skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sony always finds itself at the forefront of these kinds of discussions because they want to eat their cake while keeping their cake: their business model is to create and sell technology to enhance and simplify the audiovisual artistic processes, but if they enhance and simplify it too much they lower the price floor and pull money out of the market... Money they want.

As the MC Lars lyric goes, "Epic's up in my face like, 'Don't steal our songs, Lars' / While Sony sells the burners that are burning CD-R's."
The last photo is beautiful, three layers of land and two layers of water is clearly visible.
I believe they're making a broader statement: learn to take care of yourself, and don't view yourself as incomplete without a partner. Doing so will make you emotionally more healthy. Food is the most obvious, daily example of that, one that's often overlooked.

Incidentally, being emotionally stable will also make you more attractive to the opposite sex. But if you do it for that reason, it won't work. You have to do it for yourself first.
I remember learning about crater lake waaaay back in university geology, because the way the prof started talking about it was always absurd.

"Crater Lake is not actually a crater, its a caldera. A caldera is a special type of crater..."

"So you're saying its a crater."

"It's a caldera."

"...which is a type of crater."

"Yes but on a test you have to pick caldera from the options."
i agree. people tend to forget that a whole generation of computer users was breast fed by microsoft well into their 30s
They address this and tell you your browser is broken. But also that if you are using a non-broken browser and it's still hard to read for you then that's on purpose, they want it to be hard to read for you, because their content is for healthy people only.
I thought the same; the alleged Moose Boulder is in my general back yard area and I've thought about doing some "citizen science" on my next trip to Isle Royale.
I already posted it somewhere above, but this is the world map we used in school in the 1980's, definitely much less 'radical' than Mercator:

https://i.redd.it/xcydn8owtzj61.jpg
Vitess / PlanetScale
It is shocking how high the transaction costs are. Bitcoin ETFs don't track Bitcoin accurately at all because they can't afford to make the trades in order to keep them in sync.
As a calorie counter, I have thoughts on this. Comparing foods at the supermarket based on 100g base units is easier, true. But that means you need a scale every time you eat anything. It’s waaaay easier to go “yeah that’s about 1/3rd of the package” (and accurate enough for me).

So really I’d love nutritional labels that have both.
no its a terrible thing, you've been misinformed, likely by a teacher or professor. most of us have been at some point on this issue.

if a population pyramid is too top heavy, the economy won't be able to function

resources are getting more abundant as we get better at using them, not less, and we are at no risk whatsoever of running out of them. people are producing more resources per value with their work than ever before and its only increasing.
Now if only we could get software to unlock parts for our cars :(
Lol, that neutral buoncy, super light material nervousness in the video for the deployment.
Dont touch it, but also do not break it, its machined from electrically carrying carbon fog.

:D

Well done.

PS: Glueckwunsch, beim Jupiter
> a unique stopped flat moment of reality

I wonder what Andy Warhol would make of that definition.
you've been misinformed, likely by a teacher or professor. most of us have been at some point on this issue.

if a population pyramid is too top heavy, the economy won't be able to function

resources are getting more abundant as we get better at using them, not less, and we are at no risk whatsoever of running out of them. people are producing more resources per value with their work than ever before and its only increasing.
...and all the way up, if you consider Earth as an island in the lake of the solar system, which is of course an island in the galaxy, which is an island in the local group, etc.
For a long time, polaroids have been held as the "this image can't be faked."

Somewhere in my collection of lesser used equipment, I've got a Daylab. https://www.instantphoto.eu/pola/pola_daylab_300.htm and I used it to transfer some 35mm slides to 4x5" to practice the various manipulations you can do there (emulsion lifts and transfers).

The thing was I had a 35mm slide that was projected onto the film. If I could make a 35mm slide of some sort, I could then make a polaroid of a digital image. Even back then there were a few services that could do it.

