skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That actually is a good point I hadn't considered; I think it would still make enough sense in the local context ("tomorrow" is "the next time most of us will wake up"), but yeah, it adds a lot of confusion for short term relative terms...

I could maybe argue "well, 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' aren't very precise anyway - you need the entire context of the conversation to understand what they're referring to", but they're well established and understood... Darn.
The tech doesn’t “just” take control from me. It also exponentially increases the chances that the photo I wanted to take will be the photo that is saved on my device and shared with my friends.

It’s just picture of my dog. It’s not that serious.
Rolled my eyes at the capitalism comment. Was that really necessary?

Idealism > logic
Seconding the PWAs here, but I caution against thinking of it as an "either-or" situation.

If you're going to build an app that can be accessed in a browser from a url, there are only benefits to making it a PWA. Offline, local capabilities, wider native device access, first-class icon placement with mobile apps, and the simplest distribution network ever invented. Absolute win to make your app a PWA.

That said, it may lack some polish? I never had any issue with what they offered because I HATE apps. I will NEVER install an app on my device if I can help it. No facebook, no twitter, no amazon. If I should be able to do everything the app needs with a browser, then I will NOT download that app. Twitter and amazon at least understand that enough to have functional websites on all platforms. Things like facebook, on the other hand, are 'never installs' for me. So if there's something that capital-A Apps provide that you need, then you should probably go ahead and make one (hopefully using the same UI code you use for your PWA/web-app, but that's not always possible). Things like Twitch and YouTube get apps because they deal with a very specific type of data and can be (and are) optimized to handle that specific data type. Browsers just don't serve that kind of special-purpose design (nor should then), so there's valid reasons for those to be apps.

On the other hand, if you can avoid making a single-purpose app, you should probably try it? Besides the wonks like me refusing app downloads, you also have the headache of maintenance for multiple platforms and all of that pretty much necessitates code mutations and generations for each specific platform that then each all need to be maintained (or worse, in-house developed and maintained). For all of the people out there pitching "holy grail" versions of the write-once, publish-everywhere mantra, I haven't found any that don't include some pretty fine text to the tune of "we use these specific processes and you've just gotta roll with that, even though they will probably cause you compatibility issues in your codebase at least once"

As far as storage, though, localStorage is pretty sparse, it's true. But you can also use IndexedDB storage (pretty good!), and now there's a new file system api that mimics a disk file system in the browser, which is apparently way better but I don't have any first hand experience with that (and it's not useful to me until it can act like a database, but SQLite does seem to be working dilligently to make that happen ASAP). So there are options there, and while people may waffle about the reliability of some of them, I personally haven't run into any issues using IndexedDB (other than it's atrocious development experience).
It was a little frustrating that the main edge case that caught everyone didn't blow up my implementation, and going row by row of the 1000 line input it wasn't immediately obvious where it was going wrong (I'm not sure how far down I would've had to go to find the first time it hits this edge case, I just ended up checking the reddit for hints).

I really do think things like this should at least be hinted in the text to save a little frustration; I'm not trying to be the best on the leaderboard, I'm just doing these in the morning before work for a little fun.
Radio Paradise is good for this.
> The current one in particular is bound to have people typing “ravenous”.

I'd guess it was probably intended, and that makes things worse.

I know - as someone else was commenting - that naming things is hard, but for something like this, finding a name that is easy to pronounce, and easy to spell, should be a high priority.

Off the top of my head, playing with the fact that it is an OS, it runs on a Mac, and is based on FreeBSD (where BSD stands for Berkeley Software Distribution [0]), a couple of quick suggestions:

- BerkeleyOS (let's honor Berkeley)

- FinOS (a play on finess - easy to spell?)

- SteveOS (obvious reference - might be disliked by many - but is it Jobs or Woz? Perhaps WozOS would be better?)

