skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was also the meme robot some years ago that would reply by gifs. I have no idea what happened to it.
Tuta huaaaa saaa email huuu mein!!
High Speed Data Converters Enable Flexible RF Sampling Architectures (2019)
Hubble was something never seen before (in the public eye). JWT is higher resolution, in spectra completely unavailable to Hubble. For astronomers it is a giant leap. We will learn new things that we simply could not before.

However, when the output is converted to "human-visible frequencies", it inevitably looks similar to the Hubble's output. It's a bit like why I personally find 4K a significantly less impressive leap than HD was over SD.

So I understand why it may superficially look the same to you, and that that is what is blocking you from "feeling" why it's as big of a deal as the media makes it out to be.

However, the only real "cure" for that is to dive into the science, at least a little bit, to get some perspective of what all these images represent.

EDIT: to give a point of comparison: objectively from a visual standpoint, The Pale Blue Dot is not an impressive image to look at. But if you know the story behind it and what it represents, it becomes powerful. Now I'm not saying JWT images will ever be as meaningful to us as PBD will be, since that last one is inherently more personal, but the idea is the same.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
> In school, if you pick an easy problem instead of a hard one, you lose leverage because your extra problem-solving ability goes to waste. But in real life, you can redirect it to prioritizing which problems to solve, or working more quickly, or building a machine that solves the problems for you.

I'm surprised that for once this kind of perspective is on HN. The world is absolutely full of low hanging fruit problems that need someone smarter than the junk you usually see. Nobody wants naive solutions, overabstraction, or premature optimization. The end user can definitely tell the difference even if they don't know how to say it.
Obsidian for Pictures
PhotoFolder runs locally and reads photos like Obsidian does with text.

It uses images metadata to store all the information, no need for a separate database.
Thanks. I was quite confused that I was not able to deduce the meaning of "rebus" from the context.
Many experts agree with him. But you wouldn’t know it from his encyclopedia entry. Don’t you think that’s an issue?
I used Tuta for both private and business use for a couple of years.

Switched away because of terrible search experience and lack of SMTP and IMAP access.

Tuta became understandably a walled garden that my other tools couldn't easily work with. This wasted alot of my time.

Nowadays using $normalemailprovider with Thunderbird.
Has there been any quantified benchmark on this?
Yes, for relatively short commutes and in cities much smaller vehicles than fully sized SUVs and likes would make so much more sense. From resource and space perspective. You can fit more of the road they take less parking places and overall less resources.

Maybe it should be mandated that when you are buying an EV the sales people go over alternatives...
About that sport coat...
Roblox partners with former cheat distributor Synapse Softworks LLC
I've always thought that people underestimate the mental acuity needed to find simple truths within complex systems and to use them to achieve useful results.

Especially in academia, many professors, who are wedded to particular models, go so far as to dismiss simplicity without sufficient consideration.

It was not always this way. Among the older philosophers, you can observe a strong affinity for simplicity. Figures like Pythagoras, Newton, Descartes, Archytas, and various Indian philosophers, such as Shankaracharya, strongly favored simplicity.

Even practical statesmen such as Han Fei, Lee Kuan Yew, Chanakya, and others were able to distill simple yet powerful truths from complex situations. This is central to leadership and the effective organization of human activities.

You can observe the same drive for simplicity in great engineering leaders like Rickover and Visveswaraya.

Given more time, I believe I could make a very strong case for the power of an affinity for simplicity and its correlation with greatness in any field of activity.

Simplicity is underrated (in practice).
Ask HN: What happens to the domain (ccTLd) if the country disappears?
For example, if a country disappears due to a natural disaster (earthquake, volcanic eruption, tsunami...) or war, will the domain be managed by ICANN?
As an extreme example, if Palestine is wiped off the face of the earth by war, what happens to the .ps domain?
There is always a narcissist or otherwise deranged[0] individual behind the cancellation attempt, moving the threads.

