skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But none of that was a reason to invoke the Emergencies Act, per the courts.
> You can’t exclude non English languages being you would still be surprised if it was in Spanish etc.

I'm not saying that the only surprising result is an English esssay. But sure, let's add all languages in the world. Getting a proper one-page essay is still surprising, because the absurd number of ways to arrange characters in one page. It's much much much larger than even the number of particles in the universe.

> but is probably 10^1,000 or so times more likely than any specific sequence.

Obviously. Your point? If the probability of an event is so low, it doesn't really matter if it's 1 in 10^1000 or 1^1000000. If that event happens, it is surprising.

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Anyway, I'm not arguing that the galaxy ring is a rare occurrence, hence surprising. I don't know even an approximate probability of it to happen.

I'm arguing against those who shrug and say "Well, it's random, so even a complex structure can form." Not necessarily. It all depends on the processes behind it.

Case in point: Darwin's evolution. The only reason that it's plausible that random processes can transform basic living organisms into complex ones like mammals is DNA replication.

Without DNA replication, random mutations between generations would be independent, just like random key presses by a monkey. You need to start over every time. This makes it essentially impossible to form complex organisms over time, considering how long DNA of complex organisms is.
I miss when the internet was full of whimsical stuff like this. Great library, thanks for sharing!
Once a Sheriff's Deputy in Florida, Now a Source of Disinformation from Russia
> very cold

it does take some special point of view to assert that!

> lacks nuance

yes true, but the topic is valid and widely applicable. The journalist did a bad job of an engineering problem, but maybe an OK job of casting light on this subject.

> as some Texans can remind you, it really sucks when that energy fails to show up when needed.

it is hard to express the irony of the free state of Texas, their impact on economy and their impact on global climate catastrophe, in a few short words. Way to go to paint it in the most myopic terms. Of course you are also right because every life is a personal life, too.

> Far too many people who want to phase natural gas out quickly don't consider the tradeoffs

this is a political situation and a political moment. All things considered, globally, yes it is time for a political change.
Cigarette-type smoke doesn’t trigger smoke alarms.
I highly recommend against Microsoft Surface products. I bought them for my dev team and we saw 3 of the 10 or so devices fail and need to be replaced.

The RMA experience in other countries may differ to Australia, but it meant my team were without a dev spec'd laptop in total of close to a month across the whole team. They had to use off the shelf laptops and use a VDI for computational taxing workloads while waiting for a replacement device.

Throw in how ordinary the support process was with Microsoft, e.g., no phone contact number, only email, correspondance takes 1-2 days to start and the back and forth taking another few hours each way. We wasted a lot of time on these devices and the bullshit Microsoft support process.

Devs are now split between Lenovo ThinkPads and MacBooks now depending on their wants and needs. I've never seen a failure record like what we had with the Surfaces as we have with any other hardware provider.
I'm launching a brand-new SaaS Security product. I plan to get it to $1M ARR
I’m launching a brand-new SaaS security product and I plan to get it to $1M ARR in 12 months, bootstrapped

Here’s my 5-step hypothesis for the game plan:

Step 1: Find a VC-backed product and create a 'Low-Cost’ version:

We're creating a product to provide visibility into Admin mistakes on SaaS platforms . There are 10-15 products doing this that are VC-backed. (https://www.getclearsight.com)

Right now, any admin can install apps through the SaaS app stores, change the security configurations, or extend permissions to other people. In the meantime, the security team is completely unaware of what's going on.

We are looking for customers that track ‘what's going on' inside their SaaS tools. We will automate that process for them.

Step 2: Plan a different GTM motion

→ My goal is to get the first five customers through cold outreach, personal network, and events. We’ll also test AWS, Azure, and GCP marketplaces to see if they drive organic traffic.

→ Onboarding should be simple and self-serve.

Step 3: Develop the product

We'll use Bubble for the front end and Make for the back end. We will connect to 150+ SaaS apps through a white-labeled integration platform(Paragon). We’ll find out exactly How far can No-code go

The product should be ready within 30 days or less.

