skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to hear that. I'm not sure what's causing this. Could you share your Windows and VS Code version to help us reproduce the issue?

sm-agent.exe is supposed to be started as a subprocess by the extension. It shouldn't be in its own window.
What's the connection between Set Theory/Kant and SV..?
I mean, file handlers exist in Linux. That would be so cool if you could add a file/directory watch to an http endpoint/resource
There's a de facto standard macro for Common Lisp that does something similar, called nest. It's in UIOP.
It has a 5k limit per day when you sign up for the developer account (free). I pull the most recent listings every 4 hours and cache results if they are still available.

Currently waiting to hear on upgrade to 1.5m. But 5k works for now!
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1760859214875132161.html

His main point: "This event is not significant for culture war reasons. ... This event is significant because it is major demonstration of someone giving a LLM a set of instructions and the results being totally not at all what they predicted."
I'm only interested in bitcoin, but to say it wastes power would be extremely misguided.

1. The energy (work) the miners put into mining is fundamental to any sound money: it's proof of work. This is ultimately what money is (or should be). Take a look a gold - in order to mine gold, on average you have to put in work of equivalent economic value to the gold you find. This is fundamental to a fair society. With fiat currencies, a few select people are allowed to create trillions of $ at a few key strokes, it's value sucked out of the existing dollars (i.e. the ones in your bank account, wages, pension) and then charge interest on it as if it was their own. The is the root of many of the problems we're seeing today: wars, cost-of-living, growing divide between the super-rich and everyone else. Central banking truly is a cancer on the world, one who's ultimate end is to enslave its population.

2. The bitcoin miners are heavily incentivised to use the cheapest energy they can find, and they're - and this is very important to understand - not geographically constrained, unlike almost any other user of energy. This means that they will naturally disperse to locations where there is energy that no one else wants (i.e. otherwise wasted energy), in order to be viable.

Bitcoin allows people to escape the enslavement of central banking-orientated societies. In order to understand how important and useful it is, you need to see the problem that it's fixing, and while people look through the lens of the dollar they only see real-estate, stock-market, food etc. prices going up, rather than the value of their dollars going down, and to whom that value is being stealthily transferred to.
I asked kids who attend my former school a pretty highly reputed one about what the policy for AI stuff was and they said that kids are being expelled for using ChatGPT and the criteria are these AI fake detectors. I would sue the school.
Setting "green" as a goal in a project, including software, might increase the possibility to get funding grants. YC "Requests for Startups" recently wrote about how much money there is for grabs in "climate tech": https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs
We just added share. Let me know what you come up with!
I wonder if anyone in America knows how to use computers and could just replace the control systems ?
I recently been on a shopping website from the UK it used multiple dark patterns some of which have been forbidden under EU law.

I still wonder if they just decided to f* it because they don't have to follow those rules anymore.
The static page sites fit the narrative but for word editing and e-mail you should compare with native clients
Education was once broader than just some kind of ladder that led to a cubicle, it was about creating people with a penchant for lifelong learning, a challenge that tested people and improved them, a means to share information and discoveries.

Bringing money into the contract - for higher education - very much changed that perception and the expectations that students had for it.
Show HN: A AI tool can remove the background of portraits and replace background
ImageTools is an AI tool that explores infinite creative possibilities! It effortlessly removes portrait backgrounds, clears backgrounds of common objects, and allows you to easily change backgrounds, injecting a unique style into your images.
I'm wondering why you're linking with an OSX library on Windows 10!
The problem is mostly not summarisation but needles in the haystack search with a combined answer
I'm not a JS developer but I imagine that the amount of JavaScript code isn't the most relevant part if most of it isn't being called. I mean, if you have some particularly heavy code that only runs when you click a button, is that really parsed and causes overhead before the button is clicked?
> this isn't javascript

Made my day. Much love
I suspect ChatGPT is so bloated because they (inefficiently) include entire Markdown parser and code highlighting libraries. Add that various tracking libraries and you have a big bundle.
Nostr is relays + clients.

BlueSky is PDS + relays + clients.

If you look at the history of Nostr and try to really understand the protocol, where it came from and what it was trying to solve, Nostr was also meant to work on a PDS + relay model, except it degenerated to the point where most Nostr app developers are simply writing Javascript browser apps that use relays as a "poor man's cloud", sort of, without any consideration for achieving self-sovereignty of the user.

"I save the data in the 6 most popular Nostr relays and done." is what 99% of the so called "Nostr apps" do. Sounds good in theory, until it is not. Relays were really meant to be treated as ephemeral actors, that come and go, and data was meant to be stored somewhere the user was in control of, but instead, relays are treated as some sort of reincarnation of IPFS, where you save your data and have it safe forever.

