skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strange article. It is about an unrepairable pair of shoes that need to be recycled but its title is "Buy well, buy once". Not really the case, then ?

Then he mentions that he has only 192 "worldly possessions". I'd like to see the actual list, because if it is accurate he mustn't have many forks or boxes of food in his cupboards. So he probably lives in a big city, eats out very often, takes public transportation, and basically relies on external services for things he does not have. Which is a kind of lifestyle that has a lot of externalities and does not really have a minimalist impact on society as a whole, so it feels less appealing to me.

I'm rather in the opposite camp, if I have some fixing to do in my house, rather than call a plumber for example I'll buy the tools, learn by watching youtube videos of experts, and do it myself. Not because of a philosophical view of the world but because I like to learn skills and be self-reliant. My possessions also last a long time because I'm often able to repair them.
Have been using Relay for months, I think it's a pretty good product. Shame that it's gotten onto virtually all abuse lists now, it's impossible to use my emails anywhere, even if I have a custom subdomain.
Yes, you are correct. Just doesn't seem to get much respect, or its findings integrated into wider Economic Theory. Or maybe it just takes time.
what we really need is a reddit API facade to onboard all those apps easily.
Show HN: Algomo – Customer Support Powered by LLMs, Web and Neural Search
Hello HN,

My team and I have developed a customer service platform, leveraging the capabilities of OpenAI’s GPT 3.5 and 4, Bing’s custom search, and internal document search functionalities.

Its key benefit is the ability to summarize and cite the top search results.

This AI system makes use of both public and internal search results to provide citations for specific facts. This not only brings more transparency to the generated answers, but also helps improve retrieval accuracy and the overall quality of the response.

We believe in the power of combining the intuitive and transparent UI of web search with the intelligence of large language models. The underlying search and indexing engine provides the necessary context while the interpretation is done by the large language models. To improve the quality of responses, we employ two LLM calls - one to generate multiple queries to retrieve diverse results, and another to generate the final response.

We’ve developed a playground where you can quickly test our system on any website - visit playground.algomo.com.

It’s like integrating perplexity.ai into your customer service. On our full platform at algomo.com, you can use multiple websites and even upload your own documentation from Notion.

We’re gradually developing new features for example allow users to view and edit the generated search queries, integrate other APIs, and AI cobrowsing.

Curious what the community thinks, and what features come to mind when you use this interface.
I think they were referring to the fact that everything has something "wrong" with it, but that those things don't invalidate the value of the greater whole.
This week in AI – all the Major AI developments in a nutshell
https://archive.is/P6hWE
You have to remember, that until 1-2 weeks that 16€ server was more than enough. This was a tiny community and most people (including me) had not heard about kbin, many not even about lemmy.

My eventual plan is to host my own 1-user instance and rely purely on federation.
Yeah completely agree that price is decoupled from quality nowadays and it's pretty random.

Price seems to be based a lot more on marketing and brand saturation than quality. And quality brands get bought up all the time and the new company will coast on the brand while outsourcing manufacturing to the lowest bidder.

And you can't trust reviews with affiliate marketing around.

So pretty much the only thing to do to identify quality is to experiment or share info with people you trust.

I've wasted a ton of money on shitty products on the way to identifying quality products.

I'm not even railing against status. I bought a pair of Alan Edmonds specifically for job interviews to signal status but I wear LL Bean shoes and Crocs the rest of the time.

Also, there's other factors besides just durability and status. There's aesthetics, variable utility, ease of replacement, warranty availability, price, etc.

I hate shopping so I think alot about this haha
How so? Your ISP is still the channel over which the integrity information is sent. Why couldn't they just swap the SRI hashes as well?
Disclaimer: personally I think Burke is one of the more overrated thinkers and the meanderings of his prose, ultimately not making much of a strong argument (I mean his main book here), just made it easier for people to read things into it. An example of books serving as totem authority more than being actually interacted with. I misread the title for Edward Gibbon initially...

But on the topic of "complication", it is worth for people to be aware of two connections of Burke. First is to Thomas Paine, whose Rights of Man prompted Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. Paine argued, ultimately in line with Jefferson, that the French Revolution is justified because it vindicates the natural rights of people which are discoverable by reason. Burke's response is more of less that you cannot reason about politics from first principles, and there are mobs and brutality in France. Which could lead us to a historical discussion about standards of mobs, brutality and state violence in the 18th century in general.

