skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OT, but 7.2 reads like the description of some Yu-Gi-Oh card or something:

> Mistral AI may terminate this Agreement at any time [...]. Sections 5, 6, 7 and 8 shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
My hearing aids have a custom directional hearing section I can modify. I’ll give this a try next time I’m in a crowded area.
Have you considered teaching software fundamentals in say an AP computer science class at a high-school or as part of a CS program at a university? This way you'd not have to follow the latest and greatest stuff at the bleeding edge but instead would get to focus on the fundamentals and make a difference by helping students and providing your insight and war stories to the next generation.
Yep, phone cameras can pick up IR light which is very useful for testing whether a TV remote works or not!
The US comparative advantage is in agriculture, an insanely protected industry, computer software, which is the most mobile industry on the planet, and financial services, which produces nothing. If we want to be good at anything, we need to have the first, worse attempts be worth it.
Teaching an AI to invent new Chinese characters
Andreessen Horowitz also invested in Adam Neuman's new thing. Overpriced small apartments I think it was.
> The next someone gets excited about installing a shiny new heat pump in a place that can get very cold (which includes parts of Arizona!), remember that its coefficient of performance can get quite low on a cold winter night,

Ground loop heat pumps are efficient in nearly any climate short of perma-frost. They do cost a lot and I imagine they aren't exactly cost efficient in Arizona, but the technology means heat pumps are viable even in places where the temperature drops below 0 degrees fahrenheit.

The other solution is good insulation so the house doesn't need a ton of heating at night.
I had to refresh my memory, I was thinking of load following plants, not peaker plants. Thats my bad.
Most users are going to be already logged in on their phone apps so they won’t be affected. And the inconvenience is most likely going to be chucking up a captcha to prevent automated attempts.
Oh no, it's the HN police again. Everyone duck and cover!
> The possibility of America placing sanctions on RISC-V

this is why they must get their messaging right? I disagree, I think America is who is wrong and should focus on getting "right", but I hate how in this political times right is associated with republicanism. wtf
No we should ignore the loons in Washington and instead use Session/Briar to communicate privately. What Senator Timmy gonna to do, pass a law? :^)
> Even if you do your own thing and make something super cool, nobody's gonna stumble upon it randomly. You either have to spam it on social media or aim for high ranking in search results (while that's still somewhat of a possibility).

Seems like this might depend on the objective. Spamming social media and aiming for search rank might be necessary for ad revenue, self-promotion, or other conversions, whatever those might be. But it is not strictly necessary. Doing your own thing and making something cool can be 100% the end in itself.

The issue I have leans the other way. I'm hesitant to self-publish anymore primarily because I don't want my work to get sucked up into the commercial machinery of the Big Tech Web. I have no interest and gain no benefit from feeding AI, scrapers, aggregators, or other "creators" who do surf around for other people's work they can mill into their own hash for their own purposes.

I'd love it if I could somehow publish only for other end-user humans, but I don't see how I can do that without paradoxically engaging with some aspect of the commercial apparatus. It's like a Foucaultian nightmare. There's no way not to be part of the system. Rejecting it requires first embracing it.

To wit: here I am on HN complaining about giving away my work for free
How is that "putting in wrong figures"? It's a perfectly valid prompt, written in clear, proper English.
I ask software developers to do the same thing and give them the same amount of time. None of them ever write a single line of code :)
Brahmin education system was exclusive to Brahmin and Kshatriyas.

Vedas were taught only to Brahmin males for most of history. And higher philosophy such as Advaita Vedanta were taught only to Brahmins.

There exist many Brahminical schools in India even today where you can gain admission only if you are born to a Brahmin family.

Buddhists paid no attention to caste, and after long interview and/or written tests, people from any caste could gain entrance to Buddhist higher education institutions.

And many Hindu kings, not only Guptas, nurtured and sponsored Buddhist higher ed. institutes and higher officials of their administrations almost always were exclusively gradutes of such institutions.
What about things like unencrypted websockets? Or raw TCP/UDP connections?
> I love the idea of a virtual filesystem / directory that lets me see things based on LLM-led naming. Just, leave my main files alone

I like this idea.
Are there any IDE plugins that index your entire code base in order to provide contextual responses AND let you pick between the latest models?

If not, consider it a product idea ;)
> Who cares? It seems you're not allowed to integrate this with anything else and show it to anyone, even as an art project.

Now they just lack the means to enforce it.
Sometimes like in Cheers, but plenty of references are using the modern version. Family guy season 2 used it in 1999 4 years before 4chan launched let alone became popular.

Now not everyone is going to use something just because it was on TV, but it definitely played a role.
Taken to the extreme, a sufficiently broken down prompt is simply the code itself.

