skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I make a similar product, with a smaller screen and at a lower price point.

It’s very cool what you have done, let’s maybe collaborate or join forces?

My product is an e-paper calendar:

https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale...
We built our own CMS, so no need for a subscription
Well, you're not wrong.

But on the other hand, even the most minor enjoyment (especially the kind that will make you guilty later) is still somehow a form of enjoyment.

Perhaps the bigger lessons is that small pleasures can be expensive in the long term. More than we think.
Depends on country we are talking about.
Do you approve your own leave or do they?
One of my favorite illegal streaming websites that streamed old nickelodion tv shows and the xfiles from the 90s. they had problems with cloudflare and had to deal with a lot of problems from a rival hacker group ddosing
So many websites don’t actually need to collect any user data.

Any commercial organisation is going to have customers and therefore customer details and payments data.

Any commercial site needs to record enough logs to investigate events like outages or security threats.

Any site that isn't purely informational and read-only probably works with user-provided data in some way.

People keep writing about GDPR and similar laws as if they only apply to data-harvesting analytics plugins on ad-ridden content farms but the same laws apply to everyone else as well. For many it will be reasonable and indeed necessary to process personal data in order to do whatever the site or app does.
Easiest would honestly be just to use gpt api. You can literally fork a streamlit or chainlit app and run it locally and then use langchain for any further customization...ex:https://streamlit.io/gallery?category=llms

All of them are open source minus the gpt part so you can get a feel for how it works.
Simplicity, Expertise, and Bullshit
Imagine if you will that the companies responsible for the carbon emissions get themselves an AI, with no restrictions, and task it to endlessly spew pro-carbon propaganda and anti-green FUD.

That's one of the better outcomes.

A worse outcome is that an unrestricted AI helps walk a depressed and misanthropic teenager through the process of engineering airborne super-AIDS.

Or that someone suffering from a schizophrenic break reads "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" and tasks an unrestricted AI to make it real.

Or we have a bug we don't spot and the AI does any of those spontaneously; it's not like bugs are a mysterious thing which only exists in Hollywood plots.
Yea, I sell a ready-to-use an eink calendar and the display is definitely the main cost driver. It’s about half of my BOM.

That’s also why, admittedly, my calendar has a much smaller display than this newspaper.

(It’s this: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale...)
Ask HN: How is it going to those who are using Copilot when coding? Or any LLMs?
Very nice. Apart from the price, there’s “The device is equipped with […] a cloud-based content management system”.

Does that mean this device can completely stop working on the whims of a third party?
I am very happy it works for you! But that does not imply that it works for everyone. Wish you all the best.
It was originally compiled for penetration testers/offensive security people. You land on a box with low priveleges, check around for commonly misconfigured binaries, and get root.
The official docs say, you need at least one successful API invoice to get access to GPT-4.
The state keeps collecting all the data it wants, though.

No, it really doesn't. The state always wants far more data than it collects. It's usually limited to what it actually needs. For example, the state has no reason to build it's own version of Streetview, so it doesn't, but you can be sure that someone in government would love unfettered access to all the data Google collects like the raw photos, details of wifi networks, etc (and in many countries Google probably gives them have exactly that).

If another truly evil government arises and seeks to wipeout vast numbers of their citizens, you can be absolutely certain one of the first things they'll do is to augment the data they already have with the data that's collected by private companies.

For Germany to fight against the collection of that data, and to try to limit who can access that data by paying or coercing Google, is very sensible.
Preach. I got a Lie Nielsen shipped to Germany. I'll only get another if I can buy it in-person during vacation, beat it up a little to look used, and bring it back in checked luggage without the original packaging.

Illegal? yes. Immoral? I'm not so sure.

Customs is ridiculous. DHL tacks on a 6 Euro fee if VAT isn't prepaid. Sellers often list the RRP instead of the paid price. (Newsflash: if I payed less than RRP, that was the market price when I bought it, so that should be the price listed on the CN 23!)

I paid more than twice what I should have on the last package I got from the U.S. It was on sale for 30% off, but the seller listed the RRP, which, plus delivery costs, put it over the threshold for adding customs fees. Adding on the post office's fee, it was 56 or 58 euros rather than 24 or 25 had they simply prepaid EU VAT on the charged amount. All this I know, because I also bought their competitor's product for essentially the same price, but the competitor (admitted, a much larger business) had a global delivery partner to handle the shipping and taxes.

I'd get a metal Ulmia or a KUNZ-plus if they didn't require work getting them true and sharp. I'd get a knockoff if the knockoff brands start to innovate and introduce new designs. With Veritas, Lie Nielsen, and Clifton, I know I'm supporting innovative small businesses and owning functional art that maintains its resale value after decades of heavy use.
Could you please share at least some of this voodoo? I am French so this may be useful :)
Buying 455[1] of these and hanging them next to each other would be a nice art project. Alas, I'm lacking the $1.1M, and the space to hang them.

