skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't have checkpoints but they have little police stations every few blocks; so they are acutely aware of what's going on and who's now got a bike that he didn't have yesterday.

It's expensive, and someone might argue it's oppressive to have police so close at all times, but it's a key element of Japanese policing - and the low rate of crime in the country is definitely affected (somehow) by such policing.
Good question, I've understood dark matter to be a kind of "we haven't proved its existence/discovered definitive examples yet but the existence of dark matter seems to explain many behaviors we see in the universe" thing, so it's possible the true mechanism would "suddenly" be discovered and the hypothesis of "dark matter drives space expansion" be abandoned just as quickly.

I think this is a good example of the whiplash science seems to go through. If you have studied science (or even remember high school science) you know it's the scientific process working as intended. In the eyes of the public, though, science keeps "changing its mind" as though its a monolithic structure of truth which keeps lying to us.

I'm not sure there's a solution to this issue short of science journalism adoption an addiction to qualifying statements -- the ones everyone hates in ChatGPT but from a liability standpoint are required so nobody tries a new home blood chelation therapy hallucinated by an LLM.
Hacking Gitlab: How We Supercharged Coverage Reports with Greasemonkey
By storing coverage reports as artifacts and using a Greasemonkey script, we can automatically display detailed coverage comparisons in merge requests. Even if gitlab doesnt natively support it.
I don't know the demographic breakdown of London homelessness, but I do walk around the city (of Westminster) a lot and have read the Big Issue a fair bit. There are all sorts of reasons to be homeless in London, including (in no particular order):

* Drug/alcohol problems * Domestic abuse * Prison * Mental problems * Financial disaster

Obviously there is overlap between these, and some can cause the others. Also note that being 'homeless' does not just include literally sleeping on the streets (as many do) but also staying in temporary hostels, couch-surfing, and so on.

London is not the sort of climate that it is comfortable to sleep outside, even in a tent. It is difficult to imagine many people that would be 'transient' on the street given any alternative options. Of course it is possible, and there are long-term homeless people who might even plausibly enjoy some of the benefits of the 'freedom to live under a bridge', but I _suspect_ the majority are in a very bad place and want to get out of it.
Patients recall death experiences after cardiac arrest
Can someone explain what's the InfluxData's market? Or how they make/plan to make money?

If we speak about metrics, Prometheus just win.
So this is old news?
Do liposomes make food supplements more effective?
Because it’s the mayor (and city council) who appoints and may suspend the chief of police in Marion (see Marion City Code 1-301).[0] And they have that authority per Kansas Statutes 14-201 (evidently it is a “city of the second class”).[1]

[0] http://marionks.citycode.net/articleOfficersAndEmployees.htm...

[1] https://www.ksrevisor.org/statutes/chapters/ch14/014_002_000...
I understand that HN swings US and we don't like editorialising titles, but this one sucks. It's every Onewheel in the US. "Every single Onewheel" has a clearly absolutist meaning, and the title should be edited to reflect, or a [US] at the end at least.
Bing Rewards was launched in 2010 so apparently it's working enough to keep it around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bing#:~:text=Bing%20....
Is fiction not allowed on HN?
Your question makes a good point. Punishment is only effective at the bottom of the funnel.

A well designed system, whether a computer or an organization should always have controls that guide things to where they should be. That means carrots and sticks.

In a place like a post office, that means separation of duties, audit, and clear lines of accountability. Things fail when nobody asks awkward questions or looks.

I do think that leadership responsible for a debacle like this must be punished. Their incompetence destroyed lives of innocent people.
Show HN: Maximize Signal-to-Noise ratio with controllable newfeeds
The goal of Personamo is to give you a single interface to choose the sources you want to read from, and then easily customize the feed algorithm underneath.

Right now, as platforms do not provide us with a flexible set of filters, it’s tough to control the amount of noise in your feed manually. The bulk of news and content we consume every day is overwhelming and make it hard to focus on what really matters.

Ideally, any newsfeed should reflect your interests and priorities. In reality, TikTok's newsfeeds constantly suggest dancing girls and Twitter's are filled with AI-generated shit posts.

