skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where? There has been self-checkout all over America for 15+ years. I don't see anywhere removing it.

The recent problems have been:

District Attorneys deciding property crime is selectively enforceable for social justice engineering, and a knock-on effect of the police not bothering to do their job while having the gall to collect a paycheck they didn't earn.

Political divisions where a growing demographic of self-destructives wish to throw a Molotov cocktail into functional civilization. This explains why COTUS can't elect a Speaker of the House.
I upgraded from a 2500K (2011 CPU) to a 12400F solely because the motherboard had started to go flaky and wouldn't power on unless it had warmed up. The CPU was fine for what I do but nobody sells new LGA1155 motherboards anymore.

(at least nobody good, I'm aware there are no-name Chinese vendors making new old-socket boards, no thank you)
Why would I prefer a winsorized mean over a median?
Full-Stack Python, Andrew Knight [video]
Really good keynote by @AutomationPanda
5 Chrome address bar updates to speed up your search
I'd say I see a lot of "my job is basically evil but my kids enjoy a roof, health insurance, and food, so I guess I'll keep doing it". One more reason I've never been interested in the kid thing.
n.b. caveat lector and PMIC seems to be "power management integrated circuit"

from https://semiaccurate.com/2023/09/26/whats-going-on-with-qual...:

"Things started to go off the rails early for Oryon, not for design reasons but for idiotic corporate greed reasons. Qualcomm wants to sell more of their PMICs and Qryon seemed like a good vehicle to do it so they force bundled the two products. This is hardly unprecedented behavior although it is market distorting and ensures that the end result will be less than it could be. More on this in a bit but just realize the PMICs are not picked for merit, they were chosen because Qualcomm makes more money that way, quality of the final product be damned. Remember the crack above about Microsoft?

Back to the story, there was an issue with said PMICs. Basically they are cell phone PMICs and Oryon is not a cell phone SoC. Why is this an issue? You might be aware that cell phones and laptops require differing wattages, and not by a little. Those cell phone PMICs are optimized for phone currents, running them at laptop levels is far less efficient than engineers would prefer. But it can be made to work. The sane answer is to use a less expensive off the shelf PMIC that would result in a more efficient end product. Since that would also have the effect of making Qualcomm less money, efficiency be damned, Qualcomm PMICs it is. But…"

read the article for the rest of the sad own-goal story...
it's around 6-8$ per 1000 views
Good ol' Krebs and Schneier ..either way too late to a scam, or ignoring other scams, or ineffectual regardless. What about those fake "download here" Adword buttons that have been a scourge of the web for the past decade or longer infecting untold millions of computers with malware. When will anyone bring that up.
Minimal viable friction is a good sweet spot to work on the balance of.
There's a class of entertainers in Japan and Korea (and to some extent other asian countries) called "Idols", for whom the appeal is being a simulated SO. The breaking of the illusion when they are revealed to have been "cheating" on you is a cardinal sin in this industry.
> Of course this only works at one level and not arbitrarily deeply

It does though, you can chain as many of these as you want:

some_dict.get("level_1_key", {}).get("level_2_key", {}).get("level_3_key", {})...

edit:

>> but you still need to check for None with this code

> Not sure what you mean here. You only have to check for None if you use `.get("key")` and don't provide a fallback value.

GP was talking about `{"foo": None}` and trying to drill deeper, which I misunderstood. Still, a simple try/except allows you to short-circuit the deeply nested access.
sounds more fair to drivers if everyone is policed equally. otherwise like you say, they are forced to speed. if you want to drive safely you can't and also keep your job. whereas now the metrics will show what is reasonable.
It looks like their losses per vehicle have been decreasing every quarter. I think they are on the right trajectory, I just hope they go positive before the money runs out!

I have been seeing an awful lot of them on the streets in the Bay Area. It seems like there has been a real increase just within the past few months. I have considered buying one for myself, but decided to wait until their first model update when hopefully most of their remaining quality and reliability issues will be fixed.
> at a daily rate that is lower than what they're earning on the loan.

