skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a mechanical engineer absolutely obsessed with Lego at a young age, I’ve recently (ie, when I could afford to start buying Lego again!) had to reconcile what I previously enjoyed about building with what I enjoy now.

As a child, the joy of building was in part the satisfaction of following granular directions to see something awesome emerging step by step, and in part the joy of playing with the sets. I was immersed!

Now, I think of them in part as essentially 3D puzzles and, in part, just curios… I like looking at them. Perhaps I’m subconsciously craving that unbound creativity I had as a child?

Thing is, in my work, I get to materialize physical, mechanical things with machining and 3D printing and welding etc. I thought I would, but haven’t found myself designing and building new creations with Lego. Perfectly content following the instructions and putting it up on the shelf to admire!
HN users would rather meme than read.
> It kind of is. They replaced the standard messaging app with a proprietary alternative, and then othered and ostracized users of non-Apple platforms who tried to use the standard.

Nope. SMS and MMS were still present, and as they were at the time iMessage was introduced, the only global messaging standard. Apple has also commited to bring another standard to the platform in RCS. The notion that iMessage is a standard is wrong. It's an unpublished/private API. To call it a protocol would also be wrong.
> New pathways are gonna require feeding data into these models in the first place. Your not getting ozempic out of ML without doing the ground work first

Sure, but a lot of the ground work has already been done, or is susceptible to simulation. They're getting a lot of results out of simulating protein folding and things like that.
It's called an Insta360. Lots of fun. Using it... you stop thinking of it as a directional camera, and start thinking of it as a point in space. While it's streaming to your phone, you stand there and hold your phone in front of you and whichever way you turn the phone's inertial direction tracking syncs your screen to that part of the panorama. If that makes sense. As if you were just taking a photo of what's around you, except you're looking at what's around the 360 camera. And then while it's live, or later when you play it back, you can use your phone's tracking and zooming to shoot "normal" flat 2D videos inside of whatever it captured, sort of like you're there and you can shoot the scene all over again. The editing capability to me was kind of the killer feature... you don't need to worry about framing subjects. Six of us put it in the middle of the table during dinner, and later on cut a video that pans or jumps to whoever was talking.

It's also really low-key, because people don't know what it is, and it doesn't look like you're pointing a camera at them. Even though it's capturing everything around it. We were able to go all over a casino with it and no one on staff noticed.
If you have a family, it’s terrible. If you’re single and your alternative is a SF “pod” special, I’d accept a company town tomorrow.
I am not sure what's going on with Jepsen any more.

https://jepsen.io/analyses

there were zero done in 2021, two in early 2022 and even the footer copyright say 2022.
I'd say that's a likely outcome, but not the goal.

Still, The Wealth of Nations is 1776 and The Communist Manifesto is 1848, and it shouldn't be a surprise that both look at bit naive with the benefit of hindsight.

Hopefully there's some equivalent work for the impact of AI. Might already exist, I've not actually read "Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto", merely some of The Culture novels from whence the title seems to have been borrowed.
I just heard of this Excel competition, but Modeloff world championship has been going for somewhat longer. It tests Excel skills plus financial modeling skills. They have all the old questions available for study:

https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/financial-mo...
fake market propped up by government subsidy. should crash 30-50%, much like the real estate prices these days in China.

A subsidy-fueled boom helped build China into an electric-car giant but left weed-infested lots across the nation brimming with unwanted battery-powered vehicles.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-china-ev-graveyards/
I don't think you can count "zero interest" as being a learning disability. I hated drawing and still do (and other things too), but I could probably still learn the basics of it if, say, my life depended on it.
There’s many jobs that could be replaced by some well placed script or Excel macros. And yet they haven’t. Why?
> That they haven't paid for a thorough follow-up analysis after their supposed fix is all one needs to know

As much fun as Jepsen is, I'd probably not follow up with a company that turned my product into a mockery. I enjoy the hell out of reading that report as an outsider, and I personally would be a repeat customer, but I can see how a company might not love the writeup.
Nothing will, we are just fine with PVC as long as the pollution happens elsewhere.
They state these things in their quarterly filings with the SEC, in which to my knowledge it is not legal to knowingly misrepresent facts. If you have actual proof that MongoDBs auditors are lying to the SEC, you can probably get a pretty good whistleblower reward or at the very least make a ton of money selling this money to hedge funds specializing in shorting failing companies.
We don't have to make sure we get to 0% all the time. We need to reduce putting CO2 in the air. If we burn some Gas in the winter it isn't the end of the world.

