skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are some people smarter than others? Do some people have better ability to sprint versus others? Do some people win the genetic lottery and have rich parents that can provide greater benefits to them than others?

If the answer to any of these questions is in fact yes, then is it possible that some people are hungrier than others?

Can you willpower your way through a job that is easy for others, yes. Can you willpower your way to a better sprinter, yes. Can you willpower your way to a million dollar net worth, yes. Can you willpower your way to eat less, yes again.

But to ignore that some people may need less willpower than others is a position that wreaks of entitlement and ignores the possibility that in so many ways we each are born with different strengths and weaknesses that impact our life. Nobody is denying willpower can help you overcome many obstacles, but if you could take a pill to make you instantly a millionaire, my guess is you would go that route versus willpower any day of the week.
While we're a long way from having device for smells like the television, due to the physics involved, an air diffuser that released a specific smell at a specific time is pretty easy to make.
> There's no reason to get an intelligent anything, artificial or not, if I actually just want generated fap material.

For the huge demand among men - it's best to think about an AI girlfriend as an alternative to going to the strip club.

Sure, some guys go to strip clubs for just staring at naked women. But a huge (mostly unacknowledged) part of the appeal is the short-term companionship mixed in. The flirting, the ego stroking, all of it, just an attractive woman taking an interest in you and talking with you. Lots of guys I have talked to have had the experience of one of their buddies getting too drunk and "spilling their guts" to a stripper. That's not a thing that happens if you're just there to stare at bewbs.

In Asia, hostess clubs operate much more along the lines of this idea of emotional fulfillment. Strip clubs are part of the overall entertainment service sector, but really focus more on the bewbs aspect. In the West it's much more mixed in together instead of in two separate types of businesses.
There's also "E-Dreams" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262021/
https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/CodeLlama-7B-GGUF describes codellama-7b.Q8_0.gguf as "very large, extremely low quality loss - not recommended"
> The letter alleged that as proof of the platform's complicity, instead of cracking down on Saudi spying after the FBI alert, "Twitter began approving Saudi requests for confidential information, including 'emergency disclosures,' in 'droves.'"

On top of that, Xitter is using an Israeli intelligence firm for user verification. No way should Xitter become a bank with so many leaks to foreign intelligence services.

[0] https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/x-twitter-israel-concerns...
You can run models at https://shadeform.ai in your cloud accounts or ours, and we don’t track or keep anything.
Missile assembly lines are still there. The HIMARS ammo plant is going full out. Minuteman and Trident are still things, indeed in the UK we ordered some not long ago. There's also moon landing type tech at SpaceX and some other startups are working on interesting stuff - Stoke Space is quite an interesting one.
>If we really can't find any more, then billions or trillions of dollars will be redirected to bring lithium extraction from seawater to commercial scale.

And we are probably going to burn fossil fuel to obtain the energy for this?
Ask HN: Is there a wiki (like confluence) that is not dog-**** slow?
Malaria used to be quite common in Europe and the USA...
The UK grid is generating 26 gigawatts as I type this: https://grid.iamkate.com/
Well also the derailments and accidents. That can't be cheap. Do they just convince themselves it won't happen?
Privacy policy summaries + q&a would be a nice public service. Here's summary of this one:

> Personal data collected includes user names, text or image prompts, IP addresses, contact information, and more. The data is used for various purposes, such as providing and improving the service, managing user accounts, contacting users, and analyzing data. Personal data may be shared with service providers, third-party vendors, and other business partners. The company retains personal data for as long as necessary and transfers it to locations where data protection laws may differ. The security of personal data is important, although no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure. The service is not intended for children under the age of 13, and the company does not knowingly collect their personal information. The privacy policy also includes information about links to other websites, changes to the policy, and supplemental terms and conditions for certain regions. For any questions or to exercise privacy rights, users can contact the company via email.

Generated here: https://dstill.ai/hackernews/item/37436498
That's not what that paper says. That paper says that the parasite can itself be infected with certain viruses, and maybe we should look into how those viruses affect hosts infected with malaria.

The condition Malaria is caused by the parasite.
The whole point of an abstraction is to remove complexity for the user.

So I assume you mean "implementation complexity" but that's irrelevant, because that cost only needs to be paid once, and then you put the abstraction into a crate, and then millions of people can benefit from that abstraction.
Cisco security appliance 0-day is under attack by ransomware crooks
Consumers defrauded on Zelle are left high and dry by the banks that created it [pdf]
130kW can't be true, maybe a typo?
The Age of Innocence Remains Scorsese’s Most Subtle Deconstruction of Misogyny
By that logic - shouldn't university administrations have been taken over long ago by people with degrees in Art History, Egyptology, Medieval Literature, Ancient Greek Philosophy, etc. etc.?
Corrected my mistake. Thanks !
So you're saying you don't expect to change as a person between the ages of 22 and 72?
X (Twitter) is no longer labeling ads for some users
Meanwhile, the only competitor(Google's Android) tracks everything you do everywhere.

