skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So exciting! We'd be walking amongst our GAI brethren this very day if it weren't for the computational limits of those pesky RNGs!
Wouldn't ripping out the backplate make the battery replacable?*

Never heard of Google making installation of non genuine components hard the way Apple does.

*If your hands are too clumsy to reconnect battery wires when swapping batteries, get a swiss knife.
Interesting, the cost per kW⋅h is clearly included on my electric bill. I had assumed that was a regulatory requirement.

But I have a flat rate electric service. I could see that if you have demand-based or time-of-day rates it would be complicated to express anything other than an overall average cost per kW⋅h .
Looks like it's just a matter of time when I have to find an alternative then. Making a good service for the users and turning profit for shareholders are typically mutually exclusive goals.
Ranchers sentenced for tampering with rain gauges to increase crop subsidies
The founder ('Beff Jezos') has a large twitter presence.
Make a visit to one of the cold-as-hell regions of the world and take a look at how traditional houses look. Window sizes, wall thickness. Look at the energy usage needed to survive the climate. If people organise themselves, they can both survive and thrive in extreme conditions. Even just as isolated individuals.

Regions with high humidity and high temperatures also have huge rivers and waterfalls for cooling, irrigation and hydroelectric power plants to run millions of AC Units and build AC factories.
Ask HN: Any recommended AI tools to analyze data and generate insights?
specifically, an AI that I let loose on a large db and can offer insights out of the box "here are top <n> things you need to know" etc, and can be customized etc.
> many American's drive for work. Trades people, people going on vacation, sales people.

There’s something that doesn’t seem to belong on that list.
I'm not sure how that would work. Now the person entering the rotary has to trust that another driver isn't going to cut them off. I can tell you that merges right after a traffic light it is absolutely routine for a car (or probably more likely a pickup) not to let you alternate. I don't even bother with the FU horn any longer.
> his is why i don’t take adderal ... i dare not glimpse what i can be for to lose it

Counterpoint. Each day I'm gifted some hours where I can think more like normal.
Barely moderated?
Part of the issue with modern Reddit is newbies can’t contribute in subreddits without breaking the numerous Byzantine rules powermods make.
How we would call such depends how you define and understand life. If one defines it very widely as a dynamic dissipative process in an open thermodynamic system which organizes matter and energy, reacts to its surroundings, can reproduce itself, may have some symbolic representation of its surroundings, and possibly even care for its reproductions, intelligent life on a star is entirely possible, even if it would be very, very different from us.

If you on the other hand, define it as a set of dissipative structures which are based on organic carbon chemistry and which is able to exist somewhere between -30 and 40 degrees centigrade, replicates itself, use Deoxyribonucleic acid to store generational information, nourish their young by mammary glands, and walk on two legs, we are probably pretty alone in the universe.

Another things to think about, all life forms on our planet are relatives in the sense that we have common ancestors and shared DNA, even such "alien" creatures like tarantulas or centipedes. Given that, I am not entirely sure that it would be pleasant for us to meet technologically superior aliens. We would have to pray that they have much more empathy with other living things than we primates ourselves can usually muster.
Just to be clear (and this is also said in the video): the Mac classic could of course be equipped with 4M RAM through an expansion card. What was done here though is a direct replacement of the soldered-on RAM chips on the board itself with bigger ones, and this can be made to work by actually removing the CAS PAL and a few botch wires (though the soldering of these RAM chips is not for the faint of heart, so this only really makes sense if the PAL chip has a defect and needs to be removed anyway, or if you want to build a Mac classic with 4M and a very small footprint).
If room-temperature-stable bio-enhanced AI-specific-computer-powered chatbots don't seem like a realistic goal then maybe you should have clicked "play" on the linked spotify widget.
Were you able to obtain any records of your own where they agree to cease collection that you can hold against them if they continue? Do you have any means of verifying that the collection has ceased? I don't believe that their word means much without these.
Leftism is about both heirarchies and specifically capitalism and colonialism exploiting people and workers.

