skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm personally glad it's on the front page

I'm split on that, as it made me check the README I'm rewriting, and compare it to the previous version. After noticing an increase in the amount of exclamation points and enthusiasm, I think I may decide to rewrite it again, to cut down on the enthusiasm.

Besides being an obvious waste of time, why should tech be boring?

I don't want it boring! I want my vim and my xterm to be cute!
I feel like kaggle is a copycat wasteland for most projects now. You don't quite get top talent, rather you get a bunch of people xgboosting their way up your leaderboard.
Multimodal LM roundup: Unified IO 2, I/O, Gemini, LLaVA-RLHF, and RLHF questions
probably there's an advanced algorithm at work here that says otherwise.
It's actually not that low. GPTs allow external functions and the moment you want to do anything interesting you actually need to be able to build it.

For example, if your GPT is going to design and host a webpage for you then you will need to be able to create a service that can talk with that gpt, take its input and deploy it.

Other GPTs that don't require a hard skill might also turn not to be trivial due to prompt engineering. An analogy would be the case of some people being very successful in literary work or on social media and others not so much.
People don't always want the optimal solution for every problem. I want a watch that is mechanical yet accurate enough and readable enough to function as a watch. I am not alone in this.

In the realms of cars, I drive a $15k used Subaru because it gets me places, is easy and cheap to maintain, and functional for cargo and other uses. Others drive fancy beautiful automobiles that do less, cost more money, but fulfill other artistic needs of theirs.

For some it's cars. For others watches. For yet others clothes. I for one am glad that not every problem is solved perfectly efficiently. It feels _humam_ that way.
Sporadic since 20:18 UTC for me. At least one of my pure droplets is still up, but anything relying on API or DNS (including private-db-* resolution) is down.
If I were to guess, any article about Israel or Palestine is likely going to have a decent amount of posts to remove and flag.
Wait, you guys manage your finances?
From the article: "This script obviously is not - as we say in Austria - the yellow of the egg, but it can defend from script kiddies I mentioned earlier who have no idea that all these tools have parameters to change the user agent.".

Perhaps consider reading the article thoroughly before you start claiming it to be more than what it is.
No, it's Russia overtly attacking Finnish society. Even if Finland welcomed as many migrants as their country could handle, Russia would ship in any more. The only winning move is for Finland to close their borders.

The other guys in this conversation are calling you an idiot or a concern troll. I don't know if that's what's going on here but your unwillingness to concede that Finland has a right to defend itself from Russian border bullshit really does make me wonder. Finland wasn't in NATO throughout the cold war, only recently did they join. Why do you think that is? The Russian threat is real and needs to be taken seriously. Russia is sending those migrants specifically to disrupt Finnish society. For you to pretend otherwise is absurd.
Don't quit, let them fire you, so you get all the benefits.
White noise is proven to degrade sleep and focus unless masking more distracting noise
I use tiktok daily or every other day, I can provide some first hand anecdotes.

Dances are funny to me, at least the ones I see, they remind me of memes; it’s about 10% of my feed.

I have no idea what are icebergs (please explain).

Video responses (“duets” / “stitches”) can be funny or informative. Also perhaps 10%.

I‘ve seen “sludge” only in a simpler form (minecraft gameplay and an automated voice reading a reddit post), I saw it maybe 2-3 times total.

My point is just like you can tweak your twitter, reddit, etc experience to show you the content you want and enjoy - you can do the same with tiktok.

Although if you don’t like vertical videos then absolutely skip it.
Practical Zephyr – Zephyr Basics (Part 1)
How many 5 volt amps hours is 8.64 joules per day?
I am using Orion day to day and rarely see bugs. You can report bugs to orionfeedback.org to make sure they get seen.
Looks like the “hack” on Twitter was just a botched rollout as suspected?
Their competitors will have quite a relaxing year then, if they're up against this level of pure competence.

Edit: 'we're tough - when we're together!'

That's on a level with children's cartoon "power of friendship" messages. If anything it would make me run even further from the offices.
i for one, am glad that it has done so well. Much of the world, especially the first world probably won't be greatful for it until the demise of Fiat
Somewhat rambling. Pursuit of profit over goodness: see private equity raiding the assets and goodwill of companies. Military-industrial complex is just as apt here, warned of long ago.
Spaghetti Bridge
> Catastrophic crash scenarios are not the only scenarios where data preservation is desirable.

That's exactly why I said "In a malfunction scenario" in my comment.

Modern aviation uses essentially a blameless post-mortem incident reporting process where pilots are encouraged to report when something unexpected happens - even though the airplane wasn't damaged and no one was injured. This has helped tremendously both in discovering issues that could be the cause of a crash in the future as well as improving training for other pilots.

