skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In fact, you were so close — you called it a "no accent am-english", when you could have just called it what it is — "an american accent".

There are many american accents. Your suggestion makes the sentence much less clear.

And by specifying "american" they're already making it clear there is no such thing as a universal base accent for english.
How do Uber drivers know who to pick up?
Didn't know that! Wonder what made them choose to turn this off by default. Must be an interesting eng story.
Pretty much this - they provide student rankings for graduate and professional admissions, and practically that seems to be their primary function (rather than improving educational outcomes, which isn't served well by stack ranking/grading on a curve.)
Indeed, many of the most painful technical problems are actually three business problems in a trenchcoat.
Show HN: Concurrent Agents Showcase in React
I wrote a small "game" to showcase concurrent agents (via a library) working in a React app.

It demonstrates how a React program can be written with DOD-inspired pattern to make it easy to reason about, straightforward in re-render instruction semantic. Thus as the side effect the program is performant.

You're invited to view the source to examine the neat design pattern underneath as well as the agent management library that powers the app.

Caveat: it doesn't work well in mobile yet, so switch to desktop site mode.
Over time, yes. But over, say, three weeks, science can do a lot of damage to an economy before it self-corrects.
Official Nvidia drivers for macOS back when those still existed were second class citizens too. They had a rotating cast of odd bugs you’d never see with the Windows drivers.

Non-Windows desktop users definitely don’t seem to be among Nvidia’s chief concerns.
From page 26 to page 96! 1266 in all.

TL:DR;

The bogeyman of automation consumes worrying capacity that should be saved for real problems . . .” A half century on, I believe the evidence favors Simon’s view.
I wonder if the word "marketing" has a different but still correct definition here, like; "bringing a product to market".

ASML seems unlike most other companies I've heard of, since every single sale is a significant chunk of the netherlands' gnp, and they have to inform the government every single time they ship something.
Shake the cushions!

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/21/23883680/us-google-antitr...
They're only "better off" if there's better things for those children to be doing. If schools are not available, then what? If there's no adults available to supervise the children (because they're doing labor themselves), then what?

For most of human history, child labor was common practice. It's purely a first world, modern thing that you can truly dial back child labor.
Probably, auto1111 does the same - but I agree with GP it shouldn’t be there.

If it isn’t explicitly surveillance, it could effectively be.
Heh...I know of one particular drydock that was built in China.
It has long been my understanding that building a bullet-proof civilian vehicle is illegal except for commercial security business, e.g. armored cars...
On top of that the CTO has a product, not engineering background. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Sorry I like the battery in my laptop, and I like my browser not consuming 1GB RAM per process, tabs not taking multiple seconds to close if I have the browser open for a while without restarting it, etc. I try it every so often and it’s always exactly this bad. I’ll just stick to something like Brave if I’m not using Chrome directly.
This is very uninteresting and way behind the big cloud vendors high density installs. Theyre just saying “when power/cooling limited use a form factor that optimizes your remaining constraints, like RU.” So yes, 2p & 3p edge sites are commonly limited to 5-10kva, and you end up with low density racks and “extra” physical space you can use. In the modern dense 1p deployments youll see 20kva, or more, per position. The physical form factor always follows those constraints based on cooling/power/connectivity/weight/etc.
That's fine, but all of the areas I mentioned are places where people build below the flood hazard level. Like, virtually the entire country of the Netherlands is a flood hazard zone, Venice floods nightly, Germany had the recent Rhine floods, Australia has building codes specific to construction in flood zones, the US has major urban centers in flood areas, and so on. I'm curious what area is being referred to where this sort of stuff doesn't happen.
> If you take care of a Yonoya comb, it’ll last you for decades, the company says

I don't take care of my $3 Ace plastic comb, and it's over 20 years old. You're telling me for this Japanese one I need to pay $200 and I need to start taking care of it??
How many technological revolutions do we need to go through before we just accept an admit by default it’s typically about boobs?
I really really doubt that an AI from the 60s is at the same level than gpt 3.5
Sounds good, how do you join the reading club?
We might both be right. It appears the original version was a fantasy where the Oompa-Loompa's were happy to be taken from their homeland to an underground factory to work for free. This is from "Jeremy Treglown’s Roald Dahl: A Biography"

"In the version first published, [the Oompa-Loompas were] a tribe of 3,000 amiable black pygmies who have been imported by Mr. Willy Wonka from ‘the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had been before.’ Mr. Wonka keeps them in the factory, where they have replaced the sacked white workers. Wonka’s little slaves are delighted with their new circumstances, and particularly with their diet of chocolate. Before they lived on green caterpillars, beetles, eucalyptus leaves, ‘and the bark of the bong-bong tree.'"

