skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This project would likely take about 3-5 days at a few hours a day after work for an experienced engineer, including video editing, plus shipping time, and random research here and there on a phone.

It could also be done much faster, but then it would start to feel like work.

The cost could be closer to $50 to someone who had the tools.

If you're willing to use leaded solder paste it might be even cheaper and easier, but I'm sure as heck not.
ASK HN: Why does it say MS twice and copyright once?
These may have been more valid criticisms in the past, but today, Google does indeed pay for both Wikipedia content and song lyric licensing:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/22/23178245/google-paying-wi...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/18/18684211/google-song-lyri...
Cloudflare Workers doesn't offer a Postgres option. At most, there's Hyperdrive to connect to Postgres hosted elsewhere, and even then Hyperdrive is essentially a connection pooler, with all the additional restrictions that places on you.

It's also unlikely that Cloudflare will offer a true Postgres option; their whole ethos is that anything you deploy is deployed globally, whereas relational databases enforce having a single server as a definition of truth. But I'd love to be proven wrong here.
The Secret Father of Modern Computing
So. What about Grok?
I enable it from the drop down settings menu when I need navigation in Google Maps and in OSMAnd. Google Maps doesn't ask me to turn on Location Services if I'm only looking at a map or to street view.
Ihave been using guile extensively for a couple of years. It has destroyed writing recursive functions in other languages for me. There are no stack overflows in guile, and a recursive function won't fail until you have used all a avilable memory. This lets you write very elegant functions in places where the state is a tree or a linear data structure. Doing the same in python means having to actually deal with state. It just feels so unnecessary and error prone.
Non rockbox, non easily swappable battery (though it uses a rectangular cell with a JST connector), looks like an early ipod, no speaker(?), costs $249? Um no. There are still plenty of Sandisk and other players around that can run Rockbox.

I still have a Cowon D2 that had a Rockbox port that apparently wasn't really complete. Its main drawback as I saw it was not supporting SDXC (i.e. largest supported SD card was 32GB) but in retrospect that's not so bad. I don't remember whether the Rockbox port supported the SD card at all. The player had 16GB of internal flash and a full sized SD slot. It had an excellent DAC and plenty of drive power in its headphone amp, while still having around 50 hours of play time on its 1600mah(?) lipo cell. Replacing the cell with a phone battery of the era wasn't too difficult. It was a great player and would have been even better if they had opened up the hardware docs enough to get Rockbox completely working.

The player I wished for in the early 2000s had an SD slot, had an AM/FM receiver, and ran on an AA cell. Today, realistically, it should also have bluetooth. Depending on its size, maybe it could use an 18650.

On rockbox.org there is a forum thread about porting rockbox to Android and apparently there are significant technical obstacles to doing that. I don't know what the obstacles are. I don't offhand know of Android music player apps that I really like, but there are some usable ones. And phone hardware is good enough for this purpose that the whole induestry of dedicated audio players is now close to wiped out.
Same! It's still great to this day..
It's about those "information blocks" next to the search results that are often copied verbatim from Wikipedia or Stack Overflow
Unifi Pro Max Switches, with Etherlighting
It makes sense it'd say that. Of course, GPT is built on everyone's output itself.

So throwing around statements like "we suspended ByteDance to ensure GPT is used for good" are hypocritical at best. They're not the pope, they have no monopoly on good.
Seems to me a very clear 4th Amendment issue. If there's reasonable suspicion that's one thing but a fishing expedition should not be allowed.
If the app / software still has value next year.

The counter argument is that lots of software is short lived. Without someone maintaining it, software is often worthless.
What’s a competing model? Only LLM’s or images too? Kinda vague. I hope only big spenders get pinged because I’ve been using the vision api to help auto-annotate some training data.
This is an air breathing rde, you have likely seen rdes with seperate oxidiser injection, more like a rocket engine.
Not sure if it counts as a course but Joyce Carol Oates's MasterClass on writing short fiction. If you can write short, you can write long. If you can write fiction, you can write anything.

