skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More LSP servers for Java is good. The Eclipse based one seems to work for me as part of lsp-mode for Emacs, but equally I'd love to see the IntelliJ one mature, and a Netbeans one isn't bad to have either.
"We can't cut them off because they have customers who are not bad actors" is a favorite way for bad-actor networks to stay in business. Whether it's things like Cernel some years back, or the bogus telcos that are set up for serving spam, making sure that there are a few at least seemingly legitimate customers to use as hostages is a great way to bully the rest of the world into carrying your spam.
Best I found was the giving the first task without a deadline, they claw their way through it and get it done asap or you get a series of excuses for a week, or somewhere between the two.if they ask you when or with what quality it needs to be done,it right off the bat it's good sign.
I wonder if someone wrote a blog post about the cost of adding options vs not for maintenance of some software in the long term.
In the Netherlands, debit card fees are 6 euro-cent per transaction and 0% of the transaction amount. Since debit card do not come with a loan/insurance/fraud protection/chargeback ability, there's only a fixed processing fee and no need to charge fees based on the transaction amount.
This will be nice. Came down with delta in 2021 and lost all sense of taste for 2-3 weeks. Lost sense of smell for close to 3 months.

Truly one of the most sobering experiences when everything tastes the same way (ie no taste), and when smell is removed from one's life altogether.
I’ve been using Hue lights for about 6 years now. They’re mostly not a pain, except for when they are.

Some examples:

- I used to move a lot, like every year or so. Each move required a few hours of setup in the new place. Compared to screwing in a few bulbs, that’s a big difference.

- I waited so long to update my base that my hue app will no longer connect to it. I have to reset the whole system to get it back. I’m not going to do that until I have to, so I basically can’t add or change any hue light configurations without resetting everything.

- sometimes the hue light switches just don’t do anything. I’m guessing this is if they’re having trouble connecting to the network or something. I’ll just keep tapping the “off” button until something happens 30s later.
> it doesn't even benefit the hotel providing the service.

It does. Unused bookings are pure profit for them. It also means that they get the cash now. It means they don't have the uncertainties of unusually low or high demand so it smoothes out their finances.

* To be clear, for this to make any sense, the booking has to be prepaid, or at least a significant portion of it. Maybe just minus a room cleaning fee etc that is due on check-in.
It is interesting. I'm surprised moderation here doesnt try to nudge people to stay on-topic to some extent
"23andMe blamed the incident on customers reusing passwords"

I'm not sure how they worded this but it's their shortcoming, not their customers. Customers reuse passwords and will continue to do so. For sensitive PII it's far easier to enforce 2FA or Google SSO than to change customer behaviour.
Microfrontends are so nice because you get to experiment with different tools more frequently with less risk.
its comfortable, easy, appealing in the short term. just like why people overeat their junk food.

there's this common idea in management that new grads, SREs, "less experienced devs", can jump in and contribute. it's a falacy because the code becomes unmaintainable without a large investment (more unittests, refactoring the "buggy" code blocks with mypy type annotations, some SME who continues fixing prod bugs). a Python developer will shove their head in the sand with repl'ing, testing after deploy, and settle with this dev/ex while being completely unaware of the benefits of compiler errors and warnings.

Python has the same level of complexity as another language but you'll only see all of that dirty baggage in production as runtime exceptions.
I really like Python and I love using it. But I think some improvements could be done on such "basic feature".

> "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." (zen of python)

Look at all the other possibilities to do `f"hello {name}`.
That are more than one obvious way to do it.
There are interfaces besides RPCs
Microfrontends require modularized behaviors with zero cross grained abstractions.

It’s often referred to as Packaged Business Capabilities.

The MFE is an adapter pattern that hosts discrete modules deployed from their own repositories and configuration should be automatically integrated.

But as the OP states, there are many ways to do this badly. A strict non-abstraction discipline is required. No shared utility libraries between modules.
And people started putting credit cards into websites where there were standards and government approval for it. So that fraudulent websites can be procescuted and the credit card companies will refund your money. ie the user is not at risk.,

When will there be this backing for bitcoin?
At my FAANG, the chain up until the SVP has an engineering background. I previously worked for a startup that put a non engineer in charge which was super weird. Before that, my engineering manager was highly technical.
Good. Hopefully this means less noise and more signal.
They never seem to publish security vulnerabilities related to their cloud except in aggregate so who knows.
How many GPUs does it take for a chatbot to infer it's morning if you say it's morning?
> If your business model is dependent on flouting the law, then maybe it's time to rethink the business model.

