skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All these “iPhone is doomed” folks had good arguments, the original iPhone was a flawed device

I also did remember the first iPhone being a flop in my country, the pricing was very high but the biggest nail in the coffin was the lack of MMS support (it might sounds strange now but this was basically required for any feature phone)

It really took off with the 3GS
I think large studios would benefit from this too. I know some that use a workflow pipeline where artists are tasked with creating themed assets to build a catalog, which another team will use to build campaigns and quests for a specific MMO (forget the name).

Perhaps at the same cost, they would be able to build such a catalog quicker, especially if they need less hyper specific things in bulk.
If you are wanting lists of medical words in English I would recommend taking a look at the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (Mesh) thesaurus. Other useful tools include RxNorm (related to US pharmaceuticals) or Snowmed-Ct which is a medical ontology for multiple languages.

I've really benifited from others mentioning resources like these here on HN so I thought I would share.
We seem to have a very authoritarian government in place. I don't understand how we've gotten here, or why people aren't more concerned.

When it comes to encryption D & Rs are both claiming "it's for the children" and scare tacits. We have incredibly invasive KYC rules that have corporations storing ids and live biometric data. We have a coast to coast driver tracker system. We also have "anti-bad thing" tracking on minor person to person transfers. (You can't say certain words in zelle, venmo, etc transfers) I don't think I fully understand why they're pushing for the digital dollar.

For person to person transfers, this seems to be highly suspect. Why does the president need to know that you exchanged 2.50 with your friend over a payment of potentially embarrassing product. (I'm talking non-illegal but no one's business for a private trade of say conterfit Star Wars actions figures)
This sounds great and seems like a 'no brainer' if you grew up in the desert.

I wonder why these studies don't focus more attention on current infrastructure though.

Urban buildings have equally massive footprints and are already on the grid.

The entire urban highway system of blacktop is tied to the grid and acts as a thermal mass, increasing ground temperatures and contributing to the heat island effect. Why not cover it?
You seem like a real go-getter who can cut through red tape and find simple solutions to complex problems :D
Certainly a breath of fresh air. I consider myself a rather conservative person, but politically as neutral as I can. I feel like the right and left dug in and went crazy to their own sides. We have the left trying to collect diversity points like Pokemon, and the right for some reason picking fights with companies like Disney and Budweiser...for reasons?

So far, Kennedy is the only one who sounds sane to me.
Obviously this has aged badly overall, but I think this is quite interesting and insightful:

I was having lunch today with a good friend of mine, Ross Carlson, and we were lamenting how Apple creates innovative products, but then only implements that innovation to a very limited extent. Yes, the iPhone has a finger-based gesture interface. And the image rotates on the screen, but only for a limited set of applications like the Safari browser and displaying pictures. Many applications on the iPhone aren't "rotation aware" apps. Even WM6 supports rotation of the interface no matter what the application.

That’s true, handling rotation correctly on iOS was always a bit of a pain, even though it’s a key feature of the platform! It’s really quite similar to the original Mac OS, where despite having a rich toolkit of functions for the famous UI, you had to jump through a ton of hoops to actually implement a properly Mac-like app.

And yet both the iPhone and the original Mac have lots of really well-written apps that work hard to adhere to the UI guidelines. It’s like Apple (at their best) sets an example to developers of what a high-quality UI should be like, rather than providing them with great tools, and developers are happy to put in the extra work to make their apps good.
It's not even about the amount of tokens to be fair.

It's about how easy and how consistent the idioms are.

If we look at frontend js... There is a new framework every other month because no one really found out the most minimal, straight and dumb way, to create a UI.

Give me grokkable code over pithy code everyday.
> The illusion of house price appreciation is due to historical population growth creating scarcity, and cheaper money allowing for higher and higher leverage. At some point the music has to stop.

The music did stop in the 90s, we just forgot what a low point in the cycle looks like.
> Your local, totally trustworthy, benevolent government that just needs a teensy tiny little bit more data to deal with terrorists, child pornographers, and crypto ransom gangs is.

