skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your point framed the issue as one of political systems("Consumerist capitalism"), not moving the goalpost at all to say that communism also or perhaps even moreso is responsible for creating pollution.

If I framed the issue by saying that it's all because stupid people can't live in harmony with nature and someone replies with one of the countless examples of other animals ruining their habitats that is not moving the goalpost at all, that is showing that my framing is incorrect.
How did did the riparian ecosystems thrive when there were tens of millions of bison? There is the same order of magnitude of cows in the US today (90 million) as bison hundreds of years ago (30-60 million.) Bison are also generally much heavier, meaning they eat more and trod the ground more deeply.
Because they're spending up to $200,000 every month on it. That's why not.

I don't think I've ever seen the "developer time is worth more!" true-ism being uncritically repeated than here. They can easily hire over 12 full-time devs for this money.
Yea that's kinda wild

"We searched for these terms and suddenly we had posts that related to them!"
C has always had them, it's called union.

In practice you need to couple it with an enum, and your visitation mechanism is a switch statement. But C doesn't impose that on you and lets you do it as you see fit.
Related a month ago:

A Peek inside HN: Analyzing ~40M stories and comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39910600
I have mainly used them in Rust. They are nice I suppose, but nothing mindblowing.

To me it feels very similar to an interface (trait) implemented by a bunch of classes (structs). I have multiple times wondered which of those two approaches would be better in a given situation, often wanting some aspects of both.

Being able to exhaustively pattern match is nice. But being able to define my classes in different places is also nice. And being able to define methods on the classes is nice. And defining a function that will only accept particular variant is nice.

From my perspective a discriminant vs a vtable pointer is a boring implementation detail the compiler should just figure out for me based on what would be more optimal in a given situation.
And it paints an even bigger target on domestic Windows machines used
for media content.

Who wants to "steal" their _own_ keys?

Microsoft's broken DRM scheme creates objects of value which it then
tries to store on the client's machine deliberately beyond the owners
control and security management. It is adversarial to the user. This
is clearly a no-win situation... hence the snarky sign-off about
vendors "raising the bar", basically saying; Good luck with that! It
really seems quite unhinged.

So now there is collateral damage:

- A motive to hack Windows machines to steal content keys.

- A misuse of "identities" through a market in stolen keys

- Pivots (as parent says) to other malware vectors

So, predictably, because of DRM, Microsoft Windows is now an even more
dangerous and insecure system. Why do people persist chasing this
unnecessary, pathologically involuted technological misadventure?
Surely "controlling and monitoring peoples content" is not a hill
worth dying on?
> morality codes based on a small number of people’s opinions.

In this case specifically, the "small number of people" happen to be "the people who work at OpenAI".
Funny thing is that most streaming platforms only have DRM because content owners pressure them. It's expensive and a huge hassle to get right.

While indeed DRM barely contributes in fighting redistribution over Pirate Bay, it does prevent stream sharing. Ie.: the platform saves a lot of CDN bandwidth by forcing that onto torrents.
That was always the situation.

The difference between Stack Overflow and (one predecessor eg) Experts Exchange was that SO explicitly weren't making people pay to access that knowledge.

It was to make the internet better. And it did. I've learned a lot through SO sites and if the votes are to be believed, I've made the internet better for tens of thousands of people.

I don't know what AI having access to my content does but I don't think it changes the sums. I answer things, people benefit, SO makes money somehow.
Software has different risk classes. Controlling a 737 has vastly more requirements of the operating system / runtime environment than an app that controls a small thing for a single person. What might be ok for one risk class is not ok for other risk classes.
If somebody solves the 'hacking' part for you, a lot of fun disappears. Yes they probably had tons of fun, but you lose some of it.

Figuring a route for the first time is by far the most rewarding part of climbing (although I love all of it). Same with kids - if they grok something on their own, what a reaction and reward compared to being told how to do it.
I'm not sure why you think I'm qualified to give a suitable answer to this.

Did you ask the person above to explain why they aren't useful?
I wonder sometimes to what extent progressives (aka the left, "liberals", leftists, woke, etc.) and their agenda are just paid Chinese operatives and operations or the results of such.

A lot of progressive agendas have ultimately been to China's benefit at the cost of everyone else and especially Pax Americana.
> so everything is immediately available in at least 1080p.

Aren't the lower tiers only 720p? At least all the streaming services give Linux users only 720p. (There is a workaround for one particular service to still get 1080p - I'm paying for it so I better can watch it in 1080p! The moment this stops working I cancel my subscription.)
Well reading that was a frustrating waste of time. They absolutely used a bait title. What they found amounts to nothing in security terms.
Where did I say Communist countries don't have pollution?

(former) Communist countries like the one I was born in are too poor to generate the amount of excessive consumerism and environment damage rich countries do.

