skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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NZ already has an elephant fish which looks similar. Ugly but delicious.
https://www.talleys.co.nz/seafood/species/elephant-fish
Fully illegal = lots of murders.

Fully legal = lots of suicides.
Probably looking for a name that is much more approachable for a wide audience. Along the lines of "take me back" or playing with where/when or time/place or something like that.
I’m not a regular backer, but I have been banned from the GitHub, so technically I can’t download a open-source project :)
Try both what, kids and early retirement?

I think it could be done, especially if you're willing to relocate somewhere with reasonably low cost of living.

More realistically, I think I'll try to scale back work significantly if/when I have kids rather than fully retiring. Maybe part-time consulting.
Our modern lights, screens and appliances all use less energy than 30 years ago.
Show HN: Achieve goals that are partially outside of your control
Achieve helps you reach your goals. Especially the goals that are partially outside of your control. I've just launched it now. Have go at https://winningat.life
Current near-term projects:

- Major house renovation. Air sourced heat pumps are in, but the kitchen, a bathroom, and a bedroom are WIP. Subfloor, insulation, and drywall are the current focus. Also replumbing domestic cold and hot water in the entire house. Adding a brand new backup condensing gas hydronic system for when it's too cold for the heat pumps.

- Building a rear bumper for my 80 series Land Cruiser (4x4 Labs DIY kit).

- Building a press brake for my 20 ton shop press to bend some brackets to mount a backhoe to my tractor.

- Rustproofing both cars (80 series and diesel W210 Benz) before winter. Rust reformer primer, POR-15, and various Noxudol waxes and some Blaster Shield. New front and rear bumpers for the W210, painting front and (new) rear bumper on the 80.

- Working on something I'm tentatively calling "Swage" which is all about compact (think: nearly the information-theoretic minimum number of bits) representation for o11y data (metrics, traces, logs).

- Refactoring a PID controller crate I wrote a while back to be less bad and more good (in particular, trying to use funty to make it generic over fixed and floating point numbers).
…go on?
I have seen efficiency figures vary from as low as 0.1% upwards of 10% but it seems difficult to quantify.

My shoot from the hip intuitive thought is that the massive amount of plant matter it took to make petroleum demonstrates how inefficient it is to get energy in that chemical state. A fools errand to try and do it over.

It has been said that Coal/Gas/Oil is a half billion years of stored solar energy. That is wildly inaccurate for many reasons, but even if we are using a few thousand years of stored energy, that is still a wide gap to cover.
My argument is that paying academic experts to protect themselves against actions that might impact profits is a normal and expected outcome of capitalism. Monopolies are also a natural outcome of capitalism.

We keep trying to tame the breast that is capitalism, to domesticate it, but I do not believe, due to it’s natural design, that it can be tamed, and if we try to domesticate it, then it loses it’s teeth, so to speak, and will be unable to compete with other untamed capitalist systems.
Any ideas on how I can make my metrics tank predictions for I stop being marketed to so aggressively?
Lambda URLs Might Not Be a Good Idea
More importantly, there's many ways that AI can seemingly look to becoming more intelligent without making any progress in that direction. That's of real concern. As a silly example, we could be trying to "make a duck" by making an animatronic. You could get this thing to be very life like looking and trick ducks and humans alike (we have this already btw). But that's very different from being a duck. Even if it were indistinguishable until you opened it up, progress on this animatronic would not necessarily be progress towards making a duck (though it need not be either).

This is a concern because several top researchers -- at OpenAI -- have explicitly started that they think you can get AGI by teaching the machine to act as human as possible. But that's a great way to fool ourselves. Just as a duck may fall in love with an animatronic and never realize the deciept.

It's possible they're right, but it's important that we realize how this metric can be hacked.
So in summary:

- Power draining giant screen
- Touchscreen and minimal physical controls
- Multiple radios, including cellular
- Cloud integration
- Apps for photo editing
- Slim form factor

You want a smartphone with a better lens.
Yeah, and Columbus didn't discover america, and windows did not invent window Interfaces, Notch did not invent minecraft, and Mullenweg didn't invent wordpress.

These are still THE most popular contributors to the subject by far, especially by measure of popularity.
I think the protocol on which PDUs are exchanged on is a bit orthogonal to the PDU protocol itself here, but the split-mode networking protocols (FTP, IRC DCC, mosh, SIP, etc) always do end up getting less used because establishing two different connections is a bigger burden and there really needs to be a great advantage to doing so, and often require other considerations (better connection tracking, TURN/ICE servers, etc).

For a localhost/UNIX domain protocol, it might work since most of these considerations are significantly reduced.

As to DSCP, it might be useful across controlled networks but in general, in my experience it's not really ever honored broadly.

