skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar reports have also appeared on the InfluxDB Slack.
Make it self-encapsulated:

[f(c) for c in l]
Apple already does laser engraving for products bought in the online store. For the price point of this thing, they can probably move engraving into the retail stores (not long ago, I bought a laser engraver for my hobby 3D printer for a few hundred bucks -- they're not expensive, certainly not by Apple Store standards).

As for getting lost, Apple already has their AirTag technology. While I don't know if that's already in these lenses, it doesn't seem like it'd be difficult to add.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36653377
We watched Moore's law hold fast for 50 years before it started to hit a logarithmic ceiling. Assuming a long-term outcome in either direction based purely on historical trends is nothing more than a shot in the dark.
They are already if you architect your service for the real purpose, which is to store and process ActivityPub data. Mastodon however is a CRUD application that has its ActivityPub bolted on a totally different data paradigm. It takes a lot of computing to make it run fast.

I created an ActivityPub service which (coincidentally) uses a similar storage idea as HN - raw files on disk - and it runs orders of magnitude faster than a similar sized Mastodon server would. Sadly it's not as fast as HN, but I'm getting it there. :D
I'm not, actually. My eyes are pretty dry and I can always feel those little pieces of plastic in my eye.
Fake news is more about the viewpoint of the reader than the creator in many cases.
Agree with most of your points, but a LargeLM, or a SmallLM for that matter, to construct a simple SQL query and put it in a database, they get it right many times already. GPT gets it right most of the time.

Then as a verification step, you ask one more model, not the same one, "what information got inserted the last hour in the database?" Chances of one model to hallucinate and say it put the information in the database, and the other model to hallucinate again with the correct information, are pretty slim.

[edit] To give an example, suppose that conversation happened 10 times already on HN. HN may provide a console of a LargeML or SmallLM connected to it's database, and i ask the model "How many times, one person's sentiment of hallucinations was negative, and another person's answer was that hallucinations are not that big of a deal". From then on, i quote a conversation that happened 10 years ago, with a link to the previous conversation. That would enable more efficient communication.
Humans hallucinate far less readily than any LLM. And "years and years" of improvement have made no change whatsoever to their hallucinatory habits. Inductively, I see no reason to believe why years and years of further improvements would make a dent in LLM hallucination, either.
I have heard good things about their customer service. But I put in my postcode to their site and the response was:

> For your location, forecast download sync speed is 27-37Mb/s and forecast upload sync speed is 4.2-6.9Mb/s.

I’m currently on ten times that and was considering going higher next time. Unfortunately that’s not currently competitive with Virgin.
If your competitors are VC funded you are going to have very hard time competing unless you are already very established. You can have smarter founders or whatever, but VC company can hire very smart people as well.

With how ubiqutous VC funding became in recent years, only small market niches are "viable" for non-VC funded startups. VCs will often still fund small market niches if they believe they can expand easily.
The days of One Big Social Network are clearly coming to an end. We are in an unbundling and diversification phase in that space.

As with most open systems, big social is succumbing to spam. In the case of social the primary form of spam is outrage porn and similar lizard brain engaging material. The bigger a social network is and the less moderated it is, the more this material dominates.

If you try to moderate you drive people away toward niche networks. If you don’t try to moderate, all the toxic rage bait and trolling drives people away to niche networks. This is how big social dies.

The future is niche networks with niche moderation policies, private boards and chat rooms, and the fediverse which is actually thousands of niche social networks in a trenchcoat.
Is it really all that hard?

https://sidetrak.com/products/swivel-pro-triple-13-3
Not entirely sure. But just to clarify, it isn’t purely a tech problem, but also a lower level banking infra problem.

Two things to note:

1. Tunisian currency is tightly controlled by the central bank, which means it is very difficult to move currency out of the country. Therefore, you - as a fintech startup - would need to integrate with the local banking system and separately setup a legal pipeline to be able to move money out (e.g., to spend on infra costs, SaaS products, etc.).

2. Credit cards do not exist and debit cards are not widely used for payments; cash is still king. So any startup that wants wide market penetration needs to deal with cash at some level. It’s kind of a chicken and egg problem.
The authors gave an example showing WOOT also could cause the interleaving phenomenon.

WOOT was the first CRDT algorithm for text co-editing, but the authors showed that the first CRDT algorithm has a serious flaw after the algorithm was invented 17 years ago
You are misinformed on the difference between decriminalization and legalization.
Amateurs don't get paid. Pros do.

Sometimes pros get paid for having automated minions generate content.

Was this short piece AI-written? There are lots of strange artifacts that I'd not expect from a human author. Like the fishing analogy with a goldfish.
If my reading of it is correct this is similar to something like a trusted bootchain where every step is cryptographically verified against the chain and the components.