Or maybe it's time to rethink the law...
Could be a move by atlasian to get everybody on cloud.
Dun and Bradstreet is a very old company that does just that and has an API. Though of course you have to pay for it

https://developer.dnb.com/#/home
Hey I work at Adept and helped make this!
Happy to answer questions.
The thing I think is especially neat/notable is how simple you can make the model architecture while still getting good performance.
I expect we'll continue to see bits of these models get deleted in the next few years

Note that you can get the model weights on HuggingFace here: https://huggingface.co/adept/fuyu-8b
There is literally only one kind of "utility" that matters in money and money-like instruments.

ONLY ONE.

"Do people believe it will retain or increase in value?"

That's IT. This goes for the things you think are scammy, and it also goes for the things that you perhaps expect to retire on.

There is nothing there besides "what people choose to believe."

So there it is, even for crypto. If enough people believe in crypto/the stock market/social security, then it will work and do the thing. If they don't, it won't.
You probably want something like Lendflow

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26347962
Natural Gradients in CSS
I think regulations should not be effective until passed into law, but the law can start when the regulation goes into effect up to two years before it is passed so long as what the law is was published then.

That is the government can create some complex regulation. If you continue to violate their regulation you will get a notice of fine, which you are then expected to put that fine into escrow, if the law is passed you owe the fine, if not you can collect it back (with interest?) in 2 years.

Congress cannot be an expert on every possible regulation that would be needed, that is a good job for hired bureaucrats. However they should be the final stamp on everything those bureaucrats propose.
I vaguely remember disabling the GPU on mine by removing a kext. Obviously no good for games but it wasn't great for that anyway.
> Especially in the datacenter.

Okay, but my point there was saying "Google has millions of servers" isn't relevant, we're not looking at the entire company.

Even with a few addresses per VM, how many racks do you need to put into the same shared-compute mass? One data center is the upper limit, but it doesn't have to be the entire data center.
Never said anything about timelines, just about convergence. Your claim - pardon the eraser lines - was simply "[t]here’s a world where [tool AIs] are [of economic importance], but where they also don’t [become agent AIs of economic importance]". Just seems incorrect to me.
Show HN: free studio quality noise reduction for music
Dear HN, this is Thomas from Tape It.

We're releasing our studio quality noise reduction software as a free web app today. You can try it at: https://tape.it/denoiser

Listening examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRjxY7GTV6Y

We've been researching on this for over two years, and will present the paper next week at the Audio Engineering Society conference in NY. You can read about the research here: https://tape.it/research/denoiser

Short version: we combined a classic DSP denoiser with a neural network that controls it. Training this it was non-trivial, and we describe in the paper how we did it. Our research website also has a 2min video that summarises the paper.

The denoiser only removes stationary noise, like fan noise or amp hums. It works on all kinds of audio, not just speech, and we particularly focused on its applicability in music. Our main goal was to create a denoiser that always works and introduces minimal artefacts. To our knowledge, nobody has built such an automatic high-quality denoiser yet.

Please check out the video above, as well as the listening examples on our research page, where we also compare it against other software such as large deep learning models like Facebook's HDemucs, the very popular RNNoise, and non-automatic commercial software like iZotope RX.

We believe that this is a really useful piece of software. If you record audio, you can basically always run your raw recordings through our denoiser and assume that they'll sound better afterwards. Try it with your guitars, your vocals or field recordings.

Really looking forward to your feedback!
I figure the reason the Apple USB-C cable has a complex PCB embedded in the head-end of the cable is to detect Apple-certified devices and ensure top speed only when paired with an Apple-certified cable. Both the device and the cable have to recognize each other as properly licensed devices, otherwise you get sub-standard performance.
Performance improvement is obviously nice but I personally don't even care about it.

Being able to just use any quotes in f-strings is just godsend QOL change and probably would be the biggest reason I upgrade to 3.12 (for my pet project).
GDPR does not regulate cookies, it regulates usage of PII (personally identifiable information). So blocking cookies on principle is not against it, but collecting PII without consent is. Forcing the user into accepting, such as saying "click accept or pay" also is.

[0] “Consent should not be regarded as freely given if the data subject has no genuine or free choice or is unable to refuse or withdraw consent without detriment.” – Example: https://noyb.eu/en/pay-or-okay-beginning-end#:~:text=No%20%2....
Cash, diamonds, etc are actually better for crime than cryptocurrency because they're less traceable.
The A in SS7 stands for authentication. It's old enough that it predates any kind of meaningful network security practices. You can amend the standard to add auth (that's what SHAKEN does), but the issue has been that much of the equipment carrying these calls was built back when C was a hot new language and people rode dinosaurs to work. Some telcos based their entire business model on putting off the upgrades and none of the legitimate telcos would cut them from the network, so the FCC (eventually) stepped in.
Guess there was a 1.0 3 weeks ago: https://github.com/material-components/material-web/discussi...
Some people refuse to pay blackmailers, not out of self interest, but because it's the right thing to do.
Yeah I set them both just in case people have an ancient user agent but I think that's not required any more.
As much as I would like to believe BTC's market is completely fake, there has to be some real liquidity there. The hashrate is ~421 EH/s which represents a tremendous amount of ongoing spending on mining equipment and energy. That spending has to be funded somehow and the only way that makes sense is by selling the mined BTC.

