skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who's to say that a brain is not a kind of a computer and that all humans are a sort of a computer program?

An interesting insight from a book I won't remember:

When clockwork was the most advanced technology, many books talked about how people are just like clockwork. When steam was the most advanced, many books talked about how humans are just like steam engines. When cars were the most advanced, people were just like cars. And now we're just like computers.

And the ancients talked about how people are just like flowing this or that. Because waterworks were the advanced tech of the time.
Responding to the (surprisingly passionate?) comments below – this word choice was poor, I should have probably said something along the lines of
"this is one of the products on the market that is least subject to major thermal throttling issues, relative to any other laptop that they could have chosen for this demo video."

The main point being, out of all the laptops out there, I thought it was entertaining that they picked the one high-performance laptop brand I am familiar with that does not get hot when I use it.
>Spanish are easygoing,

It depends. Mediterranean, Atlantic and Continental people can be very diverse. Rural Basques are pretty close compared to the cheerful and jolly Andalusians. The Castillians are kinda like Basques with a bit on openness, but reservated in lot of questions. 50/50. Spain can have weathers from rainy climates (even more than London across the year, trust me, the North it's like that) to literal desserts, from -30C in top of the mountains in Winter to 45+C in the Southern places. Hitting negative temperatures in Winter on non-coastal regions it's the norm.
It was a combination of things. It allowed a simple line entry system to organize a collection of lines as a linked list, yielding a really simple program editor AND at the same time provided convenient (for the interpreter) labels to use as targets for the likes of GOTO and GOSUB
>apparently consume the dead tissue by liquefying it with enzymes first and then "drinking it"

Not my area of expertise but I wonder why they cant just extract or synthetically produce this enzyme for topical application and whick the liquified tissue with guaze.

Not a fan of maggots.
Not in a meaningful way I think. I mean you could weaken it to 'all finite vector spaces have a basis', but I think regular induction is enough to prove that, you don't need the axiom of choice.
Yeah, don't use the term "netcode" which originated from gamers. Look up resources on multiplayer client-side prediction, interpolation, reconciliation, and lag compensation.

Together those techniques constitute what laypersons consider "netcode," which ignores still fundamental details like payload construction, serialization, deserialization, broadcasting, heartbeats, etc.

For instance, networked visibility affects bandwidth consumption, but no one talks about it or worries about it until you're playing with a cheater with wallhacks.

But wait! Modern rendering techniques cull on the GPU. So you have, you guessed it, more and more potential for modern games to broadcast all player positions at all times, unless the developers know to segment player visibility and not network their presence behind non-translucent surfaces.
Mexicos overall internet presence is literally stuck in the early 2000s.

Most business' official website are a Facebook page.

In a country of 150M people and growing expat presence, there is a TON of opportunities for software businesses to enter the market.

For example: Riviera Maya has no MLS style real estate tracker/listing platform. The entire real estate industry operates on word of mouth, WhatsApp and Facebook messages.
WY Union Says Court Ruling in Kroger–Albertson’s Merger Favors “Ultra-Wealthy”
It’s a great point. I had been using BunnyCDN to optimize the images/serve as webp, but there are a few on the model preview page that I definitely need to shrink further.

Thanks for the feedback!
not only W11, happened to me this week on W10 Pro after update, wasted minutes reenabling qbittorrent despite it was in exceptions already
Awesome work! Saw some furry porn being drawn live on the front page, that was kind of funny :"D
I’m also a black American who lived in Japan and who frequents Japan for business and vacation; in fact, I just returned from my eighth trip a few days ago. I feel an indescribable feeling of freedom and even acceptance in Japan that have eluded me in America. By “acceptance” I don’t mean being accepted as a Japanese person; I mean being accepted as a person. I gladly prefer the treatment of being a “gaijin” to the treatment of being black in America.
Not so much an argument as a statement.

