skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the first amendment goes, so does the rest of the amendments and probably the constitution with it.

This isn't the America of 1776. We have turned from a handful of somewhat consolidated groups that could be treated with a broad brush into 360 million screaming individuals with no leader and no cohesive American dream for the next 30 years to shoot for.

I don't use tiktok, I don't care for it.

But I don't think that congress should have the right to take away their ability to operate, only that they should have the ability to not allow exfiltration of American PII to other nations.
Spearfishing the organizers to get access to the shiny fresh dataset, or using some variation on wrench-based social engineering [0].

0. https://xkcd.com/538/
> There have been times I don’t go the funeral. Because the dead person was a horrible person.

The funeral is a ritual for the people who knew and loved the dead person. The question should really be about them, rather than the deceased who is dead and gone.
Conversely I went to one high school reunion I was feeling iffy about, had an okay time but was also completely happy just never going to anymore (and haven't).

But there's definitely some other effects in play there: revisiting people from your past who you've lost touch with is a pretty fraught experience, at least for me because ultimately the relationship is at best frozen in time from whenever you last talked: high school is particularly bad IMO, because it tends to feel like just trying not to be who you were a decade ago as everyone remembers you, rather then getting to be who you are now.
I pull messy data from a remote source (think OCR-ed invoices for example), and need to clean it up. Every day I get around 1k new rows. The way in which it's messed up changes frequently, and while I don't care about it being 100% correct, any piece of code (relying on rules, regex, heuristics and other such stuff) would break in a couple of weeks. This means I need at least a part time developer on my team, costing me a couple of thousands per month.

Or I can pass each row through an LLM and get structured clean output out for a couple of dollars per month. Sure, it doesn't work 100%, but I don't need that, and neither could the human-written code do it.

Effectively, LLM resulted in one less develper hired on our team.
Fediverse creator payment platform sub.club and mammoth app are shutting down
A consumer-friendly front end to NOAA/NWS website, and adequate documentation for their APIs would be a nice start. Weather.com, accuweather and wunderground exist, but they're all buggy and choked with ads. If I want to track daily rainfall in my area vs local water reservoir levels vs local water table readings, I can do that, all the information exists but I can't conveniently link it together. The fed has a great website where you can build all sorts of tables and graphs about current and historical economic market data, but environmental/weather data is left out in the cold right now.
Show HN: Differentially Private Tetris
> It comes in pushes and phases. We had long phases of AI stagnation in the past

Isn't that still extrapolating the future from the past? You see a pattern if pushes and phases and are assuming that's what we will see again.
You’re missing the fact that most of the weight of a spaceship is to support that 70kg and accelerate the whole thing. Watch this discussion about getting to Alpha Centauri.

https://youtu.be/uZN5xjoS6TU?si=05xuUdWsWADrZY-i
>> There’s no way around that.

But that could be minimized. For example, by not taking precious square meters of Earth surface from the living.

>> Your effects will have to be split up among the living in some way.

That's not inconvenience :)
Wouldn't that just ends up re-inventing XML and <xsl:include> ?
In 1976 my first commercial programming job was converting a 8008 emulator written in Fortran to work on a Data General mini as an 8080 emulator, so another programmer writing 8080 firmware for a plotter could debug his code. The emulator source code originated with Intel as something called INTERP/8 8008, and I believe that's what Allen and Gates also used, as suggested in other online posts.
This comment illustrates pretty well how much of a game of telephone american political culture is.

The person whispering in my ear said that a roast comedian at a trump rally told a joke where Puerto Rico was called an island of garbage. I wonder how many levels it had to go to become "[trumps] campaign calling Puerto Rico "garbage"".
> "What's wrong with having a rake on your lawn?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usejy_9jl4A
The argument against TikTok has little to do with PII.
Perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42428537 or its parent will make sense to you: connecting 3 or more perfect constant-temperature regenerative heat exchangers in a series would make the ones at the ends work at a higher/lower temperature (of the constant-temperature heat sink for those exchangers) than the one in the middle, increasing efficiency of the overall system.

