skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenAI is the force to cut slice from the copyright pie which the big copyright hoarders have. The hoarders will not strike back to try to kill the OpenAI business. Because in any case they will not be able to kill the technology itself. So, obviously, it's better for them to have OpenAI as a partner and share some profit with them to control the AI field than to kill this one and wait for another AI menace to raise.

OpenAI is not the one who would kill a copyright. They just want their cut.
Thank you for mentioning prismatic! It was awesome. They just couldn't monetize it, if memory serves.

They made the unconventional choice of using Clojure: https://github.com/plumatic
But it takes less than 10min to get gas near the airport. You can't charge near the airport often due to lack of super chargers and it would take nearly 45min to get 100%
Maybe but I’d sure rather be on the side doing the genocide, nuking, etc than the other side. In many scenarios the group that was decimated lacked the hubris to understand it was beaten. No matter I don’t see all of the people e of the world with their varying interests coming together around the camp fire to sing kumbaya anytime soon.
I believe defrost was being satirical.
Show HN: StandBy Mode Pro – An Android Take on iOS 17 StandBy
- Player control
- Duo widget UI with editing options
- Multiple digital/analog watch designs with smooth an fun animations
- Weather updates
- Calendar integration
- Timer
- Night Mode, scheduled night mode and light sensor activation
- Countdown to special dates
- Quick Launch
- Burn In Protection
- Photo frame
- Focus Mode
- Smooth animations for all features

I have been developing this app for 6 months now part time. Feedback is very welcomed.
Both the viz, and that the 2D UMAP projection is actually enough to get accurately delineated topics.

Hence why I think the typical embedding dimensionality is way way too high.
That's a discrimination against cats!
Rkyv: A zero-copy deserialization framework for rust
Let's suppose that the hypest of the hype is real - that OpenAI is sitting on some world changing AGI tech. Are we really ready for the Cyberpunk future where corporate policies are enacted with the same force as law?
> > The Japanese government started the war and was free to stop it at any time.

> No. The US started the war with economic sanctions. This is a historical fact.

Ah, you are the kind of person who consider the US the aggressor of the Pacific War. You could have started your argument with that; it would've saved time for everyone.
The VC Funding Party Is Over
> sales tax still exists

i'm not referring to sales tax regarding point of consumption. I am referring to personal income taxes (capital gain or otherwise).

As soon as the profits move from being re-used for investment to becoming personal wealth (intended for consumption), the taxation should occur.
Location: New York City, NY, US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: React, Next.js, TailwindCSS, MongoDB, SQL, AWS, GCP, Redis, Prometheus, Python, Bash, Github/Gitlab

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HBUMJXQ6pF58hd5HymaRdtvpubY...

Email: shikhar.vaish@nyu.edu

I have 2+ years of experience as a software engineer. Generalist full-stack, strong hand at real-time applications like video-conferencing, analytics and remote-control systems. Previously interned at big established companies, and early-age startups and freelanced before landing corporate roles.
Yes, it seems like all the sonic boom shaping demonstrators so far have required quite long aspect ratio designs. However that's not really incompatible with private jet class aircraft.

Shooting from the hip (I have not looked up the stats), but I suspect one major difference now from when Concorde was being developed and flown is just how developed the private (and chartered) jet market is. Oh, and obviously a government subsidized SST project like Concorde cannot possibly be a private jet. It has to be an airliner for optics sake.

While the the bulk of the commercial market is in a race to the bottom, it's clear that there's a significant appetite for premium - look both to first class suites in typical airliners, and the size of the private jet market itself.

I think supersonic private jets actually have a reasonable value proposition, if one assumes that a reasonable amount of private jets use is motivated by minimizing the transit time of high value individuals.

There are reasonably successful private jets (with hundreds of sales per model) that can only carry 4-10 passengers. I think that shows that private jet usage can scale down to the level which isn't such a huge leap in a scale from the current demonstrators.

I have no idea how big of an market supersonic private jets would actually be, but it does seem like there's plausibly something there.
Check out the GitHub issues.

If the project doesn't have recent commits and the latest issue is "X no longer works", then it probably no longer works.

If you do download the project and get a build issue, someone may have the same issue with an environment similar to yours, the environment may be the problem and there will be a workaround. Or it could be a common mistake most people make, and the developer just hasn't updated the code/documentation to address it, so nearly everyone who downloads the project runs into it and then goes to that one issue for the resolution.

