skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had heard the parts about "probably wouldn't be a big deal for CPU performance" and "probably wouldn't be great for energy storage", but I hadn't heard the point about "we use less efficient materials for power grid transmission than we could, because of costs".

I suppose I didn't expect that we necessarily had like, the "absolute most efficient that could be made" (if that is something substantially more complicated at a materials-science level than "some simple-to-make-alloy"), but I hadn't imagined that it was a substantial difference. (I think I had imagined that they were... copper wires with like, surrounding metal tubes, or something? I hadn't thought much about it.)

Could you either say, or give my a search term I should look up in order to read, a little more about the trade-off being made between materials cost and efficiency of transmission lines?
To me as European that just feels like a theft ngl.
I use it for tons of things personally.

1. Data reformatting, data parsing, anything that requires transforming data in anyway. E.g. give me all blah in this massive raw content of whatever. Give this data as json, this as csv.

2. Writing small scripts to do various other data related actions, automations.

3. Summaries. Extracting key points. Asking questions about content I don't understand well. Asking clarification questions.

4. Bulletpoints, outlines, asking for feedback for my own content, what could I be missing, brainstorming.

5. Coding obviously, but with Copilot mainly rather than ChatGPT specifically.

6. Asking it to review/criticise whatever work or output I do.

7. Anything learning/research related, I use it avidly. If I want to learn about any subject. I haven't found hallucinations to be an issue at all, because I view the content with grain of salt in the first place and I double check if I think something is out of place, but it's really, really good for learning, because I can actively question it compared to a course or whatever, and me being able to debate with it is amazing for learning. And compared to a person I never have to feel that my question may be stupid, I can just spew to it whatever immediately comes to mind and get clarifications. If I had a person as a mentor, I might be more careful, but this removes the aspect of social anxiety completely. I can keep asking clarifying questions infinitely.

8. Decisions. Trying to understand pros and cons of various decisions. Allowing it to brainstorm those pros and cons. I combine with my own pros and cons of course.

To me it's like this dream thing you can bounce your thoughts back and forth with, without having to worry about judgment etc.
VinFast stock skyrockets 270% on Nasdaq, EV maker worth more than Ford
I don't think Google covers a lot of this stuff.
Anonfiles as a file upload site operated in one shape or another for over a decade, which is more than most companies manage. Even when it switched hands, the core concept stayed the same, so I'm not sure if it's accurate to say that it wasn't viable in the long term.
Not without some solid companions that bludgeon transcendetalism. For contemporaries, probably Poe. (On New England Transcendentalism, specifically). Melville and Hawthorne make good reads as well.

Emerson, like so many self-help books, offers what looks on the surface trivial and immediately obvious, providing a seemingly simple "if-only" path. Meanwhile, his ideas on individualism have done untold damage to society as a whole.

This isn't to imply something simple as "Emerson is wrong". He has valid insights. But reading them in a vacuum, assuming Emerson alone is sufficient reading, is not the best approach.

Ultimately, it is no accident Emerson suggests to "set at naught books and traditions", because that is the only way his ideas can survive unscathed.

(fwiw, the advice of "read widely" holds for any given book. Never believe one person has the answers)
Seeing the US economy _just_doing_things_ is a thing of wonder. Even European companies prefer to setup shop there instead of having to deal with all the nonsense and bullshit in the old continent.
Making me really jealous, not gonna lie.
I don't know about carcinogenic, some sources say yes, but I think in general, rosins vapors and its pyrolysis products are not great to inhale as it can contain some pretty nasty chemicals.

Lead on the other hand vaporizes well above soldering temperatures... Can / does rosin vapor can carry lead?
I was helping with an application that used htmx and had two issues. I’m wondering if anybody had similar experience and if these issues are from misusing technology or maybe there’s some ongoing work to address them.

1. A lot of custom middleware in controllers to decide if endpoint should return HTML for whole page or only fragment that htmx needs. On the side of htmx that sounds simple but it is something that probably every project using htmx have to reinvent.

