skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do people care so much about a "standard?" Multiple implementations are not actually a Good Idea nor does "The Standard" help you on the ground as a programmer.

I also don't really see zealotry anymore. I see new projects being written in Rust left and right, and C++ developers bitching about it because they don't want to learn it or have been so scarred by moderately advanced language features implemented poorly they think Rust does it poorly too.
And I thought this was about the Nightmode app Flux.
Brb gonna start up my serverless MS Word.
This is going to be a divisive issue.

Personally there's nothing I can't stand more than people who take life too seriously and can't find the absurdity in every day matters. If someone manages to make me spit out my coffee, give a chuckle or even just a smile then I am eternally grateful. After all, I'm usually on HN because I need a temporary mental break from work.

Value comes in many shapes and forms. But is also in the eye of the beholder. I just ask that you and others don't assume for a second that someone trying to make others laugh is doing it for "internet points." Some people genuinely like trying to bring a smile to the faces of others. Those who succeed are my heroes.
NoFilter – Abusing Windows Filtering Platform for Privilege Escalation
I'm testing it on my M2 Air (16GB). Quite fast!
> Bandwidth for communication in person is orders of magnitude higher.

Not even a single order of magnitude (10x) higher, much less orders (100x or more) higher. No evidence of anything close to that assertion.

Remote collab is a skill like any other, it can be mastered, and it can be taught.

Try "10,000 hours of practice" at collaborating remotely, then teach it to others to scale out.

You'll find these remote friendly skills increase day-over-day bandwidth for teams larger than a single table.
Presenting some idea to the team on Zoom when everyone has their cameras off is really bad. People speak but you can't tell when they're going to speak, or who looks confused and might have a question on the tip of their tongue.

Even with cameras on it's hard to tell this stuff.

In person it's easy. It's possible some people (e.g. me) rely on these cues more, or are just uncomfortable with everyone constantly speaking over eachother, or effectively having to interrupt and talk over others.

If two people start speaking at the same time on Zoom, the optimal strategy is probably to just keep speaking and the other person will stop.
Windows is not supposed to let anyone access the files until they enter the correct account password. So the disk will decrypt in this computer, but then Windows prevents access.
Perfect reason to build a desktop IMHO :-)

You'd be surprised how affordable it can be. Mine sits on a tailnet with my laptop and handles most of the workload for me. Especially while I'm at home, I barely even notice that my dev environment is not running "locally." Also doubles great as a host for audiobookshelf, jellyfin, archivebox, and more. I have virt manager set up too (client on laptop, virtmanager service running on desktop) so I can easily spin up all sorts of VMs. I love it. I spent about $2k but I bought top of the line.
> despite the fact that a depth map is the easiest way to hide poor quality

I did my PhD on stereo and LIDAR; also in industry building these things. This is something that really annoyed us about camera companies selling stereo systems: you cannot tell anything from a colormapped depth plot. It doesn't matter if it's grayscale or jet or a nice perceptually uniform one. Zed are really bad for this in their promo material.

Small errors might be really significant for reconstruction, but depth maps make it easy to hide errors, fuzzy bits, holes, discontinuities etc. Really you want to test against a known calibration object at a distance and present the reconstruction error, show the 3D reconstruction top-down (or in a way which lets you see how much depth variation there is) or compare to a simultaneous LIDAR capture which might be sparse but will be more accurate (absolute) at distance.
Those charts remind me just how insanely good GPT-4 is. It's almost 5 months since its release and I am still at awe with its capabilities. The way it helps with coding is just crazy.
And the experience I was mentioning is well summed up by "develops its own inertia". You become fine tuned at adjusting activity to keep inertia in some range, avoid the zero which would cost you long time to recover that inertia, but don't over work yourself. Cause a life of overworking is dreadful, the key is finding the sweet spot. I even think we're build for that, the right kind and amount of stimulation keeps life interesting.
He also wrote the Google platforms rant:

https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse452/22wi/papers...

which is still pretty relevant today, imo.
It did not. Does the android version sit on the Lock Screen too? From my brief research it also appears to have less freedom with design, but I might just have not found a good example of a custom one.

