skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all about implicit vs explicit contracts. Blocking ads on your own device is a breach of an "implicit contract" that the website owner thinks you have with them, but that you've never entered into or even seen, because it's not written out anywhere, it's "assumed". Riding public transit without a ticket is breaching an explicit contract with the transit agency that you entered into when you physically entered their property, and that is usually printed out and posted somewhere. In some places it's a municipal law as well.
worthless and 100% only aimed at games.

i mean the youtube reviewer demoed youtube, chrome, gmail...

i think only gmail matters. youtube you have better frontends anyway. chrome there's the harmonyos chrome clone or you can (should) use firefox.

then if you try to use youtube app as a creator you will get blocked because of missing playstore components. same for all other reasons you would want Android apps (banking etc).

our devices today are personal identification beacons and nothing more. they are literally yout government issued ID now.
JEP 485: Stream Gatherers
>> for the same reason it can’t prove an unproven maths problem

that aged like LeCun
A couple of days ago this was not the case, they use CT machines and did not require anything to be taken out of bags.
The vast majority of people I've talked to IRL, conservative and liberal, are thrilled about this. "American hero" is the phrase I've heard tossed around quite often.

Can't say it wasn't the best news of the week, maybe even the past month.
Yep, and if the ad industry would hold on to certain standards I would agree: No collection of personal data, no real-time brokering on ad content, no permanent tracking cookies.
Further should the site which shows the ad take responsibility if something inappropriate is shown.

The ad industry needs users so ad-free content is unlikely to happen even if you pay.
This is common. Sometimes a security policy works (e.g. a password length requirement may cause people to come up with stronger password) and sometimes people consider it excessive and prefer to work around it (e.g. a password length requirement may cause people to write the password down on a sticky note and attach it to the computer screen).
Yes, they are hedging their bets. But they make way more money if they keep selling their overpriced natural diamond. They may be planning for the next phase when synthetic diamonds have eaten all the market, but they are going to milk it as much as they can, for as long as they can. They did not grow a conscience when they got threatened.
Yes, I could easily be totally missing cyclists but of the cyclists I _do_ see I spot the ones with solid lights earlier and further away than the ones with blinking lights.

So my conclusion is I spot cyclists with solid lights more easily than ones with blinking lights unless you think there is a scenario where at close range blinking lights become easier to see and so I miss solid lights.
That can be customized away though, thank God / Sama
Oh fair enough.

Eating out has also become 50% cheaper the last 3 years*

*(I now define eating out as ordering a side of fries as that's all I care about)
> The rumors say TSMC fabs are designed to self-destruct if China takes control of them.

That still denies you access to the microprocessors that you may need for your own military equipment. My guess is that China already produces what they need in terms of microprocessors in mainland China, so while they can't access TSMC technology that won't necessarily have any influence on their weapons production. The US, and the west in general, needs to be able to produce semiconductors for the defence industry locally. For the US, and the EU, Intel is, or can be, a major part of the solution.
> "Betray" isn't really the right term, the west were clear from the start that they were in this to bleed Russia and were only planning to provide enough weapons to keep the conflict simmering in a bloody fashion.

With which mr. West have you talked about it that he's been so clear?

As far as I know, "the West" is a collection of many countries, many decision/opinion makers. There's no singular motivation for supporting Ukraine, and there are many other, less cynical motivations than what you insinuate.
Rust lifetimes is a mechanism to manage memory.
North queensland, Australia.
Just for laughs. here's something [0] that is an ad, and its political
propaganda. They're distracting and disturbing. We put them in content
just to mess with people's heads.. and make absolutely no money
from them whatsoever :) And people write in saying they love them
and want more! But then our show is weird.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/media/ads/cctv-ads.mp3
As far as I can see, its 5.4 keV & 8.0 keV vs up to 100 keV.
And the catch-up of logic clock, how fast people catch-up we don't have Skynet within 2 years, but a glorified google search for the next 20 years.
Libraries have tech support help sessions.
I think studies have shown that the TSA sucks at threat detection, but is a significant factor in threat aversion in the first place.

