skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is the general experience, I think.

I did pretty strict keto for 2.5 years. Been off it for about a year now, while many of the habits stick (I eat next to zero added sugar, and generally low carb, less processed food, etc.).

I got rid of a lot of weight and some skin conditions. It was generally very positive. It was weird to have such stable blood sugar that you never feel hungry, even when not eating at all. There were some adverse results too, like zero muscle strength. I also digest carbs worse now it seems like. There might well be ways to avoid those issues with a more carefully managed keto diet.

I'm not sure if I will jump back on a strict keto regimen, it requires quite a bit of effort to plan meals, especially when other people in the household eat a regular diet. I have come to see keto as an intervention, very effective at fixing acute issues. Once you have done that reset, I think a lot of those wins can be maintained through generally healthy habits (which you now understand a lot better).
Moxie wrote an extensive blog post outlining the reasons they were not going to make use of a decentralised system.

I believe its this post here, but someone correct me if this is the incorrect link: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
Even 600$ is quite a bit of money for a small open source project, especially outside of first world contries. You cannot except every single open source developer to buy somewhat overpriced hardware just to publish it in one platform.

None of the other desktop/mobile platforms require specific hardware , Windows/Linux/Android can all be virtualized/cross compiled to. The only reason you cannot cross compile/virtualize from other platforms is because Apple doesn't want you to. Its possible, there are projects that allow you to do so, but it violates Apple's license.

https://github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross

Also its not fair to compare hobbies like photography or music to programming, you don't need any physical hardware other than a computer for majority of the cases, except testing (even that can be done somewhat reliably by virtualization), and when you are artificially forced to buy hardware just to publish to a platform.
Has science progressed to the point where you can see out of the artificial eye yet? I remember hearing some buzz around connecting a camera directly to the socket->brain a while back but didn’t pay much attention
These companies are allowing customers to be defrauded. They must be held accountable and punitive damages that severely hurts them must be applied.
Lately I’ve been a bit depressed by startups I respect going down, most of all post.news which was a refined product developed in one and a half years by a moderate-sized team and funded by Scott Galloway and Andreessen Horowitz. The official statement was that it was not growing fast enough to make it as a consumer product:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/19/post-news-the-a16z-funded-...

Though I think there could be more to it than that: (1) the full development of that site would have required cooperation from the news industry that isn’t easy to get and (2) I don’t think they got the word out well because despite star-studded founders and investors and my being interested in that sort of thing (to the extent of doing market research and product analysis for that kind of thing) I never heard about it until the last week…. And that’s for a business much more interesting and innovative that the comparable Threads or Bluesky.

From the outside though it seems like 1.5 years is not a lot of time to exhaust the possibilities of growth for a site like that. (As I see it Reddit took more like 3 years for subreddits to become what we know)

On the other hand there are the zombie unicorns.

I have been watching Temu: I saw the ads, I bought what could be most of my halloween costume this year and two rolls of fox stickers (not sure if that was a mistake or a dark pattern) and a dragon figurine. Almost everything was smaller than I expected and afterwards I got a huge volume of irrelevant but seemingly personalized emails. I think they’re a paper tiger: I can be impressed by their advertising spend but they don’t seem like masters of marketing and algorithms to me.

The of course there is Uber and the other ride hailing and food delivery services. Uber has spent over $25 billion on giving subsidized taxi rides and there is no end in sight. Even at American prices, $25 billion could have built a lot of subway or light rail but Uber won’t leave such a legacy. Or if it does it will be breaking the economics of both chain and independent restaurants who have reshaped their businesses around a delivery business for which the economics doesn’t really work.

The strength of VC is it can make it bets like Temu and Uber but that can be very much a finger trap.
Amazon was breaking even forever, it rarely lost money. Can’t easily find a chart of it going back to 2000 though.
> The researchers measured Sky, based on audio from demos OpenAI delivered last week, against the voices of around 600 professional actresses. They found that Johansson's voice is more similar to Sky than 98% of the other actresses.

That feels like, how to lie with staristics

In a sample of only 600 voices, there were ~12 actresses whose voice was more similar to chatgpt than Johansson. Presumably many of these samples were significantly different (i assume it covers a wide range, e.g. gravely deep male voices, people with different accents). The fact there are 12 more similar matches is striking to me.

If anything, i feel like this is strong evidence for the opposite of the headline.
The cloth sim is GPU. It’s not that heavy currently, around 40k quads. You could go much heavier, easily 500k, but it also changed the cloth behaviour.

