skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your insightful post!

> That's a x100 superpower.

Well, it's not like I always succeed at that but I'm trying! :D

It is a good feeling, to bring the instinctive monkey-like (lizard-like?) reaction of pulling up the phone to the foreground of the mind and taking intentional control of it. Even if the decision is to give in, as long as it's with intent, I'm fine with it - and in this case it's usually easy to put it back down.

> being kinda resistant to awkwardness without being a callous asshole who feels no shame and delights in other people's discomfort.

I do that to friends. Mostly on purpose. To be fair though, only to the friends with whom I'm intimate enough that I know they would do the same to me and it's out of love both ways. :)

> I just walk off now. I used to stand there watching them all, but have since realised its me who makes them feel terribly awkward.

I do that some times. That's not always an option in the example of the bar table with friends (or co-workers, etc). In any case, my experience is that the people who get inside their phones in this way are usually so oblivious to their surroundings that it doesn't matter. In these cases I try to just casually observe and learn whatever I can from the situation.

> I don't feel awkward, I feel mildly insulted

I used to feel that way too. I still do sometimes. Over the years though, I've been learning to get better at changing the way I reactively feel to situations based on what I know - in this case, that them being on their phones is not because of me (am I boring them? am I overly awkward and making them feel that way? am I ...?) but rather because they _need_ their phone fix. Note that I don't feel pity either. I don't think people should stop using their phones. I do wish they did so with more intent and less due to sheer habit.
aye, never been to a latin market -- in australia, the US, or canada -- that didn't have guava. usually the actual fruit, but failing that like 5+ different versions of juice, paste, etc.

DIY guava rum is pretty good btw. literally guava (or paste), vanilla bean, and the cheapest rum you can get.
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> Building internal tools can fall into this category. That unloved admin dashboard that runs the company but never quite gets priority.

Amazon: “we can build S3 -
a service that millions use with no down time. But we can’t keep a simple website up to serve our internal employees come review time in April”
Probably stolen.
At which point they'll start using hotels, yes.

I'm sure this is a cultural thing but I and seemingly everyone around me finds guest bedrooms to be an insanely wasteful concept.
You've misunderstand the purpose of having the suite of cryptographic packages. I agree NO ONE __should__ use SM3, but it exists in the wild and thus people do use it.

The `core:crypto` packages match that of the Botan ones (of which we support in `vendor:botan`). It's not about whether or it's a good algorithm or not, but that it exists.

Using your logic, Botan should remove most of its stuff too, but that would stupid to do.
Most fiber/transceivers you commonly find in a datacenter won’t cause eye damage:

https://www.nanog.org/news-stories/nanog-tv/top-talks/tutori...

(slides 79-84)
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Every time these same low tier troll comments. Can someone point me how to block these trolls? I couldn't see anything in the FAQ about blocking/muting.
Have you tried Spore?
I read almost all of this, and am kind of torn on this ressource: On one hand this is a great introduction to ComfyUI, including concepts and possibilities, and it really IS helpful for getting started. Thanks to the authors for putting in the work!

That said, some of the information, especially regarding the more technical parts, is somewhat misleading (debatable, simplification is hard), and at times outright false (e.g. "This method is called LoRA (Loopy Recurrent Attention)"… what?), so don't make it your only source of info.
Eg. I found this also helpful: https://blenderneko.github.io/ComfyUI-docs/
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Tangent: Swizec authored a book I found very useful a few years ago ("Serverless Handbook"), and writes a thoughtful and insightful email newsletter I've enjoyed for many years. He's firmly in the "learn by doing / learn in public" camp, and does an excellent job sharing what he learns along the way. Highly recommended follow / subscribe.
I think HN prefers Arrakis ;)

Also scroll down a bit, there were a few before your comment .
The 2 mile trip to my local train station typically used to cost ~6 pounds outside of surge pricing. I's gotten more expensive, so if I had to do it again now I'm sure it'd start adding up.

Most of his trips would be to local leisure centres within about a two mile radius that would have been walkable in 20m-40m if not for the lack of time to finish up work, get him ready after school etc.. Normally I'd prefer to walk, and that's a large part of the reason my transport costs are very low.

EDIT: Just checked my most recent few trips, and I paid 16 pounds for a trip Google Maps tells me is 7.4 miles driving distance, and 20 pounds for the return the same distance. The last few trips to my local station have been between 6.50 and 8 pounds, so definitely gone up.
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Hey @godelski! Author of the blog post here.

I really appreciate you taking the time to provide all this feedback. This feedback + additional resources are extremely useful.

