skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding to this list of unorthodox approaches, by modern standards: I've heard in some French conferences of Etienne Klein (I'm not sure how romanticized this is though) that Einstein had some breakthrough while being in a half-asleep state.

Here's another similar instance[0][1], better documented, of an engineer working on an automatic level recorder, and "realizing" in a dream that it could be used to improve the accuracy of anti-aircraft guns (WWII).

[0]: https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/parkinsons_dream...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgF3OX8nT0w
Show HN: OSS tool for estimating future AWS IPv4 costs
Just released a new Open Source tool for estimating the future IPv4 costs that AWS will introduce from February.

It's a CLI application that shows you the projected costs for each resource, as well as metrics for some resources (so far we only have network traffic for load balancers) that should help taking optimization actions.

This project was built using ChatGPT GPT4, with very few manual tweaks. You can see the full ChatGPT history on how it was built at the bottom of the readme file.
All with Bluetooth compression...

For that price range, Hifiman produces pretty good planar headphones. The edition XS sounds really good.
Are you serious? That's 400m. One lap of the athletics track. Should take about 4 minutes at walking speed.

Aren't there shopping malls in the US longer/wider than this?

I think I walk further than that between buildings to get to the canteen at lunch time. I tell people I live "really close" to a metro station and it's 380m away.
I don't know about other countries but in Austria nurses were highly incentivized to report deaths immediately following a vaccination or weeks after an infection has passed as a covid death in the sense of national statistics.

I would not be surprised if this "nudging" of on the ground reports over the course of the pandemic has rendered the data around covid deaths unreliable.
Browsers are a pretty crowded market and they seem to have reached a certain equilibrium of normie-facing features. Unlikely you'll gain traction among regular users who are bagged to use their OS or search vendor's own. Perhaps one could gain Mozilla users, though hard to compete against millions of dollars of development (regardless of whether CEO is taking a chunk or not).
> Most western diets gets more than enough d-vitamin through food additives.

This is just wrong.

Per capita vitamin D defficiency and insufficiency in the US are estimated at about 30% and 40%, respectively [0] compared to about 50% insufficiency worldwide [1].

Lack of exposure to sunlight is a major predictor of vitamin D insufficiency, even in western countries [1]. Sunlight produces more bioavailable vitamin D than dietary sources, and the recommended daily vitamin D can easily be obtained from sunlight alone, while it is hard to obtain from diet alone.

> Just a couple of slices of cheese per day and some milk is all the d-vit you need here apparently.

Daily intake of cheese [2] and milk [3] fortified with vitamin D at the recommended daily value is insufficient to make up for a lack of sun exposure.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29644951/

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3356951/

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15956292/

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20460232/
Comparing a Tesla sedan to common ICE sedans...

Tesla Model 3 uses 235/45R18 tires. The tires that come with the car have a treadwear of 500, so ~50k miles of use. Quite middle of the road in terms of treadwear, and you can get much stickier (and much lower life) tires such as the Pilot Sport 4S.

4 competitors for the sedan in the luxury class:

BMW 330i uses 225/45R18

Audi A3 uses 225/40R18

Lexus ES250 uses 235/45R18

Mercedes C300 uses 225/45R18

Tire size seems all nearly identical to me. Some small variance, but broadly extremely close.
This is definitely NOT something that should be "patched".
So guess what happened when the EU forced browser choice in Windows? It had no long term affect on the market share.

Geeks just always hate when normal people make their own choices using their own free will.

Every failure that you cited were well funded companies who failed to execute. Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft failed trying to introduce phones.

The market worked as it should - poor execution led to failure.
Varufakis does not say things based on some big thinking. His objective is to provoke and get attention. During the greek debt negotiations he was bragging about “creative vagueness”, which means that he was purposely speaking vaguely with the intention to confuse the EU partners (who would be the ones paying for the debt) and throw implicit threats. His term as finance minister was a disaster and he was eventually kicked out. His party was recently voted out of the greek parliament, so nobody takes him seriously in his home country. His soeaches (in any language) are usually vague general bulshit that no one can argue for or against.

You will probably downvote me for ad-hominem, and for not responding to his “arguments”, but from my perspective, I don’t think there is a deeper meaning in his writings than what ChatGPT would produce and he does not deserve even the modest popularity he seems to have.
Sorry about the cables.
HR is never your friend, they are the enemy.
> > That means these flights are accounting for 0.0123076923% of the USA's CO2 production ... or put another way it's a rounding error.

This is not about the percentage of CO2 over the total.

People don't want to be chastised by hypocrites, it's the same as a President who declares that "heavy human losses are a price to pay for victory" and then exempts his 2 sons from serving.

