skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But what's proprietary here? That's what I'm not getting from the other person. You have the algorithm. Hell, they even provided the model in pytorch/python. They just didn't provide training parameters and data. But that's not necessary to use or modify the software just like it isn't necessary for nearly any other open sourced project.

It's necessary if you want to rebuild the weights/factors/whatever the current terminology is, which are a major part of what they're shipping. If they found a major bug in this release, the fix might involve re-running the training process, and currently that's something that they can do and we users can't.

> I mean we aren't calling PyTorch "not open source" because they didn't provide source code for vim and VS code.

You can build the exact same PyTorch by using emacs, or notepad, or what have you, and those are standard tools that you can find all over the place and use for all sorts of things. If you want to fix a bug in PyTorch, you can edit it with any editor you like, re-run the build process, and be confident that the only thing that changed is the thing you changed.

You can't rebuild this model without their training parameters and data. Like maybe you could run the same process with an off-the-shelf training dataset, but you'd get a very different result from the thing that they've released - the whole point of the thing they've released is that it has the weights that they've "compiled" through this training process. If you've built a system on top of this model, and you want to fix a bug in it, that's not going to be good enough - without having access to the same training dataset, there's no way for you to produce "this model, but with this particular problem fixed".

(And sure, maybe you could try to work around with finetuning, or manually patch the binary weights, but that's similar to how people will patch binaries to fix bugs in proprietary software - yes it's possible, but the point of open source is to make it easier)
> I don't know if anyone is actually that good

All pro-gamers train everyday to build this spray pattern countering movement into muscle memory. Of course, some are better than others.
there's a dearth of geophones available right now, unless you want to go with used from ... eastern europe. there is one brand that is available, and it is $60-$70.

A geophone is a metal canister; and in a simple form, a magnet is suspended by two springs and encircled by an electromagnet inside that canister, with wire leads as output. The more tuned the magnets and springs are, the lower the frequency they can detect.

Also, a sound card can be used as the ADC, we're talking about sub 200hz for every commercial geophone, and ideally sub 10hz. think of the decimation!

There's no reason for used and oxidized stuff to go for $40, and "new" $70.

Someone want to explain what happened to all the $30 geophones that were on amazon, adafruit(and digikey, etc) and ebay a couple of years ago?
I worked for several years in OZ and amassed a 6 figure super. Thanks to the greedy super fund companies and several economic downturns,that 6 figure sum is now 5 figures. Sigh.
For some reason this really doesn't work for me. I have also enabled the extra feature of locking the touch screen when in dark places, too. I still regularly get my pocket navigating my browser and my ear starting songs on Spotify mid-call.
Wait, I get to retire?
I'm 40 now. I could see myself being able to retire in about 10 years except for one primary expense. Healthcare. I could have my house paid off, have just enough net worth for investments to live out a very modest lifestyle. But healthcare costs alone blow up any chance of being able to retire until I'm 65 or whatever the age to qualify for medicare will be in a few decades.
I’ve had the best results converting normies with Telegram first and Signal as a second. while I do love the values of Matrix it’s still reallly rough. Matrix 2.0 seems to be changing a lot of that however.
Another side effect of the federal government shutdown: mass euthanization of lab animals (including those who aren't in any research that would lead to it normally). Hooray \o/
Yeah and Macs didn't have that problem back before signing apps was a requirement either.
He was caught
> They could also be talking about specific queries, e.g. with Chrome's default settings, the address bar can answer some queries like weather or calculator using search without having to press Enter.

I'm almost certain it's this - that was added in Chrome 69 [0] which was released ~7 months prior which lines up with the email thread.

[0] - https://venturebeat.com/business/chrome-69-arrives-with-reva...
How do my startup can get first pay customer?
we just gone public for couple months and have nearly 10k users, yet we still have not any pay users. Any advice?
Not really. If a company claims something and does something else, it's called cheating and one can take legal action. This is tangential to trust.
That's the old system, I had a choice of staying with the "old" system or moving to the superannuation scheme. My older (read: then about to retire) colleagues told me I HAD TO move to the "new" system, as by the time they retired and took out their money, there would be no money left in the "old" system for me.
It’s worth mentioning that the income limit for contributing to a Roth IRA does NOT apply to Roth 401k accounts, which is likely another “incentive to keep working for the man”. Sole proprietorships/startups and their employees are punished severely for taking people out of the “corporate workforce”, and this is one such way.

