skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also empathise, for the same reasons.

Co-incidentally, I was just listening to the radio, where a former BP strategy employee was pinning the failure of BP's "Beyond Petroleum" strategy squarely on the difficulty of a company that is built to do activity X pivoting to also do (competing) activity Y. The recommended solution there was to spin off a new entity focused entirely on Y. It's hard not to draw a parallel.
When times are though qualified independent consultants can more easily get gigs than an unemployed person can get a full-time job. From the point of view of companies they like the versatility of being able to let go of consultants if things are going down or if workload dries up.
Spy-satellite-grade images could soon become available to everyone
Who but ad-sellers are going to make quick use of this archive? Do the libraries of Finland seek to monetize this exchange? A public advocate role is needed here.

this is interesting and thank you for posting.. However, the people that might take the time to digest and analyze the long threads are probably not rural ecologists.

Deep Ecology, or Gaia are relevant search terms, relating to the study of this material IMHO
Yep. The 2010 Chilean earthquake and tsunami[1] is an example of what can happen in this country during catastrophes: sacking and looting.

Since then night curfews are a given during and after disasters.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Chile_earthquake
No one in the real world actually acknowledges this as being fact. Further pushes by the WHO just lower trust even more.
Because the implementation leaks to the user experience. The user at least needs to know whether after running the utility, the duplicate files will be gone, or whether changing one of the files will change the other.

Symbolic links, hard links, ref links are all part of the file system interface, not the implementation.
this is really fun. we have a group chat where we do a bunch of daily games (nyt, trainwreck labs, cinematrix) and this one fits in perfectly.
I agree with you. Even in Texas, where Tesla is now headquartered and Musk enjoys tremendous support from the Republican state government, we don't see many Teslas in the cities. On highways they are even rarer. I sometimes drive through rural parts of Texas where Trump flags abound and I have yet to see a single Tesla/Cyber Truck in these areas.

Before Musk went full Nazi, I was looking into leasing a Model 3 as it was surprisingly cheap. I decided against it after I found out that the new Model 3 doesn't have a turn stalk. Now Tesla is a no go for me as I can't be associated with Musk in any fashion.
On top of this, there are markets that are not well covered due to local politics. I can go just a few blocks away into a neighborhood that has plenty of density to be interesting to the major carriers but has basically no usable cellular data. A couple years ago, there was a big fight between Crown Castle (big cellular network contractor) and the local government. Crown Castle wanted to build cell towers. The residents wanted service but didn’t want cell towers in their back yard. The government tried, and failed, to avoid issuing permits, because federal law sensibly prevents local government from effectively prohibiting the construction of cell towers.

Win? No! The local government is very proud of itself for having pulled a rabbit out of its hat. It turns out that a cell tower is useless without backhaul, and the government rolled out so much red tape that Crown Castle determined that they would never recover the costs of installing the backhaul and abandoned the entire project. The local government somehow considers this to be a victory.
The flame war detector doesn't flag the post (users do), but it does downrank them. You can see it in "hot" discussions. Say they go from 20 to 100 comments in minutes, mostly with deeply nested chats consisting of 2-3 people in a back and forth. The submission will fall off the front page quickly, but not be marked flagged unless users flagged it.
A single specific event is not fascism. A series of events that indicates that the executive works transactionally and is willing to undermine every democratic principle that advances his interests is.
> where the line between being scolded from a bully pulpit and extrajudicial consequences begins

When the consequences are beyond the reach of a court. President does something. Apple objects. Court either declines to intervene or is ignored.

> Do you think Trump will go out of his way to help Apple in China?

Not fascism. If it is, fascism is fine because it’s been a staple of democracy since the start.
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Hope it's useful to someone here. For those who barely remember Drupal, it has a really nice AI platform now: https://www.drupal.org/project/ai
At least where I’m from, the vast majority of hunters do it for consuming the animal. Trophy hunters here are pretty rare as that’s more of an (very) expensive luxury rather than sustenance. There is definitely overlap in base stalking skills and many people do both, but they are very different activities.
XBOW uncovers a critical CVE in Scoold, an open-source Q&A platform
How (Not) to Choose a Test Automation Framework
In image processing at least, NN typically learn a Fourier or Wavelet representation in their first layers. Biggest benefit of applying a transformation beforehands is to reduce training time / obtain better generalization by "removing the dimension that doesn't matter".