So there may be a lot of wash trading and games played with stablecoins trying to prop up the price, but there also must be enough real buyers to purchase the 6.25 BTC (~$175k) generated every 10 minutes. Otherwise the miners would not be able to pay their bills (surely owed in Real Money), would shut down, and we would see evidence of that in the network's hashrate plummeting.
I heard that he turned Galileo around for publicity: NASA got more funding because there was this picture that showed exactly how small we were compared to the universe, inspiring people for exploration.
ARM was the default and pretty much the only option for mobile devices for 20+ years. It was probably in a better position ~2000 than RISC-V is now yet look how long it took for it to become (somewhat) competitive in the PC and server markets.
That article itself points out why it doesn't necessarily apply today:

> Banks make money off consumers by a mix of payment revenue (typically interchange, wire fees etc), net interest margin (the spread between what banks earn lending money and what they pay as interest on your checking and savings accounts) and other fees (monthly fees, dormant account fees, overdraft fees etc). Over the last 2 decades, as interest rates have hovered at all time lows, the mix of revenue from depository consumer banking has shifted heavily to payment & fee based revenue, and less on net interest margin. In addition, if you were a bank customer that lived paycheck to paycheck (or otherwise had high income and expense volatility) then your bank couldn’t rely on net interest margin to monetize you anyway, and relied much more heavily on fees.

Interest rates are no longer at an all time low, so the shift in how banks make money is already underway. The article also mentions high infrastructure costs for banks ($36/year/account), but many banks (and especially credit unions) have had massive migrations over the last five years on to newer infrastructure.

If anything, this article makes it clear to me that there are a lot of systems in place here beyond just the interchange fee.
I suspect you're aware, but leaving this for the hackernews crowd that might not be: Shadertoy was in fact made by sceners for sceners. Inigo Quilez is iq/Rgba[1] who released it as a tool for the scene to use[2] back in 2009

1. https://www.pouet.net/user.php?who=4063

2. https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=54180
Why is Monsanto continuing to make such unscientific claims then?
There's so much value in roads. You'd think that they could be funded on a pay as you go voluntary model rather than expropriation under penalty of imprisonment. Not to mention the opportunity costs of misallocated resources. If there were nothing more to say here, centrally planned economies would deliver the utopia their proponents promise. Somehow history hasn't played out that way.

I'll allow that pragmatism has an important role in tempering the extremes. Claiming that there is "nothing to debate" is a leap into absolutism.
Not quite

In a corner, because of the dynamics of a 4 wheeled vehicle with springs, the weight on each tire can be tuned by changing the spring rate. For example, if you stiffen the rear end springs (or use a stiff sway bar that effectively increases the spring rate when the one side is loaded), you end up with a more uneven distribution of weight on the rear tire, and a more even weight distribution on the front.

Furthermore tires behave in a non linear way in terms of lateral grip. That is, if each tire has 50% of vertical load, evenly, the lateral grip is maximal. If one tire has 30% and the other tire has 70% (due to static weight transfer in a corner), the total lateral grip is less than maximal.

Combining these two effects is how you tune the cars. If you look at sport FWD cars, especially rally ones, they lift the rear inside tire while cornering. That is because they run a very stiff rear suspension to ensure that the lateral grip on the rear is less than the front when in a corner, because of the above 2 effects. The reason they do that is that FWD cars are very prone to understeer (if the front tires are driving, they don't have as much lateral grip). This balances the cars out more, letting the rear come about as long as there is lateral load transfer. The downside is that the car becomes very prone to lift off oversteer because of forward weight transfer.

With RWD cars its the opposite. If you have enough power to cause oversteer, running a stiff front sway bar means that the rear tires have more evenly distributed vertical load which means more lateral grip, which means you can put down more throttle without losing lateral grip at the rear. The downside is that the cars have to be driven more aggressively into the corner, with heavier braking and earlier throttle application.

There are of course other considerations to this, but this is generally how cars are tuned for oversteer/understeer. You can use these effects for your cars as well, sway bars are available for most every vehicle out there. If you have a FWD car, you can remove the front sway bar and change the rear one for a stiff one, and you will readily see that the car just seems to turn better.
Don't you think `x["foo"] == 5` but `x.foo == 4` is a hell of a lot confusing ?

