skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true. For the most part I do.

But unfortunately I'm not aware of a better way to be in the academic/research community. Twitter and BlueSky are where the conversations are happening. These do more for paper discovery than things like Google Scholar, Semanitic Scholar, and elsewhere. Not to mention that posts tend to have additional context that is often left out of works, making it easier to bridge into topics that are not in my niche.

The other unfortunate part, is that I too have to advertise my own work and myself to the community. The work is not enough. There's an easy to observe strong correlation between the number of citations I get and the amount of publicity my works get, with the latter strongly influenced by the efforts of myself and others in the research team. Though recognizing this, it does enable me to find a lot of hidden gems. Works that are often rejected and unnoticed because they are not from big research teams.

So far the pros outweigh the cons, well... at least for BlueSky. I can't say the same about Twitter and I'd wish more people would move over. Smaller communities have a lot of advantages.
... speaking of vaccines "not preventing transmission"...for the love of god, please learn how the vaccines work. Did they not teach you in the primary school that it's about priming body for the immune response by introducing a very small concentration of the virus into the body. No vaccine can prevents a transmission, it's purpose is to enable your body to respond and reduce the severity of the infection symptoms. Have the education standards really deteriorated so much, or is this just the effect of overexposure to the social media, I wonder?
Rosatom's new plasma engine could potentially cut Mars travel time to 60 days
Indeed. My experience in India is that people are friendly and helpful and try to help you in a very convincing way, even so when they don't know the answer. Not so far off LLM user experience.
Given the last three weeks, I would expect rules that are actively pedestrian-hostile.
someday soon were gonna see the movie scene where someone is restrained, gagged, and blindfolded with the stuff
This brings to mind following thoughts attributed to Alan Watts about what organized Christianity actually is about:

"There are various models of the universe which men have used from time to time, and the model that lies behind the Judeo-Christian tradition, if there really is such a thing, is a political model. It borrows the metaphor of the relation of an ancient Near Eastern monarch to his subjects, and he imposes his authority and his will upon his subjects from above by power, whether it be physical power or spiritual power. [...]"

Source: https://medium.com/the-agoge/the-religions-of-no-religion-a6...
And poverty levels are essentially at record low levels:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/200463/us-poverty-rate-s...
Why do you assume he either wants it or doesn't want it?

The only way I ever interpreted his actions so far is he's willing to allow those who want to try.

And I see nothing unreasonable and no failure in that. It is a hashing out process, in process.
> This, combined with the fact that Intellij products are closed source and can't simply be forked by someone who requires additional capabilities

https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community is Apache 2.0

Only some of the language plugins are proprietary.
Author needs a filter for selecting good books. Best one I have found is only read books recommended twice.
Low code/no code solutions were already a substitute for finding a random dev on Fiverr, which was almost always a terrible way to solve almost any problem.

The median dev on Fiverr is so awful that almost anything is more bang for your buck.
Car manufacturers, please hire this guy to build your interfaces. He gets it. Touch screens must not be used for controls you are going to frequently operate while driving the car, it's maximum unsafe.
Reading this most made me immediately think that there's more than just misalignment of the writer and the reader: there's also the incentive of the publisher, which might be misaligned with either, or both, or simply utterly puzzling and confusing.

Anecdata: as glad as I am for Apress for working with me and releasing my own book about a part of Common Lisp (which is, technically, non-fiction!), I still cannot fathom their re-release of "Interpreting LISP" [1] - a book that I hated to give a zero-star rating on Reddit [2] but that I can only warn people about, if I am to be acting in good faith.

[1] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-2707-7

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/6qc61v/second_edition...
What is fundamentally wrong with starting negotiations? If they lead to a peaceful transfer of ownership (which I'm very skeptical of myself), that would seem to be within the rules based order.
Changing the name is for giggles, it would seem.
> The statements in the article are as good as impossible to verify, no clear metrics, no formulas, no charts.

The author's bio links to https://www.gene-ludwig.com/ which has a number of whitepapers.
Right the whole point was not to make an article attention about all the negative news. Which is funny because this thread is immediately full of complaints.
inb4 autonomous only zones in cities
fork, runix? (/s?)
Looks to have been a joke about the alphabetical naming: Alchemist, Battlemage, Celestial .. Dungeon

(There’s no name decided yet for the fourth in the series.)
I used to be. Now I just want my damn money back.
> Most use cases for a pickup truck that's only sold in North America are in the part of America where you're much more likely to crash into a tree, deer, fence post, etc than you are a person.

Not many trees, deer, fence posts in the Costco parking lot compared to people.
And how
This is wildly misleading. You can argue that we should use a different metric, sure, but then you must look at all of history using that metric to compare "the economy now, to the economy before."

