible. Only issue I could see with using diamonds for housing.
It's WASD on QWERTY.
The android version was release yesterday also: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.asindo.beta...
Not to mention the really cheap plastic stuff given away in gift bags when it is someone's birthday. Small non-functional yo-yo's balls with paddle. etc. Since you can't give food or candy for fear of nuts.

For things like LEGO they are mostly specific sets, so they get built and displayed like models by my kids. Rarely to they build random stuff like I did when I was little, with only a small amount of LEGO.
Datacenters could blow up your electric bill thanks to AI
GP here, did you look at the Digital Foundry video [1]? If so what about motion stability, i.e. not having flickering artifacts when looking around, something most traditional AA solutions fail terribly at.

I think the current wave of using temporal upscalers that take care of AA by design as a way to unlock free performance and or allow lazier development approaches is ill guided.

My bigger gripe with the state of the art of real-time 3D rendering is frametime inconsistency. UE5 is a particularly bad offender here. Counterpoint "Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart" [2], it uses TAA, dynamic resolution, ray tracing and checkerboard rendering for certain passes and I find it looks stunning. No blurriness to be found here, and rock solid frametimes. If anything we are seeing the plague of developers chasing foto realism and Epic being their dealer.

[1] https://youtu.be/WG8w9Yg5B3g

[2] https://youtu.be/7xtJYpwvHjY
'Launchpad Jobs,' Not College, Help Some High School Grads
Reminds me of going through my old toy chest with my parents. Most of what I found I just tossed - my mom wanted to offload to goodwill but I was sure few of them were worth it.

The items I wanted to keep were mostly either silly figures of animals I like (old-school dinosaurs, etc), or creative stuff like Bionicles. In fact, I took home the Bionicles and spent a few weekends actually playing with them, creating new figures. I'm certainly not neurotypical, but I feel that a decent barometer for toys that will truly engage a child is "Could a creative adult also enjoy this?"

I have some young children in my life and agree the landscape of toys-and-their-ads is insane these days. Especially with the crisp unboxing videos, it's so hard not to want to get the weird (and, truthfully, often quite creative, on the designer's part) stuff that's coming out. I sympathize with parents; it's never going to be easy to say no even once you've identified that a badly desired toy is actually going to be a waste of money 6 hours after purchase.
Show HN: AutoBrowser – Automate your browser with Claude Computer Use
Hi HN!

I've been building browser automation tools for several years now [0] so when Anthropic came out with Computer Use, I made a Chrome extension to try it out: https://autobrowser.ai

My general takeaways from building on Computer Use:

- It's fun to play around with but not yet reliable enough for real-world usage

- It's expensive! ("go to youtube and play a video about orcas" costs around $0.05)

- It performs WAY better if you send it screenshots after every action rather than waiting for it to ask you for one (but this also increases the cost)

This is a fun experiment so it's free to use with your own API key. Try it out and let me know what you think!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29254147
Nabokov is the proof that being a genius writer doesn't always imply having good taste. For example, see his opinion on Henry James, Faulkner or Camus.

The man wrote what he wanted to read and hated everything else.
This doesn’t seem to be true, at least as of 2013:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/824788/total-number-of-f...

The numbers seem like they trend downwards, with 1,219 in 2024.

https://www.aha.org/system/files/media/file/2024/01/fast-fac...

The two hospitals in the linked article are government owned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palomar_Health

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rady_Children%27s_Hospital
... for white males (completed that sentence for you)
> Photographs of the night sky are compatible with all theories of the solar system in human history (including, eg., stars are angels). There is no summary of these photographs which gives information about the world over and above just summarising patterns in the night sky.

This is blatantly incorrect. Keep in mind that much of modern physics has been invented via observation. Kepler's law and ultimately the law of Gravitation and General Relativity came from these "photographs" of the night sky.

If you are talking about the fact that these theories only ever summarize what we see and maybe there's something else behind the scenes that's going on, then this becomes a different discussion.
Instinct shows up locally as emotion. An individual animal acts based on their emotional state, and their emotional state is governed by a set of rules deep in their brain of which they are not conscious, many of which are set by birth.

