skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on what you want, there might not be too much point in going native. Also, it is unfortunately true that GUI stuff is not yet well-handled by Graal AOT.
Show HN:Verta GenAI Workbench. Like custom GPTs but w/model choice & evals
Thanks Chuck! It's been cool getting feedback from you and the team the last few months. Customer-guided feedback FTW
Experiment, Evaluate, Deploy GenAI apps in minutes -- like custom GPTs but focused on result quality & model choice.
Futurama Theorem
Tech junk shouldn’t go in cars, period. Cars shouldn’t be as pervasive and prevalent in society (at least in USA). Yet here we are. Car manufacturers have spent an insane amount of money over decades to get to this point (buying legislators, forcing highway infra, subsidies, profit driven strategy over sustainability)
EVs should be subject to mandatory German-style inspection by law to counteract this delusion.
Yes, that's the point. You say "one party has threatened to do just that", but it's demonstrably untrue. Again, Nord Stream 2 was "ended" as a going concern well before the explosives showed up.

edit: Parent post was extensively edited after this; above was a response to the "Well if you put it like that I'm pretty sure" bit.

> When asked how he would do that, he responded, "I promise you we will be able to do it." He couldn't have been much plainer.

"I promise you we will be able to do it via sanctions and diplomacy" is an entirely comprehensible statement.

> Russia was trying to reel Germany in with cheap gas as the bait. The whole point of natural gas to putin was to use as leverage. Blowing up their own bait and their leverage (which cost 11 billion dollars to build) doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

It does if you a) acknowledge internally said pipeline's likely to be shutdown a decade or more and b) if you think it potentially does $billions in damage to Ukraine aid if it sows dissension amongst the allies.
They had a couple bad runs a few years back. If you keep following your simple rule, you'll eventually get a bad WD and not be able to use spinning platters at all. A better simple rule would be to never skimp on buying out-of-warranty drives, as well as having a proper backup regimen. I've had bad seagates back in ~2008 but my current nas has 5x 16T exos and they work fine.
Good to know. But how often are they going to do it ? Is it going to be an annual event from now on ?
If anyone is interested in forming, or knows of a good consumer coalition to put pressure on OEM manufacturers and the software industry to adhere to open hardware standards for computing, reach out to me at coalition - scottRlarson.com

I'm reaching a point in my repair business that its time to work with others that have similar interests.
Solving Multi-Tenancy in Vector Search Requires a Paradigm Shift
I was addressing the perceived implication that a lack of democracy worsens crime.
My "just won't die" laptop is my trusty MacBook Pro 2012 pre-retina. I have owned it for 8 years and it is still perfectly usable. I can get it to run Ventura with OCLP and honestly, it is only that I now really, really need something with Apple Silicon for dev work that I am considering an upgrade. It is a beast and I believe it even has the original battery (I got it used, so not 100% sure.)
Flagged, fork of project that launched last week that did this and had its own HN story.
money forgery is a somewhat common criminal activity. forging money is a strict crime and due to all of the protection, very hard to do. I wonder how hard it will be to forge a black lotus. let's say you make one and sell it for that amount of money. you can say that you found it in your closet, pay taxes on the money you earned from selling it, and then have legal money on hand.
Yes, it was clear. But funny too.

Note that the original cast of Greenpeace might not have been all against doing something like that. They started out as what today would be called eco-terrorists, and they had some pretty amazing capabilities for a group that small. Beware of intelligent and dedicated people. Their roots are in anti-war and anti-nuclear groups and over time their goals broadened. Today's Greenpeace is a gentle marketing club in comparison with how it all started.

A turning point was the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, after that the nature of the organization changed considerably.

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

Ironically, it served as a wake-up call that something like Greenpeace is very much needed and was probably one of the biggest reasons people changed from 'neutral' to 'pro environment'. The French did not exactly do themselves a service with that action.
Why do you think they're a bad option?
How exactly does a lawsuit filed in California reach two defendants located in Vietnam?

