skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a free market because buying an iPhone is a choice. It happens to be an incredible product, so may not feel like a choice, but the experience was designed by one company and put into the market as an offering.

Apple has no control over your bank account and you have no control over Apple. You are both free to engage with each other or not.
GrapheneOS needs device made by Google. It's genial marketing.
> Bad choice 1, or bad choice 2 is not really choice.

While true (and indeed so generalisable that one can say this of e.g. two-party politics), there are phones which ship with other app stores (Samsung's Galaxy Store).

Also: so far as I can tell the specific apps you need to get through life are themselves not monetised via the app store — e.g. banking apps, healthcare, and (as I read it) items bought within but not used within apps (such as groceries or travel passes) would not be subject to any commission from Apple.
> Pointing to a national debt without context does not make a point, much less prove the system is breaking.

Belief in magic is why the system will peacefully continue until it breaks. While it dollar enjoys the status of the least ugly girl in the room, it too will eventually follow the same pattern of all fiat.
Why a webpage instead of another TUI?
But the risk/reward is the same regardless of the frame of reference. It's the difference in the perceived risk between gaining $10 and not loosing $10, even when the odds are the same. And we know that while rationally its the same, _loss aversion_ is a cognitive bias that makes people behave differently in these two cases. But FOMO is something we should be mitigating against, since our fear alone doesn't change the actual odds.

But I will take your point that you have more cover for making a bad decision if you know all your competitors are making the same bad decision. But you still missed the opportunity to not make a bad decision and therefore get ahead. The actual risk remains the same.
Show HN: Contact Button – All-in-One Website Widget
Hey HN,

After getting frustrated by chat widgets designed for online businesses instead of local ones, I decided to build a new kind of widget that works more like an embedded smartphone with no live agents or LLM required.

The idea being that instead of having to ask a bot a question to get an answer or connect with a human, website visitors can simply click on an app icon that gets them the info they're looking for directly inside the button’s interface. Think: Restaurant Menus, FAQs, Business Hours, Click-to-Call, etc.

I've already built 15 different kinds of widget apps for Contact Button (https://contactbutton.com), but would love to hear which ones you think I should add next.
But Sydney &c were once empty pieces of land. There seems to be space to start new towns and cities.
It's called decanting. And no you don't end up spilling the fragrance all over your hands while transferring it to a small bottle. Yiu can also buy travel sized bottled of many popular fragrances which are specifically meant for travelling. But yes, in general full sized fragrance bottles aren't meant for carrying along while travelling.
Continuous, noninvasive blood pressure monitoring using sound
You say there's no way to weigh any of the factors, but the point of my original post was that the emergence of complex life more than once means that step is not as hard as it could have been.

We also now know that the creation of organic molecules is commonplace in the cosmos.

True, we don't get any predictive power from this. We're just exploring the space of possibilities, and there's still a lot of unknowns. I still see value in a thought framework like this to guide that exploration, but maybe there's a better approach?
This magnifying glass effect is a pervasive and dangerous (to thirsty plants) garden myth. Don’t let sunshine stop you from watering a plant that’s suffering from lack of water. https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/403/2015/03/leaf-scorch....
Show HN: Candix, a confidential, reverse recruiting platform
It's a site where you describe your ideal next job and get approached by top-paying startups. It’s confidential, ensuring that your current employer won’t find out.

It's free for candidates, while we charge companies for access to the pool. They’re charged a subscription fee, not a traditional success fee, because it’s the only way to remain forever candidate-centric and not obsessed with placing profiles at any cost, like agencies are.

I'm opposed to the AI trends in recruitment. Recruitment is opaque and needs more humanity in the process, not less. Consequently, we're stubborn about keeping humans involved at every level, from onboarding to support. This results in high operational costs, which we are working hard to streamline.

Confidentiality is what truly sets Candix apart. It's a tricky concept in recruitment, though, as it needs to be balanced with recruiters' need to know about your background to make hiring decisions. Our approach is to protect access to the pool with NDAs and limit profile visibility to relevant companies only. Additionally, we limit points of access to one per company and thoroughly monitor all recruiter activity on the site to prevent any leakage.

For those who are not open to receiving offers, one interesting feature is the option to mark your profile as unavailable. Interested companies won’t reach out, but they will be able to place an alert on your profile to be notified when this changes, effectively boosting your future search.

We operate in the US and European markets, helping people connect with over seventy companies, such as OpenAI and Ramp.

