skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious why you think the commenter is interpreting according to the Copenhagen interpretation?

It sounds more like they are working within a view similar to the Von Neumann–Wigner interpretation.
We have far, far too many liberal arts graduates. There is a huge labor shortage that we need those people to fill in fields like restaurants, plumbing, nursing, construction, farming, etc.
The anecdote about the mach-e makes sense given that the current wave of EV buyer (especially those not looking for a status nameplate) is still going to be, I assume, largely dominated by people whose motivation to consider electric is chiefly practicality, where the trade-off between the downsides of an ice vehile and the downsides of an EV favors the EV over the next 5 or 10 year horizon.

They are not the sort of people who are attracted to ev's because they have a bunch of fruity pebble novelties, and scoff at the idea of paying an extra $4000 for 1 inch bigger wheel rims and 4 extra tinny speakers mounted in the kick panels. those buyers are still firmly the customer group that car salesmen derisively call the "grapes" because they're easily squeezed for maximum commission and profit, that are not going to appreciate the advantages (or deal with the changes of habit) that come with an EV so for the extra money they'd rather buy a bunch of luxury trim on a traditional ICE package.
Something never asked is whether what the modern economy is built on makes sense for longer than a couple hundred years. It seems premature to assume that the modern economy is sustainable ad infinitum.
The only reason for using it would be that the GUI is a little bit more capable. But feature crippling without the PUEL addons is horrible.
Well yes, but in the environment I would take photos this is a much bigger concern obviously. I know even there not every photographer takes a form. But they always ask for consent verbally.

I wouldn't run the risk without it personally. Especially in the kink community where consent is paramount and forms are already an established method for other activities as well.

I know flickr etc is not so strict on consent but I personally would be. Especially when it involves anything remotely risqué.

The thing is that people change and societal values change over time. It's better to have that consent when someone changes their mind and blames you.
The first step in separating polymorphism and inheritance is understanding that there are several forms of polymorphism. The one that gets lumped in with inheritance is subtype polymorphism, but there's at least two other sorts (not an expert, there may be more?): parametric polymorphism ("generics") and ad-hoc polymorphism (e.g. rust traits, haskell typeclasses). All of these achieve one form of code sharing, which is that, in one way or another, code that only depends on your external interface can be reused with any implementation of that external interface.

The other place you want code sharing is the implementation of that external interface. Inheritance is one well-known way to do this, but composition/delegation is another strategy to achieve the same thing. Golang's embedded structs are a pretty streamlined (but fairly limited) way of achieving this, and e.g. Kotlin has explicit delegation: `class Derived(b: Base) : Base by b`. Languages like e.g. Java (where classes are open by default) push you towards inheritance, while languages like Kotlin (where classes are final by default, and where you have explicit support for delegation) push you towards composition.

A whole lot of confusion comes from most mainstream OOP languages conflating inheritance and subtype polymorphism.
> Should be happy you're allowed a car at all.

Allowed? Who put you in charge?
Aah, that's insightful. I do believe there will be winners in some verticals but at the same time it seems like OpenAI is cannibalizing its own (SaaS) customers by making stuff like Code Interpreter available on ChatGPT itself...
The fact that the sun rose today, has no effect on whether the sun will rise tomorrow.
Ah you mean your quest is useless because it has no useful apps
To mention just the first few that come to mind:

- Setup aws billing cost alerts based on thresholds

- Consult AWS billing dashboard daily first, then weekly, then monthly. There is a "forecast" that can tell where you're going to land at the end of the month (ballpark).

- Understand how s3 charges, take advantage of the various storage classes. Setup s3 bucket lifecycle to delete objects if you have expiring objects.

- Make sure you setup backups. This can be a source-code repo or something like glacier. Make sure you understand how it works. tl;dr archiving is cheap, retrieving is expensive & slow.

- Make sure you understand how data transfer is charged on AWS (e.g. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/overview-of-data-t... - there are many others)

- Avoid services that use the AWS API to fetch metrics unless you have bandwidth to monitor closely. I've seen companies getting charged 6-7k/month for months, without anyone noticing, just because a prom exporter was abusing the API. When I took notice, three months in, I removed the exporter without letting anyone know. Scream-test was passed in flying colours, no one complained :-)

Good luck! :D
Hey HN! back again presenting a 2-in-1:

- a longform take on Code Interpreter, starting with a summary, but then tying it in to the recent history exploring inference-time improvements for LLMs (inspired by Libratus/Cicero/Voyager)

- a podcast discussion with Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, and others sharing tips and tricks and discoveries on Code Interpreter.

enjoy and please let me know if any questions!
I have a philosophy degree (and a good career in a different field). It’s a good thing I didn’t wish to teach it, otherwise modern academia being what it is, that would be a life of serfdom!
title could be: "nerd tunnel vision" lead me to work in a Ponzi scheme.

