skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You really have to look at production systems and ignore "demos" and pointless proofs of concept.

While I agree, I wouldn't call proofs or concepts and demos pointless. They often illustrate a goal or target functionality you're working towards. In some cases it's really just a matter of allotting some time and resources to go from a concept to a product, no real engineering is needed, it all exists, but there's capital needed to get there.

Meanwhile some proof of concepts skip steps and show higher level function that needs some serious breakthrough work to get to, maybe multiple steps of that. Even this is useful because it illustrates a vision that may be possible so people can understand and internalize things you're trying to do or the real potential impact of something. That wasn't done here, it was embedded in a side note. That information needs to be before the demo to some degree without throwing a wet blanket on everything and needs to be in the same medium as the demo itself so it's very clear what you're seeing.

I have no problem with any of that. I have a lot of problems when people don't make it explicitly clear beforehand that it's a demo and explain earnestly what's needed. Is it really something that exists today in working systems someone just needs to invest money and wire it up without new research needed? Or is it missing some breakthroughs, how many/what are they, how long have these things been pursued, how many people are working on them... what does recent progress look like and so on (in a nice summarized fashion).

Any demo/poc should come up front with an earnest general feasibility assessment. When a breakthrough or two are needed then that should skyrocket. If it's just a lot of expensive engineering then that's also a challenge but tractable.

I've given a lot of scientific tech demonstrations over the years and the businesses behind me obviously want me to be as vague as possible to pull money in. I of course have some of those same incentives (I need to eat and pay my mortgage like everyone else). None-the-less the draw of science to me has always been pulling the veil from deception and mystery and I'm a firm believer in being as upfront as possible. If you don't lead with disclaimers, imaginations run wild into what can be done today. Adding disclaimers helps imaginations run wild about what can be done tomorrow, which I think is great.
It's possible to do both, however, the crypto refresh recommends setting the preferences on the entire key, and anything else isn't widely supported, I believe. Theoretically, you could have two versions of the key with different preferences (and different subkeys), but at that point you're probably better off having two entirely separate keys.
Important note that plastic lining (bad in its own ways) effectively ended the main cause of botulism deaths.
I don't understand how my statement of firemen refusing to put out a fire because they didn't like the person is arbitrary. If they publicly stated they do not like the person because of their politics and will refuse to put out fires for anyone supporting that party does that make it okay to not put out a fire on their house?
I like the effect, but is there a way to make it independent of the zoom level?

On a related note, this probably adds randomness, is there a way to seed it? For example to be able to define a single correct render result at a given size.
I dunno, I think that's a bad choice, tbh. (dang if you're reading this.)
I'm surprised it was false. It was made to look realistic and I wouldn't expect Google to fake this kind of thing.

All they've done is completely destroy my trust in anything they present.
It depends on how isolated they are kept from each other's work. It's not as if we don't already have decent cancer therapeutic technologies in the pipeline.
I would imagine if we use a very strict interpretation of copyright, then things like satire or fan-fiction and fan-art would be in jeopardy.

As well as learning, as a whole.

Unless there is literally a substantial copy of some particular piece of copyrighted material, it seems to be a massive hurdle to prove that analyzing something is copyright infringement.
What I found impressive about it was the voice, the fast real-time response to video, and the succinct responses. So apparently all of that was fake. You got me, Google.
Let me know if you want to get rid of them ;)

(I think the Sidstation is the only synth I regret selling, well maybe together with the Jupiter-6)
I like Apple's name better. Why is it artificial if it's intelligent?
I never had a problem returning apps or games. But that's with Germany's "Widerrufsrecht" (right to revocation), admittedly.
Incidentally, I was in the top 10% in my last half-marathon. My next goal is to be in the top 5% (~1h30m). I expect this to take decent amount of effort and more structured training.
Does swype make editing easier somehow? iOS spellcheck has negative value. I turned it off years ago and it reduced errors but there are still typos to fix.

Unfortunately iOS text editing is also completely worthless. It forces strange selections and inserts edited text in awkward ways.

I’m a QWERTY texter but text entry on iOS is a complete disaster that has only gotten worse over time.
@dang — pretty annoying that this user is engagement farming by reposting classics. Not great behavior.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31199361
I personally can only manage about 1 1/2 plates of food. Not stacked either. But I do enjoy going to them as like you point out the fun is having all these different things you can try with low risk.
It's worth reading through the criminal complaints against various Silk Road people[1]. You'll notice two things: (1) the government nails these people despite encrypted messages, because their email metadata is more than sufficient, and (2) people whose literal lives depend on using PGP correctly fail to do so (e.g. by sending some messages without encryption, or forwarding previously encrypted messages as unencrypted).

PGP is not a serious answer here.

