skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or if you're on the east coast and you realize that the bright star you've been following was the shuttle from La Guardia!
2 minute official presentation of the project for anybody not familiar with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kz5vEqdaSc

When I first heard about it I thought it's going to be vaporware. I can make no sense of it. The deign and the location seem to indicate huge costs for no benefits in many areas. There's no fresh water over there. Complete glass facade in the desert requires a lot of cooling. The interior will require electrical illumination. And then there's the transportation issues caused by it being a line instead of a circle. Lack of streets compensated by flying taxis? Virtual on-line school for children I assume because you can't transport them to central schools? "AI" managed utilities? And I could go on and on and on.

What do you make of this, from a practical standpoint?
that is not to late at all, my uncle got his first kid at 42 with his 41 year old wife, they even had a second a year later its not to late but you will need to act soon tho.
> Also, humans have tendency to follow any instructions sent to them when it is titled "System" or "Administration".

Really? I tend to not even read them. That might a bad idea, but that's the way my instincts go.
What they are saying is that for some jobs, it's already like this, so it's not completely out there to consider it expanding as tech gets better. Uber being good or bad is besides the point.
You apparently haven’t heard of a neural networks
Checking.

It seems more likely that most users will prefer to import ammonia from tropical solar farms, and keep local tankage of just a couple of weeks' worth. It is hard to imagine where seasonal storage would be needed.
Unlikely 1 middle management cost lets say $20k plus insurance for 1 person where as 20 hourly worker's cost $10k x 20 = $200k. Business will always try to go for decreasing the bigger expense. Another thing most people don't seem to get small business are 70-80% of the worlds economy so the middle management does not exist or is the boss family or friend.
This is part of the reason why I use arch and not antix or other political distros.
Well yes, if you dig far enough into any uncomputable function you'll find something that is a version of the halting problem, by definition. That it's really close to the surface here but just deep enough that my answer never self-references or directly references TMs or any property thereof is precisely why I felt it was a good example.
Does anyone here actually use Python? Because "not [using] some 3rd party library to write a command line interface for your python code" should mean: Use the argparse module that's in the Standard Library. Not coming up with something homegrown.
...did you just use pounds(the unit of weight) to calculate pounds(the unit of currency) per hour?
Hard to understand the article because it repeatedly discusses the onset of diabetes with ever mentioning type 1 and type 2 specifically. Whatsit mean?
"Eugenics" actually just means attempting to improve the genome our children will have. This does not need to involve forced sterilisation or indeed the government at all.

E.g. giving all parents free genetic screening and genome correction for their fetuses if they wish it would be eugenics.
But 22/7 is unbeatable for relative error in the denominator size (nbr of bits)?
Great. Mine asked their employees how they could help with tasks they knew 0 about, try to solve technical and political issues by playing team therapist, and couldn't even read the Scrum guide deep enough to know what is and isn't part of it.

Anecdotes are great, aren't they?
The equality of reals is undecidable.
Nick Bostrom's paper on the vulnerable world hypothesis explores this idea: https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf
Exactly. Ammonia gets produced from (mostly) grey hydrogen. And the most common application for ammonia is producing fertilizers. Making that process green, would cut down on a lot of carbon emissions (several percent of global emissions) and should be the first priority before considering inefficient ways to use hydrogen and ammonia like this.

Ammonia as a fuel is quite inefficient due to all the energy conversions. You use renewable electricity to generate hydrogen. You use that to create ammonia. And you then burn that to produce mechanical energy. Each of those steps has poor efficiencies and they multiply. It is way less efficient than using renewable energy to charge a battery that powers an electrical motor. If you start with 10kwh of renewable electricity, you'd be struggling to get more than 1-2kwh delivered in the form of mechanical energy with ammonia. With battery electric it's more like 8kwh. Charging and discharging the battery loses some energy and electrical motors are of course also not 100% efficient.

And when I say inefficient, I mean costly. You waste most of the energy that you put in. It's much more cost effective to use the energy in a more efficient way. By about a factor of 4-5. If you operate any business where energy cost is significant the value proposition of paying 4-5x more is not great.

It's why ammonia as a fuel really barely makes any sense. And hydrogen as a fuel is pretty bad for the same reason. It's a really hard sell when battery electric is a feasible alternative. The economics are flawed. And the second law of thermodynamics means there is no technical fix for this either. There are some hard theoretical limits here.
This is an extreme case but there are lots of examples where harmful activities and lifestyles are considered OK because lots of other people do them. Having multiple children and pets, for example.
There are already definite plans in play to transition shipping to green ammonia.
I find it interesting that the conversation herein is about the viability, as opposed to whether or not this is a desired outcome.