The focus must be on maximum climate impact per dollar.
Anyone here who knows what are the benefits of going from, say, 4 or 3nm to 2nm? ASML talks about energy cost per function mostly, but it’s not as clear cut as transitions in the 2000s were if I‘m not mistaken.
I think this fact points out the disparity between people using crypto for ideological reasons and them using it for investment reasons. Most people don't care about the whitepaper, just that "stonks only go up" and buy accordingly. So small, good projects aren't as reliable an investment vehicle as a larger, more established coin that is almost guaranteed to be sellable if needed.
Where did you get 10 billion years of random chemistry?

The articles I read assert that life began just 500 million to 1 billion years after formation of earth. 3.5-4.1 billion years ago with an earth age of 4.5 billion.
So, 64 symbols. That same amount of information could be conveyed with lowercase letters, uppercase letters, digits, and two additional symbols, just like Base64. That seems a lot more straightforward than trying to interpret what each emoji represents. To my old eyes, a lot of the chosen animal emojis look really similar. Or take symbol 34 for example, listed there as "spanner" (wrench). Unless I zoom in pretty far, that one looks like a diagonal line.
It is a name now, but originates from an adjectival form of the latin number eight "octo"
Some anecdata:

I recently installed an AI coding assistant in PyCharm to help myself learn Python better. It's great at completing things for me and once I get used to it, it'll probably speed things up. But ...

I feel like I'm not actually learning the language because I start a line, it finished the function and I look it over to ensure in makes sense, etc., but the actual act of typing out the code and thinking my way thru it as I type ... is gone. I've reduced myself to a QA checker for a computer in California or wherever.
Yes, Nick Lane has done a great job of popularizing the metabolism first hypothesis of origin of life. What his books and videos don't address is the biggest problem of metabolism first - once there's a proto cell (say inside a pore within a white smoker) with working metabolism that turns H2 and CO2 gases into sugars and other organic molecules - how are the proteins that make the metabolism work translated and encoded into an RNA code.
Uh huh, try GPT4 and report back. It’s a generational leap above copilot. I use copilot to auto complete one liners and GPT4 to generate whole methods.
They are growing revenue which can be possible without growing adoption
Why hasn't upper management been replaced by ChatGPT?
In practice people use the blockchain to move assets between accounts tied to some of the many competing centralized trading markets (of which Binance is only the biggest one).

They also use it for OTC transactions, which are typically also hedged on centralized markets due to their uncertainty.

The centralized markets also function as banks, where you can borrow or cross-margin your positions.

So it works, it's just that only using blockchain is not good enough to deal with speculation needs and market volatility.
People who can write and maintain those scripts and macros, and keep them useful and correct as part of a larger system, and who can keep all that running smoothly even through employee turnover, are relatively rare and mostly busy doing other stuff.
I typically keep $2 bills as the smallest denomination in my wallet, with a couple of half‐dollar and dollar coins.
Is it a candidate for creating anomalous iron rich stars in the early universe?
Even books follow this way.
In Chesterton's fable the people entrusted to road and fence maintenance couldn't find a reason for the fence while being in a world with the fence. Chesterton argues to try look at it from the world without the fence. If that has been done, fine, tear it down. If the total risk is miniscule, bulldoze it immediately. But, be aware that the risk for a vc funded startup might be tiny, compared to the risk of changing the rules of society.
> it is an application of Chesterton's fence

That's why I closed with:

> Maybe this is just a more complex way of removing the fence, but I think it’s more like moving away from the ground the fence is built on.

In other words, it's still learning from the cautionary tale of the fence, but the end result isn't a classic removal or non-removal of the fence itself. And it's not as if the idea has hard and fast rules :)

I agree regarding the value of documentation. None of us involved in the project were at the company when the code was written, and so we were left with a dangerous task.
The why doesn’t really matter, we don’t have a hunger regulation mechanism that relates to micro nutrients.
Probably one of those PR firm-generated articles Paul Graham warned us about many years ago. Driving business to someone or other.
Fast rowing!

Harpoon!

Remembering the bad old days.
Federal agencies caught in environmental crossfire over Starship launches
>certain topics being taboo

Reminds me of this lecture by R. B. Laughlin, where he talks about topics for which laws can get classified:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qCSpWjsAiE&t=3895
Inspecting the universe can be a lot harder than building colliders. Observing some of the short-lived high-energy particles would require shipping detectors to a high-energy location like the sun, then pulling a signal from all that noise.
You can do lead free solder joints.
If this is true, it's a historic breakthrough.
DeepMind says its AI solved a math problem that humans were stumped by
I think the rule of thumb is that small animals tend to get larger when isolated, and larger animals tend to get smaller.
$8 RISC-V SBC on a Real-Time Operating System: Ox64 and NuttX
> Go ahead, try enforcing the GPL in China.

