skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it was next to impossible to cancel a print job on Windows

It's still impossible. The only reliable method I've found consists of turning the printer off and then deleting the print job in the queue. Only way to get Windows to actually delete it. Doesn't work unless the printer is sitting right next to me, of course. I have no idea why this is so hard.
I don't know anyone that doesn't have something going on some of the time. Consider that a multimodal distribution in a high dimensional space doesn't really have a center, or has many centers, depending on how you want to look at it. It seems unlikely to me that the geometry would be simple.

To strip out the math metaphor in case it's unhelpful, there is no single way to be a normal or typical person, there are many ways. At first approximation you could think of them as being different archetypes (that metaphor ultimately suffers the same problem that I'm describing with "neurotypical", but just to illustrate). They aren't better or worse, just different. The problem isn't that someone is one type or another, but that the differences lead to confusion and miscommunication.

> given that there are people with one testicle and other people with one ovary, the average is probably less than one for both.

What do you think would happen if we rounded fractional values, given we're talking about something quantized?
That is an excellent example of a terrifying instance, thanks!
Sorry but was the auto empty not patented? Unlike software I thought you patented every small increment in the hardware world. If patented and still copied, was it their patent was not tight and allowed loopholes of modifications?
Nintendo was pretty bad about marketing the NES in the UK at least. Sega did a much better job so more people had a Master System. I assume this is true for the rest of the region too.
Query your Gmail account by hand using IMAP
I see the potential long term but that api is unintuitive at best. It almost seems obstructively terse.

(ggplot(mtcars, aes("wt", "mpg", color="factor(gear)"))
+ geom_point()
+ stat_smooth(method="lm")
+ facet_wrap("~gear"))

From https://github.com/has2k1/plotnine, their front page examples. I get that it's ripping off the ggplot api, but why would they not alias "aes" to something more meaningful? It stands for "aesthetic mapping".

My problem with all the popular plotting libraries in python is they seem designed for researchers slapping together a paper and produce code that's awful to maintain.
I'll analyze PNG for comparison. The largest width and height is 2147483647 (2^31 - 1). Using the pHYs chunk (physical pixel dimensions), the lowest density we can specify is 1 pixel per metre. So, 2 billion metres (2 gigametres) is somewhat bigger than the diameter of the sun at 1.39 Gm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(length)#g...

Using the sCAL chunk (physical scale) would allow extremely large dimensions because it uses ASCII floating-point.
> The point was that its not the case for all ccTLDs.

I don't understand. For .eu it is indeed the very same thing, isn't it? You still need to be either a citizen or have business there to apply for a domain.
yup ipfs literally doesnt work, why else did they need to do an ico and introduce centralized indexers...
The modal caveat is probably (in vibes-based notation):

(Organization 4567 ops=read,write,create,control)

Followed by the second modal:

(Organization 4567 ops=read,write,create,control)
(Apps (App 345 ops=read,write,create,control))

You can make a _much_ more complicated token. And, for instance, our deploy tokens for CI/CD systems are pretty complicated, and they even have a disjunctive caveat, but most people are at most probably just going to lock their tokens down to a particular app, or turn them into read-only or start/stop-only tokens.

(We modeled everything just to be safe, and also because that stuff is super valuable for service tokens, when we ourselves want to take platform actions on behalf of the user and have it be traceable back to a user authorization. I feel like I did not say enough about how much I like where service tokens are pointing for us.)
In two of the cases mentioned in the article, Citi approved multi-tens-of-thousand-dollar wire transfers from consumer accounts without getting positive confirmation from the customer. And in one case, the customer themself contacted Citi after clicking a sketchy link. That’s pretty egregious IMO.
Speaking for myself, there are several dozen books that I've read several times, and a few with double digit numbers. It's not just a function of that, of course, but also how memorable the book is to you... but it's certainly possible to remember a book so well that even thirty years later you can still do a coherent retelling of it.
In case any founders here are thinking about launching on product hunt
No, to all of this. No, this is an unserious argument about an unserious event. If he'd quoted Fairport Convention singing about murdering dudes with beaten swords, I insist that we would be having an isomorphic argument right now. About, like, drive-by swordings in the middle ages, and the implied threats thereof. No, I shan't have it.
> No, you don't. I am French and have an .fr domain and was never asked for proof of anything.