2 soldiers are nothing in the face of a National military mobilization for a war, but nonetheless the public opinion would rightfully be enraged as soon as the reports come out about how the President's sons are draft dodgers.

And in a country that has institutions that work as it should they are grounds for removal.

Similarly emitting 1000 tons or even just 1 ton of CO2 in the environment should be ground for removal from the public discourse about climate change.
1Blocker Firewall
1Blocker installs a local VPN profile to perform on-device security checks of all internet connections other apps make. No traffic or data is sent to our servers. Firewall blocks outgoing network traffic to some domains using open-source domain lists maintained by the filter community. It operates at the network level, so you will stay protected no matter what app you use.
This seems like a scam to me.
I would very, very gladly pay for a GPU which took normal DIMMs, and let me get up to 256GB.

I can buy a 32GB DIMM for <$50. Eight of them would do it for $400.

YES, I know the performance hit, but I'm not limited so much by performance as by which models fit. That's true of a lot of other people too.

Only way I can see this happening is if Intel or AMD get serious about AI. This would seriously undercut NVidia's business.
I love throwing out wild ideas, even ones I know to be wrong, because they may be the spark that ignites a thought in somebody else, one that isn't wrong.

That has served me well many times. It's not a panacea, but rather it's just a form of brainstorming. And it's fun!
I think, additionally, the reason why it’s still going, besides the simplicity, is the pseudo-anonymity, your post is just like any other post, what will really make it apart is the context (or the image per se), and I believe that’s the purist form of internet interactions, you get called out on your BS with no filters and without the fear of being “cancelled”, if you help someone, you are not looking for brownie points or to become an e-celeb, you are just genuinely trying to help, you fucked up one time and said something bad or wrong? no one will screenshot it and use it against you till hell freezes over, you did something amazing in a post? It will be circulating around and referred back to the board, not the person or the individual, so the concept is really great as long as it is not a mainstream site, else you will have all sort of shilling and spooks shenanigans that will ruin that experience.
> In my opinion it makes no sense in signing your email (whether it is S/MIME or DKIM) to prove that the email is authentic, and then complaining that there is no way to deny that the email is authentic once stuff goes bad.

It is also rather futile, since the prover can get the messages timestamped (myriads of ways, myriads of platforms), perhaps even steganographically in the correspondence, before the key is rotated.

the denialists can still rotate after shorter and even shorter intervals, but at some point the client software can't keep up and verify the email provider during usage, or rather resulting absence of usage...

it's pretty sad when technologists cave in under pressure from governments, politicians, lawyers and big firms keeping the lid on scandals... reducing the usage of cryptography to a purely symbolic cargo cult token or gesture...

Cryptography configured for exhibition only... but not in any court.
They’re not interested in work not being done. They’re interested in you being in the office and at your computer for a prescribed amount of time.

Actual productivity is not something they want to measure here, what they want is control.
CISA, NSA, FBI Release Advisory Warning of BlackTech, PRC-Linked Cyber Activity
The idea that nobody should ever point that fact out seems crazy to me. We should be using this as an example when teaching critical thinking skills to kids in schools so that they know not to let political ideology and lies manipulate them into the grave.
Hans Reiser was convicted because there was much circumstantial evidence, he insisted to testify, his explanations were unlikely, and jurors thought he acted guilty. He said he threw away his car's passenger seat after his ex wife disappeared so he could sleep in the car. And removed the rear carpet to make a futon. But threw it away. And so on.

Criminal cases are not the only scenarios when authentication is relevant. Most email providers would not authenticate a message without a court order probably. And they may or may not retain sufficient information. A recipient whose messages were hacked would not want to authenticate the messages usually. A recipient who would benefit from disclosing a message the sender didn't want disclosed would benefit from forging a message usually.

Is it now not possible for people to go on TV and lie to people who know less than nothing about a topic?
> Could you please elaborate

Sure, here's an example for "contextual": If I'm in my office and say, "Alexa turn on the light", it has no idea what I'm talking about. A contextually-aware device would use some mix of signals — what Bluetooth devices are nearby, when my voice reached the mic compared to other devices within earshot, the sound of typing, etc. — to determine where I am and do the right thing.

Similarly, an example for "proactive": My family has used Alexa for years, and it hasn't noticed a single routine. I haven't bothered to manually program routines because I've decided I no longer want to invest time in anything that locks me into the platform. But a proactive device would eventually figure out that humans tend to need light in dark rooms.
Here are a few observations.

From the CDC [1], 2020 total covid deaths by state: West Virginia 1318, Florida 21546, Maine 344, Vermont 134.

The corresponding April 2020 census populations [2] for these four states are: West Virginia 1793716, Florida 21538187, Maine 1362359, Vermont 643077.

