skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
who really wants google in your car with you tracking every move?

C'mon, this is getting pretty awful
GPL would be good if it is a self contained library. If anyone would use it, it would be small portions of it, but GPL makes it completely useless. You can't contaminate anything with it. We'll stare at it, that's about it.

That makes me think, this is actually a good call. Twitter can claim that they have complete transparency while not allowing anyone to touch their code (because it is GPL). "Anyone" being future competitors. If it was BSD licensed, it'd be tremendously useful in building a Twitter competitor (on paper, you still need network effects, I am just spitballing to make a point).
No further breakthroughs are necessary, if you're experienced enough you have enough general context to tell when the advice is good and it's helping you understand a new subject and it absolutely is great at walking you through understanding something new in a broader domain you're already familiar enough with to detect when it's lost.
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/search?q=elon
Ask HN: Is the site font on mobile bigger suddenly?
Edit: I'm specifically talking about landscape orientation. Everything seems the same in portrait.

Something seemed off today so I compared it with a snapshot of the front page from Feb 2, https://web.archive.org/web/20230202010428/https://news.ycombinator.com/. Font size on mobile seems bigger on my phone, but I'm fairly confident I've made no changes locally.

The larger font is somewhat throwing me off and is making it harder to read the site.
> This statement is incredibly biased

That is correct. But the question is: Why is that a problem? Biased against exploitation and overwork is good. Biased against accelerating the climate crisis is good. Biased against discrimination is good. I fail to see which of these biases is bad here.
> it is about preventing those who have demonstrated that they're willing to make choices that we've agreed are harmful to other people from voting in ways that are aligned with their poor judgment.

So if you lose all your money because of poor decisions, you should also lose your ability to vote right? If you get take in by an obvious scam or cult, you should lose your right to vote too, no?

I agree with a lot of what you’ve said in the rest of the post, but this reasoning seems critically flawed because there are lots of people with fatally poor judgement and we don’t take away their voting rights. Singling out people who have ended up on the wrong side of the criminal justice system for this punitive take is flawed. They’re already being punished and removed from society. If anything, giving criminals a right to participate in government makes the government accountable to how they treat prisoners (it’s truly a dire situation here in the US) and how they choose to apply laws. Maybe we would have learned how bad the drug laws were much earlier if the government didn’t have the power to strip voting rights from citizens.

Additionally, the government makes a non trivial amount of mistakes in terms of incarcerating innocent people. So there’s a large number of people who are disenfranchised without demonstrating “bad judgement”.
I'm not saying a conflict of interest can't exist, I'm just saying it's false that he didn't disclose his affiliation with OpenAI.
This does not surprise me at all. I worked in Italy for 2 years and in Germany for 4 years. A sense of `US/CIA/NSA-phobia` is strong among many companies and is often used to justify not using US datacenters, cloud-services and SaaS tools. I have to admit I do not fully understand it, but I am inclined to think it is mostly a bias and not driven by actual risk assessments. Having conducted risk assessments and threat analysis myself for various companies with a global presence, I was most intrigued by this phenomenon in the EU as it was mostly not driven by technical accuracy.

In my experience, very few companies in the EU actually care about innovation and lack world-class engineers.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_EU
I have my own beef with Mopar products, but it's unfair to point out the Wrangler PHEV as a showcase of how bad the Stellantis electric technology is. The Wrangler is a niche product that will never be efficient, not even if it used unicorn farts as its propulsion source.
Great!

That is a proven solution in the node.js world but…

As much as venvs can be a hassle, having another place to look for packages is another way people can screw it up.
I wonder what the "author_is_elon", "author_is_power_user", "author_is_democrat", and "author_is_republican" labels are for [1].

[1]: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/home-mixe...
Really interesting live monitor of the network: http://health.petals.ml
Vulkan 1.3.246 Released with VK_EXT_shader_object
I wonder how they handle illegal content. Like, if you're running training data on your computer, what's to stop someone else's data that is illegal, from being uploaded to your computer as part of training?
Heat pumps have the same footprint as, and can replace, AC condensers. So if you already have central air, you should be able to retrofit a heat pump. You might need a new air handler, however.
Are you sure? There's a lot of overhyping here, and of course the reaction to that. Too much noise for me, tbh. Just give me the scientifically established facts.
Running this code would require a lot more than just the exported models. There are a large number of code and system dependencies missing.
> "Today, the For You timeline consists of 50% In-Network Tweets and 50% Out-of-Network Tweets on average, though this may vary from user to user." I have spent significant effort creating a network and there you go choosing to ignore my efforts by putting in 50% of crap-I-don't-want-to-see. That is why I despise your algorithm.

