skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This can work. I've done this for some of my game designs. "ChatGPT, I have a game design with this theme and these mechanics. What are some ideas for some new special tiles / cards I can add to the game?" And it'll give me 5-10 ideas, some junk, but a few that are worth exploring and I might not have thought of on my own.
Smoking is thought to be one of the leading causes of spontaneous human combustion.
> I don't understand why Germany is incapable of implementing such an easy solution.

Because the interpretation of cartel law and the banking structure makes that complicated.

They created "giropay" which is quite complicated as a dealer has to pick a bank to contract with and they get different rates and stuff as they couldn't simply create a shared company running it or something ...
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Beware that the makers of generic prescriptions can not legally be sued for any adverse side effects.
Yes, reveal-js is missing an easy to se wysiwyg editor, I agree.
I have this cycle every 10 years where my home infra gets to enterprise level complexity (virtualisation/redundancy/HA) until the maintenance is more work than the joy it brings. Then, after some outage that took me way too long to fix, I decide it is over and I reduce everything down to a single modem/router and WiFi AP.
I feel the pull to buy this and create a glorious heap of complexity to run my doorbell on and be disapointed, can't wait.
I sometimes consider a qubit to be worth two classical bits in a very heuristic sense. One can superdense-code two bits into a qubit. Similarly, one can send two classical bits to teleport one qubit.

Both of these require spending entanglement, so it’s not a very useful heuristic.
pair programming is not a replacement for code reviews; the two people who worked on the code will have the same blind spots (even if the quality of the code is likely going to be better) and a fresh pair of eyes will offer the same benefits as in the regular case
The Rock5B is whipping the Pi on compute power and availability. Only use a Pi if you absolutely have to.
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That RFC was intended as a joke though (look at the date). This isn't, and I agree that it sounds like a feeble attempt at controlling the floodgates.
I'll second this. I've gone through many iterations of self-hosting and I think I finally found the sweet spot.

The 10TB of free oracle bandwidth means you can store media-intensive applications on the instance. For data at rest, I simply nfs-mount a 14TB disk I have at home hooked up to a raspberry pi running tailscale. tailscale is the bottleneck here because it pegs the cpus of the rpi and oracle instance, but I still get 250mbps (something about the arm crypto implementation being slow.) There's some rummaging that go will improve the crypto performance so fingers crossed. I think I'm using less than 10 watts with this setup.

For backups I keep it simple and plug in an external drive and run borg every once and a while. It's manual since the backup disk sits offline.
We don't need to differentiate AI vs Human, just accurate and well written vs not. We'd do that the same way we've scored stuff at scale so far - grad students and crowdsourcing.
I think they're sincere, though? I can't tell and I'm a little concerned
Ha! I actually run a company that does Coop cleaning, babysitting, coop set up, day old chick delivery, etc. We're launching the world's best Coop in 45 days, stay tuned :)
And such begins the Chinese golden age of private servers. I remember when I played on one. Good times.
I promise that even if this is a joke, people will see this and take it seriously, implement it and preach it seriously to other people. It's impossible to make jokes online if you don't want to have harmful effect on the world.
I asked if there where any Open Source libraries that implemented a certain algorithm. It gave me links to 3 different GitHub repos, none of which existed.
Let me know how many merchants in the US actually use PayPal with glee. I only hear horror stories from every count so maybe something is fishy and it’s about time someone starts looking. Maybe. But no, it’s just the usual EU who can’t compete instead.
Nobody is arguing Safari shouldn't exist. They're arguing that Apple shouldn't get to force monopolize it on iOS even more aggressively than Microsoft was doing with IE 20 years ago.
True.

But it always works a bit like this: First the stocks come down, then the earnings and then the whole economy.

It will be interesting to watch what guidance the companies will give for the rest of the year.
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IGNORE THIS POST

I posted without the "Show HN:" suffix in title, but when I edited the title the post doesn't "jump" automatically to Show HN section. I tried to delete this post but Hacker News doesn't have this feature. Sorry guys.

oops, and look like some mod or bot deleted my fixed, another post. well, this was a total failure. try again next month.
4chan constantly deletes its own content. There are a limited number of slots for threads, and making a new one causes the oldest one to disappear. Google does not care much for dead links.

Additionally, image submissions are basically never described in the text, so they are unsearchable even when they are live. There's some exceptions with archives but now you're in power-user territory.

Not being compatible with search engines is a side-effect that its userbase actually likes. You are either currently there or you are not.
Google could have followed Twitter's change to new management control under new CEO with achievements in multiple high technology industries to boast of.
I feel that India has been getting more and more authoritarian recently. What is happening over there?
> lost three bullion
putting the STOCK in stock market
They could do this very gradually. First rename WhatsApp to Meta Messenger. Keep everything else the same. Then with interop being implemented slowly merge FB messenger into Meta Messenger.
"People don't think the universe be like it is, but it do."

