skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the idea of using cheap/old Android phones as home servers is exciting, actually. If you compare the hardware with a raspberry pi, the results turn out pretty good:

- like a raspi, phones are optimized for "always-on" operation, which means they are energy efficient and completely quiet.

- compute power is probably larger than a raspi, or at least comparable, depending how old the phone is.

- unlike a raspi, phones come with lots of additional hardware, such as a battery, touchscreen, microphones, camera, wifi, bluetooth, a cellular modem and various sensors. More modern phones might even come with TPUs or other accelerators.

- there are also a few GB of flash storage.

I think hardware-wise, that's already more than enough for some basic "tinker" usecases, where you mostly need an always-on device with basic LAN and internet connectivity: i.e. IRC bots or servers, webhook targets, pihole, (small) media or Owncloud servers, etc.

Projects which require a camera, microphone, display or bluetooth connectivity might even be a lot cheaper because you don't need any additional hardware.

Things are getting less advantageous when you need additional ports or peripherals, i.e. Ethernet, HDMI/DisplayPort or GPIO pins. You can sort of solve this by using an USB-OTG cable and then connecting various USB peripherals to provide the missing ports. (You could even connect an Arduino to get GPIO pins).

It'll probably not work well with high-bandwidth use cases if everything has to be relayed through a single USB2 port though. That makes it hard for usecases such as router, NAS or media player. Maybe newer phones with USBC would work here though.

The other drawback is that you'll invariably end up with all kinds of proprietary and opaque firmware blobs. I think the best option here would be Fairphone, but even there I'm not sure if they are entirely blob-free.

Nevertheless, I think it's an interesting avenue. Termux seems like a good start, but it's still just a VM in an app. Does anyone know if there are actual AOSP or Lineage distributions for something like this?
IMO one of the way that most schools are going to end up being able to detect plagiarism is going to be a custom word processor (or something similar) that can track all of the edits made into a document. Basically, have the students type an essay where all of the keystrokes are recorded by the program, and so it can be detected by the program whether someone is copy and pasting whole essays, or if someone is actually typing and revising the essay until it is submitted. Essays that are just turned in in general are probably going to be a thing of the past.
https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-05-10-leaderboard/
The homepage reads like PR speak to me.

Does someone here know concretely what the product will likely be? Is it a replicate/modal/banana competitor, an OpenAI/Anthropic competitor, a Stability AI competitor, or something else
It was called things close to attention deficit well over 200 years ago even.
Australia is very similar to this, with the exception of activation codes in the post. Australia is pretty digital-first for their services, so you just sign in with your government ID and navigate to your taxes.

Everything is pre-filled. If you have no additional deductions to add in, taxes take around 5 minutes total to file. They have a fairly robust banking system as well so any additional tax you have to pay takes around 60s to send through any bank's mobile app.
Microsoft is fighting the CMA and hired a big-name lawyer who is supposedly good at it.
Philosophy: Oracles and Artificial Intelligence
They know when you don't pay enough, so they have to know what you owe. All of the forms we receive (e.g., W-2, 1099) are transmitted to the IRS. They can use them to determine if a tax payer underpaid.

I know this firsthand because a broker transmitted proceeds without transmitting a cost basis, resulting in a scary letter from the IRS a few months after I filed.

The problem, as I understand it, is that the IRS' technology is very dated, so processing is quite slow, hence the months-long wait between filing and a CP2000 letter.
The gold standard for non BigTech .NET usage is probably Stackexchange [1]. It isn't popular on HN. But I believe it has always been "viable" for lots of companies.

[1] https://stackexchange.com/performance
portable computer (commonly: that is not a laptop), home-built or heavily customized. Name is a reference to the "decks" of early cyberpunk literature, which are used to access cyberspace.
Yes, that is true. ChatGPT refuses to work with VPN and regularly checks for your IP using Cloudflare. Most of these new AI-driven startups are using Cloudflare. It is funny that startups collect/scrap data from all over the web but don't want to scrap their chatbot response without paid API. I guess it is life...
Does the state need to encourage charitable giving, though?

Would a person stop donating $1000 of their expendable wealth to their favorite cause (e.g., hunger, cancer, cloning hitler, whatever) if that $1000 donation no longer reduced their taxes by $200 (for example)? If so, what kind of person would do that? Probably not the kind of person who ever donates to anything in the first place.

Worst case, if there were no more tax-deductible charities: that person would pay the $200 taxes and only donate $800 (instead of $1000) to their favorite cause. Best case: Megawealthy would no longer leave $20 billion to their favorite cause (be that their dog, the LDS church, their love of oil drilling, or whatever), but would pay $5 in estate taxes and only have $15 billion leftover for their love of oil drilling (or whatever be their whim).
And then there's the disgusting shell game that IS the entire U.S. tax system, which is the root of the whole problem.