I'm not proposing this as a practical design, but it convinces me that 50% efficiency is not the limit.
> do CSAM scanning if you accept images, CSAM URL scanning if you accept links

Which really should be happening anyway.

I would strongly prefer that forums I visit not expose me to child pornography.
What country is a good counter example to UK decline?

Spain maybe?
This reminds me of why Firefox now refuses to load profiles previously used on newer versions of itself: it's generally unreasonable for older versions of programs to correctly support configuration data from newer versions of them.
> A thing that lets you catalogue Jupyter notebooks and Rstudio projects. I'm drowning in various projects from various data scientists and there's no nice way to centrally catalogue all those file lumps - 'there was this one function in this one project.... let's grep a bit' can be replaced by a central findable, searchable, taggable repository of data science projects.

Oh... oh my. This extends so far beyond data science for me and I am aching for this. I work in this weird intersection of agriculture/high-performance imaging/ML/aerospace. Among my colleagues we've got this huge volume of Excel sheets, Jupyter notebooks, random Python scripts and C++ micro-tools, and more I'm sure. The ones that "officially" became part of a project were assigned document numbers and archived appropriately (although they're still hard to find). The ones that were one-off analyses for all kinds of things are scattered among OneDrive folders, Zip files in OneDrive folders, random Git repos, and some, I'm sure, only exist on certain peoples' laptops.
I have a few folks who I felt wronged me significantly in my life's travels, and they take a bit of rent-free space in my head every once in awhile.

I don't actively search for their obits or anything, but if I learned about a funeral, I'd make the time to visit, stand quietly, and reflect.

Probably not the healthiest thing, but not my unhealthiest quality either. At the moment it is only theoretical. But I can think of 3 or 4 I'm now likely to google up and see what they're up to and assess who is closer to the pine box. :)
Waymo robotaxis are coming to Tokyo in 2025
It's really not hard at all. It probably took 5 minutes to install, with most of the time futzing with the power cable routing so that it looked decent and didn't rub on sharp corners of the opener bracket.
This has got to be one of the best explanations of anything I've ever seen in any subject.

Thank you for sharing - hope you have a great day.
I have traced the air with a smoke generator, there is a youtube video of me doing this on my youtube channel. There is not significant re-inhalation (short circuiting) of the air. The reason for the window mount is that a lot of people rent or otherwise cannot punch holes in their walls. However the reason the window mount is nearly the same as the TW4 (through wall) type, is that I cannot invest the time and money to re-design a whole new machine for a window. The primary value is in the TW4, but a lot of people wanted window mount ones so I helped some people out by deving a quick window adapter and then they helped me out by testing some of the components/the fundamentals of the system in the real world. Unfortunately the window mount units nobody is willing to really pay the cost of manufacture for, so they have to use grade B parts etc. and they have to serve the purpose of testing the TW4 or they aren't worth making.
Human or LLM the trick with messy inputs from scanned sources is having robust sanity combs that look for obvious fubar's and a means by which end data users can review the asserted values and the original raw image sources (and flag for review | alteration).

At least in my past experience with volumes of transcribed data for applications that are picky about accuracy.
Honestly that seemed really high to me. I went to my first funeral at 41. I did go to a couple of viewings/wakes before that. I’m not religious, and I guess I just don’t know enough people who would invite me to a funeral.
Eh, if one person takes 10 min to solve a problem that takes another person 10 hours, we would usually say the faster individual is more intelligent.
The kind of arrogance this comment displays has ensured that I’ll try my best to never use Fivetran anywhere I work ever again.
IDC about being downvoted, got points to burn. But I would like some downvoters to explain how given:

A) “safe” languages at compile time or run time can avoid vulnerabilities

B) it is possible for a human to code safe patterns in an unsafe language (human error notwithstanding)

C) an LLM can detect patterns even adapt to an individual coder’s style

And then conclude:

There’s no possible way an LLM in real time can detect known vulnerability-causing patterns and recommend safe patterns

I’ll wait…
if you've ever seen some of the videos from Drumeo on YT, you'll see them all pretty much counting the number of beats to a measure, and then trying to count phrases. It's fun when they're screwing with them by giving them something from II or Danny Carey or Dream Theater (hangs head in shame for forgetting his name). Even the Dream Theater guy struggles with Pneuma.