The data was not wrong just because you choose to use a new metric. The data would be "wrong" if it was collected in a way that introduced errors.
I think he's trying to get special attention without passing on blame to the company. Best way to get help is through kindness (at the outset) not accusatory (even if it is the fault of the company).
I always slow down a little bit when speeding through intersections, just in case I need to react to someone illegally putting themselves in my path.

It was this guys fault for not monitoring the car, but also Tesla's for using a double-speak name like Full Self Driving.

If FSD is a statistically significant enough risk factor for injury above Teslas that don't use it, it should be banned.
There is no perfect solution, but I would argue that a blind relay is very clearly strictly better than the alternative.
Show HN: Community Detection on Bluesky
We ran the Leuven community detection algorithm on popular users on Bluesky (where the graph has edges determined by Jaccard similarity of a users' followers).
We identified 118 communities and based on the names and descriptions of the top 10-20 users had LLMs generate title and descriptions for them.
There are communities like "Feline enthusiasts", "Web Professionals", a bunch of NSFW ones and quite many communities are many different flavors of progressive/liberal activists.
I’m just poking fun at the inconsistency in your argument. Rust is a lot closer to C than assembly is. Arguments that boil down to “I can’t figure out how to read this language” are stupid because we expect kernel developers to understand a far weirder language in their day-to-day work, one with significantly less high-quality material available to get up to speed on it, and often with semantics that are not even written down anywhere. I write more assembly than Rust these days and I’d choose the latter in a heartbeat if I had to review someone else’s changes.
Yeah I've seen this as well with self betterment non-fiction

> If you read a few of these books, you inevitably notice the patterns: every chapter begins with an anecdote...

It really feels like padding sometimes. I've read some books where the anecdote does provide some value as a lead in to a topic, like in Extreme Ownership. Most of the time though, it really feels like a way to hit a publisher minimum page count.

I personally see a shorter book as a potentially good thing, not a lack of value. Not that page count is a great measure of the value a book can provide, but I definitely don't see it as a negative.
There are two economies. The one inhabited by wealthy owner class (they own homes, stock, have paid off cars and disposable income) their economy is great.

For everyone else it sucked. The metrics tend to focus on the former and ignore the “outlier data” caused by the latter.
The trilemma reminds me of [Performance-Enhancing Proxies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance-enhancing_proxy).

With PEPs, strategically placed _extra hops_ actually _help_ with performance for flaky links by terminating TCP connections.
Tell me you have never used “Siri hands free” without saying it directly…

Using Siri and an iPhone for “hands free” driving, whether it’s ChatGPT or w/e, it’s not very user friendly.

Ask it for basic shit such as directions to some restaurant, and it takes seconds to load and sometimes even asks you to unlock your phone. Even worse experience with cellular connection.

No more hands free experience. Now it’s a very real distraction from what you _should_ be doing - driving the fucking vehicle and don’t kill anybody or maim a pedestrian.

Sick and tired of you distracted shit heads using your phone instead of paying attention to the god damn road.

Don’t even get me started on Cruise/Waymo or the god damn drive share shitheads.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLSI_Project

> The VLSI Project is one of the most influential research projects in modern computer history. Its offspring include Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix, the reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processor concept, many computer-aided design (CAD) tools still in use today, 32-bit graphics workstations, fabless manufacturing and design houses, and its own semiconductor fabrication plant (fab), MOSIS, starting in 1981.[2] A similar DARPA project partnering with industry, VHSIC had little or no impact.

Wow that's insane, I never knew that
It reminds me of the speed of the Turbo Pascal IDE 30+ years ago. Compilation was virtually instant, my young self wasn’t even aware it was happening.
A Chinese Animated Movie Reaped $1.2B and Beat Hollywood Giants
The model displayed in the drop-down when you access the web library is the default that will be pulled. Compare the size and hash to the more detailed model listing below it and you will see what quantization you have.

Example: the default model weights for Llama 3.3 70b, after hitting the “view all” have this hash and size listed next to it - a6eb4748fd29 • 43GB

Now scroll down through the list and you will find the one that matches that hash and size is “70b-instruct-q4_K_M”. That tells you that the default weights for Llama 3.3 70B from Ollama are 4-bit quantized (q4) while the “K_M” tells you a bit about what techniques were used during quantization to balance size and performance.
My Skoda Superb(2015) have very similar knobs for controlling temperature and when pressed it turns on seat heater.

From the first time I used it. It felt so natural and intuitive to use.

But unfortunately touch screen infotainment system is pure garbage.
How to Boost Linux Server Performance by Enabling Swap
A lot of what is being credited to AI is really just data retrieval.

The small portion that is truly new and unique and novel is often the result of trial and error.

This can be useful but it doesn't really qualify as "intelligence" in my opinion.
I'd like to point out that 2019 was a very good year for the economy. It worked well the first time, so why not again?
Not realizing this is a problem of media literacy. Many people below the median literacy level unfortunately think media literacy means merely understanding that the newspaper might be biased.

