skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used a Stream Deck XL for a long time, mostly as an app launcher, but the most useful feature was a "universal MUTE key". I used Keyboard Maestro to set up macros that would mute/unmute the microphone in any videoconferencing app, with the same physical key that also indicated the current status. This worked for Zoom, GoToMeeting and Google Meet.

I sold the Stream Deck XL for two reasons: I didn't need that many keys, and I found out that if you are to use a device like this at home and in the office, you really need two. The setup needs to be the same in all your work places, otherwise you won't bother learning to use the accessory.

As for some other less typical accessories: I use a 3DConnexion SpaceMouse and can't imagine doing any 3D CAD work without it.

Oh, also: for many years now all my monitors are on arms. The supplied stands are always too low, and arm mounting has the additional advantage of freeing up lots of space on the desk.

Does a 16-port USB-A hub count? (in addition to the CalDigit thunderbolt dock)
20th century hubris poisoned so many studies I would rather say.

I have this example but there are literally hundreds:

You know about the 5 μm particle size limit for it to become airborne? Washing hands for protecting against aerosols? It’s parroted bad research; and wrong.

The main infection path of upper respiratory diseases is through aerosols. The medical literature says it’s through hands that are touching the mouth and the nose but this is wrong. It was shown in the 1940s that viruses can spread through aerosols and that aerosols are particles under 100 μm. Research was done on tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is caused by bacteria that must infect the deep inside parts of the lung. For that it needs an aerosol size of 5 μm. Other diseases can do with aerosols of 5-100 μm.

Now, a meme was born that only 5 μm particles can get airborne.

And this was just accepted by the Western medical canon and the WHO.
This was a big reason I got a folding bike. My Brompton never gets locked up outside - It fits inside a shopping cart so I even keep it with me when I'm getting groceries.
I wonder if the cops will prioritize it if you show them gps tracking data. Feels like it has the potential to quickly take away the incentive.
1) Even being unaccustomed to riding unicycles most people can easily ride in 5-10 km range without any significant discomfort. It's usually enough when combined with public transport (I am talking about Europe, in the US it may not be so). For more experienced users 20-30 km easily falls into comfortable range.

2) "Sittable" EUC models do exist. Though usually they are higher end models and there are some caveats with riding EUC in such way.
Was your degree worth it?
That Burroughs was one of the first bytecode based OSes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_Large_Systems

And thanks for making having another look into it, as it clearly points out there are emulators and native implementations (MCP CMOS),

"These machines were the Libra 100 through the Libra 500, With the Libra 590 being announced in 2005. Later Libras, including the 590, also incorporate Intel Xeon processors and can run the Burroughs large systems architecture in emulation as well as on the MCP CMOS processors. It is unclear if Unisys will continue development of new MCP CMOS ASICs. "
>Let's say the cost of compute is 1 cent per 100B flops (probably a lowball).

I might be totally misunderstanding this, but from the source you posted elsewhere[1], GPU Sale Price per Flops is as a little bit higher than 1*10^-11 dollars per flop, or 10^11 flops per dollar, or 10^9 flops per cent. So 1GFlops per cent. But Flops are Floating point operations per second. So you aren't paying 1cent for 100B flops, you're paying 1 cent for a card capable of doing 100B floating point operations per second. So let's say the card lasts 3 years and runs at 100% utilization (I know, it doesn't we can multiply by some efficiency metric later), there's about 9.5*10^7 seconds in 3 years. So that dollar cost isn't for 100B flops, it's for 100B * 9.5 *10^7 ( *some efficiency number). So it's many orders of magnitude cheaper than you're saying.

In reality, the cost of running these things isn't the cost of buying the GPUs, it's the cost of the power to run the GPUs, and that's a totally different calculation we can do.

[1]: https://aiimpacts.org/2019-recent-trends-in-gpu-price-per-fl...*
This may be bad advice for those of us whose grandparents are British, or the other European cultures whose foods are just potatoes, bread, cevapi, and other things all universally colored brown.
Show HN: Prepsup – AI quiz assistant for oral exam preparation
Hello everyone!

