skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard to believe in a closed product...

But something like this feels so imminent to me, feels like it could be the giant tide to sweep over computing. More so than AI even.

Building endless artisinal handcraft/bespoke endpoints for data objects is such a silly burden.

Hard not to mention the semantic web here. But going beyond the data of the semantic web & building programmer tools that look & operate more prosaically, that look more like this... it feels like a vast canyon to leap.
Their point was the insane efficiency, not the low consumption. Modern LLMs are many orders of magnitude less energy efficient; despite all our progress computational biology makes our silicon looks primitive in some metrics.
Spring Boot API Key Authentication
This article shows how to create a Spring Boot app that requires an API key for an endpoint using Spring Security. We also demonstrate how to combine this with other authentication mechanisms in the same codebase.

For this article, we will build a simple Spring Boot application that exposes an API for getting Chuck Norris facts and secures it with an API key.
I know it won't replace human artists right off the bat but it will help them accelerate their development. Just like coding assistant, artists can use this to visualize their ideas/drafts and then build upon to tune the work.
Electricity is commodity, no way you can sustain high ROI on it.
Cool! I have a 128k Mac in working but not restored condition, reach out to me if interested.

I also have a 512ke, which I'll not be able to part with, as it was my first computer. Still runs the copy of HardBall! I hacked to use the roster from my baseball team!
Interest rates and fear of recession.

Big tech fuels R&D via very low-interest loans. This is what everyone in the financial community has been saying for a long time.
AI Is Not a Feature
Have you ever been under anesthesia like propofol?

I feel like most of what we call "consciousness" is converting short term memory into selected long-term memory, facilitated by language. Because then you're under, you can even be "interactive" but you're not conscious of it because your short term memory has been disabled.

As to "human intelligence", honestly, I think that human languages that let us convert our "consciousness" into a shared hallucination is the key evolutionary advantage. Human intelligence comprises a hive mind in a sense, that our experience of the world is hugely affected by the shared social experience where language transfers memory from person to person.
Very interesting sub-thread.

It is true from SR+Minkowski that space and time can be considered together as a manifold, where (relative motion) boosts rotate smoothly between the dimensions. The signature just decides the interval expression, but doesn't change physics.

But is also true (SR, esp GR) that the important thing about spacetime is the light-cone structure at each spacetime point. Space-like and time-like directions (2 for time-like, past and future) really are different. The forward and backward light cones define a null-surface with zero interval (everywhere, all at once, a la photon).

Relative velocities tilt light cones to bring the local and global views into agreement. Somehow...

However... Proper time is asymmetric, past and future really are different here and now. Local proper time seems to be inexorable, and ~independent of the universe. It is the clock tick we all feel. Proper time seems directed, but non-transformable. We always experience the same rate of 1s/s, looking at our local inertial atomic clocks.

It is confusing to hold all those ideas in my mind at the same time. I have not seen a good explanation that resolves the confusion (I have seen the equations :)

My guess is that local proper time is a real progression, perhaps by axiom, not dependent on cause-effect, or 2nd Law, or QM entanglement, or .. anything else. However, relative time is accurately described by SR, GR and some future QG.

Also, QM is fundamentally wrong, because it is background-dependent. GR showed us that the more profound approach is to include gravity, space, time, matter and energy as dynamic participants in the same framework of laws. QM (Schrodinger/Dirac/QED/QFT...) seems provincial, and provisional, because it assumes a spacetime background - which cannot possibly be true, as is.