- BillOS or JoyOS (Bill Joy founded BSD in 1976)

- JordanOS (Jordan Hubbard coined the term FreeBSD)

etc.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution
It's not just far harder than any previous wave of colonisation. The rewards aren't obvious.

A radio telescope on the far side of the Moon would be nice. But there are no slaves or spices, and no gold or other metals at prices that make the economics even remotely sane.

We'd be going for the sake of going - a good enough reason mythologically, but a very tough sell economically.

IMO we'd be better off clawing back the physics PhDs who work in finance and applying them to a blue sky search for new physics. With current tech there's a serious risk of a(nother) Space Winter when the initial wave either fails or doesn't generate any rewards.
They do mention implementing Cocoa APIs so there is a theoretical future where it can run some macOS apps. But that would be a very heavy lift (not quite ReactOS heavy but still) for little reward. And you’ll probably find everyone is using SwiftUI by the time it’s complete.
From the twitter description it wasn't clear whether this was just a display bug or the device actually failing to record the user input.

I naively assumed it was just failing to display the decimal point. But no, going by the manufacturer statement, the actual value entered and used will ignore the decimal point. You still have to confirm the (correctly-displayed-incorrectly-received-value). If you don't pay attention (because the last 10 times it worked) you might just die... That's unbelievable.

Aside: This is reminding me of the relatively-orthogonal-but-still-awful-imo-UX where entering numbers into payment fields (e.g. card reader or PayPal app) just floods in the numbers from the right, with every digit passing through the decimal places as you type. I don't know why it irks me so much more than "normal" number entering, but it just feels so wrong. I'm entering a quantity in (e.g.) dollars, but I have to type it as a number of pennies. Normally, entering the decimal point would disambiguate my intent clearly even if I type too few or too many decimal zeros...
Back before I ditched Reddit (years ago), this was how I used it as well. The "front page" offered nothing of interest to me in that forum.
For the first time, we're seeing views of China's entire space station
I suspect it was in rather large measure because white on blue was the default for the DOS prompt in the early-mid eighties, and that in turn I always thought was because those were the colours of IBM's logo.
> Things that are harmless but trivial to fix - so why not fix them.

Because you're only trying out some experimental changes and are not ready to commit yet anyway. Making sure all corners are smoothened enough so that noone can cut himself makes no sense in that case.
AI language translation models by Meta
Business people don't know what they are doing so they ape whatever they see other people doing. At the heart of a suit is a great deal of insecurity and fomo.
Seems like a problem booking.com could instantly eliminate by enforcing 2FA for hoteliers.
Those "sworn murderers" would be a tiny minority with no support, like any openly-racist group in most societies, if the mainstream wasn't so openly discriminated against by the same folks the "murderers" purposely hate.

Most armed movements in contested territories are historically overcome not by "subduing", but by actually addressing the grievances of the mainstream population who helps them. Look at Northern Ireland: the IRA was never defeated by military means, but they were engaged politically to solve the mainstream grievances that were well-founded: removing most anti-catholic discrimination across society, allowing free movement across the Irish border, and allowing each person to define themselves as Irish if they wanted to (rather than British). Until Israel takes a serious integrationist approach that removes its apartheid-style structures, the mainstream in Gaza will continue to support armed resistance, because they have nothing to lose from doing so and nothing to gain from not doing so.

> notice it's a practical philosophy

No, it's just fatalistic shortsightedness. If you can't imagine a better world, obviously you can't build it.

> Why do the Indians own more property in London than the British?

Because they resisted their occupation, reclaimed their immense land and resources, and fought to get back on a level playing-field. Definitely not because they accepted white-man rule!

(And if you claim that living in London is something to crave, man, you've probably never been there for more than a week :)
Ok, let’s make sure to judge your life by the decisions you make in your late 90s too. I’m sure they’ll be much more sound.
The LOE to figure out if someone manipulated data vs wirefraud is significantly different and probably much harder.
> By your logic every small open source project needs to hire a marketing firm to ensure their naming convention is easy to understand and inoffensive in every language on the planet.

