skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Windows desktop has generated significantly more e-waste per year than the Macs I have owned. Full stop. I've upgraded SSDs from 500gb to 1TB to now 2TB, upgraded graphics cards, and replaced a massive broken aluminum and copper heatsink. All in the last two years.

I've had the same MacBook, in a similar timeframe. It gets just as much use. Its still rock-solid.

Your concern is a hypothetical one. The inability to upgrade has, in a VERY REAL sense, meant for me: I overbuy specs upfront, so I don't have to upgrade (and thus, generate e-waste). It also experientially means that the machines are more reliable. The least wasteful machine is one that doesn't have to be upgraded; not one that can be and needs to be. The 500gb of storage I have in my MacBook sometimes feels limiting; but the cost of upgrading (a whole new machine) has stopped me from actually going out and doing it; and thus less e-waste is generated.

Eventually I will brainstorm what to do with this machine once its outlived its useful life as a laptop. I'm thinking, server rack. We've got Asahi, its got thunderbolt so wiring up super fast storage drives is a cinch.
Apple Magic Keyboard, Mouse and Trackpad are stil Lightning, I cannot believe it
> So just to be sure: the list of URLs + metadata that gets used for stable diffusion is several terabytes. Not the images. Just the list of URLs alone (and a bit of other metadata).
> Stable diffusion itself is just 6+ GB, and fits comfortably on my USB stick.

Thanks for sharing this info which I'm aware of. However, this fact is not as significant as it might sound in terms of whether it's a lossy compression algorithm.

In most lossy compression algorithms, the compression rate is arbitrary. For example, for an algorithm that based on fourier transform, you can choose only take the first sin wave, or the first 1000 ones (a bit oversimplification here).

So yes, SD is small. Quite miracally small, and its size alone implies some important insights on how human see and read artworks. But this fact doesn't change whether I see it as a lossy compression. (In my previous comment I stated human brain stores lossy compressed data too, so you can see I'm using a broad definition of "lossy compression".)
Princeton Cos 597A: Vector Search and Databases
Asus RTX4060 Ti with integrated M.2 SSD answers a question few thought to ask
Apparently the UK government does not get any income from .io sales:

Wikipedia - .io - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io

> In 2014, Kane claimed that "profits are distributed to the authorities for them to operate services as they see fit" and that "Each of the overseas territories has an account and the funds are deposited there because obviously the territories have expenses that they incur and it’s offsetting that." However the UK government has repeatedly stated that this is untrue: “There is no agreement between the UK Government and ICB regarding the administration of the .io domain” and "the Government receives no revenues from the sales or administration of this domain."

So, you aren't funding the UK government, just a 'British entrepreneur' who bought the rights to multiple TLDs... I'm not sure that's better, but it's different.
Unfortunately, neither finished software nor durable hardware are compatible with the imperative for growth that firms operate under in a capitalist system with unlimited marketing. Once the market is saturated, next year's revenue must come from a product that is different from what the consumer already owns. It must either actually be better, or marketed in such a way as to be perceived to be better. Usually, the marketing option is easier and more reliably reproduced year after year.
Hi HN! I just built a little GPT4 powered app called Detour - an app to play horror/suspense "chat stories". In a traditional chat story, you just tap through and read messages - but in Detour, we allow you to change a message, and an AI generates a whole new ending for a story.

You can also "continue" a story once you've reached the end, so in a sense this is a never ending story ;)

You can also see other people's endings created in the app (just tap on a message).

I think its really interesting to see LLM's play a role in the creative process. We believe a chat story is a good use case for this because it's essentially a script, which serves as the starting point for any movie or TV production. As AI generation tools get better every day, we think this can go in a lot of cool directions.

There's lots of work to do still but it's halloween so I thought I'd just share it.

Looking forward to any feedback on the app - including for story ideas if horror/suspense is your thing.
No matter how technologically advanced our society becomes, humans will always be captivated by fire. Yep.

Thankful to have a Greek restaurant that serves saganaki down the street. If only we had a restaurant that served real raclette.
You're probably looking for RPA / Surface automation solutions. This used to be all the rage a few years back, supporting various "digital transformation" initiatives in large Enterprise.

UIPath [0] is a main contender in this space.

[0]: https://www.uipath.com/
Damn, that's a dark worldview. My personal experience in life indicates it's not even close to true, fortunately.
I wrote a finished software once. It printed “hello world” to the console.
VESA mount your monitor and mount your Mac Mini or Mac Studio under your desk.
Interesting shower thought.

