skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about availability in India but lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries have come down in price a lot lately and they last about 7000 cycles (15 Years at 80% DoD): https://signaturesolar.com/eg4-lifepower4-lithium-battery-48...
This isn't about invoices or bills, it's about point of sale price labels.
The main problem with this article is that it's only handling the current events, without taking into account that Reddit has a long-standing history of user-hostile decisions.

For example... let's talk about The_Donald, shall we? (inb4: I'm not from USA, "Trump" and "Biden" for me are just "some leaders from some tacoland", so I'm not emotionally attached into this matter.)

Some users were protesting that The_Donald should be banned on the grounds of hate speech. Some said that it should be allowed to exist, for the sake of free speech.

What did Reddit do? Quarantined it, showing that it doesn't care about hate speech _nor_ free speech, while paying lip service to both. And using a bullshit reason to do so (a single post encouraging people to beat cops, or crap like that.)

Why doesn't Reddit outright tell its users its values? Why is it always lying? Why does it put a CEO to disdain the community, with a "we snoos" (something redditors never use)? A: because it doesn't fucking care about its users. That issue predates the 3rd party apps killing, and it will postdate it.

By the way: there are talks that Reddit might finally implement limits on how many subs a mod can moderate. An old request from people concerned about power mods. Why now? (A: because it happens to align with Reddit Inc.'s interests - userbase be damned.)

I'm fucking glad that I've migrated.

[[And the fediverse is nice, the fediverse is great, but if you're a Reddit user and can't stand the fediverse: migrate elsewhere. Don't stay in that sinking ship.]]
> Even if someone sends you raw data you are taking their word that it’s the true data.

With hundreds of millions on the line, is it so much to ask that VC firms employ a couple statisticians to at least do a sanity check on the data? Fake data can often be identified as fake.
Are roommates considered an unreasonable thing now and a sign of poverty?
Yeah that's the part I don't get too.

It's normal for a new local restaurant to get a bunch of good reviews because locals are trying it for the first time and want to help. Then it's normal for reviews to drop off because every local who would leave a review, has. Then it's normal to start attracting negative reviews from people who have never visited because local competing restaurants have realized where the downtick in their own business has come from, and so start trashing the competition. And then the negative reviews stop because the competing restaurants were satisfied they'd left enough negative reviews.

These stories have been going around about Yelp for over a decade at this point. And Yelp has churned through so many salespeople... you'd think there would have been tons of credible whistleblowers by now if this were really how Yelp operated.
And the humans are trillions of tiny nanobots (after a there was a "Grey Goo" event billions of years ago) that formed a hivemind that isn't even aware of all its own parts. :P
ah, cool! thanks for the hint ...if only i knew then ;-)
SO dumps are a great example, it's common to find regurgitated SO data in google search, ranking above the original content.
I have come across this:

https://github.com/FranckFreiburger/vue3-sfc-loader

Might be worth trying. The problem is that these 3rd party libraries may work but you may end up needing a build system for a new library that you may need in the future.

I tried but for complex applications with JS, you unfortunately cannot get away from the build system.
I still remember the confusion the first time I saw someone playing StarCraft I on a firstgen MacBook back in 2007. My first peek over the garden walls.
Bullshit generation as a service.

Well, at least this makes it stand out how much of that was going on manually before it was automated.
> There is no vergence accommodation conflict if you have had cataract lens replacement surgery

This is fascinating to me since I am getting vision corrective surgery soon, where could I learn more about this?
Feelings have a behavioral component that can conceivably operate without consciousness. But they also have a self-explanatory component. I fled because I was fearful. I intrinsically understand this, which is why there isn't an incongruity between my willed actions and my more automatic behaviors. It allows my ability to process contextual information and evaluate action plans to be congruent with my low-context immediate (i.e. unconscious) processing. Consciousness is a part of the boundary between low context processes and high context decision-making. It's not clear to me you can have high context decision-making without consciousness. It certainly isn't an issue that can be settled just by noting that feelings help survival.
> they would have mute sex dolls that cook their favorite meal every night.

I can see how you could believe that under the current conditions and stereotypes that men are subjected to. I don't believe that would last for very long. Men do have needs of intimacy, companionship, and emotional support. We're socialized and punished for vocalizing, and we're manipulated from showing a need for it.

> have something equivalently grotesque to fit their fantasies.

I would argue, for most, we're already in that world. The amount of expectations that women have on men is excessive, and when we don't meet them... women get hostile. (Where are all the good men, shaming, etc). From what I've seen some of the "desirable traits include": "Is overly nice/giving, but not a pushover", "Is desirable to other women, but only will stay with me", "Well connected to his peers, but doesn't play video games or like sports", "Doesn't say or think 'misogynistic'/wrongthink things.. but isn't saying things to find favor with me"
They helped train Google’s AI. Then they got fired after speaking out
Potential customer here. Is dryark up and running yet? On my iPhone it’s a blank page.
That is one of my most favorite books of all time!
Didn't publish in public, I'll see if I can recreate it.
While I haven't verified it, that's Microsoft's own claim so they will have their reasons for citing that number so I won't make a claim one way or the other, but have provided a link to the dispute below(1).

