skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using SuperWhisper since the start and it's totally changed my workflow. I actually bought a mic because of it and I now mostly narrate my emails and other long form texts. The larger models are very accurate.

I know Neil is working on improving the speed of it using CoreML, which is I think the next big leap forward. Congratulations Neil!
I addressed this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=37212689

> "100%" doesn't mean "there are no nitpicky edge cases," it means, "this includes you, yes you, this is relevant to you."

> It is completely normal to use language that is not entirely precise. It isn't a criticism to point this out.
OpenVoiceOS: Open-source voice AI platform
I mean, that would be great; but if nobody is holding the line on resource-creep, as is obviously the case, and nobody is testing if releases are acceptable on HDDs, as is obviously the case, they should just change the published requirements to reflect reality.
Hence, the warranted fear. It’s not a “failed response” in that case
Ask HN: Feeling disillusioned. Am I overly moralizing Tech?
Tech Twitter is ablaze with hype around a new crypto app that lets you monetize relationships. Much of the excitement by builders & VCs explicitly hand-waves away the obvious and self-admitted ponzinomics for the sake of social experimentation.

Watching this play out has peaked my long emerging disillusionment with Tech. When billions are poured into subsidizing the engineering of addiction under the guise of growth, when VR is being pushed as a way to unironically help us connect more immersively, when the crypto intelligentsia continues to wantonly deploy financial mechanisms that almost universally enrich insiders under the guise of economic liberation, and everyone seems obsessed with joining the club at all costs… how are you meant to remain hopeful for tech’s societal impact?

Or am I just overly moralizing this?
Ethics of the use of generative AI in the first place aside, I'm pretty sure the illustrator was aware of what they were intending to do with their work (they even were interviewed about it in the behind the scenes video)
Pinkhouses for the win! But what’s wrong with transparent ones? https://solarmagazine.com/solar-panels/transparent-solar-pan...
Any arguments for 1/2 are just wrong. This isn't an unknowable or undefined situation. It's counterintuitive, but that's different.
The last cat I had that was allowed to go outside was a fearsome mouser, delighted in toying with them and was quite the biology teacher, showing off their inner anatomy to us kids.

However, birds mercilessly teased him as he had no clue how to catch one, surrounding him while he lay on the grass, chirping, then flying just far enough away when he'd move towards them.
university of waterloo as well, although thankfully classes start in two weeks for us
I fucked up the partitions on my 2017 iMac with Fusion drive a short while ago trying to create a dual boot system and even since my Mac was slow.

I think from beginning of start-up to a somewhat usable system was maybe 5 minutes? Quite long either way.

But just last weekend got sick of the slowness and found there's a 'diskutil resetFusion' [0] command that restores the partitions to the default. So I ran this command, reinstalled the OS and now my iMac is pretty speedy again. Not great mind you, but way better then before.

Lesson learned: dual boot on a Fusion drive is a bad idea.

---

[0]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207584
It's a nice theory but it only works if the animations are smooth and designed to improve understandability. The vast majority of UI animations are pure visual flourishes that take twice as long as they should and don't make any kind of sense spatially or physically or improve the user's understanding of what's happening at all. There's a lot of cargo cult UI design out there.

And what's worse is that most of the animations either don't start at the initial state of the UI or finish at the final state, or perform so badly that they hardly show any frames in between, so you have the worst of both worlds: abrupt jerky transitions and wasted time.

UI transitions that make spatial sense, are fast enough, are fluid, and don't slow down typical use of the UI are rare unicorns.
I just recently watched a YouTube video about how someone known for her bad memory taught herself to memorize 3141 digits of pi. Took her about 2 hours just to recite it. It's really impressive what the mind can do if you train it. (Search YouTube for Answer in Progress pi)
If someone is growing magic mushrooms for their own consumption, how does that harm anyone at all?
This works for MacOS because there are system frameworks you can rely on being installed (like AppKit) and that actually have backwards-compatibility (at least for a while). Linux distros don’t have this (not even for glibc), so you’d have to literally everything in your app image folder. Every GUI app bundling QT or other gui framework would be a ridiculous waste of space.
The illustrator was aware their work was going to be used in that way.
What does a "signed-off-by: " do? Unless you use a "signed-the-agreement:" what is this trailer supposed to indicate?
BPF?

Berkley Packet Filter?

14 years on here and I'm kinda alarmed by HN lately, it's gone from people reading 20% of the time to 1%. article is inscrutable, and literally the entire set of 30 comments are:

- Firefox memory usage.

- why decide dynamically?

- why not just ask the user?
I've used Hinge a lot as a heterosexual male, and it's pretty obvious they want dudes to pay for Roses to message attractive girls. For me and most of my friends who have used it, the disparity between the normal, free feed and the "Standouts", for which one must use Roses, is comical.