Thus, before the vaccines for covid were available the deaths per 100,000 persons for these four states are: West Virginia 73, Florida 100, Vermont 21, Maine 25.

Someone should probably check my math, but it looks like voting for Trump causes over three times as many deaths even before vaccinations were available. In other words, the analysis in the original article may be affected by unaccounted for confounding factors. For example, COPD is a significant medical risk factor for serious covid complications according to the CDC. COPD affects over 13.6% of the population of West Virginia (the worst rate in the country) but affects only 5.9% of the population of Vermont [3].

Personally, I chose to get vaccinated and boosted at the earliest possible dates. I also caught covid during the initial big wave of omicron cases in my state.

[1] https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/99750

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

[3] https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/copd-tr...
I’m not convinced by the argument in your second paragraph. It actually makes it seem like arbitrary means exactly “based on judgment or choice” if it can be replaced so easily with “a wide range of”. How was the “wide range” chosen, if not arbitrarily?
4chan loves the term "glowie" in part because its full expansion incorporates a racist slur, but its shortened form can be used in contexts like this, in which it seems merely irreverent rather than racist. Thanks, Terry. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie
I think the platform needs to be niche and not-built-for-scale by design. This doesn't gel with the VC backed route. I absolutely think there's room for a few 1-2M revenue businesses here that could be built by a motivated self funded small team.
Are you saying “if we don’t know how to measure something, we declare it as unreal and pretend it doesn’t exist”?

I mean, yes that’s precisely one of the main reasons why the spirit stuff is not accepted in science (can’t be effectively measured in a lab), but it’s surprising how people can just boldly declare a head in sand approach to things they don’t understand..
> Literally nobody thinks that EV's will reduce microplastics. What are you even talking about?

Not that, for starters.

Is there data that proves inconclusively that electric vehicles AND the new infrastructure and mining and every other systematic thing that comes along with them and doesn't currently exist is actually (not just hopes and dreams) less impactful on the environment? Because as far as I can tell, your comment relies on that, and I haven't seen that data. I could care less about holding on to gas-guzzling cars. I would just like to understand things better before jumping headlong into a "solution" that may or may not be any better. And there are massive incentives for companies to jump into EVs, so there is a lot of conflict of interest with EVs. Can corporations and investors be trusted when they stand to make a fortune?

Again, my point is to reach an understanding. I do not currently understand why EVs are some bastion of hope when it comes to cars. The best data that I have seen does not account for disposal of batteries nor the mining, long term maintenance and upkeep and continual use of EVs, infrastructure, etc. when it comes to EVs. And if they are better, then where is the crossover point when all this is considered? Is it 10 years? 50 years?

And yes, I do think re-enforcing the car is not a good idea. You can think it's unrealistic, and sure, in the short term it probably is. But we shouldn't just throw our hands up and reach for a new "solution" that just brings new problems.
FBI warns “phantom” hacker scams are emptying financial accounts
If you and I have a legally binding contract that forbids you from sending me a certain class if information, and you then violate that agreement by sending it anyway, have you "shared" that with me, in a way that makes me your co-conspirator?
I just looked and I saw it available under “New Features” in their iOS App.

They really do not do a good job letting you know when features go live.

At first blush Pi.ai seems like a “better” conversationalist.
Yeah and it’s absurd we don’t make things more accommodating. However case in point I live almost exactly 0.5 miles from a Safeway. There are bike lanes throughout my part of the city and nice sidewalks with accessible ramps. I’ve literally never seen anyone ride their bike to the store. Probably there are also hills and folks don’t want to ride uphill with groceries but it’s also just not registering as an option in most people’s mind. Nothing stops them at all. It’s just not their habit or preference. But I am glad the infra exists, just I see people use it more for pleasure than necessity.
Don’t confuse socioeconomics for inherent advantages. Adjusted for income people live longer in cities, they are thus objectively safer.

Wealthy parts of cities have vastly better schools and less crime than the average suburbs, but the American middle class abandoned cities. Air pollution again can go either way, suburbs often have surprisingly terrible air quality made worse by long commutes.
> You don’t need parking if you live in a city with nice transit

As long as you only ever want to see people who also live in the same transit route.

I have some friends that moved to an apartment in San Francisco, it is nearly impossible to visit them since there is no parking anywhere nearby.

> Low density means you are unlikely to live a walkable distance from a friend, so suburbia sucks for that too

This morning my elementary school age kid walked to a friends house in a different neighborhood (10 min walk). As I'm typing this, one of his school friends just walked over from his house (3 min walk) to play. Being able to walk (particularly the kids) to friends is one of the prime reasons people like the suburbs.