Well there's the rub. If the bank is holding loans written early pandemic at sub 3% they'd lose money on the overnight rate.

If you're paying 2% on your guitar loan and the depositor is getting 3% the bank is actively losing money. BoA deposits down 8.5% yoy, meaning they need to take out more expensive loans from other banks. This actually is a legitimate problem for them.
Or provided their users with randomly generated, secure passwords themselves

I saw this idea somewhere on here a few months ago, and since then, granting users the ability to set their own passwords seems like a dumb thing to do!
Not to get technical, but you can breathe through your butt (kinda…)

https://www.cnet.com/science/scientists-say-mammals-can-brea...
Absolutely – CRDTs have some unique benefits, this among them. I recommended a potential user to CRDTs a few weeks ago.

But most apps people build today do in fact have a central server. And by leveraging that you can get some really nice benefits.
This.

I bought a bunch of refurbished T480 for $200 bucks and it comes with 8GB of RAM + 256SSD. Perfectly works for each member of my family.

I might buy one too myself once my current macbook pro (2009) died.
> The current Covid strain spreading in the US no longer has the loss of the sense of smell as such a common symptom.

I wonder if this reflects evolutionary pressure towards symptoms that don't make you go "oh shit, definitely COVID, stay home and mask up".
Marques Brownlee did a great review of the van recently that's worth a watch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGrKVpYj_y4

It's incredible how much thought they put into them.
Using Google Palm to Gather Sentiment Analysis on a Forum
That would be consistent with the claim that the new drug shortens the duration of sensory symptoms. Those not in the placebo groups recovered before the three week timeframe.
The AI-generated porn industry
Why do banks issue so many bonds? Maybe have a look at the funding profile of a typical large bank.
Any of: low amount of data points; wanting a continuous value if your points are integers; slightly different behavior in high dimensional vector spaces.
Some times I wish food was less enjoyable so I’d eat less of it. Not discounting your girlfriends experience - that’s horrible - but being able to switch off my sense of smell would help with sticking to my caloric intake!
I've been steadily finding the love for F# for sort-of-similar-but-not-quite-the-same reasons. I like Python. It's still my go-to language for most things. But I definitely feel a tail off in utility as code base size increases, and I find myself asking mentally "but what type is that thing?".

F# is sort of the opposite of Python. It's strongly, statically and soundly typed, based on Hindley-Milner. It has very good type inference, meaning that explicit type annotations are usually not required. But it's still type checked, and compilation will fail if there are type errors. So F# gives you type soundness without requiring type annotations (in most cases); Python now supports type annotations but doesn't (yet) give type soundness guarantees.

Of course, F# doesn't have the Python ecosystem, and that's a major issue. Whilst it sits on the .Net platform, it's very much Sunday League to C#'s premier division. Whilst most all .Net libs can be used in F# thanks the .Net CLR, very little is idiomatic: F# is a functional language, C# is object-oriented at heart.

I think my fantasy platform would be some child of F#-the-language and Python-the-ecosystem. Maybe Python's incremental support for typing will get me there someday.
How would the actor union be able to forbid a random tea brand to use an ai spokesperson?
This demonstrates the biggest problem with usb-c: the connectors are the same, but the capabilities are very different and not visible to the naked eye.
The article provides a candid reflection on the startup's experience, challenges, and learnings in the tech startup environment, emphasizing the importance of value-driven engineering amidst the fast-evolving tech landscape and high-pressure scenarios.

A very good read so thought to share and discuss.
A Dark Room is pretty high up on my list. While it's a very bare bones interface, its visual design is intentional and consistent through different stages of gameplay.
We still have it and in many place. Lazarus, windowsforth, visualtk, puredata, embeded node editors, blender, etc
If those unjust laws were changed what makes you think that regressive tax laws that keep coming up year after year won't be changed in the future?

>And there are mechanisms to challenge laws you don’t like that don’t involve simply deciding you’re not going to obey them.

