skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How did you get yourself out of a rut?
Depression, unemployment, lack of confidence, fear. I'm certain there are many on here who had high potential and feel they've squandered it.

For those who have been there and managed to get out and are now living a life you're proud of, how did you do it?
The problem with that is that the only "product" here is their website.

Regulating harmful speech as a "product" seems a bit odd because the product exists only to convey certain speech. Any device used to convey harmful speech would seem to become subject to liability under this theory, as all claims of how this caused harm seem to be related to conveying speech that lead to harmful beliefs, even if that is dressed up as some product that is a "sophisticated system" for recommending or promoting bad ideas.

This becomes an especially thin fig leaf when applied to, e.g., 4chan which doesn't seem to do anything like recommending or promoting certain speakers as far as I can tell.
Calm down homie. If you've never drank rain water out of random "containers" in nature, have you even lived? Ever stay out in nature, alone for 3-4 months without a clean mountain stream nearby?
I think this entire thread of discussion would benefit from remembering multimodal models exist. In other words, pictures are worth a thousand words and have their own place in thought. The existence of a way to translate between modalities doesn't make any of them superior overall--they each have their roles to play.
? Because we raise them, live with them, watch them live a long and healthy life?
That's what the court is going to determine.
The intro about imagining "half of the engineers boarding a plane telling you there is a 10% chance it will crash" is unintentionally prescient (the article was written in 2023), given the recent Boeing situation.
Hope you enjoy - I've been on it for a few years after bouncing around a variety of tools and I really have no major complaints. My main concern is risk of eventual bloat, but so far it hasn't been an issue. I feel like it does a good job of letting you pick and choose what you want to use, hiding the rest.

Side note: although TickTick supports notes, I don't use them. I dig UpNote, another not-super-well-known but simple, cross-platform, and inexpensive tool. It's basically the feature-set I wished Evernote stopped at (super subjective, maybe too simple for most here).
Self-Destruct circuitry to blow keys if the tamper signal bit is set? I'm not sure these can totally hide what the key is, I suspect there are recovery options from delidding the chip but .. maybe not?
Thankfully, the US system does not agree with you.
Surely the others have ties with Pentagon too. But Microsoft is the biggest company in the world and the one most intertwined with the US government.
My first computer had an unintended 'power on after power fail' mode, resulting from a short-circuited power button! I don't believe modern motherboards would do that; they must be listening for their power button's state transition when it is depressed rather than simply checking whether it is closed.
We have to deal with 50+MB JSON files at work so it’d be awesome if jnv could handle that.
Your brain is a neural network. All education is therefore applied maths as well, right?
Apart from my overengineered audio stuff (which is intentionally overengineered, as it is mostly an hobby project/research vehicle) I'm guilty of designing what was essentially an simple scintillation detector around fast ADC, somewhat beefy FPGA and bunch of synchronous SRAM, the final shipped hardware had MSP430, bunch of discrete 74ACT logic and bunch of discrete analog comparators instead of the ~100MSps ADC…

You should always do the simplest thing that could possibly work…
It's more important than you're implying, because it subjects the sites to discovery, which is quite burdensome. Avoiding that sort of trap is why we have SLAPP laws.
The usefulness is why the term is so widespread in familiarity but I think the term would have existed to describe the linguistic mapping even if they hadn't proven to have direct problem-solving capabilities.
EE here, happy to provide feedback.
I assume: avoid sugar.
you're right, I think. two gears to one electrical motor is still way simpler than some 8-speed auto edcvt hybrid monstrosity though.
It was actually a nickname that Reddit employees coined for him when it became apparent he was trying to copy Elon in all of the worst ways possible, reported in this article a few days ago: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-reddit-protest-ipo/

But true, I don’t particularly care for either one of them.
KDE explicitly warns you that the content installed through the "Get New..." dialogue (like that person did) is from the untrusted third parties, although it doesn't warn that it can contain executable code. This is the message it gives:

