skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "HN, it is time to make a stand if you want to keep the internet free."

That ship sailed long ago:(
>is obvious until you realize it means, for example, allowing idle time on incredibly expensive machines to favor responsiveness, which just seems wasteful.

Weird how things that seem to make sense in one context seem to make no sense in another context. If you told me a factory runs their widget making machine at 70% capacity in case someone comes along with an order for a different widget or twice as many widgets, at first glance think that's a bad idea. If your customers can keep your widget machine 100% full, using only part of the machine for the chance that something new will come along seems wasteful. And through cultural osmosis the idea of not letting your hardware sit idle is exactly the sort of thing that feels right.

And yet, we do this all the time in IT. If you instead of a widget machine told me that you run your web server at 100% capacity all the time, I'd tell you that's also a terrible idea. If you're running at 100% capacity and have no spare headroom, you can't serve more users if one of them sends more requests than normal. Even though intuitively we know that a machine sitting idle is a "waste" of compute power, we also know that we need capacity in reserve because demand isn't constant. No one sizes (or should size) their servers for 100% utilization. Even when you have something like a container cluster, you don't target your containers to 100% utilization, if for no other reason than you need headroom while the extra containers spin up. Odd that without thinking that through, I wouldn't have applied the same idea to manufacturing machinery.
Yes, but normies won't do that. You don't even need to export, the new browser can usually import with the starting wizard.
Have you looked into Zenni optical?
> ... but had the social clout to pause/rollback the supposedly decentralised/immutable Blockchain

Vitalik (and all DAO ETH hodlers) luckboxed in that the ETHs locked in the DAO, although "stolen", couldn't be withdrawn by the attacker before a few weeks.

There has been zero pause and zero rollback. Most people don't understand that: by chance the stolen funds were inaccessible to the attacker for a few weeks.

What Vitalik did is he forked (soft fork) the ETH blockchain to modify the rules. That soft fork happened before the cooldown period expired, so the attacker never got to access his funds.

Some members of the community said "adding new rules is against the spirit of decentralization, so we keep using the old chain". The old chain was named "Ethereum classic" while the forked chain kept the name "Ethereum".

But there's been no rollback.
As can be seen from the comments, the person concerned probably felt that he was being treated disproportionately.
Regardless of the fact that it would of course be better for the police if they were better able to recognize fake reports, I found the situation to be handled rather well.
This can be an example of how the average police interaction can go in a country where not every second citizen is expected to carry weapons or pose other threats.
Being in handcuffs for a bunch of seconds in this unclear situation is not the fault of the police, but the swatter.
That one is sending money to the address, not taking money from it.
The phrase "in the trenches" is used often, too. Always grosses me out.
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It all feels like theatre. Been working in many companies in “war mode” and they all think that in order to become profitable (none of them were) you need to push the most “important” features out of the door asap, otherwise your competitors will eat you alive.

It’s a lie. Executives and VPs and all those folks that earn 5x what a normal engineer earns, don’t really care about the company they work for. All they care about is to keep receiving the big pay checks until the ship sinks. Obviously you cannot just mandate “normal mode”, otherwise it wouldn’t look as if everyone is doing their best to keep the company afloat.

I hope in 10 years or so, we’ll see “wartime software engineering” with the same eyes we see today Agile and Scrum masters: snake oil.
Smearing shit with water isn't great either
This phenomenon is common, and was referenced in the 2000 Jim Carey comedy "Me, Myself & Irene"
>In all-caps to improve prompt compliance by emphesizing the importance of the instruction

This kind of thing is still so funny to me.

