skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on a cutting board as a wedding gift. The couple is Irish, and needed some design elements to suit. The edge will be three ribbons of darker wood (walnut, padauk, and walnut again) and the main cutting board area is light (ash).

The hard part is the corners. I'm trying to get some celtic knots going, but this requires extremely accurate sizing, otherwise nothing lines up. The strips of wood are either 3/8" x 1/2" or 1/16" x 1/2". You have to be very careful with clamping when gluing, otherwise everything is off.

Oh and it's end-grain, which just means so much more processing of everything.
Arthur Andersen went under after its accounting negligence: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen

A few food companies have failed due to poor quality control: https://www.thestreet.com/retail/another-popular-ice-cream-b...

In fact, many companies go bankrupt every year: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_in_the_United_Sta...
Plenty of signs in the 20m radius, something along this:

https://www.thesignshed.co.uk/cdn/shop/products/24-hour-cctv...

Possibly change the usual 'hi' greating to the more appropriate 'sign this release form before coming close or talk!' one.
It seem like Cunningham's Law https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law also works in real life.
Excellent point, but now consider the availability of open source models as well. They’re not as good as the frontier models, but at some point they get close enough, right?

I run Llama 3.x locally on my 5+ year old GPU. It’s pretty decent. It’s not as smart as GPT-4 or Claude, but it’s good enough for a lot of what I do, and most importantly there’s no cap on the number of prompts I can send in a given timeframe.

For many consumers, it’s fine to be a little bit behind the cutting edge. My smartphone is 2 models behind now. It’s fast enough, the camera is good enough, and the battery is holding up just fine. I don’t feel any need to fork over $1,000 for a new one right now.

I think the same phenomenon will become more common for AI enthusiasts. It’s hard to beat free.

And what happens to the economics of building frontier models then? I suspect a lot of air is going to be released from the AI bubble in the next couple of years.
Especially with Vue 3, most of the reactive state management you need for all but the largest and most complex of apps is built right into the core. Vuex and Pinia really aren't necessary for most users.
I have worked in 3 "startups" now, only coming in after they have started making enough revenue to pay normal ish salaries. The thing I have seen the most, is several of the founders have a blurry concept of what were ideas they had, what was actually built, and what of parts of what was implemented actually works.
It depends what your prop is aiming to simulate.

$10 halloween costume prop? Hollow plastic, super light.

Training weapon for self defence against knife attacks? Solid plastic, several times the thickness of a real knife, probably bright blue.

Olympic fencing weapons, which simulate duelling? Pretty light, you only need a light touch to score a point and bending is desirable.

Live Action Role Play where they want to whack each other, but not hard? Anime cosplay? They mostly go for foam-covered plastic which is kinda light, but they're often thick and also they often simulate unrealistically large weapons, so they can end up kinda heavy.

Ornamental/replica things that are just for show? Could go either way. You could make an extra-light sword out of aluminium, or an extra-heavy ornate dagger out of pewter. Less steel means a lower material and shipping cost - but a bit more heft that feels realistic to buyers might get you better product reviews.

Apparently some HEMA/renaissance fair folk wear full suits of metal armour, metal longswords that are blunt-but-authentically-weighted, then try to whack each other pretty hard? Looks like concussion city to me.
And yet, for all of that work - is the company in any better of a position? By what measures did the company culture improve? How many people attended those events? How many of those people felt they were worthwhile?

Just because something is a lot of work does not mean it is worth that investment. I can dig a giant hole in my backyard, but I'm probably not going to get much out of it aside from dirt and stone for all my efforts.
I acknowledged that in my comment, but you missed my point. They don't work for free because they can't in our current system. We can change that.
Me too. I have never seen this world
Then you'd get someone taking the trouble to correlate music and times, to capture someone moving across the city on the map.

Only if someone can move across the city in three minutes.
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I've been using the cursor editor (vs code clone with LLM) for 6 months and it definitely improves productivity. Biggest gains are for writing/refactoring just a few lines at a time, where I can understand and test the new code easily.

Working with multiple products, Python and many different libraries and frameworks I have to constantly look up commands and usage. With the LLM I select a line or two, and ask 'sort by region, exclude pre 2023' and it writes (or adds) the necessary Pandas calls to the dataframe. The LLM has my code, tools documentation and more as context, so I don't have to say much to get the right code, but the questions are important, have to converse with a programmer mindset still.

It has almost completely replaced using Google for helping with code. Often I waste too much time in Slashdot looking at a dozen possible similar situations, but not what I need. The LLM immediately gives me something right in my own code. Usually have to give it some followup commands to tweak the code or take a different approach.
windmill.dev looks an awesome solution thanks for the link :)
This article assumes your passions are highly monetizable.
Playrun – v0 but for Testing
Have you considered those who are hard of hearing? Should they be made to drive their vehicles in silence?
A generational git repo of family knowledge is a fun idea to think about.