But very rarely is any data recovered in these situations. If things worked as I noted maintenance would have enough time to grab the data after the report without storing the recordings forever.
Twitch subs remove ads for subscribed channels, so OP doesn't buy subs.

Which is the more likely scenario?

1. OP buys bits and throws them at their favorite streamers despite not being willing to pay for subscriptions.

2. OP pays nothing for Twitch and doesn't watch a single ad.
Ask HN: Is so much spam/abusive signups normal?
I built and run a SaaS product on my own (full time). My service receives a lot of fake or abusive signups. In general, their end goal is usually to abuse the free tier/offering by creating multiple accounts.

I have added a captcha (hcaptcha) and I actively check/prevent sign ups from VPNs, VPSes, Tor and banned IP addresses. I also actively check and prevent signups from free email domains (gmail, hotmail, disposable email domains, etc).

I continue to get abusive signups. Is this typical? What else can you do?
I found this: https://scaleyourapp.com/live-video-streaming-infrastructure...
And PrimeVideo several hundreds too.
Powered by Tesla MegaPacks. Just insane how much value Musk has brought to the world.
Here's a compendium of similarly-reasoned theories about animals:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_So_Stories
We want discussion, not answers.
Handwrytten
While I'm sure some chemical byproducts come out of that, it's important to note that hydrocarbons assuredly make some really nasty stuff along the way [1]. I also wish there was a way to more easily compare these things, but the misinformation around environmental data is really next level. General, consider thinking about renewable infrastructure as more of a stock that accumulates vs fossil fuel usage which is a flow.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Alley
This is almost exactly what I do, as well.

There are only two other things that I do on top of that: I practice "pay yourself first" -- that is, I take 10% off the top of every dollar that comes my way and park it where it's really hard for me to get at it.

Then, I practice "repay your neighbors" -- that is, I take 10% off of the remaining money and use it for philanthropic purposes primarily focused on my local community (in the form of monetary donations, or the equivalent in my time). The point of this is to recognize that none of the success I've had could have happened without the support of my community, and this is a way to repay the favor.

Those two things happen before anything else -- before paying bills, investing, saving, etc.

I don't micromanage my finances, primarily because I hate dealing with money and focusing too much on it makes me unhappy.
I'm skeptical because C++ is a slippery slope. Glad to see they are going for templates and concepts, and not constructors and destructors.

Yes, what C++ is supposedly good for – RAII, it actually got a little wrong:

1. Default construction / value initialization: Causes lots of initialization before assignment that is obviously unnecessary. Try allocating a buffer: `std::make_unique<char[]>` surprisingly memsets the buffer.

2. Constructors: No way to fail without exceptions. That buffer example again: Without exceptions, `std::make_unique<char[]>` will actually attempt to memset a nullptr on allocation failure … before your nullptr check (which btw makes the compiler entitled to delete your nullptr check as well).

3. Move is a (burdensome) runtime state that mandates nullability.

4. Destructors: Can't take arguments, forcing objects to contain implicit references to each other.

Rust's affine type system fixes 1-3, but not 4, which only a linear type system could: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substructural_type_system#The_...
On my phone, the whole page is covered by the left side menu. Tapping on the burger doesn’t hide the menu either. Not a good impression from a web design library.
Not the OP, but seems like the typical used-car sales pitch, where they yell at you to pay attention. If what they had was so great, they wouldn't have to yell. But since these are used cars, not materially different from other used cars, they try to differentiate themselves by volume instead of value.

I think Apple could put out an 15 second ad, with just a black background, where in the first second a white Apple logo fades in. And then a several seconds later, a date fades in below the logo. Maybe a soft ocean sound in the background. And people would be eagerly awaiting whatever mystery launch is happening. (Or maybe Apple (or someone else) already has run an ad like this?)
Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance (2020) [pdf]
I had two interesting lists to compile after reading this article:

First is books written by former diplomats / intel opporatives. SO many greats!

Second, the intelligence officer's book shelf. In other words, book lists for people studying the various arts of intelligence. Fascinating stuff.
We can safely assume that anything containing radioactive material that is not tightly controlled will not be commercialized.
That previous discussion is actually pretty good
That seems unrelated to the batteries, couldn't a storm damage the coal plant?
Hafas (the system of record for train scheduling information for Deutsche Bahn and the national Polish railways) does the same thing. An example URL is[1].

Both have better consumer frontends now (although I remember Deutsche Bahn still recommending this system around 2019), but those systems ultimately get all their data from this one, as far as I'm aware.

[1] http://old.rozklad-pkp.pl/bin/query.exe/pn?
It's up and down, I was able to access it just a few seconds ago. Seems like their servers can't deal with the massive interest.
That inflexibility must end.
>Changing the password alone may not be sufficient. The exploit allows the regeneration of authentication cookies even after a password reset, but only once. To fully secure the account, users should log out of all sessions and revoke any suspicious connections.

