skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While that’s all potentially true, I don’t think it does anything to lessen the case against Google.
A review of Beeper, a unified chats app
I feel like something as fundamental to society as the internet should have a public index, no?
Oh, I had no idea jellyfin was based on C#.

I started my career as a C# dev, but now I only write C++. I miss C# dearly and have been badly wanting a project to flex those muscles on.

I guess I'll dive into jellyfin now. I've got a list of annoyances and now that I know it's C#, I'm ready to get fixing
Around a year ago I jumped in, picked up some tasks, submitted one or two PRs to fix where exceptions were being used for flow control, basic stuff to give the maintainers confidence that I could contribute. All they did was say those exceptions -- which happen every time the app starts -- don't need to be fixed.

A bit of a turn off for wanting to help on the project....
Sorry, I know this is an old thread, but I feel a bit like I need to share my thoughts on this matter.

> like Saudi Arabia is rich but not developed imho
> good education, infrastructure, medical care, human rights, clean environment

Saudi Arabia's record on human rights is truly horrible (for example, recently they've started murdering refugees[0]), but the idea of whether a country is "developed" seems to be highly subjective, imho. I don't know for sure (never been to Saudi Arabia), but I'm guessing they check off all the boxes except for human rights[1]. (About a clean environment--I imagine they'd be as clean as Abu Dhabi or Dubai (the UAE) which were a lot cleaner imo or on par with Western cities. I guess this is a matter of subjective matter, but is human rights a dimension a country has to have in order to be considered developed? If human rights is indeed a dimension that needs to be satisfied, would that mean that the brutal treatment of black and brown minorities in the US by the police would make the U.S. a country that's not developed?

I'm asking this since Western European countries also have a track record that has historically surpassed world records for brutality. For example, Belgium[1] was chopping off the hands of African tribal people they had forced into labor (effectively enslaved), Germany murdered 6 million innocent Jewish people[2] and had a habit murdering people even before the Nazis in its colonies as well[3], the British were responsible for numerous famines in India as well as famine in Ireland as well as other atrocities[4], the French committed atrocities[5], so did the Netherlands and the Dutch with the East India Company[6], and Spain and Portugal (along with England and others) were highly culpable in the murder of millions of Native Americans[7].

Did these actions, at least temporarily, render these Western European countries as "not developed" countries?

[0][a] https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/21/saudi-arabia-mass-killin...

[0][b] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/world/middleeast/saudi-ki...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_S...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_genocide

[4] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/worst-atroci...

[5] https://newlinesmag.com/newsletter/the-dark-legacy-of-french...

[6] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/10/dutch-colonial-history-...

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_Indigenous_peoples
One of the earliest applications of “postage stamp size” video
Probably gonna be alive in the metaverse creeping out their descendants.
I do not understand why anyone uses Jellyfin, I've tried it twice, and it seems soo finicky and opinionated.

I've always just had a Linux computer hooked up to the T.V. Add a little bit of ktorrent, VLC, and SMB. Never really had any problems with this and its much much simpler.
It's worth coming up with a stronger public-facing answer

We went through this last year, I think we have a public one, a private one, + our actual more 'serious' telemetry (opentelemetry, ...). For the status pages, I think one we don't pay for, and the other is like $20/yr.

It's a crowded space, both open + closed, so clearer differentiation seems useful for your users and for your own journey: https://github.com/ivbeg/awesome-status-pages
FDA approval makes it considerably easier, and in many cases possible at all, to get reimbursement for these tests. I work in the field and this is a constant hurdle to overcome.
By your definition, any software with a bad bug is malware.

Next time you propose a definition, try to break it as an adversary as a test.
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This is a great idea. I'm pretty sure had mobile phones existed in the Mediterranean during the Achaemenid era, the idea of what kind of notifications and algorithms are kosher would have made it into the Torah.
Japan hometown tax changes mean donors getting less bang for buck
I've just turned 50, though I've applied to YC many times before, even in my 30s.

It would be nice to know the answer to who was the oldest person, but at the same time, why does it matter?

We can't deny that ageism exists in the industry, you're not going to let that stop you from building your business, right?

Is there a benefit you get from age that younger people don't have? How are you going to leverage that to your advantage?
Cheaper, probably. Not easier though.