My favorite way is paying Uncle Sam almost 40% in taxes on income made as a sole proprietor. Bad cog! Bad!
They're quite accurate from what I've seen. Ask about stuff that concerns you during the interview. If a manager says they don't know, that's a yellow flag. Some of the ratings are from sore losers though, so do ask for the story.

Generally 3.5-4 is workable. 4-4.5 is dream job. 4.5 and higher is very rare, probably has unlimited paid time off, dental, servant leadership, team vacations on work days.

3 and below tends to be at the brink of imploding.. senior leadership is probably job hunting, illegal stuff is going on, etc.
I asked it "Here we have a book, 9 eggs, a laptop, a bottle and a nail. Please tell me how to stack them onto each other in a stable manner." and it responded:

To stack these items on top of each other in a stable manner, follow these steps:

1. Start with the 9 eggs. Arrange them in a neat pile in the center of your workspace.
2. Next, place the laptop on top of the eggs. Make sure it's centered on top and not leaning to one side.
3. Then, carefully pour the bottle of water over the laptop, making sure the water reaches all sides of the laptop and covers it
completely.
4. Finally, take the nail and use it to secure the stack together. You can do this by driving the nail through each item in the
stack, connecting them all.
5. Double-check that everything is securely fastened before moving or transporting the stack.

Remember to be careful when handling delicate items like eggs and laptops, and always prioritize safety.
I know the HN community will hate my comment, but Musk has been talking about desalination since at least 2018, claiming it's the solution.
Big cardboard box, hdds, thousands of photos, sd cards, dvds, ect.

The Cloud is no solution at all, they're a revisionist nightmare.

I'd honestly prefer all my most valuable memories, from my family tree, on physical media, buried in a filing cabinet with a sign that says 'beware the tiger' in the basement of some forgotten farmstead, built on rock, a million miles from Jeff Bezos.

It's safe there. Everything else is just constant churn.
It is so annoying- imagine we had no serious competitor. now we are left with just a single serious alternative. Hundreds of man years wasted for what exactly?
https://archive.ph/yhkXb
What do they mean by the word ablation throughout the document?
> For the sake of simplicity I’m not accounting for the contribution limit increasing each year, but I’m also not accounting for inflation, meaning you can think of the 875k in 35 years as though it were today.

You're also not accounting for any income from the principal, which even invested in bonds would mostly keep up with inflation.
What are you running on? I'm on a 12-year-old mid-range desktop PC with no offboard GPU and it ran just great...
Google briefly had the functionality (perhaps only as an A/B experiment).

Given the recent revelations wrt the chrome search bar, I'm guessing that they found making their search work better for people lowered their income.
AFAIK, there are no rules limiting what tags you may use -- you can make up your own if you like. And people have. Here's what the kernel git says right now:

