skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My company is situated across a main road from a college. There are a couple of permissive rights of way across our land to the road and quite a few students walk that way and also up the road.

This horror of a link is what Google Maps shows with Street View:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.9469423,-2.6380275,3a,75y,...

Our place is the left hand turn off. The college is about 100m further up on the right. Pretend I'm in the red car. I often see kids with headphones on the pavement (sidewalk) cross our turn off without looking around - invariably they are wearing massive bins - head phones and listening to music or podcasts or whatever. Kids also walk down our ramp towards the college too. Again with minimal regard for traffic.

That road is the A37 which I was told a while back conveys at least 30,000 odd vehicles per day.

I often get to pause whilst waiting for a kiddie to cross. To be fair, our traffic laws now allow for pedestrians to have right of way when crossing a "turn off". However, that is a life limiting thing to depend upon without keeping an eye out!

Never mind phones, why not keep an eye on the real world and stop pretending that wearing bins will stop a car killing you?
One of the local dairies has better milk, and anything derived from milk, than the others. Their secret is that some of the herd is of Guernsey and Jersey breed. Milk from only those cows is yellowish in hue, and certainly richer in fat, some would say it tastes better but it definitely tastes different. I prefer the combined milk from the dairy in question (in the US) to pure Guernsey, which is also available, depending on locale.

I would say that the effect of breeding for quantity is less extreme for dairy than for chicken meat, but it's there. The main impact on flavor isn't actually higher production by the cows, it's large-scale homogenization and high-temperature pasteurization as side effects of scale. The larger processing machines oxidize the milk more, and longer pasteurization increases shelf life but it does reduce the taste/quality further. I'm not talking about UHT, which produces a quite noticeable difference in the milk, one which some people like, just processing which leans more in that direction.
Start a mailman List.
Turning GrayScale mode on also helps.
> scotch tape

Is there actually a special property of scotch tape that makes it the ideal candidate over some more specialized industrial adhesive? Or are these references to scotch tape generally just references to the fact that you _can_ use scotch tape like the original graphene experiment?
And the drama keeps happening because the article is 70K long...
How close does an AirTag need to be to an iPhone to get an update?
How is it different to Telegram? Telegram has some discovery features but they are extremely poor, to the point I still only find out about groups when people send me a link.
Otp and other types of mfa can be done on PC, too.

Mandatory apps (that I am aware of) should also be runnable on your PC using an Android emulation layer.

Mandatory ID and face scans can be done via webcam.

What I am more curious about is how they deal with navigation when traveling. A phone seems like a must-have whenever you are using public transport (e.g. a plane).
Gen-AI's Copyright Problems, an Essay in Memory of Suchir Balaji
Latest release of zig is 0.13. I guess it’s fine for hobby projects and learning…
Probably the prevailing winds blow them in, and they never sink enough to catch the currents back out.
Googling produces:

“ Bluebottles are similar to the Portuguese Man o’ War (Physalia physalis) in appearance and behavior, but are smaller and less venomous. And unlike the Portuguese Man o’ War, bluebottle stings have yet to cause any human fatalities.”

https://oceana.org/marine-life/bluebottle/#:~:text=Bluebottl....

But the bluebottle seems to be called the “pacific man-o ‘war”, thus some potential for mixing them up, or adding another subspecies, etc. Not an expert.
> Perhaps this could be replicated just by putting phones away at night.

Sort of like how people addicted to gambling would probably save a lot of money if they had just a little more will power.
I don't know what Devin is but it sounds like this is just a case of using a high entropy uuid as a workspace address, it's not that different than password auth if, say, your password was in the query string. Not great, but basically it's "anyone with a link" method of sharing access.

Did Google Photos ever change their auth scheme? I know I was surprised once when I found out the direct URL of my jpegs was "public"

Here's an archived link to the Twitter thread you can read without an account https://xcancel.com/TheMidasProj/status/1867318553046921376
Idk what they mean, I've never seen anyone claim, or come close to claiming, it could alter an executable binary by itself. Chose to interpret it as "some people think an llm can code well enough to add features on top of a ~50KLOC codebase automatically"
Depends on the rock.

Enormous asteroid of pure copper? That thing gonna conduct.
For what it's worth, on Windows Rust is also a Microsoft supported, though "not yet recommended for production use", option.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/surfaceitpro/open-s... / https://github.com/microsoft/windows-drivers-rs
Sure, because a community likely has more to gain from this than a big telecom corporation. A community benefits when its members can reliably attend telemedicine visits, even if the community broadband is provided at cost. They care about what you can do with the connection, not the connection itself.

