skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Since most vegetable oils can be polymerized, combining them with water could allow researchers to make perfectly biodegradable polymeric materials.

Looks interesting, maybe it can replace a lot of plastics...

Any implications for oil-water getting in nature? Right now oil separates in water but what if there is oil that doesn't separate.
Hard to make it recognize sarcasm. For the reason why half the time it is not even sarcasm.
Ask HN: Getting Started with Machine Learning? (Not AI/NLP/Transformers)
Few days ago I felt like learning the "basics of ML". But most of the pages I found on the internet were about transformers, GPT, fine tuning llama, etc.. and that's not what I'm looking for.

I want to start with the stuff that was cool before ChatGPT was a thing. And I'm not that interested in NLP.
I also won't expect much from the output, as I just want to train some small models and play around with them.

I have a fairly powerful PC and enough RAM and VRAM, so hardware shouldn't be the problem.

Any keywords, resources, links, hints are appreciated!
> It doesn't have to be "you can't replace SMS" because that would be stifling to innovation. It could simply be "messaging protocols should be open and/or interoperable".

It doesn't seem the same, but that's effectively also stifling to innovation.

For one thing, if the whole reason something like iMessage got created was to ensure an Apple monopoly, if they couldn't use it to do that, they just wouldn't build it, not build it open instead.

For another, what does "open and interoperable" even mean? There isn't necessarily a defined protocol for these things already. So who would come up with one? Almost certainly, the big companies would have to be involved, and they could steer the standard to benefit themselves, even just by making it closer to something they've already built (which makes total technical sense too - of course you want to base the protocol on existing tech!).

But that means that compliance is much harder for smaller companies, which would mean you're giving a huge advantage to a big player anyway.

As opposed to the no-regulation world, in which Whatsapp was a startup that could do whatever it wanted, and ended up being the default messaging platform that half the world uses.
Ask HN: Will progress on LLMs carry over to self driving?
With LLMs, huge training runs and multi modality both seem capable of producing a step change in the quality of models.

Are we likely to see a step change in self driving capability using similar techniques, or do the constraints around e.g. latency and on-board compute mean there's not much carry over?
I assume he picked some ridiculously high number as a starting point.

In the end the problem is capitalism, the idea that investors (people merely looking to turn money into more money) should be considered the only owners of companies.

That forces this eternal growth model on us that enshittifies everything.
just curious, have you tried using asdf.vm with pipenv ? I've never needed anything else and have yet to have any problems.

A couple of moons ago I used Poetry, but gave up on it because it was so heavy and unfortunately would bug out often.
It's still working for me. Maybe because I'm also using uMatrix?
If what you make is an ad platform, you have the normal chicken egg problem that without your ad network existing on many pages, no one wants to buy ads from you, and opposite way that without lots of ad buyers no one wants to reserve room for your ad network on their site.

But that's a normal startup problem. What makes it impossibility to beat google is that they control so many other parts:

- they know everything about the visitor. What they've searched for on google, which videoes they watch on YouTube, which websites you visit through their ads or browser, where you normally shop through Maps, who you keep in contact with through Gmail, which apps you use on your Android. Etc. Etc. There is no way you can place more relevant ads than them.

Secondly, if someone were ti to switch from AdSense to your startup, they might suddenly find themselves with their traffic having tanked. Why would google search send them to their site, when they can send the visitor to a site where google also makes money..
I dislike these clickbait article, always lacking population statistics, that present some niche of a niche as "the new trend."
I thought AI girlfriends are a thing. /s
You are missing that this is precisely what we would expect a human to answer without further context (for instance without knowing how much you know about the topic).

A human would pick similarly pick something which isn't too nerdy but also not obvious and the LLM did well here.

