skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are interesting philosophical conversations to have about fairness and efficiency, but they come up when you're in the ballpark of what some people would consider fair or efficient while some others would differ.

This is not that.

A cow spends its whole life radiating heat into the environment. That's energy that could be powering me. It's a pretty simple watts-in-watts-out calculation, and it's nowhere near efficient.

Sure, maybe no humans want to live where the cows typically graze, but there are other organisms which contribute to carbon capture and clean air and clean water and pollination and disease control... And they are displaced when you've got cows gobbling up all the new growth and preventing forests from forming.

What's unfair is that those ecosystem services are being degraded in service of a few people's dietary habits, and that their loss is subsequently impacting the rest of us.

Yeah, maybe there's a biodiversity benefit to controlling grazer population through hunting, but only as a stopgap until we manage to reintroduce natural predators which don't have to be policed or practice restraint: predator/prey population dynamics are better equilibrium seekers than government regulation re: permits and tags.
We should give Intel 50bn of taxes, nevermind the roads, schools or anything else! And give Google and Facebook some bns too! And Tesla could always do with more, why not?

PS why not through a few bns at public housing too to preserve mixed society, like Paris? Mixed society is surely worth it... It's only money! And it won't spend itself!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39765692
https://siliconangle.com/2023/09/29/intel-begins-mass-produc...

I believe "Intel 4" is their current most advanced mass-produced process.
Drug Cartels most likely. That area is frequently jammed.
Too big to fail coming the rounds again?

Intel failed to keep up with competition due to some really bad decisions
and incompetence.

Now they are bailed out by the Biden administration with a giant
state subsidy. I think this falls under protectionism.
which might cause problems with the WTO.

I would guess the administration will or already have filed it under
"National security" or something similar.

Where does this money come from?
Has it been fully funded by congress? (hopefully)
I think actually the problem with this program is not the recipient (I mean, Intel is literally the only American company building fabs in the US) but the structure. The problem with US fans is that the skilled Taiwanese workforce is simply willing to work for less and more flexibly.

We could easily solve that problem if we were willing to do what China is doing, which is paying Taiwanese PhDs, engineers, and technicians to come to the US. Give them a streamlined visa and green card process, and pay them a cash bonus to emigrate.

I mean, this is America’s core strength - we have strong Taiwanese communities they could integrate into, a social structure that is ultimately much more positive on immigrants than most places in the world, and incredibly high salaries.

A lot of people talk about training a US workforce, and I totally agree we should embrace that. But there are limits, and ultimately as a country we should encourage skilled immigration whenever and however we can. After all they’ll train locals eventually, even if by proximity.
We're living through the silicon age and Intel has made a total dog's breakfast of it.

Stagnant revenues, falling profits. Both should have been growing geometrically.

Just compare these companies:

https://valustox.com/INTC

https://valustox.com/AMD

https://valustox.com/AVGO

https://valustox.com/AMAT

Even Qualcomm has seen good growth:
https://valustox.com/QCOM

This is how it's done:
https://valustox.com/NVDA

EDIT these guys aren't primarily chipmakers, but they're deriving at least a couple of $Bn per year from making good ones: https://valustox.com/AAPL
> The United Nations projects that by 2025, 1.8 billion people will face absolute water scarcity across the world. The Middle East stood out as one of the most water-stressed areas with around 83% of the population in the region prone to experiencing high levels of water stress.

> Weather forecasters at the center can observe precipitation patterns in clouds and identify suitable clouds to seed, with the aim of increasing the rate of rainfall. Once they spot the right cloud, they instruct pilots to take to the air with their specialized aircrafts loaded with hygroscopic flares on the plane’s wings.

I wonder if someone did the math of what that would look like at scale. How much would using kerosene to deliver the cloud seed material to introduce rain accelerate the problem we're trying to solve here? We can only hope that we find a way to electrify that fleet of airplanes or switch to something that's much less energy intensive like drones.
Indeed.

Articles can be bought outright.
> Think community spaces like parks and libraries being packed all the time.

They aren't, with dense housing there is so much room for parks that they are everywhere. I live in such a place, you go out and you mostly hear birds chirping, not people, it is a cheap suburb with high rise apartments next to public transit and everything you need in walkable distance including hospital and government services and hardware stores.

Dense housing means there is more room for everything else, not less, so everything is less crowded. Birds singing outside of my windows is the main noise pollution where I live.
These (and probably all) are growth stocks. They have no relationships to the real world anymore unfortunately.
I don’t think it can be assumed. if the rain increased vegetation, i wouldn’t rule out an increased water cycle and greater amount of water in the area in general. Honestly, i wouldn’t be surprised if it benefited neighbors. I’m no expert and there are countless variables, maybe a high percentage of the rain used then sent right into the ground as waste water- never to have the chance to evaporate. or never taken up by vegetation at all. Time reveals all, despite whether this was a hasty experiment.
> Very little training data is properly licensed or compensated.

