skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s hard to find problems without hands on experience in a problem space.

Then what you’ll see is there are A LOT of snake oil salesman (just pour some AI on it). There is also just a lot of bad quality/ limitations in almost all products. Solving practical, sometimes boring, problems, in a way that actually consistently delights users, is actually by far the exception.

Only by learning the domain, and trying to solve it, ideally with yourself as the main user, can you cut through all the BS and noise.

In other words care more about a domain first, be of service to people in that domain, try to solve problems with existing tools. You’ll see there gaps. The real problems/products will fall out naturally.
My rate in California is now 41 cents per kwh. My friends in Idaho are paying 10 cents. When (if) gasoline drops below $4.50-4.75 a gallon, it'll make more sense to just run my Chevy Volt on gasoline than electricity.

Californian's like to complain we pay 50-100% more than gasoline than the rest of the country, but it I think if more people knew they'd be really annoyed they pay 4x more for electricity.
That's a really tough one. I just watched the lactose intolerance fix video you linked. Certainly that fabrication process is beyond my ability. But, after more of my own research, maybe I'd decide I want to pay someone else to produce the therapy for me. (I'm not anywhere near as lactose intolerant as the guy in the video, but it's bad enough that I'd be happy to rid myself if this problem.)

But should I be able to do that? Am I capable of evaluating the risks? Am I capable of even enumerating the various risk factors? This is not my field at all. Maybe the person making this for me is doing it in an unsafe manner, in a way that could result in dangerous contamination. How would I know?
There are also cosmic rays. They come from every direction, so even at night.

An experiment measured that kind of radiation about 20 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Radiation_Environment_Exp...
There are pretty massive gaps.

Hiring people is really really hard (when was the last time you hired an expert to do something)? Coordinating people is really really hard. (These are problems facing every company, government, and group of people in the world). There is now way we're at a optimum.

Most systems were created, and then became stuck robots should - buy my groceries, move my money, book my events, schedule my events, suggest events, tell me what to buy, book my flights .... All of this is possible, it's just not automated :(. And frequently the barrier is data access.

More of my day is consumed by things that could be automated, but are not.
Rust certainly provides much stronger guarantees than C, though some of its features aren't available (or at least don't come batteries included) in a freestanding (no_std) environment. The borrow checker is also a lot less forgiving than a garbage collector.
This doesn't have anything to do with ADTs. It's because Rust has both in-place variables and references. You aren't changing the variant of an existing ADT, you're replacing the entire ADT value with a new one. That replacement is visible in multiple places because the language allows you to take references to variables (the `&mut ex` expression).

You can accomplish the same thing in C and C++ because they also have in-place value semantics and allow you to take the address of any variable. You can't do that in Java only because Java doesn't let you take references to variables.
Its not just the big companies you have to think about, lol.

Sure you can sue OpenAI.

But will you be able to sue every single AI startup that happens to be working on Open Source AI tech, that was all trained this way? Absolutely not. Its simply not feasible. The cat is out of the bag.
> It seems like people earlier had it much easier and the ideas seemed a bit obvious.

In my experience: Everything always seems like it is already done, until something changes in the world, and then a bunch of obvious gaps emerge.

Which is to say that it is quite possible that earlier people did have it easier than what you are experiencing right now, but that doesn't mean it was always easy for them. They had to wait for the right moment.

The gaps will find you when they are ready. The bigger challenge is in being ready to accept them when they come. From what I have seen, when the obvious gaps start to come, you start getting pulled in a lot of different directions and, if not properly focused, can easily see the opportunity go by.
In CentOS/RedHat you can add `quickack 1` to the end of a route to tell it to disable delayed acks for that route.
Thank you! You incur this risk when pooling any kind of thread, too, but with platform threads at least pooling makes sense because they're costly, so you just need to be careful with thread locals on a shared thread pool. Not needing to share threads and potentially leak context is a security advantage of virtual threads.
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really cool tool! wish I had the right skillset to apply. good luck!
It doesn't have to be this way I feel. You don't have to distort the answer.

You use LLM to get super-powered intent signals, then show ads based on those intents.

Fucking around with the actual product function for financial reasons is a road to ruin.

In the Google model, the first few things you see are ads, but everything after that is "organic" and not influenced by who is directly paying for it. People trust it as a result - the majority of the results are "real". If the results are just whoever is paying, the utility rapidly drops off and people will vote with their feet/clicks/eyeballs.

But hey, what do I know.
I think this guy is hitting on something deeper here, which is that these things took an absolutely enormous amount of capital and burned a lot of public goodwill to create, but the end product isn't living up to that.
The second one costs $0.01. The first one cost $100^x where X is some large number. It's common in pretty much every form of business
Thaks for follow up.

