skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is true, for users

For developers it is different story

(I recently quit a three year stint doing iOS)

The tools are awful.

The main language (Swift) is over ten years out of date

They make you pay for the privilege of connecting your development environment up to an iPad/laptop

Everything looks fabulous a d under the hood total shit

It is such a relief to be back on Linux
Gently correcting grammar in a constructive way is constructive. I hope we are all here to learn and help each other succeed.
The vast majority of repos should be able to run CI on pull requests with no privileges at all. GitHub can manage any resource utilization issues on their end.

Is the issue here that a self-hosted runner was needed for some hardware tests?
The drugs and chaos of Elon Musk's fragile empire
That’s the beauty of it: the hoster is required to take it down ASAP. If it turns out you filed a frivolous claim and someone bothers to follow through, they are always allowed to sue you within a couple of following weeks, and that is not hoster’s concern.

Hoster’s concern is that if they do nothing then they are going to feel the hammer of respective infrastructure providers, none of whom want to be fined or jailed because of some small fish like Nitter.

I would not count on police in such cases, even in a developed country. If someone, say, doxxed you with an address and a photo, what you want is for that to go away before a predator sees it. Police may not act until it is way too late.
Oh of course, I'm confusing it with Bluetooth boards which need a hefty wireless firmware stack. Boards using a dongle don't necessarily need that complexity.
you are describing trains. you've just reinvented the freight train.
https://archive.ph/oscQq
Animals have different sleep patterns and attention spans than us. Cats and dogs usually tune out the sounds they know are not important.
Once you're sticking a big ol' screen in the driver's vision during backup time, that screen becomes obvious real estate for any other user interface you may want. Buttons and dials are cheaper than a touch screen, but buttons and dials+a screen are more expensive than a touch screen.
That lacks a few things:

1: The comment

2: Printing the status message ("Listening on ...")

3: Outputting "Hello world, got {request.path}!"
Aka http request parsing and string extrapolation.
Any design tips on what makes a good space that cats like?
Very nice! It’s great to see another Tauri + Svelte project too. I’ve been building a video editor with that stack for a while now and it’s been pretty awesome.
The US have a well-developed and really busy network of freight trains. Trains already carry a lot of stuff that's economical to carry by train, especially bulk goods.
I see, So there is like a hi8gher level of facts/sources which are marked as such by the creators of the system. Higher level "facts" override the ones acquired from the public.

I didn't know about "system prompts".
Seems like they ran into some management issues and the research didn’t yield the results (as far as publications) that they expected in their application. And it’s a big grant at $28M. So that’s a lot to spend on researchers who seemed surprised at the difficulty of running such a study and didn’t seem to generate many new findings over the course of 5 years.

For example…

> The researchers estimated in their 2018 grant application that it would take at least three months to build the physical, digital and human infrastructure for the study. The process ended up taking three years.

This is all good for a private philanthropist. But the NIH is taxpayer funded and $28M given to this grant means other grants not funded.
> climate change weakens the jetstream... this is a symptom of something much larger.

I don't like being downvoted when I'm right, so here are some sources for those doubting my comment.

The cold in western Canada is from a Polar Vortex, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/polar-vortex... Watch the video and they explain how polar vortex's occur from a breakdown in the usual jetstream and experiencing polar vortex's in el nino years is strange.

And an article about the jetstream changing (becoming 'wavier') as a result of climate change, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B97801...

So, yes, Calgary gets cold. But this year is also not normal.
> Particularly the psychedelic experience is great for sparking realizations that things like hate, xenophobia, racism, etc. are all so absurd and non-productive.

I’m well aware of the claim. I’m the one who protested it to begin with. And I still have found no evidence that the parent hadn’t realized any of those beforehand.
It’s about 50km from downtown Reykjavik a lot of which is along the main artery route to the international airport.
More technical article about the new deployment: https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/vla/observing/cosmic-set...

So glad to see SETI alive. Next step, building a proof-of-work token to bring back SETI@Home and leverage thousands more GPUs :']
What do you mean by tech dads? Dads who work in tech?
Not necessarily. Both of us (the creators) enjoy using AI in our free time to make images and creating and curating aesthetically pleasing images.

It was not used purely to cut costs.
I've noticed a lot more developers on Windows across the board, as more folks learn programming.
I still wish that there were legal, regulated sources of these substances, so that those who choose to use them anyway can do so safely. There are some people who do appreciate altered perceptions/experiences from time to time, even if it's not a substitute for a sober daily life. People can get burned badly by a contaminated or adulterated supply.

Harm reduction is better than fearmongering and imprisonment.
Yes, if the choice is Mac or Windows

It is faint praise indeed
You might want to look into Vial[0]. It's essentially an addition to QMK which allows you to do exactly that.

