skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just loved this bit in the paper, could be so easily taken on so many tangents!:

""Delayed Gratification is used to evaluate the ability of each algorithm undertake actions that temporarily increase Monotonicity Error in order to achieve gains later on. Delayed Gratification is defined as the improvement in Sortedness made by a temporarily error-increasing action.""

Is it slightly analogous in some ways to the avoidance of getting stuck in local maxima perhaps?
Hey, I'm commenting on this post to not disrupt the active H-1B thread but from what you mentioned there it seems like you could be a good fit.

Per introduction, I am an experienced entrepreneur who previously built the largest fintech lender in Spain (2B eur lended) and I am now looking for a team to build a defensetech with in the US to build artillery-launched drones.

I already have investor interest lined up.
Would you be open to have a chat?

You can just ping me on nicolas@adronaline.com
You might be interested to learn that Tridactyl and Firenvim use the same library to manage getting and setting text across the various JS editors

https://github.com/glacambre/editor-adapter/
How many vision pros did they sell and how many people are still using them?
> There are zero free ASN.1 compilers or module checkers.

I must be misunderstanding what you're saying, because this exists: <https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/asn1/asn1ct.html#>

From the linked page:

> asn1ct

> ASN.1 compiler and compile-time support functions

> The ASN.1 compiler takes an ASN.1 module as input and generates a corresponding Erlang module, which can encode and decode the specified data types. Alternatively, the compiler takes a specification module specifying all input modules, and generates a module with encode/decode functions.
It’s the same in the US. My son is in 10th grade doing Pre-Calculus now and should be in AP Calculus next year.

If you don’t take the AP class to test out of it, you’d have to take it first in college though.

I imagine many people strong enough in math to pursue sciences will go the AP route and test out of it, but not everybody takes the same path.
It’s all the downsides of communism, but non of the benefits.
NetBSD 10.1 Released
Someone needs to make an x86 version of it and then run Kubernetes on it.
I love my Logitech G602/502 series but after they killed the line it’s time for my money to go to a company that values me.

The problem is, I LOVE my 8-programmable buttons and there isn’t another mouse I’ve been able to find that approaches the number of buttons and ergonomics of the G602.

The price I’m willing to pay for the right mouse is absurdly high, but it isn’t $200 for a mouse that dies within a year due to shitty switches.
And there's also the problem of using computers that aren't yours. I haven't tried (and I will never), but I imagine switching between layouts is at least very inconvenient.
Bronze Age British Ate Their Enemies According to Gruesome Discovery
That really is click bait. And so is the second paragraph of the article:

"They have shown a method to induce learning through the direct manipulation of brain activity patterns. "

There was nothing direct about it, it was a feedback loop mediated by fMRI.

Quite different from all the SF skill and knowledge transfer ideas.
Oh ye ofc. There are many normal professions with uniforms.

But when you are in it, putting on the uniform is the magic transition between the real you and vice corpral Rightbyte.

Loss of freedom is certainly the main factor.
‘F24’? Was this a typo? I’ve only ever seen W for Winter and S for summer :)
You'll be disappointed when you move over to vastly more powerful machine and performance improvement is neglible
> correclty parsing the words

In context: heh.

(I know, typo not OCR-o, but still...)
8TB for 2hrs of footage is crazy even compared to other high end cinema camera, going to be an interesting work flow for anyone editing this as thats not a a trivial amount of data even by today's standards
Also, there's no such thing as sculpture productivity because all sculptors are doing is removing material.
I have seen this with some of the card swiping machines in India.
"the wolf took to fallen timber and so could not be tracked"

Do fallen trees give off a funky scent that masks a wolfs?
Some of the pictures in the article show several golf-ball-size holes in the windshield though. Not something that would go unnoticed.

Was windshield glass not laminated in that era?
Had this at an ATM recently, and it took a couple of tries at my PIN before I looked at the keypad and realized what was going on. One more wrong PIN and I could have lost my card.
I'm surprised to see such a new standard for FLAC - the protocol itself has been in use for decades, but this IETF standard has just been published. I would love to hear about the context of this publication.
Why Obsidian is all you need
Apple urged to axe AI feature after false headline
I would argue that here you are talking less about productivity and more about basic competence?
German layouts with [ ] { } in such horrible positions are killing all joy when programming, especially in curly brace heavy languages.

Changed to US qwerty 30 years ago, never looking back.
> because they are a good scape goat and not because they save money.

Exactly the point - there are humans in control who filter the AI outputs before they are applied to the real world. We don't give them direct access to the HR platform or the targeting computer, there is always a human in the loop.

