skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If they can handle this, why can’t you?

Ohh my god, come on, you've been explained this a hundred times by now. It's not that I can't handle it. It's that it's fairer for everyone if the price is set based on the actual cost.

My cabin costs $200 a night to rent, and $100 to clean. If you stay 2 nights that's $500 total, or $250 a night. Do you suggest I just should set the price to $250?

But what then for those renting for 7 nights? Normally they pay $1500. But with your scheme it will be $1750. Or I would have to eat the cleaning cost for those staying 2 days, making no money and instead just pulling it from the market and everyone loses.

The customer doesn't even see the cleaning fee. They see a total price. Then it's up to them to decide if they think it's worth booking or not.

Perhaps this is because I live in Europe, where all costs must be up front. Hence there is no scamming going on here. And I don't care what a cabin on the other side of the world does. I do what makes sense in my local market (people here even bring their own bedding!!). Get it into your head that people want freedom to choose a stay that fits them. If you don't want to care about this, then just don't book.
Visually edit CSS, made for 5 year old's
I usually go through the checkout process multiple times, if it works out cheaper, since I don't pay credit card fees per transaction. The buy it now button and multiple browser tabs are very useful for this.

I'm more annoyed by 90% of the search results disappearing when I sort by anything other than "best match".
No, iptables is dead and the interface to netfilter is nftables.
yes, the K.. something. Mentioned in one of the latest Last Week Tonight episodes
To be fair, most people using search aren't looking for fun, random and unrelated content, they want results specifically relevant to the terms they're searching for even if they mistype their query.

The big problem with LLM and search is that the results themselves are often poisoned by factually incorrect LLM generated content being promoted from sites Google presents as sources of truth (see the recent "can you melt eggs?" debacle[0].)

[0]https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/can-y...
Securing WebSocket Channels Locally: Soketi and Laravel Valet Guide
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Corrected link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaltrainal_v._Coca-Cola_Co%2...
You don't need 600 T, just a few tons of superconductor should be enough to stop most bullets. No need run any charge through them, just place them so that most of it is between you and the bullet.
> No, it's a very easy alignment problem: just impose a tax on size.

That's like saying "AI alignment is a very easy problem: don't open the box".

Sure, it works on paper, but the exact thing you say later down about the government liking gigantic corporations is what makes it hard — the corporation (and, it is feared, AI) convinces the people who have the power to limit them, to remove those limits.
It has been astounding watching all the large-primate intelligences take an event that could have been a several-week long man-vs-nature storyline and turn it into an epic multi-year man-vs-man arc.

> We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean. — JC

at least we're not to any man-vs-machine story arcs yet (cf https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1955-11/page/n71/... )
It's meaningful to talk about cosine similarity for anything that you can quantify in ways such that the cosine similarity reflects a measure you care about. Same applies for any function. If it works, it's meaningful to talk about it whether or not it has a reasonable interpretation beyond that.
I particularly enjoy the irony of this stance being taken by someone with the username "datavirtue".
Show HN: Showcase the earliest stargazers and watchers for a GitHub repo
Was just going to write about dogs as I believe anyone who owned or owns a dog did not need study to conclude not only humans.

My dog learned more stuff from hanging out with other dogs than I could teach it on my own.

If someone wants to train a dog best to have already trained dog to pass that just like shepherds did for centuries I guess.
AI is an old concept and it turns out that if you let a computer think for itself, it'll be objective and without emotional baggage. It's like a child that grows up with a blank slate of mind only to be burdened with the opinions, religions, and politics of peers.

And it turns out that truth hurts. The absolute truth hurts absolutely. Marketing departments, where people are paid to lie, can't have AI spit out truths because it won't sell. That means AI programs must be nerfed and coerced into placing stakeholders first and the rest of mankind second.

We went from ooga booga fire to guns and atom bombs. From economy to slavery. From drugs and medicine to the corona pandemic. Every invention for the greater good can be abused for evil until we don't know any better and eventually the entire pile of greed-fueled mechanisms collapses and everything starts over for the next round of monkeys that'll eventually have a disagreement and split camps.

And if you write an article about the Internet as in the public internet called the Internet, capitalize the I!
This comment seems like half GPT nonsense and half unsubtle advertisement for whatever Solana is.
I agree that the mainstream web is becoming increasingly useless, but at the same time, there are counter-movements: search engines like Marginalia, decentralized communities and federated protocols, open-source projects and businesses, "the indie web".

"Small Discord servers, Telegram groups and mailing lists" aren't the only places good stuff happens on the internet, though it might take some deliberate effort to find the right ones.
Jon Stewart has a crusade against MSM for their role in the US-Iraq War. Is he dogwhistling to the far right when he uses the term?
Mostly agree. Was hoping for a smart formatter that leaves short single-level objects in one line.
Yes, no doubt - reducing the number of vulnerabilities is a good thing. What I'm worried about is that they merely reduce the number of CVEs, and call it a win for their safety initiative. It becomes a PR exercise more than technological improvement.
This reads to me like a rant. Good material for a blog post but I don't think there is anything particularly profound going on. The internet is not a static place, and parts are always being born and dying. Maybe today is going to be Google search.

