skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can trust a CA to be honest but not competent. In which case an orderly transition makes sense

After all, backdating certs is really obvious in a world with cert transpatency, and you can full distrust immediately if they do that.
Thanks for noting the tech stack, was the first think I was curious about.

As for "freemium": as others pointed out, I'd also put it that as long as you can self-host full-fledged instance it's "free".

Having possibility to use their "cloud" instance without charge with sole limitation of maximum 15 users is "more than free" from my point of view: they are basically paying your costs for running that. Sure, it might be negligible for them in scale, but still, as long as it saves you time and hosting costs (install and maintenance), it is a value *you* receive for free.
> Plus their name gave FTX credibility that probably led to others investing

This is key.

Have some friends who got into YC. As soon as they did, they had investors offering them money who had barely even seen their deck.

Probably the same happens with Sequoia. Investors see that Sequoia invested and they just blindly follow suit.
> seems most of the interesting cryptocurrency activity (like million dollar liquidations) happens entirely off blockchain, on centralized exchanges (maybe?).

Correct. I commented this before, but if you compare (for Bitcoin) total daily transaction volume from Coinmarketcap (which probably isn't complete) to the actual transaction volume on the blockchain, something like 80% of transactions does not involve the blockchain. At least, that's from the top of my head from the last time I did the math. And those blockchain transactions are probably in part moving from hot to cold storage by exchanges and people moving around crypto through personal accounts.

If decentralization is the main feature of crypto, then we might as well stop using it right away, since nobody seems to actually care about it.
Elizabeth Holmes appeals Theranos fraud conviction
I self host my own projects on Redmine but among all the tools that I had to use with my customers I like Kanbanize because the team could see the activities, open the cards, comment, move them to different columns. For one hundred open cards I prefer that to the list in Redmine. However we had many hundreds of open cards in a large backlog and a person spending a significant amount of time on keeping the project in a reasonable shape.
RO Waterfilter and chiller

Coffee Grinder (Niche Zero)

Gym Membership

A TRX clone (for strength training, these are very cheap!)
- You don't have to rebuy games for a premium if you already used steam before

- Synced saves with your PC if the game supports it

- Great performance for a handheld with a solid battery

- Great variety of inputs, and almost everything can be customizable (if you don't fancy the official button layouts there is a community coming up with custom ones)

- You can turn it into a regular computer if needed

- It is big enough to hold for my hands. With Switch or iPad my hands hurt after a while, not with steam deck.

- Repair-ability it is actually easy to fix

- You can download emulators for switch, gameboy and all the other older consoles

- I enjoy some games more on the deck then on the desktop

I love mine and I consider it to be the best purchase I made this year. By far.
ok, I agree with that too, but I also strongly believer that FTT (and most tokens) are created to enable fraud such as this (we can use our fradulent token as a means of collateral). Perhaps your argument is, even without FTT they would have found other means of stealing peoples deposits with a different cover story, and I guess I buy that as well.
I want to work on my flexibility, I have a bad habit of not doing much if any stretching at home and it's getting embarrassing how inflexible I am.
I would just like to point out this piece of financial knowledge:

Dividends are actually the same as selling a piece of your investment.

The moment dividends are paid the share price falls by exactly the amount of dividend paid. One way to think is that the second before the dividends are paid everybody included the dividend in the valuation of the share price. They expect the dividend to be paid to them. One second after the dividend was paid they no longer include it in the valuation making the share price worth less to them exactly by the amount of dividend paid.

If you had a piggy bank with $100 bill in it and a cookie that is promised to you if you hold the piggy bank with the bill in it at certain time, the piggy bank is worth $100 and a cookie. But once the deadline passes you can no longer get the cookie and the piggy bank converts to being just a regular piggy bank with $100 bill and no cookie promised.

Another way to think is that the company just gave off 1% of their value to shareholders in form of cash making the company 1% poorer.

So if you had a share price of $100 and you expected $1 dividend, the second after the dividend is paid you are left with a share worth $99 and $1 in cash which is exactly what would happen if you just sold 1% of your shares.

And because nobody is surprised by the dividend, the fact of paying it has already been included in the valuation well in advance of payment. There is no reason for the valuation to change due to payment of the dividend (other than the company losing exactly the value they paid in dividend).

So, to summarise:

>> Traditional investments have ways of generating and returning money without selling the asset itself

This is false, as shown by my above explanation. Dividends are not generating anything and are actually the same as selling portion of your asset.
I rarely buy anything nowadays. It's rare that I find something that really enhances my quality of life.

That being said, a few years ago, I bought noise canceling headphone, and it's very useful in noisy environment.