Long-standing, serious issues with no responses from the author are a red flag for a buggy project (very minor issues and "issues" which are actually documentation changes and suggestions are OK, even if there are a lot, because they may not be worth the time to investigate). Also look at the # of open and closed issues, because very large repos will have more open issues even if they're very stable, but they will also have a lot more resolved, and any longstanding major issues will have discussion from the developers explaining why they still haven't been fixed.
Anyone remember the Meyer CSS reset?

https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/

Version 1 was published in 2008:

/* http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ */
/* v1.0 | 20080212 */

html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
b, u, i, center,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
font-size: 100%;
vertical-align: baseline;
background: transparent;
}
body {
line-height: 1;
}
ol, ul {
list-style: none;
}
blockquote, q {
quotes: none;
}
blockquote:before, blockquote:after,
q:before, q:after {
content: '';
content: none;
}

/* remember to define focus styles! */
:focus {
outline: 0;
}

/* remember to highlight inserts somehow! */
ins {
text-decoration: none;
}
del {
text-decoration: line-through;
}

/* tables still need 'cellspacing="0"' in the markup */
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0;
}
I work as a staff employee at the university library. I expect there are a lot of similarities to working at a smaller company or for the government.

Here are some specifics, some good, some bad:

- Schools have a certain vibe. The campus where I work is absolutely beautiful. Being around students can be invigorating to some extent.

- I can take classes for free. I took a MS in CS course last semester.

- Compared to small companies, the university I work at is very well-known. I considered the name recognization on resume a minor plus.

- Compared from Silicon Valley, it feels like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm given something close to carte blanche as far as most technical decisions.

- There is a weird dynamic between "faculty" (needs degree) and "staff". Lacking a Masters in Library Science is a REAL limitation if you'd like to do any sort of work in an official capacity that's not purely technical. Even our UX people need MLS degrees.

- The pace is astoundingly slow. For example, there is a vended software solution the library wants to subscribe to, and the process of choosing a vendor is expected to take 5 years. Almost nothing is considered a matter of urgent importance.

- It seems exceptionally hard to get fired here, partly I assume because deliverables are so lax.

- The interview process was super weird. There was no coding. There were hours and hours of "Describe a time when..." type questions. I think this is meant to reduce bias in the hiring process or something, but I hate it honestly. I can't imagine trying to hire another engineer and not being able to see their code. If another role on my team opens up, I plan to fight like hell to get at least a basic coding task on our interview protocol.
unidentified persons

what does this even mean ? did the person refuse to say who they are ? so the person has been tried and sentenced and put in jail and filed under a picture. so you can put anybody in jail, deny him any contact with external world and claim he's unidentified ?
A Second Person Just Beat Tetris [video]
So, a programmer with LLM knowledge will have a startup idea to wrap all of this up in a nice little app. You say "turn on the lights", the app passes that to the LLM.

The LLM, having been pre trained on what to do, calls the API to turn on the lights.
There are algorithms where I think "Sure, with enough time and attention given to the problem, I might have thought of that." And then there are algorithms where I think "Oh, wow. That came from another planet. I would never have come up with that myself."

This one is definitely in the latter category.
> It's bad practice to simply dismiss arguments as "propaganda" without engaging with them.

Sure. If you are new to the discussion. But I'm not. I've come across all the rationalizations and of course the propaganda all my life. It's always the people peddling debunked propaganda who demand that propaganda be taken seriously.

> The dropping of the atomic bomb was significantly more nuanced that what you are suggesting.

Who cares? It's genocide. It's a war crime. It is pure evil. No excuse for it.

> If the Allies had to engage in an island hopping campaign, then the lives lost likely would have outnumbered those lost to the atomic bombs.

Are you seriously arguing the most racist nation on earth ( US ) cared about a bunch of non-white japanese lives? You do realize that the US had banned japanese immigration decades earlier because the japanese were inferior asians right? The genocidal firebombings of much of japan and hiroshima/nagasaki prove that the US did care about japanese lives.

> The US wanted to end the war before the Soviet Union had time to get involved and start gaining territory;

If so, the US would have accept japan's surrender in 1944 when japan start offering peace terms.

> Hiroshima and Nagasaki were legitimate targets under the then accepted doctrine of total war.

No they weren't. If japan or germany had nuked the US, those involved would have been tried and executed for war crimes/crimes against humanity.

You are just regurgitating debunked and pathetic propaganda I've heard many times. All one has to do is think to see through the nonsense.

How pathetic do you have to be to believe a white supremacist nation/government cared about saving japanese lives? The rationalization of evil. It's always evil that rationalizes the most. You sound more ridiculous than nazis who claim hitler tried to save the jews from the soviet communists. Imagine believing we nuked the japanese civilians to save japanese lives. That's beyond dumb and evil.
The last major update to Siri took it from passably useable to absolute trash. Let’s hope this does better
I just discovered this today, but if you whisper to your Echo, it will skip all of the "by the way" BS (it will also reply in a whisper, which is kind of creepy, but you win some, you lose some).
It's frustrating to see these updates that feel like a step back rather than an improvement. Why remove useful features and irritate your users? Guess this lets Google lay off more workers who were working on these.
Thanks for the tip but I don't seem to have this option on Chromium based browsers on macOS.
This just feels... excessive.
If you rewrite the server in Deno you can remoteStorage the data in localStorage!