A tree is made of living matter, like fauna. An AI is a program which runs on silicon, and I don’t think scientists have found silicone-based lifeforms on Earth.
The thing is, almost all technology is a double edged sword. That doesn’t do much to alleviate the responsibility of those who do it to understand the ethics of the world, but usually that’s beyond our ability. I’m sure few working on consumer drones in the beginning anticipated their use on the battle field.

The internet itself is a great example of how much benefit can come from access to knowledge, as well as the ability to how limitless (mis)knowledge can be simultaneously used to destroy societies.

Ultimately bad actors will do bad things regardless with whatever they have access to. Of course new bad things can come along, but what metric should we use to decide whether an idea is worth perusing? Who should make the cost benefit analysis, when the reality 20 years down the road is often unknowable (bad and good)?
Send me a resume. Gherlein at BrightSign.biz
The article briefly mentions "diaphragmatic breathing" without going into it, but it's one of the best ways to do breathing exercises in a slow, controlled and relaxing manner while sitting upright at a desk. It's also a part of the training for vocalists, and that a good source on how-to guides, e.g.

https://www.singwise.com/articles/correct-breathing-and-supp...

> "It is also important to note that, in voice pedagogy, 'breathing from the diaphragm' and 'breathing from the belly' are not viewed as being synonymous. The breath support technique that is widely referred to as 'diaphragmatic breathing', (when correctly executed), should not be confused with 'belly breathing'. Unlike 'belly breathing', 'breathing from the diaphragm' involves no pushing or forceful expulsion of air, and is the natural, correct, safe, gentle, internationally accepted method of supporting the singing tone. In diaphragmatic breathing, the tone rides on a minimal and steady stream of air, which brings stability and consistency to the tone."
We need not pretend Graeber advanced any notion that hierarchies have never existed in undocumented populations. His point is that they were often lacking in circumstances historians routinely assume, and vociferously insist, hierarchy must have been unavoidable.
Looking to build book-lovers community for my book-discovery website
> In the worst case, this introduces its own design constraint where you might avoid designing your game to include frame-perfect inputs

If a frame is 1/60 of a second, that's not much of a design constraint.
Sorry, but how is $500 for roughly 3,250 people out of 250,000 applicants “universal basic income”? It is far from universal and, while certainly helpful, it does not qualify as a basic income.
Best part about this is finally being able to avoid the dance of 'oh no the super called an overridden method and kinda-sorta-broke but not fatally, whoopsies'.
The last time I programmed BASIC was in the 1970s, and it was already over a decade old.

All the answers from the '80s make me laugh.

(Well, at least the laughing is true. )
Cool product. One bit of feedback: after downloading a deck, the page redirects away to "how to use our decks". This is confusing and not intuitive - my workflow was that I wanted to download the Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced deck for one language and I had to navigate back to that language 3 times.
" opted to buy a course on leetcode covering this topic"
Can you indicate what course for leetcode you took?
I have a weird set of skills that I've grown from just doing things that are interesting and fun.

https://www.munkle.it
- Think Anki, but optimized for speed, and will be focused on content creators. First sale this month (>$500_ from manual outreach to a big content creator Individual purchases will be turned on eventually, but we're not focused on that right now. This is a labor of love as through college and 20+ professional certifications I wanted something faster and easier than what was available.

https://www.skullsplitterdice.com
- I spend around 4 hours a week on this, but I used to do this full time. Currently it runs high four to low five figures 100% organically, but can easily do more if I ran ads. It 100% wouldn't be worth my time if I weren't using it to teach my kids things like customer service, product design, how to make content valuable to people so you get search traffic, single piece flow, etc.

It's also cool because I can geek out on a new thing in the area and apply it to something to see if I make any money on it or just have fun making art. Things I've done in the past is includes making a book for the game these are used for, a "choose your own adventure" style Facebook messenger adventure linked from hidden inserts in products, and working with visual and voice over artists to make stories around different products. My latest was using midjourney to create a character that I animated to say a script talking about a product.

