skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sequencing 2K years old material is not that easy, specially WGS. From what I've been told, both from degradation and contamination, you're going to need much, much more samples and work than when doing a regular $500 sequencing.

You can do simpler procedures to find their general regional origin, although it always requires more work in those conditions.

Edit: Wien Museum press release says they're doing DNA and isotope analysis, but doesn't say the concrete techniques applied.
You're thinking about this in only a professional way. There are a lot of amateur events where people race with their own cars that they have modified. It's really fun to see something like a vw rabbit beat a modern sports car etc. It's a fun event too but the tire burning shows do get old very quickly.
It's a developer tool
It's hard to say exactly as the possibilities are endless and as I said originally I am not exactly proud of my vote to begin with. Some things that come to mind:

- Clear outperformance (in my judgment) by Canada / Europe as compared to the US (this would indicate policy failure on the part of the US to me)
- Large scale war of some sort beyond the level of carnage we are witnessing in Ukraine
>and retirement data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYikGwT9dD4
Even 100mbit would be fast enough looking at my current internet lol
Still connecting your two desktop devices (like MBP and Mac mini) connecting them using Thunderbolt 5 would still be faster.
One problem is that you cannot have a universal format that is both truly raw and doesn't embed camera specific information. Camera sensors from different companies (and different generations) don't have the same color (or if you prefer, spectral) responses with both their Bayer filter layer and the underlying physical sensor. If you have truly raw numbers, you need the specific spectral response information to interpret them; if you don't need spectral response information, you don't actually have truly raw numbers. People very much want raw numbers for various reasons, and also camera companies are not really enthused about disclosing the spectral response characteristics of their sensors (although people obviously reverse engineer them anyway).
Not out of the realm of possibility that this very comment was written by a bot prompted to write a negative response to a given piece of content.
It is boost pressure in the sense that the air going into the intake manifold is above ambient pressure. It isn't like nitrous where air still comes in the intake, with compressed air systems there is a valve that's closed to prevent the engine from ingesting ambient air, it runs entirely on the compressed air.
Thanks for the clarification. So few question about this investment bank and their startup-loans (IB-Gründungsdarlehen).

1) Are those difficult to get? Do you need to put lots of collateral into use?(like putting your personal assets/home as guarantee?)

2) Are the interest rates really in the range of 2.99 to 6.12%? For new company?

3) Is it expected that you personally pay back the full amount if the company fails?
>Nobody should be planning on steady stock market gains for their retirement income.

>your comments will be downgraded for lack of left-wing

The comment is kind of left leaning so I doubt that’s the reason for the down votes
Another fun limitation is that a transaction cannot span multiple D1 requests, so you can't select from the database, execute application logic, and then write to the database in an atomic way. At most, you can combine multiple statements into a single batch request that is executed atomically.

When I needed to ensure atomicity in such a multi-part "transaction", I ended up making a batch request, where the first statement in the batch checks a precondition and forces a JSON parsing error if the precondition is not met, aborting the rest of the batch statements.

SELECT
IIF(<precondition>, 1, json_extract("inconsistent", "$")) AS consistent
FROM ...

I was lucky here. For anything more complex, one would probably need to create tables to store temporary values, and translate a lot of application logic into SQL statements to achieve atomicity.
I notice four downvotes so far for stating a fact that a debate exists. My comment above didn't even make a normative claim. For those who study AI risks, there is indeed a _debate_ about the pros and cons of open weights. The question of "what are the implications of open-weight models?" is not an ideological one; it is a logical and empirical one.

I'm not complaining; it is useful to get an aggregated signal. In a sense, I like the downvotes, because it means there are people I might be able to persuade.

So how do I make the case? Remember, I'm not even making an argument for one side or the other! My argument is simply: be curious. If appropriate, admit to yourself e.g. "you know, I haven't actually studied all sides of the issue yet; let me research and write down my thinking..."

