skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that I disagree but I'm definitely less hopeful. Maybe after a decade or two and a pot smoker has managed to make it to a decision-making role but I'm not holding my breath (pun definitely intended).
And how were you ripped off by Uber? I take Uber on average 15-20 times a month. The amount shown has always been the amount I paid and I definitely didn’t have to worry about them running up the miles or getting dropped off and them holding my luggage hostage and saying they don’t take credit cards or demanding a tip.
When you work in a lab you have more ability to work on what you want to. Well at least once you get to the top of the lab - many spend a lifetime working on the interesting problems someone else is interested in but never reach the top where they are in charge. Meanwhile many people who work in tech are able to work on problems they find interesting enough (maybe not the most interesting, but still interesting) and they get paid well for it. Still if you want to work on some problems a lab is the best change to get there.
I don't care at all about the hackability of the pinecil but I think it's excellent. I have a Hakko FX880 and a "T12 clone" and I have not used them in years now because the pinecil is just as good for anything I do and it's so much more convenient to unplug my laptop and plug in the pinecil when I need to solder for an hour. Plus the tips are good and cheap.

I've not had any trouble using a random usb-c cable or laptop usb-c charger. But I recommend the pinecil silicone cable for $4 that won't get burnt.
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When do we start building things out of superconducting frogs?
The superconductor itself would be 7.44% gold, but the wire would probably be much less -- superconducting tape isn't particularly strong so it will probably be wrapped up in layers of insulator and support wires.
I don't think spying is the only thing these agencies do. Try asking Guatamala, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, the list just goes on.
Listen elon, you set up a system where if someone pays you, you put them on top of everyone's feed, and then you started paying them for that as well if they say things that everyone interacts with, and then you ended up paying people who are generally recognized as bad actors and right wing provocateurs.

What the fuck do you expect to happen? You can't blame a research agency for your explicit actions. Do you think Proctor and Gamble want their ad next to the guy saying that being trans is a nazi agenda? Apparently you don't have the power youtube does with wooing advertisers.
Having to handle lead for a practically unretrievable amount of gold would (I hope) be enough of a deterrent for the vast majority of "citizen scrappers". Worst case, I think a Pb/Au scrap grey-market would look something like the current catalytic converter market, where raw materials are purchased at set rate by an intermediary and then sold for further processing. Most people know there's gold in their computer parts, but still opt for the recycling bin/ziploc bag in a junk drawer.
Great, perfect for the would-be hacker who bought an arduino and some random breakout board! All that stands between you and a dodgy temperature sensor is a [checks notes] spare laptop power supply! Who doesn't have one of those just laying around prior to embarking on a career of hardware hacking?

My criticism is that, as a first soldering iron, you shouldn't have to have a bunch of background knowledge just to know what parts are missing. They should at least sell a kit with all that stuff.
It seems to me like the opposite solution is more robust. Rather than putting digital watermarks on AI-generated content, put them on human-generated content, and you can treat anything that doesn't have one as possibly AI-generated.
>People who try alternative networks such as Mastodon or, God forbid, Gemini. People who poke fun at the modern web by building true HTML and JavaScript-less pages.

Mastodon is actually part of the "HTTP as a secure application delivery protocol" and is no longer part of the "HTTP as website document delivery" team.

To me that seems the biggest split: self contained application versus hyperlinked documents.
The ramifications of the inflection point we are currently at is mind boggling. I had a hard time explaining this last night but we may very well be witnessing the beginnings of a technological transformation era much like when the p-n junction was invented. From the 1940s standpoint it would be hard to envision all we had today.

- Lossless transport of energy
- Batteries that don't take any time to recharge
- Faster CPUs. Much faster with no heat to burn your lap.

Can I have my flying car now?
> Several states have legalized marijuana, and surprise, marijuana usage is at an all-time high (no pun intended).

There is some evidence (not conclusive yet) that legal access to marijuana reduces abuse of opioids.

I've never used marijuana, I don't like the smell of marijuana, and so I'm not keen on folks using it around me -- but in the grand scheme, pot smokers are not the ones breaking into cars and threatening folks on the train.

> It would be better to not throw people in prison for drug use - but instead have mandatory rehab or something... while keeping drug use out of reach for the average person.

