skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the number of people interested in running ML models locally might be greatly overestimated [here]. There is no killer app in sight that needs to run locally. People work and store their stuff in the cloud. Most people just want a lightweight laptop, and AI workloads would drain the battery and cook your eggs in a matter of minutes, assuming you can run them. Production quality models are pretty much cloud only, and I don’t think open source models, especially ones viable for local inference will close the gap anytime soon. I’d like all of those things to be different, but I think that’s just the way things are.
Of course there are enthusiasts, but I suspect that they prefer and will continue to prefer dedicated inference hardware.

Do you use FTP instead of Dropbox?
I’ve loved learning all your detailed info on CRDT work. Thank you for progressing the field!

Since it stores all the editing events, does this mean that the complexity of opening a document is at least O(N) in terms of number of edits? Or are there interim snapshots / merging / and/or intelligent range computations to reduce the number of edits that need to be processed?
I didn't use Windows for more than a decade, but I don't remember a mess with the standard dialogs in it. Maybe with the Qt-based applications, which brings their crap everywhere.

Neomutt is not a GUI mail client, and from usual distributives-oob clients, kMail seems to be most performant.

DPI scaling works terribly everywhere in Linux if you have more than one monitor with different DPI, none of the most popular distributives has it fixed.

I understand you wanna say that Linux can be usable on a desktop with a jointer and a file, but my talk about usual people and what is wrong in it from their PoV. I love Linux kernel and how it behaves on servers, but it is a still crappy non-uniform zoo on desktops. Some strokes of light and unifying can be seen with the systemd, but it's not related to GUI yet, and even there it has some strong integration counterforces involved. Linux needs systemd for GUI.
Learning to Call BS
This is cool

Semi related- did I read this righr that Portugal has a bin collection every day bar Sunday? (that sounds like a lot! I'm from the UK and where I live there's one a week)
The ceiling may be low, but there are definitely human writers that are an order of magnitude more effective than the average can-write-coherent-sentences human.
The Southern Ocean routinely has waves of 20-30m in size because of the uninterrupted belt of water and wind that circles the globe in those latitudes (aka the "Furious Fifties" and "Shrieking Sixties"). We obviously can't track every wave in the ocean but I think we're fairly certain there are 30m+ waves happening down there and they are not that rare.

TIL that the largest waves in recorded history were up to 500m (!!), generated by a tsunami off the coast of southern Alaska.

Even 20 meters is insane. That's 4-5 double decker buses stacked on top of each other (and probably hits with more force than they would...)
If someone comes up with a new port that had 10% more throughput than USB, do you think that will be enough to make it a viable competitor, or do you think it won't be worth the hassle of replacing your peripherals (cassettes) and computers (cassette players)?
> everybody agreed that the material was too dangerous to drive past people’s homes

Everyone? A vocal group of activists, perhaps.

The same could be said for transport of chemicals by rail; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Palestine,_Ohio,_train_de... and still that goes on.
They are engaging with a lot of industries that could see their work generate immense value directly without needing to change the base services. If they end up being essential in cutting out half the costs in Clinical trials for drugs, they could easily pocket 10% while everyone around the table still being happy. And just imagine how much red tape they could potentially cut out the legal and political system.

And of-cause, their “moat” is pretty much just model training costs, but that slight up front capital cost is still peanuts for Microsoft, Google and Apple, so they can’t really afford to significantly degrade their services.
I really enjoy seeing learning little maker projects like this on HN. The inside scoop on SVG path is a bonus, and it's going into my toolkit for a future day.
Technopoly is also amazing, make that your next read.
don't forget Android.
> I see AI art everywhere, AI writing, customer support - already happened.

Is any of it adding value though? I can see that AI has made it easier to do SEO spam and make an excuse for your lack of customer support, just like IVR systems before it. But I don't believe those added any real value (they may have generated profits for their makers, but I think that was a zero- or negative-sum trade). Put it this way: is AI being used to generate anything that people are actually happy to receive?
Oh man, Mac and their "thousands of colors" -- that lit up some neural patterns that have been dormant for a long time!
I agree, "evil" is a misconception, there exists no such thing as an "evil" person, in reality, just as there is no such thing as a "darling" person, in reality. But both expressions work as an expression of sentiment. When we use it we aim to communicate that we feel no empathy for such people (in case they are "evil"); they can without further ado be thrown in the dungeon. It is a dehumanizing construct enabling hate, same as calling people vermin, or monsters, but with religious connotations, exposing a will to exclude such people from the community (often for god reason), enabling going to war, or to exploit.