Could it ever be the case, I wonder, if we could trust/enforce/believe that a model had so abstracted what it learned from the training inputs such that the model was not a derived work from them?

I've seen the examples where the model is able to reproduce recognizable characters from popular media. Those look like they might be "just" overfitting? While I can see that as desirable from the point of view of being able to create a picture of "Robocop shopping for diapers". But maybe we could compromise and converge to a point where AI art isn't quite so demonized and instead is seen as a useful tool.
CHIPS isn't a handout; it's the only way to get them to build these expensive fabs domestically in a way that makes economic sense.
Also extremely rigid ideologies and a Pol-Pot-like approach to reality (as if in: "If someone does something that I don't like, he should not be allowed to do it") have huge externalities.
TryCloudflare
Well at the time before Microsoft got involved it was sort of an unspoken rule among the AI community to be open and not release certain models to the public.
Thanks for the response. The article only mentions Ireland though, has Intel done the same in the US?
What type of tasks ? This sounds really interesting?
"We've studied their language enough to get a good understanding. It seems the creatures on this planet created the source of their own undoing - a UX so well antialiased, so quickly rendered, that it shattered the planet."
Nice comparison. Do you have any plans to include yugabyte in your next benchmarking posts?
Are you saying that Wikipedia doesn't need to innovate and just leave their organization as it is? I follow Wikipedia since its inception and it seems part of its processes, as in major organizations, amplifies bureaucracy more than process innovation. Any organization is not only their throughput but their processes, including resources as humans.
Is interference the same as jamming?

I am absolutely no expert in this but I can imagine that even natural occurrences can interfere with the GPS.
3 Reasons Your Productivity Method Is Failing You
It makes me wonder if I should switch from my current position as a Java dev to something related to AI and machine learning. It seems that is going to be the future now, and there seems to be a big need for people with that knowledge right now.
This is absolutely a failure mode that can happen and I think people should be aware of it/be cautious about not falling into the trap, but I don't think this is categorically true, if for no other reason due to the extreme differences in how people think.

I've absolutely spent time procrastinating by hunting for the perfect tool, and it took me some time to realize that. But I've also found that a good tool can be a force multiplier that can make a huge difference in productivity and more importantly, the likelihood that I'll stick with something.

I've tried and failed numerous times to succeed with a simple text note. I love the idea of the simplicity. But I could never make it work.

A few years back I learned that I have aphantasia - my mind's eye is blind. When digging into this, I learned that people's ability to visualize is a spectrum, and while I'm on one extreme end of it, there is a huge variance in how people experience the act of thinking. It made me realize why <thing> that worked for <person> never worked for me, and why you'll find so many people evangelizing <specific approach> because it worked for them.

I've learned that tools that help me visualize my thoughts completely change my relationship with them and help unlock deeper thinking. Over time, I've realized that some tools really are "tools for thought". My brain can't do X, but Y tool can, and it becomes part of my extended conscious experience and enables me to do things I couldn't before.

I think the critical factor here is to be honest with yourself about what is or is not actually working for you. Recognize the trap of trying to solve problems with tools that aren't really going to change much. But do use tools that help.
There are a number of APIs, such as geolocation, that only work over https. It's also very common to accidentally generate non-https urls for assets, which is a bug most people would rather catch in local dev and not production when the browser refuses to fetch them.

I use traefik to serve my apps in dev, which generates self-signed certs by default if you don't hook it up to ACME. Slightly more cumbersome because it means clicking through a warning screen and disabling verification in CLI tools (actually those are where I do drop to plain http). I'm sure this lcl.host product smooths this process considerably, but when it comes to local dev tools, I have an absolute requirement that they actually run locally and don't tether me to some cloud service, so I'll be sticking with traefik regardless for now.
>and sell it back to us from behind a paywall and that's fine.

That's the sticking point. If it's an open tool for humanity's benefit being created given back to us, that's one thing... but to sell it back to us...

With that said, piracy is close to what's happening... but I think we should be careful classifying where/what exactly is the matter. I reason I think that matter's lies may be down the end of a slippery slope, or it may be straight ahead of us... the future is hard to know. If we classify it poorly we may unintentionally cause human(post/trans-human) right's issues {if I upload my consciousness to a digital mind, I don't want archaic laws to dominate what I can see/compute based on the material of which I'm made}.
NASA Sees Progress on Blue Origin's Orbital Reef Life Support System
This is simply abject nonsense. I know the research you obliquely referenced and it assumes you specifically fuel that movement by eating beef burgers. And even that's on shaky ground.