Personally, I welcome every outcome where machines replace the roles people undertake (myself included). A fascinating and painful set of possibilities emerge. People, indeed societies will need to re-examine their definitions of "work", "purpose", "success" and all sorts of other things.

Perhaps we'll step forward to a post-humanist/adamist economy. Perhaps we'll enter a randist/gattacist society. Maybe a commerce-free world is created - or maybe time becomes a fixed currency? Maybe all, or none of the above are true. But ultimately, for the progression of our societies, I'd love to see these conversations.
At least we got grandfathered into the premium plan. 5€ for something that is usually 10€/year.
October 2015 for me, with 101d 15h

Definitely been one of my most used apps over the years!
There are a large number of crimes for which money can not make the victim whole.
Pocketcasts has an API with a history endpoint, which I scrape regularly: https://api.pocketcasts.com/user/history

With the help of the web-player and the developer console I could copy the necessary auth-headers.

I built a little deno project recently which scrapes my Spotify and PocketCasts history regularly and stores the history to a Supabase PostgreSQL database.

So I have access to my own listening history:
https://github.com/DanEEStar/listening-history-deno
Not just wrong, they are totally different stars. Good luck finding the Big Dipper down under!

Maybe because I've seen northern hemisphere sky for 40+ years, the southern hemisphere sky is much more interesting to me. Just seeing Large/Small Magellanic clouds and realizing those are the closest galaxies to the Milky Way. Seeing Alpha/Beta Centauri and knowing those are the closest stars to our Sol. Just kind of different cool
Equality on reals is not computable.
This was my initial thought as well, but from the text I gather there is a flow like this:

[Input Data, maybe null] -> Validate field is not null -> Call this method with the assertion.

This is a small bug-bear for me with nullable types and I wish there was a better way to do it, but many languages allow you to smart-cast away nulls, but only within the local scope. If you want to pass a struct-type around which has nullable fields, but you have already checked for non-null (like this one) you need to convert to a different struct-type, which doesn't have the nullability on its fields. I can't think of a good way round this - as you say with the unit test remark, there is nothing to stop another piece of code calling this method with nulls.
Less humans involved per decision.
I’m wondering if the opposite might be true as well - underdiagnosing people from different months. I was born in March and in Poland where I grew up school was assigned by birth year. So the oldest kids in a given class were from January, the youngest from December. I have had little problems in primary school and gymnasium without putting much work into it. Then in high school it got harder, but I still passed, again, without almost any work, skipping classes, being late all the time. I started really struggling at an university and later in life and I eventually got diagnosed.

Granted, ADHD disgnosis was rather uncommon in Poland in the 90s, but I can see how a kid doing good early in school could have been not diagnosed.
There is a big difference between showing someone ads (think radio and tv ads) vs spying in on their browsing habbits (almost all internet ads).

I am fine with one but not the other. Thus I block them.
> businesses and projects usually become less risk averse the more established they are - they are economically incentivised towards that.

You mean the other way around, right? Businesses and projects usually become more risk averse the more established they are.
Approximately. Burning H2, you have to separate the H2 to cram an oxygen in between.
Then the browser could just pretend it is Chrome (if it isn't already) and that would easily work around your solution.

I think something like this would be best served by moving to IPFS or Bittorrent. A magnet link could be provided and then browsers and plugins could use that to download the file. That way, you can distribute the load.
> China has been stealing our tech for decades

> EU has been stealing our tech.

I read variants of this phrase few times lately and I want to know more.
Please explain?
Hashing It Out? Understanding Psychoactive Substance Use in Programming [video]
I recently did a lightning talk at our eng all-hands about this very thing: how I am quick to learn things, but also quick to forget them after I stop using them regularly. And forgetting things I'm not using is totally fine in my opinion, but I wanted more control over what and when that is.

I am also using Anki to help myself with this issue, and so far it's working (although I still need to build a better habit of doing it daily instead of every other day, I still slip sometimes).

The post that inspired me to try it was this one[0]. What got me excited is that it talked about not just using Anki to remember things I already know, but as a tool to learn new complex topics from scratch.

[0] http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
Mind wanders because your brain whispers
> For example, catching CO2 might be done much more cheaply when burning CH4 at a power station

There's something quite absurd about catching CO₂ at a power station.

A more sensible source is at cement factories.
In 2022, most people using NLP use transformers from huggingface. The tokenizer used is written in Rust and used transparently from Python.
So basically sun is always south? Why exactly do I need watches?
How’s AI going to do that better than a fellow human?

It will create metrics that will formalize a new paradigm. You know that arbitrary number in your bank account that defines you, that number on your report card, that rating on an Amazon review, that number that’s defining global inflation, that metric that measures interest rate, that number of hours you work …

The fucking lines of code, number of commits, points on a story, that SAT score, that rate people’s look if they are closer to a 5 or a 10 in beauty. Earnings per share, market cap, valuation.

