skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. I love that. #3 and #4 are helpful. I need to get out of the "This is the most important thing ever!" impulse when it arises. My mind goes into a complete overhaul in that direction, and I find the whole thing incredibly discomforting. I like what you said about having a list of things along with priorities. I'm trying to do that a little more--I call them "anchors", things you can sort of rally around when the impulses start firing uncontrollably. Thanks again--appreciate your response!
Looks like they're having issues delivering from their 2022 vision https://wccftech.com/qualcomm-oryon-problems-potential-snapd...
What is USB-C? The one device connector to rule them all
Aka, hacker or ‘hacker’.

I feel like with enough photos of just about anyone, you’ll eventually get one that makes them look sinister…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoxia_(environmental)#Causes...
I guess I just think teachers are, on the whole, a pretty great group of people. I feel that way about most working-class people, tbh. I think we'd be a stronger society if more working people were represented by strong unions.
That makes it an advantage if you learn it early enough. Some physics questions all the way up to college can be trivialised by understanding the units of the inputs and answer.
Planting Seeds of Technology (Profile of Judy Estrin) (2001)
On the flipside, I’ve had a Yubikey 4C for around 4 or 5 years on my keychain in my pocket, and it’s holding up OK.

Backup is a serious question though. I once started down this rabbit hole trying to type up a guide for using my yubikey and I found myself giving up when I realized there was no perfect solution.
2/10.

Surprised that Hans Reiser wasn't on the list. (Or I didn't see him.)
I've never heard this term 'text measure' before. Do you mean the number of characters per-line in the main content column? I tried to research the optimal column width, but the answers seem to vary so much. Just doing a quick search online right now: This source[1] says 55-100, which is a pretty big range. Although this source[2] claims that research suggests that "Reading speed was highest at 95cpl, and lowest at 35cpl on screen".

I'll take your suggestion on-board at any rate, and might make some adjustments to the font-size, or cpl. Thanks for your help!

1: https://medium.com/ben-shoemate/optimum-web-readability-max-...

2: https://www.viget.com/articles/the-line-length-misconception...
Yeah, that'd do it.
Enter the matrix: the four types of Postgres extensions
Before working for a Postgres company, I had never used extensions.

Now, I'm part of a team working to fully automate turning on any extension. I didn't find great resources to explain the process of turning on an extension, and why it varies between different extensions.

I want to share my mental model for the different types of extensions, how to know what type of extension you're working with, and how to get it turned on.
You can't just turn up clockspeed and expect linear increase in performance. The chips are packed so dense with transistors that the chips have to do some magic to be able to operate at those clock speeds without frying. Desktop parts don't really care about energy efficiency and are thus designed to be able to operate like that since max performance is more important than efficiency. Microarchitectural design decision allow engineers to pick tradeoffs for where they want to place their chips in the market, but most major advantages between chips come from fabrication. And these days there aren't much gains left to be made there.
How much will you be funding my leprechaun hunting program? It is also extremely high impact and 'mixed probability'
CBC reports books removed will be destroyed: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/peel-school-board-lib...

"Step two of curation is an anti-racist and inclusive audit, where quality is defined by "resources that promote anti-racism, cultural responsiveness and inclusivity." And step three is a representation audit of how books and other resources reflect student diversity.

When it comes to disposing of the books that are weeded, the board documents say the resources are "causing harm," either as a health hazard because of the condition of the book or because "they are not inclusive, culturally responsive, relevant or accurate."

For those reasons, the documents say the books cannot be donated, as "they are not suitable for any learners."

A PDSB spokesperson said the board supports its schools "in the disposal of books in a responsible manner by following Peel Region's recycling guidelines." Peel Region allows for the recycling of book paper, as long as hard covers and any other plastics are removed first and put in the garbage."
Johnny here.

This website has existed in some form or other for over a decade. I've poured thousands of hours of my spare time in to it, and to helping people on the forum or by email. For a decade.