2. Bookkeeping around `hx-trigger`. If UI is getting complicated, many elements need to react to external changes. Instead of reading some state and hope that framework will schedule updates, I have to manage a list of events to react by hand.

Anybody had similar impression?
yes, I prefer the term hypermedia over hypertext because it stresses the systemic nature of a hypermedia system: a hypermedia (e.g. HTML, a hypertext), a hypermedia client (e.g. a web browser), a hypermedia protocol (e.g. HTTP) and hypermedia servers.

we have written a book on the topic here:

https://hypermedia.systems/

you can read chapters 1 & 2 for an overview of what hypermedia is at a systems level:

https://hypermedia.systems/hypermedia-reintroduction/

https://hypermedia.systems/hypermedia-components/

As far as what the term _hypermedia_ means: it is a media, such as a text, that includes within it _hypermedia controls_. Those hypermedia controls allow non-linear branching and interactions with the media, hence the term _hyper_, that is, above, "normal" media, which is consumed passively.

The hypermedia controls we are all most familiar with are anchors/links & and form tags. htmx attempts to generalize the concept of a hypermedia control.

The book goes into gory detail if you are interested in further exploring the idea.
Have solar atomic version. Don't wear it much these days. Mostly when I travel. Been on my dresser 2 years collecting dust but gets some sun. Picked it up the other day for a camping trip. It was both charged and had the correct date and time.
This is perhaps one of the sadder articles I have ever seen on here, and endemic of a lot other parts of society. "Somebody already posted a pretty picture online, there is now no point in me taking pictures ever again."

Imgur/Tiktok/TV give me this sensation constantly. The pictures and lives they all claim to have are all so incredible, I should never move again. I can never do anything as cool or fun as them anyway. I just should just sit alone and jitter with jealousy/misery/desire/hate at how boring my life is compared to "get naked in the woods and have a dance party island."
> I don't think it's great for you to be irritated by a suggestion of change through democratic means, that is how our society works

There is a LOT to how our system works. It's not just a bunch of people going to their 9-5 for two years, skipping over to the ballot box, and then forgetting about politics for another 24 months. You did not explicitly say that is what we should do and I don't even believe you think that, but when someone says "the solution is to vote for change", to me as someone who believed in voting under Obama and then saw how the change we voted for gave way to the status quo, I learned how limited voting is in affecting real change. It is a component sure, but when the establishment on both sides is in agreement that we should either continue aggressively mining, selling, and burning fossil fuels, or we should continue mining and burning fossil fuels while agreeing to a very slow, scientifically disastrous slow wind down of their use, then obviously voting is not enough. And we have had 20 years to digest and reject the notion that individual changes are where we should focus. I mean sure, I am literally vegan, I believe in some sense of responsibility, but I believe more strongly that activism and agitation for broader social change, which requires MUCH MORE than voting, is necessarily required.

That's why in an earlier comment I linked to the lawsuit in Montana. Young people in that state sued the state government for failing to protect the environment for the future as required by the state constitution. That's not voting or starting a new party! When someone says "the solution is to vote" it strikes me as naive. I have been voting for this for 20+ years. It is painfully clear to me that voting is not sufficient. I watched as Obama attended COP21 and failed to make any meaningful commitments. We must do way more than voting.
I think this should be part of required reading for EE101 type classes in college. The hardcover for $25 shipped on amazon, it's really something everyone in electronics should own.
Yes, this is pretty interesting: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO... … with links to 174 submodules.

But for the uninitiated, this might appear as nothing.
I would say compression has some congruency with intelligence.
Wikipedia still keeps tabs on who is updating what via IP tracking. It's anonymous (arguably pseudonymous if the IP is considered a name) but they still pay attention to users doing things.

> We have auto banned contents of hundreds of thousands files.

> Banned file names and also banned specific usage patterns ...

