skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like any engineer, I know more than a few instant-millionaires.

The ones who were capable of being happy before money continue to be capable of being happy. They had sources of self-worth outside of money, social connections outside the office or hanging with their startup bros, and interests that are intrinsically satisfying even if they are not profitable.

You don't need all of the above, but you do need at least one. The ones who don't have any of the above will go to dark places.
> TBF Napster and torrents are another and earlier angle.

Napster didn't kill the music industry, torrents didn't kill the movie industry because people still want to see movies on a big screen experience. And so, actors, directors, VFX artists, cutters, riggers, lighting staff, costume/mask people, they all continue to have jobs.

But now, with AI being already able to do very realistic photos, and in a few years likely to create short movie sequences all based upon a prompt, not only will all these people be replaced by one prompt artist feeding a massive AI engine... but the diversity the AI can generate will always be limited by the diversity of its training material. It is by definition incapable of trying something entirely new, and since there will be no economic incentive to try anything entirely new there will be no expansion. (Oh, and guess what, movie prices aren't going down but since the expenses for all the humans vanish the profit concentration will accelerate!)

Widespread AI will freeze our culture in an era of about 2020-2030 forever simply because capitalism will not offer any incentive to feed the AI with new, creative things.
Competitors set those prices, not Google.
Exact same for me. Was late for my meeting because Cron just deleted itself from my computer entirely. Super annoying
A experiment for men who are considering marriage. Write up the pros and cons. Most people are aware of the major possible downsides, loss of assets and lifetime alimony payments that comes with a failed marriage (the majority of marriages), but the men I talk to struggle to articulate a benefit, let alone a benefit that would warrant the risk. If you can't find the benefit to you, reconsider, don't just do it beacuse you are "supposed to".
There are efforts to bring FOSS FPGA tooling. Check out Yosys (still far from as mature as LLVM though). But yes, I agree...
Any case where a small player cannot effectively defend patents they hold, but at any time, can be sued for infringement and cannot effectively defend themselves either.
https://jveuxdusoleil.fr/ is another fun one.
An aside, but was anyone else horrified at the state of that calendar? I'd catch fire after a few days of running at 100% every given hour. Normalise a bit of downtime, yeesh.
Democracy Triumphs in Disk Units (1991)
Ask HN: What is a good lecture series on physics?
My wife and I are looking for a video lecture series on physics we could watch in the evenings. Something like the Feynman lectures - broad - but recorded as video.

Is there a “undergrad physics 101” that you particularly enjoyed?
Calculating the solar position is also pretty important when simulating power production of photovoltaics plants. So, the Python library pvlib has nice functions for working with this: https://pvlib-python.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/sola...
and their teachers
The particles effect on this page is a great example of "old web" feel in a page with "new web" looks in that it's just so fun and impractical solely because it can be.

The "browse" button towards the bottom has a few editable examples as well, including one for the effect seen on the main page https://shadeup.dev/zv5twftezv2y
The people responsible are probably still deciding on the scapegoat. Give it time.
Aka “craptop duty”[1].

[1] https://css-tricks.com/test-your-product-on-a-crappy-laptop/
There is also the fact that ACPI allows embedding executable code, which in effect allows system vendors to hide proprietary drivers on it. E.g. HID stuff such as brightness control or keys which do not (generally) need any kernel code to work and are generally impossible to define with DT unless they are simple single-purpose GPIO pins.
Next project can be a service for planning a walk in a city based on how much time one would like to spend in the shadow or in the sun.
Let's see how software people feel when it becomes routine to AI wash projects to de-license them.
Oh yeah when I call the police because I got assaulted I would love a case worker to come and talk down to me about the sociology of crime. Just what we need!
+1 to this. I no longer even associate with the religion that required us to do preparation, but still look back with appreciation on this event.

And while I would not be in favor of any state or religious requirement, I still wish it were just more widely done. Call it a marriage mindfulness weekend, make it a social norm as strong as sending "save-the-dates".

It was wild to go to a marriage prep event and see couples right next to us start yelling at each other "what do you mean you want kids?" or "why would I quit my job?" I don't know how you get engaged without knowing these things already.

For us, it led to some really good, deep conversations on what we wanted the future to be like. We were already largely aligned on practical things, but learned even more about some of our deepest dreams. And the style of conversation we practiced is still routinely useful when we get misaligned and need to talk about our hopes before we even start debating some concrete decision.
Love this for sharing what seems as content I would like to read and also the database for keeping score. Thank you!
The "try for free/generate" button didn't work for me. I uploaded a short video (15MB of White House press secretary) and tried to substitute various voices without success.
It's a crapshoot. I really think there's room for a new, smaller platform for software gigs that doesn't become a race to the bottom.
I think the overemphasis on dumb, natural interfaces actually makes the situation worse. "What's a computer?" We're just reinforcing the idea that computers are these magical things that people couldn't possibly understand. Most people can! They just have learned helplessness about technology.