Bluesky seems to solve this by introducing the concept of PDS. It's not like PDSes cannot be built for Nostr - there are indeed some Nostr apps that work using the PDS model - save the data in a place the user has complete control of, and then propagate it to relays. The benefit of Bluesky seems to me that it formalizes the concept of PDSes, so that app developers don't have to think about it and cannot mistake the relays for PDSes.
Why a Small Island Has Been Fighting to Reclaim .nu on the Web
Instead of pressing that down-vote arrow in yet another attempt to grey out a dissenting opinion it would be interesting to hear what you have to say. If you do not agree with any of the facts I stated - plagiarism being rampant in academia, LLMs doing the same, identity politics ruling the roost in places like OpenAI and Google - where the lead of the Gemini project is a political activist against 'white privilege' [1] - and the near-certainty that LLMs will soon play a large role in education as well as 'content discovery' - just state what you consider to be the truth.

[1] Speaking in a keynote address in 2021 she openly suggests that she treats “Black, Hispanic and Latinx” employees differently from white employees, she insists Google’s commitment to “antiracism” is a key component of their AI work from which they won’t be deterred, she was caught on hidden camera implying that 'Google will do what it can to prevent Trump from winning again', etc. Treating people differently based on race is called 'racism' and as such it is punishable under criminal law.
That is exactly what solar panel scientists want to achieve, but it’s very hard to actually do. Capturing more of the spectrum is what’s let the efficiency percentage slowly creep from the 20’s into the 30’s.
You reminded me of my first GPS, which connected to a laptop via RS-232:

https://www.bevhoward.com/TripMate.htm (Not me)

Back then, just getting a GPS fix at all was exciting. Then driving around with it propped on the dashboard or rear window.
Only simple and convenient ones.
Sure, dinky ESP works if you want to just do trivial gadgets. But for stuff like facedancer embedded solutions start to become actually quite limiting
Sometimes I think the infra at the small company I work at isn't great, but we've not had direct dev access to prod DBs from day one. They're locked down at the IP level. You'd have to go through some serious hoops to accidentally connect to prod even if you had the keys.

I remember as a child thinking adults had everything under control. That they know what they're doing. I guess I assumed a day would come when I too would know. That day never came. It's easy to think when you look at shiny websites and the first paragraph of this comment that other adults do know. But I'm often reminded of the truth: nobody knows. Everyone is always operating at least slightly outside their comfort zone or, in the case of the article, wildly.
Yes, a great way to think of it is as a widely read intern: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/on-boarding-your-ai-intern

You’ve still got to avoid prompting for questionable code in the first place, eg, splitting SQL statements on semicolons with an ad-hoc regex is going to fail in edge cases, but may be sufficient for a specific task.
LLMs also train on official documentations which is where 90% of problems get solved.
Layoff culture is destroying teams collaboration
Your value gets revealed in your absence. To leave and the company tanks- is a expression of the value shadow you throw.
I'd like to see <super-long-context> vs <mediocre-context-but-really-good-at-summarizing>, then it is fed parts of a super long context in chunks. On each iteration, you add the previous summary.
Kinda what I took away too. Which is a bummer because it raises the costs of trying things out, at least on new domains.

I guess using subdomains of a main site isn't that bad an alternative.
It’s probably something like Apple’s Face ID sensor, which is a “camera” in the strict sense of the word but it captures a depth map rather than an image. I’m willing to believe that they aren’t transmitting images or even raw depth maps over the Internet (for one thing, it would be a lot of data and it’s hard to conceive of what the use of such data would be), but they are almost certainly attempting to correlate demographic information, or possibly even individual users, with specific purchasing patterns.
It’s not only the term "windows". Take a look at the screenshots.
How do you get people to read such reports?
GM's Ultium Electric Car Revolution Went Off the Rails
They really don’t think they are based on their response to this whole thing https://x.com/bhmillard/status/1760714469942944146?s=46
> Techniques like memory pools, manual memory management, directory compression, and compact file formats reduced metadata memory usage by 90%.

It is interesting that high performance systems in Go end up needing these kind of performance optimizations.
It was $200 an hour for a total of 8 hours. They had a team of 5 working for six months on it and they planed to spend another six months on it.

The UI had options to check some categories and exclude others, this was mapped to sql with a nested query IN (…) and not in (…). I noticed that there were less than 64 categories and always will be so I figured pack the category membership into a 64bit ints and use bitwise operations. The UI query generation would map to use bitmasks instead. They didn’t even let me implement it, just agreed that it would work and took it from there. I think they were quite embarrassed by it. It ended up being 10K faster.
More and more board games are released with AI generated art. It's still controversial so larger companies are hesitant to join due to the risk of flack on social media but it's definitely a real thing replacing jobs at the moment. Fryx Games that made Terraforming Mars is probably one of the more well-known examples.

