skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the tip! I will look into it for other use cases.

In my site maker, however, I explicitly do not want to depend on Emacs for templating or publishing. I have found a works-pretty-well-for-me solution using pandoc's org -> html compiler. It compiles just enough of org's subset for me. Everything else I am happy writing by hand (inline html export blocks written manually).

The case I mentioned above was a bit more annoying, so I used the org-babel trick. Basically, I wanted that little panel in arbitrary places in arbitrary pages. I could have hand-written it, and copy-pasta'd all over the place, but then it would be a chore to change anything (e.g. HTML anchor tweaks etc.). The solution I wrote above still requires manual intervention because pandoc does not execute org babel code blocks. However, my hack solves the important part for me --- viz. not making mistakes while copy-pasting, which in turn lets me easily modify source content and update reference content quickly and correctly.

What to say, it's still using Emacs, but it's an out-of-band composition of tools. Personally, I think of Emacs as not one self-contained all-encompassing thing. But as a part of a workflow solution suited to my tastes and personal idiosyncracies :)
"male teenagers/early adults", pretty big assumption there.
I haven't used Google search in over a decade.
Europeans liked to depict the same scenes over and over. There must have been hundreds of versions of “The Adoration of the Magi” done over the centuries.
I noticed one of the engines they lost on launch came back on the final burn. That’s interesting! Hopefully we’ll hear more about that, along with the full debrief on what happened to ship. What a gut punch. Sooo close
https://youtu.be/zjUKUCYtqxA

Try this video. From marker 7:40, the segment goes on for 7 minutes or so. The guy is a great story teller so it is pretty entertaining.
The "massive" context is still tiny compared with the size of the model whose weights you propose to update.
On the list of disasters, they forgot "parsing html":

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
Warp – "THe Intelligent Terminal" is now available on Windows
I tried it out and it seems ...okay? I'm yet to identify all the pitfalls. But to the seasoned terminal (CMD/Terminal/Bash) user, who has his dotfiles and aliases etc configured (I use batch files on Windows :( ), I don't know how much of a difference this is going to make on a day-to-day basis. How are folks using it so far?
"Drone" seems like absolutely the wrong term. A drone in an ant farm isn't someone who does the work. It's the males who get sent off to procreate and then very swiftly die. The ants that do the job are called "worker ants", not "drones".
That part is a philosophical extraction. Dr. Roy Casagranda talks about it in detail. https://youtu.be/zjUKUCYtqxA?si=-
Lol, you know nothing about my politics. There are a lot of "crowds" who agree on Ukraine, because the facts are very clear. Particularly, Russia's failure to ever negotiate in good faith.

Maybe instead of editing in random calls to invade moscow, which I'm well aware is historically a bad plan, you should edit that second sentence to read like actual English. Not that its content seems relevant anyway, but maybe I'd change my mind if I could make head or tail of it. No one needs to march to Moscow except Moscow. Sheesh.

Edit: oh, you did fix it. I was right about it being irrelevant though.
Maybe this one relates more with the Americans because Ozempic became a trend there: Why are most people jumping on this drug? At least for me, besides all the cliches and stereotypes about the USA people, there's huge access to nutrition, gyms, surgical procedures, capital for buying healthy food, and medicine in general.
Why did the person who posted this change the headline of the article ("Diffusion models are interesting") into a nonsensical question?
I'm disappointed that a lot of the GLP-1 drugs are losing the emergency compounding rules that lowered the price to about $200/month, instead of $500 to $1000/month it will be by April.
That may be a consequence of this, but the article only talks about cuts to science missions. It’s a guess where they want to trim the 50% from, but my money is on climate science:

> This spending was broken down into approximately $2.7 billion for planetary science, $2.2 billion for Earth science, $1.5 billion for astrophysics, and $800 million for heliophysics.

It seems like another veiled attack on left-leaning states, since those are where most of the science centers are located.

> Moreover, a lot of NASA's key science centers are located in Democrat-leaning states such as California, Maryland, and New York, which do not hold power in Congress.

Page 85 of the linked “shadow” budget[1] also supports Artemis, so probably not on the chopping block.

[1] https://americarenewing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Budge...
Expanding that out:

C Is Not a Low-Level Language (2018)
| 2 points | krykp | 22 days ago | 1 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43039172

C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)
| 293 points | bmer | 1 year ago | 396 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37897946

C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)
| 204 points | goranmoomin | 3 years ago | 192 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29702001

C Is Not a Low-Level Language (2018)
| 3 points | brundolf | 4 years ago | 3 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26216369

C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)
| 343 points | goranmoomin | 5 years ago | 167 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21888096

C Is Not a Low Level Language (2018)
| 15 points | classicsnoot | 5 years ago | 2 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21370954
Show HN: RTIC Rust DFU Bootloader
Feel free to use, feedback and PRs are most welcomed
The always-truth one would surely just say they didn't know tomorrow's lottery number?
For this amount of public money, he should’ve said.
Microsoft developing AI reasoning models to compete with OpenAI
So what do we do with that information? If I apply a critical framework around interpreting the LLM output, the answer is to reject it for being both not necessarily true but also knowing that the LLM isn't even trying to be correct, it's strictly trying to produce convincing sentences.