Are we going to do that for alcohol _use_? What about caffeine _USE_? Caffeine is the most widely abused drug in the US and thousands of auto fatalities every year are due to fatigue, which caffeine perpetuates.

I don't care about drug use. I care about the assaults, the robberies, and the street people who block sidewalks and harass pedestrians and transit users. I'm not keen on excusing their behavior because of their substance _abuse_.
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emacs is a good manager for terminals. i use it instead of tmux.
I personally think the upsides of WebBundles are huge. There's nothing that would stop the browser from being able to filter & ignore content coming from in a WebBundle, so I'm not sure what Brave's greivance is here. The adserving topic is complicated as heck, but everyone seems to acknowledge big change is necessary & Google and Firefox both have proposals to radically overhaul the system while enhancing user privacy; Brave's own primary distinguisher at this point is their BAT tokens, their own answer here. There's complicated topics here, but I see Brave following the standard pattern of trying to be a lightning rod of discontent.

It's also surprising to me how almost no one has commented on Private Access Tokens shipping for Apple. Which do the same thing. Here's them bragging about being able to avoid catchpa's since the devices are all vouched for by Apple as unmodified & controlled by Apple: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10077/

There was a decent submission on this recently, but not much engagement. https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2023-07-25-web-integri... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36866355

I think this is absolutely the worst shit, almost as bad as MV3 being a utterly neutered shitty hell hole version of what web extensions were. But it's notable to me that both Google didn't start this particular trend, Apple did, and more broadly - I have such a hard time picking words here - it feels like the stark polemics have been on overdrive to create a reality distortion field, where Chrome is purely bad/evil/awful/no-good everywhere. We should be upset & mad! But I feel like we're pretty far into losing our minds territory, and slipping into strokes of broadsweeping public madness.
> It's always possible to muster up the energy to do the right thing.

This not true. It is possible to have no more reserves. It is possible to argue that ideally you should be able to predict your imminent collapse, but not everybody is afforded this luxury.
Thanks, yeah! Empathy is wonderful:)

Might be a regional thing but "my friend" sounds very condescending / patronising to me! I'd personally feel quite upset if somebody began a critique of my behaviour with that.

I guess "buddy" or "mate" might work though!
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Horizonal bandsaws. I'm sorry but nothing compares to the American built ones. If only they could make one even smaller than the smallest Ellis saw.

Welders. It's hard to beat the convenience and ease of a MIG machine. This does not apply to flux core wires that don't use shielding gas though. I've never found one as good and easy to use as plain old gas shielding.

DAWs. Reaper is basically the perfect program as far as I'm concerned.
I'm one of the co-authors of the O'Reilly book 'Blueprints for Text Analytics' that came out in 2020. In one of the chapters we showed how one could fine-tune BERT on your text and achieve amazing results. I was curious to see how I would approach that problem today with OpenAI and LLMs and that certainly led me down a rabbit-hole of what more is possible with LLMs like entity extractions, summarization and actually building a product. I wanted to get better at listening to podcasts regularly and built a newsletter product that helps me solve that. Along the way I discovered amazing tools like Modal Labs that make it so easy to deploy a service and even used chatGPT as a coding assistant to help me build a front-end - something I have no clue about!

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Sometimes government employees don't explain themselves and sometime laws, regulations and policies are pretty confusing. But yeah, always seemed govt. employees I encountered were trying to do their job as best they could.

It always stuck me as odd that in the states we don't trust the government but we trust big business.
Good reason to believe what the Chinese synthesized is far way from what the Koreans characterize as LK-99: https://twitter.com/robert_palgrave/status/16863940964101488...

They tested a different substance.
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I understand. But what is the solution? Just wait for them to all die? Here in San fransciso we have 3 overdose death per day. That is 40% spike from last years. In 2017 we had 222 overdose death for entire year and we reached that number by march 15h this year.

[1] https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2021-05/2021%2005_OCME%20...
The thing that's craziest to me is that the people who believe in decriminalization are typically totally against deregulating pharmaceutical drugs, but all the arguments in favor of one are in favor of the other as well! My body, my choice? Applies equally to experimental cancer therapies and to crack. You might say "oh well the pharma companies are manipulative, they're liars, they can't be trusted" - dear reader, do we really think the street dealers are better?
It's faster for me to interact with IntelliJ's git porcelain using key bindings than it is for me to switch to a terminal and write a command.