It sucks but in the current world we live in, the alternative is travel bans placed against many countries a fraction of whose citizens have a propensity for terrorism. That would include a bunch of American allies and even the US, incidentally.
Yes, because the world is just binary like that. You can only choose on or the other... /s
Show HN: Project Tirtha – Crowdsourced 3D modeling of cultural heritage sites
Greetings HN,

Project Tirtha is an open-source project and an academic initiative for
creating 3D models of heritage sites using crowd-sourced images. The goal
is to preserve and showcase the beauty and cultural significance of
heritage sites by allowing general public to contribute to the creation
of these 3D models.

Previously, we have experimented using Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) and
Structure-from-Motion (SfM) to build the models. Currently, we rely on
Gaussian Splatting.

The website loads both on phones and on desktop. Please be patient while
the models load, as some of the models are large and take some time to
download.

The right sidebar contains the names of temples that are currently
available. On the left you can see the model statistics with different
versions of the model as we get more and more images to refine it.

The source code can be found at: https://github.com/smlab-niser/tirtha-public

I will be happy to answer any questions and appreciate feedback/suggestions regarding the project. :)
Ok, I won't buy it. I'll also block all the ads on the free version.

Perhaps the Internet would be smaller without ads but it would surely not be darker - all the darkness can be traced back to bad incentives from ad-based business models. Most likely it would be about the same size because the vast majority of content is created by users who never receive a single cent.

Adtech is parasitic. It provides zero value to society. All it does is force businesses to pay to get back the same visibility they'd receive if ads didn't exist.
Person surfing the web, clicks on link, ads blasted in face. (Just don't visit this random URL, nothing is forced on you!)

Person drives on road, billboards blast ads in face. (Just don't drive on this road, nothing is forced on you!)

Oh, and if you are going to argue that a website is not a public space like a road, then why the hell are you making it publicly accessible? Just lock that shit down behind a login if you are so private about it.
They've got a copliot like code suggestions thingy.
On which fantasy world was "West" supposed to provide nuclear weapon? Is that the new GRU talking point?
Yeah it's a new EU law that takes effect soon. I'll look it up, one moment.

Edit: Ok oops I was wrong, it was about liquids. This had been relaxed with the new scanners too but it had to be re-tightened on EU orders. https://www.trbusiness.com/regional-news/europe/dutch-airpor...
Dunno, does VC money being thrown at you in the billions count as profit?
Yes it’s a different model + backend and obviously the extrapolation will never be as good as experimental values.
but,
1. We have only used the multiplier value 3.4, and not the exact throughput from Lambda’s experiment.
2. We have also used the same input/output sequence length as Lambda's experiment.
3. Also our extrapolated value is inline with the specs of H200 when compared to Mi300x
AnswerDotAI/shell_sage: saves sysadmins' sanity by solving shell script snafus
I'm wondering how this would compare to compressing the logs with Broli and a custom dictionary.

I would imagine the size reduction would be much better than the 40% Kevin showed with his approach.

As for volume, I don't know if volume is a problem. With logs I either need to look at one log entry to get it's details, a small handful to see a pattern, or aggregate statistics.

I can do all of those things wether the volume is 1x, 100x, or 100000x.

In other words, size matters to me, but I don't care about volume.

On the other hand, for cases when we use tools that charge for uncompressed size or message count, then Kevin's approach could be a useful cost-saving measure.
How does this justify UHC's denial rate being double the industry average?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualAge

> In 1992, Apple and IBM cofounded Taligent, based upon Pink, an operating system with a mass of sophisticated object-oriented compiler and application framework technology from Apple. Pink became CommonPoint, the partnership was dissolved, and CommonPoint was absorbed into VisualAge starting with the Compound Document Framework to handle OLE objects in VisualAge C++ 3.5 for Windows. In February 1997, the first mass release of Taligent technology came in the form of the Open Class within VisualAge C++ 4.0 ... The original prototype which led to VisualAge was an attempt "to make something like the NeXT interface builder" within the Smalltalk/V development environment.
1 kilo of wood sequesters (temporarily for the most part) about 2kg CO2 equivalent, so for the GP's example of a single seat one-way from Boston - NYC, you'd need to sequester 350kg of wood.

