skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar, but quite different.

The tradition foiling ferries rely on a surface based foil which does reduce drag significantly, is not as efficient as a sub surface foil, but are easier to implement because they "ride" the surface so they don't require balancing technology.

Candela is using sub surface foils, relying on water both above and below the foil which provides significantly more lift, and immune to surface irregularities (if properly predicted).
What does "android style" mean here?

Android has RCS which is just as insecure as SMS (encrypted chats aren't RCS, they're binary blobs using RCS as a transport mechanism - saying they're RCS is like saying iMessage is TLS because that's its transport mechanism)
The real question is whether the state standards should be expected to apply to inner city schools. The knee jerk reaction is to say yes of course how could they not, but that ignores all sorts of socioeconomic context that goes into education.
How to make an oven using an oil can
i use my window managers "workspace" feature.

Everyday idle time suckers go on the first workspace, the second only has actual "work". I'll switch to the 2nd workspace and try to have discipline about switching back to the "nonwork" workspace.
Maybe they got an answer at the forums they didn't like? Some political viewpoint expressed somewhere they didn't like? "For teh lulz"? Who knows. Cunts will do cunt things on account of being a cunt. Often things are complex, nuanced, multi-faceted, and hard to understand. Sometimes they're not and it's almost shockingly simple.
I honestly don't remember the time you are describing. As far as I can remember, the most prevalent voices about crypto from HN have been from the naysayers by far. The craze just simply isn't there anymore, which is a very good thing. People who refuse to try and understand cryptocurrencies but tout fanciful things about them shouldn't be the ones representing them.
Climate Activists Tell the EV Industry to Fix Its Filthy Supply Chain
"EV production often relies on coal power and harmful labor practices. Climate activists in Squid Games costumes disrupted the LA Auto Show this weekend to demand urgent change."
Emmet Shear on Nazis
I stopped reading once I got to the description of how the number of colors was cut down. The article quickly went from casual to deep.

It's also not needed. PC Magazine used to describe these algorithms back in the 1990s with a lot less words, and a lot more pictures.

Pictures are very useful when explaining what happens when reducing the total number of colors in an image.
TLDR: "Tested a relatively cheap/clean way of making very tiny particles of carbon from what would otherwise be food-waste. Checked to confirm that those tiny particles are still antioxidants just like larger particles are. Nobody knows yet if/how-much antioxidants actually help with all those scary diseases, but... maybe?"
You're so close!

It's not the issues with tech but the whims of the uber rich that prevent adoption of most innovations.

They have the money and choose the profitable things to invest in, which are nearly always the opposite of the practical things that would help the most people.

Once you begin to see the world through this lens, it all makes sense. The best place to start is to talk to old people 40, 50, 60 years old plus. They'll tell you how so much of this was solved in the 60s and 80s and even earlier, but the powers that be suppressed any innovations that reduce fossil fuel usage, the influence of finance, the profits of the arms industry, etc etc etc.
That was not the context the OP was addressing.
yes, not everyone would consider it to be a scam, but it seems strange that his worldcoin has been largely ignored in these discussions of the implications of his leadership. I think worldcoin reveals a lot about him.

I am very hesitant to trust charismatic people like Altman, even before hearing of his worldcoin.
Spin it up as a separate company and do a $1T IPO.
Has anyone managed to run the thing? I got the streamlit demo to start after fighting with pytorch, mamba, and pip for half an hour, but the demo runs out of GPU memory after a little while. I have 24GB on GPU on the machine I used, does it need more?
Every time something like this is released someone comments how it’s going to blow up legacy studios. The only way you can possibly think that is that: 1-the studios themselves will somehow be prevented from using this tech themselves, and 2-that somehow customers will suddenly become amenable to low grade garbage movies. Hollywood already produces thousands of low grade B or C movies every year that cost fractions of what it costs to make a blockbuster. Those movies make almost nothing at the box office.

If anything, a deluge of cheap AI generated movies is going to lead to a flight to quality. The big studios will be more powerful because they will reap the productivity gains and use traditional techniques to smooth out the rough edges.
Congrats for launching Pickcode! The attention to detail is great and shows that you care.

As an aside on the topic at large, I find there are (at least) two schools of thought in the visual programming space, when intending to make programming more accessible to non-developers.

Some efforts focus on reducing the overhead of learning syntax, by leveraging the visual interface, but do not hide their imperative nature nor the need for an algorithmic mindset. In effect we can think of these as IDEs but with varying levels of accessibility. I surmise that Pickcode and Scratch belong to this category.

Other groups explore different programming paradigms instead, that might fit the visual metaphor to varying levels of success. They also induce different mindsets to their users compared to imperative programming. Node-red is a great example of this, which explores flow based programming (a close relative of functional reactive programming). Another is Labview, a dataflow-based close relative with more magic in it (really rather smart defaults and naming of internal variables). Apple Automator also comes to mind.