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releas...
Display PostScript makes sense to me, as well. It's almost as if it designed for this exact problem.

Very different from VT100-compatible communication, though, but maybe it can be encoded to fit that mold.
I watched this video, impressed, and thought: what if it’s fake. But then dismissed the thought because it would come out and the damage wouldn’t be worth it. I was wrong.
> Electric hub motors produce a wine from the EMF

the sound is not coming from EMF, but rather from speakers due to safety regulations for pedestrians
How symbols work and why we need them – Anders Schau Knatten – NDC TechTown 2023 [video]
What's wrong with a doctor refusing to treat a patient they don't like?
Pimento turns creative briefs into visual mood boards using generative AI
Anyone can strike. Being part of the union and contributing to it guarantee you are being paid (by the union) while on strike.
> I’d happily read a book with each chapter breaking down the unit economics of a given type of business.

Not 100% on-point, but check out Roadside MBA, [1] which was written by a trio of MBA professors. Instead of using the case study method with examples from huge companies, they do a deep dive on small businesses that they visited on cross-country roadtrips. Very entertaining and accessible.

1: https://www.amazon.com/Roadside-MBA-Entrepreneurs-Executives...
You can find batteries online for under $20. They aren't too difficult to replace if you are patient and take your time. (Easier on 5th gen and earlier iPods). You can even order larger sized batteries if you free up some space with a flash upgrade.

Only big issue with replacement batteries is their quality. None of them will be as high quality as original Apple batteries.
My guess is that there are a lot more "signature verification events" on Linux that pull from a deb or yum repository than there are on Windows servers, both because the mean server in terms of global usage seems to be Linux (though not the median, I'd think?) as well as because it seems like Linux folk rely an awful lot more on distribution repositories than Windows server users download things. Happy to be corrected if anyone has real numbers, though. My feelings are informed by my company's download statistics which may not be representative.
No one knows what’s causing these problems. There’s lots of hypotheses.

My main point is that the fact that they’ve been in our life’s for a long period does not imply they’re safe
GPT4 search is a very good experience.

Though because you don’t see the answers it doesn’t show you, it’s hard to really validate the quality, so I’m still wary, but when I look for specific stuff it tends to find it.
This fits pretty perfectly with the idea that the 90th percentile is crap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law.
Car & Trucker Union in Finland joins Tesla strike
That's a good question almost every major international business struggles with. As far as I know, the usual answers are paying the required bribes quietly and refusing to do business in that culture. The third option, trying to do business without paying bribes, rarely works.
What is the latency is Swype? < 10ms? Not at all comparable to the video.
I like it less than I wanted to. The overwhelming majority of posts get 0 votes and 0 comments, even if it is not a site with that much traffic. It feels quite desolated, tbh.
That's completely fine. I think many do. But it is not as black and white as some state it
That solution relies on a lot of things having a greater effect than they actually do. It fits the pie in the sky solutions libertarians seem to like so much. Such as high healthcare costs can be fixed by creating greater choice via lowering the barrier of entry to becoming a doctor. The free market, in fact, is not actually the solution of all of society’s ills. Unions raise wages. Anti union laws and or lack of unions results in lower wages. People also just don’t have the kind of job mobility libertarians assume.
> Note that when I say 95%-ile, I mean 95%-ile among people who participate, not all people (for many activities, just doing it at all makes you 99%-ile or above across all people). I'm also not referring to 95%-ile among people who practice regularly. The "one weird trick" is that, for a lot of activities, being something like 10%-ile among people who practice can make you something like 90%-ile or 99%-ile among people who participate.

My probably wrong opinion is that when people discuss “Dunning Kruger” the participants aren’t clearly considering what set of people they’re being measured against.

The original Dunnint Kruger study involved Ivy League students (Cornell). I would hope they have high confidence in their ability. They’re genuinely the cream of the crop!
Try asking for asymmetry. The more images of faces you average, the better they look.
While this sounds great in practice the reality will be far from ideal for the singular reason of security. The cyber issues are compounding at exponential rates as more and more devices that make things "easy" lack even the most basic security protocols and the production targets to generate revenue asap have zero to nil concern around protecting said devices from nefarious actors while in use. When the electrical and data transfer grid become one, as I believe it must for reasons of efficiency, we are certain to witness chaos and losses like never before. What you cannot see matters most! and in time many will pay the ultimate cost for someone else's 'easy'.
Ok, point taken. Not "stealing", but still not paying the price of access. Making a movie or tv show etc. isn't free of cost, and if you want to watch it then it has a value
The worst part is that it's not apparent _why_ the link sucks. If they would at least have a message "Log in to view the rest of the thread" it would be much better. But I have clicked around in futility several times before to try to find where the rest of it is.
Yep. I remember him being called a CSS guru at the time, which I'm sure is what allowed his reset to take off.
A bunch of different workstreams here.