I believe the reason for this difference might be the differences in how iOS manages push notifications, which are way more restricted as background processes than Android.
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@JKCalhoun
saw one of your comments, yes that phrase would be offensive because it is a racial slur
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/g-word-slur-didnt-know-110049878.html
This seems like an Airdrop replacement as opposed to an iCloud/Dropbox/GDrive replacement like syncthing?
I wouldn't discount good UI.

I don't use Cursor, but consider that GPT-3 sat around for months and nobody was really talking about "AI doom" and "the lightcone" until OpenAI put a good chat UI layer over it.

I would argue that actually capturing the value from these models lies mostly in the UI: allowing the user to seamlessly and quickly extract useful information from the model.
For decoding old FSK tapes, look into sliding Goertzel filters. They're easy to implement filters that extract the amplitude of a frequency bin within a sliding window, and are often referenced in literature about DTMF decoding. Compare the outputs of a pair of these to produce a digital output. You can also use a sparse sliding DFT, but interpolating between frequency bins is more of a hassle, whereas the Goertzel filter handles that for you.
Good news, you can! "Thanks" is 100% substantive!

From dang: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37030249
You can walk across the continent in a lifetime, but you probably don't. You have no reason to.

They probably spent their entire lives within a few tens of miles of their birthplace, possibly within mere miles. And the same applied to generations around them.

It's not perfect, but that's how paleontology has to work. They make their best guesses based on the data they are able to (literally) dig up. That means sometimes making substantial revisions based on one new, tiny piece of data.
The guidelines may say that humor should be avoided, but the readership (the people who, in the end, decide what HN is) seems to disagree.

In my experience here (and I have been around a while), the actual case is that some humor is welcome here. But the subset of what is welcomed on HN, versus the set of "all things someone finds humorous", is pretty small. I've had humorous comments upvoted before, even highly so. But there's a pretty particular brand of humor that seems to work here. And you can't always predict how something will be received.

I will say this: some of my most highly upvoted comments are among some of my lowest effort ones (eg, something like "Fuck these guys. The NSA can go go hell" or similar) while I've had tons of comments that I spent half an hour or more working on, doing researching, finding citations, etc.... and they either got zero votes, or got downvoted.

My point is that it's really hard to guess how people will react to any particular comment here, humorous or otherwise, on any particular day.
Project IDX: Full-stack application development with generative AI [video]
But… why should anybody use them? How large can the chemical community in Wales ever be? And what is the advantage over English?
While we're at it, the GGML file format has been deprecated in favor of GGUF.

https://github.com/philpax/ggml/blob/gguf-spec/docs/gguf.md

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/2398
How is the support for Mongodb?
> every group of humans is further divisible into smaller groups

Indeed, the Ryukyuans were divided into a whole kingdom with its own head of state and foreign policy, which didn’t become “part of Japan” until the late 19th century. Hokkaido was “acquired” in the 1860s, along with its indigenous people. The dates and situations closely parallel Hawaii and Alaska. To say that they are Japanese because the Japanese government decided so is to ignore historical facts in favor of ideology.
I was turned off by that and the error "You do not provide an API key. Please enter your openai key".
The answer to AI stealing your job is to go ahead and start a company, solve a hard problem, sell the solution and leverage AI to do this.
Also possible the providers have a side business selling the data their hapless customers are collecting.