A complementary strategy would be for them to get routinely identified and prosecuted.

0. https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-cruel-moraliser-uses-a-halo-t...
It's because you'll never have enough information to make an informed investment unless you know the founders. I would recommend no one invest in this way, especially via the 'crowdfund' websites, you're getting the most dilutable shares possible for no voting control, etc.
Can confirm, it is a terrible experience and waste of time.
He also asserted ownership of the trademark on 'We' and licensed it to the company for 'We Work' :-)
If you had an ev, surely you would preferentially use that though, lower running costs etc.

People don't make long journeys nearly as often as they think they do. So the biannual long trip would be balanced out by all the other journeys.
Italian citizens are quite capable of tax evasion without the aid of Web 3.0 services; it's apparently a "cultural" thing[1]:

> The results show that the propensity to evade taxes is greater among households whose heads have low levels of education and income, are elderly and are resident in the South. Over time, the propensity to evade taxes has been growing on average, especially in the North, which has reduced the gap compared with the South, and among young people under 30 years old. The paper also shows a link between the propensity for tax evasion and some indicators of actual evasion, such as the use of cash and the under-reporting behaviour in the Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) conducted by the Bank of Italy, confirming the association between cultural elements and evasion behaviour.

[1] https://doi.org/10.32057/0.QEF.2021.607
And in french it.. well.. no, nothing's coming up.
It depends on use case but for example in EU a lot of PII needs to be encrypted for the medical/pharmaceutical Services.
Of course health data needs to be encrypted as well as financial data etc.
I have to enable the fallback specifically because of such devices that do not implement WPA3.
I would much more prefer to only use WPA3.

My mother however does not care (as an example).
At the same time she and most other not so tech savy people aren't using a Raspberry PI.

I think the demand is there.
Although an obsession/compulsion with the results, veers your mind off of the process needed to acquire great results. Especially for complex/long-range efforts, I'd argue that "quality of efforts" > "quality of results". Without such an orientation, it becomes difficult keep up with a challenging course of action.
Sure, anything you don’t like must come from biased sources.

It doesn’t trace back to a single statistic, multiple independent studies have looked into it. The often quoted 1 billion birds killed is actually below most scientific estimates of around 1.3 to 4 billion: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380

With domestic cats causing ~31% of the ~2.4 billion deaths and strays making up the majority. You can get similar numbers by ignoring domestic cats and simply look at the stray population and roughly estimate how much meat they need to survive and then compare the percentage of bids vs small mammals caught.
They even had an acronym for it: FOMO
.su still exists even though the Soviet Union is no longer a country, but .yu (Yugoslavia) was fully retired and migrated to .me and .rs in 2010.
Can you beat a website that tries to display mobile pages at all costs?
The most exciting announcements for me were:

* GPT-4-128k. Sure, Claude exists, but it's closer to GPT-3.5 than 4 IMO. TBD how well 128k context works given that classic attention scales quadratically (so they're presumably using something else) but given how good OpenAI's models tend to be I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.

* Pushed GPT-3.5 finetuning to 16k context (up from 4k when it was released this summer). IME 3.5 finetunes are very useful, very fast, very cheap replacements for specific specialized tasks over GPT-4, and easily outperform GPT-4 for the right kind of tasks. The 4k context limit was a bit of a bummer.

* New tts that to my ears sounds nearly equivalent to Eleven Labs or Play.ht, at one-tenth to one-twentieth the price (with zero monthly commitment). The Eleven Labs Discord is a bit of a bloodbath right now, most of the general chat is just people saying they're switching. (The Play.ht Discord is pretty dead most of the time anyway, so not much new since this morning.) I will say though that it's a bummer that the OpenAI tts doesn't have input streaming, only output streaming, so latency will likely be worse and you'll have to figure out some way to do chunking yourself which is fairly annoying, but for any kind of personalized use case (e.g. a bot talking to customers, as opposed to using pre-recorded snippets) a 10-20x price improvement is worth the extra pain and may be the difference between "neat prototype" and "shippable to production."

