skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having worked on a number of "real time" machine control applications:

1) There is always a possibility that something fails to run by its due date. Planes crash sometimes. Cars won't start some times. Factory machinery makes scrap parts sometimes. In a great many applications, missing a real time deadline results in degraded quality, not end of life, or regional catastrophy. The care that must be taken to lower the probability of failure needs to be in proportion to the consequence of the failure. Airplanes have redundant systems to reduce (but not eliminate) possibility of failure, while cars and trucks generally don't.

2) Even in properly working real time systems, there is a tolerance window on execution time. As machines change modes of operation, the amount of calculation effort to complete a cycle changes. If the machine is in a warm up phase, it may be doing minimal calculations, and the scan cycle is fast. Later it may be doing a quality control function that needs to do calculations on inputs from numerous sensors, and the scan cycle slows down. So long as the scan cycle doesn't exceed the limit for the process, the variation doesn't cause problems.
Ahhh, I see where you are coming from. That you have less shame than I thought for yourself when you say "mess". Thanks for clarifying my perception. It looks like instead it's more appropriate to talk about synchronizing with the intention of the author?

To back up for a second and provide context, I was keyed up after reading and really focusing in on the parent commenters criticality, mocking and shaming. I perceived it as a judgmental characterization of the author of this piece of story writing guidance. So when I came across your comment I thought you might be beating up on yourself to echo the emotional sentiment of, and to try and build a bridge between the parent commenter and the article writer. I wanted to provide a counterpoint and some support to you.

Now I guess that my reaction to the article is different, less about a jarring sensation of discordance where I'm expecting you know organized bulletized conventional grammar explaining some subjects, and recognizing instead a person who's trying to help fiction writers to access their feelings. I see the author chose to do this through a tongue in cheek way of writing whimsical prose using little punctuation and lots of white space.
My friend works on a low code system marketed to small governments. (Basically just CRUD builder optimized for bureaucracy.) There's definitely a niche for it, it just hasn't caught on much for some reason.
The ad also mentions that United uses less than 0.1% SAF as part of their fuel consumption.
>Just let me walk up to the counter, read a physical menu, place my order with a human being and get out of there.

Seriously. Seems like so many physical businesses are going fully digital with little reason to do so. Following a trend, I guess. But the utility of interacting with a human versus navigating an app (of which it seems every restaurant or fast-casual-takeout has their own) is just so much higher. The cost to build and maintain that app too eats into the establishment's costs, which in turn mean the end consumer's costs are higher. I'm already paying high prices as-is, and my experience isn't drastically better doing everything digitally.

As you said, maybe there's a scale at which digital processes are indeed faster and less cumbersome (like a McDonald's level operation), and offers higher marginal utility, but most places I order from aren't at that scale. Few are.
The CWEB System of Structured Documentation
Well, the SEC can refer all they want, but the DOJ is going to have jurisdiction over approximately 0% of the referrals.
If you were to do it all from scratch I could agree, but there are projects to allow baremetal code to interact with the different hardware on the Pi (works on a bunch of different models.)

https://github.com/rsta2/circle
Absolutely.

By any objective measure PBT is the winner in all regards.
Now, instead of looking in some cryptic symbols which you don't understand, you just mash "regenerate" button until it works. Can anything be more simple? Of course, with newer models you need to hit that button even less, it's progress, isn't it?
If GPT 5 jumps as far forward as going from 3 to 4 did, I'd go up to $30. That was a big jump, I'm a bit skeptical they can repeat it. That's also assuming I get more prompts per hour and it continues to build in valuable features (DALL-E 4 etc). DALL-E 3 is expensive outside of ChatGPT, that's a tremendous value if you use it in the chat system.

