skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Mavis Discovery – Semantic Search Tailor Made for Fashion
I have over time switched to Brother printers (lived through Epson and HP) because they are the least bad of the bunch. But Windows will still claim they are offline with no way to un-offline them, or print jobs will still get stuck from time to time - but this is probably just the Windows printer queue software staying exactly the same since two decades, with Microsoft giving zero fucks about it (or about anything requested by users, for that matter).
Is there any evidence that edge won't switch to manifest v3? As far as I understand Edge merges in Chrome updates.
> No engineer values tech writers

Not in my experience. Many engineers value tech writers — and reap many benefits from this relationship.
but... subscriptions ARE a dark pattern?
> If what the user can do matters less than what they actually do, then Windows is the most insecure operating system by a very large margin.

What does Windows have to do with users ignoring best practice again?

> You're right, it's stupid to compare these situations. So why are you doing it?

I was not, you are excusing yourself from your own mistake. I was comparing people who install driver updaters with people who run random bash scripts from the Internet. Then you tried to convince me the right thing would be comparing with (imho mythical) people who read every bash script they download.
> The majority of them said that they were able to reduce the time required for building. Imagine a project that used to take three days, is now wrapped up in just one and a half days! Thanks to AI, we're talking about a 50% reduction in completion time

I don't know about other people but the time I spend coding isn't the majority of the time a project takes. Most of the time and effort goes into all the stuff around the coding - investigating the issues being addressed, specifying what a solution would do, testing the solution built, etc.

> Do you think AI is a threat to a developer's job?

I don't think it's a threat to skilled developers. Personally I'm looking forward to a long career fixing up all the code produced by below average developers relying on AIs without any real understanding of the code being produced :D
Genuinely curious.. how well does this really work, with a real fridge? All the photos I've ever seen are of a staged fridge someone clearly spent an hour or two carefully arranging, and usually between 20% and 50% capacity.

Our fridge is often 75-95% full, and things I can picture this maybe being useful for - sour cream, pickles, condiments - are often pushed to the back or on the door. I have a hard time imagining anything besides mostly "oh look, the milk jug/large bowl of last night's leftovers is blocking the camera's view of this entire shelf".

It also doesn't solve the "is that sour cream at least 1/3 full?" or equally important "is it expired?" problem, which is almost worse, because seeing the sour cream container leads to a false positive, which means I don't buy more despite needing it.
Firefox has dropped its own extensions to follow Chromes extension model for a long time now
Highly recommend brave (with all the crypto nonsense shut off), it's a pretty fast browser, nice features and works with chrome extensions. I've used it successfully for the past 3 or something years
Yes, attacking the source of revenue that sustains a project is always a sensitive prospect.

But then again, what's the alternative for Mozilla? In case of YouTube Premium we've clearly seen that even HN software engineers, demanding six figure pay, will refuse to pay other software companies a few bucks for their engineering work.

Where does Mozilla find funding to sustain itself elsewhere?
Use keypirinha [1]. You can type "fir.." hit enter, a firefox window opens. Do it again, and a new firefox window opens.

[1]: https://keypirinha.com/
Technical writing is a difficult skill to be proficient at, so I think dedicated technical writers are needed in many companies. I’ve also not really seen writers be “blown off”. More often I see an absence entirely of writers, but that’s usually more to do with budgeting more than anything else. Where I’ve had writers working with me, we’re generally thankful to have someone proficient at it handling things.

With that said, I don’t really see the English major idea panning out well, just as bootstrapping a project with a bunch of CS grads probably wouldn’t. The study and analysis of literature is tangentially connected with technical writing for commercial purposes.

