skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you build it as a friendly wrapper around Zoom/Teams/Whereby.com/BigBlueButton/Teams/Skype etc. to save yourself work?

As a value add, it would be nice to have interoperability between all video calling apps (that's clearly a separate, much harder to build, app), because agreeing on an app is tedious and wastes time.
How can you chat with a pdf which doesn’t fit in the context window? I mean with a 500 page pdf you might need 100 context windows to fully grok it.

Basically it makes no sense to “chat” with a 500 page pdf with todays LLMs.
I suspect this is precisely what is happening in Russian civil aviation now. No legit parts supplied, so there will be a lot of fake/problematic parts imported through black channels.
Exactly. It's weird for me that jobs are so strongly focused on some narrow technology. E.g. "React programmers" or "Javascript programmers" or "Python programmers".

When you know the basic "underlying" model, switching from a framework or language to another is not a very big deal. Not much bigger deal than figuring out a new large codebase with a familiar framework/language.

Sure, it may take a few weeks of learning new stuff and being unproductive (or even negatively productive) during this phase, but this is to be expected in any job.

I don't think learning the more fundamental concepts is that hard but it does require some time (and interest) that is not immediately productive. Perhaps due to demands of being productive, as in churning code, all the time gets people (and the industry) to get stuck in such "local optimum".
I was simply using the word feel as a synonym for the word believe. No injury intended.

You still have not answered the very simple question though, and i might be a bit slow off the mark but i don’t see it answered elsewhere in this thread.
The version the NYT links to is far more legible: https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/TheGoldenAss...

(and as their erratum notes, they meant Book IX, not XI)
I love that you went there with an invasion force (not judging) but also helped local medical infrastructure.
It's a popular hackathon topic. Scheduling calls shouldn't be difficult either.

I don't think there's a market or anything for it, but it's something you should be able to do in a weekend, and put on your resume, so why not?
> voice-based computing like Star Trek.

It sure if you’re remembering most of Star Trek very well, the crew evidently, and demonstrably does more work on their consoles, which have actual UI’s.

Can you imagine trying to navigate to a sub directory and run a binary but your LLM-assistant has decided that it thinks you want to search for the file name on the web? And you can’t just do it yourself, because they’ve taken away the actual tools from you.

I think I’d actually go and become a goat-farmer at that point.
Probably better to mask it instead if you don't want it to execute at all
It's so interesting to read on aviation postmortems even for people that don't fully understand all the technical details as explained in the article (great by the way, kudos to the author). I've always wondered if there is an authoritative database with all significant events in aviation to read and learn more about? Do pilots study past events as part of their training?
Intel Demonstrates Breakthroughs in Next-Generation Transistor Scaling for Nodes
They completely forget one of the most famous historical historical clocks which preceded the Chinese mechanical clock (1090CE) they listed by about 280 years (807CE).

It was gifted to Charlemagne, the Holy Roman Emperor, by Harūn al-Rashīd:
https://muslimheritage.com/baghdad-clock/
Tack, Alexander! I'll add your thesis to my library of papers & books on online trust.
I currently pay because I use it a lot on my iPad and phone in addition to the web. Anyone have a recommendation on how to use api access on mobile? Then changing might be worth it
Ask HN: Best GPT4/DALLE front end
Is there a third party frontend for openai APIs that offers a better UX than the official chatgpt website?
As well as using extremely stale sources, the Wikipedia article fails to separate airlines from other forms of civil aviation.

US airlines have a fatal crash rate very close to zero. 'General aviation', which roughly means private light aircraft, is a very different world and has roughly 1 fatal crash per 100,000 hours flown, making it less safe than driving. Chartered flights are somewhere in the middle.

There's not much sense looking at the overall figure for aviation; the different categories really are very different.
If only we could fork the middle east.
Very polished.
Is there anything similar for windows?
Under "Great Moments in Hacker History" they mention Masters of Destruction (MOD). Do they mean Masters of Deception?
Which model can I use with 16GB ram? I tried Ollama with WizardCoder 7b, but it didn't work.
Modern finance is broken in multiple ways.

