skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any doctor that participated in this should never be able to practice medicine again, they should also be tried for genocide.
In this video we take a look at the new Fyde Tab DUO Open-source and hackable Linux tablet, powered by FydeOS and this thing is awesome! It runs FydeOS, Android 12, Or Linux, and it's powered by an RK3588S Arm CPU backed by 8GB of ram and housed inside of an aluminum chassis with a beautiful 10/35” 2K IPS display!
A lot of examples here: https://indieweb.org/Webmention#IndieWeb_Examples
Russia is committing to a genocidal war, this is why they have sanctions against them.

They are literally state-sponsors of terrorism and they're funding privately operated terrorist groups.

Rapes, murders, destruction of civilian infrastructure, it's all well documented.
I run Buttondown (http://buttondown.email/) full-time now, but did so as a side project from 2017 to earlier this year.

My strategy was fairly simple: I wanted to create a better version of a tool (in this case, Tinyletter) that:

1. I already used whose quality I thought was extremely poor,

2. I did not think the creators were incentivized to make improvements;

3. I could think of a sub-niche that I was well-equipped to build because it reflected my own experience (support for Markdown, a REST API — basically developer-adjacent functionality.) [^1]

I think we are in general pretty awash in bad products; it is not particularly difficult to pay attention to what you use over the course of a week and see what could use some obvious improvements.

[^1]: People often think of 'niching down' as adding features, but I would argue it is often just as much about removing features. As companies grow, they must add more and more surface area to satisfy certain use cases. Side projects do not have this problem; they can be laser focused on one or two such use cases, and as such remove all the surface area that many users find to be detritus.
This could be quite interesting! Since the normal display usually takes most of the battery, thus as a person who reads a lot on my phone, having a more battery conserving and eye friendly option when reading could be really cool! But when I would need colour and full functionality I would still have the phone. The only real question now is the price, because I paid ~220€ for my phone, so if it costs equal or more, I don't think I could afford it - to basically buy another phone, but with less functionality...

I have been looking at E-Ink phones, which look quite interesting, would love to try one!
I hope the turing-passing content will shift focus from the origin of the statements to the actual content of what is being said. Authentication of origin is only a helpful rule of thumb when dealing with trusted authorities, something that doesn't really scale beyond a village.
> I could just be making this up, but it seemed like flatpaks were taking more storage than an install of the same apps from repositories.

Flatpaks don't use any shared libraries, that's why. Every app has its own copy of everything, including glibc. That's why flatpak can be used to run glibc apps on MUSL distributions like Alpine.
Well, I am in my 70s so job security is not really anything I think about.

Funny, but about 35 years ago I blocked my boss’s boss from buying a company that wrote an “AI coding tool”. I change my mind about things and what I found ridiculously simple and un-useful 35 years ago, is very different than Copilot.

I don’t think it takes a lot of imagination to fully conceptualize how much AI tools will change knowledge work.

I have been a paid AI practitioner since 1982 and I find it exciting how fast the field is now progressing. I worked as a consultant at Google in 2013 with their Knowledge Graph and that opened my eyes to the possibilities of so much structured and organized (they had a very good Ontology team) knowledge. Six years ago I managed a deep learning team at Capital One and mostly because of the strong team, I was surprised how effective deep learning is for practical problems.

One last example: in the 1980s I spent a fair amount of time trying to write code manually for anaphora resolution - a problem that BERT models now solve “simply.”
It uses GPT-3 under the hood which requires about 350 gigabytes of GPU VRAM (back of the envelope calc, likely more) to perform these inferences.
Discussed at the time, 38 comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28379872>

(Over a year ago, so not a dupe. Reposts are permitted by HN.)
> used to have a higher annual revenue than the Federal Government

I’d be interested to know how much of the switch was the company shrinking and how much was government revenue going up.
Naming is simple when the function or method is simple.

Complex naming is often, but not always, a good indicator of complexity.

Unless of course, it's Java... https://projects.haykranen.nl/java/
The number one reason why people work is because they need the money.
Even if you enjoy your job there are still days you'd rather stay in bed.
We just define freedom differently than you do. I honestly think your version is weird and totalitarian, exactly the way you think mine is.

Here's mine: "Freedom" is what you have in the absence of coercion. The freest state of being is being the last person alive on Earth. Freedom gives you nothing, because if freedom gave you something then someone else would have been coerced into giving it to you. Freedom also gives you the chance to do everything you need to do to survive and thrive.

In a society, we necessarily give up some freedom because my freedom to have stuff is threatened by your freedom to take it when I'm not looking (you would not have had that freedom in isolation). In more recent times, we have started to give up freedom in exchange for security, too, and everyone thinks that is worthwhile, although we disagree on how far you should go. The US military budget and all the government healthcare programs in the world are this kind of trade.