Art in general seems to be a high risk occupation because the stakes are low. It's a similar case for stock photography. In the gaming world, Embracer recently fired a bunch of artists with the intent of having fewer people be more productive with the use of AI generated content.
Your argument was this:

> Some things, it's an existential threat - and existential threats like that tend to only be resolvable with by death or complete subjugation of one side or the other.

But a dirty bomb is not an existential threat to the United States. The US military actually evaluated them for their own use and concluded that they're militarily useless and not worth developing.

And since we're not dealing with an existential threat, we don't have to do anything radical to address it. Did some terrorists do a terrorism? Arrest them. They can't keep doing terror plots when they're locked up in prison forever, and if the result of terrorism is "you go to prison and nothing else changes" then there isn't a lot of incentive for anybody to do it.
yes, the problem with the narrative is that web apps that are logic heavy are lumped together with content based sites who cannot justify their code bloat.
> Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer of Chemnitz University of Technology and Peter Uhrig of FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg decided to draw on their expertise to test McIntyre's claim that any word in the English language could be modified to mean "being in a state of high inebriation."

The research ideas people come up with when utterly gazeboed...
Wait, who are you again? A 20 day old troll account?
And a lot of privacy-friendly browsers don't show up in the stats by design.
I wonder where the line in the sand exists for what people feel is “okay” tracking and “not okay” tracking. Here it seems to be that almost universally, the students dislike the facial recognition. Many folks I’ve spoken to otherwise don’t care about being tracked online. I suppose people are more sensitive to being tracked when it transitions into the real world and becomes more “real.”
Imagine paying 400 million for a magazine with 3.4m followers. 100$ per follower. Yikes
The results were by design.
It’s dealt with by knowledgeable managers that recognize and award your skill according.

If you don’t have such a manager, perhaps find them. Or become them.
Sorry but you’re being over dramatic.

Like as if there would be many companies in the world who have the resources, know how and expertise to pull off event the PC version of the product.
Til. Thanks, I hate it.
Makes a compelling case that technical failures when ramping their in-house battery assembly tech (and refusing to bring in outside experts to help) is at the root of their issues.
Helpful partners and friends who try to find opportunities most definitely can help (and in unbalanced relationships, can do it all), like the market research team at a startup.
Check out IP-Adapter, FaceID, and Reactor.
There is no download link, so how can this be self-hosted?
Data is for seeing problems, not for finding solutions.
As by the authors example, you lose 10M in fraud? Good that you monitor that! Otherwise it would be hard to justify spending time on it.
That's what everyone thought just before every single horrible thing that happened in history. The Cultural Revolution or, e.g., the Holocaust didn't happen overnight. Things change slightly every day and then afterward you realize that everything has gone wrong, right around when people come knocking on your door.
The woke results were by design. This was not a mistake or unpredictable.
The common term for the network formed by software speaking ActivityPub is "Mastodon", despite that formally being the name of a single piece of that software. Do you also have a problem with Pleroma or Akkoma or whatever? If not then this isn't relevant.
Cybersecurity leak lifts lid on world of China's hackers for hire
What card do you have? Don't have a desktop myself.
If someone uses an LLM to produce the code, I'd guess they'll use it to evaluate the code as well.
Interesting how well does the amount of JS inversely correlates with my experience of using those sites...
Rename Your Images and Videos with AI
>When Win10 EOLs I think CrossOver will be very important for allowing organisations to keep MS Office.

Huh? If they're running windows 10 and Office don't you think they'll just upgrade to windows 11 instead of using emulation?

Organisations are on a ~3-4 year upgrade cycle and any computer made in the last 4 years from 2025 when windows 10 goes Eol will be able to run windows 11.
I thought the Chinese woman in medieval armour was good though.
A Hunger for Strangeness: A Cryptids Reading List
Thanks, that’s a helpful summary. I knew about the ed25519 issue (but not the others) from writing this: https://github.com/jawj/subtls
Damp and rotting wood surely will attract termites
In all seriousness, I don't think Biden can make it to another term. Even if we assume he gets voted in, he'll likely keel over walking up to the podium for the inauguration. Let the poor old man rest.
But that's no different from mid-to-high-end GPUs, which is what the original ask was about.
I tested this prompt in various LLMs

1. phind was by far the best - gave me solution in just 2 steps

2. Grok was second best - it did arrive at the solution but with additional non-sense step. But the solution was correct.