The capitalists running the companies are the common enemy. Nationalism is a tool, not something to be into once the nation is strong. Sad that people still care about being patriots or whatever when the companies are only paying you a wage while they make profit and keep all control of all the work and means of production.
so far the only thing they’ve built is more posts
That lib looks very useful in and of itself! Are you thinking of a particular one?
Obvious grifty nonsense.
> Hmm, if there was a movement that organized around ending animal ag, and they called for individuals to stop consuming animals, would that not count as working towards systematic change?

Not really. Not if it's just a propaganda/awareness campaign. It would only matter if anti-industrial agriculturalists were organizing, defined as building resilient social-political structures which could change policy at increasingly large scales.

> Arguably, no systemic change has ever happened without individuals choosing to act.

I don't even think that's arguable except in the case of natural disasters bringing down systems entirely. The individual choices that matter, for the disenfranchised with revolutionary ideas, are the choices and actions that build organizational power. And building power is extremely grueling work when money is neither the goal nor vehicle, so that's why we see so little of it. That's why I'm not currently doing it, for the time being.
This is hype.

Someone should tell them about MCMC and alike.

Or if they want to accelerate MCMC for a particular problem, they can build a classical ASIC and scale it.
The huge difference is that the cab driver has skin in the game aka his life is on the line while driving too. So he has every interest in avoiding accidents
Typical BS reasoning. The hidden cameras are already against policy. Do they really think expanding the policy to all indoor cameras is going to stop those actions? If anything, people looking to protect their property will now have more incentive to place hidden cameras if there are no options for allowable ones.
Where I have needed things like this before it is generally that there is a finite list of functions with some intersection of arguments, and the classification of which function (strategy) you need is what goes in the DB and the code lives in, well, the code. That way its unit testable, version controlled, and way better understandable. If it has to happen in SQL (which I def dont have a problem with personally), then its a case statement - but still, it lives in code, not in the DB.

I def wouldnt want anyone editing formulas in a crud screen, they should be picking from available options.

If your options are too varied to support this though, I dunno, maybe you need to get more creative - but balancing that with needing to know that what gets set is correct and valid seems challenging. No way im doing this with something that is calculating payments!
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Braces definitely do not stop accidents of this type, in my experience. All it takes is refactoring some code where you can’t feasibly count the number of open braces/parentheses (HCL tends to get like this), and misplacing a brace somewhere.
I use https://asciiflow.com.
If you're asking what's worse, body dying with a a good mind, or mind dying eg in dementia but good body, the answer is almost 100% the latter being worse.

I know someone who had Alzheimer's. Was in excellent physical shape, had biomarkers of someone 20 years younger. Would go for daily walks for decades, consistently did yoga etc.

The issue, with late stage Alzheimer's (and possibly dementia in general), is that the brain starts to forget so many things it's not even funny (it never was). You forget to swallow water. You forget to chew food. You forget what the bathroom is for. It's far from "living with dignity", even if the body is still physically capable. I think lock-in syndrome is the only other medical situation I'd consider similarly traumatizing.
Show HN: Find product ideas that don't need marketing
Please don’t be needlessly snarky
Finally, at least one company has the balls to stand up to the ridiculous rent seeking from Australia, France, Canada. Hope Google follows.
I should have really worded it better connecting that to the above statements. The problem is that in this particular case a cloud solution would be a better choice for this exact task (unlike for Word or Photoshop). Also the author said they might consider that in another comment
Here in SF, electricity prices are $0.41/kWh while gas is ~$4.0-6.0 (depending on time of year and whether you are filling up regular or premium). So even $0.64/kWh seems quite competitive in California and gas prices are unlikely to lower until relations with Russia normalize and sanctions lift (seems unlikely but a Trump victory might change things). People make these kinds of decisions based on the feeling of conditions today + people also care about the environment and view electric cars as better for that (i.e. multiple decision axis and the price of the EV is going to matter more than the cost of fuel).
Indeed, the usual garbage in garbage out issue.

