skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>some people prioritizing money for themselves over the externalities

You mean exactly like the employees, execs and shareholders of the big publicly traded companies many people here work for?

But it's evil when the homeless crackhead in your neighborhood smashes your car window for drug money, but not the Google/Microsoft exec who pushes ads with malware or addictive drugs on your kids for a career advancement and a nice house in California, that's just called innovation, where the former person is the looser and the latter the winner of our capitalist system.

Many profitable industries have been built on privatizing the profits and socializing the externalities on the environment, society, people, etc. Oil & gas, mining, motor vehicles, fast fashion, ads, gambling, food, pharma, etc. Usually on less developed countries, and it only makes the news when those externalities finally reach us here in the rich western countries.
Ask HN: Group Identity: Commonality in Diverse Groups
Hello HN community,

I've been pondering a concept that emerged from a recent discussion with AI: the idea that the mere act of grouping disparate entities inherently creates a commonality among them. Even in the most diverse and seemingly random groups, there's always at least one shared characteristic – the fact of belonging to that group.

I haven't found an existing term that perfectly captures this concept, so I'm tentatively calling it "Group Identity." It seems to have implications in various fields:

Social Sciences: It could shed light on group dynamics, social identity formation, and the emergence of collective behaviors.
Philosophy: It raises questions about the nature of identity, the relationship between parts and wholes, and the role of context in defining meaning.
Mathematics: It might offer a new perspective on set theory and its applications.

I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this concept. Does it resonate with you? Have you encountered similar ideas in your own work or studies? Do you think "Group Identity" is an appropriate term, or would you suggest something else?

I believe this concept has the potential to spark new insights and foster interdisciplinary collaboration. Let's explore it together!

Feel free to share this post with anyone who might be interested.
> I don't think true full self-driving would cause a reduction in emissions.

I was referring to the total cars owned by people and produced by factories as "car consumption". Cars bought by consumers.

By owning less cars individually and one car serving many people, emissions from driving might increase, but assembling and constructing the cars has emissions too.

There is a difference in cities and rural areas of how important car ownership is, but there is also another technology coming which decreases the need to transport humans, and that's blazing fast drones.

If you want to buy let's say an ethernet cable of 5 meters or a coffee, instead of transporting the human, it is much easier and faster for small items to be transported by drone. Drones alone, might decrease the need for car ownership by 5 or 10 times.
I love the idea of Daylight Computers, but I'm not sure I'd really get to use it for much. I suppose reading newsletters and forum posts might be my current best use case, but that's not even a daily activity for me.

However! Smooth digital handwriting is appealing to me for note-taking. Does anyone know what the state of handwriting interpretation software is? If I could seamlessly write down notes and have them converted into text in Logseq, I might be able to stop buying notebooks.

EDIT: Oh, wow. I echo the sentiments here about pricing, too. That's a huge turn-off.
| "Suddenly, you would steal a car"

Nah, but I would download a copy of one without hesitation... ;)
No one would even be talking about "needing better and more accountable policing" if "defund the police" as a position didn't shock people who have no reason to fear the police into realizing how dire the situation was for those who do. The "hijack" is walking back a revolutionary ideal to something palatable for the mainstream that doesn't threaten the status quo.

It isn't a false dichotomy, but simply a difference in interpreting what the core issue is. Some believe the police can't be reformed and can't be held accountable, because the core issue is systemic racism and white supremacy, and the only option is to tear the entire system down and rebuild it from scratch around truly anti-racist principles.

Obviously if you don't accept the thesis, you can't accept the conclusion.
Lithium-ion batteries and per-, polyfluoroalkyl substance environmental release
Dasung has eink HDMI monitors that have quite a high refresh rate. For a 25” monitor it runs about $1700. https://shop.dasung.com/
Does it bother you more knowing many FPS are just a pair of disembodied floating 3D arms noodling across the landscape?

