skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first I didn't think they meant it literally. I thought it was intended like 'craft'. Which is a lot like 'profession', so I was curious why humanity's oldest profession started flaking away..
It's something to do with the military, that's all I found out. A lot of cops and prison guards are ex-military and somehow it has transferred from there.
Making convolution faster.
I tried Arc a few months back and quickly decided to give it a go as a primary browser. It’s quite nice.
In books, there’s this loophole that adding even small marginal material, like a footnote, refreshes the copyright cycle. Would adding a watermark protect generated imagery? Conversely, would lack of a watermark indicate that the work is a pure derivative?
Ok, good. I was so confused.

I thought this was like nerd supremacy but it does ring true: your text editor doesn't matter, you are not a better writer / programmer / person because of what editor you use.

I did thoroughly enjoy the dig about BSD supremacy. Those guys are worse than vegans and environmentalists. :)
Minimalnotes – a dead simple note-taking script
this is just a little note-taking script i made, i really hate big and bloated note-taking apps, so i just made this for my own purposes and thought that this would be fitting here
> If we were talking about 3 extra digits on the card number, that would be one thing. But we're talking about a separate authentication factor, which seems pretty worthwhile to me.

It's not really another factor in the sense of the three types of factors: Something you know, something you have, something you are. It's just more digits of "something you know" so it's the same factor. It's why 2-factor auth isn't just 2 separate passwords.
"We do not consider this to be a security issue since the real customer accounts do not have access to any website."

That's a shockingly poor response from Writer.com - clearly shows that they don't understand the vulnerability, despite having it clearly explained to them (including additional video demos).
Compute Is Overrated as AI's Bottleneck
Musk is censoring NYTimes, Substack and many others. He's not into free-speech

https://themarkup.org/investigations/2023/09/15/twitter-is-s...
Doesn't look like it supports either QtWidget styles or GTK styles, which are the platform styles on Linux.
Ok, wow, why did I miss that. Thanks!
It's there. It's very noticeable once pointed out. It drastically distorts the images' 'softness' because of the harsh steps through the gradients. It does not appear as the artist intended for it to, which is the biggest issue.
editorconfig is mostly about formatting. Parts of the JavaScript ecosystem have converged on prettier for that.

These linters do checks on the abstract syntax tree, and so they can statically analyze that e.g. you don’t use certain unsafe APIs or do things that might introduce performance issues or bugs.
Google Play Store redesign breaks search bar for some users
ex.Terminator is a destructor helper for Go
So far so good!

https://www.threads.net/@verge/post/C04TD45LTS1
I think only the parts of X that talk directly to the graphics hardware are being abandoned and that many of the things you mention will continue to work.
Hurray I get to spread some good news today. The issue you're describing was fixed by the 2022 "No Surprises Act". See this for details: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/no-surprises-unders...
I always screenshot them lol
Murder is similarly forbidden. Still happens.
It is absurd, and it violates the mandatory timely notification laws which are in place in many states, including Washington.

Umpqua bank was also affected by MoveIt by way of one of their fintech vendors (FIS), they didn't even bother to notify my state's AG, as required by law, nor did they provide timely or accurate notifications.

Maybe companies feel a diffusion of responsibility when there are so many others affected.
A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites
Using lead to increase mass by any significant amount would require a substantial fraction of the food to be lead acetate, which has a density well under 4g/cm³.

Even red lead is "only" 8.3g/mm³, so it's not like you can get a noticeable bump in mass before your product is way up there in ppm. 10000pm (pretty enormous!) would increase the mass by only about 70 grams per litre.
Well elsewhere in this thread I've pointed out that the black hole evaporates before the infalling observer ever crosses the event horizon.

If you have a classical black hole and you don't bother yourself with how it forms, though, there's no paradox, the paradoxical effects arise because the areas of space-time become completely unreachable and you're using coordinate systems which are not local.
Not sure where you've worked or what you've worked with but everything you've described is the opposite of the JS projects I've encountered (multiple companies, multiple 100s JS projects).

> There is also abundant complexity analysis tooling for JS too.

I would highly appreciate recommendations here; I wonder does your review indicate the projects being analysed had little wrong, or that the tools were not very good at identifying problems.
That book (Ed Mastery, https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ed) is an April fool's joke, but it's a real book and I thought it was actually really good. I've still basically never used ed but it was fun to learn about and it helped me understand vim's history a little bit.
Even today the LEGO-compatible knock-offs are complete junk, my kids occasionally end up picking up a loose bag for £1 from the local charity shop. Pieces don't stick together properly (with each other, let alone LEGO pieces); legs, arms, and hands come off the minifigs; etc. You can instantly tell — even ignoring the assault rifles that would never make it in a LEGO box.
It beat H.264 in terms of quality/size but not in terms of hardware support. This is why Google Meet is the laggiest video conference software, they keep trying to make VP9 a thing while the others stuck with H.264. And now there's H.265.
What model should I download that would do my work for me today? I’ll explain the project I’m working on, and will give it full access to the codebase, documentation, Slack, and Zoom so it can find all the context and ask my colleagues and my manager if it needs more info. GPT-4 is obviously not smart enough to do this (I’ve been using it daily since it came out), but it seems like you know of some miracle models on HF which can? Would love to try them out.
>I asked it a few simple fact based questions, such as who our CEO is. It answered with our previous CEO based on an old press release.

this is the problem with basic RAG implementations that most products are currently using, simple vector search isn't able to handle queries like this.