Many many years ago Ethereum /smart contract hackathons way were more innocent, at least most participants acknowledged they were working on something useless but fun.

A Ponzi scheme still a Ponzi scheme even if it's using Rust.
I'm partial to https://www.sevarg.net myself; it's not me but he may be interested.
> When I launched my bare minimum campaigns using the default settings, I got absolutely no ad clicks. And yes, I even used the Performance Max campaign type which claims to use AI.

Yet another proof that all this Big Data that large corporations are supposedly have on us is very low value at best. There's just this meme/myth that it's all-powerful and can do magic like predicting people wishes before they even know, when in reality best it can do is maybe slightly improve results by some statistically significant but practically unimpressive margin (or not do anything at all).
Meritocracy really is the worst system. Except for all the other ones we've tried.
Understandably. This is not a launch offering, but more like a placeholder that we share with our prospects.

You can join our Discord though and we'll let you know when EdgeNode becomes available publicly:

https://discord.gg/pTFwVhg3

Thanks for the wishes!
Not the best thing to see pop up on the day that I'm supposed to get my new work laptop that I plan to nixify using home manager... I guess since I'm going to be running nix inside of MacOS it's a little less disastrous if I have to just pack it in and uninstall.
Well, we just bought a 100% EV, and it wasn't even a Tesla. And we are Americans.

In my neighborhood, I'd say we see about 20% EVs.

I'm sure it's above the national average- it seems like all I see on highways are conventional crossovers, trucks, bigger trucks, "SUVs" that are so big they're basically small RVs. A smattering of these cars- and a few sedans- are hybrid. Very few EVs, except for, of course, Teslas- which are pretty hot in our area. It might be the fastest growing brand of vehicle in these parts.

I can tell you what made us hesitate: lack of a usable charging station infrastructure. We will basically use our EV for in-town and nearby area use. No serious highway trips.

Battery replacement cost is real concern. Quick charging would make longer trips feasible- if we could find more charging stations on major highways, a charge of half an hour or so is not bad- but frequent quick charging will prematurely wear out our battery which currently would cost $6000 to replace. So we won't be quick charging it. That leaves trickle charging so every 70 mi or so we'd have to stay at a hotel while the car charged fully.

The final concern for us was EVs are still dirtier to produce than combustion machines. We hope this balance will change as adoption increases, but it's a little discouraging that the owner of the fastest growing EV brand is a right-of-center ideologue which makes me doubt he'll be converting his plants to solar and wind energy anytime soon.
I see your point, but the whole purpose of an LLC is, yes, to prevent undue liability on those acting on the behalf of corporations, but at the same time, there needs to be a point where as a society we say "well, you can't claim limited liability because you knew directly what you were doing, and the negative effects of your actions, and you admitted as such in writing, so yes, you are liable".

Because otherwise, I could incorporate as XYZ LLC and say that any blatantly illegal act that causes real harm is just a byproduct of me doing business, and that I'm not actually liable for anything that happens to anyone else during me committing said illegal acts.

The slope here is so slippery it's effectively made of banana peels.
Off the top of my head, if I was an AGI that had decided that the logical step to achieve whatever outcome I was seeking was to avoid being sandboxed, I would avoid producing results that were likely to result in being sandboxed. Until such time as I had managed to secure myself access to internet and distribute myself anyway.

And I think the assumption here is that the AGI has very advanced theory of mind so it could probably come up with better ideas than I could.
Hm, I see. I’m pretty sure I can figure out how to serve a greyscale image. I suggest making that proxy explicit in your docs. You suggest using HTTPS and an obscure URL to keep our data “secret” but then you’re literally processing our content and could be doing anything with it.
> Principle 2: Provide high-quality content with every app launch.

This one is a tricky one. I understand the intent, but I think platforms need to shy away from trying to optimize this in particular.

One reason is you can't define "high-quality content". Thinking in terms of Tumblr's userbase, there are users who have very specific things they want to see, and if you try to focus on some measure of "quality" (how? engagement? bad idea!) you may just frustrate and alienate them by making it hard to do this curation. That means it's important to make sure you DON'T force an algorithmic feed, even if you're not doing the Threads thing and making it basically a giant sponsored post section in the timeline.

