skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did throw in some red herrings, deliberately, I think, but the vibe overall was real enough. But honestly the show in general is pretty lackluster from a chemistry nerd standpoint (as is the synthesis of illicit substances in general, real snoozefest of gross white powders turning into gross illegal white powders), there are a bunch of youtube channels doing chemistry that is both more interesting AND won't cause visits from the nice people at the three letter agencies.
They're not rate-limiting my purchases of alcohol; they are rate-limiting my purchases of Sudafed. That's the only reason they need my ID for it. Meanwhile, the data they're theoretically collecting is useless. Everybody gets colds.
Show HN: Jellypod – Transform your emails into a personal daily podcast
I built Jellypod after months of walking to my downtown Seattle office with no great way to catch up on all my daily substacks & newsletters. I thought, "There has to be something better than normal text-to-speech".

But there really wasn't. So I decided to leave my job at Amazon (pretty much on a whim - highly don't recommend lol) and build Jellypod!

Jellypod creates daily, personalized podcasts based on summaries of your newsletter subscriptions. Every day at 7am (in your local time), all your subscriptions are condensed into a podcast-style summary, enabling you to listen to the news you actually care about, wherever you are.

You can customize your pod time, add newsletters, create multiple pods for different themes (i.e. one daily Business pod and one Sports), offline listening, etc.

I hope you give it a try! It's available currently in the US. :)
I would love to have been a fly on the wall at the Beeper offices over the past few weeks. I've had a hard time guessing their intent.

To some extent all of this Beeper Mini stuff seems to be almost an elaborate marketing stunt. I don't say that to diminish the impressive work of the team of anything like that, but it seems self-evident that Apple would hate this and I've been a bit surprised by the tone of the company throughout the past few weeks. The tone feels a bit like they've been surprised by Apple's response?

With all of that said, I'm kind of selfishly happy they seem to be returning their focus to Beeper Cloud. I've been a very happy user of it for a while now and I don't particularly care about the iMessage functionality.

I'm very impressed with what they've been able to achieve and overcome when taking on Apple here, and I'm really interested in where they'll go next.
I don't disagree with your principles; I was definitely on your side of the issue ~25 years ago and I suppose I still am, intellectually. I never changed my mind, it just wasn't important enough to me to put the substantial effort into. (which is, I suppose, what "they" are counting on). More power to you for investing the effort rather than just taking the path of least resistance.
If people don’t read, it’s their fault. Reading the docs is not a big ask.
I'm sorry but what? Do you have any references for this?
They don't go on the freeway for public rides currently iirc.
>The most cited study found that an oral dose of phenylephrine had an absorption rate of 38 percent of an oral dose of phenylephrine, ...

That's not very much.
Because the Chinese market is too important. For wechat you can maybe argue that it's a "super app" and probably also can be used to connect to wifi hotspots, but for alipay I fail to come up with an explanation..
Can you give the reasons why you chose the LGPL-3.0? Did you consider the AGPLv3 too?
> When I see an example of a successful commune or communist society, I'll think about changing my mind.

You have completely failed to understand what I was trying to say, instead quoting something out of context.

I'm assuming the reason why you get so much pushback is not because of your unpopular opinions but because you don't know how to debate properly.
I have not looked at these specifically, but can give a simple example.

You're probably familiar with how the maps look in Lord of the Rings.

If you notice, the mountains have a look to them, a schematic representation of essentially triangles, perhaps done with a fine brush. It's not just two straight lines in a corner.

So, anyway, one of the brushes in these sets might be those mountain icons.

Then, when making your mountain range on your map, you select the "mountain top brush", and then "stamp" mountains in an area using the glyph. So, in that sense, it's not a "brush" per se, something that you actually use for brush strokes. Rather, its an iconography that you can place on your map.

That's a trivial example of how these can be used. They may well be more sophisticated than that.
Because this is how all operating systems work.

If Microsoft wanted to give special apps access to your private data without asking, then that is exactly what would happen.

