skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone I know is trying their best not to see this for what it is: Blitzkrieg. And this is only the beginning. It's only a matter of time before we have our own military policing the streets, your thoughts, and your words.
In this article Nate said his version would be up in a week or so.
I'm not sure if you're just making a play on words, but I believe the commenter was talking about the streamer who sets up their fishtank to map to inputs and then let's their fish "play games". They beat pokemon sapphire supposedly. https://www.polygon.com/2020/11/9/21556590/fish-pokemon-sapp...
Google it if you want but both ax and axe are correct and equivalent. I also would have preferred axe but it’s just an aesthetic preference.
LangGraph, not LangChain.
Black bars?
Going into university libraries fills me with awe and purpose.

Seeing a shelf of curated textbooks on a topic (eg non Newtonian fluid flow), gives me a feeling of depth. Each book represents years or decades of an authors life. And they condensed that wisdom into a textbook that could be consumed in a semester.

I would love to be a Knuth type character working in library and writing textbooks.
It's tough but doable; Parker Space Probe will reach 192 km/s and it'd take about 47 km/s to overtake Voyager 2 in 2 decades. A lot of gravity assists would be needed.
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> It sounds like you are blaming the natives for the downfall of the buffalo.

Well, yeah. They created an unhealthy ecological situation with abysmal biodiversity, where one species dominated an entire ecological niche without natural predators.

And it's not like the North American Natives are special. Humans have been causing large-scale extinctions since the Ice Age: https://ourworldindata.org/quaternary-megafauna-extinction

> this was the goal and the goal was achieved.

Care to provide the proof? Contemporary official documents, large-scale official plans, etc.?
Driving has become _a lot_ safer in the recent decades. But the problem is not the technology that we require new cars to have, but the city planning that makes owning a car pretty much mandatory in large parts of the country.
Or, put another way:

'Why waste time say lot token when few token do trick?"

-Kevin Malone
Closely related: Textiles. There's a reason those were the first two things humanity mechanized the crap out of.

It's hard for us to imagine nowadays exactly how much distributed domestic work went into simply keeping the family in clothes.
A younger engineer at a place where I worked observed: "All of our processes are held together by human glue." This was after he discovered that there were individual people within the organization who possessed exclusive knowledge about how the business's products and processes worked, and even of who those people were. This is despite the fact that the organization has clear procedures for every operation.

I think it was John Gall who pointed out that all sufficiently complex systems operate in failure mode 100% of the time, meaning that some of the controls have been bypassed, or are being operated manually.

Because the automatic controls operate invisibly, the only visible work is that of humans overriding the manual controls, which will always seem chaotic and inefficient. In fact this could already be the status quo today in many organizations such as bureaucracies.

If this remains the case, then the AI-orchestrated workplace of tomorrow will look like the highly computer orchestrated workplace of today, with the computers operating invisibly in the background, and humans manually correcting the errors. To overcome this stage in our development as a civilization, the controls don't just have to be automatic, but error-proof.
I don't want to hype it too much but S2E7 beats it.
Do you have any source for this being planned to exterminate them to make it more difficult for the natives?

Because it sure sounds like that wouldn’t have happened without the diseases eliminating well over 80% of the population already
Wonder how it handles python
We were living in Beijing when that happened, and you cannot underestimate the impact that it had. It ultimately forced the Chinese government to publish the actual air quality data which in turn forced it to take significant action to improve air quality in Beijing.
For most of history, hiring a dozen PhDs meant a massive budget and months of lead time. Today, a few keystrokes in a chatbot summon that brainpower in seconds.

Lol. Poor Azeem Azhar who is a Freelance Contributor.
I like the icons.

Can you edit a button after adding it?
Human typing speed is magnitudes slower than our eyes scanning for the correct answer.

ChatGPT o3 mini high thinks at about 140 tokens/s by my estimation and I sometimes wish it can return answers quicker.

Getting a simple prompt answer would take 2-3 minutes using the AMD system and forget about longer context.
Great free (PBS!) documentary on Voyager, also discusses the planetary alignment piece.

https://www.pbs.org/video/the-farthest-voyager-in-space-qpbu...
This is simple. Look at Medicare Advantage plans versus traditional Medicare. The same amount of care costs 23% _extra_ using Medicare Advantage. How is this more efficient? It's not.
This is a really interesting take. I find the argument that AI will lead to mass unemployment both historically and economically illiterate. There will always be some things a person can do that a machine can not (yet) do that is worth some economic value. I have had a hard time identifying what those things are. But you're probably right. It's probably non-digital stuff.
> If anything, properly built small cities and towns are actually even better for public transit, since they're small. You don't need to cover a lot of ground.

