skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We love Jupyter notebooks, I was tech lead of an entire platform around them in a previous job - but we wanted to differentiate from Jupyter a bit by not being python first.

For AI Workbooks, we thought that the interface is natural language & standard files (images, audio) that people interact with everyday. This makes it much easier for non-developers to get started.

For developers, we also support a python SDK so that you can make a workbook from python or a Jupyter notebook using some simple API endpoints. We're going to keep improving the SDK to improve the integrations too.
That's new for me. Which country?
Here it's "Look out!" or "Let me pass!"
There's a difference between using a sharp knife, and a hammer that has been sharpened on one side so that it's usable as a knife, and pointy on another side so that it can be used as a weapon in case of a home intrusion, while keeping one side as an actual hammer and the handle is covered in honey for more friction in case your hands get sweaty.

Both can be unsafe, but one is a professional tool while the other is an abomination for our current standards.
It probably was. As in, the habit derived from cheap and healthyish and the knowledge of why was los to time as passed down generations and tradition.

Like in The Time Machine when the Eloi run into the caves when the air raid sirens go off.
Interesting because I've found Amazon to be quite friendly (relatively speaking) when it comes to Prime subscriptions.

I can get a free month of Prime, then 1 minute later cancel it (yes, you need to click through a couple screens), but keep it for the rest of the month. No need to set a reminder (even though Amazon offers to send you a reminder).

Not sure if it's still true, but you used to be able to cancel paid prime and get a partial month refund.
Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode
Is it the same people though? The Github link is different.
Yes, math is to physics what art is to design.

It's crazy what these two fields produce, but once I a while something useful comes out.
I use it periodically (in Europe) and haven't seen an advert yet?
Humans are like that too.
I cannot find a button to switch the “from” and “to” units.

IMO, any converter needs one, so add it or make it easier to find.
> Humans need real human connection, AI is too artificial for that (duh). Having AI friends will be equivalent to consuming fast food instead of healthy home cooked meals growing up. Yes, people that grow up on fast food are still alive, but they are less happy and have more health problems (mental and physical), but it did the “job”, that job was to fuel them.

let's of people derive enjoyment and happiness from activities that does not involve other people, and also pets such as dogs. plus, if you cannot tell the difference between ai or human, it may still be good enough.
Everyone left on reddit after 2016 are by definition people who viewed Spez stealth editing comments of users he didn't like as "not a good enough reason to leave" (with some new users who had no idea that happened).

Hopefully some people walk away understanding "just because they're abusing people you don't like doesn't mean they won't one day abuse you", but not going to hold my breath on that one.
No, it evolved.
>I get about 30x the value in 1/2 paragraph of fiction than TV.

How do you even begin to quantify this
I do not know what you mean by country, but South Africa is one of the most gorgeous places I have been. It can compete with California. It has natural resources, great climate, flora, history, and by and large, my interactions with people of all stripes were positive. I would even retire in Cape Town, if it were politically stable.
Show HN: An ultra-lightweight application auto-updater
Wanted an updater for a CLI utility so that a user could run "my-utility update" and have it self-updated.

Did not want to go through package managers, in order to have better distribution control.

Looked into Sparkle (and WinSparkle), Squirrel, GoUpdate, Google Omaha, and others.

All were very heavy, hard or impossible to use across multiple platforms, and carried their own UI component baggage. None came even close to meeting our needs. So we rolled our own.

`sxupdate` weighs in at about 100k, works on any platform and can be integrated with virtually any programming language. Using a bring-your-own-UI-component approach, it is extremely lean, platform-independent, applicable to either console or UI-based applications, and avoids duplication of and potential inconsistency between the application and the updater UIs.

Hope someone else can get some mileage out of it. We sure have.
That's quite a pessimistic view to have.

The country is beautiful, the people are great. The problem is the politicians.
Corrected link: https://itsbehnam.com/How-to-GPT-Part-1-Better-Emails-1-ce03...
Beehiiv Raises $12.5M Series A Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
Agreed. The argument of "we've always had XYZ and we've done fine" always conveniently ignores acceleration/rate-of-change as a factor -- as if the printing press, radio, tv, internet, computing, mobile revolution, AI etc are distinct events that we "got through" with no relation to each other, when in reality they are just cycles in an ever tightening feedback loop.
Many of them are actors from outside the country.
> I was never going to pay for therapy, this gave me some insight and actually made me interested in therapy.

ChatGPT could never be as bad as most human therapists, at least if it tells lies they're believable and it won't try to insult, belittle, or infantalize you.

Medical usage is perhaps the single most interesting use of ChatGPT to me, the problem will be solving the liability issue should it get something wrong.