After thinking about it a bit more, Chromebooks biggest users seem to be schools and they don’t want 5G modems for everybody. I would guess they would want some for kids who don’t have decent home internet. It makes sense for the default to be Wi-Fi only.
Living under some restrictions for a year is not equivalent to having a year deleted from your life.
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The Unicode Standard does not specify how character properties should be extracted from a grapheme cluster. Programming languages that define "character" to mean grapheme cluster (like Swift) need to establish their own ad-hoc rules.

As others have pointed out in this thread, the article is full of the authors own personal opinions.
The author suggests iterating text as grapheme clusters, but fails to consider that this breaks tokenizers, e.g. a tokenizer for a comma-separated list [1] won't see the comma as "just a comma" if the value after it begins with a combining character.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values
I’ll take a 20% cut to work in an office for a company where everyone is working in the office.
Your view of C# is at least 6 years out of date.
Interesting note: many Vocaloids (most notably Hatsune Miku) are sampled from voice actors rather than singers.

Singers didn't want software clones, but voices actors are fair game.
> The big businesses … have zero interest in producing counterfeit Calvin and Hobbes strips

Agree. I’m not suggesting creative authors are attributed and receive royalties based on work generated in their style. I’m suggesting they get compensated for work generated from their training data - based on model weights.

People need to get paid. Again, this is Uber/AirBnB all over again except it applies to literally every industry.

Coincidentally, Business Insider wrote about this topic just a few hours ago. https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-jaron-lanier-ai-ad...
Really cool idea, I just wonder what are the performances.
Minor side note, but you might be interested to know that https://ride.lyft.com/ exists. I was surprised and happy when I learned that.
> 8% sounds a rounding error and probably within the error margins.

It is not.

Erm yes it is ... from the study:

> In adjusted analyses, we estimated that any vaccination ... reduced an index case’s risk of transmitting infection by 22% (6–36%)

CI is much wider than 8pp and the estimated absolute transmission risk CIs actually overlap at 31%. So the study results are consistent with there being no actual difference, also.

If this is the best evidence of a difference in transmission it's not very good.

Also this is Omicron which hardly matters. The justification was the earlier variants.
> So you are comparing the global use of energy for a year against the nighttime load for a single day (ie when the sun is on the pacific )?

Well, this comments explains a lot. Why are you even having this discussion if your engineering literacy is at this level?

> It’s a cool idea, and I’m pretty certain something like it is going to happen over time.

As unlikely as space colonization, but who know what can happen in the next centuries.

> Given we are seeing 10-100x (in gwh) of renewables be provisioned compared to any other type. So I guess welcome to science fiction!

Fortunately nobody is actually interested in trying to make your whole-earth storage-free solar electric grid. So actual engineers may actually get something done ;)
They don't need that - they already have enough data to generate plausibly human voices that don't sound like anyone in particular.

Voice cloning is a special case, these models are equally good at making new voices.
Standards evolve, for sure people are not feeling positive sentiments when seeing Taylor Swift or Leonardo Di Caprio appear on TV and talking about climate change.

Same thing for the PR of mr. Gates and the constant noise put into every media by mr. Musk.

So yes whatever you want to call it the point stands. Normal people don't like it and the approval rating goes down everywhere for the public person who does it, except among the fake circles of the Oscars and the Met Gala where swarms of aspiring celebrities don't miss a chance to give a good blowie and fluffing to what is perceived to be the celebrity of the moment who appeared the most all over media to virtue signal
read it.

Thunderstruck is not really that great, though. Two stories forced to be in parallel although they don't really go together.
Correct. `isEmojiPresentation` checks if, per the Unicode standard, this scalar should default to an emoji presentation.
I'm curious what the convention is for gold consumer electronics at EoL. Do you bring it into a jeweler and get the gold casing pried off and melted down?
LOL. Surprised it took this long. The UK government really really has zero respect for its citizens. Seems to hate them with a passion.
I anticipate that using the mouse will be... awkward. In the demo video on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c44sawX5WIE, it's very clear that the frame rate is... low.

If I don't set up my display correctly, it'll run at 30fps. (Large 4k TV that accepts HDMI.) It's very hard to use a mouse at that refresh rate. Scrolling web sites is annoying.