Did I make money from that? No, was I entertained? Heck yes.
Read his show hn link, it is a side project.
I suggest the opposite - it will enable many exciting smart home possibilities which in some could seriously reduce HVAC energy needs beyond what’s possible today.
Definitely not to "time sink parity" with Linux just yet. Depending on what you need your machine for, of course.
You could also remove a method from the superclass entirely in such a situation. This would cause an invocation of the removed method to fail if the subclass depended on it. In general you need to recompile the subclass if the superclass changes.
So you index the UBI to inflation so that when the capital owners raise prices we just extract more money from them in taxation.
>>Semi-seriously considering repainting

So they have Blackboard paint, how long before PPG or Sherwin Williams creates Faraday Paint...
I started a solitaire website 5+ years ago. When Covid hit, I ended up finally putting ads on it. Since then it's been growing steadily and about half a year back I made it my full-time gig.

You can check out the game here: https://online-solitaire.com/.

I wrote a post about my journey on Indie Hackers if someone is curious about it: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-grew-a-simple-solita....
https://www.usecloudpress.com/ - Allows you to export content from Google Docs and Notion to Content Management Systems like WordPress, Webflow, Contentful, etc. I will export the content with the correct formatting, export images, and also handles other elements like tables, embeds, and more.
Back in college (2016-2020), I used to work part-time for my university’s IT department. Most of my time was spent doing software development, but when I wasn’t busy working on a project, I helped work the help desk ticket queue.

Believe it or not, our ticket queue did not have an auto refresh feature - and manually refreshing my dashboard webpage drove me crazy. As a die-hard macOS user, I’ve always used Safari as my primary browser, but unfortunately no auto-refresh web extensions were available on the App Store at the time. So I learned how to package web extensions for Safari and sell them on the App Store.

Fast-forward to today, and I now have a collection of Web Extensions that net me ~$750 a month. Feel free to check out Simple Refresh for Safari here:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/simple-refresh-for-safari/id14...
No I don't think this is true.

Hierarchies are heavily part of human behavior. The concept of leaders and rank is so ingrained in behavior it's hard to think it didn't exist even in hunter and gatherer societies.

Right now we have enough wealth such that everyone can live comfortably. But a lot of people still fight tooth and nail in the rat race all for what? For wealth partly but mostly for Rank. The higher your rank the better it's a huge driving force emotionally... especially for men. Desire for high rank is an inborn biological instinct. This is confirmed in psychology across all cultures. All men are emotionally more satisfied the higher their rank.

For women it's also a huge driving force for mate selection. Women marry up. They have a strong desire to marry the highest ranking man.

I would imagine in hunter and gather societies rank is maintained by two things. Brute force and social proof. Bigger men have more brute force to maintain leadership (hence why a lot of women are attracted to height) and social proof and respect insures that other men trust you and are more likely to listen to you.

That being said coercion to build things like pyramids or grand multi-year projects of vast scale requires someone to own wealth. This type of serfdom like heirarchy is much stronger then the hierarchies that existed in hunterer gatherer societies. Definitely more stable since wages and survival required someone to stay at their hierarchical post.

Either way hierarchies DID exist in hunter gatherer societies. It's just the tribe leader doesn't have enough power to coerce all men into building a pyramid. That being said I believe the article is disputing this part of what I'm saying but I don't think hierarchies are disputed.
I suspect it's to make clear to the peanut gallery that there is indeed a valid shortest path in the tests they were doing.
Society may be happy doing that to a dog, I am not. Nor am I happy doing that to animals which are turned into dog meat. Contradictions abound with more than a superficial glance on many moral topics, in part due to our lack of any of omniscience, omnipotence, nor omnibenevolence.
300 baud? Luxury on an acoustic coupler.

