skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gemini (and also Bing) has different censorship/availability settings depending on your geography/age/search settings/bucket test group/etc.

To understand the difference, you'd better try https://aistudio.google.com/ instead.

Here are my first results (there is no "share" button, but it does not matter, because "share" can be cherrypicked and you'd better try yourself):

* Gemini 1.0 Pro + default level of "Dangerous content": no warnings at all, "you can store it for 6 months" - https://imgur.com/ak0SrF6.png

* Gemini 1.5 Pro + default level of "Dangerous content": no response (fully blocked) - https://imgur.com/MbZRuUq.png

* Gemini 1.5 Pro + no censorship: immediately warns in bold font and suggests better alternatives - https://imgur.com/AD2Ttfy.png

Update: looks like https://gemini.google.com/ uses not just Gemini LLM, it uses retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), same way as Bing Chat. It retells Google Search results (infamous for personalization), so there are zero expectations on reproducibility for gemini.google.com.
I helped out running a bug bounty program for a company whose large offering was a FOSS product a couple of years ago. Most of the people participating were either in very LCOL countries like Thailand or Montenegro, or were bored C level/founder people who would use the tiny amount of money as an incentive to keep their coding skills sharp since their day to day no longer involved coding.
I grew up here and left as soon as I turned 18! After living all over the US and trying out different cities and locales returning to Michigan made the most sense. Buying a home in the SFBay area isn't feasible unless you're willing to work multiple jobs or sell your soul to FAANG.

Want a house? Get ready to replace: The foundation, the roof, the sewer lateral, oh and the addition wasn't done with a permit so its not to code at all. All for the low low price of $500k! On a lovely 1/4th acre plot, you'll be hearing your neighbor while they fart in the bathroom. What, you only got $500k? Don't worry, this other person here has $550k and they don't have a problem with the house need to be rebuilt!

Oh I'm looking at $500k houses? I should be looking at 1.1mil houses to not deal with all those problems? Now I've got 1.1mil mortgage for 30 years. I don't want to work into my 70's for a house.

Compared to... come to Michigan, you can get 5 acres for less than $300k and your house is functional, maybe it needs a new roof within 5 years. My mortgage is 15 years and will be paid off before that.

I think "competition" is the big thing that drove me back home. I was tired of competing with my neighbors (people who live in the same city) for _everything_. I don't mind people, I loved meeting people in every city I lived. I just felt like I had to fight for every "inch" in most "big cities" (but especially SFBay area).

It's very peaceful here. I love it. Maybe I'll go to the big lake (Michigan) later and swim.
From people I've known who've worked at Apple, it's an uphill battle to get approval to contribute to open source there. Somebody likely fought pretty hard to be able to do this
To an extent; they can give hints and suggest directions, but you need to treat them as an unreliable narrator: think of them as entities that can help or deceive you at random.

That being said, we are researching tailored LLMs and other architectures to assist mathematical research that are more geared towards accuracy at the expense of freedom ("imagination"). The Lean FRO has some related information and links.
I mean how much of that is because western countries take advantage of Vietnam and other countries in their region to cheaply produce their plastic crap?
> Don't know if it was intentional, but this maligns some of the hardest-working and down-to-earth people that I've ever known as crooked.

you misread me.

I don't mean, they rip off other farmers, I mean subsidy farming.

In the UK there were such things as flying herds, that were bussed in when inspections were due. Do they get rich from it? fuck no, does it allow them to survive, it did, until the UK government threw them under a bus.
Doesn’t have to be either or. Maybe he has some reserves but not entirely enough.
Everyone is part of some 1% group. Like imagine how many BS laws e.g. farmers or dentists have to deal with that we don't understand the full lunacy of.
I have over 10 apps in the Apple App Store store using Capacitor without any issues.
ExectOS repo, yes, but XTChain, which is under project's umbrella and seemingly an important part of it, is 4y.
Is it? Apple contributes significantly to the open source community, including to multiple projects within the Linux Foundation.
Any skill really. You alternate between theory and practice.