The same thing is true in Linux, other than we'd expect that the open source nature would have users going "Yo, WTF"
Cruise control has been around for decades, and is a tool for maintaining a constant speed. When you're passing someone, you should not be maintaining a constant speed. Cruise control is therefore the wrong tool for that situation. Driving school teaches you to use the right tool for that situation, which is the accelerator.
https://help.dropbox.com/view-edit/dropbox-ai-overview <- this page says the feature was only available on Dropbox Professional, Essentials, Business, Business Plus, and some customers on Dropbox Standard and Advanced. Basic free plans are listed. So while you may have had the toggle the actual feature, which is what you have to use to actually send data to OpenAI was not available therefore no data would be sent.
Yeah, the UI and pushy insistent ux is nearly intolerable. I hate that they do this kind of stuff to already-paying customers.
MiniLED is just LCD panel with an array of small white LEDs acting as a local array dimmable backlight.

MicroLED is like OLED but using tiny LEDs for each sub-pixel. MicroLED is still far from affordable prices and also not really able to make high resolution like 4K in a common sized TV or display. MicroLED are mostly still like 100"+ to reach 4K pixel density.
In the best case, sidewalk slabs tilt and settle unpredictably from frost heaves and water movement, and it only takes a small step between two slabs to trip an able person. If a sidewalk is maintained at all the lifted edges will be ground level, a yearly process. Just one example of routine maintenance that I notice.
Say "what" again! I dare you! I double dare you!!
I think both Baidu and pony are allowed to run no-safety-driver taxis for $$ in Beijing now (as of this year).
Giving the world’s most valuable corporation the benefit of the doubt.

This is an interesting worldview to have in 2023.
It sure looks a lot like the crypto and AI bets were the same as the GPU and gaming bets, just at a different scale.

Is this acknowledging the game market is dry?
> Tesla has killed by far the most people

They’ve also driven by far the most miles. I’m no diehard Tesla fan, but I hate it when people don’t properly scale their data.
This timeline seems completely wrong to me. Nvidia’s cudnn has been the only game in town for NN research since I have been in the field, and predates ethereum and the crypto bull run by a few years. If anything they didn’t waver and jump too hard on the crypto bandwagon when the craze was at its height.
I suppose that making an impact may still make sense for larger and softer asteroids (not solid metal): a blast a few meters deep would evaporate and eject more matter than a surface blast.
You'd be surprised how detachments from NATO militaries are treated at US bases. Pretty much the way NATO countries treat US bases and detachments. Obviously there are more US bases abroad than non-US ones in the states, but still.
Researchers identify new class of antibiotic candidates with AI
As a developer, the annoying thing about the "Local Network" permission is that:

1) It's poorly implemented. Unlike other permissions, there's no way to explicitly trigger the prompt. It just pops up at Apple's discretion. There's no way to give it a "soft landing" for cases where it's necessary for core app features. And there's no way to check if the permission has been granted or not.

2) More importantly: Apple's own apps don't trigger this warning, which makes the playing field unfair. AirPlay etc. work seamlessly, whereas any competitor's tech doesn't. And as a developer, since you can't tell if this permission has been granted or not, you're left with a poor user experience.

I'm particularly fed up of (2). If Apple is going to introduce restrictions, they need to apply to their own apps as well. AirPlay and AirDrop need to each ask for Bluetooth and local network access. The Photos app needs to trigger the "Select photos, Allow All, Deny" prompt on launch. The Camera app shouldn't be able to write to the photo library without triggering the same prompt too.

That gives them an incentive to design the user experience around these restrictions well, and maybe be more creative with how to solve for this too rather than confusing dialogs.

Currently they have a disincentive to design this stuff well. Any iOS developer that's had to work with these APIs knows that they are designed absolutely awfully with arbitrary and unexpected limitations.
That's like saying "because that's how locks work, the company who sold you the lock can just come open your door".
> some kind of automated machine that auto-denies without any recourse?

