skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of pirates already provide subtitles already, and sometimes there are many different languages, and MKV allows to put everything in a single file
After ChatGPT was announced, I found many cool projects that simplifies how you integrate LLM capabilities into your services. However, I didn't find many of these in the vision ecosystem.

Getting started in AI + vision with just 3 commands is amazing! I will definitely try it for some personal projects with IP cameras.

Good stuff :)
Wow, I have always had so much trouble building things in the browser when two sliders were involved. Glad someone has solved this problem.
you mean plus i assume
This reminds me of the current state of blogs vs platforms. The issue with streaming platforms in various formats is that they rake in more money over their lifetime than the creators, simply by acquiring copyrights and hosting it.
Hallucinations are false current sense perceptions. LLMs don’t have senses and don’t hallucinate at all; the LLM errors described as “hallucinations” are closer, if one needs an anthropomorphizing metaphor, to confabulations.

Which kind of make sense; as LLMs have almost no memory, just an instinct to respond and some instinctual responses (the result of “training”, which is also a bad metaphor; only “in-context learning” is analogous to training/learning for humans, what is called “training” is guided evolution of frozen instincts) and whatever is in their context window. And lack of memory plus a prompt to respond is a major context where confabulations happen with humans (these are specifically called “provoked confabulations.”)
Kernza, a climate-friendly grain, gets the attention of brewers, distillers
Well, let's consider the three examples the author gives for "pushing ifs up":

The first one isn't even a proper example because they write "push the if to the caller", but doesn't actually show the caller. So the good and bad examples aren't even straightforwardly comparable. For the second example, calling g() has exactly the same behaviour as calling f(), and for the third example, the behaviour also remains identical with or without the enum.

I don't see how this is any more than just pushing code around without having more context about these methods and who calls them.
OP, how do you see this working with series of screenshots - for example, sites with several pages that each use/take some user-provided data?

I guess I am asking, can you see this approach working beyond simple one-page quick drafts?
> Cloud chambers seem to be a thing of the past

I saw one at the German Museum of Technology (Deutsches Technikmuseum) in Berlin: https://technikmuseum.berlin/en/spectrum/world-of-experiment...
The safe choice is to go directly to recruiters and contact them trough LinkedIn directly.
And that one is just straight up not a theory. These are psyops that are openly admitted to by the world's various intelligence agencies.
Confabulations are also very human, but a much better metaphor than hallucination for the actual errors LLMs make.
my inexpensive modern pc could also be replaced by a slightly newer inexpensive modern pc, so what?

the point at which a machine becomes unusably obsolete is a judgement call, and I only consider itanium obsolete because every OS has basically given up on it, not because of the hardware
There was apparently a list of three conditions on the Discord profile: (1) remove link to homepage, (2) remove the steak background image, (3) don't participate in toxic threads.

We've yet to see any links to these toxic threads. There must have been quite a few of these when you get a ban, no?

And then remove background image and remove link to homepage? Don't visit the profile page and don't visit the homepage would be my advice :).
I think HN has a poll feature.
It is a shame that inkjet UV cure 3D printers haven't caught on with hobbyists. Inkjet 3D printers are awesome, the resolution is hard to beat, you can make parts with multiple materials as was shown in the article. Some can even print in color. But currently these machines tend to be very expensive, as in $250,000 and up. Worse, allegedly if you want to make full use of the printer's capability you have to sign over your IP to the company that made the printer.

Some people at MIT figured out how to build one cheaply and IIRC they even released plans for it online.[0]

You can also buy phone case printers on AliExpress which use the same inkjet UV cure process for about $1500[1]. They allegedly have some limited capability to do 3D too.

So it is possible to build 3d printers like this cheap enough that hobbyists could afford them. I suspect the reason they haven't caught on is due to patents, one may not even be able to sell a kit to make such printers

[0]https://cdfg.mit.edu/publications/multifab-machine-vision-as...
[1]https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2261799819029324.html
LLMs are sort of like Plinko boards
Writing was on the wall over a year ago, shocked how many were in complete denial then. Even more surprising now.

