skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No disagreements.

I do suspect that at some point we will make a major compression breakthrough that is based on something more "psychovisual". Not Gaussian splatting, but something more akin to that -- something that directly understands geometric areas of gradating colors as primitive objects, textures as primitives, and motion as assigned to those rather than to pixels.

On the other hand, it may very well be a form of AI-based compression that does this, rather than us explicitly designing it.
> There isn’t a business model for a company whose product is just chrome, though.

Yes there is, it is the same business model Chrome has now, but with overt pricing. In other words if you can understand why Chrome is valuable to Google now, then you can understand what Chrome-the-standalone-business would put a price tag on.

Google benefits from the data that Chrome collects. So Chrome-the-business would collect the same data and charge Google for it.

But it could also sell that data to other companies too. This would create competition which would lead to better pricing and more innovation. That is why it is a remedy for a monopoly.

The history of antitrust is full of stuff like this. Standard Oil used to own all the gas stations in the country. AT&T used to be the only company that sold telephones.
79-year-old's SaaS Rises from Ashes of a 1989 Failure
After my HN debut two years ago, PropBox.co has evolved from an advertising platform called ziphomez to a complete MVP SaaS low-flat-fee solution for residential home transactions. What began as a physical model in 1989 that ultimately failed has finally found its digital wings in March 2025. To the 273 commenters who offered guidance, your feedback helped shape our new platform—Thank You. Persistence outlasts failure. The best innovations sometimes take many years to realize fully. Never give up.
In other words, issue tracker todo/doing/done lists have nothing to do with kanban.
The onerous burdens are put in place to foster discussions like this blog—ridiculing people for following the rules put in place by political losers, who seek to make people do ridiculous things so that their political opponents can be made the subject of ridicule.

The anti-climate movement is a political loser in Denmark for now, but it’s true that sensible and reasonable people will question the onerous burdens forced upon them, and seek to bring into power more of the very people who always secretly hated them.

Yes, splitting things up into very many bins is inefficient, and robots can do this better. Why is that effort not being pursued? Robots can also wash and recycle trash better, why isn’t that effort being pursued? Because the goal isn’t to solve problems, but to create burdens (and discourse) which result in justified pushback against those burdens, so that more authoritarian and less democratic policies can be implemented.
Indeed, how do we know they are "destroyed"?

Would it be 'surprise surprise' when then same oligarchs start companies that provide "essential" services again (with AI trained on publicly owned IP)? And guess what, they also have the rolodex of domain experts that they threw to the unemployment market and who can blame n% of them holding their nose and then going to work for the same (cause you know, gotta feed the family and pay the mortgage).
> The US values democracy and free speech more than any other country.

Trump is destroying democracy and free speech (notably press freedom).

Regarding freedom, I don't buy the US vision. The US culture values individual freedom at the expense of the many.
From my point of view, freedom is not possible without equality between people.
Otherwise, some people impose their will (their freedom) on others.
In this sense, regulation is an instrument of freedom.
This is propaganda. I can find you a dozen websites and statements from University professors, why gas, electricity or hydrogen is doomed from the beginning. And I can find another dozen, why they are the future.

"stuck with 19 buses that they have to drive a long way to refuel at great overall expense, something I wrote about this week."

This seems like a problem that can be solved, but it is a hen and egg problem. Not enough refusing options, system less attractive. Electric cars had this too.

I wonder why city buses have this problem. I am not aware that city buses use regular gas station, I always assumed that they get refilled in their "home base". This would make the refueling infrastructure not very challenging.

Is hydrogen the future for cars? Manufacturers haven’t given up on it yet
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/is-hydrogen-the-future-f...
Ecological effects of large-scale photovoltaic development in desert areas(2024)
I can't see as much color as a mantis shrimp or sense electric fields like a shark but I still think I'm closer to AGI than they are
So it just automatically uses location data fed by the user and doesn’t prompt? What are the terms of service on data collection?
Or thermal receipt tape with a stripe of color near the end.
Canada has far too few soldiers. Here's a radical fix – mandatory service
How would you differentiate Africa from East Asia in those regards?
This is not true, unless you are all in one big fourm or you have a chain of shared blogs. I think they are woried about metadata privacy or people using this to do a DoS.
When they describe CURE, it sounds like vanilla clustering using k-means.
There is a lot of work on electrochemical synthesis of hydrogen peroxide, the way we make it today is something crazy you'd never think of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthraquinone_process
In Ruby, chat = RubyLLM.chat is a method call since Ruby doesn't have properties, only methods. Dropping parentheses is standard Ruby style, familiar to Ruby developers. While adding parentheses is allowed, it doesn't match Ruby's readability. The library aims for a clean style consistent with Ruby conventions.
Copper wire has high resale value. So do solar panels. Copper theft is a problem worldwide, including the US.
There's a field of study called "mechanism design"

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

...you have to squint a bit, but I've taken it to mean influencing the behavior of unknown or mildly uncooperative participants.

