skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author of Zod had an insightful comment on FOSS and monetization https://twitter.com/colinhacks/status/1422222156340072456

> whether an OSS project lends itself to monetization is a really interesting and subtle question. rule of thumb, be at least two of these: big, boring (roughly correlates with "infrastructural" as @patio11 puts it), and lacking obvious substitutes

The monetization strategy is only a part of the viability story.
I'm on Long Island and it feels like it's getting closer and closer to that.
so why not flag it?
I find POP->DAD a little odd, because I've never (as an American) heard anyone say 'pop' referring to their father. 'pops'? yes. Now, POP->SODA, would not surprise me in the least.
Apple, being a functional organization, doesn't have P&Ls or business units. It does have product lines.
How much storage would this require? I'm not exactly soothed by the thought that the limiting factor here might be the cost of storage but...maybe it helps a little?
If the survival is of the Twitter type, then good luck with the IPO
I mean, there is copious engineering effort internal to, e.g. the Linux kernel.

And much goes into RFCs.

But is there much internet-wide engineering going on to squeeze out the entropy?

Repackaged: the engineering that occurs is more bottom-up than top-down. Google, for example, has enough heft to say: "QUIC: here is a bit of top-down engineering." But that example bolsters my general point, in my opinion.
The programmers and the translators are different people who have probably never met eachother.

Translators usually just get to see the string they are translatinbg, and if they're lucky a 1 sentence explanation written by a programmer.

With no context, a "Zip file" might indeed mean a "postcode file" - perhaps it is a file for storing all the zip codes, and now it will be used for storing all the postcodes?
> The war in the Donbas was portrayed as a civil war by Russia but was actually started by and fought largely by Russian soldiers and FSB/GRU members. The former head of the DPR himself admitted this recently.

Your timeline is incorrect. As someone who has spent a good amount of time in Ukraine, it is clear you are not correctly informed.

The Maidan revolution, or Coup d'etat (which the US supported) in Feb of 2014 ended the presidency of Victor Yanokvych that had previously been considered more Pro-kremlin than his opponent.

When the revolution happened, Victoria Nuland (US State Department) was captured with US State Dept staff playing kingmakers around which politicos would become the new president.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

In March of 2014 Ethnic Russians started capturing govt locations in Ethnic Russian territories like Luhansk and Donetsk
https://web.archive.org/web/20140412131249/http://www.kyivpo...

Various ethnic Russians were killed immediately after this revolution in 2014 in places like Odessa that protested this
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/ukraine-dead-o...

The Ukrainian civil war between the Eastern Ukrainians supported by Russia, and the Western Ukrainians supported by the West/NATO, eventually became the Russian invasion of Ukraine around Feb 2022 after talks broke down about Ukraine's membership in NATO which Russia opposed.
> Go players have DECREASED their ELO after playing AlphaGo (or just quit the game altogether)

Can you explain this for someone unfamiliar with the game?
For $3000 you can get a top end GPU, not a whole gaming PC. Most gamers have mid-range GPUs like those in the M2 Max.
Well, I for one was never quite so "popular" in that respect in high school. But I knew people who were, and it definitely raises some interesting questions about how we as a society ought to handle sexuality in young people.

Plenty of sexually-charged activity happened on sites like Myspace and Stickam, most of it consensual, but not all of it healthy. For example, Person A is 17 and Person B is 19. A sends a sexy pic to B. Is B a predator extracting some manner of "unhealthy" consent, or is it just two teenagers having fun? What's the difference between unhealthy, and healthy but regrettable? It's often impossible to tell what's going on in a situation like that except on a case-by-case basis. Even if you were close friends with the people involved, you wouldn't always know what really happened until much later. I'm sure things are no different on Snapchat today.

Furthermore, things get weird because teenagers tend to be irrational creatures. What happens if A lied about their age and they're actually 15?

Let's also not forget that people mature at different rates: physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Finally, this is all focused on the sharing of media. What if they meet up at a house party, get a little buzzed, and hook up?

Perhaps there's a valid case to be made that, if you can stop even one instance of abuse, it's worth curtailing the freedoms of all teenagers. But I at least wish we wouldn't jump so far as to conclude that all "SG" sexual material is CSAM.
Unfortunately, the main thing that will come out of this will be calls to monitor and sensor online activity even more, not anything that will actually protect children.
The result? Everybody ignores SmartScreen warnings now...
Not to put too blunt a point on this metaphor, but a human’s eyes and visual cortex are not stereo cameras and the human brain is not a GPU/CPU despite some apparent similarities.

Nor is “professional commercial driver” a job that could be performed by a Neanderthal or a 6 year old student driver of today despite nearly identical hardware and software. I would never ride across Manhattan every day in a car driven by the latter two humanoids and I doubt most anyone would.

