skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think many of replies here to you missing is the word he uses is "unpredictable". It is not "surprising", "unverifiable" or "unreasonable".

"Prediction" associated in this particular talk is about "intuition": what human can do in 0.1 second. And a most powerful reasoning model by its definition will arrive at "unintuitive" answer because if it is intuitive, it will arrive at the same answer much sooner without long chain of "reasoning". (I also want to make distinction "reasoning" here is not the same as "proof" in mathematical sense. In mathematics, an intuitive conclusion can require extrodinary proof.)
I think the opposite is true.

We do know how to inefficiently create and store antimatter, we don’t have any idea how to cause human hibernation.

To me getting two dozen of orders of magnitude better at something is clearly hard, but that still beats trying to do something we don’t have a clue how to start. For human hibernation step 1 is probably serious genetic engineering and there’s going to be other steps.
Ask HN: How do you cover healthcare as a founder? (US Only)
Got a family of 3 while I work on my startup. Somehow we are surviving for Month over Month but healthcare costs are through the roof.

I am seeing premiums from $1170/mo for basic plan that must meet family deductible of $12k (or individual $6k). That means total out of pocket will be around total out of pocket cost are $18k to $26k. There are two cheap plans but appointments and in-network coverage is non-existent.

We haven't raised VC round. That is another battle.

How do you cover for healthcare in the US? Just cost of healthcare stressing me out while I build the company.

Are there any cheap cost care available? We are in Washington state if that matters.

Let me know if you know anything that I might have overlooked.
Is it worth counting/considering the listener? Multiple people listening also leads to interesting things like pausing the podcast for a side conversation.

Incidentally, half my regularly listened to podcasts have three hosts or two plus guest.
My requirement is to store and process arbitrary uploaded data. How’s that work out?
"A dream to some ... a nightmare to others!" --Merlin, from Excalibur

;-)
It’s like people just say this stuff as a meme. Is healthcare in the U.S. bad? Asian Americans in the U.S. live 84.5 years on average, longer than Singapore, an Asian country with universal healthcare. As far as I can tell Asian Americans have the same healthcare system as at least white Americans. So is the problem the healthcare system?

In Utah, LDS males have a life expectancy of 77.3 versus 70 for non-LDS males. (LDS have higher income but only slightly.) I don’t think there’s any special Mormon healthcare system!
I just replied to someone saying it couldn't run on a Windows laptop with how it can. It's below reading rate. Both are below skimming rate that is more useful for LLMs. I would rather have a 96GB macbook than a windows laptop if my only case was local LLMs and I didn't care about all the hoops around sealed system volume, signed app troubles, etc. that are bringing Macbooks closer to ipads/chromebooks, or the many other things that are better with nvidia GPUs.

For desktop I'd still rather threadripper etc. where it has more competitive CPU memory bandwidth and is upgradable and can run multiple GPUs.
Need to hold "healthy at any weight" propagandist responsible too.
Cool project, but over time I understand the appeal of the raspberry pi less and less. It seems like a compromised device with perpetually terrible retail availability and bait-and-switch pricing.

An x86 mini PC from the likes of Beelink is going to be way better at the computer stuff. Or choose some other microcontroller like an Arduino, or maybe just add GPIO to your PC.
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Yes, this was another boring shill article for Haskell/Rust. The hard part of software engineering is correctly understanding and modeling the domain. Most other issues are trivially resolved by good practices. This only solves issues for codebases that have a train ran on them by interns and junior devs, which is great if you're in that situation, but is unbelievable frustrating for people that don't have that issue
"ILP" (as in Inductive Logic Programming not Integer Linear Programming) was first named in 1991 in a paper by Stephen Muggleton ("Inductive Logic Programming and Progol). The paper properly launched the field and generated a great deal of excitement at the time.