[edit: I checked and it is actually the other way around, it was Paine responding to Burke, but the books can be read as a debate on similar points anyway]

Second, there is a traditional comparison in political science between Burke and de Maistre, which makes me queasy about calling Burke a "reactionary" (even discounting his positive stance on American Revolution). De Maistre argued for eternal authority of Catholic Church barring any change to society, while Burke is seen as an "evolutionary" conservative allowing some change if it is slow and invisible to people, essentially. (One interpretation of course.) It's not that we "haven't realized" it, as TFA suggests, maybe just politicians lack education and basic underpinnings of what they claim to believe.
And in many parts of the world it's not. I think our increased mobility in recent times has also added distance to everything, but that's not the point I'm making above.
Apple Time Capsules still work on 2022 M1 Macs. (Slow but they work)

I got one on FB marketplace for cheap, i think I will put a faster spinning drive in there and should be good until apple kills support.
I think from what they showed off it's not a tool for knowledge workers either. It looks like it has the "iPad Problem" where it's artificially handicapped. If I need another computer and that computer must be made by Apple to do data analysis, programming, or some other workflow not blessed by Apple what's the point? Okay, it'll probably work with PCs through some clunky workaround but that's the point.
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well, looks like it's a non-starter.
I know alt.hackers had a similar rule, and even had a testbed group (alt.hackers.test?) you could use to see if you had figured it out without polluting the main feed with test posts.

The FAQ hint was "it's moderated with no moderator". Everything else was up to you.
Are you sure it was Minnesota? More likely Epic in Wisconsin. They use a modernized edition of Mumps as the platform for their EHR software.

https://www.intersystems.com/news/intersystems-iris-data-pla...
That cast iron plate is most of the weight
How is emacs more extensible than vscode when vscode is an electron app in which you're free to do anything a webpage might? I struggle to think of any thing emacs or its plugins can do that vscode extensions can't, and I'd be willing to bet that the extensions are already available and not "you could do it with dev time"
> All this backlash is going to kill Reddit.

Just like it did Twitter.
Her claim reads like a reformulation of the Epicurean Swerve.
It isn’t a matter of preference, they might not have gotten to the point where they realise it is food, or sates hunger.
Ever tried TCL? Curious on your thoughts.
It wasn't really that the infrastructure was overkill, it was that scalable choices weren't made in the first place.

Remember, the comment I replied to said:

> As a software consultant myself, I'd probably stop the conversation right there and ask why they are building such a robust distributed system — SQS, SNS, etc — without any customers. Still want to be deployed in AWS? Toss the damn app on a single EC2 instance...

But in the article, it's pointed out that SQS and SNS would have been better choices at lower costs for low usage:

> When it comes to the application, if I had been involved from scratch, I would have recommended SQS and/or SNS for the message bus, which are free of charge at low utilization.

Basically, this company is in a pickle because they didn't have architecture experts from the beginning, and the development team started writing an application without much thought to areas where SRE and DevOps teams often get involved: scaling and cost optimization.

Which is another way to say that most startups seem to wait too long to hire DevOps/SRE teams because they are roles considered to be "cost centers:" work that is not directly contributing to the money-making business logic.
Great blog, I learned a lot from it over the years. The confluence of market making and options is especially interesting.

I also used Orc back in the day to trade options, and it's complicated. The thing about options is you have a whole bunch of instruments that are closely related, priced off the same underlying. So there's a smoothness constraint in there that you need to think about (have a google for "non-arbitrage vol surface").

Quickie options tutorial: when you trade an option, you have curvature risk. Meaning that when the price moves, the hedge is not some fixed number of contracts. This can be good or bad for you, depending on whether it's concave or convex. On top of that, normally if your gamma is positive (ie you make money either way it goes) you are paying for it by the option losing value (theta is negative). There's a bunch of these greeks, which are just the sensitivities of the option price to various inputs like price, implied volatility, interest rates, etc. Different parts of the surface have different greeks.

So it's a bit of a balancing act. A sophisticated MM might decide to hold all their greeks within some range. This would mean slightly skewing your prices in some area of the surface in order to entice someone into trading with you, plus keeping an eye on the underlying.

As for market making, it would be nice if prices just stayed the same. People would come and buy things from you for 101 and they would come and sell things to you at 99. You'd just be transporting one order to the other one in time, the perfect middle-man business. The customers win because they don't have to meet each other, and you win because you have 2 more in the account.

Sadly that isn't what happens. Sometimes a guy comes by who wants to buy at 101, and then 102, and then 103. The market has moved, and you being such a nice guy have sold at those prices and are now short when the thing is more expensive. This not cool, but the real problem is that you were standing there the whole time offering product while not knowing what it was worth. What's worse is that you're more likely to get deals when this is the case. This is the adverse selection issue: you have a bunch of competitors when things are plain sailing but then when things move you "win" the deals.

So, what to do? One thing you can do is just not trade with that guy with the massive orders. Find a bunch of punters who aren't dealing massive orders, and deal in opposite ways to each other. Often what actually happens is some guy who is good at marketing builds a business doing this, and since he doesn't know how to also do the market making, he cuts a deal with a market maker. This is what you might have read about. You split the earnings between the marketing business and the risk business.