It'd need to start making me breakfast every morning if we're going to keep climbing toward $40-$50. Although don't get me wrong, any improvements beyond 4 is an accomplishment, it's already an amazing service, I just don't feel like paying $40 for GPT 4 (too much of a price reach). $20 is fair for version 4. They need to keep adding a lot of value the higher they want to go.
Related: "Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive (signal.org)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38291427
You won't be saved from two tasks deadlocking with cycles/second. this is what hard realtime systems are about. However, I do agree that not all systems have a real hard realtime requirements. But those usually can handle a non-rt kernel.

As for the quotes, it was a direct citation, not a way to dismiss what you said.
No one is taking these drugs to improve their performance on the knapsack problem. They're taking them so they can work for 15 hours straight without being distracted. It doesn't make any sense to say they don't work when the test is completely irrelevant.
Talent absolutely does exist. It's just not always fulfilled. But to pretend some people don't have natural talent in certain things is nonsense.
And you don't think anti-fraud teams use error logs triggered by users as a signal for potentially banning them?

These teams are incentivized to eliminate fraudulent accounts that cost the company money and are pressured/punished when their tools produce false-negatives (fraudulent users that are considered okay), but get no such pushback on false-positives (okay users that get flagged as fraudulent), and accounts that are triggering errors in the backend service(s) can look a lot like someone actively trying to hack it. Basically any sort of anomalous behavior that correlates with negatives for the business get flagged by these tools, and doing so unjustly is not an explicit goal, but it isn't really punished within the corporation.

(The false-positives do get negative feedback in the rare instances when it blows up on social media, so these teams often include a whitelist of high profile accounts to just skip over but still impact the regular users capriciously, only "solving" the false-positive problem insofar as it impacts the business.)
I would say your best case requires technological advances that won't necessarily happen. In a truly postscarcity future I don't think we'd have any use for UBI. I do think UBI would help empower everyone to work on hard problems in a way that maximizes our odds of getting there, but I'm envisioning it existing alongside scarcity. We're just thinking about very different scales of time.
I suggest checking out circle https://github.com/rsta2/circle since it's basically a library for the pi hardware. I'm doing some experiments with it myself now.
Agree!

For now, I added instructions how to run the demo.

https://github.com/mme/beakjs#run-the-demo
I feel like this is trying very hard to push a particular narrative but not actually bothering to substantiate anything.

From the top...

> Bad Bots are increasing dramatically — Arkose estimates that 73% of all internet traffic currently (Q3, 2023) comprises Bad Bots and related fraud farm traffic.

Note that "Bad Bots" are never defined, and that 73% will never be explained, either to say how they mean it (73% of connections is plausible, 73% of packets is not, not in a world with Netflix and YouTube), or how they would measure such a thing.

Then we get into little gems like

> Scraping, it must be said, is a legally murky area. It is not specifically illegal; but if it defies a website’s published terms of use, it is certainly immoral.

Which... that's a claim you can make, but if you just throw out terms like "certainly immoral" without bothering to substantiate them I get to laugh at you.

The tendency to cast aspersions without substantiating them gets substantially more pronounced later:

> This is a website you can use to make sure your bots aren’t getting prevented by a website,” [...] “You can purchase this software. It has enterprise support and so on. But it is purpose built to commit crime. That is what it does. And there are many other different websites like this, but they look like legitimate businesses. It is a good example of a product purpose built to commit fraud.”

I'll grant that businesses don't like people bypassing their protections, but that doesn't make it automatically illegal or fraud to scrape or even to programmatically interact with sites. I'm not naive enough to think that it's not being used for illegal stuff, but that doesn't mean you get to paint the tools with a single brush.
Maybe PiMiga will hold you over..
First, figure out how to create a self sustaining colony in the Atacama Yungay before even thinking about doing it on another planet. At least you'll be able to phone for help when you discover your colony isn't working.
Hifiman Ananda wired headphones. They are the lightest and clearest headphones I've ever used. I was fed up with the unreliable connection and dying battery in my Airpods Max. Listening to music is now effortless, and I'm listening more closely than ever to all genres.