What do you think about the tool and its positioning?
Those “burn spots” are almost certainly from a fungal disease, not from some magnifying glass effect. https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/403/2015/03/leaf-scorch....
IIRC Palladium
is mainly run by the more libertarian-oriented rationalist/lesswrong types. Or at least, I've only seen it recommended by those types. I think it's funded by Peter Thiel.
I know this is a bit off-topic, but does the RP2040 contain an ARM core, namely the ARM royalties must be paid?

If yes, is there a derivative or version of this chip without the ARM core?

That said, this is the same issue if there are MPEG codecs, or HDMI related blocks. That's why AV1 codec and DisplayPort should be at least there, and actively prefered.
Self-Compressing Neural Networks
Hasn't this rule been there for many years? I have flown to UK twice and there ere always restrictions on 100ml per bottle. Even lost a deodorant bottle because of that (security made me throw it away).
If that was the case, any number other than 5 would also work. Try that.
dynamic quantization-aware training that puts size (in bytes) of the model in the loss
In my experience from writing a toy compiler, the speedup you get with a reasonable set of optimizatios compared to spilling each temporary result to memory is in the ballpark. There are vastly different situations of course, and very inefficient ways to write C vode that would require some compiler smartness, but 2x is a number that you'd have to contend with actual measured data to make the claims you made.

In many cases I'd suspect the caches are doing exactly what you alluded to, masking inefficiencies of unnecessary writes to memory, at least to an extent. You might be able to demonstrate a speedup of 100x but I suspect it would take some work or possibly involve an artificial usecase.
Does it kill weeds? Is watering the only thing it does?
And what many people of either side forget: both are not a one size fits all. There are some things that need planning up front (a car or a rocket) and some things can be done agile and iteratively. Likewise, some things can't be made via solopreneurship/indiehacking and some things can't be achieved with classic VC-backed entrepreneurship. There's a time for both.
Super sad really. I was watching the surfing Olympics and thought wow that island and water looks so cool, wish I could visit that place someday...
That’s not the definition you find on Wikipedia. It’s a reply without understanding the definition you made up though I suppose.

It’s a charisma that convinces other people of what’s true. Elon has that, that’s why said hard on exists. He often turns out to be right.
Fantastic! Thank you very much.
Looks like a thing that takes away the pleasure from gardening/small scale farming.
That is what "culture of fraud" means. Everyone just turns blind eye to fraud, any dissident is removed and promptly forgotten.

It is deeply embedded in system. Opposition is not possible, there is not even "correct" language to express dissident.
I hung out in comp.std.c, read the C FAQ (https://c-faq.com/), and yes, read the actual language spec.

For every C operation you type, ask yourself what is its "contract", that is, what are the preconditions that the language or the library function expects the programmer to ensure in order for their behavior to be well-defined, and do you ensure them at the particular usage point? Also, what are the failure modes within the defined behavior (which result in values or states that may lead to precondition violations in subsequent operations)? This contractual thinking is key to correctness in programs in general, not just in C. The consequences of incorrect code are just less predictable in C.
2 counterpoints

- if you are pushing technical boundaries you may need to prove something is achievable before you go back and do the comparatively easy stuff (build the website, set up the company etc.)

- As context switching creates a huge cognitive load it can be useful to create discrete chunks of work and not just jump around all the time.
Could AI robots with lasers make herbicides – and farm workers – obsolete?
> Vercel

> The company behind it is the same behind NodeJS.

Do you mean NextJS?
To put this in context: I read a paper by someone British where they state that the lifetime risk of cancer is 39% for a male and 36% for a female, no radiation events needed. Cancers in areas influenced by radiation is a very sensible topic, as an assumption could be made for a direct causation between the two. That causation argument, though, needs to be proven first.

In the areas affected by Chernobyl disaster, that lifetime cancer risk went up to 41%/38% respectively. It's unclear even if that rise can be attributed to Chernobyl fallout, or to other factors.

See also: https://cancerletter.com/guest-editorial/20210423_3/
Edge TPUs are definitely not comparable to the datacenter TPUs. They only support TFLite for one.
Why do you tie emissions to steel contents.

This system is electricity-based, whereas traditional agriculture is fuel-intensive.

Even fertilizer production is fuel-intensive, and this system avoids using any.

Multiply by the time scale you want the system to last, and you get your emissions savings.

Steel contents is a one-off emissions investment.