I've never been taught drums, but other instruments and we all learn to count 8th notes as one-and with 16th as one-e-and-a. This isn't specific to drummers at all.
Great. It is very troubling that police raided this journalists house.

That is rather less sensational than the 'daily' raids you mentioned though, isn't it?
thanks will do
Ah, I see that not only did I accidentally force you to prove this, but I accidentally got others to do so. My humble apologies on that!

I'm not super shocked that some people got started with Visual C++ sooner than I would have had access to it. It remains surprising to me, though. See my other post on more of the why, for that.
Bird-Inspired Drone Uses Legs to Walk and Jump into the Air
"*Major" inefficiency is doing a lot of work there. If something that can clearly be improved upon, the market should be able to fill the hole. If its just the usual inefficiencies of day to day humanity, that exists in some form or another at every company and most likely won't be solved without a paradigm shift (like automation or a major process change).

There's also things like barrier to entry and sticky economic forces that means small inefficiencies are not enough to force change.
*your experience may vary
> To fix this, we need to end the filibuster so Congress can actually make laws. It’s much harder to legally challenge the real laws made by Congress than the fake laws made by administrative agencies. Then we need to repeal the Administrative Procedure Act, and rely on the Congressional Review Act to ferret out bad administrative rulemaking.

A nice-sounding idea that actually has potential, but it's missing some crucial steps:

3. Expand the House to accommodate the near-tripling of U.S. population.

4. Streamline the House's discharge-petition procedure to sh*tcan the Hastert Rule.

(The Hastert Rule, after former speaker Dennis Hastert: When the GOP controls the House, the speaker will almost never bring a bill to the floor unless the bill is supported by a majority of the Republican caucus, even if the bill would have enough total votes to pass. That effectively disenfranchises every voter in a district with a Democratic representative.)

One way to ditch the Hastert Rule would be to reform the discharge-petition rule, so that signers' names would be kept secret by the clerk AND a bill would be brought to the floor with, say, 1/3 plus 1 of the House membership.

5. Reform the House districting process (as has been said elsewhere in this thread).

6. Yes, ditch the filibuster — AND the blue-slip rule that allows any senator to put an indefinite hold on a presidential nomination (e.g., as Sen. Markwayne Mullin recently did to promoting Lt. Gen. Chris Donahue to four stars).

7. Change the Senate rules to create a shotclock timer: The Senate is deemed to have approved every passed House bill and every presidential nomination if the bill or nomination isn't rejected within, say, 90 days OR there's a 60-senator vote to extend the time.
Would it help if I said most “normal folk” applications of LLMs are a waste of time and money too then? Because I’m also absolutely a believer that a huge bubble burst is coming for OpenAI and company.
I've ditched all ARP, mDNS in my setup. Everything is static IP addresses: it vastly improved robustness against network glitches, which absolutely will happen to you.

If my router is unplugged or offline, everything with power can still communicate for example.
Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn't matter
TFP: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13166
You can set up AWS in less than 5 minutes...
The main function seems to be "number go up" ie. speculative investment. If you know friends with crypto I bet that's why they bought it.
Good ones. Nice to shake up this thinking. We need more courageous
legal exceptionalism to redistribute power and deal with complexity.

I've just finished recording a Cybershow episode with two experts in
compliance (ISO42001 coming on the AI regulatory side - to be broadcast
in January).

