skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I'm sure those sophisticated store chains, with extensive inventory tracking, have never thought about things like "inventory shrinkage" or "looting" and they're just putting a bunch of locks around for no particular reason.

Pretty silly of them, right?
> Car ads have little to do with cars,

That's because most car ads aren't actually trying to sell you the car. They are instead trying to sell you the idea of the car's status[0]. While people are most familiar with ads that are blatant attempts to get you to buy something, many are much more indirect. It's also why native advertising is so nefarious. A large portion of ads actually aren't the direct version, but most often people don't notice they're taking in an ad, and that's kinda the point.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-04-26-me-62995-...
PysimpleGUI
Time obviously matters when there are external constraints like the shopping season, or the amount of runway your company has.
Click on the candles to see the puzzle! Start with the 0th candle in the centre. =)
What do you actually need to playback the HD version in a browser?

A recent-ish version of Chrome on Windows and an HDCP connection? It's annoying sure, but not an outlandish requirement.
You can't post like this to HN, regardless of how right you are or feel you are, or how wrong others are or you feel they are. This is exactly the sort of comment that my pinned comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38573652) is asking users not to post to this thread (or indeed any thread).

We have to ban accounts that keep posting like this, so please don't do it again.

(Needless to say, this goes for both sides of the conflict, not just one.)
Interesting you should say that, as I am trying to start a project where I need to make an electric grid graph, but I am not sure where to find the node/edge data for substations and transmission lines that include their specs and capacities. Is that stuff open source somewhere, like with the ISOs, or do you need to build it from scratch?
In Finland Spercelll is known as being the nicest and coolest company.

"We have grown up in Finland and have received a great deal from this society. It's our turn to pay back, CEO Ilkka Paananen tells Helsingin Sanomat."

After asked why they don't avoid taxes like other companies:"Game company Supercell Finland's biggest single 2021 corporate taxpayer" https://yle.fi/a/3-12674624
EU strikes deal to regulate ChatGPT, AI tech
> Yes, there are people born in refugee camps in a couple of neighboring countries who are somehow not citizens of those countries. From a US perspective, this is very strange. The descendants of people who fled to the US are most definitely citizens.

US citizenship law says that everyone born in the US is a citizen of the US (jus soli, "right of the soil"). (With some rare and obscure exceptions, such as children of foreign diplomats.) But, most countries worldwide don't define citizenship in terms of birthplace, they define define it in terms of descent. So it doesn't matter if you are born in the country, you are only a citizen if at least one of your parents is (jus sanguinis, "right of the blood"). So the real reason it is strange is because the US is unusual by global standards, not because what is happening in these countries is really that unusual by those standards.

If you look at the Middle East, most countries in that region define citizenship in terms of descent not birthplace – which can result in people who have lived in the same place for generations but lack citizenship. It occurs in cases which have nothing to do with Israel-Palestine at all - for example, the stateless "Bidoon" people of Kuwait. It also occurs in Israel - Israeli law says that (non-Jewish) people born in Israel's sovereign territory only become Israeli citizens if one of their parents is, with the result that the majority of Arabs/Palestinians who live in East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights are living in land which Israel legally claims to have annexed (not merely militarily occupied), yet without Israeli citizenship – Israeli law says they have to apply for naturalisation, most don't want to, and even of those who do apply, only around a third have their applications approved (commonly denied either due to insufficient fluency in Hebrew, or vaguely defined "security reasons").
We know for a fact that there is no wall till GPT 4 and open source still has long way to reach there.
People said the same about Steve Ballmer.

And look at how much MS has changed since they got an innovative CEO in his place.

Hopefully Sundar is shown the door and the reins are given to someone else actually willing to innovate. And the share price will skyrocket like it has with MS.
What problem are we trying to solve?

When I think of holding in memory state, to me it’s less about class or OOP vs something else and more about race conditions, thread safety, possibly idempotency, and proper abstraction design.

