skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine Socrates had more to say on the subject of what a woman was than Marx...
My strong contention is that much of the credit for the "Golden Age of Islam" should go to these pre-Islamic civilizations whose achievements were forcibly appropriated by the Arabs under their "Islamic" conquest.
>Inb4 new service that automates getting you banned
> As hype in the tech world turns feverishly to generative AI as the “next big thing”, the moment has caused many to ask hard questions of the previous “next big thing” — the much-lauded voice assistants from Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft and others.

So Amazon Alexa is dying, Facebook VR and Microsoft won this round with ChatGPT, after it lost previous "big things" like search and mobile.

What if instead of chasing illusory "next big things" and wasting resources in the process, companies concentrate on doing useful things now?
Show HN: ChatGPT Online Bot on GitHub
It would be nice if you provided the source code.
for whoever unable to access the article directly:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230306164958/http://ascii.text...
I asked about an algorithm we used at work, and it gave an incorrect answer that, if taken as truth, could have derailed our tech plan.

Take facts as though they were from an undergrad in the subject pontificating after a few beers.
Not "because", "likely". Don't make assumptions
There's still no cheap easy way to just physically hand someone data the way you could a floppy. It's a shame.
Industrial dishwasher use much stronger detergent. So at home often have paintings, drawings or golden things on the dishes. With an industrial dishwasher such things would be a short joy.

Also you need much more electricity, because you need to make a lot of hot water in a very short time.
What happened to the swathes of articles pre-2020 about electronic voting machines and how easily hackable they were. Suddenly everything is okay? "Voter fraud isn't an issue" has become a political shibboleth to show which side you're on.
I'm going with "neither".

It's true that Snowden revealed the NSA had their fingers in NIST's cryptographic standards team, with Dual-EC a specific example that is considered suspicious since the revelations. So a suspicion of malice is not completely unfounded, but as far as I can tell, this code was written by the Keccak team not NIST itself, and for any claim of "they're NSA stooges", I would need evidence.

It also seems to me that the Keccak team are not stupid people. That leaves "honest mistake" as the most likely explanation.

There are lots of studies on human behaviour that show a competent and diligent human will mess up every Nth time they perform a routine task; some forms of probabilistic risk analysis take N = 10^3 as a lower bound for this.

There is a long history of railroad operation in the UK (who invented the steam train after all) where occasionally, a signaller would send an express onto a line where they'd forgotten that the local was standing, or two trains head-on down a single line in opposite directions. This led to the development of interlockings and token working systems as technological solutions to mitigate the risks of human error, and later on to today's computerised safety systems, because signallers are (almost always) neither stupid nor malicious, but still human. The same can be said for programmers.

(As I understand, the recent train disaster in Greece was on a line where there should have been interlocking in place, but it wasn't active.)
why do you guys use a dishwasher? we traditionally never have used one (not just me, i mean the community) so there is no "need" for it. rich people buy one just to flaunt their wealth but dont use it because it is too much of a bother and even for them, the dishwasher soap is prohibitively expensive for no apparent reason.

elbow gease, is just a part of the routine. You cook, you eat and you clean.
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (2021)
This is where YC's motto "Build something people want" is helpful.

You can live by the advice you're giving, but if it doesn't end with you having built something people actually want, you won't have a viable business (if that is indeed your goal)
Somewhat tangential, the second graph shows not just Amazon, but every big tech’s advertising revenue growing like crazy year over year from 2016 to 2021, particularly Google and Facebook. Growth slowed a bit in 2020 (still grew nonetheless) but rebounded hard in 2021. Excuse the question from someone who don’t pay attention to the ad industry at all: WTF happened to the popular narrative at the time that companies were cutting ad spend during covid?
Space Goods – The Next Generation Wellness Brand
Gary is also a contributor on the Linux Downtime podcast where he talks about his pidgin work a bit.

https://linuxdowntime.com/
> there was always the IRC vs forums debate for projects

