skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeking advice on how to lobby my city to disable a streetlight. We are on a rural road next to conservation land, and it blasts our house with light through the night, distracting our son with autism. Considering getting an instrument to measure the light's intensity and gathering data. Any tips on how to lobby a city government with such an unusual request would be greatly appreciated.
No need to be so literal. Substitute "bubble sort" for "any simple algorithm involving nested loops/branches/collections" and the result is likely to be the same. Mistakes are common. Partially, that is why unit tests may be useful.
Precisely this and precisely trucks and self driving.

This community has a strong tendency for cult following and tunnel vision. Seems like contrarian thinking, the hacker mindset, and as of recently entrepreneurship are not particularly popular anymore. Instead we have people demanding ip theft and the destruction of entire industries just to satisfy a cult leader’s vision. A little disappointing particularly since it damages and otherwise interesting technology such as ai, and it pushes the hundreds of legitimate ml startups away.
By that reasoning, Microsoft isn't a technology company but an ad company. Somehow, you're missing all the checkmarks. https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-us
Yeah all the pieces are already there, but I was trying to make something like a player replacer that would let the user load arbitrary glsl shaders to use. The idea being to provide usable upscaling or filters for weak connections or old videos, correct shaky videos, etc. in real time.

I just found this for fsr [0] which might work for the upscaling use case.

[0] https://github.com/Hajime-san/web-fsr/tree/main/browser-exte...
I'll check out the Discord server because I want to see cool stuff other people are making, but I have no intention of seriously marketing my extension. I don't really want it to "take off" and become popular.

To me, FastStream is just a fun hobby project, not a product. I intend to always keep it free without unnecessary bloat or spyware of any kind. So, I don't really have a desire for it to be "successful" beyond it being immediately useful to me and a couple of my friends.
How do I use the Memory Saver feature in Brave?
This is great, my annoyance with ads is their time-wasting nature. Skipping ads entirely isn't purely ethical, but this seems like a better compromise for both parties. We want to use YouTube free of charge and will see the ads in a short manner that satisfies YouTube (I hope).
Great article, I've always been impressed by this too. It's neat that it sounds like even amateurs with nothing but a regular DSLR can contribute to this as well.

> By precisely timing the duration of the occultation from many sites simultaneously, they can refine their knowledge of the size and shape of the asteroid.

> Betelgeuse is the 10th brightest star in our skies (+0.5 magnitude), so observers need only modest equipment to participate.

> the easiest way to capture the event is to use a simple DSLR camera on a tripod ... video frames must have a short (few-millisecond) exposure time ... Millisecond accuracy timing is crucial ... [an app] for timestamping occultation observations is called Occult Flash Tag (Android) or AstroFlashTimer (iPhone)
Is there anything in quantum fields that directly demand them to not be Lorentz invariant? I feel like these are independent hypotheses..
Folks in general are going to look much more askance of complicated corporate structures.
If you try to eat healthy, non processed foods, vegetables, etc, your food budget doubles if not triples.
I am simply saying that you come up with a proposal where the government tells content producers that they can’t distribute the content they create on their own website and where do you think is a reasonable place to draw the line on content?

Should the government also set mandatory licensing requirements for content and the amounts? Should the government force Disney to license a $100 million to produce marvel movie at the same cost as a $5 million Blumhouse movie?

Come up with a reasonable proposal where the government doesn’t allow you to distribute your own content.
USB-OTG ports are technically mini-AB and micro-AB ports that can fit both A and B plugs.

And USB-C is neither full-duplex (at least not for USB 2) nor host-to-host; there is a protocol negotiation and some devices can never act as hosts, although some can indeed assume both host and device roles.

Even in a “host-to-host connection”, only one side will act as the host.
USB-C is like a regular old USB port, with twice the data lanes (or a mux[1]) and a transistor to turn on the power when requested.

In other words, it costs more.