The whole point is to prompt less?
So, it's almost entirely useless with that license, because the average pack of corpo beancounters will never let you use it over whatever Microsoft has already sold them.
IBDNS: Intentionally Broken DNS server
we dont have these tariffs in europe, and still the sunnyest place in europe, the Canary Islands, make 85% of their electricity with oil. Always wonder why they dont have more solar panels.
I have to admit, I have never really understood this need to be found and this focus on discoverability. Unless you are monetizing your audience, why does it matter whether 10, 1000 or 100,000 people read your blog? If I write something on the Internet, or release some open source program, or post a video, I’m not making any money off of views: I’m doing it for myself. So I don’t really ultimately care how many people read it or view it.

I firmly believe the best content on the Internet is not necessarily the stuff optimized for search engines and audience-building. We shouldn’t really care about that.
At the end of the day, a business still needs a human to sign on the line and be registered with the state.

Until I can submit an App ID as a responsible party, I'm guessing CEOs will be here to stay.
Sleepless in Seattle as a Hellcat Roars Through the Streets
> ...now the conservatives can use emergency powers to deal with protests too. The cat's out of the bag, and people with left-leaning politics who were okay with the powers being applied to the trucker protest, I'm sure we'll find they're all of the sudden not so okay when it's applied to a protest they favour.

That just means the conservatives can never be allowed to win elections...to protect Democracy!
I don't think you can generalize it like that. Hunger comes from signals originating in your stomach. Without a stomach, you're brain would lose energy -- and I'd wager the symptoms would be more like oxygen deprivation than "hunger".
Ask HN: Is Stripe the new PayPal, cancelling user accounts without explanation?
I have a side-hustle doing podcast production and hosting. Rather than charging a fixed fee I operate on the "value for value" model: if you got some value from the work I'm doing then please visit my website and return some value by sending in a donation, either a check in the mail or online using Stripe. This has worked very well for the past few years and I've been able to cover all of my expenses, upgrade my gear, and make people happy.

Now I've now been told by Stripe that my business is in violation of their rule; for more than two days I've been trying to get someone -- ANYONE -- at Stripe to tell me how I'm in violation and what I can do to remedy the situation but the only reply I've gotten is "Unfortunately, following an additional review of your account, we’re still unable to support your business as it falls under one of our restricted businesses categories" but no details are given beyond that. The only thing that seems to make sense as prohibited is "Transactions that provide compensation to creators without an underlying piece of digital content associated. Examples include subscriptions to free, public content or a tip button on a profile page." Okay, if that's the problem then I'll take down the donation button and sell actual swag (t-shirts, mugs, whatever) but give me a chance to comply instead of just saying you don't want to do business with me without ever giving me an unambiguous reason!

UPDATE: I finally got a reply from someone at Stripe who pointed me at this page -- https://stripe.com/legal/restricted-businesses -- but now I have to start this question cycle again because nothing on this page applies to what I am doing.
I responded to another comment but after reading this thread noticed my hearing aids have a custom directional hearing section I can modify.
Nice! I do something similar with Dropbox Paper in presentation mode and also with Jupyter notebooks with the presentation feature. Of course, without all the extra nice features this has.
What's RAN? It's not in the link.
Nothing I am saying is at odds with modern ethics. I am literally presenting what is basically hetheredoxy. Rights can be natural or artifical (social, legal, etc...). For rights to be natural, you need to appeal to a God, or to natural morality. If you are looking for rights that aren't necessarily natural, you can derive them from a moral theory. There are moral theories that are not derived from an appeal to divinity or metaphysics, but they cannot claim to be naturally and objectively true.

So I still do not understand how we aren't saying the same thing. Rawls proposes a system of universal rights based on a particular moral theory, he does not prove that his system of rights is natural, it is artificial. In fact, Rawls is not a proponent of natural rights, he is a proponent of socially determined rights, hence his theory of the Veil that allows us to socially evaluate proposed rules.
Well, semi trucks are required to have license plates, and if they are for commercial purposes, the information on the licensee can be obtained easily.

It wouldn't bother me if they were required to transmit this information via radio, though of course for ground vehicles one can simply visually look at the plate number (something impossible to do for an erratically flying aircraft, at least without a killer zoom lens and tripod).

And then, for DOT hazmat licensing, which is perhaps more comparable to a private jet in terms of risk, the registration requirements are quite stringent, and including prominent display of DOT hazmat labels, as well as licensing information which is of course public.

It seems to me that private jets just became far more opaque than semi trucks, relative to their transport mode.
There are some restaurants we don't often go to because they are too loud to be enjoyable. Luckily its patio weather most of the year here in California so eating outside is generally much quieter and enjoyable.

