skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Declaration of Independence doesn't actually say that. It says that everyone is endowed with certain unalienable rights including the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness whether they deserve it or not. Just like people have the right to free speech or a jury trial in front of their peers, whether they deserve it or not.

The distinction is important because whether someone deserves something is a normative statement while having the right is a descriptive statement.

What you deserve because of your right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is up for debate.
Paragliders, though with the small community their resale value is pretty low so I'm not sure it's "$10k worth", even if that's what it cost.
Of course not: only the people creating AIs (or improving them at the fundamental level) need linear algebra; people do not need it to use AI.
So we can run AI agents with RL in molecular level simulations for replacing product designing,machanical engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineerig and everything else right!!? If we can combine protein folding too then we could possibly solve any disease and poverty with fully automation
Gene edited his pig kidney donor kebab and gave his Turkish kebab shop a new lease of life
It looks like they took lots of inspiration from Kotlin with these new implicit imports and their structure.
It's not very risky to leave expensive items in the car, but in the trunk, not on the backseat! Also, never put these expensive items or really any kind of bag in the trunk after you park. Always do it before the ride. Or at least make very sure that no one is watching you.

This is a basic safety drill. And it doesn't apply to expensive things only. You don't want your window broken for a sport bag with a sweaty t-shirt used in a gym like it happened to my friend. Any kind of bag left visible in a car is a risk.
Reducing CVEs in Elastic container images
No YC does 4 batches a year now, and they're smaller batches.

The Fall one just ended, and we were 93 companies presenting at Demo Day (vs ~250 during the summer).
That’s an interesting comment, I had a similar experience going from Python to JavaScript then TypeScript, but now I’m really excited to pick up new languages (C, C#)
> In the real world, your application is running in a container among hundreds or thousands of other containers. The system's resources are also probably being managed by a hypervisor. The CPU is shared among N tenants _and_ is overcommitted. It's not that much to ask to optimize where you can, when it isn't unreasonably difficult.

And the real irony is that those programmers not giving a crap about performances and justifying it are resting on the shoulders of giants who went out of their way to have these kernels, hypervisors, containers, passthroughs, memory usage, etc. be as performant as they can.

Same for security.

Then you get the "I'm not in the business of writing fast code" and "I'm not a security company, I'm selling X and Y".

But they all, on a daily basis, use actual proper software written by people who know about these things.
You’re comparing SaaS to open weights. A SaaS will never compete on the flexibility of adding a classification head to BERT (where the gradients flow all the way back), training it, knowledge transferring to a similar domain, distilling it down, pruning layers, fine-tuning some more, etc. which is a common ML workflow.
How does TideCloak's decentralized key architecture relate to W3C DID standards [1]? Do you see TideCloak aligning with DID Core principles in future development?

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/
Using that (or similar, e.g. with [] instead of <>) syntax for generics is common across many languages, not just Rust or C++. You may find it ugly, but there's plenty of precedent. What do you think would be better?
Suburbs -> city -> rural is a common life path for folks these days. I suspect a lot of those that make it out to the country are in for a surprise regarding amenities, socialization, and distractions/entertainment. Rural living filters out a lot of friends and family who see a one-way 30-minute drive as too long for a visit. I see that as a good thing :-)
On the latter point I agree completely, on the former--demand for mid-late career quant types, I want to agree but also think we'll need to wait and see because current AI will lower a lot of bars, and as you acknowledge it's all about money ultimately.
I don’t think the author is saying this is their opinion but this sentence stood out to me:

Monogamy is coercive.

For a lifestyle that tries to sound “open,” this is an incredibly judgemental view to take on the many people who don’t live your lifestyle.

Some of this attitude reminds me of hearing “nobody cares if you’re not tattooed” in my tooth, from tattooed people. Right before insisting I should get a tattoo to be like them.

To be clear, I don’t care what 2, 3 or 30 consenting adults do in their personal lives. I wonder if the negative view of monogamy is just the immaturity of youth and those people have since grown out of that position?
I was kinda wondering, if your goal is to knee-cap the government, why even re-open? Can it just be in perpetual shutdown?
I think I am saying we should fund more training materials and spread the word on where they are to be found.

Maybe

But something !
> what you're asking is "why don't Apple and Microsoft make it easier for developers to make software developed on Apple platforms better on Microsoft or vice versa"

No, what I'm asking is why the responsibility is always put on GUI toolkit developers. If a good cross platform a11y API is possible, the moral obligation is on the OS vendors to create it and support it. If it's not possible, then why do we treat GUI toolkit devs not only as if it is, but it's somehow their job to re-implement it for every GUI library?
I saw that they recommended Energizer lithiums. So would I. Recommendations won't change that behavior, which I am very familiar with. It's ok that you aren't if you're willing to learn something today.
I'm a decent person, so no. But most crime is committed by a minority of scumbags who require consequences.
+1 to that. McDonald's is sending out a clear message that exploits and vulnerabilities in the future will NOT be rewarded when reported to them.
Illinois Supreme Court Policy On AI, effective 2025 [pdf]
> My camera bag with $10k of gear was stolen from my car. When I saw the broken glass and empty backseat, I immediately pulled up FindMy to track the thief ...

