skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the reality is...? What? Be specific.

> what you wrote initially looks like something each of the big groups on this topic can find something disagreeable with

So ignore what other people think - make your own point based on facts.
April 4, 2024, Horw, Switzerland: Toradex, a leading embedded systems solutions provider, has launched its newest family of pin-compatible and scalable System on Modules (SoMs) - Aquila.
Would you like to see your house burn completely to the ground? Would you know how to deal with a car wreckage?

I don’t, I’m grateful for those people existing. Regarding safety regulations, those were most often driven by tragedies that occurred prior to those regulations being in place. I prefer being alive over saving money
> Changed the horse to a duck and never got a satisfying result

I also found this curious. Stable Diffusion is great at creating this one image but then for some mysterious reason sucks at almost every subsequent request using default/recommended settings. Sometimes even a request for another astronaut riding a horse produces garbage.
Near the bottom there’s a “Colored line engraving of saffron by C.H. Hemrich”. A bit random, there’s a “Names” section in the top left, where it lists the name in different languages (Arabic, Greek, Latin, Italian, German, French, etc.). Something that caught my attention was that the names with using the latin alphabet are written in different styles. The Latin name “Crocus.” is very clean, less embellished than the rest of the text, the Italian name “Zaffrano” is more cursive-y and at a slant, etc.

The way the different “fonts” are used makes it seem as though the style of writing was used as a way of informing the reader “This is in this language”. Was that common in handwritten documents? I guess that would make sense (maybe that’s where we get the word “italicized”), it’s just nothing I ever considered.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240404121705/https://hope.net/...
Regardless of their intentions, current state of the art automatic censorship have dangerously bad false positive and false negative rates. So, they inadvertently and inevitably suppress the truth and broadcast misinformation. Their performance on images is similarly bad.

Of course, even if they did work, centralizing control of them is a bad idea. The end user should have the freedom to control such things. (In the same way you can type swear words into a word processor).
Yeah the links from Proofpoint are unique to you, so however you visit it you still get tracked
I found out about Dark Star from the album "Trevor Something Does Not Exist" (https://youtu.be/LYOtZvwNCsc?feature=shared&t=2942), it uses the conversation with the bomb as part of music, which contains spoilers!
I am well aware of this. I think Destin's video was not nearly as cool as he thought it was.

I am just stating that Startship's full-reuse is not as close as I would like.
Surely that isn't the only reason
Ask HN: Anyone else feel like AI hype is the new crypto hype?
It's all starting to feel really scammy. There are some cool things, but it's overwhelmed by the ocean of scammers / people overhyping what AI can do.
haha i wonder if they can pay the fines in crypto or it will have real world implications for them
Killing the most people possible without being held accountable and still receiving support from the USA then.
I will agree on Go having bad error handling. That is the one pain point for me. As for complaints about lack of syntactic sugar and anti-expressivity: that's a feature, not a bug.
Yeah no. Finder is garbage on every conceivable level.
The West can stop it in a moment by imposing the same sanctions as it imposed on Russia. Or in a day, if it imposes that same sanctions that Iran or North Korea are subject to.

Instead the West keeps supplying Israel with weapons and munitions.
And yet quantum computing continues to progress
AI might erode some of the gains we got from camera techonology because the better it gets at manipulating images, the less humans trust digital images as evidence
Fifth circuit court gonna fifth circle court. If they ruled that the sky is blue I would step outside just to make sure.
Wow, yeah. I hadn't seen a GitHub 404 page in a while (new job, don't code much anymore) and my first thought on seeing it was that the 404 page was broken. That would have been an odd recursion.
lol, sorry guys, forgot to put NSFW on negative prompt field
Not just Americans. MS Office is the standard (at least) in the western world.
i was testing low disk space like situation on a Mac Mini used as small home network storage/server, maybe ~ 1o years ago (running maybe Yosemite at the time or something similar) out of curiosity - so Intel mac and pre-APFS system

not sure it this was OS or filesystem feature, but it refused to allocate literally anything if free space reached ~ 100-500MB on system partition so it was being kept _always_ usable, even logging was denied IIRC
> There is no technical reason for this

Point in case, there's an interchange fee cap of 0.3% for credit and 0.2% for debit cards in the EU. And there are entire countries moving to cashless, so obviously everyone is happy with it.
Why can't they interview the guy who made it? Some say he's still posting on that board.
Adversarial Deep Reinforcement Learning
It means you've got to take the card with you.
Yeah, but you can't ignore the letter of the law to pursue it's spirit. There are precedents supporting that so that laws don't violate strict construction and lenity. That's doesn't mean it doesn't happen - I've seen laws that explicitly call out "reasonable" in them and the courts decide to apply strict liability instead of a reasonable standard, just to make their job easier (increase convictions).
Ok, step back a bit... I have a file selected, I have a key called 'enter' - if I press 'enter' what would you expect to happen? I'd expect to 'enter' the file - by opening it or 'entering' the file. I wouldn't expect it to 'enter a new name', because that's an editing function.

