skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nice work !

btw, personally I am not feeling that bad about some negative news. we need to know the whole picture, right? haha, my 2c
IMNSHO, asking AI to summarize a paper is a flavor of what Umberto Eco terms the "alibi of photocopies", where he says, "There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it." Today I would write "There are many things that I do not know because I asked an LLM to summarize a text and then relaxed as if I had read it."
What kind of hydroponic automation are you doing?

I've got an indoor living wall that I'm thinking of converting to hydro.
New Zealand has public healthcare. Around 5000 people die here per year as a result of smoking, which reduces any taxes those people would have paid had they not died, as well as costing tax payers for the time they spend in hospital.

The ban on cigarettes here wasn't to be an outright ban but one staggered over a number of years.

There's been a gradual decline of smokers in NZ over the years, so there is some evidence that such laws could be helpful rather than simply creating a black market.

https://www.health.govt.nz/your-health/healthy-living/addict....

https://www.smokefree.org.nz/smoking-its-effects/facts-figur...
Seems like a bad value proposition for OnlyFans.

If subscribers know on the platform the models can be officially faking their conversations, what’s the point of paying to access the models on the platform? Right now it’s just on the model for tricking users like this, and they use these services at their own risk.

OF shipping AI to fake chats would break the trust of paying subscribers and I expect they’d get a lot of backlash over it.
I think they meant how many years until break even vs conventional alternatives
> We lost our ability to apply any kind of moral judgement

Or maybe "we" did apply a judgement and that judgement was "it's OK because of personal/individual freedom and personal/individual responsibility," or "it's OK because humans shouldn't be bred like animals and should be able to enjoy sex simply for pleasure."

Also sexually graphic art is not the same as prostitution where an actual sex act between a buyer and seller is involved. Falsely equating these is a bad faith argument.
How does it compare to Mojo?
Most places can fit a drain pan of some sort (I use some sort of rubber mat with an edge under sinks inside cabinets for example, and of course water heaters should have one) but some places like behind toilets, next to the dishwasher, underneath the fridge, etc. don't have great options.
Is that needed? Can't you run the GUI (Wayland, or X11) with Nouveau and CUDA with the nVidia driver?
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You broke the site guidelines badly with this post, and started a huge offtopic flamewar by doing so. Please don't do that!

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. They include:

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

Off-topic posts are fine when they're whimsical, but it's definitely not fine to jump ship to a classic-flamewar-topic. That's like getting sucked into the gravitational field of the nearest hell.
>2- you're giving waaaaay too much credit to the University or Research Institute evaluators. This has always worked, somehow or other, there's a way around the rules for a determined researcher to get their toy. Plus, if $200K is awarded for instrumentation, then $200K is precisely what the widget will cost.

Not that there's no wiggle room, but the NIH and NSF had auditors, who then both send to field experts. They ask for photographs of the instrumentation, serial numbers, etc. Then my university has their own auditors, which do the same thing, including in-person visits and brief demonstrations, asset tags, and various other pieces of paperwork. Finally, the state itself has auditors which do also the same thing, although the state auditors would probably be pretty easy to pull the wool over their eyes.

Under $5000? Yeah it'd be trivial. But over $5000 is under quite a bit of scrutiny.
He doesn’t know that some of Intel’s most valuable intellectual property came out of acquired Israeli companies and their Israeli development centre was established in 1974.
That's interesting, I didn't like 95 much, and 98 didn't particularly impress me either. Both would blue screen a lot.

Back then I was more impressed by NT and OS/2. Windows 2000 is the one I remember most fondly.
> Additionally rust has no interest in ABI stability, which is actually important (the rust ABI stability story is to my knowledge “expose a C FFI layer”)

There certainly are problems for which ABI stability might be important. It would probably be desirable to do better than "Expose a C FFI layer" and deliver such stability. It's not at all clear that you can actually do that today without a terrible cost.

In C++ the situation is that de facto lots of things are frozen in order to deliver ABI stability. Having no actual ABI layer to stabilize, in practice major C++ implementations just... froze everything that seemed like somebody might ever possibly expose it, and any time they weren't conservative enough they got shouted at by developers who had, inevitably, depended upon a stability nobody even realised could be cared about.

The cost of that freezing is that everything affected is worse than it should be, for everybody, not just those who needed all, or even some, of the ABI stability. Where Rust is entitled to re-arrange a data structure (A,B,C,D) as (D,A,C,B) because that's 5% faster and has 8 byte smaller aligned size, in C++ they daren't do any such thing, even if they never specified this structure because you can just expose it anyway and then rely upon that never changing thanks to ABI stability...