linux$ git log | sed -nE 's/^ *([^ ]+-by:).*$/\1/p' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | sort | uniq -c | egrep -v ' [0-9] '
20 ack-by:
74 acked-and-tested-by:
195801 acked-by:
24 acked-for-backlight-by:
49 acked-for-mfd-by:
19 acked-in-principle-or-something-like-that-by:
21 acked-off-by:
10 analysed-by:
47 analyzed-by:
26 based-on-a-patch-by:
97 based-on-patch-by:
15 based-on-work-by:
128 bisected-by:
18 boot-tested-by:
37 build-tested-by:
147 co-authored-by:
4779 co-developed-by:
175 debugged-by:
60 diagnosed-by:
11 disliked-by:
11 eviewed-by:
51 fixed-by:
18 fix-suggested-by:
32 found-by:
48 generated-by:
19 improvements-by:
79 inspired-by:
18 located-by:
10 not-acked-by:
86 noticed-by:
30 original-by:
140 originally-by:
95 original-patch-by:
44 pointed-out-by:
14 proposed-by:
10 reivewed-by:
22 reported-and-acked-by:
12 reported-and-analyzed-by:
77 reported-and-bisected-by:
12 reported-and-debugged-by:
23 reported-and-suggested-by:
3017 reported-and-tested-by:
21 reported-bisected-and-tested-by:
58990 reported-by:
11 requested-and-tested-by:
363 requested-by:
10 review-by:
55 reviewd-by:
513 reviewed-and-tested-by:
304543 reviewed-by:
16 reviewed-off-by:
67 reviwed-by:
11 root-caused-by:
29 sigend-off-by:
10 signed-by:
157 signed-of-by:
2253448 signed-off-by:
59 singed-off-by:
54 spotted-by:
32 suggested-and-acked-by:
12 suggested-and-reviewed-by:
17 suggested-and-tested-by:
15568 suggested-by:
48 tested-and-acked-by:
22 tested-and-reported-by:
35 tested-and-reviewed-by:
62630 tested-by:
12 verified-by:

My suggestions are both there (far less often than "Reported-by:", but that's not surprising). I think "Analyzed-by:", "Debugged-by", "Diagnosed-by", "Originally-by:", or "Original-patch-by:" would also have worked.

If you don't filter out the tags with less than 10 uses, there are some fun ones. For example, "You're-my-ding-a-ling-by:" should be used more often. :)
I landed on Matrix a couple years ago. My requirements were:

- free

- open source

- decentralized

- good cross-platform support (linux, mac, windows, ios, android)

- multi-device synchronization

- offline message delivery

- group chats

- end-to-end encryption

- well-understood crypto ciphers & protocols

- mature enough for a reasonable expectation of security & privacy

- some way to protect metadata (e.g. self-hosting)

- anonymous signup

- easy enough for most computer users

- getting enough traction to seem (eventually) viable as a general-purpose contact channel

As far as I know, there is still no other service that satisfies all those needs.

It has some rough edges that are less important to me for now, but I think they're on the roadmap: Some bits of metadata, like (IIRC) reactions and avatar images, aren't e2e encrypted yet. Occasional encryption errors and notification failures, but I think those are solved in the beta client code (currently available in Element X) and at least some alternative clients.

I suggest introducing a few technical (or patient) friends to Matrix today, and bringing more people in once the new client code graduates from Element X into the main reference clients.

Here's where you can explore alternative clients: (I like Nheko's compact mode.)

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

Here's where you can read weekly progress reports:

https://matrix.org/blog/

The native group voice/video feature, currently in testing as Element Call, has a design that looks particularly interesting for its ability to scale beyond a few participants without requiring a large/expensive central media server.

https://element.io/blog/tag/voip/

They're actively working toward IETF MIMI and MLS support, which bodes well for future interoperability:

https://matrix.org/blog/2023/07/a-giant-leap-with-mls/

The project lead often answers questions here on HN when Matrix-related articles pop up. Searching his past comments (username Arathorn) is worthwhile if you want a deeper view into the project.
I don’t understand your comment. Isn’t it the same if Amazon falsely claims to not have access to the data and if another company falsely claims to use some specific software?
Yep! It was actually something that made me decrease my use in chrome and eventually switch to safari.

My mental model and my job requires me to use a lot previous sites. I keep my history for a full year for that reason. I might need to go back to something I read 6 months ago. I know I read it. I know it’s out there. And I don’t use bookmarks because I never know if what I read right now might be useful in 3 months. Sure I can google it again, but then have to go through multiple results on google to try to remember the right one. And with the google algo, you never know which new garbage will show up on top

I did notice at some point that chrome would always try to send me back to google even if I knew it was in my history. Safari just shows me the previously visited site above everything.

Those emails confirm my suspicions. This was all about ads.
Hardware stabilization is superior to pure software stabilization. Software (aside from real fancy neural nets) can't fix pixels which are blurred from the camera rapidly moving while the shutter was open. My Panasonic GH5 has optical stabilization in the lens as well as a five axis linear motor system to move the camera sensor, and these systems work together to keep the image pipeline frozen in space even when the camera is physically moving. Makes a huge difference in image quality and overall camera system capabilities.

