skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand the point, and I'm suggesting that the author's uncritical acceptance of all the assumptions in the quote makes it difficult for me to take the author as a credible objective observer. For example, is there any actual analysis done to support the idea that these cafes are not owned by locals? In the earlier part of the piece, she mentions that even "local" folks converged on the same aesthetic. Is it a good notion that a neighborhood be "for people of color?" Why are racially segregated neighborhoods good, again?
Model quality index methodology is as per this comment (can add perplexity using the dropdown): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39014985#39017632

It's a combination of different quality metrics which have Perplexity, overall, not performing as well. That being said, I think we are in the very early stages of model quality scoring/ranking - and (for closed sourced models) we are seeing frequent changes. Will be interesting to see how measures evolve / model ranks change
Well yes, what I was trying to imply was that we usually use our phones in combination with social media, not the phone without social media. If we were to try to mindlessly scroll through the android settings app, at some point it just gets boring and we put our phones away (or open up an actual social media app).
Among other errors they overestimated the effectiveness of the Covid vaccine, said it stopped transmission when it didn't, didn't consider measures to mitigate the risk of myocarditis in young people, and claimed contracting Covid didn't provide immunity equivalent to vaccination.
You're boring to everyone else? Fine. Don't be boring to your kids. Be there for them. "Dad spent time with me" will matter to your kids far more than being able to tell some rando about your hobby will matter to said rando.

(Don't be boring to your wife, either.)

In fact, don't be boring to the neighbor kids. You want your house to be the place they hang out, rather than your kids hanging out at the neighbor's house. That way you find out what's going on in your kids' lives sooner, when you can do something about it, rather than later when you maybe can't.
JSONB is not optimized for compression.
Just read the ELF specification. There is a header and everything else follows. There are a lot of explanations online, here is one: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15213-f00/docs/...
I highly recommend reading Bellingcat's investigation into the poisoning of Alexei Navalny and how they tracked down the individual FSB officers responsible: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2020/12/14/navalny-fsb-...

It's the most impressive investigative work I have ever read. One can only imagine the capabilities of nation state actors if an NGO is capable of this.

Even more incredible is that Alexei Navalny personally called an FSB officer and was able to extract a confession: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwvA49ZXnf8
Another reference point, at its peak Apollo employed about 400k
What SoundCloud created can never die
... but it's not like they're just stealing the money from you, you are getting health insurance, which has a lot of value. There's another story going around that if you add benefits like health insurance not to mention programs like food stamps the gap between rich and poor hasn't increased as much as you'd think otherwise.
While I do personally find tricks involving numbers only in a specific representation to be worth a bit less, often the underlying pattern of the trick generalizes into a more interesting problem.

For example, per another's link in these comments, this 'trick' works for 3 digits, but hits 1 of 3 possible loops for 5 digits. From this, interesting but likely useless questions can arise, such as finding an easy way to test for these loops, seeing if there is a way to calculate the loop without brute forcing it, and understanding the problem enough to know how much of this holds true when swapping to a new base.

In general, most of this is just for fun and doesn't lead to anything serious. But sometimes a fun problem can be hard to solve, possibly leading to discovering something new, which ends up being applicable to more serious mathematics. Other times it can become a trap that just seems to waste time without ever leading anywhere, like the 3n+1 problem.

I don't think this should be considered numerology, though I do think sometimes people treat tricks as if they have some more serious meaning that they don't deserve, at least not based on how they are presented. 3 Blue 1 Brown goes into the spiral pattern of the primes as something that appears to be deep, but ends up being an unique way to present an otherwise boring tidbit about prime numbers.
Quite a lot of what news publications like the New York Times do is precisely regenerating articles that roughly approximate source material from some other publication. If I remember rightly, a lot of smaller, more local news organisations aren't happy about this because of course it's a more or less direct substitute for the original and a handful of big news organisations (particularly the New York Times) are taking so much of the money that people are willing to pay for news that it's affecting the viability of the rest - but it's not illegal, since facts cannot be copyrighted.
Kagi is a paid search engine to avoid the manipulation that Google welcomes. To avoid every trick and targeted tricks it may be cost prohibitive. Fortunately Kagi isn't popular enough yet for targeted manipulations to have a noticeable impact.
I think the desktop policy might be better. In the tablets I've used, tabs sometimes get killed when I switch tabs and visit another website with a lot of ads. It's an annoying way to lose work in an unsubmitted form. It doesn't seem to happen for desktop.
Coaching your kids' sports teams is a pretty mainstream social activity for a father of young kids. By age 7, my dad was involving me at least a bit in home repair & home improvement projects.