At a high level, here's how it should work: you pick your sources, customize your feed algorithm using LEGO-like blocks, and voila - you have a feed that's tailored just for you. To bring this idea to life, we created Personamo, a platform that gathers content from various news sites, blogs, and subreddits, so you can consume and organize your information all in one place.

What's great is that Personamo lets you create different feeds for your different personas. You can have separate feeds for your professional self, your hobbyist self, your learner self, and more. No more scrolling through cat videos when you're actually looking to learn about quantum physics.

My friend and I have been working on this product for a while now, and I'm stoked to share it with the HackerNews community. We truly believe it can profoundly impact the way you consume information and eager to hear your feedback/suggestions.

Contact us: https://www.personamo.com/ or personamoapp@gmail.com
tl;dr

- No garbage collector

- Fearless concurrency (thanks Rust compiler)

- Performance

- Error handling

- Crates

- they thought they were gonna use C++ and wanted interop (ended up not using C++?)

- ecosystem: Apache Arrow DataFusion

- "I thought that if we're going to rewrite most of the database anyway, we might as well do it in the best language choice in 2020"

But the real reason might be: "Rust good, Go bad" /s
I touched on this in one (or more lol) of my tangents.

Where is this good outcome you speak off? All these western nations are staring down a barrel with the exception of tax/banking havens and nations with a commodity to population asymmetry.

> If minimum gets pegged to inflation, low-income earners will simply take home a bigger portion

The entire economy runs on the margin. Traders get to experience this visually with the orderbook where you have bids/asks and the resulting liquidity/depth.

When you have a minimum wage pegged to an inflation "adjusted" rate, you're opening a Pandora's box of positive feedback loops resulting in the creative destruction of the economy.

This is not just a prediction, its exactly happened to these "20 other countries" including the US (to an extend). These countries use to be industrial powerhouses that accumulated immense wealth during their imperial past, look at them now.

P.S.

Just read your last two paragraphs, don't you see how it reads like a bedtime story?

Energy cannot be created not destroyed. When you dictate every human must have a minimum economic value of X, what do you think happens to the denominator X is measured in?

What do you think happens to an entire subset of low margin businesses that rely on unskilled labour.

What do you think happens to the banks and businesses that invested, loaned or leased land to those low margin businesses.

What do you think happens the streets/towns/cities those businesses to used to exist in?

Moreover, what do you think happens to your country when your adversaries or other countries start eating your lunch.

Again not a guess or prediction, this is whats been happening of more than half a century now and you want to deal with the consequences by doubling down.
One can freely obtain full Wikipedia dumps and search through them as much as they like.
It's valuable to examine the challenges in machine learning without assuming decentralization as a solution:

> High Cost and Resource Requirements

For training and local inferencing use, quantization may help. Problem becomes local via quantization vs. remote full tensor use. Solution may involve distributed inferencing. Techniques like model distillation can help create smaller, more efficient models for inferencing.

> Data Privacy

For training, some private datasets may be needed. For local inferencing use, determining what needs to be inferenced locally vs. what needs to be run remotely may be useful. Problem becomes privacy scope mapped onto a marketplace to mitigate high cost and resource requirements. Techniques like model explainability (versioning) and robustness testing can help build trust in AI systems.

Complying with data privacy regulations and ensuring that AI systems adhere to legal and ethical standards can be a challenge, especially in international contexts.

> Incentives

Instead of assuming the solution when considering the problem, we assume there is an incentive to either simply train a model or use one. Problem becomes financial rewards, data access agreements, or even altruistic motivations.

> Stale Data and Reproducibility

Both the code and datasets for training the model need to be updated. Inferencing needs RAG, so the augmented reference data needs to be updated as well. Anything updated might need some type of revision control, especially if that data (or code) results in poor output. Labeling data and knowledge transfer are other problems that needs revision control.

> Interoperability

We can assume a marketplace for a ML train/inference platform is needed. We have HuggingFace, for example. The problem here is likely based on the tendency for datasets to be private, such as in the case of Llama 2. Models contain the "essence" of the dataset, but we still need RAG to ground the responses.

