skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would you replace them with?

You can't use HTML, because it's totally inconsistent. You can't use Word docs, because they're totally inconsistent and not cross-platform.

What format can you think of that you can use to describe how each page looks, right down to fractions of a millimetre?
This is so cool! Thanks for sharing.

Taxonomies are inherently limited -- I love this portion of the talk "Everything is Miscellaneous" about Melvil Dewey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3wOhXsjPYM&t=1206s

Surely some things fit equally well in more than one category.

Have you considered asking for best two or three categories, and placing the episodes in multiple locations? Or would that be too noisy?
Aligning DMT Entities: Shards, Shoggoths, and Waluigis
One more thing.

If you want to know why Python looks the way it does, you need to get into Guido's mind. You may disagree with him, but your disagreements will not help you understand why Python looks the way it looks.

And before arguing that he's wrong to think that, remember that for several years now, Python has added more developers in a year than Clojure, Haskell, Ruby, and Scala have *COMBINED*. So while he may be wrong-headed, he's wrong-headed in a way that works for a lot of people.

(Note, I think he's wrong-headed about a lot of things.)
FTC Seeks Names of All Journalists with Whom Musk Shared Twitter Documents
As always, politics is downstream of culture. If every movie cop for the past 100 years had been a Jimmy Stewart aww shucks goody good, maybe we would be in a different place. Instead we tell ourselves (and therefore the next generation of cops) that policing is a macho violent profession, then recruit ex-soldiers to do it, and finally give them Pentagon-surplus equipment to do it with.
I always assumed the podcast was current with the show but it seems like it's about 4 weeks behind.

e.g. I have Tycho Brahe on March 2 in my podcast app, rss shows it released Feb 2.
Who people think we are is who we are because identity is a reflection..

That assumes a level of honesty that is missing from social media. On Instagram people explicitly pretend to be someone they are not. The reflection they show is beauty and affluence but the reality is Photoshop and prestige car rental.
I do wonder what silicon difference a NIR optimized starvis would have vs. the consumer IMX211 silicon, smaller monochrome sensors of the same gen seem fine past 1000NM. Bayer filters would make sense as the actual difference.
Jakob Nielsen has never been in touch with the real world.

For someone who talks about accessibility and usability, his personal website was always an absolute shitemare to read.
"cost and convenience":
cost: $57.60 vs 0
Why would you want to pay nearly $700 a year just to avoid running a program in the background on whatever computer you already have open?

convenience:
yes, it's a nicer interface, but the current state of the "geeky" version is type command on command line, with path to file. The end. unless you're really afraid of the command line it's not that much more convenient.

The text line being highlighted while you listen is nice but a) we wrote something that did it at the word level (as opposed to sentence..ish level) nearly 20 years ago, b) in this context it's not actually that useful. With video sure... you can click the text and go to teh right place in the video. With spoken text (what this is best at) you click and go to the point...where they're saying what you just read. Unless you really want to hear what you just read, there's not a lot of added value.

Would it be good for podcasts to use an interface like this for playback? absolutely. It'd be a massive upgrade, but that's not what this is offering.

maybe someone will extract that code and let us combine the MP3 and timestamped text file in a web site (if that doesn't already exist). That'd be cool.

But, the cost you propose is way too much for most people, especially in countries that aren't rich. In many places $400 a month is a really good salary. So yeah, if you're rich $700 a year is not a big deal, but...
Those switches look like they are the mini generators from ZF Electronics that produce 0.33 mWs of power per activation.

ZF Electronics used to be called Cherry Industrial, which was until a few years ago part of the same company as Cherry AG who make the famous keyboard switches.
Pihole user myself :)

Setting that up was arguably the best technical decision I've ever made, after setting it up for my parents!
Getting wealthy before VCs isn't good.
Yes, I use Outlook.
> The DUI checkpoints up in BC are wild too, I'm glad they are banned in Washington and Oregon. Suspicionless stopping of cars en masse followed by interrogation by police seems like an overreach.

