skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Burden of proof hasn't been met. May as well believe in lizard people living in the center of the earth.
I don't feel like kicking the door down and risking the lives of my squad. I'd rather have a pilot drop a JDAM from 30,000 feet and I don't care who else is in the building. How's that for a bad decision?

Or I can send in a robot. What you say is technically true but I think we can both agree that a robot is preferable to a JDAM.
ChatGPT user sessions are down 29% since May
Nothing we do matters, cosmically speaking.

However, each of us is at the center of our own universe, and from that context, a variety of things are important or unimportant. From the context of self, we derive importance.

That universe exists only as long as the self exists. In that context, what you deem important is important. What you deem unimportant is unimportant. And those states shift over time.

I'm not well read in philosophy. I imagine what I've written above is probably a pretty commonplace observation, so I'm sure someone has written more on the subject.
This was neither the point of the PP, nor is the OP "materialistic" in nature. (Did you mean secular?)

Both are questioning how you should invest your time, and what really matters in your life. Yes, sure, PP is anchored in religion, but the sentiment is the same.
Funky Attractors
I want to share Pierre Segonne’s (whom I don’t know) project called Funky Attractors. It’s one of my favorite examples of Numba and JIT compilation, entirely overlooked by most. It is the cleanest code I’ve ever seen for drawing Strange Attractors, which helped me last year when I wanted to prepare art for our website - unum.cloud.

There is also a nice post on his blog on that topic, but I prefer the code :)
Gotta find a way to relate the article to tech, it's a tech forum!

*<:o)
I have this longstanding and pointless goal to live to see the American Tricentennial. According to this site I'll miss it by 10 years!

It also just so happens that I'm right in the middle of my (projected) lifespan, which would certainly qualify me as middle-aged. But I refuse to identify as such because I feel Boomers turned it into such a negative phrase. Boomers just generally seemed to obsess over aging and retiring and dying in a way that I thankfully don't see among my Millenial and Gen X peers.
> If people are too dumb to read a meter that goes from 0-1000kwh, maybe they shouldn't be driving.

The meter needs to be read by a campground attendant after every stay, to determine who used the electricity. This is straightforward but labor intensive.

Adding a card reader and data connectivity to a campsite would greatly increase capital and ongoing maintenance costs. The same applies to condo/apartment parking spaces.
What sort of work are you doing that made you give up on C# on mac? Backend or games?

I haven't really tried to write serious C# code on macOS, but I did write some CLI tools, which was not bad. VSCode debugging works great too.

Obviously .NET is not supported as well as it should anywhere except Windows, but it seems to be getting better.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say immortality, but cures to standard diseases and ailments that lead to a shorter lifespan would be in my level of expectations.
Shame on the district course judge who dismissed his lawsuit. That was a pretty harmless joke so how did the judge think it would cause lawlessness?
Could you not also see an impact to run times? If algorithm A draws 100W and runs in 10 seconds, and algo B draws 200W… shouldn’t it be very much sub 10 seconds to warrant being called a better algorithm?
Based on your comment of "Indian friends" never bringing it up, do you know what caste they were born into? I mean maybe they never bring it up because it wasn't a problem for their station by birth?
To what end? They are not working for us. Convincing the mafia boss to send Ivy League-educated enforcers, to shake your neighborhood down for protection money, does not meaningfully improve life in your neighborhood.
Some Apple Watch models to be first Apple products made with 3D printing process
Study explores relationship between music collecting and listening enjoyment
that is such a circular argument. they are a microcelebrity who has spent the majority of their life being intensely tracked and harassed by a small but dedicated community, the majority of which is on kf.
Doesn't seem too bad, imo.