If you just pause you're gonna use all your month anyway, only later. It's a commitment. I undrestand you might not have month of work at once. Important thing for me is that I get at least $4900 from each customer - month worth of work.

If you cancel (before you use whole month) and get a refund for unused days, I assume you're not happy so you'll not come back, fair. There is always some investment on my side too to understand what is needed or what is current state of infrastructure so I want to avoid people just coming for 2 days of work for few bucks.
Does it make sense?
You can look at a medieval bestiary to see how people thought animals might look based on descriptions alone. Like these lovely elephants

https://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/20...
> PLEASE, do not use top-level break/continue inside statements provided to of and ifLet; use goto labels instead.

Seems like a pretty big footgun. But otherwise, very cool.
There might be some limit or bug like that in Java 6, but I think time stuff has been backported, so it'd likely be something else. I don't know enough about the JVM internals to speculate on whether the old ones were simpler and less likely to be defective, or not.

By now most types of issues ought to have popped up though, since it was so widely used for such a long time.
I like the concept.

The nice things is that it abstract the conditions checks on whether something is done, has succeeded or should be retried.

The bad things is that it abstract the conditions checks on whether something is done, has succeeded or should be retried.

It's nice because that's something you do again and again, and that's a lot of code. A lot of ways it can go wrong.

But it's bad because that's a huge chunk of black box magic that may execute remotely. If you need a custom or more optimized behavior anywhere in this logic, you are done for. If there is a bug/problem in this logic, it's game over. I also have to imagine debugging and error reporting is likely not super fun.

One point in particular that strikes me, is that impotence is generically guaranteed with something like "has this task executed without error last time". But usually, what I want is something much more specific, like "has that entries been updated", "has that file been created" and so on. From a bird view, it looks the same, but from a system reliability point of you, they are not at all the same.

Hard to see how they avoid duplicate results, overlapping tasks, etc.

I don't think they really can at that level of abstraction, which means you need to implement it manually.

Eventually it seems it's a huge dep to bring in for the actual practical problem is really solves well.

But I'm willing to be proven wrong on this one, because the tech is really damn cool.
Please stop doing this:

https://i.imgur.com/2WeVGxK.png

It's so frustrating. Early in your product lifecycle it should be painfully easy to get started and you shouldn't be worrying about this kind of security.
VMware's end user computing group spun out to Omnissa
Just amazing. I like the swing. Sounds like a true Sinatra arrangement.
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Tested it out and the UMAP implementation with this library is very very fast compared to Parametric UMAP: running it on 100k embeddings took about 7 seconds when the same pipeline on the same GPU took about a half-hour. I will definitely be playing around with it more.
The issue with predicting the next statement is the combinatorial infinity which is improbable to model with historical frequencies,

ie., P(mat|the cat sat on the) is a distribution over, say, 100k words. Whereas, P(the cat sat|on the mat) is a distribution over 100k^3 words.

Part of the illusion of an LLM is that we produce create text in such a highly regular way that a mere distribution over 100k iterated, say 500 times, gives you a page of text as if modelling 100k^500.
Indeed I can't, just like you cannot prove, or cite any research, showing it wouldn't have been 1,000 if the content was accessible without arbitrary artificial restrictions on the devices consuming it.

By all means keep taking down illegal streams. I'm not excusing the people providing them. I'm saying maybe stop treating every paying customer as if they're going to do that to the detriment of the service provided. Because it is negatively affecting the service.
> it’s about either being lucky or good at testing

I think you are misunderstanding the experience.

The first (harder questions) is testing your understanding of the material and problem. Can you applying the material to solve a novel problem? Do you understand the material not just the mechanics. Do you understand how it would interelate it with other problems? Do you understand the limitations?

The second is just regurgitation. This is great for rote skills, but this isn't really learning. This is grinding until you can reproduce. These are the kinds of skills that are easily automated. This is not what we should be testing our kids.
Today I learned acronyms for DNS over TLS and DNS over HTTPS. Neat tool. I’ll try it when I get home.
In 2024, the "hacking spirit" aligns well with not using an app to do everything.
Fair enough, marketing is not my strong suit, especially to creatives. Perhaps I'm biased because I go out of my way to spend as little energy as I can on an ad when one comes up.
I feel similarly. While I myself might gamble on learning a tool like this, I'd be reluctant to recommend it to students unless I was very confident that it would always be there when they reached for it. Source-available does scratch that itch more or less, but it creates some reluctance.
Only if the health care program paid more than Slim Jim is the problem.
Nagle and no delay are like like 90+% of the latency bugs I’ve dealt with.