If I didn't know that my kind, loving, wise government had my best interests at heart, I might detect some sarcasm in your post.
How would they type 'google' 25 years ago?
You can do layered retrieval and summarization/embeddings to fit within the context bounds. Conceptually it's not far from what a clinician would do anyway. By switching from a naive one shot prompt with big context to interactive (multiple calls) and summaries, no need to retrain

But yeah my money is on context windows getting bigger and frameworks smoothing out how to do the above automatically, So it feels like a point in time optimization right now That will be tech debt by the end of the year
As an Arabic speaker, the verse in the Qur'an means to me that fasting helps you remember Allah.

Islam has no concept of empathy for all beings, or enlightenment really. The assumption is that without the fear of God and Hell, people would sin by default, and religious practices are meant to please God.

Often progressive Muslims mention Sufis but they have been persecuted enough, for holding God-consciousness type beliefs amongst others, to consider them a different thing altogether.
Anyone on HN working on CBDCs? Would you be willing to give us some insider info about it’s inner workings and how similar it’s architecture is to existing cryptocurrencies?
Tell HN: Elementary Proof of 2,4 being the only non trivial solution to x^y=y^x
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35635491

Without loss of generality, assume a > b [ Or the otherway for that matter, because a != b ]

Rewriting the equation we get (a/b)^b = b^(a-b)

Right side is integer raised to integer and thus an integer and left side is fraction raised to integer. So that fraction is not really a fraction.

In other words a is a multiple of b

=> a = c * b where c is an integer > 1 [ Because a != b ]

=> c^b = b^(b * ( c - 1)) [ Substituting a with c*b in the original equation ]

=> c = b^(c-1) [ Taking bth root on both sides ]

c != 1 [ Because a != b ]

c != 3 [ Because b^2 = 3 has no integer solutions ]

c != 4 [ Because b^3 = 4 has no integer solutions ]

And so on..

=> c = 2 is the only possible solution

=> Substituting c with 2 we get b = 2 and a = 4

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Breaking: more crowded places have more crime / sq. mileage

Lol…SF has a crime problem, but this one data point is misleading.

Crime /capita is far more relevant…and I imagine SF is still not great in that regard, but this article is pretty “meh”
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

“Building an audience” on someone else’s platform is a recipe for continual butthurt.

This is exactly what was said when Twitter and Facebook and whatnot started. If your business is solely on someone’s platform, you’re at risk.

The proper, long term way to do it is to make a site, post content there and then post links onto social media while driving audience toward a mailing list or some other subscription that you control. It was only a matter of time that Twitter put the squeeze on and $8/month is just the beginning. I expect, over time social media will get to equilibrium of taking 30% of whatever the value of the audience is.
If chucking PV panels into landfills were actually a widespread practice, I am sure you could produce some statistics about how much of that has actually occurred.

The fact is that PV panel economic lifetime is way, way longer than reactionary renewable opponents want you to believe. It is not 15 years, or 25 years, it is more like 100-400 years. Nobody needs to decommission them en masse, yet. And even if they suddenly did, it still does not present a disposal issue. Suppose there are 100 million PV panels in California. This is the right order of magnitude for our peak generating capacity. If you took every PV assembly in the entire state, stacked them 50 deep so they were about as high as a man, and just put them in a field, they would not even cover 500 acres. That's less than a square mile. Total non-issue.
What is your alternative to Agile?
start transaction;

select id from users where id = ? for update;

if row_count() < 1 then raise 'no user' end if;

insert into sub_resource (owner, thing) values (?, ?);

commit;

??
the article says this and rebuts your argument very convincingly
Truly untapped, the future is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1HHaJ-ILXo
You should check out windmill.dev For me it was a breath of fresh air.

It's opensource - so you can self-host. The UI is quick and responsive.

