skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google, Meta and Slack have all had their hand in EEE'ing XMPP, which for a long time was the standard for open messaging. Slack and Discord have gone a level above and locked IRC behind their walled gardens, despite their very existence being based on IRC.

A healthy market would see casual interop between these services, and they all started with that interop before slowly strangling it out and monetising through adverts, tracking, data mining, and exclusivity. Open protocols allow you to bypass that though, which is why each of these networks are locked down.

There's no reason why your Airpods should talk over a proprietary Apple protocol and your web apps only work 100% effectively on chrome browsers, having inferior functionality by design if you don't commit fully to the landlord of your walled garden of choice.
It seems to me like you don’t own this data. If you want to preserve this data, try again with the owner?
Two Sonoma communes’ psychedelic rise and fall (2017)
Jeremy, you've taken a bold, open initiative. Thank you for calling on all the small, innovative teams. To better understand the types of projects or applications that excite you and Eric most, could you share examples of companies or applications that Answer.AI currently supports or plants to invest in? Additionally, if yo u have any published articles detailing these ventures please share the link. Best wishes with your venture.
Honestly, I’m not sure about “not what they used to be”: I don’t think Roombas have ever been very good.

The early ones were noteworthy for being novel, but (IMO as an early adopter) weren’t very good at cleaning. About ten years later I experienced someone else’s (then) modern Roomba, and it was still essentially the same crappy product, randomly banging into walls and struggling with carpet edges.

When the Roborock appeared with LIDAR, it was like the future in comparison, and frankly what Roomba should have already delivered years before.

When an established company with a big market share and opportunity for a technology lead is so out-innovated, it suggests that something is fundamentally rotten.
Used it and really liked it

Thanks for your work
Ask HN: What are the important STEM stories I should be following?
I'm just curious what the important, ongoing stories a well-informed hacker should be following in STEM - I'm hoping I can get a list going in this thread.

I think the development of LLMs and AI is near the top of my list (kind of an obvious one), although I'm not sure if there's some specific stories I should be following in that space.

I've also been following Starship progress over the past few years, and the Artemis missions are interesting as well.

Fusion research and neural implants also seem like areas worth looking into.
Purism Announces First Public Offering on StartEngine
Really cool looking! Excited to mess around with this.

Happy to see the everyPlayer[1] flow command to allow for simultaneous actions. This is something that's missing from the other boardgame frameworks I've tried.

[1]: https://docs.boardzilla.io/game/flow#everyplayer
OpenLDAP 2.6.7 Now Available
"Can" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
While dependencies can provide convenient functionality, the JS ecosystem has tended towards excessive granularity. Many packages contain limited code yet still require a large number of dependencies .. sometimes because of tooling (as in the example in the post here), but quite often out of convenience!

Rather than hastily installing the latest shiny package, we should refactor and build reusable minimal utilities tailored to our domain.
An ironic aspect of this is that when i was young my dreams were always in dull colors, like 70s-era photos. As i age, dream colors become more and more vivid.

Given that, i suggest that their conclusion:

> The study is the first to use pupillometry to show that as we grow older, our brains become less sensitive to the intensity of colours in the world around us.

Should instead say "eyes" (or perhaps "visual cortexes") instead of" brains."
Do we want dishonest people driving research with real-world consequences?
How does luggage ever get lost when they slap so many stickers on it?
Technically, I think replacing NY with Delaware may be a better comparison - specifically with respect to the Delaware Court of Chancery in which most large US companies litigate business issues.
No, why would it? The phone always charges as fast as it wants to, so it doesn't really matter if you connect it to a 20W or a 240W power supply.
3 of my favourite films of the decade.
Just unplug the cord, or disable the WiFi, for a few seconds. As we are presumably discussing sensitive data, nothing is as certain as the end of the cord in your palm.
Yes.
They get a subscription fee or are paid by advertising. No one pays to advertise to an AI.
My impression of these bills was that none of them had survived contact with SCOTUS. What is going to make this bill any different?

And why aren't we just passing a proper damned privacy law already? All of the addictive features of social media are specifically enabled by their ability to collect unlimited amounts of data. Yes, I know, the NSA really likes that data thank-you-very-much, but SCOTUS isn't going to be OK with "censor children" to protect that data flow.
Ah, but that sounds like a very inefficient approach, which probably still has quite high latency, and probably also performs bad in terms of word-error-rate (WER).

But I'm happy to be proven wrong. That's why I would like to see some actual numbers. Maybe it's still okish enough, maybe it's actually really bad. I'm curious. But I don't just want to see a demo or a sloppy statement like "it's working ok".

Note that this is a highly non-trivial problem, to make a streamable speech recognition system with low latency and still good performance. There is a big research community working on just this problem.