Two reasonable ideas that mix terribly in practice.
I think this is true. Even now with Google's summaries at the top of the page, people usually just take what that says as fact and move on.
Since 1987, labour productivity has doubled[1]. A 5x increase would be immediately obvious. If a tool were able to increase productivity on that scale, it would lift every human out of poverty. It'd probably move humanity into a post-scarcity species. 5x is "by Monday afternoon, staff have each done 40 pre-ai-equivalent-hours worth of work".

[1] https://usafacts.org/articles/what-is-labor-productivity-and...
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>Simple and fair.

The whole point is to obfuscate prices and subsidies so the ~50th to ~90th percentile income earners (the young, productive work force) don't get uppity.

If the goal was to simply help the poor, then the government simply would have given them cash. But the goal was to "help" them (or at least say you did), but also mitigate the burden from the most influential (older people/richest people).
I chuckle whenever I see this meme, because in my experience, the issue is usually DHCP.
> 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’

This is inaccurate. The west has been cleaning up its own house and leading by example. While they could and should have done much more, western countries implemented emissions reductions measures long before demanding anyone else do it, and in fact for decades explicitly excluded China as a developing country from having to comply with these agreements.

As a result, western emissions have been declining for decades and, most importantly, became decoupled from GDP growth for the first time in history.

In the meantime China has dramatically surged its emissions, becoming the biggest emitter by far. India and Russia have also increased emissions substantially, becoming the third and fourth highest emitters. In fact, the entire EU now produces fewer carbon emissions than India, and only a little more than Russia.

If current trends continue, before long the top three emitters will be China, India, and Russia, and their trajectories remain worrying.

So any solution that doesn’t encourage those countries to also reduce their emissions is going to doom us all to accelerating climate change.

As for the moral argument, it’s no more moral for China, India, and Russia to emit all the pollution they can than it was when western countries did it. If anything, it’s even more immoral given that better technologies exist and we understand the problem much better.
I feel deceived for installing a roof-top solar. Having got one to help CA go solar, it is now becoming a burden as I will be paying more in monthly bills. PGE has already reduced the true-up they pay for generating more electricity, this one is another nail in the coffin.
As people already commented in 2011, that's pretty common.
> Your rhetoric does not match the strength of your scientific objection.

thank you for this way of putting it. made my day.
Could you provide more information or elaborate on how Ellipsis is better? I'd appreciate a more detailed explanation.
I know it's a blessing for people who live out in the sticks to have internet.... but is that really such a large use-case to justify entire fleets of these things?

How hard is it to run km of wire from the nearest town?

To me, these were built for the sole purpose of surveillance, and internet is an afterthought.

Edit: yes yes it's expensive, but the easiest solution the world came up with was for some guy to invest billions in a satellite program?
Don't find gaps, simplify and modernize already available solutions. Few examples from the past. Telegram was created when Whatsup (and before that ICQ) was dominating the market. What's the point to create a message app when there are dozens already available?
Is Operation Choke Point 2.0 real?
They are shifting the charges from all usage based to partially fee based, which forces those who use very little (due to having solar on their home for example) to still have to pay. That's offsetting the reduction in usage rates. And in all cases lower income households get subsidies.
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protanopia: can't see red. protanomly: some red is visible.

The guy I worked with who was RG CB couldn't wire up stepper motors (typically use 4 wires, red green blue black), he couldn't tell the difference and had to use a multimeter.
But if we subsidized it and it reduced intake and thereby obesity the benefits to a less obese populace would outweigh the costs of the subsidy. So… if everyone was on it they might not buy this guy’s keto chips but they’d be better off.

And anyway people won’t go to the gym or eat less they need a pill to take and this is it and that’s why I will work.
There is a whole SHITLOAD of inefficiencies in the way companies are run. You have to be tapped in and talk to a bunch of people and network to see this, but once you do, and you have technical knowhow to solve these problems, you can easily make 1 mil a year selling these solutions to companies because in turn it saves them money. And most of them don't even require AI.

There is a reason why Zapier has 5 billion dollar valuation, and its basically just a bunch of api calls from a technical perspective.
Y'all pay 41¢?! That's insane, the highest priced energy provider where I'm at is 7¢. Does your electricity come with foot massages? If you take the default electric provider you pay 5¢, and 5.5¢ if you want 100% renewables.
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Protobuf Editions are here: don't panic
> why isn’t there any reporting on all the threats to society they’ve been averting

It's been reported but NSA FISA victories aren't exactly the sort of thing that gets upvotes around here.

https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-06/Section%20702%20of%20the%...

> In 2009, for example, Section 702 helped foil an active plot to bomb the New York City subway.