All of the above is of course helped by being really fast. If you see a bunch of sellers, you pull your bids quickly so they don't sell to you. If you see that you need to move your prices, you do it fast so that you're first on the new price.

There's even more to this game in the form of arbitraging other people's orders, but we'll leave that for now.
Why not use Linux Mint?

It is Ubuntu-based but without the bad parts like snap. So you get to keep access to all the Ubuntu packages but also your sanity.
$50/$500 is a 10%/year yield, which is hard come by in any guaranteed investment. The Crocs will likely have no retained value, while the $500 shoes may be worth something after 10 years.

However, that ignores the cost of maintaining a nice pair of shoes (both money and time) as one needs to clean, polish, and resole every so often.

You might want shoes in two or three colors/styles, which would make the Crocs last 2-3x longer, same for the other shoes, but are you really going to want the same expensive shoes in 30 years?

I think the higher end stuff that retains value and requires less maintenance might be a better example, like if someone is good at buying watches they could get a Rolex that appreciates in value and ends up costing them nothing vs a series of cheaper watches. Or compare to a $500 Apple Watch you replace every couple years. I don’t wear watches, though, and I’m not good at buying or selling them.

Really, I think there are some expensive, durable goods that last longer and are cheaper you might think, but still more expensive once you take into account the maintenance and time value of money. But nice stuff is nice to have, and it’s helpful that you don’t have to replace it so often.
It fits in the "our smartest people are making people click ads" category.
It's literally just the trolley problem, which is valuable and interesting only so far as it shows the limits and practical undecidability of thought experiments like this.

Which, morally sophisticated people inevitably find is almost comically sensitive to details of the scenario or context, and that's it's virtually impossible to find a satisfying generalizable solution. And then singer is just like "no. u simply pull the lever." It's not interesting.
You asking how people know the models being used have changed? If you use the OpenAI APIs to access these models the specific version used is kicked back in the response.

Also: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/continuous-model-upg...

I'm only speaking about OpenAI here, not Bard.
Russian security interests lie:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CredibleDefense/comments/t2mb0c/the...

I feel people bringing realpolitik into this fail to see the not-so-real politik of what happens when national sentiment is misaligned with their interest.

It's all a sham anyway, as if smaller countries are not worthy of self determination and are just at the whims of great powers. And a nauseous point of view.

And it's a moot point as well, considering that Russia is no longer a great power. Russia can barely keep itself together at the moment.
Nice! Debian just works, since decades. Except when you break it yourselves or update Nvidia drivers.
It was originally those who supported Khrushchev "sending in the tanks" to end the Hungarian counter-revolution in the 50's.
Mechanical pollination is more reliable, just not more efficient:

https://firmanpollen.com/
Kotlin is in a tricky place w.r.t. Java because the JVM is one of Kotlin's target platforms. If Kotlin deviated from the JVM too far, it would be harder to migrate to the newer JVM versions.

That specifically applies to things like pattern matching and value classes. Value classes are constrained to single values to allow the Kotlin compiler to do the heavy lifting without involving specific JVM capabilities.

It will be interesting to see how Kotlin evolves with version 2.0 and beyond, with the new compiler and stable multiplatform support.
it was relatively low, for quite some time.
Also the rescue mission and the air force was leaving humanitarian packs here and there with food and essentials, but am not sure if they found anything of that while they were lost
I’m not sure what it is about medical systems, but the next biggest player in this space in the US I believe is Cerner, and it’s largely written in a different oddball language. I used to work at a hospital system as sort of a general purpose developer. Had things gone a bit differently, I very well could still be there as a CCL (Cerner Command Language) guy. It’s a strange hybrid of declarative SQL-like syntax and half-baked procedural syntax.
Are the BNs even licensable in the west?

Fast reactors have much larger concentrations of fissionable material in their cores (due to the lower fission cross section of fast neutrons vs. thermal neutrons.) Because they are critical on fast neutrons, presence of a moderator is not necessary for criticality. For these reasons, rearrangement of materials in a serious accident always has the possibility of reaching a prompt fast supercritical arrangement -- that is, a true nuclear bomb.

I have serious doubts that any of the BN reactors can make a safety case that would allow licensing in the west.

One can conceive of fast reactors that would be licensable (for example, molten chloride salt reactors, where the fuel is distributed uniformly in the salt) but these are just conceptual at this point.
Well, Marcus Aurelius wrote his meditations in Greek.
It was simply a poor name choice by me, didn't realize peaches meant butt (lol). Not to worry though, I will launch the new site/name ASAP.
I've been a big fan of Prof Galloway. He's a long time VR skeptic.

I am too, FWIW.

Methinks Apple is working towards AR. Stuff like Google Glasses, heads up displays, fancy visual overlay apps with iPhone's cameras.

