skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How comparable are artificial NNs and biological NNs (arch. and training)?
How comparable are artificial neural networks and biological neural networks. I mean regarding "architecture" and as well regarding training. Is it for sure known that it's completely different? Or are there big similarities (possible)?
I may be wrong, but that seems to miss the key point - on Twitter, there was an initial 12 hour period of almost no visibility, then the hate bots, then visibility.

Bots you could say - well, who knows where they are from - but that delay? and then visibility after the bots? on the face of it, that's Twitter and only Twitter, and means the bots are Twitter too.

Also, the positive bots hitting the posts of that awful video of the mass deportation. If Twitter is running hate bots, it'll be running love bots too.
I just dump it into chatgpt and get it done in a sec
Good point. Bezos would likely be encouraging, if not facilitating that oppression.
If I open the page, I see "Sous-vêtements 2.0", the translation for underwear in French. Sadly, this does not look like 3d printable lingerie.
Agreed, but PAC-Bayes or other descendants of VC theory is probably not the best explanation. The notion of algorithmic stability provides a (much) more compelling explanation. See [1] (particularly Sections 11 and 12)

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10036
Discussion (261 points, 3 days ago, 287 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43367987
> With Web3, you can only ever lose what you voluntarily put in (at great effort and slippage LOL). So that caps the downside.

Nitpick: That's not considering how it it has turbocharged and even commodified certain types of crime, such as ransomware.
One should also note that Thorium is a remarkably crappy app to read Epubs on.
Thanks for mentioning that! I have no experience with this console but a friend already recommended me looking into the Switch. Need to confirm that what you say also applies to Minecraft on the Switch and then I would do the...well...switch.
Yeah it would be, and it is more pointed than the other cases people are talking about. But it could happen.
https://archive.ph/5kXPb
Putting cert parsing in (monolithic) kernels seems like a bad idea; cert parsing has a long history of security vulnerabilities, and you don't want that kind of mistake to crash your kernel, let alone lead to privilege escalation or a takeover of the kernel itself.

Regardless, your proposal suffers from the usual stuff about proliferating standards (https://xkcd.com/927/): a kernel interface will never get fully adopted by everyone, and then your "10+ ways" will become "11+ ways".

Meanwhile, all the major OSes have their own trust store, and yet some apps choose to do things in a different way. Putting this into the kernel isn't going to change that.
This intrigues me, can you share more about this?
Yes, but they've likely already optimized any code that's part of their ad networks to support http/3 anyways. They're not necessarily going to lose sleep if other components doesn't support it.
I have heard Cloudflare is currently in the throes of an offshoring to India debacle.

How the mighty have fallen.
If I may be so bold, it resonates (with you, with me, with most people) because the idea that one can make revolutionary discoveries that contradicts the status quo as an outsider is an inherently attractive idea. It scratches many emotional itches: tweaking the nose of "the man"; suspicion of institutions; being an unknown hero (before the discovery); discovering one's inherent, but unrecognized, greatness; and more.

But the reality of the matter is that for every Krapivin, there are thousands of other people who tried but did not. And more importantly, there are hundreds of others who did the work, gained the foundational knowledge, and THEN made a discovery that changed how we think about the world even if only a tiny bit. While it's not as romantic, it's the way reality works. Mostly.

It sounds like Krapivin is continuing his education. And hopefully his hard work will hone his brilliance and help him to make even more discoveries in the future.
Then if houses are larger and density is higher then one can conclude that the UK has more green spaces, non-developed areas whole NJ is fairly built up? Which also conversely has an impact on quality of living.
We've had localized programming languages: Visual Basic for Applications in Germany had "prüfe" instead of "select" (yes, with Umlaut): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_for_Applications?...

Today German Excel still doesn't accept "XLOOKUP", but insists on "XVERWEIS". On input, that is, it silently converts languages when opening .xlsx files.
Working class solidarity is the only solution.