Wouldn't suing them in Vietnam be appropriate here?
Can you give some references to this? I might have a place I could use this.
Audit Your Time
Pretty shocking results of my first time audit.
> the vehicle is not bricked

What a time to be alive. Software updates (almost) turning cars into paper weights lol
I remember years ago reading about the operating system and language used for voyagers 1 and 2, and how they've last so long because of them. Really interesting read, really wish I'd bookmarked it because I can't find it anymore.
Would love to hear what people think about the concept and product feedback!
U.S. Bets on Small Nuclear Reactors to Help Fix a Climate Problem
Electric wires on poles are also more likely to get damaged by wind, ice, fire, and flood, either directly or by trees falling onto them. There are tradeoffs involved.
Like father, like son: https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2020/12/23...
Poor title; physical repair is not required. Physical presence is required.
I'll remember to post that in 2033.
Ask HN: One-off product counsel for startups
Hi,

I have a question: let's say I want to examine the legality of one of the ideas that I have or one specific tactics that I want to use or one specific feature that I am thinking about implementing.
Is there any effective way to seek legal counsel and tailored advice for such one-off issues (probably a 1 hour meeting)? Something that doesn't need hiring a firm or paying retainer? How do you approach such cases? Is there any website I should know about?

I have already looked up "legal consultation services". The results tend to be suitable for small businesses or corporate formation, trademark, ... I can't for example find a way to ask questions about compliance with child advertisement regulations
So why are companies willing to pay drastically more in salary on H1B in addition to spending thousands of dollars of relocation costs and legal fees?

There's a massive shortage of qualified labor. Over the last three years so many people got to go from junior to senior positions, simply in an effort to retain them.
What's the impact on your insurance should you get into an accident?

The speedometer screen is gone, so does that not imply the vehicle is inherently unsafe to drive?
Good starting libs for CLI development:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/commandlin...

https://github.com/Tyrrrz/CliWrap
You can’t rotate/change tires at local tire shop? It’s not under warranty anyway.

> The air cabin filter and pollen filter need frequent replacement

Yeah “regularly” like every two years lol, you gon wait for that long to update your software and pay $500 to a dealer to do it?
It feels extremely fast if you compare with vscode, also it looks like it is already usable for some projects, need more time to see if there's some deal breaker for an early adoption.
coming soon: Careless Whisper (transcribes audio but every few minutes it goes "idk here they said something or other")
I think even the little that we have seen from chatgpt is a sign that generated content will always be heartless, poor quality but people will be ok with it and adopt it. So I think it would make sense that eventually this will break the market into two.
Also If you do this for the Square Roots of the integers you can see every integer root is special and has it's own kind of shape. And the Squares are also very interesting in that they have no shape in this viewpoint. Just a dot. So you go from infinitesimal chaotic walk patterns to a single dot depending on if the integer is a square or not.

maybe there could be a database, online encyclopedia of random-walks
> That “equlibrium” is an assumption that there are forces in the market that will moderate excess - that the market is self-balancing. This is the argument against regulation or government intervention.

> For example, it might be assumed that if supply shrinks, that prices will increase, which will reduce demand because fewer people can afford it, which will lead to a rebound in supply - which means prices will drop again. This seems intuitively correct.

About here would do it.

Economics terminology is important because it gives us a shared foundation for science and discussion.

So when people discuss economics but act like they have explored a novel concept that is economics 101, it tends to get mentioned.
And if it fails it is inconvenient
I'm active in a community for a health condition. There's a very standard, very effective treatment which is mildly uncomfortable and time-consuming.

You can also do diet stuff. The diet stuff is about 20x less effective than the actual treatment, but that doesn't stop people from selling diets or not doing the treatment at all in favor of the diet.

