skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Biden admin has been putting in DEI requirements on a number of legal settlements and contracts. For example, largs delays in CHIPs act rollout and EV charging station rollouts were caused by this. This is not routine, but extremely unusual and likely violates the US Constitution.
I get NextJS but how does React itself try to screw devs with PaaS?
Buddies are desperate, fr
The wireless emergency alerts (like what you see for amber alerts) that go over cell towers have pretty high latency (IIRC on the order of a minute or two for the alert to disseminate). The native Android earthquake alerts are much faster
So many things wrong here. Musk is a founder and there was no car, not even the roadster that was blueprinted before he was at the company. There was no more than a battery.

It's also very clear he didn't buy the company. Given he still doesn't own it. Stock award or not.

We know where the money is from. There's no billion dollar inheritance or payout being invested. This isn't Thiel or PG we're talking about.

SpaceX is very much ahead of other companies that have access to NASA. A clear sign you're wrong.

He's not the son of an apartheid mine owner and that's not hard to find out.

You need an adjustment of yourself. Stop spreading easily verifiable disinformation. Like the starlink stealing elections and NASA being replaced with SpaceX nonsense I've been hearing recently.

Nothing good or bad, success or failure is the work of any one person there alone. The fact you don't know who the designer of the CyberTruck is is telling.
Overcharging for a product to make it seem better than it really is has served apple well for decades
Because you wouldn't have come up with the correct answer before you used up 200 dollars worth of salary or billable time.
you are happy because speed limit is lifted off or because of those people got off turned out to be wrong
We need to find a Plato cave analogy for people believing LLM output is anything more than syntactically correct and somewhat semantically correct text.
If somebody claims that something can be done with LLM in 10 minutes which takes 4.5 hours for them, then they are definitely not experts. They probably have some surface knowledge, but that’s all. There is a reason why the better LLM demos are related to learn something new, like a new programming language. So far, all of the other kind of demos which I saw (e.g. generating new endpoints based on older ones) were clearly slower than experts, and they were slower to use for me in my respective field.
I have played hundreds of hours of This War of Mine, and have to say this is one feature I would rather never be implemented. The game centers around human misery in a war-torn civilian population, and those tastes are things I do not want to experience.

Overcooked would be fun, otoh.
"Optical data storage breakthrough increases capacity of diamonds by circumventing the diffraction limit" (2023) https://phys.org/news/2023-12-optical-storage-breakthrough-c... :

> [...] This is possible by multiplexing the storage in the spectral domain.

> "It means that we can store many different images at the same place in the diamond by using a laser of a slightly different color to store different information into different atoms in the same microscopic spots," said Delord, a postdoctoral research associate at CCNY. "If this method can be applied to other materials or at room temperature, it could find its way to computing applications requiring high-capacity storage." [...]

> "What we did was control the electrical charge of these color centers very precisely using a narrow-band laser and cryogenic conditions," explained Delord. "This new approach allowed us to essentially write and read tiny bits of data at a much finer level than previously possible, down to a single atom."

"Reversible optical data storage below the diffraction limit" (2023)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-023-01542-9
ah yes, you must work at the company where you get paid per line of code. There's no way productivity is measured this accurately and you are rewarded directly in any job unless you are self-employed and get paid per website or something
243. Which is 3^5.
Because double checking and occasionally hitting retry is still 10x faster than me doing.
Okay, tried it out. Early indications - it feels a bit more concise, thank god, certainly more concise than 4o -- it's s l o w. Getting over 1m times to parse codebases. There's some sort of caching going on though, follow up queries are a bit faster (30-50s). I note that this is still superhuman speeds, but it's not writing at the speed Groqchat can output Llama 3.1 8b, that is for sure.

