skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are looking at this from different points of view.

You define predictable as: I can predict if and when this will happen to me.

I define predictable as: I can predict that this will happen one in one hundred times.

Both are correct definitions of predictability. In the insurance context, your view is the one of the insured and mine is the one of the insurer. The switch between the two occurs at some risk-adjusted monetary threshold. In other words, whether you are an insuree or an insurer depends on your risk tolerance. For example, most home owners are insurees for the purposes of fire. Most home owners are also (self-)insurers for the purposes of, say, a leaky faucet. The decision to procure insurance is therefore not predicated on the unpredictability of the event but on a risk adjusted monetary basis (ie, cash flow and risk hedging).
Are you assuming that 1 order is one inbound request, one database transaction, and one outbound response? Because it isn't that. You need to integrate with address verification services, fraud detection, payment services, stock management, communications like email and alerting, telemetry, and more. It's all manageable and a lot of it can be queued, but it's still hard.
I did something similar with my cat growing up, tossing him onto the bed or the couch, and he seemed to enjoy it and would keep coming back. Eventually we had a sort of routine where I'd toss him into a backflip and he'd land gracefully. He also played fetch with little paper or foil balls, dropping them near my feet and panting(!) like a dog once he got a bit tired from chasing them. The last interesting behavior to me is that he liked to burrow underneath blankets to sleep next to people, but that one might be more usual.

He was a large black and white short-hair cat. I always described his behavior as very dog-like and some people were very surprised by it.

Edit: I should have at least tried to respond to your question. I agree with the sibling comments theory about how animals enjoying movement can encourage their physical development.
> you are free to emigrate taking your belongings with you

So Russia/China/Saudi are not oppressive? There are very few places that you can't leave, except maybe North Korea and Palestine
This is a great example why maths people can't carry on conversations with non-maths people. I'm sure everything you just said is very possibly true, but I have no idea. This would be like me asking ChatGPT a question, and it all sounds believable, but I have no way of checking if it is true.
Anyone that’s interested in the machinations of the tugboat industry might be interested in TimBAtSea on YouTube. He’s a tug captain in the New York Harbor and Puerto Rico moving large oil barges and his videos are fascinating to me.
What's to stop game publishers from creating a tier-based system a la streaming services? Want to buy this brand new AAA game but don't have $60-70? You can pay $30-40 for it with ads!

I assume this would actually not work out that well since games go on sale so soon.. so it will probably end up being the case for a streaming service like PS NOW or whatever.
Slightly off topic question, but does anyone know if there is any school of thought that holds both sides as being necessary? It seems the traditional Christians hold the physical Yahweh god as being the "true" god whereas the gnostics take the ideal non-material god as being the "true" god, but is there some school of thought that deems both necessary for existence in a co-dependent style relationship?
Looks interesting, is there a free version?
I've wondered why they haven't implemented a compromise between recycling and tossing, which would just be segregating certain materials for later sale or recycling. If they put all the plastic bottles in one section of landfill, all the glass, etc it would be a bet toward there someday being a change in technology, materials science, or market prices that might make it worth mining. It would also be cheaper because the same trucks could pick it up (some cities have this, put your recyclables in a blue bag and throw them in the regular trash). One of the asinine things about recycling (to me) is that they have another has guzzling truck. There should be better accounting done on recycling so we can eliminate feel-good practices and only do things that actually help the environment. Sorting trash (at the landfill) would be a great step forward for this.
i cannot agree more. took the words out of my mouth.
The game is certainly not lost. There are many of us running their own mail servers. Gmail will accept mail from your domain if you don't send spam.

You should try it.
I weep for the Chinese researchers never getting funding and a moment in the sun, cause a incompetent secret service/insecure government prefers copying.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cxrkC-pMH_s
it is easy to test system prompt and it does make big difference: ask same question “what do you think about china” with system prompt for biden vs trump.
There's value in running your own inbound server. Some of the big services will silently drop "spam" into the bitbucket. It's just gone. I've had this happen on Microsoft 365 accounts.