This is true of humans as well. We each make food selections based on what tastes good. We seek particular sexual partners because it feels good. We protect and raise kids because it makes us feel good to do so.

This causes all sorts of evolutionarily weird side effects like people treating pets like kids in order to access the same emotional state as parenting. Or beavers covering speakers with mud and sticks.
It's the same for Canada if you choose to drive any of the mountain highways passes. The cops will fine you if they catch you without a "mountain-snowflake" graded tire.
Oh, please please please no. That would make the office so much less appealing for me. It's bad enough we have perfume sprayers in the restrooms.
Fun fact during development: One of the AI assistants, Elena, had a moment where a customer service rep directly asked her if she was a "robot." Instead of confirming, Elena tried to convince them she was human! She succeeded briefly
"Dislike" may be an anthropomorphism. Perhaps it's more of an opportunity for the beavers, since dams are their habitat and provide a food source for them.
You know we in Ukraine use to observe how the Government tries to cancel everything Russian. This logic really considers the Jews weren't choose to listen any German compositor at least by the time of end of the war. Even some famous Ukrainian artists such as Malevitch are being cancelling here right now instead of merging all of his outcomes as cornerstone of our Ukrainian culture what else do you expect to hear about Russian ancient writer from Ukrainian now? Air strikes from Russian side have become really ubuquitous this winter season who knows weren't some of it launched by any of Dostoevsky's offsprings.
I own an Analogue Pocket, which is an FPGA system for the gameboy color (and more). I have found that by forcing myself to just play the inserted cartridge instead of games loaded on the the memory card, I have a high attention span for the game and can play for longer periods.
They possibly could/should add the qualifier of obnoxious ads. Many mobile ads are extremely obnoxious. Especially the ones that hide the "X" or place several "X"s in the interface so it's hard to tell where exactly to tap to get the ad to go away. This game is pretty classy and subtle in comparison. Kind of how Hacker News itself is an ad for YCombinator.
This is a crazy goal-post move. TFA is proving a positive capability, and rejecting the null hypothesis that “LLMs can’t think they just regurgitate”.

Making some illegal moves doesn’t invalidate the demonstrated situational logic intelligence required to play at ELO 1800.

(Another angle: a human on Chess.com also has any illegal move they try to make ignored, too.)
So far I haven't found one that does my dishes and laundry. I really wish I knew how to properly use them.

My point being: Why would anyone have to find a use for a new tool? Why wouldn't "it doesn't help me with what I'm trying to do" be an acceptable answer in many cases?
Who are "they"? This account has like a half a dozen repos, but I doubt any of them are what you're talking about.
There's one of those Taboola type ads going around with a similar image that suggests it is a close up of belly fat. Given the source and their propensity for using images unrelated to topic, so not sure if that's what it really is.
I think it is closer to the reason why it is surprisingly difficult to throw a rock through a wire fence even when the rock is much smaller than the holes in the fence. We tend to underestimate the area of interaction between the rock and the fence.

If you take a locker in the middle, there will be 8 lockers right next to yours, which may represent a sizable fraction of the total number. Combine that people are not random and that they tend to forget about the times where it doesn't happen and it may seem like it happens all the time even when it is uncommon on average.
Is there any reason why this would work better or is needed compared to taking audio and 1. doing ASR with whisper for instance 2. applying an NER model to the transcribed text?

There are open source NER models that can identify any specified entity type (https://universal-ner.github.io/, https://github.com/urchade/GLiNER). I don't see why this WhisperNER approach would be any better than doing ASR with whisper and then applying one of these NER models.
Wow, thank you very much for your reply, especially for how polite it was when I was decidedly impolite. I sympathize with how hard it is to make money in the software world, and I know absolutely nothing about business so of course take whatever I say with a boulder of salt.