I wonder if the first guy who gets AGI to work will do it by realizing that he can improve LLM reliability over some threshold by telling it in all caps that his pet's life depends on the answer.
It's still a trademark for perpetuity. Copyright expiration on specific films doesn't change that. This is why Disney started using the pie-eyed mickey more heavily in their marketing 10+ years ago to reinforce their trademark over that version of the character.
Which is why Crooked Media can sell a t-shirt of two Steamboat Willies kissing without receiving a cease and desist but can't feature a pair of more modern looking Mickeys going at it: https://store.crooked.com/collections/pride-or-else/products...
Mathematics is not the only formal languages. Every profession soon invents its own jargon because natural language are too ambiguous. For some that’s enough. But science require more formalism.

Boole’s Laws of Thought or Church’s The Calculi of Lambda-Conversion are mostly describing how to be so precise that the description of the problem equates its solution. But formal languages have their own issues.
I always love the "just hire A-players" line.

As though startups are trying to hire mediocre people instead of having no choice.

And that 95% of startups don't know their metrics. Pretty sure almost all do but again don't have the skills or resources to meaningfully move them.
mass produced for a different audience, however
iwanttocomment beat me to it. AFAIK, accommodating IOLs have been in development/trials forever. I wasn't aware of Crystalens but looks like it is not ready for prime time.
> So Larry Tesler, now in charge of the Newton project, orchestrated a switch to the ARM architecture in 1990.

ARM seems to have worked out pretty well.
Ah gotcha, that's what I missed. Thanks for your explanation. For a regular address, even with the public key, if there are 256 unknown bits it'd be 2^128, which is statistically unlikely to be solvable.
> It boggles the mind that you can just send an email to the police and they'd act as if whoever is targeted by that email is in fact a dangerous criminal and they'd arrest them and subject them to all kinds of humiliation and harassment and mistreatment - just based on a single unsubstantiated email.

Well it kind of makes sense if you believe people are generally going to follow social norms and not make false accusations for no reasons.

Like, all you have to do in a crowded theatre is shout "FIRE", and everyone acts as if there's a dangerous situation and everyone is subjected to being forced out of the theatre based on a single unsubstantiated shout.

Or if you put your mind to it, there are any number of false, anonymous allegations one can make with large asymmetries between the effort to make the allegation and the effort required to clean up the situation.
How does this compare to the optical neurons? Is the visual response modulated by something other than visual wavelength stimuli?
Having been a young kid in the 80s, what I recently discovered was the primary concern with parents at the time (because, I genuinely don’t remember) was using those afternoon and Saturday morning cartoons as a vehicle to sell products to kids - a barrage of advertisements. Seems pale in comparison to extreme behavior that potentially endangers others, e.g. deliberately crashing your airplane for views/hits.
A lot actually, including this one. How many bomb threats are real? Ohio is struggling with this now because of some stupidity about eating pets. From a student wanting to delay an exam, or whatever else, they are rarely real. The Secret Service filters threats against protectees, the FBI is forwarded threats as well. The problem is that local coppers just don't have the training, and the SWAT teams are always needing something to do, so there's no delay to sending a full on response.
That shows a total lack of self respect in my opinion. You don't have to be an author to put even the tiniest effort into your writing in a professional letter like that.
lack of immune tolerance in the mother.

for example (pre)eclampsia. we still don't know WTF is going on exactly (but it's basically abnormal blood vessel formation between the fetus and the uterus), and a few decades ago it was basically guaranteed loss of the fetus or the mother (or both), in about half a percent of pregnancies.

nowadays thanks to medical science it's a hundred-times more manageable.
https://shuppankagaku.com/statistics/mook/

According to this, magazine sales shrunk a lot from it's peak in 1997.
I'm a 7 but I grew up in the 80s lol. Diagnosed HFA as a child multiple times, high-IQ, was in gifted / IB programs

Honestly most of the abuse I suffered happened at school, as the autistic "gay" kid I was constantly bullied and there was no interest on the part of school staff to do anything about it.

When I was 16 I fell into a nicer crowd but they drank and partied a lot and I ended up dropping out in grade 12. Got work as a computer technician, did that for a decade or so, moved on to other stuff.