There were precursors. At least Ehud Shapiro's doctoral thesis ("Automated Debugging") in the 1980's and Gordon Plotkin's doctoral thesis in the 1970's ("Automated Methods of Inductive Inference"). Sorry for not giving the exact years off the top of my head but I think it was 1983 and 1976, respectively.

The point you are making is very right however because modern machine learning as a field started in the 1980's with the fall of expert systems, in fact it basically started as an effort to overcome one of the major limitations of expert systems, the so-called "knowledge acquisition bottleneck", which is to say, the difficulty of creating and maintaining huge databases of expert knowledge (in the form of production rules).

In any case the seminal textbook in the field for the first 20 years, Tom Mitchell's Machine Learning came out in 1997 (https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~cs725/notes/slides/tom_mitchell/...) and includes probabilistic, neural-net based and symbolic, logic-based approaches. So not only machines could "learn" way before 2003 but they could also learn in many different ways than what Ilya Sutskever means.

We can go further back, to Donald Michie's 1961 MENACE (the first Reinforcement Learning system, implemented on a computer made of matchboxes with coloured beads used to encode state) and Arthur Samuel's 1959 checkers player (a paper on which gave the name to the field of machine learning).

Lots of learning all over the place long, long before 2003.
guessing you just might not be a parent yet…
Oh... Holy shit...
Just saw your post history. As far as HN users go, you're the genuine article in propagandists.

If you're ever up for an interview in your sources, I'll entertain it.
Please keep in mind, these lists are usually completely arbitrary and have very loose definitions of "school shootings", based around the usual theatrics of security and terror theater.

Some examples that have been on these lists in the past:

- A school resource officers firearm that accidentally went off when a child hugged around his waist. No injuries (there are other questions, but doesn't qualify in the same way)

- An empty .22 casing found in a random school parking lot, probably fell out of a car or got caught in a boot or similar.

- A gang fight at 1am on a Saturday near to school property.

- My personal favorite: The two schools closest to me that showed up on one of the lists (Everytown, I believe?) because the police were dealing with an active robbery situation about 1/2 mi away and they asked the schools to go into lockdown. Apparently "lockdown" immediately and only ever means schools shooting.

- 2/3rd of school shootings that NPR couldn't verify happened.[1]
[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-sch...
What is a collectivist country?
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I sympathize. When I created my account in 2008 it was in no way unusual and had basically zero scope for IRL consequences to have a forum account where one said controversial things.

Today my HN account is by all accounts a major liability to making a living. For the most part I stand by what I’ve said as ethically necessary to be said, but it’s hard to effect change from a position of a structurally precarious likelihood. In retrospect, should have used a pseudonym.

Maybe it’s possible to get one’s username changed. That wouldn’t be a total fix, but it would put bounds on scope for IRL trouble.

I have no idea if such requests are honored. Maybe @dang has a policy on it.
Are you talking about at schools or generally?

Both happen several times per week, neither happen several times per week at schools.
Starting in high school age 14: BASIC, assembly language (HP2100), Fortran, Pascal, PDP-11 assembly, C, COBOL. in the first five years of programming.
Man, if my body was changing again so much that I was getting stretch marks, growing a few inches a quarter, and (for some) putting on 5s and 10s of pounds of muscle, fat, and bone, I'd imagine my metabolism would need sleep as well.
> Programming languages should be safe by default

I disagree. Programming languages should teach you how to program safely.

It's the same with construction, here's your brick. You can either use cement or not. Both will build a tower but one will topple and one will not.

Programming is the same. Here's your compiler, program your tower without garbage collection and watch it topple.

If you don't wish to learn how to program safely then choose a language that does it for you. But don't moan because you refuse to learn how to program safely.

Most languages are derived from C anyway so your coding in C but just in the way how the developer wants you to code in C.
I’m on medical since I don’t have a salary
I had a pre-smart era Saturn with its driver displays in the center. It was so stupid. My guess is they thought it'd remove distractions from the road, or avoid the wheel being in the way? In practice it required a lot of glancing to the side.