If the LLM can fail that is fine, because the task is inherently hard.
Interesting. I play three instruments, primary is piano. We were expected to memorized our pieces for recitals each year. I've yet to determine if I memorized every single note or by playing the entire piece one memorized via touch and position. I'm horrible at programming, to busy asking question behind the 'why' does it work that way.
The base specification (IMAFDC) has little to no innovation, simply avoiding the mistakes of the past. We've got 60 years of experience with RISC-style instruction sets, so that's about consolidation not innovation.

However RISC-V is an excellent base upon which to innovate. You can see that in things such as the Vector extension, the memory model developed by industry and academic experts world-wide, and CHERI fine-grained memory-protection.
Your link only lists NOR sizes for the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G and then goes on to say "iPod touch (3rd generation) and beyond -- The NOR is replaced with a dedicated partition of NAND"
Yup. This is the Long Click metric.

Evaluating search is difficult because it's a tension: if users click a lot, is it because they find many valuable things, or because they didn't find what they were looking for?

If a user clicked just once, is it because they found what they were looking for or just that the rest of the results were so bad the user gave up?

The long click (user clicked, then didn't click again for a while) is a better metric, but also not ideal: did they stay because they found what they were looking for, or was the result just that confusing they had to stay to comprehend whether it was the right thing? Most often it's because they found what they were looking for, but the pathological cases hide in the middle: many similar correct results, winner is the one that makes the user a little slower.

(This has nothing to do with tabs or back buttons, by the way. It happens any time they can detect subsequent clicks on the search result page.)

I've worked in the search space (though on less evil projects than Google) and I still struggle with the question on how to evaluate search. If you have ideas, let me know!
I think all it took was spending a summer there.
My home value has dropped 10% since I purchased it, but I sleep slightly better b/c even if I bought my home at the current market price, I would have a higher mortgage payment than what I do now.

Obviously, this isn't ideal and buying a home today at 7% interest rates (with no plans to increase rates further) would be a tough to pill to swallow if your value will drop further.
Also forgot:
Synchronized multiroom speakers with squeezelite and LMS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwotxrCvHTA
Google has sensible motives but, undoubtedly owing to a lack of strong competition, they are not very good at serving these motives.

The fact that AdSense can be gamed incentives gaming. Unlike Google, websites like these DO have competition, and so the ones that game the system most effectively make profits and the ones that operate most ethically go out of business.

If Google does not want AdSense to be gamed, they should close the loopholes that make it so easily gameable and that punish honest customers. However, they are not strongly incentivized to do this because neither websites nor advertisers have any good altetnatives, so they aren't meaningfully losing business over it. And so funds that could go toward fixing this are, instead, used in areas that need the funding more urgently.

Assigning fault here is silly. The websites could be better AND Google could be better — but they will not become better without the right incentive structure.
3 helped me a lot. but I don't smoke weed.
That’s true but it’s not as controversial or incendiary as you described it

The assets are in US banks onshore, despite the master fund being in the Cayman Islands, this reality is not only palatable to brainwashed patriots, it is also tantamount to the markets that the US created and liquidity the US succeeded in doing that 2nd place trails at.
That's an odd way of looking at it, and I don't it's terribly valid but sure let's run with it for a bit.

The gas station is right on the route home. Any which way I used to go home, it's on the route on the right side of the road. When I was commuting every day it I was refuelling roughly every 3 weeks taking 3 to 6 minutes depending on if I had to wait for a gas stall to open. I work from home now so it's not entirely valid but use this for the sake of easy comparison.

Let's say it takes 10 seconds to unplug/close door/stow cable when you leave, and another 10 seconds when you get back. 5 days a week plus weekend trip for errands or whatever, so 6 minutes every 3 weeks. In other words, about the same as buying gas.

But then that leaves out the issue of DC fast charging, which inherently does longer, even when everything is working. Right now, the fast chargers not named Tesla are a bit of a gamble and now you have to consider time spent looking for an alternative charger if the one you want is occupied or out of order. Then throw in that my problems with locating a fast charge are made more so because I don't have a data plan on my smartphone, which limits which chargers I can use and cuts me off from knowing chargers are working and well...

