skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However in recent years there’s been a few issues with clunky sync leading to data loss

Exactly the problem I'm talking about. I'll never use another note app that has this issue.

One of the main purposes of note taking apps is to quickly take down notes. If they can't handle that without losing data then the entire app is a failure, no matter how good the rest of it is.

It's like saying "yeah it's a great word processing app, the only problem is that it doesn't accept keyboard input".
The moral dilemma here is that there is a societal expectation of a tip. The employee is not paid a living wage and are working for tips. You're welcome to opt out of tipping by opting out of dining at restaurants. Taking advantage of the societal norms is just taking advantage of your fellow human because it's "not illegal". It's shit. No different from driving in the shoulder because you don't feel like sitting in traffic or cutting a line and daring people to do something about it.
...GHz ?
I'm in agreement with this and would also like to point out that Non-Disclosure Agreements can still exist in absence Non-Compete Agreements.
> no name tablets with garbage software and no app support.

I don't get it — aren't the no-name tablets using stock Android?

Unless one's heavily invested in Amazon's ecosystem, I wonder if that's better than using Amazon's locked down, spyware-infested Fire tablet distro.
Or how about allow for knowledge of one firm being shared with the other being illegal since it’s proprietary (I think this is probably already the case).
> you won't be able to just pin it to UTC and call it a day.

Yeah you’d have to call it 29.5 days.

But joking aside, people live on ISS and use UTC despite their 90 minute “days”.

What we should really do is just get rid of all this crap and go with metric time that starts at an arbitrary moment and isn’t dependent on location.
> just because people interact more angrily online doesn't mean they're willing to fight each other in real life

There is a lot of evidence that says online experiences influence offline behavior (both are "real life"). Look at the very many, online-inspired, extremist attacks. Look at the impact of misinformation and disinformation - as a simple example, it killed possibly hundreds of thousands of Americans do to poor vaccination rates.
The CEO declared sleep their competitor.
Yep, I was taught that at first place. People who taught me about git describe branch as a marker on commit. And I never has confusion about it.

Probably people confuse about this has experiments with some other version control system. So they already has some specific meaning attached to the name "branch" ?
I actually felt like he came across as insensitive in that video.

These are students playing with new technology to produce animated characters that move in unintuitive ways, resulting in something actually quite interesting, yet unnaturally creepy (which was intentional).

Miyazaki dismissed it 'an insult to life itself'. I can't imagine the disappointment those students must have felt.
Grammarly's technique to avoid using In-App Purchase
I would be happy if we got rid of timezones, got rid of daylight savings time, and got rid of 12 hour clocks.
Show HN: Live Music Chat and Listening Parties
Hello HN, Vincent here.

Working on a new product, for music lovers and musicians alike.

Musicians that are starting out and new bands have a hard time getting exposure. I have a lot of musician friends and have been contemplating this problem for a few years now. I just sat down to code this thing up a few days ago, so pardon the rough edges, but the concept is there. Real-time chat around albums and tracks as a focus.

How it works: We have some musicians who love writing words about sound and music, we call them "editors" and they write, manually, not chatGPT, manually, reviews for albums and tracks submitted to our DB.

"Well, that doesn't scale at all!" you might think.
Yup. It does not scale.

So we are doing pre-sales to help raise funds, to be self-funded as much as possible, and to remunerate our busy editor team for their valuable time.

For a paying membership, musicians (and music lovers) get one priority review request per month. This means your track that you made, or album you made, (or album you love, not necessarily your creation), will get reviewed by one of our editors and added to our Database.

Once a track or album is in our database, other paying members can write their own review of it. If you stop paying your reviews will stay up on the site, but only paying members have access to live chat which is the "listening parties" aspect -- you can navigate to an album page and listen to an album with others, and chat about it if you like. We have some "ambient presence" features in development, like the music notes you see bubbling across the screen when a user sends a chat message. You can get a sense of the other people online, and share, in an uncluttered and complementary way, music.

