skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My feed looks like this:

1) "Facebook style" post are proliferating, that is memes from last year and images/videos from 5 years ago

2) Too many "cookie cutter" posts, that is variation of formats like "100 million people are using AI but %99 are using it wrong"

3) Propaganda accounts pushing narratives, that is something like "before everything was great, now everything is bad. what changed?", then with flood of replies indicating that what changed is loss of Christian values and too many immigrants.

4) Obvious lunatics, that is chemtrail enthusiasts who pose as Phd in this Fellow in that.

5) Tesla FSD just saved lives, the real danger are the human drivers

6) Get rich fast schemes and courses that are supposed to give you passive income to retire early.

7) MAGA types and anti-MAGA types fighting

8) TikTok videos

9) Stuff from people I follow

10) scam ads

The general content on Twitter has become really low quality rage content. Some good things that you can't find elsewhere still exists though and that is tweets from real people tweeting about current events as those events are unfolding.

Sometimes I think maybe Twitter should have been a non-profit that captures only the part about real people broadcasting about current events as they are unfolding.
> For an example of how this can work, you can look at how the UK dealt with the IRA

Did the IRA kill around ten thousands of Brits in one day and kidnapped a few thousands (I'm adjusting to population size here) ? Did the IRA have the sworn objective to eliminate England? Did the IRA join forces with another terrorist organization and a superpower bent on destroying England to encircle England from all directions and join the war?
I have to constantly fight against rustc and LLVM to convince it to eliminate bounds check in hot loop when I'm writing high performance Rust and it's a cursed experience I hope nobody has to.

Other replies in this thread mentioned they have similar problems writing Go, I don't know to what extent it applies, in my limited experience working on Go codebases I never see such issues.
Presence of WMD was an excuse for Iraq war.

Intervention in Afghanistan was a response to 9/11.
> only international peering

The concepts of "national" and "international" don't map very well to the internet.

Many companies run multiple ASes, and many companies are peering at IXPs all over the world...
Individual rice grains remind me of ant larvae.
Quote: It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior or nature and evolution.

Now, USC researchers want to add a new rule called “selectively advantageous instability (SAI),” which explores how instability can actually benefit a cell and a cellular organism.

The flipside of this “rule” is that SAI can also be a key factor to things like disease and aging, so understanding this process could aid in exploration of those biological processes.
> On the other hand, when you sit for an hour to check twitter, the following tab will dry-out immediately

That sounds great to me!
High school cafeteria is the analogy that makes the most sense to me.
GPS Map Camera / Timestamp Camera Share your geo-location of street, longitude, latitude through photos to your family & friends. Different templates and settings to adjust your dialogue colour as per your requirements. GPS Map Camera Geotag photo adds GPS Map Stamp Camera pictures easily to let your friends and special one know where you are now, a handy smart feature in an emergency. If you want to add location stamp, date and time, weather data on Photos, you must have a GPS Map Camera app on your Smartphone.
I don't think it is cursed yet. Apple seem to be taking a very conservative approach to the whole AI and LLM thing and are externalising it to OpenAI so they can cast it off if it turns out to be a pile of crap.

Where they are investing heavily is in some of the local on-device ML stuff which actually looks vaguely useful. And it's all standard classification, image processing and summarising stuff. All viable, not overhyped solutions. The photos.app contextual search thing is very useful already for example (even if it can't identify the difference between horses and cows very well).

Think of the standard hype/maturity curve. Apple know how to play it.
Three generations ago it was also common to beat your children. I’m not sure that we should base moral arguments on what was common in the past.
Strong link problems vs. weak link problems
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In the data control of ChatGPT, you can now disable the use of your data for training:

Model improvement
Improve the model for everyone [ ]
Allow your content to be used to train our models,
which makes ChatGPT better for you and everyone who
uses it. We take steps to protect your privacy. Learn more

Still, I agree with the OP that all these ML/LLM should be on device. My mobile phone is very personal.
Yours is s PSA for updating browsers, but this doesn't explain breaking backwards compatibility since newer browsers with security updates don't break older CSS features.
Well generally yes although there are a couple of exceptions like IoT and GIS stuff where is very common to see 10TB+ datasets.
Yes, four slot DDR5 is going to be much slower than two slot DDR5 due to signal integrity difficulties. Look at a DDR5 motherboard’s qualified memory configurations and compare the x2 setups to x4 and you will see the huge difference in clock rates.
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Making the blue tick into a marker of "paid to be promoted, I have nothing to say" was another instantly backfiring decision.
It creates incentive to produce cheap energy, and some estimates peg Bitcoin as operating on more than 70% renewables.

It also takes power away from governments to continually apply hidden taxes that disproportionately affect the poor: inflation.