Higher levels of media literacy involve understanding exactly these dynamics described by the author and avoiding this bad kind of non-fiction, mass market non-fiction.

Another interesting dynamic in fiction writing is that fiction book prices do not scale linearly with page count, but costs kinda do, so authors are discouraged from writing 800 pages tomes like Middlemarch and War & Peace.
And many people find actual left-wing content offensive "on it's merits".

Not sure what point you are making?
Will check this out with a lot of interest when HN hugging will be over - we are building https://accessiblesurveys.com a survey tool for everyone. It tries to go beyond web accessibility standards (by including Sign language, Easyread versions or read aloud into forms).

Not sure we are on the Perkins Database yet !
It's been a little startling just how fast companies rolled back their DEI initiatives when trump was elected. It really paints a picture of just who all was actually committed to it, and who was paying lip service.

It makes me wonder about future accommodations as well. WFH has made my disability a 'non issue', but I can totally see a roll back of the ACA just making it that much harder to ask for it.
The smart knob you made is genuinely one of the best hardware creations I have ever seen. I only wish that I was creative enough to think up good uses for it so that I could put it to work, lol.
Not sure if it is useful for your use-case, but at Wasmer we’ve been spending some time adding support for the eh proposal: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/pull/5383
Driving such a beast seems to give a very "I'm worthy more than others" feeling. I'm puzzled, what drives this behavior?
Edison, Bell, IBM, Morse, US Steel, Wright, Sikorsky, Westinghouse, Marconi, Dictaphone, Goodyear...there's a lot, any many of the companies are still household names even if they don't exist anymore.

How did these R&D operations get their start? The same as universities at the time: they were funded by private backers, often family, or the parent corporation of the R&D Lab (IBM Research, Bell Labs, General Electric, etc.).

It's Vannevar Bush who spearheaded the creation of the federal research funding system as we know it today, for the sake of the war effort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush.

As a side effect, basic research is now mostly government funded, and the peer review system was created to ensure taxpayers were "getting their money's worth".

A more interesting question is: why did it work then, and could it work today? My (admittedly pessimistic) view is that life-changing innovations were a lot easier (read: cheaper) to create back then. Continual breakthroughs in materials science, transportation and communications technologies left a lot of "white space" to innovate in.
I fear we are about to see refreshed patent trolling conflicts regarding software designs, as it's all in the IP these days, which is the "moat" you are looking for.
Please don't take HN threads on generic tangents. (This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.)

It's clear why this happens and of course it's not ill intended. The mind naturally follows the most-traveled association path from a new stimulus back to something familiar.

Unfortunately, that is the anticurious direction. Swapping out a specific new topic for the nearest familiar one means replacing a potentially new and interesting discussion with a repetitive old one.

These large generic themes are like black holes: if you fly too close to one, you get sucked in there instead of going wherever else you might have explored, and then no new information emerges.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Why are American fabs built in Arizona? What's so special about AZ?
Perkins is an amazing institution here in Watertown, and as a result we have a higher percentage of blind folks than most other communities nearby.

A quick example of this: The city is in the middle of redesigning our main square. We're lucky to have engaged Jeff Speck who's known for his work on Walkable Cities - he was able to, for the first time at the planning stage of a project - do a site walk with representatives from the blind community and Perkins to understand their perspective crossing streets and how they deal with infrastructure that isn't designed for them today. To literally hold their hand as they cross in front of ~7 lanes of traffic and understand their needs before a shovel hits the ground, will hopefully make that project a big success for our area.
“Our bad behavior is causing public backlash. Wat do?”

Maybe stop behaving badly?

“Naw, we’ll lawyer up and crush those peasants.”
I would disagree. Every formula you enter into a cell is "code". Moreover, more complex worksheets require VBA.
I was in Cape Cod for a wedding late last year with some friends, and came across what we later learned was a Yew. Some of us had popped into an ice cream shop, and one of the members of my party apparently decided to eat a sweet berry while they waited.

When we came out, we were initially incredulous but they clarified that the flesh of the berry was sweet, but the seed was disgustingly bitter. Which prompted the rest of us to quickly do some research on what this plant was. The mood was initially somewhat light-hearted, however articles with titles like “Why is the Yew Berry sometimes called the Death Berry?” had us on the phone with poison control pretty quickly.

Poison control was very professional, and once they confirmed that it was indeed a Yew Berry that had been ingested, things got pretty serious. Apparently even small doses can quickly cause irreversible heart failure, with death the earliest “symptom” in some cases.

My friend didn’t die— just experienced some terror and gastric distress— the latter likely exacerbated by the terror). No drugs or alcohol or involved, just an impulsive decision, and a sobering reminder about the fragility of life.