I don't see how that's too mysterious, and, for the most part, I don't hold it against Hinge, which has to try to make money.

edit: also, the other thing I forgot to say, is that I have also just keep deleting and recreating my account for every dating app. I don't do that to "game the algorithms" for these apps, though that may be a secondary benefit. I do it because I get tired of them, find them toxic/unhealthy, etc. I kind of just assumed most people did that, and I bet if the author's friend just shrugged and did that in the first instance instead of alleging foul play and conspiracy, they would have had a better time.

IIRC, Hinge always starts off by showing a good number of very attractive people in the main feed regardless, which I always assumed was partly to impress a new user with how worthwhile the app is, as well as trying to figure out how attractive the user is by seeing if attractive people respond to them.
We actually built the ios and android versions first, then decided to also build for web so that people can easily demo the app!
Respectfully, I think we agree? The current proc macro situation allows security vulnerabilities and a potentially dangerous change went unnoticed for weeks. This RFC aims to address that, at least in part. If the comments I read reflected your view, I wouldn't have made my snarky remark. Unfortunately, I read many comments full of fury aimed at dtolnay while ignoring the system that enabled it.
Did you divorce him?
triage means applying effort to where it is most useful, including forgoing something that might be too far gone to save easily in order to save several more things with a better chance at survival
Made a Tool to Help Calculate LLM Hosting Costs. LLM Cost Calculator Tool
Hey just wanted to share this tool I made for anyone wanting to get into LLMs and hosting one.
This tool offers a structured approach to estimating the costs associated with hosting LLMs, taking into account a variety of factors.

Factors include:
1. Use Case: Understand the intended purpose of the LLM deployment, as this can influence the resource requirements and subsequently, the costs.

2. LLM Model Type: Different LLM models have varying complexities and resource demands. The tool considers the specific model type being employed.

3. Anticipated Traffic Volume: The expected amount of traffic plays a pivotal role in determining the necessary infrastructure capacity, which in turn affects the overall expenses.

4. Prompt Structure (Input/Output): The tool takes into consideration the nature of prompts – whether they are input queries or output responses – and adjusts the cost estimation accordingly.

5. Data Size: The volume of data involved can impact storage requirements and thus contribute to the cost projection.

Thought it would be helpful for anyone thinking about hosting an LLM so you can get an idea of the cost implications of doing so.

The tool does not directly correlate with the machine learning process; therefore, I won't delve into the technical details here but I thought it would be a helpful tool along the way.

For anyone interested -
Link to the Calculator: https://llmcalculator.woyera.com/
Also, if you're wondering "Well, I could get better terms for my art" - Like I said, when Spotify arrived and you were signed on a label you HAD to sign the part that said "Yes, you can put my music online on Spotify and I will get paid peanuts" or else, unless you were Madonna or Taylor Swift.

Or, sure, you can also terminate your record deal. Hope you have 500 grands around just for that.

Frankly I don't see it ending much better for visual artists.
> The main assumption in this article is that "ego depletion" is real. It may not be, see Wikipedia [1].

I think your focus is slightly off the mark here. The problem is that people are being given mentally intensive tasks that are treated as mentally trivial, so their cognitive capacity gets drained invisibly. Your brain can absolutely get tired, and when it does, it's very hard to perform cognitive tasks.

It's not ego depletion, it's exhaustion from mental work.
I have this shaky hypothesis where the majority of UX devs today (not just web devs) grew up consuming content on smart phones, ipads, and small laptop screens. Their default way of interacting with technology is one app or web page at a time, all in maximized windows taking up the whole screen, and switching between between full-screen apps to multi-task. Perhaps this pattern carries over into their adult work, where they design sites and apps that look great when taking up the whole screen of a typical PC or tablet, but outright fail when exposed to a typical "windowed" browser width.

My normal browser width is about 1300 pixels and I see so many web sites and apps these days that can't tolerate what I consider a very reasonable browser width that this is the only explanation I can come up with.
Fair critique, but shouldn't strings be immutable anyways? Once you bring editing into play, you'll probably either want something like a rope or some CRDT and then you have more effective means of tracking positions, than manual offset computations, as part of the data-structure.
Well look on it from bright side - China is artificially limiting its cyber-offensive potential without actually realizing it.
I am able to do this. I can also write upside down and backwards. The interesting thing is, I am left handed, as was da Vinci. I wonder if the man who can speak backwards is left handed.

I also find it easier to read right-to-left. I wonder if it has to do with reversed brain wiring somewhere.
Oh, I completely agree that it's reasonable to be angry we have to pay more for the same or less. And our family is single income so it's been really hard for us.

