skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol there is no due process at the border for a simple imprisonment, it is 'administrative' and I have been held up to a day or so without any sort of hearing. I pulled my FBI record from the last time they tossed me in immigration holding cell, there is no record of it. They don't allow you to have a phone, they do not let you have an attorney, and they do not document they've imprisoned you. They lock you away and that is that, it is your word against theirs and your word from behind a jail cell. You will never prevail in such a situation, and if you complain outside of some place like HN the vast majority of people will angrily ask what you did wrong and that there 'must be more to the story' so you rarely even bring it up.

I do not think most people can conceive just how common and deranged the situation is, and that not only that the documentation is so poor and that most of the people this happens to will not speak up, either because no one will believe them or because they are not a citizen and are afraid it will result in reprisal.
We Built a S3-Based Database Architecture
Didn't know him, but he seems overly skeptical.
Honestly, I was just expecting more from llama-4 than this, hence mentioning the wall.
I hope it's still too early to tell, because new ideas are going to change stuff inevitably, maybe anthropic opens up more, or chinese labs keep overdelivering...
Britannica: "The Council of Nicaea in 325 decreed that Easter should be observed on the first Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox (March 21). Easter, therefore, can fall on any Sunday between March 22 and April 25."

The correct date for Easter was a huge deal in the early Church. The Pope brought Easter back into conformity with Nicaea by reforming the calendar -- astronomical knowledge had improved a lot over the centuries.
It’s clearly on purpose. The tagline on the page is “Be careful what you wish for...”
The Biden administration coerced social media and technology companies into censoring user content. There was an implied threat that if the companies didn't comply then the administration would hit them in other ways. This was a violation of the spirit of the First Amendment, although not technically illegal.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/justices-side-with-biden-...

(Yes, I am aware that other administrations have also attempted various forms of censorship so let's not waste time on whataboutism.)
Actually, the rest of the comment section shows that this is still the case, at least to some extent.
> The weird thing about it though is that whatever the dark matter is it has to be spread out.

In fact, they'd have to be so spread out that rotation curves remain flat past a million light years [1]. There seems to be no plausible particle dark matter distribution that can satisfy all of the necessary constraints at this point.

[1] https://tritonstation.com/2024/06/18/rotation-curves-still-f...
Investors expect returns on the hundreds of millions of dollars they've invested.

At best, it'll be a very expensive zoo.
Citation needed, otherwise this sounds like psychological projection.
> Would you consider your neighborhood restaurant a "startup".

Of course, they started at one point, didn't they?
Here's a program that uses only std::unique_ptr:

#include<iostream>
#include<memory>

int main() {

std::unique_ptr<int> null_ptr;

std::cout << *null_ptr << std::endl; // Undefined behavior
}

Clang 20 compiles this code with `-std=c++23 -Wall -Werror`. If you add -fsanitize=undefined, it will print

==1==ERROR: UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000000 (pc 0x55589736d8ea bp 0x7ffe04a94920 sp 0x7ffe04a948d0 T1)

or similar.
Aren't they exactly the definition of "extraneous"?
> Cameras absolutely could emit DNG instead, but that would require more development friction: coordination (with Adobe), potentially a language barrier, and potentially making it harder to do experimental features.

I am a weirdo and always liked and used Pentax (now Ricoh) they do support the DNG format.
Stop Using Prompt Engineer
Guys, my company just hired a "prompt engineer". Stop calling it that, just say prompt smith, makes more sense and doesn't pretend to be something it isn't.
Just think of word-smiths, immediately more sense... Let me know what you think, I might be going too hard on those so called engineers.
Every project I've seen of theirs has been like this one: take an existing animal and tweak its genome very slightly to make it look kinda like the extinct one, then declare that they've brought back the extinct species. Never mind that it's still just a wolf with 14 very specific genes tweaked.

That could be just a limitation of the current technology and one that they're working on fixing—maybe some day they plan to bring back large amounts of lost genetic diversity—but their PR around it definitely communicates that they see this as the de-extinction project itself, which sure does make it look like they're only really interested in building a zoo, not actually rebuilding true biodiversity.
> This 2/3 year delay in the early part of the adoption curve matters a huge amount for the future of Japan’s EV business

> particularly given that China is aggressively working to enter some important markets where Japanese companies have no competing EV product

Japan's largest automotive markets other than China (which is basically a lost cause for any non-Chinese player now) are the US, Japan, India, and the EU.

All of them have market barriers against Chinese players so 2-3 years is not a major difference, as Japanese players have been tooling for the li-s EV shift for 4 years now already. Also, in Japan and India, you can already buy Japanese branded EVs.

And the EU still has the China specific EV tariffs, and is not budging on that.

And even large secondary markets like Mexico, Canada, and Brazil continue to retain tariffs against Chinese automotive exports, because they do not wish to lose their own manufacturing capacity.

