skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true but I think misses the spirit of the criticism

Imagine an alternative world where health insurance acts more like a mortgage with an amortization schedule. when youre young (and have low savings) your premiums act like they do now - simple insurance. But as you age, your payments are split gradually between pure premium and an HSA. The amount you’re personally liable for increases as you age, but so does your ability to pay out of pocket. For high earners this scheme makes a lot more sense (because youll have a few hundred thousand in health savings by retirement).

Most people actually do the above but clumsily and also in the opposite order - HDHP plans are more broadly useful when youre young and healthy because you probably wont have high medical costs so you just save on premiums.
Ok so propensity and outcome:

Propensity:
Risk doesn't imply a guarantee of a bad outcome. It means "if you put your five year old in the sea, their risk goes up". It doesn't mean "they will definitely die". Risk up. Not 100%, just a lot higher.

Outcome:
The risk isn't that we'll all die, it's that we'll be overtaken and lose control, after which all bets are off. We lose the ability to influence the future.

We put a lot of effort into ensuring our continued existence. We can barely trust people from a different country that share the human condition with us. We spend so much on defence. On cybercrime. But some are arguing that a totally alien being smarter than us is just fine, because we'll control it and can ensure indefinite kumbaya. Good luck with that. Best we can hope for is that it's closer to a buddhist monk than we are, and that it indefinitely prevents our defence people from trying to make it more aggressive.

I absolutely wouldn't ban LLM's, because they're basically unthinking toys and giving us a great taste of risks further down the line. They are not the end state of AI. The problem is not the instance of today's tech, it's the continued effort to make the AI state of the art better than us. One day it'll succeed, and that's a one-way change.

Sam Altman said, long before OpenAI: focus on slope, not y-intercept.
Funny I was just searching youtube for any videos of VB 3.0 found this guy going through his old programs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKctfEqXVZ4

If you google image search for 'aol progz' there are pictures of FateX, AOHell, Revolution, Icy Hot, Rampage Toolz. Crazy trip down memory lane!

Apparently we're not alone: "Steve Case Confirms Zuckerberg as Former AOL Hacker": https://patorjk.com/blog/2014/04/27/steve-case-confirms-zuck...
Openai just invisibly dropped my API requests to a lower model with a 4k context limit. And my commit scripts started failing for being over the context limit. It's buried in the docs somewhere that low tier api users will be served on lower models during peek times.

So,I guess they're like a Milwaukee Drill that will sometimes refuse to work unless you buy more drill credits.
My top level comment started the thread where most of them are
Perhaps you need to update your modem firmware. See the review I linked in another comment.
> What’s the bullish story for why solar panels in space with microwave beaming is better than solar panels on earth?

Space-based solar power (SBSP) has three advantages over terrestrial solar: flexibility, footprint and theoretical efficiency.

The classic case for flexibility is disaster zones; it's easier to set up receiving meshes than build new power plants. The problem is humanitarian crises don't pay. The real sell is military and mining. Beaming power to remote operations simplifies logistics.

Footprint is minor, but worth mentioning: the receivers for space-based solar are smaller and could be laid over e.g. farmland.

Last, but not least, the atmosphere absorbs a lot of solar energy. In this model, the space-based rig is a lens, converting the well-absorbed frequencies that generate power into microwaves to which dry air is more transparent. If you can get a focussed beam, a SBSP rig could also be placed far enough out that it's less subject to Earth's day-night cycles. These factors boost its theoretical efficiency.

I haven't run the numbers for several years. But they only become compelling if you have ISRU and in situ manufacturing of panels. I don't think SBSP is a beachhead market for asteroid mining. But it's feasible if we have it.
Okay then. What does the frozen bread button do?
Boeing seeks Ryanair support with checks
The PDF won't load for me, but I'm guessing it's supposed to be a demonstration that an "in it for the grift" candidate did in fact win immediately prior to the one you're thinking of.
I'm sorry, I really have no idea where you are trying to go with this.