The limiting factor is actually not the sim, but the initial load time for the procedural geometry. I might try adding some subdivisions though..
I’m pretty unconvinced by the AI influencer idea. Most of them are just niche aggregator type of things, not accounts with real influence. By the time AI can replicate a streaming live video, devices and platforms will have already implemented real-identity features. Remember that the platforms themselves don’t benefit from AI content dominating everything and are pretty incentivized to ensure that content is from real people.
Money isn't a store of value. The concept of a store of value is impossible. Also, money isn't a medium of exchange, because there is no rule that says that delivery schedules have to align with payment schedules. In a hypothetical universe with premonition, all payments until the end of the universe can be settled by the first born human before the second human was born, long before there was an economy to speak of. Neoclassical economics is really weird. It predicts the absence of money, because all delivery schedules have already been planned. The organisation process has finished. It is centrally planned socialism in the mantle of a market economy.

The more general liquidity preference theory is still mandatory if you want to model an economy where decisions are made in the absence of perfect information and ability to predict the future. Time preference sounds obvious until you understand that you need to know what the future looks like, before you can make a tradeoff between now and a discounted future.
Mapping the cultural heritage of aromatic plants
It would be hard (if not technically impossible) to prove it wasn’t trained on specific material. To prove it was, however, it’d be sufficient to show that the model can be made to produce training data ‘verbatim’. In this case, perhaps a certain sentence would be read in a way that is so similar to some piece of source material so as to make it very unlikely to not be the direct result of training on that data.
How exactly do you write/test your code on free hardware?
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Is this a hypothetical future hardware store delivery service that enables a bus? No hardware store I have seen has a delivery service. I do a fair amount of gardening, and while most garden stores (not hardware stores, dedicated stores for landscaping and gardening) have the capability to deliver, it is always a very expensive service ($50-100 for a trip of less than 5 miles).

Most cars can fit a few 8' 2x4s as well as several bags of bulk dirt, and what hardware stores often have is a cutting service that lets you make those 2x4s shorter for transit. None of those would fit on a bus.
There is no such thing (for me) as a "good" ad.

I want no ads in my life, ever.

When I need to buy something I look for research, reviews, competition, people who actually used the thing for some time and comment on the thing's weaknesses.

I want to control when I start being interested in something, and when I stop also.

When I need to buy something I need knowledge (weaknesses) and control. Advertisements are exactly the opposite of that.

So... no ad can ever be a good ad for me. Period.
That is bullshit. You always need the hardware, most need a server. There is a difference between programs and applications - ffmpeg for example is not an app, but a program.
Solving the political issue is a different matter and very ambitious. Meanwhile, tech mitigation would be nice.
Sure, but i think the innovation was the dedicated leap keys. You hold the key, type to incrementally search, and let go to leap. One key for forward and one for back.

Also, leaping was through eveything in the whole os, not just the application.
> To split atoms and release nuclear binding energy, we need to launch neutrons at the fuel atoms. ... 1 kg of natural Uranium generates just 10 such neutrons per second.

Not saying that's wrong, but my seat-of-the-pants guess would have been ten orders of magnitude higher than this. (Citation?)
$20/month/user - even if we wanted/needed their AI we could not afford it.
2023's record solar surge explained in six charts
Absurd and useless? I disagree. Everyone has a unique perspective and something to teach. It’s your problem if you can’t take advantage of that.
That's the thing, if it's good quality a sofa should last a lifetime and still be usable. Not just 10 years. Of course you'll need to change the leather or do other repairs at times like Tim did, but we have to get out of this mentality of "things have a lifetime of x years then you need to throw them away".
The problem with the local basketball team is there aren't enough positions for everyone who would like to be on the local basketball team.

We could fix that problem by 10X-ing the number of players on the court at once. So, rather than 5 players per team the court would have 50.

45 more people would be starters!
iOS is using Posix tech in the background. It is surprisingly even using gnu tools in the background
OKRs are a management fad and a performance review bludgeon. They don't improve performance or alignment. The best pre-work you can do on OKRs is to not do them.

Startups dont need OKRs for either performance or alignment and later stage companies that implement OKRs are in the beginning phase of stagnation and descent.
Burden should be in the other direction. Otherwise we end up with a Russel's teapot type situation.
"Do a web search / run this on your code environment and vakidate your previous replies" works pretty well woth tool-enabled LLMs.
That single EC2 box with a couple hundred GBs of RAM running DuckDB is looking better and better each day, compared to getting billed up the butthole for snowflake...
That is true everywhere, drunk or affected men are overwhelmingly more likely to harass women than sober men are. Subways here in Europe are full of pretty women, they don't go out of their way to take a car any more than men are, when I count gender on subways there are usually more women than men.