For simple things though? I can see a future where bots even prescribe medication. Why burden the healthcare system when you have a simple infection and all you need is a round of Amoxicillin?
So the problem I have with this sentiment is that the entire point of news organisations is to trace the validity of claims.

The press have evolved a bunch of mechanisms to prove or disprove points in a story.

AI doesn't really change this.

Sure there are fakes, and yes you can create thousands of bullshit websites/text. But that was always true.

Yes GenAi images are more concerning. But we've had photoshop for a long time, and some very talented people. Yes its slightly harder to spot a genai image, but with the correct tooling, its pretty trivial.

The issue is, we have a crisis of funding for good quality news sources.

News is a freeby now. Which means that the news you get is now either much more partisan (because "they" whomever you find creepy/shadowy/disagreeable, who are smear all over the political spectrum) or simply doesn't have the time to do basic research (see standard tech journalism, breathlessly re-formulating press releases. See Apple Vision Pro)

So AI "propoganda" is a side show, the much bigger risk is a further dropping of standards amongst the assembled ranks of the press.
I don't like taking my shoes off unless I'm relaxing. It's a physical reminder to do stuff.

If I'm watching a show and I need to get up to do something, I'll put my shoes back on.
Can you install it in those automated sliding doors we have in places like grocery stores?
Ironic that you say that second sentence after saying the first :-)

Because that's _exactly_ what we'd say about those other countries. Stay out of the dodgy areas etc, the gang violence etc is typically hyper local and worst in certain neighborhoods.
Absolutely! We are working on that right now. Currently you can copy the output of one cell and manually use it as input for another cell, but we will be making that flow much simpler soon.
It's not all that weird, IMO. The Galileo Project is funded by private donors. It is a blue-sky project and so is Cardano (crypto more generally.) Mr. Hoskinson is paying the bills for this trip.
The irony of synthetic meat is that it often requires FBS - fetal bovine serum, to grow, which is obtained from the blood of fetal calfs found when slaughtering pregnant cows.
No, the downvotes are for vagueposting. If you have a point, state it.
"They historically took on the reliability role, of nobody else did, but they were implementing reliability on top of a house of cards, which is a kind of hypocrisy that makes even mediocre devs bristle. Don’t lecture me on robust software, boyo. Your tools are made of string cheese and staples."

I don't know why you'd blame ops for the crappyness of the tools they have at their disposal.

Yes, Ansible, Salt, Puppet, and Chef are spaghetti-code inducing congealed messes of design. So are large collections of complex shell scripts.

So what's the alternative? What spherical cow of a configuration management tool from Platonic dev heaven shall be foisted on us this time?

I'm sure it'll be super clean and elegant this time, unlike the last thousand shitty tools they made.

And don't get me started on devs that think they're qualified to do ops when all they know is their language of choice (if even that) and have never thought about the network, security, capacity, redundancy, failover, reliabililty, hardware, backups, the rest of the company or other users.
I remember there was a site that showed all the characteristics that could make you unique. In my case, what gave me away was the unique id of the canvas.
The CIA has engaged extensively in assassination and torture for the better part of the last century.

Over 600 assassination attempts against Fidel Castro alone for the crime of not kowtowing to all US demands (Fidel originally tried to ally with US not the Soviet Union, but was rebuffed by the US because redistributing foreign owned/stolen land was central to Fidel's central policy of lifting ordinary Cuban's out of poverty); also, since the Spanish-American war, the US viewed Cuba as something of a colony, and was unwilling to treat it as a peer.

More apropos, the US also kept "accidentally" bombing Al Jazeera newsrooms during the US unprovoked war of aggression in Iraq. Coincidentally, Al Jazeera were some of the only reporters who went independently into the field to report on US war crimes. The US was given the coordinates of the Al Jazeera Offices, so the US knew what they were bombing (each of multiple times).

I was subjected to the same bullshit K-12 hero worship "history" lessons and other US propaganda as I suspect you were/are. As a child we moved to a country where the US overthrew the democratically elected government and installed a far-right brutal murderous dictatorship (in support of a US corporation's rape of the country). This led to civil war (which I experienced first-hand; the US providing support to the oppressive government regime during the decades long war). We moved back to the US before the genocide began (the US providing support; Ronald Regan even personally meeting with the General primarily responsible for executing the genocide). This experience forced me to confront the lies we are told in the US.

Do what you want, but I'd suggest reading university level historical accounts (even those published in the US), they are much more accurate with far less/no hero worship. Also, listening/reading to foreign news sources is useful to help break through the propaganda our corporate news sources feed us here. The process is similar to being de-programmed from a cult, and the ultra patriots chanting, "USA, USA, USA..." have drank the Kool-Aid.

