skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you saying this based on actual evidence or based on supposition and anecdote?

The oft repeated claim is the replication crisis as you mention but this isn’t limited to social science nor is social science the worst offender. Replication rates for psychology have ranged between 36 [1] and 62% [2] in a few metas I just pulled up

A notable paper in biology is the Amgen paper that shows an 11% replication rate for landmark cancer research[3]. There’s a paper from Bayer that shows only about 25% of published preclinical trials could be validated [4]

Similarly in economics there have been papers finding replication rates of 54% [5]

So maybe the issue is not a wildlife ecology study from the 40s that was definitively debunked by a biology study in the 90s. Maybe it’s p-hacking, journals that focus entirely on publishing novel research over replication (and grant funders that act similarly), refusals to share data and methodological details/process transparency, etc that apply to all fields.

[1] DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4716
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0399-z
[3]10.1136/bmj.e2555
[4]10.1038/nrd3439-c1
[5]10.1038/s41562-024-02062-9
Curious why is your comment being downvoted?
That's true for normal binary encoding of integers, but I think we should understand the question in context of the post: What's the number of bits required in iterated log coding?
I like to say that whatever the complexity is, it is in the nature of the problem itself and isn’t something that’s open for us to design. Only when we design a solution we risk introducing complication.

Of course, we can always choose to solve the least complex problem.
Thanks, this looks like an awesome tool. I wish more web explainers took this "explain your work" approach. It's great that it uses the content you put in to illustrate the step-by-step breakdown.
WAFs help with this, but at the HTTP level. By putting “information_schema”, “sys.tables” in the filters.

Not the real solution, IMO, but WAFs are useful for more than SQLi, and is the kind of tech you can ask money for.
I would also have appreciated a version that's compatible with a non-latest macOS release.

Then again, this app was written with SwiftUI, which hasn't received some handy features before macOS 12 and is still way behind AppKit.

When I see an app that's not compatible with the second most recent macOS, I assume the dev either didn't know better or they were too lazy to write workarounds / shims for the latest-and-greatest shiny stuff.
No, I saw it briefly on hacker news once thats it. They have, IIRC, like, a 40 hour test suite or something so for them it made a massive difference.

The only time I got close to that (roughly 14 hours, many years ago) we just hacked it by running random tests constantly to detect regressions and only running the whole suite overnight. It brought release cycles down from bi-yearly to once a week or so so people were happy.

If your tests are fully isolated (and they should be for many reasons), parallelization ought to be almost drop in. You can set it up in github actions pretty easily.

If a feature that predicted which tests to run were drop in Id say it was a no brainer too, but there is no tooling for it yet so it would have to be built from scratch.
Buying such kits as this one makes you a prime target if someone knows you bought it.

I'd prefer DIYing the seed phrase with inconspicuous materials. Storing paper copies in several locations gets a long way.
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Just FYI: They did roll out Deep Research to those of us on the $20/mo tier at (I think) about the same time you made this comment.
You mean this?

https://frame.work/products/deep-computing-risc-v-mainboard
I remember hearing someone using Manchester Encoding for that.
Dust-Dds: Rust Implementation of the Data Distribution Service (DDS)
The innovator's dilemma strikes again.

My favorite modern attempt of theirs at innovation was the Quark line of microtrollers. They had long abandoned the low-power embedded market after selling off the StrongARM line and discontinuing the i960 line, both low-power RISC processors. They decided the best way to re-enter it was with an x86 processor.

They basically made a cost-reduced version of their decades-old desktop computer architecture, and just hoped it would work, if they put enough marketing behind it.
Maybe the garbage will be like in Sweden? In some city or neighborhood they have this modern setup where each garbage disposal chute is connected by pneumatic tubes to a central garbage dump in the area. So when garbage needs collected the truck doesn’t need to drive around the neighborhood stopping every 5 meters making a ton of noise and spreading garbage around accidentally. It enters this underground area and collects it in bulk out of the huge bins.

Edit: I think it’s this https://www.envacgroup.com/how-it-works/the-envac-system/
hi, maintainer of the fork here

just did a pass and removed everything that was not necessary - it's even less code now lmao

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TypeScript 23 50 169 1307
Markdown 6 129 0 224
YAML 2 8 6 52
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Creative industries protest against UK plan about AI and copyright
Not impressed with tako. Replaces the BSD license with GPL for mostly removing functionality and reverts.

It looks unmaintained. Last release 5 years ago, documentation is sporadic.

Reminds me of some of the angry forks of Black that get like 100 downloads a year.
Does anyone field in the US, outside of academia, regularly use CVs?
> We do not plan to add a permission model in the next 6 months.