People don't even seem to grasp that the next gen of these tools wont be rolling the dice once it'll be rolling it 1000 times then you pick the one that nailed it. Then the next generation will roll 10,000 times and it'll be picking the one that nailed it even without your input at all.
What does autonomy mean in this context? Range?
> The UN still hasn't condemned the October 7th attack nor Hammas's use of civilians as human shields. Not sure about the rest. So I wouldn't call them an unbiased authority.

The UN does not seem to have condemned many of the actions of the Irish Republicans Army either.

Some commenters use terminology like “apartheid” and “civil unrest” to describe this situation, so perhaps people in the UN also view this as a internal issue and they don’t want to comment on domestic terror?
Sort of, not exactly, kinda. If you know what I mean.

OK, glibness aside, what I mean is, I kinda do a little bit in my own mind, but I don't openly advertise myself as such, and having other people use that term to refer to me is in no way part of my identity or sense of self-worth. I build stuff, I hack, I code, I tinker, I explore, I learn. Call me "hacker", "maker", "tinkerer", "mad scientist" or just "bob", it doesn't really matter so much.

EDIT:

And just to be clear, when I say "hacker" in this context, I don't mean "somebody who breaks into other people's computers". I'm talking about the more traditional definition of "hacker", ala the characters and attitudes seen in, for example, Stephen Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.
Hackers Use Online Casinos to Gamble Mountains of Cash They Steal from Victims
I don't have this problem with Apple Music at all?

My 'for you' gives me a weird melange of stuff I love, stuff I forgot I loved, and occasionally 'wow what is this new stuff that's awesome', with the rare 'oh god I like this band but not this album' kind of thing.

It's pretty spot on, and has led to discovery of quite a few new artists I like.

I have a pretty wide taste, so it's sometimes...jarring to listen to, but it never veers into Top40.
I apply this in a different way. Whenever I approach a problem, I find the simplest possible design that could work well. This doesn't stretch my complexity muscles very often, but what it does is allow me to fit more complex problems into my bounded solution space that I could otherwise.

I do agree with limiting the power of languages used. Scala was the cautionary tale I'd experienced. The team can agree to limit themselves to the less complex forms, but it's a slippery slope and many end up adding just a bit until everything the language has to offer gets used somewhere. Then it takes a good chunk of the team to sort out any area on second look, or a new better team to maintain what's been produced.

I think programming languages should have 2 scores: how good it feels to write new code in it; how bad it feels to maintain old code in it.
I've dealt with this extensively in business, taking to business owners who have problems getting customers and think the problem is lack of exposure, while ignoring obvious flaws in their offering.

This might not be true of your site, but the pattern is so common that I assumed so. As you haven't linked the site, it is not a criticism of it. I admit the comment is mean and maybe I shouldn't have posted it.
I was a TM on w.cd and still miss it. I don't know what I'd do if I lost ptp now. Their size is immense. Are there any other repositories of human creation that are larger?

It goes to show how terribly we have been robbed by the current copyright system.
"Open" means if you already have a copy, you are free to share it as you like. It doesn't mean someone is obligated to spend money giving it to you. The FSF always charged a profit rate on Emacs tapes.
Well, the statement about profitability was made by Gwynne Shotwell rather than Elon, and she's much more of "speak only when necessary" type, with no public social media presence. So make of that what you will.

Elon's stated position on an IPO is that they'll wait until they can predict cashflow reasonably well.

Edit: Also, to be precise, she said they had made a profit in Q4 2022. So, it could just be referring to the costs vs income of that quarter specifically rather than a general statement that Starlink is in the green now. After all, since then they've upped their flight rate significantly.
If we're fast-forwarding the tape, why not directly go to the ultimate conclusion that the end game is AI replacing humans, period?