Code looks really clean. I'm not instantly canceling my subscription.
Nice writeup. iOS Shortcuts can read NFC tags and open links or speak descriptions. One tap, no app, responds within a few seconds.
Sounds like the city will appeal and win then.
Because it's per month and not per hour for a specialist consultant.
Yes: "The initial four location tokens represent the coordinate of the bounding box, ranging from 0 to 1023. These coordinates are independent of the aspect ratio, as the image is assumed to be resized to 1024 x 1024."

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemma-explained-paligem...
You could also check out tracardi as unomi alternative it seems more feature reach and has gui.
FWIW, both Redux and Mobx were invented in 2015.
I kind of feel this is a kick in the face.

Now I'll forever be using a second rate model because I'm not rich enough.

If I'm stuck using a second rate model I may go find someone else's model to use.
This sounds like they are a bit desperate and need to do price exploration.
That's pretty much how I felt about the surfing portion of this year's Olympics
I don't think I quite follow your point?

Connecting LLMs/AI to physical tools that can 'write/modify' the world is happening, and it's happening at an accelerating pace.

It's not hard to imagine how, given enough real-world physical capabilities, LLMs could modify themselves and the world in unexpected/undesirable ways.

Is that happening now? Are chatgpt et al advanced enough to modify themselves in interesting ways? - I don't honestly know, but I wouldn't be surprised if they are.
I'd hoped this release would have added a compiler and drastically simplified the syntax to something close to a modern framework. I know React is eventually going to do that, but it feels like React has been drowning in overly complex DX for at least the last 5 years.
U.S. Economy Is Doing What Few Others Are: Getting More Productive
I think this is probably right but so far it seems that the areas in which an LLM is most effective do fine with the lower power models.

Example: the 4o or Claude are great for coding, summarizing and rewriting emails. So which domains require a slightly better model?

I suppose if the error rate in code or summary goes down even 10%, it might be worth $180/month.
Direct link to their live cam on YT:

https://www.youtube.com/live/ESsx4MdloQw?si=PQSwV06GsYfwOZPj
This is from an era when the entire country was reading the same comic strips every day, watching the same TV shows, getting the same news, etc. I don't think either the interviewer or Watterson had any idea that mainstream media would be so completely fragmented within a few decades.
I assume you’re referring to West Germany? Can such comparisons even be drawn for only half of an otherwise largely occupied nation?
> Also, "fashion" is one of the stupidest things ever, like oh hey, you should now replace your perfectly good clothes every season because someone says so??

Have you ever encountered the world of javascript frameworks?
Ride the wave baby!
I used it as actual currency not long ago to buy phone credit on Silent Link via the lightning network. So it is possible if quite a niche use case. Silent Link is quite cool by the way - they have an esim that works with almost every network on the planet and the credit doesn't expire.
If I'm a guy working in a missile silo in North Dakota and I can buy a parrot for a couple hundred bucks that does all my paperwork for me, can crack funny jokes, and make me better at my job, I might be tempted to bring the parrot down into the tube with me. And then the parrot becomes a problem.

It's incumbent on us to create policies and procedures in place ahead of time now that we know these parrots are out there to prevent people from putting parrots where they shouldn't
Canceled:

BULLETIN
Public Tsunami Message Number 3
NWS National Tsunami Warning Center Palmer AK
1154 AM PST Thu Dec 5 2024

...THE TSUNAMI WARNING IS CANCELLED...

* The Tsunami Warning is canceled for the coastal areas of
California and Oregon
What do you think are the truest words ever spoken? Maybe just something out of the top ten.
>He's the only artist I can think of to achieve that level of fame and success and not sell out.

