skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://unycorn.app

On Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/unycorn

I quit my job more than a year ago and wanted to participate in this crazy (but fun) rush to find creative applications of AI. Tried many things, first attempts failed miserably, but it's a fun journey and I'm getting useful experience.

Right now, I'm building an app that allows you to apply AI to create interesting visual effects for images and videos.

Currently, there are two main features:

- You can swap faces in videos to create personalized memes.

- Generate artistic self-portraits.

You probably have seen such features many times already and maybe even tired of it, but for me it was just a starting point. I plan to continue adding new features as new interesting models and technologies become available. Right now there is only a web version and I'm working on rolling out ios and android versions (Almost there!).

Stack: AWS, docker, runpod.io, python, react native.

Happy to collaborate with other makers on this and other ideas!
My personal solo project is a mobile roguelike card game, blending elements from Marvel Champions and Slay the Spire, all set within a cyberpunk theme.

It's built using Flutter and primarily relies on standard UI widgets.

Currently, it is available for free without any ads, and I'm working on adding more content that will be unlocked through in-app purchases.

All the art is generated using Midjourney. If it weren't for AI-generated art, I wouldn't have even started the project.

Try it:

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cercaapp.g...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cybercards/id6446695845
I really wish they'd stop the overly cutesy 'contrived acronym' thing with legislation.
I mean, if you're making 200k, can set your own hours, and can drive home in your luxurious pickup truck to a nice house maybe it's not so bad?

I'm in my 40s and sometimes wading in figurative shit all day long.
Same, dang
I don’t get any money out of it unless I buy stuff. And it’s never anywhere near how much I spent. And I’m pretty sure it’s store credit (I can’t recall for sure, been a while). So.
I'd hazard a guess most employees
voluntarily on a company sub are people who've worked there a while and/or really care - so higher leveled people. And that's who they've seem to have laid off, sadly.
It's a $30 fee for lifetime discounts. A co-op by way of self description rather than by cooperation.
I know that, but I think these hiring posts should allow comments. It is suspicious to me that they don't.

If these companies are truly as great a place to work as they claim to be, then they should be able to very easily defend that in a comment thread. The silence from a lack of discussion on these hiring posts is deafeaning.
This is how I’ve felt about it. I’m a member and I had no idea you can vote for board members, that never came up during the pitch to sign up. It was all about the member-only sales events and cash back rewards.
I guess that’s true :/

Of course I know it is a consumer co-op as a member but for some reason I’d always thought about it as pro worker because I associate “co-op” generally with the labor movement. Worker co-ops would be of course but that’s not the case here.
Will the member rebate be given this year? I would gladly forgo mine.
Do something no one else is doing … acoustic-coupler modem war dialing of SIP-based digital phones.
Just looking at that list the early-50s Hornet was pretty muscle-y as far as cars go with its 5.0L straight-six, though it was also a legitimate luxury sedan.

Maybe closer a Taycan or something for a modern day equivalent? Though that's in a different price-class than the Hornet was. Is there a tuned luxury car for under $60k today?
here is the owner: https://mastodon.social/@jwz
Sam Bankman-Fried's Closest Friends Become His Foes in Courtroom Clash
It's absolutely insane to see the extremist anti-car faction here essentially trying to argue against the laws of physics.

Humans can change velocity and look in all directions much easier than cars.
Especially when people bought huge amounts of it during the pandemic.
Thinking out loud, I think the governing aspect of this is fidelity. Cover bands, and impressionist are always going to be delta away from the original. Current-gen replicas can pass the generic test of "is this indistinguishable from the original by laymen?".

This gets especially messy with movie actors. Specifically -several extremely high-profile movie actors _specialize_ in the sort of roles they take to project a certain persona, and be _the_ guy for that role. It's also known within producer circles, that a single actor can move the sales needle +-~$X0M revenues; which is part of their valueprop. Present-gen replica tech poses an existential risk both for brand building, and exclusivity of these actors.
REI has been a co-op in name only for a number of years now.
> Why not?

It’s a good question and I don’t know the answer. I wish I knew the answer as I know it would help me. I show up and I just am not motivated as I feel like what’s the point. There is no reward (for me) or appreciation or any real benefit to what I provide (as I see leadership factions questioning my project and general politics of furthering their own agenda for their own growth. I am all for doing the work but if I know there is no growth for me here what’s the point.

> Why don’t you see a path

So many reorgs and changes of directions every few months. I know my (mid level) manager is a good person but he has no choice but the feed be BS that you will be promoted in a year or so and hang in there. I would do the same if I were in his shoes cos I know he has no control of any of this.

