skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t find it hot at all. I like the taste.
Vaccinated and unvaccinated people are equally infectious. They only kill themselves at a higher rate. The non masking was the problematic part.
> kids can easily learn their new favorite animal in as little as a single example

Until they encounter a similar animal and get confused, at which point you understand the implicit heuristic they were relying on. (Eg. They confused a dairy cow as a zebra, which means their heuristic was a black-and-white quadrupedal)

Doesn't this seem remarkably close to how LLMs behave with one-shot or few-shot learning? I think there are a lot more similarities here than you give it credit for.

Also, I grew up in South Korea where early math education is highly prioritized (for better or for worse). I remember having to solve 2 dozen arithmetic problems every week after school with a private tutor. Yes, it was torture and I was miserable, but it did expose me to thousands more arithmetic questions than my American peers. All that misery paid off when I moved to the U.S. at the age of 12 and realized that my math level was 3-4 years above my peers. So yes, I think human intelligence accuracy also does improve with more training data.
Analysis seems flawed to me.

They claim that large companies can never support the long tail since it’s too expensive to produce those features.

But they also claim that cost of software production is going to fall dramatically such that people can build their own apps for small user-bases.

I don’t mean to sound negative, since I love the picture painted by Local First, but I don’t think it will work out that way.
Does this agency name strike anyone else as an odd pairing?
`The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration`
Disclaimer: I have worked in the past for one of the major HSM vendors, but things can be changed in the last years.

To authenticate an application, you should generate a client certificate and share to the application, in order to create a mutual authentication trust. When you request some operations to HSM you need to authenticate yourself with the certificate. Of course the certificate must be kept as a secret and not shared with anybody.
There is also a sort of RBAC scheme related to client certificate.
Microplastics found in every human sample tested
Market salary with stock upside plus the chance to level up a job title has potential to be a great deal
> At a Series A?!?

Yeah, at Series A.
If the product isn't making enough money to pay people by year 5 you're not a startup founder you're just unemployed with a side project.
We're talking about finding references or details of existing algorithms to solve a specific problem. What you are trying to do has nothing to do with that and it's a waste of time with an LLM.
The early v8 release was pretty stained with skepticism from the entire community.

If anything 1password has proved to me that an Electron application can eventually be pretty seamless. I have been very impressed in MacOS and Firefox.
It really depends on the complexity of the scene. We're only getting started on optimizing rendering and I'm convinced that we can get it to be significantly more performant/cheaper than Remotion. Right now we're faster in some cases and slightly slower in others. Feel free to contact me at konsti at re.video. I would love to understand your use-case and see if and how we could help you.
> Apple’s first Macs with dual processors came in 2000

There was also the Power Macintosh 9500/180MP back in 1996, equipped with two 180 MHz PowerPC 604e CPUs.

MacOS didn't support multi processors natively (it couldn't schedule different programs on different CPUs or anything), so it was only useful as basically a "Photoshop accelerator"
I don't drink but as someone who does calligraphy as a hobby, I can attest to the calming effect that the smell of inks and paper, the sound of a nib scratching, the slightly embossed letters on paper after writing etc. have on ones state of mind. It's very relaxing and the outputs are very rewarding. Doubly so if you're in tech. This is almost the complete opposite.
Do a substantial number of your recent ancestors have feathers, by chance?
Assistants are generally limited to people who can afford to have one. I think that's a fair assumption. Out of all those people not everyone in that group is going to have one. Which leaves a very very few people that do have one.

Why would this translate to everybody wanting to have one?
Not sure how this is related to the post. Should I have sent the article to them for a second chance?
Haha, great post! Well meme'd my friend!
Introducting Bondy: The IoT, Web and Mobile Platform [video]
OpenAI clarifies recent partnership with Oracle
But it doesn’t. I try a lot of chilis and hot spices; this is 10k maybe; I find 300k getting warm-ish; I eat that with a beer though.
Google still recommends glue for your pizza
Have you considered that the Danish food authorities might kind of know what they're doing? They're not going to label food as potentially harmful because they don't like the taste.
>Too many people assume ChatGPT (and similar LLMs) are capable of reasoning. It's not.