Plus, massive price drops for OpenAI's existing products across the board, along with a legal defense fund to protect OpenAI customers from getting sued for using OpenAI models. If you're building an "OpenAI wrapper startup," today was a very good day. If you're competing with OpenAI, though... Oof.
I want to open the desktop website at this URL on my iPad or iPhone. changing the User Agent had no effect. changing the User Agent works for chrome on Android.
I have the same feeling.

90% of my work is done in Slack and Email threads, if I had a (ideally local) LLM read and learn everything there, it would be immensely helpful - as in it could replace me to answer on most questions and queries.
AFAIK all cables are de-facto rated up to 30V, as you won't save money if you make insulation even thinner. So this is non issue in practice. Plus you can't really measure breakdown voltage without destroying the cable.
Capitalism doesn’t really attempt to be a coherent ideology with some set of predefined dogmas.

> The historical reality of both systems is anything but.

To what do you attribute the massive improvements in life expectancy, medicine, overall QOL and other things over the last ~200 years or so?
I hope you find it as well, thank you for sharing...it can be quite soul crushing when you loose something that gives you a strong sense of identity.
And they were threatening lawsuits to whoever said they were going bankrupt few days ago.

To which some responded "I don't think you guys have the money to sue me, you'll bankrupt long before".
Ask HN: The Ideal Hosting for WordPress?
We are developing a platform for WordPres that covers the areas of full test life, build and production environment.
I don't want to be the typical cpanel hosting, no, I've been working on Cloupsy to integrate tools that all these years I've wanted and needed in one place.

I would like to know what features you think are necessary in the development process of your WordPress site that you would like to see in a cloud/hosting provider.

We already have some, you can check them out at cloupsy.com or try them directly at app.cloupsy.com/new
Same here - my experience is that Amazon works very well in Europe. We picked up the Amazon habit when we moved house during the pandemic, and must have bought hundreds of times since.
Got a few invites, DM me on twitter, substack or masto if you want them (listing on https://bitecode.dev)
That's why the government wants witholding by AirBnB: much easier to keep track of than millions of individually evading landlords.
Being rich and being an idiot aren't mutually exclusive either.

Lacking scruples seems to be more important than having intelligence.
Ask HN: Please OpenAI/ChatGPT FOMO or keep working as a software engineer?
I get "$username joined using your invite code!" in notification tab that leads to the user profile. So far the user hasn't done anything.
Who isn't aware? Wrong question. It's understabding how *greatly* that imbalance skews average. Most people don't know cause from correlation. They certainly don't know one billion is one thousand million. It's not safe to assume that everyome on Reddit or HN are well aware of the subtleties.

Note: The discussion was on savings. Abstracting that from individual wealth adds cognitive load.
It's a general business trope, isn't it?

Ford is a pension fund that happens to make cars.

Berkshire Hathaway is an insurance company that makes a lot of investments.

A supermarket is a bank that sells food.

GE at one point was also more or less a financial company that sold industrial goods.

I guess the thing is once you take a financial view of how a business works, a lot of things don't look like what they normally look like.
Can you name a falsity he has spread?

Note that I don’t support him either at this point, for other reasons. But the editorial bias is absurd.
I visited someone in Spaces in the UK, they didn’t have coffee or even forks.

It felt so weird after being spoiled by WeWork and left a very negative impression about Regus/Spaces.
> People will be lining up to buy bitcoins from you.

Except there hasn't been a single historical example pointing to people doing this after the collapse (partial or otherwise) of civilization.

After the fall of Rome, people used the currency (both bullion and as a measure of value) for a few decades after. If the US dollar collapses, you've got a litany of more pressing issues than "how can I pay for goods" and history shows that you'll probably just end up relying on social credit with people in your immediate community.

tl;dr invest in being a social-able person first, then learn how to grow your own food instead
Here's a 6 ft cable for $176: https://www.cablestogo.com/usb-and-pc/usb-c-cables-adapters-...