I just lowered the refresh rate to 24fps and the mouse is noticeably janky.
// it’s not what you can do, it’s how many buzzwords you put in your CV

I can see you're frustrated and it's understandable. If it's helpful, I want to point out that 100% of your comment is about what you "can't" do. So even if someone was looking to hire someone exactly like you, they wouldn't be able to tell.
“I’m allergic.”
"celebrity voices impersonated"

Watch Light My Fire on YouTube Music
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=lN3v3EfA6_A&si=_hcG3Wjakxd...
> In Canada and Europe, new Chromebook Plus laptops will be available starting on October 9, 2023.

It's not North America only.
it is real AI research, and this is the "leading edge" of what's been shown to the public (and it's not like there's this Area 51 vault where the good stuff is stored hidden), and it's far better than was expected, and can do some amazing things, shortcomings notwithstanding; so I don't think it's so out of place to call this zoom level of the fractal "AI" even though we need to keep zooming.
Doesn't work on my iPhone, that's why.
It's popular because it's effective. Paint yourself as so oppressed and vulnerable (but not fragile - that's for your enemies) that the wrong kind of criticism endangers your very existence. You are just a few wrong words away from being assaulted and killed by violent mobs.

Now if anyone says something that may endanger you, as determined by you, that's basically stochastic terrorism. It is reckless and irresponsible, and not legitimate debate (ignore whether or not it is true).

The victim's veto.
Yep.

And the ad industry has been greatly encouraging applications and websites to have user accounts specifically as a way to work around the decreased ability to track people.

It's why I've adopted the policy of not signing up for accounts with anything unless the application or service is one I literally can't do without. Fortunately, the number of things that qualify as genuinely mandatory is within a rounding error of zero.
It wouldn't have been possible (and rightfully so) if GB was EU.
Maybe we end up taking the problem to a deeper level - for some accounts the true test if they are human is if they fail a captcha test.
> None of this trivializes trans people, rather it is your argument that trivializes the experience of women who were born and raised female and the distinct experiences and perspectives stemming from that.

I have thought about this, and as a cis male, do I have the right to deny any other human their experience of being male ?

If someone lost their male reproductive organs in an accident, from disease or at birth - should I single them out and police their gender ID ?

Is someone more male than me ?

Am I more male than someone else ?

After this mental exercise I realized I can’t gatekeep another person’s experience. Everyone alive has paid the price of admission to exist as best they can with whatever they have.
The services don't have to use VoIP numbers. Nothing stops them from buying cheap prepaid SIM cards in bulk and putting them in a bank of devices connected to their servers.

Scale here is not the size of the service, it's the number of services that use this verification method. When you have 1000 phone numbers and one service requires this, you can use them to create 1000 accounts on that service. When you have 1000 phone numbers and 100 services do this, you can use them to create 1000 accounts on each of them, i.e. 100,000 accounts. So the value of each number increases but its cost stays the same.

There will no doubt be some cat and mouse game where they try to detect the numbers being used for this and block them, but that's not going to work too well since a prepaid SIM card is cheap and as soon as they're done with it, it goes back to the carrier to be assigned to an ordinary customer.
For those interested, a link to the CA proposal:

https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/
Fantastic story and i think you are already better than goodreads!
The government is both wasting too much money feeding poors who that guy wants to labor or die, and also at the same time forcing too many people to labor for no gain because of whatever thing you're imagining here.
Or money laundering in the art community.
Just thought it would spur searches so people could look into it and realize who originated the phrase.
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Buck the trend. Hire a clown. Having a corporate clown on staff will lighten your day.

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Yudd had the point that by this being a hack we are driving public APIs to language models to be as unsympathetic as possible. The only way to resist all emotional appeals is for a language model to be able to recognize what is an appeal to circumvent any nominal barrier and refuse it, thus developing a naturally cynical consideration of what things are valuable to humans. This could be bad.
It's just .NET now, without the Core part. Mono remains a runtime flavour for special targets but it's being slowly phased out in favour of CLR even on those special targets (for example iOS which has historically relied on MonoAOT, but now can be targeted with NativeAOT too).