Ideally these systems should only be certified after performing demonstrably better than a teenage student driver given a series of the most complex, adversarial driving workloads in deteriorating conditions with disabled and malfunctioning sensors.

On the other hand, today’s billionaires may actually be close to achieving fully autonomous and acceptably failsafe non-human driving on today’s roads, and they might also be exploring Mars within my lifetime. Personally I wouldn’t bet my life on it.
now do one for single drop at home blood testing
Eh, the `OsStr` API has warts still, some parts are unstable (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/111544).
It's pretty wild here in CT. Thick, acrid air. I suppose Californians have been dealing with this for a while, but I haven't experienced it in my life up here.
Ok, what should they do?
Yes. The best is when you get an Excel file from Japan and the formulas are in Japanese. Who needs encryption or obfuscation.
This article is hot garbage. There’s a reference to a “termination order” but they then seem to extrapolate that to “terminating” the… device which they’ve anthropomorphized?

> It was more than a device being explanted from Patient R brain. Rather, the company was responsible for the creation of a new person.

> The device was the property of the company, not of the patient, despite the fact she appropriated the de novo agential capacities – resulting in an existential dependency with the BCI.

What does that even mean? I understand that this had a profound effect on her life, but the writing buries the lead here.
The use of Chinese surveillance in Serbia is interesting as a place where they are exporting the technology to help a government that wants to keep control.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/belgrade-huawei-cameras

https://cepa.org/article/a-disturbing-marriage-serbia-and-ch...
Safeguarding Enterprise Adoption of LLMs
Why do little discussion of the moveit hack?

I don't even know what that is. Maybe you should have posted a link or something, so people would have a way to know what it is you want to discuss?
Well, ChatGPT works perfectly fine here.
I’ve drapeaued this comment to favorites :)
Looks really compelling, Steve! Fingers crossed for your success with it.
Looking forward to play around with Val Town when time permits.
I'm in NYC. The sky was a deep orange in the afternoon and you could easily look directly at the midday sun without discomfort. There is a visible haze indoors looking down a long hallway.

It's cleared up a bit now but still quite bad.
Satellites will pick it up if it's lightning. It's very common (see giant fires on the West Coast in the past few years).
A clearer relation to how preventing hairy-ball responses, like JWZ has, is like making it easier to post bad comments would be appreciated, I'm having trouble following the relation.

Note: sites can still detect HN users and modify content without the referer. E.g., using the CSS styling for if "news.ycombinator.com" is a visited link. If not visited, content hidden. If visited, content shown. Based on the status the site can also trigger a redirect via JS at that point. My comment was that it seems better to let the site just opt out directly, not about what site operators should or shouldn't be doing.
I wonder if you could get around this by giving it some sort of hashed/encrypted input, asking it to decrypt and answer, and then give you back the encrypted version. Model might not be advanced enough to work for a non-trivial case though.
Reminds me of the Scunthorpe problem :-)
I think I said this already in one of my comments but I'm not a neuroscientist and I don't claim to be. That's why I think it's kind of pointless and silly for me (or any other engineer) to sit here and make arguments about what humans do and don't do in their brains.

IMO it's better for us to focus on what the robots can and cannot do right now, and focus on solving those problems :)

Thanks for the sources though, those papers are definitely neat and I'll be taking a look when I get a chance.
But the power users are the ones who feed the community (and do moderation, etc)

On a second thought, maybe that's Reddit's idea, just turn it into a GPT generated and Astroturfing maelstrom and see what happens
> he's chosen to remain there, knowing that the Russians can throw him in the jail whenever they want

It’s not like he has any good options. I don’t blame him for staying in Russia.
Regional newspapers; social networks (or dating, or classifieds) following the Facebook "start by seeding interest in the people around you" model; government services apps; any "portal" app for banks, electric companies, cellular providers, or insurance companies, etc.

(I'm Canadian; half the apps on my phone only exist in Canada.)

More relevant to paid use-cases: streaming video services that offer content in the country's distinct language that's only spoken there. (Example: the Philippines. There's enough Tagalog content for entire services to be based around offering it; and nobody outside of the country would ever be interested in it.)

> An indie dev isn’t going to create a regional newspaper or utility company or a media empire.

How many people do you think work at regional newspapers in e.g. Tanzania? I'd guess maybe five people. You think they can hire some big software firm to write them a mobile app? They're either hiring the editor's nephew to do it, or they put out a classified ad looking for someone in town who can do it, and they end up getting a call from the guy who runs the cellphone repair store who "thinks he can give it a try." Same with the banks there, the utilities there, and even the government services there. Also same with schools, restaurants, museums, etc.