We are Asger and Nicolai, two master's students who have created an AI-powered tool designed to make preparing for oral exams both simpler and more effective. We're curious to find out if this tool might be particularly helpful compared to other tools, and we're currently seeking beta testers to give it a try.

It includes the following features so far:

1. Personalized Quizzing: Our AI-powered assistant tailors questions based on the student's specific syllabus, ensuring that their practice is targeted and effective.

2. Real-time Feedback: Prepsup provides instant feedback on clarity and content, allowing students to quickly identify and improve their weak areas.

3. Confidence Building: By simulating real exam conditions, students can practice answering questions, helping them build the confidence they need to excel during their oral exams.

Would anyone here be interested in testing our webapp and provide us with some much-needed feedback? Also feel free to reach out and we can have a conversion.

Looking forward to hear what you have to say.

Wish you a fantastic day!
Best, Asger and Nicolai
"What has been, is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun."

I agree with the bible on this. There nothing "new", all humans do is "working on existing knowledge".
https://archive.ph/bln1N
THIS. "Open Source" removes one of many barriers to the code being well-maintained over time. "I'm sure that somebody qualified will step up and..." is exactly the sort of wishful thinking that got them into the current mess.
Programming is meant to be fun. That sounds like it was fun.

For some projects and people, fun is more important than readability, speed, or any other dimension.

(edit: not to imply that hack isn't readable or fast or such! I think it's cute and very readable)
This issue includes :

How to sound like a smart software engineer. Who is hiring (with Salary Range)? Learn about the internal workings of Riverpod. How to bootstrap your business. The problem with AI and much more.
Small number of users By google standards... probably a few million users*
Admittedly the grandparent is somewhat ambiguous about what constitutes availability, but my point was that widely available renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, are intermittent.
Does Google secretly impose a limit on how many channels we can block from YouTube recommendations?
Yes, but the above comment is more about cache misses and constant boxing. That was a different lecture
I'd love to join the team, can one apply all the way from Africa(Nigeria)?
2FA is hell. It was forced on people to control them, not to help them. There should be a law that would forbid banks and other companies to demand a phone number. But, unfortunately, things are upside down now. :(
Hopefully, there will be businesses that will specialize in this, it's not difficult to guarantee spare parts.. It's a bike.
KEF LS50
>If NN weights aren't protected by IP law that could slow down progress quite a lot.

What do you mean? IP law is overwhelmingly an impediment to progress; innovation happens faster when people are free to build on existing weights.
Location: Taiwan (British national)

Remote: Yes (only)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C# / ASP.NET / React / SQL Server / also WPF, WinForms, some DevOps, Linux admin

Email: dan.parsonson at gmail

I'm a software engineer with over 20 years experience, the last 10 of which spent contracting; originally from the UK but now living in Taiwan. I am looking for a remote-only contract, outside IR35, preferably full stack or back-end .NET web development, but I will also consider desktop development for the right job. I still have a UK-based limited company and am legally allowed to work remotely from Taiwan (I have a Taiwanese Gold Card).

I have extensive full-lifecycle experience, from customer-facing requirements gathering, through architecture, development, testing, deployment and support. Very happy to have a chat, please drop me a line :-)
It's fun though. It's nice to have "best practices" etc, but SerenityOS isn't for IBM calculators or NASA life-support systems, it's a project for enjoyment by people who enjoy writing software.
Sorry, but you can get emergent behavior that LOOKS intelligent anywhere, and the only way you cant know is if all you get is a single way to observe it.

As long as people weren't ready to look at human anatomy, they could only observe symptoms and make super wild guesses.

That is what this is. Youre observing a thing in a black box with a screen, and youre reading too much into it if anything in the past is to be believed.