My take is we're seeing the same sort of abuses and risk that we had with credit reporting agencies. And we need the same sorts of regulation. And those rules need to be onerous enough that most companies will try hard to stay out from under them.
I find all of the work that went into a feature like this fascinating. (Especially the driver ETA progress bar) So many little considerations, and the process is explained really well.
How accurate is it?
So we are all feeling a little feisty and fighty because it’s really hot outside, right?
Seems to me that any organisation that doesn't honor robots.txt would have a tougher time justifying to people that they are acting in good faith. Just my two cents of course. I understand OpenAI does honor it, which is to be expected from responsible orgs.
Right right, but I wonder if there is some weird edge case where some Java program relies on threads being real OS threads...like, for sure Java threads being OS threads is an observable feature of a running Java program (you can see it in htop!). And maybe someone has built a Java based system somewhere that uses that...
Generate a specific key for that, and set a hard limit when trying it out? Would be cool if limits could be set per key, but I don't think that is possible (yet?). Love the hard limit feature, so much better than what cloud providers pull.
For anyone interested in a similar project supporting a range of data sources, check out www.aibrainbank.com

You create 'contexts' (like folders) of data to chat with, and your data can be any of the following:

- Text files, pdf files, etc
- Audio files (automatic transcription)
- Web pages
- YouTube videos
- Entire YouTube channels

Demo video on front page too.
Redoubts
That person was right, mock Spanish can be sort of shitty to use. They were in the right for apologizing.
Context : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25528661
Looking forward to this happening on the hardcore realms set to open today
U.S. Charges Two Alleged Founders of Tornado Cash with Money Laundering
When I buy a car, will I pay for the
LiDAR or investors
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37242545.
AI Startup Can Now Generate Speech Using Your Voice in 30 Languages
Similar to sarcasm, I don't always "read" the sarcasm or humor as intended. My internal voice may read something differently, depending on the mood I'm in.

I don't mind it when someone calls it out with a "/s" or "/jk" (/sarcasm, /joking).

Related: humor at work: https://hbr.org/2020/07/sarcasm-self-deprecation-and-inside-...
Not necessarily stateless. You could cache things in global variables within the process, as well as using memcache.

Using App Engine's datastore could often be frustrating due to high latency. Hopefully these new database services will do better. At least you can write stored procedures.
"the local government in Maui didn’t use the sirens to alert residents to the fire, didn’t allow access to water to put out the fire, and blocked the only exits out of town."
Is this maintained?

No updates to the github repo in 2 years.
In my industry (not tech, but white collar) a ton of companies have downsized their office space to where it's now impossible for everyone to work in the office. And because of that, there will always be remote work in this industry as a whole because it's a valuable perk. Companies that don't offer full or partial remote are at a hiring disadvantage.

Remote work is a relatively new market that Zoom accidentally fell into. However, they don't seem to have the leadership to capitalize on that early lead and they'll eventually become irrelevant as other companies build video conferencing as a mere feature of a bigger remote work platform.
oh, your luser account is 'letsdothisagain', great thannnnks. I'll take care of that right now.
It is. But wasn't worth the trouble to fight over it.
Government Stupidity Is by Design
https://heroicgameslauncher.com/

This is a Linux launcher for Epic (and others). It’s very popular with the SteamDeck community.
Better, as well as other online lenders, were definitely offering very competitive financing, especially with the AmEx credit. See this thread for pages and pages:

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=289559&star...

I never found a local lender that came close to LoanDepot/Better.
Neither of those tasks require AI. IntelliJ IDEA will happily suggest both for you today, locally. It can find large chunks of duplicated code and automatically refactor them out to functions for you. And it has many inspections that suggest refactorings to make code clearer.
> Suggesting they give just one little leg knocks over a lot of stools, and for what?

A great filter, for one, that eliminates those that do art for money in favor of those that do art for the sake of doing art. Personally I don't want output from the money-motivated. I want art for art's sake. The made-for-money stuff is bland and lowest-common-denominator. It is essentially trash.
Why the Chainsmokers Invest In–and Party With–Niche Cybersecurity Companies
That one was posted later, so we'll merge it hither. Thanks!
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37248931.
Fortunately, Discord has traceless deletion of messages. Once you delete a message, it is no longer stored at their databases.
I was just commenting about the difference between "cloud" and "serverless", because you said "Why not call it cloud?".