Augmented reality is The Correct Answer™. Some day.

Meanwhile...

First gen Vision Pro 2023 should be more way expensive (+$10,000), with a modest 10k units sold annually. Initial customers are the usual suspects: researchers, education, entertainment, technophiles.

Just get Vision Pro out there, see how it goes, see what people do with it.

The ultimate flag ship product. Like their Studio Display.

Then over the next 5-10 years, zero in on product-market fit. Buying plenty of time for Apple to ramp up their own MicroLED production. Plenty of time for compelling apps to seed the market.
I invite you to look at a map if you think the US would be so cavalier about invading Mexico as it was about Grenada. I'm not saying it couldn't, I'm just saying it's not a thing you do lightly.
> write everything from scratch in kernel mode C because nothing else cuts it.

Neat. Is that all for custom processors too?
Bonkers real estate prices in NC are probably more about people cashing out of higher-price areas and coming here now rather than any future Apple development. I think the Apple (and Google) moves to NC have some impact it's just that NC is attracting a lot of movers from CA, NY, and FL already. Check out:

https://www.ncdemography.org/2023/02/08/where-are-north-caro....)

This says 366K people moved to NC in 2022. That's a lot of folks who come here and probably a bunch are trying to buy houses in the RTP area.
Commercial ISP. People had dialup internet access before there were commercial ISPs.
The Readme doesn't answer it but I struggle to see why you want a c implementation of an ISA.
The "justice" system is indeed that out of touch. Every lawyer everywhere will concur that the only "justice" they can deal with is implementing the law. Actual justice plays zero part in it.

Lawyers want to be programmers. They are as bad at it is programmers are at the law.

The best you can hope for is that your own lawyer can make the law work for you. That is manifestly unjust but all of the other options are even worse. Start by putting any notion of fairness, compassion, or awareness on their part out of your mind, just as you would when debugging a program.
Microsoft has a whole suite of SaaS products they wish to usher us into: Outlook, OneDrive, Office365, and all the rest. Especially with Office, they expect users to abandon locally-installed apps in favor of the cloud apps, which are necessarily delivered via a good, solid web browser.
The way I would put the Crocs thing is that they are not versatile. Maybe you could live a whole life with a pair of Crocs and a pair of well made leather shoes. But in that situation a minimalism extremist might ask: what are the Crocs for? You can wear the leather shoes around the house but you can't wear the Crocs to a wedding.

But I think your point is generally true, though I'm not convinced it is very responsive to this specific article. I didn't get much preachiness from this article, but maybe it was there, or maybe you are familiar with this person's other writing, I dunno.

My take is that "minimalism" is indeed often a status game as you say, but that it also has good insights for the rest of us who aren't interested in those games, but do feel this sense of having too much junk cluttering up our lives.

I'm far from a "true" minimalist, but reading stuff like this over the years has totally impacted my thinking. When thinking about buying things now, I do think about whether I could spend a little more for something I'll be able to use a lot more. Or even ignoring price differences either way, I just evaluate things from this perspective of durability. And I think that's good.
Another interesting facet is that, according to some schools of thought, compression and AI are equivalent problems: The better you understand something, the less you need to memorize to reproduce it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize (and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIXI)

Of course, large language models are (by definition) currently going the other direction, but it remains to be seen whether that leads to artificial intelligence (whatever that ends up meaning).
Yes but then this very statement directly contradicts the "realpolitik" as pect so loudly touted earlier.

It's not about pragmatism, it's a sort of nationalistic fervor!
During my freshman year in North Chicago we swam nude. That was 1970. There was no controversy among the students about it, and I don't recall any adult discussion about propriety. There was a very large concentration of military dependents at the school, and I was one, and military disregard for personal preferences about nudity was considered normal and expected. Nude swimming perhaps got us ready for that experience? The effect of diminishing body shame was probably beneficial as well. Eh, I escaped high school unscathed and I suppose brought away that nudity and sexuality were two very different things.
Well, yes: but gymnos (like the Latin nudus) can also mean lightly clothed. I assume that the men in the gymnasium did exercise unclothed, though.
Bobby Sands died after 66 days of hunger strike, and he was of average weight; others lasted about the same time (± a few days). You can survive for a long time without food if need be, but you also won't be able to do much once starvation kicks in.
The cost of writing software isn't as horrible as the cost of colocating in the various financial exchanges. The market data feed costs are massive and you really need to make a significant amount of money trading just to cover the infrastructure costs.
You could sign the content with the same CA architecture we already use to encrypt it, but leave it plain text (just a thought.)

A browser could render a similar security warning to what it already does, if the signature doesn’t match or if the hash is wrong.
I hope they will have a US cloud region since the European laws are pretty strict and hard to keep up with