skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Today, it is a specialty commodity with few commercial applications—mostly for rocket hobbyists—but it’s still used in more than 300 munitions, from cruise missiles, to bullets for M16 rifles, to the vital 155mm shells.

I don't know about the others, but M16 rifle rounds don't use black powder, they use modern smokeless powder. By modern, I mean invented in 1884. I would be surprised if any of those other things mentioned use black powder. The author seems to think black powder is all gunpowder but it isn't. Black powder is reserved for old guns that can't handle modern powder that were made before the late 1800s, early 1900s. There is a classification of hunting rifle called muzzle loaders that also use it, but they are niche. It's also used in fireworks, that's why they are so smokey.

When you see a movie where they depict an old battle where there are huge plumes of smoke coming out of the rifles or muskets, that's black powder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokeless_powder

Here's what black powder looks like when used in a firearm.

https://www.saobserver.net/community/in-photos-monashee-moun...
I have a hard time believing you have serious experience working in a tech company anywhere near leadership.

I've worked at a pretty wide range of tech companies throughout my 15+ year career. When I was young I would ask myself "what is leadership thinking!?", my realization later in my career was simply: "oh, they're not thinking"

14 year old and younger tech companies have only existed during a tech boom period, when money flowed easy from both investors and customers. There has been zero market pressure to put thought into building products.

In the case of dropbox in particular, any long term customers (such as myself) can confirm that there has clearly not been a coherent product strategy for at least the last few years.
It's there in Xiaomi and a few others. It essentially creates a separate sandboxed space for the entire phone. Apps, settings, themes, everything is isolated. Both the SIMs are accessible in either space.
Only if they're (i) conjectured hard instances (ii) for which we can verify that a given solution is indeed optimal. Which in many cases is itself is a Gödel prize worthy task.
Regarding rogue client devices: Suppose it's not just storage and instead is something additional, like a device for which the host will decide (without autorun.ini in this case) to install drivers, or interact in some other capacity along those lines. Can this automatically cause arbitrary code execution? I would not consider code supplied through official OS channels ("let windows search for a driver online" type of stuff) to be arbitrary, because those repositories ought to be trusted as not containing malware. Rather, by arbitrary I mean the USB device supplies the payload or supplies a URL that the OS requests, and then the OS automatically executes that. I've never heard of such a thing, but it's conceivable... source?

Regarding rogue host devices (not just a power port): I agree 100%, these are dangerous. Luckily a typical USB port on a Windows computer can only interact with client devices, not host devices, as far as I'm aware. The inverse of OTG doesn't seem like it would exist.
When I used to be an overintellectualizing, overacademizing nerd, I would use complex and regimented notetaking and review systems. The whole gamut from trendy notetaking wiki-type apps to flashcard spaced-repetition apps like anki.

These things made me feel like I was learning. Flashcards and notetaking itself were fun games. I felt like I'd stumbled onto this hyper-optimized efficient way to learn whatever I wanted.

That feeling was misplaced.

I threw away all that garbage and just started diving into things after reading/observing the bare minimum to get the wheels rolling. Read a little, act a lot. The acting is the most important part. You want to learn some thing? Just do that thing, repeatedly.

It's inefficient, failure-laden, and it's the best way to truly learn something.

This applies to abstract things too, like math and language. Don't bother making flashcards for theorems, syntax, or word definitions. You gotta do the work. For math, just do a million exercises. For language, read, write, listen, speak. You can flashcard word definitions and atomic little rules all day, and you'll feel like you're making progress, that's how Duolingo reels in so many people. It's an easy way to feel like you're accomplishing, but it's a facade. Gotta just do the work.
Yes they are naive.

I'm also not sure why you single out doctors who believe?

It's even more naive to follow arbitrary rules in hope those rules came from some god and hoping that your way in believing is the right way.

If there is ever a god I will either go to 'heaven' (why would I want that though?!) or that god can fuck itself.