Everyone thinks that they can come up with a much better tax system, and they always start with something super simple that meets their tax needs. But a simple system that meets one person's tax needs is usually not so simple, fair, or efficient for other people. And when you take all their needs into account when you redesign the system...you end up with something pretty close to what we have right now.

For example, try designing a tax system that is both fair and efficient with respect to agricultural income and tech income (this is a fairly common assignment in university tax programs). It won't be simple. And that doesn't even get into how to reconcile the tax treatment of business income with the tax treatment of individuals, or the many ways they earn and spend income, or the complexities of other types of businesses (like manufacturing, retailing, resource extraction, in-person services, etc.).
How would such a company start and grow without simply being absorbed or copied by Apple or another similar oligopolist?
(2016)

Something new here? A number of stories about this 7 years ago
> It is amazing the mental hoops people can jump through

Our eldest had his computer briefly confiscated not that long ago. He was, of course, cross with me when it happened.

The day afterwards he came to me and thanked me for taking it away(!)

Him: "I was spending way too much time playing games, I see that now"
Me: "You're welcome to have it back"
Him: "No, I'm not sure I want it in my room. It's too much of a distraction"
> It's really cool how emacs has created such a great diversity of control key systems.

It's really cool, to say the least. Ive been seriously considering using emacs as a base for building a UI for a project I'm planning that is heavily text based, would be useful since I could define a default keymap and leverage emacs to allow advanced customization without having to clutter the base user experience.
That is the implementation that many of these approaches are doing.

It is a very, very hard problem.
The fact that we have to report anything about our personal finances to the Federal Government is a violation of the 5th Amendment. The fact that they've forced employers to be their snitches is even more gruesome. Isn't it a sure sign of fascism when corporations and government work hand in glove?
> Together’s $20M seed funding to build open-source

This is a huge contrast. Stability AI’s bread and butter is proprietary, not open source. Together seem to have a track record of open sourcing both code and models.

To be fair, Stability AI have open sourced StableLM, which is welcome. But overall Stability exaggerate and lie about their openness.
It works…ish. GPT4 is pretty good at detecting what it wrote but I was able to get a false positive with the United States constitution. Or maybe we can go deeper and say maybe it was AI generated?
I posted this article because it highlighted the interesting details about the plan the best, but others suggested meat monopolies were the actual reason. I dont think Bison were a staple prior to 1900 or anything.

If we want to talk about a glaring omission, its that.
Same.

I stopped eating sugary foods over a year ago now. My definition is kind of loose, but basically if you'd call it a dessert I don't eat it.

Whole milk is the biggest exception. I also don't really care too much about sugar in stuff like ketchup or other sauces.

But soda, cake, sweets, donuts, basically anything for which the entire point is to be sweet and sugary, I just don't see the point. I would get horrendously addicted to it, but now it's just like - why? It does nothing for me. It even fucks up my teeth. Give me a chicken breast instead. Nom nom nom.
> I do realize that a good percentage of the HN college-educated audience is in the grips of ideology that was pounded into their heads.

That stereotypes / strawpersons and dismisses everyone with a different perspective before they even speak (and yet complain about polarization). That's a good sign that you have no idea what they're talking about, not being exposed to other points of view.

The oppression you discuss has long existed in the US: There are groups of people in the US that have long suffered the same treatment you did with police, such as Black people; that's the source of the term 'black lives matter' - it's saying 'our lives actually matter like everyone else's; you can't just take them with impunity'. Now New York officials can summarily declare someone to have mental illness and involuntarily detain them - one person was murdered and much of the country praises the murderer. LGBTQ people are widely denied rights and are subject to lawless attacks and abuse, including by government. Dissenting and critical views are outlawed in many public arenas, such as schools, across large parts of the country.

It's that oppression that many people in colleges and elsewhere are working hard to change. You are actually on the same side, if you wouldn't let the reactionaries (who are simply anti-liberal) divide you - that's how they hold on to their oppressive power.

Edit: Some revision
With driving, most people can be independent but some can't. With public transit, nobody can be independent. And what does being sick have to do with it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35929348
I get that, but why use income as a proxy for complex tax items? A W2 that takes home 400k using standard deduction for example is easier than someone self employed with several deductions that makes 100k.
Bit of trivia: the original development platform for Windows NT was the Intel i860, then MIPS. It was ported to x86 later. Design decision to keep x86-isms out. It was always intended to be very portable. Microsoft wanted into the high-end workstation and server market. X86 was not competitive there. Alpha was the fastest chip in the world by a large margin when introduced. x86 would not meet/exceed RISC performance until the late 90s.
Serious question: What's the point of these testimonies?

It just seems like a circus of the uninformed questioning the (biased yet) informed. And you never see anything come from it anyways.
Just a general question, how do you know the topic is even worth writing a book about? Like spending a year working on it then watch the book fail. That would really suck. I guess in general, how do you know you have something interesting and captivating to say.