The workbook went up literally six weeks ago because I quit my full time job in May this year, hoping to make some sort of a living from this hobby of mine. Feedback has been universally positive. It helps people.

My site has no ads, no tracking, no garbage of any kind. Hell, I rebuilt it in Astro so that it doesn't even have JS! And so I spent hundreds of hours writing a thing, which I'm selling. A basic transaction, which you are free to ignore.

Shoot me for trying to pay the rent. I hope you never try to sell anything.
For insects iNaturalist has the best trained models I know of, though of course not all insects are visually identifiable from a photo, especially beetles. It's actually incredibly good with birds as well. I post observations to iNaturalist daily and use the AI all the time for identification, even when I know the species the models usually figure it out as well and it's saves typing.

I have used iNaturalist since 2014, the quality wasn't great initially but with the continued observations adding high quality annotations to the data their training improved pretty quickly, by 2017-18 it was already really good.
https://archive.is/ctNVZ
I'll have a look at what I can do with prefers-color-scheme. It seems like a good solution. Thank you for the suggestion!
Obligatory comic: https://xkcd.com/687/
There are different benchmarks one can pick depending on the article they want to write. Geekbench 6 favors Apple CPUs more that Geekbench 5, which was already better on Apple CPUs than say Antutu.

Antutu CPU - A16 248335, SnapDragon 8 Gen2 268542

Antutu GPU - A16 394336, SnapDragon 8 Gen 2 580101

If You look at Geekbench 5 scores for A16 and SD8G2, A16 is ahead by less than 10%.
Yes and no

98% of Spotify users never take any action other than “press play” on a radio station

2% take some kind of agency (create a playlist, like a song)

A vanishingly small amount create personal or public curated playlists

Yes, that very small amount may also listen passively sometimes, but the difference matters. Imagine if Spotify was just a radio station.
Why's that? Will they run Windows? Linux?
Don’t they heavily compress the hydrogen with special tanks and compressors? Making it really cold, for example, makes it easier to compress.
Can intelligence be controlled?
I disagree. $100/yr to put what might be a very simple little toy application is not worth it. Sure, that toy might inspire more, and it could even lead to a promising career, but it’s a stretch to argue it was worth it when it could just as easily never be utilized.

The promise of general purpose computing and open source as well is that it empowers all kinds of users.

Oh how badly I want to tweak little things about my iPhone, but can’t because the software is locked down.
https://archive.is/jrTFJ
It is not the same. D&D fans can of course shit on WotC and Hasbro, but they would still be D&D fans in the end of day even if changes were not reverted. Fans can't just go and become fans of "free and open source D&D".

Individual people are weak and not rational. Majority will always continue to pay for entertainment companies products and bring money no matter how bad they treated by said companies. Think of Disney or Electronic Arts games.

Unity Technologies is a B2B software and service provider. Their decision to do a rag pull under 10,000+ of businesses will force everyone in industry to diversify. Unity not going under anytime soon, but now every single CEO and CTO in gamedev will be doing research on alternatives simply because pricing Unity come up with is not viable for a lot of games.
My definition of "general purpose" is that that you can "run whatever software you like on it". If you can't run whatever on it, that restricts the CPU to a "specific purpose", no?
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That one is a trick question if sorts.
The $30-50 zenni glasses/lenses in my experience are actually substantially clearer than the (absolute ripoff) $400-500 rayban ones. Same prescription, and the zenni ones even arrived quicker! Frame consistency is a bit of an issue though, I bought a few more cheap pairs with the 'same' frame a few years later and they changed the design subtly which made them fit worse.
Through the magic of buying two of them…
The amount of torque you get and how fast you get it is what you care about then, not 0-60 times.