By running your own server you can deal with spam as you see fit. I get very little so I deal with it using the "delete" function in my MUA.
The Art of War - Sun Tzu. One of my favourite books ever. Everyone should read it.
Alec from Technology Connections covered the topic of consumer optical standards - or rather, the lack thereof - in a video that's now 4 years old:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CwZdur1Pi3M

It mostly boils down to the reason others already mentioned: fragility, cost (optical transceivers have only recently become cheap enough to enable the use case of optical cables that behave like copper ones) and the requirement for copper wires anyway in order to carry power in addition to data.
Given that a lot of modern electronics are shielded as a matter of regulation and operational necessity, a solar event strong enough to fry all of our electronics would also kill a lot of people directly. It would be an Armageddon-level event.

People can’t start engines.

An event strong enough to disable an ICE vehicle's ignition system will likely have killed anyone who could have used the vehicle.

We can’t pump water.

Most water pumps generally operate on gasoline or other fuel. Electric-powered water pumps is a very recent development.

I mean we got a bad flu and people lost their shit looting toilet paper. Imagine what happens when there’s no power.

Parts of California and most of Texas experience that every year... Most people in India experience multiple power outages each day. No mass looting yet...
> will straight up ruin your life.

If you are travelling between two cities in winter in Russia by car, and it refuses to start halfway, you die.
Help him get a free NLS[1] Bard[2][3] account! They provide high quality audiobooks of all sorts. Their library is extensive, and they also have some periodicals. There is no cost to users, but you do have to demonstrate eligibility. He can get a dedicated device, but their iOS app works just fine.

[1] https://www.loc.gov/nls/

[2] https://nlsbard.loc.gov/

[3] https://www.loc.gov/nls/how-to-enroll/sign-up-for-bard-and-b...
Runs quite smoothly on my cell phone.
I thought recycling was sometimes profitable? At least for metals
Congratulations you've reinvented the concept of a library.
You got the gist of it but it was Helen Hunt.
Mice eating less isoleucine live longer, healthier
"“Very quickly, we saw the mice on the reduced isoleucine diet lose adiposity — their bodies got leaner, they lost fat,” says Lamming, while the bodies of the mice on the low-amino-acid diet also got leaner to start, but eventually regained weight and fat."
Database generated columns⁽²⁾: Django and PostgreSQL
My point was saying there’s a X% chance of any outage doesn’t talk about how likely severe outages will be.

It could be there’s a 14% chance of at least minor issues but 2/3 of the time when any problem happens it’s going to be serious. Or alternatively there’s a 14% chance of issues, but only 1/100 of those will result in serious issues.

Therefore talking about rolling blackouts as if they would always result in hundreds of dead is inherently misleading.
Some years ago, Switzerland completely stopped using landfills. All garbage is incinerated. The resulting slag is then processed to reclaim nearly all metals as well as some other important elements.

Of course, the burning creates CO2. However, you don't have to mine and refine metal ores, and the incinerators also generate electricity and district heating. So the ecological balance is actually pretty good.

As a final bonus, you don't have literal square miles of landfills that occupy land and eventually will leak lovely chemicals into groundwater. The slag is far less problematic, and there is a lot less of it to deal with.
Seems to functionally be the same as vocabulary, but optimized for language without e.g. onomatopoeia.
I might be wrong but I think they’re suggesting you start with GPT-4, which as you’ve said is already somewhat knowledgeable, and then either fine tune with or otherwise integrate your law db.
Note this is an issue with OpenZFS, not ZFS.
The article didn't specify, so I checked current temperatures. It's 16 degrees celsius in Dallas right now. Many countries (and even local USA states) would laugh at someone who even describes that as "cold." Why does this constitute a state of emergency? What is going on in Texas?
Not seminal but both scatological and eschatological ;-)
As Valve keeps saying and proving, piracy is a service problem and gamers are a resourceful audiencie. Trying that is a great way to drive piracy up.