Best not think about it too much... lol =3
We've strayed too far from God's light. Return to Gopher.
"echo cancellation" is what its called, there's a few general purpose (non-ai) algos out there!

What's really interesting is I can get the algorithm to "mess up" by using external speakers a foot or two away from my computer's mic! Just that little bit of travel time is enough to screw with the algo.
The comment chain you are replying to includes a request to not train an AI on one's code.

I agree it's certainly possible for AI to produce infringing output.

Nevertheless, people don't have the right to enforce a limitation on training.
An idea for e-paper tablets - I hate having to switch between a pdf and a note taking app, or having to write on the pdf itself. give me a translucent overlay on which I can write, but make it available separately from the pdf.
It'll be microcontroller equivalent of running full GNU/Linux to control an Internet of e-waste tea kettle, but CH32V003 + SSD1306 OLED + passives takes less than 10 parts total, no crystals needed, has plenty sample codes online, and costs ~$2 combined. Depending on the price of the final product, it could make financial or product design sense.
if they know better and have the foresight, they do. But stuff like this might not occur to people who've never been bitten by it. Every step of the way you just make things a little bit messier than before.
A couple of reviews:

- https://om.co/2024/05/18/daylight-tablet/

- https://arun.is/blog/daylight-tablet/
This thread with the founder has more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40457491
From an enterprise perspective (only because I don't use it on my personal machines), TrendMicro has really been improving. I highly recommend it.
Years ago I was watching so-called "best practices" videos on teaching estimation in early primary. I was astonished. Often the skill being coached seemed to be participative performance in a collaborative pretense of understanding. What to do, and not do, so we can both pretend learning has occurred and move on. With the teachers themselves largely unclear on the concepts.

Ongoing formative assessment is usually closely associated with instruction, with attendant conflicts of interest. I wonder if say LLMs, might transformatively permit fine-grain and adaptive assessment. So a "what have you been learning?" dialog for objective identification, and then assessment across the objective neighborhood. With potential for tutoring of course. But here emphasizing a possibility for rapid verification of learning.
Huh? What's the aggression in characterizing the diverse landscape of operating systems and the users/developers who very reasonably may prefer each?

I think it's very good that we have so many options of what an operating system and its vendors/developers might prioritize, and that these differences in priority have consequential impact on how software gets built on each.
Its not e-ink, its an ordinary transflective LCD display, similar to what you’d find on a digital watch or the Game Boy.
Yuzu, the emulator that was sued by Nintendo, was emulating the Nintendo Switch, which is a product Nintendo does sell.
In my country you need a degree to be a teacher, in the old days, having a degree wasn't part of a normal person's lifecycle. It was prestigious. Now it's not much more impressive than a drivers license.
My colleague works in a very quiet house, and has no need for noise cancelling. Sometimes, he has it turned on by accident, and the quality is much worse - his voice gets cut out, and volume of his voice goes up and down.

As you say, as long as either option is available, the only question is what the default should be.
We are currently seeing the music industry reacting to AI learning a bunch of music patterns and chord progressions and outputting works that sounds very similar to existing music and artists. They are not liking it.

To just see how much they disliked it, youtube copyright strikes is basically a trained AI to detect music patterns to identify sound with slight variations or copyrighted songs and take videos down. Generating slight variations was one of the early method that videos used to bypass the take down system.
Some information on the screen and that it's a transflective LCD and not an e-paper display as implied on the site.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ac-qtk2lmk
https://designsystem.digital.gov/

https://github.com/uswds/uswds
They don't list the full price on the website - just a payment link for a deposit of $100. Not sure why the aren't transparent with it.
I honestly can’t get a solid feel for precisely what makes this different than what I can already buy and the website doesn’t help.