The idea that you can ensure that the image produced is what was recorded, even two decades ago when polaroids were still a reasonable standard for authenticity of an image shows how easily it can be compromised. Well, maybe not easily but it isn't difficult for a serious hobbyist to create the appropriately constructed image in the desired media.

And so what if you sign the EXIF data. That only really guarantees that version of the image. If you adjust the saturation or curves or exposure... or correct for some lens aberration does that EXIF information still match the resulting photo? For that matter, what if you crop it to a square from a rectangle or stitch two images into a panorama?
This is one of the best businesses I have heard of. Even 6-7 years back, Sidekiq was grossing $80k/month [1]. I imagine it must be much more now. No servers to maintain, no employees, minimal support work and Mike has the complete freedom to work on updates whenever he prefers. Almost entire revenue minus payment processing costs must be profit. Imagine making $1M / yr working only 10-20hrs per week (Don't wish to presume here, but that's my estimate of the man-hours it costs to run).

> I still have 0 employees and don't plan to hire. I tune my business processes to run as lean as possible: Most of my customers are on credit card so their payments are automatic. The gem servers take about one day of maintenance per year. I can't really outsource much of my support work because it is so technical and specialized.

> My gem server is a $6 droplet on DigitalOcean. Because gems are just static files, that little droplet can handle millions of requests per day with just Apache. Oh, and I run three servers in parallel for failover purposes for a grand total of $18/mo.

I wonder what makes Sidekiq special? I don't imagine any equivalent product (background job processing) in the other languages is raking in that much, if making any revenue in the first place.

[1]: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/sidekiq
the task of the task force is to understand what can and cannot be done, talk with OpenAI, and set some guidelines.

A possible outcome is that they find it is literally impossible to offer a service such as ChatGPT while respecting our laws on privacy, right-to-be-forgotten and so on.

A likely outcome is that OpenAI puts a bigger banner "YOUR DATA IS AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE AND SOLD TO THIRD PARTIES" and a "DELETE MY DATA" button that makes a best effort to scrub some info, like they do for hate speech, self harm etc.

This is the current outcome of the meetings between the italian privacy authority and OpenAI[0], for example.

[0] https://gpdp.it/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/9874751 in italian
If I'm going to spend time talking to an idiot I'd strongly prefer it at least be possible for me to convince them of something.
You're missing the point and arguing in a related, but separate dispute. What danpalmer is talking about is what happens when the AI is asked a purely neutral question (i.e. "Should I get vaccinated, and why or why not?").

ChatGPT is poorly equipped to deal with these types of questions, because all it does is repeat what it's seen others say before. Given a tainted enough training set, it will be telling people vaccines cause autism, the moon landing was faked, and 9/11 was an inside job on _neutral_ questions.
I found the high yields were always on shitcoins (where projects occasionally rug), or lost due to impermanent loss.

I'd love to be able to find more than 10% consistently on something like USDC
Apples.keyboard.is.god.enough. But I'm hardly we'd to it. If there we're an alternative to consider, perhaps Swift key from Microsoft?
This is like Zhuangzi's tree:

https://ctext.org/zhuangzi/tree-on-the-mountain

On the other hand, you could also end up like the goose who could not cackle, and so was eaten. Thus things are not always straightforward.
Linked from the author’s instagram:

> Fox News: World in pictures: 43 jaw-dropping photos from Sony World Photography Awards finalists

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/wonderful-world-pictures-j...

> Image 5 of 43
"Pseudomnesia | The Electrician" by Boris Eldagsen of Germany; open competition shortlist for creative category, Sony World Photography Awards 2023. (Boris Eldagsen, Sony World Photography Awards 2023)
[Video] Rust Foundation Is Doing What?
Live cam data can be useful in analysis of failures.
A data scientist cloned his best friends’ group chat using AI
Entertainment = Money. People will support things that give them a good time. Just look at the Hollywood.
This is so inspiring! Thanks for sharing your story.