That's what I worry about with studies like these. If you have a thing, do the actual treatment, don't mess around with diet. Diet impacts everything but that doesn't mean it can do anything. Do the treatment! Not the diet. This thinking can corrupt anyone, famously even Steve Jobs.
The submission link is weird. It has far fewer stars than the repo it is forked from, and could just be an ad for replicate.com?

It is missing the most recent commits from what appears to be the real source: https://github.com/Vaibhavs10/insanely-fast-whisper

The only added commit is adding a replicate.com example, whatever that means.
I mean parties in the US are more akin to coalitions as you'd see in many European countries. I'm just saying that American parties have high variance within them. Sure, for your country Bernie/AOC may be centrists but in America they aren't. These are always relative terms that are context dependent. Sure, you can call the Democrats right wing but it's just not going to make much of a conversation because these are nationally agreed upon terms. (fwiw, I'm pretty sure I'm fair in assuming American context given the people I'm discussing)
Homage to Strong Bad
Yes, it really does. It means that you can use component style development while having a regular server-rendered app. If/when you want some interactivity, you can add it simply without much effort. With .NET 8's Blazor, you can just have regular pages for 90% of your stuff and just use WASM (or websockets) for 10% of stuff. The good thing here is that you get fast initial page loads and navigation and the disadvantages of WASM are a lot smaller (like larger downloads than JS since it's shipping a GC and such).

.NET is following the WASM GC stuff. There are some Post-MVP features for WASM GC that will benefit .NET. Note, I'm not an expert on this and this is coming from memory. That said, .NET has some features that won't be supported well by the WASM GC MVP. There's always a trade-off between supporting more and getting stuff out into the world so that languages that might not need the features can start using it (and they can learn from the usage which will benefit everyone). For example, .NET allows more pointer stuff than a lot of GC'd languages. .NET's `unsafe` isn't used much by most .NET programmers, but it is there. I think maybe .NET has stronger guarantees around finalizers than Java (where they aren't guaranteed to ever be run). The WASM GC is just an MVP at this point, but it has landed and they're working on its future. It really feels like we're getting to that point where WASM is going to really offer a better experience in the near future.

Ultimately, the timing of WASM GC wouldn't work out for the .NET 8 timetable, but I'd expect there to be a lot of work on it for .NET 9 next year. It's possible that a lot of Post-MVP stuff will land in WASM GC to help .NET and there's probably some opportunity to make Blazor work around other stuff. I think they haven't mentioned it or put it on the roadmap because they're still figuring out how it's going to go (and we'll probably know more in like February). But they are certainly looking at WASM GC and it's likely to offer a nice boost for .NET 9.
AWS Research and Engineering Studio
> Tesla. Rivian. All cut from the same cloth.

I'm not aware of any Tesla OTA updates bricking the infotainment system. At least since I've been paying attention. I don't see them quite as similar as you suggest.
One of the best teams in the business. Best of luck, Tangrammers!
> "Oh no, the model can generate porn!" "Oh no, it can generate realistic photos of people!" "Oh no, it can generate violent or racist images!"

Right. So can paintbrushes. So can guys with deer antlers scratching on cave walls.
I prefer plain Systeme-networkd. Basically you just create a network unit file and configure the interface with it. Basically like network/interfaces, just a little bit more cleaned up
This is why it's stupid to live or visit California. Criminals can rob you at gunpoint, but law-abiding citizens aren't allowed to defend themselves. I'd rather be in Austin and conceal carry.
Nice concept, for me and millions of others at the mercy of the Amazon algorithm to what we read next I may try a few books here.

You are right nobody cares about your novel but the rush from finishing and publishing something even if nobody reads it is pretty satisfying.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38266340
How is Graal better. Half of the Java ecosystem wouldn't work with Graal.
Good point. Very unlikely it was licensed outside the UK even after home video started.
So what's in the secret sauce? e.g. faster-whisper "is a reimplementation of OpenAI's Whisper model using CTranslate2" and claims 4x the speed of whisper; what does insanely-fast-whisper do to achieve its gains?
Can I please just buy a car with a motor and battery? Why does every god damn vehicle have to come littered with screens and chips all together like some tentacle monster?