Aha, but that's not what AirTags are for, according to Apple at least.

On https://www.apple.com/airtag Not a single mention of "theft" or "stolen".

It will even politely inform the thief you have a tracker in your stuff:

> AirTag is designed to discourage unwanted tracking. If someone else’s AirTag finds its way into your stuff, the network will notice it’s traveling with you and send your iPhone an alert

I wouldn't be surprised if Apple will come down on them with their legal team for promoting usage of the AirTag that's not according to their intended use.
A bestiary of exotic hadrons: the 23 exotic hadrons discovered at the LHC so far
"Altruistic punishment in humans" - https://www.nature.com/articles/415137a

It's good for society, and (in the evolutionary equilibrium) results in massively reduced defection, if people are willing to take on high risk to aggressively punish defectors.
Many of the largest provider organizations are private non-profit such as Ascension. A lot of them are churches. They aren't necessarily any cheaper or higher quality than the for-profit providers.
Back in the day I really liked my 360 whereas my ONE seems like a mistake.
>Rural living filters out a lot of friends and family who see a one-way 30-minute drive as too long for a visit.

Thats less than a work commute to Americans. A midwesterner will drive 3+ hours just to see family on a Saturday.
As with most testing linear algebra is not a must have for all software engineers.
For instance for an SQL practitioner their efforts would be more readily be considered set theory? Question.
Another instance to think about Embedded software engineers ?? Is there any use in PWM Motor control for linear algebra ?? Sure come control problems lead to linear algebra, but I use mostly transforms not linear algebra.
Any simulation, image processing, math optimization sure linear algebra is king
Bronze Age Britons were cannibalized after an 'exceptionally violent' attack
Good times. I was the developer at Microsoft who designed the Xbox 360 hardware security, wrote all the boot loaders, and the hypervisor code.

Note to self: you should have added random delays before and after making the POST code visible on the external pins.
Having outdoor activities such as hiking, camping, kayaking, gardening/farming would make rural living a lot less dull.
> A cheap knife from ikea will not.

IKEA BRILJERA knives are the mid-range not cheapest ones. But they are not expensive.

But they are made from (The Chinese version of) VG10 steel, which will hold an edge very well, and is still stainless.
The coefficient of speeding up is not the same at different moments in the edit and it varies dynamically so I couldn't figure out how to make it change dynamically too. It's also distracting and we want folks to focus on the chaining of difficult tasks for now, not necessarily the speed, which will increase soon but was not our focus (for now).

I think though that it's very clear that it's sped up a lot at some moments. Plus, you can sort of see it at the speed of the messages on the left.

But you're right, for the sake of transparency we'll figure out a way to show it better.

EDIT: For the sake of transparency I can already tell you that it's sometimes sped up to 10x, mostly when it's navigating cause the robot hardware is slow. And by the way, the version we'll ship in February has a much faster drive train.
> The JVM is a massive memory sink

Java tends to prefer using available memory, before it has to clean it. This results in memory usage growing more than it actually needs.

Services often run in containers, so this is less than a problem today than it was before, because the allocated memory to the container is fixed anyway.
Try configuring the JVM to only use 75% of the container memory. In many cases, it will trigger an early GC and run better with smaller memory instances

There are of course some overhead for objects compared to primitives, but the Valhalla project is working to reduce the difference significantly on many cases.

You can also reduce memory usage and startup time by compiling to a binary image
Monsanto, at one level or another. While they pinky-promise to not sue, if their corn gets into your corn and you replant the seeds, they've fought about it in court to mixed results.
but once you finish that cabin, those property taxes will probably go up a huge amount, right?

i'm jealous. This is such a great idea, I wish i could do it.
Kind of similar to the Plato IV plasma displays: when memory is too expensive, you store data on the screen.
Audiovisual Artifact Atlas
Craig Wright convicted for repeatedly lying about inventing Bitcoin
From wikipedia's 4 minute mile article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-minute_mile

> The four-minute barrier was first broken on 6 May 1954 at Oxford University's Iffley Road Track, by British athlete Roger Bannister

> On 21 June 1954, at an international meet at Turku, Finland, Australia's John Landy became the second man, after Bannister, to achieve a sub-four-minute mile.

In 1955 Laszlo Tabori was the third person to break the 4 minute barrier. Then, in 1956, three runners broke the four-minute barrier in a single race.

