skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't intend the comment to be taken that way. Also not sure what other comment I made that was considered flamebait. Maybe I missed that being called out or just forgot. Anyway, steroid use is gender affirming care. They're taken by men who perceive themselves as what society has generally considered a man and they want to emphasize those characteristics. I think it's interesting all the discussion lately of gender affirming care but barely see any discussion on cis/heterosexual people taking hormones and undergoing cosmetic procedures to emphasize those gendered physical characteristics.

I think there are 4 groups of people who take hormones.

1. Those who take them for competitive advantage in sports

2. Those who take them because a doctor has told them that their body is producing less than it should be

3. Those who take them because they want the physical attributes that goes along with it because of how they identify

4. Biohackers

All of those reasons are valid
The article / video mentions a paper discussing theoretical minimum.. I think it's this paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c01194

> desalinating 35 g L–1 seawater at 50% water recovery has a theoretical minimum energy requirement of 1.1 kWh m–3 and a practical minimum of 1.6 kWh m–3.

SOTA is apparently ~3.7 kWh m-3. That's not a huge factor
Not a perfect solution to this scenario, but I have used multiple Firefox profiles in the past this way. The profiles are isolated at the file-system level, so extensions remain separate. So you could have a 'hardened' profile will all the blocking/cleaning extensions, and a 'trusted' profile with no extensions. Profile isolation also covers configuration, so you could even tweak those independently.
It's a point I disagree with, but it's a fair question to ask. I chose to engage with the statement in good faith and assumed the person just hadn't connected the dots fully. People are more likely to be receptive to changing their views if you first acknowledge where they currently stand.
Depends a lot on what sort of software you're building.

A lot of code has complex requirements and simple implementations, but the opposite definitely happens too. Rarely in risk-averse business environments, but in R&D-adjacent work it's common.

You can have straightforward requirements (e.g. "return true if the provided HTML code is a blog post"). The difficult part is discovering a means of satisfying the requirement.
You can if you are the one controlling their resource allocation and surrounding environment. Similar to how kings kept smartest people in their Kingdom in line.
was it really constructive for this pioneering tech to choose the actual "devil" as a logo? then the move to shiny plastic look for the logo? long-standing public divisions with no end.. niche opinionated choices sure, but dont be surprised at the results.
>Pointing out that our copyright/IP system is broken is easy. And you're right, it's totally broken! Coming up with a fix is hard work.

The problem I have with these arguments is they ultimately tend to boil down to the devil you know or the devil you don't know.

We keep claiming when something is broken we must provide a "fix" and the assumption is that fix has to be better than the current approach. There's pretty much no way to guarantee this because the systems in place are the only systems with evidence. So, because we have other ideas, we dare not try them because they have to "fix" the problem. The amount of inertia that keeps corruption in motion bothers me and at a fundamental level most of the inertia comes down, ironically, back to property ownership. If we abolish copyright or change it we have to make sure things are fair/equitable. Well sure, that's ideal, but what we have isn't even remotely fair and equitable anymore, so even something broken is likely an improvement.

We have no willingness as a society to try some modifications and be willing to accept failure, then shift to the next modification and iterate around until we get something sane in place. As such, the systems in place remain in place and more and more holes are found to exploit as time progress.

Our systems need to be more adaptable. Founders of the country understood that which is why they made the legal system a legal adaptable system. The question has always been though, what is the threshold? We've played it safe so long that much of the entire system designed to adapt to fix these issues has itself been targeted and gummed up intentionally to prevent that.
If it was just about installing someone, anyone at all into power we would have maintained a monarchy. Instead, ideally, political parties and their representatives are meant to, well, represent the political views of their supporters.

For instance, my beliefs are not well represented or even respected in this “two” party system, so I don’t vote. A lot of people are disillusioned with the current power struggle in the US, finding it an ever-increasing joke. Until we get politicians that actually represent and more importantly respect the people, then that won’t change.

So no, saying “I hate the repubs and dems” synonymously with “I hate the ‘two’ party system” is not a mistake. Because they are synonymous.
> your only way of fighting back is using Firefox and Safari

Then I have no way of fighting back, because I don't use Apple machines and Firefox no longer meets my needs and I have significant performance problems with it.
Startups: You Don’t Need a CTO (Yet) (2017)
If a jurisdiction releases you but does not prevent you from performing an obligation, licences do not typically consider that a reason for invalidation of the licence.
That might be a good pick, IMO the word has negative connotations elsewhere, but in tech circles seems basically neutral.
My assumption was that the original comment was about professional athletes. For them any delay to returning is generally considered disastrous, and reconstruction success rates for them are near 100%, their recovery timelines are extremely quick, and doing PT all day isn’t really that different from what they normally do. Recovered performance is also incredibly good these days in most cases.