So Apple's privacy perspective is way better than Android's. Could it be better? Of course, and I'm fine with trying to pressure them to do more for protecting our privacy, but between the 2, it's not even close, Apple is WAY more private with your data than Google will ever be.
I realize your suggestion is surely not practical, but at the same time it's got my curiosity now.

How big would such a brick have to be to absorb all of somebody's CO2 for a day?

I just have no intuition whatsoever around it.

(Also you'd need a carbon filter for all of the VOC's as well.)
Time to Unionize and take it the Supreme Court.
Either I missed this on first read-through, or they just added it.

It seems the note mentioning this feels buried for me under a large banner image, instead of near all the other text about compatibility.

Anyway, glad it is there, hope that their communications design improves in the future as at least a few others got caught with mismanaged expectations.
Show HN: Hey.py – A terminal CLI based chat-gpt conversation interface
Hi HN, I haven't found a library which suits my chat-gpt workflow, so I made one myself! It has no dependencies, is single file, and is file based, so its very hackable.

Enjoy!
A few observations (which many of you might already know):

1. SpaceX is the one who wrote the mishap report. The FAA approved it, meaning they accepted that it conformed to regulations. In particular, it's SpaceX who came up with the list of 63 corrective actions--not the FAA.

2. That means that SpaceX has had a chance to implement those corrective actions, so I expect many of them (like the Automated Flight Termination System) are already done.

3. The FAA letter says that SpaceX must implement all "corrective actions directly tied to public safety". That implies that any corrective actions /not/ tied to public safety can be implemented later.

All in all, I see this is good news for SpaceX and IFT-2.

https://www.faa.gov/media/70901
where are they spending it?
Oh, I wasn't suggesting using a vector DB. Personally I just iterate through the corpus and check cosine similarity with a for loop.

If by "quantized e5 model small enough to fit in a serverless function" you mean e5-small-v2, FYI it actually underperforms just calling OpenAI for embeddings (text-embedding-ada-002) on the HuggingFace MTEB benchmarks. And that definitely doesn't negate using a doc2query-style approach to preprocess the documents before running them through the pretrained embedding model if you're comparing e.g. questions to answers, rather than raw document-to-document similarity. (Of course a custom trained model will be more efficient! In fact, the original doc2query paper in 2019 used a custom trained model for step 1, as did many enhancements on it e.g. doc-t5-query. What's neat is that with the advent of really good pretrained LLMs, you can get results approximating that without training your own models in like ~5mins of work.)
yes, I meant gigawatts !
Nope.

That paper just reports the discovery of a virus that is a parasite of the plasmodium parasite that causes malaria in humans.

Plasmodium and all its relatives have become parasites a very long time ago, causing a variety of diseases in many animals.

How the Apicomplexa, including the plasmodia, have become parasites has nothing to do with the viruses that may be parasites of these parasites (a.k.a. hyperparasites), which are most likely to diminish the speed of the multiplication of the plasmodia.
That's interesting, and good, if so. Do you have a source for that? I couldn't find anything in their FAQ.
We have been able to do that that with fission reactors for the last 60 years, but we mostly don't.
I guess this is another case of "let them sue."
Certainly. In a regressive sense.
I tend to agree, but pro game dev is a hell where people demand that a new feature be demoed for the producer by 1 PM tomorrow. I have the luxury of not being under such pressure.
> While hydrogen fuel is expensive and the buses come at a slightly higher cost than electric battery vehicles, Tree said a price analysis from Metro revealed that the total capital costs for investing in hydrogen were lower, primarily because they require far fewer refueling stations.

https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2023/08/30/santa-cruz-metr...
> The soundtrack was literally written on the way to the recording studio, and you can tell

You can still listen to the soundtrack on Amazon Music :-)

I bought both the DVD and the soundtrack back in the day. While it's no Grammy winner, there are a couple of good ones in there
The cost of living is absurdly low. I do believe tech made it possible.

The only concern I have is greed from landlords and medical practitioners.

The cost of resources has plummeted, the cost of scarce things (land and medical licenses) continue to go up.

(Although limited medical licensees is a US corruption thing, its not inherent)
So what would it take to give NASA the manufacturing infrastructure and expertise to start building its own rockets? Such programs have always been done by contractors, non-government industrial partners. That's part of working in a capitalist economy.
>You say my sibling has a "rare condition" while admitting America has an obesity problem? Does that sound rare?

I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. I have no idea what was wrong with your sibling. But if you're telling me that they had a controlled diet and exercised and still became obese enough that it put their life at risk, I'd say that's a rare condition, yes. Do you think that is 41% of the population? How about 30%? 20%?

