skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nostr is pretty good and I was inspired by its idea. However, I didn’t like a few things and that’s why I decided to build my own protocol.

1. Nostr relies on Schnorr scheme for signing the data. While from my research, the patent on it has expired, I also read some other details on how there’s other pieces of it which are still patented. I am not a legal expert, so my understanding on this might be wrong and it might be in the clear.

2. Schnorr is fairly new and not used widely yet. It’s not even built natively in Crypto Subtle which comes built-in in all browsers.

Based on this alone, I couldn’t use Nostr. My implementation uses ECDSA P-384 keys which can be generated using the browser built in crypto subtle library:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EcKeyGenPar...

So this allows one less third party library to rely on the client side.

3. The 3rd reason (and this was one of my biggest reasons) was that Nostr runs on websockets. I didn’t like that at all. Servers are already limited on the number of sockets they can handle. Plus it seemed like unnecessary complexity when vast majority of the developers already know how to use REST api.

So instead of websockets, mine uses a simple REST api with only 2 endpoints: one for creation of records and other for searching for records based on filters. I shared more details here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13x0hzo/_/jmkpll...

And here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/nostr/comments/142v4lu/_/jnasose
Somewhat related: 1TB optical discs for $3 from Folio Photonics (possible vaporware alert): https://www.techradar.com/news/exclusive-blu-ray-successor-w...
subways, trams and buses. good systems can easily be faster than cars dinner thru don't have traffic and you don't need to find parking. for short distances, bikes are also great.
How could you possibly imagine the average city resident uses more energy when dwellings are smaller, newer on average (more energy efficient), and residents are less likely to own a car?
I recall reading about holographic storage[1] back in the 90s, was supposed to become a big thing "real soon".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_data_storage
What a complete scam. If the goal is really to decarbonize as quickly as possible why have income caps on green incentives?

Replacing a gas hot water heater is the same in a $1M home as it is in a $50k one: “one less mouth to feed” and further reduction in the economies of scale demand size that drives cheap hydrocarbons.

>but someone making $200k can afford it!

Yeah but they won’t, “my hot water heater works fine and I can afford the gas bill, why change?”

Or the heat pump one for example. A below median earner getting $8k towards a $15k system does nothing. That extra $7k might as well be $700k to them.

Someone making $200k is way more likely to see that incentive and act on it, getting a crappy 14 Seer AC/gas heat unit out of circulation faster.

Once again, leftist environmentalists sabotage themselves while right wing environmentalists who actually want to achieve goals this century stare on in disbelief.
Yes, and that's sort of the point. We have become unable to build transit infrastructure due to cost disease.

Making it worse for cars in the short term without any concept of how we will make transit better is not great.

Sure we're going to collect money.. estimated at $1B/year, and then what?
More $3B/mile boondoggles?
Maybe we'll have a new subway line funded by the year 2100.
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I suspect the isolation misleads the subject. The subject loses their modes of interaction with civilization, that make civilization so far superior to the low-population density existence of prehistoric hunter gatherers.

Without those modes, the subject returns to civilization seeing only what civilization deprives one of: the great expanses of unspoiled wilderness.

And that produces the existential crisis and criminal insanity of TK.
> While if you’re almost rock solid at 120FPS a dozen 70ms stalls it’s really obvious that something is wrong but the calculated 1% low’s may actually look better.

I think this is an instance of the coordinated omission problem: you cannot simply measure the latency of the frames that were completed, but instead have to consider the frames that should have been delivered during a stall. Looking at frame time percentiles means a stall only penalizes your metric with one bad frame, when it should be penalized for missing several frames and showing the user an increasingly stale image for several average-frametimes.
Could your gut bacteria influence how intelligent you are?
They have electronics sniffing K9s now. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/electronics-sniffing-do...
This would probably get challenged in court as an undue infringement on mobility rights. Only the rich will be able to afford mobility because of this.
being cheeky, but isn't this just another tutorial
I know I'm just one data point, but for my commute to work, taking public transit is about 30 minutes slower than driving at rush hour.
The article implies he was pressured not to leave his pronouns blank, so his move was a petty escalation.
> So basically, you want to subsidize transit by making the transport authority be a slumlord. Got it.

Yes, it's better to have transit company use that money to fund operations than some numbered corp generating profit for wall street investors

Tokyo transit is highly profitable and don't require tax-payer subsidies because they own the land around stations
Broadly speaking, if you don’t want the public to know you’re a liar, simply don’t lie. Otherwise, you have no one else to blame but yourself when the public is shown the person you are.

