skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's more about the fact that my wife doesn't like running vinegar through because she swears you can still taste it later. A year's worth of the liquid coffee pot descaler costs as much as a new pot. Looking on amazon, it does look like you can get little powder packets affordably though, so I might look into that.

It's not always because of scale though, if you break a carafe, a replacement costs as much as a whole new pot. If the little spring in the basket that interacts with the carafe breaks, there didn't used to be a replacement, but looks like amazon carries a generic now.
Why use BQN?
If other countries are doing better, they will want to buy status symbols as well. This is how Germany profited from China developing in the first place. As long as markets continue to develop, chances will continue to appear.

Also, we shouldn't care about Europe's share of global GDP. We should care about how the poor people in our countries are doing. Like I said, we should maintain or improve our quality of life. Producing cars is just a means to an end.
It's a question of scale. You can get in trouble naming two things but Wikipedia uniquely names roughly 7 m distinct and ontologically random things. I don't think you could do it the way they do for a billion things.
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OpenAI gets a disproportionate amount of attention given how good the results are from Gemini (and now [apparently] Nova) at much less cost.
On a very similar theme, here is the work from World Lab (founded by Fei-Fei Li, ImageNet dataset, et al.) about creating 3D worlds:

https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog
This is version 1.0. CERN education has a great track record of native language activities and will no doubt expand to other languages assuming this course is successful and useful.
Locally they're required to either not recirculate water or to chlorinate the water a la a pool. Most localities do the former.
Which can be mitigated significantly, if desired, by using bleach tablets in the toilet tank. That has knock-on consequences, but they are manageable.
Pisces: UK regulated market for private shares [pdf]
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Is there a reasonable way for me to consume this data directly? I'd love to be able to pull a big pile of flight prices and mess around with the data, but I'd prefer not to pay big money or have to register as a travel agent or anything.
I wonder if that's the real reason he wanted the US to start a war in Iraq: to alleviate the boredom of modern life.
Maybe it isn't about child safety, but something else. But in that case the whole thing is a conspiracy, where some top politicians push for it for some secret reason under the disguise of another reason. How broad would such a conspiracy be?

Such thing would be more common in domestic politics I feel, because there are tighter circles in the governance of a country. But for something Europe-wide it must be much harder to pull off under some false pretense.
A more apt statement might be that we spend more, even if our quality of care is not better. And the reason we spend more is because of profit-maximizing companies in the middle.
Show HN: Guard – LLM agent that scans your AWS account for misconfigs
I wanted to do a complete audit of my AWS account but was dissatisfied with the existing tools.

Many of them are clunky to use, and their verbose scan outputs are difficult to understand.

So, I built my own open-source tool that uses LLMs to summarize the scan results.
Hearing aids, seriously? They need at least miliwatts - 1000x more than this battery. Cochlear implants even more, so I suspect ocular ones and pacemakers too.

Sad to see such spin directly from the university.
Not even a month ago HN was discussing Ben Affleck's take on actors and AI, somehow taking a side with him and arguing how the tech "it's just not there, etc...".

I'll keep my stance, give it two years and very realistic movies, with plot and everything, will be generated on demand.
It seems like it's been a while since I've seen one of these language benchmark things.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... seems like the latest iteration of what used to be a pretty popular one, now with fewer languages and more self-deprecation.
I would read that short story.
My first instinct would be to shoot it with birdshot. But that would be stupid, as now there will be no way to know if the bat is sick.
I think we can safely say that splash pad filtration and the Iraq War have no relation and we’d be in exactly the same fecal contaminant situation whether or not we invaded.

And boy is HN getting weird.
omg the comic is so awesome! :)

if you'd like an email when he releases his next version, his website has a follow journey link.
> The fakeass Christians will learn the meaning of those verses on that Day of Days, but, by then, it will be too late.

Yup.

> We are judged for what we do here on Earth, while we live.

Be very careful with that.

"But we did all this stuff!"

"Depart from me, for I never knew you."

Any real "knowing Him" will change us, and thereby change our actions. But be very careful of depending on the actions.