- You can have files on IPFS and no blockchain whatsoever "behind it".

- IPFS itself makes no use of blockchains as an abstration for data storage or file organization

- If all the blockchains networks and nodes disappeared overnight, no IPFS nodes would be affected.

I don't know if you actually used any of that or just going by hearsay.
Animators say 'AI isn't going to get you an Oscar'
I don't know if the Bendix was considered field-repairable. The Sacramento Air Logistics Center (McClellan AFB) sticker on it as seen on CuriousMarc's video indicates no. But there should be either a manual from Bendix and/or an Air Force Technical Order for it that covers repair & servicing.

Not a Bendix expert (but I was stationed at McClellan in the mid-1980s) - I would think that cleanliness and proper lubrication are going to be frequently mentioned. Also I wonder if they had a process to seal the unit up while in a atmosphere chamber. When the diaphragms expand they will be pressing against the air in the unit, so it needs to always be at a known altitude (pressure). The altitude of McClellan Field (KMCC) is 76.8 feet, so outside the tolerance range if they just sealed it up while on the bench.
https://ollama.ai/library?sort=newest
Anecdotally, a lot. Modeling of Aspherical elements has gotten better and it is much easier to make them as well. Mamiya made some of the first APO computer corrected lenses back in 1988 - https://lens-db.com/mamiya-apo-sekor-z-350mm-f56-1988/
> And that should be the focus here, rather than attacking or regulating false information.

This approach is too callous and cold-hearted for my taste. I can’t stomach it. The real consequences for human life is, I think, too severe to ignore. All I am asking is that the box, sold in stores, be labeled correctly and clearly. The labeling does not have to be perfect, but it should meet some minimum standards.
It actually started as an encrypted messenger on top of SMS, TextSecure. From that perspective the inclusion of SMS made a lot of sense.
That's almost nowhere. Drinking soda instead of water has nothing to do with poverty.
Fluorite just has low dispersion and therefore a lens made from it has less chromatic aberration than glass.
Back in 2006 IBM already had predicted how self- checkout should work[1].

Their TV ad made was so cool, so well done and so "I want to live in this world" that became one of my favorites even today:

https://youtu.be/wzFhBGKU6HA

[1]https://mashable.com/article/ibm-predicts-amazon-go
Biggest YouTuber backtracks on X video snub
I've used the BSON Java ObjectId for distributed primary key generation for a long time. Really useful for distributed systems.
> vast majority of art used by midjourney is not public domain

Is that true? How did you establish that?
Twin Galaxies restores Billy Mitchell's scores following legal settlement
Thanks for bringing this up. I posted an answer to the same question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39009566

But seeing that we already have two questions about it makes me think whether this should be something we should think more about when we are prioritizing work.
But you have to consider Wikipedia is made to serve everyone, including the less enlightened. The way I see it, if information without a source is allowed, it can quickly get out of hand.
When we still had Visa I did donate them here and there. And then they have decided to cancel my country, with editors bragging about "eradricating fascist media".

Lost some money but got important life takeway.

I also like how every comment under the article is heavily downvoted. Parliament, as it was said, is not a place for discussion.
It's competitive for locations where the alternative is flying in diesel for generators. Some Northern locations are like that, although most have land or sea access on a seasonal basis. But the military flies a lot of diesel / kerosene.
GM to Shut Down Ultra Cruise
What if we're all self=playing harps?
> Why use a QR code reader app instead of the built in camera app?

The QR code is on the screen of my desktop Mac. The camera is right above the screen facing me and can't see what is on the screen.

I could read it with the built in camera app on my iPhone or iPad, but that just tells me it is a QR code for the TOTP authenticator app I use and opens that if I tap. I don't see a way to get it to tell me the content of the QR code in text form. Even if it had a way that would be on the phone and I want the text to save it on the Mac.
In fact, Apple is already pretty clear in its developer agreement [0] that the 30% commission is for "its services as Your agent and/or commissionaire" (Schedule 2 3.4), not for its services as a payment processor. They are contractually allowed to take the 30% fee out of payments collected, but merely using a different payment processor doesn't remove the obligation to pay them for their other "services as Your agent and/or commissionaire".

