skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think only very simple mechanisms can be fully described and reproduced by modern methods. Is it not too hard to image that our grasp on reality is limited, and that the tools and language we possess right nowight simply not be up to the task? Why be so fast to dismiss things that are not currently reproducible? I bet if you took 100 people you'd have a hard time reproducing an Olympic athlete even if all 100 were subjected to the same fitness regimen. But we know Olympic athletes exist. Maybe you should also be skeptical of your skepticism.
Like Julius Caesar, who used to write about himself in the third person laudative demonstrative ("ille")?
My guess is that what’s understood isn’t various parts of solving the problem but various aspects of the expected response.

I see this more akin to a human faking their way through a conversation.
I remember the brain melting experience I had when I arrived in Madrid and saw that there were two circular subway lines, I can’t even catch a bus anywhere where I live or buy bread without driving because there are no sidewalks, that was like arriving at the Star Trek universe.

Some people are living in the future and don’t even notice it.
Starlink direct-to-cell is coming to Ukraine
It is literally punishment for saying something plus passive aggressive explanation. Somewhat manipulative.

"Giving someone a chance" is a positive thing and wont make people careful.
That was my thought, at least one of those packets in their snooping (src. port 14551 / dest port 14550) is the standard Mavlink port to send to the GCS.

I wonder if the proprietary packet they decoded here is actually just a MAV_CMD_DO_SET_MODE setting the drone into a takeoff flight mode.
Agree on the modular port reasoning. My most commonly used non-charging port is the micro SD card, which I imagine is rare.
Could someone elaborate or give an example? What does the treaty mean in practice, i.e. what exactly does it change?
Curious what he would say in 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragel ?
I can’t say I’ve ever felt safe in a bike here, anywhere someone can easily drive an F150 over you and not even be charged with a crime is too dangerous for me, not sure if it’s just me but the last few times I’ve visited NYC i saw many more large pick up trucks :(
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I don’t care how many workers it takes if the result still costs $600k.

Unless the houses can sell for half of traditional housing costs their main market will be building houses on the moon.
To be honest, my thinking on this is not crystalised but I do think there's an important difference between a religion like Christianity and other "occult" practices - it's about social guardrails against going insane.

Practicing Christians will congregate weekly, reinforce their beliefs, chat about them, confess to the same priest - all of this stops going into crazy corners of the belief space. Also, normal to be openly Christian (at least where I'm from) and people have vague ideas about which beliefs are roughly in that category - and can call out deviations.

I'm basing this all on my guesses to be clear! Still curious to see if others have similar thoughts.
I wonder how many of the other baffle designs and water displacement formulations would still have been "good enough" - not optimal but usable?
Then that tooling is required, like visual studio is a common one I know about in windows land.

Though nobody should care if I edited my text files with neovim as long as I still used the same toolchain as everyone else.
A 5 rupee fine was a big deal back in the Raj
>> Great literature teaches one first hand how to use critical thought, a dire need today.

And that's why we see in the halls of our colleges, where these works are pored over day in and day out, that these humanities majors are the font of wisdom in our civilization.

BTW Nietzche speaks in goodreads quotes and meme-like aphorisms. If you can't get through Nietzche maybe reading isn't for you. (There's nothing wrong with audiobooks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv5IyRuEVI4&t=10s either)
Hammer sounds easier to verify the destruction worked.
Many of the sources say "No new articles in the last 24 hours." It would be handy if the most recent 3 or 4 articles were shown.
I always completely forget that the metropolis-hastings algorithm is named after someone whose last name is actually Metropolis.

It never ceases to amaze me what an environment Los Alamos was for producing so much foundational research.
Eolithism and Design (1953)
DragonRuby did it: https://dragonruby.org/
I also spent -much more than a day or two reading Aleister Crowly; and Dion Fortune; and other lesser known authors, and all sorts of other similar stuff.

Then I read a book called Foucault's Pendulum by one Umberto Eco, and that's how I realised all the magick stuff was a circus and the people peddling it charlatans and clowns. Sometimes you just have to look at the funny side of all the self-serious mediums and gurus and teachers and spend a few days laughing at their bullshit before your mind finally decides the "teachings" are really just garbage.
As usual, once a metric becomes a target, it stops being useful.
> I was also going through a phase in my life where I believed reading more fiction would help power up my imagination.