The solution is enhancing the base query and also using structured data to filter on metadata

here's a good article covering some strategies - https://jxnl.github.io/instructor/blog/2023/09/17/rag-is-mor...
Exactly. Reduce and Reuse Are the only valid paths for plastic and Lego is the most reusable. Recycling plastic is bullshit and single-use plastics should be banned.
Many long years ago I took a course that required using a terminal to edit and run code (Language was Dartmouth Basic.) One lucky student got to use a full screen terminal while the rest of us used some kind of line oriented terminal. My recollection is the DEC LA120 (Though this was on a Prime 300 mini.) The only way to edit code was using a line oriented editor. (Though not technically ed on UNIX.)

We have come so far since.
I just assumed that everyone has "aphantasia". What does it mean to "picture things in your mind"? How would one explain to another what that meant? How would one be tested to determine if one could do that?
Interview with the "Father of the PC" Ed Roberts in the early 2000's [video]
Raw footage of an interview done in the Early 2000's. I found this video thanks to this article https://every.to/p/the-secret-father-of-modern-computing
So races with genetic predispositions to diseases should suffer because we trained it on socially kosher data to appease adults who are theoretically offended about being exposed to bad words on the internet? Victims should suffer because specifying a description of perpetrators are reported and identified partly based on race? Legal teams must act like youtube commentators and come up with filter escaping euphemisms when referencing their clients violent/sexual crimes deemed to evil for adults to be exposed to.
Show HN: Screenshot AI, Your Intelligent Screenshot Assistant
Few weeks back i have been deleting my screenshots which gave me idea to this side project to declutter and organise my device screenshots.
After several weekend it turn out to this.
Since deep learning need lot of infra and i am running on budget, results might be slow but you will get results.
Let me know in comments what can i do better or how can i do better.
> we will probably render internet news useless pretty sure without a proper trust / source identification system.

I really think this will be the ultimate use case of blockchain tech/crypto.
I've been using Ed to write assembly on my Kaypro since it's so much faster than WordStar. It's been interesting seeing how people used to do it.
The expense.

That said, I have made a couple of things as prototypes, mostly for archery:

- spine testing jig (had to use a bunch of washers on a bolt for the two-pound weight though)

- fletching jig

Also some small desk accessories --- a tablet stand w/ pen holder, a rack for a CD-player --- the two stacks of bricks holding up a wooden shelf are still on place though.
They have improved their software significantly in the last year, but there is a movement that's broader than AMD that wants to get rid of CUDA.

The entire industry is motivated to break the nvidia monopoly. The cloud providers, various startups & established players like intel are building their own AI solutions. Simultaneously, CUDA is rarely used directly, typically a higher level (Python) API that can target any low-level API like cuda, PTX or rocm.

What AMD is lacking right now is decent support for rocm on their customer cards on all platforms. Right now if you don't have one of these MI cards or a rx7900 & you're not running linux you're not going to have a nice time. I believe the reason for this is that they have 2 different architectures, CDNA (the MI cards) and RDNA (the customer hardware).
Yes, same story for me. But I got out of it in 1999. I seem to have mentally foreseen the crash coming and it portrayed itself as a mood disorder.

I know many of you will disagree with me on this, but I also think a large problem is the increase in both extremely low frequency, and radio frequency, electromagnetic fields.

No one can tell me that the bloody nose I get whenever I use laptops that emit high levels of low frequency electromagnetic radiation is psychosomatic.
The lead was used to increase the mass of cinnamon, then the cinnamon was sold by the wrongdoer, then added to the applesauce.
Similar to "Risk = (chances of <whatever> happening) x (consequences of <whatever> happening)".

Most people equate risk as just the first term in the above, but if (for example) you're walking along a balance-beam, the difference in consequence is what makes it risky to balance on a beam between rooftops as opposed to one on the ground.

