skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. I don't know about mobile, but on desktop with uBlock Origin I see absolutely zero ads.
This is just getting better.

I migrated from fp-ts last September. A learning curve, but Effect appears to be an improvement to Typescript/"standard" way of doing things.

So much that is included out of the box. I am excited about the 3.0 release.
It took me 3 months to get into ENT here, and while they are very kind - it added nothing for me personally (i.e. we don't have a good solution for tinnitus, here are some things to avoid, etc etc). I hope your visit bears more fruit!
> Laura Farris, the minister for victims and safeguarding, said the creation of deepfake sexual images was “unacceptable irrespective of whether the image is shared”.

This is an interesting one because it violates the vague principle of "whatever done by consenting adults in the privacy of their own home is cool".

Like what if someone pastes my face ona naked body, or imagines me naked, or has a dream about me flying through the window naked and writes it in their private dream diary.

I think it's getting into hairy legal territory if the "infringing material" is only seen by the otherwise innocent creator on an airgapped computer.
Everybody complaining about the design. But from a non-founder, does this framework actually seem legit? Or is it a fluff piece?
Wish I saw this before I started haha! I left a footnote about why I didn't try binary copy (basically someone else found its performance disappointing) but it sounds like I should give it a try.

footnote: https://aliramadhan.me/2024/03/31/trillion-rows.html#fn:copy...
Probably, but there is some evidence that Australian aboriginal oral traditions have preserved information for at least 16,000 years or so, i.e. well into the last ice age. IIRC there are two specific instances, one involving astronomical observations that can be dated to about that long ago, and another involving geography, where the stories speak of an area of land as it would have appeared when sea levels where much lower during the ice age.
Isn't this a necessary part on the innovation path?
We’re mostly pure programmers here, so we think of this wrong, I think. Most people shouldn’t learn to handle spaghetti code 10,000 line monstrosity programs. It isn’t a skill that most people will ever use.

But for people like you, who already have a full skill-set and learn enough to automate it? That’s a super-power.
The app is now also available on macOS.
Zero. The volume needed would make that completely impractical. Smuggling 100L for 10oz is definitely conspicuous.
Couldn't agree more - all they did was aggregate market power then extract grotesque rents. Truly a terrible company.
When people talk about ice bath recovery, is that strictly for immediately post-exercise then? As in, within 10 minutes?

How does this all relate to sauna to ice bath hot-cold style treatment? Is that a totally different kettle of fish?
It’s not that we don’t have anything, it’s that we have too much.
Thanks for the details. I appreciate you taking the time to give the feedback. We will use this to help to improve SCIP and the indexers.
Show HN: CloudCruise (YC W24) – Graph-Based Workflow Builder for Web Agents
Hi HN, this is Adrian, Vere and Felix. CloudCruise is a graph-based workflow builder for web agents. Our DSL lets you orchestrate LLM-powered web actions with loops, conditionals and memory. Here is a 1 min demo: https://youtu.be/4AQfl5Gj_Ro

We tried out existing web agents and found zero-shot planning unreliable for longer workflows. That’s why we’ve built a framework that lets you define a graph-based workflow. Every action is modelled as a node and edges between nodes define the next action to take.

There are two different node type categories: Low-level browser interaction nodes and high-level reasoning nodes. Low-level nodes are actions like clicking, inputing text or navigating to a new URL. High-level nodes are able to extract structured data from a webpage or make a conditional decision based on the content of the webpage.

All of the nodes can be configured with a prompt in natural language. For instance, if you had a list of websites you could define a click-node with a prompt “Click on the contact page”. This ensures that workflows generalize to different websites independent of the layout.

