skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the loan is below inflation, the loan is actually making you money...

Inflation is at most indirectly relevant here. What's important is the opportunity cost, ie what else you could do with your money.

Of course, you'd hope that there are other investments that can at least beat out inflation. But there might be much, much better investments available. (Or on the contrary, sometimes eg government bonds yield less than inflation. Yet, some people still buy them. Though much of that demand probably comes regulation all but forcing certain parties to invest in government bonds.)
I've seen plenty of Framework laptops at hacker conferences.
Because they would otherwise be denied a service or freedom they are legally entitled to. "Undue advantage" is a bribe like "hey choose my company for this lucrative government contract." A harassment bribe is more like "hey here's some money for you to not charge me with a made-up traffic violation", or "hey here's some money in addition to the actual driver's license fee, so that you'll actually do your job and give me my license".
Put them on GitHub. If there were some interesting things you learned from the experience, write a few blog posts.

Having made actual useful things would put you above at least two-thirds of the grad candidates I've interviewed (though that is in a South African context).
If we here knew of a surefire way to convert a fun side project into a few hundred dollars, a lot of folks here would be doing nothing but side projects. And, around here, folks know at least how to arrive at a working, usable, somewhat finished side project.

I think a trap for software creators is to think that making the software is the hard part about making a successful product that generates income. The hard part of any business is the part you do not like doing, have little experience with and don't really know how to approach. For Marketing majors, the hard part is creating an actual product. For CS folks, the hardest parts include marketing, client acquisition, sales.

I would say: either you give your products / efforts away (possibly in some hobbled form for upselling like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39492618), or you treat the "other side" as actual work and put in the effort to make it profitable. The latter also includes educating yourself on how to go about it, also using professional sources where necessary.
I remember doing a school essay about this 20 years ago. How come this is still going on?
> My plan is to swap a hydrogen motor in i guess once they get of diesel.

Why?
Or perhaps because English is not your first language, you miss out a bit on sardonic or self deprecating tones.

Not everyone is literal. And I suspect polymaths even less so (for instance I would expect overuse of analogy and metaphor to be a relatively common trait of people who don’t stay in their lane)
I haven't read it but Steven Johnson wrote a book that argued the opposite:

Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter is a non-fiction book written by Steven Johnson. Published in 2005, it details Johnson's theory that popular culture – in particular television programs and video games – has grown more complex and demanding over time and is making society as a whole more intelligent, contrary to the perception that modern electronic media are harmful or unconstructive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Bad_Is_Good_for_Y...
> The best people to run a country are those that know what they are doing

Oh they know alright what they are doing. It's just has nothing to do with what they are saying, nor with your or mine best interest in mind.
It's not about being more similar than different.

It's that you literally can't biologically divide people into the categories we divide them into.

Two sub-saharan african men might be more genetically apart than one of those men and some White European fellow. In fact, Africa is more genetically diverse than the rest of the world combined.

Yet those two Africans are "black" and supposed to be the same "race", separate from the white fellow.

If an alien species landed on Earth today, took exhaustive genetic samples of everyone on the planet and did their best to classify us, it wouldn't look anything like our "races". That's the point.

Maybe you think that's goalpost moving but it's not.
I love leasing! Well, not to lease myself, but the cars returned from a 2-4 year leasing contract are usually great value to buy used directly from a brand dealership, come with guarantees from the manufacturer comparable to new cars and are usually, at least, acceptable milage-wise.

I talk about Germany specifically so.

Once, I bought a car new. Will never do it again, used (somehwere between one and four years) is the way to go.
This doesn't necessarily apply to OP's product, but institutions also want regulatory compliance. For example, your premium version can use NIST-approved cipher suites, while the free version "limits" itself to the likes of chacha20 and x25519 (both secure standards as far as we know, just non-NIST!)
So cheap too
Abandon them, and relicense to something strongly copyleft.

The latter step means if someone is willing to provide any improvements then they must publish it, which allows you to point at it as being the one now up to date.

I choose AGPL for mine.
I think for most of its use-cases, you could replace it with a one-liner:
alias path='echo -e ${PATH//:/\\n} '
and work with it via sort and uniq. I've had this alias in my configuration for a couple of decades now, so I'm not bashing on its usefulness though.
App economics are just bad. Most of your competition will be free to download but then trick / bully people into a subscription. And maybe a few lootboxes?

