skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have always been a tiny subset of people whose work really did go better with a specific CPU, but in general my experience is that people have not cared - if they get the OS they want, and the CPU is speedy, they are happy.

The one exception being the mid-90s because of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug - that one had impact across the industry.
> When my local community started suffering from lack of fire fighters I joined up. When ambulances got more scarce, I signed up and am becoming an EMT

Maybe that points to something you can do. Get involved in protecting the environment locally. Eat local food and pressure producers (you are now their customer) to farm better. More local green spaces. Better water and waterways management, forest management, whatever is relevant.

Climate is local to some extent, as is resilience to change.

I think the author is a bit alarmist - powerlines melting will not be a common problem. They work even in very hot climates. Also not cynical enough about governments - they are heavily influenced by people with solutions to sell. That is why they push offsetting by planting trees (relatively ineffective) far more than they do protecting existing carbon sink ecosystems, for example.
California electeds don't believe in market economics. So we get rent control, insurance control, utility control (amusingly in the higher-than-market price direction), etc.
How did it not occur to you that there would be noise from airplanes if you live that close?

Or is it more of an airstrip where only ultra light aircraft depart?
Man this feels great to me. The Pico-8 feels a bit too old-school and janky to me despite being a great bit of software, the picotron feels a lot more like my childhood.
I'm excited to start playing with it!
About ten years ago, Markus Persson, the creator of Minecraft, was working on a game called 0x10c which was going to be a sci-fi spaceship game where the various functions of the ship were controlled by 1980s-era computers, leaving the programming parts to the player to build. There was a community that spung up that wrote code, device drivers, etc. An interesting idea that died on the vine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c
https://github.com/lucaspiller/dcpu-specifications
Please say more about plusses of Bridgewater!

The Fund is a great read and I'm sure it only painting a certain side of the story. But it made all the talked about Bridgewater stuff sound like a complicated distraction for a founder with some specific vision that was a bit odd. Meanwhile the working of the actual fund is based on hunches, insider gossip and large macro bets run by a very small team, while everyone is playing complicated status games.
Build Log: Power Mac G4 MDD
I think a lot of what humans think of as "1. 2. Therefore 3." kind of reasoning isn't different from what the llm is doing, and not in fact any more clever than that. Plenty of people believe plenty of questionable things that they assume they have thought through but really haven't. They used the context to guess the next idea/word, often reaching the conclusions they started out with.

When you talk about ironclad conclusions, I think what happens is that we come up with those confabulations intuitively, but then we subject them to intense checking - have we defined everything clearly enough, is that leap in reasoning justified, etc.

So what I'd really like to see is a way to teach llms to take a vague English sentence and transform it into a form that can be run through a more formal reasoning engine.

Often instead of asking an llm to tell you something like how many football fields could you fit inside England, you are better off telling it to write python code to do this, assume get_size_football_field() in m^2 and get_size_England() in m^2 is available.
Solar eclipse 2024: Millions in North America will view a blockbuster
It's interesting that it's State Farm, as I've recently seen them as the only one willing to write new policies in a fire-prone location, a "wildland-urban interface" area.
I don't know if it's common to other countries, but a big factor in the US is race and class. There was a ton of "white flight" in the US starting in the 60s with white middle class and above fleeing cities to the suburbs. As such, they specifically did not want their adjacent town to be annexed by the major city.

In plays out pretty comically in Austin TX in my opinion. You have these teeny affluent enclaves (search for "Sunset Valley", "Rollingwood" and "Westlake Hills" near/inside Austin) that anyone else would consider "part of Austin", but they don't vote in city elections or pay city taxes (but they certainly take advantage of all the benefits of being close to Austin...)
Whoops, the video URL in the description is wrong and I can't edit it now. It's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BivFH8yOSyI
same in Texas. BIL told me that he has been writing policies in the $5k-$7.5k range this year. And those are the best quotes some people are getting on their cheap mansions.
I have nothing agains Immich or cheering for Memories. Just stating what Immich is saying on their homepage.
Didn't happen with Denver or Hong Kong.
I have a hard time imagining that it's truly brutal in both directions. Is the executive team really made to justify a large bonus for themselves when the rest of the staff is asked to accept lower than inflation adjustments, as an example?

I'd bet it's "brutal" but with a lot of information asymmetry preventing the sorts of feedback I described.
Steam value to customer is huge - and it's understandable why people just go to Steam and "don't have to think about it" even when you can get the same item elsewhere, perhaps even cheaper.
You can see this the other way

When I write lots of data to a rusty device and don't sync, the kernel gives back more quickly. From there, I can move on with my work : everything is "as-if" the data were actually copied (except power-cutoff protection, indeed)

As such, I see this behavior as a feature, it allows me to wait less and do my work quicker.