This matches what I described, multiple people attained it once it was understood to be possible. It was linear up to the 4 minute mark, but the point is that records that used to be impossible are now humdrum once achieved.
It has been very eye opening watching young and brilliant programmers who have grown up with mobile devices struggle when it comes to traditional environments. Many struggle with things that seem basic, like file systems, processes, memory management, how to use desktops and even mice, etc. However, once you solve or abstract away those things, many are able to churn out complex software at an impressive rate, particularly when they are able to assemble tool chains and frameworks together like legos. Then they go back to the struggle bus when something in that chain fails or functions unexpectedly.

Differences in the types of environments and how they interact with them between age groups makes sense in a pretty boring sort of way, and at any rate is solvable through simple experience. It’s more interesting to me that this observation is another point of correlation in the notion that the industry has aligned itself with productivity over any other metric. While productivity is important, this unbalanced favor has introduced fragility and unsustainability into the industry and end user market.
Next, they will be wearing masks, full body armour and carrying a nice new GLOCK 43 tucked away in their trouser pocket.

To keep us all safe!
Building blocks / concepts
The question isn't enlightening, because the modal HN commenter isn't anything like the modal criminal
These links are not just about Amazon, but Amazon is overrepresented here due to the high percentage of their overall online sales.

And if Amazon can't get it to work with their already centralized logistics, smaller retailers probably have an even harder time with the reverse logistics.

> Do you think Office [0] are chucking 4 pairs of New Balance trainers in the trash? No.

Sure. If it costs them more to handle the return than what their margin on the goods would be, why would they reprocess it? Of that original sale say a $100, they probably only got $5-10 or so of original profit. And that was with the optimized supply chain getting it in to the original warehouse. So now they have to figure out the return shipping to the processing center, pay for inspections on the item, probably pay to re-ship to a warehouse, pay to re-stock it, and then for a lot of items list it as open box (if its anything that could have been plugged in to the wall it cannot be sold as new in the US), and then have all the regular costs of selling the item again.

Or they just eat the loss and increase prices a few percent and send it to "energy recovery". Or they "donate" it and claim they gave $100 worth of goods to charity. Or they sell the lots of returned goods for a few bucks a pound at the place where the returns were originally mailed to.
Your cost estimate for running fiber is missing one to two zeroes.
Mate, what on Earth are you talking about? "Even capital intensive industries could just borrow money from investors" > What do you think publicly traded companies are?
I get what you're saying, but this is still very different from (checked) exceptions, both in syntax and ergonomics.

Java's checked exceptions are the worst. Having to declare every exception thrown as a part of your API/ABI makes for brittle, difficult-to-evolve interfaces.

Rust's Result and '?' syntax sidesteps a few of these issues. You can "add" underlying errors to the error return of your function without changing its API/ABI. You don't need to add a bunch of try/catch blocks, cluttering and confusing the code, in order to make sense of this and convert exceptions into whatever your API/ABI specifies. Rust's 'From<>' trait is damn-near magical when it comes to error conversion and propagation.

I get that not everyone is a functional programming enthusiast, but you can't do FP with exceptions. (Well, you can, via a sort of Try monad like Scala has, but it's error-prone and ugly to deal with.) With Result, you can, and it works seamlessly with the rest of the language and syntax.

I don't think Rust's error model is perfect, but it's miles ahead of what I've worked with in most other languages.
Are We Full Self Drive Yet?
“It’s cross-platform!” - someone good at selling to the Logitech suits
Coming from an old school engineering company, this article frankly reads as a little insane to me. I assumed "Code Yellow" was a catastrophe on par with a tornado hitting a factory or a massive security breach. Instead the examples are not hitting artificial growth metrics and needing to launch advertising. It's bad enough to blow up teams planned work but this is what you demand employees (not founders mind you) sacrifice their personal life for (i.e. get paid less per hour and not see their families)? The author not only acknowledges the time he is stealing from employees but that stressing them out is the point. If you're 8 years into a company and lurching from (artificial) crisis to crisis to "sweat the teams" something is seriously wrong.
> I respect this so much.

You really shouldn't, Gary is extremely pedantic himself. He really really dislikes criticism or being corrected. For example on youtube, in many of his video comment's, he's engaged in long fights with anyone who claims that Arduino code is C++. In his mind it isn't, therefore that's that.
Yes, if looking at the right places. :)

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/hiring-kagi.html

"""

Core Front-end Team (we are currently full, check back later)

- Passion for creating delightful and swift user interfaces.

- Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and an understanding that JavaScript can be used sparingly to enhance, not create, product experiences.

- You are comfortable not using any FE frameworks, and rather like to be in full control of the DOM and as close to browser as possible.

Fun fact: At Kagi, we prioritize speed, to the point where all functionalities of Kagi Search (except Stripe checkout and Maps) work perfectly without JavaScript. We see JavaScript as a tool to enhance the UX, not create it.