[0]: https://get.vial.today/
Not sure if I completely understand what "Ryzen AI" does, but tinygrad for example has some limited support for RDNA3[0]. It isn't quite there yet in matters of performance though, as you can read in the comments of that file.

There's also a small tutorial by AMD on how to use the WMMA intrinsics[1] using their hipcc[2] compiler. Documentation is sparse kinda sparse, but the instruction set is not huge. The RDNA3 ISA guide[3] might also be helpful (and only a fraction of the pages are relevant.)

So it doesn't seem like RE is necessary? AMD dumped most code on GitHub.

0. https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad/blob/master/extra/gemm/...

1. https://gpuopen.com/learn/wmma_on_rdna3/

2. https://github.com/ROCm/HIPCC

3. https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/radeon-tech...
If the false positive rate is not 100%, their next try is likely to succeed. Unless, as I mentioned, the contraption just breaks entirely, which is why I'd be reluctant to have one of them in the first place.
Waymo vehicles have a significant amount of extra equipment. They are commercial, justifying the added expense. After all, we can all get a helicopter if we want to, but for some reason, they aren't common.
This is often the case in Alberta as well.
Followed "Raytracing in a Weekend" books and at some pointed ported them to WebGPU.

Rays are path-traced in a compute shader, bouncing around the scene and accumulating color.

The frame renders are accumulatively added to achieve denoising and blitted to the device screen. This provides for interactive framerates in the demo.
Ask HN: Which speech to text model would you recommend?
I may need to perform a bit of speech-to-text (English at least, but in perspective - multilingual also) from video or audio files.
Which speech-to-text model/API would you recommend,
which sort of performs the best and can also do noise etc reduction?
> Will trucks happen before cars? Well, cars are already there so... already answered.

Cars are not 'there'.
Yeah the NuPhy Air is the first wireless keyboard I've ever been willing to use, specifically because it is non-bluetooth (and I can recompile the firmware to guarantee that it isn't using bluetooth!)

Bluetooth keyboards were a horrible idea.
This post probably has some kernels of value, but it suffers from the XY problem: it's a note taking system which provides the solution, but not the problem it's solving. Let's invert that and focus on the problem first. Below are the problems my personal system solves, followed by the solutions. My solutions may not fit your situation, but if you see yourself in the problems, maybe you'll be inspired to find the solution that works for you.

1. Formatting easily becomes a distraction, but a little formatting is vital, so I use markdown to write my plans and notes.

2. Mixing streams from different projects is confusing, so each project has its own workspace - either a folder or a distinct prefix on the file name.

3. Work or ideas often become irrelevant for a while as plans change, but I hate feeling like I might lose work that might be valuable later. So I have a "dump" file or folder where I can dump such things. Entries are typically dated so they can be referenced by other files (see below). I typically use a level 1 or 2 markdown section header to delimit entries.

4. I often have a "log" markdown file where I append descriptions of indisputably important project developments (as opposed to maybe-important-later stuff that goes in the dump file). Entries here are dated and delimited similarly to the dump file.

5. There is a "plan" file that I try to keep clean and concise. This is where I go to remember what I have resolved to do next.

6. A common issue with plan files is that they get bloated with discussion of current or past context, as you try to figure out what to do and how to do it. When this happens, the discussion is moved to the "log" or "dump" files and replaced with a "link" describing how to find it again (e.g. "see log date 2024-01-12 for more on this").

7. There is a master plan file that coordinates all the projects. Bloat in this file is moved down to individual project files and replaced with a link.

To recap: markdown; project workspaces; log and dump with dated entries; concise plan file; move bloat out of plan into log or dump and replace with a link; master plan file with similar bloat management strategy.

I have used this system for five years. It has developed over time, but all elements have been in use for at least two years.

I am a staff data scientist leading a team of a half dozen people that is overhauling the core analytics pipelines and models at a Fortune 100, and 80% of my day is IC work. I have this job not because anyone asked me to do it, but because I proved I could do it on my own time. I work normal hours, parent of two kids, working spouse. I don't have time to putter around. This system is a big part of how I make it work.
The fossil fuel companies just serve their customers, and the customers had and have a choice.

So maybe cities? Starting with the one with highest per-capita use. Which one is highest on that list, LA maybe? Lots of traffic, lots of concrete and other high-CO₂ materials.
> Eventually, Flappie says that pets are likely to be trained that they can't enter when carrying something, and when they drop the prey the door will promptly unlock so they can get inside

I guess a dead mouse on the porch is better than inside the house. $400 better?
I have a garage and an EV, but we haven't had the budget for the necessary electrical work to power the house.
Not specifically mentioned, but a problem nonetheless:

They all look like ass.

Worse, they all look like the same ass.

At first glance, it's hard to tell if a modern vehicle is a Porsche, a family econobox, or a work vehicle for the dude who picks up the dog feces in your yard.