In the end, the technology just doesn't exist to send 100w and full data speed over the usb-c interface longer than that reliably (and economically enough for the market) so it just isn't an option to go longer. You'll have to find a different solution (optical plus separate power) or do a cross-your-fingers method with a non-certified cable that may or may not work under different circumstances.
How does the wifi firmware know what cpu you're running?
Oh. That's kind of weird. Why/who would ape Cloudflare for their detect-a-bot interstitial?
https://archive.md/u4uxm
Yeah, fintech and real estate don't go well together imho.

There's just too much legal complexity, operational costs are heavy.

Real estate is a well established and highly competitive industry, you can't "tech" it much imho.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6940938/

Fertility control alone: 12% to 40% population decrease. More effective over longer time spans (up to 20 years)

Culling alone: Effective in rapidly reducing population short-term, population replaced through compensatory breeding or migration from other locations

https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/27935/1/Smith_LM_Biology_PhD...

Combined CNR and responsible ownership targeted several flows into and between the dog subpopulations: it prevented the street dog population from increasing through births and abandonment, and it increased the adoption of dogs from the shelter dog population to the owned dog population. This combined method had a synergistic effect: neither CNR nor responsible ownership applied in isolation was as effective at reducing street dog population size

The key result of this thesis is that methods targeting multiple sources of population increase, such as combined CNR [capture-neuter-release] and responsible ownership campaigns, will be most effective at reducing free-roaming dog population size
Awesome! I think serial builds should be fairly simple to implement if you can tie it back to a transaction in a data store.

I get the DSL desire, and I feel I've already lost the "YAML is fine" battle elsewhere so that's not a problem. I think a language like jsonnet or cue would have been a better choice simply because they don't involve users learning a new language or you from implementing a new language. Both would have allowed plugging in your own standard library of functions and abstractions.
Interestingly their market capitalization is > $100 billion and the stock price is not that far away from it's all time high.
There are several topics that I recently got more into:

- The utility of randomness: returning from a machine learning conference in Italy where I had a pretty random (if you do not believe in fate) conversation with a stranger, where suddenly more people stood around and joined in. It basically started with me commenting on one poster "Isn't it amazing how useful randomness is, given there is no pattern/structure in a random sequence, and it costs me nothing to make up?" What I meant is how can something as arbitrary still be useful. Suddenly we started collecting examples: randomized algorthms like the random walker model behind PageRank, Random Forests in machine learning, random numbers for perfect encryption (one time pad), Pentti Kanerva's "Hyperdimensional Computing: An Introduction to Computing in Distributed Representation with High-Dimensional Random Vectors" (thanks to an anonymous Finnish bystander, for I could not recall Kanerva's name at the time) etc.
Today, I found a book that studies how random people's travel decisions are:
Ennio Cascetta (2009) Random Utility Theory, Heidelberg: Springer.

- hypergraphs: graphs have been very useful representations for so many things in work and life, but they are only for expressing dyadic relations between nodes, whereas their generalizations, hypergraphs can express n-ary relations between nodes.

- how to bring people back to a culture of books & libraries: I collect books and I read a lot. As I teach/lecture also, I often ask my students about their reading habits, and find it shocking that many have never been to a library, and most do not read books. I would like to contribute to changing that (seems harder than finding out whether P = NP?).
Congratulations! Rabies is such a scary disease but these vaccination campaigns do work. Germany, Estonia, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Austria and the Czech Republic became officially rabies free in 2003 after many years of vaccinating wild foxes and all the red rabies warning signs of my childhood are finally gone.
I don't understand though, finding a place to work in pretty much every city is simple and doesn't require WeWork, pretty much every city in the world, even when I was visiting smaller polish towns had at least 3/4 coworking places.