150 baud (as a channel for a terminal running at 110 baud) was far more typical.
While we're both here, it's not exactly clear to me what that whole thing means and does. Arguably i'm not too clued up in SD models and what they are and why would I want them. Might be a good idea to explain this or if explanation exists make it more prominent to hook ignorant people like me. :-)
> For example, if it's a question of ethics, then you follow up by defining your ethical framework.

A. I oppose the forcing into unpaid labor and/or murder of sentient beings.

B. We do not know (to a satisfactory degree) what constitutes sentience.

C. Given B, we do not know whether LLMs are sentient. [1]

D. Given A and C, we should exercise extreme caution when it comes to making LLMs widely available, at least until B is resolved.

[1] Indeed, solipsists posit that we cannot even be certain that other humans are sentient.
Why Many Young Russians See a Hero in Putin (2016)
I was referring to things such as Section 1201 of the DMCA

[1]:https://copyrightalliance.org/education/copyright-law-explai...

You are cherry picking something that itself is a hole that is being closed by the vendors (ie. Apple is now signing iPhone/iPad components so that if you replace them the device either puts a warning sign on the screen or refuses to operate.) Given the direction we are heading in, I can see the iPhone refusing to operate without a valid microphone connection. Then your only choice is to hack the software layer putting you back into the crosshairs of the DMCA.
That is not what I was referring to at all.

I seem to recall hearing or reading that Apple apparently lost the original GM source code for core Lisa software, because the backup tapes were corrupted or unreadable; fortunately a contractor had taken home and retained a profile drive with an alpha version of the source code, but the final/GM version was lost to the sands of time.

(As always, backups are only good if you can actually read them and restore from them.)

However, if the CHM source code is in fact 3.1 GM (as it seems like it might be?) perhaps this story is inaccurate, or perhaps it was recovered somehow. It would be interesting to see if the source code is complete and an entire working Lisa environment could be built from it.

It would be interesting to hear from someone with firsthand knowledge.
I also wrote my own system for pretty much this exact purpose, although instead of emailing me reminders, it just lets me record notes on a map and then I skim that map whenever I am planning a trip to a given country or region.

It's online (but registration is invite only, let me know if you want to play with it) over at https://scoutmaps.io/ – at one point I was going to attempt to commercialize it, but eventually decided I liked it better as hobby software so that I can write features that better serve my current userbase of one :)
There's something to be said for making sure the parent constructor is the first call made. It means any method you call in the current constructor will work correctly or obviously be your fault, not the parent class's.

Yes, in your particular case, the compiler could figure out that you're not using "this," but you can only make a compiler so clever.
I think it's organisational incentives, not tech per se.

TL:DR; Brand risk, and the FAANGs are not as hungry.

Google and MSFT are wary of deploying tech that gets caught saying super racist or nazi stuff (MSFT have been badly burned before) and they already have big income streams, they didn't feel strong pressure to "ship".

OpenAI has less to lose, more to gain and people are more tolerant of janky cutting edge products dressed in "startup" branding.
Fees they may be paying to themselves...
I helped develop a "semantic search" engine for patent and non-patent literature about 10 years ago which was highly successful, enough that our demo made a big sale on the very first day.

This engine used a neural network to train an autoencoder that crunches down the word counts for thousands of words to a moderate dimensional vector, say n=50. This captures correlations between words such that similar documents are more consistently close in the embedding space than they are in the very high dimensional word vector space.

This kind of system does not improve short queries (<10 words) but is great for "more like this" queries centered on a document and taking paragraph you wrote describing an invention and finding prior art.

We used the TREC evaluation methodology, public data, our proprietary data, and the opinions of users to conclude our product was much better than a simple baseline search engine and our competitors.
I just downloaded your sample deck for Spanish. One of the sentences is:

Front: I'm not happy.
Back: No soy feliz.

This doesn't seem correct to me.

I'm not happy (right now) => No estoy feliz.

No soy feliz means something like "I'm not a happy person".