I wrote a small post on our website, and our website will eventually point straight to the new app (right now it is the blog/wordpress).

http://electricushion.com/music-lovers-and-musicians-rejoice-a-new-space-for-both-arriveth/

At that post you can find the short 3 minute video I recorded to demo the product. That video can be found directly by going here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH7BDFM8_NM

And if you are ready to help, there is a stripe checkout link available here. Special Pre-Sale rate. I hope it's kosher to post it here, if not, we can remove ^.^

https://buy.stripe.com/28o4hHgM47mh6Ri144

Alright, thanks! As far as feedback goes, uh, pay me if you want to see this thing. Feedback will be more welcome once the actual product is tangible and you can try it out. For now, maybe just enjoy the fact that I'm working on something crazy and different x) Oh and if you also see the potential for how awesome this is going to be, lock in that pre-sale pretty please with treble on top and bass on the bottom.
>It's such a frustrating experience trying to wring halfway decent performance out of a project written in Python

It's something I've noticed as well and it kind of makes me sad because I actually like Python a lot. But I recently wrote something in Clojure, which is still dynamic and high level, and it was like 15x faster without me needing to think much.

It's the same with Python's async story. Nothing has made me ever feel more stupid than trying to learn asyncio.
Ok, I give up. That's about the 20th mocking, insulting comment of yours I've read on this page, while you pretend to occupy the high ground. Sickening stuff. HN deserves way better.

Please refresh on the guidelines. There aren't many in the first 10 paragraphs of the "In comments" guidelines you haven't broken on this page, multiple times. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Added ChatGPT (chat-completions) API to OpenAI package
I'm probably missing the details but doesn't most git GUI show a timeline like that? Such as the official desktop version and official (?) gitlens extension in VSCode? I don't use them myself though so I might be wrong.
Except now Microsoft can hurt Google's ability to monetize it by stealing search traffic with people switching to ChatGPT.
No. I don't want to find commented out code when searching the code base. I might leave a prose comment explaining what didn't work to prevent someone implementing the same mistake in the future.
If I understand correctly, that means we can read all favorite magazines for a flat monthly fee?
I asked about the totp seeds in a previous thread a few months back since those were not being mentioned (though I fully expected them to have been a part of the backups that were accessed).

Looks like they were a part of it but even worse the attacker also got the decryption key (yikes!)

"Backup of LastPass MFA/Federation Database – contained copies of LastPass Authenticator seeds, telephone numbers used for the MFA backup option (if enabled), as well as a split knowledge component (the K2 “key”) used for LastPass federation (if enabled). This database was encrypted, but the separately-stored decryption key was included in the secrets stolen by the threat actor during the second incident."
California has banned non competes for just over 150 years.

Any "bad for business" opposition to this rule would be interesting to see.
0:14 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVZ80_tbkbc is a good example of previous recordings. It is helpful, if you think you have a good mic, to talk past it rather than into it.
There are a lot of clever techniques already in play to minimise the amount of data you need to consider.

Still, each triangle's position, shape, and other properties can change each frame, as does that of the camera. So you cannot avoid doing some amount of work for each of the visible triangles and their vertices each frame.

Since you need to update the screen at a consistent frequency (typically 30 or 60 times a second) and the list of triangles that actually need to be rendered each frame is in the millions... Well, that's a lot of work which cannot be avoided.
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You're totally right, in part I confused >60W with >=60W, and as you rightly point out, non-marked cables should support 20V/3A.

Re: your edit. There is this exact kind of profile incompatibility between the Leviton T5636 and the HomePod mini when two devices are plugged in. The outlet should support 30W for each receptacle, which is more than enough to provide the 18W/20W the HomePod mini requires. But for some PD profile incompatibility reason (9V/3A probably), it does not get enough power.

And it is in fact terrible product design. Leviton is pointing the finger at Apple but in reality, who knows.
You dont need non competes in order to do as you propose here though
Actively | Software Engineers (full-stack & backend/data infra) | Full-time | NYC | Onsite

I'm one of the founders of Actively — our vision is to turn every knowledge worker into a data scientist by building interactive ML tools that combine human expertise with machine intelligence. Here's [more on us](https://actively-ai.notion.site/About-Actively-9dabd208d3a54...) + a demo of some of the core tech if you're curious :)

We're based in NYC and are well-funded by top investors; our (paying!) customers are analytical business teams (think growth, sales, marketing, etc.) at Series C through IPO companies who have tons of questions to answer but very limited access to data scientists.

We think of our first product as a "metrics optimization platform" where business users connect to their data, plug in any KPI they care about as an aggregation over that data, and define their levers, and then we continuously optimize that business metric (conversion, churn, upsell, activation, etc.) -- incredibly quickly and without the need for a data scientist.

