skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With all due respect, I think you are falling into the nostalgia trap. MacWrite was never a true WYSIWYG editor because of the way it relied on Quickdraw for the on-screen rendering but the big deal at the time was the Laserwriter being the first Postscript printer (Adobe still had a proprietary lock on Postscript which lasted until around the end of the 80's). In 1985 Steve Jobs left Apple and started NeXT. One of their first products was the WriteNow word processor which was ported back to the Mac platform by a company called T/Maker (the Silicon Valley rumor mill of the time was that Steve Jobs and Heidi Roizen were an item for a while). WriteNow was the first one to offer a polished experience with proper font rendering and kerning that didn't look rasterized. God forbid you tried to print from MacWrite with font smoothing turned on, a one-page print job could take several minutes to render because of how the Laserwriter had to execute all that Postscript code in real-time.
> Are there any numbers/data for the quality of healthcare in the provinces over time?

Good question. Let me know if you find some. My assertion is anecdotal, I have FOAF doctors who have moved to BC.
But thats C++
Reminds me of a modern version of The Entertainment from Infinite Jest.
Fun usually involves a bit of transgression, rebellion or surprise, all of which goes against the absurd subservience and most average character of common LLM:s. I can see why the attempt was fun to do, but the results in TFA aren't good enough that I feel like I want to share my Github details to see more.
For my novel, I was struggling to find rocket simulators that allowed setting an initial velocity for the rocket. Most of them presume a starting velocity of 0. So, tangentially related, here is my calculator that allows users to provide an initial speed for the rocket before burning its onboard fuel:

https://autonoma.ca/calculators/rocket/payload/

Source file containing most of the delta-v calculations:

https://autonoma.ca/calculators/rocket/payload/Rocket.js

Being able to see all the TeX equations rendered with KaTeX on a single page is quite convenient.
Thanks for this. I've never used WordStar, and my knowledge of early word processing software is certainly incomplete, but this is the first time I've seen such a screenshot that predates 1984.
This is my side project that emerged during my time working in Android instrumentation at Headspin. It is nowhere near usable but I'd like to gauge its potential usefulness and whether I should pick up where I left off. Here is a talk explaining it: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1p_ZROCzdCMbbaNSnAF2J...
It feels like this quote from "Ready Player One" (2018 film)

"Once we can roll back some of Halliday's ad restrictions, we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures"
Maybe not, but the way they were described has.

First:

> I want a simple 2 column row with the first field being narrow and the second field stretching to fill the width

Second:

> i want the first column to be just wide enough, and the second column to fill the space.
Remember that AMD has been making x86 SoC's with unified memory for quite some time.
> my concern is more that she'll be implicitly competing with classmates that are using tools like this

This isn’t a competing with kids issue, though. A kid handicapped by ChatGPT will fail in-class examinations.
I think Anti-Trust actions or large scale technological revolutions is the only way we can reclaim some competition in the digital space. The digital monopolies are really a cancer of our modern age.
> All foreign investment has dried up.

This can't be emphasized enough. Canada has the highest household debt in the G7. There are no viable customers.

The only hope that you really have is something you're already doing -- mass immigration -- with all of the tradeoffs that come with it. Canada has to make a _fundamental_ change to get out of its current situation.
It was done in other cities. Boston flooded a bunch of towns 60 miles to the west to build a water supply:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quabbin_Reservoir

New York City built three long aqueducts to bring in water:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_water_supply_sys...

I doubt you could get anything even resembling those projects built today due to environmental concerns.
> The historian Yuval Noah Harari has argued that humans should figure out how to work together and establish trust before developing advanced AI. In theory, I agree. If I had a magic button that could slow this whole thing down for 30 or 40 years while humanity figures out trust and common goals, I might press it. But that button doesn’t exist. These technologies will be created regardless of what any individual or company does.

Is that true, though? Training runs for frontier models don’t happen without enormous resources and support. You don’t run one in your garage. It doesn’t happen unless people make it happen.

Is this really a harder coordination problem than, say, stopping climate change, which Gates does believe is worth trying?
The season of harvest!
There are times when using Blender's shading node graph that I'd really just rather be writing GLSL/HLSL. But overall I still like it.

Geometry nodes, on the other hand, I think are amazing. They really do provide a very useful abstraction over what would be a lot of tedious and error-prone boiler plate code.

With just a few nodes I can instances and properly rotate some mesh on every face of some other mesh. Boom, done in two minutes. And you can do so, so much more, of course.

