skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is great they finally found a solution, for a long time this was suspected to be unfixable without an ABI break.
With the way costs are currently going down, I wonder how the monetization will work.

Frontier models are expensive, but the majority of queries don't need frontier models and can very well be served by something like Gemini Flash.

Sure, you need frontier models if you want to extract useful information from a complex dataset. But if we're talking about replacing search, the vast majority of search queries are fairly mundane questions like "which actor plays Tony Soprano"
X-Rays Image Transistors in 3D
In many jurisdictions, promoted posts and ads must be clearly marked.
These algorithms are largely reactive. When humans panic and start selling all their stock, the algorithms react in kind and exacerbate the problem. So while these algorithms have no feelings, I think it's wrong to say they "have very little to do with human emotion."
Ticket sales for bands I talked to rarely even make up the costs of the gig. Especially if they aren’t the main act with a decent fan base. Merch is what brings in some more money.

But depending on the band, touring can even just be for the fun of it, where break-even is a victory. And then there’s the whole pay-2-play, where you get nothing of the tickets, and instead pay to be support.

It’s really not as simple or homogenous as people make it seem.
Then you run another AI to take the current AI output and ask it to rewrite or summarize without ads.
i cant watch the video but i do wonder if less than 7 minutes for this explanation is anywhere near enough detail
Didn't expect to receive so many likes and comments. I just updated the site yesterday and haven't added all the necessary pages yet. We'll update the privacy policy soon. Sorry if this caused any discomfort.
AI put in charge of setting variable speed limits on I-24 freeway
Actually, with insurance prediction models, the planning horizon for a algorithmically driven economy is quite higher then it used to be. It just discards human suffering involved while the world the business giants traverse changes.

Now if there is "human non reality based optimism" and data-driven reality based pessimism, drifting into one another in a continental shift and the Algos predict a "Big One" correction. Then they get jumpy.
Judge rules that Google ‘is a monopolist’ in US antitrust case
Minds are 'not currency for social media,' says EU as TikTok kills Lite Rewards
reminds me of the time 20+ years ago when netgear hardcoded the info for some university's NTP servers into a bunch of consumer-grade home routers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP_server_misuse_and_abuse#Ne...
'We don't need more concrete': village in Tanzania will use a 3D printer, soil
You are right. I bought the domain last year.
Looking for Ideas for Impact Entrepreneurship
A developer, a product manager and a data analyst walk into a bar... All setup, no joke. Actually they're there looking for advice.

Suppose there are three co-founders looking for a problem to solve. Suppose we want to start a business that makes a positive impact on the world. Suppose we have expertise and experience in the following areas: Web development, applications of AI and ML, data science and analytics, product management, e-commerce, direct-to-consumer product development and sales, blockchain technologies, community engagement, personal development and leadership. Educational background from top-tier engineering school in automation, biotechnology, and business development.

I'm looking for ideas to fall in love with. If you have one you want to share, I would be incredibly grateful.
kinda hard to achieve when these models are trained on all text on the internet
Great read, thanks!

One minor meta point if the author is (still) around: there is something strange with the styling of the hexadecimal literals in the code. Instead of having the prefix "0x", they look like "0×" even though they seem to be normal x:es in the source.

Edit: Firefox 128.0.3 on Linux, btw.
Samsung Shrinks LPDDR5X Chips by 9%, Now Just 0.65mm Thick
> 10 keystrokes and only works inside vim

And every other tool that supports it. I use it everywhere, window manager, terminal and every terminal program I use (via readline), my browser, and the list goes on. I rarely have to reach for my mouse, if I do it's frustrating and breaks my flow and I will fix it next time I have a few minutes to spare. I even have a shell script to move the cursor out of the way.
To deploy it I think you mean on a vps. Now all your searches by Searx will be routed to other engines with the IP of your vps. So unless you deploy it with something like gluten to provide VPN access for searx. You will let those engines build profile about you. If you use the public instances so that more people are using it you don't know if they are running the unmodified source code.

Id you go with the route of VPN with sear then you probably use VPN with search engines like DDG directly. And don't save cookies on the browser.
You're Probably Thinking About Redis Streams Wrong
Venting Doesn't Reduce Anger, but Reducing Physiological Arousal Does (Study)
iOS 18 has fulfilled my dream of destroying ads with a Thanos snap
it is reproducible within a single standard library implementation, so usable for fuzz testing
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 – 1827 overlapped with

Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886 who had early Beatlemania | Swiftie Fever degrees of fervour, dubbed Lisztomania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisztomania

Infamously depicted by Roger Daltrey in Ken Russell's movie Lisztomania (1975)

(NSFW) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peJ_ncxXung
This is the most insightful comment here.
For anything digital, having reduntant backups and error correcting codes makes much more sense than worrying too much about the medium. The theoretical longevity of your vinyl won't matter if your house burns down or if you accidentally throw out the dusty box they are packed in.