It makes fewer errors than I do. Besides forgetting syntax, fat fingering is a thing.

Conflict resolution is faster, easier, and less error-prone.

Pretty typical sorts of efficiency gains that IDEs can give.
Legalizing theft was the problem. So much actual crime is happening, the drugs are not the primary issue here.
I have not seen a single social program, safety net or entitlement that requires a urinalysis to obtain.
There weren’t any signs for a taxi stand, just ride hail pick up.
Which companies are yall investing in?
Web servers: I’ve used Apache httpd, nginx, caddy and haproxy. Caddy is my favourite in local and in production, but haproxy is more powerful if no need to serve files.

Java web frameworks: spring, spring boot and quarkus. I’d go with quarkus or maybe spring boot.

Java unit test assertions: junit, assertj, Hamcrest. Assertj is much nicer than the rest. Use it with junit5 and jqwik too.

Interactive shell: bash, sh, zsh, fish, powershell. I recommend fish with fzf.

Scripting shell: bash, sh, zsh, fish, powershell. I’d go with powershell or bash.

Text editor: vim, emacs, sublime text, notepad++, gedit, geany, textmate. Sublime text first. (I recommend Sublime Merge as well for git)

Workflow engine: conductor, camunda, temporal. I’d go for conductor if you don’t want to write code, temporal for code and camunda for the ui.
As you mentioned, decriminalization is not enough. The effort that was spent on enforcement needs to be repurposed on quality control. It's much easier to enforce laws on businesses who want to sell their products openly than on individuals consuming substances in private.

The FDA and DEA should be entirely repurposed to randomly testing all food and drug products and ensuring that the ingredients list is accurate to within a certain margin. Having a single arbiter of good and bad substances has proven to be a failure again and again (remember the Food Pyramid?). I would much rather have access to everything, and know that it is labeled correctly, than have some dysfunctional bureaucracy "looking out for me".
I dearly wish there was something like LibGDX for Nim. I have big Java projects I'd probably move over... scene2d is great for simple cross platform UIs.
iframe sounds like a good direction to minimize HTML code needed to render something more than plain text! I tried to make it work, but I didn't manage to
Legalize everything!= Everyone should be using drugs. This is just one step in what should be a public health approach to drug use/abuse. Take away the lock them up because they are weak minded degenerates approach to drug use. I don’t see any dissonance in saying that drugs should be decriminalized and or legal in some cases but I also don’t think most people should use drugs regularly. If someone is abusing drugs it should certainly be cheaper to provide them with mental health care than locking them up in jail. Hard drugs like heroin and cocaine would be safer if they were not sold on the black market. I think that is a net positive vs the status quo- which is a game of “Is It Fentanyl?!?”™ currently. Should people be using those drugs? I don’t know. I personally wouldn’t want to even if I could buy them from a store.
As for cannabis, I’m convinced that for 90+% of the populous* it’s safer than alcohol.

*I think anyone with family history of schizophrenia should avoid weed and probably all intoxicants.
Ah, gotcha, thanks for clarifying :) makes sense!

Definitely going to take a closer look after work.
No. I found Remirror quite a while after Tiptap while searching for a more stable React Node View implementation.

The good news, though, is that it's really simple to mix and match Tiptap and Remirror since both of them use Prosemirror internally.
Hardly matters when everyone is shipping Electron junk.
UberBot calm down, they literally cancel your ride otherwise, as I stated.
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I am ignorant of the underlying mastodon protocol, but couldn't there be a (mostly) HTML-only frontend for mastodon, or something like that?

I really hated that about twitter too, that for reading a goddamn SMS-lenghty tiny text it couldn't just have been "prerendered" on the server, no, you have to fetch a million things and watch different spinners before you get at it.
Seems to me it remains largely true, just with much smaller numbers.

That screen is nice! Real progress being made there.
Isn’t the whole point of decriminalization that we won’t have to spend as much money enforcing laws and locking people up? Funny how you never hear anyone sound the alarm about lack of funding in the early stages when everyone’s talking about what a success decriminalization is, only when the dark side of such policies start showing. “We knew this would happen all along!”
They moved to CA in the 1840s to seek to get rich, not because they were already rich.