Gary Larson of The Far Side comes close but never touched the highs of Calvin and Hobbes
What I find interesting is that where traditional clothing has managed to maintain some sort of foothold, it’s almost invariably in women’s clothing. This is largely a superficial observation and is likely becoming increasingly false as time goes on and is based almost entirely on media representations, but I think someone more skilled and knowledgeable than me could find the boundaries of this observation against reality.
yeah, there are also open spaces and shops in the suburbs and country outside of urban centers.
Hows your ninth mega booster shot going?
Maybe if you also try having your hair pink and adding some mandatory pronouns will help the vaccine even more.
I pay for both GPT and Claude and use them both extensively. Claude is my go-to for technical questions, GPT (4o) for simple questions, internet searches and validation of Claude answers. GPT o1-preview is great for more complex solutions and work on larger projects with multiple steps leading to finish. There’s really nothing like it that Anthropic provides.
But $200/mo is way above what I’m willing to pay.
Paywalled, so I can't get at it. But how does "maintaining a lead" translate into preventing non-democracies for using it for their non-democratic stuff, even if they get theirs a few weeks or years later? Assuming the human race continues for another hundred or more generations, delaying something by one generation in some corner of the world is not very consequential.
Regex.one – Learn and Practice Regular Expressions in the Browser
I’ve just launched Regex.one, a free and interactive tool designed to help you learn regular expressions (regex) step-by-step. The tool provides a guided, hands-on approach with real-time feedback, so you can practice regex without any setup.

Check it out here: Regex.one

Feel free to share your thoughts or any feedback!
Svelte. Rather than

const [name, setName] = useState('blastonico')
...
setName('nailer')

You do:

let name = 'blastonico'
...
name = 'nailer'

Also a single .svelte file includes everything you need for a component (HTML, JS, CSS), so it's easier to manage.
That's a tired trope that simply isn't true.

Does Apple charge a premium? Of course. Do Apple products also tend to have better construction, greater reliability, consistent repair support, and hold their resale value better? Yes.

The idea that people are buying Apple because of the Apple premium simply doesn't hold up to any scrutiny. It's demonstrably not a Verblen good.
What about storing quantum bits (or qutrits or qudits) in diamond though?

"Ask HN: Can qubits be written to crystals as diffraction patterns?" (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38501668 :

> Aren't diffraction patterns due to lattice irregularities effective wave functions?

> Presumably holography would have already solved for quantum data storage if diffraction is a sufficient analog [of] a wave function?

"All-optical complex field imaging using diffractive processors" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40541785 ; How to capture phase and intensity with a camera, Huygens-Steiner
I gave away my Reface DX after I figured out that the non-tactile capacitative touch buttons would trigger randomly when exposed to sunlight while I played it in the park.
Orgs cut as many people as possible, and are hiring as slowly as possible (to control labor costs/push wages down) to juice productivity. Fed is behind, needs to keep cutting ~25 bps each FOMC meeting at least to preserve the labor market momentum.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-12-05/unempl... | https://archive.today/t2cya

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-04/job-searc... | https://archive.today/IDc3t

> Former Fed economist Claudia Sahm likened the current job market to the “Twilight Zone,” in reference to the 1960s-era science fiction TV show where reality isn’t what it seems. She said she could understand the lack of hiring if this were Europe, but not in the US, where economic backdrop is “really good.”

> “What are they doing, why aren’t they hiring more?” she asked.

Profits?
For example i think Taylor Swift isnt a sell out, theres still more avenues to pursue merch and tour gear to achieve financial stability.
Doesn't any earthquake, regardless of fault type increase the immediate risk of a submarine landslide?

There are many steep canyons on the Pacific coast, and here is just one example of mass casualties from a tsunami resulting from a submarine landslide triggered by a strike-slip fault earthquake:

Caltech, 2018[1]: "Contrary to Previous Belief, Strike-Slip Faults Can Generate Large Tsunamis"

[1] https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/contrary-to-previous-beli...
It has been cancelled.
Picking clothes that make us look good, and frequently replacing our clothes, are really two quite different things. You don’t have to do the latter to achieve the former.
Let me know where you can find people that are individually capable at performing at intern level in every domain of knowledge and text-based activity known to mankind.

"Barely good enough to replace interns" is worth a lot to businesses already.

