skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn’t true, most of the best software is written by individuals. Even inside large tech companies, it still happens that major value is created by one person.
Not sure if I count as a 'weird nerd' or not but if there's been one constant in my life, it's the theme of "you're amazing at a whole range of things, but here's some things you're not amazing at, could you maybe just try being a version of yourself with all of your strengths and none of your inconvenient shortcomings?" and tbh it's fucking infuriating.
Every single car from every manufacturer that has PDC sensors in the bumper, which are typically visible as 4 circular sensors on the surface of the bumper.
Show HN: Econsumer - the app that reduces your groceries food miles
100% agreed. I'd call it Field Seaparator Separated Values - FSSV
> The idea that they need to physically watch people shop in stores in order to collect that data is just bizarre to see on HN.

I think it's because Walmart+BrowsingGoods tends tends picture the in-store experience. I keep doing that, even while I'm reading this thread about Walmart Online.
I use a film camera exclusively and almost never "pick up" the negatives.

I like 1) the look, 2) the wait ( months of wondering if I'll have any good pictures of my vacation) and mostly 3) the constraint of only being able to take a few pictures. I only have a few pictures so I look at them a lot and I really enjoy each (good) one
Ask HN: Why YouTube doesn't let you search transcripts?
For a search engine company, I don't understand why this is not already implemented. Is there any risk to release a feature like that?
Four.

That's the magic number. There have to be four competitors of significant size before prices go down. There are both EU and US studies substantiating this.
It's been seen in cellular phone networks, ISPs, drugstores, and banks. Drop below the threshold of four, and the magic happens. Prices go up, margins go up, and consumers lose.

Four should be the basis of antitrust policy. Less than four, and there are two options - break up, or become a regulated public utility.

Two or three isn't enough. Collusion happens. Explicitly or implicitly, price competition doesn't happen with only two or three players.
Four seems to be enough that cartels usually break up on their own. Somebody won't play ball.

Four.
> note: standardized tests are the chemotherapy of academic performance. still hurts almost everyone, just don't have a better solution.

This is an interesting, but apt, description. I wish more people would keep this in mind.
Also:

- http://startpage.com

(Quite the story, that ...)
Reminds me of Number Munchers: https://classicreload.com/number-munchers.html#

You could add in some elements that game uses to make it more appealing to kids.
Mac OS (and most Apple software in general of late) is not open source, not all that stable, and contains ads for Apple’s products and services that can’t be disabled. Those are three reasons why I prefer Linux, all things considered. Though I do own both a Mac and a Linux machine.

I disagree that Mac OS is somehow “more standard” (whatever that means).

In addition, if you are a web developer, chances are you’re either deploying your software to Linux or to a container platform that’s native to Linux. Having your dev and prod environments match can be helpful.
That sounds like what is mentioned in the article
I dont even like it on a personal level. People use these terms to describe themselves in very narrow buckets and stereotypes, and there is no logic to that at all. I saw a post on /r/ADHD for example thst went something like "Does anyone else svoid eye contact during sex" and everyones like "omg thats me too!". I mean...need I say more?

I get how it might be fulfilling to have a label to explain away all your behaviors but it makes no sense to do so and I find it extremely self-limiting
>real (inflation-adjusted) wages

lol.

The whole point of this discussion is that our metrics are not properly measuring things. The reported inflation number is a joke. See: anything in life that matters like
- a house
- a car
- an education
- health care
- raising a kid
- basically any life-milestone

but TVs and electronic toys have never been cheaper so it's all okay! Hedonic adjustment!
The fact that the congestion tax is even being polled on upstate is a prime example of a failure in policymaking and proper devolution: suburbanites in Buffalo and Albany are not affected by the tax in any meaningful way, and should not have a disproportionate say in a policy that benefits millions of city residents.

(Of course, ironies abound besides this: funding NYC's mass transit is one of the most reliable ways to keep the city's tax revenues up, which prop up all of the financial misadventures and pork that upstate is fond of. Kneecapping the city's revenue streams hurts the suburban lifestyle and its financial assumptions in the long run.)
Has the hypothesis that this is noise from a class-D amplifier (which I assume most commercial speakers use) been eliminated? Those generally switch at MHz frequencies, but have subharmonics all over the place except the ones that have been carefully eliminated by filtering. I wouldn't be too surprised if there was a cheap brand of class-D amplifier that had a 20 kHz tone.
I instead think of nature as storing information in living organisms. It is indeed a self replicating database that is forever optimising ways to improve the replication.
This is a fair critism. However, I don't think it matters much, to the overall argument he makes.

Why?