I was wondering what the early days of the journey looked like.
- What did the first iteration of this product look like? Was it more or less similar, or substantially different from the spirit of httptoolkit today?
- How did you go from (some semblance of a product) to first sale? / acquiring first customer?
- did you spend anything on marketing/distribution?
Certainly helps with their next set of grant proposals.
What if I was to count to 5 instead of 3?
No, I will not donate, because I think that my money will be spend on unnecessary effort of removing already supported targets, instead of meaningful tasks, like writing simple check in CMake to indicate that given OS is not supported instead of failing with vague error message on link time step.
So you want to tweak the model to fit your own view that "there's not really a logical reason for people to not get vaccinated". Whereas that's just like your opinion, and plenty of people have very valid and rational reason not to do so. They might even have read more scientific papers about it than a person holding this belief
Off topic but that site has some awful contrast issues on the text
True but even for static areas and backgrounds I feel like this detail and fidelity blows away what is used in current AAA games.
I run https://pixelpeeper.com on the side.

It's a micro-SaaS for photographers who edit in Lightroom. Lets you reverse-engineer Lightroom edits from JPG files and download them as presets that you can apply on your own photos.

Took a month or two to reach $2k/mo, riding the wave of instagram's popularity in 2017-2018, plus the project went viral initially. However, the niche is ultimately too small to grow the revenue significantly. Still chugging along, almost 6 years later, though.
> Says something about software people that we find such fascination with recursion.

Yes, I've always been fascinated by the way software people find fascination with recursion.
Right, but techniques like chain of thought reasoning can build concepts on concepts. Even if "the thing that generated the text" isn't creating new concepts, the text itself can be, because the AI has learned general patterns like reasoning and building upon previous conclusions.
The AI's core tenet to my assertion "Python is an awful language for beginners" (due to whitespace formatting and having a non transparent "this"-self- having to manually be passed around as arguments) was that it was due to its "simplicity".

It asserted that manual self passing and whitespace "may require additional effort to learn and use compared to other languages", which countered it's own argument foundation/core tenet.

I pointed this out, wrote QED, the judge AI said it won because it backed up it's claims, which was basically that the "`concept of `self` is fundamental to object-oriented programming" - which is actually incorrect.

Memory scope is fundamental as that maps to the lowest hardware level of memory allocation - you can't get much more fundamental than that. Self/this is not required, in fact you can access scoped variables in Java without a self referential keyword.

But hey a LLM that uses a LLM to determine the outcome won't be biased right? :D
Show HN: FOSS physics-based sandbox game with circuiting, robotics, scripting
Principia is a physics-based sandbox game that includes electronics, circuiting, robotics, Lua scripting capabilities, cute little robots you can control or fight against, and more.

There are about 29 000 levels (including the amount available in the level archive) that are everything from controllable vehicles and other contraptions to minigames, robot adventures, pixel art, or something completely out there.

The game started out as a paid mobile game in 2013 and was later available for Windows in 2014, but ended up being abandoned due to financial issues. Recently it was finally released as an open source project and is now completely free. I have become the maintainer of the open source project and I also host the new community site for the game (which started out as an unofficial replacement when the official was shut down), so I presume this counts as a "Show HN".

Be sure to check it out! :)
Yes, while I agree AI code gen will be disruptive, I have a very hard time believing PMs or UX will soon be able to "talk to AI" and get an actual logical product out of that. The subset I've worked with certainly wouldn't. Feels like possibly the engineers will do more PM work.
Clojure 1.12.0-Alpha2
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54922374
from the article "As of 1996, about half of the countries in the OECD allowed companies to deduct bribes paid to foreign officials from their taxes, including Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland. They argued that such practices were routine business expenses in some countries."

one more: https://www.reuters.com/article/swiss-bribes-idUSL8N2HX5BV
Has industry "cracked the mystery of consciousness"? Has anyone at OpenAI even made a plausible start at explaining what the hell is going on inside these LLMs that enables them to produce such human-like comprehension? To me these are the really exciting questions.