Our thesis is that the two barriers to widespread adoption of AI/ML among business teams are (1) lack of clarity around ROI upfront and (2) the large amount of effort/time required to implement a solution (hire a data scientist, build a bunch of data infra, have them work for a few months, etc.). We solve these by building the right abstractions and human-in-the-loop interfaces to make it incredibly quick for business teams to unlock value from their data -- so quick that we can plug into their data and show them the ROI within a few minutes!

We're fairly small (our current team comes from Stanford/Google/Waymo/Scale AI/Microsoft) but are growing the team based on customer demand and looking for entrepreneurial, experienced product and infrastructure engineers who are also excited to work closely with customers + dig in on product & across the business! I'd love to chat: mihir [at] actively.ai!

Keywords: AI, ML, machine learning, active learning, explainable AI, causal inference, data science, full-stack, product engineering, data infrastructure
Not sure if what you’re describing couldn’t be also done with audio snippets and good splicing
I also passed my IQ test. What's the passing grade, 50?
> We used Python, Go, and Rust to implement a simple programming language stack virtual machine and compared their performance. In this scenario, Go and Rust have similar performance, while Python showed a significant performance gap. After careful consideration, we chose Rust.

Would have been interesting to hear why they didn't benchmark other languages suited to programming language implementation. Go is obviously rather weak in expressivity there, and other options which have both automatic memory management and high performance exist.

But the 66% bottom line performance improvement does sound like a nice improvement.
China leading US in technology race in all but a few fields, thinktank finds
> ((table[0] >> nlz) << 2) + ((table[1] >> nlz) << 1) + (table[1] >> nlz)

> Which is five shifts and two additions, so more work plus lookup.

Something like that, perhaps with more bitmasking and less addition. There is no lookup, just three constants loaded into different registers and handled by different out of order execution units, then combined in a final addition / or-ing. So what you will "see" on the critical path is two bitshifts and three bitwise ORs/ANDs.

It's not faster, the point is that the speedup of "binary division" is probably not worth the day or so spent developing it unless in extreme cases.
> They would take up roughly the same space

Each apartment has 1 bedroom, 1 living room, 1 entryway.
i got in after 2 days and im just an undergrad with some experience tangentially related to machine learning. Too bad i only found out the hardware requirement after downloading 13GB of weights
> You have three things: Existing knowledge, knowledge through observation, and knowledge through composition of existing knowledge.

I mostly agree with your position but have a quibble with this characterization. Knowledge can also be generated from randomization and enumeration. For instance, we could enumerate all Turing machines that might satisfy some property, or we could randomly permute some Turing machine as in genetic algorithms to find some new behaviours.

You might be tempted to categorize these under "composition", but I think they have different properties from composition, which is typically understood to be a finite deterministic map. Enumeration is potentially unbounded, and random mutation is non-determinstic.
Show HN: Have a Conversation with Your Website
I'm building an AI tutor that can guide kids through the internet to find educational material they love (gotwonder.com)

In order to do that, I had to teach a model how to learn everything on a website, and answer questions about it factually, out loud.

It turns out it's really fun to play with so I built a tool that lets you try it on your website!

Try asking a question to every TED speaker:
askthis.site/ted.com

Put your site after the slash, and start talking!
I know it's not AI, but I've seen people discuss their workflow for this before. I'd do some googling! I feel like maybe it was mentioned a few years ago on the cortex podcast?

Here's one I just grabbed: https://sixcolors.com/post/2022/01/in-case-of-podcast-proble...
'a contract has also been awarded for the agency to acquire 9,250 commercial-off-the-shelf internal combustion engine vehicles "to fill the urgent need for vehicles." In December, the agency said that 21,000 COTS vehicles will be purchased and are "expected to be battery electric," but said that depends "on market availability and operational feasibility."

In this case, the internal combustion engine vehicles will be gas-powered and made by Fiat Chrysler Automobile, a spokesperson for USPS told CBS News. They added that, unlike older USPS vehicles, these will "feature air conditioning and advanced safety technology and are more suited to modern day operational requirements."
This still allows for noncompetes that prevent you from for example working at AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud at the same time.
The 5gb model is likely too big for 95% of people's machines and renting gpus is likely not much cheaper.