I kind of hate this mindset. Why does reading always have to be with the goal of self improvement? When someone binge watches a new TV series on Netflix no one asks them what skill they were trying to sharpen by enjoying that media.
> That addition is a small capability but you only need a single counterexample to disprove a theory

No, that's not how this works :)

You can hardcode an exception to pattern recognition for specific cases - it doesn't cease to be a pattern recognizer with exceptions being sprinkled in.

The 'theory' here is that a pattern recognizer can lead to AGI. That is the theory. Someone saying 'show me proof or else I say a pattern recognizer is just a pattern recognizer' is not a theory and thus cannot be disproven, or proven.

This is also known as Russell's teapot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot

If someone claims there's a teapot out in space - the burden of proof is on the person making the claim, not on the person saying it is bullshit.
I think Nvidia should try to create an compute-analogue of wifi routers where computation will be offloaded to smart-home gpu-servers. This strategy will cement their future for eternity.
LLM boosters are so tiresome. You hardly did a rigorous evaluation, the set has been public since October and could have easily been added to the training data.
This is someone’s blog, not an ACM publication. Why hold it to the same standard? They can write in whatever they like. I have a hard time reading Haskell, but I don’t sit and kvetch about it anytime someone wants to use it in a blog post.
Music has, through various court decisions through the years, gained a particularly arcane and arbitrary set of rules on what parts of a piece are copyrightable, and to what extent. It's a mess, as some parts are overly-protected, like the layout of the music on the page (unlike the typesetting of a book, or the font used!), and some under-protected in comparison, like the rhythm of a song compared to it's melody (which has a particularly arbitrary rule of 7 notes long). Though, to answer the question of the last part, if that version was copyrightable, it depends what book the performers are using! Though again, it could be that the essence of the performance is not considered to be a violation, even if photocopying the book would be, depending on what form any differences take.

If you're concluding copyright is impossibly complicated, vague, and confusing and the only reason the system works at all is because hashing out the details in court is either a nuclear option between two large companies, or enforcement on a large scale against small actors is basically impossible (but will unpredictably come down like a ton of bricks on some unlucky individuals), then you'd be right!
Here's that post: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/21/claude-artifacts/

You're misrepresenting it here.

The point of that post isn't "look at these incredible projects I've built (proceeds to show simple projects)."

It's "I built 14 small and useful tools in a single week, each taking between 2 and 10 minutes".

The thing that's interesting here is that I can have an LLM kick out a working prototype of a small, useful tool in only a little more time than it takes to run a Google search.

That post isn't meant to be about writing "real production code". I don't know why people are confused over that.
Actually the last time I rode in NYC was over 25 years ago, before the massive size Pickups. So I wonder if it it changed. I heard there were many bike lanes build there in the last 20 years. Are they being ignored by cars and pickups ?
The holding company may be following the model of IAC, of buying web properties ("brands") and developing them further (thru consolidation or new rev streams), to later spin them off as independent entities.
different and maybe a step in good direction, but there seems still a lot of problems before it reaches noted 'airport grade security'.

a) how to verify the person submitting id is owner of said id? 2fa method is suggested but this should likey track inputs as otherwise it'd be trivial to use stolen ID and social media photo. (cant do that at the airport can we? :D)

b) upon incidents regarding A and other things perhaps tracking should be applied so identities can get reputations. this is where it becomes tricky, because who's the authority. it is possible to tie keys into something like a blockchain to make a web of trust thats decentral, but i am unsure if it'd be a good idea to tie that back into ID card verification.

all in all do like the idea of better identity and using something more formal like actual ID papers and biometrics. its atough cookie, to tell if someone is who they claim to be over the wire!
Right, he didnt find its own mission yet. He needs to work on storytelling :D
SIP walls are basically this. It's a foam-core panel board with chases built in for electrical.
But is there even enough pre-1905 data to create models that say hello world reliably?

The terabytes of training data required for decent LLMs does not exist. I’d guess there may only be gigabytes worth.
Correct. DD manufacturing the separate license from the ATF then an explosive manufacturing license and then if a pipe bomb is constructed it's considered a destructive device not an explosive device and has to be registered on paper as such and then you also need a separate license to use the device and then once used it has to be marked as used on paper.
Freeplane
I don't know if it's good or bad, with pseudo code you put no constraints on how it should be implemented. It's known that some kind of algorithm are really hard to implement in Rust (every one use the link list data structure as an exemple). So having the article that use rust is good to see it can fit to rust constraints but at the same time does this constraint limit the algorithm itself ?
Correct. Making core Firefox better is not going to generate revenue.

