skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instant Pot.
Can be used as a rice cooker, slow cooker, pressure cooker (mostly known for this last use)

Though probably not as good for rice specifically as an actual high-end rice cooker,
it greatly increased the range of foods I eat.

Makes it easy to make nice one pot meals overnight for multiple days,
you can make really good broth soups from chickens etc quickly, or slowly if you prefer.

If you like to try tougher cuts of meat, this is also a good reason to get it.
The fact it doesn't occupy one burner is also helpful.
> because you may need to keep around every version of your protobuf in every client and/or server

That shouldn't be necessary. Protobuf changes are supposed to be additions-only, where existing field numbers never change their meaning, but new optional/default fields are added. If you do that, you only need one version of the proto spec.
Safari telling me the SSL cert for this site is not trusted. Perhaps only appropriate for "the tech deviant dot com".
The logic seems sound to me, with a few obvious caveats:

* The number of samples is small. There aren't a lot of empires throughout history.

* The definition of "empire" is somewhat subjective, because empire sizes exhibit a Zipf distribution, and the cutoff is arbitrary.

* Surely there have been other factors at play besides time to travel from the capital.

One implication is that empires that span the globe are much more feasible today, thanks to modern travel, communications, and surveillance technologies.
HR: “Next year we’re going offsite as part of annual performance discussions”.

“We will be traveling via bus to a Dave & Busters nearby”.

“Those of you who meet expectations will board the bus at 8AM to go have fun, thank you for your contributions to the company in this past period”.

Ominously unstated is what happens to those who didn’t meet expectations.
While we're at it we should publicly flog anyone who's ever done any art in the style of anyone else before them, because they also stole ideas from the public.
Wait, what? Was mailcow sold? What does it mean for future development and features? Should we start to look for an alternative?
Sorry, I am not familiar with reddit’s model.

What is “ownership” in this case? Total private tyranny, with delegation of authority? Does it transition to collectively and more democratically managing the channel, as stackexchsnge does?
Let me introduce you to this crazy little program called vim...
I wonder if there's a benefit to eating precisely the amount of calories needed to prevent notable muscle loss with as little surplus as possible, or to CR in the young that you stop when you're older?
Hah, I went for automatic wrist watch, so my phone would interrupt me less.
Maybe a useful way to think about it is that we don't know for sure what intelligence is nor how the gradient of intelligence expresses itself. For instance, does a human grow in intelligence as it ages (a baby doesn't "know" stuff, but has the capacity for learning and then applying in new situations as its experience grows).

I interpret your statement as implying that ChatGPT is somewhere on the spectrum of intelligence, yes?
Right when I submitted enough wine patches to get Affinity Photo v1 working on linux, they go and release V2 with a couple WinRT lib calls which are basically completely missing from wine :(
As per the founder's own post in Mastodon, 600+ sign-ups on account of the link in HN. (https://social.lol/@adam/109642813277235626)
Not sure if that analogy holds exactly. Neurons don't “compute”, they simply emit a signal that depends on how “saturated” they currently are, right?
You are right, I mixed the terms “data” and “information” up
We need a few more copies of this gene before we can recognize all the patterns ;)
That's because there's no feedback loop of what you're saying, in the active lives of the people interfacing with GitHub. Consider an example of ingesting poison. If the poison tastes bad, I'll be sure to spit it out immediately, either by involuntary disgust, or because I associate with that negative feeling of being poisoned, something I don't want, so I react. But what if the poison tastes good? And what if it not only tastes good, it actually rewards me for ingesting it, in some way? People tell me it's poison, it might not say so on the label, and many are also ingesting it. Is it even believable that it's poison, given that I don't experience the negatives at all?
Hasn't this been going on since the dawn of time?
I can (road) bike with an Airpod fairly securely in. For longer rides where I want to listen to a podcast, a little bit of surgical tape brings even more security.

