skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon has a real problem "playing nice" with any of the companies that signup on their platform. Even as a product seller, it is virtually guaranteed that if your product ever does really well on Amazon that Amazon will offer to buy you out and, if you refuse, develop a competitor who will then receive total priority on their platform.
The modern explanation is that disease played a major role, but it's disease that's closely related to the social and political disruptions from European contact.

Some examples:
Spaniards enslave the Taino of Hispaniola, who are ravaged by diseases with lethality and infectiousness boosted by the malnutrition and stress of their enslavement. Spaniards take over Tenochtitlan, then destroy the sewer systems of the valley of Mexico. A series of E. Coli and salmonella epidemics known as Cocoliztli subsequently ravage the Mexican highlands. Spaniards get involved with a bitter civil war in Peru, and diseases decimate the displaced and destabilized populations. Spaniards institute corvee labor and create a famine in the southwest, which is followed by decades of recurrent epidemic diseases that heavily affect the people most directly under Spanish influence. Nomadic groups largely outside Spanish control, but still physically in the same regions like the Apache and the Comanche then became ascendant political forces in the resulting demographic collapse.

And the result of these losses was permanent because the populations ended up displaced or absorbed into colonialism.
Most user will probably want images, slightly more styling and recommendations on what to read next... other than that it's a perfectly usable website for the everyday user, something that can't be said about most news sites today, sadly.

I mean who even reads ad-spam websites in the first place? They used to host little bits of knowledge you'd search for... now I can reach that better via ChatGPT (eg. How to do mission X in video game Y)

I can only imagine... I read some well crafted news, no ads, no malicious tracking, no ad-blocker-blocker popup, no newsletter popup - and at end of the article: "This experience was great because we're supported by XYZ company, they have no control of our editorial process" (with company logo). Tasteful, still supported by ads, probably completely unsustainable.
In a discussion thread about Meta (which follows EU law) launching an app in the EU using their alt App Store laws; why would you further move the goalpost just for arguments sake?
I would like to highlight the very insightful and concisely formulated criticizm of Eliezer Yudkowsky.

What made it especially interesting to me, was because it was made by a hackernews user in 2013, before AGI/Eliezer/LessWrong were popular.

The post I am referring to is this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5248289

The user I am referring to is this one:

wamatt

Examples of long hence imo (for many) ineffective critics:

- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TjyyngWFYvQWPpNNj/eliezer-yu...

- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8HYJwQepynHsRKr6j/critical-r...

- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GqeBEB5voGCYPu4hs/my-critiqu...

- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CoZhXrhpQxpy9xw9y/where-i-ag...
Private facilities and groups are free to have those policies, but I also think its reasonable and expected for members to object and change the rules over time, especially the elites.
Is that a form of lorem ipsum or ... what even is that?
You're leaving out the part where the "skilled leader" says "We want X, Y, Z, W, and the kitchen sink. And if you don't give it to us, we're going to blow your pretty little head clean off, motherfucker."
That depends very much on the school of meditation. It sounds like you're focusing on concentration practice.

Mindfulness practice is toward the other side of the spectrum: The goal is not to suppress your own sensations or thoughts, but to be mindful of them and observe them in a detached manner. The best analogy I've come across is to sit at the side of the river and watch the boats go past, instead of jumping on them and racing down. But you're not trying to clear the river of boats.

There's overlap, in that the finer control you want to have over your ability to be mindful of specific aspects of your thoughts, emotions, body etc., the more concentration you need to be able to muster to calm yourself enough.
My condolences. I use an adblocker, and I'm seeing an article of about a dozen short paragraphs.
Prefer Numbered Lists to Bullets
From Mom's Design Questions to 5k Users
I never planned to build an AI startup. I was just tired of my mom bombarding me with WhatsApp messages about her living room redesign.

"How would this couch look here?" sends 20th Pinterest screenshot of the day

As a software engineer with a full-time job, I thought I could solve this with a "simple" AI tool. Classic engineer's overconfidence.

The Reality Check:

Burned through $15k of wedding savings
Hired a developer who disappeared after taking a $5k advance
Worked 9-5 at my day job, 7-3am on Styly.io
Wife started calling my laptop "the mistress"
Learned that "simple AI tool" is an oxymoron

But something interesting happened. My mom started sharing it with her friends. They shared it with their kids. Those kids shared it with their friends.

