skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve not been able to find a signed distribution of 7-zip, so I imagine they feel safer building the repo locally to make sure they’re at least not running a compromised .exe (not suggesting the code itself is guaranteed to be virus free, but this does feel safer in my mind)
You are begging a ton of questions there. For one, there was no evidence that physical book sales were impacted by lower priced ebooks. For two, Amazon doesn't even have a monopoly on ebooks, much less books. Their share is almost certainly comparable to the marketshare we are discussing here, amusingly.

Further, though, you are literally arguing against the laws here. They were not found guilty of being a monopoly. They were found guilty of antitrust violations that included price manipulation in the one case, and wage manipulation in the other.
I mostly agree with the author. After working a couple of years with React client render and API a pure server render seems to be a way more productive. For my recent OSS project (https://github.com/docusealco/docuseal) I use server render everywhere except of the 2 most complex/dynamic UI parts (drag&drop form builder and the signing form). I think just figuring out which approach fits best for which part of the software is the most important thing, doing both SSR and CSR in a single project is completely fine when done right.
How is that argument different from banning Signal? eg: People don't use end-to-end encrypted messaging because there are better options that better meet their needs. Most people's needs don't include "the government can't know I'm saying this".

Is there really no monetary exchange you've made in your life that, if your government knew about, could get you into trouble? And are you so confident in the future of your government that you're willing to give them that power? I'm not.
But more than Battleship Potemkin. Is this a new currency?
Giraffe – Long Context LLMs 32k 13B LLama
There's also https://text.npr.org/
It says free for non-commercial. If commercial, contact us. I assume they plan on paying the bills with commercial work.
Intern-Ets
My preferences might deviate significantly from the norm, but I'd gladly take a week-long cross country road trip over a hellish day traveling by air.
The only moat openai has is their financial resources to pay for training and their vast troves of data scraped before reddit/twitter/etc started trying to lock things down. I think at this point there are enough people knowledgeable and interested in open LM technology that, if openai begins to degrade in quality, we won’t lose this technology forever.

I’ve personally been obsessively reading papers about new models and transformer modifications, and having succeeded in implementing some I think the experience has taught me that this tech is probably where web was in the 90s: easy in concept, expensive and hard to scale due to a few missing easy pieces thatll come later.
I kind of like flat earth because it uses all the bad argument techniques that people I can't criticize on HN without getting downvotes use. Thus, it provides a good example cases for most common bad arguments used in online debates, especially science related debates.

Somebody should put together a dictionary of informal fallacies with examples from the flat earth movement because it is not politically incorrect to criticize them while it is to criticize other movements that are more popular that regularly employ these fallacies.

One more thing: speaking of people believing they're Christ, a random guy in China in the 1850s started to believe he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ and started the biggest civil war in world history.
always export files in UTF-8
“Official entities” also don’t get to judge whether Apple is a legal monopoly - the courts would still decide.

And if you haven’t been paying attention - government lawyers haven’t been doing too great lately making cases against BigTech.

Yet, HN posters are sure that Apple is a monopoly. Did their high price lawyers miss something that HN posters found?
Which employees would those happen to be?

Never seems to shake out that it's the ones at the top.
Show HN: Modular, full-stack software components for robotics and IoT
I'm thrilled to announce the public beta of Transitive Robotics, a company I've founded out of the belief that the robotics industry is lacking a shared, open platform for the development of full-stack robotic software. ROS is great but is lacking a cloud and web stack. As a result, robotics companies lose time creating their own cloud middle-ware for robotics and reimplementing dozens of common full-stack components when this time could be better spent on their specific product. I've worked for six different robotics startups and have seen this time and time again.

Transitive fixes that. It provides modular, full-stack components that robotics companies can use to build their robotics web portals and dashboards faster and to a higher quality. On top of that, the platform itself is open-source, so others can develop their own capabilities. Transitive + capabilities is comparable to Android + apps.

Come and try out come of our capabilities, such as remote-teleop with live video: https://youtu.be/45geHcIGcFU, or our terminal capability that gives you a web terminal w/ support for file transfer without the need for a VPN or similar by virtue of using webrtc: https://transitiverobotics.com/caps/transitive-robotics/term.... The latter is useful for any kind of remote device, not just robots.

Please share your thoughts and feedback.
What's realy weird is your conversation existing in this context of how the official's blockade would kill those who obeyed it.
I haven't seen any data, but coffee grounds seem more similar to straw, which has been used with some success.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/394/3/0...
> the Metal/Vulkan/OpenGL situation is unfortunate and I don't understand Apple's motivation there.

I don't think it's hard to understand. Apple wanted an easy to use API that could be extended and updated easily. Vulkan is an extremely complex API that foregoes all and any developer ergonomy to facilitate quick driver development on as many hardware targets as possible. Consequently, Vulkan's design choices are driven by the least common denominator. The goals are just too different.