Sure it is, just like a child or someone not very good at reasoning. You can test ChatGPT yourself on some totally novel ad hoc reasoning task you invent for the task, with a single correct conclusion that takes reasoning to arrive at and it will probably get it if it's really easy, even if you take great pains to make it something totally new that you invented. Try it yourself (preferably with ChatGPT 4o) if you don't believe me. Please share your results.
Yikes. It wasn’t that bad for me but I fully believe it could do that to someone.
Don’t miss the black flame! https://sciencenotes.org/how-to-make-black-fire/
The point is for the government to have the ability to occasionally look the biggest wolves of Wall Street in the eye, and say to them, "haha. but no.". Exercising it doesn't require abolishing private property and taking central control of all trade.
The security of this is somewhat questionable. On client device the notes are stored in plain text, so even another user from the same machine can read them.

For syncing it also sends a `username+password+salt` SHA-256 hash to the server, together with the username which makes password easily pickable.

Giving we know the username AND that the salt is always 32261572990560219427182644435912532, it is really a hash crackable in minutes on a somewhat decent hardware with a simple hashcat mask attack.
The stew style, which seems to have been recalled as well, is my favorite instant ramen since it's very rich in flavor and has thick noodles. I usually add a couple of fresh Thai chilies (Prik Kee Noo) into the broth, it's not that spicy - though it's usually too much for people who can't handle capsaicin at all. Can't speak for the other ones though.

This feels like an overreaction by some bureaucrats which could have been handled with a warning sticker instead.

Edit: Per https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/06/281_376457.h..., the 3x has 13000 SHU, the 2x 10000, stew type was not mentioned, but a quick search claims ~4700.
Hi! Right now the project is in an "early access" phase, so a lot of work is going into resolving these stability issues/fixes, but this is really great feedback - thanks!
When you work for a startup you have a ton of insider information not available to outsiders, even investors. If you think your startup won’t be successful then obviously just find a different job.
The 2x spicy noodles are too spicy for me, even as a lover of spicy food. It's literally like lava traveling through my stomach and intestines. The 1x, on the other hand, are freaking delicious. Very spicy but just absolutely incredible flavor, and it doesn't seem to destroy my stomach. I'm actually kind of addicted to the 1x, I have one of the little cups practically every day.
Primary source: https://foedevarestyrelsen.dk/nyheder/pressemeddelelser/2024...

I few more details there. Apparently there was a trend on ~The tok~ with children eating spicy chips in Germany that got them hospitalized, and as a precaution the Danes took these noodles with are more spicy of the shelves.

A bit more understandable now but still .. wut? If kids eat tide pods we don't remove tide pods.
The bigger secret is that stock sold in secondary sales by founders and employees is usually common stock, and the purchasers will often get the right to convert this to preferred stock. This means that the company is instantly encumbered with a greater liquidation preference, without the increase in balance sheet to offset it.
>This can actually cause problems when you switch from an iPhone to Android because other Apple users trying to send you text messages might still get routed to iMessage instead of SMS, and there's no iMessage available for Android. You may have to use a website that Apple provides to manually deregister the phone number from iMessage in that case.

Wow, Apple really manages to come up with every possible way to lock-in and hamstring competitors.
That's a Swedish food. It's generally not sold in Denmark, and Danes do not eat it.

There is no tradition of eating fermented fish in Denmark.

Pickled (not fermented!) herring is common.
... and misses all the occasions where static typing can be a benefit.
Kids huff paint and we restrict sales of spray cans.
My kid is about 3 and has been slow on language development. He can barely speak a few short sentences now. Learning names of things and concepts made a big difference for him and that's a fascinating watch and realization.

This reminds of the story of Adam learning names, or how some languages can express a lot more in fewer words. And it makes sense that LLMs look intelligent to us.

