skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a damn shame the IRS funding is getting gutted and those billionaire 1% will be getting cuts anyways. Hard to go after those not paying when Daddy Trump and Daddy Musk cut the legs out from under the enforcement and audit folks.
Show HN: OpenSCAD configurable calendar 3D model
I created a highly configurable calendar 3D model using OpenSCAD. This project uses Zeller’s Congruence to automatically adjust the calendar layout for any year. Just change the year in the configurator, and the model updates accordingly.

The link contains a little more of the backstory and the downloadable model from a 3rd-party site, additionally the full source code is included in the post.

Some highlights:

- Implemented date calculations entirely in OpenSCAD (with no built-in date support, which was challenging but fun).
- Customizable layout, multi-material printing support, and translation for all text elements.
- Configurable holes for magnets/screws to mount on a fridge or wall.
- Utilizes JustinSDK/dotSCAD and davidson16807/relativity.scad for string manipulation.
- Correctly takes into account leap years.

Would love to hear your feedback. Thanks for checking it out!
That's because there are SSNs shared by multiple people.
HN has tackled this just fine for a very long time. I think it will be ok.
Which is why a decent ad blocker has the option to selectively permit things it thinks are ads. Without blocking I've had multiple occasions of encountering a website that was completely unusable, it would be completely overlaid with ads as soon as they loaded.
Whatever else you may think, it would be jarring to work at a company where the corporate values seemingly did a 180 overnight.
Ah yes, this is what I presumed was taking place, I just needed you to say it.

Race is absolutely real, in that it is a social construct. Race is not, as you say, a biological concept. There are no sets of genetic traits that mark someone as of one race or another, but race has been loosely defined by various groups at various times to include traits that are heritable, such as skin tone and facial structure. Almost always, the group defining race are doing so in an effort to subjugate or stratify others in contrast with themselves, so usually racial classifications are done ignorantly and hatefully.

But, as a biological concept that can be defined, you're right that race does not exist. Though you argue this is semantics and therefore unimportant, which I find odd.

You don't consider semantic issues to be important. Wild! Words seem very important to me and to the people I talk to, I've not really ever met someone in my life who didn't think what words meant was important.
Not everyone is aware of the details of AI/ML, "transformer" is actually a specific term in the space that also overlaps with "transformer" in other fields adjacent to Software Development. This is when we all need to wear our empathy hat and remind ourselves that we exist in a bubble, so when we see an overloaded term, we should add even the most minimal context to help. OP could have added "AI/ML" in the title for minimal effort and real estate. Let's not veer towards the path of elitism.

Also, the majority of developers using version control are using Git. I guarantee the majority of developers outside the AI/ML bubble do not know what a "transformer" is.
How, though? Every code editor I've used supports holding indentation at a certain level until you change it, so if you write:

if foo:
bar()

and hit enter after the "bar()", it would drop you down so that the next thing you type would be under the "b". It's not really different from using curly brackets from the perspective of typing in code.
Their reasoning was "well google also has bugs", comparing their bounty system to an embarrassing security mistake.
There is a counter example for this: MCP, a standard pushed by Anthropic, provides a long txt/MD optimized for Claude to be able to understand the protocol, which is very useful to bootstrap new plugins/servers that can be used as tools for LLMs. I found that fascinating and it works really well, and I was able to one-shot improve my CLInE extension (a coding agent similar to cursor.sh) to work with existing APIs/data.

It's so easy to bootstrap that even though the standard is a couple of months old, already has a few hundred (albeit probably low quality) implementations to adapt to different services.

- txt/markdown for LLMs: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/llms-full.txt

- server implementations: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers#-community-s...
Check out "Attention as an RNN" by Feng et al (2024), with Bengio as a co-author. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.13956

Abstract: The advent of Transformers marked a significant breakthrough in sequence modelling, providing a highly performant architecture capable of leveraging GPU
parallelism. However, Transformers are computationally expensive at inference
time, limiting their applications, particularly in low-resource settings (e.g., mobile
and embedded devices). Addressing this, we (1) begin by showing that attention
can be viewed as a special Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) with the ability to
compute its many-to-one RNN output efficiently. We then (2) show that popular
attention-based models such as Transformers can be viewed as RNN variants.
However, unlike traditional RNNs (e.g., LSTMs), these models cannot be updated
efficiently with new tokens, an important property in sequence modelling. Tackling
this, we (3) introduce a new efficient method of computing attention’s many-tomany RNN output based on the parallel prefix scan algorithm. Building on the
new attention formulation, we (4) introduce Aaren, an attention-based module that
can not only (i) be trained in parallel (like Transformers) but also (ii) be updated
efficiently with new tokens, requiring only constant memory for inferences (like
traditional RNNs). Empirically, we show Aarens achieve comparable performance
to Transformers on 38 datasets spread across four popular sequential problem
settings: reinforcement learning, event forecasting, time series classification, and
time series forecasting tasks while being more time and memory-efficient.
I meant "what incentive would they have to just now start discriminating against their high performers?" This is a multi trillion $ mega-corp with thousands of metric and profit-focused decision makers, not Judd's Confederate Bake Shop.
It's wild that ignorance of the law is ONLY an excuse for trained law enforcement. The rest of us do not get that leeway.
I'm intrigued how you read and understood my comment? I thought I said that this approach had failed?
In my wishlist of accountability I want a tree of liability

