skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it contradicts the belief that sex is determined at conception? I don't know, I'm not familiar with crocodile biology.

For humans specifically we not only have xx and xy, but also xxx, xyy, xxxx, xxyy, xxxxx, xxxxy, 46xy dsd. There is a de la Chapelle syndrome, persistent Müllerian duct syndrome and more. These are just the most obvious things that muddy the waters, and I don't really know much about that topic, but confidently saying "there are two genders and you can tell by watching birds and bees" is anti intellectual
Ah right yeah, had them mixed up for some reason.
This!. Thing is you are preaching to the wrong choir,

Hackernews roots were not about the "original" hacking, but more about Silicon Valley for profit entrepreneurs creating stuff for profit to heavy quotes "make the world a better place" and "democratization X".

The real hackers were in usenet, /. and similar forums. Now, I'm too old and haven't found a good place.

Information wants to be free, copyright is a last century millennium construct to earn money from invention. (Before copyright, people got paid by patrons to invent their stuff).

Copyright should be left at the XX century door, and whoever wants to "monetize" their intellect should use methods for the XXI century.
My fairly generic PhD advice, as somebody who did one, graduated a bit early, and is happy about the process and where it's taken me:

* Choose your advisor with care. This is not very easy as an applicant looking at professors' websites, but if you are admitted, any good school will probably have an in-person or virtual admitted students day where you can talk to current students out of faculty earshot. Take advantage of these times to ask about your potential advisor. A truly bad advisor will probably produce at least one person who will warn you about them. If you can't do this in person, try to get a quick phone/video chat -- something off-record where they can be honest. I was always happy to do these for my advisor, because I liked him and wanted him to get more good students. Conversely, I know people who were warned off specific advisors during these events, for good reasons. A bit of subjectivity: a good advisor at a decent school is usually better than a bad advisor at a good school.

* The financial niceness of doing a PhD in field X seems to correlate pretty well with the current job market value of a masters in field X, at least partially for reasons of leverage -- if you can leave and transition into a cushier job, advisors have to provide a bit more value. Computer science scores highly on this metric.

* There is a ton of negativity about PhDs in places like HN. This isn't unjustified: doing a PhD with a bad advisor can be a very bad experience. At the same time, I think "person who had a bad PhD experience" is also "person who writes comments on the internet" with higher probability than "person who had a good PhD experience".
I tried aider and had problems having it update code in existing files. Aider uses a search and replace pattern to update existing code. So you often end up with

>>>SEARCH
}
>>>REPLACE
}, {'more': 'data'}

Of course aider will try to apply this kind of patch even when the search pattern matches several occurrences in the target file. Looking at the Github issues, this is a problem that was brought up several times and was never fixed because apparently it's not even problematic. I moved to cursor, which doesn't have this problem, and never looked back.
It may be relevant that the dash cam is owned by the driver and not the insurance company, and can be selectively used to prove others' fault, but ahem forgotten about if it shows otherwise.
Yup. For Big Tech, the ideal outcome of these cases isn't that copyright is widely or deeply undermined as they rely heavily on it themselves (let alone how their customers and investors benefit from it).

Their ideal outcome is that there's some narrow carveout that gives them permission to ignore copyright where they want to, while extending similar permission to as few/irrelevant others as possible.
Having some brain measurements that are more similar to the opposite sex correlates with homosexuality, not trans.

The initial studies on this didn't control for sexuality and mostly used subjects who were both homosexual and transsexual. In later studies that also measured sexuality, no correlation of sex atypical brain measurements with trans was found, only with homosexuality.
> other way to look at it though is that revolution won't solve your problems, and Americans are far too confident that it will

Americans are largely not for a revolution because most of us aren’t idiots. There is idle chatter of a civil war, but that’s again (a) bluster (not that this can’t take on a life of its own) and (b) about consolidating control versus wholesale rebuilding the American class structure.
How is being a wrapper for LLMs you don’t own any different from being a company based on cloud infrastructure you don’t own?

LLMs are a platform.

Bill Gates definition of a platform was “A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it exceeds the value of the company that creates it.”
How much were they offering?
I does feel like we are having the petfood.com moment in B2B AI. Bespoke solutions, bespoke offerings for very narrow B2B needs. Of course waiting around for AI to get so good that no bespoke solution is needed might be a bad strategy as well. I'm not sure how it will play out but I am certain there will be significant consolidation in the B2B agent space.
I can't believe all those dummies in line for lunch never thought of that.
> business plans can't be made based on a lack of predictions.

They can. It's called "taking a risk". Which is what startups are about, right?