I agree that the subtitle is not as accurate as it could be. I'll revisit it! As for content updates, I've been doing some additional updates in the last days based on feedback (e.g. more info about tokenization and the token embeddings). Although diving in some of your suggestions is likely out of scope for this article, I in particular agree that expanding the attention mechanism content (e.g. the analogy with databases or explaining what is dot product) would increase the quality of the article. I will look into expanding this!

I also think a more rigorous, separate mathematical exploration into attention mechanisms and recent advancements would be a great tool for the ecosystem.

Once again, thank you for all the amazing feedback!
Can't speak for everyone, but I submit org homepages because I think the organization and its mission are worth the attention of the HN community.
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I may be wrong about this but I couldn't find the option.
Isn't that a major security vulnerability?
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I know people who won't eat something expensive, because they might get a craving for it/really like it.

Some marketing strategies have people underpricing, even if in limited supply, so that demand will accrue.

There is more to pricing than min/max theory.
Cars work best in low density. Eventually the total area of the city is so great that even though in theory you can drive across it, the total time that takes means some trips are unreasonable to do. If that story that sells Gundam models (I have no idea what this is so I assume it is a great example of a rare niche) is on the other side of the city it may be more than an hour drive at off peak times to get there and so for practical purposes it isn't in reach.
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I think they did it too themselves wrt to recent events.
Simply making liquid nitrogen MRI machine (instead of liquid helium) would be a billion dollar revolution. Electrically cooled like a house freezer, -23C MRI machine would a be a world changing trillion dollar revolution.
I would agree. I make more mistakes on virtual keyboards for sure. I really enjoyed the original Motorola Droid [0] with slide out keyboard. Not only was the slider mechanism and keyboard excellent, but it didn't impact the portability of the phone at all.

If we could get an updated phone in that exact form factor with vanilla Android support it would be very popular. Physical keyboard, removable battery, mSD card slot and headphone jack. All the things consumers "don't want" anymore. /s

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Droid
Yeah, people don't realize that it is actually quite easy. Maybe not better, but also not meaningfully worse in many (not all) cases.

Strangely, the worst cases are often things like day trips. A 250-400 mile day can be harder to plan than a 600+ mile road trip.
The tail is where important decisions are made.

X meter tsunami waves -> nuclear reactor barrier walls

X days without replenishing vital supplies -> warehouses and buffers.

I loath to think how many bad decisions are made because someone decided "three stdev" is good enough because they don't even know what a long tail is.
That's pretty gross, but kind of what you'd expect> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5WVrtABlU4
Frankly I'd question why anyone who drives less-than-average is looking at buying a new car, of any type.
You just confirmed you’re in the case the parent mentioned of liking and being good at cooking (at least in that context).
Isn't there something wrong to you if a "routine maintenance" takes a day?

The whole thing makes me think of home renovation, apparently the majority of landfill is cast-off material because re-use isn't a consideration.

I don't think "most people" arguments are great. People want freedom and flexibility, they don't want to have to sell their car and buy a new one if their conditions change.

I hope the first mainstream car in my market that takes a very modular approach wins out. In fact imo there should be regulated form factors, since the impact of these things at scale is huge, and I doubt battery recycling is that efficient.
Because they don't broadcast their position?

I know nothing about the industry but I did wonder if an innocent excuse is that as a fishing vessel you wouldn't want to tell everyone else where you are fishing?
My favorite is double ovens in McMansions. The only use case is for Thanksgiving dinner.
I can't afford 30K for a new battery every few years.
> haven’t had any repair or maintenance costs at all

When you have to replace your battery your repair costs will come in one big lump sum. Your tires and suspension system will require more repair due to the weight of your vehicle.

> There are no micro-transactions

The first few generations of EV do not have them, but the future ones will.
Hotels can have electrical outlets. Not to mention chargers which are often faster than electrical outlets. Long trips in huge countries are easy peasy. Charging stops are like 10 minutes every couple hours and sometimes 20 when someone goes in a store for a few minutes. The long charging stops you are thinking of are non-Teslas.
i love when they don't show pictures or videos
95c/kwh at rapid chargers in Italy this summer, that's over €800 to recharge for your journey compared with petrol at €1.80, which would be about €400.
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Microsoft gives AI a place on the Windows keyboard
Slightly off topic but I have been using JMP to proxy SMS to my XMPP, and it has been great. It's the easiest way to get SMS absolutely anywhere you want it (I use it inside Emacs :) )
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I started writing about READMEs a while ago but my writing on the topic is not polished. If you are curious, my notes are here: https://capjamesg.github.io/python-packaging-best-practices/...