That said, if you just like the sound of vinyl and feeling of handling them then good for you and I'm not trying to rain on your parade.
Search requires a huge and ongoing capital investment. Keeping an index online for fast retrieval isn't cheap. LLMs are not tools for search. They are not good at retrieving specific information. The desired outcome from training is not memorization, but generalization, which compresses facts together into pattern-generating programs. They do approximate retrieval which gets the gist of things but is often wrong in specifics. Getting reliable specifics requires augmentation to ground things in attributable facts.

They're also just not very pleasant to interact with. You have to type laboriously into a text box, composing sentences, reviewing replies - it's too much work for 90% of the population, when they're not trying to crank out an essay at the last moment for school. The activation energy, the friction, is too high. Voice modalities will be much more interesting.

Code assistance works well because code as text is already the medium of interaction, and even better, the text is structured and has grammar and types and scoped symbols to help guide generation and keep it grounded.

I suspect better applications will use the LLM (possibly prompted differently) to guide conversations in plausibly useful directions, rather than relying on direct input. But I'm not sure the best applications will have a visible text modality at all. They may instead be e.g. interacting with third party services on your behalf, figuring out how they work by reading their websites, so you don't have to - and it's not you doing the text interaction with the LLM, but the LLM doing text interaction with other machines.
Product Hunt for Ideas
Changes to shipping pipeline – commit to branch instead of writing a PR comment
you're right ... "rusty" memory there. You made me check the sources ... it uses libproc but not libdtrace.

(can I be forgiven since I haven't really touched anything Solaris-ish for near 15 years ?)
The argument is that Elon’s purchase of Twitter was essentially to influence the elections.

I’m not sure how true that is, but it’s certainly possible and he’s definitely acting like it.
Someone still has to specifically add vim-support and you need to enable it.

My method is the default working method for every single piece of software.
That is precisely the reason to invest a lot in the snake oil and sham direct air/sea capture of CO2. Because to solve such insane infrastructure problem we need centuries. If we start today (I mean start seriously), then by 2300 we may have some working and scalable tech and can finally start (only start!) getting towards so called "net zero". If we will start in 2300, then we'll get it working in 2500. Dates are an example, but the principle will hold with any range.

And without CO2 capture from air or sea will will only increase global heating for centuries in the future.
Good riddance. That part of San Francisco has been worse than the risky areas of most third world cities for the last 3-4 years.

I don't understand how this beautiful city was let to deteriorate so fast.
It's Next-based actually.
I just forked the open-source code and deployed it. What do you mean by saying "because of course it does"?
> furry

I had to Google this. According to Merriam Webster people "identify with" animals. What does that even mean to identify with an animal?
It is not something I do for the fun of driving, it's my father's house and I need to help there. There is no high speed rail, train takes 9 hours too. As I said, there are situations and situations, cannot draw conclusions too fast.
I find it really interesting that catharsis doesn't work - and that, more often than not, the person with a vested interest in ensuring they maintain the 'right' to vent their anger, is usually doing so as a means of social control, more so than personal development.

Whenever I've pointed out the issues with catharsis within my own immediate group (friends/family) I'm confronted with one of two viewpoints: a) my 'understanding of psychology is faulty, of course venting works", or b) "right, I should try mindfulness as a solution to my anger", where those in group A) are usually also quite narcissistic and borderline, and group B) more self-reflective/aware.
Show HN: I made a GPU price comparison site for used and new cards
Hi,

Some time ago I wanted to buy a used GPU and due to having a tight budget, I wanted the best bang for my buck. So I decided to buy used. I searched for a comparison site that would compare used GPU prices but I could not find one so I decided to create one.

This site compares used and new GPU prices on the US, Canada, UK and EU market
Show HN: OptionPayoff
I built a simple tool that allows you to visualise option payoffs. I'm keen to get feedback so that I can improve the product!
Not only Elon Musk. Lots of companies are backtracking on full remote work. Statu quo seems to be hybrid work for many big companies.
> One simple answer would be that at all points, company's act like the ads are worth a lot more to then then any level of payment a customer will accept.

