skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just looked up "entheogen" (e.g. LSD, psilo, salvia, mescaline) in my personal dictionary and the origin is this: "Greek, literally becoming divine within."

Just a perfectly-generated word, based on my own personal experiences of connecting with the above examples (except S. divinorum, which can go to hell (or take you there)).
If you work in a field that’s built around intellectual property law, as any creative field including software is, it behooves you to be sufficiently familiar with it to understand that MTG’s tap mechanic was patented not covered by copyright.
> I guess this is a reference to the joke ...

Yes, I can confirm that it is; busted!

> and had to rely on the testimony of other people

The sheep joke is not about believing people's reports or not, but about what may or may not be deduced from a report, given that it is accurate and true.
Do you know which sections of the DMA address this? Genuinely asking because I’d like to read from the source here.
I really don't think the oil and railroad monopolies were broken up for the benefit of consumers, or due to some high-minded principles. They were broken up at the behest of other domestic industries which they were strangling, and those industries had the political clout to take on the monopolies. Arguably the same thing happened with the AT&T monopoly.
It is funny but let’s hope someone doesn’t take it seriously or use it in that capacity else they’re gonna have to explain it in court
This is pretty neat! I had no idea what to use this for until I read the “why” section on your README - good use case
Mind sharing what that RPG was?
How does the idempotency work? I don't understand how functions can be made idempotent without changing or instrumenting their implementation for end-to-end idempotency.
It's real entity not SPAM :)
In my youth, I found summer vacation distressingly undirected (though part of that was living overseas with a language barrier) and even benign periods of unemployment have had a similar impression.
Apple should follow eu laws if it wants to do business withe eu. I know, sounds crazy right?
Warner used to be one of my favorite companies. They’re following the rest in this capitalist rathole apparently.
I think this is more about reducing support costs than extracting every transaction fee. A major benefit of a walled garden is that you can maintain a controlled system with largely predictable expectations of what problems users will encounter and the costs of providing support.

Say what you want about Apple’s products, but their support is top tier and a major selling point for many consumers. It’s also very expensive to provide.

Relaxing AppStore restrictions reduces both security and expected behavior the phone. People here will argue otherwise, but it is a fact. Alternative web browsers require the ability to make the most dangerous, security compromising system call that can be done by a normal app. Things will inevitably go wrong in ways that Apple cannot control, and users will seek the support they expect. Unfortunately now Apple is at the mercy of Google or whomever to release their own patches while Apple fronts the support costs for problems they didn’t create.

Losing control of the system and being unable to provide the expected level of customer satisfaction is more damaging to the brand than otherwise. Outside of tech circles, nobody cares about alternative app stores or which JIT compiler is running when they browse the web
Alphabet is similar. Larry and Sergei together have a majority of the voting power.
Looking at the author-name, it seems like a kind of ad for the web-design company, one which went a bit beyond Lorem Ipsum.
> I compare them to Roberts Rules of Order, Revised, which are straightforward enough that most people can grasp them with a reading or two.

Then why don't the House and Senate change their rules to something more like Robert's Rules of Order? All it takes is a majority vote of each house.
https://archive.ph/c9AsH
Does it have ECC and Coreboot / Libreboot support?
Japan regulates so you can only use few exhanges and withdraw select of cryptocoins
I think these are reasonable points. But are they necessary?

I'm a researcher, so not your typical programmer. But I'm wondering if there are some aspects that might overlap. I do program a bit differently from my colleagues.

I know I'm going to change my code a lot and have to try a lot of different things so when I go into writing I prioritize flexibility. I know whichever direction I'm starting in is wrong and I'm gonna learn a lot on the way. It's a bit slower to start but ends up faster in the long run and ends up letting me parallelize a lot more (because I can get to a state where I submit jobs to run over different parameters and can rely on it running for days). It did definitely take a bit to get into this style, but I feel much better about my code now.

Do you think these lessons I learned are relatable to the area you work in? To me the key difference is between short term and long term goals. Short term I am very hacky but it's just that that isn't sustainable so I imagine this is analogous to actual products. But it seems that it is addressing a similar problem of flexibility and changing directions.

I also have the habit of documenting while I code because I forget what I did in a few weeks (side benefit, others can onboard very easily). And whenever I get handed code I find myself being more productive rewriting routines rather than using what was handed to me that has zero documentation and is typically made for a very specific use case. Do you have a different experience? Because I've been working in a group building a product and this has been my life for the last 6 months...

I guess what I'm after is I have a predisposition to think more openness is more beneficial in the long run but closed is better in the short run.