I guess Copilot functionality trumps "Security above all else" now.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/03/prioritizing-sec...
Many data scientists make the assumption that training data is static.
Wasn't there a Google project, Chirp or something? Did this over speakers and microphones? That seems to have disappeared.
Yes.

These are very good and high profile public demonstrations of where $NVDA's moat is: that GPGPU is very flexible and you can program to do a lot of stuff that makes perfect sense but wasn't in the mind of hardware vendors.

Now, if you predict the future to eventually converge on more and more dedicated hardware support, to the point that there's no more software optimizations like these, then the so-called "CUDA moat" breaks.

To stay in this game, NVIDIA is breaking down their own moat :p
Nothing has really been proven just yet.

I say this because all available LLMs are currently running largely on "funny money" --- subsidized by either venture capitalism or government.

We won't know the real costs until they are forced to survive in the marketplace on their own merits. And based on nothing but their energy and hardware needs, they won't be exactly "cheap" and will follow a "computing as a service" model subject to bait and switch tactics.

Basically, LLMs turn traditional computing upside down. Instead of reliable results at low cost, LLMs offer unreliable results at high cost.

And because of this, I expect the real world use cases to be much smaller than many seem to expect. The two prominent early examples are search engines (where accuracy is not essential) and research involving trial and error (where accuracy will be verified).
> The only drawback of Markdown is images.

> GitHub-flavored Markdown is so popular because you can really easy inline them.

I'm not sure what you mean. GitHub-flavored Markdown has pretty much exactly the same image syntax as every other Markdown flavor.
Yes there should be fairness. It's called freedom of speech and freedom of expression. It's protected by law.

What you're advocating for is censorship in the name of what you consider to be political correctness, which is exactly what the Nazis did.
The online safety act is different to GDPR
This one seems to be optimized for log viewing at the moment, are there any DataDog alternatives built on top of Clickhouse, which supports full range of OpenTelemetry features?
Looks cool I might try it out!

I need a central place, something simple where I can actually read the contents of the logs that are generated by the dozen of services that I run for clients, etc… instead of stupidly SSH’ing to every server.

Does this fit the use case?

I tried Loki once but it was painful to set up and more geared toward aggregating events and stats.
You do still need some infrastructure - the Flame LocalBackend is for dev mostly and I'm pretty sure it just runs in the same vm as the parent.

But yeah if you're doing ML tasks it makes a lot of sense to farm those out to beefier or GPU-equipped nodes anyway so at that point it's just a natural synergy, AND you get the crash isolation.
I agree that's probably the rationale, I am just afraid the Dogekids won't let a lack of understanding slow them down.
You cannot really evaluate/rank the Bible with the same criteria you apply to works created by a single author with clear intent in a limited timespan.

Having said that, ecclesiastes and Song of Songs alone make it top-ten worthy.
> the only solution is what is discussed at the end: updating the law.

That, and actually penetrating the data system and subsequently "leaking" parts of it. Which is nearly always illegal, but could be considered a form of "Civil Disobedience" especially if done ethically - e.g. removing sensitive data or leaking only aggregates of the data. Either from outside, or by a whistle-blower.

I'm not saying "hack the government!". But I am arguing that the pressure of "getting hacked" is like the pressure of protests, blockades, occupying facilities etc, all of which civil disobedience, and often simply illegal too. All are tools in the belts of civilians to keep a government in check. Extracting information that a government is not willing to give but that would benefit the governed, should IMO often be considered such a tool as well.
The Genius Design of Japanese Streets [video]
Have you done a computation of the equivalent amount of inputs into getting petrol/LNG/coal power to you and compared? Why are incumbent sources of power always excluded from this cost-benefit-analysis?
Same way it works with farm animals. There is no explaination required cause it doesnt matter what they understand about the farm, other than do x and you get a carrot.
I had similar costs. With caching it went down to 20-40 cents.

Well worth it, if you are using this regularly.
Micro artist sets world record for smallest sculpture
So it's not a Clang regression per se, it's an issue with the LLVM core? Clang is just a frontend, and Rust AFAIK does not use it at all. If you run LLVM 18's `opt` on bytecode generated by Clang 19 and then compile it, does it also generate the same bad assembly?
The difference is that The Ship of Theseus had all its parts replaced one by one, in a long period of time. If you replace 90% of the ship at the same time (RAM, CPU and Motherboard), then the analogy breaks down.
Totally. These are design choices made by development teams. But as users, we "assume" all are readable until one day we learn that it does not work that way. Until I came across this issue, I assumed them to be all valid, renderable characters.
Wow, MIT license. I hope some big players embrace this open source cooperative approach.
By the way, how do people carry those laptops on airplanes if regulations mandate that every radio equipment must be off?
If you are mature enough to do that, you're mature enough to net SQL injections in the first place. There shouldn't be that many handwritten queries to review in the first place as most mundane DB access is usually through a framework that handles injection properly...
How are you using the term "sex"?