I keep them on a wooden stand on my desk, plugged into an Apogee Duet 3 interface.
Show HN: Automated bug fixing powered by LLMs
Hey everyone,

My friend and I built a simple bug fixing app that listens for alerts/issues from Sentry, contextualizes it against your codebase, and any other data sources you wish to connect (right now we support Notion, Google Docs, and Slack), and deploys an ai agent to write a PR for review in Github or Gitlab to solve the bug.

Our current demo shows the end-to-end process for a trivial bug fix, but we have been testing it with open source python repos like http-pie, comparing how our agent solves a bug compared to a human engineer and it gets fairly close. We are working on adding unit tests for any bug we fix to make sure the code is actually merge worthy.

The goal is to remove monotonous/low-level ticket work for SREs/Devs at startups/smaller companies pushing fast, eventually scaling to help gather context and solve more complex bugs.

Lots of ideas of where to go from here! Let me know if you have feedback and you find this useful :)

If you want access/use sentry I'm happy to onboard the first 10-15 people that want access today! Want to start slow bc I'm not sure what scale it can handle just yet. Just fill out the 'Get Started' form and I'll email you access, so far two of our friends companies are using it and like it.

Thanks!
I'm not really convinced. What is the mechanism by which "talent" functions? Can we observe and/or test for "talent" without observing the task the subject is claimed to be talented at? Or do you have to observe the subject performing the task exceptionally well, and then conclude "it must be talent". Sounds like mysticism like Chakras and Chi Energy to me.

Genetics is different: You're 6'7" tall, giving you a physical advantage at basketball. When you say someone is "talented" at a sport or intellectual pursuit, are you talking about the same physical (or mental) advantages?
Cute and to reinforce my point I think the intention of the author was not to provide a technical treatise but instead to use whimsy to help story writers access their emotions, by invoking and emotional response in them.

It is telling to be that this thread of commenters is focused on criticizing the style, here. That's kind of fascinating to me.
> It's definitely not trivial to pick light sources that are safe to use in the evening without interfering with our circadian rhythm, but it's possible.

Can you give some suggestions?
Nah. It's live. Their CDN had a hiccup.
"Zoom. Enhance."
After having been part of various hacking cover-ups over the years, usually in some sort of triage for these sorts of things, I almost welcome the behavior vs. mega corporations or even state/local government getting away with it. Shame the fools that let it happen.
Back in the day Signal was called TextSecure and it did everything over SMS which required no centralized infrastructure aside from the cellular networks. They transitioned to internet-based messaging to support Apple devices. It seems that decision is now a 50 million dollar per year step backwards.
Congratulations! If one were to try to commercialize this (assuming further development), do you think the Artimus Robotics patents would be a problem?
Dr David Miano has made several videos debunking unchartedx, have you seen them?

This is the latest one https://youtu.be/Wcl82hQr8xc?si=FgYeoP2Nc-lJhoTu
And this is why we can't have nice things.
Now that we will/are starting to have AI-created content, and visits from bots, comments from AI bots.. we need some new metric I reckon
Show HN: Tensorli – NumPy Only Transformer Training (<650 lines)
And the equivalent uom in Rust.

https://crates.io/crates/uom
cant play heretic on desktop :/
because on mac when you shoot and press left or right mac os bring all windows front of you like you press F3
I get distracted easier if my diet is awful (which it has been in the past)... Refined carbs, sugar, tap water (fluoride in tap water is insane:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5285601/) and highly processed foods. Switch to a diet high in nitric oxide and run and I'm a much better problem solver. And I have no desire to work "for fourteen straight hours" and I'll find another job if I'm being asked too.
Amazing! Steal their keys and stop their $29.99/mo subscription after one month. Profit!