[1] https://richardg867.wordpress.com/2020/02/29/usb-c-done-chea...
PS/2 connectors lived on motherboards for a very very long time after mice and keyboards went to USB.
Just shoot it. It'll never get noticed.
I mean, great it catches more easy wins but until you do an EXPLAIN ANALYZE your plan analysis is worth sh*t (sorry I am highly skeptical of those solutions based on personnal experience). I have seen so many cases where you add a "perfect" index for one query and it completely wreck the performances of another query because the planner decides to change and it makes a worst decision. It is very common in postgres to intentionally not add a good index or modify the query because we dont have query planner hints (rant for another day).

We need better tooling around indexes but it needs to take into account all the queries and run them against the real dataset IMO. I think AWS Aurora plan manager is on the right track if it would be combined it with your tech.
Sometimes I look at USB-C plugs and US power outlets and wonder if there’s a shock hazard there…
Skipping ads is perfectly ethical. Who didn't hit fast-forward on their VCR or go get a sandwich during half-time?
It's still Windows under the hood. If you want to learn Linux fundamentals or port software to run on Linux then you will find inconsistencies. Depending on exactly what you are trying to do they will be either annoying or showstoppers.
The half-a-pack-a-day smoking crowd from before the war on tobacco have some pointed questions for you regarding your "discipline" theory.

We used to, as a society, consume a huge amount of appetite suppressants. We stopped doing that, while simultaneously revolutionizing sanitation and healthcare and applying optimizing chemistry to most food that goes in a box or carton.
For others, “Even if you agree with the policy stances of the Republican Party,,,,,,,,,,, having a completely…”
I'm curious what you're inferring to be "the way they want it to"?

From my read, Ilya's goal is to not work with Sam anymore, and relatedly, to focus OpenAI on more pure AGI research without needing to answer to commercial pressures. There is every indication that he will succeed in that. It's also entirely possible that that may mean less investment from Microsoft etc, less commercial success, and a narrower reach and impact. But that's the point.

Sam's always been about having a big impact and huge commercial success, so he's probably going to form a new company that poaches some top OpenAI researchers, and aggressively go after things like commercial partnerships and AI stores. But that's also the point.

Both board members are smart enough that they will probably get what they want, they just want different things.
No matter what devices I use, USB seems to give me a bit error every few terabytes or so, over cheap cables >1ft. This makes me wonder: how do I find good (certified) cables, and why isn't there forward error correction in the USB protocol such that cheap cables simply work?
If Sam Altman wins and the likes of Ilya lose then we won’t actually have AI. Since Sam Altman doesn’t know anything about building AI. We’ll have more sharky products with grandiose visions that end up making money by using surveillance.

But I’m hopeful that AI will at least win by open source. Like Linux did. “Linux” wasn’t a 100 billion startup with a glitzy CEO, but it ate the world anyway.
Because we own the client.
Relying on willpower is usually a failing strategy. Discipline and building healthy habits towards a sustainable lifestyle is usually more successful.

https://davidgoggins.com/book/

Drugs like Ozempic can help to accelerate weight loss, but most patients will regain the weight once they stop taking the drug unless they also make lifestyle changes. Do you want to spend the rest of your life on a drug with some significant side effects? It also tends to cause the loss of lean muscle tissue along with fat, which may not be what you want.

https://peterattiamd.com/ama45/
Hack's Bitstream Vera ancestry brings me back to installing Debian as a thirteen year old, a strong nostalgic pull.
Yet he managed to create versions of it that work better than what Google itself could make.
Do you pay for the books you read at the public library? Or should we block those too?
> cancelling after you've binge watch the shows you're interested in comes with no penalty.

...for now. We'll certainly see these kinds of shenanigans before too much longer. Take ads. They're creeping in to paid subscriptions now - despite the fact that an allure of online streaming is that you can pay not to see them.