For example there was no such thing as plastic packaging. Everything was packaged in paper, glass or steel way before rich countries made that a hipster thing for greenwashing.

All goods, even low quality ones that would be unreliable, from cars to clothing and electronics, were kept going forever through endless repairs instead of being landfilled the moment a capacitor leaked and new ones bought on a yearly basis because Company X just dropped the new Shiny and the warranty expired on the previous widget, decades before the rapirability trend hit the rich countries.
Scientists celebrate 'first step' in making food allergies history
Sounds like everybody was lying to the Emperor about their new clothes.
We have something better than high speed rail connecting the 30 most populated cities - planes. We could save some on fuel by using rail, but the bigger advantage would be converting shorter trips (people AND freight) to rail.
Does this paywalled article even contain a definition of "processed" in this context?

I've never understood what that word means in the context of food. I have something in my kitchen called a "food processor". It spins around and chops things with a blade. Is the product of a "food processor" not "processed food"?

The closest I can figure to the media definition is that it is food that contains a lot of salt. Perhaps also preservatives. So are we really talking about the health effects of salt and preservatives?
Hmm I actually didn't see this before. I stand corrected.
A crushing backlash to Apple's new iPad ad
250lbs per year is the american average

0 is a great number for rich countries to aspire to. Without some sort of massive crisis (which we're heading towards globally) it would probably take at least 100 years to even halve the current consumption levels. It took roughly 100 years to go from an average of 10lbs of chicken consumption per year (1920) to the current 70lb average (2020). Chicken is really where all the growth for meat consumption has come from.

Beef has been fairly steady per capita, and has decreased from its height a few decades ago — but the population keeps rising so it can't continue like this.
No I didn't frame it as purely political but in the frame of consumerism.
Try removing baseball and sports analogies, and the entire C-suite would be crippled forever.
I do not deliver untested code.

This "AI" does.
I'm a big fan of Erlang, Elixir, OTP and the BEAM vm. However, I only have very lightweight server needs for my SaaS, so it just doesn't make sense to switch to it, especially as my code is mostly client-based/typescript.

If my core value prop would be around real-time messaging or streaming data, BEAM/OTP would be my first choice.

Slightly OT: I'm still in dubio about Cloudflare pages, but I'm sure that the platform for the backend reboot that we're starting will be in Typescript. There's so much advantage in having one language for everything.
Apple faces celebrity backlash over piano crushing
I enjoyed this article, and it mostly confirms my mental model: the worst part about processed foods is how easy and enjoyable they are to eat. Avoiding them may have ancillary benefits for health (like fiber or vitamin intake), but mostly it's about being satiated and not overconsuming.
Hey guys, I have a novel exploit that lets you compromise any Linux system if you have the disk encryption keys, root password, and physical access.
Yeah that's why, and maybe you are referring to this, lot of people like Universal Basic Income.

However the realistic issue is that looking at the last decades wealth doesn't spread evenly. The Internet has helped created huge almost global online monopolies (google, amazon etc) at an unprecedented rate, instead of spreading the wealth evenly.

So AI will most likely have a similar trajectory, the productivity gains will be monopolised. And we don't have a way of distributing wealth after the fact in Western Capatalism (maybe rightly so), so this is why people are afraid.
Yep, but part of the same line often and I’m sure I missed some devices out. The 64DD for example.

The point is that Nintendo has basically always done this.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3001329/how-move-past-everything...

Here's an article from 2012 on the subject of "everything seems to be done already"

A few years after this article was published. Google did "AlphaGo" and later "Alphazero" for chess.

OpenAI was founded in 2015.

OpenBCI kickstarter was in 2014. They are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkWJem3LY5E

>I'm trying to find good problem statements and gaps to solve, Tech/Non-Tech.

What you're coming up against is starting to be better understood. Some people don't get ideas. Other people, that's all they get.

>It seems like people earlier had it much easier and the ideas seemed a bit obvious. This sounds envious, and could be somewhat wrong. But I truly am still trying to figure out a good gap.

Universities struggle with this a great deal. The people earning their degrees are often extremely underemployed because they cant come up with ideas OR they can't execute on the ideas.

I'm a fail to execute type of person lol. I have tons of ideas.

Fully automated agriculture building that takes water and electricity in and outputs food. Could be built anywhere, thus the extremes of droughty africa or arctic lattitudes.

Cultured meats, just the real deal type of meat, not this cancerous plant fake stuff.

Clean enough water production, less then 1% of the world's water is sort of clean enough.

Wearable tech is on the verge of finding something viable. Samsung/oura rings are kind of there, but what about a necklace?

Someone needs to find a good use for quantum computing.

Lots of room for next gen batteries, grid scale battery storage, or nuclear fusion work.

Plastic alternatives are in major need.