E.g. in a suitable space, one coordinate could represent the rotation of an object. You could do the transform and discard this dimension if your NN should be rotating invariant.
Does anyone know what the root cause is?
I love the early generative artists:

- Frieder Nake

- Vera Molnar

- Manfred Mohr

More recently people like Casey Reas, who developed the language Processing, Jared Tarbell (https://complexification.net), and Anders Hoff (https://inconvergent.net) are the people I'd look at. Hoff works in Lisp if that's your thing.

For a place to look at the history of generative art, the best resource is still http://dada.compart-bremen.de/
All of this is seems admirable, but it reveals the supreme naïvety of an intellect that can advocate for “personal liberty” and “free markets” yet not realize that each can impede the other in certain ways, and so it is necessary to study and debate the dynamics and structure of this interaction.
Eli Lilly Plans to Spend $27B on New U.S. Plants
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/eli-lilly-new-jobs-us-plan...
I am surprised you do not realize that cities have different civic requirements than countryside. A rolling blackout is generally done during the day with specific targets. Industrial power is shutdown, residences lose power etc..but hospitals, and civic services generally are subject to the rolling blackouts.

There seems to be general distrust of government in western society. When people in Chile seem to have no problem with the curfew, why are non-Chileans so concerned?

>"Emergency" alone does not justify curfews. Curfews are only justified if they are reasonably expected to actually affect the thing that is driving the emergency. This may well be the case with a disease, but here the emergency is simply that the infrastructure needs to be restored.

This makes no sense.. Sometimes, you treat the symptoms, sometimes you take preventive measures against the symptoms while you buy time to address the root cause.
Perhaps you can learn such a function, but it may be hard to learn a suitable embedding space directly, so it makes sense to lean on the more general capabilities of an LLM model (perhaps fine-tuned and distilled for more efficiency).
I do care, I just won't be committing there 99% of the time.

Your idea is interesting, didn't know that's useful. Detached head is a bit annoying though.
Not available for another couple of days though. Let’s see how it performs in practice before praising it to the heavens.
I guess it depends how much of this is running on the device, and how much is running off the device. If its all running on the device then it might be possible for someone to inspect what exactly is going on. If important parts are running off the device then those parts will be a black box.
RAG seems to work with 0.5 and 1.5B models just fine a lot of the time, it just can't handle anything that's not directly spelled out in the documents.

Or, at least it seems to in the limited amount of testing I did in a weekend. I'm an embedded dev without any real AI experience or an actual use case for building a RAG at the moment.
AstroForge's Odin Asteroid Mining Scout Launches Today
Mozilla's approach to Manifest V3: What's different and why it matters for users
Authors blog post talking about this project:

https://blog.lohr.dev/launching-dev-containers
OS X (at the POSIX level) assumes UTF-8 and normalizes file names to decomposed form (NFD). If for example you `date >$'\xC3\xBC'` (i.e. ‘ü’), then the actual stored file name is `$'\x75\xCC\88'` (i.e. ‘ü’ — assuming HN or my browser don't normalize!) and both `cat $'\xC3\xBC'` and `cat $'\x75\xCC\88'` (or ‘ü’ or ‘ü’) both work.
nope nothing like that at all, like so far away from what i'm thinking. i'm writing what i'm calling "the walking book" about a guy and his dog walking everyday over a lifetime, where the tension of the plot is about all the things that happen throughout all of the different walks
New type of microscopy based on quantum sensors
This is why metrics and leaderboards like these are so important (but under reported on):
https://github.com/vectara/hallucination-leaderboard
https://www.kaggle.com/facts-leaderboard

Google Gemni models seem to lead...hopefully the metrics aren't being gamed.
Agree on all counts.

Blocks can explode in place, but shouldn't rain as much (or any) debris that gets mixed in with ball and coins.
Re read my comment
Fair enough. But the tiniest RV you can get away with, bringing your own kayaks and SUPs, folding lawn chairs, etc - you’ll see/experience the parts worth seeing/experiencing and only give a few dollars to the shitbags. You’ll be the winner of that bargain.
I've operated in the startup space for 20 years and over that time I've seen all sorts of things. You could pin that down to the individuals or the collective firms themselves. I don't think people initially intend to be harmful but over time for some reason power wealth status, whatever it might be corrupts many of them. I'm not always in a very specific right versus wrong way, but in a way where they feel they're justifying their actions as being something good. The problem is the good of the elite society is not quite the same as the public good. And quite frankly, the moral values can be questionable at times because they change based on whatever they need. It sounds like I'm painting the whole industry as a terrible thing. I don't think it's meant to be, but again people are easily corrupted. Maybe corrupted is the wrong word, but they are easily swayed to give up a certain stance all in the face of making money, achieving a higher status or whatever justification is given.