Simula is not a shipping product, which to be fair means I should be comparing it with any announced but not yet shipping product, and probably not with products that were announced 4 years ago.

(1) https://kguttag.com/2020/07/08/hololens-2-display-evaluation...
It would be as bright as the Moon and easily visible in daytime. And satellites would probably have higher error rates from radiation. But we on Earth would not be affected.
They may downplay it but it is likely true. On the Google Play Store alone, the Reddit app has 100 million+ downloads, third party apps have <5 million downloads each. Like it or not, third party users are in a bubble, most people don't care to use third party apps and will see ads just fine.

And yes, due to these kinds of numbers, the shutdown will do nothing. Hell, many subs opened up today and r/all is back to normal.
A complication is the skills curves overlap so while I was a dangerous intermediate at database design 15 years ago, now I am a dangerous intermediate at organization design.
This post just asserts the existence of a right that comes out of nowhere. The rights you have on a website are established by agreement between you and the site's creator. You are free to not post on the site if you disagree with the terms of that agreement. If you choose to post, you have apparently come to the conclusion that the exchange is mutually beneficial.

If you think that APIs for content sites must be free, I think you need to offer more to justify it then this does.
Yeah, the only way you could have it work perfectly would be actually manually reviewing each review. Which would make the business model not work.
It's very laggy for me, and I'm on high end hardware.

{"CANVASES":2,"GPU":{"fps":209,"gpu":"apple m2","isMobile":false,"tier":3,"type":"BENCHMARK"},"RESOLUTION_RATIO":2,"BLOB_COUNT":20,"BLOB_AMPLITUDE":"52.60","BLOB_RADIUS":"2.54","POSITION_X":"4.43","POSITION_Y":"1.72","RANGE_X":"4.64","RANGE_Y":"6.51","SPEED_X":"9.60","SPEED_Y":"4.51"}
Apple doesn't even tell you the clockspeed of their CPUs in their products. This is utterly not out of character at all. The only reason they talk about all the stuff in the M2 ultra is because they are beating up on Windows laptops.
If you're referring to reddit you can just add .json to the URL. eg: https://www.reddit.com/r/blog.json or https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/149ad64/teslas...
This is an amazing point. I was also thinking about the question in the parent, but reading this now makes me realize that unlimited monitors are nice but that's not what I would want for a truly immersive "spatial computing" experience.
AI Centipede
Agreed. I just imagined a bunch of really slow catapults or people using Super Soakers when I saw the title.

Also. F. That.

War is terrible, it is so terrible we created _rules_ for it.

"I will do anything to kill your people, but I won't do that. No I won't do that."
Why not a publicly owned platform instead of forcing private businesses to operate for the good of the general public?

Why not stop building public pools and just force people to make their private pools available for anyone to swim?

Is it because we have seemingly lost faith in the very notion of a republic?
Recursive Function Agents
hey HN! back again with a snap podcast covering the OpenAI updates from yesterday. Commentary from:

Simon Willison (of Simon Willison’s Weblog)

Riley Goodside from Scale

Joshua Lochner (Xenova) from Huggingface/Transformers.js

Roie Schwaber-Cohen from Pinecone

Stefania Druga from Microsoft Research

and many more other talented AI Engineers. My editorial here is an insight I had on the call about recursive function agent design using GPT to call itself if it feels it is warranted. I have the feeling that we are designing a new kind of computer and we just discovered the XOR gate. Let me know your thoughts!
> I agree. I don't think I've said anything counter to that (or perhaps I wasn't being clear?)

I think given the context of the thread (don't touch my secrets), saying that you don't have anything you would consider confidential towards your employer or colleagues is a direct contradiction to what I stated.

That's why I'm "arguing" because my employer/colleagues should not have access to my private key, ever.
> That sounds a little bit like "If I can tell this company is defrauding investors, how can I get in on the fraud?"

That's not how I meant it. I was thinking more generally about pre-IPO companies that you think (for reasons that you can legitimately use when investing in this manner) have dim prospects.
Yes.

If npm lets me publish a new version, I'd be happy to remove the Windows binaries.
Citus is not close to Spanner. No global secondary indexes, no cross-shard ACID (the commit status is eventually consistent). No auto-resharding.
Yugabyte and Cockroach have a spanner-like architecture, but different open-source model and postgres-compatibility. What are those annoying issues?
Yeah. To state the obvious: Apps will no longer run full screen; they will run as a 2D window in a 3D space. When Apple allows it the user will be able to ask the app to go full 3D (well, hopefully).

