skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, man I had a 35 year finance plan to save enough for retirement and children's education, with a target value amounting to just north of a week of working as Pichai.

Why do we even have a C suite? Can we have a company run with direct democracy instead of monarchy? A true Borg hive mind company. No appointments, no stack rankings, no levels. People get paid by the scope of work they do.
Hi, we at Unikraft are hiring for this role exactly!

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It wouldn't because it wouldn't be stealthy.
They forgot to add the word `quone`!
Propranolol is becoming a first line treatment for anxiety in many situations now where they want to prevent benzodiazepine misuse, but I also know folks who've been given them for migraines, stage fright, fear of flying, and all sorts. They tend to work reasonably well if your symptoms of anxiety are mainly physical rather than mental (where beta blockers have zero effect at all).
The counterpoint is “better safe than sorry” effectively means “I will never invent anything ever”. It’s not 10% less progress it’s 95%.
The "senses conjure up phenomena that others can’t perceive" reminded me of stories I've seen of compass implants that give you some innate ability to know which way is north.

I'm skeptical about the actual devices that are available now, since they seem to come from a very fringe subculture. But, the general idea is pretty interesting. Whether that's a compass, or IR sensing, sounds out of normal human hearing range, or something else. Any sort of of additional sense you don't have already.

I'm curious about how well a device like that over time might get sort of "wired" in a way that it works on a subconscious level. That it would add a new signal that your brain would incorporate without you having to mentally consider it.
My panels look great. i also never look at the outside, because I am inside enjoying it.

I guess if you care about panels gap and not performance, go ahead and get a Brokeswagon?
Show HN: HeyOctopus – Building a knowledge graph of learning content
Some friends and I developed HeyOctopus because we were looking for a better way to capture learning recommendations. Currently, people share learning paths in e.g. blog posts, Google Docs or Twitter threads, but such formats are not really suitable for providing feedback and improving such recommendations in the long run. HeyOctopus is a (hopefully) easy-to-use platform where all users contribute to a single content graph that is optimized over time based on user actions. For each content (e.g. video, article, ...), you can add relations to other content that you have found helpful (e.g. prerequisites, follow-ups, ...). Or you can structure content into sequences and share them with others. All contributions are used to optimize the content graph in the background ;)

At the moment we are mainly focusing on topics like AI and web development, but we are very open and everyone is welcome to contribute!

We would love to hear your feedback and any feature requests / bug reports!
“For years, I worked on the E.U.’s privacy policies, and I came to realize that we don’t know what privacy is. It’s a term we use every day, and it can make sense in context, but we can’t nail it down well enough to generalize. The closest we have come to a definition of privacy is probably “the right to be left alone,” ”

How does anyone reach the conclusion that privacy is the right to be left alone? Many times seemingly intellectual people confuse issues with contorted analysis such as this one about privacy, which is not a difficult concept to understand. It is not about being left alone; it is about not being monitored and recorded regardless of what is done with that information. Stop the gathering of the information in the first place.
Wish they'd offer dedicated servers in their Ashburn, VA (or Hillsboro, OR) datacenter but those seem focused on their cloud offering.
Saying “allistic” is a way to market alienation to normal people. I am not buying it.

I am not a normal person in a number of ways. That’s okay with me. A reasonable abnormal person is not offended by that. I am normal in other ways, though.

Look, we have to get along with each other in this human world. Universalizing marginalization through obsessively specific labeling is a failing strategy, because the majority isn’t fooled for long. Normal knows what is normal.
Satya Nadella took the helm at Microsoft in 2014, right after Ballmer and basically brought the company back from the brink of irrelevancy. Even if we can't point to Pichai as the person responsible for Google's dysfunction, he had time to steer the ship.
If they were able to, the author wouldn't have written this article, or would've added it at least.

Tinnitus is a challenging problem because there can be physical causes (like hearing damage from loud music) but there's also a brain component. Certain diseases like MS, concussions, or some types of brain diseases can cause it even if your hearing organs are perfectly fine.

It's possible the author has had damaged hearing from a very young age but based on the wide variety of sounds they're describing, I'm guessing there's more going on than just ear issues. It's possible that these noises are just strange hallucinations of the auditory cortex, like someone hearing voices or sounds that aren't there but expressed less concretely.

As anecdata: an acquaintance of mine was cured of his tinnitus when he got therapy and made life changes to benefit his mental health. It turned out stress and other such problems were causing his hearing issues all along!

As far as I know, there is no known cure to tinnitus as bad as this article describes. In some cases the problematic symptoms can be reduced (people sleeping with a fan on or some white noise generator running to reduce the ringing of the ears is a common example) but the symptoms often come back soon after turning off the noise.
That's fair! Definitely not for everyone. I switch between this nonsensical portfolio and a more serious one fairly often.
> It feels like the more specialized the purpose, the less likely I am to want to talk to it.

