skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I've never seen a critique backed solely by word association. I am guessing the artist made exactly what they wanted to.
No, that's exactly why I clicked on it too.
This is specifically directed at agent traces and not necessarily other LLM use cases. We work on a lot of automated analysis and error detection mechanisms (see https://github.com/invariantlabs-ai/invariant/tree/main/anal...) on such agent traces, which can be nicely shown and highlighted in line with the trace in Explorer. Also, agent builders value collaboration a lot. They send around traces like pastebins to point out specific issues and failure modes of their agents. Explorer makes it easy to point to specific points in long traces and annotate them.
And a lunar eclipse only during full moon…. These constraints made it easier to predict eclipses in the past.
The very first interactive element is a great example of why ciechanow.ski is so great. Similar animations from other sources would probably limit to 28 frames and fake the image (using a simple mask). On ciechanow.ski there are hundreds(?) of frames and uses a bump map(?) to show accurate crater shadows on the moon's surface.
> more advanced thinking

does not imply

> vague, unspecified notion of "the real creative work" or "the things only humans are good it".

It's just true that increasingly advanced tools enable increasingly advanced work.
That's why we use points when talking about changes in percentages. :)

Imagine it was 100 people. 39 were aware. 50% of that is 20. So now 57 are aware, which is 18 more than before, which is pretty close to 20.

So yeah, it was a change in 50%, but it was only 18 points higher.
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Started on Android Market in 2010. First hire (designer) after 12 Million downloads and started hiring other Dev's after crossing 50 Million downloads. Still run decently popular apps on App Store and Play Store.
It was a brutal occupation and while I obviously don't hold some kind of personal resentment to the decedents (whether institutionally or literally) of this colonial state, I think its hard for the well meaning public in these countries to understand the effect of this kind of soft whitewashing (even if unintentional) of the historical record has to those of us who have these conflicts burned in our living memory, and are in all ways still living within the direct repercussions of these conflicts.

Maybe it is easier for some when they can view it from a distance, I see many who grasp the severity of say, the Japanese state's indifference to their imperial war crimes which still causes immense tension with their neighbors, or the denial of the Armenian Genocide by Turks and so on. It's a shame that such indignation rarely is maintained for systems that one may be far more complicit, and consequently far more able to rectify.
what the democrats don't understand (or they do, but purposefully ignore) is that the united states is not a state, it's not a democracy. the united states are 50 independent states united under a federated government. the people in each independent state votes on who they want as president. so the "democracy" in the united states exists at the state level, not at the federated government level.
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It's like the difference between an imperative framework and a declarative one. In a causal modeling system you as the user are responsible for writing out the causality of your model. In an acausal system, you write what components you have and how they connect and part of the compilation process is "causalization" i.e. taking the elements and connections and inferring from that the direction of causality.

This makes modeling much easier because causality doesn't compose. Adding a new component to a model can totally change what the optimal causalization is, so using an acausal framework the compiler will figure that out, but in a causal framework the user has to re-derive the causality of their model.
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What a confusing quote.

My bicycle recently got a puncture. Is the purpose of my bicycle to get punctures?
This is an abdication of duty, or else an unwillingness to admit flawed decision-making, at NHTSA.

Any time I am approached by a new vehicle going over a minor hill, I am blinded by their LEDs. Makers like BMW obviously market such blinding lights as power, awareness, etc. but it is a danger to everyone on the road.

If you're in the middle of nowhere highway, hit the brights. Otherwise, these lights need regulated. I wonder if there is a resistance mod that could be put in to lower the brightness for someone who cared to.
For the video-challenged,

A text version at Quanta:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-physics-20241217/

And a much more specific article at Physics World, as in 10 actual breakthroughs.

https://physicsworld.com/a/top-10-breakthroughs-of-the-year-...
And things get nicer when you kill those people.