Unless windows, on which I must wait for the whole data to be written on the disk.
Are you under the impression that being resilient to radiation somehow makes you immune to being stepped on with great force?

Cockroaches aren’t even particularly impressive in that regard, despite the popular myth.

https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2006/02/23/1567313.h...

https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/would-cockroaches-re...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39762495
A rubber duck is all you need.
The newer airport is really less convenient to the mountains than Stapleton was. (At least in terms of distance. Not sure about driving time.)
This was the first thing I did when I landed in the South.

Answer: very easy. You know the shape from the flags and logos, you can't miss it. Magellanic clouds are harder to see, and require a place with little or no light pollution, but they're there too.

Fun fact: in Chile they sell tours to look at the sky - in Atacama desert, where light pollution is very low. A bus brings you to the desert and you look up. They also provide a tour guide who knows the sky and has a laser pointer (yes, strong laser pointers can be used to point to objects in sky). Sounds ridiculous, but is 100% worth the money. The view of Milky Way in its full unpolluted southern glory is breathtaking.

A go-to joke of the tour guides. Question: "So, you are in Chile and there's no polar star. How do you tell where's north?". Answer, after some ideas from tourists: "See the mountains over there? That's east. Like I said, you're in Chile."
When I purchased a laptop last year I went with MSI:

32GB RAM
1TB SSD
4080 12GB
3 USBC
2 USB3.2

$2100 CAD.

My only complaint was Windows 11 which was immediately rectified. Though not before having a full screen Xbox Live ad that couldn't be closed through any means.

Since removing MS the laptop functions perfectly, runs models locally without any fuss and powers any game I want at 4k60hz or 3k144hz(1440p).

What is the reason for the high pricing of Surface models?
Nothing like arguing against software freedom because of "checks notes", security by obscurity. I thought I'd read higher effort content on HN.
Lambda Calculus Visualizations (2023)
State Farm is doing some stuff to reduce electrical fires (see https://www.statefarm.com/insurance/home-and-property/ting-f... ) but I suspect they don't have much they can do with wildfire suburban areas.
Let the forking ensue. What a stupid move. They have illegally removed the BSD headers from contributions by various cloud vendors like Redhat and Amazon. I hope they can all get together to.maintain a fork, and maybe sue Redis Inc. for this unlawful infringment of there copyrights.
I don't know why this post is marked as submitted by me again, I posted this 2 days ago. Maybe some undocumented HN behavior?

Discussed here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39762495
Same here, first computer I ever bought and connected to the Internet ! I think I had to fiddle some PPP settings back then (I think 94-95 ?) with the help of my local ISP to get it working (tech support was nice enough to entertain/help teenage me), but it all worked great in the end. I managed to boot it up a few years ago (it did have a VGA out via an adapter which helps a lot).

At that point I can't quite remember if PPP Connect required MultiTOS/MinT/MagiC or not ? I think maybe only one of the stack did. I definitely remember CAB was the good/last browser option but it wasn't the first. Can't remember the name of the first one, or the email client though.

It was also my first Linux computer, somehow, which I installed on a iomega Zip (SCSI ?) drive. I think it took 15 minutes to launch X11 and at that point the whole thing was excruciatingly unusable.

Also first computer I overclocked, a french company called Centek had made a tiny board that reclocked the 68030 from 16 to 25 MHz. I looked it up and found their website here : http://centek.free.fr/atari/ct2/ct2_hist.htm

Looks like the version I have (probably Centurbo 1 rev2 ?) overclocked both the CPU an the bus (which may or may not impacted the RAM ? Hard to remember). They made a few iterations, going up to 50 MHz.

Many extremely fond memories of that machine in any case. But at that point the PC market was opening up and there was no going back.
Wow, this looks great. Get that man some more Emacs and coffee!
I didn’t read the fund but I read some of the articles released based on it when it published and it rang hollow to me.

It had the vibe of a couch potato writing about an Olympic team complaining “look how harsh the coach is” - divorced from the reality of what it takes to be an Olympic athlete and that the athletes signed up for that kind of training.
but the ability to get horses to pull carts is not tied to expert knowledge of hand-pushing plows, neither is machinery to horse-pulling. This is not really the case for AI
I mean are we as humans planning ahead of the new few words? I certainly am not. But what matters is a deeper understanding of the context and the language model itself, which can then produce sensible spontaneous output. We as humans have the advantage of having a non language world model as well as abstract concepts but all of human language is a pretty strong proxy for it.

The spontaneity of it isn't the issue, it's what's driving the spontaneity that matters. For e.g. 1M context window is going to have a wildly more relevant output than a 1K context window.
It is documented, the second chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
Did something change in roof building about 15 years ago? Are older roofs more susceptible to being ripped off in a tornado?