Tap into yourself to find some idea as a core. Just write about it, two minutes. No more than two pages. Look at it from different perspectives. Try different forms.

It was surprising to be able to use it for work to get motivation. Write a monologue from the perspective of a user. Or as a PM. QA. Engineer. Sales. A good monologue goes through an arc of emotions, from frustrated to angry, from anxious to sad, bored to content. Is it empathy? It's motivating, at least.
I want this device!

> lasts a full day on a charge

The iPod Classic could do 36 hours of playback so I wonder why this can only manage 24 hours.

> 2200-mAh battery with a standard, 3-pin JST connector

For years I have wanted a MP3 player with a 18600 battery. If the developers are reading this, consider a version with a 18600, even if the form factor is not as ergonomic.

> Firmware supports MP3, FLAC, Opus, and Vorbis codecs

No audiobook (m4b, directory of MP3s) support yet. This would be a nice feature to have.
Looks like something you would order for $15 from aliexpress. Am I missing something about this?
Or I can decide that “forward” is bad and go somewhere else. Let’s not forget that those pushing apps and smart devices care only for sales and profits.
I think the biggest blind spot for many programers/coders is that yes it might not change much for them but it will allow many more people to code and do stuff that they were not able to before. As the the models get better and people use them more and learn how to use them more efficiently they will start changing things.

I am hoping we get to the point where the models are good enough that classes in schools are introduced on how to use them rather than just build them as the number of people wanting to or willing to learn programming is a lot smaller than the number of people to looking for ways to do things more efficiently.
IANAL but what's stopping the "that's not my phone and I don't know the passcode" defense?
I built an app called Readstack to manage the pile-up of articles and webpages I had saved for later reading. The app shuffles your reading list randomly and requires you to delete the current article before moving to the next.

This one-by-one approach forces a decision: read now or discard, which significantly helped me clear my backlog. It has no users except me, but I'm glad I created something that effectively solved my problem

https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/readstack-read-later/id1558413...
In same way say Putin can spew all that fantasy bullshit over and over to Russian population which doesn't make any sense even at glance. And most folks back there do know it to certain extent, yet he keeps up the show and whole power dance instead of simply stating the truth that he is the current dictator and the rest can bow down and suck it up. Same with most if not all other dictators.

Not equalizing those two situations at all, just pointing out that dynamics of communication between normal people don't really happen in many other situations, or if they do its just a shallow charade. Or... just don't expect fairness and good behavior when tons of money, power and legacies are at stake.
Ten years ago I would’ve scoffed and said the rest of the world wouldn’t let it happen

Now, having seen what Russia and Israel are being allowed to get away with, I guess you can just invade and commit war crimes whenever you feel like it. Maybe some people will send you some arms, but otherwise, South Korea will be on their own.
Meta gave up on GPU and CPU to take a RISC-y route for AI
Have they suspended Elon for the same? Stanford for Alpaca?
I'm not sure it's what you need but OSMAnd is open source and can record your movements. I use it to record some of my bicycle rides, then I share it to my laptop for a backup, or to whatever share target the app can find.

The plus version is on F-Droid for free. It has unlimited map downloads.
I see it, but on a different "channel" than my main vision. It's like this old idea where there is a little humunculus in your head viewing the output of your eyes on a screen - imagine a second screen for imaginations beside it. But I don't see it spatially next to my normal vision, maybe overlaid or "somewhere else".

The resolution of the elephant is initially bad, my head doesn't bother to fill in all the details at once. But if I concentrate on a specific part, say the ear, it will fill in all the details like the hairs and the texture of the skin.

I think I could say each of the answers would be correct to me. Of course I don't see an image like I would see of a real elephant. I see black with occasional colorful noise. So does that mean I have aphantasia? On the other hand, I can "consider" the image in any detail in this part of my mind that is similar but distinct from my regular vision. Is that seeing?