My main example of success was drawing a dotted line with a sharpie about 25% from the bottom of the water filter pitcher in the fridge (back with college roommates).

Basically overnight, the probability of me finding the water pitcher empty in the fridge went from 50% to like 10%.

The visual indicator (with only implied instructions) resulted in positive behavior changes.

Related is "poke-yoke/kaizen" of "mistake proofing, continual improvement, and making problems visible".

Being aware of these fields of study and their techniques can be applied to many areas in work and home.
The local militia or government wants money and doesn't care overmuch about the locals themselves, presumably.
Would you mind sharing how it turned out useful?
This is no world for an axolotl
I’ve done exactly this before a few times.

Had a laptop that dual booted into a different installation of Ubuntu on the same laptop, one for personal and one for work (Ubuntu LTS)

I have a separate user profile on my current computer for work stuff. I also use a separate web browser and email client for work but now I share the same OS and the files are on the same SSD.

It’s trivial to switch users on a desktop OS nowadays.

The biggest issue I run into is that my work environment needs me to set my SSH config to use my normal username rather than the username the work profile has.
> Mozilla's actions have been rubbing many Firefox fans the wrong way as of late

Just wait until they discover that the web doesn't allow arbitrary browsers anymore, due to a certain "security" company doing deep inspection and blocking anything that isn't Safari, Firefox or Chrome.
Even in the US, we cover this very explicitly in our history courses. Europeans did displace and kill a lot of natives, but it was the US that almost genocided them long after colonization was over.

See: the Trail of Tears, the actual, literal death march of natives out of their ancestrial lands because "manifest destiny"
We have plenty of homes to go around. They're just not affordable.
The flat-earth community is actually kind of fascinating. Someone recently paid to fly some flat-earthers down to Antarctica to witness the 24-hour sun which is impossible under most flat-earth models [1]. The trip was extensively documented, and one of the flat-earthers who made the trip actually changed their position. The result, predictably, was that this person was ostracized from the community. The intellectual backflips that the flat-earth community are making to try to debunk this experiment is simultaneously fun and disturbing to watch.

The easiest way to debunk the flat-earth model is simply to observe that that 1) the sun sets below the horizon and 2) this happens at different times in different locations. On a flat earth, if the sun is seen at the horizon in one location it has to be seen at the horizon everywhere.

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[1] https://www.the-final-experiment.com/
weird you would prefer to use the 2000 y.o. definition of dictator than the current one but if that helps you cope, be my guest

the 77M people were not the majority but a plurality, although i'm not sure there is a 2000 y.o. definition for that to help you cope

don't look too far for a president who has been elected by a minority, it happened as recently as 2016
> They had the altimeter fail on the previous mission too.

Not really. They forgot to toggle the safety switch on before launch, so the laser could not be used:

https://spaceq.ca/simple-error-could-have-resulted-in-intuit...
At the risk of blogposting, it's been truly shocking to me over the years to see the reaction people have to stoicism. I naturally found myself stumbling into stoic/CBT-adjacent mental practices after many years of a hard upbringing and it felt like such a natural and helpful truth to me. As someone else in the thread mentioned, the Serenity Prayer encapsulates this mentality well. Then I see the comments here and elsewhere about it being a slave mentality or somehow simultaneously a privilege of the wealthy! I've puzzled over how to square this circle for a long time, and I suspect it's related to some invisible but complex nuance between how different people interpret these experiences.

For me personally I find anger, anguish, lamentation, spite, etc. to be exhausting. I have let these feelings flow freely within myself during some parts of my life and it left me feeling like a husk. I could never relate to the way people say they let anger or spite fuel them, for whatever reason inside my heart they do nothing but siphon my fuel for their own ends. In this way I find stoicism extremely useful for keeping those fuel thieves away from my tank. If something happens that I did not expect, rather than raging at the circumstances, I consider what factors led them to occur and whether or not I could have prevented them. In the vast majority of cases it's never something I could have controlled and I pretty much instantly feel soothed, and if it was then I take it as a lesson to remember and move forward.

What I've gathered is that this approach does nothing for a lot of people and (to put it lightly) comes off as arrogant or dismissive. I assume that the step inbetween there that I mentioned, the part where I feel soothed, does not occur in some others. I can only guess why this is. Conversely my assumption is that those others don't experience that soothing moment and so they imagine I'm just stuffing my feelings down into a pit or that I'm preforming some fantastical Vulcan mindgame with myself where I erase my emotional response entirely.

