skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Piling on for some feedback here. This isnt a product that people need. Everyone already has access to a calendar on their phone, on paper, on a whiteboard, whatever.

So it has to be something people want. And it doesnt look cool/sleek/exciting enough for people to want it. The bezel is huge, its black and white, and looks overpriced.

Some marketing angles work, but your product has to honestly support them. Ex:

- hackable. Need to show off connection interface, API, some cool project examples. As far as I can tell, LEDs never hurt here.

- sophisticated/elegant.

- useful. Seems easier to use /better than what people are already doing.

- cool. Buys access to a group of exciting people you wouldn't get to meet otherwise.

But the absolute best way to market a hardware product is to stop making it about tech. My dad bought a digital picture frame a while back as a gift. Thats a way easier bar to clear, its emotional, sentimental, symbolic, so the technical execution doesnt need to be as flawless.
Thank you! I read over their process from the first one and it sounded like they were just using ML to make up most of the image! I need to read a lot more of the details but I am quite skeptical of these images...
I just paste it into the URL bar and re-copy. Ctrl+l, ctrl+v, ctrl+a, ctrl+c.
We built config staging and versioning with HTTP applications
I often copy to Notepad on Windows, but careful, some characters get silently dropped.
I don't have a favorite but one that stands out is the resuscitation of cryogenized hamsters
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.1956.005...
(1) No, it's unambiguously "meh" news

Nvidia have merely moved their giant closed source drivers into "firmware" - they now have a 34Mb firmware image for the GPU, that would be more correctly called the real drivers. They have essentially created an open source GPL forwarding layer so that the non-GPL firmware gets access to GPL-only kernel APIs, that's it.
Might call it analysis paralysis.

You might also call it research.

Consider putting your studies together as blog posts or videos so that your research becomes art in its own right. "Process is art".
While Medicare for All itself is only polling at 55%, with most Republican voters (62%) opposing it, a public option is polling at a whopping 68% support, including 55% support among Republican voters [0]. And yet, neither party is willing to implement it (a public system would significantly reduce Healthcare costs for the entire economy - remember that the USA has by far the largest expenditure on health-care out of any country on Earth, while doing relatively bad among rich countries at outcomes).

For wars, the occupation of Afghanistan has been opposed by the public for at least 10 years before Biden withdrawing, with strong support from voters of both parties, as seen in both Obama, Trump and Biden winning with a platform of ending the war, but without any concrete action from the first two (if anything, Obama intensified the war, ordering even more illegal drone strikes on civilians than George Bush, and even publically admitting to assassinating an American citizen on "suspicion of terrorism").

Also, voting with your wallet doesn't work when Amazon undercuts the Mom&Pop, pumps billions into marketing, and outright buys what they can't compete with - as do all others.

[0] https://morningconsult.com/2021/03/24/medicare-for-all-publi...
I went on a hyperbole there, true.

But: that was then, and this is now.

Russia escaped sanctions for a long time, for many things, because of EU countries giving it the benefit of the doubt, and because of oil and gas.
I don’t think there’s any serious risk of the price getting stuck above $1, because there’s no reason for anyone to buy at that price. Unless it de-pegs completely and becomes a totally speculative asset and everyone just ignores the offer to buy them for $1 I guess?
Copying anything other than the characters/code points/whatever by default is a misfeature. Should it be possible to copy formatting? Yes, of course, in those rare, specialized cases when it's useful and likely to work in a sane manner. Otherwise it's a bad idea.

I wish I could speak with the people behind text selection in Microsoft Word and other applications. The selection automatically expands to include additional characters, usually whitespace characters although other junk gets pulled in as well, and is a frustration. The behavior seems incoherent; grabbing extra characters for unfathomable reasons.

When the user expends effort to precisely select something this should be respected, not interpreted as an opportunity to apply whatever heuristic gymnastics someone, somewhere for some reason thought was a good idea.
Congratulations! Though in claiming that since it worked in your case, it will work in the majority of cases you commit the anecdotal evidence fallacy.
You’re focusing on the price of bitcoin. Bitcoins market cap during Mt Gox was a few billion. Today it’s over a trillion.

Luna going from a market cap of close to 100 billion to basically worthless in a few days is like 50 Mt Gox incidents in terms of wealth destruction.

Bitcoin has market cap swings larger than the loss during Mt Gox in minutes these days.
Custom Domains for Workers
What about a Thunderbird mobile app
Lol, sounds like the mortgage backed assets before the housing crash.