However, by removing empathy, we also reduce the possibility to understand the human motivations behind heinous acts (there always are), find solutions, build bridges, make truces, end wars. So maybe we should go lightly on the "evil" stuff, as much as possible.
I believe that exercise is necessary for the health and beauty of the body, being slim with flabby muscles does not look good. But over time, I noticed that training and proper nutrition no longer helped as before. Unfortunately, the metabolic rate has decreased. A friend recommended https://www.optimallyorganic.com/pages/fulvic-ionic-minerals... drops. My friend actually lost weight over the season and says she feels light. There's a lot to think about.
> But no one wins as long as Global Human Attention isn't given purpose. We await someone or some group to articulate that vision.

One of the best things I've done for myself is to stop reading the news. You will not believe how this ignorance has led me to a calmer life, to the gasp and concern of my peers, wondering how am I able to cope, to exist, without knowing what happens "in the world?"

As you say, anyone has 1 unit of attention, and unlike many other things, it is fully in our control. The biggest lie modern generations have been told is that the more knowledge about things, the greater the happiness. That you need to know what happens half a world away from you, often in more detail than what happens at your doorstep.

What saddens me the most about the future generations is seeing how politicised they has become, politics the game of rich old people; the powers that be have figured out that if they turn what happens in the palace into entertainment, people are distracted and don't get into them silly ideas like trying to change things. These days politics is slapstick comedy for "grown ups", and it's sad to see it infect the younger generations now.
Pollution is worse than drinking, smoking, and HIV
> If all it does is allow us to churn more high level software, which let's be honest is demand inelastic due to mostly large margins on software products (i.e. they would of paid a person anyway due to ROI) it doesn't seem it will add much to society other than shifting profit in tech from Labor to Capital/owners.

If creating software becomes cheaper then that means I can transform all the ideas I’ve had into software cheaply. Currently I simply don’t have enough hours in the day, a couple hours per weekend is not enough to roll out a tech startup.

Imagine all the open source projects that don’t have enough people to work on them. With LLM code generation we could have a huge jump in the quality of our software.
Frankly the C++ version is lacking whitespace and is shorter than it needs to be and as someone who uses C++ daily and has used simdjson before it is still much easier to read than the Rust version. Have you considered that this is somewhat subjective?
Yep, the ends justify the means.

Except that nobody ever checks the ends.

Techies are attracted to EA's siren song because it offers such a simple and orderly view of the world. Kinda reminds me of Technocracy back in the day...
I assume you meant you had to revert to multiprocess?
> Thinly veiled 'I despise stupid people', this one.

Are you talking about this comic (i.e. a few sentences from the book) or the whole book?

I read the book a few years back and it's entirely focused on culture as a whole and less about the individual choices. He's not making a point of "television makes you dumb" (or "dumb people watches television"), but rather he makes the distinction between an "oral"-, "press"- and "television"-based culture. He claims that it's bad when television becomes the main platform that a society centers its communication around.

He's also honest that there's probably far more junk (in absolute terms) in printing than in television: "Television is not old enough to have matched printing's output of junk." It's not about the amount of "junk" – it's about something more fundamental about the medium.

I found the book quite interesting and would highly recommend reading it!

> They'd be boozing (more than they already are) if there wasn't such variety of cheap and available entertainment, the author doesn't seem to realize?

That's an extremely pessimistic view of the world: Categorizing a set of human beings as "stupid" and saying that it doesn't matter how society is structured?

And "smart people" are also influenced by how our society is structured, no?
Right, AI is really just what I use to replace google searches I would have used to find highly relevant examples 10 years back. We are coming out of a 5 year search winter.
This is a very deep thought that has crossed my mind quite a lot as I’ve used LLMs and other AI.

Ironically, we are discovering the human condition by evaluating what we are “not”.

… but, we are.
Yes, you're correct and this is important information.
The elephant in the room is this question:

What do we value?
What is our value system made up of?

This is, in my opinion, the Achille‘s heel of the current trajectory of the West.

We need to know what we are doing it for. Like the OP said, he is motivated by the human connectedness that art, music and the written word inspire.

On the surface, it seems we value the superficial smuckness of LLM-produced content more.

This is a facade, like so many other superficial artifacts of our social life.

Imperfect authenticity will soon (or sometime in the future) become a priceless ideal.
A pernicious excitement to learn and play chess has spread all over the country, and numerous clubs for practicing this game have been formed in cities and villages…chess is a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements … they require out-door exercises–not this sort of mental gladiatorship.

A game of chess does not add a single new fact to the mind; it does not excite a single beautiful thought; nor does it serve a single purpose for polishing and improving the nobler faculties.

Scientific American, July, 1858

[0]: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/19th-century-conce...
Well, I understood what you meant, but you are wrong in either your views or your language.