Nothing about banned IPs.
Yet all Republicans in the Senate and House voted against it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act
How to Win Friends and Caffeinate People [video]
because sum([1, 2]) is 3 and not 2
I thought I saw a video saying Luke applied to be Linus’ camera man during the early days, got the job and convinced Linus he did a good job by having friends and family members comment on early LTT (post breakup with NCIX) how good the camera work was. I didn’t know Luke was Linus’ high school friend…
This is really sad.

I've often thought about offering a similar service, but the abuse potential has always stopped me.

I've noodled with a blockchain type system which allows blob uploads as part of the chain, but I haven't really deployed it and publicized it, because of the abuse potential.
Man fears AGI,
AGI fears Fabrice Bellard.
> I really don't think it's some horrendous oversight to expect that people will be kind to a service that you offer.

Its not like anonymous file hosting on the internet was a new thing two years ago. It very much is a major oversight to offer (or acquire) a service in an existing, established segment and have no idea what the usage patterns and challenges in that segment are.

> If you offer anonymous and free image uploading it's not wrong to assume that not 100% of your traffic will be pornographic uploads

Its file, not just image, hosting, but, yeah, you should probably assume that the stuff that the most controversial aspect of it is that it is just porn will be toward the milder end. And their piece doesn't say “porn” it says “abuse”.
It was like stomping out weeds and it wasn't always well received.

I hope that those that got dashed (and observed the dashing) take a step back the next time something from "FuturistSuperScienceNews.com" or whatever pops up touting a revolutionary XYZ. Those sites are like 99% trash that train their readers to distrust science when their clickbate articles don't pan out. If I were conspiracy minded, I'd swear they exist to build out a mistrust in institutions.
Read the paper...

Zstd, while it might be better than gzip or bzip, is still a very poor compressor compared to an ideal compressor (which hasn't yet been discovered).

That is why zstd acts like a rather bad AI. Note that if you wanted to use zstd as an AI, you would patch out of the source code checksum checks, and you would then feed it a file to decompress (The cat sat on the mat), followed by a few bytes of random noise.

A great compressor would output: The cat sat on the mat. It was comfortable, so he then lay down to sleep.

A medium compressor would output: The cat sat on the mat. bat cat cat mat sat bat.

A terrible compressor would output: The cat sat on the mat. D7s"/r %we

See how each is using knowledge at different levels to generate a completion. Notice also how that few bytes generates different amounts of output depending on the compressors level of world understanding, and therefore compression ratio.
I don't see how you can in good faith argue that NYC and LA don't have their own distinct culture. That culture might be superficial in some ways (more true for LA than NY), but it's reinforced by selective migration of people who resonate with the cultural identities of those cities.
to an extent, there was `jQuery.get` but it wasn't tightly integrated with HTML

the original version of htmx was intercooler.js:

https://intercoolerjs.org

released in 2013, and that version depended on jQuery
It's not compulsory. It's a fee for access to public rights of way. If the ISP doesn't want to pay the fee, they are free to figure out a way to provide connectivity without access to the public right of way.

And on that note...my ISP (Starry) does exactly that. They don't use the public rights of way so they don't have to charge many of the franchise fees that Comcast et al do.
OpenAI is heading towards bankruptcy
> those in power hold a certain perspective of human nature

If those people in power are too stupid to be poor, then it becomes even more important for the store owners to hire private armed security agencies to prevent all. Local communities too should arm themselves and make examples out of few people.

One does not have to go on a rampage. Couple of tiktok teens trying to rob GUCCI need to be shot. Everyone else then quickly finds good in their heart.
Scientists trap light inside a magnet
> It is for this reason that we are determined to find an alternative venue. The Fringe has always been known for controversial performances, but whereas the protests used to come from the Christian Right, they now seem to be driven by the identitarian Left. These are the same Pharisees, only now they wear rainbow-coloured garb.

Is it not possible that both parties have legitimate complaints? It sounds like they're promoting comedy without a wide audience, and struggling to reconcile that with their choice of venue.