99.999% of the population of Earth will never be directly affected by either of those two things, so at the very least you're going to have to expand on how eroding the privacy of those 8 billion people will make their life better.
This approach seemed super interesting and we attempted to use it for modeling a fairly complicated fluid system (pipes, valves, tanks, etc). However, in the end the equations that fell out made the solver choke. We abandoned the effort since it seemed like an undebuggable black box. It's unclear to me whether we just didn't do it right or if the open source alternatives just aren't capable.
What if you look at a some sort of writing, e.g. 4 large letters and then close your eyes can you, can you at any capacity visualize them or.also absolutely nothing?
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this questions only comes from pundit, smh.
I have to disagree. That movie, which is a smorgasbord of incomprehensible action scenes, does not feel at all like a Tintin story. It's Indiana Jones with the numbers filed off.
I've seen these called "explorables" or "explorable explanations" before and I really like them. I've been collecting notes on them here: https://simonwillison.net/tags/explorables/

Here's the website that coined the term: https://explorabl.es/
Is there any similar campaign to have something done about loud vehicles?
years back i came across this moon-related modeling problem on stackoverflow (i'm not the original poster)[0] and it's stuck with me that this seems like something that should have an easy solution.

An HN thread about how cool the moon is seems like a good place to resurface it.

But the question is this:

The crescent of the moon face is tilted based and the angle of that tile depends on the viewer's latitude on earth. Is there an equation that maps viewer latitude to the tilt of the moon crescent?

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22392045/calculating-moo...
I agree with you entirely - however allow me to illustrate a point:

I think the difference often is the intention of the writer. We get these types of headlines when people want to really promote how cool it is a female is capable of doing something - and we're all supposed to be amazed. That's pretty sexist if you think about it... of course a female is capable of writing high quality software! We should be amazed at what this person achieved because it is impressive on it's own merit - not because of the person's gender.

However, nobody is reading a headline like "one man dev team" and thinking "you go dude!".

It's a two-way double-standard that we should work on ending.
One thing I've noticed while looking at the Moon, the "dark" part is lit enough to see that it's an orb and not really being eaten by darkness. This webpage doesn't do that, I guess it's from a different perspective without the earth shining on the Moon.
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[good grief]
> Passkeys avoid all of that, but you need backups either in the form of a Yubikey or a recovery code in your wallet. Yes, that’s annoying but there is no world where nobody is annoyed...

We're not talking about annoyance here, we're talking about data breaches on the one hand and permanent account lockouts on the other. There is no world where the majority of people remember distinct passwords for each service, and there's likewise no world where the majority of users carry a Yubikey or even download their recovery codes at all, much less carry them with them.

So we're left really with two choices at the extremes: do we go for the failure mode where people reuse passwords and lose money and data that way, or the failure mode where a company is physically incapable of restoring a customer's account? Given the choice between these extremes, companies will always choose the former.

Now, these extremes aren't the only choices, but then you get to the crux of OP's argument: passkeys stored in a password manager aren't any more secure in practical terms than random passwords stored in a password manager. Your auth system is only as secure as its recovery mechanism (which is the observation that led Slack to initially not bother with passwords at all).

There's one way in which I disagree with op, which is that passkeys prevent users from typing in a password and storing it in the password manager, which many users do—they effectively enforce random passwords rather than it being just a best practice that needs to be taught.
For now, taste and debugging still rule the day.

o1 designed some code for me a few hours ago where the method it named "increment" also did the "limit-check", and "disable" functionality as side-effects.

In the longer run, SWE's evolve to become these other roles, but on-steroids:

- Entrepreneur
- Product Manager
- Architect
- QA
- DevOps
- Inventor

Someone still has to make sure the solution is needed, the right fit for the problem given the existing ecosystems, check the code, deploy the code and debug problems. And even if those tasks take fewer people, how many more entrepreneurs become enabled by fast code generation?
https://explorabl.es/ calls them "Explorable Explanations".
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How does that apply when you're releasing the source code in the jurisdiction where the law requires it? If they sue you there, the law there says they lose. If you're also in the other jurisdiction your subsidiary there doesn't have to release it so they don't. This is like, what happens when a work is in the public domain in one jurisdiction but not another? The answer is different things happen in different places.

Also, obviously companies would then just not license software under terms that would cause legal trouble for them.
Fair point. I'd like to think nobody would filibuster against popular laws such as those against murder, rape, theft, etc. but more that it's an opportunity for laws like "you can't sell a car on Sunday" or various controlled substance laws to quietly expire as public attitudes change.
But it is very significant it hasn't involved itself in any armed conflicts in its own hemisphere for more than 30 years.

Except for Trump's threats to invade Venezuala and Mexico, that is.
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By being too lenient towards those who have not deserved it, we are being unjust towards those who have.
>This isn't how laws work.

