skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> would categorise this "harder problem" as an engineering problem.

I'm not sure what your relation to the field is, but I have found that a lot of things that look like engineering problems from the outside, end up being theoretical and fundamental problems from within. This is often the case when I discuss quantum noise of gravitational wave detectors. I often see people say things like "I wouldn't want to be the guy who has to make these gravitational wave detectors less noisy", almost implying it's just a case of one guy sitting there turning some knobs, but in reality it's thousands of physicists coming up with entirely new theoretical frameworks, often discovering fundamental issues of quantum measurement and control theory (quantum non demolition measurements, quantum squeezing, back action evasion, etc.), or coming up with the most sensitive seismometers ever, or developing new mirror coatings, etc.

Everyone thought that Apple's cancelled wireless charger was just an engineering problem, but it turned out that it seems to be physically impossible to achieve what they wanted.

That said, perhaps in this case you are right, but it's not often obvious what is simply a matter of time and what requires whole new paradigms.
Thank you for this! I wondered why image search is barely usable on mobile Firefox - turns out it's just Google hampering the competition!
I’m surprised Tesla owners are not yet required to sign up for X (formerly Twitter).
Extension name?
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More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39531348
I could be wrong, but doesn't notepad++ have an option to choose which symbols are considered a part of a word? If it's not notepad++, I'm thinking of xed.

That would help with at least a part of this person's complaints, like the underscore being considered a part of the word. But it kind of seems like they want the text editor to just read their mind, sometimes considering a symbol as part of a word and sometimes not.
Investors are impatient, and talk of assembly lines and manufacturing signals to them that an actual product is near. I suspect it’s mostly smoke and mirrors to keep the funding flowing for a few more years.
100%. Preparation is key. I never walk into a situation that matters without going over a ton of different paths the conversation could go. Even if the conversation goes down a path I didn't prepare for, the preparation was still helpful. Preparation looks like quick thinking, but it's not. It also very valuable at keeping your emotions in check, avoiding one of the common reasons conversations go off the rails.
Because Blue Cross Blue Shield is neither a healthcare provider nor a managed care (health insurance) seller.

BCBS is kind of like a franchising business, where the franchisors get access to other members’ negotiated pricing and administrative services to create a larger (nationwide) network. For example, your employer could purchase managed care from Horizon BCBSNJ, and if you get into trouble on vacation on the west coast, then they coordinate with Elevance or BlueShield California or Regence in Washington/Oregon to figure out how much they are paying providers.

And this way Horizon BCBSNJ does not have to do all the legwork of negotiating with every healthcare provider in the country. I’m sure it is quite a bit more complicated in practice though.

> if you're with Kaiser, you go to Kaiser facilities for everything, as long as you're in the service area.

Kaiser also sells PPO plans where you do not have to see a Kaiser employee for covered healthcare.
I have tried to point out MANY times that the DEFAULT behavior of the TCP slow start algorithm is to saturate the link - however briefly - get a drop, and then back off. I try to do it with some humor using jugglers here - and get so far as slow start, I think, about 10 minutes in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWViGcBlnm0&t=510s

ALL NETWORKS have perceptible jitter due to this, unless you rigorously apply FQ and AQM techniques to each slower hop on the path

Fatter tests like waveform show the common bufferbloat scenario in ways humans can see, better. But slow start overshoot is always there, on any connection that lasts long enough, which only takes a couple RTTs. You can clearly see netflix doing you in here, for example...

https://www.youtube.com/@trendaltoews7143

(except that in this case, the link has libreqos and FQ on it, so all that buffering is just local to the netflix flow, invisible to everything else)
These are top companies, not top software companies (even if we include Spotify).

So it's really SAP.
When I said marginal, I meant the workers who are not really required and were just hired because of grand expansion plans that later on failed.
The Antithesis Open Source Giveaway Program
Agreed!