Agreed, with the caveat that everything is crazy expensive now so smaller cities struggle to afford to build even a small amount of rail. We had excellent public transport in the 1900s, it was torn up for the automotive revolution, and now we can't afford to put even a 10th of it back. We struggle to put an extra station into an existing line, let alone new lines.

One of the big issues is that property is so expensive in the modern west that buying up the land to build is prohibitively expensive. The old game of private rail companies making money off property around public transit stops isn't working here at least, because property is already so unaffordable, there's no room for price growth.
I don't think they "gaslit themselves," but I do think M1 was good enough a lot of people stopped thinking about hardware and their frame of reference is horribly out of date
The author basically tries to argue that not only corporate talent with low pay (e.g. customer service), but high impact talent pools will go from being scarce to being replaced by AI agents (e.g. PhD level researchers discovering new pharmaceuticals).

I don't think this has played out thus far. It still takes a qualified individual to ask the right questions of an LLM or Agent and then refine the results.

What I do agree with is that it's made talented individuals more productive, but that's less eye catching than claiming that it will cause companies to entirely restructure because educated labor will be replaced by LLMs.
I have been wondering if/when we could get a direct synthesis SDR transmitter. Obviously the amplifier and filter stages will have to be discrete & analog, but to me it seems more elegant that you can software define any radio signal below 1Ghz or so and pass it to an amplifier.

That doesn't detract from this project, which is quite an achievement for a single hobbier.
Let me respond with some equally flippant, reductive text.

First, they came for Ukraine and we did nothing...
> I wonder if the average person will ever be willing to install a VPN app on all their devices.

Of course the average person will be willing to install a VPN app: all it takes is a bit of internet censorship, blocking access to their favourite services, and some geofencing, where services limit access to them based on IP address.

Just ask people from China, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, UK, Germany, etc.
The ultimate authority in any public company is the board.

The majority of employees will never have to think about it, but everyone from the CEO down is ultimately hired at their discretion.

To see how things normally operate read up on the OpenAI drama. If Sam Altman wasn't as politically savvy as he was the board would have fired him in a Friday announcement and by Monday a new CEO would have been in charge.
The gifted programs we have liked most focus on depth over acceleration. Finding someone who can open the deeper views of things might be more supportive of his joy and longevity in the subject.
I remember people trying to run the game Crysis using CPU rendering. They got it to run and move around. People did it for fun and the "cool" factor. But no one actually played the game that way.

It's the same thing here. CPUs can run it but only as a gimmick.
Show HN: Visualize Papers with Knowledge Map
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just added the ability to interact with nodes on the knowledge map and an demo, feel free to test it all and let me know what you think!

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This is one of the secrets of the top British universities. They do a lot of debating in small groups. Even their papers are read out loud
“Dentists hate him! This one crazy trick..”
…which is why I qualified it with the phrase, “extreme interpretation of”, and made sure to encapsulate “Zero trust” in quotes to make it clear I wasn’t being technically literal in my description. Grammar and punctuation matter when you’re deliberately misusing a known term as a metaphor to make a point.

That being said, the core concept of ZTA is that no user or device should be trusted by default. So yes, my statement is still generally correct even if it’s not how the term is often or commonly used.
My understanding of the main libertarianism is that it calls for extremely small government with minimal impact on the lives of individuals.

This seems pretty in line with anarchy.

I know that in the US “libertarians” tend to be fairly right leaning, but I don’t think that “libertarian” means “republican”

Maybe the confusion is just over semantics.
Yes RAID 5.
Would the js pages really take much longer to load than static? Fetching a few packfiles and hydrating a template should be very fast.
IIRC the last UK designed, built, tested nuclear missile was the Avro Blue Steel (in service: 1963-1970) which was replaced by the Douglas GAM-87 Skybolt from the US.

That's going back a way in time.

EDIT: Not replaced by the Skybolt .. that was proposed, developed, never successful .. the UK ended up going with the US UGM-27 Polaris missile after Blue Steel.
Pew, Gallup, and other pollsters each have charts based on their own individual poll series; 538s were a wide ranging aggregate of pretty much all the public polls which reduced the impact of noise.
> It was offline scanning

It was not. The device was incapable of determining matches and the process only applied to photos being uploaded to iCloud.

> Also, since we're on the subject of "unannounced scanning of all photos", Apple went and did it anyway, same as Google turning it on by default but claiming it's only to look for "landmarks" LOL :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42533685

They did not. The landmark process works in an entirely different way for an entirely different purpose.
In this modern age, I'm rather interested in the inverse: lawmakers doing proper scientific research, and legislating based on that; attempting to discover the sociological or economical truths rather than chasing slogans and acting on beliefs and agendas.
I’ve hypothesized that more expensive cars resulting from safety and environmental mandates might make it harder for poor people to have reliable transportation to and from work. This leads to lower incomes, which are strongly correlated with worse health outcomes.