Namecheap disagrees. From Namecheap's support page:

> Any company or individual residing within the European Union as well as in Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein can register a .FR domain.

https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...
And Then Good Deeds Are Your Enemies
How Boeing Put Profits over Planes
Inventing the Perfect College Applicant
Tell HN: How to use an esim QR code when it arrives on iPhone
I needed to activate an esim QR code on my iPhone without a tablet or computer as the host screen. Then I noticed I could save a photo as a watch face on my Apple Watch - so made a screenshot of the QR code and saved it as a watch face. Then scanned it with the iPhone camera. It worked just fine. Thought I would share this hack.
That seems to be a bit of a murky case - https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-927543720080

“The image in the Facebook post identified as being from the original did show signs of being altered, Farid said.”

But regardless, it’s not related to the topic at hand, which is generative AI.
I'll add to what others have said better.

Decentralized, globally accessible resources still take some kind of coordination to discover those resources, and a shit-ton of redundant nodes and data and routing. There is always some coordination or consensus.

At least, that's my take on it. Does not tor have official records for exit and bridge nodes?
And I was able to switch to a different ISP.
Practical Signal Processing (2007)
“A Short Hike” is a lot of fun.
How does the mouseover animation of that topmost image work? It seems random yet deterministic.
The roomba vacuum was a great product but there's nothing about that device that made me thing they would naturally just be able to make other kinds of robots (and just didn't for a while...). When I think of things I would want a robot to do the proven roomba form factor and tech just doesn't make sense for any of those cases.
I meant to denote .5%.
> using a SAT solver (in this case, Z3)

isn't z3 SMT solver, not SAT?
I wouldn't be surprised if the person making the image thought they were somehow "resizing" it, not realizing that the tool was just making things up. And this was something already regularly done, but since the generated image was clearly incorrect this was one of the few times that it was caught.
>poor iRobot, has only 46% of the market, really needs to be backed by a marketplace/ecommerce de-facto monopolist

I did not get that from the article at all.
That's even less impactful. Cumulative learning is determined by the student much more strongly than per-class learning is. Years after a student took your class, the contribution to their knowledge, positive or negative, from you is negligible.
I'm quite happy that this deal fell through. I really love my Roomba, but I don't want Amazon to own it.
Smart. I need to activate a new eSIM soon. I was going to print it if I needed to.
The problem is that a good interview is only vaguely related to getting a good employee. Anyone can ace and interview and then slack off once they have to job.

If someone aces the interview using an LLM and then does good work using that same LLM then what should the employer or other employees care? The work is getting done, so what's the problem?

Compare a shitty worker to a deceptive one using an LLM. They both passed the interview and in both cases the work isn't being done. How are those two cases different?
Love seeing this with the code open sourced - also references another great procedural generation tutorial in http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/...
i have this mechanical drafting book - it's fucking amazing. Goes from simple euclidean type stuff - all the way to full parts, amazing patterns and so on:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Popular-Mechanics-Art-Mechanical-D...
> Hello! Your friendly neighborhood economist here. Economics is the study of resource allocation under scarcity.

As an economist, would you be able to explain (because I truely do not understand) why "the study of resource allocation under scarcity" is more important than (and/or prevents) meaningful action on climate change?
I think most people figured out these things just suck. For a quick vacuum a Dyson handheld does a much better job and I can do a large area very quickly, same amount of time I used to lose resetting the stupid robot or moving cords for it. For deep cleaning the Roomba couldn't handle it anyway, nor can any of the competitors.
That's a good idea; it's called MAP-T.