Now, my mac has enter marked as 'return'. Let's follow the same logic, assume I have a file selected, what should 'return' on a file do? Return it to where?
I guess the same as people have always done. You have more server rooms on ideally different networks and grids. That can be a rented room/ rack in a bigger DC, your own if you have a big factory with subsidiaries etc.

The IAM etc. will probably done by a combination of technical on organizational measures. You will have certain people doing certain things at least before the solution is ready for IaC. People will create roles, accounts, accesses and such. With networking gear that can be still tricky to implement, with virtualization solutions that is easier today. For databases etc. you can create accounts in them too.
Of course, K8s and similar make these things more formalized/ transferable. However there is a lot of stuff before you can deploy that.

People forget however that even if you have hundreds of servers you are tiny compared to the cloud providers. You don't have to have the same breadth and depth of offering. So while you need more baby sitting of hardware, probably will not get nearly as good deals on hardware as the big providers do, you will save their considerable margins. Also, they actually have some of the same expenses too - if a harddrive goes bad they will still swap them basically the same as you do. Big cloud providers will not get substantially different energy pricing than what e.g. a steel foundry would get.

By hosting things on premise or in a nearby datacenter(s) you can shave off a lot of latency too. Some machinery likes to store a lot of data and shaving off latency will decrease your need for thick router buffers because you will not have such a big Bandwidth Delay Product and will achieve the same speeds with much smaller buffers.
Building stuff on premise just for you makes some things easier too. Even if you loose some credentials usually you can just hard-reset the equipment as the last resort. There will be no credit card blocking that would affect the operations. If you are less strict with security it will usually matter much less - you are not sharing the hardware with unknown parties and all people that touch it have a contract with the company. So usually everybody want the company to succeed to get the paycheck. You build a deeper know how and can do some optimizations the cloud providers cannot do because you don't have to be general.
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Lots more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39858850
The saddest part of this is that the everyone involved from the reporter, to the lottery staff, to the company that provided the service, all appear to think that the prompts they provided to the AI are somehow bulletproof and that their human understanding of the parameters matches what the software will do: “we had the developers check all the parameters for the platform and were comfortable with the settings, but after further internal discussions today, we chose to take down the site out of an abundance of caution.”

I know eventually the reality of these tools’ flaws will seep in but it’s always somewhat surprising to me how certain most people (including tech folks in the field who ought to know better) are that the AI actually “understands” the prompt in the way that a human would.
> their homes being stolen from them by foreigners and inept leaders as happened with the formation of Israel.

The population of British Palestine was 31% Jewish, 9% Christian and 60% arab in 1946 UN Survey. Jews got more land after partitioning but a huge chunk of that was the Negev desert. Arabs rejected partitioning and the Arab nations started a war to destroy Israel. You can confirm this from any source you like.

dang: can you kill this article? The article has biased language (Israel is fighting Hamas not “bombing Palestinians” as if the war is on the civilian population) and the conversation here is political advocacy.
>this is why crypto never took off as a replacement for credit cards

I thought it was because transactions take minutes instead of seconds.
What evidence do you see indicating that the 20/month is actually profitable? You make the claim, but you have not backed it up.

They could easily be eating a loss on GPT+ and the GPT4 AI. They have billions in runway to do that. I have not seen any reports about their expenses or profitability. Perhaps you can link me to some hard facts.

Until I see real reason to think otherwise, I'll assume there is a reasonable risk of a price hike

Right now they could hike prices, and I'd have nowhere else to go, because nothing else competes with GPT4.
you know how unsufferable it is when people bog a conversation down with semantics instead of ideas.

the point is obvious.

Being that every single language on Earth uses objects for non-primitive data structures that should be inferrable to a reasonable person.

a data structure in that context is clearly an ordered grouping of objects versus an unordered/loose grouping of objects.
Optional, but a full charge saves around $10 of gas depending on the PHEV.
‘Right-leaning democrats?’ Right compared to who? Lenin?
Vigilante Hacker Took Down North Korea's Internet. Now He's Taking Off His Mask
How can something be more impossible? Impossiblity is boolean.
OpenAI's privacy claims are fine. I wouldn't worry about this any more than I worry about my email provider.
Portfolio Slicer is very comprehensive, but there are some drawbacks:

- Doesn't work on Macs
- User is required to maintain their own csv files containing daily pricing data for their stocks
- For the point above, yes this can be somewhat automated with scripts, but it is still a finicky process