How about medical devices which never pierce into your body? hyposprays? sensors?

remote/wireless power distribution will be huge.

exoskeletons as mobolity scooters?

fully automated road construction that doesnt need employees?

a small drone driver/car with machine ai, that can drive around bike pathes and parks to clean up garbage? No people needed.

the electric airplane industry? That's going to happen in the next couple decades.

unmanned blimps that can move heavy cargo?

Who knows if there's any good ideas there. probably all trash.
I would hate the idea that my primary purpose is to get pulled into random meetings:

> Instead of having a manager and a list of tasks, I was asked to sit in on meetings and add value to projects aligned with my interests or expertise.

Disorganised meeting structure with people coming and going at random? How could you possibly get anything done, as a contributor?
2^62 things are still a fairly large number for plausible systems.
What is the point of Xbox?
bought a pair of levis in december, they now have a hole in the crouch! this is the second pair in two years that have done that. thought it might be user error, but they used to not do this.
"Hundreds of dollars" sounds a bit painful as an EU engineer and entrepreneur :), but I guess it's all relative. We would think twice about investing this much manpower and compute for such an exploratory project even in a commercial setting if it was not directly funded by a client.

But your technical skill is obvious and very impressive.

If you want to read more, my old bachelor's thesis is somewhat related, from when we only had word embeddings and document embeddings were quite experimental still: https://ad-publications.cs.uni-freiburg.de/theses/Bachelor_J...

I've done a lot follow-up work in my startup Scitodate, which includes large-scale graph and embedding analysis, but we haven't published most of it for now.
Here's a gift link (and yes, it describes them in depth!): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/well/eat/ultraprocessed-f...
L3 can do FHD on Linux but it's the services config that prevents that.
The historical range of the American bison was largely not overlapping with BLM grazing lands. The bison, a sensible animal, wasn't found in California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.
I structure my life around my gym routine, my sleep schedule, and my main hobby/passion!
Maybe missed it but broken aliexpress link and no name?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/high-levels-of-ultra-...

> Ultra-processed foods encompass a broad category ranging from cookies, doughnuts and potato chips to hot dogs, white bread and frozen meals.
Just by introducing coding interview, how would you know they will not overshoot estimations by 3-4x? It's not one person's job, normally estimates are done by the entire team
A Survey on the Real Power of ChatGPT
Look great. I am going to try it this afternoon!
they're referring to that time spot prices went negative during the early pandemic when nobody was driving, demand was way down, and storage suddenly became a problem.
There's three Winevine tiers, L1, L2 and L3, which generally correspond to 4K, 1080p and 720p respectively though it depends on the service. L3 is what you get on Linux. L2 is supposed to be more secure than L3 but AFAICT it makes little difference to piracy groups, L1 is the only actual roadblock for them.
https://archive.is/GAL1c
Planning for Distillation of Llama 3 70B –> 4x8B
Oceans suffer from record-breaking year of heat
A Brief History of the First Planetarium
Breathwork is a really uncomfortable experience. I lay on a floor mat hyperventilating for an hour with a group of people only to feel a little expanded. Breathwork was developed as an alternative to psychedelics becasue those were illegal, and now that psilocybin is readily available in California there's no need for it. Thumbs down.
Nasa is hacking Voyager 1 Back to Life
CTO had personal connections with the vendor. I suspect personal means the wife or sister was there and they had this as a family business. You know "here is money from my company that go to your company and each of us will get a big pie off it" type of shady deal.
This has big, "you want to criticize capitalism while you buy things with money" energy. Consumers are by in large product takers who have to choose between the products that are on offer. There's no market segment for "same product but without fossil fuels."

I try to avoid buying plastic. Does that mean I don't buy anything made with plastic? No, of course not. That's ridiculous I couldn't buy 90% of products from the grocery store. But when given the opportunity will I pay for an option that doesn't use plastic, yes. It's not the 1800s you don't have to be pure of heart to want to affect positive change.
Ask HN: 1Password or Bitwarden or Others for teams at Startups?
One thing that I really like about AI is that it's teaching people how to spend time and think when asking questions. To be honest, most "AI skills" are the same ones we learn in any technical subject where we have to write reports or papers. You can't just hand wave, you have to actually ask well thought out questions.
That's counterintuitive to me but to be fair I've never actually looked at the numbers. Does rail really not save much in fuel relative to planes?
task specific model
We already have rules that are much rarer and more impactful than leap minutes would be. For example on Feb 29th 2000 an entire extra day was inserted on a century, an event that only happens once every 400 years! It was a complete non-event and only time nerds remember that it happened.

In the case of a leap minute, the worst that can happen is that your clock is 1 minute out every couple of centuries. Doesn’t seem so bad and certainly much better than dealing with leap seconds every few years.

We don’t need to constantly rehearse for such an event, we can just do nothing and die without worrying about it.
> A lot of "piracy" comes from the people who spend the most money on the content they pirate.