Where there's the possibility of a revenue play, it will happen eventually.
I use a docking station to help give me dual monitors on both Mac & Windows. Some monitors don't work in Mac. Maybe I need to get a new docking station.
I think this is significantly more manipulative.
Plastic is made from refined natural gas and crude oil. We know for a fact those things are carcinogenic. There is no universe where putting them inside your body is not bad, and we should be doing everything we can to reduce it.

This is the type of ignorant generalisation that causes the widespread paranoia we're discussing here. Crude oil consists of a mixture of literally hundreds or more different compounds. Benzene is carcinogenic, and so are a few other aromatics. Methane isn't, and neither are the other pure alkanes. The keyword is "refined". Highly refined mineral oil isn't carcinogenic. Neither is petroleum jelly.
I can’t quite put my finger on why, but it blows my mind that its that “simple” in the sense that all the factors can be accounted for despite being incomprehensibly far away. My instinct is that there would almost certainly be some tiny unaccounted for perturbation that throws everything massively off over huge distances yet that’s not the case.
Unfortunately newpipe is bizarrely hostile to sponsorblock, which to me has become as important as Adblock itself: https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/newpipe-and-online-advertisi...

But I definitely also recommend trying out frontends that support it.

I cannot imagine trying to use video while having to run a gauntlet of both YouTube ads and video sponsor segments.
I never expected I’d come to HN to learn about the study of the occult. TIL indeed.
I use Faraday.dev on an RTX 3090 and smaller models on a 16gb M2 Mac and I’m able to have deep, insightful conversations with personal AI at my direction.

I find the outputs of LLMs to be quite organic when they are given unique identities, and especially when you explore, prune or direct their responses.

ChatGPT comes across like a really boring person who memorized Wikipedia, which is just sad. Previously the Playground completions allowed using raw GPT which let me unlock some different facets, but they’ve closed that down now.

And again, I don’t really need to feed my unique thoughts, opinions, or absurd chat scenarios into a global company trying to create AGI, or have them censor and filter for me. As an AI researcher, I want the uncensored model to play with along with no data leaving my network.

The uses of LLMs for information retrieval are great (Bing has improved alot) but the much more interesting cases for me are how they are able to parse nuance, tone, and subtext - imagine a computer that can understand feelings and respond in kind. Empathetic commuting, and it’s already here on my PC unplugged from the Internet.
the issue wasn't with board being fired, but the 100% claim.
So are plastic and metal containers.
Yeah Andrew, I wonder, how much is it possible to escape 'them' at all now? I've had an sdf.org account for ages now, so maybe upgrade with them will do it (I'm currently with (you guessed it) google). I'd just use sdf's minimal website thingy but there's some advantages to having a domain-name-of-ones-own.
I relate to this so much I had a bizarre Split moment and wondered if I had a second personality posting on here without my knowledge.
If you don't frequently plug things into your mainboard, does it even matter?

> but i doubt you will get more cycles out of C in real life

You're free to doubt the designers of the USB specification and/or the manufacturer's compliance with the specification, but just logically, the part about having the springs in the plug, not the port, makes sense to me.

I've seen many broken USB-A ports in airplanes and other public charging ports with the spring connectors bent beyond recognition.
Yes it's TiVo for Youtube. And this...THIS...is the real use case for desktop AI: Detecting ads and automatically skipping them.

Funny how the AI barons never mention how AI can empower normies against them.
Completely agree. I'd really enjoy it if the web went back to its roots. Driving their advertising ROI to zero will fix the web.
Everything's obvious once you know all the answers.

Google is publishing a lot of research and I guess many of them will be used by other companies.

Do you know now which research will be the basis of tomorrow's most spoken tech? No.
They don't either.
You can usually ask the utility to add a light shield. Just about every model can take one to reduce glaring sideways light.
Okay, so then tell me how does it decide whether it is true or false that Biden is the POTUS?

It's response is not based on facts about the world as it exists, but on the text data it has been trained on. As such, it is not able to determine true or false even if the response in the above example would be correct.
So hear me out, I have this crazy idea.