Someone would need to do a study to test if this were true. My guess is many of the safety feature are a net positive. It would be interesting to see the tradeoffs though.
To the populist right, everything is zero-sum, all effects are first order, all effects are immediate, and all effects only impact the parties to a transaction.

Soft power doesn't exist. Iterated games don't exist. Long-term consequences don't exist. Externalities don't exist. Positive sum utility gains don't exist. Systemic effects don't exist. It's all too abstract and cognitively difficult, it's the business of the arrogant intelligentsia.

The problem for them is that reality isn't going to adjust to fit their worldview. The decline will eventually reach people's purchasing power. The laws of reality will catch up to them.
Social security pays out $1.5 trillion a year. If only $8 billion a year is lost to fraud, that means fraud is 0.5%.

It's impossible to design a system with zero fraud, but keeping it under 0.5% is very impressive.
Yeah but it’s an LCD; those are all cheap right now as OLED has become the preferred choice for HDR content.
Why are you one of the lucky 5000 to get 15million? What your saying make no sense. Your number of 79 billion, would actually be $50/ tax payer/ per year for 10 years. So like one or two free dinners?

So idk what you mean its a lot of dimes.

> How many "$15 million dollar" nickels

Its 4 million "nickles", you can do the math to get to 6 trillion. 15 million is 0.00025% of what is spent per year. You need to save 15 million dollars, millions of times to do anything significant to amount being spent.

You going on about coupons doesn't really make sense here, the amounts aren't significant. Again because people think about large amounts of money how it applies to them personally without being able to grasp what actually gets spent by large organizations. Its like when someone posts here about saving 10k in AWS spend, when their company does millions in revenue and the engineer cost at least 100/hour
I don't think someone can claim a "mandate" based on not even having won 50% of the vote. You need to at least be able to say that over half of the voters wanted you to win in order to use language like that.

That 1.5% is the only thing that mattered for "mandate" purposes. Trump won, but on a razor's edge, and that should give him some pause. (It won't.)
OlmOCR vs. Gemini 2.0 Flash: A Comparison for PDF OCR
Extracting structured data from PDFs, especially complex tables, is a tough challenge. We compared olmOCR, an open-source, budget-friendly tool, with Gemini 2.0 Flash, Google’s AI-powered model, to assess their performance on tricky document layouts. olmOCR is cost-effective but struggles with table accuracy, while Gemini 2.0 delivers near-perfect extraction at a higher price.
or they could replace it with Starlink (no conflict of interest, obviously), which can be used for global positioning
First-order logic is sound and complete in general (via Gödel's lesser known completeness theorem, for instance). That doesn't contradict what I wrote =)
April 22nd is Tesla's earnings call, that won't be so funny for Musk...
This is just Apple disrespecting their customer base.
Adding to the GP & sibling: Even in Los Angeles with some of the bigger libraries the IT/programming books were on the older (outdated?) side.. The more modern material was at the book stores like Barnes, Borders, or another one at the mall (I don't remember if it was B Dalton, Walden, or something else).. thankfully I could skateboard there after school or work and read them there for the evening since I couldn't afford them. Getting the internet and SNR of content back then was a game changer to me too.
You have a lot of really bad takes such that I think you're intentionally trying to misunderstand or dishonestly represent an unbalanced take.

I don't know what your motivation is but I hope you'll stop. It will be more convincing as well if it looks like you're making a fair point in earnest.
> There were non-panicky comments about whether it's a legally significant move, whether it's a wedge change, whether it's abusable by governments in other ways, etc. the panicky ones were not those

That’s what I find most frustrating about the reaction to this. This was a sophisticated, privacy-preserving process that represented a genuine step forward in the state of the art and there was an interesting argument to be had about whether it struck the right balance. But it was impossible to have that argument because it was drowned out by an overwhelming amount of nonsense from people guessing incorrectly about how it worked and then getting angry about their fantasies.
I always feel that the kind of laptop I want is a unicorn if I exclude Apple M-series laptops. Is there a laptop out there which is fanless (passively cooled), supports Linux reliably, has great performance per watt, has decent raw performance (anything better than a recent lower end AMD/Intel laptop processor), and has great build quality?
I don't know anything about the Sierra Club. I EXTRA don't know anything about their California chapter. Looking in to some of what you've said, I can see why they were a poor choice lol.

I just googled "mainstream environmentalist organization" and "housing policy" and clicked the the first one I found. Sorry if it seemed like I was pretending to know something about them - I was honestly just confused about what kind of evidence/organizations you wanted.

I found the statement "most environmentalists detest tall buildings" to be wildly cynical and unqualified, but I think what this is coming down to is that we have very different definitions of "environmentalists"(which I was hoping you would clarify).