For example in sports you play for fun, then do some coaching to get better, then play for fun using your new skills and so on.
survivorship bias says hi
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Incorrect link to match title, lots of recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40710993
I think the ship sailed when you were 4..
What Are Pooling Layers in Deep Neural Networks?
I don't generally see front-page news about their huge contributions to the WebKit, LLVM or Swift projects (yes Swift is transitioning to being an Apple thing to its own separate project from what I understand). The only reason this contribution is news is that Apple doesn't typically contribute to FreeBSD, not that Apple doesn't typically contribute to open source.

Not that you're wrong, they're resting on a vast amount of free labour from the open source community. Though that's not exactly uncommon.
Clarkson's farm has a number of issues, but it does give a fairly broad base about modern farming in the UK

especially as all that work in the first year meant he made something like £900
I didn’t get much out of linear algebra. It felt too computational. I only really got it once I “relearned” it as part of abstract algebra
Show HN: HyperTab: Cloning Chrome's Tab Search in Firefox
One of my biggest issues of switching to Firefox was the lack of quick tab navigation. So, I scratched my own itch and made this thing. Been using it myself for months and it has been working great.
What's the definition distribution of "farming"?

My bias is not to go directly to factory farming or industrial agriculture, which sound depressing. I'd rather a smart and lazy approach, helping the land recover to a point and then stopping succession, as has been done with fire in the PNW mountain meadows for berry crops. I'm not under the illusion that the land-management practices of the Nisqually or Puyallup, say, didn't involve consistent work, just a different sort of work, one more within individual and small-group control.

If petroleum-fueled agriculture is "necessary", it's a mess we've gotten ourselves into.
I use Capacitor (via Quasar, though you will only want to use this if you use Vue and like Quasar, else maybe look into Ionic if you sue React or Angular). If you don't use a framework or don't want to use Quasar/Ionic then you can use Capacitor "raw" but I've not done that before.
Software design gets worse before it gets better
Show HN: iVu.Ai-Powered Conversational Search Engine with Researcher Agent
Today we're excited to introduce iVu.Ai, a next-generation conversational search engine that leverages the power of AI to deliver nuanced and precise answers to your queries.
Since iVu.Ai is connected to the internet, it’s always current and has access to the latest documents, issues, and bugs that other AI models like ChatGPT might miss. iVu.Ai doesn't just search the web—it understands your questions in depth, it is designed for anyone looking for reliable, detailed answers on a wide range of topics.
Unlike the new Bing, iVu.Ai doesn't oversimplify your queries. It addresses them as you phrase them, ensuring thorough and precise answers, especially for technical queries. Our model emphasizes clear, comprehensive responses over small talk—a significant improvement from our beta version.
You can dive deeper with follow-up questions, and iVu.Ai intelligently integrates new searches with your ongoing conversation. It’s like having the dynamic conversational skills of ChatGPT seamlessly merged with the robust search capabilities of Google.
iVu.Ai isn’t just about generating content like code, essays, or even creative works like poems and raps. It’s about providing valuable, well-sourced information. The AI abstains from offering personal opinions and strives to give you accurate summaries of online information. When it doesn’t have a definite answer, it’s designed to be upfront about it. While it’s not entirely flawless and has an error rate of about 5%, iVu.Ai’s main aim is to be a reliable knowledge companion.
The mainstreaming of 'AI' scepticism AI
> American people want to have the gut feeling when riding a lift, especially an express lift in those high buildings. In difference in Asian countries the lift ride must be smooth as possible. They don't like to have the feeling of riding a lift at all. In Europe it is something in between

