skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The link between sameness and mass-market capitalism is obvious to me. I was surprised by its absence in the article and comments here.

Alternative designs that cater to a fraction (25%) of the population will not have the full benefit of economies of scale, so emd up having higher prices and forced to position as up-market/luxury products - which imposes another set of constraints that also impose sameness (see optional packages for luxury SUVs.)

It's really hard for "quirky" products to succeed in the world we made as those products will be strangled by the free hand of the market.
Kraken is the only that I currently know of but i think the process for it could be improved still https://www.kraken.com/proof-of-reserves
Oh so that's why both the Snap and the APT-installed versions of VLC were broken, they were the same one???
Diminishing health benefits of living in cities for children and teens
The Revised Psychology of Human Misjudgment (2005)
First huge part of the population should learn to use the right and middle lane.
I'm not often zooming on the highways, but how many times I overtake cars driving 130 kph in the right lane, where someone is driving in the middle lane 120 kph, and the next truck in the right lane is 1km away.

Also I'm not FDP voter, but I'm definitely pro no-limit. There is little no-limit patches anyway, traffic often doesn't allow driving faster than 160. Construction work all the time everywhere.
If I don't do it, someone else will, so it might as well be me. At least I know the morals I have /s
I dont think you know the history of the regulated drug industry, or computational pharmacology in California.
The author lifted entire sentences without modification from his sources. E.g. "The parameterized distribution in the code of the autoencoder can be randomly sampled to generate discrete values for latent vectors, which can then be forwarded to the decoder, leading to the generation of new data." I thought this seemed unclear given the previous context, so I looked at the source article he linked to [1] and found that exact sentence. This kind of plagiarism is not cool. If you can't explain the concept, don't publish the article.

[1] https://blog.roboflow.com/what-is-an-autoencoder-computer-vi...
I don't want to see the post just from the PostHog side, which is biased by definition.

VSCode and Insomnia(https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/pull/5416) taken as electron-based App examples are doing the same with an opt-out telemetry.

As said by them: "Visual Studio Code collects telemetry data, which is used to help understand how to improve the product. For example, this usage data helps to debug issues, such as slow start-up times, and to prioritize new features"

What are your thoughts on that?
Just my $0.02 here: if Cloud AlloyDB can deploy a big cluster, it seems like such a small stretch to take the same pipeline and deploy a small instance instead.
The 10x trope needs to die. It's unhealthy.
how is it moving goal posts. gp's response as i understood is that this has something to do with 'riling up' which makes it 'populism' ( vs democracy) . I am asking where they got there was any 'riling up' involved in this case.

I guess i don't really understand 'riling up' means.
I'm sympathetic to this town's particular situation, but I feel like using Houston as an example of the positives of no zoning was a poor choice. Many people have lost their homes to flooding in the region over the years. I think there's a balance to be had between no zoning and zoning based on simple safety from natural disasters.
How do you tell which links are redundant stories about the same topic?
The government can be held accountable directly. A corporation with a monopoly can only be held accountable via the government.
That's an awesome github post!

I shared it direct on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35357865
Sugar-powered teabag-like implant successfully manages type 1 diabetes
Happy user here! There is so much clutter on Twitter these days, sometimes opinions are fine and I want them, but sometimes I just want to get some useful links from my feed and see if I want to read something.

Thank you! It is a steal at this price, I will definitely pay more for this.
> is it because I've lived long enough to see the simple patterns underlying most of our desires and fantasies?

Yes. And also, ironically because as you get older novelty is less important, so new stuff is boring regardless of whether is differ or same.

In every generation kids have loved the new generation of Star Wars, despite us adults knowing that the best one was the one we say when we were kids.
To grok the ELBO, don't start with VAEs; start with basic variational inference. https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00670 is good, though maybe increasingly dated...Once you're happy with VI in general, https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05908 is a nice read on the VAE.
Convergence is an interesting term, but in my eyes (as someone who both has worked as web and product designer) the reason it happens is not sales, but because looking the same as everyone else has some benefits:

- you can rely on existing/known design methodology and tools which takes less time and is cheaper to deliver results in

- it is the safe choice. The times were some manager would admit they have no idea about design and let designers do their job is a thing of the past. So they instead tell designers to do what $marketleader is doing. They use bootstrap? So do we now!

- this homogeneity has advantages as people know how certain buttons/controls look, but that middle-ground usability will not translate well to every application, because not every application is meant for that kind of middle ground usage. That is why industrial tools used 24/7 have different designs than a tool meant for people to be used once a year. The latter needs to priorize being self-explainatory above everything else, the former needs to priorize other things like productivity, covering special use cases, durability, reliability etc. If you used the UX principle of the latter on the former you end up with something that looks okay or simple to use, but is actively torture to use 24/7.