Common parlance can often be misleading.
The author is complaining about the consequences of recompressing images, which are also black and white and have a huge gradient background, and also, the post is full of flaws. I don’t know, Hacker News is better as less of a Hacker Rants.
I'm a web developer that can string together okay uis, but I'm not a designer. Now I run a profitable growing Etsy store (59 cents in September, 89 dollars in October, 900 in November, 1500 since December 1st)....I could not make my products without dalle3 and stable diffusion and canva unless I hired a designer. So yeah, professional designers are sadly going to go the way of the cobalt engineer. There may one day be 5 to 10 really well paid designers because they're the last of a dying breed.
I mean if you ask HR (bot) how many weeks of paternity leave you have and it says 20 and so you disappear for 20 weeks and get fired after 8 because it actually ran out are you really in the wrong?

What you're describing isn't a plausible situation. In the real world, conversations with real people have to happen when you take so much time off or have such a life changing event (especially with benefits implications). Obvious mistakes aren't generally legally binding, either. You can argue what isn't or isn't an obvious mistake, sure, but if you signed a contract that says 8 weeks, your boss tells you 8 weeks, there's posted documentation that says 8 weeks, etc., then saying you legitimately thought you had 20 weeks doesn't hold water.
A lot of "works in proton but not wine" is to do with specific configuration of runtime dependencies or wine options. You can probably make all these things run in vanilla wine if you mess around with CLI opts and config files, but if you want the steam like "just works" experience you probably want a layer on top of wine. Lutris is a popular fully open tool for games that does this without needing Steam specifically.
That case that focuses on allegations against Tesla as a company, not directly against Musk.
The Darwin Awards: sex differences in idiotic behaviour
I'd be much happier if they could just adopt and contribute to CUPS like everyone else.
> Should Word auto-detect that (maybe with the help of AI) and refuse to accept your input?

You jest but please don't give any Microsoft employees gleaning this thread any great ideas to show off in their next product meeting.
> the business with France’s highest market cap, LVMH, could vanish tomorrow and make almost no difference in utility to anyone except LVMH’s employees and vendors

I disagree. I get plenty of utility drinking Glemorangie Scotch. My SO gets plenty of utility wearing a Louis Vuitton bag. Plenty of women get utility shopping at Sephora and plenty of men at TAG Heurer.

Luxury goods provide utility by providing psychological and social validation. You might think it's bullshit but for most people it's important.

Also, I'm fine paying a premium for LVMH's scotches over the crappy generic Total Liquor sells at almost the exact same price.
> On the technical side, webp support still isn't like png.

Oh that's a good point.

I see lossless WEBP mostly as a way to save bandwith where PNG would have been used. If you've got a pipeline where, anyway, you already "crush" your PNG file, you may as well also generate a lossless WEBP file and serve that: all browsers support it. And you can fall back on the optimized PNG should the browser not support WEBP.

I mean: I use WEBP, but only lossless WEBP, as a replacement for PNG when I'd serve PNG files to browsers.

But for that one usecase: showing a PNG file in a webpage, I don't see that many downsides to lossless WEBP. It saves bandwith.
Incredible photos, especially the one of a kind person covering the remains of body parts.

From the days when having a camera on you was a rare event.
Pixel density isn't the issue. 2K-4K computer monitors are pretty common. But they tend to suck in other ways compared to a MacBook screen. And yes I can tell the difference between the images on my MBP.
The audacity to claim AMD's marketing is "shady" and then show a plot that compares queries/sec with AMD at batch size 1 with Nvidia at batch size 14.

Rename it to batch_size/sec if you don't see the issue.
Discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38645021
We should be screaming about this one front pages of major media outlets but sadly nobody seems interested.
Spain population hits 48M with surge in foreign nationals
5 Level-Headed Predictions for Blockchain Devs for 2024
End of year is always ripe with vast overstatements about what the blockchain space is going to be next year. But my aim is to take a cool level headed approach and make an educated guess based on what we’re seeing in the market right now.
I'm well aware of the problems cause by sugar and lack of exercise. But, again, alcohol is different. It is literally a poison. Sugar is not a poison in that same sense.
> I think government should regulate

That would just move it from private company suck to nation-state suck. It needs to be regulated by the International Telecommunication Union (UN).
This might work to detect certain base elements like lead.

But I doubt this will work reliably with pharmaceuticals. These are complex chemicals. A slight variation in composition can be the difference between medicine and carcinogen.

To reliably automate testing for every possible variation would be virtually impossible without producing so many false positives as to be essentially useless.
When I was younger I used to draw constantly and I'd say that was the only period in my life when I would often picture images. Looking back it was more flashes of angles and line shapes and how it would feel to draw them.

This makes me wonder two things:

1. Apart from understanding how a mechanical object functions or recalling how to get somewhere what other query benefits from visualisation?

