skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When developers apply for a permit to build an apartment building on a parking lot people howl about the character of the neighborhood.
I like the grocery store analogy! Cool article.
Hue-Codec
Hadn’t heard that list of “symptoms” before but… I guess that means I am in a midlife crisis at 39.
> Hue Codec is a header-only C++ library that efficiently encodes and decodes 16-bit, single-channel bitmaps (i.e. depth maps, disparity maps, infrared images, or high bit depth grayscale images) to and from 8-bit, 3-channel bitmaps (i.e. RGB images).
>You are optimizing for least amount of time riders have to wait, not just for shortest distance driven.

Point being though that it's fundamentally a deterministic combinatorial problem. And they have the added benefit in this case of only worrying about prescheduled trips that need to be calculated the day before. It's not trivial, but it's an algorithmic problem that has no need for inductive output.
Year of the Linux desktop was the year a lot of people were given Chromebooks.
May I ask for further advice on your fourth bullet point about “outsourcing your mental health”? I understand you might need to shop around like you maybe go to a cognitive-behavioral therapist, or psychoanalyst, or buy a Transcendental Meditation (TM) course.
Startups typically build a product that a tiny portion of users find amazing. Incumbents decide it’s not worth expending the resources to directly compete - the opportunity isn’t big enough.

Right now adopting AI is incredibly easy for the incumbents and it directly improves their core product. It’s tough to build a startup in that environment.

In my opinion the startups that will win need to stay incredibly lean or focus on fundamentally new industries.

Or look sexy enough for long enough to get aquihired.
Depends on what you need -- chemical engineers can make for good pizza delivery guys, but that's not making the best use of them
I don’t know if I’d go so far as to call it embarrassing… But I’m certainly looking forward to being able to see only my friends’ threads. (And ads, I’m sure). Until then I’m just waiting, I dislike wading through random peoples’ posts.
... and mind you, there were no fast food restaurants either. So it took a really long time.
Americans with wealth or property have done great for themselves. They currently feel that the economy is in the dumps, but that's just because talking heads on Fox are telling them that it is. They can't articulate why the economy is in the dumps.

Americans who are between the ages of 15 and 35 feel like the ladder has been pulled up out of their reach, and they've felt this way for the past decade. Mostly because property owners have reaped most of the benefits of the past two decades.
That's a non-sequitur. Just because X receives Constitutional protections does not imply that X inherently promotes democracy. To illustrate, imagine that X = me giving a speech to 1 million people urging them to abandon democracy. That speech receives Constitutional protections but that speech is not promoting democracy.
The American Psychological Association considers middle age to begin at 35.
Yeah this is a good call. I did this when I moved to a new city 8 years ago — once a week was a brewery running club, and I ran by myself or with a friend the other days. I also liked geeking out over the gear — running is nice because you can spend a lot on expensive shoes, and that’s really all you really need… some hobbies like skiing or golf will drain your wallet.
Dude. If you are serious, check in with your friends and family. I think you actually might need help with something. Like, really.
Does wildfire haze get in the way? Can IR or LIDAR or something see through it reasonably well?

If you built your drone on mostly visual data... or visual-centric sensor fusion... imagine trying to deliver in NYC with The Fog. The tradeoff drones make for their airspace is being at an altitude where there's an awful lot of "terrain".

Fortunately it's not like that here but I'm not in an area that's probably dense enough for drone delivery for a bit (except subdivisions/etc).
Python moves too fast and breaks things too often, though. It's why I went back to Perl.
Human communication will change dramatically once useful invasive brain-computer interfaces are available.

People will suddenly realize that the reason language is primarily serial is simply due to the fact that it must be conveyed by a series of sounds. There will likely be a new type of visual language used via BCI "telepathy". It may have some ordering but will not rely so heavily on serializing information, since the world is quite multidimensional.
If you have so much food even the poorest people can get fat, you are a richer and more prosperous society than 99.9% of human history.

Btw obesity is rising in Europe as well.
I have never found this style of minimap useful and I turn it off in all my apps
Get an electric or induction stove top. Obviously still possible to leave it on, but you'll get visual cues.
This is an interesting startup filling a need, but I don't think it is really competing with Uber and Lyft, because they are only doing prescheduled rides.

The killer feature for Uber/Lyft is being able to get a ride at any time on demand in a matter of minutes. It doesn't seem like this will be able to get there.

I have wondered if a pure market making app would work... let drivers and riders place bids... a driver can lower their bid to get hired faster and a rider can increase their bid to get picked up faster. The app would just take a fixed cut.

Someone who doesn't mind waiting at a friends house for a while longer could pay less, but the person in a rush could get a ride fast for a bit more. Similarly, some drivers might be ok only doing a few expensive rides.