[0] https://developer.apple.com/support/terms/apple-developer-pr...
> Quite the threat.

I wonder if Tesla's institutional shareholders see Tesla's foray into robotics as a money-losing distraction that drains precious company resources to serve no other purpose than to have bragging rights.

If any major shareholder does, Musk's threats seem to be a way to invite him to pursue his pet projects with his own money.
I would have thought people would have investigated more than just jumping to opening issues. There is obviously a skill issue here.
I have a FD 300/2.8 S.S.C. Fluorite lens, introduced in 1975. It's a FANTASTIC lens, sharp corner to corner wide open at f/2.8, and excellent for astrophotography. It's able to capture details of the Orion nebula, horsehead nebula, and the spiral arms of the Andromeda galaxy in a single shot. It's also excellent for outdoor portraits and creams backgrounds, though you'll need to use a phone call on speakerphone to talk to your subject.

The list price back then was 420000 JPY which is $5364 in today's dollars. I got it for $400, used.

Back then prices of FD mount lenses dropped dramatically because nobody wanted them: the flange distance was too short to be adapted to any DSLR. I ended up taking apart the entire back part and machining a conversion mount to make it usable on DSLR. (An adapter ring won't work, since it adds thickness.)

Unfortunately with the advent of mirrorless cameras, FD lenses are once again usable with simple adapter rings, and their used market prices have gone back up. However they're still excellent, excellent value for $ in comparison to modern autofocusing equivalents in optics; the lens I have costs ~$600-$1000 on eBay now whereas a new Sony 300/2.8 GM costs $6000. For anyone looking for a fast, large aperture telephoto lens I'd highly recommend looking into FD lenses that have fluorite elements, as long as you don't mind manual focus.
> a choice of law provision that parties agree to bind themselves to, and Apple's are no exception

Choice of law provisions are still subject to the prevailing law. And the first determinant of prevailing law is physical location. Sacramento exerts de facto jurisdiction over every Apple and related asset within California.
What "lifesaving medical procedures" do you mean exactly? You can't possibly mean abortion, since saving the mother's life is one of the exceptions to Texas's abortion ban.
It's been a multi-year slog of updating this, tweaking that, and patching the other. I've moved on to working devices.
Fantastic. Just upgraded to a paid plan with Pinecone, much easier going than ChromaDB. I wanted to use ChromaDB, but ran into deployment issues and had more money than time.
The vast majority of App Store transactions incur a 30% fee. The most common credit card fee is ~3%. It's gonna make a pretty big difference.
I'm sure that's great, but it's a bit impractical for groceries. Even the relatively small cost of an NFC tag is going to be a real problem given how thin most groceries' margins are (and how cheap small amounts of food can be, even now).

But groceries are one of the best examples of where this would be a big time-saver.

I will say that I really do prefer self-check in convenience stores, where a big purchase is three or four items. But for groceries... it's too much if you're actually doing a big shopping day.
I'm only replying to the praise here - I too, although I haven't fully switched, had a very enticing moment with Kagi when it returned a result that couldn't even be found on Google at any page in the results. This really sold me on Kagi and I've been going back and forth with some queries, but I have to say that between LLMs, Perplexity, and Google often answering my queries right on the search page, I just don't have that many queries left for Kagi.

If Kagi would somehow merge with Perplexity, now that would be something.
I’m not sure about the loss of flavor, but we have definitely seen waves of homogenization with macro beer producers. From what I’ve seen, this led to an explosion in regional and local microbreweries. There are lots of eclectic options out there nowadays.
Hahaha true... :)
my understanding is that SoundCloud does have a content ID system similar to YouTube, but most artists and non-major labels don't opt into it. Occasionally copyright strikes do happen, which is why a lot of artists will have secondary bootleg channels to avoid getting their primary account axed.
I think it's more like being overly confident and delusional is a prerequisite for being a successful politician, whether you use drugs or not.

