skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may have lost a good developer. Enthusiasm is valuable. Trying to do the best possible thing, even if misguided.
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I actually think twitter has a good chance to eat up a lot of youtube market. Youtube has gone downhill and I find myself watching things on Twitter when they are cross posted.

Youtube thus far has been unassailable but I think they could make some inroads
Ok fair point. GitHub does suck
Well done, Apple ... I live in the UK and am happy to make the sacrifice.

The UK government can stick their agenda right up their big fat, corrupt, dystopian ...
Probably cause they kicked it out the door so fast they didn't have time to define proper permissions?

It's multi-language, including (and precisely limited to) Java/Python/C++/Golang/Javascript. The install instructions for Python, Java and JS are done. Go is "coming soon" and C++ is missing.

It's easy to use. No need to learn a DSL. Just need to replicate the schema definitions in each language. As if learning a schema definition language is harder than learning a builder API.

But the nice, polished website with animated graphics is done. First things first!

The Github page is much more complete and looks more serious, though. Why not just stick to that at this early stage.
If the product is being sold for less than its true value then the person making that product will be underpaid and/or overworked. Sure someone choosing between "glass factory" and "semiconductor fab" may choose the latter if they can, but that doesn't mean that they will get standards and pay commensurate with other jobs in the US requiring similar training or effort. Taiwanese labor standards are way lower than in the US, and the price-point of our consumer electronic goods requires that. Either the prices go up (and people get mad), the labor standards come down (and people get mad), or the tech companies accept lower profit margins (and capital owners get mad, and they tend to get their way). There's no magic fix to this trilemma, historically we've just moved the bad labor standards out of sight so US voters can get their labor standards and Tim Cook can get his ballooning valuation. One of these two things is going to have to give if we want to make chips on-shore.
Didn't know about typst. Looks quite nice, I like that you can embed LaTeX style maths in it, but it is still quite readable.
The llama.cpp project is absolutely amazing. Our goal was to build with/extend the project (vs try to be an alternative). Ollama was originally inspired by the "server" example: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/tree/master/examples/...

This project builds on llama.cpp in a few ways:

1. Easy install! Precompiled for Mac (Windows and Linux coming soon)

2. Run 2+ models: loading and unloading models as users need them, including via a REST API. Lots to do here, but even small models are memory hogs and they take quite a while to load, so the hope is to provide basic "scheduling"

3. Packaging: content-addressable packaging that bundles GGML-based weights with prompts, parameters, licenses and other metadata. Later the goal is to bundle embeddings and other larger files custom models (for specific use cases, a la PrivateGPT) would need to run.

edit: formatting
Yep. Ignoring that I very much dislike Teams (I'm forced to use it at work), this sort of thing is why I will only ever use it on my employer's machines.
Apologies if I’ve misunderstood you (edit: I have) but assuming you are saying that 1ms to transfer funds between banks is ridiculously slow, why do you say that?

Light travels about 300km in one millisecond in a vacuum, about 200km in optical fiber. The best achievable theoretical fiber optic RTT for NYC-LA is about 35-40ms. In practice 65ms+ is more realistic due to routing overhead and the fact that cables aren’t always laid in a great circle. This being a financial API with three parties involved in most transactions (the two banks and the fed clearinghouse) there is sure to be more than one round trip involved for TLS establishment, authentication, verification of funds and account availability etc, many of which involve traversing many inevitably complicated systems on each side. It would shock me if such a system could realistically target anything less than 500ms P50.
BMC&C: Lights Out Forever
Has Snowden been forgotten so quickly?
Comment here is about the 70mm film IMAX Screens. There's a variety of different formats for IMAX. But only 30 of the screens in the world are capable of playing the 70mm film format.
> What benefit would targeting low wealth individuals have to the IRS?

I'll shorten the explanation even further: many more easy/no contest wins.
I dunno, professional advertising firms are pretty up on psychological manipulation. If you buy these shoes you'll "be like Mike." Buy your wife this car/diamond necklace for Christmas and you'll ensure a loving relationship like this fake couple. Buy these clothes and you'll look like this stunningly beautiful person and the ladies/boys will fall for you. Buy this medicine and you'll be completely cured and running around on the beach when you're 80. Buy this Harley/Corvette and you'll be free from the drudgeries of life. These cool kids ride this bicycle, what do you ride? Buy buy buy.

I hardly watch commercials anymore unless it's a ballgame. I was discussing with a buddy of what the psychological imprint of 40+ years of advertising would look like.