I'm good to others I don't need to pray. And funny enough I bet there are plenty of god worshippers who had kids who died and no prayer made a difference while in parallel there are other people who believe their prayers were heard and got a good grade at school or whatever.
I'm not sure, but I think from a marketing perspective, you do not want to write "No" anywhere. I might be wrong, and I'd love if someone with knowledge in this area could answer. It's something I recall from the back of my mind...
This has nothing to do with the standard and everything to do with your lab, though.
Imagine thinking that because Big Company Does it it must be sensible and logical because they are Big Company so they don't make blunders like that.
I think what we have going on today is more than simply "weird" or scandalous on the level of nudity, but instead is remembered as the cultural cleansing mechanism that killed tens of millions of people in the 20th century.
USB sticks fail. Also the default file system is fat32 which doesn’t support journaling or file versioning.
I've spent a great deal of time over the last decade+ trying to find an efficient algorithm for NP hard problems and one thing I've learned is that this field is a graveyard for seemingly good ideas. Therefore I tend to be very skeptical of any paper that claims to solve such a problem but doesn't provide any empirical evidence that their solution works. I mean I've had hundreds of ideas and very few of them have survived without counterexamples appearing even for very small instance sizes.

I first saw this paper yesterday when it was posted on HN but didn't make it to the front page and I'm uncertain about how much energy to put into it (unfortunately my health gives me very little to spare). So far I've only read the introduction and it doesn't obviously involve any advanced mathematics that I'm unfamiliar with so I could perhaps attempt an implementation.

In addition to what I said above another factor arguing against investing much time in this is the fact that this was first published last year and nothing seems to have come of it in that time. Moreover it appears that the current paper is a revision from the one that was published last year. Does anyone know what the history of this was ? Were bugs found in the first version ?
Show HN: GPT-4 powered internal tools
Hey HN, I’m Brad, one of the founders of Superblocks, a programmable cloud IDE for internal tools. This week we launched a deep integration with OpenAI, giving developers a tightly integrated app layer for GPT-4 powered internal tools (components, integrations, permissions, audit logging, SSO, observability etc.).

Imagine you want to create an AI chat copilot for your support team that gives them answers to customer questions from your company’s corpus of information. With Superblocks, you can directly query a vector database like Pinecone or Weaviate, feed the results into OpenAI using our integration with a custom prompt, hook the response from OpenAI to a Chat component in the UI and click deploy with git.

Fun fact: We did this flow ourselves and demoed it at an OpenAI hackathon a few weeks ago!

Our AI app layer helps developers access every OpenAI API:

- use an intuitive UI on top of the API, eliminating the need to decipher API references and handle hyperparameters
- prompt engineering fields that let you integrate any data using variables in code right within the Prompt and System Instruction fields
- cost optimization via static or dynamic token limits, effectively managing API usage to ensure avoid runaway costs

5-min video: https://cdn.superblocks.com/videos/superblocks-build-ai-powe...

Would love to hear feedback from the HN community!

PS. We hear that lots of developers want to use private LLMs for their sensitive data so they don’t have to send to OpenAIs servers, this is something we’re working towards. We also plan to add more LLMs too
I find myself strangely drawn to dystopian aesthetic. There’s something deeply moving about them.
The way 5G is implemented by carriers/devices is such garbage. Unless I disable 5G entirely, my phone will refuse to switch to 4G even when 5G is so weak my speed is under 2mbit and 4G is testing at 45+mbit. It even takes over a minute of no connection at all before it will connect to 4G.
SCIF and Radio Frequency Secured Facility Design (2021)
My understanding is that most of what made Episode 4 work were the results of his then-wife editing the script. She did not get a credit in the movie.
LLaMA claims to be GPT-4 when I ask it what it is, so I don't necessarily trust that response.
"Dipped their feet" might've been better description.
Having used both Python and JS, the only real benefit the latter has it may be faster.

The language has way too many gotchas. I wish they could shed all the legacy aspects to it. My experience with Python, along with many other folks, is that if we don't know something (API, syntax, etc), we often just guess it and it turns out to be right. Fairly intuitive.