All of this is: Apple taking further control of the experience.
I do agree that Google lost the spam war.

This is particularly notable when looking for recipes.
Terraform 1.5 brings config-driven import and checks
I would strongly advise anyone considering hosting their own email these days to do literally anything else. You'll be more fulfilled by abandoning email entirely and writing letters with a fountain pen, if you're looking for a new hobby. It's not a matter of if a private server will get blackholed anymore, it's when.
"Model Collapse"

https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-ai-feedback-loop-researchers-...
Automatic Scrum
We are disagreeing. In my experience computer scientists are the dumbest "tech people" of all.

I'm being facetious here, because I'm on a forum dominated by coders and it's a cheap thrill to troll a little bit. So to restate my opinion with less snark, I don't believe software engineers are any more rational or intelligent than other folks in the tech field. Most of the smartest tech people I've encountered have been product folks, designers, researchers, or engineering managers who don't touch so much code any more.

The reason? All those people acknowledge that all the important problems can only be solved collaboratively. They're also less likely to have come in through the comp sci funnel, and they have a more well rounded set of life experiences. Tunnel vision is exactly the problem being discussed. It's like if you're really good at crossword puzzles and you think that would make you a good English Lit Professor. That's coders thinking that their puzzle solving abilities yield philosophical insights.

All the best software engineers are the ones with an intellectual life beyond coding.
I’ve seen entire (dozen reply long) comment chains on a repost (or similar content) that were re-created verbatim from an older post.

Each one garnered the same hundreds of upvotes as the original, and each bot seemed to be part of a network that was farming karma through this process.

Eerie was an understatement.
>Put those together and it's plausible that Reddit wants to go from a discussion site with cats to a cats feed site with meaningless discussion, and a bunch of ads mixed in.

What the current decision makers within Reddit Inc. want is to make the site look profitable until the IPO, and then they don't care about what happens with it. Be it discussion site with cats, or cats feed with discussion, it doesn't really matter for them, as long as it looks profitable.
Here's another perspective - I've seen PE firms do as you described, cut costs and fire employees, just as much as I've seen them inject more capital into a business and help them with further M&A. Having better user experience can lead to increased revenue (better product, improved branding - leading to increased market share for example) - which should equally be an incentive to PE firms as well.

None of the anecdotes you mention counteract the nature of the industry as whole:
https://caia.org/blog/2022/07/20/long-term-private-equity-pe...

I've already caveated that bad investments may occur. My question is why the negatives are being focused versus the positives?
The book, "After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond" (Bruce Greyson M.D.), explores this subject.
Though you need to replace:

return thunk;

with:

return () => thunk();

Otherwise the assignment in thunk does nothing.
> But you can't blame the methodology for that.

Well, this comes around to a perennial debate about agile methodologies in general. Yes, an argument can be made that the fault isn't the methodology, but the poor implementation of the methodology.

However, the case can also be made that if a methodology is rarely implemented correctly, that's because there's something wrong with the methodology.

Most companies (every single company I've worked for, anyway) implement an agile methodology purely to crank up production speed. No other consideration enters into it.
I can see some ways that might go awry (what if I like reviewing every new restaurant that opens?). But more importantly, bad actors will figure out and work around each heuristic like this you make.
It doesn't matter what you did as an engineer, and in fact automation isnt really a big part of the discussion.

If sales people etc have special access to add or remove reviews, which they do, or at a minimum leave negative reviews themselves when you don't pay, it is corrupt. It is well documented at this point that they do this.
What did you find? The code is quite widely used, and I’ve also used it extensively for years without any problems.
For one, it's a message from Reddit — of course they'll want to pretend like it's a no big deal, and one could expect such memo would leak.

But what I'm more curious about is that this memo went out not even a day after the protests started. Both revenue indicators and impact itself might be delayed, especially now that many subreddits chose to extend the protest indefinitely
I'd agree with you on software product docs, and also note that tech writing is considerably broader than software and docs.
> not geared towards productivity? The fact that to run VSCode

Productivity !== coding. Coding is a subset of productivity, but most jobs do not require coding.

I get that you want this to be something else, but a lot of people are incredibly productive on iPads today, and adding the ability to mirror your MacBooks screen means that this platform absolutely has a future in productivity.

HN has a lot of this attitude — “I can’t code directly on it so this is a toy” — and it’s always a laugh for me. There’s … other people? Who want to do other things?
There have been people claiming that they were fully conscious while under anesthesia and felt everything, but were unable to do anything about it. I never really believed this.

One of the most terrifying things I’ve heard (from a final year med student, who was present in many surgeries) is that many patients under anesthesia react to pain. They move away from the knife, sometimes they make sounds as they’re being cut, etc. They just don’t remembers any of it afterwards.