Our early users use us to automate tasks like:

1. Find the contact information of fire department chiefs in the US
2. Check the HR information of all employees registered on Gusto
3. Automate background research on people they have meetings with in Google Calendar

We just released our chrome extension where you can build & run workflows for yourself. Its free for up to 200 browser actions a month. We’d love for you to try it and give us feedback. You can find the link to our extension through our landing page: https://cloudcruise.com/

Last but not least, here are some of the strange things we’ve encountered so far whilst automating the web:

1. Ancient relics like this website using a frameset instead of a body tag http://wantaghfd.com/
2. This animation showing why having a dance off on a balcony is catastrophic: https://balcony1.com/
3. A big company violating RFC 2616 by sending back an undefined HTTP status code 999
They are MATMUL machines by design already. They do not need to "accelerate" AI to begin with.

Their cores/shaders can be programmed to do that.

Also, name a current gen GPU which doesn't have video encoding/decoding capabilities/facilities in silicon, even ones which do not allow shaders to be used in this process for post-processing. It's impossible (to not to have these capabilities) at this point in time.
I see what you're saying, but I never referred to it as an "addiction", which I agree it isn't. It does seem to be becoming a compulsion among them though. I think there may have been a miscommunication here, because I also never referred to it as a "gambling problem". This is just me sharing an anecdote.

> Losing a few hundred dollars every now and then is fine

Agreed. I think everyone has that freedom to do so. I'm just commenting on the gambling trend I see in my peer group. That said, a few hundred dollars means different things to different people, and without diving in, these friends should not be losing a few hundred dollars every month.

> just maybe understand that you’re talking shit about “friends” behind their backs? Kind of a dick move where I am from.

I feel like there's some hostility in this comment. I'm sharing an anecdote anonymously on an online forum in a relevant thread. I don't have these conversations with our mutuals.
In app help evolved from paper to AI
Extremely misleading title, made worse with the HN autotrim. This is simply about YouTube de jure telling that ad-blocking is forbidden, which is just putting this previously-de facto policy in the legal realm. It's not even specifically for mobile devices: I'm not sure why the author of this article have linked it with mobile devices.
Multi-bot chat on Poe
No, but this is entirely YouTube's fault as they don't offer any sort of API or method for third party apps to display ads.
UK: Coins the term 'thoughtcrime'.

Also UK: Criminalizes 'thoughtcrime'.
Aqua regia. Famously used to dissolve Nobel prizes to hide them from the Nazis[0]

When Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of German physicists Max von Laue (1914) and James Franck (1925) in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from confiscating them. The German government had prohibited Germans from accepting or keeping any Nobel Prize after jailed peace activist Carl von Ossietzky had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1935. De Hevesy placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. It was subsequently ignored by the Nazis who thought the jar—one of perhaps hundreds on the shelving—contained common chemicals. After the war, de Hevesy returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The gold was returned to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation. They re-cast the medals and again presented them to Laue and Franck.[12][13]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_regia
Why not trust experts in their field?
The order your siblings were born in may play a role in identity and sexuality
> You can then either reduce the number of samples or draw multiple lines within that pixel. Both approaches can result in aliasing.

I would disagree that the latter can result in the "super aliased" in question.

Drawing one line per sample leaves very little aliasing.
Note that this is just a phrase that occurs in the news article, it doesn’t seem to be present in the actual law as far as I can tell.
Efficient gas boiler with real-time data
I would like to share with you the real time performance of my condensing gas boiler, managed by SAT and OpenTherm.

Many gas boilers are oversized which means it's more difficult to run them efficiently. Also, many gas boilers have capability to run more efficiently but are not configured to.

This particular boiler does not seem to respect the MM=0 command (despite OpenTherm's such specification requirement) which is not uncommon. SAT sends the MM=0 command for the boiler to work at its minimum capacity. CS= minimum_setpoint and then PWM controls the ON/OFF times of the boiler. However, I have a workaround which ensures that most of the time, the boiler is indeed working at its minimum modulation, unless the target flow (heating curve + PID) demand is high [higher than current flow temperature] during warm up.