At the end of the day, yes, BTC is powered by decentralized energy production, but that feels a lot better than the credit/debit+fiat system, powered by centrally controllef violence.

The current system is a low bar to upgrade. Come up with a better proof of work than energy. Maybe Chia works. Until then BTC is the best thing we have for the problems it solves.
Because West is week and easily manipulated. Its just a travler guys lol, we are just testing our radio transmitter in Królewiec lol, oh we didnt know those buoys were yours Estonia oops. Shoot someone in broad daylight and there is no doubt you did it, take off military insignia before sending little green men and paid off morons in the West will call it a separatists revolution.

russia wont openly invade Baltics/NATO, they will send little green men under the cover of some self manufactured crisis. A big forest fire, chemical spill, maybe an aircraft crash or terrorist attack. Then it will be "touch our guys and we Nuke you" like they keep saying in Ukraine, with West trembling to cross magical imaginary red lines.
I'm not sure where the advantages come on the desktop for these new ARM platforms. Currently they have more disadvantages than advantages on the desktop platform: lack of upgradability and expandability, no out of the box support on Linux, not many SoC players yet to generate competition, new unproven platform; compared to laptops where ARM's extended battery life is the more important advantage that's less relevant on the desktop.

And these so called "desktops" are basically just Qualcomm's Mac-Minis rip-offs, but have nothing in common with desktop PCs or even NUCs, since they don't have PCI-E slots for plugging in dedicated GPUs, or extra peripherals like M.2 storage, making them basically just laptops without a screen and battery.

Especially considering that Qualcomm is the king and queen of making new proprietary bullshit standards and firmware blobs to lock you in and kill them with their planned obsolescence SW support. So until I see more competition on this front and proof these manufacturers are committed to long term support unlike how they don with their smartphone platforms, I'll stick to ye olde X86 PCs for now.
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I witness the overengineering regarding "big" data tools and pipelines since many years... For a lot of use cases, data warehouses and data lakes are only in the gigabytes or single-digit terabytes range, thus their architecture could be much more simplified, e.g. running DuckDB on a decent EC2 instance.

In my experience, doing this will yield the query results faster than some other systems even starting the query execution (yes, I'm looking at you Athena)...

I even think that a lot of queries can be run from a browser nowadays, that's why I created https://sql-workbench.com/ with the help of DuckDB WASM (https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb-wasm) and perspective.js (https://github.com/finos/perspective).
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Microsoft released a surface phone years ago and pissed off the developers by forcing them to rewrite everything and they all went to Android and iOS.

There has only been crack smokers at the wheel for the last 15 years or so.
You don’t.

Safari has supported CSS nesting since v16.5. The specification was updated to remove the earlier requirement to use & though, and support for that was introduced in v17.2. As long as you include the &, you can support everything back to v16.5.

Not sure what you are referring to regarding Windows < 10, but Windows 10 was released nine years ago. Only a tiny fraction of web developers need to support decade-old clients.

If you do need to support browsers that don’t understand CSS nesting, use PostCSS or Lightning CSS. They will transcode your nested CSS to older syntax browsers support. Then, when you drop support and remove those browsers from your browserslist, they will stop transcoding it and the CSS you deploy will get smaller. But you’ll have been writing standard nested CSS all along.
> The Shannon limit is constant if you assume reasonable but idealized SNR values for the medium

The Shannon limit is changed by changing technology over the medium, not the other way around.

If you signal with light on/off pulses, you get one limit. If you add polarization tricks (using different physical properties and tech), you get another limit. As you add QAM and a zillion other tricks, you get another channel limit. If you add quantum superdense coding, you get another channel limit. Each of those, until we learned there is yet another layer of physics and tech, would be "the Shannon Limit." All of these can be done on the same medium.

The Shannon limit is a mathematical *model* of a channel. It's not a physical/technological limit.

Here [1], for example, is a paper pointing this out for transoceanic undersea optical cables. "As pointed out in Section 9.3, the Shannon limit is only limiting if we assume there is no technical way to further improve the QoT..."

Technology changes routinely change the "Shannon Limit," since that limit has almost nothing to do with physics. Physics and the signaling technology define a Shannon Limit for that particular channel combination, nothing more.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/shannon-lim...
Show HN: Anxiety Companion Emotional AI
Unresolved anxiety can be paralyzing, especially when we go into analysis paralysis or "just push through".

Having a simple AI that understands some level of emotions can make us feel heard, it certainly validates my feelings which tames my anxiety and can get on with my day.

This is not a substitute for professional medical help!
R&D doesn’t happen by just theorizing what the maximum the market could sustain and then conjuring up those innovations out of thin air. It happens via sustained investment decisions over years. Those decisions are made in light of their costs and incentives, which change over time.

Either food can be “improved” under certain economic conditions (which are probably amplified by GLP-1s), or we’re at the theoretical maximum.