I would speculate here that maybe people don't have different experiences, but they just describe the same complex thing in very different ways...
That’s unfortunately only disconnecting until the next day (see text appearing above when pressing).
> I think unfortunately in almost all cases the spirit of the law is more important than the word of the law, and most courts frown upon this kind of chicanery.

I was under the impression that the word of the law is preferred. If anybody here has experience, in any jurisdiction, I would love to know more.

> I think this encourages her to "well, actually" people more, which nobody likes being on the receiving end of :-)

Well, actually, I do want to encourage her to defend herself by all possible means, especially to be able to challenge the law :-)
I wish her best for the appeal. She did already delete her posts and seize producing inciting content. Moving toward non-violence is progress.
I don't know.

Could be the ADHD. Over the day I have the meds, but they are bad for sleeping, so I can't use them at night.

The meds calm my thoughts, so I don't have too much competing ones over the course of a day.

On the other hand, there specific kinds of thoughts that don't prevent sleeping. When I think about loved ones for example, I sleep better.

But without meds, I can't control that. When I have unfinished business, it will override everything else.
Ads/SEO in B2B are after PMF unless your core audience are devs and its needs bottom-up adoption/awareness - or if its O/S (i.e. Elastic).

> How to gain traction without talking to enough users

You either code or talk to customers (interview/define problem/pitch/close) in early stage. If you do outbound mails 70% of your message should be about them/their problem. Go to meetups, go to industry events etc.

Setup an advisory board w/o giving away equity. Folks w industry expertise and the network.

my2cts. have fun. learn. fail.

repeat.
For selects I'd have though having views would be a better solution here.

But it sounds like a lot of overhead to maintain, presuming it's one insert/update/delete proc per table.

IMO stored procedures help where you want to make some reasonably complex logic easier to call into from the application, OR where you want to trigger said reasonably complex logic from multiple DB events.
Does anyone know if there is a comparison somewhere for the various Postgres offerings (eg heroku, aws, crunchydata, fly, supabase, etc)), both managed and unmanaged, with features and pricing?
maybe it's a matter of taste, but I haven't read all year a better written piece

it couldn't be further from LLM style - not that LLMs don't write good text, but it's bland and has that unmistakable AI feel, almost always {intro, 3 paragraphs, conclusion} and making sure to name opposing views or warnings
I think you're being overly harsh toward people who might speak to police without realizing the implications. Getting arrested or even detained is a high-stress experience, and judgment and decision-making skills suffer in those types of situations.

Beyond that, cops are trained to manipulate people into believing that either a) they are required to talk (despite being read their Miranda rights), or b) that talking actually will work out better for them in the long run than staying silent.
Musk correspondingly scolded by Twitter:

https://boingboing.net/2023/12/15/musk-gets-fact-checked-by-...

Musk should get his facts straight before posting.
CodeLlama-34B 13x faster finetuning
England, not Massachusetts, for anyone who was wondering.
For context, Aristotle was already contrasting in ~350 BCE the difference from the natural world ("fire burns, both here [in greece] and in persia") to the human world ("but rules of justice are seen to vary").

No doubt the ancient Greeks and Persians differed not only in their senses of justice, but also in opinions on matters of "fact", eg https://allpoetry.com/The-Persian-Version
Embrace, extend, and extinguish

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...
After all, if they wanted to completely ignore the wishes of the website owners they probably would not announce their spider as such in the user agent. They’d just pretend to be a web browser.
Using a phone as a camera actually kind of sucks and the problems you bring up could largely be solved with something like a GoPro on a stick.
Java keeps pumping out new releases, and slimming and modularizing codebases is itself development.
>Nvidia buying all their employees solid gold full-size Wall Street bull statues as a little holiday thank-you gift.

I can't find any source for this claim.

>Although Elon’s proprietary LLM is still held up in making sure it helpfully tells advertisers to go have marital relations with themselves

I can't find where Grok is setting up marriages between advertisers.

>Zuck chose not to execute the employee who leaked it.