So me pet peeve with this kind of design is that some designers think it is the right hammer to squash every problem with (with the incentives laid out above), and that leads to suffering for users.

There is a reason why you and me are currently writing on this platform, and part of it is it's non-comforming design that isn't sleek or anything, but it serves the purpose better than any typical design would — because this site is not meant to be just that.
“Prompt engineer” is the new “Google fu master”
Might be because it'll cause issues with EU or WTO trade rules.
What a huge contrast lol. $335k salaries vs $3.99 per prompt.
The welding the bars experiment you are talking about is done in a motorcycle school I once took with Kieth Code (California Superbike School), in order to prove to riders that countersteering is real.

I held an American Pro Superbike racing license in my 20s and countersteering is the only way I ever steered. Here is an experiment - go into a flat and wide open space like a parking lot, ride straight, and then turn to the right hard while keeping straight up and down. Hold the pressure to the right and I promise you will turn left or will initiate a turn to the left. The harder you turn the bars right the quicker the bike will fall left and begin arcing left.

In chicanes on a circuit track you can flip the bike over from one side to the other extremely quickly doing this. I've done this on everything from mountain bike to superbike, the latter being a more pronounced effect.

The only time I don't countersteer is when doing a 180-ish degree turn on a dirtbike, like what is common on an SX course. Also, when doing an extremely slow turn on a sport motorcycle, like what's common in USA motorcycle safety courses. But when moving at speed I always countersteer.

Knowing this phenomenon and using it may save your life.
I think of Nader’s Unsafe at any speed which pointed out how numerous stylistic features in old cars were dangerous: for instance you could get spiked by a hood ornament, slashed by tail fins, etc.

People tend to think of cars as an old technology but cars are under intense regulatory (and commercial, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance_Institute_for_Highwa...) pressure on issues like safety, emissions, noise, and fuel economy. A narrowbody airliner today can be based on a 1967 design with almost-state-of-the-art engines and nowhere-near-state-of-the-art avionics and control systems but there is no room on our roads for a new car based on a 1967 design.

With all of the requirements acting on cars it is little wonder that looks go by the wayside.
It would still be more productive to criticise the bill instead of the article.
Nix Turns 20. What the Hell Is It?
I’ve done dynamic prompt engineering with string concatenation

I’ve used this to create procedurally generated games, and noticed LLMs are able to dynamically generate NPCs and maintain state about those NPCs and their dialogue too

There is no way this is going to be a valuable skillset that humans do for salary. If the humans manage to become significant shareholders of the output or revenue stream, they’ll be fine, but for salary this is not valuable and computers will take prompt engineering too.
It seems like even a PhD doesn't get you close to $300k at most research scientist type roles, with the exception of the big tech names.
maybe not all of us, but probably those within the radius of someone that chose to use it rather than lose it
Isn't this just like the situation in 2014 where academics were arguing that 'gain-of-function' experiments were dangerous[0], but big government labs and pharma companies were too excited about the research and treatments they could produce?

[0] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/commenta...
Policy makers should instead be focused on building resilience and flexibility in the economy rather than blunt tools like monetary policy. One of the best ways to do this is to promote multiple, nimble competitors in different sectors of the economy. Anti-trust, keeping regulation light for emerging technologies, preventing regulatory capture, etc., look like better tools going forward.
History has shown that distro maintainers aren't perfect at patching security vulnerabilities either and that sandboxing is useful regardless. It also shows that user want working software and will go through the effort of inventing new package formats like flatpak to work around distro maintainers. Maintainers now have a choice between complaining that everyone else is doing it wrong and eventually becoming irrelevant, or getting with the program and maybe even offering their expertise to accomplish what people want to do
"Blood libel?" What in the actual f**?

Well, if you're going to be antisemitic, then we're done here. Maybe consider getting some help.
Sendbird – how a unicorn company manages over $XXXM in P&L
30 min talk about secrets of financial management on different business stages, financial mistakes, unit economics and G Sheets as a meditation =)
SBF’s legal defense is being funded with Alameda money he gave his father
> But also at home I got the feeling there were less interesting movies.

I manage maybe 30-35 new movies per year (and usually pick up a few more from that year by about two years out from its end) and I'd say a solid 80% don't suck, and about half are pretty damn good. Usually there are another ten or so that I know about and wanted to watch but never get to, and there are surely a bunch more good ones that I miss entirely. 2021 was a bit of an exception because Covid fucked with productions quite a bit and made the movie scene that year kinda weird (though there were several really good small-cast-small-crew films released that year!) but otherwise, consistently, there are roughly mid-tens of good movies released every year, not even counting local indie scene stuff.