This is not a slippery slope; new art will be created regardless of incentives and skilled people who learn to augment their craft with AI will probably create better works of art.
Is this some kind of joke? Why waste time on Itanium support when RISC-V will result in the end of the ISA wars? Sure you might argue that in the future there will be an even better ISA, but nothing prevents those future processors to simply support RISC-V for legacy applications.
This is really cool, but one budding writer to another; it's very distracting that capital letters aren't used at the start of sentences.
My last employer ran custom COBOL applications on HP-UX. Last I knew they were working on a migration but they had custom rolled their entire system so it is going to take a while to migrate completely.
Walking has plummeted across America
Hiring an EA.
> Anyone who says to me "I'll just put everything in PostgreSQL and optimize later" sounds just as naive as the person who says "let's build for scalability before we have any customers". Both are giving themselves problems they don't need

Both are giving themselves problems, but they are fundamentally different decisions. I will almost always take the "optimize later" approach as there's not always a "later".

For most new products, the biggest challenge is finding product market fit. Once you have that, the world is your oyster. I will happily pay a 10% tax after PMF to be 10% better at finding PMF now.

If I've found PMF, I will have more revenue, more traction, more budget, etc to fix the problems I created. If I don't have PMF, everything goes in the trash.
I mean it’s kind of the point here. If you are getting canned it really isn’t about whether your boss knows you.

Also, remote work doesn’t mean you don’t have relationships with people. You can build amazing relationships with remote situations (sometimes much stronger than office relationships) if you… I don’t know… manage your company well?
Elon Musk Is Making His Advertising Crisis a Problem for Sex Workers
This usually culminates with the patient trying to cram all if/else logic into a type system, which effort eventually leads them to have an aneurysm and they have to be carried away on a stretcher.
But you weren't trustworthy.

Just yesterday I had my boss say roughly "don't tell anyone I told you this, but ..." and proceeded to explain what's going on "upstairs".

If you're not willing to take a risk and trust them then you're not trustworthy and whinging on a forum about how unfair people are for not understanding your reasons for lying to them means you didn't learn anything from the exercise.

If I ask a question and my boss tells me "I can't talk about that because X, Y, or Z", I'm fine with it. We're all adults here, we all understand there can't be complete transparency. But you lied to them by omission about things that can affect their employment status. They don't trust you because you're not trustworthy.
Why do you think it can only work for trivial tasks? That's just denial.

Business process workflow software is quite popular. There are many applications where people do something similar with drag and drop/interactive widget editors and they can have complex forms, parent-child, state transitions, etc.

Using something like GPT Vision means you can skip the widget drag and drop and use more freeform drawing tools or freehand sketching.

Notion is probably the most popular example today but there are more complex ones going back forever.
Google's new color scheme for Maps has been spotted in the wild
I believe the protestors in the west are clueless about what this even means (e.g. which river), they are just swayed by propaganda. Though even if they are also about deportation, it's still despicable (as said in my comment above).
The term "directory" was actually already quite common for these kinds of systems (directory services) when AD came about, which is probably why it was called Active Directory. The Active bit was some kind of "en vogue" term for Microsoft back then, as mentioned ;)

It technically builts upon (amongst other systems) LDAP, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol and X.500

I guess you could think of it more like a telephone directory - which again is also where the file system metaphor has its roots I guess. So the two are not so different in the end.
https://andrewconner.com/cold-plunge/
https://diycoldplunge.com/

I would go the cooler route if I was starting today.
This is not the place to report issues to the SciPy project...

https://github.com/scipy/docs.scipy.org/issues/80
Yes it does seem unfair doesn’t it? The Israelis have an open democratic process so it’s recorded that people have disagreements with the governments actions. However, Hamas ended democracy in Palestine so we can never hear of any opposition, even though surely it must exist.
Standing desk with same USB C dock + jabra headset + ergonomic microsoft sculpt keyboard + similar dual monitors in my home and work office. It's been very convenient as I can grab and go to plug in my personal laptop, work laptop, or usb c the peripherals to to the gaming desktop pretty easily.