Happy to elaborate as necessary!
Yeah my personal rule of thumb is not to eat more than two per day and six per week, and to periodically check Google Scholar for new research. If you're going to cook with them, I'd recommend sticking to recipes that involve adding them to cooked food (e.g. as a layer on top of a cheesecake) rather than applying heat directly to them. And also to eat them only during the month or so per year that they're in season, rather than freezing them and eating them year round.

And if you haven't already seen it, here are Neal Peterson's recommendations for safe consumption:

https://www.petersonpawpaws.com/are-pawpaws-safe/

His recommendations are notable mainly because he's the one who kickstarted the pawpaw renaissance and released many of the most popular (and best) cultivars on the market today.
> It seems like they must have more tricks up their sleeve than that.

Maybe, maybe not. Firefox market share is trivial at this point. I doubt Google invests a lot of time in figuring out how to track Firefox users specifically. Safari, especially on mobile, is a far more juicy target.
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Take control of a LED controller, it's not that hard
That's true. Some assumptions always have to be made.

In this case, we can assume place names that can be arbitrary strings and temperatures that occur naturally on earth.
Optimizing around those constraints should be fine. We could probably limit the string length to something like 100 characters or so.

Bad assumptions would for example be to assume that all possible place names are found within the example data.
> Plugging a DC 150kW takes 2 minutes

More like 2 seconds in a Model Y.
Make sure that you set the speeds in abrp to your actual driving speeds. It sounds like you are doing ~85?
I'd want at least one public known past whisleblower to contact for assurance the org is not a honeypot. The forces of corruption would do exactly this: set up a whistleblower support org and then sell their "whistleblowers" back to their corrupt overlords.
> when you ask whether business will halt and die if the system you are responsible for is down or suddenly absent

This is a great way to put it.

I also ask myself the question: "who are the rockstars" at a company. The folks that are celebrated.

If it isn't a developer/engineer, you aren't at a category 2 company.
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The analysis largely holds tbh even if the ARR is higher. At some point, euphoric private market valuations don't hold when there are public comps (of which there are many for Airtable)

And the company if you compare to those public comps is still worth a fraction of its last valuation although to their credit is probably is worth more than its total equity funding.

I'm happy to update the analysis if someone has verifiable revenue figures - else I have to use the figures that have been leaked or given to the press historically.
Do things you love or pay well enough to do more of the things you love sooner.
>Publicly address and condemn Elon’s harmful Twitter behavior.

>SpaceX must swiftly and explicitly separate itself from Elon’s personal brand.

If you had a company in which you were the majority shareholder and CEO would you put up with the people you hire circulating letters to condemn your behaviour?
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The Office key is apparently just CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN, as Office Key + W is advertised to open Word and Office Key + L is advertised to open LinkedIn, but you can perform both of those actions in plain Windows by just using CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN + W and CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN + L respectively.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/15/23874798/microsoft-window...
Sometimes you could have something plugged into the extension port to snapshot the memory, so you can switch easier, AND not lose your changes. It sounds horrible NOT to have it when writing a game like that (I love Sabouteur! Spent more time playing the 2nd part :))
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Hello HN!

I'm have a CS degree and have been working for the last 14 years as a project manager. As I have matured, I find myself more and more distant to technical work, and more into management.

I'm seeking to change my career path, so I can work fully remote, as I'm not able right now. I was looking to reeducate myself back into programming or sysadmin of some kind.

What do you think is a viable technology to retrain a 40 y/o project manager who studied CS at college?

Thanks!
Yep. These luddites and trolls haven't been paying attention.

> eCall was made mandatory in all new cars approved for manufacture within the European Union as of April 2018
Or he doesn't feel like overcharging for what they cost to grow?
How about people using gstatic fonts and js? People embedding google calendars or youtube videos? People using google captcha? People monetising their site with google ads?

Combine that with standard fingerprinting techniques.
You can get a new home built in Georgian Revival style but it’s going to be expensive. Home builders rely on easy to source, mass produced, standard parts. In my experience the cost goes way up. For instance, a truss can’t be used for the roof and windows are custom, etc. and there’s going to be a lot of windows.

It’s why many homes today are built off existing models. But you see it in higher-end homes.

Now, of course the required parts could become mass produced if there were the demand. And I agree it’s a simpler and beautiful style. But you can’t put a flat roof on them.
Can you state a reason to believe room-temperature superconductivity is impossible or hard?

If not, then there is no reason to believe room-temperature superconductivity is impossible or hard.
Apps will now be reporting your earnings to tax authorities
Where is the friction in owning the large truck? Paying for gas?? Finding parking?

(US-centric view.)

If you live in a major urban center, sure. Paying hundreds of dollars a month for a parking spot would quickly convince me that car ownership was a bad idea. Otherwise, at least in the US, cities spread out to make room for the habits of their inhabitants. There's going to be easy parking where you live because that's what all of your neighbors want.

