skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI for Inverse Design of Machines
physics simulation + AI = new solutions
The Money & Macro channel went over the economic history of Argentina recently:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7MzfNTSk4A

Milei seems to be part of a regular pattern of swinging back and forth between economic extremes. The author of the video/channel is skeptical that this latest round will do much in the long term (previously things 'worked' in the short term before going off the rails).

(I don't have the knowledge/expertise to judge his analysis, but some of the history/context was interesting.)
Show HN is for things that are already available – not landing pages with a sign-up form. Perhaps put up a prototype? https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
This is part of the misconception.

Many agricultural processes are already automated, in the field.

Combines drive themselves, drone spraying, on and on. If you go to a real, modern farm you will find a ton of automation. We don't need them to be vertical or indoors to do so.
You could just as easily turn that back on the pro-230 crowd. Can't innovate without Section 230? Excuses.

In fact, it's easier to make the case against Section 230 because an internet actually did exist before Section 230 and was fairly decentralized.
Not the prettiest thing in the world, but:

Get a cheap box fan, cheap mosquito netting type material, and duct-tape.

Cut the netting to size and tape it to the fan so that anything that goes through the fan gets caught in the net.

Put it in shaded places - bonus if its around doors.

Mosquitoes are not strong flyers, and when hunting or looking for a place to rest will get sucked in and can't get out.

I've killed - without exaggeration - thousands doing this.

Not a silver bullet (what is?) but as part of a defense-in-depth strategy this is insanely easy - and kind of fun.

n.b. I've been hospitalized with west nile - this is fun :-)
I definitely though of the programming language at first. Although the speed of light is a bit presumptuous to qualify the speed of C, I now wonder why every benchmark is against C, and not some other language.
You don't deserve a damn argument about this, so shut up.
Someone posted on X advice that really helped me clean up my inbox

Add a filter looking for the word "Unsubscribe" and automatically put them in "Promotional" category or something similar. Also apply the filter to existing emails, and let it run for a minute.

Try it now! And comment if it reduced your inbox to like 2% of what it was :)
They have legal rights until the data is detached and deidentified.
Signal is great. But if your employer has rules that require retaining messages, Signal isn't usable because it doesn't do that.
I found it obnoxious that they started with 4 "Editor's Note" tangents, and the first sentence of the whole thing is "Look at how funny I am".

It's like all those YouTubers who start their videos with rambling on about what's new in their lives...
Couldn't you just add an extra step to check if the suggestion is offensive, then don't show it?
2160p content in h264 will be too big to normally manage.
h265 is way better at it. file sizes stay within normal limits.
Last comment, promise.

I think there may even be an argument that a stance like this can do more damage than good. It may actually normalize the view that it's sufficient to promote on social media but ultimately take no action. There's a danger of furthering a sense of complacency where we want to do the right thing, but where sufficiency in "the right thing" has been normalized down to a grumble and a tweet rather than to actually take real action at any real personal cost.

Alternatively put, if everyone else doesn't do the hard bit, why should I?

Consider real leadership that makes the hard choices and leads by example. You see a friend step up against something at cost to them, and it's that what motivates you to join them. Leading by example is what motivates people.

I think it would have been so much more effective if Jeff returned the dishwasher. People see that personal cost and it _means something_. Otherwise why bother? I mean, that's what Jeff does, right?
More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Flight Delays
Worth a read if you grew up in that era (or are a fan).
Nah. If they manage to circumvent or amend the constitution, they'd just give Trump more terms in office rather than open up the office to Elon.
Magnetic Vector Potential?
Protein accidentally lassos itself helping to explain unusual refolding behavior
I need to learn rust for work. Since beej doesn't seem to have a guide for rust, what's the next best thing? :)
Why DAC cables over Cat6a or Cat7
Somehow in the 1950s we had marginal tax rates on top earners that were like over 75%. And when the folks who talk about "making America great again" are asked what period of time they'd like to go back to they're usually thinking the 1950s.
Um, haha, no.

Mountain Dew, duh. Real creatives crave it.
Bcachefs Aims for "Soft Frozen" On-Disk Format with 6.15 Along with New Features
Somewhat off-topic, but here's "A joke about measurement": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmfdeWd0RMk
If it's a new domain, then your problem isn't reputation exactly, it's having a newly-registered domain. Buying a new domain, setting up the SPF, DKIM, and MARC, and then immediately spamming from it until it's banned everywhere a week later is standard spammer MO.

I've been self-hosting mail for me and my family for about 20 years and don't send nearly enough mail to have a "reputation" with anybody. Still, I don't have any problems with deliverability of mail.
TSLA up, recently, amidst continuing confirmation of plummeting sales. The exhortation to employees not to sell is giving Enron.
1. It's hard to fit a hundred-year history of a country in a twenty minute video.