The spreadsheet I posted works on any operating system and uses google finance formulas to automate the pulling in of pricing data for any stock at any date.
"Siri" is not just the voice assistant, Apple also uses that designation for other "intelligent" features, like "Siri Suggestions" [0]. The related personal information is shared across devices via Apple servers. Apple states that any analytics shared with Apple are anonymized [1], but users may still prefer to not share analytics in the first place. However, that can't be opted out globally, it can only be disabled per app [0]. Except maybe by turning off Siri in iCloud [2]? It's not clear. That's the criticism, it's difficult for users to understand what settings are enabling or disabling what exactly. It's quite complicated overall, and difficult to tell what you are and aren't sharing.

[0] https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/about-siri-suggestion...

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/siri-suggestions...

[2] https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/tell-siri-about-yours...
[dupe]

More discussion on official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39923231
Command R
American Express has really targeted the French market, there are all sorts of small stores (like bakeries, pharmacies (not American pharmacies - only medicine and very closely related stuff like creams and diapers) and similar size) with proud "Amex accepted here" signs. There was even an Amex program a few years back giving 5euros back on transactions of more than 20 euros in small shops like that.
I'm tempted to say that LLMs have the potential to be useful, whereas crypto assets are speculative garbage.
It solves the same problem gold does, except it is easier to transport and exchange.
Please be specific, who are the subversives pushing for fascist dictatorship?
It must be a strange feeling to know that you likely impacted future geopolitics by finding a single "bug".
I went to Stockholm last week for a couple of days, worried that I didn't have any local currency. It turned out that nobody takes cash, so everything worked out fine.
No, I said we had more old people with comorbidities and our life expectancy has been falling behind (not rising) compared to other western developed countries.

If you look at the COVID death rates, age was by far the dominating factor of death, not obesity. But obesity was probably significant in those who died at younger and older ages (though pronounced in older people, since an order of magnitude more died due to COVID than young people). I doubt we are really disagreeing much here, but obesity was a drag on mortality before the pandemic, and will continue to be a problem after.

I wouldn’t take too much stock in comparing USA COVID deaths to the rest of the world, we are really liberal in flagging COVID deaths (eg a 90 year old dies of a heart attack while having COVID is counted as a COVID death), other countries had different standards, especially developing ones without access to as much testing. What we should really focus on is excess deaths overall, and how a life expectancy changed during the pandemic.
But that could change after the last couple of mistakes by MS.

Do maybe it's still in the head of the people but it could backfire.
We have something similar in India.

[below text is from google search results]

To facilitate the penetration and usage of RuPay Credit Cards on UPI, there will be no charge for transactions up to ₹2,000, an NPCI circular said. For transactions upwards of ₹2000, the applicable MDR amount will be borne by merchants and no additional charges will be levied upon the customers.

Disadvantages of Rupay Cards
Limited International Acceptance: One of the main disadvantages of RuPay cards is their limited acceptance outside of India. ...
Restricted Usage: RuPay cards are primarily designed for domestic use within India.
Sure, https://svi.nl. They do pretty interesting work!
The difference between AI and crypto is that AI is legitimately awesome, with a huge number of applications that (1) are very real and (2) anyone, even a layperson, can understand without lots of mental gymnastics.

Where there's money, there will be scammers, unfortunately.
Methane leakage have been first estimated by the gas industry actors first. With no incentive to work on those leakage (no regulation) and a strong incentive to be "green" (it grant you money and good PR which is money), numbers can't be trusted.

That's why there are demands for regulations only after scientist looked over the shoulder of industrials. At the end, scientists often only look at things, the don't decide about regulations and economy.

Backing out would require a lot of courage, but not doing it put a serious threat to the efforts of keeping the climate change at a not-too-catastrophic level.

Talking about terraform, in 2011 in germany they did test renewable powered methane production via electrolysis and Sabatier process. I can't find any news about it, but it's exactly what terraform is doing.

Terraform claim to produce H2 at less than 2.5$/kg, but I find different numbers when looking at scientific publications (it's between 4.8-7.5$/kg).[0]

They also claim to produce from "air", but C02 capture is really poor and it's better to capture it from industrial plants. But anyway, it's not a big problem.

An other problem is the water cost of electrolysis.

[0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10311-021-01322-8
Can I take this a step further and say that advertising is the true problem here? I tend to think most things should be legal, but advertising most things should be banned.

It seems that society can't delineate between accepting a practice and promoting a practice.
The natural outcome of the non delegation theory is that every member of congress needs to work at the mint printing money as that power can not be delegated to anyone else, federal prisons must close because there is no way we have enough representatives to run them.
> They're subversives pushing for a fascist dictatorship.

