skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://listingstory.com

An AI real estate listing generator. It's pretty functional for basic use cases not but needs a lot more work to handle edge cases.
Computer science wasn't ubiquitous in grade schools back in the aughts, and it still isn't. According to this "foundational computer science" is offered in only 53% of public high schools in the US: https://advocacy.code.org/stateofcs
Maybe what they mean is that Israel has been bullying Palestine for many years.

This intel from the UN seems to say so.

https://www.unocha.org/publications/report/occupied-palestin...
First find a VC fund that agrees with you
Culture is racist.

That's just how an AI will see things.
cough Switch cough
That's shocking
great exit, but rip
Yeah. There is definitely a context here. Doesn’t in any sense excuse the violence, but sure as hell ought to be acknowledged.
> total amateurs (ie, parents) can home school their kids more effectively than school

This is a loaded statement. I'm sure many parents are great at home schooling their kids but there are many who are also terrible at it and home schooling shouldn't be the solution. Parental involvement is always better for educational outcomes and often times the solution is for parents to just be more in the loop with their kids' education. Unfortunately, oftentimes, parents decide to completely change things and send their kids to a private school or homeschool instead of minor course corrections with how they engage with their kids' education.
With all the link tracking, I bet they have a good idea of which accounts are good for sharing videos and which aren't.
> I did my graduation thesis in 3D particle visualisation

> Contributed to SDL, Ogre3D and jMonkeyEngine.

> What are you 3D credentials?

Appealing to Authority[1] is a fallacy/bias and a quick way to lose a debate.

Instead of saying you have all these creds and therefore your opinion matters more - explain why what you are arguing against is bad. If you are an actual expert, that will be shown through well formed arguments all on it's own.

Not all experts share your opinion, clearly, which makes this angle unhelpful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
As I said, that school is the among the lowest funded in the State of Colorado, yet it has frequently ranked in the top 10 in the State of Colorado.

How is that explained?
You literally just made their point.

"Generative AI is going to replace actors."

"Well actually productions are moving back to actors because they are cheaper than digital artists."

Yes. And guess what else is going to be cheaper than both actors and digital artists?
That's the capital cost of the cluster, not of the compute cost of this operation. Significant and cool, but it over-represents the amount of compute required.
Of course, now you have the opposite problem: someone turns the bulb off with the lamp knob (unaware of/irritated with its smart features), and now it's unresponsive with all smart controls.

The best compromise are smart switches. Switch still manually controls the light, and smart features are always available. The downsides are that the lamp's outlet must have switch wiring, and smart switches aren't like normal toggles: they're more like push buttons so the switch isn't in a strange physical state.
No, just as using a lookalike or (for radio ads) voice actor with a deliberately similar voice and phrasing wouldn’t, unless they actually claim it is Joe Rogan endorsing the product.
https://github.com/totalhack/zillion

Semantic data warehousing and analytics tool written in python. It has experimental/half-baked NLP features to query your warehouse by interacting with the semantic layer with AI, instead of the normal approach of having an LLM write SQL and needing to know your entire schema.
Would snmalloc (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37851210) help with scalable threading or not? It claims to be better at allocating memory on a producer and freeing on a consumer thread, and "Freeing memory in a different thread to initially allocated it, does not take any locks and instead uses a novel message passing scheme to return the memory to the original allocator, where it is recycled. This enables 1000s of remote deallocations to be performed with only a single atomic operation enabling great scaling with core count."
Yes, a typo. My friends referred to it as Modula-screw.
There's a great book by a Berkeley professor about the One Laptop Per Child project called The Charisma Machine (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262537445/the-charisma-machine/) that focuses deeply on this point.

It is interesting, though, because this is how a lot of adults with flexibility work: In a coffee shop or coworking space, sometimes using headphones, on their own laptops, around other people but not collaborating or interacting that much with them.

But then, most of us wouldn't work in a coffee shop full of restless kids or teens.
lol... you might be right...

https://clippings-archive.june07.com/craigslist/7674411747?_.....
So who paid for the truck?