Back on the original topic, when I was building this for my Linux distribution I ended up just using basic JSON with TLS (for client certificate authentication) though since having authentication for remote management was a goal, and once I was already having to perform a TLS negotiation then the PDU consideration for performance wasn't something to really spend too much time on.
Only if you let the mistake go unmentioned. I do a version of this where I glibly include a mistake, like:

// Examples of dereference operator.
int i, *ip = ..., **ipp = ...;
i = *ip; // Assuming ip has been correctly initialized.
i = **ipp; // Likewise.
// The address-of operator is the opposite.
ip = &i;
ipp = &&i;

I actually talk through the last line. Almost no one ever questions it. I then ask students to look at that last line again, and ask them if an address has an address, and if so, what does that mean, could it ever be useful?
i would rather them have nothing and learn than fill in that gap with something really counterproductive. a fake personality.
A vscode extension that aims to be "vim for code' meaning that it has first class motions for programming concepts like functions, arguments, etc. quick demo:

https://youtu.be/owuuFxDBQh4?si=tqYi-RqvFQa6kI8h
Don't give them ideas. Given the thing's we've been seeing, you just know some nepo-CEO somewhere will read this and think it is A) their idea, and B) brilliant.
I have also been thinking about this:

https://slatedb.io/ is new and KV on object storage. Maybe helpful.

There is lots of similar work over ipfs, I have not had the chance to experiment yet, but I'd like to see what a workflow is like with (eg): summa: https://github.com/izihawa/summa

I tried to implement trigram search on object storage using Zoekt: https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt, but I found that common queries load 30-40% of the entire index, so setting it up without some kind of caching strategy felt a little ridiculous.
> it seems irrational to start putting in even the fewer billions of dollars now, knowing the above two points

This doesn’t follow. One, there are cash flows you can extract in the interim—standing in place is potentially lucrative.

And two, we don’t know if the curve continues until infinity or asymptotes. If it asymptotes, being the first at the asymptote means owning a profitable market. If it doesn’t, you’re going to get AGI.

Side note: bought but haven’t yet read The Red Queen. Believe it was a comment of yours that lead me to it.
I'm not sure, I've never used it. But I think the issue is that the number of MCUs that support micropython is very small.
Yes that helps but more important was the fracking revolution that replaced a lot of coal with gas.
The point is that you can have exponential growth in human energy consumption without exponentially heating the Earth by having the growth take place off-planet. Which is hardly irrelevant to the people still there, e.g. if you find your data centers are using too much power, put them in space. The computation may take a megawatt-hour but transmitting the result back to the surface is only a few watt-seconds for a radio link.

Likewise, the humans who live on other planets can be consuming local energy without heating Earth, and the people still on Earth would still get the value of their inventions, discoveries and writings.
You're reading the wrong sources. The actual science is clear, the earth is undergoing rapid climate change due to human-driven CO2 release.
Anyone knows if I can buy flipper in India ?
At a big electronics hardware company a group of us EEs would talk about our dream of owning a bike shop almost every day.
It goes beyond the concept of a notebook summary as it will add in lots of filter material. Humorous examples abound, typing a single ridiculous sentence into it seems that the podcast must fill in a certain amount of time. I’d rather it just do my notes and not veer off.
No, I actually found it does a pretty good job with costumes out of the box, so just training on the subjects and then using an LLM to make specific prompts.

My daughter has gotten a kick out of being able to have pictures of her in any costume but has started to notice the dimpled chin that Flux applies to just about every face it generates.
Is it really intolerance of DEI, or the fact that those jobs are basically horseshit?

It's one thing to incorporate aspects of DEI into company culture and to have policy around it, but do you really need a role dedicated to DEI? I really doubt it. I've worked at a few companies with these DEI officers, and the value they bring to a company is extremely dubious, if existent at all. My last company let theirs go, despite the administration being highly leftist at the time, and it was painfully obvious why. It's insulting to everyone that a DEI officer makes more than a burger flipper considering their cushy duties.

DEI-based roles were destined to fail.
(I added newlines to your quote to match what looked like the intended formatting - I hope that's ok. Since HN doesn't do indentation I'm not sure it helps all that much...)
> although it is that those who most firmly enforce it also cherish silly habits like saying "bring your whole self to work."

It is my understanding that about 50% of the cultural values companies prescribe to their teams are values they don't want to see adopted. Speaking up when something is wrong, open door policies, and work-life balance are the usual suspects. Continuous learning and development are also values that employees are often invited to practice, though not when there's work to do!