They can, of course, become good technical writers over time, but a huge component of what writers bring is an understanding of the audience. It goes beyond being able to write well, and academic writing is different from commercial writing.
Makes sense. Reception has been healthy so far :)

Related:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32342334

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37941075

On average I'd say we get a 50/50 split between folks who like the doing/challenge aspect of it, vs those who wished there was more "consuming" type of content, e.g vidoes/text
I use Firefox daily as my default, have roughly about 250 tabs open at this stage. I've not closed my browser in the last 6 or 7 months.. It's not crashed yet.

Is it possible that it's some specific website your visiting?
'We will coup whoever we want ': the unbearable hubris of the tech billionaires
I have never used Reddit on my phone, so for me the whole loss-of-Apollo concern was a non-issue. I do see less quality posts now, but it's not dead.
PiDP-11
Very hard to answer without knowing what your goal is. Do you want to be a practitioner of DL, or do you want to be a researcher?
Curious what use case you are looking at for over here? I don't want to make any assumptions. I'm wondering if what you are looking for might be covered by the functionality of tab containers.
Most models are reliable, compatible with *nix network drivers, and don't pull shenanigans when you need them to work.

The only issue I saw is the toner color match on laser models could be a bit better. Still highly recommended for anything except photos.

"Innovating"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk
I might be one of the very few ro see it like that, but for low print volume withoutbany speciap needa regarding print quality and size, I'd propably go for one Canons or Epsons pay-per-page subscription models. Costs oer page are dirt cheap, printers aren't very expensive neither and there models with decent document scanning.

There is a reason laser printers usually have their own room or remote corner in offices, they aren't really great for air quality.
Originally, Raymond Hill developed uBlock, but he gave it away because it was too much work. However, the new owner of uBlock turned it into a spamware, so Hill forked uBlock and created uBlock Origin, which is still under development today.
I used to think so, but the end result is that both are a threat, so you really don't want either in your bunker during the zombie apocalypse. Evil is at least more predictable than Stupid and can be negotiated with; choosing only one I'd kick the idiots out.

Education doesn't confer Intellect, it confers knowledge. That's like giving an idiot a power tool. Now they can make messier mistakes at higher RPMs.
When I tried Brave, it blocked website ads but gave me browser ad popups on the top right. No thanks. Stick to Firefox.
>paid for free

Is that a typo, or an apt description of a lot of 'free to play' games?
More like Cloudflare DNS issue than the Google Docs error.
I tried moving to Firefox a year ago but found that the lack of Tab Groups really killed me.

There are several extensions that try to emulate this behaviour, but I didn't find that they worked particularly well. And then there are the security concerns.

I guess when Chrome break uBlock Origin next year I'll give Edge a go, or one of the various chromium builds
A community plugin system for Typora. Inspired by Obsidian plugin system
Ironic to see this on the same day Unciv (an open source Civ 5 clone) is on the front page.

I have for years dreamed about making my own clone of Stars!, a really nice space 4X PBM game with deep, complex strategy. But not just a clone, I had lots of ideas for improvements. Actually, I think that's what this article recommends, but I still never got anywhere.
Same. I vaguely remember a time where this happened from time to time, but that is years and years ago.
Toner cartridges generally last a few thousand pages and are much more tolerant of infrequent use than ink cartridges. Unlike Ink cartridges, laser cartridges don’t dry out or need to waste ink priming. The image drum does need to be occasionally replaced (not often, 10k+ pages), though if you tolerate defects in prints it can last longer.

How well non-original cartridges work is highly dependent on the printer model. Some have more complex authentication of the cartridges and others it’s a simple page counter.

The main downside is color is a significant increase in cost of the printer as fairly expensive pieces need to be duplicated for each color.
The world of publishing is certainly seeing the attempts for such an llm:

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/24/1159286436/ai-chatbot-chatgpt...

And I do wonder how difficult it is now. We have datasets like libgen and Anna’s Archive … are there public llm’s out there that have been trained in this way?
A laser printer that can print good quality photos would be a real innovation so, wouldn't it?
But it's doing Google's game by being based on Blink.
> In some ways, it’s nice for there to be a responsive community, but in other ways, I think a trillion dollar company should pay for excellent customer service.

