skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
50 eur a month is insanity. I bet that i and all the other 'poors' like me would start buying $5 permanent paper maps and asking for directions again. That's the kind of hemorrhagic price that only someone who never thinks about the cost of groceries or gas could pay. I'm not trying to tell you that you're a rich asshole or anything, but i do want to communicate that those numbers are vastly detached from the reality of most people. I'd pay 50 eur one time but monthly is a lot. Just pin me to the version i paid for, don't update road closures or any of that other bullshit and let me opt out of the parasitic subscription pricing.
I read it and it wasn’t all that enlightening. It’s exactly what anyone 80% burned by any egomaniac would write, which was exactly what it looked like from the outside too.

FWIW Esther has no way of knowing if he has any exceptional talents outside of cult-building.
We don't Sell your data, we give it away for free in the ad bidding process :D
Go to Korea and look around on the subway. There is objectively less phenotypical variety there.
Who would have predicted back in the 80s we'd have self driving cars, and we'd still be playing a version of super Mario Bros that wouldn't have taxed the 2600 (apart from the scrolling??)
Pink fir apple disappeared from the market in Brissie. I miss 'em
https://www.truetoform.fit/

https://www.beawear.ai/

The tech is mostly there, especially for the virtual fitting side; body scanning is the bigger problem afaik. There are people making dedicated body scanning stations which should be able to produce good quality avatar as one-time step.
Emotional Intelligence Amplification – Love in the time of chatbots
In many countries that is illegal... ToS does not go over the local laws.
> The old analog boiler control/timer box and thermostat in my house look they were installed in the 1980s

And more importantly you can easily buy wire-compatible replacement controllers to this day.
Is this project using the OpenAI API or the model itself?
The fun part about being a strong believer of AI and actually understanding its capacities is being able to tell when people are completely blinded by hype.

AI will not make writers “obsolete”, that is utterly absurd. Would you say reality TV made tv writers obsolete? No? Oh well.

You get what you pay for. That includes what you pay for as a producer…
This feels like the same complaint that you can't gain all the nuance in an article from reading it's headline. A title is there to be eye catching and get you interested in the subject. If you want to know what the book is about read a short synopsis or the table of contents.
Irrationality (own or others') can trap people in situations where self-destruction is the most rational choice.

Furthermore, we have a bit of a scoping issue on our hands: we default to assuming that self-preservation is rational.

Self-preservation may be rational behavior for animals. But humans are qualitatively different from animals in at least the following aspects:

- We have language, which lets us continue our thoughts beyond the immediate moment.

- We are continuously aware of our own mortality.

In that light, many of the relatively irrational choices that we make, can still seem more rational in comparison with an alternative of just sitting around and waiting to die. (Terror minimization theory.)

It gets better. A being that exists, can suffer, dread, and die; not to mention, cause others to suffer, dread, and die. A non-existent being, on the other hand, doesn't have any problems at all. "Destruction" is just the process of going from existence to non-existence, and "self-destruction" is just an egosyntonic drive towards non-existence. You don't exactly act self-destructive because you want to exist more, quite the opposite.

So, from a thinking being's perspective, self-preservation is at least as irrational as self-destruction, if not more so. Of course, either way, people's thinking is much less rational than we give it credit for, while people's actions - much more. But this only reinforces the point: that the most rational evaluation of the question of self-destruction is simultaneously the most counterintuitive.

(Incidentally, if this line of reasoning makes sense to you, you can check out "Every Cradle is a Grave" by Sarah Perry. If it doesn't, also check it out, it probably contains a rebuttal to your first few arguments, and then you have no other choice but to really start thinking.)

>it's near impossible to see all of the collateral damage you make when destroying yourself.

It's still way easier to see than all of the collateral damage you make when not destroying yourself. See: the environment, the economy, the culture. All turned to shit, thanks to the presumably rational actions of presumably rational actors pursuing individual self-preservation and prosperity.

Which is why you see so many young people finding life hardly worth living. Some of them even revert to what they perceive as "traditional" value systems - ironically, the same ones that made life hardly worth living in the first place.

But of course the prostitutes are to blame /s
Russia has gone through the stages of a socialist/communist revolution like those other countries and as such has had its culture infused with the symbolism and mannerism of the ideology. Russians know what it leads to but they also remember what happened to those who opposed the state so they lay low and try to watch out for themselves and their own. The wannabe-revolutionaries at e.g. American educational institutions (from university to K-12) should know better but wilfully ignore the warnings history - or 'herstory' for the most radical among them - has given them about the ideology they push. To me the latter are more dangerous than the former because they can do more damage to us in 'the western world' - what propagandistically used to be called 'the free world' [1]. They know they are abusing their positions to turn their pupils into young activists instead of teaching them the necessary skills needed for self-fulfilment. The know they are using them as pawns instead of giving them the tools they need to get along in society but they do so because they want to bring about their utopia and are convinced that can only happen once current society has been brought to its knees - they follow Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” to the letter even though it has failed miserably everywhere it has been tried but this time it will work, surely, they never tried for real.

