skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Has anybody used picovoice instead of krisp?
seems interesting, does anybody use it instead of krisp?
https://picovoice.ai/blog/noise-suppression-for-developers/
But it could be similar. Maybe you won't be caught, maybe you won't receive the harshest punishment.
This is dumb. An individual human takes in more data than modern LLMs do.

https://open.substack.com/pub/echoesofid/p/why-llms-struggle...
“I'm a Barbie girl” as a three-part classical fugue [video]
I read this as "Get er done", ok in food service, maybe comes with long term consequences elsewhere.
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Relevant video. I agree with your observations I think they are pretty interesting. Chomsky has an interesting bit here about how the epistemic implications of statistical models like these imply a shift in our values apropos to science and it's aims. For instance, as I understand it he communicates how before we would have considered some theory that made an accurate predictions as satisfying some standard of validity, now it seems people are aiming to see who can simulate the whole thing to the highest precision even if they do it black box style. I also like seeing Steven Pinker squirm a bit, so here's the vid.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92GOS1VIGxY&t=10s
Interestingly, this entry would indicate much earlier;

[1]>Cataract surgery was first described by the Ayurvedic physician, Suśruta (about 5th century BCE)

in Sushruta Samhita in ancient India.

Most of the methods mentioned focus on hygiene.

Follow-up treatments include bandaging of the eye and covering the eye with warm butter.

References to cataracts and their treatment in Ancient Rome are also found in 29 AD in De Medicinae,

the work of the Latin encyclopedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus.

Archaeological evidence of eye surgery in the Roman era also exists.

Galen of Pergamon (ca. 2nd century CE), a prominent Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher,

performed an operation similar to modern cataract surgery.

Using a needle-shaped instrument, Galen attempted to remove the cataract-affected lens of the eye.

Muslim ophthalmologist Ammar Al-Mawsili, in his The Book of Choice in Ophthalmology, written circa 1000 CE,

wrote of his invention of a syringe and the technique of cataract extraction while experimenting with it on a patient.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataract#History
USA is amusing with the whole lawn debacle :-D
It's also a species of bird (Corvus frugilegus) but the two senses are unrelated.
Degrades the value of a checkmark, underscoring BlockTheBlue's point.

Also, if they're actually blocking blue checkmark accounts, how will they know?
This comment is like a level below whataboutism. You're basically saying "the other side also did something similar" but you didn't provide examples
Sure, direction of current in the magnetics does capture the intended distinction better. Ripple currents are usually non-ideal behavior, and cases where it isn't (discontinuous conduction mode in the boost converter) are probably arguably but needlessly pedantic.
Professional programmers simply get paid to write code. Any further illusions one may have about them are personal and subjective.

Also, server side JS is an absolute hard no for many, many server side devs who became server side devs after suffering with JS as full stack devs.
> The basics needed to participate in society are not

I don’t even know what that means.
> Hard disagree here. Decentralization might reduce housing costs, but makes many other things more expensive. More roads to pave and maintain. Higher delivery costs. More time in the car to get to work, shopping, entertainment.

I think when people talk about decentralization they usually mean people moving from the big cities to existing less big cities. Those less big cities are usually built on the road and/or rail networks that are used to supply the big cities.

Decentralizing to such exiting smaller cities wouldn't necessarily be costly, especially if not done too fast.
Burn them. With a gravity-assisted optical laser.
> An urban legend says that if you tense your muscle when a mosquito bites you and feeds on your blood, it can swell up and explode

That is indeed implausible. The correct method is to pinch the skin around it so it can't remove its proboscis.
Republicans have made trans people the target of their newest culture war.