It's hard to give a specific prediction here (I'm leaning towards 10x-1000x in the next 5 years), but there's also no good reason to believe progress will stop, because a) there's many low and mid-hanging fruits to pick, as outlined by GP, and b) because it never did so far, so why would it stop now specifically?
My current smartphone has "cloud camera". I'll wait for smartphone with "blockchain camera", thanks.
What was scary about the canals? That your patio hung over them?
Isn’t it pretty much accepted now that Davy was one of the survivors executed the next morning? I suppose it doesn’t really matter either way, but surprised to see the “died with guns blazing” story still in circulation.
The Northern/Southern Hemisphere DST issue affects all kinds of places. I had the same issue between the US & Brazil, for example, where east coast US time difference between Sao Paulo is either 2hr (yay) or 4hr (boo), or three hours during the "swing shifts" between the dates each country observes the DST change.

Similarly, the "three continent" meeting scheduling problem exists with many combos, too, especially if you have teams in both Western Europe / Middle East / Africa and anywhere in ASEAN.
Public Pinball Machines per Capita: A new global indicator
Idk wtf companies you're working at but in my short career in a small city in the middle of the country where most people are white by a good percentage Ive worked wkth a ton of black developers.
SlickStack – LEMP/WordPress stack automation script written in Bash
They shouldn’t be punished because people are envious, they should be punished because they’re not respecting other people's intellectual property without an agreement in place.

We can’t protect IPs only when that benefits big corps. We should protect them always or accept that the world is better if we go in another direction, changing the rules for everybody.
Dark energy and dark matter aren't really theories. They are sort of the default solution to a set of problems that exist in cosmology. In a sense, every physicist wants to ditch dark matter or dark energy (or at least our current understandings of them), but they just don't know what to replace them with.
Perun on *a ground attack on Russian trenches by ground robots
IIRC that’s one of the people behind the „Birds aren’t real“ campaign. That still doesn’t explain their goal though.
They seem pretty generic, like spray and pray. I am sure they just scrape all the developers details from the Chrome Store and bug them all.

I don't seem to have saved any of them but I do recall one offering me $6,400 for my extension because there was a small voice in the back of my head whispering "that's a lot of money..."

Most of the ones wanting me to install code offer ongoing payments.
Traits that may cease to be valuable
> - You forgetting what you did or said a few months/years ago, and getting mad on others in consequence?

Forgetting? That’s a lot of good faith on your part. Where in the time of people denying everything even with undeniable video/audio evidence and their target audience believes them. If you don’t believe then you were not the target audience and are irrelevant
A lot of people would gladly pay. I'm a paying subscriber to Anna's Archive, which vastly improves the experience of that site. (It's borderline unusable without a subscription.)

Thing is, the Elsevier/Springer model makes it incredibly difficult to pay them. With single papers or book chapters in the $30-40 range, an afternoon's research can easily cost $600. (Note that the authors and reviewers don't get royalties on this, and the Editor-in-Chief of any given journal usually only makes a small stipend!)

There are services like DeepDyve, but they're intentionally gimped and difficult to use, because their user interface is 100% built around preventing you from downloading or screenshotting the papers you "rent"!

If the publishers set up a $100/month all-open-access program, and if the experience were at least halfway decent, I'd bet that a lot of people sign up. And that's not cheap!
I don't know how it started, but as a user of WP I can attest that it's really intrusive:

- WP silently phones home on many events.

- Woo insists that you use their theme JetPack, which is highly intrusive.

- Woo wants to know every transaction your customer passes.
> if enough people were getting married, having kids, etc, you wouldn't see this kind of article.

Having kids is pretty isolating and lonely experience in current society. Especially if one parents stays home for some time, that parents usually ends up super lonely.

And when kids grow up, they are expected to leave and move for work or family. So you need to create yet another social network for old age.
Really curious, how do you quantify "close" in such numeric ranges?

Quick calculations say that ratio is 1.71:1 (https://rentry.co/k85wy696). I guess given the scale of the numbers having such a low ratio is interesting.

But my intuition says that in physics constants are scattered in a sort of logarithmic way, i.e. the orders of magnitude are uniformly scattered in some range. So small ratios between such constants not impossibly rare.

I may be full of shit though!
Yes indeed. I’ve seen similar there too.
Grady has a popular YouTube channel by the same name (Practical Engineering) with great photos, videos, graphs, and homemade demos. I am not a real engineer, but his videos bridge the gap between complex mechanical ideas and the layperson with well-designed experiments.
glorious to come a day after the anniversary of Aaron Schwartz's death, chased to it by the US Feds for the a similar thing, just with with much more noble intentions than Zuckerberg's desire to rule the future.
The only exception would be community colleges, which still require at least a masters.