For example, the partners are automatically accomplices and liable

Any discrepancy in police reports and footage/evidence triggers the same civil violation and criminal violation

this is useful because now we dont need all the fanfare of going to trial just to find out the actual aggression was called it ‘justified’ using an opaque standard

control behavior by regulating the intermediary. In this case I can think of many more intermediaries that civil and criminal liability can extend to for the actions of one bad apple

partner, department, union, pension, municipality

and an offenders list that follows the officer ideally to keep them off of the neighboring town’s force, and ostracized from most living arrangements

I think of nodes in a graph, the officer being one node, but now all the surrounding nodes at risk of being affected will keep the one officer in line, and demand reforms in the department for greater than citizens, judges or the legislature can do

I was also thinking to involve the federal government. Municipalities ability to raise capital becoming much more expensive based on how their officers act
Okay, so he's speculating without evidence, which is effectively the definition of hyperbole, which makes for really boring and uninteresting reading
Ask Assange
ow, put it back
Knowledge about the technical concepts means nothing if we're not getting real, meaningful information about what's actually happening. It's all rampant and unfounded speculation at this point.
They may not know enough about the cost structure of this feature to price it fairly; I could easily imagine this is heavily dependent on usage patterns and they'll need a few thousand people using it regularly before they'll know that.
Why would it not? There's even a third MAC address field in the 802.11 headers for just that scenario, as far as I remember (i.e. to distinguish between "802.11 source/destination" and "Ethernet-level actual source/destination").
The only reason we're writing millions of checks is because MOST OF IT IS FRAUD!
So my other recent comment on this, I strongly disagree that this is even-handed writing
Thanks for the feedback. I can see that there is "Radio Ambulante" podcast from NPR, is it that one?

I see that the search function is a little bit buggy, if you copy paste "Radio Ambulante" in the search bar you should see it.
You've got nearly 50 languages on there. This is the second language-learning site I've seen launch on HN with a huge number of languages, far more than the team creating the site can possibly have expertise in. I can't help but think that you'd get much better traction choosing one language and making it really high quality and getting a solid core of "fans"; then taking the lessons you've learned from that and adding a second, and so on.
As they say power corrupts - true for most people.
No they haven't done the job just fine. Remote X has always been a pain to set up, and slow. NX was much better but not free.

Remote VSCode is far better than any of those options. If you don't want to try it that's fine, but don't pretend you know better.
I am absolutely not accusing Khelif, or anyone else, of pretending to be something she's not. The evidence is clear she's a male athlete who grew up with a disorder of sexual development, but it's possible in that scenario to be raised as a girl and not learn of the condition until puberty. I think accusations of bad faith against Khelif are cruel.

To answer your second question, I don't think any male athlete should compete in women's sports, since it negates the purpose of having sex-segregated categories. I believe it's possible to preserve these categories without excluding or vilifying transgender athletes. And I think this sentiment is in line with the vast majority of people who understand there is a tension between affirming people's gender identity and being fair to female athletes.

("Ageist" is a joke about the non-sequitur accusations of transphobia I got in response to my tweet.)
>reviewers apparently approved that.

What reviewers?
> After Red-Hat and Mandrake, it became my favourite home distro until Ubuntu came into the scene.

I fucking loved Mandrake. And Red Hat on a PowerMac. It was a challenge but it was very rewarding when it worked. I had the opposite trajectory after that, though. I tried Ubuntu when it was new and shiny but ran into so many issues… Now I have been using OpenSuse continuously for about 6 years without complaint. Even the usual (though much rarer than it used to be) sticking point of Nvidia drivers are trivial to deal with by restoring snapshots.
I came here to say this. Here are their SDK docs: https://github.com/extism/extism#run-webassembly-in-your-app
Microsoft is a least correct but:

OpenAI = Not Open

IBM = International Business Machines with NON international character encoding (EBCDIC).