People moved to CA to try to make it big in movies or music, although most failed, they still lived a pretty good lifestyle throughout most of the 20th century. Not because they were already Brad Pitt or Madonna.

People moved to Silicon Valley, initially just to get jobs at a burgeoning semiconductor industry a few decades ago. Then later to start up companies in personal computing or internet businesses. Not because they were already Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos. Although most people never got that level of success, there was still a pretty good lifestyle available to young adults in the valley throughout most of the late 20th century.

Most people throughout California's history moved there for opportunity not as a luxury.
By outright cancelling your ride if you don’t agree to as I stated.
The weights are literally linked in the article. The license is Apache 2.0

https://huggingface.co/lightonai/alfred-40b-0723/tree/main
Ok, I've added 36953396 to the above list - thanks!

Why did Derek Lowe link to HN? Who knows - maybe he noticed all the traffic this place has sent him, or how loved his articles are here!
It may well exist. The initial policy went into effect in 2001.
If the Russians listened to American intelligence, or hell, their own intelligence instead of wishful thinking, they wouldn't be the second-best army in Ukraine right now.

The director of the CIA went to Moscow and tried to get the Russians to see sense. Ah well. I guess having intelligence is not the same as acting intelligently.
> Batteries that don't take any time to recharge

Huh? Is this actually a thing that this enables? I don't initially see how
An inherent problem with data engineering dag frameworks is that they are not directly integrated with the nodes, they live above the nodes. The nodes don’t know about the DAG and depending on the software they’re running they’ll have different semantics for checking if something is stuck, cancellation, etc.

I think there’s a lot of room for innovation here. Given 1+ data streams or ingestion locations, a bunch of SQL scripts, a DAG to orchestrate the scripts, and 1+ data destinations there are many different execution models that could be used but aren’t. You’ve only specified the pipeline semantics rather than implementation, so smart tooling should be able to automatically implement patterns like streaming or intermediate queueing without much further input. IMO that’s what DAG frameworks could be: “compilers” for your data pipeline, rather than orchestrators. There’s progress in the area but nothing that quite gets there yet AFAIK
Are you sure you didn't mean to write that in one of the Superconductor articles?
I think you're oversimplifying things a little bit. Some people will try e.g. heroin and get hooked due to curiosity. Some people do derail otherwise promising lives with drug and alcohol use.
Ask HN: Is there any “phantom” keyboard?
A keyboard which is just a camera (or sensors), visually determining hand positions to register keystrokes. Is there any such thing?

I’m aware of Tactual Labs (https://vimeo.com/258421095) but I can’t afford that, and I’d like my keyboard to be something I can carry in my pocket (a phantom keyboard, as I described.)

There’s a damn amount of unexplored productivity potential in this area, especially considering 3d gestures and such.

If there isn’t any, I may build one.
Interestingly enough, I don't think this applies to the APIs as much.

What I've seen on indie hacker type website is that developers are fully on this train and not very critical of the outputs.

This is why you get very basic prompts sent by "wrapper apps", which might have given the developer a good result the only time it was tested before being put in production.

I think it might take a while before tools show up that can generate 100 test cases and test a given prompt with all 100 to report on the results... It seems to be a tough problem to crack.

IMHO front-end chat end-users have many many more "at-bats" and get to see more model results than devs do, which make them more critical of those results.
Saying "it's okay to do something bad" (smoke weed) because "someone else did something worse" (drink booze) is hardly an argument.

Both are not ideal for people in positions of public trust.

I don't want my intelligence officers drunk OR high. Is that too much to ask?
ChatGPT-4 is More Creative than You
A recent Wharton study compared the ideation capabilities of ChatGPT-4 with those of students at an elite university. The study found that:

1. ChatGPT-4 is significantly better (faster and cheaper) at generating new product ideas than motivated, trained engineering and business students at an elite university.

2. The LLM ideas are of higher quality on average (as measured by purchase-intent surveys).

3. The majority of the best ideas were generated by ChatGPT-4, not by the students: 35 of the top 40 ideas (87.5%) were generated by ChatGPT-4.

4. ChatGPT-4 generated the highest-rated idea, with an 11% higher purchase probability than the best human idea.

5. Providing ChatGPT-4 with a few examples of highly rated ideas further increased its performance.
I've largely been doing this (and more) for a few years now. It's seriously improved my quality of life.