skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This 3 hr long history documentary is well worth it.

Fall of Civilizations Episode 18. Egypt - Fall of the Pharaohs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpKej05RgsY
Half the country is obese and it currently has to be taken for life at a cost of about $100k per person, once the cost is two orders cheaper after patents run out it will make more sense.
I’ve been playing with it the last week and there’s an option to load “external libraries” as read only. It seems to work nice for my existing photos.
> all seem to agree...that marijuana use is degenerate behavior... Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and the world’s largest atheist countries are on the same page

Maybe leave the Hindus out of this. You might not have the full picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhang#Culture

Moreover there are many "degenerate behaviors" that we don't currently lock people up for. Like not washing hands after going to the bathroom, even after going #2. Does someone quietly consuming a plant without bothering anyone qualify as "degenerate"?

> It’s also illegal in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, though we can debate how homogenous or not those countries are.

I didn't realize there was a debate at all. They're incredibly diverse countries.

According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcotic_Drugs_and_Psychotropi...) cannabis was made illegal in India due to US pressure and international treaties. I didn't look up the history of cannabis legality for the other 2 countries.

I know you were trying to dispute GP's assertion that cannabis was made illegal in the US as a way to selectively prosecute minorities by pointing out how it's illegal worldwide. The example above might show you how both could be true. (Btw I have no idea if racism is the reason cannabis became illegal in the US, or whether it was just a regular moral panic)
It's necessary because anytime there's talk about the original authors of open source software making money rather than big corps everyone starts frothing at the mouth and forking things to protect the leeches.
A difference in frequency is not that big of a problem... except for the fact that you can't easily transfer power across the two grids.

Japan has some power conversion stations, but when the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011 knocked off several powerplants in the 50 Hz half of the country (including Fukushima), they could not transfer enough power from the other side, and the suffered many blackouts, even though the 60 Hz half of the country had power to spare.
Hah thanks, no matter how many times I re-read my posts I manage to miss something.

A lead blower would require a lot of battery power for sure.
And the penalty is unnoticeable to these companies.
In your experience.
Never more true than with apple.

Activating an iphone for example has a screen devoted to how privacy is important!

It will show you literally thousands of pages of how they take privacy seriously!

(and you can't say NO anywhere in the dialog, they just show you)

They are normalizing "you cannot do anything", and then everyone does it.
I don't know what to tell you, there are direct quotes from his books in my first comment. Here's another one:

> Shamanism is not confined to specific socio-economic settings or stages of development. It is fundamentally the ability that all of us share, some with and some without the help of hallucinogens, to enter altered states of consciousness and to travel out of body in non-physical realms - there to encounter supernatural entities and gain useful knowledge and healing powers from them.

- Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind

Here's a whole book about these supernatural beings who assisted primitive humanity: https://grahamhancock.com/visionary/.

I do think it's different than the "ancient astronauts" theory, but anything living that isn't from Earth is an alien, so entities from other realms clearly qualify.

Edit: Sorry, rereading the thread I see the misunderstanding, you are right that he doesn't think aliens were involved in building the pyramids specifically and I didn't mean to imply that. I'm just saying that he thinks aliens were involved in the general development of the human species.
My wife ate at least one avocado and one kiwi per day while she was pregnant. My son then started eating them as soon as he could eat solid food. He still eat kiwis rather frequently, but he has had at least one avocado per day for the past five years since he started eating solids.

We rarely kept avocados in the house before my wife became pregnant and now we can never be without them.
Most aircraft are not built on assembly lines. They're moved to a station where a lot of sub assembly work is done and then moved to a different station. All the assembly work is done by hand. You can see that these planes are all at various stages of construction but some have their elevators and others don't. My guess is you're looking at the area where all the control surfaces are being installed. Probably all elements of flight control are installed here including the wiring harnesses, hydraulics etc.

The only aircraft I know of that was assembled on a moving "line" was the 777. It was a major innovation with that aircraft but not duplicated. Still it wasn't an assembly line in the sense of an automotive assembly line. Rather the aircraft were rolled along through the building very slowly as they were assembled.
Databases for data scientists
Well, it’s really clear that wind energy pollutes less than natural gas, per kwh generated, once the plant is built. So then we looked at the costs for building the plant, where wind won again. So now we’re looking at the costs of building the materials that go into building the plant (a “second-order” effect), where, shockingly, wind wins again… against simply running the gas plant, excluding its cost of construction!

I would think most people would be happy with the one that doesn’t produce clouds of cancer-causing smoke every time you turn on a light switch, but I suppose some people are harder to convince.
Vast majority of 120+ Hz displays are 1080p only. That's for gaming.

4k at 120 Hz will need DisplayPort 2.0 and a powerful GPU to provide that bandwidth (40 Gbit/sec).