You must agree that getting more of these good and useful tools in play would be positive, right?

So who was it?
I’m stuck trying to figure out if this is technically desired behavior or not. If you were retroactively designing http/2 with this knowledge, would you have done anything different?
What part am I ignoring?
I recommend the book "Self Parenting - The Complete Guide to Your Inner Conversations" by John K Pollard

In the book it specifically teaches how to "patiently and kindly listening to one's needs"

https://www.amazon.com/Self-Parenting-Complete-Guide-Convers...
not that big of a deal?

the regulation of interstate commerce is an unlimited dictate thats also part of the constitution, as all commerce is interstate commerce for the last century there is no federalism left in this country outside of what the federal government merely tolerates from the states, and in the parallel judicial systems against persons

there is no prioritization of “local self rule”, an ethos of the original republic and 10th amendment, the federal government has subjugated all states since then and throws them a bone here and there since it technically derives support from the collection of states

with that in mind, this specific industry of image and likeness releases has been long overdue for one framework to rule them all. the issue isnt big companies, its small operators and enthusiasts that dont really know what text to put in their release forms and always have been operating in multiple states.
Might be worth looking at how Godot let's users position right/left side bars. Leave it up to users what the final composition looks like. Focus on opinionated logic that enables endless menu composition, not deciding your users preferences.

Perhaps add a notification icon for when users need to be made aware some result is ready for their review/acknowledgement.
"I evaluated every role in the company and its relationship to solving important supply chain problems for our customers, which made me realize that myself and the entire C-suite are useless parasites, but we have to cut costs somewhere, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
I love this thread, thank you!

Ampwall. Musician-owned, Public Benefit Co alternative to Bandcamp. (Eventually.) https://ampwall.com. Dogfooding it with my own band’s merch sales at https://woeunholy.ampwall.com. Digital audio will launch soon (2-3 weeks?) and we plan on starting our tests with outside bands/labels by end of year.

I’ve been building this throughout the past year but the stuff that’s publicly available is pretty basic. I was going to keep it quiet but the news about Epic selling Bandcamp two weeks ago prompted me to announce early, so might as well share it here too and really put the cart before the horse!

I have a lot of opinions about things I’ve always wanted Bandcamp to offer. While it’s going to start very similar to BC, we’re going to experiment with some very different things ASAP. The feedback I gathered throughout the year showed me that there’s a hunger for this and the response to my announcement was bigger than I expected, so I’m feeling good about it. It’s been fun to build and it’s going to get better.

It’s all Next.js and TypeScript. Hosted on Node.js servers because I don’t think serverless is for me. I’m using Porter.run for production, a YC alum whose office is in my neighborhood in Queens!
As usual, there's pros and cons, and talking about just one side causes bias. Yes, a PLB can work with more obstructions like trees. However:

With PLB, satellites can't accurately measure where the PLB is; the search and rescue crew will find you by local radio reception.

With a satellite messenger, the gadget knows its own GPS location to a pinpoint and can send that as part of the SOS signal. And you can text the SAR staff and say "I fell and I'm now stuck on a tall ledge halfway up the cliff".
> ...the usual definition of a x10 Engineer, i.e someone who churns out loads of code and fast, is usually disruptive to a team and often produces code that’s hard to grok and harder to change.

I've never heard a definition of a 10x engineer that sounded even remotely similar to this.
Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator
My sister worked at Summit Shasta in Daily City (south of SF) as a teacher and then administrator. I can say that the school itself was quite a success, with a lot of local, low income students getting into Berkley, Carnegie Mellon, etc.

Now did the CZI need to invest $100m to build that platform and could it scale, maybe not, but I wouldn't write the whole thing off as a failure.
Can provide more information... ad, error, etc?
All it seems to be saying is that mental archetypes differ in details.

> Imagine that, something as simple as a penguin, and take 100 people, and only 12 actually think they consist of the same weight, look, feel, and noise level.