One could argue Huffman’s actions in this regard have been deeply unprofessional, as well as operating blatantly from a place of bad faith. Savvy negotiation is distinct from lying and pleading extortion.
> I said that not everyone can or will read. This is the third time I repeat this, actually. You didn't read, neither the first nor second time, which demonstrated my point perfectly.

Once again I did read your point, I simply disagree, and still do. Ironically it's only you who doesn't seem to be reading here.

If you're going to continue to insist that isn't the case, then there really isn't any point in trying to have a discussion with you since you can't do the bare minimum and assume good faith.
It isn't the same command, but here's a fun party trick.

echo "main(i){for(i=0;;i++)putchar(((i*i>>8&46&i>>8))^i&i>>13);}" | gcc -x c - && ./a.out | aplay
You’re saying that it’s obvious infanticide is wrong. I’m pointing out that most humans ever have disagreed. Then you’re saying it’s obvious again and that it doesn’t need to be debated. Your “argument” is that the current moral fashions of your society are true and that this is obvious to all.

At best this is an attempt at persuasion by “Everyone else is doing it and so should you.”
HAMR has some serious faults with it's io heads (could rant about this forever), especially given the "reman" logic they use to qualify the durability of the drives.

I'd wait until these actually ship, and we get some data on them. These end up basically being flaky new-age tape systems rather than HDD given SMR is required for this density.
> It's worth remembering that there are more people in slavery than there have ever been

Much like drugs. What is it about prohibition that makes a crime more popular?
> In what world is AWS great?

Mine. And Gartner’s.

I use GCP and AWS, and AWS outclasses GCP handily.
You seem to misunderstand the size of the complexity space we are dealing with here. We take simple algorithms feed massive amounts of data to the algorithms, and the algorithm makes a network connecting it together. Humans did not choose anything about how that network is connected... the data and feedback loop did.

>because we understand the ermegent properties of ant colonies without having made them.

I would disagree. We observe ants and can relatively classify their behavior well, but still have many issues predicting their behavior even though they are relatively simple agent types with a far lower complexity choice space than an LLM+plugin could/does provide.

This is the key, we could not predict ant behavior before observing it, the same will be true for AI agents of large complexity. At least at this point of understanding we could still ask it some unexpected question and get unexpectedly dangerous responses from it.
This is a no-code platform - teams still have to write the tests (which is no-code so... god knows how that is with regards to flakey tests or refactors). So $5 * hours of work effort per month. $25 for manual testing is still far cheaper than I assumed tbh, but I guess this is outsourced to very low cost of living places. Interesting data point though.
> We need high speed rail to connect our cities.

Perhaps we need to slow down a bit, in general?
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In that 3 year old build, you can see the driver disengage out of pure fear before the turn started. You can also see the route planner plotting the corner maneuver. You can then see the same software completing the corner twice when the driver does the exact same thing but merely refrains from overriding.
Do you think dogs and pigs who are aware of what’s about to happen don’t?
> Look at the price of the MacBook Air. Then tell me you can get anything that remotely approaches that level of performance from any other major vendor, at anything remotely close to the same price. Or the same battery life.

I will happily be the one to tell you.

For between $600-700 you can get a gaming laptop from MSI, HP, Acer, Lenovo, and the like with a 12th or 13th gen Intel CPU (e.g. i5 13420H), 8-16 GB of RAM, and a RTX 3050 or better, along with a 512GB-1TB SSD. Single-core performance is just shy of the M2, multi-core performance beats the M2, GPU performance is significantly better, and the only major shortfall is battery life.

As others have said, the M-series is great at power efficiency, but if performance is your only criteria there are significantly cheaper alternatives. Sure, you're going to have to keep your laptop plugged in most of the time and it will probably sound like a jet engine at times, however Apple is NOT the leader in value for performance as you believe.

Regarding battery life, you could approach Apple levels of usage time by undervolting your CPU. Depending on your configuration and hardware, you could gain a couple more hours of usage time by undervolting as well as using integrated graphics and disabling the GPU in favor of integrated graphics.
Malware Bytes helps identify, stop and remove malware Crypto Miners!

In my social circle, the kids Gaming PCs getting infected is very common.

Recently one of my boxes got hacked via a QBitTorrent exploit, and I didnt have Malware detection running, other than the built in W11 system.

I installed Malwarebytes and it detected and correctly removed the malware crypto miner.

