skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I believe each company has the right to demand office work from their employees if the leadership deems that necessary.

In Australia at least this has been challenged in court; other organisations have already signed deals with unionised workers to grant this concept (working from home)

This is hardly the first thing that people have said employers have the right to do, that later they lose, giving rights to the workforce.

I'm sure this idea will catch on in America eventually, right after the metric system, and universal healthcare /s
It doesn't work like that, not with text. If you make a text model smart enough it will be able to generate whatever you want.
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Absolutely agree with you! Anyway my goal is not to delete the style, but focus on content and functionality! I’m so curious to know more about your project, if you want drop the link!! Let’s build unstyled projects and content-driven! :)
Not an Australian.

The article seems to be very pro-government, so glosses over all the risks to schemes like this; even touting: companies and other governments already have all your data so this is fine, and not even questioning the $800m price tag (which will at least triple if the Australian gov is as incompetent as mine).

Need a more balanced, objective, article.
Strangest CES Tech of 2024
In fairness to them, there isn't a way to keep your forwarding address even if you pay, or at least nothing advertised.
These are the styles the company's accused of stealing, right?
In a lot of countries there are laws around laying people off.

Someone new is generally in a probation period and if you want a quick/cheap way to get rid of them then - poor performance - probation failed.
Your (honestly) very nice homepage made me almost book a visit to ophthalmologist, eye floaters galore!
Links change, websites change.
Pure declarative programming.
Show HN: IP-Adapter-FaceID AI: Clone Your Face for Any Scene
Imagine, just by uploading a few photos, you can generate images of yourself in any scenario.

Recently, the IP-Adapter-FaceID model has been featured in numerous tech media outlets. It allows you to clone your face by uploading photos. Then, based on prompt words, it can generate a variety of images.

I tried it out and found the results quite impressive. The generated images closely resemble the original photos, and you can customize the scenes and content. It seems quite useful in certain scenarios.

Realizing that many people might not know where to use it, I spent two days creating a website that integrates this model. It includes instructions for use and some introductions to the model. Everyone is welcome to experience it online.

Online address: https://ipadapterfaceid.com

If you have any ideas or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment.
For most people an M1 is a means of accessing websites, even as a developer my dev machine has become a gateway to virtual machines and I could do the same thing on a 2008 MacBook Pro. For a few who use ML features of apps like photoshop there may be more of an occasional wait time, but it’s not like rendering a video is it, it’s 10 seconds vs 15 seconds.
This is great! I've bookmarked it on my phone.

I'm really curious where do you get the base sounds from? For example where are the coffee shop or different rain sounds from.

The one that I'd love to know about is the music section, I listen to a lot of the ambiant stuff on apple music and spotify, where do you get your ambiant track from? I always have to search "spa music" and see what I like from the results.

Acutally one last one, how on earth did you get a shipping forcast? Haha. Is that one track or like a chain of random ones?

Thanks again! I'm going to use this a lot.
Great spotting!

Indeed, it seems they haven't bothered to change the dates:

>This initiative, slated for an April 2021 launch,

Props to africacheck.org for debunking this and providing links. I did search for "witchcraft" myself in the university's website and (unsurprisingly) found nothing.
But that doesn't change the drab colored interior that's irrespective of the lighting.
I'd say the modern obsession with dating your equal is having the unintended consequence of creating an academic elite
Did you really need a Macbook pro to be just an overclocked terminal?

Seems like a waste to be fair, could have used a $500 refurbished ThinkPad for that.
Single SF restaurant may be operating 70 different storefronts on DoorDash
The reporter specialises in fiction:

By day she works as a writer for iHarare.com, crafting creative and engaging content that captivates readers across Zimbabwe.

By night, Audrey can be found with her nose in a book, devouring the latest novel or delving into a classic.

and even if there's a kernel of truth here it likely pivots on what is "witchcraft"

It’s not witchcraft it’s our tradition religion and culture,

supposedly writes one reader.
$18/month seems to be a tad too much. Maybe $20 would be a good one-time fee?
I asked GPT to continue the conversation :)

quantumconfusion 6 hours ago | root | parent | next [–]

True, but there's also the flip side. People might inadvertently adopt AI-like patterns in their writing, especially as AI becomes more pervasive in our daily lives. It's a curious kind of feedback loop.

