skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I need to make $150k minimum to support my expenses (mortgage + 2 kids). My previous startup I was making $175k but my current one I am trying to raise money on (and haven't been able to yet) and the potential investors are opening saying they won't want the founders to be making more than $100k. Which is kind of why I'm looking, even if I get a seed round I won't be able to pay myself enough to cover expenses.
I know what you're talking about. My neuro said it was still visual snow syndrome. I don't find it to be a negative experience, just something you see. Like (mild) tinnitus, it's only negative if you perceive it as negative.
I am disturbed to see so much enthusiasm here for "trading"

Markets matter, and some speculation is useful, but the purpose of markets is not speculation. Obviously.

If you want to make some money get trained and get a good salary. Save your money in safe assets

if you want to get supper rich be super creative, ensure going broke will only effect you (i.e. do not do this while supporting a family), and found a firm. You will likely fail, but there is a chance of super wealth and a bigger chance of a wild ride that will be good for you

Trading from the perspective of greed runs the risk of total destruction. Putting you in jail, maybe. Bankruptcy if not too unlucky. Many people out of work because of your misallocation, and if you do not care about that I'm not interested in you

The financial system is a zero sum game. (The economy in general is not) There is always someone cleverer and they likely do not care if they crush you. International finance is a snake pit

Friends, look after friends. Maximise happiness. Be honest, be ethical, be safe

Live long and prosper
Thanks! This will be something I check with my kid in highschool!
My mind parses any mention of "voxel" that isn't accompanied by a screenshot from one of the original Comanche levels as a lie.

The reality is that Comanche was more like a displacement-map twist on the Doom "2.5D" than something that really deserves the term "voxel". But it was so magic, did anything else ever come close?
The playground is really cool!

I also really like the directory of Voice AI companies on your site here: https://vocalized.dev/apriora. I've really enjoyed being a part of the Voice AI community. There are a lot of good people with a lot of brain power working in this space in a collaborative way.

I don't know if we fit on your projects page, but I'd love if you considered adding our product to your projects page. We're building a context-aware semantic cache. The hard part with semantic caching is getting it to work in conversation because the same question means two different things at different points in the convo. We're focused on that problem. A lot of Voice AI companies use our context-aware semantic cache to reduce their latency.

https://canonical.chat/blog/how_to_build_context_aware_seman...
I wish people wouldn't use/state b, ever.

It doesn't add to the conversation, and further, people you know could be interesting. And interesting in ways, that you don't know about.
> ‘Google teams worked 24x7 over several days’

I don’t know if they get what the seven means there.
Just did, thanks for the suggestion!
Spotify has introduced me to many new genres but the algo has gotten worse over time.
What is in that docx file? What is this backdoor that will crack a personal Bitlocker drive encrypted with a PIN? There is (another) 'backdoor' that I know about which is only a backdoor because people don't generally know it exists, but if you use your Windows account to log in with Windows and decrypt the Bitlocker drive, it stores your key in the cloud so that you can unlock it by using the MS account as a 'password reset' feature. I am sure this exists because people don't understand that the question 'I encrypted my drive and forget the password, how do I fix it' is 'you can't', unless you make the encryption worthless by having the key somewhere other people can access. But MS really doesn't care because it also allows businesses to unlock their employee's machines, and a business's concerns are the only concerns MS cares about, and only partially and only sometimes.
India and Jamaica come to mind, but one had their GDP drained from 23% to just 4% of global GDP by British colonialism and the other is a former slave colony so those examples might have rather more significant downward pressure on productivity other than cannabis
I don't see TLS adopting anything other than the current hybrid or a pure Kyber, but Bas would know better than me.

Signatures are very difficult to do hybrid in a way that's not strippable.

I think lattices are in the realm of boring crypto these days, but I ask the actual mathematical cryptographers when I need real opinions.
Totally remember the switch to MSN. You are entirely correct. It was the beginning of the end.-

(I seem to recall MSN having some killer feature or another that made people switch. Or just critical Maas, with Windows.)
I'm so sorry. It reminds me of frontotemporal dementia that the Cloudflare founder, Lee Holloway had:
https://www.wired.com/story/lee-holloway-devastating-decline...

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22878136
I've seen something like this in CRM and in closed-circuit corporate/institutional groupware. But when discarding RFC-standard text as the canonical form then we also discard (or must re-implement) every functional, security, and deliverability measure that assumes as much in the design when addressing global email.

The simplest illustration I'd give of this is through a question: "how you gonna preserve my PGP signatures?" and if the answer is "ah, you are not our target segment" then you get how it's not a global solution.
> The sounds it made

To this day, my text notifications ring "hey ho"
They want you to click through and find out.
LLM: Transformer Is Linear
> mp3gain from 2005 is another indispensable part of a large mp3 collection.