I was just wondering about these (in the US) the other day. When I was growing up, I seem to remember them being a thing and going through them as a passenger but in 20+ years of driving, including on NYE/July 4 and late at night, I've never come across one.

Are there still states doing these?
Not OP, but I _love_ talking about this stuff, so you're stuck with me. :D

I'm a big fan of this project:

https://frigate.video/

It's open source, and you can hook it up to a Coral (or some other things, I think) to get crazy-fast classifications. But CPU is fine for only a few cameras.

Once you get something like that setup, it's just a matter of finding cameras that support RTSP. You get them setup however you like (but preferably wired, with PoE), point Frigate at the RTSP stream, and that's it. Now you've got home security footage that never leaves your house. You can set up a VPN to watch the feeds from elsewhere. Frigate supports MQTT as well, so you can hook it into Home Assistant to get notifications, and even pipe person events into something like Double Take to get face detection:

https://github.com/jakowenko/double-take

EDIT: Oh, and the most important part is to have your security cameras on a totally separate network that doesn't have access to your internal network or the internet. The best cameras are from China, and you don't want to give them any opportunities.
Reminds me a bit of Michael Levin's work, where they use electrical signals to cause organisms to regrow limbs.
I've imagined like an OLED/ePaper hybrid for that application.
It’s googles failing at moving MMS forward and building a sensible competitor to iMessage. I think they probably already lost in the USA but other places they could still catch up
Or e-ink display. Unfortunately those are quite pricey compared to LCD
Inverse Scaling Prize: Second Round Winners
tasks in which language models perform worse the bigger they get
Not exactly it does newsgroups only which is a small part of Goole groups.

Most of Google Groups is mailing lists which can just be created unlike a newsgroup.
ChatGPT is designed to produce “the most mediocre web content you can imagine”
With vector for trivial things, push_back is almost always slower than resizing and then trimming down if needed. The memset to zero it out is minuscule to the cost of push_back. Guess if you don't know how many and it will probably be faster. if you run out, do another block
That's what I'm wondering though. I don't see what is new here. Seems like LLMs are blowing minds even when it does stuff AI has been doing for half a century.
This is awesome! This kind of extreme low-power application was the original reason I wanted Mosh -- I always thought it would be awesome to have a wireless (hand-cranked?) laptop that could run SSH and would only consume energy when (a) a key was pressed [to update the locally generated UI], or (b) it wanted to fire up the radio (on its chosen schedule, e.g. <1 Hz) to retrieve an update from the server of the "ground truth" UI and reconcile that with the local prediction.
The Muse (YC W12) is hiring a director of FP&A
I mean, that's just a laundry list of buzzwords. Yes, these are all things that exist, but that doesn't mean anyone has to learn them or that they're even used in a significant number of real-world codebases. It's like complaining about web development in Python, because there was Django, then Flask, Bottle, CherryPy, and now FastAPI, or Starlette, or Starlite, and Pydantic or attrs or dataclasses or whatever else. In practice, there are some fairly clear ecosystem best practices for the majority of cases, and a bunch of different alternatives because every ecosystem loves trying out different ways of doing things.
Long Covid isn't really a unique or specific thing. Many viral infections can cause post-viral fatigue syndrome in a subset of patients. This has been extensively studied since the 1980s but the exact mechanisms are still not really understood. There's nothing special about SARS-CoV-2 in this regard, just more patients infected during a relatively short period.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3063394/
There are tons of chess game transcripts online -- next token prediction with attention and rules/strategy discussions should be enough to get moderate skill in the Chess domain. It would be exceptionally unlikely that Bing would wire up a chess engine of all things into their production stack.
I dunno about openAI as a service, but on my M1 mac i think whisper took something on the order of 8x realtime to process with the "large" language model. That is to say... 8 minutes of processing for every 1 minute of audio. It was surprisingly not fast. I assume openAIs servers have more GPU at their disposal to make this go faster.
I got ChatGPT to hallucinate actual sources that I can readily copy-paste on wikipedia:

“Give me 3 citations about New East Lake, Michigan, that I can use on wikipedia, in mediawiki syntax. Use actual book names and URLs instead of examples.”