I don't think either pattern is necessarily better or worse. I just find it useful to think of this distinction (imperative vs reactive) for visual languages, which leads to very different end-user experiences.
With ADHD, there are issues that bring up similar symptoms, but is not ADHD. A person can be 'distracted' if they are sleep deprived, anxious, have PTSD or are depressed, and part of diagnosing it is ruling out those other conditions. Giving a 'normal' anxious person stimulants can be a bad combo for example, where it will amp their anxiety up a shit ton instead.

Also there are different forms of ADHD. An inattentive ADHD type person could be said to have the opposite problem of their 'fight or flight response going haywire' for example. They can often be quite relaxed, maybe a bit too relaxed.
Break the Sequential Dependency of LLM Inference Using Lookahead Decoding
New parallel decoding algorithm that trades flops for latency reduction
More than a few times I’ve wished that starting the first track of an album from that album’s page would automatically turn off shuffle if I had it on. Would be a nice setting to have at least.
> It just seems ludicrous that the board could run a company into the ground like this and just shrug "nah we're nonprofit so you can't touch us and BTW we don't even need to make any statements whatsoever".

As ludicrous as that might seem, that's pretty much the reality.

The only one that would have a cause of action in this is the non-profit itself, and for all intents and purposes, the board of said non-profit is the non-profit.

Assuming that what people claim is right and this severely damages the non-profit, then as far as the law is concerned, it’s just one of a million other failed non-profits.

The only caveat to that would be if there were any impropriety, for example, when decisions were made that weren’t following the charter and by-laws of the non-profit or if the non-profit’s coffers have been emptied.

Other than that, the law doesn’t care. In a similar way the law wouldn’t care if you light your dollar bills on fire.
I applied today; hopefully it will be a short wait. (and, hopefully, they won't hold my "I don't know what business I can build on this until after I try it" opinion against me)
Not necessarily. There will be a period of uncertainty/instability that competitors can emerge and capitalize on. Say the whole crew comes along, it could still be several months and maybe all sorts of legal wrangling making things difficult. But more likely there will be splintering that will benefit Google, Anthropic, Meta, Apple, esp. if comp is there, and that could be catastrophic.

I read this whole situation as putting pressure on OpenAI to come to their senses and quick.
The idea there sounds a lot like https://gokrazy.org/, which builds a minimal go userland, wrapping one or more user provided go applications, and bundles in a linux kernel.

Targets mostly at single board computers, and I think it downloads pre-built kernels (and bootloaters if needed), rather than trying to build them directly, since getting a working cross compilation toolchain set up and plumbed into the kernel compilation process is still a pain.

I've personally only used yocto/open-embedded for that which does nicely handle building the cross-compilation toolchain, kernel image, and modules. But it is kinda overkill for that task, being designed to build a whole userland too.
Having been in this situation before several times, the only real option is to quit and find another job. You can't fire your boss -- unless they are doing something egregiously illegal. You can't go around them, and you can't really undermine their authority. And CTOs, in general, don't quit on their own without being forced out by the board.

I mean, you can try to get them fired or get them to quit, but it's not very professional and you're more likely to get fired than fix the actual problem.

In general, folks don't get to CTO status for no reason. They typically get there because they generated results. Even a small start-up CTO secured funding and built a POC, and certainly a mid- to large-sized company's CTO is going to be extremely effective, regardless of how good they are at their job.

You can take the other advice and try to be stoic. Put all of your efforts and passion into non-work activity, coast, and do the least amount of work possible at your day job. That's totally a valid thing.

If you're like me, that sounds like a personal version of hell. I'd rather find another job wherein I can be excited, rather than dreading dealing with my boss every day/week.

So unfortunately I think your best shot is to just keep looking around and find something else that's a better fit.
Act is also quite imperfect around its emulation and has a lot of edge cases. Not by any virtue of being a bad project or lack of effort, it’s just that the way GHA works is slightly insane
So "forward" is something you click and it shows all possible expressions for a new line?
I suggest spending some time understanding why the cost of living went up. Clearly you live in a place with a relatively stable currency (for now).
Seems like @mdasen provided a simple explanation: Money.
133,000 free laptops, but some employees is where he interjects?
YAML is the worst of both worlds. It pretends to be just simple configuration, but it by necessity cannot be that, because it gets interpreted by the CI system. The result is an unholy language selling itself as simple JSON with comments and less quote escaping. (At least nobody got the bright idea to put jinja in there.)