The autism has been a real struggle that has become more challenging with age, and the memories of abuse do haunt me.
I'm not saying there's no license to correct them, but that the substance of a disagreement is unlikely to be about definitions (and wasn't in this case). I think arguing about what terms mean is largely a distraction. All words are made up, the right definition is the one that serves the discussion you're having at any given moment. Letting your interlocutor pick their own terms is a free way to extend charity and aid mutual understanding.

If you're talking to someone, that means meeting in the middle because it goes both ways. If you're reading or discussing a document and the author isn't around, that means adopting the author's terminology, because there isn't really an alternative.
Um, except that the article is about a trademark. Mickey (the Paraguayan company) isn't printing comics or producing cartoons, so how would copyright apply?

(as your linked article from duke.edu explicitly explains)
Wartime software is a disaster unless you mean it, and should be treated with extreme caution even if you do.

Wartime is an in house propaganda shop running posters that say Carthago Delenda Est, mid-level product managers discreetly but reliably dispensing Adderal, Ritalin, and Modafinil, open disdain for people who leave the office two days in a row, and paying enough that your people are just in a meaningful sense smarter than anyone else.

Every company gets to pull that maybe once, so it has to count. And it’s a hell of a place and time to see.

But if you’re not going the whole way, you’re far better off doing reliably good engineering in a repeatable way and poorly served by analogies to war.
There was a period near the start of the pandemic, especially while the medical establishment was trying to avoid ordinary people wearing masks in order to help stockpile them for high priority workers, when a lot of emphasis was put on surface contact.

If it's extremely important to wear gloves and keep sanitizing your hands after touching every part of the supermarket, it stands to reason that you'd want to sanitize all of the outside packaging that others touched with their diseased hands as soon as you brought it into your house. Otherwise, you'd be expected to sanitize your hands every time you touched those items again, even at home, right?

Of course, surface contact is actually a very minor avenue of infection, and pretty much limited to cases where someone has just sneezed or coughed on a surface that you are touching, and then putting your hand to your nose or maybe eyes or mouth soon after. So sanitizing groceries is essentially pointless, since it only slightly reduces an already very small risk.
Rural carriers buy and maintain their own vehicles typically.

https://about.usps.com/publications/pub181/pub181_v03_revisi....
There are many products like this, eg:

https://shop.sysmocom.de/sysmoEUICC1-eUICC-for-consumer-eSIM...

https://esim.me/
I'm less concerned about the abuse of a single self-reported city-level location data. What worries me here is a world-wide-open directory of people (any people) and their locations and interests and social links. It's a target group right there served on a silver platter to _anyone_ on the internet. Sorry, but, no thanks.
It seems to be generally agreed that those aren't consumer-ready.

Protected cells are hard to find, there are multiple chemistries, it's easy to accidentally put a 14500 in an AA device and break it, etc.

16340 is probably the friendliest cylindrical lithium, but really I think what we need is a square GoPro style battery, with builtin protection, a data channel that can tell the host exactly how to charge it, and that can be safely paralleled or put in series up to a reasonable voltage.

If you used Dallas onewire for the data channels, all you'd need to do to make a pack is put them all in parallel and let the host chip figure it out.

Just like, solve the battery issue once and for all. You could even have coin cell sized versions.
The Xiaomi Mix Flip, which it’s supposedly pictured working with, takes a nano sim.

https://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_mix_flip-13221.php
Except they don't need to take it now, just before anyone else does.
That's true, but the other thread is pretty bad, plus was a couple days ago, so I guess we can leave them unmerged.
It does not matter you believe, accusations should not be enough to swat someone. Accusations != proof and proof is what matters.
Sounds like Disney failed to protect its mark in Paraguay over many decades.
Just to provide the contrarian view (== one of my specialties): what if you're in it to be innovative?

Some people want to start a company as a get rich or get influential scheme. It can work if you're cut out for it and you're lucky. This thread is arguing you're better off not being innovative. Perhaps, fair enough.

