skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was shockingly true. I had originally written (and deleted) a reply that discounted what you said not realizing that UserBenchmark had flipped the CPUs I searched for. The 2500K does legitimately stomp cheap laptops.

Cheap Laptop: https://www.walmart.com/ip/443153637

N4020 vs 2500K: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-2500K-vs...
Yeah, if I talk to a 'normie' and explain that chatGPT and OpenAI are nefariously plotting regulatory capture most will roll their eyes at me.

If I say "The founder of OpenAI is scanning people's eyeballs to build a database" that sets off real alarm bells.
It's not 600k per year per person. It's 606k additional spending since 2016, per additional sheltered individual since 2016.

From what I can tell, SF had about 18,548 shelter beds in 2022[0], which puts it at $36,230/bed/year. In 2016, there were 11,017 beds[1], which gets you $20,332/bed/year.

And of course not all help for homeless people is just paying for housing. Still seems expensive, but not nearly as bad as your math indicates.

[0] https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_CoC...

[1] https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_CoC...
They did several successful animal trials which were very promising and demonstrated the thing really worked well.

Unfortunately the CEO was a career academia finance guy and this was his first startup. He wasn't good with their money, and spent it all, much on "side projects" and other stuff not directly related to the development and financing of the pump, before he was able to raise more. The project was also heavily associated with and funded in part by OHSU's Heart Transplant program which has had its own problems over the last few years:
https://www.oregonlive.com/health/2019/07/deaths-at-ohsu-hea...

The architect of it, the guy who just thought it up, is brilliant. I chose to work at OregonHeart to have the opportunity to work with, and learn from him. Dr Richard Wampler is wonderful, one of those old school American treasures. When he was a kid he took apart his families car engine because he was curious, his mom got upset and he put it all back together before his dad got home.

He first envisioned, architected and got going:
What eventually became the HeartWare HVAD, way before it was heartwarming (it was Kriton). Some crazy business history here if you want to read more, it's like a soap opera.
Thoratec HM II (he helped but didnt architect it I believe)
Oregon Heart
VADovations
And the first one, the Hemopump which J&J bought and threw in the trash, only to buy what is essentially the same device 30 years later in their acquisition of Abiomed and their impella devices.

There is so much fascinating history in this field. They even made a totally mechanical (no electronics whatsoever) artificial heart using the thermal decay of plutonium to power a sterling engine.

P.P.S. I have more info about these, and all the other projects I've worked on on my website at
www.iancollmceachern.com
Yeah, cars certainly have utility but I always remind myself that the total cost is higher than we think and it’s especially harsh for people who aren’t very comfortable financially. I’ve been at the mechanic’s when someone is trying to figure out what they can do to keep their car running enough to avoid losing their job, or praying that a tire patch will hold.

The problem in the United States is that a lot of infrastructure was deliberately built to exclude poor people so there aren’t great options in many suburbs for improving transit or bike access short of building road connections through someone’s bank yard. This has a nasty ratchet as cars have been getting more expensive while those suburbs age and need maintenance far in excess of what the property taxes cover.
One doesn't have to fundamentally disagree with the existence of an issue like climate change in order to notice it warping into mass hysteria. Having lived through several such episodes I've given up convincing people that it is, in fact, mass hysteria, since people who don't see it right away never admit it until it winds down. I just hope we don't kill too many people with the "degrowth" idiocy which is fueled by flimsy doomerist predictions that are only loosely based on legitimate science but mostly pushed by entities with political and/or financial interests.
This shows 2 minutes of ads before whatever the video you linked to.
(WarpStream co-founder)

Yeah our P99 for producer latency is ~400ms right now.
That's pretty much an overgrown hobbyist project to them.

Chips are usually sold in reels of 1k or 3k. For quantities like 10k chip vendors will just redirect you to a distributor like Mouser or Digikey - who will be able to ship an order of 150k to you next-business-day without any issues.

The problems start when the chips you want aren't redistributed. You're a rounding error to the manufacturer. Why spend the time and effort assisting a startup with a one-off 10k order when the next email is from a large car manufacturer placing a guaranteed 15M order?
That’s really cool! Did you publish your code anywhere?
One of the reasons is that the company can later close up the effort, completely destroying the future potential helping part of it.

But at the end of the day, I understand that altruism doesn't work this way. But this just means that while I have some tendencies, I'm not altruistic after all. I attach a lot of feelings to where my work ends up and how it affects things, which is, for example, why I like "sticky" licenses like the GPL, and tend toward efforts like the Effective Altruism, however ineffective I think they end up being.

