skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I built a ‘prezi file fixer’.
In the old days, prezi used pez files which could get ‘corrupted’. Not really corrupted, but when someone scaled some objects too much down, the prezi editor could no longer solve the issue, and the prezi file (really: a presentation) could be considered lost.

Solved it locally at first: unzipped the pez file, searched for the smallest objects, and scaled them up. It might look a bit funny (that ball which had been made much smaller would have been scaled up), but people could again fix it using the prezi editor.

Used this manually to ‘fix’ other peoples presentations, in which they send me their pez file, I would ‘solve’ it and send it back (usually: they would invite me to be a co-author, I would make a copy, fix that and make them editor to that copy). Used to do this quite a lot on the prezi forum.

In the end automated it completely: made a service in which one could upload a pez file, my NAS would decompress it, fix is, compress it again, and mail a link to the corrected pez file.

Software is defunct as problems have disappeared (and changes to prezi way made it no longer work).

Incidentally not my first prezi product: I guess that was the Android app that made it possible to view a prezi on an Android phone or tablet, ways before Prezi themselves made the Android app (I think they already had the iOs app, not sure).
[That app ran in more then 50 countries, but that is another tale;-0]
(I think you intended to comment over on

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35723609

)
In the next 1-5 years we are going to see a lot of big companies falling apart.

Small teams, with the help of tech/AI can now move so much faster than big teams. The communication and coordination overhead is starting to be too big of a burden, especially when you can have 1 person do the work of 30-100 (using AI).
What's the value of a bitcoin? The price it took to mine it in dollars?
Thanks for sharing that. It's really helpful
It's okay. Only you is real.
I was talking more about the risks for the mother, not the children. As opposed to risk being taken by the father who has to go hunting, war, etc, for resources to raise the children. But even for the children, she can have multiple, of course. But each one comes with a cost of resources. Investing years into something to then just risk it... Not to mention things like women bleeding to death on birth that where very common.

Men on the other hand can die and another one can be found to take his place. And a man who plays it safe at the expense of resource gathering is useless (for perpetuating the species). So I think humans selected over time for safe women and risky men.
Inflation outpacing your account's interest rate is a risk factor which FDIC doesn't insure against. While your balance won't decrease, its buying power relative to the current dollar will weaken.

E.g. an $800k purchase in 2003 would now cost $1.3m.
Do you mean pith or pitch? Pitch would seem to make things inedible to people (like pine resin) but fruit pith is used in cooking.
>Over the past few months, I’ve been testing Synthesia, a tool that creates artificially intelligent avatars from recorded video and audio (aka deepfakes). Type in anything and your video avatar parrots it back.

Synthesia is billed as an AI Video creation platform.

From their ethics page

>We will not offer our software for public use. All content will go through an explicit internal screening process before being released to our trusted clients.

Did they agree to this from the WSJ for the publicity?
Ha! fixed.
No. Morse is a long-established communication protocol for letters. This tool is just something named poorly.
It's hard to guess at a reasonable valuation for a company kept on life support in the national interest. Could be lower than current price?
Linux support for old hardware is absolutely amazing. No matter how arcane or weird your gizmo is chances are someone wrote a driver for it that is still in support. This is one of those ways in which the open source world is way ahead of closed source, where you're sore out of luck even for relatively modern stuff (for instance: Firewire cards).
Could you post a non contrived example of Chat GPT 4 doing this?
Pigs can contract viruses from humans, which I don't think plants can. Pigs and the horrific conditions they're kept in also creates a perfect breeding ground for bacteria.

Things are a bit cleaner in vertical plant farms as long as they dont use animal biproducts in their process.
Got a ton of Readwise highlights without really doing anything with it?

Napkin connects them by topic, and creates "playlists of ideas for you.

Whenever you are pondering a specific topic, you can be sure to have to most essential ideas on your mind.

https://napkin.one
That's amazing. Very cool.
What strikes you as impossible about it? Feature-wise, most of the top-line features are things that Docker Desktop provides, but as a DD user it doesn't strike me as surprising that a more lightweight version is possible.
Unfortunately it's an area mostly controlled by gangs without a presence of the police or the government.

Maybe if there is interest from politicians and business people to make money there, those hanging issues could be fixed.

I would love to move and live there if it wasn't for those issues, it's so fucking gorgeous and cheap.
Fingers crossed for full legalization in Minnesota today. Including grow your own!
OK, so cynicism warning here.

After seeing what seems like oodles of sqlite and rocksdb plus a bespoke cross-machine coordinator databases posted on HN, is this like the new employment guaranty architecture? Do any of these have actual ability over something like ScyllaDB (I'm taking cassandra out because of the GC pauses probably being a problem)

RocksDB in particular is a single node SSD-tuned log-structured merge tree "database" written in a non-GC language. ScyllaDB is the same, but comes with the cassandra-protocol scaling and multiple datacenters.