BTW - are you regularly reading to your kids? That also checks a lot of your boxes.
Yep, especially as IT moved downmarket from mainframes run by government, military and large corporations to the average Joe, who can reboot, reinstall or just buy a new one.
I think there should be strict laws around outsourcing. Maybe companies that pay X amount of taxes (related to their earnings) have to ensure Z amount of their employees are nationals.

It just doesn’t seem fair that they get to take advantage of their home countries infrastructure while providing employment to other countries.

I was laid off due to outsourcing.
Most people don't want to make their own clusters, or don't have enough data for it to be a good price. There's plenty of room for a service that's twice as expensive as commodity prices.

> The moment that this model starts to become a threat to the big cloud providers, they will slash their prices

I doubt it's ever going to be a big threat, since this kind of storage is never going to have great latency. I don't think that's an existential risk. Though even if it is, and happens, there's billions of dollars to make before we reach that point. It's not a reason to avoid the market.
I believe that the proposals referenced in the article from current AI safety organizations that would make current-gen open-source LLMs illegal due to supposed x-risk are not supported by reality.

Arguing about theoretical AI models 30 years from now that might or might not be dangerous doesn't seem very convincing to me, since we don't know what they'll be based on or how they'll work — researchers today aren't even sure LLMs can scale to super-human intelligence. Similarly, pre-LLMs many safetyist orgs took the "paperclip problem" very seriously, when it's quite clear now that even the not-very-intelligent LLMs of today are capable of understanding the implicit context of a goal like that and won't seriously propose extinguishing humanity as a mechanism to improve paperclip production. Anthropic was formed in part because people thought gpt-3.5-turbo was existentially risky! And I don't think anyone today entertains that thought seriously, to put it lightly.

Trying to ban AI now due to supposed existential risks of systems in the future that don't currently exist and we don't know how to build (and we don't know if the failure modes proposed by the safety orgs will actually exist) seems like putting the cart well before the horse.
Digital Ocean and Vultr are a fraction of AWS pricing. Vultr is $0.01/gb. Bare metal providers are often cheaper still, selling by size of pipe rather than bytes transferred.

In my experience GCP and AWS are pretty unwilling to budge on bandwidth pricing unless you are very large and making a long commitment. If you are not spending six figures a month forget about it.

You may be right about SLA but I run large volume services out of bare metal providers and do not experience meaningful packet loss or down time in practice. Bandwidth costs are easily hundreds of times less than AWS or GCP.
Htmx: The Game-Changing Alternative to React [video]
Funny you mention YouTube. We did another study on this as well. https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_20...
I don't disagree with your point but we could probably find a lot of billionaires that use these as well.
What started your journey into analog computers ?

I remember seeing some navy videos from the 40s explaining self tracking guns (through projected geometry parts) and was so enamoured by it. Since then I found out about hydraulic and pneumatic electromechanic devices.

Also, don't you find that programmers are fighting the imperative / von neumann model to recreate what those machines were ? systems of coupled parts "reacting" to each others (looking at you web world).
Variance would be good, and I've also seen significant variance on "cold" request patterns, which may correspond to resources scaling up on the backend of providers.

Would be interesting to see request latency and throughput when API calls occur cold (first data point), and once per hour, minute, and per second with the first N samples dropped.

Also, at least with Azure OpenAI, the AI safety features (filtering & annotations) make a significant difference in time to first token.
What are the costs of a Ruby incompatibility just waiting to be discovered in production ? You can't assume you wrote tests to exercise every possible branch in every method in every object ?

The costs of static typing are reasonable as long as you're not using a fancy dependently typed language. Ask companies that are maintaining long running software -- types help. The investment is there in the beginning, the payoff is over the lifetime of the project.

If types are complex and poorly defined, you can change them ! The compiler will help you evolve your system through type errors. If you have a poorly structured program in a dynamically type language like Ruby then it becomes more difficult to evolve your system fast and with confidence. You're always asking -- have I missed something out ?
Related:

Mysterious number 6174 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2625832 - June 2011 (64 comments)

6174 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1625606 - Aug 2010 (1 comment)

Mysterious number 6174 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=480200 - Feb 2009 (41 comments)
I don't think it needs to be dedicated indoor space - at least in my bubble, it's not uncommon to do temporary layouts on floors.
It's obviously very focused on the railroad part, but turning your apartment into a model railroad for a few days every once in a while means you can use a lot more space. Outdoor spaces can be used as well.
I think it’s pretty good. I understand sometimes we root for the good guys like Kagi and look at their work with rose tinted glasses and even think they’re perfect, like you did, but it’s not really feasible.