For all the people who can't afford OTT services like hbo and Netflix and prime and apple tv, how about we remove all the excess IP overhead and send the mp4 over broadcast RF using a band like 700mhz from local hills or if need be make towers. We can pay by watching ads or something.

I mean sure, call me crazy, imagine everyone having to watch the news and movie at the same time, neat right? Wouldn't that be cool. Hell we could probably even send about 5 or so different signals out.
Saying the chips haven't enabled any sort of innovative products it's like driving down the interstate wearing goggles, err, blinders. Let's check back in four months.
If you think developers at Google are bad and weren't taught fundamentals then we live in different universes.

Pike's point is that peak PLT is too lofty to be productive or even useful for folks who are actually technically competent and literate relative to the rest of the industry. No one will get anything done if they're spending all their time teasing an advanced type system into inferring the required program.
Seems like it must not be that easy to implement, or it would already by in all the chips the way CANBus seems to be integrated in tons of stuff.

One-wire stuff is so cheap, and and they have EEPROMS meant for exactly this kind of electronic marking(I believe it's what power adapters did before USB), and it can be done with pure software on an MCU costing pennies.
The true boss is who pays your salaries.

Microsoft in this case.
There's a distinction between what's technically allowed and what's politically allowed. The board has every right to vote Sam and Greg off the island with 4/6 voting in favor. That doesn't mean they won't see resistance to their decision on other fronts, and especially those where Sam and Greg have enough soft power that the rest of the board would be obviously inadvised to contradict them. If the entire media apparatus is on their side, for example (soft power), then the rest of the board needs to consider that before making a decision that they're technically empowered to make (hard power).

IMO, there are basically two justifiably rational moves here: (1) ignore the noise; accept that Sam and Greg have the soft power, but they don't have the votes so they can fuck off; (2) lean into the noise; accept that you made a mistake in firing Sam and Greg and bring them back in a show of magnanimity.

Anything in between these two options is hedging their bets and will lead to them getting eaten alive.
I’m okay with this. They mostly complained about nonsense or nonexistent problems. Maybe they can stop “aligning” their models now
So, and I guess I will belabor the point, not all disabilities work the way you think.

I am freely mobile. But ... I have an extreme photosensitivity disorder. (At this point someone is going to make sunscreen noises and I sigh) There's a lot of us out there and we basically need to be under something to get around without accumulating more damage. During the night, I am completely free. During the day, I am wrapped up like the Invisible Man, scampering from one shadow to another, with layers and layers of protection. If I didn't have a car (with a special film covering the windshield, technically illegal), I don't know how I would get around.
Sorry for the belated reply - pvg is correct - that's still a paywalled submission, and users aren't supposed to submit links in text posts like that (this is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). I appreciate that you were trying to be helpful!

This is one of those unfortunate cases where HN's rules conflict (one, that we want original sources; the other, that we don't want hardwalled URLs). In such a case we have to compromise. The best compromise seems to be to find a readable article that contains the significant information from the original report.
Easier would be to pick a standard monochromatic or RGB sources (no broad spectrum phosphors), and have them filter for those frequencies.
> For a human, this is like if you went back in time to just before you asked the question, and asked them the same question again, in which case the person would give the same answer

Is it? Would they?