If the AI's output is to fire the CEO or bomb an allied air base, you ignore what it says. And if it keeps making too many such mistakes, you simply decommission it.
Surprised to see they're also offering it in Japan.
Why did OpenSUSE become such a hostile project?
Becoming deeply bitter is a very normal outcome of dealing with US company hiring processes in 2024
> is crazy even compared to other high end cinema camera

Is it really? I haven't touched "high end cinema cameras" but if my consumer camera can generate ~1TB/hour and it's a "normal" consumer camera, I'd easily expect 4x that in high end cinema gear for 3D video (multiple videos stitched into one essentially)

But again, haven't used any of those or looked it up, so what do I know. It doesn't sound outlandish to me though.
This sounds like a Talmudic story about the dangers of hubris
And also the Monkey Man of Delhi (though that urban legend wasn't confined to Delhi):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey-man_of_Delhi
Amazon does not seem to have good prices anymore. And it is hard to judge the quality compared to seeing stuff in person.

I feel like they are riding on old momentum by now. The experience shopping there is terrible.
It's a start. As I always say, practices such as encouraging at least _local involvement_ is a start. Of course, another necessary step is revolution to bring down large companies.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42456802
Because the rich and powerful people who will reap the most benefit from all the automation will not redistribute the wealth to the now-useless ex-labor force.
Even 20 years ago mices weren't always that reliable. I used to have a Microsoft ball mouse from the late nineties and I remember the micro switch giving up after about 4 years. Even the replacements (albeit much cheaper/more generic brands) from the time didn't fare better, but at least by that point they were all optical.

And I say "replacements" because they all didn't last very long, until I got the memo and started buying decent stuff from brands like... logitech. And then there is the conundrum of going with something even more "premium" than a logitech, there's very little guarantee it's really gonna last. You may be paying twice as much for it but it still ends up lasting about as long.
I remember being charged after a while when paying for bus/metro tickets in some places, I think those machines process transactions by batches or something.
light/dark mode as user setting is a variable, current viewport too. But the dark primary button background color and light primary button background color are constants in a design system.

> "user avatar background" may be defined by the user themselves

Even tho you are the founder of the Design Tokens W3C Community Group, I will have to disagree with you on this. That's not a design token, just a variable/user preference and its lifecycle has little to do with the design architecture of the product.
Which open format can handle this kind of video? The Cineform video codec can store stereo video, but I don't know if it would be suitable for this.
Wasn’t that due to RED patents?
Have folks seen https://atlas.nomic.ai/ <-- absolutely beautiful vector visualization
One false headline on one small part of the features and they want Apple to scrap the entire thing. Did people want IM to be scrapped the first time someone planned a crime on it?
> In my grandpa's village everything was local production and commerce but they all lived way worse than me and my friends that get paid through remote companies and spend our money online.

(1) That is because technology also takes away components of life that one can enjoy without being rich such as accesss to nature and local food production.

(2) The global economy is only so "good" because it takes advantage of the commons in poorer places. We simply should not have the capability to do that. You only benefit off the suffering of others.
Sell it? If you keep it until it’s worth nothing, it is equivalent to throwing it away.
Learning new skills at an instant would be amazing, bet you know that they will come with the side dish of ideology. How could we get clean skill files or inspect any of that?
Want to book a Ryanair flight? Prepare for a face scan
Well, also, if you don't support Amazon, then you don't support the growth of a large company like Amazon which is one more component of the collection of big corporations that are exactly those responsible for globalization in the first place.
I think if you 'just apply physics' (let's say 'just apply computation' shall we?) then an array of numbers can only hope for this to happen In a kind of bogosort-style way?: Shuffle them all, and if now sorted, return! Else, loop and shuffle again, and so on. Such a hillarious sort algo.. but wait till u hear about bogobogosort! lollll!

But different sizes of sand do move against each other differently, and I think maybe that aspect is slightly reminiscent of the every-cell-for-themselves aspect of the cells described in the paper, and especially how the different rules allow different swapping operations when the swap-target is smaller or larger than the current cell. So I think it's a very relevant observation!
I've found it! https://blog.davetcode.co.uk/post/21st-century-emulator/

> In 1974 when the 8080 was released it achieved a staggering 2MHz. Our new modern, containerised, cloud first design doesn’t quite achieve that in it’s initial iteration. As can be seen from the screenshot above, space invaders as deployed onto an AKS cluster runs at ~1KHz which gives us ample time for debugging

I wonder how much does it cost to run a space invaders game on AWS
Keyboards aside, I find it really frustrating when something I use frequently - such as the toolbars in excel - changes without warning and breaks my muscle memory.
The closer you get to London, the more it matters.