There is at least some evidence that Apple was interested in supporting and shaping Vulkan (they were member of the initial working group), but I suspect that it very quickly became clear that the committee is going into a direction they were not interested in, so they noted out.

Still, I don't think it's correct that Apple is opposing any kind of standardisation in this domain, they just want something more aligned with their vision. They have been very active with WebGPU, which is shaping up to be a very nice API, and it has inherited a lot of good design decisions from Metal.
It’s not about me being right, it’s about what a real judge says.
Does Google have enough of the search engine market share to be considered a monopoly?
Wedge salads are great. But, how do they get properly washed? Do you have to disassemble the layers, wash them, and put it back together? Or is it just the outer leaves you have to worry about?
We need to start applying the first sale doctrine to licenses, somehow.
While I agree that is the common sentiment, I have read numerous studies that are starting to question this...

"There is evidence to support the use of DBS in less advanced PD and that it may be appropriate for earlier stages of the disease than for which it is currently used. The improving short and long-term safety profile of DBS makes early application a realistic possibility. "

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4065356/
The pilot must have accidentally left the plane mid-flight. Happens to the best of us.

Update: the latest news is that the plane had an accidental collision with an missile.
The police are average people too.
If you're looking for an alternative that runs on Linux, I just recently discovered Speech Note. It does speech to text, text to speech, and machine translation, all offline, with a GUI:

https://flathub.org/apps/net.mkiol.SpeechNote

https://github.com/mkiol/dsnote
https://huggingface.co/abacusai/Giraffe-v2-13b-32k
I can see how that discussion is tangential to this one, but I can't see how it's directly related.
> 30 million Americans marched in opposition to the Iraq war

And it was an illegal. George W. Bush is a war criminal.
YC startup school might be something to look into: https://www.startupschool.org/
Right on red isn't a convenience for drivers. Very often it results in multi-minute waits for an opportunity to make an unprotected left or intersection crossing for tens of blocks downstream from a busy street that people are constantly turning right off of.
That antitrust != monopoly. That is it. Do I also need to add that antitrust != collusion?

I am not even really arguing that they are guilty in this case. I flat out don't know. I do find it odd to see the unwavering defense of Apple in this.
The link talks about dealing with organic waste. Doesn't organic waste break down over time?

That seems like it would be a bad thing in concrete.

Later it mentions "Pyrolysis involves heating organic waste in the absence of oxygen." So maybe that does the breaking down ahead of time?

But then ... you just spent a bunch of energy heating old organic waste. That also seems strange if you're taking an environmental approach.
Google Ads Used in Crypto Scam to Redirect Users Through Kochava.com
beautiful image at the top of the page. I realize that it is a map, meant to convey some information. but I just like it
If you have to 'search around' for your definition and make a dubious appeal to authority without citing any of those experts, perhaps you need to wonder if it's your definition that's wrong.
I hope it's not an error. This is how the web was when it was at its best. I hope this is a trend that continues.
I know it's terribly low-class of me, but iceberg lettuce remains my favorite lettuce.

I agree that shredding it kind of ruins it, though.
That’s not sus
Is there any resource that compares cosine similarity with other alternatives?
We should all be rooting for boring AI
Is this the reason AI assistant disappeared from Colab for me?
In deadly Maui fires, those who dodged barricades survived
But it isn't founded by one group, most Chinatowns are a hodge podge of Asian cultures, conveniently labeled Chinese because they are the majority.
If you'd rather use a web app with minimal cost upfront check out PlainScribe :)
https://www.plainscribe.com/
I'm not sure I understand this comment. Could you elaborate?
If you look at Show HN posts, it's clear that people do build a lot of stuff.
I also want to build stuff, I just miss the good idea of what to build
Looks as realistic as every other real mermaid I’ve seen ;-)
Should be a tax break per percentage of carbon up to the safe limit. Same with corporate taxes. Corporations should receive a progressive tax break for their lowest-paid employee's salary. The higher the lower the tax.
User-Defined Order in SQL
If I read the results correctly, weird to see a potential cell-catcher at the US Immigration center. Could this reasonably be interpreted as "someone is sniffing immigrant's cell traffic" .. gathering intelligence about potential candidates for immigration?
That's actually something that I think is a next step.

a) run locally through a web ui
b) run with a local vectorstore

From my perspective of someone using it as a bot that runs in a container using a cloud based vector store makes a lot of sense, but yeah that's really good feedback and not something I considered. Hrmmm. Ok let me get a look at some local vectorstores.
I am a React developer and I am in this picture and I don't like it
I don’t think we’re going to see a ruling against copyright in the long term. When the rulings do come, they’re going to be complex (not that copyright law isn’t already complex). As prompting and working with AIs slowly becomes its own art and skill, it will become clear that works need protection. We’ve had “intelligent” filters and tools in Photoshop for decades, this is just the next step in that evolution.