TL/DR: Change password and log out of all sessions.
My larger point is that if the dealers can make identical looking counterfeits, including imprints, then I am pretty confident they can make legit looking blister packs as well.
Could someone make a neat blog post like this comparing the CleanSpace Halo to the Dyson Zone Visor? Thanks!

I would be rather delighted if I could go among people without looking like someone straight out of a catastrophe movie. The Halo looks weird even for someone who wears "I am not weird, I am limited edition" t-shirts regularly. The Dyson looks much better but when I did an amateur comparison the performance appeared to be much weaker than the Halo.
It's also worth noting that the "one-page-rule" does not apply everywhere. In academia, for example, longer resumes are very common.
I've killed the majority of my own meat this past year. That was one cow, two sheep, two deer, and a few dozen rabbits. An acre of soy takes orders of magnitudes more carnage.
The article states the majority of the plastic comes from the membrane in a reverse osmosis filter... so are you really any better off?
Like he wants to deal with content moderation of video...
I did not know about `includeIf`...this allows getting rid of the hacks I used to achieve something similar, great!
I was curious so I looked it up. Currently, geothermal energy provides 10-15% of Hawaii's energy needs. Given that it's highly volcanic, it seems like this could be increased.

For comparison, geothermal power accounts for over 50% of Iceland's production.

Curious if the differences are physical/geological, or some other reason.
Good god. The comments on this thread are the worst I've seen on hacker news.
But I don't manage databases either, management is a poor differentiation
at least for the internal goal of hiring top ML talent, you can probably just calculate how long it took to hiring the good ones, and then how much money that team made.
I am going to quote your last sentence.
Not surprising. I'd been using movielens for recommendations prior to the prize, and even today Netflix still does not provide high quality content recommendations.

Worse yet it seems to think I want to watch the three things that are most popular on the platform.

This indicates that the Netflix UX business is being significantly mismanaged.
No idea, but the math says there have to be way more dimensions than we can interact with, so I'm thinking it's a higher dimensional being that we can't interact with. It/they would have to enter our dimension to communicate with us.
> I've seen it utilized to pay good people who do good work that can't accept USD

Like someone who lives in Venezuela?
I hope I am wrong, but this sounds as if the guy wrote the email thought that C is a subset of C++.

No it is not. First example: initialisation of structs
A simple "don't show me this thing ever again" button would make Netflix 100x more usable, but it would quickly demonstrate just how small their catalog is.
Sudan's Wars of Identity: The Creeping Quest for a New Sudan
And this is in addition to the regular known risk of plastic leeching into water over time as the water bottle breaks down or hot/freezing temperatures that can also cause the water bottle to break down.

I spoke to a 70 year old co-worker yesterday. They talked about a time when plastic wasn't used anywhere beyond Saran Wrap. How much of our modern plastic use is youthful folly? I grew up with it being normal so I didn't question it. Changing away from it would be abnormal! I suspect there will be a sharp turn away from plastics in several years, but I can't really fathom what that will be to instead. Paper? Metals? Wax? Glass?
You can say streaming is commodity and uninteresting now but back in 2012 when these decisions were being made, they had the ability to pivot into making proprietary, higher-end TVs and set top boxes that improved streaming significantly to where it is today or further. I understand they didn't want to become TiVO, but this is where Netflix had the ability to change things by publishing exclusive content directly to their customers without relying on cable/satellite providers. I can't say it would be easy -- and that is what I mean about Reed Hastings not being capable.

Strategically, Netflix is beholden to its manufacturing partners and never had a wholistic story for the living room the way they claimed to want because they never had control. They never had control because they didn't come up with a compelling prototype. This would necessarily include gaming and other content.
Everything that Netflix says or does externally wrt to tech appears to be for this purpose, including open-sourcing some things. It is all catnip for the HN crowd to come work for them.
OpenWrt One – celebrating 20 years of OpenWrt
True, that is anti-personalization
The IKEA one has three power levels, the first one is virtually inaudible, the second one hard to ignore even just being in the room during the day, the third one is really loud. Very good purifier though, looks nice, filters well. They even have a more expensive model that has Zigbee and integrates with Home Assistant.
Metahead – An enterprise-grade, Git-based metarepo
I'd love an example (or two) of a single sentence using two or three of these "niceties".
Ah ah. Initially unintentional, noticed it, left it there.
If it makes people happy, it must be destroying the planet!

I have no idea what kind of destruction it does. But it's an alternative for making people miserable to the point where it's an stochastic genocide, so it must be bad somehow.

