skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had similar questions about job postings that ask for “native speakers”, which is only attainable in most cases by means of ethnicity, national origin or both.
Twin Peaks is 282m in elevation. There many, many multi unit developments exactly at the top: https://maps.app.goo.gl/rm73b1j67W3u8uYo9

I'm just so sick and tired of ignorant people pretending that elevation, grade, or seismic matter at all when Japan exists, and builds high density housing, regularly in conditions that are vastly more inhospitable than coastal California. Pretending that suburban SFH are safer and more economical is just backward.

>Why go to the trouble?

Because density more efficient, can pay for it's own infrastructure in the long run: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...

It is also less prone to fire risk.

Building suburban SFHs requires everyone else to subsidize it's development, which is already happening exactly with the California FAIR Plan, which will now require literally everyone in the United States to pay more on their homeowners insurances policies to compensate for the predictable losses here, if the system isn't just federally bailed out directly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_FAIR_Plan
It's hard to make me hate something I've never engaged with and yet the Rust community has managed to do it with their overzealous love.

It's a language guys. It won't give you a BJ
I'll look this up later tonight. Is Hotwire using the same approach as Capacitor / Ionic?
Rsshub can give you a RSS feed for Twitter but you have to give it a web session cookie which kinda freaks me out and probably violates the current TOS.
I just read your other comment [0], this idea makes more sense in that you don't do any future calls, it's more like customer support in terms of helping them answer questions rather than beginning a pipeline.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42725385#42730669
I am willing to pay $300 for the privilege of paying $60 each for their games. No joke.
I like how the author used four different variants of BASIC.
Thank you, I was trying to convert Central Time to something understandable.

All their systems and logging are running in UTC, why can't they just give launch times accordingly.
Sugar is a highly refined product. It is "natural" for a not very useful definition of natural.

Also I agree that not every thing natural is good. It is a rule of thumb, not a strict rule.

Mēh! The hippies were right (again): Eat food. Mostly plants. As unprocessed as you can.
> It's about feeling out their organization, their issues, and the dynamics between different departments at that company. Even issues they don't realize they have that are solvable.

I'd like to trust you and your intentions specifically, but in the general case, this relationship is adversarial, so as the potential buyer, I definitely do not want you to "feel me out", and further disadvantage me in the coming negotiations. I'm fine letting you on the details of my organization, its issues and interdepartmental dynamics, but only at the point when I know enough about you and your product to feel safe you aren't just going to scam me.
Reflog is your friend.

git break-my-shit
git reflog
... output saying where you were before things broke
... grab the good commit sha
git reset --hard good_commit_sha_from_reflog
No C++. No C#. No Java. No JS. No Lua. No Brainfuck.
i’m conflicted on this one. i’ve actively resisted management roles (except once where i was expected to be both primary IC and team lead) in favor of increasing both breadth and depth of IC expertise. i’m consistently top tier of my teams due to much this.

however, when it comes time to find a new place i find i’m overlooked because im older than most IC, don’t have the requisite experience for management (usually an ATS weed out), or my salary is above most “normal” IC bands. so now i regret not adding more management experience to my CV
Fair enough. I sell to modern B2B tech companies so am obviously biased towards that.
I never used the word evil.

That said, machines don't have natural rights, and you don't get to use them to violate mine.
Isn't significance heavily subjective though?

A lot of the most signficant stories are political, for example, which someone may have no interest in.

I have had this same idea in the past, tuning to my personal interests.
I was once involved in a purchase for SonarQube for a bigger company (around 50-200 developers using it). It was just a horrible experience. My task was just to evaluate the software in a smaller team, get some evaluation licenses and write a report what our experience was.

It was a crazy ride, I got a sales person assigned, and this person kept asking me questions I couldn't answer. I kept telling them what my job was, and if my report would be positive they might be able to sell 50-200 developer licenses. But they kept pushing me to answer business questions I couldn't answer. It's not my job to know that stuff, and I wasn't allowed to share information about company internals to a third party.

In the end our team never completed that report, and I just put this sales person into all my block lists. Never heard from them again ;)

I was never really sure if they were scared we would abuse an evaluation license, but it was a reputable company (nothing shady at all, no US sanctions, nothing). Even if they had no idea about the market we were in, just reading the Wikipedia article about the company would've shown them, that this is someone they would probably like to be in business with.
Hmm, I wonder if it's possible to do dedicated intermediate certificates that promise to only sign short-lived certificates for a single site? That way the CT-log could be taught to only keep the intermediate?
To your point about raw data - I wasn't expecting there to be so much junk in news. I think I automatically filter out like a third of articles that I get: historic recaps (something cool happened 50 years ago), round-ups (Here's what happened last week), a ton of opinion articles, and AI-slop.
I think most realtime production uses something similar to Disney BRDF when they refer to PBR.

https://media.disneyanimation.com/uploads/production/publica...