The law worked the same way yesterday as it does today. It's not like the website run in Britain operated under some state of anarchy and in a few months it doesn't. There's already laws a site has to comply with and the risk that someone sues you, but if you were okay with running a site for 20 years adding a report button isn't drastically going to change the nature of your business.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42332314

(12 points, 5 comments)
I tell people I left Google because of all the weird amount of data harvesting, and they always argue Apple's not any better, but I rarely hear of someone losing their iCloud to the level I hear of people losing their Google Account which is glued to too many damn things.

At this point I assume the only way Google will ever fix their ridiculous ban process is if someone passes a law that forces them to separate these comingled services from losing you access to your email, and essentially in some cases your personal business.
That's honestly how most products are these days. The base version is lacking one feature that is present in the "premium" version and a bunch of useless add-ons are piled on to justify the expense of the "premium" version.

In a lot of cases, the base version is excluded from certain markets and only the premium is available (e.g. YouTube Premium).
Maybe the aunt was in a care facility where a record of visitors is kept, and so they know for sure how many visitors there were. Anyway regardless of the specifics of this situation, there are many others where far more people turn up for the funeral than did for the person in their later years.
That's surely a detail for the producer to figure out. Don't sell software if it's not legal to sell!
No React to be found (and good riddance). It's two vanilla JavaScript files:

https://ciechanow.ski/js/base.js

https://ciechanow.ski/js/moon.js
> I think positioning yourself as an expert / bridge between technology and business is what will future-proof a lot of SWE.

Could you provide a few examples of roles and companies where this could be applicable please?
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My pet half-serious quip about laws/lawyers. Imagine writing a complex program without loops and functions, but you have access to C++ templates, and if statements can only be written as in-line switch statements that can't have any function calls. Oh and any "changes" to the code have to be done in the form of diff files that are included in the next program that may or may not be related. That's how laws are written.
> Some kind of fairness doctrine needs to be reintroduced.

The fairness doctrine only applies to public airwaves. Fox, CNN, and MSNBC are all run on private cable infrastructure: no public resources (e.g., radio frequencies) are used in their dissemination, and so the public/government does not get to tell them what they can(not) say.
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Software demand skyrocketed because of the WWW, which came out in 1991 just before Python (although Perl, slightly more mature, saw more use in the early days).
Thank you, I am going to show parts of this to my daughter!
I'd prefer to keep the separation of powers intact (legislature writes/modifies laws, judiciary can strike them down but can't (or isn't supposed to) make up law... the exchange is not that different between development and QA :)

your process seems reasonable though.
"delve"

hmmmmm
Still today, many of those countries are defacto western colonies and lack any independence.

Can you name even one?

The only one to which the phrase "lacks any independence" could meaningfully apply is Puerto Rico. But even that's not really true, as it continually holds status referenda in favor of actually joining the US over independence. Most recently by a margin of 50-30 - and just a few weeks ago, in fact.
That's fine for me, but my parents not so much.
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Among other rationales, the intent behind the Electoral College was to give outsized political representation to slaveowning states to keep them in the union, because otherwise a popular vote would give a demographic advantage to Northern abolitionists and free Black people.

Presumably in the Year of our Lord 2024 the preservation of slavery as an institution is no longer an issue for the South, and a simple cost benefit analysis between remaining part of the world's last superpower or Balkanizing would be sufficient to keep them in.
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[2] is the "constitutional protection" grandparent comment is talking about, since it is ruled by the US Supreme Court.
These days I either buy a specific name branded product that really doesn't have an equivalent competitor, or I go find the cheapest thing on AliExpress because most of what's available on sites like Amazon is just rebranded tat from China.
What happens when they lose or break the phone, or switch phones, which my parents do every two or so years?
And do you think that laws are the solution to that? Just take a look at Germany right now; their system is much less chancellor-ized, and it is still a clusterfuck right now.

Like tech is not the solution to social problems, laws are not the solution to political issues.
I turned on the AI features last week. Last night, Carplay noted I had an incoming text message. Instead of reading me the whole message, it summarized (poorly) the message, and then asked if I wanted to hear the entire message. I replied "yes", but it did nothing. A few minutes later, another message was received and the same thing happened.

