skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When I see the new ag-tech startups coming out of accelerators or being established by supposedly seasoned entrepreneurs, the ideas that keep coming up over and over are vertical farming, weed-killing laser robots and insect protein.

> They all seem to be based on this assumption that traditional farming/food production is antiquated and inefficient, and that what the industry needs is clever outsiders to come in and re-invent it with the latest technologies. And they all just seem to go nowhere.

It's also based on an arrogant assumption that SV techies are smart, everyone else is stupid, and all you need to do to fix a problem is throw some techies with a bad cases of Engineer's Disease at it to "disrupt" the industry.

> ...these issues aren't going to be solved by outsiders with messiah complexes coming in and telling established growers/experts that they're wrong/stupid, they'll be solved via unglamorous work over many years by people who really understand the field.

That's a message that every software engineer needs to be reminded of daily. There's a serious problem with respecting the expertise and knowledge of people in other domains.
That was about how much data Murfie had. Surprise Google cloud storage and egress costs were the final straw that broke the company 4 years ago. It wasn't economical to save the data when I took over, and Murfie still hasn't fully recovered (for multiple reasons).
Maybe I’m not seeing it right, but comparing the source of Apple’s Whisper to Python Whisper seems there are minimal changes to redirect certain operations to using MLX.

There is also cpp Whisper (https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp) which seems to have it’s own kind of optimizations for Apple Silicon - I don’t think this was the one used with Nvidia during the test.
> That's a scenario that could have quite a large blast radius.

Which is precisely the intended effect.

"This is about state's rights to decide what they want", scream the Republicans, and immediately several state AGs sue the Federal Drug Administration to get rulings that will have effects in other states. Like didn't Texas also sue another state to invalidate that other state's election results?

There's barely any pretense, and what pretense there is is so shallow/hollow/transparent you wonder why they bother.
Curious about what HN things about llamafile and modelfile (https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/blob/main/docs/modelfile...)

Both invoke a Dockerfile like experience. Modelfile immediately seems like a Dockerfile, but llamafile looks harder to use. It is not immediately clear what it looks like. Is it a sequence of commands at the terminal?

My theory question is, why not use a Dockerfile for this?
To have a good comparison I think we'd need to run the insanely-fast-whisper code on a 4090. I bet it handily beats both the benchmarks in OP, though you'll need a much smaller batch size than 24.

You can beat these benchmarks on a CPU; 3-4x realtime is very slow for whisper these days!
No, probably not. It requires a crafted binary to be executed.
this is what a fully employed america looks like, huh
Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things
like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the
writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel and
ate their carrots raw? Yes, it would, but the point is that
no ordinary human being is ever going to do such a thing.
The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on
brown bread and raw carrots. And the peculiar evil is this,
that the less money you have, the less inclined you feel to
spend it on wholesome food. A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed
man doesn’t. When you are unemployed,
which is to say when you are underfed, harassed, bored,
and miserable, you don’t want to eat dull wholesome food.
You want something a little bit ’tasty’. There is always some
cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you. Let’s have three pennorth of chips! Run out and buy us a twopenny ice-cream!
Put the kettle on and we’ll all have a nice cup of tea! That
is how your mind works when you are at the P.A.C. level.
White bread-and-marg and sugared tea don’t nourish you to
any extent, but they are nicer (at least most people think so)
than brown bread-and-dripping and cold water. Unemployment is an endless misery that has got to be constantly palliated, and especially with tea, the English-man’s opium. A cup of tea or even an aspirin is much better as a temporary
stimulant than a crust of brown bread.

George Orwell - The Road to Wigan Pier
It should when it's required by the NHTSA and comes along with mandatory reporting, notification, and deadline obligations, along with optional free on-site execution of the fix.

That's what makes it a recall. A software update is the mechanism, the recall is the "Tesla did something wrong and is being held accountable" part.
Starlink would literally be breaking the law if they were to provide connectivity to Crimea.
Yeah, my experience with working at a startup that did fairly explicitly rely on self-hosting being hard enough that people would pay us instead was that we definitely never had to go out of our way to make that be the case. Making self-hosting easy is a significant amount of continuously ongoing work and we simply underinvested in that. If someone did all that work for us one time we would have happily accepted it.
As someone who doesn't really know because he refuses to use anything with the word "Apple" in it, doesn't Apple News kind of do this?
Is it pro consumer? Those exact reasons you describe are why apps want you to make an account. Doing customer service for people in this situation is a nightmare
I got into programming when I was 14 because I wanted to write addons (in Lua) for World of Warcraft. I've written many things since then (including addons -- my personal Lua repo has around 145k lines of code).