FYI they exploited QBT via the web interface, which had default settings, but wasn't exposed via port forwarding to the web. It might have been via UPNP, which was enabled. No idea - but it's a common exploit used to DL a torrent then run a post DL script .bat file to DL and run a crypto miner.

I'd literally had QBT running on Windows for a couple of weeks, having switched from a dockerized setup on a Mac Mini. How Windows allows the running of a .bat file to DL an .exe that can run a crypto miner is just a bonkers lack of security!

Naturally I had to nuke the box from space anyway :-)
Autonomous driving is just another safety and convenience feature, like cruise control or anti-lock brakes. It won't fundamentally change anything. I see no reason to give up owning my own cars even if they can drive themselves. The biggest reason is that I use my cars like a rolling storage locker or mobile base of operations when I'm out doing stuff. There's no way I'm going to deal with the hassle of shared vehicles.
Yeah, this covers the case when turning left doesn't cross any oncoming lanes of traffic - so it's basically the same as turning right on red at a normal light.

Although searching for this now, it does appear to also be allowed from a two-way,[0] which sounds vaguely familiar but isn't really the same as turning right on red.

[0] https://www.michigan.gov/msp/services/traffic-safety/traffic...
> It's only a matter of time before adds are embedded directly into the video stream.

The DVR was such a consumer friendly device. I haven't had to watch a commercial on cable in forever.

The endgame of streaming was always going to be loss of control of the video stream, unskippable ads.

Are all technological advances from now on destined to originate from or be acquired by the same tech giants and inevitably used against us after an introductory period of usefulness?
Current state of whose world? At 13 many of us had been intimately involved in raising infants and toddlers for years. It's not surprising that the 13-year-old in question is a girl.

She was able to do it in the Amazon because that's an environment she knows. Many, many others may not be able to do it in the Amazon specifically, but would be able to do so in a wilderness that they know.
The English word "Self" used in Advaita translations (and all Hindu philosophies and their derivatives like Buddhism) and Western Philosophy mean very different things.

In Western Philosophy they are synonymous with "Self-Identity/Ego" etc.

In Hindu philosophy, the basic idea of "Self" comes from the "Samkhya System" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samkhya) which is what is followed by/built upon by other schools of Hindu Philosophy. In this model, "Self" aka "Purusha" is immutable and untainted/undifferentiated pure Consciousness. In Advaita it is known as "Atman". It is "Prakriti", the other aspect of reality which is mutable, that gives rise to "Buddhi"(Intelligence), "Ahamkara"(Self-Identity/Ego) and "Manas"(Mind).

You can see now how confusion arises when people use the same English word "Self" to describe different things in different contexts.
> Proposals range from charging vehicles $9 to $23 during peak hours, and it’s set to go into effect next spring.

Sounds like a giveaway of use of public streets to the wealthy.
What was the right horse in Iran?
I appreciate your engagement throughout this post, including how you are gently educating the naysayers.
There should be an intermediate layer between views and models, especially if they're getting complicated.

Complications probably come from coordinating more models. So you introduce a Service layer. So Models house logic specific to handling the data within that Model. And Services can orchestrate across multiple Models, or Multiple Services. But you try to keep it as a DAG.

There's always room for pragmatic compromise though...
What a time to be alive!
Such abundance that people will pay to turn tweets into clay cuneiform...
(Sorry for the sarcasm)
NYC is overrated... The good people left decades ago. If you are one of the unfortunate ones who has to actually take the train every day downtown, I can't tell you how many times I've been in fist fights in the train simply because I was wearing a suit on the wall street train, or the christopher street PATH train. People spit on you, they want to fight because you represent corporate america. The trains are BS. Better learn jiu jitsu before getting on one. lol.
With 32TB, nothing would be done “promptly”. Can you imagine how long resilvering this drive would take? These aren’t feasible for RAID setups…
The convention on HN is to link to previous threads only when there are interesting comments there. If readers click on a link like this and don't see that, they'll be disappointed and sometimes come back and downvote the link. That's probably what happened here.

You're of course right that there were lots of submissions but on HN reposts are fine until a story gets significant attention, and the current thread is the first one to do that.
Hmm, I was there right yesterday. I needed a track to go with a very particular side-project, and I was looking for somebody to arrange/design/sing the vocals. I’m 100% sure that a musician will always do a more musical job than me. The problem is that coaxing the exact work that I need from that musician is going to be a pain (that is to say, expensive and time-consuming), because the piece does not (can not) fall into any set genre (which tend to be cheaper to produce).