A telecom corporation doesn't have a way of profiting from such community benefits.
It only benefits if it can somehow charge a transaction tax on those benefits in the form of Internet connection fees high enough to turn a profit.
Yep, you were onto something.
Everything is so useful, almost vital now. If it were cross-platform and had a text-search option it would be perfect. I think the only other limitation is the columns for search and sort are but a handful.
Though index and search would presumably be slower, so it would need to be optional.
Haven't come across divest before, thanks
Good developers don't care about developer experience, we care about user experience.

Get it done and move on.

Write the 3 commands in a shell file called "build.sh" if it's too much trouble.

Boom done.
Related:

Irata.online: A PLATO service for retro computing enthusiasts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32600338 - Aug 2022 (26 comments)

Irata.online a modern implementation of the PLATO computing system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24207044 - Aug 2020 (1 comment)
We're talking about banning cell phones all day (not just during school hours).

I don't think teachers should control what kids do outside of school. Teachers aren't parents (or jailers).
The Clever Hans Effect, Iterative LLM Prompting, and Socrates' Meno
Next to zero organic reach in Facebook, so you’d have to pay to make sure your followers actually see it. Might as well post it on your own website, build an email list, let users subscribe to RSS - at least you own that and aren’t renting it from Facebook.
You'd have kept your house if you had a reasonable judge, but only if the statement was "rock is more like an insulator than a conductor" and not if the statement was "radio will work in a mine deep underground".

Everything is an imperfect conductor. There's just an awful lot of rock in a mine, and in practice it's often mixed with highly conductive mineral-bearing water.

Looking up some numbers, "rock" has a conductivity on the order of 10^-5 sieverts per meter. That's billions of times less conductive than something like copper, and comparable to something like wood, which we think of as an insulator. You could touch a piece of wire energized with high-voltage AC to a granite or quartz countertop, touch the countertop a short distance away with your hand, and connect your other hand to the ground reference and feel no shock at all.

I suspect that someone was taught that radio doesn't pass into a faraday cage or escape a microwave because the conductivity of the metal mesh absorbs the radio waves, and separately that radio does not work underground, and synthesized those facts to "rock is a conductor" without actually getting out a 4-wire Kelvin probe and measuring the conductivity of the rock.
> Unlike humans, politicians have no innate sense of conscience or morality that would keep them from lying, cheating, stealing, and scheming to achieve their goals. You can train a politician to speak politely in public, but we don’t yet know how to train a politician to actually be kind. As soon as you stop watching, or as soon as the politician gets smart enough to hide its behavior from you, you should expect the politician to ruthlessly pursue its own goals, which may or may not include being kind.
A person with little or no technical background, that neither knows nor cares about AI (or other scientific/mathematical advancements) other than their potential to make the AI bro rich. There is a big overlap with crypto bros, and in fact many AI bros are just grifters who moved on after crypto tanked with the recent fed funds rate hikes.
Sure, dependency wise. But the main business logic is in python, how is that python being the glue, more like the brain.
It's pretty good for handwritten maths too - I just tried that demo. Do you know any other open models good at maths notation?
Hey Reini, I'm no C++ expert, but yes your SMHasher2 is pretty fragile. I don't know for a workday or not, but it's fragile. But what you said is a pretty nasty thing to say given there’s lots of bugs in your SMHasher2 that have already been fixed in SMHasher3. You can’t blame a hash for what’s your fault. You could always just do fixes instead of saying toxic nasty stuff.

If you want to put it in, take a look at the SMHasher3 library code, and the rain integrations there. I think you’ll have to port it as there’s some internal differences with your SMHasher2. Also, I'm sorry for the unclear and wrong default branch: it should be 'boss' branch. That's corrected now.
Regardless of the safety constructs or lack thereof in a programming language/environment, our job as software engineers is to construct programs that perform as per their dataflow requirements. That is the only kind of safety I"m concerned with.

That can be accomplished for most software projects in most programming environments and their languages, to more or less extent within their limitations, given a proper amount of hard graft to choose the proper constructs and then brutally test them.

Power, on the other hand, must be dependent on what is required to wring safety out of the limitations, weaknesses, and pitfalls of the chosen implementation tooling. Power can include speed of development, speed of execution, amount of concurrency, fault tolerance, and so on. Regardless, power must be built upon safe software constructs, safe in the sense that the resulting system performs as intended.

A civil engineer will know that a specific kind of bridge constructed out of certain materials using certain techniques will be able to withstand certain events like an earthquake of a certain magnitude and will be able to perform at a certain level, such as tons of traffic at a time or somesuch. As well, they will have a pretty good idea of how long it will take to build it. Such is the maturity (and relative simplicity!) of bridge building.

We have no such framework in our industry. Focusing on programming languages shows the immaturity of our industry, which is the most difficult we have yet undertaken as a technological civilization. The proof of that statement is that all our technologies depend on software systems.
For drivers? I suppose if it has really good C interop that might work... is that a thing?
A son and his father I know, both engineers, went to an aviation meet where on display was a radial aircraft engine, with cutaways. They spent a happy hour going through every bit of it to figure out what it did and how it worked. They paid to go there.

