skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a wifi credentials QR code standard that can be used to pass the network name, and authentication details. Anyone can generate one, here's a generator app: https://www.qr-code-generator.com/solutions/wifi-qr-code/

Most modern phones recognize the standard and can be used through the native camera app.
I remember studying stochastiv calculus

And I remember noting that the standard deviation in regular statistics was that “quadratic variation” was slightly different than how variance is calculated. Off by one or squared or whatever. I made a note to eventually investigate why. Probably due to some stochastic volatility.
So you're saying that SpaceX is all a government handout scheme, but that it also has produced glory?

Furthermore you're saying that since SpaceX isn't working on problems of habitation and deep space survival that he's not serious about Mars?

Is that right?
Yeah I noticed that as well! Makes sense that it’s a pretty “front and center” problem for a lot of people.
I wish there was a news site that was dedicated only to reporting these sort of “quiet moves”, as they seem far more interesting.
Yes. It's the optimizer here that's called "AI" because AIs are optimizers - and so are humans. It's a matter of sophistication.
But that's expanding government's role even further to cover even more forms of abuse. Are you saying "if they're going to scan for CP they might as well scan for fraud too"?
SoftBank owns ARM.

(and is likely to blame for the mistakes ARM is making lately)
> Don't punish people for trying.

There's no punishment occurring at all. There's just people saying stuff, waiting to see how billionaire overlords decide to proceed, perhaps hoping they get lucky and ruthless enough to join that class.
I think we all know why congress wouldn't do anything. Part of it democrats being incapable of any decisive action. But real reason - there is no way republicans would vote the president out. And it is, indeed, terrifying.

Maybe as aftermath of this crisis we would see legislature evolution and taking it correct place. I, for sure, hope so.
The consumer market doesnt matter much here, imo.

I think most companies know b2b is the most lucrative segment for AI because it reduces one of their top costs - people. Companies selling AI are basically just selling the ultimate automation tool, which (in theory) is massive value for companies. Having a nice consumer product is a side gig.
"an ex-OpenAI employee that hasn't fully absorbed xAI's culture yet" could easily describe Musk himself. I wouldn't be surprised if xAI hadn't learned to do like SpaceX and have people to keep him distracted when he shows up so he doesn't break everything. Honestly, if I were them, I'd have a special "more smarter" fine-tune for him to use exclusively.
That’s not completely news: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/06/apple-building-m2-ultra...
My career started in the 2000s. Oracle was already a bit of a cancer then. It was Oracle or MS SQL for "real" databases. There were technologies that had been exciting in the 90s but were already choked out by the duopoly like InterBase and Foxpro.

There were "greybeard" DBAs who were all smug Oracle guys.

My impression then was that Oracle didn't invent anything but had dominated through better funding and ruthless expansion. Administrating a Oracle DB at scale was really hard but that created armys of loyal DBAs protecting their hard-won skills.
How an obscure advisory board lets utilities steal $50B/year from ratepayers
You are right if you just look at the emails you are disregarding the attempt to mediate via a reputable third party. In which the ceo reacted in the same way.
What I've noticed is that nobody is running new coax/copper anymore. It's all fiber for new developments, and any plant replacement is with fiber.

Which makes sense, fiber has all sorts of advantages.
An AI powered relationship coach. What started off from, how would and AI relationship coach work if it could see both sides of a relationship, to now having evolved to a full therapy session powered by a small swarm of specialized AI, following integrative therapy principles, messaging integration and more. I've been testing with a small group of friends and am about to launch any day now. If somebody would like to try it, just let me know!
Liver-Eating Johnson (2006)
You do have power onto your own feed (well, limited power). I snooze suggestions every month and follow basically zero content creators: I'd say 90% of my followees are people I've met irl. If I want to doomscroll and feel awful, the Explore/Reels tabs are more than enough.
Seems like a great article. Having some prior experience with stochastic calculus, I think I understand almost everything here. Any other good introductory materials?
I have a framed wifi QR code in my house. It's great. Looks like a photo on the wall.
Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring Principal Product Engineers
Exactly. This article should be titled "I figured out a really obtuse way to break into apartment buildings."

