skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to have to manually focus to take photos of my dog. The apparent noise from the early Ring USM AF in the 85mm/1.8 lens drove him mad and he would run out of the room.

We did initially wonder if it was some psychological effect of pointing a camera at him, but one night I hid behind a curtain and used the AF motor and he still shot out of the room.

Subsequent USM AF motors were silent to him and he was then content to have his photo taken.
Could you please stop using HN primarily for political and ideological battle? Regardless of which politics you're for or against, that's a line at which we ban accounts, and your account is unfortunately well over it.

Also, please stop posting flamewar comments generally. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Related At $2.1M, Novartis gene therapy will be world’s most expensive drug (56 points, 2019, 68 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20004761
Is this just pedantry or is there some insight to be gleaned by the distinction you made?
Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds
Southern Arizona works too. The Sonoran is a very wet dessert.
> the nebulous slippery slope freedoms argument you're attempting to make.

But it is a slippery slope and we're already sliding down, even if we don't want to. It's hard to make users switch to something else. I know it, I assume you know it, probably everyone on HN knows it. But, and this is key, Google knows it. People are resistant to change, especially if it means altering their workflow. Where said workflow depends on a monopolistic product that's key to unlocking even more ad revenue, do not think that those with incentive won't hesitate to push for more restrictions while claiming they have our own best interest in mind.

No one brought it up now, but there have been cases of websites being deliberately made slower on Firefox. I don't think it's unreasonable to think that this will continue happening. If you do, then let's agree to disagree.

> but you are advocating for basically a free for all, and we've seen how that works.

I'm not advocating for a "free for all." I'm advocating for a "free for the knowledgeable & responsible." I'm advocating for informed consent in computing. We've been moving away from that, more so because of greed than goodwill.
Chipset, not CPU. For example, Nvidia was a well known chipset manufacturer around this time, shortly before memory controllers went on package and 3rd party chipsets died off.
Take this with a grain of salt, as I run a startup in the industry.

Blockchain has taken a weird path. It started with Bitcoin offering something genuinely new - a Byzantine fault-tolerant mechanism for decentralized value exchange without trusted intermediaries. But the industry has drifted toward "web3" hype where the technology often isn't necessary.

Companies pick tech stacks for all sorts of reasons beyond technical merit - vendor relationships, development velocity, legacy system compatibility, and UX considerations all factor into these decisions.

Truth is, most blockchain companies today are solving problems that could be handled just fine with traditional databases and APIs. The industry is shifting toward abstraction layers that hide the consensus mechanisms anyway, focusing on user experience instead.

The project mentioned probably doesn't actually need a blockchain backend for what it's doing, except maybe for tradable collectibles on an ERC standard.
I am now, and that works great. Thanks!
So basically, if you ignore how the entire system works then it wasn't a blowout lol. I'm guessing the media was taking into account that we indeed use an electoral college system so that is all that matters.
Could we train an AI model on the corpus of physics knowledge up to the year 1905 and then see if we can adjust the prompt to get it to output the theory of relativity?

This would be an interesting experiment for other historical discoveries too. I'm now curious if anybody has created a model with "old data" like documents and books from hundreds of years ago, and see if comes up with the same conclusions as researchers and scientists of the past.

Would AI have been able to predict the effectiveness of vaccines, insulin, other medical discoveries?
"The phonorecords in question were not "stolen, converted or taken by fraud" for purposes of [section] 2314. The section's language clearly contemplates a physical identity between the items unlawfully obtained and those eventually transported, and hence some prior physical taking of the subject goods. Since the statutorily defined property rights of a copyright holder have a character distinct from the possessory interest of the owner of simple "goods, wares, [or] merchandise," interference with copyright does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud. The infringer of a copyright does not assume physical control over the copyright nor wholly deprive its owner of its use. Infringement implicates a more complex set of property interests than does run-of-the-mill theft, conversion, or fraud."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v._United_States_(1985...
Dmap is a zero-friction hashmap for C
That link is not what they want. That takes openapi spec and writes go code.

They want something that reads the go code they have written and creates an openapi spec used to generate clients in other languages.
I remember getting a Voodoo5 AGP, not knowing at the time that AGP and PCI were different. I couldn't use it for the first couple of months that I had it, and then upgraded the motherboard to one that could. I remember originally running a Gigabyte GA-6BXD with Dual Pentium IIIs, but I don't remember what I upgraded to that let me run the Voodoo5.