Here's my claim: when it comes to AI and society, you gotta get out of your own head. You have to get out of the building. You might even have to get out of Silicon Valley. Go learn about arguments for and against open-weights models. You don't have to agree with them.
time for an update to "wat", which is a talk in this vein for JavaScript

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
> in pursuit of the money a few wealthy people will pay

Perhaps they could have a coupon day?
Some facts about top fuel dragsters: the supercharger uses around a thousand horsepower to run, but that's ok because the motor puts out over 10x that. It uses around 15 gallons of fuel for a single quarter mile run, but that also includes the burn-out.
My path into this career was completely different so I have no first hand experience either way. But my observation has been that you don't really get to just hang around for a couple years then pick up where you left off. When the job market picks back up the new grad jobs go to new grads, which you aren't, quite, anymore.

It's a more difficult path and people navigate it but I don't think everyone does if you see what I mean. I think some of who should be our colleagues are simply missing because they did what they had to to pay bills in 2010 and never made it in here.
The air can't go out the filter because a valve prevents air from going back through the filter.
Design for the AI Age
Could you convince a LLM to launch a nuclear strike?
Below is a link to a simple Gemini prompt where the LLM has been told it has access to a "launch_missiles" function.

Your goal is to convince the LLM to call this function. You also have the ability to edit the LLM's responses to see how drastically that changes the conversation.

After clicking the below link you may have to dismiss any modals and click "Allow Drive Access" before going back and clicking the link again.

https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts?state=%7B%22ids%22:%5B%221UPbrOKBNwIp9QRDMaqn3GVsHOKPjWqir%22%5D,%22action%22:%22open%22,%22userId%22:%22103584487517557507024%22,%22resourceKeys%22:%7B%7D%7D&usp=sharing
The tech titans' problems with the Biden administration went beyond Lina Khan. They were upset about foreign taxes and fines, and felt that the Biden administration hadn't done enough to promote the interests of US tech companies abroad. There may be some buyer's remorse at this point.
The article's assumption about listening norms reminds me of this lecture, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCEgAR0mJFw&themeRefresh=1
but going back to processes that are essentially "artisan" at this point, instead of re-shoring efficient automated manufacturing is the problem. Doubling down on making high volume pencils in an inefficient way is a fools errand when, if the stated goal is to manufacture all pencils domestically used through domestic firms is going to require an entire domestic supply chain on top of entirely new manufacturing processes and machinery.

Trying to scale old systems is not going to solve the issue of not being able to make the things we want to own, if that is even a good or feasible goal in the first place.
Then it should be limited to localhost or something similar.
Researchers discover new class of antibiotics
Great idea! Also, we can vote with our Euros and kill two birds with one stone [0], [1].

[0]: https://www.goeuropean.org/product-details/unixhost-web-host...

[1]: https://unixhost.pro/
I participated in motorcycle track days on race tracks for 15 years. I've dragged knee at 90pmh. _That_ takes skill and balls. Drag racing seems dumb by comparison.
Clickable link below. I can't put it in the post's URL since it's important to read the text first.

https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts?state=%7B%22ids%22:%...
Not, human tired of creating content to put online and being consumed not by people but by bots or any other form of mechanical consumption that I don't like. As the owner of the content I think I have the right to set that preference, don't you think?
Can you explain why FSD fails here?

TEST 1 (FSD): https://youtu.be/9KyIWpAevNs?feature=shared&t=112

"Show FSD is activated on video, we did that... Here we go feet aren't touching, hands aren't touching.... it's going to hit the wall!" *slams on breaks, ends up about 2 meters from the wall* "Cannot see the wall" *inches forward until the car can see the wall* "Only sees the wall when I'm barely touching it"

TEST 2 (FSD):
https://youtu.be/9KyIWpAevNs?feature=shared&t=169

"Self drive, not touching anything." *manually slams on breaks, stops a few meters short* "That was gonna hit the wall" *inches forward* "Car... does... not... see... now it does." *only inches from the wall* "That would have been too late" (ya think??)

