skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's like comparing a smartphone camera to a fax machine.

I'm not sure this is a great comparison: smartphones with their cameras have, in practice, absolutely made fax machines (and most flatbed scanners) completely obsolete. People use smartphone cameras all the time to take photos of documents. I've read Apple even has an iPhone function that automatically creates PDFs out of photographed documents; there's surely other apps that do the same. By contrast, no one except dinosaurs still use fax machines.

In theory, specialized, task-specific robots in a robotics facility would be superior in performance to any kind of general-purpose robot for sorting tasks in a recycling center, and research on general-purpose robots can be applied to improving specialized robots. But there is no corresponding case for fax machines; they're truly dead and obsolete.
How is it different from Secure Scuttlebutt?
Wow I am blown away this is high level IQ stuff. Something we take for granted, the amount of calculations and things to consider in order to be precise is very fascinating. Even though its high level science and math, but all of its logical once you read about it.

Such as the process of calculating position using the pseudorange and the almanac data. I would of never thought of this lol. It also discusses the importance of correcting for errors in the GPS measurements, such as atmospheric delays and satellite clock errors. (totally makes sense right!) The emphasis of the need for careful processing of raw GPS data to ensure accurate and reliable positioning, it makes sense:)
Children get money, I get a good product. It's a win win situation.
So where do you start? Your phone? Computer? Clothes? Car? Food?
Consider the state of airplanes, rockets and nuclear weapons in 1923 vs 1955.
there is that endless spiral of tools 'n frameworks that drive developers to bestow the Next Best Dev Tool Ever that must be considered. If you're at the front of that wave, you're good to go but the detritus left behind has to be comprehended by others for some time after.

I start seeing those pictures of kids sorting mountains of western e-waste when someone declares they want to get into dev/ops
Here’s alternate reporting:

“ AI is dreaming up drugs that no one has ever seen. Now we’ve got to see if they work.”

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/15/1067904/ai-autom...
> the quality here is that most people have some kind of interior dialogue with themselves

Oh, yeah we definitely do. We usually only get one interior monologue per physical body though, of which we only have one. Bit weird how that works, but I suppose that's what was intended as DID wasn't exactly designed to happen.

(Sometimes we'll have a dialogue towards members who are cofronting, the funniest ones are "who had that thought I just saw? knock it off", lol.)

> I have often wondered if children who grow up multilingual consciously use more than one interior monologue language

What's funny is that we often narrate to ourselves things that we're thinking about, but if we stop trying to understand what we are thinking, it can evolve quite quickly into thinking in terms of abstract concepts with no associated voice or words.

It's probably an autistic thing that helps us form very complex thoughts at speed, but it's still very interesting because people describe conceptual thinking as being an effect of psychedelics like LSD and not something that you can trigger just by not narrating things to yourself internally.

Considering we can have a monologue in either English or nothing at all, despite not even being bilingual, I'm sure people who are bilingual can have one in any language that they know. Despite how proficient they are or aren't at any given language, they will always understand their own thoughts basically the same.

-Emily
> Where is this fairy country Australia? Living at the western fringe of Greater Melbourne, any charging infrastructure is invisible here, I'm not sure it exists.

There's plenty of options, check out PlugShare. Most people however charge at home - power into a garage or carport is pretty commonplace, and no special equipment is required.

> And $45k or $70k alike both look incredibly expensive to me, I would never find a reason to justify such a purchase.

$45k sounds high until you do the maths on petrol and servicing savings per annum. Depending on your lifestyle, distance travelled per year, access to free charging (solar, shops, etc) you can save $30-60k in fuel over the 10 years of warranty the battery pack has.

> And families like mine will always consider paying for a new car a complete waste. Going "carless" is also absolutely not an option, so if we must spend we're looking for maximum value and minimum outlay.

It's worth sitting down and doing the maths. You might be surprised the value proposition once you do it.
It's more or less random which comments we "choose to take a stand over". If we see people breaking the rules, we ask them not to. There's no implication of a total ordering, or any hierarchy of abuse.

The idea that if comment X says one thing and Y says another and we reply to X but not Y, that means we're endorsing "violent police responses to the homeless", is... not valid. It's not possible for us to see everything, even in the same thread, let alone all threads.

If you see particularly egregious comments that haven't been moderated, you're welcome to point them out to us and we can take a look. hn@ycombinator.com is the best way to do that.
Yes good point. Would be better to save just one life if the two in question are Hitler and Stalin.
Mobile is pretty big.

But yeah I agree.

* AI/Data Science/Research

* Backend/Database

* Desktop

* Embedded

* Games/Graphics/VR

* Mobile

* Web
> On 64-bit Apple platforms, the entire 4 GiB 32-bit address space (addresses [0x00000000, 0xFFFFFFFF]) is not accessible by the process, which catches both NULL pointer dereference bugs and 64-bit to 32-bit pointer truncation bugs.

