skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obligatory r/fucknestle.

Nestle has a long history of doing lots of fucked up things. I try to use as few Nestle products as possible. I don't get why government can't regulate these companies which has a monopoly on everything you eat or drink[1]

[1] https://wyomingllcattorney.com/images/nestle-list.png
It's hard to imagine a more evil company.

[0]: https://youtu.be/MRWWK-iW_zU

[1]: https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/culture/culture-soci...
I initially thought of my RG35XX+ when I read "the game console in your pocket" and thought "no, it's not region locked". Then I realized this was a discussion about iPhones and yes, they are region locked now.

But, FWIW, I've been really happy with acmeplus's beta of Batocera Linux on my RG35XX+. My son and I have been taking turns playing through old gems like Pokemon and Aladdin on it, and I'm hoping to finally beat Final Fantasy VII one of these days.
Like opening with "I'm pretty sure this is a non-issue, but there's a fossilized jawbone fragment in some travertines I just had installed. Do you need to investigate that or are we good?"
> Right, a person running a group called "small bets" has no relation to people getting simps to gamble their money away.

I don't see a button to reply to your comment below, but I'd suggest going to smallbets.com to actually see what this is all about, instead of random guesses about gambling.

Also, calling someone a "simp" is a sign of immaturity, just so you know.
Yeah on multiple occasions I've e-mailed said businesses and said "This other business has it for $X. Beat that and I'll buy yours. I don't have time for a call."

I want products at my doorstep in exchange for $. I don't want a goddamn coffee chat.
yeah because the majority of Reddit content reflects an objective and genuine human experience--not PR/fluff, or AI, or copywritten/outsourced shit. In a web overflowing with paid, shill, or automated shit or 'content', this is becoming increasingly had to find and is sought out. People do not want 'more content'-they want to read an experience by a user.
> But if you understand the math of quantum mechanics, and you understand how the experiments relate to the math, then you understand how quantum mechanics works. Its not actually that complicated, its just weird.

OK, but is that really understanding, or just an ability to crank the handle of the model and make a prediction? How should we interpret what is going on? What to make of observational wave function collapse, or long-distance quantum entanglement (which seems completely at odds with our understanding of space and time)?
> So how exactly does this benefit users again and isn't all about appeasing developers?

You can blame Apple here, by adding a fee per install, if you choose to go outside the appstore, you pretty much have to remove the free appstore option otherwise why would anybody use the other one?

The weird economics Apple has created discourages using both.
the important thing is to give people a model, not just tell them a fancy story (that they can repeat later without it helping them)

of course, it's easy to say that and hard to come up with good but simple models on the spot, but people don't gain knowledge by learning opaque phrases (that's how we got the whole "quantum woo" epidemic a decade or two ago)
I have some hope that they'll still release the source in the future, once sales of the game have run their course and it makes more sense for the community to support the game.

While making it an extremely distant stretch goal feels a _little weird_, after reading the campaign it seems like their heart is in the right place and they want to make this a game that can be enjoyed in the long term without all the restrictive bullshit of modern gaming.
They use flying drones all the time, you can see them flying around in the Starbase live streams. I can't think of anything off the top of my head that a flying drone can't do but spot would be able to do at Starbase. Unless Spot can crawl into a pipe or tank maybe.
Those who hit 5k MRR: How easy it was to get first 100 customer and how?
Those who hit 5k MRR : How easy it was to get first 100 customer and how ?
I pointed them towards vLLM, but it sounded like they were set on ollama

I’m curious though, why do you think llama.cpp is a toy compared to vllm?

I understand that vllm is also a server, but could someone not build a similar high throughput server on llama.cpp?

I’ve been looking for a way to serve small-scale-but-still-production workloads (using quantized phi models) on CPU and llama.cpp seems to be the only player in town.
Haha! Thank you, edited for clarity for a wider audience.
When doing such searches I don't actually want Reddit specifically, my real goal is just to find information that is (supposedly) from a human discussion between individuals, as opposed to conclusory "articles" or "best of 20XX" or "top 10" etc.

In other words, I don't want Google to elevate Reddit, I want them to classify site-types and allow me to filter results for "forums", which would include the long-tail of less-known smaller places.
> Source? There is a similar charge in London, that's all I know of

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-10127557/Al...
I love this idea. I don’t actually want to be famous. Michael Jackson used to pay a supermarket to shut down so he could play at being a normal person. You and I can just go to the supermarket and be a normal person.
3 years isn’t nearly enough. My average screen lasts about a decade.
> even the term Late Stage Capitalism comes directly from Marx

The term comes from Werner Sombart, several decades after Marx's death
America's 'best pizza spot' isn't NYC or Chicago – it's in Colorado
"A house divided aginst itself cannot stand," part of a speech by Abe and thus credited to him, is also from the Bible: Mark 3:25. I'va a hunch he was religious.
There's some useful insight here even if the percents are wrong. Whatever the numbers, even if 10% are Marias, they're still an untapped resource, if not "the biggest". And the fact that some of us have been this person proves the percentage is not zero.