Note that this town doesn’t exist. But now I can pretend it does.

Note, I don’t want to do this of course. But it shows that you really need to check sources on wikipedia, especially nowadays, when it’s so easy to generate realistically looking nonsense.
Is there any proof of this yet or is this another Hersh-like theory?
JavaScript Event Loop: Much more than you wanted to know
Link to the detailed report from wells fargo: https://wellsfargo.bluematrix.com/links2/html/d0f1547d-0864-...
Just reran the benchmarks from 10 years ago, python is only 37X slower than C on the benchmark now, and the go version is running faster than the C version. Python still has big productivity wins of course...
It's more than that: This whole device with 802.3cg and PoDL as a side-feature, but oh by the way it has a whole CPU and radios and eMMC and stuff, is cheaper than most 802.3cg dev boards that're just the MAC/PHY and you still need to glue 'em to a computer of some sort.

That alone justifies it for a lot of applications, and I expect a PoDL injector to emerge from the DIY scene in a matter of days.
Pedal power, like an old-timey sewing machine.
Can someone explain to me how big of a deal this "first of a kind" collaboration between the DOJ and FTC actually is? Who set the penalty here? Is the door still open to further criminal investigation? What does this mean for a potential class action?

The biggest takeaway here seems to be the ban on sharing data, not on the fine itself. I interpret that to mean sharing the data for advertising purposes is legal, maybe with consent from the customer? But now GoodRx can't do that?
I feel like this is missing the forest for the trees. The whole point of misinformation campaigns is to draw in real people. You wouldn't engage in astroturfing if you didn't think actual humans would show up.

I haven't heard about Hamilton 68 but I can't seem to find any verification about it. It also seems narrowly focused on bots and not the hundreds of professional (human!) trolls and hackers that countries like Russia (and others) employ.

I will grant you that the "fake news" problem was a completely separate issue and largely domestic: https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/50... We should be clear when we talk about "misinformation" we are talking about things that are materially true! Just weaponized. Russia hacked both the DNC and the GOP, but only leaked the DNC emails. Nothing was made up! We were just given a selective and unfair version of the truth.

Honestly, I consider myself a somewhat conservative leaning myself. But foreign countries are engaging in these psyops programs believing them to be effective (as is our own government)! So I think it would be incredibly naive to let foreign agents with ulterior motives run free through our systems under the guise of political speech.

I want my political trolling to be domestically produced!
Frigate looks pretty interesting. Do you have an estimation of how much CPU it's using for your cameras?

I have about a dozen 4k cameras I'd love to migrate to a much more capable NVR, but doing so with software typically means I go from a 30W NVR to maxing out a 8 core 200W Xeon even without object detection.

Would love to kill my Duaha NVR and toss this on the Proxmox cluster instead.
“What would be a natural response to the formation of that gang? Wouldn’t it be a gang of “also baddies but baddies whose interests align more closely with ours?”

Yes, and this is so obvious I can’t believe you are being downvoted. If authorities do nothing, vigilantism will become the increasingly common response. This is exactly what happened in the Seattle CHOP zone- no police = adhoc armed groups claiming that authority for themselves.
There may have been an unsavory association in the 1970s (that, and an association with the US Navy). But today, almost a third of US adults have tattoos; the association now is "part of American culture".