I propose calling this idea Uniquely Minimal Individual Extensions, aka UMIX philosophy, and creating a suite of small self-contained programs that can be flexibly composed to create more complex ones.
I dunno, I read it apolitically. Normal working-class people don’t give a shit about any of this stuff, and as soon as they do, it’ll become unfashionable, and we’ll move on to the next thing.
dang this IS scary. still not as terrifying as clowns tho
I posted this because I have both an immune deficiency and a serious mood disorder and I carry the polymorphisms they talk about in this article. I was blown away when I found this because I knew it was true that zinc cured both of my issues for the most part.

I finally got my doctors to give me a zinc test and I was deficient even though I was eating oysters, nearly daily and taking zinc supplements. So I have this transport problem with zinc and slc30a9, but also I have several genes that seem to need zinc more than other people. (PNP for one)

I’ve compared my genetics with a group of 12 other peoples genetics who are friends of mine so I know how much of an oddball I am.

I am bragging here, because I found this out by myself. My haplotype is a very ancient haplotype, which originates around 50,000 years ago, and this links me with the Denisovans as well.
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More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38076903
TeX and METAFONT are also "finished software."

Their version numbers converge to π and to e respectively when bugfixes are delivered, and will become precisely π and e when Knuth passes away.

https://texfaq.org/FAQ-TeXfuture
Advanced RAG: Rerankers and Two-Stage Retrieval
I don't think this is the argument that's being made, though. They're not saying, "This is a clear cut case of piracy--pay me for that book."

They're saying, "You can't consume my book in that way."
None of that has anything to do with efficiency, though.

When I'm talking about how large companies have inefficient processes, it doesn't really matter if the company has 10,000 employees or 100,000.

I'm constrasting with companies that have 50 or 500 employees.
>China is extremely offended by a lot of things done by a lot of countries

Yes, that's bad. Hence, "should be held to the same standard". You may reasonably disagree with that, but as it stands your implication is that the more bad things a country does, the less we should care.
sure? you get to make that decision. ".uk" and ".us" are more straightforward in what governments/histories they're linked to, and the origins ".io" is not as well known, hence the article.
They could have contacted anyone else to see if cops posting snuff films on YouTube is widely seen as a civil liberties issue. They could have contacted the victim, victims' rights advocates in Los Angeles, other police departments to find out if they routinely, or ever, post videos of violent crimes, or if they instead choose to post the clearest still image of the people of interest.
This decision isn't "a reversion to medieval times", whatever your opinion on the legal status of these images— this is an entirely procedural decision in which the judge ruled that the specific claims of copyright infringement are invalid because the plaintiff never filed for copyright:

> Orrick spends the rest of his ruling explaining why he found the artists’ complaint defective, which includes various issues, but the big one being that two of the artists — McKernan and Ortiz, did not actually file copyrights on their art with the U.S. Copyright Office.

In other words, the story here is mostly that the lawyers screwed up badly in pursuing a copyright lawsuit before ensuring copyright had been filed.
Not at this rate, speed, and reliability. Even setting aside the morality and legality of the matter, let’s please stop with the fiction that what these computerised systems do is the same as other humans. Scale matters. If someone said “I’m worried about the consequences of machine guns being sold at convenience stores”, it is not a sensible response to say “human have always been able to kill other humans with knives and handguns”.
Can you not connect 2 monitors on a Mac?
I certainly don't have that social capital at right now, but I do intend to be hacking around in these areas in the future. If I get something useful working then I will probably be in a position to build that capital.

Because now that we have reframed it as something that puts users in explicit control of their trust graph and not something that would make NixOS like all the other distros, it's a feature that I'd like to use.

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I'm working on a data annotation layer which I intend to apply as a filesystem and use nix and my test case. Edits are conceived of as annotations, so there's this sense that every file can be built by following a path of edits from the empty file. This makes for slow reads, but near-instant copies (you're just adding a new pointer at the same position in the edit graph as the file you're copying). It's a strange design choice, but it would solve some problems when using nix flakes with large repositories (everything gets copied into the nix store and it can take a while).

Signatures are exactly the sort of thing I was imagining living in an annotation. Ideally, the annotation adheres to patterns in the data and not the named file, so if the package applied a patch which invalidates the signature then the signature doubles as a link to the original, which can be diffed with the patched version and the user can be shown why it fails, not just that it fails. It's a long shot but that's the dream.

With a bit of luck I'll find a more elegant way to handle this without playing whack-a-mole with each user facing utility that builds a derivation. Maybe some kind of dashboard which shows you which files the system is rendering and whether they have associated signatures (or other metadata, known malicious, etc). The challenge, in the signature case, will be knowing which files are ok to be unsigned and which need to fail on read if not signed. Certainly we can't require a separate signature for every file we render.