The use of the Lightning Network combined with a proposed 402 response code is an interesting concept for addressing some of these challenges: https://github.com/lightninglabs/aperture

It could provide a decentralized and efficient way to facilitate payments for dataset access, training, and inferencing to incentivize data sharing and model usage.
Given that there's no technical difference with regard to running an app on an iPad Pro with a SIM card vs. an iPhone, why should I need to do this?
Whenever I see stuff like this I think of a less douchebagy version of this guy

https://xkcd.com/1027/
I am about the biggest Prometheus stan that you can find, but I will not mock or denigrate influx db. They are a runner-up, but there is room in this market for runner-ups, and their feature set does match some that Prometheus is not good at.
Ian (Goodfellow), is that you ?
For me it's definitely about the money. It's not that I can't afford children, it's that I can't afford them AND also do things like stop working while giving my family the lifestyle I want. Ultimately, it boils down to financials. Boomer parents aren't willing to help either nor have they asked for grandchildren. Seems to be working out alright for now.
Rust gets you on the frontpage!
It's a better explanation than dark matter (aka cosmic fudge)
If the US ever tries to have conscription again, it will destroy the state as it exists.
Madoff got what he deserved and punished accordingly. He died in prison.

SBF will probably get the same treatment. They both stole from too many big name people.

I would love to see these franchise owners charged the same way with a few years in prison. It's time to pierce the corporate vail. If businesses commit crimes than businesses should be out in some form of business jail and also including a business death penalty by disallowing the business to operate entirely with the proceeds being put into a receivership that disadvantages the owner.

When entrepreneurs violate laws behind their corporate veil, punish them accordingly and watch businesses start taking that into consideration.
Making a Chromecast Receiver
Why would you blame AI translation?

Look at how ChatGPT-4 handles a direct translation request:

https://chat.openai.com/share/8211a1f6-552b-4bf6-8f9c-bcbeb8...

Or how it talks about a set of existing translations:

https://chat.openai.com/share/299e40ce-806b-4f0e-a889-cb2ee2...

French isn't a language I know very well, but my experience using "AI" to translate Spanish (which I actually do know somewhat) and other languages is more positive than Google Translate. A few months ago, I did side by side tests translating into English using ChatGPT-4 and Google Translate, and it's not even a contest.

It's not clear where Microsoft is getting these bad translations, but it seems like they would be less terrible if they were translated by ChatGPT-4.
> So DKIM doesn't prove that an email was actually sent to someone (even if its on their machine now), just that someone might have faked a scheme where they sent an email with a To in the headers to someone, but the RCPT TO was not that person.

We find the DKIM headers on the recipient's copy of messages, and they confirm information about the authenticity of the sender, right?

So a malicious actor in league with Alice prepares a laptop which purports to be Bob's (but isn't).... and on it there are DKIM-signed messages "From: Alice <alice@example.com>" and apparently "To: Bob <bob@example.com>", except they didn't actually go anywhere near Bob because they were "RCPT TO: <someone_else>"?

...or is there more to it?
> Most places don’t pay well enough to afford daycare.

I wish the problem was money. We have been looking for a kindergarten for our daughter (~5 years old) for 2.5 years now in southwestern Germany. At one point we sued the local district as children are legally entitled to a place in kindergarten. We settled out of court and the district now pays us ~300 EUR/month for a nanny who sometimes watches her together with 5 other kids (very unreliable, and the children are all under 3 years old, so hardly suitable playing partners). Winning the case wouldn't have made any difference, there simply aren't enough kindergarten teachers available. In our suburb, there are around 120 children in kindergarten age, and the waiting list has over 50 children on it. She has been on this waiting list since March 2021. She also has no chance of getting a place in a neighboring city / suburb, because local residents are always preferred. We often joke that it was easier to buy a car in East Germany than to get a kindergarten place here. We have pretty much given up at this point, and my wife had to stop working. Ironically, she is a social education worker, so exactly the profession that is in very short supply.
Sorry, it was a sarcastic joke (perhaps /s tag was warranted).