The "wow" and "hype" factor are gone/dying down now but I still think its an incredibly useful tool.
Even in 3D rendering for animation, video games, archviz, etc. I often hear photogrammetry discussed in the context of making reusable textures, not just making specific 3D models.
Most advice in TFA seems pretty good, but the first point:

> 1. If you do Google the question beforehand, delete your tracks afterwards

IMO, if you ask me the same question that I had found online, that's on you. Do I have to pretend that I didn't prepare for the interview?
https://archive.ph/5wP9X
How about fzf? https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
How do foreigners / non-Hindus fit into the caste system?

Are there caste equivalent attitudes towards Arabs, Euros, East Asians and so on? Or from a different angle, Muslims, Christians, irreligious, etc.

Or does the framework not apply to those outside of the Hindu community?
Sounds good to me, but (as another perceptive commentator wrote) we do already have common carrier laws on the books; don't they pretty much cover what is intended here?
Apple Card’s killer feature is payment notifications and transactions by vendor built-in. As long as I use it for all subscriptions, I’m going to catch anything that’s no longer in use.
FTA:

>ISPs can meet the label requirement in alternate sales channels either by providing a hard copy of the label or by "directing the consumer to the specific web page on which the label appears."

There's already lookups for sales tax. If they can bill the address the fees, they can show the fees to the customer.
No offense, I appreciate the idea, but I'm not looking for suggestions. I only posted this here as an example of how the system is failing even for people with high quality insurance.
No, GPU poor comes from this definition: https://www.businessinsider.com/gpu-rich-vs-gpu-poor-tech-co...

Less than 10k H100s makes you GPU poor. The author is presumably using it as a proxy for "possible to achieve AGI".
I'm no expert in this field. I presume you are technically correct. But also probably too focused on technical details.

Send a file or path to a db server, in an INSERT query (INSERT email, pwhash, avatar (?,?,?) into users), and that than handles the actual storage, all abstracted away, for the user (programmer) of this system, this is "storing the file in the DB". If I can then do a "SELECT email, variation('tiny', avatar)::cdn_url FROM users", that is "getting the image from the DB. Well, technically getting the email and a URL where this file cane be retrieved.

To me, as a user of such a database, it matters not if some engine stores it as a blob, base64, pointer, or just a URI to an S3 block. What matters is that it's in the same layer of abstraction.
I think the point is that if people like him didn't keep buying new phone unnecessarily, then there would be less phone being manufactured unnecessarily. The fact that he sells it on doesn't change that.
Something 10 years old isn't a measure of irrelevance.
> The output should certainly not be copyrightable if it does not produce an existing copyrighted work

So if I make a program that takes an image and changes a single pixel, I can use it to launder copyrighted images?
The difference is that the environment (aka the entire world) dwarfs the importance of desktop operating systems. I'll do my part there. Meanwhile I assume Windows's days are numbered somehow, but even if it weren't, I'm not stuck with it. I'm stuck with certain other bad tooling at work instead.
Americans Are Bailing on Their Home Insurance
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Sounds exactly like the things that made me switch from Linux to MacOS 13 years ago. There's value in things just working and not having to learn about how my hardware actually works. Learned a lot though!
Except chatgpt isn't really a google replacement. Not only is the information routinely outdated, people are starting to finally realize just how often it's either blatantly or subtly wrong.

Google is much better positioned to have AI enhanced search.
Mirror [1]

[1] - https://archive.is/P2qmU
> you need to build stuff as much as possible
You're absolutely right, that's how you truly learn. I asked for some books to get a more "theoretical" perspective apart from building projects.
This is cool but I see so many posts in HN about “hacks” that increase productivity/save time that it makes me anxious.

I don’t know if it’s our field or just life these days but I would really love a more relaxed approach to work (or life in general?). It feels like I’m in a race and struggling to keep up with the pack.
You can call you credit card company and have them cancel the payment
great milestone achieved, that's quite a leap for the field, from being half as good as the best human pilots to winning by half a second

I would definitely like to see the drones outfitted with different sensors that aren't so sensitive to light visible to humans
I've also heard this said as

Every man dies twice. The first time is at their funeral where they are buried in the ground surrounded by people who knew them. The second time is when the last person at the funeral passes and all memory of them is lost.
My CC company has been happy to handle this for me. A gym in a country I no longer reside in ignored all attempts to reach them to cancel a renewing, but non-contract, gym membership. The CC did a charge back and stopped future charges. Took a few minutes on the phone.