>The content available here has been uploaded by users like you, and has not been reviewed by your distributor for functionality or stability.
What I cannot understand is how the crypto market is supposed to be looked at in the context of central bank policy. Stocks are businesses, businesses can be understood in the framing of the economy, and inference can be had as it pertains to stocks (and collections of stocks) regarding that particular business and particular central bank levers. BTC and the like do no have these connections, so why does crypto even care? How should I be thinking about this?
Sure, in California. I pay $0.50 per kwh and the computer uses 90 watts idle. I sleep and wake the computer to recapture about $200 a year.
Senior engineer (E5) is enough to get you $2-5M over 10 years. That's terminal cog level.
Even YouTube is bad at this. Think you clicked a game or programming tutorial article and it is actually a link to YouTube? Better not watch if you don't like having your recommendations cluttered with videos you'll never be interested in.

At least with YouTube you can delete items from your watch history, but it's a few clicks to get to, so especially annoying for those one-off videos.

I really, really wish there was a slightly higher threshold stopping those one-time mistakes from becoming a time sink.
The second-hand embarrassment I had watching that video was unbearable.

Social media did a number on those scientists with "big personalities". It is one thing that influencers and grifters get a platform on social media. But it is another thing, and more harmful, when people with credentials and power abuse those platforms. Look at Avi Loeb, Jordan Peterson, all the science/physics gurus going crazy with an ever-increasing desperation to stay in the limelight...
A more extreme version of the ADC/DAC projects mentioned here is my (old) project that built a Bluetooth transceiver using just an FPGA and an antenna (and a low pass filter if you don't want the FCC coming after you): https://github.com/newhouseb/onebitbt

Tl;dr: if you blast in/out the right 5GHz binary digital signal from a SERDES block on an FPGA connected to a short wire you can talk to your phone!
> The bitcoin price has crashed by over 10% since this time last week

Uh, yeah, back to the price of ~2 weeks ago, or just up 23% in the last month...

https://youtu.be/XbZ8zDpX2Mg?si=gSs3vJnYUNrcQVr6
Starbucks Is Shutting Down Its Odyssey Beta NFT Rewards Program
Hmmm, most of my friends' animals (pets) kept at home, medicated, fed "pet food" and "clean" water, tend to be significantly sicker than my outside-kept animals, and always seem to have a short lifespan. They have certainly had the runs more often than my outside-only-"kept" animals.
My cats literally drink stagnant water every single day, algae, bacteria, various protozoa and all. The safety'ism in HN is out of control.
The assertion is not that (all) migration is caused by environmental changes.

The claim is that environmental changes can drive migration (causing it to start, or to accelerate migration already happening for other reasons).

Specifically that a particular wave of migration out of part of Africa was pushed along by glaciation 9,000 years ago.

This is not a dubious notion; it seems certain that either environment changes drove migration out of Doggerland or that humans in Doggerland drowned.

> Decline in habitability of previously occupied regions is

barely half the full picture; glaciation can open land bridges allowing increased access to new destinations which are more habitable.
https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-181/

October 1994. which is 28 years ago. Contains the inetnum: object as follows

The information in the old inetnum object
inetnum: 192.87.45.0
netname: RIPE-NCC
descr: RIPE Network Coordination Centre
descr: Amsterdam, Netherlands
country: NL

So.. I hesitate to be snitty, what exactly about IP geolocation did you invent given that by 1994 we already had a formalism to represent IP economy in the records?
And you should, as they're largely beneficial.
Show HN: Cha now supports Answer-Search (Inspired by Perplexity) [video]
Hi everyone,

I'm back with another Cha update. Cha is a simple CLI chat tool that easily interfaces with OpenAI's models. It supports chat interfacing with models, image generation, web scraping, and Answer-Search now! Answer-Search was inspired by Perplexity's work. Given a question, it generates simple sub-search queries which it runs through the Brave Search API. From there, it scrapes all the results and summarizes the content it scraped. After doing all of this, it feeds the context into a large model, in this case GPT-4, to answer your question and cite its sources. All in all, this was a fun project, and I hope you all enjoy it. I use Cha every day; it's very useful, and I hope it's useful to you all as well.

