skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ayn Rand is at best a bad inspiration for people that are gullible and greedy, at worst a person that wrong footed the world about what the social contract is all about but didn't mind being the recipient of that very same social contract. She is nowhere near to Carl Sagan in influence, ethics or worldview and to see the two mentioned in one breath is sickening.

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
From the article:

'The spokesperson called the move a "difficult decision," adding that the store will only close temporarily'

Summary:

Crime is actually down and Whole Foods is remodeling.
So, you’re saying that collating conference statistics in a spreadsheet is worth a $500K yearly salary? I would have thought that you can get that cheaper.
it's like a prison with extra steps.
Exactly the bus or gas for a car and time to drive farther isn’t free.
i still don't get it. i only understand libraries of congress and cars.
Interesting. Never had much success on Reddit. Could be worth trying again.
Yeah, if it's getting astroturfed and pushed up artificially that's definitely cause to flag it. It's just a shame that happened because this almost certainly would have landed on the front page on its own.
Can’t wait for the internet, web, cell phones, or social networks to change society… AI is closer to these than the others.
Or, more likely, inflation is falling because interest rates are rising. Interest rates staying low because of pandemic fears is the reason we had this gigantic inflation - interest rates rising to levels that are actually reasonable are causing inflation to slow.
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Let me spell it out, maybe it helps somebody else:

- "Communists" is shorthand for "envious losers who'd rather destroy society than improve themselves". "Elite overproduction" is what you want to google. I just think "communist" has a more, idk, "classic" ring to it.

Now, you can argue whether we have an "envious loser" problem or not, and how big their influence is, and if it's too late to do anything at all, or all is lost already.

Or you can pull out the dictionary.
Well, I'm sure they didn't issue it only on twitter, right? That'd just be part of their normal media processes. Post it on the website. Post it on twitter. Post it on Facebook. Send press releases to media outlets. Blah blah blah.
Any recommendations for an uncomplicated server OS which will just run Docker, SSH and not much more?

I'm currently running Ubuntu but am open to alternatives. My local Raspberry Pi uses a fun, but little maintained OS called Hypriot which is just this: Start Docker and not much more.
Until about a year ago, I went out of my way to use a flip phone for a few years; I'd go back if you paid me a few grand.
Google AI Infrastructure Supremacy: Systems Matter More Than Microarchitecture
Bait and switch? Changes in a business aren't always a bait and switch.
There’s a bit of a “Pluto problem” [1] though with labeling NPR and not explicitly government supported media organizations like Voice of America. This suggests to me that the decision was based on some personal beef the owner has with NPR and not any kind of objective basis.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33462184 (warning: BBC is explicitly supported by the British Government)
I don’t know that it’s a better UX, but it is a viable UX, and that is very valuable
I probably owe much of my 10 year software eng career to Jennifer Widom’s open courses on databases that I went through in 2011-2012. I was writing out unions and other queries on yellow notepads while working phones in tech support, devoured the courses, and really boosted my path.
The blue jacket and skirt might be kind of cool for a woman but everything else sucks.
Sorry, I'm not getting what you're not getting. IRC channels and subreddits are defined around special interests. There is a thing that unifies people. Sometimes that topic can have a well-distributed membership, but there is always a selection bias that comes from the chosen topic bias.

Twitter is unique in that it had both wide international reach and no topic structure. Reddit is an engine for shutting you off from 99.9% of the Reddit discussion. Twitter, for better and for worse, didn't and couldn't do that.

As you say, the journalists were definitely part of that. To the extent a global conversation existed previously, it was among journalists and the people they covered, like major politicians, NGO heads, and the like. Twitter expanded and disintermediated that. Suddenly you could hear from all those media subjects directly. And even more unusually, you could try to join in, speaking directly to people previously unreachable, maybe even getting replies. One major motivator for people joining Twitter was exactly that, as the Waiting for Bieber art piece demonstrated: https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/waiting-for-bieber

The only platform with anything like that reach was email. And although email has global reach, it isn't a global stage like Twitter was. No other platform has that, and I doubt one ever will.
Why don't they just measure it month-to-month. Are they trying to make the whole thing more dramatic by reading the yearly change? They make it seem like the Fed can only do division by 12 months to make up its mind.
5% backward looking.