Do you use it for portable mp3 players? Wondering why mp3gain instead of ReplayGain capable player, seems wrong to edit the music data itself instead of just tagging the gain values.
> I say they pump the intuition because it is not actually an established fact that the premise is correct, but to be clear, I think it is, at least for human consciousness.

I don't see what's being pumped. As we know from the incompleteness theorem, some truths cannot be proven. The fact of our awareness is another that's often doubted by the same people that doubt the divide separating qualia and conceptual knowing. Has their difficulty to grasp at these intuitions somehow become the burden of those who access them as self-evident?

The hard problem is a linchpin. For those who get it, materialism starts to unravel. Those who don't, think those who do are making stuff up, but they also can't give a single example to counter the argument, nor can they conceive for themselves an entirely novel experience purely out of thought. They can't imagine a new color, think a new taste, conceive of a new sense.

> Your reply is apparently that in this respect, idealism is no different than materialism - it will not enable Russell's blind man to know what it is like to see - from which it follows that the knowledge argument cannot be used by idealists against materialism.

As I said, idealism is only a philosophy. It's mostly a process of elimination resting on conjectures such as the hard problem. As possibilities are removed, remaining candidates hint at the likeliest direction, but it's indeed not a final realization. There are some metaphysical speculations resting atop the foundations that reality is mind first. But I'm personally much less invested in speculations. I find the challenge of pulling our cultural head out of the sand of implausibility more of a concern.

Depending how curious (and open-minded) you are about "knowledge" that get the "blind man to know what it is like to see", I'd suggest to look into practices that have this as their main goal. They're about engaging consciousness directly with immediate experience (the senses) and existential curiosity (I am aware that I am, but what am I?) to cultivate the seed of an eventual realization. They're known under the umbrella term "nonduality". As an introduction, I suggest this selection of texts spanning multiple nondual traditions aggregated and read by a Buddhist nun https://www.youtube.com/@SamaneriJayasara.
The general trend on this forum was that anything queationing the official narrative on issues related to COVID was heavily downvoted, even if you just quoted conflicting research. Thus it was not only “specific individuals”.
My guess would be approximately zero. Cal DMV requires incident reports and they are public. Waymo is a good actor. If they are fudging these reports I would be shocked.
Not necessarily. Just make sure that you aren't only drinking coffee. Things kind of differ for everyone but I find that matching my drinks helps. If I drink a mug of coffee, I drink a tall glass of plain water. That seems to be pretty effective.
Yeah. This [1] is also a nice read. Even if the page is in dutch, the documents are available as PDFs in english.

[1] - https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/rapporten/2019/06/11...
The articles they link to are very few in number. It's like under 6 or so.

They snag on to small quotes and tiny threads and recycle them for decades. Fabrications like The Protocols from the late 1800s or the Rothchilds Waterloo story from the 1840s still get bandied about.

From Gary Allen's None Dare Call It Conspiracy to the modern Alex Jones, it's actually just a few pages of misinterpreted empirical evidence, quotes without context or poorly written headlines

We should all be weary of adding something to that list.
A break from reality is a very mild way of saying THC induced schizophrenia
Over 70% of Americans Say College Is Worth It in Pew Poll
Obligatory - but fully meant- "but can't (somebody) open source the server and keep it running?" comment.-
Sure, I get that, but my point is that most small businesses aren't going to have or want someone with that set of skills. Those in and around the tech industry will, sure, but that isn't most small businesses. And selfhosted equivalents of SaaS officeware packages really aren't the sort of thing that can be reliably set up and managed on a "do what needs doing" basis - not because most people can't learn, but because starting from what you know as a user that's quite a bit of learning, and time thus better spent on any of the other forty dozen things that always want doing to keep a small shop afloat.

It would be nice if the tooling really was simple enough that wasn't so, but despite considerable effort to make it so from Sandstorm among others over quite a long time, as far as I know no one's had notable success in achieving that. Hence the rise and continued prominence of SaaS providers, who abstract all of that effort behind an SLA and a monthly fee.

I agree with the criticism of SaaS platform behavior at the head of this thread. What I think the commenters on that side of the discussion are missing or maybe ignoring, is that much of the value a SaaS offering provides is in not having to (pay someone to) administer that stuff yourself - and that, considered separately from the question of how providers behave, "all you have to think about is 'pay us and use our stuff'" is in the general case a strong value proposition.
It's not the only drug that suppresses appetite, but GLP-1 agonists (Ozempic, Zepbound, etc) appear to work for a larger percentage of the population, and significantly outperform previous appetite suppressants.