We don't need AGI to see massive geopolitical disruption. We are already seeing this. The US has put up a GPU wall around China. That is evidence enough.

The capability we have already is enough to greatly upset the balance of power in a variety of spheres... Both sides lag in implementation. The capability is alresdy there. Capability will grow. AGI is not relevant to the concern for security. We've past that point already. The labs are a key NAT security asset. They just are privately owned/operated... For now. This is the way of things. History shows this.
This spectrum they speak of, are there labels for its extremes? Other spectra have things like hot/cold, large/small, etc.

Is it the autistic/not-autistic spectrum? Because if so, we're all on it.
4000TWh of energy per year comes out to about 456GW continuous power. So pretty much in the right ballpark?
Observation is a cornerstone of science and theorizing about something you cannot observe is interesting but not science. This is speculation about what might be outside the observable universe and that could lead to science disproving those particular speculations, but speculation is not science, it is philosophy.
Japan had also its 5th generation project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intellig...
No one should use the AT&T syntax (2021)
You can blame the bureaucrats for this multi-facted outcome. Their ever-increasing pressure of getting new funding and balancing your books with frequent budget updates is what leads to so much time spent on those activities. And of course they tie those activities to your promotion, instead of the importance of your discoveries which is what should be the only thing that matters.
I think "genius" fits the author's meaning and connotation much better than "weird nerd". If the author wants to fight for genius rights, why start from a position of weakness?
I agree with what you're saying, but also - everyone has problems. Is anyone truly normal or neurotypical?
Why do some people's problems get the validation of the medical system and others don't?

(These are non-rhetorical questions, I'm really not sure about the answers to them myself)
You can’t translate word by word. You need entire phrases, sometimes pretty long ones, to understand the meaning.
That gives me a couple of ideas...But picking a shorter name than "piku" is going to be hard... Maybe I can whip up a proof of concept and call it "syd".
Dask DataFrame Is Fast Now
Yeah see

>GraphCast: AI model for faster and more accurate global weather forecasting https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/graphcast-ai-model-for...

I think you inherently don't want a language model for modeling fluid flow. A vector model perhaps.
GW and TWh are not the same unit. You need to multiply by the hours of effective sun in a year (and applying some reduction factor for the fact that there isn't 24h of sun every day, nor that the full production capacity is reached)

Even if that doesn't cover the energy demand, the number is not negligible for 438 GW of capacity.
Assuming that the effective full sun equivalent in terms of energy production is only 10% of a day in average, we get:
24 h/d × 365 d × 0.1 × 0.438 TW = 384 TWh

I have no idea about the 10% factor, someone more knowledgeable can coreect me, but, we are not speaking thousands of years if the growth continues before the full energy production value is getting close to the energy demand.
> You can have an infinite chain of predecessors of non-standard numbers, each claiming being FINITE().

Ah. That makes sense. Thanks.

So surely someone has come up with a system that captures the intuitive spirit of mathematical induction, i.e. that the chain has to actually be rooted at 0 rather than have an infinite chain of predecessors or be a loop? How hard could that be?
yes, but you would assume that if they are leading the way in AI product development, that they would need more employees than ever.
Robinson arithmetic is an excellent example here.

Using ZFC, Robinson can take a standard model of the reals and construct a nonstandard model, and a function from the standard model to the nonstandard model. Every possible statement of first order logic that can be made about the standard model is true in the nonstandard model. Likewise every possible statement of first order logic that can be made in the nonstandard model only involving things that came from the standard model are also true of the standard model. This is his "transfer principle". However the nonstandard model comes with things like infinitesmals, and infinite numbers. So in the nonstandard world we can really do things like define a derivative as dy/dx, or an integral as an infinite sum. Then recover the classical definitions through the transfer principle.

See https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/ultrafilters-nonst... for an explanation of how this actually works in some detail. But if you get your head around it, you'll see exactly why first order logic cannot possibly capture the idea of being a standard model. Because, in first order logic, the nonstandard model really is indistinguishable. And so finite cannot be expressed in first order logic.
oh ok. flag it i guess.
Actually, we had manual install steps as the only way to go for a while. You'd be surprised at how many people asked for a one-liner... I'm going to add a note to the docs about that, since I've seen a couple of comments here of people who were put off by it and didn't even read the rest.

I actually only install piku via cloud-init, but there are plenty more options: https://piku.github.io/install/index.html
My guess is that it's just simply not worth it for them
Modern sensors can get more information out of the same rectangle in the image plane than the chemical reaction of a film negative, close to the optical limits of the camera lens. The highest resolution single-frame shots may still be on (large format) film, but only because you can have a film negative that is e.g. 8x10 inches, and sensors that big would be absurdly expensive.