The obvious downside is in complex scenarios the graph can be more difficult to manage and because of the nature of how its evaluated there are times you need to think about "capturing" attributes (basically a variable to hold an older value of something that gets changed later). But nothing is perfect.
Dell will no longer make XPS computers
Not really. You'll just be given a minimum passing grade, socially promoted, and ultimately pushed out of the education system having "graduated". Functionally illiterate, scientifically ignorant, and innumerate.
For anyone following along, Apple's notarization finally came through today after 1+ week! The latest version on the website (v1.1.8) is now properly signed and notarized, so you don't need to bypass macOS security settings to get the app the launch. Cheers!
People are commenting about "no new features as a feature", and I agree, but even better is this:

> People shouldn’t feel pressure to upgrade htmx over time unless there are specific bugs that they want fixed

Frickin A! Nice to see somebody pushing back against the trend of "if you haven't updated your software in the last five minutes you're on an unsupported configuration".
RISC-V in AI and HPC Part 1: Per Aspera Ad Astra?
Apologies - that's been fixed. Though I haven't really optimized the demo for the mobile view I think.
I don't have kids. But I do have interns occasionally. Which are about the same age as my kids could have been if I had kids. Anyway, as their employer and mentor, I want them to use LLMs to deliver faster and better and I actively challenge them to do use that to the max and thus free up more time to do more important things. I mentored four over the summer and they did a nice job.

I think the reality for teachers and students is that both should be using LLMs to their advantage at this point and openly so. Not mindlessly and hopefully in some supervised way. But it's only cheating if the teacher doesn't up their game and raises the ambition level. Which they would be negligent not to do at this point.

I used to hate homework. All this mindless drudgery that you had to do at home and then submit to some poor overworked teacher that then had to manually verify all that stuff. Just not necessary anymore. A lot of the verification can be automated. And a lot of curiosity can be satisfied without teacher involvement. The teacher's role then becomes nudging that process along and making sure the student is challenged enough.

Teachers should be tailoring exercises to individual students in a way that challenges them on their own level and then focus their efforts on verifying whether the student is actually at that level. That used to be hard because it didn't scale if they use the right tools. But now it can scale. They could be challenging individual students at their own level, whatever that is. But that requires using available tools more effectively.
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Yes, agreed. Actually the very existence of the problem described in the original post is an indication that the work being assigned is ultimately useless. If the teacher can't reliably distinguish between a student's answer and an AI answer then what's the point of giving that assignment? Kids with street smarts or a hacker mentality are always going to figure out the easiest path from A to B, and it's arguable if we should even be discouraging that—it's quite an important skill in real life.

We're at a major transition point and I don't envy teachers who need to figure out ways to adjust to it, but giving the same exact assignments clearly isn't going to cut it. They should instead try to come up with assignments where an AI may be a helpful assistant but isn't able to complete 100% of the task to a high standard. Then evaluate the result regardless of how the student got there. Presentations, discussion-based evaluation, and projects with a physical component are all examples.

I remember when I was a kid, some teachers would assign research papers and then tell us we weren't allowed to use the internet; we needed to go to the school library and use physical books instead. This holy war of teachers vs. chatgpt is likely going to seem similar in hindsight.
I would wager that Blender's geometry nodes are over all a net saving in screen real estate when compared to the amount of code they abstract away. Sure, in a trivial example they seem unnecessarily large, but there are some nodes that do a lot of heavy lifting, and are no bigger than any other node. Overall a strange metric to track, IMO, unless all your variable names are one letter.
I asked for details on how the hashing is blinded but haven't heard back. There are plenty of systems where an operator cannot furnish any information about a user, for example a Tor relay operator, mix net nodes, etc.
While I kind of agree, I'd also like to point out that Markov chains can be very funny when fed the right material and tuned well.
I didn't say it had to be done on instagram.
This article mentions the podcast Serial several times, then later says this:

> He says the genre focuses on outlier situations — cases that feature the "unresolved nature of the crime," the "grisly or more so shocking nature of the criminal conduct" and "extensive media coverage."

The first season of Serial, which I assume is what they mean since that's the famous one everyone listened to, is about an unsolved and reasonably grisly murder case. (Never mind the fact that it's a really story about the legal proceedings surrounding the case and our criminal justice system as a whole, not a voyeuristic slasherfest like so many true crime stories are.)

But there have been several more seasons of Serial since then, including the third season, which focuses on a number of completely ordinary, mundane cases from a single courthouse in Ohio—except what turns out to be shocking is how even these ordinary cases, run-of-the-mill trials and sentencings that never would've been on anyone's radar, are subject to the whims of random judges and cops with no oversight.

It's not that the original murder story is remarkable for having a questionable trial with so many unanswered questions; so many people's experiences with our justice system are equally arbitrary and confusing, and for much smaller charges. What's remarkable about the season one case is its degree, not its kind.