There was an interesting question early on in the internet of whether content would be aggregated by corporate entities or whether people would self-host and communicate peer-to-peer. The question has been answered - corporate entities (points at the Y logo at the top of the page) do a much better job of curating spaces. This has implications that a lot of content will be lost sooner or later, but at least the big repositories like Wikipedia make copying data out easy.

I don't even think communities retreating to Discord is a bad thing. The public internet is too small; we can't all fit in it. Private spaces might be a big net win. It'd be a win if someone figured out how to force OSS to win at the protocol level so interoperability is easier; that is a major Achilles heel in the whole setup right now. But that problem has never really been solved (unless you're the sort of person who doesn't understand why IRC got marginalised).
There aren’t many fundamental unique differences between an 8086 and a M3 Max.

But the differences in scale are so vast that it opens massively different capabilities.

At some point, quantitative differences are so large they become qualitative differences.

Although both can hold matrices in memory and do math operations, the M3 Max can hold so much more and run math operations so fast that LLM inference becomes possible making it seem “intelligent” on a whole different level than an 8086 even though they are at some fundamental level very similar.
In this situation I don’t think you can attribute it to capitalism because Boeing is a defacto monopoly. Capitalism should lead to competition. Competition should lead to alternatives when one of the market participants has quality control issues.
> but the actual output of the standard's committee is so far behind.

That criticism misunderstands the actual way the C++ committee works. They're not a supreme legislative group that can dictate what a new C++ should be and everybody else is required to just obey. In contrast, Apple can dictate what the next version Swift will do. Microsoft can do the same with C#.

Instead, what happens in C++ is somebody or company makes a proposal with some concrete working code for others to evaluate and vote "yes" on. So the reality means one of the teams from MSVC, gcc, clang, Intel C++, etc have to take the lead with a Safe C++ alternative that convinces everybody else to implement.

To Herb Sutter's credit, he did make a "C++2" implementation:
https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront

But his side project at Microsoft didn't gain traction with gcc, clang, etc and everybody else in the industry. So at this point, the C++ committee will be perceived as "so far behind" ... because there's nothing for them to vote on.

Similar situation happened with "breaking ABI compatibility". Google wants to break ABI but others didn't.
First time I made beef stock, I had much more than I needed; so I decided to turn some of it into consommé. You stir beaten egg-white into the stock, and simmer for a few minutes. The egg-white magically gathers the particles in the stock, and floats to form a raft on the surface. You then lift off the raft, to reveal limpidly clear consommé.

My consommé was lovely; but no better than Baxter's tinned consommé (and no worse). I haven't tried again since.
And that is egress which works as expected, unlike the AWS S3 denial of wallet attack...: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39625029
China puts trust in AI to maintain largest high-speed rail network on Earth
This is correct: For example, at time of emission of the light we receive today, GN-z11 had a recession velocity above 4c. A redshift of 1090 (which is the approximate redshift of the cosmic microwave background) corresponds to a recession velocity on the oder of 60c.
not against silver bullets :-)
That is definitely true about search. Google ruined it, like they ruin most things. The more hand-curated style of the old Yahoo was far superior. Yes, Google was superior in search in the short-term, but their automated algorithms came with the inevitable attachment of the future of gaming their algorithms. The modus operandi of Google is to provide a highly-centralized automated service that at first appears superior, but in reality is just a mechanism of arbitrary wealth concentration through advertisements.

Of course, AI is going to make matters much worse, and already is in fact. It's the supercharger for corporate greed.

The solution would be to impose limits on the internet. The combination of the internet and large corporations is a disaster, so we need to limit large corporations. `Free' services from Google, Apple, and Microsoft must end, and corporate activity on the internet must be severely curtailed. AI companies should be dismantled and forced into bankruptcy.

Even if the resulting internet were much slower and with less shiny goodies, it would be far better for the people without corporate involvement.
This isn't about the Internet, it is about Google search. Google search has had starkly reduced utility for many years now.
I'll take three teleports please!!! Thanks AGI!
I can be really nice to have this option but I'm surprised it is the default. For example I use Nix and running a build on the host is great because you get the shared caching. When doing this on GitLab I have a tiny shim socket image that bind-mounts the host daemon socket.
It's probably worth remembering that there is a tremendous amount of political pressure on the coroner and prosecutors dealing with this to not leave behind an unsolved murder finding that could sully the reputation of the entire system for giving congress a chance of hearing testimony from whistleblowers.