The boiler supplies heat to the central heating and domestic hot water tank, but not at the same time. The hot water tank capacity is 255 litres. When DHW call is made, boiler ignores OpenTherm instructions and runs at 80 C degrees. There are three zone valves in the house: Hot Water, Upstairs and Downstairs (not talking about TRVs here). When DHW call is made, Hot Water valve opens, and Upstairs & Downstairs close; then if CH call is made, Hot Water valve closes and the other two open.

The hot water system is also fitted with "Waste Water Heat Recovery System". In essence, the heat energy extracted from showers and baths is used to preheat cold water that is then sent to the hot water tank. The extraction recovers about 60% of heat normally lost. You can watch examples of how it works here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-jKlCoRvEM

SAT project - the brain behind the efficiency
https://github.com/Alexwijn/SAT

OpenEnergyMonitor - for making possible to share real time boiler data
https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/my-gas-boiler-data...

Any questions, let me know :)
Agreed. And even within a jurisdiction not everyone may be very familiar with domestic IDs. FinCEN just yesterday released a notice to financial institutions regarding the use of forged and legitimate US Passport Cards in connection with fraudulent or suspicious activity. The notice includes a litany of validity tests given that people just don't see these very often.

I have a US Passport Card that I present as my photo ID when asked, because I don't want my address presented to just anyone who might have a valid need to ask for ID. Federal employees look at it and waive me on, but outside that I get a mix of "I've never seen this" (and every time it's still been accepted) and a lot of careful scanning of the card.
No way - get rid of them and there will be more competition in the market better pricing and maybe a less homogenous (and terrible) experience.
Here on HN, some of us may care either way about Elon's antics. In a few years, the average consumer will just care about price/value.

Hence, no hypocrisy (in the main).

The next 5 years will be painful for Tesla.
Need for Proactiveness in Data Security
>That's the part where people think you're encourages laziness.

Thanks. I didn't realize it would be read like that, so it helps to have it pointed out. I certainly didn't intend that to be read as "be lazy".

>Look, my initial point wasn't "just close your eyes and believe real hard". Perhaps you were taking it that way?

I know that you didn't intend it that way. I could have maybe said it more clearly, but I'll repeat the end of my comment:

>That is not how you intended it, I'm sure. But that's how it reads to many of the people who are struggling.

Your comment reads that way, just as mine apparently read as "be lazy".
To be fair, TicketMaster has been pioneering anti-competitive practices for as long as it has existed, long before the merger with LiveNation.
Avoid This Mistake When Caching Asynchronous Results
There was a post yesterday on /r/smallbusiness about helping an employee who had a heroin addiction and helping one who had a gambling addiction. The overwhelming consensus was that the gambling addiction was worse, which is not what I would have expected. But the logic made sense from the financial perspective: you can only use so much heroin in a day, but you can spend an unlimited amount on gambling.
I think I see the crux of the disagreement.

> The idea that there's something special about architecture is, really, a hardware illusion. Any empirical function approximation algorithm, designed to find the same conditional probability structure, will in the limit t->inf, approximate the same structure (ie., the actual conditional joint distribution of the data).

But it's not just about hardware. Maybe it would be, if we had access to an infinite stream of perfectly noise-free training data for every conceivable ML task. But we also need to worry about actually getting useful information out of finite data, not just finite computing resources. That's the limit you should be thinking about: the information content of input data, not compute cycles.

And yes, when trying to learn something as tremendously complicated as a world-model of multiple languages and human reasoning, even a dataset as big as The Pile might not be big enough if our model is inefficient at extracting information from data. And even with the (relatively) data-efficient transformer architecture, even a huge dataset has an upper limit of usefulness if it contains a lot of junk noise or generally has a low information density.

I put together an example that should hopefully demonstrate what I mean: https://paste.sr.ht/~wintershadows/7fb412e1d05a600a0da5db2ba.... Obviously this case is very stylized, but the key point is that the right model architecture can make good use of finite and/or noisy data, and the wrong model architecture cannot, regardless of how much compute power you throw at the latter.