Abstraction design meaning, I’m not exposing the keys to the castle or leaking internal details where it might allow another good intentioned programmer to do bad things or introduce some subtle, difficult to reproduce bug.
Hardly surprising that IBM is doing this as they've been commercializing Vault for some time [0].

[0] - https://www.ibm.com/products/secrets-manager

Disclosure - I work for HashiCorp and IBM has been mentioned by name in relation to the license change.
https://archive.is/qV4xB
If I didn't need people in the truck, I feel like ideally I'd make it 1/6th size or what not? Even if it was half as big it could probably have a similar-ish payload, if it didn't have a huge cab & drivers console.

It is a pretty impressive & amusing wing of sensors they've thrown in the sides. I do wonder very much how durable the various sensor blisters are. It feels like tanks used to have what looked like reasonably well armored cameras, but that these things just get simpler & simpler. Fine for many circumstances, but wild to me that we're walking so far down a path of tech dependence that assumes such domain superiority, where nothing will possibly mess with that tech. Maybe I'm wrong & this stuff is more durable, or maybe we just aren't anywhere near the level of iteration/advancement in warfare for this stuff to suss up.
> It's weird that you want to ignore

Please make your substantive points without swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If I plotted the number of pedestrian deaths by the kind of phones they use, we'd see that iPhones and Androids are the killers, concluding that BlackBerrys are by far the safest phone to have if you're a pedestrian and don't want to get hit by car.

If you want to see what kind of vehicle is the most dangerous to pedestrians, all of those plots should be normalized by the percentage of people who drive that sort of vehicle.
The way Postgres is worshiped as The Holy Grail here on HN, some reality check on where it is lacking should be ok to rant about, just to balance the discussion, with no expectations on fixing it. One can also choose a different tool.

In this thread, it’s not exactly on topic though.
I think my best tip would be to remain persistent. If you're like me, I can get frustrated easily when I'm proficient with $tool1 and $tool2 can do the same thing but in a different way. It's then easy for me to just go back to $tool1.

For gaming specifically, AMD graphics cards tend have fewer driver problems than Nvidia (though some Nvidia users don't ever run into issues). Commonly recommended distros are Arch (or Arch-based like EndeavourOS), Pop!_OS and Fedora.
A Sneak Peek: SIMD-Enhanced String Functions for AMD64
Just out of curiosity: Are you hiring only experienced developers? Or are you also hiring junior developers who are just getting started in the field?

Discussions here on HN about whether or not AI is a threat to developers’ jobs seem to suggest that experienced people maybe don’t have to worry, partly because so much of their work is not coding per se. I wonder, though, about people just starting out. I heard anecdotally a couple of weeks ago about an SV company that has stopped hiring junior developers because the work they used to do can be done much more quickly and cheaply with AI.

I am not a developer myself, but I worked for many years in translation, a field that also seems threatened by AI. LLMs can be powerful tools to assist skilled translators, but they might also be making it difficult for beginners to get started in the field.
Words matter. So let’s be clear on both sides. It isn’t piracy. It isn’t stealing. It’s copyright infringement.
I like/love Apple, but it's not really about hacker spirit. I think Steve and Steve were at the start, for sure. But then, it's like Steve figured out how to "evolve" hacker spirit into a business model. And not just any business model: but a totalitarian vertically integrated model. I mean, fabulously successful and don't let the negative political connotations of totalitarian offend you here, it's but a minor jab, because there are downsides to this model in the Apple-verse, for sure: the lack of "hackability" of their devices.

But it's perhaps a momentary cultural variation in a sea of changing priorities for Apple. They have embraced right to repair: perhaps in future, "hacker spirit" evolves further to become, a "right" for all citizenry of the Apple-verse, backed by their tremendous business model. In the same way that you can conceptualize (again, without judgement or making regard as to truth or not), that "human rights" emerge not out of a vacuum, but out of what the infrastructure of state can conceive and provide.