Now if you want to compare this system to an other electricity-based, renewable energy only, agriculture, say with electric trucks etc, that'd be interesting.
Looks like it is something run by Wolf Tivy

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/823...

https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/01/06/quit-your-job/
Might it be activities in which you get into the "flow" state?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
I learned 2 out of 3 of these (possibly I forgot #3) from a kid book in 'how to become a spy' which I borrowed from the local library. I wasn't into literature but into informational books. I was eating all these books like crazy. There were loads of tricks in this one, including writing with milk and using lemon to make it appear. Shoe lace tricks were also there. Techniques on how to follow someone. This was at the very end of Cold War, begin 90s.

There's good podcasts out there about PIs, spies, military intelligence, and good ol' police work. So I still love the content. The last one I finished was yesterday, about the murder of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn. The murderer, who was pretty much caught red handed, was curiously living next to a former top criminal which was omitted from the police report to protect this person against public outcry. This person a few years later happened to live near an Islamic terrorist. So the question arose if the former top criminal gave the weapon to the murderer, or whether he was an informant for the AIVD (back then BVD). Of course, the former top criminal passed away whilst the podcast was being made (classic plot twist). Regardless, a fascinating story, albeit inconclusive.
> my manager went on a four-week Christmas vacation.

Is that kind of stuff common? People checking out on Black Friday and coming back for New Year's?
Those “niche services” are potentially much more lucrative than consumer-facing products. For instance, an ML quant could be a license to print money, and would have appropriate costs. Designing more efficient (cheaper) structures and machines doing FEA/CFD better than current algorithmic models would be a huge boon to engineering industries. Sentiment analysis and forecasting for government. Military strategy that outsmarts any human strategist. Demand lead pricing for products and services. JIT manufacturing management through superior cost and demand forecasting. Identification of baroque tax fraud. Diagnosis of medical conditions. Product recommendations. Tailored drugs. Pre-crime.

On it goes. These are just a few examples of where ML is already beginning to be applied and reaping rewards.
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Absolutely spot on. Love the braindump summary style. This is the
British way; squandering talent, underfunding research and education,
selling out to global money. The one thing we can't seem to dump is
those useless memories and class structures of the old empire that
hold everyone back.
I was using Kagi (the now-defunct store/payment API provider whose domain name later got bought by the search engine) at the time, and Kagi worked out at around that percentage for me* — though at the time, hosting and bandwidth was also a significant cost on top of that.

And this weekend, I'm starting to convert some of my old Mac (PPC era Java) shareware into web games so I can play them again. No ads, no cookies, hosted for free (for now) on github. I tried it out on my iPad, which didn't exist as a product when I wrote the original, and turns out this is fine.

* I can't be bothered to dig out the archive link for the pricing to figure out the exact percentage, there was both a fixed fee per transaction and a percentage fee that varied by payment method.
Correct. With the promise it was temporary.
Op-Eds aren’t generally considered legally enforceable.
I also used to think this, then I realised https has far better performance, particularly for high latency connections.

A big repo clone from Github to here in Australia takes about half the time over https when compared with ssh. I'm not sure if github has region-located repos.
?: "Since the word processor was irrelevant to the Shuttle, I wonder why this card wasn't removed to reduce weight."

!: "We obtained access to a Shuttle teleprinter (probably a development system that remained on the ground)"
It would be pretty hard for the attacker to precisely arrange a hundred tiny sprinkles on the surface of a pill to exactly match a known-good pattern. (At least compared to just throwing a bunch of assorted sprinkles on the pill randomly and taking a photo of the result, which is what legitimate manufacturers would be doing.)
That includes branch predictions among other CPU optimizations.
Very cool that you did research on photoreceptors!

I am not sure what you mean with "this space" which is supposed to be "closer to the truth". Can you elaborate? I am pretty sure I made no claims in that direction[1].

What I am saying is that modeling human color perception as a three-dimensional space is sensible, given the fact that we tend to have three color receptors with different spectral sensitivity.

Similar physiological reasons apply for the CIE Lab space. Yes, it is a mathematical construct, but it is a reasonable mathematical construct. My color theory has been a while, but my understanding is that there is some pre-processing of the raw photoreceptor inputs that means the signals arriving in the brain are differential signals like the red-green difference (a) and the yellow-blue difference (b) of CIE Lab.

And of course we get the luminance from the non-color receptors separately, though of course the signals are correlated. So how we interpret a specific (a) signal depends on what L is.