This describes a lot of bureaucratically-minded humans, fwiw.
>we shouldn't expect them to have a perfect track record

I'm not interested in a self-driving car being better than the average person at driving. I'm already better-than-average.

The cars need to be as good as the best drivers out there.
But this certainly could be construed as unexpected:

>"In August, a Waymo at an intersection “began to proceed forward” but then “slowed to a stop” and was hit from behind by an SUV."

>"Wat."

Are you saying you don't understand why unexpected behavior causes anxiety? It's a pretty well documented effect, from rats to humans.
Actually, I went back to read it again just to make sure I didn't say that there was no listing of the data in the video. When I first read your comment you had me thinking I had said that, but nope, it wasn't there.

Maybe someone else said it? Did you accidentally hit the wrong reply button?
Sure, in a Dr. Strangelove kind of sense.
This is likely a testament to the need for large tech companies to choose core differentiated competencies, and consistently invest in those competencies over long periods of time. It's so tempting for the finance minded to take a large high margin business like NVidia and cut R&D spending to boost profits. Or alternately allow the R&D spend become lazy and ineffective - This happened to Intel, Boeing, and arguably Google.

That NVidia has maintained this push for the last 2 decades makes one wonder what other tricks they'll have up their sleeve.
by this logic everyone in Hollywood is a rich movie star because that’s who visible in the media, not the various set designers food workers and all the many others.

Looking at social media influencers and assuming they’re a good representation of the average van liver is like looking at a celebrity and assuming everyone in Hollywood is like them.
> Mainly because the fishing industry is responsible for over 50% of the plastic pollution in the oceans.

!!!

Because of the nets?
The reason they don't allow expired licenses for alcohol purchases is because an older, similar-looking person (sibling, etc.) could just give their expired license to someone who's underage.
There is clearly a problem, but the remedies proposed in this article are absurd and completely ignore the cause of the problem.

Plastics are incredibly useful, fabulously performant, and astoundingly cheap. It is no wonder they are ubiquitous.

If you are poor anywhere in the developed world, you are surely wearing plastic cloths & shoes, eating food packaged in plastic, and drinking water provided via plastic pipes and vessels. What's more, you likely don't have a meaningful choice in the matter. If you are not poor, this probably still holds true.

It is frustrating that there is not a good and clear path forward to resolve this issue... and many other issues of the Anthropocene. We need to do better thinking about how we can help our ecosystems remain viable despite these upheavals.
In 2012 or so I was able to do turn by turn navigation pretty reliably on an ipod touch that did not have any gps capabilities. I think you'll find coarse location is a little more specific than you give it credit for.
Misleading title (par for the course for what Scientific American has become).

Decongestants work.

Oral phenylephrine does not.

Pseudoephedrine works just fine but it was moved behind the counter long ago and now you have to ask the pharmacist for it, because besides the fact that it's a great decongestant it can also be used for making meth. TIWWCHNT (this is why we cannot have nice things).

The over-the-counter replacement for pseudoephedrine is phenylephrine and it's basically a placebo when ingested orally. (It works well in nose drops and nasal spray.)
> Replacing the fluorescent blue with phosphorescent blue will mean a more balanced pixel structure and could enable higher-resolution displays in the future. In the near term, the switch will lead to an approximate 25 percent gain in efficiency

I would have expected a 50% gain. According to the quoted efficiencies, the blue fluorescent subpixel needs 4x more power (at 25% efficency) than the phosphorescent red and green subpixels (at near 100% efficiency).
So making the blue phosphorescent as well should reduce 1+1+4 to 1+1+1 power, a 50% reduction (technically a 100% gain in efficiency). Why is the near term gain only 25% ?
It's interesting to see how compared to 30 years ago, countries are now much more self sufficient technologically.

Countries like China, Russia, Iran, India, Turkiye, South Korea, Mexico, Vietnam, Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Poland, etc at the very least have industrial and technological capabilities similar to what the US, Western Europe, and Japan had in the 90s-2000s, and can continue to muddle on, or in some cases even reach parity.