>I honestly don't understand the hostility towards llms using public data

So, getting back to the topic, feelings are attached to where the publications end up and how it affects things. Because of the unintended consequence of companies training AI on publicly available data, people harboring these feelings feel like their thing has been taken from them without their consent. And that is a bad feeling, powerless, inability, and one of the ways of coping with that is coping with it on the outside, directing the feeling outward, whereby it becomes active defense, or hostility.
"I Help Chinese Citizens with Worldcoin KYC, Earning Up to 20k RMB per Day"
I'm waiting for religious zealots to start smashing those Orbs. Looking at long lines of people waiting to stare into one is enough to make me (very briefly) wonder if my crazy uncle might have had a point with his take on Revelations.
Nope.

The media has been pretending the internet is real life (so they can write lazy articles) for so long that they've forgotten it's not.
Some of the first glass used in the world came from a zone in the Egyptian dessert where an impact melted the sand and it was basically a kind of jewel in ancient times
And first announced to be "production ready" in October 2022.
Worldcoin specifically excludes US citizens from holding the token, presumably to escape some legal or regulatory issues.

https://blockworks.co/news/worldcoin-not-in-us#
They're having a cage match (unless Musk backs out).
> He called his treatment by the authorities "disgusting" as the administrators were aware that he actually made a loss, but nonetheless they claimed almost all of his savings. "Nobody is responsible for such craziness."

Welcome to the modern Western society, in which employees have been reduced to litigation-avoidance automatons. No wonder so many people hate their jobs, stripped of any power to help or even just follow common sense.
Worldcoin/OpenAI

I would bet sama is just an asset, and is not literally planning (or perhaps even aware of) this.
No, because they'll fluctuate wildly.

But you can generally bet on a trend towards zero.
From what I've heard that type of information is only held on a special higher-security "logs" cluster and the code accessing that data is subject to additional review by Google's privacy division before it is allowed access to the data. I think there may be special ways to manually access some of that data, but even requesting that capability would automatically trigger an audit after the fact.
Yea, those 100F degree temps down in the southern hemisphere this winter (now for them) are a complete fluke, completely not correlated with anything else.

Heh, this reminds me of a family member I was talking to recently. "We break high temperature records all the time, that is totally normal".
There were always people who were like that it's just that it was harder with paper maps, at least that's my view.

For those old enough, just think back to all the times your "navigator" wouldn't just tell you the street name or even "turn at the third intersection after this one " and instead waited until just moments before you reached it and said "Here" like a jack hole.
The video is supposed to be encoded in Rec 2020. The panel is what it is. TV manufacturers negotiated to get a green primary close to what they could manufacture but really the panel is likely to be a little different and be color managed.

My main monitor is a Dell that is very close to Adobe RGB which is great for print work because it covers the CYMK gamut well.

I am interested in getting something better but it is not so clear to me that you can really get a Rec 2020 computer monitor other than a crazy expensive monitor from Dolby. Maybe I gotta download a bunch of monitor profiles so I can know what various monitors really support as I’ve already developed a system for simulating how channel separation works for red-cyan stereograms even on monitors I don’t have.

A better TV has been on the agenda too except somehow people keep giving me free TVs on the railing edge such as a Walmart TV which had great sound (better than many sound bars) that had the backlight burn out, then I got gifted a Samsung which sucks but is working fine in my TV nook downstairs. My main AV room doesn’t have room for anything bigger than what I’ve got unless I move everything which I don’t have a good plan for…
> Stripe: $0.00

I mean, unless you're running on processing credit, this is objectively not the case. You just don't see the cost because it's deducted before it hits your balance. It's easy to forget that payment processing is not free, and that creates a blind spot where you're kneecapping your revenue with inefficient ways of doing billing.
I made a silverware holder custom-fit to my silverware.

I found a half-inch thick HDPE cutting board at a restaurant supply store, cut it to fit my drawer, then drilled holes in it and inserted short wooden dowels to hold the stacks of silverware in place. To position the dowels, I wrapped a nail in tape to match the diameter of the dowels, then placed my silverware on the board, slid the nail up next to it, and gave it a tap to mark the board where the holes needed to be drilled.

It worked really well and was quite easy to do. I highly recommend it.
Could you be more pedantic? Yes, all human activity has some cost. When this is in marketing copy, it clearly means consumers are not charged for consumption.

If it helps, the US federal budget for 2023 appears to have been projected at $6.35 trillion. Thankfully, all of this stuff is public, so taking a quick look at NASA's slides (https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/fiscal_...), I'm going to guess this falls under "STEM Engagement," which probably encompasses more than just this, but totals $157 million. So somewhere around 0.0025 cents out of every tax dollar. It appears I paid about $50k in federal income taxes last year, so I paid about $1.25 toward NASA's entire STEM engagement activity, some portion of which is represented by this streaming service.

