skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't have to.

I use models like the 100M parameter BERT model for text classification and they work great. I get a 0.78 AUC with one model; Tik Tok gets about 0.82 for a similar problem and I'm sure they spent at least 500x what I spent on mine. I could 10x my parameters and get an 0.79 AUC but I don't know if I'd feel the difference. (I got about 0.71 AUC with bag of words + logistic regression and perceive a big difference between the output of the SBERT model and that)

My current model can do a complete training cycle which involves training about 20 models and picking the best in about 3 minutes. The process is highly reliable and can run unattended every day, I could run it every hour if I wanted. I worked on another classifier based on fine-tuning a larger model and it took about 30 minutes to train just one model and was not reliable at all.

If you can 50x the speed the BERT model and 1/50 the resources that's a big boon that makes text classification more accessible, the only excuse people have now is that it is too hard to make a training set.
That was ICTY, not ICC as OP asked.
Is there another source for this information that isn't twitter with infographic style posts?

They've got a different paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15152 ... is there an equivalent for the ghost engineers data?
Pope announces web designer as first millennial saint
Longshoreman's union "touch fees" reportedly have a lot to do with it:

https://capitalresearch.org/article/what-you-need-to-know-ab...

https://twitter.com/johnkonrad/status/1840904466310316459

" it’s somehow cheaper to truck containers hundreds of miles and let taxpayers foot the road repair bill than let the union touch it two more times for short sea shipping to work."
Hi all https://youtu.be/HTdMwPqetMs
I really like this expression, "a wholeass person".
I'm an adult who's been programming computers professionally for 20 years, and went to school for it, and I've lost most mathematical skills past what I'd learned by 6th grade or so, from lack of use.

People who aren't even working in a field that's STEM-adjacent have even less use for stuff past simple algebra and geometry (the latter mainly useful just for crafting hobbies and home-improvement projects) and a handful of finance-related concepts and formulas.

I expect to go to my grave never having found a reason to integrate something, at this rate.

The result is that any time I try to get back into math (because I feel like I should, I guess?) it's not really motivated by an actual need. The only things that don't bore me to tears for sheer lack of application ends up being recreational math problems, and even that... I mean, I'd rather just read a book or do almost anything else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y-yKmzP-4U

A bit from Look Around You, a (fantastic) British comedy show made to look like retro science classroom educational videos, from the minds of Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper
I wonder who you think in the US political sphere would treat them any differently.
I think it was more about being able to understand/read what the measurement devices were showing. The exact distance probably wasn't as important as the criticality could also vary with other variables (e.g. geometry).

As in, you're trying to understand the situation as "shouldn't they have precisely nailed down all the parameters, if the goal is to measure when X starts happening". But it seems Slotin was more demonstrating "this is what you're going to see on the monitors when stuff is close to going boom". It wasn't about "this specific distance is a safe gap" and more "here's how you can tell whether the gap is safe".

He was about to be reassigned out of the lab, and was demonstrating equipment to his designated successors.
As someone outside of the field I don't follow your argument. The author stated that the problem is not just in the analog nature of quantum computer, but in the impossibly large amount of analog parameters to process and also to correct errors in.
Yet most of American traffic is single-occupant commuting. There is no reason why they need big-ass SUV or truck for that. Burn the planet while making fun on of Prius drivers.
Thats absoluyely not true. There is the so called principle of dual causality. If you hit a car you might have to pay 50% depending on situation. If its clearly the biker its still 0% for the car.
Very understandable, it is indeed quite hard :(

Best of luck! I'll keep an eye on it ;)
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Memes are fun. Crossover memes doubly so. There's no need to overanalyze.
Ozempic found to cause muscle atrophy in the hearts of mice
There are tons of sports where the amateurs end up buying top of the line gear.

People will spend thousands to ride the same bikes the Tour de France riders do. You can spend crazy amounts on basketball shoes, sweat wicking synthetic shirts and all sorts of other gear that LeBron uses.

If there is a sport that requires buying specialized equipment, there are people buying stuff that is completely unnecessary for their use case.
> A majority is not a monopoly. I can't think of any market segment where there isn't an acceptable alternative product to purchase if I chose to.

Nadela, is that you ? /s
Would depend on the definition of this term "escalation" that you and many other people use. It sounds to me like a silly thing to say. Isn't it natural to try and win a war as quickly as possible?

Joining in on a war that you're not part of is a deliberate and calculated choice in the same manner starting a war is.

What exactly are we even arguing about? I think it's massively irresponsible of NATO to get involved in the war through military aid. Sanctions and humanitarian aid are one thing, but every single NATO member should have been involved in finding a peaceful way out of this conflict since 2010 or before.

