skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're interested, look at the layout doc: https://bit.ly/layout-doc-v2
in my personal opinion, which is as valuable as the piece of paper i’m writing this on /s

art has no function except to be observed by an audience. if they enjoy it or not is immaterial. its purpose is to be observed.

the design of a box of cereal has a purpose - to sell you the box of cereal by making it attractive/stand out/fit the brand.

graphic design, when it has purposes beyond being observed, is not art — it’s a craft.

like engineering.

although graphic design/engineering can become art when it has no purpose except being observed.

edit — enjoyment is immaterial and the bits about graphic design can be art etc.
Bots are one problem. A worse problem is coordinated online activists for different causes flooding posts to steer the discussion. There are websites and apps and many thousands active for just one specific group.
Traditional banks and the financial industry are generally sub-optimal, but at least if you are scammed, they will do their best to either recover your money or return you whole.

To have this safety, money and finances have to be centralized, regulated, and governed, all of which crypto doesn't have and doesn't want.
Similarly, we should be sending kids to school in bulletproof vests. Safety first!

It is the obligation of the vehicle operator not to kill people, not the obligation of the person walking not to be killed.
> I really can't understand people who like python over R. Did you guys not read SICP?

I didn't.

I do wonder what you are programming in R, that isn't loading, munging visualizing and fitting models.

Do you have a github you can share? Or a SICP with examples in R?
I'm feeling good about ditching gas at our house. The new heat pumps are working great.
When you walk across the plaza in front of the building, you do get the sense that this is a building with a message. And that message is: We will crush you.
Hi, Jochen from Rerun here (@grtlr on GitHub)! I implemented most of the graph view, including Fjädra [0], our Rust port of the excellent d3-force [1].

Happy to answer any questions!

[0](https://github.com/grtlr/fjadra)

[1](https://d3js.org/d3-force)
I’m interested, work in finance, and am in Chicago. How do i apply?
Why Apple sends spyware victims to this nonprofit security lab
Still is! But it used to have much more
I think they could be called a scam. Having flame retardent in our bedding by law, all so smokers could smoke in bed safely, feels like some sort of regulatory capture to me.

They should make flame-retardent bedware and non-flame-retwrdent bedware, and should be legally obligated to disclose every flame-retarded chemical and daily expected daily exposure levels on the tags and box.
That's a nicely clear ask but I'm not sure why it should be decisive for whether there's genuine depth of thought (in some sense of thought). It seems to me like an open empirical question how much world modeling capability can emerge from language modeling, where the answer is at least "more than I would have guessed a decade ago." And if the capability is there, it doesn't seem like the mechanics matter much.
You are conflating 2 concepts: a) that the reality converges to what the theory predicts only after a great number of samples; b) that if you skip some events the results will vary.

Now, b) is false. You can change the code to extract 3 random numbers each time, discard the first 2 and only consider the third one, the results won't change.

Instead a) is generally true. In this case, the Kelly strategy is the best strategy to play a great number of repeated games. You could play some games with another strategy and win more money, but you'll find that you can't beat Kelly in the long term, ideally when the repetitions approach infinity.
Let’s fix the problems causing the devolution to a low trust society instead of just layering on cameras and ubiquitous surveillance.

Maybe the people making grocery store clerks feel afraid at work shouldn’t be free to walk around causing trauma.

Freedom is not anarchy.
There is a signal light mounted on the top of the vehicle. When it detects a pedestrian in a crosswalk or waiting to cross, it lights up with a little ‘human walking’ picture. It makes it very clear to everyone it sees you.
The bad things you describe as side effects already exist. So adding in good is... good. However you rate the current situation.
The BBC's Civil War over Gaza
I honestly thought Linux would be much better, with a two-digit lead.

One additional advantage of using Linux is that you can trim it down or use a very lightweight distro for very old hardware. I recently installed Linux on an old laptop with a dual-core AMD C-50 and 2GB of RAM because the Windows 8 it was using had become unusable. Of course, one of the BSDs might be even better for this use-case.
Full article here:

https://archive.is/LH7PX
Privacy implications depend on how long they retain the footage, and how it's stored in general.
Cameras have been everywhere for quite some time. Every time you use self check out, at the grocery store or even the post office, a camera is watching you. As you walk around stores, cameras are following and recording your movements. ATM machines, traffic cameras, we are being photographed constantly.
[dupe] Earlier official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42463170
We should require them to have big eyes like 3yo kids car toys.
Introducing Configurable Metaflow
We don’t have skilled immigrant labor and the post WW2 boom made it difficult to win contracts with high quality building materials and artisans. The Hudson valley of New York had hundreds of brickyards until the 1950s and 60s. Bricks suck because they’re made in like two places, because construction is scaled and needs cheap materials.