I’m highly skeptical of a product that leans this heavily on selling a feeling.
Expensive. Android (so basically just as distracting as usual). May not even be eInk but rather rLCD. Lame.
great domain, terrible jokes

requisite South Park clip (NSFW): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uDmF91Bspw

(YSFW): https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Funnybot
Given the timeline of just 4 months, I would expect 90% of customers not migrating in time. The percent of those who migrated to the new API after that depends on how vital this service is to them, it would be interesting to see the rate of lost businesses. I know that if a service provider did this to me, I would prefer migrating to their competition, all things being equal.
Ask HN: Build spec for home LLM box?
Ive been out of the loop a bit on running models at home (with Ollama and such).

I want to build an air cooled home server to run the bigger parameter models (like llama3 70b which is 40gb with quantization to 4bits). It seems like running 2 3090s or 4090s is the way to go for this.

1) Does Ollama support loading the model across multiple gpus?

2) Anyone have a general parts list that I can copy that works well? Id prefer to go with 3 gpus but I feel like cooling may be an issue.
Specifically, the application of dataflow to GUIs, which was well-researched at Adobe by Sean Parent, Mat Marcus, et al in the early 2000s called the "Adam" and "Eve" languages. There's more work at TAMU & University of Turku (by Jaakko Jarvi) under the name "Espresso", or something like that.

Basically, the "scopes" become constraints, and they use a hierarchical constraint solver to propagate state changes to the GUI elements, real-time, using a declarative dataflow programming model.
Nope.

But you're moving the goalposts. Unless you're claiming that the Food and Drug Act and/or US patent/copyright law created the warfare and human suffering in those places. Are you making such an argument?

All that said, if you don't like the US, its laws and foreign policies, you aren't required to live there or support said laws/policies.

You can also attempt to change the Constitution and Federal laws to be more to your liking. And if you can convince enough Americans that such changes are a good idea, you can have everything you want. Good luck with that.
There is a large gap between public domain and GPL. For starters if Copilot is emitting GPL code for closed source projects... that's copyright infringement.
The US government, DoD, CIA, etc are all "bad" too. I'm not excusing Russia's actions, but if you're going the moral high ground, on civilian murder, you should be avoid US companies as well.
How would that work? Would you randomly select a single order posted, go by market participant (like randomly select some entities that posted a trade in this window), and would you allow prices to move during this window?
> Basically want to feed the model a huge set of prompts, have it produce output, and then have other LLMs eval the results. Then our team can dig in to areas the judges disagree.

A few weeks later: "oops".

You have to build your own tools and sets for RAG, but you know that. Don't slack off, when it comes to testing and evaluation of LLMs, nobody can be trusted yet.
Tobacco companies are still doing really well, in other countries
"In fact, everything was not working just fine"
From what I understand it's an LCD with some kind of coating they developed.
If anything, 7-segment displays are better when it comes to partial failure, as it's reasonably easy to add self-test functionality which measures the current passing through a supposed-to-be-lit / supposed-to-be-off segment.

This would allow for failure detection without the user having to explicitly press a test button and look for any misbehaving segments. You can't do this as easily (if at all) with LCD or OLED.
The title here is incorrect, the display isn’t e-ink, but a transflective LCD.

It’s worth watching this YouTube video showcasing how it looks next to a real e-ink device to get a clearer idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ac-qtk2lmk
Absolutely! Also, I tried this and the game agrees:

Hope -> Anti-life -> universe -> a nova -> a world -> butcher bacterium -> bird of prey -> serpent -> hunter -> dire wolf -> water -> rock
Yes, because LLMs are not humans. LLMs are software.
It's not eInk but a transflective LCD, so in fact, completely different technology-wise. While it has faster refresh rate, it is not bi-stable, has lower contrast, worse viewing angles, etc. The main thing it has in common with eInk is that it works without a backlight.
The many ways you can promote your product on Hacker News
Seems to just be a transflective LCD, right? Maybe with some special coating to give it that paper look.
Most people cannot hold themselves (or their loved ones) accountable because we love ourselves and accept any excuse at all. This is the main appeal of personal trainers imo, to tell you to do what you already know you should.

Great idea. Also, thank you for making it human.
Speaking of people not taking responsibility:

https://www.divestspd.com/p/no-discipline-for-detective-arre...