If what you're saying is the opposite, that NATO should attack Russia with as much force as possible to "win the war" (that we have no business being part of in the first place), then I'll just call you crazy and move on. Enough brave soldiers have died on both sides, it's time to find a solution that ends the killing, not amplifies it.
Interesting, that makes sense.

Given that, I think what I’m imagining is a PGN linter & renderer.
> I've suspected that the manufacturer has been actually encouraging this story. In the age of "challenges", a narrative that this is an incredibly hard to drink thing that's a challenge to drink is actually good marketting, that has been part of it's successful national awareness?

The Streisand Effect works. Plus, in a crowded market, anything to set yourself apart is a win.
Nobody should get the news, it's shit and 99% of it doesn't even matter. The remainder is so local or so not really news that you don't need a usual outlet anyway.
Probably something about the worldwide climate catastrophe caused by humanity continuing to burn fossil fuels at an ever increasing rate.
You've got to be kidding. Utility tunnels are not even remotely a viable solution for Atlanta outside of maybe a few streets in the downtown area. The city (and wider metro area) is huge with thousands of miles of roads. They can't afford to dig utility tunnels.
ABS creator here. Thanks for the kind words :)

Long way to go but was very happy to see someone wanting a better alternative to bash and trying ABS out!
I don't know how widespread this phenomenon is but in the book Do Not Erase [0] it seems that there are quite a few prominent mathematicians who do use visual representations in their work.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Erase:_Mathematicians_a...
Stories with flags turned off should display a banner. These moderation decisions deserve transparency.
Launch HN: Fresco (YC F24) – AI Copilot for Construction Superintendents
Hi HN! We're Arvind and Akhil, and we're building Fresco (https://fresco-ai.com/). We use AI to quickly create and manage documentation for construction superintendents. Here’s a demo video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKIQQKkjv_4.

Superintendents are the busiest and most expensive people on construction sites. Just like doctors in a hospital, supers diagnose and triage issues, make observations about conditions, and delegate action items to their team. Also, like doctors, supers are responsible for an enormous amount of document generation, accounting for the work done in the field so that back office people can keep records for billing purposes.

Right now, supers are taking 30-200 photos per day to document site progress (mostly for liability reasons, or in case of a dispute with the owner over delays and deliverables). At the end of the day, they'll spend a few hours uploading those photos into OneDrive, or project management software like Procore or ACC. They might transcribe those photos; few supers have time to do this thoroughly, so these photos aren’t very searchable. And supers might use those photos to create "daily logs", which are structured documents that account for the work done on site on any given day.

Fresco uses generative AI to compile reports and punch lists for superintendents during their site walks, not after. Supers simply take short videos with voiceover, or upload photos, and Fresco does the rest, creating notes with transcription, photos, assignees, and due dates. Supers can easily text their crew action items, and receive texts back to keep informed of when tasks are done. We also route this to whatever project management software they're using with a single click.

Right now, we charge per site per month, which includes unlimited users on any given construction project. The typical price is $1k/month, but we offer discounts for multi-month or multi-site commitments. If you want to try Fresco yourself, you can sign up for demo access at fresco-ai.com.

We’ve also gotten some interest from other verticals where site walks are common, like commercial real estate. We’re hoping that in the future it may be possible to address these as well.

If you’ve worked in the construction field, we’d love to hear your experiences and insights. We look forward to your comments and feedback!
A Framing and Model About Framings and Models
Well, I suppose rectangular cows would make the math even simpler, as you wouldn't have to use polar coordinates or have π as a factor in your calculations.
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The ship would need to be designed around it, but the battery could be set up in a way to allow it to burn out without affecting the rest of the ship at all, it is not that hard to isolate a battery from the rest of the system.

Although it would be better if the battery is at the bottom of the ship so there would also need to be some sort of air exhaust system for when that happens, hopefully one that prevents the fumes from reaching the passengers at all but I don't think that would be possible without a chimney.
Part of the reason why we slowed down in our progress in science is that we do not take risks like that anymore.

Now the risk takers are at private companies.
It’s really rather simple. Anyone on this planet only has as much authority as their guns provide them. The people who operate these courts have fewer guns than the US, so they don’t get authority over US interests.
In a demonstration, not an experiment, it’s sufficient to have the Geiger counter go clicky at different rates while the demonstrator plays the sphere like a theremin.