This is the essence of it; and it follows not just for "shouldn't be a computer" appliances but also software. People in tech tend of to forget about the array of hyper-specialist software that exists in the wild, from little point of sales to industrial machines.

I have little interest in talking to a coffee machine or automated transport ticket machine. Flat White. Day ticket. That would do, thanks.
Ohh! Thanks for clarifying
The prophecy.
I have essentially given up the idea of discovering something meaningful. During my first company I believed we were on the cusp of unlocking some new methods of video action recognition. Now I know that our approach was way off and that the great leaps would be made several years later by google et al. I still think I am acquiring skills which will help me form a company or build products with other people who might unlock a breakthrough but I doubt I will be the one to discover it.
These ChatGPT reply bots are actually kind of useful to remind one of what a limited perspective these generic AI models can offer without prompt engineering.

Compare this answer to the one given by Nokinside. It’s much more like storytelling, highlighting the possibility of failure lurking behind every process node success. The ChatGPT one is basically just a string of meaningless fluff words like “competitive edge” and “pushing the boundaries”.
No, he's too busy making genuinely useful comments. Why don't you try it?
No fish is so intelligent as the simplest bird.
Yeah I don't understand why they don't just decompress the audio into RAM as the map loads. Or even just to some swap space.
I've had this for a few years now.

I'd say the first thing to do is go to a doctor and rule out any more serious cause of the visual phenomenon, e.g. MS, brain tumor, and so on.

If that's all clear, then you kind of have to just get used to it. Taking care of your overall health, like getting enough sleep, exercising, and eating well, seems to help people with their symptoms either directly or indirectly.

There are a few neuro-opthalmologists working on treatments that seem to produce some degree of improvement in patients.
I imagine it’s all third party sellers not Amazon warehouses.
SQL is just a means of expressing what you're trying to do. For some use cases it will be easier to use cgpt but if you are already fluent then it's easier to write SQL rather than put your thoughts into natural language in the form of a detailed prompt.
Does Go have a way to insist "No, my type doesn't have a default value" ?

The behaviour for the primitive types is at least more rational than C++ (in C++ primitive variables are just uninitialized by default and if read that's Undefined Behaviour, you lose, too bad) but just because my "Position" type has two integers inside it, does not mean that them both being zero constitutes a valid position :/
The data doesn't exist. You can't map oceans from space like you can land.
I remember when I didn’t know anything about crypto and I believed ppl like you proclaiming this kind of stuff. But i was curious so i looked at the “mumbo-jumbo” myself and turns out it’s actually just technical stuff and not even that difficult.

I feel ppl like you act in very bad faith, but you also claim crypto isn’t even financial infrastructure, so perhaps you’re just clueless.
and computers are fancy calculators, let’s be careful to not fall into reductionist views.

we know the architecture but we don’t know what happens in the black box.
Thanks f1ght4fun. I agree with both points here - most backend developers find it boring and time consuming creating new or modifying existing crud APIs every time the business requirements change.

Now as far as the data query engine, I can feel the pain of whoever tries to choose the best ORM out there. For the last few years there were a lot of efforts to abstract away anything related to databases (native sql, admin, internals etc) but all of them have serious limitations at the end of the day.

With Appteum we try to handle all of these pain points for you, so developers can focus on the business requirements they have in front of them.

Happy to hear what you plan to use Appteum for. Hop in our Discord and we can chat: https://discord.gg/8ETmPedepG

Disclaimer: Appteum co-founder.
Show HN: Layoff Runbook for engineers who have been let go
A visual editor might be a bit too much for a typewriter, so clearly we need boot-to-ed.
They are trying to say we are too stupid to be allowed to freely consume the internet and need someone to protect us from misinformation.
What are these midichorians you speak of? I saw all three Star Wars movies, A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, and concluding with Return of the Jedi and there was never any mention of these mudichorians!
Empirically we know that practically any sector that is left "to the markets" will evolve to be dominated by 2-3 conglomerates / gatekeepers that will choke all competition, replace regulation with "self-regulation" and eventually hold society hostage as too-big-to-fail etc.

That dynamic is not intrinsic to private enterprize, for-profit entities or corporate structure. You can, e.g. as a crude thought experiment, keep everything else equal, add a simple line to the tax code that the corporate rate goes up with market share and thus change monetary incentives for investors and executives.

The main difficulty is not lack of solutions (there are hordes of very sharp economists out there) but moral confusion about what a good, sustainable society looks like.

You might argue: what's new. Its always been a struggle to suppress our worst behaviors and "progress" only seemed to ever work over the long term (even that is under dispute now).