I should also say as someone who raised VC funding that also corrupted me. I find that power and money goes to most people's head. I didn't come out of it unscathed. In fact, I was incredibly arrogant and I am regretful for many of my actions. All in the pursuit of what I thought was a way to help people but effectively caused me to question what I was doing.
Really? When did the CEO of Honda or Toyota spend immense amounts of wealth and influence to promote fascism and cripple America's strength in a multitude of ways? I suspect they haven't and you're exaggerating to make this an all sides thing to try to excuse Elon's behavior.

Scale matters. A CEO being sleazy to a supplier or a some employees, or whatever it is you have in mind, isn't nearly as harmful as everything Musk is doing.
> A car can't power an entire household for days on end

This is underestimating the ludicrous amount of power an EV's batteries have. You can absolutely power your house for days on end using one. (Of course, that should also give us pause to think about what it means that we spend so much energy for transportation compared to household necessities.) And gasoline has plenty of problems too, like its extremely short shelf-life.
If they reintroduce them, they should at least let us hunt them so they remember to be scared of humans.
> Maybe you could also test the Qwant extension?

I did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175181

There's really no magic or mystery here. The extension is simply using this API: <https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/sfs...>
Once I moved to California I understood farm to table.
Fun game!

A couple of small translation issues I spotted: "Keep pressing here to play" should really mean "tap repeatedly", I think you should put something like "Press and hold here to play"; the other was one of the upgrade descriptions said something like "slower the ball" which I'd write as maybe "slow down the ball".
Disclosure, I’m an investor in Jamsocket, the company behind this… but I’d be remiss if I didn’t say that every time Paul and Taylor launch something they have been working on, I end up saying “woah.” In particular, using ForeverVM with Clause is so fun.
Yeah but a comparison in power utilization is needed too. You can build hardware that is better than a GPU at something i.e MatMul being really efficient and fast. However, actual FFT hardware would annihilate power and speed at large enough n. Simply because the number of multiplications MatMul does is O(n^3) as opposed to the O(n log n) multiplies that FFT does (complex verse real multiplies with holding).
There's no such desktop PC which offers 128 GB of VRAM. The Framework Desktop doesn't do that for the time being. It's not yet available.

There will be more options by the time this becomes available.
Slack status reports that workflows are affected now (11:08 EST)
The game is great and clearly a lot of thought has gone into polishing! Congrats

FWIW it also took me a couple of levels to even realize how I was getting coins. A yellow glow around the coins or some shiny effect + clinky sounds would go a long way. The -2 +2 etc. callout numbers could also last longer on the page and just grow in size as they fade out? They were also quite hard to spot
All of those examples are emergence "into". The snowflake emerges into the mathematical patterns emanating downward. The termite cathedral emerges into the architectural context of the observer. Without emanating structure, there is no "emergence"—just a proliferation of chaos and error.
Yes. Coins should all be gold and spin on edge (so they don't present as just circles). Colored halo or trail can match the origin brick color.
Part of the component model is codegen to build object structures in each language so that you can pass by reference objects that have an agreed upon shape.

Yes they each have their own linear memory, that’s one of the advantages of component model. It provides isolation at the library level and you don’t have to implicitly agree that each library gets the level of access your application does. It provides security against supply chain side attacks.

Having said that, component model isn’t supported by all runtimes and since its binding and code gen are static at compile time, it’s not useful for every situation. Think of it like a C FFI more than a web API receiving JSON, for example. Upgrading the library version would mean upgrading your bindings and rebuilding your app binary too, the two must move in lock-step.
Ask HN: Where are developers hanging out?
Conferences seem dead. Meetups deem dead. Where are developers learning from others?
It's not "a problem," it's a difference in philosophy. Sure, VSCode comes accessible out of the box with minimal configuration needed and a GUI-first settings interface. But that comes with its own price - your config is more restricted in what you can do and fragmented across json files, settings menus, and extension options.

In contrast, with Emacs I can change any behavior of any function and command - built-in or third-party with amazing granularity. I can change specific parts of a function without rewriting it, and I don't even need to save that - I can just write a piece of Elisp in a scratch buffer, evaluate it, and test it out immediately.

Also, you are completely wrong with your notion that Emacs is outdated. Modern Emacs tools allow you to do things in a way no other editors let you - you can control video playback, read and annotate PDFs, search through your browser history, and automate things with LLMs.