I suppose I align with the GR-istas, especially Penrose, who seem to understand this conformal/twistor structure deeply, and use it to lead their intuition for speculative future theories, of cosmology, and also QG.
GiantGrantGames on Youtube made an interesting video about "The Next Major RTS Will Fail. This is Why"[0]. Turns out he got a lot of this information because he was one of the players that had a huge influence in the development, and this is what ZeroSpace focused their development efforts on. One of which, is targeting the casual audience, and their love for a good story.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XehNK7UpZsc
I've found a lot of albums (lossless) that I can't find anywhere on OTOTOY the only catch is I have to use a VPN with a Japanese IP address to checkout (the don't care about the billing address so works fine otherwise)

The main pain however is that some labels (usually Sony) stubbornly don't allow lossless downloads...
FYI, this is the STM named in the title: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STMicroelectronics

They can't make newest-generation chips for a flagship smartphone, but simpler devices are likely going to be fine.
"Brains are not required to think or solve problems" is a perfect intro to a Leetcode job interview, for a candidate that already grokked 300 of these problems.
Have they considered cutting public spending instead of printing money into a hyper-inflation spiral?
Related: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-creates-edib...

TSMC creates edible chips – coconut flavor puffs made in collaboration with Taiwan’s Guai Guai
Layoff may include continuation of health insurance and other "severance benefits" for some period of time, if not you would be eligible for CORBA, if not that you would be eligible for a healthcare.gov plan.
I don't think there's that kind of singleminded focus in other entertainment industries, is there? Only a few movies or streaming shows are that pigeon-holed; usually the broader the demographics, the better. I would say comic books are more teen-boy-focused, but oddly the majority of the enthusiasts I've met were women (a classic Marvel fan, someone who had artier stuff like Alan Moore, and my sister who collects Archie) so I'm not sure.
I cannot claim to understand the paper, but we're using this technique in the Guile Hoot project for compiling Scheme to WebAssembly and it works great!
I love the idea of PRQL and having a DuckDB extension will make it a lot easier to play with since I'm already using that for my hobby data science projects.
Hey, I'm the creator, built this just for fun. It uses word embeddings to find the nearest neighbours from what other users have submitted so it's really only going to be as good as what people have submitted so far. The more people submit, the more interesting it becomes, in theory.
Tencent fired about 75% of their 3d bone animators last year. All because you could feed the bones to AI and type "it jumps", "it runs", "it crouches" etc.
Trains are not ticking time bombs any more than a car is. Do you imagine trains are just exploding left and right around the country? I think there's a lot of hyperbole in your position.
> I am the worlds worst web programmer

Hey there now, you can't just lay claim to my title without first beating me for it in a title match.
WTF is Stable Diffusion v6? SDXL is latest and before that 2.1 lol
the other way of thinking about it is that we don't know if we share a sense of "red", aside from merely being consistent with other compatible nodes (other humans) in a network. the other node simply can distinguish "red" from "green" just like I can, but we don't know if they are perceiving that color the same way I am. whether it is a hardware difference in the rods, cones, other aspect of the eye, or computational aspect in the brain, we don't know.

your supposition still relies on their being a separate entity to imagine, quantify or figure out, when that is not necessary. a tribunal of processes is enough for this "observer" phenomenon.
How is it that some europeans like yourself don't realize that China is actively supplying military goods and funding to Russia, to help Russia attack Europe??

Why would you want to pay for cars that help to grow your enemy to cause your countries to fall?
Why does the intensity of the light emitted by an incandescent light bulb fall off with the square of the distance (the inverse square law) -- but the light of a laser beam does not?

?

???
I !loved the coding style of (9 == $a) to protect against the common error of ($a = 9)
How popular is frequenting other peoples land for outdoor experiences? Genuinely curious, as I have heard about the lack of trespassing laws many times over the years, and know little about the experiences the UK countryside has to offer. Like what activities and locations do people partake in. Is it thing like hiking and waterway activities?
Soooo, ai.azure.com coming soon for GCP?
why is that? if you are thinking that content sites should work without javascript, then that's an entirely different issue. but aside from that, frontend frameworks work just fine for content sites, and there is absolutely no duplication of any logic in frontend and backend. i have built sites like that myself.
> You can find a discipline problematic and unworthy of your interest without actively gatekeeping it, by the way

Such patronizing. Unworthy of a real scientist.