[1] ...where it is worth remembering that the west was more free compared to the Soviet block even if it was (and increasingly is) far from 'free' in an objective sense.
I run a Vercel equivalent in Cloud Run’s free tier. The fact is that Vercel charges a LOT for what you get. IMO the UX is nice but what they offer is not something that you critically can’t build yourself in an extra day of coding
This is the way.
No, not really doing anything interactive, but rather the dynamism was needed to make the website look different depending on where the user IP comes from.

For starters, a simple node app outputting different static HTML might do:
https://openjavascript.info/2023/01/23/serve-static-files-in...

Later, something like Netlify CMS could be used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wD00RT6d-g
This project is using the model itself, not the API.
Business names have all this useless PTY LTD and not necessarily the differentiator that is required. E.g. two fast food chain places operated by the same franchise holder but are located on opposite sides of the highway. For me as map use I am interested in identifying the one on the lane Northbound in the list of search results while driving.
Except of course that Google can just freely use the OSM data anyway.
@dang Please change to potato chip or frozen fries shortage, on HN this title verges onto click bait.
Can't have an us without a them
> It was also fascinating to me how complex (and how much larger) plant genomes are compared to animals.

Perhaps a naive view but, plants have just a limited nervous system[1] and no brains. Doesn't it make sense that they compensate by more preprogrammed behavior in the form of a more complex genome?

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8331040/
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses"

Clojure is fun enough that people get to know all the edge cases. And put up with the stack traces.

If you do decide to try it, don't use deps.edn, go straight to Leiningen for build tooling. Even just for playing around in the REPL.
Well, in the case of LK-99 the production method itself seems to be part of the puzzle, and the original authors aren't noticeably better at it than anyone else. Even their best sample doesn't fully levitate.

We need higher quality samples in order to determine whether the thing actually superconducts, because it's really hard to measure the resistance of small grains of material buried inside a mostly useless rock.
Yes that’s the specific issue. We didn’t fear specifically they could read our data; the key management systems available appeared sufficient at some level (although the gcp audit system had some issues, particularly access audit is available as a IAM decision log rather than point of use, so any access bypassing IAM or that failed in the service but succeeded in an IAM call would appear a positive access, etc - aws does the right thing here). More of concern is they appeared more than happy to harvest utilization information for the profit of others, and in our business that was a potentially serious side channel.
If they can prove this one sample is a room temperature semiconductor that would surely be relevant in deciding how much time to spend on trying to create more of the same material.
>we just haven’t been able to come up with a better economic system

If we did, the levers in every country that runs on capitalism would feel threatened and undermine it. See plenty of socialist/communist regimes as examples. This is not to say that those are better systems, but they are demonstration by precedent of what the reaction to their presence will be.
Perhaps, but the groups have subgroups and those have subgroups and so on until the individual. The world as a whole may get more integrated, and the exact way that dividing lines between the groups work may change (e.g. not so focused on geographic areas and more mutable), but I think it will always be there to some extent.
I believe you! I just don't understand what you meant, then.
You can also spin up the llama.cpp server ( https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/tree/master/examples/... ) and e.g. use ModelFusion to generate text, stream text, tokenize, etc. : https://modelfusion.dev/integration/model-provider/llamacpp
I recently tried to implement a 16bit 64k point fft in C using FP32. It thought it would work easily. Turns out it was very difficult, what worked fine in double gave huge inaccuracies in float. It was due to the large small issue, if you subtract a small FP32 from a large tje result cannot be represented so it's as if the subtraction did not happen. These kinds of errors accumulated and affected the result. I found a workaround for my particular algorithm, but it was eye opening to me that FP32 was not enough to just work in this case.
Plot twist: it can, like in the joke where the doctor tells the man who mixed all his family’s urine and his dog’s what they have
I had a sudden onset of extreme pain 2 years and 3 months ago. I've seen 13 doctors in this time, had 2 major surgeries and lots of different therapies, and this one of my main takeaways. In our system, you are forced to become a "general contractor" of your health. I understand the nature of my problem, and I've had a lot of improvement, but I'm still nailing down the particular patholog(ies). The doctors that stand out are the ones who take the time to review your records, and come to the appointment prepared. I've had two. I blame the insurance companies for extracting more and more profit from the system, causing doctors to spend just as little time as possible on, you know, something as silly as patients.
Remarkable that i was convinced this is real until i saw it’s in the humour section
The big brained maneuver is probably to build a cloud agnostic stack and migrate between these clouds, negotiating free credits as you go. Done right you could probably pay no cloud bills for several years.