You may be aware of this, but the recommended way to wear Airpods (especially the 3rd gen non-Pro?) is to twist the stalks towards your face to 'lock' them into place better.

(I discovered this when I was about to angrily throw out my new 3rd gen Airpods, as they were fatter than my original gen 1 model, and just wouldn't stay in place. I've never seen anyone else doing this [and I sometimes get comments from people for wearing mine oddly] but it's a game-changer.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/airpods/comments/qgqo5a/psa_if_the_...
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It might be a problem to treat it as copyright. Copyright applies to reproduction, distribution, public performance... if I go to a library or bookstore and I read books and look at their covers, copyright does not apply. Would an android that walks around learning things be subject to copyright? To what extent does it need a body and mobility to be more like a person and less as a scraper?

It might seem stupid, but I worry that if copyright begins applying to "mining" then the next thing is that it applies to humans watching things.

Of course, if an AI re-creates copyrighted content, copyright should apply. Just like it applies when I redraw and sell the Mona Lisa, but not when I store it in my memory. I would pass on the responsibility to users. I don't fear my use of Github Copilot because it's far from infringing any reasonable copyright... then again, I'm assuming the most likely way to infringe copyright with GPT is to use a prompt that almost explicitly requests it.
Once again, artists trying to stake a claim of personal ownership of a section of human expression standing in the way of technological and cultural progress.
Exactly! Convection ovens are devices for roasting, not for frying.
The reason is that it's much smaller in terms of internal volume.
I would argue that “killer feature” killed its potential to be much bigger and more profitable than it is.
Poetry meets journalism, with LLMs and diffusion models
> but the same can kind of be said about mice and keyboards, too.

AFAIK, even old keyboards (AT and PS/2 connectors) already had a microcontroller, and the same was true of mice. The communication between the keyboard or mouse and the computer was through a serial protocol, instead of the computer directly reading the keyboard matrix or the mouse buttons and wheels. The exception might have been computers with built-in keyboards. But the joystick port (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_port) directly exposed the buttons and potentiometers from the joystick, instead of talking to a microcontroller on it.
I think there are a lot of people who don’t know they care but actually do and would get really upset if you placed anything out of the ordinary in front of them.
Maybe whales are "smarter" than us. How can we empirically test whale intelligence? Their technological abilities are obviously inferior, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were surprisingly intelligent in other ways. I'm trumpet dumb, that doesn't mean I'm not "overall smarter" or "niche smarter" than some people who play trumpet.
I agree with the moderator, AI will push artists to their limits and force them to become creative which is the most important skill of an artist. Technicality isn't enough nowadays, doesn't matter if you can paint like Raphael, you need to be creative like Picasso or Dali.
Hi HN,

This one is mine. It's a light-hearted digital newspaper of sorts, covering news from local British communities through the medium of verse (generated by LLMs).

Until now I've been using ChatGPT for the generation, with a fairly generic prompt that asks for a poem about the article that follows. ChatGPT's ability to summarise is incredible. It's really not great, though, at rhyme and meter. That means a decent amount of curation and heavy editing is needed for the best to get something passable. Prompt engineering has not seemed to have a meaningful impact. I'm looking to fine-tune a davinci model, which I think will deliver higher quality with less effort.

Some example from the current process:

Poem: https://rhymingreporter.art/farewell-little-red/ | Original article: https://www.cornwalllive.com/whats-on/food-drink/little-red-...

Poem: https://rhymingreporter.art/flowing-frocks-icy-blue/ | Original article: https://www.cornwalllive.com/whats-on/whats-on-news/gallery/...

The quality can mostly be blamed on me, rather than GPT-3. I haven't written a poem since school :)

The accompanying illustrations are created with Stable Diffusion using DiffusionBee. Images take around 30s to generate on my Macbook Air M1. I'm looking to switch to MochiDiffusion to cut generation time a bit.

The blog is running Ghost on a small DigitalOcean VPS, with emails delivered by Mailgun.