> Quite how a venue can claim to be “inclusive” when it excludes performers who do not subscribe to the ideology of its staff is anyone’s guess.

Land of the free, and yet they put me in cuffs for yelling "Fire!" in the movie theater. Might as well pack my bags and move to Australia...
> he was laughed at by every Democrat in Congress for wanting to do so

No, he was laughed at because he's sort of a buffoon, and steel tariffs just raised the cost of everything for people using steel; it didn't have any big impact on 'steel jobs'. It didn't create big demand for more US-made steel. That said, IIRC, they're still in place, and current admin should remove them (perhaps gradual removal over 2 years?)

He did nothing meaningful to spur US-based manufacturing, despite talking a big game. But that was basically Trump all over. (attempting to not get too political here)
I doubt porn was the major impetus.

I'm guessing CP (technically porn, sure; probably not what you meant), death/gore videos, pirated software/media, etc were the main issue.
Why did he stop?
Imagination? Or more seriously perhaps a higher tolerance for not 100% accurate output?
Which is also one of the most heavily moderated sites in the world.
OTOH true intelligence can still poorly compress things.
I like this for turn by turn conversations: https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-Llama2-13b

this for zero shot instructions: https://huggingface.co/Open-Orca/OpenOrcaxOpenChat-Preview2-...

easiest way would be https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

a little more complex way I do is I have a stack with llama.cpp server, a openai adapter, and bettergpt as frontend using the openai adapter as the custom endpoint. bettergpt ux beats oogaboga by a long way (and chatgpt on certain aspects)
The HTTP warning may become progressively harder and more confusing to click through, if chrome continues its strategy as they announced in the OP.

Usecases would be more something like "shared server in a student dorm / local server for family and friends / art installation where people are supposed to connect their phones to / smart device with a local web server for configuration", etc.

Niche indeed compared to the public internet, but still substantial.
Twelve Gigahertz and the Technician from Hell
We produce a lot of it, *and* it has high CO2 emissions. The chemical reaction that gives concrete strength releases CO2.
Democrats had quite a few viable candidates last election cycle.

Trump gets over a third of the GOP vote by just lying and so opposition to him as hard as you can't call him out on his lies which makes defeating him impossible, you can't beat the make believe land where everything is possible.

Biden will likely be the nominee as typically the incumbent gets first dibs per tradition.

Technically he needs to win the primary but at minimum the average person needs to be worse off in 2024 than they were in 2020.

Tha might be the case due to inflation and GOP court decisions. But then that leaves the bigger hurdle, who is best to beat Trump the candidate who already did or someone else.

It doesn't matter what the real answer is it matters what people feel.
They spend money on abuse prevention, and that money comes from monetizing the service.
I always took it to mean

"Something that converts source code in a language humans commonly write code in, into another language that humans also commonly (if perhaps less frequently) write code in?"

As opposed to compilation, which is, conversion to something that humans rarely, if ever, write raw?

Anything wrong with this definition?
It was in Stockton. The city initially mulled over charging the store owner but some of us stepped in and made it very clear that the store owner will have the best defense team money and can buy and wide coverage. The city then complete backed off.
> Great reminder what materials science can do to some underlying economics.

Just economics? :-))

Materials science is practically <<civilization>>.

The Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age.

The other axes are: energy production, transportation improvements. But even those frequently come from materials science. The steam engine needed mass production of high quality steel, etc.
Due to this, expect millions of broken links online.

Let's hope the potentially new domain owners are great people.
Perhaps you wish to look at Common Lisp? I think it gets you covered in all those things you mention. There is distinct read, compile and evaluation phase, all exposed to the application code.