Around here they just write a roof exclusion if it's too old, and hail doesn't get you a "free roof".
Not sure if you've talked to many artists, but quite a large majority oppose AI, and in practice what "speaks to them" is art created without the interference of AI. (I am one of them, but there are many others).
Yes living in FL its ridiculous. It's not just the premium increases and lack of competition, everyone is getting hit with needing to replace their roof if more 15 years old or they will cancel you.

Citizen which is state backed makes you move to private if you get an offer thats <= 10% more expensive as they don't want people on government insurance.
Apple Fanboyism Is A Religion: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-is-a-religion-neurosci...
This is not due to price controls. California does not have much price controls on insurance, and I doubt there are any on commercial apartment buildings. This is climate change.
I have similar-looking ones that have a chip in the connector, capable of negotiating USB PD. There is no UI on the cable — buy the cable “hardcoded” to the voltage you desire. (My personal use case is powering 12v barrel jack electronics from a USB powerbank.)
> this is a very different situation than when you have an external force acting equally on all the atoms

Gravity is not an "external force" in GR. In GR, an object moving solely under gravity, i.e., in free fall, feels no force (no internal stresses, zero reading on an accelerometer) because there is no force--not because there is "an external force acting equally on all the atoms".

If you want to say that the Newtonian interpretation, where gravity is "an external force acting equally on all the atoms", is indistinguishable experimentally from the GR interpretation, where gravity isn't a force at all, I suppose that's true. But then the "external force acting equally on all the atoms" is just like Carl Sagan's undetectable dragon in his garage. We have a model that works just as well without it, so it gets scraped right off by Occam's Razor. That is the GR position.

Also, no matter how you want to resolve the above issue, it still remains true that non-gravitational forces do not obey the equivalence principle, so there is no "spacetime geometry" interpretation for them that works. And those are also the cases where you do have internal stresses in the objects and an accelerometer reads nonzero. So again GR's interpretation--that these cases are forces while gravity is not, and that explains the difference in accelerometer readings--is simpler than the Newtonian one, where you have to argue that gravity is a "force" but doesn't work like other "forces" work.
Gave it 5 minutes and couldn't even get a demo to run.

You either need a lesson plan, or make it more obvious what to do.
They simply don't work that way. You are asking it for an answer, it will give you one since all it can do is extrapolate from its training data.

Good prompting and certain adjustment to the text generation parameters might help prevent hallucinations, but it's not an exact science since it depends on how it was trained. Also, an LLMs training data frankly said contains a lot of bulls*t.
Yeah and ESR can be revisionist in his history, projecting intention on something organic. He alienated a lot of people over time with this… and other behavior.

The book I recommended is both a handbook and a “how to think.” It applies forward to things introduced well after the book. But it also helped me understand why the Byzantine behavior of a tty is what it is.

If you are interested in the history from a first person perspective, I do recommend Kernighan’s “Unix: A History and a Memoir”. He went from originally trying to write something objective to realizing it was necessarily his personal experience. Even the culture aspect of his story has influenced how I try to foster teamwork. It was an engaging read for me.
> Chain-of-Thought simply let's the model see it's own output as an input and therefore build upon that. It lets them break a complex problem down into a series of simpler steps which they can see (output becomes input) and build upon.

Sure, but why does that make the model more effective? Are you sure it's "breaking the problem down into simpler steps", or is it just appearing to do so? How does this breakdown happen in the model, exactly? If we can better understand the mechanics involved, then maybe this process can be built into a new model that can achieve the same results more efficiently instead of as a recursive process that runs the model more than once.
If nothing would prevent Apple from doing what they're doing today, then what is this case all about? Apple's value proposition with iOS isn't just the app store. It's that the app store IS the only way to get something on to iOS. It has to go through them and their review process first. Their value claim is that if you can install it on an iPhone, then you can be assured that it goes through some review process that Apple controls and has been checked against some set of restrictions Apple has, and complies with various things Apple demands. Whether that value is sufficient for any individual consumer is up to them, but very clearly they can't make that same claim if they're required by law to allow apps to come from outside sources and bypass those restrictions.
Venn diagram it out. You have your own skills, needs and inclinations. And then other people have theirs. Look for a clear, coherent overlap with a market and build the pitch from that. Validate occasionally that you understand the market you're addressing and not building something redundant or handled within their existing skillsets(or, that you are tapping an outsider market that doesn't need that skillset).

At scale, if you're looking for a big paycheck, what you want to put in the diagram is "nation building" - something that furthers the kinds of goals that governments or the powerful people behind them will pay for. A lot of things that build nations seem like they have to cost a lot and involve lots of capital, but that simultaneously indicates a place for technology to disrupt the dependencies involved, usually by automating, and usually by automating a higher level of quality, not speed or quantity. It's hard to get any right answers, easy to get wrong ones quickly.
Github link: https://github.com/ironjr/StreamMultiDiffusion
Oh, I thought you meant you worked there.