Here are the firsts 2 definition of the word neat:
- free from dirt and disorder: habitually clean and orderly
- marked by skill or ingenuity

And modern iPhone's internals do not really feel like that at all. They are interesting to look at, but the whole design is clearly made to cut costs and meet some arbitrary requirements.
There is not much neat about it.

There are dozens of screws, with many different imprints (for some reason) with all kinds of different lengths (when it surely wouldn't be complicated to figure out a cleaner approach).
They overuse fragile ribbon cable, often putting them in place where they can get easily damaged during disassembly/repair.
They still haven't figured out a neat way to make batteries not move without relying on stupid glue stripes that always break.
There are plenty of small pieces that need to be screwed down when it feels that they could be part of larger assemblies or have a better/easier way to install.

Now don't get me wrong, the iPhone is a very technologically advanced device, with extreme miniaturisation of some things that are just incredible.

But it's not something that you could call neat. It's not a perfectly symmetrical engine with shinny tubes well laid out that is just as beautiful to look at as it is powerful.

It is just a pragmatic design to accomplish a form factor at a specific price point, the rest are just side effects or nice to have.
And in a way it makes sense they have this approach, because they change the thing every year, never committing to a particular form factor or set of functionalities (which is the whole point to entice replacement) but that doesn't come with neatness.

As for reliability, iPhones are not any more reliable than equally priced Android smartphones. It seems that way because Apple has higher exigence and thus better-quality control for parts and also will often swap phones for factory problems easily (under warranty or not).

But they are not any more reliable when you put price/costs into the equation, most people make the mistake of comparing a cheapo 200/300 dollars Android with a minimum 500 dollars iPhone (more likely minimum 800), it would be sad if they couldn't figure out to make them more dependable at 2-3 times the price.
Hilariously, the way they do it is with forgoing neatness and adding a lot of annoyingly small parts at ingress points and using very strong glues. Not neat at all.
Cuttle is v cool, congratulations! I had previously seen Apparatus and liked it, so I can clearly see the genetic resemblance now ;)

I’m wondering how many of you are on the team, and does it actually support you as a business yet? Even for a quite niche-y app Cuttle deserves to be better known, and higher-priced, imo.
I don't think they have a clone of the wayback machine yet but Internet Archive Canada exists with a headquarters in Vancouver, presumably with a separate corporate hierarchy but can't find the information this moment
Apple drops out of talks to join OpenAI investment round
Word! From an enlightened person.
Imagine the person that wrote the C++ program has C++ experience and can whip that out in 10 minutes.
I’m so excited about all of this. I was about to start creating an Expo mobile app but maybe I’ll just go with Rails 8 and Hotwire Native for now. I know Rails way better and I enjoy it so much.
This is why cheaters should never ever ever be allowed to play again with fair players, only with cheaters
I am not sure these publications were intended to generate sales of these technologies. My assumption is that they mostly help the company in terms of recruitment. This lets potential employees see cool stuff Google is doing, and see them as an industry leader.
> cost of upgrade is too big

Are you sure the other reactors were not upgraded, the procedures were not updated, the operators were not better trained?

> cheaper to risk life on a continent than to fix a reactor

Considering the reactor operators didn't work from home it suggests there was not a great risk in living on a continent with these reactors. Plus why stop at "on a continent" ... this is one world, no planet B etc.
Holy fn shite. WSJ usually has proper articles, but this one is just plain ridiculous bs.

The big question should be: how come the sober thinkers' voices were suppressed in this "debate" at a company the size of Apple (and Tesla). So in essence you know that jumping off a cliff would hurt, but nonetheless you do it, crawl back to the mountain and then explain your idiotic moves and the groundbreaking insight like it's some next big thing. No, you were stupid, now gtfo.

How come you cannot set what a fucking button should do on your OWN, overpriced phone? How come you cannot do proper text editing on that overpriced shit? How come every feature of an iphone, plain things like reordering shit on your main screen, is lauded?

gtfo, it's an oppressive device.
Biden was never an entertainer like the other 2 demented old men (entrusted with WMDs) under discussion.

If we send you to space you'll have to pass a fitness test.. Because we aren't stupid?

But sure, anyone in the middle of a psychotic break who can't tell fact from fiction should be fine for the entirety of national interests. Shoot down another plane for the old Gipper!
The Tailwind reference was so quick, what made you think it was useful? I mean I think I like Tailwind, just asking because I’m curious.
According to the article, the other way around didn't happen: the legalization didn't decrease illegal gambling
Which ones are you referring to?

Just to make it clear, I see only 1 breakthrough [0]. Everything that happened afterwards is just application of this breakthrough with different training sets / to different domains / etc.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_Is_All_You_Need
> Except here's the problem. Even for intermediate developers, I'm essentially always in a situation where the process of explaining the problem, providing feedback on a potential solution, answering questions, reviewing code and providing feedback, etc takes more time out of my day than it would for me to just _write the damn code myself_.