So I'm not overly keen on that argument.
This already exists (in a slightly different prompt format); it's the underlying idea behind ReAct: https://react-lm.github.io

As you say, I'm skeptical this counts as AGI. Although I admit that I don't have a particularly rock solid definition of what _would_ constitute true AGI.
x% of Startups in the US were founded by foreign workers statistics is needed to show that this is lower or higher than average.
Also, capital per startup or other factors could show why the percentage of success is plausibly higher or lower.
Einstein did not have GPS in mind when he was developing his theories of relativity.
With the forthcoming winter of synthetic content, we may easily find ourselves, in the coming few years, forced to resort once again to directories a-la AltaVista and Mozilla's. I really see no way Google would stop their ads activities, as these provide the financial backbone.

In a sense we resorted to the searchable message board, once an university homework assignment, in the form of HN here.
What's the "original asdf?"
This might be worth building into the makefile interpreter. Doing it in the makefiles themselves is quite difficult to get right and very messy.
> Nation state backdoor found in Cisco firewalls (again..?)

What do you mean "again" ?

Over and over again. But people still buy Cisco, so it is not a big problem.
> the risk of future political censorship by a hypothetical future evil Apple

Apple's already exercising a great deal of editorial control over all political content on Apple TV+, so it's not too hard to imagine them extending this philosophy to other domains.

Unlike HBO, Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc. if you want to make a TV show on Apple TV+, you're not allowed to criticize technology or technology companies too heavily in dystopian fiction. They forced Jon Stewart to straight-up leave because he wanted to make an episode critical of China, and also wanted to interview Lina Khan.
What is WPS?
1) Big businesses by and large don't give a damn about being in Texas

Oracle is following a tax incentive. Any company willing to move today is also willing to move in 3-5 years when your tax incentives go away. Playing the tax incentive game is stupid for the populace, but the politicians love the press when somebody comes in. None of these big companies that are playing tax incentive games are employing people that require advanced degrees--they're just body shops.

2) Individuals, however, are finding out that they care more than they thought

While Austin is an oasis of sanity in Texas, it is still in Texas.

This means that your healthcare is abnormally affected by the existence of nitwits. This means that anti-vax is rampant around you, and you are more likely to get Covid, measles, etc. Education is affected by religious dorkbags of varying sanity unless you can completely opt out for private schools. Your dating pool has a much larger chunk of religious people for better and worse. And the cost of living isn't that much worse than California--which generally has better weather.
Looking forward to try that. Let’s hope they can bring it to market.
True, that is rote learning. It can be the basis of critical thinking. Critical thinking involves methods of inquiry...who, what, why, when and how. Rote thinking is limited to 'how'.
40-50mpg at £7 per UK gallon is approx 14-17p per mile.

Assuming that you can't charge at home (true for a rental!), the UK rate for charging is between 55p and 80p or so.

Real world my EV got around 3-4 miles per kWh which works out between 14p and 26p per mile.

Source: https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/electric-cars/charging/electric-...

We can fiddle the numbers a bit back and forth but my real world experience was that it was more expensive in every way.
https://asdf.common-lisp.dev/
Very handy, thank you. I'm always having to do this manually for icons.
How about cutting down on the old pork pies mate?

I suppose that if you are fat your brain spends most of its valuable time and resources focussed on your mouth. Oral fixation.

Eating drugs that you poke into the mouth will not help the brain deflect from the need to jam something into ones mouth.

Its like asking IV (intravenous) heroin users to inject all the other drugs they need and expect them to cut down on IV and move to chasing the dragon.

Like weight watchers you are just "watching" your weight and actually doing nothing about being fat. I have never seen a thin weight watchers customer.

Same format as the AA (alcoholics anonymous). Only ever in recovery from alcoholism or obesity.

Keeps the money coming in if no one recovers from obesity.