If you get a good compiler like sbcl, you can go a long way with just the language itself since the language itself offers a blend of scripting language qualities while being a compile language. Emacs Lisp can go long way too.
> you import and pay the tariff anyway

Yes, I recently wrote about my own frustration with this: https://enki.org/2023/08/01/steel-prices/
Any ERM-based method will have this flaw (if it is a flaw -- I'd possibly consider it a tradeoff) -- it is the nature of compression itself. I would make the argument, I think, that I believe that this disrupts the 'information' layer of the hierarchy, not the 'intelligence', though that is just my personal 2 cents of course.
> I can get that same plan on healthcare.gov.

But not 100% paid for right? And it might cost $1000-2000 depending on your family size.

> No your stocks don't count, the vesting period is too long.

This one I totally agree. And even if you vest, if it's a startup you're mostly locked in and can't sell them, and without liquidity they're basically worthless.
> do better

Can we keep the kindergarten-teacher-scolding tier comments to reddit, please?
> the supply chain and procurement industry need this badly

Anyone have examples of how GPT can help there?
> This would have been an absolute nightmare scenario during the Cold War. Imagine the US decides to start a war with China over, say, Taiwan. China will undoubtedly try to use TikTok to spread anti American sentiment and turn the youth against their own government.

But there isn't a war right now. If one were to start, TikTok would probably get banned/deplatformed as quickly as RT did during the Ukraine invasion.
Notably, I think this would fail on the Wikipedia compression contest because that counts the size of the decompression program (model in this case), so that it measures Kolmogorov complexity. And RWKV is surely too big. A neat thing to think about though, and maybe a winning idea if a more space-efficient model can be found.
Tailnet lock is now available in beta
just recursive descent w/ some hacks in there to make things "look right" :)
National Security tends to get GOP votes yet those bills got zero.
The same talking points that the chief of staff to the Nato secretary general floated just days ago?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/16/nato-official-...
> The issue is that in most cases we don't have a way to reliable to say "mutation X causes y".

Why?
Do you believe that it's mostly futile to use the SNP markers as clues for further exploration?
It wasn't an easy bill to pass.

It is a climate bill. It is also about re-industrializing America, decoupling from China, securing supply chains, and national security. All of those things.
It's par for the course, but I still find it weird that venues and organizers take fringe minority views so seriously. There's no way most people are actually up on who the crazies think you need to be mad at, they just want to go watch a show*. If we just ignored them they'd go away, but they continue to, apparently, wield outsized power. The correct response is "f-off" and not engaging with them.

* maybe that's part of why the "cancel culture" stuff works, because the other side of the coin is people may or may not hear that someone they may or may not vaguely know about was cancelled over ideology, and so it doesn't have much impact on public perception outside of the professionally aggrieved that start this stuff.

P.S. I'd like to think HN doesn't want to discuss it because it leads to predictable arguments, but I doubt that's actually why it got flagged.
Hmm, so essentially it's sampling times from different servers it thinks are unlikely to be conspiring, and those times are not as reliable as expected.

Since it's fun to imagine (and then find flaws in proposals) here's an idea for y'all:

1. If the device reaches out to a dozen servers at different usually-trustable domains (e.g. microsoft.com, nist.gov) and they _all_ have "expired" certificates, that becomes a sign that My Local Time Is Unreliable. (Or that the machine is being booted up by an attacker who has connected it to a fake micro-internet.)

2. The Windows device contains a cert or public key which does not auto-expire based on clock-time, but is only replaced as a side-effect of OS patches. This cert/key exists for one specific purpose, allowing it to securely get a time from an MS time fallback server. Such a server would not normally be queried, and can have very relaxed performance/accuracy/uptime requirements. It could literally just be a GET call returning a epoch integer.

3. This way the client system can bootstrap up to something close-enough-to-current that the regular NTP process can be completed for a more-precise time.

Obviously this can fail if the attacker injects a fake cert/key into the machine... but at that point isn't it Game Over anyway? The same attacker could just put in their own certificate authority for any service.

It may not work for computers that are left unplugged and unpatched for a few years, but it sounds like the real issue are live servers, or ones that just suffered some power-supply hiccup.