Agree with the other commenter: Using pip + venv tends to solve the majority of packaging problems. In my career I deal with a Python dependency headache once every few years.

> and you’d have to learn it for front-end work anyway so it has long-term dividends.

Except when you don't do front-end work ;-)
Not sure about the rest of Bavaria, but "Helles" (Lager) is the mainstream beer in Munich. Weißbier (Hefeweizen) isn't that uncommon but rather cliche...
Chiming in with a Toyota Corolla with a physical volume knob.

Most of the time it works fairly well, I can perceive some latency but I'm pretty sensitive to it -- my wife can't tell at all.

But when the car is first starting up the infotainment is clearly overloaded and the volume knob is suddenly a gentle suggestion. This is particularly upsetting if it decides to switch to a different input like Bluetooth then starts blasting at the last volume level of that input, and it takes a good 2 seconds to respond to the counterclockwise turn input.

My 2015 Ford Fiesta had a more reliable volume knob, and it was as bargain bin as they come (manual windows!).
Bit of a shameless plug but I've been thinking about this for a while and I recently built a free/open-source tool called Emdash [1] to tackle the problem. I’m a heavy ebook highlighter, but I found if I didn’t have a compelling way to review those highlights they fell out of my understanding.

My tool uses on-device semantic embedding which allows you to peruse your collection and see related passages from other books which I find really helps in comprehension when you view a related idea in the words of another author. You can also search for semantic concepts directly to see nearby ideas from various authors, which is nice for when you’re in a mood for exploring a particular space via raw concepts.

The demo mode also previews a passage rephrasing feature, which can give you a simplified or metaphorical explanation, which I’ve found really valuable in grokking dense excerpts. This part is powered by LLMs (off-device) but will be opt-in later. I’m trying to gauge interest for it, so there’s a form to sign up for a waitlist if you’d like.

Would love to hear if anyone else uses this tool and what they’d like to see in it. Source code is available too [2].

[1] https://emdash.ai

[2] https://github.com/dmotz/emdash
People have been burned enough times by now that any fly-by-night that shows up promising free storage gets taken with a huge grain of salt.

Why would I upload my data for you to hold for free if history shows you are going to be gone in 6 months?

So to answer your question "Who doesn't want free storage?", everyone who's been burned before, that's who.
I mean, who knows, maybe they have a legitimate use for employees with skill in the ai field.

But it does smell like most tech bubble in history. Every publicly traded company has to somewhat fit the last au gout du jour tech in their announcement/roadmap/hiring to satisfy shareholder and bump stock prices.
Happened with the dot-com bubble, web3, metaverse, cryptocurrencies, "BigData", ...

Although I get that the idea behind is that nobody want to miss "the next big thing", so if you can afford it, might as well invest in it, and if it is a flop, oh well, but if it does end up being the actual next big thing, you might have saved your company.
- search your stuff using very fuzzy searches? Imagine looking up documents that are related to all your car purchases?
- image search based on a person's face, like google does
- build recommendations based on your documents, in general, just start using your documents to help you, in a privacy aware way, rather than just storing them.
No problem, just wasn't product ready, certainly not HN hug of death ready. Should be back up now. Thanks!
This is the way. Let the book flow through you and change how you think. Embed that stuff deep in your neural network, if you will.

You can always look up facts later if you need them. What matters is getting the vibes and an intuitive feel for the material.

Directional understanding is what I am for. Details, that’s what search is for.

I also like to read in audio, then get a paperback copy if I think later I’ll need to reference details.

Synthesizing the core thesis into a blog/article in my own words helps a lot too. But really good books ooze through all future thoughts and writing anyway.

edit: explaining the ideas to a friend also does wonders. “Hey I read this book about …” works great
Working on Clojure and Datomic!
>Counterpoint is that there is nothing wrong with a round number and it is perfectly compatible with setting appropriate resource targets for corporate goals.

