skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow... Fuck cyclists and other road users, I guess!
This is the closing line of the very nice article.

> The future is in our hands.

It always has been, and always will be.

The problem, as outlined in the article, is that we (the entire human race) have almost always left it in the hands of our "betters", and those wealthy folks have very rarely given a crap about the rest of us, or our beloved mother Earth.

They think that their having wealth makes their every whim and fancy the right and proper thing to do, and, as the article shows, that is far from the truth.

Of course, we peasants have to, ourselves, learn how to truly be better, truly know how to wield power for the benefit of all human beings, out of compassion for all of our children, and our children's children, ...

"Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights." --Peter Tosh

"Love is the truth." --Jack White's song of the same name
Or, hear me out: provide actual customer support.
Show HN: Convert YouTube videos to a mini blog post
"You can tell the RL is done properly when the models cease to speak English in their chain of thought" -- Karpathy
OpenAI recommends using o1 to generate the verbose plan and then chain the verbose output to a cheaper model (e.g. gpt-4o-mini) to convert it into structured data / function calls / summary etc. They call it planner-executor pattern. [1]

[1] https://vimeo.com/showcase/11333741/video/1018737829
> No, they are an incredible breakthrough, because extending them with things like internal thoughts will so obviously lead to results such as o3, and far beyond.

While I agree that the LLM progress as of late is interesting, the rest of your sentiment sounds more like you are in a cult.

As long as your field keep coming with less and less realistic predictions and fail to deliver over and over, eventually even the most gullible will lose faith in you.

Because that's what this all is right now. Faith.

> Maybe a few more people will start to understand the trajectory we're on.

All you are saying is that you believe something will happen in the future.

We can't have a intelligent discussion under those premises.

It's depressing to see so many otherwise smart people fall for their own hype train. You are only helping rich people get more rich by spreading their lies.
Um, I back up EVERYTHING, like any sane person? And, like any other sane person, I self-host (on a server that's obviously backed up), and keep at least one copy of my email on my main working computer (which is also obviously backed up), so I don't have to do anything email-specific to make that happen.
Well... storage is cheap, but not cheap enough to save everything, with just usenet being in the 400TB/day range these days. Sure, it's cheap enough to save every webpage you visit during your life, but probably not cheap enough to save every video you click on youtube or watch on a streaming-service, and all the music you listen to all day.

Though just the music compressed in opus at 128kbit might work ok, 60 years of 24/7 128kbit is 30TB, so that would fit on 1 large HDD currently.
Definitely more models right now. GribStream.com will be supporting many other models soon.

But open-meteo free access is only for non-commercial use. GribStream.com allows any use.

Also, can open-meteo query forecasts 10 days out at hourly resolution for 150.000 coordinates in a single request and take just 8 seconds? At what price?

I'll do a benchmark soon.
An academic Great Gatsby Curve – How much academic success is inherited?
Hi HN, OP here, I'm starving for feedback, please share any thoughts about this.
Also about the quality and usefulness of the final post
Thanks !
Thank you! Now I need to buy a used XBox 360...
I mean I don't get this, especially after the recent security incidents...
> If someone truly loves their partner, wouldn't they be happy that their partner is getting more of what they need? Even if that is more sex?

When analyzing my feelings after I got cheated on by a fairly long-term partner, I realized I wasn't upset she had had sex with another guy, but the rather the betrayal of doing so behind my back and trying to hide it.

This realization shaped my following relationships.

> I can't imagine being happy or maintaining my own identity without spending at least a portion of my energy on myself.

This is also true for myself, however it doesn't involve sex with others in my case. I'm content with my partner.
Meta-Emotion
Old drugs are also at least sometimes social. Even heroin gives rise to cliques of users. It’s deeply unhealthy and self destructive but at least there is connection. Sometimes you get art out of it too. A whole era of great music has many bittersweet odes to smack.

I particularly worry about men. The greater cultural and possibly (more controversial) biological susceptibility to isolation coupled with this stuff means a generation of young men who are isolated, hopeless, poor, lonely, and sexless.

Then we have a culture that, depending on which side you listen to, either shames them as potential rapists from the patriarchy or simply “losers.” (IMHO the “woke” shaming is just code for loser, as I have heard said in private.) They are neither. They are victims of exploitation, of a nearly exact analog to the Matrix that is destroying their minds.

I speak mostly of social media and addiction optimized gaming, not all tech. The problem is the apps not the phone. Really anything that works very hard to “maximize engagement” should be considered guilty unless proven innocent. This phrase is code for addiction.

As we have seen the gurus that appeal to such men are the likes of Andrew Tate. As awful as he is Jordan Peterson is actually among the less toxic of the crew since he does occasionally say something good.