To sequester the ~800 Mt of CO2 emitted by aviation annually, you'd need to sequester about 400 billion kilograms of wood. So a finite but absurd amount.
That's a good point, there's also Trump coming in and potential tariffs. The path set by Pat Gelsinger may no longer be the most profitable, in the short term. Why invest and restructure if you expect the incoming government to cut your competitors off and allow you to cruise along for another four years?
Flying has been the preferred travel mode of both the well-to-do and the aspirational for over half a century. Air travel only needs working airplanes, and a relatively simple airport at each end. So, in general, there's ample social pressure to get the job done quickly.

Vs. high-speed trains went out of fashion (in America) well before most people's memories. And their tracks have to be threaded, foot-by-foot, across a landscape which is overflowing with red tape and jurisdictions and NIMBY's and existing infrastructure. Said threading to be planned by yet more politicians and bureaucrats and planners, then done by America's low-functioning construction industry.

Nations with good high-speed rail systems have quite different priorities and local governance structures than America.
The most practical soft skill for a software engineer
This is a popular narrative but really, those nukes were a burden on Ukraine and nothing more -- the forces possessing and maintaining those weapons reported to Russia and any launch needed authorization from the Чегет the Russian head of state held, whoever that was. Sure, they were on Ukrainian land but that was all. That is why Ukraine so easily surrendered all those weapons for extremely weak reassurances. If you were to read the text https://policymemos.hks.harvard.edu/files/policymemos/files/... you would notice how there's no real security guarantee whatsoever. Basically it says if someone nukes or threatens to nuke Ukraine they will "seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine".

Sure, there are words saying "the Russian Federation [...] reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine [...] to respect the Independence and Sovereignty
and the existing borders of Ukraine" but what if they don't? tough luck. No one promised help, there's no built in penalty mechanism, nothing.
> Who defines what is culturally OK?

I define what's OK to me. I am able (and legally allowed) to choose what my browser displays to me, so I use browser extensions to control my (and only my) experience of the web. I do not hurt anybody and I do not impinge on anyone's rights. I resent attempts at moral preaching aimed to make me feel guilty, especially when it's in defense of powerful entities that I find reprehensible and who do impinge on my life in ways that I object to.

My local bus company does not do that.
CDG in Paris did not need me to take out the laptops, so I'm not sure it's the EU fault for Schiphol
How many businesses have you built? Have you thought about acquiring customers without ads? Have you ever talked to anyone who built a business before Internet advertising?

You don't know how good we have it
yup, exactly same experience here...
Internet FAQ Archives
Ads exist in Europe just as much as they do in the US (unfortunately). Even the restrictions on tracking are a very recent (and welcome) change.
It isn't food coloring, it's Dutch process - mixing cocoa powder with alkali makes the cocoa powder darker, and repeating the process makes it darker and darker until it's black. It alters the taste too, making it less bitter - Oreo cookies are an example of Dutched chocolate. It's possible to have an 80% light-brown chocolate bar, but the cocoa is more bitter than the darker dutched cocoa, so you don't see lighter-colored chocolate bars at 80%. Milk chocolate is typically not made with dutched cocoa powder, and it appears lighter in color, and has more sugar and milk to compensate for the more bitter flavor of the non-dutched cocoa powder.
I use an ad-blocker for blocking the ads, but also blocking the potential feed of malware and viruses and various other electronic parasites that go along with the online advertising industry.