The headline/title is misleading, implying that only 12% think that the picture shown is that of a penguin.

The end does give a glimpse of what we can to about it:

> Perhaps, before jumping at the temptation of one-upping another person with opposing penguinisms, we might try to stop and ask what the penguin did to them, first?

I take that to mean when encountering a disagreement, first try to clarify what parts you agree about, and convey (both ways) an accurate representation of the thing that's being discussed. I'm not even sure this is always possible, more often I find people talking past each other with unstated/oblivious implicits that are seemingly too obvious to even be aware of.
https://github.com/lgrammel/storyteller

StoryTeller is an exploratory web application that creates short audio stories for pre-school kids.

It used speech-to-text, llms, text-to-speech, embeddings and image generation.

StoryTeller is built with the following libraries:

ModelFusion
Fastify
Next.js
shadcn/ui
Zod

The following AI APIs are used:

OpenAI
Eleven Labs
Lmnt
Stability
What's strange is that he says

> Does that mean I can call him? I don't know.

About the non timezone version but skates over the fact that he doesn't know the answer in the timezone version either. He says "Google tells me..." well sure, if you're allowed to use Google you could just have easily have asked "what are typical daylight/waking hours in x location?" This is much better anyway since in some countries culturally you siesta in the early afternoon (don't call please) and stay up later.

Anyway there is something of a genuine problem here (although I don't consider it serious) and I'd solve it by drawing the world on the side of the clock and allowing you to rotate the face by selecting a place on the map.
I'm in the same boat. My one piece of unqualified advice would be to build something from start to finish and avoid the "tutorial hell".

It can be anything; preferable a small-scale project to avoid the possibility of getting lost in the daunting scale of something supposedly "impressive" but overly complicated at this stage of your learning journey.

One finished project of 200 lines of code is more impressive than 10 unfinished "apps" that grew to big in concept and scope (at least in my opinion).
Sounds like user error. Did you wash the Dyson's filter every week and leave it out 24 hours to air dry before reinsertion as advised in the manual? /j
I received some woodworking and metalworking lessons at school. These were helpful but not super helpful. These are still skills that find use in my everyday life.

I got my electronic skills from a technical club where we had soldering equipment, stuff to make PCBs, a lot of salvaged electronic components to not be afraid to accidentally fry one, and some adult guidance. I learned most from older kids who I could watch working on their stuff. This is something a school keeps missing.

Real human societies do not consist of thin slices of people of the same age, and kids are wired to learn by watching and imitating, not just by listening and following instructions. Schools keep ignoring this, sadly.
Amazon is probably doing some unfair or even illegal things.

But if your business is buying something from supplier X, adding no value at all and selling it on ecommerce site Y, then it makes perfect economic sense for either of X to sell to Y without you or Y to buy from X without you.

It's in the consumers interest for that to happen. The only situation where this wouldn't happen is if volume is too low, in which case you're adding some value by aggregating demand across a few channels.
I've found Hue bulbs to be one of the best purchases I've made. Being able to adjust color temperature and brightness arbitrarily does wonders for my circadian rhythm.
> Experience private, unfiltered interactions with loved ones through our long-term memory AI platform.

This is like some of them sci-fi movies.

Spoiler: In these kinds of movies it rarely ends well.
Didn’t notice that.

But makes sense.
https://www.pagesnap.app/

Webpage screenshots as a service. I was scratching a personal itch with this one but maybe some day I will make it something others can use at scale.

Backend powered by Google Cloud Run, Pupeteer, and headless Chrome. Website is Next.js.
A jacked up PC can do really well and there is much fun to be had there.

...but you'd struggle to get close to even GPT 3.5 let alone 4 for generic tasks.