Step 4: Create a viral (and free) offer

I want to create a PLG motion with a free offer vs. the industry standard of ‘Get Pricing.’

People will not use a free security product. We’ll need to make a useful offer but de-risk it for them until they trust us. What kind of free offer would be a good fit?

Step 5: Activate Marketing channels.

Testing Reddit for PPC. The cost is lower than LinkedIn. Yet, if you filter by subreddits, you can ‘target by title’.

I’m creating the ‘Hands-On CISO’ podcast to interview security leaders. This would give me facetime with them and help me learn more about the field. I’ll produce high-quality content that they can share on their social media to build their brand.

If the AWS marketplace is successful (from step 2), I will double down on it. I will also consider integrating through the SFDC/HubSpot/Zendesk app stores.

Step 6: Add AI for Threat analysis

After we get some direction from customers, we plan on adding AI to perform a basic security review. This will allow us to automate more steps they're doing.

We'll treat the AI component as a 'junior security analyst'.

From here, we’ll try to find ways to go even faster.

I’m feeling positive about the playbook. And, I’m also preparing for things to go not according to plan.

So, in summary, the plan is to:

→ Find a good ‘Low-Cost’ concept

→ Challenge existing GTM

→ Develop using No-code

→ Create a free offer

→ Marketing.

IF it works, I think we can get to $1M ARR in 12 months.

That’s a big IF :)

At least we’ll have fun
https://archive.ph/2024.05.29-143235/https://www.nytimes.com...
> Also, aren’t the bits we can visit physically separated from the broader quarry network due to cave-ins?

The bits that can be visited legally is the museum, and it's isolated with man-made walls, not accidental cave-ins. It's very much on purpose. There have been several occurences of people digging holes from the illegal part to the museum for fun (like doing parties), swiftly fixed by the IGC. Speaking of the IGC, their sole purpose is to avoid said cave-ins.

And to expand a bit about the pedantic distinction: there are multiple ossuaries in the largest network of quarries: the official one, and two others only accessible illegally. There's one under the Montparnasse cemetery (the one visible in most catacumbs youtube videos), and another one near porte d'orléans.

> At least one quarry, the Montsouris reservoir, and I think parts of the old sewers as well. Those are already quite cool and interesting.

Yup! Those are definitely worth a visit. And fun fact, there are two "layers" to the montsouris reservoir: the top one with the water, that can be visited, and the bottom ones, which are the foundations of said water "tank". It's a forest of large pillars with a few artifacts. AFAIK those are not visitable legally, but were illegally due to a crawlspace between the illegal part of the quarries and it. It was quite fun :)

> There are near misses regularly

Indeed. Most of the times where the fire brigade is called is when there are accidents in the accesses to the quarries: opening manholes, falling off ladders, etc. And whenever such an accident occurs, the authorities closes off the access to avoid further accidents. Well, unless it's a safe one to avoid more dangerous ones to be opened by people. I've used several such accesses that where ... not smart to use, to say the least :)

(oh and pass the bonjour to your mate from someone I hope he'll never have to rescue!)

> teenagers who got lost for 3 days a couple of years ago.

this is very rare; usually from a combination of drug use and sheer bad luck. given how many people there are dwelling during the weekend, it's rare for noone to stuble on you when lost.
Obligatory comment about India taxing air conditioners as luxury goods while people are literally dying of heat strokes every summer
> it reads like far left/far right infighting

It's far-left versus anyone right of Mao. There are no far-right people of note here.

>Personally, I don't feel sad with someone getting banned who thinks LGBT people don't have a right to exist.

So you're OK with banning Muslims? Personally, I don't feel sad with someone getting banned who thinks Israeli people don't have a right to exist. See what I did there? This is fallacious thinking.

>But hyperpartisan groups are more likely to scour people's social media/blogs/etc to find any reason imaginable to ban them.