The conversation turned to what carrots can be used instead of sticks?
Problem being that large corps simply incorporate huge fines as the
cost of doing business (that probably is relevant to this thread)

So to legally innovate, instead, give assistance (legal aid, expert
advisor) to smaller firms struggling with compliance. After all
governments want companies to comply. It's not a punitive game.

Big companies pay their own way.
They want to protect their political control, so they break any way for the opposition to effectively organize. Things like unlimited immigration, Net Zero 2050, and dekulakization of the agricultural sector are widely unpopular, so they just have to get everyone who has anything to say against these programs to be politically powerless.
We all are content consumers. It’s not a problem, just a fact.

You consumed my content (my comment) and are now creating your own.

What you spend your attention on is much more important now than even 10 years ago.
I’ll go a few steps further:

- it’s only kinda open source if it’s not on GitHub,

- it’s definitely not open source if it’s not in Git,

- but it can regain its open sourceness if it has an open Discord and the devs are hanging out there.

Here, all my heuristics exposed. (I’m not claiming they’re true or sensible, just saying what my brain thinks.)
Up to high school the number 1 reason for me to send my kid to school is the social aspect of being in school, making friends, dealing with “drama,” assessing risk, figuring shit out… in 2024 kids REALLY do not need to go to school to “learn stuff” - they have all the knowledge of the world at the palm of their hands. my kid does A LOT of studying at home, her computer is always on in my office, when I move upstairs she is on her ipad on Claude or watching lectures on Youtube etc… I do not undertand
homeschooling mostly because I do not understand how it can be healthy for kids to be alone most of the day staring at the screen…
FYI - M4 has more bandwidth

Chip Bandwidth (GB/s)
———- ————————————
M2 100
M3 100
M4 120 (20% more)

M2-Pro 204
M3-Pro 153 (less than M2-Pro)
M4-Pro 273 (78% more than M3-Pro)

M2-Max 409
M3-Max 409
M4-Max 546 (33% more than M2/M3-max)

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/10/apples-m4-m4-pro-and-m...
Reminds me of Bell who was funded to work on an update to the telegraph, but got distracted by his side-project, the phonograph.
Tintin et Milou!
If that was the case, then they shouldn't have bought ATi.
I have a spreadsheet where I track all inputs, and unfortunately it's just the cost of everything. The filament really doesn't help, but it also takes a lot of labor, and paying off the dev cost is also an important factor. Most of all, it's made in Canada where rent is expensive and I have pay that so I have to get paid a living Canadian wage.
Are preflashed Valetudo vacuums a thing? It would absolutely be worth it to me to buy setup and working units.
TFS: https://github.com/SakanaAI/evo-memory
> If you were to ever be investigated, it will be up to someone to decide if your measures were good or you have been found lacking.

This is the problem with many European (and I guess also UK) laws.

GDPR is one notable example. Very few people actually comply with it properly. Hidden "disagree" options in cookie pop-ups and unauthorized data transfers to the US are almost everywhere, not to mention the "see personalized ads or pay" business model.

Unlike with most American laws, GDPR investigations happen through a regulator, not a privately-initiated discovery process where the suing party has an incentive to dig up as much dirt as possible, so in effect, you only get punished if you either really go overboard or are a company that the EU dislikes (which is honestly mostly just Meta at this point).
Agreed! Am I supposed to call the number on the bottom of the router lol. I called it.
I began playing drums for rock. Never had formal training (hell, I even played open handed and heel on foot because I never saw closely someone else playing drums) and yes, 99.9% I do it by feel or by ear, learning the melody. I'm trying to revert that 22 years after, though.

I genuinely thought everybody did the same until went to a clinic by Pepi Taveira, an argentinian jazz drummer, where he admitted doing the same - that unlike everyone elde, he didn't kept a count but kept the measure reference by learning the melody - specially on odd time metrics.
I have this, I was diagnosed after a formal neuropsych eval at the hospital after many years struggling with math.

