skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The time value of a slot at a gas pump is ~$0.07 per fill up

I think charging stations have an asset that you have neglected to consider: a captive audience.

Yeah, there will always be people who plug in their car and then scroll for half an hour. But there are also people who would be interested in grabbing a bite to eat, walking around, spending money on something dumb, etc. Having a charging station be a place that you can spend money on human amenities in addition to charging improves the economics.

But instead our charging stations are like, three plugs in the back of a hotel parking lot.
As with any magic trick, reading the explanation might leave you a little disappointed here.
So why can't a candidate in a Romanian election hire TikTok to promote his candidacy? If "running focus groups" is legal, why is "showing people videos" illegal? TikTok just happens to work faster than old school influence methods, but that's technology.

If we agree that showing people videos online is legal, then the only problem would be if the candidate secretly used foreign (let's say, Russian) funds to finance his campaign. OK, so prove that in court. Isn't there such a thing as presumption of innocence?

Ah, too slow you say. The evil candidate will have taken over by then. OK, so require candidates to submit complete documentation of their campaign financing. Banks do KYC on their customers at scale and routinely ask for sources of funds. Why is it impossible to have the same standard for candidates?

P.S. In case you actually believe the "running focus groups" part: you should have seen what was on Russian TV in the 1990s. I assure you, this influence went way, way, way beyond focus groups. These "cute little mom and pop lobbyist shops" had complete control of all media. And they were famously bribing media executives with boxes full of cash that said "Xerox Copy Paper" on the outside. Yeah, totally different story.
I call them OpenAI instead of Meta.
The $50k Burrito: how small financial decisions add up
I don't have a clear answer on that for you, but nobody was disqualified in this situation as the election was annulled and will restart from scratch.

This hypothetical situation though is a bit unlikely, as we're talking about quite a lot of money to pump into someone's campaign and anyone doing this will still be subject to attempting to manipulate the electoral process if they do not abide by the law, which could land them in jail and lead to an annulment of the electoral process.
o1 is ten times as expensive as pre-turbo GPT-4.
For some people TikTok contains all the newspapers.
he probably meant: syncing your files across devices should be a feature not a product. a feature of the os (icloud).
fixed for me! Brave MacOS
It could have 65 million, I think it the immediate answer.
Whataboutism... Many bad things may be happening at once. Should we just ignore one because another exists?
I like being able to filter out the junk SEO sites, that’s the big one for me
Wow $77k holy shit that's uhh
not doing so well with inflation.
I'm really happy that the trick was magical to you - I was so surprised and delighted when I realized that this was possible, and I wasn't really sure if anyone else would feel the same way!

And of course, I'm proud to be providing so much utility here - finally we can find and use UUIDs tailor-fit to our needs
Yes! And if you're trying to please the masses, you risk losing that inspiration if your own vision is not as "mainstream." This may seem minor, but I can tell you from teaching many students that there is a bit of youthful self-identity at work when picking up a camera, and that finding one's vision can be fraught by the desire to receive affirmation for the photos one worked so hard to capture (but that the viewer does not see/feel/appreciate).
"Undermining democracy" is when you win an election. "Protecting democracy" is when an unelected court unilaterally removes an elected candidate.
There's the old HN! I knew it was around here somewhere!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_Brigade
A lot of elderly Japanese already keep working well into old age. Some do it for health reasons (physical and mental), financial reasons, or out of something like civic pride/need to contribute to society. The problem is the sector of jobs that elderly people can't do.
I like how you put the context and prompts into the foreground. In so many tools, it’s invisible. We all know that context and prompts are there - the operation of LLMs is well known. Yet tools try and hide this and pretend that they are magic, instead of exposing control points and handles for the developer to use.
This is not a "stance", I'm mostly talking about the law, and that's something that judges decide on, not myself.

Foreign nations are not allowed to be involved in the electoral process in Romania by law and could lead to the annulment of the electoral process, which is what happened. The process will start again from scratch, nobody was disqualified.
Why don’t stick with modern history and internationally recognized borders? Forget about the deeds of the long gone people, they are not around so it’s irrelevant.
The fact that the MBTI frantically added a fifth type for neuroticism is all the evidence you that at best it's playing catch up real personality science. The MBTI is all about profiting off of a human desire for belonging, which is why all the examples that the major sites give for each type are historical heroes (are you more of an Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc). Neuroticism is a harder sell, but guess what? Thinking of myself as a sensitive/neurotic person has been extremely enlightening, more than all the MBTI results in the world.