Yes, in this case the corporate goal is to fire 500 people as a sacrifice to the finance gods.

If the goal was 'refocus strategy', you'd probably want to actually assess your business and determine who is no longer necessary, and you would doubtfully end up at a nice round number
If you're using Linux with GNOME desktop, GVFS can mount Google Drives automatically once you set your google account up in GNOME Online Accounts.
I'm never buying a car that can update over the air
Congratulations to Rich Hickey's children!! I hope your college experience was excellent. Disclaimer: that is how Rich explained why Datomic stayed closed source.
When I took a "presentation skills" course at Uni, they taught us that humans are very bad at reading and listening at the same time. Something about the brain regions utilized by these two activities overlap, and cannot be simultaneously be processing two different things. For this reason the visual portion of a presentation (slides) should be kept minimal and act as immediate support for the vocal portion of the presentation. If the two are not "in sync" the audience is unable to follow the presentation fully.

I think 3b1b videos constantly break this rule; there is a LOT of going on visually, while the narrator is talking non-stop about some loosely related things or trivia. More often than not I have to re-watch segments multiple times because I cannot understand what the hell am I supposed to be paying attention to.
Google One's tiers are better, but they're still kinda nonsense. The first 2 paid tiers are 100GB and 200GB which are fine. But then you have to jump up 3.5x the cost to 2TB. Why can't they just offer finely-tuned increments of 100GB? Or even 50GB or 25GB.

I'm mindful with what I put on cloud storage (mainly photo/video backups with Google Photos). I'm fine bumping up as I use more, but I don't feel like you suddenly deserve to pay for 2TB cause you went 3MB over the 200GB limit. And for how cheap as storage is these days, I think the pricing models should be reconsidered.
The link is broken btw.
I like to highlight in the books. These highlights are words that make me think or resonate with me.

After each chapter, I'll go into a Notion Doc and type out these highlights. Then following the highlights I'll write my thoughts or summarize the highlights in own words.

Sometimes these thoughts turn into full-blown essays. Sometimes these thoughts are nothing.

But I still get the reps in.

After the book is done, I publish some highlights and the thoughts to my personal website.
Microsoft Authenticator has backup options but doesn't indicate if there is encryption which is concerning.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/back-up-...
YOu forgot:

* find someone that will actually want to pay extra for their subscription on that.
With this series, I reckon one should not trouble oneself too much with “believability”.
I predict the current spamming you're doing where every subscriber is getting everyone else's subscription offer is going to kill your project, especially given how much of a GDPR violation leaking everyone's emails is going to be
Cloudflare actually has a lot in its free tier for many of their services.
Is this any different then Vercels offering?
I didn't realize it was possible to release binaries under a different license from the source code that generated them. In this case, is the "source code" just the physical machine code or bytecode in the binary?
If your job includes risk management-i.e. you could be terminated over it-then please make sure to look through every thread of the operation and identify all of the single points of failure. Then, find a redundant solution for each.
Applying this metaphor to this case, you're admiring the weapon, not the tool that made the weapon.
- Reddit

- Discord (mostly a single server)

- a video game website

- a car website

- HN (weekdays)

- 3 emails (not including work)

Less common:

- Facebook/Messenger
Also maybe it sounds better to say "we are restructuring to move to the next cool thing" than saying "we are laying off because... you know... things aren't going that great right now"?
And yet Green Book made over $70 million in China and the NBA is extremely popular.

Looks like the Hollywood marketing decisions were made by out of touch employees.
And the iPod will fail because it doesn’t have wireless and has less space than the Nomad…

https://m.slashdot.org/story/21026
David Simon's writeup of the process of transforming The Wire from 4:3 to 16:9 is a joy to read:

https://davidsimon.com/the-wire-hd-with-videos/

Amusingly (if that's the word) this updated version of the writeup, with embedded videos illustrating Simon's points, no longer has the embedded videos because there were somehow flagged by youtube or hidden by HBO. Still worth the read.
not saying there won't be other devices. on the other end is the remote and/or home speaker. 3d eyewear. TVs, watches. but alot of time it's the phone.
My approach is similar!
However, my cards are more made for spaced reading than for spaced repetition studying. As such, each card just corresponds to a highlight.