"Sell the sizzle, not the steak."
Sure, but again to your own point, the share of voting Americans who don't earn income (and therefore pay no taxes) because they are over 65 is already 1/3 and only going to increase.[0]

[0]https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/number-of-individu...
> Pick anybody from anywhere and they'll tell you they've been able to do everything they ever wanted to do (with regards to payments) using the already-existing systems of their country.

This is like comparing candles and lightbulbs. Sure you can light up your home using both methods just fine, but you end up realizing how inconvenient candles were once you've made the jump to the newer technology.
One of the authors is Anders Hejlsberg, the guy behind c# and delphi
You're out of tune with the zeitgeist. A legitimate defense of any politician doing something wrong these days is "Trump did it" i.e. what Bob did is bad, but the person I think is the worst in the world also did it, therefore what Bob did is good (somehow.)
Show HN: Open-sourced my minimalistic home dashboard
Hi HN!

I've just published my small home dashboard project on Github. Hope you like it too and perhaps find it useful as a reference for similar ideas.

Overall I'm very happy with the LilyGo e-ink device and I'll probably add a bunch of other features in the future.
Rigid airships still have flexible gas bags (cells) inside. They just have a rigid hull around them.
> a purpose-built machine for the fakest and least-grounded (but most-believable-sounding) content

truthiness.ai

edit: wow, it's actually registered.
>The reason the US government has a national debt is because that debt is owed to the Federal Reserve, which is a private bank that loans the US government money and that sets the US monetary policy.

I'm pretty sure every holder of US Treasuries (including me) is owed money by the US government.
Small, non-tech companies deploying GPT-4 chatbots?
I ran into GPT-4 on a wine distributor's website (https://www.klwines.com/) and was wondering what other surprising companies people have come across that are using GPT-4 already?
Lol fat lies, apple pumping propagandato try maintain an image within the market.

They still operate in aus. Therefore they can legally be backdoor'ed, and almost certainly have been but are legally required to not notify their users or make note of it internally. Couple with some 5 eyes legislation and you got cross borders no warrant monitoring.

This grandstanding by Apple is nothing more than propaganda for the plebs. Go read country laws. Apple toes the line like everyone else. Your a suckered if you think otherwise.
> It shows in the state of PLC/HMI Development tools.

i mean you are talking about upgrading things that are going to be in service for decades perhaps. the requirements for the programs is generally not complicated. turn on a pump for a time, weigh something and then alarm if some sensor doesn't see something.

Structured text was an improvement over ladder logic as you could fit more of the particular program in the screen real estate you had and could edit it easier since it was just text. though, that had its own set of issues that needed to be worked through and it wasn't a panacea.
The vulnerabilities are:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34329 - CVE-2023-34329,

an authentication bypass via HTTP headers that has a severity rating of 9.9 out of 10.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34330 - CVE-2023-34330,

Code injection via Dynamic Redfish Extension. - Its severity rating is 8.2.
Because Nacha (and ACH) is explicitly not a government system
I tried to find an explanation for the drop. Best I could do was this from Reuters:

"Tesla shares tumbled 9.74%, its biggest one-day percentage drop since April 20, after the electric-vehicle maker reported a drop in its second-quarter gross margins to a four-year low and CEO Elon Musk hinted at more price cuts."

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/nasdaq-sp-500-futures-fal...
3 min × n nor (number of readers)
Chinese do use iMessage, although not necessarily deliberately. SMS is very commonly used in China and when a iPhone user want to message to another, the default is to use iMessage instead of SMS. So I did have tens of native Chinese contacts, including my computer illiterate parents, using iMessage back when I was in China and using an iPhone. Also, SMS cost a fee in China for the most popular mobile subscriptions, while iMessage is almost free.

So it is a good question why CCP didn't block iMessage, despite we know that SMS is heavily censored and monitored (see 金盾工程).
I'm afraid "writing code is about tradeoffs" is just as much of a truism. It's not going to help anybody write beter code. You need to get into the specifics.
Thank You both. Couldn't have said it better.

The use cases of WebP is limited, the actual advantage over decent JPEG and isn't that big, and unless you use a lot of lossless PNG I would argue it should have never been pushed as the replacement of JPEG. To this day I still dont know why people are happy about WebP.

According to Google Chrome, 80% of images transferred has an BPP 1.0 or above. The so called "low bit rate" happens at below BPP 0.5. The current JPEG XL is still no optimised for low bitrate. And judging from the author's tweet I dont think they intend to do it any time soon. And I can understand why.
i'm not performing censorship by selecting which files i download from the internet, am i?

