skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US has to win the race because while it's true that it's no angel, it isn't an authoritarian dictatorship and there isn't an equivalence in how bad the world will end up for you and me if the authoritarian side wins the race. Monopoly power will get abused the most by the least democratic actors, which is China. We need multiple actors within the US to win to balance power. We don't need or want China to be one of the winners. There is no upside for humanity in that outcome.

The US policymakers have figured this out with their chip export ban. Techies on the other hand, probably more than half the people here, are so naive and clueless about the reality of the moment we are in, that they support open sourcing this tech, the opposite of what we need to be doing to secure our future prosperity and freedom. Open source almost anything, just not this. It gives too much future power to authoritarians. That risk overwhelms the smaller risks that open sourcing is supposed to alleviate.
"and the details are all false"

(Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, June 11, 1807)
I've seen a lot of conspiracy types speculate that Just Stop Oil is actually a creation of the Oil companies as a controlled opposition group to basically make the climate protesters look so bad that they lose public support.

Personally, I haven't seen any compelling evidence of this, I think they really are just well meaning idiots who have no real idea or strategy of what they actually want to achieve or how to get there.
i've been doing this sales engineering thing for the last two years and have seen a little bit of how this works.

you'll get a list price (the price that the company needs to sell at with lots of margin added on top), and, depending on how serious you are and your actual needs, you'll get a "real" price after a sales person/sales engineer qualifies you.

there are a million ways big-money SaaS licenses can be discounted, but it always depends on the buyer, the relationship, how "sticky" they'll be (i.e. will they use it for a year and bounce, or could they be a multi-year loyal customer), sales targets and how much other stuff they might purchase.

also, like a previous poster said earlier, there are lots and lots and LOTS of ways that enterprise software can be purchased. "request for quote" sales flows covers that.

SaaS companies do this because so much of B2B pricing is a function of value and willingness to pay for that value.
>There's nothing stopping anyone from implementing a cloud that runs CGI or FastCGI that scales down to zero (with per second billing), and scales up to infinity.
>It's just that nobody has chosen to do so

i suspect they have. i'm sure there's a ton of different in-house implementations out there at various enterprises, that are a minimal wrapper on aws lambda to turn an ALB request into a CGI request
If we recalibrate the hype, results previously considered too minor to publish, will now be publishable.
You'd need an example set, like all FT'ing
Be that as it may, do you disagree with anything concrete from this paper?
Clarinet! I go to community band rehearsal every week and perform with them
The tough thing about this approach is that the borders of each expert’s sliver of knowledge is not known to the reader, and maybe not even to the author themselves.

On top of that, individual experts still carry their own biases in their heads, and they lack any sort of editorial board to service the reader by separating knowledge from bias.

It’s easy for me to cast stones but I also have no answer. The best I’ve come to is to read broadly on topics you need to truly know and compare what you find in your sources. For less important topics just accept that you are likely off the mark and have much to learn.
Edit: wrong photo originally.

Chiang Mai

https://unsplash.com/photos/a-city-street-with-a-puddle-of-w...

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Taken in Bali.

https://unsplash.com/photos/close-up-photo-of-earth-globe-v6...
Trusting the Thinkpad spec sheet numbers, an AMD T14s lasts >15hrs in one of the benchmarks on a 57Wh battery. That's less than 4W. Perhaps on Linux and with some tuning, it seems plausible to get to 3W?
That's what's so fun about deciding that you have a vanishing small slice of sorcery over the spectacle.

From a starting point of mereological nihilism, you can absolutely play to people's desire for ontological certainty. For many, many, many, things, what's true is simply the number of people who believe it so.
Most of the founding fathers were conventional Christians. Most of the rest would be best be characterized as “Christian desists.” In particular, they believed in a God that was active in the world of man. Franklin, in his own words: https://www.americanheritage.com/benjamin-franklin-his-relig.... They were closer to Unitarians than what we would call “deists” today.

Jefferson was probably the only one of those who didn’t believe in something like the Christian God.
What kind of real scientific evidence are you looking for? What hypotheses have they failed to test? To the extent that we're discussing a specific idea in the first place ("are we in a qualitatively new era of AI?" perhaps), I'm struggling to imagine what your comment is referencing.

You're of course right that there are more than two options in an absolute sense, I should probably limit the rhetorical flourishes for HN! My argument is that those are the only supportable narratives that answer all known evidence, but it is just an argument.
Samsung's ARM Laptop Struggles to Run Software Including 'Fortnite'
A blood lead level of 1 ug/dl is enough to increase ADHD symptoms in children[1]. Children absorb lead more readily than adults and lead bioaccumulates. The CDC's action level for childhood BLL is 3.5ug/dl.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4892926/
Candidly in 25 years I have only see a hype cycle this dominant once.

The dot com bubble.