The CDK people saw this and went the much saner strongly typed typescript JSON synthesis. It’s still shit but at least you get your config statically analyzed before pushing it 17 times until it finally works (because why would you want to test locally, nobody does that).
Ask HN: What would you teach your software engineering manager?
I am trying as a first shot here to gather information from you about what is missing from your management and leadership team. And what you as a software engineer would teach them if you had the chance.

What would you change ? Why would you change it ?

I am doing so because I am in progress of validating an idea which should result in a course which is to educate engineering managers and leaders towards what I have come to terms with is a a field-experience based approach (fred brooks comes to mind) and what I call common knowledge for what my own expectations are from engineering managers.

What would you teach your manager about managing software developers and teams ?
No I think we’re actually close. My source is I’m working on this problem and the incredible progress of our tiny 3 person team at drip.art (http://api.drip.art) - we can generate a lot of frames that are consistent, and with interpolation between them, smoothly restyle even long videos. Cross-frame attention works for most cases, it just needs to be scaled up.

And that’s just for diffusion focused approaches like ours. There are probably other techniques from the token flow or nerf family of approaches close to breakout levels of quality, tons of talented researchers working on that too.
How is he far right, everything I've seen calls him libertarian.
but, could you just imagine having to filter through 45 GB of emails! to try to find any value in that at all, might be expensive, even if you try to automate it.
I was just thinking of this the other day. I would love to see a semi-remake/port of Earthbound in which they updated the art style to mimic the clay figures that were used in the (amazing) player's guide that was included with each copy of the game.

https://members.tripod.com/mr_saturn/pics2.html
Emojis are part of the common vernacular now, and software development is a mainstream career instead of a siloed off nerd-haven.
I think we're talking different sized boat on a lake. Do house boats typically power from battery or from a generator? I have no familiarity with those.
The question really to ask is if taking $0.001 stealing.

Strictly speaking, yes. Colloquially speaking, no.

But would youtube have a markedly higher revenue if no ads were blocked, even if some percentage fewer videos were viewed?

The business model youtube works with is clear:

+Ad-view income - operational cost - creator payout = income.

So what is it called when the user uses the backdoor to input $0 as "ad-view" income?
I think a more stoic approach could alleviate the suffering while still allowing you to brainstorm possible solutions or pathways - just with less turmoil.

Try your best, iterate, explore. Completely detached from success on a timeline. Expect failure and be pleasantly delighted by gradual success.
All about the Okta compromise (and HAR sanitizer for all powered by Cloudflare)
This is a tangent to the original point, but I'll play. Apple iPhones have long had some of the highest battery lives of smartphones on the market despite having some of the smallest batteries. Since they only have to worry about a single OS, they can optimize away to achieve this. Smaller batteries means less environmental harm, lighter phones, and more space for other parts. There are endless reasons to bag on Apple, but the fact that they can achieve much better battery life with much smaller batteries is not one of them
Very far, yes, but also in a fast moving field.

CGI in films used to be obvious all the time no matter how good the artists using it, now it's everywhere and only noticeable when that's the point; the gap from Tron to Fellowship of the Ring was 19.5 years.

My guess is the analogy here puts the quality of existing genAI somewhere near the equivalent of early TV CGI, given its use in one of the Marvel title sequences etc., but it is just an analogy and there's no guarantees of anything either way.
The explanation that I was working with was that in hotter climates food spoils faster so spiciness can slow or mask the process. The article says:

> The researchers suggest other explanations for why people in hot countries tend to eat spicier food. One possibility is that it’s because spices help preserve food in hot climates. Another is that people in hot countries have developed a taste for spicy food because it helps them cool down.
No economic growth in South Africa for the last 15 years
Ah, Mr. Kettle, I see you've met my friend, Mr. Pot!
What's the issue with including some amount of "model is aligned to the interests of humanity as whole"?

If someone asks the model how to create a pandemic I think it would be pretty bad if it expertly walked them through the steps (including how to trick biology-for-hire companies into doing the hard parts for them).
Aren't there quite a few of these? Scratch or its cousin Snap (https://snap.berkeley.edu/snap/snap.html), or even a visual flow editor for React (https://app.flowhub.io/#project/c111454c9fd2f74d37d1e8a4e739...) or the similar https://retejs.org/
OpenAI investors keep pushing for Sam Altman’s return
Quora is the text version of the Chumbox.

The chumbox is slang for the part of news site web design you... try to ignore. These sites managed to optimize their design for <10% of users who will click just about anything.
I'm a fan of Tyk, but not sure how this relates to API Gateways. (Even having read the "How this relates to API gateways" section

This feels like a "we need to be doing something in AI" play.
At some point their engineers are just better. I've been part of teams where every one was highly skilled, maybe a few juniors. And teams where everyone was junior and because they were very skilled on one specific thing, they assumed they were senior. The difference in those teams are that skilled engineers:

- Code review holistically bc they understand that part of the codebase, and other parts it interacts with, and they ask thoughtful questions. So things like logging sensitive info in plain text are not even a question.