They're pushing to ban gender-affirming care, usually focusing on minors but some of the bans are for people up to age 26, and they're making noise about restricting or banning it for adults too.
Sounds like {AlignAfterOpenBracket: BlockIndent, BinPackArguments: false}
Looks like 'Comet' got coined in 2006. The CGI:IRC approach.. I had a smile and an "aha" on seeing the term "forever frames" :-)

I think the wiki page is wrong that it involved chunked encoding
Wait, you're saying if you lost your job you wouldn't tell your partner?!
You are correct, there are certainly rules restricting work remotely for a company in a foreign country when visiting a host country on tourist visa. Though this difficult to track if you stay within the tourist visa timeline limits. Stay within the tourist visa length of days per visit and per year, and it is unlikely the host country is going to enforce taxes or any other rule of the visa.

Plus the OP said they only want to try it out 3-6 months. Not several years that many nomads do breaking the rules of the host country
I've thought for a long time that the only way to colonize the solar system would be to genetically adapt humans to the conditions. They'd still need life support, but not as much.

For example, shifting the band of tolerance for gravity, temperature, gas pressure, etc.
In most states, a buyer has the legal right to rescind the purchase contract for some number of days after receiving these documents.

But you generally have to ask for them when you make the offer, or the law doesn’t protect you.
What's the advantage of taking risk in this scenario? It seems that the obvious goal is to minimize chance of running out of dollars before days, which sounds like risk reduction to me.
As a french person: it is in fact much like "plan B" but in a more "this wasn't part of the plan, in fact the plan calls for specific things that we are going to improvise" way.

I mean to say that when we say "systeme D", it has its meaning on its own, separate from what the words signify. It is also used when talking about alternate means of acquiring objects, such as bargaining (in the commerce sense) or repurposing trash.
Ask HN: Are there any ready-to-use Docker images for running LLMs locally?
I've been having a lot of trouble spinning up the various stacks for running open LLMs like Alpaca or Vicuna because they often require specific CUDA versions, specific gcc toolchains, etc...

Has anyone got a dockerfile or published container image that "just works" and can run 4-bit quantized models on CPUs and/or GPUs? Ideally something that will run StableLM.

I've tried to build such a thing myself, but I found that the vague instructions in blogs aren't sufficient for reproducible build. Too many instances of "clone this (every changing) Git repo" or "just curl & execute this", leading to very rapid bit-rot where even instructions from a month ago can't be reproduced!
The TRS-80 CoCo used ROM shadowing to allow access to all 64K of RAM. The default mode was 32K RAM and 32K ROM.
Very many.

Amiga 1200. Released in 1992, got update to AmigaOS 3.3.2 at 2023 https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com . That is 31 years.

My wife uses Vista era laptop, from 2007. Still works great at 2023, changed it to have SSD disk and 8 GB RAM, running newest Linux Mint.

Newest Windows, macOS and ChromeOS only works on newest devices. After that, just install Linux. For example, 2 weeks ago I installed Debian 11 to Chromebook https://github.com/xet7/chromebook
Do Not Use SMS
Write hard and clear about what hurts
I think we should just ignore everyone suggesting she get treated for substance abuse issues.

We don't know her situation, and even if she is using drugs, there are many functional addicts.

If she's capable of working, it'd be nice if someone in the area offered her something like contract to hire, where they could then see for themselves if she's capable of succeeding in the field (I am in Canada and on the verge of struggling myself, despite also not having substance issues, otherwise I'd offer to help).

The real problem right now is a lack of a social safety net, in addition to hiring being incredibly tight (and she's not exactly in a tech hotspot). Trans people also face a lot of discrimination and often are trying to overcome multiple life challenges simultaneously, which compound.

Have you considered reaching out to some of the very prominent trans software bloggers who might be sympathetic and also be able to offer better resources?

I don't feel like it's appropriate to name names, but if you'd like I can email you the blogs of a few people who would certainly be widely recognized as staff-level, and might be open to helping your friend.

edit: since you mentioned she is currently housed at least, it will be much easier for her to turn things around if she is able to find work before that situation changes. Though this is really complicated by her having no work device right now. Can she get a loan to tide her over for the next few weeks? If not, maybe she'd be comfortable setting up a gofundme or similar?

Getting back on her feet will get much harder if she has to do it while homeless.
> So where's the "solar spills" or "wind contamination?"