If you use the last 3 months and extrapolate forward - we're back down to ~2.5%.

If you use only the last month and extrapolate forward - we're at ~1.25%.

Housing costs are ~39% of the economy alone. If those aren't inflating - it's pretty hard for overall inflation to be super hot.

Unless rents & owner's equivalent rents start shooting up again, inflation isn't going back to 10%.
The inflation burst was driven by money printing by the Federal Reserve/Government repeated by other governments world wide during the Covid pandemic, in order to prevent the financial system imploding as everybody defaulted on their debt. Attributing it to a "savings glut" - which I know is the mainstream interpretation is darkly hilarious.

Once that has happened, the hard part is predicting how long it will take the impact to bleed out of the system - i.e. the lags - and knowing that inflation is measured over a year, the answer is at least a year after the money supply stabilises.

Said money supply:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

btw. the way its currently contracting... that's bad. Really, really bad. They need to stop that quickly, before it does any more damage.
Makes sense, and is even positive: food prices will probably fall soon as that part of the economy stabilizes post Ukraine invasion.

Energy could fall even MORE post Ukraine invasion if there is some kind of resolution!
False, of course; a bait and switch contract is a violation of the implied duty of good faith and fair dealing. The conduct of delivering something that is not what you advertised fulfills the elements.

If you want to sit here and tell me that the contract actually says the car can't drive itself, that's fine but my hypothetical had nothing to do with a caveat in fine print. I suggest before you make a personal attack, you do your best to read the regular-sized print that I delivered to you. The website which you are using this twenty-hour old account to troll has some rules, too, and you would do better to study those rather than to try to contradict me.
My dad used to listen to NPR all the time growing up (WAMU). It was always liberal, but now it’s become this highly processed and refined sort of white sugar liberal that’s hard to stomach even for him.
In 2022, CPB got $465M from the Federal government. Of that, $72M goes to "Direct grants to local public radio stations", $24M to "Radio National Program Production and Acquisition grants" and $7.3M to "Radio Program Fund".

https://cpb.org/aboutcpb/financials/budget

According to NPR's 2020 budget, total revenue was $275M, of which $92.7M was "Station dues, programming and digital fees".

https://media.npr.org/documents/about/statements/fy2020/Nati...

So ~ 1/3 of NPR's revenue is from member stations, and some percentage of that revenue is part of the $72M that the stations were granted from CPB.

Looking at WBUR's budget as a randomly picked example, its 2022 revenue was $39.7M of which $1.8M was grants. Let's call that 4.5%.

https://media.wbur.org/wp/2023/01/WBUR-Special-Purpose-Finan...

Let me pick another random station, WUNC. In 2018 its total revenue was $13.8M. of that CPB grants were $617.8K. Again, about 4.5%.

http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/wunc/files/wunc_2018_...

Using 4.5% as the percentage of of the $72M from CPB that ends up as part of the 1/3rd of NPRs revenue. 4.5% x 33% = ~1.5%.

I gather then that even though it's a small part of NPR's revenue, it's very high leverage in helping to keep all of the member stations afloat. I guess that's how they can simultaneously downplay the dollar amount while also speaking of how critical it is.

https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance...

I may have gotten my math wrong here somewhere, corrections appreciated.

I ignored the $24M and $7.3M of the CPB budget because I wasn't sure what to do with them, but you can read more about those here:

https://www.cpb.org/funding/

It's probably fair count some part of those dollars as part of NPR's funding, I just don't know how much.
Yeah, this is where I’m completely lost. You don’t need to do much use a webcam in two applications at the same time. If you want some additional features VLC can handle it easily. If you want the bells and whistles then OBS. All FOSS.