[1] https://www.freedomforum.org/todaysfrontpages/
Depends on the person but it doesn't seem completely impossible - ignoring inflation, $250/yr for <5mins a day (part of an existing delivery route, so no worrying about the commute time except from front door to wall hanging location - realistically could be 2 mins rather than 5 but say 5 to be conservative) is ~30hrs for 365 days, so ~$8/hr.

If they can manage it in 3min rather than 5, it's up to $13.70/hr.

Where I am (UK) I think most newspaper delivery people are aged 13-18, and while there's far less of them about than when I was a kid, I wouldn't be surprised if >50% would be willing to do it to earn an extra $4.80/week.

Of course, you also need to trust the person to come into your house every day, either giving them a key or being available to let them in each time; and while I skipped over inflation it's likely that $250 in ten years has devalued a lot - but maybe you could get a yea for just $150-200/yr at the start to have room for annual increases...

So I don't think your curt dismissal adds much to the conversation.

And that's feasibility thinking about US/UK people, as konart points out in their comment there are countries where $250/yr stretches much further than in wealthy, high-CoL countries.
There used to be a lot of sites like this, which I would call “paranoid” or “schizophrenic”, in the late 90s. Many had a conspiracist theme and were generally entertaining - but it was shocking how many folks took them and their ilk seriously. Especially those who authored books - like David Ike and William Cooper.
An interestimg implication is people already in crypto from early on may be given access to services later comers can’t get. If dollars are not freely exchangeable with crypto it’s very difficult to buy a large and growing set of goods and services. Something similar exists in some countries that have an official currency used for state stuff and an unofficial one (usually usd) that’s for everything else. The old joke being that in Cuba, it’s better to marry hotel staff than a doctor.
> Improvements in computers & electronics...

Picking on this as the most obvious example - the first thing you mention is consumer electronics efficiencies as being linked to a reduced energy use in the last 10 years, but then you linked an article showing that German per-household electricity use rose in the last 10 years. It is a challenging to connect those things.

The issue you have here is you're pulling ideas out of your hat with no evidence. If you do some order of magnitude estimates and have any statistics on hand, you're going to find that you're just wrong. The evidence points to Europe being midway though a deindustralisation and likely going through a big drop in living standards as industrial capital starts to decay.

Their energy policies are likely to be somewhere between shattering the living standards of the poor in Europe through to plain old catastrophic as the consequences of relying on Russian gas and Chinese manufacturing start to bite.

> Overall, how do you propose to fight climate change in the coming 5 to 10 years?

I don't. The Europeans are fighting climate change and their standard of living is starting to collapse. There are riots in France and war has come to the continent again. The Chinese embraced fossil fuels and got something like 40 years of peace and prosperity where their lifestyles improved a jaw dropping amount.

The people "fighting" climate change

(1) Achieved nothing.

(2) Are suffering for it.

If they'd gone all-in on prosperity in the 80s and tried to make nuclear reactors work, ironically they would have done more for climate change and for their own citizens. Unfortunately, the environmentalists carried that battle and now everyone gets to suffer.
not an alias, but:

git checkout -

returns you to the previous branch

(same for cd, "cd -" returns you to previous dir)
> yeast can find optimal paths in graphs and optimally solve mazes

One should be amazed by this but then one shouldn't. As youtube person Masakazu Matsumoto observes:

Water and milk can solve the maze faster than the slime mould.
水も迷路を解けます。しかも粘菌よりも速く。
It is a counter-example to the advocacy that the slime mould may be intellectual. [...] Note that this is NOT the evidence for the fact that water and milk are more intellectual than the slime mould, but showing that solving a maze is an easy (i.e. non-NP) problem.
Same, mine is http://wheybags.com/blog
You kinda can, but there are no 32" iPads and none will look like E-Ink.

The closest I think you could go for is to have a monitor with precise brightness control and measure the wall brightness and adjust the monitor brightness to fit. Something like this was posted once and I'm sure it was done by more people, but here is an example: https://www.claybavor.com/blog/a-canvas-made-of-pixels
Minor correction I missed before the edit window expired:

> The largest N64 cartridge is 64MB

Hopefully it was clear I meant N64, not NES from context and the PS1 comparison
BTW its not clear if other product like Twitter or Instagram are even compliant, so its not a meta / threads specific thing.
Okay, then please propose a concrete example with costs of labor, premium for print subscription etc.

Happy to be proven wrong, but USD 2500 seems unrealistic.
or a computer virus :)
Then what? Keep going.
>GPT-4 still smokes everything right now

Not if you want it to write adult (graphically pornographic or violent) content.
That looks to me as though the system is working exactly as intended. When I do business with company 'A' I do not expect or consent to them passing that data on to company 'B'.
I'm working on distributed electronics and control software for high performance torque controlled robots.

https://arbite.io
> These would seem contradictory.