> how long can I support my family.
At least a year (depleting all my cash savings)

I wonder a lot if am I an anomaly or there are a lot of people in FANGs just like this.
What's stopping you from doing this since it's incredibly lucrative?
Please don't be afraid of the foxhead, this app has nothing to do with Metamask or web3. It is just an open source 3d model that I can find and use without paying
Assuming you make $0 in income, what kind of runway do you have?
I'm curious about this opinion, and I don't want to make a snarky joke. Can you elaborate how you camp without needing any gear?
Are you saying you should configure the server to local time to save you one less configuration on the presentation layer? That doesn't make sense to me. I really can't think of any benefits to setting the server to local time that doesn't offset the huge load of negatives.

Here's something you may not be thinking about - your presentation layer may save a configuration step, but now every system that interacts with your server (who have all likely defaulted to UTC) have to know about this now. Think - logging infrastructure, schedulers, cloud infra, etc. So now you have to configure all those as well. Anything that touches the host will need to be reconfigured to save one very minor and commonly done thing on the presentation layer. Really doesn't make sense, as an infra guy.
This is meant to be a more user friendly/aesthetic disk usage scanner. It's largely finished but I need to do a bunch of debugging for platform-specific issues etc.

It's not the fun stuff so I've been putting it off forever :/ Also kind of on a break from programming at the moment so not sure when I'll return to this.

https://diskatlas.com
A co-op being acquired by a hedge fund should not be possible. What the hell?
Just doing a little googling, it looks like cover bands actually so need to license their songs, or the venue does, and if they want to record their covers they need a license for that as well.
Seems like a Goodhart's law situation to me. It would not stretch my credulity very much to see MT/mm^2 rapidly become just as nuanced (as feature size) if it were used for primary marketing.
The levels of hate have gone beyond reason and strategy and (it is hard to read my own words but because it's the truth I won't leave it implicit) reached ethnic cleansing and suicide bombing. That is the only way to explain these events and what is openly planned.

The united states must stay out. Controlling a city sized pile of collapsed buildings is a nightmarish situation that I do not wish on Israeli conscripts but extraordinarily so not on our own volunteers. The prospect of a second major invasion of the middle east should give pause even in the event that a terrorist strike in the United States occurs. Second to that I hope that they can return to a peace process before the scale of the atrocities stain their (Israeli) flag forever and ours by abetting. (Hamas' flag has guns on it, it can't get a lot worse. Wishing anything from their own leadership is hopeless even surrender.)

The civilians will be given guns and told their life is already over. We will be told Hamas is using child soldiers.
Did you ever see any statistics to back up your perception that all the kids were extra well behaved for the rest of the year? The reason I ask is that we've all heard the whole "tough on crime" schtick and I feel like it has never really been proven out to be all that effective. especially on kids. plenty of kids receive penalties far more severe for the parents than having to move off base (like expulsion with no other schools around). And yet school discipline problems continue after each expulsion.
I love how people use hyperbole such as "screaming fast" and yet a native application that's not even all that optimized will tend to run absolute circles around these "screaming fast" solutions.

How are we supposed to describe these native apps? What's faster than screaming fast? ear shatteringly quick?
Little over a year (but that would deplete my cash savings. )
Indeed, and look:

namespace n. 1. bindings whose denotations are restricted to a particular kind. ``The bindings of names to tags is the tag namespace.'' 2. any mapping whose domain is a set of names. ``A package defines a namespace.''

So if "the bindings of names to tags is the tag namespace", that means that a set of bindings of names to symbols is a symbol namespace!

According to the Common Lisp Glossary, the values of the dictionary define what the namespace is of. Of course the keys are always names; that's what makes it a namespace.

Also, look: "a package defines a namespace" (and it must be one of symbols).

You're not catching crafty old Shapiro red-handed in anything here.
>Calendar: "This GUI doesn't have this feature" -- yes it does. Double click the clock.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050621-04/?p=35...
Summary: Last-minute strings patch, it'll be up soon
https://tabbot.app

I hated having to open an excel spreadsheet after dinner with friends. Snap a picture of a receipt, send them the URL, and let them claim what they ordered.

OCR and ML is finally good enough to reliably itemize a receipt, even with variable templates and layouts.
“Ultralight” backpacking favors skills rather than gear. Folks have done entire 3k mile thru hikes with 5lbs of gear. The main way you get that low is simply by not taking much with you. You carry only the essentials. I don’t know if this is what the parent poster was referring to but it’s what my mind went to.
Yes, because it's exploitable.

Systems that require very high cognitive load on their human operators (whether machines, programming languages, etc.) are alway destined to fail. Human beings are not good at doing boring, repetitious work that requires them to stay focused: lapses will occur. And hackers are going to find and exploit those gaps. So the best way to avoid those problems is to build solutions or specifications in which those gaps are not even possible.