Practically useless for its intended purpose (coding). Will increase the cost for no benefit. Waste of money.
Did this last for 1 hour?

I wonder how long it would have to last in a cashless society for people to revert back to paper IOU’s.
The nerve.
Ask HN: How do you handle routing/authorization for large-scale React project?
Hi,

I'm interested in how do professionals handle routing, authorization, and code/project management for enterprise-level React or Next.js application, here's a list to describe the situation:

1. The application are for large-scale enterprise (>1000 users), and it's for internal user only
2. The system supposed to handle both transactional and analytical business (like financing, human resource, purchasing, analytics etc.)
3. The system could have hundreds of loosely coupled apps (may or may not correlated to other apps), and can even grow to thousands.
4. User may only have access to a small set of apps related to his/hers role.
5. For a single app, different user might be able to perform different functionalities (display only, create, edit etc) depend on his/hers role.

edit:
1. I understand that we need to do authorization control at backend API level, but we also want to achieve it at UI level, so if a user opens a url but lacks authorization, a message should be displayed instead of the actual app.
2. regarding code management, should we use a single project or different projects, if use different projects, how to best put them together to make it work?
It also stands for generative pretrained transformer, which this seems to be.
This is probably what you mean, but I wasn't sure and then did the math: and if you take two 3:4s and put them side by side (as is being contemplated with 16:9 being split into two 8:9 panels) you get 6:4 aka 3:2 (so, this monitor).

Frankly, though, while I probably agree for "reading", with my "coding" I'm very happy taking 16:10 (which is a pretty standard monitor size and I want to say is much more common than 16:9, at least on laptops) and splitting it into two 8:10s (which is itself a pretty familiar aspect ratio).
Strongly agree that this one is both very fun to think about and rings true. I sometimes imagine imagine it as parallel to the advancement of the world of computers, which has sort of been like watching the development an entire civilization in miniature. Early computer pioneers were, we know, incredible minds whose talent was the very thing that put us on the hard road to progress. Sure, nowadays, random people are able to casually accomplish much more in absolute terms, but it's because they're standing on the shoulders of giants.

All that said, I do tend to be sort of a Graham Hancock apologist. My take is that most people go too extreme with him. They either think he's a crackpot loony who must be taken at face value and debunked as a purveyor of pseudoscience OR they think he's a rebel truthteller: the only one who will look at the real facts, bravely pushing through the corrupt academic swamp.

It seems obvious to me that he's neither. He's just an author who stumbled on a compelling, mind-expanding idea. Roughly stated: what if we know less about the past than we think, and thus underestimate our ancestors? I think the interesting thing about Graham Hancock's spiel has nothing to do with any of his specific pieces of archaeological evidence that he digs up, which are very clearly marshaled to make a point he has already decided on making. (This is bad science, 100%.) Rather, the thing he brings to the table is more like a philosophical approach that is genuinely fresh and interesting. And I do think he will one day be vindicated in some way, because we act like we have way more precise knowledge about the past than we actually do. This is sort of an epistemology thing, so appealing directly to the evidence and the current anthropological understanding isn't really engaging with him in good faith. He's pointing out that the Troys of history prove that we consistently overestimate how completely we've understood history and what is and is not reasonable. Over time we tend to acclimate to that picture, and then the problem multiplies, because we tend to only accept things that seem to fit with the now-banal-seeming history we already know, leading to even more banal hypotheses gaining traction. Some of his best writings relate to the systematic bias against catastrophism that existed, and showing how these types of errors in epistemology lead to actual errors of science down the line.
> Donald Trump could’ve done this

Let's not bring Trump into this, or anything at all, I certainly wasn't suggesting he's good because the current guy is bad. Personally I find both major party candidates are unacceptable and will vote against both of them third party.
You know this is a really ironic response to this thread. Many of us wish nuclear power didn't take 10+ years to build, but it does. How long is it going to take to change people's minds about this topic? Maybe the same amount as it might take to change your opinion on alternative energy sources.

At least alternative energy has less NIMBY people and more willing to take a shot at it.
> they possess other notable aspects as well.

Sure, but what other notable aspects are superior to later dynasties, however?
Kids will have fun with real acceleration!
I think fiber has worked exactly as planned
Yes, and haven't had issues with it recently... Was there some bad news I missed?
I wonder how many people that are really mad about these guys or SE using their professional output to train models thought commercial artists were just being whiny sore losers when Deviant Art, Adobe, OpenAI, Stability, et al did it to them.
Urban renewal left the U.S. too scared to build
How do you prevent people just paying to push their own agenda and the site being full of biased commercial stuff?

Edit; oh you don’t, this site is full of bitcoin shit.
> We should publicly cane people who smoke MJ in public.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35180539
A lot of it is written in ASM for performance reasons.

