skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A "good" prediction market is when it functions as an accountability market. The insider trading problem isn't an issue if the outcome is for a greater good. The problem is that money is the easiest way to ensure anonymous predictors are serious about their predictions and getting richer is not a greater good. If you were to require politicians to participate in a reputational prediction market, the aligned incentives might make it a positive thing.

You could let ordinary people piggy back participate too, and then use the results to filter through internet/media noise but that starts to smell too social score-ish.
"You ignore my genocide and ill ignore yours"
Those humans. When will they stop?

(This should also be read as a joke.)
I like going to the Online Etymology Dictionary for this kind of thing: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=fuck
Guide to Self-Host GitHub Actions Runners on EKS using actions-runner-controller
I put together a detailed write-up on setting up self-hosted GitHub Actions Runners using ARC (Actions Runner Controller) on AWS using EKS.

This includes terraform code for provisioning the infrastructure, and helm configurations for Karpenter v1.0 setup. We also ran a couple of variants in configuration for cost and performance comparison using Karpenter for autoscaling and other best practices.

Using a couple of PostHog's OSS repo workflows as for testing, the variations of config were basically allowing Karpenter to pick runners of arbitrary sizes from the same instance family and figure out the scaling, vs forcing one node per job.

The most interesting part from the post is added below.

## Performance and Scalability

All the jobs are run on the same underlying CPU family (m7a) and request the same amount of resources (vcpu and memory).

ARC runners with varied node sizes exhibited slower performance primarily because multiple runners shared disk and network resources on the same node, causing bottlenecks despite larger node sizes.

To address these bottlenecks, we tested a 1 Job Per Node configuration with ARC, where each job ran on its own node. This approach significantly improved performance. However, it introduced higher job start delays due to the time required to provision new nodes.

Job start delays are directly influenced by the time needed to provision a new node and pull the container image.

Total Jobs: 960
ARC (Varied Node Sizes): $45.88
ARC (1 Job Per Node): $42.60

What are some other optimizations that can be done?
Are there other considerations that could be added to extend the post?

Let me know what you think.

Full post: https://www.warpbuild.com/blog/setup-actions-runner-controll...
Code: https://github.com/WarpBuilds/github-arc-setup
The only reason why "another client" can exist is due to limitations of the Internet itself.

If you could ensure that the web server can only be accessed by your client, you would do that, but there is no way to do this that can't be reverse-engineered.

Essentially your argument is that just because a door is open that means you're allowed to enter inside, and I don't believe that makes any sense.
Exactly. There is absolutely a threshold of money that will get me to implement FIPS. There is no threshold of money that will get me to say it's a good idea that has any value other than getting the (singular) customer that demands FIPS.
> In the first ad, Apple Intelligence enables a goof-off who wastes time and annoys his colleagues to surprise his boss with an unexpectedly well-written email. It’s not clear that the boss is impressed; he just can’t believe the guy would have written a professional message.

This feels... weird. If the ad was released early 2023, it would still be relevant. But hey, we are now at Nov 2024, exactly after two years after ChatGPT was released. Anyone who has been half paying attention to "AI" wouldn't be impressed any more with a formal, professionally written email from anybody. Saying that as someone whose performance review had evidence of being "enhanced" with ChatGPT but didn't find it surprising.

Well, what's more weird is the setup itself. Do bosses expect to read this kind of super formal email from their direct reports? Do people actually write first versions of emails like that? Something is off here. At least I don't think it ever occurred to me that I need to "rewrite an email to my boss using a professional tone" to my direct boss.
I can see why they do it, though. There are a bunch of foundational Google infra technologies that are great for building an IaaS on top of, but which can't themselves be offered as IaaS services for whatever reason.

Let's use Google's Colossus (their datacenter-scale virtual filesystem) as an example. Due to the underlying architecture of Colossus, GCP can turn around and give you:

• GCE shared read-only zonal PDs

• near-instantaneous snapshots for GCE and BigTable

• async and guaranteed-durable logging (for GCE and otherwise) and Queues (as Pub/Sub and otherwise)

• zero-migration autoclassed GCS Objects, and no per-operation slowdown on GCS Buckets as bucket size increases

• BigQuery being entirely serverless (vs e.g. Redshift needing to operate on a provisioned-storage model)

But Google can't just sell you "Colossus as a service" — because Colossus doesn't have a "multitenant with usage-cost-based backpressure to disincentivize misuse" architecture; and you can't add that without destroying the per-operation computational-complexity guarantees that make Colossus what it is. Colossus only works in a basically-trusted environment. (A non-trust-requiring version of Colossus would look like Apple's FoundationDB.)