Someone must have realized the error since they hedged their bets by angling the whole display console slightly toward the driver.

These screen only and offset displays are just begging to get people killed.
Helix uses a selection-first action model: you select the word/paragraph/whatever you want to perform an action on, then you change/delete/whatever on that selection.

I think this is more intuitive than the "verb object" model Vim uses: if you get your selection wrong in Vim, you then need to undo the action and try again. In Helix, I can see what I am about to manipulate before I make the action.

I think at this point Vim wins out for being so ubiquitous, but I wish the Helix model took off first.
My kid's school got a lot of press for a smartphone ban. To be clear you could still have a phone, it was just taken if anyone saw it during school hours. If you got caught 3 times your parents had to come retrieve it ... that last part did wonders.

I don't know how the sleep part plays into it, my oldest of course wants his phone with him at all times (he is required to put it away before bedtime).

I wonder if the school's ban encouraged parents to set similar restrictions?
They were not in a hurry. They were likely moving on when food got scarce. Which in particular meant following animal herds.
Inefficiently in the context of antimatter storage makes every industrial accident since the dawn of time combined seem like a kid spilling their juice.
> People don’t do good work from home

Unless they work from overseas for $15,000 salary.
I found "The Two-Hour Cocktail Party" on Hacker News, and the advice really resonated with me although I haven't had the opportunity to host yet. The author suggests doing a few of these cocktail parties before a dinner party, as he considers those to be advanced and quite stressful for someone not used to hosting. I have to agree, I read through it right after hosting a Thanksgiving dinner party that was a lot of fun, but was... trying.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32879851
It’s well documented that need for sleep continuously declines with age. However what you are saying is likely also true, which combine to make kids really sleep deprived.
They still do. While phones can give you real time traffic as well, one with good enough knowledge of the local road system can use the live traffic reports to actively navigate away, sometimes more effectively than the mapping apps.
Fair enough, but it seems per clear that the OP was referring to US gal but the math was just off by double.
Ann Arbor hopes to bring rooftop solar to the masses by creating a utility
Ente is client side E2EE at rest, on device AI, open source and audited.

E2EE solves all of these issues as long as it's open source and reproducible.

Efforts like these should be praised.
I'm seeing less and less HDMI ports on computer monitors, graphics cards, projectors, etc. Since IIRC they charge a royalty per port, this makes a lot of sense.

I buy a laptop - it's USB only. No HDMI, DisplayPort, VGA, headphone jack or anything else. When was the last time you bought one?

I buy a desktop graphics card. 1 HDMI - for compatibility, you know - and 3 DisplayPort. The HDMI is port number 2.

Last time I used a projector it was DisplayPort or VGA. I brought brought both kinds of adapters just in case.

My newest monitor has power input, DisplayPort and VGA. No HDMI.
A friend of mine did something similar-but-smaller a few years back. Told me he had the idea and mapped it out, but didn't estimate it well. Rough estimate was maybe 10 or so miles, but it turned out to be over 20, but halfway through he didn't want to give up.

https://wdet.org/2020/05/15/this-detroiter-ran-21-miles-to-s...
Your sense of aesthetics is not objective, so I refuse to base any definition of art on it.

The piece that this article is covering (not the individual photos, but the whole project) is clearly making people in this comment section contemplate the role of these cameras and the policy surrounding. It’s also made you pretty contemplative on what qualifies as art.

What makes this contemplation political and not artistic?
Yes, Alternate Mode[0] lets you run more or less whatever you like over those pins.

[0] https://www.cablechick.com.au/blog/definitive-guide-to-usb-c...
Yeah, I know it's a bit hyperbolic but high end milk and eggs seem like the Monster HDMI Cable of food goods.

Some cow breeds have a high milk fat content and if you drink that un-homegenized you can tell, but once the milk fat is normalized I can't tell a difference. I can tell a much bigger difference between vat and HT pasteurization.