The V5 was the largest card I'd ever seen that wasn't a motherboard, and it ran every game I wanted to play for years!
to me that is the gist. Genocide by the system without the people in the system intending it to happen (with those people even trying to mitigate its damage) It has been happening again and again - a system follows orthodoxy/ideology despite its subjects mass dying as a result, and we still don't have a machinery in place which should serve as emergency brakes on any system once that system, for whatever, and frequently even good sounding reasons at that, starts to cause such pain and suffering and deaths:

>Militant Irish nationalism would follow Jane Wilde in seeing the famine as mass murder and thus as what would later be categorized as a genocide. Under pressure from Irish Americans, this even became an official doctrine in New York, where a state law signed in 1996 by then governor George Pataki required schools to portray the famine “as a human rights violation akin to genocide, slavery and the Holocaust.”

>Pataki announced that “history teaches us the Great Irish Hunger was not the result of a massive failure of the Irish potato crop but rather was the result of a deliberate campaign by the British to deny the Irish people the food they needed to survive.” But this is not what history teaches us. A much more accurate conclusion is the one drawn by the Irish historian Peter Gray, who wrote that there was “not a policy of deliberate genocide” on the part of the British. Instead, Gray argued, the great failure of the British government was ideological—“a dogmatic refusal to recognise that measures intended to ‘encourage industry, [and] to do battle with sloth’ . . . were based on false premises.” The British did not cause the potatoes to rot in the ground. They did launch, by the standards of the mid-nineteenth century, very large-scale efforts to keep people alive, importing grain from America, setting up soup kitchens, and establishing programs of public works to employ those who were starving. But they were blinded by prejudice, ignorance, and a fanatical devotion to two orthodoxies that are very much alive in our own time: their belief that poverty arises from the moral failings of the poor and their faith in the so-called free market. The famine was so devastating because, while the mold was rotting the potatoes, mainstream British opinion was infected with a cognitive blight.
what the hell is she doing with 1740 tabs ? :)

10, 20, even 30 i can understand. More is the equivalent of forgetting to empty the kitchen trash can and still filling it until the smell is horrible.

someone got to tell her there is a cross on the right to close the tab.
Release the hostages, but not the occupied land?
> Detaining is all of: cruel, expensive, unnecessary.

What about those poor private prison corporations that are being deprived of an income?! How dare you! /s
USAID has been gutted, and yes, it was political.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, and your account has unfortunately been doing this repeatedly, so please stop.

Also, please don't use HN primarily for political or ideological battle. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for—regardless of which politics you're for or against.

Also, please don't post flamewar comments generally.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
> the paper blocked a political cartoon depicting Bezos and others bowing down to Trump

So are we saying that Bezos is so plugged into the day-to-day operations of WaPo that he can yank the things he doesn't like, or is there some sycophant put in place that pings Bezos when they think it is something Bezos wouldn't like? I can't imagine that Bezos gives a damn enough to be checking in every day before release deadlines while cruising the globe on his super yacht.
This is not the first time I read about problems in this community, which is a pity since it is such an interesting technology.
python does have pointers under the hood. objects are passed via pointers. i think the implementation is tagged values in order to support dynamic typing and passing non-pointer values efficiently. but if there was no object tagging the runtime would be very similar to go. both have objects passed around as pointers using some form of garbage collection to handle memory safety.

the optional static type checking in python gives you a stronger typing than what golang does because you don't have to type everything as (None | Foo) and presumably its a type error to perform Foo operations on a (None | Foo) type.
It’s a nice post, but “using array methods” probably shouldn’t be placed in the “Efficient Implementation” section. As often happens with high-level languages, a single plain old loop is faster than three array methods.

Similarly, if you plan to query those vectors in search, you should consider continuous `TypedArray` types and smaller scalars than the double precision `number`.

I know very little about JS, but some of the amazing HackerNews community members have previously helped port SimSIMD to JavaScript (https://github.com/ashvardanian/SimSIMD), and I wrote a blog post covering some of those JS/TS-specifics, NumJS, and MathJS in 2023 (https://ashvardanian.com/posts/javascript-ai-vector-search/).

Hopefully, it should help unlock another 10-100x in performance.
good rule of thumb is - when you hear/read something musk says, immediately assume the exact opposite is true and work from there. he is no longer capable of telling the truth even if it is to his own benefit :)
Or pay extra for https://www.swissmicros.com/products

Sadly my HP 48G is dead dead (water damage and corrosion) and they don't have a replacement for that.
Apparently someone has not read the article, otherwise you would have had understood my point about Go.

Secondly, Apple and Microsoft, do just fine with Objective-C and C++ for their video codecs, without having to manually implement OOP in C.
I’ve heard 7 as lucky all my life in the US and it’s mentioned in the Wikipedia page for 7. I think if you asked the average English-speaking American to name a number thought of as lucky most people would say 7.