Modern software systems are some of the most complex systems that humans have ever invented--and they just keep getting more complex over time as we layer new things on top of them. Think of a really high Jenga tower with lots of holes in the base.

That means we need to strive to keep things simple. That may mean making decisions that prevent common or severely impacting failure cases from being possible, even if it is a little more difficult to do, or eliminates an esoteric use-case. This is even more true when writing specifications that others will implement and/or be expected to conform to.
Consumer spending is up, rising faster than inflation. Although it is growing more slowly than before.
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/consumer-packaged-goods/...
I think you're giving them a little too much credit. Plenty of disruptive kids have a perfectly fine home life, have an iPhone, get expensive toys or technology bought for them. A lot of them are just jerks who were never punished by their parents, received few punishments from teachers and staff who had little power, and enjoy being disruptive or bullying others, and don't give a shit if they flunk all their tests or classes. The teachers say they're going to become a janitor or drop out of high school at this rate, and they don't care because they've been told this all their lives, because their disruptive behaviors haven't gotten better since kindergarten, only gotten more violent and more sexual. And somehow they manage to squeak by to the next grade.

I say this speaking from my own experience as someone who went to a Title 1 school before taking a test to get into a magnet program when transitioning to high school (about age 14); the difference in disruptive behavior was like night and day to me. I still remember it very clearly.

If education can improve the most by punishing and expelling disruptive students more often, sending them to other schools, I wouldn't be opposed. It would help the non-disruptive majority of students reach their full potential, which is a better outcome than trying to help the disruptive minority at the expense of everyone else.
At least a decade IMO.
Once one is familiar enough with the brands that REI stocks and that are regarded as quality, nowadays those same brands can be bought, often for much cheaper, from other online retailers. Not with the same generous return policy, but still, it is harder for REI to compete compared to two decades ago when they were the only chain around for quality camping gear.
I am absolutely certain that the compute might have cost more than 100 trillion dollars.
Yup. I just grabbed it and pinned the saturation, and you can see that the circular grills around the edge of the head are copper-colored.
> But in reality the problem is 100% of the time covered by boxes and anyway I can live a happy life in this house for decades and not be affected. That's 0% tech debt.

what's amazing is that I'm apparently in debt while owing absolutely nothing to anyone.

When you say something like "0% tech debt" seriously, do you ever stop and wonder if maybe you're off-base?

Debt needs to be serviced, if you don't need to service it, it's not debt.

What next, that feature that hasn't been implemented yet is 0% tech debt?
How’s that different than something like Costco or BJ’s
The funniest artefact that came of Toshiba embellishment scandal was the sales figures chart for its PC division[1]. Up there with TI and Broadcom in terms of signifying who they are - blue line is sales and red line is profit, but it might as well be a 7805 without a capacitor shown on an oscilloscope.

1: https://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/images/fotolife/t/topisyu/201... / https://archive.is/4Dyzj
those looks like one of my old Pentium Pro tower cases
Germany has a great deal to answer for the fate of modern day Palestinians. The most decisive factor next to Sykes Picot. They naturally have no interest in that debate.
HN search on mobile needs improvement
See link to screenshot. I've typed
"one two three four", but the half the search box is obscured by something. I'm on Android, Samsung S21.
There are new versions of Go which have this CVE patched already published and available for download.
Bonterms: Standard Agreements for the Enterprise
The State of AI Engineering
Says anyone familiar with Ancient Greek, and also anyone who has followed linguistics (even in pop-sci form like Deutscher’s Through the Language Glass) recently. The comment by fsckboy, which was already there when you commented, gets it. For the Greeks, the connotation of wine was different than purple, purple was not a basic color term in that stage of the language, and πορφυρός was used only in the context of purple clothing and the dye used to make it.
How will you know the art is "human"?
They’re not posts, they’re native ads.
Something in their implementation of SMART or some other chip on the controller?
No idea what exactly it would have been a backdoor too. The OS? The BIOS? The data on the drive? Memory? Toshiba has offered a number of hardware and software encryption options over the years, but a casual search didn't turn up much older than 10 years.
Are there comment sections on linked in jobs? Indeed?

Of course not don't be silly
I will abandon ChatGPT, Claude etc... the millisecond that Siri has the same capabilities if for no other reason than it will take me two extra steps to use it and pay for it. Every voice assistant will unquestionably and inevitably implement GPTs eventually. So it's simply back to the question of who has the distribution of chatbots. I trust Apple 1000x more than basically any other tech company (not saying much) so I'm just waiting for that now.

