skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decades of research that was catalogued, indexed, and shared via the internet. We're talking about drastically cutting down on time people the world over would be collectively spending rediscovering the same things. Because of peer review, we can cut down on time wasted pursing things that are flawed.

HN just recently followed the peer review process of LK-99 in basically real-time across the world. The results might seem trivial in hindsight, but it took leading experts the world over a bit of time to pin down and explain what was really being obversed. It probably saved the original authors years of work trying to refine and chase LK-99.

History has shown the time and again, every advancement in communication has been a boon to human progress. Printing press, telegraph, transalantic//transcontinental telegraph cables, telephone, internet...

There's plenty of papers posted here, and a lot of the break through papers are usually made on the shoulders of giants - connecting break throughs in seemingly disconnected disciplines/sub disciplines. HN sees this most frequently in maths papers, and the story is made easily digest able in breakdowns from quanta magazine.

The internet has drastically accelerated the rate of human progress, and now we're on the cusp of removing the language barrier with automatic machine transmission.
The limits of math-based modeling inevitably will also apply to AI & ML-based systems. The difficulty of establishing a baseline set of conditions on which to math model a non-linear process (i.e. non-convex) surely will be just as problematic when the baseline data behind a AI learning-based model must also change. The Achilles heel in both cases of modeling is our awareness that the model's assumptions go bad with the passage of time.

The math-based decomposition of non-convex processes into coverage using multiple convex models presumes that the span of the full model is appropriately segmented and conditioned. Its sanity check is to reassess those segments and conditions periodically. But do we have comparable means of revalidating ML-based (induction) models, given our lack of understanding of their black-box innards? Given that AI models can and will fail in time due to model AND data disintegration, must we simply wait until each AI model's prediction accuracy goes to hell to then build an all-new ML model and renewed dataset -- experimentally starting over from scratch each time because we never understood the limits of the AI model and its dependency on its training data to begin with?
Thanks, that's an accurate assessment. The main reason for this approach is that txtai has been around since 2020 before the LLM era.
I support Apple not because they need my support, but because the supporting argument aligns with my principles. I believe that the entire App Store ecosystem belongs to Apple, and that none of us have any right to dictate what Apple does with it. It's theirs in the same way my organs are mine. Just because it happens to be massively successful doesn't change this. I'm not a negative utilitarian.
The power of Google AI comes to the new Samsung Galaxy S24 series
See also https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/science/ai-computers-math...

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39030186, but we'll merge that thread hither)
I don't really see the point of raising money if you aren't going to go all in and try to build a billion dollar startup.

As soon as you raise you are locking yourself to the idea you are selling for at least 7 years. If you are lucky, you can extract some money via a secondary to buy a modest house 3 years into it as a founder. You now have a heavy responsibility to your investors and employees to be a steward of their capital. All the code you've written now belongs to the company rather than yourself.

Meanwhile, if you bootstrap as a solo founder, you have optionality. If the business makes a profit you can now just deposit that in your bank account. If you get bored after 2 years you can leave the business on autopilot and repurpose the code you've written to try other ideas. If the product does take off you always have the option to spin it off into its own llc and raise money for it (or just sell it outright). The threshold for success is so much lower, you only need a few thousand paying customers to sustain one developer (you). Of course the obvious challenge with going this route is that you actually have to be able to execute on your own idea.
The pharmaceutical industry continues as a giant, blood sucking, vampire squid because of IP.
My work uses notion. We have to write a lot, and I need to write a lot of mathematics. Writing math on notion pages is like pulling teeth.

Till last year, I was writing my docs in markdown on my computer (using emacs), and then uploading using this library for markdown-to-notion-import [1]. But the notion api has changed, and the library no longer works, and I am not sure what to do now.

[1] https://github.com/Cobertos/md2notion
It's kind of sad seeing the FPGA market evaporate upwards.

Lattice has been building some new middle-tier lines that are exciting, and Gowen and Efinix are very recent interesting upstarts, but man... It's been getting so baren. Parts got more and more expensive, only higher end parts get created.

I feel similarly about PCIe switches, which for a while were a competitive market. But there was so much market consolidation & so many products disappeared.
> The problem isn't wealth, it is our hearts.

That sounds like the dragon, seeking to deflect blame away from the treasure hoard it is protecting, if only for itself.
Do you have examples? Obviously it's hard to compare scales though.
I was searching tools for managing dotfiles, and I came across yadm. I still haven't tried it, but I am considering to give it a shot. It's git-based, supports system-specific files or templates, private data encryption, bootstrapping and hook mechanisms.
> Afaik every school bans devices in class.