You can use your eyes to instantly observe that car drivers are not reducing their caloric intake to compensate for the fact that they "save" that energy by not walking.
You forgot UK and BBC.
Thank you for going deeper. I'm going to give this a more thorough look and investigate deeper when I have more time in a few hours.
If you trust that office printer to survive a roll down a steep mountain sure.

Your idea of how electromechanical devices "just work" is based on office environments (and even there they fail with astounding regularity today, half a century later).

As an electrical engineer that has repaired many (also very old) devices I don't think you have a realistic idea of why the thing looks as it does. One point is environmental factors (strong vibration, harsh radiation, potential temperature differences etc) another one is risk managment. If your commercial printer fails, how will it fail? You better know exactly what it's failure modes are, because you are the guy who selected that printer and you are reaponsible for both the failure of the mission and the potential death of astronauts who trust you. Still feel secure about the choice? Then you are probably the wrong person for the job.q

TL;DR: look for a certain (recent) submarine failure to see how well your approach works in practise
GameScent emits 'gunfire' and other scents while you play
I noticed recently on HN lots of talking about cancelling remote working, introduced as a temporary measure to fight COVID. I am wondering, if working from home is here to stay, wouldn't companies start hiring talents from global market rather then paying extra for US employees if they still work remotely? Is it not "wiser" from the company point of view to hire talented people for instance from Eastern Europe which have more competitive salary expectations (due to lower cost of living) than American counterparts?
The best that can be done is freezing house prices nominally (or close to it) and then let inflation take over as supply increases.

People are really bad at working out constant dollars and have loans, as long as the nominal value is steady or going up slightly, they don't really care if the absolute value has dropped because of inflation.
Show HN: Open-source user authentication for Next.js
Hi all! With my friend Zai, we are building Stack (https://github.com/stackframe-projects/stack), a set of open-source libraries to help make projects production-ready. We want to close the gap between "prototype" and "launchable".

Our first module is user authentication. This is a messy space where you can roughly divide the current incumbents into at least one of three camps:

- Proprietary; with vendor lock-in and MAU-based pricing when you scale

- Basic feature set; missing things that would be useful especially in the first week, such as token-based auth, a user dashboard with analytics, frontend components, and well-supported credential authentication

- Bad DX; difficult setup and lots of initial configuration even for basic features (such as OAuth)

If you'd like to validate an idea you built on a Thursday evening, there are no great solutions available.

Enter Stack! An open-source and self-hostable authentication server and library. Besides basic auth features, I think there are three ways in which we do really well:

- Frontend integration: We provide React/Next.js components and hooks that are highly customizable. They adapt to your design system; so if you use eg. MUI, they will use MUI components, too.

- Dashboard and monitoring: We have a dashboard where you can list, visualize, and manage your users. You can also use our components to build your own.

- Modularity: Stack itself is an OpenID identity provider and has a RESTful API. If you're using a different OAuth client library, you can still use our server.

Stack itself is open-source licensed under MIT and AGPL. We provide a paid hosted service that we call Stackframe [1]. It has very simple pricing, with unlimited MAU on every paid plan. There are no differences between the hosted and the OS version.

Check out our docs [2], or if you'd like to be part of this, join our Discord [3]. Cheers!

[1] https://stackframe.co

[2] https://docs.stackframe.co

[3] https://discord.gg/pD4nyYyKrb
I said idiomatic because that’s the form they’re going to encounter it in the wild, in library doc, in stack overflow answers.

I do t think rhe sort of low level bit banging you propose is a worthwhile use of a students time, given the vast amount they have to learn that won’t be immediately obsolete.
You're not wrong, but having an incredibly important dependence on an industry 100 miles off the coast of China (and the target of their increasingly erratic dictator) is worth paying billions to break.
I have used that, it's pretty nice! For now I settled on TickTick cause it's easy to use from my Linux laptop and my iOS devices. If you are fully Apple, Due is a good choice.
The PC is becoming increasingly irrelevant. "Personal" computing happens on phones now.
That is Eagle Pass, TX. The infamous, massive border crossing area where suspected criminal border crossers are corraled under the bridge, where Elon visited, etc.