CLV for a free game can easily be $5+ and that means when you market your niche app you compete for ad slots against people who are happy to pay $1-2 per install. But for a $1 app you can at most pay $0.7 per install after the store tax and then you're not making any revenue to pay for support, development, and the devices you need to buy for testing.
While we are on this subject, I am curious to know what people with hiring knowledge think of seeing side project mentions on cvs

I am tempted to completely not mention them in mine, even though I have hundreds of thousands of users

Why? Because they distract from the "clean track record" of working for big corp, and perhaps the hiring manager will think less of me because of them ("not devoted to big corp enough"). Worse, they might think I will quit my job as soon as I am able to make a living from them, which isn't true but not entirely false either
Low cost weapons systems
Which is one reason why setup.py is on its way out. More often than not you'll just download a prebuilt wheel with pip anyway.
It's interesting how wildly different numbers are offered for Europe's population density on high profile web sources.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/europe-phy... 188 persons/km2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe 72 p/km2

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/europe-popula... 34 p/km2
> one of you is doing what the LLM is doing

Possibly both. ;)
Amazing. Many thanks.
Yes, it is the "Minimum Functionality" requirement , still in the books:

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#min...

> 4.2 Minimum Functionality

> Your app should include features, content, and UI that elevate it beyond a repackaged website. If your app is not particularly useful, unique, or “app-like,” it doesn’t belong on the App Store. If your App doesn’t provide some sort of lasting entertainment value or adequate utility, it may not be accepted.
Good expert but horrible people manager is happening more often than not. And usually it is more disastrous than good people manager/bad expert.

It's great to have both, however those are rare gems.
It's just nonsensical to use a device that dictates what you can install on it. Well, Androids don't come with root permissions either ( you should be able to get it easily if you want imo ) but at least you can install any app, even just create your own.
Interesting that the military would willingly present themselves as the single greatest threat to american security.
I mean, if we are going to get past attention (very much on board with the idea!), then it might help to know what it is really contributing to a model.

My response was trying to clarify some confusion.

I am all for alternatives to attention. I don’t think BM25 cuts it. I don’t think anything that samples tokens based on BM25 weights (the idea in this subthread) would cut it.
I think the main skill of the polymath is skating into journeyman knowledge while avoiding the Expert Beginner trap. Learning to learn sounds more accurate in theory, but I doubt it is sufficient in practice.
Yes, it's also the case in Norway. You don't have to buy a car from one of them.
“I have invested a lot of time into them and am hoping to make at least a little revenue from them.”

There’s your problem. You see the side project as sunken cost. Something you need to recoup. And yet, it’s already given you more than you asked for.

Hundreds of thousands of hours can go into something and be open source and free. Because the value gained is far greater.
So that's still not terrible, really.

I've been getting allergy immunotherapy for the past 3.5 years (not for food allergies, for stuff like cat, dog, grass, dust mites, etc.), and I have to go for the shots once a month. It's honestly not that big a deal. I only have another 1.5 years until my treatment is over, but if I had to do it for the rest of my life, it wouldn't be the worst thing, given the benefits.

This is of course assuming there aren't any bad reactions to this medicine... didn't read enough of the article or beyond to get that info.
I just don't get it. Why do we even need nuclear submarines? Solar is much cheaper and has been deployed massively already.
It doesn't have to be about law, the person in charge of purchasing the service may be bound by rules internal to their administration, such as "you have to pick the cheapest option that fills the requirements".
a variety of backup scripts

For example, how to backup a running Linux server with rsync while using hard links to deduplicate files that didn't change.
I thought the lowest point was tantalum, for the past 20 years or so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalum#Status_as_a_conflict_...

I.e. the thing that's been going into most electronics manufactured in the last two decades.
>The Turing test was never our standard for sentience, no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts

>It tests whether a machine is perceptive and expressive enough to be perceived as intelligent, which is not even close to the same thing as being sentient.

The same is true for other humans, we don't know if they're sentient, just that they appear to be, that is, they talk and act like it.
I do non-food allergy immunotherapy once a month, and have been doing it for the past 3.5 years. I really don't mind going in that often, and the benefits are well worth it to me. I only have to go another 1.5 years before it's common to see diminishing returns for continuing longer, but if I had to do it for the rest of my life, that'd probably be ok.
Storm Shadows/SCALP-EGs and Taurus have that too
I think the assumption that the only way to have a working economy is to multiply indefinitely is the only thing that needs to be countered seriously.
Show HN: Free Certificate Monitoring via RSS
It's not that easy on Android either. Rooting usually requires a factory reset and several apps (e.g. banking) will not work if they detect the system is rooted.

edit: Also, in some cases you lose warranty.
> You still need _intent_.

My goodness, and circumstantial evidence can establish intent. Knowledge plus actions in promoting an infringing product (like publishing MIT licensed source code without a notice) could be enough to establish intent. See, for example, DSU Medical Corp. v. JMS Co., 471 F.3d 1293 (Fed. Cir. 2006).