Not sure what people expect, every bold new idea (I.e. mobile OS) is chasing something. And they are trying to do it while being open.

You’d think this HN crowd has never tried to create a sustainable business reading the comments.
It's 2024, and you have:

nvme format -s1 /dev/nvme0n1

to use secure erase on your NVMe drives, with similar commands available under hdparm for SATA drives:

https://grok.lsu.edu/Article.aspx?articleid=16716

The "DoD style" erase commands no longer provide adequate security for highly virtualized I/O devices like SSDs where blocks may be remapped as spares out of the directly accessible range and thus skipped by the pass. In fact, the DoD itself stipulates only physical destruction of hard drives is acceptable, and many bases have secure warehouses where old drives are stocked awaiting destruction.
What? Flight five didn’t lose any engines. N1 kept blowing up.

X-33 never got to a test flight, let alone a successful one.
There is a huge amount of time and materials-- for the forms-- that go into building a cast concrete structure. Those are the bulk of the cost. Additionally, shapes with voids or curves are even more expensive to form via traditional means while the printing technique can do them naturally.
https://archive.ph/vtfDf

unlocked: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/arts/video-games-graphics...
BetaFlight doesn't deal with over-the-air bits, it just receives PWM/PPM/S-Bus/whatever signals your receiver provides. There is no point to have encryption in firmware, because connection between RX and FC is hardwired and can be trusted.

Lack of OTA frames encryption, as far as I can tell, is mostly due to legacy reasons. In DYI FPV there are only couple of transmission standards, most of them using 2.4GHz FHSS or some CC2500 clone so you can mix-and-match transmitters and receivers as you wish. If you use custom TX/RX devices, you are pretty much locked in to that specific vendor. Also, designing a nice transmitter UX-wise requires quite a different skillset than designing nice transmitter RF-wise, so manufacturers tend to choose off-the-shelf RF modules.
It's probably the wrong place in the stack to implement this, these are very low-cost commodity microcontrollers running the firmware and the design of flight controller software is focused on time guarantees and reliability.

With the exception of low-cost consumer drones, most larger drones have at least a "Flight Controller" (embedded MCU handling guidance, navigation, and control) and a "Flight Computer" (Higher level *nix based computer running autonomy software), and the flight computer is IMO a more appropriate place to put this.

You could encrypt any Mavlink or proprietary protocol at the application layer if you're using an IP link, or you could also just rely on the telemetry radio to perform encryption between the drone and your ground station.
I was perhaps exaggerating a little with the fuel cost comparison, but we've had rockets like Astra R3 and SS-520 fly for under $5M per launch. Rocket Lab's Electron is ~$7.5M. That's all within a factor of 10.
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No one is going to make you live there. Other people have preferences that are different from yours and are not less valid.
They don't have to do it themselves. The super-GPU cluster used to train GPT-6 will eventually shrink down to a garage size and eventually some YouTuber will.
Providing an unlimited free tier would be a terrible business decision for them.
I admit to not understand how the trick was done when I read the beginning of the article. I of course realized it was a trick, it's just that it didn't occur to me how it was done. Then I continued reading and of course the resolution was obvious, but only after I had read it. Now, of course, I can't unlearn it. And the reason I didn't get it was exactly the point put forward in the article: The title of this thread.
Why not a direct link? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPTps7e9SqY
I like to encourage extensive use of quotes whenever I see them in book reviews, and at least this author makes a little effort to provide some. It often annoys me to no end when I read long book reviews with very little quotes from the actual book. Like, where is the evidence of this amazing writing.

I understand that for some books specific quotes don't quite get across what makes the book great. But in those cases I expect the author to address that characteristic directly, and make an effort to try to explain why the book is great despite not being very quotable. And by quotes I mean quotes that can span an entire page if need be.

The only exceptions to this that I'm inclined to allow is when your descriptive writing skill is at such a pro level that the review itself is a piece of art. But most "professional" book reviewers are not even at that pro level frankly.

An example of actual "pro level" would be this Martin Amis line from one of his reviews:

"You can stir a vat of molasses with James Wood's Chekhov boner." (I'm recalling the line from memory)
>Finding a job through a network might be one solution.