Don't you think it should not be possible to have such a thing ?
To me it's so prone to error and there is absolutely too much gain to fix this.
I'm curious if the average developer would consider text appearing with no actual motion (no scale, pan, translate, fade, no tween whatsoever) a candidate to disable for @prefers-reduce-motion
They do have it but they probably have millions of accounts that were created before that feature and never logged back in and set it up. It's also through an auth app and not texts which is more secure but more of a hassle for not allowing users which might affect adoption.
Has this landed on HIBP yet?
so many projects... its overwhelming
Its pretty common for Java applications to ship with a wrapper that spawns the JVM with whatever parameters it needs.
Or people are just aware that Covid does that and don't need to Google it anymore.
Desktop? laptop?
Given we know different prompts perform better on different tasks (via evals, papers, etc), you can think of multiple agents interacting (especially when there's a specialized "router" or orchestrator) as sub problems of a larger task being solved by "agents" specialized for that task - prompts + context crafted for that sub-problem.
Depends on control registers like e.g. MXCSR. It's an utter mess. Consider e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32738206
just having a bit of fun. I completely agree with your comment as a statement of how things should be. My point is that we already can't force congress to do broadly popular things, let alone boring, controversial, difficult, politically fraught things. As a fan of having a functioning government, I think trying to force 535 selfish, rich, politically motivated lawyers to research, write, and vote on hundreds of thousands of pages of passable regulations is a nonstarter.
Yes, thank you for your comment. Altcoins are terrible, NFTs are terrible, it was all a trend and I'm glad it's gone now. Bitcoin is different, always has been, always will be. Bitcoin is the digital gold. In my opinion it's not a currency and will not function like a currency but rather like gold. You don't buy your latte with gold, but you own gold stocks. Same thing with Bitcoin.

It's the safest, oldest, most tested blockchain out there. You can't beat that.
"LLM output"? you mean typing?
Do you work for a cloud provider? Self hosting is superior
I can't tell if Rivian is doing really well, or really badly.

Deliveries up, reviews of the product are fantastic, production problems being resolved.

Repair reports of 14k+ quotes, over engineering that adds weight for no benefit, burning through cash, production issues.
Elon Musk's X trials pay-to-join model in New Zealand
which poor people don't have
Lean back or lean in? exploring social loafing in human–robot teams
Seems ingenuous to me. Except when Tele-File was a thing, every time has been 1-4 hours of torture, hoping all the places that are required to send me forms have done so (on time & correct), hoping that I have filled everything correctly, hoping that some unknown change of requirements hasn't made my past experience with some section irrelevant or misleading, and sometimes wondering why for the exact same inputs as the previous year (as occasionally happens) I am now told that instead of getting $X back I now owe $n*X.

I sometimes end up plugging the currently requested info into 2 to 4 tax prep sites (discarding the highest results, unless the lowest seemed to come from a glitchy or confusingly-worded site), because even they can give wildly different results.
> If you can give me an example of someone putting "the weather" in jail or forcing it to pay a fine, please do so.

Irrelevant. We don't put every human we judge in jail or make them pay a fine, or indeed have them put in front of a court either. Most of the time we either just glare at them or tell them off or otherwise express our disapproval.

> That's entirely not the point. If the criminals have no free will, punishing them has no effect whatsoever on society. They had no choice but to commit their crimes, and they will have no choice as to whether or not to commit future crimes, regardless of what punishment is given to them.

This is blatantly absurd. What you are arguing here is effectively that a different input applied to a deterministic process can't affect the future output of that deterministic process. You can disprove that by flicking a light switch and observing that the light comes on. The light has no free will, and the process is deterministic, and yet the output is different when you apply a different input.

In a fully deterministic universe, you were always going to flick that light switch, and so seeing it as a "change" is a point of view not an actual argument for agency. But when you do the light did not have a choice to remain off. With an entity - like a human - with more state, the relationship is not always remotely as predictable, but the notion that changing an input can't produce a different output than would have been produced if the input hadn't been changed given a deterministic universe is equally absurd.

[If we add space for actual randomness as one of the inputs or state, we may not be able to say it was "always what was going to happen" but we would be able to say it'd always be what was going to happen given the same set of randomness (and randomness does still not help with the free will argument, so that distinction is not particularly relevant to this subject)]
Voting day should be a national federal holiday, that would eliminate most concerns about the poor, lack of 'child minders', day of work, etc.

The arguments some people are making in this thread that it -shouldn't- take a day, should only take a 'click', are misguided imo. There is value in slowing down collectively, participating in the process, and seeing the results of that collective action.

Reducing it to a task to be completed as efficiently as possible is horribly misguided -- but eliminating the barriers to participate collectively is conversely an admirable goal, which could easily be mostly solved via federal holiday.
So, what's the connection to the article, or Binance, or USD withdrawals?

Oh, right, HN no longer does anything about generic soapbox comments that have nothing to do with the article.
I keep getting 405 errors when passing in some Typescript to refactor.