That’s a straw man. It’s not what I said at all.
Give it some time...in the meantime, you have to realise the context in which you are living...compare your situation with other people, in other places, in other times...you have the privilege to have spent all your previous years isolated from seeing, let alone experiencing such horrors...suffering has been part of life since there has been life...i know this doesnt help you but i felt you were missing this part of the thought process

by the way, next time it happens, when you see it coming dont dwell in it, dont stare at the spectacle, just shut it down...same principle as seeing puke or shit...if you dwell staring at it youll get sick, just dont look at it
One moderately frustrating thing about using FreeBSD is that it's always been treated as sort of a second-class citizen by GNOME, and therefore Gtk, and therefore most of the Linux ecosystem which depends on Gtk. So probably the most popular desktop environment is KDE, and it's nice, but it is a certain kind of interface which doesn't appeal to everyone.

Meanwhile, OS X shares a little code with FreeBSD and was partially derived from it around 30 years ago. And the design philosophy of OS X is roughly the opposite of KDE. This situation has engendered at least half a dozen projects over the years, most of which are never really complete, to make a FreeBSD-first DE/UI that works like Mac. And if it can run Mac applications, so much the better!

Unfortunately, this is really hard. Cocoa is a moving target, and contra Wine, Apple is not as pertinaciously obsessed with backwards compatibility as Microsoft. Even much less ambitious (in my estimation) projects like enlightenment 17 and Wayland have struggled to replace major components of the desktop from the ground up.
From the inside, researchers/scientists see this as a non-issue. A few bad apples. From the outside, the public sees this as a systemic problem. Theranos, failed promises of covid vaccine efficacy, to mask or not mask, polyunsaturated fats are bad for you .. no wait, they're good for you.

Science has a PR problem and like it or not, science needs the support of society at large to succeed and move forward.
Thanks a lot for the feedback. I fully agree on corruption in academia.

Lately I've been thinking hard trying to put everything that's happening in science & technology into a proper frame, in the hopes that it will guide me about what to do individually. (Lots of good areas to focus on.)
Elon Musk Promises a Self-Driving Tesla in 2020 (2019)
This is incredibly awesome. I would love to see a lot of this on Linux, too. Apple has always had the best compositor in the business.

The marketing page is a little more generous to this project than the actual screenshots though, lol.
LLMs vary in there resource requirements.

The best models at the moment require beefy hardware, but you could still run a handful of 7B models, at the same time, with a top of the line laptop.

With a custom build they could do something far more impressive.
I think you find macOS confusing, distracting, and annoying because it hasn’t had strong design applied to it in over a decade.

It does get features to sustain people’s interest in Apple hardware and services, which I guess is a lifestyle. But it’s an “Apple lifestyle” not a MacOS one.

A lot of commentators don’t really seem to appreciate how Apple is a consumer electronics manufacturer now, and still evaluate it like people did ca. 2003. Apple could shut down their desktop/notebook computing division entirely and still make a bundle. (They probably would lose phone market share, though.)
It’s really difficult to show that emotions exist independently of the autonomic nervous system. Sure you can just ask people, but the challenges of reliable ratings mean it’s still a legitimate question 100 years later.

For instance, who can answer today, with all of the wearables available, how much of the variance in how we feel is explainable by autonomic indicators like heart rate, sweat, activity? After the variability tied to physiology is explains, what’s left over?
That linked description is very interesting. They list 3 steps that need to happen to get an incorrect dose. The 3rd step is that YOU confirm the dose. The next section emphasizes the importance of confirming it. That's all great, and yeah, the user basically hit OK but that does not change the fact that they have a software bug.