This is just one feed (the "For You" recommendations feed), they also have the "following" feed tab next to it that is 100% your network (want you want), and it remembers your selection when you change between them (they fixed that a few months ago), so really this is kind of a pointless thing to despise for that reason. It's just an option you can 100% avoid if you don't want to see it.

In fact, Twitter is probably one of the only few left in the large social media space that actually gives you an 100% following network feed (minus maybe ads) in chronological order that REMEMBERS your selection (Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok don't). Which makes this even more silly to say. Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok do all have in-network exclusive chronological order feeds, BUT they are extremely hard to find, or don't remember your selection to them.

Hate of Twitter is easy to spoon out, but at least complain about things that aren't already solved for you.
IME the iPhone works normally, but if you have a navigation app running a route that app turns into a list of the next steps with no options to view a map, add a stop, or manipulate anything.

It's really frustrating for us when, e.g. we have the route to the final destination on screen but the passenger wants to look for a place to stop and eat. They either have to use the car touchscreen (intended for the driver and limiting for someone who can give it full attention) or juggle multiple maps apps or phones.
No, because that amount isn't huge at all.
Is really "Following" the entire chronological feed? I feel I miss tweets from people I follow that actually appears in the "For You" tab.
As I understand, they open sourced only the abstraction, but still have a way to control anything.
Report from the UK. I'm a British prince. I have a business proposition for you. It could be financially very lucrative.

Having left the EU, we are finding it hard to make ends meet. If you send me £50k,I will be able to release £100m frozen in evil EU banks. I will give you 50%.
Or from another perspective, comparing the cost of training one model in the cloud to the cost of training as many as you want on your machine, then (as mentioned by siblings) selling the machine for nearly as much as you paid for it, unless there's some shortage, in which case you'll get more back than you paid for it.

One is buying capital that produces models, the other is buying a single model.
It's reassuring to know that billion dollar tech companies write CI exactly like I do:

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/ci/ci.sh

Permalink: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...
It's only contaminating other components where you incorporate or link it. If it's e.g. a microservice that's fine.
Why does anyone use "for you"?
25 grand is the best we can do for something like this?
Some would say that if you can’t possibly tell the difference, then both are equally real or unreal, in the sense that it doesn’t matter if the neural net is biological or electronic.
The charges aren't even published and people like the commenter replied to are saying he's guilty. Literally QED of the entire event (and the total lack of self awareness, 2nd+3rd order consequences) in and of itself.
Its only really the models and years where they didn't have immobilizers. He's looking at an EV, it doesn't even have a cut key for starting the car.
It's because there's been nearly a decade of conspiracy theory around the use of algorithmic feeds in social media generally, and Twitter specifically. Among the right, "algorithms" have become symbolic of the machinery of leftist oppression they believe to be arrayed against them by modern media.

So this language is Elon signaling that he's presenting the "woke hivemind's" head on a platter.
Ask HN: Science Fiction books that predict where ChatGPT might lead us?
What is AI going to do to humanity? Is it going to take over the world and destroy us, just like we destroy an ant hill when we build a road? Is it going to make us dumb, because nobody will be able to right code, distinguish fact from fiction, etc.?

I guess there must be books that have explored these questions long before ChatGPT. Which ones do you think are the most interesting and relevant to the current developments, questions and fears? Or are the most thought provoking?

Thanks!
Glad to hear you both made it through unscathed.
As others have said, it uses WiFi (set up via Bluetooth).

Bluetooth doesn't support the data rates necessary to deliver the data for CarPlay. As for the "maybe with slightly less functionality" would you take no display? You're basically talking about Siri Eyes Free where you'd have a button to activate Siri on your steering wheel, but wouldn't get much functionality. But I'm guessing you want the navigation to be displayed on your screen, not just a bluetooth audio connection with a Siri button.

Basically, the 1-2Mbps of Bluetooth really isn't enough to drive a display with any decent resolution and I'm guessing that real-world data rates are a bit less than spec with so much stuff in the 2.4GHz band. Microsoft notes that you need 1.5Mbps for 1024x768 and I'm guessing most car displays are better than that today (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remo...).

Maybe you'd argue that you'd take 5 FPS and semi-reliability, but I just don't think they want to implement something that's just kinda crappy. Apple doesn't want you going around saying, "wireless CarPlay is garbage." Yes, you might understand a retrofit to a car that doesn't really have the capability, but 99% of people won't. It's not that it's impossible as much as something likely to be way more pain than it's worth. Even if you want it and would be ok with the trade-off, that's not always how products work. Heck, if they did implement it and it didn't work, would you end up using tech support for it? That costs money. Would you post online where your problem-solving becomes interpreted as "Apple sucks" even if you don't mean it that way?

Worse, car manufactures might (and car dealers definitely would) start promising these models as supporting wireless CarPlay. Maybe Apple could deal with official marketing materials, but dealers will say almost anything to sell a car. People would be duped into buying these cars and then complain to Apple that their product sucks. People would be asking online "is this real wireless CarPlay or the fake kind?" The absolute headache!