>America does have an obesity problem and you think it's willpower. Does that make sense?

Yes, it does make sense.

Dieting (and/or caloric restriction) is harder than not. Exercising is harder than not. I struggle with both myself. This is how the brain works. I'm sort of astounded that this is news to you.

Oh, and if I get to the point where Ozempic is useful to me, I'll take it. But I won't tell people I have a condition.
This is extremely off topic — what does any of this have to do with constexpr strings?
Not all contributors contribute code. There were also code contributors complaining. Further, there were project consumers complaining as the types were part of the project API previously.
Why would you respect it in the first place? It's a faceless corporation that for decades has been lobbying congress for the privilege of ripping you off. Save your respect for real people, at least.
Ask HN: Any good pitch deck templates?
How do you actually know they don't have military or NASA people breathing down their necks to make it work? And/or someone from the executive branch backing that?

My understanding is that SpaceX is critical for NASA ISS and lunar missions and provides currently irreplaceable capabilities to the US military. These rockets can be used to deliver enormous kinetic and nuclear warheads or move huge military assets or personnel with unprecedented speed. SpaceX also has the largest satellite constellation which in my mind is a primary asset for space defense.

There aren't any other providers that are very close to the level of these capabilities for NASA and the US military.

Whatever the law is about whether they "answer" or not, strategically, the US needs to try everything possible to continue these programs with SpaceX.
> Without function coloring there's no distinction that you need to know of

Why do you think you don't need to know of it? I want to know if the function I'm calling is going to make a network request. Just because I can have a programming language that hides that distinction from me doesn't mean I want that.

Ideally I want to have the fundamental behavior of any function I call encoded in the function signature. So if it's async, I know it's going to reach out to some external system for some period of time.
Requiring stakeholders (users, contributors, whatever) in a free software project to use non-free software to fully participate in the community is a disservice to the movement, the users, and software freedom generally.

There's some room for debate about offering Discord as a bridged option. But having the official community chat only on Discord? How is there even a question?
LLM in the Shell: Generative Honeypots
Who cares ? Apple at this point as like infinite money. Plus they need to integrate more and more AI to improve their products. They already have the Hardware, now they need the SW and AI to make use of them. Same deal regarding the Apple Online Services.
Whats with the clickbait title?
Show HN: Blok3 – A Web3 Data API
The debate is outdated, not because somewhere in the future would it be possible to switch to batteries and renewable energy generation if everything remains the same, but because everything won’t remain the same.

We’ve been pushing the natural variations of our climate system towards the edge of surpassing tipping points and accelerating feedback loops, and maybe with an extra push (like the present El Niño cycle) we might cross it into a path of not return.

Maybe if we restricted our energy requirements 30 years ago, pushed strongly for renewables, changed our so emitting energy sources to existing cleaner ones even at an economic loss we might not have been so close to that point and had enough time for a batteries revolution. But now it may be too little, too late already.

There are signals of acceleration in trends (I.e. https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/ ) that may change badly conditions in a few years. And emitting less is not solving, just not worsening as bad as not doing it, even if we switch to batteries by tomorrow by some magic.
He was strongly advocating callbacks with node.js, which is understandable given the time. But a few years later when he wrote some Go code, he said that's a better model for networked servers (sorry no reference right now, it was in a video I watched, not sure which one)

JS callbacks are indeed better than C callbacks because you can hold onto some state. Although I guess the capture is implicit rather than explicit, so some people might say it's more confusing.

I'm pretty sure Joyent adopted and funded node.js because they were doing lots of async code in C, and they liked the callback style in JavaScript better. It does match the kind of problems that Go is now being used for, and this was pre-Go.

But anyway it is interesting how nobody really talks about callbacks anymore. Seems like async/await has taken over in most languages, although I sorta agree with the parent that it could have been better if designed from scratch.
In low doses it is quite useful, as is its cousin amphetamine. Luckily caffeine is even safer, possible net benefit to health, has been in wide use for thousands of years, and smells and tastes amazing.
> Yes, sometimes you can get stuck for a day, trying to express something within the ownership rules.

This is a big problem. Fast iteration time is very valuable.

And who likes doing this to themselves anyway? Isn't it a very frustrating experience? How is this the most loved language?
You also might see different immune preparations, even. Immune cells in different locations make different types of antibodies and which type of antibody recognizes the antigen in the vaccine partly determines which type of resistant you build up.

IgG and IgM are common in the blood, while IgE is found in places like the intestines.
Industrial and food service CO2 is mostly captured from power plants right now, as I understand it. Besides that, most of that CO2 is only very temporarily stored - it's going right back into the atmosphere as soon as possible.
> Maybe you don't know everything that happens in your gnu linux system, and I think that's okay (to some degree).