> and “using a competitor’s products for two to three years so you can shake the bugs out of your EV production process and get a product to market ASAP, then switch to domestic batteries that will soon be available.”

They are doing this in a limited manner with the bZ3x and bZ4x.

---------

I'm not denying EVs are becoming prominent, but EVs are still a minority of overall vehicle sales. They are becoming more prominent, but 2-3 years is not going to change anything given that trade barriers against Chinese automotive players exist in every major market.
>Again I’m amazed that people want to give the government more power

I'm amazed people pretend like corporations having immense power isn't a problem at all. I want the government to reduce the power of corporations to invasively and pervasively manipulate me through intrusive advertisements.
That's how art is supposed to be, to raise something inside the one experiencing it. For those that want a more mundane experience from the same time-period there's also a Sargent and countless others like him.

For reference, the one Schiele exhibition that I got to attend took place more than 15 years ago, at the Leopold Museum in Vienna itself, and for sure I didn't see it as grotesque. I was more mesmerised later that day by the Egyptian art hosted in the nearby Kunsthistorisches Museum
This is what we did for Sudowrite. Took a small seed and got to profitability within 2 years by hiring within our means and laser focusing on our users. Happy to answer questions!
It’s a completely financial thought process. Nobody is going to invest capital to make pencils 7% cheaper when I can dump money in monkey NFTs and yield a big short term gain. China has incentives to make pursuing those opportunities attractive.

The glory days of manufacturing that people think of are their grandparents union jobs in the 1960s. The problem is the leadership people like Musk and Bezos are thinking more 1860 than 1960 :)
I would go even further than TFA. In my personal experience using Windsurf daily, Sonnet 3.5 is still my preferred model. 3.7 makes many more changes that I did not ask for, often breaking things. This is an issue with many models, but it got worse with 3.7.
I don’t think anyone who work in risk mitigation would conflate those scenarios. Risk = probability x consequence. What you’re pointing to is the difference in consequence. It’s already acknowledged in mature risk mitigation programs. Eg, FMEAs list fault consequence, severity, likelihood, and detectability and don’t assume all faults are the same. The tradeoff is an engineering/business decision to assign appropriate mitigations to land in an acceptable risk posture.

If you aren’t mitigating it with the appropriate controls, you aren’t managing risk. My point is just passing the buck to the human is not an appropriate control in many critical scenarios.
Ask HN: What are you thoughts on text to AI avatar video generation tools
Subscribe now to witness the rise of the Dire Wolves, step by primal step: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPX4tm-J2bU

Colossal has just released a 1970s style nature documentary about the Dire Wolf pups (now quite large)
This being the PDP-11, even if you don't have any RAM, I'm sure the registers are mapped into memory somewhere contiguous where you can still run code from them :)
It’s a shame their CEO has destroyed their brand so much that nobody will care about this achievement.

Maybe when they inevitably spin off the battery tech as its own company, they can bring this with them?
Discussed here ttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43609661
Maybe? I’m not familiar enough with DNG to say - possibly that wasn’t a thing when Phase One first started using IIQ? I doubt it was around when Sinar was - in fact the last two (esprit 65 & S30|45 ) Sinar backs do use DNG as an option!
Thanks. These are a little big (100Ah, 200Ah, 50Ah...), heavy and expensive compared to what I'm looking for. For reference, I'm currently using a 5W panel, and a single 18650 element, costing a few dollars from AliExpress. Works fine for my usecase (Meshtastic nodes) except for the charging below 0°C thing.
maybe they meant Java, and not actually 30 years.
> And in a lot of conditions, my Android phone takes better photos, by virtue of more advanced technology.

> I have tens of thousands of dollars of camera equipment -- mostly more than a decade old -- and there just haven't been advancements warranting an upgrade. A modern camera will be maybe 30% better than a 2012-era one in terms of image quality, and otherwise, will have slightly more megapixels, somewhat better autofocus, and obviously be much smaller by the loss of a mirror. Video improved too.

I thought the same thing, and then I went and rented a Nikon Z8 to try out over a weekend and I was blown away by the "somewhat better autofocus". As someone who used to travel with a Pelican case full of camera gear, to just carrying an iPhone, I'm back to packing camera gear because I'm able to do things like capture tack-sharp birds in flight like I'm taking snapshots from the hip thanks to the massive increase in compute power and autofocus algorithms. "Subject Eye Detection AF" is a game-changer, and while phones do it, they don't have enough optical performance in their tiny sensors/lenses to do it at the necessary precision and speed to resolve things on fast-moving subjects.

In terms of IQ, weight, and all that, it's definitely not a huge difference. I would say it's better, but not so much that I particularly cared coming from a 12-year old DSLR. But the new AF absolutely shocked me with how good it is. It completely changed my outlook.