Iirc, though, I think I read something about this and they were more interested in average speed (regardless of posted speed), and the rate/frequency of acceleration/deceleration (especially deceleration).

The idea being that speed increases accident severity, regardless of posted speeds. Rapid deceleration is indicative of reacting late to something you should have seen and responded to earlier (eg following too closely and having to slam the brakes, not seeing someone merging, not slowing down for a yellow light, etc).

Basically that a safe driver would have a fairly smooth acceleration/deceleration profile because they're aware of what's happening around them and pre-plan accordingly. If someone wants to merge in, give them room and then back up enough that you can brake slowly if something happens.

I still don't want to be tracked, but their metrics seemed sane at first pass.
The U.S. had its warmest winter on record
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundiver

https://www.mpg.de/20074327/extraterrestrial-intelligence-qu...

The idea didn't die, it grew to an unrecognizable size.
> Some costs do need to be handed back to the consumer, such as cost of using the space at a charging station. If not, then they could become de-facto parking lots.

Vice versa, too. If a parking lot already charges $15/hour, it seems like an extra hidden fee if charging also costs an additional $2/hour. As charging becomes more common it makes more sense to roll the costs together into a single advertised price.

> there's the fact that charging takes significantly longer than filling a tank with gasoline, meaning that one needs more space to service the same number of vehicles.

Though all of that space doesn't need to be in the same sorts of places. Home and destination charging shake up the need for centralized "stations". Cars already spend most of their time parked, electrifying more existing parking lots and garages where cars already spend most of their time should be common sense. (And if it happens to economically profitable that should just make easy economic sense, circling back to the topic in the article. We probably need to make L1 and L2 destination charging "just profitable enough" without high cost for consumers, too.)
> Now it's just, an asset, that's worth money, for reasons?

The total cluelessness belied here in an effort to discount bitcoin as though it's unthinkable that anyone would want it is such a silly posture to take.

Before the transaction pool wasn't crowded, now it is because it's highly valued around the globe.

It's a vehicle for scarcity, and functions like a money or foundational asset similar to a US treasury which serves as the base asset for the USD (along with gold to some extent until the federal government debased those holdings through profligate spending). In some sense a US treasury is a token, it's as money by banks, which is probably how bitcoin could end up, while also being a much more transparent system that individual can use to some extent though not "for buying a coffee".

Coffee shops don't accept gold bars either, yet gold has certainly been money (not so much these days).
The cost of using managed database services
Uninmportant, but if you're citing Moore's paper I feel like you're just trying to pad out the references to make it look like you're serious
Yeah I've noticed that trend. Super disappointing but dishonesty is a staple characteristic of that group.
My takeaway is that the chip's goal is to provide a way to produce random numbers with some configurable distribution that is faster and more energy efficient.

As far as the feasibility and impact on AI in general, I have no idea.
Why do you believe there's more meaning in trash pickup? If the argument is that it provides more utility to people in a community, surely raising a child into a responsible, productive member of society is way more utility?
I'm not really fine with taxes or subsidies at all. I certainly don't think that state officials have some special insight to judge the best way to spend communal funds... of course their pensions feature highly in worthy expenditures.
It's a startup with well-credential and very technical founders and a fair seed round focused on accelerating one bottleneck in a newly popular computing paradigm using techniques that are known in research but never yet commercialized.

It might fail for the reasons many startups fail, but it's not prima facie fantasy.
The collapse and rebirth of a six-year-old open-source project
In newer pixel models, everything is glued together. The Backplate is glued to the front, the battery is glued in so hard you can barely remove it and on top of it there's a graphene pad glued ontop of it for cooling reasons.

Look at this: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Google+Pixel+8+Battery+Replacem...