Additionally, I've taken to using my providers throwaway card generator to make site-specific ones that I can then one-click disable whenever I feel like it.

Granted, they only have this exposed through a fairly buggy browser extension, you can't just "do it" easily on the website, so I won't bother giving them the free marketing of mentioning them.
Ghidra is a Reverse Engineering tool which is also an NSA open source project:
https://github.com/nationalsecurityagency

/? awesome ghidra
https://www.google.com/search?q=awesome+ghidra
Netflix: Streamer's expansion into gaming is 'natural extension'
That's fair... I hadn't really taken in the referenced article(s), only wanted to note, that there's still a place for a simpler vertical stack. As to MS-SQL, I don't think I'd recommend it for any purpose where it isn't already entrenched. Same for any commercial SQL based RDBMS (Oracle, DB2, etc) in favor of PostgreSQL or a largely compatible implementation.

Aside: Right now, exploring HTMLX + server-side yew for rendering in rocket (rust), which could be very interesting. Usually do https termination at the platform, or reverse-proxy via Caddy. And I'm a proponent of containerizing all the things (Docker).
The author is making fun of the long s in the quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s (rules: https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2006/06/rules-for-long-s.h... ), by reading it as "f". (As in Flanders and Swann "Greenfleeves")
honestly would recommend using spot/rented instances on that budget vs. buying! A100s run around ~$2/hour, the hard part is getting a large allocation... training workloads are quite spikey anyways, usually running lots of smaller experiments before actually doing a larger single run...
You didn't get the point of my comment.

"Caste" is meaningless here.

Edit: @cududa's comment was something like "care to share what caste you were born into?" to which I replied what you see here and then he altered his comment substantially. Sneaky.
No, it's that one's stewardship of the unbroken chain of vintage watches will be appreciated. Many hands maintained these hands.
The fastest Elixir framework on the list, phoenix, is about as fast as uvicorn. (Both around 10 times slower than dragon.)

I was mostly responding directly to these 2 statements from my parent comment:

> They did savings by re-implementing their services and attribute those savings to the new tool / programming language.

> I wonder what the saving would look like if they chose another tool for the second / optimized system. I doubt it would differ much if they went with Go, Java or stayed with Python.

Which I didn't entirely agree with.
If nothing else then because it works. Immigrants have founded 51% of our top 500 billion+ unicorns. Indian entrepreneurs alone account for 66 out of 500. How many jobs is that creating? Millions at the very least. At 1% of the population, Indian immigrants pay 6% of all taxes. These people also will become/are American citizens.

You have to be a hardcore racist and/or an idiot to argue with data that overwhelming.
Apple Experimenting with 3D Printing to Create Watches
> but they also realize they have a stronghold so what is the choice for most normal consumers

Did I misunderstand this somehow?
To explain the underwhelmed response I guess most people were expecting ’google maps quality’ 3d models. Which is not an unreasonable expectation, given an aerial platform such as a drone converting photos to 3d models of large areas is commoditized. Just dump photos to an application such as Agisoft Metashape or Luma, wait a bit and you can get something like this for example: https://skfb.ly/6DvVP
Hey, I am one of the authors of the article and the systems described.

The default 20% margin of error is indeed pretty wide, and it is intended to catch large obvious regressions (e.g. an algorithm accidentally becoming quadratic instead of being linear)

As we described in the blog post, we have the second system based on the real hardware. This system is on-demand. If an engineer has a suspect commit or an experimental change that might affect performance, they would schedule a 30min-1hr run on that queue, where we run selected benchmarks 9-15 times each on laptops of various strength. In this configuration, the margin of error is closer to 2-3% from our observations so far. To get more confidence, you would want to run even more trials, typically we advise 9 iterations, though.