Even if they don’t expose the key it’s likely they are proxying the API with their own “security” which should not be too hard to steal the lang lasting token
Yes, I don't see the issue. If I understand correctly then reporting doesn't necessarily mean you are going to be in trouble (so long as you report in time)?
Before I used to have a subtitles website and mentioned I would downloads subs from his website (keeping any credits in filename or contents)

he wasn't very happy (because my website would compete with him and take ad revenue from him)

at the same time any "extension"/media player that downloads the subs can do it freely

so was it ever open or not?

just because my website had an easier to way to monetize unlike VLC extensions or wtv
And what makes a scraper legitimate?
I noticed this when the subtitling plugin for VLC stopped working last month. OpenSubtitles was a nice to resource have, but they've been a bad actor for a long time, adding paid advertisements to other people's freely contributed work. The full heel-turn was probably inevitable.

On the other hand, who is going to tell people about putting a stop to Clearway Law now?
Modafinil is a great tool to have in one's toolbelt.

There're days and situations when having uninterrupted focus for 10-14 hours does make a big impact. Condensing certain workloads into one day can save a lot of time in a longer run. For example going through huge refactoring with a lot of moving parts can be very draining to work through if you need to load in the context every day. Striking the iron while it's hot can help a great deal.
This kind of makes the same point I made though -- apps without hard realtime requirements aren't "really realtime" applications
Thousands without power after heavy rain and high winds lash South Florida metro
I really wonder why it’s so expensive to run. I always hear things about scaling but I used to run a top 500 alexia website and it was just a php app running on a mutualized offer for $5/month. Lots of manual caching though but still.

My wild guess is that either the stack is not really optimal (last I heard it was java) or they do other costly things at scale (sgx?)
I'm addicted to the logged-out Reddit front page and I can tell you that besides a few subreddits committing suicide and being immediately replaced by similarly named subreddits that didn't care about the boycott, and a few days where more interesting content was getting surfaced when some big subs went dark, there has been absolutely zero noticeable effect on the average user experience.

I would be -shocked- if Reddit had data showing that the protest was more than a fart in the wind
Yeah, dyesub can be super durable. For the past few years I've rotated between several keyboards as daily drivers. All with dyesub PBT keycaps that retailed in the $30-$40 range.

Zero issues with the dyesub labels.

I generally prefer them to doubleshot PBT, because dyesub labels tend to be much crisper than doubleshot labels. Though, of course, you can find ultra-crisp doubleshot labels or fuzzy dyesub labels.
Is that if we wanted to produce all of our aeroplane fuel here though? Presumably we don't do that at the moment.
Or where hallucinating truth co-indices with our understanding of truth?
I did my part to help reduce costs by switching to the decentralized alternative, Session.[0]

Bonus: Session does not demand users' phone number. Also no bundled cryptocurrency.[1]

[0] https://getsession.org/

[1] https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/signal.html
No, there’s a huge number of bots out there just doing stupid hacky stuff like trying for wp/admin/. Vast numbers of what I’d characterise as script-kiddy type attempts. Looking at the raw logs of a webserver not behind something like CloudFlare really opened my eyes to this. There’s an extraordinary number of garbage requests.
TextSecure! Wow this took me back to 2011.
The military likes "one fight, one fuel" and so the vehicles are modified to run on Jet A, basically.

There's also the difference between "will it work" and "will it work for continual use".
Did your toddler get billions of dollar from MS?
Sounds a bit odd to use "never event" for things that can and do happen - but actually I like the term, because it at least expresses the desire to reduce these events as much as possible. Same as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Zero for traffic deaths.
That's three pounds away from being underweight, so obviously it's pretty skinny.
Fixing Poor Relevancy in RAG
> What’s an example of a system that requires hard real time and couldn’t cope with soft real time on a 3GHz system having 1000 cycle misses costing 0.3us?

Any system that deadlocks.
Its weird I didn't update my chatgpt app and was able sign up two days ago even though sign ups were blocked.

Makes you wonder if they just removed the UI component and if you could reverse engineer the sign up process you could make money.
> I get that modern flat icons can be a little abstract, but they’re at least visually distinct at a glance.

They are not.
That is true, but generally not acceptable to a regulating body for these critical applications. You would need to design and implement a validation test to prove timing in your system.