Is this technically slavery? Maybe not, by the fairy tale logic of the book. But this is a troublesome, to say the least, trope of oppressed people who are perversely grateful to be exploited by (invariably) white men. To each their own bong-bong tree.

https://groovyhistory.com/oompa-loompas-the-original-ones/4
It's utterly wild that you would equate back-breaking manual labor with doing multiplication tables. It speaks to how very little back-breaking manual labor you've done in your life.
The BBC got this right when they shut down their online store a few years back. Every customer was offered a full refund.
Anyone continuing to use Chrome at this point despite all of Google's shenanigans (outside of forced situations like work) deserves what they get.
One thing the "no deletion" argument misses is that sometimes you have to delete data for policy reasons. At least two cases are important:

* Users ask you to delete their data. If you don't, and they find out you didn't, you have a problem.

* Legal action may require you to delete data. (E.g. you may find that someone uploaded child pornography to your system.)

This is actually a huge problem for companies like Google (where I work). When you have enormous volumes of highly reliable and durable (i.e. replicated) storage, it's actually really hard to make sure you can delete all copies of specific data reliably and quickly.
Not in the HTML 4.01 spec (https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html), so probably a vendor extension (don't think I ever used these attributes).
Paris court finds smart contract exploit not criminal
> Should a simple app like Apple Reminders or Google Tasks have the GUI pause if there are delays or connection issues?

Yes, they should, because I _need_ good feedback for connection issues.

I have not used those two specific apps, but for other "online first" apps it's such a common problem. Open an app, type a note, switch back to a different app (or turn off your phone, or close laptop lid).

Later on, you want to access the note and it's not there. Why? the authors decided to be "smart" and "offline first" and made sync in background, with no feedback, or with heavily delayed feedback... and I was walking out of wifi range when i was typing the note, so connection was spotty.

The OP's demo TODO app has exactly the same problem - no indication when the data is already uploaded. So please, if your real goal is collaboration, let user know when you cannot perform it, don't sweep it under the rug hoping the things would get uploaded eventually.
Yeah, that was exactly was I was doing. For the left number do everything as normal, while walking through the string. For the reverse part, just walk through the reverse of the string and match the reversed keywords.
i don't think htmx is very opinionated: it generalizes hypermedia controls in HTML and that's about it. No strong opinions on how you use it beyond that, can work reasonably well w/ any back-end that produces HTML. The goal is to expand the set of UI use cases that can be cleanly expressed in HTML w/o resorting to (user) scripting.

Yeah, htmx is 3800 LoC, and you could do an 80/20 version of it for a lot less, but there are a lot of details to get right: history, collecting inputs, etc. plus, since it's a general purpose library, it has an extensive event system, extension mechanism, etc. There isn't a ton of dead weight to drop, although 2.0 should be smaller as we drop some bad ideas in 1.x.

I don't care too much about the holy wars around REST, I found them off-putting back in the day before I really understood the concept, but I am passionate about the uniform interface and communicating to developers why that was interesting and different. I do go a bit hot at times, especially at twitter, but, on the other hand, if I didn't, would you have ever heard of htmx? I try to balance that all out w/ reasonable essays and the book, which, I think, is worthwhile for most web developers to read (it's free online.)
Not a lawyer and happy to be corrected but my wild ass guess says that unless you are breaking a law of your country they cannot do anything.
Nobody has mentioned swords yet? That's the neet starter-pack first item.
With no real way to confirm it doesn’t phone home.

IDK, this all seems weird considering there are four other really good projects that do all of these things already.
No their legal team would have wrote something like that:

Your previous purchased and limited license to consume media from our partner Discovery is hereby revoked as we can written in our EULA (you have accepted that with your first setup of our excellent product THE PS5 super-slim) we love our customers and have a great day.
They are putting their minds to the problem though. It will take longer, but i'd guess in 2025 they will have a great system of their own design that is good for cheap drones. Probably still keep whatever systems they have (mostly NATO) for misstles, but for drones they want something cheap and able to take out mass attacks.
I don’t have any reason to trust Sam Altman much. To me, he seems polished enough to actually be slimy. He’s well liked by others but wealthy tech is a particularly insular group.

But my god, in what world should the future of “AI safety” be in the hands of a small board of directors that works in a completely opaque manner and with uncertain motivations or capabilities?

Surely humanity’s fate is not meant to be guarded by the Quora dude.
I'm still waiting for EVs that allow arbitrary charging while operating to allow things like this. Or some sort of PTO (power-take-on/off) system for rapid charging. Currently, one of the fastest ways to charge many EVs is to tow it while using its regenerative brakes.