We also do all our daily benchmarking on those laptops too.

Edit: in addition to preventative testing, we also track production metrics in a similar way as described by the sibling comment
Pardon for reaching for personal traits, but it seems relevant in this case. You have a name of Hispanic origin. That gives me the impression that you are not the target audience of this article, or someone that would be likely to notice these very subtle biases that exist in a different culture.

Can you think of any very subtle racism/bias that exists in your culture, which foreigners may not be able to pick up on without extreme command of the culture + language? I sure can.

Not saying anything about UoT one way or another, just to take what people say seriously unless you have reason to doubt them. This isn't outrage on behalf of someone else, this is someone living the experience and telling their story.
The article boils down to "discrimination is bad, treating people differently by sex or caste is okay, therefore I don't want to call it discrimination, regardless of whether it is or not".
That is how the world works and is working until now. I don't find any surprising effect. Do you?
Very few have - that’s the issue
> Thats why I always create a calendar event and make it remind me so I will know to cancel (or not)

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one here who uses a calendar.

I wish that was a joke, but the number of posts and comments I've seen from people who forgot to cancel at the end of a free trial, or had a site stop working because they forgot to renew a certificate, or forget to renew a domain, and many other things I'm forgetting is way higher than I would have expected.
The last time I saw my grandfather he had advanced cancer and knew he'd be dying soon. He was a little shy of 80.

We had a good conversation, the kind I wish we'd had more of, and part of what he said was basically "I just finally started to understand life, and now I'm dying."

The post may express this stuff a bit clumsily but I think it has a kernel of truth. We fill our days with a lot of shit that doesn't matter. You can argue nothing matters because we're all going to die. But during our brief go-around on the planet there are things that are meaningful and things that aren't.

Trying to focus more on the things that have meaning and less on things that aren't (or, worse, hurt others and make their lives worse) is a good idea. It's a pity we can't collectively get it together and agree that, for example, we could be focusing less on work and more on things that bring us joy. We could arrange society a lot differently but choose not to. And we're not better for it.
I switched to smartphones with the original iPhone (up to 3GS then Androids).

The trick is to not install (m)any apps. There are utility apps like maps/navigation, banking, etc. I use Uber Eats more than I should. But I minimize any social media/infinite scrolling apps. Only recently, I reinstalled WhatsApp because some people didn't know how to reach me, even though my phone number hasn't changed in decades. I presume they upgraded their devices and re-establish their digital contacts but not their 'analog' ones.
Show HN: Remote terminal via WebRTC, incl. file-transfer – no SSH/VPN required
Perhaps the easiest way to get a shell on your remote devices wherever they are (even behind NATs and firewalls) -- no VPN required. Offers file transfer right from the terminal itself.

Because it is web-based and connects via WebRTC it is better than VPN + SSH in every way:
- no setup required on the client machine, it hence works on all OSs and even your phone,
- it will always find the shortest-path to your robots, meaning it won’t go through the cloud if you are on the same network as your robot
- still end-to-end encrypted
- file upload via drag & drop
- file download by clicking on filenames in ls

The UI component can be embedded anywhere you like and you can specify the device to connect to directly in the embedding code.

This solves a common pain-point in robotics, but seems equally useful in many other applications. Please share your thoughts and questions if you have any!

Short demo: https://youtu.be/doYcVNRtbAU
One of these days will be the last time you pick your kids up in your arms, ever. And you won't know it when the event happens, only realize it has passed later.
Wow this is so cool… might have to try it!! The real hacker news is in the comments!
If you go hiking about four miles into the santa monica mountains, you can visit the M*A*S*H set and see some of the left over trucks and some historical markers.
> long-term maintenance cost if upstream accepts the patch

When they said "maintain", I read it as short term, doing this if and when for all libraries down the dependency chain. Or, compile as x86, and wait until external resources push for the support.
There's a pretty simple test: name a brand.