What value does a link to a source that's not held to any standard to be informative do? Seems a waste of everyone's time to me.
That's awesome to hear :). I also appreciate knowing that I'm not the only one thinking about it.
Nomars: No Manning Required Ship
Use a pirated apk on android or use the website on iOS.
I started making videos about Starship because the project management approach to Starship is a crock of cheese.

Agile project management methods work well for software. When I teach how to use those methods I warn people that they are so attractive and so simple that it's tempting to use them everywhere. Agile can, and too often does, become a management fad. Which is a disaster.

So no surprise, when I heard all of the iterative development bullshit about Starship I thought this is a crock of cheese. I should talk about this being a huge blunder and warn all those people out there in the tech industry that knowledge of software development project management isn't going to translate to rockets, Or much else, besides software.

And so, it's no surprise that on the 9th test flight, it blew up again at roughly the same time and place as the 8th test flight. The iterative changes made between these two test flights didn't improve the outcome. This is a project where progress has stalled. If a software project was performing like this, it would be time to consider terminating the current project, and either starting over or abandoning the project goals on the basis that the technology and implementation choices that were made during the project aren't working.

Unlike most software projects, where you can "throw one away" and not take too bad a hit financially or schedule wise, Starship suffers both from sunk cost fallacies and a narcissistic project leader.

The current problems that have stalled Starship's progress are very likely not the most difficult problems that they will have to solve. They don't know in detail what those problems are going to be. Because of iterative development of a rocket. They can't see far ahead in their project. And that is going to lead to the failure of this project.
I sadly did not see the comment above, but I'd like to just add, that this bruteforce and sniffing methods are target only against our paying customers.

We built global reverse-DNS dataset solely from cert transparency logs. Our active scanning/bruteforcing runs only for assets owned by our customers.
SpaceX's Starship explodes in space, again raining debris over Caribbean
Textbook models typically simulate normal development of an embryo, e.g. A-P and D-V (anterior-posterior and dorsal-ventral) patterning. The question Levin raises is how a perturbed embryo manages to develop normally, both "picasso tadpoles" where a scrambled face will re-organize into a normal face, and tadpoles with eyes transplanted to their tails, where an optic nerve forms across from the tail to the brain and a functional eye develops.

I haven't thoroughly read all of Levin's papers, so I'm not sure to what extent they specifically address the issue of whether textbook models of morphogen gradients can or cannot account for these experiments. I'd guess that it is difficult to say conclusively. You might have to use one of the software packages for simulating multi-cellular development, regulatory logic, and morphogen gradients/diffusion, if you wanted to argue either "the textbook model can generate this behavior" or that the textbook model cannot.

The simulations/models that I'm familiar with are quite basic, relative to actual biology, e.g. models of drosophila eve stripes are based on a few dozen genes or less. But iiuc, our understanding of larval development and patterning of C Elegans is far behind that of drosophila (the fly embryo starts as a syncytium, unlike worms and vertebrates, which makes fly segmentation easier to follow). I haven't read about Xenopus (the frogs that Levin studies), but I'd guess that we are very far from being able to simulate all the way from embryo to facial development in the normal case, let alone the abnormal picasso and "eye on tail" tadpoles.
> At least for me...there's huge access to...capital.

This is not true for more people in the US than the populations of most other countries.

It's also weird to ask why people would do the obvious easy thing that takes no time or effort over the thing that takes more time and more effort. I bet you also make the exact same decision in a bunch of other contexts every day. Just use the pattern matching part of your brain to apply the same motivation to a new context.
Don’t comment then. You may not agree with me but I feel it is important to comment because it’s important to share an opinion shaping the path of new engineers joining the field. Tools are tools. Some are better than others. There’s no reason to have an emotional connection to them. Five years from now there will be new tools we never imagined we need. We are paid for getting the job done, not for an emotional opinion.
California banned polystyrene. Has industry spooked the governor into silence?
Is this AGI?
Savings is not their goal. Destruction of democracy is. We need to stop echoing what they say and explicitly say what they do.
Lemme reuse the same response I give to my antivaxxer and climate change denier friend: If only you would have spent the time watching those videos doing something useful world would be a nicer place.
Be aware macOS is not the paragon of stability you hope it is. I've lost hope on all the OSes, actually. Nothing just works anymore unless it's an iPhone or an iPad.
> I was just reading a book that touched on Ancient Rome. The author tried to convey the significance of the Council of Nicaea by comparing it to the furor over Global Warming.