Now, assessing it this way does require 1) looking at more than just what's heavily advertised, and 2) having pretty broad taste in genres and being willing to meet a movie where it is, and at least having the capacity to enjoy what it's trying to do assuming it pulls it off reasonably well—me, I'd say Beyond the Black Rainbow and Guardians of the Galaxy and One Cut of the Dead and Logan Lucky are all good movies, so... I'm capable of enjoying most genres and both "high" and "low" art, so the set of films that I might like is pretty large, which helps a lot.
But the entire business model of the companies making the models seems to be including copyrighted data into the training set under the guise of fair use. If the weights are considered to be a derived work of the training data as a whole, it seems the weights would also have to be a derived work of the individual items in the training data. So I doubt any of them will be making that argument.

(Except maybe companies that have access to vast amounts of training data with an explicit license, e.g. because the content is created by their users rather than just scraped from the web?)
Our dearly beloved tech leaders have called for pausing AI for 6 months [0]. Can HN ban AI/ChatGPT-themed posts as well?

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65110030
Deep ocean currents around Antarctica headed for collapse
Requiring pedantry is also a system flaw. One would hope that AI assistants and delegates would understand more about what the human requesters want, and when to ask clarifying questions.
Individual Income Tax Returns Complete Report 2020 [pdf]
Giving Kubernetes SRE superpowers to everyone
This but without the s. What does the world look like if only China and Russia have agi because the western world took a pause to consider the ethics. This tech is the same as nukes in that sense.
What was it with those studies about many vegetables containing less of various nutrients than they used to and how often that related to their size, look, amount of inputs needed, resistance to various ailments and removal of various inconveniences, etc
Can we assume incentives are aligned properly to avoid more such effects? I'd assume the opposite.
Indeed, if you want to make fast turns at speed on a motorbike the trick is to first push/pull the bars in the oppositive direction - that gets the bike leaning over and then the bars come back and take the natural position for the turn. It's amazing how quickly even a big, heavy bike (e.g. BMW tourer) willl lean over with the right technique. At very highspeeds it takes quite a bit of muscle too.
Stop/slow down publications. It's what motivates researchers. They need them for tenure, and it's how the tech improves. Companies keep their methods more private.
The other thing is making better choices of what to make, how to make it, and most importantly things not to do. That can often save 9x from most anything.
Now things become clear! I always thought as an academic you should just read and evaluate those papers you are interested in. Which for me is really a minuscule proportion of all papers submitted. Maybe academia as a business isn't such a good idea.
Show HN: 60sec.site – AI Generated Landing Pages in Seconds
Most loving things don't want to die, whether it's to be a meal for something else or any other reason. I don't see how that refutes what looks like the natural drive, at least based on how many have been doing it for how long, of predators to eat meat.
Because most screens are running at 16.6ms refresh rate, composition is vsynced and windows are double-buffered at multiple stages in the whole display pipeline to avoid tearing and other kinds of artifacts. You're naturally going to have 2-3 frames of latency unless you try really hard to avoid it with advanced frame scheduling that won't be worth employing (or maybe even feasible to employ) for an office application. You usually optimize application rendering for smoothness (no frame drops, no artifacts, consistent 60 FPS) rather than latency, and improving one usually hurts the other. And that's ignoring the input path, which brings its own latencies too.
I have a bus pirate, and it is sitting on the shelf most of the time.

For serial, I end up using dedicated adapters. Terminal for text, custom python script for binary protocols.

For I2C, I have some USB dongles which appear as /dev/i2c-* devices. Use bash + i2c-tools to debug, then switch to python for more complex stuff.

For unusual protocols, I can use Arduino(clone) directly. Sometimes this needs a trivial interactive handler, like '2' to toggle CS2 line and 'x' to shift in 5 bits.

The problem with BusPirate is that you are not going to integrate it into your device, so whatever scripts you write to it will need to be rewritten for "real" thing. And its interactive mode is pretty limited and you grow out of it very quickly.
You know very well that the purpose of calling it "insect flour" is to mislead and to normalize it.

Nobody cares about "stone flour" etc because it not sold as flour on a shelf next to real flour. It's not intended to mislead.
Here's a factory in the US that refurbs batteries for basically all brands but Tesla:

https://youtu.be/HIurjZsWJoc

Similar to many Apple or Xbox repairs, they swap it for one they've previously refurbed and tested, then add yours to the pile to be refurbed for another customer rather than make you wait for your specific battery to go through the process.
My best guess is that transactional workloads are mostly improved by automatically adding the right indexes and parameter tuning. For example, OtterTune also advertises "2x on price/performance over unoptimized DBs".
Don't other projects have automated tests that check that the PR will actually compile/work? And if the tests fail, the PR is rejected.
There was also the plethora of undocumented Windows API's the Office programs were using that weren't available to anybody else. That was one of the thrusts of the antitrust lawsuit leveled against Microsoft. The best thing coming out of that was Microsoft's $150 million investment into Apple in an attempt to convince the government that they had competition and weren't a monopoly. Apple had 2% of the marketshare at the time - some competitor!
If you actually follow what happened to Hoovie, that $5k job didn't work. He used that vehicle on one of their 'Car Trek' series and it had BMS errors and basically threw a fit because the batteries were unbalanced. Tesla is right to want the entire pack to be replaced, because having cells with two very different aging characteristics is bad for the battery overall.