Did you successfully name a brand? Then ads work.
They should be REQUIRED to provide service if they take an address and make an OFFER of plans.
I worked at one, and it was pretty blatant.
Americans kill each other with guns because guns are cheap and plentiful, not because grenades are scarce. If guns were as scarce as frag grenades then it would be a competition between which one is more effective at killing and the availability wouldn't factor into the weapon choice at all.

What you're telling me is that slaughterbots will be armed with guns that shoot bullets, not fragementation grenades.
Depends, the current system only allows profitable changes.
Amiga is famous for being loved by it's users in the 80s. I think Apple II users and Commodore 64 users kind of loved them too.

But expectations were much lower then, computers were expected to be a thing for a 'hobbyist' to tinker with, and those who did generally did it because they loved it.

(I still don't think what were then called "PCs" running MS-DOS or (beginning in 1985) Windows were as beloved as Amiga or Commodore 64 though, Microsoft-OS PCs were for "business", and nobody really loved them).

(Macintosh was first sold in 1984, so mid-80s was the first Macintosh).
It is conceivable that we might have organ replacement for the most commonly failing bodily organs, and cancer treatments that come close to the term "cure".

It is inconceivable that any of this will be available to 90+% of the human race, or even to most people in developed countries.

Insulin has been available to diabetics for well over a century now. And yet..... well, technology is the not the greatest obstacle.
OOP isn't a problem at all since I already know Java well. Thx for DOM
If they can figure out what to charge me by the time they send me a bill, they damn well can provide a detailed breakdown of the charges. Claims of it being too hard should be derided as the utter bullshit they are.
> The only thing I find somewhat frustrating about this is that lab leak is nearly impossible to disprove.

A population of animals infected with virus genetically ancestral to the earliest human infections would absolutely disprove any theories of genetic engineering. For example, the discovery of BANAL-20 has pretty strongly excluded any theories that SARS-CoV-2's spike evolved in hACE2 mice (but not that the spike evolved naturally and was used in a laboratory recombinant, as in the unfunded DEFUSE proposal). Such a population wouldn't absolutely disprove theories of research-related spillover without lab manipulation of the virus (e.g., a researcher sampling bat caves gets infected in the field). It would significantly weaken those though, especially if that population was far from any known pre-pandemic sampling trips.

In the previous two coronavirus spillovers (SARS-1, MERS), animals (palm civets and raccoon dogs, camels) infected with virus near-identical to the human virus were discovered within about a year. For MERS we also see genomic evidence of multiple spillovers, separated by an evolutionary distance that makes cryptic zoonotic spread essentially certain. For SARS-CoV-2, we're still waiting. That was the goal of the original pangolin papers; but that turned out to be multiple reports all derived from the same batch of smuggled pangolins, making it much more likely that humans infected those pangolins in the same way that many humans infected their housecats.

The absence of that evidence doesn't mean SARS-CoV-2 is certainly of unnatural origin; the zoonotic path for some unquestionably natural viruses (e.g. Ebola) is still unknown. It's not what anyone expected, though.

> Is there anything we can do about wet markets?

Reckless agricultural practices need to be stopped. The West is guilty too; there's less taste for exotic mammals here, but routine use of antibiotics in healthy animals may be remembered as a crime against humanity. That's a lot harder than stopping a tiny subset of government-funded research with no clear benefits, though. So it seems reasonable to me to work first on that much more achievable goal.
Same way I have no idea how people get dizzy so easily, do you get dizzy when on a boat, or when using a VR headset?
Sometimes, but not always. In some cases I only find out after I've booked. They could at least tell me about the fee on their site before booking if they only wanted to trick Google. They want to trick me too.
There's a free tier where you can use the bathroom stalls for nothing, but you will get kicked out if a paying user comes along.
What makes you sure that the ML models to actually make them useful won't be available on huggingface?
Old Soviet satellite breaks apart in orbit after space debris collision