skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this fascinating (in part because I see that tension -- features that, at least initially, help the company but make the product less usable to the actual users -- in other products). The long-term fate of apps filled with features that users dislike is surely not a good one...
The great thing about Obsidian is that it still uses plaintext (it's not obsidian exclusive, i know).
In case of issues with the tool, you can view and edit files in an editor.
It also makes syncing stuff / backups very easy.
Since you're probably having a kind of syntax already it won't be hard to change.

With a proper keyboard, it's super fast to create and link notes.
On mobile it sucks hard. Things like "[text](linkForText)" are not very mobile-friendly.

One big gripe i have is the table editor.
There is an advanced table add-in to help, but it still sucks.
Create a table and put a long link into it.

Well-known keys like "end" or "pos1" don't do the expected. "TAB" will add fields... i don't know, this should be better.
Apple's problem is that the "pro" version is not just twice as expensive as the "consumer" version needs to be in order to be a market success, it's ten times more expensive than the consumer version needs to be.

edit: the fanatics are really out with the downvotes today
The average person does not care and learns the hierarchy directly from the marketing materials, not from incomprehensible (to laypeople) technical specifications.
Consider whether or not this is an ego driven reaction. Do you have the same feelings about your compiler? It also writes code that you likely don’t read, and likely don’t understand in depth.
Some recent things I was downvoted to oblivion on:

- Mentioning buses in a thread about road wear

- Warning people talking about vigilante justice that intentionally tricking/luring someone into committing a crime makes you an accomplice

- Telling fellow trans people they can't equate Jim Crow with gendered bathroom stigma

- Reminding fellow queer people that Anheuser-Busch are just trying to sell more beer
Alternate theory: most deadly heart attacks are reported on a Monday, because that's when the admin assistant tasked with doing the paperwork gets around to clearing out the backlog. And since most reports don't include the actual time of death, Monday 08:02 it will be...
The sales of iMac G4 failed so badly that there was a three-month period in 2004 when it was simply unavailable. It was discontinued without a successor on store shelves.

It was too expensive to manufacture and Apple wasn't sure they could sell it, so they just didn't make any. Hard to believe that could happen to a Mac model today.
The developer of Reddit Sync (Android app) sounds like he’s ready to throw in the towel [0]:

> Right now I have no idea if I should continue to work on Sync but as a subscription only app or throw in the towel

> A subscription + incomplete experience (NSFW etc) to me just doesn't sound like a good deal for you guys

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsync/comments/142dzy8/the_fut...
When a software company gets 1000x bigger, there are 1000x more engineers. But there is still one CEO. The scaling of responsibility and impact is very different.
You can get an A6000 for cheaper than an M2 Ultra. That said it's still only 48GB.
I tried a new one yesterday using cuprous benzene.
I had a long standing ML problem to solve. It did get solved yesterday!
Now, finally, I can launch that product!
WebP and libwebp/cwebp is such a clusterfuck. Lossless mode isn't even visually lossless because cwebp doesn't understand how PNGs encode color space information. Default lossy settings are extremely garbage for darker (parts of images) images - a problem that has plagued video codecs (which is what webp is based on) for a long time. Animated webp is ridiculously inefficient compared to webm and really shouldn't be a thing at all in favor of allowing silent+looping videos in image tags. And of course initial webp browser implementations don't even support animated webp but still claim support for image/webp so you can't even do progressive enhancement from gif to animated webp without hardcoding which browsers support what.

At this point it should really just be deprecated in favor of JPEG XL. And let's skip AVIF completely please.
My first impulse when I come across a memory or photo in my camera log on my iPhone is to send it to my wife. Photos are really rarely a personal experience. A major reason why most famous paintings find their way from personal collections into museums so we can all enjoy them together.

It is that human nature that makes me believe that any device like this that doesn't have real-time interactions baked-in, no matter how cool they are, will always default to media consumption because media consumption is the main use case where you don't necessarily want to have a shared experience.

This device seems absolutely amazing and likely much more in the same vertical as home theater than personal computing. FWIW, I also don't buy into the work aspect of this, either. Partially because most people aren't in the Apple ecosystem for productivity apps, but mostly because as another person stated, nobody is going to use a digital avatar in a work setting. A static image or even just being on camera wearing the headset would feel much more normal. Sure, I could see it being great for certain applications like email but not enough of a catch-all to be the only device you use in a work setting.
But, a policeman’s job is not to provide such advice.
Launch HN: Seam (YC S20) – API for IoT Devices
Hey HN! We're building Seam (https://www.seam.co), a universal API for controlling IoT devices such as smart locks, thermostats, sensors, and (soon) cameras. Our hope is to make device integration simple, with a Plaid-like UI flow for obtaining device authorization and standardized API/SDKs for device control.