Was there? IIRC for any non-tiny community the conclusion pretty much always was to use both, for different purposes.
A Gartner expert asks the industry: Why has a steady drumbeat of training and phishing simulations not produced effective cyberjudgement in employees?
The following will out perform every fancy nootropic:

Drink as much water as you can. Breathe clean air. Walk. Get as much sleep as you can. Lift something heavy regularly.
Ask HN: Name popular apps that have better open-source alternatives?
I can start -

VLC > any media player |
Bitwarden > Lastpass |
Excalidraw > FigJam
This rarely happens and it's the right thing to do. Missing the bus because it arrived earlier is a no-no, specially when they're sporadic.
I just thought it would be interesting, given that it has an understanding of XML to see if it could do a simple diff, "by eye" if you will. Obviously I wasn't intending to trust its output. We of course have long standing trusted tools for diffing files.
Agree on both issues, specially the one logging you out daily. Congrats on the quick launch!

Can already see the whisper model makings its way through the product :)
Atlassian lay off 500 staff
I'm glad you mentioned this. Sarcasm (and grift) aside, this intersection and practical application is a topic that's caught my curiosity. (I posted both!)
Do you accept crypto payments? I have several contacts who will likely pay for this if so
I mean, the Wall-E one already looked _extremely_ dystopian.
Related:

Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar | Lex Fridman Podcast #266 (2022):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy2G3PhGm-g
> we can't have that at home

Home dishwashers are:

delicate: do you want to replace all your dishware with horeca dishware?

quiet: nobody cares how loud commercials are , they aren't in the customers ear shot

energy-saving: commercial require 30A instead of 15A of home ones

aren't fast: how much it can clean for a 120 seconds?

SPECIFICATIONS
Capacities
Cycle Time (seconds) . . . . Light 120 / Normal 146 / Heavy 275
Racks per Hour . . . . . . . Light 30 / Normal 24 / Heavy 13
Tank Capacity – Gallons . . . 2.9

Motor Horsepower
Wash . . . . . . . . . . . 0.85
Rinse . . . . . . . . . . . 0.19

Water Consumption
U.S. Gallons per Rack (maximum use) . . . . . . . . . . 0.62
U.S. Gallons per Hour (maximum use) . . . . . . . . . . 14.88
Peak Drain Flow – U.S. Gallons (gallons per minute) . . 4.0

Temperatures °F
Wash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Rinse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Incoming Water Temperature (minimum recommended) . .55-80

https://www.hobartcorp.com/products/commercial-dishwashers/u...

https://cdn2.webdamdb.com/md_Ay2GESwcF7v9.jpg.pdf?1566411389
He also helped the livelihoods of a lot of Twitter stockholders, including people’s retirement savings.
1. This is a weird place to post this, Reddit has several subs with a user base much better equipped to handle this.

2. You're having weird feelings because you're grieving.

3. You have a strange perception of the women in your family, as if they are helpless and need looking after.

3.1 That's a lot of pressure to put on yourself, they will be okay, you are not expected to be a white knight riding in to fix everything and support anyone.

3.2 I Guarantee they are not so helpless, 2/3rd of them raised you and have already been supporting your family and your dad.

Sorry for your loss.
But where would GPT have sourced information about how the game works from? That page only has screenshots, I suppose maybe there's a subreddit or something for it as well. Even if there's a bunch of info on it it's still incredibly impressive for it to parse those game rules and turn it into workable code.

Would be nice if GPT could dump the source of how it came to such a solution, if it generated the game by random chance via combining various unrelated chunks of text and mixing up the rules, or if it used some text describing the game you linked.
Ask HN: Musical archive needs your help - Safety ML filter for 200K+ photos
Hello everyone,

A friend is working on one of the largest musical historical archives as an archivist. His team has been tasked with going through the personal archive of a donor.

The archive contains hundreds of thousands of pictures which are downloaded with random filenames from standard browsing from that donor.