But my favorite part of it is that it centers around code. Other tools like zapier and retool (my experience) and budibase (your experience) are so much many clicks and if you drop down to code (aka the off-ramp) you need to program in a input field.
With windmill you have an LSP and the Monaco editor (the code editor that powers VS Code) and you can have sync to git. So if you like you can sit and program in vscode, but are you doing small changes you can do it in the web gui. So code is "native" to windmill and it feels so nice.

(no affiliation, just a happy user)
The marketing line speaks of learning a language with little effort. So it's setting an expectation.
Rant: beyond the topic of animal violence and/or domestication I always wonder if and which animals are happier than humans beyond the smartness factor [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7379717/
I realized while working on heavy transport aircraft that they their weight can be (very roughly) 1/3 aircraft, 1/3 fuel, and 1/3 cargo, and being struck by how different these proportions are from the family sedan.
The best option right now is SuperCOT 30B, a LoRA for LLaMA trained on Chain-of-Thought coding questions and answers. You will need at least 24GB of VRAM to load the 4bit GPTQ quantized LoRA merged model* locally. https://huggingface.co/tsumeone/llama-30b-supercot-4bit-128g...

*The merged model contains the LoRA. Applying the LoRA over a "raw" llama model uses more VRAM and does not allow for full context in 24GB of VRAM.
Not the author. But I guess one difference is that this is not bugmenot. Many sites blacklist accounts from bugmenot. Now there is an alternative.
This is of course a whack-mole-game. But when it works it works.
Rare? Recently I, again, bought one of those by accident. At least in Germany and the Netherlands, it's available in most stores that also carry the sweetened ones and I find it easy to overlook the word ungesüßt/ongezoet on an otherwise identical package.
the article says this
Sure, I respect Elon Musk’s achievements with SpaceX and Tesla. But, it doesn’t change the fact that he goes out of his way to seek attention on unrelated things.

In my opinion, Musk will be much more better without the attention-seeking that led him to buy Twitter, an outrage machine, instead of focusing on his two very impactful companies (SpaceX and Tesla).
You made me curious so I found an inflation calculator online to check:

> $20 in 1900 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $718.66 today, an increase of $698.66 over 123 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 2.95% per year between 1900 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 3,493.29%.

We'd need a denomination like a $5k bill just to be able to put as much cash in your pocket as a person could a century ago.
It defaults to a copy when dragging to external drives (holding command makes it a move)
I don't disagree with you, but I think it's more nuanced than that.

As someone with student loans who remembers my thinking when taking them out, I can assure you that almost every 17-18 year old who is accessing a student loan meets your definition of a fool. There's simply no way for anyone to expect someone at that age to understand what they're doing, especially when there's such societal pressure to signal success in your age cohort by going to school.

The societal expectation of "successful kids go to college" mixed with the shortsighted government intervention of making these loans available to basically everyone is an absolute recipe for disaster.

I am against forgiveness of student loans but I think they should be dischargeable in bankruptcy. The idea that you can make such disastrous decisions so early in your life that you can never opt out of is patently unfair, but there needs to be a high personal cost to ejecting from the situation.
HOA is more like Democracy: you have to participate in the meetings and governance of the HOA to make sure it is run well, but people are often too lazy to vote or be informed, so it can deteriorate. The HOA isn't an independent entity, it is supposed to be collectively run and managed by all of the home owners.
So probably good enough for static models (perhaps with decimate or other modifiers as needed)? But not great for something you'd need to rig and animate, or something that requires tweaking after the model outputs it?
If you really care about your data you should be using a file system with checksums but in my experience btrfs is prone to fail if the hardware is not reliable.

About two years ago I tried it with second hand hdds thinking it would be good for checking the reliability of the drives.
After writing some data in one of them and a reboot it failed to mount it again, total data loss while it would have been at most a partial data loss if using ext4 thanks to fsck.
This happened 2-3 times as I was testing and didn't care about the data, on ext4 no issues at all.
Still using btrfs as the root fs on a new ssd, the snapshots are really useful for backups, no problems in two years. But for reliability I would try zfs instead.
Well, two years in that hasn't been my experience. Costs have so far been minimal and well below what rent increases would've been. Things can and will go wrong but it'd take something pretty crazy to nullify the money saved on rent increases already, let alone if things continue as they have been.