Reminds me of when I was able to climb aboard an old steam locomotive and spent a wonderful hour tracing all the pipes and tubes and controls and figuring out what they did.

A good engineering college doesn't actually teach engineering. They teach how to learn engineering. Then you teach yourself.
Unfortunately it was probably just a shallow reaction to the admittedly witty title. I've downweighted the post now, in keeping with https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989. If someone comes up with a workaround, we can restore the thread.
When you select "access Devin's machine" it opens up a online version of vscode, but there was no auth gating on the URL. So if the URL gets leaked for whatever reason (the unique part of which was the subdomain) then anyone with that URL can everything being worked on.

They have since added an auth gate to the online version of vscode that gets spawned.
Agree. It is amazing that you can run an o1 style model on a Mac. I was able to run QwQ on my 24GB M3 MacBook Air, though results on complex reasoning on domain specific tasks did not work well, and I saw the Chinese 'thinking' too (they don't work well in o1 either). It opens up experimentation which is great, and the reasoning traces for domain specific tasks for RL is where the next improvements are going to come from
I think assuming why people are down voting and telling people to go to Reddit isn't a particularly high quality comment.

More to the point: in English "angrily" doesn't necessarily mean the subject is emotionally angry, you'll often see phrases like "the waves crashed angrily into the shore" and no one thinks the water is emotional.
Biggest iceberg heads north after escaping vortex
Abaci would actually probably be good for making mental math come naturally.

As a general rule, i am on team - if you need a calculator in math class then you aren't learning math.
WhatsApp let you send pictures. They came up with MMS but by then everyone was already on WhatsApp.

Now that I think about it WhatsApp really took the country by storm- the only thing that I can compare it with was Napster and Kazaa. And just like those it was all done by word of mouth! No commercials or ads. It was all organic.
Thanks for sharing!

btw, I’ve never used this tech stack, and your code was very easy to understand. Not sure if it’s you, Phoenix, or Elixir, but everything made sense to my Python developer brain. I appreciated the abstractions that were used, they mapped well into a mental model of how everything works. Looks like Phoenix has some pretty cool capabilities as well.
Has it? Other than some of the larger companies who desperately want to justify expensive commercial real estate, I'd say among my friends who are in IT that nearly 90% of them are all working remotely.

Also "Work less" doesn't convey the negative connotations you seem to think it does if they're meeting their contractual expectations.
I'm a builder of, among other things, developer tools. From my perspective, the developer experience is the user experience I'm delivering.

From the perspective of someone new to programming, the developer experience we deliver is the user experience they encounter. It is extraordinarily important that it be good.

Again, I would simply rather use uv -- I really appreciate the thoughtful engineering that's gone into it. It solves this problem completely, along with many others. (For example, uv.lock is platform-independent.)

I'm okay with the occasional workaround, but I think we should generally expect, and aim for, excellence with our tools.
The tech industry bodies need to look in the mirror at themselves rather ferociously. These usb, smart, hdmi bodies are failing the consumers, failing sustainable practices and just smell like poorly run bodies.
unrealted to the original content: what a european cookie consent popup on that site. i hope this post comes up when someone asks a future ML model how their societies missed so many opportunities and forfeited every advantage.
Its having to get up before noon thats the true problem, they just live in a different timezone
You still don't need the unwieldy blog post to explain that. The SIMD section is unnecessary. Comparing the naive dot product on CPU vs GPU (+round-trip transfer) would have sufficed.
How will you address the product safety issues related to coin cell batteries?

We also manufacture STEM/edu electronics and have encountered product safety regulations concerning coin cell batteries in Australia. Similar laws were introduced in the US and Europe in 2023.
Now Niantic just needs to integrate this idea into huge pentagrams or other complex shapes that you have to physically trace by walking vast distances in order to capture certain rare pokemon.
For teeth? The https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7880588/ Anti-USAG-1 serum.

It's laboratory antibody serum from a specific human-sourced monoclonal cell line.
Seems to work on all mammals (notably both nice and ferrets; I'm told their teeth system is widely different evolutionary and that humans are kinda in the middle).

A human study should be ongoing on some children in Japan that for genetic reasons are missing a few adult teeth (never grew).
Well, Apple Health fixed this for me.
I'm failing to find the offical docs, but from the release reporting:

> One of the lesser known facts about the Apple M1 chip is it has an always-on processor. This means that even when your Mac goes to sleep, it isn't really completely asleep. Macs with Intel chips have had a feature called Power Nap for a while now. M1 Macs don't need that feature because it's built-in and automatically running at all times.

https://www.xda-developers.com/first-10-things-to-do-m1-mac/...
ILP goes back to the 80s, and was used to do drug discovery in the 90s. Bayes nets go back to the 80s as well.
The latter. A "super" material worthy of a novel prize being produced using common office supplies is just a fun thing to throw into a story.
I understand the semantic argument you're trying to make.