It doesn't take houses to be considered investment vehicles by anyone though for this to happen (even if some people do). Just more and cheaper money available to throw at the same things.
This kind of workflow is probably against your workplace's rules. This bypasses one of the protections meant through something like a Duo app locked behind a device password screen; which is that even if your laptop is logged in and your password manager is running, a bad actor still couldn't get into protected things if they don't know your phone passcode.
Millions of people take Tylenol safely, do you think that gives just anyone impunity to prescribe it for just anything, even unsafely, when their motive comes from profit, culture war, or conspiracy exploitation?
On Linux with tpm2-tools installed you can run

To set the owner password (mainly for Storage)
```
tpm2_changeauth -c owner file:-
```

To set the endorsement password (e.g. to verify that the TPM is authentic):
```
tpm2_changeauth -c endorsement file:-
```

To set the lockout password (to recover the system without requiring a full reset):
```
tpm2_changeauth -c endorsement file:-
```
Soft skills if you want to work with people. Yes most SWE work more with people than computers.

Strong fundamental CS skills (e.g. getting through MIT/Berkely CS core courses with all assignments and projects done properly) if you don't like working with people. (don't get me wrong, still has to work with other people, but you get to choose which people to work with)
If you already have a .com domain that all your customers are familiar with, its not like you can just switch to a different domain. _Maybe_ I could excuse this if it was only for new registrations, but left the price for renewals the same, at least for existing domain owners.
Maybe affiliate links to media with sexy bald people. Or grooming equipment suitable for balding heads (shaving kits, etc)
Like a colophon for research?
Theres a great guide from Microsoft on this (mentioned in the reply to this HN comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30062178)

We’ve all had to open a door with our hands full and thanked the wheelchair button by the door, or tried to watch a movie with the flu and a stuffed head so we snapped on CC.
OpenVoice has been around for a couple of years I thought.
What's new?
Page.js: Tiny ~1200 byte Express-inspired client-side router
Fuzzing for CPS Mutation Testing
When I used Hinge, I never saw a reason to pay for it. Match is basically useless without paying and for Bumble it also helps to pay. Not so much with Hinge.
So, did he end up getting the plate?
Chess as a case study in hidden capabilities in ChatGPT
They do, but clicks won’t make themselves.
Scriptable: Automate iOS Using JavaScript
> I'd just like to point out that I think you confused another person who replied (Our_Benefactors) with me,

Oops, sorry :)

> if you can get a job offer from Meta, you could get a job offer at countless other companies that aren't directly contributing to the downfall of civilization.

I've been unemployed for 5 months now, and looking hard.

You may be trivially correct, if I end up not getting an offer from Meta. ;)

Now, as you might expect, I don't seek the downfall of civilization. But I can't think of a single employer whose work is entirely safe from that accusation, so it's a question of tradeoffs and guesses regardless.
This cannot be true.
Miss a loan payment? Your car will shut down
Zero-degree line at record height above Switzerland as heat and fire hit Europe
>Weather balloon climbs to 5,300 metres before temperature falls to 0C amid late summer heatwave

The 0C line “affects vegetation, the snow line and the water cycle, so has a considerable impact on the habitats of humans, animals and plants alike”, MétéoSuisse said. It averaged 2,570 metres above sea level from 1991 and 2020, fluctuating between 1,000 and 2,000 metres in winter, and 3,000 and 4,000 metres in summer.
It seems like you might have meant the opposite, based on your previous remark? Did you?
Like anything, it needs to be applied appropriately, and I agree that blindly redirecting every request to this framing is not helpful.

But the number of times that it is helpful has been pretty high for me over the years. This probably depends a lot on the customer’s own ability to comprehend the true nature of the problem. I worked in the enterprise/B2B space, where a significant number of requests came from people not technical enough to fully know what to ask without some deeper exploration.
I'll bet against it tho. I don't actually believe pure text-prompt-to-image will improve much (not in a few months at least). I just believe there will be more non-text tools to guide AI, like LoRA and control net, and they will be more accessible.

Control net kinda did what you said but in a different timeframe: it was quite difficult to tell AI to generate a person "sitting with their legs cross". Today, it's relatively easy to do this with control net, but still hard with text prompt only.

Edit: and the sibling comment made me question myself why I would ever take a random bet on the internet.
> I know a few people who are travelling to Europe and they're getting single entry fixed dates visas every time

I thought you were talking about visas to the US. How is people "travelling to Europe" relevant?

> Have you ever been on a visa interview in US embassy?

Yes I have. Twice. For two different visa categories at separate points in time.

In both cases my interview with the consular officer was very pleasant and took less than 5 minutes, and the first time he even said "enjoy your trip!”.

Now, I know a lot of people's US visas get rejected for whatever reason. I don't know why that is. Nor do I know why it was easy for me and difficult for others.

> Higher salaries, better job market, better living conditions, you name it.