And there isn't any question about where the funds came from. "Outside sources" can't donate to specific government activities, only to the Treasury's general fund. Donating directly to a specific activity violates Congress' Constitutional power of the purse. If you're wondering "what about PBS?" They're not a government agency. They're a private nonprofit funded partially by grants from the government.
If they can put bounties on eyes, orb bounties are fair game?
The victim identified her from a photo lineup, but the police used a picture of her from an arrest 8 years earlier rather than her latest driver's license photo that they could also access.
I think the problem here is that if you have enough faces to compare, you're going to find some similar looking ones and a victim being shown a lineup will probably assume one of those faces must belong to the perp. I does seem ridiculous if that's all they had for the arrest.
> can't put a marine gas tank in the trunk to increase range...

Yeah like that's a necessary feature for most drivers...

> they can always buy a good steel frame cargo bicycle

But where do I put the 12 gallon marine gas tank on the cargo bicycle?? We just established that's an absolute necessity. Clearly not an acceptable form of transportation! How else am I going to get this thing to go on my daily 1,400mi trip that normal people do all the time??

> getting filled with more compute than anyone should need

Anyone should need is the bar here? We existed before electrical lighting, nobody really needs it.

> Is it more fun to drive fast car slow, or slow car fast?

I definitely think its more fun to have 100% of your torque available at 0RPMs. My EV isn't really a "fast car" from the perspective of high speeds or extreme handling. Its probably not going to win many races at a track. But driving it around town? Loads of fun, way closer to the "slow car fast" kind of feeling than the "fast car slow".
> Can anyone say how much each of those crypto tokens are worth in $USD?

https://coinmill.com/WDC_calculator.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37036224
You can install the microcode driver to have Linux provide the updated microcode, if you'd like. (Depending on your distro, it might already be doing it.)

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...
How Zoom’s terms of service and practices apply to AI features
The title of the article should be "Kafka is dead. Long live Warpstream." The long live part refers to the successor.
If you do things reasonably and only have a smart thermostat, 7 years isn't awful, but I'd still spend a little effort seeing if I can switch instead of buying v2. It'd really bite if you went all-in on smart home stuff.
Maybe, but you shouldn't underestimate the popularity of mobile banking/money transfer apps in East Africa.

If it's easier and more secure (against literal telecom hacks, we don't need to get into crypto debates) than the alternative it very plausibly can get users.
IIRC from reading a few days ago it was worth ~$60 USD.
I once built a “solar chime” using broken solar panel pieces, a microcontroller, battery, wind chime, motor and two magnets.

The idea was simple: when the sun comes up, chime.

It would charge up the battery during the day, lose current over night, and when current came back in the morning it would spin up a magnet using the motor (hidden under a platform) which would then cause the chime to activate (after attaching a magnet to the central chime string).

The whole thing resembled a flower in a pot, with a wind chime hanging off it.

After I finished, a guy came up to ask what it was. He and I were both a bit delirious as it was 6 or 7am after a long night of hacking. I demoed the solar chime and he exclaimed: “wow, it’s like analog to digital to analog!”

I now thing about most things that way.
If the patent is on the process for creating LK-99, then obviously that patent only has worth in that people are going to buy LK-99 from the patent holder for development of new applications, and eventually marketing of the applications themselves. The same people may use their initiative to generate a bunch of patents on applications of LK-99, and indeed most of its applications may end up being patented, but that's not to say progress will be halted because of this.
That may be the case, again it is my original point that many liberals (which I consider myself one for the record) want to believe that all of our problems can be solved without any coercion or cruelty. But beloved pets are taken away from their owners all the time in the US, every single day, for a variety of reasons. The idea that it is "beyond the pale" to remove an animal from a family who cannot properly care for it is exactly the problem I'm pointing out.

We are in the current mess wrt housing because many of the solutions are political non-starters, but I am not trying to advocate the most politically acceptable solutions on HN, but instead encourage people to examine whether or not their genuine, well meaning intentions may be counterproductive in some cases.

And also, I am not trying to assert that but for euthanizing homeless people's dogs, all of CA's homeless issues would be solved. Clearly that's not the case.
s/Linux/systemd
(not how to avoid the Socket BSD API as I was hoping for)
Why homes often feel warmer than the thermostat suggests – what to do about it
World-where-we-haven't-been-regulated-yet-coin
I believe you mean "Doublespeak" rather than "Doublethink".
An interactive introduction to grokking and mechanistic interpretability
I guess it depends what you mean by LK-99. They didn't have any luck with their early batches and it wasn't until after an extended break in adjunct professorship and industry that they got back together. A happy accident happened where they bumped it part way through trying to synthesize it and they got a sample with some of the properties that kept them going. So in 99, they were just following the advice of their mentor who was a professor. The NYT coverage is misleading in that they weren't really sitting on room temperature and pressure superconductors for 20+ years.
Ok, intsead of providing commit log guarantees on their own they rely on S3.

I'm not sure if S3 can actually provide durable commit log guarantees.