What's the WeWork moat? Because there's an insane operational costs that have to be passed down to the customer.
I was thinking of children that might like to play with it.

Isn't there a design principle that says that if you make something look cute, it should also be safe to touch?
In (Gheg) Albanian means fear
'I described them as knockoff Air Pods'

If Facebook didn't immediately block sales of items self-described as knockoff <whatever brand>, they'd be (rightly) criticised for allowing the sale of counterfeit goods
Went on high altitude walking holiday not expecting lying snow. Just didn't think of consequences.
The short answer is yes, it has a big impact on output quality, all other things being equal.

There are techniques like "quantization-aware training" [1] which aim to reduce the impact.

However, if your benchmark is "output quality for a fixed amount of compute" (e.g. running real time voice recognition on a smartphone) a larger model that's been quantized might perform better than a smaller model that hasn't.

[1] https://www.tensorflow.org/model_optimization/guide/quantiza...
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/tuta
You know that courts exist for a reason, right? I know for a fact that the most infamous ransomware organization at the moment, the one actively targeting hospitals with double extortion and then dumping terabytes of patient data including social security numbers, medical records etc. publicly, used Tutanota at one point to communicate with victims.

This isn't an out of sight out of mind situation, if you ask for bulletproof hosting you will face consequences on way or another and you can't just ignore that in a calculation. Same as you don't ignore the consequences of abuse of political power clearly.
It’s a bit surprising that they don’t use either official NASA logo in the trailer, opting instead for a plain boring logotype for NASA+.
The vast majority of jobs do not have equity, even in tech. Also bonuses are discretionary and aren’t guaranteed, so there’s no easy way for employers to mention an amount they can stick with in the job posting.
Seems like a stretch.

I would put it differently: an IPO is what most tech startups aim for or are pressured into.

I'm a founder and have talked with few people (albeit I'm not looking for money) and you could clearly see disappointment in money-bringing people hearing you want to stay private.
Ah this is good. This had come in when I used it but I think the GitLab instance I used was a few releases out of date so wasn't available at the time.
Would it be possible to have a super hardened dev environment where we can build/test/write etc in a normal WP style but deploy to a static hosted version (better performance, security etc)?
We recently built out our dream kitchen, we've got a full gas hob with an industrial amount of ventilation. We also have an induction hotplate which is great for keeping sauces warm or boiling water faster, although I've noticed that induction doesn't have the fine grain control that I've come to expect from gas.
To play devil's advocate here, I do think that human sensibilities about life preservation can be inconsistent and illogical.

Your comment itself is contradictory is it not? If I am to understand "Also, wtf?" to mean something like "euthanising dogs is immoral because it shortens their life", your other argument is that sterilisation is superior because it essentially starves the other dogs. How is starvation morally superior to euthanasia?

Caveat: I actually also have the same emotional knee-jerk response. I own and love a dog very dearly, and the idea of just "getting rid of all the dogs" doesn't sit well with me.
There are many of us who regard the AGPL as a nonfree license. It’s just the FSF zealots who regard the ability to run a services business with free software as a “loophole”.
Tall poppy syndrome abounds.

It shouldn't be too much of a shock, alas, except they don't teach the realities of collective meta-cannibalism much in schools these days.
This looks interesting. So if I understand right I build a server that talks http to your nodes and you present that to the end user browsers as web-sockets?
A couple months ago, I was hiking in Nepal. The two of us had lunch at a restaurant on the trail where there was a puppy. One of us pet the puppy, the other fed it.

After lunch, as we continued the hike, the puppy started following us. For 2 hours! At first I thought we'd essentially stolen someone's dog. The Nepali guy I was hiking with explained that the puppy is basically a trail dog.

It soon became obvious that there were many dogs following people, hoping to get food. Eventually the puppy started following someone else who had more food.
And potty in croatian.