2. Do people with aphantasia dream in images?
I agree with you but the US has many other economic advantages as well: a well-educated workforce, plentiful natural resources, tons of energy, and a fairly liberalized free market system. The innovation is the most important factor though.
I've played with doubango for some time trying to get it to work against the flavor of IMS used in VoLTE / VoWiFi, and it is not all that close to it, even with various hacks applied from https://gitea.osmocom.org/ims-volte-vowifi/doubango/commits/... in which I tried to add a Linux kernel IPsec plugin as well as various other bits and pieces.
Disclaimer: I wrote this, but it's a little more from an engineering POV than a Math POV, and covers some applications:
jezzamon.com/fourier

Hacker news folks seem to enjoy it :)

Another thought on the "why": many things in the real world operate on frequencies, sound being the most obvious but also electrical signals, mechanical systems like springs, etc. Doing the analysis representing a signal as a bunch of frequencies makes more sense, and Fourier transforms lets us do that
Currently only on android but working to ship it soon to iOS
Another point of the story is that new populations are either going to assimilate (which could be great for the pre-existing population) or they aren’t going to assimilate (which could be pretty bad for the pre-existing population).
Online retailers almost surely do better by allowing easy use of credit cards by even the least technical 5% of Americans than they would from a lower fraud system that required a moderate or higher level of technical acumen to operate.

Suppose I'm at a computer ready to buy a PS5 on BestBuy's site. What's the complexity now vs under a proposed private-key system? What's the loss in conversion rate on the latter?
Show HN: I made a VS Code extension where you can use Mixtral 8x7B for free
Hey guys,

I made a VS Code extension, within which you can use the Mixtral 8x7B AI model for free.

Mixtral 8x7B is a new AI model from the Mistral family, which outperforms GPT-3 in many benchmarks, a fact that I have personally confirmed in daily coding tasks, where Mistral 8x7B was the clear winner.

You can use all the AI features, such as AI Lens with custom instructions and similar.
I'm pretty sure some of features will be useful to you.

I'd appreciate both, positive and negative feedback!
here's another recent book https://github.com/vadim-za/math-intuition-book
I remember reading some years ago on BBC: "Children should be allowed to get bored, expert says" (https://www.bbc.com/news/education-21895704)

It has changed my perception on children's "time management"

Children should be allowed to get bored so they can develop their innate ability to be creative, an education expert says.

EDIT: just noticed that article is from 2013 - damn I am old - so are some of my bookmarks.

EDIT2: I like one of the comments made: Our children (generally) are drowning in communication media and internet trivia. Reading, such a nutrient for the imagination because you have to build mental worlds, is a minority pursuit in teenagers. I'm a teacher and trying to get kids to read is like pulling teeth. Yes, an image = 1000 words. So give the kids the words and let them do the mental exercise to build the images, or find the time to read TO your kids if they are too young to read (so they can ask questions - "mum/dad what is XYZ?")
The page on mobile makes me think this an allusion.
My visibility is somewhat reduced given that I was one of them, but from what I've heard from the people remaining, 10-15% losses on those teams, including a lot of the staff+ people. It included engineers who were on the critical path for MY28, some of the people replacing the MCTM, etc.
I get the frustration with the clever word play, but given the ungodly size of the major cloud providers, licenses like this are necessary for any business offering a hosted version of an open (source) project. I’d rather see the COSS business model succeed with non OSI approved licenses than be replaced by black box cloud-only services.
Tech guy working in media here. 100x this. I often can't tell the (perceptive) difference between video encoded with codec A and B, but I do have objective metrics such as bitrate, framerate, CPU/GPU power required to encode/decode, device quirks, etc. When I doubt, I always defer my decision until after I can consider the input from my colleagues.
If the index or incremental static analysis object was designed well enough, I don't think you would need to lint every file, you would just need to look at files that consume that variable. Maybe you would look at every index?

I'm not sure how well this could scale across (600- 1000?) different lints though. I should look into static analysis a bit more.
As someone who has a very vivid imagination - daydreaming is second nature to me. It’s very useful to me because I can use it to learn stuff by doing my best to simulate how they work step by step, usually all I need is a good description and some background info.
I remember doing bluray re-encodes back in that day. x264 was simply better as an encoder when compared to vp8 and you knew that at least in terms of software everyone had a compatible decoder in their preferred codec-pack.
Only if you can accurately detect browser support and serve the PNG instead, which means added complexity. And you have to store both.

Also, if users download your images and use them elsewhere, webp will still be more annoying for them. Though it's not very common that you want them doing that anyway.
It is a team effort. Having a stay-at-home spouse allows the career-focused one to… focus more effort on the career, leading to better specialization. This is good.

We could equally wonder if housewives in the 50’s worried that they weren’t bringing home enough money to put their kids through school. Maybe so, but if they were, I think it is unfortunate that their at-home efforts weren’t being accounted for accurately.

There’s nothing wrong with that sort of configuration other than, historically, the awful assumption that gender determines which role you’ll get.
On mobile Safari there is no visible difference.

Could there be some default optimization going on?
Per second
Unlike conventional UI design, which focuses on end-user interactions, API UX revolves around enhancing the experience of backend developers.