skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Roughly 2.2 trillion on the credit card for Afghanistan alone. That's without the interest that will be paid on it. Your grandkids children will be paying for that war.
Why do you assume women in gyms are trying to make money on OnlyFans?
The caption to this article states, “561 research papers in, the case for degrowth is still weak”, but the rest of the article seems to be not so much a criticism of degrowth, but rather a criticism of academic degrowth literature —- based on a single literature review.
Just have to measure things differently.

GDP grows even if someone profits while producing sewage, cause someone else profits from clean up. If you call both Growth naturally DeGrowth doesn't make sense.

Take the Attention Economy which is HN is a micro example off. People's finite Attention is being pulled and pushed here and there, traded, captured or stolen. But the only thing that get measured is Growth in views or ycombinators net worth.
With the risk of wading into very controversial political territory.

I think it's incredible that people have been told for 2 decades that the number of humans that exist is too many, that people should not have kids (it's so hard!, and expensive, treat yourself!), and so forth.

But on the other hand, our society is designed in a way that: if it's not growing; it's disasterous.

Which meant that our societies, thinking short-term as they do: turned to migration. Which can be quite unpopular and lead to civil unrest.

IF having children is bad for the environment, why don't we just plan to shrink our economies? I know I sound naive but it's absurd to me that we don't make plans to have a shrinking population if obstensibly that's what we have to do as humanity to survive.

Importing people is the worst kind of band-aid, it's totally unsustainable! And we still tell people not to have kids.
I don't see a license in the Github repo, so currently the code for this machine is only source available and not open source.

https://github.com/diyPresso/diyPresso-One
A system without at least some noise is effectively impossible. A system of this complexity is bound to have quite a lot of noise to contend with.
Empirically, they have reduced hallucinations. Where do OpenAI / Anthropic claim that their models won't hallucinate?
I bet the way people in the US say it is nothing like the (traditional) way it is said in India.

I think it’s supposed to be “un-na-poorna” with a nasally rn sound.
Specification and Model-Checking of the ZKsync Governance Protocol
I don’t know if that is true, unless your definition of qualia is so loose that it includes (or emerges from) basic data representations such as vectors comprised of weights and vertices, in which case I think LLMs could perhaps be argued to have basic qualia.

There is often this attempt to draw a bright line on one feature or characteristic between humans and animals, or humans and AI, but I think that is a mistake based on an attempt to simplify the argument through reduction.
OK, I understand now. Im not sure I've seen the form you put it in, but I agree its very common for someone to say something to the effect of "Is it 1 r or 2 in strawberry", completely eliding the first r. That makes more sense. I still disagree the posted form gets interpreted as that though : D
> It's not worth it.

For you.

Please add that last bit, as it makes the difference between a statement and an opinion.

I am happy for you that you tried things and decided they were not worth it for you. At least you took it a step further than a lot of people who hold such opinions about speciality coffee. But I think you should open your mind to the idea that the people who think it IS worth it are not just pretending.
Sad to see this genuine argument being downvoted simply because people can't handle the fact they missed it, lol
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There are quite a few employees in Toulouse that don't speak French, the company is very international. That being said I agree that daily life is much easier if you speak at least a little bit.
To the extent we've now got the output of the underlying model wrapped in an agent that can evaluate that output, I'd expect it to be able to detect it's own hallucinations some of the time and therefore provide an alternate answer.

It's like when an LLM gives you a wrong answer and all it takes is "are you sure?" to get it to generate a different answer.

Of course the underlying problem of the model not knowing what it knows or doesn't know persists, so giving it the ability to reflect on what it just blurted out isn't always going to help. It seems the next step is for them to integrate RAG and tool use into this agentic wrapper, which may help in some cases.
How Much Do You Know About Rail Grinding?
Thanks.

As I was developing FlowTracker, a lot of the work was driven by making tracking of specific example programs work.
I knew what result I was aiming for, but it was hard to predict what lower level mechanisms needed to be supported to make a specific example work. That often depended on internal implementation details of the JDK or libraries being used where the data was passing through.

But the HTML element linking back to the SQL script that added that data into the database wasn't like that.
I didn't expect or work towards it, that just happened, so it blew me away a little too and got me excited about what else this approach could accomplish.
Yes, they did produce this great movie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubo_and_the_Two_Strings
As models improve, human preference will become worse as a proxy measurement (e.g. as model capabilities surpass the human's ability to judge correctness at a glance). This can be due to more raw capability - or more persuasion / charisma.
> HN doesn't really work strictly by points

People were interested nonetheless. 216 points on this post with 89 comments is pretty conclusive, strict point system or no.

> That is certainly one exciting reading.

