skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since major of startups fail, isn't it a good idea for a startup to commit to this at the beginning? Even privately to not disalign the success goal. If they don't commit to this it is zillion times worst than technical debt.
More than china , india is an existential threat . Historically gone to war with the british east india . Although it had gone to war with Tibet , tibet at the time was backed by China .
undergrad != academia

Undergrad is trying to learn the necessary basics to be able to get into academia.

Of course undergrads could publish papers already and be part of academia, but in this case I am not sure if there is any novelty or if it's just a nice product idea.
So how much would you be willing to pay for that service?
To me, the only obscure thing about this is that it is a one-liner.

If you write it in three lines, it is fine. Although, I guess the second find and the grep could be shortened, combined into one command.
Might as well do it on the command line at that point:

$ grep '^........k.$' /usr/share/dict/words | grep a | grep b | grep c | grep -v 'a.*a' | grep -v 'b.*b' | grep -v 'c.*c'
backstroke
bailiwicks
benchmarks
branchlike
bushwhacks
greenbacks
matchbooks
piggybacks
roadblocks
scrapbooks
slingbacks
throwbacks
thumbtacks
Very interesting, but how accurate is that model? It's worth mentioning that even pro audio brands with deeply integrated DSP (e.g. Neumann or Genelec) still use physical thermal sensors. Why? Who knows, maybe to squeeze the last bit of SPL before damage. I suppose that having more than one driver (thiu voice coils with differing sizes and limits) makes things more complicated, too.

I guess/hope amplifier clipping is also accounted for, as the sudden rise in harmonic content can easily damage tweeters (which I think macbooks have?).
Boomers overwhelmingly aren't able to use a computer right now (= write a basic script), I would be happy at this development if I was them.
Haha now do YouTube.
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Hard times for male feminists. The lies are crumbling.
You lose people, expertise and organizational structure. Those are more important than the "plans of the rocket". Not to mention, would nowadays engineers be able to work from the methods of back then? A lot of stuff would be faster to redesign from scratch (all the software and electronics for sure).

NASA a radically changed it's focus an functions since the space race. Suppliers have changed too.

They could do it again with enough funds and time, but it will take many years.
> basically harecoded to work with generic RGB

The days of that are numbered.
There's some historical evidence to suggest that this is true for capital accumulation. Since the first agricultural settlements and civilisations, loans and debt became a feature of human life. This caused cycles of concentration of capital followed by a breaking point and revolt against creditors or some other way to redistribute (in some ancient fertile crescent civilizations, every king would wipe away all debt by decree when accessing the throne).

More recently, peaceful times have also consistently lead to very unequal growth. And it's only great crises such as world wars which ultimately resulted in social stabilization and marked improvements in the conditions of the common person.
Ye you'd only want domestic alcohol for the children.
This is not an equivalent comparison.

In Europe many cancer treatments are simply not paid for by social health care, because it's too expensive or experimental.

Rich people still go to private health care providers for more niche treatments, or simply for shorter waiting lists.

What you have in Europe is - long wait lists, for everyone, and fewer numbers of actual treatments (plus many things not covered by social health care, e.g. dentists)

What you have in US is - no wait lists, healthcare that's probably 2-3x as expensive, but you actually can get the best of the best treatment if you pay for it

Clearly for poorer layers of society the US system is bad. But for society as a whole I would question which system is actually better. They both have bad and good parts.

To be honest if the US actually implemented a real market system for health care, and prices would drop a bit (with the kind of stuff Mark Cuban is building), the US health system would be FAR superior than Europe, even if its not free.
Staunch means "steadfast in loyalty or principle". Someone who doesn't change their mind and has unwavering political opinions is kinda by definition less likely to appreciate nuanced viewpoints.

I'm not sure how you made the leap to "interest in politics = more stupid".
Sorry, but that idea has been kicking around SF since at least the 1950's.
It also looks... ugly. Desolate. A concrete wasteland, if you want, here and there punctuated by threatening billboards.
> the way I used to crop photos they moved/broke

Out of curiosity, what's that? Are you by any chance referring to the option that allows not removing cropped pixels? Well, it's an option. You can disable it.
Because of this script tag....

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I am baffled that several contributors to this thread seem to find this question difficult, some even calling it "dehumanizing". This is a very easy and basic question and I wouldn't want to work with someone who couldn't solve it efficiently in a few minutes.
reads a bit like javascript now. You might want to consider switching languages
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> if the blast sound was somewhat delayed like the pressure wave

Aren't they the same thing?
Maybe Hallucinations-as-a-Service?