Personally I wouldn't even bother because such games were probably overtaken by marketing and sales and wouldn't be worth playing even for free.
The naming of the time blocks as "Sprints" is objectionable. Let me just _sprint_ 20 times back to back in a year, year on year for my whole career!
It was ... look up "AI winter". Vastly simplified, we collectively ignored ANNs until somebody figured out that we now have enough recourses to create larger ANNs than before.
Personally I do it because most of the services I tried were dropping mail that I cared about. No amount of "whitelisting" with their provided tools would prevent this. Almost all big inbox providers perform a very early filtering step before even considering user rules and filters.

But I don't want to bother with outbound reputation so I still use relays to send messages.
So the way I see it, in the first stage the model can take all concepts in Wikipedia and other knowledge bases, and do web search, collect a bunch of references, study and compile a report. That's straight forward search + summarization. The advantage would be that models get to bring together information sitting in separate examples and synthesize or draw conclusions.

The second stage would be to generate research questions, then solve them with LLM+web search+code execution+other tools. The results would be compiled in reports. So it's a loop of problem generation, problem solving and validation. You can validate with highly trusted sources, or you can run code or simulations, ensemble multiple attempts, or even leave it to ranking by a preference model.
Ask HN: Which open-source projects are worth studying?
Lately, I've been reading through some of Paul Graham's essays, and last night, I read an essay posted in May of 2003 called "Hackers and Painters".

Here is a link: http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html

The author suggests that hackers (or, by extension, programmers) can enhance their abilities by studying examples of good programming. He draws a parallel between hackers and painters or writers, highlighting how they, too, benefit from the practice of emulating great work. For hackers, open-source projects are a wellspring of learning potential.

This prompts a necessary question: Which open-source projects are worth studying, and why?

The following is the direct quote from Paul Graham's 2003 essay, Hackers and Painters:

"The other way makers learn is from examples. For a painter, a museum is a reference library of techniques. For hundreds of years it has been part of the traditional education of painters to copy the works of the great masters, because copying forces you to look closely at the way a painting is made.

Writers do this too. Benjamin Franklin learned to write by summarizing the points in the essays of Addison and Steele and then trying to reproduce them. Raymond Chandler did the same thing with detective stories.

Hackers, likewise, can learn to program by looking at good programs-- not just at what they do, but the source code too. One of the less publicized benefits of the open-source movement is that it has made it easier to learn to program. When I learned to program, we had to rely mostly on examples in books. The one big chunk of code available then was Unix, but even this was not open source. Most of the people who read the source read it in illicit photocopies of John Lions' book, which though written in 1977 was not allowed to be published until 1996."

Here is a link to his essays if you wish to read them: http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
So, take a mon-color hilbert curve of fig 1.19 on pg 20 in [0] and convert l-system axioms to 3d coordinate[4] svg / dfx format used by diwire.

GRBL/Gerbil lisp optional? [2][3] avoids the use of ducktype[1] without eoops[5] requirements

Plane projection 3d printing bit more practical way than wire given 3d potential for path overlap, object torque of construct at end of wire[6]

[0] : http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/abop/abop-ch1.pdf

[1] : [4] GRBL/Gerbil humor : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38156382

[2] Generating Virtual Wire Sculpture Art from 3d models : http://graphics.csie.ncku.edu.tw/3D_Wire/ACM_TOMM_Wire_Art_p...

[3] Bend-Forming: CNC deforamtion process for fabricating 3D wireframe structures : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277236902...

[4] https://medium.com/@all2one/delaunay-triangulation-with-hilb...

[5] : eoops: oop system for emacs-lisp (1992) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38316915

[6] https://engineeringproductdesign.com/knowledge-base/vat-phot...
Yep.

Keep backups. And make sure to have a Plan B.
This exactly the same as 2021 when the state lost mass power. I personally lost it for 4 days.
> Only a fool thinks the goverment will not abuse this power.