I wish I had better insight into this difference. It seems to speak to some kind of interesting detail in the way humans interpret our experiences differently, but I feel like I don't even have the language to describe it.
The concentration of tartaric acid in each individual grape is unpredictable, along with each individual dog's tolerance level to tartaric acid. The only thing that's certain is that anything with tartaric acid is potentially toxic to canines due the development kidney damage after ingestion.
Crime is lower than the 80s and 90s. It has been declining since 2023.
There is no one cause that leads to housing shortages, but tech salaries are a huge issue in and around tech hubs like the SF Bay and Seattle. And especially during covid, with remote work, the rich spread out to towns nearby and bought up all the housing there too and pushed out the locals.

That's not the government's fault (besides lockdown), it's because tech workers were way overpaid (and hence all the layoffs and salary deflation now).
How Much Do I Need to Know?
Well, broaden your horizon a bit from an irrelevant example of a "library" of a few lines to a real one a of few thousand lines, then you might know. Also those same people also write insecure code before they retire. Experienced people write security bugs all the time.

What I'm saying is if you imagine a world where there is so much time to be wasted rewriting the same library a thousand times, you could try to imagine spending a small share of that time hardening the supply chain
The dazzling, $113B world of scratch-off lottery tickets
This is great! I've forwarded the site to my wife.

Would you mind sharing how you trained the model to produce the vectors? Are you using a vision transformer under the hood with contrastive training against price, product category, etc.?

EDIT: I see that the training script is included in the repo and you are using a CNN. Inspiring work!
> 3d positional/velocity precision. SpaceX has prove that they can reliably land on a target, usually within meters

On Earth, which has GPS. On a very highly engineered landing surface.

Landing on inertial guidance on soft regolith is a whole different ballgame.
Who Killed Gopher? (1998)
https://archive.ph/stCoA
I feel like you’re underestimating the power of SV moving fast and breaking things to learn quickly. Your attitude is why we’ve stopped hiring SMEs and PhDs in my underwater space launch / space elevator bio startup.
This is yet another reason to stop supporting chains and go to locally owned independent restaurants. Good food made with usually more passion and care with variety and quality ingredients.
It's a problem for fabrication of plutonium fuel for reactors because oxide fuel is made by sintering pellets and then carefully handling them and stuffing them into a tube with gloves. The only way known to make high quality mixed-oxide fuel (Pu fissile and U fertile) is to alloy the oxides with a high energy ball mill -- the ball mill can turn silica into dangerous nanoparticles, but with Pu it's much worse.

At the factory Karen Silkwood worked at they couldn't ever keep dust down to levels that would be considered safe by US regulator so they had to wear respirators all the time which is considered a "normalization of deviance". I think they closed down a planned MOX plant at the Savannah River

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2018-11/news-briefs/doe-term...

over these issues. The French think it is OK, the epidemiology was controversial for a long time because of the "healthy worker" effect (people who work are almost always healthier than the population as a whole unless the place is a real deathtrap like the mine at Libby, Montana) but the American point of view has gained in recent research

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28520643/
Only a matter of time. Remote attestation is one of the most subversive technologies ever invented and they have already tried to make it a web standard, it's only a matter of time before they try again and succeed.

We have all this free and open source software and it doesn't matter because they'll refuse us service if we use it. Only corporation owned computers will pass attestation. If you own your machine you will be turned away from every web site.
That's a good point. Perhaps I was a bit too hard on it. I was reading it through the lens of the title, "We wash our trash to repent for killing God". But frequently titles are a bit more florid than the essay proper--to get people to read it.
Does anyone have experience with this service or similar ones?
It sounds like they go further by doing output fact extraction & matching back to the RAG snippets. Presumably this is addition to matching back the citations. I've seen papers write about doing that with knowledge graphs, but at least for our workloads, it's easy to verify directly.

As a team who has done similar things for louie.ai - think real-time reporting, alerting, chatting, & BI on news, social media, threat intel, operational databases etc - I find it interesting less on breaking new ground but confirming the quality benefit when being more broadly used in serious contexts. Likewise, hospitals are quite political internally for this stuff, so seeing which use cases got the greenlight to go all the way through is also interesting.
Aha! The answer to "who writes poetry worse than Vogons, and even worse than Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings" turns out to be "large language models".
All around terrible idea to mix personal and work. Your work computer is always subject to investigation and potential seizure by authorities, not to mention many corporations leverage MitM proxies or other local logging software at the machine rather than user level.
What API are you using to keep running in the background? Most likely you are misusing it on some manner and have yet to get caught by App Review.
I think a big part of the problem is the way one typically "installs" a GH action: by copy-pasting something from README of the action.

Let's have a look at a random official GH provided action:

https://github.com/actions/checkout

It lists the following snippet:

`uses: actions/checkout@v4`

Almost everyone will just copy paste this snippet and call it a day. Most people don't think twice that v4 is a movable target that can be compromised.