(And yeah, you could in theory have a "little Colossus" unique to your deployment... but that'd be rather useless, since the datacenter scale of Colossus is rather what makes many of its QoS guarantees possible. Though I suppose it could make sense if you could fund entire GCP datacenters for your own use, ala AWS GovCloud.)
Why is paying income tax on income from gambling painful?
Don't get me started on fluent apis lol
HN has this thing called the second chance pool. Mods give some old submissions a second chance and timestamps are changed to make it look like a new post.
I did work experience at tidbinbilla radio telescope facility in...1999 or 2000.

It had an on-site cafeteria, which aside from being "out in the middle of no where", we all wondered "why?". Why didn't everyone just bring their lunch?

Even at the time, we just explained it as a "just a thing that Americans did" and wrote it off as because of the presence and involvement of NASA.

So it's good to hear that Google invented it sometime later...

/Never listen to tech people commenting on history or economics, lol
What are the HN regulations regarding swear terms?

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Language seems to me to be a gradient that extends well into other species. My cats for example communicate with me quite a bit. Even deer do so. They only have a couple of "words" but it's obvious they intend to communicate distinct concepts.
There are much newer products than boeshield which have a lot higher wax content, preform a lot better, and don’t have the nasty stuff in them like naphtha.

Silca ss drip, ufo drip, flower power wax are all drip on lubes that all test better than boeshield (last longer, less chain wear, etc).

Boeshield is only 2.5% wax.
It might be a way to reverse the biodiversity loss caused by humans. Biodiversity is important for various reasons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity#Role_and_benefits...).
I think it's the greatest example because it's something you're technically allowed to do but that you obviously shouldn't do because you're wasting other people's resources.
They read very obviously as jokes, but still strike me as distasteful and tonedeaf. If they were in a satire of apple, they could be funny, but the idea of AI slop infecting even family gifts is just so, so dark and depressing it's hard to see why they thought it could sell phones.
> phones are a great option for occasional recording, but they don't record automatically, they don't show the notes you played, they don't track your playing history. inspired by the convenience of a phone, jamcorder is a natural step up.

There are MIDI interfaces for phones. It is astonishing that there isn't an app which it's the checkboxes.
In this context "thinking" was meant as an analogy to the supposed reflective "slow" mode of the cognitive process, vs the more "reflexive"/"fast" mode, not in the sense of "thinking soul" or "thinking self-aware entity".

Concretely, what do you gain by giving a current-generation LLM more runtime? It's not trained/designed to do anything with it, more time = more tokens = more nonsense once past the "end" token/end of context. You could build an agent on top of the LLM that calls the LLM iteratively, but afaict this approach isn't strictly an improvement over the base LLM. Current architectures seem to be limited with how much improvement they can eke out of more runtime without a broader redesign or retraining.

Now with new architectures you might be able to do more with more runtime, but I'm not sold that allowing a current-gen LLM to execute code or do web-searches and re-feeding it the quetion + its output + new data is going to strictly return better results. Sometimes maybe yes, sometimes not.

So imo the current limitation is not the runtime allotted to LLMs but their fundamental (current-gen) design/training.
I thought "aren't MacBooks already PCs, at least between when they were PPC and before they started using ARM", but then this is actually an "engine swap".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Ayers won a cookoff and made the Googleplex well known for food. Employees brought their kids for dinner. People from other companies angled for invites to lunch. I once realized I was in line behind Vint Cerf (Vice President of Inventing the Internet). Ayers moved on, but I think Building 43 mid-campus still hosts the enormous "Charlie's Café."

For a while, another building was notorious for serving sushi but only admitted their Android developers, because Andy Rubin was paying for that himself.
I agree, and I'm baffled by how little we invest in UX for AI. Most companies just put a chat box and call it a day. Everyone seems to focus on gaining 0.1% in MMLU
I'm certainly reading them as jokes.

It's a classic 'someone is being mildly bad, but the amusement of everybody it works out anyway'.
Idk as someone who doesnt really consume a lot of commercials, the most interesting thing here to me is that they are funny ads. I can't speak to the article's critique itself, but I think the choice here of going whimsical/funny is pretty telling of what all this AI stuff is ultimately going to resolve down to for the consumer/user. Nobody wants to be OpenAI anymore, all their profundity is lost on everyone except people on this particular website we are on. It just seems like going that route is starting to feel like not a great bet, I think, to the older, more mainstream companies in the space. They always see which way the wind is blowing, they can pay to.
talking to a chip over spi is not what id call scratch, lol
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I've built an app that can tell you about any art object or statues or building
Hey guys, this is my passion project (it's first coding experience as well), so please don't judge me too strong.