I'm curious about those mechanism to challenge laws.
Yes, the genius of LSP is that it doesn't attempt to define common semantic operations across languages, which would be (and has been) an endless impossible task to get right. It operates at the level of editor UI. So you don’t ask LSP “what are the members of this struct”, you ask it “what are the autocompletions of this code fragment”. It leaves the decisions about what would be appropriate in the language to the language server written by the experts in the language.
It's a Natura2000 zone, they did build illegally without a permit in the first place, and argue that a retroactive permit could be given because of the small footprint.

Two tribunals at two different levels (additional authorities separate from the mayor) judged that they were wrong.

I would argue that you did not explain the actual situation honestly.

> Well, isn't "following construction rules" basically means "use concrete and established plans"?

It does mean that you need to submit plans beforehand. Concrete is absolutely not a hard requirement in France.

But building in a natural protected zone without a permit is asking for trouble. Maybe a small wooden shed would have been ok.
The irony of change over time being seen as decline on a tech forum. Let's all put our brains in glass jars in virtual static universes so our thoughts and behaviors don't change
How are you going to handle delinquency and collections? I was under the impression that most vendors like having a third party (Klarna comes to mind) handle credit so that when things go bad, ACME doesn’t take the brand hit for associating with the shitty scumbags in the collection industry.
I think you'd have to be crazy to use a different Java LSP for JetBrains, but it's a useful feature for other languages to be sure.
You'll get our GPT-4 free trial for a while, but then after that you'll also have the option to use a local model, which would be free (though of course their quality doesn't quite yet match GPT-4)

Currently, we want our product to be free for individuals. But there are many benefits to running a hosted Continue Server for an entire team, and we plan to monetize in this "multiplayer" fashion. One example of the importance of this is if you wanted to combine the implicit feedback of all developers in order to fine-tune a custom LLM, but we go a bit more in depth in our blog post: https://blog.continue.dev/how-we-made-continue-ide-agnostic

Glad to hear Continue has been useful so far!
Not only did I read what you wrote again, I re-read the comment that you replied to... the one that clearly unambiguously calls pmarca a delusional moron.

In other words, we were both replying to a comment that did indeed call him a moron.
Someone should bring those logics to js and java then. Ehm, please.
No it stays heavy on the comedy.
AMD's iGPU is on the same power rail as the CPU cores, and the same throttling mechanisms apply to iGPU power consumption. Intel puts their iGPU on a separate power rail, but the chip's turbo power limits still apply. In both cases, the iGPU cannot draw as much power as the CPU cores so the limits have to be lowered quite a bit before they start affecting the GPU (unless you're running a workload that heavily uses both GPU and CPU).
not at all. Good niches and demographics pay a lot.
In my (extremely limited) experience, 100% of the people I know playing Baldur's Gate are women.

I suspect it's more of an HN thing. The site is overwhelmingly male-presenting. There may be more women than it would appear, being carefully neutral about using any kind of female-coded language, and content to let the assumption be that they're male.

If you look into any of the threads on gender topics, very few women talk about their experiences. With good reason, I think: those threads are often very hostile to women.
Nice, standardization is essential. Without it things could get overly complicated and hard to develop technology to support the consumption of data outside of the convention. Although I would assume that there will be updates continually to the model.
This technique is pretty similar to Operational Transformations, except that it requires an authority for serialization and must re-apply any state which is out of sync.
> I consider myself an isotretinoin (the famous and highly effective anti acne medication with loads of dangerous, permanent side effects) "victim", in the sense that I suffer from medium to strong dry eye, nose and throat. Isotretinoin is known to improve sense of smell in those that suffer from a lack of it.

Sounds like a you-problem
Pretty creepy that they need my email to tell me which of the shockingly few services they're asking about are creepy.
Is your behavioural model of Amazon that they are trying to maximise firings?
I think that while Nvidia has a near-monopoly on training, the inference side of things is much more multiplatform. That's probably why.
Of course, at the Apocalyptic End-of-Times, we'll all get what we deserve: More Schmidhubering!