The only real problem here is that the original creators of the art that these AIs were trained on didn’t consent to this type of use and aren’t getting any kind of attribution or payment. If they were recognized and compensated, there’d be really nothing to talk about here - any work could be copyrighted, with whatever derivative status the AI bakes in.
NASA often gets the same treatment, particularly so during the Apollo program when they were getting a lot of money. It doesn't matter the country, a lot of people don't see the sense in spending a single pence on space.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/14/apollo-11-ci...
People were bored sitting at home. Getting out in your car and driving stupidly fast on empty roads was one way to alleviate that boredom. My 25mph road regularly became a drag strip.
Sandboxing is a nice backstop no matter what you're running, because it can help protect you from vulnerable software as well as malicious software.

But it's much more urgent in ecosystems where the norm is to install untrusted, proprietary software supplied directly from developers/publishers with minimal real human oversight from anyone.

A lot of Linux users rely just on the distro itself for their software, which is way, way safer than the way people install software on macOS, iOS, Windows, or Android. This is probably part of why desktop Linux has lacked these facilities as a default for so long, and also why Flatpak sandboxing is seen by so many users as 'about' proprietary software.

It's definitely needed, by now, though. There's still a fair bit of proprietary software that has strong network effects which compel even some users of libre operating systems, like Zoom, Slack, and Discord. It's way better to install those with sandboxing than give them access to the normal packaging mechanisms whose design assumes a level of trust and social oversight that's just not there for third-party, vendor-provided packages and repos.
...and hospital windows.
It's not so much for search (although it can obviously be used that way) as it is for just computing various kinds of similarity/dependency for arbitrary vectors of equal length.

To the extent you would want to use it for vector/semantic search applications, I would advise doing a first pass with something like FAISS to narrow down the list of potential matches from the entire universe of stored vectors, and THEN trying to compute these other measures of similarity/dependency only on the "most likely" vectors using my library. Hopefully that makes sense.
> Is there a reason websites put that $ in front of commands

back in the mid-early days of computers, I'm pretty sure the unix prompt was a $ (and as has been pointed out, a # for the root user). Thus custom of using it in documentation started because it's literally what people would see.
no it is not. clickbait.
Is that what you thought before you read the paper?

Many people (including myself and others in this HN thread) seem to have taken the yin-yang image as literal insight into the physical structure of a photon. They could have used a different image, perhaps one of their institution's logo and avoided this misinterpretation.

examples:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SacredGeometry/comments/15xo6fq/go_figure_photon_entanglement_is_a_yinyang_symbol/
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/quantum-yin-yang-scientists-visualize-quantum-entanglement-of-photons-for-the-first-time/
One thing that really helped me was just going to the gym. Basically strengthening my core improved my posture so that my esophagus isn't as crooked due to shitty posture.
Shocking. Not that it happened, but that it took this long.
If it was just computer that caused the various assistants to get bad, then why haven’t they gotten good again?

Google assistant came out in 2016! That is 7 years ago! Since then, GPU compute in flops has 5xed… for single precision. If you include half-floats (not a thing back then), it is 75x the single precision flops.

I think the reason that assistants have “gotten bad” is a combination of edge case controls (avoiding politically problematic results), increased capabilities mean more opportunities for failures, and their failures are amplified, and their successes ignored (in other words they aren’t necessarily worse, we just expect more out of them).
> A lot of people want to just have asynchronous conversations without getting distractions lobbed at their face all the time... I visit Twitter maybe a few minutes per month because all the autoplaying gifs and notifications on all sides make me sick.

Then you're not the target audience. Nobody goes to Chuck E Cheese and complains about the lights and noise.

> The only interaction I ever had with live chat was clicking on it to remove it with uBlock, if I want to chat with a salesperson I can go visit a shop.

I regularly interact with support on DoorDash, Amazon, and my bank using live chat, instead of having to get on a phone call and get put on hold.

> Notifications? Not really necessary.

I use a pinned tab for my email, which provides in-browser notifications for new emails and calendar events, so I don't have to install a third-party native app from some random developer (whose installation requires admin access to my machine) just to read my web-based email.
I'm not sure why I would want this as a VSCode extension instead of a language library (?)
This is awesome. Though one e strange this is having the PM heavily featured in this broadcast with side by side shots.
Crypto can only be controlled at the legal conversion point to/from fiat. Because otherwise it's just a packet over the Internet.

Mind you, I said legal. Because black markets have always existed to fill the niche prohibited by the government. These days the black market also lets you bypass KYC laws for crypto.