I'm preaching to the choir, but I get fired up about this stuff.
> you will need to find a law that lets you prosecute him or get one passed

When this proves impossible, and a gun is trivially easy to obtain, what do you think happens? The president-elect himself is alive today only because a bullet was off-trajectory by a centimeter or two.
A change to immigration policy could solve the issue within years, but Japan seems like the least likely nation to embrace that approach.
Probably the part where people were denied care that they needed in order to provide profits and dividends to its shareholders.
For others, there is only one newspaper they think is worth reading.
I have no idea, but if you illegally want to get someone elected as president in a foreign country, I suggest talking to a very smart lawyer, not to a rando on hacker news :)
> iterates through int128s

Have you read the blog post? I wouldn’t summarize it like that, it’s a little more involved than just iterating. I learned something today.
It's kind of amazing how there seems to be a wall where sizing up the model starts to diminish in terms of intelligence gains. I guess that's why we can still compete with whales even though their brains are like twice as big as ours.
I honestly don't know, but if not I would like to understand why.
I already was thinking for a while what the business model of open source was exactly. Why does Google spend money on Chrome also? After Zuckerberg’s comments it hit me:

Open source is useful for a business if it can either increase revenue or decrease costs.

Examples:

Increase revenue: Chrome and Visual Studio code. For example, the more people code, the more likely it is that they pay MSFT. So VS code aims to make programming as attractive as possible. Similar for Chrome.

Decrease costs: Linux and Llama. As Zuckerburg said himself IIRC, they don’t want one party snowball into an LLM monopoly so they rather help to get the open source ball rolling.
Agreed, but would you think it to be good advice for beginners? One of those "learn the rules to break the rules" kind of rules?
Why not start page? It’s google search results without all the junk
> But instead our charging stations are like, three plugs in the back of a hotel parking lot.

It's almost as if there's an economic reason for that.
Why the scare quotes on declassified document? It's a declassified report from the national intelligence agency, which was made public.
> probably signaling pathways

Check out Homeobox Proteins.
> If you pay money to run electoral ads, for someone's campaign, this money has to be declared, and the ads should be marked as such.

Do you really think this makes sense as a justification for a court to depose a candidate, or are you just being disingenuous for rhetorical purposes?

If we actually apply your logic as stated, then anyone could unilaterally "disqualify" any candidate by buying political ads on their behalf and not reporting the ads.
I never signed up for instagram, snapchat, or threads, but I am a tiktok user. If tiktok is banned, it might very well be the last social media app of its kind that I ever use.
They're not randomly generated. They're generated using a Feistel cipher. [1]

He's ensuring the uniqueness by indexing from 0, and applying the cipher to come up with a more "random" looking UUID.

[1] https://eieio.games/blog/writing-down-every-uuid/#toc:feiste...
If the subordinates have to lie about taking time off, and intentionally accept lower pay for the benefit of their superiors - then no, it's definitely not reciprocated. I'd argue the subordinates are straight up being abused in this case.
Thanks/YW :) It's something that's been on my mind the past 5-10 years watching things unfold.
Who owns the fine tuning IP. Can OpenAI resell your model after investing a lot in it?
> It's a question of authority, not justification, and i think that's a much less meaningful distinction.

On the contrary, it's the crucial distinction. Without process and authority we have mob violence, vengeance killing, and vigilantism. Lynching, clan blood feuds, gang violence, all proceed from this same theory that "getting back" is more important than following the rules. In that world, Brian Thompson's killer should expect to be shot by one of his children for taking away their father.
This isn't character assassination, we're talking about his own words. He even plagiarized a speech by Ion Antonescu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Antonescu):

https://www.euronews.ro/articole/calin-georgescu-se-dezice-d... - he goes back on some of the things he said and tries to distance himself, but the Internet is forever.
I'm not sure I follow your comment. It's possible that AI will change the idea of who can be productive, just as the internet has changed the idea of who can be productive (people with limited mobility, for example).
What are the advantages of reinforcement learning over DPO (Direct Preference Optimization)? My understanding is that the DPO paper showed it was equivalent to RLHF, but simpler and more computationally efficient.
use feedly or theoldreader or another rss tool?
I’m confused – my name as written on my passport definitely contains non ASCII characters?
at least you did!
As someone who is not familiar with an ATS, what makes it better than an Excel file? I would write my own thing in Django I guess but you may not have time for this and you seem to be a small team.
How is this different/better than ultralytics? I've used ultralytics extensively and it allows training and testing using roughly 5 lines of code.
https://archive.is/ZeofQ
When someone has been wronged, society allows them a temporary excursion from social norms to restore justice. This is also philosophically how the justice systems operate — they are allowed to detain, incarcerate and sometimes murder people who have harmed society. Through this act of justice, society heals.

We like to see it in film too. The hero’s family (or pet) is hurt, and they commit many crimes to bring retribution to the offender. The audience feels an elation at the end of such films, as though things have been put in their right place and there is a sense of completion.

The phenomenon is extremely common. And I’d argue it is seen here. Society has to a large part deemed this killing a justice. Vigilante justice I suppose is the term.