The jamming is done to make crossing the border without going through the checkpoint more difficult
I'm curious as well. My first thought was cartels, but it's also right over Laughlin AFB.
If you work with Python, Spyder comes really, really close and is way better than jupyter
It's confusing. I tried it a few time, but never really got into it. It seems very opinionated into what it offers and seems to force you into a workflow. Obsidian is more liberate and flexible in that regard.
They could at least make an effort to purchase licenses from all non-open content, comply with open licenses, and exclude content otherwise. They aren't making anything more than the most lame token effort because they don't care.
Probably not, but it seems I tuitive that the smaller pieces are the most likely to be lost.
If that moisture they're making fall out of the sky is guaranteed to end up falling above the ocean otherwise then sure. Otherwise you'll get conflict.
"But some people think they need their car because they think they need to move a lot of stuff regularly, for instance between their home and their parents, and their parents don't leave in a place easily reachable without a car. This stuff can include pets, like cats. I think some of these people could do things differently, but maybe some of these people might genuinely have these needs"

And, precisely, who the f..k are you to think you can JUDGE the needs of other people, and what other people "need" or what they just "think they need"?
I guess the implication was that are still innovating unlike Intel
I don't have any real issue with regulations per se but with people claiming that a highly regulated market is 'free market'.

I'm actually quite happy with my socialized health care aside from the last time I went to the emergency room they sent me home to die and when I came back a day later they were rapidly pulling out faulty body parts before I did indeed die. Well, then there's the Phoenix VA death list scandal.

I know I shouldn't complain as it not like I risked life and limb in service of my country and earned it as a direct result of military service or anything.
RStudio Server on a Digital Ocean instance made my life a lot easier. Students fire up a browser, log in, and they're using R with all the packages. It was horrible when students ran R on their own machines back in the old days. Most of the questions I got were tech support rather than related to the material. And these days it has good Python support too.
Ask HN: Examples of public RAG systems in production
Looking for examples of RAG (LLM chat with retrieval from a database) in the wild, not use cases or demos or anecdotes, ideally actual company using it in a public facing chat. I found this reddit thread that didn't have any examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/18ozof4/examples_of_rag_in_production/
Is it that much different from anywhere else in that regard? The fact the poorer people get something, doesn't mean they lose something. I'd guess on average despite higher cost of living, they wouldn't trade places.
> The Hermit devs don't seem to be super responsive in general to issues on the repo. I don't blame them of course.

Maybe I got lucky but I reported some issues right around the time of their article publication [1] - Nov '22 - and they were pretty responsive then.

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2022/11/22/hermit-...
How are these two problems unique to Rust though?
If you want Patreonbux for your work it has to be tied to a real person (or a real legal entity which is tied to real people)
Have you tested the accuracy with GPT-3.5?
It's easy to read now.
3.206 Line

A sequence of zero or more non- <newline> characters plus a terminating <newline> character.

See also ‘3.403 Text File’ for the definition of a text file. No new line characters, no lines. No lines, not a text file.
Gotta love the little game record labels are playing where they can't sue individual pirates because if they did that with any regularity they would find themselves on the losing end of copyright reform so they're trying to deputize ISPs to quietly deal with the pirates for them and extract the damages from deep pockets.

I get that it's hard to compete with free but when the list of people guilty of piracy could be used as a census substitute talking about it as a crime stops really making sense. Laws are about capturing societal norms and we've demonstrated for going on 30 years that no one really cares.
In most of the west (with few exceptions) is that you should waste at least a decade training yourself with little information of what's useful to learn.

Then, you'll be talked down for being poor and lost. And whatever money you make will be put directly in the hands of your landlords, that profits off scarcity.
Any chance of publishing the algorighm details? The main header (pls.hpp) mentions some links to private google docs.
You see these attempts every few years, with the work coming back with nearshoring and re-onshoring. How confident are you in the hiring processes of most major corps that they can find diamonds in LCOL global geographies? I am not confident. They can't even figure out hiring locally. It's also a lot harder to seek legal recourse when the employee is out of your jurisdictional reach.

(20+ years in tech, ymmv, n=1, thoughts and opinions my own)
> For comparison, about 240 million PCs are sold per year.

Also for comparison: Apple alone sells around that many smartphones per year. And they're not nearly the biggest manufacturer. I don't think any major phone manufacturer uses Intel CPUs.
They are fairly large cells. I assume the “bad” cells are displaying some maxima-based aggregate rather than implying the whole area (or a large part of it) in them is noticeably jammed.
Anyone care to comment on why this concise response to the parent's question, supported with a link to the relevant data, was down voted? I'm confused.
It's simply not.
I was curious too. Did some sleuthing, it looks more like Punjab. I think that’s to block drone infiltration from Pakistan [1]. It does change going back to 14th March there is no jamming in the region, US and Europe blobs also reduced, so I think this stuff is event driven, wonder what goes on, fascinating stuff.

[1]https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/over-100...