It's Shannon, not Turing, who will get you in the end.
The Secret at the Heart of Continuous Improvement
Yeah this is the wrinkle. I do wonder though, whether there might be a situation reversal effect if you moved far enough in the other direction. If you instead had handoffs extremely frequently, say for example, every 6 hours, or perhaps a staggered system where there are people shifting off every 3 hours, you could/would build better process, habits, and culture potentially even to the point where it's no longer a significant liability, or even a benefit (fresh eyes).

It's somewhat similar to how having a handful of remote individuals in a mostly in-person company can lead to significant communication issues, but a fully/mostly remote company builds and leverages tools and processes to reduce these issues significantly.
The text copying is a good point.

The text is actual text.

I must have disallowed selecting for the swiping feature to work. Definitely something I should look to revert or allow for copying buttons.
The low exhaust velocity implies the plasma temperature is low. This means the loss of energy from protons to electrons will be very high, so high that even with a purely boron plasma, the fusion yield will be quite small.

Attempts to make p-11B work typically have electron temperature above 100 keV and ion temperatures of maybe 300 keV. For warm or hot electrons, the energy loss of energetic protons to the electrons scales as T_e^(-3/2), so a colder plasma will cause ruinous energy loss from the protons.

From this, I conclude any fusion heating is quite minor compared to the simple plasma heating from the protons slowing down.
tl;dr us someone. No way anyone actually reads that. Especially the people who want it.
why not low pass filter / decimate the wave form to remove aliasing ?
From the lens of behavioral economics (e.g., cumulative prospect theory) is there a situation where somebody can accurately understand the expected outcomes
of any particular bet BUT still come to the conclusion that taking the bet is rational?

If there's some combo of a floor effect (if they don't have much now, they don't have much to lose) and pessimism about the future (they think this is the only way they can manage to get ahead), I can see people deciding that gambling is worth it.
> There is no one I will ever interact with that has a greater chance of ending my life than an on duty police officer.

So why in the world would you "stand your ground" in this scenario?? Perhaps you posted in the wrong comment thread?
Some AMD laptops haven't even yet enabled the NPU in firmware even on the 7000 series wich are about a year old. Meaning it's still useless.

I was kinda bummed out they released the 8000 series after I just bought a laptop with 7000 series, but I think I actually dodged a bullet here since it doesn't look like much of an upgrade and the AI silicone screams of very early first gen product to me, as if they rushed it out the door because everyone else was doing "AI" and they needed to also cash in on the hype, kinda like the first gen RTX cards.

I think by the time I'll actually upgrade, the AI/NPU tech would have matured considerably and actually be useful.
The 4000 series still has a bigger gap in how much of a generational leap that product was.

The M3 Max has something like 33% faster overall graphics performance than the M1 Max (average benchmark) while the 4090 is something like 138% faster than the 2080Ti.

Depending on which 2070 and 4070 models you compare the difference is similar, close to or exceeding 100% uplift.
Your original statement was lacking important qualifiers. If you provide additional info, I'll be able to answer your questions.
> Is it still ok to say that men take more risks than women in general?

As long as you don't try to define your terms.
I think the idea is that you performed the exercise to create stress that you want your body to respond to by getting stronger / more aerobically fit etc in some way. So by icing, yes, you recover better, but by reducing the stress you reduce the adaptations.

Imagine you could perfectly recover with some intervention. Then weight lifting no longer works!

For examples like the ones you listed, peak performances where you’re not concerned about gainz and maybe even have to perform again soon after, it makes a lot of sense to do anything to recover quickly.
But what's the adverse effects of this? Are there terrible outcomes for this generation? For sure behavioral addictions are strong with younger generations, social media, gambling etc. Oddly, physical addictions like drugs and sex dont seem to be much in vogue
The quality of the web design is exceptional but maybe it hasn't been tested on giant monitors :/
I don't think that was the grandparent's premise, but I actually think that it's not unreasonable to expect experts to be able to boil down their ideas for non-experts.