The problem is that one does not simply build “cloud agnostic” services and you would probably spend a not insignificant amount of time migrating between them every year or two. But if you were really good at cloud and could do this efficiently and quickly it would probably be worth it
> Since the internet is global, it is very challenging to enforce something like that to a degree where it would be effective.

Is it? There is a solution: bad actors get kicked off the Internet. Russia doesn't do shit about cybercriminals? Block their networks until they comply. China gets caught again and again and again hacking into governments or companies? Just the same. India doesn't rein in their scam callcenters (just watch one of the recent Jim Browning videos)? Kick them off the net, and the same punishment for their VoIP providers that act as accomplices. Domestic providers ignoring countless abuse reports against people who had their routers compromised? Disconnect them until they've cleaned up their act and don't pose a threat any more.

The official blathering why this isn't done against other nations is "their population depends on access to the free flow of information" or "it would cost our companies too much money", and that's bullshit. Our enemies don't even need Trojan horses, we directly invite them into our homes. And domestic bad actors hide behind laws limiting their liability. Enough with that. Time to hold malicious, incompetent or greedy actors accountable instead of forcing people to drop unknown calls due to an onslaught of spam or companies to hide behind the protection rackets commonly known as "CDNs" and "botnet protection services".
> you need to be extremely careful about overflows/underflows. [...] you need to ensure that every intermediate result of your operation gives an in range result.

How is that any different from ordinary integer operations/arithmetic with ints/longs/etc...?

> Also, fixed point arithmetic does not fix floats.

I wasn't expecting it to?
Apple is collecting a lot of data on you, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639261
What is meant by 'a bit "FC"' in this context?
The Concretude of the Cloud
I think it's funny, although it does go against the guideline of not editorializing headlines. Changing the title wouldn't really make sense as I believe the whole submission was meant as a joke around the changed title to deceit hacker news readers.
Comparing a drug kingpin to a prostitute is kind of ridiculous but if that makes sense in your mind then I doubt we would see eye to eye on pretty much anything.
https://archive.ph/deiGG
> Alex Kaplan, who had majored in physics at Princeton University, found out about LK-99 on Hacker News, a news aggregation website.
Also: it automatically turning on eco trips without asking you.

I had to turn it off twice. It was taking me these horrible windy hilly directions when I should have been on the highway.
I review 10-20 papers a year.

It's a ton of unpaid, volunteer work, if I want to be a high quality reviewer then it's at least a day (at least 3 thorough reads, taking notes, writing the review, reviewer discussions, post rebuttal, back-and-forth for journals). I am lucky and privileged that my employer counts this towards work time.
Only 20% papers get accepted in my domain.

Now if I had to spend a week on replicating a paper - and this is CS/graphics, where it's easy and "free" - I'd never volunteer to being a reviewer.

You'd need professional "replicators", but who will pay for them? And who will be them - you need experts, and if you are an expert, you don't want to merely replicate others people work full time, instead of working on your own innovation.
The average doctor in the U.S. makes $350k a year. Why?
> And before a bunch of HN smarty pantses tell me it will just latch onto a neighbor's wifi, that's not possible in my building, as we're all on the same building-wide VLAN, and you have to register a new device's MAC address in the portal to allow it in.

Extremely unlikely that LG would be doing this, but at least theoretically the TV could listen for communication from other devices and then reuse a MAC address from an authorized device when that device is not around.
I thought there was going to be some actual innovation. Maybe somebody rearranging the keys, turning it into a different pattern or something.

It's just somebody's art project.
Google uses maps to collect the location data from iOS devices.
So, Apple Maps are useful, because they prevent Google Maps from becoming "too many ads app".
Yeah this is a thoughtful comment rooted in the (complicated) reality of management. I’m curious in your specific experience: do you feel like you have that data and what type of data are you looking at? (Without sharing the figures of course)
If this truly is the "Wunder" material no patent will prevent people from synthesizing it. Sure, commercially there would be lawsuits and blocking being able to sell a product based on it but many foreign governments don't care.

Even the US would ignore such patents if it was useful for military usage.
The vastly complex system of interdependencies linked to globalisation could be the some early stage of that. Ironically this theatre is also where those made-up problems of ours can very quickly turn into real ones.