In plain english the final model you load and all the components used to generate that model can be cryptographically verified back to whomever trained it and if any part of that chain can't be verified alarm bells go off, things fail, etc.

Someone please correct me if my understanding is off.

Edit: typo
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
AI is already being heavily adopted in Japan for animation and anime.
For now, it's used as part of workflows that can get cleaned up. However you can start seeing 3d generated models with AI filters and AI animations increasing in the background of many new Anime.
I'll go much further than that: nobody wants to wear ANY pair of glasses.

Some people do because the benefit is literally regaining one of your senses, but even if AR / VR glasses one day become like normal glasses, it will be a niche product.

Nobody's wearing glasses just to get notifications and gimmicks like this. Ever.

The only moment where AR / VR can maybe become mainstream is when we can send signal straight to the brain to generate images (disregarding that there's no way people will be ok with other people controlling their brain).
The study I linked on The Limits of Growth did not predict 15 years. They predicted between 2030 and 2040. The original authors of that study have reasserted just last year that they still believe it to be true. IPCC and the nature study I linked have predicted collapse in the same time frame. So I am not sure the doomers that you are referencing were credible. However, I place my trust in science. The fact that scientists are literally screaming that we are headed towards extinction in the time frame I mentioned, the fact that we have lost 70% of species since 1970, and other data backing up the claims is enough for me to be convinced. I am not sure what it would take for you to be convinced.
Jaco Pastorius famously played a Fender Jazz Bass from which he removed the frets with a butter knife, then sanded down and finished with marine epoxy.

Then it got broken so he had it restored and kept playing it.

Many touring or pub musicians play a plain old mass produced guitar, because if anything happens to it (for example, when flying) they can just pop into any music store in whatever city they are and get another for a reasonable price.
And there are plenty of people (including my 80 year old parents) who drive 3 hours from their small town in South Georgia to the nearest bigger city to buy products that they want to be able to see instead of our used online.

In my dads case, music gear

I even know people who would drive from the even smaller places than where my parents live who would drive to my home town to go the mall, movies and Olive Garden.
You sell 10-20% 4, 5, or sometimes more times in an effort to increase the size of the pie while your share of the pie decreases.
Can we please get rid of the stereotype that older people aren't "tech savvy"?

Older people today have been using computers since they were in their teens or twenties. Conversely, I know a 20-something woman who can't understand why her iMessages quit working when she switched to an Android phone, despite explaining it to her multiple times.

As you note, they also have more money.
But the screen is always 2” away. As you look from things that are drawn as if they are near or far is kind of irrelevant, isn’t it? Your focus depth won’t change because your actual focus depth never changes.
Ok, when it's your friend or relative that suffers an overdose you can revisit your opinion that it's better to force people to buy impure drugs than to forge a different path forward that places a higher value on human life.
Gotta be in the last 14 days. Wonder what the use is though, when looking at my reports I see a couple spam flags and a dozen utterly vile and down-greyed comments. Not sure why anyone would want to see what they have reported...
The archive link bypasses the paywall: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36654027
I think an error is the correct behaviour, errors are for machines, and no machine is ever accessing an url in hopes of finding the default placeholder page.
I usually place an order online and pickup at the store for reasons. Never had it take more than a few minutes. I did check out the Apple Watch Ultra in a store to make sure I was OK with the size and the band but again very straightforward.
Who are the occupiers of North Korea if there are no North Koreans?

edit: This was an honest question, I don't understand the reason for downvotes.
Trademark protection is typically specific to the industry or sector in which it is registered and used.

These companies are in two very different businesses so there is unlikely to even be any “development” - some redditors just noticed they are similar that’s all
That “crowd” will buy this version instead: https://caviar.global/catalog/virtual-reality
I guess that doesn't really contradict the GP, though, no? They said "cheap, shitty guitars". Sounds like Jack White used cheap, but not shitty*, guitars.
How to juggle or do slack line.
I purposefully mentioned the tracking separately from the app. I was implying that the app being used for massive tracking (just that it was another example of ineffective contact tracing), and if it came off that way I just wasn't clear about what I meant.

This is the story I was referring to: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canadians-trips-to-liquor-stor...

And I totally agree about your last point. I'll add a more controversial opinion that our Public health authorities have been completely politicised here. Legault does not want to talk about COVID anymore so we don't. And when it was scoring points politically, they blatantly played with facts and timelines to make political decisions sound "based on science". Very very disappointed about how our public institutions acted during the crisis. For example, that the crazy, criminal, stuff that happened in CHSLDs early on was completely swept under the rug with no government official suffering from any meaningful consequences was... Eye opening.
> I wear prescription glasses and have gone from single vision to progressive lenses that are stupid expensive.