A rock will get the job done in a fraction of the time.

It's like all those nobodies on HN who go through all kinds of software gymnastics to secure their phone against imaginary "threat actors," when a mugger is just going to keep twisting their arm behind their back until they enter their PIN.
That's a good one!

Reporter: "Hey, you dropped your wallet"
Governor: "Thief!"
It's clearly a joke. You've never heard people make corporate inspired comments about normal activities? Never had friends talk about sending them a calendar invite for dinner?
Microsoft said they were going to spend 80 Billion on AI data centers, and they confirmed this again, so there is no 'scaling back'.

Speculation:

I suspect after they observed the incredible speed with which Grok was able to build out a leading edge AI infrastructure themselves in Memphis, far faster than what the traditional data-centers could offer it, Microsoft might have had an epiphany and went 'wait, why are we not doing this?'
It's not at all similar to roads, the Dulles Greenway notwithstanding. Not really similar to power either. I'm aware of how this arrangement works and why government would want to create and own the infrastructure in an attempt to attract investment.

There is no attempt at a "gotcha" argument, just dispensing with the Panglossian notion that this will definitely work long term. It might!
Better equipment or not, frame-perfect input is just hard to do and I'm impressed with people being able to do it.
So change it afterwards. Good defaults are important. If someone doesn't change it, it's important that they be on the right path instead of...this one.

(See also: opt-in versus opt-out for retirement plans, organ donation...heck, even this from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43144611)
Needs a mode where touching snow counts.
Given that this is a paid product, are you liable if the chatbot misrepresents the data?

website(on firefox) nitpicks

- The handle_complexity.png image is too small to read and can't be zoomed unless opened in another tab.

- The background effect is in the foreground of chatbot_cropped_gif.gif

- The yaml schema text should have a background like the rest of the text boxes
That's a difficult one, you would need information about the device and operating system to infer the font.

But I imagine, if you realllly needed that info. You could go the hard route and render the font on a canvas, vectorise and perform some sort of nearest neighbour search.
It looks like in year 5000 there would still be some remnants of COBOL buried deep in the tech stack.
Do you mean in a sense that you'd like to see such service provided as a necessity service and owned publically? I'm not sure I understand the private equity part.
I did not make any claims about altruistic intent. This is an empirical statement about the outcome of the startup if successful.
When nobody cares strongly about something, the lobbyist groups have a much easier time.
This is a non-sense that spreads because of North American style of housing. If you're talking about sprawling suburban houses then you're right. But big cities have provided reasonable housing for lots of workers for centuries. The only thing you need is to build more apartments in the cities that have an excess of job positions.
if it matches what happened in my country during the witch hunt era, people were often burned so other people could take their loot. That is, there was a strong alignment between who drove the accusations, and who stood to gain from the victim's untimely death.
Come on, that's not necessary.
I would lose a healthy dose of respect for you if you trotted one of these out in a conversation with me in an attempt to convince me of something. As another comment mentions, argument from authority is literally a logical fallacy (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority). Make an argument based on knowledge and facts, and be ready to accept opposing viewpoints, rather than browbeating the other party into submission. There are times when a decision is already made and disagree-and-commit is desirable, but there are more tactful approaches than just throwing your seniority around.
The "OG" AI research, like the the era of Minsky's AI Lab at MIT in the 1970s, broke AI into a few sub-domains, of which optimization was one. So long before we used the term AI to describe an LLM-based chat bot, we used it to describe optimization algorithms like genetic algorithms, random forests, support vector machines, etc.
Or Silo AI (as an example of why) : https://www.silo.ai/blog/amd-to-acquire-silo-ai-to-expand-en...
MongoDB is not the same as Postgres and jsonb.