I did make one app public last year: AutoPTT [1]. It's a Windows desktop app that gives you advanced control on how your mic activates and deactivates in voice chat. It's written in C. I'd used it as a CLI for a long time myself but then a few others asked if they could use it too, so I added a GUI and released it.

At the moment, I'm working on a desktop image/comic viewer (in Rust, of course :) because I'm not happy with CDisplayEx.

[1] https://autoptt.com/
I don't think Americans would buy Utes though, as they aren't as effective at murdering whatever pedestrian dared cross your path.
Sure just call yourself a “Solutions Architect” or something sufficiently general. Lots of folks need them to get projects off the ground. I’ve done this role at a consultancy and it truly was doing just about everything.
There is a bit of history in this; Pantone made a whole business out of color consistency across media for branding, coming out of any possible print shop or factory or whatever. And fonts have a similar history.

Now, the brand is so much more than that.
I have a similar experience but have a different opinion.

I am 100% lucky that I was in the right place at the right time so that I could be offered the opportunities that I had.

But I think you have to be disciplined in that you must try and try and try to do everything in your power to put yourself in the right place. Of course, even if you do this, you might never be given the opportunity. But if you don't try, you _definitely_ won't.

Many of the people I grew up with did not do this. They had the ability to do it, but they lacked initiative or the ambition. They were complacent with what they had, even though it was very little.

Not everyone comes from an unbroken home, or had a support network to do these things - I get that. But I see many people that could do better and just don't do it for what I'd guess is because it's hard. Instead they make bad decisions that are easy and increase quality of life on the short term: racking up debt, having kids at a young age without a career, etc.

Do people not shoulder some of the blame in today's information age?
How does it differentiate from PyInstaller?
Every 7950X offers a 65W mode. It’s not a separate SKU.

It’s a choice each user can make if they care more about efficiency. Tasks take longer to complete, but the total energy consumed for the completion of the task is dramatically less.
hopefully severance is good. hard to find positions at the end of the year and health insurance
Google held onto his data for him for over half a year after his plan was cancelled. Google clearly communicated that he needed to address the issue and he chose to do nothing during that time.

Now they are warning him that they are suspending his account in 7 days. If he continues to do nothing they will then notify him again before cancelling his account and deleting his data.

Google makes plenty of bad choices, but this seems like a problem that Burke made entirely for himself.
> I think religion is declining because people are discovering there are many ways to perform self-discovery and practice fulfillment.

Let's suppose this were true. If, as you say, it's all about purpose and meaning, then we would expect that although everyone's conception of these things is different, it would still provide the same benefit. However, this is not what we find. Markers of purpose and meaning (such as suicide rate, depression, etc) are getting worse, not better.

So we're forced to come to terms with a few possible conclusions, none of which are very good for your point of view. Either the systems people are coming up with are insufficient to achieve the same goals or people are not coming up with their own system and are left to flounder.

> This can be achieved by building stronger neighborhoods and encouraging the development of more welcoming social venues -- something that I think is the cure to America's loneliness epidemic.

How is Europe doing on these indicators? Or anywhere else?
It's in the app store rules, media companies have a special deal, that no one else gets.
or maybe speeds were dropping, requirements not met, and they didn't want to dump more money on self driving car man's company. Seems reasonable to me - if it also makes elon and his cult sad, that's just a happy accident.
Thank you much but I have no need of your services
I am planning to organize one in Venice, Italy in 2024. If interested, please email me at $HN_username at gmail
You can get rid of #1 by moving to Mastodon. Many servers appreciate donations but basically none of them have ads.
"Hyundai and Kia are recalling more than 3 million vehicles and advising owners to park them outside due to risk of fire in the engine compartments."

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/27/1202075844/kia-hyundai-recall...
I too enjoy putting "quotes" around a word to make it seem like it means the thing I want to pretend it means, instead of engaging honestly with the actual situation. :-)
On the contrary, it's completely an issue that society needs to solve, even if the government does not. Part of a civilization is providing a culture.
The fact that this comment chain is about 7 deep trying to figure out whether the customer was given enough notice or not I think is also evidence that Google has a terrible UX for this anyway.

If your data is going to be deleted, it should be painfully obvious well in advance.
No, it's not semantics, and it shows that you have no clue what you're talking about.

You can sell ads without targeting. In fact you can even sell ads without users.

Source: I worked years buying and selling online ads.
this seems like there is something missing to the story though, no?
I dunno why people who clearly, viscerally project that they are from the “unfortunates” outgroup so insist that it is their “choices” that landed them there. Clearly they look down on them and don’t feel that their status is going to improve by haranguing them. It’s easier to understand the social proof chasers who easily adapt to the milieu of privilege-speak; then they fall over themselves to insist that they are from an even more disenfranchised background than the previous speaker—and certainly that they are humble too, oh so humble, because they might be in the top income bracket but right over there gestures to old friends for the Grace of God go I.
About 5 years ago I moved from Silicon Valley to rural Vermont. I have 750 symmetric fiber on my dirt road, and have had more reliable internet here than I did in the South Bay for the decade I lived there.