There is a LOT of value in squeezing many sources of information and give a concise answer (with 1-2 steps to follow, or with a yes/no answer, etc.).
Stephen Wolfram notwithstanding, Mathematica is still far ahead of most alternatives as a CAS. Maple is good on some integrals.

Their downsides are that their languages are not very well suited as general purpose languages, many times the algebraic manipulations you have to perform aren't that complicated and you'd rather work in a "real" language.

Yet another case where python isn't the best in class but still workable and able to benefit from its vast general-purpose ecosystem.
GGPLOT2 101 – Getting started with data visualization
There are some CF SWEs in Australia. But few teams are willing to work across 3 timezones. The SRE teams might be more open to hiring, as there's a big SRE presence in Singapore.
They use pyannote/speaker-diarization. I tried that, but it wasn't accurate enough for my purposes. Made a confusion matrix with voice samples from The Simpsons characters. It looked... well, confused.

Am using a mix now of speaker embeddings and other signals (end of sentence, pause before/after, etc.). As you can see in the demos, it already works well for interview situations. It's when there are 3+ speakers and they talk over each other that the system gets confused.
Qualcomm AI Hub: From PyTorch to On-Device in Minutes
I am pretty sure chrome supports PIP and I fiddled with it using JS but for some reason it's not on by default
Absolutely.
Many of them got used to lavish lifestyles and fat expenses, now they will all need to adjust fast.
Sure, but the point of the services is to be cheaper, faster, or more accurate than doing this.
> Did you read your own link?

To ask this is definitely against HN guidelines and feels like motivated reasoning. I was posting to enhance the discussion of your points and those of others, not as some kind of takedown. Your responses by contrast feel to me like trying to score internet points at the cost of the discussion itself. We’re on the same team, aren’t we? Why the hostility?

> The supernatural powers, obviously, are an in-universe explanation.

That isn’t really consistent with how the term plot armor is commonly and colloquially used. Please try Steelmanning more. You’re being extremely dismissive in my opinion, and I can’t see why.

The links I posted are explanations of the term plot armor, and are not exclusive or exhaustive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning
I did have a talk with him about tcp slow start after this....

too many people in his world think tcp is a function call.
I thought the same, funnily enough they just changed the title :)
Firefox removed tab grouping for some reason. I think the only feature I miss in FF from Chrome. And Tab group saving.
Most of the spam I [rarely] see is pro-Hamas terrorist sympathisers, many likely bots.

My comments reliably get liked by some lonely Asian or East European lady with random quotes on their account (mostly bots).

But as far as actual tweets/content and interactions: it's all real people, super interesting, and very up to date news flying at the speed of light.
It's almost impossible to run a good UV exposure association study because going outside correlates with health. Everything clever you can do to get around that (UV-B areas are what the article chooses) runs into issues with introducing even more uncontrolled variables.

I'm getting a bit jaded with vitamin D and UV studies and it's possible that one will come along and prove me wrong, but thus far they've generated a lot of hype but failed when experimentally tested.
If IQ was a bunk concept then the US military could save tens of billions of dollars a year by admitting people who don't meet the current threshold. Imagine the promotion you'd get for saving tens of billions a year, every year, in perpetuity.
Kagi has a similar "quick answer"[0]

[0]: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/quick-answer.html
Isn't Norway operating under a form of capitalism as well as owning controlling share of Statoil? Why mention China or Russia?

I guess Norway is not a member of EU.
I'm not sure if "the market doesn't know how to price Tesla and is rapidly fluctuating up and down" is really saying much.

In terms of revenue Bosch is comparable to Nvidia and Tesla. IKEA is about half that and Schwarz is about Nvidia and Tesla combined, but of course those two are bad comparisons because they are in the rather unexciting retail market.

But generally I agree that exciting upstarts that reach fortune 500 size tend to be US companies.
Probably subjective to your particular set up - I just got the opposite results on my mac:

202 ± 4.7 - Chrome

184 ± 5.0 - Firefox

171 ± 2.6 - Safari
This is so self aggrandizing for the AI community. The military has tanks, guns, ships, cruse missiles, satellites, and nuclear weapons capable of ending life on earth but now we're supposed to tremble at the might of AI that is doing the equivalent of "hotdog or not"?
> Any software engineer should be ... It really is simple.