I don't believe nico is literally an LLM - ChatGPT would have more knowledge of physics and philosophy.

However, I do believe nico is a troll, in the sense of deliberately extending a discussion by exaggerating ambiguity, false challenges, pretend misunderstandings, real ignorance of the subject, bland blatherings and faux pedantic quibbles over the definition of terms (e.g 'novel' and 'great' in different historical contexts).
I have no idea if it's making them money, but a year ago I never heard anyone say the name "Bing" and now I'm hearing it several times a day.
It’s telling that the presented argument for our best food is barbecue, food that lacks vegetables. Us Americans do not know how to properly cook vegetables. Personally, I’ll take Greek and Italian cooking over French, but anything is better than the US. When I look at what my American grandparents ate vs my Greek grandparents, the difference is shocking.

My American grandparents and friends cook meals like steak, potatoes, and asparagus, which I find remarkably bland. When they go out to eat, they go to restaurants where there are no vegetarian dishes, everything is cooked in butter, and often has sugar added. The food is so over-engineered to stimulate the taste buds. They are going primarily for the atmosphere.

When I cook at home, I mostly make Greek recipes:

- Yemista: stuffed tomatoes and peppers with rice, pine nuts, and herbs

- Dolamdes: Grape leaves stuffed with rice

- Spanakopita: Phyllo stuffed with spinach and feta

- Potatoes roasted in olive oil drizzled with lemon juice

Not everything is stuffed, but that’s what the Greeks are great at! The food is so much simpler and more flavorful than steak and potatoes. When I’m in Greece, my family hardly eats any meat because the vegetables dishes are so great. Country salad with fresh tomatoes, onions and lettuce. Xorta: freshly boiled greens. Multiple dishes with eggplant and tomatoes cooked in olive oil. Kalamata olives and spread. Etc.

In Greece, love is expressed through food, so people spend a lot of time cooking food at home. But the quality of food at restaurants is so wonderful as well. It’s delicious, made with simpler ingredients, and vastly more healthy than what is served in most restaurants around me, which are unfortunately Texmex (flavorful but extremely unhealthy).

I have had wonderful vegetable dishes in Asian, Ethiopian, and Indian cuisine as well, but since I’m Greek, I recommend people tryout Greek cooking some time. It’s wonderful food and much vegetable focused than the stereotypical gyro. A good cookbook to get started is Ikaria by Diane Kochilas.
Somebody like Steve Jobs is so surrounded by other people thinking about things that probably anything attributed to him is based on something somebody told him, showed him, etc.

The most famous case would be how Jobs visited Xerox PARC and saw the very expensive workstations (minicomputers not microcomputers) they had with GUIs and that inspired the Lisa and then the original Macintosh.

Surely the Apple Newton (development started in 1987, killed by Jobs upon his return)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton

was an inspiration for devices like the iPad and the iPhone and not3 Jobs was out from 1985 to 1997
90% of Mozilla's revenue comes from Google/Alphabet which can be loosely translated as "Mitchell Baker's salary is paid in 90% by Google" and "Mitchell Baker (indirectly) works for Google".

Mozilla is not a "weird neighbor" but a controlled opposition and its CEO's salary would suffer from breaking this unhealthy relationship or stepping on Google's toes. I'm fairly certain that a lot of Mozilla's developers and users don't have pro-Google viewpoints but it's cash that matters here, not viewpoints.
> Why did you feel the need to quote the parent comment

No reason in particular.
There's an LLM morphing your queries somewhat before submitting to Dall-e and you can jailbreak that.

https://twitter.com/madebyollin/status/1708204657708077294

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1023643945319792731...
>Sorry, there is only one dimension of reality.