That's what GDPR is: it's a trade of freedom for the security of European sovereignty and European business (notice how I didn't mention privacy or user security). It's not about the "little guy" vs the "big corporations," the big corporations have plenty of money and lawyers they can use to comply. The people that all of these laws hit are the startups and small companies. This philosophy is why there are no European unicorns. Europe as a whole has given up the freedom to "start up" without compliance with a huge number of rules and regulations (or money to pay bribes). Uniquely, GDPR goes a step further and tries to impose this burden on everyone in the world, not just people and companies that have signed up for the European project.

In the European worldview, there seem to be a lot of "rights" exemplified by the UN human rights charter. These include things that nobody had 25 years ago, like "the right to high-speed internet." These "rights" and "freedoms" really aren't freedom: someone has to pay to provide them at the end of the day. For those of us across the pond, these are weird trades: you voluntarily pay incredibly high tax rates and huge administrative burdens for these supposed "rights," some of which look like luxuries to us, and feel as though they don't make you any less free.
its much better than the average stackoverflow
Well, any customers that do not believe it are welcome to sit and watch over my shoulder. I doubt an AI could do that and if they can then it's game over.
Open-source keyboard, Apple drivers in Asahi Linux, Thunderbird Android and more
There's plenty more besides. My own static blog supports webmentions thanks to webmention.io, which is used by numerous other blogs. Brid.gy also uses it to trucker syndication and backfeed of comments from various silos.
Coding in C++ could be a double edged sword whilst interviewing. It's hard for some interviewers to admit that they don't know C++ and they might end up surreptitiously misgrading your work. It's best to ask the interviewer's opinion on C++ before chosing it. IMO, the safest bets would be to stick to Java or Python (even Python's a fairly hairy language these days).

I once shadowed an interview once, where this happened. I felt bad for the candidate, because I wasn't allowed to speak whilst shadowing the interview, and neither did I have to submit feedback; and the candidate clearly was coding well. Although, I did reach out to the recruiter about this. And I don't know what happened after that.
Per Wikipedia, oral contraceptives were legalized in Japan in 1999 but are not covered by health insurance.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_control_in_Japan
For scientific papers, it is required to be specific and precise with terminology. Everyday communication affords more liberties and leeway.

For the journal paper genre which is highly technical, more specific and appropriate terminology is always available that sidestep the whole issue.
My intuitive objection to your comment is that it ignores the basis of the article: that it’s entirely about learning more about dark matter. This is the complete antithesis to what your comment claims.
Exactly. The scandal wasn’t so much that a company defrauded investors (happens) but that regulators didn’t catch on to it and actively interfered with attempts to uncover it.
The truth lies somewhere in the middle most likely.

Replacing redis with PG for example feels very "when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail" to me.
I used to think descriptive variable names were a waste of time (a,b,c, even things like booya, foo, etc), until I had to maintain my own code from years ago. I literally had no one to blame but myself for the extra deciphering work I had to do.
"waste" a lot of time reinventing wheels (the lower level the better, ultimate example would be writing your own OS) and other stuff that has no practical outcome for your immediate problems.
Agreed, but as a professor I believe one needs to be looking in the future. It was not that far out, but yeah it was an AI winter. We were stuck until 2012 basically. That's a long time.
"The Road to Precision Cosmology" is a good summary of how we ended up with the current theories: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04741
Don't count on it. If I recall correctly USDD still doesn't have a redemption mechanism. USDD is just Justin Sun messing around with folks to get a rise out of them. He can restore the peg at his discretion for a few bucks.

Sun was on twitter a few months ago shitposting about "steady lads deploying capital" (referring to Do Kwon's infamous Terra posts) as it lost the peg before, and nothing came of it then either.

USDD isn't a 1:1 asset backed coin, and it's not a properly algorithmic coin. Also Justin Sun is a piece of work. It's all just a weird mess. Moreso than usual for crypto.
Sure, let's forbid anything that closely resembles something younger than 140 years. That will incentivize everyone to create!

/s

Just abolism this censorship nonsense. Culture wants to be free.
In my experience most politicians “just” engage in insider trading, people like this woman should be marched out of there offices at gunpoint.

(Preferably by the police, but crowds can do crazy things if instigated, so regardless of whether you think you’ll at best go to some luxury prison it’s best not to test the wisdom of the crowds by robbing them blind)

You are pushing nihilism - the number of them with literal bags is small but the effect significant.

And to be clear “the left” (which I am a part of) do not consider ourselves above such things - in fact it’s been a consistent barrier to my professional success that I insist local party officials from the township to the Oval Office stay out of politics if they are going to to put the needs of corporations above those of people.

Where we differ is economics.

