skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is.. super impressive. I'd like to know how large this model is. I note that the first thing they have it do is talk to agents who can control the world gen; geez - even robots get to play video games while we work.

That said; I cannot find any:

- architecture explanation

- code

- technical details

- API access information

Feels very DeepMind / 2015, and that's a bummer. I think the point of the "we have no moat" email has been taken to heart at Google, and they continue to be on the path of great demos, bleh product launches two years later, and no open access in the interim.

That said, just knowing this is possible - world navigation based on a photo and a text description with up to a minute of held context -- is amazing, and I believe will inspire some groups out there to put out open versions.
I'm autistic and prefer text for virtually all communication because it's easier for me to control a keyboard than it is for me to control my voice.
Are Amazon lawyers known to be litigious on things like that? The logo has a clear "unofficial" tag and the information is a stream of press releases. I don't see why anyone would care about it.
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars net-zero cities
Sure, but there's a lot of speculation that it was a wronged customer. It could have been someone he works with. It could have been someone from his personal life. People who are not Healthcare CEO's also are murdered, there are lots of possible motives.

We don't even know that the killer got the right person.
First impressions of the new Amazon Nova LLMs (via a new LLM-bedrock plugin)
How do they still have that many customers if their service was so bad?

Do they have an effective monopoly in certain States?
Are you simply trolling or just so cynical that you can't read about some people having fun with mathematics on computers on a site called Hacker News without feeling the need to insult a whole discipline and building strawmen?

I don't know what you think the "math education problem" is, but I guarantee that being nasty to people is not the way to solve it.
The politics of that in most areas are impossible.
Vance was also calling Trump "America's Hitler" at one point.
I don't know about the original commenter, but societies only work when the vast majority weigh the cost and benefit they derive from the status quo against the cost and potential benefit they incur by fighting against it, and decide that they're better off playing along.

Rightly or wrongly, we now have a situation where a lot of people believe that they no longer benefit from society, and are in fact harmed by it, while they also see a few benefit greatly. I believe this is why many people who understand the implication of that choice would still rather vote for Trump, who promises to break things, than for Harris, who would have only made minor changes.

This is not advocacy for anything. I think these people are perhaps not exactly wrong, but they don't correctly estimate the cost of breaking a democratic system, even a poorly working one.
Fear of needles and having your skin pierced is my guess, at least for some.
I'd be really interested to hear what abstractions you would find useful for RAG. I'm building magentic which is focused on structured outputs and streaming, but also enables RAG [0], though currently has no specific abstractions for it.

[0] https://magentic.dev/examples/rag_github/
Wow. Blast from the past. I had both the Coolscan 9000 and LS-2000.

I now use a system from Negative Supply.
Even the Secret Service doesn't have a great track record for preventing attempts. Their presence puts some stress on the perpetrators, which does help, and they are good at preventing quick wide-open follow-ups to a miss or partial success, but they're bad at preventing the first shot or two. And I don't think it's because they're exceptionally bad at what they do, but because if someone really wants to take a shot, entirely stopping them is a hard problem by the time they're already close and armed.
Make isn't a compiler. It's a task graph engine and it can run targets in parallel if they don't depend on each other. Many of those targets will be calls to a compiler that won't themselves be parallel. If you're building 8 shared object library files and 6 executables, which share code but don't otherwise depend on each other, then run tests after the build, in addition to preprocesor macro expansions and what-not, there's a lot that can be run in parallel even if no calls to the compiler itself can be.

GNU does have a separate project to parallelize gcc: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/ParallelGcc. The Wiki has limitations, challenges, and benchmarks. It can speed things up a tiny bit, but barely, and benefits seem to vanish after 4 threads.
Anything that reduces outbreaks in public spaces is a win, no? Even if they are spaces I am not going to. Even better, if you can reduce outbreaks without necessarily having to change behavior.
Fair points, I simply don't (subjectively, imho, ymmv) believe it is that hard, legally or illegally, to acquire or possess firearms and accessories for them in most US jurisdictions. "The purpose of the system is what it does" sort of thing. Appreciate the discussion! "Don't break the law" PSA.
The isolation the author wants is not for security, but just to get a reproducible benchmarking environment
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/18/youtube-will-no-longer-be-...

> Google updated the post to read, “We do not have plans to delete accounts with YouTube videos at this time.”
Do you know a trustworthy source where I can compare single thread performance of M3s and M4s?
> Sarah Palin coined the phrase "death panel" in a widely shared Facebook post.

Does not support the claim

> we let insurance companies label government triage as "death panels"
Broadly, left-wing politics favors making money and power more diffuse and is suspicious of hierarchy, right-wing politics favors making money and power more concentrated and embraces hierarchy. Politics is, of course, messy and not everything fits neatly into this framework (and people have idiosyncratic opinions sometimes), but that's how I view it in broad strokes. What about you?
Except for that you risk breaking laws in several jurisdictions if you don't.