Here's a NANOG presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmfYHCpfr_w
It's roughly the same, no? It emulates a non-deterministic Turing machine and gives the same results, just taking much longer. But runtime isn't everything! I think that if you're programming in a nondeterministic style, you're programming as if you have a NTM, whether or not you're actually running the code on one.

Also, surely NTMs are only physically unrealizable if P!=NP, and so whether or not NTMs could exist is an open question.
Ok I played this way too long, the most ridiculous straight up is `Steampunk Bahamut Batpunkestilla Rex`
She's a full-time member of the team. This is the least of the art she's queued up for the prodsec team's posts this quarter. :)

Her big project right now is mascotizing Frankie the Balloon, for swag.
How am I responsible for that? :0
In Greece happens the same.
Enticing theory, but doesn’t seem to have held up, even mentioned in that wiki a little. There seems to be lots of criticism of his work. It’s not wholly bad I don’t think, but probably too simplistic.

But I’m just a random.
I know it. But I'm asking about possibility of creating a new runtime.
Black Rifle coffee. Damn near any welding shop. Every gun shop or range I've ever been to.

20 years out of date? Curious as I was high school. You live in a small little anecdotal world, try touching grass.
Anyone know how much it costs to run this yourself vs paying money for GPT 4 vision?

The article says the training costs are far lower, but it doesn't say how the inference costs compare (unless I'm missing it)
ok but he's right though https://old.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/hthfgb/aaron_peski...
Roomba left to clean up huge mess after Amazon deal falls through

The pun holds even better.
It's a mechanically sound connector. I always found it weird that with USB-C, you are inserting a plug with an open center in to a port with a small tab on the inside. It seems like inserting a thicker tab in to an open slot would be stronger. But then there could be some peculiarities of cable manufacturing that make USB-C smarter than it seems. That or it isn't better because it was designed by committee, and we only use it because that committee sets standards.
Nice strawman. Enjoy it.
There's a lot to expore here. First, I'd suggest that cron and shell scripts may not be what you want. Cron has a complex format for scheduling and can lack features like sub-minute level scheduling, maintenance windows, and other task cadences. Shell scripts are OK for small things, but often I find I move to a different language if I keep something around long enough. Do the people writing jobs know shell?

For jobs run by data analysts, airflow and python work great. For devops jobs, begrudgingly, Jenkins or GitHub Actions. But there's so many varieties.
Fileverse is an app built on ipfs and it is very user friendly: https://fileverse.io/
The WSJ in fact https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-vision-pro-review-39f2d82e
Perhaps you'd be interested in my research:

Ultrazord + lord of the salad = saladzord

Dragonzord + Godzilla = godzord

Godzord + lord of the salad = Godzord of the salad

Lord of the rings + godzord = gozord of the rings

Gozord of the rings + godzord = godzord of the rings

Godzord of the salad + godzord of the rings = godzord of the salad rings

Godzord of the salad rings + pirates of the Caribbean = godzord of the Caribbean

Godzord of the Caribbean + donkey Kong = donkey kongzilla

Megazord+megazord= mega megazord

Donkey kongzilla + mega megazord = donkey kongzilla megazord

(I forgot how lord of the salad happened)
Unlike the brush thing I’ve never seen it discussed in regards to patents.

I think someone else had made one before them, maybe a few. But they didn’t work well. They made the first one that actually worked well. Because of that I’m not sure how much they would be able to patent. Honestly it’s effectively a vacuum to vacuum out your vacuum. Maybe it was just considered obvious by the patent office.

I do know that theirs could tell when it was full. Which is a nice feature. The Roborock docks, at least as of my model which is maybe two years old, couldn’t do that. Whether that’s due to design or just cost savings I have no idea.
This isn't a review of the product.

I think the public information is all you need to claim that Vision Pro asks you to look at objects and then use gestures like quickly putting your fingers together. In this post, he reflects on the evolution of spatial computing -- opposing claims that such a thing is a new idea -- and concludes by simply saying he "wonder[s]" if this interaction model will hold up as well as others. But the point is to put it in historical context, not to render a judgment.