- They understand how multiple components of a system work, like the tcp/ip stack, http, and other parts. Specifically not just how they eg. send messages, but how connections are setup/managed/torn down. Often that's where the security issues are (like which parts of a connection are insecure and when/how the upgrade happens).

- They have this deep understanding because they put effort and time to diagnose issues that happen do them and enjoy sharing. Unskilled devs just say "it's not working, someone else fix it please". I had a mobile dev once lose his mind because he was unable to upload a file to the api. Turned out his app was using a library that was messing up the multipart upload boundaries and content length headers (tracked it to a bug with multiple gh issues). He was unable to use this info to proceed.

- Participate in the hiring process, for they're a good filter for the company

- They abstract away a lot of the implementation details from product managers and eat a lot of the complexity to the point that the product manager only sees 60% or less of the actual work in Jira.

- A security autidor would need to really be worth his pay to find vulnerabilities, scanning for OWASP top 10 is not enough.

Note, these engineers do not need to be 10x, they just need to...be engineers.

Companies like Sunbird would not know how to tell one from the other, and product managers don't know what a secure app looks like. They could actually add that as a requirement and not know how to verify it. Often it's the developers that tell QA how to verify something. If your engineers are crap, you end up with apps like Nothing Chat. They aren't to blame, the company had no standards to begin with.
...I feel like we're on different levels so let's just stop here before you start to condescend.
The acid test for this is, if its OK for the FBI to spy on you as a citizen, then cool, we need the right to spy on the FBI agent and his family members -- why does he get to spy on me and my family members when there is zero reason for them to do that? I don't have anything to hide, and neither should he, so its all kosher right?
We've all now seen that the key to robust AI governance is a non-profit organization with a for-profit subsidiary combined with a majority-independent board.
This reminds me of everyday interactions on StackOverflow. "Yes, I really really really do want to use the library and language I mentioned."
I actually think density would go out of style in that scenario. IF the time and cost of commuting were drastically reduced, many people would prefer a suburban lifestyle.

This reminds me of many high GDP parts of Europe where there are towns of 500-1000 people every few km, connected by rail and busses.
Are they going to be pissed that I host a wasm copy of Mario 64 on my blog that is served from someone else's repo on github? I feel like Microsoft is sort of on the hook for it.

https://blog.millerhooks.com/home
Dr. Gabor Mate¹ should be taken with large grains of salt when it comes to ADHD and related conditions. There is a lack of published research or dedicated expertise on the matter; Dr. Russell Barkley, a leading ADHD expert and researcher², has a good video on the subject³.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabor_Mat%C3%A9

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Barkley

³ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO19LWJ0ZnM
> Haven't you seen the insane quality of videos on civitai?

I have not, so I went to https://civitai.com/ which I guess is what you're talking about? But I cannot find a single video there, just images and models.
That is the problem actually. You don't always need powerful.
I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla
What you fail to appreciate is the operation of an LLM is driven by the input data far more than is the case with most programs. Typical programs have a lot of business logic that determines their behavior--rules, as you say. E.g., an optimizing compiler has a large number of hand-crafted optimizations that are invoked when code fits the pattern they are intended for. But LLMs don't have programmed cases or rule like that--the core algorithms are input-agnostic. All of the variability of the output is purely a reflection of patterns in the input; the programmers never made any sort of decision like "if this word is seen do this".
And the bloodbath in Palo Alto begins...
People in greater poverty and ignorance have gotten out of worst situations. Even a nuanced response does not excuse this mismanagement of funds or the poor performance. Inner city should not equate "expectation to fail at greater cost than success".
I would cut the task into separate problems and solve them one at a time. You could do it like this:

1. Trigger - pressing a button/terminal command

2. Record audio for 5-10 seconds (this will unfortunately lead to silence at the end of the file because it has a set audio length)

3. Run through Whisper API or run locally

4. Manipulate the response (Python can run local commands)

I've been considering building this myself lately for some kind of home-AI on a Raspberry PI, but I don't know if the steps would look exactly like this. My first thought was to cut the audio if it's silent for too long but not sure if you can process it at the same time as recording (probably). ffmpeg has some tools for detecting low dB.
Their SEO is very good. "I got it from Quora" is still an answer which carries some weight. And a lot of those answers have a long shelf life - easily 4+ years, even 20 in the case of, say, an answer about Steve Jobs.

So you have a site, with a lot of valuable links, on a platform where anyone can & will create more, with widespread name recognition. That's valuable.
I'm jealous of your progress, I keep restarting my own little language from scratch every other day x). Good job!