Even when a big unexpected house expense inevitably happens I will have had the benefit of having been able to invest the cash that would've otherwise have been spent in the meantime somewhere where it's making some interest instead of going into the black hole of rent with no returns at all.
I have always assumed that bilaterally symmetric animals have neural cross-wiring so that the two hemispheres of the brain are forced to cooperate more than they otherwise would. Simple animals are prevented from, say, hoarding resources selfishly and maladaptively on the right.
Visualizing the Trillion-Fold Increase in Computing Power (2017)
My 2.5 year old has seen me cutting and shaping bits of wood and metal to make stuff, and occasionally brings me Lego bits and says "Dada cut this!" because he wants a funny-shaped block for something.

He's learned an important lesson. Things in the world can be constructed, things in the world can be destroyed, and all of it - including the world itself - can be *modified*...
Nothing wrong with linear regulators in the appropriate applications. In fact, the switching converter/controller IC will generally include a small LDO to generate an internal Vcc supply for the control logic.

Just don't make the basic mistake of reading the 25V maximum input voltage/ 1.5A maximum load current specs for an L7805 and thinking you can pull 1.5A at 5V from a 24V supply - it will quickly go up in smoke. You must understand the operating principals and what "thermally constrained" means.
A math history book about one specific area of study written more in a popsci style that I liked: one of my favorite authors (David Foster Wallace) wrote "Everything & More: A Compact History of Infinity" which I'd call a 7/10 pop math experience and a 6/10 DFW experience, which is still a pretty good deal.

If you're no Math PhD but you are mathematically inclined (e.g. I studied plenty of math as an undergraduate but left to play the software industry game thereafter) you should have the errata document handy (I'll link the parent page that has other paratext [1]) - the author is a math enthusiast but not a mathematician and gets some of the finer details incorrect.

I also read Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh and recall liking it, but I can't recall if it holds up under either mathematical scrutiny or the scrutiny of a more refined palate.

[1] https://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/everything-and-more.ht...
They are, but from what I’ve seen there are idiots getting US-style pickups in Europe these days.

The stupidity threshold is just higher, because European countries are not designed for vehicles this long or wide so your want for the bloody things has to exceed the sheer inconvenience they are for you (I assume whoever buys these cares nothing for the inconvenience to others), and the money pit they are in fuel and maintenance (as they’re uncommon I’d also assume most garages can’t handle them).
The etching process that uses a laser to blast a moving molten tin sphere to shape it so the next laser blast that vaporizes it produces parallel EUV light is pretty insane, too. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ge2RcvDlgw
My grandfather was famously anti-lawn-mowing[0]. His un-mowed lawn eventually sprouted some rare bee orchids among a vast array of other wildflowers. It always looked beautiful when we pulled into the drive when we went to visit.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-ga...
When you say "paying for peer review", the immediate interpretation would be that the peer reviewers get paid. By not phrasing it as "work related to getting peer review done" you violate the first maxim, effectively cementing that idea, which makes it a bit of a lie.

Now, these maxims aren't laws, just descriptions/theories of how information is interpreted, but they work pretty well.
No Wireless. Less Space than a Nomad. Lame.
Samsung, as a conglomerate with all the affiliates makes up 20% or so of Korea's economy. The entire state is motivated to keep it going,so a financial analysis of some 20 year old in wall Street don't have such a huge impact. TSMC is the same, it's a strategic company in taiwan,so again the entire country ensures it's not going anywhere. In the west, GE and similar companies are important, but not that important,so idiots like Jack Welch get more mileage than they'd get in Asia.
In the SF Bay Area the property tax rate is around 1-1.25% (it varies slightly by local bonds for school districts etc.). So someone who buys a house today in a popular suburb at $1M+ will be paying $10k+ per year in property tax. My parents' home has one of these typical HOAs established by the builder. The HOA fees were $1200 last year.