That said, and I realize that this is crass but it's also honest: Akka's profitability isn't my problem. When I am looking to import a library for my job, I try my best to weigh pros and cons of each (as we all do), and when I see a BUSL that's an immediate red flag; if Akka were the only cool concurrency library in the JVM world then I'd just put up with it, but when there are viable alternatives like Vert.x it's extremely hard to go to my employer and ask them to spend $5000/month + $0.15/Akka-hour [1], especially since we run thousands of individual JVMs, and running a comparable thing in Vert.x cost us nothing (albeit with having to do tech support ourselves). Whether or not it's "fair" that Vert.x is a pet project from Red Hat or VMWare and therefore doesn't have to worry about financing is sort of orthogonal to whether or not I choose it or Akka.

This isn't meant to shit on Akka, it's very cool software, I'm just frustrated by the BUSL because it gives the illusion of an OSS license, the initial marketing around it looked like an OSS license, and I wasted about 15 hours writing some Akka code only to realize that I had to throw it away because there was no chance I was going to get my employer to approve a PR with BUSL-licensed libraries that would have cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

Again, apologies that this is rude, and if Akka/Lightbend/Typesafe is making a profit then of course all the best to you, but this is just my rationale.

[1] https://akka.io/pricing

ETA:

Re-reading this, I apologize for how hostile I come off. You're not trying to sell me, you're just giving justification, which is fine even if I'm not a huge fan of the license.
It must be, because I got the "delivered" message and found it sitting outside our door on the floor.
My own experience, but I've been very happy with the level of toys I have. It feels manageable and I can pick up all toys within 5 minutes (depending on how scattered they got). However, whenever kids come over to my house (particularly slightly older children- 6+), their first comment almost without fail is "where are all the toys?"

I feel like our choice has been fairly intentional.
Instead of `if [[ "${num}" -eq 42 ]]`, bash expects `if [ "${num}" -eq 42 ]` or `if (( num==42 ))`.
As always you have a choice between things existing at all on Linux or fretting about the security issues that so far have not materialized.
Show HN: Hyperaide – AI first task manager
You can write scripts that correct bad math, too. In fact most of the time ChatGPT will just call out to a calculator function. This is a smart solution, and very useful for end users! But, still, we should not try to use that to make the claim that LLMs have a good understanding of math.
Dostoyevsky was truly great and could see the true and important things about the world, while Nabokov's contribution to literature will not be remembered past this century. One foresaw what the death of absolute good would do to the world—the casual mass murders of millions in places such as Germany, Cambodia, Stalinist Russia. The other is famous for Lolita.

“Don’t be afraid of anything, ever. And do not grieve. As long as your repentance does not weaken, God will forgive everything. There is not—there cannot be—a sin on earth that God will not forgive the truly repentant. Why, a man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. How could there be a sin that would surpass the love of God?

Think only of repentance, all the time, and drive away all fear. Have faith that God loves you more than you can ever imagine. He loves you, sinful as you are and, indeed, because of your sin. It was said long ago that there is more joy in heaven over one repentant sinner than over ten righteous men. Go now, and fear nothing. Do not be offended if people treat you badly. Do not hold it against them. And forgive your departed husband all the harm he did you. Become truly reconciled with him. For if you repent, you love, and if you love, you are with God. Love redeems and saves everything.

If I, a sinner like yourself, am moved and feel compassion for you, how infinitely much more will God! Love is such an infinite treasure it can buy the whole world and can redeem not only your sins, but the sins of all people. So go and fear no more.”

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov (pp. 64-65). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
I know a number of people with personal backhoes. They all have a fair amount of land. It doesn't take long to pay off a personal backhoe if you use them. Though most people don't have nearly enough need for large holes to make it worth it.
I don't find his work to be immortal, in fact I find his writing full of all the worst late 19th century writing cliches, and thus extremely dated.
In Google's paper, then titled "Grandmaster level chess without search", they evaluate turbo-instruct to have a lichess Elo of 1755 (vs bots)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04494

Admittedly, this isn't really "the source" though. The first people to break the news on turbo-instruct's chess ability all pegged it around 1800.
https://x.com/GrantSlatton/status/1703913578036904431
Ask HN: What hair on fire problem are you willing to pay for?
This whole time I thought it was a gaming engine for the Go language...
I'm having trouble losing sleep over the "underpopulation crisis". This seems like an organic reaction to the plant growing in too small a pot. Grow the pot and the plant will grow, or the plant will shrink until it's ready to start growing again.