The idea of trying to create a reference architecture that can then be used by providers is pretty compelling to me, especially if indeed based around open source & hopefully leveraging existing open source offerings.

It's a compelling vision. But it also is a bit of a risk. There's so many pieces that need to integrate well with each other, and any weak link or anything that's not well maintained/updated over time can become a problem. Still, I think the effort is worth embarking upon.
Looks great! I vaguely recall checking it out at some point but must have forgotten to bookmark.

It seems like a fairly straightforward mapping of UI -> SVG features, which must have taken a ton of effort. I'll have to take a closer look at the animation tool, I've often wondered if web technologies would ever get close to Flash's capabilities.
I feel like Apple Watch + AirPods is the spiritual successor. That's my running and gym setup, anyway.
If you try to write down every case of being a jerk instead of just having a society-wide agreement "don't be an utter jerk", you wind up with lots of fine print, rich lawyers, and at least as many people still being jerks.

Consider the complexity of a vending machine vs. a can where people can leave their payments... Any society probably has places where you need the former, and places where you can get away with the latter, but I prefer those societies where most of the places in between are on the can end of the spectrum.
Pinecone is in a tough spot. A huge number of database vendors are implementing vector functionality into their products, which risks the niche that Pinecone is attempting to carve out for their business. They are probably trying to gain adoption of their database by developing an open source RAG framework that leverages their database and gives companies a solution to quickly implement RAG in their specific applications.

Regarding whether RAG will still be required in the future, this is a good question. Increasing context window sizes may render this moot or much less important. However, there are still cost and performance implications of a RAG architecture for many use cases.
The problem with the mobile market is that microtransaction laden dopamine traps dominate the stores. People who are looking for a game that isn't a glorified gambling-free real-money casino go elsewhere, so the people making these games just assume the only thing that will sell are games designed to extract money out of ADHD cases and children.

Apple seems to be trying to push against this, what with Resident Evil getting an iOS port and them shipping phone hardware with decent GPUs in them. Then again, we've seen this happen before. Every few years someone releases a mobile game that's really high quality, it gets ignored, and then it disappears off the App Store[0]. The mobile app stores are really hostile to anything that doesn't get frequent updates, which means the developer needs recurring revenue, and the only way to do that with a game is to shove your game full of microtransactions to spend on and release it as "free" to "play".

Steam has about the same amount of garbage that iOS and Android's app stores get, but people still sell older games there. I can drop $70 on a pay-once game and be somewhat[1] confident that it isn't going to disappear. Same thing with the console stores. Hell, on console you can still buy physical media and enjoy first-sale rights, which is the last bastion of consumer protection in this awful industry.

There's also the elephant in the room that mobile phones are just... not very good for certain genres. The Atari 2600 was the same way - it was designed to do Pong and not much else. Most of the games on the system were absolutely heroic efforts to bend H-Blank graphics to their absolute limit. In the case of phones, a lot of action games just need physical controls. Dropping the player into a 3D environment means they need at least two analog controls for camera and movement, which already means a good chunk of your screen is going to be covered in touch control overlays. Any finger-friendly alternate scheme you can think of (e.g. tap to walk, swipe to turn camera) is going to impose upon your game design because players now have their hands tied behind their back.

Meanwhile, the one thing mobile does do well? Menu driven games, where you pick from a list and tap things. That's basically RPGs and card games. Those all involve mechanics that measure "character skill" rather than "player skill", and character skill is something that the game retains complete control over. So you can sell power quite easily. The one thing that mobile does well is also the one thing that's absurdly easy to monetize. This post was brought to you by RAID: Shadow Legends.

[0] Or worse, Apple breaks iOS compatibility and even redownloading the app you bought no longer works. The most egregious example being them changing their signature algorithm in a point update and forgetting to resign delisted software.

[1] Yes, I know, you don't actually own anything unless you pirate it. And game developers can still horrifically disrespect their own work by tying it to an online server that they can just shut down to turn that $70 to $70/year ala Madden.
I have a plug in hybrid. It can drive about 25 miles on electric then switches over to gas. 8.8 kWh @ $0.30/kWh amounts to around $0.10 per mile. Gas here is around $0.09/mile @ 52 mpg.

So, if electricity > approximately $0.30/kWh, then driving on electricity is more expensive. But if less than that electricity is cheaper.