It's similar to the catch-up that happened globally in the 1950s-60s and the 1890s-1920s.
Four in five Apache Struts 2 downloads are for versions featuring critical flaw
But the point is almost nobody believes a Cisco acquisition will lead to "better execution in the scaling phase".

Instead, it will lead to the inevitable enshittification as customers are milked for more and more profit while the tech decays because all the good people leave.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38689852
What's fundamentally different between music and audiobooks?

And more generally, what's so different between literature and other media?

For movies and music, we have streaming services where we have access to everything for a monthly fee, or we can buy one off physical or digital copies. For (audio) books, there is no equivalent to the streaming model, subscriptions are just giving you access to a set number of works per month. That's especially ironic since libraries have been "all you can read" since before computers even existed.

I have seen online libraries use ridiculous DRM schemes to emulate the fact that they have a limited number of copies to lend, why?

Video games are also not sold through "all you can play" platforms, but this is more understandable since they are more difficult to standardize due to their nature, and the monetization schemes are varied, and yet we are getting there.
>API seems to specifically be for apps created by owners of WiFi hotspots to help users connect to those hotspots.

VPN apps also seem to use it: https://github.com/pia-foss/mobile-ios/blob/4618b55161ec5b8b...
AI as Algorithmic Thatcherism
It's also true that the old elevated central artery was really bad and pretty much required aggressive behavior because of how many ramps there were and the fact that you had to navigate a confusing network of crowded surface streets to access the harbor tunnels. I've admittedly lived in the area a long time but between the Big Dig and GPS, I don't think Boston is uniquely bad these days.
> Matrox and 3dfx were gone before they could even conceive of a general purpose GPU strategy.

Hence "also-rans".
I too generally post rants on things I don't consider to be a problem...
Thanks for pointing this out. I wasn't aware of Linear.app before, but having checked their site now, I can definitely see the resemblance, particularly with their app icon style. It was completely unintentional. Designing a unique and recognizable logo in today's crowded digital landscape can be challenging, but it's crucial. I'll look into this and consider a redesign to ensure Sunnybox's identity is distinct and unique. Appreciate your observation!
NeurIPS 2023 Papers Highlights
It wasn't luck. For example, the book "Good Strategy/Bad Strategy" has a chapter about the NVidia strategy in its early days. You'll find a lot of similarities to what happened with CUDA.

In its early days, NVidia focused on its delivery speed by having a unified software driver/integration strategy. The TNT video card was meh, the TNT2 a little better but inferior to 3Dfx... by the time they launched GeForce, 3Dfx didn't have a product ready to compete. Their driver/integration/product test strategy made that speed possible.

With that background you can understand why CUDA wasn't lucky, they repeated the same approach: combine their hardware with the software.
In some sleepy suburb you must pay for food delivery or hop in your car and drive to the restaurant. In Manhattan you could pay for delivery or skip delivery altogether and walk to one of the half-dozen (at least) restaurants on your block.
You lived in SF and still feel confident saying that it gets 365 days of sun?
There is only a finite amount of land. The land value will most likely rise with demand and inflation regardless of the building that is there. Owning a home is an investment because you need a place to live and in the location on where you want to establish yourself. A home going up in value only helps a person on the side and hurts them in the short term because of taxes. Also only accounting for the downpayment is an incomplete investment picture. Most real estate is bought on leverage which multiplies returns.

You cannot force people to think that the value of a building is zero just because you want it to be. We have seen new homes further out command very high prices here in the US because of culture and there are a lot that desire the fit and finish of a new home but for the most part the old homes are still desirable and livable. Eventually old homes are rebuilt or remodeled and if they sell at the lowest point (like after a fire) will be sold for land value.
Your implied chronology of "crypto died, _then_ NVIDIA lucked out with AI" is off, in that case. Peak of ETH mining was 2021.
There are lots of examples on YouTube. Naturally, they make this all look easy! And, it seems to me, that it can be, indeed, "simple", but I wouldn't call it "easy".