All I need is a gauge cluster screen that can display the normal info like stored and heading while also letting me configure the cars performance and safety features. Then let me mount a double DIN radio that isn't dog shit. I've not seen a single new car with these dumb screens with a sound system that's not tinny muddy garbage with zero adjustment save for "bass" and "treble" settings. I mean all that technology and you can't be assed to put an eq in there. HVAC never needed more than two or three knobs anyway.
How do you know it wasn’t a hallucination?
If you can't make it into a state school of choice after high school, going to a CC, getting good grades in those classes, might give them a second chance to get in. For a state school, and this is hardly guaranteed. One trick is to see if they have quotas based on geography in the state. So you want to get into UW in Seattle, it might make sense moving to Spokane, attending Spokane Community College for a year, and then re-apply to UW as an Eastern Washingtonian! It might work, who knows.

Doesn't apply to really top schools. You aren't going to transfer into MIT, Stanford, Caltech from a CC, or probably any other university.
I understand the sentiment, but think about the alternatives.

There are a few different kinds of updates that can be applied, each with their own protective layers.

Infotainment updates, like what happened to Rivian aren't that dangerous. You lose "convienience features" like maps, air con, etc, but generally nothing that could kill you or someone else.

Then there's system updates, which is where danger noodle things happen. Automotive manufacturers are significantly more risk averse to updating these components, and generally, if _anything_ within the system looks wonky, it's an immediate revert.

If I, as a Polestar owner, wanted to get an update for my vehicle, the nearest service center is 1.5h away. If I lived in Montana (United States), it would be realistically impossible for me to update my car. Thus, if we want to enable competition within the markets, we shouldn't have regulations that force a new manufacturer to have a global network just to add CarPlay to a screen.
That’s because it is run by idiots who ran it into bankruptcy
CarPlay and Android Auto has no risk like this. It is great because it is just a protocol for your phone to be able to use the screen in the car. Your data stays on your phone, and there is no risk of intrusion.
There's an advantage in talking to total strangely (intellectually) connected strangers than friends or family.

It's discussing sensitive issues like what to do when you got a crazy b*ch wife. Years of attrition and refinement eventually resulting in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38267382
> the most practical solution for this looming problem [...] may actually be through data partnerships. Basically, a company or institution with a vast and sought-after trove of high-quality data strikes a deal with an AI company to cough up that data, likely in exchange for cash.

This possibility makes keeping my data out of the hands of companies and institutions an even more urgent need than ever.
is there an API that lets me run whisper in a streaming manner?
Great comment, thank you for sharing your insights. I don't think many people truly understand just how massive these weather models are and the sheer volume of data assimilation work that's been done for decades to get us to this point today.

I always have a lot of ideas about using AI to solve very small scale weather forecasting issues, but there's just so much to it. It's always a learning experience for sure.
Not sure if the forker made any improvements, but I saw this first a few days ago here: https://twitter.com/reach_vb/status/1723810943329616007?s=12...
Opinion: I'm a little confused as to how you're confused as to how test might not match prod sometimes.

Observation: "[if you write buggy software], there's reason for you to get an off the shelf option"

Question: Are you saying if they used Android Automotive this could never have happened?

Reference: similar event for Android, last week: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1538248-pixel-phones-using-m...

Disclaimer: Former Googler, did not Work closely with Automotive, Worked closely with Android.
The native experience benefits the user and the device more because it's using the APIs as they were intended, WPA's will forever be the inferior choice.
I don't, it's an example that compensation is by far the worst criteria.