I know Uber does something like this with surge pricing, but it is not transparent at all, and you can't change your bid.
I turned 40 last year, shortly after “making it” to my career goal: CTO of a hyper-growth start-up.

Shortly after my birthday, my daughter, who had just started middle school, was hospitalized because she was suicidal.

What I believe has been a midlife crisis exploded with such tremendous force, I thought I was losing my mind. Thank goodness for good therapy, which I immediately sought.

This is the most profound reconfiguration I’ve ever experienced.

I’m excited for the person I’ll be at the other end of this, and how my life will feel, but I’ve learned there is no planning for any of this. There is no white-knuckling any of this.

I’m relearning how to connect to myself and how to shape a life around that connection.

It’s not easy. It’s not close to done. It’s exciting. Terrifying.

To the author’s point: I’m not wasting this opportunity. That doesn’t mean I’m writing books or or doing things to keep busy. For me, wasting this opportunity would be ignoring the incredible self-reflection, forgoing the reconnection with self, and powering through the burnout and discomfort to keep on with plans I laid for reasons I’m not sure I fully understand anymore.

There is a peace I’m sensing, and I can’t wait until I’m fully aligned with it.

For those of you experiencing similar, I wish you the best. I think our best years are ahead of us.
House at top of hill, school at top of hill. Or in this case, lab at top of one hill, lunch at top of another hill.
LibreTaxi has been around since 2016.
Secular people seem way more emotionally stable to me than those I would call religious.
Probably the first time I see brouhaha being used outside King Crimson's "Elephant Talk".
Archive link: https://archive.is/9FkNS
This is true, but I find it's also difficult to really judge the worth of what I've done in life. My mind's default for judging is: "Was my work popular? Did it make good money?" And all my endeavors have certainly failed in those regards. But of course there are many things we do in daily life that can hardly be judged that way, and whose effects we cannot see.
>It might be a specific security setting I've made more restrictive than the default

Probably not.

I recently tried to go back to firefox and eat up some of my gripes with the browser because I don't like chromium's engine monopoly but I had the same issue you had, in my case with some web novels websites that ran cloudflare in maximum DDoS protection mode. Cloudflare would tell me to click to prove I'm human, and the page would just reload in place in an infinite loop.

I ran Firefox on the default settings, and with uBlock (also on default settings). I deleted uBlock, and disabled every option that Firefox has for privacy. Still no cookie. Cloudflare blocked me.

I opened Chrome on the same webpage and not only did it work immediately, but cloudflare didn't ask me to click to prove my humanity, the page just went away on its own without the "challenge" prompt. I had ublock turned on and it caused no issue.

I'm a lesser man, I did what most people would do in this situation: apt purge "firefox*".

I'm a linux user, who used to have a dual boot with windows for video games and who removed the dual boot and stuck with only linux since 2 years ago, I can say, I find being a linux gamer, quirks with proton and all, less painful than browsing the web with Firefox. It's a lost cause. There is simply no way that I am going to recommend Firefox to less technical friends the way I used to in the Internet Explorer vs Mozilla days. I can't see FF ever recovering.
The unique relationship between nasal cavity and cranial cavity tissues in anatomy and physiology makes intranasal delivery to the brain feasible. An intranasal delivery provides some drugs with short channels to bypass the blood-brain barrier (BBB), especially for those with fairly low brain concentrations after a routine delivery, thus greatly enhancing the therapeutic effect on brain diseases.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18817519/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olfactory_bulb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olfactory_nerve

I have heard that the brain kind of sticks out into the sinuses, which may not be technically correct but the illustrations etc above show that there is a uniquely direct connection between the sinuses and brain via nerves that pass through very little tissue at a minimum.
I imagine it depends on the size of delivery. Even with extremely good roads, zipline would probably be faster (I can't imagine that flying in a straight line is _ever_ slower than driving), just lower bandwidth. Single small package? Zipline is probably much faster. Many and/or large packages? Driving is almost certainly faster. Good roads don't change this basic fact, they just change the break even point.
Have you looked up small, light items on Amazon and seen that they pack them up packs of large N? They do that to hide the fact that delivery is actually a very large fraction of cost on such items. Food delivery, as mentioned in the OP, is another example.
Can you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and definitely please not post in the flamewar style to HN? You've done that a lot in this thread and it's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Netrek made its way onto PCs also and I remember playing it in probably 1994/95 when it was about the only game our crappy rural DSL could handle. Tons of fun and the requirement for strategic teamwork was probably only rivaled by RTS games.
Why Mondays are the new office fight
Ok, this is too funny...

Dang contacted me and told me my karma was 4797, not 4997. My eyes are getting old is my excuse :D
No, I didn’t.