Not to mention that the problem similar to the one being discussed in the thread would never happen in the Emacs world - nobody would ever get to publish a package with obfuscated Elisp code in it. You always will have full control over the code you download to use.
Purely coincidence but we just posted about emdash, our Slack/Zoom alternative on Shown HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43184362

Check it out @ https://emdash.io
Very fun! Works great on iPhone. Neat that I can stop by just lifting my finger to take a breather. Fun multipliers! More to discover!
These aren't branches I commit regularly to, but I'd rather avoid the detached head state when using 'origin/'. Auto fast-forwarding on switch would be good enough for me.
That a database written in an AOT compiled managed language is possible, for example.

Specially relevant, because it used to be that writing database engines used to be considered systems programming, and we all know managed languages cannot be possible used for such tasks. /s
We focus mainly on external use cases (e.g., helping companies like Docker and Monday.com deploy customer facing "Ask AI" assistants) so we don't run into much of that given all data is public.

For internal use cases that require user level permissions that's a freaking rabbit role. I recently heard someone describe Glean as a "permissions company" more so than a search company for that reason. :)
"The resolution of the new MRI microscope reaches ten-millionths of a meter - that is so fine that even the structures of individual cells can be made visible in the future."

Sounds awesome, but I am not sure yet, how soon that future will be.

Will have to read the paper:

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55003-5
someone else always does and they always have the same knowledge and skills. except in this case, hellwig had more experience coding in rust than his replacement.
2 inches per inch? What a country!
Proxima Fusion and Partners Publish Stellaris Fusion Power Plant
Elons financial engineering works until it doesn't.

It wouldn't be the first time the worlds richest mans house of cards comes crumbling down due to over confidence and over exposure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar_Kreuger
The incentive is almost universally to micromanage and abuse employees. Reducing the friction will increase the incidence.
Yeah, and the part about "we can just print dollars" comes down to lending and investment, I guess, and so it's more like "we believe in you" than "you have pleased us".
yeah as a dev/non-go person don't know how it works either. I assume main.go is where it starts but then what... I see a commands maybe it works by CLI? idk either
Yes, it would. Any site offering moderation capabilities of any kind would be open to legal attack. That is enough to make it infeasible for any smaller site to have moderation, unless they're big tech of course (which is why they're OK with this)
This is what perl looks like to people who don't know it.
Sure, makes sense, would add it asap.
> the executive works transactionally

This is between kleptocracy, corruption and transactional politics. If Apple were to cite opposing fascism as their reason for ignoring Trump on DEI, that would be between hypocrisy and the hysterical.

Fascism merits fighting at tremendous costs, personal and societal. If you use fascism as a reason for doing something, it means you’re willing to burn a lot of shit down, literally, to prevent Neo Hitler’s rise. It means you’re willing to put lives on the line.

You can’t say you’re fighting fascism and then have tea with the fascist. You’re also morally bankrupt if you see fascism and aren’t willing to sacrifice personas comfort and safety to forcefully oppose, or at the very least, decouple from it. Crying wolf at authoritarian tendencies is tremendously dangerous, because it means we have no alarms left to ring if the system goes true fascist.
Nice, thanks! I didn‘t know there was a subreddit for that.
Huge discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43042985 (295 points | 12 days ago | 218 comments)
> C subsystem patches have started to be rejected by Linus because they break Rust builds despite the agreement that this wouldn't happen.

No. There was one instance of a toolchain issue accidentally including some Rust stuff when Rust was configured off, this was fairly quickly rectified. Linus even said in one of his more recent emails that this happens infrequently, but also, this happens all the time in general, and that’s why linux-next exists.

Linus did reaffirm the policy of “C folks are allowed to fully ignore Rust stuff.”
First measles death is reported in the West Texas outbreak
Batteries are taking over this role. Tesla has one near Houston, TX that can have an isolated electrical path established from it to geographically close thermal generators to provide blackstart capabilities (like jumpstarting a car). “Gambit Energy” is the project. To your point, distribution and grid segmentation solves for this, but it takes time and money to deploy batteries throughout a service territory, configure orchestration and transmission grade disconnects to rapidly isolate system components, etc. I see a large order of battery storage from BYD in Chile’s future.

https://www.gambit-energystorage.com/

https://www.angleton.tx.us/DocumentCenter/View/3793/Gambit-E...

https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2024/01/12/Tesla%20BESS%20G...

https://www.nrel.gov/grid/black-start.html
See them every month now in Central Florida. My friend works for the state protecting them, mainly ensuring they are not disturbed when new construction or powerlines are installed.
So glad most people in the “real world” are experts in health an epidemiology.

Taking the same stance as most people has never been wrong.
Project managers typically manage projects, not people