Lot of people reporting similar months ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/15fvsu0/likes_are_...
Don't forget it was also the chosen Livestream platform for the CHCH shooter and was where the "J6 Insurrection" was planned (hence the frantic redirection and sacrifice of the scapegoat known as Parler)
I like to think of a simple thought experiment when these types of arguments come up: Suppose you want some video game to exist. The most amazing, expansive, ground-breaking video game ever made. There are only two scenarios:

1. AI can replace coders altogether. In this case we live in an absolutely amazing world in which anyone can conjure the video game of their dreams instantly.

2. AI cannot do this, in which case there is still (clearly) an essentially infinite demand for new software.

Obviously, we do not live in world number 1. If we have arrived at the world in which AI can do the job of all coders, then why is there not an infinite supply of high quality software? In fact, this would be a software utopia.
Yes. In AI dungeon, which was an early ad-hoc attempt at using a LLM as GM before instruction fine-tuning was figured out, you saw this a lot. I remember some people posting chats where the model would shout that they'd had it with the player, and "User has left the chat".
I can only speak for my experience in Europe, but as far as I know the biggest selection bias in tomatoes is breeding them to be resistant to bruises when transported. And that only appplies to the ones exported to countries where it's not easy to grow them.

On top of that they're often picked before they are firm red (because they are more firm), with the knowledge that they will turn red over time after picking anyway.

On the other hand, I'll never forget the one time a Dutch colleague went on a trip to Italy, and when I asked him afterward how it was all the talked about was one time he went to the market and bought and ate a fresh tomato there, with just a pinch of added salt, as if it was a religious experience.

"You don't understand, it was like I ate a real tomato for the first time in my life! A real tomato, vanderZwan!"
An interview could reasonably ask for an out-of-core solution.

But you are right that optimizing specifically for two files seems wrong, especially as the data contains a timestamp, so you could simplify the problem and ignore the number of files completely.
A place I used to work you had people transporting their 100kg sack of meat in a 2000kg car over 100 miles every single day just to place said sack of meat at a desk and be on Zoom (well, Skype at the time) calls all day.

And this happened day in day out with nobody ever questioning the sanity of such a practice.
Yeah, they're supposed to. One of the features is called "fingerprinting prevention" by Apple, which according to Apple's documentation hides some personalisations in the browser (like plugins, fonts, detailed OS info, etc) so that trackers can't use them to fingerprint.
Adults are not immune.
Ask HN: How complex is it to train your own (tiny) LLM?
I'll preface this by saying I am just getting up to speed on AI, so forgive me if I use any of the terms wrong.

My company is celebrating 10 years next year, and I would love to create a fun little LLM that's trained on our data. I would then like to create a front-end for it, much like ChatGPT. I've got around 5000 articles (not sure how many words) and around 30k images to work with. How would I go on about training a small AI on this dataset? Where do I even get started? It's so overwhelming!

Many thanks.
YouTube makes a profit. Or it did at least, not sure what’s going on with the adblocker stuff.
Thank you, that looks good!

While I appreciate them releasing their stuff at all, why do companies usually also shut down at the same time as they are gaining a really cool differentiator over their competitors?
He’s not expecting you to read his mind; he’s expecting you to notice the ambiguity and ask a clarifying question.
> Except for choosing an orbit that degrades relatively quickly.

You answered your own question.

More specifically, a Kessler syndrome is the problem that occurs when satellites collide and shatter into clouds of sand-sized particles, and then the sand-sized particles impact more satellites and shatter them, leading to a cascade that clears the whole orbit. Because small things deorbit faster than large things (square-cube scaling), this simply cannot happen at orbits that are low enough, at the Starlink deployment orbits if there was a catastrophic collision, most of the material would be out of orbit in a matter of days. At the even lower orbits of V2 constellation, most of the material will be out of orbit in a matter of hours.

The reason Kessler syndrome gets mentioned with Starlink is that the original system design had the early sats at 1100km and most of the constellation at ~800km. This would have been really bad, because that's about the worst possible orbit for collisions, as it's just high enough not to be swept clean by the atmosphere, but low enough that orbital velocities are very high and collisions are more likely. After the concerns were raised, SpaceX modified their design to be not dangerous.
right, and then some time in the future the algorithm determines hey these people are obviously sharing the login, and they are totally hooked now!

The first year's supply of hits isn't free, but it's pretty cheap if you cheat a bit, and you figure since you're cheating a bit it will be cheap forever so why not get hooked!?

I'm not saying it's bad, just I've worked at some places that do this and you know the company they are doing it to know they're doing it, but accepting it at the moment.
I think you're right, and I've stayed up too late.
The goal isn’t to use it to spread a message. It’s where the message is formed and the ideology is incubated.