Obesity is a side effect of having so much food that calories are cheap and plentiful. That’s why obesity rates are rising everywhere in the first world. It’s also something virtually unprecedented in human history.
Cassel was a Swedish liberal.
Do you feel like taste is a weak sense, or is your sense ~what you think others are experiencing. Since smell is an important factor of taste, do you find food exciting?
Multi finger gestures are better than a mouse
Inflation isn't a scalar value, and all of this complexity is just trying to account for that. This thread is about whether an increase in effective income from prices going down is the same as your notional income going up while prices stay the same. My point is they're not, but feel very similar in most cases. I used an example with inflation rather than deflation since people understand that more intuitively.
I'm in exactly the same boat. Eventually I opened one if his phone bills which had his phone number (UK). I rang him and tried to explain the situation which quickly turned surreal.

He argued that I was lying about getting his phone number from his phone bills because he doesn't get his phone bill emailed out to him. I said yes, that is correct. Your phone bill is emailed to me. Eventually I got frustrated with him and told him I was trying do him a favour and he accused me of hacking his email account.

Then over the next few hours he called me back multiple times to tell me he had called the police, how much trouble I was in, and to tell me to stop calling him and harassing him or he would press charges. I pointed out he was the one that kept calling me, and somehow that registered and he never called back.

He did fix his phone account so I don't get those, but I get plenty of other email for him.
On second thought can we leave it up, as then anyone who sees the thread has a good example of an inflammatory comment and how to rewrite it to be more in keeping with the spirit of the site? If not then I will go back and change it.
That's already handled in the automotive world. Either wait until entering the garage with wifi, or have a mobile modem installed.
It's customary to use OSF (https://osf.io/) on papers this "groundbreaking," as it encourages scientists to validate and replicate the work.

It's also weird that at this stage there are not validation checks in place, exactly like those the author performed. There was so much talk of needing this post-"replication crisis."
Enjoyed the movie very much, but have issues with how Heptapod communication is portrayed. For one thing, they have two modes of language, purely verbal and purely written. Well, what do they do if they want to write down someone's speech verbatim, or tell someone verbally exactly what is written?
Political lie-checking AI would be great.
Trackpoint + Apple touchpad + physical buttons = ideal input
I once spoke to a counselor who emphasized the seasonal nature of life. Which reminds me of Ecclesiastes 3 (below). Find your seasonal purpose(s) and move in those directions until they are exhausted. Sometimes one's purpose is simply to rest and pray/meditate on the next purpose and phase.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%20...

It's hard to discern motivations, but I always like to pray on if what I'm doing is by faith and is loving. Against those things there is no law. At the end of the day, the only thing gained or lost here is eternal, and I'm not going to the grave with any of the earthly accumulations or losses. So most of the "counting the cost" needs to be in the spiritual domain.
The question is the problem. The answer is not a yes/no, but a point on a scale of multiple dimensions. Most of these studies don’t answer the question asked here, but a completely different question. And also most of these studies don’t answer the same question. Heck, it’s even a good guess that none of these studies answers the question asked here, because it’s rather difficult to make a double blind test about such questions.
The obesity epidemic hasn’t spared France either: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_France
Recently added functionalities for embedding by DronaHQ really showcase the platform flexibility, as suggested by many others.
That's going to be quite a lot of people. It is also pretty spot on if thinking in life expectancy terms.
>Get the amount of data we can put on a agreed-on physical medium

I’d go further, figure out the theoretical maximum amount of information that can be stored in a gram of matter and use that. If we’re trying to make a lasting standard then let’s avoid specific storage mediums that may eventually be outdated.

Interestingly, this prior HN post nibbles at the question but doesn’t get into what the composition of the volume would need to be to achieve the density they talk about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6466430
Most of them don't have both. Xylitol doesn't really sit right with me though. I would eat xocolate all the time(chocolate that used xylitol as sweetener).

It's used in infant tooth paste as well, but I just can't believe that giving 1 year olds a sugar alcohol every day twice a day has no side effects at all.

Every couple of years we find these magical ingredients that solve all our problems and fix our teeth at the same time and then a few years later we find out that they weren't quite as healthy after all.
Next up....WebGPU chatbot? ChatGPT style chat with your own GPU in the browser?
It would be appropriate if you disclose pricing in advance before the user register only to get this information.
Show HN: Create cross-platform LLM agents. Manage them via REST API
The use case for this product is manufacturing suspicion. Perfect for increasing revenue from civil forfeiture.
Nonsense. I've been using Vim for 15 years and I don't have any special keybindings. It absolutely does not "suck out of the box".
Exactly - rule of thumb is that about $4 of any small item on Amazon goes to Amazon. That seven dollar cable is really at best a $3 cable, including costs to get the item to Amazon in the first place.
There used to be a site with a handy database too https://web.archive.org/web/20121115101540/http://kill-or-cu...
> One of them is that creation costs of information are fixed, while its usefulness is unbounded, so it doesn't make sense to try and reward creators for each access/view/use, in perpetuity.

