skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t agree about bodybuilders being stupid, but going to the gym and being a bodybuilder are not one and the same. They just happen to occupy the same spaces.

And in bodybuilding, unless someone is specifically a natty/natural bodybuilding competitor the answer is pretty much “all of them have been on gear at some point in time”. For other gym-goers, the answer is, nobody knows unless they tell you and since steroids are very illegal, people don’t tend to shout it from the rooftops.
> “Even though silicon works at these extremely small dimensions, the energy efficiency required to do one calculation has been going up, and this makes it highly unsustainable,”

They probably meant: the energy use required to do one calculation has been going up
There are a lot of good image models you can use.

Flux is the best open weights model.

Ideogram, Recraft, Midjourney, Leonardo are all very capable hosted image generators. DALL-E3 was way ahead of its time and is still very good.

RunwayML Gen3 Alpha, Lumina, Hailuo, Kling, Minimax and others do video well.

Sora is probably the best visual media generator but is not widely available to use. Only people at Meta have used Meta’s Chameleon, which is maybe the most capable visual media generator today.

None are particularly good at particular styles or not.

All the content on CivitAI is reflective of the quality of the foundational models. Flux and SD3 community fine tunes are very capable. CivitAI isn’t representative of the best in the community, the state of the art, or even what people are using this stuff for.
Did this with Redlib to allow access to Reddit, and have been building tooling to allow academic researchers to access data at a large scale at no cost :)

https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
There are echo chambers on twitter, reddit, here, at your local coffee shop depending on the subject. Echo chambers develop anytime a majority of people hold a similar belief on a subject and lose objectiveness. Just because "everyone" CAN post doesn't mean they are (spoiler: they aren't).

If you achieve that majority and loss of objectiveness you're very likely in an echo chamber.
Signal gets new video call features
Two things that will improve mental clarity and sleep. Not drinking alcohol and strength training.
I see so much backlash against Project Managers and they're just Outlook Calendars with legs, but this post is basically a love letter to good Project Managers/Release Train Engineers/Delivery Leads, whatever you want to call it.
Linux Updates: Command Line Guide
Those are two different things.

- A _ prefix tells the compiler not to warn you a variable isn't used.

- A _ variable name is a reserved symbol to say something cannot be used. Trying to do so will cause a compiler error.

So they're scoped differently.

Consider this Go snippet:

func A() { fmt.Println("A") }
func B() { fmt.Println("B") }
func main() {
var B = A;
B()
}

What function gets called? It's A but you can reasonably make a case for B given the capitalization of Go function names and variables. My point is that scoping and resolution rules and many other aspects of a language can be viewed as intuitive (or not) based simply on what you're used to. Even then they can be arbitrary.
> That is why the world has been tending towards the negative for soooo long.

All evidence I've seen in the world is tending better. There are, and always have been concerning signs, but overall things have been getting better. But everyone places more emphasis on the concerning signs and doesn't really think of all the things that have gotten better.
Funding for climate tech startups is waning. Much of it's moving to AI
I've never heard of "the politicians syllogism" but I'll need to remember it.

I am a big fan generally of letting things unfold a little to see if they're actually problems rather than just smelling like problems. I find you can save a lot of make-work by ignoring non-issues. Basically it'll be nice to have something to counter "a stitch in time saves nine".
Just wait- mass prevalence of humans drives mass adaption of anti-human counter measures by oncologic systems. Ambrosia everywhere..
>Health insurance is perfectly manageable (if and only?) if you accept (some) mandatory coverage. Otherwise the market will unravel.

Isn't that what obamacare was supposed to solve by making health insurance "mandatory"?
Open AI is already running a huge loss currently, and it isnt like o1 is cheap to run either.

I wonder what price these llm's can be run in order to be profitable,and whether just running your own model would be worth it.

Maybe it could be even cheaper if youre willing to fall behind on R&D, but keep in my mind that everytime openAI invented something, it was quickly copied by its competitors.
Emit-C: A time travelling programming language
It should be illegal for government agencies to do this.