It would be different if this was because they were all pretty, but they're not. They're all hideously ugly.
Unlike LSD or psilocybin, MDMA causes addiction, so there is some ground for a ban.
Usually the ones that happen at a whiplash pace, like Mao's cultural revolution or the introduction of firearms to Native American populations. New technology needs time to mature and be rationalized by society at-large. Aviation and computing are both good examples, which had half-century long development phases before breaking into the consumer market and (finally) improving quality-of-life for everyone.

AI is just going to exist and rapidly develop outside the scrutiny of standardization. If you're a libertarian or venture capitalist it's probably your wet dream, but if planes and computers were developed like that then we probably still wouldn't have smartphones and passenger jets in 2024.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/interactive/2024/ken-fr...
Simple CLI for Gpt4
nothing novel or crazy but i've found it useful so figured I'd share my repo
I would never fault Walters graciousness, rather that I and others just find it difficult to establish a common ground quite often. You can see this very clearly in the discussion of the SQL applications of the string interpolation proposals.
Most autonomous cars can also drive non-autonomously with human control. In your example, those cars could then disconnect and go on their merry way, like cars on a ferry. The last mile (or several miles) has always been the shortcoming of mass transit.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-imprinted-brain/...
In Germany and Switzerland, washers and dryers are usually in the basement, otherwise in the bathroom. In the UK and Ireland, they're usually in the kitchen. Unsafe to generalize.
> PNG uses deflate. General byte-level patterns. It does not do bespoke image-specific stuff.

That's not quite the whole story. PNG does include simple filters to represent a line as a difference from the line above, and that may be what the original post is referring to. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNG#Filtering
City trains are often automated[1]. Have been for decades as far as I know.

Long distance or regional trains are often driving on very very old train networks.

I don't know much about trains, but I guess if you would build a new train line now you could also automate it. But that is just a guess.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driverless_train_syste...
This is the announcement post, which is pretty old by now. Lots of great things have happened since, and it’s worth a look! This is my go-to distro when I build a computer for family. It’s bullet proof, practical, and everything auto updates with zero user interaction.
C# is not more safe than Rust is and falls to prevent null pointer exceptions and modified collection exceptions.
Japan’s been in deflation for decades.
I don't think that's a charitable interpretation of what they said, and not how I interpreted it, but ok. It seems like I'm not going to convince you otherwise.
Maybe a drawback for your case, but it’s the feature I was looking for, one of the devices (my car screen) has no internet access at all, so I loaded the APK file there, and used it to transfer the files from my iPhone to it without internet, it wouldn’t be possible with the likes of snapdrop, and it didn’t even work properly in other two devices that had internet access.
Yes trucks slow down slower than cars but that's just physics. You've got the exact same problem with humans driving under say rainy or foggy conditions.

If anything driverless helps dramatically on this front. If you can run trucks 24/7 without stopping then you can cut their speed say 33% or whatever and still come out on top.

You can also adjust the cargo to reduce stopping distance - use autonomous truckers for things that are large but not heavy.

Or hell even just add more wheels for more stopping traction. Sure gets you more wear & tear but that's an infinitely easier problem than trying to teach an AI to recognise a kid running into the road in a busy urban steet or navigate construction site or whatever other surprises come up.

Author makes some valid points - stopping distance vs sensor range - but to me the conclusion that trucking on highways is hardest doesn't follow at all.
> when you buy a keyboard that advertises "ZMK", you're getting a binary blob you can't customize or audit

You've got a fine argument for preferring GPL software, but I'd be shocked if there was a ZMK keyboard out there you couldn't flash.

a.) That's how you configure it

b.) Upstream (including the platforn, Zepher) is moving quickly, with frequent performance, feature, security, battery life, and usability improvements-- eg. a recent commit touts support for bitlocker screens

c.) I had to hack on it to get the behavior I wanted, which.. oh, that means a company might want to hack on it too, i see

but this all to say that it would be a remarkable tragady for a company to not support mainline provide you with the sources, if just for integrating upstream updates, and thankfully I can't think of a product that does so. I'd prefer it was copyleft too (so we didn't have to worry about it), but I wouldn't go so far as to proclaim that's what "you're getting" as if it's endemic to the platform.
On your first link: "Overall, newer phones were less toxic than their older counterparts".

That's the thing, unless we have a very good reason, we should improve things, not make them worse.

Also, the stuff your second link talks about lasts for a decade or two at the environment, and then it's gone. While the fire risk of batteries lasts for a year or so.

A very good recycling program is a way to use make widespread use of those things. A very good protocol for handling them as trash is also one. But just landfilling them in mass isn't.
The list of things I hate about it is longer than the list of things I like about it. Certainly the workspace selector is miles better. Almost everything else is worse.
"Unsecured AI" is the "Ghost Gun" of AI control now, I guess? We're inventing new terms for the AI models people can run on their own without the involvement of a megacorp? Nice narrative.

