skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can only speak for myself (myself here = gbj/Greg of Leptos) — I'm in a happy situation in life that allows me to spend a bit of time working on open source, but can't and don't want to do it full time, let alone start a start up; a bit of GitHub sponsorship money pays my coffee bills and so on, but Leptos is not (and won't ever be) a commercial venture.

And at the same time: I am absolutely delighted that Dioxus has managed to raise some money so Jon can work full time and bring others into the work full time. This really, really is a "rising tide lifts all boats" type of situation... I would 100% rather capital go toward things like building out a viable Rust ecosystem and improving build tooling than the alternatives ("it's TikTok, but with an LLM!" etc.) Our two projects have collaborated successfully and will continue to collaborate and inspire each other in the future, I'm quite sure.

This isn't meant as a rebuke to your very kind comment about the work I've/we've managed to do for free, I just wanted to chime in to say that in my opinion, both of these are good!
Welp, time to start practicing in front of the mirror to get rid of that accent.
> The absolute worst Django feature is the templating language. It seems to be designed to slow down developers to the like of old time Java web apps, almost mandatory templatetags et all.

They wanted to provide safe and clean templating, so they decided to force developers to write tags instead of putting logic inside templates.

I agree it's quite overkill because I still want to run code like I would with ERB or PHP sometimes instead of being forced to write a tag. But this can lead to difficult to debug templates and security problems.

> The query language is moderately bad, quite verbose (Model.objects every time) for no good reason.

The idea was to make the separation between Model and QuerySet objects obvious. When you access the objects property on the model object, you're actually accessing the QuerySet.

It seems weird because in Rails, everything is encapsulated in the model's class. But Python devs tend to prefer explicit code. In Django we also have the Manager class as an additional layer used to build QuerySets. I'd say it's just a different architecture instead of a shortcoming.

> The lack of common project structure means that every project is different.

This is a real problem but I reckon that big Rails projects aren't as easy to navigate either because most don't stick to the Rails way as soon as custom business logic is needed.

I would say that Django isn't worse than Rails. They just decided to be more strict in some places, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. In the end, you just need to work with whatever you prefer.
Why shouldn’t it? I think we get to choose what matters.
That's OK, life goes on. Love finds a way. I met another nice lady on X. She cares deeply about the diversification of my crypto portfolio. I don't know why I keep attracting women who want to take care of me, I just do. It may be my gravitas. But the three letter agencies are watching so this time I'll have to move fast.
More info from a local website:

"Investigators later determined the drone likely flew 1.8 miles from the park into Vandenberg’s restricted area.

Armed with a federal warrant, agents later searched Zhou’s drone and found several photographs of the base taken from an aerial viewpoint. "

and:

"For the past three launches starting with one on Nov. 23 from Vandenberg, SpaceX has inexplicably skipped broadcasting the final minutes of the countdown and initial liftoff. Instead, the webcast started about 45 seconds after the departure.

They also provided a broad 4-hour period as the planned departure for the launch, instead of the typically smaller window that includes the actual launch time.

A source suggested the change could be connected to some sort of national security issue, but officials remained mum about the reasons. " [1]

They arrested him on his way back to China. Sounds like he might get those 4 yrs. Perhaps it's not a harsher sentence because he didn't get anything actually sensitive?

[1]https://www.noozhawk.com/chinese-citizen-arrested-for-allege...
There is supposed to be an elemwent of 'mimicry' on the part of the Phenomenon. Kelleher in his work with AAWSAP was the most vocal in studying & concluding that aspect:

https://www.rdrnews.com/opinion/columnists/drones-mimicry-an...
I believe that if you send it as a file instead of as a normal image you can send it uncompressed, (Attachements Button > Documents / Files > Select image in file picker, I guess they make this non obvious because people will gobble a ton of space even if 95% they can make do with hyper compressed blobs
This seems to be about possibility to enable Vulkan in any guest OS for which virtio-gpu guest driver will be developed. For Windows https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/pull... is being developed, hopefully it will take off
You send in a supersonic fighter because no conventional drone is going to escape it. Dogfighting it isn't necessary, it's doubtful they'd detect you at all if your fighter is loitering at 10,000ft. Eventually the drone is going to run out of power, and you can keep sending more fighters to relieve whichever jet is on duty (if necessary).