There’s no good wood because wood < brick and we cut all of the trees down. So now the cheapest path is pumped concrete, so we build giant reinforced concrete and glass structures that will literally crumble in 70-100 years.
The problem is that paranoids trust NO ONE, so this is impossible. Same reason rock stars implode from time to time: the money, fame, and ALL ACCESS pass to drugs create a solipsistic world view.
Here is a quite informative interview: https://lenta-ru.translate.goog/articles/2024/10/08/onkovakc...

Some specific bits:

"It is important to understand that this is not a panacea. After reading the headlines in the press, some people think that this is a miracle cure that can cure everything. However, this is not the case.

The vaccine will only be effective against certain types of cancer for which immunotherapy is indicated. There are currently clinical guidelines that indicate where and when immunotherapy can be used.

For now, this is a limited list of diseases, such as melanoma. In the future, it may include lung cancer, some types of gastrointestinal cancer, and possibly kidney cancer. "

"For a vaccine to be effective, a significant number of changes in the tumor genome are needed, for example, hundreds. From these, 20-30 of the most effective mutations, so-called neoantigens, can be selected, which will allow the immune system to be trained to recognize and attack the tumor.

If a patient has few changes in the tumor genome, the vaccine may not be effective. This is because there are few differences from normal tissue, and the immune system may not recognize the tumor as a threat."

"When choosing a vaccine-based therapy, we will focus on patients who are likely to respond positively to the treatment. In addition, the state of the person’s immune system and how it interacts with the tumor plays an important role. In some cases, additional methods may be needed, such as checkpoint inhibitor therapy or the use of antibodies that help the immune system recognize and attack the tumor."

"For example, in one study, the median relapse was 13 months. Many patients who responded to vaccine immunotherapy had a median of over 24 months. And that's just the observation period. It's probably longer. That's a pretty significant extension. The response to vaccine immunotherapy is about twice as strong as checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy alone."
There's a future, not in the short-term, where 99% of folks don't need to or want to own a car. You hail a ride, and a vehicle shows up, perhaps with 3 of people in the vehicle in their own bubble internally designed into the car. You get in, it drops offs others in the vehicle, and then finally drops you off. The vehicle exhausts its entire electric charge, recharges, and then gets back on the road. The number of vehicles on the road is down 50%.
It's like a cartoon villain. It's so absurd that you assume it can't be as bad as it is.
I don't quite get this "I need to add every possible authenticator I have at account creation or I'm not doing it" kind of mentality I see a lot.

When I make an account, if I have at least two authenticators around me, I'll set up the hardware authenticators or make sure it's got a decent recovery set up. As time goes on I'll add the rest of them when it's convenient. If I don't have at least two at account creation or I don't trust their recovery workflow, I guess I'll just wait to add them. No big deal.

If I'm out and I make an account with $service but I only have my phone, I'll probably wait to add any authenticators. When I'm with my keys, I'll add my phone and my keyring authenticator to it. When I sit down at my desktop sometime in the next few days and I use $service I'll add my desktop and the token in my desk drawer to it. Next time I sit down with my laptop and use $service, I'll add that device too. Now I've got a ton of hardware authenticators to the account in question.

It's not like I want to make an account to $service, gotta run home and have all my devices around so I can set this up only this one time!
Any canonical papers on GNN for code graphs?
Tidally driven remelting around 4.35B years ago indicates the Moon is old
Very few managers get quick promotions for NOT rolling out a high-visibility AI enhancement. LLMs can theoretically fit into an amazing diversity of products. Even if just 10% of managers say yes and the other 90% say no, thats still a lot of shoehorning every year in an attempt to book a “win” for a promotion.
Wayne has a signal light that lights up
Plenty of hypothetical scenarios in our modern age which could certainly send us to a new "dark age": global pandemic with high mortality rate, nuclear war, space phenomena that wipes out electronics on Earth. Once you break the chain of knowledge from generation to generation and place to place each remaining group has to get back with what's left.

I do agree though, that if they could do this in the Dark Ages, we've left considerably more artifacts around to do it with today. Any moderately large town has a library with enough information to get things going.
> Why can't we build nice things anymore?

Well.. first start by defining "beautiful", we're waiting. Also, it's a 50 year old structure.. we stopped building "nice" things after WW2 mostly because costs were astronomical and new materials and engineering opened up all kinds of avenues for more modern construction.

I've spent decent amount of time in and around Boston City Hall, the biggest problem with the building are:

1. The plaza in front of it is a damn wasteland. So much could be improved by building over the plaza and reestablishing the street grid here properly.