As an example, let's start with the very first step of a transaction.

The payer puts some "secret" numbers into the website of the payee.

With those "secret" numbers, the payee contacts some middleman and says "Heyho, your customer agreed to pay $12345 to me. Here is proof of this: The secret numbers". This is already absurd, as the payer gives those "secret" numbers our all the time. So they are not secret. And the $12345 could be completely made up.

The way this is handled is that the middle man tries to cope with the clusterfuck that is the result of this. And everybody suffers along the way.

The payer has a bad user experience. What is the latest UX ploy to get fraud under control? Was it 3D-Secure-Name-Your-First-Dog-Name-Plus-Another-Secret-Number-Or-Hey-We-Have-An-App-For-You-That-Creates-Random-Card-Numbers-Each-Time-You-Pay-Oh-And-Hello-Do-You-Support-Apple-Pay? I lost track.

The payee has to constantly tinker with fraud detection and fraud handling.

Just like the middleman, although the middle man likes it this way because they get paid for it.
Recent Amazon UK delivery experiences:

- Expected delivery on Wednesday, instead "delivered" Tuesday when I'm out by just leaving it in front of the front door, 1m from the street.

- Sitting downstairs eating dinner, my phone pings, Amazon package apparently delivered. But nobody rang the bell or knocked the door. It's just been left outside the front door again.

- Another "delivered" notification but no knock and nothing left outside the house. Check app, status is "handed to resident". Assume it's been nicked, but check with the neighbour just in case - thankfully they got it!

- My parents ordered some glassware, delivery driver dropped the package (marked Fragile) from waist height onto their doorstep, again without even attempting to knock/ring the bell. Footage captured on security cam. Obviously glassware didn't survive.
The whole process is dependent on advanced computer chips. If you prevent these being made, then you can prevent AGI. The question is how to prevent them being made with minimum side effects to other industries.
I believe the commenter you’re responding to omitted /s
Thanks. By default, BoltAI stores user's API key in Apple Keychain. So other applications and scripts won't be able to access this key without triggering the OS's security dialog.

Secondly, all requests are sent directly to OpenAI servers. There is absolutely no middle/proxy server.

There is however a proxy server for Claude but this was due to a technical difficulty and user can host their own proxy server instead.
What's very nice about RISC-V 64bits: code assembly once, run it everywhere, almost quite literaly... no absurdely and grotesquely massive and complex compilers anywhere, no planned obsolescence, feature creeps on computer language syntax nowhere to be found, ultra stable in time, near 0 SDK.
This reminds me of a documentary I saw on prison labor. Prisoners would be forced to peel garlic, many of whom damage their fingernails with it and end up peeling it with their teeth. 2000 years from now, archeologists would be digging up things like this as 21st century slave labor.
That is not related to how the app works though
That’s a small subset of their customers in a single country. I don’t think they really care either way.
It's a Negotiation: When Product and Engineering Meet
The problem here is mostly computational cost. Simulating finer grained details needs a proportionally higher tick rate. In this case although the engine sim seems to be 2D and the gas sim 1D but both would need really high resolution to output sound synthesis. Driving games for now are largely putting that work into tyre dynamics as it’s such an integral part of the driving experience. Maybe there’s head room to do this x number of cars on the track but I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion that they can just slap in a similar simulation.
The link you provide states "Device Warranty: 30 Days". This is ridiculously short. Is this thing at all reliable? If yes then why such a "non-warranty"?
We're making a niche B2B application, and this is very much it for us as well.

Our customers are in a cutthroat market with low margins. We can't spend a ton on pre-analysis, redundancies and so on.

Instead we've focused reduced the impact of failures.

We've made it trivial to switch to an older build in case the new one has an issue. Thus if they hit a bug they can almost always work around it by going to an older build.