The issue is that the archive includes useful pictures mixed together with adult pictures with no way to distinguish between them besides manual review. They have been working on this for weeks and they have a ton more pictures to go through.

Is there any software I can help them put together to make the distinguish automatically with a good accuracy? Even sorting (possibly adult/ possibly safe) is good enough. I am SWE myself, so I can create something fast in many langugaes (especially Python and JS).

The archive pertains to one of the greatest opera singers of the 20th century and is the largest to date, so your help here will be meaningful.

Thanks a lot!
That assumption shows a very SV-centric mindset. Intellectual property is largely an legal economic construct. The PhDs in places like Los Alamos generally work more on classified projects. Your point is like saying the NSA must not have many smart people working there because they have no patents. Intellectual capital can create societal value being just dollars and cents.
lichess.org > chess.com or any other paid chess platform
The “people don’t buy a quarter inch drill, they buy a quarter inch hole” thing is a catchy phrase, but it isn't always true. Or even a useful way to think. It is a very limiting way of looking at products. The reason it isn't always true is that sometimes focusing on what you think the customer wants leads to lost opportunities.

It reminds me of a Neal Stephenson quote from Zodiac:

"Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. I go to a good hardware store and head for the oiliest, dustiest corners. … If they're really good, they don't hassle me. They let me wander around and think. Young hardware clerks have a lot of hubris. They think they can help you find anything…. Old hardware clerks have learned the hard way that nothing in a hardware store ever gets bought for its nominal purpose. You buy something that was designed to do one thing, and you use it for another."

If you build stuff you will sooner or later realize that when tools that can do new tricks turn up, it provides you with new opportunities that perhaps you didn't think of before.

If you own equipment to make holes you know that there is a vast difference between a spade bit and a forstner bit. They are two very fundamentally different ways of making a hole. Both make holes, but one will make an absolute mess of certain materials. If all you have is a spade bit, then for some tasks, you have to come up with a different strategies for achieving what you want. You have to design yourself around the limitation. If you use a forstner bit, its ability to make clean holes may mean that not only can you use it for making holes - you may be able to use it in situations where you are not primarily making a hole, but removing a curved bit of material.

I want a faster dishwasher because a faster dishwasher would solve actual problems for me. But it is a bit more nuanced than that. My dishwasher spends about an hour on one load. Getting it down to 50 minutes or even 40 wouldn't change anything. But if you can get it down to 10-15 minutes, it really starts to matter. It means the way I sequence tasks in the kitchen can change. And that's for everyday use. If I were to have a dinner with a lot of guests it would also mean that I'd need fewer plates because I can wash plates between courses.

I've been to a few design thinking workshops, and the thing that always gets me is how arrogantly stupid a lot of these workshops end up being. They pretend to be about learning the customer's needs rapidly, but more often than not what happens is that people try to replace actual insight with ceremonies and suppositions only to arrive at either the wrong conclusions or be in such a hurry to demonstrate cleverness that you miss most opportunities.

But hey, there is good money in teaching ceremony.
I meant self-hosted as in a compiler (like PyPy), not a server (like Mattermost instead of Slack).
Many modern dishwashers are essentially leak-proof. They have a closed bottom, a sensor that detects liquid and use a low-pressure hose with a valve at the end that connects to the wall outlet. The hose is double walled, so even in the event that the low pressure hose leaks, all water will end up in the dishwasher.
I think just the thermal cycling of an industrial dishwasher would damage consumer dishes in just a few cycles, if they even survive the first.
But the stakes are much higher here. You can fix those things if you forget.

You're in trouble if you forget to renew your domain.

And you're in much bigger trouble if your identity is tied to ownership of that domain.
I often think that I would be a best practice for slack/discord to auto delete messages after 2 weeks, that would enforce the idea that they are really ephemeral
GP mentions "lore", that has not been deliberately condensed to a wiki. A forum works much better for lore : to search and reply years later to some very specific question / answer.