Also most gas cars don't get 50mpg, since mostly only a hybrid can really get that. So if you look at 25mpg, it ends up more like $0.60/kWh as the break even point.
A lot of the content posted there isn't owned by the people who post it, that's a big part of the problem.
They're being silly. A, D, and M are as recognizable as FAANG.
I am similarly enraged when TV show characters respond to text messages faster than humans can type. It destroys the realism of my favorite rom-coms.
What’s the best way to find all you can eat places? I don’t think there are any in my area so I want to make a road trip.
It depends. A 95%-ile salary in an average country will buy you a tiny flat in a good area. The equivalent salary in a very rich country will allow you to retire in your 40s.
> Going fwd, I wonder why they cannot convert the structure to a traditional c-corp. Supposedly: “tax issues”.

Because, IIRC, when a charity nonprofit like OpenAI, Inc.-- a 501(c)(3), other nonprofits are different -- converts to a for-profit (C-corp or otherwise doesn't matter), all the assets acquired while it was a charity must either remain dedicated to and used exclusively for the charitable purpose, be returned, or be donated to charity (or sold, and then the proceeds treated the same way.) For the charity OpenAI, Inc., this would include its interest in OpenAI, LLC (the wholly owned subsidiary through which it exercises control of OpenAI, LP and OpenAI Global, LLC -- the latter being the for profit entity that actually sells product, etc.), and OpenAI, LP (the holding company which in turn is majority owner of OpenAI Global, LLC).
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/parmy/status/1732811357068615969?f...
Wow, Rockbox is one of those things I nearly completely forgot about. What a great blast from the past!

I had a Toshiba Gigabeat [0] (even typing that out brings back memories...) that I ran Rockbox on, I probably still have it somewhere in the basement. The Gigabeat was sort of like a precursor to the Microsoft Zune, it used this software that I think got superseded by Zune and my model of Gigabeat didn't last long once the Zune came out. Fun times.

0: https://www.cnet.com/reviews/toshiba-gigabeat-s30-review/
You can violate copyright by intentionally drawing Mickey Mouse, the medium of drawing is not relevant (AI can be considered a medium, as much as a digital camera is a medium)
Don't you remember what the last days of the Major government felt like? It felt like this.
> I remember, and today is nothing close to what you are suggesting, the climate is incredibly different now.
Nobody aged under 60 is voting based on what happened in the 70s, and damn few people over 60.
> Sorry to tell you but they are voting based on Tony Blair & Gordon Browns tenure and that won't change for a generation.
Never Labour.
> Due to 1997-2010. 2005-2010 were the years that cut hardest. It's only 13 years ago and well within the feelings and memories of a very large amount of the population. Don't you recall the pound value crash 2008, poor benefits, forced unpaid labour, peak housing price inflation, mass unemployment.
Sorry but Nintendo is one of the only big names who still has release standards and doesn't try to nickel and dime me to death.

Their two big hits this year -- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Mario Bros. Wonder -- were both shipped with all of their features on day one and have only experienced bug patches since release.

The only other players left in the space that respect the player are indie studios, and they have the update treadmill and eventual delivery problems.

Nobody releases games like they used to be released. It used to mean something to buy a game, but today, I'm better off waiting literally years to buy a game, because for a lot of them that's how long it takes before they deliver, or are good enough to buy.

I'll totally get in line and criticize their business practices, but their release practices are still some of the best out there and we could all learn something from the attention to quality paid to games back when you only had one shot to impress people. Games get released way too early now, and players are expected to put up with churn.

People will not remember Minecraft and Terraria the way we remember Super Metroid.

EDIT: I was mid-edit to add more context but HN died momentarily and lost my text. I'm angry that in 2023, browsers still have not found ways to prevent this. I will start composing in Vim.
OpenAI Was Pretty Portable
Well we have no idea of the values for most variables in the Drake equation, so of course there will be some assumptions. Dark Forest is an answer to the Fermi Paradox in the case where intelligent life isn't rare.

If you read the books, you'll notice that they talk about "hiding gene" and "cleansing gene"; these are traits that civilizations acquire as they evolve.

I think that this has real-world implications in terms of how we conduct our SETI (search for extra-terrestrial intelligence); we should be careful of our radio emissions and things like sending a powerful signal / message to another star should probably be avoided.
Wow they submit like 20 posts a day but I've never noticed their name before
Can't wait for someone smarter than me to make this compatible with MLC on iPhone.
Until my Nespresso can do this, there's no point :)

However as a Nespresso owner I'm already taking a lot of waste for granted obviously.
It was trained on this book so again, this is not a good test

It will know the answer even without the book
dwimmer's animated text art elevates everything about Hanukkah of Data! I wrote about how it works, here: https://evalapply.org/posts/animate-text-art-javascript/
One guy I know got kicked because he showed up at noon and got kicked at 10PM when they wanted to close. He was mad that he could not stay and is mad 20 years later about it.
Are companies excluded from your idea of the public or just Tesla? I'm genuinely curious. I couldn't care less about Tesla in this case, I am just trying to understand how people are okay with civil servants picking and choosing who they render services to.