I don't think there is a standard as such that would dominate the industry. It's all approximations to give artists parameters to tweak.

IMHO - Being an ex professional CAD person I think PBR is the wrong visual style for most cad though. The main point of shading is to improve the perception of shape and part isolation there. Traditional airbrush based engineering illustration styles are much better reference. So something like Gooch with depth buffer unsharp masking IMHO would be much much more appropriate.
The analysis is fascinating. The iPod had already been a huge success for some time, retailing for hundreds of dollars. Of course Apple would make a phone. Even if it would have just been an iPod with feature phone ... features.

Nokia goes on and on about pricing in the report. How could they not get into their thick skulls that there was a good market for more expensive, better devices?

Then the tragedy with the Nokia N9, which both in hardware design and software UI design looks and feels more modern than Apple and Android devices from 2024.

I think Nokia owners and leadership simply gave up when they saw the iPhone launch, decided to cash out their money to offshore accounts, and hired some shady fellows from Microsoft to cover up by staging bad business decisions doomed to fail.
Ammonium nitrate is made from ammonia and nitric acid (which is also made from ammonia). Therefore, ammonia is the only necessary direct precursor to ammonium nitrate, which is probably the most relevant oxidizer in improvised explosives today.

Not saying that it should be regulated on the basis of national security, but it’s not like there isn’t a potential security concern.
It was common enough at the time to hold the opinion that "mixing of the races" resulted in offspring that were worse than either race.

Frequently expressed across the colonial Commonwealth, Canada to Australia, South Africa and elsewhere.

eg Daisy Bates (sometime wife of Breaker Morant) wrote in the state newspaper in regard of Australian Aborigines:

Aboriginal civil-rights leader, William Harris, wrote an article in response and said bi-racial Aboriginal people could be of value to Australian society. Bates replied, "as to the half-castes, however early they may be taken and trained, with very few exceptions, the only good half-caste is a dead one."

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bates_(author)

Miscegenation Laws regarding mixing of races remained in force in Bates part of the world until the 1960s, as did others enforcing the separation of mixed children from their families.

It seems less "a solution to racism" and more an excuse to enforce racist ideas aand attitudes.
> Are astronauts riding horses now represented in the training data more than would have been possible 5 years ago?

Yes.

Though I'm a bit confused why this became the goto. If I remember correctly the claim was about it being "out of distribution" but I have high confidence that astronauts riding horses are within the training dataset prior to DALL-E. The big reason everyone should believe this is because astronauts have always been compared to cowboys. And... what do we stereotypically associate with cowboys?

The second reason, is because it is the main poster for the 2006 movie The Astronaut Farmer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astronaut_Farmer

But here's some other ones I found that are timestamped. It's kinda hard to find random digital art that is timestamped. Looks like even shutterstock doesn't... And places like deviantart don't have great search. Hell... even Google will just flat out ignore advanced search terms (the fuck is even the point of having them?). The term is so littered now that this makes search difficult, but I found two relatively quickly.

2014: https://www.behance.net/gallery/18695387/Space-Cowboy#

2016: https://drawception.com/game/DZgKzhbrhq/badass-space-cowboy-...

But even if the samples did not exist, I do not think this represents a significantly out of distribution, if at all, image. Are we in doubt that there's images like astronauts riding rockets? I think certainly there exists "astronaut riding horse" along the interpolation between "person riding horse" and "astronaut riding <insert any term>". Mind you, generating samples in distribution but not in training (or test) is still a great feat and impressive accomplishment. This should in no way be underplayed at all! But there is a difference in claiming out of distribution.

> I'd like to see what this approach can do if trained exclusively on non-synthetic permissively licensed inputs

One minor point. The term "synthetically generated" is a bit ambiguous. It may include digital art. It does not necessarily mean generated by a machine learning generative model. TBH, I find the ambiguity frustrating as there is some important distinctions.
wow madness!!! at&t! I did spend a bunch of my time negotiating over the phone but I think even what I pay is too much :)
what is this website, really like the site design
You're welcome--this was on the HN front page earlier this week, so my taste here is crowdsourced.
Honestly, they did exactly what they should have done here. Made a more powerful Switch with better hardware and backwards compatibility, with a clear and easily understandable name.

Regardless, the things they need to update/fix are all really just technical and UI design problems; Joy-Cons drifting and rails failing to work, Switch Online being a laggy mess for many games, the eShop being near impossible to filter or find things in, etc. If they can get those things fixed, and get some popular Nintendo franchises out within the first year or so, then this could be a huge success.
Generally I just get DNS names for those.