It's all aggrandizement with very little critical thinking about how these policies and values would actually change the workplace. And the companies often hate when they do.
How about Lit? I'm just looking at frameworks, components, etc. I was thinking of Lit as simplified web components? Is that valid?
Totally shameless plug: if you like rr's technical capabilities but not it's UI, you might love Pernosco (https://pernos.co/)
Perhaps the emphasis should be on being raised by Linux.

I think that using FreeBSD and in particular the mailing lists was as important to my engineering as my university education was.

The chat rooms I frequented on freenode generally had a ## and were filled with responsible and reasonable people.
cult of personality
I'm almost finished my modular MIDI Controller software for iOS/iPadOS. I am hoping to offer a good compromise between ease of setup and power. Hopefully I get this is on testflight in about a week or two. Best I can share is some screenshots right now: https://imgur.com/a/s80g0Iv

Really hoping to do this right as an indie dev with a good website, video promotion, marketing, etc. Probably free but with a one-time IAP for unlocking features. Worst case scenario this helps me land new jobs :p
time to make plugins that send fake mouse data, and have that draw nothing but hyper-realistic phalli.
> It’s about finding someone who’s not ashamed to fail in front of you—and then figuring out the answers together.

Students aren't going to lose trust in their teacher over mistakes. Establishing core concepts while tripping over details breeds humility for correction when real mistakes are made by the teacher and helps show students that it's okay to make mistakes. This brings more attention to the value of double-checking one's work and the opportunities for correction give purpose to their learning.
To be clear, this appears to be a work of fiction?

Are people taking this to be a real life account, and if so whats the basis for that. I'm not seeing anything on this blog to indicate otherwise.
Kai Chang's "Dr. K" in economics (2008)

https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/my-favorite-liahtml -
https://zenmoments.org/my-favorite-liar/

"let me explain how I teach. Between today until the class right before finals, it is my intention to work into each of my lectures … one lie."
I think when things get really good, which I've no doubt will happen, we'll call it SI; Synthetic Intelligence

But it may be a while.
He said, somehow forgetting that the reason we're even discussing this is the heinous and well documented corruption of a US-based bank.
And as a result we're using our lights, screens, and appliances far more than we were 30 years ago.
>subvert an election by any means possible is not yet one of those warts

The Democrats are famous for trying to have 3rd party candidates stripped from ballots. Straining smaller campaigns under the cost of fighting off endless lawsuits.

Democrats invented the term lawfare.
Please read my comment closely. Whether that’s true or not, according those scientists we can’t use how we feel about seasonal weather as evidence of it.
Social media platforms have to comply with local political pressure (both official and unofficial), so they are somewhat forced to. Do we really have any governments that will allow people to judge for themselves?

I can understand a government's hesitancy to do that, because if the whole society believes the same mistruths (especially about history, politics etc.), it is more stable and productive than one which has people at odds with each other over what they consider the truth to be.
I'm a pretty pedantic person, but even I just use one or the other at random. I don't think it's a good idea to read into things like this.
I can't say for 1998, but this paper[1] compares the IPCC projections made from 2000 and onwards.

The earlies estimation underpredicted temperature rise while later ones did better.

I also checked the IPCC predictions from 2001 myself a couple of years ago[2], and across multiple factors like sea rise, glacier loss etc observed values seemed to be within the predictions.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-16264-6

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27166369
> Interestingly, Sydney does not seem to have an event listed on this site when I checked.

To be fair, Boulder Ruby is pretty active, and we aren't on that list. Just moved to Luma from meetup but have had meetings 10 months a year since 2016.

https://boulder-ruby.org/

https://lu.ma/boulder-ruby
I think justice in many cases has turned into get revenge. Plus many proscuters do not want to admit they were wrong due to fear.
Record high temps are almost 75% of new temperature records. The ~25% that are new lows ate due to arctic cold slipping down with our more wobbly jet stream. And the ice melt has hidden almost 90% of the net heat increase. Ice melting the last degree consumes much more heat than going warmer. This is all happening much faster than any time in our geologic record. We are at serious danger of runaway warming.
It's too bad companies big and small didn't come together and successfully oppose the passage of the DMCA.
It's a base feature of notion, exactly as you describe it : a freshness stamp and notifications to recheck every 7/30/90/custom days
Professionally: I'm continuing with Wyndly [1], my YC startup. I believe more and more in a future without any allergies.

Socially: I'm trying to connect people more, so I'm starting a social club [2]. If it just ends up with people meeting up in meatspace regularly, then it's a win.

Personally: well, my wife just purchased 6 pieces of flatpak furniture, so I'm building it!

[1] https://www.wyndly.com
[2] https://www.nycfounders.club/
What’s the best way to contact you to refer potential PhD candidates?
I'm working on a web app that helps you discover new things to read, watch, listen to and play.