Not sure how much you're following financial news these days, but trillion dollar companies are getting outright massacred on Wall Street if they dare spend money on things deemed "unnecessary" by the bankers.

Customer support organizations were the ones most targeted and hit by layoffs across the board to cut costs. After all, Google products are still being used after they fired large amount of support staff (not that support experience was good with them). It's a good example for other corporations to do the same - it's not like you'll go elsewhere, riiiight? Time to "cut the fat" (term I've seen on HN).

(And that doesn't include internal pressures in these corporations to avoid unpromoteable, unsexy, expensive and boring work of supporting customers.)
Brave might be the best thing to come out of the crypto era :)
I hope it will somehow survive both Chrome changes and crypto dying off.
Years ago Wrox Press got me to come in and give a basic Java programming course to the tech editors who were going to work on a series of Java books. They were mainly English and history grads, and the head man wanted them to have some idea of what they were working with. It definitely made the whole writing process easier from the pov of the author.
I use Firefox, Edge and Vivaldi on a 8 year old mac book pro. I do not notice any difference in performance with any of them.
> Don't switch to FF if you're a heavy user

I currently have over 250 tabs open, all actually open actively running things in the background, and I haven't closed my two Firefox windows in the last 6-7 months. I constantly run fairly heavy CPU-usage web apps and FF's not crashed in the last 6 months at least..

Let's not generalise your experience to the rest.. Like "It runs on my machine" isn't a valid statement usually, "It doesn't run on my machine" also mostly isn't.
> Can't handle lots of tabs

As someone with a tab counter routinely in the 60s (Tree Style Tabs is life), I can only offer you a "it works fine with me (tm)" counterpoint. I only noticed show-stopping performance issue way back when I tried to dabble my feet in the Apple ecosystem back in 2009 (I began using FF shortly after it was renamed from Firebird).
Retrieval Augmented Generation Explained: Embedding, Sentence Bert, Vector DB [video]
A Large Language Model is constrained on the content it was trained upon. For instance, an LLM trained solely on English text may struggle to generate content in Japanese.

Historically, fine-tuning has been employed to enhance LLM knowledge in specific domains. But there's another popular technique, called Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), exemplified by Twitter's Grok language model, which utilizes real-time data from tweets to generate responses without continual fine-tuning.

In this video, I will introduce the Retrieval Augmented Generation pipeline from an architectural point of view, describing the details of what are embedding vectors, how they're built - with particular reference to sentence embedding vectors produced by Sentence BERT, and how they're utilized.
I will also explore the world of Vector Database, not only by showing what they are, but also visualizing the Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) algorithm that powers most of them.

At the end of the video, you'll have a deep knowledge of the entire RAG pipeline and the algorithms involved in it.
Honestly I've been using Firefox for more than 10 years and never felt the need to switch. Every time I try a new browser there's features from Firefox that I end up missing.
And seeing the shitshow with the ad blockers in Chrome there's no way I'm trying that lol.
Only tangentially related but: I have a blue light filter (Plasma night color) always on on my laptop because I feel like, in combination with brightness reduction, I get less eye strain.
I've always wondered if there exist a color scheme for desktop theme or IDE / neovim theme or whatever that is thought with night color in mind, i.e. it's made specifically to be looked at with blue light filter reduction, so that all choices of color work, because for example I use solarized light in neovim but when doing diff I need to turn night color off because otherwise I can't read selected text.
Right! I keep saying I want house prices to fall so I can buy a nicer one!

Apparently human psychology works in such a way that people tend to feel richer if their house goes up in value and they spend more as a consequence. People are weird...
No,

there was already an "AI-like", but much more superior solution available for decades at this point:

Outsourcing the work to a country with low wages. Even nowadays you can get highly skilled workers for like $50 a month in some African countries.