Much easier to just use an RTOS and save the expensive testing.
Subtitles aren't the same as transcriptions. Transcriptions are literal, subtitles are not. Subtitles have many accessibility rules, like how many words are allowed, how much time should be between successive lines, timestamps should match exactly when the characters starts speaking, etc.
> “Can we get away with just doing this in a spreadsheet?” he said

I felt a great disturbance in the incubator, as if millions of SaaS suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
That's exactly my point. Copyright maximalism, which is suddenly suspiciously fashionable on HN, is a recipe for elevating powerful incumbents (and foreign powers who DGAF about copyright) to a level of control from which they will never be dislodged.

Premature decisions about "ethics" and reckless regulation by captive legislators will have an outsized influence on the future, which is why certain players are pushing so hard for both. They appear to have plenty of useful idiots in their corner, judging by how these threads typically play out.
And don't forget this stunt took some kilos of Co2 released in the atmosphere to run the AI.
Let's also keep in mind that vitamins as supplement pills are mostly useless, we all mostly know this, yet we all mostly buy them anyway. Maybe this idea is already wrapped up in your "perceived ROI" comment...
fr it's like this guy doesn't get that if art music and coding are all taken over by AI his whole job/hobby will be redundant
I guess, then the question is how real time was the website. Was it as real time as supporting, instant messaging, voice/video calls etc
SMS would be a complete non-starter in Europe. Many (no?) countries lack unlimited texting plans.
This will probably never happen. One of the reasons WhatsApp blew up is because using a phone number as your source of identification means there's much less friction in the signup flow. No username/password to create and your social graph is already there in your contact list.

My mom was able to get our entire extended family on Signal without my involvement, which is a testament to how easy that is.
At $20 a month POE.COM has been a great value for me. I primarily use GPT-4 and Claude-2-100k, though they offer ~20+ others.
Problem is, AI will understand/emulate human viewpoint better than any human could. It's just a matter of continuing to optimize.
Still being driven too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFdhCZ517gU
Haha, cute. I'm fine coding in C#, I just haven't done any web projects in forever. Thanks, though!
The pogo stick jump in Keens 1-3 took a lot of getting used to and one still tended to fail at it quite a bit, on keyboard. I hadn’t thought about it before, but yeah, I bet it’s much easier on a gamepad.
Hybrid LLM: Cost-Efficient and Quality-Aware Query Routing
Oh I forgot that signal is not just about forwarding messages. I’m wondering how much the VOIP costs.
How an Indian educational startup became a leading cyberespionage firm
Whats the advantage of Claude?
Is the scroll wheel on your MX vertical working as expected for you? I find it really hard to press.
What a blast from the past. I compiled a kernel for Debian with RT_PREEMPT about 17-18 years ago to use with scientific equipment that needed tighter timings. I was very impressed at the latencies and jitter.

I haven’t really thought about it since then, but I can imagine lots of used cases for something like an embedded application with raspberry pi where you don’t quite want to make the leap into a microcontroller running an RTOS.
> Wow that's harsh.

Totally true. I downregulated the feedback to be a little more kind.

My experience living in LA may have colored my response.

To address the meat of your response
> it to me reads as a tool to help ...

I don't see why this even qualifies as tool. There's no summary, not flow of logic, no conclusion really, just some thing a former mentor used to call a "walk through the garden of thought".

Sure, the thoughts look pretty to you, but you need to cultivate it for your audience, which usually means getting to the point and providing evidence or information clearly. If you cannot do that, at least be engaging, so that the reader sticks with you until you reach your point.

This writing style just doesn't do either of those things. It's confusing to jump from line to line and have to fill in a lot of gaps, it's not easily scanned for relevant points (every line is bolded and separated from text), it just ignores everything we know about presenting information.
If you were worried about someone getting the password from your will before your death, you could use Shamir's secret sharing algorithm to spread a password among friends and relatives with instructions to not use it until after your death, so that some number of them have to agree to unlock it together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_secret_sharing