Of course, I agree that you should just have the deliveries... but I'm not seeing this as an argument why. The costs are not great enough.
That counts as being in the Rivian/Lightning/Hummer realm.
That’s not a real concern; it’s propaganda.
This is actually something I discussed with my legal team and was prepared to bring up at trial with our own forensic expert. My team was (correctly, IMO) not expecting much to happen because the amount of precedent that exists with MD5 being used as a way to say these documents haven't been swapped or tampered.
If we count my garage as a room, then it's room temperature every winter.
The RIM copycat keyboards are mass produced and can be bought individually for DIY projects from places like AliExpress. So if anything, RIM should go after those Chinese makers. Of course good luck to Rim
The TS compiler might produce something, but that's not usually enough in the context of a larger React application (eg, they often import non-ts files).
Agreed. I'm reminded of a great blog I read (no bookmark, sorry) about "skill stacking" -- if you're top 10% in one thing and top 25% in another, you might be top 1% or better in their combination.
Until enough people abandon them and gas stations stop selling gas, and range anxiety becomes a thing for ICE vehicles.
I wonder if one might liken this to arsenic in apples. I tend to eat the whole apple, core, seeds, stem, but there's so little it's not a biggie.

Plants have to fight off bacteria after all.
You can do it with TRAMP in emacs.

/sudo::/path/to/file
That sounds convenient.
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There's two layers of issues as I see it.

First is that most people are just not yet well-versed in prompt engineering. So it takes a while -- even as someone that is doing this every day -- to find the best prompting approach to get the desired outcome. Sometimes if I step away from a prompt for a few days and come back, I'll have better ideas. But this is doing it every day. Most folks just don't have this patience and are now conditioned with Google Search whereas GPT requires much more intent to get better results.

Most normal folks are not going to be in the right mindset to iterate and build optimal prompts for their use case because they are not really using GPT in that way; they are using it to get some task done.

Second is that some use cases -- like this case of diagnosing medical cases -- will require more advanced techniques to be used in combination like RAG, web search, collaborative agents, function calling, and so on. Basically, it still needs some level of design and engineering for it to be usable.

It is definitely not there yet for normal people and why I think there's still a moderately sized window where startups can close that gap by building that "structure" for specific use cases that make them viable. Essentially, vertically-oriented GPTs.
>first party cookies are invaluable

I am coming to find I don't want cookies, including first-party, on the vast majority of websites. Specifically, I only want first-party cookies on websites I login to.

Otherwise, I can't remember the last time in recent memory when first-party cookies benefitted me in some worthwhile way. They only serve to track me or otherwise disturb my peace for the benefit of the webmaster.

So far I've been opening a lot of websites in Private Mode, but maybe it's just easier to blanket blacklist all cookies and then handpick the small number I want to whitelist.
Chrome. Google is adding a dedicated "Topics API" to Chrome that they fully control the access to that does all tracking for them. (After repeatedly attempting to do it in an "agnostic" way that preserved privacy that just flat out didn't work, they just dropped the mask and openly started acting as gatekeepers for the Topics API.)

That combined with the rollout of Manifest V3 permits them to axe adblockers whilst keeping full tracking enabled.

The userbase percentage lost from Firefox users (around 3%, everything else runs a Firefox derivative or is iOS with Safari, which Google assumes is dead in the water due to the DMA) isn't enough to not have them transition fully to the Topics API at this point because of the ad profits they think they can get out of unwinding adblockers in Chrome. Google is closing the advertising jaws around Chrome and this is what that looks like.
People have put 300k miles on their EVs already. Batteries already outlast the car.
You probably still shouldn't look into the laser with your remaining eye, though.
Elon's tweets certainly aren't work conditions.
A couple thousand is probably not enough. But I think people do tend to exaggerate how expensive used cars are. You can buy a ~10 year old Prius for around $5k, for example.
[dupe]

Discussion here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38853706
Better yet: why aren't they treated as pirates?
This is pretty uncontroversial advice. In ecology, it's called being a "generalist". (And humans are generalists.)

If you want to avoid all toxins ever, you'll have to avoid... basically all food. Oxalic acid, cyanogenic glycosides, etc. are just freaking everywhere. Plants make defense compounds; we're able to handle small amounts of them.
>> Simply making liquid nitrogen MRI machine (instead of liquid helium) would be a billion dollar revolution.

But we already have liquid nitrogen superconductors and they aren't used in MRI machines. I think the reason is something-something current density something - that they aren't suitable for that particular use for some other reason.
As an American, I don’t recall voting on that issue.

Democracy doesn’t come from surveys.