Yeah, I see lots of people saying exactly the same, completely seriously, both online and live. What goes on those people head is beyond my capacity to comprehend.
What We Owe the Past: William MacAskill, Effective Altruism and the Wrong Life
Don't know what the "AI-powered" part is about, but it's still a pretty interesting mix of ideas for a robotic device.

Some examples - https://www.handwrytten.com/features/
Most electrical consumption is on an island two islands over from the volcanoes. Probably also geological: hot springs are not really a thing in Hawaii.
I like how it's being positioned as "damage". It's the body working more efficiently with less fuel. That's not damage, it's adaptation and homeostasis.
Just looked up his book "The Obesity Code"; not sure if that's the one you're thinking of.

Dr. Fung says obesity is a basically a hormonal issue, not a caloric issue. He discusses a "causality test": "If we inject this hormone into people, they must gain weight". According to Dr. Fung, leptin and ghrelin don't pass this test, but insulin and cortisol do. Still, leptin and insulin appear to have a close relationship. "Insulin promotes fat storage. Leptin reduces fat storage. High levels of insulin should naturally act as an antagonist to leptin. However, the precise mechanisms by which insulin inhibits leptin are yet unknown." He also says that "too much insulin causes obesity" and that "obesity is a state of leptin resistance." (Sorry for that mini book review; I needed to understand what he was saying.)

On the fasting point, he's explicitly supportive not of regular fasting but intermittent fasting: "Diets must be intermittent, not steady...we cannot fast all the time. It won't work."

Based on my fast read of his work and my own understanding, intermittent fasting keeps leptin levels high enough that the body doesn't kick into calorie restricting mode. One approach which seems to accomplish this is eating close-to-zero carbs five days/week (say, during the week) and then eating lots of carbs two days/week (say, on the weekend). The burst of carbs will cause leptin levels to spike since the body now has tons of available energy. Over the week, the leptin levels will remain elevated, but since you're minimizing carbs, the body will draw energy from adipose tissue.
The windy side of Maui has a bunch of wind turbines.
I actually love the community notes on ads. Really good stuff.
All the top talent they've acquired and money spent still can't save them from their complete garbage lineup of content they push out, all while limiting account access and raising prices.
The main problem with replacing a fossil fuel plant with renewable + batteries is finding a battery system that can hold energy over a sufficiently long period of time and has enough capacity to replace solar/wind when it is dark and calm.

In the studies I've seen the time shift required is on the order of seasons and the capacity required is cost prohibitive.

It may be that the weather patterns in Hawaii are sufficiently stable that it makes it possible to remove the companion base load generation capacity. The article seems to hint at the fact that the total capacity of the coal plant was much higher than the storage capacity of the battery system:

> With 565 megawatt-hours of storage, the battery can’t directly replace the coal plant’s energy production ...

So it isn't clear how much capacity has been lost in this switch. They may also be other changes in the generation portfolio that aren't discussed in the article.
Hertz Is Selling Its Fleet of Rental Tesla Model 3s for Cheap
The place I currently work at does not do such things. Most of us are remote.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38942790
So you decided to add your own that contributes nothing of value whatsoever?
An honest discussion of that should probably include the ecological and health impacts of coal, and the ongoing dramatic decline in cost to add new solar/wind capacity. It's cheaper even factoring in variable production, and this battery project is part of how you address intermittency.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3-Learning-curves-fo...
The ease with which LLMs mimic mundane human behavior has, in some small ways, helped me prioritize my own thoughts and actions. I'll be doing something and realize an LLM could easily perform this action, complete this thought, have this conversation as well as I can. So why am I doing this when my time would probably be better served in pursuit of something else. I don't want to go overboard with this since many mundane things have merit but it does help pull me out of a rut occasionally.
Are they objectively better at ML for movie recommendations than they were beforehand? I confess I've never been too impacted by their recommendations. Outside of new releases, but that doesn't really use any ML.
I hesitate to write this, but PTSD is a bit more complex than that.

In some cases there's damage to the hippocampus, which doesn't get better. I've had 40 years to make peace with the crappy accident I was in. But the things like an exaggerated startle reflex, an aversion to chaotic or unplanned sounds and other triggers remain. I always carry a pair of noise-cancelling headphones if I think I might need to be in a noisy environment.
"going through 14 months of accumulated postal mail"

As an extended traveller myself, I've found mail forwarding services to be indispensable. They scan your postal mail and email you the image. You can forward original documents to your current location, and have them cash your checks (although I do everything electronic now). If you move around a lot, like for work, one benefit is that you get to keep the same mailing address. I have used VirtualPostMail and PostScanMail, but there are many out there.
The proof was(n't) in the pudding. Movielens has given me superb recommendations and led me to watch content that became some of my all-time favorite content. Netflix has never offered a useful recommendation at all.
This reminds me of the Chronolog Programming Language.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/331119.331415

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3557566_ChronologZ_...