Feels like you found a small inaccuracy in the text, and jumped up "Aha! Everything you said is wrong!". Also an appealing narrative.
Yes, that sounds mostly right to my understanding. Exploring the space of that internal structure is the point of the article. Both pitch and timbre get remarkably complicated the more they're looked in to.
> How is it even similar?

Both are disruptive technologies that are going to change the world as we know it.
Tangentially related, but I take a look at the amount of sugar in a regular cola (39g of added sugar in a 12oz can of Coke!!), and I wonder how much damage that has done to my body (and taste buds) over the years (let alone society as a whole). I always wondered what a Coke with just half the sugar would taste like. I think I would enjoy it. Well, recently, my grocery store has been stocking De la Calle Tepache. It's not cola, but still, it's a carbonated soft drink with just 8g of sugar in a 12 oz can. It's got less than a quarter of the sugar of Coke and it's still plenty sweet!

How many people could have avoided diabetes or other health problems if coca-cola just set the standard that 8g of sugar is enough?
I fully agree, or at the VERY LEAST pricing information should be disclosable and any NDA around pricing should be automatically void and unenforceable.

How the hell do I know they're not giving me higher prices due to racial profiling or some other unethical reason?

That would allow, at least, some sort of website or chrome plugin to exist that fetches and displays previously-submitted pricing information as an overlay next to any idiotic "call for pricing" statements.

That is the way I would run a country if I was its president.
Except the whole point of courts is that these decisions aren't unilateral. From what I've seen, Russia's assets have been frozen (not repudiated), awaiting a much longer legal process (involving many lawyers) where they will (hopefully) be turned over to Ukraine as war reparations (once again, transferred not repudiated).
Did people use the telephone number message to send alphabet messages or like '1' for 'I am home' etc?
Some of us like variety.
Completion based cross-platform I/O? Sign me up.
There are a bunch of embedding models you can run on your own machine. My LLM tool had plugins for some of those:

- https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/plugins/directory.html#em...

Here's how to use them: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Sep/4/llm-embeddings/
I always wanted to watch movies just a bit faster. (and yes, with more consistent color, and a higher vertical resolution)

Although, I'm sure US commercial TV stations frame drop movies to speed them up so they can insert more commercials these days anyway.
The age gate is because it's hosted on heineken.com. boringphone.com is a different project with a similar concept.
I wish apps and phones were more customisable so I could get rid of all the crap I don't want.

I very much vibe with this life and the idea behind the phone, however it still just isn't practice, I still want to have a great camera in my pocket. I still need maps sometimes or one or two apps.
Depends on how old you are.

If you're in your 20s-30s, best case your grandparents grew up in the 1950s-60s - which absolutely wasn't a walk in the park, but the average American was miles away the richest person on the planet back then, and the "nuclear" family was the structure of choice (that's why it's called the nuclear family - 1950s techno-optimism a la Fallout)

On the other hand, if your family immigrated then the familial ties based system continued to exist.
Also, all the hydrogen came from petroleum anyway so it’s just gas with extra steps.

Congratulations you just did absolutely nothing at great expense and difficulty.
>We've had recorded history of people saying things for less time than we've had a formal scientific method.

False, we have vast amounts of records of everyday correspondence, written speeches, graffiti, works of fiction, etc. from Romans 2000 years ago, long before scientific method (which I guess is usually attributed to Newton?, anyway approximately contemporary)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_Man

Hesiod 2700 years ago wrote about the degradation of society from the Golden Age where people lived among the Gods with a garden of eden vibe down through silver, bronze to "present" iron where life was toil and misery and people were awful and immoral. Ovid said the same 2000 years ago.

"Everything is going to shit, things aren't as good as they used to be and they're getting worse now more than ever" is literally a meme as old as human history.
All I checked (which had open ports) were synology devices ..
Almond marketing is totally insane. I think it's because they feel they have to fight against all the people who point out how environmentally bad they are. It's hard to blame the people in CA who are upset when they're constantly asked to ration their personal water usage while the almond industry there takes more water than all the indoor water use of the entire state.
Seriously, that injection molding machine is slooooooow, and I produced parts faster in middle school in our shop class with an injection molding machine that was entirely manual and looked to be from the 20s, the 1920s.

They are printing a full bed of parts for each 3D printer run, but only two per injection cycle? And what's with that giant spike of flash on their injection molded parts? This video is so disingenuous.
You need to read the old internet 1.0 lore "In The Beginning there was Plan" and then consider how communication happens in any bureaucratic organization. (Poorly, intermittently, and with multiple transmission errors)

You tell the dispatcher that you found a fossilized jawbone in your tile, by the time the report makes it's way to the responding officer the story is you found a severed head in your sink.
I'm fairly certain that pr companies figured reddit out about 5 years ago.

