skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm following OP's question, it was basically that all of this makes sense from a "people are doing what benefits them the most" POV.

But some time went by and it morphed into being overall bad for the McDonald's brand, and that's the puzzling part of it. You would think Micky D's would have power to step in and say "enough is a enough, this is hurting our image, quit fucking around and fix the machines or we find another vendor."

I would agree Micky D's corporate probably does have sway here, so this problem probably just isn't interesting or important enough for them to do anything about it. Maybe ice cream is such a small part of their sales they don't see the point in raising a stink about it. Or maybe the vendor just happened to Game of Thrones their way into a little niche of power that Ronald can't do anything about.

And for the size that they are, I find that pretty interesting and puzzling as well!
I find it weird that people who are clearly interested will vacillate on buying a headset these days. Quest 3 is mind bogglingly cheap for what it is. It's selling in the millions and the Quest platform already has tens of millions of users.

If you are from a developed country with decent wages and think of yourself as a tech enthusiast you should just go buy it as a professional investment to learn about the tech. Even if you don't want the gaming it is easily good enough to give you insight into the the broader tech (working in VR, social experiences, etc) and it's a pretty good standalone WebXR viewer which very easy to pick up.

(I have the same logic that anybody who buys a Vision Pro for development is insane not to also pick up a Quest at 1/7th the price so that they can at least have a full perspective on where VR is at)
and lots of people forget that as soon as they learn it

Great, then we don't need to hear from these people. They don't need opinions or view points about things they were never intersted in, never learned about, and couldn't be bothered to remember.

"Europe" is very commonly used as a synonym for the EEA or even just EU many places today, no matter how incorrect that is.

The term was very specifically "Continental Europe".
I have their solid wood butcher block (made from prisms of solid wood glued together) and a countertop made from the same material. When oiled to given instructions, both are pretty indestructible under normal use.

It's very sad that they're not made anymore. I guessed it just was not imported here due to its prohibitive cost, but not being able to find it on the other side of the pond is saddening.
I don't know anything about this, but the wiki article [1] says that Python, Rust and Julia all have Dynamic dispatch. However, it seems like Python has single dispatch, but Julia has multiple dispatch. Is that what you meant?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_dispatch
You hit the nail on the head with conveyor belts. I am a robotics engineer and I believe strongly that if done properly, automating the economy can be very good for us ("properly" to me means making sure there is some scheme for collective ownership and collective benefit, for example by encouraging cooperatives to automate), but in my mind this is best done with purpose built machines, not a bunch of very expensive humanoids.
Does it require light to work? What about space? Could you e.g. work in a dark closet, as an extreme example?

Do those semi-realistic virtual avatars work for non-FaceTime apps like Zoom?
Sociopaths are important. There are lots of cases where no having an emotional response can be extremely valuable - emergency response, front line armed combat, extreme sports, executive leadership, the list goes on. Sociopaths are an important ingredient in the human soup, they just need the right conditions to be useful. All minds can be used productively, if you apply them correctly.
> The product is browser first and document history is stored locally, so users can search for docs without querying the server. The company said that while there is no offline support at the moment, it is a feature that the startup will introduce in the future.
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> You can easily share these docs for others to look at and collaborate with. However, some of the features like read-only sharing are behind a login.

it took you longer to write that comment than it would've taken to get the answer.
If it does an index scan on the secondary index, unless it's an index-only scan it'll still have to jump around to different pages on the clustered index, so it can't really take advantage of the disk cache unless the whole thing is cached. Or if there's a high correlation between the secondary index's order and clustered index's order, which is what the postgres CLUSTER command does.
Texas farmers say company sold them sludge with PFAS that killed livestock
How about (especially young) people literally not being able to afford more than a fucking shack with roommates? Or having to work two jobs to barely make rent? Having sex requires privacy and energy after all.

Landlords and fundamentally broken housing markets are the problem, everywhere. But people rather blame "the smartphones!!!", JFC.
The art is from David Revoy https://www.davidrevoy.com he does lots of art for OSS.
I mean, it takes something difficult like an LLM and makes it easy to run. It's bound to get attention. If you've tried to get other models like BERT based models to run you'll realize just how big the usability gains are running ollama than anything else in the space.

If the question you're asking is why so many folks are focused on experimentation instead of productionizing these models, then I see where you're coming from. There's the question of how much LLMs are actually being used in prod scenarios right now as opposed to just excited people chucking things at them; that maybe LLMs are more just fun playthings than tools for production. But in my experience as HN has gotten bigger, the number of posters talking about productionizing anything has really gone down. I suspect the userbase has become more broadly "interested in software" rather than "ships production facing code" and the enthusiasm in these comments reflects those interests.