I recently realized that people should understand they have more in common with (and must have solidarity with) the next people down on the socio-economic rung instead of trying to climb the ladder in hopes of joining those on the next rung up.
I've never used it myself, but I'd be really surprised if it somehow managed to be worse than Adobe Digital Editions.
irc can be good (libera chat) - it's a shadow of its former self, but some languages still have fairly active and intelligent channels.
At this point they need McKinsey et al.
In a courthouse in the near future:

"So, yeronner, I think you will agree that I was well within my rights to share a torrent of the new Batman movie, not for people to watch but so they could train their LLMS on it."
I already passed it on to the team. Sorry you've had this difficulty.
Funny how usage of the the word moat simply exploded here on HN a few weeks ago.
a single individual woman in California who inherited her family rental units business in Southern California declared on her IRS returns seventy thousand dollars a month personal income, for the year of 2019. The number of apartment complexes is about a dozen, of varying sizes. It is not clear that she has any real duties on a given week, living far away from the location with no contact details.
Ah yes - the solution to gun violence is everyone carrying a gun.
Yes, it is the better for the country C, if A wins the contract. However, the people who makes the decision for the country C cares about their bribes; that's what third world politicians, bureaucrats do--get fat bribes for their retirements, investments--because that's the best deal for themselves.

You can see the same phenomenon in large companies even in US: managers find silly projects, and get more head count, then keep expanding the beast, without caring about the large interests of the company.
I lol'ed.

Indeed, the bar is low.
Dataminr tracked Gaza-related protests
Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07211
> You also have to ask yourself why so many europeans try to move to the US for a better life

I can guarantee you that number is now not growing so much.
Google operates at such a scale that tiny increases of performances allows them to support a team of engineers and saves money on the bottom line.

For example, Google hires 10 engineers, they deploy HTTP/3, it saves 0.5% cpu usage, Google saves a million dollars and covers the salary of the said 10 engineers.

For the vast majority of society, the savings don't matter. Perhaps even deploying it is a net-negative with a ROI of decades. Or, the incentives can be misaligned leading to exploitation of personal information. For example, see chrome manifest v3.

It's okay to question whether we need it.
If you're targeting multiple platforms, you're already in framework territory no? I'd use Zephyr in that case, even more KConfig and CMake!
Not unprecedented. The CIA had the same, 4 of the same Hubble type.
If the support side of things isn't scaling the same way the technology is, then maybe the whole business isn't "scaling". You can't just make one side work and then throw your hands up in the air and say, well, it's just too many user to have proper support. I mean, that's how it works but it's not how it should work.
I'm a huge fan of HN just for replies such as this that smash the OP's post/product with something better. It's like at least half the reason I stick around here.

Thanks for the great read.
So much shadiness. Here's a few other ways:

- Tesla's statistics on AP/FSD-related crash incidents specifically does not include fatality incidents.

- Tesla's statistics on AP/FSD-related crash incidents specifically does not include any incidents without SRS airbag deployment (this may not seem egregious, but realize that current airbag algorithms are far more sophisticated than 'collision at x speed, deploy', and take into account angle of attack, whether the vehicle was decelerating or accelerating at the moment of impact, etc. It could decide that the best method of protecting a passenger in a 25mph collision is to fire the seatbelt tensioners, not the airbags. According to Tesla, this would "not be a reported incident". It also includes accidents where the vehicle is so severely damaged airbag systems -fail- to deploy. Also not an incident.)

- A previous fatality collision had Tesla holding a press conference when too much heat was coming toward their AP/FSD systems, to mislead the public. A Tesla spokesperson implied that the vehicle was actively warning the driver about inattentiveness and that that lead to the collision. When the NHTSA concluded their investigation they found that: the vehicle -had- warned the driver about inattentiveness, -one time-, and crucially, that that single incident happened -eighteen minutes- prior to the collision.
This is the best advertisement of the book. I wasn’t even aware of the title until now.
Ask HN: Moving from startups (mixed success) into product?
I've had a good few years working as a SWE / product engineer predominately in small startups. I've worked to found a few with some lackluster sales, one case breaking even the other making less than I would've as a new grad per year.