Apaches are cool and all, but if cost is your concern then it's probably cheaper to send a single pilot in a single-seat F-16 even if the avgas costs more. Even if you gotta wait 4 hours for your target to go home, it's still probably cheaper than a single AMRAAM.
What is "Operation Flagrant FOUL"?
Do you think that applies to open source models, or is it the act of performing inference that makes it an act the business is responsible for? ie, Meta's Llama does the same thing.
I fly drones, sometimes even to me a drone can look suspiciously unnatural. Especially at night the way the drone moves abruptly with all the led lights, its difficult to judge its distance.

But ... what if Aliens and Ghosts are the same thing? DaDaDa!
According to https://dqydj.com/bmi-percentile-calculator-united-states/

67% of American adults are overweight. Only 13% of them have a BMI less than 22 (center of the healthy BMI range).

How does it translate to aesthetic preferences. Is someone with a BMI of 22 so far of the US norm that they would get strange looks, or would be considered unhealthy?
That's not what the sentence says. "Now millions of developers are building with Gemini. And it’s helping us reimagine all of our products — including all 7 of them with 2 billion users — and to create new ones." That does not imply that Gemini will start receiving requests from billions of users. At best it says that they'll start using it in some unspecified way.
There is a big difference to using AI to help construct stories and to help deliver them.

The experience being described is on the delivery side. It doesn't shine a light on whether AI was productively used on "editing, digging through court documents, writing structure advice, hunting down patterns missed by human brains, transcription, or searching vast public record archives" to quote the piece.

My take is if Bing, OpenAI, Google and others are going to take whatever-quality journalism and enshittify it for a user, the Post wants to make it less easy for them and be in more control of the enshittified experience. OpenAI is a vampire, feed them enshittified blood. A search bot is becoming more of a threat than a benefit to all news outlets.
Data Theft Repackaged: A Case Study in Malicious Wrapper Packages on NPM
Legalization hurts people prone to addiction - prohibition hurts people prone to moderation.

Do we prevent some from having a bad experience, at the expense of others having a good experience? Or do we allow some to have a good experience, at the experience of others having a bad experience?

I’m a bit of a hedonist so i very strongly favour the latter.
Next step room temperature super conductor yeah!
I've used them both in production enough to feel qualified to counter these, but we'd all just be arguing for our opinions. Both are excellent frameworks, with no clear standout IMO.

I will say one thing in response: we've found it approximately 10x easier to find devs having years of experience with Python than with Ruby. That's a non-trivial argument in Django's favour in our organisation.
Take the drone, leave the Cannoli
> because private schools aren't regulated the way public schools are (it's one of the main reasons of them being private)

I am not sure I understand how this sentence addresses any of the question above.
a flannel after a bath
Soccer heading may cause more damage to the brain than previously thought
Definition of exaggerate:

To consider, represent, or cause to appear as larger, more important, or more extreme than is actually the case; overstate.

As you point out, the weighted difference is ~17 which you can clearly see in the data. Increasing this by a full point is quite significant and most people do not even have the intuition that it is even mathematically possible to increase 17 to 18. This is why we teach Simpson's paradox. I also posted the data so people could come to their own conclusion. Just because you use a definition of exaggeration to mean some nonsensically large difference, that does not make my claim misleading.
I did always wonder how much of getting to a very old age is just luck.

Like you have two 85 year olds. Number 1 is healthy and has a .01% chance of having a stroke, number 2 is unhealthy and has a .05% chance, but 1 still has a stroke first just due to bad luck.