Most of the other waves were evolutions (Web 2.0), branding (SAS), or just a shift in responsibility (cloud).

I am reminded of an Alan Greenspan quote: "Is the market high only because of some irrational exuberance — wishful thinking on the part of investors that blinds us to the truth of our situation?"

It's the lack of voices with questions that says maximum hype.

Google, FB, MS are the ones footing the bill. VC's are footing the bill.

It's not a question of who pays its a question of if it pays off or if someone (who matters) burns in the process.
+1 for that book but it's a bit rough for a start I think. I'd try headspace, calm or any of the free guided meditations on YouTube for a bit before diving into that book. And yes the book reads quite spiritual despite the author being also a neurologist I think so it might not be for everyone.
Convergent instrumental goals[1] and the orthogonality thesis[2], among other reasons.

[1] https://youtu.be/ZeecOKBus3Q?si=cYJUaxjIJPIbubRL

[2] https://youtu.be/hEUO6pjwFOo?si=DXVosLh6YTsMkKOx
Do you believe that governments might want to use social media platforms to try to divide the population within their own country?

Only saying this because it's how people in power legitimize their own power over everyone else. External boogie men help as well. Of course foreign influence is a real factor that works against people in their own country. The USA has done many foreign influence operations that has been detrimental to those people. I'm not surprised that foreign governments would do the same over here.

All in all, the general population often suffer downstream from these games of power.
Ask HN: How Can I Get Book Info and Cover Images in My App?
I would like to get book information and cover images in my app, I saw that there are some apis for this.

What was your experience with them? Are they all basically the same, or are some better than others?
Seems like a good application for the Apple Watch to remind you to breathe.

Serious comment, not a joke. Although it seems like your body will automatically trigger a breath when the blood pH gets low enough. Otherwise we'd hear about phone users keeling over.
Yes, but how did they define their nodes? The authors used maps from neurosynth, which are voxel-wise. They could be using voxels as nodes, but it seems unlikely to me.
Can undervolting damage hardware? Or do you just reboot and revert settings and go about your day?
The problem is that you can be perfectly healthy in year 1 and have severe cognitive decline by year 3, and voters can't really do anything about that.

as a general rule, right now states have no constitutional authority to institute recall elections for federal offices like Congress, so the only way to delegate that kind of authority would be for the current Congress to vote that into existence.
I'd assume the slower traffic and more people in the area would bump up pollution a bit.

Formula 1 is aiming to be carbon neutral by 2030 and engines from 2026 will be run on sustainable (ethanol based) fuels. The fleet of trucks to cart them around Europe also now run on biodiesel.
People are paying for ChatGPT and even more people are going to pay for it when they get a sample of it when iOS 18 comes out with ChatGPT integration.

The free integration is going to have limits.
Almost everybody's entertainment involves energy, which involves pollution.

Am I no longer permitted to drive to the beach, fly somewhere for a holiday, take a boat to scuba dive, take a bus to the snow?

Come to think of it, exercise burns calories and food requires fossil fuel based chemicals and fertilizers and machinery to grow and process. Better not walk, hike, or cycle anywhere unless necessary for me to produce something toward GDP.
The closer one would be semantic drift, But a very specific kind of drift. Semantic dilution / diffusion ?

It's the reason expertise fields end up creating new terms with time. The old terms discriminatory sharpness decrease with time as they get more popular and used in more and more places.

I guess the end game for a language would be when you can no longer tell apart yes and no even when taking into account the sourounding context.

I wonder it there are people who do this kind of linguistic research using information theory, doing a quantified tracking of the collapse of expressivity of terms and more generally languages.
I understand the hassle, but it's a shame the Newcastle round is no more, it was a brilliant track and had great racing. Really showed off Newcastle to those who haven't been there as well.
I started one. Well. Am starting one. It’s hasn’t “officially” launched yet.

It’s about lost golf balls that I find around my neighborhood. (I rent in a subdivision surrounded by , I think five golf courses). I take pictures of where I find them. Give them a little description and write a little story about them sometimes.

My daughter loves it.
Yea, the real low pass filter is simply FizzBuzz or "Write a for loop." That will eliminate over 50% of your candidate funnel who literally don't know how to program. For a real candidate, it should take 30-90 seconds and you got it out of the way.

"Invert a binary tree" like questions just filter out anyone who hasn't recently graduated with a CS degree or recently and deliberately studied algorithms. I don't think they're that useful if you want to find a leader.
you don't have to - apache will execute your python cgi scripts just as happily as it will execute your php cgi scripts.

it's just that python developers figured out that having options other than cgi, and being freed from the rigid directory structures is really nice.
Donate your bw to archiveteam warrior, or run a tor relay. Maybe seed thousands of torrents, or host a file sharing website.

