skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we need this today for mens trousers. Some of those are so low that they seriously impede movements and lead to tripping and falling. High heels can also be a serious danger to the wearer. Probably some other things too. I don't really know fashion, but it would be great if people finally after all these years started a movement to evaluate fashion according to rational principles.
> We literally just set a global variable

I feel like game programming in general is one big "we set a global variable" :)
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The same Dropbox that people wanted to boycott and fled from after Condalisa Rice became a board member. I'd trust Google above Dropbox any day and I don't trust Google enough to actually use Google Drive.
Italian chatGPT clone has open traffic metrics and they are insane
> You’re only one step away from the metal.

You can write about assembly like a poet, at least.
Btrfs is particularly special as the inode limit is per subvolume, so it's quite easy to have an impractically huge number of them with some cleverness.
I don't know any of the detail, but I don't see how this symbol interpreted as a threat of violence should receive a larger award than an actual death, which is what the person you're replying to was saying. Have I misunderstood?
I really hope the mini nuclear reactors that are planned take off and you can just order them for residential power generation.

It is astonishing the amount of red-tape when it comes to nuclear power, just because of all the FUD pushed by environmental groups, when it is the cleanest form of energy in the world.
Note that people have tried raising baby monkeys with human babies. The monkeys still can't speak.
But I read stuff like:

> Now to be clear, India has no such dish as a curry

from the "educators" here
Yes, this is what I thought too. It feels very back of a napkin without much industry experience. I'd love it to work obviously but the thought that installation will be drop a double container onboard and it can be lashed onto most ships and still provide the amount of force needed seems fanciful. It certainly cannot go on top of other containers if that is what they are thinking!
> xenaphobia of the native population

People being afraid of the warrior princess is probably a good thing.
Why is the picture of Sutjeska war memorial in the article?
Having to prove your worth to a corporation so you can put food on your table and a roof over your head while pretending to have other motives is absolutely a groveling, humiliating process for retail workers.

It is also a humiliating and stressful process for professional workers as well, many of which are not social and haven’t established a proper social network to make it more painless. Having to do a dog and pony to prove yourself is excruciating.
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I think it depends on if the output space is shared.

In the case of MidJourney the output is in Discord for all to see. Setting community standards like no-porn is about creating a space where the most possible people will feel welcome. I would like to think a policy of "no disrespectful imagery" of legally-protected deities or figures wouldn't be that burdensome as a whole. It also helps to avoid drama. There is probably places that such drama would be a welcome addition but I get the feeling MidJourney is not one of those places.

I'm not saying we should bake such constraints into the models, that I think is in poor taste and unnecessary. If people can run the model on their own machine where the output is private to them they should be allowed to generate whatever they want and they can post that in venues where that sort of content is acceptable.

But when images are emitted into a public shared space I do think some rules on what is and isn't appropriate are fair game. At the end of the day it's meant to be an AI art community that is about the fusion of technology and creativity. It's not setup to be a place for political discourse.
The oculus quest 2 has a resolution of 1,832 x 1920. If the virtual screen takes up half your field of view (usually it will be less, even if it looks big in your field of view) then it might be effectively 900x1000, but then you have to keep in mind that none of your screens sharpening tricks are in effect, so it looks even lower.
Hey, I work on Haystack Agents; we haven't seen Yohei's types of requests yet but I'm closely following his ideas and work.
I use wireless headphones because cords get in my way, but the “step away to make tea” seems like an unlikely use case to me. It isn’t as if you don’t have to see the screen anyway… more than half the time someone is sharing a window and saying things like, “what do we do about THIS?” while waving their pointer over something.
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I've never understood this. She bought hot coffee, put it between her legs, and spilled it. If I'd done that, I would feel foolish and blame no one but myself. What reasonable person is surprised that coffee is served hot enough to scald you?
And yet somehow I see this argumentation constantly done everywhere, including this very site.

"Only 10% of users...", "Only 5% of Tesla owners...", "Only 3% of Americans...", "Just a few % of blind people..."

Somehow this is a mistake everyone constantly and repeatably does to make things crappier. And that includes rockstar engineers, normal engineers, managers, product people, everyone.
My Logitech mouse uses 1 AA battery per more than 1 year and I even never turn it off. Also it has a red lamp which signals a low battery, it can work a week with that red lamp.
Ask HN: Good US-based accounting firm that does not “drip” price you?
For a long while my partner in our business has done the books himself. We avoided using a bookkeeper and accountant, engaging with them often when it was too late. We found that we often were not paying the correct corporate taxes, payroll taxes, etc.