Is that just an iOS thing, or does macOS do that as well? Anyone know?
> Intel had a cellular modem business which they formed in 2011

They acquired* from Infineon. And completely messed it up.
Apparently he borrowed a lot of it, but he did have $4 billion in Twitter stock so that's fair.
One does have to wonder if it is a case of us reconstructing the timeline after the fact. What we think as being the way it happened and how it actually did could be very different. But when it feels so real it can be hard to dismiss.

Semi related. I remember see someones story about how they would talk to god when on LSD, so one day they figured, get a note pad, ask what the meaning of life is and then write it down to study the next day.

They did that and all they had written down was "Walls." It felt so profound at the time but was probably meaningless.
Changes made to chrome have not been making it better for the past year. It actually seems like they're adding malfunction to it all. On android, they added a useless pop-up to tell you when a file is downloading... Bookmarks for years are totally archaic and not searchable... Auto complete on the nav is always wrong, and it brings up the least useful results... The way tabs open now (not as the last in the line) has totally been screwed up to where closing the wrong tab is a huge frustration... Ads are also let through plug-ins by chrome, big breach of trust on Google...

I can't figure out why the most simple things are being manipulated and screwed with in chrome and other Google apps like Gmail, frustrating customers/users is obviously bad for business, but they don't seem to care now that they have a monopoly//
I think the EU is trying to regulate something can’t be regulated because incentives don’t align. Want a free internet? That means ads and tracking. Want no ads? That means you paying… and young or poor or anonymous people get excluded
But what about global warming?

Isn't rising sea levels more important than rising obesity levels?
I never said trickledown economics. I just said that inequality doesn't hurt people. Some rich person having a 5 star steak dinner doesn't take anything away from how much I enjoyed my own dinner. It's not a zero sum game where a rich person enjoying something takes away from what I enjoy.
And relevant to HN is that, culture wars aside, it involves challenging and interesting problems (homelessness, drugs, petty crime). There are multiple approaches to situations like these and the best solutions could well be a compromise.
DJ asks ChatGPT for a set list, here's him mixing it
How Hubble images are made
Mathics.org
Vast new stores of water reported on the moon
https://www.math.wichita.edu/~richardson/earthquake.html

says a magnitude 9 earthquake is equivalent to 189 MT-tnt, so the largest atomic bomb detonated by mankind would be the energetic equivalent of an 8.6 magnitude earthquake.

But it's not really a fair comparison, since the atomic bomb is fast and probably wouldn't couple its energy into the earth particularly well compared to an earthquake.
Japanese firm ispace lists on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ahead of first lunar land
The author might not fully grasp how many well-paid white-collar jobs, for example in the medical sector, involve tasks that GPT-4 can handle quite easily. Now imagine GPT-Medical, a digital doctor sidekick, conducting patient interviews and figuring out diagnoses way faster and with more patience than a human physician. The catch? You still need a physical exam! Combine that with GPT-Medical's consultation, and there you have a solid treatment plan. The physical exam part is likely the saving grace for doctors in the near future. But, mark my words, it's just a matter of time before the medical world starts embracing systems like GPT-4, trained on medical interviews, notes, and case studies. Increased productivity will be demanded by penny pinching administration.
Yes. This would need to be sorted out. Decontamination should be completed.
Yes there absolutely is a flood of skilled developers, in fact there's so many of them they're expected to solve two Leetcode hards in a 45 minute interview to get a job now. Look at how many people got laid off in the last year, a lot of them are skilled
Well that is Intel’s view. Inside Apple their engineers refuse to use anything Intel and threaten Jobs to quit.
>"A lot of people, especially Gagarin's generation, took what you call bullshit seriously and believed in it."

This is true. Many people did believe back then.
Are there any great examples of cost efficient LLM application deployment at scale?
It’s not metadata, you would see that when you upload the photo at the beginning.

I’m guessing that the nose key point is located below the shoulders in your child’s drawing?

That’s a known issue caused by how we ‘apply’ poses onto the characters. It’s fixed in the GitHub code but not in the browser version. Try moving the nose keypoint to the top of the characters head and that should resolve it
i could tell just by how long it was. Chatgpt always seems to spit out too much text
That’s the point… whatever ‘rush’ it could get from “achieving other goals” can be activated at will.
wait a second, is this why i typically send 10 messages per 1 coherent thought? i learned how to type too well?
Wrap it in tape with an LED attached. Now it’s a device with internal battery, problem solved :)