Oracle = NOT what you want from a database nor from a CIA project ;)
Directly? Nothing. Indirectly, it is raising awareness of what the current administration is either doing or enabling. It is also raising awareness of the Stonewall riots.
I don’t see how not wearing a mask in crowded places is “brave.”
Probably more common than you think.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/ms-dos-and-win...
Amazing, that's what I'm going to refer to them as from now on
Some Stripe services are Rails.

Having types helps, but it's not a necessity. When I was at Chime we faired very well with just rails and no types.
You said "If low latency trading was banned real humans could compete for that money."

As soon as you re-introduce distance, latency becomes a factor again. How do you eliminate "low latency trading" and prioritize "real humans" without putting them in the same room?

What do you actually propose here?

One way to reduce the impact of latency is to do away with continuous trading and move to frequent but discrete auctions. But this would just increase volatility.

Imagine if every X minutes / hours stocks moved Y% like they do at market open, as all the information that was disseminated since the last auction was re-priced in.

If anything the long term trend has been towards longer continuous trading sessions to reduce those types of jumps.
If that's begging then signing up for literally any website is begging the website for an account
But for TCP, you don't even need to be stateful just to prevent inbound connections, which is a huge win over NATs.

UDP still needs state tracking, unfortunately.
Also, found an interesting source from the federal government during the Biden administration:

https://www.gao.gov/blog/federal-government-made-236-billion...
Man who lost $800M Bitcoin in landfill wants to buy the garbage dump
Orig comment: These are the things they don't want to answer. As a Tax Payer I want to know what that money was for.

There is literally nothing in that worth flagging. HN users are becoming less tolerant of opposing ideas.
I agree until I discover I'm doing something where I want to access/change that device. It is really nice when I'm returning home early that I can change my thermostat out of vacation mode. I've often wished I had a way to tell if I left a door unlocked.

Security and privacy is of course critical to all this, but the concept of internet itself is not wrong.
Yeah. This is the worst example of a lack of self awareness.
Eh a cooldown period between the fanfare of a new thing and some battle testing before it gets added to the next AI’s training set is a good thing

the delay is like 8 months for now, thats fine

I think this is also great for some interview candidate assessments, you have new frameworks that AI can't answer questions about yet, and you can quiz a candidate on how well they are able to figure out how to use the new thing
There begins the downfall. Any great product who jumps on a hype train always ends up crashing
Apparently neither is accountant, auditor, federal employee, journalist, judge, reporter, lawmaker, lawman, weatherman, scientist, congressman, etc.

And yes, everyone agrees that there is waste on government, however, what is being labeled as waste is medicare and SNAP and foreign aid.

Why are people upset? there's 200,000 people getting laid off and its only february, of course people are upset, I very much doubt 200k employees are DEI hires.

> The layoffs include between 1,200 and 2,000 employees at the Department of Energy (DOE), including staff from the nuclear security administration and the loans office, two sources familiar with the decision told Reuters.

https://www.newsweek.com/federal-layoffs-live-thousands-prob...

Let's not forget about FAA, which immediately had 2 crashes after it was gutted.

> The aviation security committee, which was mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, will technically continue to exist but it won’t have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports. Before Tuesday, the group included representatives of all the key groups in the industry — including the airlines and major unions — as well as members of a group associated with the victims of the PanAm 103 bombing. The vast majority of the group’s recommendations were adopted over the years.

https://apnews.com/article/coast-guard-homeland-security-pri...
Now we're going to see sites specifically optimized to promote something to AIs. It's the new search engine optimization.
Various financial products have value impact on other products around the world. In order to price orders appropriately in a given region you need the most up-to-date price information available, especially if you are looking to avoid being on the receiving end of arbitrage trades. The same is obviously true for the arbitrageurs.
…10-15 years ago?

Try like 20(~+)
I doubt that's the only case. We have multiple languages that have applied their own solutions to digital representation and the attempt to maintain backwards compatibility inevitably sets up trouble.
Yes, found it, thank you!

(For reference, it didn't show up with search term "radio ambulante" but did with "Radio Ambulante")
ISP side? Hopefully not, or rather, only if you're behind one of those awful CG-NATs (and I'm not aware of any that let you actually configure port forwarding, although my knowledge here might be outdated; fortunately I haven't had to deal one in a long time). Otherwise, it's usually your CPE doing the NATting.