Not making any commentary on whether it’s right or wrong. I think it’s not my place to judge, I don’t have enough context to judge well anyways. But from society’s reaction it appears to be justice.
Trial lawyers have written about the "CSI Effect," where the existence of such shows produces jurors who now expect trials to contain the types of flashy scientific evidence they see on TV, and become less likely to convict even obviously-guilty people when this type of evidence can't be realistically produced.
UUID is a 128-bit value, of which 122 bits are available for actual data. UUID was conceived as a way to mark an intersection point between two dimensions, originally for Apollo Computer's RPC system where the two dimensions were time and hardware identifier (originally originally Apollo hardware serial number, later commonly 802.3 address). The additional bits are metadata telling you that a particular 128-bit value is a UUID, not just a coincidental jumble of bits, and which type of UUID.

This site is specifically about “V4” UUIDs where the two dimensions are random and also-random. If you scroll all the way to the bottom you will see that the last table row is numbered the same value as the maximum 122-bit number, so the site is flipping every possible bit-combination within that space combined with the metadata bits that say “Hello I am a V4 UUID”:

irb> ::Array::new(122, 0b1).reduce { (_1 << 1) | _2 } => 5316911983139663491615228241121378303
Middle-out truly is revolutionary
Linq uses a bunch of iterators functions that accept lambdas. C# allows them to capture the lambdas as an expression so it can convert the expression into SQL or whatever.

it also has an SQL-like syntax you can use that is compiled into those iterators.

the interface is generic, with builtin support for ienumerable types and SQL data sources.
How does your current customer base look? Do you see distinct tiers emerging for this feature?

A straightforward pricing approach could split between small teams and enterprises, with usage limits and per-unit pricing over those limits. This way you could capture the nuance between small teams with simple API key vs. enterprises with different products requiring granular permissions.

I wouldn't go with usage-based pricing from the start as you probably will not have proper numbers from the start to base how to price it, especially if serving customers with different sizes.

Ultimately the best structure will depend on the needs and patterns of your existing users.
Aka “when people look at us it is entirely organic but the only reason they would look at that guy is he is paying for it”.
Meh. Years ago I had my bakeries churning out undecillions of units no problem in Cookie Clicker. No big deal!
It was successful enough that social media is full of bot accounts claiming to be "the far side" posting stolen/ai comics that may or may not be actual TFS.
Our Democracy(tm) is when elected candidates are judicially removed due to accusations of having unfavorable "sympathies"
> Am I missing something?

The quality (or lack of) in the delivery of MS365. I hear nothing but complaints from people who use them. Teams is apparently atrocious

Migrating your entire back office would be more work than setting up the integrations, just for the latest version of a specific model
product made by monopoly company worth $2T is better than small startups with less than 30 employees. shocker. the reason people are supporting Kagi is because we see the trend with google quality and we want alternatives, even if they are currently worse. it's called activist consumerism. it's why we supported AMD when they were at the brink of bankruptcy, and now look at their CPUs and look at intel.
I was not aware that my last two companies have secretly been Intel because every one of these factors applied to them.

It’s really another aspect of the innovator’s dilemma - interesting $-wise and margin-wise is so limited that they end up never doing anything interesting.

It is a problem really specific to high margin companies.

You actually don’t see this behavior at low margin businesses because the spectrum of things that can be done which aren’t immediately labeled a margin drag is a lot wider.

The company I work for now put all the up front effort into a new product line which would lilekk pk y have easily gotten to a billion or two a year within 3y with the right customer wins, but out normal margin is very high and the new line of business would have been very profitable objectively but would have been a margin drag. Every dollar would have lowered the gross and net margin.
working pro for more than a decade now, maybe some off this was relevant very early on but it's really just all web forum gear chatter. What people miss is that a photographer's job isn't using a camera or lamenting settings, it's lighting. Done artificially or by modifying what's available, you have to master both. The camera is incidental and what he's describing his just picture taking. If you're interested in photography it's more useful to take a studio lighting course and learn about fixtures and modifiers than worrying about iso.
> But maybe in rural US nobody bats an eye, hard to say from across the pond.

In rural US, people can just shoot in their back yard or public land away from people entirely. At a range (rural or not) where other people are around, you'll get attention if you have anything unusual.

> But if I have to speculate (who doesn't love that) - could have been a disgruntled veteran. Most of them have some serious health issues, and imagining situation where he isn't treated anymore but feels he should have been isn't that hard for such bad public healthcare system as US has.