The unfortunate reality is this does seem to be the case.

Netflix was getting so much more money from the ad supported tier that they discontinued any ad-free one close to its price, and that's for a subscription product.

think how attractive that will be a for a one time purchase like Windows.
Haha. Didn't expect that. I bought the domain last year.
Well, given that qsort and bsearch take a function pointer and call it, that function pointer can easily point to a function that throws. So I think this applies to all implementations of qsort and bsearch. Especially since there is no way to mark a function pointer as noexcept.
> but the parameter X1 only tells you what the predicted slope is for the reference group (controls),

No, the way you wrote the equation, X1 is for the entire group. You didn’t make a proper dummy variable.

X1*age*isControl+X2*isControl+X3*isAutism+X4*isAutism*age+X5*age

This way you split out age effects for the two groups from what age effect is the same for both groups
Is it possible perfection is preventing getting it done? Could you close the walls and enjoy the space as is?

Sometimes it is easier to work on someone else’s house because you are not seeking perfection. Do you have a friend that could help you? Or the electrician?
I've been building sites like this for over 20 years now. Interesting that it seems to be only doing IPv4.

I really love the simplicity of https://icanhazip.com which inspired the way I've build my own stuff like this today (no self promo here though).

My first iteration of a site like this was one that dug through whois records related to the ip detected. Back before dns privacy service took over it alway led to interesting results. I totally get why the internet has moved to privacy services to prevent direct contact information from being found but back in those days it really felt like the web was more person to person.
How to help parents give their children better education? (2023)
I guess it also depends on the drives and 3,5" drives have seen continued improvement for much longer.
There was a selective breeding program during World War II to make rubber from the milkweed latex. I swear the annual crop from my back forty could have supplied the entire allied war effort but evidently the quality of the rubber was poor and alas the effort was abandoned.

The fiber on the silk from the mature pods is too short and lacks the scales that cotton has to make it useful for textiles. It is the bast fibers from the stems that make fairly good fiber but the moisture content is very high so unlike flax the fiber tends to just rot during retting.
Using vim to improve typing speed is an age old misconception, bordering on straw-man. The real appeal is the flexibility to script and customize a general purpose editor and make it bend to your will.

For example, make a key binding that moves between only functions that have a particular signature. Or a shortcut that takes heap snapshots, filters and format the output to your liking, and have it displayed alongside the source file with the suspected memory leak your hunting.

Otherwise no I still can’t get used to using j and k to move up and down even after a decade of vim.
Haring Lithographs really aren't expensive

https://www.grafiart.shop/1/index.php?id_category=4923&contr...
That's exactly the case. Driving from Bucharest to Vatra Dornei, Romania. No highway yet, the one in construction (A7) is still going around the Carpathian mountains for 370km, it will make the drive faster but not shorter. Also driving highway speed takes more gas.
> Just so we're clear, you're worried about who made a website that does nothing more than repeat the same data back to your eyes that every httpd in the world that you also visit has and logs?

It does do something "more than repeat the same data back to your eyes that every httpd in the world that you also visit has and logs": it has a footer plenty of links to similar websites that are made by the same people, which makes it looks like more a random website part of an SEO farm than a tool made by some hacker in their free time.

This impression is confirmed by the history of OP: their account is dedicated to spaming their products; it’s relatively new because their previous one (the same, but lower-case) ended up at -11 rep after having been repeatedly flagged.
The Czech Republic changed its official name but many places still use the old name. Same with Eswatini, Côte d'Ivoire, Cabo Verde, etc. I suspect name changes aren't that reliable for dating globes since some of them probably have modern borders and former official names.
Like all adblockers. But just like the current "AI detection" tools, how much is detected (and what counts as Ad) is up for debate and most users won't bother, especially once the first anti-Adblock-features materialize.
Is ReSharper that prevalent? I've always thought it a small subset of programmer's who use it but are very vocal (and preachy). I've only seen it used twice 'in the wild'. And one of those two times most of the devs hated it because it was a performance hog, it was a preachy 'architect' shoving it down their throats.

I don't use resharper, personally found it far too opinionated in what I felt were bad ways. Plus it often resulted in poor performance in VS.

For years I've used var pretty much exclusively, it's just easier than typing the type twice. Even after they introduced new().

With the new array-like declarations I'm considering switching to declaring the type on the left rather than the right.