When was the last time you saw women avoid grocery stores because they are afraid of getting harassed? Well used public transit is that level, it isn't something women worry much about compared to many other much larger threats. There is no reason at all for public transit to be worse in terms of harassment than grocery stores are, its just that USA choose to let their public transit become shit.
If this is all client side, what’s stopping someone from running MITM and then spamming the endpoint with billions of phony reports?
Well, there is only one thing left to do. I am going to self host my own XMPP server and try to move my friends and family to it.

Signal has been great but they won't be able to stop it.

Or we could encrypt the messages before pasting them in the messaging app so the CSS will be neutered.

Either way, I won't have the EU stasi look over my shoulder each time I send a message to a loved one.
They normally expose some problem with our language, and nothing deeper than that. This is a perfect example.
You can look at the votes of the members of European parliament.
For example, here for a vote on "chat control" [1] (from 2021) and a recent one [2]. You can filter to your country to see how each party (or even each member) voted.

[1]: https://mepwatch.eu/9/vote.html?v=134463

[2]: https://mepwatch.eu/9/vote.html?v=167712

However, its not that easy to find these results. I was looking quite a while to find this one.
Shipping doesn't come by car, with gasoline bought at a US gas station.
Friedrich Hermann music composer doesn't have an English Wikipedia page
With all due respect to Wikipedia project and editors I always wonder about the cultural bias partitioned by country and language.

I am not looking in this case with conflicts with editors don't recognizing a famous character in one culture but the ones that are completely ignored even if they should be there without discussion.

Even its artist section in Spotify [1] doesn't containt an actual picture of him!

[1] https://open.spotify.com/artist/3cFLgll3zoQYmGRQeyf79Y
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/ukraine-start-buildi...
I agree. What I was trying to say was that encryption was not the most important part for me. Facebook or Twitter DMs would be secure enough for family photos in my opinion, if they didn't use invasive ad tracking. The fact that Signal is independent is why I use it, not because of superior encryption.
If nobody said anything, would anyone know or care?

What if they just thought her voice set the mood. They couldn't get Johansson so they set out to find something similar and found it.

So what? They didn't say it was Johansson so no one could claim she endorsed it. How many times have you heard something on the radio/TV and thought it was some actor when it wasn't?

If she said nothing in public, nothing would have come of this. She could have writen them in private.

This is much ado about nothing and nothing happened.
Creating new brands all time time is poor for creating consumer loyalty, which is the entire point of a brand. You are missing the whole point!
Yeah, and lifestyle businesses are not the ones YC will ever fund. Perhaps the contempt should be reserved, if people deem it's needed, for those venture vultures who feel they know the price of everything, but in actuality know the value of nothing.
Not enough users, too ahead of its time (nobody wants full-stack JS application, yet), severe performance issues beyond simple demo.

I think the team behind Meteor.js went on to build a new product (https://www.apollographql.com/ if I remember correctly).
Tangent, sorry, but every time I hear a modern sound now I hear it as music and it’s beautiful. I still remember being able to listen to the HDD and feel it. I would place my hand on the case when it was struggling and I felt like a horse whisperer. I may have given it a few affirmative words of encouragement.
Show HN: I made a tool that lets you collect large amounts of human inputs fast
I have a similar issue but reading them won't work because the person who wrote them passed away. It there another solution that could transcribe this sort of thing (maybe the original use case would have been for historical texts)?
It needs a cellular radio to stream music unless it is going to sync a local music collection over WiFi (did some analysis years ago about “Napster on Wheeks” where cars would make peer to peer connections and trade songs in a parking lot and on the road…)

If it were self-contained it would basically be a cell phone but probably wouldn’t have a good modem in it, would have bad coverage, etc. In principle you could build a wireless system really designed for car use that would have a bigger antenna, higher budget, all that, maybe even a differently configured cellular network. A system like that might almost meet the coverage requirements for C2V (but cellular always “almost” offers universal coverage and filling the gap would kill the economics.). A system like that would probably be installed in the car by the OEM and would be out of Spotify’s domain.
It's a horribly restrictive syntax. Instead of allowing modularity and flexibility in how I structure parts of the config, I'm instead locked into this indentation-obsessed and sparse file that forces me to learn the exact mental model of whoever designed the yaml.

Almost nobody uses explicit typing in yaml.

The fact you need features like folding strings or chomp characters is a symptom that yaml is trying to work around limitations that shouldn't be there to begin with.
Didn't Jobs say something along the lines of that the problem with Microsoft is that they don't care about their products?

