skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You couldve accomplished this at the webserver level, with way less hassle, and better performance.

One would be complex rewrite rules. Another, is to use LUA with Openresty. And you dont need another node app, and you dont need the terrible performance you get with the node app, and you dont use a language meant for frontend things to do backend things.

Seriously, what is it with every node dev using node for everything???? Yes, i know when all you know is a hammer, everything is a nail, but seriously, come on. There are plenty of better languages to have done this in, all of which are more performant for this type of thing, had you still decided to not use lua/rewrites.
> Is it not possible to do finetuning on a 24GB 4090?

Not for 70B. You can finetune 7B or 13B.
Higher reliability? Sorry, that is a fallacy .. you're not paying for reliability at scale in either the ESP32 or Embedded Linux scales.

You're paying for what functionality you can attain.. in the ESP32 case, its mighty limited - but as all embedded devs know, challenge accepted - and in the Linux case its mighty complex/hefty and you have to pay to play, in the BOM costs anyway ..

Either way, the 'reliability' factor is misguided, in my opinion. This is not at all why you choose either path.

Both platforms are functionally equivalent. The only difference is capacity.
> What makes a game unique in spirit is its engine.

This isn’t true about websites and frameworks or sculptures and chisels. There’s no reason why it should be true of games and their engines. It is a poetic statement though.

My opinion is that, in all of these processes, people are the ones that bring the spirit and thus are its source in the final product.
I haven't seen anyone mention what to me is the biggest issue with self-checkout, false accusations of theft. I recently went through the self-checkout line in my local grocery store and accidentally left one item behind. When I went back to the store to retrieve it, they accused me of trying to take the item without paying for it. They said the person monitoring the self-checkout lines saw me put it in the bagging area without scanning it first. I had to go back to my car and get the receipt, which clearly showed I had paid for the item, but needless to say it was unnerving being accused of theft. I always use the staffed checkout lanes now, self-checkout isn't worth the trouble.
You could cut to the chase and point out what isn't open source. Also, if that source is available, you could point out which definition of open source you are going by.

Oh, and please don't say "the standard definition", because that is definitely contested, even after all these years.
Negotiating with the unions doesn't make any difference if there fundamentally aren't enough workers in the labor force at the currently needed skill levels. If they want more workers, you have to actually look at training programs or pulling from wider regional workers - maybe negotiate with union to take on more apprentices and accepting regional union members for the surge.
> Having a visual way to configure this makes it much more accessible to non-programmers

I agree completely but thats not the point he appears to be making. He never stated this was the use case and he reiterated that it was a bad idea which should never be done.

Regardless, I’m saying those arent really unique advantages to excel. They just look unique compared to json, toml, yaml, etc.
How does this framework compare to Bitty - another game engine framework which is also on todays HN first page?
Articles like these are rare, but there's 30 years of them scattered around the internet. There's got to be a way to catalogue them in a single index somewhere. Like a Wiki, but just articles that are hard to find and extremely interesting.

I'd like an index because HN's articles are often not this caliber of "interesting". If I look back 1 month to the top of HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2023-08-12), there's pontifi-posting (editorials), news and editorials from large media companies, blogspam from tech companies and OSS projects, and basic tech How Tos. I don't want to read any of that; I come back hoping there's a single one of this kind of article, and maybe find one a month.
IKEA's is good too, for the same reasons.
It depends on your needs. For example, with a write-heavy workload, MySQL will generally outperform Postgres, assuming you’re using it as intended (e.g. don’t use UUIDv4 or other random values as a PK).
You are correct. And application for visa falls into that category.
> Just set them all down at once so it registers the weight, and then faff around setting them up.

Surely. Except... there's only room for 2 bags. And it gives you about 5 seconds between hitting the button "using our bags" and getting them set out. Of course they fold up so you kind of have to smooth them out to get them stable on there. If you try to put bags on that area before telling it you have bags, it complains about the 2g of weight! If you lift them up to fix them so they are set up, it complains about removing weight!
Adult Swim was (and still is) ahead of it’s time
It’s interesting how different the experience is between Whole Foods and the bigger brand Safeway style stores. At Whole Foods there is no scale in the bagging area and you are free to put whatever you want there. The process is smooth and works well.

At the same time, it’s notorious for people stealing stuff - many folks I know across all income spectrums cheat the system in some way.

The temptation to ring in organic produce as conventional and save a few dollars is pretty damn hard to resist myself.
It is probably quite common for people to put items in the bag after failing to scan them by mistake. But I guess an "a new item check" which is not very weight sensitive would be enough to counter that.

