skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't use HN for nationalistic flamewar, regardless of which country you have a problem with. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, and we ban accounts that do it.

Of course I understand that many people have justifiably strong feelings about this sort of thing, but that's why HN's rules specifically say: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's nothing unsustainable about bandcamp, it was bought by a company that immediately sold it to another company that was a competitor. It being run into the ground after such a transaction is quite unsurprising.

> The following year, after massively bigging up the business, they sold it to Songtradr

Does 'bigging up the business' here mean loading it up with technical debt and real debt? Enquiring minds would like to know etc.
I have had that Logitech mouse for ages (and the predecessor) and love it.
Trail running shoes.
That sounds amazing. Did you read it in English? I can only find it in French and Korean.
It was proprietary when I made it, but no one seemed to care–there wasn't anything that wasn't painfully public in there. I'll probably edit and include it in a class I'm planning about teaching people about A/B testing.
John Cook: Factored random numbers
This would be discussed in an introduction to soil mechanics and foundation design (Braja Das's textbooks used to be the standard reference in the US when I was a student 15+ years ago) but I'm afraid they're too dry for anyone outside the profession. I'm not aware of an author who can animate civ eng subjects for the adult with the talent of David Macaulay. But I can point you to a few "engineering gems" that might pique your interest if you like this sort of stuff: prestressed and post-tensioned concrete (the work of Freyssinet, see Billington's books), readings from John Ochsendorf's class on historic structures in https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/4-448-analysis-of-historic-struc..., bicycle wheel as prestressed structure (the same principle used in some tension-compression stadium roof structures): http://www-civ.eng.cam.ac.uk/cjb/papers/p20.pdf
> Developers don’t care that they have a 3GB image. They don’t want to learn about any of it.

In a way it's not their fault. Management never allocates time for such things. It isn't in OKRs / KPIs. No 1 cares because they're not made to care. I've seen developers that tried and get "punished" for it so stop caring.

I've seen people spend their own time to make everyone's life happy e.g. CI/CD build times. End result is management complaining why they don't work on the "priority" i.e. requested features.

> No one wants to understand what is going on under the hood.

That's always been the case because "business" took over. This notion of "tech debt" is 1 of the worst offenders in that to non-technical people debt is something that can be left forever (as long as you pay interest) i.e. they'll never care.
Those AI lawyers play hardball
The Metamorphosis? Yeah, a pretty sad story to say the least
Some more Renogy solar panels, because I live off-grid in an RV.

And then some Lectric e-bikes, to use up all that extra electricity.
Same. 50% off on Altras.
But it's absolutely plummeting:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/15/paper-che...

Rates of check-writing have been falling relatively linearly since 1995, and at the current rate it will drop to zero by around 2030.
In a pit of despair, are we?

If you focus on the shit, life will be shit. Focus on what's in your control. Maybe not a lot is, but the little things are. What time you go to bed, what you eat, how you spend the little free time you may have. Take control of that first, then build off of it. Step by baby step, you'll crawl out of the abyss, and remember that you aren't resigned to eating shit the rest of your life.
Thank you so much! This is a fantastic resource that I somehow missed.
If the original reasoning of Sam's lack of honest communication with the board was an indication, it would make more sense if that comment tipped the board off to a breakthrough they weren't made aware of.

That's not to say it must be deeper than the usual power plays and politics, but breaking an NDA doesn't seem to fit well fromwhat I've seen.
Rice cooker.
Nice work! I'm working on a non svg based AI art generator.

https://Ebank.nz

Would be interested in some research to see if we can re use something I've done in the pixel domain
I respect your self-restraint
I fall for marketing tricks so easily...
I also notice German sites constantly nag you, Dutch seems to be a little less obnoxious. What's also interesting is that Germany, sticklers if I've ever seen any, is full of nonconsentual walls where you "of your free will with no negative consequences to deny" have to click "consent" or become a paid subscriber. If the data protection authority or the law is to be believed, that's not freely given consent

Quite hilarious are the sites that outright block European IP addresses, as if that way they don't have to bother with the basic human right to privacy (article 8 ECHR). More sites should do this if they have no wish to play by these morals instead of having (legal or illegal) walls!
Lenovo legion 5 gaming laptop https://www.microcenter.com/product/671267/lenovo-legion-5-1...
i had no idea how to use digikey until I watched Lady Ada do it on an Adafruit video tutorial.

compared to a lot of other web interfaces, its not exactly intuitive but once i got the hang of it its nice.
The skates and the side grip both fell off mine. A far cry from the old G5 I had that lasted 10 years. These new logitechs demand you install software and they barely last a year for me
Interesting. How would it feel to know you’re just a battery?
nice! Sounds like you'd buy them anyway, so might as well use the discount.
> It's all a balance, how much time and money you waste engineering the perfect `FROM scratch` container versus getting actual work done using a "fat" image that's good enough.