To me, the link back to his 2003 piece that talked about spatial interfaces was a really interesting way to view the AVP interaction model with a broader perspective. His voice is interesting here because he's written for decades about small interactions on the Mac and gone deeper into the details than maybe anybody.
Pivotal Mental States (2020)
I’m sure there is a lot of ignorance around these tools in less technical workplaces, and in general a lot of people don’t seem to realise that “making probable stuff up” is what AI does. Hence the people complaining about LLMs “hallucinating” incorrect information.

Hopefully this can be used as a learning moment.
What is an "art director" though? We're talking about artists. There's a reason they don't share the same title and everybody knows it.

Auteur theory exists for good reason. Good art cannot be imagined merely in the mind, only self-flatulating bullshit can. One must engage and prove and iterate and exercise all the unlikely leaps that must be made to go from medium to meaning to detail. Image generators are just shitty art directors and neither is practicing art.
Like a university diploma is a signal of being able to learn or at least comply, use of a chatbot is a signal of not bothering enough to learn or comply.

I can see how an applicant who cheats interview with chatbot would later not bother to internalize operation instructions for the job.
> Omg.lol does that, but it is an address with superpowers, although I think you can buy .lol domains too.

I've peeked at omg.lol and it looks like they aren't in the business of registering subdomains per se. They try to sell you a bunch of services that resemble a paid social network, and they provide you with a subdomain along with the deal. For that subdomain they charge you with about double what you would pay for an actual domain name.
The mousover always shows a contiguous section of the underlying file. So you're seeing a constant-length section of the space-filling curve centered on the cursor as you move the mouse about. The hex to the right is that same contiguous piece of the file. Sort of neat, actually.
I mean... if the interview process is even a little broken then doesn't that mean that over time worse and worse interviewers will get hired, making for worse and worse interviews meaning that worse and worse interviewers get hired...
> You're completely ignoring

There are nicer ways to express your meaning. I haven’t ignored anything.

These traits are often not offered by the employer. Why do I keep hearing people talk about the underhanded ways that companies try to obfuscate salary budgets if not because they’re dishonest? I certainly see that as dishonesty; where are they coming from to demand such honesty from their candidates?

They get honesty anyway but that doesn’t mean I can convince them of it. If a person wants to assume guilt in someone, that is often what happens. You may not have experienced a person power-tripping over you but that’s been a good portion of my life and it’s hard to miss the patterns in a modern job interview.

To be clear, I’m not advocating for one to be dishonest. The person using ChatGPT to supplement their knowledge is not being dishonest; that’s my claim. The interviewer feels like the candidate “cheated”. Oh well. Too bad the interviewer isn’t above pejoratives. Gotta call it “cheating” so they can dismiss the candidate as dishonest. How dishonest!
(now Autodesk) Maya has a form of this, called hotbox, since first beta around 1997 when I first saw it, and probably before during development and probably before that from Alias where it probably originated. They researched a lot on UI and interaction between a designer and the model and that's one of the things they went with. It's context sensitive and eventually you build out muscle memory for it, you don't even read anymore what's in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MrjMy3N6vo
> Unless otherwise permitted by your Service Tier, you may not share your subscription outside of your household.

Do they have a service tier that allows this currently? Or is this in preparation for some future changes?
> terrible shows being greenlit, homogeneity of camerawork, casting, identity-politics pandering that nobody asked for, oversaturation of the market with streaming services that is almost as bad as cable etc. … Binge-tv model is also not a good thing

None of this is unique to Netflix. Terrible shows have been greenlit since the dawn of television. Shows are incredibly homogenous because they’re largely produced by a select few people. If anything, Netflix has broken that homogeneity by allowing more indie film/tv creators to breakthrough (like squid game).

Casting and identity politics shenanigans are definitely not unique to Netflix and started way before Netflix started producing content. The oversaturation problem only became a problem when all the other networks wanted their own slice of the pie. It was actually great for awhile when Netflix was the only big player in town.