To me (and to the dictionary, it seems), if you act/advocate in the interest of the environment, you are an environmentalist. Could be by protesting outside your local natural gas plant, but could also be by setting up special financing programs for CLT buildings, planting pollinator gardens in your front yard, limiting exclusionary zoning, etc. Given this - and given the fact that most of the environmentalists I know actively support building taller - it makes no sense to me to say that the majority of environmentalists are against tall buildings.

I get the feeling that your complaints lie with a very particular flavour of "environmentalist"*, which I don't think is at all representative of the true gamut of people who are doing actual, productive work on (vastly different) environmental issues. Suggesting that we need to "break the back of environmentalism to save the planet" is bogus doomerism... unless you are limiting your definition to something like:

"environmental organizations that oppose taller buildings in urban areas"

Which, yeah, I am not going to disagree with... because I am an environmentalist...

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*of the NIMBY, COEXIST-sticker-having, (probably) white-haired variety.
Author here.

Yes, f(u,p,t) returning du is the suggested way to do things, but this pattern of updating du through in-place updating is more memory efficient when a system of equations (say 10-100) is involved.

The suggested way, when we don't need to think about memory efficiency, is easier to write and reason about.

I have plans to write more on this topic, and make it to a series. After I finish that, if there is enough interest, I will try and do a benchmark of mutating versus non-mutating styles with varying numbers of equations in a system of DEs.

Thanks for reading the article and providing your opinion.
It's the symbolism of it that has the greatest impact.

But in Beijing specifically, the US embassy air quality measurements had a significant impact on government policy to improve air quality. The same can be true in other countries where information is tightly controlled.
I sometimes see these reddit threads of people talking about the experience of having an internal monologue. I have no such monologue, at least not one that is accessible to the part of my mind that calls itself 'me', but I have often wondered if that monologue is something like a 'chain of thought'. I feel like maybe without access to that 'idea feed' maybe my planning and executive functioning is less effective than some other people. I do find myself quite more effective with those sort of tasks when I do a little 'chain of thought' notepad.

I also suspect I spend less time ruminating and second-guessing myself and other anxious behaviours that I imagine would come with having someone talking in your ear all day, but that's probably off topic.
> there’s no shortcuts. I have to be able crawl, then walk, before I can run.

yes, so much this!

my.fad, also a passionate artist, hated how they thinned out technical crafts foundations from arts college. "no more stupid copying and banale Line and color practice! freedum!" the college went.

my dad just said (translation follows)

@> Kunst kommt von können. Wenn es von wollen käme hieße es Wunst und wir wären Wünstler.

art comes from artistry. if it was based on "wanting" we'd call it "want" and we (artists) were "wantists"

or "wished" and "wishedits"

along these lines

he'd learned sketching from herding small livestock, goats, geese, chicken and sketching them, as a kid...
I thought gamma rays had a much higher frequency.
Agnes Varda [1] taught me about the cycle of inspiration-creational effort-showing your work. Nowdays I book an expositional space every year in November and somehow all the work needed is done until then.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmGap7-RxdA
Privately owned: probable eventual enshitification.

Publicly owned: guaranteed eventual enshitification.
it's a tax on the hopes of the desperate and depressed.

better than leaving it to the criminal underworld, though.
> because the local library had few books, mostly older ones,

I think this is an important observation. In the age of the Web, people might not appreciate what it means when your access to information on a topic is sometimes only through outdated sources, which is a bit different than not having access at all.

I was lucky that my mom frequently brought us kids around to multiple public library branches, but I definitely remember a lot of older books.

For example, a book explaining an electric circuits would involve photos of some kind of common household item large cylindrical battery cell with screw terminals, which I have never seen, not before, nor since. And pretty much any book on computers, robots, or electronics would be at least a few years old, usually several years or a decade or more. (This has improved, at least at my current local library.)

Another effect of being exposed to lots of older books is that, although my hair is still not gray, I'll sometimes inadvertently speak with anachronistic, old-timey language that predates me.

With the old public library books, I also got a dose of vintage subtle American propaganda (e.g., freedom and justice are good, and are American; dictators and secret police are bad, and are Nazi/Soviet), though the Cold War already seemed to be ending. I'm programmed to believe that that propaganda was a positive influence, but it's sometimes uncomfortable values, when one sees an overall citizenry that doesn't always seem to have been marinated as much in quite the same mix of programming.
Aren't the embassies keeping the sensors? I'm quite sure embassy staff would want AQI for their own information, especially in cities where official numbers are dubious.

My understanding is that it just won't be _shared_ anymore. And the _sharing_ can't cost much.
I honestly don't see how you can cut government spending at this point without being haphazard. Every administration for the last 70+ years has increased real spending (not to mention expanding executive power along the way, which got us here).