- Science
I think I would compare it to Stack Overflow. Some of the solutions do exist there, but not all are applicable to the use case or the exact circumstances the person asks there and yet the prompt used by AI would remain the same. SO has its rating system, but it has the same issue as the sentence above. From that perspective, we have identified potentially good human output ( assuming it wasn't already pollinated with AI output, which seems less and less likely ) that should only be accessible by humans and we would need a separate forum for bad AI output ( that should be verified by humans as bad but maybe only be accessible by AI once verified ).

I am just spitballing. I do not really have a solution in mind. It just sounds like an interesting problem going forward.
Hi, I wrote the post. This is patently false. There are plenty of articles about the clip, but none of the videos are still online and there’s no alternate angles, period. Please feel free to post links to prove otherwise.
Just think, all we need to do is wait for someone to come up with a frontend LLM implementation, and we can all take permanent vacations! The future is now!

This entire project would fit nicely in a Dilbert strip.
Earth's magnetic field has reversed multiple times in the past (the graphic on Wikipedia shows ~20 in the past 5 million years). I don't think we knew why, but this could be it. Given the frequency of it, this isn't likely to be catastrophic from a biological perspective, but might cause havoc technologically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal
I remember going to the hardware store when I was 8 to buy my dad a pouch of pipe tobacco. It was on a rack right next to the register, where today we see candy. The clerk didn't even think twice about me purchasing it.
That can only be possible in a limited set of cases where the inputs necessary to make a diagnosis are all present in the patient chart. Human clinicians rely on other inputs to make most diagnoses including visually looking at the patient from multiple angles, asking them questions, manipulating and feeling the patient's body, listening (with or without stethoscope), and even smell. We are a long way from the robotics and sensor integration technology necessary to automate those steps in the diagnostic process.
Seconding Michael Levin, that guy is doing some incredible stuff
This is the original code https://twitter.com/AlexAlexandrius/status/16178998824000839...

It's very similar to the deobfuscated version, but ChatGPT wrote the code in the first place
True, and a person's diet choices can absolutely impact others. From a parents choice of what to feed their children to a school's selling out of all health for cheap corporate shit meals, even down to a road trip participants insistence on specific eating location. We are not always perfectly in control of our eating choices. Sure in a perfect world we'd all have the time and space and money to carry our own food but as someone who grew up with crohns' disease I think people strongly underestimate how make situations reduce eating choice to only cheap, bad, sugar filled processed foods. Every pizza or ice cream party (of which my school had many), every birthday, every sleep over, every time my brother cried about wanting to eat out. Forcing yourself to eat natural healthy food in America often involves the choice to not eat.
I remember hearing about an GAN-based tool that would transform clothed pictures of women into nudes. That was depressingly surreal.
I don't think it's easy at all. Try to come up with an original plot for a hollywood big budget time travel movie. Take the plot of Edge of Tomorrow. I could never come up with that. Ideas are easy when it's just "Grand theft auto in space", but actual originality? Extremely difficult.
Of course there is a justification for the disparity. Google has a higher standard for the talent of it's engineers than MS and definitely over the rest of the industry. This gives Google a large competitive advantage as they can respond better to threats and because they can deny some top talent to competitors.

You can make a good argument that Google isn't making good use of this talent, which is a result of management problems with Google we all know about. And as it is, Google is as profitable as it ever was, so there is no urgency in firing people, either. The obvious good long term play is to fix the organizational issues to be able to make better use of existing talent.

Chris Hohn knows this, of course. He just wants Google to buy back more stocks so he can sell his Google position. His interest isn't the long term well-being of the company, his interest is a predictable short term peak in valuation. Chaining short term profits is how these funds get outsized returns and it's how they can make any argument to their investors that they are at all better than a leveraged long position in the general market.
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BuildsJets here with your aviation trivia. Cabin Air Quality requirements generally have become a lot more stringent since they were first enacted back in December 1964.

Previously, only the crew was required to be supplied with fresh air, the rest of the cabin was required to be "ventilated" but no ventilation rate was specified, so it was frequently turned off to save fuel or increase power. (This is approved and is still done on some older generation aircraft that are still in service, for instance the Boeing 737NG for certain high performance situations, search 737 Packs Off Takeoff) The current requirement is .55 lbs of outside air per minute per passenger minimum, through all phases of flight. Permissible CO2 has been reduced from 3% in 1964 to 0.5%. today. The carbon monoxide requirement is unchanged at 1 part per 20,000. Multiple other requirement changes, but those are the ones that are specific and measurable.

Current requirements are published in 14 CFR 25.831: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-C...