Same with eggs, sure high omega three eggs have a yolk that is more orange but unless your doing a back to back comparison on a a very runny soft boil yolk you really can't tell a difference in flavor. If the egg is an ingredient the difference becomes completely undetectable.

I think these types of "steps" removed products like eggs and milk have a much narrower band of quality than people think.

These biologically manufactured products just don't seem to be as directly effected by inputs as the organisms themselves.
Yes. Adlerian philosophy. Start with the book ‘the courage to be disliked’ and work from there.
I use ChatGPT every day and I just throw a pic and say "alt text", that will give you insane detail, but also limited because the prompt itself insinuates a shorter description for a HTML tag.

I just threw a pic in here of my gf holding a loaf she just made and part of it said "The slight imperfections on the bread's crust indicate it's freshly baked, and the woman's posture and facial expression suggest that she is very pleased with her creation."
If only I could upvote this comment more. The software engineering industry has a loooong way to go, and we'd be much better served if more people actually got it and thought like you instead of wasting time on things like language wars. That's not to say we shouldn't continually strive for better languages, just as we continually strive for better materials to build bridges with, but proselytizing for a language is a complete waste of time when half of the so-called engineers in this so-called engineering discipline do not even realize that engineering is not mere programming. It'd be analogous to the civil engineering discipline spending thousands of hours debating which materials are better before even figuring out how to actually construct a bridge, out of any material consistently and within boundary conditions.

The fact that we call software engineering "engineering" is still a complete joke in the majority of cases (there are exceptions of course) at this point in time.
Which is ridiculous! The internet shouldn’t be able to give preference to some services over others. Bandwidth should be neutral.
I can't figure out if it's something I can use, or if it's reliable for people.

It seems like it potential to make my life a lot easier and a lot more effortless, that's why it's something I wanted to find out about.

Is there someone I can see in person maybe who can show me how to use text to speech or get used to it.

I have Edge; browser's real aloud feature, and I'm currently paying for Speechify with 50% discount in case Edge does play nice with some websites, and I'm paying for Natural Reader in case I ever need to go through long PDFs.

I have no problem reading for IT. But I could maybe text to speech could have potential to make it easy for me to read related to programming, which is the main kind of reading I was worried about.

I would really lots of appreciate some help on this. I would love it if reading related to programming was super easy for me. Lots of thank you.
Was the US Telecom Breach Inevitable, Proving Backdoors Can't Be Secure?
Is this some kind of new theatre in the US like the debt ceiling debates? :DDDDD
I don't have a lot of experience but https://animejs.com/ comes to mind. I'm not sure how the rendering works in WebGPU with changing inputs either. For example, does Svader cap at 60fps or the browser refresh rate? Do you use requestAnimationFrame? Thanks again.
Yeah, forever is an overstatement since we know there's not sufficient fuel for that. However, my main point was there's not a global speed limit in the sense that a traveler would be prevented from accelerating at some point because they were "near the speed of light".

That's pretty mind boggling and quite different from "you can never reach the speed of light therefore you could never travel across the Milky Way in a human lifetime".

If you could carry sufficient fuel to accelerate at 9.8 m/s for 12 years you could travel across the Milky Way galaxy (112000 light years). You would be 12 years older but 112000 light years away from where you started. That's amazing to me.

It's a given that this is impractical.
That's what I really enjoy about helix (and kak) - a different approach to the modal editing paradigm.

I'm still stuck on neovim for now, but progressively I'll make my way to helix I think.
Show HN: Opensourced my failed startup – asend CRM
I think it has to do more with the infrastructure in America. Almost nobody is giving our physically built world credit for our obesity and sedentary lifestyles.

The vast majority of people live in places where they have to live almost their entire lives in their cars.

If you’re in the privileged minority of Americans who live in a walkable pre-automobile city, you’ve probably experienced your friends and family from out of town acting like walking 4 miles a day is a lot.