We know it must be possible, because they themselves arrived at that point in an abstract "graph of knowledge" starting from a blank slate at birth, so going the other direction is (at worst) merely backtracking that path. However, most experts know enough other nodes/edges in the graph to identify shortcuts from their conclusion back toward the 'beaten path' that most people would know.

I often argue that if you aren't able to articulate the core idea of your research to someone outside your field, you might not understand it as well as you think you do.

(Re: the grandparent) When communicating with the scientific community, however, it's not unreasonable to be as precise as possible to convey the idea accurately to fellow experts. Replacing scientific papers with blog posts is not a good solution; augmenting scientific papers with blog posts might be appropriate.
Without reductions in personnel, then none.

That's essentially what you're buying from a cloud provider. Most of the time its not so much renting the hardware as renting their labor in maintenance.

That is assuming your hardware needs don't have a wide enough variance from time to time (scale up/scale down)
> I think Myst's innovation was mainly using a first-person perspective with (pre-rendered) scenes of a continuous 3D world.

The 7th Guest was released months earlier. It’s the exact same genre and technically more ambitious. It uses FMV, but all the 3D worlds are pre-rendered.

I think it is should be obvious to most here why Myst was more generally successful. But outside of story and atmosphere (the former of which is porn plot in both) mechanically they’re the same game.
I have never considered an audio book for something technical like this. My interest is piqued.
Responsible satellite fleet operators always plan for demiseability (that is, when a satellite re-enters, _all_ of it should burn up).
Old becomes new, the SGI O2 had (off chip) a unified memory model for performance reasons.

Not a CS guy, but it seems to me that NUMA like architecture has to come back. Large RAM on chip (balancing a thermal budget between #ofcores vs ram), a much larger RAM off chip and even more RAM through a fast interconnect on a single kernel image. Like the Origin 300 had.
So what's the answer then? Before the internet almost all journalism was "paywalled." You either bought a subscription or an individual copy of what the organization has to offer.

Ad-supported journalism is a joke in a society that abuses advertising so thoroughly. Using an ad blocker is more than a convenience, it's a security measure. Arguably it's also better for the environment [1] [2].

One article [3] argues for "non-reformist reforms," which try to mitigate the commercial pressures on journalism. However the article's solution seems to be to switch to public media models and/or government funding. As the article puts it:

"Therefore, any initiative that erodes the commercial and anti-democratic design of existing media institutions—by transitioning them into nonprofit outlets, facilitating public media partnerships, unionizing newsrooms, and establishing media cooperatives—can help radicalize news workers and engage communities while laying the groundwork for more transformative change in the future."

I honestly don't know how well that'll work, but it's also basically what the article suggests to pay for journalism for a year:

"They can enlist foundations or other sponsors to underwrite their work. They can turn to readers who are willing to subscribe, renew their subscriptions, or make added donations to subsidize important coverage during a crucial election."

Stengel's article also says, "A large percentage of these Americans see media as being biased. Well, part of the reason they think media are biased is that most fair, accurate, and unbiased news sits behind a wall."

That wasn't true 40 years ago and I don't think it's true now. A lot of journalism strives to be unbiased, but that will always be a goal it reaches for, not one it will attain. To say otherwise only continues to erode society's trust of journalism.

The money to pay journalists has to come from somewhere.

[1] https://marmelab.com/blog/2022/01/17/media-websites-carbon-e...

[2] https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/8/2/18

[3] https://lpeproject.org/blog/taking-media-out-of-the-market/
The fact that a human expert can also do it doesn't mean the AI isn't valuable. Even if you just consider the monetary aspect, those few API calls would definitely be cheaper than buying the researcher lunch. But the big benefit is being able to generate those ideas immediately and autonomously every time there's new data.
Huh, I think you're splitting hairs at that point.