This of course requires us to be careful about database changes, but that's relatively easy.
Russ Cox at ACM Scored: Open-Source Supply Chain Security at Google [video]
But like…why?

At the risk of being “HN talks about rsync on the Dropbox thread” what’s this offering that can’t already do, for free, without a EULA, and inevitable VC-enshittification risk?

> ditch vim for quick updates

Bruh, have you seen the average vim user? They’re about the fastest people on a computer I’ve seen in my life. This is not exactly a convincing argument.

> Render code, images, markdown, and CSV files without ever leaving the terminal.

So like, bat/cat/any number of other tools that already exist, and dont require me to run a whole web-browser to operate?

I just, don’t get the appeal, and I’m so curious as who is the target market for this? Are there armies of devs out there who are like “please, I wish my terminal was actually a web browser with a EULA, pls build a product for me!”??
State of JavaScript Survey 2023
links and lynx forever...
It is great for personal growth.

Since I have been part of many such grinds that are now big data sets, I can honestly tell you that it is one of the best things in the world. I know that those thousands of hours of my work has led to 100x savings for other people. I also met people and could work on problems I would never get in professional life.
i thought this was about PPG synths but no
After reading it again, I think you're right ^^
Command Center: Simplicity
Garlic and the 'dirty secret' of China's prisons

https://www.ft.com/video/140c3fa5-a3c1-438b-9601-e92ad0e1b39...
Terminal interfaces are devs due for an upgrade, but this doesn’t feel like a genuine solution to that, this feels like just try to pollute CLI land with the web-tech everyone already complains about.
> I will be a little on edge flying in the US

That doesn't make sense. The article is concerning, but the USA still has a solid track-record for aviation safety, and its airlines in particular have a fatal crash rate of effectively zero. (Non-airline aviation is a different world.)

There's a slim but real chance one of us will die in a car crash. There's essentially zero chance either of us will die in an airliner crash. That would still be true even if we were both airline pilots.
Ford cars in Europe have done this for years… my son crashed his 2016 Fiesta the other week and the car automatically called the emergency services via his phone
It being a violation of the EULA means absolutely nothing lol
"I want peace on earth and goodwill toward men."
"We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing."

The team's demands were a great way to end the movie.
Cowgol 2.0 (2022)
Cowgol is an experimental, Ada-inspired language for very small systems (6502, Z80, etc).
You guys really didn't get the joke, right? <-)
The problem is BYD's LFP battery energy density is only 150 Wh/kg. Compared to 260 in something like a Tesla.
I tend to prefer the steaks over the writing!
It's not "blame diffusion", it's risk management. Two sets of eyes are more likely to catch issues than one, and if I specifically know that some part of the code is tricky and person X is familiar with that part of the code, I might even ask that specific person to review.

Honestly, it sounds like you have a very cavalier attitude towards breaking production. That might work in some settings, but definitely not all of them.
New catalyst cleanly degrades nylon-6, the plastic in fishing nets
Seems way more abstruse than just using fzf
Surprised this is done in Rust. I could never imagine not doing the v1 of something like this in Python or similar, to be able to change things quickly. Maybe the design was very clear on the person's mind.
It is believed that the characteristics you mention in the first few paragraphs are because Bing is based on an old pre-release version of GPT-4, which didn't have all the guardrails that the final versions have (note that Bing Chat was released before access to GPT-4 was available directly from OpenAI).
Restricting diesels older than 18 years old is perfectly reasonable - the amount of PM 2.5 those things put out significantly contribute to childhood asthma etc.

By comparison, London's ULEZ restricts diesels older than 2016.

Of course there's no reason why vehicles couldn't be restricted both on CO2 AND PM 2.5 emissions, if you want to promote small, clean cars
Another alternative is fzf.el [1] which wraps fzf.