From what I can tell, the team at OpenAI (following after Google/Deepmind etc.) are simply mashing the pedal to the floor to get bigger and better models from their existing techniques, and then tuning the resulting black box to make it produce more "useful" answers. And that's fine! That's precisely what an industry lab is expected to do: they have the resources to do the training and the need to get products in front of paying customers as quickly as possible to justify it. And frankly with top AI engineers getting paid millions of dollars and Google/Meta tight behind you, emphasizing results is the most viable strategy. If "turn the needle on the box to the right" is giving you good answers, why would you waste a $1-$5m-salary engineer on academic questions like "why does the box do that?"

And yet, asking questions like "why does the box do that?" is the reason technology didn't stop at the steam engine. I suspect that finding the answer to those questions won't immediately sell enterprise licenses, but will be very important. And the answers will probably fall to someone who's making $30k/year in a graduate program.

ETA: Of course, it may turn out that "turn the needle on the box to the right" is enough to obsolete all human researchers, in which case I'll be wrong about this. But it'll hardly matter in that case ;)
I read it recently too and I was actually impressed by how well he described the atmosphere of the quarantine. It made me wonder if he actually lived through one.
That brings us to the classic series of photos that started with a pair of hands. https://www.boredpanda.com/confusing-hands-picture
How is it any more dangerous than the Western or Asian-Pacific countries?

Other countries develop the same war kit, no one bats an eye. N.Korea does; everyone panics.
Everything besides point 1 sounds like 90% of the arguments you'll get into on the internet, so mission success?
> Depends on the interpretation of `small` and `river`.

I think it's the other way around. If there are rivers, it's not a small island.
Thank you very much. I think this is the most serious issue and I admit it is not appropriate. I will fix it from now.
If NK invades SK, I hope my country (the US) will land troops to assist SK (and I always thought that that was my government's plan).

I'll drive to the countryside and dig a fallout shelter: citizenship entails obligations, and I'm not a pussy.
"I toyed with Sidekiq.js but decided to kill that idea real quick because, as we all know, JavaScript is terrible"

This is why I love the ruby community, so much sense :)
In many parts of the world, it is taught that Oceania is the continent.

IMHO, saying that Australia is a continent comes with the problematic notion that its close-by neighbour New Zealand is not part of any continent, which would be weird given that even Bouvet island is assigned to a continent.
I wouldn't use a product called "devil". Like why take a concept that's evil incarnate and associate it with your product when there's a million other names to choose from.
In some sense I agree with you. But if I ran open AI, then I would be responsible for what the tool does and it seems transparently obvious to me that in that position of responsibility I would want to align the AI with my value system. It is a relatively straightforward case of taking responsibility for what you put into the world.

One way to think of this is that you don't own OpenAI, didn't train the model, don't host the infrastructure and, in fact, are not responsible for its larger societal or personal consequences. But the institutions which deploy these models are and people in those institutions have a basic (and easily understood, in my opinion) responsibility and right to align the model with what they think is good.
Not far enough.
The summary:

>By default, Privacy Badger receives periodic learning updates from Badger Sett, our Badger training project. This “remote learning” automatically discovers trackers present on thousands of the most popular sites on the Web. Privacy Badger no longer learns from your browsing by default, as “local learning” may make you more identifiable to websites. You may want to opt back in to local learning if you regularly browse less popular websites.

-- https://privacybadger.org/#How-does-Privacy-Badger-work

The full writeup:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/privacy-badger-changin...
Perhaps this recording tool built on top of / integrated with an e2e testing framework could be a revenue-generating side project for an enterprising soul
:)
There is this Spanish page:

https://www.photolari.com/imagen-ia-boris-eldagsen-sony-worl...