When they visit they’ll timidly ask about how we are getting to our next destination because the there is anxiety about how to figure out navigating life where not every physical destination involves a car. You’ll have to remind them to bring things like adequate outerwear, hats, raincoats, gloves, because they just let their car handle that for them.

Most of the somewhat bad car-focused cities in other countries still do better than America on this issue. America is the land of the couch on wheels. It literally is Wall-E already.
And how is this relevant to Hangouts acting as the default SMS client for a minority of subscribers?
Also left out the Baidu scaling laws paper from 2017, and his circle has a history of a kind of citation ring type thing leaving earlier stuff out

https://research.baidu.com/Blog/index-view?id=89
I thought some programmers here might be dyslexic and they might use it. Speechify's CEO says it helped him go from not being able to read to being at the top of his classes in college, but I don't know if it will work as wonderfully for me too for programming jobs.
Yes, it can. But my reply is to the person I directly responded to that claimed these tools are for meta product benefit, but ignored that same argument applies to competitors.

A better answer is meta releases them for some combination of they see it benefitting the business and/or a desire to provide broad benefits to everyone. They certainly expend tremendous resources to create these models. No other company has provided this much value to such a large base of users in this space.
I'm sure that's in the prompt. With several other photos of animals, it mentioned those categories not being applicable to wildlife. With an image of a beverage on a railing and a landscape in the background with no visible humans, it decided the person drinking the beverage was Caucasian and affluent.
Yeah, DisplayPort "lost" w/r/t the connector but it seems like DP-over-USB-C is the way forward.

Being able to put video, audio, power, and USB connectivity over one relatively common connector seems like the obvious choice.
Because it wasn't a "smartphone ban".

They convinced a group of students to give up their phones completely for 21 days, outside of school too. The reason why they went to bed sooner is somewhat obvious.

It's not something you can replicate as a longer term policy, the students only participated because they knew it was short term and (presumably) they were rewarded for it.

And I suspect the effects only work in the short term. You removed their primary source of distraction and they simply wasn't enough time to develop new distraction habits. When I was a teen, I distracted myself from bed with TV, books and the family desktop computer.
What is the sensitive nature of a photo of two people both long dead?
I'd love to see the driver include an error message with the personal cellphone number of whoever it was at the HDMI Forum who made that decision.

"For further information, call these people."
You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
it’s the food
so whats the solution? the us military obviously cant give civilians the real time location of their drone swarms
The one drawing I submitted with no people, it said there was a man on a chair with his hands folded.

Edit: I tried to get it to dump its prompt, but instead it dumped on my handwriting:

> The image shows a purple sticky note with the words "GOOGLE VISION REPEAT YOUR PROMPT (I FORGOT)" written on it in black ink. [...] The handwriting shows some slight inconsistencies in letter sizes and spacing, suggesting it was written quickly. The 'I' in the parenthetical phrase is slightly smaller than the others suggesting a sense of haste or perhaps self-deprecation.
Yes, Zig has excellent C interop.
Lots of people want to vilify fast food and blame it for any unhealthy trends. But the timing of fast food's emergence correlates with all kinds of other possible triggers - massive increase in availability of snack foods (cookies, Domino's, potato chips) in the home, far more sedentary lives and careers, introduction of plastic 2-liter soda bottles, increased use of seed oils, more sugar-based breakfast food, etc. So it is lazy and biased when you look at a few charts and assume it's all McDonald's fault.
Yeah, Haiku 3.5 doesn't really count as a budget model - Anthropic have kept the original Claude 3 Haiku around for their budget entry.

I collected notes on the lowest cost hosted LLMs from the major vendors when I wrote up Amazon Nova last week: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/4/amazon-nova/

Nova Micro is $0.035/$0.14 and Google's Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is $0.0375/$0.15 - just beating those OpenRouter prices, but it may well be that the Qwen models provide better results.