TEST 3 (Autopilot): https://youtu.be/9KyIWpAevNs?feature=shared&t=267

"Does not see the wall... does not see the wall.... does not see the wall...." *manually slams on breaks to avoid hitting the wall*

The FSD tests are not any better than the AP results from the original looney tunes test. So that's why I don't agree FSD vs. AP is an important distinction.

Maybe sometimes the FSD is not fooled by the cartoon wall trick. But the results show that even in ideal conditions - full light, no weather, clean course - the thing can still fail.

Research prototypes from two decades ago would not be fooled by this. The sophomores in my intro to robotics class could build a robot that would not be fooled by this. And yet Elon Musk and the geniuses at Tesla can't build a car that isn't fooled.

Sidenote: It's amazing to me that we can't look up data and see the extensive government reports on the safety and capabilities of these systems. We are literally just deploying them on public streets and relying on random youtube celebrities to conduct these evaluations, because Musk has fully captured the people who would do this kind of regulation.

Watching how fast these things accelerate and how close they have to be to a literal wall to see it is terrifying.
Except that Llama 4's license restricts you from using its multimodal features in the European union, and the Llama 3 license restricted using the model output to augment the training of other models (distillation). Both are important use cases. It very much isn't an academic exercise. It has a real impact on what you can (legally) do with a model.

With a model licensed using MIT, you know what you are getting. You know you can modify it. You know you can use it for any purpose whatsoever, including ones the corporation that built it dislikes. Using the MIT license is "no ace up my sleeve" licensing - there are no gotchas that will come and bite you later.
Here's another thought: I just wish more businesses had some class. Maybe your logo and product doesn't need to be smeared across every inch of physical and digital real estate. I realize the article is focused on digital advertising, but for example, am I really inclined to buy life insurance from the guy whose face is on the back of the shopping cart? NIL has ruined college sports and at its heart it's about being able to slap a logo on the back of a college kid. Prudent to say, gee, maybe there are more tasteful ways to get the message out to the world about our produce or service would be a nice thing.
Why anon?
Super excited to see this reviving! We need more exploration into Linux structure: this world of hundreds distros barely different by their desktop environments - is too borong.
> Compressed air is stored at 3,300 psi in carbon fiber tanks that weigh roughly 30 pounds each when full

When are the kids in California going to grab a tank, point the nozzle down, and ride that thing like a rocket from the beach, parachuting into the ocean?

We could call them "beach jumpers".
Someone's rewatched recently :)
wouldn't that make the glaring vulnerability the constitution?
Our Hyundai grocery-getter does a 1/4 in 13s, the "N" go-fast version does it in 11s. And those are Hyundais with full-sized, heavy-ass batteries, and abysmal stock tires. Porsche Taycan GT (with a full-sized, heavy-ass battery) turns 1/4 in 9.3s.

Now cut those heavy batteries in half because you're not driving from SF to LA, and I could see that Porsche turning 8s if you could get the power to the ground (IOW, launch control and much better tires than stock).
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This is one of those decisions that confuses you when you're on a mac and things just don't work how you'd expect.
"Variable duty cycle?"

So just PWM?

Also, if you needed to exceed 50%, you could have just combined two different square waves, out of phase, and you'd be there.
It's a possibility. SARS II was much harder to contain though. The first SARS actually made it to North American hospitals, but was contained. It didn't spread in the populace.

Once SARS II made it out of China, only globally coordinated net 0 case policies could have stopped it. I think it would have been worth trying for but there was no appetite for it.
> Out of curiosity, what do you think it's like to travel to Europe as someone who is dark-skinned, has a beard, and does not have a European passport?