Maybe, Rust will adopt an actual ABI mechanism which lets you deliberately expose some non-C flavour data structures or functions in a stable way, thereby promising they will keep some particular shape forever. It's certainly possible for Rust to adopt such things without having the inadvertent problem C++ got because it has things in place which let it write that down cleanly which C++ didn't really do.

Rust's repr attribute controls how a type is represented in memory, so today you'd use the attribute [repr(C)] to indicate that you want the structure laid out the way C would for ABI compatibility reasons, but you could imagine a repr(Awesome) for some hypothetical Awesome agreed ABI with shinier features or a repr(Swift) or whatever.
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Musk/Tesla also promised 6'5" bed, but from recent pictures it seems that it is much shorter, judging by proportions.
Thanks for pointing that out - definitely a better choice for C++.
>AFAICT the caste system is just a subcategory of racism.

It is all subcategories of tribalism, except the boundaries are blurred between skin tone, ancestry, traditions, diet, occupation, wealth, etc.
But the shredding and reprinting machine is a human body, biological in nature. That isn’t equivalent to a digital “body” made of software. There is a difference between the body-self of yesterday’s cells and a self made of software.

Again I’m not denying that elaborate imitations of the human brain won’t be possible. But that these won’t be copies, they’ll be a new thing. Hence “uploading” is an incorrect model.
So this doesn't actually help. In fact, it creates a major problem from the outset: what is your energy source? The candidates are nuclear fusion, antimatter or black holes. The last two are extremely theoretical and it's not yet certain if nuclear fusion will ever be commercially viable.

But let's say you solve the energy problem. Well, you still have to radiate heat away into space so you're creating the same IR signature. In some ways it's more obvious because it's a huge IR signature with no apparent source or star overshadowing it.

Now you can argue that a given civilization will remain small (and thus quiet). The reasoning with the Fermi Paradox doesn't really care about that though. If there are 3 civilizations in a galaxy then being quiet may be a factor. If there are 10,000 then what are the odds that all of them will be small and quiet? Not great, logically, given the abundance of energy that is sitting there waiting to be used with tech we already have (ie solar).

Also, where is your matter coming from out in the void?

As for the idea of relatively sparse orbitals (orbiting the galactic center in your example), this doesn't seem that likely for a number of reasons, primarily that solar energy is so abundant and easy to get and also the time lag in communications. Civilizations over light years may as well be different species. And again, will everyone do that?
Pretty sure it’s not matter.

Source: own it and the website doesn’t say matter. Also an engineer working on matter products.
What's the underlying model? Do they have their own? Or are they using stable diffusion/video diffusion?
IIRC there have been some experiments with using geothermal plants as peaker plants since you can pump more water down and cap the output so you can ramp output up quickly later. This could work well with the variability of renewables to help balance out the grid, a role traditionally held by coal / gas.

https://www.volts.wtf/p/enhanced-geothermal-power-is-finally
I Hacked My Coffee Machine to Be Smart
I'm not calling for outlawing anything. I'm just noticing that it's sad. If you see an inebriated person sleeping on the sidewalk you can think it's sad and not be in favor for his incarceration.

This is exactly what I'm talking about. Everything is either allowed or disallowed. You can allow something but think it's unfortunate people choose to do those things.
Isn’t it the other way around?
What do I have to get off the waitlist! Dying to check this out.
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1. And if I win the lottery my financial needs are taken care of but I'm not planning on that
2. You are overestimating solar, wind, and energy storage and underestimating our energy needs, doubly so with transportation moving to electricity. Renewables still arent replacing fossil fuels despite all the hype. [1]. Moving off fossil fuels is going to require getting energy from whatever we can and having a constant consistent energy source is really important. People keep mentioning how cheap wind and solar is now but the true cost wont be realized until governments quit subsidizing them and start taxing [2].

[1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-doubles-renewable...
yeah, I just think it's a question of picking the right set of things to abstract away (and we're all figuring out what set that should be). I chose to not add much abstraction over the go-openai library to support maximum customizability, and better support as openai adds functionality. I think the custom abstractions (eg Message, Operation, etc) are helpful iff you add additional non-openai providers.

fwiw I really like agency's interceptor funcs, good place to add tracing, metrics, logging, etc.
Yeah, think it would be pretty bad. Adobe is already the dominant force in the design tool market. So far EU and UK aren't happy. Wonder they would pick Illustrator over Figma if they have to sell one of them.
There's no alternative to that. If you want to build nuclear, that also needs building. Maintaining existing stuff isn't free either.
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I'm not sure if there is much more innovation left in printers. Innovation in printers usually means in favour of the manufacturer's profits for too many vendors.