Indeed. This is inexcusable behavior. It's seeking out things to feign "outrage" over in order to make political moves such as ousting any members that are not ideologically aligned.
Nuclear is really terrible at peak loads; it's a very reliable base load. It's basically impossible to quickly increase or decrease the output of a nuclear plant.
Stuff that works well in homes often is a lot more complicated to implement in restaurants, where you're: a) constantly fighting grease buildup and hard-to-remove dust that clings to greasy or damp surfaces, b) often have a profit margin of like 2% if you're one of the successful ones, c) aside from looking clean, you have to worry about pest control, fire codes, health codes (you can't have built-up dust falling in people's food, d) etc etc etc etc. Also, how restaurants look is as, or in some cases more important than the quality of the food. A good, attractive, practical restaurant design is one of the things that can steer you towards success or failure. Much to many chefs chagrin, hip and attractive restaurants with shitty boring food are often more profitable than ones that only focus on the food. Marketing is annoyingly important.

With, floors hardwood is a hard surface (so only mildly sound damping) so they're not too bad for cleaning and health stuff, but are expensive to install and take a lot to maintain if the worn-in look doesn't fit the aesthetic. Low-pile carpets can be shampood inexpensively for medium-term maintenance and replaced comparatively cheaply in the long run, but take a lot more effort to keep clean when someone drops a catering tray full of crème caramel and something with a port wine reduction.

Artwork: anything that you'd want hanging on your walls is either going to need to be a print or covered with glass or plastic because it will get ruined otherwise.

Acoustic panels are usually pretty ugly, difficult to clean, not resistant to pests, are a fire liability if coated in grease, etc.

Curtains definitely are definitely viable, but if you've got enough of them to really impact the sound level, they probably need to be expensive ones, and expensive curtains can't just be tossed in the wash and pressed on an ironing board.

It's not like they aren't effective, they're just not nearly as easy to deploy or maintain as they are in homes or offices.
Multi-Tasking with Minimized Custom Tabs
Yup, and far too much spinning going on in the runtime too.
Thanks for links, hadn't heard about this.
It seems staggeringly obvious to me that AI isn't "sentient" by any common definition of the word, but I don't think that "it falsely reports embodied sensation" is the best refutation of that
https://archive.ph/5qpCu
Simulating Tree Growth Through Cellular Automata Digital Evolution
I worried about that once too. It actually takes a lot of smoke to set those bad boys off. Less than a gram of burned leaf isn’t going to do it.
I don’t think this is meant for general appeal, it is a very intelligent BYD flex to show that hybrid cars can have long range and that they can beat their competitors in one more metric.
You could always provide an extension that loads itself as a .dll/.so. I don't see much difference in friction between adding an extension through google's website vs. download setup.exe from somewhere. Of course like you say, using less user-hostile software is preferable.
Are those project aria glasses actually available for purchase? You say cheap, that implies there’s a price somewhere. Looks like an internal experiment. I would love to be able to buy something like this, but all of the commercially available wearable computers are pretty crappy in my experience.
“”” When I conclude that you are experiencing hunger when you say “I’m hungry,” my conclusion is based on a large cluster of circumstances.”””

Giving a machine a sensation of hunger may not be the wisest road to AGI for humanity. Just saying.
> And this is how I know you haven't used Kagi at all.

I guess the identical search results in my niche are an example of convergent enshittification of both Kagi and Google then
I haven’t but thinking about how to make it possible. There are 2 major things that burn me out:

1. Technologies are constantly changing and I can’t keep up. I used to do .NET MVC (4.7 or whatever, the old stuff) development. Then switched to cold fusion for a different employer and recently tried to do the latest .NET web stuff. It has changed beyond recognition. I have to start studying everything from scratch. I don’t have neither time nor motivation for this. What if next years update to .NET will make all my knowledge obsolete again? Screw that.

2. Job interviews and finding jobs.

I wish I could make a living playing in a rock band.
You have a degree in economics and think we should be manufacturing EVs & solar panels domestically? It seems like you've internalized the things you've learned in your degree as "stories" and the way-the-wind-blows media coverage of our 'adversaries' as real.
Surprised that I haven't seen Oliver Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks[0] mentioned. It's kind of a lot but I found it helpful.