> The OPA could not sustain any allegations against Belgarde because the four-year deadline for discipline established in the police guild contract had passed.

When police unions decide to protect the bad ones, it obviously reduces their credibility and hence society’s trust in them. Might have worked for decades in the past due to lack of information, but people know this stuff now.
What is the most suspicious email you've ever recieved that was legitimate?
Programingx
HN flagging clique analysis would be a useful data science project.
It's such a farce. You got a 70% on a multiple choice test and now you are "certified" in information security, nevermind that you don't know how to actually produce anything (neither a "dev" nor an "op"). But hey, the c-suite who hired you can only read pie charts and bar graphs, and is paid top dollar to make sure those boxes get checked, not to know how anything actually works.

So you buy a bunch of automated scanning tools, pester the sysadmins to install multiple root-kits on all the servers, generate a bunch of PDF reports, and email them to those same sysadmins. You know, to help out the people who have been _achieving_ security (not just talking about it) for years. You rely on them to implement or document everything for you, but it never occurs that they could teach you a thing or two because they are not "certified". What they would consider their nuanced opinion tempered by years of experience comes across to you and your c-suite boss as complacent and change-resistant excuse-making.
A slight aside, but this is the subtitle:

> A few devs versus the powerful forces of Redmond – who did you think was going to win?

I hate that kind of obnoxious "journalism". Sometimes the little guy is actually wrong. To clarify, I'm not commenting on the specifics of this case, I just hate how fake our online discourse has been by appealing to "big guy evil" before even bringing up the specifics of the case.
Chase's insecure and broken "secure" document exchange system (2009)
Some are always more equal than others
> The current commercial alternatives for Lightroom unfortunately are still lacking, last time I looked at them (Capture One, DxO Photo Lab)

Genuine question, how do you find DxO PhotoLab lacking when compared to LR?

I'm an old-time LR user and due to Adobe's licensing shenanigans exploring alternatives. I am having a pretty good time with trial version of DxO PhotoLab7. So far I haven't come across something that I could do in LR (as a hobbyist) that I can't achieve in PhotoLab7. And, I'm loving the built-in DeNoising algorithm in PL7.
Does Affinity Photo have photo library management support like Lightroom? e.g. pick/reject, tagging, rating etc.
Why is this a subscription? Are there ongoing costs? It seems like you just have generation software that would run for free on GitHub or whatever.

It seems like a better fit to have a one time purchase. And charge for upgrades or something.
Because it's 730$
Cloud Domain Speed
while watching the trailer, I had a deja vue from the bioshock 1 atmosphere which I recommend very much
I always felt like this was an intentional additional filter that the data was ran through before giving the user the response. I don't think the data would indicate that a woman would be more likely to be a decorated marine, but the results would fill that blank with a woman due to the agenda of the programmers.
“Other countries probably also do similar things, which means this is totally morally correct! Checkmate haters!”
Looking forward to seeing this comment in discovery
> As far as I can tell, you're saying "what you're worried about is already happening, so why bother being concerned about it getting worse?".

I called them "serious problems". I don't know how you extrapolated "why bother being concerned" from "serious problems".

And my point still stands that the situation you described, is, incredibly, not only not based in reality, but also simultaneously exists through other means.

There are, of course, reasons to oppose something like this - but, the reasons you're choosing to oppose this are moot, in every feasible way.
Tengen Games
Sure. But now you have to spend more money on adding lanes for the same traffic capacity because the average speed drops.
It's LCD with a reflective backing they've put alot of effort into finetuning. Really not that implausible. Remember the Pebble wasn't e-ink either.
The Yamanote is mostly quadruple-track, although the commuter line uses only two of those. Trains run every two minutes at peak hour, and each train has 11 carriages, giving the system ridiculous capacity.
What a weird and unfortunate outcome.