Added generators wouldn't even need to be that good to completely obliterate FUD about limited range.
Exactly. There was a time that Chrome was the spunky upstart, challenging Internet Explorer's dominance. Now, Google has ossified and it's the slow, anti-competitive behemoth. Time to switch, folks.
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You're at least a decade late if you think "hacking" (in the sense of building things) is going to get you out of this situation. The problem with these platforms is network effects and lack of interoperability and not in the technical effort required to build an alternative.

In the 90s, the same "arguments" held for Microsoft's applications. The hackers decided to build GNU/Linux and other open source operating systems.
How unhelpful!
Except the exact same thing happens with AMD and their open source drivers. There are tons of AMD cards that are perfectly fine for desktop usage and will absolutely not work under Linux.

It comes down to a religious belief in open source, which is totally fine. But let’s be honest about what’s happening here.
> Compares “using a computer” to “using an AI” as if they’re the same.

No, the article expresses the relationship "using an AI to do X" is a subset of the main set "using a computer to do X", but demonstrates that affecting the subset without affecting other elements of the main set is hard in the context of statutory law.

> Makes AI companies out to be the victim of AI doomers

The article does not refer to the AI companies as victims, and doesn't focus on the impact to AI companies in particular.

The article's argument is a slippery slope: how do you write a law which restricts "using an AI to do X" without restricting other forms of computer tasks? What I have in mind are scraping, downloading (like youtube-dl), parsing, recoloring (can be accessibility-related), and otherwise interpreting (broad umbrella, but I'm thinking along the lines of OCR).

> Makes AI companies out to be the victim of AI doomers without offering any kind of solution to the people using copyright as a tool to protect their livelihoods. People are not IP maximalists on principle I’d have to guess but if it’s the best available means to safeguard their work from being leveraged against them they will use the means they have. Until that issue is addressed articles like this fall on deaf ears.

While it would be nice if the author of the article had a different proposed solution in mind, pointing out flaws in the solution "treat AI models as copyright infringement" is an important task. Moreover, keep in mind that the status quo is an option, and sometimes better than a change (especially when the First Amendment is involved). Will the AI regulation you have in mind would be worth it, and (separate question) will your proposed solution be better in comparison to the trend of the status quo?
> Brave

You absolutely can, and will go wrong when you pick a Chromium browser. Picking a Chromium supports Google much more than any developer who decides to redistribute Chromium with a theme and a few addons. It also makes the case for funding other web browsers that aren't controlled by Google much weaker.
I can’t seem to get myself to switch. I’ve only used A1111 a dozen times and only for funny work images… I can’t seem to get myself to switch over to comfy because it looks rather intimidating.
Another point of view - road to hell is paved with good intentions. Policies pushed by idealists often hurt the people they are supposed to help. Even policies pushed by cynics often have unforeseen second order effects that bite the people in the ass. People writing here don't share the risk of any solution going downhill with the people actually in Ghana.

A pressure on the big companies to clean up their supply chain of child labor (noble effort) - do you know which segments of Ghana laborer will be hurt and how. If you don't know (or at least have very good guesstimate) - then be prepared to be surprised unpleasantly from some of the results.
tsunami*
The title certain piqued my interest!
Is that 1GB idle per process or total for all 7 processes?
Good to know there is a place for my latest SciFi book to go in fifty years.
Enjoy your Chrome prison, then.
In theory (and this is a complex layered subject with many pros and cons that would easily occupy a book) British libel law forces a serious conversation as to firmly allege that Jimmy Saville fiddles children would require hard proof that Jimmy Saville fiddles children.

ie. It's not "a serious conversation" until you can bring receipts.

On the flip side many British publications are skilled at skirting libel and can easily imply, impute, report that an allegation was raised, etc without directly coming out and making a statement that they (so far) cannot prove in Court.

Which circles back to many layered beast with many pros and cons and a history of the application of libel swinging too far one way or another at various times.
Not comercially successful but I produced a Flash animation between 2000s and 2001 [1].

It ended up in a very successful and original Latam TV channel called Locomotion [2].

[1] http://swain.webframe.org/zeek.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotion_(TV_channel)?wprov=...
Looks to be defense contractor (job listing says active security clearance is a plus)
That is interesting, but all sorts of printed media have seen a decline in the U.S. at least. A lot of magazines have gone under or are going entirely digital. While books seem to be doing okay in printed form, I'm certain they've seen a decline too. Western comics were usually sold at newsstands and magazine racks. Newspapers are almost completely gone and magazine racks have been downsized everywhere from when I was a kid.
Html and css are probably the best, easiest and most effective ui toolkits ever. Name one which is better.
I admire the Nouveau people, lots of hard work with blocks nvidia is happy to throw in front of them. I have had no issues with Nouveau on the one system I have with an nvidia GPU.