It might be a long time coming though, this work proceeds on weekends and holidays and it's pretty far from a useful state. I'm still fiddling with tuning the rolling hash based fragmentation algorithm such that files are constructed out of right-sized fragments which end up being reused if the files are similar.
RAID1 is a lot more expensive and/or stores a lot less data than RAID5/6.
I am afraid that may not last long though?

Aren't all banks mandating Aadhaar based KYC and freezing accounts if there is no aadhaar? Atleast I know SBI did. And even PAN to Aadhaar linkage has also been made "mandatory"...even though the legality of the mandate is dubious, and there have been many deadline extensions.
You're absolutely correct that Disney pays its employees.

However most of the images that are being used for training data don't come from Disney. Most of the imagery used for Stable Diffusion and Midjourney was from portfolio websites and other sources, afaik. The Artstation website, which is a popular portfolio website, was one of the main targets, alongside many others. Other websites used include DeviantArt and Flickr. You can check using this website https://haveibeentrained.com

A lot of people placed their passion work, personal work, and unpaid work on Artstation, DeviantArt and Flickr. Some of those people are brilliant. Stability AI used their work as training data, without announcing it or asking for permission. The result is that a lot of more profilic and famous artists can see a lot of work that directly seems to be a reference to their own, copying their style.

A lot of the work on these websites is quite simply not commercial work. The only commercial application in fact, so far, is these image engines.
You originally said the commenter hadn't discredited anything that Peterson said. Now Peterson may have a substantial body that is sound and doesn't fall into the categories critiqued. I certainly don't suggest that he has never said anything of merit.
> I personally struggle with the 14". It feels too small to be productive on, at least for coding. Anyone else experience this?

absolutely not... working for 10 years on 13/14 and never _felt_ that way
I get this is personal ;)
So good - I've been watching Formbricks grow since May/June and it's really impressive! A LOT of bonus points since it's open source.

When is the Flutter support?
The issue with transformers is the context length. Compute wise, we can figure out the long context window (in terms of figuring out the attention matrix and doing the calculations). The issue is training. The weights are specialized to deal with contexts only of a certain size. As far as I know, there's no surefire solution that can overcome this. But theoretically, if you were okay with the quadratic explosion (and had a good dataset, another point...) you could spend money and train it for much longer context lengths. I think for a full project you'd need millions of tokens.
In various areas, the military offers pre-bootcamp programs to get non-qualifying potential recruits into qualifying form. No obligation.

But a real, major problem are the people that are fighting the attempts to make the military more attractive to women and "liberals". You can see course-grained recruiting statistics and it's obvious which areas of the country are over-represented and under-represented in recruiting. No matter what you do, you are not going to solve the recruiting shortfalls by making the military more attractive to people from Texas and the rest of the southeast - they are already enlisting at very high rates. Our military needs to get people from the west coast and the northeast to voluntarily enlist. Going on an "anti-woke" crusade against every single potential change is self-defeating (unless you don't actually care about our country as a whole...)
https://archive.ph/bgopA
> That's just rude and uncalled for.

It's just a joke. I'm almost certainly one of the people he's poking fun at and I don't think we should get bent out of shape. He obviously thinks that C or Java levels of static typing are fine/good, and thinks that fancier stuff like found in Rust and Scala is a waste of time. I think he's dead wrong, but that's life.
Paying with personal data/advertising is an illusion.

People who buy ads or buy your personal data don't do so out of the goodness of their hearts. They do so in order to make up not only the cost of buying the ad/data in the first place but extract more money out of you, one way or another.

This means it should always be cheaper to just pay for the service yourself then "pay" via ads or exploitation of your personal data, since the latter involves more middlemen that want their cut.

The fact that poor people can currently "freeload" off the system is an artifact of imperfect targeting rather than intentional generosity on the advertisers' part to subsidize the poor population, and will be quickly closed off the second there will be a way to reliably distinguish the purchasing power of a user as to deny service to those whose ad views aren't profitable enough (as they would never be able to purchase the advertised products).
What image ? The one from the article ? That doesn't prove anything. Point is, if you try to access maps through Chinese apps, is Israel there or not ?
how is it a "virtue signal"? what are they signalling?

i'm curious where morality fits in to anything in your worldview if telling the (well-documented) history of a forcible displacement of a people is "virtue signalling" and "getting the morality into it".
From the text, that was the intent. It does seem as if that is being tested now e.g. https://noyb.eu/en/meta-facebook-instagram-move-pay-your-rig...
I don't use Firefox as my primary browser, but I do use the desktop version of it on various computers numerous times per week as part of some work I do.