They super, duper, do not :-(
you say 'average ev' to include the 1st generation evs that are trash and had no cold weather capabilities. Yes -50% range can be expected. Terrible!

The kia soul for example, which originally had 150km range has been upgraded now. I believe the cold weather package is standard now?

Today in 3rd generation evs, you have to cross the heat pump temp limit of -25c for there to be worse then ICE range losses.

There's obviously always going to be rough losses. Afterall, the colder it is, the more I want to jack up the heat.

Ford, chevy, and vw I believe are still in 2nd gen? Though honestly I havent heard how well the new ultium are doing for chevy?

I believe 3rd gens, jaguar, audi, and tesla at -20c will be around -5% range loss or so?

Personally I'm waiting on 4th gen with solid state batteries in hopes/expectations they handle the cold weather better. afterall it is -15c right now for me. Toyota has all the patents and might be first to market?
Not only but certainly disproportionately.
Thank you for taking the time to share these excellent additional details!
Samsung's S24 and S24 Plus put new AI smarts in a polished package
This is one of those times where we have to choose between being right in absolute terms and making progress. The right-wing disinformation apparatus has had billions of dollars and decades to spread lies and doubt, and you’re not going to change that overnight – especially if you storm in saying “you’re wrong, admit it!” From the sounds of it, the key here was getting someone this guy trusted to say it – and probably not dwell on every detail as long as they get the idea that they need to make changes – just as we’ve seen trusted doctors and nurses overcome vaccine resistance in ways which a stranger could not.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39029801, which was posted earlier and is currently on the front page.
How DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086
It inherently has to damage our present conception of IP, unless we plan to cripple the AI revolution in the crib.

If you have smart robots in the home, much less AGI, what's the plan on restricting them? Sorry robot, you may only learn this limited set of skills, you're not allowed to create, because you've seen too much and might be too good at learning and producing.

They'll be incredibly metered if they're not allowed to learn and produce at a high capability.

And if we're talking about AGI, you can never realistically reach it if you put it in the straightjacket required to protect IP as things are today. Sorry all-knowing AGI god, you may not make images that look too much like XYZ. In fact, you're not allowed to even see any of it because of your capabilities. In fact, Disney has decided through the copyright act of 2042 that you're not even allowed access to the Internet (or magazines, or radio, or music, or TV).

It can't be AGI if it can't create. Forget about trained on ('just do not train it on material with copyright'), it'll self-train, and then what? Well then you can't even let it self-train, ie no AGI is possible.

It's going to be either or. Either the IP laws get changed, or you get no AGI. The only thing possible would be extremely boxed off, narrow, high capability AI.
On Perserverance in Running and Life
'For many AI uses, GPUs are compute overkill': How Ampere plans to ride AI wave
As soon as someone invents a calendar/to-do app that helps you schedule your next tasks by using AI to reduce context switching (e.g., can tell from a meeting's attendees and a project's responsible parties that you're probably thinking about the right type of topic, and this is the optimal break in your calendar to hammer out this task), it'll be worth changing things up.

Until then the improvements are too small to be worth the time cost to switch.
I use pitivi for very basic stuff.
FOMO

The more experiences, the more one might become addicted to the feelings of first love, which tautologically puts downward pressure on long-term relationships.

This probably account for divorce correlating with more prior partners.
We need to educate parents better. The children of tech billionaires aren't permitted to use all of these devices or social accounts... because the tech elite know they are harmful to social and intellectual development.

Cigarettes are for plebes, after all.
You're right. I tried to elaborate a bit in the text field and wasn't able to articulate my thoughts very well. I will think on it a bit more and try again another time. Thanks for your comment. :)
Linux 6.8 Will Let You Know When x86 32-Bit Support Is Disabled
autojump allows you to open file manager, … while z is truly “autojump”, just cd into the directory.
The original comment only listed bandwidth cost. Storage is also equally cheap, global distribution is equally cheap if you have your boxes at POPs. Someone that is at Apple's scale could very easily manage this.

We're looking at cents per app per user in lifetime costs.