> Honestly the only thing you said that is true is the big yard

And the road biking, mountain biking, playgrounds, sport fields and so on.

> everything else is worse in suburbia than cities

Clearly a matter of activity preferences, so it is not an objective truth to say one or the other is worse. Dense cities are great for bars, clubs, museums, that kind of thing. Suburbs are great for outdoor activities, sports, hobbies that needs space (e.g. woodworking, try that in an apartment), walking to friends, forests, etc.
Think about how many people were involved in the approvals across the entire globe? Most of the approvals processes were conducted in public by career scientists and doctors. There were tens of thousands of people involved that would have to look the other way.

Any company that’s capable of pulling off a global operation like that with absolutely zero exposure, is already running the world and doesn’t need to bother with piddly $40 billion scams.
To be fair, ChatGPT code interpreter stands up a VM and runs Python code so it’s not completely outlandish.

You are also right that’s not how Bing happens to work right now.
> Don't be snarky.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Are you expecting a real answer of how I was hoping timescale's internal watermark system would help me roll up a total count or are you just implying I'm an idiot?
It was a hard thing to broach at the time without people frothing at the mouth about how I must be anti vaccine or something:

Has there been any attempt to calculate the cost-benefit of all the various measures and how extreme we should go with them?

I’m guessing it’s hard to quantify and compare. A lot of things like general depression, isolation, kids missing half a year of school, etc. can’t really be evaluated against people dying. And on its surface it seems obvious: uh, people dying is much worse than any of those things.

But if I said that everything we did was to save one life, people probably would generally agree it wasn’t worth it (obviously so: people don’t seem too interested in preventing all kinds of deaths at all costs). What about ten lives? One thousand? Ten thousand? There’s some subjective level where it starts to feel obvious to more and more of us, until a majority of us agree.

But do we have any general sense what that number is? How do we decide how much to care? It might seem ghoulish to decide how many dollars is worth a life, but we do it every day.

With the data we have now, I imagine we can somewhat quantify this given enough sample jurisdictions with different rules? “Masking saves x lives per 1000.” “Closing schools saves y lives per 1000” etc. And perhaps then we’re able to decide “is x lives worth the qualitative harm done?” Probably. “What about y?” Maybe not.
Mass production of cars was a mistake. We don't need so many cars. I wish people realized this. It's one of the worst things about our era.

And I'm not a hypocrite. I don't own a car nor do I drive one. I walk and bike and take the bus.
It's an issue when you compare what amount of consumption a given job allows. If your wages support old people, some of that consumption is outsourced (outsinked?)
This really reminds of the buzz around the original Segway release.
Seems like the challenge would be heating the right places. How would you know what food to heat more or less?

Also, ultrasonic transducers today, as far as I know, require essentially direct contact to impart energy. You probably don't want to dip something into your leftovers just to heat it.
If I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying that while a perfect sinc interpolation reconstruction would allow you to capture up to 44.1/2 kHz, in practice since we're limited to FIR reconstruction filters we can't actually get that high? If so it seems like a fair point, although I'd imagine they'd be better than 6khz?

There's also the issue of the input signal not being band-limited which is necessarily true for real world signals given that you sample for a finite duration.
You got it to provide a chat response with a remotely plausible (but still somewhat unlikely, Bard probably isn’t running on MacOS servers, though training data with samples from which it might project the answer probably disproportionately is from people running code on MacOS desktops) answer to what the result of doing that would be.
And 128k opus is perfect to my ears. I store all my music in the best possible quality FLAC files, but stream it to my phone in 128k opus. Such a great format, encodes very fast even with my Intel atom and sounds great.
This article’s title should really actually be: “my company is too cheap to hire actually senior engineers”.

Actually senior engineers are out there, for sure. They are, of course, more unusual as candidates and way more expensive.

The whole mapper vs packer thing… meh.
Yeah, that’s my thinking as well. I also try to get some sun exposure. I get too little being an tech worker.
I've tried the technique (familiar with Win Wenger's work in general, have taught variations of the technique, etc). It improved many things, but did not give me voluntary access to mental imagery.

The article is fine; was fine when it was originally written.
So the bottom half shouldn't have children? And who appointed you an authority on deciding who should be conceived and who should not?

But also this:

> All kids should have equal opportunities.

That's your rationale for your position? Your position does not follow from your rationale. Even if only median-or-above families have children, that won't create equal opportunities. That will just make the children of median families the poorest children, with the fewest opportunities.

So your position doesn't follow, even from your stated moral standard.

(Your stated moral standard is also far from self-evidently correct. But even accepting your standard, your position still doesn't follow. What follows is forced wealth equality.)