Sure, go ahead and market your whatever, but if you're just (IMO) repackaging a log structured merge tree engine, with various newly implemented distributed transaction / conflict resolution coordination schemes .... you should probably show some good due diligence on if they are, you know, somewhat correct.

The Jepsen test suite basically shows every distributed data processing engine as flawed the first couple times. So much so I don't really trust your new fangled engine unless you pass Jepsen to some degree.

Is there some comparison metrics (lies, big lies, and benchmarks and all that) showing why these semi-bespoke databases are being used versus other, say, more proven, schemes?
Intel gets MBAed.
No one said gender is not real, you are asserting an argument I did not make.

The notion you can be whatever you want - that is not real, that exists solely in your head.

As an adult, you are free to do whatever you want - so long as it does not impact me and my life. Which is the problem isn't it... people forcefully impacting my life to please themselves.

Forcing me to guess whatever pronouns you happen to what to use today is not a game I am going to play. If I demanded you refer to me as "King Alupis" in every one of your responses, you would probably not play that game either, despite the obvious happiness it would bring me.
You're conflating vegetarianism with veganism. You being a vegetarian is largely irrelevant because being a vegetarian isn't a vegan, and veganism is focused on ethics, which is something commenters who are neither vegetarians nor vegans are likely to understand the nuance of.

You'd probably never drink coffee or beer again if you saw how it was made. Come to think of it, you'd probably never eat any kind of processed food if hygiene is unacceptable.
Most mobile phone users aren't in the HN crowd, yet the iPhone continues to sell well. Why is this true, when a $199 unlocked Android is more than sufficient?
Someone saying something that affects the price has nothing to do with creating new Bitcoin. That's just a function of it being a small market still, relative to larger and more deeper capital markets.

If any developers tried to convince anyone to run Bitcoin software that debased their savings, they are going to have a very bad time.
Thanks for the link! I've enjoyed radio classics on satellite radio, so having an on-demand for specific genres is a welcome option.
Make it a “business expense” friends won’t feel as bad of company is treating them all to dinner.
I recall another article on the subject that said lab meat needed purified amino acids as food for the culture, and that many amino acids just aren't sold in the necessary quantities. A cow, on the other hand, needs only grass because it has extensive equipment to generate those amino acids from grass, called a digestive system.
> “they were fined and kept doing it” will be a potent argument for massively increasing the amount of the fine as a punitive measure.

This never stops the rest of the corporate world from knowingly and flagrantly breaking the law to make money. Thanks, regulatory capture.
This really doesn't work without it knowing anything about you.
For a lot of people, I don't think it's even about the money, it's just that it's a PITA to go through the process of getting it approved.
We can also imagine the ways that Bitcoin can make society worse. Satscard already gives some suggestions in their proposed designs, several of which reference El Salvador.
The Ukrainian police arrested a man for selling data of over 300M people
Ambiguity is an aspect of language and how it's used, not what random people may or may not inferred from a statement. It's possible to be perfectly unambiguous, and still have some people get upset about things that you did not say. That's a big part of politics, in fact.

If you go with your definition of: something is ambiguous if someone, somewhere, might read things into the statement that aren't there, then basically no statement about anything people feel strongly about could ever be unambiguous. At some point you have to draw the line and say that if there's confusion it's the listeners fault, not the speakers (which is what labelling a statement as ambiguous means).

> You also mention people attacking straw men and a bunch of stuff about left-wing academics, that seems unrelated?

A straw man is when you attack a statement your opponent didn't actually make. If you claim a statement X is ambiguous because a statement Y is a fallacy but the speaker didn't say Y, then that's attacking a straw man.

The left-wing academics is related because for some strange reason they thought the best way to demonstrate utility was to try and show agreement between their technique and left wing "fact checkers", although the underlying point of their research didn't really need that.

If you'd like an opposing example, consider how statements by Bill Gates are routinely cast as evidence that he wants to depopulate the world. It happens because he says things like, "if we do a really good job of vaccines, maybe we can cut population growth by X%". Conspiracy-minded people take this statement out of context and then infer that Gates is stating a desire to kill people through vaccines i.e. direct causality, but he isn't as surrounding context makes clear, he's assuming a chain of indirect causality to do with better public health = longer life expectancy = less pressure to have lots of babies, and a defense of such an inference of direct causality by blaming Gates for being "ambiguous" would not be fair.
Coins of modern currencies have fiat values far beyond their base metals.
Thanks for providing your time and skills to the community.