Big money is keeping you fat.
Linux compatibility is a great feature, but as a heavy user of Firefox and KVM, I find some alternatives in FreeBSD like Bhyve a bit lacking, especially in areas like PCI passthrough. For example, it can be unreliable, even stopping to work after the system wakes up from sleep.

Also, while FreeBSD's flexibility is impressive, allowing the use of Linux binaries, it's worth noting that there aren't many scenarios where using FreeBSD on Linux without a VM is necessary. What unique capabilities does FreeBSD offer that Linux doesn't?

Additionally, the BSD license is indeed powerful, allowing companies like Sony, Nintendo, NASA, and Apple to use and modify FreeBSD without the obligation to contribute back. While this has broadened FreeBSD's usage, the license can also be seen as a double-edged sword because it diminishes the incentive for these companies to contribute back to the community, which could potentially slow down the development and improvement of FreeBSD in certain areas.
For anyone who wants much more detailed coverage of these cases, and are willing to pay for it, I can't recommend Matt Stoller's Substack enough. Here's an older article, but he regularly covers developments in all the anti trust cases: https://open.substack.com/pub/mattstoller/p/monopoly-round-u...
Thank you! I use this tool all the time when working with icons.
Kinetic energy != momentum.

KE = ½ m v^2. Moon 3.8e28 J

Tsar Bomba 4e17 J
> The C language requires paying a 216 CHF by anyone that actually wants to understand how the language works, and not how their compiler deals with the source.

The binary you are actually executing is made with your compiler, not with the standard; which is just a static human readable document after all.

Though I'm not sure what your point is.
Oh... that's what the Fax device does lol. Been wondering about that for 20 something years.
No Longer a Blue Robot
Do you know how happy gen z and lower income people would be if they had the option of doing what you're talking about? Having the ability to buy a house but choosing not to because the market might go down? You are either rich or a homeowner because clearly you don't know the circumstances of being priced out of the market. Tell a low income person "it's worse for your housing affordability if house prices go down" and they will laugh in your face, and deservedly so.
discussed here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0198519737
One idea, but people will probably hate me for it:
If you return to e.g. the google search site (hence: when the long click metric would be triggered) have a dialog on top saying ‘result great / OK / bad-or-confusing’.
Can probably be gamed (bot nets trying to destroy the reputation of others) but at least a long time would not automatically mean ‘great result’. (In the arms race to combat destruction, it could be so that a ‘bad-or-confusing’ click would not actually push a value down, just not make it go higher).

Kind regards,
Roel
The goog has no qualms in pulling the trigger, that's for sure. Jacquard by ATAP was a favourite of mine. I was going to say that's the price of innovation, but it has been a while since a new successful product release. Maybe the graveyard's fate is to go down in history like xerox parc (innovative but remembered as a footnote). Quite sad.
Survivorship bias.
There is a lot more science that has not panned out.

I'm not saying quantum computing won't pan out, but if it has to there's some fundamental piece that is missing so far.

In contrast this effort is trying to imagine and monetize GPS before relativity is discovered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_System_Definition_Faci...

(it's bit like Python stealing the name of a CL compiler ...)
> because CGNAT preserves my privacy by default

This comment. Every single time. No it doesn't. NAT doesn't add privacy. NAT doesn't add security. Use firewall with IPv6. This is it.
Doesn't Microsoft have an ad network?
> The same goes with "why don't unattractive people date each other".

Good analogy.
Not tried pipenv, I'm a bit tied by what the company uses.

I did try using something similar to asdf (can't remember the name, think it changed), but it still didn't really solve the problem of OS dependencies and things needing to be compiled, and the problems arising from me not running the same OS as the application would run on. A dockerfile solves that, my system is a carbon copy of the prod environment.
I think a far more interesting bit of information is that Israel has 9M people yet ranks second behind India with 1.4Bn people. Ahead of far larger countries...
Why choose a graph data structure ? Is it better for memory than AI agents as opposed to vector embeddings of statements or having a NoSQL database? I am bullish on graph, but seems like noone else is, so want to understand your perspective on this
Nobody forces you to put ads on anything.