Some people need to start a company in order to improve something. It might be society in general, the way we use computers, or how we interact with one another. This is what motivates them and what makes them put up with the long odds and herculean requirements.
Is not all tech basically rube goldbergy XD
He was greeted at the door by 10 police officers with their weapons drawn who immediately ordered his hands out of his pockets and handcuffed him. That's about how a swatting episode in the US usually goes. I see no evidence in the dev's description that would suggest that this incident was less likely to lead to a death than the typical police response in the US.
True. Maybe someday, they'll decide "This isn't profitable enough!" and sell to Internet Archive.
In 2018 a report made by the Expert Group for Studies in Public Economics (ESO), which has studied the employment level of refugees between 1983 and 2015. The study shows, among other things, that the integration of refugees gradually deteriorated during the period, and that an average refugee represents a cost of SEK 74,000 per year for public finances.

There is considerable uncertainty in the calculations, but they indicate that the net redistribution via public finances to an average refugee over his or her entire lifetime in Sweden amounts to an average of SEK 74 000 per year.

Swedish article

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/ny-eso-rapport-flyktingin...

http://archive.today/6zwMH

https://web.archive.org/web/20240914135437/https://www.svt.s...
He’s also rich and could easily afford a one-time editor. Heck, I’m sure one of the devoted employees would offer to improve it for free.
Agree fully, as I put on the dorkiest headband in the world to capture sweat from my forehead as I work outside. It's not that we older folds don't care what people think, but more like we now realize that people rarely care or think about others who aren't close to them. Those few dozen people that see me in my dorky headband won't even remember my face in 15 seconds.
benchmark results ?
As much as this sucks, I absolutely love how the blockchain is real life version of a Dark Forest
Yeah it’s a trademark issue, not a copyright issue.
I actually updated the structure of the article based on this feedback, it was very helpful in making it more clear and to the point.
I was hoping it was actually a treatise on leadership by a firefighter. But expecting it not to be.
Show HN: QuCast – Everyone can generate AI podcasts
Hey! I'm building a podcast app that allows the listeners to generate their own podcasts.

I listen to a lot of Huberman. While I'm driving, walking, working out, or anywhere else I want to listen to something. But I've run out of Huberman content & find myself wanting more.

With life-like LLMs & TTS becoming ever cheaper, I thought why don't I just generate my own? In QuCast you can enter a topic or URL to base a podcast episode on. You can then chat to an outline to refine it in whatever way you want, then generate the speech.

I love the podcast format, & find popping essays, articles, or research papers in it work fairly well. I'm not sure if something like this already exists? There are definitely podcast generators for creators but why not for the listeners themselves? Maybe it was too expensive before, but my math works out to about 2 cents for a 10 minute podcast (more if you want a better voice like ElevenLabs).

Anyways, let me know what y'all think! To generate your own you'll need to download the app. And yes, this was mainly hacked together over a week using Cursor (It built that nice auto scrolling transcript view in the app all by itself?!). Mobile app + Website + Backend. Podcasts/outlines are written by Claude. Voice is from Google (free experimental).
Yeah, if we’re starting with the “1 in a million” unfair coin then most of the input strings are going to be all 0 or all 1 which means the cipher is going to give the same sequence every time. Not useful!
SpeakVerse is an open-source project that combines cutting-edge AI technologies to create a seamless, natural conversational experience. It integrates Deepgram for speech-to-text, ElevenLabs for realistic voice synthesis, and OpenAI's GPT-4o for intelligent responses.

Key features:
* Real-time speech-to-text using Deepgram
* High-quality text-to-speech with ElevenLabs
* Intelligent conversation powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o
* Smooth interactions with instant speech interruptions
* Visual audio feedback with a dynamic visualizer

I created SpeakVerse to explore the potential of combining these powerful AI technologies and to provide a platform for developers to build upon. The project aims to push the boundaries of human-AI interaction and make conversational AI more accessible to developers and researchers.
looking for feedback, suggestions, and contributions from the HN community. How can we improve SpeakVerse? What features would you like to see added? Feel free to create pull requests or open issues on our GitHub repository.
> again a crazy power-hungry dictator appears and wages a war against a weaker country

With the risk of being political, I see nothing "defensive" or moral about the military, even in the most advanced nations that are supposedly paragons of human rights.