I'm guessing you're not super familiar with the US healthcare system. The person murdered isn't responsible for the healthcare that veterans or others in the public healthcare system receive. They were the CEO of the largest private insurer, which is the health insurance many of us would rely on through any non-government job. One of the common frustrations with private health insurers is that they deny care that people feel that they need, but the insurer doesn't agree. The public opinion here (and suggested by the words written on the cartridge casings) is that this is related to this.
Even if TikTok were 100% editorialized - like the most biased newspapers - it would be an affront to the principles of a free society to ban it for failing to encourage people to support the general line. That's on top of the fact that it hasn't even been demonstrated to be editorialized.
They are so stupid, I cannot believe!

Names are identifiers, and such need to stay identifiable. There exist unicode security guidelines and rules for identifiers, they don't know about.
My libu8ident library would help with that.
Why is it so Hard to Build a Diagnostic Business?
Immigration solves the issue entirely. Maybe not perpetually, but for the foreseeable future.
Wide vs. tele foreground/background lens distortion, not just the field of view (framing). Some call this choice of lens "lensing" and as noted, the distortion of a 28mm wide vs 200mm tele are part of their physical design, optical "laws" being what they are.
i've worked 10s before, and it's alternately amazing and terrible. at an office job, answering emails and going to meetings, 10hrs is completely beyond my tolerance level.

but if you've got a project, and you can just put your head down and work, then 10s are really nice.
It's funny how quickly Zuck managed to turn his image around from "data-stealing actual lizard person" to "kind of normal guy" with a few years and a haircut. It's also not lost on me that he's the only "hacker" major tech CEO remaining:

- Sundar is a glorified bean counter and his company is rotting from the inside, only kept afloat by the money printer that is ads.
- Satya and Microsoft are in a similar boat, with the only major achievement being essentially buying OpenAI while every other product gets worse
- Tim Cook is doing good things with Apple, but he still runs the company more like a fashion company than a tech company
- Amazon was always more about logistics than cool hack value, and that hasn't changed since Bezos left
- Elon is Elon

Meanwhile Zuck is spending shareholder money pushing forward consumer VR because he thinks it's cool, demoing true AR glasses, releasing open-source models, and building giant Roman-style statues of his wife.
Safety tests really are the lowest level of engineering understanding you can have with a product. You give it to a bunch of people and not to a bunch of other people and check to see if things seem to be working without too much divergence on side effects.

It leaves you with limited understanding of the mechanism, it's efficacy across different populations, the circumstances in which it fails, how bad those failures could get, or how to improve the product in any way whatsoever.
> They’d probably just focus on laser printers.

And this would be bad?

A laser printer is objectively a better printer for most people, they're slightly more expensive up front but substantially less expensive in the long run while being better at printing the things people actually print.

Most people buy printers the way Americans buy cars, concerning themselves more with having the ability to do things they think they might do rather than focusing on being a good fit for what they actually do, and as a result ending up with something that is objectively worse at what it's used for most of the time.

A cheap inkjet is just a bad printer, it's not good enough at photos to be useful to someone who primarily prints those and no inkjet has ever been good at printing documents without even getting in to the inevitable consumable waste inherent to using them that way. I won't shed a tear if they disappear off the market. Make greyscale lasers the standard entry level printer.
Wrong. Zooming optically can have the same effect as digitally cropping a photo. Here's a video explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AmA_Tv6V1k
Do the improvements the community proposes/makes to their models amount to anything significant? For a company like Meta with basically infinite money, do they really benefit from external help?
It's funny. The only time I've ever seen Hacker News unanimously applaud a Facebook product was when Pytorch announced they merged Apple Silicon support. Seems like Mr. Zuckerburg knows how to play a winning hand.
Try everything...to make the shot your "own." Yep.
No biggie, they'll have another chance to pick a correct one. And another if they don't choose wisely
In most locales, courts being unelected is by design. It's how a system based on checks-and-balances is supposed to work.
This is the biggest hack since every ATM PIN was leaked: https://pastebin.com/SmJRB8eQ
That's not how the law works in Romania. As a political candidate, your paid ads have to marked accordingly with a number that can be traced back and all donations and spending must be reported to a government authority.

One of the issues with this TikTok business was that many ads for Georgescu were not marked correctly, and thus in violation of electoral law.
Most of the genome is non protein coding. Some is functional, most simply is not functional in any way. It is just empty space.

Rates of mutation in these regions, and lack of conservation are hallmark clues which show that there isn't function in these regions. That doesn't mean totally useless, these non-functional regions provide the raw material for the creation of genes and functional elements. Its just that, right now, those regions aren't doing anything.

No biologist calls it "junk DNA". That is just a simplified layman's term for media press releases.
I don't know why the down votes here... Maybe the last question?

POSIX mandates various header files; it is not possible to implement a single-header library in a POSIX compliant manner. Plus this library implements the ANSI c standard library and contains none of the POSIX c things like nl_types and so forth. It is definitely a confusing description.
This was announced as part of their second day of "12 Days of AI": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMJMhBFa_Gc