Except it never works this way. Most of the time you get told the image won't be used so to do it quickly and forget optimizing. Months later you find other teams "borrow" it and suddenly the whole company is using it.
Try Andrej Karpathy’s zero to hero course. It’s very good. It’s 8 video lectures where you follow along in your own Jupyter notebook. Each lecture is 1-2 hours.
That's not a consequence of being ahead, it's a consequence of enough time passing if you do it at all.

The more centralized a system is, the more it ossifies. The more people there are to get used to the status quo and incur large costs if anything changes, the more change gets fought. Third parties get their hooks into it, benefit from the status quo and put substantial resources behind preventing changes that are unambiguously improvements -- "institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."

The only way to avoid it is to never build it to begin with. Or tear it down as soon as possible if you're too late to stop it from existing but not too late to have everyone fighting to preserve their rents if you try to get rid of it.
I have been waiting for this thread! I am mostly after holiday gifts, including a Nintendo Switch controller for kids.

Most of the stuff, I'd like for myself never gets discounted to what I would consider affordable :/
Well, obviously the overarching concern here is a bottoming-out of nearly every market for labor related to cognitive or creative tasks.

And I think you're right: that's coming.

And with it, perhaps the most obvious impetus for rethinking the entire economic configuration of things.

The only way that AI is a doomsday is if, in your imagination, you drag along 20th-century monetary and economic paradigms with it.

People seem to like to be the presence of vibrating strings. I don't think that's subject to deprecation just because people can also have meaningful relationships with AI as a creator of art. In fact, the rapid growth of AI as a provider of passionate musical experiences seems to me likely to grow the palette and appetite for such things, not to shrink it.
Is anything known about what extent if any non-public domain books are used for LLM’s?

One example is the Google books project made digital quite a few texts, but I’ve never heard if Google considers these fair game to train on for Bard.

Most of the copyright discussions I’ve seen have been around images and code but not much about books.

Seems to become more relevant as things scale up as indicated by this article.
Do you roof mount them? How do things go this time of the year, assuming you're in a winter hemisphere, regarding portable-tier solar?

I did this maybe 12 years ago in a very small RV for 18 months. I found during winter I needed to be sure I drove around a bit more to charge up my batteries.
HP G9 600 mini to run proxmox in my pretend homelab. You can add non heterogenous memory and add in a second 10gbe nic. Then upgrade the nvmes.
They’re really discounted on the hp site right now. Tempting…

https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-elite-mini-600-g9-deskt...
You need to use the "Telegram API": https://core.telegram.org/api#telegram-api (not the "Bot API") to develop your client. It uses MTProto to communicate with the server, so I suggest you just use a library that supports it like Telethon if you want to program in Python.
Not GP, but nothing about ML engineer demands knowing nuances of audio file formats for future proofing.

I just downloaded from Bandcamp for the first time. I've heard FLAC is sort of the go-to format for good quality, but when presented with ALAC, WAV, and AIFF which all had larger filesizes, I paused and asked a friend.
Where I live (Australia) a music store is offering a decent discount on the Akai MPC Key 61. I'm trying to resist the urge though.
haha, I don't know what peristaltic is, but I'm happy for you!
Show HN: LSB Stego with Python and a Twist of XOR
This is a simple Python implementation of the paper, "An Image Steganography Algorithm using LSB Replacement through XOR Substitution" (DOI: 10.1109/ICOIACT46704.2019.8938486). I made this as a fun exploration of implementing algorithms outlined in scientific publications.
The cognitive dissonance here is wild. Someone who has been 'writing about weight loss for decades' is celebrating the end of 'diet charlatans' because weight-loss drugs exist, but the drugs simply on GLP-1 to reduce how hungry people e- which is the same as dietary fibre does after you eat it.

We could eat fibre, but instead we take $1300/month injection drugs... so we don't have to eat fibre.
Don't you need to have the plumbing in a loop? Not something you just buy. You have to put in a return line back to the water heater.
Nothing. Trying to go more and more minimal these days
IPA wipes and air duster to hopefully get my 2-month-old MacBook Pro’s enter key unstuck from an unfortunate drink…
I renewed my AlgoExperts, and photoshop subscriptions for a lot less.
Or maybe becayse cannabis gets you fuckin high? Duh.

Like this is just a totally asinine stateme to me. Would you rather chief blunts or take a lamectil.... rappers dont brag about prozac
Agree, often nobody really notices the underlying issues until something breaks in production. It's a tough balance to strike between moving fast and being thorough
Sled. Not on sale. Just happened to be near the store today.
That answer is still basically money, though. Did they consider selling it to an employee or group of employees? Did they consider giving it to an employee or group of employees?