Perhaps, though, this will increase people's awareness that these terms and conditions are typically extremely permissive, and that permissiveness is a real risk to them.

Especially now.
Liking for Sweet Taste, Sweet Food Intakes, and Sugar Intakes
“Chi-Fi” IEMs in particular has been an area that has had phenomenal competition and growth in the years since this article has come out.

A significant proportion of tastes in sound are catered for, at all price points; with particular heat generated at and below the sub $100 mark. This is especially noticeable in the build quality and the quality of the tuning which has significantly improved in this market segment as competition has heated up.
The example they give already has a negative connotation: someone that is behaving defensively.
After reading this, I thought the opening music for Top Gun was about to start playing
Ok, so why didn’t the authors do that? Laziness? Or maybe it would have undermined the headline?
I'm not understanding what this has to do with shoegaze. Did you just use that in the name for funsies?
unfortunately feels like Stripe being Stripe. we learned that the hard way too
You jest, but when i was in school, i used to do pushups, situps, planks, curls, etc. while studying. It helped quite a lot with data retention.
> AI converging with medical technology is a really dangerous space, for obvious reasons. An article like this does make me worry it's being rushed through, but not because of the author's objections, instead because of their ignorance of what is and what isn't AI

I mean, worth pointing out that OpenAI has been shoving LLMs into people's faces for going on about a year and half now at global scale and calling it AI, to a degree that now we have to call AI AGI, and LLM's get called AI, even though there is nothing intelligent about them whatsoever.

Just saying when the marketing for a tech is grinding the edge of being misinformation itself, it's pretty normal for the end users to end up pretty goddamn confused by the end.
Is the 80 character line limit still relevant? (2008)
It's also one of the least diverse communities I've seen. Almost everyone is white and western, twitter is extremely diverse in comparison.
Upvoted for Shoegaze reference. Suggest hosting a demo with My Bloody Valentine "Loveless" as the default musical selection. I will also echo the other commenters who believe your communication needs to improve; it is unlikely that I will download and install your code because the risk/reward ratio is poor, as it is for most OSS (open-source software).

Note: distribution wins in software. Suggest you rewrite this to be at the intersection of distributable and local, which basically means running in the browser. Consider porting to JavaScript and distributing either as a simple static webpage, or perhaps a codepen. This might be an interesting use of two interesting but little-used browser APIs, namely WebAudio and WebGL or perhaps WebGPU. For simplicity I'd target Chrome first.
Exactly, found directly beneath the shoe event horizon.
> I am looking forward to a future where the cities will be under a self-sustainable 'dome' and everything between those cities will be wilderness/jungle

I suspect we'll see Trantor before we see that.
Webhook Versioning: How to Version Webhooks
A few years ago I went through digitising all my grandmothers old albums. The final picture was my grandfather on his deathbed, she stopped making any albums after even though she was only 60. She died 2 yrs later. This hit me hard.
The last 10 comments were all boilerplate promotion of getopenpay

"Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The Kafka transaction protocol is fundamentally broken and must be revised.

Ouch. Great investigation work and write-up, as ever!
cool stuff, congrats on the launch
Jujutsu: A Haven for Mercurial Users at Mozilla
Insuring companies could mandate DNA tests before setting the contract price. As they already do with blood tests and ECG.

Health insurance is not welfare - IN THE USA. With universal health care, it goes without saying that society as a whole covers for the people that are more at risk.
Please do it. It will not solve the problem (which is SS/Medicare spending), but will guarantee that they lose the midterms, which will grind the rest of the MAGA agenda to a halt.
ProemNews – Add scientific context to any news article
After reading this, "Celebrating the Gerbils" may be a more apt title. He is "blaming" them for the rise of Europe via the after effects of the transmission of a terrible disease. It is a sort of justification for the policy positions of a recent Marvel villain.