A pattern I’ve noticed from people not working in tech, or more junior people in tech, is that they have a thinking that software can ever be perfect. If either of those categories describe you, I can tell you from experience no software is ever perfect!
https://archive.is/rniV3
Non-broken versions of the links:

* Harvard TinyML course: https://www.edx.org/learn/machine-learning/harvard-universit...

* Coursera intro to embedded ML: https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-to-embedded-mach...

* TinyML (my original book, on the absolute basics. getting a bit out of date, contact me if you wanna help update it): https://tinymlbook.com

* AI at the Edge (my second book, focused on workflows for building real products): https://www.amazon.com/AI-Edge-Real-World-Problems-Embedded/...

* ML systems with TinyML (wiki book by my friend Prof. Vijay Reddi at Harvard): https://harvard-edge.github.io/cs249r_book/

* TinyML conference: https://www.tinyml.org/event/summit-2024/

* I also write a newsletter about this stuff, and the implications it has for human computer interaction: https://dansitu.substack.com
Well a bunch of men proposing that they have a solution to make women have babies is ridiculous on its face. And decreased birth rates are a worldwide phenomenon cutting across all different types of societies, economies, and races. I think it's pretty clear that right wing droid #3491 does not have a solution to decreased birth rates.
You appear to have misread my comments. I’m not saying that the entire industry follows Apple but the opposite: the comment I was replying to was claiming that the trend towards thinner laptops was all marketing, and I am arguing that this can’t be the reason because everyone in the industry has been on the same trend following consumer preferences.
I think it is fair to assume a meaningful comparison. Otherwise, you can probably lower the age a bit, as that is some impressively hard work from the guy.
HouseGPT
I think better SIMD support for webassembly is more inclusive than relying on / expecting WebGPU
Thank you, I ran out of time to edit but have posted a reply with fixed links :)
In addition the policies while they may not have matched what was necessary where in and of themselves a form of communication to get people to take it seriously.

There might not have been a reason to make everyone stay home, but if the only way you can get people to take a quickly evolving situation seriously is to over correct, then that is the tool you have to use.

By making the same rules apply to everyone and having such extreme responses it reduced the ability for the majority to say "yeah, its bad but it doesn't apply to me". By making everyone wear masks, it was the only way to get the people who really needed to wear the masks to do so.

The policies were extreme because the situation was extreme. People now have the hindsight, but I have lost at least 3 family members and 5 neighbors due to covid and the secondary effects. 4 of those died of ordinarily treatable causes (heat attack, pneumonia, etc), but the health system wasn't able to provide them the treatment needed because of Covid was overwhelming them.
As someone enrolled in a bachelors program for computer science, this terrifies me.

Makes me wonder if I’m wasting my time and should be perusing something else.
I had a lot of fun with my capstone project on GNS3
1 = 1+0
Fusion obviously. It only takes a simple back of the envelope calculation to show that space based power makes no sense even in theory.

Fusion on the other hand makes total sense if you can do it. It's just a really really really hard engineering problem.

Space based power belongs in the same category as solar roadways, energy harvesting speed bumps, solar windows, etc. Clearly if you want to scam investors an energy project is the way to go.
After decades of the other brackets it looks super weird
I don't know if this would be a very long-term solution if the big ones (ok, google) did it. Advertisers would catch on very quickly, and some legitimate review sites which might get funding through affiliate links unrelated to the product being reviewed would lose out to straight-up paid for "reviews" that are funded wholly by the manufacturer and just don't use affiliate links.
> A court has no special access to facts

There are facts out there that can otherwise be kept private until subpoenad by court order, is that not special access to facts?
It could well be the effect of PFAS, glyphosate, bisphenol A or some other industrial chemical that exploded in prevalence in the last quarter of the 20th Century.
No one, not the most screen addicted teenager nor the smarmiest snake-oil beauracrat, is gonna stand by ANYONE that suggests we need to remove ALL computers from society. Even the people critical of AI and social media are more than fine with computers and smartphones.

How would you even begin to enforce that?
> No it didn't.

I think you are reading something in the headline that isn't there.
They ended their first space based mission which was to test various things. It wasn't to beam power back to Earth. The details in the article are actually interesting.
Looks, like the CIA money dried up https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/09/bellingcat-intelligence-c...
What are you reading at the moment?
I'm sorry, but I'm going to fundamentally disagree with you. One does not get a morality pass because "the computer did it". People are creating these AI models, selecting data and feeding the models data on which to be trained. The outcome of that rests upon _both_ the creators of the models and the users prompting the models to achieve a result.
After years of a personal PIM (in org-mode and experiments with DokuWiki) I've concluded that to manage notes we do need some kind of structure, a free graph will became unmanageable after a certain quantity of notes. That structure is simply a chronology, since the flow of time is a thing common to pretty anything.