Naomi Wu has actually done that.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj04MKykmnQ
Concisely, but eliding: smaller transistors consume less power. Using smaller transistors, you can get the same performance at a lower power budget, or more performance at the same power budget.
So they're basically saying "our system will be better because more things will just work" but then they decided to use nonstandard libc and coreutils so actually getting existing Linux scripts and software to work in this distro will be harder.
Luckily already using https://devnull-as-a-service.com/
When thinking of dark matter, I've always wondered how we actually measure the density of black holes. My confusion lies in how we can derive the mass at the hyper-quantum state at the center of a black hole from the gravitational waves we observe as it loses energy.

I'm not a physicist so my question might be silly.
Doubt Investing.com are dedicating "their" stories to the public domain any time soon.
Viewing loops as a stronger GOTO is a really interesting perspective which makes sense to me, thanks for the insight.
The point is that you shouldn't try to get all the children of a single node, but rather all the children of all the nodes, which is still O(n) and not O(n^2).
Hi there!

We just added this in the latest release (v0.0.2). You can now create a document collection and upload as many PDFs into it as needed. The documents are processed in the background and once processing finishes, you can create as many chats with it as needed.

Quick demo: https://youtu.be/PwvfVx8VCoY
Installation Instructions: https://github.com/SecureAI-Tools/SecureAI-Tools?tab=readme-...

Please try it out, and let me know how it goes. We're always looking to improve the tool so let us know if you have any feedback for us :)
LLMs are like a 10% boost (optimistically, for workers who are good at using them) for some legitimate jobs.

They’re like a 1,000% boost if your job is spamming, advertising for scams, managing astroturf campaigns, or spreading misinformation. So. Hooray.

So for most jobs that aren’t net-negative for society, no, not really, if “there” is “useful enough to seriously shake things up”.
Ask HN: React Native Course/Book Recommendations
If anyone can recommend a youtube video, paid course or book to learn react native for someone who is low-intermediate level with using react + next.js that would be great!
The probability is based on the fact that everywhere we look, we find building blocks of life, life started on earth basically as soon as it could have, life exists at all and is capable of asking said question, life is remarkably adaptable, we estimate billions of earth like planets just in our galaxy.

I know that there is a burning desire to think we’re special, but the truth of the matter is that we’re almost definitely not.
i really like a lot of design choices in chimera linux (particularly around its packaging/build system), but as a current alpine linux (main pc, not docker) user, i find i still can't justify musl. i like small simple correct software, but musl, despite being all of those things, is, in my experience

- slower than glibc, and in occasionally difficult to predict spots;

- causes just a bit too much trouble porting software to it -- most upstreams are reluctant to accept patches, resulting in maintenance overhead for the distribution;

- occasionally subtly breaks things at runtime -- e.g. both alpine and chimera builds of firefox have the same two crashes which neither the official mozilla nor archlinux builds exhibit.

in the end i find i have to rely on my glibc chroot (e.g. for mozilla firefox build) too much for my liking.
Everything over the last years tells me we are very close to the end game in chip production.

1. power stopped scaling

2. clocks stopped - 4x over 20 years?

3. node names became fiction.

4. EUV now differentiates the top from everyone else.

5. IPC improvements are a trickle.

6. Tons of non-moores law ideas are here:

A) GPUs

B) chiplets

C) stacked die

D) specialized accelerators

7. Governments are now involved in dividing up the tech. Since its finally mature / done.

It has been incredible to watch the progression over the last 50 years.
> the de-anonymization that’s hard

In the few cases I’ve seen someone expend effort on it, it was trivial. Most people have terrible opsec. Even if you do, if you transact with someone who doesn’t (or who will deanonymise you for shockingly-trivial compensation), you’re partly compromised.
Enterprise support, lots of documentation, does what it says it does.
Behind LA's Griffith Park: The Scandalous Crime of a Los Angeles Millionaire
I was not aware of event driven design until recently, but coincidentally concluded something like it, after considering the optimal data structure in an AI powered world.

While it's clear how event driven design might have been worth the trade off (assuming you were able manage the complexities and actually made use of the data) being able to query an AI with knowledge of every event that happened to your business, with will make it ubiquitous over the coming years.
Isn’t mongodb data losses commonly referred related to their use of fsync()? From what I vaguely remember they call fsync() every 100ms or so and just assume everything went fine, resulting in potential data loss.
The SEC listings don’t contain real numbers about who is using the software. They can claim a bsbillion people use it as long as they can launder investor money into fake usage (like substack does) These numbers support my claim. If they had REALLY been growing they’d be a huge company right now, not having to pay people to use there products
Feel free to contact the SEC.
$11,500 per human life extinguished for no reason. Tesla can easily cover that cost for the driver.
I wonder how many Ignobel prize winning papers lead to this?

I wonder how many funding sources that got lampooned and cancelled also had a role in this?
We've also tested it in the capitalist societies.

There is a reason why regulations exist and you could probably read up on history to find some of them
As always, "market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent". I wouldn't bet on Tether collapsing at any specific time period, but there are so many unanswered questions about how that business is run that a reckoning seems broadly inevitable. We'll see I guess.