You'd think that most of these would just target the web rather than making mobile apps. But in many of these countries — and esp. in poorer regions of them — Internet access is still so shit that the lower bandwidth requirements of a native app with offline sync really matter. (Example again from the Philippines, c/o a friend of mine who lives there: people who meet on dating websites move immediately to talking on WhatsApp, because out in the provinces you've got a miniscule data plan with spotty connectivity, which can handle the few KBs of push data per WhatsApp message, but can't handle refreshing some bloated website chat interface to check for new messages.)
Parent is 12 bytes, yours is 8, but x86 can do it in 5:

add eax, eax
setz al
Highly infectious and with an unusual strain. Not sure how they can confirm that it’s just 1 person infected vs. a group.

But with common or typical strains, it wouldn’t be easy to determine if you have a few highly shedding individuals or a lot of lightly shedding ones. That’s one issue with wastewater sampling for infectious diseases, versus what the technique was developed for: detecting pharma/recreational drug use in a population.
The very first thing we do, when we create a new e-commerce website is to change "cart" to "basket" everywhere we can find it. Without that - as our manager says - we wouldn't sell anything on UK market
Nothing is objectively “bad” about that, but it is an insane stretch to call that “great food.” That is subsistence eating.

Moreover—can you put beans, rice, eggs, and mixed veggies in a sandwich? Because a sandwich was one of OP’s “$40/mo” suggestions. A food budget where a simple ham and cheese sandwich is an unimaginable luxury is ridiculous to propose as a reasonable target.
ChatGPT runs moderation filters on top of your conversation and will highlight responses or prompts red if it thinks you're breaking TOS. The highlight is accompanied by some text saying you can submit feedback if you think the moderation is in error. It's not very hard to trigger moderation--for example I've gotten a red text label asking the AI questions about the lyrics to a rap song with explicit lyrics.

It's interesting to compare ChatGPT moderation to Bing. When Bing generates a "bad" response, Bing will actually delete the generated text instead of just highlighting it red, replacing the offending response with some generic "Let's change the topic" text. The Bing bot can also end a conversation entirely if its a topic it doesn't like which ChatGPT doesn't seem to be able to do.
Must be machine translated and then not looked over by a human. Actually sad.
You can also see the haze on Zoom Earth [1] with a hourly timelapse. There seems to be an especially large cloud of it hovering off of the East Coast of the US and Canada

[1] https://zoom.earth/
Would love to know why you're asking.

Assuming you're a fan of rebuilding what was lost in the Shoah?

Or is this just Great Replacement mongering.
Reddit will survive just fine.

But potentially consider this comment from the linked reddit post. It is heartbreaking.

> I'm just so tired! That is all! I'm so tired of feeling left behind by people who aren't aware, and who don't care. The choices we have for social media really aren't much, and if they don't care about third party apps, what else are they going to throw away? Will we lose this place too?

The decision has many side effects that Reddit is not acknowledging and it is important to recognize the importance that an API can have, particuarly on accessibility.

Will reddit survive. Oh yeah, they will be absolutely fine. But their decision does negatively impact the world and that is the important story here.
The compound in question is sucralose-6-acetate, one of the compounds produced when sucralose (aka Splenda) is broken down. Trace amounts are also found in off-the-shelf sucralose for some reason, which may violate the European Food Safety Authority regulations regarding genotoxic substances.
I also like language constructs which have constrained definitions, eg in python list and other comprehensions vs for loops. The comprehensions are very limited in their side effect outcomes and intent, the for loops are much more open ended. Don't use a more open ended construct when a more narrow one can be used. This is sort of analogous to the using narrowest scope possible rule of thumb, use the narrowest conceptual space when authoring software.
Just have to find that group which is being cleaved in the middle. Palestine should do it.
I don't see how one could reasonably say a thing that has happened before and a thing that hasn't happened before are equally plausible explanations for a thing that is currently happening.
Can you run fuel synthesis profitably purely on intermittent renewable power and scale up and down in real-time?

Capital costs are high and utilization will be low.
> Your eyes have much better dynamic range and FPS than modern self driving systems & cameras.

Eh, kind of...

https://youtu.be/HU6LfXNeQM4?t=1987

Check out this NOVA video on how limited your acute vision actually is. It is only by rapidly moving our eyes around that we have high quality vision. In the places you are not looking your brain is computing what it thinks is happening, not actually watching it.
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin raises $115M in Series C round
I'm not sure breadth of adoption and retention are the right metrics here — the use cases I've heard about are highly specialized, so I wouldn't expect it to be massively and quickly adopted, the same way it took a long time for robotic surgery tools or CAD to become widely used.

