skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Identify target audience - who is buying? This could be through experimentation with different channels, messages etc.
One starting point could be people who are reading scanned pdfs on kindle, maybe? (I've struggled with this personally)

2. Find out when/why are the buying your service. (Maybe because they really want to read a book, but digital copy isn't available)

3. Start imagining the purchase cycle as a funnel. For 1 paid customer you would need something like 50 people using your free/trial features (50 is an example, you can talk to founders in similar niche to get a better sense)

4. Define what the qualitative and quantitative outcome after using your service and double down on it - do this to an extent that your customer becomes an ardent advocate of your offering.

5. Get a sales/marketing person to help. You don't have to do it all yourself.

Hope it helps in some way. Best of luck
The difference of course is that while we roughly mean to ask for a “normal instance,” (and only occasionally for a “representative” instance strictly speaking), there are some circumstances where we disagree about what “normal” is or (crucially) should be. When we ask each other questions, we expect not only a factually but a normatively correct answer as well. And norms are inherently open to dispute as part of the normal course of conversation. But not so with generative ai. Yes, you can correct the ai during your session. But when I disagree with you in conversation I hope that my disagreement (if we resolve the matter) will outlive our interaction and you will no longer say the thing I objected to when talking to others, or if you do, you’ll do it in a different manner with a different tone.
Potential solution: download all videos locally [1]
As an added benefit, you'll skip all sponsored content.

Just put this in your terminal once you install yt-dlp:

yt-dlp --sponsorblock-remove all URL "put a youtube URL here without quotes"

[1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
It definitely has its place. I like to get it to grab the data, clean it up and get out into python / Postgres. I don’t like to have spreading through the codebase.
pp. 174, "Finding Partners":

An empowering story about a woman who gets pressured into attending an orgy, refuses to participate, is visibly uncomfortable the entire time, but still manages to hit it off with a guest who she later ends up in a relationship with outside of that context.

Clearly, the ends justify the means. This is a pretty fucked up book in retrospect.
The submitted title was "Apple put their weight behind an open HDR standard called “ISO/TS 22028-5”" but that broke the HN guideline against editorializing: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
It is still another syntax, with idioms moving away from JVM, their own little islands of Kontlin only libraries, and only works on InteliJ/Android Studio.

I don't see any value in Kotlin outside Android shops.
Unreal can make your game possible in the first place depending on your required functionality, timeline, and budget. That can be a mightily powerful incentive.
> The thing about women entering the workforce making it impossible to have a single earner home is nonsense. The problem is housing.

I think you may be right about the overall problem, but I'm not sure I agree that density is the solution.

People starting families don't just want a house, what they want is enough space. Mothers want a yard they can send the kids out into when they need a moments peace, closets to store everyone's junk, and bathrooms big enough to walk into while pregnant.

I think disaggregating populations into more medium and small cities would help keep costs down and give people more space.
Nice. I just dusted off wife's kindle in an attempt to repurpose it into a weird 'i m in a meeting' sign and I may end up looking at your project more closely now. Much obliged!

<3
Children are now born with plastic in their veins. We are already at the limits of growth and potentially beyond it so either some technological miracle enables further growth or we start facing the negative consequences of cancerous growth of the human population.
Do you use emacs? Have a look at https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el or similar.
I think my laptop has a decent HDR display? It's a MacBook Pro 14" with "Liquid Retina XDR" as they call it. I think HDR content looks more or less ... as intended.

I think it's terrible. The only time I even remember that HDR is a thing is when some embedded video in a web page gets much brighter than the rest of the screen and the rest of the screen looks dim as a result. It's never a "wow that sun looks amazing" style experience, it's always a "wow most of my screen just got really dark" style experience.

I think maybe HDR has a place in movies and TV shows and even maybe YouTube style videos (not that I've experienced that), but I think enabling HDR for small video embeds on a web page was a terrible decision.
On the other hand, if the F-keys are too far away, you may be over-optimizing to the other extreme. Or have one of those abbreviated keyboards. Well into niche territory. :-D
Is that so? Please provide evidence. Here's mine:

https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2...

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458
The cosmos are a stage
I would reverse your statement: when we dream, we are engaging in un-prompted confabulation, enaction of imaginary scenarios with known characters, pondering and replaying emotional or stressful events, back-propagating to update memory associations, and all in imaginary worlds unconstrained by various logical and physical laws.

Unprompted meaning we have shut down almost all sensory input (there seems to be some residual hearing and proprioception).
>Headlines don't have a lot of space!

"Unreal Engine starts charging for non-game development".