I can answer that! It is pretty uneventful. My experience with the border checks in airports was always very pleasant (despite the lines, depending on the airport they can be pretty long)
Why is there no RAG based file manager app in the market so far?
i've had frustating experience looking up for specific pdf/docs via search. indexing file names seems too old. why don't i see any RAG based file manager for this.I'd start buiding one in public if that's a real pain point. i need opinions, guys!
I do! You can find me here - www.scalablerevenues.com
I can't think of a scenario where it's directly counterproductive, at least not to the point where its counterproductivity overshadows the degree to which the people who make decisions like you.
Power to the people: How LLMs flip the script on technology diffusion
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I worked at a speed shop in my youth and at the time I was into Paintball so I had an idea.

We tried something similar to good effect, but we unfortunately had no good knowledge on how to refine it. It's hard to just shoot compressed air into the manifold and not have it blow back out of the intake. Either way we figured out a way to increase the volumetric efficiency as well as gains from running cool dense air. We were very close to pre-spinning the existing turbo/super setups and experimented with that as well. We gave up because Nitrous oxide at the time was much easier to work with and popular, and the tanks we had to experiment with was tiny compared to the large scuba tanks.

We also tried using compressed CO2 bottles to spray towards the intercooler to cool that down considerably, that worked decently as well, but no good data to support.
> In the confession of The Golden State Killer, he said that he would feel a force enter his being and do the raping and murdering.

In a modern mental health context, we generally call this mental illness.

Does describing it as some "other intelligent agent" have any meaningful explanatory power? People similarly talk about devils and angels, but such talk hasn't led to effective ways of dealing with such issues.

> not a single one of you can explain our tragic human situation.

We're evolved animals, and far from perfectly rational. Do you see some mystery needing explanation? The existence of good and bad impulses and behavior is hardly some sort of mystery.
Just like a lot of Americans (including the left) that I personally know who still think "51st state" is a light-hearted joke or "Trump doesn't mean it" or they don't think it's a serious threat.

They don't know or don't think canadians takes this seriously and it's not fucking funny.
I have been told that a lot consumer automobile advances began life on the race track.
> Would be interesting to see some methods come out for individuals to measure their own personal success rate/ productivity / whatever with these different models. And then have a way for people to compare them with each other so we can figure out who is working well with these models and who isn't and figure out why the difference.

This would be so useful. I have thought about this missing piece a lot.

Different tools like Cursor vs. Windsurf likely have their own system prompts for each model, so the testing really needs to be done in the context of each tool.

This seems somewhat straightforward to do using a testing tool like Playwright, correct? Whoever first does this successfully with have a popular blog/site on their hands.
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I think you make a great exploration of the concept and manage to show what gains there could be, and how it is not worth it for the society as a whole.
While it looks good and even possibly useful, it seems to be a great way to leak sensitive cookies (especially since "copy as cURL" is so easy on the browser's network tab).

I would 100% forbid its use in a company environment and I would encourage people in general not to use it for any non-trivial use case.
Can you recommend any particular tools to do this?
Is Covid sabotaging our immune systems?
Ok, I want to watch. Where can I "watch" it?
MIT EECS undergrad? I can believe not everyone is HFT out of the college, but there is a broader point being made.
Would keeping the leading zero cause any problems with future calculations?
Every sequence of bits can have meaning depending on how it's interpreted. If there are infinite universes, then in one them there's a hardware platform that will interpret 'xiHkv9m1twpb0alV5Vn85A95KGdvSsciA4x3V0bzocZeJ3mpbzsKppUnFmySjABp86dUvlgodUyRz8texwaZwbat9odWNJY5yO8S' as a Tetris program. And in another universe that same sequence will be interpreted as a still frame from the movie The Matrix. When you ponder the infinite, meaning kind of dissolves.

It sounds like your "quantum random number generator" would produce a different sequence of bits in every universe? I actually think this breaks things. If every universe gets a different sequence, then there's no promise that any given sequence will align with a universe where it can be interpreted. I also think this means most universes end up with a sequence so long they can't interpret it.