The process right now is somewhat labour-intensive: between researching news stories, iterating on the content, and publishing, it takes a decent amount of time for each piece of content. I'm confident in being able to automate a large part of it, in time.

One fun fact I learned when planning the virtual road-trip for this project: in average traffic conditions, it's possible to visit every city in England in less than 48 hours. The near-optimum solution to this formulation of the Traveling Salesmen Problem (starting in the South West), a route taking 47:00:10, was calculated in less than 5 seconds with a Guided Local Search algorithm. [1]

Technology means that I can virtually, learn about, write creatively, and publish regularly, all whilst having a family and a full-time job. What a time to be alive!

Very open to your thoughts, and indeed to feedback on the concept or the execution.

[1] https://developers.google.com/optimization/routing/tsp
Their cite includes the national crime victimization survey which surveys a 100-200 thousand people and asks if they've been a victim of a crime. Theoretically that's independent of anything else and should accurately reflect the true crime rate. But these days I'm not sure how you can get an accurate sample.

That said, I think this somewhat misses the point. Large numbers of cities saw violent disturbances over the last couple years. Anecdotally, I've noticed an increase in street racing and those sorts of general jackassery. Technically I'm not the victim of a violent crime but there definitely seems to be more of an edge to life these days. Understandable that people feel less safe and violent crime technically not going up isn't much solace.
so it is not a meme?
> acquire that goodwill and monetize it

Embrace

Extend <-- here

Extinguish
I haven’t noticed this either in the Bay, but could be very specific to where they live. I also think you see what you expect to see.
That seems self correcting over a relatively short horizon.
Explosion proof, fire arresting, multi layered tanks, which are in use since forever (planes and other critical vehicles also use that technology).

Also, you can’t ignite fuel without a spark. A cigarette can’t light a tank of fuel, but an overheated battery can catch fire by itself.

Lastly, you can extinguish fuel fires, but you can’t extinguish metal fires.
What's the make/model of your hearing protection?
The autor mentions that they are spending a huge amount of time on hoarding links. This is a waste of time. They should stop doing this, instead spend that time on reading a few articles and writing notes.
Yeah it's depends a lot on the model, I should have precised it's only for some models. Otherwise normal cassette players are still very easy to find.
yes, but what about for tomorrow?
What do you think would be a better model? I have a hard time imagining one.

It doesn't seem all that different to me than whoever is first to claim a company name, a domain name, or when we go back further in time, land.
These are great for super lightweight pourover (0.64 ounces). The listing says 1.5 cups per use but I think that's ambitious.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B098W5RMF1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
I use airgradient sensors.

On the other hand, instead of DIY you could just buy air purifier units with integrated air quality sensors. A friend of mine uses these, they appear to work very well https://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/AC2936_33/2000i-series-air-pur...
What/how did you learn from chatGPT that made it better than tutorials? How did you verify what it was telling you was correct as it has a propensity to make stuff up?
I had a job that had cameras BEHIND YOUR DESK! lol! There were like 100+ cameras for an office of 100 people.
> it's heathier than pasta

Would you care to expand on what this means?
What's with the odd 'ck' ligature?
sounds completely awesome to me, healthy fats ftw
Sounds delicious. I'll take butter + heavy cream any day over fried vegetable/seed oils, processed foods, or high fructose corn syrup concoctions.
That was born of the widely held metaphysical position that evolution is purposeless. Given that assumption one would expect to find plenty of “junk” DNA.
I've had my fair share of terrible moderators on Reddit. Even on major / big name subreddits.

There's not much to do aside from start a rival subreddit (with a less popular name), or just give up on Reddit entirely and go elsewhere.
Numbeo Crowd Sourced Cost of Living Index 2023
I know someone who works in medical billing (awful soul-sucking field) and they can't even read ON THEIR BREAKS because it will look like they aren't working.