Today's Numbers:

5,000+ active users
15,000+ room designs generated
70% user retention
$0 spent on marketing
1 very proud mom

Key Learnings:

Don't believe Twitter threads about "building an AI startup in a weekend"
Start with WhatsApp integration - turns out parents are your best beta testers
Focus on one thing and do it well (we only do interior design visualization)
Mental health > Growth metrics

Tech Stack:

Frontend: React/Next.js
Backend: Node.js
AI: Custom fine-tuned Stable Diffusion
Mom's Feedback: Priceless

What's Working:

Simple WhatsApp interface (send photo → get design variations)
No complex prompts needed
Fast response time (under 2 minutes)
Free tier for basic features

What's Next:

Launching premium features
Improving AI accuracy
Building mobile app
Getting more sleep (hopefully)

Looking for:

Feedback from community
Potential collaborators
Tips on scaling AI infrastructure
Stories from others who built products for their parents

Try it: www.styly.io

P.S. Mom still sends me Pinterest screenshots, but now she also sends Styly.io designs.

Progress?
Remind me why we don't do big vending machines for retail like Japan does?
Leading numerous regions that are heavily ethnic Russian, including Crimea, to declare their independence.

I have three questions for you:

(1) Can you name one of the regions Putin is attempting to annex, aside from Crimea, that was "heavily ethnic Russian?"

(2) Can you explain the circumstances which caused that particular region to have a majority Russian-identified population? (In just a sentence or two, please).

(3) Something else happened in 2014, in between the two events that you claim happened. Why is this missing from your chronology?
The EU is just as capitalist. When von den Leyen gets lobbied in Brussels, it's not from worker parties or unions. If you want a spectrum I would say that the EU is more paternalistic. Less freedom, lower salaries and higher taxes and in return a slightly better social safety net.
But this is pure consolation for anyone who wants growth and opportunity. And it is not sustainable anyway. Austerity will soon start eating away at that social safety net.
Same. It is annoying to dodge the prompts that guide me to save in Chrome or iCloud instead of 1Password, but with patience I have always succeeded. Of course, I know what I want and when to ignore what the machine suggests, which I wouldn’t expect of non-enthusiasts.
I consider HN a doom scrolling machine as well
looks like they "fixed" it by removing all content save for the title
GraphRAG isn't quite a knowledge graph. It is a graph of document snippets with semantic relations but is not doing fact extraction nor can you do any reasoning over the structure itself.

This is a common issue I've seen from LLM projects that only kind-of understand what is going on here and try and separate their vector database w/ semantic edge information into something that has a formal name.
Amazing how this company that barely existed 5 minutes ago is already trusted by Google, Chipotle, Robinhood, HubSpot, X, Chime and Anthropic per their landing page. I wonder if that's also news to those companies.
There are lots of ways to go about RAG, many do not require graphs at all.

I recommend looking at some simple spark queries to get an idea of what’s happening.

What I’ve seen is using LLMs to identify what possible relationships some information may have by comparing it to the kinds of relationships in your database.

Then when building the spark query it uses those relationships to query relevant data.

The llm never digests the graph. The system around the llm uses the capabilities of graph data stores to find relevant context for the llm.

What you’ll find with most RAG systems is that the LLM plays a smaller part than you’d think.

It reveals semantic information (such as conceptual relationships) and generates final responses. The system around it is where the far more interesting work happens imo.
Is this still the case if I have different ALU operations. Say I have a single ALU on a single x86 core. Would the ALU be able to interleave say ADD and MULs? or would I incur the latency measure for each operation switch?

I know that some ALU's have multiple ADD complexes, and I assume that would influence the answer, hence why I specified x86.
RIP, Fellow Lion Jimmy.-
I wasn't going to humor a 24 hour old throwaway, but it seems HN wants to believe you over someone with actual experience; shocking I know.

What would you call it if your parents denied you healthcare as a child, leading to permanent disfigurement? I call it mutilation.

It used to be common to get serious infections at a young age. But today if your parents refused to provide you healthcare (vaccinations, in this case), and you caught polio which lead to osteoporosis preventing you from ever walking normally again; would you also say that wasn't damage or mutilation? I mean, it was the natural process of development through which a child matures, at least until we developed a vaccine.

It used to be there wasn't much we could do for trans people, just like polio. But now we have medications that can prevent the suffering the conditions lead to, and not using them is evil.
In what world is chess a sport? It's a board game, they are not athletes, and marketing chess as a sport just comes across as either a financial decision, or delusional to me. The fact that chess isn't a sport doesn't make it any less valid or valuable, any less respectable, but it does mean that comparing it to tennis is downright odd.
> I have WhatsApp to talk to some family and I recently disabled allowing all contacts in iOS 18. WhatsApp now has a persistent notification at the top of messages to "Allow All Contacts".

If this is still possible, then Apple fucked up the implementation of this feature, as clearly there should be no way to differentiate not having bothered to fill out a ton of contacts and having limited access for an app to see your contacts; and since this is so obviously easy to do correctly, it frankly sounds actively malicious: there is a set -- probably a very small set -- of engineers and product managers who chose to build this incorrectly, in order to continue to maintain the status quo of the proxy war between Apple and Meta, to our detriment.
It’s invisible. A black box, non transferable. There’s no mental model that maps and you can’t back it up as a normal person. Implementations are half baked and still require all the rest, all the attack surface is even larger.