What was the point of a Klan rally?
https://macwright.com/2022/09/15/hacker-news - seems intentional
I don't know what 1956 felt like in western Europe but the current situation definitely doesn't feel like peace even though the war is not fought in western Europe. The war is at the EU border with stray missiles and overreaching Russian attacks already having hit EU territory.
That is the intent, yes.
If not for the Trump connection, it is hard to see a $73 million loss rating a headline. Musk lost more than that from share market fluctuations while buying Twitter. The obvious names that leap to my mind when it comes to losses are groups like Uber and WeWork who represent devastating capital misallocations of recent history. Tether, whenever it collapses, will also be one for the history books. Silicon Valley bank was nominally the biggest banking collapse in history IIRC. And if Trump is involved suddenly people want to try and take an interest in $73 million.

It was a SPAC. Shock of all shocks the company is dodgy.
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The problem I have with the zero 2w is that building anything on it seems to knock out the wifi. I've got a couple on the local network as terminals and if I try to build (e.g.) a recent python interpreter, the ssh connection dies to the extent that I have to power-cycle them. I presume they're just going into swap, but they never come back. Now that's not your use-case if you've got a remote server and all you're using them for is a thin client, but they aren't exactly usable as general purpose devices.

I do like the sound of that setup, though. Portable monitor plus powerbank is neat, and I can't help wondering if that plus a wireguard network wouldn't be the right way to do things away from home. There are more efficient SBCs but if the screen is the big drain that's exactly the choice I'd make too.
Seeed Studio (maker of the Xiao) have mmwave sensors that can do fall detection.
generally when two satellites collide some debris can be shot at a higher orbit which will take forever (or will not) reenter atmosphere.

See the scatterplot of debris for the Chinese collision test of 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris#/media/File:Gabba...

See this video for evolution of debris and altitude over time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQT5aMa_7iI
Cigarettes are heavily regulated for adults too.
Like I posted above: for me programming is a means to an end. I have a fridge full of plans, that will last me for at least a decade, even if AI would write most of the code for me.

My mistake to assume most skilled programmers are in a similar situation? I know many and none of them have time for their side projects.
Okay, I get the margins get more cushy. But one could see it being something like space launch getting 10x cheaper and that maybe translates into 3x demand for satellites. The first earth observatory was worth an astronomical amount of money, but the hundredth or thousandth is far down the tail of diminishing returns.

I just really wonder how much money can they make off of all of this even in the best case scenario. There isn't an infinite demand for putting things up into space.

There are demand inflection points. If it's so cheap you can go up for your birthday, or can do transatlantic flights, then it's a bit different - but nobody is talking about it ever getting THAT cheap. If Starlinks starts making all telecom providers obsolete then that'd also present something radically different and a huge amount of revenue. But I don't think they're able to do that either

I feel the primary reason people stopped caring about space after Apollo is because there are simply insufficient economic incentives.

The list of things you can do is short.. Telecom, Telescopes looking down, tourism, space mining

Everything else is on taxpayer dollar
You can certainly try to shame people into adopting your rigid ideology, religion, and culture. People have tried time and time again. That doesn’t make it right.
Tiktok is "allowed" to run their app in the West because we have freedom of speech and expression. At least for now.
Are there any implementations if this I could recommend to a non techie who makes stuffed animals from patterns?
Hinton's publicist forgot to tell him that he needs a book published before going on a media blitz.
>the well-gentrified little world-bubbles of the BBC's readers.

I'm not convinced by this sweeping statement (which would have more impact on non-uk readers).
Grauniad readers, perhaps.
This won't stop any app store spammers, if they can spam the app store it's no problem for them to get 20 fake devices and bypass this.
Again it's the genuine indie developers getting punished.
I'm not against a TikTok ban. It is essentially a slot machine. And it is explicitly designed like one.

My problem with this is that it is this design which should be illegal, not one app or another. Instagram and Facebook feeds aren't any better than TikTok.
>The danger I see, because already happened more than once, is that once certain opinions are publicly acceptable, those opinions risk becoming policy. And once those policies get enacted, as history showed, a lot of inncent people suffer.

This sort of reasoning doesn't help us identify correct opinions or good policies. I could just as easily say: "If critics are silenced, the people silencing critics may be allowed to dictate policy. And once the people who silence critics get their policies enacted, as history showed, a lot of innocent people suffer."

In a theocracy, the dictator can make arguing for atheism a crime, on the grounds that: "Arguing for atheism causes people to go to hell. A lot of innocent people will suffer. Therefore, we throw atheists in jail, in order to save innocents."