also, I'd challenge your thinking - ultimately the goal is to solve problems. you don't necessarily need SQL, or relations for that matter. that being said, naively modeling your stuff in mongodb (or other things like dynamodb) will cause you severe pain...

what's also true, which people forget, is naively modeling your stuff with a relational database will also cause you pain. as they sometimes say, normalize until it hurts, and then denormalize to scale and make it work

the amount of places I've seen that skip the second part and have extremely normalized databases makes me cringe. it's like people think joins are free...
I do not think the very selective schools provide better education. I'm not an educator, but I've done my research and it's a general agreement.

They do give you a better start in your career. You have ability to participate in research/development activities alongside with your professors who are leading experts in the industry, you create connections in the real world through the projects you participate in, and therefore you will have much more opportunities for a better start.

Many good companies (FAANG or whatever did/will replace them) recruit out of these schools. The likes of Deloitte, Google, all the 3-letter agencies do not recruit out of Iowa state, they only do top 20.

As you progress in your career it starts to matter less where you went (you can still tap your college connections many years later though), but if you managed to have a good start, your ceiling will be higher, too.

Even if you managed to graduate without much career prospects despite all the opportunities the school provided, you will still have the brand name on the resume which will make the recruiters and hiring managers to give you extra consideration.

Is this worth extra $100K debt you got to put yourself through Harvard? Not necessarily. But it might be.
USAID spends ~$2B p.a. on food from US farmers, I assume the presumption that without that backdoor subsidiary farms making less money will be cheaper. Though total output value is ~$200 p.a. so that’s %1, but price is set at the margin so actual loss could be greater.

I think this loss might already be less than the loss from the effects of ozempic.

Edit: looking at total US farm subsidies from taxpayers is around $30B which is ~%15.
Just don't doomscroll until spring.
At dissociative doses ketamine typically induces a strong feeling of expectation, of something fantastic or important being imminent, things like that. To some people this takes a religious form, like (almost) coming into communication with some ethereal being or (almost) reach some mystical insight.

It can cause a strong urge to redose.

Do you recognise any of this?
“It unlocked my ability, as the CEO, to take the reins of our marketing site and get our ideas out to the world faster.”

this is could be read as cynical (if one is inclined to think only a few priledged can and will be CEOS). however it could also be a positive, perhaps one of the most empowering aspects of this evolution in info tech.

If we collectively so choose... the entire point this AI/Large Models revolution in software moment can and should be… people with ideas/vision/a mission not having to pay the traditional tech toll of wall garden gatekeepers and/or bizarre industrial revolution desired software paradigms.

hopefully most people will realize it’s not that devs are being put out of a jobs it’s that EVERYONE CAN CONTRIBUTE in more direct EXPRESSIVE ways.

this should lead to more interesting work and problems and solutions for everyone.

It's neat that folks are trying to overhaul their approaches wholesale.
Starbucks to lay off 1100 after 4 quarters of same-store sales declines
I appreciate the comment. What obstacles remain in the way of taking over the commercial market?
Does FreeDOS do better? It has the distinct advantage of being actively maintained.
Australia bans govt use of Kaspersky software due to unacceptable security risk
Hyperbolic is now one of the few selected serverless inference providers on
@HuggingFace. It is a decentralized AI inference and GPU provider that is a leader in web2 and web3.
A limited group, chosen for performance, precision, and scale.

Hyperbolic’s Inference slashes inference costs and complexity, letting you deploy powerful AI models without compromising on performance or trust.
I've been using Mongo while developing some analysis / retrieval systems around video, and this is the correct answer. Aggregation pipelines allow me to do really powerful search around amorphous / changing data. Adding a way to automatically update / recalculate embeddings to your database makes even more sense.
> they pulled the trigger on being a dick, publicly. That is a much worse offense that an impolite email.

brain dead take; the article was impolite, the email was an overt threat by an impotent exec *in response to someone trying to help*!