I think a lot of this is because there's been an effort to provide more QoL functionality out of the box in dsitros and a lot of the features are inherently complex things with complex code. You can understand it, but understanding each individual piece takes a lot more time than it used to because each piece is solving for a wider use case.

The audio stack overhaul is a good example of one that's positive. PipeWire is actually game changing in terms of UX and how well _it just works_ to the point that there's no longer any kludging of asoundrc or any other configs and praying that an audio device you want to use works as expected.

There seems to be a tendency (for better or for worse) in Linux communities to want to deal with these inherently complex things by ignoring the complexity and taking the stance that building your own solution to those problems as they arise is better, but it really feels like a gatekeeping stance. Maybe it's a worse is better situation, or there's some level in the middle, but the current state of Linux is far better than it's ever been imo.
For one thing, they should make NEVER send any emails or SMS related to Zelle, and the app should say every time it starts "Zelle NEVER sends you an email or text message. Do everything from inside the app."

Theat would be a good start.
> stone aqueduct
>I don't have a metabolic condition, but I am on medications for a chronic condition that have "weight gain" as a side effect.

Perfectly reasonable, and I bet this drug has been a boon.
I’ve used Free Tax USA for the past 6-7 years, and there are no dark patterns. Free federal filing will be the default option if you qualify (based on AGI), offers for extra services are clear about not being necessary for filing, and filing state taxes costs maybe $12.

I don’t usually recommend products but Free Tax USA is one of the most honest companies I’ve dealt with online, they’ve never thrown a curveball at me. It’s refreshing to deal with a company who is satisfied with just making money and not squeezing every possible dollar out of you.
It feels like it's the economics holding it back at this point.

I cobbled together my own smart home voice assistant on a weekend a few weeks ago, sitting on top of the OpenAI APIs (Whisper, GPT-4), and of course using porcupine for wake word detection.

It can do things I could never get the commercial products to do properly, for example I gave it a memory: When a user command comes in, I have GPT-4 evaluate whether it can be executed immediately or requires later follow-up. When a sensor event happens, the machinery re-prompts GPT-4 with the user command backlog, the sensor backlog and the current state, and it figures things out. That way, things like "Please turn of the lights after I leave the room" now work just fine, and all it takes is an afternoon of hacking and a PIR sensor on my little DIY Homebrew-lexa wood boxes. And of course it's also much better at interpreting natural language commands "in spirit" or "creatively".

I'm sure Amazon, Google & Apple have made all of these tinkering experiments, too, but deploying LLM-backed voice services to tens of millions just isn't affordable yet, especially when you factor in risk and liability.
> You can break the chain by commanding the entire runtime to block on the completion of a future, but you probably shouldn’t do this pervasively since it isn’t composable. If a function blocks on a future, and that future calls a function that blocks on a future, congrats! The runtime panics!

article says you can panic if you use the pattern you show. specifically, if you call `my_normal_code()` from an async context.

is the author just talking about a quirk in tokio? or is this sort of wrapping intrinsically dangerous somehow?
Comet Nishimura is brightening and moving fast: See it now
Any fellow OperaGX users here? It's kind of a meme but the feature set is neat and performance seems fine. I wonder how HN would feel about it
Did you read the article? It's a stack of the kinds of narrative writing cliches middle schoolers are taught to avoid.
Or, for the easy way of doing it, just install Ollama and run: `ollama run codellama:7b`.

If you want the q8 version (which you probably don't), it's `ollama run codellama:7b-code-q8_0`.
The name is sketchy and the website is just as bad. Every instinct I have says they're a shady scam site just waiting to steal my info.

But no, they're actually good and just have terrible marketing and design.

Sure makes doing my taxes interesting. I've been using them for three years
there are more. the menu is somewhat awkward. it wasn't working for me in chrome properly (wasn't able to choose other pieces). works ok in safari, had a blast with toccata and fugue in d minor.
The UI for 8949 is worse than TurboTax, for the edge case of having a lot of non-covered shares. (Technically you can mail a paper copy of all the 1099-B to the IRS to work around this problem)

And I think some 1099-R codes used to have buggy question flow, but it's better now.

So far that's the only two things I've found worse than TurboTax, and certainly not worth paying Intuit for.
The Impact of Algorithmic Pricing on Multifamily Rental Markets
Authors from find a very strong rejection of full coordination of multi-family rental coordination, but evidence suggesting some imperfect competition.

This academic followup is of interest to the competitive effect of rental SaaS RealPage's algorithmic price setting that received interest last year: https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...
Snow? In London?
> There’s no intrinsic reason it has to be this way other than they built it to be as easy to join as possible.

You are hypothecating a LAMP-style stack where they just need to add a flag to their database table and update all their SQL to ignore data from flagged accounts.

I'm hypothecating architectures where it is substantially more difficult than that, such as heavily cached, event-driven microservices with geographic distribution, data locality, and which attempt to comply with various data retention and privacy regulations.