You can buy an adapter that will plug into the USB port if you want wireless CarPlay: https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/27/carplay-wireless-carplay-adap.... Basically, the information goes from your phone to the adapter (via Bluetooth-setup-WiFi) and then the adapter just sends it over USB. That's way less headache for Apple and probably a better experience since it actually supports the right data rates. I haven't used one of these so you should read up if you want to buy one (or try it out and return it if it doesn't work for you), but this seems like a much better alternative than trying to jam CarPlay over Bluetooth (without WiFi).
Dalibor Farny – Nixie Tube Manufacturer
Yes I agree. Was replying to burning coal/lignite.

We need to figure out storage and hopefully that doesn't involve lithium -- too scarce and its mining is destructive.

I support using nuclear too as a) there is a lot of improvements since the 60s - 80s -- e.g. nuclear reactor without the use of any water/steam -- using electromagnetic field deviations via plasma.

And b) it provides an option for a steady power basis -- a necessity in any electrical power grid. But not always available with non-fossil alternatives when the weather patterns and solar exposure of a number of countries do not conform with their power consumption. Europe is relatively lucky here. (Source studies/workshops/projects in undergrad + grad school. Don't think things have moved that much since then unfortunately.)

Another option is ensuring a robust and connected almost continent wide power grids. U.S. and Europe are getting there and has saved us from a lot of issues. Examples here of its usefulness -- UK power issues between Scotland and England, and ... Texas.
That will help solar and wind adoption.
I am sensitive to those kind of noises, so I tend to give more weight on the feedback of people like me. Took me some time also to understand that most people don't always realize noise sensitivity can vary much between people and their own experience and that their baseline is way off other's baseline.
All Hyundai/Kia EVs are push to start.
I mean, GM did gather the listening habits of 90,000 "volunteers".

https://boingboing.net/2018/10/23/dont-touch-that-dial.html
Show HN: Finally, a Simple TypeScript ESM Packager
Hey HN!

This post isn't as big as some others, but I'd like to share my tools for working with TypeScript and NPM.

If you've ever published a TypeScript library to NPM, you're probably familiar with the horrors of dealing with ESM

I've yearned for a small library to make TypeScript packages as simple as possible, without getting a bundler like ESBuild or Webpack involved. The project's readme goes into the horrible details of how strange and bizarro TypeScript's module systems have become. This NPM package has fixed most of my issues and I would love for everyone to benefit from it.

If you've ever experienced this madness, please kvetch here and maybe we can make this library obsolete by TypeScript 6!
If you don’t have a single monolithic local paramilitary law enforcement entity, then you won’t have this problem of police veto.
U got be kidding me. I'm not from Stripe but fintech is insanely complex when you want to do the dirty work and untangle all kinds of legal and financial mess to provide services globally. They are not called aws for payment for no reason
Cloud gives you very good price for what they offer - excellent reliability, hyper-scalability. Most people don't need either and use it as a glorified VPS host.
Twain was no fool but literally was a gambler.

"I learned to play poker there, and soon became an adept at the game. It was in the little blind hells in Virginia City, that the game became riveted upon me, and from that time on I seldom played any other game."

- Mark Twain, Roughing It.
Same risk when using actual lawyer
cosine and sine are easy thanks to the taylor series. They are both one liners in haskell. tangent on the other hand....
You start by talking about ML yet your point only touches on LLM's. There is plenty of harm they can provide by automating propoganda and clearly generative models will/can create things we couldn't via e.g. photoshop and most importantly, with a massively lower barrier to entry.

ML is a paradigm shift in how we program computers and we're only talking about surface level details of 1 or 2 use cases here.

E.g. generative models have already proven very effective at conceiving new nerve agents and toxins, that is not a barrier to entry we want to dramatically lower.
Two space indent in .py? Provocative.
The ICO, lol... about as useful as Ofgem.
You say it’s not nefarious but isn’t that how echo chambers are created?
I am in a position to do this and I picked kotlin instead as the tooling is not good enough yet. Without a good IDE experience you lose some of the productivity that nim potentially offers.
Hey, that means it can be turned into an Electron app!
FWIW, in the UK:

* Prisoners can't vote; however, a court decided under the Human Rights Act that they should be allowed to, but so far the government has ignored this

* Once released, ex-prisoners can vote as usual

* Many convictions are "spent" after a certain amount of time [1], meaning that after that you don't need to disclose them when applying for a job etc (but nothing resulting in a prison sentence of four years or more, and there are some cases where you still have to disclose them)

As far as i know, nobody thinks any of this is a problem.