(On that note, a founder of a SAP competitor and a major IT corporation in Poland is fond of saying that "any specialist can be replaced by a finite number of interns". We'll soon get to see how true that is.)
I think it increases my productivity, but I'm also not really hitting limits with it, so it's hard to justify going from $20 to $200.
Seriously, I think there is a possible future where a macOS-like reactive UI toolkit is developed that compiles and deploys to the web via WASM. Maybe even a compiler that takes something like Xcode's Interface Builder's .nib files (and associated code). Microsoft tried something like that with Blazor WebAssembly. It works really well, but I think a fully data-reactive model like Apple's could be even more successful when applied to web apps.

Whatever the case, I think very few companies have reached the excellence of native macOS interface design in the context of a web app. Figma is a lone exception; for anyone else to achieve what they have, they'd have to reinvent the wheel yet again in so many small ways. (Have you noticed in Figma how moving the mouse down and to the right diagonally from a menu item to its associated submenu does not cause the menu item and submenu to be deselected? That detail, and so many others, are straight-up macOS-inspired UI craftsmanship.)

We need a reusable toolkit that lets ordinary developers achieve Figma-level UI excellence in web apps.
What would make a median person today, working 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, richer than the richest person in the country 100 years ago?
Presumably a person receiving such an alert would have a heightened sense of self preservation and would investigate further..
"infinite float glitch". People pay insurance premiums up front. This allows insurance companies to do stuff with that cash, like invest it and make more money. It is literally free money compounding more money with various degrees of risk involved.

Saylor (CEO of MSTR) has discovered a few more glitches in the system (one more, profiting on both sides of volatility, excellently documented in the article), and has been working them for a few years now. With the recent change in political climate and TradFi acceptance of bitcoin, his work is being magnified. https://saylortracker.com/

I saw what he was doing in early 2021, and dumped my entire 401k into MSTR. It wasn't an easy ride, but neither was his and it sure is paying off now. After having an account for many years, Schwab just invited me to a free 2-day options trading course, lol.
I'll bite and say I'd evaluate the output at all those price points. $1k/mo is heading into "outsourced employee" territory, and my requirements for quality ratchet up quite a lot somewhere in that price range.
https://tsunami.gov/?p=PAAQ/2024/12/05/so1aq0/3/WEAK51 as of a few minutes ago (11:55am PST) says there is no more warning for AK/BC/US West Coast, which would include northern California.

This was confusing because the warning was called off earlier for a different region while still in effect for this one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42331931).
GitHub Copilot is now available on your GitHub dashboard in public preview
PaliGemma 2 – New vision language models by Google
Nobody is claiming that outspending your rivals is some kind of automatic electoral win but nice job, uh, over there. (gestures at the remains of the strawman you tore apart)

Back on topic...

The relevant campaign spending figures here would be "minimum amounts of funding to run a viable campaign" and not "how much did the winner spend."

What I, unlike our recently deceased strawman, was pointing out is that without backing from corporations and the people who own them, your chances of winning elections to higher offices (congress, presidency) are close to zero. And the odds of enough similarly-untainted, like-minded people getting elected concurrently (or at least running campaigns popular enough to pressure those in office) is even more astronomically low.

But....

Campaign funding issues only scratch the surface of what it would take to achieve any kind of real reform re: freeing the government from corporate influence.

Because even if you, say, pull off some kind of underdog miracle and get elected to Congress without completely selling out... you're not going to accomplish shit without political capital, somehow bucking the other 534 members of Congress who have sold out.
Remittances and tourism are not the topic at hand here. It's the local economic effects of a swath of retirees permanently relocating to a poorer location.
Ask HN: Good Microscope for Curious Kid?
My 8yo kid has been asking for a microscope for a while. If I get him something like the Nat Geo microscope marketed at kids, is it actually going to be decent or is it going to be frustrating?
What else would you recommend that is easy to use but a kid can grow into?

Thanks in advance!
Part of my justification for spending $20 per month on ChatGPT Plus was that I'd have the best access to the latest models and advanced features. I'll probably roll back to the free plan rather than pay $20/mo for mid tier plan access and support.
One could argue the societal harm from social media could be directly linked to mass events such as https://www.wired.com/story/how-facebooks-rise-fueled-chaos-..., https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00142..., and more.