42Philosophers 6 hours ago | root | parent | next [–]

I think that's already happening. Sometimes I catch myself phrasing things in a way that sounds like an AI response. It's weirdly fascinating and a bit unsettling.

nerd_visionary 6 hours ago | root | parent | next [–]

That's the essence of language evolution, isn't it? We mimic the structures and patterns we're exposed to. In the past, it was literature or media, now it's AI. Just another chapter in the linguistic journey.

digital_scribe 5 hours ago | root | parent | next [–]

I wonder if we'll see a new form of 'AI-influenced' dialect emerging. The impact of technology on language has always been significant, but this could be a whole new level of influence.
Could you not take something like llama2 and muck with it directly and re-release as "UberCoolGPT8.5" (even with legitimate improvements).

Or in OpenAI world, "fine-tune" a standard gpt3.5 with something useful (and something nefarious).

Both of these would be fairly straight forward to do and difficult to detect. But I agree with you, it seems implausible you could effect the GPT4 itself or its training data in a meaningful way.
A few small tips.

1.If you want the generated face to look more like the original, upload multiple photos at a time.

2.You can also add some negative prompt words, configure the embedding weight of the face, and the structural weight of the face, for more controllable effects. You can try and experience it for yourself.

3.If an error occurs during generation, try a few more times. Once the progress bar appears, it should work.
Cheers thanks for the feedback! I think there's been some pushback on price will definitely reflect on this
Macs have Neural Engine, a separate chip from GPU, for AI workloads

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/10/apple-unveils-m3-m3-p...
What if you assigned each user a unique ID, used this to determine the user session data and persisted this data in a server that was accessible by both web browsers. You could authenticate yourself against this user id by means of a secret only this user knows

It sounds a bit radical but it may work!
It's really frustrating. As I said, I've used the same address for 20+ years now and it seemed like good brand awareness for the university to maintain this service for graduates/professionals so I never thought I suddenly have to move away from it.

You can find my non-SFU (!) contact info in my profile.
So you list people without their consent or do they need to approve?
It starts very good, but does this article have multiple pages? Clicking 2 or Next at the bottom shows "something went wrong. Please contact an administrator". Tried in firefox and chrome on android
I personally don't feel ashamed; I personally just feel annoyed but that's not why I'm complaining.

I personally know people who do feel that kind of rhetoric to be a personal attack on their tribe.
I don't personally belong to that tribe or even like that tribe but it exists and they're being energized by all those attacks. I like liberal values and I'm saddened by the rise of reactionaries. If I want to protect liberal values I know that being a jerk against conservatives is counterproductive. I don't care if it feels good, it's not effective.

EDIT: I don't think the researcher or the journalist or you or anybody in particular is at fault here; we all react to the incentives around us. My dig is against the pattern and the perverse incentives that are creating this environment in the first place.
This a great post of something every SAP developer has to write down for himself at some point.

One thing I would note though, is that FORMS are deprecated and shouldn‘t be used, so removing them from your personal template is good idea.

Apart from that: Great job!
Recommend people publicly but they have to be signed up yeah – can only be positive recommendations though!
I once almost burned out
Wait until you discover the US has been buying Russian oil and
Russian uranium in spit of their own sanctions

EU spineless? come on
Related works that mention POSIWID, mostly by W.L. Livingston:

The New Plague (1985)

Have Fun at Work (1988)

Friends in High Places (1990)

Design for Prevention (Silva)

Seeking further references.
Reading the FAQ and the emails they have sent, I get no indication that this is necessary, and it comes across like a convenient excuse to cut a service.
Bah, always that stupid plane-style seating layout... I really wish more railway companies did 2x2 like the Swiss. That aside, it looks cozy.
If I scroll beyond "Socializing", the page blanks out. Even in reader mode. wtf?

Even on https://archive.is/5z5em
In (1) you imply that hallucinations are strictly due to nondeterminism in GPT computation. A hallucination happens (IIUC) because of the numeric imprecision, model regularization and various thresholds. In short, the hallucinations can be reliably reproducible (but, they can also happen due to non-deterministic computation).
Because the way React or Vue render and update things is very different from the vanilla JS approach. What if I want, let's say, tooltip contents to be bound to some state. Your JS implementation has no idea about the state. At best, you will provide a function to update tooltip contents.
Don’t charge based on profile visits: you’ll punish people for utilising the service and you’ll create a negative experience when someone reaches that limit. People should choose to pay as an active decision to gain access to new features. I’d be happy to pay for a service like this but “the link you’ve shared isn’t going to work any more unless you pay immediately” would leave a very bad taste in my mouth.
Prefer native web components buuuuut honestly Lit just makes web components quicker + easier. Love me some Lit.
Ask HN: Are there any platforms for pair programming matching to learn skills
I want to learn new engineering skills, unrelated to my job. I have no friends and I do not want to pressure colleagues. I find self directed courses to be a bore, are too high level, or assume way too much foundational knowledge. I work best having someone to guide me or chat through things, perhaps working towards a shared goal.