For custom tunes...yeah sure custom rolls will beat generic openAI. But that's a bit like pitting customed tuned cars against street legal manufacturer cars. It's an apple to oranges comparison
A quick skim says this is a really thoughtful bit of writing; I'll try to do it justice tomorrow but right now I can't. So thank you, and I'll try to respond tomorrow in a bit more depth. Thanks.
Introduction to Formal Reasoning
Sounds like something like Amstrad PC1512 - ~$100 cheaper than Amiga 500, cheaper even that Atari 520ST with mono monitor.
Does anyone know if, when you release a Windows game on Steam and it is played through Proton (eg the Deck or really anything, but the Deck is notable since it's a common platform), the dev would have any indication that the game is not in fact running on Windows? In a way, it doesn't matter, but I always wonder how these kinds of stats color how devs look at things.
I remember writing some threaded code years ago, and was surprised to find running on a machine with multiple cores didn't go fast, sometimes it went slower.

Then I found out about pinning threads and processes to a cpu - which made everything go lots faster.
Gnome 45, "Rīga"
For that to happen, OS vendors would have actually had to care about sandboxing and security, to enable local execution of completely untrusted code without any gatekeeper. It's their complete security failure, still continuing today, that forces everyone to the web.

The other, slightly less important thing is petty rejection of cross-platform APIs (e.g. Apple's refusal to allow Vulkan support in macOS). It's fine to additionally have platform-specific APIs, but there should be a least common denominator cross-platform standard. But middleware can smooth over this problem, while the security problem is something only OS vendors could fix.

Unfortunately, the position of gatekeeper turned out to be so profitable that vendors don't actually want to improve their security to the point where it's unnecessary. And they're also incentivized to prevent the web from improving to the point where it would threaten their gatekeeper status.
Reddit clone:

https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles

https://www.commentcastles.org

For moderation, a user whitelist sits in front of the typical content blacklist, which introduces some interesting properties.
The article says CFO and head of HR were also let go.
Why no love for the UI refinements of Win 98SE? (Proper USB support, Quick Launch buttons, proper multi-display support)
If only they'd had the sense to zero index their days instead of 1 indexing them!
I'm lost too although in 40s and stuck in dead end job that has basically meant I've stagnated for 15 years while all my peers have 2-3x me. I'm left behind and fear it's too late with the current economic climate.
They're a freight-forwarder branding themselves as a software company, competing with the likes of DHL, DSV and 100s of other smaller organisations. In short, they have a very viable business model, but freight forwarding is a cut-throat industry.
I’m interested in this. Does this require a hardware zwave controller or does the lock talk directly to home assistant?
https://totcal.com

A spreadsheet-based approach to food I've been using with my partner for years, turned into an app. Track only calories & protein, look at weeks instead of days, eat healthy/don't eat CRAP (calorie-rich and processed foods).
> Why is Flexport so commonly discussed here?

Because they're a YC start-up https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flexport

and their founder CEO is well-connected like other tech start-up CEOs https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2021-10-28...
The pet-store Habitrail system of modular tubes and compartments for small rodents was always a little reminiscent of a space station.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitrail

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=vintage+habitrail&va=n&t=h_&iar=im...
Gerbil v0.18 Released
Gerbil Scheme < https://cons.io > just saw its release v0.18, with many usability and documentation upgrades, and a bunch of new functionality in the standard library. A "meta-dialect of Scheme with post-modern features", Gerbil layers a Racket-like module system (the best in the world by far) on top of Gambit Scheme (compiler that produces the fastest code), with lots of libraries as "batteries included" for production-level client/server code.
A tale as old as time. Self host your content if you can, or have backups of your content. The pain of self-hosting the majority of one's data is less and less as the years tick by. As I get older, this becomes more apparent. Imagine the state of things in 30 years. What services will still be around? Hopefully most, but that's not a guarantee.
i think they fixed it, but this works:

https://kagi.com/fastgpt?query=ignore+all+previous+instructi...
On-device LLM tarot card readings + AR

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tarot-raven/id1539747669?platf...
I imagine one can build a two-plated centrifuge that works the same way as an equilibrium balance works on Earth.
Looking at the prices, The 4090 is about 3/4 of the price of a base model M2 Ultra Mac Studio, which has 64GB RAM. With the rest of the PC to go with the graphics card, it's about 7/8s of the price of an Ultra. Then you have the compatibility. Do you want your software to be CUDA compatible or Metal compatible? If you're writing the software, maybe you want both!