Also, since it happens intermittently with that kind of input I have to seriously question how the software is put together. If the input box shows the decimal there's no way it should slip past the parser. Something smells very wrong with how their app is put together, and that would make me concerned about other issues we just don't know about yet.
For my tests, Mistral-based models writing was excellent, particularly with zephyr-7b-beta and starling-7b-alpha derivatives (original Mistral is somewhat too dry). Far better than everything before in OSS (including 70B models), and certainly on par with GPT-3.5.
I doubt this is the case. However they should deal with it before it ruins the reputation of the broader community - it would prevent comments like this one from gathering steam.
Show HN: Best ChatGPT Custom Instruction
succinct and to the point.

trust me save your self hours of reading mindless chatter in answers.

Do you have a better one?
Now count all hairs on planet Earth. There’re more hairs in the universe than stars. Each hair is a universe of its own. Also not bad? Now repeat for everything else that’s meaningless.
I'm reposting from here[0][1][2] because there was no discussion

The original title is "Introducing a suite of AI language translation models that preserve expression and improve streaming". I've shortened it here so that it's more obvious that these models are from Meta (and worth discussing). The code is on GitHub:

https://github.com/facebookresearch/seamless_communication

From the GitHub: SeamlessM4T is our foundational all-in-one Massively Multilingual and Multimodal Machine Translation model delivering high-quality translation for speech and text in nearly 100 languages. SeamlessM4T models support the tasks of:

- Speech-to-speech translation (S2ST)
- Speech-to-text translation (S2TT)
- Text-to-speech translation (T2ST)
- Text-to-text translation (T2TT)
- Automatic speech recognition (ASR)

A wild guess: Meta going to be working on embedding this into hardware as fast as possible so that you can chat to anyone on the planet, no matter which language they speak

Related papers:

- Zero-shot Expressive Speech-to-Speech Translation: https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/sonar-expressive-z...

- Efficient Monotonic Multihead Attention: https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/efficient-monotoni...

- Multilingual Expressive and Streaming Speech Translation

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38477728

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38479724

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37232489
The attribution in that package hardly seems at all excessive, particularly given is it essentially a wrapper around the original work. Unless I'm missing something obvious (which is not an uncommon occurrence!). What about it makes you feel strongly enough to use the word “horror”?

My reading is that the attribution is not needed for the library, but for the output. It isn't “creating” that output as such, just regurgitating the original colour map data and the attribution needed if for that data.

But if the attribution requirement is for the library as well as the information it presents:

> Id gladly pay $10 to the guy so I never have to use an attribution

Maybe that is an option. Or if not, as with all licences we can't/won't agree to, there are other things you could use instead or even produce your own from first principles.
Umbrella protects from the terrible secret of space.
> If it isn't used the number of warnings will just grow and grow.

Only in shitty teams without discipline and only if warnings are not tracked in some other way.
Not much you can do when some scammy anti-malware company decides to block your website because "Newly Seen Domains".

That's basically the anti-malware company saying: "Fuck any startups or anyone who isn't already a bigcorp."
Are you mobile, usually?
It's not "their country", nobody (and I mean nobody) recognizes Gaza and West Bank as part of Israel. You could get away with "in their colonies", but then your argument would fall apart again.
In this case perverse incentives. Check out 'How not to study a disease: the story of Alzheimer’s' (by Karl Herrup) for a perspective on why this is not at all surprising.

That being said, I think it would be unfair to tarnish all of science with this brush though. There are many fields that don't suffer these problems nearly as much.
In any real engineering field, the engineer wouldn't compete for a job with "engineers" who went through a two month boot camp to be an engineer. They'd also have power to say "No" when a project manager insisted on pushing out an improperly tested product.
They're not but I am starting to see more and more of them on the road and I hate them
epic debugging story
I failed at first try but I found a hint by looking at the example character by character.
> Don't a lot of people in our industry say they do "1, maybe 2 hours of real work each day"?

Yes, but that doesn't mean people have 6 or 7 hours of free time every day. It means that 6 or 7 hours of the day is absorbed by work activities that don't contribute to the actual work.
Confirms the original story by Israeli 978 magazine:

https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-cal...