You start with either an example or a brief description. Then, you'll get relevant preferences to select from. Your recommendations are based on the preferences you select. Every run is different.

I've added some new features along with support for blogs/newsletters and podcasts over the past month, and improved the recommendations generally.

https://www.yogurrt.com/
Have kids later. After early retirement if you can.
I agree that price feels shockingly high. However, the government can subsidize treatment. As can private insurance policies, before the sufferer becomes homeless, or if they qualify for a family member's plan.

The population suffering these illnesses are already costing the public a lot of money in various forms, it could be worth the investment.
yep just look at Ubisoft
Capitalism will live yet another day, whew. We can keep on with the destruction of the environment with this just one little trick.
As I read it, the parent comment is making a point about the classification of schizophrenia. It is not disputing that the condition (psychosis) is real, or claiming that people are frequently misdiagnosed with some form of psychosis.
A bit tangential but, when a teacher asks if anyone knows x, he/she doesn't want the nerd wiseguy who actually knows to answer, he wants someone who is unsure to answer so that everyone can participate in the learning experience.
https://yeet.cx/discover

A dynamic runtime and package manager on top of Linux's BPF virtual machine with a SQL interface for visualizing system information in real-time.

Interesting combination of low-level systems programming, low-level frontend programming, real-time networking and computer graphics.

Still filling in index.

A good example if you want to try:

https://yeet.cx/@yeet/execsnoop

We're also hiring: work@yeet.cx
Ah, that must have been it. Thanks for the link!
Teaching myself CNNs/Machine Learning to put our wireless telemetry receiving capability into overdrive.
Ok now how to tell if the connection is running in the systemd status output? Cos this will show as active even when the connection is down or trying to reconnect.
Mostly working on generative AI and tuning it to 100% product reproduction. It's harder than you might think especially with more complex subjects like cars. Training custom controlnets is a pain just because of the sheer size of the datasets needed. Subject LoRas/DoRas are pretty much solved though.

Here is an example[0] in 6k resolution from two weeks ago done with just text conditioning. The controlnet elevates the precision even more up to 99%, the last 1% is easier fixed in post. Which isn't optimal but a good way to go for now.

[0] https://42lux.de/amg-gt-63
> Changing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is not the only way to change the climate, and is unlikely to be the cheapest way to change the climate.

We are changing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and it is the main driver for the climate change. You probably wanted to say, that not changing the amount of CO2 is unlikely to be the cheapest way to keep the climate as it is, didn't you?
Joe Reis and Matt Housley on the fundamentals of data engineering
What are the viable alternatives that you have in mind?
It’s very hard to prove conclusively that any measures would actually help the situation.
Hear.

Just keep getting reelected, since no one expects you to accomplish anything. People in the rest of the country push "term limits" as the solution to everything. I always point out that we've had them in CA for 20 years. It just means that they run for a different office after they're termed out.

Or become lobbyists.
Teaching myself CNNs/Machine Learning/ML Pipelines and getting familiar with the AI tool ecosystem so my team and I can put our commercially successful wireless telemetry receivers into overdrive.
Software issues Georgia man 1.4M speeding ticket
Yes. You can find our version of "Aliens" and "Alien 3" there, along with Audio Introductions (Pre-show audio description) for each, which I highly recommend. Also the TV shows "The Bureau of Magical Things" and "The Secret of Sulphur Springs".

I publish the scripts under a Creative Commons licence so anyone can legally record and mix their own versions if they like. I believe it's possible to run the subtitle files through a braille reader as the film runs for a different experience, but I've never heard of anyone who tried that.

That said, we are experimenting with legal distribution by releasing the timed unmixed narration on Youtube and, in theory, you should be able to sync the narration to a (legally purchased) copy of the film.

AMA if you like.
Billionaires.

Sorry, I mean, "the market".
> Well, that's a reason why camera makers are struggling. You don't want these features, but a lot of people do. So they vote with their smartphones instead.

You’re not capturing any of the traditional photography market by throwing all of _their_ priorities straight out the window.

So the market for the device under discussion here would be the people who want to spend a substantial amount of money on a dedicated device that is essentially equivalent to their cell phone except bulkier and without the ability to send and receive texts and phone calls.

Camera makers are struggling because a substantial portion of the market doesn’t really care about photography, they care about capturing memories. You’re proposing to make a device that’s mediocre at all the things traditionally important in photography and mediocre at capturing memories (a separate dedicated device will never be as close at hand as the phone in your pocket that you take everywhere).

I really don’t see a big market for this.
If it were as simple as "selling things" then it would be fine, the problem is it doesn't stop there, it is not about offering things for sale, it is about manipulating you into buying by any means necessary. You are not immune to propaganda.