There's also findings that suggest that it goes beyond simply suppressing appetite, but also manipulates the "reward" center in the brain. Individuals who take it to lose weight find that they have reduced desire to drink or smoke, suggesting it's less that they struggle with appetite and more the medicine helps overcome addictive behavior.
The Wager, by David Grann; giving me greater context for understanding sea travel (in wooden ships, especially), and I learned that there were indigenous people living along the coast of southern Patagonia where the Wager wrecked. They must be very hardy and resourceful people indeed, given the cold and windy conditions of that region. The European sailors seemed primitive (using the term pejoratively here) in contrast; they all had scurvy and atrophy to various degrees, and had lost so many other sailors to illness and the elements, so reliant on the stores they brought, ignorant of how to survive off the sea and land (they found and were given by the locals enough to eat for there to be survivors who made it back to England, but it was an ordeal). I wondered at the past traumas and other events that lead to Euro-colonialism (this includes my ancestors) and the sense of entitlement that brings about actions like Spain and Portugal dividing the world in ~1600 (watching Shōgun on Hulu, which I also recommend). China also developed a sense of entitlement, but rather than go conquer Africa it sounds like they took their massive navy (dwarfing anything else at the time) on a sightseeing tour and returned home, satisfied with their own superiority.

I continue to be inspired to live more closely with the land and life around me, and Grann's description of the native people of Patagonia, with their healthy varied diet, vigor and cold tolerance, and kindness to clearly-suffering strangers, made a lasting impression.

The Computer Age is just a way of coping with humanity's widespread and hopefully temporary degradation and loss of culture and traditions that are sustainable over many, many generations. I see books the same way; temporary technology, a bank of knowledge and experience that, like bacteria in the appendix, can help us get back on track with oral traditions.
will add it today! thanks for sharing
Some of those design decisions I’m okay with, but deliberately not providing a basic hash table for general usage is pretty bizarre. I can’t think of even one serious software project I’ve worked on that didn’t need a dictionary/map-like data structure somewhere in the code.
No, I mean the regular old playlists, like, road trip indie, the shower playlist, late night jazz, what have you. The stuff with cover images and descriptions that looks totally curated. Those are at least enriched with music you listen to, if not downright generated individually.

And it’s awful. Like I’m stuck in an echo chamber. I want to find new music!
Fair enough. I'll stop saying that. In my defense, saying "I believe Microsoft wouldn't violate my privacy because I'm not very interesting" isn't the same as saying "I believe Microsoft wouldn't viloate our privacy because no one is very interesting"
> the purpose of markets is not speculation

Arguably, the purpose of markets is part price discovery, part liquidity, and arguably mostly to support economic growth and stability by channeling funds from savers to those who can invest them productively.

> If you want to make some money get trained and get a good salary. Save your money in safe assets

Sure, as long as you're not into dynamism.
> I don't know why you started focusing on "unconscious bias"

That's what I've been taking issue to from the beginning of this chain[0]. In all but one comment since then I've explicitly specified "[un|sub]conscious bias".

On that topic, would you agree with me that it is not "obvious" that they would predict a group would take issue in this very particular way such that it would necessitate setting up and documenting auditions to prove they have eliminated such bias, and then additionally determine it worthwhile to actually do so?

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/PLBdxmN.png
"Apple told 9to5Mac that is impossible if the user followed the expected procedure for wiping the device"

I suppose it's now impossible to delete a photo and have it reappear in the future.
I really appreciate you taking the time to dispense this. Thank you
In case you are wondering, the article is about an aircraft by Bell Boeing called MV-22B Osprey, not the backpacks and travel gear company.
The incident where a Waymo vehicle ran into a pole (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZP-RNSr0s) is one of the most head scratching to me, but overall amazingly safe for operating 50,000 paid rides per week.
I never knew about the 3-day limit before, it makes sense that this is the reason behind unverified ACATS transfers (a problem that I've spent no small amount of time arguing about on various online forums long ago).

Interestingly, Fidelity lets you put your account into "lockdown" mode there they'll reject all ACATS (and ACH too I believe) transfers automatically without your intervention. I've always wondered what kind of legal magic they're pulling to make this compliant with FINRA rules.

What eventually convinced me over that it's not a problem is, as Patrick says, that these institutions will with high likelihood make you whole for fraudulent transfers, the same way they will for fraudulent ACH. The financial system generally works.
The Falklands death toll was around 900 people, only three of whom were non-combatants.

The situation with Gaza is very different. There aren't perfect answers, and fifty years of being kettled under military occupation has only made everyone involved hate each other that little bit more.

Whatever the exact numbers are, it's clear that normal people have suffered unduly as a result of military action, in a way that has extended far past self defence, with documented actions that seem barely human.

A comparison to the Falklands war —as unnecessary as that was— seems perverse.
The issue is that caffeine is a mild diuretic and depending on your caffeine sensitivity and other factors, that may have a more outsized effect on you in terms of fluid loss than the water you consumed with it.