Unfortunately I think the subject is too controversial for hn.
> One thing that is remarkable, the icon is displaying a circle, but the icon image is really a square with transparent corners (inside a div container that is a rectangle).

…Yes. Ever seen an image file with circular dimensions? No, because digital images (at least in standard formats) are always rectangles, sometimes with transparent areas that make them to appear to be other shapes.

There are so many shockingly basic misunderstandings in this post.
If you're specifying @screen as the Media Type, the primary reason I can think of for going back to floats is art direction - especially if you wanted to float images alongside a block of text. I know there are "better" methods in more modern versions of the spec, but this is one that still seems to get a fair bit of use.

Old CSS never dies, it just goes to live on a very special farm upstate where it only has to do 1 or 2 jobs.
Try this?

https://help.obsidian.md/import/onenote
It’s schizophrenic to see that we are realizing the problem of huge amounts of regulations and unchecked bureaucracy, and then almost all solutions on HN, no matter the topic, screams “More regulations!”.

Regulations is a huge topic with lots of nuances, effectiveness and various domains; but I just see every thread on HN constantly and incessantly drumming for more Gov intervention. Switch to another thread and first knee jerk reaction, often the top voted comment is about regulations.

I’m not saying at all about getting rid of regulations. They are absolutely necessary but maybe we should be a little more careful about putting them in place?
There is a max dose but it is a user setting. Mine is set to 25, since I would take about 20 if I ate a few slices of pizza for instance.
C# and Shader Tutorials for the Unity Engine
Heh, yea, this is why when I went to DEFCON I disconnected the feed to my body. I mean it's not likely someone's going to try to murder me via bluetooth, but why take the risk when I didn't have to.

In the days before I had a pump I did something similar to myself. I had a short acting insulin and long acting insulin both in pen form. Managed to give myself the large overnight dose which should have been the long acting with the short acting pen. After about 15 minutes I realized something was up when I felt the low coming on and spent the next 2 hours drinking a disgusting amount of orange juice.
A reservation is $100 (refundable) or 1/10th of 1% of the purchase price. That's not a reservation, it's a thinly veiled attempt to pump the perceived success of this launch and share price. They know it, you know it, I know it, and the market knows it.

Talk to me when they require a 20% down payment and I'll believe the hype.
I would take the FreeBSD path, then install a 9Front on bhyve, i really love 9Front, but sometimes i just need to open a office file or want to play a dos-(box) game.

However have fun!
I haven't gotten around to learning to drive yet (didn't think I could afford it on a PhD stipend, but turns out I can, so working on it now), so I'm always on foot and always dealing with the half-baked public transport.
Obviously it's not true for all projects.
But it's true for most of them, no?
As of today, China is anticipating that nuclear will make up only 18% of its electrical generation by 2060, and nearly all of the rest will be renewables and storage. That 18% isn't enough generation to handle the "surge to make up for renewable sources suddenly drying up" use case, even if that's a real thing to worry about (which it isn't, when you're building a mostly-renewable grid at continental scale.)

But even that 18% is already starting to look like it's out of date. Energy generation, battery storage and renewable generation are all growing exponentially and well beyond the government's targets. I think it's much more likely that renewables and storage will vastly outpace nuclear generation, and that 18% estimate will prove to be absurdly high. Once you've got a grid that's 90+% renewables and storage, a few nuclear plants aren't going to make much of a difference.
Really unsurprising, given how widely & far in advance Hamas would have needed to circulate copies of their plans.

But, just as tank warfare has it's many-layer "survivability onion" ( https://www.tanknology.co.uk/post/primer-protection ), military intelligence also has a onion. And that for-sure ain't some simplistic "(1) Obtain Enemy's Secret Plan, (2) Quickly Create Great Counter-Plan, (3) Foil Enemy's Secret Plan".

[Edit: That simplistic 3-layer version did make a great plot for Star Wars, back in 1977...]