That's not "swiss knife" replacement.
Of course the arguments of [15] in the paper are the main refutation. Paraphrasing: Optical transistors will need to match all these criteria before they can compete with bulk CMOS. They don't and physics predicts they won't anytime soon. We will replace wires with optics though [1].

This discussion started in 1959 when Feynman pointed out we eventually will create things at atomic sizes with elementary particles [2].

[2] There is Plenty of Room
at the Bottom -Richard P. Feynman
(Dated: Dec. 1959).

https://cdn1.richplanet.net/pdf/0099.pdf

[15] D. A. B. Miller, “Are optical transistors the logical next step?” Nature Photonics, vol. 4, pp. 3–5, 2010.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Miller-65/publica...
Ok, then let's move all cattle production to lands that's not suitable for growing crops. I'd be extremely happy with that solution as it will eliminate almost all cattle ranching.
Sounds like a really convoluted new agey way of talking about some kind of analog computing.

AFAIK there are other efforts to develop analog neural network ASICs. Since neural networks are noise-tolerant this could work and could allow faster computations than conventional must-be-perfect digital circuits. IBM, Intel, and others have experimented with this.

I wouldn't believe there's anything particularly novel here unless a lot more detail or test hardware is given.

I'm not 100% sure this is true but I've heard that this fellow was involved with the NFT craze and made money there, and that sets off alarm bells. I've suspected for a while that e/acc is a marketing thing since it's just repackaging old extropian stuff from the 1990s.

"I want to believe" but have seen enough to be skeptical of extreme claims without hard evidence.
of course. But people - real people - will compare DC Fast Charges with traditional gas stations. So you aren't really doing a fair comparison here.

Let me put it another way - do we think that getting people to convert from ICE to EVs will only view fast charging as a convenience? or will they view it as a necessity? In the fullness of time we can view DC fast charging as a luxury, but not right now (which is my point I suppose)
I have no idea about the merits of this approach, but I found this interview with the founders a lot more sensical than the linked article:

https://twitter.com/Extropic_AI/status/1767203839818781085
> A few months after starting a new job, in November 2023, he received a summons for a Shanghai labour arbitration case. Pinduoduo had submitted video evidence of Yao walking in and out of a rival’s office for a week.

> Last month, the arbitrator ruled in Pinduoduo’s favour, ordering Yao to pay his former company damages, lawyers’ fees, and return the Rmb11,000 he had earned in gardening leave pay. Altogether he owes Pinduoduo Rmb438,000 ($61,000).

Wild.

I’m surprised people use temu at all. I was surprised to see it air ads on the Super Bowl.
I fell for it so others don't have to ;-)

>>> from __future__ import braces
File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: not a chance
All they have to do is say the copyrighted media is just training data for an LLM and it should be 100% legal.... if I were to believe the average HN post.
> Before a newspaper would publish an article, they would have extensive fact checkers rake the article over the coals, to ensure that no known falsehoods would be printed.

What? The news media has literally started wars due to not fact checking and prioritizing profits. See the origins of "yellow journalism" and the Spanish-American war.

It has always been sensational and politicized.
Tech workers increasingly dissatisfied with salary. Layoffs fueling frustration
Spotify to increase subscription price in France to counter new streaming tax
Great list. Thank you so much!
Desert Bus: The Worst Video Game Ever Created (2013)
Agreed, I just find it interesting how intense the projection is, and also how superficial.
This is again a case where statistical differences don't automatically imply bias or racism. The source doesn't make any indications about base rates. Maybe one group does indeed murder substantially more people of the other group, in which case the provided numbers don't show that the legal is biased. It also says that about half of the homicide victims are African American, but it doesn't say who the perpetrators are. If most perpetrators are African Americans themselves, this would be compatible with the legal system being unbiased here.
- AMD 3900x

- 32gb DDR4 3400

- Nvidia 2080TI

- Gigabyte Aorus Master

- WD_BLACK SN850
It's only a matter of time before store-bought macaroni can run Doom.
Show HN: Vowle: a Wordle clone with vowel hints
I've been wanting to make a Wordle clone for a while, and managed to put together a little project over the weekend.