I actually have worked on this problem myself. E.g. see our work "Chunked Attention-based Encoder-Decoder Model for Streaming Speech Recognition" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08436), which will be presented at ICASSP 2024. E.g. for a median latency of 1.11s ec, we get a WER of 7.5% on TEDLIUM-v2 dev, which is almost as good as the offline model with 7.4% WER. This is a very good result (only very minor WER degradation). Or with a latency of 0.78 sec, we get 7.7% WER. Our model currently does not work too well when we go to even lower latencies (or the computational overhead becomes impractical).

Or see Emformer (https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10759) as another popular model.
boiling us frogs.
One Billion Record Challenge in Elixir
Nope!

Element.scrollIntoView({ behavior: 'smooth' });

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/scr...
Whoa, the top comment is really +5 insightful.
thanks for noting, 2020 should be in the title, I was about to comment that event bridge (which linked article notes is new) is a rebrand on cloud watch events which have been around since January 2016.
Speaking of unclaimed property, do any of you Texans know of a way to use this absolutely trash website to look for something more specific than your First/Last?

https://www.claimittexas.gov/

I have a fairly common first name and there are literally 50 pages of results and "Your search returned 1000 unclaimed properties."

One of my financial apps (mint/ck not sure) told me I had unclaimed money and I have no way to find my name on this without cdlicking through 50 pages.

You can't even sort the rows.
The format you want is WARC. Even the Library of Congress uses it. There are many many WARC scrapers. I'd look at what the Internet Archive recommends. A quick search turned up this from the Archive Team and Jason Scott https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/grab-site (https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Who_We_Are) but I found that in less than 15 seconds of searching so do your own diligence.
OpenLDAP 2.5.17 (LTS) now available
Running your dryer for 25 hours vs. a single charge of the car maybe...
It's not my deficiencies as a parent that make me support this law. It's the need for a reverse network effect. That's how social media works. If everyone else has it, your kid wants it. If no one else has it, your kid doesn't want it. Social media has been found harmful to children, like smoking or alcohol. For many reasons, it should be limited for children.
2012 was the year that Andrew Left publicized why he was shorting Evergrande stock, which he got banned for in 2016. I would say 2010 was when Evergrande started popping up in the news as possibly insolvent, 2000 is too early.
> if working full time

That's where they get you. Staffing less than 30 hours means you don't need to provide health insurance as an employer. This is what most retailers do for line level staff.

Roles like Store Manager, Leader, or Coach are basically corporate management gigs that require or "highly recommend" a Bachelors degree
> you could also perhaps perform instantaneous, constant time computation of any function

See the first section of HPMOR chapter 17: https://hpmor.com/chapter/17
Don't have the link anymore but it's pretty simple, I'm sure you can even do it with a bash script. Generate .ly files with scores whichever way you want, convert them to png via lilypond cli, then generate flash cards containing references to those images
PoC exploits for Jenkins vulnerability are being targeted in the wild
Percy has some degree of autonomous driving capabilities, requiring fair bit of image processing. I'm sure the autonav programmers would love more compute to be able to literally drive faster; the improvements from Curiosity to Perseverance already made huge difference.
> You cannot run an efficient operation if drivers are allowed to have personal trucks.

I'd be interested in actual data. Employee satisfaction/retention and associated hiring costs and increased maintenance/higher failure rates because no one has "ownership" over the truck aka diffusion of responsibility happens are where I could see that calculation break apart.
At least "not now" can also mean "and not ever". What really gets me angry is "maybe later".
I would imagine the really good stuff is sorted through and sold via different methods. What makes it to the store is left over crap?
The Rural Ski Slope Caught Up in an International Scam
Unable to deploy Azure Static Web Apps, support refuse to acknowledge outage
Latest issue: https://github.com/Azure/static-web-apps/issues/1404
First issue with discussion: https://github.com/Azure/static-web-apps/issues/1396

Worst thing is there's nothing showing on the Azure status page yet it's not been possible to deploy most of today.
Dup Party Exec meeting live: Been live tweeted from within room
Fast.AI is awesome and how I first learned ML. Can’t than you enough for that great project and its impact on my career! How do you see Answer.AI as supporting other commercial research efforts that have some overlap with the open source community? I’m thinking of things like Unsloth, which is trying to take a wild swing at efficient fine-tuning of LLMs without getting scooped by big tech.
Have you seen the comments people make about Google search quality?
> have a great home theater experience

We'll have to see how people handle 1.5lbs of headgear for long periods. Maybe it'll be fine, but the Quest is already heavy enough.
Can someone explain how adjusting weights based on viewing data is copyright infringement?

I don't know if it's just not understood how these models work, or if it's just purposely misleading to try and cripple scary new tech.