I wanted to make something really useful for people like me who hate to plan their travels and do not like guided tours but still want to learn about the city. The app is designed for those who are interested in history and culture and enjoy long walks. The idea is that you simply open the app, put your headphones, turn some music on and the app will tell you stories about the city and objects you are passing by. I want to make it a very good experience for solo travels or business travels.

I tried to focus on the quality of the content, all information is verified and it has over 1000 spots in each city covered. The guides were reviewed and edited to make them really worth listening!

I started with Amsterdam and Rome, added recently Frankfurt and now Berlin, Paris and London are coming soon.

Hope you like it and looking forward to your feedback!
Selectively breeding in a small population for specific traits that happen to have been shared by an extinct species seems like an odd way to pursue biodiversity.
"Nonviolent Communication" by Marshall B. Rosenberg is a wonderful book (I picked up from HN) that explores this concept very well.

Definitely recommend a read
There are 1.46 billion iphones, 3.3 billion Android phones and tablets, 1.5 billion Windows computers in the world. About 100 million people use MacOS.

I'd say with the (few 100 million) Chromebooks it's an equal number of Windows devices to the sum of the other ones you listed.

P.S. What happened to Android in your list? That is like leaving out the 500 pound gorilla :)
So leeches?
> We probably want to find the pilot, after all.

You don't want the enemy to find the pilot.

That's why pilots carry these, which they can use when it's operationally safe for them to do so.

https://gdmissionsystems.com/products/communications/radios/...
This is great. I just started learning piano this year. I'm going to ask for this for Christmas.
The point of regulating gambling isn’t to protect the gambler, in my mind. It is to protect those around them, i.e. to reduce externalities. Kids can’t protect themselves. Women who, through no fault of their own, suffer 9% more beatings when their home team loses.

On the other hand, there is more than one alternative to libertarian hands-off approaches that completely ignore externalities.
> Is the message that Apple Intelligence is aimed at the perpetually lazy?

This attitude seems aligned with Apple's general assumption (and apparent preference) that iOS users remain passive media consumers.
Don't worry about any grumblings, you guys do a great job.

One question/request for you though - could you figure out some sort of Q&A or "Discussion Points" aspect to add to the upcoming schedule? Maybe a public Google doc to allow people to weigh in or add notes to. It'd be nice to increase the audience participation aspect.
By using humor, I think Apple is attempting to avoid previous failures in the advertising space where consumers recoiled from the unsavoriness of using an AI to replace a genuinely important interaction. In that sense it's kind of a clever way of alluding to consumers' potential use cases without taking on the commitment of standing behind those use cases, and leaving consumers ethically on the hook for their decisions to use these tools interpersonally.

On the other side though, it definitely portrays the AI user as a sort of slacker, which is an interesting way to advertise a tentpole feature.
I have made it both for iOS and Android. I started my journey with iOS, but the soon realised that much more people have Android. Most features are the same except for route building - I was struggling to implement it via React Native, but planning to fix it soon.

The app now covers Amsterdam, Rome and Frankfurt - in each one of them it has like 1000 objects (manually reviewed and checked). I'm planning to roll to more walkable cities (Berlin and Paris coming next).

Right now it is available in English and German, but planning to add other languages as well.
You can seed from multiple IPs, e.g. a seedbox and your home connection. All the private trackers I know of simply use a token passed via URL query parameter to the tracker.
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My Aeron chair is over 15yo and still as sturdy as the day I got it. It was the first step toward correcting an ergo nightmare that contributed to terrible back pain.

Adjustable displays and an adjustable standing desk were the other two. I had a standing desk at work and spent half my day standing. I later realized that my crappy office chair at work was why I needed to stand. With the Aeron and the desk adjusted to exactly the right height, I no longer experience chronic pain and feel no need to stand.
Hadn't heard of that, having a little investigate now, cheers!
Why is it? Doesn't sound particularly unfortunate to me
Quite a few people do that. My grocery store's app and the Tesla app stop working if I bring up my vpn through DO. (I first set that up years ago because the legoland hotel's wifi was blocking reddit.)
In the US 'the left' (and it's various offshoots) is pretty much a straight-line descendent of Puritanism, albeit stripped of it's direct religious motivation. So while the right may ban porn because 'evil woman parts leading us astray', the left will ban it because 'exploitative patriarchal degradation of women'. In reality they've just found a different rationalization for a cultural choice that was made when the Mayflower first dropped anchor.
And if a husband is stupid enough to gamble, his wife deserves the increased likelihood of domestic violence? And his kids deserve for the household to go bankrupt?