The point was to show it to people, not to collect data.
Reading and writing files in the cloud with Polars
I wrote this post setting out how to work with cloud data in Polars. Although I've been using Polars for almost 3 years I still learned from writing this. I cover topics like how a CSV scan is different from a Parquet scan, authentication and query optimisations. Interested to hear your feedback!
As long as an organism isn't performing too badly, it stays in the gene pool. It can persist and even share its genes more broadly, if in diluted form, to the other more successful organisms. And then some of those mixed-genes organisms may occasionally express more strongly, but again not enough to affect reproductive success across the population.
> $30B in an app to hail a cab

Whereas, in some places in the EU (Germany for example being particularly notorious) you can't reliably hail or pay for a cab by digital means - because "the rules"™.
The notch for the cycle path is actually really interesting to me in that it allows a single car to wait without blocking the flow of the road they are departing. I imagine a lot of RL taillights get clipped but that’s fine at the end of the day.
Heh, well, another lesson from chaos mathematics is that in iterative systems, you don't really get "explanations" the way we humans like to think of them... the answer to "what caused X" for any X than has taken a long time to develop is "everything". So rather than culture "or" social structure, I'd say "and", "and" also a lot of other things, and also the culture and social structure are themselves affected by the very personality structures we're trying to discuss.

Determining "causes" isn't as hopeless as that makes it initially sound, but you need something more sophisticated than the normal human concept of "cause" to even approximate useful answers. The good news is, this isn't impossible; we all live in an iterative world and we operate in it even so, which requires us to have certain models that conform to the world. It's one of those cases where I don't really love the "humans are just horribly irrational" gloss; our instincts and intuitions often have greater rationality than we realize, because they were formed in this iterative world, and sometimes it is in fact the particular naive concept of "rationality" we are trying to measure them by that is deficient, whereas if you use a more sophisticated one we look less bad.

(But sometimes humans just act suboptimally, no question about that.)

Another thing that helps is that you aren't generally interested in modelling the entire system. For considering myself and whether I may want to, as the article discusses, make changes in myself, I can take my culture and environment more-or-less as a given; I need some flex to consider options like "well what if I just up and moved to another country?", but I don't need to consider my own effects on society very much because they are some complex combination of "tiny" and "utterly unpredictable". While society is chaotic, the time frame of the impact on society from me changing from excessively introverted to somewhat less introverted is way, way past my horizon for making decisions.
Is the hot reload in Platform Studio limited to just UI changes or can any code in the project be hot reloaded? If the latter, what are the limitations?
I agree, it's not that the game is revolutionary, it's just an illustration at the top of a blog post about how the typical context window is getting very big and how that's an overlooked aspect of the increasing usefulness of LLMs.
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The biggest difference between try-catch and error values syntactically IMO is that the former allows you to handle a specific type of error from an unspecified place and the latter allows you to handle an unspecified type of error from a specific place. So the type checking is more cumbersome with error values whereas enclosing every individual source of exceptions in its own try-catch block is more cumbersome than error values. You usually don't do that, but you usually don't type-check error values either.
> “No matter how much you level the playing field, people are going to go to the best product for the job”

How you know folks at google aren't eating their own dog food.
If anyone is interested, there are more animations like this e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNZnfbl_Z7M , https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Od_RTVirPCo , https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyl3WQCttQ8 . Sadly I see english subtitles only in the last one.
Eight?
Thanks, I got it backward.
>Please inform yourself better, so you don't spread obvious false claims in the future.

I am well informed, thank you.

UN consistently downplays Russian crimes, secretary-general smiles and laughs with worlds bloodiest dictators while the west is afraid to as much as lift a finger to put this terror to a stop.

This ICC ruling is just the latest in a series of hypocritical accusations against Israel and Ukraine.
> Charts, diagrams, and visuals are obviously very important means of communicating complex information.

How else are we going to learn about the Conjoined Triangle of Success (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_nuZD4Y7IM)
And yet it is flame-bait to suggest that programmers benefit from mathematical thinking. I've not met a more passionate and divided crowd on the issue. Most traditional engineers wouldn't disagree that they use and benefit from mathematical thinking. Programmers though?

I don't think there's a single answer as to why many dislike it so much. Some folks view it as a way to gate-keep programming. Others view it as useless ("I've been a successful programmer all my life and I've never used math").

On the other side of the coin there are many who view our craft as a branch of applied mathematics -- informatics if you will.
Did you... stop reading after the first paragraph or something? Or are you using AI-summarisation nonsense or similar? Like, this is a context-setting introduction.

(Sometimes, I wonder if HN should require people, before they are allowed comment on an article, to complete a short quiz, prepared by the article submitter, on the content of the article.)
Weirdly enough that conclusion reminds me of a scene I once saw in a nature documentary. It involved a species of birds where the males showed off their "fitness" to the females by doing dangerous things. One remarkable thing was that in one particular area near a highway, a group had adapted to show off by diving in front of a car without being hit (I guess that that species already used to do that with snakes and other predators before).