The HOA does have significant common areas including a pool and park that has been there since the beginning. It also has hilly open spaces that require annual weed and brush clearing for fire breaks. These areas also have landslide potential with drainage and retaining wall engineering issues, which adds to both contractor costs and also increases insurance premiums for the HOA.

My parents bought their house new for under $45k in 1975 and are currently assessed at under $170k based on the Prop 13 logic. It's hard to say what the market value is since recently sold homes in the area have had significant remodeling compared to my parents' time-capsule, but I imagine they could get nearly $1M. They probably represent the lower limit of assessments in their neighborhood. Most neighboring houses have been resold and reset to market rates at least once in the past 50 years, or at least done some major renovations which also partially increase the assessment for tax purposes.
$1500/year? How is that so cheap? I pay around $900/month.

There are people who own condos in my region who pay $900/month in HOA fees on top of $900/month in property taxes.
Omggg
Where I live it's actually illegal for HOAs and local jurisdictions to forbid your from having natural/non-grass yards.
The Amiga 1000 had to get the Kickstart ROM from floppy into RAM in 1985.

I think that counts.
As I wrote this as a response to many of the agile complaints here, I thought this might be a good place for discussion.

I want to make clear that I don't think agile is perfect, but I find the major problem with most critiques is that they are unwilling to extend into alternatives past ad-hoc methodologies.
The Future of Fertility: Biotech startups revolutionizing human reproduction
> "...that existing Windows Mobile devices could be upgraded to full Windows Mobile 7 functionality."

And we now know that none of the Windows Phone 7 devices were themselves upgraded to Windows Phone 8.
I wholeheartedly agree. I wish this was the top comment. I got so frustrated with the HN language-learning gatekeeping on another Duolingo thread that my comment got flagged and I received a nice message from dang (luckily no ban because I’m normally not a lunatic).

Duolingo is awesome. It’s made language learning possible for me where it used to be impossible. I wanted to pick another language up so casually that I wasn’t willing to put in the effort that other tools require, and Duolingo gives me a way to pick up the basics. I’m confident that in a couple of years I’ll be able to progress to more serious methods for developing conversational skills.

And it would never have been possible if I wasn’t able to use Duolingo to slowly but surely learn a new alphabet and basic present tense grammar.

I think the issue is the target audience. HN has a lot of educated global folk that have had to learn other languages. Duolingo is not the ticket when you need to learn a new language. It shines specifically when the language learning is not a requirement.
Sure, do everything in JS. So much easier.
Why would anyone use a digital dollar over USDC when one is frictionless and works as long as the recipient isn't OFAC material and the other one is going to have requirements up the ass? Banks are probably being going to be intermediaries to distribute digital dollars anyways so I don't really see the benefit.
> AI can generate as much synthetic data as we need, on demand.

I don't think this is right.

Can I take an untrained LLM (a neural network with random parameters), and have it start generating garbage, and then train the network to produce more of the same and then have it bootstrap itself to intelligence? Of course not.

What if I train it just a little bit first? What if I train it until it produces gibberish, but does occasionally string two words together that are spelled correctly. Can I have it produce petabytes of gibberish and then train on that to reach GTP4's level?

You seem to argue that at some point, the AI is able to improve by training on its own output. At what point does that arrive? Because so far we've never seen an AI improve based on its own output. (As far as I know?)
Yeah MIT's project with the Boston Fed is open source, anyone can go commit. https://github.com/mit-dci/opencbdc-tx
> The Biden admin wants to create a surveillance-style digital dollar that is NOT:
> Open / Permissionless / Private
> That's why I introduced legislation to prevent unelected bureaucrats from stripping Americans of their right to financial privacy.

Call me crazy but I heard Biden was actually elected