We started Seam out of our frustration with the challenges of integrating IoT devices with software apps.

For example, my co-founder Dawn led Sonder's efforts to integrate smartlocks with their reservation systems in order to automate access for guests. She struggled with poorly documented and unreliable device APIs along the way. Our founding engineer Max authored the popular TuyAPI library and has spent countless hours trying to build sensible interfaces on top of unreliable devices.

For my part, I was an early engineer at Nest and saw firsthand how manufacturers often lack the resources and motivation to support third-party developers.

As a result, most devices lack public APIs, and getting access to the private ones (if they exist) requires lengthy negotiations with manufacturers. This task grows in complexity with each additional device brand a developer may need to integrate.

Seam serves as a single API that works across dozens of brands and hundreds of devices.

We start by testing each device in our hardware lab in San Francisco. We study their behaviors & quirks, and faithfully reproduce those in our development sandbox. We take time to craft custom client libraries that maximize developer ergonomics while accounting for the asynchronous nature of the devices. We offer pre-built UI components (React, Web-native…etc) to let developers rapidly assemble complex UIs that can manage large fleets of devices. And we even have a small hardware gateway to connect on-prem and legacy devices.

A few app developers like Guesty (YC S14) already use Seam to connect to their end users’ devices. We have a generous free tier and charge a small fee for additional devices. We work closely with manufacturers to improve device reliability, add OAuth support, and patch security holes. We also spend time educating them on the importance of supporting open source projects like Home Assistant, OpenHab...etc and we will be contributing some of our own integrations to those ecosystems.

Seam is still very much a work in progress with many aspects that need to be improved. But our hope is that it will help push IoT devices from being (mostly) point solutions, to becoming a set of API endpoints software engineers can tap to interact with the physical world.
One man’s quest to make pickleball quiet
You're going to lose days at a time in the retirement home to VR tiktok and VR candy crush.
Those decades of case law still don’t clarify the rules, they only clarify what isn’t allowed. The actual rules have yet to be published, for good reason, because it would limit the SEC’s cartel. By NOT having rules, they can claim something is “illegal” and have the weight of the US federal government to bully with. By defining what is legal and what is not will allow smarter folks to game the SEC to their advantage. Coming up with securities that meet the definition but are different than what the SEC is aware of. This is all about knowledge and power. Keeping it in the SEC’s court. Keeping it in the SEC’s control.
Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory records soaring delivery volume in May
Tesla's Shanghai plant delivered 77,695 vehicles in May, soaring 142 percent year on year, said the company.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk paid a visit to the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory earlier this month during his trip to China, and lauded the plant for its production efficiency and quality.

Established in 2019, the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory in east China is the carmaker's first Gigafactory outside the United States.

In April 2023, the U.S. carmaker announced another big investment in Shanghai -- the construction of a new mega factory dedicated to manufacturing the company's energy-storage product Megapack.

The new factory will produce 10,000 Megapack units annually, equal to approximately 40 GWh of energy storage. Its products are expected to be sold worldwide, said the company.
You already have native chatgpt app by openai. Also Microsoft have integration on native edge browser, SwiftKey keyboard and Bing app.

There are also many mobile stable diffusion apps and even native mobile discord app which is UI for midjourney

And since all those app require a lot of typing or prompt tweaking they where better suited for desktop first
Yeah, that example does sound bad. In the ideal world I’d be curious to hear the mod’s perspective: it’s possible to be perceived as a troll even when you’re stating true facts, depending on context and tone.

That’s kind of what I mean about inward reflection. If you find yourself on the receiving end of modding after stating entirely true and relevant facts… yes, maybe the mods are out of control. But maybe the impression you’re giving off while stating truth still leaves a sour taste. If you find yourself fielding accusations of being antivaxx and being racist and being a transphobe, etc etc, all in different subs with different mods then there’s only a few commonalities left. I’m not saying you did deserve any of this, I don’t have the evidence to, just that it’s something worth pondering.
ChatGPT: What have we learnt? What do we need to learn next?
>I was honoured to join a TEQSA/CRADLE panel yesterday, the 3rd in a series on the implications of ChatGPT (or GenAI more broadly) for higher education. Nearly 3000 people registered, with >1200 joining live, reflecting either the gravity of the situation now facing us — or the consequences of AI and assessment becoming mainstream media fodder! It’s both in fact.
Good. I think the grifters have overplayed their hand and we're going to see more sensibility about regulation compared with the alarmist controls that those who would profit are looking for.
Deadly heart attacks are also more common on days when the clocks go forward. It’s to do with lack of sleep, apparently.
Almost everyone I have ever worked with was unmotivated. It stems from the adversarial employer/employee relationship and top down "innovation" where managers have ideas and then force them on their subordinates. Pure taylorism rot.
> I am trying to say that our definitions of evidence are not the same anymore.
It is just a video online. Without any other supporting factors, it stays like that. Evidence requires connection to the context, and we can't verify that.