Accurate too.
I mean, Nespresso is also very popular in Italy despite it tasting strictly worse than anything you can get even at the worst cafes there but I think it's because drinking espresso with sugar is very popular in Italy and sugar goes an incredible way towards making a lot of mediocre espresso taste the same as good espresso (because the sugar is overpowering).
PV is dirt cheap, battery materials are cheap and exist in abundance. All that's limited is the ROI for fossil industries, and they will fight tooth and nail to get the most out of their investments.

Most importantly degrowth is a loosing position in the popularity contest, that is democracy.

Selling carbon net neutral to negative ways of hedonism are the only way out.
> Unions aren't a monopoly they're a democracy. After a democratic vote, the minority has to accept what the majority wants.

OP is repeating a lot of anti-union propaganda, but this one point is true, which is evident if you look at how unions in other countries work.

In many European companies, it's commonplace for workers in the same company to have a choice of which union to represent them, so two different workers may be represented by two different unions. That's essentially unheard-of in the US, where unions almost exclusively claim majority representation.
Localization of Synthetic Manipulations in Western Blot Images
Hetzner and Kubernetes are not mutually exclusive.

- https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzne...

- https://www.hetzner.com/hetzner-summit --> "Managed Kubernetes
Insights and lessons learned from developing our own Kubernetes platform"
> Norway is special

I know, I live there. Been driving electric since 2017.
HP's Voyager calculators originally ran on custom silicon-on-sapphire chips (which gave them extremely long battery life). After these stopped production, HP changed the calculator design to use an off-the-shelf microcontroller that runs the original firmware in an emulator. This reduces the battery life, but the emulator runs the firmware 60-90 times faster than the original calculators. This is baseless speculation, but I imagine what happened was that they either tried switching microcontrollers or otherwise updated the emulator and introduced an emulation bug that gets exposed by the calculation in the blog post.
It's also at least as expensive as more advanced machines you can buy already-assembled.

Exactly. The parent post mentions this being "the wrong solution to the problem", but I don't know what the problem is this product is addressing. E61 machines are well understood and diagrammed with (somewhat) interchangeable parts. If this product appeals to you, you can buy a cheaper/similarly priced machine, take it apart and put it back together yourself.
Infinite growth is the best way to save the planet, enabling its fever to continue to rise unabated until the infection is killed off. Degrowth is apt to hinder the planet's defence mechanisms, prolonging the infection.

But perhaps the planet isn't actually what we want to save, contrary to the headline?
As someone that writes Java and Python, I'm unsure what you're referring to here by "batteries" other than 3rd party packages.

Even something as basic as JSON encoding requires an external package in Java.
That's your opinion, and this wasn't about a woman wearing a dress or not, it was about women selling their sex to men in exchange for money, because this is what this is (even though the sex is virtual, it's still sex).

So, yes, it is important to have morals in situations like this one and see companies like OnlyFans for what they truly are, i.e. SV-funded pimp organisations.
Thanks! That's really helpful feedback.

I agree, getting people to respond is not an easy challenge. I have some ideas in mind but first wanted to gauge general demand for such a tool.
A condescending reply showing you didn't read the whole comment isn't the best look. The point isn't that they're the bestest hearing aids ever, the point is that they are an option at all at a tiny fraction of the typical price which will force manufacturers to innovate.
Didn't realize they were that much. That's crazy. They should be based on either the odometer of the car, or the 12k-15k miles/year average driving amount.

Heavy trucks do cause the vast majority of road wear and tear, but EVs do tend to weigh more. Hell, my ford lightning with it's extended battery weighs over 6k pounds. 50% heavier than normal vehicles, but doesn't hold a candle to a loaded semi.
I have no issues using my AirPods on Android.

Automatic device switching doesn’t work but that doesn’t work on my Sony headphones either.
How would a phone lockscreen indicator work? If someone walks up to you in a store with AirPods in, how are you seeing the indicator on the phone in their pocket? The situations where I can look at the lock screen of the phone of the person I'm speaking to are pretty limited.
This framing, "sell their dignity", is your moral judgement (coming from your cultural, religious, or some other) background.

I don't see it as any less dignified than any other work. You sell your labor to someone who pays you less than the value it produces.

Now, if you want to argue that median creators get payed only a tiny fraction of their time, and like Twitch/YouTube it's a losing game for most, then we're on the same page.
What product needs autoscaling?
You can get porn anywhere. The selling point of OnlyFans is specifically the parasocial connection. These people are paying money to exchange DM’s with LLM’s and third world gig workers pretending to be their favorite porn star.
Martin Luther King Jr. In Berlin
Glad you see what I mean now :)

Any particular reason you disagree? It's a more plausible explanation than "llm dumb lol" in my view, given its statistical nature
As others have said, just undocumented.