At the factories that produce silicon and composites for the windblades.

> One of these solutions is encumbered by problems of safety, the other capacity. It's easier to scale up capacity than it is to scale safety.

So far, no large country has managed to move to 100% carbon-free renewable generation. And I'm not seeing this changing.

> Distributed collection and storage helps reduce challenges around transmission infrastructure in low density or hard to travel areas.

If we're talking about Europe, they are facing the problem of Dunkelflaute - long periods of no wind, no sun, and low temperatures in the middle of the winter. A worst-case once-in-century scenario would require around a _month_ of storage.

So far no technology is even close to that.
Thank you for being concerned. No she is not asking for money. I came into contact with her when i discussed a project of mine in a Discord server. She approached me to join that project, did good work, showed geniune interest and had good ideas she was working on. I was looking forward to collaborate more with her. Her hours were cut after she helped the workplace find an issue in their IT infrastructure (which she reported proprely and professionally). It became obvious she didn't deal well with that. She was very overwhelmed with that situation and i offered her which help she accepted.
I'm using Serge[0] as an API for a local Discord bot. You probably won't find anything for StableLM this soon after release, but this will download and run the Ll*ma stuff with a decent web UI.

[0] https://github.com/nsarrazin/serge
"It's for your safety and security"

Words that should send a chill down every spine. It's obviously just a monopoly. They could easily have an 'allow sideloading' option in the OS, and those that are happy with Apple's curation can leave it off, and everyone else can turn it on.
I am just about to return to the US after 4 months in Buenos Aires. I lived in Peru for a year and a half leading up to April 2022. I'm probably approaching a B2 level of Spanish right now (based on my experience attaining a B2 and then C1 level of French once upon a time).

Interestingly, when I was starting out, I was in Peru with a Spanish speaking significant other, and using Duolingo as well as taking private lessons. I found as a few others have mentioned that Duolingo actually got in the way. I liked the gamification. It helped me practice, but there were so many exercises for each set of vocabulary. Due to the way their system worked, I had to go through a lot of exercises that weren't useful for me because I had picked up the content with other learning methods. You can test out of things, but if I wasn't ready to test out of the whole block I still had to go through a lot of material that wasn't useful (i.e., even testing out skill by skill, was tedious and time-consuming and counter-productive).

So as discussed in the article and here, Duolingo can't get you even to a low intermediate level, just the basics. And I found that it doesn't pair well with more intensive learning. Maybe other people have had a different experience, but I think it's good for the light hobbyist until they are ready to move on to something more serious, but that's about it.

I also worry that it's promises and gamification trap and frustrate people who could have done more. Maybe it makes up for that by getting a large number of people started who then go on. Maybe.
Upvotes don't necessarily mean "I agree", they might mean "I want more of this"
The feature will be tied to your apple id, obviously.
I was thinking this same thing.

Please be cautious and avoid sending money.
Immersion is an important step that is often a "must do" in the process of acquisition.

It is not always necessary, but: are you planning to visit the country where this language is spoken? Immersion exercises may signal to you whether you are capable of making that leap.

I've been bilingual in Spanish since high school, but not until 2008 did I encounter a situation of immersion. I've worked in a bilingual office setting, and I found that it was often easy to communicate face-to-face with Spanish speakers, because I could lip-read, and make gestures, and fall back on occasional English expressions that they are capable of knowing.

But when I traveled to Catalonia and we went off the widely-travelled tourist areas, I was required to know Spanish, and even Catalan, for the road signs, businesses, menus, etc. So it was as much immersion as I could get, and even then, I had a native for my guide, and she was an English teacher, and so she was very good at whispering in my ear about when waiters were simply being rude or prejudiced about my silly Mexican dialect.

So yes, it depends on your use cases, and I can see why it would depend on introverted/extroverted personality whether you can handle it, but when learning foreign languages, consider whether immersion will be a foreseeable situation, and try to experience it beforehand, because it can be diagnostic, if not helpful.
You know that material science has improved a lot since 1970-s when most of French nuclear reactors were designed, right?