> (U) Section 702 has been used to identify ransomware attacks on U.S. critical infrastructure, and multiple attacks have been identified and defended against because of Section 702 collection

> (U) Section 702–acquired information related to sanctioned foreign adversaries was used in U.S. government efforts to stop components for weapons of mass destruction from reaching foreign actors.

> (U) Section 702 information has identified key economic security risks, including strategic malign investment by foreign actors in certain U.S. companies.

> (U) Section 702 collection has helped identify when hostile foreign intelligence services are trying to send their operatives into the United States to recruit spies here in the United States.
Google is days away from making Protobuf Editions GA. Never heard of it? Read on.
On the one hand the constellations are doing considerable damage to surface based astronomy. On the other hand they are funding an enormously lower cost of access to orbit and beyond for astronomy up in the sky.
> How hard is it to run km of wire from the nearest town?

Very hard, especially when the towns are much more dispersed than a km apart.
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Ask HN: Where can I find original content for my security company
I've been searching to original content creators for a long time but never find a decent one. do you guys know anyone?

by original content I mean technical insights, blogs, newsletter etc
Currently, I pay $10 per month to be connected to grid. Now I will need to pay $24 with zero consumption for majority of the year.
>> Of course once astronauts are on mars they will still be exposed to radiation, until some sort of shielding can be built.

Send tunnel boring machines. There a company making electric ones.
> ...it sickens me to think how much impact a rescinded job offer could have on someone’s life. What if someone moved, quit a good job, etc all on a broken promise.

IANAL, but would promissory estoppel offer a remedy in those cases (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel#Promissory_estoppel_2)?

Though this kind of behavior is common enough that I wonder if companies have found a way to weasel out of it, or they're just getting away with it due to ignorance or a reluctance to sue by those they have wronged.
The point here is that for all intents and purposes, using the information made public, the rooms are located under the university and not UNRWA as the IDF claims.
Yeah, agreed. One of the items on my long TODO list is adding `setuid_process` and `setgid_process` and similar, so that perhaps a decade later when new runtimes can count on the presence of those syscalls, they can stop duplicating that mechanism in userspace.
I guess my argument and problem is with the idea of a non-deterministic mind. I think it is a non-sensical concept. Even if the mind is free from physical world constraints, it is still subject to it's own nature. If the mind is self direction, the nature of the mind or soul determines its choice.

I dont see how this changes the question of free will from a personal or moral responsibility perspective.

Someone can ascribe no responsibility because actions are just the product of your physical inputs. Similarly, you can ascribe no responsibility because that is how someone's soul is made.
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Get a job at IBM/Deloitte or P&G and you'll see no end of things still left to do
I agree, I'm not saying it would be AGI, just that it would make AI a solution to the Fermi Paradox.
> How hard is it to run km of wire from the nearest town?

If it's not hard, why hasn't it happened already?
The keyboards and trackpads on a lot of the non-Apple laptops out there are very bad.

If you look at https://dell.com/linux you can see the options for a Linux machine with more than 16gb of RAM drop off pretty quickly. I don't think Lenovo sells machines preinstalled with Linux anymore. Does Framework offer those?

Again, not looking for used computers... let me know where I can buy a dozen machines with Linux that don't suck and support from the vendor.

And yeah, a phone without security updates is a poor choice comparison against an iPhone when devices from 4 years earlier are still getting updates from Apple.
From the paper:

>> Astronomy is also engaged in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, a classic example of a program that might proceed for many years with little or nothing of interest to report, but that might someday provide one of the most profound discoveries in human history

That is all well and good. Most HN readers are probably well aware of that project. But if you want to alter policy at a national or international level, don't talk about extraterrestrial intelligence. It stirs the hornets next of faith, politics and cultural conflict. It opens the door to ridicule. Talk about the search for life, the search for a second life-supporting world. And maybe some of that life runs a radio station. Just avoid mentioning ET by name.
I almost gave up after trying this like three times but as an ex browser developer really wanted to see what ya'll were up to. I think it's an interesting concept. But I bet you will lose tons of trials here.

In fact it should just be google auth (not sure if I missed the option to do that).
> your windows will go away and your program will usually exit.

This is a huge improvement over most "web applications", whereby your client (web browser) sits there looking like it's doing something when your network connection goes away. Worse still, you don't know whether the last (trans)action you sent to the server was processed or not.
$0.41/kWh is a good price. I pay at least $0.50/kWh and I have family in the exurbs paying as much as $0.91/kWh in San Diego county. That doesn't include the fixed hook up costs that are constantly going up. We have plans that charge a lot less over night ($0.10-0.20/kWh) to charge EVs though.