Cha's GitHub: https://github.com/MehmetMHY/cha

Cha's Full Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRnMu6OHNtU
Still waiting for The Moral Virologist[1] to have it's AI debut.

[1] https://www.gregegan.net/MISC/MORAL/Moral.html
No, Section 230 does not require providers to not exercise editorial control. This is a commonly repeated misunderstanding of the law. There is no room for a court to find GP's misstatement in the existing law.
I’ve seen this at a Fortune-50 company, on their own website!

Project managers got requisitions from HR and so they posted a job opening. (So far so good)

However, the company instituted hiring freezes for 2-3 quarters of each year. No hiring, even for the open positions…

Later, there would be layoffs, so PMs would trade unfilled requisitions with HR instead of firing existing people.

It mattered little in the end because they axed the entire department (up to the director) and rebuilt it overseas.

None of this was ever visible publicly.
> name another toy that is still usable and didn't get obsolete after nearly 100 years

Lincoln Logs are just over 100 years old. An original set, if any exists, should still be usable.
Sorry, I should have said this is my opinion. As my sibling mentioned, courts haven't tested it yet.
If your intent was to cause distress, then probably. If you’re sending it to a pal that might be hard to prove but to a stranger would be easier to prove I imagine.
If I am rich enough to have a down payment for a Bay Area house I’ll be tremendously in debt. But that wouldn’t put me in the same boat as someone with oodles of credit card debt.

I’m guessing in endurance athletes it’s there because it’s about to be used. In the obese it’s there because they’re running out of places to put fat.
Apple News Update Just Made iPhone More Like Samsung
Shittier care and the savings won't be passed along to me. What a time to be alive.
Some cities getting rid of minimum parking rules
I'm very curious. Can you explain more?
proof-of-principle work, reported this week in a preprint on bioRxiv

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.14.585103v1
Their web site is horrible on Mobile too!
I’m irritated that I initially thought “Toyota, or wait, was it Honda?” And picked wrong.
How do you think a solid state strain gauge works?
For anyone who's on the fence about trying stardew valley, I'd love to take this moment to say try it. Get it. Keep it in your library. You won't be disappointed..

The first time I played I was enamored with the impressive delivery of a sole developer.. as I played on I realised how it's so much it's own beautiful thing, then realised it's my own thing..

I went away from it for a month or so and something reminded me about it and when I went back in I felt that "home" comfort feeling again without knowing I missed it.. this update has done it again.

It's an incredible game yes, but it's very cliché to say , it's really a bit more than just a game determining the min max. It's one of the best games to remind me it's not about "beating" a game sometimes..

Really a masterpiece that for me at least will never be forgotten.
I'd like to propose an alternative: it’s the equivalent of banning bananas to prevent burglaries.
i assumed it was an immigration scam to say company couldn't fill the role locally as a prerequisite for getting someone in on immigration work visa?
I do find it funny that this discussion thread has tried to represent language as a universal form of thought when it would be messy to encode the inner workings of a LLM (the weightings/relationships) themselves as natural language.

You could sort of represent the deterministic contents of an LLM by compiling all the algorithms and training data in some form, or maybe a visual mosaic of the weights and tokens, or what have you...but that still doesn't really explain the outcome when a model is presented with novel strings. The patterns are emergent properties that converge on familiar language--they're something deeper than the individual words that result.
“And although the space they occupy isn’t like normal
space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. Not a cubic inch there but is filled by a padlock, a garage door, a wheeled cart, the tip of a key code pad, so the effect is like one of those trick drawings and
your eyeballs eventually realize that the space between each
self-storage is, in fact, another self-storage.”