Dang it bobby, it's not worse to respond to respond to asshattery (the email) with irreverent sunlight (the article).

I also wouldn't call you a bicycle because you're not going anywhere with this attitude. The CEO got a gift, and the author got a middle finger. No matter what happens after, the CEO without a doubt shot first. And shot someone just trying to help. He can get fucked, and anyone defending him can join in too.
In a selfish sense, the act of writing can be beneficial to one's inner thinking, regardless of the quality of output.
If you want to claim this person is not a radical reactionary, please share some evidence of this instead.
Why would the deployment process be faster than anything else?

Why Laravel cloud over anything else?
>A hallmark of a nefarious email (particularly scams but some sales attempts) is that they aim to deceive you.

The very first email has literally everything the company needs to locate and fix the issue without having to sign anything, log into anything, or pay anything.

That is the opposite of a nefarious email.

Nefarious "beg bounty" emails will tell you that you have an issue and then not tell you where it is -- asking for money before revealing the issue.
>The guy at Not Just Bikes will tell you that enforcement will never work nor happen and that the only way to get people to slow down is to design the road so it doesn't feel safe to drive fast.

This makes sense. Though annoying to drive over, speed bumps work. Also, my parents small town converted their main street from a four lane to a slalom-style two-lane and it so much nicer to walk around because people have to drive slowly. Not quite car-free, which I'd prefer, but it's a decent compromise.
"People vs. Larry Flyn" ?
Thank you for the thoughts! I appreciate what you're saying. You may be right. It would be hard to measure, of course.
It was actually the first algorithm I discovered and learned in a technical environment, when I was debugging my Skyrim mods list and realized I needed an efficient way to discover which of my hundreds of active mods were interacting, causing the dreaded neck-seam issue (It was Ethereal Elven overhaul and another whose name escapes me.)

It's an unusually intuitive algorithm, so it wouldn't surprise me if it were one many people learn first.
cf. The American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALEC)[0] tactics[1]

[0] https://alec.org/

[1] https://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/02/12385/how-alec-helps-bi...
If my first email contains everything required for you to locate and fix your security issue, my motivations are pretty clear.
Also see wok done on topological optimization. Mechanical designs no human would design, but AI not required either, just numerical optimization.
Imagine going to a ski resort and being locked out of your apps in the evening because everything is covered in snow.
> And nobody complains because they are completely optional and Taylor Otwell's team puts so much effort into the framework.

And the team also dogfoods heavily.

Laravel has excellent DX because the people building it use it to build those products.
Nah, surely 80% margins for matrix multiplication on the latest TSMC node will last forever.
I'm not a php guy, or a MVC guy, or really anything in their ecosystem... but I will say Taylor Otwell and his team do an amazing job at their little slice of the developer world. Again, not my cup of tea but we need to give credit where credit is due, they are doing a great job. "unmatched" is hyperbole obv, but the sentiment is fair
Solar Sail
Weird article, conflates migration into India through natural means, with migration via invasion and then emigration for completely different reasons.
Oracle systems made job applications an incredibly arduous process by mandating a person re-enter dozens of fields of information for every different employer running the system. Basically you had to create an account and profile for every single job because every company had their own Oracle implementation. I recall the torture well.
I don't know how you could see the CEO as a bully in this situation. The researcher clearly has "power" in this situation over the CEO, he pretty much has caught him with his pants down, so in this case the CEO is lashing out at a perceived threat. You are entitled to the opinion that the researcher responded proportionately in this situation, I happen to disagree. I would not want my friends or coworkers responding this way in their daily dealings, I would want to give someone a chance to make amends instead of escalating, because this is not a playground and the stakes for the CEO are very real and potentially very damaging.