In all seriousness, he deserves more credit than he routinely gets.
For what it's worth, I'm on the younger side of things and the demo scene is something I still greatly admire. It's an integral part of so many technologies we use today, and although I may not be good enough to participate, it's one of the first things I mention when talking about how pirating ended up producing some positive things for society. :)
if its not cred stuffing, a few GB per day per IP to defeat volume anomalies. you would hope 23andme would have detection/controls on customer storage to flag new geo locations since there is no way they spoofed each customer's destination. or an authorization flow to even access the data with an audit trail/approval flow for god accounts.
Yes, according to those numbers BoA is technically solvent.
Can you help me understand your point of view better? Do you think:

a) We do not have evidence that humans suffer from long-term consequences of COVID-19.

b) We do not know why humans suffer long-term consequences of COVID-19.

c) We have no evidence that COVID-19 could possibly cause long-term consequences.

Because I think the answer you have... is different from the answer that [1] would have.

I think [1] thinks c). And I think you think b) or possibly a).

Or maybe I'm wrong - do you agree with c?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23875391
Yes, cash's killer app is crime, too, which is probably why governments like China don't want it.

People making the argument that payments are hard to trace with crypto & that's the reason it should be banned or ignored are 1) ignorant because crypto transactions are easier to trace than cash and 2) making a dangerous argument against cash for which authoritarians will be thrilled to have support
I believe PEP505 should cover what you're asking, but from what I can tell it seems stalled out.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0505/
Sort of, except not really. It’s largely the other way around: LSP gives the editor a way to declare its capabilities to the language.

The key insight with LSP is that languages are _way_ too different to have that notion of language capabilities. Instead, the LSP defines functionality that the editor wants to use (syntax highlighting, refactoring, autocomplete, etc) and the language server tells the editor what to display.

When you trigger autocomplete in VSCode, the editor has no clue whether it’s autocompleting a method, a class name, or a variable. It’s just telling the language server “hey the user asked for autocomplete in file X, offset Y” and the language server tells the editor what completion options to offer.
> Sorry I’m not going to write a point by point rebuttal of a 250-line slam poem.

Exactly! When you…

- emphasize personalities & personal biographies

- cite vague feels about which people "sound like thinkers" (why?)

- stretch to imply a recommended-authors list has been misrepresented as "co-signers" in some way that's vaguely not "okay" – and try to imply some unprecedented & counterproductive politeness norm that an author (even a dead author?!?) can't be cited favorably without permission

- layer on empty unevaluable intensifiers & slurs presuming agreement where it doesn't exist ('cult leader', 'obvious that the only reason anyone is engaging', 'transparently intellectually dishonest', 'honestly shudder', 'veer a little Kanye', 'distorted reality')

…you're taking the easier path: leaning on shallow attitudes, shifting fashions, & groupthink moreso than the actual text/ideas on offer.

And those lazy appeals to stereotypes & moods are what have dominated almost all of the negative reactions to this piece. It's all Regina bluffing mean-girl dominance via tone & slur, without reasoning: "Pmarca, stop trying to make tech-optimism happen. It's not going to happen."

Well, that kind of social flocking & mocking works in some places, for a while – until it doesn't.
A deep dive on MemGPT – memory management for LLMs
There's another interesting possibility: a rogue planet.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_planet

Under specific conditions, such a planet may even retain an atmosphere, have moderate surface temperatures (and thus, perhaps even liquid water), and life could exist on it if chemically-powered rather than using photosynthesis.

Such a planet would be an excellent vehicle to carry life from one star system to another. And another plus: out of a star system's influence sphere (while free-wandering through space), it could have very stable conditions over long periods of time. Which doesn't hurt in the formation or evolution of life.

True, there's a lot of (big) if's there. But the universe is biiiiiigggg so I wouldn't rule it out.
This DNA relatives feature begs the question.

How easy is it to submit random DNA (cow, cat, dog, chicken, etc. or even fake?) and get yourself enrolled in their system to then legitimately have access to the next 1500+ "relatives?".