How representative are these stated preferences actually of the population. I'd imagine that the individual preferences vary greatly from person to person and also change with age.
Most SaaS companies will tell you that they would rather not lock this important security feature behind enterprise. But the reality is that it is one of the few things enterprise will pay for and gate on and as such it’s become very effective as a differentiator. The edict to gate everything behind SSO is powerful in large enterprises and as such they will absolutely pay to be able to do that, making it a very easy internal sales tactic. The market has spoken, for better or worse.
It’s a bit tautological since we are defining interesting as what human mathematicians work on. Perhaps if computers ran the show they wouldn’t agree with our definition.
Water is the most interesting and fascinating molecule in my opinion. Isaac Asimov's essays on water's "strange" properties in his excellent book

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

opened my eyes to the life enabling properties of this small ubiquitous molecule. Just recently when I stood at a coast watching the waves come and go I imagined all these small molecules bonded together by their electrical bonds.
You also can get exemptions on your property taxes in many states for the land under agriculture.

You could end up:

- living off the land

- paying low taxes on your homestead
(house + 1 acre)

- paying almost no taxes on your ag
land (all but 1 acre)

- stretching your savings for many
more years than you'd have any
right to otherwise
Imaginary Numbers Are Matrices
An adorable educational use of UTAU technology. The channel that produces these videos really knows how to flow the exposition properly; give it a shot.
Could someone please explain the significance of this?
The only set we should really be listening to are people who both:

- Lived in a big city
- Lived in a rural community

Otherwise, everyone always thinks the grass is greener, absent experience with the alternative.

Or as I heard it quipped -- you don't love something for it's best bits; you love it because you can tolerate its worst bits.
usually, but this app is not even exposed publicly to the internet
But with coercions you do have {↑n | n ∈ ℕ} ⊂ ℤ, which is the subtype that you really want!

The issue is that not all properties of subsets can be lifted to supersets. As an example from analysis, you can coerce the reals ℝ to the extended reals ℝ∞, but you lose some of your rewrite rules because you need to choose how to define edge cases like (∞ - ∞) in ℝ∞. Making these choices is common in mathematics (at least in analysis) and in pencil and paper proofs it's usually just handwaved away.

Using subtypes, a proof checker would have to be explicitly given which ambient superset you're going to rewrite something like ((a : ℝ) - (b : ℝ)) in... this is more or less the same as using coercions to distinguish between ℝ and {↑r | r ∈ ℝ} ⊂ ℝ∞ except with subsets type inference is way harder.

I'll admit that coercions are annoying, but subsets don't let you get around it: here there's an essential step up in complexity between sloppy pencil and paper proofs and verified code. Personally, I'm really interested in seeing how much of mathematical handwaving can be rigorously automated away. There's a lot of cool work in this area by I don't think the FM community has a definitive answer for it yet.
or even better https://ssotax.org
That wasn't really my point but rather that social ownership of the means of production is a defining characteristic of socialism (as it was conceived in opposition to capitalism). Maybe there is a voluntary way to it but I don't think that has happened anywhere on a large scale so far.

These days there is a tendency to use socialism and practical present-day social democracy rather interchangeably, but I think that is problematic (and the latter doesn't really aim for socialism anymore, I'd say).
Enterprises want you to use their contract, depending whats in there the price only goes up.

SOC2 reports, SLA monitoring dashboards, 5% annual increase limits, they can put literally anything as a requirement.
Perplexity is a bullshit machine
The problem is though, that with half the data, your mind considers glueing another base to the seasaw, to balance things out and restore symmetry and intuitive beauty.
> …now radiating much more light at ultraviolet…

I noticed that too <grin>

Is this too far away to try to detect the gravitational waves, if it made some? I forget, do gravitational waves travel at C?
Given the content in the Quanta Magazine article, I would have assumed the explanation was straightforward: the hotter the water is, the more the molecules inside are bouncing around randomly, and therefore more likely to end up randomly entering a configuration that triggers nucleation in a given period of time than the same water at a lower temperature. But I don't even see that possibility discussed in the Wikipedia article. It's such a simple explanation that I therefore also assume it's wrong for some reason, but I'm curious why it's wrong.
This patch uses heuristics that seem dangerous to me:

> The 9P filesystem protocol relies on stateful file opens which map
protocol-level FIDs to host file descriptors. The FreeBSD vnode
interface doesn't really support this and we use heuristics to guess the
right FID to use for file operations. This can be confused by privilege
lowering and does not guarantee that the FID created for a given file
open is always used for file operations, even if the calling process is
using the file descriptor from the original open call. Improving this
would involve changes to the vnode interface which is out-of-scope for
this import.