[1] https://unlock.org.uk/advice/spentposter/
AGPL is probably useless for any other site who'll want to use it, as it would require them to open source their site that uses it.
Raindrop.io Native iOS/iPadOS App
While open sourcing code is always great, and kudos on them for doing so, let's be real most people didn't care about the internal plumbing of how their recommendation system runs. It's going to be a mess of decades old code, microservices and ML pipelines just like one would expect. If you want to dig deeper to check for biases (the reason they claimed to be open sourcing it in the first place), you will however run into:

> We also took additional steps to ensure that user safety and privacy would be protected, including our decision not to release training data or model weights associated with the Twitter algorithm at this point.

which is a shame.
Proliferation? Bogeyman!

Power reactors are basically useless for bomb production even if you reprocess the fuel. While it is actually possible to make a bomb from reactor waste it is *much* harder than making it from dedicated plutonium-production reactors.

The basic problem is Plutonium isn't all the same. For a bomb you want Pu-239. The desired reaction is U-238 + n -> U-239. Decays (half life 23 minutes) to Np-239, decays (half life 2.36 days) to Pu-239. The undesired reaction is Pu-239 + n -> Pu-240. Not only does Pu-240 not go boom, but it's prone to spontaneous fission, spraying neutrons around. This is a bad thing, making your bomb very prone to being a fizzle. You defeat this by changing the fuel frequently, minimizing the Pu-240 buildup.

Nobody has ever used power reactors in a bomb program. While it could be done it couldn't be done without it being apparent to observers.
When you clearly indicate you're not neutral, you lose all credibility. Nobody wants a ML model that gives them the climate warrior version of the "truth". Neutrality is extremely important in order to be broadly taken seriously. It's exactly the kind of criticism that's been leveled against chatGPT
There is a strong current of isolationism in contemporary US conservative politics (see Trump's frequent disparagement of NATO, and the questioning of Western support for Ukraine for example). On the lunatic fringe many believe the UN is just the first step towards a "one world government" or "new world order" that would deprive them of their liberties as Americans.
Never mind being a renter. There isn’t much incentive for landlords to previous feeding cost for their tenants.
whoa.... postgres is moving quickly and taking jobs away from other databases. Maybe we need to hold up for 6 months on any new uses for postgres until we all have some time to figure this out.
It does - it connects over AUX or BT.
Good point about network calls & GPL licenseability.
I find these notifications so confusing - at first glance they look like DMs or mentions to me. I don't follow these people, nor were they RT by anybody I know.
You can just take pairs of schools in adjoining neighborhoods/municipalities and compare. Their budgets are all public. That's what I did here.
But does it cover also EU citizens or only UK ones? AFAIK EU with GDPR doesn't care that much about data privacy in ie Zimbabwe
Hopefully ChatGPT didn't hallucinate during the combover.
> Who comes up with this stuff anyway?

> How did this one word get elevated to such triggering heights?

Those are actually great questions! Have you considered, instead of shouting rhetorically into the ether, actually looking for the answers? Maybe reading editorials from people in the autism community about why there's a renewed focus on eliminating use of some especially harmful words but not others?

This kind of behaviour is what I think of when I see all these comments about the recent enshittification of discourse on HN. For a community that's supposed to be for the intelligent and innately curious, there seems to be a growing deficit of people actually looking to seek out, learn from and appreciate other perspectives.

> It [...] has the same connotation as those other words!

No, it doesn't. Maybe it does to some of the people who choose to use it, but certainly not to the people it describes or are affected by the use of it. Again, maybe you could look into it, but that would depend you actually being willing to learn from the answers you'd find.

> I swear we are entering a neovictorian age.

I also worry that we're regressing socially and intellectually, but I suspect you and I have very different concerns in this regard.
The power to seriously harm nations may be in the hands of tens of thousands of individuals within a few years. Things might just be different this time.
I have been asking about this locally, here in Oregon, and it seems that in the US we're likely to get some financial incentives. But nothing seems sure yet. Anyone here happen to know anything?
Why? Because every new version of windows comes with more invasive features, less user control, and more processes doing stuff you didn't ask for, for purposes that aren't in your interest. Also, some machines that came with win 7 might still work perfectly fine for a bulk of someone's Steam library, yet would struggle with win10 and even fail compatibility with 11.

I can't say I'm interested in maintaining a win7 steam box at this point, but I do sympathize with holdouts, as I'm deeply disappointed (though unsurprised) with where windows has been going since then.
Ads are coming for the Bing AI chatbot
There is somebody finetunin 160m rwkv4 on alpaca on the rwkv discord, I am out of the office and can't link but the person posted in prompt showcase channel
That’d be cool but I don’t think most idle consumer GPUs (6-8GB) would have large enough memory for a single iteration (batch size 1) of modern LLMs.

But I’d love to see more federated/distributed learning platforms.