I also think the not listening to power users plays into this. I'm reminded of this post[0] where other users are mentioning similar experiences. I can attest that in my experience most bugs I've seen are system independent but have experienced being quickly dismissed with "unsupported OS" and closed. Including just using a different flavor of the supported distro. (or to read the docs despite referencing the docs in my issue)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28978086

Edit: Keep posting and we'll get you to your "goal" lol
I don't know what you're trying to say here, but if one of our team members left because they had a better offer elsewhere, I wouldn't call them greedy.
That's actually exactly correct. Peer review is supposed to characterize the research in terms of quality, not validate it. Otherwise, those peers who validate it would practically be co-authors.

It's a system built upon honesty. A dishonest person is obviously going to take advantage of it. Really blatant things are caught in peer review, but sneaky fraud will definitely slip through.
> The main problem with this type of tree is that if it is to be grown for commercial purposes they need to have a good amount of soil mixed into the soil.

Yes, I often have problems where my soil doesn't have enough soil. I need at least 65% more soil per soil.

> A great benefit of these roots is that they do not take up much space [...] this is very beneficial because most houses are very cramped

Oh yes, the that one subspecies of redwood trees which grows inside houses. It definitely needs more soil.

> They will also not have to wait on an empty stomach. They can eat almost anything without any problems.

... And it's carnivorous...
They might as well quarter the Soldiers in people’s houses since we’re ignoring so much of the rest of the Bill of Rights at this point.
Ok… but how does it work? Too much magic.
Cost is way too high. A few taxis and drivers won’t cut it.
"The [self-congratulatory] paper of record" behaves as an arrogant, evil megacorp. Is this news? (Pun intended)
1) I am furious on Harrison's behalf. Great story, if rage inducing.

2) How does one precisely determine noon from the position of the sun? That feels like that would be a sloppy measurement, which would eclipse the error in the clocks.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/us/covid-cases.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

The severity has dropped more than the prevalence.

Hospitalizations suggest that in the US the peak in Jan 2024 was around 80% as big as Jan 2023. If that's accurate, then Jan 2024 had more cases per day than most of 2020 and a good chunk of 2021. That's a lot of extent. There had been 120 thousand cases in the entire world when pandemic was originally declared, and the US is currently doing a multiple of that each week.
I think the main thing I got completely wrong was how tech would impact people's lives.

I was so optimistic 10-15 years ago. I thought the internet was genuinely going to connect to the world. I thought the world would grow so small that national conflicts and rivalries would seem silly.

I also thought people would want freedom. It really shocked me when people started to be deplatformed around 2016. But more than the deplatforming itself the silence and lack of outrage was the thing that shocked me the most.

I think really the only thing I kinda got right was the growth of AI. Around 2012 through 2015 there were decent number of AI breakthroughs happening. I had a bet around this time with a friend who was a machine vision researcher that by 2030 people would have started losing their jobs on mass to AI. I may still be a little early on that, but right now we're definitely ahead of my expectations in many ways
Rockbox, which is replacement firmware that can run on many hardware players, can do this (and basically anything else).

https://www.rockbox.org/
It's sad to see many comments here assume that Sam was at fault for something without really knowing what happened behind the scenes.

Let's try not to jump to conclusions, as hard as that may be.

And if you're actively wishing people to fail, then I ask you to try to understand where that stems from.

If you think Openai should be run differently, and if you have the inclination, I genuinely encourage you to build a competitor. I actually mean it.

People think that Openai is too far ahead, but the fact is that someone with a capability to understand things from first principles will often find a unique, valuable insight to compete with. And the world is sufficiently decentralized such that you can't be stopped from pursuing this, even by Openai.

As technology becomes more powerful, first principles reasoning >> factual knowledge (information) about how things work. In a sense, Openai's work reduces their own moat.
I'm not arguing. Not attacking. Just asking what you meant.
Fuck the "owning" of terminology laying claim to individual words. It's utter horseshit.
It's rare in any field, that's why he's coonsidered a savant.

But it's possible in many fields too - including mathematics[1][2][3], aerospace engineering [4][5], theoretical physics[6], computer science[7], etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Banach

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky

[6] https://insidetheperimeter.ca/where-did-it-come-from-bose-la...

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
The rules apply to me but not to thee because some animals are more equal than others.
> If you don't want to be under the thumb of an operating system, don't use it.

How do you do that without replacing the hardware?

> You want copyleft worth a damn?

I don't. I want a world without copyright, and I recognize that means taking copyleft with it.