Things like this shows how literally that is true. Make a product, sell a product, what could possibly be the problem with that?
the only jobs "AI" will take in the foreseeable future is the journos'. And That's a Good Thing - Here's Why.
They "could" maybe. But since you seem to not have more information, we have to remain on the assumption that they're still using Signal protocol and can't see what the messange contents are.
These seem like great posts to reflect on a conference experience. It has me thinking I should do something like this…

Also incredible how many people you know in the Python (and larger!) community.

Thanks for posting.
Spotify “loves” money implies that Spotify is penny pinching because it is in such a powerful position that it can afford to alienate customers, whereas my point is Spotify is probably making a calculation to reduce expenses because it is not even known if it is a viable business yet.

Spotify’s executive compensation is what it is, it is still a large organization managing 9k employees with 600M customers, so they obviously want a carrot to work. Shareholders and board members can vote on compensation they think is undeserved.

In fact, Ek hasn’t even received compensation since 2017, so he’s just been offloading his existing equity from being a founder from way back when. And since Spotify stock has lost money relative to the market for 7 years, Ek has been working for free. He literally could have more money if he had quit working years ago.

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/04/29/daniel-ek-salary-spoti...
I think North Korea was always an authoritarian state from the get go, it was built by the soviets over the ruins of the Korean war. It's just coated in a socialist paintjob just like many other dictatorships.

You're right in that reverting to a previous system will always be a temporary solution, but I don't believe there is any perfect system able to endure until the end of times.

"Do you want to live in North Korea?" should never be used as an argument against any kind of reforms deemed "socialist" by the Right.

As a start, would it be so bad to implement a carbon tax? Tighter control of human rights on foreign imports? Stronger social nets? The list goes on...
Along with some friends I have developed a tool that lets you send out a small task or question to thousands of people and have the responses trickle in within a few minutes. We have developed the tool with data annotation for AI in mind, since this is typically a huge time sink for researchers. However we imagine it can be used in many other scenarios like user, or market research, or to determine which pictures to upload to your dating profile. Please share other ideas you might have and feel free to give it a try.
Most of the effort so far has gone into building a solid distribution pipeline, so the UI still leaves something to be desired. Any feedback and suggestions are very welcome.
Since what you upload will be distributed to thousands of real people worldwide, we unfortunately require a sign-in before the upload stage and you can expect a short delay as the content gets approved.
We are hoping to commercialize the tool, so if you or someone you know has a use case for it, please feel free to reach out and we would be happy to consider pilot projects.
Pringles thief told police 'once you pop, you can't stop'
Most versions of Android are also locked down and completely proprietary
This is a fad that already came and left our org. We realized this was just a giant waste of time with no gains.
Please note that using slash at the end of the tag is not supported in HTML:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="base.css" />

I often see such code and it seems that people simply don't know HTML and copy random garbage they found on the Internet. In the example above, the slash is simply ignored, but in this example the code will be parsed not as intended:

<div/>

This is why you should read proper documentation or specification instead of blindly copying garbage code from Internet.

MDN link: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Void_eleme...
The developers may well be Clever Hands-ing themselves, seeing capabilities that the models don't really have.

But the… ah, this is ironic, the anthropic principle applies here:

> From our work, LLMs seem to be nowhere close to being able to independently solve end-to-end business processes

If there was an AI which could do that, your job would no longer exist. Just as with other professions before yours — weavers, potters, computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation) — and there are people complaining that even current LLMs and diffusion models forced them to change career.

> I just don't see how companies like Anthropic/OpenAI are drawing these conclusions given the current state.

If you look at the current public models, you are correct. They're not looking at the current public models.

Look at what people say on this very site — complaining that models have been "lobotomised" (I dislike this analogy, but whatever) "in the name of safety" — and ask yourself: what could these models do before public release?

Look at how long the gap was between the initial GPT-4 training and the completion of the red-teaming and other safety work, and ask yourself what new thing they know about that isn't public knowledge yet.

But also take what you know now about publicly available AI in June 2024, and ask yourself how far back in time you'd have to go for this to seem like unachievable SciFi nonsense — 3 years sounds about right…

… but also, there's no guarantee that we get any particular schedule for improvements, even if it wasn't for most of the top AI researchers signing open letters saying "we want to agree to slow down capabilities research and focus on safety". The AI that can take your job, that can "independently solve end-to-end business processes" may be 20 years away, or it may already exist and be kept under NDA because the creators can't separate good business from evil ones any more than cryptographers can separate good secrets from evil ones.
Good joke and good follow-through, haha.