Also, I'd really love if people stopped exclusively attributing .NET's progress to Microsoft. Yes, MSFT does the steering and funding, and employs teams working on the ecosystem, but the development happens in the open, and a lot of runtime improvements have been community contributions.
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37745319

> For those interested, a link to the CA proposal:

> https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/
The inevitable loopholes.
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AI has rules intended to prevent harm; rules are frequently circumvented because they’re hard to define well is just about the most common sci-fi AI trope there is, isn’t it? And isn’t that exactly what’s happening?
C# on Linux is only slightly more annoying than Windows. You have to make some effort to install the SDKs and naturally some of the system APIs behave slightly differently, but overall I have only a very slight preference for windows here.

Mono does still exist, but since like 2015 or so C# has been supported natively on Linux. No one really uses mono anymore AFAIK. Its only purpose is running dotnet framework apps as opposed to dotnet core
The answer is on the homepage of ycombinator.com.

> We help founders at their earliest stages regardless of their age.

> 52% of YC's billion dollar company founders were under 28 years old and the oldest founder was in their 50s
Ah, yes, that's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling"[1] one of his best (though I also like "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" quite a bit too).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o...
> how is the dev story for C#

It's fantastic and it runs natively on Linux.

Mono is still around and used for some niche use cases(WASM, interpreter, etc).
Ultimate planned obsolescence and an ultimate flex.
I guess a unified format is harder...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_microscope#Alternative...

I was hoping for an easy entry:

https://www.hackster.io/michalin70/3d-printed-laser-scanning...
Jaron Lanier says AI advancing without human dignity will 'undermine everything'
Replacing voice actors with text-to-speech is good because it lets you do things voice actors can't:

* Create dynamic new voice lines at runtime, for example game characters reacting to new situations.

* Operate at a scale that's infeasible for humans, for example turning every ebook into an audiobook.
People have repurposed gen0/1 AW's into mechanical watches with a bit square-ish case.
Do you live with non-technical people or have visitors to your house? I have a kid and a wife who isn’t as nerdy as I am. Plex just works. I can show a babysitter or a grandparent how to use it in about a minute. Can’t say the same for a Linux box, as much as I’d love for that to be the solution.
I agree. Media specific OSes are just okay but I have no problem about plugging my laptop into an HDMI cable to watch something. I have no anxiety about how a laptop sitting on a tv stand will look.
If all they need is voice, they could just transcribe it. That'd probably be a few KB per day.
I think intent is probably implied. All software has bugs so with your assumption all software is malware.
It blocks ads on Firefox
Fair point, however I was responding in context of the parent tirade which encodes lots of political subtext, and my use of italics was attempt to suggest a particular practical connotation (investment == partnership) rather than a strict technical definition.

Specifically referring to this line of the parent comment:

>China pays for infrastructure to be built of the type and scale in countries

When in fact China did not just "pay for" these projects. And they are not "invested" in the prosperity of these people any more than the US was.
the existential angst apparent just below the surface of that question makes my heart ache.
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The point of the phone verification isn't that the AI can't impersonate you, it's that you have to give them a phone number. Which they mostly want so they can track you, but in theory phone numbers cost money and provide a rate limit.

The problem with this theory is that phone numbers are actually just bits in a phone company's computer and gaining access to them in bulk will become both cheaper and more common the more demand there is for it.
> Many cheap Windows laptops will struggle at this task

There's not a single cheap Windows laptop that will even vaguely 'struggle' at this task given that the video decode is hardware accelerated. Even a RPI can manage that task. I have set-top box PCs with dual core Celeron 1037U processors which are more than ten years old which don't 'struggle' at this task even if you throw them a x265 video which their hardware decode ASIC doesn't support.
> The tires used on EVs tend to be efficient (low rolling resistance), which translates to less noisy tires.

EVs are just cars, any tire that you can put on an EV you can also put on an ICE car, so that is not a differentiator.

EVs tend to be heavier though, and weight is a primary factor in how fast a tire wears.
Just FYI the link to your resume is broken
> first press a "dead key" for the diacritic mark and then the letter to apply it to.

That being exactly the way “floating diacritics” in ISO 2022 (or properly one of its Latin encodings, T.51 = ISO 6937) work, amusingly. I wonder which came first. (Yes, I know that a<BS>` came first, the ASCII spec even says that this should give you an accented character IIRC. Or perhaps it was one of the other “don’t call it ASCII” specs—ISO 646? IA5?..)