The value in Dropbox is paying someone else to handle durability and availability for your data. It's very undifferentiated now.
I guess that you are Catholic, isn't?
Let’s also appreciate that a monitoring email endpoint that was designed more or less as a communication worker/agent/runner has been abandoned and was basically matastasizing. That tells me that they aren’t monitoring email utilization or any other compensatory mechanism for identifying anamolous behavior - eg “hey why is email alias costing us [multiple of others]/month in storage”

“The noreply account could be the most important account in an organization because it could potentially have a record of everything they have ever sent to customers”
I remember using graphing calculators to do High School geometry. Loved it, we programmed games on it.

> I'm cynical this is just an ad for Light Phones lol.

It is definitely a bit over the top on the praise for it.
Publicly funded science belongs to (drum roll...) the public.
There will certainly be DARPA and other grants to test if dedicated defense suppliers make sense. In some areas, the funding model may be easier as a pure defense initiative where the DoD could shell out 50-100 Billion for cross-service AI functionality.

In theory there is no reason why an individual soldier shouldn't be able to order an air strike, or be informed about inbound strikes on their position and how to react to those. Today, this is not possible due to the complex decisioning process for whether a target is worth a strike by X munition vs. Y munition and when. AI could simplify this process.

On the other hand, well funded open source and commercial companies may deliver faster and with higher quality. The DoD doesn't use bespoke databases, and microchips for a reason (except when they do).
Seeing Fiddler takes me back to the UT days. Glad you're behaving yourself.
Apple does not create that kind of value; it hoodwinks buyers with a pretty interface and its cultish marketing. Like any hazing ritual or circumcision, the new apple user feels he put in a heavy cost to join what appears to him to be an elite class (but really a marketing trick). The new user is now complete and ready to defend his newly acquired identity in internet forum posts critical of it.
They don’t harass and kill minorities. This is hyperbole.
Will you delete the uploaded images if the user decides to discard them?
You're misunderstanding the AI use cases. Take propaganda, for instance. A human expert can craft much better flat earth propaganda posts than any AI can. The difference is that a human expert cannot engage in 10 million simultaneous relationships with Twitters humans, sustained for several years, in which is it periodically but very subtly suggested or implied that the Earth is actually flat. From the point of view of the human being targeted with this, what they're going to experience is that they have a bunch of online friendships that are actually fulfilling and rewarding, and over time they'll naturally come to adopt the values of their online friends (including on the specific subject of the shape of the Earth). And it cost so little to do this that you could just as easily have done it to tens or hundreds of millions of targets concurrently.

This is the type of scenario people are concerned about. I have my doubts about whether it would really work this cleanly, but I'm sure we'll be seeing people try to do this. They've probably already started.
Why does ever seller of a business become an angel investor? And the follow up, I wonder how business seller angels perform compared to your normal angel fund...
Disproportionately compared to what?
"The Director of 'Toy Story'" is a pretty understated way to refer to John Lasseter [0], who effectively headed up all the Pixar projects (on the creative side) from the beginning of the company, and directed 5 of their films.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lasseter
Or maybe you just learn that you don't have to put up with being miserable your entire adult life instead of being naive and blind to what life has to offer you. I know plenty of couples who are around or near their 50th wedding anniversaries, most with their high school sweethearts.

None of them are what I'd call "in love" with each other. They all go through the motions and they all pretty much live separate lives aside from doctor's visits and chores. They've all been miserable together for years.
Most likely there are few alternatives

which likely led to this issue in the first place
> I wonder what prevented you from using another search engine

Well, seeing that Kagi was down, I tried to switch to Google by doing "!g xxx" which gave me the same result than my previous "xxx" search.

I took me a few seconds to realize how stupid I was and then typing "google.com" in the address bar.
Which of the two is worse?
Anyone know of an alternative that stores data locally and looks and feels a bit more like Notion? The plain list like note view is just so ugly and when I create a new note I'd want it to be in the context of whatever I'm currently looking at, not at the root. I know about tags and the graph view but it's just not what I need.

There was a comment to a Notion related submission the other day that talked about something Notion like but self hosted, that's be fine too but I can't find it right now.
What if your friends/acquaintances/colleagues could ask you anything?
I recently went through a large video editing project on Ubuntu. Really wanted to use DaVinci resolve but it had multiple hard crashes and just wouldn’t open for some reason, doesn’t seem like they support Linux as well as Mac and windows.

I ended up using Blender, and while it’s powerful and super useful to be able to link scenes from other files, one huge missing feature is support for videos of varying frame rates. If your videos don’t match, the audio will be either much longer or much shorter than the video clips.