> "Criteria for inclusion" and "censorship" are the exact same thing, the only difference between them is how the speaker feels about it.

yes, this is very important, which is exactly why a library like this selecting which works to include is not censorship. now if people intentionally submitted their own works and the library tried to hide or deny the existence of those requests, now that would be censorship

i think state libraries are in a slightly different situation. it is definitely fuzzy though
Something along the lines of ‘We face a climate emergency that is even more serious than the Covid emergency, we have to do this, this is about saving lives’?

(I’m not in any way a climate denier, just a huge pessimist when it comes to attempted solutions)
Show HN: A notepad for bookmarks (~2007)
FPGA board with a free HSM bitstream (2021)
Speak of the devil: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36805730
"The rest is left as an exercise for the reader".

I 100% agree with the frustration. Anything that involves make as described by a repo such is this is not something I want in any of our processes. It's going to fail.

But this is really a toy and not meant to be taken seriously.
Put the flag of North Korea into the notes of a venmo transaction. You will very quickly find out the extent to which the government knows what you are doing with your money.
I doesn't give the Feds access to anything. Suppose I bank at Wells Fargo and my favorite coffee shop banks at Capitol One. If I pay the shop $4 for a latte, the fed will have NO IDEA who sent that money to whom or for what. All the Fed sees is $4 moving from the Wells to the Cap One Federal Reserve master accounts -- amid a blizzard of millions of other transactions. The difference from ACH is just that these payments are settled in big batches rather than one by one. The Fed will get new and better data on payment volume, but that's all, really.
It had timed out. The edit feature has a time window.
Because what they don't do is make sure you get all the deductions you are entitled to receive.

Like it or not, tax law is complex. This is where a good CPA is worth whatever they might charge to do the work.
We are both correct.
> I can buy an icecream anywhere in the world without anybody tracking me.

No you can't. Companies like OpenEye and Deep Sentinel offer facial recognition solutions that are targeted at loss-prevention, and these systems are commonplace in the USA. Facial recognition-based consumer analytics systems are also available.

In fact, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a pint of ice cream that you can buy without having a camera pointed at your face. Even the little stand at the beach in the state park near my old place had a camera, and I didn't even have real LTE coverage there.

Privacy comes only from the force of law; not the other way around.

Anyways, the whole conversation is a red herring. This is a replacement for ACH, which already exists, and there isn't substantively more information sharing between banks and governments than already exists.
Kbin.world – Find geographically close community
I made a thing that redirects you to the most relevant kbin instance/community for your location.

Where do you end up?
Does this eliminate the late night flights of Mitsubishi MU2 turboprop cargo planes delivering canceled checks for the Federal Reserve?
I believe the comment you replied to was suggesting that 1ms is infeasibly fast.
I don't think that's what causes police killings unless you consider walking out of your friend's house with a cellphone in your hand making "10 of the worst decisions of your life in a row"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Andre_Hill#Incident
Making a tool doesn't mean making every component of the tool.
Bad acid trip?

Hope you feel better soon.
It's not like it helps, if she did have a presence online the malicious stuff will still totally wipe it out.

Take me, for an example. Google Greg Maxwell. You'll get a smear piece written by the associates of the fraudster that claims to invented bitcoin title "Crypto Crime Cartel: Greg Maxwell" several pages ahead of my own webpage (https://nt4tn.net/) which shows up only on the sixth page where essentially no one will see it. (hey, at least the smear piece not #1 anymore-- It was for a long time.)

(You could add 'bitcoin' to the search to get rid of most of the people who aren't me-- the "crime cartel" article is result #2 then, and my page is at the bottom of page 4-- again where few people are ever likely to see it-- after several other smear pages.)

So I think the threat of negative material is mostly orthogonal. You're probably better off invisible, you're screwed either way if someone well funded wants to trash your name.
Raid 0 and raid 1 absolutely work well on btrfs, I've been running in production at scale for more than a decade.

(Raid 5 and 6 are a different story, but frankly I think it's silly that modern systems talk about them at all, instead of general purpose erasure-coding.)
>Like we spend billions on military hardware we don't forsee ever needing _to keep the engineering capacity to design and build military hardware_.

Well, more because the military industrial complex lines the pockets of your politicians, who in turn decide how to spend the budget.
My DMs are open on Twitter.
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My stance says nothing about punishment, imprisonment, or retribution, and is more about recognizing that there are things humans can do to each other that are irreversibly damaging, and that is not an okay thing to do, and recognizing that you have caused someone irreparable harm that will never be "fixed" is the emotionally mature stance. I'm not even saying you should wake up every day with a weight on your shoulders for killing someone, but rather it's something you should keep in mind, and victims owe nothing to the people that harmed them, and I do not believe expecting victims to tell people doing bad things "everything is okay" is beneficial to society. Being without forgiveness from those you harmed is not equivalent in any way to being in prison for life.
If I were Intuit, I would be spending that on making sure the IRS selected us as the sole provider of their free tax software. Then make sure it's slightly more annoying than using TurboTax so I could get paid twice for the same job.
> I think a lot of people don't understand that R&D is like flushing money down the drain until one day you happen to invent interplanetary teleportation.