Original requirements are on page 47 of this PDF: https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1964/12/24/...
One of the oldest saying in entrepreneurship is "need is the mother of invention"

It starts with finding the right problem/need and before jumping into to solutioning, the smart person would validate and pitch the problem to as many relevant target customers as possible. Once the problem is validated and tangible root cause is flushed out then it's time to explore the solution and pitching it to the same customer research group for validation before going into building mode.

Finding ideas is not hard, but the process is gruelling, frustrating and potentially rewarding. Good luck!
> These layoffs right now are not about performance, how you networked in the company or what you work on. They are a knee-jerk reaction to a perceived recession and a band-aid to make stocks go up again. When your profitability per head is low, heads must roll.

This will be repeated in every one of these notes. "I'm great, you're great, it's someone else who sucks." Doesn't make sense at all.
Yes. The magnitude will be lower than an STM32 running at 100 MHz but they’re there. They’re usually benign and tiny but when your return path is a loop antenna then there’s a chance there will be issues.
Soft Actor Critic, a reinforcement learning algorithm.
A few months ago, I would have said Stable Diffusion, but ChatGPT wins, hands down.

We're living in exponential times.
TBH the appeal for me is that using powerpoint and the like is miserable. The moment you have more than one element on a slide, it's click click click click click click drag drag drag drag click click drag drag click drag killself to get anything aligned and somehow it still comes out ugly and just MAKE IT STOP.

the dream is that something could do for slides what LaTeX did for text---just make it possible to have basically attractive defaults for most cases rather than have to either tolerate ugly or spend hours doing layout
We have a Vitamix Foodcycler [1] we got on sale. It works well but the cycles take a while and it doesn’t process that much at once. Honestly we just went back to using a counter top bucket and then putting it in our municipal food waste bin.

Austin turn all that stuff into compost, and then give it away to the community (just turn up with bags) and I assume use on city run parks and so on.

[1] https://www.vitamix.com/us/en_us/shop/foodcycler-fc-50
We have a better idea than at any time before. But we only really know about large-scale structures, and have well-justified guesses at the materials involved. The deepest borehole we ever made is only about 10% deeper than the Mariana Trench, not even close to getting through the crust. Most of our data is either from seismic measurements, which are useful because shockwaves travel at different rates through different materials and can be reflected at material boundaries, or from neutrino measurements.
I’m glad he lived to 97. HN covered his biography a few years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12621548

One detail I’ve not seen in biographies, but is on Wikipedia, is that his mother was apprehended and killed by the Nazis in 1941. Comments in the above HN post speculate about his reasons for joining the French Resistance.
Do a masters or hit the gym?
The while loop does not come from the original code. Probably part of the obfuscation https://twitter.com/AlexAlexandrius/status/16178998824000839...
Any example? Didn’t know these exist
I actually think the robot's poetic take matches my thinking more closely than this description

Edit:

I guess in this description dijkstras is more specific, in that dijkstras is the specific instance of A* with a zero heuristic.

But I think what HAL over here was saying is that you can use dijkstras in a superset of scenarios in which you can use (non-trivial) A*, so in that sense dijkstras is more general than A*, so it's not wrong.
Folks, if it wasn't shareholders accelerating this process, it was gonna be the inevitable economic realities of mismanagement and losses. Shareholders are doing not only other shareholders but also these companies a favor by telling them to fix their problems before they get really bad. The cold reality is that the people getting laid off never should've been hired in the first place, the amount of waste at these companies is unfathomable...all the result of the bubble of dysfunctional managerial cultures (ie "Not making money is super awesome, yay!") and way too much money floating around. A dose of reality is much deserved and was gonna happen eventually anyway.
It looks like Strava has grown tired of paying Mapbox and is looking for alternatives.
the "obfuscated" "version" doesnt even work.

alex literally asked chatgpt to come up with a math problem and its solution, both from whole cloth. and you ask so what.

well, everyone should ask "so what?" to alex.
I didn't get this was a joke ...if it is indeed then this is more of a troll than a post.
Yup but if you terminate tls at the ec2 side (as in a reverse proxy) the tradeoff is less privacy since the upload/download data is fully observable from the ec2 instance. (Correct me if I’m wrong here, this is my memory from when I decided on my own setup years ago.)

Some people might not care about this which is fine. Personally I’d rather take on slightly more overheard in setup (nftables vs nginx or whatever) and get the privacy in the bargain.
Richard’s Pied Piper box was certainly a parody on this very real thing that happens.
The Mobility Scooter craze. South Park nailed it. One day there were a couple scooters and you went oh interesting. A moth later there were thousands clogging every sidewalk with no discernible method of managing these devices. Then just like they came they were gone.

How many billions spent? How much e-waste was generated?
> Uh, over the last five year Alphabet also went from $28b ($33b inflation adjusted) in revenue to $69b in revenue. Seems reasonable to me.

Alphabet's revenue is $282 billion as of the last four quarters. $69b was just the September quarter.