Like you, I used too feel like one side had bad faith motives and just wanted to break stuff and hurt people. It was a really miserable outlook to have.

Fortunately through life, I ended up meeting a lot of people and being exposed to a lot of political and philosophical diversity, and I learned that it isn't true at all. There are some small number who do want to destroy things, but even they mostly only want that to get to a better place in the long term, (and they see the collapse or destruction as necessary and inevitable to get there).

I encourage you to meet people on the other side and really get to know them. It probably won't change your political opinions, but it will correct an erroneous pessimism about people's motives. The world becomes a much better place when you stop operating in defense mode and operate in discovery mode instead, so it's definitely worth it.
I like this: https://http.cat/status/411
From https://selfh.st/apps-about/ –

> How can I add my project to the list?

> Feel free to reach out and share the details of your project with me.

> Note that I will not manually intervene with the order in which your project is displayed. The current sort options (repository stars, last activity, alphabetical) are an objective method for displaying projects without personal bias.
I'd like to think that there is a cap how much $$ one individual can control, say one billion USD. But alas those foundations make things so complicated.
Wow, it's even responsive!

(My browser window is one half of a 4K monitor, so the Spectrum screen is shown in "portrait mode")
Ask HN: Any tips for freeze drying at home?
I'm considering buying freeze drying equipment for non-industrial, home scale. My parents have a blueberry farm and I think it'd be lovely to have lots of those freeze dried. Is this a terrible idea? Do any of you have experience with doing it at home? I know it might be expensive, but are there any other cons to it?
Must say I'm pleasantly surprised.
Official post about this: https://selfh.st/blog/introducing-selfhst-apps/
She's not a developer but the company makes software used to process microscopy images - Huygens Deconvolution, I think is the term.
> I don't understand what the big deal is. It takes 5 seconds to slide the card into the machine

For most people, there's the time to get their wallet or equivalent out of pockets or purses, fiddle to get the card, put it the correct way and swipe (but not too fast or too slow!). Vs a phone/watch tap which is usually much more convenient.
The latter half of my childhood was in a suburb much like OP described and it was (and still is) solidly middle class. (That said, I don't like suburbs.)
who says that person exists? could well be a persona created for this purpose, with a team behind the persona
Israel should hand this technology to Ukraine. They need this more than Israel.
Maybe its just bad at text and only parse 1 race word
And because it's uncompelling. I have a bunch of consumer protections around my credit card, why would I want to use crypto instead? Especially when it's a wildly fluctuating speculative asset and the burger I buy for $15 worth of coins today will be $60 dollars of coins tomorrow.
They do have uniforms, they just don't use them because it's way more effective to have Schrodinger super-position civilians who are soldiers when a gun is in their hand, and innocent civilians when they drop the gun.

Also, Hamas's leaders are worth over $10 billion collectively. They can at least afford basic uniforms and spray paint to mark their vehicles. But again, they won't do it, because civilian deaths are the last piece they have left for international support. Which comes in the form of aid, which they seize, and pad their $10 billion with.
That's not how people use 10x (which I think is a silly article of marketing at best or a pretend metric people like to claim as some sort of totem of achievement), usually it means someone 10x more productive(???) than a supposed 1x software engineer.

In that case if we applied the same make believe as we do with software, then sure a 10x electrical could exist, just think of what you think an avg electrical engineer does and 10x it, boom.
Interesting idea and thanks for being open about that:

"How did I develop this?

I'm a data scientist with no knowledge of JavaScript or Web Development. I understand JavaScript code, but I can't write it from scratch and I don't know the best practices. To develop this extension I've used Cursor together with OpenAI API and Claude API. In total, I've paid less than 1 dollar (and it's probably to make it cheaper if you know a little bit of JavaScript, but I had to ask like a trillion clarifying questions). I want to be 100% transparent with that and I don't want to give the impression that I'm a JavaScript developer.

With these tools, it's been incredibly easy to develop this extension. However, I'm aware that the code maybe doesn't follow best practices, and I'm not sure how easy is to extend the current codebase to cover extra functionalities. I'm open to suggestions and contributions."
All in-office I'm afraid.
> Personally, I find fumbling with my phone takes longer as does figuring out where the reader wants to tap the card if I'm not familiar with that particular store's system.

Aren't both of these just symptoms of unfamiliarity with the tech?

I resisted phone payments for a while, until one day I forgot my wallet and quickly added a few cards to my phone. Now I'm severely tempted to use it more often—my phone has a wallet button on the lock screen that jumps me straight there ready to pay with my default card. I've definitely experienced some friction the two times I've used it, but it seems pretty clear that that friction is temporary while I'm still becoming familiar with it.