I hope maybe we can agree, though, that with a few simple modifications to his approach, he is likely to reduce the probability of negative responses to the initial email. For example, he seems to already understand that people will take this email as a scam or sales attempt. But much is left to the imagination of the (uninformed) recipient about what the auth truly _does_ want. By filling in those blanks, the imagination need not be active.
A lot of people are going to sneer at this because they like seeing rich tech people fail, but I think it’s great that he’s trying something.

It is much more efficient for society in the form of its government to fund research. We should not leave it up to rich people to decide whether or not research is conducted.
> I've never seen anyone talk about Linus' bilingualism concerning his anger issues. I'm bilingual, and sound much harsher and mean in English than in my native tongue. Could that be an element of the problem?

Kinda relevant: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/magazine/native-language-...:

> My own introduction to speaking French as an adult was less joyous. After reaching out to sources for a different article for this magazine with little success, I showed the unanswered emails to a friend. She gently informed me that I had been yelling at everyone I hoped to interview.

> Compared with English, French is slower, more formal, less direct. The language requires a kind of politeness that, translated literally, sounds subservient, even passive-aggressive. I started collecting the stock phrases that I needed to indicate polite interaction. “I would entreat you, dear Madam ...” “Please accept, dear sir, the assurances of my highest esteem.” It had always seemed that French made my face more drawn and serious, as if all my energy were concentrated into the precision of certain vowels. English forced my lips to widen into a smile.
Musk can be oversold to be sure but I wouldn't say he got lucky. SpaceX has made a number of unconventional (or at least unconventional at the time) technical decisions that seem to have paid off. He's either really good at picking the right people and then trusts them or he's got an eye for the correct decision. It's too many times to call it luck.
> I'm so tired of having to write my own JavaScript to get annoying flashy text

Fret no more:

<style>

.blink { animation: blink 1s steps(2, start) infinite; }

@keyframes blink { 50% { visibility: hidden; } }

</style>

<p class="blink">Lorem ipsum</p>

https://jsfiddle.net/xrkLt2nz/
he could've just given the half billion to poor people and relieved the immiseration of thousands of people. instead he set a pile of money on fire because of ego
It is a way for Laravel to monetize to their user base of people who don't really know what they are doing.
I am in a county that has been laying lots of fiber with ARPA support. Prior to this, I could either use Starlink or a PTP antenna on my roof for internet. Now I get gigabit FTTH for $100 a month. It's cheaper AND faster than my other two options.
Show HN: github.com/go-rod/rod to get screenshots of latest new posts here
I used to only look at the homepage here. But then one day I started going to the fresh new articles and I like that even better. But clicking on the ones that title resonated with me isn't as cool as:

https://i.imgur.com/3i3G4l5.jpeg

This image comes from:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/aaai/tree/main/examples/hnai

That aaai repo (tripple AI) is a port of aider.chat to golang. Or at least the start of that port. This example hnai program was written in vibecoding style. At first it was just an example program to test aaai logic. But I find myself running it and viewing the images now all the time!

If you haven't use github.com/go-rod/rod yet for browser stuff it's amazing. Like python's playwright.
Whatever your commitments, seeing a rich person fail is kinda definitionally humorous. Something is funny often because of juxtaposition, contradiction. It is why it is the emperor who has no clothes, not the poor beggar; or why its "your momma" and not you yourself.
Windsurf Installer
Congrats on the release. I'm interested to see how the project goes.
Pretending a pile of json is a database is great for pivoting, not so great for anything else.

Maintaining apps built on MongoDB is soul killing.
I think 87% to 92% accuracy really isn't much difference. You're still going to get errors to the point where the level and amount of checking you need to do isn't affected. Even at 98-99% you still have to do a lot of error checking.

But you get most of the bang for the buck for 1/10th the cost so I think overall it's far, far superior.
Actually, the real danger in society is AI and Big Tech is the only one you can trust. Everyone else should stop research in AI because of carbon emissions!
I rather them focus on performance.

Last MongoDB is still slower than MongoDB 3.4. An almost 10-year old release. For both reads and writes.