Pay them $500 a month instead and you've got yourself highly motivated employees, who are extremely eager to learn whatever skills you require.

In the very long run robots and "AI" will of course wipe out 99.9% of the available jobs, but at that point we'll have to think about other solutions on the political level anyways.

It is reasonable to assume any jobs done exclusively in front of computers are very early on the chopping block, but as long as you don't see the business majors or business jurists being sent out the door enmasse, I wouldn't worry too much.

And at that point you'll still have first class logical deduction and math skills and a lot of knowledge about algorithms, which are highly valuable skills in general.
FWIW I got annoyed with chrome's distracting home screen, and pondered how long it would take for a 10+ year chrome user to switch to firefox. The answer (on macOS) was 5 minutes. I was shocked how easy it was (and, frankly, how similar it was). When you first open firefox, it gives options to import all your chrome settings (including saved passwords etc). Super cool.
It is not a Go thing, tagged pointers have been around forever!!
These two solutions are more fun.

- make something else

- buy more regardless and make a larger batch

They have fewer points of technical failure; they don’t create security attack surface; they save bandwidth; they get you talking to your friends, family or neighbours more; most food waste biodegrades, so it’s not really “waste”.
Firefox is essentially a dead fish in the sea. Depending on source, Firefox sits at 3-8 % market share. They are much more likely to lose funding because of irrelevancy than some users using AdBlock.
Mozilla's rev stream from google is also antitrust mitigation.
My Firefox says its DNS-over-HTTPS provider (default Cloudflare) can't find this domain. I wonder why?
Avida: A Software Platform for Computational Evolutionary Biology (2009) [pdf]
Recently I stumbled upon Avida, a research project at Michigan State. They are exploring self-replicating & mutating computer programs as a way to learn more about natural evolution.

I can also see benefit in using this to develop an AI that is potentially more data/power efficient than something like GPT. In the same line of thinking, there is the potential for novel algorithm discoveries since evolution is based on chance mutations vs being constrained to human creativity.

Has there been any other similar research into this from an AI perspective? If not, why?
You can't see the details certainly, but figuring if something is there or is missing is solving the 80% case.
Without mentioning the ultra-patient parents.
Most of those authors are drive-by fixers. Go scroll through the commits list and look at the affiliations of those who are doing the regular work. But watch out, a few of them list OpenJS Foundation but actually work for Microsoft.

The Chromium stats are misleading for the same reason. Almost all commits are made by Googlers. There is a long tail of contributors over the years outside of Google but that doesn't mean their contributions are equally sized.
So his wife has some condition and he is left to do "women's chores". That's it. He's uncapable of channeling his frustrations, doesn't even understand.
see also: microwaves

A microwave needs two dials - one for power level, and one for time. Not a calculator keypad, not buttons with +1 and +10 on them or any of that nonsense - dials please. And start/stop buttons if you insist. That's it. It does not need a 'defrost chicken drumsticks' programme cluttering up the ui, because that function is far better fulfilled by a human repeatedly running the thing at low power for a few mins then poking the food with a finger
What's your wishlist? Browsers feel pretty complete to me in that I can open all the websites I want to open, and atleast with FF I can easily block ads.
I've had my fair share of printers over the years. They've always caused me significant rage and frustration (not necessarily in that order)

Last 4 years, I've owned a brother b/w laser printer. I replaced the original cartridge with a long life cartridge after the original was depleted.

It just works, it prints from my work pc, mobile phones, iPad, private computer, and even guests needing to print can connect and print.

Previous frustration of low quality, special paper, engine failures etc. is nothing but a faint memory.
Unfortunately a 13B model quantized down to even 2 or 3 bits won't fit into 8gb of ram. You might have to settle for 7B models. I'm currently getting great results out of the Mistral-Openorca-7B model. At 5 bits it's using about 5.5gb of ram and running at 14 tokens/sec on my M2 MacBook Air (24GB ram, but in theory would work on 8gb if MacOS will allow you to allocate that much ram to the GPU). As a quick test, forcing it into CPU mode, I'm still getting 11 tokens/sec. It does seem to take about 2-3 times longer to initialize itself and get into the "ready state" when using the CPU, however.
I get the argument you're presenting, but sometimes it's important to put your foot on the ground and say a hard no to even the cosmetic microtransactions.