I say this, not to take away from your overall point, however, which is that a phone is good enough for almost everyone about 90% of the time. It's good enough that even though I upgraded my gear, I only bought one body when I traded in two, because my phone can handle short-focal length / landscape just fine, I don't need my Z8 for that. But a phone doesn't get anywhere close to what I can do with a 300mm or longer focal length lens on the Z8 with fast moving subjects.
As every fifth thread becomes some discussion of LLM capabilities, I think we need to shift the way we talk about this to be less like how we talk about software and more like how we talk about people.

"LLM" is a valid category of thing in the world, but it's not a thing like Microsoft Outlook that has well-defined capabilities and limitations. It's frustrating reading these discussions that constantly devolve into one person saying they tried something that either worked or didn't, then 40 replies from other people saying they got the opposite result, possibly with a different model, different version, slight prompt altering, whatever it is.

LLMs possibly have the capability to understand nullability, but that doesn't mean every instance of every model will consistently understand that or anything else. This is the same way humans operate. Humans can run a 4-minute mile. Humans can run a 10-second 100 meter dash. Humans can develop and prove novel math theorems. But not all humans, not all the time, performance depends upon conditions, timing, luck, and there has probably never been a single human who can do all three. It takes practice in one specific discipline to get really good at that, and this practice competes with or even limits other abilities. For LLMs, this manifests in differences with the way they get fine-tuned and respond to specific prompt sequences that should all be different ways of expressing the same command or query but nonetheless produce different results. This is very different from the way we are used to machines and software behaving.
UK government attempt to keep Apple challenge private rejected
Or like saying that the tangled web of neurons receiving signals from these understands anything about these subjects.
I'd say the opposite also applies: to the extent LLMs have an internal language, we understand very little of it.
Celebrating Git's 20th anniversary with creator Linus Torvalds
Stealing from little people good, stealing from big people bad. It’s really that simple in modern western countries.

Defrauding an organization? Baaaaad. Defrauding hundreds or thousands of employees all at the same time? Good!
> It's funny how the optimist

s/optimist/gullible
It's not age-old nor is it controversial. LLMs aren't intelligent by any stretch of the imagination. Each word/token is chosen as that which is statistically most likely to follow the previous. There is no capability for understanding in the design of an LLM. It's not a matter of opinion; this just isn't how an LLM works.

Any comparison to the human brain is missing the point that an LLM only simulates one small part, and that's notably not the frontal lobe. That's required for intelligence, reasoning, self-awareness, etc.

So, no, it's not a question of philosophy. For an AI to enter that realm, it would need to be more than just an LLM with some bells and whistles; an LLM plus something else, perhaps, something fundamentally different which does not yet currently exist.
A project's creator stepping down but having a successor is a strong good sign for the longevity of an open-source project. Whenever I see that transition happen, I think better about the project's long-term future.
Which the charging station has in spades. You should be able to run the heat pump at full bore when attached to a charger. And a regular heating element. Modern heat pumps have both, why not cars?
Josh here (I wrote Fearless Salary Negotiation), and I just wanted to say that it's fantastic to hear that you got such a great outcome. Great work!

And thanks for sharing this publicly, if for no other reason than it made may day.

Cheers!
Happy to answer any questions?
https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/wreck-julie-plante
I am confused. Has the author (and most of the comments below) not heard of the "Open Source Definition", or is it not considered relevant anymore?

https://opensource.org/osd
UK loses bid to keep Apple appeal against demand for iPhone 'backdoor' a secret
The people who want to remove these barriers are naive, because the same barriers are removed for their competitors, which ends up driving a race to the bottom.
> I can found a new company in Estonia in literal minutes without speaking a single word of Estonian and without being physically present in the country because the whole process is digital and in English.

> If you want to attract international talent you have to adapt.

Calling English "international" is like calling Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Turkish or German "international". Internationality is not "English".

> You can value deep friendships but still be friendly towards acquaintances.

I insist that Germans are typically not less friendly, but they are indeed less warm (compared to, say, people from South American countries, and also some South European countries). This is coherent with your claim "If expats feel like Germans are acting coldly towards them", which I would not consider to be unfriendly. Indeed: what is considered to be "friendly" differs a lot between countries.

> Not everyone, some do find it easy to integrate but most don't.

If you don't want to learn German, it will likely be hard (or at least much harder) to integrate. The problem rather is that many people invested years, sometimes decades, into learning English and US-American customs instead of learning German and customs of German-speaking countries. Thus the situation that your mentioned people don't find it easy to integrate is in my opinion partially self-inflicted.
Interesting, I could be wrong then! The inclusion in his story of some very specific irrelevant details (like his cell/block number) while omitting anything that could be verified (like which border crossing and detention facility) was one of the things that raised my suspicion, but if he's sharing specifics now it raises my odds that he's telling the truth.
Videogames have always been slop, though.
The postal service has learned and knows to compensate for this. If you mail something with four digits for the zip code, it will be treated as if it had a leading 0 and routed to the northeast.
> For example in the USA, they will refuse to speak German with you. So what?