Also commuting by bike made a huge difference in my quality of life: a 150 euros bike served me well for almost a decade! Unfortunately, it's not possible everywhere. I recently moved to a new city with barely any cycling infrastructure and I find it too dangerous to share traffic with cars.
cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility#Law_of_dimini...
> A minimal amount of due diligence

Exactly what due dilligence would have saved them?

What numbers could they have looked at? How could they guard against those numbers being lies (cooked/parallel books)?
Around 1993 playing Dune 2 was all I wanted to do with my life as a young teenager. I really loved this game and played over and over..... wow.... I really miss those days! :-) Sometimes I watch a recorded gameplay on YouTube just for fun... and I still think the intro and the soundtrack is amazing to this day! I loved reading about how this game came together!
So left-leaning 'journalists' don't like it when the Twitter terms of service also applies to them and they start crying when they realized that it does? Hilarious. Twitter is a private company. Don't like it? You are free to build your own as it was once said years ago.

Maybe with Mastodon, thecrimeinc and its other left-wing extremist accounts are free to incite and promote violence there on their own instance, just like the other far-right extremists there that they are chasing everywhere, but not on Twitter, I'm afraid.

Looks like the terms of services is now applied equally. As it should if both extremists are crying over it.
Ask HN: Can we create a homebrew chat GPT?
As impressive as ChatGPT is I feel queasy that it is owned by one company and we cannot run it on our local system. We cannot inspect it, modify it and own the model ourselves. That brings me to my question. Is it possible to create something like this ourselves on our own local system? Or does it need too much GPU power for it to be feasible to be created at home?
Very gracious to archive it instead of deleting it. IMNSHO.
I found it in a thread (by LessWrong-ish libertarians) implying that ChatGPT is biased in a wrong way.

My stance is very different. There is no such thing as no bias. And bias is relative - always with respect to what?. For example, a baseline could be symmetry (man~woman, Black~Asian~White), average distribution among the world population, average distribution of online content, etc, etc.

Also (what is, of course, my biased opinion), I think that ChatGPT biases are on average, good. I prefer that to a creepy-racist-uncle-AI of GPT-4chan. Or anything tribal/exclusive/religious/anti-science.
modern? it looks dated
tfa is about people _going to jail_. That is so absurd I can barely believe it. and here we are, discussing $20 child seats and missing spares... priorities...
Existing users I would say. The bad UI is probably the main reason K-9 Mail is not that popular.
The GP asked this question: "How can we be sure that what we’ve observed is representative enough to extrapolate conclusions of?"

I merely pointed out that your answer did not address that part of the question.
> Of course, while I toiled in the infra mines at this company, all kinds of truly evil shit was going on, including the installation of a fascist regime in my country

I guess "fascist regime" is a reference to Trump here? If so it's hard for me to take the author seriously. My grandparents survived actual fascist regime (Nazi Germany occupation during WW2), and my parents grew up in authoritarian puppet states of USSR. Trump doesn't get anywhere close to what my people went through in 20th century, and it's pretty insulting for me when people make this comparisons.
Maybe this will be the good result from all this AI stuff we see. Long but information-poor text is going to lose it's perceived value, and in the end language will evolve toward a more efficient and meaningful form.
I purchased a water fountain (the kind you can find in an office) and 4 5 gallon drums and it's been one of my most used purchases ever. Mine is a bottom loader and I think that's important to the usefulness of it.

It's been so successful I know of several other people who have also made such purchases after experiencing it.

It's kind of an odd thing, but so so nice to have. It even heats water, although we turn that functionality off because we also have an electric kettle, but it's something to consider for anyone contemplating such a purchase.
> this is straight up old-style fraud from a company

Traditional banks definitely go up bankrupt, and regulated financial entities definitely break laws, but it seems to happen with alarming frequency with crypto companies.

Given that the only two proven use-cases for crypto are doing an end-run around regulation/laws (however foolish or unjust people may believe those rules to be) and speculation/gambling, it also doesn't seem that surprising?
Nobody's innocent in crypto. You cant wish to be the last survivor hoarding wealth when a system you try to destroy implodes and then turn back when you get your nose bloody "taxpayers, can you regulate my Anarchy, it's not working as advertised".
It seems to also not respond anymore to attempts to trick it into acting like a human being, such as roleplay and asking for dialogue completion...?
> It is funny people can't envision things breaking...