FWIW we use some LLMs in production and we do not use ollama at all. Our prod story is very different than what folks are talking about here and I'd love to have a thread that focuses more on language model prod deployments.
The specific one used at McDonald's, the C602? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_ice_cream_machine

The C602 is supposedly exclusive to McDonald's, which if you watch the video posted elsewhere in this thread, explains why their machines are less reliable than those of other chains.
I strongly doubt that manufacturing companies can, in principle, offer FAANG-level salaries without dramatically altering their output prices.
Feel like this is better represented as the default mode network: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_mode_network

There are questions we know the answers to and we just reflexively spit them out, but then there are questions that are new to us and we have to figure them out separately.

Recent research has shown that new memories are recorded in the brain differently depending on how unique the memory is: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-usefulness-of-a-memory-gu...
You're right Fred, we just don't see the world the same way

I personally don't think the idea of "markets" has much to offer the
world now, it's an outdated and immature way of trying to see complex
things in a simple way.

Sorry we can't seem to have a more grown up conversation about it, but
not only are you inflexible you've crossed the line into making
personal remarks which is unacceptable.

Anyway, enjoy your belief system.
That’s fair. Was just pointing out the viewpoint. We’re all just along for the ride to the ebbs and flows of history at the end of the day. Good times and hard times come and go for different groups at different times.

I think it should be fine to say “good for you, but sucks for me”, and have empathy towards groups that have the rug pulled from under them
Perhaps a course in "Inferential Statistics/Statistical Inference" is in order here.
Just listening while doing nothing else is soporific, but I can imagine finding this invaluable if I had a long commute to work.
https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt is designed for all desktop applications, including browsers. We're also working on a chrome extension to support reading/writing directly to DOM: https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/364
Ask HN: Top Mysteries of the Universe?
I was looking for a list of top mysteries of the universe and didn't find a list that was objective in a sense. The kinds of things I had in mind were more physics-based rather than where are the aliens?

Some of the ones I could think of:

- fine-structure constant
- dark-matter
- dark-energy (varying expansion rates)
- where's the anti-matter
- unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity
- black-hole event horizon area/volume vs information content
- entanglement

These are all things that we don't understand, but don't relate to us or living things in particular.

Some specific things are the simulation hypothesis, holographic principle, how does the universe end, is a black-hole like a universe (or an electron) etc, that don't seem to be in the same category (subjectively to me anyway).
There is definetly a way to make this happen though. Little bit o' whisper, Mixtral in some RAG, and you've got yourself a buddy to talk about the paper while it's reading it to you.

Of course everyone will immediately say this is dangerous and it may mislead you by giving wrong explanations, etc etc. and then others will counter with 'it will definitely get better over time' (the best models as products are ~3 years behind the improvements being show in academic work for example). However, ultimately this is just a neat product to make, even if it has some bugs. Listening to TTS right now spends about half the time reading jumbled numbers from tables and listing off author names. So just tackling that alone (which this would do much better) would be valuable.
What your MVP says about your market
I know. I’m just pointing out that an uncontrolled immigration policy is in effect here, and it shifted power to labour. On the other hand, Hungary’s strict international migrant policy appears to weakening labour’s hand by encouraging automation.
What's preventing you from buying your firm's shares in an IRA, knowing your firm's growth plans?

AFAIK, that's perfectly legal.
Some software and websites show (or showed) a little country flag for each language. For example, German would get the flag of Germany. Don't do this. It is flawed for so many reasons...

Here's a whole blog about this, by someone who cares about it more than me:

https://www.flagsarenotlanguages.com/blog/
I recently put shelving up in my garage and could not convince myself to use anything other than OSB. It was just so damn cheap - half the price of any plywood for the same thickness. The only cons are the appearance and screw holding ability (but its sitting on brackets so the latter doesn't matter much).

Baltic birch would be stronger, no doubt, but that's 3 times the price and I am not exactly storing a geode collection up there.
Please for the love of god… put the M3 pro in the 15” MBA already…

it’s so close to being the perfect lower-midrange laptop but the 1 external display (without closing the lid) is a dealbreaker for tons of people. The 15” chassis can handle it just fine for the burst loads the MBA is designed around, and the M3 pro is reduced in scope over the earlier variants already.

The impulse reply is “but they want you to buy the MBP!” and surely that’s missing the whole point of the laddering strategy? Why miss a chance to slot in one more tier to grind people upwards?

but yeah the MBA are literally such a good laptop that they can do this job of peeling people away from x86 while running fully passive, it is a little silly how badly the x86 stuff comes off in comparison. Some laptops check some of the boxes but the apple is just a killer laptop, great KB and trackpad, ok speakers (MBP is definitely better but air is also better than the average tinny laptop speaker), solid screen (MBP is better tho), well-supported Unix environment, etc.
When you think about the manufacturing advances of the past 60 years, this is logical.