There is timestamp-based last write wins policy for concurrent writes, so I'm not sure if this thingy can actually replace Kafka in all the usecases providing same guarantees.
It’s also a bad argument because it confuses market cap with “money available to invest in developing products” (not that Google isn’t swimming in dumb money for other reasons).
An Introduction to Velocity-Based Data Architectures
"I have resigned myself to everything insisting on taking as much of my personal data as it can possibly manage, and have already been worn down too much by so many years of trying to navigate it in ways that protect myself, so now I just sadly click accept so that I can get on with my life" is not the same as "I support the right of companies of all types and sizes to take all of my data to do whatever they want with."
You cant charge locals differently than other member states citizens in EU.
"You could have learned that stuff in the last 6 months"

"You might have to hand in your power user card over that one"

And these attitudes are why most consumers almost exclusively use proprietary software. You have to let people be lazy to get mass adoption. Businesses know and exploit this, the foss world writes tools with steep learning curves and says "take it or leave it." And that's perfectly fine as long as we can be honest with ourselves: the vast majority of people will never invest the time to learn to use cmd line applications, or debug wifi drivers, or learn to use an environment that's more complicated than what they already have. Time is money so even a highly motivated person should question spending months to learn new tools.

I love Linux for being superior for servers and hackable and having so much powerful software available for free...but if I weren't a software developer and I didn't enjoy this stuff there'd be no justification for the time I spent learning it.
Sadly, I liked the original idea behind this, and thought it was one of the few actually-interesting applications of crypto currency. If you can (somehow) solve the unique identity problem, you can design a Universal Basic Income using a crypto-currency as backing. The Unique ID problem isn't solved by the blockchain, though, so it ends up being a total mess.
1. I don't see any notice of this launch on the site.

2. The responses on phind tend to be long-winded, decomposing the question even when I try to formulate it logically and concisely.
You can do hashing in javascript, but I mean something more like

<input type="password" hash="sha-256" />

By default, salt with the domain. Have an optional `hash-domain` attribute to override it if needed. Have an optional hash-extra-salt field that you can use to target e.g. a username input. Make it quick and easy to do the right thing, and for a linter to check that you did the right thing (e.g. warn if a password input is missing hash options).

For all the development that goes into browsers, HTML is really missing some basic stuff that tons of people need. Stuff like this or e.g. graphs. Why do you need to pull in huge javascript libraries and write code to draw a line chart? Why is drawing a pie chart harder than making a table?

In contrast, I can think of literally 0 websites that could even come up with the most contrived reason to need USB. The best I can think of is some incredibly bespoke CAD thing that uses a hardware dongle for DRM, and then why isn't it just an actual application? Why would the enablement for that go into a web browser? Or the vibration API. Or the sensors API. Who in their right mind would ever want these things to even be possible for websites to use? You know instantly that they will only be abused. Why is WHATWG working on this stuff and not taking common reasons people reach for javascript and adding standardized, declarative versions into HTML?
There are huge queues at their two UK scanners (both in London).
Intervening in networks to make minorities more visible
Jitsi is great but has limitations. I use Nextcloud Talk. Nextcloud is self hosted and includes many apps that can be easily activated. Talk is full featured and includes mobile apps that allow people to call each other directly along with everything you would expect from a messenger. Federation with the 400K+ NC installations is WIP.
https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:4800/format:webp/1*HuH...

The GNU/Hurd default terminal can display a JPEG inside the terminal?
OneSignal (YC S11) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineers
I know a lot of people will use this to say that blockchain bad, and that is up to you. But really biometrics collection has little to do with blockchain. Worldcoin is firstly a company that collects biometrics and secondly they decided to use an immutable ledger to record the data (although they claim that it is only hashes).

That aside if I wanted to record a bunch of hashes for perpetuity blockchain would actually be the right technology - does not go out of business and take down the servers with it.

The article makes me laugh and sad at the same time though. This Altman guy...
The Next Generation of Web Layouts
At least now you can see if your website is being crawled by them. It also exposes them to be easily targeted to send them invalid data or even misinformation. Before people will already doing that before by putting information that people wouldn’t see like white text on a white background.
Let's discuss the value of feedback, tactics for making comments more informative, the different types of comments, navigating conversations, and how to use feedback.
Kind of weird to see linux called out as too big, and then the ack that writing a ton of device drivers is hard and will take time. Isn't that a large part of the source tree? Realizing I haven't even tried compiling a kernel in a long long time. Feels oddly sad to say.
$2.04 per token at the moment: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/worldcoin/usd

You get 25 WLD for getting scanned, hence the huge queue in a developing country.
This list might just barely meet your expectations, if you squint a bit.
Oh I love your stuff! Currently going thru the awk one
Option 3: respect my privacy and give me the option to turn off all telemetry on a device for which they have been paid.