It's still pretty good for niche products and hobbies, but as a recommendation machine, is pretty garbage.
Yes, how did you go from

> wisely chooses his employers to not end-up in such environments

to

> implies you have control over the other people that work at the company

instead of just assuming they'll just leave?
It's a slang expression and commonly gets used even if pay isn't involved.
Why the EU Falsified Medicines Directive Is Critical to Protecting Patients
When it comes to deep state it's all on board and that's what we are discussing, an abusive FISA that appears to be unconstitutional, and seems to have support from both parties, regardless of what campaign promises were made.

Ad hominums such as MAGAts and Bernie Bros are unbecoming of a non partisan.
There's definitely a modern-day digital/online version of this idea.
Makes me sad to think of the fossils lost, but it's also kind of inevitable.
One man’s “active management” is another’s “blatantly obvious pulsing”. My barely a year old OLED TV reduces brightness so aggressive it makes bright white menus look lime they have an animated background. They don’t, it’s just the white dripping to almost gray after a second or two as the whole display dims.

You can reduce this effect by dripping the peak nuts down… but then you lose much of the contrast ratio that’s the main point of OLED in the first place

I’ll also add that there have been several TV manufacturers that swear they’ve solve burn in, but the rtinge long term testing is… rather less kind.
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That's how they got popular, but there are definitely local restaurants that are enjoying not having to print/maintain physical menus.
Clearly though they are fine with charging a yearly fee to access the store. So why not just charge for the app in the EU IF that really is the problem here.

Give users that choice, that is all I am asking for here. Actually give users a choice instead of removing the choice from them. Which at this point in time, that choice is being removed from the user.
> Responding to a post on X, Google search liaison Danny Sullivan said users not only like seeing "forum content" but that they "proactively seek it out."

Nothing cures my imposter syndrome more than seeing so many Google employees completely fail to understand what is happening here.

People aren’t tacking Reddit to queries because they particularly like Reddit or because they want to see user generated content, it’s because it is literally the only way to get a result from Google that is not spam listicles or affiliates grifts. They’re applying a bandaid to their rapidly deteriorating search, but championing it as giving the people what they want.
I would argue complex numbers don't really have a deeper relation to quantum mechanics. Quantum Mechanics is all about squaring the fact that we must find a representation for a system which simultaneously supports an expression of a probability distribution over measurement outcomes while also providing sufficient representational complexity to support all the symmetries that are found in the kinematic space of the system. Complex numbers happen to serve well for a lot of systems but when you have spinors, for example, you can think of them as just another sort of number the use of which is suggested by the symmetries in (or redundancies in the description of) the underlying system. In other words, the appearance of complex numbers is no more or less mysterious than the allowed transformations of the system itself. At least that is how I've come to understand the question.
All sorts of products are still made with that 90s translucent plastic aesthetic... for the prison market, because they're difficult to hide contraband inside. They're usually not sold outside of prison supply chains but surplus transparent TVs, laptops, etc sometimes show up on eBay.

The manufacturers are missing out by not dressing their prison tech up with 90s nostalgia marketing and selling it on Amazon.
People not yet born should cause a form validation error instead of the site using future data that is obviously wrong.
I don't disagree in principle--having something to lose also reduces cheating in games--but the devil is in the details, and there's an important difference between (A) a monetary fee (B) a refundable monetary deposit, and (C) a non-monetary expense in the form of compute-time.

I'd rather be asked to "leave this browser window open for ~30 minutes to make your account verified as it solves a math problem" versus "send us $X with your real name that you'll never see again even if our system instantly bans your account right afterwards for no reason."
Excellent, you agree that it is bad now. The only thing that will make it better is non-exclusivity with venues and no monopoly power in ticketing systems. Then people can iterate and appeal to customers for their purchasing power.

As I said before, no problem paying more for tickets if artists feel this is how they make money, but none of this scammy fee-based structure where I am charged 20% of my ticket value as a convenience fee due to getting it virtually (lol?)
wow so quick thanks

I have a much harder request : Chinese with both the characters and Pinyin
That would be very helpful
Let's also not forget the scares about the dangers of smoking, leaded gasoline, asbestos, licking radium paint, and drunk driving.