In case of npm/yarn deps, one would often do the same, and copy paste `yarn install foobar`, but then when installing, npm/yarn would create a lockfile and pin the version. Whereas there's no "installer" CLI for GH actions that would pin the version for you, you just copy-paste and git push.

To make things better, ideally, the owners of actions would update the workflows which release a new version of the GH action, to make it update README snippet with the sha256 of the most recent release, so that it looks like

`uses: actions/checkout@abcdef9876543210` # v4.5.6

Since GitHub doesn't promote good defaults, it's not surprising that third-party maintainers do the same.
This is not how we, as Americans, do things. You appeal, until you get the judgement you like, or you run out of money. Getting ruled against happens. That's how you know you're wrong.

Three things:

1. Since Musk has basically unlimited money he can circumvent the rule of law
2. If enough judges who rule against him get impeached, the judicial branch will lose credibility. I doubt we want to go there.
3. Kids these days.
This sort of measure is a decent match for BPB though. BPB=-log(document_probability)/document_length_bytes and perplexity=e^(BPB*document_length_bytes/document_length_tokens). We already train models by minimizing perplexity, and model outputs are already those that are high probability. Though like with EBMs, figuring out outputs with even higher probability would require an expensive search step.
Food slides? Smart waiters? Hook and cook? And a large orange drink?
> it is labelled as editorial guidelines and not an editorial article

Editorial Policies

As part of the Nature Portfolio, the Nature Research journals follow common policies as detailed in the Nature Portfolio journals’ authors and referees policy pages, and we request that our authors and referees abide by all of them. Nature Portfolio journals take publication conduct seriously. We reserve the right to decline publication of a paper even after it has been accepted if it becomes apparent that there are serious problems with the scientific content or violations of our publishing policies. Particularly, we want to draw your attention to the following policies and guidelines.

I'd say they're very clear on what these are and what the consequences of violating these guidelines are. They assume their readers and potential authors understand what they mean as well. I think they are correct in their assumption that those who are interested in this publication understand both the meaning as well as the reach of these guidelines.

It is also clear from these guidelines that the City Journal article as well as the self-described neophyte (your words) were right when they said research into these areas is shunned no matter the validity of such research, that as far as this publication is concerned this is 'forbidden territory'.

> ...didn't understand the risks for harm created by his research, that's his fault and not that of the PhD programs.

No, that is an incorrect characterisation of the circumstances. There is no harm created by this research per se, what harm there might be is in the eyes of the editors of NHB in that this research enters a territory that they deem to be off-limits because it might produce outcomes that undermine the basic tenets of their world view. In reality this research and any outcomes it produces can be used both for good as well as for bad purposes just like nearly all research. The editors at NHB would rather not have to contend with research which undermines their basic tenets of all humans being identical - the 'tabula rasa' or '0% nature, 100% nurture' - so they want to keep it out of their publication (which in itself is their right although it undermines their credibility) as well as out of academic discourse (which is where they are wrong).
Doesn't explain "too few" at all. To few for what?
Laser is angled outwards at approx 45 degrees, I think it's well away from the exhaust plume.
In the era of the key fob it's pretty automatic to lock the car every time. Some cars even literally do it for you. I hardly think of this, let alone get not great feelings about it.
Firefox is under the MPL, not the GPL
The Slacker Manifesto
Furthermore, the latest build of Meshtastic mentioned some LAN networking, so nodes that don't have radios can still exchange messages if they're connected by some other means.

That seems just a hop skip and a jump from having a Bluetooth WPAN/WLAN that lets many phones share one or zero Meshtastic radios but still be able to talk to each other...
same with shake shack, went there once, never going back. also asked me for my phone number.
It's not new, it just says "On 2021-02-27 a successful build for Linux can be done with these steps" [0].

I followed the steps and had a compiled and working version within a couple minutes (after a compile error and fixing by installing libgtk2.0-dev).

[0] https://github.com/serge-rgb/milton?tab=readme-ov-file#linux...
10/10; thank you so much!
Thanks for the links. Certainly, when I became an atheist, the hardest thing to come to grips with was the loss of community. There are lots of little communities--WOW guilds, school sports teams, etc. But there's nothing like a universal religion which everybody belongs to.
Using PBR to Route Traffic on OpenWrt
I'd say 95% of Amazon delivery vehicles I see in NYC are the electric type. Amazon are known to be really concerned with the bottom-line efficiency, so I suppose it must make clear economic sense.
Britain, Spain and France still have parts of their empires

Spain, Portugal, France and the Netherlands lost their superpower status before the start of the 20th century

if you're in the year 2300, maybe the state Spain and Portugal ended up several hundred years after the loss of their superpower status is of interest

but today, the question we are interested is in "what happens at the point the US loses dominance over the world?"

will the US will handover the reigns to China in the way Britain did to the US?