What I wouldn’t give for even 1gbps upload…
Sounds like the rare combo of skilled scientist / engineer who knows how to do real things and people person.
> The odd thing is, we seem to be choosing to do none of them.

9/11 killed a month's worth of road fatalities, and in response we invaded two countries.

I guess it's understandable: if we invaded two random countries every month we'd soon run out of countries.
Former OpenAI chief scientist to start a new AI company
There are hundreds of billions of visible galaxies, which increases the odds.
there will be a rail link across a floating bridge in seattle opening in 2025.

it was supposed to open earlier, but the contractor messed up the concrete pour and is fixing it at their own cost. but that doesn't have much to do with the fundamentals of the floating bridge itself.
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's former chief scientist, launches new AI company
I have a box with nearly 5 years uptime, the one it replaced had at least that much, my experience matches GP's. unattended-upgrades gives you 99% of the patches, a manual upgrade every few months will get you the rest.

If you see a problem with this, why not point it out directly, instead of this snark?
Yeah but a hard disk drive has no internal parallelism, while an SSD has immense internal parallelism.
I suppose I earned that downvote. But, facetiousness aside, is the reciprocal true? Does China or any other country hold back growth technologies from being sold from Other Country A to Other Country B? Or is it just the US?
yes, i definitely meant risk in aesthetic design, not risk in safety or structural design. building codes to specify safety standards are unquestionably a good thing.
But in the sequel it's not a goose but a chameleon.
Relative newbie. For reference, I started on openscad, pretty quickly realized that was insufficient, started learning FreeCAD before eventually arriving on fusion360. I found Fusion360 much easier to use than FreeCAD

The use case was designing injection molds for electronics enclosures. Something I would say requires subtle and precise nuances at low tolerances but not remotely a jet engine level of complex design at all.

I don’t doubt I was probably doing things “the wrong way” in FreeCAD. But it was very difficult to figure out the right way in FreeCAD oftentimes.
How do you know if someone is an expert in something without being an expert yourself?
We use queues all the time, they’re practical, effective and easy to use. Too mature to talk about is my explanation.
That's my point.

I don't expect to have to remove preinstalled crap from my computer.
Puppy was my first distro. Loved it back in the day.

I discovered so many great apps through Puppy, including Geany, ROX Filer and gFTP.
That's why it's called an arms race, and it does not really end in this predictable manner.

The party that's about to lose will use any extrajudicial means to reclaim their victory, regardless of the consequences, because their own destruction would be imminent otherwise. This ultimately leads to violence.
Why should we listen to you, are you an expert on who to listen to? ;)
Is that more or less frequent than the HN anti-pattern: "I thought this was about..." as if that being wrong about what article was about was in any way interesting?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40339500

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40666558

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39436430
Because SSO outside of the OAuth2 happy flow [0] can be a pain in the ass to develop for and support.

Some customers use Okta; great! But some of those customers have Okta configured in ways that don't work with your auth service. Some customers use Okta as a downstream to their _actual_ IdP, which could be Keycloak (a million different ways to configure that) or, god forbid, some custom thing they wrote. You've gotta support that.

Some customers (the ones that will pay the REALLY big bucks) use Active Directory Federated Services and SAML-based auth. SAML is XML/SOAP. Gigantic pain. Gotta support it.

Some customers want LDAP/LDAP-S based auth. Gotta support that.

Given all this, it makes much more financial sense to lock that behind customers who are willing to pay the big dollars for enterprise-y features AND support instead of dealing with infinitely long support tickets.

[0] There is no such thing as a happy OAuth2 flow.
The article is talking about things like pages that are primarily static but with a comment box added as a dynamic part.

In this sense, I think the entirety of HN would count as "dynamic" by the standard in the article, so it would not be "mildly dynamic".

Are you thinking about something like "progressive enhancement" with JavaScript? Because that is not what the article is describing as "mildly dynamic".
Shelter is part of CPI, which this rent fixing would distort. Even so, it seems the rent increases far outpaces inflation.
People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (2017)

[321 points | 11 months ago | 125 comments]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36854061
School buses are an excellent way to think about risk if you are a school transportation planner. I was trying to give you an example of someone who might make a different risk calculation than an individual.
Ask HN: Smoking Object in the Sky?
OK, this happened in October of 2022. I was flying over Texas and there was something in the air that was billowing black smoke. My partner saw it as well but neither of us captured an image of it.

The object appeared to us to be suspended, not moving, in the air and either on fire or otherwise emitting black smoke.

It was in the day time, and there were not many clouds. I may be able to give an estimated latlong and datetime.

We tried looking up any sort of events in airspace using our limited knowledge but didn’t find anything and have just procrastinated on researching it more.