I also have trouble discerning sounds in crowded spaces. Thanks for sharing your diagnosis, really interesting to think about.
Top lieutenant to 'Crypto King' jailed for seven years
I really think that an AI license would be the best solution, at least for school kids but ideally for everyone in a professional context. Operating an AI is very different than operating a computer as the former can cause real damage to the tech-"illiterate".
For common non-tech folk, this is how computers always worked. You tell these machines to do things for you, and they do. Why are you gasping at the image/text/audio it just made.
Please stop. Get some help. No, seriously.
Sorta yes, sorta no.

If I know that when I drink brandy I start fights, and I nonetheless decide to drink brandy - that's on me, not the brandy.
The difference is production moves from multiple people / skills to potentially one person, the writer, who ideally already knows emotions in scene. Economics makes sense before one click audio book / production as long as it's subtantially labour reducing.
I was going to add the same thing, this isn't only something the telecom providers do, the equipment providers include lawful intercept features as part of the equipment, the telecom just has to setup access. I don't have a chance to check right now, but I think this is even part of the published standards.
> Attributing bad behavior to a lack of will power is not being honest about it.

No, it's not being honest about it. Having read the article, it's apparent to me that the author has a lot of problems, and weed isn't the cause of them. The person is an addict, period. And, basically, the entire article reads as a celebration of their addiction and their "I don't care" attitude. The author ought to consider attending AA or NA meetings.

I say this as an alcoholic (nearly 4 years sober) and a daily marijuana (edibles) user. Driving while high, like drunk driving, is very selfish behavior. It's not about your own safety (I couldn't care less if this person killed themselves while driving high), but rather the safety of innocent bystanders you're more likely to harm. Especially given the admission that they drove into a parked car while sober!

I, like the author, often use marijuana daily. However, I'm not stoned all day, and it doesn't make me unmotivated. I use weed as one of many tools for dealing with chronic pain (I have arthritis in every joint in my spine and every disk is degenerative), but I'm also working with my doctors on treatments, including physical therapy (which is painful, but also very effective) and, pain blocks, injections, braces and other treatments. Because weed is effective for me dealing with pain, it's actually a motivator and productivity booster for me. But, one needs to be responsible about it. I often work from home, so I don't have to worry about driving. On days I do have to go into the office (I take the train for most of it, but do have to drive several miles to get to the station), I refrain from using until I am home for the day.
Hey, as long as you agree that making meta comments about who is making what comments in which message board, as opposed to directly addressing the substance, is worthless and bad then I am glad to have convinced you over to that.
No, it's just a chronic lack of sidetone in these devices.

Sidetone is the small amount of feedback in the earpiece as you speak into the microphone. The telephone company figured this out 100 years ago and then, somehow, we totally dropped it when mobile phones came along. We've been shouting into microphones ever since.
A simple reason I don't smoke more often is because I might be asked to drive someone somewhere. Its a pretty common responsibility in a family, I would think.
Running Go on Val Town
> Unlike solar or wind or even a battery system of any reasonable size, it can be run when needed and turned off when needed

Wind is available at night. Solar + battery is available whenever. Battery storage can replace gas peaker plants

> keep everything working reliably under adverse conditions

What adverse conditions are you imagining?

> So surely the article should talk about the economics (to the grid operator and to the rate-payers)

Are renewables + storage not cheaper than gas plants?

> shiny new heat pump in a place that can get very cold

https://www.wired.com/story/myth-heat-pumps-cold-weather-fre...
> The man is a visionary rocket scientist and electric car pioneer

That’s a strange way of saying “he’s rich”.
Thank you, I'll check these out. I'm willing to pay a pretty penny at this point.
They almost have to, because ACs are so power-hungry. The utilities situation in India hasn't improved in 50 years.

Back in the day, in the summer months, it was routine to see:

* power cuts of several _hours_ a day (two or three stretches of 1-2 hours each).

* water supply for only an hour or so, or maybe 2 one-hour periods (morning and evening).

They would rotate the supply around various neighborhoods, to avoid a complete collapse of utilities. We all learned to collect water in giant buckets and tubs for daily use.