ON THEIR BREAKS.
This is how I operate with normal socks - I never buy a single pack of socks - I just do a "line change" and replace them all when the old rotation is too far gone to meet my needs.

I have a few specialty items for exercise or dirty yard work, but those are easy to separate from the daily drivers.
That’s the main issue I see, they can stop the service at any time and then you’ll have no chance to get the subdomain back. You’re in a much better position with an actual second-level domain, because you can move the domain between service providers and registrars, and depending on locality you may also have actual legal rights to keep owning the domain.
These situations usually play out awkwardly and are always challenging. The really inexcusable ones, though, are where people just randomly sort of decide to violate the rules out of a spirit of generosity or something like that, like they're doing you a favor.
Wait till you cook some salmon or pick up an inexpensive slow cooker (Walmart had a 2 quart one for like $11 over the holidays)
"Power" moderators, that is people who moderate a large number of subreddits, are untenable. It is not possible to effectively or fairly moderate dozens of communities, even if you were to spend all your waking moments doing so. This is, in part, why it's so common for popular submissions to be locked or deleted because "y'all can't behave".

The people that do so are largely doing it for their own self-gain (e.g., self-promotion) or because it makes them feel important. I had a very low stress job for a few years and ended up as a moderator for over a dozen large subreddits, including a few defaults. Socializing with Reddit's prominent moderators was enlightening.
I’m not trying to be confrontational, but I do need to say something on this comment and hopes for some good discussion.

How much of that is due to actual drops in crime levels and how much of it is due to decriminalization of offenses and a the resultant drop in crimes reported?

Both the Uniform Crime Reporting Program from the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey have methodological have problems. There isn’t even a consensus between when about what constitutes criminal activity. And in some jurisdictions, only incarceration worthy crimes are considered ‘crime,’ where as in others fined infractions like speeding in a vehicle count. To say nothing of the tendency of crime data to suddenly regress towards the mean, which has been a problem for researchers.

I am wary to accept short term crime statistics, because it’s so politicized. There’s a great discussion here, though it’s a tad dated:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/when-crime...
Kind of. Many charter schools are run by private boards or individuals that don't answer to the city or state [1], many are run by for-profit management companies [2]. In many states, charter schools amount to a privatization of public schools because they are run by organizations that don’t answer to the public and in some states aren’t subject to key rules that apply to government agencies, such as open meetings and public records laws.

In these states, the only things that make charter schools "public" is the fact that they take money from the district or the state, and tuition is free, but in all other respects they are basically private schools.

In other states they are directly under the control of the school board, and are indeed public schools.

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2019/02/02/charter-...

2. https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/what-are-charter-scho...
Fore sure self-aware AI will be weired. I was rather thinking on a simple metric where AI seems to be far behind in "skills". We see this with FSD and also home robotics haven't took off, because real world object manipulation and navigation is in my opinion where AI currently fails.

If you solve it, then you could maybe claim, ok the AI is more "clever" than a mouse. Currntly wouldn't agree on that. Of course in this area, it is also a hardware issue.
I love ideas like this. It's "top-down" programming: start with a high-level, formal description of the system. ("There are 4 communicating state machines."). Then you gradually add detail to the model and go "downwards" until you reach the level where you can actually generate code.
Maybe. Though I think classic ways of measuring social capital don’t capture things like meetups or conferences which became more prominent in the last 10-20 years
For us in FlyCode it's Stigg (https://stigg.io). Really streamlined the way we manage subscriptions and define pay blocks. Saved us about two weeks of development work (and we are still pretty small!)
How would you formulate what the problem is and why it is time to do something about it?
> bought the cheapest bare wood door at Home Depot and laid it across two filing cabinets.

I'm surprised how many people don't build their own desks (especially those of us who work at home). I spent about $1,200 on a pretty minimalist (but very large) desk in my early 20s. I could build my ideal desk for half that price.