In particular, annealing had been developed fairly recently: https://www.neimagazine.com/features/featurerenewal-by-annea...
Home ownership rates in most of Europe are higher than in the US.

Rates in European countries [1].

Rates in the US [2].

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/246355/home-ownership-ra...

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N
What is the "so what" here? Are these internet connected?
So ScyllaDB allows you to choose how much Consistency in CAP you desire, in order to gain performance. Pretty interesting.

In contrast to CockroachDB, Postgres, etc, where Consistency in CAP is always enforced and there's no way to turn it off.

You turn it on/off by simply specifying IF NOT EXISTS which is insanely simple: https://www.scylladb.com/2020/07/15/getting-the-most-out-of-... (called "lightweight transactions" or LWT)

I wish CockroachDB had a way to trade consistency for speed when desired.

Another sidenote, in my limited investigation so far- when using LWT in ScyllaDB: performance of CockroachDB INSERT and ScyllaDB INSERT both line up fairly evenly. Still investigating, but this makes sense- Only when you avoid IF NOT EXISTS, ScyllaDB pulls away massively in performance.
Problem is only, if manufacturer does not allow to:

- Install alternative OS

- Change or upgrade RAM and harddrive

- Change battery

It is possible to do all or some of that to some Chromebooks, there are videos at YouTube. It depends on model.

At that article, there is complaining about Chromebooks and reparability. Where are similar articles about smartphones?
> The real problem right now is a lack of a social safety net

Is that the real problem here? Unemployment in the United States is incredibly low and those who want to find good work for good pay are able to.
I just got Airpod Pros at Costco at the start of the year, and when I turned on the noise cancellation it was like I had suddenly lost my hearing. It's so effective.

Haven't tried mowing with them yet.
I live in the southeast US, not Chattanooga, but not too far by US standards. At the moment basic, low skilled jobs are in high demand - almost every restaurant or store has a now hiring sign out, and the wages are 50% to 100% higher than before the pandemic. Similar story with manufacturing / warehousing. Amazon wants drivers, Walmart wants drivers, every grocery store wants drivers. I've never seen anything like it.

It sounds like most of the short-term emergency things could be fixed with a more steady income stream. [ $30K ] a year in a low cost of living area goes a long way compared to being homeless. It makes the car run, gets a Chromebook, plays for a cell phone plan with tethering.

I'm a programmer. I love it. As a teen I did manufacturing for six months, and I hated it. So I certainly understand grabbing a low skill job right doesn't look attractive, but it would stop the financial bleeding, and prevent things from getting out of hand while they find a software dev job.

On the immediate food side, I don't know about Chattanooga, but my town has super tiny food banks all over. There's not one centralized organization, and almost all of them are stocked at any one time. The are mom's on Facebook groups who keep track of them, and restock when low. (Some are as simple as a fridge on the side of a building, or a little library style box on a pole.) Most aren't listed on google. Not sure how to find them outside of asking around. Chattanooga has nine food banks listed on google. Odds are that they aren't all out of stock.

Good luck to both of you.
It’s MVP because it (1) is an API and (2) is doing nothing more than writing it’s output to the same sftp server the client used to hit directly. Not debating it’s dumb, but almost by definition enterprise tech ossifies in weird, dumb ways.
Yeah, just wish I could not See it you know? A lot of people find it distressing, feel like they're losing they're minds, feel depersonalized, etc.

It's also not the only symptom, there's light trails, strong after images, very noticeable floaters and BFEP.

Like basically more intense versions of visual phenomena that most people experience but it's persistent.

For what it's worth, it doesn't really bother me anymore but developing it or noticing it for the first time can be hard for people.
I also have created a question answering over pdf using LLMs, but with several advantages: I have used SentenceTransformers to make it faster and free of cost. You can use OpenAI embeddings or other ones. I have used Qdrant cloud (free tier) to host my embeddings and textual documents for fast search and retrieval.