Adapted from Pratchett, “Guards, Guards!”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7949916-and-although-the-sp...
Related: https://terebess.hu/keletkultinfo/coll.pdf
My favorite unconventional use of an FPGA was when Costis used clock glitching and precise undervolting to extract the Boot Rom out of the Game Boy Color. There was an FPGA involved at some point in the process.

http://web.archive.org/web/20091001114207/www.fpgb.org/?page...
"Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45"

The link above links to the article I was going to post. Just adding the headline here, since it was missing.
It's good to clearly separate statements about what the law is and what we wish it to be.
I had the same kind of thought, but I think the 'invention' is really figuring out an application of ip geolocation, and a market for that application.

IMHO, it wasn't hard to figure out roughly where servers or peers were in the real world based on their IP address and network routes to them, but it was non obvious why someone would want to pay for a service...
I think it’s helpful to not say things like “surveillance software”, it’s too easy to have those words become a distraction.

When you sort by date you should have quite a lot more immunity than when you pick the content a person sees. Choosing content can manipulate a person and as a result start sharing the responsibility for their actions.

Where on the spectrum between protected first amendment expression and conspiracy does a newsfeed algorithm lie? This is a new question.
"Researchers create green steel from toxic red mud in 10 minutes" (2024)
https://newatlas.com/materials/toxic-baulxite-residue-alumin... :

> Researchers have turned the red mud waste from aluminum production into green steel

Perhaps green steel for steel coral reef scaffolding
The hotkeys are editable, so it wouldn't make sense to have a static PDF somewhere, but I could certainly add an export of all hotkeys for you to reference! I've written that idea down.
There is no such requirement in Section 230. What more do you want?
Also, there probably won't be another update on Cha. I've decided to focus on other projects, because Cha has all the essential features it needs for the foreseeable future. Of course, if there's demand, I'll happily add new features. But for now, I will just maintain Cha. Thank you all for reading and I hope you all have a great day.
I long for the days of unfiltered message board communities
It's not just power consumption - fire safety can be a factor. Although spontaneous combustion of a computer by itself is vanishingly unlikely, it only takes some loose piece of fabric or paper to waft its way across the fan and you have a genuine combustion risk. That is better-protected against now that most chips have built-in thermal cutoff measures, but a lot of machines still get warmer than I would like them to be.
being able to not feel those feelings strongly is enlightenment, I'd say. I feel those feelings strongly and then choose to keep going anyway in order to have friends and not be lonely. it's been a pleasure connecting with you and coming to understanding each other. be well.
Ask HN: What's it like working in Agtech?
I'd love to work on something agricultural but have 0 skills in that area. What use can a software eng be? Any notable companies which still act a bit like tech companies?

Most of my experience out of the tech world has been really painful, e.g. business devs writing 50-page "product specs" to go and implement over 2 years, or saying they want tech workers but actually wanting IT support.
Respectfully, that's not what you said, and what you said was false.
This is a good suggestion, you should probably be able to do both of these things any time before 11:59pm. Thanks for the feedback!
Are you aware of any other studies that support this theory? In other words, is this replicable?
Cloud Native Computing Foundation's FluxCD Project Gains New Corporate Support
You should read Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber. Goes over why capitalism creates all these bullshit jobs despite theory saying otherwise. Have you considered that LLMs may increase the efficiency of bullshitization?
Sorry if I am nitting here, but cost it’s just a single dimension in a great scheme of things in technology adoption.

I worked with MSSQLServer 05/08/12 in some projects and the whole suite for the time being was one of the best related in terms of easiness to deploy plus due to the integrations with Integration/Analysis services you could deploy cubes and serving that directly on Excel and if you had some people creative in VBA you could reach a very sophisticated and effective way to provide reports.

I am huge fan of PostgreSQL, but back in 2005/2012 in all organisations that I worked would be very hard to justify 3+ extra FTE because someone was idealistically about Open Source a land costs.
Paul Saladino says a lot of things. Which of his claims are you specifically referencing here?
I think you’re seriously downplaying the seriousness of these acts and the kind of person who does something like this:

“Hawkes was already a registered sex offender after he was given a community order last year for exposure and sexual activity with a child under 16. That registration ran until November 2033.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-68543605
No, there's no explicit task dependency right now.