I prefer "as a service" or "managed" instead of "serverless". Not a big fan of the term for the reasons you mentioned.
Not only is it not in the guidelines, the opposite principle is part of HN jurisprudence: downvoting for disagreement is explicitly approved here, and has been since Graham. The idea is that those downvotes are more succinct and produce a better conversation than the rote disagreement comments would be otherwise.
Any improvement in tooling benefits capital owners the most, since the productivity gains mostly end up in their pockets.

But the answer to that is to deal with concentration of capital, not to eschew better tools.
> experts at ML

Citation needed.
Ti have long had "little logic" for this kind of thing (I've been out of that game for a while, maybe something has taken its place?)

2018 link (PDF): https://www.ti.com/lit/pdf/scyt129
The things that are specific about a "thin wrapper" to ChatGPt versus a "thin wrapper" to some other program or system, is that a ChatGPT wrapper has to end-up as "plain old English/language". This has the challenge that any/many people can generate this language 'cause language generate is what (nearly all) people do (while creating even a "trivial" command line string is a specialized skill) and also the challenge that such an app will inherit ChatGPT's quality of being never more than "mostly" reliable at any given task (as a result of GPT-3-4 being just a product of an amazing brutal large text averaging process).
Nvidia is likely to have a $36-40 B revenue year this year and next because of massive customer investments. Meta is spending $8 B on their gear and about the same next year. OpenAI+Microsoft are likely following suit with several billion in server buildout. I'm curious if Google or Apple will be adding large swaths of AI boxes to their fleet too.
Yeah, it's a cool demo and proof of concept, and perhaps useful for casual users. Might even be a nice way to draw people into the platform for other things. But for most business use cases the integration with existing data and services is a lot (if not the bulk of the work), and can't be fulfilled by this.
You don't have to go all in. You can have your own servers and rent when you need additional capacity. Best of both worlds.
A lot of lidar companies also show rainbow-colored point clouds from a perspective close to that of the sensor. So silly...
For personal use inside the home? Sure. Distribution or reselling? Well I think there is room for a discussion there.
I could be wrong, but isn't this the Solar Seasons from China? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_term

Though I would not be surprised as it has been very interesting to see Japan and Korea preserving many of the traditional east Asian cultures a lot better than China itself.
Celebrating layoffs is some end stage capitalism.
It is actually quite common for people outside of English-speaking countries to complain about having to write in English in order to publish, it is indeed seen as a big deal. When an academic does not have flawless English, he/she is often forced to pay a considerable sum of money for language revision of their papers. Peer reviewers often say in their reports “This paper can be accepted provided that the following modifications are made: … the language is revised by a native English speaker.”
Is this the one Google shut down a couple months ago? =-\

https://chromeunboxed.com/google-shutting-down-grasshopper-c...
It's tough, because odds are your doctor is right. You are an outlier. For the vast majority of people, if you feel OK, you are OK.
If there was two people in that call neither would get anything done.
I'll ignore the assumptions you made about me as a person and take it as us just not knowing each other.

I'm not exaggerating, and my point is that I don't need high end gear. I want the equivilent of Quechua, an excellent, affordable, mid quality outdoor gear supplier in EU (you can find in surplus stores here occasionally).
I have an 18 dollar raincoat from them that I have summited Washington with several times over 8 years now years, that I picked up in ireland after literally forgetting my raincoat.

I cannot walk out of REI with a raincoat that is "lightweight and breathable" (meaning, a cheap shell) for less than 110 dollars.

Would you like me to take a photo of the YKK zipper on my Quechua raincoat that again cost 18 dollars? In fact, I can probably guarantee you, to your point, that REI sources from the same manufacturers as Quechua, at 10x the cost.

I have merino wool socks made for lineme/winter laborers that cost, no joke, 7 dollars for 4 pairs. They absolutely blow REIs out of the water, not even considering cost.They are a no name brand and I got them from the TJ max at the base of a mountain in new hampshire.