So if you drink a dilute coffee (ex: weak iced milk base coffee drinks), you are probably fine but if you are drinking plain, hot coffee or low milk espresso drinks and you are sensitive to caffeine's diuretic properties, you are probably going to lose more than you gain.
>Would love to hear from the community on building natural language interfaces to relational data.

I produce a free sql editor that allows users to plugin openai to perform text to sql: https://www.timestored.com/qstudio/help/ai-text2sql so far uptake is slow and the only good benefit is to spit out a few queries as a starting point. The accuracy went up significantly by sending schema and sample data but it sounds like you've done a good job at going beyond that. I wouldn't say my users or I am convinced it's the future but I'll certainly look at your product tomorrow. Good work and congratulations.
NetPad for the OSS version. works great. https://github.com/tareqimbasher/NetPad
These news will not sit well with the "the clothes are made out of textile microphones" people [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40316918

Ah, wait, that's me.
I didn't say anything about doing less or that your concerns were invalid.

My point is that there's more "bang for the buck" wrt saving innocents from being dying due to wrongful "not death penalty" convictions, even if you discount "dying in the infirmary" quite a bit relative to "dying in the chair."

I'm not saying that you shouldn't care about the death penalty.

My comment is addressed to people who care about dying due to wrongful conviction.
Oracle cloud free tier offer X86/Ampere instance. Ampere instance is more powerful.

4 CPU, 24GB RAM, 200GB disk

Nice toy.
This still exists?? What year is it?! :D
As the article points out though, normal maps don't "work" in all situations though, as they don't actually change the geometry just the lighting and the illusion of the geo, so viewed at the edges of meshes displacement is still the better high-fidelity option.

DeepBump might be able to extract 1D (height only, not full 3D vector displacement) maps to use with traditional displacement though.
> The new language says cities and towns may "not discriminate in favor of the municipality's own communications facilities

Why not? Imho private isps should be forbidden if municipalitees want to diy. Just like the previous law. All this honesty and fairness is really not deserved.
This allows you to write a binary to the system's memory that is then read by Windows on startup, stored on the hard drive and executed with system privileges.

The sheer existance of the feature came to light when people began to wonder why Lenovo is able to install their install service every time after they did a clean installation. They went as far as changing the hard drive and the service still reappeared.

Asking Lenovo what was going on, Lenovo replied with the information about this and Microsoft had to come up with some documentation. Its existance was neither communicated to the public nor documented anywhere in Microsoft's documentation.

Just google the name and be surprised how you cannot find anything about it on Microsoft's pages besides this one document.
Well, I’m glad at least I know the things that make you lose in court now. I’m appreciative for the lesson.
Whoua !
I didn't know and assume we can see big particles coming from the sky.
Yes please do. We’d love your feedback and or to hear whether you see material improvement over what you have now
That’s really crazy
I use "set -o vi" in my bash prompt and use Emacs in evil mode for the best of all worlds
I think the argument is that it's not for career scientists.

I gave up wanting to get into academia once I found how awful the working conditions are. Now I'm in a more comfortable life, I'd love to have access (ie: visibility) on recent developments and research.

I'm reminded of this story: https://spectrum.ieee.org/coordinated-robotics-winner-nasa-s...
I use a Mac every day, for work and personal stuff.

I have a Windows desktop PC, that I use almost exclusively for playing PC games with friends. I already had to use some obscure method to bypass signing in with my Microsoft account during installation. I boot it anywhere between once a month and a few times a week, and about 50% of the time some random configuration changes and I can’t do the one thing that I set out to do (play a game) without updating or downgrading some arbitrary driver.

Oh, and it nags me almost every boot to sign in with my Microsoft account for one reason or another. And this is an operating system with an MSRP of $200!

There are loads of things to critique about my Mac, but I can use it daily just fine, without the OS trying to trick me into signing into some service or other. The daily experience of using it feels much more consensual, as you describe.
While I favor competition, I have no faith the the ability of municipalites to run anything. And they exempt themselves when it suits them (for example, where I live it's illegal to hire a private hauler to pick up your garbage. You must pay the city to do it, and it's quite expensive compared to what people outside the city pay).

They recently contracted with a company to provide "municipal" internet in competition with Comcast, AT&T and another small local provider. The fallout of that is lineal drilling through people's yards as they run conduits for their fiber. The number of sewer lines, water lines, and gas lines that have been punctured is astonishing. People are living for months with mud piles in their yards from the drills and little flags all over the place from the utility locating services.

If Comcast were doing all this people would be screaming from the hilltops, but they put up with it because it's "municipal".
Diffusion Models
113585 - probably the very last time I can feel good about this number!

I can't remember the last time I even thought about ICQ, much less had a client installed. But damn, end of an era
That is not what I hear
Why? You think only people who are negative towards a specific issue may have bias? Or that it is impossible that they are negative based on some experience or hunch or non-conclusive indication, rather than political bias? Do tou understand that being negative vs. positive is just about framing the question?