The word "creation" is loaded. No one "creates" content. They discover it hidden in some idea-space... occasionally even two people might discover the same thing. The same melody, the same verse of a poem, the same fragment of art.

The idea that one should be rewarded, but the other is slandered the infringer is amusingly dumb.

> but an LLM generating me a recipe based on associations created from being trained on millions of recipes, this feels like it should be in the clear, at least from user's POV

But how will we entrench the rent-seekers?
Wow that is a lot of F. It's 95 (105 real feel with humidity) here in tropics but people and bicyclists are out. I don't drive but not having issues you describe sitting in a nontinted air conditioned bus
As someone with a weak sense of smell, I don't care much for most food. I'm a fan of spicy foods but little else. Perhaps this is because it stimulates other senses. If I'm left alone without being reminded, I'll go 1-2 days without eating on a regular basis.
Anybody who disparages you for liking Butler is being a bit of a dingbat. But,

"This is how translations ought to be, in my view - as close to a transliteration as possible without being grammatically incomprehensible."

Butler is emphatically not this, though - It's a prose adaptation of a poem, and thus in many ways quite far from a "transliteration" compared to e.g. Fagles, Lattimore, Fitzgerald, etc.

I'd argue that Butler's translations are absolutely "translation(s) aiming to meet readers in their comfort zones," by his own admission.

From the preface to Butler's Iliad:

> It follows that a translation should depart hardly at all from the modes of speech current in the translator's own times, inasmuch as nothing is readable, for long, which affects any other diction than that of the age in which it is written.

And later

> I very readily admit that Dr. Leaf has in the main kept more closely to the words of Homer, but I believe him to have lost more of the spirit of the original through his abandonment (no doubt deliberate) of all attempt at stately, and at the same time easy, musical, flow of language, than he has gained in adherence to the letter — to which, after all, neither he nor any man can adhere.

(Oddly, unlike the Odyssey, the PG text of the Iliad does not have Butler's preface. I had to track it down elsewhere. Source: https://ia600209.us.archive.org/10/items/cu31924026468417/cu...)
This is similar to my experience (mid 30s now). I remember sitting at my desk at work, staring out of the window, thinking "wow..so this is it". Would've been about 28-29. I think a combination of things got me to that headspace: end of the education-career pipeline, having bought and settled into a house, and having no kids. I reached a point where I was no longer occupied with achieving "my" goals, and I was left to figure out what my life was going to be. I guess suddenly becoming aware of that responsibility isn't very pleasant; before, I was just on the rails society lays out. School, job, marriage, house, kids, career, etc. Easy.

I'm not much interested in the pedantic debate taking place elsewhere in here about what truly qualifies as an x-life crisis. To me, it's a point in your life where there's some anxiety associated with the direction of your life. I'm more interested in how people came to think about their lives in and after those moments.
But all things being equal, wouldn't you rather have an immigrant who

* speaks the local language

* is highly educated (eg. post-secondary degree)

* is young

* has expertise in an in-demand industry

than one who is missing one or more of the above? For non-refugees, you can screen for the above factors and only admit the ones who are qualified, but for refugees you can't.
Political lie-checking magic would be great, but its not an AI-solvable problem.
from day one you can see the people you've followed. Just go to your profile and click "following".

As for the general implementation, I'm with you on the problems of lacking a feed with only posts from those you follow. But according to the Threads team, this was a minimally-viable-product and features like that are coming soon.

Other than that, it's been very smooth in my experience. And much less full of crap that Twitter. Though that's likely due to it being brand new.
If you don't mind sharing, where did you find a therapist, and what is their background? It seems like there is such a wide range of options, and I'm a bit hesitant about the online platforms.
>> models like ChatGPT efficiently provide users with information about various topics

>> But since users interact privately with the model, these models may drastically reduce the amount of publicly available human-generated data and knowledge resources.

The premise seems a stretch when the models are simply providing a better way to find the information. It is essentially reducing the number of searches or low quality questions floating around.

For creator, it is just an aid to improve the creation. The models help them find duplicates better or simulate variations faster.

This paper appears to construct a case of walled garden by mis-representing user questions as the actual content/creation.

User search questions always remained private with the site owners (Google search, Bing etc.,)
Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for U.S. Signals Intelligence Activities
AI: Startup vs Incumbent Value (2022)
There are food delivery drones near me. Two recent data points:

1) They’re expanding the delivery territory.

2) They’re still using pilots with line of sight to make the delivery.

I think that’s odd. Maybe someone is moving the goalposts, or maybe there’s not a clear roadmap to broad approval.