I attended a Ron Paul rally in the 2000s like rest of the HN comments section, per his suggestion I read the case for gold and I’ve taken multiple graduate level economics courses.

And while I continue to describe myself as a “left libertarian”, humans are irrational actors, there is no invisible hand in the market and insisting so is as damaging to society as insisting there is an invisible man in the sky.
We’re getting really close to the old joke - planes will have a computer, a pilot, and a dog. The computer is there to fly the plane, the pilot is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to bite the pilot if he tries to touch anything.
>> Even loans don't create money: the issuing bank have the amount subtracted from its reserves

Not even the old system (fractional reserve) referred to in the fed link above works that way. The new system deletes what was left of fractional reserve policy.
I just skimmed the video. It seems full of information, but this video skips. It seems like either the author composed his sentences by slicing together various clips, or a few frames have been removed between some words. I tried opening the video in NewPipe as well, same problem.
Vector Animations with Python (2014)
YC has an excellent video on this that's out just recently (from SUS 2022):

How to get and evaluate startup ideas[0]

There are a lot of different ways to think about this -- but generally what seems to be the pattern is:

- Get in a problem-finding mindset (generate value by solving problems). Problems are absolutely everywhere in society

- Qualifying problems is more important than having them (is this a problem people would pay to solve? Are there enough of those people?)

- Validating problems is more important than having them (is there any signal indicating people will? Has anyone actually given you money to solve this problem?)

keep in mind the idea is not the most important bit.

As far as doing #1 (getting you in the mindset), it really depends on what your goals are (don't let anyone tell you that "making money" is not a worthwhile goal), but in general one of the best practical things you can do is start running with an entrepreneurial crowd.

If you can't find a gaggle of entrepreneurs in meatspace, try sites like MicroConf, IndieHackers (read stories of other IndieHackers) and others. Start listening to podcasts that are by/for entrepreneurs (beware of get rich quick schemes obviously).

I literally write and send my ideas to people every week[1], trust me that when you start looking/thinking about startup ideas, they are everywhere. I have over 600 notes from what has to be less than 3 years of starting to write them down.

Personally what works for me is to:

- Go through life, witness something painful/weird/broken

- Have an idea of how you could solve/streamline that or think about what might be interesting to look into as a leverage point (maybe you can't solve it, but why is X like that?)

- Write it down

- Review the idea at a later date when you actually want to execute on something, start fleshing it out by adding research and trying to find your customer/talk to them.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th8JoIan4dg

[1]: https://unvalidatedideas.com/archive
It's too cheap. Kay needs to increase prices by at least an order of magnitude, and go per-application subscribing. An all-you-can-develop subscription should be at least 25K,if not more.
Agreed. The mark of a senior developer is their ability to decouple concepts and synthesize concepts appropriately depending on the context.

You need to have highly developed critical thinking skills in order to be able to formulate appropriate solutions to problems. What a developer does isn't so different from what an entrepreneur does; they spend most of their time explaining their vision and goals; the difference is that the developer's vision and goals are much more granular and detailed.
It will put everyone else producing ppts and excel sheets out of work first.
Rest assured someone is working on a self-hosted (distilled) model. Stable Diffusion has shown there is a viable market for open, consumer-hardware inferencable models.
The 1 is only metastable
It is not available to run locally, but like the other comments said, an equivalent model would require an inordinate amount of VRAM.
Paper-thin solar cell can turn any surface into a power source
API7 Cloud Release Notes
You could theorize a simple remote override that is simply “deviate to nearest appropriate airport and land” but that requires substantial support AND doesn’t handle all sorts of abnormal situations beyond “pilot died”.
>"I always forget about things I bookmarked on Twitter"

>Result: I built a small project that sends me a weekly email of my newly added Twitter bookmarks (https://getbirdfeeder.com). It doesn't make a lot of money yet but I have some paid subscribers.

This is fantastic. I'm gonna check it out.
Best practice for research project organisation (2019)
This is one of those titles that doesn't make sense when HN drops the leading word. It should be:

> Why I start taking English classes at the age of 46
Not sure whether it is illegal. I certainly don't like the imperialistic US view that their sanctions are globally binding. Citizens and businesses from other countries should not be bound by US laws while not being on US ground.

But I think that these sanctions against Russia are ethically justified. So circumventing them is unethical for me, whether illegal or not.

Edit: Saying that these sanctions are ethically justified does not imply that they would be the most efficient or effective way to stop the war.
I browsed the Envato / CodeCanyon popular products section looking for a product that enough people were buying and I felt confident about being able to build an improved version of.