https://docs.deno.com/runtime/manual/runtime/web_storage_api
Count me in. I openly say that I would like social media to disappear. I think they're a net negative for society in general and a massive step back for the web in particular. The web was not meant to be concentrated in a bunch of trillion dollar corporation websites.
Fractal crashed the game. It is quite the accomplishment to do without doing things like ripping out the cartridge or running the console outside of its expected temperature range, but he didn't beat it.
Welcome to government in the South

It’s hard to understand the mindset of casual incompetence and corruption if you’re not from there. Local government runs on nepotism and good ol boys networks - it’s such a standard ingrained practice that it is not even surprising or cause for concern when you notice it. It’s part of why these areas stay perpetually poor and get brain drained to hell
> Six lines of code tell me exactly what it does

I like the minimalism too, but I don't think it tells me "exactly what it does". I have no idea from that page what the backend requirements are. Is it a hosted solution? Is it using some browser profile functionality? Do I have to set up a server?

It demonstrates the simplicity of the client side code for sure. But the server stack is obviously where the details are going to be.
These look terrible to me. It’s like everything was drawn by a child and basic emotions are dialed up way past 11.
"Funny" thing about the Windows emoji font, is that flags are not included. I guess Microsoft is worried it can hurt their business (e.g. Israeli flag, Palestinian flag, Taiwanese flag, etc...).

So, if you need flag icons for any reason (e.g. phone number country code input), you'd have to use a different emoji font.
What OS doesn’t have this problem? Linux and Mac have both had major changes and move things around. Mac completely redid System Preferences to Settings and Linux changes frequently and even by distribution.
if executed correctly, it could be a good thing
Haha I have a 3 car garage and can barely fit one in. I admit that it is a problem that technology is unlikely to solve.
I did a modified version of this once for a map of auto dealerships, although rather than working with a fixed k, I used a fix threshold for cluster distance. The algorithm I was working with had O(n³) complexity so to keep the pregeneration of clusters manageable, I partitioned data by state. The other fun part was finding the right metric formula for measuring distances. Because clusters needed to correspond to the rectangular view window on the map, rather than a standard Euclidean distance, I used d = max(Δx,Δy) which gives square neighborhoods rather than round ones.
Well, what about other languages? Every language needs bindings or a re-implementation? (i.e., iceberg tables are written/queried in-process as opposed to via a network API?)
i feel like the value proposition for most private jet legs is "getting to an airport the airlines either don't serve or don't serve directly, and leaving whenever the passengers want". That's a lot of cases in the Continental US and a fair amount in Europe. Transoceanic travel by private jet is far less common than the 1-2 hour legs within a continent. Most private jets have fewer amenities than a 777/787/A330+

Buying an entire private jet primarily for trans-oceanic travel seems like something where I'd probably rather just suck it up and fly on one of the majors in first class suites.
I've actually been doing this over the past two years with a similar outcome in mind. Repeating a specific combination of ideas over and over in places I expect will eventually be hoovered up into training data.

Though I think it's worth keeping in mind Elon's recent frustrations with Grok not embracing his and Twitter's current world views.

We're quickly crossing a threshold where self-evaluation by LLMs of content becomes its own filter which will likely mitigate many similar attack vectors.

(Mine isn't so much an attack as much planting an alignment seed.)
> The morals of the ancient world would probably seem alien to anyone from the
> modern era. I can't remember the specifics but Roman literature reflected
> rather permissive attitudes to non-consensual sexual relations and relations
> with minors (eg a marriage age of 12). It's a hard thing to Google for without
> ending up on a watch list however.

I think that it can be a bit difficult to differentiate pro-forma traditions from what actually occurred. E.g. roman mores were quite different from ours but I'm not sure that marriage at 12 was much aside from an engagement. For exampl with later european marriages might have happened at similar ages but weren't actually consummated until the spouses where in their late teens or older. From a practical standpoint, if you marry someone to cement an alliance, it isn't a good look if you get them pregnant at 12 and they die in childbirth because they are too young to successfully deliver a baby.

Even terminology can be misleading as Naomi Wolfe famously found out when writing about homosexuality in Victorian Britain. She wrote about homosexuals being given the death penalty but was embarassed when an interviewer pointed out that one of the men she wrote about was tried and apparently given the death penalty multiple times over several years. Turns out when someone was tried and an entry of "death recorded" was made, it actually meant that their sentence was commuted to jail time or they were pardoned.
> The company says that its AI-powered detection system is accurate more than 90 percent of the time, which means your cat could still get a mouse inside. But hopefully that'll happen a lot less frequently.