When their "experiments" generally don't replicate, then it's not a science. Maybe similar to Colbert's word "truthy," what psychologists do is sciencey.
Liberate Crusty!

(Maybe next Midwest VCF, someone can create a diversion to allow the "CLO" to make a fast move and get Crusty somewhere where he can get the retrobrite he's been craving.)
Isn't increasing interest rates the opposite of printing money?
I used the Light Phone for a while, and really liked it, but texting was such a pain on the tiny touchscreen that I dropped it.

I’d buy this
> and just works 1 week a month (most of that time doing mandatory training)

This is so out of left field. In what sort of dystopia do we confront the end of scarcity with... more mandatory training? Also, why do you assert 1 week a month? Wouldn't you need four crews to work this section then?
Is it established that an AI judge would judge everyone the same? That it would be impartial?
percent of parts manufactured in China is declining over time, and quickly.
It's just sad I guess this is an example of post consumerism. Maybe making games for the sake of profit and not fun it was just a matter of time.

I was an avid Overwatch player and just seeing how Kotick essentially destroyed that team from within at Blizzard because to some the price of the stock is the only thing that is a measure of value of a public company.
>This was always going to happen.

Did Tesla say this in their forecasts?

Edit: For clarity share prices don't go down because results were 'bad'. Share prices go down because results are worse than expected
Yeah, Optimus isn't something they'll release this decade. See FSD for why.

They really effed up with the Cybertruck - that could've been the $25K EV or an EV bus or something useful.
Ya this time they realized instead they can just pocket even more profits, theres a reason inflation is 50+% due to corporate profits when normally inflation surges are ~11% from corporate profits.
Some examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/BreadTube/comments/11sqyue/tim_pool...
https://www.davidrovics.com/bandcamp/
https://x.com/realbrysongray/status/1633550771907117056?s=46...
Since I do remember that episode and got curious, I asked ChatGPT. Apparently, the antipodal point on the globe from Hoboken, NJ is somewhere in the Indian Ocean, southeast of Madagascar. From Tokyo, it's in the South Atlantic Ocean, northeast of the Falkland Islands.

Undoubtedly, I'll forget all this by tomorrow morning and remember Asia :-)
But for a propulsive landing, why would they want to have forward velocity at all, unless by design for this type of landing ? I'd have thought the preference would be to kill forward speed and land vertically.
Our brains are wired up in a particular set of patterns for social organization. So it's no surprise that all kinds of different organizations and their tactics will resemble one another.

What really matters is: Are the people in the organization subject to epistemic dysfunction? Does the organization pathologically warp the perceptions and emotions of its people to the point of delusion?

In contrast to Drexler et al's idea from the late 80's early 90's, that "hypertext would save the world" from its delusions, social media has just made the organization of information bubbles easier than ever.
Looking back on prior eras of human history, we wonder why people accepted that the state should have the power to make gross infringements on their basic human rights, like freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and so on. In the future, humans will look back on our era and wonder why we accepted the idea that governments should have so much power to interfere with the economy.

A stable currency is a basic human right.
This week I ran into a problem with vertical centering I couldn't figure out: Text in a flex item with overflow ellipses and vertical centering. Other people online have shared solutions that did not work for me, but I've since convinced myself it looks better as-is. Billions of dollar is not an exaggeration.
That’s where I landed after v14 with LSP support came out. It’s so nimble! And extensions with shell scripts and CLI programs is right in my wheelhouse.
Assuming the 10 year inflation rate came out to 1000% (or 26% annually) then your meal math would be correct.

As for the bank, it really depends on the accounts and products they offer. I'd imagine a Turkish bond would offer a rate of return (in lira) somewhat correlated to their central bank target rate (now 45%), but a typical savings account will always be some spread lower than that.