Go get a tattoo. They're fun! You can get one of Ronald Coase.
https://archive.is/GLsUD
Things Computer Users Will Never Experience Again (2015)
Right? Effortless performance improvements without having to make it a "journey" and write 50 blog posts: absl::StrSplit will stop this vector reallocation and get rid of those string copies, and if you want you can just iterate over it without storing anything.
My 2 c on first impression - you’re hitting the ‘Airtable for’ language so hard and so often that I had trouble parsing out whether your tool was a middleware that unlocked new features for Airtable or not.
Currently, there exist multinational corporations but not multinational unions. Furthermore, some countries do not permit unions to extend their reach across the same industry effectively. This perspective reflects the view that labor has been engaged in a conflict with capital.
If this were true, I imagine they would have brought this up before the FTC fined them. Just went on their site now, no mention of this hybrid entity structure.
Strong correlation, but not exclusively. Plenty of areas regularly vote for bond measures paid by increases in property taxes. So you can get increases of BOTH rate and value.
Ah, I thought you'd provide your own key.

If it is free, how do they not make losses?!
Necessary context: Silvergate Bank was a major (by crypto standards) bank underpinning crypto companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvergate_Bank
All 150 Willie Nelson Albums, Ranked
Cool, ddd really applies in every area of software
Gmane nntp access still works and I don't think has had any issues.

The web interface to gmane has gone (due to self admitted errors by the original owner)
Show HN: SupportGPT – Generative AI for customer support automation, w ChatGPT
SupportGPT
ChatGPT Translator: A ChatGPT-based free alternative to DeepL
Coincidentally published on March 8th, International Women's Day?!? :P
Search appears to be dead.

Recent example. I've got a pine64 a64 board with an ES9023 audio "POT" daughter board that runs and boots linux using armbian fine. Doesn't know about the ES9023 audio DAC, spdif and i2s(?) rca output. Ok so first thing I think of is, what kernel module is the driver for it so I know if it is even available or do I need to compile a kernel.

Sure pine64 documentation is woeful unless you want to read schematics or something so it could have been there, but it isn't. This should not be a hard question to answer with a search engine.

pine64 a64 audio es9023 linux kernel driver

Try it. Watch google do the wrong thing no matter what you do. Quote. allintext: you name it. It's nuts. Google wants to show you what it wants, not what you want. That appears to be what it is. You want to find something, get stuffed. Google is no use to find things. Google is good to show you things it chooses in the general area of your interest. Ok but that is not a "search" engine. It's a recommendation system, fine if that is what you want but a flipping diaster of orwellian proportions if that recommendation engine is the best we have for search and we haven't noted it and responded.

I'm more likely to get the answer faster posting about how garbage google search his than repeatedly trying different google "tricks" just crazy.

So yeah the answer I really want is what else can we use that actually does search?
> While I'm aware my relationship wasn't perfect, the standards promoted by those aesthetic Insta influencers were really impossible to obtain in real life.

In the 4 months I dabbled with Instagram, I was shocked by how toxic and outright false the pop psychology memes were. They were stereotypical, frequently backwards, and deliberately misapplied. And all of that is before the cluster-B LARPing.

"Your partner won't give you access to their financial accounts? That's domestic violence, and he probably has Narcissistic Personality Disorder too! What's his is yours, so just use his credit card to book plane tickets without asking and remember that him yelling at you about it is verbal abuse, so get out while you still can before he starts beating you! And remember abuse thrives in secrecy-- so make sure you tell everybody how he was so aggressive that you were in constant fear for your life!"

Sorry you were on the receiving end of [whatever your case is]. Not even the strongest of relationships can withstand reinforcement of sentiments as corrosive as Instagram, where you're a useless piece of shit if you can't/won't support your partner's ambitions of joining the jet set.

You lost your partner to a cult. They're called "followers" for a reason. It starts with separating victims from their loved ones...
In my state, you could be put in jail until you give up the password.
I can't decide if that's an excellent analogy or a terrible one. On the one hand it's very true, on the other hand I suspect the fraction of HN readers who are familiar with tank armor is fairly small.

For those not familiar, RHA is the type of armor used circa world-war II. Armor has gotten better on a per-inch-thickness with improved technology. Modern tanks (and modern anti-tank munitions) are often rated as to the equivalent thickness of RHA protection (or penetration) they provide.