"Back it up with enough securities that are backed up by enough securities that are backed up by enough securities, you will turn the literal shit the eventual security is backed up by into gold".
backwards compatibility.

people who have been using those applications for decades do not want those shortcuts to change for any reason.
Almost every tech stack or language has this problem. Tons of people out there are "learning by teaching" and producing garbage blogs as the result which, if read by another neophyte, will leave the victim misinformed and dumber by several IQ points. If you think it's bad for Lisp, have you seen the drivel people write about C++?
We have a left, it's just overshadowed and punished by the Democrat centrist majority, and the right wing political majority. Plenty of politicians in the progressive caucus have been pushing for reform for years, but the sad reality of our political system is that it's incredibly difficult for them to pass legislation. But that's not to say we don't have a left.

Furthermore, the US left leads on progressive social values compared to Europe, such as immigration and social justice. The average European sentiment on race and immigration, such as their attitude towards Romani/"Gypsies" and Muslims is definitely considered right-wing in America.
Do we account for stupid responses from humans in human communication in the targets?
So the US posted some nasty inflation numbers, and crypto... tanked relative to USD. How is this securing your savings against inflation?
I feel like you're missing the part of scenario B where you have to take time away from your newborn to find a new job.
Like, would it be a gradient from dense-to-fuzzy as you move outward from the center, until you reach the event horizon outside of which is nothing?
Me again - lom this is the experiment you’re talking about:
https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
What exactly did I say that implied I was acting as this was a “great insight I’d discovered”? That’s a rather rude and unfair insult I’d say.
I remember seeing a drug/substance that potentiated the glymphatic system filtration but I just can't find it again, it's been a year..
Boeing clashes with key supplier ahead of Starliner spacecraft launch
Arguments about nothing are all the same. - pessimizer, here on HN

Fear is a bad prophet. - Jed Brown

We can't do what we aren't. - Steve Clark

Aristotle said that some people were fit only to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters. - C. S. Lewis

Every real man cries. - Malik Newman

The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane. - Erich Fromm

What we need is a non-oppressive moral absolute. We need moral absolutes that don't turn the bearers of those moral absolutes into oppressors. - Tim Keller
Do they? (genuinely asking)

I was expecting that because that's what Heroku does, but I don't see anything about it on the pricing page (even in the fine print). So either it's a great deal, or highly deceptive marketing

Edit: Argh, you have to click a [?] and then click through to another page where they explain that. I think they've lost my business; that's sketchy as hell.

If that had just been up-front on the main pricing page I would have become a (small) paying customer, buying the $7 plan and moving off of Heroku. But now Render has lost my trust, so I've deleted my account.
Even in Linux, it's surprisingly hard to make plain pasting the default. I once tried to research how to switch the Ctrl+Shift+V behaviour with Ctrl+V on KDE, and I gave up after a while. Couldn't find a way.

Ctrl+Shift+V doesn't even show up in the Shortcuts config, despite working in every program I've tried and Ctrl+V being in the list.
It doesn't and even if it did it would still be a better browser than Firefox security-wise. Google poured a lot of money into it with really good results.
Note that the "new" way to do modules with your file hierarchy is to have foo.rs instead of foo/mod.rs. foo.rs is at the same level as folder foo, foo/mod.rs is gone, and everything else is the same.

Not sure whether this is truly better, but it does make it much easier to search for the file containing the module foo -- with the old way, you would have one mod.rs per module which quickly got painful when searching.
Absolutely. Any future requires speculation and imagination before practical application. Both go hand in hand.
Police in the US are allowed to enforce what they believe is the law, it need not have any relation to actual law.
Charlie Munger wasn't a millionaire all his life. And he lost a child to cancer when the kid was 10 years old. Besides losing both his wifes as well.

Reality is more complex than you make it. Not all billionaires are horrible people in case you didn't know.

But yes, enjoy your Jesus fantasy.
Better crashing now then later when the bubble is even bigger.

But tbh. crashing earlier (e.g. pre-covid) would probably have been even better.
Ask HN: When we note down cool things for later, why do they feel boring?
a.k.a. why do we never get around to plan-to-watch/plan-to-read lists, even though we care about them enough to meticulously earmark them for later?

When I encounter interesting things but can't dive into them at that time, I try to list them down or organize them together so that I don't forget about them and so that I can come back to them later. But regularly, the exact opposite happens - I never open these lists and they are not attractive to me at all.

Some recent examples:
1. I had added many interesting articles to pocket, and meticulously tagged them by category. But I never opened Pocket since.

2. I note down hundred of exciting ideas on Notion. Yet I literally never feel like rereading any of them.

3. I've listed down the GOAT and the most-appealing-to-me pieces of media, among movies, anime, games, books etc. But I never feel like going back to these lists and picking something from them.

So can please someone tell me what's going on here? Is it that this save-for-later behaviour is killing the excitement that a new thing brings? I'm puzzled why I don't like picking up self-curated media. If I had encountered that thing by itself (i.e. not from a self-curated list) and started it at that moment, I think I would've enjoyed it enthusiastically. Yet my enthusiasm dies when I save that thing for later.