LLAMA was leaked by someone who applied for the weights and not an employee.

>investors have still managed to raise roughly 2.3 quadrillion dollars to dump into AI startups.

This number is hallucinated.

>This resulted in approximately 23,342,971 news articles about how you should hide in your basement because they’d created Skynet

Another hallucinated number.

>and it was discovered that the board had accidentally fired a deepfake of him

Deepfakes are not related to this event. Hallucination due to being related to AI.

>Real Sam pointed back and said, famously, “No, YOU are the one who is fired!”

This quote is hallucinated.

I could keep going. Every few lines you will encounter something that is made up or wrong.
"safely" because other people also have heavy vehicles (if we put aside transportation vehicles, that can be regulated)

People do on average ver small distances, so speed isn't worth it
A highly interesting collection of machinery, I'm impressed.
"Officer, these drugs / gun in my pocket aren't mine!!"

Not sharing the password should be obviously protected, but saying the phone isn't yours when in your person is harder to try and get away with.
Asgard's Wrath 2 Review
Jinkies! I understand that it's an indie project and don't doubt that's just the price point it needs to be, but that's sadly a bit too rich for my blood.
"You were rude to me earlier, so I don't want to talk to you" may get you beaten up but won't get you in further legal trouble.

If it comes up at trial, you simply explain that the officer was rude to you, so you didn't want to talk to them, which caused them to be even more rude to you, which confirmed your decision to not talk to them.
Have they complained after getting their Amazon Unlimited account disabled or something like that?
I agree with your analysis here, but I don't think it's settled case law that you can't be compelled to provide your passcode, that refusing to do so is covered under the 5th amendment.

People have been sent to jail on contempt charges for refusing to provide their password, before even getting to the point of going on trial for whatever they're accused of.
I guess LineageOS without gaaps do not save data location?
HIP is a direct drop in for CUDA. It's ready, and many folks using it ported CUDA code with little to no effort.

The SW story has been bad for a long time, but it is perhaps right now better than you think
I've been trying to find a dumb phone for a technologically challenged family member, and it seems like they don't exist any more. Remember that 2g and 3g phones are now bricked by carriers shutting down those networks, so don't suggest one of those. Ultra expensive baubles like the Light phone are basically jewelry rather than tools. There are a few basic phones like the Nokia 225 that support 4g, but they have extra crap like rudimentary facebook, they have limited frequency bands (the 225 only supports T-mobile around here), and their battery runtime is much worse than advertised. I'd be happy with the equivalent of an old school Motorola flip or brick phone (i.e. 1+ pound weight is fine, I don't need tiny, I need simple). But it doesn't exist.

I decided that the best bet is to get a cheap Android phone and reprogram it to be a dumb phone, constantly running the phone app in kiosk mode with everything else disabled. I'm not an Android programmer but maybe this is something I'd like to try implementing.
Capitalising software development costs is ‘stealing from the future’…

I’ve work at senior levels in several companies that have done it and in each case it’s led to under over reporting of profits and reporting of costs

The temptation is capitalise as much as possible because it makes the profits look more, costs look less
Another example is Ahrefs
In 'Asgard's Wrath 2,' VR gaming reaches a new God mode
In which a man child fails to realize that “insane stability” is as much of an oxymoron as he is.
The Effectiveness of Gamified Tools for Foreign Language Learning
"The findings revealed that the effectiveness of gamified tools in FLL was mixed, with some bringing positive changes, others negative changes, and some showing no differences. The factors that influenced the effectiveness include methodological limitations, biases in the experiment setting, technical limitations, individual differences, failure to achieve meaningful gamification, a mixture of element selection, sub-optimal measurement, and data interpretation biases."
UK court allows ANN patent saying computer programs exclusion does not apply
Yeah, NVIDIA was frustrated by disabling memory channels (3 concurrent transfers for CUDA, 1 for OpenCL) and not providing real support while advertising support for newer OpenCL versions (builds failing with cryptic compile errors). Causing OpenCL code to perform poorly and preventing it from running on their own hardware in some cases.