For example, Explosive Reactive Armor (ERA) can have a very high RHA rating if you use a traditional HEAT (High-Explosive Anti-Tank) round as your benchmark, but a tandem HEAT round can almost completely eliminate the per-thickness protection advantage that ERA offers. So a tandem HEAT round might have a lower RHA penetration rating than a traditional HEAT round, yet be more effective against an ERA with a very high RHA rating.

So, if you have a spiffy new tandem HEAT round, and want to fake^H^H^H^H present good numbers, you find the highest RHA rated ERA armor that it can penetrate and claim that as the RHA rating of your projectile. Even though it might not be able to penetrate that many inches of actual RHA, or possibly even modern composite armor with such an RHA rating.
> physically cut the antenna connections because I'm not about to trust the manufacturer of the camera to not try to exfiltrate something

This is not normal - there is no other industry where the customer routinely expects to be defrauded, and everyone to get away with it.
Thanks, I'll definitely take a look!
Weirdly enough, it seems like the last few years here in SoCal I’ve seen more butterflies than normal. I’ve seen more bees than normal, but I’ve planted some native plants that they seem to love.
How do you add a new group for your new project?
to be clear i don't know if the project supports the feature out of the box; it just seems to me like something it would enable, and that i would have expected to see called out as a use case in the README.
Would this still be true on a tiled rendering GPU, i.e. mobile?

If not, is there any possibility that dividing a fullscreen quad into _more_ triangles would actually end up faster?
The original post I was asking for further details is about borders, not passport.

That said, passports have been around near as long as borders, just did not have the smart chip embedded in them. Letters of recommendations or safe passage to pass a port have been around nearly as long as the notion of sovereign boundaries. It might have been a parchment with a wax seal, a ring, or a stick with a burn-mark, maybe even clay tablet, but the purpose of the "passport" is the same - passage into and across a territory controlled by another group other than the person holding the "passport" - i.e. safe passage.

Your reference last states King Henry the 5th of England had "pass porte" in the early 15th century. The Greek city states had safe-passage documents between each other way before the English. There is a bilingual "letters of recommendation" in Chinese and Tibetan from the 10th century to allow safe passage for a pilgrimage. A thing that allows a non-local to pass safely into and out of a territory.
(British Library IOL Tib J 754) https://www.princeton.edu/news/2014/11/17/bringing-ancient-b...
How to approach titling for early engineering hires?
I'm wondering if folks have any advice about titles for early software engineering roles. It's probably a 'more art than science' situation, but we're too far along to consider "Founding Engineer", but still so small that we aren't really able to attract "Principal Engineers" with 5-10 years of experience.

In other words, if I'm keen to make an offer to someone who might be a "Senior Software Engineer" at another company, is it bad form to attach the title "Staff Software Engineer" if I feel that's the better fit for her responsibilities/role at our size?
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A fun twist on simple integer mathematics, taking numbers and operations as input then producing Assembly, machine code and shellcode. (Does not compute the maths)
How about letting the users flag each website with a label "seo spam", "useful", " fakenews", "inaccurate"... and display a summary of the votes as a badge beneath each link in the search results?

We could create a browser extension to add this functionality to all search engines at once. Using a web of trust mechanism to ensure that we only get real votes...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34999285
Exercise, therapy concurrent with ketamine treatment.
I had the same problem and hated it. What fixed it was clicking "Not Interested" on enough of the posts to where it eventually gave up trying to show stuff like that. I think you're correct about the fact that it figures out you're an adult male and assumes you want that content, since a common theme with adult males is, well, an interest in attractive women.

The algorithm has now decided to just show me cute animal stuff for several months, which is fine by me. It's all low-effort and mostly dumb, but it's better than unsolicited butts popping up everywhere when I just want to see what my friends are up to.

Now if I could just fix the scenario where somehow it decides I really like garbage pay-to-play mobile games and shows me _nothing_ but ads for them for days on end.