Machinists used to require skill. Now they LITERALLY just screw the part into a machine and press a green button. And the pay went from 100k+ to $45k. And the technology went from $75k to $1m. But it's still cheaper to pay a human to push a cart then it is to develop the rest of that technology.

But this is the investment that next level requires. Look at the progression (Google search this) from a Bridgeport, to a Mazak Nexus 6800, and then look at a Mazak Pallettech robot.

The first machine is completely manual. Most have retrofit digital displays and some have retrofit powered axis, but you still have to know what you're doing. The second one is semi automatic, you just need a human to set it up and an even dumber human to run it. The last machine is a robot that you bolt onto the second machine to get rid of the dumb human operator.
>We are rapidly approaching an inflection point where the rules of capitalism don't work anymore. The road bifurcates there and I'm not sure that we are capable of getting the good ending.

What are you talking about exactly? Can you elaborate?
Access control appears to be a paid feature:

https://www.stashpad.com/pricing

Using the free version for anything sensitive might not be a good idea, especially since I can't find anything about their retention policy or something like terms of service.
I am 100% uninterested in your production deployment of rent seeking behavior for tools and models I can run myself. Ollama empowers me to do more of that easier. That’s why it’s popular.
Chat apps like Teams, Slack should be used as essentially internal email with the option to drop into real-time synchronous chat. The main difference is that you have to be on the same instance so there are cases where email is still more appropriate, though.
BitTorrent Is No Longer the 'King' of Upstream Internet Traffic
Solution 1: Reset the minimum wage the way it was originally designed (by 1950s Republicans), so that it pays a livable wage for one man working 40 hours to support a family of 4 above the poverty line. This is what built the middle class.

Solution 2: Tax any and all automation sufficiently to pay a Universal Basic Income above the poverty level so that people have options and do not need to work unless an employer makes it worth their while to undertake the commute, etc. Actual minimum wages may be lower, but the corp taxes will be higher.

Either way, we are the wealthiest society in the history of the planet. We CAN afford to treat everyone with dignity, which includes providing for their basic needs of food, housing, healthcare. Allowing some to exploit others in a coercive semi-slavery arrangement should not be an option.

Moreover, history shows that when distribution is required to be sufficient to build and maintain a robust middle class, the wealthy also get wealthier (because they have a base of customers). Massive economic inequality leads to overall lower growth, and a smaller pie for even the wealthy. It's a commons problem, and the wealthy aren't smart enough to solve it (although Henry Ford made a start with his idea that every one of his employees should be able to afford one of his cars — same principle)
Sam Bankman-Fried Should Get 40 to 50 Years in Prison, Prosecutors Say
13 years ago, Silicon Valley programmers were complaining about just this.

>“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” he says. “That sucks.”

It was cliched seven years ago: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/06/12/click/

It's the incentive structures that keep them in those jobs.
I like the article but had a hard time following the specifics of the configs and commamds. Feels like it's more meant for people already familiar with nix, or sufficiently interested to study up while reading
I remember years ago someone made a site that detects if you are using a vpn based on some packets latency, and it was pretty accurate! Unfortunately, I don’t know what’s the website now.
Same here - I am constantly replacing my LED lights whereas parts of my house still have 25 year old incandescents that have never been replaced since I moved in.
The United States has its first large offshore wind farm, with more to come
>maybe (MAYBE) back in the days of physical distribution the 30% would make sense

No, back in physicals distribution times publisher was swallowing >70% and actual dev houses were bottom feeders often working on fixed commission.
Just wait until police become "low skill." Then we have a serious and potentially permanent problem where AI-robot police efficiently enforce property rights while everyone else starves to death or is killed fighting the police.
I thought this was one of the most interesting insights because there is a lot of discussion around why Meta isn't / hasn't gone after media viewing as a primary use case. Understanding now that they really tried and it failed hard at Oculus previously adds a lot of insight to that.

I do have to say, for me it does add up to one huge missing element for Vision Pro: why Apple didn't ship some kind of co-presence features on day 1 is totally baffling to me. I think it likely stems from the fact they clearly missed their mark with Personas and presumably they didn't want to then introduce cartoon style avatars like Meta did. They've decided to die on the hill of realistic avatars and they are actually dying there. It means people hate Personas, they don't have co-presence which is damaging the media viewing and preventing a lot of the AR and professional use cases from developing where co-presence is also a must, sometimes the primary feature.