By comparison the Clap switch is so simple that if it is quite at least you can sleep at night
Can you give some examples of category (C)? I'm not quite sure of the type of organisation you're referring to there.
They are computationally equivalent, but I wouldn't say that one of them "is" another, since RNN has a limited amount of memory, and Turing machine has an infinite tape.
I purchased a bunch of online history courses at Cambridge. I didn't think at this point in my life and career I could wholly fall in love with a new subject from scratch, but it's been extremely enjoyable and stimulating. This was part of a more general attempt to wean myself off social media and too much technology (I mean, online courses obviously, but slower moving subject matter at least). That's also been coupled with reading more physical books, and subscribing to a newspaper and some magazines. I would say that this has had a very positive effect on my mental health. I'm delighted that the entire Elon Musk/Twitter saga has largely passed me by, for example.
Mozilla is following the herd too. I don't attack Firefox because it's not trendy, but because Mozilla is trying to be, and doesn't seem to know who its users are. As someone who used Firefox for 15 years, I stopped believing that they know what they're meant to be doing.
Do you use tricks to get https (like it can be done with Tailscale) or do you not bother anymore and rely on the transport encryption layer solely (like wireguard)?

I’m in the process of moving towards putting stuff behind new vpn solutions (Tailscale/ Wireguard in my case). It does feel good to drop https though. Or does it really not matter? What do HNers think?
if something like that happened to me, i would make it my life's mission to work whatever legal means there are to hunt down every one of these "reporters". Going to jail for a fully paid rental in the States is so absurd, I can't believe it.
>Just your subjective knowledge of your local area and class of home you normally experience.

So, like yours? When you said "A lot of apartments here have security devices" did you qualify it as "in non western countries with the right balance of affording security services and intenterrupted mains power"?

>Not everybody enjoys the security that western democracies provide

Well, not everybody who doesn't enjoy "the security that western democracies provide" has money to pay for a security company - or even the luxury of continuous power that is not frequently cut anyway, either.

In the context though, in a house with automatic sensors and such, I'd consider my case more likely.
The seems reasonable to me. The landlord is basically requiring you to agree to the Android or iOS terms as well as any terms of the app itself. You can't be forced to agree to these.

I wonder the same thing about work. If my job wants me to use some software can they require me to agree to the ToS? What happens if I don't want to?
My Celestron NexStar SE6. Initially, I felt nervous about such a big purchase for a hobby that I was still only exploring (especially living in NYC). Even though I have yet to capture a really good photo of Jupiter or Saturn (I’ll get there eventually), it’s really been worth it. It’s given my wife and I a really good excuse to get out of the city regularly (we were married last August, though a wedding doesn’t seem appropriate to call a “purchase”, otherwise that’d have to be my answer). During the summer I actually started looking forward to the longer winter nights.
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When finding out about lenses some years ago I really felt that they could be immensely useful in the way they could potentially separate all data mapping concerns from the rest of the code base.

But I quickly ended up in dependency or type hell when I tried using them. I hope that people will take inspiration from the concept in the future.
The exclamation mark after that (!) is very relevant, @dang.

Thanks.
I'd suggest that (d) exists: Companies that make a reasonable product, that solves a problem, and that people are willing to pay for. Those companies are out there, and can be good to work for. But yeah, you still have to keep an eye out because even these can turn slowly evil over time.
Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?
I am assuming the market must be saturated with people seeking tech jobs. Is it difficult to get interviews? How have you been since you got laid off?
Switch nails this and the PS5 absolutely does not.
It was so hard to get 2.9K traffic daily, but I did it
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Yeah.. The biggest fastest asteroid doesn't seem to cause a planet wide issue. What killed the dinos then?

Jk... I do not have enough info about the dino extinction, and I understand this is a fun internet toy. Very cool and neal.fun is amazing in general.
Temasek turns an annualized return of 14%. If they didn't take occasional Ls on specific investments, it would suggest they have an insufficient appetite for risk. 0.1% of their net portfolio is a rounding error both when considered against both the portfolio itself, and their expected return for any given year.
I bought a hand cranked coffee grinder several years ago. After a while I got a little annoyed by the work it took to grind some coffee, so I made an adapter for my cordless drill. This made grinding coffee a lot easier when I needed a quick cup of coffee.
Sweet! I forget about this game entirely, fun memories of being distracted from doing something more productive. I just need Yahoo!'s old pool game from early 2000s.
Neuralink faces federal inquiry after killing 1,500 animals in testing
Late addition but yes of course the apps must support those IMAP features. They work hand in hand for this functionality.

Presently if you aren't able to do any of the above something is not configured correctly. Some apps have differing opinions on where the sent/drafts/deleted folders should be for example.
> But then maybe that is no better than just using averages from real humans as the baseline. Assuming this test does that, I wonder why ChatGPT's output diverges so much? Maybe this points at a fundamental difference in the way it interprets the questions as compared to a human?

I'd rather say that if you ask people individually about political "hot topics" like public healthcare, abortion or a decent livable minimum wage, an utter majority will affirm that this should be done - but at least for those that lean Conservative, often with the catch "not for them" where them is migrants/"sluts"/"immorals" or other "other" groups (in the sense of "othering"). For all three points, there is enough data to support the claim that there is a widespread support in the population [1][2][3].