Not really on-topic, but I've had very good luck with Zenni Optical.
my point was that k&r used c++ for it superior type checking (and because the C++ compiler could actually compile C89 code, which no commercial compuilers at the time could) - obviously in a book about C they did not use C++ features. so i am not sure what you are going on about here.

i learned assembler and fortran, then abandoned them for C, and then abondoned C for C++. i did all that progression because it self-evidentially made me more productive.
Written by "Adam Singer, Marketing executive, author of a Substack called Hot Takes"

k.
Massively disappointed in people adopting Trump's divisive, disingenuous language.
Unfortunately this doesn't work, one of the basic things to know about ML fairness is that you generally can't get the outcomes you want by hiding things from your model.

For example you can infer the race of a candidate from other facts about them. The model could still illegally discriminate by first inferring race, then discriminating on the basis of inferred race.
An Apple enthusiast not willing to go to the Apple Store? When I went to NYC, the Apple Store there was like nerd Mecca with people taking pictures in front of it.
We are living a mass extinction right now (that's not a prediction for a future risk, that's a fact that we can observe now). The reason of this mass extinction is cheap, abundant energy: habitat loss comes from there.

Fusion would be great to finish making life on Earth look like surviving on Mars. Is that what you want?

What we need (and will most likely face anyway) is to do less with less. Organise society to live the forced degrowth that is coming, and survive the climate changes that we started and cannot possibly change anymore.
I would say trademark law is based upon the idea that marks exist to delineate between businesses.

You can name your beachside restaurant “Shell” and use a shell as the logo, and even apply for a trademark if you want. As long as you haven’t lifted the specific copyrighted mark itself, and you’re not drilling for or selling oil, you’re good to go. Both of you have the ability to use the word “Shell” and (differing) images of a shell as a logo.

This is an @ symbol used for a social media site, and a different @ symbol used for an online pharmacy as far as I can tell.
Equation Dragon – Open-Source Browser Based Math Game
From creators of Cats of Jasnah. This is a new game I made with my kids to learn about math expressions. Approx ages 5-10.
Is there an open source models or GitHub repo or anything that does something like this?
Pros tend to deeply understand the fundamental problem that the tool is solving and are probably capable of either making the tool or deeply informing the process that resulted in the tool. An amateur or beginner is often looking for tools the hide those knowledge and skill gaps that a pro does not have. I wonder if Savage would have that vice if he didn’t generate income by making videos chronicling tools. In my experience, I’ve witnessed many beginner software engineers spend far too much time hunting for a tool or library, I always encourage them to take a step back and consider if they really need that tool. Often they don’t the tool and if they do it’s sometimes a better choice to code it themselves.
You have a frighteningly low bar for what a behaviors you think should result in a person being denied every basically freedom and likey having their life ruined. Do you feel the same about "using" alcohol and other drugs in public?
If you really just cared about terminals you can probably get an android terminal running on the quest and ssh where you need.
I don’t think those corners are worried about censorship on social media.
Learning the fundamentals does pay off in the long term. I've not worked on web apps for a long time but this week helped some junior colleagues set up a web proxy to do SSL termination and explain there's these things called caching servers that can vary and probably solve a lot of their performance issues. I didn't know or really have to care what frameworks they are using.
Thanks again to HN community for all the feedback on our last game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21880446#21886290
No need for five eyes.

1) Three letter agency cannot collect X

2) Big Business Inc. can and sells it

3) Three letter agency can buy commercial information

With your logic the government will have access to everything because these laws are written to be circumvented, by the right people, just like tax laws. Stop Give eyes instead, simple, but impossible.
yes exactly - so many options with so many games and apps and social media related experiences and all I (and im sure many others) want is a solution to “how can i travel or be in a hotel and open vi/emacs/terminal and code as comfortably as with a huge monitor(s) home setup that’s impractical to haul around”. Even hauling around 16” laptops with a solid keyboard is a pain and can’t compete with a huge monitor(s) at home setup
As a general guideline, I tend to believe that anything that has lived X years will likely still continue to exist for X more years.

It is obviously very approximative and will be wrong at some point, but there isn't much more to rely on.
Buzz is cheap. Matt Damon and Larry David made crypto ads, Apple's not going to get very far with a slow drip of influencer marketing.
I also mentioned homicides in my post, not just driving, do you want to ban human relationships as well? The dangers of alcohol at all levels have been quite well documented.
"Addiction fuels all kinds of crime."