The idea that every website or tool with lots of visitors should be monetized is sad.

Original author made a tool, why do you have to make money on it?

Perhaps it sad that websites without ads aren't ranked higher.
Which make version does the latter command use? For GNU make 4.2.1 on Linux, I hade more luck with something along the lines of

@awk '/^[a-zA-Z_-]+:[^#]*## .*$$/ {match($$0, /## (.*)$$/, arr); printf "\033[36m%-30s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, substr($$0, RSTART+3)}' $(MAKEFILE_LIST)
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.

Corporations are necessary for specialisation, e.g. even knowing what your legal liability is, having someone to enforce health and safety rules, being able to run a production line rather than having one person spend about a year making a single car.

We can't get most of the interesting things we see in developed economies just by sole traders hiring someone directly for each thing without a corporate structure, partly because that too is a specialisation, and partly because that's way too fragile (every such thing either has a bus number of 1, or it's a mediocre reinvention of a corporation).
That sounds like a false dilemma. Surely there are more options than just having one set of clothes or having enormous amounts of clothing waste.
If there is any chance I’ll use some web content again, I generally copy and paste the bit I want into the notes app on iOS.

You know it’s bad when you trust Apple’s search function over Google.
Mise’s #1 objective is to be a really great tool manager, just like ASDF, but way faster and smarter.

However, it turns out that a tool that needs to be extremely CWD-aware also makes a great .env tool and task runner. I was also a little skeptical, but it’s actually super super useful. Especially because it’s easy to convince team members to install it for the tools, they get the rest for free with easy syntax.
This excellent. My 6 year old is loving it on his tablet. Compared to the crap you get in the app stores this is amazing. No ads every time you touch the screen, decent graphics, progress without being forced to watch ads or pay.

Kudos.
I watched an awful movie the other day where the Moon's orbit changes and they want to move it back, and I wondered the same thing. I guess the answer is no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonfall_(film)

(don't watch this film, it's not even so bad it's good)
I live in the Bay Area (East Bay) and feel like it presents such an interesting view into this.

2 years ago:
“Wow, I can’t believe that house went for 20% above asking!”

Now:
“Wow, I can’t believe that house went for 20% above asking and has appreciated since 2020.”

If you want a house now and can afford it, you will buy it now.
It is so funny how differently the Messages app is viewed.

In NA, Messages is the true source of Apple’s power and the key to their evil anticompetitive empire, the only ones who can stop their masterplan are the men in suits from the DOJ.

Outside of NA, it’s the app you use to get TOTP codes and phishing attempts.

You’re right that the real story isn’t that Google missed out competing with iMessage, it’s that they missed out competing with WhatsApp despite having control over the OS and being able to bundle their own messaging app!

Google is not even competitive with third tier apps such as Viber which is really funny. I read HN compulsively yet I don’t know what the name of Google’s current chat app is or even if they have one.
Mise gives you basically the same capabilities but is scoped a bit better, I’d check it out.
I happened to grow up during the age of my country's rapid development, both financially and culturally. I was too young to truly experience "the old times", but I got a lick of them and now I feel this weird nostalgia towards the entire esthetic. Things will just never be the same, modern world is completely different.
I'm using it for quite a while, it's really awesome
Kevin Kelly's 101 additional advice for living
They could be a monopoly, then the equation works.
Mitigations – Is OpenBSD Secure?
It seems in Google's case, a lot of value.
This comment looks very much AI generated.
Is that because that's the limit of the sensor or an actual reading. It's something that happened with dosimeters at Chernobyl where people didn't realize the levels were so bad until someone pointed out that the sensors were maxed out because the levels were higher than the range the units were designed to display. I would hope that's not the reason, but it has happened in the past
Oh thanks - I forgot I asked this! So an efficient way to invert would be to abstract out the ordering relation and make it swappable.