>Hey grandpa, can you show me the family brisket recipe?

>Sure grandson. But first, let me tell you what git is.
I had a discussion around this with a friend a few days ago.

They saw it as a bad thing.

But to me it's the same as before : what I decide to share on the Internet is for everyone.
If someone find a way to make money with it, it's probably because they made it more easy to find or use for users (customers), so good on them!

As someone who relies on AI quite often to work on new topics, I'm fully aware that what I get is the result of someone else's content being digested by an LLM.
With Kagi's Assistant I even got the sources if I want to access it.

If I publish some niche content that is fed to an LLM and then just one person got the answer to their problem through the LLM instead of finding my website through an ad-ridden search engine, I'm more than happy, I helped someone!
I'm a real estate agent. Here's what I have to say about sales culture
Before understanding Japanese culture through anime, understand western culture through Cartoon Network.
If you want to make a minimum wage argument, you have to look at total receipts and benefits.

For better or worse, we have opted for a systems where much of the receipts for low income works flow directly from the government. A minimum wage worker qualifies for free healthcare, food subsidies, and greatly subsidized housing if they can navigate the waitlist.
How long do you think it will take for the job market to recover?
The job market today seems to be an equation of duality. The economy is going gang busters, and even the tech world added trillions in the last 2 years. At any point in the last 20 years this would have been an employee market where tech employees would be in demand. However, now the opposite seems to be true. There may be a very few top of the cream folks that are in demand, specifically folks in AI or related. However, this is not a case where a great economy and good numbers every quarter is lifting all boats as expected.

I see something really off here. What do you think? Is there something larger afoot? Will we recover a pre-pandemic job market at some point?
AGIs are what builds the simulations to revive theire frail biological creators..
He probably doesn’t have custody and is paying child support.

Custody still defaults to the mother in many places.
I'm a fan of DAG-CBOR, which is a deterministic subset of CBOR with most of the weird bits excluded (like indefinite lengths, multiple floating point formats, etc.), but it can still represent any sensible JSON object.
> If they're too close, the heat they radiate away will end up on Earth again.

So put a mirror on the Earth side of it?

> If they're too far away, latency & maintenance will become an issue.

There are many compute tasks where latency is irrelevant. To take a recent example, AI model training. It does not matter if the compute farm is a few light minutes away when the computation itself is going to take days to months.

Maintenance is performed locally. It's not as if you're going to have Earth and then a single solitary server farm on the far side of the Sun. By the time this becomes relevant to planetary energy there are multiple space stations with permanent staff.
Augmented reality means displaying virtual 3D content, registered to the real world. So a 2D panel that sticks to a wall, or a 3D object that sits in place on a desk, etc. The display is "just" the way to present that content, getting the registration requires cameras, 6DOF sensors, CV, SLAM, etc.

Monochrome AR is certainly possible, and probably 90% as useful as RGB AR. I'm just saying the Vaunt hardware seems to be display-only, i.e. a HUD, without any capability to do the registration part.
That's a disingenuous take.

Godot is blocking devs on github, preventing them from getting updates for their projects, because of ideological disagreement.
The "this bill doesn't go far enough" thing is normally what politicians say when they don't want it to go in that direction at all. Anyway, I'm glad he vetoed.
Just in case anyone's curious, this is from Bertrand Russell's "the history of philosophy".

> As soon as definite knowledge concerning any subject becomes possible, this subject ceases to be called philosophy, and becomes a separate science.

I'm not actually sure I agree with it, especially in light of less provable schools of science like string theory or some branches of economics, but it's a great idea.
DEI in practical terms is basically HR, compliance and auditing so the company doesn't get sued for using slave labour or something.
Hasn't the SPE been criticized as unscientific and basically fraudulent? Makes it hard to read this article if that's the main literature it cites to draw conclusions from.
Nice. there's a selection bias as the people who play music loud enough to be heard from their cars and several genres there just don't overlap at all.

if we're acknowledging that the music played from cars is neighbourhood vibe, it raises the question of whether they are interfering with the neighbourhood as well.
It doesn't have a functioning website or even a statement explaining the reason for the fork.

Why the reason for the fork?

How many forks of Godot exist?
Agreed. I think people are extrapolating with a linearity bias. I find it far more plausible that the rate of improvement is not constant, but instead a function of the remaining gap between humans and AI, which means that diminishing returns are right around the corner.

There's still much to be done re: reorganizing how we behave such that we can reap the benefits of such a competent helper, but I don't think we'll be handing the reigns over any time soon.
> Something that forwards short text messages via phone to phone WiFi until they reach some place with more connectivity would be helpful in emergencies.