So I don’t understand the value add - is it used for more than is being described, or if there’s legitimately a piece of software that does something so trivial yet people are actually paying for it.
Your comment seems to be based on some kind of misconception about what religion is. Like, you seem to base your comments on the idea that the Christian bible is the sole foundation for Christian beliefs and practices. There are two problems with that—it’s not true in the first place, and even if it were true, it is not straightforward to interpret the bible.

If you are unwilling to put in the effort to learn what Christianity is, then you should also be unwilling to make comments about whether people are practicing it correctly.
That’s what we’ve came to the conclusion too, kinda like the movie Transcendence. It is a pretty interesting conversation to talk and think about though from a moral, humane, and social aspect.
Most people who are experiencing and talking about "inflation" are experiencing and talking about the increases in food and energy which, for the most part, haven't gone down. It just goes to show you that the food price increases were never inflation, just them realizing they could price gouge under the cover of inflation.

This may not matter for capitalists and finance industry jargon heads who don't have to personally worry about food and energy, but for most of us it's a substantial part (if not >1/3) of our monthly bills.
To me this is one of the greatest things about this country: it's foundation was granted to the people by the people, not some foreign, non-elected embodiment of a divine authority.

That someone could just as much be sworn in with a Quran, a Dr. Suess book or the US Constitution itself is just something exceptionally American and profoundly inspiring. E Pluribus Unum.
It’s easier to commit fraud than start a unicorn tech company. How can you not understand that?
Public DC fast charging, aside from Tesla Supercharger, is a garbage pile that rarely works. Recently I was charging a Bolt EV at a station with six dispensers: three older 100kW stations and 3 newer 350kW stations. Any of them could have maxed out a Bolt EV, that can only draw 40-50kW at best. The first station said it could not detect that car, so I moved to another. It said the same thing. The 3rd dispenser was showing the Windows boot screen permanently. One of the older dispensers started but was only doing about 20kW ... often you find these stations that have one of several modules offline and they superficially work but too slowly to be acceptable. The fifth station I tried was doing the job properly.

While I was charging there for about 45 minutes I watched a Kia, a Toyota, and a Ford come to the station, move around several times, and then leave.

Oh, and half the time the problem with the EVGo network is their cloud software is just broken.
Central banks embarked on the largest and fastest hiking cycle in a long time.

Nothing at all transitory about it.
Both Whatsapp and Signal store their messages in a sqlite-db as well! If your device is rooted/jailbroken, extracting the data is relatively simple (see e.g. here: https://towardsdatascience.com/analyzing-my-whatsapp-databas...)
DRY vs. SoC, a Difficult Choice
I think it is your job to deal with those politics at that level. At the very least to bring them to the attention of the people who can implement a solve and to make a case for why your thing should be solved over other things.

If the principal engineer doesn’t champion technical issues created by org design, then who?
The file system works and is a common denominator. Even if you could come up with a better scheme for organizing software projects, what use would it be if no tools except for your own supports it? Using ls for listing modules/classes in a project is useful, as is removing such items with rm. So is grepping, or using some other editor than your preferred one to interact with the project. Maybe something better will show up in the future - like asking ChatGPT where your stuff is - but I'm skeptical.
And mine is about twice that.

But also keep in mind every executable has at minimum its own executable as an open file. Picking a random python process I currently have running, lsof reports it has 41 open *.so files.
So if it was instead registered as a private company, with, say, Medvedev as CEO, it would be fine?
More taxes will fix it
I used some of these for a project at work for Smart Displays.

They are still kicking some 2 years down the road.

https://www.amazon.com/PC-J4125-Computer-Ethernet-Business/d...

They are loud-ish, especially compared to a Pi. They are a bit faster and run windows though (which was required by the vendor that I had no say in choosing).