Was super excited, totally not anymore.
Solst-Helion is what the author was going for, I think, but I saw what you did too, lol.
A good example is the claim that land is an inelastic resource. The counter point is the supply of accessible land worth utilizing is elastic. Improvements in transportation technology open up more land for utilization.
Kind of, try to get hold of all those GCC forks used by embedded companies before clang came into the picture.
You won't lose your existing followers? They will still be able to see your new and old posts from your new host? Even if Bluesky suspends your account?

If that is true then that probably goes a long way in addressing the concern Doctrow and others have with Bluesky.

edit: According to one article[1] PDS isn't really full federation like what mastodon has. Right now you can only host your own account in your PDS (But they plan to gradually increase that limit to 10, and then more later)[2]. But it's certainly a good start. Not sure if Bluesky will have the capability to block you from reaching your own followers though (say if they ban or suspend your account).

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/6/24062837/bluesky-drops-inv...

[2] https://docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-federation
If you're playing with close friends, you probably wouldn't railroad things to their character that would damage your friendship. If you know your friend is touchy about something traumatic do you rib them about it?
Magnus is not the best at Blitz, and was already doing poorly before he quit.
I am a Google Docs user. I cited Open Office writer to make a price comparison since it is a more traditional word processor. You went on a tirade because I cited Open Office's word processor as an example of a free word processor instead of your favorite word processor. If you want to make damaging claims about a project to promote a competing project, you should have solid evidence first. Otherwise, it is just a smear campaign and hurts the project you recommend. It certainly has damaged LibreOffice in my eyes.
Chess isn’t a sport. How many game tournaments have dress codes?
>>>Why does it matter whether you're consistently going south or not? Even if you're not in Antarctica because the Forces-That-Be fooled you somehow, you're still somewhere on Earth with a 24-hour sun.

If you're somewhere on Earth with a 24 hour sun, but it's not anywhere near where the scientific establishment says the 24 hour sun should be, I don't think you'd jump to the conclusion that the standard scientific model of a round earth is correct...
only if the rest of us do nothing and let them remake the world. It seems likely since the rest of us seem to be disconnected socially which makes any collective action more difficult. Its almost as if the fake "social" media was meant to starve the world of meaningful connection that could lead to sustainable action.
it’s owning versus rent-seeking and this is a ridiculous hair to split

my owned software doesn’t abruptly stop working when I don’t pay my “rent”
38C3 Grafana Dashboard
Just like you need to do when picking a forum to register on or a social media site to sign up to. This isn't something new.

It will also shake out, in that most people will tend towards well-known, large instances that will survive and grow exactly because they refuse to engage with the more obnoxious part of the drama.
These days CPUs are so complex and have so many interdependencies that the best way to simulate them is simply to run them!

In most real code the high throughput of these sorts of operations means that something else is the limiting factor. And if multiplier throughput is limiting performance then you should be using SIMD or a GPU.
Wake up, read a bit in bed, make tea, get to work. My phone stays on my desk so I don’t get a facefull of notifications until I’m ready for it.

In the summer I’d have my tea on the balcony. It gave me a bit of time to just think about stuff.

I’m trying to add stretching to the routine, as it requires little effort and feels really good. When I’m dog sitting I also walk the dog in the park before anything else.

I also try to make room for a nice breakfast. This requires some advance logistics but it’s so rewarding.
Very informative article

>“A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people.”

Well it is clear which path was taken :( Yes we are finally heading to renewals, but far to slow to make a big impact on climate change. Plus AI and *coins are eating up any progress towards renewals.
> Most users happily open bloat sites and pay with their privacy and being manipulated.

You can use bloat sites and pay with your privacy and be manipulated for free or you can pay for the experience, but you'll be using bloat sites and pay with your privacy and be manipulated no matter what.
Reminds me of a joke i once heard: a regulator walks into an insurance corporate office and exclaims "wait a second, you're supposed to be running a racket! instead, you're committing fraud!" while in a parallel universe, the same regulator walks into the same office and exclaims "wait a second, you're supposed to be committing fraud! instead, you're running a racket!". the regulator then slams his head against the wall, and realizes that there is no parallel universe - that insurance corporation is indeed blatantly running a racket AND committing fraud on a massive scale.

RICO charges need to hit, and stick.
Solarpunk versus everyone else.
Similar to "Justice is blind" it has always been an ideal and not actually reality.
That’s fine. It was indeed the penultimate race shown where each bettor recorded themselves. The ultimate race had him and the lady and supposedly no other bettors. I take that at face value leaving betting on all horses and sleight of hand as the more likely explanation.
Blocking scalper bot traffic by any means, be it by source or certified identification seems a lost cause, i.e. not possible because it can always be circumvented. Why did you not have that filter at point of sale instead? I'm sure there are reasons, but to have a battery of captchas and a limit on purchases per credit card seems on the surface much more sturdy. And it doesn't require that everyone browsing the internet announce their full name and residential address in order to satisfy the requirements of a social score ...
>That just makes those people unemployable

Or, put differently, it makes the profits of the companies who hire them unsustainable. IMO allowing an non-livable wage in order to subsidize profits isn't a great policy.
They do have a larger selection of many medical products. Fast vaccinations.