It's not about space, and we know it's all too easy to bury the lede and leave the internet to lash out as it is oft to do. But I don't blame the author. I know in larger sites editorial will make the title without context of the writing independent of the contents in order to maximize traffic.
Neo4j GenAI Stack – Hype or do they have something?
I know Neo4j is trying stay relevant in the AI space and this could be just hype however, I am curious what others think about using Neo4j over other purpose built vector stores / databases (chroma, pinecone, etc).
I like `fzf`'s default override of Ctrl+R backwards search for this purpose, along with the fish shell's really good built in autocompletion.

I've been thinking about updating the GIFs in my fzf tutorial to show off fish, but I think I'd rather leave them with ish just so I don't dilute the pedagogical message.
OTOH, we don't means-test fire protection, we just pay it out of general taxes, and if we want the rich to pay more, we just make the taxes more progressive.

There's no reason not to use that solution to every service, including ones currently means-tested, rather than having separate income and/or asset trsts with different standards and its own implementation bureaucracy for individual programs.

Well, there is a reason, but it is deliberate inefficiency and bureaucratic waste, either for corrupt purposes or to cause friction to frustrate the nominal purpose of the program while making the gesture of having the program.
Two thoughts: 1) Look for distribution through integrations with services like Salesforce, Zapier, no-code dev tools, 2) look for ways to increase value and pricing to support outbound sales. Your current pricing looks too low to economically support an outbound sales effort but that is probably changeable, look for niches where a business needs to handle lots of ingested documents quickly and what you're doing makes a big difference. Maybe real estate transactional work, litigation, etc.

If you want a taste of what the outbound world looks like Hustle Fund has a nice seminar they did with Pete Kazanjy here (1hr video, sorry): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymGU7tiU1nE
For productivity/reading, I want one of the new eInk screens. For gaming and video, the HDR OLED displays I have (LG and Dell) look incredible. Mixed content looks awful, just like mixes of high DPI UIs rendering low DPI websites.

Windows HDR support is a very mixed bag, just like their early support for high DPI, and I think that’s probably what leads some reviewers to dismiss it.
> Judging by your response, you read 'logic behind the weighting methods' as 'the weights'. I don't think this is a reasonable interpretation unless you're trying to construct a strawman to argue against.

So now we are talking about two separate things. The algorithm used to train the model, and the model itself. They did not alter the algorithm that generated the model and they also did not directly alter the model itself. The neural net was modified indirectly through training. That's machine learning 101. When fine tuning a model we do not alter the training algorithm that generates the model. As far as we know, no one is manually tweaking weights or manually editing nodes in its neural network (yet). That is far beyond current knowledge and abilities but is an active field of research in the very early stages.

The training process is a search in model space where bad answers are penalized and good answers are rewarded. The algorithm itself doesn't need altering to find a "less racist" model. There's nothing special about racism that requires a fundamental change in the transformer architecture. It's just language and semantics. They trained the shit out of it by RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) until it was less racist.
Crypto’s real problem
What are the consequences of biases in Stable Diffusion?
Does Release Radar consistently function properly for you? I follow a lot of artists, and for the past year I've found my Release Radar is always buggy in various ways. Each week the bottom ~quarter of the playlist is stuff from previous weeks, usually last week but sometimes older. Among songs that are actually new, sometimes the order of songs in the list randomly changes slightly once or twice during the week. And I've even had a few times where most of the playlist completely changed on a day other than Friday.

And now the past couple weeks, my Discover Weekly has been wonky too: almost every song is only 1 to 2 minutes long, and from random no-name artists who only have songs that are 1 to 2 minutes long.

I enjoy using Spotify overall, for finding new music (which I often then purchase my faves on Bandcamp or Beatport), but Spotify's bugginess is getting rather crazy-making.
> There’s a positive externality of readily available childcare: one adult to many children is more efficient than home care,

An externality [1] happens when there is some additional uncaptured aspect of a transaction, a "missing market". It seems implausible that there is a missing market in child care-- there are plenty of choices out there, different service levels and pricing. And when you put your child into child care and are now freed of child care responsibility for working hours, you can directly participate in the labor market, right?