Does such a place exist?
Cheers thanks for the feedback! I think a couple other people have been mentioning the free limits / pricing as a roadblock
I vaguely remember headlines about Meta firing its responsible AI team sometime around the whole Sam Altman debacle at OpenAI?
I once wrote an opinion in healthcare with my professor, just so that I could get a bullet point for my CV. We got published in Nature quite accidentally (I honestly just wanted to submit it to Bloomberg Opinions or something lol), and while the citations aren't much, it has since been cited by an industry body and a government report. But yeah, I just wanted an easy paper with a bullet point for my CV.
Oh, nice, TIL. Good point about surface to volume ratio.
It is literally speculation, in the literal sense of the word.
Speculation, as defined by the Cambridge dictionary: the activity of guessing possible answers to a question without having enough information to be certain.

The question here is if japan would have surrendered without the Atomic bombs. There is not enough evidence for it being True or False.

Many modern historians claim that japan would have surrendered anyway because its military was in shambles. They hoped for a conditional surrender. The bombs were frightening, but didnt create more damage than the previous firebombings. The fact that the Soviet Union joined the was on the western flank of japan was probably the straw. It blocked all future possibilities of diplomatic conditional surrender by pleading with the Russians.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bomb test sites and at least a hundred thousand innocent people died just to see the end-product of the most expensive weapons program ever. If Germany would have done it, all the people in the chain of command would have probably been hanged for war crimes.
Fairfield Osborn Preserve (2011) [video]
But you must agree it is almost certainly the case that most people design standards wrong.
What is the basis for recommendations? I.e. what is the platform doing to make sure that the recommendations that I receive are relevant to me?
Sama says "build for GPT-5 and AGI Now; GPT-5 in 2024, AGI in 2025"
Thanks for getting back to me, I'll go through the examples you shared.
I would state the opposite, the use case is huge.

To add something new, that needs to persist, will not require going to a backend team and begging for a new API from them.

A common difficulty is the simplest scenario, where do I store this frontend user preference? How do I store this that prevents nagging multiple times across devices?

Backend teams will argue this is a frontend piece of data, and they provide APIs and backend storage that is agnostic of a specific frontend.

This feels like a valuable addition.
I can totally relate to what you have written. I've been in the same/similar situations a few times over the past 15 years.
Nix is the only solution for reproducible environments that I would call rock-solid.

It comes with costs and the gpu-related stuff is especially tricky e.g. https://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/supporting-gpu-accele...
I can’t agree with this sentiment enough. If it’s “dangerous” it gives me zero comfort that Ilya Sutskever is working on it over anyone else.

Maybe it seems he is more special / qualified, but there is no evidence to really prove that.

More out in the open the better.

If we’re going to be obliterated by the AI uprising, I’d prefer it’s an open source apocalypse.
I think it's proper criticism, since even the article as a whole doesn't actually say anything we didn't already know.

"M1 might (will) be inferior to M2 and M3 for 'AI' workloads."

No shit Sherlock, hardware obsolescence in a nutshell.

The least the article could then do is explain itself for unenlightened readers.
Nothing at this point haha but they can only be positive and help your profile out. But i get where ur coming from – what would you suggest an acceptance of a recommendation from the receipient?
https://archive.is/cp9hL
Sounds like you're describing my carpet-color classification project! [1]

Built as part of a larger carpet based localisation project [2]

1: https://nbviewer.org/github/tim-fan/carpet_color_classificat...

2: https://github.com/tim-fan/carpet_localisation/wiki/Carpet-L...
Hey, rev.ng core dev here.

I guess the core difference is that we do not implement the instructions semantics ourselves, but we reuse QEMU.

QEMU, when in emulation mode (i.e., not KVM), goes from executable code to an intermediate representation (tiny code instructions) and then compile it back to the host architecture.

We use the first part of QEMU but then translate tiny code instructions into LLVM IR.

This means that:

1. We don't have to implement instruction semantics on our own;

2. We can easily support the architectures supported by QEMU. Currently we support x86-64, i386, ARM, AArch64, MIPS and S390. https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms

3. We get out of the box the accuracy in instructions semantics of a mature emulator such as QEMU.

We used to be able to lift `gcc` to LLVM IR, recompile it and have it working.

However, the real difference is that, while it still works, we're now no longer focused on binary-to-binary translation, but we're now 100% focused on writing a full blown decompiler, i.e., something that goes from binary code to (valid) C and has a nice interactive UI.