To be honest though, trying to squeeze every bit of information out of the optical system is not usually particularly important, and cameras that you can easily hold up to an eye with your hands are usually more convenient than larger cameras. You can get amazing pictures out of any film SLR or any digital SLR from the past 15 years which you can print up to quite large sizes with sufficient resolution. The medium format cameras pictured in the article, or some current state-of-the-art digital camera, will get you slightly better poster size image, but most photographers aren't making fine-art posters.

Twin-lens reflex cameras, view cameras, pinhole cameras, polaroids, etc. can be fun to take pictures with though, just for the novelty. Every type of camera requires its own process and makes pictures with its own point of view. Square negatives take a different approach to framing compared to rectangular ones and a TLR around your neck is located much lower than face height. With a view camera, you always have a tripod and each picture takes a lot of work, but the camera lets you tilt the lens relative to the film plane, which changes the slice of the field of view in focus. Etc.
I hope you get a good answer to this.

I suspect Youtube cripples transcript usefulness because it aligns with what customers want. And customers are important to Youtube - while end users are something else.
If they could open it, send pictures and send dumps of its firmware, I'm sure there would be people around the world curious enough to reverse engineer it, and with that knowledge available, they could (at least potentially) get some support.
Hi - glad you're interested! My email's in my bio if you want to drop me a line.

Yes, kids are effectively prisoners until they can drive.

Can I ask where you grew up (what country, or region, etc)?

That's really cool re: forest. We're near a nature preserve but I don't yet feel comfortable with my kids going on their own. When the 6 year old is 8 or 9 I might though. I see kids around 9 years old biking to school on their own here, but I live in Hilversum, which is on the crappier end of bike infra for the Netherlands.

And yes, it's an exhausting, soul destroying full time job (on top of your other full time job). It can be mom or dad playing taxi but usually it's mom. I've known wealthier parents who just got their kids Ubers too.

Stranger things is great, and one of the things that is remarked upon is how different the 80's were from now. This is discussed at https://www.freerangekids.com/why-its-hard-to-raise-your-kid... for instance.

Single parents (ones without a coparent, specifically) have it really, really, really hard.

Anyway you basically just described why having kids is so hard.
Agree - I've been toying with the idea of using something more... formal, but rolled my own so to speak.

I have a script that runs on login that simply opens two files:

1: this calendar week
2: the last calendar week

... in vim tabs, organized in yearly directories. I live in the terminal anyway.

Making myself see the thing, by opening automatically, was the big part. That let me write more. Keeping the storage simple makes the data accessible and portable.

All of this applies to Obsidian and things too - but I enjoy this kind of tinkering
I hate this extrovert vs introvert thing too. People don't fit simiply into these buckets.
I love the subtle humor in misusing “copyright” as a verb and then misusing “TeX” the same way.
I had a "friend" like you once. We got along well, he would excitedly dive deep with me in tech because he wanted to learn programming, and I would excitedly dive deep with him into creating coffee and beer because I find the stricture in creation leading to creativity endlessly interesting.

However, whenever he'd have his "cool" friends over for parties I wouldn't get an invite, in fact never met any of his other acquaintances. He explained to me once that he likes to keep his different social lives separate, and I was apparently the only one in his "tech" social circle.

That made me feel like shit, and reinforced my self-view as failing to be a normal human.

This is a theme that's continued with multiple "friends" throughout my life, to the point where I eventually just gave up trying, gave up giving of myself to others to simply be siloed or discarded once they got what they wanted from me. I got tired of the lack of reciprocation in giving me a chance to be a part of their actual life even though they were apparently getting enough from me that they were willing to keep me around when it suited their needs.

I hope some day you gain some compassion and can see that people who are different than you are still people, and that treating them as lesser except when you can get something from them (like an interesting dnd game) is a huge part of the problem in these types of people retreating even more from the social and emotional norms.

At this point, why in the hell do you think I would even _want_ to be willful part of the society you inhabit, that treats other humans as you do?
And what happens when very few users opt in?

Maybe they should have done some research to determine if this "feature" actually had significant marketplace appeal.
In Spain they tell "Basque jokes".

The Basque person in the joke is always called Patxi, a stereotypical Basque name (kind of like calling an Irish person "Paddy").
In the highest intensity cases, yes.

However, for most people outside that band, it comes in waves. In those less intense waves depressed people often have a window of opportunity to kickstart one thing to make the next wave better. Others have some social structures in place that will help them get kick started.

Further, it ignores high functioning depression, where people are able to go through many daily activities with support.