Gamora : I was a child when you took me.
Thanos : I saved you.
Gamora : No. We were happy on my home planet.
Thanos : You were going to bed hungry, scrounging for scraps. Your planet was on the brink of collapse. I'm the one who stopped that. You know what's happened since then? The children born have known nothing but full bellies and clear skies. It's a paradise.
Gamora : Because you murdered half the planet.
Thanos : A small price to pay for salvation.
I see what you’re saying and you make a good point. The best control I can claim, if we take an experimental perspective, is that most of my meals are home made.

Your point stands nevertheless. Sometimes my spouse will remark on how salty something is if we are eating out of the home, and sometimes I don’t think it’s salty. We both grew up in regions that were really heavy on salty foods, but in different parts of the country. I wonder how that has shaped our perspectives.
Show HN: GIF Manager Extension – copy paste across sites
He’s about to give Putin carte blanche to keep pushing to (eventually) Belgium.

He's not of course, and weird, untenable exaggerations like this aren't helpful.
The industry calls AI even the dumbest linear system, I don't think it is right to blame non industry people if they don't use the right words after that.
It certainly is interesting, and if — and, sadly, it’s a big if in these post-sense-and-sensibility days — we ever get serious about funding space science, I, for one, am all for deeply probing all around and on and indeed in Uranus to determine just how moist the area really is.
it was fairly new to me too, spotted it in response to Australia's new under-16 social media ban.

I guess it's an expanded (deductive) form of Action Bias, aka "do something" bias.
Don't Do This with PostgreSQL
I think that might depend on how far you look to compare. Like 1700s to now, yeah we're better by any metric you can think of. But on a smaller scale there are some things tending down.
Everyone who starts working out notice this. Very fast gains in strength and resistance the first weeks due to neuronal signals improvement. And then a slow down where muscle gains take over.
In other words private insurance is unable to make a profit while providing value to all customers. There's a word for businesses like that...
And good sleep will increase mental clarity and strength training

And not drinking alcohol will improve good sleep and strength training

They all impact each other!
Healthcare is a massive cost for people, businesses, and governments.

>So we basically just become operators of the machines.

Driving down the cost of manufacturing because of process standardization and automation brought down the cost of consumer goods, and labor's value.

If you don't think this is coming for every single area of business, you're foolish. Driving down labor costs is the golden goose. We've been able to collect some eggs through technology, but AI and the like will be able to cut that goose open and take all the eggs.
> LLMs break the social contract of the internet

The legal concept of fair usage has and is being challenged, and will best tested in court. Is the Golden Age of Fair Use Over? Maybe [0].

[0] https://blog.mojeek.com/2024/05/is-the-golden-age-of-fair-us...
>Bill doesn’t have ALS. He’s a healthy 60-year-old man [...]

The word you're thinking of isn't even applicable in this case. At 60 year old, the chances of him passing on genes is highly unlikely. Denying him insurance might suck for different reasons, but it's hardly going to affect the gene pool.
It's extremely premature to be using this tech in critical real-world situations like this. This sort of thing makes me very nervous about using hospital services. Here's hoping that I don't have to be the next guinea pig.
uunencode the data and split into as many emails as necessary
Nomadic Infrastructure Design for AI Workloads
I believe the point being made was that this could be done in the CPU faster than was achieved here.
There is no "censorship industrial complex"
My 2nd favourite was with GSM mobile devices - and my car radio - inevitably immediately before getting a call, or TXT message (or email on my Blackberry), if I was in my car and had the radio going, I would get a little "dit-dit-dit" preamble and know that something was incoming...

I remember this happening all the time in meetings. Every few minutes, the conversation would stop because a phone call was coming in and all the conference room phones started buzzing. One of those things that just fades away so you don't notice it coming to an end.
I really wish developers cared more about normalization and stop shoving everything into a JSON(b) column.
Found this image of the landing craft: https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2019/07/09/saipan-landing-i/#g...
I knew that, but it always baffles me when I hear it again. Who uses any Real products anymore?