I personally think that there should be an open door - don't be a drag on society - policy. If you can get a job, pay your bills - welcome to the USA.
Where in the world can you earn €134k/mo as a developer?
To augment: sand-sized particles have a massive area/mass ratio, which is the main determinant in how quickly things deorbit. An unpowered Starlink satellite will deorbit naturally in 5 years. A sand sized particle in a Starlink orbit will deorbit naturally within a single orbit (90 minutes).
Blame Disney, not me. And I'd argue most individual people are interested in controlling what is done with their own visage more than anything. It's the same legal logic as revenge porn laws. If you are my enemy, all I have to do is find your sibling's Instagram account and I could make entire <yourlastname>hub website.

> What if I look identical to Taylor Swift? Do I lose my right to free expression?

Taylor Swift's corporate legal team would already do a pretty fine job of excising that right from you. No additional legislation needed.
> It’s “underused” precisely because this feature is pretty much useless if you’re transcribing anything other than quick snippets of speech.

I'm not sure why you're so dismissive when real-time transcription is an important use-case that falls under that bucket of "quick snippets".

> It’s also hard to use since you have to know in advance what hard-to-transcribe words are going to be in the audio.

I think it's more context-dependent than it is "hard". It's ideal for streaming meeting transcripts. In my use-cases, I use the prompt to feed in participant names, company terms/names, and other potential words. It's also much easier to just rattle off a list of potential words that you know are going to be in the transcription that are difficult or spelled differently.

> We need a better solution. It would be much better if there were an easy way to fine tune Whisper to learn new vocab.

Prompting is infinitely easier than fine-tuning in every aspect. I can reuse the same model in any context and just swap out the prompt. I don't have to spend time/money finetuning... I don't have to store multiple fine-tuned copies of whisper for different contexts... I'm not sure what better solution you envision but fine-tuning is certainly not easier than prompting.
If you need thr car in an emergency and it's unusable, that almost counts.
That’s why I try to arrive around 4 AM, yes. The only time I tried to get a hotel it was a 60 minute hike to the park from the hotel so I find it a lot simpler to just drive overnight and park at the park.
2011 here, rest is the same. Outlasted other newer MacBooks I have.
https://www.kanopy.com/en/video/1217815
A key advantage of the assembly line production of these things is fast iterative development. At first, in a 'move fast and break things' way, when doing tests. But just as significantly, by learning about non-fatal flaws in a working design so you can improve it.

The 100th rocket you build and attempt to fly will be much more optimized than the 5th. So by ramping production you can develop much quicker.

Another related point is tolerance of failure. A failed test for a government program will immediately see pressure to cancel the program by it's political opponents. Any detractors for a company will have a much harder time exerting influence.
Cars 20 years ago, even most of them 10 years ago, never got any updates unless they got recalled. Nothing broke, nothing got hacked, and most are probably still working fine.

What happened to cars today? I refuse to believe that it's solely because these are electric cars, as if the way the car stores and uses energy dictates that it must be part of the internet of things.

Edit: there were electric cars over 100 years ago. I bet they never got software updates.
It is interesting to think about which systems are untrusted until verified truthful, and which systems are trusted until verified false.

https://xkcd.com/2030/
Starship and Superheavy have missed their aspirational timelines, but that’s largely moot when there’s nothing else with remotely similar capabilities in development. Even if it doesn’t fly until 2030 (which I think is unlikely) it’d still be lightyears ahead of the competition thanks to the larger industry deciding it didn’t particularly care to meaningfully advance past late 70s technology until very recently.
Switching to vegetarian diet. This gave me a huge energy boost for about 3 months. I wish I could recreate this experience.

Intermediate fasting 16/8. I skip breakfast mo to fr. This gives me lots of energy until late afternoon.

Alpha GPC and L-TYROSIN supplements for focus and alertness. Since I take those I can really easy go into the zone
> Why on earth would a company like Volvo known for its safety features and design aesthetics copy the “single dash in the middle of the dash away from driving line of sight” model from Tesla?!

Video UI screens are terrible. They are especially terrible whilst driving. But the cost savings is enormous. The less moving parts there are, the fewer warranty claims they have.

There should be an option to upgrade to a knob-based UI.