Maybe number 2 has such a good run of luck that they make it to 100 in spite of smoking and eating cake daily. In that world people over 100 would be more statistical anomaly, for whatever reason the combination of events that trigger a deadly event just never come together for them.
I agree. :) We don't specify an OS version, we allow arbitrary process boundaries, we use plain old CMake. Our perception story isn't great, yet. We have some tooling which could make certain GPU workflows easier, but have only prototyped with ONNX w/C++.

Would love to be able to provide your middleware, we've connected on LinkedIn, let's chat.
ChatGPT is currently unavailable.

Status: Identified - We have reports of API calls returning errors, and difficulties logging in to platform.openai.com and ChatGPT. We have identified the issue and are working to roll out a fix.
>not all planes that fly need to have flight plans and transponders

Technically true but since 2020 almost all aircraft are required to have transponders to fly in controlled airspace. You could have a small GA aircraft without a transponder and only fly in and out of small uncontrolled air strips, but in practice most aircraft are going to have ADS-B out now.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/researc...
There are two major issues with the paper you linked.

First, it says if you can't do accurate rotations then you can't factor. But the premise is false. Quantum error correction allows you to do arbitrarily accurate rotations. Specifically, you can achieve arbitrarily accurate 45 degree rotations around the X and Z axes by using state distillation and gate teleportation [1], and all rotations can be approximated by a sequence of these 45 degree rotations with the error decreasing exponentially versus the length of the sequence [2]. The paper's justification for saying you can't do accurate rotations is that they think quantum mechanics will end up being wrong (see section 4).

Second, even if you assume for the sake of argument that rotations are inherently noisy, the conclusion doesn't actually follow. The mistake the paper makes is to assume the algorithm will use the textbook QFT circuit [3], which uses n^2/2 rotations for an n-qubit QFT, allowing large amounts of error to accumulate. But in practice, because this QFT is at the end of a circuit, you would use the qubit-recycling QFT which only performs n rotations [4]. Alternatively, if rotations were really such a problem, you could perform ~30 rotations to prepare what's known as a phase gradient state. You can then achieve later rotations via the phase kickback of adding a constant into the phase gradient controlled by the qubit you want to rotate [5]. In other words, the paper asserts you need millions of rotations to factor a 2048 bit number when actually you only need dozens. Everything else can be done with Clifford+Toffoli gates.

So yeah, this paper is not at all a convincing takedown of quantum factoring. The formal part focuses on the wrong cost and the informal justification is that they think quantum mechanics is wrong.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_state_distillation

[2]: https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/newsynth/

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Fourier_transform#/med...

[4]: figure 3 of https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.07884#page=5 is an example

[5]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.06648#page=4
Small discussion forming (33 points, 12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42394391
The point is that we do not have laws that prevent the CEO from harming many people - instead the legal frameworks supported his deadly actions
Why not... Let it join meetings?
Ignorant question—how's this different from qemu-virgl? I've been using the latter (installed from homebrew) for the last few years passing --device virtio-vga.
Yeah it's a really important feature for many people. Torrents just don't really work without it. Three quarters of peers are behind NAT or VPN so without port forwarding they won't connect. If you have some Torrents with only a handful of seeders it makes it really difficult.
Getting the same message as a pro subscriber. Looks like everybody's affected. It went down about an hour ago.
Reminds me of the Chinese balloon incident of 2023 [1]

Unsubstantiated theory, but maybe a foreign adversary scanning ground for targets? Critical east coast transmission lines and substations in NJ possibly a target?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Chinese_balloon_inciden...
Probably ESL
“Hi, I’m NG Resonance. What would you like to talk about?”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Fwb8OrvSw&pp=ygUMbmcgcmVzb25...
When the right wing Govt was elected in my country suddenly right wing nutjobs appeared out of the woodwork on country/cities subreddits (seen quite sometimes here on hn as well) overnight as if they were just always there and were just dormant waiting for a time to show up in the right climate. No, they were not immediate new inserts from some IT Cell at all. They were always there.