In the future we could have gurus for hordes of lonely poor men that make Tate look helpful and wise. This is how we either LARP the Handmaid’s Tale or — worse — ISIS or the Khmer Rouge.

I have two daughters and I fear for their safety in a country full of fascism radicalized angry emotionally stunted men who have been told they are losers and then handed pitchforks.

Our industry is the industry making the opium to which these youth are addicted and that is destroying them. We are destroying the minds of a generation every time any B2C app tries to optimize its time on app KPI.

Mothers and fathers of boys: raise your sons or Andrew Tate will.
45 BTC (as in the screenshots) is not 500K, it's 4.5M
What are the chance that this keeps working long term?

Sounds awesome & makes airtags more appealing, but if apple is just going to shut it down next week then less so
Personally I do not find the idea comforting that someone (anyone) may know where I am at all times. I would not even trust Apple either.
I use mpop with a local mailbox file ~/Mail/inbox and mutt as the mua
(so no fancy archive hierarchy), cleared annually and copied to a file
named like ~/Mail/inbox.2024, searchable with grep, backed up remotely
in encrypted tar files on backblaze with passwords committed to
memory, locally on a zfs file server, and annually on dvd for at least
a decade in case all my hardware gets fried.
It's an approach to a hypothetical other type of universe's gravity..
> any recommended ways to search for new music?

Tracking down people involved in an album is a good one for me. Find the producer of a favorite tune and search out more of their work, or check if the bassist plays in other bands or has a solo project. Lots of fun and sometimes unexpected results.
I listen to radio quite a lot. There are commercial-free stations that play whatever they believe is good music.

My favourites are:

- Concertzender and all its theme channels. The main channel has a lot of classical during the day, but jazz, world music and electronic in the evening/weekend. I got deep into folk music thanks to their music. On Sunday evening there is even two hours with techno and adjecent music. Discovered a lot through that as well. The station is Dutch, but talk is minimal.

- FIP. A bit more main stream music, but also unexpected songs and generally very enjoyable programming. It's in French, but talk is usually minimal as well.
we already drug our kids with heavy drugs like ritalin so why not other less dangerous drugs…
I’m still not sure it isn’t
First-time home buyers are getting squeezed by a combination of peaking market forces, but those forces are peaking and we're probably seeing the worst of it at this moment [1]. It will get better.

[1] https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/why-i-dont-inv...
Motivation is not hard to instill. Fortunately, they have chosen not to do so.
> I got a picture of my great grandfather, thing took six hours to take your picture. [...] Every guy had one picture back then. And it's just him like, "[grimacing] I gotta get back, feed them hogs!" Now, in the future of course it'll be different. 50 years from now, people will be going like, "Hey! You wanna see a hundred thousand pictures of my great grandfather? I got 'em right here plus everything he did every day of his life." --Norm Macdonald[1]

There is certainly a quantity of stuff online that is absolutely worth saving, but there's a considerably larger proportion that's just redundant to the point of being unremarkable and pointless. The trick is filtering, which can be capital-H Hard. That's why some may want to err on the side of over-collecting to reduce the possibility of missing something that will actually be important someday.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY6SjMITHrQ
i am just old enough to have experienced 9/11 when i was in elementary school. it was a similar change to society to how covid screwed everything

when i was a child, there was no security in airports. like literally NONE. you could walk in and buy a flight with physical cash. if you wanted an international flight, there was a metal detector like you might find in a night club

government ID and drivers licence did not have your photograph on it, and some state drivers licenses were printed on non-laminated card. there was also no functional internet surveillance (there were no good search algorithms or tools in the early internet, so the government couldnt search either).

but the real big change, which is kind of what everyone felt i think, is the whole world was celebrating the end of the cold war and so vehemently protested going into the middle east, and the government just did it anyway. the largest protests in the history of the west were against that war and it was all totally ignored https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War

then we got the PATRIOT act, NSA/CIA spying on the population, heavily armed police. btw, in the 1990s you would NEVER see police with assault rifles and armoured trucks etc except for swat teams in major cities and the ATF. The idea of your local police department having a heap of military equipment was crazy. a great example of this is the LA riots in '92 - they had to call in the army and the national guard because the police simply werent equipped for it

and they would run these polls on tv, like gallup polls, falsely claiming that 20%+ of people publicly supported the war