(I guess wiki comments and especially talk pages can work too, but they are terrible and not the place for community discussion.)
Totally! lichess nails it.
Using pattern matching instead or something else?
What “octernship” means: https://education.github.com/students/octernships

Basically a GitHub built a platform for students to get paid to do contract projects with mentorship attached. I think it’s interesting.

I read most of the way down the post waiting for any sort of explanation of what an “octernship” is, but the post mostly just says the word a lot and sings praises. In fairness it links to the explanation page, but I would hope a launch post has even the barest of short introductions of the platform.
I don't use twitter much but I've always found it quite incredibly unreliable (for what it is and how many engineers they had working on it). Something was always "going wrong" with it. I haven't actually noticed any difference post-Musk. I'd easily believe if you pulled up stats showing it did get worse, there's simply been nothing you'd call an implosion of the service. It used to kind of work most of the time, and it still does.

I haven't really looked at financials. It's never been what you'd call healthy though, sans SV-bubble. I have heard they lost a lot of revenue since Musk took over but I'd imagine there has been a collapse in opex too so it's difficult to judge that one way or the other.

As for trust, I think a lot has been gained as well due to more transparency about their involvement with government censorship programmes. Again hard to really chalk that up one way or the other.

I'm not saying Twitter has suddenly become the golden goose under Musk, or that no technical operational aspect of it suffered after laying off 80% of their staff though, so this doesn't really address my point. My point is Twitter must have had a vast amount of positions that were not providing value and its actually refreshing to see a CEO go in and ask people to explain what they do, take bold action, and take ownership of those decisions.

The meek, managed, MBA, CEO style is to release a canned statement saying how sorry they are and how horrible they feel, and delegate salary or head count reductions down the line which actually doesn't help much with the dead wood situation and can even entrench it because they're often in lower level executive positions themselves.

My company has recently been through a round of these job cuts and we fired good, productive, very long term experts and immediately had to move people in other places to fill their exact positions (badly, because they barely worked with that code before and have to learn it all). Why? Because they worked in different branches of the organization. They fall under different VPs, and the edict said that everybody had to trim X%. It had nothing to do with what work they did, targets had to be hit so they had to go.

I would have killed to be able to take it to the CEO and be asked to explain what those people did to justify why they should stay on. That's why I find Musk a breath of fresh air. Not because he posts infantile memes on twitter or is rude to employees -- I don't think that twitter convo was very tasteful, he could certainly stand to improve how he goes about things. I just think his approach to running companies has some merit.
Configuring Front Matter with Astro Live
A talk where James and Elio show you the configuration process of using Front Matter with a Astro site.
No experience with any of this, but a quick search turns up stuff like https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/nsfw-detector, which looks affordable and straightforward to implement.

And here's bunch more: https://rapidapi.com/collection/nudity-detection-image-moder...
You're absolutely right, I don't know why I had attributed the name to the full duplex nature. And of course, there is also USART, where you can have a separate clock line, which allows you to omit the start and stop bits too. At that point, you're essentially turning your UART into a single connection SPI bus.
> From the article, it looks a lot like Qualcomm trying to coopt the eSIM success now a few years old, by saying the electronics of iSIM are a custom block in their silicon, not a separate small chip.

I haven't gone into the details but certification is a major undertaking. So yes the logical functionality of what goes into an eSIM may be almost identical to that of an iSIM but integrating that same logic into an SoC means a whole new certification process. In particular certification will consider resistance to physical attacks and the hardening employed will be effected by the SoC integration. You need to bury critical nets deep in the metal stack to help defeat probing attacks and add detectors for intrusions. Integrating these across the whole SoC could be a particular challenge so work may required to apply them only across the chip area used by the iSIM. New design work was likely required for the on-chip interfacing between the iSIM and the rest of the SoC, again needing to ensure it complied with certification requirements.