My basic position is: If your ideas are strong, you should be competent to argue with those who disagree. If your ideas are weak, you should not bully others into submission so you can enforce weak ideas.
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Rust without crates.io
Such a great product! I am sorry that it didn't work out and thanks for open sourcing it!
After the letdown of the semi, I kind of assume they'll sell about six of these with NDAs attached and then never mention "cybertruck" again, so may be low on dramatic value.
I use ChatGPT daily and have been coding for over two decades. I get it to write all the tedious stuff, and it basically writes all my internal tools, scripts and so on. The last big things it wrote for me were:

A macOS SwiftUI app to go through all the localization strings in my apps and show them in a table where I could see missing translations, and interactively translate them… by sending the, back to ChatGPT

Another macOS app to graph Google ngram data for word lists. It was great because I didn’t even need to check whether there was an API for ngrams, I just asked it for the function, then for the code to plot it in Swift Charts

Sometimes I consult it on refactoring problems (eg., this struct has new responsibilities, what would be a more appropriate name? How do you see it fitting into this section of the code?). It’s a great tool and easily worth the money

It almost never writes any “interesting” code, however
That's interesting. I think I read about this website redirecting HN users before.

I can't trigger that redirect on Firefox or Chromium browsers, though. It seems HN puts a `noreferrer` on the link.
Like it happened with... Blue Origin? Ariane Space? Electron?

NASA? China? India? Russian N1 rocket?

No, it didn't happen, in multiple cases without Musk, and with more funding.

You are delusional in your hate of Musk.
Yes, I have, bc I think there might always be some fellow developers/startuppers/entrepreneurs who could learn a tiny bit from ones own failures and successes. I have been on a rollercoaster myself for the past 10 years, developing a much better (in the meantime: 10 times better) toothbrush....and have written about that journey a few days ago: https://blizzbrush.com/pages/why-and-how-i-developed-a-10-ti...
Seeking is not getting. Care to elaborate? AV1 is a royalty free codec. 265 is not.
As long as the satellites are under 600km or so they will deorbit on their own in under 5 years. So in the worst case scenario caused by Starlink we would not be able to access space for 5 years which while not great is not the end of the world either.

The time to deorbit is not linear. So this 500km orbit is fine while 700km orbit would get us ~25 year deorbit time. 800km over 80 years and so on.
URLs with spaces are invalid.. or are they?
I have a number of similar devices but I use dirt cheap Wemos D1 Mini boards from Aliexpress, they usually cost around a buck each (and they come in ESP8266 and ESP32 variants).
I had a chilling experience of late when, out of curiosity, I tried the actual online practice exam for driving school. Boy did I fail it. I realized that there are quite some road signs I never saw in my life, and more important, that my current solution to all their right of way questions is "slow down and see what the others do" - not even that wrong if I think about but won't get you points in the exam.
> You don't see 50 years old weapon systems stop working.

You mean simple firearms, that were carefully cleaned, prep'ed, and packed for long-term storage? Or something at least vaguely comparable to a moon rocket in size and complexity, like a B-52?

Talk to an old Air Force guy, who knows the maintenance routines for the older warbirds, and how many issues they have with "manufacturer went out of business" spare parts, etc.
It can't possibly cost that much to operate a mediocre mastodon server with under a million monthly users? What are they spending all that money on?
Ofcourse we could make it in theory, but practically that's not the case. You don't just build a Saturn rocket and moonlander in your own factory (inhouse) one day. There is a massive supply chain. The development cost percentage points of US GDP. There were thousands of people involved. There also wasn't the internet. x factory responsibile for making component y, would call their supplier and buy an off the shelf component. Those suppliers no longer manufacture those components, why? No demand, probably obsolete etc. It's like trying to go buy a vacuum tube now when you could simply use a transistor. Imagine the cost of setting up a factory just to manufacturer vacuum tubes that have no other use. There's plenty suppliers that wouldn't have documented their manufacturing processes either, with the knowledge being handed down to whoever is doing the job.

Orchestrating a plan to keep millions in the dark and ensuring thousands, upon thousands of people keep a secret to their deathbeds is a lot less plausible.
Not sure about rocket launches but in energetic explosions the shock wave moves faster than sound for a certain distance, until the shock slows down and the sound catches up.
Oh it definitely does. The reason I stick with Python is that it has a somewhat decent standard library, and IMO fewer surprises (I don’t know Python or JavaScript all that well, since I basically never use it professionally, so I need to reduce footguns for myself).
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Depends.... for (large) explosions, there's initial blast pressure waves which travel faster than the speed of sound.
How many conversation responses to hone in the solution do you give the LLM?

If you’re just trying to one-shot it - that’s not really how you get the most from them.
You could've chosen to take up the cue and discuss JavaFX with me. You chose to be an ass. How is that appropriate for HN?