One of the other replies in this thread mentions mushrooms. Which reminds of the aphorism: _There are old mushroom foragers, and bold mushroom foragers, but there are no old AND bold mushroom foragers._
/s

You see, it’s of critical importance that Santa Clara valley retain the character of a quaint mid 1960s town of single level shops and tract houses. Where jimmy can ride his Big Wheel in the Cul De Sac.
I’m more concerned about distracted drivers dealing with shitty connection and not paying attention to the road.

Also, not sure where you are located but in the USA the cellular providers are god damn awful out in the sticks and certain segments of the highway.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the queries hang.
Yep, I'm glad for their "Classic UI" plugin - I really dislike working with the new one, it's too VSCody for my liking.
Twitter was the the social network where reporters and important people congregated.
One of my favorite features of BigQuery SQL is that it accepts the trailing comma.
Story says that the data gathering is good, but interpretations are flawed and have been consistently so for decades.
The heat pump runs the compressor motor at a lower RPM, which reduces the power needed for a given amount of heat pumped. Most heat pumps also reduce the blower fan speed proportionally, but the power savings come almost entirely from reducing the compressor speed.
It's also ahead of Swift and Kotlin
Trump was never really accepted in high society. The mafioso-type real estate moguls don't mix well with blue blood elites. Truthfully, I only have an extremely patchy view of how these elites work. Looking at history, and how things work in smaller environments, I'd argue that there are different power bases competing with each other. The people around the Paypal mafia; extremist libertarian tech billionaires, including Musk, Zuckerberg and Thiel are relatively new players on the bloc. JD Vance is their man. The Koch brothers have been highly involved in American politics, but aren't involved with power structures usually targetted by conspiracy theorists like Bilderberg, CFR or the Trilateral Commission. Instead they funded a lot of the tea party, right wing media, and work through evangelical organizations, the NRA and think tanks.

They are on some level fighting the deep state, but only to replace some minority interests with their own - and completely subvert democracy to create a neo-feudal plutocracy. People who voted for them as a solution to anti-democratic, elitist corruption are complete fools.
it's a nice technical article but the charts are just terrible and seem blurry even when zoomed in.
I often wonder how far Tesla would have progressed FSD if it wasn’t for the zealous hatred of LIDAR.
> Being able to just tap in and relax, make phone calls, listen to an audiobook, etc is so nice.

My 12 year old Ford Focus does that
I don't think government is up for that task. I do not trust it to be free of corruption, and I do not think it will result in net positive productivity.

I do not trust the democratic electoral process to keep politicians honest and effective. The idea seems almost laughable, all I have to do is look out my window or read a headline to disprove the idea.

Similarly I don't trust the electorate. I think they aren't much better than the politicians. I think it has no problem destroying lives and robbing a minority blind if a majority thinks it can get away with it.

The only thing keeping it in check is slowly eroding limitations on government power.

It isn't that I trust private investment more than the government, but at least I can say no to one and not the other.

What do you think would stop politicians from giving all the loans to their friends for fake companies, and just taxing everyone else more to make up for it? It would just be PPP loans, but permanent.
The bank switching mechanisms in all commercially released games can be enumerated and emulated by the 2600+, but I think they just haven't gotten around to updating the firmware. Many bank-switched commercial games still don't work afaik.

Flashcarts are more of a crapshoot. They use unknown bank switching mechanisms and Atari does not want to support their use.

> In the case of the imaginary cartridge with the UI...

Not so imaginary! This is what the pack-in cart that comes with the 2600+ does, there are DIP switches for game selection on the cart itself. I don't know of any flashcarts that do even this, let alone something more sophisticated with buttons and an LCD readout like a Gotek drive emulator or something. Would be nice though...
That’s not an excuse. There are messaging systems inside electronic medical record software they can use. If my healthcare provider can communicate to me via a website and show me all my labs and results and even synchronize with the Apple health app on my phone, surely, a doctor should be able to message an employee of the managed care organization.
If web developers can learn one language for a backend and one language for a frontend, I'm pretty sure those "kernel wizards" have the ability to learn a second language.
Unfortunately, I think almost every trump administration story inevitably ends up flagged on here. Happy Birthday.
> be careful with the "it's boring and therefore obviously better" argument

The same way I would say be wary an argument which can be boiled down to "it's newer so it's obviously better". I used to made such argument myself in the beginning of my career but now I see that proffering everything new is a bad strategy.

Comparing software objectively is hard (if not impossible), and there is a place for personal presences too. But if after a discussion of pros and cons it's not obvious which of two options is significantly better I would be inclined to choose an older and more established technology.
Nope. I’m more concerned about distracted drivers. “Siri hands free” is far from a hands free experience. Doesn’t matter if it’s ChatGPT powering the queries.