The fund is based on interviews with people who were pretty senior there. I mean, they no longer do, and the book is clearly giving things a negative light, but you can learn a lot from it about who can give who 'Brutal Feedback' and how a utopian vision becomes a dystopia for people further down the chain.
That’s a great hypothetical that may apply in some places. What made Bridgewater a one in a million company is precisely that we all opted in to operating in this transparent and “harsh” way.

I never worked at a place with as much “psychological safety” as BW because the culture was explicitly “you must say what is in your mind”. Every other place that I heard talk about psychological safety has so much walking on eggshells that real problems couldn’t be called out.
https://github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB

KeyDB is an existing fork that’s well supported and has a solid community for those interested. It takes a different philosophy to Redis but can be a drop in replacement in many cases
Negative income tax is the Earned Income Tax Credit, paying a subsidy for earning income.
It might not be the most informative article but it does help remind us that elected officials often have incentives outside just "public good".

edit: typos
> I hate the /s they've adopted. [...] I dislike the implication sarcasm cannot be conveyed via text.

I suspect autism is overrepresented in the Reddit population.
Sure. Ray Dalio got public negative feedback all the time.
Oh, do iPhone users also see those messages when an android user is in the chat?

I had assumed that reactions worked fine for them and they were unaware that their iPhone was making them look like a bit of a buffoon to the rest of us.
A bit maddening that he'll surely walk away with some 8 to 9 figure package.
Show HN: AI Blog Image Generator (Powered by DALL·E 3)
Many bloggers use stock images for their posts (as featured or in-post images).

TBH, finding stock images for blog posts or newsletters is one of my least favorite tasks.

Moreover, you can't be sure how many people have already used the same image.

An alternative solution is to use AI to create unique images for our content.

I know Midjourney is quite good at this.

Still, I'm interested in experimenting with DALLE and GPTs.

--

So, here’s the Blog Image Generator (with Alt Text)

It turns your blog title, content, or any topic into a unique, minimalistic image using DALLE.

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> You might think that nobody wants to live next to a train station, either.

Huh? Properties next to train stations usually have higher prices. Electric trains are clean and quiet.
What kind of music production do you do on an iPhone?
Oh wow, Kagi is a little gem -- thanks for introducing me to it!
Yeah it might be what I shared on a sibling comment: HN hates posts with comments > upvotes. When that threshold is crossed, HN flags it as controversial topic and deranks it.

Or maybe it's been manually flagged, so who knows.
Show HN: Wikiknowledgebase.com
I'd like to get some thoughts on this project that I've started.

I'm at a stage where I'm not sure if this is actually worth continuing or not.

Would love to get some other thoughts on this.

Thanks!
> Once the law takes effect on July 1, people will be prohibited from using AI to mimic an artist's voice without permission.

Good on them, but we need to do more: we need to prohibit the commercial sale of AI-generated art as well. What about combining 2-3 voices in a new voice? It should be prohbibited. And training on all human-made media needs to be banned also.
> the most substantial wildfire or fire following earthquake hazards

The key here, and what insurance companies really don't like dealing with, is coordinated payouts.

If you insure 10,000 homes, and 10 burn down every year, that's quite manageable. If instead you have years with nothing and then a thousand burn down at the same time, that's much harder to manage. It's also harder to build the actuarial tables, because there's too many unknowns.

And wildfires and earthquakes almost by definition affect large areas.
One thing can be said about the airline industry. They may not want their competitors to make money but they do want them to fly safely. Accidents have a demonstrable effect on the whole business. People who are or become afraid to fly don't spend money flying at all.
I forgot that HEAD doesn't point to tags! I guess it makes some semantic sense - tags are just labels, and shouldn't "carry" anything with them if they move.

Great writeup. Technically "current branch" is easily defined: It's the branch (not commit or tag) HEAD points to, if any. "The last thing I checked out" is really just the last identifier you passed to 'git checkout', not what that resolved to and actually got checked out, or any commit-ish that HEAD has been pointed to in the meantime by other commands. "What's shown on my git prompt" could be any silly thing, since that's not git. However, colloquially (and even sometimes in the Git documentation itself!), "current branch" can mean other things, as the author enumerates, and it would be unrealistic to ignore that.

One note: It's silly that git prompts seem to choose an arbitrary tag to show when there's multiple - they should show all of them or none of them. However, the author says that 'git status' does the same thing, but for me (git 2.44.0), it does not report any tags, which makes sense to me (reporting all tags along with the SHA would also make sense).