There is no way this feature saw any acceptance testing prior to release.
So passwords are bad because users can't be trusted to chose strong passwords but for passkeys they suddenly are trusted to keep secure, comprehensive, backups?
Why should everything be dumbed down and idiotproofed these days? Why not educate people instead? Blame people not passwords.
Passwords managers are good and free and every new phone has one built in. There is no excuse for using weak passwords anymore.
> b) you can print important travel documents ahead of time c) you can bring a backup device on your travels.

While I remain on the fence about passkeys, I often see this argument from advocates when things go wrong along the lines of: "why didn't you securely store your backups and keep them with you at all times"

Firstly, it's annoying when a user is already in that situation, it does not help them solve the problem right now.

Secondly, it clearly faces a scalability issue, a significant proportion of passkey users right now tend to be well informed on the authentication model and threats, but when it scales to billions of users many of them will not be well informed and will not think about how to be prepared for when things go wrong, potentially locking them out of everything they would need to fix the situation.

While I appreciate the advantage this model gives, I struggle to imagine it will work well on the unsuspecting public.
Nate Silver is a pretty good statistician. Unfortunately, he tried to parlay his popularity into a reputation of being an expert on everything. Not going so well.
This is a just a small list with very few information, smaller than what Wikipedia lists[1], and even include error in capitalization (SIchuan pepper). This is a bit underwhelming for a "visionary entrepreneur".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_culinary_herbs_and_spi...
On an unrelated note, on the Sunday we had a major lunar standstill i.e. the full Moon at its highest orbit (as seen from northern hemisphere). It happens every 18.5 years.
> Muslim were some sort of disease which a nation must be "protected" from

Your words but if we focus on the period after 1950 then yes that is a more or less broadly accurate conclusion.

> fantasy of

You mean of secularism and liberal democracy?

Or the rather the fantasy that the political beliefs of most practicing muslims in muslim majority countries are seemingly entirely compatible with those concepts? Must be a random coincidence…
>feed entire projects to AI and let the AI code, while they do code review and adjustments.

any help? what AI can do this?
One thing passkey proponents forget is password-authenticated key exchanges (PAKEs).

PAKEs use passwords, and they are unphishable. That is the direction we should go to avoid vendor lock-in.
My take as well. People seem to think this should be a noteworthy accomplishment irrespective of gender. The source seems to be objection to perceived patronization of women, not not hate or disparagement of women.
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I agree with most of what you said, but BMW lights autodim very aggressively because they know it's annoying as hell. I know because i found how to verify that's enabled, and was testing it just hours ago.

Around here, there are geriatric drivers aplenty at certain times of year who drive with brights on all the time, hills or straightaways or anything. very annoying. including in daylight.
How do I log into that cloud account? Since I can't do it recursively with a passkey stored in it, can I?

And what if that cloud account decides to cut off my access?
> one with all the problems passwords always had

No, because the PIN is tied to the device and becomes invalid much more quickly. A Windows password is potentially used in far more places and potentially across many devices.

> I guess the idea is that it is easier to use

For many, it really is. On some of my devices which lack biometrics my pin is just a few numeric digits easily input with a small numberpad. The PIN is backed by the TPM which wipes it after too many failures. This is far faster and easier to type in than my full Microsoft account password which uses most of the normal complexity concepts such as length, mixed-case, letters+numbers+symbols, etc. Far easier to just type 4-6 digits (or however long you want it to be) instead of dozens of mixed-case alphanumerics and symbols.

For instance, I recently got a gaming handheld which runs Windows. I want to use my Microsoft account, but as mentioned its a long and complex password. It seems this device doesn't have any biometrics, so its either type in my very long password every time the screen locks on a software touch keyboard or just type in a short PIN backed by the TPM. Which seems like the better process?

> it feels like

You may feel that way, but a Windows Hello PIN is not a password. They're different things in many ways. I could continue throwing more documentation at you, but somehow I feel like continued facts aren't going to change your feelings about this.
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The really satisfying thing for me was when I was on a sailing course and was instructed in how the moon causes the tides, and how the phase of the moon corresponds to springs and neaps.
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I’d argue the biggest offender here is Ford/GM

The German cars will at least attempt to dim the beam or auto turn off high beams, in Europe they’ll even divert the beam around you but for some reason we don’t allow that in the US. I drive a BMW as my daily and the computer makes every effort to not blind people.

GM and Ford I just get constantly blinded by gigantic pillars of LEDs, regardless if I’m driving another truck or a low sports car.
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It’s a lovely shot.