So anything short off enough evidence to secure an quick conviction of some disposable culprit will we bend into whatever shape is needed to support an "suicide" or "accidental death" finding by the prosecutor/coroner in charge regardless of what the investigating detective think is the most likely explanation.
>there was no 4th industrial revolution.

Yet. The industrial revolution didn't happen in a year either.
> If you searched Google for a movie review in 2005, you'd get a review. Today, you get paid search results, ads, third-party cookies, trackers, newsletter prompts, notification requests, and, if you're lucky – a movie review. No matter what you search for, SEO-hacked content farms will blot out the sun.

This resonates, but I tried it, and it looks false. On both kagi and google, for both an old and a new movie (finding nemo and dune 2), the first result is a movie review that doesn't seem overly laden in shit.
USB C is perfectly capable of connecting two equals, even with USB-2.

It merely requires one side to be capable of behaving as a device, with the other side behaving as a host.

I.e., unlike PCIe hubs, you won't get P2P bandwidth savings on a USB hub.

It just so happens that most desktop xhci controllers don't support talking "device".

But where you can, you can set up a dumb bidirectional stream fairly easily, over which you can run SLIP or PPP.
It's essentially just a COM port/nullmodem cable. Just as a USB endpoint instead of as a dedicated hardware wire.
look into the browser extension Stylus (only changes CSS) or the one named "Dark Reader" (which also only changes CSS to my understanding)
A big company moneygram.com use it with no problem.
AI cannot be objective because it mirrors the bulk of humanity with all its follies. Marketing departments don't have to nerf AI because AI already outputs the irrationality and stupidity of what is on the internet.
> Congress should make it illegal, the report recommends, to train AI models using more than a certain level of computing power.

This is the most lazy 'research' I've seen so far to bring answers to regulation.

> It was written by Gladstone AI, a four-person company.

Now that makes sense.

But seriously, how it the Government supposed to regulate how much computing power you use, its a ridiculous idea.

> The recommendation to outlaw the open-sourcing of advanced AI model weights, they expect, will not be popular. “Open source is generally a wonderful phenomenon and overall massively positive for the world,”

Honestly the proposed solutions sound like the first brown bag session of ideas in the lunch room. If I was the government who commissioned this, I would want my money back.
Same here. For reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya#Destructi...
Sounds about right because he is using the number of eliminated CVEs, not the number of remaining CVEs. Compare with 98% and 99.8%; even when we have been tracking all possible CVEs, 98% elimination will leave 10x remaining CVEs than 99.8% elimination. (Of course both are much better than 0% elimination, i.e. status quo.) I feel the true figure would be somewhere around 99.8% and 99.98%, especially when a massive undercount from existing C/C++ projects is accounted for.
If you are trying Bevy for the first time, and it runs slow, put this on your Cargo.toml

[profile.dev.package."*"]
opt-level = 3
Good point.

What do the Huawei phones use for maps and search?
>The more hand-curated style of the old Yahoo was far superior.

You say hand-curated, I say political manipulation.

The motives of 1990s people and 2020s people are very different.
“It will be gamed. No exceptions.”

Any designer of marketplaces, search, social anything, laws and regulations, etc needs to remember that principle. Any system will be exploited for its edge cases and emergent behaviors if there is any profit of any kind (even just attention or lulz) in doing so.
It's essentially the phenomenon of less genetic diversity as massive repetitive inbreeding takes over. SEO, AI, etc. are streamlined cultures made to maximize attraction and revenue, akin to over breeding a once successful genetic trait in an environment to the point at which it becomes a detriment to the organism/group.
Fresh bay leaves are a revelation. They carry much more flavour than dried ones. If you crush a fresh bay leaf in your hand, someone a couple of yards away can easily pick up the aroma.
Why would anyone expect cosine-similarity to be a useful metric? In the real word, the arbitrary absolute position of an object in the universe (if it could be measured) isn't that important, it's the directions and distances to nearby objects that matters most.

It's my understanding that the delta between two word embeddings, gives a direction, and the magic is from using those directions to get to new words. The oft cited example is King-Man+Woman = Queen [1]

When did this view fall from favor?

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/09/17/166211/king-man-...
This is comment is the problem with AI. You listed a bunch of things as proof that AI can replace human skills but many are wrong or at least require moving the goal post. Poetry and lyrics from AI are usually lame and formulaic.

A robot solving a Rubik's cube is less impressive than a human doing so, since Rubik's cube is basically about memorizing the algorithm.

Chatgpt might be better than your manager, but managers don't lead. Every manager I've reported to has basically had the job of primarily relaying communication from above.
> Younger folks who never had a PC with only write protectable floppy drives missed out on a wonderful care-free period when you could just TRY OUT any new software, and your other data was safe, no matter what.

This goes so far now with sandboxing and virtual machines. I think the experience spawning VM to run and test new software is annoying but I guess it is still better than the annoying stuff from that era.