And even if none of those happened, if the new owners ran it to shit. . . was that because those new owners were in it for the money? If so, that's still money. It's certainly possible to imagine a situation where everyone (old owners, employees, customers) thought that the new owners would carry the torch well but they didn't, and I agree that's an unfortunate and largely unavoidable possibility. But I feel like it's more likely the causal chain leads to someone trying to make more money instead of doing a better job at a better thing.
T2 much better than T1. Aliens better than Alien.

These are great sequels, but they are Hollywood action movies compared to their predecessors. I do prefer ESB, but Star Wars has better structure and a more satisfying ending, so it is close.

The best thing about ALien is that when it came out, you had no idea who the "hero" was in the crew. Tom Skerritt was the biggest star, had first billing, and was the white male captain. There was no expectation the someone else would be the hero and survivor.
The default position should be based on risks and unknowns, I don't think the GP was making any recommendation based on personal feelings.

The fact is we don't know how current ML actually does what it does, we don't know what we'll have next month, and we wouldn't know how to recognize an AI or AGI if we developed one. The risks and unknowns are high, the default position should be to not develop the technology unless and until someone proves without reasonable doubt why we can and should do it, and how we'll do it safely.
These are the droids you’re looking for, now at reduced prices!
I’m so happy that I’m not on any social media beside this and LinkedIn.

I feel bad for people who choose to waddle through ads.
This questions could not be answered by current science. Could only make guesses.

For first, most current answer, we just know, something exists in Universe, which we could not see directly, but have mass and so emit some gravitation, which influence moving of other objects, which we could see.

For second, even worse. We only know, we cannot SEE anything in void, but this just mean, something could be there, but we cannot detect it with our current technology, nothing more.

When we cannot se anything, and we have not before encountered such phenomenon, we could only speculate on fantastic theories.
Star Wars: I saw it the day after it was released. It was groundbreaking in every way. Nobody had seen anything like it before. It just blew everybody away. ESB just did not have the impact SW did.

T1 was very focused. Again, nobody had seen anything like it before. The terminator stayed true to form in its relentless purpose, summed up in Reese's little speech. T2 rehashed the same plot, adding an asperger sidekick robot for comic relief. (I thought Harlan Ellison was way off base claiming that T1 was stolen from him.)
Requiring kill switches in cars just for people who have been convicted of DWI is okay. Requiring kill switches in cars for the entire population is not.
Buy buying nothing, I bought slightly more runway to spend more time on my projects and with friends.
I'm building that functionality into https://giraf.app, and will set the fees as low as possible (aiming for a flat 4%, compared to Bandcamp's 15% on digital items and 10% on physical items). My goal is for Giraf to help artists by maximizing how much they take home, and by giving them a platform for building a unique kind of relationship with their fans, around their interests in music, film, books, visual art, and other forms of culture.
> Why does everything ultimately have to get sold to big greedy corps?

Because they're the ones that have ties to banks and therefore access to infinite capital, which they can fundamentally print out of thin air and you can't.
Firefox is (optionally) still distributed as a "distroless" thing called a tarball.

Ardour (my project) is (also) distributed in this way. You get a directory tree that contains the executable, all required dynamically-linked libraries and a bunch of non-code files. The actual program itself is a tiny shell-script that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point into the app directory tree. The result runs on any Linux distro that can provide libstdc++ and Xlib.

Except, ironically, Nixos (because they screw with LD_LIBRARY_PATH use).

Another way of doing this that has been around on Unix for decades is to use the linker's rpath argument, but on many Unix systems for a long time, the runtime linker could not handle relative rpaths, and so this mechanism fell into relative disuse.

And of course, macOS has been doing something very similar with its "app" packaging, which relies on launchd to set DYLIB_LIBRARY_PATH (their equivalent to LD_LIBRARY_PATH) to include the app tree itself. The result is largely independent of the version of macOS the install occurs on, although that is dependent on some additional behind the scenes magic with the macOS run time linker.
A new pair of tramping boots (hiking boots to Americans).
best life enhancing product i've gotten recently
It's basically a rubber hose, and rollers that squeeze the hose to push liquids through. The motor runs the rollers.

Also means that the liquids don't touch the motor.
Desktops been acting weird lately. Built it in 2017 so bought a new nvme drive with enclosure. Gonna clone and swap it out, hopefully the odd issues get sorted out
Learn how to do taxes for other people. VITA offers a free 5 day course every year. https://www.taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov/get-help/filing-returns...

You'll start out with simple returns at your skill level during tax season. After a few years you will be pretty good at individual income taxes.

Needless to say, this is a valuable skill that will help you for the rest of your life.
You've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines very badly lately, such as here and (even more) here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38396197

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38395956

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38395894

If you keep this up, we're going to have to ban you. We've already had to warn you about this more than once in the past.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. That means no more swipes or name-calling, and definitely no more personal attacks.
I don't see idealist as a pejorative, but I think a lot of people take a critical all or nothing approach to idealists.