Money is not central to the system: it is possible and even common to be in one of the middle classes with virtually no income. However this may not work for the upper class since lack of money would preclude taking part in many social occasions.
This is not an isolated toy example, it's reductio ad absurdum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum) - and until today I haven't seen a way to measure software productivity (might also apply to other knowledge work) that is resistant to that...
The input data is sequential.

I don’t understand Rust but if the code is doing what’s written there, “simple multiplicative hash and perform a simple analysis on the buckets – say, compute the sum of minimums among buckets” it’s possible to improve substantially.

They don’t need to move these megabytes of elements between collections. I would split the input across a few CPU cores, compute per-bucket minimums in parallel on each core, when all completed aggregate minimums across all cores, then compute sum of the results.

Multiplicative hash and the final sum should be possible to vectorize on most computers. Updating per-bucket minimum is probably impossible to vectorize (technically AVX512 set has the required instructions but I’m not sure these are efficient) but there’re much fewer buckets than input numbers, which means arrays with per-bucket minimums are likely to fit in caches.
We Are Light-Eaters
Commonwealth Fusion Systems to Build First Commercial Fusion Plant in VA
The list gets very woolly by the end. CHERI exists (though not at volume), Cornucopia Reloaded is a research paper, "plus some techniques to prevent use-after-free on the stack" is entirely hand waving.

It is really good as food for thought though.
Edge vs. Cloud Computing: A Guide for Modern Developers
Liminal Landscapes: The Biodiversity Inherent in Irish and British Hedgerows
All major music streaming apps have an Apple Watch version of their app.
So many upvotes but very few comments.

My feeling is that people are interested in the topic per se but struggle with the takeaway from this paper.

I have tried to read the article and also skimmed the original paper, but could not summarize any of it if you asked me now.
I wonder if it is possible to found a US company and open a bank account for it while being a resident of Russian Federation, and then self-petition yourself for a visa....
Seems like Synology NAS with 10Gbit Ethernet is the way to go, based on the research I’ve done so far.

Does anyone have better ideas?
The changes that our growth rate will turn long term negative before 2050 are pretty good. I won't go into details for the consequences.
You're right they did add anonymous access at some point, but it was quite a while ago I think. Smart move on their part. Makes casual use much more convenient.
Apple has commissioned Submerged, the first scripted short film captured in Apple Immersive Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYJcUtVIB_g
So what you're saying is we should order a bunch of stuff and then cancel at the first sign of a delay in fulfillment so amazon loses more by waiting it out?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42379383
Agree: why? I don't know a single reason, and I've worked on Java docs in the Java industry. This was literally my day job for a while, and I have no clue what they're trying to hint at here.
I've been disappointed to see a massive uptick in people writing a whole Python subprocess script instead of just an awk column select. They usually know awk, but Python is more familiar so they replace ten characters with a couple hundred.

It seems like fewer even want to learn a shell pipeline.
> What about analog partial key press? There are Hall effect keyboard switches that do that, I want to try some.

That sounds fun, now I really want to try out a keyboard where half press is lowercase and full press is UPPERCASE! No more pinky strain from shift presses.
As others say, it's not a matter of Visa VS Amex. I use both a Mastercard and a Visa with a neobank in Europe, and I get instant notifications. Must be more something to do with the bank (US banking is famously so behind, but I also see days-long delays with traditional european banks).

Even more magical: when sending money to someone I'm physically present with, I hear their notification before the "money sent" animation finished on my own phone
I was thinking that maybe they could be hunted with Falcon.
The Turing-Qualia Test for LLMs
"At the very least, it’s clear that this is a question for which the models do not achieve consensus. Every single option was chosen at least once and I believe the models chose poorly in almost every case. Additional written training material and reinforcement learning may allow LLMs to effectively mimic us on this test in the near future. In the longer run, I speculate that humanoid robots will be equipped with sensors and interpretation functions that will allow them to record data that forms a representation of our qualia. This will be another dimension in multi-modal models that will allow them to supplement their current reliance on written words when predicting human behavior. In the meantime, we should be able to think of other tests that get at the heart of the human experience. Pain, pleasure, repulsion, joy, fear, love, annoyance, comfort, and anger are written about at length but clearly something is lost in translation."
"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" is on the list, but not the book with the actual shipwreck of Nautilus: "The Mysterious Island".
This isnt the first time you are hearing that social media margins are better than defense margins.

That is a misrepresentation of what was said, and an unkindness to the conversation being had.