OpenAI can't "win" (whatever that means) long term unless they figure out how to collect user data inputs (text based questions) and reward vectors (Thumbs up and down) persistently, at scale, in the extreme long term - which means building something people rely on all day everyday.

As far as I can tell they have no unique distribution avenues to do this today outside of copilot.

Meanwhile, Apple, Amazon and Alphabet are certainly bringing GPT capabilities to Siri/Alexa/Whatever Google's voice thing is called, albeit slower and more carefully, but they have no need to rush at all here.

I'll bet Microsoft will slowly absorb OpenAI given their investment position and integrate it into Bing or something and fade away.
Ask HN: How can I moonlight as an infrastructure contractor?
Background:
- BS in CS with an emphasis in compiler/language theory from a decent school.
- 5 years experience doing a mix of light dev, heavy ops.

I have mostly dealt with rebuilding/refactoring/optimizing large. distributed on-cloud kubernetes based platforms from the ground up. I have a wide variety of cloud experience, but am most proficient at AWS/terraform, and can program well enough that I have patched buggy providersand taken a stab at writing my own. I have spearheaded several company-wide initiatives and projects on my own and have some light project management experience. I have a smidge of SRE experience on a very large ecommerce website.

My question is - how can I leverage this experience into being a solo contractor? I don't have the faintest clue other than I know I can do it, because my last few jobs have been based on rebuilding/refactoring the last mess that the contractor they tried to hire before me did, and I see the quality of work that's accepted.

I have no idea what to charge, where to market, how to sell myself and my services. How can I begin? With inflation, my retirement plans are starting to fall apart and I want a second income without a second employer.
LendingClub reducing 14% of workforce to ease cost pressures
This is an interesting take. A couple of observations:

- Small groups of people who know each other IRL are very sensitive to breakups. When a couple breaks up, it frequently splits their friend group into 2 camps that "follow" one of the partners (strange behavior in my view but certainly observable and prevalent, especially in the US). Dealing with this complexity is going to be a challenging task.

- Small groups of people rarely have many already connected people that would consider dating each other but for some reason don't. And expanding the group dating pool might be awkward as users will start inviting people from completely different circles with a potentially lower and lower overlap in interests, attitudes, etc.

- Dating websites are very often used for short term dating or hookups, which, I guess, is not going to be the focus of your app. Taking that into account, reaching a meaningful number of profiles in a circle might become an unsolvable blocker (i.e. having 4 friend profiles is not a much better experience than just introducing friends via socials/IRL)
Thcon – A config-driven theme controller
5lbs of gear is 5lbs of gear. And this seems like an extreme example - have you done 3k mile thru hikes on 5lbs of gear? What does that look like?
Eh, only that people think there is an opportunity there.

The moment someone started to get popular, both big parties would start;

1 - flinging whatever crap they could at them.

2 - try to steal any policy differentiation they tried to do that seemed popular.

3 - would crack down on their own loyalists.

4 - use all their existing leverage to sabotage them.

It’s the ‘of course I care about the environment!’ choice. It will be popular as long as it isn’t concrete and doesn’t require any real sacrifices.
I've been in similar work environments and a change of teams completely changed how I felt about things. Got promoted after that too. Maybe there is an internal transfer program you can explore.

At the end of the day you are supporting a family so that in itself is the point of what you're doing. I think most ppl that have ever lived had to do stuff they didnt quite enjoy every day and can relate, but probably not most ppl in FAANG.

Maybe also seek some kind of therapy, just talking to a professional could help.

The startup / work for yourself thing is risky and may end up more stressful, but at least you do have cushion to try it. But I don't think that's the answer.. there's something deeper.
I can vouch for this one as well. I ported a massive homebrewed campaign over to Foundry with this and couldn't be happier to be rid of Roll20.
QEM[2][3] & write shell script with option to a) "compile latest source & run the just compiled OS under QEM emulation" OR b) run known working OS under qem with development environment/tools for messing with source used in part a.

Advantage: on same box, one window can be the development environment. other QEM can compile/run in different window to test what was done via development environment. aka edit english paper in word processor & save. view/print the compiled results in different window.

grub / uboot[1] would be what pc hardware bios would use in place of the above QEM shell/boot script.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_U-Boot

[2] : https://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2018/10/24/booting-a-...

[3] : Helpful info QEM to kernel vs QEM to bios with bios booting/loading kernel : http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/397939/turning-off-k...
I'm not sure why you think an explanation involving a vast empire-spanning conspiracy supported with widespread propaganda and centuries of silence and suppression even from its enemies is more likely than the usual naturalistic explanation "Jesus was a real figure who did the non-supernatural things ascribed to him."

People love these conspiracy theories about religions but they're definitely not the simple or logical explanations.