I mean, how else are you going to convince people to vote for you? You need two things: a vision for a better future (hence "delusional"), and confidence that you can achieve it.
It's probably beyond the scope of this project, but it would be great to see comparisons across different quant levels (e.g. 4-bit, etc), since this can sometimes result in an extreme drop off in quality, but it's an important factor to consider when hosting your own LLM.
I have a desktop and am familiar with what it offers. Run arbitrary code on it, and modify the hardware if I really want. I used a jailbroken iPhone for years, which is just the software part.
Thanks, I might as well keep going then :)

Google has commercialized a huge amount of search terms. I'll use biology as an example. You search for particular species and search results prioritize products that kill the species. You search for a particular plant and you'll have a hard time learning about the species as it only shows cultivated versions and products related to how to care for them.

Pure information/knowledge for the sake of learning and curiosity is de-prioritized.

Back to image search, it's unable to figure out original sources or doesn't care. Pinterest is the well known manifestation of that.

Google shopping results: completely broken. Click through on the products and half the time the price, availability, discounts and stock do not match.

Everything is so goddamn broken, and nobody at Google seems to care. I can't explain it, but it's been going on for a good 6-7 years or so.
How to Unlock Faster Queries for Your Database using Indexing
Those two distinct major private markets are inside platforms that compete with each other, so it's not clear what a monopoly means in that case. That's what everyone is trying to figure out.

A judge can't simply mandate a private tax rate and probably wouldn't want to anyway. Antitrust judgments typically try to remedy root causes limiting competition so the market can work out the rest, rather than try to guess some arbitrary "fair" rate that wouldn't be constant anyway.
Safeguarding scientific integrity: Examining peer review manipulation
Most people know 20,000-40,000 words. Let's call it 30,000. You've learned 99.999% of those 30,000 people from other people. And don't get me started on phrases, cliches, sentence structures, etc.

How many of those words do you remember learning? How many can you confidently say you remember the person or the book that taught you the word? 5? 10? Maybe 100?

That's how brains work. We ingest vast amounts of information that other people put out into the world. We consume and it incorporate it and start using it on our own work. And we forget where we even got it. My brain works this way. Your brain works this way. Artists' brains work this way. GPT-4 works this way.

The idea that a visual artist can somehow recall where they first saw many of the billions of images stored in their brain -- the photos, movies, architecture, paintings, and real-life scenes that play out every second of every day -- is laughable. Almost all of that goes uncredited, and always will.

This is what it is to learn.
No license? Is it open source?
Around here, whenever there's any sort of problem with self checkout, the employees don't even try to diagnose the problem. They're not paid enough to bother. Recently, a self checkout machine started beeping because I had used an e-coupon that exceeded the total price of all the items by a couple of pennies. It appeared to generate a receipt, but still wanted me to wait. Cashier comes over, looks at the receipt, enters something into the machine, says it's fine, waves me out. I look at the receipt more closely when I get to the car: it literally says "transaction canceled" on the bottom. Not only was my purchase "free", but the electronic coupon was still good!
Apple revises App Store rules to let developers link to outside payment methods
I suspect they often do.
Telegram is my favourite messenger indeed.

I don't care much for its stickers but it has a ton of quality of life features. Group chats with topics. Built in translation. Fully supported bots that can add tons of functionality. Voice message transcription. Full access to everything on the web. No problems with bridges (eg to matrix). I'm happily paying the premium fee too which is only 30€ a year. It provides even more quality of life stuff like fully automatic translations (my Spanish isn't the best yet)

Here in Spain it's used a lot especially for groups. WhatsApp is still #1 for 1:1 chats but all the groups (eg associations) i know use telegram.
How to parse protocols with eBPF (BGP is the example)
Yet ovens are not open at the top.

I can see an argument about hot air rising, leading to unevenness, or about hot air drying out the bread, but 'the toaster would get hot' doesn't make sense to me.