That said, for my personal projects, I still kinda default to the Pi model. A bit more power efficient and there are some solid home projects built around the Pi.

I now have like 3-4 of them in the house, ranging from a Dakboard above the fridge, to a couple pi-kvm's, including one with a multiport attachment, to remotely manage some of my stuff at home so I dont have to lug monitors and keyboard about as much. Heck I strongly considered a pi-kvm for work, even if just used as a remote crashcart of sorts.
This is such an interesting take.

The military invented the nuclear bomb yes. But Fermi did most of his thinking work in Italy before the Manhattan project. He got money thrown at him once he got here.

As for semiconductor devices, it was Bell Labs and TI.

Coding is an ambiguous concept that wasn’t really invented, but if it were, it would have first appeared in programmable looms.

The military likes to take credit for things, but really all they do is throw money at existing inventions.

I’m sure they’re throwing a bunch of money at Transformers now, but who are all these uncredited super geniuses who invent things and then let randos at Google take the credit/earn the money?
Demand and supply. Even if they did offer equal performance most of your docker images and other binaries may need to be rebuilt. The inertia is hard to beat.

AWS has been trying really hard with Graviton 3.
Let's kick the can down the road of "who created the aliens?" and simply consider the alternatives for "who created us?"

On the one hand, you have ALL major religions agree that powerful beings who came to earth (or created Earth) and populated it with humans.

On the other hand, you have the "scientific" alternative. This is where you have several different asteroids all exactly the right size to have proto-atmospheres. Each atmosphere is different because the fundamental building blocks of life can't all form in the same atmosphere. They all develop their specific part of the equation. Now, they all happen to crash together in the exact same place at the exact same time. Their material is thrown together onto yet another asteroid with a different atmosphere sufficient to sustain life. Those materials happen to collide just right so they form a primitive lifeform. Finally, this meteor happens to crash on Earth (instead of any other planet) without generating enough heat or impact force to destroy the fledgling lifeforms and it happens to land on a part of Earth where the lifeforms won't be killed off by the surroundings.

What are the odds all those asteroids form? That every one has different atmospheres? That the all hit the exact location at the same time? That the constituent parts aren't destroyed in this crash? That the parts randomly come together to form life? that this happens close to a solar system? That the solar system has the right star and planets to support that life? That the life isn't destroyed?

Now put that up against a powerful alien (which could have formed under different universal rules without such astronomical odds) implanting life on a planet?
I can absolutely vouch for the 2nd course which is on distributed systems - it’s a gem. It also has lab exercises which are high quality stuff too.
Yale's American Revolution by Joanne Freeman

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDA2BC5E785D495AB

Her enthusiasm, depth of knowledge and breadth of perspective make for a contagious, enlightening and thought provoking learning experience.
I use CT (current) sensors on the circuits for both washer and dryer and a small XBee ZigBee device using its ADC pins to transmit the current readings. On the server with an XBee coordinator, I use a moving average window to cover points where the washer or dryer use very little current. It's then pretty easy to detect on/off, and even where the current cycle is. The obligatory Home Assistant integration notifies household members.

Plotting the dryer data, you can see how it works. The heating element turns on for a period, then turns off and the humidity is most likely read at that point. The gap between periods of the heating element on increases, and the heating length of time decreases, until if stops spinning. Cool DIY project.
Actually I know a guy who've been working on semantic web for like two decades and his project is finally gaining some traction right now precisely because he can now leverage AI to sort it out and turbocharge his application.
I own an EV. I love it. I charge in my garage, plenty of range for my every day uses.

But recently my charger broke, and the replacement charger did not come in for 3 weeks.

Without being able to charge in my garage, finding a place to charge was _very_ challenging. There are only about 5 DC fast chargers within a 1/2 hour of me. Within those 3 weeks, 3 of those chargers had some sort of charge issue. There are some other level 2 chargers within range.