Dragon medical dictation and now dragon one dictation. I don't agree with their frankly predatory end of life discontinuation to not activate any more licenses for the former, but man is it convenient. Just gives my hands and mind a break.

If you have suggestions for another ergonomic keyboard I'm all ears! My work one stopped working with my corporate laptop this week and I can't figure it out. Most of what I've seen doesn't have F-keys which are essential for me.
Sure,

May do a pic later when back home, meanwhile... I used this ESP32 board, it has RGB LED right in the middle, here is a web picture of one:
https://dfimg.dfrobot.com/nobody/wiki/8a1de42ec21a99f36f69da...

Its a Fire Beetle ESP32 E V.1.0, I bought cheap <$15 don't remember when or from who anymore... The heart monitor is from a study kit (Chinese brand)

My whole set is similar (not the same, not my picture) to this:
https://pic-microcontroller.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/B...

Enjoy !

; )
Robot Hand with Working Tendons Printed in One Go
ChatGPT coded up a simple python script to do this for me if anyone would like to test it out.

Here's the script: https://gist.github.com/dpinney/a3c0b1f333ef89748fa12d057a55...
Ask HN: Alternatives for Firebase Dynamic Links?
Hello fellow coders,
as Google is sunsetting firebase dynamic links in 2025, we are looking for an alternative solution. The only alternatives I found so far are bigger solutions that have as a small part a dynamic linking/deeplinking component. I only need the deeplinking part that redirects to the correct apps/appstores depending on the device type of the user. Are there any solutions out there? It seems not to be very complicated to build it myself, but I'd rather use something that already exists.
Thank you!
Using a large number of existing flight tested components and construction techniques that have been in production since the 70's. And with a cost and construction time that limits it to around 1 launch per year going forward at $4b per launch, optimistically.

SLS can theoretically launch 100T to LEO. Starship can theoretically launch 150T reusable, 250T expendable. Construction rate is already on the order of around one per month, although obviously they are working out issues with the launch infrastructure to actually be able to make that many launch attempts.
Never Event
what kind of composites will offer robots ballistic protection, while not sacrificing mobility?
>Vision-controlled jetting for composite systems and robots

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06684-3
How does it handle mobile / responsive layouts?
The docs are appallingly bad.

Can I connect to my windows laptop from my Mac with this? Can I connect to my Mac from my windows laptop with this? The answers should be obvious. They are not (though I believe the answers may be there, and hopefully someone else can figure it out).

Edit added: GAH! Even for Microsoft these docs are inconceivably bad. It's not just the idiocy of the product naming. The docs start from the question of "Select a tab for the platform you're using" with no indication whether "the platform you're using" means the device you're connecting from or connecting to.

I'm pretty sure whoever wrote these docs read a blog post about humans once but has never actually met one.
Just snip it and paste it. If you're in Windows, I use the Snipping Tool Windows + Shift + S. Then just go to ChatGPT4 (Pro only) and hit paste.
There was a dude named Milman Parry[0] who went to Yugoslavia in the 20th century and recorded something like 3500 aluminum records of traditional cultural music, which were later transcribed into like 100 notebooks.

If nothing else, I wish it was all digitized.

But nobody else is gonna do it!

Oh to have the time and place to do it myself...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milman_Parry
I agree: browsers need to start lying. We as a society should bite the bullet and start lying by honey potting as often as possible. If every web site also ran a WordPress login Honeypot, an ssh Honeypot like endlessh, and everyone answered every spam phone call, those activities would cease to be profitable. I bet a 25% answer and waste spammer time rate would eliminate phone scams in a few months.
> its sustainable, because the fuel is being created from CO2 captured from the air by photosynthesis

An essential detail: the CO2 would have been back in the atmosphere soon, regardless of its use. We need less CO2 in the atmosphere, regardless of who, what, when, or how it got there or how it's removed.