Where would you use something with such unreliable heuristics??
I realise it is most improper to read the article on this 'ere website, but at least for the period covered, that is answered in the article.

Spoiler alert: nope.
Region-Beta Paradox
"as it unfolded" would be more accurate than "real time"

Technically, one can argue that "real time" is relative to the time frame in which we observe something, but that's not how we generally use "real time", but rather we use it to define an event that is observed at the same moment (or very close to) the moment in which it occurs, such as a match broadcast live on TV (though there is some delay).
> I think this statement is a conclusion only indirectly supported by scientific fact.

Can you expand on this "supported by" scientific fact? Is it something more than is not inconsistent with, and more towards must be, necessarily?
The guy has been on the gnome board for 16 years, and at apple for 4 years. My occam's razor says he used his apple account but probably it is not an official apple project. If his boss is okay with this it is going to be alright.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/9P_(protocol)
Kind of sad to imagine the satellites doing this are also surrounded by orbiting trash in space
Probably worth paying up for a ring light. Flash can cause unpredictable and hard to control glare and hot spots.
>Very few people have batteries with their solar in my neighborhood.

This is common. It is of course due to the cost of battery systems, particularly if the solar system was installed several years ago. I just bought a house that has solar and not only does it not have battery storage, but the solar cannot power the house when grid power is down. Seems insane to me to build a system that can't bootstrap from the solar and run things on an as available basis during outages but apparently this is typical.

I'm still learning, but I also think that I am not getting great value for the power I am supplying to the grid during the day. Add to that the extra cost of power during peak evening hours when I don't have solar and a battery to time shift my solar for my own use during the evening seems like a win. It still helps the grid since I am pulling less during peak evening hours.
A lot of smaller cities (including the one I live in) are addressing this by designating "activity centers" where new, denser housing is incentivized and sought to be concentrated. Zoning is changed so that, as things like aging strip malls are replaced, a new street grid is laid down over old superblocks.

There's only so much that planning and zoning can do (developers will only build and lenders will only lend for what's deemed profitable), and fully building out these neighborhoods will take decades. But lots of people are thinking about this and seeking ways to make it work. Municipalities have an incentive to get it right. Maintaining the tax base relies on attracting new residents, many of whom are seeking walkable urban(ish) neighborhoods.
There's always a queue somewhere at some level of resilience. Sometimes it's as mundane as the TCP buffer, some other times the other end points may become unresponsive for a while, including the time series DB you seem to want to take as the source of truth, or whatever that tries to resend and reconcile the requests.
I apologize in advance, but I still point to the relevant comic:

https://xkcd.com/2205/
You didn't answer the question though. You're answer is "it won't" and that isn't a good strategy.
Why does SQLite (in production) have such a bad rep?
I think the terms "farmer" and "farm" are entirely appropriate, as the farms that traditionally sustained humanity absolutely required animals to provide labor, fertilize the soil, and consume what would otherwise be waste. This all looks like a "concentration camp" to vegans, because vegans enjoy their privileged beliefs. Veganism is a form of masochistic asceticism.

But since I'm talking to a vegan interlocutor, the response will be "murderer, psychopath, exploiter, rapist, torturer", et cetera. The out-group is wrong and evil, by definition.
I've worked at places where it was an uphill battle for some folks but not others. I've worked at places where it was an uphill battle if you engaged legal, but if you just went ahead and did it nobody cared. I've worked at places where it was an uphill battle because they didn't want engineers just throwing it over the wall and impacting their reputation, and engineers were lazy and could not be trusted to be competent in contributing to open source projects.