It's literally video evidence of the Russians pretty much admitting it and you're doing your best to try say theres no way to know its real.

> I care about the truth. But I also don't like that people can't see over their own biases. (e.g. not considering that someone else than Russia could do something for their own benefit)

I care about the truth as well, but it's worth knowing that people who 'question' everything generally have an ulterior motive and don't really care about the truth. Whats the points in arguing if all the evidence is deep faked?.

Theres no proof anything you said is true, tonnes of proof the Russians blew up the damn.

Here's another video of them saying they want to blow the dam, but I'm sure you'll come up with some reason why this video could be fake too.

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/16660615320803614...

I'll welcome any proof that all this evidence the Russians blew up the dam is fake, but so far there is none.
I've read a bit into this subject before; Matthew Walker's book 'Why We Sleep'[0] discusses it at length.

A lot of it boils down to blood pressure. High blood pressure is a serious contributing factor to cardiovascular incidents (as well as a slew of other negative health risks), and getting a good night's sleep will help keep blood pressure down. This is also why the amount of heart attacks are up around 24% after daylight savings[1]; an hour less sleep means higher blood pressure means higher risk of heart attack (relative to any other 'normal' day).

I can definitely see how the same logic could apply to Mondays. Less sleep, more stress = higher blood pressure = higher risk of heart attacks.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18971502/
I think you could make the same claim about TV broadcasts, but pro sports seems to be doing just fine, some claim that live sports is what is keeping cable alive these days.

Live sports and being at the event is always going to be a special thing that people want to pay for- you can't heckle the opposing team through a headset. If people want to pay even more to get a coach-eye view of the game, I can't imagine ticket sales would be impacted one iota. As it is, watching a game on TV is a better viewing experience than being their live for most sports. American Football, for example- the field is large, your seat is static so it can't follow the action. Its often played in cold, rainy conditions- I go to a game or two a year just for the excitement of it all, but come a dreary rainy late November day, I am happy to sit on the couch and enjoy the surround sound. All major US sports make most of their money off TV broadcast rights. This will be no different.
>Break down a big change and ask for a series of smaller, self contained steps.

These are all good tips and very much align with my experience over the months, but breaking a complex task into as small, self-contained and logical steps as possible is truly going to make the biggest difference for most people.

Once I understood that, just like previous versions (GPT-3), ChatGPT has no internal memory beyond what has been typed, that changed how I interacted with the model for the better. Depending on the task, I am either providing simple steps or asking the model to write simple steps based on my task layout, then I provide input on those, ask for refinement of said steps with a focus on code generation and remove anything superfluous/not focused on code creation, the output quality became significantly more consistent and usable.

I can understand why, for a lot of more experienced developers, this can seem tedious and fully get why this leads a lot of observers to feel that, considering the effort required to set these models up for success, they might as well code themselves, especially considering this setup process can eat into the precious 25 prompts limit, which I hit consistently.

However, I feel that once these models have become more efficient, a lot of this outlining may be handled in the background.

The same goes for checking code errors in my eyes. For the same reasons (no internal memory), there often can be errors in provided code, yet asking for the model to check for errors generally resolves those. In most cases, this works without providing compile errors, though those of course do improve the response.

I try my hardest not to anthropomorphize these models, so pardon this comparison, but in fairness, even with our human wetware memory the average dev is rarely able to write flawless code without the need for any revisions on their first try.

If we get a more efficient model of comparable quality to GPT-4, adding a line to the frontend to request a second pass on all code based request may not be unreasonable and could, in my experience, yield more consistently usable results.

Considering how quickly OpenAI released gpt-3.5-turbo, I am hopeful that we will see such a development soon, though I currently do not have personal access to the GPT-4 API, so maybe that could be made more accessible first.
Coinbase Staking, the specific service that the SEC is going after here, is obviously not a security. It's a hosted custodial wallet, and Coinbase provides delegated staking. IMO Coinbase lawyers are about to eat the SEC alive.
I think this is a great plan, but I wouldn't just set this up on the grass as shown the the picture... You need a soil compression test, proper drainage, and a myriad of other things just to survive 6 months.
Leaving aside the legality, I find it tacky to use the names of dead people in advertisements. Grace Hopper did not endorse this product. We have no idea what she would have thought of Nvidia. Yet the lawyers are now fighting over the right to use her name and legacy to "create shareholder value".