It does 'leak' your internal host addresses but that shouldn't be an issue.
Good lord. He put a bunch of things in that that he'd use in Twin Peaks: The Return. Wild.
Nokia with android vendor would mean Nokia would survive until today - just due to the brand (it was big) and build quality.

They released an android phone that sold... many years too late.

If they released it much earlier (no microsoft) probablh Nokia would still be here - competing with Samsung, or in worst case the tier3 brand cheaper smartphones.
This is a pretty important point, and one that I'm mystified that a lot of people seem not to agree with. It doesn't matter if you're playing on a glorified smartphone with thumbsticks if the game is good enough. Moreover, having a selling point of state-of-the-art graphics today will turn into a _disadvantage_ in 5-10 years when newer games look even better; something designed to look good today with "lower quality" graphics is going to hold up better because it already is being compared to stuff taking advantage of every ounce of the latest save greatest hardware.
Where do they get channels with half a million subs? Are those hacked?
Good point! I actually have this exact question on about page [0], I'll copy my thoughts from there:

I separate significance from importance (or relevance).

Importance is subjective. News about the health of my family members is important to me, but it is not significant to the world.

Significance is objective. It's about how much the event affects humanity as a whole.

[0] https://www.newsminimalist.com/about
I wasn’t implying that there was no narrative, just that his movies were so much more than just the narrative. And often things that seemed perplexing were just things he thought were interesting or beautiful so he put them there for no other reason.

That’s, in my opinion, where some of the intractability comes from: is this bug buzzing around a ceiling light meaningful to the plot or just something he saw one day and wanted others to experience as well. Every once in a while he’d give a tell, often unintentionally, while talking about something else. But most of the time he let things into the world without explanation.
I mean, also rails.
Also when you look at the list of nations targeted it's easy to see that this is not necessarily only about China. I think on HN people get China blindness and maybe have a hard time seeing other threats out there.

The list is controversial obviously, but I have to think nations wouldn't be on any tier of the list except the no-restrictions tier if there wasn't something our intel people weren't worried about. Maybe the concerns are not legitimate, but there's definitely a reason we don't want those nations having access to SOTA AI models.
How long do you think we should wait before we replace the judiciary with polymarket ;)
Ammonia has a lot of uses, and fuel is one of them.
A lot of folks say the worst thing to happen to RSS was the shutting down of Google Reader.

I say the worst thing to happen to RSS was Google Reader in the first place.

Native apps! Forever!
Yes this may be my favorite of his films, and I love pretty much everything he's done
Nice. Similar to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35905437 (which summarizes for free)
They've done for a while.

My OSS Go project runs tests in 18 different OS/architecture combinations.

Some native, some using QEMU binfmt (user mode emulation on Linux), others launching a VM. In particular, that's how I test the BSDs and Solaris.

https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/wiki/Support-matrix
This exists because sales guys don't know how to type, and generally have poor reading comprehension.

Typing out 3-4 sentences is an order of magnitude harder for them than making a few minute phone call.

I require everyone I hire take a typing speed test and know how to touch type. If they can't and they are a must-hire, I make their first two weeks involve an hour or two of typing tutor use. It's essential to an asynchronous workforce.
Two years ago: I really didn't think they'd make all those engines work at the same time. They did.
It's a completely different world, and some people aren't made for it. Among other things, the politics of management positions is often pretty intense, and not something that engineering-oriented people find fulfilling.
> It's hardly limited to Nobel laureates.

See also: Engineer's disease.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease

I'm kinda not a fan of the list there, since it tries to tar a few early-20th century folks with connections with ESP and parapsychology, but my understanding is those ideas weren't as kooky back then as they are now.
Accepting the 1-2 month estimate at face value we're firmly in hobby territory now. Any adult with a job and a GPU can train their own models for an investement roughly equivelent to a high end gaming machine. Let's run some very hand wavy numbers:

RTX 4090 ($3000) + CPU/Motherboard/SSD/etc ($1600) + two months at full power ($300) is only on the order of $5000 initial investment for the first model. After that you can train 6 models per year to your exact specifications for an extra $150 per month in power usage. This cost will go down.

I'm expecting an explosion of micro-AI models specifically tailored for very narrow use cases. I mean Hugging face already has thousands of models, but they're mostly reusing the aligned big corporate stuff. What's coming is an avalanche of infinately creative micro-AI models, both good and bad. There are no moats.

It's going to be kind of like when teenagers got their hands on personal computers. Oh wait....
> [...] despite having automation set up.