They're not really related. There are cars with good 0-60 times that have terrible fast-secondary/highway acceleration; cars with big turbos, for example, and overly aggressive throttle-input smoothing (for mileage.)
> this isn't a general-purpose CPU

Apple uses the same CPU/GPU core designs for handheld, tablet, laptop, and desktop.
Grandma has been finally replaced.
Latent Space with Chris Lattner of Modular
Deeper question: why is Sussman wearing a fez in that photo?
You can also accelerate it from the ball collection area using a coil gun mechanism. A motor adds too much cost and moving parts.
Show HN: Remembrall – Long-term memory proxy for LLMs
Hi HN,

I built Remembrall, a proxy on top of your OpenAI queries that gives your chat system long-term memory.

How it works:
Just add an extra user id to your OpenAI call. When a user stops chatting actively, it will trigger an "autosave" and use GPT to save/update important details about the conversation into a vector db. When the user continues the conversation, we'll query the db for relevant info and prepend it into the system prompt.

All happens in < 100 ms latency on the edge, with only two lines of code needed for integration. You also get observability (i.e. a log of all LLM requests) for free in a simple dashboard.
if I write a bit of software and target ARM64 and it cannot run on x86.

Does that mean that x86 has a specific purpose now and is no longer a general purpose CPU?
> Dont understand why not more ppl switched to alpine on the desktop.

Same. When I was looking for a minimalistic distro, while unorthodox it seemed better than the alternatives. My next choice would be Void but I ran into some issues with it, and Alpine worked much more flawlessly.
Apparently it ends up being the intersection between the MasterCard/Visa ‘honor all cards’ rule (i.e. ‘if you accept MasterCard, you must accept all MasterCards’) and EU legislation saying ‘actually, you’re free not to accept cards with higher fees’.

I’m not really sure why said legislation doesn’t end up applying to foreign cards, though.

Another interesting point about fees is that when retiring the old domestic PIN network, Dutch banks ended up negotiating very low fees for domestic debit (then Maestro) transaction. Therefore, debit can end up being a lot cheaper than credit [1].

[1] https://www.mastercard.com/content/dam/public/mastercardcom/...
Nope, the EU (27 countries) are quite homogenous under EU-laws. Of course, differences still exist and there and there are cases where national laws are contravened the EU laws, but the supremacy of the EU-laws is in no dispute.

Numerous cases highlight those fact, for example:

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/commission-sues-germany-esca...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-france-join-eu-...
Should help OP an awful lot… you nailed it!
Wow, super interesting! How did you find the right frequency of your tinnitus and how did you create the track?
I know it's a silly game, but I'm slightly uneasy with it.

If you remember a time when programming computers was considered nerdy, in a socially discouraged and mocked kind of way (until it became big money)... a game of guessing whether a photo is of a serial killer or a computer programming nerd... might seem a little abusive.
I have a 14” M2 which has been up 52 days with docker running in the background, and Rider and Clion. And it runs better than my DELL XPS 15 which heats the room.
It's a lot easier, I think, to switch from D&D 5E to Pathfinder 2e than it is to switch from Unity to Unreal/Godot or whatever. The stakes are a lot lower, that's for sure.
I think people have misconceptions about algorithmic feeds.

You can measure what inflames people or you can predict what inflames people, measuring is always going to be more acccurate.

… and you can do that measuring by counting boosts or (on HN) taking the ratio of comments/votes. 0.5 is about the median, articles that go above 2 are well in the danger zone.

In my mind the chronological feed with boosting is pretty toxic on its own, an “explore” feed based on what is getting boosted is even worse.

YOShInOn’s main feed I look at every day is based on (1) clustering and (2) prediction of my upvotes and downvotes, I don’t particularly upvote toxic articles, in fact, I make a point to down vote them so my feed is calming and low in sensationalism. (Though there was a time I was into articles from The Guardian about how the UK is going to hell…). So that kind of algorithmic feed is not inflammatory.

If you use “boost count” or judged sentiment or the like you could make a model that amplifies or diminishes angry content. The thing is voting and boosting is not all bad, I post a lot of flower pics to Mastodon because they get boosted, up to a point discussions on HN are a good thing, If you used a sentiment model to suppress angry content in a voting/boosting process that might be very good.