Regarding horizontal toasting, that is something I had in mind. I might hack my broken toaster to try this out.
Not sure if this is useful for you as not mobile specific but these were issues I bought up with the W3C back in 2020 some of which may be of interest to you too:

https://www.w3.org/2020/06/machine-learning-workshop/talks/o...
I bet she even uses pencils, which can be used to write down ideas she disagrees with. What a hypocrite!
So you instead want to what? Ban the tools because they interfere with doing things the human way?
OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pentagon
Oh, got it. Classic problem with QR codes. Some people get around it with two mirrors, haha.
This is phenomenal. And runs fast! The 33b version might be my MacBook's new coding daily driver.
OpenTofu 1.7 General Availability: open-source Infrastructure-as-Code
Waymo follows hand signals from traffic controller in LA [video]
Native apps use Android/iOS scanning libraries that are much more effective than the in-browser options. They are still nowhere near as good as hardware scanners.
Everything except the modem firmware is updated automatically, without tweaking, and getting better every month. I didn't tweak anything, just waited for updates. If you were in a hurry, you had to tweak everything, yes.
I'm actually really excited about the direction Rails is going in. It's like it's shedding some of the complexity that was accumulated over the years in favor of things I can finally understand again.
San Diego to anywhere in Texas isn't a fair fight.

This is simply a stealth layoff so they don't have to trigger the California layoff announcement law.
Some of them retire to Gila Bend, AZ: https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/gila_bend
Isn't that covered in the 7th paragraph?

'the red to green wavelengths are dispersed with the same tendencies as glass, but the green to blue wavelengths are dispersed more than glass. Using a convex fluorite lens element alongside a high-dispersion glass concave lens element therefore eliminates residual chromatic aberration'
'sleeper agent' AI assistants can sabotage your code without you realizing
Dual-N-Back: Memory game that's been shown to improve working memory
They don't have to randomly guess, they'd ask developers who are using external payment processors to provide an accounting of the number of sales, with a clear paper trail showing that the developers certified that their numbers were honest.

It'd end up functioning similar to income tax: Apple has a pretty darn good sense for what the numbers should look like, but they'd rely on you to fill in the gaps, and if you didn't do so accurately they'd sue you for breach of contract.

I'm not sure what would make that an easier anti-competitive lawsuit than the one that Epic lost.
Leaving the Real World: How I Escaped Andrew Tate's Get Rich Quick 'Cult'
I never thought to look for music on SoundCloud but that's one of my go-to genres so I decided to give it a shot. Just a quick search and wow I've already found great new-to-me tracks!
I've seen far worse crimes than that :)

Example: Writing what is effectively a graph algorithm where every edge/node lookup is a string key in a hash map. Transforming the string keys into dense integer offsets once-off costs nearly nothing, and reduces every single lookup into a direct memory offset. That one optimization alone was an over 30x speedup, and you can imagine that if they wrote it like this then there was a lot of other low hanging fruit.

These people passed one of the most famous computer science hiring bars in the industry, and this code passed review.

When I interview people with a puzzle version of a problem like this, 95% of candidates still use string keys instead of reducing them to integers, so this is shockingly common and not at all an edge case. It's just one of dozens of common performance antipatterns I see in code written by people with TC over $500k USD.

It's also why I call bullshit when people online claim that computer science interviewing is gatekeeping and they don't need algorithms in their day job. This is false both ways; it's not gatekeeping successfully enough because nonsense like this makes it to global production and costs tens of millions, and anyone who wants to succeed in this job is expected to know better.
Two reasons.
1. A microwave receiver on earth is much smaller than many solar farms, so we don't use a lot of our finite land for energy generation
2. This could actually bring solar to some geographies which aren't well suited to solar due to weather

To achieve the energy transition, you need SO MANY solar panels and they will take up a lot of land. That land is most expensive near the very population centers which need the most power.

According to Jesse Jenkins, to power America, "the solar farms are an area the size of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts."[1] (this isn't the most precise source I could find, but it's reputable)

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/podcasts/transcript-ezra-...