Edit:for the weird auto completes
Probably not; schools have been using Turnitin for a while, and presumably had students sign waivers
The Caps Lock key sits a few millimeters away from where my pinky rests on the home row. The Ctrl key is a full inch away.
> people are ok with violating one principle or right on the basis that it’s fighting against another violation

It's as if they never heard of or disagree with the sentiment of the ninth amendment . . .

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-9/
He didn’t mean any arm
As usual, extrovert/control freak manager egos triumph over supposedly ideal market forces.
You would need to ensure that Chrome extensions and keyboards with macros were disabled somehow
Detection of Human DNA in the Air
Judging by the branding and build string, this is actually an early version of Windows XP! "Whistler" was the codename for the Windows XP project.
Defeatism. Every other civilized country (and US states) manage to do it, and IRS has always been helpful and knowledgeable if you ask them. They've been using electronic systems for several decades already.

Oh, and USDS is involved, so shouldn't be a contractor shitshow.
HyperExpress – High Performance Node.js Webserver
You can buy super flat ethernet cables that actually work pretty decent (I wasn't able to push 10Gb/s down one, but I could get 5Gb/s).

Depending on your setup, that can work exceptionally well.

But if you own your house (and potentially if you don't but your landlord is easy-going), check the cost for even professional network drops to a central closet or location (things like the HVAC closet can work, but consider temperatures and fire regulations).
And, perhaps a little ironically, Second Life isn't available in VR, and probably never will be.
Until version 6, SQL Server was a partnership with Sybase, they even shared the C API for data management.

Sybase SQL Server did just fine on UNIX and 64 bit OSes, we had it running HP-UX 11 64 bit.
> DE&I also means diversity of thought, especially when it's backed by data and financials.

No it doesn’t. Don’t get me wrong, that would be nice and all, but that isn’t the point of DEI.
Using an SPA to reduce server load, when you could generate this content and use edge caches and have zero server load?

I'm more upset with the new design choices than the architecture choice. The old site was ugly in a retro-cool way. The new site is just ugly.
I feel like this could be a fun tool if you are writing some sort of speculative fiction and want to come up with reasonable sounding words with a plausible explanation and basis in Latin or Greek roots.

Reminds me a bit of Anathem by Neal Stephenson. A lot of made up words based on smashing a combination of two other words/word roots (sometimes from different languages) together.
Totally get it!

There are at least two ways to deal with this frustrating issue with Willow:

- With local command recognition via ESP SR command recognition runs completely on the device and the accepted command syntax is defined. It essentially does "fuzzy" matching to address your light command ("light 100") but there's no way it's going to send some random match to play music.

- When using the inference server -or- local recognition we send the speech to text output to the Home Assistant conversation/intents[0] API and you can define valid actions/matches there.

[0] - https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/intent_index/
Open chat gpt on your phone, ask it to write your essay, then retype its response manually
ADHD is a neurological disorder and can be seen with neurological imaging. They are statistically abnormal variations in the brain that do not correlate with the normal sizes or functions across the rest of the population. This makes them an outlier. There is a long track record of studies showing dysfunction in several areas with these variations that gradually cause harm to those with these conditions. This is not a "right" or "wrong" way to human question. It's a medical condition that makes people's lives harder.
Thanks you for sharing this. The ripleys article highlighted some interesting points so I chose that, but I was hoping to find a better account. Like the one you shared.
Unfortunately, in the message I was responding to, you were (1) accusing another user of gross ignorance, while (2) in regard to the subject matter, demonstrating extremely superficial (basically inadequate) knowledge of you were talking about.

So you were provided with a necessary correction. To be frank, I'm not sure what other kind of response you were expecting.
That's was litigated years ago, for TurnItIn.[1] Uploading student papers for plagiarism checking purposes was considered fair use by a US federal court.

[1] https://macleans.ca/education/uniandcollege/judge-rules-anti...
Proctoring software of this sort are already in use by large test-taking agencies such as PSI and Pearson-Vue. Microsoft also has its Take a test app.
Great question, and perhaps there is something better out there now since the popularity is rising. We researched thoroughly 3 years ago and at that time they had the best mix of features that fit our needs. Many dumb phones still have cameras and access to games which are both a non starter for our kids. Lightphones have no direct access to internet, but have calendaring which syncs to google, music, podcasts, and turn by turn directions. They are also hard to type on which we view as a feature that makes your time texting "count". We believe the e-ink display reduces the "pull" of the screen to our kids eyeballs.