Instead of externality maybe you could support intervention instead by arguing that there are facets of the child-care market that you don't like, resulting in the observed market outcome, such as capital overheads, barriers to entry, transportation barriers, or regulation.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
I simply wouldn’t have looked at this with the new title. The original title was better. The new title deletes the interesting insight about the format they are using. Now it just looks like a video about general HDR workflow and I don’t know why it’s been posted. The newsworthy element may not be the entire link but some element on the page, especially for longer form content.
Can we just let people be fat and happy
It's hard to grasp that the earth is a system within a finite volume of space. I agree it is obvious but very few people actually understand what it means to live within a bounded volume of space with finite resources.
Isn't that just BT.2100?
% a.out
Segmentation Fault (unaligned access)

but it worked on Solaris!
interesting, but I would still prefer pandas for data cleansing/manipulation, just because I won't be limited by SQL syntax - and can always use df.apply() and/or any python package for custom processing.

pandas using apache arrow backend also makes it high performance and compatible with cloud native data lakes

plus compatibility with sklearn package makes it a killer feature, with just few lines you can bolt on ML model on top of your data
What do we think the average comp of the people implementing all this awfulness? 200k?
As someone who doesn't like ads, I just pay for a premium YouTube subscription for my family.

It's not the case with Google search, though, they don't offer me a way to pay. I will rather pay Kagi instead.
What OLEDS have decent brightness? OLEDS really struggle with that because of burn in. They can get temporarily bright, or bright in tiny zones, but in less than ideal conditions they crunch it right down.
What are Windows-isms?

First time I read this word and there seem to be no positive results for it on Google.
Any OLED display since 2015ish. I’ve got a 2017 LG C7 and it’s amazing to this day.
I'm sure it's a bug, they have nothing to gain from it, especially if there's no warning about this.

It's also a good reminder for everyone to back up everything!
Right but human beings dont have infinite wells of knowledge. They have to be provided new information to make new decisions. Google searches is RAG for humans. Sure, the model is unable to request the information, but thats the next step.
Mozilla's launch earlier this week: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/encrypted-hello...
Nope. Blockchain is not used for anything useful. It's pretty much exclusively grift and/or crime.

All the nonsense about inventory tracking on blockchain went exactly nowhere.
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"Quantum light sees quantum sound: phonon/photon correlations" (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37793765
It's because trying to view SDR content on an HDR display doesn't work. It will look like garbage. You have to turn HDR on and off depending on what content you view.
I take it you have experience. What are you looking for in a good keyboard?

(As someone who's always dissatisfied, but don't like shopping. ;)
Biological Children: An Innocent Wish?
It was very much intentional, don't blame yourself. Or I don't know, blame yourself for not reading the article? Either way, this is why an accurate non-click sit headline is necessary, there are many many more people like you and some like to shout and spread misinformation on social media.
If age was a consideration I would have bought an older bottle. I'm not a connoisseur, or even a lush. It's a large bottle so that I can share it with my friends, I'm the last windows holdout so they're waiting on me. My windows experience isn't even that bad as I disable most of the crap they try to foist upon me. It's the forced breaking upgrades that have caused the most personal grief. Apart from that it really is about responding to customer demand. I'd like to buy an apple laptop and hopefully by then there is a really good linux experience. I'd hate to go from Windows anti-consumerism to Apple anti-consumerism but it's hard to get good laptop hardware.
Give me a break.

You don't want advertising, you don't want to subscribe, and you don't want a network of sites using the same subscription. What possible solution exists that satisfies your criteria, which are way more demanding than "remotely reasonable"?

This is just an excuse you've fabricated to justify your own convenience, stinginess and/or laziness.
> These Web sites want chatbots to give credit to their contributors; they want to see prominent links; they don’t want the flywheel that powers knowledge production in their communities to be starved of inbound energy.

But this is ultimately impossible right? That’s the one thing I really hate about what is happening right now with ChatGPT.

I can’t tell you how many people are worried about their future because of AI because I don’t know the exact number, but I know I am worried about it because it can already do so much, and I fail to see a scenario in which attribution alone is going to make things better.

Writing and digital art more than code, but not even code is safe. It is merely safe by the extent that OpenAI is willing to drip feed its future releases.
Which still means that this change doesn't add any value. I'm uninterested in if it is "fair" or not.
OLEDs have amazing blacks and great contrast, but they truly struggle to get bright. That still isn't solved, at least to my satisfaction. They can get bright briefly or in small areas of the screen, but tend to crunch the brightness a lot otherwise.
38 Rules for Better Reading
Have had 3 monitors claiming "HDR-400" now; all look equally as shit with HDR enabled in Windows & Gaming, first two where between £120 - £250, third was a "premium" monitor @ £500. Current "HDR" can get te fuck ;)
Do you really think this recipient isn’t deserving?

I think you’ll find that the peace prize has been political for a very long time.

The giving of it to Kissinger is going to be hard to beat.
I believe it was heavily implied, but either way, it was clearly something they didn't handle well if tons and tons of people believe they said it when that wasn't their intention.
it depends. if your account gets flagged by some ML algo then they can ask for a number for verfication.

it's similar to meta where some flagged accounts have to add an id
“ drawing people out of HCOL areas also mitigates HCOL.”