[1] https://github.com/bling/fzf.el
It's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes. - well, at least the electrolytes part is true. When you sweat heavily, you lose minerals and salts, which can become detrimental to performance or even dangerous to your health during intense workouts. Hydration products [claim to] replenish these.
When I would go to my Professor’s office hours they would be swamped but about a half dozen students just trying to get passing grades. I feel like colleges now self-select for laziness. The less work you actually have to do, the less opportunity to fail.
I always love reading these guides, and I will eventually give in and buy Mickey's book just as a quick peek into his overflowing mind.... but this article left me wanting for a fizzy completion engine in emacs.

There is the emacs-fzf package, icicles, and various other vertical completion frameworks, but I essentially want something that pretends to be fzf at the Emacs level, without having to spawn background shell scripts
This is what I did. 3080 eventually became a 3090 off ebay and 32gb now 128... but all on a budget and over time.

Also as other have pointed out, it depends... I run models on Raspberry Pi's as well, one is doing live network detection...
The article talks about a piece of software that partially failed, when they needed to calculate the braking distance for the overweight aircraft.
IMO the more fundamental problem is that the examinations typically won’t measure how much students have learnt independently. If you want to do well in most university exams, then you need to pay very close attention to exactly what the professor wants you to learn and make sure you’re learning exactly that.

It is possible to design exams that actually grade people on their knowledge of the subject in general, but most universities seem to leave exam design to the course leader, so quality varies drastically.
In the Netherlands ebikes are a game changer because many people can now commute between cities on a bike (bike lanes are alongside motorways too). But they are so fast! There’s been an increase in dangerous accidents with them, particularly among the older generations.

Electrification is great but it has risks too.
Ask HN: Is It Hyped?
What do you think has been hyped by the netizens and it's not that special?
I think it's "passenger fatalities per passenger-journey". So need to multiply the number of flights by the crew on each.
This is it. I don't know why they hide models if you don't have enough credits.
Other way round. They're implementing a language of the LISP family, which tend to use let this way. LISP languages originated around 1960. The use of let then caught on in other languages, including OCaml and Haskell, and eventually JavaScript.

(It's possible some language other than LISP was the first to use let, but my suspicion is it was LISP.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)
dpkg-reconfigure is really important and maybe a bit outdated, but definitely something users should know?
I think it's also responsible for turning 'apt upgrade' into a little text adventure, e.g. by showing lots of prompts like "Do you want to replace/skip your sshd config"?
My take as German: ignorance and inertia.
I’m not clear how you’ve countered my point. It describes humility before god without any stretch of the imagination, and is variously translated because like much of sanskrit it does not map directly.

My second point is that attempting to reason about, or exclude topics from, something as practically diverse and unknown as “Ancient thought” in order to support the primacy of a specific religion is essentially folly.
You're correct that it's called copyright infringement, but it's not strictly an offence - it's a tort. Copyright holders can in certain circumstances sue for damages, but you cannot be prosecuted by the crown. Making an illegitimate copy for profit or in order to harm the copyright holder, though, is a criminal offence (see section 107 of the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988[1]).

[1]: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/107
Which is the entire point. Having working software beats having a standard. (Naturally having working software that adheres to a standard is even better, but at least they got their priorities right.)
I think articles like this highlight the lowest 0.1% though. It's picking a particular low point throughout thousands of years of history.
It's better to use configuration / override directories such as sshd_config.d/ to specify customizations.
The key part of curriculum design is prioritization because you generally have a fixed amount of hours for a degree - every important thing you put in requires taking out something else, and learning a topic in more detail requires learning fewer topics. And I'm not sure if most potential students would value spending a year on bare metal at the cost of throwing out a year's worth of stuff that is more high level. Like, be specific - count the things you're adding, take a look at the CS/SE courses in the program you had, and choose an equivalent number of courses that you would cut out to make space for your proposals - does it still make sense then?
ToneShift: AI-Powered Voice Cloning and Music Creation
I was always on the side of "we will figure it out". You can see a question mark after the word "rational", because I recall arguing with very-knowledgeable-and-insider people right here, in HN, that assured that all the high yield and profitable lithium was already being mined, and no significant new lithium will be discovered.