Lucky Seven/Lucky Number Seven is also just a common phrase in American culture. There’s even a Wikipedia page of things called Lucky [Number] Seven. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_7
Entitlements, deducted from your paycheck but then not returned to you?
Thanks for your feedback. Until now I have never blogged about the creation of these illustrations, but it's a nice idea, there is tons of "behind-the-scenes" material. With regards to the viewfinder image, the actual path of light was drawn with the help of a Japanese optical engineer who was able to provide professional raytracing simulations.
HP LaserJet from the period where they still made atomic clocks. Did need to upgrade the memory and added a network card when my computer no longer had a parallel port.

Today, Epson for inkjet and Brother for laser.
Normally at some point the CEO would be answerable to their board of directors for such a dismal performance. Shareholder primacy is paramount.
You must be living under a rock if you’ve never heard of 7 as a lucky number.
This understanding is incomplete in my opinion. LLMs are more than emulating observed behavior. In the pre-training phase tasks like masked language model indeed train the model to mimic what they read (which of course contains lots of bias); but in the RLHF phase, the model tries to generate the best response judged by human evaluations (who tries to eliminate as much bias as possible in the process). In other words, they are trained to meet human expectations in this later phase.

But human expectations are also not bias-free (e.g. from the preferring-the-first-choice phenomenon)
(2024) Some posts at the time

(16 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39577695

(14 points, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39544190
I download videos I use for teaching. In future classes, I can still provide students with the video even if it disappears from YouTube. This happens from time to time.
The Bitter Lesson seems relevant here again. http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

I think I read somewhere about Erdős having this somewhat brute force approach. Whenever fresh techniques were developed (by himself or others), he would go back to see if they could be used on one of his long-standing open questions.
Where Jeff Bezos Went Wrong with the Washington Post
Out of curiosity, what is the modern state of DDoS? My current understanding is that you get massive botnets largely built up of vulnerable IoT devices.
You'd have to account for the extra time buying cloths too. Machine drying wears out cloths.

I machine dry socks, underwear and towels. I just guess trade off is about there. Especially socks are tedious to line dry.
I could have meant that. Doesn't Firefox sometimes work better than Chrome?
The European Risk-Averse Mindset
Leningrad-1: a 44-IC Soviet style ZX-Spectrum clone
Is this an organised scheme which is recognised by Canada and/or US authorities, or a breach of visa rules?
> every famine is political

Well probably not those directly caused by natural disasters at least.
Discussion (254 points, 9 days ago, 86 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221633
This is also a common side effect of corporate policies that favour short term profits rather than retaining staff for the long term.

I see this scenario play out constantly:

1. A team or staff member has a project's data located on their user account or hardware.

2. The team or staff member are made redundant when there is a dip in earnings.

3. IT make a backup of the user account/s and wipe the hardware, and because it's older usually move it on.

4. Months or years later that data is needed and at this point no one at the company actually knows where the data is - and even if they find something, they don't know if that's the latest or the full version.

Now this wouldn't be a problem if there was a decent overlap in staff retention, but that simply isn't the case these days.

Writing better storage policies doesn't help - it's the understaffed nature of their businesses which mean that there is no time for staff to keep up with basic data housekeeping.

The types of data that clients should have on hand, but nevertheless have asked me to supply, are frankly embarrassing.
On the plus side, hunger is decreasing quickly.

For the couple of remaining places with hunger, the causes are political as you say. But the rest of the world is in most cases not "letting it" happen. We're sending food and aid, sometimes at risk to the aid workers delivering the food.
> The conflation of SIGINT and cryptology makes me doubt the writer's understanding of the field.

ELINT is one of the two pillars of SIGINT, the other one being COMINT. Some aspects of COMINT involve crypto analysis. The author seems to be unaware of any of this.
In 1847, one of the bleakest years of the Irish famine, Khaleefah Abdul-Majid I, Sultan of an Ottoman Empire offered £10,000 (which was quite a sum at the time) to help alleviate the suffering of the Irish people.

Queen Victoria, upon learning of this, requested that he reduce his donation to a more modest £1,000, so as not to embarrass her own relatively meagre offering of £2,000. Reluctantly, the Sultan agreed, but bolstered his contribution by secretly sending five ships loaded with food.

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Britain-refuse-Ottomans-aid-to...

My conclusion is that the famine was as much political as it was environmental. (as they often are)
The fact that people who are paid to predict future didn't predict China's unprecedented rise in EVs is all that you need to know how manipulated with lies our information ecosphere is.

