skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Convolutional neural networks for image recognition and more generally image processing. They are much better than they were a few years ago, when they were all the rage, but the hype has disappeared. These systems improve the performance of radiologists at detecting clinically significant cancers. They can be used to detect invasive predators or endangered native wildlife using cameras in the bush, in order to monitor populations, allocate resources for trapping of pests, etc.

ML generally is for pattern recognition in data. That includes anomaly detection in financial data, for example. It is used in fraud detection.

Image ML/AI is used in your phone's facial recognition, in various image filtering and analysis algorithms in your phone's camera to improve picture quality or allow you to edit images to make them look better (to your taste, anyway).

AI image recognition is used to find missing children by analysing child pornography without requiring human reviewers to trawl through it - they can just check the much fewer flagged images.

AI can be used to generate captions on videos for the deaf or in text to speech for the blind.

There are tons of uses of AI/ML. Another example: video game AI. Video game upscaling. Chess and Go AI: NNUE makes Chess AI far stronger and in really cool creative ways which have changed high level chess and made it less drawish.
> Why do people always think its the killing? Almost every vegan/vegetarian has most of their issues with how its raised and treated its whole life.

But definitionally a vegetarian is someone who abstain from eating meat period, regardless of the source. Someone can avoid eating unethically sourced meat but still eat ethically sourced meat and thus definitionally not be a vegetarian. So it's fair to assume that ethical vegetarians (those who practice it for ethical reasons) believe that all meat consumption is unethical. Otherwise they wouldn't be vegetarians.

I acknowledge there is probably a caveat of people who practice vegetarianism because they don't believe they can find ethically sourced meat and thus forgo meat consumption entirely. I find that strange though as cage free meat is pretty widely sold, at least in the USA per my experience.
From the article:

"You can say goodbye to uBlock Origin, which is now virtually useless with default settings anyway."

Are they referring to difficulties running uBO on chrome or ... that uBO is losing the arms race against advertising infra generally ?
I think issue #1 is a big one, how to download a paid app without paying for it? Not everything is freemium.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon was a good example of me paying on one platform, and then applying the upgrade to the free app after downloading on another.
I think the difference is that I know that getting data out of mainframe COBOL systems is a long-known and long-solved problem, and I can list lots of different ways to do it (I mentioned a few, there's several more I didn't mention). Without knowing the details of the exact system, I'm not sure which one would be the best one to use, but the odds that you'd have a system for which none of these existing solutions is suitable is rather low – and indeed, likely most of these systems are already using one or another – there are whole teams of sales people who have spent the last 20-30 years convincing government agencies (inter alia) to buy these solutions.

Whereas, you don't seem to know anything about that topic, and are speculating based on parallels with completely different disciplines (such as statistical mechanics).

We both are speculating due to lack of details about the specific systems under discussion, but wouldn't you expect the person whose speculations are based on greater relevant knowledge to be more likely to be correct?
At the moment we seem to have exactly one guy equipped to do this, and he'll be busy with something else for the next few years: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/176vtju/kevin_buzzard...
Social media posts falsely link houses for sale in DC area to federal firings
That's fine to discuss. That's how things normally happen - someone does the analysis, writes the report, people consider it and maybe implement it. Either way it results in some justification and future accountability.

This tweet is none of that.
I found XMPP an absolute delight to work with and built all kinds of command-and-control messaging utils with it that allowed me the flexibility to use it as a chat service and RPC broker all at the same time, with bots as APIs. It was nuts but brilliant. Bring it back, I say.
Completely enclosed runs and coops are very much the exception to the rule. Most backyard chickens are just fenced off (they can't really fly after all), meaning they're exposed to other birds.
Most often they don't even need to? I speak a fairly small European language, and bigger models (70B and above) do fine - in fact they do much better than some research projects that are supposed to solve this problem.

It's basically a classic EU research push - first you try to regulate the new technology to oblivion and then, when it becomes apparent that stifles development in the EU you bankroll many different projects with EU grants, often with limited success.
> DNS doesn't have redirection like HTTP

dnsmasq has grown up a lot in the last few years and does have the ability to redirect domains.
It's that time again got to read the man page
"Narcissistic rage is an extreme reaction that can occur when someone with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) feels their self-importance is threatened. It can be triggered by criticism, loss of control, or even minor setbacks."

We should start teaching children emotional intelligence daily in K-12, including niche topics like how to spot sociopaths, narcissists, ..., and all other forms of monsters. Perhaps in a generation we can learn to stop giving these deeply damaged and dangerous people any kind of power over us.
It’s probably worth reading https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/building-a-safer-matrix/ for more context on that. (PS sorry for blasting you, if it was me :)
I've been choosing not to use most of the AI code assistant stuff for a while, I try it every now and then. Each time it's the same outcome, it actively reduces my productivity by a fair amount. I suspect this is due to a mix of the majority of my programming being non-trivial (library building, complex-ish algos), and that I'm a bit of a perfectionist coder who enjoys programming.