We have since migrated to using a payroll service, and are now using "XXX" as an accounting company.

I get the sense that they are drip pricing us.

Accounting services often seem like there are endless fees, and endless work that needs to be done. We keep getting bills for additional fees, and additional taxes (city, state, federal) that we were not aware of. I know this is probably somewhat par for the course, but it is now verging on the tens of thousands of dollars and has had a real impact on our ability to make payroll.

For example, this statement makes me very suspicious: "we need to fix the 20xx tax return; not all expenses are in the 20xx return."

Would an internal accountant really recommend amending a return when a few expenses were not fully included? Would this really trigger an audit? We are talking about a few hundred, perhaps a thousand dollars for revenues of $300k.

Does anyone have a good startup accounting firm they use and like? Or, recommendations on what is a good process? Use a bookkeeper once a month, then hire an accountant once a year? Are there flat rate pricing services where you do the work through a web UI rather than dozens of emails, etc? Are there payroll companies that offer this as an add-on?

Or, is this just the reality of making sure the books are clean?

It really feels like this is a clever company milking us because we are ignorant. But, I'm not sure.
Right- but all of those criteria are highly subjective. And even the question of why these goals are important versus any other concerns is subjective.

Dress is form of self expression - intrinsicly so.

Rationalism is absurd, and this is a great example of why.

Humans almost never do anything on a purely rational basis. Everything we do is directed by subjectivity, emotion, aesthetics etc. - it's better to be honest about this and embrace it, rather than fooling one's self that one's aesthetic preferences are anything more than subjective.
That's right. If you want to ask questions about "general public knowledge", a plain LLM will know anyway and would not need tools. However, for many use cases you need data from your private CRM / a SQL db / a private wiki / or your obversability platform. Agents allow to "query" those tools/APIs to get the needed information so that they can answer the question. It's a matter of composition in your architecture. The "monolith LLM" works well for a certain spectrum of tasks, but at some point you want to decouple responsibilities into individual services / tools. Simplifies debugging, explainability, maintenance ...
It's also 16 bit for the AVR architecture used on Arduino devices.
consumer hardware is a bit vague of a limitation, which I guess it's partly why people are not tracking precisely what runs on what very closely

these could be useful:

https://nixified.ai

https://github.com/Crataco/ai-guide/blob/main/guide/models.m...
-> https://old.reddit.com/user/Crataco/comments/zuowi9/opensour...

https://github.com/cocktailpeanut/dalai

the 4-bit quantized version of LLaMA 13B runs on my laptop without a dedicated GPU and I guess the same would apply to quantized vicuna 13B but I haven't tried that yet (converted as in this link but for 13B instead of 7B https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp#usage )

GPT4All Lora's also works, perhaps the most compelling results I've got yet in my local computer - I have to try quantized Vicuna to see how that one goes, but processing the files to get a 4bit quantized version will take many hours so I'm a bit hesitant

PS: converting 13B Llama took my laptop's i7 around 20 hours and required a large swap file on top of its 16GB of RAM

feel free to answer back if you're trying any of these things this week (later I might lose track)
Yeah, it's so far from other languages that you probably can't make out any of the words at all.

I think I have some invites, can you email me about it?
When I was younger my tongue was physically unable to produce R because it wasn't able to reach back far enough.
It's not uncommon for people to underestimate avian intelligence, for some reason I never quite understood.

At times I wonder if it's some sort of tiny vendetta from humans themselves. You know, like how (Eurasian) magpies are considered pests, even bad omens, despite being intelligent and crafty...only because they are able to get past human-made traps. I guess a lot of humans are sore losers, heh.

But corvidae are legitimately intelligent, specially crows and magpies. The behaviors of crows in Japan are well-known, and magpies were proven to not only being able to recognize themselves in a mirror, they also used the view from the mirror as a tool (in the controlled experiment, to try to remove a sticker put on them by researchers). They can also remember humans visually (and therefore being able to hold grudges, or consider individuals "safe"), use and/or make rudimentary tools to achieve goals.