Take the "dictator attacks weaker country" narrative. The NATO defensive alliance fits this narrative by providing weapons and military training to weaker Ukraine so it can defend itself against the aggression of bigger Russia. On the other hand, the same defensive alliance has no scruples to providing weapons to Israel so it can wipe out and cause immense suffering and casualties to Palestine, a weaker nation.

Which brings me to my conclusion that there is nothing inherently moral about the army, it's just a blunt instrument to do the government's bidding. Hence, I don't see military as our "protectors", but as the government's institutionalized thugs. I also don't see a reason for them to be lauded for their actions, as their actions are often immoral and sinister. I am talking things like the military secrets Assange unveiled, or the illegal treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo, or the sometimes indiscriminate bombings of civilians to hit 1 potential target.

And since they are not protecting me but the government's interests, I don't see a need to thank them for their service more than I see the need to thank bouncers at a disco I don't own for theirs.
Surely it's to show the user does not lift a single finger for themselves. Not just labour, but all useful action is shown to be eschewed by someone with lengthy pieces of plastic glued to each fingernail.
A more readable version of the Brotli dictionary:

https://gist.github.com/duskwuff/8a75e1b5e5a06d768336c8c7c37...
Is that really important in your opinion?

I can't remember the last time I saw a corporate charter that was more than vague corporate speak sounding grandiose and impactful while saying absolutely nothing.
Your great-grandfather may have built his own house, your grandfather probably climbed the roof to replace some tiles which got blown off in a storm, your father may have stood on a ladder to paint the walls. They all seem to have survived long enough to reproduce so you are able to warn off people from trying to be self-reliant because it may hurt them.

Safety is certainly a consideration when contemplating projects like this one but it is by no means the only one and often not even the most important one. Safetyism is what you get when you make it the most important consideration, it is not a recipe for a healthy society.

BTW, if you really want to electrocute yourself that puny little battery won't do the trick, for that you need a a bit more voltage. Never fear, that is easily achieved by taking a few of those plastic snow poles used to mark out roads in colder places and filling them with 18650 cells. A 2 metre pole is good for 30 cells which give you about 130 Volts of DC fully charged. Those cells are capable of pushing quite a bit of current so if you're really into dangerous games that'd be an example of one.
Because of switching costs. If you start a new thing this is definitely the case. It’s often said that a new product (startup), can’t be a marginal improvement; it needs to be 10x better. 95 percentile is not 10x
Telling LLMs not to hallucinate in their prompt improves the output. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/do-not-hallucinate-t...
The similarity between swatting in US and Germany is pretty shocking: they raid and arrest people with no proof. Good job /s
I think schools need to start teaching "How to Train Your Algorithm" classes to kids, early and often - with a focus on critical thinking and how advertising companies manipulate them.

Couple that with regulations that require the companies to give greater control to the user over video feed customisation and I think it's possible to reign in the arms race for attention.
I've been using Beancount, really enjoyed learning it, writing tools for data import and having a hands-on experience with accounting. But it's been almost a year since I last imported data, I planned to do it monthly but it's a bit of a chore (it takes 30 to 60 mins despite a lot of it being automated).
This is really cool! I've seen Jensen's inequality used many times over in my stats/ML classes, but the traffic example here gave me an "aha" moment about how it manifests.

I like the visualizations of the expected value against the individual probabilistic components as well, though I wish there were more non-uniform distributions visualized. Perhaps if we take the traffic example and tweak the distribution to be non-uniform, that might make for a cool interactive viz.