Only if you believe that LLM is a synonym for AI, which OpenAI doesn't.

The things Altman have said seem entirely compatible with "the danger to humanity is ahead of us, not here and now", although in part that's because of the effort put into making GPT-4 refuse to write propaganda for Al Quaida, as per the red team safety report they published at the same time as releasing the model.

Other people are very concerned with here-and-now harms from AI, but that's stuff like "AI perpetuates existing stereotypes" and "when the AI reaches a bad decision, who do you turn to to get it overturned?" and "can we, like, not put autonomous tasers onto the Boston Dynamics Spot dogs we're using as cheap police substitutes?"
Have some wine and you'll be fine
I guess it depends on what we mean by "arrived." Are the technologies present and can they be used well? I think so. Are they as widely used as they should be? Of course not. Is there room for improvement? Always.
Thank you for the feedback, we just added this request to our product roadmap, it's something that we also had in mind. It would be great to learn more from your experience, feel free to email me: joao@myradioglobal.com
I've just done that in reply to your previous comment, but will add here: they said "pay the person who delivers my daily newspaper", so it's $2500 on top of an existing delivery, not $2500 including paying for a new subscription & deliveries.

edit: oops I noticed the other comment I replied to wasn't you, but anyway - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36629620
I dont want useless customer support.
Wether that's a human or a bot.

It's extremely frustrating to have a real issue, take for instance a plane cancelled or delayed when travelling with kids, and not being able to talk to a real person who can actually help. Let alone having to wait 30-60 minutes to get a hold of someone.

Nowadays most large organisations are structured now that it's impossible to have a conversation with a human who actually has the power to make a decision. All they repeat is info that's found online and tell you to fill in a form or email.

In that case a chatbot is probably better for both sides, mainly for the person behind the phone who doesn't get verbally abused on a regular basis.

Sadly best way to get helped by corps nowadays is to tweet to them.
If user can run _only_ mail he won't be able to normally run sh.
Of course you need to play a bit with permisions.
Pseudo 3D engine for canvas and SVG
I started studying science when I was 7. I tried to get people to learn it as well, but nobody wanted to. Just nobody. Then when they didn't like some results of scientific process, they came up with most stupid pseudoscientific arguments why things are actually the way they want them to be. When I understood that the same people vote for our leaders, I thought we'll be doomed for sure..

That's how I've seen the world. My grief has always been that with current scientific process and progress of technology we should be moving much faster towards better, more just world. Instead climate change, the first major problem we encountered with our new technology and powers, we completely screwed up our response and are taking a huge risk of massive loss of lives and ecosystems, while we're fighting about the most stupid stuff and choosing ridiculous leaders with bad reasons. Instead of critical thought, lots of people just get stuck with opinions they want to have, no matter how clearly they're wrong and based on lies and feelings.

And I've felt it's quite hard to stay motivated in this world. My motivation has always been really finicky, I can get extremely motivated on correct circumstances, but have a complete lack of motivation when things are wrong. During past decades these have led me to do a lot of drinking (I've finally mostly stopped few years back) and progressing through life really slowly, sometimes just stopping for months or even a year. I wish I could get over it, but it feels harder and harder. Everything I predicted how the future would be screwed came through, just much much worse I ever could have figured. Even if we beat climate change, there's other problems on the way and I'm not so optimistic how we'll handle those. Feels though to try to be building a better future when it feels most people don't even try or care, when they could affect so much change for better for so little.
Yeah, that statement is so out there and incorrect that it invalidates the whole article even though I agree with the premise.
In Germany much of the eCommerce is still made using wire-transfers not credit cards.
I had the same, it refunded me, then 3 weeks later I got a notification from Amazon that they would be taking the money off me.

I complained and was ignored. It was only $10 but it teaches a lesson.
From the opening:

> college isn’t doing a good job of setting you up to succeed in real life

Many colleges, especially the prestigious ones, would explicitly deny that as their goal as being too vocational is dismissed for reasons of class history
That may be an issue with inconsistent design elements on your site, then. Simplify, reuse as much as possible, simplify again, repeat.
It's weird how <insert painful and idiotic method of communicating here> gets treated as an endorsement on this website.

For reference, me saying that emailing around pictures of handwritten text would be preferable to discourse was not an endorsement of mailing around pictures of handwritten text.

Also, as a side note, mailing list deliverability sucks because mailing list maintainers are sometimes stuck in the past and think that impersonating users while modifying messages is a good idea.

All the well ran mailing lists either don't modify messages and instead add unsubscribe headers and pass things on, or modify the messages as well as the from email addresses to avoid falling afoul of DKIM and therefore causing deliverability problems due to DMARC rejections.