This was around 2015, I landed on a JavaScript image cropper and uploader. I built my own and have been working on it ever since.
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One billing error, hack or surprise fee and you’re one phone call from having it reversed under the terms of the direct debit guarantee. In the countries I’ve lived in.
This! I did play around with ChatGPT for a while and found its responses to be incredibly generic. While they seem impressive at the first glance, in many cases it seemed like the responses seem like the first google result with some keywords replaced.

What’s impressive to me about ChatGPT isn’t the text output but the context awareness of the model.
I seem to recall baffling people on my first visit to the US by asking them if they knew where a "cash machine" could be found. Either that wasn't a common term for ATM or my strong British accent confounded them.
Thanks! I'm actively working on it and recently added full text search across your bookmarks which is something not available on Twitter right now (and was fun to build, which is the factor I mostly optimize for in my side projects)
This probably only has served to exacerbate the issue on the English side.
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What's respectful about presenting you with a wall of text T&C document, giving you a checkbox to indicate you read it, and mining the crap out of your data on a server located in Europe? GDPR allows that - in fact, it assumes that you will want to mine the crap out of user data and specifies where.

GDPR has a few good ideas about encrypting data buried in its ~170 articles, but most companies were doing that already because data breaches are expensive.

The rest of GDPR is about (essentially) trade protectionism: they want you using European servers to store and process data. They want that data in easy reach of other EU laws and enforcement agencies.
Wasn't even aware HN is doing that.
Misleading title. Blitzscaling is just about a specific strategy for growth; it has almost nothing to do with the main point of the article: oversupply of office space removes future plans for office space, and eventually makes your office supply very scarce and therefore valuable.
Indulge the counterfactual for a second. Suppose that dark matter really does exist, and we can't ascertain that fact with any certainty. What do you want Physics as a whole to do about that? I think everybody agrees a simple answer would be great, we're just unable to provide one in this context
From a 10 year old show hn post[0].

I wanted to make my own but ended up making a timeline maker and have kept working on it since (markwhen.com)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6833565
Let us not forget the anarcho-syndicalist communes. They would take turns to act as a sort of executive-officer-for-the-week.

But all the decisions of that officer had to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting. By a simple majority, in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority, in the case of more major matters.
Europe is weird about private license; so much so that a vast majority of people in Europe instead travel to the US for a few months to learn flying.

Night flying over LA is great; night flight over the desert or the Midwest away from cities can be effectively IFR; VFR private licenses require some IFR time but I highly recommend spending some time on instruments if you’re going to VFR at night.

And VFR over the top at night I just don’t recommend unless you have an IFR rating.
"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

Hamlet

William Shakespeare
I have the feeling that as more people find out crypto is not a way to get rich quick the interest from mainstream society will dwindle.

Cryptocurrency was and still is being shilled everywhere and FOMO is real.
How to Profit Off AI
As a programmer, I appreciate the incorporation of Git-like qualities into GitImage. While Git is a familiar tool for those in the tech industry, it may be worth considering using a different analogy to better appeal to photographers, marketers, etc. This could make the product more accessible and appealing to a wider audience.
I remain unconvinced, there's a huge swathe of legacy industries that the pandemic showed up for being woefully stuck in the past - with "digitalisation" being a buzzwords thrown around during 2020-2021 for older industries that thought working in the 21st century entailed emailing CSVs to each other, working on physical desktops.

I don't think these types of slow moving companies will be the ones to leap frog by jumping all in on AI, moreover I believe the TAM for software development is still growing strongly, AND I'm actually quite interested what happens to the nature of work 10-20 years down the line when most of today's kids who will be able to sort of code and become hybrid workers (to how traders went from shouting in a floor to being quite numeric, or accountants went from physical books to excel).

Tldr my bet is that AI might displace labour but not lead to a net reduction of software labour demand in the next 10-20 years at least
Having toyed around with ChatGPT for a week now, I already use it as a sort of "code assistant", much like how copilot works.

How good the results are, depends on how good you are at constructing the queries. It's a bit like using google - some people have only the most basic knowledge, while others can find pretty much anything, because they're really good at writing queries.

Now, imagine how it's going to be 10-15-20 years from now? The future models will probably cull a chunk of devs., while the good devs will be even more efficient.

But who knows, maybe this will actually help some of the mediocre programmers to focus their energy on other things? Like taking on other roles? Take me for example - I'm no rock-star programmer. I see programming as a means to an end, it's just a tool. I would much prefer to focus on the actual business logic and features of a product, maybe even long-time strategy. If most of the tedious coding was removed, that would make me happy.
I loved playing puzzle games and I loved learning Rust+wasm so I built https://puzzlip.com to challenge myself.
Meant in the nicest way: you do learn the most curious things on HN.
And sometimes that mistake propagates and leaves us 25 years later still using referer [0]

[0] https://annaken.github.io/a-brief-history-of-the-referer-hea...
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