In other words, today's action may be but the anachronistic kneejerk of some poobah in the Apple bureaucracy. A vestige of the old guard, perhaps soon dying out.

If that makes sense? :)
> what is the market for personal assistants? What’s the market for butlers? Most people have neither of those things

Most people didn’t have cars, telephones or televisions when they were introduced either.
But when does that speed actually matter? Streaming 8k content can apparently be achieved with a 50mbps. So the article is concerned with applications that haven't been invented yet, did I get that right?
I understand not all advertising is bad as a good product might not spread during the critical
growth phase without it. It just raises a lot of red flags for me when someone is desperate for my attention like ads are. Google reeeally wants me to buy a Pixel 8 lol

Glad you can filter the crap, but I guess from a CYA perspective the school can say "we notified everyone through our official email channel" whether you were ever going to read that email or not.
If I regurgiate something I read in copyrighted book without proper license that also would be theft, no distinction there.

I'm not distributing my brain, at least same (but probably more restrictive) should apply to models - training is okay, but using and distributing should be limited by copyright
Kind of, yeah. Once something is expensive enough it's no longer common theft, it's a heist.
I wonder why vault doesn't have more 3rd party tools like password managers (with browser and mobile support).

For servers tools, maybe people wrote cool stuff at work but they are not published.
Functional? Sure, it will work. Useful? Unlikely. It would be surprising to see quantization of pretrained models to surpass the existing research around binary NNs (trained from scratch as 1-bit while using full precision for the most critical parts)
Some OF content creators use these platforms to advertise their material.
I respect the idea that Lisp syntax should only be based on dispatch based on looking at the leftmost input character.

In TXR Lisp, I decided to experiment with a small number of notations, to see whether they could make Lisp coding a bit more ergonomic, similarly to how 'x has helped with (quote x) for over sixty years.

There are rules: the notations have to absolutely fit into the surrounding Lisp.

The notations all have an underlying equivalent tree structure: list headed by a specific symbol.

There must be print-read consistency.

Not all combinations of the underlying structure need to (or should) map to the notation.

1> '(qref a b c d)
a.b.c.d
2> '(qref a b (qref c d))
(qref a b c.d)
3> '(qref (qref a b) (qref c d))
(qref a.b c.d)
4> '(qref 1 0)
(qref 1 0)
5> '(qref 1 a)
(qref 1 a)
6> '(qref a 1)
(qref a 1)

Not every (qref X Y) is blindly printed as X.Y, which would break print-read consistency. Multiple different qref nestings would map to the same notation, and (qref 1 0) would produce the floating-point token 1.0.

Of course, some of these notations complicate parsing. When we see a symbol token like a, we cannot just return the symbol, because it could be followed by a dot, in which case we are in (qref a ... syntax, or other possibilities.

Be that as it may, working with this stuff is fine; all in a day's Lisp.
NeRFs were cool, but it turns out you get just-as-good results by fitting these Gaussian blobs. Plus it's faster. Plus the representation of gaussians is much easier to edit than the opaque neural representation.

It's better than other representations because...no one has been able to reconstruct scenes with other representations this well.

Gaussian splatting is not popular because it's a good rendering method. It's popular because there's now a good technique for generating great 3d gaussian splats from 2d images. And now that you have gaussian splats, it's nice to render them quickly.
Compared to current costs, yes. Power consumption will be closer to supply production curves instead of demand curves. Peak production is a massively burdensome level of production that requires significant over-engineering. It often requires significantly less efficient and costly technologies to be used. often times resulting it significant maintenance costs.

so yes. it would still be lower.
If you need to notify on updates, a basic pubsub works for most use cases.
That really depends on your requirements, workflow, and the type of PC/hw you're planning to run it on.