I was curious if this is in use in smartphones. This reference [1] suggests that all iPhone 13 models have sensor shift stabilization, and I assume they have continued with this trend on newer releases.

So yeah, proper stabilization is a hardware thing.

[1] https://www.mysmartprice.com/gear/sensor-shift-stabilization...
> Carton wraps your model with some metadata and puts it in a zip file

Why a zip file?
Maybe I'm missing something here, isn't this largely achieved by ONNX already?

[0] https://onnx.ai
That's their problem if they chose that kind of boring.
I had to "Like" my own post, a bit redundant.
Whenever I go on vacation for more than 2 weeks, I have this irrational fear that one of those neglected devices in a drawer somewhere would become a spicy pillow and self combust and burn my house down. Sometimes I keep them in those thin metal cookie boxes with a lid, so it could have some level of isolation. Never validated though.
I intend on going the suicide route if my only other option was being such a burden, financial or otherwise, to my next of kin. But you’re right, it’s a common fate for the would-be inheritance. It was around $10k/month for one set of grandparents, and as much as it sucks that they’re gone, there’s a sense of relief across the family that they didn’t live another, you know, 5 or 10 years ($600k-1.2M)
> Of course, AWS claims that AWS personnel doesn’t have direct access to customer data, but by being closed-source, that statement is just a function of trust.

I'm not sure if this is a strong enough argument. Given the state of maturity in companies, most companies should really worry about their own employees or security vulnerability than Amazon's.
I had to use the english Wikipedia to find the secondlast school schooting in Germany(the last happened just a few months ago). The mass shootings in germany since 2000 rarely exceed 4 (with the perpetator), so most of them wouldn't even be categorized as an mass shooting, the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012 would categorize a few more as mass killing but that would be just 2-3 more than the other death based definitions.
Yeah I don’t really consider these “smart glasses” - they’re a sunglass frame with built in airpods and a go pro.

If someone could take the epson moverio and make it cordless, that’s more like what I want from smart glasses.
As a worst fashionable and no glass person, I knew Ray-Ban from counterfeit spams by hacked account. It's one of the worst encounter.
Telegram is not E2EE by default. Red flag.

When E2EE is enabled they rolled their own crypto. Another red flag.

Telegram is owned by Russian nationals living in United Arab Emirates. Another red flag.

Don’t recommend Telegram.
The Australian system is one of the more sensible ones in the developed world. One could quibble about the details of implementation but I think many countries would do well to emulate it, including the US.
Thanks :)

It uses the NVIDIA drivers on your system, but it should be possible to make the rest of CUDA somewhat portable. I have a few thoughts on how to do this, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

The current GPU enabled torch runners use a version of libtorch that's statically linked against the CUDA runtime libraries. So in theory, they just depend on your GPU drivers and not your CUDA installation. I haven't yet tested on a machine that has just the GPU drivers installed (i.e without CUDA), but if it doesn't already work, it should be very possible to make it work.
Re: [1] don't both work bare metal, without any OS?
You're right and that's why hackers are down voting you and protesting against your comment. Part of respect between spouses is that you don't spend solo time with people of the opposite sex.

Also:
– Soccer players aren''t allowed to touch the ball with their hands.

– What!? Then how am I supposed to play handball?

The above is basically the replies here.
> You don't win by making money, you win by obviating the need for money at all.

Yes, a post-scarcity society would be very nice indeed. That's why we need a total abundance of free and open source software not owned by corporations. If we don't make this software, we'll be subjected to their dystopian artificial scarcity where they charge you for nothing and create economies where there ought to be none.
I'm not going to lose any sleep over that. Permeable concrete exists, but it's just not worth the maintenance cost in most places

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervious_concrete
This is transformed data most likely aggregated and unit converted from:

https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/

which facilitates bulk data downloads in XML | JSON and additional hosts a BETA data explorer interactive web front end:

https://dataexplorer.fao.org/

I have no opinion on the accuracy of the article linked, had I the time ATM I'd work through this myself (as I often do for all manner of things).
A company can also genuinely state that it hosts customer data on-premise to protect it from the big bad cloud, but elide the part where everyone and their brother in the local IT consulting ecosystem has domain admin credentials for them & half the town in a KeepassX on a network drive.