Tech scales, in a way that manufacturing and physical products dont. I would assume that on HN, this is common knowledge, and that you also are aware of it.
Quick example: create a config class, allowing the caller get and set a variety of config vars. It should be easy to add new vars. Persist any set value to a yaml file. Each var should be described by a name, type, env var fallback value (optional) and default value if the set value and env var are null (optional). The API should be typed and allow int, string, float and lists. Add comprehensive tests.

Obviously nothing complicated but it takes non-zero time. It did it in one shot in about 30s. Didn’t have to look at and docs (I don’t have the yaml lib memorized). Got the python typing right which would have been a bit of a pain. A lot faster than doing it myself, even with reviews. Tests were solid so I could tell it worked.

The filter example you give seems like they should have aced it. Not sure what went wrong but it has easily done work like that for me. I usually am half way through typing the method name when the rest autocompletes. Are you using a tool with good context management like cursor?
That's a great explanation. Thanks for that.
A generative world for general-purpose robotics and embodied AI learning
The extension withExEditor[1] can open the editor of your choice in its own window, optionally with a different editor config file. Your editor writes to a file in /tmp and on each write, the text in the input field or area in your browser is updated with the contents of the file. This is an advantage over Tridactyl, by the way, since in Tridactyl you have to close the editor in order to update the text inside the browser.

[1]: https://github.com/asamuzaK/withExEditor
Related:

Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42431090
Very pretty, but the stats are wildly inaccurate.
Define competence. What fraction of graduates in EE and CS from top 50 schools would you regard as competent?
No mention of RCU?
From what I understand, there was a successor to AP5 called Relational Lisp (-> rellisp). I don't think I've seen the source for that. AP5 is available and there have been updates to the implementation since many years.
Are you saying you don't want to unlock your full creative potential with unique and scalable ai designs?!?
Thunderbolt external raid is better, for a solo video editor.

There are options from caldigit on the low end: https://www.caldigit.com/t4/

or qnap on the mid end: https://www.qnap.com/en/product/tvs-h874t
Actually, after engaging my brain a bit more fully, I realize that one can be eligible for a security clearance but fail to actually be granted one.

That is, eligibility concerns whether or not the State Department will consider your application, not whether or not they will grant the clearance after performing their background and lifestyle investigation.
When Ethanol started being used as car fuel in Brazil (in the 70's), there were not life-threatening additives on it, so of course some people would use it to mix with drinks.

The practice only stopped in the late 80's when there was a supply crisis and Brazil had to import methanol and the TV started reporting cases of people going blind due to severe methanol poisoning.
This reminds me of the emerging description of conscious function from Daniel Bor's book The Ravenous Brain. In this interpretation the mind is constantly trying to interpret sensory data as intent driven actions from differentiated actors. This makes available critical information about threats and possible targets and so on.
I don’t think “efficiency” is the only priority.

A few reasons:

- market diversity matters, and we have a more functional market with many smaller actors

- similarly, a smaller local actor is more accountable for their behavior

- efficiency comes mostly from cutting things, some of which mattered (eg, individual buyers at companies do more due diligence on the product than Amazon)

- it’s better that every community have a local moderately rich person than one super rich person nationally, eg, in terms of charity to your community

- politics remains local and hence tractable

- smaller organizations have less of a “frozen middle”, which creates numerous problems with national scale organizations

There’s probably more reasons if I really stopped to think about it.
Intelligence is ability to achieve goals. If X can achieve a goal X and Y can't - I would say X is more intelligent. As long as the goal G is open world goal both X and Y are tested for sufficiently long time.

That's what lately I am thinking in terms of what is intelligence.
The UK is poorer than the US, but US software engineering salaries are an outlier. The difference is not as big as that comparison would suggest.
Why do you need to evaluate people constantly and pit them against each other ?
Why not give a raise to everyone and see what happens ?

It's how we sent rockets to the moon, it seemed to work ok.
A lot of news that positions itself as "you should be concerned about this" seeks to exploit the "always alert ready to respond to an emergency" part of our brains.

In reality almost nothing truly deserves that kind of attention. But since humans are bad at separating important from urgent, news broadcasts will continue to exploit with "24/7 Breaking News".
Will probably get undone in the first 10 minutes of the next administration.
Phishing 2.0: Unmasking Modern Cyber Threats and Building Proactive Defences
Running on more chips with more providers is just sensible for an OS.

Developers will care if increasingly more ARM devices get sold. And for many apps its not that hard anyway.

Consumers will care because more company make products and advertise those products, some consumers will buy them.
Can't take graphics until you have finished linear algebra, otherwise how would you deal with all the rotation and projection matrices?
total energy output per required materials over it's lifecycle. by orders of magnitude. and constant power output requiring less buffers to store electricity, hence less waste.

It's not even close in the same ballpark.