Why isn't the market addressing this? Why doesn't someone start a video service in the US and for the US -- one that follows US law, and not Pakistan's or Iran's or India's or Germany's or anyone else's?

Oh, right, because then they can't sell ads in those places, or use them as tax shelters. Silly question, I guess.

By forcing compliance with oppressive regimes (and with pearl-clutching sponsors in less-oppressive ones), advertising will eventually end everything good about the Internet. If you work in that business, you're the problem. Consider a different career.
Is there any evidence for these accusations? I'm impressed that they pay people to take the tests. They (seem to) do things the right way.
"Americans consume too much healthcare"? I'm afraid to guess the logical conclusion to this, but I will counter with "Americans are offered two little preventative healthcare", because in more advanced countries where that is an option, the costs are lower.
I wish you luck finding a commercially available filtration system, suitable for high volume recirculating water like a splash pad, that will reliably remove pathogens.

A properly maintained (good luck!) DE filter might do the trick, but they’re messy enough that they’re banned in large parts of the country. Cartridge filters are usually rated at 10 microns, which is nowhere near good enough.
A classic: Small Town's 'Cryptosporidium Daze' Fails To Attract Visitors

https://theonion.com/small-towns-cryptosporidium-daze-fails-...
Systems Thinking Wisdoms
> 99.99% of gun purchases in the US happen through an FFL with a background check and everything

Alot of states have classified pages where you can buy/sell firearms. Many states don't require background checks for private sales. People aren't paying a gun shop a FFL transfer/background check fee to hand over the gun to the buyer. Source: have seen many of these transactions at rod and gun clubs.
Late to the reply, but someone can absolutely build an functional and usable eCVT with 50 era tech. And they could use manifold vacuum as a speed controller, like they do with old school automatics. People underestimate just how simple and clever HSD really is.

Or you could make it a "manual" eCVT where the speed control is managed by the driver using something like a potentiometer. This is how the linked CVT works in bike its applications (though, I'm sure it uses a controller built by the billion dollar semiconductor industry instead).
NYC has a workable public transit system.

People who are driving there are likely doing so in a way that allows them to either absorb costs or pass them on to others.

Kansas City, for example, does not have a workable public transit system. If you charge a congestion tax to reduce traffic on interstates, it means real pain because there is no alternative.

There are far more Kansas Cities in the US than there are New York Cities.
>Humans are built to thrive in danger, chaos and instability. I think a good chunk of humans go insane in a safe and stable environment and resent the things that allow them to live mundane, safe lives -- technology, medicine and rational thinking.

And yet science says the opposite. The prevailing evidence suggests that humans are generally better suited to stable and safe environments, with danger and chaos typically leading to detrimental effects on mental health.
Split Screen Pro
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42317968
Some thoughts:

1. It looks like you're selling hardware to go along with the firmware, which seems like it has nice features but also seems like it will be expensive. Sometimes the presence of first-class hardware results in other hardware being treated as "second-class" and results in limited adoption, especially since it sounds like the first-class hardware will eventually be much more than $100. (another hobbyist community, the FPV drone community, has shown this with FETtec brand having their own KISS firmware which is basically only used by them, and almost everyone else uses another alternative). You should care about limited adoption because that means a smaller number of outside contributors to your project.

2. You list that Prunt has features not available on other systems, which is nice, but it is not obvious how this will affect print quality/speed/accuracy, which I think are the primary concerns of most users.

a. Adjustable acceleration is already an option on most systems, does editing jerk/snap/crackle actually improve my print quality or just give me more parameters to fiddle with? I say this because Klipper is fairly impressive, and it would be nice to see some examples of how much extra motion terms improves a print.

b. Editing pinouts is a one-time thing and not an issue on common boards, so this is a limited benefit when you already need to be technically savvy to be building or modifying a 3D printer.

c. Safter/faster homing seems like a niche issue- I have never had any homing issues, and how much time do I actually save if I crank the speed up? A few seconds per print?

I guess I should add- good luck! The 3D printing community will certainly benefit from more ideas and development effort.
Having an elected head of state has it's drawbacks. In the UK the monarch can pardon, but in the last few hundred years I think the few pardons [1] made were all easily understandable (last but one a posthumous pardon for Turing).

We would willing to let you have Harry and Meghan. Many of your troubles would be over.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_prerogative_of_mercy
> Imagine what we could have had in our communities if we hadn’t wasted $3,000,000,000,000 on Iraq.

What we would've had was $3,000,000,000,000 less debt, and still no splash pad filtration.

The Iraq war was put on the credit card.
This is why RICO was created.
the joke lands a lot better in the original Cylon.
I could be called a conspiracy theorist.