With that said, I wish Linux would do what OpenBSD does, do not support nvidia GPUs until it is opened up. Maybe this will make nvidia smarten up.
If I buy a book, I own that book. I can burn it, I can lend or give it to a friend, I can read it as many times as I like, and nobody can legally come and take it away from me.
Any journalist who mentions the words "racism" and "antisemitism" in an article about Tesla vehicles has an axe to grind. Unsurprisingly, it's none other than Vice making these cheap shots. (Full disclosure: I identify as Jewish.)
Sure! It’s a hierarchical numbered outline of the emotion words according to time (past, present, future), then valence (positive, neutral, negative) and finally, locus of control (internal or external).

That’s cool because it lets us understand emotion in terms of logical relationships between points in a geometric space.

When we understand emotion in this way, it becomes clear how emotion isn’t separate from logic, but rather, emotion IS logic. Logic of the memory, experience, and prediction of pleasure, “zen,” and pain!

Consider Star Trek. Commander Data wouldn’t exist without emotion, he couldn’t, it wouldn’t make sense, that would imply he had no world model about time (duh) and good vs bad.

Future Good: Hope
Future Bad: Fear

I dare you to find one emotion word that doesn’t fit this framework.

The consequences for AI could be huge. Specifically, we may not be able to avoid developing emotional AI, because emotion emerges directly from the structure of reinforcement learning over time.

We might be forced to deal with “scared AI,” whether or not we want to deal with it or want to create that, because fear is a generic term for the apprehension of future loss. Don’t expect AI to be unfeeling. Evolution may work by repeated accidents, but the cumulative result is NEVER an accident.

Sorry for the formatting, but the content is crucial, and I find it infinitely more clear than “emotion as arousal” (the referent of the “James-Lange Theory” eponym) — that’s overly simplistic.
What Happened at OpenAI? (Nonzero Podcast with guest Timothy Lee) [video]
It's an interesting discussion, not the be-all end-all, but plenty of info and perspectives.
Perl was my first programming language. After more than two decades, it is still the language I feel the most efficient in. Glad to see Perl is still alive and kicking !
Show HN: Gendealers.com – Find local generator dealers and service
Tools are a lot cheaper if you don't listen to the hype from the snap-on guy
Teaching and Learning Compilers Incrementally [ICFP'23 Tutorial] Jeremy G. Siek [video]
MS pulls other crap though such as conveniently disabling the extension you need to install to prevent their ADD-inducing news-page from being displayed on every new tab.
I have tried twice in the past 5 years or so to convert different projects (mostly Java) to Bazel but failed miserably every single time.

I do not have notes handy so I don’t remember exactly what happened but my impressions after a week or two invested trying to get it running were a) that our projects had too many unsupported things (dependencies, flows) that would require a huge effort to adapt; and b) that it would take way too much effort for our small team to convert the 500+ repos we were building to release our software.

I have always dreamed of a time in which I’m able to fin a tool that fills this gap. Man, not having to build the same code that hasn’t changed over and over locally and in pipelines sounds so appealing.
Colombian coffee is arguably the best, not Japanese, Italian, or French. As for denim I doubt that, any examples?
I worked on building exactly this earlier this year. I was hanging out in Taiwan for a few months and thought, surely the Babel Fish should exist by now.

I did several experiments recording from all the microphones I could on my iPhone and AirPods while out in the wild. My conclusion: it's impossible right now for that hardware given the microphones we have and what they pick up.

So much of what's spoken is at a combination of (a) high distance (b) low volume (c) background obscuration. Something that was clear as day to my ears would barely register on the mics. While context is of course an issue, the raw audio didn't have enough to even translate.

The one caveat is that there might be low-level (i.e., Apple-only) access to headphone microphones that capture the environment to do noise cancellation. I'm not sure though---I couldn't find them on any API.

For cases where you do have clear audio, existing apps (e.g., Google Translate) are so close to achieving this, but don't let you specify audio outputs with enough fine grained control. By default, it will start screaming out of your phone what you were attempting to silently translate.
Never had that problem even at FF’s worst. Try deleting your profile and starting over.
much, much better results and a wealth of additional features like several playlists for each genre, new releases, etc.
https://pebble.finance/

(Disclosure: The CEO is an acquaintance, but I have no financial interest.)
You may be confused and may want to post on 'who wants to be hired' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38490809. This is for people who have jobs and want people.
I believe you're right but what about the effect of the creative process on you the creator as opposed to your listeners? Surely, that's an important aspect of this for you as a person and for us as a society. That, is what I feel is lost with AI generated content.
“Weird YouTube”
“Science Twitter”
“Gay Instagram”

I wish we would stop pretending topics inside generic social media constitutes some unique community. It’s the same site, used by the same people; there is nothing unique or special about it.

But everyone has to pretend “their thing” is special.