> You would be opening yet another Pandora's Box

I'm not saying everything is potentially infringing. I'm saying with knowledge and actions which induce, yes, it possibly is. Most FOSS would lack actual knowledge.

This is all hypothetical anyway. Franhoufer does in fact license their software without a patent grant which puts us all on notice that we need to obtain a patent license.
Design has many facets. Are you purely referring to visual design?

Because I wouldn’t call focusing on usability, accessibility and solving the right problems for users is a waste of time or being overhyped. These will increase your competitive advantage.
If we are all trapped in a simulation (and that is likely). How can we escape?
One of the topics, which fascinates many geeks (like you and me) is the idea, that we all might live in a giant matrix-like simulation. And if you argue it from a mathematical standpoint, that is quite likely…but that should not be the topic this week.

This week’s paper assumes that the theory is correct, and that we indeed live in a simulation. And from that perspective it discusses different ways, how we might be able to break out of it.

At first sight, this seems quite quirky, fun and zero percent relevant to our actual lives. WHY do I put it into the newsletter? Because the ideas in the paper have implications for another field: AI safety

If we assume we build an AI in the near future that is as intelligent (or more) than humans, we might find ourselves in the very same situation:

1. We are simulating a virtual environment for the AI to study it (we are the simulators)

2. The AI figures out it is not in the real world, but in a simulation

3. The AI tries to break out of the simulation, with the very same tactics which are presented in the paper

If you let this thoughts sink in, they are STILL CRAZY. But it is a really fun paper to read about, and you learn something new. That’s all this newsletter is about. Have fun.

In order to receive ALL articles I write, please subscribe to the email based newsletter: https://www.weeklycspaper.com/. On HN I only share some of the articles.

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Abstract:

Many researchers have conjectured that the humankind is simulated along with the rest of the physical universe – a Simulation Hypothesis. In this paper, we do not evaluate evidence for or against such claim, but instead ask a computer science question, namely: Can we hack the simulation? More formally the question could be phrased as: Could generally intelligent agents placed in virtual environments find a way to jailbreak out of them. Given that the state-of-the-art literature on AI containment answers in the affirmative (AI is uncontainable in the long-term), we conclude that it should be possible to escape from the simulation, at least with the help of superintelligent AI. By contraposition, if escape from the simulation is not possible, containment of AI should be, an important theoretical result for AI safety research. Finally, the paper surveys and proposes ideas for hacking the simulation and analyzes ethical and philosophical issues of such an undertaking.

Download Link:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Roman-Yampolskiy/publication/364811408_How_to_Hack_the_Simulation/links/6360243e96e83c26eb6eae7a/How-to-Hack-the-Simulation.pdf

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Additional Links:

- Is Reality Real? The Simulation Argument YouTube video about the Simulation theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlTKTTt47WE
> Sorry, which person's?

Probably this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39502539
Escape and disappear?
Put them on github. The benefit for you in this equation is having your name on some code that a prospective employer can see. That will have a lot more monetary value to you, than you would ever be likely to make from selling the software (which is very little).
Am I the only person who has no problem with emails? My Gmail inbox has only emails I want. My spam folder has ... spam (Senator Rick Scott - I live in the UK, but thanks for caring). What is this thing fixing?
Not the parent, but can I ask why people are downvoting this?

On the one hand: yes, it's short and it's snarky

On the other hand: I feel like this is a legit use case for AI. ChatGPT is polite to the edge of obsequiousness and there has definitely been times when I wanted to say "No" but didn't want to lash out at the person - getting an AI to put together a first draft of a polite "No" is incredibly useful and a great starting point. If nothing it reduces the amount of time I spend agonizing over "Is this email ok? Is it at least reasonable?"
> of harm from removing/deprecating PWA’s without some data on the size and impact of this change

Apple just introduced a lot of PWA feature on Desktop Safari on the last WWDC, and improvements on iOS like web-push were introduced with iOS 16.4 just less than 1 year ago [0]. The impact can't be that big for stuff Apple just released recently. And now they are killing it outright again.

[0]: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-16-4-new-features/
GPS is calculated from signals from a range of satellites far above us in orbit in space. It's not like cellular towers with coverage. There are no real remote areas with GPS - some areas and times of day will have less satellites overhead so calculating a position will be harder. There's more and more of these satellites (from usa, russian, eu, china etc) and modern chips will try calculate position from the signals from many of them rather than one "species"

But yes, remote areas will have less mapping imagery quality because they are remote and uninteresting and don't have roads or people or companies to buy ads on the map. They will buy cheaper imagery in remote areas.
Wait, Hong Kong was socialist before the National Security Law was passed?