Had a few hard crashes too and lots of bugs, but definitely usable.
>> One problem with AI (vs e.g. Google search) is that there is no mechanism for attribution.

Sorry if this is a silly question, but is that really the case? Can we not train an LLM on successively larger training sets, each will uniquely ID's model and associated better performance?
Great on Biden for standing firm on this, at least so far. I certainly approve that they need to end this sociology civil war.

APA and friends have been in civil war for like 15 years. Certainly not 2019, but yes they oppose open science. Surely it has to come to an end at some point?

Really started in 2005 when you must declare your biases. Sociology has never been the same. You can basically ignore any sociology pre-2005, and oh look some classic names like Jung as coming back?

But holy crap has the replication crisis slapped sociology in the face.

The minor update to the dsm5 and the expected major delay of the dsm6 will be huge. Practically an entire rewrite at this point is needed.

I expect there will be a new diagnosis called 'neurodivergent' which will be defined as 'not bad, but different'

Autism, ADHD, OCD, chronic pain/ fatigue/ somatic disorders, tics, and bipolar

These will all be unified under the same title as they are all the same thing.

LGBT, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, Crohns, IBS, Colitis, Rheumatoid, osteoarthritis, Celiac, sjogrens, addisons, guillain-barre, Dental inflammations, Diabetes? Chronic pancreatitis, Herpes or mouth sores

All going to show up on the ND spectrum.

cPTSD will need to exist but perhaps just be neurodivergent as well.

There's going to be a major overhaul of the personality disorders. Trauma informed.

etc etc.

Then again I expect I'll be flagged for violating the obvious rule:

"All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident."
Whatever happened to Starship robots? I used to see them driving around Redwood City occasionally, around 2016. There was always a "minder", a human following along about 50 feet back. They were around for only about a year, and deployment never happened locally.

So they pivoted to working on college campuses?
Just FYI, Little Snitch DOES NOT BLOCK DNS QUERIES — it just prevents your Mac from initiating connections to the resolved IP.

e.g: if a client using Little Snitch enters new.incriminating.website into their web browser, the computer still initiates a DNS query to AND receives the IP of said URL — it is at THIS POINT that the Little Snitch dialogue pops up and asks "should we allow a connection to this server/IP?"

If this nuance is unclear to you, than just know that Little Snitch only prevents your computer from initiating connections to IP addresses, allowing the DNS resolution to happen without any user input.

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Many people do not believe this until I show them their "blocked" URLs, as noted by a locally-running PiHole [which sees the "blocked" domain names, and resolves an IP... if you don't have PiHole rule blocking the hostname].
I assume you're referring to copyright. It could be argued copyright is a tragedy of the commons, the individual benefits at the expense of everyone else. Obviously it is intended that the wider impact of incentivising innovation will be beneficial to everyone, but that is not a sure thing, it is a compromise, a balancing act and that applies to AI too.
The Luddites did lose their jobs after all.
Humans are too stupid to collectively govern themselves. Just look at the US election cycle that is starting. There is a genuine messianistic cult at work.
There was no other outcome possible from the moment we invented a technology that allowed everybody to create infinite copies of digital content at almost zero cost.

If tomorrow we discovered a source of infinite free energy, oil and energy companies could try anything they wanted, their current business model would end up obsolete sooner or later.
I was surprised at how verbose and commented the code was. Then I read the note saying that Whitney's original code was in `ref/` and the two files in the root were annotated by other kparc members.
VCs like unprincipled and money minting founders more than ethical and broke ones.
It can make getting shared custody of a child easier. It can be useful for visas if you want to move abroad. There are some tax benefits. It really depends on your country though as best I can tell. This advice is good for both men and women though!
I don't understand why Apple is asking for a commission if the developer is implementing their own payment flow. If Apple is still mandating that you offer in-app purchase as an option alongside a custom payment flow, then Apple charging a commission for both options seems excessive.
More options are here: https://github.com/FossifyOrg?#support-fossify-heart
Show HN: Paint AI – MS Paint without any tools (until AI creates them for you)
This is my first ever Show HN so please go easy! Demo is also hosted on a $6/mo VM!

I've created a basic Paint program with no pens, brushes or other drawing tools. Instead you get the AI to create the painting tools for you and it writes, tests and deploys the JavaScript for you live, usually within 30 seconds.

It only uses OpenAI's gpt-3.5-turbo model too which I've found to be fast enough and good enough for this use case.

Paint AI could be a world's first, at least I've not yet seen anything quite like it, but would love to see anything else in this space in the comments.

Try the demo at https://paintai.groupmind.co.uk/

Thousands of software developers are using AI chat and code-completion tools to help them write code. Paint AI takes this one step further, getting AI to write, test and deploy code without any human involvement!
> It's easy to think people are being obtuse and sticking their heads in the sand, but this was the first time someone with expertise he trusted actually came out and showed him first hand.