Yes, there will be a judgment for what we do, but that will be for reward, not for "in or out".
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It's PR but it's also meant to entice. Let the world know Google is #1 for Gen AI, convince researchers to join Google, convince investors to boost the stock price, make Elon Musk grit his teeth. That kind of thing. In the short term, it may provide a bump in interest for existing AI products from Google.
There's a legal definition of "armed" and the Jan 6 insurrectionists fulfill that requirement. It was an armed insurrection. Also, their intent was not to overthrow the government - their intent was to overturn an election by means of interfering with the proceedings of Congress. An election they thought had been stolen due to the repeated lies made by Fox News and the Trump administration.
Wait til you find out that even if charges are dismissed against you, or a not guilty finding occurs, that Florida will still charge you for your jail or prison stay (and potentially block you from renewing your license until they are paid or you're on an arrangement you are complying with).
I'm not sure whether it is as simple as every country being the same in this regard. On the average, I'd assume the average citizen of a non-US country to be more informed about the US political landscape, than vice versa.
Good idea - I'll have him add this to his plan.
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> Healthy orgs must have slack in the system and allow teams and individuals to do a little chasing of fun or meaningful things that give them intrinsic pride and motivation.

As an Engineering leader, I try my hardest to make sure this Slack exists for the exact reasons you listed.
Do you know if those Mexican prices are available foreigners? I've thought about getting a rabies vaccine just for peace of mind as I often travel to weird places in weird ways.
>awkward corner

Is that awkward corner "let the government (pick any) censor your platform, or you're a pdf file"?

It's all so tiresome.
This has already happened. Search google for a few random terms, and go through the first page of web and image results. A decent chunk will be AI-generated.
Yes, you are.

I'm not, and it's difficult to see what you think you might gain from this conversation style.
good way to build up a robust immune system.
Broadcom paid $69bn.

Revenue in 2023 was $13bn.
Operating income $3.74 bn.
Net Income $1.3 bn.

I don't see a future where they can extract money they paid for, even with their practices.

This is the first year. Everyone is working on migration. Next year? There will be experience, what works, what doesn't. Year after that? Even more, there will be experts with deep knowledge, tools, adapters ect.

Once you have that, leverage is gone.
Probably better for their immune system in the long run.
You mean you lost all electric contact?
I've only had a smart phone for almost 2 years and I am ready to move back to a dumb phone. It just doesn't align with me personally. I use the phone for voice and text SMS and that's it. I've never once browsed a website from it and I do not install applications. If the future requires a smart phone then I will live outside that walled garden. All of that said, given my poor cell site coverage I do like the VoWiFi SIP capabilities so maybe I can find a dumb phone that can do sip. Maybe something like the Nokia 2720 flip but without FB/Google junk.
The word "generally" is the important one in your sentence. Genes don't know what environment they will be born into, and so they include various strategies to cope with the unknown in the hope that some will survive.

Generally, humans are better suited to stable and safe environments. But it would be irresponsible of genes not to include, occasionally, humans who did better in chaos because chaos frequently happens.
No, they are a top tier health company that offers different options including premium healthcare. If you have 50 million customers, you will have some negative experiences.
Yes, he was playing Prodigy in the months before he started making this game.

I suspect future versions will bring in mechanics from Minecraft and/or Factorio - things he's playing more these days.
Yeah I'm not really interested in the debate around NYC carry laws and technically you're allowed to carry on buses but not trains, but it is certainly one of the most restrictive places in the country.
In case it scales to Facebook's scale. Better safe than sorry.
I think microplastics are more likely to kill me before the fecal matter in my toothbrush.
The fact that we're having this discussion at all is because Telegram is not end to end encrypted by default (and groups chats are never E2E encrypted).

I tried to explain this fact to a lot of my friends but I always received of pushback, "it can't be true", "of course it's encrypted, it says on the web page it's secure!", etc. I cannot think of any other occasion where the reality of a situation is the exact opposite of what people think.

How did Telegram achieve perpetuating this lie? And more importantly, how do we stop it? What is a good resource to provide to people who think this is true? I usually send them an article written by Matthew Green[1], but it has always been dismissed as just "some dude's blog".

A lot of people are technical just enough to become dangerous. When I explained the problem to a lot of my friends they ran wireshark on the network connection and they saw gibberish. From this they have erroneously concluded they are safe...

[1] https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram...
Bonus points if you teach your kids not to drink the water.
To @superkuh's point, I would believe that part of his bail negotiation package was to make Telegram more "transparent" for governments.
I clicked on the article to find out what a splash pad was too lol I was still confused for most of it until I realized the first picture wasn't a kid throwing up it was a kid standing on one of those things where water shoots up from the ground, which is apparently a splash pad.
> It's amusing to see the early signs of the anti-vax movement here.