It seems like writers trying to complain it's copyright infringement to have other writers read their works for inspiration.
There is no protecting against pre conceived notions. If a Typescript programmer, for example, expects Python to behave like Typescript then that is on them. Typescript has types. Python has type hints. RTFM for God’s sake.
I very literally accidentally clicked upvote when this article was first on the home page. I can't undo upvotes for some reason. Hopefully my little vote didn't help visibility.
Mistral has ~20 employees. I'm sure they have good researchers, but don't they lack the computing and engineering resources the big actors have?
It's absolutely missing dildos and erotic toys mystery bag, or the people opening suitcases take these for themselves together with more precious stuff?
Maybe someone buys them for a few bucks and dropships them for $25 as a vtuber?

Think I have a new side gig
Can anyone tell me what kind of hardware setup would be needed to fine-tune something like this? Would you need a cluster of GPUs? What kind of size + GPU spec would you think is reasonable (e.g. wrt VRAM per GPU etc).
Still no GUI a la synaptic as without pulling half of KDE (Discover) or Gnome (Gnome Software).
University of Arizona operating in $177M deficit
Unfortunately the owner doesn't make themselves available to be contacted for anything at this point. They were more involved years ago.

As far as who owns the data, everything mentioned above is community-owned at least. So if anything it'd be up to individual community members, I'd think, to be OK with it. Since the forum is fairly dead, many of those original members aren't even active either.
A lot of western companies do not compete anymore - established european countries are basically oligopolies and their lunch is slowly eaten by the more aggressive chinese companies and Tesla. American companies - aside Tesla - is in the same situation. Rich on government contracts and control over their home market.

Basically a lot of established manufacturers are IBMs of this era.
> I am not qualified to make decisions about the software I run.

You, anonymousab, might be qualified. But the proverbial you which includes Joe Public most certainly is not.
SuperMicro stock roars higher on demand for servers and computer hardware
Companies can't get enough servers and computer hardware right now to power their AI ambitions.
There are people who still don't block ads?
So, your comment was not dead when I saw it. This reply was, but apparently now has been vouched for.

> What happened to Project X (supposedly coreboot++ for latest AMD CPUs)?

I don't recall what you're referring to specifically, maybe this was a thing before I started at Oxide. I do know that we deliberately decided to not go with coreboot. I believe the equivalent component would be phbl[1]. It boots illumos directly. Bryan gave a talk about how we boot[1][2] with more reasoning and context.

> Does Oxide attempt to sandbox, completely remove or 'verify as benign' aspects like the PSP?

The general attitude is still "remove or work around every binary blob possible," but the PSP is unfortunately not able to be worked around.

> However, if the hardware platform is FOSS

We fully intend to do this, by the way. Just haven't yet. It'll come.

1: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/phbl

2: https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-...

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33145411
The internet is just as real as anything else. Out of touch.
Improving upon my OpenTelemetry Tracing demo
Wow, what a lucky find. This is incredibly useful to me for equalizing speakers to match a room. I was using Websynths Microtonal before but this almost seems designed for the purpose.

All it might need is the ability to manually enter the base frequency yourself or do an automatic sweep. But I could probably bodge that into the source myself.

Lovely!
Oddly enough, the only way you can really make housing a commodity item would be to build capsules or other types of mobile homes that can be purchased separately from the land they are parked on. The Nakagin Capsule Tower comes to mind[0] but it's far from a solved problem since you'd need similar infrastructure to a container port to move the capsules around but since you don't move them often the infra itself has to be movable so it can go where the demand is, which is a pretty big ask if you're only moving one capsule. The only existing format is the traditional mobile home which is limited to single story and low density which means it can't be located near urban centers that need it the most. So, you're kind of stuck with the problem of it being easy to build small homes but really hard to find a place to put them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakagin_Capsule_Tower
> Roborock appeared with LIDAR

LIDAR is indeed a game changer, but Roborock was far from the first manufacturer to use it in botvacs.

The first Roborock with LIDAR was released in 2019 and I remember getting a Neato botvac with LIDAR in the early 2010s.
I set up as little as I can. Just some personal trackpad/hotkeys prefs.

Fortunately mac os is mostly right and useful out of the box, it's not a windows garbage :)
I've always hated this argument because it puts the blame solely on the employer, when the employee can also be to blame for their own circumstances.

According to this logic, if I'm $300,000 in college debt, it's my employers fault if I can't make ends meet (even if I'm getting paid well).
The IMDB app's constant "enable notifications? yes/not now" is what got me to pay a subscription to a competing app. You can't even tap yes, then go and disable the notifications in system settings; the app checks and immediately starts nagging again.

What a contemptible practice.
Why should a crime depend on how the tool used for the crime was created.
Like 2 guys write 2 scripts that output a copyrighted poem, then the cool one guy, call him Sam can go free because he used algorithm A but second guy goes to jail because he used algorithm B where the crime is exactly identical.
Forgive me for this one, but it comes from genuine curiosity and not snark. You are making assertions about how copyright law works, but you don't qualify it with either IANAL or any legal credentials. So I must ask: do you have a basis for these claims?