Good luck!
Does the age affect how I, as a programmer, should read it?
It only takes a single customer with a RHEL subscription to republish the source, so this is really just a middle finger out of spite to Centos competitors.
This looks great! What are some of the verticals you think this will be most immediately applicable in, and are you integrating with any? I am thinking a lot of ads/marketing work can be jump-started with these notebooks.
> They can really easily do that though. A court can say "give us your keys or you are going to sit in jail until you do and we will record your conversations so if you tell the keys to someone else, we'll sell them"

So? If sums is high enough they STILL can't confiscate it. In some cases it is preferable to spend some time in jail versus giving up outrageous fortune. They still can't take it by force. Also, only a few countries with backward laws (like the United States of America) have laws that allow that. Something insane like what you propose would never be possible in a developed country with a solid judicial branch like Estonia, for example.
Got me too, I was literally following my mouse cursor to the down arrow with my eye and I saw this comment. I'll never be the guy telling a comedian what they can do, but damn mang, that was rough...
People keep themselves busy (or soon they're out of their job). When there's no high or medium priority studs to do, people move to the low priority and do it, even if useless.
I too have come to this realization.

It does away with problems associated with child-parent references.

Also, you might be able to use a bitset to represent a set of handles as opposed to a set or intrusive booleans.

It also plays nicely with GPUs too.

I don't know why this is not like the default. Given this is how Handles work in Windows.
Machine learning helps researchers identify hit songs with 97% accuracy
Avi Loeb is the new Bob Lazar.
I think there have been studies that show that you’re correct. My question is how much room is there improve that efficiency as production scales and improves.

But even now, there’s the benefit of producing less suffering. No need to breed animals that can’t even support their own weight and spend their entire short lives suffering in darkness, crowded in cages with other suffering beings, awaiting death.
I think just having the idea of “South Africa seems to have been generally better off under Apartheid” is pretty scary for most people.

So, they won’t even approach a conversation trying to determine the actual causes of decline because they feel any possible explanation is going to be racism-adjacent.
AT&T's Crisp Hobbits
Why do you have to trust any of it? The data will be made available to everyone. No trust required.
According to Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upside_Foods

the goal was to sell at 60 Euro/kg (by 2020).

Not exactly competitive, pricewise.
And how good products may come from unexpected places. (Yandex) It is the most popular navigation apps in the few countries it's available.
I'd agree that morality is a luxury, and I understand how most anyone would resort to immoral ways in order to put food in their mouth. _However_, it doesn't make sense to say that "anything goes" when you get into that category of desperation; that disrupting cancer treatment for thousands of people in order to make a quick buck is somehow the same as shoplifting a loaf of bread.

I'd also argue that anyone with enough sophistication to pull off a ransomware attack has enough marketable skills that they're probably not hungry or desperate, just psychopathic.
I don’t understand what game IBM is playing with Red Hat. I was under the impression they were profitable prior to the acquisition so I’m not sure why they’re squeezing so hard and ruining the great brand and good will Red Hat had built up.
> in the UK but I guess it's the same for US

Why would you even think this? There is very little comparable between the US and UK prison system, like from even basic goals.
Why on earth would someone go thru the effort to sell it at cost thought ?

Also you underestimate economies of scale behringer can employ, I'd be surprised if you could get close to their price.

You can look at various DIY stuff and you will probably notice that getting stuff DIY isn't all that much cheaper

I'll throw you an example:

Maths, which Behringer cloned, costs ~$300 fully assembled

Befaco Rampage, which is pretty much equivalent to Maths, costs $185 in DIY kit.

Behringer Abacus is $100

They are basically selling them at price or below what DIY kit would sell, and not that far off "cost of components"
You can't travel overseas with billions of gold in your pocket. You can literally travel everywhere with billions in crypto saved inside your neural pathways. Crypto is better gold.
I always assumed they bought it to augment Google Maps with Waze's superior real-time stream of road condition data?
I don't get what's the big deal--essentially the only thing being lost is a pointer to commit that marks the difference between RHEL X.Y and X.Y+1..?
I do use Alfa VCOs (or anyways AI Synthesis does, and I bought the chips through them to build some of their VCO modules), but it seems weird you'd recommend them over CEM, since presumably they're "ripping off" Curtis' design just as much as CoolAudio -- or does Alfa pay a licensing fee to CEM?