The numbers I can work around, everyone keeps a calculator in their pockets these days. What sucked was that it's not a common diagnosis, so I was constantly berated and insulted for being bad at math, as if I didn't apply myself or work hard enough.
Heh, UML is going to save us! The business people can just write the requirements and the code will write itself! /s

Given the growth-oriented capitalist society we live in in the west, I'm not all that worried about senior and super-senior engineers being fired. I think a much more likely outcome is that if a business does figure out a good way to turn an LLM into a force-multiplier for senior engineers, they're going to use that to grow faster.

There is a large untapped niche too that this could potentially unlock: projects that aren't currently economically viable due to the current cost of development. I've done a few of these on a volunteer basis for non-profits but can't do it all the time due to time/financial constraints. If LLM tech actually makes me 5x more productive on simple stuff (most of these projects are simple) then it could get viable to start knocking those out more often.
Nobody has a crystal ball but I do find the confidence approx half the devs have that it’ll never happen short of near-AGI alarming.

Alarming in the same way as a company announcing that their tech is unhackable. We all know what happens next in the plot
You gotta go to people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours — Yogi Berra
Wonder how this compares with Microsoft's HeadKV paper [1] which claims a 98% percent reduction in memory while retaining 97% of the performance.

[1] https://arxiv.org/html/2410.19258v3
the Amazon and Tesla model. lots of investors approve of it.
This only decreases memory cost of input context window, not the memory cost to load and run the models.
No slow pushes but I’ll be on the lookout for them.
This is for inference right? Not training?
This is a very personal story and I’ll keep it personal because I don’t know what anyone else’s lived experience is. If you’re young and this resonates for you, you’ll figure it out.

My undiagnosed dyscalculia combined with an unnecessarily difficult calculus course at mun.ca cost me my degree. All other requirements met.

Yeah I am throwing shade because I was made to feel stupid by callous faculty when I fully understood why you’d want tests for sequences and series but just couldn’t hack those exams and assignments where they threw three curveballs per problem.

I grew to understand trig in high school by programming a rotating cube on a Sharp calculator. It ran at .5 fps. My teacher passed me because it was clear I had a grasp.

I would have done better at UofT - I compared their curriculum after the fact. One maybe two curve balls per question. Just couldn’t afford it.

I still have to use my fingers to count basic addition and subtraction. I can’t read an analog clock unless I really think about it. I have immense problems remembering the names of people I just met.

Luckily, at the time, I had a history of good IT admin work to make up for it.

And 25 years later, I am very happy with how my career has gone, no letters to my name.

It’s good to see someone else’s famous and major success despite such a burden.

For anyone else, get whatever exemption you can. Lord knows the golf caddy of their rich parents’ friends do the same.

I’d be as bitter as the prof who smoked cigars in his office, but my Cayley medal still hangs on the wall as a reminder of something that would take way too long to put to words.
I did. I disagree with the premises, the (rather exaggerated) examples given, and furthermore the author's situation appears very different compared to mine. I am a very junior developer. The codebase I work on is established and if I ever make edits, it's confined to a handful of lines. It takes a long time for me to understand and parse an existing code base. I am unlikely to ever do the sort of text-slinging that Vim users tend to demonstrate on YouTube. I move between work and home, and I type on different keyboards with different physical layouts.

At the end of work I am so physically and mentally exhausted that I couldn't give two hoots whether I used Vim, VS Code, or the trendy modal AI-augmented editor written in Rust. I just want to get dinner, flop onto my bed, text some friends and get sleep. I have a couple of blog-posts that I've been sitting on for months because I haven't had the time nor energy to sit and write them, even at weekends.

Given all this, learning to use Vim is just another drag. Oh, and I should mention—I am exceptionally lazy. I'm not the so-called 'smart lazy' type of person. I'm lazier than that. I simply don't do stuff if I can afford not to.

The author suggests I now profile my own typing to speed it up? I frankly couldn't be bothered. I type reasonably fast anyway and Vim isn't going to speed things up at all.