More communities need places like yours! In my area there are free tool libraries where people can go to learn, fix their items, and help others.
There's also the very poorly designed Inderhavnsbro bridge. It looks nice enough, but they just made some dumb choices in how they've laid it out.

https://www.archdaily.com/868904/copenhagens-latest-piece-of...
This could easily be survivorship bias. The less driven often stayed behind in the old country to be wiped out.
In a round-about way, this article is really talking about how to holistically enrich one's life: there's other forms of Capital beyond Financial Capital, and something out there makes us feel icky when there's too much focus on Financial Capital.

Depending on the specific guru you're reading, there's 3/5/8/whatever "Forms of Capital". A 5-framework is something like:

- Financial Capital

- Material Capital

- Social Capital

- Intellectual Capital

- Human Capital

An 8-framework might split something like "Human" into Experiential, Spiritual, Cultural, and Living.

Point is, when we adopt the everything-is-transactional lens, we tend to see everything as exchanges of Financial Capital. And we lose sight of our other deep monkey-brain needs, like a sense of community and social belonging.

So inviting someone to your personal beachhouse rather than vacation rental doesn't "feel" like bribery because it's closer to trading Social or Experiential Capital rather than Financial Capital. And, for better or worse, "bribes" is (colloquially) closely tied just to Financial Capital.

(It becomes nefarious when you exploit this feeling mismatch to, say, trade types of capital with your judicial buddy in ways that look awfully close to a supreme influence on a political case...)
West Nile Virus outbreak in Arizona shattered records, killed 101
Unfortunately no, there’s a lot of misinformation everywhere I look. I try to record my own experiences and stay on top of tracking results so I can know what helps under which conditions. Hydro seems to have mostly eliminated those concerns for me, though my outside garden still runs into all kinds of problems that are tricky to diagnose.
Keep in mind this includes laptops, which still sell well enough. (though declining)
This is a comment that says "I have no idea about the struggle of 4Bn+ people around the world when it comes to payments and banking, so I am just going to dismiss all these people as non-existent and argue that everything is fine here in the West".
No. It's a signed message.
Just hire people from Chile and Singapore using the much easier to get, and underutilized, H1B1.
The HN renderer is rendering the closing round bracket and semicolon as part of the HTML link, which is unfortunate for this case, but good to know :)
> sun light for crying out loud.

Spot on! Plants without solar lights are for labs, not for food.
Web applications are frequently targeted by cybercriminals seeking to exploit vulnerabilities and gain access to sensitive data or system resources. A successful attack on a web application can lead to data breaches, system downtime, and reputational damage for the affected organization.

The need for effective security testing of web applications has never been more important. According to a recent report by Positive Technologies, web applications were the most common target of attacks in 2020, accounting for 26% of all attacks. The report also found that web application attacks were the most successful. Furthermore, the average cost of a data breach caused by a web application vulnerability is estimated to be $4.33 million.
To me, it’s respectful to offer the intended recipients of your gift the choice to accept or not rather than forcing something on them they didn’t consent to.
I went through the same thing with a much newer friend. It makes sense to you and me logically, but I agree that there was a feeling of disconnect that ultimately made me back off. I'd rather help financially facilitate more opportunities to have a good time, but it just always seems to come off as an insult or uncomfortable, no matter how it's handled.

I feel like im grossly overpaid for what I do in comparison to the much more impactful work that they did, making roughly half what I do, so in my eyes it's only fair to view it as more of a group thing where we can contribute relatively equivalent amounts rather than strictly split amounts? You know?
Replying to myself since your comment is dead.

I mentioned income because of your comment regarding “the lack of money as the main cause of declining birthrates”

If you look at Canada, its birthrate started going down when its economy was good and housing was cheap during the 1950s, which was before the sexual revolution. Theirs also started and progressed later eg abortion there wasn’t even legal until 1988.

If you look at other countries, birthrates are going down even in countries where the sexual revolution never occurred

Edit: you also can’t ignore BPA, a synthetic estrogen, that is everywhere especially in food products which use plastic containers. PFAS chems aka Teflon are also everywhere and now they’re even finding traces of gore Tex inside human bodies

The root causes are not socioeconomic
When I was in college, registering for classes was always a pain since a lot of classes would fill up almost instantly once online registration opened, then it was just a game of constantly refreshing to see if any seats had become available.

After struggling through that for a few semesters, I decided to automate it. Started out with a script that would take course IDs as input and check for openings every few minutes (used selenium/beautiful soup I think) then text me via twilio whenever a seat was available. The next semester I updated it so it would even sign me up for the course automatically.

Also came in handy to get myself and a few friends into the coveted wine tasting class our senior year.
Udemy first "got" me to buy with one of their crazy sales many years ago. I would never have spent $20 on that course. Over the years I've bought many other courses, perhaps 30.

These helped me directly in my career, general curiosity, and launching a business.