You might be right that Behringer is bad for the music industry in other ways and that I shouldn't support them through CoolAudio, but I don't see anything wrong with cloning an old chip. Patents are for a limited time and I think that's a good thing. If CoolAudio made an identical copy of the chip layout, maybe CEM could go after them for copyright violation, but I'm not aware of any claims that CoolAudio did that.
I don't know when it was added but Apple Maps also has speed trap, collision, object on road, and traffic jam alerts.
I suppose very little in some people's eyes maybe more in others. I think it depends on how much unexplored ocean this team dedicates their budget towards exploring.
If a man makes a videogame, and no one plays it, did he make a videogame?
So, they dragged a magnet across the bottom of the ocean and found signs of non-naturally occurring materials… why is the first reaction that it is anything other than more human waste?
I have an incredible feeling that this quite short commencement speech is quite complete in its treatment of the subject of one’s relationship to career choices.
Utility, originality and personal appreciation of tasks are key parameters in order to find a fulfilling job.
Listen, MSFT needs to be divested. Same as Amazon. Simple as that.
Eh?

South Africa murder rate 2022/23: 46 per 100,000 (https://www.groundup.org.za/article/how-bad-murder-in-south-...)

England and Wales murder rate 2021/22: 11 per million
(https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeand....)
Similarly, post-covid, I don’t know if it will come back as good and engaging as it was before, but the Ableton Loop conferences. I went to the one in Los Angeles and bought flights for the one in Berlin that got canceled during the pandemic.

Awesome hands-on sessions and live music. Don’t need to be an Ableton user.
Curious, how much did you make from buying shares in Facebook in 2012/2013?
You wrote: "I’m working on a startup that’s training LLMs to be authentic so they can simulate human affection and it’s actually working really well!"

I got news for you buddy: I and a hell of a lot of people know the difference between eating the menu (AI) and the meal (loved ones and dear friends). My lady is from south America, multi lingual, and has a better degree from a better school than I.

Seriously, how are you gonna lay a finger on that? You ain't.

Over reliance on AI is just another route to or though mental illness
I keep waiting for a racketeering case against Google.
Omitting “lawyers:” from the headline seems like a pretty clear violation of rules here.
That is horrible UX. I feel for the designers that are bossed around by the short sighted people who rationalize manipulating customers at Amazon and hope they have the courage and means to move to a better workplace where they can build something with positive-sum value.
The first thing I looked for was football fields, but couldn't find it. :)
Yes, but note that this type of 'overall thinking' sometimes has interesting consequences. Eg overall globalization raises wages, but it decimated rural economies in the west and caused a lot of social harm leading to the rise of populism.

The odometer shock that will start hitting low wage earners forced to migrate to EV may have less important but similarly surprising unintended consequences.
Seems to be there as of today though, nice.
> you walk a way and leave them in hopeless situation, then delude yourself about how moral and empathetic you are by supporting the trapped person's choice to kill themselves instead of starving to death in the hole (which is easier for you)

> The underlying lack of of empathy is laundered through a twisted, myopic, absolutist appeal to individual rights and autonomy.

Nope.

The exact opposite argument makes as much sense as claiming that.

I.e. there are a lot of helpless people out there. But “even though we don’t help them, we are ok because at least they can stay suffering on their own and we will not help them in any way at all.”

That is, in fact, even worse than providing assistance for ending the lives of people who do not wish to live in suffering.

And in both cases the fact is that the kind of argument and analogy you are presenting, and of which I provide the flip side, is nothing but a straw man.

Here is the fact: People are suffering. We should do what we can to help end suffering. This includes helping people to end their lives if they wish to.

It’s not a “cop out”. It’s widening the set of tools to help people who are suffering.
Blood and the Machine: The Return of Reactionary Modernism
A big part of it is years of ANC. They essentially rode the wave of Nelson Mandela (who’s biggest mistake probably was limiting himself to one term, not that he didn’t deserve his rest after decades in prison) ever since the end of apartheid, and especially the poorest kept voting for them. No matter how much corruption they openly showed.

And those outages affect the poorest more than anyone else. My wife is from SA, her family is far from rich, but well off enough to afford a generator. It’s not always on, but it really helps bridge the outages when you really need the power.

And before the usual white supremacists show up, yes, it was better during apartheid. Fascinating how you have no issues when you can just cut the power and water etc. to all the blacks in their townships.
A whistleblower raised safety concerns about OceanGate’s submersible in 2018
I have tried that right now, in Firefox 102.12.

It hides the fact that I have a 30-bit monitor by pretending that it is a 24-bit monitor, but the list of available fonts remains visible, so I can still be uniquely identified.
There is a certain stickiness to people who have lived for a few generations. Unfortunately for South Africa, once those disappear having them back is guaranteed to be impossible.