Could be 90% accurate and 0% precise if the cat doesn’t bring a lot of mice
Already taken: https://www.cultofmac.com
Until now, I'd forgotten it was eCarnival time once again.
I don't know. Maybe treat others as you yourself would like to be treated?
I don't know if releasing a feature that all the other phones already had for a while fits the spirit of GP's point.
I don't condone this practice, but considering how "lucrative" data is, I read any sort of opt-out like this as "we're still going to collect the data but we'll hide the insights from you to make it look like we aren't." So, same with personalized ads on Google. Not sure how they're planning on implementing Maps location data such that Google "doesn't have" it, but color me skeptical for the time being.
We used k means clustering on a project used to track fruit fly memory and learning behaviors

http://git.ceux.org/FlyTracking.git/
> mankind had never had a crisis that didn’t end up with another phase of growth

The fact that we keep discovering ancient civilizations that are no more, and we were not even aware of their existence until recently, argues against this point.
Why wouldn't you spend as much on RAM as you would on your CPU? It seems kind of silly to skimp on RAM or SSD space these days.

There will always be some application that comes along and can use the hardware that you didn't imagine. I remember a friend saying that the 48k in his Apple ][ was enough ram for any program... as long as you didn't go filling it up with graphics and that kind of nonsense.

It's amazing how small code is compared to the data it operates upon.

You need all that RAM to virtualize operating systems, because running native code is dangerous.

The observant may wonder why running native code is dangerous. Why doesn't the operating system defend itself?
Ask HN: What side projects are you working on this year?
What mechanism for user tracking could you possibly use to do this?
To be fair my windows laptop also had 8 gigs and it runs just fine for most things. But a bit more ram wouldn’t hurt and a speed machine it’s not
The latter. Costs are artificially high. Indeed in a weird roundabout way they are mandated to be high. It has nothing to do with actual needs.
Fortnite won’t work due to Epic’s anti cheat.
...and that's all so relevant for day to day life? Oh, it isn't.
Another issue with this burial arrangement is that the deceased are interred in a restricted area.

This is completely counter to the long established design and custom of cemeteries - which is to be a welcoming place for loved ones.

And counties bury paupers in established cemeteries. Hines county certainly did as well. And did so long before this dumping ground was started. The procedures to inter these people in public cemeteries where already in place. They simply needed to be followed.

There is no need to put grieving families though a restricted entrance process, just so they can visit their loved one's graveside.
> The US started the war with economic sanctions.

Like Ukraine started a war with Russia by economic alignment with the western powers, or Poland starting a war with Germany in WW II for their offenses against German citizens.

> This is a historical fact.

It's very poor form to introduce a not only controversial opinion but a wholly subjective one, then claim that opinion to be a fact. It erases any credibility you might think you have.
Blast from the past. Last time I saw this concept was when it went viral in the early 2000's. https://web.archive.org/web/20010119084600/http://www.quantu...
> Modern browsers, believing they are being clever, hide the protocol in the URL bar.

Not all, thankfully. Safari doesn't do this.
Nuclear weapons have very little to do with nuclear energy.
I clicked the link on my Macbook and it apparently also runs on Apple Silicon Macs. I’m guessing it relies on the Apple Silicon Neural Engine.
Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles
Sorry, I just not believe this generalizes in any meaningful sense for arbitrary data.

You cannot determine frequencies from audio PCM data. If you want to build a vector database of audio, with frequency/frequencies as one of the features, at the very least you will have to arrange for a transform to the frequency domain. Unless you claim that a system is somehow capable of discovering fourier's theorem and implementing the transform for itself, this is a necessary precursor to any system being able to embed using a vector that includes frequency considerations.

But ... that's a human decision because humans think that frequencies are important to their experience of music. A person who totally deaf, however, and thus has extremely limited frequency perception, can (often) still detect rythmic structure due to bone conduction. Such a person who was interested in similarity analysis of audio would have no reason to perform a domain transform, and would be more interested in timing correlations that probably could be fully automated into various models as long as someone remembers to ensure that the system is time-aware which is, again, just another particular human judgement regarding what aspects of the audio have significance.

I just read the E5 Mistral paper. I don't see anything that contradicts my point, which wasn't about the need for human labelling, but about the need for human identification of significant features. In the case of text, because of the way languages evolve, we know that a semantic-free character-based analysis will likely bump into lots of interesting syntactic and semantic features. Doing that for arbitrary data (images, sound, air pressure, temperature) lacks any such pre-existing reason to treat the data in any particular way.

Consider, for example, if the "true meaning" of text was encoded in a somewhat Kaballah-esque type scheme, in which far distance words and even phonemes create tangled loops of reference and meaning. Even a system like E5 Mistral isn't going to find that, because that's absolutely not how we consider language to work, and thus that's not part of the fundamentals of how even E5 Mistral operates.