Not surprising. I look at vaccines the same way as I look at any new medication: has it been tested long enough to know what the long-term effects of it are, and do the benefits outweigh the risks. I don't have a problem with MMR, TB and other common vaccines, that have been around for decades. If I'm traveling to East Africa I'm going to get a yellow fever vaccine. I also don't have a problem with the COVID vaccine because it was clear that the risk of not getting vaccinated was significant. But I have never gotten a "flu shot" in my life because the benefit of it is rather low relative to the risk of influenza given my demographics and health. If that makes me an anti-vaxxer, so be it. Don't really care.
But it was the Faustian striving ever upwards that built a better world.

Anyway, I'm not sure this is gratitude so much as the gratification in having someone you can look down on.
This is super impressive.

Interesting they're framing this more from the world model/agent environment angle, when this seems like the best example so far of generative games.

720p realtime mostly consistent games for a minute is amazing, considering stable diffusion was originally released 2ish years ago.
Yeah, the idea that you're limited by bus width is kind of silly. If you're using ordinary DDR5 then consider that desktops can handle 192GB of memory with a 128-bit memory bus, implying that you get 576GB with a 384-bit bus and 768GB at 512-bit. That's before you even consider using registered memory, which is "more expensive" but not that much more expensive.

And if you want to have some real fun, cause "registered GDDR" to be a thing.
I feel like what the lesson is going to be if it goes to the larger public --> (1) Municipal funds which will go way overboard to try and resolve this - well past any meaningful value and (2) people not using them anymore for beyond reasonable level of concern.
That's an absolutely insane characterization.

I can certainly agree that the healthcare system in the US is broken, but I don't think applauding the slaughter of healthcare executives is a reasonable reaction.
That’s the number of cases being directly linked to a specific cause, it doesn’t mean that the actual number was 400/year. It’s like someone trying to estimate how much violence exists from watching the news. You’re likely to see major incidents, but you can only estimate the actual total.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was well over 10k/year, but the CDC is conservative with their numbers for good reasons.
Not everyone, I live in a victorian house with a separated shitter.
Isn't that in hair dyes, and also in all kids of fabrics/building materials to prevent McMansions going up in smoke on the regular.
Yes, this is a bit more complicated but on the roadmap. Great suggestion.
Interesting but rare. I knew of a guy who, as a child, was electrocuted at high voltage; he survived but remained stuttered and twitchy for the rest of his life. There are cases of acquired savant syndrome that after some kind of concussion they develop some special abilities, it's all accidental of course and cannot be replicated. Some examples Derek Amato, Orlando Serrell, Jason Padgett
Lots of small businesses exist in areas that do not have economies of scale, and sometimes have diseconomies. Think businesses where labor is the majority of the costs. Your local plumbing company is probably a small to medium business and Roto-Rooter isn’t hurting them.

Some have some economies of scale but not severe and service or quality or other things matter and there you usually find big businesses and small competing with each other. (I work in the packaged food world, it falls into this category.)

And some, like retail, have such large economies of scale that a small business just can’t really compete. In the case of retail, this is largely because of logistics being such a big portion of cost of goods.
When I read that part I also thought they were just trying to pwn the libs, but the rest of the article was so good, and what they said isn’t inaccurate, so now I think I was just projecting that.

Not being super invested and having it just be a small part of the article actually seems right to me so idk.

I’ve hit my fair share, but this article alone in no way makes me think this person is one.
Brownfield land should always be utilized for solar when the economics pencil out, but there is no land shortage for renewables.

https://epa.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=d84d47ef61904b...

https://electrek.co/2024/11/25/former-coal-mine-land-to-host...

https://seia.org/initiatives/land-use-solar-development/

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy08osti/42463.pdf

> There is tremendous solar power generation potential in the United States. In five minutes, enough sunlight shines on the continental U.S. to satisfy our electricity demand for an entire month. The U.S. Southwest has particularly abundant and high-quality resources for utility-scale solar power. Research from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory shows that the entire U.S. could be powered by utility-scale solar occupying just 0.6% of the nation’s land mass.
I find the mysticism in the article of "why are they doing this?" a little disingenuous. Drinking is fun
>is so offensive ...

Agree. Poetry is the compact written reflection of an expanded or conflicted soul ... it requires lived experience, self awareness, and ability to compress out superfluous details in language.

The question of whether the human soul can be tricked by an AI illusionist and to what degree is a non sequiteur.

Humans eat the meal. At best, and charitably considered, AI eats the menu. Not the same.

In other news I asked AI to convince me it understands American capitalism, and to explain it to me as if I lived in Los Angeles - you know so I could really see/feel it.