Even in non-emergencies this would be extremely useful! Bluetooth LE has hundreds of meters of device-to-device range on the newer modulation schemes and would be excellent for this; low-frequency things like LoRa would be even better and could probably easily incorporated into phones, given that mobile networks use adjacent frequencies and the power amplifiers are probably already there.

It's a real shame that Apple has been curbing even the one P2P communications tool deployed at scale (Airdrop) supposedly out of censorship concerns, and given that, I unfortunately don't see something like "P2P iMessage" becoming a thing any time soon.
Pretty sure she was the first place finisher overall. I am not sure how much of a gender advantage there is over those distances. Similarly, age is less of a factor too, with older athletes regularly beating those who are a decade younger.
They might have a power bank as a buffer for the solar panel. Doesn't really go into detail.
You mean actually engaging in activism with consequences rather than inane disagree-and-commit passivism? I'd punatively jail them longer for their cowardice and stupidity than the actual cost to the museum and the general public.
I always thought YC growth was to fuel it's portco's initial traction. My understanding is that they solved each other's problems and then raised on traction largely within their own ecosystem. Having a wide breadth of companies would better enable this
Marvin Minsky, Tegmark and Putnam have nothing to do with neuroscience, and have no authority to speak about the nature of consciousness.
I wrote my first ever TamperMonkey script, to add some tools to a Facebook group that I moderate:

https://github.com/dmuth/facebook-javascript-toolbox
Li battery fire sent toxic gas over Montreal. Are we ready for such emergencies?
Microsoft is doing Recall, encrypted and what not with the TPM => Microsoft BAD!

A random dude is doing the same thing, but in rust (super important to mention right), storing the data in sqlite => Magnificent project, we want more!

You guys are fucking weird.
Here is what AI can do thus far:

1) humans produced a lot of content in good faith on the internet

2) the AI was trained on it and as a result produced a non-von-Neumann architecture that no one really understands, but which can reason about many things

3) even simply remixing the intelligible and artistic output of millions of humans in lots of nonlinear ways, directed by natural language, leads to amazing possibilities that obviate the need for humans to train anymore because by the time they do, it will all be commoditized.

4) doing it at scale means it can be personalized (also create unlimited amounts of fraudulent yet believable art / news / claims etc.) to spam the internet with fake information for short-term goals, some for LULz, others profit or control etc.

5) targeting certain goals, like reputation destruction of specific people or groups, seems like low hanging fruit and will probably proliferate in the next couple years, with no way to stop it

6) astroturfing all kinds of movements, with fake participants, is also a pretty easy goal with huge incentives — expect websites where 95% of the content and participants are fake trying to attract VC money or sell tokens, etc.

7) but ultimately, the real game changer is commoditizing everything you consider to be uniquely human and meaningful, including jokes, even eventually sex and intimacy. Visuals for heterosexual men, audio for heterosexual women (this is before the sexbots and emotionbots that learn everyone’s micro-preferences better than they know themselves, and can manipulate people at scale into being motivated to do all kinds of things and gently peer-pressure those who might resist).

8) For a few years they will console themselves with platitudes like “the AIs arent meant to replace, but enhance, centaurs of human + computer are better than a computer alone” until human in the loop will clearly be a liability and people will give up… the platitudes will become famous as epitomizing optimistic delusions as humans replaced themselves

Would probably be used for busy parents to rsise their kids at first, in a “set and and forget it” way, educating them etc. But eventually will be weaponized by corporations or whoever trains the models, to nudge everyone towards various things.

Even without AI, the software improves all the time through teams of humans sending autatic updates over-the-air. It can replace a few things you do… gradually then all at once. Driving. Teaching. Entertainment. Intimacy. And so on.

I think the most benign end-game is humans have built a zoo for themselves… everyone is disconnected from everyone by like 100 AIs, and can no longer change anything. The AIs are sort of herding or shepherding the humans into better lifestyles, and every need is satisfied by the AIs who know the micro-preferences of the humans and kids and pets etc.

But it will be too tempting for the corporations to put backdoors to coordinate things at scale, once humans rely on their AIs rather than other humans, a bit like in the movie “Eagle Eye”. But much more subtle. At that point most anything is possible.
I’ve spent the last month writing about vanilla web development on https://plainvanillaweb.com/

I am working on blog posts about various topics, vanilla intersection loading, accessible web components, server-side rendering strategies, vanilla PWA, etc…

Always open to ideas and feedback.
When Did the Roman Empire Fall?
Like the last part about physicists
The actual research paper:

https://www.eneuro.org/content/11/8/ENEURO.0291-24.2024

The language of the research paper is much better than that of the parent article, but it still uses the word "quantum" spuriously, without defining what they mean by that.