I'm personally still working on this problem, and just in the last week found this[1] SLYT video. It was helpful.

[0]: https://www.oliverburkeman.com/books
[1]: https://youtu.be/-AdXIC44b7Q?si=J5CGx5YJBTqMFSV7
I see a huge markdown fan! I'm on the same page! We're building an entire ecosystem for markdown slides for the same reason.

The same design for all slides in the same workspace, a hosted version for non-developers, each slide has its own public url for easy slide playback, and more ...

Try if you are interested in slidepicker.com (beta)
Unfortunately Perth and Brisbane have climbed a great deal closer to Sydney now. The gap in terms of cost to buy or rent is narrowing, at current rates we're looking at the gap closing entirely in the next 5-10 years.
This seems more reasonable than I expected from the headline. They already have a solar farm, they're looking to add a gas-fired peaker plant right next to it to handle spikes in demand. It won't run 24/7.

It's not great, but it's probably less bad than a coal-fired plant which is what they imply is used to meet the demand currently. And it's probably significantly cheaper than deploying enough battery storage to meet the demand.

There's also complaints about the location and about the plant being just under the size that would require an environmental review. Those are fair, but the utility is working withing the rules, so folks should really be taking those complaints to their legislature if they want the rules changed.
Fair points. I've had some frustrations with bluetooth; but, to be fair, same things happen for me on my Windows box (can't use high quality playback and mic at the same time).

Gaming I don't even attempt on Linux, though I've met two or three people now who are convinced you can 100% do it these days with Wine-based platforms and the right drivers.

Docks, in my limited experience, are a shit show on any system. I use Lenovo's thunderbolt dock (the expensive one) with my X1 Carbon Gen 6. It mostly works. I've been having problems with HDMI lately, no idea why.

FWIW, I used to have a super duper high end MacBook from work. It had similar problems. :shrug:
https://archive.md/0ZM8n
> Republicans expanded their majority on the utility commission to 4-1 in 2022 and have taken steps since then to reverse clean energy mandates.

This infuriates me. They're being oppositional simply for the sake of being oppositional.

Fuckers.
Do you realise that the link you posted just proves what you were arguing against?
I know there are many legends like this, but I wouldn't be too sure about that.

For example, most of the authors of the old-time classics were not employed by Microsoft when they wrote their books. I think Charles Petzold (Windows Programming) was a freelancer, Jeffrey Richter (MFC) was working a company called Wintellect, David Solomon (Inside Windows NT) had a seminar company (Solsem), I think initially primarily for VMS and Mark Russinovich (Inside Windows 2000) at Winternals Softwre.
Do you thing that was a coincidence, or do do you believe in effect and cause?
Is that really unique to IT? Small to medium companies, academic and govt IT jobs will typically never reach those income levels. I think the Avg software dev salary in the US is around 77k, so a lot of the IT field has to make a lot less.

I agree in large tech companies that absolutely exists, but I also see it in legal, medical and some other professions that a subset of them can reach similar income levels. (250k+ by mid to late 30's, 400k+ if in Bay or similar CoL area).

Its a nice reality when you can be ~40 and have the freedom to retire whenever you want, but its not one I see as common for the majority of tech workers.
Strong disagree. So much space dedicated to touristy pictures that could be used for books instead. Very poorly laid out and hard to get around all of the people taking selfies, and even once you do I found their book selection to be lackluster (at least for historical non-fiction)
Baltimore used to have a really cool Barnes and Noble in a former power plant building. Place closed back in 2020.
I've got a blog on my own domain, and I'd love to be able to write as well as you one day. So far I've mostly stuck to photos (⌒_⌒;).
I think maybe you're misinterpreting what I've stated. I'm only saying that the national party is picking from the list of current congress critters to propose trial balloons. However, the national party will help someone get elected if they feel it is a race that needs the extra attention.
Personally I wish work hours were more flexible. I would be happy cutting my pay in half if I only had to work 20 hours a week.
Very cool for a PoC. I suspect a dense neural net approach would give much better results though.
This was unironically me in my early 20s. It wasn't so bad. Obviously eventually you get bored of this lifestyle and it's not really compatible with more "serious" responsibilities like having a family or more demanding jobs. But at the time I made good career progress, never got in any legal trouble, didn't pick up any worse habits, no adverse health outcomes, etc. And I think smoking weed for a few years made me permanently more mindful and less anxious (YMMV, apparently for some people the opposite happens).