It's just a bunch of techniques. Follow some of those, make some throw away maps, and I bet you can get the hang of it.
>but what is the wrong way for Tesla?

1. "We are leaders in FSD technology, but you have to hover your hands over the wheel and foot over the brake to take control at any second."

2. "Our FSD is far safer than manual driving, so says our data. But you have to take our word for it, because we won't release the data for research."
But your fundamental ethics are something that can be changed by criticism and exposure to opposing viewpoints. If you have such a static view of your beliefs and opinions I would urge you to reflect on that.

>>They are fully capable, as am I, into taking into account tradeoffs and changing our opinions.

That may be, but people generally are incentivized to be far more charitable to their position than the opposition. Reading the opposition from the oppositions own formulation will be a far greater defense of what they actually think in terms of tradeoffs.

>>Like I have an aesthetic interest in disallowing corporations from implementing psychological manipulation to prevent me from e.g. quitting their services.

Ben himself in the article you are referring to says this is shady, but he also points out that its generally not nearly as bad as say the NYT which requires you to call via phone to unsubscribe, and that the conflict with the regulators is comparatively heavy handed and doesn't take into account the tradeoffs he wants to discuss in his article.

>>So, fine, he's not a person I want speaking for me or, like, affecting any policy on the matter whatsoever.

Ok, not really up to you though. Ideas enter the marketplace and compete with each other. The ones that people find the most persuasive end up affecting the policy. Clearly his view points are not affecting the policy that much seeing as he is directly responding to regulation that is occurring and antithetical to what he believes is correct.
Nobody should care whether meth makers are prevented from using sudafed; we should (maybe) care if they're prevented from making meth.

They switched methods, and the new method seems to be more cost-effective so it's unlikely they'd switch back even without the restrictions.

https://dynomight.net/p2p-meth/
GP wrote

> Until we remove real estate as a form of investment

That’s what I was responding to. I see now that this isn’t your opinion.
Sure. Omega-3, a critical ingredient for having smart kids, is depleted during pregnancy, and few women supplement enough to fully replenish.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3046737/
Evidence, yes. Google turns up a lot more on antibiotic use than antiviral; France has had similar issues there. (I suspect the difference in availability reflects the faster spread of viral disease, making per-country isolation stats tougher. See, for example, how fast Omicron went world-wide.)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7651446/

> In France, antimicrobial consumption (AC) has been high for many decades in both hospitals and the community. Consumption within the community is 30% higher than the mean European rate and 2–3 times higher than the rates in countries with very low consumption and resistance levels, such as Scandinavian countries.

Given the similar mechanisms, they're likely to have the same issues with antivirals as they do with antibiotics.
The public is not obligated to make the investigation of crimes easy. All surveillance removes freedom.
For anyone looking for a TLDR, dynamic dispatch is the major missing piece. The only other reason is if you need to support a compiler version < 1.75
This is what I believe as well. There's no way that FMA is the optimal way to compute NNs in silicon. It's overly precise.

NVIDIA will be okay though, they have the volume to get the newest nodes first. Only a few can compete with them.
Intel wants to run AI on CPUs and says its 5th-gen Xeons are ones to do it
> Almost no one believes that ending a life is murder

Can you elaborate on that?
I've listened to a lot of Books on Tape from the 80s and 90s where narrating in a mostly flat monotone was the norm, but even they would inject emotion and vary their delivery where appropriate.

Good modern audiobooks are a true performance even when the narrator isn't doing a bunch of highly distinct voices. You can't replace that with AI any more than you can replace a great voice actor.
Show HN: I built a random chat app with AI conversation prompts
Part of the problem is the problem statement. Low-income housing seems to be secondary as to how we are spending the money. A lot of the money is going to homeless programs and shelters vs trying to figure out how to lower the price of homes in a sustainable way.