Any idea how to figure out what this phenomenon was?
Sweet, found the files I backed up off the old floppies a while back. Here's the most ambitious thing I ever made in Kid Pix, for the made-up Command & Conquer "game screenshot" in our "make a magazine" assignment! I believe it was in 1994 or 1995, on a Color Classic (as that is what our computer lab had a ton of at the time). This was a lot of work for a 9 or 10 year old! haha

https://matecha.net/cnc-kidpix-amatecha-1995.gif
> NSA and similar agencies are probably even mad at him, because he exposed the weakness that they could have exploited when needed, which is probably now patched.

Then they should have caught this when he came forward to multiple agencies, and was told that no one cared.

Please see my related comment as to why I submitted his AMA to HN. It's to bring to light this egregious lapse in US gov procedures:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40733355

Disclaimer: I do see the possible benefits for citizen liberty, where all agencies do not share every interaction with citizens. However, when a US citizen volunteers something actionable, there should be a special cross-agency path.
Which countries are like this?
"As George Orwell said, 'The most fundamental mistake of man is that he thinks he knows what’s going on. Nobody knows what’s going on.'"

(spoiler) The author reveals at the end that this quote was made up and falsely attributed to Orwell.

The most ironic part of this article is that the spurious quote will probably now make its way across the internet, whereas the disclaimer will not. Emerson actually did say “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me” - and after I've forgotten this article, I will probably remember that Orwell said no one knows what's going on.
What's funny is that I thought bloomtech had some relation to bloomberg and I also thought this austen allred guy was a big deal. I randomly DM'd him on twitter in 2022 thinking it was some superstar tech guy and he actually replied back; XD. Now that I know more about him...yea...I'm going to stay away.
How to set up authentication using Next-Auth in just 1 hour 30 mins
It took me over 2 months to make this video, and I tried super hard to condense it down to the essentials, building up from first principles.

It has everything you need:

Email magic link

Google OAuth

Role Based Access Control

Postgres DB (easy deployment with Docker)

Automatic database cleanup

Automatic account linking

Freedom for the user to change their username

Freedom for them to switch Google Accounts

Fully styled sign-in form

Reusable components ready to copy and paste

And much more.

Here's the video: https://youtu.be/TLGFTH4s_0Y?si=f_9CI_yK7E4ejjaO

The code is linked in the description.

What do you think?
The Effects of Stress on the Brain
I thought the energy came from the gravitational potential between the two black holes.
Feel free to attempt to educate me on antimatter then ofc. Otherwise, I'll continue to consume the NASA public R&D slides while laughing off silly comments.
Would be good if it had unix domain socket (USS) tested. Compared to normal tcp/udp socket, UDS does not go through network stack in the kernel, which is useless when sender and receiver are on the same machine.
“a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes”

- (probably not) Mark Twain
Yes but a fair chunk only produce meshes as an afterthought. They often use a neural representation (or gsplats or density fields) and bolt on mesh generation for portability.

(This particular project does seem to be specifically about meshes but I'm addressing your broader point)

Not every application of 3d generation necessarily needs meshes. Or rather - might not need meshes in the not so distant future.
Somebody in another comment here said:

>For many, many, many, things, what's true is simply the number of people who believe it so.

Many many many people believe HN is more than a marketing campaign for a VC firm. That makes it true. The same as how many many people believe they are here to get educated and not entertained. That makes it true.
83650? I've heard those output amps are very unreliable. Been lucky so far with the one in my 8510C rig.
Similarly, a lot of people believe in what we could call "ghosts" based on firsthand experience, yet the expert consensus is that there is no such thing.
Still no tab groups.
Greece, Italy, …
There's an entirely legitimate question here behind this quip.

I don't think there's a magical answer, but one approach I've found is to try to be a mini expert in a tiny, tiny slice of a bigger area (usually bridging over knowledge from some adjacent area I know). This means that I can then evaluate those who talk about this tiny area, and get a good baysian guess as to there broader expertise from there.
North Korea, China, Russia, and most Gulf and Central Asia countries.
north korea?
His idea that only corporations and governments should have access to this product. He doesn’t think people should have access even to ChatGPT or LLMs.
Goal is to build companies with evaluations of dozens, hundreds trillions of dollars and make sure only US government will have access to super intelligence to surpass other countries economy and military wise, ideally to solidify US hegemony and undermine other countries economies and progress towards super intelligence.

I mean who wouldn’t trust capitalists that are laying of people by thousands just to please investors or government that is “under-intelligent” and hasn’t brought anything but pain and suffering to other countries.
> you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read.

This is interestingly close to what I think about claims of ChatGPT being ‘as good as an expert’ at, say, mathematics or medicine.
Smarter Every Day series: Roboforming [video]
Yep totally and I agree expertise in one field means nothing in another. But I'm also old enough to have listened to a theoretical physicist on NASA's issues including the space shuttle challenger disaster. His thoughts have become regularly cited across many domains. He most certainly was not a rocket engineer.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

--Richard P. Feynman