I love participating in armchair analysis of the law, since in software we pretty much have no choice but to do so anyway, but my understanding has always been that we still don't actually have strong case-law for machine learning and AI. It does seem like the existing cases regarding weights and ML training have leaned strongly towards the weights in general not being considered a derivative work, but I have doubts that the law would see this as black and white; for example, even if the general consensus is that ML training to produce weights, in and of itself, does not create a derivative work, if you are able to show that a given set of weights is able to verbatim reproduce inputs (as a result of overfitting or memorization), I have my suspicions that it would not be shrugged off so easily. In true "color of my bits" fashion, I think that from a legal standpoint, the actual technical means by which something was accomplished doesn't matter if the process as a whole is effectively copyright infringement.

There do seem to be some ongoing cases regarding this such as Getty Images v. Stability AI and it will be interesting to see their result.
I worked in tech somewhere behind walmart.com and the pay/bonuses were standard silicon valley, non FAANG. More or less median.
It’s explained in TFA. They don’t sell those.
> You want to make sure users aren’t stressing about making some final un-revokable decision before they even use the app

I've seen solutions like "if you change your mind you can access it from xyz setting". I'd much rather prefer that than constant nagging that won't go away.
You can download it and run it with [this](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui). There's an API mode that you could leverage from your VS Code extension.
The question is whether you need to. Yeah, it would be cool. Yeah, you could probably go faster. But usually, none of that is worth it. The science can still get done without it.
From the FAQ page. Providing your SIN/DOB etc will likely help.

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This argument, like everything else, is meaningless unless we talk about scale. It's like saying, well, I don't mind if someone sits by the road with pen and paper writing down license plate numbers.

But now, when the scenario is adjusted to be a network of ALPN sensors blanketing an entire metro area, am I just "purposely misleading to try and cripple scary new tech" when I object to such a system?
In Dengist-Trotskyist synthesis, the revolutionary class must be constantly and permanently going bankrupt.
Ironically, Google has come full circle on Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Chrome was the antidote to IE6 back in the day, packing more performance than Firefox could muster at the time. Now it is Chrome that has adopted MS's position, especially with web standards and their moves to try and block ad blocking (manifest v3, web integrity, etc.).
S.F. Car Break-In Tracker
We also have security questions in France (less and less). My best friend used to be CDZ@mVt10DNay7n0sGzn*4J5Q! until I had to spell it down one day.

Now he is known as cartload-sash-stark-travesty-chastity
I would be more concerned about this scenario if Amazon was also capable of discovering that because I purchased 1 door mat, does not mean that I want acquire a hoard of door mats, for my house made entirely of exterior doors.
Nobody's paid to have it pass Open Group Unix Branding certification tests

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

so it can't use the UNIX™ trade mark.

But it's got the AT&T Unix kernel & userland sources contained in it.

PDP-11 Unix System III: https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=SysIII/usr/src/ut...

IllumOS: https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/b8169dedfa435c0...
I was really excited about Chromium Edge when it initially landed, but grew tired of the dark patterns. Seeing that grim report (or one very much like it on the ieee site) a few years back was an eye opener.
I purchased my XBox One for the same reason (cost-effective Blu-Ray player with the possibility of playing games from time to time).
As someone that knows UNIX since 1993, starting with Xenix, many that are familiar with Linux, are actually familiar with a specific Linux distribution, as the Linux wars took over UNIX wars.

That being the case, knowing yet another UNIX cousin isn't that big deal.
They might not be very liquid, and there might not be a market for them at the current "market price" (China will often suppress real estate sales to prevent market prices from dropping).
I have two teens and have yet to see the negative effects of social media for them or any of their peers. Not to say it doesn't exist, but I sincerely doubt it's as awful as the doomsayers think. My personal observation of being raised in he 80s is that kids were far more awful to each other then than now.
Copyright laws do not support your argument.

There have been many cases in music where the offending song was forced to pay because it was "close enough" to the curve but not touching it.
Genotyping assays for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are relatively cheaper (I may not be up to date). In the space of 'polygenic risk score' of these genomice variants it is still a bit of debate how useful it is for screening.
I paid for the newspaper, book copy or museum visit from which I learnt and got inspired. And like me, million of people did over the years. And yes, I also pirated part of that content as well.
> The general idea, is that the smartest people in the world do not work for you

Most likely, they work for your competitors. They may not be working to improve your system for free.

> No company can replicate innovation from open source internally.

Lot of innovation does come from companies.
HP CEO Makes Up a Whole Lot of Bullshit to Defend Crippling Printers
America has a very long tradition of anonymity being part of free speech, going back to the Federalist Papers. This is not some new online issue.