Clearly it's not working correctly, so a longer certificate lifetime wouldn't address the root cause - you would just have to fix your setup less often.
Agreed. I disagree pretty vehemently with him wrt Blue Velvet but he's one of the few reviewers I trust(ed)
Show HN: Beta Model Eval Tool – Run SOTA Models on Your CSV
It seems that they kind of did, performing false flag operations in neighbouring Arab countries to "encourage" Jews to move to Israel: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230619-undeniable-proof-....
Yes, the Windows Nokia Phone was quite an interesting alternative. Though I never owned one I played with one and was pleasantly surprised, the 'workflow' was very good, the UI as was nice, it was snappy. If they were around today I'd probably think about owning one.
To be more inclusive, consider using “it won’t go down on you” rather than “won’t give you a BJ”
Working in one domain does not preclude knowledge of others. I work in cybersec but spent my first working decade in construction estimation for institutional builds. I can talk confidently about firewalls or the hospital you want to build.

No need to make assumptions based on a one-line hacker news profile.
Great movie, but I'm not sure I would've enjoyed it as much if I hadn't already watched Twin Peaks.
> That would be such a killer feature.

"Alice, what if we made a button that improved overall human wellbeing, while somewhat reducing our ad-revenue and lowering the engagement-metrics we use to sell shares to investors?"

"*sigh* We've been over this, Bob: We only build features for customers--not cattle."
Note that the solid set, all points within a certain distance of the center, is called a ball: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_(mathematics)

If the boundary is included, it's a closed ball, otherwise it's an open ball.

So the sphere is the "skin", the ball is the whole thing.

A bit different than common usage.
It hampered the security of a lot of things. That wasn't misguided -- that was the point.

China, Russia, and Iran used Internet Explorer too.
right. China. but Switzerland? Israel? what is going on here?
In this particular market though it's a bit useless because only well funded entities are really able to play here.

Where are any of us gonna get 10,000 H100's?

So it's not like you're overwhelming small players by throwing up regulations. Those players are extremely unlikely to get the compute they'd need to even experiment in the first place.
It's a reference to a Monty Python sketch - What Have the Romans Ever Done For Us? https://youtu.be/Qc7HmhrgTuQ?si=M_0VYwJBXwkzL1qV
How do you know that the NSA isn't actually using a zero day to mind control the world by hacking into their computers and subtly manipulating them? Email as training data (though it is probably worthless) is hardly worth sacrificing the company's entire reputation for.
This sort of cuts both ways, I’m on the small business selling side.

Sometimes somebody will want a call, I’ll do my dance, tell them the price, then they try to nickel and dime to get a lower price - which isn’t on offer. That blows a lot of my time.

On the other hand, the software I sell solves some novel problems at scale and is designed to be extensible - so in cases where somebody wants to build on the foundation I’ve built I really do need a call to figure out if there’s a missing feature or similar I’d need to build out, or if there’s some implementation detail that’s highly specialized to a given situation.

By and large my evolving strategy is to not have a fixed price listed online, and to reply to emails promptly with pricing with offer to have a call for complex situations.
I think that "fire walk with me" poem is so clunky I've refused to watch anything he's ever made.
Salespeople often misunderstand value-based pricing. If a product costing V dollars is made of N parts, then each part provider claims their value is V, so they deserve V-$1.

A PDF conversion may be required for the end-users, but it doesn’t make the entirety of the value of the product. It just doubles it, as well as the N features before that. But although each feature doubles the value of the product, the order of features doesn’t matter; A PDF export might have been added as the second feature, but the 10th feature still doubled it.
Nearly 8 years ago, a user deletes 3 months of work and blames VSCode
Thank you so much. Awesome post.
Ah I missed that part, thank you. The omission comment was tongue-in-cheek on my part.
Catch was successful again, very impressive.
Unbelievable. Congrats to the SpaceX team, again. Thank you for bringing the future into the present.
I play one game at a time for about a month and then move to the next. When I first played Mario Odyssey on my switch I was over the moon with how much pure fun it was compared to all the good looking and serious RPGs I played in the decade before. I had forgotten games can be this enjoyable. Nowadays I try to do these super fun games in between my souls-like sessions.
Very fair point. In some ways that would make NG a more iterative approach, but Vulcan is another example of, at least mostly, a waterfall approach.
it really doesn’t need to say what they do when its the Washington Post you are talking about.
> You seem confidant in your ability to present your exact needs and understand the product and so on, that's good, you're probably right.

It's not that - or at least not just that. The key insight I feel some comments here are missing is, from the buyer's perspective, the process is risky and (with market economy being what it is), adversarial until proven otherwise. All you're saying is true, but until I know you better, I can't tell whether you have my best interests in mind, or are trying to plain scam me.

To use an analogy, there's a reason people go on dates and gradually open up to a potential partner over extended amount of time, instead of just marrying the first person who promises the right things on the spot.
The Dougie stuff was silly fun. Cherry pie
i still can't believe they can actually catch that first stage. it makes no sense, but works!
I mean we get wind. But that usually comes right before fire.