As others posters have also noticed, the only experimental result is a confirmation of the older hypothesis that the microtubules must have some role in the normal operation of a neuron and when that role is impaired consciousness is lost.

The mechanism of how the microtubules work is determined by quantum physics as for anything else of molecular sizes and it is neither more quantum nor less quantum than how other cellular organelles work.

The research paper appears to use "quantum" with a special meaning, which however is not explained clearly. The protein molecules that compose a microtubule have various vibrational states, like any other molecules.

Normally, the vibrational state of a certain molecule is one of the possible vibrational states, chosen at random with a probability distribution that is a function of temperature.

What the authors appear to believe is that the vibrational states of the microtubules are not random, but many microtubules, including from different neurons, might be in the same vibrational state.

However any such theory needs to be described with a great amount of detail, in order to be falsifiable.

A microtubule is composed from many molecules of proteins, of several different kinds of proteins. The different protein molecules have different kinds of vibrational states. They do not say if in their theory all the protein molecules of a microtubule must be in the same state and which will be the correspondence between the vibrational states of different protein molecules, which cannot be the same.

Normally, any molecule remains in a given vibrational state only for an extremely short duration, because at normal temperatures it interacts with the neighboring molecules, exchanging energy with them and transitioning to a different vibrational state, chosen at random.

The paper does not give any explanation about what would prevent a microtubule to transition to another vibrational state, or if the transitions are acknowledged to happen, what would make any other microtubule to transition in the same way.

Even supposing that the vibrational states of distant microtubules would somehow be synchronized at a given time moment, the paper does not mention any mechanism by which such a synchronization could affect in any way the functions of the neurons.

So all the references to "quantum" in the paper are just some kind of mumbo-jumbo that does not provide any information about what they mean by it.

What remains is that the microtubules must indeed have a crucial role inside a neuron, which is not yet understood.

The paper itself mentions the most plausible role of the microtubules. The microtubules, which are molecular motors capable of contraction, are normally used for the transport inside a cell of various cell components. They might be involved in the transport towards the synapses of the neurotransmitters.
I don’t personally use signal or what’s app, but I also don’t seek out extra secure messaging apps.

Right now, if I was to go extra secure, my go to would be something built on the matrix protocol. I would probably spin up my own synapse node for total control. But I am a programmer, technophile, and FOSS nerd, so I may not be your target audience.

That being said, I think I’d have confidence if I could see the code and a signed build with some way to verify that the code I see published by you is in fact the code on my device.
Highly variable of course - but I've found these types of self-centered narcissistic attributes to be far more endemic to western culture. I don't remember a single time in my years of living in Taiwan where I heard somebody blaring loud music / subwoofers, both while walking around and in all the flats that I lived.
> (1) YC is willing to fund just about anything, (2) they’re not doing any real due diligence, and (3) they don't particularly care about their existing portfolio companies.

YC never said they were anything else, though? YC's strategy is simple.

Vet for y intercept, do little due diligence, and make it up through investing in enough people.

They never claim to be perfect. In fact, there's a number of YC founders who have had scandals:

- Bitfinex $4.5 B hack was a YC founder

- uBiome (wire fraud) was a YC co: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30899352

- Stablegain ($44M crypto fraud) was a YC co https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31461634

- DreamWorld is a YC co: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26898266

I guess hucksters are inevitable?
My working weight for weighted pull-ups right now is more than a full set of plate weighed.
Dikembe Mutombo has died
She won across all women starters.

She has, however, won in mixed field before. In 2017, she won the Moab 240 outright.

The longer the distance (see: this 240mi race and the AT FKT) the closer the division between male and female (and also age).
> Canada actually used to be a nuclear power until 1984.

No, it wasn't, except in the sense that Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, and Turkey are nuclear powers today. It was a participant in a nuclear sharing agreements (under the auspices of NORAD, rather than NATO like the other countries) where US-owned and controlled weapons were deployed at Canadian bases, under control of the US military, with plans for transferring them for delivery by Canadian forces in the event of war. It never had its own nuclear weapons or, AFAIK, nuclear weapons program
Well, sometimes they want fewer bugs!
This is very much debatable. Only around one in four English words is Germanic in origin, whereas half of English words are Latinic or Romanic. [1]

Some properties of English's grammar are also more similar to Romance languages than Germanic ones. For example, whereas Germanic languages only mark tense on verbs, English verbs (like Spanish verbs) are marked with aspect in addition to tense: there is a distinction between "I played tennis"/"I have played tennis"/"I was playing tennis".

I'm not saying English is a Romance language. But it's a much more interesting problem to figure out why it's not considered a Romance language than you imply.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_influence_in_English
You understand that the data stays on the computer right? With Microsoft you never do what they do down the road even if they start local