Especially as you get older, especially with a resume that isn't cookie cutter and ticks the right keywords, this becomes more and more important. And it applies even if you're self-employed. Just applying online works a lot better when you have some track record of very specific in-demand skills.
They did anticipate (and in fact mandated) courts to interpret the Constitution, which they did and they do. I didn't claim the courts' decisions are necessarily "final or correct."

I'm saying if you believe that courts are routinely violating rights then you don't know how rights are derived in this country.
The Guardian has self proclaimed biases that they openly discuss whenever they ask for more money, so it’s not surprising to see such an unhinged article from them. Cars are great, and create far more happiness than they take away. That’s why they’re wildly popular and why people generally avoid public transit if they can. After all, cars provide fast and convenient transportation, let you carry people and things, on your own schedule, protected from the weather, straight to your destination. They only become inconvenient when cities are overbuilt and too dense, without the right infrastructure to keep traffic flowing smoothly.

Studies like this should be deeply scrutinized because of the biases of their authors (an “urban planning expert”) and their fields. Most studies from academia also have questionable methodology and make vague claims built on bad statistics. This is no different, with the study making weak claims of how something is “associated” with something else, but drawing conclusions that go beyond that. These studies are nevertheless blindly accepted by people who want its claims to be true, as is the case here with the guardian amplifying the study.

As for the article - anytime you see journalists make weird emotional claims like how highways are “fracturing communities”, it’s a signal the article can be safely ignored. Everyday people who aren’t biased would recognize how highways connect people and places. Hyperbolic claims like this reek of activist marketing not serious discussion.
> The internet has remained - mostly - open, and there have been no riots but there is little doubt the actions of hackers have caused misery for many people.

I'd say "business barons" caused way more misery while partitioning the internet between themselves. All the attention economy fueled by envy and rage induced to sell ads did more damage to entire societies than any hack did.
Yup, basically that. Furthermore, you are unable to export the meshes themselves.

You are better off using Google Maps API if I'm being honest.
What's wild to me is how British/British Americans can trace their families based on detailed records kept by random villages going back to the Middle Ages. Meanwhile my dad's legal birthday is off by six months because his village in Bangladesh didn't issue a birth certificate until he was five (in the mid 1950s) and then kind of just guessed.
The finding that using a car occasionally but not being required to certainly resonates with me. I grew up in a fully car dependent rural place, have always been “into”cars, and love a spirited drive on country roads. Now, I’ve lived in Brooklyn for nearly 15 years now and still own a fun-to-drive car that I use once a week or less.

The combination of being able to do 95% of regular errands on foot and the rest via transit, plus having access to a car to go places outside of the city on a whim is really quite a privilege and a nice way to live. Whenever we spend significant time in places where you must use a car to do anything outside of the house (e.g. visiting family in both my wife’s and my own rural hometowns), I really appreciate not having to do that every day. It seems to me that car dependency has some kind of effect of making people angrier—even some of the kindest people display surprising hostility behind the wheel, and moving around in isolation cuts out a lot of micro/transient social interactions that can actually brighten a day.

At this point I think there are so few places in America where you can live like this, it means people have a limited frame of reference for what’s possible—lifestyles that don’t involve a car for almost every activity are so different, you get stuck on questions like “how will I get all of the groceries home when I shop once a week.” I wish we could build more variety into our cityscapes and provide viable alternatives rather than effectively mandating car dependency by law. The price of homes in what car-optional places do exist certainly suggests a lot of market demand.
Ask HN: What is agent in LLM context?
I have been debating with my colleagues and it seems there is lack of clarity on what it actually means.
They are using Submer's SmartCoolant: https://submer.com/smart-coolant-liquid/. In short, this appears to be a test of an existing commercially-available product.
I first read this quote in the book 'Monk Mode': https://bitfieldconsulting.com/books/monk-mode

It's in the context of learning crafts, and the main point is that many people are discouraged because they don't seem to get quick results from their practice—but nor does anyone else! When you have a good sense of how much time is required to get good at something, your expectations will be more in line with reality.
My CV is pretty weird too. The two things that have really helped me are open source work and going to (coding) conferences. And I don't mean going there to grease palms, just to make friends. But there's nothing wrong with telling your story either and admitting you are looking for work.

This applies to software pretty exclusively though, can't comment on anything else.
"He would not even agree to being classified as a mathematician." That's a weird thing to write about someone who wrote an autobiography called "Adventures of a Mathematician".