I get that, a lot. It's the "No True Scotsman" of tech. This is also used as a way of validating college-style leetcode.

Let me introduce you to my GH Activity Graph[0]. See all that green? That's pretty much all coding in Swift; mostly in shipping apps and whatnot. There's a bit of PHP, for server-side stuff, but I like to spend a lot of time, coding frontend app stuff.

Every minute I spend, being a Linux admin, is a minute that I don't spend on executable code. I know that there's a number of folks, hereabout, that can code circles, around me, in Swift, and a few more, that can code circles around me, in PHP, but pretty much all of you, can run circles around me, in Linux admin. I'm not especially interested in competing, there; especially since a number of you are likely the folks that would Do Bad Things to my server, given an opening.

[0] https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY#github-stuff
I use Firefox across all my devices, they are seamlessly synced. To be honest, the sole reason I use FF is because I don't want to be part of Googles monopoly, and because FF just works.
Show HN: Turn technical PDFs into audiobooks with simplified text
Hi HN,

I wanted to get back on track with the current machine learning literature. When I found the free book "Understanding Deep Learning," I had the idea to listen to the book instead of reading it on a screen.

So I've built a tool to turn PDFs into MP3s so I can listen to it. I'm now almost done with the book; I listen to the audio chapters every day on my commute to work.

For regular text, you can simply use any text-to-speech API, but for technical text containing formulas, it's more contrived. I'm using ChatGPT to simplify the text for a better audio experience. Listening to formulas while driving in the car just doesn't work for me. When there is a formula in the text, I try to describe it like "... a linear combination of the terms ...". It's work in progress.

I've just launched the MVP, so let me know what you think. Do you like the simplification of the text? https://www.pdftomp3.com/pdfs

P.S. the pricing is due to the API calls.
Can they find and owner of the inactive card? If I put a fake name to their system
I don’t think this is a new problem. It’s was solved with copyright laws. And you can now enjoy original output. The law just needs to catch up (and hopefully quickly).
If only they properly supported PWAs, I would be all in. I like having certain websites in my taskbar and the future is looking like a lot of software is going to be web-based, with the OS becoming a "launcher" for websites if you will (cf. ChromeOS)
This days my response of why still use firefox is, because I`m old and stubborn.
It does for the browser APIs, however Akamai provide an SDK to embed in your app, and apps do not require permission for gyro data. Then the standard practice is to a) pull a token out of the SDK for any API requests you make, and b) connect the SDK to any web view instances via the JS bridge so that any requests made in the embedded browser also get the same tokens.

For web-only, I believe they have a JS only bundle that your site can include which I would imagine does different things, but which would also bring a higher risk profile associated with it. Sites use these risk profiles to determine things like whether to offer specific services, whether to ask for more authentication, etc.
This days my answer for that is "I`m old and stubborn".
EDIT - the title formerly referred to "Qualcomm open sources ...."

Calling freely downloadable weights "Open Source" quite diminishes the term. It's laudable, so I'd hate to discourage it. But it's not Open Source.

What constitutes Open Source is not vague, btw. it's well defined by the OSI [1].

Let's call it open weights or freely downloadable weights or something.

EDIT: I was mistaken - they are down sampled/right-sized w half precision:

BTW props to Qualcomm but these are "just" quantized versions of existing models? Useful, yes, but maybe not that novel.

[1] https://opensource.org/osd
Video reveals progress of 170-km-long skyscraper through Saudi desert
I also use Firefox because it allows more customization.

For example, every major browser nowadays not only supports tabbed browsing but enforces it.

I think tabbed browsing is misdevelopment of UX because I need to handle window management on the OS and browser level.
I'm using the tabbing feature in sway/i3 so every application has tabs not only browsers and they all act in the same way.

