skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The experience needs to be more like installing an app on a phone or a game on a console and with automated backups and easy restore. Self hosting will never come back if we are still expecting people to manage servers like it’s 1985.

I think part of the problem is that this is exactly the kind of stuff that is not fun. It’s that boring middle layer between the OS and apps. Compounding the problem is the fact that the people who know that layer well feel no personal need to fix its usability issues.

Programmers want to work on AI and distributed systems and games and other sexy things. Even people who work in the middle layer would rather work on sexy problems there like hyperscaling with Kubernetes and architecture as code.

Making regular old systems easy to use for boring not-hyperscale uses just isn’t sexy so open source devs don’t do it. The economic model for commercial stuff only incentivizes the leveraging of this problem for vendor lock in or to move people into SaaS where data can be mined and rent can be charged forever.

At this point the whole industry is herding everyone into SaaS walled gardens because that’s the only working economic model in software. I don’t see this changing without a movement similar to open source in its heyday in the 90s, but to steal fire from the nerds and bring it to the masses.

I’m not optimistic because nobody seems to care. It might take a whole cycle in which all freedom and privacy is completely lost. Experiences like Twitter just aren’t cutting it. People are stuck on either “woke Twitter was bad” or “pilled Elon bad” instead of realizing that the problem is intrinsic to walled gardens. All cloud spies on you and all social media is manipulating discourse for someone. No exceptions.
Intelligent, automatic restarts for unhealthy Kafka consumers
Tailscale works great for this application.
China Is the World’s Biggest Face Recognition Dealer
> If you can't remember your passwords, then use something else.

Not practical to remember hundreds of long, randomly generated passwords, so I use something else such as a password manager that only I can access.
Cool! Also alle the other links other users are posting.

Question: is there an option obsidian plug in for this?
Propaganda aligning with a certain modern day cult and nothing but subjective anecdotes isn't proof of anything. First of all you'd have to PROVE the tipping difference is due to racism.... something this article fails completely at.

Let's assume that people are actually tipping "people of color" worse. Do you think getting rid of tipping is somehow fixing this perceived racism? If so, why do you believe you can legislate a personality trait out of people?
'leveraging your talent by means of labor'
Everything ever done is derivative of something done before it.
That's an interesting idea. Curious, if there are DB engines written in Rust today which people use at scale?
When you say you do pair programming, do you mean all of the time for everything? I'd argue you actually have a lot more code review in this case. You effectively have someone reviewing every line of code as it's written.
+1 no fancy pages. there are no constant advertising emails. there is only cheap and working VPS with good performance
not sure if it qualifies as technology:

- nicolas schabanel team works on molecular DNA programming, they had game of life capable structures made of DNA tiles. The mentioned being capable of transpiling tiny lambda calculus expressions but were stuck (this was in 2013~) due to thermal degradation on long programs. His courses are on dailymotion.

- michael levin morphogenesis / developmental biology research: dude revived 50s~ ideas with gap junctions and cell levels "information processing" .. he ended up regrowing a second head on a larva after reprogramming cell messaging to alter the natural regeneration process. He was in a lot of interviews/podcasts in the last months.
>and just deal with the fact it's not externally available

Perhaps wireguard(or tailscale just for this bit). Not saying you have to, having local only as default is perfectly good and safer maybe!
Also, to the points you've been making, chambre d'hotes on Booking compare favorably to AirBnB, often being standalone, studios or small dwellings, with kitchenettes.

https://ilovewalkinginfrance.com/what-is-a-chambre-dhote/

Also, a third option, options on VRBO compare favorably to AirBnB in price for quality and courtesy. I suspect VRBO is less appealing to the short term rental slumlords for some reason (less scalable? less volume of travelers?), but I haven't looked into it.
In the sense that physics is about "map-making", not the "true nature of reality", and has been for a while now (since it split from philosophy ? since the beginning of postmodern physics in 1905 ?).

Even philosophy has pretty much given up that claim : with Gödel/Church/Turing having blown up to smithereens the positivist project of a "theory of everything" for mathematics, and Wittgenstein/Kuhn/Derrida/Foucault/Chomsky having redirected the rest of philosophy towards "the naming of things".

And that project had been ironically doomed from before its start anyway : Descartes both laid the groundwork for it by elevating epistemology to "fist philosophy" and for solipsism - which, while a dead-end, cannot be ruled out !

(Also honorable mention for Max Tegmark's Mathematical Universe I guess, which, in a way, indirectly achieves the claim by positing a mathematical multiverse so vast that "our" reality can only be contained inside it.)