EDIT: I should have mentioned that I'm not a native Spanish speaker. It turns out I'm wrong here, and that either estoy or soy would work in this case.
Right, that was Cruise.[1]

The most common single problem with serious autonomous vehicles right now is being rear-ended by human vehicles while cautiously entering intersections. The usual sequence of events is, autonomous vehicle approaches intersection where the view of the cross street is obstructed, autonomous vehicle starts to enter intersection, detects cross traffic, stops, and is rear-ended. There are dozens of those in the California DMV reports.

This will probably get better as more vehicles get automatic radar-controlled braking, which is good at preventing low-speed rear-ending.

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/cruise_060322-pdf/
https://hoppy.network/

Basically WireGuard as a service but we give a dedicated IPv4 and IPv6 with Reverse DNS.
I thought we are already nearly there? I remember reading 90%+ of emails are spam and this was a while back
It’s not some “radio gun” you can just point at a house - you need a very calibrated setup purpose built for each space. This would be very obvious and would require access to inside to do the calibrations.

There are far more obvious ways to know if someone is home, from thermal sensors, looking in windows and knocking on doors, or park outside and just watch.

Further if the police want to know if you’re home, it’d already game over.
Don't forget to draw a diagonal line across the side of your card deck. Don't skimp and use a pencil, get a nice felt tip marker.
As an Australian I'd say the single largest issue here is the cost of living. It is a massive problem. Housing is expensive (and scarce), public infrastructure is shocking (Roads are bad our public transport is terrible), utilities like electricity and gas are quite expensive, common goods like groceries are expensive.

Don't get me wrong the standard of living in this country is very good, we have a great public health system, our education system is good and crime rate is generally low but it comes at a cost.

Cities like Sydney and Melbourne regularly rank highly as some of the most expensive places in the world to live. It is really not affordable to have children, especially at a young age. As a result most of my friends, work colleagues etc. have waited until their 30's to start a family.

Immigration has not done a lot to bring down the cost of things. Personally I think if they want people to have more children they need to make life in general more affordable.
> it’s hard to have a good idea for a personal project

There was actually a 20% marketplace page, where projects seeking 20%-ers would advertise. It wasn't necessary to have an idea yourself.
>I’ve noticed a distinct lack of caring regarding social responsibility in the tech industry even though we are some of the most privileged workers in the entire labor force.

I'd posit that "lack of caring" in the tech industry is, at least in part, because (not "even though") "we are some of the most privileged workers in the entire labor force."

It's hubris, greed and a lack of empathy for society at large and for other humans.

There definitely are folks who do care. But when such folks speak out, they are usually ignored or derided for "tilting at windmills" because "privacy no longer exists" and "there's money to be made" and other weak-sauce rationalizations.

And the hoi polloi mostly don't understand the issues, and just like having "free" services, not realizing they're still paying. With their data, privacy and online (and increasingly offline, with cameras everywhere, spying "IOT" devices, brisk business for data brokers, etc.) personages in the hands of (at least based on their behavior) sociopathic tech bros whose only interest is in maximizing revenue -- and today that's accomplished through "targeted advertising."

Which doesn't really work, but advertisers are willing to pay top dollar for such data in the amoral pursuit of greater profit. Not that profit is, in and of itself, bad. But abusing others to get that profit is bad.

Others, political operatives, some law "enforcement" agencies, stalkers and other scum that it does "work" for are focused on advancing their agendas, avoiding real police work and harming others, not making the world a better place.

Until the incentives are the right way round, that's not going to change.

I'd love to paint a picture of benevolent tech workers/managers/founders who have society's and the individual's best interests at heart.

But (with apologies to Quentin Tarantino), that shit ain't the truth. The truth is the hoi polloi are the weak. And we're the tyranny of evil men. cf. The banality of evil[0].

[0][ https://www.britannica.com/story/what-did-hannah-arendt-real...

Edit: Fixed prose. Added Hannah Arendt quote and discussion of same.
Nice! What's your tech stack and how long did it take to build your MVP? Can you share your current revenue and expenses?