Services like package drop off (CVS does UPS, Walgreens Fedex), bill pay, etc. While print photo isn't what it used to be, if you want a specialty photo printed like a larger size, it's pretty fast and cheap to do so (you can typically upload your photo and pick up in a couple of hours)
Crisis? Yes. But will they stop showering the children with gadgets? No.
If you can do that, you also have enough tech savyness to use passwords securely.
In soccer/footbal one can see how not having sleeves is a hit to the space of the walking advertisements that are uniforms these days.

Not having huge variations in uniforms for team sports seems to make some sense to me (you can't have everyone wearing a different color...)
for something like tennis or chess I can't see how it matters much.
Building a Movie Recommendation App with Modus, Dgraph and Next.js
> “The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” lie has been repeatedly disproven over and over again

Has it? They certainly don't stop themselves (unless resulting from being surrounded by good guys with guns).
You could probably do that in a country like north Korea but not in a free country
Switching from 1p to icloud makes sense, but there's a decent chunk that isnt in the apple ecosystem. I'm keeping 1p for now, I'd even argue that the price is pretty good, especially for families.
Even if the internet was wide open it’s of little use these days.

AI will replace any search you would want to do to find information, the only reason to scour the internet now is for social purposes: finding comments and forums or content from other users, and you don’t really need to be untracked to do all that.

A megacorp’s main motivation for tracking your identity is to sell you shit or sell your data to other people who want to sell you things. But if you’re using AI the amount of ads and SEO spam that you have to sift through will dramatically reduce, rendering most of those efforts pointless.

And most people aren’t using the internet like in the old days: stumbling across quaint cozy boutique websites made by hobbyists about some favorite topic. People just jump on social platforms and consume content until satisfied.

There is no money to be made anymore in mass web scraping at scale with impersonated clients, it’s all been consumed.
Someone visited the website from their IP ranges how much more trust do you want?
Kaiser in Oakland is without exaggeration the best medical care I’ve ever experienced. Aligning incentives between the care provider and the insurer, vertically integrating care and putting it all on a walkable campus (even with a pharmacy!!) was such an efficient and pleasant process.

I was never healthier. The other Kaisers in Oregon aren’t geographically collocated so there’s less of an effect and they’re far away from me so I don’t use them anymore, sadly
Average user would not care if their files are in an application specific folder.
Does anyone think Meta would give users the option to deny such a request and work properly? It's not a difficult question.
> Oddly, it's not currently considered to be.

Odd indeed. Is it some semantic thing? Denying care is the purest form of not practicing medicine?
> I predicted the 2008 crash

> In August 2006, I reported that a collapse of the global banking system would take place in 2008 due to a complex convergence of financial and energy crises. My source for this revelation was a sensitive interview with a senior advisor to the US Department of Defense, with extensive access to the US military, intelligence and political establishment. “The source… said that leading US financial analysts privately believe that ‘a collapse of the global banking system is imminent by 2008,’” I wrote at the time.

So it wasn't his prediction - his un-named source predicted it...

It's literally in quotes, i.e. not his own words. So he could easily deny it being his prediction. But since it came to pass, he gets to claim credit...
Haiku OS – What's going wrong and how to fix it [video]
Strongly endorsed for middle/high schoolers introduction. I read it last year and thought it was a good introduction but will feel a little simple for the HN crowd. Most of the value is in The Appendix followed by Chapters 1, 2 and 6, so you could even shorten it more. My only caveat is there's a lot of degrowther propaganda in it that you would need to caution the kids against
It exists; but not for much longer:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/android/wsa/
That's the thing. I can troll you across all your relays and others.

You can't really stop a targeted attacker. Sure you can always add a few "IF's" as disclaimer and nitpick all you want, reality is that moderation is defacto non-existent for the overwhelming majority of relays.

As a challenge, try to see for yourself what is posted to them without any filters or WoT algorithms, then you see the unfettered amount of material getting published. Of course that is small relays you can enable whitelisting and so forth, but those are corner cases. They are not the norm.
Technically it is an hardware limitation, amd64 in long mode has only vestigal support for memory segmentation (enough to implement Win32/ELF i386 TLS ABI and that's it), so you cannot reasonably run either 16b protected mode or vm86 tasks in 64b OS on that platform.
Someone should have told Intel when they started work on Netburst.

Some optimization required...
this is really cool! thanks for sharing :)