Could you please share the title of this book?
From the OP:

>If you want location detection without satellite reception, you can enable this service Settings > Location > Location services > Network location with a choice between Apple's service and our proxy to it. [...]
It's honestly surprising so many programming languages ignore the needs of "floating point" users. Rust has ints that aren't 0, but no std type for floats that aren't NaN? In some sense, ieee754 floats are better than ints, as the float error modes have NaNs are just HW supported error tagged enum types.

I think its from a CS education which treats the "naturals" as fundamental, vs an engineering background where the "reals" are fundamental, and matrix math _essential_ and people live on one side of this fence.
I think it comes down to the syntax being used to make regex. It is borderline an assembly language level of making them. Better language tools would make it easier for people to grok. Basically instead of using chars like ?^()$ and the like lets use words people understand.
that is what the populous does best unfortunately
Yes and yes? I’m an AI enthusiast interested in the article and I’m offended by that word for pretty non-hypothetical reasons. When I was in middle school I was bullied a lot by people who would repeatedly call me the r-slur. That word reminds me of some of the most shameful and humiliating moments of my life. If I hear someone use it out of nowhere it makes me wince. Seeing it written down isn’t as bad, but I definitely would prefer people phased it out of their repertoire.
I feel for you, friend. The safest way, however, is to make hunger your friend, and walk an hour or two a day. That may not work well with your work schedule, but you can override your body with your mind, unless your mind suffers because of our tech work's energy needs.

And, it takes me a day or two to get past a processed sugar addiction. After those couple of days, the body starts getting used to not having that "crack" energy source be a part of its desire-base.

Good luck, stavros, you can do it! And the sooner you start, the quicker you can get over the initial hump of resistence. Perhaps you can carrot yourself along by knowing that you WILL feel much, much better as the pounds start coming off and your body starts being able to walk a bit further or lift a few more weights. Fight the food inertia, my brother.

If you really want extra help, contact the Creator of the universe in the morning and evening, and ask It for help. If you do that with an intention to be able to better help others, you will find that the universe, itself, will become your ally.
>I believe you were victim of propaganda

Which such blatant accusations it seems you've already made up your mind, and it would be a waste of time to entertain this further and go nowhere. I have already expressed all my arguments above. If you don't believe them, that's fine with me, I don't have to make you change your mind, I'm OK with you expressing a different opinion than mine, I'm not OK with you making accusations about me when you don't know me and expecting me to disprove your accusations as if I owe you that.
... So wait, you're suggesting that they simply use a non-existent Facebook product which Facebook will, for reasons unclear, provide to their competitors for free?
Because coal-fired air quality in places like London was so great before the industrial revolution really got rolling. Or even wood fires in homes without chimneys in many places around the world.

> It is all a net positive somehow... Sure.

So yeah.
Nutritious food is harder to prepare and/or doesn’t taste as good in some cases, surgeries and other drugs have side effects, gym is a pain to go to.

Also even though the US has high wages, everybody feels vaguely poor and stressed about money for some reason. There are a lot of little nickel-and-dime fees because we don’t have a good safety net, consumer protection, and we don’t have public healthcare.

(I’m not on Ozempic and I recently lost weight by just eating less, but I get why people want it, the alternatives are annoying).
Show HN: Health Companion with Actionable Insights
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I’m building a preventive health platform similar to Function Health and Superpower, with a few unique twists. I’d love to hear your thoughts on:

1) Pricing and value: How much would you be willing to pay (or not)?
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Low-level, high-level… such categorization is arbitrary semantics. An old and arbitrary IT meme, like vim vs emacs.

No useful outcomes are achieved through the debate. We learn nothing about a previously unknown capability of our technology or self structuring pointless taxonomy.

“Oh look a grammatically correct sentence.” is all this rises to.
SpaceX is definitely not on a losing streak here. They are completely dominant in launch — number of launches, tonnage launched, price per ton, profit per launch, it’s all SpaceX all the way down.

This one felt tantalizingly close. I’ll be interested to read what happened. The short text at SpaceX just says they had an “energetic event” — it seems like that can only mean oxygen was accumulating somewhere it shouldn’t have been? They are certainly in the “dealing with fuel leaks” phase of development if nothing else.