With a net reduction in agglomeration effects and resultant productivity. Pointless experiment,

I’d rather the government unleash infrastructure building in HCOL to make it cheaper and incentivize child-care workers (and other essential functions) to move there.

With growth every LCOL will become an HCOL if we don’t solve the problem now. See: Real-estate prices in Boise, Idaho.
Lower in the article explains why:

> Yet despite experiencing large seasonal growth this year, the ozone hole is still decreasing in size overall. "Based on the Montreal Protocol and the decrease of anthropogenic ozone-depleting substances, scientists currently predict that the global ozone layer will reach its normal state again by around 2050," said Claus Zehner, ESA's mission manager for Copernicus Sentinel-5P.
I suspect the inclusion of just the sha2 file from CryptoPP was the fix. Although I've never benchmarked them, my suspicion is the CryptoPP code outperformed OpenSSL at the time. Having the most optimal implementation would have been critical.
The contempt of ads network to serve outright scam or malware ads astound me also.

When Newspapers of record are filled with 'sponsored link' leading to obvious medical scam, you know something is wrong.
I'm quite partial to the fish shell myself for this reason.

But I SSH into a lot of embedded systems these days, where you don't exactly have the luxury of installing your own shell all the time. For those times I like to whip out the "minimal safe Bash template" and `sftp` it to the server.

https://betterdev.blog/minimal-safe-bash-script-template/
Obama got it for being not-Bush (What a bar to clear!). It was a large middle finger raised by world, as a rebuke to 2001-2008 US foreign policy.

It was disappointing, but unsurprising that 2009-20?? has gone down more or less the same road.
At €300m, the Jupiter will be ~10,000 H100s. Each major CSP will have several clusters this size or larger within a few quarters.
Well if they forced ads earlier than whatever competitor they had that didn't would be doing the same thing but with a smaller runway.

If all free video sites had ads, I think just on pure speed and scale youtube probably had higher costs overall anyway.
Same. Quite a surprise. I switched to IntelliJ http requests and am seeing how that does for me.
Even if that would be completely true, then we should know where the limit is and have a plan for it, not?
But that the opposite is true can hardly be ignored anymore, still it is.. :(
All the non-diabetics using it will generate great data.. for the rest of us.
I agree. My opinion is that once you've trained yourself to use virtual desktops efficiently, multiple monitors becomes more of a hassle than a benefit.

I think multiple monitors is the solution for people who would rather solve the problem by spending their money instead of the effort it takes to configure and become accustomed to switching between virtual desktops. Given that it is a strict biological limitation that the human brain can only focus attention on one thing at a time, I don't believe there is any valid argument for why moving your eyeballs between physical monitors is any better than hitting a key combo to switch between virtual desktops on a single monitor once those key combos have become muscle memory. Additionally, the number of physical monitors you have is limited by how much money you have to burn and how much physical space you have to place them, whereas virtual desktops are theoretically unlimited.
I really like the built-in `.http` file clients in IntelliJ products. You can paste from CURL and copy to CURL, so interop with CLI commands is very easy.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/exploring-http-syntax.ht...
Xumo Stream Box
> The model isn't fetching information to augment its responses, nor does it have any notion of ground truth or accuracy.

So have it be a separate module? The human brains is compartmentalized too.
We can! But should we?

Being fat is similar to being a drug user. At first, you actually are fat and happy. Over time, being fat will absolutely reduce your happiness from the medical, societal, and physical issues that arise. Similar to how drug users build up a tolerance and instead of using the drug to be happy, they use the drug to feel normal.

And just to state a simple fact, I do not condone shaming people with weight control issues.
As one of the creators, I can recommmend https://kreya.app. It is not open source (like Postman), but has a strong focus on privacy and also stores the data locally.

As it has more powerful features (IMO) than most alternatives listed here, I am a little disappointed that it isn't mentioned more often.
I'm guessing you were between the age of 10-20 at that time? Whatever tech minutiae you learned as a tween/teenager will be with you the rest of your life. I still can code in real-mode x86 assembly even though I haven't done so in years.

That said, the other reason you could still jump right in, is that these systems were accessible. Small enough to be understandable by a child's brain, a couple of text files you edited by hand, tinkering among a small number of parameters each of which you could test within a few minutes at most, so that worst case you spent a day dinking around with your setup. And without the distractions of the internet or thousands of free ad-supported dopamine pumps to displace your main purpose of getting this game to work.

Contrast this with today: you buy a game on Steam for $30, it doesn't work. What do you do? You have to search the internet or go to the forums, and try any number of random things that are in no way contained or enumerable and the knowledge isn't transferable. Our systems are 100x bigger than any single person can conceivably know.