These aren’t hypotheticals. The article demonstrates that they are real, measurable effects of gambling.
I like how he has the Apple logo light still working.
> Why would Apple want to promote the idea that Apple Intelligence can bail you out from failing to pay attention to the most important people in your life?

I mean, the forgotten birthday/event that's results in a scramble to get/do something is not an uncommon concept in ads, where some product sweeps into the rescue. I'd imagine it's almost a cliche because it's effective.
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You seem a bit lost within your advocacy / desire for something to be true, and unable to discern fact from hope. You would be more credible if you could separate your wishes from what is the law.

I'm stating facts within the law. You are stating wishes, made unbelievably clear by your saying that I'm trying to get you to side against your data and interests.

Laws don't operate by saying that "unions are beneficial to society and to me" and so therefore it must mean that you're allowed to use other people's equipment to do what you want. Once you bring in that argument, it's clear you've lost.

I guess it's true: "don't argue facts against a man whose livelihood depends on ignoring them."
Plus this idea of "updating the book" makes it sound like this was some sort of experimental aircraft where they still have to finalize the manual. This is a production aircraft, over 1000 were built, it is deployed in 30+ countries.
Add earlier this year Jontay Porter of the Toronto Raptors was banned for life after he was found to be betting on himself and throwing games/stats[0]

It was kind of swept away that it appears many players are now betting.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/17/1245301982/nba-bans-jontay-po...
when it comes to anything to do with the universe,what could very generously be called the "knowns" ,is still such an improbably tiny part of what we suspect might be out there as to disappear without effect
the only realy interesting fact, is that we are not detered by the missmatch at all
rock on telescope dudes
It's basically a case of heads you win 60%, tails you lose 100%. In almost all cases the taxes that you're required to pay on winnings is much more than the writeoff that you can get from losing, e.g. https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/jobs-and-career/can-you...
They're clearly meant to be humorous, and everyone gets that. However they are truly terrible ads. They paint Apple's features with a negative tone and are the sort of lazy, low-effort entrant that you expect from gambling or crypto sites. Just garbage ads.

I know nothing about the ad business, but I feel like Apple must have engaged with an irregular agency for this. They're so out of character for the company.
Lmao, how is this downvoted? I'm not even on the "all American food is bad" but Hershey's is disgusting. Full of butyric acid. I remember standing in a German chocolate museum, reading about post-war American chocolate and realizing why I feel like I have post-vomit "heartburn" after eating 2 whole squares of Hershey's. It's gross. I'll die on this hill.
(Corporate IT sec answer): it says "firewall" in the name, so yes.
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Trains are vital to a point that the government instantly shut down a train strike over paid sick days. They are still the best cost value for transporting cargo long distances.

Trains with current car-enabled cities would be laughed at because they are car enabled cities. Yes, you would be laughed at for using the wrong tool for the job. That's why these arguments also involve reshaping the job itself to be more efficient. It's still a popular idea for Californians to go from Los Angeles to San Fransisco three times as fast than any car ride could hope for, so it's not like people don't see the immediate benefits of how trains can bridge together cities.

>The smart thing to do is actually pave over existing tracks and allow high-density AVs exclusive use to those thoroughfares.

ignoring the details the video already counters against this: This would be a political landmine on multiple fronts. For the exact same reasons the high speed rail project above is taking decades instead of maybe 1 decade.
When I was a kid, I really wanted a trampoline.

Now that I'm an adult and video websites exist, I'm REALLY glad I never got one. I almost certainly would have broken my back or next while attempting a flip, or broken an ankle by having more than one person on it.
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> The models signed release forms with the expectation

If the website hosting the content requires consent forms before allowing the video to be published, then these types of situations will be covered. To allow the content to be published, the consent must explicitly grant the host site to publish. If not, then the site should not allow the content. All content should be explicitly granted permission for use. This is how the rest of the world works with licensed content. Not just photography, but even things like fonts grant a license for personal desktop use, but requires additional licensing for use on a website or printed material. Music grants rights for personal use, but again needs additional rights for use in movies, TVs, commercials, social media platforms, etc.

It's yet another example of a working system in place for everyone, yet the people either disrupting or flagrantly disregarding those systems causes chaos.