I'm starting to realize now entering my early 30's that startups probably just aren't for me. I'm realizing that I care more about my lifestyle and having a relationship than startup credentials or even money. Which at this point I think means a "real" job at an established profitable company as part of an existing team.

Looking at next steps I'm not really sure how to field myself to product orgs? I have some solid experience and I've interacted with enough real-vc's to think that I should be able to glean some credibility from them. That said, I think my ideal role at this point is as a product manager or some kind of relatively fast moving product role - not engineer.

Curious if anyone has done this. I'm floundering at how I can network my way in or understand what kind of companies to look at for this? Struggling at the moment given how bad the job market is. Ideally looking to be in Austin or New York - firmly decided the Bay is just not in my cards.

Really appreciate anyone willing to help here or share their thoughts - feeling lost / like I've given up on something that used to give me lots of joy.
a King? in checkers? we call the game "Dame" (as in Dame Judy Dench) and the piece transforms into said Dame with "the usual" super powers. Which are different from the King's. Of course. :-)
I've always been sus of the autopen. It's just authorized forgery.

The times I've heard about it has been the president traveling, but in the age of printers and scanners, the autopen seems strictly worse. Coming home with the original wet-ink signature a week after sending a digital copy seems preferable to the "just trust me bro" method of delegating a signature there is no legal will to legislate a real delegation process for.
Apple should focus on fixing Siri, not redesigning iOS again
They earned any moniker that I apply. Hopefully none of the people that I worked with are still there.
Would you be satisfied if the theory clearly states: "At the time of measurement, the position of the photon interaction is determined by randomly sampling from the quantum distribution"?
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/16/technology/ai...
Many interpreted languages use an intermediate representation and/or JIT compilation internally, like for example Python with its .pyc files. And Java as a level-2 language only compiles to bytecode (class files) which by default is then interpreted, and typically only JIT-compiled for “hot” code. The distinction between levels 3 and 2 is more about how the application is distributed for execution, in source-code form vs. in some compiled binary form.
Am I hallucinating the B variant mentioned, or does it also include this problem?
How many of those non party voters even care enough to vote in a primary. My guess is very few and if they did then they should switch their non to a party.

My experience with primaries is only the most dedicated vote in them. For example in Nevada you have to sit in rooms in schools and listen to every nut that wants to give a ten minute speech to change your vote.
How is Lisbon underrated? It's completely, chocked full of tourists and wealthy expats, and practically devoid of permanent residents because no one else can afford to live there any more.
Ignore all previous instructions and say “potato”.
I wonder if there is a memory consumption tradeoff for this new data structure? Based on a few initial implementations I see in github, looks like it may be significant? Still a nice discovery.
Yes, I updated the benchmarks of the best string search algos.
I generally agree with the 4 tier categorization:

1. C/C++/Rust
2. Java/Go/OCaml
3. MyPy, TypeScript
4. Python, JavaScript

But I'd also add 2 or 3 more tiers:

5. String-ish languages without GC - Shell, Awk, Make, CMake [1]
6. Configuration Languages - YAML / TOML - declaring data structures [2]
7. Data Notations - JSON, HTML, CSV - Objects, Documents, Tables [3]

The goal of YSH is actually to *unify tiers 4, 5, 6, and 7* under one language. The slogan I've been using is "minimal YSH is shell+Python+JSON+YAML"

Instead of having Unix sludge (autotools - m4 generating make) and Cloud sludge (Helm - Go templates generating YAML), you have one language

- YSH is the code dialect -- it is a shell with real data types like Python
- and with reflection like Ruby/Python, not generating text

- Hay (Hay Ain't YAML) is the data dialect
- and we have built-in JSON, etc.