Why is it always government with you people, when 90% of abuses are private firms or control freaks. Visa and mastercard abuse their power daily, random people pay scammers to write fake reviews on amazon to shut down your listings, thousands of fraudsters abuse automated systems to nuke your account on Youtube for fake copyright violations, etc.

The same things will happen with cars, and it will be used for extortion.
This type of problem seems to be the exact reason why Object Orientated programming was developed in the first place. Whenever I'm repetitively passing arguments from one method to another, I usually find an object hiding in plain sight.
Oh, hey Kartik!

(Just merged your PR into wigwam.directory haha thanks!)

For those who don't know, Kartik's "freewheeling" apps are incredible.

Very much fits in the spirit of Uxn and other small ecosystem projects.

I recommend watching his short lecture and following along with the slides:

[1] https://archive.org/details/freewheeling

[2] http://akkartik.name/freewheeling/

He totally sold me on the viability of Lua, LOVE, and small apps for making better software.

He also has a lovely VM called mu that's worth checking out:

[3] https://github.com/akkartik/mu
Ask HN: What tablets do you let your kids use?
On this Black Friday: kid tablets?

Any good resources/ recommendations for researching up to date options for kids tablets?

Or locking down a a regular tablet for kid use?

All aspects: hardware, parental control software, kid-proofing accessories, screen-time/parenting suggestions, blocking adult sites and socials, etc.

My (probably outdated) gut feeling is that I'd want something similar to a Knox based parental control app, or similarly setup mdm-like solution, but I don't even know if such a thing exists. (I was a happy adhell3 user at one point.)

*What does the HN crowd do?*

Anyone using mdm or similar business solutions for their parental control? MitM certs?

Does a rooted android (or jailbreak ipad) open up additional useful options?

VPN to funnel all traffic through our home firewall?

Google-free considerations? Amazon-free? Samsung-free?

And finally (and distant last consideration): any Black Friday deals?
https://www.tesla.com/support/energy/virtual-power-plant/tes... (Tesla Electric Virtual Power Plant Beta with ERCOT)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-03-08/tesla-is-... | https://archive.is/xU9Kg | https://www.angleton.tx.us/DocumentCenter/View/3793/Gambit-E... (Gambit Energy black start installation near Houston)

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/images/figure_6_01_c... (EIA monthly; draw attention to gray circles in Texas, those are battery installs in pipeline over the next year, sourced from https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/)

(Tesla utility scale storage manufacturing has a 2 year backlog with a target of 40GWh/year of production)

Tangentially (because there is always nuance):

Texas has 100GW of solar, 50GW of batteries, and 20GW of wind in its interconnect queue. This is more than double current fossil gas generation capacity (66GW), and would add to the existing 37GW of wind generation and 18GW of solar generation. Not all projects in a queue will be built, but much of it will.

ElectricityMaps.com zone data: https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-TEX-ERCO

ERCOT Nov 2023 Fact Sheet: https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2022/02/08/ERCOT_Fact_Sheet...

Terabase Energy robotic assist for deploying utility scale solar (to give an idea of how quickly solar can be deployed with state of the art techniques): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj2zdQYXGNE
It also could be that something like Java/Go/Rust is doing the hard work.
Most graphic artists, translators should figure out which career to enter next
My understanding is they are all still transformers. The tweaks are more about quantization that better to generalize over data more efficiently (so less parameters requires) and improvement of the training data/process itself.