Birth sex is not useful when talking about trans people, who may be on hormone replacement therapy or have had gender affirming surgeries. To fixate on that is to deny the reality that trans people don't necessarily fit into the gender binary (and at the same time many do). Our systems are structured by gender binaries and so accommodations need to be made for those who don't fit perfectly (which also helps cis women who do not present as traditionally feminine).

I cannot speak to prison policies that have created conditions for the attacks you have mentioned, but a blanket policy putting trans women in men's prisons is putting their lives at risk, while a case-by-case policy is not necessarily putting cis women's lives at risk if it is implemented well.

The notion that trans women are inherently dangerous to cis women, which is the conclusion you seem to be arriving at because you are thinking of trans women as men, is a false notion.

Cis men are the greatest danger to cis women. If the amount of attention being placed on trans women were instead being placed on that fact, maybe cis women would actually be safer.

Trans people exist and always have. Right now we are being demonized because we are an easy target. And when folks like you buy into that, you are doing the demonizing work for the people who are controlling through division. Trans people are not a problem to be solved. We're just fighting to keep our rights from being taken away.
Doesn't this mean 45% of workers already do use AI chatbots? Glass half full vs empty
> Good riddance.

.... ok?

edit:

> guide the fifth away from radical position

naive.
do people actually use their thumb to click ?? i always just used the other pointer
Show HN: TikiWiki: Wikitok with Category View
I was inspired by a few previous projects aiming to create a TikTok style article discovery experience for Wikipedia (one such example is this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723)

Linked is my attempt with an added feature: drag to the left to reveal the "category scroll" through articles in the same category of the one you just viewed.

This is a very quick implementation aimed at gauging interest in the new feature and if I should explore it more. I hope people like it!

GH: https://github.com/Sami1309/TikiWiki
Hi scarface74, is there a way to contact you directly? It looks like the Reddit handle in your profile has been deleted. Thanks!
https://www.geldata.com/roadmap

Was linked from one of your articles, returns 404 for me.
Work on what you want, so don't let me deter you. But in my personal case, what pushed me from fish to xonsh was that I could never quite internalize the way it wanted to do functions, if statements (and tests inside them) and loops.

Once you were reading code, it made sense for the most part. But when I had to write a new multiline command or a script, I had to look things up in documentation constantly. For my brain "similar but different" was torture, not an advantage.

With Xonsh you get real Python and this solves all my problems. As soon as you learn what $VAR, $(CMD), and @EXPR do, you're good to go!
It was not conventionally armed. It had dummy training warheads, conventional payloads for it are not even being developed. There are hardly any targets for which lobbing high explosive with an ICBM is cost effective.
It's a common theme:

- build an open-source thing

- wait till thousands or millions of people are using it

- change the license and close down the source

- implement malicious code

- push an update

- profit! you now have your malware running on millions of systems
Show HN: JupyterLab desktop app with interactive code snippets and AI assistant
Hey y'all, I made the most prominent fork of this extension "Material Theme (But I Won't Sue You)"

The maintainer went off the deep end last year. He pulled the (originally apache 2) source offline, then started threatening to sue people for hosting alternative versions, including them in other IDEs, etc. Genuine lunatic.

Out of an abundance of precaution, I've taken the following action on my fork:

1. I have the VS Code team auditing it as we speak, and I've given them full permission to immediately pull it from the marketplace & force uninstall it from users if they find ANYTHING malicious.

2. I have audited the code base thoroughly (nothing seemed malicious)

3. I have removed ALL code related to changelogs, analytics, Open Collective and html rendering.

The only thing that seemed slightly concerning was the html + sanity loader for changelogs, so I gutted it entirely. Two PRs removed almost all the deps and over 7,000loc (mostly package-lock)

Repo is here if anyone else would like to audit https://github.com/t3dotgg/vsc-material-but-i-wont-sue-you
Asking an AI chat bot is the same, its amazing how smart and helpful it is until you ask it something you really know about.
Unless it’s math in which case you are screwed.

Can we have a damn math keyboard and proper character encoding instead of doing shenanigans with latex / office equation editor ?

Why in this exact text box I cannot type a differential equation ?
I’m an asteroseismologist and really pleased to see a link to the Kappa mechanism. I usually teach it as a heat engine concept, and it’s applicable to most stars in the classical instability strip.

Another class of variables that aren’t mentioned are the solar like oscillators, driven by convection on the surface of the star.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar-like_oscillations

Our sun is one such example and has a period of 5 minutes!
tako: 34 key EC split keyboard
That was a fun read. Love the default theme and ability to swap themes. I recently deleted IG so maybe it’s time for a personal website. The world needs more 5 course meal generators :)
Interesting POV! Because batteries plus a motor is so easy, electric bicycles and similar are the vehicle to look at, not cars. I know that in the Philippines, EV carts are slowly taking over on certain islands in places where a car doesn't make any financial sense.
Ladies and Gentleman's maybe it's about time to discuss a thing:

- how much raw materials and energy costs building a "smart city"?