In the USA many official government forms are made in several different languages.

This may not always be the federal government (probably less likely these days), but in California you can cast your vote in like 5 different languages (maybe more)?

This would never happen in Europe. It's simply less friendly to diversity.
impressive Andero! website looks really clean! I have couple of clients that might benefit from this kind of service. Mind if I send you an email?
great to see this. two questions:

-would i be able to publish a link to my canonical openapi spec if my service, or i should plan on doing a PR in this repo for the openapi artefact?

my spec infrequently changes, but it sometimes does, so how do ideally updates happen whereas my current workflow is publishing an openapi spec to a public link

-how does this (and Arazzo) interact with MCP?

is this meant to interact along side MCP, a replacement for it, etc?
Your octal years aren’t coming out right
I wonder if you're being downvoted because people disagree with you, or because they agree and it makes them feel yucky?

I hate everything you just said, but feel like you're at least partly correct. The metaphors we live by might be eating us alive.
OpenBSD removed ACL support though, iirc
> It is supposed to be raw data from the sensor with some additional metrics streamed in, just sufficiently standardized to be used in the camera-vendors' toolchain for development.

This is what I was thinking, that there are potentially so many RAW formats because there are so many sensors with potentially different output data. There should be a way to standardize this though.
Why not just use a language with checked nullability? What's the point of an LLM using a duck typing language anyway?
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
It's an inherently interesting subject but (and it's been more then 10 years since I read it) it's a history of people innovating. I remember really enjoying the way it tries to get at the whys and the hows of people coming up with good ideas.

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Christopher Clark
The origin of WWI is a story that's been told repeatedly. This version is delightfully depressing. I can't quite describe the book. If you say X happening was the fault of everyone it's easy to imagine that's synonymous with saying it's no one's fault. That's not what's being argued - here it's that it's literally everyone's fault.
White/Blue collar, while correlated with income, has nothing to do with social standing.

A friend of mine is a construction foreman. He lives in a mansion in a suburb of a suburb, is a member of a highly regarded country club and makes more money than me. He’s blue collar.
The company I work for is a small company that has enabled above-market results for everyone employed. Almost 20 years ago the founder saw a specific niche, and went after it aggressively, having software built out of his own savings. We've never taken a dime of outside funding (aside from PPP loan in 2020, allowing to us to lose no employees despite our income being decimated). He's very aggressive about keeping expenses low, but he takes care of his employees, knowing they are the most valuable part of his company. (Self-serving for me to say I know, but it really is his value system)
I'm assuming they're still using the phone in some capacity in (what they thought) was offline mode. What they really need are phones with hardware switches for all radios, which of course almost don't even exist as a product. If a faraday bag worked for them they'd probably be better off just removing the battery altogether when they don't need the phone (removable batteries also aren't that common anymore).

It speaks to how terribly fit for purpose mobile devices are for soldiers in an active modern battlefield. Not only do they require discipline and technology training to prevent leaking positions, but most of them actually lack the capability to prevent leaking altogether no matter how trained you are.
We have multiple examples. It happens, because the incarceration has been privatized and they have no incentive to get you out. They want to keep making more money.
I have to agree. While this is a very cool achievement and I'm excited to see what this company does next, it seems disingenuous to claim they brought a species back from extinction. The pups are still genetically much more like modern wolves than they are dire wolves.
So this begs the question - did anti hydrogen fall like normal hydrogen?
See https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an....
He has done this many times on his YouTube channel!

For an example, this guest was particularly clever and charming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJP2zkl_44o

J/k. It's me. I'm the guest. :)

BUT: this was our talk after he saw my livestream where I was stumbling around trying to do things in GT early on, so it might help other people.
Interesting. Default behavior could be improved. I blindly pasted a curl, except showing my curl it didn't make any headers modifiable. It also didn't redacted the Authorization header.
Also there is no way to delete a page.
Why Catullus continues to seduce us
I recently have gone through the interview process with a company where I mentioned a range for what I was expecting. This was stated to me to be a full time position. At the end, they offered me lower than my minimum range and a three month contract to boot. Do I just come back to them and say "look, my lower end of the range is higher than your offer, can we make that work?" I'm sure they'd come back and say "how about we revisit after your contract is over."
I suppose that's one way to look at it.

The audio was just an example. I meant to say that it was hard to get things going. One had to put in some effort and usually enjoyed the reward which was definitely a step in the right direction as far as learning is concerned.