My kid loves repeating the names of things he learned recently. For past few weeks, after learning 'spider' and 'snake' and 'dangerous' he keeps finding spiders around, no snakes so makes up snakes from curly drawn lines and tells us they are dangerous.

I think we learn fast because of stereo (3d) vision. I have no idea how these models learn and don't know if 3d vision will make multi model LLMs better and require exponentially less examples.
Then I missed out if they could fly. That would be nice. Just feathers seems useless.
After the Series B for my last company the three founders owned something like 45% of the outstanding shares, and when they sold took out something like 40% of the price. What were the rounds like that led to less than 10% after 3ish rounds?
That a non-electric bike is better for your health is often wrong. If you are very sporty, you are fine. But there are plenty of people who would get better exercise with an e-bike, as they are more likely to use it or just use the electric assist to bike more often or longer distances.
Also, there are a lot of regions where there are steep roads which could be obstacles without assist.
Oh, will try, great
We had some neighbors growing up who my dad referred to as “meat boilers”, not intended complimentarily. They were surprised to see standard issue salt and pepper shakers on our kitchen table: “Ooh, you like your food spicy!”
The official recall: https://foedevarestyrelsen.dk/nyheder/tilbagekaldte-foedevar...

They don't really specify what the acceptable capsaicin threshold is, just that it was too high.
You're not getting faster service, you're using an additional non-verbal signal.

Moving your glass to the edge is how you say, "Please refill my glass." Similarly, if you're in a Chinese restaurant, flip the lid upside-down on the teapot to ask for more tea.
Definitely avian with that response to capsaicin. ;)
This is less a surprise and more an issue with false advertising.

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck should I have to read fine print to realise it is a pig?

In Australia there are limits to what advertising can get away with, presumably US has similar.
I think it’s entirely reasonable for a founder to take money off the table.

The founder possibly walks away from a 6-7 figure opportunity cost working for a big corporate or FAANG. In return they take zero salary.

All of the money that begins to come in is then used to pay employees.

Maybe they raise some funds and pay themselves a below market salary for years.

A few years later they are over $1 million in opportunity cost and still owning a lottery ticket.

By this time they are a bit older, have a family, want to buy a house etc.

They are also massively wedded to the project for as long as it takes, so strapped in for the long haul.

The founder should be able de-risk at the next funding round and not continuing to roll it all for the benefit of VCs.

The same is probably true of early employees, but a lot of the factors above are dialled down. They didn’t work for zero, salary wasn’t under market by such a degree and they haven’t had such a high opportunity cost.
In the US, we pump natural gas directly into most homes, which is extremely dangerous. Yet NG still causes very little death compared to, say, cars, and we tolerate NG in homes and >100 car deaths a day.

I can't speak to the EU risk profile, as the EU has far less fire deaths in home than the US, but we here in the US will tolerate home lithium batteries just fine.
Thanks :)

>> I was hoping in hacker news people would be more open-minded but now I’m seeing that’s not the case.

Yes this was a bitter pill to swallow for me also: hackers would be open minded right? It's exactly the opposite: many comments that I do like this get downvoted very often heh...more like Sheep News than Hacker News :)

But I'm totaly used to it now, though my opinion that "programmers are be smart and wise people" now doesn't have the "wise" part in it anymore...
The primary source[1] says kids in Germany have been hospitalized by weaker chips. Something something tik tok challenge.

It does seems these ramen are hot.

Still weird they take it of the shelves though.

[1] https://foedevarestyrelsen.dk/nyheder/pressemeddelelser/2024...
This reminds of the web based http://yourworldoftext.com/
Scoville is weird scale as it is about dilution. So the amount really does matter. And I doubt it is often even properly measured and tested.

Logically taking spoon full of raw sauce has one amount of units and then mixing it in food 10 or 100x should have 10th or 100th of Scoville units.
Total comp needs to be market rate, not just salary. And non-preferred shares should be valued lower than preferred stock. Lumping non-preferred shares with prefereed shares is one of the bigger lies startups tell employees.
The packet specifically in the BBC image - I was at the Chinese supermarket in London Chinatown, when some Korean students walked in and one of them saw those packets and said ‘oh yeah that’s the one that completely beat me.’