I find Firefox to be noticeably slower than the various Blink-based browsers and Safari (when available) when running on the same systems. I'm referring to the overall responsiveness of the UI and the application itself, as well as the rendering of sites, and the subsequent interaction with them. I find this to be the case for a fresh installation with no extensions, all the way through to an installation with common ad blocker extensions installed. Firefox is just plain slower, from what I can tell.

Firefox's extension signing nonsense is another pain point. As part of my work, there's a fully-trusted custom extension developed in-house that I need to install. It's trivial to install in the various Blink-based browsers. On the stable releases of Firefox, though, I have to jump through numerous hoop to get it installed and usable, and this has to be done each time the browser restarts, which is often in my case.
I am always confused when someone calls a "stand-up meeting" where everyone is sitting down in their own home. Usually starting with personal updates from everyone and catching up.

The whole point of a "stand-up meeting" is to keep it as short as possible (because standing up is uncomfortable). If you remove that it inevitably stretches into those hour-long meetings where no one can stay focused while everybody else gives super long updates and people find something else to do (not hard in your own environment) while waiting their turn.

The fix is to have a clear agenda and someone actively running the meeting to keep it on track, keep it moving, and push conversations that don't interest the larger group to subsequent smaller meetings or email.

You have to adjust for the lack of discomfort and social clues.
"ROI" just means "return on investment". It doesn't automatically mean that return is monetary. A nonprofit getting results in terms of accomplishing their purpose is getting good ROI.
How do you break down the segments/sections? Is it just fixed time? What happens if there are more than one topic discussed in the segment?

Are you using both chatgpt and mistral? Do you use them for different tasks?
Wait, even for the humans living near the equator?

Also, you just made me realize I never have actually given any thought to how much the last ice age affected climates beyond Europe.
It doesn't actually, if it goes lower than 100% it means the prediction failed already.
Very true, I'd argue that's a problem for society as a whole, falling more on civil society, and government. Business can help but at the end of the day, it shouldn't fall on them as the incentives do not align. Simple example: Restaurants are places where people can socialize, but the target for business is a quick customer turnaround to maximize revenue. Limiting that actual time spent socializing.
Understanding Clojure Inside and Out
Most Clojure guides understandably focus on the Clojure language itself. As a hosted language, Clojure relies on various mechanisms of its host platform (for example the JVM, CLR or Javascript) for building, dependency management and packaging. This guide aims to explain how code is compiled, packaged and ultimately run on the JVM. Understanding these processes is very useful when developing and debugging Clojure applications professionally. This guide assumes familiarity with the Clojure language but not Java or the JVM.
It is not bad, but people who got used to Qualcomm will complain about reception. I think most customer cant tell difference between 3 / 3.5Ghz or 8 / 12 GB Memory , but when they have a spot where they used to receive better signal they will complain. So it really depends on what you consider as good.
This is terribly written. I have a lot of useful virtual meetings, they are usually me and one or two people and it has a specific task to be done that is known beforehand where people have things prepared and we either join things or have to come to an agreement or decision. It's not useful to classify all meetings the same. And I feel that virtual or in person meetings are vaguely similar, the issue is the cost of human hours in virtual meetings may appear hidden or they be too easy to schedule, so people may schedule more meetings that may be unnecessary in virtual settings when they don't few the need to check with each party if they will be available at the specific place, which is required when meeting in person.
David Graeber was an anthropology professor at the London School of Economics, with a focus on Economic Anthropology. He was also an anarchist and activist. His most significant contribution to the field of economics is his critique of two important ontologies of orthodox economic common sense.

First, Graeber challenged Adam Smith's idea that the history of economics evolved from barter to money to credit. According to Graeber, this sequence is actually reversed: credit systems existed first in pre-money societies, where neighbors kept track of mutual aid. Barter only became prevalent when money was introduced and sometimes unavailable.

Second, he critiqued the socialist theory of primordial debt, which suggests that humans are born with an infinite debt to the cosmos. This theory often uses religious language to support its claims and argues that the government inherits this cosmic debt, leading to total control over money and markets. Graeber distinguishes between religious or moral debt and economic debt, arguing that they operate on different logics.
Wasn't Originalism brought to Roberts decades ago by right leaning groups trying to push him towards more explicitly Conservative rulings?

I am not saying he is partisan but it is hard to say he is neutral when Originalism has been used as a hammer to eliminate Liberal ideas like "maybe we shouldn't regulate modern guns used to kill dozens like muskets" or "what right does the state have over what health care a woman chooses with regards to the most dangerous thing she will do in her life".