Our experts completely misjudged China and its ability to innovate. Now they're ahead everywhere.

https://youtu.be/oZtc0zNH_uU

Ukraine's $500 billion rare earths scam: they don't exist, and we should know better

https://youtu.be/tILXLxMTmgA

Please go through these videos and let me know. I need to know whether I am better informed or you are
They literally fired cannons from warships at people protesting the exportation of food when they are starving to death.
In my case, I am already proficient in Haskell, so I do not have to learn it. Using the technology I already know means not blowing my "novelty budget".

As for benefits, I get the following:

- strong, static typing via the Hindley-Milner type system

That means any changes to my logic and type signatures have to be addressed immediately everywhere.

- type-safe, composable everything

I want as many issues as possible to be caught at compile time. Ideally, I would have no runtime errors. It is possible to get close to this ideal with Haskell.

- terse, expressive language

Less code to read per concept expressed plus a strong type system means that maintenance and refactoring is a breeze. In fact, I can fearlessly refactor. That means once I get everything up and running, the codebase is stable even when I change things. Thus, I can actually focus more on the product and customer needs.

Combining all of the above with other stable and maintainable technology choices makes the entire app architecture easy to maintain over time as well.

You always have to consider the technology so you can properly architect your application and its dependencies.
>Can we please stop pretending that some kind of nice rational discussion can be a solution to anything here?

So what alternative means do you propose? Details, times, and locations would be appreciated.
We saw algorithms designing circuits that no human engineer would design, even before the LLM (using genetic algorithms). So out-the-box thinking can be also more reachable than this author thinks.
Rather less than five years. More like 50 days.
If you are trying to get a visa anywhere, it's very standard for them to ask if you have ever been denied entry to any country, and it raises a lot of red flags (regardless of the reason). It's entirely possible she mentioned the denial when talking to the US authorities, and that caused them to detain her until she could be suitably deported.
One tool you might like is MeTube. While it can't schedule anything, I have it running it on a headless Beelink computer. So if I want to grab a video or channel, I can open a browser on any device, go to the server, and tell it to fetch whatever I want. The download location is set to a NAS so I can view the media with any device as well. It even supports extended yt-dlp options, so you can even tell it to use things like SponsorBlock. It's pretty great overall

https://github.com/alexta69/metube
If you consume listicles and you like them that's value enough. (Buzzfeed)

If you enjoy crosswords, new recipes, or product reviews, that also has some value people are willing to pay for. (NYT)

Historically, journalism has mostly been finding out about what cross-subsidy works, whether that's real estate, sports, scandalous gossip, etc. that people will actually pay for. There isn't a whole lot of people paying for just the main stories for the news.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like we're splitting hairs here.

> spits out chunks of words in an order that parrots some of their training data.

So, if the data was created by humans then how is that different from "emulating human behavior?"

Genuinely curious as this is my rough interpretation as well.
I have a Brother multifunction colour inkjet (MFC-J995DW). I generally only printed in B&W on the very rare occasion I printed, so when a colour ran out (usually because one of my children errantly printed some giant colour thing) it was perfectly happy to keep printing black content using the giant, very full black cartridge.

A recent (as in the past two years) update removed that benefit. Now it fully refuses to function in any capacity if a colour cartridge is out. It won't let me print fully-black content, and it won't even let me scan.

So Brother are no longer one of the good guys.
Interesting. I made a remark in my above comment which I ending up editing out, that if someone gave these execs a wad of cash for deleting something, they would.
I am starting to wonder if critical security update has been co-opted to be using the same logic as think of the children. Who wouldn't support that... then it's used for subtly malicious purposes.
At the end of the day it was a 312 vs. 226 in the Electoral College. Seems a bit odd that this is supposed to be impossible to be predicted with any useful amount of certaintly. But perhaps that says more about the nature of the Electoral College than it says about pollsters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efforts_to_reform_the_United_S...
Is there an actual example of this in the wild?

I have seen things that generate server stubs but have not encountered something that enforces things like error code/response types etc.
Highly recommend this video by NNT about why prediction markets tend towards 50-50.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRvPF__du9w

Prediction markets are usually implemented as binary options. Like vanilla options, their price depends not just on the most likely outcome, but the whole distribution. When uncertainty increases (imagine squishing a mound of clay), you end up pushing lots of probability mass (clay) to the other side of the bet and the expectation of the payoff (used to make a price) tends towards 1/2.
I’ve used Wipr for a long time. And Wipr 2. Will checkout AdGuard.
Tons of people eat carrots. That doesn’t imply carrots have inspired discoveries.
Feel free to not encage people if you don't like the responsibility.
Hmm. Can’t reproduce Notes on neither iOS 18.3.1 nor iPadOS 18.3.1
Yep. Mostly straight to business owners. But that wasn't sold as "stimulus", it was sold as "a loan" which was then forgiven without repayment. When people talk about "stimulus" they usually mean the cheques to individuals.