LLMs are useful tools for programming, as a kind of search engine and squeaking rubber duck. AI as a programmer is worse than a junior, it's the junior that won't actively learn and improve. I think current AI architecture limits it from being much more than that.
Dumbest change ever. The employee charge cards are there to get rid of red tape. Now workers will have to spend $100 of their time filling out forms to buy $50 worth of office supplies.
Last I heard, RMS does something similar to this.
> larger than a certain amount

Larger than $1 is in this case zero, there's nothing one can buy for $1 on a credit card. I'm not sure why they chose this amount and didn't just set it to 0. Not sure when this is coming but soon government employees will need to bring their own paper and other needed officeware from home, unless they'll have to bring toilet paper and soap as well if the cut is too deep. At the same time the billionaire class has nearly doubled their wealth and nobody is batting an eye for it. Strange times we're living indeed.
I believe/understand it is mostly tied to reproduction and protection and development of offspring.

Dogs (and many other animals) begin reproducing at a much younger age. Their genetics and genetic development evolved to support releasing a number of offspring to continue the species, but beyond that, the biological system had no longer value for the animal, and therefore genetics which enhanced longevity did not promote into the next generation.

People rear children later, and when those children are growing, the human still plays a very active role in the development and maturity of those children. The genes which promoted longer life where therefore selected out as the children who were not reared with parents in reaching late 30s had a lower chance of survival.

In addition, humans have a strong drive to live. Dogs, as they reach the end of their life, seem to be quite happy to find a nice place to lie down and die. They have no concept of "not dying". Not that they won't protect themselves, but they have no idea of medicine, of health, these are not concepts many other species can understand, and even if they could, there is not much they could do for them.

With royalty and family, younger generations cared for the older, which increased lifespan beyond the generally accepted declining years.

For example (I work in sleep), sleep begins degrading in our 30s, and this degradation is linked to all markers of aging and health. Our immune system weakens, our metabolic and cardiovascular systems decline, etc etc. Potentially there was/is some evolutionary selection here as well where the children who cared for their elderly were also more likely to survive longer, but I think that is a weak link.

I'm not refuting the OP, but at one point genetics got us so far, and then lifestyle and environmental factors are now taking over.

(edit) I originally posted this as a response the question about dog lifespan, but then realized it probably stands on it's own as a comment.
It looks like USAID had 4B of the 40B budget actually reach endpoint users, which would make the overhead closer to 90% [1], not 97.5% like I originally estimated.

[1] https://chatgpt.com/share/67b7a0c4-bf48-8011-9997-41b350dd0b...
And the original ARC design used 958 tons of FLiBe.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.3540
I would agree! Let us both continue to trust our eyes.

It was a nazi salute.
Why must we hold true that this is simply posturing to appease the populist whims of a current American administration?

If we believe corporations are rationally working toward their own profit goals, the idea that they've become overt Trump activists seems like an emotional interpretation. We either need to maintain the concept of corporate amorality or decide everything, including an insensitive invisible hand, has somehow become pro-Trump.

I think there are other logical premises for and against DEI if you strip corporations of this veneer of social responsibility:

1. DEI was only ever a PR exercise, to score higher in ESG-related investments or to attract talent;

2. DEI provided them with a positive image to downstream customers;

3. DEI provided new hiring channels when conventional ones were failing HR departments during a constrained hiring market.

It seems that DEI has become a cost center, and that cost is greater than the negative PR cost they're taking by getting rid of it.

The above benefits may no longer hold true, but I'd also suspect that some of these companies are worried about retaliatory action of the new DOJ interpreting DEI initiatives as a discriminatory thus illegal hiring practice. Litigation against the federal government is expensive. Being shut out of a labor market also is.

Shopify may be a Canadian company, but one that also hires globally remote and the USA is a huge source of that talent.
Why use your own money when you can use others' and turn a profit?
> What's with you people

Right?
San Francisco is both a city and a county so the budgets aren’t actually comparable… SF owns the port and the Airport as well. “Facing facts” is great when you actually understand the basic facts before making proclamations.
We already have the possibility to get positions of celestial bodies with very high precision via JPL ephemerides but you would have to write and integrate your force model yourself.
Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco
Grok 3 Beta in Shambles
> Everything about DOGE and their mission has a fundamental deep misunderstanding of why governments with their own currency must have deficits

DOGE has nothing to do with deficits, they're not even bothering to count it properly [1]. DOGE will remake the federal government for Musk's benefit. That's why he's using cannon-fodder DOGE bros instead of his best and brightest. That's why the collateral damage isn't of principal concern, and why they're moving quickly: they need to finish their work before checks and balances start swinging.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-mus...
This is the equivalent level of pettiness as removing free coffee from offices.
The last credit downgrade of the US by a major ratings agency was by Fitch in 2023. They cited projections for the US deficit to continue to rise, due to projected weaker revenues and increased spending.

https://www.fitchratings.com/research/sovereigns/united-stat...
You know that annoying thing where someone joins a new team, looks around, declares all their friction points to be easily solvable, dives in & starts making changes, and turns out to make a big giant mess?