2. The Congress Street side facing Faneuil Hall is a concrete wall and a garage entrance. You probably can't fix the garage problem easily but the concrete wall with a proper structural engineer could probably reopened up.. of course, it would be expensive.

3. The interior while very interesting architecturally is really quite... I dunno, soul sucking. I kind of love the aesthetic inside but only from a "wow this looks cool" perspective.
The waymos in SF seem to indicate that they see a pedestrian (when they are waiting to turn) by showing a pedestrian symbol on their spinning lidar hat. It's pretty obvious, but I don't know how consistently it is shown.
It's doesn't seem to be necessary. If they have just 200 violent incidents then that's impressively low, 0.0125% chance of you as a Walmart employee to have a violent encounter at work per year.

Verbal conflicts can be unpleasant as well obviously, and the cameras can help identify those customers as well. I'm not entirely sure that the cameras well work as a deterrent though, they normal don't in other cases. A frustrated or angry customer isn't going to see the camera an change their behavior.

So you still need to have support framework in place for the employees who have these encounters. The cameras are only there to be able to identify customers, but I'm not really sure what they would want to do with that information.
My single setup routine has served me well for years, with little to no change: pipx as the tools manager, miniconda for env bootstrap and management, poetry (installed with pipx) for project management (works great with conda envs) and autoenv to ensure the correct env is always active for any project I'm currently in. The only issue I may potentially have is if I install anything apart from Python via conda, as that won't be reflected in the pyproject file.
I was with you until the quote at the end. What does that even mean?
Yes - exactly this. If there are multiple needed, then some can be smarter/ more capable than others, but this removes the “just another box and cable(s)” issue.
And they did with XHTML, but unfortunately it didn't catch on.
I cant remember but I had a list of unsolvable problems that just ruled it out. I think in one instance I wanted to populate a form after it failed validation but couldn't correctly escape the value attributes.

I believe the biggest design flaw is that the data is the first document it loads. It doesn't work like that. The application should load first, then the ui logic, then the data and then you should get to load other data sets. Swap them, filter, join, merge etc You would get powerful applications with very little effort.
If they put criminals in jail they wouldn't have to have a surveillance state like this.
Those are anonymous classes, if we‘re thinking of the same thing. Java also supports named classes bound to a method‘s scope (local classes).
(I really don't like this but) I definitely expect the future will involve ubiquitous on-person video & audio recording. People will walk around with devices that constantly record every interaction, which will eventually seem normal. A lot of formerly private conversations will be uploaded to whatever social media we have in the future, some stuff will go viral, etc. Goodbye any semblance of privacy!
> And a plane crash would easily kill hundreds, far more than any nuclear waste release from such a site ever could even in the absolute worst of the worst cases.

I think you're lacking imagination here. The Asse II mine in Germany[1] is in danger of getting flooded, which could release large amounts of radioactive material into the groundwater.
I’m not going to have my identity verified to eat dinner. Fuck that noise.
i agree with you, but i also think that there are some things that are more important, and deserve to be protected outside of the dynamics of the free market. i'd argue that art is one of those things, along with housing, health care, social services, etc.
Is there a simple demo that one can test? I see a tutorial about tic tac toe, but the result doesn't seem to be hosted anywhere.
I live in Toronto and would love to run my startup out of a research/startup/robotics facility in Waterloo (Catalyst 137) but the commute time is too long. If such train exists, I for one would defiantly make the move.
Live map here - https://guardian.jpl.nasa.gov/

I don't understand, something happens every day. It's been running for years. Are the predicting it our not?

Have they timestamped a prediction/analysis beating other methods and had it confirmed afterwards?

How often is it wrong, how often is it right when they make calls real time?
I work in Java every day and have upgraded my entire companies fleet of services to Java 21. FANGs are nothing special. And every actual survey shows that there are as many people on a runtime > 8 as there are people on 8:

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2023/java/
Have you tried Yandex? It's really great ...
Ask HN: What's the cheapest reliable VPS with a GPU?
I want to host Nextcloud for my family with the memories app which can use a GPU. Where can I get a cheap VPS that has access to the iGPU?
At first glance this seems like an indicator of the country's overall moral health. But when I went to look up crime statistics I was told property crime has been declining since the 90s. What gives? Is this an example of misleading statistics, or is there something else?

One hypothesis could be that a reduction in employee/customer engagement within stores creates more opportunities for theft. More self-checkout lines, fewer department representatives roaming around. Maybe?
Before, we just used Rectangle. It's no biggy.
When captchas break: handling the unhappy path
> This is true for all social media algorithms. None of them are purely automated and for good reason.

Purely chronological sorting of posts works the best and is fully automated. It's just really bad at keeping users eyeballs on ads.
Also AirTags are meant for tracking personal possessions. Hammers aren't meant for murder. Murder is an off-label use of hammers.