How do you know that?
Not OP, but you can limit the max wattage using nvidia-smi. Here's a good article with the instructions and how you would determine the best wattage.

https://betterprogramming.pub/limiting-your-gpu-power-consum...
> Berlin until about 5 years ago had incredibly affordable housing for such a nice city

Berlin, and may I add Vienna, are anomalies. Vienna's population peaked in 1910. Berlin's population peaked in 1943. They were both capitals of an empire at their peak time. Then they became less important, and their population decreased. Now they have been in a very unique situation with their new population growth, because they already were designed for a larger population.

You can't generalize from Berlin and Vienna to other, more normal, cities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Population_of_Vienna.svg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin#/media/File:Berlin_popu...
I love influx but damn do they like moving (too?) fast and quickly changing stuff. In a way, it's pretty cool since it means that they don't get stuck with bad decisions for backwards compatibility reasons, but it's a bit of a roller coaster for users.

Not sure what's the best solution though. Having a "stable" but fundamentally limited product (I guess influxdb v1) or breaking stuff in hopes of ending up with a way better technical foundation.
you’ll be able to outperform on the same very large models or a $3.5k nvidia machine can’t load the very large models so it isn’t apples to apples comparison?
What suggestions you would give to increase my returns and life?
Kia and Hyundai Blame TikTok and Instagram for Their Cars Getting Stolen
Don't know about 10x, but having the MTHFR mutation genotype 667TT reduces folate activation [1] by 70-80%, which is a problem with drugs that require folate supplementation, like methotrexate.

[1] https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Rs1801133
That's good for the top of it, what about the bottom, on the cement? If someone spills water, or mops the floor, it will get damaged very easily.

Silly idea IMO - metal framed beds are extremely durable.
3090 also has NVlink. So in terms of the computer, 2x3090 with nvlink looks like one GPU.
Thanks for the share, that was great. I think the post ironically took the side of the girl at the end lol.
Le vhélio sort en v1.0.0 (an open-hardware social cycle made with FreeCAD)
not sure why everyone completely overlooks the fact that the superconductivity measurement from their paper is made on a thin film sample which nobody replicated as there's no manufacturing details for that version of the material.
whoever (from the original team) said that the ingot itself is to be tested for superconductivity?
I can't recall the last time I've been to a cafe in the US without a bathroom. Perhaps we don't legislate this stuff because we don't have the problem?
In the article it says he hopes to manufacture it for £3. Not sure whether that price is realistic.
My wife's siblings are all musicians because that's the direction their mom drove, but nearly all of them now wish that they'd been allowed to pursue what they were truly interested in. If given a choice, only one of six would have chosen music as the primary thing in their life.

Seeing that, my feeling isn't so much that parents as the driving force doesn't work, it's that it's cruel. Our kids are not blank slates for us to write on, they have many predispositions and interests that we have only the smallest influence over. It is far more effective and more ethical for us to help them develop those interests in ways that will benefit them over the long haul than to try to teach them the things that interest us.
> [...] almost the entire banking system of Ireland went on strike after an industrial dispute in 1970. The strike lasted nearly six months, yet the economy escaped unscathed.

Getting people to strike isn't trivial, but this is the first time I learn about bankers striking.
Responding to my own comment: maybe it does have to be separate hardware. If your kid is programming on the same computer they use for Fortnight, then whenever they lose momentum and get discouraged, they're going to be tempted to switch over and play a nice shiny AAA game instead. Or hop on social media, etc. Modern computers just have too many distractions at hand.

Having a separate computer just for the lo-fi programming environment won't fully prevent that, but at least it's a minor roadblock.
It gives weird errors like that in the chat if it detects the output image as NSFW. Lots of false positives.
Yah this table is awful. But it is $14 I guess. Lol.
if you want a crash course, PBS Space Time is very high quality education

https://www.youtube.com/@pbsspacetime/search/?query=dark+ant...

(just wish I could sort by date on youtube, bet that's on purpose)
It's still there, based on Raspberry Pi 3. The newer models are Intel based w Windows 10s. I'd preorder a Pi 5 and do a project w the kid where you source the pi, case, screen, get an old laptop or two a old router and set up a network lab.
Do you have some journal articles on this?
MP3 vs. AAC vs. FLAC vs. CD (2008)
That also sounds safer..