However, there are a couple options you could use:
1. Use nested tasks for this purpose. If task B is nested beneath task A, then B is a dependency of A. Godspeed supports infinite nesting (okay, okay - MAX_INT levels of nesting)
2. You could use labels and smart lists. Give blocked tasks a "Blocked" label and create a smart list that filters out any tasks that are blocked.
I was glad they ported it to mobile

But needing to adjust the save state to anytime instead of at the end of the day really did break the mechanic for me

They (dev and community) recognized their casual mobile gaming audience would not have uninterrupted dedicated time to complete a day effectively. Made it more accessible but the lack of urgency makes it a different game
You can share lists, and you'll see each other's live cursors like in Google Docs. Is that what you meant? I could be misunderstanding what "shared workspaces" means here.
they could help prevent the occurrence
It's definitely true that the defendants would have preferred to have the case dismissed, even if they will win eventually (the process is painful and costly). But that isn't really what the clickbait headline says, is it?
Managing "bets" with capital that you can afford to lose is utterly different to managing "bets" with your time and labor.
You are replacing the brake fluid though. Probably more ofent then almost every car owner.
AMD with Upstream Linux Nears "The Ultimate Goal of Confidential Computing"
Yeah, I hadn't thought about it that way, but Musk and Trump are also examples of people who are deep into stage 3 of this process.
GLP1 analogs can cross the blood–brain barrier and stimulate the GLP1 receptor in the brain.[1]

There is also research showing improvement in Alzheimer's disease symptoms. [2]

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11931352/

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221287782...
I'm not disputing glaciation had an effect, it's just that a decline in habitability of where the hominids were living was not an effect that can be pointed to as a cause of migration. If anything, there should be more outmigration from highly habitable areas than from less habitable ones. That's because any area quickly fills up to the limit of its carrying capacity, and the highly habitable area will then have more inhabitants to diffuse out.
This reminds me of how 'interesting' it is when people defend their use of language by downplaying the effects on other people. We really do have so many ripple effects from everything we broadcast to others, and tacking a negative, or a double/triple negative into a sentence doesn't change the fact that mentioning pink elephants will color an arbitrary portion of someone's day.

In other words, this is why tone absolutely matters, and I love how this awareness feeds into support for genuine expression. Sarcasm is chaotic with an unknown audience who would be less likely to recognize the intended subversion and toying with meaning, instead taking it in whatever direction the listener feels like without being sure that the speaker is understood.
I used LangChain and models hosted on Ollama for my latest project [1]. Since I have a GPU now and Ollama is now available for Windows I can build LLM based applications quickly with local debugging.

[1] https://github.com/bovem/chat-with-doc
Counterpoint: Rudolph Hass, creator of the original hass avocado, barely made anything from it. I’m not gonna say that the Hass Avocado had more impact than Apple or Google, but it’s definitely more impactful than any $1-10 billion company I can think of.
I guess we'll see if anyone on social media has a 5 year attention span.
After his rant against big tech ads, clicked on his Spotify link, tried to listen to his music, just to be blocked by a video ad. Okay.

Cool music though.
How we get high: our bodies are perfectly primed for consuming cannabis
Google also pushes Terraform as its core IaC so that would be a great fit actually!
In fairness, nuking a chunk of Nevada was what the early 1950s called "Tuesday".
If you could give this drug to Deer, cattle, horses, and other livestock, it would significantly reduce the tick population. Remember Lymes disease is caused by a tick biting a deer before it bites a human.
Or plug in a feed from SimpleFin?
Capitalism is a broad category with multiple variations. I would argue that Central Bank manipulation of inflation, and the related phenomenon of debt financed government are not Central requirements of capitalism.

In some ways, they are even in conflict with many of the more Market driven philosophies.