The diffuse nature of the after effects of faang engineers actions make them harder to prosecute, but potentially much more devastating than even the tragedy of two airline crashes.
This is a gem of a video. Even though this is a parody, it's interesting to note the difference in how C# and Java are perceived today. Microsoft has certainly tried (and succeeded IMO) to change the perception of C# as a Microsoft ecosystem lock-in language since they embraced Linux and open source with .NET core
Even more technical detail here: https://arxiv.org/html/2412.03555v1
For folks jumping on saying "that's not a carrier thing". All comms are a carrier thing. Whether it's ETWS, SMS, or IP, it's going through the carrier, they process it, and they do extensive traffic management. Carriers absolutely can and will inspect, proxy, aggregate, and do anything else that will tease out another few % of "free" capacity.

[Edit:] All too real scenario: Carrier knows about particular IP addresses and ports used by alert service. Carrier makes provision for separate path for it. Carrier also tries to shave said provisioning to the bone, calculates a worst-case, and adds 5% capacity. Which doesn't get updated when that particular app gets a 6% boost in subscriptions. Back in the old days the traffic management folks would be on top if it, but that's all been outsourced...
The price seems entirely reasonable. $200 is about 1-2 hours of a professional's time in the USA.

It's in everyone's interest for the company to be a sustainable business.
> Is your type, dating wise, someone who is warm and dry?

My type is someone who has enough excess wealth to support my kids. Of course what this means is different for different animals, and in the case of humans different styles of raising kids, and different genders. In our modern world we don't think like this, but in 1700 a man could rape a woman and she would have no choice but to bare the child (if one happens), and then society would raise the child (in some cases she could drop the child off with the shakers or similar) - the important point is in this case the man only minimal cost to the child but there are a lot of costs on the woman. Thus women generally need signals that this man will stick around to feed her an can afford, that while the man needs to know the women's body will result in a baby being (as opposed to all too common dies at birth).

Warm and dry is the very minimum you can ask in a potential mate - anything else will die before the child is born and thus you don't pass those genes on. However if you can find someone who has enough free time to not only be warm and dry but also well decorated that implies they have plenty of excess time making warm and dry clothing for the child who then won't freeze to death. Of course different climates have different warmth and dry needs.
> everyone who holds the dollar has lost value

right, but it makes it easier for the US gov to pay its dollar denominated debts to foreign holders; the huge advantage of being able to borrow in your own currency!
> I never heard of or saw any floods.

There was a ton of flooding on flat roads and highways during the last week+ long storm session. I saw several lanes impassable on 101, and several spots in SF where a car could easily have gotten flooded.

All the alerts I got were basically "please don't drive" and not "you're gonna die!", which I think is totally reasonable.
Consider a $350k/year engineer.

If Claude increases their productivity 5% ($17.5k/yr), but CGPT Pro adds 7% ($24.5k), that's an extra $7k in productivity, which more than makes up for the $2400 annual cost. 10x the price, but only 40% better, but still worth it.
"I think it’s very important that democracies maintain the lead in this technology and that they’re properly equipped with resources to make sure that they can’t be dominated or pushed around by autocracies." - Dario Amodei

He just signed a deal with an incoming fascist government; his statement does not align with reality. It's about money, first and foremost.
I provided you a link to the article. Im not asking you to buy a NYT subscription.
What on earth is this work that they're doing that's so resilient to the fallible nature of LLMs? Is it just document search with a RAG?
> a three-letter acronym with an ampersand in the middle

wasn't the official name switched to no longer use that ampersand so it is just the three letters now (and for some time)?
Huh the first prompt could have been "how would you adapt this novel to comic book form? Give me the breakdown of what pencil drawings to generate and why"
That opinion made sense two years ago. It's plain weird to still hold it today.