Where politics doesn't impede the growth of municipal and co-op internet solutions, it is absolutely possible for rural communities to end up with very capable internet access.
It's not abuse to store the data in an unlimited plan to begin with. But once the unlimited plan is discontinued, continuing to store the data there without paying for it does seem like abuse to me.
The fact that you can advertise in cities is the reason that big tech doesn't capture 100% of profits in every single market. Advertising in cities, from billboards to flyers to stickers is the only way to reach people directly, without going through an intermediary big tech monopoly. I have a sense that the people most likely to support this thing also whine a lot about big tech, so this is just another bullet point in a long list of "why are these 5 companies controlling everything after I've destroyed every single alternative".
There‘s no such thing as a free meal. Of course you could distribute free food to all your citizens (the Ancient Romans famously did), but somebody still needs to pay for it.

It‘s not just about on-farm labour, you need big machines (and lots of diesel!), fertiliser, pesticides… And that‘s before you look at all the rest of the food system, because to put a meal on the table you need the whole supply chain (ag-tech, fertiliser production, food processing, wholesale suppliers, etc.)

In modern agriculture, the farmer only gets a fraction of the money you pay for your loaf of bread, because there are so many other people involved.
Any where the corporations have done successful regulatory capture of the legislation.
Context on this post from 2020 on a now widely discredited person - https://tattle.life/wiki/jack-monroe/
https://nonint.com/2023/06/10/the-it-in-ai-models-is-the-dat...
now kids are modding roblox and minecraft
Nice eye — I did do remove that clause, but because the understanding in the industry is that the data shared with Guild members (for which there are 12k WGA writers and 100k+ SAG actors) can still be shared by those members. And even if they can’t, someone would likely leak them: good luck finding who broke an NDA with that many members!

I.E. They do not have to release the numbers publicly, but they’re not really bound by NDA either.

I imagine most, if not all, will go the direct route so they can spin the numbers how they want.
I got this feeling most Etsy sellers nowadays are fronts for actual sweatshops or stuff sold on Alibaba.

They killed the site to hunt metrics.
I find it to be a beautiful turn of phrase
While they are similar in quality, your images have much more of the saturated and high contrast nature of AI generated images, and this is very noticeable to my eye.
Thank you for your thoughtful feedback on my project! Your comments have prompted me to reflect on various aspects of my project, and I appreciate the opportunity to address them.

It's possible that my initial communication may have led to some confusion or misinterpretation of my project goals. I acknowledge that there may have been a lack of clarity in my description. Additionally, I recognize that some of my project goals may require rephrasing to better convey their intent.

Regarding the distinction between Mandarin Chinese as spoken in Taiwan and on the mainland, while I understand that mutual intelligibility is high, I believe there is value in catering to learners who have a specific interest in the Taiwanese variant. This isn't meant to create a division but rather to provide a resource for those who find exploring these distinctions enriching.

Regarding the choice between Pinyin and Zhuyin, I've opted for Zhuyin in my project to align with the phonetic system used in Taiwan. While both systems are valid, some learners may find it more beneficial when immersing themselves in the local language environment.

In light of your feedback, I realize that my project's goals and intentions may not have been as clear as I had hoped. I'm aware that there is room for improvement in my communication skills, and I'm committed to refining my project description to better convey its purpose and objectives.

I want to emphasize that my project is a reflection of my personal language learning journey and preferences. It is designed to cater to my specific needs, and I'm sharing it with the community in case there are others who share similar interests and goals.

I'm genuinely thankful for your input, and I'm open to further suggestions, insights, or clarifications you may have. Constructive discussions like these are invaluable in helping me improve both my project and my communication skills.
We are also doing mass layoff in Jan, TBH would rather have it in Dec to have peace of mind.
Etsy too:
https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20231213380/ets...
(How) Can I turn that off for the entire company account?
When you make an argument in general terms, you can't call no-fair when someone takes it at face value and counter-argues in equally general terms. That's not cheating, it's just assuming good faith.
Right before the holidays...wow.
I’m not following how this is a google problem, and not a feds problem. It sounds like the the used their power to render his account unusable, and as a secondary effect all data was lost.

What company would preserve your data in light of finding CP?
There’s no way they paid for 18k stars.
Ban all ads. All of them, they all are junk info our brains are not designed to handle.
Heavy emphasis on maybe, do you think legacy telecoms have a history of actually delivering on rural broadband deployment promises?
Android is not the agent there. A phone manufacturer could and should recall devices they send out if they turn out to have some serious flaw.