Show a person a cellular automaton and dont explain it to them, leave them with it in a room for a month, see what their theories are. You bet it wont be "theres three rules and a random number generator", even if thats all there is.
Yes I think if this works it's one of the strongest signals yet that LLMs as they currently exist have a fairly general form of intelligence.

I am pretty sympathetic to the field of "AI Safety" and I worry a lot about the implications of agent-like general intelligences. This post gives me a lot to ponder.

What are the implications of the fact that even AIs that are not agent-like at heart can apparently be told "please simulate an agent-like AI"? I really don't know. Should we consider it as an "inner AI" with its own objectives? How can we determine what those objectives are?

Instinctively it feels much less concerning than an AI with a direct action->perception feedback loop but who knows. AI is fucking weird.

What a thrilling time to be alive!
5.3GW global nuclear power capacity globally seems off. Individual plants are on the order of 1-5GW

edit: checked your source and it in fact says global operating nuclear comes to around 370GW which makes more sense. Not making a comment on your point, the numbers just seemed off in my experience
> we discuss the challenges ahead for advancing towards deeper and more comprehensive versions of AGI, including the possible need for pursuing a new paradigm that moves beyond next-word prediction

sounds very much like it depends on the definition and the vendor themselve agrees that the current modeling options might not go much further...
This also another good one by the same author of Palestine: https://indypendent.org/2007/02/bosnian-war-drawn-out-a-revi...
like that but requiring 60GBs of CPU RAM for some reason :-P

one has to wonder how did they implement the storage of those deltas to require that sort of RAM
Ask HN: How do you explain ChatGPT to your kids
My daughter(12) started using ChatGPT recently for homework stuff, but she also asked it some personal things about a friendship advice, which made me think about how dangerous it is to take a life from a language model.

I thought its important to explain what it is and how it works, so I made our lesson yesterday be about ChatGPT (we spend every day doing a bit of coding and I log it in this repository):

https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/week-044.md#day-318-ai-for-kids

Today before school I asked her to reflect on what ChatGPT is, and she had a pretty good mental model from yesterday's lesson, so at least she doesnt think it has empathy or is telling the 'truth'.

I managed to change 'ChatGPT is giving an answer to a question' to 'its just guessing the next word, but it understands deeply how words are connected'.

We did a lot of exercises where I asked her to think what would the next word be given a sequences of words just by thinking about their probabilities, like: 'Your name is ChatGPT. What is your' and the next word is going to be probably 'name' and then '?' and then 'My'

How do you explain it to your kids? Do you worry about them using it?

Since OpenAI makes it super easy to login with gmail (and her gmail is a kid account), I didn't even know she had a user there until she told me, but I think most kids in her class use it without their parents knowing.

PS: Sorry I submitted the AskHN with url filled in and that made it remove the AskHN part of it and also mangled the url and etc, so i am just submitting again without url this time
Make them bigger. You can easily fit 40 bikes into a truck. You can't fit 40 cars.

Thieves don't care much for the enforcement, it's property crime, so it's deprioritized. Burglary is the exceptions in terms of property crimes, because people _really_ care about being safe in their homes and will vote appropriately.
Whether or not they're less practical depends entirely on the type of skirt, the type of pants you compare it to, and the circumstances you're wearing them. When it's hot, skirts are generally more practical, simply because you don't have any fabric crunched up between your legs. Many desert cultures know the value of robes for men.

In any case, I'm a big proponent of all types of clothes being available for everybody. Wear what you want.
None of this is really unknown, but maybe not super common.

* Standing desk. I work and play on my computer, so I try to spend at least half the working day in a standing position. It's an electric one, ime switching being effortless is very important for actual usage.

* Wired headset. If I'm on a call (work or TTRPG), I plug it in. Otherwise it's lying on the side. I hate charging so much, I even have my wireless mouse permanently connected via USB.

* Sound card. A Creative Soundblaster ZX. Probably not needed anymore, but my last laptop (2006ish) had a soundcard in that pci slot thing, and I bought one for my first Desktop afterwards and stinky kept it. I do like the Soundblaster software and it's not as if I need the pcie X1 slot it takes up for anything else.