Self-checkout works best in Home Depot type of places in my experience. There are just so many items to keep track of in grocery stores.
Tubi sees impressive growth, with over 74M monthly active users
iPhone & Mac game engine Unity

Apple-centric websites can't help but try to make everything apple-centric.
We replaced our 4 year old Samsung dishwasher with a Bosch and it is an incredible machine.
iCloud backup syncs to Photos on macOS. And then Time Machine backs up to a NAS.
GitHub will not rollback their new Home Feed for performance reasons
I've been learning a lot by watching the subreddit "Local LLaMA". Here's their discussion of the release: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/16gq2gu/exllama...
Harnessing AI for Politics: A Look Back at the Warren Plan Bot
> The solution was to densify vertices of the square against which objects to be served were intersected.

I remembered the easiest solution to query which lines with some width cross some bounding box (for putting them in quadtree). Just increase BB size by half a line width on each side and you have a very good approximation of a much harder and slower problem. A small percentage of lines will be returned and not drawn, but it's a good trade-off.
Avoiding the term “significant digits” completely: Distinguishing 91 vs 90 is a difference of 1 on a 0-100 scale. 100x10=1000. If you wanted to distinguish 91.0 vs 90.9, that’s 1 on a 0-1000 scale, so you’d want 10,000 points.
> An online multiplayer platformer roguelike with full rollback netcode that handles 150ms+ ping (this was a real challenge!) - never completed.

I worked on something similar in high school(also never finished). Implementing good netcode on a novel multiplayer game can be very hard to get right. Made me a lot more forgiving of games that didn't do it well. You pretty much need to design your game with multiplayer in mind.
I am quite rabid as far as libertarians go, but even I acknowledge the necessity of bankruptcy protection.

Without it, lenders can lend to anyone regardless of whether it's likely to be paid back, or even whether or not it's possible for them to pay it back. Then those lenders turn around, and demand that all of society pays for debt enforcement through the court system (or in extreme scenarios, through punishment).

Lenders have a responsibility to only extend credit in narrow circumstances, or they need to lose protection for it. The easiest way to do that is with bankruptcy. Borrowers are still discouraged from using it (it's limited to once every 7 years, and punishes besides), so there's little moral hazard there.

Lenders that are businessmen rather than scammers are more than capable of the diligence necessary to avoid bad loans (and the few that are inevitable are a cost of doing business). Lazy, incompetent, or unethical lenders deserve the losses incurred from those practices.

I don't think any of this is a mark against capitalism.
Because normal people don't end up sleeping in the streets - even poor people.
Racial discrimination in Tech is still a problem
I see thi got deleted; was it because someone got offended or defensive about human rights? I'm going to risk burning some social capital and share what I wrote in response to the original post:

This is an important topic that too many want to hide from or claim isn't a problem. To not get mired in defensiveness, I acknowledge that my forebears/progenitors, probably not limited to those in the South of the USA, at least discriminated against Black people (and anyone else there was pressure to other; I don't try to ignore or erase this, but to do what I can do in my control, including asking what someone means when they say "them" (oozing pointed meaning, but I play ignorant and ask), working to learn my own implicit biases (there are helpful online tests for this, some used in some police departments, for example, as a start), and reading outside my comfort zone to unmask "unknown unknowns" rather than sit in my otherwise-calcifying tower.

Each of us, regardless of where we came from or what harm we've done, has the power to practice kindness and compassion (and so many other positives, like open awareness, acceptance of differences, curiously working towards understanding, noticing the merits of the many forms of diversity, etc)
Your comment is the kind of anti-apple zealotry mentioned. Lightning was superior to what was out there at the time (in some ways it still is). But, Apple went full in on usb-c awhile back, and has been walking their largest selling lightning product towards usb-c for awhile. It's like everyone just forgot the complaints Apple received when they changed from the 30-pin connector. I've already heard from non-tech friends, "why is Apple is making me buy new cables?!" By including usb-c to lightning with the last couple iPhones and moving other lower volume products to usb-c, Apple has tried to make the switch easier on customers. But yeah, the EU forced them.
Looks like it wasn't segregated by MFI in the end, but by model. Pro gets 3.0, standard gets 2.0.

Whee.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37497199
I wonder if it’s different where you are (I assume US) compared to me (EU).

I’ve used McDonald’s self checkout in Portugal, Spain, Ireland, and Germany, and although they aren’t deserving of any awards they’re functional.
Probably true, considering the new revenue limits are per game (and not company) I'd be surprised if there are necessarily that many games like this which make over 1 million.

However looking at how they announced this and how they seemingly weren't even able to clearly explain how this whole thing is even supposed to work (what's an "install", who pays for Gamepass/Apple Arcade/etc. installs etc.) in the initial post, I'm still not certain that was intentional.
Are you saying those phones were found in non-compliance, too?

If so, were they banned?
Don’t conflate these organizations(CDC, Pfizer, etc) with “science”. These are political and economical organizations foremost.