This conservative approach could become the default for most everyone else, but for professional athletes 90% success is not going to fly.

If the original comment was about casual athletes then none of this applies.
> Anyone attempting to solve climate change with software is at best skimming value off of the work being done by others in the physical world

With respect - I bet a dollar that the folk at Zoom have done more to reduce automotive pollution than your startup. No hardware startup could have enabled WFH in the absence of calendar, messaging & video conference software.
The fastwebsockets library one of our team developed gives uWebSockets a run for its money under a lot of circumstances (though we trade performance improvements and the top spot back and forth).

We're constantly working on improving the performance of Deno from top to bottom and it's a marathon.

We don't want to be fastest at the expense of security or maintainability and the results from the last couple of months have been pretty awesome.

I can't necessarily speak for priorities at any point in time, but I can say that performance is very important and literally what I'm working on most of the time.
You also literally can't even launch an iPhone past the initial screens without creating/logging into an Apple account. At least Google lets you use an Android phone without forcing an account.
Isn't the issue that Google/Facebook sell ads and make money from linking to news sources? And those news sources have their costs but don't see any income?

I think about this often when I read a story on some small-town newspaper, and know that the newspaper is making nothing off of me and millions of others reading their story.

Didn't Australia implement a similar law and get Google/Facebook to pay something?

There's a similar issues with some news sites basically copying or rephrasing the content of a newspaper story. I've seen news stories by third-parties, where the story lists their source as "The New York Times"

It's tough to figure out a way to compensate the people who create the news, and the people who disseminate the news.
Show HN: I made an open-source template for building multi-tenant apps
Imagine an OS specific bug that could lead to failure. Now imagine you're using that single OS everywhere.
You're describing exactly why it's painful for threads. If you only cancel co-routines at yield points (which unless you do dark magic is the only time you can cancel them) is always safe.

A co-routine that yields in the middle of an atomic operation is an oxymoron. Anything can happen before you're scheduled again.
Why do we hate process?
Why is a searching file manager a value add? I usually structure my filesystems to the point I know where everything is going to end up before it gets there. The only exception is image files, and even then, I try to structure things to keep the madness constrained.

The only thing that adding search to a UI ever seems to accomplish in my experience, is giving UX people an excuse to foist another query language on the user, and decreases the overall navigability and discoverability of a filesystem.

Yes, I understand there are lost causes who don't know anything exists that isn't on their desktop; in fact, more exist than is necessary because we've stopped exposing people to the fundamental units of organization inherent to information storage.

It's at the point where every time I end up using a search bar, I twinge, because someone couldn't be arsed to figure out a way to help me actually come to terms with the shape of my data.
Yep. As long as you give Deno.serve a certificate and private key and you get modern TLS, HTTP1 and HTTP2.
As someone who dabbles in electronics, I found this to be a cool debugging scenario. The "aha" of the LED doubling as a diode in the circuit, and the fix from that was really interesting to me.

It's a small anecdote, but inspiring since I hope to also get to the point where I can repair something on the component level one day.
no you have to create your own dataset
Batteries will always been heavy and be dependent on large quantities of mined materials. The advantage of hydrogen is that it is made from water. So the raw materials used to make hydrogen will trend towards zero, similar to what happened with wind and solar.
That’s basically how dams and reservoirs work. It just requires a lot of space to store water.
Because the "AGI" pursuit is at least as much a faith movement as it is a rational engineering program. If you examine it more deeply, the faith object isn't even the conjectured inevitable AGI, it's exponential growth curves. (That is of course true for startup culture more generally, from which the current AI boom is an outgrowth.) For my money, The Singularity is Near still counts as the ur-text that the true believers will never let go, even though Kurzweil was summarizing earlier belief trends.

It's just a pity that the creepy doomer weirdos so thoroughly squatted the term "rationalist." It would be interesting to see the perspective on these people 100 years hence, or even 50. I don't doubt there will still be remnant believers who end up moderating and sanitizing their beliefs, much like the Seventh Day Adventists or the Mormons.
Worth noting that Microsoft lets you set up single-machine passwords (they call it a PIN) that you can use to access a user account on a machine without having the password for the associated MS account. That way you can have a secure (and changeable) MS account, but the single-machine PIN can be something you don't need to copy/paste.
I'm not using Deno yet (I'm about as bleeding edge I want to be with my serverless services built on TS) but I love these updates and look forward to the day that I feel like I can start to use it.
Yes I do but there's no innovation without someone taking that first step. It was from IE that we got XmlHttpRequest.
Hey Ben, great to see this progress!