Besides that, there's always a bunch of "this should be rewritten completely in <hot new language>" as if it's trivial to rewrite software like this from scratch but nobody ever steps up and does it, I wonder why that is?
The great thing about your well written comment is that you can replace 'power tool' with about anything and it becomes just as meaningful as before!
Wow. I understand business models that are freemium but for a premium priced B2B product? This feels like an incredible rug pull. This changes things for me.
By far the biggest takeaway for me was to alias my cp command to cp -c.

95% of the copies I make are from my terminal so I wasn’t really benefiting from CoW before.
In this case they mean leak into the global model — so no. You can have sovereignty of your data if you use an open protocol like IRC or Matrix, or a self-hosted tool like Zulip, Mattermost, Rocket Chat, etc
I prefer politicians to do what is logical and what is right, even if the citizens hate it so much they will be beheaded in a revolution. One of the number one things I lament the lack of is leaders with actual principles.
Especially when a few paragraphs below they say:

> If you want to exclude your Customer Data from helping train Slack global models, you can opt out.

So Customer Data is not used to train models "used broadly across all of our customers [in such a way that ...]", but... it is used to help train global models. Uh.
Shared hallucination.
I still don't get why there aren't enough monitor panels that are 5K so they can fit with Macintosh's retina standard. What ends up happening is the scaling is done at an incorrect multiple so the dpi causes text to be blurry and not clear.

I guess will have to stick with my LG Ultrafine for another year.
Doing this 4 years ago would’ve meant potentially 4 years of life returned to people who are actively getting fucked or have been getting fucked because of these laws.
Most shitposting is probably more straightforward to understand than business communication or press releases where realizing what wasn't said often carries more insight than the things that were said.

Of course training an AI model on simple, straightforward and honest data provides good results. That's the essence behind "textbooks is all you need" which lead to the phi LLMs. Those are great small LLMs. But if you want your model to understand the complexity of human communication you have to include it in your training data.

If you subscribe to the idea that to be the very best text completion engine possible you would need to have a perfect understanding of reality itself, how different humans perceive reality differently, and how they choose to communicate about this perception and their interaction with reality, themselves and other humans, then it's not unreasonable to expect that back-propagation would eventually find that optimal representation if given enough data, the right architecture and enough processing power. Or at least come somewhat close. In that paradigm there is no "bad data", only insufficient or badly balanced datasets. Just don't try doing that with a 3B parameter LLM.
You think my pension plan is going to leave US exchanges to trade off shore? You think the US govt will even allow US Corps to not trade in the USA? Feel free to take your HFT off-shore: there'll be no volume.
Venge.io is probably one of the most impressive games I've played in the browser, and was built using PlayCanvas.
I would need this same extension in another browser. This comment would make sense if you said "the hoops people jump through to stay on google," but I'm not sure what this has to do with Chrome.
What I would like are networked displays that make it trivial to throw something from one device onto a nearby display. Seamless switching, extending, and duplicating across the various displays.
You guys, you need to try "Avocado and Vegemite sandwich's"

Its amazing easily my fav combo with avo's
You do need a carbon source for steel production. It’s integral to steel. You don’t need coal per se, but you do need to burn carbon. Every technique so far will release some CO2 as a waste result.
Since when would it even be admissible at trial to seek to obtain the advice of an attorney? The fact the DOJ put that in a press release shows they're grasping at straws.
A high rate of customer acquisition isn’t the same thing as a network effect.

OpenAI has some network effects baked into its product suite, but it’s not even in the same league as Microsoft’s bundling strategy (setting aside Google for a moment). Microsoft’s history is littered with competitors who had a better product, a faster adopted product, who were snuffed because of Microsoft’s superior distribution capabilities.

I’m on the train at the moment, but the big exception is the mobile market, and in hindsight that makes perfect sense - most of the phone market consumer grade, where bundling productivity software isn’t much of a value proposition.

It’s far more likely that OpenAI remain where they are on the value chain, because it’s easier to capture and integrate AI startups into their products. If they were to compete on productivity software, they need to differentiate with entirely new modalities of AI-informed user interfaces, or they will be yet another slightly better program that got blown out of the water by MSFT enterprise distribution

edit: to be clear my point is, why would you become a bit player in an established market when you can dominate a new market you created yourself?
I smoke legal weed in California. Your statement rings false.
That's exactly my point. "File over app"[1] is just as relevant for businesses as it is for individuals — if you don't want your data to be used for training, then take sovereignty of it.

[1] https://stephango.com/file-over-app
Seems like building and selling your own software (aka solopreneur) would help you to build capital at the same time as it also forces you to write good code.
not the same thing but https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights
I think that self-censorship is practically universal and a core tenant of our social behavior.