I'm using also whisper myself locally to transcribe my voice notes though.
Still think life would be simpler if we all just adopted .beats (Swatch Internet Time): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
Original report from ASPI:

https://www.aspi.org.au/report/critical-technology-tracker
Good question, not worthy of the downvotes. I didnt know either and if you didnt ask that person that answered helpfully would not have done that
No sane person ever signed up for "100% on so and so benchmarks means AGI". That's cargo cult science.
I have been looking for an alternative for Apple News.
If this is true, then it would be worth looking at.
Subjecting friends to surveillance without their consent is more of an imposed inconvenience than downloading an app.
But has a registry and has a tool to use the regiatry to call grpc

https://buf.build/blog/buf-curl/

Didn't dig deeper to see if the bud tooling can help me deciding protobufs laying around when it's not about a grpc call
Do you work with people in other timezones? It’s much easier to reason about what a reasonable time is for people when you know how it centers up with noon for them.
Having English as the official language of the EU when England isn’t in the EU would be quite funny.
What's with the scare quotes on "data analysts"? Just because you read on HN about how some such tool is bad, doesn't actually make it bad. Hating on notebooks is like hating on Excel: it's trendy in some circles, but generally only espoused by the ignorant.
> Right-Time is impossible.

I think we’re right around the Right-Time era for biotech and genetic engineering. CRISPR is easily Xerox PARC level of influence on the next era of tech.
I consider them equals where general collection is concerned. In terms of the scale and reach, Google is a bigger offender (possibly the biggest) in my personal life.
Good thing most things in the real world are idempotent then!
I would go with TAI personally.
How about 1000 ".beats" per day? Swatch tried that, but it didn't catch on.
What's more intriguing is that we know for sure that Polynesians did know about the bow, and at least some of them even knew how to make it - but, for whatever reason, it wasn't used for anything "serious" like warfare.

It's tempting to chalk it down to some kind of strong cultural taboo, e.g. to keep the wars at a "manageable" level of destruction. But then why did Maori eagerly adopt firearms once they got access to them, and used them in warfare between themselves?
... everywhere, all at once.
similar, any type of therapy has been a waste of time and money for me. Exercise on the other hand just makes me feel good.
I get it, but what a strange world we live in where we need a monthly subscription just to be able to power the vehicles we own.
You should try talking to people with interesting ancestors (or views of their ancestors).

I won't go into too much detail here to avoid doxing myself, but I've had a few decent discussions about some of my and my friends' ancestors/likely ancestors as historical figures.

Depending on who you're (un)fortunate enough to be descended from, you might find yourself viewing certain historical events in a different light.
Also known as “Paris mean time minus 9 minutes 21 seconds.”
If that helps you sleep..
1/10 of a salary for all but the upper echelon of worker compensation does not seem sufficient to put food on the table.
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My name’s Fred Wu, I’m an experienced Elixir and Ruby developer who has worked on multiple commercial projects as well as having released multiple open source Hex packages and Rubygems.

I work at a fintech startup as CTO, leading a small team. During Covid I've been pumping out around 40 extra hours per week on freelancing work. My day job involves mostly the non-coding part of problem solving so it's a nice mix of pace for me to keep my coding skills sharp during the evenings and on weekends.

I’ve been using Elixir for half a decade, ruby for over a decade, lead and built multiple commercial B2B & B2C SaaS projects. I’ve always been very hands on, and have worked with multiple tech stacks in the past, including JS/React, PHP, Golang, and most recently Clojure at the startup I’m currently working at.

- My blog and talks: https://fredwu.me/

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- My LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wufred/

As you probably noticed I have quite a few projects on Github. Some of the more interesting ones are:

- Crawler, a high performance web crawler built in Elixir: https://github.com/fredwu/crawler

- Simple Bayes, a naive bayes machine learning implementation in Elixir: https://github.com/fredwu/simple_bayes

- OPQ, a simple in-memory queue with worker pooling and rate limiting in Elixir: https://github.com/fredwu/opq

- And a few years ago when I was heavily involved in the ruby/rails community, I had done an experimental project building a "layer 0" ORM on top of ActiveRecord and Sequel: https://github.com/fredwu/datamappify

If you think my skills and experience could add value to the project I’d love to chat more. You could reach me at ifredwu at gmail dot com. Thanks!
> A few seconds of thought: “give the proposed money to teachers upfront.”

No incentive, won't work.

Parents have zero influence over teacher quality, and neither do taxpayers.

> Why should there be more hoops to jump through towards a sustainable career in one of the toughest jobs?

Because the existing system doesn't produce results.