And the reason is they don't understand the specific domain & context well enough to know what the actual hard problems are. Instead they're just pattern matching to things they do know and extrapolating. And it usually doesn't go well.

Dealing with a system that's replicating 50 years of regulatory rules is going to be that times infinity.
Perhaps, but I suspect space nerds in general support geo-collaborative space efforts over privatized ones taking the reins.
> Recent political tensions have made me question what might happen in the event of a military conflict between the US and Europe.

Chill out. That's not feasible. Europe lacks the military capability to sustain such a war.

Germany is still trying to figure out who was behind the Nord Stream II explosion, isn’t it? Considering that the German elite and political class have already sabotaged their own economy to please the Democrats, why would they behave any differently now? The real turning point came when Germany chose to align with the U.S. in the Ukraine conflict. The tragic irony is that despite the elites sacrificing everything for Washington, the new administration now seeks to push them out entirely and replace them with an outsider nazi Party - the AfD.

It’s wild how nothing went Germany’s way, but given what they did to Greece a decade ago… well, there’s a certain irony in how it all unfolded.
> at the end of the day if the Russians won't put their people in it nobody should

Ha, fair point ;-)

> I'm sure politics play a non-trivial role

Yeah, they may get paid to fly supply missions, but it's still a tiny bit uncomfortable to claim on TV how they are cooperating with the "evil Anglo-Saxons" (their strange propaganda term for the West) to supply the ISS.
It seems like out of Lynx, Links, and w3m, Lynx is the only one still under active development with a recent-ish release. w3m seems to be completely dead.
We don't have to speculate ("perhaps"); it was an outburst because his feelings got hurt by an astronaut. It's there for anyone to read because it all happened in public.
Uncaught SyntaxError: import assertions are not currently supported
Nice. Looks like a good start. Curious what it would take to evaluate sites for digital marketing analytics tools. Like FB Pixel, Google Analytics, etc.
That's certainly a point of disagreement. I think this absolutely should be ignored.

Him saying the ISS should be deorbited after 27 years rather than 30 years isn't a disqualifying opinion.

Freaking out at perfectly valid opinions or actions is a bad thing to do. If you are constantly screaming over nothing, you'll be tuned out, and that's bad for when there are real things to scream about.
> if your browser doesn't know what JS is

It's worse than that[0] - Lynx statically renders the page at load time which means any "dynamic" updates just can't happen. I did have a bash at integrating the Mozilla JS engine but gave up after realising that anything more than just `document.write("flange")` handled at load time would need the entire inner engine rewriting and that was/is far beyond me[1].

[0] This is based off my memories of the Lynx source back in the Olden Times, ~1995-2000ish.

[1] But I did do the original cookie jar and colour styles (as seen in the screenshots) work (`lynx.lss` is all my fault, sorry)
Is this the consensus on Tiangong as well?
> The funding scam you mention is a reference of "these people get billions for particle research but the outcome for us as society is way to small"

More specifically, even particle physicists admit that a 2x or even a 10x bigger accelerator is not expected to find anything fundamentally new.

The core criticism is that it has become a self-licking ice cream cone that serves no real purpose other than keeping physicists employed.
"Are" soaring? Avian flu has been going on since 2022.

One of the reasons we are where we are is because many think this started last fall.
There is nothing stopping people from using it as peer-to-peer cash.

I used crypto sell a GPU to someone I know. I regularly use it to trade hardware over the internet, and I would use it more if more vendors on ebay and such accepted it.

It has low fees, works with open source software, and is pretty straightforward to accept without fear of charge-backs or fraud. The volatility is only a problem in the short term, and I don't mind holding on to crypto despite volatility because it has a lower inflation rate than the USD.

>Ledgers can't scale to allow for a financial system that could serve an entire country either, due to transaction speed issues.

A lot of the issues with transaction throughput have to do with the network parameters of old cryptocurrencies like bitcoin which were optimized for a 2009 internet.