I wouldn't say that at all. There are lots of small, tangible positive outcomes that occur along the way. Inventing interplanetary travel is great. But even a failed project gives smart people experience, generates research that might have application elsewhere, funds general economic development.

Lots of indirect development comes from R&D. Think a chemical engineering PhD student designs some software to solve a problem specific to their research, then finds out that there's a broader market for that kind of software and leaves his research to pursue that as a business.

I think that a lot of people think R&D is only about achieving a specific goal. When, in reality, it's about researching and developing a lot of smaller things in the general direction of a particular goal.
Differences between US and Singapore that actually require work before arrival and are worse for the US:

Belarus, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Ghana, Guinea, Iran, Kenya, Myanmar, Uganda, Vietnam.

Everything else is either visa on arrival or the same between the two (or worse for Singapore).

I'd like to see Cuba and Iran. Maybe Vietnam. Kenya, I've been to, although at the time the visa was granted at entry (though it was not free). And not all of the e-visas are free.

But in the grand scheme of things, my US passport makes it harder in four countries I would ever have an interest in going to unless there was something spectacular I don't know about. Seems like it's a pretty minor thing, not like it was in the early 90s when I needed a Taiwanese visa that required going to a consulate.

Pretty much all "rich country" citizen issues boil down to a handful of highly restrictive states and a few that have particular issues with the US government. It's not really limiting me the way that, say, an Indian passport would.
test developers? test departments? QA teams? It's worth mentioning that the vast majority of software orgs don't have the luxury of such distinctions, i.e. software teams are generally directly responsible for the quality of their own work and can't punt problems across the org chart.
The product is fine. It doesn't really need radical improvements. That money should have been returned to shareholders.

What it needs is to not exist. The product does a fine job of doing an unnecessary thing. For the vast majority of users it should be a tax bill or refund check that arrives with no user intervention at all.

The remaining use cases should be handled differently -- perhaps by a professional. That professional may themselves want such software, but it's likely a different interaction than software also aimed at users with much simpler use cases.
Console Operators
these are trivial steps you can add in any script, as your link demonstrates.

Why would I want to add all this extra stuff just for that? The opaque retry until it returns valid JSON? That sounds like it will make for many pleasant support cases or issues

Personally, I have found investing more effort in the actual prompt engineering improves success rates and reduces the need to retry with an appended error message. Especially helpful are input/output pairs (i.e. few-shot) and while we haven't tried it yet, I imagine fine-tuning and distillation would improve the situation even more
can you link me to this video because i've tried googling it and i haven't found him talking about HIV, yet i've found youtube commentary of people saying he did while clipping a video where he didn't talk about it at all

and did he say vaccine research created aids? or was he saying it's been spread through needles? there's so many details missing in this story
> Emulate charismatic behaviors.

This is circular
> I don’t think those are appropriate for the Web, what with all the font issues

Fun fact: several broadcast standards use Bitstream TrueDoc Portable Font Resource, which was supported for embedded web fonts way back in Netscape 4:

https://people.apache.org/~jim/NewArchitect/webrevu/1997/11_...

https://web.archive.org/web/20040407162455/http://www.bitstr...

“The PFR specification defines the Bitstream portable font resource (PFR),
which is a compact, platform-independent format for representing high-quality,
scalable outline fonts.

Many independent organizations responsible for setting digital TV standards
have adopted the PFR font format as their standard font format, including:

— ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee)

— DAVIC (Digital Audio Visual Council)

— DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting)

— DTG (Digital TV Group)

— MHP (Multimedia Home Platform)

— ISO/IEC 16500-6:1999

— OCAP (OpenCable Application Platform)”
Isn't it the case that you still have to have a relationship with a bank to have an account to transfer into or out of via FedNow in the first place? In that case I don't think this would change the picture at all. It's not the intention to help the unbanked pariahs, that's for sure.
It's because not everyone can be as gifted as you.

I think the (arguably very prototypical) implementation is not what's interesting here. It's the concept itself. Natural language may soon become the default interface for most of the computing people do on a day to day basis, and tools like these will make it easier to create new applications in this space.