I’m not going the AI-route. It’s frankly easier, more fun and it sounds better to compose the music myself, and if the project takes off and makes a dime, hire a pro to improve things later.
Yeah, this is a cool hack. I was just giving a cheap answer to the headline. Kind of like pointing out that the shortest quine in many languages is a blank file.
Searchable and sortable H1B salary database
I wonder if the fact that school is out for summer break in most of America has had an effect on user numbers. Most schools let out in early to mid-May.
Thank you; this elucidates a lot.

So it boils down to a question: would you exchange the life of a lone top predator (in a forest with a firearm) to any other kind of life?

For some people the answer would be in favor of the top predator life. To choose the life of a tiger, one just should stop loving anyone. After this, killing becomes mere killing (predators do not "murder"), and the whole idea of destroying everyone else, or at least reducing them to a comparable state of a worthy adversary, becomes pretty natural. Of course technology becomes an enemy, because it gives the rest of humans an unfair advantage; first of all, the key human technology, the society. Certainly a city is an uninhabitable place for a lone tiger, and of course it limits the tiger's freedom in uncomfortable ways.

Some people just really want to see the world burn.
> dunkelflaute last significantly longer than 24 hours

This study is local (to Minnesota). The smaller the studied zone, the higher the intermittency: nothing new here.

The answer I already wrote is also pertinent here;: aggregation is key. During a Dunkelflaute neighbors can provide (also: storage, backup and curtailment).

Therefore a way to considerably alleviate intermittency (even under Dunkelflaute) is to interconnect electrical zones (nations).

Those interconnections are already progressing because they are justified even without any renewable sources, in order to cope with problems and to optimize.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_super_grid

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03605...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26355-z
It’s entirely possible that the model and all of its outputs will be determined to be derivative works of the training inputs. If that happens then, oh boy, not good things for anyone using it, I’m sure.
Autonomous driving would reduce car ownership but it almost would certainly make traffic worse. The cost to get driven around or have things delivered would be less while demand would stay the same.
I don't find Ted Kaczynski's manifesto to be insightful. It points out that technology has flaws, which is frankly quite obvious and is a fact that everyone already agrees with. Furthermore, his proposed solution is crap.

He proposes that we just go back to wilderness, which is bad for many obvious reasons. Technology and division of labor has allowed us to spend our days improving humanity rather than finding food just to survive. We need to find better coordination mechanisms that allow us to apply technology towards good things.
This, right here. Scrape reddit's html and generate a p2p backend store, maybe a decentralized crdt database. Create a clone of reddit's api and provide a new endpoint for apps. Add additional features -- like edit and deletion history -- and everyone is in business again just the same as before.
Nothing has replaced physical music scenes and communities for content discovery. They filter brutally.
As a Rails dev that is having to work with Django lately, I'll give it a read.

The Django fat models and (lack of) code structure in the Django project I'm working on fixing is painful for me!
In evolutionary biological systems 'capabilities break out' common enough in viral and bacterial systems with their fast evolution times. The same thing can occur when new predators are introduced to ecosystems that are not prepared for them.

The question that I assume you have is 'can AI systems experience large evolutionary jumps in capabilities'. I would say yes myself, but you apper to disagree.
Good article but it uses the English word "Self" in a different sense than its usage in Hindu/Buddhist philosophy.

See my explanatory comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36277694
It's interesting, in the context of the original paragraph I totally read that as "dyes" the first time around. I'm usually pretty eagle-eyed at spotting typos, but some neuron of intuition in my brain snuck that one through.
I’m not convinced FUD is a real thing.
In the GP comment, I was reacting to this:

> your intellectual dishonesty

On the internet, combining a second-person pronoun with a pejorative is going to come across as a personal attack.

Even this:

> what you have written is intellectually dishonest

is likely to land as a personal attack.

Moreover, (1) you can't know whether someone is being dishonest because you can't know their internal state. Nobody says to themselves "i'm being dishonest right now", so a comment like this is almost always going to get flamewar-style pushback, which is what we're trying to avoid here. Also,

(2) you don't need this! You can make your substantive points entirely without calling names, getting personal, etc. If you'd please do that in the future, we'd be grateful.

Does this help?
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You specifically said “one class at a time” what did you mean?

> trending towards aggressively simplistic labeling of complex social issues

I think that’s the opposite of true.