Sorry, IEEE, but just putting a disclaimer about it being a guest post doesn't reduce the amount of respect I've lost for you.
But I bought my cats specifically to do the job they were bred for, which is to catch vermin (rats and mice). They're cute pets as well, but that's not what we selectively bred cats to be.

The problem is that humans are invasive; stockpiling rubbish, building grain silos, and creating environments where rats and mice can hide and not be caught by natural predators.

If you live in a country where wildcats, or other larger predators, are indigenous, then I don't see the problem in letting them outside.
> we’re back to reinventing trains

The term you’re looking for is armchair logistics.

Trains and trucks have been competing for a long time. Autonomous trucks, even in convoys, even where freeways have RFID signs, are vastly different from trains. You don’t need to lay and maintain tracks. You’re not limited to where tracks go. You can assemble and disassemble on demand.
German insolvencies set to rise as Covid aid ends and economy stagnates
If you’re already running windows, why do you need the linker to be GNU?
> and limiting the use of psychedelics to a controlled therapeutic setting.

Your other points I understand. This particular one I find controversial as one of the unkowns is what is an ideal setting?
I've got friends that will drop a tab, and go for a beer - just as impossible for me as sitting in a 'controlled environment' [therapeutic setting] with a shrink, or a Man-retreat for ex-military types.
I'd like to just have easy access to a known quality, and strength of chemical, that I can happily take, wheresoever I prefer.
Whisper, 100%. It's small, fast and does a really good job with most of the recordings I can feed it. IIRC, there are both English and mixed-language models to choose from as well.
Demarcation problem is unique to Popper's philosophy of science. That problem doesn't exist in other philosophies of science. The best attack on psychoanalysis comes from the late philosopher of science Adolf Grunbaum's "The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A philosophical critique"
Why not? We pay for it. I don't see why public interest shouldn't at least be considered as a factor. (If there is any, that is -- most NIH studies don't get on the the media's radar for the public to even find out about them.)
I've been using this for months and it works well.

The reason I'm using it over the default file manager of my phone or others is that it's open source. It's a matter of trust.

I install from F-Droid because if an app is both there and on Google Play it's pointless to give Google an easy way to know what I'm using.

F-Droid got much better lately. Strange things don't happen anymore on updates.
but the driver is a witness and a potential chaos agent so must be at least monitored and possibly killed. Robbing a driverless truck would convey less risk or potential death to the robber and less risk of catching a murder charge to go with your grand theft.
Thanks! That looks really good!
Indoor cats may live longer lives, but I'm not convinced they are happier about it.

I wonder what the effect on average human lifespan might be if people were routinely confined to assisted-living facilities for the duration of their adult lives. How many additional years might one gain if you faced no physical risks and experienced regular medical monitoring and treatment? Somehow I doubt many people would opt for that lifestyle, regardless.
> “Don't complain that Chinese is ugly and unreadable just because you speak English as your native tongue.”

The analogy here slightly breaks down since there are billions of people who speak and read Chinese already, while apparently the coding style in question is more of a niche thing trying to justify itself.

I don't know enough about APL or using 2-letter variables to comment on whether they're actually justified, but my personal hunch is that their usefulness is going to be limited to particular problem domains and people with particular inclinations. (The same goes for verbosity on the other extreme like particular Java projects...)
Worth watching even if you skip to the last couple of minutes, where he tests a Game of Life scenario in a way that is not comparable to anything I've seen done with any other programming language.

This power that Smalltalk systems have where the code runs in a GUI that is also the editor/debugger/etc has deeply fascinated me recently.

At the same time it makes me kind of sad, because it feels like we're all stuck writing code with a hand tied to our back. Almost makes me think that there's a happy alternative coding universe where the Smalltalk way is the default way, and a couple of weirdos are using separate IDEs/editors and restart their program on every change, or think they're smart if they're running something as primitive as a REPL.

The reason why I'm not just diving in and never looking back is that it seems like such a big investment, and that I'm so comfy with my (very) extended Neovim setup. And I'd like to be able to create applications that run without shipping the entire Smalltalk VM. And I'd like to actually understand a tool that I'd have to dive into that deeply, and I think I'll never have the time to truly understand all of the VM, the classes, etc.

Maybe instead, I should just create my own language that contains its own code editor. Seems like almost the same time investment, but maybe more satisfying?

Sigh...

Anyway, here is some other related interesting material:

- Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle (Always funny to hear the crowd go nuts when he does the live game editing time thingy.)

- Pretty much any Alan Kay video.

- Dan Ingalls his "Lively Kernel", which seems to me like it's pretty much the same as a Smalltalk system, but where you code in JavaScript, and it runs in the browser.