Obviously there's some batteries that are tolerant of this (Prius' commonly have this repair on their NiMH batteries), but it's not universal.
I realize this may sound hollow coming from a Google employee...but I am fighting to be sure something like this stops happening (in particular the deprecating causing loss of functionality). Google is (a little) better than it has been in the past. E.g. the opening of the protocols on the Stadia controllers when Stadia was shut down so their controllers could work on other platforms.

I am pushing at the OSS angle, but new product, so uphill battle. :)
That was the event that got me to stop using "Basically" arch (Endeavour, arco, etc) and just use arch itself.
Music is another example, which the article didn't go into, probably because it's not visual like his other examples. When I say [USA] '60s music, '70s music, '80s music and so on, you kind of know what I'm talking about. Sure, each decade had its outliers and variety, but you can probably immediately hear in your head the decade-stereotype sound I'm talking about. Each decade had that distinct fashion that the culture adopted and became known for. What is 2010's music? I have no idea. It's homogenized nothing. It's a shapeless average song, workshopped and focus-grouped to appeal to some nonexistent "Global ISO Standard Person." It's defining characteristic is its total absence of distinctiveness.
Having hired PR agents before, and also having been on the job market anytime in the last 6 months, I am very inclined to agree.

The way to read between the lines of these hot industries is to notice what salaries the third party recruiters are actually placing people at
Aside from this stuff being quite cool & interesting, love the tone of the readme, especially the list of Cool Things :D
Good question! For now, it's not automatic. If I notice multiple links about the same news story, I manually hide the duplicates. There are ways to automate this process, it just hasn't been a priority yet.
The benchmark for “giant” models is GPT4 according to the letter. Which is odd since the size of that AI is not publicly known.
>I have models on my local computer. I can and will use them. They will get better.

Well no, not really. You're just consuming the result of millions of dollars of investment. You're not going to be able to improve it in any significant way with limited resources and knowledge.
And expanding that atomic weapons analogy in a different direction, the way to stop things is not just paying attention to the research, but the physical tools and materials used in the process. Just outlawing the work wouldn’t be effective, you would need to regulate graphics cards and cloud computing which would surely be unpopular.
I've been experiencing this with posting online tbh, once I figured out the right prompt, people on 4chan don't even realise you're just pasting the output of a machine. It really makes me wonder what the point of posting is anymore.
youre doing it wrong
Insane to be able to graduate like that..
If you use the windows boot record as the parent boot instead of grub you can mostly get around this issue. It’s what I did on my gaming rig. I mostly use that as a development machine these days, but occasionally boot into windows for games.
Frankly, I think Mrs. Boucher probably gave Elon too many stimmies, psychedelics, and expectations he can't live up to. I remember when she got into a spat with Azalea Banks because she had to trip sit Elon when they were trying to collaborate on a music project.
But studies conducted over the last few decades do indicate that putrefaction, the process of decay, offers many of cooking’s nutritional benefits with far less effort. Putrefaction predigests meat and fish, softening the flesh and chemically breaking down proteins and fats so they are more easily absorbed and converted to energy by the body.

That was my first thought seeing the headline. As long as it can be stomached, it makes sense that we'd favor rotten food as a kind of natural over processed food that makes it easy to get at the nutrients. Another way to look at it is that the putrefaction is basically the same thing that happens once we eat it.
Disk IO. Even with SSDs it's not that fast.
I did read them, but it seems like this won’t be productive to argue.

I’ll leave you with the knowledge that I’m a medical professional and none of what you wrote is true or widely believed in any way.

See this paper, which was written after yours, reviewing dozens of other papers, with a sample size of 1100 instead of 70: https://ftp.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/articles/2009/2009_-_Fje...

Last sentence of abstract: no significant differences between the sexes.

In the introduction: points out that this is a controversial topic.

TBH just from your dogmatic and insulting tone it was clear that you’re just trying to give your opinions false justification and aren’t interested in finding the truth at all.
It's all well and fine until somebody figures out you can use ChatGPT to write ChatGPT prompts.
I can't wait to see all of the influencers who will feel obligated to post TikToks of themselves eating rotten meat now.
I could argue the logic can be applied to the gun debate, abortion, so on and on. Both for and against, so I find this comment irrelevant.
Yah, I know. The Cloud version has a lot of stuff happening behind the scenes that makes it a bit trickier to have a smaller machine configuration. It's being worked on, but I can't speak to timelines/configurations.