Somehow I think some group(s) of people have gotten it in their head that they are the only ones who have to self-censor and that they are a victim for it, but I think if you challenge yourself you can come up with hundreds of times self-censoring in social situations is the obviously correct choice (political or not).

Think about it, from disallowing words like "hell", to talking about death, to discussing sex, to oversharing, there actually is a very small percentage of combinations of words that are appropriate conversation.
Forgot one: the positional encoding also changed, llama3 uses RoPE, gpt2 uses a learned embedding.
then you're missing out, but to each their own
It would defeat the purpose if windfarms made more pollution than they removed, but they don’t. By orders of magnitude. With current processes. They don’t.
A part of the reason is also the highly toxic state leadership.

- anti-LBGTQ+

- anti-abortion

- anti-immigration

- misappropriating state funds for partisan stunts [1]

- recapture program designed to fund education in poorer areas of TX. But when it was overfunded one year, it went to balance the state budget [2]

I love the city but the state leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

[1] https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/21/texas-migrants-busin...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20220212004001/https%3A%2F%2Fwww...
I like the 3:2 ratio but IMO the specs are embarrassing all the way down.
If the penalty doesn't involve jail time, and the fine is less than the proceeds, it pays pretty well well after being caught
more and more i feel this is not going to be possible at some point.
wanted to say 'go to a bar' , not jokingly. sad to say it too because i hate outside. if someone can come up with an actual solution cool.
maybe if digital identities are further its possible but that would them likely be govt controlle / censored etc. and likely also not quite what youd want.
saw some attempts at people making digital identitt based on blockchain, but if its not actually verifiable to a real person (which that is not) ur still in the same boat.

think about it. biometrics might be needed, and whos gonna have that database?? voice, text etc. is not enough. the next would be iris scans fingerprints etc. i suppose.

how does one identify themselves? how can you prove to me, you are you? biometrics only really, but i cant verify those.. only people you trust with that data can. and who would that be? are they trustworthy to me?

so id say. go to a bar. sorry.
You can't just "develop" a strong tech economy. You have to give tech workers a reason to want to move there.

Americans in general are migrating to warmer areas. Michigan is starting from behind in that regard.

What would your pitch be to get a remote tech worker to move to Michigan from a large, Southern or Western city?
Same. Wireguard port and block the rest. Ez-Pz step 1 to take with minimal effort.
China Builds First Dedicated Drone Carrier
Canceling my company’s slack as we speak. Not cool.
It is a bold assumption to think that discord hasn't always been using harvested text/voice/video data to train models.
I think the argument would also be that you don't need a "large" startup to get something done.
That's an interesting thing to assert. How does he know there are no photos of a given person online? It's getting into Russell's Teapot territory.
Butter or no butter?
Where are you seeing 2560x1600? They are advertising 4k
Along the same lines, phi-3 is kind of a sign of what you can do if you focus only on high quality data. It seems like while yes, quantity is very important, quality almot matters just as much.
"It's banned in all these places so it must be bad" is a terrible argument. It was also illegal to be gay or get an abortion in most places until recently.

All societies up until maybe 200 years ago for some, yesterday for others, also agreed that women were lesser. Pretty strong consensus there actually.

Sigh.
> After all, they could just “verify” themselves as the other party of your correspondence.

They can't do this at any real scale, because they will be caught. (Because they can't use the same key as the real key--since they don't have the private portion, if designed sanely--so anyone verifying it manually out of band will see that the trust has been violated. Also they will have to continuously modify future communications, which can be difficult, which is another way to get caught.)
Argh! Replied in the wrong thread. Apologies for any confusion
I for one consider it my duty to bravely sacrifice my privacy to the alter of corporate profit so that the true beauty of LLM trained in emojis and cat gifs can bring humanity to the next epoch.
It depends on who you're trying to convince. TSA/customs? A prospective employer? The guy who runs the corner store?

To varying degrees, the answer is yes, the tools exist.
I think its mildly interesting that Apple went through the trouble of making employee ids when they have 10 people. That seems a bit superfluous at that size. Unless of course they made them when they were larger, and still just added numbers for people.
I curated my personal front page years ago, and don't see engagement farming posts that I also don't mind seeing. It's honestly as great as ever for me, and I've been reading/commenting for 12+ years!
I wouldn’t want to guess orientation from email or emoji usage.

That said, I hadn’t done the comms or calls, she had.

That’s also why I commented - emoji usage is very confusing in some instances. Our recruiter took it as a fairly chauvinist comment, but maybe it was meant a different way.

They were a marginal candidate, other comms weren’t great, this became one of the final factors.

Generally I think emoji usage in comms to a recruiter or hiring manager is risky, regardless of emoji chosen.