(Also replace Kindle with Google play books)
Why would they come here to make shit-tier teacher pay? They'd have to completely uproot their lives, live in systems / cultures / languages drastically different from their normal, and in exchange get painfully median or sub-par pay?

If I'm gonna schlep my ass to another country it had better be for a stark improvement in pay, bennies, and lifestyle -- not corralling brats so they can figure out what a Sin, Cos, and Tan means.
You'd think they could have just left that question out of their FAQ and licensed it with a "free-as-in-beer" click-through license.
Weren't those internal monologues one of the weaknesses of the Lynch movie?
Probably. They were hoping that the less-informed (like me) would see "The Datomic binaries are being released under the Apache 2.0 license" and think "Datomic is relicensed under Apache 2.0".
customers are annoyed by laggy UIs but don't weigh that very highly when deciding to buy a new car

UI is not something you can evaluate on a 30 min test drive under sales pressure. Sometimes there’s no way to test it (no rain, no snow, no free straight road, no immediate glitches). And there’s no reviews that cover it. It’s not a weighted decision, it’s a decision out of only parameters that are most obvious.

The same way you play a lottery with e.g. a washing machine, whether it beeps after unlocking the door or you have to go and sit near it like an idiot for a whole minute.
Spontaneity implies impulse, without forethought. You just wouldn't say something was something spontaneous if it was at all planned. Having a plan to do X, but working out the exact details later is not spontaneous unless there's a radical departure from the plan.

Situation 1: On your way home from work you run into an old friend and decide to go to the nearest bar. In retrospect you would call that outing spontaneous - it was the result of unplanned, unexpected circumstances.

Situation 2: You plan to meet a friend for a drink but haven't decided a location. The two of you meet up and decide to go to a particular bar, and then walk to that bar. There's nothing about this that is spontaneous, because each step involved some amount of forethought, even if there was an amount of "winging it" in meeting up before deciding where to get a drink.

Situation 3: You plan to meet a friend for a drink, meet up and decide to go to a particular bar. On the way to the bar you spot a comedy club, and in the spur of the moment decide to go see a show instead of just grabbing a drink. This could be considered spontaneous because you had no pre-existing intention of going to see a comedy show, it just happened because of circumstance.

In short, spontaneity sort of involves departure from the expected. If your plan is to work out the details later, then it's not spontaneous. It's only spontaneous if the event disrupts what you would have expected to happen.
It notably powers Roam, a kind of interesting notes/mini Notion product.

There's a reasonably interesting writeup of the tech details that helps show off Atomics value some, https://www.zsolt.blog/2021/01/Roam-Data-Structure-Query.htm...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29295532
This is rough. Is it still under patent protection?
Technically (and depending on the problem, practically), giving large instances isn't a good test.

For some problems, you can pick easy instances (even if large), or there can be ways to go backwards and generate an instance you know the answer to (prime factorization comes to mind).

I believe that there's problems where it's difficult to even find a hard instance, it's just also difficult to prove that no difficult instances exist either. SAT might be one if I remember correctly, solvers actually do really well.
> "Read a little, act a lot. The acting is the most important part. You want to learn some thing? Just do that thing"

Took me a long time to learn this but also came to the same conclusion.
https://archive.ph/zJsPo
Do you have any examples? Is each countries viewpoint backed by evidence and record?
snark incoming - so you're saying that you understand the product strategy for a 14 year old, publicly traded company with thousands of employees without working there or having any sort of insider knowledge?
I stopped using dropbox once condi rice took the lead... if there isnt a more telling projection of cointelpro as appointing condi fn rice as head of your data harvesting/mining company, the only other person least trustworthy would be the big dick cheney. Ill never use dropbox again, they cannot be trusted.