Oddly enough I am a retired Psychotherapist, I'm not crazy either.

Maybe I am a conspiracy therapist. Now theres a thing

There is always a nugget of truth in conspiracy theories.

Conspiracy theories lay on the edge of paranoia.

Humans need some paranoia it keeps us safe, it is healthy to experience paranoia.

A poor example;

Take the paranoid psychiatric patient who is convinced that their psychiatric team is trying to kill them by over prescribing their medication.

The facts are there. The psychiatrist has been increasing the dose of anti-psychotics. The patient has been feeling very unwell and frazzled. The patient is experiencing pressure from the clinical team that insists the medication must be take in line with the psychiatrists recommendations. The patient insists that they felt OK before the increase in medication.

There is clearly a nugget of truth in what the patient is saying even though the clinical team and psychiatrist are convinced that the patient is Paranoid.

Does the patient actually have paranoid delusions or are the psychiatric team just following protocols and not listening to the patient, by doing so creating an environment where paranoia can run out of control.
Canadian Inflation Tracker (1978 to 2024)
This is an interactive Canadian inflation tracker, showing price changes for various items (housing, food, transportation, etc.) from 1978 to 2024 — all based on data from Statistics Canada.

We can use this tool to answer questions like:

- How much higher are today’s prices versus pre-pandemic prices?

- What has the average inflation rate been over the last 1 / 5 / 10 years?

- Which specific price items — housing, food, transportation, etc. — have had the highest price inflation?

- By how much would Canadian prices need to drop to get back to “normal”?

From what I typically see in the media, inflation storylines are too focused on short-term price comparisons (changes versus the previous month or previous year). This Canadian inflation tracker seeks to show the cumulative change in prices over longer time periods — for example, comparing today’s prices for housing and food versus prices before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The charts were built with chart.js
It’s not middlemen. The middlemen (managed care organizations, aka health insurance companies) earn low single digit profit margins.

In the US healthcare chain, the ranking of profit margins goes (and this is public info from public financials):

Pharmaceutical companies

Healthcare software companies (based on other software company margins)

Healthcare providers (doctor groups)

Hospitals (HCA, tenet, etc)

Managed care organizations and retail pharmacies at the very bottom.

The big one I don’t know is legal, which I assume slots between hospitals and healthcare providers, but could be higher. Those millions and tens of millions of dollar judgments don’t come from thin air.

Go ahead and get rid of MCOs, and at best you will reduce costs by 5%. That’s an objective fact. They are just allocating the very limited resources among more and more demand.
>The main reason for that is because Americans consume too much health care.

No, come on man, this is easily googleable. Americans go to the doctor less than other countries, they stay in the hospital less than other countries, they have lower life expectancy, infant and mother mortality than other countries. If you want to know why we spend so damned much, it's because we're billed 2-3x as much for the same care as other countries.
Suppressors are not equally easy to legally procure!

Suppressors/Silencers are federally regulated by the National Firearms Act (NFA) and are treated similarly to machine guns and sawed-off shotguns (the import/manufacture of those are further regulated by later legislation).

From Wikipedia[1]: Private owners wishing to purchase an NFA item must obtain approval from the ATF, pass an extensive background check to include submitting a photograph and fingerprints, fully register the firearm, receive ATF written permission before moving the firearm across state lines, and pay a tax.

And I think you may have understated the ease of manufacturing. Especially if someone only needs to use it once and don't care about the legality.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act#Registra...
By switching jobs? That's not always feasible for many reasons.
"I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."

- a wise man
If you don't mind suggesting a better title I'll be happy to change it
When we're building something, we don't have all the specs upfront (unless it's simple). I'm learning and adapting as I write more of the project, and at some points I may backtrack or start from scratch. For projects where you have the whole code upfront, I guess you could pass that to an LLM (maybe).

The way I found most success using LLMs is as a partner to ping-pong ideas, to come up with code design, algorithms, and data structures that would fit a particular scenario. Then I'm ignoring its code and writing it to fit the project. The trick is to use the randomness combined with the vast array of information it holds to your advantage - like a supercharged Google.

Regarding my joy of programming, for me it's not even close. I get my joy from the project as a whole, not from snippets of code sprinkled around (sometimes I wish it could - I have hundreds of projects I would like to tackle but they're not worth my time). The only thing I worry about is that the next version would not be accessible to the public or they would cost exorbitant amounts.

edit: for the way I'm using LLMs I found the approach taken by Zed editor to be the best, really recommend it's buffer, easy to copy-p, modify and search (it would be nice to also have divergence from a chat, hopefully in the future)
> I imagine this is a much harder problem than meets the eye. Even for my own travel, there are like a dozen things I'm trying to optimize for.