Not all new inventions are a net benefit to society just because they are new, not all things are always good in all contexts, and 2024 is not the end of history, or of cultural evolution.
The Way to Love by Anthony Demello. Fits in your pocket and almost zen like koans. Little meditations on happiness and suffering without pushing too much religion down your throat.
To me, two things are interesting in this post. First, even though urban legends have been documented and debunked for years, people still get suckered by them. Second, using photographs of newspaper pages is an increasingly rare form of documenting past events. While you can forge a newspaper page, it is more complicated than tweaking some HTML.
> National governments have veto rights on passed laws.

this hasn't been the case for over 20 years, it's now almost all by majority vote

the only things that are still subject to the veto are treaty change, new members, defence and a few other things

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_the_Council_of_the_E...
> Transparent body makes even a Boring Phone interesting.

You already screwed it up! How did you screw it up so fast?
Delta – Game Emulator Available on the iOS App Store
Notable because it’s now allowed after recent App Store policy changes.
I haven’t written a GOTO since 1992, when I needed a common exit to free memory that couldn’t be accommodated on the tiny 4K stack of Turbo C / 16-bit.

I have never experienced the need for a ‘goto’ otherwise.

Now, 1970’s COBOL, that was another story.
ah pgvector is kind of annoying to start with, you have to set it up and maintain, and then it starts falling apart when you have more vectors
Okay, good. As authentic "pragmatism" goes, the author conveys a sense of cynical pragmatist-in-waiting rather than activist pragmatist-in-action; I would do the pragmatic thing, and yes, I'm smart enough, but not if there's risk. So, you're surrounded by invisible pragmatists, but these are the kind of pragmatists who sometimes burn you for profit outright, but mostly just look the other way while someone else does it - if that's where the money is. Well, yeah, but what else is new?
I don't buy this at all. AI data is a real part of the environment. The thing to modify is the loss function not the training data. You need to be able to evaluate text on the internet and so do models.

This idea of contamination by AI vs pristine human data isn't persuasive to me at all. It feels like a continuation of the wrong idea that LLMs are parrots.
If you're building an iOS app, I've had success storing vectors in coredata and using a tiny coreml model that runs on device for embedding and then doing cosine similarity.
Naturally, Google should buy Reddit.
I would imagine the importance of weights depends on the prompt. How do you decide which weights are important?
Ask HN: How do you lower bass and brightness in MacBook Pro?
Are there easy ways to do this?
Don't worry, the market corrects - what's the market price on Galapagos turtle soup or dodo omelettes?

Others are right - the matter is neither created nor destroyed, but you are also right, that form is/was unique, and it is at least a bit sad to know that it's unlikely to be seen again. Take from that what you will, but I take from it that the world will only be like this for a moment, and if I want to see it, the only way to encourage that is to go and see it, not hope that society will realize it needs to (or wished it had) preserve things.

Whether these are the things we'll regret losing - different question, but I'm sure a british museum will hang onto one :)
Nice project! I find it can be hard to think of a idea that is well suited to use AI. Using embeddings for search is definitely a good option to start with.
The 'point of contact' on a snowmobile is mostly the track, which is like, 40x350cm (15x150"), or whatever, plus some small front skis, but, really these don't do very much.

Still, the experience is exactly the same as a 'manual' bike (here's mine: https://www.gazelle.nl/puurnl).

Point is: you need to really steer beyond leaning? You either hit a over-40-degree turn (not uncommon even in Amsterdam!) or you did something wrong. You need to brake? Either an idiot crossed your path, or you definitely did something wrong!
I honestly can't remember if I spent any less time on my flip phone over a decade ago. I sent a lot of texts with it, used computer for social networking sites, email, etc., used iPod for music, used a digital camera for photos. Now you just get all of them in one smartphone. Add them together, it's probably about the same tbh... with less "device transition time" I suppose.
The problem, for the US involvement in Vietnam, was that "body count" was irrelevant. The only metric that mattered was the willingness to fight of communist Vietnam, China, and the USSR. The problem is that "will" is not numerical. It is willingness to fight among the political elite of those countries and they include domestic factors, economic factors, and military factors. If anything, McNamara's fallacy is like comparing the iPhone and Android and saying the only thing that matters is screen size.
Drinking more Heineken and looking good while doing it are facilitated by a phone that encourages you to live in the moment.

Any businesses that succeed primarily because of direct social engagement would benefit from this, and given what seems like a growing sentiment among many overly-connected people that “I just wish I could go back to a feature phone”, it makes a lot of sense to me that we’d see investment in this space from the alcohol/fashion industries. If they’re thinking ahead, they’d be eager to address the growing desire for re-establishing IRL social structures and finding a way to unplug from this presently toxic iteration of social media.

The existing tech industry is not incentivized to actually create products like this. It’s intriguing to me that there’s big money interested in making this happen.
Deno's Fresh uses Preact
Oh - that's the best jam for pancakes (the thin flat pancakes) or just using the fresh berries themselves instead of jam, with some maple syrup.
Yeah that’s why you use Google to search back to the useful years

edit: also because Reddit search is so abysmal
01/01/0001 didn’t work either. 01/01/1900 did.