So, assuming constant rates for simplicity, if you got a generous 5% return on your savings account, then, after 10 years, your 1000 lira from 2014 would be worth 1000*(1.05)^10 = 1628.89 in 2024 lira. Unfortunately, those 1628.89 in 2024 lira is only worth 1628.89 / (1.26)^10 = 161.50 in 2014 lira.

The real picture is more complicated (rates go up and down, inflation in one area will be different than another and there are different ways to measure) but that is the general idea.
As of the start of this year, minimum wage in Turkey is ahead of inflation.

In other words, workers at minimum wage are making more in dollar terms today than they made in dollar terms in previous years.
OP here! American politics are very polarised right now so I agree that most likely not many votes are moving based on single issues, but there's a ton of examples where buying decisions are made based on a single criteria - think vegan or kosher food
Thanks for posting! I had forgotten just how long a road this was, but I'm very pleased that the requirements we talked about years ago have been met. :)

That's not to say this is done! There's a set of features we still want to add and we'd like to gain some confidence in the APIs as structured before we mark them as stabilized.
Funny, I was just thinking about making something like this during cold weather last week.
Not planned for MVP or not planned ever?
yeah, it actually would have impacted my buying decision if I'd known about the support beforehand
they are already here. they have been watching us for a very, very long time.
and no. we will not see them if they do not want to.
Makes sense, I could add a player with a sample podcast per language before the signup form. Thanks for the feedback.
Mini-mills.

AI isn't going to jump in there and do you another Sistine Chapel or Godfather.

You have a restaurant, it needs some random Chinese/Italian/Mexican artwork. Are you going to buy a poster? No way, just generate it and hang it up.

You have a kid who needs to be entertained. Do I get a team of 200 to write me Frozen, world class singers to sing the songs, and animators? No. We'll start with our own 5-minute Peppa Pig style cartoon.

Your widget shop needs a website. Do you go to Getty and find a shot of happy couples or landscapes taken by a professional photographer? No, nobody cares if your happy family has 7 fingers on each hand. Generate the photo, plonk it on your website.

As AI swallows the cheap, low-risk stuff, it also gains scale to do higher forms of art. Someday your detective story with weird sweaters and cops with a fcked up home life will also become AI generated.

Eventually it will climb mount impossible.
Absolutely right. Most of us who were watching the show as it was released felt the first season was good and hewed closely to the book which was also good. But then seasons 2 and 3 are gobsmackingly good. Every episode is important and pertinent, and ideas and themes flow like water. I envy you getting to enjoy it for the first time!
IIUC, it has 12 strategically arranged RCS and 2(1 broken) main thrusters, ALL installed on a back facing mounting plate now pointing spaceward. I'm kind of suspecting there could have been cool factor involved in the decision leading to this design.
I estimate that the median is substantially lower though.
I worked with a woman who officially referred to herself a "webmistress". Not as a joke.
I predict Tesla will never release Optimus, or at the very least nothing similar to it within ten years. They will not release a starting new $25k proper EV ever, and we'll only see it go back up at the exponential rate it was when Musk is removed.
Anomalo's machine learning approach to data quality is growing like gangbusters
Yeah putting pounds of lead in the water near your home for months feels...ill advised at the least.
Have you read anything by Peter Kreeft? https://www.peterkreeft.com/topics-more/case-for-life-after-... might be of some interest to you.
Unfortunately, any one I pick will anger one side or the other of the isle, so I'll refrain from naming names. There area bout a half dozen good long form Substacks that I follow and I know my friends follow a few others that I don't. They sound good too, but I don't want to devote that much time to reading :)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company: Form 8-K – Material Cybersecurity Incidents
"On December 12, 2023, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (the “Company,” “HPE,” or “we”) was notified that a suspected nation-state actor, believed to be the threat actor Midnight Blizzard, the state-sponsored actor also known as Cozy Bear, had gained unauthorized access to HPE’s cloud-based email environment."

Accessed since May 2023
The HN title is misleading. This is an IBM ThinkPad 701C.