> If you want to cancel all intellectual property rights with respect to software

My desire is more radical: I wish for a world without intellectual propery. Yes, that includes patents, trademarks, and creative copyright. Of course they all have different implications, but I really believe the world with be a better place without all of them. They each mainly serve to better their "owners" (almost exclusively not the creators) rather than better humanity.
DHH sure makes his feelings on equity clear. Dogwhistles included.

The worst of the woke scourge has indeed passed in tech. Plenty of other companies have now dismantled their DEI bureaucracies or made them a shadow of their former might. It is possible to reverse course, and it's infinitely easier to do so in 2024 than it was in 2021. But it's still a motherfucker.

Microsoft made and withdrew a Nazi bot. People are playing with toys they don't understand.

Try dealing with humans more and software less. You might be surprised at the biases and hindrances they have faced that you haven't experienced. Talk to the receptionist and cleaning people; to your software engineers. Have a beer with them. Watch Office Space again.

Every person has a different and rewarding and resonating story to tell. They are not objects, but people with different experiences, some easy, some tough. A lifetime of challenges, loves, losses, successes and failures, of being looked upon as "different" can't be codified, eigenvectored or factored.

Enjoy life and people. They're beautiful.
The Affair That Split New York High Society
Thanks for sharing this! I occasionally use google translate and/or GPT4 for similar purposes, but your tool makes the workflow a bit simpler.

I've found creative writing in a target language is great for learning.
Don't Invent XML Languages (2006)
I wonder if anyone has tried giving an LLM a tool that ensures that it copies a quote from a document accurately? It seems like it would be a pretty simple way to avoid some hallucinations.
I assume many people who want OpenAI to fail want to whole AGI program in general to fail, at least for a few decades longer. A competitor won't help, it'll plausibly make it worse.
Difficult to imagine what "companies" are thinking. I was working as an executive for subsidiary of eBay Inc. but would never imagine something like this happenening:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal
She stated "Let me break it down." Did she break it down somewhere? How can we see it without X account?
Congratulations on shipping!

You might find this interesting, a comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35376138 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35379983):

> I had been playing with the idea of creating a browser-based virtual piano for when I'm travelling and don't have access to a real piano but have my laptop with me. The idea would be to point the webcam down at the table between me and the laptop, and play on the table as if a piano were there. Then use the mediapipe framework [1] to capture finger positions, and use those to update a virtual environment like the one you have here.

> I put it on hold due to the significant engineering required, but it seems you have already implemented (and open sourced!) the browser-based piano simulation component.

> A quick scan through your repo indicates that this is all implemented in Python. I see that you are using mujoco_wasm [2].

[1] https://google.github.io/mediapipe/

[2] https://github.com/zalo/mujoco_wasm
> First, Rails is slow.

No, it is not slow. Maybe it is for your own project, but when you say that you have to define what you are comparing to and for what you are using it.

> Second, you probably don't want to use Rails to build your front-end.

Rails now has Hotwire. It is as modern as it gets since a lot of FE tools are now talking about SSR :)

> Third, because of the second point, you need a developer who knows Javscript/Typescript, and Rails.

I agree with you to some extent. But even if you choose React, you will need a developer that knows the backend. And just knowing the syntax of Node does not make one a backend developer. '

> Fourth, it's easier to find talent without using Rails.

This, compared with JS talent, is true. But it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy, right? You don't start Rails projects because there are few people so more people don't learn Ruby on Rails because there are not many jobs.
This is interesting, but unless I'm misreading the paper, it looks like they're training an LLM on the corpus. I can easily see why that would result in better performance than an off-the-shelf embeddings model, but... it won't work for a corpus that changes frequently, since you'll constantly have to retrain the LLM. That's sort of the point of RAG: how do you get the right information into an LLM as context, for data that changes so frequently that you can't directly train on it?
> Academics have been making these doomsday "automation will cause labor surplus" predictions since forever. When exactly can we expect them to materialize?

Make a list of jobs you think are very little benefit, no benefit, or detriment to society. Whatever value function you want. Maybe you hate advertisers, maybe you like advertisers. Reality television. Loan sharks. Health insurance. Lawyers. Fast food. Facebook. Everybody's got 'em, even if they don't agree.

Call these workers (whoever you decide they are) the fakeloaders. They're doing things that don't need to be done, but which the fakeloaders need to do in order to have money in order to buy things.

How big is the fake load? Sum the hours worked by fakeloaders, and the money they draw from the rest of the economy. Write it all off as wasted. That time could have been spent by those workers doing something more beneficial, or it could have been distributed over everyone to just rest and live in. That money expressed demand for important things like food, housing, or medicine but was earned by people who ultimately didn't do any work that actually produced those things or anything else that really improved life.