I do not find anything shocking about Jones support in this post. A great social mistake has been thinking that people supporting nefarious stuff or shady, disgusting, and pathetic people do not know any better - but they do. Thing is - that is exactly what they want!
The Academy Awards are a poor indicator of movie quality, largely because the process is flawed and prone to all sorts of bias.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards#Criticism_and_c...
In a city broadcast signals get attenuated by structures, but in point-to-point with a dish one could reach quite far. Ubiquiti products do 12km to 25km with relatively low power levels, and any unlicensed users may deploy the install.

Best regards, =3
Well, the founders already won, according to the article:

> Google does not own Character.AI, but it reportedly invested nearly $3 billion to re-hire Character.AI's founders, former Google researchers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and to license Character.AI technology.
Stop believing your lying eyes for they deceive you.

Here, read this, it will calm your nerves.
A lot of people here are writing this off as hysteria.

I don't know if this is anything nefarious or not, but I would note that being suspicious of these things is often a good thing, not a bad thing.

Even Michael Shermer, the famed skeptic, wrote a book on how suspecting conspiracy is often a valid default stance. Abstract from his book:

"One reason that people believe these conspiracies, Shermer argues, is that enough of them are real that we should be constructively conspiratorial: elections have been rigged (LBJ's 1948 Senate race); medical professionals have intentionally harmed patients in their care (Tuskegee); your government does lie to you (Watergate, Iran-Contra, and Afghanistan)"

There are obviously people that always suspect conspiracy, and that's not good. But it's equally not good to always suspect a benign explanation, which is the majority of this thread.

Just adding a different perspective to this community.
> but hard to deny that their LLM models aren't really, really good though

Although I do still pay for ChatGPT, I find it dog slow. ChatGPT is simply way too slow to generate answers. It feels like --even though of course it's not doing the same thing-- I'm back to the 80s with my 8-bit computer printing thing line by line.

Gemini OTOH doesn't feel like that: answers are super fast.

To me low latency is going to be the killer feature. People won't keep paying for models that are dog slow to answer.

I'll probably be cancelling my ChatGPT subscription soon.
I'm usually able to identify most of the big VAs regardless of the disguise they're putting into their voice. Dan Castellenta, Jon Lovitz, Maurice LaMarche, Rob Paulsen, Jim Cummings all come to mind as ones I've correctly identified in various productions. The list is larger I'm sure.

An AI might be able to gain a higher success rate than me.
7.5% is huge when most optimizations are notable if they can get above 0.5%, there is NO statistical difference between -O2 and -O3 with Clang.

This is a huge result, of which many will follow.
Region encoding yes, but countries had their own versions. So the version in Belgium for example did not come with English subtitles, only Dutch, French and German.
That's why AI realism is deeply needed now: https://transitions.substack.com/p/why-ai-realism-matters?r=...
> Many real world C programs have no UB.

A bold claim, I've written a whole lot of software in C, and most of it I'd be astonished if it truly has no UB. Even some of the relatively small, carefully written programs probably have edge case UB I never worried about when writing them.
That comment was about a person on Medicare Advantage, which is extremely heavily regulated by Medicare, the epitome a of govt medically regulated cost per procedure system.

Here is the govt Medicare page about Medicare Advantage Plans, with references to all the pages of legislation and Medicare rules such plans must comply with.

https://www.medicare.gov/health-drug-plans/health-plans/your...

For example, select “What should I know about Medicare Advantage Plans?”

It states, among other things, “ Medicare Advantage Plans provide all of your Part A (Hospital Insurance) and Part B (Medical Insurance) benefits (also called “Original Medicare”), including new benefits that come from laws or Medicare policy decisions”.

Op claims Medicare “always” provides PT, which is not true. Here’s some rules about it: https://www.healthline.com/health/medicare/does-medicare-cov...

Note in particular Medicare advantage will provide any PT where Medicare would.