Your age. AI will make so many bullshit metrics that I doubt society will know how to cope with it.

And management will use it, and you will be scared shitless and adapt. Or worse, you will dysfunctionally be unable to cope with the adaptation and be depressed.

“Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM”

^ Just replace IBM with AI metrics, and that will be the miserable life people will live out.
JavaOne keynote: Java First. Java Always. [video]
Have you seen Meta Quest Pro avatars? They mapped facial expressions onto avatars for that specific reason.

I think it'd be extremely interesting to see how it compares to real life, vid calls and other alternatives.
> Europe won’t be able to fulfill all of its energy needs by local production

In the long run, why not? Between overbuilding renewable capacity (needed for green ammonia anyway), using nuclear when it's cost effective and renewable energy is limited, and multi-day storage, Europe should get pretty close. The last couple percent can be bridged with fossil fuels.
Which in turn is not for unreachable or even unexpected cases but expected cases you’re fully aware of, maybe even documented, but that you don’t support.
I've heard this before but similarly to the other replies this doesn't match my lived experience at all. Are you just talking about the function in the brain, e.g. it does the same thing to the neurotransmitters, or are you talking about the effects it has on the person taking it?
> If we're voting on dinner [...]

That doesn't replicate the conditions of national elections which are monopolistic and repeated. You can't opt to participate in a different group and you have to play all your games with the same rules - if you refuse to eat at F-grade restaurants you may end up starving.

In "real" elections you end up without the ability to set those convenient limits consistently or usefully.
> A real number, in general, requires an infinite number of bits to describe

Which is why any charitable, non-sarcastic reading of my comment would take it to be referring to a subset of reals which are compatible with TMs and which make the claim true, instead of pointing out every possible way to misinterpret my comment deliberately. Be better.
I turned off auto correct and just use the keyboard, its so much better..
How do you determine that it is these browsers requesting it and not uBO? It would be easy for the browsers to set their useragent to something like Chrome.
Well, if the transcript contains stuff like:

> I'm going to ask you for some feedback at some different
places, so first off – by applause – how many of you know what this is? Okay, okay, that's actually more than I expected. Now, how many of you actually used one of these? Okay, so what I can say is that I am part of the last generation of people who were forced to use punch cards at school.

...that makes me think I'm probably better off watching the video.
"On-device firewall is free. The in-the-cloud Rethink DNS content-blocking resolver has both free (public beta) and paid tiers (private beta). Currently, pricing isn't implemented and so the private beta is essentially also free till then."

Is this referring to a nextdns like service?
I was thinking specifically of Brasilia and the criticisms of it in the book Seeing Like a State, how the planning ignored the reality of how people actually lived their lives.

It's also interesting that all the examples you gave as well as the other reply, are (or were) capital cities of their respective countries. Of course, if it's the seat of the national government, people will need to live / work there and there will be a city. The Line doesn't have that, though.
They seem to be beta testing a paid dns service.

"On-device firewall is free. The in-the-cloud Rethink DNS content-blocking resolver has both free (public beta) and paid tiers (private beta). Currently, pricing isn't implemented and so the private beta is essentially also free till then."
Hard to say immediately as I am running it with sddm + sway so it can be lightweight.

I can boot up another laptop and configure it to use sddm + sway to compare in a couple minutes.
Generally, I like the idea with the user agents filtering and “block everything” rule. No need for geoblocking. Insert a comment about why this is happening and ask for it to be changed.

However, as we’re living in the real world and the authors of the respective browsers strike me as lazy or uninterested, I also bet all that would change is the user agent.
No, it will not. Maybe it will replace higher management some day. Long time ago Napoleon noticed that strength of an army depends on its corporals. The same with companies, tech leads, middle management makes a true difference - you might have the best strategy but without using proper tactics it will never succeed. And tactics, all those day to day activities, are managed by those people in the middle of management ladder.
AI is great at all jobs except those that people actually do.

Robots are the same, except more so.
Lenovo shows off rollable smartphone and laptop prototypes
Funny, systemd is like an opposite of wireguard in design goal. I believe the UNIX way would be /etc/hosts but some way to sync these within clients. Like etcd or whatever.
I'd like to know this, too -- how can a website even know if my browser is in private mode?
Fully Typed Web Apps
I suspect any attempt at this will lead to an extremely rigorous cargo-culting of agile and managing to the metrics. It is a silly idea.
It's eaiser to gauge how interested in a story someone is if they interrupt for something. If they truly aren't interested then you can pivot accordingly.

Although some people might listen to the end and be engaged, or you could tell by their facial expressions. That isn't always perfect, some people naturally aren't expressive. By default, you got no clue what they're feeling.
What specifically is that agenda?