I took my downvotes for saying that if the demand increased, either the supply will also increase or an alternative will be discovered/developed. And now I'm taking my downvotes for remembering that there was no feeling of bubble (although hindsight is always 20/20), but that the price spike was based on very rational (?) analysis.
In "reduce, reuse, recycle", this is the #2 R

Please don't trash physically good drives with a hammer. It's not good for the environment (or the drives!) when you have such a simple technology at your disposal!
Sure, but two additional train trips also increase the total danger of the flight...
I like Mentour Pilot but the outcome of the incident is only revealed at the end.

Admiral Cloudberg's articles are more like Columbo: they start with what happened, and then go back in time to find out and explain all the little details that caused it. In a way it's much more logical that way.

Mentour Pilot constantly has to say "remember this, it will prove important later". But we don't know why it's important, and so we don't remember, and as a result the narrative is much less clear.
In most of the world investments in sport (football - the one americans call soccer) are made because the CEO who is the main shareholdrer like it.

Especially as in most of the world leagues have relegation, so the money invested can be quickly lost.
I dont know about open source. But back back around 2000 it was fairly common to implement a "VBA host". It was also easy, a few dev days to scaffold and minutes to hours of dev time to expose functions. We did it with a suite of related applications (used internally by a early ebook punlisher) that interacted a lot with Office. Introspection, auto-complete and integrated help documentation all worked and technically minded editor staff could automate lots of thier work with Visual Studio provided IDE and debuggers etc
Applets are still a thing. We just call them webasm and canvas these days.
For me it has been fastest ever for the past few days. You don't need to wait forever for text generation to finish anymore.
Are you saying Tesla's LFP is 260 Wh/kg, or are you comparing across chemistries?
Wat?!

You can compare them. Ok if you are being pedantic you need to compare the airline, route, plane model and weather characteristic's with an equivalent car journey route, car model, mechanical
condition and driver experience and mental fortitude.

But in general planes are way safer than cars.

If you are 40, perfect vision, sober as a saint in a modern safe car and drive mostly on highways at safe speeds you are still safer in a plane.
Isnt it a growing opinion of American teachers that students are underprepared? probably a combination of covid and remote learning... I doubt we will see the long term effects of this any time soon.
The general public is being misled with overwrought appeals to emotion and misused terms applied in a deliberately overbroad manner. AI may contain algorithms but an algorithm is not AI.

Social media feed algorithms are bad, and the public is awakening to the damage they cause. But they are not AI. As Yan LeCun pointed out recently, AI is actually the solution to the problems created by "algorithms."
These kinds of articles are always fun: essentially playing golf with the size of an executable or some other file format.

To plug my own entry in the genre, back in 2006 a few members of the Nintendo DS emulation scene tried to put together the smallest DS ROM that would still do something visible on the system: https://imrannazar.com/hacks/the-smallest-nds-rom

We ended up with a 352-byte file with two minimal executables, for the ARM7 and ARM9 cores. I've yet to see a .nds file smaller than that.
It works very differently, as getting a free digital copy of anything don’t leave others without it. There’s no shortage of the product. If I steal a piece of bread from a shop, it won’t be there. If I pirate an episode of whatever tv show, it won’t disappear for others who were to buy it. Company won’t see a difference if I won’t buy the product otherwise. Even the opposite, it’s net positive for the company, as more people familiar with the product may come back to it later and buy it, or make others buy it. See Windows, Photoshop. Or for books, I may download expensive books to read, and if I see the book is worth buying, I may buy it if I can afford it. And/or I may tell others the book is great, so they will buy it. And in the end it gives the company more benefit then me not ever touching their product in the first place.
The best feature of Git is that it’s used virtually everywhere. I don’t really care about anything else, I just know I won’t contribute to a repo if it doesn’t use Git.