Vowle provides the location of vowels in the target word up-front, but limits the player to 4 guesses instead of 6. I wanted to eliminate the feeling of blindly guessing to start the game, so Vowle gives the player something to think on before entering a single keystroke.

I forked an open-source project called Wordle+, and spent most of my time reading the existing source code in order to introduce the changes I wanted to make.

I had fun and hopefully someone will enjoy playing the game. :)

Links:

Vowle: https://vowle.superc.lol/

Wordle+: https://mikhad.github.io/wordle/
Alzheimer is not aging, it is a specific disease. Same as cancer. Sure, advanced age can make you more susceptible to some diseases, but aging itself is not one.
> Fast chargers are the luxury fuel of EVs.

More importantly, EVs are currently a luxury product. Seemingly built like other popular luxury products, too (designed to be hard/expensive to repair). We shouldn't be building EVs as if they were disposable smartphones, intended to be upgraded as soon as the screen gets cracked or the battery degrades somewhat.

Something big needs to change if we want to see wider adoption of EVs, and overpriced EV 'fuel' certainly won't help.

The wealthy with large suburban homes can charge at home no problem. But not everyone can afford to have their own personal parking/charging space, so may be forced to use overpriced public chargers.
Skills shortage: Data-centric jobs set to drive tech recruitment this year
How do you handle schema changes like adding columns or changing the type of columns? Is the schema fixed at design time by a database admin, or can the end-user add/remove columns, create tables, and introduce relationships?
I'll add:

CLIs:
https://www.mycli.net/
https://www.pgcli.com/
It feels to me that AirBNB hosts are an entitled group of people. They want all the benefits of renting out their place (in most cases, it goes against the original intent of renting a spare room, or family home), but want to make the experience less than ideal for customers. There's a multitude of rules, chores, invasions of privacy (Cameras, decibel monitors, et al).

These are supposed to be vacations, not a walking-on-eggshells experience because the host is constantly spying on you. If there's damage, submit a claim against the person.
I definitely enjoyed the enrichment classes. I didn't feel challenged again for years, until AP classes later in high school.
Would really appreciate any feedback. Thanks :)
Hope somebody using Graphene OS could answer:
1. Is it very challenging to install Graphene OS? Need special cables and to know a lot about jailbreaking Android devices, or will I be fine just following instructions?

2. Is it very inconvenient to use as a daily driver? How often phone just crashes and requires a few days of debugging? Will my bank app work on it?
Actually that's a statement of faith. There is plenty of bad science out there that could/should be more effectively ignored if not for the religious like faith in anything that ends up in a scientific journal.

Ironically enough, the peer review process itself is also not an empirically derived system either, it's another act of faith to assume it actually works well (hint, hint, it doesn't).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not an enemy of science, but it's sad and honestly pathetic to see people suspend all reason and logic en masse in the name of so called "science" when the majority of people don't even know what that is, or just how rare it is for an individual to place the pursuit of truth above self interest.
We used to be on a tariff where the cost could change every 30 minutes, in theory it meant that you could get very cheap electricity because the cost was directly linked to local demand, I've seen it where at night it was going into negative numbers(so they were paying us to use electricity), but at peak times it could be absolutely brutal too, you had to be careful and really monitor it almost real-time. We've since changed to a tariff where the cost changes daily, but the cost for the next day is announced around 1pm the day before, so I can plan things like charging my car or running appliances depending on what the tomorrow's cost is going to be.
Jewish people certainly punch above their weight when it comes to billionaires and political influence but I suspect most of the "mass" of it is white American evangelical beliefs. Even my own fairly moderate family's response to the conflict is "God gave the Jews that land, they can do whatever they want on it". Downright spooky.