By doing this, I was able to reduce costs (credit usage) significantly, while still achieving high performance. Plus, the smaller embeddings were faster and available for free. I only needed to call the OpenAI API for response generation, and by optimizing the context and selecting the most relevant search results, I was able to achieve highly accurate responses. Here's the repo:
https://github.com/mallahyari/drqa
They're presumably claiming that european devices will be less secure.
In the game industry, even most of the dinosaurs now recognize that only allowing designers to contribute ideas isn't a good idea. Perhaps the companies she worked for were particularly awful.
Both i and her have an effective social network reach of 0. I had considered asking for help but i have no idea where even to start. If you have any suggestion please email me. You seem to have a good grasp of her situation. Any lead would be helpful.

If you haven't seen i wrote about some code i was she had on her GitHub and we discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35672617
You can go as far as claiming that it's true for your colleagues as well! They've solved their piece of the job so far, but what evidence do you have that they will keep solving them in future? It's all just speculation!
I wonder if there is a name for this. Antimetabole comes to mind but that usually requires two clauses. I suppose it is a "chiastic pattern" which is a more broad definition, which I believe also applies to smaller patterns although I have only seen it used for larger patterns like chapters.
This is my take. With two sensors connected crosswise to musculature that pushes forward, you get goal seeking for targets in front and avoidant behaviour for targets behind.
you need to think one level deeper. are we sure we're not being scammed?

the amount of people willing to send complete strangers money over the internet is mind-blowing. check out /r/scams, and be amazed.
>turned in to food...

I should hope they just keep it food. ;

I was commenting more on the uses of government subsidy. Unless things changed significantly in more recent years, ethanol was never all that affordable.

To wit:

"...53,956 BTUs per gallon to manufacture ethanol. The best existing plants use 37,883 BTUs per gallon" (1)

The manufacture of ethanol is both subsidized directly and subsidized indirectly through the use of fossil fuels to provide the energy of production. It is generally the case that ethanol cannot be made feasibly (cost) by burning ethanol.

1. http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph240/dikeou1/docs/et...
I just finished augmenting some of the Spider and WikiSQL data on huggingface [1] I initially intended to train a text-to-sql LLM that would take a natural language question and be provided the CREATE TABLE statements to provide some grounding for the response. So instead of hallucinating the column and table names by using the question alone, I was hoping the CREATE TABLE statement would limit the choices. We'll see if it's useful or not, but funny enough I came across this article after I finished the dataset.[2]

I'd definitely like to see how others are doing it.

[1] https://huggingface.co/datasets/b-mc2/sql-create-context

[2] https://blog.langchain.dev/llms-and-sql/
Chattanooga has a 3.3% unemployment rate. By comparison Berlin, Germany has 9.1%. It's definitely an super hot labor market right now.
Yes, we have Github which is great for my husband who is the developer but for non coder people like me i find Github issues quite intimidating and it wasn't super obvious to me that feature requests can be submitted there as well. I am getting a lot of feature requests via email but its hard to keep track of and get a high picture overview of what is most popular which is why I wanted somewhere for people to vote as well.
wow it's been a long time since I've seen a game that seems to go so far out of its way to make itself inaccessible to users. I do get that not everyone feels like putting the work in on this stuff, but just personally, as someone who's deep in UX/UI land... man oh man oh man. like you need a level of computer fluency to even install the game, nevermind actually playing it.

props to the creator for how complicated it is, but man, just contemplating the time I would lose trying to dive into it is horrifying for me.
definitely protonmail for sure
I've had sort of the opposite thought (not that there's anything resembling a singular "right answer" on topics like this): we shouldn't try to colonize Mars until after we've terraformed it.

Scientific outposts would be fine, but much like Antarctica, no one ought to be in a position where they have to live in caves or cans their entire life.
Alteration to brain in persons with autism spectrum disorder starts at early age
I’m using safari and I can’t figure out how to use this. The page seems static and there no no clickable buttons