Not to mention that a bunch of birds can go literally (and visibly) insane in captivity. You can't have insanity without sanity.
Why do you think containers are lashed down? They just sit there and in bad weather some of them fall off, this happens all the time.

Their sail might provide some lift, true, but they also apply rotation and shearing forces around the (double) container like a lever.
Yes... the same companies are happy to sell you a matching bag too!
> Or is there an assembly that get rid of this gibberish tradition?

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Probably the most special thing on my desk is a HHKB keyboard. Other than the layout I think the killer features for the latest version is that it connects to four different devices using bluetooth (it can also connect to another using USB). You switch between devices with a keyboard shortcut (CTRL+FN+1-4 for bluetooth and CTRL+FN+0 for USB).

I can type on calls without my mic picking it up, it has a custom layout saved on device so I don't need to do any configuration for any device I connect it to and it works fine on Windows, MacOS and iOS devices.

I use a JP version but with US keys on it and a US key layout which gives me a bunch of extra keys to configure. If anyone is wondering, there is a spare key on the home row to the right of the ' key which I use as backspace/del.

It wasn't cheap, but if it broke I would replace it with the same model in a heartbeat. I do have a spare but it's the standard US layout with the big spacebar.
(not a game dev, don't quote me :) )

Unless I'm mistaken, Unreal hasn't had an official blessed ECS system relying on other things: from just having regular objects to reading data from data tables.

They did introduce an ECS with (currently experimental) Mass Entity in Unreal 5: https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/mass-entity-in-unrea...
Ask HN: Why is Midjourney sucking up to China?
https://twitter.com/doener_tech/status/1643198738721038337

It's mind-blowing that there are still parts of tech that don't understand the paradigm shift. You have far more to lose now as a company sucking up to China than you have to gain.
> sizeof(uint16_t) == 1

> This is all completely legal according to the C standard.

Is it? I don't have access to the standard, but from secondary sources[1] it seems not?

unsigned integer type with width of exactly 8, 16, 32 and 64 bits respectively
(provided if and only if the implementation directly supports the type)

If it is, it kinda defeats the whole purpose of uint16_t and friends.

[1]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/types/integer
Is it? Cool! I haven't done anything with an Arduino for a while, and only used larger AVRs.
This model is also censored to the brim, it refuses to answer half of my questions, some of them perfectly legal. It’s useless, we already have GPT-4 (and Vicuna is even more censored/guarded).

Alpaca-30B is much better, it will even tell you how to build a nuclear weapon (incorrectly, of course, it’s not that smart).

I am waiting for Coati13B weights, these should work great.
> But if enough people do it, we can demand better.

'If' is the problem. As it is, selling clothing means following trends and offering fast-fashion for a large part of the market. There is a sizeable group of people who are completely fine with getting the latest trend cheaply at Primark. These people might like real pockets (and post memes about it on social media), but you won't activate them to actually make that a requirement. The people who do find brands which simply do offer it (the economic model works so far), and those brands know that this is a feature people like, and they can afford to invest in the extra costs this brings (sewing, design) and the raised cost of their end product. But a large part of the market simply won't bear those costs.

Pockets on dresses is not much different from sustainable clothing (both in terms of production and in terms of durability) and fair pay for people who work in the garment industry: most people do not care enough to change their behaviour (or can't afford to).
I rarely use the numpad, but I generally stick to salvage equipment, so standard is what I get. :)
In this case the phone was presumably destroyed, so a reply would debunk it, a call would debunk it instantly by the fact of a connection to the phone. If it's stolen, the thief can be asked to confirm their identity in person.
> Human exceptionalism has poisoned so many studies.

…then goes on to describe a human exception.
It's simply interpreting the data differently. Statistical conclusions always depend on your priors. We may also have a difference in risk tolerance. I'm willing to accept "accidents almost never happen" for something like air travel because the consequences are much less severe even if a worst-case accident does happen. I'm not nearly so willing accept even a small risk of nuclear accident because the consequences are so potentially awful (the worst case is not death IMO, but slow, painful radiation poisoning).
Malformed link. Try this one:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/04/1070938/we-are-h...
Thanks for the added datapoint.
The reason why originally software was free is that there were no software companies, only hardware companies shipping software with their hardware. It’s good to think whether you’d have a job in that world.
OK so there's nothing to fix, then.

It is cultural norms- of women. Making choices. In the real world.