Boy am I glad that "dark pattern" worked on me.
I totally agree that this is a great sign. I'm a bit more pessimistic though - a search engine's willingness to actually let you click through to an organic search result is a function of A) how dominant in the search market they are, and therefore how much they can afford to jerk users around, and B) how mature they are economically, since growth is more difficult later in the life of the company.

This is to say that I don't trust Brave to keep doing things right as their incentives evolve. Trust is a finicky thing, but from the outset they strike me as an organization with lofty commercial intentions. And, I admit, I don't think I can trust anything Brendan Eich does.
More & more I find that with money theres growth mindset & scarcity mindset and few who have both. Some people are great at making more money, some people are great at spending as little of their money as possible. Few thread the needle on a little bit of both.

So if you come from a scarcity mindset family, it's incredibly hard to do anything with them with money if you yourself ended up in more of a growth mindset.

It is what it is.
It's based on the errors the proposers actually found in the wild, which seem to mostly be people attempting to use constant powers of 2 or 10.
I am thinking about doing something with it. I put up a landing page to gauge interest, but I have no idea how I would monetize. Right now it's just burning money on AWS.
> as actual value like a metal coin

...you mean, the way you can melt a coin down for its metal value? You can use the paper for its value as... paper?

I'm not convinced "you can wipe your butt with it" makes a good case for its value, tbh
"Instant dismissal of anything challenging the LLM dogma" - check
"Moving the goalposts" - check
"AI is already better than humans in every way" - check

It's comical how rote and basic the defensive script always is.
I'm guessing there aren't many rustaceans in the ranks of the various Military organisations of the world, outside of those planting vulnerabilities ofc...
Glacial pace is accurate. But you're right.
Don't think I quite follow. Is the new program (operating on the output of the earlier program) supposed to reason about why you are seeing the result that you are seeing? Or is it doing more post processing to make the earlier output directly consumable by your corporate systems.
The game “20 questions” is probably the hardest I’ve seen chatGPT fail.

What’s interesting about the game is that, at first pass, there’s no ambiguity. All questions need to be answered with “Yes” or “No”. But many questions asked during the game actually have answers of “it depends”.

For example, I was thinking of “peanut butter” and chatGPT asked me “Does it fit in your hand?” as well as “Is it used in the kitchen?”. Given my answers, chatGPT spent the back half of its questions on different kitchen utensils. It never once considered backing up and verifying that there wasn’t some misunderstanding.

I played three games with it, and it made the same mistake each time.

Of course, playing the game via text loses a lot of information relative to playing IRL with your friends. In person, the answerer would pause, hum, and otherwise demonstrate that the question asked was ambiguous given the restrictions of the game.

Regardless, it was clear that chatGPT wasn’t accounting for ambiguity.
Unrelated but you can also block ads with the FF mobile browser using ublock origin. I understand playing videos with screen locked is a big plus for brave though.
Awwww, lil nibblers!!!
Who is saying this is a surprise?

There are plenty of things in this industry that are hardly surprising but still newsworthy.

The real bummer is that this might eventually be a reason to switch to Win 11, which is something I’ve been trying to avoid for as long as possible.
How is it a scam? They can sell their IP at any price. Today that price is $20, tomorrow it's $200. Don't like it - don't buy it.
Aren’t exploits on assembly reverse engineering?
Microsoft SHOULD be a leader in mobile and instead they just pivot from one tech hype to the next.

Windows 11 is a laughing stock to many and it isn't exactly flying off the shelves.

Microsoft is a hot mess and Nadella is a trader the same way Pichai is at Google.

Same for Tim Cook.

Look back at news articles for the past year and watch how fast Nadella pivoted from "the metaverse" to GPT.

Stock buybacks make CEOs look impressive if you don't know about stock buybacks.

https://money.usnews.com/investing/articles/s-p-500-stocks-w...
Have you gotten any 'failed' people trying to come in unexpected?
It's a reference to the Inspector Morse novels.
Back in the day, I used the Cursive plugin + IntelliJ integrated debugger to inspect complicated data structures. This seems like a natural evolution.
In the course they use Python notebooks to make a chatbot that uses openAI's api. It's not just "how to make good prompts" (although they do have that in the first 5 mins or so).
Yeah, I prefer my currency to be valued by Twitter hype.
Let's hope it actually gets built and that the state isn't Foxconned like happened to Wisconsin. A company with rapidly declining profits does not give me a lot of confidence in starting or finishing big capitol projects even if they've committed to them. Nothing is set in stone until the last brick is laid and the factories are open.
>it's more like a voucher, and the actual value is transferred on an immutable ledger.

a dollar is a voucher for the US economy and the actual value was transferred on an immutable ledger, i.e. append-only physical reality of the universe
> Wait, what does this mean?

Maybe they’re referring to FBS in media. Much of cell biology research has used cow blood as an easy way to nurture cells, and early lab grown meat continued to use that as a starting point. The switch to a more ethical alternative is underway.