I've spent some months in HK-Kowloon (2002-2016) and it was one of the most capitalist places I've ever visited from the entrepreneurs running food stalls and working night markets, to the media (granted my Cantonese is minimal, but there were english language newspapers), to the massive banking business. There was a desperation, hustle, and exploitation along with the positives I expect from capitalism. There seemed to be basic social support, housing, and medical care... but that's true in the US, which I think is not socialist. It seems to me that most of Europe is more socialist, but I'm not here to judge what people want or what's best for them.

Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and even Germany, France or England are more socialist than I've experienced in HK, TW, or Singapore. They have pretty well established democracies and rule of law, but basic needs like food/health/housing/child care are pretty well comfortably provided by their governments. More so than past the New Territories.

I really wish you the best in HK now. It's a beautiful place full of great people who've worked really hard. Financial leverage provided a lot of jobs and made the rich wealthy, but if that investment fails to turn a profit, everyone will have to pay for it.
Check out:

DeckGL
https://panel.holoviz.org/reference/panes/DeckGL.html

ipysigma
https://github.com/medialab/ipysigma
Good read! Any advice on getting a good lease offer for a sub $25k car?
The sponsor is the military so the user case is probably a war.

> The problem set given to the hackathon teams from the U.S. Department of Defense and the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) focused on counter-UAS, AI/ML, and RF/Electronic Warfare.

All sort of landscape changing events happen in a war. Buildings burn or are bombed and leveled, dams fall and terrain is flooded, etc. The military won't rely on the satellite images in Google Map. They'll load their own fresh images. If they're not fresh enough, they'll wait until they have them.

In reports about the war in Ukraine it's common to read that FPV drones don't fly because of adverse atmospheric conditions, which could be too much wind, fog or rain. Or too many electronic warfare systems from the enemy, which is one of the points of this exercise. The drone will be shielded.

Edit: snow also changes the look of the terrain.
If you watch enough B&W films, you can see Baudot code passing by. It's often the visual metaphor of the 40s and 50s for "we are very high tech" -A dead give-away is the low hole count across the tape. 5 holes, not 7+1 (parity)
By adding a single "aparently" in the paragraph?
npm install -g tsx

Name your files .ts and run with tsx ./file.ts

All done, good to go
LLMs tend to come with ducking content filters, though.
You do not need root on android to install a .apk file. I see too many people thinking iOS and Android are on equal starting ground.

Android out of the box is fairly close to jailbroken iOS. Very few things require root.
https://www.mhanational.org/get-help
Is that the stuff that you can have withdrawal from? I remember after using a nasal spray when sick, if I used it too much for a week, the next two weeks id get really clogged up.
Startup CTO here, so can't talk about corporate hiring politics. But for me, side projects show that the interviewee actually gives a crap about coding and they demonstrate, that they can finish a project. They're less likely to be lazy codemonkeys and more likely passionate people that care about the project, have an understanding of the processes and why we sometimes choose business over tech.
The cheapest option that meets the requirements is institutional pricing.
I think businesses are more likley to rent and techies are more likely to build. So he is betting on a niche, techies who wants to buy a 15k device or companies who do not want to rent. Also companies who are willing to go the AMD GPU route instead of NVIDIA GPU, which as much better tooling and much more experts on the job market.
Thanks for all the answers guys, of course I missed the most interestins parts in my naive theorizing :)
How on earth does 1 minute of your time to install an adblocker make your life harder?
I use many PWAs on my iPhone, they have a few issues but I find they’re way more preferably to installing apps
Building Trust Takes Time: Limits to Arbitrage for Blockchain-Based Assets
Yeah, negotiating a price is a loosing battle on average. why ? Because you're always on the defending side: the salesperson tries to max the money he gest from you and then you have to make a rather big effort to just get the fair price.

Granted, when talking to big company, you can't even negociate.

I'd find myself in a pretty awkward position if my goal in a professional relationship was to make the other side loose.
We're not talking about taking down the root servers, we're talking about the root servers mitigating the attack by dropping requests for that specific .com domain name.

That would have no effect on any recursive resolver that had the .com nameservers cached, which is substantially all of them because it happens as soon as they resolve any other .com domain name. That happens immediately and continuously even for small nameservers.

You would have a window of under a second once every TTL (currently 48 hours for gtld-servers.net, the nameservers for .com) between when the cached entry expires and when the next request for some other .com domain name comes in and refreshes it with a request to the root servers that they'd actually answer.
Not sure how they do it but I think it's quite feasible to extend a kalman filter to include camera intput referenced to an image. E.g. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9090503
It was an amazing watch. They were so well done and every second was addictive to watch.