So you can give an argument why GLP-1s don’t produce strong incentive for R&D or you can argue that a stronger incentive won’t matter because we’re capped out, but historically the “if it could be better it would be better already” argument is disproved by capitalism on a daily basis.
If this were a top priority for the whole society?

Well this one is easy: UBI. My own country has a good experience with income transfer (Brazil, Bolsa Família) even it being so little money.
Are we absolutely sure she did and it isn't more of a Koko situation?
OpenHaystack: Tracking your Bluetooth devices with Apple's "Find My" network
edit: Lol at the bag holder brigading
The antismoking PSA that made the strongest impression on me, by far, was the one that showed a grandfather encouraging a baby to take a step. Eventually, the baby starts walking, and rushes over to the grandfather.

And through the grandfather, who fades to translucency.

It wasn't just me; that PSA made enough of a splash that it was called out on Friends.

I've tried to find that PSA in the past, but with no success. Once I asked a friend if they could find it, and the response was "Oh, I know exactly the one you're talking about. I won't help you look for it. I hate that commercial and I don't want to see it again."

Looks like it's made it onto youtube by now in glorious 240p: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6pb6XxrbmE

I note that the second comment is "This commercial was what made my father stop smoking." It's interesting to think about the balance between disturbing the smoking audience so strongly that they stop, and disturbing the non-smoking audience so strongly that they complain about being exposed to your traumatic imagery and imperil your funding.
Given that accidents involving BGP within the past several years have led to worldwide outages in the world's most used websites this is just not true. Also thousands of known bad announcements occur every year, which are usually used in a very small window to send large volumes of abusive advertisements.

There's no reason not to force the industry to hold people accountable for false announcements. The privilege of announcement should be acquired by posting a significant amount of capital as a bond, from which damages can be removed when a system makes a false announcement. The vast majority of damages are a result of network operators on the subcontinent -- it is high time we figure out how to make them take the issue seriously, and pay out the nose until they do.
A high pass filter eventually making any non mark leave ?
> longjmp and setjmp are not guaranteed to work.

Curious why the author words it like this, rather than just "not supported".
Wouldn't regulating who you can peer with potentially violate the 1st amendment? Since you're effectively regulating who someone's[0] computer can talk to?

[0] corporations being legally people.
I’ve got the exact opposite reaction to you: the improvements to CSS are making the CSS I write simpler.
Yes, I'm tired of Clojure fanboys recommending their language as a Lisp. It's not.
I'm curious if Twitter publishing view count just exposed his account and that caused a personal crisis. He posts about four times a day and I'm yet to find one valuable tweet from the last month. It could all be ai generated reposts from /r/im14andthisisdeep such as:

> Most people are secretly convinced that they are a little bit smarter and a little bit crazier than the average person.

> reminder: the fastest way to get unstuck is to change your environment

> Don't write a book or live a life that can that can be easily summarized.

> Coaching is 99% about listening which is why virtually everyone sucks at it.

Maybe the algorithm isn't the issue in this case.
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What's "much slower"? 10%? 30%? 60%? Are the speeds that don't work in an x4 configuration even within spec, or "overclocked"?

Is that why everyone is complaining about ddr5 prices? Atm I'm fine with my ddr4 box and will probably still be for the next few years.

Tbh the last time I've seen a noticeable difference from memory speed was when I overclocked my ram (and system bus!) from 66 to 100 Mhz. Back in the pentium 1 / amd k5 era, i believe.

I do have a feeling what you're describing only means 5 more fps in some benchmarks...

And last, a friendly reminder. If your working set doesn't fit in ram you're screwed no matter what your ram speed is :)
> - Most data isn't big. I can fit data about every person in the world on a $100 Chromebook. (8 billion people * 8 bits of data = 8GB)

Nitpick but I cannot help myself: 8 bits are not even enough for a unique integer ID per person, that would require 8 bytes per person and then we are at 60GB already.

I agree with pretty much anything else you said, just this stood out as wrong and Duty Calls.
I just wanted to say that it was quite amusing that the last sentence of the article was "There is no reason why the greatest financial system the world has ever seen cannot settle trades in real time", followed immediately by the next article headline "Boeing on track to meet FAA deadline to present quality control fixes", like it that was answering to the previous question.
Social platforms are entirely driven by 1 primary, habit-forming action — the slot machine scroll.

They call it doom scrolling for a reason. The other parts of the UI might as well not exist.