Because he obtusely refused to trust all prior experts because he thought he knew better than them.

“It’s not real until it affects me personally” is a disgusting attitude
If we continue the cart example, what should HTTP endpoint return in that case?
Replace "ignorance" with "incompetence". This is an "I have no idea what the hell I'm doing" level of incompetence.
I tried with clustering similar embeddings but it did extremely poorly (~0%) since the groupings are often deceiving with words in a group only having one small way in which they're connected and lots of spurious fake groups to throw you off. Maybe looking for groups with high similarity on only a sibset of embedding dimensions might help, but I didn't have much time to play either :) A notebook to get you going if you do want to play: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1KJeSB9Q5XzSeT9ONUJ_...
We have the option to make the laws such that this cute little rent-extracting business model you defend gets companies who follow it shut down for being criminal enterprises.
Which AI regulation options are feasible, technically and economically
Absolutely. Police officers themselves don't want to do this work, but the police as a system would lose power/ resources and thus they fight against any reform.

I have a fun side-gig in entertainment and thus witness constantly the massive amounts of LE officers who are required to be hired at each of these events just sitting around doing nothing.
wow that is actually pretty cool, i wonder what other instances of thought leaders criss crossed to a different industry like that
> P.S. Using this has made it clear to me how bad most sunrise/sunset calculators actually are.

That may just be a function of how you define "sunrise" and "sunset". It is never as simple as "when the sun hits the horizon", but something about some number of arc minutes from something something.
Every Single Frame
Some parts of the article didn't exactly talk about their setup, idle and teardown costs. Plus how exactly their I/O is optimized. I am skeptical until I see those numbers.

Edit: Read the OG version here.

https://soteris.github.io/publication/sahraei-2023-xfaas/sah...
Genuinely curious. What could a text based LLM do for the military? Generate propaganda?
"Lassetter wasn’t the first to draw this, but his version became the most popular." (FTA)
Was that 2m mostly house or mostly land? I think if I were to go that route I’d be looking for more land than house.
I'd guess because it is a way to be involved in start ups without the intense work of being a founder?
> some people are caregivers, or have young kids

Yes, there are many such reasons one would prefer to be at home that have nothing to do with the individual's physiology/neurology. But as you guess, I'm located in the US. Disability is a rapier with which to sharply defend oneself against predation, not something our work-worshiping society actually cares about. Having responsibilities outside of work which aren't due to legally protected disability is widely considered unimportant, a distraction, or a liability.
The security blunders are obviously horrible, but MAYBE explained by inexperienced developers tasked with something way beyond their understanding.

But how on earth did anyone approve storing confidential customer documents in an email account? This seems to indicate there's nobody in charge that understands anything about how to run this business. And if it's a subsidiary or outsourcing partner, it also shows that nobody has ever audited this business.

This is criminally negligent behavior from the company owners, and whoever is contracting them to do this work.
There’s no way AI services are going anywhere. If the US kneecaps itself for parasitic rent seekers then China will win and benefit from the productivity these tools produce.
PassportJS seems to be fairly complicated, but it will be free. On the other hand, other providers are easy to implement but can cost money.
I got the same thing as well. It feels like it is by design.
But that’s just it – you are just mentioning one. No mention of the many, many improvements that were made. Safari has been advancing steadily every single year since it was first released. Which makes it an entirely different situation to Internet Explorer, which held the web at an absolute standstill for five straight years.

Sorry, no, not an absolute standstill. Windows XP Service Pack 2 tweaked how an HTTP header was handled. That was the most significant movement in the front-end development world in a five year period. Because of Internet Explorer.

Compare Safari 12 to Safari 17. Now imagine we were still stuck with Safari 12. That’s what it would be like if Safari “dragged their feet” like Microsoft did with Internet Explorer. They aren’t the same thing, not even remotely close. Anybody saying that “Safari is the new IE” clearly does not remember what Internet Explorer did to the industry, especially if they are saying it because of things like Safari won’t let websites vibrate your phone.
The publisher typically requires the authors to agree to some kind of exclusive distribution when they submit the work.
I think it's a "dwindling" community.
please re-read my post, you misunderstood it.
> I'm confused, what non-electrical method of generating cabin heat are EVs using, then?

Heat pumps are the fancy way to do it that can be installed in both ICEs and EVs.

> the heat in the engine block is a byproduct of the combustion required to move the vehicle. That heat isn't "free", but is paid for by the primary purpose of moving the vehicle.

Agreed! It's free in the sense that it's already being generated, but it's still waste because it's generated regardless of need as a result of a suboptimal conversion process. We use it as heat because it's unusable for anything else, but it'd be nicer if it wasn't generated in the first place.
The False Programming Language