(As an aside, people who are REALLY into the "is he innocent/guilty" posturing for the season one case, and are otherwise a fan of those voyeuristic slasherfest-type stories, didn't seem to like season three. Which is a shame since I thought it was fascinating, and arguably more horrifying, since your odds of being arrested under dubious charges and sentenced by an untouchable judge seem a lot higher than your odds of being randomly murdered in the woods.)
Persistent spike protein in brain may contribute to sequelae of Covid-19
> Gravity's existence isn't open for debate

What? Of course it is! There are physicists looking for the unified theory who hypothesize that there may be a unified way of understanding all the forces. IANA physicist by any stretch so maybe I've misunderstood the Great Courses and books I've read, but gravity is actually quite poorly understood to us currently.

But the broader point about things not being open for debate is dangerous, and I think you unintentionally demonstrated a real-life reason why. If we stop questioning gravity and trying to understand it's cause better (which IMHO primiarly happens through reasoned, intelligent debate) then we stagnate, and stagnation can be dangerous as from there it's a short hop and a skip to regression.

If you want to make the argument though that some things aren't open for debate, I think there are stronger cases, like the Cartesian "I think therefore I am" is hard (though not impossible) to argue against because it forces the thinker to make arguments for their own non-existence, which is a tall order for a person who by definition must exist in order to do so.
Metagene-1: A 7B Parameter Metagenomic Foundation Model
I will not be surprised if there is call for startup to build this exact thing :P
Show HN: Death Notice Platform for Ireland
rip.ie is starting to charge 100 euro per death notice, i build an alternative.
The broadcasting using "1-" (or the order-1 copy/kronecker tensor) is actually pretty nice, I think. It allows a lot of nice manipulations, and make the low rank of the matrices really clear etc.

Addition does feel a bit hacky, but it may just be necessary for any associative notation. At least it means that rules such as distribution works the same as with classical notation.

I also wrote this tensorgrad library to do symbolic calculations using tensor networks: https://github.com/thomasahle/tensorgrad it keeps track of what you are taking derivatives with respect to. But I agree it would be nice to show more explicitly.
Sevens are a massive number in Chinese numerology: The 7 parts (yin/yang/metals), the 7 steps, 7 captures, etc.

Eights are symbols of prosperity, wealth, generosity, good fortune in business, etc.

Six is a kinda useless number for money -- Smoothness and whatnot are less for money and more for one's tongue. You'd name a wine after a six (I've seen "Dice Wine" referring to 6-sided dice) but not look for it in bills
That's a fair response:

https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/#if-your-team...

the reality is that the only way to prove htmx is around for the long term is to stick around for the long term, and I hope this essay contributes towards that.

We'll see how this years JS rising stars shakes out.
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? We've had to ask you this so many times I don't even want to bother digging up all the links. As I'm sure I've said more than once before, we'll have to ban you if you keep this up, so please just stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> 1. If you consider yourself a "backend developer" only and want to write the minimum amount of JS/TS.

This is a great point and should be underscored more. I think generally the HTMX vs React/Vue/Svelte argument gets undercut when people don't express their innate bias on which part of the stack they want to give more control to. HTMX is great if you're pro-expanding the server; JS Frameworks if you're trying to expand it from the application layer.
You're right about the TPM, I won't get the key out of it. It's a special ASIC which doesn't even have the silicon gates to give me the key.

But is the TPM doing matrix-mulitiplication at 1.3 Petaflops?

Or are you just sending the encrypted file to the TPM, getting the unencrypted file back from it, which I can intercept, be it on SPI or by gaining higher privileges on the core itself? Just like with this app but down lower?

Whatever core executes the multiplications will be vulnerable by some way or the other, for an motivated attacker which has the proper resources. This is true for every hardware device, but the attack vector of someone jailbreaking a Nintendo Switch by using a electron microscope and a ion-beam miller is neglectable.

If you are that paranoid about AI models being stolen, they are worth it, so some attacker will have enough motivation to power through.

Stealing the private key out of a GPU which allows you steal a lot of valuable AI models is break-once-break-everywhere.

Apple trusted enclave is also just a TPM with other branding, or maybe a HSM dunno.
We always taught our kids that if you’re not five minutes early, you’re late.

One boy took it to heart and is very prompt.

The other, eh, not so much. He was almost late to his own wedding.
Great to see a resurgence of a genuinely working Nitter instance. Appreciate this.
But last month I went to court to fight a parking ticket and won thanks entirely to chatgpt
1. Caregiving happens hands on and one person at a time. No app is going to make it efficient. Only convenient in the box checking sense.