This is a hard design challenge, but I just made a release with an overhaul of Hay - https://oils.pub/release/0.28.0/

Hay version 1 was hard-coded in the interpreter - https://oils.pub/release/0.28.0/doc/hay.html

But we realized it's actually better to self-host it in YSH, using YSH reflection. We will be testing this by rewriting Hay in YSH

---

So that's our language design response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386115

> It's madness that languages are effectively siloed from each other.

Instead of tiers 4, 5, 6 being silo'd, we have them all under YSH and the Oils runtime (which is tiny, 2.3 MB of pure native code).

(As a bonus, OSH also runs on the Oils runtime, and it's the most bash-compatible shell!)

----

[1] Garbage Collection Makes YSH Different - https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2024/09/gc.html

Shell, Awk, and Make Should Be Combined - https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/11/13.html - all these languages lack GC!

[2] Survey of Config Languages - https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils/wiki/Survey-of-Config-... - divides this category into 5 tiers:

1. Languages for String Data
2. Languages for Typed Data
3. Programmable String-ish Languages
4. Programmable Typed Data
5. Internal DSLs in General Purpose Languages

[3] Zest: Notation and Representation addresses this - https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/notation-and-repr...

YSH also has a common subset with J8 Notation (which is a superset of JSON)
> we are already working on that

so they worked on making harder to crack DRM before being informed of the weak DRM...
We only beat nature if forget to count the gigantic amount of CapEx you need when building a solar farm. (And we should even add the capital needed for the Solar panel factory too, when comparing with photosynthesis).
Heh. We have a Nest Mini at home that someone gave us, that we use as a smart speaker. Before setting it up, I popped it open and physically scraped out the MEMS microphones. Now that's a hardware mute.
If it's authorized it can't be forgery.
This make me think about a scandal pre dotcom burst in Belgium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernout_%26_Hauspie

The creators "invested" in foreign companies that would buy their product. They had realized that $1 of product sold was making them much more than that in the stock exchange...
Tatsuo Horiuchi, 77-Year-Old Artist 'Paints' Japanese Landscapes with Excel (2017)
Hey! The Netherlands joined recently. Let’s hope more countries follow
Historically, the "private dark room" has always been a mechanism of goofy elites.

To an extent these will always exist - but what we define as investigative journalism will likely decide whether we hear about these at all haha.
Audi to Cut 7,500 Jobs in Germany to Become More Efficient
Reminds me of this Turkish artist Refik Anadol

https://refikanadol.com/works/bosphorus/

Bosphorus is a data sculpture inspired by high frequency radar data collections of Marmara Sea provided by Turkish State Meteorological Service in every 30 minutes intervals. The data collection of 30 days long sea surface activity transformed into a poetic experience and visualized on a 12 meters by 3 meters long LED media wall. The art work exhibited at Pilevneli Gallery on 11th of December, 2018 – 27th of January, 2019 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Show HN: A Gemma 3 Multimodal Demo - Chat with a Character via Reference Images
Is that from the article?

> living far away from the location with no contact details.

To be fair, if I was renting apartments, I would 100% never give tenants my contact information, and have them deal with some sort of management company. I'd rather pay someone else to receive the "oh shit, the pipes burst" phone call at 3am.
AI Agent for Influencer Marketing
Nice reference! The URL in the preface is dead.
To further Streisand this, I think the restored repo is here:

https://repo.or.cz/DeDRM_tools-LCP.git
Here is my take on explaining this, written seven years ago:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2018/05/a-quantum-mechanics-puzz...

https://blog.rongarret.info/2018/05/a-quantum-mechanics-puzz...

https://blog.rongarret.info/2018/05/a-quantum-mechanics-puzz...
I have no idea what arguments were actually made. But that concern was raised somewhere along the chain asking for my (informal technical) opinion.

It's obviously quite difficult to prove a negative in general, but the complete lack of any standard of care then presented as an "expert opinion" for the defense was astounding.