Theranos seemed ultra sketchy for a long time before something actually happened.
> and also carve-away infra human costs into other departments

That's another great point; with the on-prem system where we run our own massive k8s/vm/data lake cloud, every team just throws things at it willy nilly and even though we know how to calculate total operating cost it's very difficult to set up backpressure to individual orgs and their budgets so there is quite a bit of waste I feel. With something like AWS the billing system is very detailed and is easy to attach to teams upfront. I'm not sure if it's good or bad that things are more efficient due to teams being incentivized to pay attention, but I kinda like it.
Excited to announce v(1.0) of Digi, the future of AI Romantic Companionship
As an American who's spent two years in Sydney and having met VC types here, it's like they toe the line of not wanting to boast but really speak down on a lot of people. There's some sort of hidden aristocracy here, and you can feel like they think they're way better than you.

You get some of that in the US too but there are also way more down-to-earth people there who actually want to help, and advice is actually helpful, rather than regurgitations of PG essays and Lean Startup.
I really do not understand this perspective. You are just as dead past a certain speed no matter what the vehicle size is and the difference in speed between a large vehicle’s ability to kill you and a smaller vehicle’s ability to kill you is not that great.
> On the Mac, it was non-updateable separately from the hardware for a while (large parts of the UI toolkit shipped in ROM) :-)

Apple had a mechanism (ROvr resources) to allow the system software on disk to override components from ROM.
I liked it on an application with a complex conversion flow that could be initiated from a few different starting points with a few required steps and a mix of optional steps that might be executed in different orders. Storing the user's profile data from each step as an event helped us model the whole process as a state machine, which made it easier to reason about this big complex thing, as well as to introspect the previous stages of a user's journey right in the application.

I've also thought it made sense on an application that regularly synced down data from 3rd party systems, where it wasn't uncommon to have some kind of weird data introduced and struggle to reconcile when/where it came from against changes made by application users on our end. Having everything as a series of events can be really awesome in that case.
The incentives in the United States strongly favor pedestrian fatalities and reckless driving. It is insane that killing two people in a car accident is treated with a fine instead of ANY jail time. There’s a reason why fatalities on roadways continue to increase in the US. This is one of them.
A primary reason given in the article was so that other tenants could report unsafe conditions. Seems like that should be possible whether or not there's a tenant in the apartment
Note: the criminal penalties are a conviction, fine and probation. The victims’ “families have separately filed civil lawsuits against Aziz Riad and Tesla that are ongoing.”
That already has a (brutal) solution now - sslh https://www.rutschle.net/tech/sslh/README.html - the current version is more sophisticated, but it was originally just a perl script that would send the connection to sshd or the https web server, based on regex matching on an initial string (and I probably timing out and going to sshd if it didn't see one? Something like that, I haven't dug out the old code to check.)
Since their assets > liabilities it will wind down rather than impload unless the entire economy imploads.
And Atlas has a free tier! It's been powering my site (https://bongo.to) for years for a total price of $0. Incredible!
Clonezilla had a server feature like 15+ years ago that would setup a dhcp/pxe boot environment to bootstrap, fetch an iso, and launch into whatever inventory of linux installers you had like this example. Clonezilla was/is pretty dope, but haven't tried it in, well like 15+ years to see what came of it or what's supported these days.

I was joking with my boss at the time after some windoze exploit of the week that I was going to boot that into vm on the network and start dropping workstations into pxe to load linux on everything finally. I'm sure after many acquisitions and security incidents later they still use windoze in all the wrong places.
Well, humans are pretty big already, and big animals on islands tend to get smaller [0], so the opposite may have happened. One theory of the origin of homo floresiensis [1] is that they were the result of insular dwarfism on homo erectus.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_dwarfism

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis
I'm guessing we're not done, we're just reaching the endgame with silicon dies. Next steps will be new tech sometimes with a long lead time until it has been developed to the extent that it's competitive with silicon. Things like integrated photonics (or a completely photonic CPU), quantum computers, or diamond instead of silicon (or other materials instead of silicon).

Are we not still getting exponential growth in capability vs time?
Don't mean to pick on words, but your statement that "the math of probability and the simple components to life" makes life elsewhere an "inevitable outcome" proves my point that the dialogue around this topic is currently distorted. The probability of life arising from simple components is totally unknown. Equally likely, sparking life requires a combinatoric threading of a needle to the tune of 10^-25 even when all ingredients are gathered in proximity.
Oh, please.

There are technically correct nitpicks with some merit and there are trivial remarks like yours. It is perfectly clear what "pointer-free" was referring to in the post title.
That's just the criminal penalty. There is still a civil case against both the driver and Tesla; that will likely be substantial.