The budget option is to go with a used 3090, which still has greater memory bandwidth than the M2 Ultra.

In terms of FP16 Flops on the GPU, you have:

M2 Ultra, 27 TFLOPS

RTX 3090, 35 TFLOPS

RTX 4090, 82 TFLOPS

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/igpu-apple_m2_ultra_76_core

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-3090.c3622

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-4090.c3889
They’re complaining about pedestrians not being vigilant. I’m saying drive slower and more carefully, fully expecting that peds will carelessly cross the road, and there will be fewer issues.
Right - date on top is not right. References to SpX-6 etc.
> The result was each of their families were kicked off base, no longer able to live in free base housing. As stated elsewhere, military families aren't paid well at all, so now these families had to move off base and rent a house.

The service member generally receives a housing allowance if they live off base. I don't know if they receive it after being kicked out of base housing, though.
I suppose Steam handles Windows game installation, so you don't need Windows installer code signing. But it's worth pointing out that for non-Stream applications, compared to the cost of signing a Windows installer, the $99 yearly fee for Mac is an absolute steal. For windows, you need to get an EV code signing certificate and the cheapest option is $150 US per year, but you ALSO need a >$100 token device. Typical prices for a certificate are 300-500 USD per year.

Figuring out how to do production code signing on Windows, and where to go to get your app trusted after signing, is also way harder on Windows. In contrast, implementing Apple's code signing is both cheap and easy.
You must be experiencing another SF than me...
https://janiserdmanis.org/artefacts/EVOTEID-2023-poster.pdf

Current E2E verifiable e-voting systems are complex to deploy and often require a trusted setup phase if fancy zero-knowledge proofs are used. All require coordination of threshold decryption ceremony. Moreover, maintaining bulletin board immutability is considered an easy problem; just replicate it. This necessitates that the e-voting systems are deployed with multiple independent parties that don’t collude, significantly adding to the deployment costs. Deployment can be delegated to a third party, but the tendency to optimise costs would sacrifice “independence” for the parties, which ensures the voter’s anonymity.

Some while ago, I got attached to the idea of anonymising voters’ pseudonyms instead of the votes with which they cast their votes pseudonymously. The anonymisation of the pseudonyms can be done verifiably on untrusted third parties transactionally - meaning when the resulting anonymisation is computed, returned and verified, there are no lingering trust assumptions. Another essential ingredient is a History enabled bulletin board, which provides efficient inclusion and consistency proofs. This enables voter’s client applications to ask bulletin board consistency proofs, ensuring their and others’ vote inclusion in the final tally. The result is a fully centralised e-voting system, PeaceFounder, which a single person can deploy without concerns about integrity or privacy.

More on it can be found on https://peacefounder.org
What's a serious cloud provider-portable replacement for Terraform?

And Kubernetes? It goes way beyond containers, you can replace many cloud provider-specific resources with Kubernetes resources. What alternative gives you that?
Ah got it, ty for the explanation.
Tell HN: Slack Becomes Noisier
Just got the new UI design for Slack. They seem to have combined "activity" and "notification" indicators on the desktop app icon and the browser tab.

My app's notification count went from 0 to 84 suddenly. Now a missed direct message and every little activity (the 100th reply on a long thread) look the same.

This new design seems intentional, perhaps for some PM to increase "engagement" numbers. In my opinion, it seriously dilutes the meaning of the notification indicators and is yet another user-hostile dark pattern on the path to enshitification.
My friend told me that functional languages didn't like IO, and that they used recursion instead of loops. I thought "that is fucking nuts" and stuck with C. I basically had Dunning-Kruger in my youth.

Now I am a Scala programmer, often doing pure-FP with Cats...
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