There is also an element of the design and uniqueness of a ligthphone that starts conversations when people see it. Our son actually brags about his lightphone to peers and other adults, it is not an embarrasment which we believe is an intagible benefit.
How would you know if you're going to take the standard deduction without doing your taxes? I'm fairly certain the federal government doesn't know about all my deductions.
I feel like Avatar is more "White protagonist genuinely switches sides."
Wow... people at HN really get off on pointing out that something has been posted before. Years ago when I started commenting on HN I was told that was bad form. I guess manners and policies changed during COVID.
But does C need a nullptr keyword? If you're programming in C, you usually define 0 as an invalid value, or a null value. C doesn't have the insane type system C++ has and doesn't have a very strong need to make a distinction between a pointer or an integer, since they're all in the end numbers.

The printf example you gave is an example of garbage in, garbage out. If NULL is a macro not defined as a pointer sized integer, then you're at fault here.
To their credit, their headsets support WebXR in their browser so you don't need to use their proprietary frameworks to develop immersive experiences, you can do this using open frameworks like Aframe and Three.js and pure web technologies, and what's more those will also work just fine for desktop and mobile web users, here's an example:

https://aframe.io/examples/showcase/sky/

On desktop, you can pan using the mouse. On a phone, if you grant access to your accelerometer, you can move your phone around as a window onto the panorama. If using VR goggles like my £200 Oculus Go, you can crane your neck around. I have a 360º camera, the Ricoh Theta Z1, and the Oculus devices make a very good viewer to share immersive views of far-off places with friends or family.
I love this, I found that I was mostly curious about one branch and it took time for it to fill out all the other branches before the one I wanted was filled.

Is there any way for me to pause all the other branches and have it only go deeper on one of the branches and then maybe restart other branches selectively?
I am going to use this as a domain name generator. This is better than all the other generators I have seen.
This is completely broken and unusable on latest iOS Safari.
Pure originality is exceptionally rare, but that's not really a bad thing. More and more I believe that the human experience is primarily defined by rhymes and analogy, trying to avoid reusing prior work is futile.

"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" (Ecclesiastes 1:9, RSV2CE).
I blame Kit Harington, but really it doesn’t ma’’er…
How can it be a good article if the word “bison” cant even be found in it?

/s
The Samnsung 3nm will be sold in 2024, produced in 2023. I'll admit TSMC might have an edge in the timing but the OP article also hedges their statements by specifying TSMC will have limited availability of the 3nm in the second half of 2023 and the Apple product refresh in Fall 2023 might contain these 3nm components.

I just don't think Samsung is really that far behind as right now both companies are just selling promises.
It's actually a good watch. Vanilla WearOS and a nice design. A crown that let's you navigate and it's made out of titanium with sapphire glass.

I have a battery that fits but the connector is different. It is too small for me to replace and the risk of destroying the connector in a such tiny flex pcb is very high.
similarly Monaco doesn't have a subway, but their train station is in a tunnel so I think that would probably count in this instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco-Monte-Carlo_station
Sharing that this is available on Poe.com from Quora.
Or they could move to a more British style, with in-person essays, proctored by human observers (not that there aren't old-fashioned ways to cheat on those too, but they're well-known).
you had 9 digits?
With the advent of new technology, so must entire practices and industries spring up to counteract the inherent harm this technology will cause and is already causing.

is it a given that technological progress will often necessitate societal harm? Is such technological progress actually progress for humanity?

there seems to be this universal notion that "things that can be built will be built and are inevitable". It is for example argument #1 anytime anyone suggests we should be manufacturing and selling fewer guns - that this is not possible, since guns are "inevitable". You can 3-d print them after all! Therefore, everyone must be armed and we must live in an armed society with regular mass shootings, because what can we do? It's also a ubiquitous slogan used around AI - that AI is "inevitable". It's already out there, Google internal docs are betting that OSS AI will become the norm, and that's that. AI will be everywhere used for everything, making it's fairly unreliable decisions about things like who broke into your house last night, who's likely to be shoplifting, is that a bike in the crosswalk or just nothing at all, etc., and that's now the world we live in.

Are humans as a species perhaps in need of better ways to not build things, since right now every possible thing that is imagined and becomes possible therefore "must" be built, en masse, and humanity's occupation becomes mitigating the species against all the harms brought about by all this "progress".

anyway that's the low blood sugar version. I'll likely have not much to say after lunch
Unfortunately he saves the best bits for the very end.

- There's definitely a conflict between being entertainment/provocative/etc. and "Just the facts maam."

- For most people writing is most valuable in support of something else. Don't write a tech book for the royalty checks. But because of some combination of learning about a topic/you want to/it will enhance your career.
Domesticated? They planned on releasing them in Lousiana.

Which — to be clear — would be WAY worse!
Alignment is hard: "If the LLM has finite probability of exhibiting negative behavior, there exists a prompt for which the LLM will exhibit negative behavior with probability 1."
Source: Fundamental Limitations of Alignment in LLMs https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11082