The worst offender is Tesla, because I'm pretty sure he would have hated that company.
This is peak HN. A casual commentor in a thread who thinks they know more about the law than an entire legal team at a public company.
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I'm trying to get it to write full-scale apps, via the APIs. Very difficult once you move past one file, but it's a challenge. The problem is that this tech isn't perfect, and can be unpredictable.
Companies participating in standards bodies while actively sabotaging the standards is nothing new.
Are you implying that cryptocurrencies can't or don't?
I can see reddit resolving this by giving certain apps heavily discounted API access. Right now at least all the backlash is coming from 3rd party app users, while ML guys are sitting quietly in the back with their fingers crossed.
> On the first model, and an intuitive one, it was the effort to pick up the items that was the negative stimuli. So the treatment is: learn to enjoy tidying, etc.

Hmm. The negative stimuli here should be when something breaks. You'll always have to make some efforts to tidy things up, so it can't be a negative stimuli in itself because it's not one of the outcomes. Here it's a positive punishment (broken things should lead you to change the original behavior) (actually, not tidying up has its own positive reinforcement stimuli: you don't have to make efforts).

> I havent learnt to enjoy anything more. Rather, I've started rehabituating my self of control -- by even trivial changes, I am strengthening that sense. The items of my apartment more clearly appear as objects that I can control, rather than a chaotic environment that's beyond control.

Yes, there it is: positive stimuli reinforcing behavior. Which works better than positive punishment (or so I learned decades ago in psy101 ?).
What's the use of crypto again? Because I think it's kinda useless. Just like NFT's
It’s like having that policeman warn you that something you’re doing is illegal, but he won’t tell you what - just that if you keep driving he’s going to pull you over and give you a ticket.
Well, there is no "whole point," right? You could roughly divide the crypto world into "true believers" and "people who just want to get rich."

The latter overwhelmingly dominate price and volume, and moreover it's the "whales," i.e. a relatively small number of parties.

I suppose I'm something of a "true believer," but what I may want or think is best doesn't matter in the face of the working crypto technology. The incentives are in place and to an extent we just have to sit back and see what happens.
Since you failed to post the "google definition", here's the one I get at the top when googling "spam definition"

> Unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups; junk e-mail.

Note, "unsolicited" is the first word and "irrelevant" does not appear anywhere and there is no discussion of the utility of the message to the recipient.
Probably a maxed out Thinkpad T14 if you're not budget conscious, a T480 otherwise: https://maxrozen.com/getting-your-own-good-enough-laptop-for...
It's not hyperbole; you just don't know what you're talking about.
The ads were much more than just "new version of the old thing" (motherboards, RAM, sound cards, video cards). About every issue, there would be something (or more than one) that I never even imagined you could do with a computer (or, usually, make into a computer peripheral). It was mind blowing to see, over and over, here was something completely new (or at least new to me). And there was something I'd seen before for less money, and something I'd seen before with better performance. Over and over, month after month. It was like watching the future on fast-forward.
Spurious enough comparison given there were phones, a developed phone market which was 150m+ globally even at that stage, and demonstrated clear use cases for an iphone (an ipod, a phone and an internet browser combined).

Yep it iterated and yep app store really rocket charged it beyond where it was envisaged on day one. But it was also an existing market, albeit one that was at the foothills of its potential.

AR/VR too is at the foothills of its potential. But the fundamental problem is: even when its potential is realised, it'll still just be relatively niche and relatively fringe. This stuff simply is not going to be mainstream in a serious way. And without being mainstream, there is no real revenue stream of utility for a company of Apple's size.

I have no idea why people are doing such backflips to come up with potential use cases but most of them just aren't runners. This will sell to an extent for Apple but it'll be a rounding error on their balance sheet at best - even in future versions - though I imagine a lot of the tech will end up elsewhere, so it won't be a complete lost cause for Apple.
Did you mean to say signal-to-noise [ratio] is _low_? Meaning that you get way too much noise for the amount of signal. Or did you mean to say it needs to be high (I.e. low noise) to be useful?
Most web based services don’t seem to be using the discoverable credentials either. So far only my Apple ID and Azure AD accounts are utilizing those.
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You wanna know the secret to significantly raising API rates without complaints?

You raise rates to a ridiculous number, drag out negotiations with devs and let them drop the news to their users, wait a bit for the revolts and news stories to happen, then make a press release saying "our bad, we love you guys so much, we 'found' a way to get our API prices down".

After all of that, API prices are still higher than reasonable, but all the users and devs are all happy and news stories go out saying how the users and devs won and got a better deal. All while you got the price increases that you wanted.
We can take things in stride at the same time as wishing for a more enlightened discourse
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