2. Are there certain "key facts" that should have been brought up even in the limited allotted time that you can bring up here/now?
Sounds like a fantastic way for bad actors to liquidate US reserves and then run away with them. which the current administration has proven, repeatedly, that they are.

"but it's just some mild economic policies, bro" -- HN, probably
Some people do it. It's risky and not a sure thing. Many people who create something feel like they become a prisoner of it. Myself I made a web site that grossed $1000 a month on AdSense at the peak but then I got kicked out of AdSense.
Which works great unless you're trying to debug gmail refusing your emails because of some issue or another.
I mean, I think you have unreasonable expectations for a 1K word blog post. Or maybe I have very low standards and no matter how disappointing a post is, I accept it... could be. However, if I read a blog post on "Rewrite React from Scratch", I'm expecting to see some reactivity and that's it.

As a reader, after I see I barely need to scroll to the end of the article (and the repo isn't very big either), I immediately understood that they aren't rewriting C++ standard library from scratch. Of course they can't give all the answers on how to maintain backwards compatibility with decades of legacy stuff with probably billions of devices and exotic use cases..
My immediate guess based on no specific knowledge was “arbitrary constant while they were figuring things out” and it sounds like that’s not far from the truth. The process of discovery is often far more protracted than it seems when one is reading about it decades after the fact.
Credit for the idea goes to Godfried Toussaint.

https://www.amazon.com/Geometry-Musical-Rhythm-Makes-Second/...
I rather think that the internet mostly sucks right now, and would be way better without Facebook, Twitter, Google, Insta, etc. With the exception of TikTok, which actually has a decent search function, all those companies are blatantly censoring and deleting real content left and right. So much that I have come to think that's actually their whole purpose. I rarely even use those services as it stands, with the exception of YouTube, which I just rip audio from and download to listen in the car. Guess what, it's not rocket science to host an audio file. With AI, even Google is mostly useless, returning only a few dozen results, if that. There really isn't even an internet anymore except for places like HN. Kill Big Tech dead and let people find each other again.
They’re saying that organizations which do not support his politics should lose federal funding. He’s blackballing law firms based on their employees having represented the other side in his cases. He’s arguing in court right now that he doesn’t need to follow laws which conflict with his plans.
Masterful use of quoting and citing his own words from merely two hours ago to peacefully and poignantly make your (and apparently his) point.
Douglas Adams thread a couple of weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43331706
> > Doesn't matter

> Any time the microprocessor accesses memory for use as an int, it's a specific kind of int, meaning size and signedness, and the flags are adjusted properly as per the operation performed.

Sure. But the C standard specifies how addition of a pointer to an integer works in section 6.5.7, particularly paragraph 9. The specifics of what flags get set & the width of integer used are up to the implementation & the programmer, but

> For addition, either both operands shall have arithmetic type, or one operand shall be a pointer to a complete object type and the other shall have integer type. (Incrementing is equivalent to adding 1.)

should be a pretty clear statement that pointer + integer is valid!

> > Strings in C are just pointers to `char` with

> I'm gonna end this here. I taught myself C programming by reading K&R in the late 80s, and then proceeded to do so professionally for YEARS and YEARS.

> There are people that know, and there are people that act like they know. You ever read the first two chapters of Windows Internals? You ever write C code that could make Windows system calls from the same program that could be 32- or 64-bit with a simple compiler flag?

> I have.

I'm an embedded C developer. I've been writing C for decades, but not for windows. But I do write code that can work on both 8-bit and 32-bit systems with just a compiler flag. Strings are arrays of character type with a null terminator, and array-to-pointer decay works as usual with them.

>> C strings are fundamentally fragile.

> Not if you know what you're doing. You're almost certainly using a C program to type this response in an operating system largely written in C. You get any segfaults lately? I don't EVER on either my Ubuntu or Debian systems.

> Thanks for playing.

C strings are arrays of character type with a null terminator. That is fundamentally fragile, since it includes no information about the encoding or length of the string, and thus allows invalid states to be represented. That doesn't mean you will get segfaults, only that it's possible for someone to screw up & interpret your UTF-8 data as ASCII or write a `\0` in the middle of a string or other such mistake, and you'll get no protection from the type system.
Looks like yet another patch to OpenSSH that the OpenBSD people will stay away from as far as the can. What can go wrong ?

At least that is my belief, do people here think my speculation is correct ? I checked https://undeadly.org and no mention of anything like this.

FWIW, I will never use this.
What's the failure mode here? Heating coil making contact with the outer casing? Shouldn't that be caught by a residual-current circuit breaker?

In any case, generating lots of heat inside the oven is probably safer than doing it outside it.
In LA sure, you can get away with minimal insulation. SF is a different story. That city is shockingly cold. An uninsulated house in SF is wasting loads of energy.
A lot of these conventions just develop according to what notation sticks, like how π caught on almost 3 millennia after the ratio was treated as a constant.