Back in 2007 the only reason I ever used Real stuff was pirated episodes of South Park, and even then I think I was using Real Alternative. Even in 2007 the company seemed like it was dying, and I have no idea 17 years later it's still somehow alive.
Show HN: Eidon AI – Decentralized AI Network for Next-Generation On-Chain Models
Hey HN, we’re thrilled to launch Eidon AI today, a decentralized AI network that rewards you for contributing real-world data through Quests. Think of Quests as a decentralized bounty system, but instead of slaying monsters, you’re helping train the next generation of AI by capturing frontier data, all while owning the data you collect and earning a stake in the future of AI.

Check it out: https://app.eidon.ai

We built Eidon because we believe AI should be decentralized and uncensored to unlock the full potential of humanity. Today, big tech monopolizes both data and models, giving nothing back to the people who were used to create it while imposing a lobotomized, censored version of reality. We’re here to change that, putting the power in your hands. You decide what data to share, and you’re rewarded for your data contributions and the subsequent value generated by the models built from that data.

Here’s how it works: The network assigns 'Quests' for specific data like images, video, and audio covering multiple environments, actions, locations, cultures, and perspectives of reality. You use the Eidon App to complete these Quests by uploading the requested data. Our AI Agent system verifies the quality and ensures the data is free from spam, enabling labeling-free collection. You’re rewarded based on the value, novelty, and demand for your contributions.

But our focus goes beyond just data collection. The long-term goal is to create fully on-chain AI models using this real-world, multimodal data. These models will be uncensored, permissionless, private, and highly personalized grounded in the diverse reality around us.

We see Eidon as the go-to platform for decentralized AI data collection whether it’s for training humanoids or building more personalized AI assistants. And for us, it’s really about what kind of AI future we want to create, dystopia or utopia? The AI is the blockchain, the blockchain is the AI. Eidon wants to see a decentralized, permissionless future where AI empowers human potential instead of controlling it.

We’d love your feedback! What kind of quests would you like to see? How would you use this decentralized data? If you're a company or individual interested in specific types of data, we're open to discussing any requests and would be happy to set up a conversation with your team. Email us at request@eidon.ai

For more detailed technical info, check out our documentation: https://docs.eidon.ai/
A business? I'm not sure why you seem to have the impression that businesses should serve any and all customers, even at a loss to them.
Here is a full version: https://archive.org/details/world-almanac-and-book-of-facts_...
Left Ukraine without a US Ambassador from May 2019 until after the invasion,

Biden took over in January 2021.
I don't think they hate us, I think they view us with contempt. That's a totally different (perhaps worse) thing.
Freedom and the Lawmakers
Ditto - if I'm throwing out an inspection query just to get a sense of what kind of data is in a column I won't bother with proper readable syntax (i.e. a `select distinct status from widgets`). I only really care about code I'll need to reread.
Not sure what is meant by size ? IIRC, Saturn is kind of "fluffy" and could float on liquid water.

So a Brown Dwarf with the radius of Saturn, why not ? But its mass would probably be much greater than Saturn, but compressed down to Saturn's size :)

I thought I read somewhere a Brown Dwarf with 13x the mass of Jupiter would be about the same size as Jupiter.
> No matter how many tech bros try to force it through.

Are you sure about that? My wife is a nurse and she has to deal with multiple machines that were put in her unit just because the hospital has a contract with XYZ brand. It doesn't matter at all if these machines are 5x more expensive, x10 slower, x80 less effective, etc... compared with the "other" machines (from other brands).