I was curious, so naturally I bought five packets.

I was unable to finish a single whole packet. Tried five times. Failed five times. Got very close but never quite made it.
My company need deterministic encryption to search encrypted data.

Turns out the people who wrote the in house Go library didn't have any idea. There is no non-deterministic encryption function because that might be too complicated for non-senior engineers (afterall they wrote most of the actual application) to correctly choose.

The first version use AES-CFB. There's no authentication. It's probably copy pasted from a public Gist and nobody ever commented on it that it is insecure. I wonder if it was actually intended to be the non-deterministic version, but the higher level wrappers do not wrap this function so people didn't actually use it.

The second version use AES-GCM with nonce derived from the key and AD. Since nobody understand why AD is needed, AD is always nil. Essentially there's ever one nonce.

I think the problem is that many senior engineers know that encryption use "AES" library but the Go standard library doesn't tell you how to use it securely.

Surprisingly this mistake also happen in our Java stack that was written by a different team. A senior engineer did notice and quietly moved away from the vulnerable version without telling the Go version.

I wrote a POC to decrypt data of the Go version, then wrote the third version, perhaps it will be open source soon. The new library only implement envelope key management, encrypted string wrapper and ORM integration. The rest is Google's Tink.
In most places geographically speaking no, but a number of US states including California and Florida which account for a disproportionate number of homes have passed laws protecting existing homeowners from property tax increases by capping the rate taxes can be raised to well below the rate of housing price inflation.

So as a new buyer you're paying not only a higher price and higher interest rate, but also higher taxes than the people you bought it from.
Can also vouch for Zettel notes, git integration with sourcehut was a bit fiddly but once set up it's great. Even supports most the the Org I use
LFP batteries are cheaper, very safe, and currently the most popular for storage and cars which don't need maximum range - the standard range Teslas are using them too.

But Sodium based batteries are coming into the market and would be even cheaper.
Not gp but I like the taste.
in that case the product was also not really intended to be eaten as food. it was one single tortilla chip in a plastic bag sold for 10 euros (IIRC).
> But I have no idea how global consumption could be reduced without also causing harm.

One can start by implementing democracy. And no, i don't mean plutocracy, lobbyism or other forms of cortuption.
As always with any purported finding related to sociology or psychology: does it actually replicate?

I can see how the people who design malls will try to sell up their magic 'Gruen transfer' powers to mall developers. But how much of this is wishful thinking?

Reminds me of the alleged magic power of Facebook ads to eg swing elections.
A bit more details here about the reason, but also not anything about capsaicin: https://foedevarestyrelsen.dk/nyheder/pressemeddelelser/2024...
More specifically, a consumer asked the authorities if they should be legal, and then they investigated.
I recently applied to a seed stage YC company that was offering me 1.5% equity for a founding eng role which they felt was generous. So basically I get to do all the work for like 1/50th of what the founder has? Get real lol. I even pointed this out to them and they said "it's totally normal, that's the way it's done". Like oh okay, as long as everyone else is getting ripped off too.
> Apparently there was a trend on ~The tok~ with children eating spicy chips in Germany that got them hospitalized, and as a precaution the Danes took these noodles with are more spicy of the shelves.

Yeah, so called "Hot Chip Challenge": https://www.thelocal.de/20231110/bavaria-bans-sale-of-hot-ch...
It's all agricultural: farms require animals, and most people use animal food sources as the bulk of their dietary intake.
User this tool before for double checking our foss compliance, its pretty neat
I have seen people try to eat these to one up others. It almost always ends up in a disaster. High Scoville chillies are no joke and should be handled with care.
Why are real world examples "counterproductive"? Do you not see that some people are healed by this?

What is hard to understand about real world people healing?