Now, enter some new technology that saves labor and costs people their jobs. Some number of those people may move on to other beneficial things. But some number are going to become fakeloaders. Maybe the fake load they do is easily-trained, low-paying work. Maybe it's credential- or network-demanding, high-paying work.

The key questions are: 1) Is the fake load growing and, if it is, 2) is that growth accelerating or jerking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(physics)) too fast?
You could have some side channel with an identifier for the RPC. If the server receives duplicates of one RPC, it ignores the extras.

It would require some client support, though. Alternatively, if the RPCs have the same arguments, the framework could choose to ignore seemingly identical ones, though that has its own issues.
QuickTime file size outputs are ridiculous. This can also record the camera simultaneously.
The top-end Yamaha electric pianos have a near-complete replica of the action inside of them. If you adjust the volume exactly right, you almost replicate the feel of playing a real piano.
Kinda like a silent piano? There are aftermarket options like PianoDisc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_piano
The life-ruining power of routines
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I empathize with your annoyance and sympathize with your goals, but but submitting a direct URL to the crap (even with a comment) just... isn't very practical. A significant number of people won't see your comment first/at-all, turning it into a net-negative to the HN experience.

It's better to link to a blogpost or something which does the necessary introduction and critique.
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Great work, keep going!
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I think there's another level to this, when you put a superconductor in contact with a metal there's a proximity effect that lowers the Tc of the superconductor. If you're using a superconductor that has a 4K Tc then you cannot afford to have your superconductor be weakened by the proximity effect. So the insulation is to prevent the proximity effect from happening.

Here, since you're using a much higher Tc material, if Tc is lowered by a few K you still have plenty of thermal budget, allowing you to take the hit from the proximity effect but be able to save on insulation.
>If AGI achieved, Microsoft doesn't have the claim on it commercially

If real AGI was achieved, probably nobody would have a claim on it commercially in the same way nobody's allowed to own another person.
Their cookie banner says accept or read more, no essential only button. I have them on 0.0.0.0 but not on iOS because I don’t know how to
Article 6(7):

> The gatekeeper shall allow providers of services and providers of hardware, free of charge, effective interoperability with, and access for the purposes of interoperability to, the same hardware and software features accessed or controlled via the operating system or virtual assistant listed in the designation decision pursuant to Article 3(9) as are available to services or hardware provided by the gatekeeper. Furthermore, the gatekeeper shall allow business users and alternative providers of services provided together with, or in support of, core platform services, free of charge, effective interoperability with, and access for the purposes of interoperability to, the same operating system, hardware or software features, regardless of whether those features are part of the operating system, as are available to, or used by, that gatekeeper when providing such services.
I read the article, which stated slow response times.

> The local EMS station has one ambulance to cover 7,000 people spread out over 200 square miles. Properties more than two miles away from the station are generally given the weakest insurance safety rating of 10 based on how quickly help can arrive. The ranch is twelve miles from the station. New York, Austin and other major cities have a rating of one, by contrast.

> “There are quite a few wealthy people that have these ranches, which are just big ranches with the nice homes,” said Kenneth Welch, a retired engineer who has lived in Blanco County for 17 years. “They’re gated and you can’t just drive in.”

By contrast I live in a major American city, with a world renowned hospital only 0.3 miles away from me (and all the other people) and a police station similar distance. It’s simply a fact that moving to a rural gated ranch will make freak accidents harder to respond to.
The first one is odd, but far less scary than the other two.
It doesn’t really surprise me, actually. We spend an enormous amount of our waking hours engaging with our jobs! If one believes in democracy, holds it as a core value - it seems perfectly reasonable that such a person would want the place they spend so much time to reflect those values.

Whether or not that’s “right” or “wrong” is an entirely separate matter, of course.

But it doesn’t surprise me, not in the least.
The CEO already sold another company then deployed the capital in new company. He has total control over the company without external investors. So company's not that agile (150+ people).

I feel that it's not a typical startup where whole teams are running towards something. Multiple projects which I worked on till now have stalled. My company's vision is not clear. They're dabbling on many projects. My colleagues who're good also want to move out of the company eventually.

So I'm thinking to take up the Big Tech job. Then work on side projects to get back into an agile startup. Is it a bad decision?
Sponsor block is so good that I initially tried to replace my Roku. The lack of Unicode was pushing me away from Roku, but programmatic ads in the middle of music videos pushed me to try the Android TV ecosystem.

But the ecosystem seems to be years old shields that struggle with 4k, cheap junk, and unknown but probably cheap junk from China.

My shield is definitely a lesser experience than my Roku, with the lags and skips, but I can put up with it on most days. But when I want to watch a 4k movie I'll switch over the HDMI cords back to my Roku.