Sometimes I think about making an “angry toot” model but I can’t stand the thought of looking at 5000 angry toots (well, i have thought about testing a weight loss plan based on inducing a psychogenic fever and maybe that would work…)
If they could drop their dependencies on Google Services for Seek I would be ecstatic. The identification works perfect but I would love to be able to view/post locations.
JetSetWilly above said that's completely false...?
> But if someone starts shooting inside while they’re at the door, their legal rights are typically restricted to apprehension.

This is simply not true. Most states that regulate armed security guards have a duty to protect. It’s part of the training they receive and licensure to be able to carry a weapon for their job as an armed security guard.

Also, in most states, a private citizen carrying a weapon can who is just a bystander is legally allowed to use lethal force to protect other people and even if that means to run into a room and dispense it.

I think what may be confusing you is that guards can’t just blast for anything (like cops can). But if there’s someone with a gun drawn (or other lethal weapons) then it’s basically open season for anyone to kill that person to eliminate that threat.

Most people won’t seek out danger if they hear gunshots or see something. But armed guards have that as their job.

If I hire a security guard who is licensed to carry a gun and they don’t intervene if some psycho is waiving a gun around then that guard is doing a bad job.

Guards with guns are very different from the mall cop type people who you see as loss prevention officers that can’t do much. But they aren’t there to protect you from harm, they are there to reduce shoplifting.
Single-bladed floating wind turbine promises half the cost, more power
You know you can connect an Xbox or PlayStation controller to an iPhone?
Full of himself? He literally dresses in a tutu and spins in the mirror in this video.
Uh, Standard Oil?

Antitrust has a long history and it has nothing to do with tech.
You cannot await in top level, unless...
Oh I see what you mean.

On the Amazon one (as opposed to the YouTube video) the balls come shooting down out of the upper collection area at high speed. And the upper collection area is much thicker. So it's hiding some kind of mechanism.
Either unity will walk everything back or we'll see some interesting lawsuits against them soon.

I really don't think their terms can actually stand
If anyone has suggestions for a smartphone scope/lens, I'd be happy to hear them.
Hopefully they'll get the app into F-Droid.
QubesOS comes with Whonix VM templates configured by default.

Typical configuration would be one Whonix-Gateway to connect to Internet via Tor and one or more Whonix Worstations.

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Qubes
Had to scroll 3/4 of the way through the letter to figure out what he was asking for.
Hey, at least you can say you had a direct role in how couples meet and their resulting progeny.

Our personal misery and loneliness aside, the long-term societal effects as generations wear on will be fascinating.
Maybe. I've gotten directed to use specific language at Adobe, Apple, and Disney.
I actually like this :)
CPUs are designed with a certain clock speed in mind. The target frequency affects the design of literally every component. Turn up the frequency too high and signals won't arrive in time. Increasing the frequency to match performance with AMD and Intel might require an almost complete redesign.

Maybe it can run faster given better cooling and less aggressive power-saving. But I'd be surprised if it can be made to clock much higher, else Apple would have done it already. Mobile CPUs already have peak performance well above what they can sustain. An even faster turbo would be used more rarely but would still be useful.
The art on most of Amazon's listings is just a thing of beauty, if you're into really bad photoshopping. Some of them are really eyebrow raising, while others are more WAT. I use it as a litmus test as clearly a knock off item, and move away from that listing.
With the adoption of multi-lens phone cameras allowing better zooming the general quality of insect observation photos has improved (some, there's still a lot of terrible photos). I actually started submitting a lot more insect observations in iNaturalist after I got an iPhone 12 and other folks on the forums have mentioned upgraded phone cameras have improved their observations and increased the range of what species they can submit. I'd love getting more zoom, there's micro-moths, lot of small aquatic inverts and things I'd be happy to be able to observe. Individuals do have some incentive to find new species over time to increase species counts, I'm up to 590 identified insect species and am trying to top my bird species count at 632. Improved cameras over time help improve model training and add species that are harder to get photos of as tech improves.
I reverse engineered their stuff a bit. I downloaded their Android APK and found a tensorflow lite model inside. I found that it accepts 299x299px RGB input and spits out probabilities/scores for about 25,000 species. The phylogenetic ranking is performed separately (outside of the model) based on thresholds (if it isn't confident enough about any species, it seems to only provide genus, family, etc.) They just have a CSV file that defines the taxonomic ranks of each species.