Even on Reddit and HN, there’s an absolutely devastating drop off between homepage visitors and subreddit visitors (or /ask /show visitors). You would be amazed how many Reddit users have never left the home tab.
Problem is that they've been made so dysfunctional by colonialism, and then often even after formally gaining independence, they continued to be purposefully destroyed by colonial forces through colonial taxes, financing corruptions, political influences, etc. Haiti was one of the riches countries in that part of the world, until France killed their economy by sanctions in revenge for their successful slave uprising. It lasted until 20th century, Haiti was paying France huge money. Some African countries are still to this day paying France taxes and France keeps all their money in the French central bank. Other countries like Belguim, Spain and even US were not much better. US dealers were buying off the colonial debts and traded with them on US stock-exchanges until 1940s or so.

And today this continues in the form of corruption by multi-national corporations. Almost all diamond mines are owned by a few western companies. Do you really think they want progressive democratic government in any of those countries? Nope, corrupted dictators are way better for business...
That's very helpful, thank you...
the latter. I don't own property and I'm seeing the writing on the wall.
Wait until you learn about undervolting.
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Yup, 9- is the reason (and only one) why I still use Twitter. The rest of the content is absolute garbage, as illustrated in the "for you" tab which seems to be a mix of all your other points.

There is btw a browser extension called "control pannel for twitter" available for FF and Chrome which let you hide the "for you" tab (among other options). Very useful on desktop. No such option for mobile though.
No, and neither did Hamas.
It's neither.

Lifestyle companies are fine, if that's what you're aiming for. I know plenty of people who run or work at ≈1-30 person companies with no intention to grow.

However, if you're going for high-growth, you need to plan for success. I've seen many potential unicorns stopped by simple lack of planning early on. Despite all the pivots which happen, if you haven't outlined a clear path from 1-3 people in a metaphorical garage to reaching $1B, it almost never happens, and sometimes for stupid reasons.

If your goal is 5000 paying customers at $100 per year and $500k in annual revenues, that can lead to a very decent life. However, it's an entire different ballgame: (1) Don't take in investment (2) You probably can't hire more than one person (3) You need a plan for break-even revenue before you need to quit your job / run out of savings. (4) You need much greater than the 1-in-10 odds of success.

And it's very possible (and probably not even hard) to start a sustainable 1-5 person business with >>50% odds of success, especially late career:

- Find a niche you're aware of from your job

- Do ballpark numbers on revenues. These should land in the $500k-$10M range. Less, and you won't sustain. More, and there will be too much competition.

- Do it better than the (likely incompetent or non-existent) people doing it now

- Use your network of industry contacts to sell it

That's not a big enough market you need to worry about a lot of competition, competitors with VC funding, etc. Especially ones with tall moats do well -- pick some unique skillset, technology, or market access, for example.

However, IF you've e.g. taken in VC funding, then you do need to plan for growth, and part of that is planning for the small odds your customer base (and ergo, your data) does grow.
> Nevertheless, I left a bit concerned that they hadn't updated their Chrome in 3 years. Software decays much quicker than hardware in a real way, especially with the never ending list of security vulnerabilities found every year. Theres definitely a case to be made that forcing software upgrades is good for the end user too.

It seems very easy to understand the logic here. What part don’t you grasp? Don’t support older versions => this pressures them to upgrade => upgrading is good for their security.
If one job is in the UK and the other job is in the EU, and I'm living in the UK... surely there must separate tax situations there?
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> For all the recent progress in wind and solar energy, renewables on their own almost certainly won’t be enough. Arguably, then, we have no choice but to figure out how to build nuclear plants affordably again.

What's the logic behind this?

Technology X and Y are making great progress but for unstated reasons won't be enough in some vague way so we need technology Z which is making much less progress.

I can think of complicated arguments you could make to support this view, but I don't think they stand up so it's odd to see it just stated without support.

Though maybe they start the sentence with "Arguably" because they don't really believe it either.

For reference see the recent Australian CSIRO report where they asses nuclear and, even assuming they can build them as well as South Korea, finds it more expensive than continuing with renewables.
Humans don't necessarily run the code step by step in their read to answer this question, either.

Quoting again the part that that prompted the discussion:

> While the programmers lay in a functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) scanner, the researchers showed them snippets of code and asked them to predict what action the code would produce

The question wasn't about whether the programmers understood the code but whether they can predict what the code will output.

I hypothesize that either the programmer recognizes the purpose of the code or they don't.

If they do recognize, their brain will probably engage with the code differently, in a more high level way, taking into account the bigger picture; but if they don't they probably need to execute it step by step to have any chance of predicting what they do, which is akin to doing a calculation.

It also depends on whether the code is a tangled mess or well structured; how descriptive are function names and variable names; whether the code has comments; etc.

And of course in real world code there is a mix of both modes of reasoning. And the point is, those two modes of reasoning might as well activate different regions of the brain. (or maybe not?)
Lol, when I was seeing them around as a teenager I was thinking to DIZ as "dizionario" in Italian (dictionary)... of course, had I thought a bit more, I could have figured out that it was probably not Italian.