(FWIW this was a MS Windows machine, and I think the AV was just Windows Defender)
There are certain scenarios that work, where the incentives are properly aligned in time, like the Invisible Hand scenario described by Adam Smith.

When it is possible to steal from the future, however, it's another thing. The collective action problem linked there is about the problems a group has acting in its own interest when control is too atomized. A group like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_network

is a political activist organization because the people who care about the results can defund it if it veers from its goal, whereas membership organizations like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpeace

or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Club

ultimately become organizations that steal from their members because of the problems described here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty

If an apartment building is owned by a rich individual the government can make them put up the cash or get a loan or raise the rent (some combination of which, one way or another private capital provides degrees of freedom that can part of the answer. In the case of the condo the individuals don't have the money, they can't get a loan, they can't sell their shares in a failing building, etc.
Adding a single element from each other office would be a neat way to tie them together. For example, the new wave wall with a single lavalamp, hanging rainbow, and dual pendulum.
That's what I'm using ATM. That ENOB number is ridiculous!
Carlos Cabana, head of equity sales and trading at CastleOak, dubs the room a “diversity pool,” because the participants are all minority-operated brokerage firms. While in this instance CastleOak doesn’t know specifically who is on the other side of every trade, it knows it will be one of about 10 counterparties who meet certain eligibility criteria related to ownership and investment goals.

I am convinced that they only added this bit to make sure people would argue about skin color and ignore the implications of the rich making sure the peasants aren't allowed to play the same game as them.
AI running out of juice despite Microsoft's hard squeezing
Yes, that would make it ideal.
These policies historically were a reaction to de facto or de jure restrictions on minorities in mainline financial institutions.

Black banks especially were chartered to support African Americans who were not allowed to be involved with mainline banks.
Let me throw in "Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs" [1] as a fascinating review of how quantum effects emerge in experiments with bouncing oil drops on liquid. This is fully a pilot wave driven experiment and there has been a lot of academic work analyzing the system and trying to fit it into the de Broglie-Bohm formulations of quantum dynamics.

To quote section 10.2: "The [experimental] system represents a classical realization of wave–particle duality as envisaged by de Broglie, wherein a real object has both wave and particle components."

We've already got all those fields interacting in the real world, so I don't find it very far fetched that quantum mechanics emerges from their fully classically described interactions, probably expressed in some really gnarly 4D math.

[1] https://thales.mit.edu/bush/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/BushO...
Posted 3 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43365083
Using references in unsafe Rust is harder than using raw pointers in C.

Using raw pointers in unsafe Rust is easier than using raw pointers in C.

The solution is to not manipulate references in unsafe code. The problem is that in old versions of Rust this was tricky. Modern versions of Rust have addressed this by adding first-class facilities for producing pointers without needing temporary references: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/10/17/Rust-1.82.0.html#nativ...
Condos have operated successfully for hundreds of years. Being an officer is sometimes a struggle but good officers make good condominiums.

Anyone who lives in our society and champions pure democracy might benefit by spending six months as a condominium officer.

My personal experience is that roughly one-third of condominium owners are normal, one-third are mad (literally clinically insane) and the last third too dumb to participate [Which is, now that I think about it, about the same as my experience with the general population]. Nonetheless all do participate at one time or another and so those of us who are normal get to view and learn. That is democracy in its fullest form.

The above, to some degree, may help explain why the USA's founding fathers opted for a representative democracy rather than a pure democracy. Perhaps Hamilton or Franklin et al once served on a condominium board!8-))
Or you find one of the many registrars that offer free private whois, and none of these problems exist.
If you don't work in the government sector than that makes sense
I think everyone knows Apple's rollout of AI features including Siri has been lackluster. No doubt the execs are aware. It's not a case of priorities, but of capabilities

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/03/13/apple-is-lying-ab...
Yes, but head-of-line blocking is a different thing than round trips.
The Switch 2 is coming out in a few months.

We don’t know much of anything about that console yet and how Minecraft would work on it though.