At least in the past, there were alternatives to ACs: swamp or desert collers were a common one: they were just big box fans with evaporative mats through which a small pump would drip water. In dry climates (like northern India in the summer) they work amazingly well (they could cool a room down by 20-30 F easily).
Radio Access Network - basically think the cell phone towers and the equipment for those towers.
There's always the next thing to be outraged about. This morning I heard about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
Not the GP, but I still remember, when I was looking for where one could set an abbreviated version of a text (I don't remember, if it was a whole post's text or some description or what.). I must have searched for 30 minutes or so, until I gave up and searched in a search engine. Imagine my disbelieve, when I saw, that they use friggin HTML comments, to indicate where to make the text cutoff. In terms of storing data cleanly in the database, this is a bad design. Also sooo unintuitive. There is a field or button for everything, but suddenly I need to put HTML comments into text. What.
i think sensations and real world 'awareness' would be a positive, the danger would come from allowing 'it' the agency to explore variations of hallucinations, to generate a plan of action.
The claim of the title turns out to be significantly narrower when you get into the text. Still, it offers some good points. The following is perhaps what’s most relevant to Hacker News.

> In this, as Elle has pointed out before, the economics of publishing are a lot like venture capital investment: most books, the overwhelming majority, don’t sell. Companies make many mini-bets. Very occasionally, a bet in their portfolios goes absolutely wild and they finally make a profit entirely on the success of just a handful, or at most a couple dozen, books a year, despite officially publishing hundreds or even thousands. To publish a book (which is hard enough as it is, and requires a good deal of luck) is merely to enter this further grand lottery.
Just having rooftop solar panels on a building actually passively cools the roof underneath since you're basically building a shade structure for the building. The initial install is certainly more work than putting the panels in a field but the bonus cooling from the free shade may offset or negate the additional expense.
He's not talking about willpower. I once heard it said that there are no "bad people" only people behaving badly. I would beg to differ, some people use their willpower to mask the fact that they want to behave badly until they think they can get away with it. These people use anything they can as an excuse for taking off their mask and abusing those around them. I've had past partners who blamed their abuse on some substance or circumstance or other. Drugs don't make you bad, drugs don't remove empathy or insert sadism. But people like to blame them for when they let those behaviors out. That's what Zappa was talking about.
International crime like ransomware would stop working. I wonder if the entire value of crypto is propped up on the value of enabling crime.
Any reason why evolution didn't give us IR vision too?
US to modernize electrical grid – for clean energy and fewer outages
It will currently cost you $1 to send any amount of ETH to another address and that transaction will take 3 minutes. For $1.30, that same transaction will take 30 seconds.

You can do those same transfers cheaper and faster on an Ethereum layer 2.
I agree, a serious tool should be taking into account the length of the output delay and reducing effects to match the conditions. But you can still do some of it, sometimes.
Based comes from the BasedGod himself, Lil B. It wouldn't surprise me if he were also on 4chan but afaik that's also where 4chan found the term. Before Lil B flipped the term it was derogatory and referred to users of crack cocaine.
>The fact that he wants to get it in the first place

"I can spend it better," is how I've heard this said by a major donor.

Unfortuneately, I don't think he's entirely incorrect =|
One thing I'd love to see is whether bundlers can "statically compile" the TSL nodes via constant propagation into a single template literal.
sorry to hear that. I don't exaggerate, but the unfortunate part is there is a lot of FUD out there- I just had a friend install nordvpn because someone sent her a gift card scam email to her business email address. So there's a lot of misinformation out there, mostly from folks selling product.

Password management is one of those fundamental security foundations- essentially serving as the 'root of trust' for your own personal digital life. If you mess that up, you're in for a world of hurt. I don't mess around with passwords. Taking your analogy, would you intentionally stand outside under a tree in a thunderstorm, figuring that the risk of getting hit by lightning is so small?
It works amazingly well for the ones that never coded in Rust, at least in my experience. It took me a couple hours and 120 lines of code to set up a WebRTC signaling server.
Harassing people, preventing people sleeping for weeks, this is not "inconvenience" it's violence and intimidation against fellow citizens. I have zero sympathy or tolerance for violent occupations that force people out of their home, nor their supporters who try to pretend these things didn't happen.
Transformers have quadratic computational complexity in sequence length, i.e. O(N^2) where N is the sequence length. RNNs, Linformer, Mamba, etc. have linear or quasi-linear computational complexity in sequence length, which often bottlenecks information movement across tokens.

In theory, if you grew the RNN's state quadratically vs sequence length, you could likely achieve comparable performance to transformers, but it would likely be less efficient than transformers.
A small amount of cannabis in the morning turns me into an absolute machine. The right sativa strain with certain terpenes (ocimene <3, plus good balance of CBD and CBG) is just as powerful as adderall for me. Moderation is key. I still get zooted to the moon on certain nights and weekends but for productivity a very small amount is truly transformative for me.
> Gpt-4 for chat, 3.5 for code

That thread is comparing sidebar chat to inline chat. Doesn't discuss code completions afaict.