If AirTags stopped notifying users they're being tracked, then AirTags would also be meant for tracking people.
> what makes this so difficult to solve in Python?

Python creates the perfect storm for package management hell:

- Most the valuable libraries are natively compiled (so you get all the fun of distributing binaries for every platform without any of the traditional benefits of native compilation)

- The dynamic nature makes it challenging to understand the non-local impacts of changes without a full integration test suite (library developers break each other all the time without realizing it, semantic versioning is a farce)

- Too many fractured packaging solutions, not a single one well designed. And they all conflict.

- A bifurcated culture of interactive use vs production code - while they both ostensibly use the same language, they have wildly different sub-cultures and best practices.

- Churn: a culture that largely disavows strong backwards compatibility guarantees, in favor of the "move fast and break things" approach. (Consequence: you have to move fast too just to keep up with all the breakage)

- A culture that values ease of use above simplicity of implementation. Python developers would rather save 1 line of code in the moment, even if it pushes the complexity off to another part of the system. The quite obvious consequence is an ever-growing backlog of complexity.

Some of the issues are technical. But I'd argue that the final bullet is why all of the above problems are getting worse, not better.
I'm definitely buying one for robotics, having a dedicated unit for both STT and TTS that actually works and integrates well would make a lot of social robots more usable and far easier to set up and maintain. Hopefully there's a ROS driver for it eventually too.
Excellent theory considered here.

Could be something to it, when there is a genius that arises like they say.

OTOH, whether it's true or not, isn't it more commonly believed to be more like the genius "emits" the new tehnology?

Probably both, but odds are in favor of a non-genius coming up with the technology first anyway.

Then maybe it does emerge strongest when the one person comes along at the right time, possessing the presented 3-element catalyst.

Kind of like a Venn diagram on a linear scale.
I agree with you in part - we do have 100 years of development patterns baked into concrete and steel, but they were not originally built just for cars.

LA was built around interurbans, the idea that I should drive my car all the way from San Bernardino (or frankly even from Pasadena) to Los Angeles would be foreign to the original planners and builders in Southern California. Consider that every major freeway in LA is basically in whole or in part paralleling a former PE line, and suddenly my assertion doesnt seem so odd.

https://www.pacificelectric.org/collections/pacific-electric...

LA is not the only place where the sprawled layout was created by interurbans, Arguably to a greater or lesser extent - Detroit, Dallas, Cleveland, Cincinatti, and there are others whose early development was deeply influenced by the interurban exist.
I take it you're from Spain? You might feel differently if you had apex predators prowling around your cities. I don't suggest that we kill mountain lions (except, of course, those that have attacked humans) -- just move them to truly rural areas.
Without trying to digress, but why not make it modular too ? I.e. base model is a smart switch, one unit is the “base” unit and the rest talk to that. Possibly even add further switches, dials (thermostat or dimmer etc). Perfect placement in my opinion.
Heh, they aren't ""our"" workloads, before we get there, and not until they get deployed correctly for the first time ever at which point then and only then are they ""our"" workloads.
> and I'll leave you with what I think is your stated position that your thoughts don't need to bear any resemblance to reality for them to be real.

Just for the record, I will point out something I wrote in the very post you are replying to: in response to your question "in what manner must [a thought] be like its object", I wrote "[this question] is both the one I think might be answered by information flow via CHOC and the one you have resolutely avoided addressing (you still have not even said whether or not my CHOC-mediated 'correspondence' is your 'likeness')."

As you have repeatedly refused to address the question of whether it is what you mean, I will just say this: you have not shown that anything more is needed in the way of likeness in order for someone to have true thoughts.

Why are you avoiding this issue? Pretending I haven't answered your question is not helping you.
> It's possible that I did this without realising

IIRC on my platform, when they added the feature they turned it on by default, as an auto-installed update.

And if you're logged into the gmail app on the same device that also logs you into authenticator.

You didn't do anything wrong.
It doesn't seem like that distinguishes the case where your "alignment" (RL?) simply failed (eg because the model wasn't good enough to explore successfully) from the case where the model was manipulating the RL process for goal oriented reasons, which is a distinction the paper is trying to test.
Had a similar thought, but apparently skeletons decompose after just 20 years in fertile soil, or a few hundred in sand. I was thinking some kind of artificial replica of cadavers in the most gruesome state we can conjure, made from materials as durable as what you're storing. Or somehow fossilize your thousands of skeletons.

The article mentions culture as the most enduring thing humans have created, in cases having lasted millenia, but I think instinct is even more basic and has been around about as long as we have. Cater to that.
That's awesome! Would it be possible to include the business owner's comments for each listing to make them searchable?