And finally, binge-tv has always been possible. My grandmother would sit in front of cable television sun-up to sun-down watching whatever was on. 24 hour marathons of mythbusters and other shows like that were very common. Reruns of all your favorite sitcoms play all night on all major cable channels. Bingeing isn’t a unique problem to Netflix. Netflix just allows you to do it with new shows instead of waiting arbitrary amounts of time.

Also, is binge-reading a novel unhealthy? I’ve had 8 hour reading sessions when I’m gripped by a great book, like the last book in the Wheel of Time series. If that’s acceptable, why isn’t watching a show for 8 hours acceptable? I don’t think the medium really has that much of a tangible effect. Now if you’re bingeing shows everyday, then it’s unhealthy. But once a quarter when a new show you like comes out? Idk, that seems fine to me.
Force-touching on an image of a QR code that's already saved on my phone gives me an option to trigger "scanning" it without using the camera at all.
I think in most regards HN actually has a pretty favourable opinion of Apple, at least when compared to, say, Google or Microsoft.
That's my take on the death of don't be evil. Doubleclick was the worst kind of company and the merger with google seems to have diluted enough evil into google that google's immune system failed to kill it.
Garth actually had his own streaming service GhostTunes, which was created solely to only host his own music for streaming until he realized what a dumb idea that was.
Earth's moon is shrinking. Here's what scientists say that could mean
Yeah Loch Ness Monster + Water gave me Nessie
There are some funny lines from They Might Be Giants' "Women and Men" that run along the same lines:

Women and men have crossed the ocean,

They now begin to pour

Out from the boat and up the shore.

Two by two they enter the jungle,

And soon they number more,

Three by three as well as four by four.

Soon the stream of people gets wider,

Then it becomes a river,

River becomes an ocean,

Carrying ships that bear

Women and men.

**

Borges: map of an area gets so detailed it becomes the same size as the area.

TMBG: creatures multiply and ultimately overrun an area so fully that their group behavior recreates the ecology of the area they took over
The curious case of the disappearing Polish Ś (2015)
Chlorination of the gene pool in the most literal of senses.
> The mopping system doesn’t work for me due to how deep my carpet is. When the robot lifts the mop to travel it still hits my carpet. The Roomba system looks better where it lifts the mop all the way above the robot.

The DreameBot L20 Ultra can disconnect its mops and leave them in the dock. Roborock's Q Revo seems like it was based on the DreameBot L10s Ultra, so I've seen some guesses that it may eventually come to Roborock as well.
It's a bullshit argument either way. Say it's 1800 and you need 100 workers to make a new suit, which costs as much as one's annual rent (yes, really). Suddenly machines show up and can make the same suit with 10 workers and at 1/10 the cost. The other 90 workers are outraged, break machines and cry about "enriching capitalists at the expense of laborers". What is the solution exactly? Should the average household continue to spend 20% of their income on clothing just because a small subset of workers needs to be subsidized indefinitely.
Good point that the algorithm tries to compensate for the perspectives, but I’m sure it still comes down to a popularity contest.

Generally, the platform determines the algorithm of which note wins, so that’s centralized. The algorithm depends on what kind and how many users vote and how. Those users exist on the platform which requires registration and can deny any given user. Centralized.

Further, no guarantee that the actual algorithm in production matches the one made public, but I guess they have no reason to lie here.

> from what you’re telling

It’s not just me telling, the tweet has been up so far and community note does its best to awkwardly convey the controversy that would’ve been otherwise completely lost due to the ill designed way community notes work.
Which mixtral are you using with ollama? I have 32GB M1 MacBook Pro and can’t seem to load it / get any time-realistic responses
How do you explain Linux's RNG driver without this without mentioning chacha20 or blake2?

In short blake2 acts as a sponge function which absorbs entropy of the system and then seeds are squeezed out and used as the initial seed, a key to use with ChaCha20 to create blocks containing the next key and random bytes.