The risk is that technology is an accretive, exponential process and our collective ability to adopt governance that mitigates its risks is practically non-existent. It is based on trial-and-error (regulate or change behaviors under overwhelming social anger and pressure after the inevitable disasters).

The novelty of our condition is that one of the next "errors" might be the last.
Well, I think the real answer is to just be honest that it couldn't be found. Product wouldn't do that in the early days.
There are enough people becoming b12 deficient on a diet that actually contains b12. Take a b12 supplement. Don't risk it. Fortified products are not enough. Deficiency can take years to develop.

Personally I take a vegan supplement that contains b12, iron, d3 and zink. I also eat algae oil for the omega3.

I also make sure to use fortified soy milk.

I have personally found zink to be the hardest nutrient to get enough of, at least since I got kids and started cooking more kid-friendly food.

I never had issues before starting to supplement iron despite giving blood, so I don't think it is a problematic nutrient for me. Every day I eat more than twice the RDI, but of course non-heme and together with the regular absorption inhibitors.
I agree that there is value in humor. I find that ChatGPT humor gets old pretty quickly however.
Qmcpack – Many-body Quantum Monte Carlo for structure of atoms,molecules,solids
Won't Project Panama solve this? One of the goals in JEP 424 is to provide performance competitive with sun.misc.Unsafe so that (it says later in the document) it can eventually be removed.
> bonus (which isn't guaranteed)

You're again showing that you're uninformed. The bonus is guaranteed for everyone that doesn't get the lowest level of performance evaluation.
The same reason most humans are. Why are we so bad at math?
> You've already bought it, so the game studio got their money, despite having a "bloated" install. So the incentives aren't quite there to reduce the size.

They may have some of my money, but not much (discount!), and they’re not getting money for DLCs, arguably the reason the base game was so cheap, and I’m not in a rush to buy more stuff that I can’t fit on my PC.

Prior to the era of the initial game purchase being just the entry point I’d have agreed with you, but many modern games have monetization strategies that make uninstallation a problem.

And if they have a strong enough incentive to care about CPU usage, they’re clearly putting effort into optimizing for some audience.
Don't underestimate the psychological effects underlying vendors' convergence on TSMC

It's like an extreme version of "nobody got fired for going with IBM"

Decision makers, even and sometimes especially in groups are not always rational. There are many cognitive biases that might make going against TSMC too difficult to justify

Also historically they have been the only option for __nm manufacturing, although transistor size is beginning to become irrelevant <10nm with different tricks having more of an impact on performance and efficiency
I think a simple explanation could be that it is slightly harder (mentally) to move than copy a file. Windows move: ctrl + x
Mac: cmd + option + v
In every other program, cut/paste is the same as windows. That’s confusing - at least as a former Windows user. That said, I had many duplicate files on Windows too.
Steve Ballmer was not a technologist but he had something more than a been counter despite all his flaws.
https://archive.ph/qe308
But your example is trying to prove a negative. "How many innovations are stifled by regulating this connector?" Unknown. Try this: how much e-waste is created by not having a standard connector? Also: will you trade your children living knee-deep in a toxic sludgepile so that we can continually keep innovating? Maybe new iterations of connectors making entire devices obsolete every 'less than 20 years' isn't the great outcome you think it is.
This is an example of something you aren't going to disprove in a large study. It is known that people relying too heavily on processed food makers suffer deficiencies and a reasonable hypothesis that food processing working with less choices will raise the rates of some deficiencies. A change on the order of 1 in 10 000 vegans is not going to show up in an affordable study but in something suspiciously close to an opinion piece in a rag newspaper.
WhatsApp is proprietary software. Its implementation of OpenWhisper is quite likely to have been tampered with to allow gathering personal user data. If it were safe, it'd be Free Software.
The OP is a bit too long-winded for my taste, but this passage struck a chord with me:

> If AI compa­nies are allowed to market AI systems that are essen­tially black boxes, they could become the ulti­mate ends-justify-the-means devices. Before too long, we will not dele­gate deci­sions to AI systems because they perform better. Rather, we will dele­gate deci­sions to AI systems because they can get away with every­thing that we can’t. You’ve heard of money laun­dering? This is human-behavior laun­dering. At last—plau­sible deni­a­bility for every­thing.

Corporations routinely get caught doing things that are illegal, but employees rarely suffer any legal consequences because it proves really hard or impossible to pin responsibility on any one person. The responsibility is diffuse; it falls on the system, not on the individuals that work for it. AI will make it more so.
How is this not establishment of a religion? If the lawmakers are honest, they would acknowledge this.

It's very easily unconstitutional.
The issue isn't that، you can't simply rearrange words and omit others the way he used the phrase was nonsensical.