For anyone interested in their historical revenue growth, here you go:

2021: $257.64b | 2020: $182.53b | 2019: $161.86b | 2018: $136.8b | 2017: $109.65b | 2016: $89.46b | 2015: $74.54b | 2014: $65.674b | 2013: $55.51b | 2012: $46.04b | 2011: $37.91b | 2010: $29.32b | 2009: $23.65b | 2008: $21.8b | 2007: $16.59b | 2006: $10.6b | 2005: $6.14b | 2004: $3.19b | 2003: $1.47b | 2002: $439m | 2001: $86m | 2000: $19m
What is your definition of "general" here? The classic shortest path problem (which the psalm addresses) is described as finding the shortest path between two nodes, and given non-negative edge weights, Dijkstra's algorithm is perfectly general here. It will find such a shortest path in any graph, no further restrictions.

For A*, everything depends on the heuristic, as you said. If h(v) = 0, A* is equivalent to Dijkstra's algorithm, so potentially, it can be as general. But the wrong heuristic (inadmissible, inconsistent) will lead to wrong results, and so calling it a "specialized" tool is correct. The heuristic gives you a specialized version of Dijkstra's algorithm which is faster on specific graphs.

> Dinkstras is a-star with a "min weight on shortest path first" heuristic.

I am not quite sure what you mean here. Dijkstra's algorithm is A* with no heuristic. I am not sure how a "shortest path first" heuristic would look like - do you mean that Dijkstra's algorithm chooses the node to expand next based on its shortest-path cost to the target t? Even if you would construct such a heuristic h(v) = c(v, t) by explicitly calculating c(v, t) each time, this is not what Dijkstra does, as it would basically be a perfect heuristic - you would then only visit nodes on the shortest path.

If you meant that Dijkstra's algorithm is A* with a "neighboring node with shortest path from start node first" heuristic, that's also not strictly true, because expanding the nearest node first is already built-in to A*. A* does not chose the next node v with the smallest h(v), but with the smallest g(v) + h(v), where g(v) is the shortest path cost from the source node to v.
Amazing that I scrolled this far to see any mention of vaping. I don't believe the stat can include vaping - it's anecdotal, but nearly 100% of the amigas I know vape. No amigos however, strangely enough. I think it's an anxiety thing. No amigos or amigas that smoke cigarettes habitually though.

I still see more cigarettes than vapes at bars, but the gap is closing. The annoying part is people seem to think they can vape indoors at the bar, whereas 95% will go to the covered patio to smoke. So vapes are more likely to get into your lungs second hand, and their long term effect on your lungs is entirely unknown. Hooray!
Note that archive.org is not an immutable store, and never has been. Website owners have always been able to ask for pages to be removed, personal data can be removed, and copyright holders can also ask to remove things.
but this is what the EU seems to want. based on EU regulations surcharges at least for credit cards are illegal. the price for the consumer must be the same. for some reason it does not cover paypal though.
I saw dallE and GPT-2 demos and though 'oh pretty cool' about a year later we've got stable diffusion that can run on phones and ChatGPT which can remember context. I thought these things would be 3-5 years out or more. The speed of development is so quick, I think confidently right LLM is around the corner

In less than a decade, I believe front line support chat support jobs and even graphic artist jobs will be made obselete
Please try to resist. I bought an external battery, it's less convenient but if that's the cost of privacy then so be it. Supporting Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird is critical, some sites are now chrome-only, this is a nightmare. The battle for a free phone is already lost it seems as banks mandate google or iphone apps for 2FA and we don't have functional linux-only phones with browsing/email/mapping/sms/calls/photos that work reliably yet. I'm truly concerned we might loose the ability to use a linux desktop too: MS-Windows was required for many things in the past, these things are now possible on Linux, I'd hate to see Chrome become the next Windows.
Activist investors are individuals with significant power who seek to enrich themselves by making life much worse for large numbers of people, without recourse, election or accountability. They are one of the significant negatives of capitalism that would benefit the rest of us if they were greatly reduced or removed.
I miss the old CNET of the 2000s. It had a message board back then, true halcyon days when websites had the genius idea of providing something that users could come back to, instead of clickbait articles with auto-playing video ads.

But CNET is just the canary in the coal mine; I haven't gone there for tech coverage in over a decade because of the bland writing and the lack of clear editorial voice. The problem for me will be when the entire internet reads like this.
I don't know. The quality and reliability of Google's products have been on a steady decline for years. One of the largest HN threads of all time is about the decline of Google's search product. Stadia failed because of mismanagement. Google doesn't appear to innovate a lot these days.
After reading you and checking the links, I am now sure the unlocking latency is not due to the number of iterations.

First and foremost, because I'm using the PIN entry. And it already takes some very noticeable time to open. I do not, however, notice too much difference between using PIN or the passphrase. So the delay must come from other unrelated limitations.

Thanks for all the useful info!