If it was clear cool water, I'd be much more OK with it. But it's a steaming, bubbling, toxic, green/brown lumpy sludge that I refuse to let near my network.

I also don't think the green/brown lumpy sludge should be foisted upon the poor, but there are some rich folk that seem to have decided that it's OK to do so, and, confusingly-but-maybe-obviously, there ain't no government that's even tried to say that maybe that's not OK.

The FBI has even recommended the use of ad blockers to improve online safety.

https://www.securityweek.com/fbi-recommends-ad-blockers-cybe...

And the NSA and CIA seem to agree

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-nsa-and-cia-use-ad-block...

Not using an ad-blocker is no longer an option for me. After experiencing the web with one, browsing without one makes me want to never browse again.
The West has indeed betrayed Ukraine, but this is not the reason. Jesus Christ.
At least someone who does not have the "but what about the children" attitude.

1. Make money and test them (the weapons supplied are NOT a gift).

2. ~Rebuilding Ukraine is being managed by black-rock...more Money

3. Destabilise Russia and China (with the excuse that Georgia and Ukraine really want to be in the EU).
Man, assassin may have been a bona-fide American hero.
Yeah I was confused, it was the new liquid rules that were a problem. Sorry.

I'm glad the laptops can still stay. I don't travel with liquids so much (I just have toiletries at the places I go to already) but electronics I have a lot.
MVC Pattern Applied to Data: Rethinking the Semantic Layer
that is exactly right but you should listen to them more than Mary from Pennsylvania's opinions on "X"
and also lab-grown diamonds have a different reaction to light.

Natural diamonds typically emit blue fluorescence, while some lab-grown diamonds may show stronger, inconsistent, or different colors (e.g., orange, green, or yellow).

After turning off the UV light, observe if the diamond continues to glow (phosphorescence), natural diamonds don't.
With EmailCatcher add a box to your website to collect emails. If you're a startup or an indie hacker this is a must have! (it's a free tool)
> Since the risks are blindingly obvious

Blindingly obvious to thee and me.

Without test results like in the o1 report, we get more real-life failures like this Canadian lawyer: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/29/canada-lawyer-...

And these New York lawyers: https://www.reuters.com/legal/new-york-lawyers-sanctioned-us...

And those happened despite the GPT-4 report and the message appearing when you use it that was some variant — I forget exactly how it was initially phrased and presented — of "this may make stuff up".

I have no doubt there's similar issues with people actually running buggy code, some fully automated version of "rm -rf /", the only reason I'm not seeing headlines about it is that "production database goes offline" or "small company fined for GDPR violation" is not as newsworthy.
I've found Gitlab to be quite flaky these past few months. I hope they concentrate on fixing things rather than getting ready to sell, but I won't hold my breath.
I don't necessarily agree. Blocking ads on a private site is more like going into a bookstore, reading the magazines and books and not buying anything. At some point the store clerk will approach you and suggest that you either pay or leave.

Poor people should have the option to go to the public library and read things for free. In the public transportation metaphor, poor people should get fair public transportation at an affordable price, and not need to ride without tickets.

Saying ads sustain poor people is, in my view, saying there is no expectation that the State/society will give a decent base level of service to anyone, and we're left to what private companies are willing to do and the mercy of the ones who can pay - coupled with their willingness to go along with whatever conditions the companies enforce for their "benevolence" (i.e., making you and your data the product).

So, what's wrong is that there's a gap here, and the poor people are not getting any support to bridge that gap and eventually get better off and add more value to society. Private philanthropy is not a valid welfare policy.

We need a new model like we had with libraries, one that handles the fact that most new content is now online. Unfortunately, most discussions I've seen around that were more about IP rights and protecting paywalls than enabling a 21st century lending model. And the traditional libraries are dying. Solving that would do more for the poor than subjecting yourself to intrusive ads ever will.
From what I have seen a lot of people who make these claims seem to be people who are working at a level where there is a lot of text being produced that nobody actually cares to read.