On dev strategy - I have no idea why they are doing it this way but I think if you can afford them end to end tests are pretty great. You’re going to have to do them at some point, and if you are confident enough on most of the intermediate steps, why not? Either way this is the greatest commercial space company of all time, I’m 100% sure they’ve talked through how they want to test ship extensively.
I hope you find peace.
isn't this solved even on ancient east asian texts? and several other times on recent history?

i even found this much more interesting use searching for the name of the proofs https://hackaday.com/tag/ford-securicode/
Ask HN: Do you still make yourself believe some local LLM was helpful?
Contrary to what I wrote before, I had a thorough look at my experience and I changed my mind. Now I see it like this:

I tested every model available on huggingface.com and none of it made it into any kind of regular use for me.
Useless, heavily biased replies even with so-called uncensored models and hallucinations are the main reasons.
Nothing beats cloud llms when it comes to quality and unfortunately, if you have privacy sensitive data, you better not rely on AI to deal with it, because local LLMs won't make you happy anytime soon.
You will just notice how much time you wasted hoping to achieve something with local LLMs that they won't deliver.
I wrote this out of anger that nobody adresses this elephant in the room.
Fair point, but then who are either of us to make that judgement? Who are you to say that it's small potatoes?

In my defense, I'd say that the suicide rate for men is 4x that for women, and that a large proportion of suicides come after divorce and loss of access to children. (Sorry for being hand-wavey, but I can't search for the research to back these claims from where I am currently.)

That alone at least backs the case for more research in this area.
Surely the government is the bigger monopoly.
You can't put a research or development into a process. And "software development" has that name for a reason.

You can put the interfaces of those activities into a process, so you insulate the rest of the company from their randomness. But you can't formalize the activities themselves.
It's become an anti-cliche. Security via obscure technique is a valid security layer in the exact same way a physical lock tumbler will not unlock when any random key is inserted and twisted. It's not great but it's not terrible and it does a fine job until someone picks or breaks it open.
Can I ask an adjacent question? I have a bunh of DNS A name entries for locallyaccessedservice.mydomain.tld point to my 10.0.0.x NAS's nginx reverse proxy so I can use HTTPS and DNS to access them locally and via Tailscale. My cert is for *.domain.tld. It's nothing critical and only accessible within my LAN, but is there any reason I shouldn't be doing this from a security point of view? I guess someone could phish that to another globally accessible server if DNS changed and I wouldn't notice but I don't see how that would be an issue. There are a couple nginx services exposed to public but not those specific domains so I guess that is an attack vector since.
I explicitly asked for the sources because I could not find a reliable one and said "I believed" in the sense that it's a belief since I couldn't confirm it until you shared how you got that information. I was trying to be helpful, no need to be antagonising.

Please, share your sources and we can further the discussion, no need for the defensiveness.

Edit: also even if it's the case you have fallen victim to propaganda in no way I put any sense of judgment in that, anyone can be victim of disinformation, what is a failure of character is digging deeper into that belief after being shown one was bamboozled. Up to that point anyone is just another victim.

> I have already expressed all my arguments above.

I do not understand why questioning where your information might have come from triggered a whole meltdown, your argument might be based in disinformation (that Ukrainians have bought luxury cars and your taxes are being wasted on that) and if that's the case then your argument has no basis to it. I would like more information...
discord as opensource support forums compete with irc (the ultimate underdog) and discourse et al (all which require a domain)

the real time part of irc was taken over by matrix.
Yeah I get the part about filling in some missing foundation. But it's the level that surprised me. Some of the MU123 content is covered in 5th grade in the US, i.e. around age 10 or 11.

But I guess there are people who will have forgotten that stuff, if they're not using much math day to day.
Write commands with natural language, completely local and open-source
I, too miss the days of horses before these death trap horseless carriages took the road. We should never have allowed them on the streets.

No, really — since you wrote that comment 1,755 people have died in car accidents worldwide. Zero from SpaceX.
One of cash's characteristics is that I can give my neighbor $1 and my net worth drops by exactly $1 and theirs goes up by that amount. There's no fee.
the First Council of Nicaea would like a word with you?
The first nuclear bomb was dropped by a B-29 called [REDACTED TO PROTECT DEAR LEADER'S FRAGILE MASCULINITY].

I mean, really, at this point it's getting beyond parody.
This is a false dichotomy. There is a third option: that the impeachments were right, but the American electorate didn't care.
> It's sad what Windows has become.

It's sad users aren't running away.
My original and edited comment stands. You can resort to name-calling that's your prerogative, or you can engage like an adult seeing a solution to a problem.
I'm not insulting you by saying that, but you're clearly very emotionally invested and might benefit from distance if claiming to have a solution to a problem.
THe person's view to be scared of is peter thiel... hes the digital version of gorge soros. Meaning that this guys legacy is vast... and we have no clue how it will manifest over decades (especially after he is dead) -- but peter thiel is the leviathan of the digital future.

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he is scary AF. he basically weaponized what george soros was but is still active.
There aren’t prescriptive dictionaries for (American, at least) English.
If you read the 7 debrief and fixes they made, I wouldn’t be surprised if they overdid something. But I agree it seems like it’s a similar problem. Happily they will tell all soon.