But a general advice would be give it a good try first on your real hardware before you switch to it, and approach it with a mindset that this is a completely different operating system, and not everything will work the way it used to in Windows - you may need to ditch some software completely, and change the way you do certain things. If you rely on programs like Wine or Proton you should expect bugs. If you have an nVidia GPU, there's a good chance you'll run into issues or limitations sooner or later.

Only attempt switching if you're prepared to deal with all this, and have tons of patience.

Other than that, a good way to try out Linux would be to install Ventoy[1] on a USB drive, and copy a bunch of different Linux ISOs to it. Ventoy allows you to boot from multiple different ISOs/image files, so you don't need to prepare a different bootable USB every time. Some ISO recommendations: Pop!_OS, Zorin, ElementaryOS, Nobara, Linux Mint

[1]: https://ventoy.net/en/index.html
Those markets are the current low-hanging fruit. That is the proving ground for gaining the experience necessary to refine the technology to move up market into more lucrative industries.
Can confirm Bard is available in France and the UI has been translated to French.
This is a prototype that they are using to learn how to make an electric 3-wheeler. It is nowhere near production and it isn't their first time hyping up a prototype electric 3-wheeler. They're a very small car company whose vehicles are expensive because they are produced in very low volume.

Personally, I wish they'd release it as a kit.
Would be interesting if researchers would start using Blender/Godot instead of Unity/Unreal since they are not truly open source. But I guess you might need a particular skillset for this to work with, which might come from the pro game development community which might be more familiar with these studio tools.
You don't need any of it. But if you buy it, you should expect to receive it, and if you don't receive it, you should get your money back.
Would sourcing every single point in my sarcastic comment help? Or should I just not use sarcasm?
They didn't acknowledge that it has gotten lazier, they've acknowledged that people have said it's gotten lazier. In fact they say it hasn't been updated since early November
1. What about customer service ? It's a large industry globally. LLMs are a good fit.

2. He measures the impact of chatGpt on writing and editing freelance jobs 5 months after chatGpt's release.it was relatively small.
That is probably just impatience.
I think that if you stick to a definition of 'fair use' that allows the slurping of entire corpuses, then copyright doesn't have any teeth anymore.

If the license makes the data public viewing, like with websites, then slurp all you want. If the license forbids automated bulk processing, then stop whining about fair use and pay for a license that allows bulk processing.

"Out system actively uses every single byte of data to produce any output" is so obviously not the intention fair use clauses.
> in the eyes of most US consumers, texting is distinct from a chat app that you download from an app store even if it uses your phone number. (...) In the US, where adoption of Signal, Whatsapp, Discord, or insert hundreds of other apps is very small

But do we know why that is? In Europe everyone's on WhatsApp, and while I'm not especially fan of it, the one feature that I like is that it can be used from any browser on any device, including desktops, including a work laptop where one doesn't have admin rights to install anything, etc.

I can leave my phone away in my pocket all day and still message anyone I please. I would hate it any other way. Why don't people in the US want that?
Edit: I believe the best foam earplugs are usually around -32 dB. There was recently a lawsuit against a foam earplug manufacturer where the plugs were well below their stated protection level. Maybe I used them at some point, who could say!

From what I've read, pressurized air is one of the worst offenders for causing damage, such as when a pressure valve is released and it suddenly vents.

Related anecdote, while my wife was pregnant with our son I was using a small air tank and a finishing nailer. I didn't need the tank pressurized anymore so I pulled the over-pressure emergency valve and it dumped all the air immediately. So loudly that it made my son jump in the womb and startle my wife twice - once for the sound, once for the kick :)
The author "Aras P" worked for Unity close to 2 decades (retired beginning of this year). Doesn't invalidate what you said, just some background on why Unity :)
Be there is still such a sad competition amongst nations & hounding for glory that outshines what being an actual good & great nation consists of. Ideallyz if we lived on a peaceful earth these causes could be altruistic.