Trust me, I want to think like you do, but REI is now an "experiences" company, not a company interested in furthering the middle class's ventures into the great outdoors. I say this as someone who chose to work there in my off time as a "hobby" job before the real sh*t hit the fan when they stopped sending actual checks for the co-op payments.
Tell HN: Send Recruiters an Interest Form
I get a good amount of messages from recruiters about positions they’re trying to fill. I don’t have time to look at all of them, and it’s hard to even determine whether they’re worth applying to. Generally speaking, the information asymmetry between candidates and companies is a pretty big source of inefficiency in the job market.

Anyways, for a few weeks now, I have been autoreplying to recruiters with a “thank you, please fill out my form” blurb. The form has questions about remote work, pay, benefits, the company, and the role itself.

Doing this helps me to filter out low-value job spammers as well as give me an idea of whether the position is worth applying to.

Btw, if a jobs site like LinkedIn or Monster included this, it would be a killer feature. I could rank companies with my own custom formula to find the best ones to apply to. Please steal this idea.
There can never be a 100% accurate lie detector, only a 100% "thinks they're telling the truth detector". Ultimately human memory is deeply flawed and we're capable of having entirely false memories and swearing on our lives to things that never occurred. A machine which can perfectly read our brains can only get this messy imperfect mix.

Even in the sense of political intrigue, is it so hard to imagine someone so brainwashed they truly believe the lie they are telling you?
"How do I flag a comment?

Click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click the 'flag' link at the top. There's a small karma threshold before flag links appear.

"
This could be more clear. I was able to figure out what they meant, but "25 minutes ago" is not a timestamp. If you hover over the link it will display the timestamp, but I never even noticed that until today.

I think it would be clearer if the text said "click on the reply link". Yeah, I know the link doesn't say "reply", but "reply link" is what it is, and "timestamp" is something it isn't.
You don't have to listen to orgs to make your opinion.

There are plenty of orgs that obviously produce a vital service for society, and they are usually starved of good IT people: health care, social services, logistics, electricity production & distribution, industry, agriculture, emergency responders, etc.

> and don't pay well.

:(

Well, the comp is still high enough to live a comfortable life, I just won't be able to bankroll a political party in the near future.
Stable Linux Mainline Builds
Medication for her new std?
This is the key point:

> essentially trying to get around regulatory and reporting requirements.

It's just a great tool for a ponzi scheme. A ponzi tool rather than a ponzi scheme. When it gets so tightly coupled to the schemes it enables specifically to get around regulatory and reporting requirements... Tomato, Tomahto.
I really tried to make it work, because I wanted that deal, but the fees and other things associated with Better kept coming out worse.
The way I set mine up is the Time Machine section of the drive has a quota capped at 1.5x the size of my internal drive, unfortunately you can’t edit quotas without formatting the drive. (Is there any functional difference between a quota and a partition then…? Weird…)
I've had great luck with Fi. I switched to them in 2016 when it was still a bit buggy. Moved the rest of my family over a yearish later and have zero complaints.

The few times we've needed support, they're helpful and easy to talk to.

Dealing with Fi support was an absolute revelation after countless hours spent waiting in AT&T stores even for a simple phone upgrade.

Their app is solid, billing is very easy to understand and the prices are competitive.

Coverage used to be lacking in rural areas compared to Verizon and AT&T, but it's improved dramatically over the past few years in our area.

Highly recommend Fi.
I never really realized that Firecracker VM is a full-blown machine and not just some sort of a Linux container tech. At first, it may sound like an ineffective approach, but if you take a closer look on a real-world usage example such as fly.io, you will be surprised: micro-VMs are very small and capable.
Walmart and Wing Team Up to Provide the Convenience of Drone Delivery
I think you don't need all four. Just agree/disagree/bad. Agree is a positive. Disagree might be positive depending on various factors (# of replies, etc). Bad is the negative.