It sounds like you want an ISP-provided stateful firewall though, upstream of your (metered, slow) connection, which I'd agree would be a great feature to have!
My guess is there is a cost-capability tradeoff such that the O(N^2) really is buying you something you couldn't get for O(N). Behind that, there really are intelligent systems problems that boil down to solving SAT and should be NP-complete... LLMs may be able to short circuit those problems and get lucky guesses quite frequently, maybe the 'hallucinations' won't go away for anything O(N^2).
Fair enough! Bubble or not, I certainly have very regularly (weekly?) seen headlines on hn about transformers for at least a few years now. Like how bitcoin used to be on hn frontpage every week for a couple years circa 2010 (to the derision of half of the commenters). Not everyone is in the crypto space, but they know what bitcoin is.

Anyhow I suppose the existence of such questions on hn is evidence that I'm in more of a bubble that I esteemed, thanks for the reality check :)

(also my comment was in defense of parent who linked the wiki page, which defines transformer as per request, and is being downvoted for that)
If you can build an app that an AI cannot, then you know some sort n-month head start on the competition.
>that people naturally have different starting circumstances

The point is that it's not "natural". Many people's starting circumstances are the result of generations of systemic and codified discrimination, as well as ongoing biases and networks that persist today. This country had codified racism ~6x longer than not. There are 60 year-olds walking around today who were born under Jim Crow. Please stop and think about that for a moment.

Analysis like yours is all too common and the problem with it is that it moves insidiously between the micro and macro. That is, you acknowledge that entire groups have been systematically disenfranchised, but you effectively discount the effect it had on any individual within those groups.

On the other hand, your focus on efforts to address these historical problems is prioritized on individuals you feel may be negatively impacted. So, it's suddenly a personal versus group matter. Now, in this context, the broader group—including those who benefitted from the oppression—are essentially ignored.

So, in your formulation, one group (and the individuals within it) are protected, even in spite of being on the wrong side of history. And the other group? Well, they just have to figure out how to reckon with their "starting circumstances".

And, somehow, that's fair.
That's not perfect pitch. 90% accuracy in pitch recognition based on memory retrieval is not perfect pitch.
As for the bunch of comments here claiming they acquired AP at adult age for "only" one or two notes: that's not perfect pitch either.
AP can't be acquired at adult age - your brain only learns to recognize pitches during your neural plasticity phase as a baby (provided it's exposed to enough variety), just like it acquires speech and color-discrimination.
Also, AP is not a party trick. Not having it is akin to being color blind - even if you could "remember" what colors are supposed to look like, you would _still_ be color blind.

That the article's abstract and researchers are willing to claim the opposite despite their own evidence : this smells like butt-hurt denial.
> Does anyone care about that?

Yes
I wonder if bats have the same senses to magnetic field.
There has been some research done on this particular anonymous newsgroup.

“Deanonymising alt anonymous messages”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5JBMyxvuH8

The accompanying blog post is here:

https://ritter.vg/blog-deanonymizing_amm.html

The inherent security of the technique is actually quite strong. The tooling is terrible and many other problems exist with AAM, but in general the idea of having a shared “inbox” is good for anonymity. There is no way to tell which message is intended for whom. Receiving messages is unlinked, which is obviously good for anonymity. Sending requires a different set of technologies to ensure that the message delivery is unlinked. Tor solves part of this problem.

AAM had serious limitations. Things fall down a bit with the underlying technology for newsgroups and PGP and so on not being designed for anonymity, “fail closed” security, or ease of use (and difficulty of misuse).

A bespoke system could work, but the limiting factor is selecting an “inbox” that is widely distributed and heavily used (the anonymity is directly correlated to how many people access the inbox/inbox container.)

# Case Study: YardBird’s group (mostly) escapes arrest

A similar method for secrecy was used by a CSAM group. It was penetrated by the police when they arrested a member who turned informant to reduce his sentence. The police monitored the group from inside for months (I remember it being over a year). Despite having complete access to all the communications and technical surveillance data and international cooperation between police forces, the majority of the group evaded arrest.

There was a set of operating rules that the group followed and everyone who did so escaped the net. I wrote about it in 2013 if anyone is interested in digging deeper into the story.

https://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/12/01/yardbirds-effective-...
In some living beings it is known that they sense the magnetic field with microscopic magnetite crystals (i.e. iron oxide, Fe3O4), that are inside some cells.

The magnetic field is sensed by the magnetic forces that act on the magnetite crystals, much in the same way as we sense gravity and acceleration by the forces that act on the otoliths in our inner ear.

While in turtles it has not been identified how they sense the magnetic field, one of the possibilities is that they also use magnetite crystals located somewhere, at least for one of the two kinds of magnetic senses identified in them.
> I don’t like that this conclusion seems to be that if humans adopt every new technology before AI can train on it that their jobs will be more secure. That is its own kind of hell.

It's the hell we'll be forced into. The powers that be care not one whit for our well being or comfort. We have to duck and weave (or get smashed), while they "creatively" destroy.