That doesn’t strike me as a valid statistic. Where are you getting that data from?
U.S. makes about half of the chips it consumes. But none of them are leading-edge. Which makes me assume that U.S. is about or almost self-sufficient in much older ones. That will hardly help much though.
Happily, at least West produces entire set of tools needed to produce the chips. So Taiwan is just a matter of cost. At higher prices, they will be made elsewhere when needed, in some time - there's no barrier to that.
The two devs I know who worked on enterprise software both ended up getting an MBA on company time to move into management ASAP so they dont have to write code in the awful system and they get paid way more.

They ultimately get incentivized to contribute to the maze of "safe" processes, rule making busywork, and google docs writing for the next layer of management above them.
> The solution is not forcing the global economy to grind to a halt by abruptly forcing oil companies to stop extracting oil

> Saudi Arabia and Russia will never stop

You are contradicting yourself - either the global economy won’t grind to a halt, because activist is ineffective, or activism is too effective?

The west should be cleaning up its own house and leading by example - instead it has spent decades pointing fingers at China and other countries shouting ‘you first’. Well, guess what, China is now worlds leading user and producer of eclectic cars, has electric busses and most of USA doesn’t.
We are the ones behind now, and in fact neither you nor the media have realised it yet.

In the next 2 years it will become clear that the king is banked, and that the leadership is no longer with the west, and I am afraid the consequences for us will be significant. The Sputnik moment has already happened, you just aren’t watching.
Oh, I broke that. Like in the real car, its gearbox it's way too fragile. A little mistake and it's broken.
Show HN: Yet Another Zero Knowledge Benchmark
A readable report is here:
https://mjzk.xyz/yazkb/
This is the main reason we have assertion libraries and don't just use boolean expressions.

My favorite test framework of all time, rspec-given[1] (by the late, great Jim Weirich) solved this a different way by using AST introspection to extract both sides of a boolean expression and give a helpful message even with an assertion like:
`Then { result == 7 }`

[1]: https://github.com/jimweirich/rspec-given
I would go even further and say there isn't any indication that we are even close to what is possible. My subjective feeling is that with the current rate of progress it is entirely possible that we will have GPT-4 level performance locally on smartphone hardware within 3-10 years (unless companies decide again that they don't want to give this kind of power away)
Thanks. I admire anyone who starts up something in this business climate. :)

Your comments make sense. :) I think you're going to be fighting against free or almost free alternatives such as OpenAI models API pennies per search etc etc. Also there are a number of browser plugins like Kagi.com (freemium) which already offer some AI functionality alongside other features.

The only way you'll win is to convince prospective buyers with compelling use cases, and you'll only find that through users who give feedback. Another reason for some sort of trial period or freemium option?

Anyway good luck. I wish you well in your quest.
Thanks. Yes, I will work on the play back. Could you send the feedback about the mobile app on the website? That way I can notify you when I build it.
Not sure where this idea comes from that cars are a “small percentage”, but here’s what I could find: “light-duty vehicles (cars, small trucks, vans, sport utility vehicles, and motorcycles) 54.2%” of energy usage in the transportation sector of the US. https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/transportation-fuels
Creating a sample player machine from scratch
This brings back memory: This was the case for a gold-buying website for the Runescape game in the 2000s. You could edit your cookies or other front-end facing information to change the price of items in your cart, so you could buy gold or items for much cheaper than the market rate.
At some point, while the vulnerability remained, they started cancelling orders abusing this and manually checking the orders.

I think you could still find some old youtube videos or threads on obscure forums with enough digging about that topic, that's how I learned of it initially.

So this was a real thing!
>Wow, awesome work! It's crazy to think about how the FDA itself probably can't answer a question like "how many predicates does device X have"

Im not sure why you would think that. The answer would take 5 minutes to answer with the PDFs (which is where the parent post got the info).
Ya this was the first thing I saw. It's a student project so we should be open that he's learning, but I wouldn't call this umbrella recyclable if it's constituent parts will likely end up floating in the ocean forever.

If umbrella's were built with repairability in mind I would love it, though. So many I've used were destined to break under the strain of the wind.
Maybe the GP did engage in the naturalistic fallacy, but nobody has been able to demonstrate why eating meat is wrong either, they just say "I personally feel killing animals to eat them is so evil that it should be illegal." OK, that's fine, but why should I also feel that way? I don't.
I have already watched that talk and know Albert Gu. His work is not about a “foundational” time series model but rather a task specific one.
I’ve been wanting to make a similar indicator for the work I do at endoflife.date. IMO, a realistic upgradability metric would be linked to the “hardness of the upgrade to a supported version”, which is much harder to answer and quite contextual in how you are running each dependency.

But libyear is a good metric to have as prior art in the field.