It's fine if they can push the update remotely, but if it's something that warrants a recall they should at least check with everyone that they managed to install the update.

Of course by now we've accepted security bugs as just the normal state of things, so it's hard to think of something serious enough to warrant a recall. An overheating battery perhaps, assuming it can be solved with a software update.
My 6yo can answer this correctly, making all of your stated assumptions above. Edit: Clarification - I am in no way implying that someone who was confused by the math is dumb, everyone makes silly mistakes sometimes.

I think It’s only ambiguous to a machine. To a human, even in 2023, these are likely default assumptions for a question phrased as above, unless being overly pedantic or attempting to “get around” the puzzle.

If you ask a model - or a person - “what does 1+1 equal to?”,
it is also ambiguous, since we haven’t defined what “+” means, did not specify that we are dealing with natural numbers rather than eg elements in Z//2Z which could be similarly denoted.
They did reject another broadband company - that company just doesn't have a cult of fans to throw tantrums online for them.
He wasn’t threatened harshly. He was told his data would become read-only, which he took at face value and assumed his data would remain safe. Then suddenly he was told the data would be deleted within seven days.
It's hard to tell due to the redactions, but it seems like Starlink brought Starship into the discussion as part of the explanation of how it would have the technical capability to deliver the service.
It's not a good trade, there shouldn't be a monopoly on public ads, local businesses should be able to reach consumers without having to go through a monopolist that captures all of the value.
It’s way more complicated. As an example, my kid has one half sister and had one step sister. My kid referred to both of them as their sisters, but the step person didn’t acknowledge my kid as such.

Even if we err on the side of the step, take the half sister entirely out of the equation and only focus on the step relationship, one would have claimed 0 sisters and the other would have claimed 1. They were talking about each other and they were both telling their truth. But the answer is simultaneously 0 and 1.

It gets even more interesting because neither my kid nor their step sibling are cisgender. I don’t know what to call their step so just use their name and pronouns now. The step still won’t acknowledge they’re siblings and I respect that a lot.

When these smart young folks take over, the world will get really cool.

Edit - This was way more complicated to explain than I anticipated.
Wikipedia has some numbers [1] according to which they passed 2M users in September 2023 and are growing pretty consistently by about 100k users per month since mid 2022.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Subscribers
It's because the only thing these models can do is rip off existing images, and the prompt is very specific.

"Generative AI" is a learned, lossy compression codec. You should not be surprised that the range of outputs for a given input seems limited.
Ask HN: Laid off in the last 18 months? How hard was it to find a new job?
Lots of layoffs in tech over the last 18 months or so. If you were laid off in that time period what was your experience finding (or not finding) a new job?
You can check out this map. Data is from 2020 though and I have found no other updates about the program. https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/maps/rdof-phase-i-dec-2...
Unfortunately I couldn't get this working on macOS 14.2 + Tailscale 1.54.1 - raised a support ticket to investigate further. Will report back here with my findings if we figure it out.
I understand why people hate advertising but if I’m honest, I don’t agree with having an “adfree city”.

I personally like the aesthetic of visual overload that you find in ad-laden cities (let’s say in Tokyo). It makes the space feel living, breathing, and alive, which a city should be. And then the visually quiet spaces, like temples and parks, feel much more sweet.

Also at a conceptual level I disagree with the justification that we should make cities adfree due to the harms of ads (described in OP). Ads will appear elsewhere: within stores, online, on top of taxi cabs, stapled to poles, and so on. We can’t make ads disappear. Our best bet is to target specifically the most harmful ads by law (like misleading/false advertising and such).
I can’t seem to find this setting. Is it getting rolled out slowly?
I think of it as "stealing" my attention. Instead of enjoying blue sky as my thoughts wander peacefully, someone takes this from me to yell that I should buy a new widget.
I regularly get 150+ Mbps on my Starlink terminal. Don't really care that they didn't hit the ambitious goal of providing 300+, it is already more than 15x better than the next best option available for me.

T-Mobile has a three decade head start (maybe four if you count their Sprint Wireless acquisition's history), so hardly surprising if there is currently more T-Mobile home internet users than Starlink users. But I also doubt that their rural base is as large as Starlink's currently is. Mobile broadband speeds heavily depend on the strength of the signal available in area, and in many rural areas, the 5G coverage is extremely spotty, or non-existent.
Actually, it's the Stepan Corp. in New Jersey that holds the importation license. After ridding the coca leaves of methyl benzoyl ecgonine, they supply Coca-Cola with the denatured product for use in formulating the beverage.