All that to say, this may not be actionable for every depressed person, but it may be actionable for many depressed people. There should be no shame if it isn't actionable for you. It might give hope, however, for those going through a bad wave right now such that the next time they're good enough, they can ask for help kickstarting the next feasible time.
What problems did you have with it?
In the US even adults barely have any right to privacy. I'm horrified by the proliferation of facial recognition. Airline attendants are always shocked I don't want to smile for the camera. I'll happily use an old fashioned boarding pass...
I totally empathize with this, but there are hardly many people managers who can pull that off. And often those that can get promoted up quickly so that they aren’t managing teams directly anymore. It is much easier to produce with mediocre people managers with a team of socially well adjusted mediocre programmers, than a unicorn people manager with a diverse team of highly skilled programmers who aren’t necessarily great at social skills.

Individual efforts are completely different. A programmer like Notch can produce Minecraft on his own and then just get help to push it into a maintained product. This happens all the time, but you can’t produce that easily (and definitely not consistently) at the big corp level.
> Turns out several lived near the server's location, in Texas, and at one point my friends

Also ended up in a similar situation multiple times (bunch of randoms found some server we liked, sticked around for matches across weeks, eventually became regulars and eventually figured out we lived nearby). Sometimes we'd bump into each other on other servers too.

After a couple of times of hanging out we've found out why (probably at least) we came across each other, we all default to sorting the server list based on ping (latency), and since we were all geographically close, we tended to end up on the same servers.
I read this as basically arguing that our filters throw up too many false negatives, like Kariko, in a high-risk/high-reward environment. It’s saying the cost of false negatives is way higher than the system realizes, and that’s because the system has drifted to be too much like the collaborative, incremental workplace that most of us live in. Typical work teams pay a high cost for false positives when hiring, so they guard against them at the cost of way more false negatives. The doesn’t work as well for moonshot fields.
It's common to have a 1 hour running or a lifting session 3-4 times a week but kudos to you and/or my condolences to your partner if your vigorous exercise lasts that long every time.
It will be paid out of tax money either way. To save me money the government would have to either:

1. run the operation at least 90% as cost effectively

2. be less likely to make major costly mistakes

From my experience with government the probability of 1 is 0% and the probability of 2 is minimal. At least when PG&E caused those wildfires, their execs were fired and had to pay $100 million of their own personal money in damages. This doesn't happen when government employees screw up. They don't even lose their jobs.
Yeah, I always used plain TeX back in the day because I could understand it. LaTeX always seemed unnecessarily complex.
I live in NYC, vote reliably for the Democrats, and will certainly consider voting for the Republican if Hochul succeeds in killing congestion pricing.
update: There's a wikipedia page for this. Because of _course_ there is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_male_speech

The guy at 4:04 articulates exactly the same idea as I did above

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkm0rmigGOw
> assuming emotional intelligence isn't an innate skill

it's a skill like any other, so if you put in dedication and practice, you can get better at it, just like practicing leetcode. whether or not an individual wants to do so is on them.
That's what I had in mind. Thank you.
it's certainly not a bad economy right now. Record low unemployment, record high stock market prices. Inflation is back to reasonable rates. Prices are inflated, but that alone does not define the economy.
It's hard to summarize because there are about a dozen different categories of things that could reasonably considered "biological CAD" and often would all be used together in a single synthetic biology project.

For example:
Retrobiosynthesis simulates biochemistry backwards, to find the steps necessary for a biological system to build something, usually a small molecule. Galaxy-SynBioCAD / Retropath would be one example: https://jfaulon.com/galaxy-synbiocad-portal/

Constraint based metabolic modeling models cellular metabolism, and lets you simulate adding and removing chemical reactions to a cell, and predict the outcomes. COBRApy would be one example software tool: https://opencobra.github.io/cobrapy/

Design editors for DNA plasmids, like the Teselagen design editor let you construct DNA sequences representing new biological capabilities to be added to an engineered cell, which can then be synthesized or constructed. Teselagen design module: https://teselagen.com/design-module/

Generative AI systems can 'hallucinate' functional proteins and DNA sequences that meet a design specification for function and/or shape. For example, GenerateBio's Chroma model can literally take a 3D file designed in a standard CAD program, and then automatically come up with an amino acid sequence that will fold into a protein with that exact 3D shape- and it actually works. https://github.com/generatebio/chroma

An emerging field is coupling all of these types of tools with predictive models to enable 'inverse design' where you create a spec of what you want, such as a material with some desired properties, and it will automatically suggest biological routes to it.
Ask HN: DAE just close the window on sites that use Google's Captcha?
I'm finding more and more lately that google captcha asks me to pick images for a good 2-3 minutes sometimes. I'm now starting to just look for alternative sites that don't use GOogle captcha unless its super important.