Given a few grand to spend on testing kits I reckon you could get the same results stuffing this DNA, as this "golem" guy did by credential stuffing.

23AndMe made the classic mistake to assume that biometrics are a type of authentication and allowed anyone to access the records of 1500 other people just by submitting some DNA....
I had lunch with Yoshua at the 2013 AGI Conference in Laval

From that experience and a few others demonstrated to me that he - along with Sutton - are who I think actually have the background, empathy, capacity and lack of financial masters to actually lead AGI discussions.
VB was kind of crap if you wanted to do a scalable UI.

Qt has a visual designer that's less intuitive to use than VB was, but on the other hand you don't need to write all that resizing code by hand, or to be stuck with a fixed size window.
Yep. Totally my fault for wanting the website to use at least the browser's default font size (16px), and not sizes designed for a 1024x768 monitor in 2007. :)
Codesign and the carnivalesque
A Brief History of Hawking's Boycott
People have been bringing that up for like a decade?
Thanks! That would make us about the only people apparently!

Coming from native apps the tough lesson of this exercise is just how disposable websites are from an end user perspective. It really is not enough to have something for people to play with, you must give them a reason to come back again.
I started putting together a Lua-based toy microcomputer [1] using PicoVision and a USB mini B to A adapter to connect a mouse/keyboard. It’s a hacky mess, but it serves as a proof of concept.

There’s also a herculean work in progress to bring PicoVision support to the 32blit embedded game SDK [2]

(disclaimer: I also worked on PicoVision)

1. https://github.com/gadgetoid/picovision-micro-computer/tree/...
2. https://github.com/32blit/32blit-sdk/pull/829
Hey Matlin, it's true that this approach is harder to implement, but that's a one-time cost, and it's one we take on for our users and they don't have to worry about.
Hard to do ransomware though.
I'd prefer scanning-while-shopping, otherwise I have to remember to leave things barcode up and have enough room, especially for bug box stores.

Apart from produce, I'd prefer home delivery that eliminates the scanning and transportation effort entirely.

I suspect a better approach than gig economy grocery delivery would be dedicated refrigerated vans and trucks with drivers who work directly for the seller. Gig economy drivers don't keep things at a proper temperature and can't seem to deliver consistently.

In general, where I am in the US, gig economy workers are rude, short tempered, don't read direction notes, and sloppy.
The issue is if the dictionary has a key defined and the value is None. Your get expression will return None, causing your next access to raise an error.
None of this is central planning in any dictionary or even colloquial sense of the term. Maybe this will help:

https://www.britannica.com/money/topic/economic-system/Centr...
I'm referring to what happened before Chauvin had him on the ground.
What an idiot. I love self-checkout.
Why would the studios not just use a completely fictional ai character in the first place? That way you only have to pay for someone to model the character etc. I don't see the need for scanning real actors anyway
In encounters with medical professionals related to my elderly relatives, I was told several times the same kind of anecdotal observation: that "intelligent" patients seem to decline more rapidly with dementia; the hypothesis is that diagnosis is simply delayed with these patients, because their cognitive skills allow them to better cope and mask the early stages of the disease. Then when their coping skills are overwhelmed, the true depth of their impairment gets exposed. I don't think they meant "intelligent" as in IQ test results, but in some observed functional characteristic they would see in geriatric clinical interaction.

It makes me wonder if ADHD patients would more often fall on the other side of this functional/coping divide and so get earlier diagnoses. And if so, how could you control for this? Across a population, I would think that delayed detection means lower diagnosis rates since some patients would die before the delayed diagnosis could happen.
>Which is never happening. Alignment is closer to the problem of magic.

Oh I agree lol.
Nobody said it so I'm going to: Mastodon.

It's quieter and less crowded, and connections are closer. At least for now. Good for the kind of people who like hackernews.
I had a similar experience in January 2020, as did my wife. She got an antibody test that indicated she was never infected, so it was probably something else. Who knows?

Edited: to be clear we both thought prior to the antibody test that it was covid!