A single ledger can't scale, but if you just boosted the block size of a bitcoin-like cryptocurrency to ~200MB you would have transaction throughput on the order of paypal. If you do payment channels on top of that and/or have atomic swaps between multiple merge-mined ledgers I think that you would have a decentralized payment network which could serve the entire world's current needs, at least for online transactions.
I’ve worked on a piece of software you have at least heard of, probably used, and it is so far from publicly available it’s funny.
A fair point
The irony is that I suspect we have fixed it - eg Element X and Matrix 2.0 is a massive step change forwards; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHyHO3xPfQU etc.

But I can see why bad experiences in the past would stick.
DOGE literally took over the agency that competently modernized and integrated US gov technology (United States Digital Service), gutted it, and is now using that agency's pretense of needing access to data to now pilfer citizens' private information and grossly violate the constitutional separation of powers.

This is the mechanism by which this administrative coup (declared here in https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensu...) is being enacted. None of this is legal or constitutional in any way.

The rule of law is not a partisan issue nor a matter of "government efficiency". Those who aid this coup should be considered traitors.
Sure, but it also has some correlation to body size. Larger animals generally live longer.
Afaict, they're doing everything the easy way. I wouldn't be surprised if the CC bank doesn't allow a $0 option, but DOGE doesn't want to actually administratively cancel all cards, either, so they're left with this.
> Lockfiles are meant to describe the exact version of everything that should be in the environment to have exact reproducible behaviour (not just "working"), including transitive dependencies.

It is wrong to specify the versions for your transitive dependencies except to achieve reproducible builds, as in CI or other situations. If a dependency fails to correctly describe their requirements in their pyproject.toml it is a bug and should be fixed in the relevant upstream.

> There are others who'd like to replicate their builds: application developers who don't want to risk getting bug reports for problems that turn out to be caused by upstream updates.

If your application only works with specific versions of dependencies and has bugs in others, that should be described in pyproject.toml.

> In principle, if you need a lockfile, you aren't distributing a library package anyway.

It's irrelevant what kind of project you're describing, library, application, build-tooling, etc. Your pyproject.toml should contain the correct information for that project to run. If your project cannot run, contains bugs, or otherwise needs more specific information than is present in the pyproject.toml the answer is to fix the pyproject.toml.

Reproducible builds for the purpose of testing or producing hash-identical wheels, or similar situations where the goal is producing an exact snapshot of a build, is the only reason to be using lockfiles. None of those use cases aligns with, for example, tracking the lockfile in source control.
Man, the mars rovers and static labs we've sent to that godforsaken desert are just such a resounding success. Just mission after mission grinding away with increasing technological capability and an increasingly narrow focus toward searching for evidince of past or present life and sending back a firehose of useful tidbits.
Sam Altman – Startup advice, briefly – 2015
Ray Camden – Building a Web App with BoxLang
Now imagine how much business schlepping an entirely new space station, piece by piece, will generate!
I didn’t. I bought something else.

A few years later, HP bought their printer business.

Now I’m screwed and stuck with them again.
We've run into issues with Arrow – it or its dependencies would frequently break on updates, and we stopped using it. But none of the other issues mentioned in the article have ever come up for us. In particular, a lot of the problems come from using OffsetArrays.jl, which is a library designed to let you use different starting indices for an array, which we just don't use.

It's worth noting that we initially migrated ~15kloc of numpy data/numeric pipelines to Julia, and mostly found the same values, with the exception of something that turned out to be a bug in a Python library.

I would say that the biggest Julia annoyance we've run into has to do with the way the Expr type is implemented, particularly the fact that it's mutable, which makes some of the metaprogramming we want to do substantially harder. But that's not a bug per se, just a design choice I don't like.
And gets a big bonus for the "savings". And gets promoted before the consequences are seen.
That is pretty much just fruit. Vegetables are typically either the whole body of the plant (like carrots) or a vital part.
A lot of jobs don't use TWN. None of the ones I've had did so.
I pay Firestone to do my oil change lol, it's pretty sad, I like driving fast cars but don't work on em

I think the anime Cowboy Bebop has influenced my mind on what it could be like again fantasy but yeah. Mix of older looking hardware seems more tangible like this interface

https://i.imgur.com/LdWW1sc.jpeg
Planning without any access to or knowledge of all these difference agencies and their systems and processes (you do know there are many processes in place to prevent fraud and corruption, and Inspector Generals responsible for auditing)? Almost impossible. Again, these are not software problems.
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"Hungry for the Power"
Label Data by Hand
Sure, you can train LLMs to use tools or provide instruction in a prompt to do so.

However, it doesn't know to use the tool intuitively without explicit action to do so. It doesn't discover that is the best solution on its own. That is what is relevant. We can make them use tools. It is useful to do so.

The important takeaway is that LLMs capabilities, as useful as they may be, are not intelligence in the way they are being promoted.
> Lots of Russian state actors have no problems working from within Ukraine, alas.

Ex: Viktor Yanukovych, prior to being ousted.