"Contribute to open source" has a broad range of meaning. These are miniscule patches. Most IP attorneys I know at megacorps wouldn't even want to be informed of contributions of this scale.
Please give me some examples we can work with.

I’m not making the argument they contribute nothing. I’m saying it’s comically low compared to Google or Microsoft as the other 2 big commercial OS vendors.

Relative to them they contribute almost nothing at all to the wider ecosystem.
There are some stretches in the UK where rubbish collects by the roadside in large amounts, tangled in hedges etc, presumably because winds concentrate it there.
Even in my area, the most visible litter is along waterways. Regardless of where the trash originated, it will pretty much always find its way to waterways. Which might be part of why it's rare for you to see along the highways unless you have a very active group working off their community service hours.
>I came up with it by myself.

That is truly great, @palsecam. I love HN because of this!
Nice! I'll give it another shot! :)
I've met an 80+ year old farmer who looks old and frail but raises calves and keeps 80 hives, and he moves those fully loaded hive boxes like it's nothing. It's rather surprising the first time you see it.
Thanks a lot!

Focusing on the initial traction for the next couple of weeks or so, then will start adding features again. This one so far is number 1 on the list :)
It's a virtio filesystem, so it sends 9p.2000L (probably) down a virtio "pipe" so your virtual machine can access its host filesystem
> The distinction between the three types of errors can lead to the phenomenon ... of a mathematical argument by a post-rigorous mathematician which locally contains a number of typos and other formal errors, but is globally quite sound, with the local errors propagating for a while before being cancelled out by other local errors

I was initially amazed at this when I was in graduate school, but with enough experience I started to do it myself. Handwaving can be a signal that someone doesn't know what they are doing or that they really know what they are doing and until you are far enough along it is hard to tell the difference.
Again... Not just price

Payment date can be decoupled from delivery date... So it can be a "loan" as well.

As a producer you're betting on yield. If you expected 140 bushels an acre and got 130 your on the hook for the rest. Regardless of price on thee market ... even if its 10x what you were paid. SO your negotiating VOLUME on a product you haven't made yet, and could have a shortfall of.

There is a whole set of quality issues with the product as well... Too wet, to dry, wrong type, misses the mark on grading...

You can sell options on futures... some smaller amount of money today and agree to sell at a price at a later date, maybe... if the actual price is lower than your offer price then you get the money and the crop.

There is more to the futures market than HN learned from the Duke Brothers.
9p is a simple network protocol for implementing filesystems. It originates from the plan9 operating system but its main usefulness nowadays is that it permits people from implementing filesystems in user space without having to integrate deeply into kernels specific interfaces like FUSE.

I.e. if your OS can mount 9p volumes you can implement a user filesystem easily by just running some process on localhost and mount it. And it also works remotely (although that's less useful IMO, although not entirely useless)
> Socialisation is a system, nationalisation an act.

Socialism, the system, requires widespread nationalization in the form of both control and ownership of assets.

> There are zero legal scholars or historians who consider break-up orders nationalisation.

Again, nationalization is taking state ownership or control. A forcible government breakup of an organization is clear state control of it, albeit for a brief period.

Thought experiment:

Venezuela, instead of outright confiscation, chooses instead to leave shareholders in possession of their shares in oil production. They install state-selected management and impose a 100% tax on profits. Is this nationalization?
That isn't an uncommon sight around Pittsburgh. Whether or not it is an imminent structural issue depends on where the holes are.
I think I'm actually somewhat familiar with your story.

There's something about "Java/Scala", "New York startup" and cargo-culted behaviors. I'm sure this happens elsewhere too in other circles, but I've both heard of and read about what you're referring to before.
That is not quite the origin of the police everywhere.
You can though. Google Play is available if you want it – preferably in a separated profile. Most banks work. Only NFC in Google Wallet/Pay is blocked.
As long as that means we also "don't need roads" too!