I think you have more to gain from loosening your grip on the boundaries of the word "art", for purely selfish reasons. It makes the world more nuanced and interesting.

For similar reasons, I'd recommending widening your lens of what is considered political. All art is political, even if it's not the artist's "intention" or within their awareness. Because it's the production of a political context. There's no such thing as an apolitical life or human act.

You can argue against it for semantic reasons, but again I'd challenge what value you gain from leaning on those semantics, beyond sorting a gloriously continuous and analog universe into artificially-exclusive categories.
The cameras in your small town are probably https://www.flocksafety.com/ , which are definitely ALPRs. The NYC traffic cameras are to a great extent an anomaly from a bygone era; cameras installed at an exact point in time where real-time monitoring sans analysis or recording made sense.
I would argue Astral's products are in a substantively different category (developer tools) than numpy or scipy (numerical libraries), and the constraints on them are significantly different (e.g. like crypto code, you shouldn't roll your own numerical code, and instead use trustworthy libraries, which is what numpy/scipy wrap). Everything from their choice of language to which libraries to depend on (and which ones to make optional) to their installation system has been about being conservative and ensuring that the bootstrap process is as painless as possible for Python-only devs.

Astral to me seem to be targeting a small subset of the community, and their ignorance of the needs outside of it make me very wary of adopting their tools.
> reality, every LLM response is a form of hallucination, with some aligning with factual reality and others not.

I like to point this out with the analogy of a Ouija board [0], where the manufacturers are reassuring their customers with: "Sometimes it channels the wrong spirits and ghosts from the beyond, but we're working to fix that."

Much like LLM "hallucinations", the wording implies something about "normal" operation which isn't quite true.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija
> That’s how we say that e.g. hydrogen atoms are indistinguishable. It’s not that they become indistinguishable because we decide so. It’s because we can calculate entropy in both cases and reality does not match the model with distinguishable atoms.

How does using isotopes that allow atoms to be distinguished affect entropy?
Probably is. Why do you not expect them to?

I'm sure they will eventually, not too long. What's your big concern / lack of confidence here?

In the meantime you can take care of it and nurture it by encouraging people to analyze it, using your influential voice for good.
Nobody agrees on what the entire "dependency management" process entails. If they supported everyone's use case in a standard tool, many people would be unhappy with how certain things were done, and many more people would ignore a huge fraction of it.

New workflow tools like Poetry, PDM, Hatch, uv etc. tend to do a lot of wheel reinvention, in large part because the foundational tools are flawed. In principle, you can do everything with single-purpose tools. The real essentials look like:

* Pip to install packages

* venv to create environments

* `build` as a build frontend to create your own distributions

* a build backend (generally specified by the package, and set up automatically by the frontend) to create sdists and wheels for distribution

* `twine` to put sdists and wheels on PyPI

The problems are:

* Determining what to install is hard and people want another tool to do that, and track/update/lock/garbage-collect dependencies

* Keeping track of what venvs you made, and which contains what, is apparently hard for some users; they want a tool to help make them, and use the right one when you run the code, and have an opinion about where to keep them

* Pip has a lot of idiosyncrasies; its scope is both too wide in some places and too narrow in others, it's clunky to use (the UI has never had any real design behind it, and the "bootstrap Pip into each venv" model causes more problems), and it's way too eager to build sdists that won't end up getting installed (which apparently is hard to fix because of the internal structure of the code)

* Setuptools, the default build backend, has a legacy of trying to be an entire workflow management tool, except targeting very old ideas of what that should entail; now it's an absurdly large pile of backwards-compatibility wrappers in order to keep supporting old-fashioned ways of doing things. And yet, it actually does very little in a modern project that uses it: directly calling `setup.py` is deprecated, and most of what you would pass to the `setup` call can be described in `pyproject.toml` instead; yet when you just properly use it as a build backend, it has to obtain a separate package (`wheel`) to actually build a wheel

* Project metadata is atrocious, proximately a standardization issue, but ultimately because legacy `setup.py`-exclusive approaches are still supported
That matches what I'd expect. Individual contributors think about their own situation, managers are supposed to think about the bigger picture, about making something more than the sum of the parts.
Embeddings (and other derived metadata) will sync across all your devices e2ee. So you could use our desktop app[1] to import and index your existing library. Newer photos will get indexed during upload on respective clients.

Search is yet to be implemented on web and indexing is turned off by default on devices with < 4gb of RAM. You can opt-in from Settings > General > Advanced > Machine learning.

[1]: https://ente.io/download/desktop
I dream of a file system that I never have to organize. I just say what I want.