At my university, my favorite professor’s title was “senior lecturer” because he only had a bachelors. This was despite being a Times bestselling author. (He taught literature and writing.)
by concentrating on creating a very domain specific model

I don’t disagree with this from an economics perspective (it’s expensive running an FM to handle domain specific queries). But the most accurate domain knowledge always tends to involve internal data. And then it becomes the issue raised above: a people problem involving internal knowledge and data management.

Incumbent hyperscalers and vendors like MS, Amazon, etc (and even third party data managers like snowflake) tend to have more leverage when it becomes this type of data problem.
2 GB of swap. I don’t think RAM was mentioned.
It depends if you're a morning person or not. I used to manage teams in India & China from the east coast and it was usually a-ok having 2-3 hours of overlap each morning. It's FAR harder from the west coast and there's really no way around having evening (US) meetings since the alternative is asking the remote team to be in the office quite late.

That said, this is also why many Asian teams get accustomed to working US hours -- essentially "2nd shift" -- to accommodate west coast overlap.
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If someone in their 40s ends up or insist on living in shared accommodation in London, it's probably a hidden message from their own destiny.
Also, thank you very much for this! This is something I've been looking for in the past and it looks very polished and easy to use, easy to integrate!
How do you learn vim-slime? I have used vim before, so I have basic skills there, but I get lost and run out of time when I try to figure out how the slime model works and how to create a lisp project.

Is there a tutorial you followed or a video you found useful? What was your starting fund of knowledge?
This is it, isn’t it? Thats why all the effort pours in to make these machines produce rembrandt and tolstoy copies. And why I still have to do my taxes by hand rather than the machine handling it with speed and accuracy.

It’s the core of it all— jealousy of a creative spirit.

Artists are not machines, but living souls.

If you were remotely open enough to see for yourself, then you wouldn’t struggle with engaging in the world in a creative manner and you wouldn’t feel that jealousy but encouragement by what you see pouring out of your fellow humans as a reflection of each other.

No machine will grant you that understanding, you just have to engage directly.

It will never succeed to supplant it, no matter the billions of dollars burned to try.
yep, same.
Show HN: Picto World – Upload Pictures onto the World
Hellooooo HN,

I've built Picto World, a platform where anyone can upload, replace, and explore images posted on countries across the globe. The idea is to create a living collage of the world.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and see what pictures you upload!

Built with SvelteKit, Three.js, and Supabase.
The /archive page is a great overview of all his posts: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/archive
This is far too dismissive - I'm guessing you don't run a WordPress agency. We don't use WP Engine for hosting, we only use the ACF plugin. ACF is not "very easily replaced" because we've built the site data structures around it and we'd have to completely rearchitect the sites - at our own cost. "Moving our sites" is not easy either because we have 100+ sites, each of which would involve DNS updates (which we often have to walk our clients through because they don't understand DNS at all) and a complete reconfiguration of our build / deploment process. I don't really understand the motivation behind this comment.
Even as a java programmer, I think this is a bad take. Java doesn't force separation of implementation and interface, and java interfaces also have a lot of weird stuff going on with them.

Java also has too many tools for this. You both have class/interface, but also public/private. I honestly think C does it better than Java.
I don't think OpenAI have a moat in the traditional sense. Other players offer the exact same API so OpenAI can only win with permanent technical leadership. They may indeed be able to attain that but this is no Coca-Cola.
For me the issue has been that local models seem to be pretty bad (and it’s entirely possible it’s a user error on my end) compared to calling gpt-4o.

And even gpt-4o needs constant attention to ensure it doesn’t analyze input in a haphazard way.

I made a simple AI app for myself where I ran a bunch of recipes I’ve saved over the years through batch analysis. It tagged recipes with “kosher salt” as kosher lol. I had to baby sit the prompt for this simple pet project analysis for like 4 hours until I felt confident enough. And even then I was at maybe 60%.

Now imagine for a business application. This kind of incorrect analysis would be detrimental.
How many NYT articles do you think you could recreate from memory? https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2023/12/Lawsuit-Document-dk...

Oh, you said zero? How beguiling. Maybe there is a difference.
unlike then, today global mobility is within the means of most the western world. A French Revolution today could very well extend globally to identify and re patriot.
So happy it helped! Thank you for the kind words!
> and Australian culture has become a LOT more like the US over the past decade

How? What little changes have you noticed?
That entirely depends on whether one considers "woman" and "man" to be social identities that anyone of either sex can choose to adopt.

Many people don't accept that belief, for a variety of reasons, such as viewing that belief as being based upon sexist stereotyping of women and men.

Instead, they understand "woman" and "man" to be the words used to describe, respectively, female and male people who have reached adulthood.

From that perspective, a "trans woman" is simply a man (male) who desires to be a woman (female).
I once worked with a dev (frontend, of all things) who reread the bash manual annually.