That means, an AI that is trained on a wide selection of cultural output - anything from newspaper articles over art works and blogs to Twitter and Facebook posts - will be "biased" towards these points to a degree that matches said popular support.

Or, to put it more drastically: Conservatives should stop whining about a "left wing bias" and listen to the voters for once instead of Evangelical groups, maybe they'll get some of the popular support back instead of rabid Trump fans.

[1] https://morningconsult.com/2021/03/24/medicare-for-all-publi...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/13/about-six-i...

[3] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/22/most-americ...
I assume 4000K (cool white) and 2700K (warm white) are mixed up.

Definitely seconded, makes a huge difference (I also have a LED bar with 4000K + 4800 lumens in my office room)
Steam Deck.

I got it to replace playing games on an Intel Mac, as Mac has become a worse platform for gaming (32bit dropped, OpenGL deprecated, no Vulkan support, and now developers would have to support Apple Silicon).

The plan was to use it mainly in desktop mode, but it has been really amazing for handheld gaming, that I game more on the couch and in bed with it than as a desktop.

Also Proton works really well and it is great to be able to boot in to a full Linux desktop environment. It’s so refreshing to have control of the device and to use it how I want.
LavinMQ: Lightweight and fast AMQP server written in Crystal
I didn't "purchase" anything - but I upgraded from a "cleaner" to a "housekeeper". What's the difference, you might ask?

My wife and I are both working parents and we commute to London at least twice a week, leaving very little time for things like laundry and general tidying up.

We have an absolutely fantastic lady who comes in 3x a week, and rather than only doing the usual cleaning, i.e. mop the floors, clean the stove, dusting etc., she does a bit of everything. The laundry is taken care of, the expired/spoiled food in the fridge has been thrown out, kid's toy pile tidied up, my t-shirts have been folded and placed in their drawer. The bedding has been replaced, even the dog's bed has been cleaned.

I can't tell you the immense quality of life improvement this has brought us. Now, when we come home tired at 6pm, we don't have to spend the next 3 hours doing chores, we can just put little one to bed and then sit down and enjoy dinner together. It's brought us closer, made us happier and given us more time with our daughter.

If you can afford this luxury, I highly recommend it. It's the biggest quality of life improvement I've ever experienced - But you need to find a GOOD person you can trust to essentially run your house in your absence.

Needless to say, she's getting a nice Christmas bonus :)
San Pedro, Los Angeles
Find anything you need with fzf, the Linux fuzzy finder tool
I'll tell you my theory: it is (or at least, was, for a long time) gaming. There are so many gamers, and they bought expensive hardware, and replaced it frequently. That made developing processors and video cards pretty lucrative. Hence GPU-based neural nets and Bitcoin miners.
Nice article and examples, but this seems like an exceptionally complicated and prone-to-bugs solution for what is ultimately a nice to have. I'm all for subtle UI sugar, I pay it a lot of attention in my own work, but subtlety (and usability) really is key IMO.

I was clicking through on Firefox android and noticed a small number of minor things, incl. bounding box issues, animations that went off screen, and glitches when an example was toggled while in motion. Not sure if these are intentional (or expected). No doubt easily fixed. But they paint a picture for edge cases. I'm sure there's some amazing use cases for these techniques, but there's also a good case for simple CSS (and restraint!)
If you edit it, it will save without modification (auto-stripping of certain things happens only on first save) - though in this case it's probably better just to remove 'stop that' altogether?
> How does drawing lines between galaxies show asymmetry

You know how there's no way to rotate your left hand to make it look like a right hand? There's always something different. The palm facing the opposite direction, or the thumb is at the other side.

The same can be done with tetrahedrons. If they have all different length sides, you can find that the ordering of the sides from shortest to longest go on "spin" around one of the vertices, in a way that doesn't change no matter how you rotate the shape.

The way we understand the universe, we expect that we would have 50% of such arrangements "spinning in one direction", and the rest to "spin in the other direction". But it's actually not balanced.

> Why is that important?

If the result is confirmed, it's important because it breaks one of the fundamental assumptions we had about the universe. We don't know what would cause this difference yet, but the finding proves that there is/was something that would cause this difference, and it is the first clue towards figuring out what it could be.
I had one as well this year and while the procedure takes 10 minutes for both eyes, the actual shining of a laser into your eye took about 30 sec per eye. The rest was getting you ready, getting a temporary healing contact lens in, etc.

I opted for TransPRK, took about a week to get back into my previous state, then in two weeks everything was crystal clear.

Best thing ever
Do you think that the mean political opinion of all the text on the internet is close to the mean political opinion of humanity? I'm not sure.
Java has always been its own separate world. For instance, recently we had daylight saving issues on a server (we no longer have daylight savings time, but the Java application thought it had just started). The server did have an updated timezone database with the correct rules... but Java uses a separate timezone database, which hadn't been updated.