Although I agree with your general point.
Show HN: Charge for Your Commit History on Gitawonk
Opening the source is de rigueur. Commit history is the one thing indie devs can hold onto.
Production Guide for Building Rag-Based LLM Applications
That's simple prejudice. It's a very effective strategy for protecting yourself in the world, but it is also manifestly unfair to the technology that you are maligning (and more importantly, its proponents and practitioners).
I guess I'll just say that...I don't believe much of what you're saying is going to happen? I don't think I'll convince you and I don't think you'll convince me either.
DBeaver is powerful and better than anything else I found (except maybe datagrip), but honestly its UX is terrible. It takes a million clicks to do basic things, the "export results" functionality is a maze, "rename connection" is a different functionality from "edit connection", ctrl+tab doesn't work, it's generally very noisy visually...

I am using it on a daily basis and it's very powerful, but it shoves all the complexity at your face, it doesn't scale down. And it uses ~7% of my M1 CPU while sitting there unused, not even connected to any DB.
But you don't need internet access to replace USB cables. WiFi should deliver gigabit transfer speeds between your PC and phone, however unstable the upstream connection may be.
Direct link to Sept 12 update comment:

* https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/66244#discussi...

> With the latest feed update on September 6, 2023, we made changes to the underlying technology of the feed to improve overall platform performance. As a result, we removed the functionality for “push events for repositories a user is subscribed to”. We don’t take these changes lightly, but as our community continues to grow tremendously, we have to prioritize our availability, user experience, and performance.

> [...]

Other threads:

* https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/66188#discussi...

* https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/65343#discussi...

Previous HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37413126

The old home feed can been still be seen at https://github.com/dashboard-feed (minus the sidebars) for now.
I assume the nameless object literal is, to steal a term from XML, the "root element", the same as with normal JSON.
>> The view you take sounds like you've been privileged

>Stuff it with the personal comments.

s/privileged/(fortunate|lucky)/

Wasn't meant to be an aggressive comment. A poor choice of words.
> so I freely download things offline because of that.

I'm sorry to say but if you download things offline you are a power user.
The sun emits UV which certainly causes skin cancer if you get too much of it.
I wonder if it makes sense to generate a combo of instruments rather than individual voices and then combine those with an arranger DNN. I would think it'd be much easier to capture each instrument's transients and dynamics that way, much less allow more subtlety in how they combine, like allowing the lead voice to shift among instruments, or even let the listener choose how each voice expresses stylistically and how they should combine.

Trying to do all of that in a single DNN, much less parameterize it useably seems overly ambitious (or will be of more limited value ultimately).
I thought 802.11ax delivers gigabit transfer speeds?
This is by design - the capital that backs modern art isn’t doing it for love of the art but for money.

For fine art, it’s a way for them to launder money and keep it out of bank accounts where it can be seized trivially.

For mass art, it’s about selling to enough rubes to make a profit.

Neither are impacted by a stagnation in art. If anything, they’re aided by it - suddenly the art you bought to launder money retains its value because it’s no longer the flavor of the week with the arts crowd.
WASI Support in Go
Lets look at this another way: If a security researcher notified you about a security flaw that was trivial to exploit, including showing you how to reproduce it, would you tut-tut them about computer crime?

Here's another question: You, by design, are going after somebody publicly notifying you, but by design you aren't going after those who actually exploit the flaw. What incentive is there to notify you of a flaw at all?
Afaicr, HD began modernizing their self-checkout terminals ~4 years ago? I remember because it was rolling out and then pandemic happened.

People also underappreciate the internal effort (and cost) required to ship new terminals in a national chain and the drag of running a heterogeneous operation during the transition period.

It feels like 90% of UX issues could be solved with shipping over-engineered (from performance and robustness perspectives) hardware, at additional cost. Which seems like what HD did with the latest terminals.
Where Did the Brain Come From?
Ok, but it’s that or hand-curate thousands of photos per year. That option’s still there, but what’s actually happening is most folks let the computer figure it out.
Very good point, I do that all the time, because I can have about 2 games installed at any given moment.
One thing that a lot of people are missing is that the iPhone 15 Pro is using the "A17 Pro" SoC. It'll be interesting to see if the base iPhone 16 will also have the Pro SoC or if they'll be using a non-Pro version.

Will the non-Pro version also be 3nm? Will it support USB3?
> What makes you think it's fine to use 23 year old speed limits in a $800 device

the USB Implementation Forum, I'd expect
> these companies and states should be held accountable.

Hold the companies accountable... okay sure. I'll write some letters to my elected officials and federal prosecutors about holding Apple and Google accountable. Just one thing... which laws were they breaking? Or do you propose consumer boycotts of both Google and Apple? If your plan is for everybody to give up their smartphones, your plan is DOA.