> US immigration system is so fucked up there is no proper way easier than crossing Mexican border and legalizing as a refugee. Or "disappearing" on tourist visa.

My previous post was about whether or not it's harder for non-Americans to apply for a US visa from Europe. I was not talking about the general immigration situation in the US.

Rhetorical question — if a non-American non-European were to sneak into America via Mexico, why would they go to the trouble of settling into Europe first?

This is borderline flamewar, for no good reason. I wouldn't be replying further. Have a good day.
Social media posts (not just from yourself but other attendees), credit card purchases, license plate scanners, the conference itself publishing the list of attendees etc. If someone you have not told knows where you had been then the government can know too. It's not guaranteed but the risk is unacceptable to some.
This erroneously believes that the owners think the following:

1- it is possible to completely tap the dating market and long term customers are necessary

2- customers all have a similar threshold at which they are just-successful enough to stay engaged long term

Neither of these things are true. The more people "win the jackpot", per your analogy, the more people will use the platform. The market is big enough they don't need to fool you into paying to be unsuccessful.
I hope that is a joke haha
I thought telemetry was supposed to improve the experience. Not make it worse?
> answer X first and then say "did you want Y?".

That's a surefire way to cause your suggestion of Y to get ignored and proliferate the bad practice of X.

It's not anyone's responsibility to explain how to do things in a way that they believe is wrong.
I don’t see any data, just a chart, but it should be “better than react and slightly better/equal to svelte”
I'm not an expert, but I think it's because modern interpreted and compiled languages leave little to be desired. With how good Python is these days, why would you really learn C# and Java? I'm being a little facetious, but part of it is also true. We have really good REPL languages that obviate the desire for VM-styled languages.

The idea of a language tuned more for a human than a machine is as attractive as ever, but I'm not convinced we need to use complex VMs to get there. These languages are cool and have powerful concepts underneath them, but most of their syntactic sugar has been cloned in other, simpler languages. I haven't written Java since grade school, though. Maybe things are different now.
.NET/CLR has F# and the JVM has Clojure. Both are languages that tends towards FP, but compile to the same intermediate as their OO counterparts. In fact both VMs have a plethora of languages to chose from. You seem to be confusing VMs with their primary language. I would suggest researching JIT (Just in Time) more and its common implementations.
Geiko wigmakers in Kyoto bring modernity to an age-old art
During your review of previous comments, did you observe the context in which "cost" is discussed? Was it in amorphous "value of your time" concepts or was it in concrete, "This cost 1.5 million dollars that we paid to a company"?

What you'll find is that the "cost" reference is to a payment made, not to an estimation of time value. In this sense, "sending an email" does cost $0.00, as you can do it without paying, for example, Google.
> ownershit

Probably accidental, but all the more cool for it.
> Okay then, as you criticize Flatpaks give us your alternative to a trusted application.

I am not criticizing, I am saying it is mostly a moot point. The sandboxing allow a bit of isolation but this it ranks quite poorly in term of actual security benefits for the typical end users use cases.

> Nobody made this claim.

Well, not the authors of flatpak, but yes some did. On medias that many people watch such as youtube videos.
I haven't used Google in the last 10 years, god knows what it's like now, or how it has changed. Recently though I've heard its gone downhill and just favors content farms and splogs now.
But isn't the 7% already agreed upon in the wholesale agreement?

https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/registry-agreements/com/c...

I was under the impression that the other $6 comes from Namecheap, no? Maybe I misunderstood it.
> With the current US Court System, I expect this will be allowed if this raid ever gets to the Supreme Court.

What do you mean?
Your snarky reply is not appreciated. I specifically said "cut my social media addiction" not "cut out social media". While Hacker News is a great time sink full of wonderful people, I don't spend nearly as much time here as I do on other platforms (and often go long swaths of time without commenting).
> I am asking about Instagram / Facebook / Twitter.

I find Instagram pretty valuable, and I've tried to create a habit of going on it every day or two for 15-20 minutes (I have to exert effort to do this). I have close friends now scattered around the world, and one of the best ways (per unit of time) for me to keep up with everyone is to check out their posts/stories, send some kind of DM commenting on their activities, and post a story of my own. Then when we do end up talking on the phone I feel like I know what they've been up to.
That last part is important.
I have worked with many engineers who I would even classify as hard working, but spent little to no time understanding the hardware they were running on and the possibilities that it provided them.

I have heard "that's slow" or "that's good" too many times in performance talks that have completely ignored the underlying machine and what was possible.
"Here's the answer to what I wish you asked..."
Yeah I kinda now MAUI still has many issues. I am actually about to deliver a Nuget library in the coming month or so. And during the development of the library also encountered various issues with MAUI.

Maybe Avalonia would be a better idea, not sure how hard the switch would be.