So there are good pragmatic and scientific reasons for most of the proposed color spaces, but they are all compromises and driven by different pragmatic needs. They tend to be based on CIE XYZ, which defines a "standard observer".

Is your objection this definition of a "standard observer"?

To me, the very fact that such a "standard observer" is defined and called that makes it pretty clear that this "standard observer" is not the "universally true observer", but rather a useful fiction. And again, not an arbitrary fiction, there are reasons for choosing that particular one, but I don't see any claim to universal truth.

I am still somewhat puzzled by your mention of metamerism as only applying to the color yellow.

[1] I did single out CIE Lab, but clearly marked that as a purely personal preference.
That's an important point. Microsoft wasn't lacking the resources to develop a phone OS and Windows Phone didn't fail because "it sucked".

Instead it's a demonstration of the power of two-sided markets. When Apple came out with the Apple ][, Silicon Valley had a competitive advantage in electronics because of networks across firms. Need parts? Need specialty talent? You got it.

Now the "competitive" edge of Silicon Valley is that it is the home of great monopolists such as Facebook, Apple and Google. That is, it crushed the competition and prevents it from emerging.

There's also the reality that (1) brands feel the need to express their brands through apps, (2) they are already annoyed enough that app development cost is at least doubled because you have to support iOS and Android, (3) many would express the belief that being forced to develop apps for a third (fourth, fifth, ...) mobile OS would be "extortion" or the equivalent. My understanding was that Windows Phone went EOL because carriers in the US were refusing to activate them because they too think it is bad enough to have to be able to deal with two OS.

If Android didn't exist, however, you'd probably being paying less than a 30% rake to the app store because the App Store would have been seen as a monopoly and the court would have done something about it. As it is the zombie OS Android doesn't really make money for Google or anybody else (Samsung is just proud it makes phones) and wastes money for app developers but it does make money for Apple. From that perspective a third mobile OS is like a fifth wheel.

There is such a thing as "pernicious competition" where fake competitors prevent the entrance of a real competitor, for years cable TV was a great example because you'd see several cable operators, several satellite operators, and later several IP based operators that all offered the same crummy channels with the same crummy UI at the same high price. Not only did the cable operators not serve the same customers but the structure of the industry caused them to "collude" to offer customers the same thing.

Android is like that. It adds $10-15 billion profit a year to the Apple App store just by keeping the court away.
> namely the ARM royalties must be paid?

Yes, and it also contains other IP block (for example the USB from Synopsys) for which fees will be paid by the manufacturer. The Cortex-M0+ cores in the rp2040 are probably pretty cheap, so they don't impact the final price much.

> is there a derivative or version of this chip without the ARM core?

No. There might be future versions (they are, in general, looking at Risc-V stuff), but there isn't too much benefit.

> That said, this is the same issue if there are MPEG codecs [..]

No it isn't. The issue with those is that not only does the creator of the IP block itself need to get paid, but also the patent pool behind it, which is usually much more expensive. For most products from a smaller company (and even many larger ones), an AV1 hardware codec or a DisplayPort output will also be an IP block bought from someone else.
Debunking Japanese dual-nationality myths with code
That wouldn't work. Even TPUv4 was on a 7nm node and you don't just build a 7nm fab just like that. If it were that easy NVIDIA would already be building their own fabs, as they have basically raised as much capital as there is in the known universe (bigger market cap than the entire London stock exchange), but they seem to prefer to let the fab experts get on with it rather than compete with them.

LLM AI is largely HBM bottlenecked anyway i.e. Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron are where the supply chain limits enter the picture.
Value for me is to scratch the zombie apocalypse itch.

One feature request is some form of animal and pest protection. Squirrels and cardinals eat a majority percentage of the veggies in my raised bed here in Austin. I think some bats eat the vegetables as well but that’s difficult to validate.
> Why would you ever do that? What's the point?

Performance, mostly. If you have to re-parse part of the code many times a second, in a text editor. For [pseudo]structural editing or syntax highlighting, for example.
Showing how often an authenticity code has been checked is something manufacturers like Xiaomi do, where there's rampant counterfeiting.
> eco systems employ lock-in and network-effects to keep customers

Much of the lock-in often comes from deep eco system integration which is also good for the user in many cases.
The 'genius' of singer who was ahead of her time – then disappeared
does anyone here have any insight into what they look for? i've published a few apps and they don't seem to care at all about code quality or security, but do care about whether i declare my security method and whether i allow users to delete their accounts. what do they check for?
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