My actual setup is:

- daily notes, meaning when I want to write something I'll put in today note, no thinking about where to archive, under a common year root, with a monthly recap;

- binders notes, who transclude or link single notes inside a daily one (headings in org-mode lingo) assembling and arranging them as I wish, under a "live archive" root;

- not current anymore binders under a "dead archive" root.

Such structure so far allow me to store and retrieve pretty anything and always find and consolidate things, something I can't do with ZK, LYT, PARA and other common techniques.

That's to simply say a thing: we do not need the nth wiki style slick UI app but something that offer:

- live rendering, like org-mode or even Zim, no separation between source form and rendered form, because that's makes easy write and edit things;

- transclusion (TiddlyWiki, Dokuwiki+Include plugin (a bit limited), BookStack, org-transclude albeit a bit slow and limited) because to create our library of babel (cfr. Conrad Gessner ~1545 but also many others) we must been able to take atomic notes AND COMPOSE THEM in various ways;

- attachment support (a decent one, org-attach it's ok, but only because it's bare simple so it's easy to hijack, Paperless it's damn slow but flexible enough and so on);

- ability to INTEGRATE anything. In this regard ALL modern software can't win, simply because modern systems are designed for commercial reasons, not like classic ones where the OS was a single user-programmable application, and an application is just code added to the OS. The web try to recover DocUIs and composability but it's really limited. We can let's say link GMail threads in notes, but it's far from link a notmuch-accessed local mail linked in org-mode;

- offering by default a chronology, even Zim offer that to a certain extent with the builtin calendar.

Without the above just write some new and uncertain project fully knowing that migrating contents is far from being easy or granted and it's a very painful thing, is IMVHO a waste of time...
I mean, it's pretty hard to tell what's going on inside any other creature's brain, from dogs to bees to humans. It's generally easier the closer they are to yourself, so it's easier with dogs than with bees.

I think you are shortchanging bees a bit, based on your description of a dog building a logical model of the world, I would say bees definitely qualify.

>A dog, on the other hand, can build logical models of the world, and then take actions based on that. It can that begging from one person results in treats, while begging from another results in discipline. It can update this logic and behavior based on new information.

Bees are capable of a lot of interesting and complex behavior, from learning to communication with other bees.[1] It's been theorized that they can play around just for fun, which is hard to reconcile with them behaving on entirely pre-programmed instincts.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_learning_and_communication
[2] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/bees-can-...
But who monitors the monitor?
beside the dark patterns mentioned in other comments, we have been conditioned to accept modern interfaces as being always right. we blame ourselves for not understanding them and they shame us for not understanding them.

that for me only exacerbates the problem.
I really want this for sleep tracking.

There are so many devices, each have their own algorithm for sleep tracking and the device I pick largely depends on the accuracy of the device's sleep tracking.

However there are new apps, like Nukkuaa, an (EU only) sleep analysis app that uses any heart-rate tracker (like a bluetooth fitness chest strap) and infers sleep quality from the data.

A generic app expands what devices are available to me. Right now I use CGM tape and stick a Fitbit Charge 3 on my tricep - but I dislike the Fitbit app and if I change to another brand I cannot export my logs.

A third party app has the potential to train against more data than any individual single brand could and, with appropriate tagging, could possible offer better accuracy. Open source would be icing on the cake.

Additionally, it would be great if devices like the Fitbit Charge could be used as a bluetooth heart rate monitor that can be used on apps that consume trackers on a (presumably) standard API (like TrainerRoad, Zwift, etc).

- https://www.nukkuaa.com/en
I noticed each time i click the HN button on my phone it opens a new tab in safari… pwas run in a separate browser/app/container
> both tooling and process

so better tooling helps then?
Thanks! We've moved the comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39019119, which has that article.
Looking at the literature, it appears there have been two studies on whether soaking nuts reduces phytic acid.

Neither found an effect.

Simply soaking whole nuts doesn't appear to do anything.
This news feels 3 months late. At this point I'm strongly looking forward to 24.04 since I've grown boring and like to stick to LTS releases instead of updating every 6 months, but I still want those updates.
i'm not sure what you are demonstrating?

1 sums digitwise to 1

1 + (10-1) = 10 which also sums to 1 in the same way