- how much to operate and evolve, which means rebuild from scratch?

My answer is WAY TOO MUCH to been able to do so on scale. The humanity CAN'T live in smart cities period. We need more than 7 earths with only one inhabited to create such monsters.

It's about time to understand that the new deal is only possible in small, simple and scalable solutions like homes and sheds with LITTLE infra needed to build and rebuild them. Where local water sources are enough, without needing very long aqueducts, having very large rejects, needing complex road infra etc.

That's the possible high-tech future, the smart-home, smart-shed, not smart city. A digital network of desktops, homes, sheds, not some giants datacenters/mainframes/hubs. Try to compute and you'll agree.
@dang can you please update the link to the archive link
Interesting times, for sure.

> and "websites" just turn into data-only endpoints made for AI to consume.

As is already the case with humans, that only serves users to the extent that the websites' veracity is within the intelligence's ability to verify — all the problems we've had with blogspam etc. have been due to the subset of SEO where people abuse* the mechanisms to promote what they happen to be selling at the expense of genuine content.

AI generated content is very good at seeming human, at seeming helpful. A "review website" which is all that, but with fake reviews that promote one brand over the others… a chain of such websites that link to each other to boost PageRank scores… which are then cross-linked with a huge number of social media bots…

Will lead to a lot of people who think they're making an informed choice, but who were lied to about everything from their cornflakes to their president.

* Tautologically, when it's not "abuse", SEO is only helping the search engine find the real content. I've seen places fail to perform any SEO including the legitimate kind.
Reform support is too broad geographically and demographically that Farage has very little chance of being the next PM, unless the UK changes from FPTP. They take votes away from the Conservatives much more than they do Labour. This is why Cameron and Boris both buckled to UKIP/BrexitParty/Reform, but Starmer doesn't need to.

FPTP also benefits parties with strong regional hotspots, such as Labour in cities.
> Why would anyone do this? With 5M you can either move to Thailand or Vietnam and live without working for the rest of your days.

But is it legal to make nazi salutes in Thailand or Vietnam?
The way I understood it, it's more similar to insertion sort, but you insert from the top instead of from the bottom of the already-sorted part.
I’m curious to know what makes the Loki installation process so painful.

I’m interested in learning more about the software installation experience.
I skimmed, so maybe I missed it: Is there anything in there about OnShape?

Could be a particularly interesting follow-on to the section about Solidworks and Jon Hirschtick.
Unfortunate name choice, as @csh602 mentioned

Viewer looks pretty good though. Reminds me of DataDog UI, but not as slow. Will play around more, thanks!
i used to do Allman and worked at a place where K&R was the rule, switched and never looked back
don't forget Webrings :D
pretty sure this was going to happen, given the announcement from mr. torvalds.
> The underground are not tunnels but excavated with the road built on top,

Are you describing "Cut and Cover" ?

As in "Cut and Cover is a method of construction of shallow tunnels"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_construction#Cut-and-co...

It has been used for centuries, e.g. was used to dig the first parts of the London underground in the late 1800s
100s of people disrupted because Microsoft remotely changed the colours in their editor? Come on, people, you need to own your own tools.
WebAssembly doesn't have access to the high-resolution timers needed for Spectre attacks unless the host process intentionally grants that capability to the sandboxed code.

See this quote from the paper you linked:

"""
Our attacks extend Google’s Safeside [24] suite and, like the Safeside POCs, rely on three low-level instructions: The rdtsc instruction to measure execution time, the clflush instruction to evict a particular cache line, and the mfence instruction to wait for pending memory operations to complete. While these instructions are not exposed to Wasm code by default, we expose these instructions to simplify our POCs.
"""

The security requirements of shared-core hosting that want to provide a full POSIX-style API are unrelated to the standard use of WebAssembly as an architecture-independent intermediate bytecode for application-specific plugins.

'gf000 correctly notes that WebAssembly's security properties are basically identical to any other interpreter, and there's many options for bytecodes (or scripting languages) that can do some sort of computation without any risk of a sandbox escape. WebAssembly is distinguished by being a good generic compilation target and being easy to write efficient interpreters/JITs for.
Yes, if I cannot eat without pulling out my phone, then no thanks, I will leave my money elsewhere (which is what parent said).
1024 capacity, 1 in 1M false positive rate. (false positives fail safe- sending something the client already has), 3.6KB

https://hur.st/bloomfilter/?n=1024&p=1.0E-6&m=&k=