Legislators up in their ivory tower have always held the misguided belief that laws can direct human behaviour. If one wants to make a "cash" (i.e. untraceable) transaction over €3000, it's not laws that are gonna stop them.

The viability of Bitcoin is correlated by how tight they pull the noose around cash. As an obnoxious crypto-anarchist, I welcome these laws, this is how the state will destroy its own currency in favour of the one that doesn't respect borders, limits and embargoes.

People will always favour the currency with the least amount of hoops to jump through.
A perverse incentive (like what our ancestor is correctly noting) involves incentivizing something that is antithetical to the goal (not just a side effect). In this case, a policy whose goal is "reduce carbon in the atmosphere" leads to an outcome of "increase carbon in the atmosphere". An unintended effect could just be "makes all the buildings weaker" or "bridges smell like coffee".
From the same article:

And ExxonMobil funded a disinformation campaigned aimed at discrediting scientists and blocking government efforts to fight climate change for more than 50 years, before publicly disavowing climate denial in 2008.

Another quote that ages well:

We in the petroleum industry are convinced that by the time a practical electric car can be mass produced and marketed, it will not enjoy any meaningful advantage from an air pollution standpoint,” he told Congress. “Emissions from internal-combustion engines will have long since been controlled.”

I don’t think that we should trust companies to act against their best interest just because “capitalism” is a magic word.

Why didn’t they spend more profits on research? Why did they lobby against pollution reduction if they’re so advanced? Why did they invent emission reduction technology in 1960, but in 2023 we have a massive pollution problem? The last 60 years could be a thesis to prove your entire premise as flawed. This is proof that they can’t be trusted with their profits, nor their research results.
I used to use Kate before Moore's law caught up and people discovered optimization again, now I use VS code.

Still a really nice editor!
And another one:

The Genuine Sieve of Eratosthenes
https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Sieve-JFP.pdf
my grandfather had a farm and one of the crops was green beans. I use to just walk to the field and pick beans for a snack when I was little. They are so good like that.
"Sensibility to climate change" has nothing to do with competence in "plus 4 sigma" disaster response. For that matter usually neither does the latest election.

Disaster preparedness or response is about readiness and means (purchased ahead of time) to do pretty ad-hoc things on very short notice. The slow, long trend isn't the issue. For that matter, once the fire was a large and fast wildfire there quite possibly wasn't much that the entire island could have magically instantly moved to Lahaina to make much difference. The "authorization to release water" is a more interesting one: it was earlier and it was means on hand and it was a few persons' opportunity to be informed and ready to "just do it". And again nothing to do with climate change but instead everything to do with a "now and right here" problem.
I'd like to have LawGPT, where it reads all laws of a certain country, and I can ask it things like, "what are my options when the neighbors tree crosses over into my property?"
What Do Chinese University Students Think About U.S.-China Tech Competition?
Wanna bet? Before I moved to the US, my grandfather explicitly told me to avoid associating with people from my home country. He had reasons and he wasn't wrong!
Because people who buy sex toys are never satisfied?
Aren't bicycles more deadly per passenger mile?
Pretty much, although it's one-directional transfer of a volume or snapshot of one, not bi-directional one
Assuming he actually was aboard.
I agree, from my experience it seems that areas with a more unplanned "chaotic" buildup also seems to have both more diversity in class/social/race and also much more community activity overall. I grew up in one of those homogeneous planned neighborhoods that are supposed to be nicer with their gatehouse and HoAs, but it's my current place with it's development clusterfuck that results in pristine McMansions sitting next to mobile homes with abandoned cars in the front that I feel the most at home.
To the people wondering why this is still an issue: Most tech is very US- or west-centered. My name contains an Umlaut (ü), which causes me trouble much more often than should be the case. A colleague of mine even changed their name by substituting ä foe ae, to avoid this issue. We still have the benefit of mostly ASCII names mind you. It can get a lot worse.
> What you are not seeing is the piles of grounds that would be needed and the tangle of logistics to get the grounds from where they are produced to where they can be used.

so many of these ideas seem to hand wave over “we’ll need to implement a whole new waste stream worldwide. don’t mind that we can hardly manage >1 stream as it is”
Yes, and I believe the latest Rust toolchain is even able to automatically vectorize certain operations using SIMD primitives without explicitly specifying them in the Rust code. There has been a lot of recent work in Rust and LLVM to support that sort of thing, although that stuff is a bit over my pay grade.
it's a zero-day when it is not patched but still exploited
The people I know going around spending cash for large purchases tend to not be people that are struggling. They just prefer using cash. It doesn't get any simpler than using cash.
Apparently his second plane is flying at the moment?
Could you do a future write up on the whole process of how you got Github actions to cross compile to different platforms?

That sounds very fascinating.