Even the "cheapest bare wood door at Home Depot", switch that out with "cheap (but straight) wood" or layers of thick MDF or other durable surface, add paint, grout, tile adhesive and window molding (or something wood for an edge) and cheap ceramic tiles. Cut the MDF to ensure no tile cuts are needed, sand/spray paint the edges to match the tile and you have a pretty decent looking/functional/durable desk of any desired size.

I did a dining table that way in my 20s. It was a curb rescue that the top was destroyed (someone used it as a work bench) but it had a really nice set of thick oak legs that would clean up. I re-used the top after a lot of sanding but the tiling/painting job was maybe an hour's worth of work done mostly by brief instructions given to me from an older gentleman at Home Depot (I owned a dull hand saw and plug-in power drill given to me by my grand father). It took a weekend to complete between the various "waiting for things to dry". I sealed mine, as well. It cost less than $75 about 20 years ago.

Honestly, if I were to do it all over again, I'd skip the $1,200 desk. I'd watch Craigslist for a large hardwood dining room table with the right characteristics[0], preferably with leafs. It's a huge work area. If pressed against a wall, you could set a number of deep cabinets wall-side, put the monitor in the center of the table and even access cabinets behind (but above) the monitor pretty easily.

[0] You'd want legs that wouldn't be in the way of your knees while working at it. Ideally, leafs that are attached in some way which could be re-engineered into a printer/computer stand.
Small round wire sieve that fits on top of a mug, < $20 at the supermarket. I'd bought various devices intended as tea strainers before, but they were hard to clean and didn't let the leaves drain properly. A small thing, but it's meant a lot less irritation.
IME/O, hams and LDS alike tend to go above board when setting up infrastructure like this, and I feel they'd be quite public about their existence.

Some ham radio repeaters atop high-rise buildings I know of are kind of sketchy (such as when someone in the local radio club makes friendly with building engineers/management so they don't have to pay commercial leasing fees or go through HOA baloney, and will sometimes keep the location a secret to avoid attention), but the vast majority are listed on publicly available databases like RepeaterBook, ARTSCIPUB, RFinder, ARRL Repeater Directory, and/or each state's repeater coordination directory, or the AREDN mesh directory, or other ham radio WAN sites.

Since SLC is still totally clueless as to who put these up, it rules out LDS Hams for me.
Dogs have been bred for docility not intelligence. Their wild cousins, wolves, are considerably more intelligent, they’re just prone to get bored and engage in undesirable behaviors. I’m told that it’s very easy to teach a tame wolf tricks, but they quickly lose interest in obviously pointless activities, especially as they mature.
When you get an email address from someone, you need assurance that they'll be around in 5+ years. Hotmail and Gmail aren't going anywhere.
"A good artist copy, a better artist steal". AI is influenced by artists work like artists are influenced by artists.
proof: I was a mod of a small hobby subreddit for a while, and I'm an idiot.
> Technicality isn't enough nowadays

When was it ever like that for artists? Most complex music to perform doesn't mean it's the "best", neither is it like that for art.

As an example from visual art, abstract art is sometimes very simple, yet have a profound impact on people, and it was never about being "technical", "complex" or "hard to reproduce".
They're trying to buy being the other store that all gamers have and leave open and look at pretty often. They're trying to go head-to-head with Steam—others have tried with exclusives (e.g. EA's Origin) but it's never been enough, so they're trying with exclusives and giving away like a hundred games a year, hoping that'll do it.

I dunno how everyone else is treating them, but for me, they've gotten me to leave it open and look at it pretty often, but haven't managed to get me to ever buy non-exclusives, so... partial victory?
Unsurprising our brains are cancerous mutations. Observing the world it’s clear we’ve done little net positive with them.
Agreed! Having had Airpods 2 (non-pro) since launch, I only now appreciate the ANC feature. My listening volume went from 80% to 30%, even 10% at home.

Seriously, if you have headphones in every day mainly to mask environment noises, these are a must-have. Best buy in a looooong time.