Do you experience this too? What could be going on here?
Some coins like Bitcoin and Monero have utility outside of speculation, so probably not.

Disclaimer: I own some XMR, but not much.
It still confuses me that being part-owner of an old dot-com payment company, part-owner of a mid-sized car company (by number of cars sold), and part-owner of a (very good) rocket company make a person richer than anyone has ever been in the history of the planet, but that's probably because I just haven't looked into it enough.
formatting comes with it. I do a lot of formatting to make things more user friendly & readable. Otherwise it just looks like a wall of text & numbers.

Edit: my preference, if it's something that has to be reusable, is to do all of this sort of thing with tools that make the end result self-service & automated. But there's a lot of one-off work too, and more complex analysis usually takes place in a stats program or R or Python, and it's much easier to paste some output from there into excel and do some nice formatting quickly rather than coding it all in a way that would make it production-ready.
Why would firing someone who's on paternity leave be an issue at all? We're talking multi-millionaires who will get multi-million dollar severance.

It's pretty hilarious to see the pearl clutching of techno-bourgeoisie over something like this, pretending other tech-lords are getting mistreated over some supposed breach of decorum. The mere fact that he gets to take parental leave puts him head and shoulders above most workers in the country.

Parental leave, high salary, severance... where do I sign up for some of this "truly awful" treatment?
> elsewhere

Have you noticed the tendency scattered around the world to freeze citizens' financial assets before trials?
I use the outlook subject line.
unfortunately the authors decided to use nonstandard definitions which really muddies the waters. E.g. they say

> This dietary pattern is rich in fat from vegetable oils (especially virgin olive oil)

Yet it is widely understood that olive oil is a 'fruit oil' and not a 'vegetable oil' (/seed oil).

Linguistic games and inhomogenous definitions is a significant problem.
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Indeed, there's no such thing as free money. You get payed (or burned) when trading on these mergers for bearing the risk of the deal failing or renegotiating.
It’s been like 5 months. I’d imagine he’s still learning about the issues.
Some political scientist argue that after the Lisbon treaty the deficit is a myth but I don't think their statements have much merit. They often argue that parliamentary control wouldn't be the only metric that would quantify democracy but fail to give an answer what would compensate this deficiency.

Not only did the treaty get rejected by some states that were allowed to vote on it, the fact that it is too far removed from citizens and their inadequate participation. In fact I would argue the treaty made it even more undemocratic. The influence of Kutcher compared to European individuals is not the only empirical evidence for that.

The parliamentary control is minimal and there is little overarching political discourse beyond the borders of the nation state. Language barriers are strong and that won't change in the foreseeable future. Until then the commission will run the circus.
More goalpost shifting. I've been hearing "Bitcoin is the new gold" and "Bitcoin is a hedge against inflation" since the beginning.

Gold is down 2% and Bitcoin is down like 30% or something.

Also please keep in mind this isn't Reddit, this is HN. The people here were there right at the beginning, and most of us played with the funny money while it was worthless. Some even became rich (Not me lol)! So don't fucking gaslight HN.
When does getting fired not suck?
But why is anyone else buying Tether at above $1 if the entire strategy is based on selling above $1 and buying below $1?

You can't just sell something. For someone to sell something someone else needs to buy the same thing.

So to be able to execute the strategy correctly, you need an anti-human or anti-robot that always executes the strategy absolutely incorrectly.
SQL is an amazingly good language for what it does. It has been with us coming up on 5 decades.
Thirded, my game streaming got way better when I turned off location services.
twitter has no strategy, it became apparent the day they killed vine, and it is still true today
There's an interesting meta phenomenon here I think. A lot of the language in this letter by Douglas Adams implies that it's Americans that are the problem. Whether or not he actually believes that is, I think, beside the point. What seems more likely is that the profit chasing publishers have created the problem by placing too much emphasis on the results of surveys and focus groups. In other words, Americans aren't really that stupid, it's just that big business executives think they are. And then they run their business accordingly in such a way that makes the whole world think Americans are stupid. Which is annoying because I'm an American and I know I'm not stupid. And I also feel weirdly inclined to give the average American the benefit of the doubt here. Sometimes, giving people a choice creates a dilemma out of thin air. They might choose one thing even if they would have been just as happy with the other.

Update: Actually, upon reading Adams's letter again more carefully, I'm seeing that he's probably making this very point! So I'll just leave my original comment as a more general one about where I think the issue originates.
Cryptocurrencies have become stocks without companies behind the ticker symbols. People took the stock market, tossed out the businesses, and just kept the casino part of the game. I know this is sad to say, but most people are dumb, lazy, impatient, greedy, and tend to take the path of least resistance without much caution or thought. The same people that weave through traffic and cause car accidents are the same people that lose all their money in the stock market, crypto, and get rich quick schemes.
Crypto is crashing, but so is everything else. Gold is down 8% in the last month. Silver is down 20%. Virtually all stock exchanges are down 15% or more. Bonds are still losing money in real yields.