HN often links to articles on sites like The Verge that are literally just a summary of actual reporting performed by reporters at Bloomberg, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, or another media outlet with a "hard subscribewall." The Verge and others are just leaching off the reporters and media outlets doing the actual work.

And then there's open contempt for linking to sites like 404 Media that charge.

Don't get me wrong — I sometimes use archive.is myself to bypass paywalls.

But it sure looks like HN as a community is letting itself be shaped by whoever will offer their content for free.
I do the same in my Subaru, even at the furthest, the safe distance is choose is no where near the 300feet(approximately 20 car lengths). It's closer to 8 car lengths.
That website needs to be taken out and shot.
Weird how there's always a few 1 minute old accounts posting this stuff whenever the topic of Russian digital ops arises on HN.
If I had to pick between US or Russian influence in this manner, I'd take the US. Not that it has to be one or the other, but as long as they're going to duke it out...
> LFPR has declined since then, which can be explained by the Baby Boomers retiring and slower U.S. population growth: Subsequent generations have been smaller than the Baby Boomer generation, so their entry into the labor force hasn’t made up for the retiring Boomers.

The dominant factor
The demo fell a little flat because the "before parallel DOM" and "after parallel DOM" boxes were almost exactly in sync for me (Firefox, MacOS).
Ah yes, the source of the original Ponzi Scheme, before Ponzi finished scheming.
wow that’s dope! maybe the writers played the game haha
I think this now is exposing a hidden advantage to having reasonable fees behind twitter/X API calls to read information. I haven't seen nearly as many research papers on user's posts in cybersecurity, so they just don't have the same avenue of people doing free work finding ways to combat AI generated profiles. Now that all has to be internal or enough of it to gain some trust back from government agencies and maybe the public.

Personally, finding ways to detect this is exactly the stuff that made me interested in the academic route of cybersecurity.
Oh no! You're right - I just checked and luckily it's still in my Audible library, but indeed, searching for it on the store yields nothing :-(

I see it's available for sale here at least:

https://www.audioeditions.com/the-invincible?sp=378507
Hahaha, indeed! :-)
This is not the case. That API is available to any extensions for chrome. Including those made by other companies that don’t control the browser.

Here[0] are the docs for the specific one discussed above, for example.

0. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/s...
It was there 8 years ago.
I don't know how to write this comment so it doesn't come off as unconstructive. But here you go.

- "AI-first"? What does that even mean? Calling some API to auto-generate a title? Do you really think that a) this solves a big user problem and b) that Linear can't add that in two seconds if they wanted to?

- Open-source and VC-backed? Please stop bull shitting me, and yourself.

- What is your USP? That you're faster than Jira? Fine, but this is not 10 years ago and snappy tools like Linear exist (and I'm not even a fan of Linear).

- elon@xyz.com? Really?

Please use your time and talent for something else than this VC AI pipedream. Or don't, I'm just a rando on HN.
The minimum wage makes it harder for the low skilled to find work.
Any idea what happened? People seemed quite shocked they passed away so young
The exchanges already charge fees per order https://www.nyse.com/publicdocs/nyse/markets/nyse-arca/NYSE_...
Coming from an account created 3 minutes ago, spreading whataboutism and discrediting it by calling it "sci-fi" at the same time.
you have to wait a while until the before box starts to stutter, maybe 30-60 secs.
The Rest of the State
> I remember playing JRPGs late into the night growing up and reading GamePro magazine.

From another of your comments, it sounds like you're middle class. Or, at least, a working class American which is quite privileged from a global standpoint.

Either way, you're hardly a representative sample of one (1).

Nice to encounter a fellow PKD fan, of course. ;)
If Apple still made a router I would buy it. But they don’t…

A new AirPort Extreme with an M Series I would be all over that though.
If you want to see some arguing really hard, check out r/UkraineRussiaReport

I enjoy it because you can genuinely interact with FSB influencers.
Well obviously the police would have access to other kinds of guns, but if civilian guns were only capable of shooting deer then that would be a definite plus