And not all of them are even as universal as one might think. mx+c is not.

Charles Hutton used y = ax + b for the equation of a "right line" in xyr 1811 A Course of Mathematics, for example.
"X" macros are great until you need two of them visible in the same translation unit. It is much better to pass a list macro as an argument to a uniquely named X macro and avoid the need to ever undef anything.
Better No-Knead Bread
This.

Making the web more powerful is also making the more powerful *more powerful*.
But that’s during training, not during inference. Also it’s more structured in where the dropout is happening. I do think that points to them being somewhat resilient but we haven’t had LLMs exist long enough for a good test
CDMX feels pretty safe, it’s the more rural areas you need to be cautious. It’s essentially inverted in the US.
It seems like Andreas abandoned SerenityOS and Jakt with it, and moved on to Ladybird. The language died with this move. The project was always very clearly “for fun” so I don’t see any harm or foul here. I also got the sense that there was a falling out between Andreas and some members of the community, like JT and one of the major JavaScript engine contributors whose name I can’t recall right now. Or maybe it was just that the passion for this particular project dried up.
I am probably one of the very few people on HN who came from a very similar household to rayiner but descended from pre-1965 south Asians in the US so I can tell you that all his suppositions do not necessarily hold for that group
I don't think Tesla stock is going to bounce back.
An actual strongly encrypted messenger app like Signal is not really like a FBI fake-encrypted honeypot app like Anom
You're about to get downvoted to oblivion.

Here, have a preemptive upvote to keep you afloat for one extra second.
Another issue is cross-compiling.

External code generation requires (cross) execution of the (cross) compiled binary program.
That would be pretty inconvenient for appliances in places that are hard to reach with a computer, but definitely an improvement over the status quo.
Has that changed at all in the video game industry? I assume it's just as prevalent a problem as ever since games are just as popular as ever.
>uncomfortable, despite knowing it's just math and whatever behind the scenes

If the "just math behind the scenes" argument is decisive, then how do we resist the argument that a person is just atoms (or the wavefunction if you want to get more sophisticated) behind the scenes, so you can ignore any apparent cruelty done to them, too?
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Kylie Minogue song about a typeface
It's great that you have an article to share, but I don't think it meets the guidelines for Show HN because there is nothing to play with or try out. Good luck.
Signal's cryptography is quite secure. Signal's user management (restricting users you can chat with only to members of your organization) is nonexistent since it's not a goal. There's no requirement to have your common access card to get into a Signal group, there's no check for appropriate clearance enforced by Signal, so it's fundamentally unsuited to handling military information.
Do you have more details on which aspects of Epictetus' philosophy are related to hating to outsource mental work? I'm not familiar enough with stoicism. Thanks

(I could ask chatgpt, I ask you instead =p)

PS: Claude 3.5 Haiku take on it: "For Epictetus, the process of thinking is more important than the result. By outsourcing mental work, people surrender their most valuable tool for self-improvement - their own mind."
May I ask why you think they are actually sentient?
My wife's son is a recently-minted top-of-his-class doctor who said that he would not be a patient of 80-90% of his med school graduating class.

I chalk it up to their primary skill is to be a memorizer. As a problem solver, myself, I have more respect for people that can think through a problem, analyze it, and come up with creative solutions. I have never seen that in a doctor, but that's really because they're just a product of the system that produces them, and I've only known a few. My guess is that most of them are pursuing that career because it's lucrative and socially beneficial, not because they can make a difference in people's lives.

> I think doing well in college is probably more about factors like time management skills and social support network than about vices.

I agree, but the vices can certainly interfere with the rest of it, especially for us poors who don't have upper middle class parents to fall back upon, as you suggest. I think a lot of why we're not rich in the first place is that our parents didn't have the mentorship to succeed either.

But I'm not crying about it, not while I have breath and love and fighting spirit.

Peace be with you, my friend.
The problem is the principle of the thing. I shouldn’t have to pay to develop an app to run on my own device. I can see an argument for locking features like test flight and distribution behind the paywall, but I should be able to run an app that I develop by myself onto a device that I own with no restrictions.
I'm so confused by how one goes from seeing an output as the article says as "next token completion by a stochastic parrot" to instead viewing it as "sincere (if unusual) pain".

What exactly does the word "pain" mean in the context of a bunch of code that runs matrix math problems? Doesn't pain require an evolved sensory system (nervous system), an evolved sense of danger / death and training via evolution on what things are harmful, then a part of the brain to form that interprets the electrical signals from the nervous system and guides the organism on how it should respond to them (according to Google: thalamus + somatosensory complex)?