This is all happening at a time of high inflation and so the measurement of that crash isn't even net of inflation. Gold is actually down 16%. Stock exchanges are actually down >20%.

Crypto crashing isn't a factor at all, this is global economics collapsing.

Oil is way up. Food is way up. Fertilizers are way up. Looks like major military mobilizations are happening to me.
I really like the descriptions from SUNDAE (https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06749) if you have some background about general neural net style modeling, and generally find the multinomial or binomial diffusion settings a bit simpler to think about conceptually (if a bit more difficult in practice due to the harshness of the noise). There are other papers focused on these settings too (even the origin diffusion work in the NN sphere http://proceedings.mlr.press/v37/sohl-dickstein15.html) but again - the math is at the forefront (https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.14822 , https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05379)

But a lot of the diffusion literature does focus the math, since finding tighter bounds and proving that things converge to the true likelihood etc. etc. are current and recent contributions in research (cf https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/c11abfd29e4d9... or https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/b578f2a52a022...)

The summaries by Yang Song (https://yang-song.github.io/blog/2021/score/) and Lilian Weng (https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2021-07-11-diffusion-mode...) are arguably the definitive summaries, but there is math there too.

Personally the idea of training a model that is learning to go from (more noise -> less noise) stepwise is a pretty intuitive one (used to call it iterative inference I guess), but that simple message does get wrapped up in proofs and theorems quite a lot in the literature right now.

If you make analogy to GAN generators, which go from noise -> data in one shot (and presumably might need to do this kind of iteration/denoising, implicitly and internally), you are kind of relaxing the modeling problem and allowing for variable compute time at prediction (as opposed to trying to train a GAN with a huge number of layers in the generator).

Similar analogies also hold when looking at the VAE formulation, and seeing it as a mapping from gaussian noise (latent/Z) to data via the decoder following in the tradition of latent variable modeling setups like LDA, with the encoder being a practical and useful necessity to map into this latent space (some early slides from Durk Kingma and Max Welling present/relate VAE in this light - particularly the "plate diagram" representation of VAE highlights this well). Similar analogies also hold for flow based models, and are used frequently to define and teach about flow-based generative models (https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2018-10-13-flow-models/).

Ultimately (in my opinion) each of these branches has their own "math corner" people spend time in - minmax game stuff for GAN, ELBO / bounds for VAE (or deriving new priors), bijection / invertibility in flows, and now noise schedules for diffusion. Just part of research I guess.

But these diffusion models are pretty straightforward to train, and pretty powerful in my experience so far - definitely worth cutting through the noise if you are interested in generative models but (like me) aren't overly invested in the math-parts

Jascha's slides with the "dye in water" analogy (starting ~slide 18, https://www.lri.fr/TAU_seminars/videos/Jascha_Sohl_Dickstein...) are a great intuitive introduction to the concept
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Elon Musk praises Chinese workers for ‘burning the 3am oil’
And yet, the only thing that really matters out of your entire list is the 1st one: that AI solves problems that actually improve the human condition. And Alpha Fold has not done that at all. It may be very nice for people interested in protein folding, but until it actually helps us find something that we wouldn't have found otherwise, and that discovery leads to (for example) an ACTUAL drug or treatment that helps real patients, AND that drug/treatment is actually BETTER than what is already available by helping people live longer or better lives, AI has done nothing. In effect, AI has STILL done nothing meaningful. One could argue, through the use of predatory algorithms, that the ONLY thing it has done is harm.
If you want just to browse reddit then you can do that through teddit or libreddit front-end instances. And with extensions like Privacy Redirect [1] you can do it automatically.

There are also front-ends for twitter and instagram but these seem to be most faulty - sometimes it takes a while to reach a stable instance and extension tends to overwrite manually selected instances.

Edit: seems there's already a fork of mentioned extension but it's available for manual installation [2]

[1] - https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

[2] - https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
It's to distinguish from technology which has more of a specific philosophical meaning. Technics can refer to practice (e.g. techniques) as well as objects.
I think it's the exact opposite. The day being old is no longer a disease and a path to inevitable death will be one of the greatest things to ever happen to humanity, now and forever into the future. Especially if you can retain a youthful, healthy brain and body no matter how old you are.

An old tyrannical movie villain dies and a to-be old tyrannical movie villain is born. Billions of people shouldn't be sentenced to death just because the world might be a bit better off if a few people weren't immortal.
If you don't know who Dick Proenneke is, look him up....wonderful daydream fuel.
Yes, if the people want to use their notes. We also suggest getting rid of kings and communist party for decentralized democracies.