Anyway, in a general sense that's a particular type of sexual selection[0] that's been observed more often: showing that you are a healthy individual with good genes by taking risks. It probably has name. I suspect that with humans it's also an instinctual way of showing off who is the strongest in your peer group, without the sexual selection connotations.

EDIT: turns out the wikipedia article was one click removed from what I had in mind: signaling theory! (the evolutionary biology version)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory
It was a boy's club with unlimited funding working on things that were never attempted before, a lot of things weren't exactly done by the books, even their original "safe" protocol would seem completely insane by modern standards. As long as it went boom in the end and they kept it secret I doubt they had many rules
There are many signatories who are obliged to arrest anyone with an ICC warrant: https://asp.icc-cpi.int/states-parties
Absolutely. I actually know that (know that I don't know, but that my not knowing doesn't mean that no other person can know), but modern science will not be the source of such explanations.

Those explanations can only be accessed once we understand that the universe itself is queryable (that is our joint purpose here, us and our expansive environment together) and that a human being needs to undergo a process of self-evolution to become aligned with the Creator's Intent such that we gain access to it.

You could say that a person must learn of the challenge, accept the challenge, and then pass all the tests, thereby gaining access.
Related:

DOJ filed paperwork to US District Court to force Google to spin off Chrome [pdf]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42201261
Researchers crack RSA and AES data encryption
Meta comment here, but Science Direct is an aggregator, and it doesn't make sense to talk about it as publishing. Elsevier published the referenced work in the journal "Advances in Nutrition", vol 8, issue 3, pp. 511-519.
> You're saying that the curiosity is "natural" hence one is either born with it or not.

Why does curiosity being natural necessarily mean some people are born without it? It could also mean everyone (or every average human) is born with it, and overtime it gets pushed out of people.
Sometimes science doesn’t have to be precise to demonstrate a result.

Consider trying to measure feedback from a microphone and speaker. You don’t have to be an expert to know that there’s a quick change in system behavior when the microphone gets too close to the speaker.
How much of that increase can also be attributed to distracted driving (ie driving under the influence of mobile phones)?
Show HN: Built a Name Finder App for Islamic Names
Hi HN,

I've recently noticed a lot of discussions about Islamic property names—how they carry cultural and spiritual significance and the challenges people face in understanding or choosing them. To address this, I built a Name Finder App as an effort to provide clarity and make the process more accessible.

Features:

1. Find and explore property names with Islamic origins.
2. Understand their meanings and cultural context.
3. Easily browse through suggestions for inspiration.

### Tech Stack:

* Backend: Python
* Frontend: React
* Database: PostgreSQL
* Infrastructure: AWS

I’d love to hear your feedback on this! Whether it’s feature suggestions, technical improvements, or anything else, your input would be invaluable.

Here’s the link to check it out: https://www.jamaah.org

Looking forward to your thoughts!
You can buy college books and do self-study.
DIY Full-frame Camera "Sitina 1"
Are you suggesting that saying that a project is cool violates the HN guidelines? If so, please explain.
That blogger talks about his speculations which I agree with.

Google has been fighting against SEO spammers since the very beginning, in fact there was keyword stuffing even before there was Google.

Google at some point made a decision to privilege sites like Forbes because they were dealing with hundreds of subprime sites that looked even sketchier. Rather than playing whac-a-mole with new spammers every month as they change the rules they could put sites like Forbes and Wirecutter on top, ultimately discouraging other SEO spammers from even trying, and being able to manage the relationship. (e.g. if you see Forbes rank for "best CBD gummies" just once it looks a little sketchy but you get over it, you only really catch the bad smell after you've done 5,000 searches and see Forbes ranks so high on so many of them)

I've been working with a financial analyst to quantify the value of online engagement (what value does YC get from an HN comment? what value do users get from it?) and reviews are one of the clearest examples since a review adds or subtracts revenue from a vendor and gives customers a certain amount of satisfaction. It's an interesting area in my mind because the stakes are so high.
The point of these international courts is to do the US bidding. Every once and awhile they forget that and need a reminder.
Wow. This was basic secondary school history when I was educated. The code of Hammurabi is considered the basis of the western judicial tradition. This baseline knowledge I would expect in any peer, it does not require a specialized degree or study. The collective infantilization of our scholastic standards is frightening.
Of course. Isn't it obvious how in history books the "good guys" were always those with the most guns who ended up defeating the guys with less guns, who lost and were always the bad guys, 100% of the time? What a strange coincidence.
They don't force it. Amazon, for example, just doesn't want to pay the 30% platform cut. Understandable, but not force, just deterrence.