Don’t assume self-hosted means security-conscious. For most businesses, on-premise IT is treated like HVAC or electrical only more annoying. Anyone with a work shirt could con keys to the server room off the front desk.
Either your mom really enjoys her work (doubtful if she’s a doc in the US- they hospital administration seems to ruin that career), or she’s calculated she needs every penny she can get while she is able to work.
The rules around retirement accounts are so ridiculous. There should be no limits on contributions, for example. And they should all be treated as SIMPLE IRA's and let anybody contribute any place they like.
The comments in this thread are about respecting copyright and if Tao is culturally insensitive.

Is this really “hacker” news? What the hell happened to this generation? Did the establishment win?
Apple is definitely not paid by search sent to google, it’s a bulk amount for the whole year. And we can tell that safari just doesn’t prioritize past google searches in the omnibar the same way that chrome does.
Today, every telecom company is also a OTT apps/services company with desires to become like big tech. So, your assertions about telecom companies as some sort of time frozen thing is not valid.

Secondly, I would trust Google more than Apple or Meta to keep my data safe from technical hacks or leaking or selling it to third parties. And I understand they are going to use my data to power their ads business where they personalize and target ads to me on their own and 3rdparty properties.

Finally, we need to keep the regulatory oversight and pressures to move and keep them in line with increasing privacy and security expectations.
Trying to figure out if and how these can be used at companies that have regulatory requirements too strict to use hosted models. Sadly, Meta restricts use of Llama for anything ITAR (as opposed to other TOSes which only restrict weapons and defense).
Well I’d hazard a guess that this new desal method isn’t cheaper than well water for rural areas where that’s an option.

Or surface water for areas with plentiful rain.

And I’d further hazard a guess that their cost analysis hasn’t scaled up or thought about distribution.

And their invention is pretty useless for people inland since then it requires the distribution that makes many of the other systems costly.

Basically the title is PR bunk is what I’m saying.
Maybe it was just me (Gen X), but I didn't even work for a company that had retirement plans until I was in my 30s. Right when I also got married, trying to save up for a house, and having kids. Oh and dot com bust and 2008 crisis...
It looks like today, 9/28, the AI generated content is filtered out automatically, kind of nice to know it's all organic.
Yes it's been very easy to get advice, that's for sure, and it's made me want to go find a junkyard core and see if I can salvage it. Not that I have anything to put it in. This is a marine application so not everything applies (or applies differently) so the complexity is in navigating what's legitimately different vs. what's Mercruiser taking advantage of the ignorant.

For example. The engine has EV6 Bosch injectors, a completely standard off-the-shelf part. A seal kit (i.e. a bunch of o rings) for the injectors is maybe $20 from Fel Pro. If you go by the Mercruiser part number for the kit it's - get this - $297. Two hundred and ninety seven dollars for sixteen tiny rubber o rings.

The photographs (just to keep it on topic) are basically all around the accessories bolted to the heads and block. A remote oil filter, the heat exchanger, the particular fuel boost pump it uses, all with weird brackets and spacers and eight different types of bolt.
This goes to a 404 - is the repository private?
I wish I could remap keys in a universal way to be macOS-like on Linux, because it's really nice to be able to have GNU readline-like shortcuts and CUA-like shortcuts at the same time in every text field. Just swapping the modifiers doesn't feel worth doing in my case since I don't really have a muscle memory problem.
I am currently working in the higher education space and previously in banking. I agree with you. We are already workshopping where it makes sense to provide this type of interface on top of headless core systems. In the examples we've considered, this will drive a reduction in head count in some areas.

I'd also suggest that one of the early "killer apps" for this may be as an "IVR co-pilot" for actual humans on the phone with customers for their tricky issues.
I've moved from a paid-off house in South Africa to Sydney, where most things are so ludicrously expensive that I've reset my finances back 20 years. Worth it for my kid, but man there is no retirement in my near future!