It did decently well concluding it will, for example, balance the demand for "ample parking" with supply. Now, I leave you to assess whether that's an awesome and intelligent example, or an AI love song that like Marshall Tucker reminds "can't be wrong."
> negligence, noun - failure to take proper care in doing something.

Negligence does not mean that he was obligated to show more care than he did. Pick whatever word you want, my point is just that he had ample warning and opportunity to get affairs in order if he cared about the longevity of those projects.
I am an academic mathematician, and one thing I love about our culture is that transactional relationships are considered perfectly okay.

I can invite a colleague at another university, whom I might consider an old friend even though I haven't spoken to them in ages -- to come give a talk in my department. Very often they'll agree to come; we'll roll out the red carpet for them, and they and I will have a wonderful time.

That said, this is far from universal in academia, and many academics do enjoy small talk and prefer to keep in touch regularly.

I don't think any sort of relationship can be called "bad" or "good" in the abstract -- but a lot of people consider transactional relationships "bad" in the sense that they don't like them. And, if you want to build relationships with people, often you have to do it on their terms, or at least try to meet them halfway.
The best minds of a generation went from thinking about how to make people click ads to how to generate 3d video game worlds.
Demographics is destiny. If equity increases the living standards of todays generation but means nobody has kids, then it is not an idea which will survive to future generations.

Unless western liberal society finds a way to either increase birth rates or reliably "convert" immigrants to our ideals, society of the future will be shaped by those groups who have a high birth rate today. Those seem to be tightly nit, religious and conservative groups.
I don't think anti-capitalist is a useful label in this context. There doesn't have to be a contradiction in being pro-capitalist and also being pro-eat-the-rich. A situation of extreme inequality that is likely to precipitate an eat-the-rich sentiment is probably not an effective example of capitalism at work.
If you "like" a person, it's probably not really a transactional relationship. "Hi, I'm one of the 100K alumni who went to the same school as you did, can we do coffee?" is.
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Orhan is quite different though - he's a braggart unreliably narrating his own story after most of the events have transpired. You can't believe his reluctance, it's a show he's putting on to make himself look better. The entire story feels like it too, credit to the author.

Murderbot is not that. What you see of them is as genuine as their perspective can be. Murderbot may be snarky, but it doesn't have the same braggadocious air, and I do think that changes the character and story significantly. And if you're a similar kind of neuro-atypical then it can be a refreshing bit of heroic representation.

I will give Sixteen Ways some credit though - at least it ended. I don't particularly like the ending, but it is one. Murderbot falls off hard by the time the series gets to full length novels.
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I won't acknowledge anything. Your argument was not convincing. It was actually the perfect example of an attempt to suppress socially unacceptable views.

You singled those people out as "harmful" because they call for the deaths of "other ethnicities and women". Implicit in your world view is the idea that these people wouldn't also do such things. The idea that these groups are the blameless and virtuous victims, deserving of special protection against these "harmful" words and ideas. That's the part of your argument that I chose to attack.

I chose to attack that idea because I've personally seen people from these "virtuous" groups post some of the most concentrated, unfiltered and unabashed hate speech I've ever seen. I witnessed them call for deaths of entire groups, including those I'm part of, with a clean conscience. I was there when they laughed at the very few people who tried to hold them accountable for it. Not only did they not suffer any consequences, people actually made excuses for such behavior and treated it as though it was justified. Their openly hateful behavior actually empowered them.

I will never forget that as long as I live. I straight up archived those social media threads to ensure the internet never forgets. I even posted those archives here years ago when people asked me for examples. If I cared enough I bet I could even dig up those archive links from my post history.

I didn't care to dig up those links because I've yet to see a single person get outraged by this sort of behavior when it comes from these groups. I have no reason to believe you will be the exception.

They post things like "KILL ALL MEN" verbatim and people make excuses for it. Well, I'm not interested in hearing excuses today. I decided to try and make you realize that hate is a normal human emotion instead. My argument to you is that hate is a perfectly normal human emotion. It's part of the human condition. It's not at all exclusive to 4chan's politics board, oh no. People hate. Everyone hates. Even people on this very site will hate and openly call for the deaths of other humans if presented with a juicy enough target. Don't doubt it, for I have seen it happen.

By the way, dang has rate limited my account to about 5 posts every 2 hours because I would get into too many arguments just like this one. He's actually right and when I contacted him about it I asked him to keep the account rate limited. So you will excuse me if I don't reply further to this thread.