Hold the states accountable... What does it mean to hold a sovereign state accountable? Are you going to bend the US Government itself over your knee and spank it? I don't think so. What exactly do you mean by holding the state itself accountable?
I'm assuming we're in hobby space here. So sellable game is not an AAA massive online rpg. Then yes.
SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satellite antennas
Isn´t that the "Ultimate" version?
I would use self checkouts if they offered me a discount on the price. But if they don't they're just asking me to work for free, and on top of that randomly accusing me of being a shoplifter, so I'm passing.
Change or be swept out to sea: The case for remote work
> shoplifting is responsible for the cost of living crisis

To be fair on the author, they're speculating the complete opposite :)
Transcoding Unicode characters with AVX-512 instructions
Founders, don't be that guy.
Have you ever thought of a commercial location tracking solution based off this tech? It’s another heavily, heavily crowded industry, but it has oddly high margins, and a basically-infinite battery life would be a huge selling point
I get the impression that there's a community of people within the ZK world that would be very much into that. For now, the local-only scene is cornered by Obsidian, which I use and adore.
Payment systems like Central Bank Digital Currencies, FedNow, India's UPI, or ISO20022 won't be able to compete with the broad and deep benefits offered by public blockchains.

For example, using Ethereum L2s or other public chains, anybody in the world with a phone will be able to access American T-Bills and equities, lending products, and much more.

Public chains are a better foundation for a global free market economy, and that includes but is not limited to payments.
Apple does. It is costly enough to use an old controller in non pro model phones.

75MB per picture in pro raw 48MP mode. 6GB per minute with ProRes 4k video. 5 minutes of video and my data plan caps if uploaded to iCloud.

One nice addition is they allow hard drive data offloading for ProRes video and can record at 4k60.
The comment is not suggesting that Apple make the vulnerability attractive to report for the NSO as an organization, but presumably attractive to report for whatever hackers the NSO may purchase vulnerabilities from - or individuals employed by the NSO.

In such a case, Apple "only" needs to make the bounty high enough to significantly exceed the sale price of the vuln, or the salary of aforementioned employees.
Webp/Webm was never supported for me.
Interesting nugget about LeBron James from a legit economic study: He was credited with creating jobs in Cleveland (employment at restaurants/bars near Cleveland arena went up 23%)
Nyfe
Haha, I missed a “not,” completely inverting the meaning of my sentence. Oops!
In LA's Skid Row, nearly 100% of the homeless have substance abuse issues or severe mental health issues.
Target? I know a guy works in their data center. Says the self-checkout weighing is disabled - single most common trouble area. Also those cameras and screens that show you standing there? That signal goes nowhere. Starts and ends at the station. Their LAN didn't have the bandwidth to support it, and not enough storage anywhere to record it. So it's just to make you feel conspicuous. Like 'placebo surveillance', it works, sort of.
I actually prefer a web-based tool. I've been using pgweb - and I add it to my Docker Compose for development work so it provides a great, simple, lightweight way to interact with the database while working on a project.

I'd definitely prefer something with a few more features, and have also been surprised there's not a lot of options. Desktop clients definitely have their use, but I like using a web-based tool that I can spin up alongside my project very easily with no config/setup.
Show HN: Victor, a browser-optimized vector database written in Rust
Hey HN,

My friend Sam and I were bored one weekend, and wanted to make something self-contained but still useful. We ended up with Victor [0], a vector database designed to run in the browser. It’s written in Rust, which gives us access to things like super-fast and compact serialization and deserialization, but it’s compiled to WASM and uses web-sys to interact with the browser’s JS APIs to write the database contents to disk.

We worked hard on designing it in a way that makes sense for the browser. It uses the private origin file system [1] and stores the vectors in a compact format (one byte per vector dimension).

Since storage space is at a premium in the browser, we also provide built-in PCA to allow you to compress your vectors. It’s completely transparent to the user and automatically kicks in once a vector storage file exceeds 10mb. We’re trying to think of a better way to design this API, so let us know any ideas you have!

[0]: https://github.com/not-pizza/victor/

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...
The worst ones make it really difficult to use your own bag — no option to tell it, complains when you put your bag in the bagging area, etc. This is one of the main reasons I still go to the checkouts with human operators.
Ed Newton-Rex, VP of Audio at Stability, is speaking about how this was built at The AI Conference in 2 weeks. https://aiconference.com
Their tongue out emoji (which I use quite frequently) looks ridiculous. Pretty much every emoji set has a neutral looking face with the tongue out, indicating a very slight amount of unseriousness. Meanwhile the Teams one has big anime-esque smiling eyes that looks straight up goofy.

Also their thumbs up has such a fat hand you can barely tell it's a hand or where the fingers are.

But yes, far from the biggest issues with this stupid app.