I know that not many people think this way. But that's the whole point. We should be able to tailor software to our needs.
Not necessarily - there are some costs we just eat. However in the event of outside actors having a reputable CDN in place to mitigate these things is worth your time and money.
try to teach thm chess
> Apple claims that they can’t, but they have disclosed user data to law enforcement in the past, so I don’t trust them. Mozilla says that they can’t, and I trust them.

Ok, I guess?

Personally I don’t trust anybody, I just recognize I have to give my data to someone at some point (don’t have the time to setup everything needed in order not to…). I’ve chosen Apple (gougle is out of the question because I actively distrust them), but I don’t particularly trust them…
Reading speed at that age will vary greatly. Reading subtitles while also having to follow the picture takes away focus and that makes it hard much harder for an inexperienced reader. My daughter, who picked up reading very naturally would have been able to follow sub-titles at age 7 without much trouble. My younger, 7-yo son on the other hand, who is more average in reading ability wouldn't be able to keep up with subtitles yet.
Average reading speeds at age 7 seem to be 60-100 words per minute where subtitles are more at the 100-150 words per minute range. So for above-average readers, it will be possible but for the average, they won't be able to keep up consistently.
Reminds me of my father saying something about how vacuum tubes are great integrators.
Seems like a reasonable way forward.
> some months have misleading Latin names that are off-by-2

To expand on this: "sept-" is a prefix meaning 7, like septuplets. But September is the 9th month of the year. "oct-" means 8 like octagon, but October is the 10th month of the year. And so on for November and December.
It’s been 25 years since I first flew over the Amazon at night. I remember wondering what those ragged orange arcs on the ground were. At first I thought they were the lights of coastal settlements, but the map showed us hundreds of miles inland.
I'm a doctor training in anaesthesia. The idea with epidurals is to introduce local anaesthetic outside the compartment where the spinal cord is, literally epi-- --durally.

To sample the CSF, or to give a spinal anaesthetic, the needle needs to be introduced into the subarachnoid (one of the membranes that surrounds the central nervous system) space, but at a level below where the spinal cord has terminated. This is why they're done in the lower back typically.

Bending over is a totally legitimate way to perform them, and doesn't really alter the complication rate, while making the procedure easier. Also, there isn't really any realistic option to perform them in real time with imaging guidance. The author is right in that larger cutting needles are associated with increased rates of PDPH.
I ask a lot of questions and make the other people talk while I figure out what I am saying. This has the additional benefit of giving me more input. I simply refuse to participate in rapid back and forth. (In my dreams! But it does work sometimes.)
So, you trust some other random people with your privacy instead then?
SageMath looks cool, but the fact that it's a combination of many different existing tools all with their own syntax, and feature overlap, scares me off a bit since it seems like how you do things wouldn't be very internally consistent

How does this aspect work out in practice?
Not wanting to respond to things you haven't read is a hangup you should have, but don't, apparently.

Nothing says "doesn't bother me" like having to tell everyone you aren't bothered.
But the decoder for that will be 25+ gates, which is huge compared to the handful of gates to use the resulting weights.
> Have a messed up my autopay

I stopped ~all autopays when (Boost Mobile?) deduced 200 instead of 20usd from my debit account one month in college. They refunded the difference relatively quickly, but I racked up 5 or 6 overcharge fees before realizing; ended up being a pita for an already broke 18 y/o to figure out.

I was a broke and stupid kid. Never use a debit as an autopay. But since then I like to track where each penny goes as it goes.
Isn't that a bit like a defense of communism though?

"If only people implemented it properly we would all live in paradise".

What matters is how it works in reality, how it incentivizes people and fits in with human nature.