I’ve had a few surgeries in the past and didn’t think anything of it, but now I kinda dread surgeries.
The whole idea is absurd as if we are operating at the optimal peak level of software and the optimal peak level of knowledge work.

I would imagine there are far more people that work with databases today than there ever were people working on filing papers in a filing cabinet. Filing papers in a file cabinet was a massive constraint on what would be stored.

We are highly underestimating a boom in knowledge work from AI breaking so many constraints on knowledge work.
Serotonin is related to social interaction in vertebrates.

Guess what we're doing a lot less of in person in the age of streaming TV and the internet?
It's not what Reddit got wrong, it's what we -- the public -- got wrong. Again.

We can't expect profit motivated companies to provide a true public shared space with shared public values. Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Google -- all of them naturally have their own interests at heart -- not yours -- and as Doctorow explained in the "Enshittification" article, they all go through it. Their shareholders will demand it.

We evolved traditional state run postal services for a reason; but I won't enrage the libertarians here by suggesting we need the same for online forums and suffer the downvotes. I would submit that it's delusional to expect private corporations to provide these kinds of services on the terms we expect once they've gone beyond initial market capture.

Somehow the message needs to get out to stop trusting and embracing these kinds of fake public spaces.

The EFF article submits that "Content moderation doesn’t work at scale"; I'd take a stronger position: social networking does not "work" at scale. It degrades into "social media" and/or walled gardens and/or automated mob manipulation. I hope one of the results of the last year -- with Twitter and now Reddit going through this kind of crazy -- is the partial return of some smaller scale more intimate spaces to replace their use.

Addendum: With LLMs and automated "content" production going seriously"webscale", I expect things to get worse before they get better
Two points in response to this:

I think it's a category error to call word embedding in a vector space "semantic" representation when discussing concepts like understanding. Semantics deals with the referents of words, but in this case there are no referents, merely a list of representational tokens which are defined as being "close in meaning" to the original due to proximity in text or some other structural characteristic. We call the embedding "semantic" because it is useful for human semantic purposes as we can mechanize some translations from one vector to another and receive a useful response that we then assign meaning to, but that usefulness doesn't indicate that the machine itself has any access to the referents of the tokens it's processing or semantic understanding. Put more simply, "semantics" does not merely mean the relationship between several ungrounded tokens, but that is all a vector embedding can accomplish.

Secondly, I think in the chess thread, the prompt being "engineered" in the example is extremely complex and constrains the output space sufficiently to produce high-quality results, but you start to wonder at what point the LLM is not doing most of the work. Meanwhile deeper in the thread we learn that even this prompting is not reliable and occasionally requires giving feedback that the move was bad(!) and repetition to achieve good results "the majority of the time in less than 3 tries". You can see where the practical problem arises, if we want to rely on LLMs for answers we don't already know. Claiming that we have a "general" function that "just" requires arbitrarily varying the input over an uncountably large space until you achieve the desired result is akin to saying f(x) = rand() * x is a universal computer as long as you find the right x. The ad absurdum version of the chess example is running Stockfish, sending a prompt that contains the Stockfish move and a request to repeat it, and then claiming that the LLM draws against Stockfish. However as we have seen with tokens like "SolidGoldMagikarp", LLMs are not even yet capable of reliably implementing the identity function, so I am not sure we can even say this.
Excellent! Thanks a lot!
Fentanyl-tainted pills now found in Mexican pharmacies from coast to coast
Foveated is available on native renderers/custom engines too:

(source: "Discover Metal for immersive apps - WWDC23 - Videos - Apple Developer
" https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10089/)

If they try to hide it by restricting access to reading the foveation texture, you can be sure anti privacy apps like Immersive Facebook will try tricks like recovering it from GPU timestamp queries (render two transparent triangles covering the screen in separate draw calls, find which took the longest, subdivide and repeat).
Reddit literally will not function without the gargantuan amount of mod labor they get for free.
This is good devrel marketing but man… also super disappointing. Taking a bunch of credits offered by 3rd parties and front-running it to pretend youre running an accelerator is lame. The business part of me applauds it, but the nerd in me is so over vercel and their reseller strategy.

How about you guys fix telemetry, or configs, or finish next 13, or fix the auth layer (its a joke).
[false quote narrative removed, I had names mixed up]

Not in the slightest. You see, you can use mastodon.social for exactly as long as it suits you to do so.

If you're the type who will simply never wrap your head around federation, stay there. Sorted.

If you figure it out eventually, you can take all of your content and migrate it to whatever new instance you like. No hassle, no corporation making it difficult because they are trying to keep you coralled in their silo. The flagship instance would absolutely love to help you move off their servers while keeping every bit of your data.

Has this addressed all of your concerns?