3. To my surprise GPT-4 could not solve the prompt and in fact gave a wrong answer in 4 steps - "Now you should have exactly 4 liters in the 5-liter container." which is not what I asked

4. As expected Gemini pro was the worst. It asks me to pour completely filled up 3L container into 5L and then you will be left with 2L in 3L container.. LOL that does not even make sense.
It is very depressing, but on the other hand you'd have millions of comments written in another era (pre-culture wars, when the Internet was more, let's say, "tolerant") that can be now traced back to the authors to cancel them. With infinite memory you need protection, otherwise it's un-erasable damnation.
Gemini-CLI: Access Gemini models from the command-line
Sure, telling people who openly advocate for the death of people in your group to take their opinions elsewhere is exactly like peasants beheading kings or kings throwing people they didn't like into the pit. I'm not even sure how to begin responding to such a creative interpretation of what I said.
Are financial markets (of all varieties) required to provide timely, structured reporting ? Then could ya throw an A.I. at it all ?
How should we feel if when we learn that due to technical constraints, Stasi wasn’t able to measure how successful it was?
100% agree. Most of these apps could definitely use some optimization, but trivializing them to something like "wow few MBs of javascript just to show a text box" makes this comparison completely useless
Tracking is a bit heavy, but from what I've looked at, the app code is usually much worse. I've looked at what Instagram and JIRA ship during the initial load and it's kinda crazy.
While the underlying idea that selling services on open source products is not sustainable from a purely business perspective may be true, the linked article is not particularly convincing to me, it doesn't provide strong evidences and it's based on an embarrassingly small sample size. Besides, maybe we should start to consider also other metrics when we evaluate a Business success, not only the mere economic profit: there are externalized societal benefits (and damages) that are very important and nonetheless poorly accounted for.
News about the crypto world comes out every day, and it often happens that you miss some of it.

In this issue of Implementing I'll show you how I automated the generation of new daily episodes containing summaries of YouTube videos from top creators

Let me know what you think!
It should generate the image I ask for. As seen, if it explicitly refuses to generate images of white people and blathers on about problematic this-and-that as its "justification", there is a deep issue at hand.
I can't really follow your criticism. There is some parts about why he started baking bread. But you can easily discern that from the meat of the book if you don't want to read it.

Then there's an in-depth explanation of the techniques used in the recipes. You shouldn't skip this obviously if you don't know it.

Then there are the recipes which are short and to the point.

And if you read the part about technique you understand bakers percentages and know exactly how to scale it to home kitchen needs, whether you're single or a small family.
Most of these things do not need to be public though. Whatever your existing setup is, you can build a box around it so that suspicious people are not allowed in. Then you only have the outer box to really worry about.

Of course if you want to enable people to make important decisions from their homes, you have two options, build a box around their homes too or accept that they are outside of the box and treat all of their activity as suspicious.
Exactly. All the company gets is probably anonymized aggregate data like "Product X is bought by men 40% and women 60%", which would pass the GDPR and any privacy protection laws. The point is that we don't have access to the software so we have to trust them about doing (only) that kind of aggregations. Furthermore, as we don't trust companies anymore, we fear that cameras are used for other not innocuous purposes.

By the way, does any 3rd party inspect the software of all those machines with cameras, before they are allowed to be installed? Probably not so it's their word against the suspicions of privacy wise people, until something goes wrong and some kind of investigation starts.
They usually just do an auth request. But otherwise I put $1 just for that case. As long as the balance is normally $0.
Damn that looks great! Any chance of sharing the chrome extension?
Re: Spotify

So much agree here, the offline mode is so beyond being annoying so I even started building my own iOS offline first music app.
Reports are spreading about a specific Apple Vision Pro front glass crack
It's not really their feelings, it's about controversy, bad publicity, etc. It's too delicate right now to risk people using their models for sex stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto
-In mid-August 2013, Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox invested US$70 million in Vice Media, resulting in a 5% stake.

-In August 2014, A&E Networks, a television group jointly owned by The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Corporation, made a US$250-million investment in Vice Media for an ownership stake of 10%.

-In November and December 2015, Disney made two additional individual investments of US$200 million totalling $400 million.

-In June 2017, Vice secured a $450 million investment from private-equity firm TPG Capital to increase spending on scripted programming and ongoing international expansion.

-Disney acquired Fox's stake in Vice when its acquisition of 21st Century Fox completed in March 2019.

-On 3 May 2019, Vice Media announced that it raised $250 million in debt from George Soros and other investors.

-Vice Media formally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, as part of a possible sale to a consortium of lenders including Fortress Investment Group, which will, alongside Soros Fund Management and Monroe Capital, invest $225 million as a credit bid for nearly all of its assets.

Ok so they used to be honest, then got investments from big media companies, hedge funds and banks, and they stopped being honest, then were driven to bankrupcy and acquired by the usual hedge funds who will probably just turn them into another propaganda (which they had already become a decade ago) cog in the media machine.
> Everything after that is faster, smoother, more dynamic, more responsive.

IF and only IF you have at least med- to high-end computer and smartphone. If you have low-end hardware you first have to wait for that 20MB to load AND get to use slow and choppy app afterwards. Worst of both worlds, but hey, it's built according to modern standards!
Even spending 5% of your time self marketing has massive dividends on your career vs spending 0% of your time. The virtues of your skills aren't self evident.