That, or I am actually a much better developer and writer than I thought. Because while LLMs certainly have become useful tools to me. They have not doubled my productivity.
>Once you have a coherent unified codebase, things get fast quickly, capabilities grows exponentially with the number of lines of code. Think of things like Julia Language or Wolfram Language.

>Once you have a well written library or package, you are more than 95% there and you almost don't need AI to do the things you want to do.

That's an idealistic view. Packages are leaky abstractions that make assumptions for you. Even stuff like base language libraries - there are plenty of scenarios where people avoid them - they work for 9x% of cases but there are cases where they don't - and this is the most fundamental primitive in a language. Even languages are leaky abstractions with their own assumptions and implications.

And these are the abstractions we had decades of experience writing, across the entire industry, and for fairly fundamental stuff. Expecting that level of quality in higher level layers is just not realistic.

I mean just go look at ERP software (vomit warning) - and that industry is worth billions.
> As far as I know, "the West" is a collection of many countries, many decision/opinion makers.

Nice joke.

> There's no singular motivation for supporting Ukraine, and there are many other, less cynical motivations than what you insinuate.

There is: Because the US said so.
Usually when a the founding CEO of a public company steps into a strategic non-operations position, it's basically their way of saying "I'm taking the money and retiring" without tanking the stock by just leaving.

By taking a strategic role, investors are less worried because they know the CEO is still around.

But in this case it looks like it is legitimately a health reason. I hope he heals quickly.
Yeah, I saw your other comment just after posting. I didn't know there was a movement to increase the volume for liquids. Hope it gets done soon
Are the odds really better though? A quick search reveals an Everest death rate of between 1% - 1.6% depending on the period. Suicide success rate seems at least an order of magnitude higher (maybe more).
Another thing that's difficult, is that phones that were advertised as old-person-friendlly, physically were not. Black buttons on black background, etc. Maybe this sotuation has improved.
it looks like that the query function has a second parameter with a "params" array.

probably something like this would work then too (didn't test):

return await query(
`SELECT Owner, Aroma, Flavor, Acidity, Sweetness
FROM coffee
ORDER BY vec_distance_L2(
embedding, '[?,?,?,?]')
LIMIT 100`,
[+aroma, +flavor, +acid, +sweet],
);

it is nice because the query string is constant then and a prepared query could be cached..
I know of at least three databases written in Java:

HSQLDB:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSQLDB

H2:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H2_(database)

PointBase:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PointBase

I have briefly used either one of the first two, I think it was HSQLDB, with Java, years ago.

PointBase was created by Bruce Scott, a co-founder of Oracle, and a few others, including an architect of Sybase. This was in the early days of Java.

All three still seem to exist, according to the links above.
I'm working on a new type of protocol so that when there's a large-scale online event like the superbowl or a major boxing match on a streaming platform,

satellite and cable internet providers will be able to send a single copy of the video stream on the uplink, and using a new technique we've named "casting the net broadly" multiple viewers will be able to receive the same downlink packets

which we believe will have excellent scalability, enabling web-scale streaming video.
You make it mobile- aka nuklear barges or small nuklear power plants on trucks. Also there seem to be minimal - Tit for Tat rules of engagement - you do not hit the reservoir upriver of moscow, i do not blow up zhaporischia. But moscow is running out of hostages and time. All the dams are gone in ukraine- so moscow could be flooded, unless they take the nuclear power plants hostage. Which ukraine could do to btw- no reason why warcrimeas shouldnt go both ways, now that the west is betraying them
It's a continuation of a trend in which open source projects mimick the functionality of a tool called Firebase that Google bought in 2014 and is now part of Google Cloud (see also supabase and pocketbase). All these projects seem to be sort of like Redis in as much as they stick a datastore behind an API saving users from needing to use SQL and offering them a higher level API instead. And it also seems to do some sort of auth things.

I think it's meant for people who want to build a front end without building a backend.