It's fascinating to me because Apple pitched so hard at their headset not being socially isolating, but they ultimately created the most socially isolating headset of all.
I loved etherpad but it was a pain to host back then.

I'd love to have something similar that's lightweight and not serverside node.js
> The farms’ drinking water was found to be contaminated at levels over 13,000 times higher than the federal health advisory for PFOS, one kind of PFAS compound, a Guardian calculation indicates, and affected meat was as much as 250,000 times above safe levels, the lawsuit alleges.

Looking up more on PFOS [0] yields:

> Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid [...] was the key ingredient in Scotchgard, a fabric protector made by 3M, and related stain repellents.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanesulfonic_acid
GPT-2, in Excel
I agree that is the ideal situation but I don’t know that it’s a good way to do things.

It is significantly more likely the answer will be “Yes, we should remove that” regardless of whether it violates their editorial standards if the question comes from power, even if no threat is implied or intended and the wording is exactly the same.
> We are rapidly approaching an inflection point where the rules of capitalism don't work anymore

I assume this is a reference to a technological singularity [1].

At the point capitalism breaks down, virtually every other social institution does as well. Until we know what that future looks like, and what the new constraints are, it is impossible to put in place a better system.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
I wonder what happens if your consumer base has all had their incomes replaced by AI? Who buys your product your now making with it? Does AI just lead to the end of capitalism as we know it?
I just got hedgedoc (nee codimd, nee hackmd [1]) setup for my own purposes. It does have the advantage of splitscreen edit/preview, and it has the option to use vim/emacs keybinds in the editor, but if I'd had stashpad, I probably would not have bothered setting up a selfhost hedgedoc.

[1] https://hedgedoc.org/history/
> Linux is legacy code at the present time and is having difficulty making forward progress. For example there is no multi-node version of Linux, requiring people to run an orchestrator such as Kubernetes.

I can run linux on a raspberry pi. I can run kubernetes on a raspberry pi (if I wanted to). Can I run DBOS on a raspberry pi?
Web App Integrity and Encryption in the Browser
People know; it just hasn't been reliable.
Firstly, it's no uncontrolled immigration here. It's controlled by the EU freedom of movement act. Uncontrolled immigration (bringing unlimited workers from outside the EU without restrictions) is what companies would actually want.

Secondly, Mercedes moved to Hungary for cheap labor a while ago, and now that labor has fucked off to greener pastures Mercedes is now bitching that the cheap labor they came here for is no longer as cheap as they want it to be. If it wants to reattain those factory workers in Hungary they should pay competitively similarly to how they're retaining workers at their fabs in Germany. Why haven't they?

It's not a labor shortage, it's sucker/exploitable worker shortage.

>On the other hand, Hungary’s strict international migrant policy appears to weakening labour’s hand by encouraging automation.

Do you see what you're saying here: "If labor doesn't agree to be exploited as their masters demand, then they'll have to be replaced by robots if they can't be replaced by cheaper immigrant workers".

The workers' rights and benefits we enjoy today in the west, especially in Europe, didn't come from labor bending over to the demands of the business owning class, it cam from confrontations and labor sticking to their guns.
SpaceX is doing really impressive stuff, even with Elon's named attached to it I can still root for their team and their efforts, results speak for themselves and every time I see their boosters landing I feel the same as I felt from their first synchronised landing: this is fucking sci-fi happening in real life.

Hopefully his meddling is contained there, would hate to see them become as tainted as Tesla has...
If you don't like Tesla because of it's leadership, I recommend you don't research Subaru's leadership.

Very much not aligned with the far left, but they'll take their money.
Something is wrong with our psyche.

We have no time left, since every serious mitigation mechanism is a gigantic effort that should have been started in the 70s.

We're basically behaving like a smoker who's looking for optimistic lung cancer statistics, hoping not having to stop.
Housing is extremely expensive in China as well. It’s one of the main barriers to Chinese yuppies having the three kids their government wants them to.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Duncan_Lemp

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killings_of_Aaron_Danielson_...

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/14/virginia-sho...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/us/steve-scalise-congress...

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/capitol-breached-protesters/...

I ask for minimal perspective towards people you feel contempt. I'd say the same to someone claiming left wing protests are easy and leftists have "no problem" participating in them. It's just not true.
Yes, there was a time then marriage exist before religion, but it was not regulated by the state. The evolution would be unregulated->church->state. I think the unregulated and church ones are very close in term of legal implications (almost none), while the state is severely intervening and basically destroyed it in recent years.
For now i would wait. The rules are currently changing to fast. Epic got thrown out and hours later their account was back again. Many people expect the EU to fine apple, since they think apple uses a tactic called malicous compliance(follow the rules to the letter but not a millimeter farther).