For me, I eventually "grew up" and just found myself organically phasing it out of my life. Part of that was it was annoying to constantly be "picking up" in a state where it was illegal. And I didn't have access to giga-potent strains and non-flower administration routes. I don't think we should encourage people to be frying themselves 24/7 on dabs, extracts, 95% pure THC vape pens, etc. I'm not sure I would fully endorse 100% legality/open access like many states have. I still occasionally have a puff of a 10:1 CBD:THC vape pen and it hits the spot. But that is like 2% of what my local dispensary offers. Most of it is specifically sold as frying your brain.
If you priced carbon emissions for building the car into the cost of new cars, it would fix this. In the case of your example, the used car would be worth more than $8k because new cars would be correspondingly more expensive.

Of course the problem is as you said how do you price carbon emissions.
Sorry, but to my UK friends the phrase "random nonces" holds a different interpretation to the rest of us. Learned that one from sorry experience.
But that's what makes a protest effective: it's inconvenient! Otherwise, the protest has no power to change anything. As long as its not violent or blowing things up I think "the establishment" should at least concede that.

Case in point: look what happened in Israel when the Abraham Accords were signed, Hamas decided to go for the "nuclear" option.
In many countries you even can't claim copyright for the output of the AI to use license like this.
Been to Comal a few times, need to go again and pay closer attention
Given the rapidly declining state of individual privacy, when discussing these extensions it helps to be specific about the authorized agency and context. For example, these days, it's pretty much a given that NSA-type spy agencies are already getting all of whatever electronic communications they want with little friction. In the US there are certain supposed safeguards against surveilling US citizens domestically but we've already seen how quickly and easily these have been circumvented by using partner 'five eyes' agencies and commercial data brokers.

While this is obviously problematic, to me, it's even worse if domestic law enforcement agencies gain new ways to remove friction like warrant requirements or at least the need to make specific per-instance requests (which are possible to (in theory) be tracked and reviewed to detect over-use and abuse). The idea of domestic law enforcement agencies gaining access to "full take" feeds of everything enabling them to retrospectively build massive connection trees of metadata which can be searched is downright terrifying.
> The definition of 'Totaled' is when a comparable car on the used market can replace your vehicle for less than or equal to the repair costs.

Only in Texas and Colorado. Almost all states require cars to be declared a total loss before that.

The most common definitions are

1. The Total Loss Formula, which is when the value of the car is less than or equal to the repair costs plus the salvage value of the vehicle

2. 75% threshold -- which is when the repair costs are 75% of the price to replace your vehicle

https://www.carinsurance.com/Articles/total-loss-thresholds....
Regardless of whether the data is actually being used to train an LLM, as long as it's going over the network to an LLM provider, there's the possibility that it will be used. Or exfiltrated from the provider's servers and sold on the dark web. Or a million other things that can go wrong when you provide a 3rd party access to your personal data.

If LLMs are actually here to stay, then we need to keep shrinking the inferencing costs to the point that everyone can run it on the client, and avoid all of these problems at once...
More of certain types of light, importantly.

They don’t have the dynamic range of colors to capture all the colors our eyes can see, but they can pick up other types of light that we can’t.

This fact was pointed out in a lot of reviews of the Vision Pro. It’s just about good enough to make you forget you’re in augmented reality but the world looks more dull and lifeless because your eyes see more vibrant colors than small digital sensors.
I went when it was part of Indigo chain and I would say its aesthetics didn't match the 'book superstore' vibe of Chapters or its parent company, but just the volume of books made up for it.

It had a great selection of SciFi books.