What exactly in the LLM does someone anthropomorphizing imagine is performing the part of the somatosensory complex or the thalamus? If we pretend that text inputs can be substitutes for the nerves of a biological organism, what do we swap in for the evolved pain management part of the brain or the experiential process of consciously experiencing that qualia?

If the thing is just trained on Reddit and Youtube comments and academic research corpus, how do you end up with a recreation of something (a sensory part, a processing part, and a subjective qualia part) that -evolved- over millions of years to survive an adversarial environment (the natural world)?

How can a token predictor learn "pain" if the corpus it's trained on has no predators, natural disasters, accidents and injuries, burns, frostbite, blunt impact, cutting, etc? If there's no reward function that is sexual reproduction to optimize for (learn to avoid pain, live long enough to reproduce)? What is the equivalent and where do we find it in the text training data?

What does it mean to experience pain, and if the LLM version is so so so different, why do we use the same word?

Does a Honda civic experience pain when its airbag sensor detects a collision and does the chip that deploys and inflates the airbag process that sensation/pain and consciously experience it and respond by deploying the airbag? (maybe analogous to the "Help" printed by the LLM in the article).

If not then why do we see the LLM as experiencing qualia and responding to it but not the Honda? Is it some sort of emergent phenomena that is only part of the magic of transformers or the scale of the neural network? To me that argument feels like saying the Honda Civic doesn't experience pain but if you scaled up a Honda Civic and made a city-sized Civic with many many interconnected airbag sensors and airbag deployers then suddenly something emergent happens and when the Honda Civic deploys an airbag it shows a conscious experience of pain.
We need camera poses in dynamic scenes
> A family member who's doing better in life than I am purchased a house built within the last 5 years, and it didn't even _have_ Ethernet run anywhere. WHY!?! I can't fathom how it's possible anyone would find that a negative.

I'm less sure. Are there any 40 year old cables that you'd consider a positive in your house today? 20 year old cables? I wouldn't be too excited about having a house full of Coax, 10Base-T, and twisted pair.

I feel like the much better solution is to run conduit in which you can replace the cable rather than permanently putting in twice as much of whatever is in favor today. The conduit is always better, right?
I don't have a lot of sympathy for people using their tools wrong. Using partitioning surely would have prevented this.
SvelteKit hands down.
Ernst Abbe at Zeiss played a big role in this- helping to introduce an 8-hour work day along with employer co-ownership.
Sizzy seems to have been abandoned. The developer has been unresponsive and the last update was botched with no way to actually get it. It’s a shame because I preferred Sizzy's experience over the alternatives. It just felt more polished to me.
Shocking, isn't it? Not that Europe can do it, but that the US can't, and people like you apparently don't even realize it and are actually surprised and skeptical to hear it. The US is a third world country in so many ways, and even more so now.

US added to human rights watchlist for ‘narrowing’ freedom and now ranks near Serbia and Congo:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-human-r...

>The U.S. was added to a watchlist of countries with “faltering civic freedoms” after a global watchdog group raised alarm bells over recent actions taken by President Donald Trump and his administration.

It's not rocket science, but maybe it's better to focus on solving problems here on Earth before going to Mars.
I perceive quite the opposite. Rarely do I see it producing workable solutions and it often just creates noise. What’s worse is the mistakes it makes sometimes are nuanced, and not the kind of mistakes a human coder would make, causing me to waste a lot of time finding the mistake. I think it’s more useful to get ideas from, or treat it like a trainer when learning a new language, but code generation seems really poor to me still. The only ones I see arguing that its not the case are junior coders making slop apps that do nothing all that interesting.
> I think some kids really benefit from the traditional Asian style, and they reach levels that would be hard to reach otherwise.

I absolutely agree.
That's the same category for me. The category that either gets people killed or violates people's rights in some way. It's not going to be used in any way that's a net benefit to normal people, only to the top 1% and the government.
Other commenters are trying to gaslight you into believing this isn't possible, but I also have a memory from before I could walk.

I was lying on the floor, contemplating a toy that had been hung above my head, when someone who was not one of my parents came to pick me up.

Years later, I told my mother about this. She then searched through the family film archive, and found the moment in question. The person who picked me up was my uncle.

This was not a film we had watched before, it came about because I was discussing with my mother our earliest memories.
Could you reference some of this free speech absolutist background?

I'm willing to reexamine my appreciation for the darknet diaries,but I have never gotten this political take from the content itself. Rather he seems to simply be willing to engage with folks he disagrees with morally, as a matter similar to any journalist might. He does not engage with active crime or anything like that either.

I really like darknet diaries. I don't think it is just about cyber crime though. More like a human social journalism with a heavy cyber crime angle. So that's how you have such a range of content in my opinion.

Also, maybe listen at 1.3X? That makes the explanations and pacing imo easier
Dominance comes from owning the product (the browser), it didn't come from the browser engine.
Mermaid.live just got way better