The method of capture doesn't matter. Atmospheric carbon capture devices would be just as good, if they worked efficiently.

If you capture CO2 in a way that would keep it from the atmosphere long-term, then releasing it again is obviously not a good idea.

If you grow corn, you capture CO2. But the corn will soon die and (if I understand correctly) release the CO2 again, so you might as well use the corn for your fuel and release the CO2 that way.

However: If you plant a field with corn for fuel instead of with longer term carbon capture options (e.g., certain types of trees), it seems like a loss. It's better than digging up CO2 that's already stored long term (fossil fuels) and adding it to the atmosphere, but that's not good enough. We need to get CO2 out of the atmosphere.
There was a reason why we moved away from this. Everything is code, the UIs for creating such interfaces are just abstractions. The code generated by those no-code approaches to interface design was horrible and would break down quite fast in larger projects. Maintainability for such interfaces was non-existent.

I think just regretting an old feature long gone without proper context is dangerous. If we are to bring back those approaches we have to keep in mind exactly why they went away in the first place.
Were you able to confirm usability at the time when you both had signal?
Um, yeah? Tim Cook is negotiating from a much stronger position than any Android OEM is, and he's really good at negotiating.
This is an interesting article that correlates with my observations. However, what worries me is the amount of information gathered and available to researchers about the users. "Another user was doing research on the company, Insperity. She asked multiple questions related to different aspects of the company."
Especially in small/medium sized businesses, hardware is cheaper than payroll. It's most cost effective to pay people to build features (that drive revenue) while paying a bigger hardware bill than spend engineering hours optimizing hardware usage.

At some scale they'll be a break even/shift
If you have a bathtub, buy 40 lbs of ice and throw it in cold water and get in. Submerging is way better than showering.
The problem with having business logic in the DB is not a performance problem, it's a maintainability, testing, and documentation problem.
I swear the art form here is to provide the product people and designers with a tool/framework where they make the choices and they suffer the constraints, then they have to blame themselves when they can't do it.

There is the old story about Steve Jobs and the Mac calculator app, where they made a calculator toolbox to build one in order to prevent him demanding seemingly arbitrary changes all the time.

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Calculator_Const...
The same ones. Did you think smart people don't go along with the crowd like everyone else? People will use what they have, regardless of how smart, because people are lazy, things are hard, and $x is already shown to work.
I wonder what happened to n-gate. http://n-gate.com
Biggest issue here is this from the article: "Not even people who directly follow affected users would be able to see their content in their timelines, according to this message."

Gatekeeping from people who have opted into the content is a whole new level. Article also mentions not showing up in search. Imagine typing in someone's exact handle and X just pretends they don't even exist.
I haven’t really enjoyed the actual plot of very many video games at all. When I have tried to watch cutscenes and dialog, it has typically been pretty shallow stuff.

In my head, the plot of the game is the imagined story of my guy. The cutscenes and whatnot, that’s just somebody else’s fanfic about my guy, a much better character that exists in my head.

Environmental storytelling can be pretty good, though. The FromSoft games did a great job of setting up environments that evoke the feeling of a type of world, you fill in the blanks, despite having basically incoherent actual plots.
i like Xitter and Xcrete
OpenSubtitles

OpenAI

Open = Closed

Up = Down

War = Peace

Freedom = Slavery

Ignorance = Strength
> Also, omission of facts is not lying.

yes it is.

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

> Lying by omission, also known as a continuing misrepresentation or quote mining, occurs when an important fact is left out in order to foster a misconception. Lying by omission includes the failure to correct pre-existing misconceptions. For example, when the seller of a car declares it has been serviced regularly, but does not mention that a fault was reported during the last service, the seller lies by omission. It may be compared to dissimulation. An omission is when a person tells most of the truth, but leaves out a few key facts that therefore, completely obscures the truth.