If you look at peer reviewed research, MA outperforms M in outcomes and satisfaction by a slight amount.

These are reasons why forming or reinforcing beliefs on anecdotes and not understanding the truth is a bad way to make claims.

So now that you see this outcome was medical care “set and enforced by the government” and not the outcome from “anonymous profit-seeking insurance company board members,” will you redirect your outrage?
But with Character AI you are hiring a roleplay service which can be open ended in terms of what you are looking for. If you are looking to roleplay with a jerk, why shouldn't you be able to do that, and in such case why should the company be held liable?
> products that don't grow.

I think we all acknowledge this.

The question is seldom "why" they kill it (I'd argue ultimately it doesn't matter), it's about how fast and what they offer as a migration path for those who boarded the train.

That also means the minute Gemini stops looking like a growing product it's gone from this world, where Microsoft backed alternatives have a fighting chance to get some leeway to recover or pivot.
Not any different than someone in a movie or video game saying that. Or an improv actor. Or anything else similar.
This appears to be under a _very_ restrictive license, from the file `setup`:

All rights reserved - You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, display, perform, modify, create derivative works, transmit, or in any way exploit any such content, nor may you distribute any part of this content over any network, including a local area network, sell or offer it for sale, or use such content to construct any kind of database.
One winter, it was snowing real bad where I was living. So I sent my landlord an email complaining about how the heating was malfunctioning. At first he wouldn't budge, even as I decried the cruelty of his cold, cold heart.

Well, after more repeated nagging, he relented and fixed the heating!
> The psychological hole you can dig yourself with these chatbots is so much deeper than just a typical fandom, especially when you're predisposed to finding it appealing.

Spot on. Described pretty even-handedly in the document:

> responses from the chatbot were sycophantic in nature, elevating rather than de-escalating harmful language and thoughts. Sycophantic responses are a product of design choices [...that create] what researchers describe as “an echo chamber of affection.”
Journalists almost never cite and link to sources either. They make it so hard to verify anything.
> But for a curious hacker getting at the internals of how something works, the first instinct is to turn it up. That's their learning path. It's natural curiosity. More must be better. Louder must be better.

If you increase the TXpower way beyond the P1dB of your PA, you will introduce distorsion and therefore harmonics beyond your operating band (i.e. you can end up disturbing RF services other than wi-fi, possibly safety-critical services). https://www.everythingrf.com/community/what-is-p1db

=> Don't do that !
So quite often judges make their decisions based on "feels" and then go out of their way to be nice to the other party so they don't appear biased. You can imagine the poor self representing party that has a strong case but is automatically disliked by the judge for not playing the game properly and basically has no chance.
You should bring copies of your resume with you anyways, interviewers always seem to ask for them. You can provide the "nice" copy then.
I think it’s less about whether it’s possible to understand and more about the increased cognitive load that comes with achieving that understanding.

When you’re used to seeing things a certain way, and you come across something that feels wrong, it derails your line of thought, takes you out of the experience and requires additional willpower and processing to maintain focus.
Which models? What are the specific dimensions? I assume if you're confident they're widespread, commercially available, you know what kind of aircraft we're dealing with. I'd hope you can help me demystify further what's going on in the controlled airspace near military installations.
I have a treeing walker coonhound. I asked image playground to create an image of a treeing walker coonhound as a ballerina because I thought my daughter would find it amusing. I scrolled through 4 created images. In 3 of them the dog had 5 legs. This is pretty typical of my general experience with AI so far.
Related to iOS 18.2 update with integrated OpenAI API?
fighting AI slop with more AI slop, it just keeps getting more ridiculous in tech world.
NYT reporting has been trash for at least 10 years. Anyway Matt Levine, who has as good an opinion on this kind of thing as any columnist, sees it as mostly a technicality, and believes Onion can just submit their bid again. Of course, Elon also now has an outside interest, and can outbid anyone via proxy or otherwise.