even though it didnt affect anyone as much personally, it was the turning point where the gov just started brazenly ignoring people and introducing the heavy duty surveillance state, which was especially painfully felt in aus, canada, new zealand, the us, and the uk. and covid19 tyranny was only possible because of what bush did in response to 9/11 - it physically could not have happened in the 1990s as there were no government agencies that could have done it
This is why you have to be significantly surproducing food (or have agreements with other parts of the world when too much critical food is going away violently, with a transportation system at scale).
ah right...makes sense
I noticed they chose the SSPL licence. I'm working on a similar sort of project and am evaluating AGPL3 vs SSPL. (If my project is successful, it has a high risk of cloud providers both large and small co-opting it, and I'd like to proactively head that off.)
Show HN: Ragzip format specification (and Java implementation)
The randomly-accessible gzip (ragzip) file is a gzip-compatible file with indexing metadata EMBEDDED in multiple non-data-carrying gzip member, with an extra subfield. It enables seeking a logical position in compressed data at relatively low cost. It also facilitates parallel compression and decompression.
That data storage is also ephemeral. Nobe of it will last as long as a paper note, unless some human goes to the trouble of copying it all onto new drives with new software every ten years or so.
If it's not legal, could it ever be used in a situation CYA is required?
It will just keep bleeding the middle class on and on, till the point where either everyone is rich, homeless or a plumber or other such licensed worker. And then there will be such a glut in the latter (shrinking) market, that everyone in that group also becomes either rich or homeless.
We can all agree we've progressed so much since Tai.
You have Godot wired up to talk to FoundationDB? That's incredibly cool, curious about your use case.

Godot runs using our container runtime on Rivet. The FDB API for containers is currently undocumented. I'd be happy to share early access on Discord – https://rivet.gg/discord

Games running on Rivet usually have a hybrid of actors that handle persistent storage (e.g. a matchmaker) and the game server itself.
By 17 I was on my own and joining the military. My daughter is 25 and just got her first real job out of college. By her age I had a 6 year old child (her). I'm not saying I took the right path (I didn't) but the level of maturity I had at her age was vastly different. Her peers are all similar, and when I was young many of mine were similar to me. I do thing generationally / culturally there's a difference.
I think they even run windows 3.1 games back then. It is very impressive. Actually I think some still do. But the ones using WinG do not, like Fury3.
I'm not sure thats how it works. For the artist to get paid, the fake listener has to be paying a subscription.

Unless it is money laundering, this excuse makes no sense
creators deserve to be paid. viewers deserve to not be psychologically manipulated by advertisements and algorithms.

insisting viewers "pay" by subjecting themselves to ads is an unethical business model; refusing to support the practice is a rational reaction.
> current kids have a lot more to deal with, and are expected to be much much more down to earth than a few decades ago

For sure not. They are pushed to play in a stage and fake drama. Decades ago, many 13 years old kids worked for 10-16 hours a day.
Just curious do we know how much loss for one hardware piece? What's the margin on extra controllers and peripherals?
I download all of my mail from POP3 accounts, then I backup my Thunderbird directory: one copy on my home server, one encrypted copy to a VPS in another country. I use duplicity for that. One full backup every 2 weeks, then incrementals.
Yes. My devices retrieve email from a cheap VPS where cron periodically runs tar gz on $HOME/Maildir. scp then retrieves the backup. I use GMail for SMTP but all outgoing mail is copied to the IMAP server on the VPS.
Wow! The game in this episode has been living in my head since I was a child and I could never find where it was from!

I need to watch this episode again
How do you know they don't have a purpose? Seems like you're projecting your insecurities on strangers.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37174619
Eh... What language do brick layers work with? You mean their spoken language?

Also: "a senior brick layer, or an architect"

those are complete different professions.
Isn't that obvious though? Meta wants exclusive spying rights to its users. You spying on users with Meta's products is not allowed. If you want to spy on your users, build an app that's so popular billions of people sign up willingly to allow you to spy on them. Have you no decency?
This is the inevitable result of higher connectivity in society. More spoils flow to top performers due to the reduced friction. I don't see any way to undo this trend short of undoing the connectivity, i.e. forcibly rolling back technological progress. Kind of a non-starter.
It is true. If you prefer grass to birds, you can just go around the birds as you find them. The grass isn't going anywhere.
> The United States does not benefit by moving people into decrepit houses in the Midwest. People should live where there are jobs and opportunities - they should CHOOSE where they live.

So you want Midwest to be a toxic dumping ground? Why do you hate America?

> Any kind of regional issue is a "density crisis" by this logic.

No. The density crisis happens when cities _increase_ the density. And it can NOT be solved.

No way, no how. There is not a SINGLE city in Europe, Japan, or the US that managed to lower the housing sale prices by increasing density. Not one.

> This is a shortage of housing where people need it.

No. There's a crisis of density that forces people to move where they might not want to go. Most people do not _want_ to live in dense slums, but they can't afford _not_ to.
I agree that there isn’t as much raw experimentation and just observing/documenting psychological phenomena that there should be. I’ve ranted about that here in the past.

I guess my peeve is that nobody really collaborates on theories. Every PI is off working on their own set of pet theories (because that’s how you establish a career), but there’s really no centralizing force to get people to collaborate and work on a shared theory. Physics has the standard model that everyone can use as a common reference point and it’s helpful.
I was a big fan of cocaine back in the 90s. I never got to the "problem" level with it but if it was there I was the first to raise my hand.