It's simply women's revealed preference.
My understanding: they're like pickle files, but for programs that use the arrow standard.
> Fewer context switches among user space / kernel syscalls

Note that each page fault to read an mmaped page is also a context switch from user space into the kernel. The kernel entry/exit paths for syscalls and page faults have much in common.

Mmaped pages can in principle use fault-ahead to reduce the number of page faults when sequential access is detected. An equivalent reduction is available for read syscalls by reading larger blocks at a time.

In practice, mmap files are faster in some scenarios compared with read syscalls and slower in others. Same with O_DIRECT reads, those are faster in some scenarios and slower in others.
Creating credits out of thin air is impossible as all financial transactions must be accounted for. In the case of Azure credits, they will appear as increased revenue on Microsoft's balance sheet. However, if Microsoft decides to price Azure services below cost as part of their agreement with OpenAI, their profit margins will be affected. I highly doubt that is the case because the alleviation of cost is in the form of credits.

I would wager against comment 0 that said that this will materially affect earnings.
Apple Weather App Forecast Data Not Loading for Many Users
> Liebeck acknowledged that the spill was her fault. What she took issue with was that the coffee was so ridiculously hot — at up to 190 degrees Fahrenheit [88C], near boiling point — that it caused third-degree burns on her legs and genitals, nearly killing her and requiring extensive surgery to treat.

> McDonald’s apparently knew that this was unsafe. In the decade before Liebeck’s spill, McDonald’s had received 700 reports of people burning themselves. McDonald’s admitted that its coffee was a hazard at such high temperatures. But it continued the practice, enforced by official McDonald’s policy, of heating up its coffee to near-boiling point. (McDonald’s claimed customers wanted the coffee this hot.)

> Liebeck didn’t want to go to court. She just wanted McDonald’s to pay her medical expenses, estimated at $20,000. McDonald’s only offered $800, leading her to file a lawsuit in 1994.

> After hearing the evidence, the jury concluded that McDonald’s handling of its coffee was so irresponsible that Liebeck should get much more than $20,000, suggesting she get nearly $2.9 million to send the company a message. Liebeck settled for less than $600,000. And McDonald’s began changing how it heats up its coffee.

* https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/12/16/13971482/...

There's hot and then there's hot.
Nuclear doesn't need any storage because the power is generated continuously at the same pace. On the other hand, there's no sun during the night and wind strength is variable and cannot always be harnessed.

If you want to have all the power generated by renewable, you would need big enough storage to hold all the power consumption during the highest peaks - like really hot summer nights where everyone is running AC at maximum. And it tends to cost quite a lot to have a giant UPS. And, because we need power 24/7, you need to have that in a redundant fashion, which basically boils down to two giant UPS systems in the gigawatt range. And I have this feeling that doing this is very dirty and very expensive to build and maintain.
Show HN: I collect domain names to help build them
relevant: https://xkcd.com/1172/
Because Sutjeska war memorial was "Quicker, but also more convenient" :)
I don't expect people to write assembly code, but I do expect them to at least understand it. So I've put an 'explain what this code dump does' part in my team's interview process.

(This obviously wouldn't apply to web dev roles.)
Yeah it was RSI that caused me to use the Advantage too. The learning curve was brutal but now I love typing on it. Also I added o rings. I like the fact that I can bottom out and have a soft impact.
Are you saying “no one can predict what effect nitrogen will have on our environment long term”? Because there is a broad consensus on the impact I believe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_pollution#Nitroge...

Or are you saying “maybe there will be a cheap technology to clean up the environment in the future”? Which seems to be a very risky bet.

I’m not saying I have a simple solution, we do need crops, lots of them, there’s no question. But nitrogen pollution can’t be simply dismissed, we need to find a solution halfway: reduce nitrogen pollution but keep sufficient crop yields.
Are there any societies where individuals decide how to dress rather than broadly following what is acceptable to that society?
The official Tor browser is also a fork of Firefox, and intentionally not Chromium-based.
What? It hallucinates wrong answers frequently and states them as fact, isn't that concerning?
Not really, if you develop inside containers in k8s then you will have a hard time:
- Installing something into the container
- Run docker/podman/k8s etc...
I use TOR to circumvent the government blocking torrent sites, ie 1337.to

No it probably won't help if I want to buy fertilizer for a truck bomb.