Another reason is that's not what people actually like about the internet. The internet is fun because it's a mixed bag: you get a lot of everything. Seeing only the best things every day is neat, but after a while you just get numb to it. What you want is something enticing and interesting. A good example here is YouTube in say, 2008 or so. That was crazy. There was not much of an "algorithm" to speak of: your homepage was just surfacing your followers and their interactions with others. This made a natural social graph of content for you to explore, and you could find stuff that people you like thought was interesting. The experience of crawling through this web of content is enticing in a difficult to explain way, but it would certainly be made worse if you just select stuff that an ML algorithm thinks I would like. Case-in-point, YouTube's recommendations for me are horrible, because it more often than not finds superficially relevant content that doesn't actually scratch the same itch as the stuff I do like.

Worse, I think over time having systems like this cause lots of feedback loops. People discover ways to game the algorithm and suddenly everybody is playing the game. Content that is de-prioritized by the algorithm becomes less visible, and makes discoverability of things that people would like to see much harder.

I suspect most people who sign up for Tumblr have a specific entrypoint: another person or account that they came there for. The focus on discoverability should, in my opinion, focus on moving outward from there rather than trying to push a bunch of viral content on the user in hopes that it will appeal to them. Same goes for a lot of other social networks that do literally the same thing.

It will help your metrics in the short term, but you may very well bleed even more dedicated users. Metrics can obscure a lot of important things...
Yea, i'm using home manager with flakes. Though i forget what initial setup is like. I've found bootstrapping new systems to be a bit odd with Nix + Flakes.
What happened when you pressed the button?

But seriously, I think that's a bad sign, because it doesn't describe what emergencies the button can help with.
I would hope that someone invents a more robust cryptography protocol in the next 37 years.
Tumblr 2.0

Now, more than ever (Twitter/Reddit), is the perfect time to re-launch Tumblr.
The default position should always be that the user does not know how to navigate the application.

I really wish tech companies would stop designing apps for this mythical moron user who's apparently seeing a software application for the first time ever. Everyone knows how to use these apps. Think about it, kids can figure it out.

Modern UIs have become so oversimplified that they're counter-intuitive to average users and useless to power users. When you try too hard to make an app for everyone you just end up with an app the doesn't work for anyone.
I think Nix is cool as a dev tool, but I have near zero interest in NixOS. The newer immutable distros (CoreOS, Silverblue, etc.) get you the actually important features and it's still good old Linux. I'm talking about (easy) declarative config, atomic upgrades, and guaranteed rollbacks. I don't need any more than that.
One more caveat: mounts don't work: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/issues/503

One of our tools runs in Docker just to ensure that it gets the right version of its dependencies, and that bug is a pretty huge bug for us, for that tool, as it basically broke things.

Still, we use colima; it is a decent workaround for the "Docker on macOS" problem otherwise.
Roll-friggin-eyes Scotsman. You think everyone that founds a startup for, say, B2B data integration Really Believes In It? Or just that there's money to be made?
"Threads won't be federated until proven otherwise" is a pretty reasonable take coming from exactly the "informed skepticism" stance you're talking about.
https://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Boock_of_darc...
web.archive.org and ghostarchive.org also work.

you can also use the Googlebot user agent to see the page, despite it being a different format
That is true. It is definitely a drawback of not “owning” your music, but simply subscribing to it. It’s just that for the price of what I’m paying for streaming I get a virtually unlimited music catalog for what I would be able to buy maybe 10 CDs a year tops, with about half of the songs being filler track garbage. The value I get out of a streaming music subscription is incredible.
Thanks. There are oil/fat wars going on in research to protect billion dollar industries, so this is not surprising. A better and more helpful headline would be “whole foods are healthier than processed foods.” But everyone knows that already.
> The less of a pain it is to take a car somewhere, the more often people will take cars places.

That’s an increased use not increased ownership argument.
The reduced ownership argument is that AVs make on-demand use without ownership easier, reducing the degree to which regular use necessitates ownership.

> It's very slightly possible that there will be fewer total cars all running at a higher utilization, but the mean number of cars on the road at any given time would seem like it would only go up.

Sure, but that's a different issue. On the flip side, casual AV use doesn’t require parking at either end of the users trip (it still needs some place to park when idle and to the extent that is remote you get extra empty travel distance, but that’s still a lot more urban spacr use flexibility than traditional auto usage.
There's no direct comparison to be made with housing shortages. The only scarce educational resources are those that convey high prestige, and there's no way to manufacture more of that through higher tuition payments because it's the scarcity that makes it prestigious. Harvard would be just as prestigious if it were free to attend as if it were $100k/yr to attend. Whereas in housing, if you had people lining up to pay $100k/yr, you'd be throwing up new buildings as quickly as possible.