Exactly. And I’ve been telling myself „keep doing that, it lets them teach, otherwise they will never level up and be able to comfortably and reliably work on this codebase without much hand holding. This will pay off”. Which I still think is true to a degree, although less so with every year.
an incident only once a year is an absurd bar. I'm no fan of on call but ensuring that level of incident avoidance would force the company to move at glacial speeds, which is even worse over the long term than getting paged.

I think my sweet spot is somewhere between once a week and once a month, spread across the whole team.
Mates, I’m fired up. I don’t know if DHH has evangelised me for so long or if it’s because we’re fairly aligned in our stances, but it feels like this ticks all my boxes. No more crazy expensive hosting, all can be understood by one person. It’s so much fun developing like this.
> Just like I hated when Tesla started putting some crappy tablet instead of physical knobs, for vastly inferior driver experience. But masses clearly think differently

Do they? Why are physical controls back?

It seems like car manufacturers just mindlessly jumped on what they thought was a fad, without ever bothering to test out their own cars.
> Part of studying was going quickly back, switching between X pages before and here, highlighting quickly, making quick notes on the side and so on.

Whatever the other trade-offs, you can do all that even more easily with a good PDF application.

You also can open multiple instances of the same book, to have multiple pages open simultaneously.
What’s hate speech to you is free speech to someone else.
Apple has WebKit, which Chromium forked as Blink in 2013.

Apple and Google do not share code post-fork, and Apple denies Google ~30% of the browser market, so using "mono-" is wrong. Google has a search monopoly, but not quite a browser and definitely not a browser engine monopoly.

The KHTML/WebKit lineage is more a monoculture in its older parts, but I say this is evolution in action (cf. successful alleles and haplogroups across many populations).

So we are not "contributing" much to any monoculture or monopoly, and the alternative is dying on the wrong hill, as I just posted. Any substantive response?
Python is not thread safe.
Having tried this (when searching for a self-hosted documentation system), I abandoned it due to the inability to change the reference to the book-specific-nomenclature. Still, a nice project in all other regards. (I ended up using Notion due to its flexibility, but still hope for a self-hosted notion clone).
I don't think the news wires fooled people into believing their local paper had journalist present covering the election in Mozambique.

There was no name underneath the short. Just AP, Reuters or whatever. It was pretty clear.
The whole not being dependent on Apple or AWS etc plays into the idea of Technofeudalism and how to counter that to keep a more open society alive. I highly recommend the Philosophise This podcast episode #206 if you want to get an idea of what technofeudalism is.
Im surprised noone thought of this earlier. Gg bro
My bin schedule is slightly complicated by it cycling between different recycling bins every 3 weeks. I think I'd need a bigger clock.

Currently I have 3 recurring events in my calendar that remind me the night before.
I kind of agree. Chess sucks big time, especially played online. Playing with your grandpa in the park is OK.
I imagine that the DC legal team were well aware that the trademark was indefensible but figured that the expense of counter suing a well funded industry giant would cause most small players to fold immediately. Their luck ran out in the end but they got a few decades out of it.
Stablecoins Backed by Real Estate
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I think our entire financial system banks, corporates, gov are going to be much different in 10 years than they are now and in that case, would anyone be interested in having a stablecoin backed by such asset?
At least it is more valuable and stable than one backed by fiat like USDT or DC.
Thank you and Namaste again,
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Good lord that site is not mobile friendly.
Exactly! Both Orwell and Huxley are right but in different contexts. Also note that both of their works are an exaggerated caricature of aspects of Society which they wished to highlight and show its insidiousness. Thus one has to look beyond the "painted picture" and understand what was being meant.

However; Orwell had a better insight on the overall issues which can be found in his essays eg. "Notes on Nationalism", "All Art is Propaganda", "Politics and the English Language" (eg. Newspeak) etc.
Everyone knows that if at first you don’t succeed, never try again.
Loneliness causes suffering, and suffering does inhibit empathy, or so I read once in a pop sci recounting of a study. It would also make sense that a lack of empathy feeds back into the loneliness by harming relationships. Cyclic determinism, why are you everywhere in life?
Dopamine is one hell of a drug.
>He's not making a point of "television makes you dumb" (or "dumb people watches television"), but rather he makes the distinction between an "oral"-, "press"- and "television"-based culture. He claims that it's bad when television becomes the main platform that a society centers its communication around.

Or as Postman himself put it, "the medium is the metaphor". And he strongly disliked the metaphor TV was bringing to bear on the Western World.

And everyone should note this is the television of the 1980s. You still don't really have home recording, there are a limited number of channels, and the monoculture truly exists.