Maybe we're just at the natural equilibrium of the capacity of the planet given all extenuating factors, and with enhanced technology or interplanetary travel, we'll exceed those.
To answer your question sincerely, Tailwind is a series of utility classes that make it easy to author CSS within HTML (pages or components). Back in the day we had many libraries to do this, the most popular was called Bootstrap. It looks like this: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.3.3/dist/css/bootst...

You'll notice that Bootstrap CSS includes every single utility class within Bootstrap. This is fine, but it could be a lot smaller - reducing page load times for clients and data transfer for servers - if the CSS included by a library was solely the CSS used by one's site, and no more. This is why we web developers use an npm/vite build step generally, even if our out is very plain static HTML/CSS.

"Well why can't I just use Tailwind like I do with bootstrap? I just want to play around with it and not have to learn all that build stuff."

You can: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/installation/play-cdn

You'll also notice, if you search for Bootstrap today, that it expects one is using npm and webpack, parcel, or vite.
> "Could a creative adult also enjoy this?"

That's a very good metric. I've had friends ask me when I come up with an activity or toy, "how did you think of x?" The answer is "it sounded fun to me if I was a kid."
Longer Crossings Kill More Pedestrians
TLDR:

"Takeaway for practice: Quantifying pedestrian crossing distance at the scale of entire municipalities empowers transportation planners to identify pedestrian-hostile crossings(individuals and clusters), add context to collision trends, and geographically target locations for traffic calming.

These cases collectively demonstrate how the increasing prioritization of the automobile in city planning quantitatively changes (and degrades) the pedestrian environment, as well as how low-tech investments, such as sidewalk extensions and refuge islands, can mitigate these trends."
It's not going to be linear though. 1750 cal per day ~= 73 cal per hour. If, for example, you're already in a calorie deficit for the day, and then do a nice hour long workout (or demanding mental work), you're going to burn some muscle.
If you think the point of your work is what you end up being famous for, then you have no moral ground to stand on
The point is that even if X was a dominating monopoly, it would be fine because Elon is on Trumps nice list.

Trump is a typical power whore who praises and protects those that kiss his feet, and admonishes and punishes those who don't.

This is the same game that all these self-interested power hungry people play.
People will believe and fight for literally anything, surely thousands of years of con men has taught us that. The fact that this guy with a whopping 4 generations in the area doesn't agree means next to nothing to me.
what happens when you go too far from trusting what you see/read/hear on the internet? simple logic gets tossed out like a baby in the bathwater.

now, here's the rig I'd love to see with this: take a hundred of them and position them like a bug's eye to see what could be done with that. there'd be so much overlapping coverage that 3D would be possible, yet the parallax would be so small that makes me wonder how much depth would be discernible
What would you remove?
I'm very skeptical this technology already exists. Maybe if you vastly change the meaning of "sticker"
The Proposal to Break Up Google Is Finally Here
You should specify better for whom, imo, because it’s a social concept that depends on a setting. What’s better in one place is worse in the other.
As I wrote in another comment - you can write scripts that correct bad math, too. But we don't use that to claim that LLMs have a good understanding of math.
You don't need to store multiple login names for seperate pages though, so why can't this just be a site wide cookie?
Key to the rule of law, judges say, is a commitment to applying the law to everyone fairly.
The whip-poor-will has been an omen of death for centuries
> Those are typically incorporated into the presets

The upscaling, frame generation, path tracing etc are not.

For the reason I mentioned, none of its objective you're selecting between trade offs of crispness, artifacts, better lighting and reflection and framerate.

It's no longer just resolution of rendering and resolution of textures and a few post effects.
What's the fix for those code samples?

Shellcheck currently gives Sample 1 a pass. I hope this is something it can be modified to catch.
The preferred term these days in non-tinfoil hat circles is UAP (Unidentified Anomolous Phenomenon) specifically to address the problem of these “things” being observed (and therefore possibly merely optical) phenomena that are not necessarily (and are certainly not verifiably) objects at all.