I've heard of it used in e.g. surgeries, for visualizing data like MRI scans, or building schematics for electrical/steam/wastewater/etc but don't know of specific instances where products are used.

This looks like a good overview of efforts in the medical space: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8455774/

And this looks like an okay high-level survey of use in manufacturing and construction: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240589631...
What makes you think geoengineering is going to solve more problems than it introduces?
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/columbus/mysterious-co...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Viral researchers believe someone in central Ohio has been infected with COVID-19 for at least two years, and they want to find that person.

While the researchers believe there is no threat to public health, they hope this case holds much-needed answers to treating long COVID.

[...]

Johnson stressed that this is not a threat to public health, explaining that the virus is inactive once it passes through the gastrointestinal tract.

A spokesperson for the Ohio Department of Health said health officials are not fully convinced that the cryptic strain is linked to only one person, but they are not investigating it because it poses no threat to public health.
> “Going to the mall has gone down. Driving in the car for fun has gone down. Going to the movies has gone down,” she said. “We’re talking about kids who are spending five, six, seven hours a day on social media.”

The malls are dead, gas is overpriced, helicopter parents don't let kids out of the house, and movies (sitting next to each other in the dark staring silently at something else) is barely social interaction anyway. That all assumes teens can afford to do anything anyway.

Give teens more freedom, give them places to hang out, give them more autonomy and trust when they're younger so they have more confidence, but they'll still be staring at their phones a lot of the time because there is a ton of pressure to respond to everything immediately. Phones are designed to encourage it and to pull our attention back to the screen every few minutes. Teens want the instant validation and some semblance of connection.
You’re wrong about what the author meant, but you’re right about patents. Patents are indeed written very carefully to meet the validity requirements but not “leak anything”, because disclosed but unclaimed material is a dedication to the public. Here’s a recent article aimed at patent practitioners about the topic: https://www.finnegan.com/en/insights/blogs/prosecution-first...
You don’t need an api to be accessible, hence why pressure should be put on Reddit to make their app and site accessible to begin with.

I do feel for the poster, though.
what model? is it running one of the smaller models client side?
OSX has a Dvorak-Qwerty-⌘ layout where commands use the Qwerty letters so people switching can keep their muscle memory.

It helped when I tried to learn, but I abandoned because I felt like the effort wasn't worth it. I already type fast enough for my needs.
With modern power scaling that is certainly not true.
There we go, Google's TLD fiasco resolved.
Thank you, Microsoft!
Who actually is doing the reviews of these images? There must be a hell of a thorough vetting process to actually become a reviewer, right?
> 10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned?

More pieces of the Zeitgeist, really.
It's both way more than you ever thought, and surprisingly easy.

Think of all the times you called the landlord - those are the things to mainly worry about, and you can throw cash at the problems if needed.

But since it is now yours you can do more than just repair and maintain, which is nice.

Find out where the various utility shutoffs are, and make sure you know how to turn off water in an emergency (there are the shutoffs below the sink or toilet, the shutoff next to the water main in the house, and some hidden shutoff somewhere else in the yard).

Your home inspection may show you where these are. Be aware! A shutoff that has never been used may fail when it is most needed, but don't go to try one unless you're ready for a leak.

Once you know how to shut off utilities, most problems are reduced from "panic" to "need to fix this eventually" - in which case, YouTube can help.

Get to know both your local "cheap hardware store" (Home Depot, etc) and the closest hardware store (this may be an Ace, Walmart, etc). Walmart has many parts and is open quite late in areas. Be friendly with them, you will visit them MANY TIMES for random things you never thought of, especially if you now have a yard.

Go to GoodWill or similar and buy a "homeowners' bible" book to read for fun. They're always cheap.

Talk to your neighbors, get recommendations on plumbers, painters, etc. If you see a neighbor having work done on their house, consider if you want the same on yours, often you can get a discount if the crew is already in the neighborhood.
>Rich people can virtue-signal...

I understand that it makes sense in a lot of cases.
Flagging doesn't seem to have any effect these days.
Looks cool. What is the difference between this tools and benthos (https://www.benthos.dev/)?
I'll have to agree with you here. There's no way you can compete with AWS on price per compute cycle. Just compete on the experience and simplicity. That's what's compelling about this.
Yeah I've heard of it but never used it. Looks like they have a backend/runtime for ONNX models as well (https://pypi.org/project/onnxruntime-openvino/) neat!

ONNX really is the universal format. If you can get your model exported to ONNX, running it on various platforms becomes much easier.*

*as long as every hardware platform supports the ops you use in your network and you're not doing anything too fancy/custom :P
Not just California, the entire west coast. Seattle's season breakdown has "smoke" slotted neatly between two chunks of "summer", typically lasting from late June/early July to late August/early September.