IIRC there was a BLIS fork that used AMX instructions. I think it was unofficial though(?). It is hard to do science without properly documented tools.
Management's constant attempts to undermine the union by firing people, outsourcing, moving entire factories and so forth have been more harmful than anything the union has done.
Yes, 100%. But apparently, there are cases where fluoroquinolones cause long-lasting oxidative damage or mitochondrial dysfunction. The recovery of mTOR signaling then may be slower.

Even after the cessation of fluoroquinolones, prolonged oxidative stress can lead to chronic inflammation and collagen synthesis may remain impaired.

Ongoing mitochondrial damage can reduce the cell's capacity to respond to anabolic signals, potentially leading to prolonged weakness in connective tissue and a higher risk of tendon damage. The slow recovery of mitochondrial function may lead to extended mTOR inhibition in tissues like tendons and ligaments.

This bit is especially interesting:

Fluoroquinolones also impact dopaminergic and adrenergic systems, which regulate the body's stress response (via dopamine and norepinephrine). This disruption can affect how the body handles both acute and chronic stress, with potential long-term changes in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Dysregulation in the HPA axis could affect cortisol production, impacting inflammation, immune function, and tissue repair over an extended period.

Long-term impacts and the systemic nature of chronic inflammation, mitochondrial damage, and persistent oxidative stress can lead to structural or functional deficits in tissues that were secondarily affected during the acute phase of stress and disruption, which can manifest as persistent dysfunction, pain, or delayed healing.
Seattle is swimmable. Lake Washington, Green Lake (both fresh water), and the Puget Sound (salt water) are swimmable in city limits. I swim in lake Washington 3 times a week May - October.

As in another comment here about Copenhagen, you cannot swim after hard rain because of how the sewer systems were designed. Seattle is famous for rain, but not the type of rain that will cause a spill over event often.

The county government also tests the water for bacteria and algae and reports the findings on their website and closures are signed at access points.

https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dnrp/nature-recreation/parks-...

Also while there is a lot of private ownership of water access, there are 9 city beaches and something called street ends, which are public right of ways if a street ends at water, I swim from these all the time.

https://www.streetends.org/about
Do you have any more information on that? I worked for GE in the past and would like to do so again; however, I'd avoided them because it seemed like they'd been run into the ground.
Looks interesting, looks like the key difference from https://www.admonymous.co is that AI summarises the feedback to help anonymise it. That's interesting - a classic pitfall is that the timing of the feedback can be way over-informative and effectively de-anonymise you in some cases.
Yes, and your link shows that the power delivered is dependent on tip resistance (which can vary with temperature). Hence pinecil --or almost any other usb-c iron-- cannot control real power delivered.

And you cannot fix this with updates, no firmware can magically grow buck converter with beefy inductor inside the iron...
Just do the same thing the external display does and do a 'cloudy eyes' version when they user is interacting w/ the keyboard.
k3s single node + ArgoCD/Flux is what I would if I had to build infrastructure of a small startup by myself.

Unfortunately it's HN so people are more likely to do everything in bash scripts and say a big "fuck you" to all new hires that would have to learn their custom made mess
Go to a DMV or a post office in a country that isn't the US. It can actually be a pleasant experience.
I don't know about you, but I also find concerts very strange and off putting. Like, is "Denver" really a special crowd? I'm pretty sure you are doing a very staged reppeded performance but making us think its specially for us.

I like things without crowd interaction, like musicals/plays, because there is no dystopian parasocial aspect to it. I am only there because the live is different than the recording.
Pretty much this. If a potential leadership hire is willing to walk away solely because of the pay then they are clearly not the right hire. Of course they should be well-paid. But the job is about the job, not about the money.

If they aren't sufficiently excited by the mere idea of being in charge of the company's products, services, and future direction, doing a good job for customers, shareholders, and employees, then they should look for a different job.
It's because at least some portion of "the rest of us" talk as if LLMs are far more capable than they really are and AGI is right around the corner, if not here already. I think the gotchas that play on how LLMs really work serve as a useful reminder that we're looking at statistical language models, not sentient computers.
LLMs perform poorly at tasks that require considering words as their component letters because they only see tokens. "strawberry" is split as [str][aw][berry] and becomes [496, 675, 15717]. To some degree they can learn from data what letters are in which tokens, but it's not direct like it is for us.

> There are two common ways to understand questions like "how many r's are in strawberry" [...]

> 2- How many r's in a particular subword/syllable (here "berry")

This seems a strange interpretation - why is "straw" ignored?
The problem with StrictData is that you need to convince every library in your dependency graph to switch to it, or provide strict versions of the data structures. Common container types like Map and Set do this. Your typical library implementing a domain-specific functionality does not.
The customer often does not have the luxury of making perfectly rational choices.

IBM for example waits to fly you out to orientation in Armonk before they show you the binding employment contract with dubious clauses.