So the only discipline left that still lays claim on Truth and the True Nature of Reality is theology. (Note that this is how Descartes "solved" the problem of solipsism.)
Ask HN: Vision Models to Parse UI
Hello. I was curious whether there are any existing vision models out there for either object classification of individual UI elements, or object detection of UI elements within their broader context.
Sounds like burnout. The reason you can spend days on end coding is because you're excited about the thing you're working on. If you're coding something that you don't find exciting or that is just a pipe dream, you'll have thoughts about your deathbed. That's pretty natural.
That's be fine except it's public transport that doesn't get the love car culture does and people get mightily upset that we should even think of improving it.
Here's GPT's own explanation what the purpose of that while loop is:

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This code uses JavaScript's `eval` function to obfuscate the code by looping over an array of strings and passing them as arguments to `eval` to create a variable. It also uses an anonymous function to obfuscate the code. The code is deobfuscated by replacing the `eval` function and the anonymous function with their respective strings.
Psssst, if you put it this way it won't attract VC $$$
Do you worry about losing it though?
It's what happens when one forms an opinion based on echo chambers with no real push-back.
Human exceptionalists hold up the 0.0001% of human content that isn't plagarized cliche garbage and act like somehow we're different. If you get an AI to produce 100,000 works and take only the few best they would be pearls just the same.
But if said company doesn't care about the human-generated content quality in the first place (evidenced by the fact that they're willing to replace it with AI generation), how is that not also a "nasty trick" by your standard?

At the end of the day they just want to optimize search results. And the Overton window of acceptability currently allows "human generated SEO content" but not "AI generated SEO content". It's just an arbitrary rule.
yes i think so. We basically like sex and kids are the then unpreventable consequence
You can actually embed drawio files directly in Markdown by creating your files as drawio.svg and then linking them in the Markdown, e.g. ![](my_lovely_drawing.drawio.svg). I explain it in this blog post: https://www.pugillum.com/posts/2021_11_28_drawio_in_markdown.... This also works for Marp slides
AI nsfw bf/gf apps. It probably just makes sense to this generation but for me, it feels like something out 90s era sci fi.
Looks like people are about to find out the hard way and realize how difficult it is to build a social network that has a better reach and network effect than Twitter.

Twitter once again remains to be unchallenged. No contest for the 200M+ daily users still sitting there.
It depends on the country. It is not the case in France for instance. I don't know exactly what the law say, but you shouldn't have to pay for anything that you didn't order, and you shouldn't pay more than what's written on the menu.

Tips are appreciated but not expected. I's say that if you are used to the American way, tip what you would normally tip above your baseline. For example if you normally tip 15%, and 20% for good service, then in France, don't tip for average service, and tip 5% for good service.
I created a makefile that takes the markdown and generates pdf and other outputs using pandoc with reveal-js. It works great for me except for the part about managing complex figures that I need a gui to draw. For figures that I create in python, that's great (I believe quarto was mentioned earlier, and that works great for more dynamic figure too). But if I'm annotating figures, opening up ppt and adding an arrow and text box is so easy.

I try to model my figures after these suggestions (it means it's not easy to make figures without a visual editor): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY
The issue is having a full time job, leaving little time where I have creative energy to work on side projects. Strongly considering trying to find a part time consulting gig once my current is played out.
>the landlord has to increase rents

Is that even a thing? Looking at the data[1], there doesn't seem to be any correlation between recessions (areas shaded gray) and rents rising faster than normal.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SEHA (you can use "edit graph -> units -> Change from Year Ago, Index 1982-1984=100" to make changes easier to see)
While I don't like your point in general, feels like a scenario meant to scare people into not sharing information, I'm wondering how age or experience are factors independent of output that should define your pay. Seems to me if you're capable of producing equivalent output (considering both volume and quality) it shouldn't matter how old or experienced you are.
I recall Ram Dass's Journey of Awakening being nice.

Or if you want a truly esoteric brick, Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali. (The big yellow one)

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTPsQJu...
That's a really cool visualisation - thanks for sharing :-)
Matt addresses this in the article directly:

> Generally speaking, people would get really upset if the IRS shared our tax information for a fee. Effectively, Equifax is doing that, because for most people, employment and income is our tax information. But since it’s a private monopoly, the anti-government types don’t notice or care.

...

> It’s perhaps no exaggeration to note that Equifax is a quasi-governmental agency, a monopoly provider of evidence that you work, where you work, and what you make. If there’s an error, or if someone lies about you, too bad. If Equifax itself is paid to harm you, too bad. If a government agency gets the wrong data and denies you assistance or screws up your immigration status, that’s on you, well, you have limited to no rights in this situation. In some ways, you might have more to fear from Equifax than the IRS.
Default humans consider a tidied fresh room part of the package.

You not wanting it makes you weird. So it's on you to move the little "Do Not Disturb" thing from inside door knob to outside.