I thought this was some kind of restoration of something related to the old, vacuum-tube IBM 701 computer of 1952 vintage. The only hint I had that it might have been the iconic ThinkPad was the "butterfly keyboard" phrase.

The linked blog post makes it clear that this is indeed a ThinkPad and not an old 701.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_701
The sequence

FROM Table AS t WHERE t.Condition SELECT t.col1, t.col2, ...

might be more natural than the traditional

SELECT t.col1, t.col2, ... FROM Table AS t WHERE t.Condition

If we compare it with how loop are described in programming languages:

Loop -> SELECT-FROM-WHERE
Table -> Collection
AS t -> Loop instance variable
WHERE -> condition on instances

In Java and many other PLs, we write loops as follows:

foreach x in Collection
if x.field == value:
continue
// Do something with x, for example, return in a result set

So we first define the collection (table) we want to process elements from. Then we think about the condition they have satisfy by using the instance variable. And finally in the loop body we do whatever we want, for example, return elements which satisfy the condition.

In Python, loops also specify the collection first:

for x in Collection:

Python list comprehension however uses the traditional order:

[(x.col1, x.col2) for x in Collection if x.field2 == value]

Here we first specify what we want to return, then collection with condition.
> I predict it will drop until Tesla releases Optimus, the $25k EV

Ha ha. Sub $30K EV is the longest running con ever out of Musk. Notice the 2008: https://www.engadget.com/2008-06-30-tesla-motors-elon-musk-p...
I would not blame LLMs for the current wave of layoffs. Maybe in the future, but these are more likely corrections from all the hiring and growth we saw during the pandemic.
> For the entirety of 2023, total revenues stood at $96.8 billion, of which $82.4 billion came from automotive revenues, a 15 percent increase compared to 2022.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/01/tesla-publishes-its-fin...

Yes, and 85% of Tesla's revenues came from cars, and it is increasing. It is part of why their profit margins have returned to auto industry norms. Tesla has two items that make them significant money: Model Y and Model 3. Nothing else is big enough to really move the revenue needle.
> PRC is currently extracting the greatest high skill demographic divident in human history in the next 30 years

China is not. There is a trend in China for companies to not hire people over the age of 35. Also, their unofficial youth unemployment rate is something like 45%. In addition, 1 billion people live in poverty in China https://www.newsweek.com/china-article-censorship-1-billion-.... That means those people don't have the knowledge/connection/skillset to contribute. Lastly, Chinese population is expected to shrink to 600B even faster than 2050
I'm fairly competent, I don't even really have a "support" issue, I just need them to stop billing me for a device that was damaged and replaced. You can't terminate unless the "device is online", and the fact that there isn't a very direct support path for this is wild
Then it's always been that. It's just now it's flowing in a direction that a certain segment of the population disagrees with, so now that's a bad thing.
It's not the cleanroom that's the issue, it's mostly hazardous materials and some of the processes (gas deposition, sputtering) aren't garage friendly.

That said, there are people on youtube that are doing it, and it's doable to some degree in a garage environment, but the risks of dealing with hot HF acid are too much for most of us.
A thermostat is a system that can hold an internal state (nominally, temperature) that represents the world around them. You can also build a thermostat with a switch and a bimetallic strip with differing rates of thermal expansion -- a device that is clearly not intelligent. I'm not sure I can subscribe to this definition...
That's definitely a good way to do it, and if it works for you then awesome! We're kind of doing something similar here with this in a workflow where you don't have to share the key and it requires not technical knowledge of doing this. I actually did this with my dad over mobile phones and he doesn't know how to use public-private key encryption.
Communist stuff gets a pass: https://nekrochaparro.bandcamp.com/album/hells-hammer-and-th...
They talk about FSD because each release allows them to write down more of it as more features come online, its not a huge red flag its a fact the NN release is currently happening first release to customers finally went out..

The funny part is how much the growth in their fixed battery storage and production got overlooked by the investors.