"""
Not to devalue the author, or their findings/learnings... but I could see this was a JavaScript/Typescript coder (very likely self-taught) learning about typing paradigms.

A lot of people, especially people from the same background, would benefit from branching out and learning some other programming languages/paradigms.

Some... statically typed and actually compiled languages. Maybe to take an entry course in CS.

It's very popular to hate on formal education, especially in software, but all these lessons would have been learned in the first semester or two.
GP specifically said checked exceptions, which don't create the problems you describe. (They do create other problems, of course.)

And exceptions don't have to be slower than putting errors in return values.

(Having said that, I am still not a proponent of exceptions for error handling.)
I don't see how this huge tracker would help with the stolen camera gear. At least an airtag is small enough, you can probably glue it to the bottom of the camera, paint it black.
We simply don't allow that.

If someone wants to train a physical task the data is sent to us for training, so we would not allow this.

And even if you somehow did that, the brain itself has knowledge of what it task is and what to do with it, and since it's running on very smart VLMs trained by the best labs, I expect they have protections naturally (on top of ours)
You're making my point for me, maybe better than I did. The type of OS integration you're talking about isn't implemented by libraries like Brisk anyway. They use their own custom visual style. These libraries fill a specific niche.
> 0: It's not that we're old but that we will be old by the time we're done.

Raising children when you're old is so much harder, and you'll be mega-old when they're 20. I really don't see the point?
This should be a link to https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/is-ai-progress-slowing-down - my post is just a summary of some of the highlights, but the whole thing is fantastic and well worth reading.

Here's a HN submission for that article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42464357
He means that idiot customers will use the wrong batteries and get mad, and they absolutely will. The modal customer doesn't understand anything about battery chemistry and will unconditionally buy the cheapest battery at the store.
That's a good sight for the stars
For those on mobile, either go on a desktop or change your user agent so you get to use the website instead of an ad for a $3 app.

Interesting strategy to make a cool free website with the potential to go viral, and then act like it's behind a paywall for only some part of the population. Is this common?
amazing what a rolled up newspaper can acheieve in the right hands.
“How dare that woman wear that sexy dress! She was just asking to be raped!”

You are a terrible person.
What are the people who keep downloading Bert doing then? Are they the minority who directly use it for embeddings?
Every developer is responsible for verifying the trustworthiness of given components when bringing the dependencies in and their upgrades. If the libraries are with a small API surface that is much easier to do than verifying for a big monoliths. One can simply check the specs for inputs and outputs to remain unchanged and that already provides assurances for incorrect implementations.

Regarding supply chain attacks one of the important points is to establish consensus on dependency versions and their hashes via distributed replication or transparency logs (like in go). The big monolith then does not offer any advantages in this aspect.
> encoder-only models add up to over a billion downloads per month, nearly three times more than decoder-only models

This is partially because people using decoders aren’t using huggingface at all (they would use an API call) but also because encoders are the unsung heroes of most serious ML applications.

If you want to do any ranking, recommendation, RAG, etc it will probably require an encoder. And typically that meant something in the BERT/RoBERTa/ALBERT family. So this is huge.
I Grew Plants Faster Using Plasma [video]
> This is a largely political problem

Is it? "leading to contaminated seeds, reduced oil yields, and in some cases, mandated crop destruction" sounds not like a political problem, or you mean the causes for those things are political?
Just as a thought experiment, what do you think would happen if Apple specifically advertised them as theft prevention tools?
> Who leaves 10K worth of anything in their car?

People who live in a high-trust society and not a shithole? I leave $10k of stuff in my car all the time, and it would be super inconvenient if I couldn't.
This article is fantastic. It's a really great discussion of the recent trends away from "train larger models" to "inference scaling", where things like o1 get better results by churning for longer and burning more tokens on a problem.

Lots of other insightful commentary in there as well. Best thing I've read about AI in ages.
Yeah, you probably don't want to license under MIT for proprietary use cases. You could take inspiration from the Qt project for how they do this.

It takes one "non-commercial" project to release their code and people can use the MIT licensed version without restriction.

The concept of non-commercial itself is shady: what if someone releases something non commercially, and then someone else uses it commercially?

You probably want to get rid of this, it's complex to understand and to apply. You could have:

- an AGPLv3 version that open source projects will be able to use (commercially or not, there are many successful commercial open source projects)

- a custom proprietary license that someone can use only if they pay, and de facto their project cannot be open source

Of course, this also means that your code can't be used by projects that want to be released under the MIT license. People will need to release under the AGPLv3.
I have once used a airtag to track a parcel.
This is now 3 years ago and despite several low batt warnings since about a year ago its still running.
So even wit the tiny cell battery the runtime can be quite long.
Just another enabler of fascism.

Need to figure out how to wean myself off Amazon.