Telling reception won't work. Reception can't be bothered to communicate to house keeping who can't be bothered to figure out which house keeper will hit up your room and give them special instructions to not do their training.
its a nice hobby project, but of course a commercial blade system will have far higher compute density. supermicro can do 20 epyc nodes in 8u, which at 64 cores per node is 1280 cores in 8u, or 160 in 1u, so double the core density, and far more powerful cores, so way higher effective compute density.
Burnout from doing same thing over and over.
“Intelligence” implies that actual thought is happening. These language models are amazing at token prediction but it’s a mistake to believe that they’re actually intelligent.

Give it an inane prompt to better see the difference, like "write me an essay about camels and their value in cybersecurity" which gives us the answer

"The camel is a valuable animal in the cybersecurity field due to its ability to store large amounts of data in its hump. Camels are able to cross vast distances with little water, which makes them ideal for carrying large amounts of data across networks. They are also very sturdy animals, able to withstand harsh conditions and even attacks from cyber criminals. In addition, their long eyelashes protect their eyes from sand and dust, making them perfect for working in dusty environments such as data centers."
Yes, and the perf improvements they have achieved is also staggering. In the linked presentation in the blog they have mentioned -

> CPU and memory consumption on the inserter side got reduced by 8 times.
Exaggerating China’s military spending, the St. Louis Fed's misleading graph
My pain point with these tools has been that my presentation ultimately ends up in the hands of business users, and they expect an editable PowerPoint. This includes native charts/visuals/tables. They don't like giving up control and get frustrated if a chart is an image or an SVG shape. Even when these tools export to PowerPoint, there is no native chart capability.
Because the average landlord is paying mortgage with interest rates which just went way up.
How do you define a health issue?
>I still don't understand the purported difference between "sounds smart" and "is smart".

Its easy to see in practice with AI. Look at AI generated images and how they just cant get human hands right. Everyone knows a human should have 4 fingers and a thumb on each hand. But the AI does not understand that it is drawing a hand with those parameters. It is making something that sort of looks like other things it has been trained with.

The same is true for text generation. A common description for Chat GPT I've seen catch on is calling it "confidently wrong". It will string together words that sound good but it doesn't actually have any understanding behind them. Its logic is in stringing words together. This is more akin to a good con man faking knowledge than an expert explaining a topic.
> nextcloud was (I've not checked recently) very hard to secure properly

I've not heard of nextcloud being particularly onerous to lock down, compared to other systems of its ilk (and it should be easier than securing something string together from smaller parts). The main trick with “standard” packages like these, once you've done the initial hardening, is making sure you keep bang up-to-date with security patches from upstream.

> its car cheaper to have a low power server with a couple of big disks in it, than it would be to host that data on S3/other block storage

Though a good block storage provided should give your data more redundancy and a lower time-to-recovery than a pair of old drives in RAID1. Of course, you still want good backups on another provider, just in case.

Check performance too: some block storage providers might be notably faster (SSD/RAM cached storage etc) or much slower (mostly traditional drives, high levels of contention on the storage arrays, latency between your app and the storage array) than those inexpensive local drives.
I don’t smoke, but my mom smokes heavily. Whenever my wife (whose parents did not smoke) and I visit my parents, she always remarks afterwards on how terrible the smell was but I never really notice it at all despite having lived on my own for 15+ years now.

I really think it’s just something your brain blocks out, it doesn’t smell like much to me.
Yes, we have this in English too. If you search "golden boy" on HN you will find old stories.
That's fine... it's your country and continent. I happen to dislike that attitude and so do a LOT of other Americans. It turns out EU culture isn't something everyone strives for.

If I wanted to ask for something I'd stay home, they're called waiters and not for a reason. There's no "pretending to be a friend" going on, it's just called being cordial.
By using a different persona, the output will be much more fitting to the task.

"As a highly skilled songwriter for country-songs ..."

https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts
But if they're passive, are are they supposed to influence behavior? They can't dump the stock, because they're obligated to hold that stock to track a particular index.
FWIW I'd throw my hat in the ring for Vultr as an alternative to Linode or DO. (Disclaimer I used to work there) Prices right on par with the competition, one click nextcloud, good support. And they are independent, not a subsidiary (like Linode now is of Akamai) and not VC funded (like DO)
Curious, isn't SEO the thing that ruined search to a big extent. A 1000 word article where the actual answer needs a fraction of that size. Or interesting content buried because it is not "SEO optimized". Or companies writing blog content and making it look helpful while actually shilling and highlighting their own product. Plus tons of other things.

So now you need something like ChatGPT to cut through the noise?
Why post the tweet and not the article?
Investor liquidity issues are putting the squeeze on Canadian startups
> These tools are about as good as a non specialist with time to undertake some bullshitting.