Right, so let's punish people for those actual crimes.
> The reasons I would not like to have one of these devices ;

I'm sure there are a number of people here who will agree with you.

On the other hand, the fact that Apple now has a $3 trillion-with-a-"t" market cap indicates that most people do not care about any of these issues. Not in the slightest.
I dont want GDPR, I want [describes like 70% of GDPR]
You’re downvoted but I agree with you - tech has a massive gap between stated and revealed preferences.
The best frameworks are just formalizations of what worked for some people.

The worst are formalizations of what some commitee hopes will work.
Wine-Based Hangover 8.11 Begins Integrating FEX Emulator Support
See also The Timeline of Perl and its Culture https://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html
I learned something today. Cheers!
I think this statement is actually much more true than the titles' statement (for programming).
You can skip "echo" and let the error message output "hello world" along with extra text!
Standard speed cube method uses 9 “looks” each followed by an optimized algorithm. This development (1LLL) combines the final two looks (each normally requires choosing one of roughly 40 unique algorithms ) into one monster step with 4000. The number is big because there’s many possible embeddings. Each look is only at the next subsection of the cube you plan to solve.
>Also for tools with consumables, the quality of the consumables matters way more than the tool that you put them in.

I fully agree. I wasted hours dealing with brad nails that didn't go in all the way, only to bend over when I tried to nail set them. Paying more for Brad nails fixed the issue almost entirely.
Yes, and then too sometimes you order for same-day delivery and the store hands the bag to an Uber Eats driver (they actually do partner with Uber Eats for courier service!) who mysteriously never turns up to hand it off to you. Then you have to spend a few hours on the phone with Apple to make sure you don't end up paying for a phone you never got.

I don't blame the guy who stole it, although I might if I'd had to hold the bill for his act of sticky-fingered entrepreneurship. I do blame Apple for using a service, whose drivers normally handle $50 in food at a time, to deliver nonperishable and highly portable items of 20 or more times that value.
Time to open up all links and see whats what
If you look at the best photographs of the 20th century, a great deal of them were taken with cheap point and shoot cameras. Then you have the legions of middle aged men with $20k in gear that are incapable of shooting anything other than trite cliches.

You also have out of shape middle aged men noodling along on $10k bikes. It's worth it for an elite cyclist to obsess over their gear, every small optimization is material to them, but until you're pushing against the upper limits of your fitness the gear isn't the thing you should be losing sleep over.
This is the approach of trying to address the symptoms and not the cause. I also mention homicides in my post, but some people are conveniently ignoring it. The dangers of alcohol have been well documented.
I'm not playing guitar now, but from what I've heard, the knockoff Les Paul or Strat is almost as good as the real one.

Plus if it's stolen you just buy another.
I'm trying to interpret what you said in a strong, faithful interpretation. To that end, when you say "surely it will improve", I assume what you mean is, it will improve with regards to being trustworthy enough to use in contexts where hallucination is considered to be a deal-breaker. What you seem to be pushing for is the much weaker interpretation that they'll get better at all, which is well, pretty obviously true. But that doesn't mean squat, so I doubt that's what you are saying.

On the other hand, the problem of getting people to trust AI in sensitive contexts where there could be a lot at stake is non-trivial, and I believe people will definitely demand better-than-human ability in many cases, so pointing out that humans hallucinate is not a great answer. This isn't entirely irrational either: LLMs do things that humans don't, and humans do things that LLMs don't, so it's pretty tricky to actually convince people that it's not just smoke and mirrors, that it can be trusted in tricky situations, etc. which is made harder by the fact that LLMs have trouble with logical reasoning[1] and seem to generally make shit up when there's no or low data rather than answering that it does not know. GPT-4 accomplishes impressive results with unfathomable amounts of training resources on some of the most cutting edge research, weaving together multiple models, and it is still not quite there.

If you want to know my personal opinion, I think it will probably get there. But I think in no way do we live in a world where it is a guaranteed certainty that language-oriented AI models are the answer to a lot of hard problems, or that it will get here really soon just because the research and progress has been crazy for a few years. Who knows where things will end up in the future. Laugh if you will, but there's plenty of time for another AI winter before these models advance to a point where they are considered reliable and safe for many tasks.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11502
> It is real alpha

oh, please.
'People high on crack are unpredictable."

Do you believe your own propaganda? That's the most simplistic, nonsensical, DARE-level logic I have seen in this comment thread yet.
I've seen that advice about (electric) guitars too, and it's so wrong. A cheap shitty guitar will feel awful to play, have problems staying in tune, etc.

If you're at all serious about it, I'd go straight for one of the $1000+ flagship guitars. Go to a shop, figure out what you like, but absolutely don't waste your money on garbage.