Other than locking out the technologies they see threatening, they’re completely a fair company, if you want to believe in that.
Just like Google is crawling the whole internet (hitting your server a million times a day) and then, with a straight face, will plug a captcha in your face if you dare search more than 3 times with a quoted string or non-trivial terms. Forget about doing a few million searches to bootstrap your dataset, Google was always hostile - both in access controls and pricing. You want results past 100 or 1000 mark? never possible, not even 20 years ago. But they say 1 bazzilion web pages in their index match your search.

tl;dr Google crawls you, you can't crawl Google. How is that fair? They built their empire on our brain outputs but won't share theirs.
yeah, just a scare and something for the CV :-)
Are you familiar with the theory of the three types of fun? https://www.rei.com/blog/climb/fun-scale
Lack of exercise too
> But different ends of 'noble pursuits'.

Indeed. I wonder how much hardware is required to run a speech-to-text ML model locally, and then proceed with whatever NLP you wish?
I get over 2+ weeks of playback time on my modded iPod classic with Rockbox and a half tb of storage.

That’s the player I wish I had in the 200s.
I rip/buy all my music using FLAC, and then put what I want for e.g. flights on my phone in Opus since you can get muuuch smaller files w/o degrading quality.

The general consensus on MP3s is that 320kbps VBR is universally transparent quality, whereas that number is about 120kbps VBR for Opus.

Honestly, depending on the music and how good an ear you've got, Opus at 96kbps is pretty great.
> The Linux vulnerability was fixed in 2020 (CVE-2020-0556), but the fix was left disabled by default. ChromeOS is the only Linux-based OS known to have enabled the fix, even though it was announced by Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch and Alpine.
They certainly don't have the moral high ground, but in any other context this is usually considered an inference attack--sampling a model somebody else spent a lot of money to train in order to build a similar one at a much reduced training cost.

So while OpenAI is absolutely lacks the moral high-ground, ByteDance still seems to be engaging in adversarial behavior.
This is a very valid point. 100% AMD need better support of consumer cards to get research, university and everyday folks using their SW. The high end consumer7900 xtx are supported now, and a lot of other cards not officially supported actually work. (I've a colleague who tried it on his home computer and got it working, despite that card not being on the official list) .. . Still, AMD need to be getting more cards working ASAP
I think this touches on an important point that my personal experience on both the customer side and the retail side rhymes well with. When it comes to third party services such as payment and delivery, customers rarely see a distinction between the service provider and the retailer. This makes sense, since the identity of the service provider is often not even known to the customer. But to the retailer there is of course a clear distinction, and because of this they may greatly overestimate how well the customer can distinguish between the retailer and service providers.
Because “Microsoft Windows” is the name of the thing which “Microsoft Corporation” holds copyright to?

If someone named Noun writes a work called Noun then Noun (C) Noun is perfectly valid.
China's iPhone Ban Accelerates Across Government and State Firms
I think so, they had some sort of network issues today,my client did the same thing on and off for most of the day, but it seems to be solved now and all my credits and history are there again.
Once when I was running CyanogenMod (wow, long time ago) on my Android phone, I made use of the feature to set my device's storage encryption password to something different from my screen unlock code.

And then I proceeded to not reboot my phone for months, and forget what the encryption password was. I was very surprised upon next reboot to find I couldn't get into my phone. Fortunately I remembered it, but it took me a good day or so to figure it out.

So yes, it's perfectly possible to forget a passcode. But the authorities, of course, may not believe you've forgotten it. Which is why it's so important that it should be entirely legal to just refuse to provide it in the first place.
> This effect only works if ownership is concentrated or there is otherwise a mechanism for collusion

This is the current state of all modern economies, so this equates to “it works.”
It’s a chat app. What is there to learn?
Arguably as soon as the adjective “elite” applies you’ve abandoned the pretense of morality.