You’re not wrong, but AI being passably good at bullshitting (while mostly keeping a rhyme/meter) is still mindblowing to me.
After I hit midlife I decided that I just didn't have enough time to do them all, and started pruning aggressively. I now keep three projects alive and bounce between them as interest directs. It takes discipline. But it also exercises my focus which was never a strength.
yes, France is trying to do something which its size might not allow. Still, I think the French MO since de Gaulle has been to keep the Anglo's at arms length and this strand persists to this day. How long it lasts is anyone's guess, as you suggest, the time might be coming up
> Related, there's also the risk of being paid with counterfeit bills. Granted, there's also the risk of stolen credit cards being used, and the business is usually forced to eat the cost of that. So this might turn out to be a wash (or perhaps, I suspect, this is actually worse with credit cards).

I'm curious if credit cards actually are worse. I haven't had anyone ask for my ID to use a credit card in a long while. My hypothesis is that stolen credit cards are used online frequently, but rarely in person. Likely because it's easier to steal 10,000 credit card numbers online than in person, and because people are more likely to notice and report a card stolen if it's physically missing.
I also wonder how much WW2 forcing people into planes helped to kill some of the fear of it.
> assumed the route numbers are more of an American thing

Not for streets that go through a town or city and have maximum speeds of 30 mph (48 Kmh). And those are the streets that Maps displays route numbers. I don’t know of truckers using those streets.
(Anecdotal evidence) While I've been happy with OVH over the last year, literally last night they suspended my servers because they weren't able to charge my card.

No warning that they would charge it, no pre-authorization, no grace period to rectify the problem, just shut down the servers at 2AM in the night.

Not happy to say the least.
Amazon launches a $5 monthly subscription for prescription drugs
What about them? 1U servers from vendors are reliable and efficient - people use them in production for years. As for the cost, those hobby-style board are very expensive for dollars/performance. Indeed I'm not getting why would one want a cluster of expensive, low spec nodes?
If AIs can't hold copyrights then it seems to me that they can't be committing plagiarism.
> Such as?

Almost every news article that uses Betteridge's law of headlines. Usually, it's not the scientists fault and the linked articles are very clear of their reach and limits.
In my experience they do not, or they believe that they are still not as valuable to the org as the org is to them.
i think new ideas come from being naive and possessing the "no-mind" or a childlike sense of wonder. the older i get, the less plastic my brain is and the more depression and other issues start to seep in, get in the way, overcomplicate shit.

to be completely free, uninhibited, released from guilt and predjudice. to just think, play, laugh, fart, and yawn. boring days spent looking out the window wondering how crows fart, or what makes zebras sassy.

the only limit is our own adult psychosis. we are prisoners of our own minds, locked and shackled by constructs of our own design. too focused on the failures of the past and anxieties of the present to take a moment and b-r-e-a-t-h-e. like who fucking cares about businesses and startups and shit. saas my ass. when you actually stop trying, give up, and stop caring, and truly let go (like in the movie frozen) you can actually go in and through and back out the other side.

just learn to get out the way of yourself. that's what im working on, but it's really hard. you think you're supposed to be there and generate brilliance 24/7 but it's not possible.

go outside and find a patch of earth where things are growing. get really close to the ground and start looking at it real hard. there's honestly so much stuff there, it's wild. like who knew? wow thats nuts. acorns, rocks and shit. touch the dirt and rub it on your face. mushrooms are literally everywhere. the water in my body was once in a bowl of rice that your great grandma ate at becky's 27th birthday party.

just give up
just give up
stop caring
be free
How is this not a good thing? It obviously helps track terrorists and drug dealers.
Framework Laptop Review (Intel 12th) with Linux: The Definitive Review
What a terrible straw man. There are only a handful of tiny places on earth where cars are banned and there is no way to buy property in most of them because noone wants to leave.

Being able to technically survive in 2% of the land if you never leave, pay a great deal more in rent, accept much greater inconvenience, suffer poor air quality from all the people driving, and endure constant abuse and threats to your life that are wholly unnecessary (such as right on red) isn't non-car-dependence.

Spending 20% of the space cars use on dedicated transit right of ways and active transport and having a handful of areas where you might have to park and walk or use a mobility aid for 1km isn't the authoritarian dystopia you're pearl clutching about and will make driving easier for you. It literally helps everyone.

The US had a better system. It was systematically destroyed at great taxpayer expense and done so in a way designed to cause as much economic harm on the people living where the highways went as possible. There are at least eight separate regions smaller than Switzerland with higher population. Even if the rural transit system the US used to have were impossible to build you could at least service those regions as well as the Swiss serve their tiny rural towns.
This always reminds me of the film "Her"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/
wow, I didn't realise people check out profiles here

thanks for the comment, I'll make sure to check these out asap
SlidesGPT – Like ChatGPT for Slides
ChatGPT. I'm 33 and first time I've ever truly been blown away.

It's been really valuable as well not just a novelty. I'm certain it will change almost every aspect of our lives, starting with our children and how they learn in our current education pipelines. The bubble don' popped!