* Document scanner. Scan all paper documents I might need again and store them in paperless ngx (the scanner software scans to a smb share on my home server that paperless consumes)
I was very tired and left large bottle of water, some toiletries over 100ml, my laptop and Nintendo Switch inside my bag and it went through the X-ray scanner at SFO just fine, never once got looked at.
Should've been clearer. I'm not talking about WiFi but WiDi. Wireless display doesn't work.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
Canada explicitly legalized racism so long as it’s done for equity purposes. In America the same laws would be unconstitutional and immigrants of all types coming to the country on a regular basis. This is a country where the median income of several immigrant groups outstrips that of the local population despite factors such as nepotism.

Define racism I suppose. Is racism inequality or inequity?
I like these too, nothing beats a stage mic when you're on cam as well as on stage.

But I was afraid the U-Phonia was USB.

These type dynamic mics actually can be used with a carefully wired XLR-to-1/8 inch cable, and plug straight into the regular analog PC mic input.

Even though the PC supplies 5VDC intended for a cheap condenser mic, if the voltage runs through the SM58 it will not hurt it.

Your carefully shielded (well-grounded shield) sensitive unbalanced precious signal goes somewhat unprotected on the motherboard down a copper trace for a few cm until it goes in a single analog input pin of the A/D converter section of the audio IC. From that point on it's as digital as your specs will support, so ideally in this configuration there are actually no "active" electron devices like transistors or vacuum tubes (even the best have some hiss and distortion) in between your mic capsule and your A/D.

Well when you enable the PC's software-controlled analog mic boost, that's when you engage an active transistor gain stage for your mic signal before it goes A/D, it makes the mic volume a lot more comfortable, but then you depend on the audio quality and noise level of an on-chip analog silicon feature which may not be so good, depending on the exact audio IC.

But at least the mic boost is only one little gain stage, not a number of components that your analog mic input, however balanced, can often encounter before reaching the A/D process of a USB audio adapter.

Now there is not zero latency with the mic plugged into the 1/8 inch jack, but people sometimes think so when they're accustomed to USB.
Yap, only does CPU.
https://mackie.com/en/products/studio-monitoring/big-knob-se...
Agreed. $39.99/month to properly use the service "Unlimited" is beyond ridiculous for what it is.
> Examples such as automatic dispensers which can be controlled from a microcontroller, turning the coffee machine from a microcontroller

While the goal-oriented mindset might get you tangible results, it lacks curiosity which is the essence to truly understanding and loving anything. Maybe toy with a circuit simulator [1] (check out the samples under menu point "circuits") and see how your interest evolves?

[1] http://lushprojects.com/circuitjs/circuitjs.html
the people trapped in the building were either prevented from leaving or beaten up as they tried to leave, while ukranian nationalists chanted "burn! burn!" on the street
AI Can Help with Tabs
Discussion underway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35433982
Why can't English speakers pronounce R?
Costco's 350w/15.5mph Jetson Haze folding e-bike is $100 off ($550) until Sunday.

https://www.costco.com/jetson-haze-electric-bike.product.400...
Granted it makes some amount of sense. But the issue is that with EPIC you still can address every part of the processor unless you want to continue to grow the instruction. So you end up having to do OoO anyway but you just made it much more complex and hard to reason about.

I'm not a chip designer but is what I understood to be one of the issues.

Also if this compiler stuff wasn't jet written, unlike with RISC where people at Standford showed successful compilation for RISC already before people even developed any high performance RISC chips.

I don't want to claim I'm smarter then those people, clear all the people working on these VLIW processor were a lot smarter then me. But then again many smart people worked on Alpha and they didn't go the VLIW route.
The fact that you have any doubt about this says a lot about your own intelligence.

I'm not interested in chatting with the Weird Nerd defending Elon Musk from Valid Criticism.
Show HN: ProbeAI – Copilot for Data Analysts
I had cheese confiscated in Brussels “because we can’t tell the difference with C4 on the machine”

I suspect they just fancied a nice lunch.