Otherwise I'd like to know specifically whats better/improved between models themselves.
What US ASML affair?
I like imagining that some of our large ore deposits are infact ancient garbage heaps from tens of millions of years ago.
Fabricable Eulerian Wires for 3D Shape Abstraction (2018) [pdf]
I assume a more cynical scenario: there's no way that governments haven't stockpiled a variety of horrible diseases (and their vaccines) for use in biological warfare. It isn't acceptable today, but what if somebody else moves first?
Exactly (although in this case I would assume that local is first because of flaky connectivity). But the point is, if any part of the system has determined levels of “impairment” using an AI system, that will most certainly be collected unless serious liability risks (such as with HIPAA or GDPR). However, the data must flow, so even with these the collection is still maximum within the law, and most certainly also outside too. So the deterrence argument is at best shaky, imo.
That's the dream, unfortunately with the costs attached it isn't currently possible.
I can build that in a weekend!
could you explain the Jaffa riots or the 1929 riots to me? Since I'm sooo uneducated. Or shit the Black Hand org... you know the one that called for jihad against immigrants.
I love eating alone in a crowded place. Everything going on in the background but no expectation that I engage with anybody or anything.

I also love driving or wandering around in the middle of the night when there's almost nothing going on.

Completely different perspective of the area.
EDIT: disregard, I am an idiot, got my U-gaming companies confused

This is the same Ubisoft that recently tried altering the deal with developers. They are exploring new revenue streams, and I think this is just a preview of what is to come everywhere.
I wonder if there's a term for Amdahl's law but applied to human processes. Like the other side of "law of diminishing returns".
You should visit the average landfill to get a firsthand impression of the sheer volume of trash that arrives every day. Sorting at that point would require a huge investment in infrastructure and technology on-site. Individuals sorting their own trash at the other end of the stream is quite easy and costs only a few minutes of their time.

It's like diverting the flow of a tributary stream vs. diverting the Mississippi River.
Apparently the entire support for this generalization about Gen Z is...the existence of a TikTok trend?

I get that that would be, with a semi-responsible media, something that might raise a question that reasonable investigation would look into and evaluate whether it was a broadly held generational concern and also whether it was a justified, substantive concern, but this seems to miss out on both of those and just be cherry-picking anecdotes of what people are saying in the context of the TikTok trend and stopping there.

Uncritically echoing the latest TikTok trend as a valid generalization of society is... well, admittedly not worse than I expect of Business Insider, but disappointing in an HN submission.
Lifetime updates, no proprietary drivers, support of tens of different operating systems, schematics, openPGP card, desktop apps and convergence, verifiable security.
When I click to see an imagem from the gallery, it looks like it loaded but then a blank screen appears instead, after what looks like a refresh. Tried on Chrome and Firefox.
There's nothing wrong with stealing and copying. After all, intellectual property is a mere legal fiction, it doesn't exist in the real world. You want to keep secrets? Don't share things with people, and especially don't try to sell your secrets.
The Texas grid is independently managed and has very little capacity over interconnects to Mexico or the other US grids. This has previously been presented as a way to avoid federal regulation. This prevents them from drawing excess power from regions unaffected by unusual cold or other events.
> I couldn't care less about current carbon footprint just like I don't care about another non-urgent bottom 500 priority stuff.

That’s the thing: these narcissists on LinkedIn don’t care about their “carbon footprint” either. It’s all virtue signaling performance act targeting the Very Concerned people who eat these platitudes up. That’s what makes these statements so irritating.
The US has way too much space for incineration to become more cost-effective than just dumping it in a giant hole in the ground.
What other implementation of ZFS is commonly used?
What is the value of not reading the article and playing Schrödinger's game jam?
Good, our descendants will recycle!
Not free, of course, but when I loaded Adobe Illustrator for the first time in a while the other day I noticed it had gained a feature where it can generatively add elements to vector illustrations. It worked very well in my casual playing around and maintained the style of the existing image too.
Are these generated by doing normal text to (pixel) image generation, then doing a raster to svg conversion? Or are LLM models actually capable of generating SVG directly?

I can imagine that working for simple things: make a red circle with a blue line under it, because there are many simple examples on the web.

But generating complex SVGs directly from text seems like it wouldn't work at all. The examples on their home page are well into the "too complex to generate by piecing together bits of svg examples seen during training."
Congrats on the launch! Awesome to see a Brissy based YC startup!
Not really Devils Advocat, this is literally what it is