Some hobby shops do nearly exactly this to get around import restrictions. Whether it’s inside something or not it’s still a lipo battery, imo it’s a silly rule and worth breaking.
Nope. It does not
Seriously? If you have single sex sports, then there's a disproportionate representation among the sexes. If you can only televise the top 100 athletes in a given sport how many of that percentage do you think will be male versus female?
I work in embedded and even embedded stuff nowadays often touches web-app kind of work through IoT.
I Laugh Because It's Absurd
This is AI research, not product development. The project’s goal was to apply deep reinforcement learning to a complex and varied real world task. Google has no desire to sell trash sorting robots.
Nothing is bending. Imagine your right hand as South America continent, and left as North America. The middle fingers' tips are touching where both of these two continents are joined by a narrow mass of land.
It connects wealthy to smart kids so they can continue to protect their wealth.
We're not protecting any "specific class of people". Anyone with an insight to offer about homelessness, or any other question under discussion, is welcome to do it. We just ask people not to rage at and/or demonize each other, because that's the way that internet forums destroy themselves. Scorched earth isn't interesting to anybody: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

People often think that if we moderate comment X, we must care less about or even be endorsing comment Y, but that's not the case. We just see a more-or-less random sample of the comments. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wonder how much of the 20th century progress would have happened without two and a half wars (two world wars and a cold one). Flight for example went from cool novelty to quite useful weapon to essential part of strategy in, what, 30 years? Maybe that would not have happened without ww1 and ww2.
d) They plan to be bought by Google and make a big exit.
Anything, I would say.
That guideline would make a better tweet than the submission IMO. It is a very good yardstick. Although even if you have to update 2 places together often it might be worth keeping them seperate for various reasons. Such as combining them require major refactor of dependencies.
Not only this but tons of places have "excess" to spend on AWS and so buy stuff through the AWS Marketplace. All kinds of SaaS sell things through the marketplace because its just easier at many companies to get purchases through them.
Hey, 82% are not 1%ers!

That distribution really is extremely heavily skewed, so I think the original comment is correct, I can't see how it's improving equality.

If 1.8% were poor and Harvard helped them become rich adults, probably 65% were rich and Harvard helped them stay rich as adults.
Are you Knuth?
If one penguin is trans, they could both be straight.
Look for companies that require transformation of some data from one form to another, from one place, to another. These jobs don’t require any coding of interfaces or even thinking about users. They are jobs where you write code that creates competitive advantage for the company.

These will be advertised as backend gigs, but they are not the kind of backend gigs where you are just writing code to help serve the frontend. You are writing code to make things possible that weren’t possible before. This is what it means to truly work in tech, not just web dev.
Imagine what the 300 most creative people here could do with 1 million dollars to invest in a business concept?
That t is not entirely useless (non-native Russian speaker here). Even the pronunciation of 'check' has a starting t sound in it: tʃɛk. Without the starting t, you might end up with something that could be spelled sheck in English.

So I'd argue, that the t in transliterations helps people who don't speak Russian to get the ч sound right. Since the transliteration as 'ch' is ambiguous and doesn't appear to work for many of the inhabitants of Vancouver, WA. So ideally we should all use IPA or better yet, ask a Russian speaker.
Clothes is a nice and easy one to begin with choosing an alternative for because it's a much more simplistic product with a more easily traced supply chain. Phones, computers and cars are something we'll likely struggle with for a long time.

For anything else, the public will likely need to demand change as I doubt a superior or equal alternative will emerge. With that said, products like the FairPhone are very interesting, though I haven't used one.

Food is something that'll largely hinge on your geographic area and availability of produce that makes sense.
I don't really know how to go about asking this, so I'll just ask it. No disrespect intended. What do you mean when you say around eight? Are there like hidden or incomplete/developing selves?
There is also a deepfake from MIT (https://moondisaster.org/) featuring Nixon seemingly delivering this speech.

Past HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33491421.
Nah, one time I was startled by a phone ringing full seconds before it actually rang. The person I was around was startled by me reacting to it, because "nothing was happening", then the phone rang. Unless we both simultaneously falsely constructed that memory :) lol
You could have made that point without garish flamebait like "tech executives to be forcibly housed in a palace against their will". If you had done so instead, I would have had no reason to post a moderation reply.

We're not trying to combat anyone's substantive points. We're just trying to prevent garden-variety internet destructiveness. As you have a history of the latter, it would be good if you'd review the site guidelines and take them more to heart: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
> For SSB, the aim was to be able to gossip feeds via untrusted intermediaries, with patchy network connections all round, and be sure that the intermediaries haven't added, changed or removed any posts in the feed.

why would that need a blockchain (even without proof of work), as opposed to simple signed, timestamped, indexed posts and having the reading client app check the signature and post indices?
You can also use docker-tramp to enter locally running containers and do quick edits without worrying about installing an editor. It can be suprisingly useful.
My past cat was like Bea, but in addition would lie across my shoulders while I worked at the desk, and chirp into my ear. I've never tried replacing him because I think the chances of getting another cat like that are low.
Yes. we're talking about the same game. There's probably a hundred variations but to me, substantively these are the same game.