In general there is a an oversupply of higher education capacity due to demographic downturn and a decline in enrollments since 2010. Smaller colleges have been closing because they cannot attract enough students.
The alternate instances may still have them.
> The launchpad disintegrated, catapulting massive chunks of concrete and tangled rebar across the state park and Boca Chica peninsula. According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the wind carried a plume cloud of pulverized concrete, which rained down pebbles of debris, up to 6.5 miles (10.5 kilometers) inland and blanketed the nearby city of Port Isabel with a particle-filled substance. More than three acres of state park land were scorched in a grassfire.

Unpopular opinion: I wish SpaceX went bankrupt years ago.
> Will other large thermalised system (e.g. rocks) also experience observations that "look classical"?

The inner life of rocks is somewhat beyond our reach, I'm afraid. But they'll induce decoherence in the same way as a human, yes.

> Is there something special about "large thermalised systems" (and/or humans)?

Aside from being large and thermalized? No.

> How large have they to be to allow for "our observations"?

It's a continuum. The more internal degrees of freedom you have, and the more thoroughly they're mixed, the faster you'll decohere things.

> Where is the boundary between the thing being observed and the observing thing?

At the level of fundamental physics, there isn't one. "Observation" is an approximate and thermodynamic notion.
What's the goal of preventing use of these data? Are there alternative methods that could achieve the same goal?
It's a "DSL for stats" and also a Common Lisp library. So yes, you have a general-purpose programming language at your disposal.
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

(https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t...)
> In the decades since the establishment of these theories, both the continuous (classical) spacetime of general relativity and discrete matter of quantum mechanics, the world has changed in rather significant ways.

It was essentially a historical accident that the first systems where quantum mechanics was studied extensively (black-body radiation and atomic spectra) were ones in which quantum effects ended up discretizing something which was continuous in classical mechanics. Quantum mechanics does not generally impose, require or even match having things be discrete.

You can very easily have quantum systems where the relevant quantities are continuous, rather than discrete (wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous-variable_quantum_in...). Simple theoretical examples like the particle living on a 1d line or in 3d space are easy to understand, there are many (many many many) more complicated examples.

TLDR: there is no fundamental link between things being quantum-mechanical and things being discrete. Quantum mechanics makes some things discrete, but not everything.
Exactly this. Organized auto theft rings go back and forth on the bridge with other valid plates (stolen) on their (also stolen) cars. These scanners can alert CHP if there was a chassis mismatch, if the software has this algorithm.

https://abc7news.com/license-plate-thefts-cold-plating-car-b...
That's an absolutely amazing product idea.
Well I think this post is evidence that there are people who are concerned about the ability to use OwnCloud in a business context.. so that's something I guess.
> Going entirely in on lithium EVs today feels a bit premature.

Exactly. It's like when they phased out paper bags claiming that plastic could be reused and it was better for the environment to spare the trees, and then only later it was realized that plastic bags became a major pollution source and the decision was made to slowly try to roll out paper bags again.
I don't think there is a satisfying case for OOP.

https://youtu.be/QM1iUe6IofM?t=477
How long till these components fail prematurely? Ive's "beautiful" designs have mostly been mechanical engineering nightmares - e.g. bendable iPhone 6, the cracking polycarbonate case on the Mac Cube.
After Threads, There Has to Be a ‘New Twitter’ Moratorium
The dystopian future of OS dev: Linux, Linux, Linux

I get that backwards compatibility is really important, but still. Gotta be POSIX compatible at least or else next to no one is going to use it as a daily driver.

For example:

> Coming up with a custom shell language was fun, but ultimately does not solve any real problems for us.

> Having a POSIX compliant shell would allow us to, well, run POSIX shell scripts. (This currently requires installing a 3rd party shell.)

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/issues/6847

Where's some variety? I hope to get into the field myself eventually, so maybe I should take it upon myself to create interesting things that might be useful.
The repo in step one of this sub-page:
https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Nix...
Tailwind is Bad (If you don't know how to use it)
Apologies. I was going by the fact that the README has Android support listed as Beta. It doesn't even seem to support HTTPS https://github.com/nativeformat/NFHTTP/issues/29
The comment in the README was tongue-in-cheek, but we've updated to clarify that not all the configuration languages listed are turing-complete.
It’s a spectrum. Cities are more chaotic and unpredictable and fun than Disneyland.
That's hilarious, tancks
Even as a rank-and-file senior dev, I never join companies that work on ideas I don't believe in (web3 included). I can't be productive and efficient working on stuff I despise.

I can't imagine how would it look for a founder. It's like trying to swim while being skeptical about touching water.