But if you created "profiles" of how you might search with various weight settings, it seems like it could get reasonably close without having to re-enter all of the details each time.
HowStuffWorks founder Marshall Brain sent final email before sudden death
Tests are usually soul crushing and boring for the same reason PHP was in 1999 - a complete lack of structure, tooling and separation of concerns made it tedious and difficult.

I find it interesting that when people describe to me how they use LLMs to write code it's either short throwaway scripts or to write the kind of code that would make me retch (e.g. tests stuffed full of horrible mocks, spaghetti boilerplate).
How good a job of OS security would we say MSFT is doing apart from TPM 2.0?
Chrome doubled its Speedometer scores on Android
Why not transpile to Go and then build a native executable?
Looking at the list of authors, is this from their open endedness team? I found their position paper on it super convincing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02061
That sounds neat, but it seems like it's specifically for certain (discrete) processes? Like can you use this to e.g. derive the shape of atomic orbitals or predict something about spectra (which are kind of important parts of quantum mechanics)? If not then the implication that it's somehow teaching people years of material in 16 hours is about as silly as it sounds.

The "famously bizarre" parts are the parts that tie it back to the questions that first motivated it, e.g. what is "stuff" made out of, why do molecules behave the way they do, and how to reconcile that with naive predictions you might have from Coulomb's law.
From deals to DDoS: exploring Cyber Week 2024 Internet trends
People don't set their standard of a good life against a 3000 year old kingdom they've never seen or think about. Nor are they impressed when people resort to mining the ancient past or far-off countries for the deepest pits of misery they can find to make things sound good by comparison.
Well now I know what a splash pad is. Nothing like a one time pad.
The thing about psychopathy sort of being defined either way depending on who you ask is that we don't necessarily know for sure which definition is right anymore. They're essentially both "correct in a way". The term also has a somewhat muddied history that makes it difficult to figure out what it was truly originally supposed to mean, so we don't even know which definition today is supposed to be the right one.
Stoli Group USA files for bankruptcy after ransomware attack
Curriculum Vitae of Donald E. Knuth [pdf]
Hmm maybe I'm too out of touch. You're talking about recent java (12+) vs go ?

I stopped working in java so maybe I'm too bruised by the J2EE 5 era, but what I saw from Go was an order of magnitude less verbose than my memories of java.
Slow Breathing Circuit Discovered
Can't handle multi-date (yet).
Ok, but now 1 company/squatter can buy all the top .sucks sites... is that much better?
Last year my wife and I visited the teamLab digital art museum in Tokyo. It was awesome!

https://www.teamlab.art/e/tokyo/

When you first enter the building, you put your belongings into lockers, including your socks and shoes. After some instructions, you walk up a slightly inclined ramp that has a wonderful heated river of water about ankle deep.

I realized this warm river of water was actually cleaning our feet! Shortly thereafter, you enter a room that has a very spongy/pillowy floor, thus drying your feet. To my surprise, the whole process almost gave me an icky feeling. :)
I think the funny thing about this discussion is everyone agrees with the sentiment of "9 women can't make a baby in one month" but somehow the intuition is forgotten when it comes to compilers and parsers and etc. Like if human engineers with human brains can't parallelize program construction, what hope do computers have?

Ultimately this, like many things, boils down to P=?NP (search/optimization is NP hard).
Allow me to be crude for a second: half the people in software are likely autistic so I'm not surprised they struggle with building or maintaining relationships.
> Fully encrypted comms is the best defense against this compromise, and Americans are being urged to use that wherever possible.

Only if you have the key.
> I think you're forgetting at least Jeffrey Epstein, Seth Rich, the Boeing whistleblowers, and probably many others?

Even if we assume all of those are nefarious, that is much fewer people over a much longer period. If you have to add "probably many others", it feels like you are just extrapolating in your favor without evidence.
There are around 200 armed militias in the United States. Some of them have a national presence, working command structure, and tens of thousands of members.
I did not object against ORMs. Please reread thread. I also have issues with SQLc, and please note it's Go library. Java is out of context.
I have never seen positive impact from turning the devops dial up. Most of the times, we just keep on adding checklist items for quality and engineering practices. Devops keeps pushing things like observability and standardization through complex things like service mesh which creates all of its own problems.
Yet the narrative is

- the West has all of these much worse

- Russia is upstanding and moral

- if these exist in Russia, it’s because of western influence

Which conveniently removes the responsibility from Russian authorities and emboldens western jackasses who see Russia as some kind of beacon for… something.
China's Ban on Rare Earth Exports Good News for Wyoming Projects
Yep - most of people's impressions of NYC's gun laws/rights are really outdated..
I know of a graduate-level software engineering course at a reputable US university, where getting kicked out of the project group is a possibility and gets the person an automatic F grade.