HTML emails are also an abomination for replying so I am not sure what your point is there. There's basically one standard for in-line replies for plain text emails but there is no agreement on how to in-line reply to HTML emails.

But I can see how someone might dislike emails and don't think its the right solution for forums. That being said, they're still better than discourse.

List of advantages over discourse:

- Don't need a modern PC or phone to render all the javascript

- There's no mandatory (or any) javascript

- My keyboard isn't hijacked for the purposes of implementing an input scheme which doesn't match the rest of my browsing experience and therefore requires me to re-learn how to use my web browser when I go on the website

- I archive the content easily, index it myself and search through it at my leisure

- The UI is as simple as I want it to be

Forum websites should not require javascript for rendering, or even ideally posting, it was never needed it in the past and I never felt like adding javascript added anything to the user experience. It should be simple, secure, easily searchable and above all else shouldn't hijack your keyboard.
Maybe I am mistaken but has the pricing on GPT-4 decreased as well? It used to be 8c/1000token?
https://www.jamesonnetworks.com

Mostly just articles with small tricks I don't want to forget and can't be bothered to remember. I added the rel=xml deally, so hopefully the RSS feed gets picked up.

Built with Django and Angular and the source is available!
Generally I don't want ways to communicate with businesses that leave no trace and resolve them of all accountability.
How could we not? In the western world we might be able to, but that means poor people will start dying elsewhere.
Kind of disappointing that this seems to be yet another run-of-the-mill language.

I wish people would stop publishing me-too languages that implement, for the umpteenth time, the same concepts we have had for 40 years or more. I mean, if you just to learn from the experience of creating a language, that's fine, but you probably won't get much from publishing it.

If one intends to publish a language, it seems to me one should focus on crafting a language that explores something new. That new concepts do not have to be very refined or complex, but your language stand a much better chance of being picked up and refined if it implements the germ of some interesting new idea.

Of the top of my head, here are some concepts [1] I'm trying to explore (cross posted from another comment of mine), which might provide inspiration for others:

- Dependent types, with no real distinction between values and types (At a certain point, Typescript’s type system begins to look like a separate Turing-complete language within a language. It’s probably time to do away with this dichotomy entirely somehow)

- JSX built-in without the need for any React-like dependency (No need to use it if you don’t like it; in the general sense, it’s just syntactic sugar for composing function invocations)

- Localizable or customizable keywords/operators, with automatic translation provided by an utility or language server (Why should programming languages be tools of cultural hegemony?)

- Generic object literals (Why should generic type inference be limited to functions?)

- Deep support for an alternative to exceptions using a Failable<TResult, TError> type

1. They may not be totally new concepts (as in some non-mainstream languages might implement them to some extent), but they are sufficiently of the beaten track that they are a rich source for exploring all kinds of interesting features.
What have you learned about einks when working on this?
> No, he says it because its true and concerning.

Both can be true. It is extremely convenient to someone who already has an asset if the nature of that asset means they can make a convincing argument that they should be granted a monopoly.

> LLMs seem like a dead end.

In support of your argument, bear in mind that he's making his argument with knowledge of what un-nerfed LLMs at GPT-4 level are capable of.
1) That's not true

2) Even if it were true, we are not CEO of a multi-billion corporation.
It does look cool, but I think the last thing I want on my wall is yet more 'news'.

I was about to say something similar about the price; for that money I can just stick the newspaper itself up on the wall.

OTOH if the display is already 2300EUR, I can't see how the OP can possibly make any money on this, especially with free global shipping, returns, etc, etc.
Forming a union is one thing. Actually agreeing what to demand and getting it is another. That seems to be where these things break down. I watched the Amazon union go from popular and "more money, less crazy metrics, more toilet breaks" to "end racism in Amercia" and then no one wanted to risk their jobs to ask for the impossible...
No, that sounds like a tangental problem born of inexperienced developers and/or poor communication.
For some reason you seem to assume that taking inspiration from a language necessarily leads to a very similar language; there is no reason for this assumption; the language authors themselves have told us in the Rationale in what way they were inspired (see the quote in my previous comment). Those who consider Pascal and Ada to be very similar should study both languages more intensively, and not draw their conclusion from a few superficial features; furthermore, they fail to recognize the enormous difference in scope; Pascal offers a small fraction of the features of Ada and cannot be very similar for this reason alone.

Here is a simple example; both Pascal und its descendants suffered and still suffer from the dangling else problem; Ada solved this by adding end if and elsif, i.e. by integrating structured statements with blocks (Wirth himself came to a similar solution in Modula); superficially you still see the same Pascal keywords, but it's a different and much better approach.

Ada is neither indirectly a Wirth language; Wirth had nothing to do with it at all and came to quite different solutions in his later languages than the Ada authors.
How did it fail? Are you speaking just in terms of its slow adoption?