There is a cartoon by Johnny Hart of one of the "B.C." characters playing a variant where the knife balances on the back of the hand, and is flipped and he winds up "stabbing" his shadow which peter-pan like, complains.
What kind of company r u now building ?
Actually, we are experimenting with a Terraform provider to manage a project configuration, starting with Auth.

What are some other things you'd like to see in the Terraform provider?

[1]: supabase-terraform (https://github.com/supabase-community/supabase-terraform)
I see this was eventually fixed by manually declaring a structure that matches struct ifreq.

Instead of doing that, I would recommend submitting a patch against golang.org/x/sys to get that autogenerated. The Go folks tend to merge such PRs very quickly (<48h).
Beautiful article, almost burst into tears reading it.

Even as a relatively young person, articles about death are scary, sad and peaceful, it's such a weird mix of emotions.

> there is one finding of Kerr’s research that is somewhat surprising. Almost none of his patients had a dream or vision that was explicitly religious.

I found this to be interesting, isn't one of the main pillars of religion the afterlife?
I think the existence of these dreams and believing their possibility is deeply religious.

> I also can’t help wondering whether, when the time comes, I will find myself in Lisa’s presence again. If the research of Kerr and his colleagues is any guide, the answer is likely yes.

This end is absolutely heart breaking and yet peaceful and beautiful.
It will eventually be in https://github.com/aappleby/Pinwheel but that repo is currently a mess.
The problem with firmware is that it should be created/improved by the users of the device, but the manufacturers neither publish the source code nor document the hardware sufficiently for anyone else to write better firmware from scratch.

The hardware manufacturers don't care because they aren't going to lose a large proportion of sales from the small number of their customers who even know what firmware is. But those few in large organizations with their own resources or who are firmware programmers who happen to own the device, would fix the problems. For everyone. Only they're not given what they need to do it by the OEM. Meanwhile the OEM fails to do it themselves.

What we need is for large customers to figure this out and start demanding open source firmware from hardware vendors.
Supposedly, the Pacific Northwest is overdue for a big quake. A lot of coastal communities in this region seem ill prepared for possible tsunamis and such that will likely result.

I hate seeing third world countries failing to develop because housing was wiped out by the latest big natural disaster, something the buildings were not constructed to withstand even though they knew it was coming. It was not a matter of if but when.

I am appalled that America seems to be doing such a poor job about similar situations. We know it's coming. We will probably be caught flat-footed anyway.
Great, excellent read. This article I wrote some of the open-source finest foundation LLMs https://explodinggradients.com/the-rise-of-open-source-large...
Can anyone in the know explain the significance of this toolchain? Haven’t we been able to compile for RISC-V for years now? At the very least I was doing it ~4 years ago for my undergrad research
Well, a fast and reliable browser delivers value.

However there are still quite a lot of much, mich easier wins Mozilla has either ignored for 20 years or actively walked back on.
QtWebEngine was part of Qt 5.4 released in 2014
huh, that explains why I cant get hired doing that

I remade my resume like that but seems that was a mistake

okay back to specialized stacks
[in response to multiple comments + my own peeves about the things this kind of discussion brings up]:

We, society at large, need to stop thinking in terms of our "use" for somebody else and treating life like a dystopian Communist country, where everyone must have a role and "contribute".

Until we know otherwise, none of us chose to exist. Or had any say in the countless dice that were rolled to determine where and as what we started to exist.

I think society should be more considerate about the fact some people may actually be burdened by existence: Their dice weren't rolled the same as yours. They may just be looking for as little friction as possible and serve their time and get out, or actively searching for things to make existence seem worthwhile.

In any case, it's just not possible for everyone to be "useful", certainly not for all the billions of us, unless you artificially hold back technological progress or invent useless work just for some to pretend to be useful.
A lot of the experimentation I've done is too long and complex to fit nicely in an Ask HN post. People have the tendency to move the bar when assigning intelligence to AI. GPT4 is different. Here is a post from earlier today that might be more convincing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/12l9nwx/really_imp...
Indian Influence on German Philosophers
And there was P3P before DNT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P
Who cares, have he kept that money there would be no article saying that 300mil sitting in his portfolio isn’t doing anything good to society. At least it’s a school, 5% months any the number to look at, it’s 300million of resources.
Love that servo is still being worked on. Don’t love that the new layout engine doesn’t support floats or flexbox. We need to do more to stave off the homogenisation of the web into the chromium spyware machine. What a shame that Mozilla’s funding was so drastically cut.
Nothing in the article is fake. It all happened.
The EU should have mandated that browser vendors be the ones to implement cookie preferences, not every single website.
So, everybody should get fired?