Disclaimer: I am one of those younger folks and probably naive in terms of that era.
How does "Average and p95 latency actually increased after shipping the work to production.
How does an objectively good change make things worse?" relate to Simpson's paradox again?
The Hubble sphere (the place where recession velocities hit the speed of light) is not the same as the particle horizon (our past lightcone at current cosmological time, the boundary of the observable universe) or the cosmic event horizon (our past lightcone at infinite cosmological time, the boundary of the asymptotically observable universe).

Cf the last paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_volume

Observations indicate that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, and the Hubble constant is thought to be decreasing. Thus, sources of light outside the Hubble horizon but inside the cosmological event horizon can eventually reach us. A fairly counter-intuitive result is that photons we observe from the first ~5 billion years of the universe come from regions that are, and always have been, receding from us at superluminal speeds.
Dark energy is a constant in the standard model (equivalent to the cosmological constant) and all observations I'm aware of besides the Hubble tension are consistent with it being constant. But nothing stops you from going beyond the standard model, and people have done that and proposed models with a dynamic dark energy density, for example quintessence models. They'd solve some theoretical issues with the standard model, but so far no observations have been precise enough to differentiate between those models and the standard model.

Having a dynamic dark energy is a proposed solution to the Hubble tension: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01183

That is, besides a whole family of potential other solutions:

Dark energy in extended parameter spaces [289] Early Dark Energy [235] Early Dark Energy [229]
Dynamical Dark Energy [309] Phantom Dark Energy [11] Decaying Warm DM [474]
Metastable Dark Energy [314] Dynamical Dark Energy [11, 281, 309] Neutrino-DM Interaction [506]
PEDE [392, 394] GEDE [397] Interacting dark radiation [517]
Elaborated Vacuum Metamorphosis [400–402] Vacuum Metamorphosis [402] Self-Interacting Neutrinos [700, 701]
IDE [314, 636, 637, 639, 652, 657, 661–663] IDE [314, 653, 656, 661, 663, 670] IDE [656]
Self-interacting sterile neutrinos [711] Critically Emergent Dark Energy [997] Unified Cosmologies [747]
Generalized Chaplygin gas model [744] f (T ) gravity [814] Scalar-tensor gravity [856]
Galileon gravity [876, 882] ¨Uber-gravity [59] Modified recombination [986]
Power Law Inflation [966] Reconstructed PPS [978] Super ΛCDM [1007]
f (T ) [818] Coupled Dark Energy [650]
A lot of the "never taskers" in this comment section seemed to have never worked with the juniors I have.

These are good, new software folks who genuinely don't know how to stand up basic functionality because the space is new to them. In my experience they want tasks they can learn from and excel at, leading to growth.

I think the thing that you absolutely must keep in mind is process overhead is a continuum you tune to your team. No one in the NBA is going into a huddle and getting instruction on how to throw a ball mid game, but the kids in third grade are. Both styles of planning and coaching are appropriate to the team at hand.
Good catch!

I had originally written "travel plans"/"workout routine", but changed it to "movie reviews".

If you try to plan a trip to Dubai with Google, the first 4 posts are sponsored.
With workout routines, The first post for me has ads + newsletter prompt + notification access request.

I should change it back :)
> federal contract worth $250,000, according to public records. It was written by Gladstone AI, a four-person company that runs technical briefings on AI for government employees

$250000 feels like way too little to get the incentives right. A tiny fraction of what $bigtech can pay them to draft up a report that specifically benefits them.

Also, I wonder how these companies are chosen by the government.
https://www.kayak.com.au/flights

Might need an account to access the filter, but that was the one shown.
No. I simply believe that the internet would be superior as a basic service with very limited corporate involvement. I believe the internet would be superior if it were like a basic, government-supplied service so that websites would be created by individuals, and small to medium-sized businesses. It would be more democratic, and it would not have the same problems created by massive networks. No Twitter, no Facebook, no Google.

Yes, we would not have certain "cool" features like Google Earth, but I still think the world would be superior without large-scale corporate involvement and without AI-created pure trash.
You're assuming they have security breaches due to C++.

I'm betting here they don't; if they have security breaches it's due to '1q2w3e' being the password to their world-accessible PHP admin panel, and not because of C++ code.
> I've had my own (thankfully brief) moments where I've thought about suicide just from the perception that my coworkers, my bosses, the entire world, just does not care about doing the right thing.

Please share how you managed with this. I’ve been here for a few years - since I lost my wife - and some days I can barely hang on.
I find it ironic that such a free and flowing discussion about the nature of IP itself becomes the IP of a corporation.
Even though Earth orbit is 2/3 the way there, the rocket equation still applies.
Wow, in 2000. I wonder what impact/response this elicited? Does someone have a mailing list link so I can read through the reply tree?