Agile seems to leads to more micromanagement and kafka-esque situations for the majority of software engineers that have to deal with it. If anything it provides a framework for bad managers who are mistrustful of engineers to play far outside of their comfort zone, and suggest childish measures that they wouldn't have dared to dream up on their own.
Ask HN: AI Baby monitoring state of the art?
I remember many years ago seeing a demo from an algorithm from MIT which took a simple raw video of a baby and, with clever video manipulation, could so clearly augment changes between frames that it made it even trivial for the naked eye to see the baby's pulse, or breathing rate (and it had accompanying demos which showed that data simply from the inferred image).

My extended family suffered an incredible tragedy many years ago after a cousin briefly asfixiated during sleep, causing irreversible brain damage, and it has constantly nagged me that surely some kind of baby monitoring leveraging that tech could have prevented it. As a newly-expectant father, I am turning my attention now to these questions for my own child, but as hard as I've looked, it seems to me that the technology behind baby monitoring hasn't strayed too far from what we've grown accustomed to for a long time, save for just improvements in ergonomics and things of the sort. Curious if anyone was aware of some examples of what today would be the most extensive types of monitors available, eyeing especially any leveraging of "tech" to infer things like oxigenation, pulse, etc.
Blunt Summary: The marketing promised a uber-awesome, high-budget event for kids. The reality was cheap crap. Parent were pissed at the blatantly false advertising.

(Oh, BTW - the company happened to use some AI-ish stuff to make some cool images for their marketing.)
Deepfakes Will Break Democracy
The softer they are, the more ripe they are. Outwards, they may have a spot of browning towards the overripe end like a banana. The ones that I usually go for are green with a slight give.
I always refused to believe this was going to happen. When are they going to realize it's a bad idea?
TrenchBroom was built from the ground-up for 3D editing. You don't need to use the 2D grid view unless you want to. It looks more "simplistic" because many actions are now performed directly via the mouse in 3D.
Sorry, huh? Who's paying academia to shill? This is conspiracy thinking.

Changing cryptographic algorithms takes a long time - there are a lot of systems with this stuff embedded in them. Taking some modestly low-cost efforts _now_ to be prepared for a potentially "really bad" future event is more like buying insurance than anything else.

Is it a good choice? I dunno; I have no bets on the likelihood of a working crypto-breaking QC emerging in the next 30 years. But it's not really an irrational thing to worry about on a 10-30 year time horizon, and to simultaneously think that some of the computer systems we design and build today will still be running then.
Who said infinite? Startup founders that got investments have designed the exit points based on market conditions, and nobody would trust "infinite". It's just like stock investments (unless you "invest" based on feelings, of course) - you calculate the risk, the potential, and then you decide. Nobody reasonable puts "infinite growth" into their Excel sheets.

And yes, growing until that exit point is a lot of work - so it makes total sense people want an exit at some point.
That's because literally the entire world is betting on their technology right now. I can't imagine that being located in the US is the cause for Nvidia being in the right place at the right time with CUDA.
For what I follow, it looks genuine.

However, for many viral posts, many of the responses have nothing to do with the original post. It looks like bots/users that are riding off of the success of the viral post in an attempt to get more views/likes/followers. It's a sad behaviour that lessens the experience of the platform.
The greenest car in America isn't an EV
I've never heard of it and I've been using Python since around 2008, including mathematical stuff like Scipy / Numpy. Sometimes people like to find old stuff and share it since it's new to others.
This is the latest info I could find.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/hdr-support-for-windows...

And on another comment, kkim continues to say

> Please keep your fingers crossed - we'd love to send improvements your way as soon as we can.
AFAIK Google can't decrypt your Chrome data either (if you've set an optional passphrase).

See https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/165139.
I wonder who curates the AI blocklist, and how skipping sites will affect the internal bias.
Many of those insufferable users that left are still in here, hence your downvotes.
> Don't speak.

Great advice. Nothing shows confidence more than asking a question and then waiting for answer. Let the awkward silence sit.

And when you do speak, keep answers short and to the point. It also conveys confidence.

Anytime I see/hear someone rambling in email/on meeting, I know they are not confident in what they are saying.