And do you think there are any other plausible reasons for someone to avoid using a political distro? I can think of several, so jumping straight to Godwin's Law and accusing people of being fascists might be a bit premature.
I am reading this with contact lenses in my eyes. How is that different from a potential future intelligence magnifier?

We take it for absolutely granted that people's weaknesses and handicaps get compensated with inventions all the time. Organ transplants, artificial limbs, immunotherapy for cancer.

If it turned out that intelligence tends to correlate with depression, but the depressive part could be tuned out, would it be ethical to let the individuals suffer from depression and deny them a potential cure?

As far as eugenics goes, it is already to a large degree performed by proxy: the elites intermarry. But we are not really talking eugenics here; I am almost positive that in the second half of the century, genetic and epigenetic alterations in living adult humans will be commonplace.
Show HN: Bank Statement Converter
A web app I built that allows you to extract transaction data from PDF bank statements.
There are several providers which offers salary linked loans and advances already, and one of the benefits is that when it's an advance on your salary there's no need to credit check the employee because it's the company which will pay it back when your salary is due.
The solution is not to ban private jets etc..

It's to create an alternative engine technology.
> bottom->up by ensuring workers enter data to be reported on correctly

Isn't this were management fails? Gathering the data that is required to decide
well?

Eg my SOs company recently introduced the third generation of company wide
management software, but as before nobody really used it and all important
information is still collected in spreadsheets.

"AI management" could start out like Google Assistant, just have a button on
your desk to set up reminders because it actually is easier than opening some
application and typing in the reminder.

The thing is that it has to be extremly simple to do. Even thou I am not a fan
of constantly listening devices, a company wide "OK Google/Hey Siri" would be
extremly valuable.

Imaging two coworkers standing in the company floor:
- "so about feature X?"
- "arg ... yep ... I'll get it done by next week"
- "Computer!?"
- <beep boop>
- "Create a reminder for [Coworker] to finish feature X by next week"
- <ok human, I have created a reminder for Coworker>

This is literally not sci-fi straight out of Star Trek anymore, but something
that (at least) I use daily to remind me of little things like getting the
laundry from the basement :-)
Pocket Casts has been fantastic (using it since 2015). May only complaint remains that the maximum playback speed is limited to 3x. I guess Not too many people miss that.
I think this post reveals a lot of ignorance in how scientists study heritability.

To give a simple example, one of the best tools is comparing identical twins to non-identical ones. If the correlation between the fraternal twins is substantially less than the correlation between the identical twins then we can know a genetic factor us in play.

Your argument is also too general in that it labels all observational science as pseudoscience. Is astronomy pseudoscience? You don't need to be able to manipulate the environment to do science, just have a hypothesis and a way I'd getting new observations that would probe/disprove the hypothesis.
But, why is pi 3.1415926 instead of 4.1415926?
Hard agree. It is such a fluid conversation, with instant asides, interruptive humour with redirects back to subject, riffs off what you're saying, etc. I love it. Crucially, I want to be interrupted too. As soon as you've caught up to my thoughts and have outraced them, interrupt me and take over.

West Coast America (at least, and possibly elsewhere) is pretty big on the do-not-interrupt culture, though, and I felt a little ashamed whenever I did it. But then I found not all people are like that and realized I have so much more fun with people who interrupt me and permit me to interrupt.

And it feels so natural. A slightly louder tone, a hand gesture, enough to say "hang on, here comes something"; but also enough of a signifier to you to move things along. I'm with you, man.
I'm not sure if this is the case for all phones, but I think the front-facing camera on some phones can show infrared light. If you're concerned about hidden cameras in a room, you could try waiting until it's dark and then looking at the room through the front camera viewfinder. Any cameras—at least those with night vision—will show up as lights. (My understanding is that the rear camera won't show IR light; that can degrade photo quality, and since most people use the rear camera for photography, that camera has an IR filter.)

To test whether your phone camera can see IR, go into a dark room and point a standard TV remote at the camera while pushing the buttons. If you see a light (might be dim), your camera can see infrared.
That’s a great idea! Thank you!
@jsjohnst is talking about his one-liner[0] that has lots of bash syntax, not the GP's one-liner[1] that only calls some external program.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33254917

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33249562
In my view, this stuff is similar to firearms. Not unethical per se; only concrete use can be unethical.

But if the West collectively and unilaterally decided to reject firearms as such back then, it would likely have been gone by the 17th century.
You want a distribution more akin to status quo. Great, these are widely available. But to think that Arch Linux and Debian GNU/Linux and Fedora are all apolitical is nonsense; rather, their politics are not bothering you.

The only thing I got against all of this is the paradox of choice. Why so many different Linux distributions? Same in a large US grocery store. 20 brands of mayonaise, why? How can I tell the differences?