Meanwhile I’ve flown a few times with a forgotten pocket knife in my carry on and more than 100mL of water. Nobody died and the plane landed safely at destination.
The space required to safely operate a bicycle is not equal to the width of the vehicle in the first place. The article, in its second paragraph already mentions cargo bikes which often have the tri-wheel configuration.
Exactly. Too often people keep clothes that are needlessly crippled or otherwise don't really meet their requirements because at least they fit. It's often hard enough to find something that fits, that we just accept other needless limitations. But if enough people do it, we can demand better. But for that, it has to become common, and not merely possible.
You may not agree with it, but when people realize they can have an extra 10 grant a year post-tax by using a cargo bike instead of a car they might be persuaded. We'd need to fix the car-choked misery of American cities though.

I'm American and I intend to do this, but it's only made feasible by moving to the Netherlands, which is much better designed.
We are hurtling toward a glitchy, spammy, scammy, AI-powered internet
https://dusanwriter.substack.com/p/today-in-ai-on-cults-citi...

> How many tabs do you have open? I found one for some new ‘productivity software’ that I think I opened two years ago, and maybe left it there as a sort of gesture of intent. I asked how AI can help with tab management. It came up with 100 ideas, and there are honestly a few good start-ups buried in here.
"It's what will make you working class from middle class, or homeless living in slums or under welfare even".
I distinguish between a casual voice chat and an important meeting/presentation, casual I often take on the go and use whatever is the most convenient option (definitely not a proper headset... bone conductors more like it). At an important meeting I usually don't walk to another room.

And if you specifically mean the cheapest possible models, yes wired will have cable noise, but wireless will have horrible connection and battery issues, so let's assume we are talking about a good above-average model and in that case you can expect no cable noise.
So if the military decides your rhetoric calling for the extermination of a group of people is too extreme, you're fine with them drone striking you? As what you're doing isn't drastically different to what al-Awlaki did.
> This is such a consumerist, comfort-over-everything view

I wish this bad-faith nonsense would vanish, and people would stick to issues.

I was in South Africa when the blackouts really started, in 2014 and 2015, and every person and business that could afford it bought a diesel generator. Not for their comfort, except in an extreme definition of the word. For their survival. Businesses cannot survive without power. Hospitals cannot. Communications networks cannot. Electric cars cannot.

But diesel and petrol generators and vehicles can. That's the most likely "preparation on our end".
Scenes of inequality around the world from a drone
Fictional character protection is complex, backed by franchise money generation machines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_protection_for_ficti...

Arguably, however, (a) not all fictional characters are copyrightable in the first place, and (b) fair use still exists.

Adobe Illustrator should not prevent an artist from drawing Mickey Mouse using the software. Nor should MidJourney.

If Disney has a problem, they can go after the human using the tool.
Michael Pollan wrote about this concept in In Defence of Food. He's also known for the idea of "eat food, mostly plants, not too much". His book goes on to explain what he means by "food" and mentions only eating from outer part of the super market where the fresh meat counters and vegies are.
Zuckerberg should be thrown into a vat of acid, so I'm unclear why you decided to bring him up first of all people.
You're making big semantic leaps here.You seem to be wanting to deny the claim that "the US are the origin of far-right ideology and pushing it to Europe", but that's not the point I'm making. My point is that, in recent times, the cultural flow goes this way. It's also one item in a list of other domains where the flow also goes this way.
As a very occasional gamer who uses an iMac for work I thought about getting a gaming PC for like 6 years.

Last fall it seemed that all the stars have aligned. The crypto winter and Ethereum switching to proof of stake meant that GPU prices fell to a reasonable level, I knew i would have a bit of a time to play some game during the holidays and as soon as Stable Diffusion was first posted on hacker news I knew that that's my excuse and my sign.

So far I think I have spent more time tinkering with the 20 python environments I have[0] for all the ML projects than playing RDR2.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1987/