My personality has changed a little, but I'd still probably jump at it today, if it weren't for the fear of fentanyl. I'm not worried about addiction, I'm worried about death.
The trick with AlphaGo was brute force combined with learning to extract strategies from brute force using reinforcement learning, that's what we'll see here. So maybe it costs a million dollars in compute to get a high score, but use reinforcement learning ala alphazero to learn from the process and it won't cost a million dollars next time and let it do lots of hard benchmarks, math problems and coding tasks and it'll keep getting better and better.
you forgot "the victors of War write the history and build their castles", and "cultural forces" including (especially?) those originating among "peasants" .. casting your evolutionary and kind comment as a "peasant" appears to wear a lot of assumptions on the sleeve
While we're here, I have an ask (of anyone). I want the same exact thing you said, except for an outdoor dog on a large property.

I would like a tag that just records its own GPS coordinates locally on-device, every so often, and then when my dog comes home, I can check where she's been.

Does this exist?
No, a LLM is a Large Language Model.

It can language.
> I don't know WebRTC, but wouldn't a single PHP file be enough to create the connection between the two devices?

I mean, they could concatenate all 168 files and stuff them into a single <script> tag in the PHP if that would make you happier…
> I see you toned down the "defrauded" rhetoric to a much more ambiguous "yeah, it was against the spirit of the deal".

I didn't, particularly. It's just another angle on it.

I do think "defrauded" has both legal and moral dimensions, don't you? This is obviously abject shitty treatment or they wouldn't have been secretive about it.

I'm not convinced this isn't both dimensions, though -- not clear who is being defrauded but both the labels and the musicians unions should do their best to establish whether it could be them.

Spotify have crossed a pretty obvious line here. Weird that you appear to think it's, like, no harm no foul if the customers don't notice. Fast food service logic.

There is already quite extensive legal precedent and practice about supermarket own-brand stuff; fifty years of it, with supermarkets retaining teams of lawyers, operating proper clean-room reverse-engineering processes, etc. It's well-trodden legal territory. Supermarkets work right up to the line. But it's no secret that they do, and brands sometimes push back against own-brand deceptions. Mostly supermarkets threaten each other over their own, own-brand stuff. Caterpillar cakes, vodkas etc.

If Spotify were honest that they were adding "own brand" music into the mix, then this would be a different discussion.

(Amazon are required in the UK and EU to identify which are their own brands, and they mostly comply)
Especially using willing 3rd parties to allow for plausible deniability.
> I presume that people that are actively listening to filler are not appreciating music in their cozy living room while sipping on a glass of fine whiskey.

That feels like a false dichotomy. Certainly for myself I can put on a generated playlist hoping to find new stuff I like, whilst still putting on the music as background. As filler.

If spotify has been serving me slop, then they have likely reduced the amount of new music I have added to my collection of things I like. That harms me, and it harms real artists whose music I might like.

In other words, I don't always actively choose the music I listen to. But serving me slop when I don't harms me.
Yeah, I agree that StackOverflow it but a shadow of what it used to be, and that this is a shame. But I don’t think that AI is to blame for this - all the interesting discussions had already migrated to GitHub issues. AI is just the nail in the coffin for SO.
I think the issue here is more about the unintended second order effects. Yay! Drug and alcohol use is down... annnnnnddddd now theres a mental health crisis, increase in suicide rate, and the fertility rate is dropping like well drug and alcohol use.

I'm personally not saying the isolated health aspect of reduced drug and alcohol use is a bad thing. In a vacuum it is obviously positive. When you consider how they function in a broader social system it may turn out that its not a positive change.
The bigger win is the government subsidies and tax breaks.

You need very little on hand cash to get a very low interest rate. Much lower than asset loans at equivalent levels of wealth.
It is not.

You are confusing LLM:s with Generative AI.
Ten Things I've Learned Writing This Column
> As long as we fail to reward good work, we will continue to get poor work.

I think that's a bit off. The problem is that we continue to reward poor work so the poor work continues.
It's actually not too brutal so long as you don't try to do it directly. Launch a craft out past Jool then when you start falling back burn retrograde. It's like the opposite of what you do to efficiently burn when leaving Kerbin.

In real life they used a set of Venus gravity assists instead. This has allowed them to slowly get closer while observing over time instead of a long wait and then one big bang close up before being shot ridiculously far back out.
The VoxelCanvas.js file (in Javascript, obv.) might be interesting to you as well. Same (raycasting) idea:

https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/Mooncraft2000
I've been using imap-backup for years on both my personal and work machines. IIRC I had to set up a Gmail app password to get it to work, but that landscape may have changed since then.

31 GB written and still going strong.