2. What would you do if you saw cognitive decline?

3. Why not do that now?

4. Meaningful assessments come from professionals.

Good luck.
There's nothing wild about following the principles of the Western justice system to their logical conclusion. The accused is presumed innocent until proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. "The victim could be mistaken/lying" is a pretty reasonable doubt.
With all due respect - I would have hoped to see a list of other AI books reviewed with a recommendation. Currently the article seems like a Preface for the book - "The Coming Wave".
Can someone explain to me how are SVMs are being classified in this paper as "Distribution-Based"? This is quite confusing as a taxonomy. They generaly don't estimate model free densities(kernel density estimates) or model based(separating one or more possibly overlapping normal distributions).

I get that they could be explicitly modeling a data generating process's probabilty itself(just like a NN) like of a Bernoulli(whose ML function is X-Entropy) or a Normal(ML function Mean Square loss), but I don't think that is what the author meant by a Distribution .

My understandin is that they don't make distributional assumption on the random variable(your Y or X) they are trying to find a max margin for.
You can find documentaries also on youtube, for example. There was one interesting about Dubai's development
it's interesting you bring that up as it turns out the incumbent party was actually the one behind that tiktok campaign, not russia. the campaign they used as evidence of "russian interference" that they cancelled the election because of

https://snoop.ro/anaf-a-descoperit-ca-pnl-a-platit-o-campani...
Yeah but they had pretty meagre memory bandwidth until now, aside from the parts they made exclusively for Xbox and Playstation. AMD didn't seem to be interested in bringing fast unified memory to real computers until Apple did it. Now they need to double up the bus again to make an M4 Max-alike...
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? Your account unfortunately has been doing this repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
The census is the number of networks close enough to potentially interfere with my 6GHz AP.
1 upvote point from me!
The lowest bidder thing has always upset me. Either they are delusional or they are lying. If they understand the domain, they are going to sell you a system they built for someone else. Or they think the system they build for you can be resold to someone with deeper pockets. In which case they will push and push for you not to make it too niche.

Sometimes prebuilt is exactly what you need, but only sometimes, and that’s not what you paid for.
Isn't this very strong evidence in favor of a thesis that HN hates? That the most important networks (like YouTube) ought to be decentralized? Unfortunately, a strike in favor of the blockchain people — the best of which have been working to find ways to keep systems permanently decentralized (and not just temporarily decentralized, like Bluesky/Nostr/Mastodon/SMTP/etc.).
On some level, all invention is a novel arrangement of existing components. All the way down to the physics, if you're willing. So, does anyone "invent" anything?

But if we accept "patentable" as a proxy for "invented", then obviously Apple invents a lot.
I am aware. I'm just pointing it out because they're similar ideas.
Not to derail but what’s more efficient in your view? We compared messagepack, standard http/json and probufs for an internal service and protobufs came out tops on every measure we had.
> the one who chose not to repeal it, and rather to make it much worse, gets blamed.

Trudeau did cut immigration and student numbers substantively, and made expensive and substantive changes to improve housing availability.

He can and should be blamed for doing so much too late, though.
The C++ lambda version can be a foot gun: https://godbolt.org/z/Wd66GcrdG, if the return value is a struct, NRVO (named return value optimization) may be applied and the lambda will be called in different order.

As for the n3434 proposal, given that the listed implementation experiences are all macro-based, wouldn't it be more easily adopted if proposed as a standard macro like <stdarg.h>?
That doesn't have the reply from ChainPatrol:

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. We are retracting the takedown request, and will conduct a full post-mortem to ensure this does not happen again.

We have been combatting a huge volume of fake YouTube videos that are attempting to steal user funds. Unfortunately, in our mission to protect users from scams, false positives (very) occasionally slip through.

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And here the video: https://web.archive.org/web/20241116220152/https://www.youtu...
I think a better question is what we do about it, because (like alcohol) I'd assume that parents and teachers by themselves are entirely out of their depths here. I suspect it will take some type of sweeping societal change like we've started seeing with cell phone bans in schools.
Non-immigrant Canadians will have to change their living expectations and use housing more effectively (density). Or perish.

When I was university-aged, all of my asian and indian international student friends were living like 11-14 people to an apartment.
I needed the ocean at the end. It's a very good game. The variable reward and quick repeatability captured me... It showcases what we are exposed to in a condensed manner.
Wait, are you saying you use voices when you're teaching your kid? If so, that's awesome.
> Have you ever actually been to downtown Ottawa, where those protests were held?

> It's not "a residential area" in any sense.

World-renowned pianist Angela Hewitt would disagree:

* https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/angela-hewitt-play...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Hewitt

Her living room, with her piano, is in the area.
TFA fatally misunderstands what clocks actually measure. They measure the amount of time that has elapsed. When we say "it's quarter after noon" what we really mean is that 12 hours and 15 minutes have elapsed since 00:00. The reason clocks don't round up is because that's simply wrong.

A minute hasn't elapsed at xx:xx:36, it has only elapsed after :59

tl;dr The author of TFA doesn't actually understand what clocks measure.