Generally speaking these lists in part exist as buyers guides to those who don't have great impulse control to not buy microtransactions and that's something relevant to consider. "One buy and done" seems to be the hard criteria here (with some lenience if the "one buy" is an ad removal).
I ended up with mailu.

What got me interested is their integration with traefik. It just worked. Not without 9 hours of finding out the right proxy settings, but know I'm attached to it like to IKEA furniture.

On a more serious note, they showed an example of properly proxying a imap/smtp SSL connection. If you asked me before integrating it, I'd have thought it might be impossible, since SMTP has some STARTTLS negotation baked into protocol.

I only knew how to proxy SSL in HTTP and never knew that bare TCP can be used to PROXY and terminate tls as well.
I'm happy to see the push for this kind of anti-features.

My personal suggestion: Netflix Games[1] have higher quality than usual and no ads, no in-app purchases, and no predatory tactics (in the games I tried). Bonus points for being all free if you already have a Netflix account.

I can vouch for Poinpy[2], Laya's Horizon[3], Lucky Luna[4], and Skies of Chaos[5]. I haven't tried the mobile ports, but the desktop versions were very good: Into the Breach[6], World of Good[7], and Kentucky Route Zero[8].

The downside is that some Netflix'ied games seem to be buggy, and it requires an online connection on startup to check your account status.

[1]: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/121442

[2]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.NG...

[3]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.NG...

[4]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.NG...

[5]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.NG...

[6]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.NG...

[7]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.NG...

[8]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.NG...
Maybe you need to set the DISPLAY env var? Maybe it tries to contact the app via dbus and fails for some reason?

I'm quite sure this should work, and you just need to set some env var or so.
My dishwasher has a "wifi-button", so I decided to figure out what it does, as it turns out, it's completely useless. The only features you get is "you're out of rinse aid" and "Turn on remotely".

The thing is that turn on remotely is useless, it requires that you've added soap, closed the dishwasher and that it's turned on. At that point you might as well just set a timer.

There are two features I could see being useful: Auto-start during the night, when the electricity cost is lowest and a detailed error report, like heating element is 100% function, or water is leaking. None of those features will ever be available, because that's not why they are adding "smart" features.
Yeah, managed to do the first paragraph or two before wondering why I should care that this guy can't get over himself.
Hello there! I'm Robert, the creator of Grimoire.

I'm very flattered by such good observations and the warm welcome for this project. I won't be able to respond to every comment from you guys, but you bet I will read them all and take notes!

For now, Grimoire is at 1/10 of its potential, and I will work hard to make it worthy of being a good contender for your default bookmark manager. Definitely, it's missing many features, like a dedicated browser extension, import/export capabilities, and better documentation, and I'm well aware of that.

Was the launch rushed? Maybe, but I thought it would be great to hear your opinions and perhaps even appeal to some potential contributors (wink wink).

For now, I want to address the most common issues that prevent some of you from even running and testing it (clearly an oversight on my side). Then I will write a blog post on https://grimoire.pro to answer some of your questions and doubts, so (if not now, but maybe in the not-too-distant future), give it a chance.

Thank you again, and big kudos to user hunderbong for mentioning Grimoire on HN!
My Google-based guess is [1]. Not too many details, though.

Edit: ah, that provided keywords to find [2] which has more details. The brand was "Simplicity".

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/o7bgtg/a...

[2]: https://www.wackyexplorer.com/the-simplicity-air-conditioned...
Wait until she hits the curiosity stage and you see the birth of reason. That's something you don't get from a dog.