Being part of only a single group isn't really our thing though. Without something external to focus on we quickly tend go down this path of surprisingly efficient self-destructive behaviour that often involves lots of heavy weaponry. We are chaos incarnate :)
As I understand, you don't have to disclose secrets when filing a patent. You can describe the process in general terms and omit important formulas, quantities of different materials etc.
Thanks for posting this. This was really interesting and I learned a lot.
It depends what you mean by "container". As far as I know, Windows containers aren't using namespaces, cgroups and seccomp. BSD Jails are definitely a different thing. So if you wanted to know how exactly linux containers worked, it's probably easiest to use what the linux docs provide (which is C).
I mean sure, but that doesn't mean I expect them to sell it to other people.
Why ask the owner in the first place. Its public information anyway. Google does not ask either.
The foundation is a small part. The Pis are built and sold by a commercial company that even advertises Pis for industry use: https://www.raspberrypi.com/for-industry/
a real “make hay while the sunshines” vibe over “these companies are great investments to hold”
Yes, I have uBlock origin on Kiwi browser.

Seems like people with uBlock are split between getting it and not, so maybe it's just not served to everyone?

A/B testing or regional variants maybe.
I've gone through both eras and hope I never have to configure a switch or see a HP iLO ever again. Cloud ftw, imo.
Right wing politics generally has a lot less affinity for reading. Also they’re not the ones getting their books banned in half the country, so accessibility isn’t a problem.
I enjoyed the article while I have a very comparable Clojure experience.

There's always new minutiae to learn. Plus I get a handy link that I can just paste next time the topic of laziness comes up in a code review.

I'd just simply point out that there are a few sub-tribes within the Clojure world. Some are very attracted to formalism/correctness, other pride themselves in rejecting them.
My flight got diverted due to some issue in EWR and landed in DC around midnight. There were no other flights that night and no amtrak until the morning. I didn't even think to check Greyhound. I just wanted to go home to see my kids before they head to school.
It was my understanding that Lastpass had the breach issues, 1Password has been pretty solid
I've fully bought into Apple ecosystem but I refuse to use Apple Maps. Not sure how good they are in US but in Europe they are dismal. When they announced the release re-designed maps in Netherlands I gave them a shot but it honestly wasn't a big improvement. I took a screen of my area in Google Maps and the same screen using Apple Maps and the side-by-side difference was shocking. Google maps had orders of magnitude more detailed and precise topography, cycling paths, canals, traffic etc.
Sorry for asking a dumb question, but how is this different from using Jupyter to write your interactive documentation/runbooks and interactive tests?
Thanks for sharing this!

If anyone looking for free alternative for certain tool that you can use to help your startup. Here is the open (re)source project: https://freestuff.dev/ (free stuff for developer)
As you said it’s not that much harder to convert. For startups it feels like it’s just “the thing you do” when in reality it ends up doubling your paperwork at the end of the year come tax time and siphoning off critical money if you’re bootstrapping. Sure if you have VC pockets go ahead and do it but for everyone else in bootstrap land just make your LLC in your home state if you live in the US. You’ll save yourself time and money.

You don’t get any tax benefits having the LLC in Delaware since you still have nexus in your home state and you’ve just made your situation more complicated by also having to file the nexus paperwork on top of your Delaware paperwork and fees. There are some ancillary things like being able to hide you own the LLC if you register in Delaware (or a few other states like Wyoming) but those don’t really matter for the vast majority of people.
I see very little value in patents in general, and I certainly don't think they should exist for things like fundamental research.

Patents exist as a hack to make up for the fact that markets don't deal well with situations where investment from one entity benefits everyone. Patents ensure that only the company doing the research gets to benefit from it, robbing the world as a whole from the progress which could have stemmed from that research.

Why can't we leave the markets to do their thing, and have an alternative mode of research whose funding doesn't depend on keeping the fruits of the research out of the hands of humanity? Why can't we leave companies to do whatever research they want, but put a bunch more money into public research institutions and research non-profits and the like?

If you absolutely want to keep research funding private, I can think of other options as well. Instead of making the reward a government-backed monopoly over the use of an innovation, what if the reward was, say, a direct monetary reward through tax reductions, or maybe a system where the government could subsidize products with the innovation for some time period so that competitors have a disadvantage in the market.

I'm sure someone smarter than me could think of other, better solutions. Point is, there are lots of options. Using state power to keep the innovation out of the hands of humanity seems like the worst of them.
> It's subtle but it's about signal to noise. A screen full of whitespace has no signal and it's an artificial impediment to the knowledge transfer from screen to brain.

Not always.

I'm a developer that likes a lot of whitespace. My style is exactly the one the author hates.

I struggle with full walls of text. As in, my brain just simply cannot handle whitespace-free, or nearly whitespace-free, code.

Whitespace makes it easier for me to read, exactly the opposite of the author.

And that's okay. But it's certainly not an impediment of knowledge transfer to my brain.