Is it a goal of LiteFS to serve single-instance deployments as well as Litestream does? Would you say LiteFS has already achieved that at this point, or would Litestream still be the better match for single-instance apps?

I've experimented with LiteFS and liked it, but all my apps are single-deployment, so I've stuck with Litestream. But I know LiteFS is receiving much more investment, so I'm wondering if Litestream is long for this world.
If you just want to chill, you definitely don't need any of the phd stuff. Pretty much everyone chills occasionally.
I don't think there is a basis for this reasoning

LLMs don't know what's right automagically, a model fine tuned by a hedge fund is definitely better than just an LLM's hallucinating something
Sure, there is a lot of code that is doing something, but is it doing the right thing correctly and efficiently? It's likely that a > 500k sloc project is filled with low quality and inefficient code. I'm pretty sure this is a natural law. The only way to limit this is by placing quality and efficiency among the highest virtues, which is essentially anti-capitalist.
Related: I am working on the Neanderthal alignment problem.

You see, my great great… grandfather promised a Neanderthal that we wouldn’t wipe them out.

So far we are incubating some Neanderthal fetuses- hopefully they are viable.

After that, we plan on eradicating all Homo sapiens that always wind up out-competing. We are going to do this humanely as possible, you can pick any one of eight time slots to jump into a volcano, whenever is most convenient for you.

Our profit model is going to selling a mind-downgrade service. We will scan your brain for a few, and insert it into a Neanderthal, before you jump into the volcano. Of course the full fidelity of your thoughts are not comparable but we will try our best.

Bon Voyage!
I also love the steam controller but honestly I think its biggest innovation was the community collaboration aspect of sourcing controller configurations. There is a lot less trouble in getting into a game initially if I can browse a ranked list of the best configs and seamlessly switch between them.
Then the executives and board members should face jail time and the company should be forced into bankruptcy.

Otherwise what prevents other companies from paying any of their obligations? This isn't the wild west, this needs to stop and right now.
Not any more. The ban on clothing importation was recently enforced and my friend lost their business, and their shipments were seized. This will likely affect the business discussed in this post.
But if they know there was a malicious update, being distributed through infrastructure they control, why not immediately block it altogether? (The notion that they have an explicit list of every, say, bank, stockbroker, crypto exchange, etc., so they could disable it for only those is... awfully suspect.)
I read none of the implications you meant in the slightest. In a hotting area, this is a natural thing for a company to do, which is accelerate.
My startup https://printnanny.ai/ provides monitoring/automation SaaS for 3D printers, but most venture capitalists I've met (including YC partners) categorize PrintNanny as a hardware startup.

I offer Raspberry Pi kits due to shortages/scalper bots. Most of my customers can't find 1-3 Raspberry Pi 4, but I'm able to place orders for 50+ units. I'm not sure if I'll continue the kit line of business; fulfilling hardware products as a solo founder is tough.
Your own conclusion paragraph states that the code for 2024 is 1, but your pre-calculated table says different.
What's to stop them from updating the language? I mean we are not stuck with JS version 1 either.
Deterministic? Not anything that is "one size fits all". If your documents are of an unpredictable shape, then ML is your best bet. For both NER and QA, BERT models are very capable.

To your first question, most of my ML work is proprietary, unfortunately. I am hoping to change that in the near future.

Edit: spaCy is a great library for NER, if you're hoping for an open-source solution that can have you hitting the ground quickly. SQuAD for QA.
You totally underestimate how much baby fever tax first time parents are willing to pay using the logic "once in a lifetime only".
Why was the government of Canada advertising on Facebook and Instagram anyway?
With all the hype around server-side webasm I decided recently I'd try to implement a project in this. Cool but just in case anyone else figures the same just keep in mind that webasm is still 32-bit and as such if you need more than 4GB ram in whatever you're doing, well, that's your ceiling for now until they figure that out come next year or so.

The Deno ecosystem itself needs some work for sure. I think alot of other comments already said everything better regarding that but it's still nice to know that we have something to write typescript in that doesn't just target nodejs.
Worse, you will be taught how to not think.

Books can also lie, but at least there is room for truth in them.
Small business already have all the relevant characteristics of selling B2B. They have much more in common with a large multinational company than with a consumer, with regard to the sales techniques we use.

The main difference I see is, that with B2C you need to find a useful product and the rest is marketing. This is my simplistic view as somebody who doesn't do B2C. There is lots of nuance, but I believe you need a similar skillset for most B2C ideas.

B2B has a larger logical component to product design and sales pitch and a much more individualised emotional component.