The "Cloud" is disgustingly expensive at nearly any scale. It does require some capital investment and competent people to host your own however. Although there really is no alternative to the cloud if you are small scale but need presence globally.
The Open Source Initiative, who maintain the Open Source Definition, have been running a whole series over the past year to collect input from all sorts of stakeholders about what it means for an AI to be open source. I was lucky enough to participate in an afternoon long session with about a hundred other people last year at All Things Open.

https://deepdive.opensource.org/

I encourage you to go check out what's already being done here. I promise it's way more nuanced than anything than is going to fit on a tweet.
Many EVs, especially newer ones, use a heat pump. These are 200, 300% or more efficient.
This is very valid point, as developers using old machines will probably remove all "goodies" provided by manufacturer and have pretty decently running device.
Nintendo legal’s treatment of fan projects e.g. AM2R does not afford them the courtesy of my respecting their IP by avoiding pirating their products. They’ve had their chances to play nice.
Oh... I live in Ireland and I've never tried that!
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly.

Perhaps you don't owe bad cops better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it, and in any case this problem is not about this topic: it's a repeating pattern with your account. (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38982674 from a few days ago)

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Researchers release open-source space debris model – MIT AeroAstro
SQRD is just SQR D :)
AI-driven misinformation 'biggest short-term threat to global economy'
Dialetheism
This is called menu pricing and is a way to segment your market [0]. It is used to separate high and low demand consumers. If you are on the low end of demand it will tend to extract most of what you are willing to pay.

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/industrial-organiza...
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

No one is saying you owe cops better, for example, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I'm a big fan of approaches like this, that combine deep learning / newer techniques w/ "GOFAI" approaches.
Show HN: Transitive, an open-source framework for full-stack robotic software
After three years in development, I'm thrilled to share Transitive: an open-source framework for full-stack robotic software (https://github.com/transitiverobotics/transitive).

The Transitive framework makes it easy to build robot cloud portals. Even given all the great open-source tools for web development and device management, building such cloud portals for robots is still not an easy task. There are several reasons for this, but a big one is that robots are different from regular servers, despite many people attempting to tread them as such. They go offline a lot, have limited network bandwidth, and each robot in a fleet may run a different version of software and require a different configuration. Robots also generate a lot of data, some of which needs to be synced in real-time with cloud and web front-ends for processing and visualization, some of which recorded, and some discarded. In addition robots roam insecure areas and are connected over networks outside of the control of the startup, hence requiring tight authentication and authorization.

Transitive solves many of these issues. It provides a reliable, real-time data synchronization protocol that operates on top of MQTT, called MQTTSync. MQTTSync seamlessly synchronizes stateful data between robot, cloud, and web, instead of just passing messages. It provides the notion of full-stack packages that implement encapsulation and versioning of software components for all three systems (robot, cloud, and web) and uses MQTTSync's name-spaced data model to reliably communicate and operate, even when different robots run different versions of the package. The robot and cloud components are run in sandboxes to isolate them from the rest of the system, and the web components can be embedded in any web page including existing robot cloud portals. And of course, all this is secured, using SSL for transport-level security, client certificates and JSON Web Tokens for authentication, and authorization based on MQTT topics. Taken together this lays a solid foundation for building new full-stack capabilities with ease.

Note that Transitive is not a replacement for ROS, and in fact many of our capabilities run ROS nodes on the robot. Neither is Transitive a fleet management system. It just makes it easy for you to build your own!

To learn more about our first release of the self-hosted version, please see the linked blog post. If you just want to try it out quickly please go to https://portal.transitiverobotics.com/register to create a free account, which will also give you some starting credit for try out any of our premium capabilities, such as webrtc-based video streaming, our web-terminal, or file-sync ("Dropbox for robots").

I'll be watching this thread for responses, or you can use the contact info at the bottom of the blog post to get in touch. Would love to hear your feedback!
You can outsource. Look for "knockoff clothing manufacturers".
People interested in this topic should check out Miraheze, esp Past Research, below:

https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

We dumped all kinds of bootstrapped and gradual projects on that site. Everything from assembly to type-safe languages to macros to formal verification. Take your pick!
> letting flowers blossom over long time periods can be rewarding

There can be rewarding ways to live your life that don't allow this, e.g. serving your country, doctors without borders etc, but the nomadic life is a sacrifice so in order to be happy long term most people need to eventually set down roots as you did. The digital nomad lifestyle was sold for years as the ultimate life hack, and perhaps for a minority it is, but for most of us it sours.
"Appreciation letter" is why most of these vulnerabilities are not reported or disclosed by whitehats and are actively exploited by hackers.