And having a quick look through his post history I suspect it's a self diagnosis and one of several he has given himself, which is at times just "bipolar disorder".
Yes, we would all prefer "philosopher of corpus-linguistic preference membranes, and domain-specific knowledge manager" because it's more precise, and doesn't trample on my position/salary/pedigree.
With search, you don’t know if the model/search engine will retrieve the right context. With fine tuning you don’t know if it will forget important info, or learn incorrect things.
A lot of the CS issues I’ve had with Amazon started during the pandemic and I’ve since stopped using them. Stuff was always a day or two later, or it would disappear entirely for a few days. Contacting CSRs usually wouldn’t even understand my questions and would repeat the same few options like robots. The last straw was when someone delivered an empty package to my front porch and the CSR asked me to return the item for a refund.
> > the goal is more about [...] optimizations/code generation

> based on what?

From the abstract:

Specializing for structure yields significant speedups. But automatically generating efficient code for structured data is challenging, especially when arrays with different structure interact. We show how to abstract over array structures so that the compiler can generate code to coiterate over any combination of them.

i.e. yes could write your own iterator to efficiently co-iterate over any given pair of structured arrays, and this is a way to express the structure to a compiler so you won't have to figure out the right optimizations yourself every time you want to try out a new way of structuring your data.
One should think these things are disembodied politicians.

That has been my best analogy so far.

They'll never say I don't know and bullshit you into oblivion while never backtracking.
> never evaluates switching to a competitor

Again: “short term, sure”

Unless you have a convincing case for why “never” evaluating switching will last forever.
It was more of a media campaign, ad brokers trying to kneecap that other ad broker. Microsoft wasn't in the ad business back in the day, so no threat to media businesses.
But downtime of a turbine only affects one turbine. The rest can carry on as normal and generate power. With nuclear you can lose 1000MW all at once.
It's almost impossible to arrive at a pure random sampling like that. As an easy example, if you limit yourself to English news articles, you're going to have a pretty large bias towards "the West", which right now probably includes a strong bias against China or Russian's viewpoints on things (not to say that including those viewpoints would be more truthful necessarily, but certainly less biased).
Since blue eyes are recessive, presumably that one ancestor had brown eyes and so did all their children. At some later point, some of that ancestor's descendents had children and they had blue eyes?
I've had one of those for years, smack in the middle of one eye. I often read like a pirate.
For programming I find ChatGPT to be a great rubber duck
Spam, should this be here?
You're just describing information theory. Every message is contextualized within the codebooks used to encode/decode it. Sometimes we call that codebook "language", sometimes it uses another representation.
Its already been largely done, which is why when subs run into seamounts, you tend to see the leadership team relieved.

“Maybe it would help to have a map of the space we’re going to be driving very large, very expensive, strategically important pieces of equipment (that also have crews) through blind” is not, as it turns out, something that never occurred to the Navy.
Show HN: AI PDF Scanner an iOS app for students
We designed AI PDF to help everyone get an instant answer to math problems, article summaries, or to any other problem related to PDF or other documents. Just scan any doc and ask questions.
In the future assets will be created using a prompt the size of a tweet. It would be silly to send the pixels instead of the prompt.
Why does everyone assume you need wireless communication? You can have a cable running between the submarine and the drone, same channel would be used to power the sub.
Show HN: I made ChatGPT to generate me Garmin Connect indoor rowing workout plan
Hello everyone,
I am a software engineer/hacker, semi-pro runner, avid amateur rower. Did masters in ML, but got out of the game. I spent some time (well an hour) today, playing with ChatGPT-3.5 to figure whether it can make workout plans for rowing which make sense.

Yes it can. Really well. With a right prompt it gives also machine readable output. Next step was obvious: integrate this with Garmin Connect to have structurized workouts on your watch.

The demo at [0] shows "get me a 2h steady state working out plan with some intervals", but much more are possible:

- I want to watch NF for 30 minutes, can you get me an easy workout,
- Make me a pyramid interval schedule,
- Make 3h steady state plan.

It's made with love, 4 beers and 4 hours. I don't know JS much, so the TamperMonkey code is not great. Also Garmin Connect uses some React/Angular mambo-jumbo and weirdly intercepts textarea events (cannot write to them with jQuery). But it works. Easy. My life is nicer now.

Cheers,
A.

Note: I'm not affiliated with Garmin Connect or OpenAI, this work is purely reverse engineering.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXsNu6jKhF0
[1]: https://gist.github.com/alfanick/3ecac79f9590bae6819e410c338...
Oceans cover 361M km^2. So if we built 13,333 drones with a failure rate of 25% and they map at a rate of 50 km^2/day at a higher column depth with active sonar, it would take approximately 2 years
> Just technical stuff

There is nothing technical about the biggest "stable coins" not being able to produce a single audit of their financials. The only thing they were able to show were "attestations" of USD in a bank account and even that was done by some shady accounting firms.