I use it to automatically tag pictures that I take. I took up bird photography a few years ago and it's become a very serious hobby. I just run my Python script (which wraps their TF model) and it extracts JPG thumbnails from my RAW photos, automatically crops them based on EXIF data (regarding the focus point and the focus distance) and then feeds it into the model. This cropping was critical - I can't just throw the model a downsampled 45 megapixel image straight from the camera, usually the subject is too small in the frame. I store the results in a sqlite database. So now I can quickly pull up all photos of a given species, and even sort them by other EXIF values like focus distance. I pipe the results of arbitrary sqlite queries into my own custom RAW photo viewer and I can quickly browse the photos. (e.g. "Show me all Green Heron photos sorted by focus distance.") The species identification results aren't perfect, but they are very good. And I store the score in sql too, so I can know how confident the model was.

One cool thing was that it revealed that I had photographed a Blackpoll Warbler in 2020 when I was a new and budding birder. I didn't think I had ever seen one. But I saw it listed in the program results, and was able to confirm by revisiting the photo.

I don't know if they've changed anything recently. Judging by some of their code on GitHub, it looked like they were also working on considering location when determining species, but the model I found doesn't seem to do that.

I can't tell you anything about how the model was actually trained, but this information may still be useful in understanding how the app operates.

Of course, I haven't published any of this code because the model isn't my own work.
I'm so glad this happened and they weren't acquired by some shitty tech company.
Not unless you are giving away your game for free. Otherwise your limit is some small multiple of sales. They have said demos don't count, webgl doesn't count, piracy doesn't count, etc..

It would be easier if Unity just said they won't charge for installs past the number of sales. But most of the nightmare scenarios people are coming up with are not real.
It's bigger than him. GitHub built their SaaS on top of it. Had they chosen subversion or fossil, history would be very different.

People use git because everybody else uses git and it started because GitHub provides easy code sharing and a better UI than the alternative — SourceForge and mailing lists.
ehh... symlinks... perhaps, But I am talking about hardlinks.

Having said that, I will be the first to admit. the reason hardlinks are not often used is that it is a real "here be dragons" part of the map.

10 years ago I spent a couple fun weeks categorizing all my music. my schema was something along the lines of

every file was linked to

artist/artist_name/song_name
band/band_name/song_name
song/song_name/band_name
date/YYYY-MM-DD/song_name
genre/genre_name/song_name
playlist/playlist_name/index
etc, etc

then I had fun making up a small set of cli utilities to find tags, create and manage playlists etc. then A. it turns out I don't really listen to music. and B. the whole structure wanted to explode every time I would try and move it to a new host. so it probably still sits there on one of my file servers but now as a million duplicated files.
Buy pressure from the ibanks on the tombstone
The only thing 23&Me has done really well in stat gen is IBD (which IIRC you worked on).

I was a team from Google that evaluated 23&Me's data and technology many years ago for a business deal. We already talked about this with Anne and she confirmed what I said above. It might have been before you were hired- but I'm pretty sure we talked about building a variant store and a transpose service? I stand by my statements (note: I work at a competitor of GSK and I know all about these deals). It's not correct that being better at picking targets doesn't shorten the timeline, either- at least in the opinion of the scientists at my company.

Additive models don't really account for most of the heritability of complex phenotypes. They're what have worked best and been published so far. Complex phenotypes are nonlinear because the generative processes in biology have feedback, homeostasis, enormous numbers of individual elements... etc...

By the way, does 23&Me still put tongue-twisting as a heritable trait on its reports? https://blog.23andme.com/articles/tackling-tongue-curling-th... It's not.
well, duh, you don't need power when it's got batteries. That's like emergency kit 101