I don't think it's fair to describe this as a mere PR piece. Significant work will have been required by backend engineers to integrate the iSIM so it's suitable for certification plus all the work required to generate the collateral for certification.

Qualcomm haven't created a whole new piece of technology here but this doesn't mean integrating the existing technology wasn't a major amount of work and a milestone worth publicising (especially as it is the first instance of this).
> even for [rich people], the dishwasher soap is prohibitively expensive for no apparent reason.

The dishwasher tablets we use are $0.16 each. If we ran the dishwasher everyday, that’s under $60/yr. Rinse aid adds about $0.04 per load, so < $75/yr total for daily use. Are they wildly more expensive in other places?

The powdered detergents are even cheaper I think, but I’ve never had reason to consider further economizing as we run 3-4 loads per week for a family of 4.
Totally fair point. One of the videos I'm going to get around to making on my channel at some stage is a UART transceiver on an FPGA. Definitely not the "easier in a pinch" I was originally going for, but hey, if you've got the hardware hanging around!
Anything that doesn't suit Western framework of looking at India can't be considered pseudo history. Most revered river in Vedas is Saraswati which disappear more than 10k years ago. Vedas describes river Saraswati in it's fully glory so they have to be much older than. Not every evidence is going to come from archeology and some evidence is yet to be found like chariots from Rakhigadhi which were also considered a fiction.
Yup, that's why the naysayers will always naysay.

Artists will use ML as engineers have been using ML such as in https://youtu.be/aR5N2Jl8k14?t=198.

I can understand the clash with artists not wanting their work absorbed by the machine, and I agree to a point: if the model reproduces their art 1:1 (or close to) then that's bad! For the artist and the model! If it simply takes inspiration for the type of art/style etc from other artists' work, well, that's what artists do themselves already! That's literally how people learn to be artists.

But also, for an artist to complain that it's not really artistic, then where do we draw the line? They'll use a brush in photoshop that they don't have total control over the behaviour of and that's apparently fine.
Linus Torvalds: if you cannot explain a merge, then JUST DON'T DO IT
Epistemology, cognitive science behind deliberate practice, time management, design theory.

Depends if you want to make things faster, or make better things.
Huh? First, the bank can’t possibly price future interest rates into the price of a fixed loan as they’re by definition unknown. Second, we’re talking about the economic model of which is better for consumers. It assumes no refinancing to lower your interest rate down the road, which is a pretty big caveat.
> I’ve never remained next to a dishwasher for the entire time in order to baby it in case of trouble, have you?

This is from experience actually!

The last two I've had (heavily used before I got them) had a tendency to leak, so I take a peek at them from time to time when they run. Basically the same level of attention I might pay the oven when it's on or a candle.

I would recommend it. A leaking dishwasher can do a surprising amount of damage.

> Then either you’ve never lived in an apartment building or you’re deaf.

Neither are true!
I'm lazy have huge amount of dishes for single person. So I do them rarely. And then I would like to do multiple cycles back to back, maybe on Saturday or Sunday... 1h vs 3h at that process would add up and faster would be better.
I think you're being a little bit hard on them...

There's no single definition of what we consider space. Some types of high-altitude balloons can easily take you to the edge of what most people consider space, which is at 100km above sea level. Or around ten times the distance from earth than your average commercial airplane.

You're making a lot of assumptions on your second point. How do you know that EpiPens won't degrade when flying? There are some conflicting statements in the article, but it seems like you could make a good case for that assumption, based on their findings. If radiation from space transforms epinephrine we probably want to know about it so we can adjust recommendations for storage.
A small STM32 and libopencm3's USB stack would be a more flexible choice. You could for example set your own name, PID/VID, etc.

With some clever setup of descriptors, you could even have multiple UART serials to one USB connection.
Interesting, I don't accept crypto payment yet but I am up for that!
> what's the area of a room 1235 x 738m

I know US houses are larger than European ones, but that seems unlikely. It's larger than most airport terminals