If you're not staving, you're a sellout.
My friend has one, it looks great
Hahaha Amazing!
The dorm I was in saw it on the first day. We had no idea what was coming. It was a total shocker!
This was directly blown without making the project. At least a VC funded startup would try (hopefully).
Man tries to scare off birds, accidentally creates 'magpie god'
I feel bad for people who have to be on LinkedIn. Is this for a job?
That’s just what the AGI wants you to think.
I bought an Axe: Council Tool Wood Craft.
We've banned the other account, but you also broke the site guidelines badly in this thread.

We ban accounts that get involved in this kind of flamewar, and we've had to warn you before. If you keep doing it, we'll end up having to ban you too, so please stop.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it.
I don't know if you've convinced me to read them, but thanks for the telling me something I didn't know.
I went on slickdeals.net to see if there was anything worth picking up and I was interested to see that a lot of the “most popular deals” were actually various discounts for services or digital goods. The rest were deals for smallish electronics accessories (chargers and such). It’s possible that website has built a profile on me and was showing me what it thinks I’m already interested in, but nonetheless it struck me that people don’t really go after material goods the same way they used to. Perhaps “Black Friday” doesn’t really work when there isn’t the opportunity to upsell on other items after the person is already at the physical store.

I also went to Costco to pick up regular food type stuff and was surprised to see it relatively empty (I expected to have to do battle over my 2 dozen eggs and etc). Even employees seemed to be surprised at the low turnout. Free alpha on consumer sentiment I guess?
just to add on with a slant toward the types of things HN is interested in, the point of "what is it like to be a bat" is essentially, you can't know what it's like to be a bat unless you are a bat (and I don't mean the paper should be read for that conclusion, you develop far more insight thinking your way through it)

The old "how do I even know my red is your red" is a little piece of this puzzle. Perhaps someday the sci-fiction notion of loading a stimcard into the slot behind your ear will let you experience what it's like to be a bat... but the point of the paper is, will you know for certain, or can you know, if that's actually what it feels like?

Now, that was just a rehash, which you didn't need me for. What I want to add on is--everybody remain civil, this is a serious intellectual question--we know what transgender people feel like they aren't, but do they know what it feels like to be what they believe they are? Of course it feels like "you" (or "me", depending the voice I'm supposed to be writing) but comparatively, how would anybody know what else it feels like? Do men and women feel differently? We think they do, but perhaps they don't. Perhaps they just think about different things, with the same feelings. Of course, some would be offended by that suggestion, declaring that men and women don't think differently.

It's a separate series of questions, "I want to be treated as if I'm X" and to preserve the suspension of disbelief, "please don't indicate you doubt I am X because that won't feel like being X". This is the only way I can think of it. I don't understand why other people don't think of it this way.

But, I'm one of those people who doesn't mind talking in theaters, it doesn't ruin anything for me.
Thanks for your feedback about the octaves!

There is one question that I haven't entirely figured out how to ask but am curious about -- if we let you adjust the octaves, and if you select the correct note but the wrong octave, would you want the game to highlight the note as "green" (correct) when you submit the attempt? Or would you prefer to have to guess the right octave along with the right note before the answer is accepted?

(Unrelated side note: I am a desktop person, and thus surprised that so many people are playing it on their phones, haha. I'll have to check the google analytics for that.)
Very common in medical equipment that works with blood in fact
Rule by consensus is basically democracy by whoever is motivated enough to show up. It seems to have an extremely good track record, especially compared with rule by central bureaucracy.

The exception is if the consensus is only among a small handful of large corporations that lack competition and then become the unaccountable technocrats. But in that case what you want from governments is not to take over as the malevolent bureaucracy, it's antitrust enforcement.
I bought a new splitting axe, because my hatchet wasn't quite enough to keep up with the wood needs camping in the mountains during winter.
A really bright LED light (190W) to help with winter and spending so much time indoors working.
it's a nice TV, though I prefer the video quality of LG screens. Samsung's tv OS though is better than LG's in general, although it could be much better. Enjoy it :-)
A waffle maker! I like waffles but I can’t make them at home — an obvious shortcoming :(. Please share recommendations!
How would you define or recognize a level of intelligence or autonomy that is sufficient to raise concerns? Would you be able to recognize it before its too late?

An early GPT-4 test ended up with GPT successfully solving capchas by tricking a TaskRabbit worker into doing it for them [1]. When asked by the worker if it was a robot, GPT decided to lie to the worker and claim it had a visual impairment that made it difficult to solve the puzzle. That sounds like a level of autonomy and social engineering skills that could be concerning to a reasonable person.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/gpt4-openai-chatgpt-taskrabb...
New WiFi 6 router bc my previous one was about 6 years old and started crashing
Nah, I consulted a couple MDs. “Suffered from” and “had” were their preferred verbiage.