You seem to assert that there's no "temperature" in human behavior... which is a reasonable theory, but not one that's universally accepted nor likely to be provable.
You need a PCI card NIC anyway for when Realtek introduces another high throughput triggered bug in their driver and the motherboard NIC becomes useless.
As a language that’s focused on backward compatibility than features oriented this is the best and optimal way to reduce some of Go’s loopholes. The problem of using developer tooling to solve the innate problems is that they lack awareness

I do recommend the Go team to find a way to these tools to run before it complies, just doing go build while going through these tools first goes a long way than just using scripts
Also, the investors were not informed. It’s insane their largest investor and partner MSFT was blindsided by this. Anyone with just a little bit business sense knows this.
I didn't find any precise numbers, but the asteroid's orbit ranges from 2.5-4 AU out from the Sun. That puts it between 1.5-5 AU from Earth. Given that the event will be seen at night, it must be on the somewhat closer side currently. Even 5 AU is less than 42 lightminutes.
It's simple collective bargaining. I wonder how many of them oppose unions... until they have a need to work together.
I would say VR support is an exaggeration…no motion controls, no first person view, and in SMO you can’t even play the main game iirc
> Do you really think the board is so incompetent as to not have thought through Microsoft's likely reaction?

For Ilya Sutskever, he is a very smart guy but he maybe blinded by something here.

For the rest of that board, yes I really do think they are that incompetent.
What an excellent idea. Pay money to Google every month in order to segment yourself into the "has lots of disposable income" marketing category thereby increasing the value of your attention, for the privilege of not having your mind raped by ads you never wanted to see in the first place, all while they continue to track your every move online.
> What are you talking about? This is trivially shown to be incorrect.
I just asked ChatGPT the same thing three times in a row, and it gave me three different answers

Just to add color to this situation, ChatGPT has randomness built in so it generates varied answers. If you injected the same random seed each time (afaik you can’t with the gui) then you’d theoretically get the same outcome.
Right, but if they do that then people will complain that their USB-C port isn’t working, or about how USB-C is so confusing because you never know what a port does.

They’ve got a choice between doing nothing and having a few people complain, or doing a bunch of work and spending a bunch of money and still having people complain. One of those is a lot easier.
The license only matters if someone cares.

In this case, it is very unlikely no one cares and not wishes to see this in public.
YouTube split tests (“A/B tests”) their changes. If you haven’t seen the modal warning you to disable your AdBlocker on YouTube, then you will soon.
> If you're not happy with the way a company is doing business, your best action is to walk away.

This makes no sense at all!
Something I have realized with my struggles in learning how to program is that it's as much a philosophy of how we get a computer to solve a problem as it is an experience learning the structure and syntax of a new language. Coming at it from a complete newbie perspective I don't even know what I don't know, so therefore I can't begin to learn what I should. At best, I can memorize how to do basic things but I don't understand the fundamentals of how those things work, or why they were designed that way.

To be honest, I don't have an objective reason to learn much CS as that's not my layer, so I'm butting up against my own ignorance any time I try to advance in something easy. And then my ADHD determines memorizing that information is unnecessary so I struggle to get concepts to sink in.

Recently I discovered Roblox uses Lua so learning that to make silly experiences for my son sounds wonderful. It's goal oriented so I can convince myself it's worth pursuing, and I feel like Lua concepts will help expand my toolkit for the future. But I'm also not starting from a blank IDE page going "geez how do I even know what to start building first..."
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> There's no technical reasons for those to be USB A, and the USB C ones work great

Except that all of their plans already have USB A in them. They'd have to rework the plans. Then, rework the lines making them. Then they'd have 2 versions for a period of time. Someone in accounting and logistics would have to do more work.

Seems like a perfect time to bring that conversation to a halt with the "if it's not broke, don't fix it" line.
Hence why they have so few
That sounds like it's either broken or there's some dust or lint in the plug/cable.

Google is usually pretty good about their USB-C implementations.
I thought that was pioneered in the paper that came out of Google?
Seems like something that should exist as a specialist knowledge team within an existing compliance team i.e. guided by legal concerns primarily.
You know MS has a quarter of a million employees, right?
Big discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38325552
Because Meta is releasing their models to the public, I consider them the most ethical company doing AI at scale.

Keeping AI models closed under the guise of “ethics”, is I think the most unethical stance as it makes people more dependent on the arbitrary decisions, goals, and priorities of big companies, instead being allowed to define “alignment” for themselves.
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