Maybe Brother has gotten where they are by being dependable and reliable for what their brand offers and delivers to those who care about it.

Their devices often do a lot more out of the box than advertised too.

They don't seem to cripple their devices either, you typically get the full suite of software to go with the functionality at any price point.

Even their higher end label printers have features to print to them programatically that is often only in higher end printers.

Brother has swung above it's weight. Generally third party inks work with them well enough.

My most recent printer is an Epson, but otherwise, there's a fair bit of Brother in my life to set, and forget.
The other answers to your question are quite on point. Of course there are many people interested in this. We aren't there yet, and probably won't ever be (using this technique), but we could begin to paint a picture with lots of correlative methods. Whole cell tomography exists, plus correlated light microscopy, fluorescent tagging of specific molecules, BONCAT, FISH, etc are all techniques that can be combined to give, at least enough of an answer to specific questions that over time we can really build a good picture.

Whole viruses, obviously, have been done and are quite interesting.
There's a pretty firm "NO" in the first two paragraphs:

> There has been no single cause or pathophysiology found to be unique to all those with autism, but current diagnostic criteria are linked to nearly two hundred genetic and environmental reported causes. The current DSM-5 criteria for an autism spectrum diagnosis (ASD) allow hundreds of varied patterns of persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction, and myriad patterns of restricted and repetitive activities and interests. This wide phenotypical heterogeneity –which appears to have markedly increased in the two last decades–has led many researchers to question the validity of the ASD diagnosis.

> The papers in this special section explore varied aspects of the relationship between the many biological causes of autism and the heterogeneity of diagnostic symptoms and comorbidities. None of the twelve papers support the DSM-5 ASD criteria as defining a unitary biological entity or natural kind. Instead, the twelve papers include proposals to disentangle autism from ASD by adopting a new autism diagnosis, or by reducing the heterogeneity of causes and symptoms linked to autism, or by establishing a new causal model of autism. Taken together, all these papers assert that the heterogeneity of symptoms and causes is a core problem for autism research, and each paper views the current ASD criteria as an impediment to the discovery of meaningful categories of neurodevelopmental disorders.
How did we get here? We're humans. Have you not be following along through out history?

You say you're not commenting whether it's good or bad but your whole comment reads as you applying moral judgement.
Not at these GPU prices. Over time, that might force people away from PC gaming, and Nvidia is not powering high-end consoles.
I have a strong impression this is a case also on Tinder, Bumble, and Badoo.
Each zigbee device _that is mains powered_ extends your reach. In theory you could make a battery powered repeater, but there aren't any on the market AFAIK.
ummm, seems you have that backwards?

We could, in theory and with massive disruption, end emissions tomorrow. But even if we did, warming would continue for some time as the baked-in increases from the already high-levels of greenhouse gasses continued heating the planet (and this assumes that we haven't already triggered a tipping point such as melting permafrost releasing more gigatons of methane, further exacerbating warming).

Or, do you have some plan to eliminate warming instantly?
> all the switches in my house still work, and won't actually cut power to the bulbs

It sounds like you really mean the switches don't work? Shouldn't they cut power to the bulbs?

A core part of my home automation is that it fails gracefully. All my switches work with or without any Internet or home assistant server. My electronic locks still have a keypad and physical key, etc. If all the brains went away today, the only impact would be living life the old way. Under no circumstances do I want to find myself in the dark because my server crashed or the Internet connection failed.
I don't expect to consume AI-generated media.

I do worry that as generative AI becomes normalized, many people who could have brought a unique perspective to the world and expressed it in their own way will instead be lured down the path of being guided and influenced by those systems instead of doing the work themselves.

Something like the concerns John Taylor Gatto presents in The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher, but with seductive ease of creation as the primary mode of influence, rather than top-down authority.

If it takes them a few decades to work that out, they'll be past the point in life when mastering artistic and expressive skills is most-effectively learned.

It's not hopeless, but it's absolutely a direction I don't want our culture to go in.
There is an excellent podcast from David Roberts that dives into Fervo's approach https://www.volts.wtf/p/enhanced-geothermal-power-is-finally
VS Code is designed to work with these - https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers
Was that not because it was bundled into nearly every Xbox 360 sold at the time?
I’m curious, if you were going to learn a general purpose lower level language today what would you go with?
Your NXP HSM or SHE may not be as secure as you had hoped. Sigh.
Ask HN: Advice on changing jobs as an early-career engineer
Hi all -

I'm 28 yo male living at home, with a BSE/MSE in EECS/Robotics from a top University. I love tech, and like to think I'm ambitious but have gotten caught in a bit of a mental rut, and want advice on changing jobs.