But we have constant disruptors, antagonist agents that assert their social contract over the will of other people. These agents of instability & chaos create insecurity that creates a competition for strength, competition of will. Being able to exert your will on the moon is a power move, a display of power. It's also somewhat hard to reach & contest, which is an attribute that hasn't applied to any happenings under our more terrestrial spheres for a while now.
The beginning of the end of HashiCorp?
I don’t believe that’s a law of nature - honestly it doesn’t even make sense. Disrupters disrupt what they can, what yields them the most profit.
> Completely agreed about the nonsensical first claim. We have many third-party clients for other messaging platforms where privacy and security are a primary feature.

I can't think of an any with independent implementations.

For instance, have a few third party Signal clients, which work by using the official libSignal . These are not third party clients, but third party GUIs. Use of libSignal on the official Signal network is also not supported or recommended.

Likewise, all the third-party Telegram clients I know of are forks using Telegram source.

This makes sense, because neither of these are stable systems. A third party has to stay up-to-date with features and changes made to the official servers and clients.

Do you know of a security and privacy focused messaging platform which is both:

1. documented

2. has multiple independent implementations of the networking and security protocols?
It’s fascinating how little people really understand how LLMs are impacting businesses. Almost any task that couldn’t be done because it was too expensive to hire thousands of humans to sift through things is being outsourced to LLMs. I find it remarkable that people don’t realize how amazing these things are at classification and structuring of complex stuff with some alacrity, often far superior to human agents. They scale arbitrarily, work 24x7, and have very low failure rates compared to poorly trained high turnover humans. They generally do a good job identifying when they can’t classify something and delegate to human review. Are they perfect? No, but they’re considerably less error prone than a staff of hundreds of humans. Is it lucrative? Absolutely. I’ve seen this now at five major megacorps and I have to believe it’s going on at most.
I know we're all in the heat of the moment but there's no doubt in my mind the Palestinians are not going anywhere. There's nowhere for them to go. The population of the Gaza strip is going to remain in the Gaza strip. The population of the west bank is going to remain in the west bank. Israel's supporters, and the vast majority of Israelis, understand that. Gaza will be occupied by Israel. It will be under military control of Israel. When the war is over it will be rebuilt.
When you try to argue the point that it's to liberate them, it's more credible when it's people of the same ethnic group and country, not people who are also stealing your land and kidnapping your people at the same time.
> except Multiplayer online games

That's no longer the case. I'd say about now, there are more multiplayer games that you can play, as opposed to ones you can't play.

See: https://areweanticheatyet.com/ as reference, but it's not very up-to-date, so https://www.protondb.com/ would probably be a better reference.
If it is just specifically MIDI editing that you need, a DAW can often be overkill. And when it is only MIDI editing, the (free/relatively updated) options are fewer. Sekaiju being my preferred tool, but there is also Aria Maestosa which seems less featured, but shows music notation and guitar tabs.
> But with 25 fps @ 2K it's not really usable yet

Yet is the key word. Let's nor forget the context here. This is a __research__ paper, and not one by a big tech company. Yes, a big university, but still. I'm absolutely certain you could get this to at least 30fps if not 45. They're doing this on a 3090, so that gives some context about how much money that lab has. If they had a bunch then they'd be using A100s or H100s and at least a node. What's actually really impressive is that they are training their model on a single 3090 in 15hrs. Most certainly you can scale this model, and then teach an even smaller distilled version that will be much faster. If you're a betting man I'd put money down that they are not implementing this in C, are not using custom cuda kernels, TensorRT, nor are they quantizing their model. They might not even be using fp16.

I don't know why everyone expects everything to be TRL 8+. What's wrong with low TRL research? Especially from academia. This is definitely somewhere in TRL 3-5. You wanna see cool things? Take cool research and turn them into products. It's a whole other challenge. But we've even seen LLMs and diffusion models get a lot faster in such a short time. Why not this too?
Redistribution, and the scale of it.

Besides which, "learning" isn't a fair use exemption anyway.