Which, in the end, is all this syntax is, a pretty way to stop you needing to declare the type twice. And now you can either do it on the right of the expression like this:

var things = new List<string>();

Or on the left:

List<string> things = [];

Although, one of the nice things about using var is that it makes it easy for your eye to scan a bunch of variables declared together as they line up.
How much would it cost to have it be more negative about abortions? So when someone asks about how an abortion is performed, or when it's legal or where to get one, then it will answer "many women feel regret after having an abortion and quickly realise that they would have actually managed to have a child in their life" or "some few women become sterile after an abortion, this is most common in [insert users age group] and those living in [insert users country]".

Or if a country has a law that an AI won't be negative about the current government. Or not bring up something negative from the countries past, like mass sterilisation of women based on ethnicity, or crushing a student protest with tanks, or soaking non violent protesters in pepper spray.
Eco systems are feeling worse, true. But we are not really depend on most of them.

We'll be fine without corals, polar bears and with half rainforests.

Harsh weather events are coming, but we will be fine.
E-ink even allows to stick with the same time, yet change the borders depending upon whom we're asking?
finally! now george rr martin can finish his book.
Reverse Diversity
The mistake you made is that you're measuring "good" by your own (arguably sophisticated) taste.

The objective measure is commercial success. If's commercially successful, it is "good". Just because someone's musical skills and/or other aspects deserves your respect and admiration, it does not make them "good".
Training weights are gold.
OpenAI seems to be going the wrong direction. GenAI has clear limitations and I’m wondering if OpenAI just refuses to acknowledge those limits.
Sorry my ignorance, but when you long YEN/USD you're short USD. That trade uses up USD, it doesn't give you USD. You cant use it to buy stocks. Instead you have to give up buying stocks in order to put on that trade. Am I wrong?
App store. The plug-in ecosystem is huge but Google makes more money using Chrome as an ad dump
CiteME: Can Language Models Accurately Cite Scientific Claims?
turning waste into something useful is a big research area and potentially very profitable.
This is all speculation based on things I've heard, so take it with a big grain of salt.

I used to be on a forum with somebody who posted about having an excellent relationship with his dead wife. He said they interact regularly. He was not religious. Normally I would think he's a crackpot or somebody trying to sell something, but he was not either of those things. He came across as very honest and intelligent and sincere. The forum had nothing to do with life after death, but it came up occasionally. His other comments were always very rational.

There are others, e.g. Bernardo Kastrup, who think that there is a single consciousness, and that life as a human (if I understand correctly, any physical life) is like when somebody has multiple personalities. When we die (according to Kastrup) we "remember" that we are part of that consciousness.

I think panpsychism in general is a non-religious basis for at least the possibility that consciousness doesn't have to be physical. Consciousness could be fundamental.

To be clear, I don't believe any of those things, but I don't rule them out either.

The same goes for religious belief. My reasons for not believing might be due to perspective. I doubt that my dogs had any clue as to why I put them on a leash. I (and humans in general) could be in a similar situation, and that would change a lot. I suspect we are in a similar situation as far as making assumptions that work for us, but are not necessarily grounded in reality. I think it's very likely that there are things that we don't and maybe can't understand.
If you eat the normal quantities of proteins, essential fatty substances, vitamins and minerals (all of which would provide only around 400 kcal/day, way lower than the around 800 kcal/day recommended for quick weight loss) and you eliminate only most carbohydrates and non-essential fats, you still lose weight fast enough, but you avoid any health risks, including muscle mass loss.
Wouldn't it have been cheaper to put all that money in a SuperPAC?
I still can't believe the sham of current "AI" is just brute forcing LLMs to seem intelligent. I use ChatGPT almost every day which is supposedly best-in-class and it is dumb. Valuation of these companies are in the billions and all we get is unethical / not-safe-for-humanity AI companies popping up everywhere. I'm scared to see what the future holds with these companies scraping all sorts of our data.
China Wants to Start a National Internet ID System
So you can figure out the type of a variable at a glance as you read the code?
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Russia seems to treat soldiers as if they were worth 0 ₽.
That's probably true but I don't see how it's any different from companies paying TikTok influenzas to manipulate the kids into buying certain products, the Chinese government paying bot farms to turn Wikipedia articles into (not always very) subtle propaganda, SEO companies manipulating search results, etc. Advertisers and political actors have always been a shady bunch and now they have a new weapon in their arsenal. That's all, isn't it?

I'm left with the impression that people on and off Hackernews just like drama and gloomy predictions about the future.