The first issue is that with an EV, if I drive 15 minutes to go charge - I need to be assured that the chargers are working, and that they are available. The second issue is that if you have other responsibilities - work, kids etc. - it is very difficult to find the time to just go hang out at an EV charger for an hour - or if you are a level 2 charger - 5 hours. And this is a problem right now, when only the tiniest fraction of cars on the roads are EVs.

I honestly don't know why gas stations aren't jumping on the charging train. They will have customers, they'll be preparing for the future, and you're going to have captive audiences to go in and by snacks and drinks... where they make their money anyways.
Am I crazy, or was this video also pushed to the top of HN a couple days ago? Something smells about this.
A couple of months ago. They seemed to suggest a launch was imminent, as in "wait around a couple of weeks, rent GPUs just like everything else". But I haven't seen it since, so kinda odd.
Show HN: Live conversations with ChatGPT using WebRTC
HN, meet KITT! https://livekit.io/kitt

Like many folks here, the LiveKit team is enamored with ChatGPT. Given that we spend most of our time working with real-time media, we thought we'd try connecting GPT to a WebRTC video call.

KITT can do some neat things:

- Answer questions like Siri, Alexa, or Google Assistant
- Summarize what was discussed in a meeting
- Speak multiple languages and even act like a third-party translator
- Act as a DM in a D&D campaign

At first, we weren’t sure if we could get the latency low enough to have a human-like conversation, but after making a handful of tweaks, things feel pretty close to speaking with a person.

The key optimization we made was to stream all the things:

- We convert streaming audio from participants to text in 20ms frames
- We pre-prompt GPT to be concise in its responses and generate short sentences
- Each sentence is converted to speech in real-time and streamed out to all participants

We also use GPT-3 Turbo instead of GPT-4 which shaves off response time, as well.

To make it easy for anyone to plug in their own AI, we built KITT as a server-side Go program that uses [Pion](https://github.com/pion/webrtc) to publish audio and video streams like any other WebRTC participant. That means it’s fairly straightforward to plug in your own STT, LLM, custom voice or avatar.

For more details on how we built this: https://blog.livekit.io/meet-kitt

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback in the comments!
Show HN: Get real dates using GPT with dates.ai
Online dating makes people miserable. We haven't seen a major innovation since tinder added swipe mechanics, and swiping faces make people miserable. Dates.ai is a digital matchmaking chatbot that removes the guesswork. We generate matches based on what we infer from user chat logs.
why call it decentralized that s making it seem as if there was any 'centralization' or that that was the default. It's like calling notepad.exe 'decentralized'
1.26% yearly inflation based on the march number alone.
Hetzner at some point used to offer dedicated servers with GPUs like a nVidia 1080 but stopped offering these because there was a lot of fraud and abuse involving crypto miners.

With all the AI hype I'd assume they'll try to offer GPU instances again with precautions put in place.
Yes, this is true. A competitor won a lawsuit against DWD. Their competition was considered unfair, as they are publicly funded. They either had to charge money or run advertisements and, against this background, opted for a one-time payment.

https://www.bundesgerichtshof.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilung...
Is this a joke? Or you didn't really get the simple point that build description file is not mandatory or even required for other mentioned languages.
It's an awfully important distinction for the purported zombie!
Yeah I noticed that gas was getting pretty cheap, but supermarket runs were still getting more and more expensive. I've been buying luxury goods recently because they're so cheap, relatively, inflation hasn't hit things like Apple products nearly as hard.
You mean it "only" solves problems in the real world and not in the ideal world?
Presumably pair-locking still works to mitigate against evil chargers?

https://reincubate.com/support/how-to/pair-lock-supervise-ip...
Can probably happen like it can happen with any dependency management system - if you set wildcard versions (or no version at all?), different systems can have different versions of the dependency cached. Eventually this can lead to surprise build failures.
Intel 14th Gen Meteor Lake CPUs May Embrace an L4 Cache