These businesspeople know this. Introducing pressure and a sense of inevitability of poor conditions is part of the game. And they know that it's scummy. But Ayn Randians will defend them to the grave as they eschew the responsibility to build a stable enduring economy for one that disproportionately rewards them.

Framing it as the customer wants this level of strongarming is the same as saying they want bloody revolution when it inevitably follows. What customers actually want is for scumbags to be banned from leadership roles in the economy, and for toxic business strategies to be regulated out of relevance.
In order for it to boost productivity it needs to answer more than the regular questions for the top-3 languages on Stackoverflow, no?

It often fails even for those questions.

If I need to babysit it for every line of code, it's not a productivity boost.
>We're all test subjects for a worldwide experiment to put microplastices everywhere and see what happens.

Honestly, I think if you think about it and look around, we are test subjects for a whole swathe of worldwide experiments of various kinds. At some point you have to just realise that it's the cost of progress.

I am not saying that microplastics are harmless, but statements like: "It seems incredibly unlikely that they don't disrupt various mechanisms in the environment and our bodies." are baseless. It's unlikely that it does nothing, but it's more than likely (all things considered) that it's potentially worth the cost.

I wish I had a better reply than "deal with it" but you live on a planet with lots of other people and that includes dealing with pollutants you have no control over. All we can do is demand research be done on these things so we can progress while mitigating the risks as they come up. It would truly be wrong to just ignore microplastics and assume they're safe. But it is also alarmist to assume they must have a significant negative impact without any evidence for such a negative impact.

Think of it this way, while we don't fully understand how microplastics affect us, if they were shortening our lifespan by a significant amount we would probably already know about it.
> Little Kitty Big City

+1. This game was adorable and relaxing from beginning to end.
It's relevant because the company's performance has been a dog turd. They clearly overpaid for a low-performer.
(1) The OP is saying that some people don't feel this way, in fact they feel overwhelmed by new things. I think most people feel bored if they don't get enough novelty and they feel overwhelmed if they get too much. Different people have different tolerances at different times and in different situations. Since we are "in it together" we often have to deal with other people who want more or less novelty than we do.

(2) I want roll my eyes at the bit about "dopamine". It's true, but in the same sense that "adenylate cyclase is activated" and "proteins get phosorylated" and "genes are expressed" and so forth. Your brain is a complex system and anything it does involves the coordination of many kinds of neurons. Scientists know a lot more about it than you or I and there is vastly more that they don't know about it. Probably every kind of neurotransmitter is involved when you see something on social media and repeat it.

(3) I remember Amazon being pretty big in 2000. I'll grant that you can provide people with a richer experience with front-end tech but I don't see SPA being needed to make a store with more items or that handles more users. I remember circa 2011 that many of the web designers in my town who were really good at making Ruby on Rails app seemed to think they couldn't sell that kind of system to customers and they struggled mightily with AngularJS and other frameworks. They regained their footing with React. (Has a bit of that "worse is better" feel like C. I want to like Vue but I can draw whatever I want the way I want to draw it with React.) What appeals to me about heavy front ends is really new stuff like

https://aframe.io/

I mean being able to deliver 3-d content to desktop and mobile and jump into an immersive world is really cool and makes my brain feel good.

(4) Are you talking about energy use on the front end, back end or on the huge spiderweb of wires, fiber optic cables, amplifiers and such between them?
The Search for What Shook the Earth for Nine Days Straight
Do you think having companies make defibrillators without any approval is a good idea? Those aren't food nor drugs either.
Pragmatically it doesn't feel like there's a lot of difference to humans, because even single-threaded concurrent code feels like it's parallel because computers are just so, so much faster than humans that switching rapidly feels parallel. And you often are well advised to treat it as parallel anyhow, at least to some extent, for safety's sake. That is, you may be able to get away with less "locking" in concurrent-but-not-parallel code, but you still can't write it exactly the same as conventionally single-threaded code or you will still get into a lot of trouble very quickly.

So pragmatically I don't find a lot of value in distinguishing between "concurrent" and "parallel". Some. But not a lot.

There is a difference for sure. It just isn't useful in proportion to the way people like to jump up and correct people about the differences.
Neither grow nor shrink on average - it's quite possible for a noisy system to be stable.
Fyi there is a ton of good work in storage and cdn systems that is very similar. Check out some of my favorites, gil einziger https://scholar.google.co.il/citations?user=kWivlnsAAAAJ and the ex coho guys https://www.usenix.net/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14...
…but if the bosses at competing mechanic shops hire based on quality of low riders a mechanic can install, of course they'll practice on the paying customers.
Dejected Social Media Users Call 'Garbage Time' over China's Ailing Economy
https://archive.is/LGosC
+1 on this. I use them with my android phone, steamdeck, windows computer, TV. They work great!