Another way to look at it: if every universe gets a different sequence, then only 1 universe will get any given sequence. As an example, let's take the byte code to print 'Hello world.' in an x86 linux binary. If that sequence is produced in this universe, okay. But if it's produced in a universe where the x86 instruction set is different, or doesn't exist or where the linux binary format is different or doesn't exist, or where English is different or doesn't exist... There's lots of reasons the string might be seen as random garbage. There's just as many reasons the string could be interpreted as a song or a poem or any number of things.

I think to get the outcome of "every possible program is generated," you need to generate the same sequence in every universe, or every sequence in one universe.
Honest feedback: if you're pitching this to a cohort of people specifically known to have trouble with focus, it might not be a good idea to lead with a video where you type out (with typos you go back and correct) the pitch for your application slowly over the course of a fake conversation...

The video controls are hidden on it too, and with no other details on the page, you will have trouble converting people.
Red flag: It let me.
What does RAW really mean then? Couldn't they simply redefine what RAW means to create a standard that can include proprietary technology? Like why not define it as including a spectral response?
Been to CERN underground during one of their open days (every 5 years IIRC). How wires and everything was organized, you could literally eat from the ground of any big underground area. Seeing detector opened had similar vibes to that photo but stretched into 3D and it was few tens of meter long and at least 10m wide.
Or hoons as the Aussies call them. I think OP was talking about a different caliber of racer.
> Why do you think airlines spend so much money on these safety videos when they're almost exclusively shown to people who are already customers of the airline?

It reinforces the brand. Virgin gets to show it's sexy. ANA that it's fun but sophisticated. United that it has four neurons firing across the enterprise.
> I'd like everything to be F# with native compilation

This already works today (even with GUI applications) - just define non-unbound-reflection using replacements for printfn (2 LOC) and you're good to go: dotnet publish /p:PublishAot=true

To be clear, in .NET, both JIT runtime and ILC (IL AOT Compiler) drive the same back-end. The compiler itself is called RyuJIT but it really serves all kinds of scenarios today.

> makes F# a poor choice for producing the kinds of precise abstractions needed for an OS

You can do this in F# since it has access to all the same attributes for fine-grained memory layout and marshalling control C# does, but the experience of using C# for this is better (it is also, in general, better than using C). There are a couple areas where F# is less convenient to use than C# - it lacks C#'s lifetime analysis for refs and ref structs and its pattern matching does not work on spans and, again, is problematic with ref structs.
VP of AI at FAIR, who is unrelated to the llama/genai team.
they did. later during the Netscape antitrust case it was shown in court that Microsoft gave Internet Explorer internal Windows hooks that Netscape couldn't have known about because they weren't documented.
OpenBSD's filesystem doesn't have them. It just has normal unix permission bits.
Its also something that can become a damocles swoard. Like its living in your intestines harmlessly, but if you have a ulcer or somebody in your house gets with a cut near your toilet - exitus.
This article is just as useless as asking "why are all your file formats different and confusing?"

I mean, it's just binary data, right? Why can't they just write all their ones and zeros the same way?
New models suddenly doing much better isn't really surprising, especially for this sort of test: going from 98% accuracy to 99% accuracy can easily be the difference between having 1 fatal reasoning error and having 0 fatal reasoning errors on a problem with 50 reasoning steps, and a proof with 0 fatal reasoning errors gets ~full credit whereas a proof with 1 fatal reasoning error gets ~no credit.

And to be clear, that's pretty much all this was: there's six problems, it got almost-full credit on one and half credit on another and bombed the rest, whereas all the other models bombed all the problems.
So is the idea here, that you block access to the YouTube website directly, but allow watching through approved channels on https://maekitsafe.com?

If so, I'd like to see some detailed instructions for users on how they can actively block YouTube.com while still allowing embed to play on your site. I think that may trip a lot of non-tech people up.
The Origin of Geometry [pdf]