The logical component is about what to sell to solve a specific problem. If you have different products that each increase a company's revenue by a million dollars, some of those won't sell for 0 dollars and for some you can charge more than a million. Why? Because the company doesn't make any decisions. The people within that company will buy what helps them and a sales representative will pay a million of the companies money to make a million more in revenue, because his numbers go up.

For the restaurants that means they might not pay anything for automation in regards to online delivery, because they don't even recognize how much time they waste. If they don't see a problem or only a temporary problem you won't sell your solution.

The emotional component is also very individual when selling B2B, because people have hidden agendas. They want a tool because their numbers go up and then they get a promotion. They want to start a project to make their boss pat them on the back. The want a tool that saves them time, so they can go home earlier and see their kids.

You see it's all about finding the right angle to solve a problem in B2B. It needs to solve some problem for the business and it must solve a big problem for the person you are selling to that they are emotionally invested in.

With restaurant owners it might mean that saving the owner two hours a week is worth nothing to them because they still need the same number of employees and it's not their two hours but their employee's.
a name change. yes im serious.
Yes, but the immediate emotional response to this stuff is not rational or well informed.

At least in my case, when this stuff just came out and I didn't really understand it...
> There was no serious expert that did not warn about the severe negative repercussions.

This is surprisingly often the case, not just for criminal law (or "security law") changes, but even in general lawmaking. And way more often than not those experts are spot on. Be it obvious loop holes in regulations, tax code issues, eroding civil rights, obvious unconstitionality of many surveillance (and many other) laws, obvious abuse potential and so on. It's a very long list.
A large part of it is that heat pumps only within the past decade became efficient enough to install in northern US climates, where temperatures are below freezing 4+ months of the year. It's relatively easy to design an air-source heat pump that will work efficiently down to freezing, it's much harder to design one that will work efficiently well below freezing, and frankly the A/C manufacturers who traditionally sold to the US market haven't really tried all that hard (they probably don't/didn't expect a large enough market to offset the development costs). It's newer market entrants from Asia that are really pushing the envelope of heat pump efficiency and making it feasible.
If you had posted this above, it would of course have been fine. The trouble is that a one-line comment that simply names a divisive theme and contains no further information is liable to be misinterpreted.

Re prior flamebait comments, I was thinking of (at least)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36546191 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36541462.
I apologize profusely for deigning to ask you to talk to me.

It's not an excuse but I thought your opinion might provide me insight, but your behaviour makes clear it'll be utterly worthless.
I still think the largely-popular opinion that OpenAI is an evil corporation is wrong. It's easy to get caught up in the disagreements surrounding closed and RLHFed-to-death models, but I really do think OpenAI believes in the dangers of AGI/superintelligence. Enough to spend a lot of financial and social capital on it, anyways.
Use one or more service threads to do most work off the UI thread.
Nodejs support for "single executable applications" is getting there - this issue below is preventing wider adoption at the moment:

"The single executable application feature currently only supports running a single embedded script using the CommonJS module system."

https://nodejs.org/api/single-executable-applications.html

Should be an awesome game changer for node.js when the feature gets rounded out.

Also check out vercel's `pkg`: https://github.com/vercel/pkg/issues/1291
Shouldn't you first prove that a solution could exist?

To me it seems fairly obvious that you cannot control something that's smarter than you.
*typical American household uses directly.

Don't forget food, industrial, etc
In my opinion these are the two alternatives and we're left making educated guesses. I mean it's clearly rumors, but look at the scientific results on your bread and butter language modeling tasks you see any clear basic architecture wins. For instance look at hellaswag results, https://rowanzellers.com/hellaswag/. GPT-4 is impressive, but RoBERTa is not far behind and that's from 2019. It's from 2019 is the point I'm trying to drive home. T5, RoBERTA, Transformer XL, all old as hell (for ML/AI) architectures but still pretty top contenders.

At this point I think we'd see more big and basic results at top conferences if we expect AI to keep scaling in "intellegence", but damn we're close to solving human language modeling in limited contexts.

That's still huge, along with the advances in computer vision in the last 10 years and generative art, the rate of breakthroughs is incredible, but we're also going to be hitting brick walls now and again.
I wonder if the brine could ever be valuable enough to extract minerals from. I keep hearing about how many tons of x mineral is in seawater.
It’s not money where their mouth is…

It’s paying a cost of doing business. The minimum theater required to minimize expected regulatory cost.

They want to own the saftey issue so they can risk your life for their profit.
Because the browser is on top of the computer. Show me a browser implemented in hardware (not on top of a general-purpose computer) and I might change my mind.
What GUI system are you referring to? As far as I know, pretty much all major UI frameworks use a single thread, or at best a gui thread and a render thread.