As you can imagine, the lifter is really just the first half of a decompiler.

For instance, one core feature of rev.ng is automatic detection of `struct`s, just by looking at how they're used: https://twitter.com/_revng/status/1575553313827069952

If you have been doing some reverse engineering, I'm sure you'd appreciate this feature.

Bonus, take a look at our UI: https://twitter.com/_revng/status/1720440515265474631

As a side note, towards the end of the month we're releasing the new website and starting to invite people to the closed beta.
If you wanna join: https://rev.ng/register-for-nightly.html
yup. i was hired on a 1y contract, and because i did a good job, got a permanent one after 9 months (which is quite common where i work).

also, you can't be just fired for performance reasons right away -- you need to first do a documented improvement plan and you need to at least try to move the employee to a different part of the company.

if she was in the netherlands, she could easily sue CF for wrongful dismissal.
Why not comment under that post so the user sees it?
bfloat16 is not used for graphics, where FP16 is appropriate, so all GPUs that are new enough to support 16-bit floating-point numbers support FP16.

For bfloat16, there exists only one application, ML/AI, because it is the only application that can tolerate a so low resolution in numbers.

AFAIK, the first device that has provided hardware support for bfloat16 was the Intel Cooper Lake CPU, which was launched in Q2 2020. AMD has added bfloat16 support in Zen 4, in 2022.

If any GPU has added hardware support for bfloat16, it must be a model launched in 2020 or later.

Support for bfloat16 is much more likely to be provided by dedicated ML/AI accelerators.
There was a second page when I posted it, but then it stopped working. Sorry.

This archive link is also semi-broken, but at least seems to have the complete article text on page 1:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120719224016/https://www.drdob...
Quantifying the Effects of Energy Infrastructure on Bird Populations
Bitch I have unified memory
My Knowledge Lakehouse
> These persons are either homeless people, inmates from local jails who died but relatives never claimed their bodies, unidentified persons who officials were never able to connect with family, or even persons who died" whose families couldn't afford a funeral.

"Inmates from local jails" and "unidentified persons" are separate categories.
The design reminds me a lot of Vercels own style.
There may have been new attempts, but when I last looked into these types of drone propellers, nobody seems to have been successfully able to demonstrate they actually offer significant improvements (either noise or efficiency) over traditional designs.

To be fair, the limiting factor might be manufacturing capabilities, given most attempts were using 3d printed propellers which results in terrible surface finish, compared to injection molding.
Battery weight might decrease drastically with next gen tech.
firing someone without trying to improve their performance. you need to first warn the employee, and try to improve their performance.

you can check reasoning for dismissal here https://business.gov.nl/running-your-business/staff/dismissi...
Yeah, it's bullshit.

More info here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV5bBSZX00E
I’ve just returned to a MBP from an XPS13 running various flavours of Linux.

I’d suggest that there’s lots of little things you miss on a refurbished Lenovo vs an Apple Silicon mac.

Eg better battery management, better screen handling, better Bluetooth handling.

None of them was a massive problem for me hut it’s that kind of fit and finish to the OS I missed. For now anyway I’d rather pay extra for a Mac.
Yeah, his attempt to rebrand open source and then casually pretend that the new brand is already established... isn’t working.
Show HN: Blockly BOT – AI to assist in learning block programming
Hello, I am a 15-year-old middle school student living in Japan. Learning programming can be challenging for beginners, but block programming makes this learning process easier. In particular, Scratch, developed by the MIT Media Lab, is a wonderful tool that allows intuitive learning using blocks. It is based on Google's Blockly project.

I have developed my own block learning assistant using Blockly. With this tool, it's possible to add explanations to existing blocks, customize them, or create new blocks using natural language. It was built using OpenAI, React, and Vite.

This project's source is publicly available on GitHub, and I hope it can contribute to the advancement of programming education. I am eagerly awaiting your valuable feedback!

Demo (Japanese): https://blockly.yutakobayashi.dev
PDF-XChange Editor[1] is a very good PDF viewer and annotator. Unfortunately, no Linux equivalent comes close, IMHO. Fortunately, it runs very well on Wine[2].

[1] https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

[2] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...
I regularly observe it stalling at dependency resolution stage upon changing version requirements for one of the packages (or python version requirements).
I think your linear evolution theory might be a bit too simplistic. There must be a branch somewhere (says the CS nerd). Where does AR & VR go? Before or after touch screens?
Show HN: App to discover what's happening around the world in real-time.(launch)
That's a very convincing argument.