So because in a study of eg 200 people 170 don't improve at all but 30 do this now obviously means that on average the thing studied doesn't work: so the study concludes "X doesn't work" even thought 30 people got completely cured.

So you'd now prefer for no-one to get cured because "on average" treatment X doesn't work. Perhaps your reasoning is not productive?

It's really simple: these things work for SOME people: should they not have tried this and instead remain ill?

A human life is not the average + confidence interval in a study: humans are different, an individual is a VERY REAL N=1, not "the average study participant".
>Based on this thread I find that incredibly hard to believe. Incredibly.

It doesn't take much more than showing up and taking responsibility when no one else does.

>Or like... Mozilla Firefox. Cause that's why they've had Mozilla Corporation since 2005.

Yes, because Mozilla has always wanted to do more than be a browser company.

Remember Firefox OS?

Not for profits who have weird structures are there to make sure they can be looted for the benefit of the people running them, or to be used for pet projects that have nothing to do with the original charter.
Yeah but I don't think it's fair to compare salaries to FAANG firms, as they are extreme outliers (and not really good companies).

So you would get paid like at another company but get equity on top and it's not a good deal? How comes?
I wonder if this is accurate because I love tons of that El Yucateco on my food (and frequently eat other spicy stuff almost daily), but the Buldak ramen I tried was was so spicy that I couldn't take it and didn't get close to finishing my bowl.
Wait, what? They inhale the paint? I thought it was restricted because of tagging and such.

How do you inhale paint? Why am I so old?
> But not Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Chomsky, for some weird reason, chose to take Russia's side.

Taking sides is a sign of emotional, not intellectual approach. And Russia/Ukraine conflict is way far from good fighting evil simplified construct.

I don't like leftists in general and Chomsky in particlar, but I give him huge respect for intellectual and independent position, which will cause him losing appreciation from people like you.
Prediction markets on the outcome:

https://manifold.markets/JacobPfau/will-the-arcagi-grand-pri...
> The system made of humans+LLMs is an AGI.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

This type of thinking would claim that mechanical turk is AGI, or perhaps that human+pen and paper is AGI. While they are great tools, that's not how I'd characterize them.
I know it was already suggested in previous comments, but I do not see the black bar? Was it removed already?
> I'm not sure medevac is still a thing.

Not the way it was for US troops from Vietnam to Afghanistan. Getting injured people out of the combat zone is much tougher. The combat zone is deeper. The first kilometer is now about as tough as it was before helicopters. Doing something major for a patient in the "golden hour" after injury is often not possible.[1]

[1] https://journals.lww.com/journalacs/fulltext/2023/08000/putt...
Surströmming is not a danish thing, and I don't think we have a huge tradition or kitchen for fermented fish, it's a thing at the Faroese Islands, part of the Kingdom of Denmark.

It's mostly a swedish thing, and it's also my understanding that surströmming is a very northern Sweden kind of thing, so not common for southerners of Sweden either (which you might classify Denmark as, depending on your optics ;)).
Aldi is also pretty good about keeping a consistent layout.

In the UK, the supermarkets were extremely prone to confusing deals (like two-for-one and worse), but they dialed that down a lot since Aldi and Lidl entered the market with much, much simpler propositions. Customers might fall for your shenanigans once already in the shop, but it turns out they do prefer shops with fewer shenanigans in the first place.
Yep, same. It’s nice. I don’t suffer until over 500k Scoville. Youth eating Madame janette was good training.
New Russian 'Hunter' UAV designed for hunting naval drones
A survey of 1,802 drivers

60% = 1081 for

40% = 721 against

I dont need anti-speeding tech.

I already have speed warnings built into my navigation app Organic maps.
Yeah, that's my thought too.
Many companies give ~$200/y for way less upward mobility, impact and voice, and without any equity.

Maybe you'd lose our on some tiny perk/benefit but that's not always the case.

So I'm not seeing what's wrong with this deal with the only caveat that the engineer has the experience not to overwork/burn out.