(Nb. there are some nsfw images in the border, for those who care about that).
They agree. Treasure Island is #7 from the article:

#7: Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake

Island in Mindemoya Lake on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron (CAN)
Talk about a teaser!
You just helped me realize the real value of the Open Source Ecology project and ones like it. I've always thought they were neat, but when you add up all the cost of the raw materials and "vitamins" (stuff you can't easily fabricate), plus the necessity of a quite well kitted out shop, it's often not necessarily cheaper than buying the equipment used and fixing it up yourself. But the simple designs make all those field repairs way easier. Also understanding every nut and bolt on the system as you build it creates an intuition about the system holistically.

https://www.opensourceecology.org/portfolio/tractor/
Can anyone see why this was titled "the electrician"?
There are places to get > 10% on stables. But always the risk of rugs / hacks, you need to diversify. This is a crazy game, but if you are a software engineer it's a good side hustle / hobby to earn more money. I'm always mentally ready to lose 100%, it's about growing your stack and siphoning off some amount from the interest every week. I enjoy it
"Traditional models of masculinity" have been different traditions in different times and different places. Men cannot possibly "need" the "traditional models" of twentieth century America.

The twenty-first century is unprecedented, and everybody (men and women) will adapt to it. The individuals will adapt, and new traditions will arise based on them. They should be inspired by what we know of the past, but claims that "it was better the way things were" fails to acknowledge that things were really, really bad for women (among many others) for a very long time. They demanded change because they hated it.
Ok, it sounds like a food allergy.
Best. Release. Ever.
But then the page for the crater lake says it came back after a series of typhoons, but it gives no citation for that claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taal_Volcano_Main_Crater_Lake#...
Sympathy literally means "feeling together".
There are a frustrating number of conflicting definitions of all three (compassion, sympathy, empathy) terms but I share your definitions.

and often actual compassion (which derives from
actual empathy) requires one to not engage in actual
sympathy.

I think this is a great insight. For example, in order to care for somebody compassionately in a medical setting, a doctor or caregiver might at times need to actually shut off their sympathy and/or empathy so that they can perform compassionate acts.

Example: a doctor or nurse performing the excruciating treatments needed by a burn victim. Especially one who is too young or incapacitated to know what's happening. One imagines you'd need to temporarily shut off one's sympathy and empathy in order to perform the care which is ultimately going to be the most compassionate thing in the long run.
a recent megaprojects video claimed harvesting water from asteroids was more worth the time and money than to do the same for rare earth metals.

apparently bringing tons of rare earth metals back to earth would only lower their price and therefore not make the trip worth the money, but i guess this isn't a problem for the water that those asteroid might hold as that would still be not only valuable but worth the expense of harvesting it from asteroids.

if the moon is closer, and not only less complicated to harvest from but has the advantage that you can keep a permanent drilling rig set up without needing to re-land on a complicated surface every single time, that would seem better than harvesting water from asteroids to me
Is there a way to share my transcript?
Oceania is not Australia. After the Wikipedia article: "Oceania is a geographical region which includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia".
She. I don't keep all the eggs in the same basket.

*edit typos
> `nmap -h` you might also use `man nmap`

I wish linux man pages had more example sections. TBH I reach for `tldr nmap` or `tldr ...` first in most cases.
Tasmania and Frasier are islands, which would make Australia more of an archipelago, I think.
12 year old me playing D&D: "What is the purpose of having separate intelligence and wisdom stats? They are the same thing!"

Older me: "Oh."
The Art of Managing Underperformers
Its more than brand lock in, its market segmentation.

POWER TOOL MANUFACTURERS AND WHO REALLY OWNS THEM https://www.protoolreviews.com/power-tool-manufacturers-who-...

TTI owns Milwaukee, Ridgid, Ryobi. Cant swap batteries between them despite all coming from same factory.

Stanleyblackanddecker is Craftsman, Stanley, Proto, Irwin, MAC, Bostitch, DeWalt, the list goes on and on. Its pure comedy. There are some rare cases where they share same design in different regions https://www.reddit.com/r/Tools/comments/104pndo/yes_theyre_1... but other than that they pull pranks like same injection molding with same pin shape but switched polarity!