I just hit 5 years working as an Research Engineer at a big company in the Midwest. I make $100k + $10k bonus which is pretty good for my area. I'm hybrid and only need to come in 2/3 times a week, though I seem to get more done in office nowadays. I enjoy my job even though there a lot of things I don't like about it. I get to be a jack of all trades in my role, working on different skill sets in Robotics, Embedded Hardware, CAD/3D Design, Simulation, Web/UI/UX, and my co-workers are all intelligent and nice people. In my first few years however, my role was not very well structured and I felt like I was not contributing much at all to the company; as well, many projects that we were working on or should have been working on were cut and there is a general lack of vision in certain areas that require it. In the last few months though, I have been put on a high-impact project and I've been feeling a lot better about my work.

Due to various circumstances, I would like to move to a different city (realistically between NYC, LA, SF, or international) and start a new job. My problem is that I have too many interests, and I'm afraid I don't know where I would like to apply to or how to market myself to multiple things at once. I feel I could be a good contributor in any role related to those above. I've worked in startups, mid-size, and big companies, and would like to start a company of my own one day, and so I'm pretty overwhelmed and pushing off even applying to jobs (which is crazy because LinkedIn makes it so easy).

I can generally be nervous around big life moves, but I'd rather not play so conservatively as I feel like it is negatively impacting my life. Coming out of college, I really wanted to work in Silicon Valley, but either didn't focus my job search well enough, or was too embarrassed by not getting to the second or third round interviews for some of the bigger name companies that I felt I might not have been good enough.

One of my friends / former coworkers left my company recently and got a job in SV making $250k total comp at an awesome company with high value, and, while I don't like to compare myself to others much (.. anymore at least), I feel that I should and could be doing similar things. Also many of my friends are making big life moves, changing careers, getting married, etc, and I simply need to be in a bigger city in order to do these things it seems.

I guess I'm just looking for advice and perhaps a change of mindset - thanks for reading.
I'm a fan of Vitalik and his blog. He's the kind of next-level thinker who will accidentally re-discover or invent some key finding in economics on the pages of his blog.[1] I got to meet him and run a site that hosted some of his blog posts with Glen Weyl a few years ago. I was a frontend amateur, and the SEO for the site was totally crap, making it impossible to Google for the posts, but he was kind and forgiving with his feedback in person.

My two cents on the post: First of all, in my mind, the Andreessen "Techno-Optimist Manifesto" is such self-serving half-baked neoreactionary junk, that the only appropriate response is just to ignore it altogether. It seems not even worth commenting on. Or at least, if you're going to comment on it, you should just summarily dismiss it, like "yeah, of course VCs are excited about accelerating techno-capitalism because it serves their material interests, and let's not take their philosophical self-justification seriously."

Regarding the substance of the post:

> If we want a future that is both superintelligent and "human", one where human beings are not just pets, but actually retain meaningful agency over the world, then it feels like something like this is the most natural option.

This is on the one hand, totally common sense, and on the other hand, something that (I'd argue) is directly in conflict with the material interests of companies that create and use generative AI. They absolutely want you to outsource your thinking to the machines, to give up your agency. What will the organized forces of resistance to this look like?

[1] https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/vitalik-buterin/
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My home automation is 100% Zigbee and 1/2 of it is IKEA stuff (switches, buttons, motion sensors, outlets, lightbulbs, LED drivers, air quality sensor, air purifier). No problems whatsoever. I believe I haven’t touched any of it for a year.
Thanks! Hope you'll find the new Keras useful!

So far the export story focuses on SavedModel and the services that consume that format, e.g. TFLite, TFjs and TFServing. You can just do `model.export(path)`, and you also have access to the `ExportArchive` class for fine-grained configuration.

We have not tried CoreML export yet.

PyTorch `.compile()` works with Keras models. It may not necessarily result in a speedup however.
What are the differences in the design principles of the AWS Rust SDK compared to AWS SDKs of other languages? In what ways is it special to work best with the Rust ecosystem?
Every city has replaced old housing with new over time. Should there still be straw huts on the Seine?

Texas values libertarianism, individualism, the right to bear arms, etc which might be fine but seems out of place here.
1/2 of the energy we consume ends up as heat. 1/2 of that is for industrial use.

In our glorious renewable energy future, heat from data centers will be harnessed to recharge thermal batteries, run district heat (homes, buildings, pools), supply industrial heat, etc.
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