I'm actually terrified the same might happen with this.
I think the effort to keep the definition of AI narrow is not useful (and futile, besides). By both common usage and even most formal definitions, it's an umbrella term, and sometimes refers to a specific thing under that umbrella that we already have other words for if we would like to be more specific (ML, deep learning, LLM, GPT, genAI, neural net, etc).
2024 Antarctic ozone hole ranks 7th-smallest since recovery began
It could check the album names on both sides, for example. And in case of uncertainty, it could make a list of dubious matches. Stuff like that, I guess.
Show HN: Danswer APIs – Open-source APIs for building RAG apps over company docs
Hi HN! I’m one of the creators of Danswer, the open-source enterprise search project that you may have seen on HN a bit under a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39467413). Really excited to be back to post about our new APIs :)

Over the last half-year the #1 thing we’ve heard from our open-source community is the desire to build custom applications on top of the core connections with common apps + search + assistants. While this has always technically been possible, it hasn’t been easy for two main reasons: (1) inability to use APIs with auth-enabled w/o grabbing cookies from the browser and (2) a lack of simple APIs. Well no longer!

For (1), we now provide a UI to generate API keys and for (2) we provide a pure “search” endpoint, a “chat” endpoint, and an implementation of OpenAI's Assistants API. With these, we take care of all the boring stuff (integrating with 35+ tools, constantly keeping docs up-to-date, and handling permissions) and provide an opinionated starting point for the generic hard stuff (really good hybrid-search + factoring in metadata, recency, etc.), so that you can focus on the specific business logic of the app.

Back when I was at Alation, on-call for our team could have been made so much easier by a small, custom app that auto-responded to every alert based on Confluence, Slack, and a few Drive folders. Danswer’s APIs would power the core of this, and all I’d be left with are app-specific things like routing alerts to the right team member based on the document ownership of the cited documents.

For an example of what it looks like to use the APIs, check out this script here: https://github.com/danswer-ai/danswer/blob/main/examples/ass...!

If you're curious what's happening under the hood, check out our docs: https://docs.danswer.dev/system_overview.

Thanks, excited to hear your thoughts!
This sort of outlook is very common in psychedelic experiences and community conversations. I'd like to see a scenario where someone clever from that community starts a propaganda campaign pushing such ideas as a serious proposition, and comes equipped to efficiently dismiss the classic normative dismissals or rhetorical topic avoidance techniques, forcing all the "good people" to seriously consider if their thoughts, prayers, secular platitudes, etc are adequate.

It would be nice if we could make some progress on this front for a change.

PS: your closing sentence severely rubs me the wrong way because it feels like it could be interpreted as support for the status quo.
Yes, honestly that's so glaringly obvious that the author of the tool really ought to stop dismissing the criticism out of hand and take it seriously.

He's built a tool that generates hitlists for any competitor to use.
> will be able to cut that goose open and take all the eggs

You're completely right! AI will kill the golden goose, that is what this metaphor is all about.
23andMe to lay off 40% of its workers
No country is corruption free but the difference between Europe and Mexico is shocking. At least the European countries I know first hand.

In Mexico it's blatant and it's everywhere. In Europe most people would never think of bribing a police man to escape a fine while in Mexico a mordida is business as usual. There are police men whose only job is to get money from all the people they stop.

Here's an anecdote from my early years in Mexico. You have to check your car once or twice ever year to get like a govt sticker otherwise the car cannot be used in some places. Well sometimes the queues to do this process are extremely long. I've seen first hand someone from the verification center going to every car in the queue and asking "with jump or without jump?". Meaning, if you want to jump in front of the queue you have to "pay extra".

All of this shouldn't be a surprise.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2023
The 1970s Crime Wave
More obligatory posts about people's preferred fonts in a previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25159038
Elon didn’t burn down Twitter. It still has 100m+ users. He turned it into a politically far right echo chamber, gas lighting its users about “free speech absolutism,” and then outright banning, demoting, or drowning out commentary he doesn’t agree with.

Unless you meant “burn down” in the sense of “turned it into the ashes of a trash fire…” but it was always a trash fire. People still go for it, and advertising still happens there.
I think it ended up having too much variability in coverage, so like car insurance everyone gets pretty cheap plans?

mandatory medicare would have a very wide risk pool in comparison right