I work in ops, and I don’t even have that dedication. My hat is off to them.
Happy to hear that! Thank you for sharing it with others. :)
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Quick Advice to New Rustaceans
There's interview but no (too much) technical details: https://securitytrails.com/blog/interview-todayisnew
Game publisher Tencent threatens to sue US for Chinese military designation
I think there may be a difference in thinking that underlies the difference in opinion here.

In my experience, having a header file nudges you to think about interface being a _different thing_ to implementation - something that (because you need to) you think about as more fundamentally separate from the implementation.

Folks who think this way bristle at the idea that interface be generated using tooling. The interface is not an artifact of the implementation - it’s a separate, deliberate, and for some even more important thing. It makes no sense to them that it be generated from the implementation source - that’s an obvious inversion of priority.

Of course, the reverse is also true - for folks used to auto-generated docs, they bristle at the idea that the interface is not generated from the one true source of truth - the implementation source. To them it’s just a reflection of the implementation and it makes no sense to do ‘duplicate’ work to maintain it.

Working in languages with or without separate interface files nudges people into either camp over time, and they forget what it’s like to think in the other way.
The problem lies in the idea that humans can own land. Hah. We're so dumb. We cannot "own" land.
Did you see what the tracking code does? If possible, it'll be useful to get access to this.
Ah yes, because the working class is primarily concerned with protecting their intellectual property…
The people selling models are actually just selling compute

Yes, fully agreed. Anything AI is discovering in your dataset could have been found by humans, and it could have been done by a more efficient program. But that would require humans to carefully study it and write the program. AI lets you skip the novel analysis of the data and writing custom programs by using a generalizable program that solves those steps for you by expending far more compute.

I see it as, AI could remove the most basic obstacle preventing us from applying compute to vast swathes of problems- and that’s the need to write a unique program for the problem at hand.
Exactly. Not surprised at all.
None of that contradicts what I wrote. Note that it's calling into Julia from C/C++ that presents problems, the opposite is fine.
I like the fact that "All user input data is stored locally," and then you still: use OpenAI, use Firebase for analytics, collect text-based input, collect event data, use Google Analytics...
Unless you're at a theme chop shop, then you might as well move onto greener pastures. There are so many alternatives now for website control panels like Wagtail, Payload, and Craft CMS.
I’m no advocate for revolution but the American problem is that our revolution actually worked. Americans freed themselves from a prior group of elites unlike the grandparent comment is claiming of the French elites.
The idea that abolishing IP protections and letting AI companies run rampant is an offramp for wealth inequality is such a wild take to me?

Realistically billionaires are using racist and homophobic populism as a way to direct working class energy away from wealth inequality. Making people think "woke" is the reason why the earth is on fire and they can't have health insurance.
That’s not just on macOS, and I’m pretty sure that’s a deliberate dark pattern to prevent users from taking their query to claude or gemini after gpt shits the bed.
Training on copyright content as research is entirely fair use. Just require that fair use defense to hinge on that research being public, i.e. that it's only a defense of open weight models.

A tax on AI is stupid because the big players can dodge taxes well and have the ear of power now, so any regulation would favor them. It would only serve to prevent challengers to their dominance.
The article does describe how these changes are hurting our society, e.g. increased opioid overdoses, increased political polarization; so it could be an intentional word choice to call it "anti-social".
I just played it on Firefox on Linux just fine.
To each their own. With Vim, Unix is my IDE. I don't know about the recent interest in these editors that you mention. I've been using vi/Vim for the past 30 years. I take it to every project and job. My fingers already know what to do. I've watched colleagues who I started working with 20 years ago as they've retooled on the latest hotness every 4-5 years. Visual Studio, Netbeans, Eclipse, Jetbrains, VS Code, etc. It doesn't take long to learn to use a new IDE, but they are definitely shorter term investments.

I can do more or less the same thing most folks can with an IDE; I just use external tools. I wouldn't claim that Vim is somehow superior. It's just what I use. Every now and then, I noodle a bit on a personal editor that is to ed what Vim is to vi. At some point, I'll migrate to it.

I think there is a bit of a different philosophy that the editor folks have. I can't speak for them, but I can speak for me. I like to feel closer to the code base. I like to have more of it in my head. The best analogy I've found is that using an editor like Vim or Emacs is closer to driving with a manual transmission and with tight steering controls, compared to driving with an automatic transmission with partial self-driving features found in modern cars. There is definitely something to be said about things like adaptive cruise control, lane keeping assist, GPS navigation, etc. But, if you talk to a manual transmission enthusiast, there is a thrill of feeling closer to the road and being more engaged. Both folks arrive at the destination in the same amount of time. But, if you ask each about their experience, they will have much different views of the drive organized in their head.