There should be a legal framework that holds companies liable for certain level of security mishandling when it comes to private customer data.
I would do all this if IPad could be used like a Mac.. be able to use Safari with a quick pointy device, and keyboard, have a terminal to run Unix commands. A real filesystem with full access to local files - not another app- I mean full filesystem access with coreutils. Finally, being able to install whatever programs I can build myself or from GitHub like one would on Linux.

Basically an iPad without Apple’s walled garden. But we know that ain’t gonna happen. iPad is just a glorified consumption device.
For a sole user, yours is definitely a great way to economically utilize a single PiHole at home.

A suggestion for tho$e with multiple users: set up multiple PiHoles on your same network, then have "blocking levels" which each user can set up, e.g: 192.168.0.2 x.x.x.3 x.x.x.4 x.x.x.5 x.x.x.n

My DHCP auto-issues the "lowest level of blocking" PiHole to any client not specifying their own DNS (only 7 rules, mostly blocking pagead2 and doubleclick). Phones all point to a phone-specific local PiHole IP (which allows them to do phone-ier things). From there, users can block more ads simply by increasing the DNS IP by x.x.x.+1 [until shit stops working for them, then bump down 1].

For malingering DNS resolution issues, I'll sit down with the user/client and help them "massage the blocks" between x.x.x.n , but this is rare after the initial week or so of setup.

This also allows individual clients to entirely bypass your PiHoles, simply by them manually setting their DNS to x.x.x.1 [i.e. their router's IP].

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YES I know that you can have a single PiHole resolve differently based on client IP, but my above solution allows for a much-simpler "levels of DNS protection" that most non-technical users can understand/modify, themselves. It is not inexpensive =D
What is holding you back with upgrade to 17 or 21?
Biggest pain was migrating 8 to 9, after that it is piece of cake.
Coreboot does ACPI just fine.
I wonder if it is just in general market pumping up valuations. If everyone is highly valuing all companies, it means all companies are more valuable. Thus when they are flipped everyone makes more money.

So it makes sense for everyone to push up valuation number as anything they have stakes in will also seem more valuable...
Yup. It accounts for some 41% of the US' GDP, and a minimum of 47 million jobs. It's also growing at a fairly fast rate.

That's too much money for anybody in charge to let die. They're much more likely to nuke AI.
Once the steam client finally drops its legacy 32 bits code (they did it on apple OS, if I am not mistaken), 32bits is gone.
Heh... Another way of saying this is that LLMs can be indoctrinated. Neat!
Record labels spring immediately to mind.
Not disk drives but tape drives. Most likely these:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_729
Thank you for your reply have a nice day
iOS 17.3 Allows iPhones to Connect to Some Hotel Room TVs via AirPlay
Bottom line: Failing to account for human fallibility and misuse in product design is dangerous and deadly

I certainly agree that individual responsibility is paramount. The reality however is that “modern, connected, capitalist” life in 2024 requires you to have faith in thousands of systems that you don’t even know exist, are not designed the way I describe and are actually adversarial to the customer.

As a designer, and engineer, I view it as my responsibility to deliver products that do not make customers worse (in any time horizon) as a result of using my product and to limit or prevent externalities that impact the systems that sustain the product and the customer holistically over the longest possible time horizon.

However very few systems are built to such a customer-centric spec

It shouldn’t require genius level intelligence to have a reasonable understanding of how the systems you rely on work and the impacts of them breaking.

However millennia of specialization has ensured that the complexity and externalities of any one sub-system is undefined. So the concatenation of systems is a NP hard problem just to conceptualize. The fact that we don’t have defined system boundaries, a measurable goal state or current state means we’re a directionless set of agents susceptible to reward highjacking
I just realized – that you are looking at the draft, not the edited version.

The entire article is edited after the initial draft is written out.

Good feedback. Didn't think that many people will look at this first paragraph is indicative of the final result. Will think how to reflect that in the UI.
I don't doubt the usefulness of the internet but where is the evidence of the "drastically accelerated rate of human progress"? Or rather what data is that translating into? Productivity growth it isn't. Life expectancy it isn't. Real wages it isn't necessarily. GDP growth it isn't really, either.
AFAIK theoretically any database can be built on top of a key value store, and any transactional database on top of a key value store that also has transactions.

TiDB is an example of a distributed SQL on top of a transactional key value store called TiKV.
Thank you for your reply and have a nice day