skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BS. There's a hell of a lot of art in commercial art, and trying to make it appealing enough for people to pay for doesn't change that. This glib "no TRUE artist cares about making money" idea, and the closely coupled belief that commercial art isn't real art are just handy mental shortcuts to cop out of considering the economic damage this technology will do to working artists.
Torsion springs are BMWs, the expensive, over-engineered, beautiful, high performance style of doing this.

Most of use would be just fine with a Toyota instead.
>There will probably always be a need for expert-level troubleshooters and optimizers who understand all the layers

There's already so many layers that essentially no one knows them all at even a basic level, let alone expert. A few more layers and no one in the field will even know of all the layers.
And they can build a big moat with cuda.
700 instead of 1000 would be “sub optimal” but better than 0. At least that’s what I think the above poster was trying to say.
Coincidentally I just had a professionally done garage door spring replacement today, and I asked the repairman this question, and here is what he said:

1. The springs lift the door from the bottom, and from each side, which puts less load on the door itself as compared to if the entire weight were being lifted from the top middle every time.

2. The motors can be smaller, quieter and use less power

3. In case of power failure, the door is much more functional and safer the less apparently weight it has.

Also the springs themselves are very unlikely to be dangerous (as long as you don't try to replace them yourself), because he said they almost always break when the door is at the closed state, because that is when they are under the most tension. Therefore on the whole, the springs in practice offer no practical safety risk, while greatly increasing the safety of the door in it's normal operation while also reducing wear and tear on the door. They also allow people to have heavier types of doors if they want them.
also the three letter agencies (not just from the US) will have access to private keys of at least some manufacturers, allowing them to authenticate fake events and sow chaos by strategically leaking keys for cameras that recorded something they really don't like.
You are talking about initial grant. I am talking about recurring compensation. I am talking corp, you probably startup.

In a corporate environment you'd not last long trying to renegotiate your comp every year.
> Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 Richard J Kinch

Why is 2013 missing?
If this is the case, then why in the world wasn't that mentioned in TFA? I'm not questioning your comment but it strikes me as odd that there would be no attempts to clean any of that up.
Electrostatic catalysis of a click reaction in a microfluidic cell
> Your brain is going through scenarios with no correcting input.

But this is pretty interesting as your subconscious is bubbling up into your ego!
CUDA is/was their biggest advantage to be honest, not the HW. They saw the demand to super high-end GPUs driven by Bitcoin mining craze thanks to CUDA, and it transitioned gracefully to AI/ML workloads. Google was much more ahead to see the need and develop TPUs for example.

I don't think they have a crazy advantage HW wise. Couple of start-ups are able to achieve this. If SW infrastracture end is standardized, we will have a more level playground.
> "See here, it says that only 10% of customer devices are on OS version 10.1 and below. We must bump our minimum version to 10.2 because us developers are tired of supporting this old shit and legacy code paths!"

This makes sense if that 10% are costing more money than they generate, which seems especially likely since people that are frugal enough to (for example) hang onto an iPhone 7 are also unlikely to spend much on other frivolous purchases.

Supporting those older devices can range from supporting multiple code paths due to different APIs, or fallbacks for missing HW performance and/or features. All of that adds up in terms of developer time, build/infra cost, etc.
I don't. No. I can understand drum programming, which is leveraged by one of my favorite solo death metal artists (though he hired a live drummer when budget permitted).

There's a thought and intentionality to what's being created — I don't want what comes out of a prompt.

I want to follow artists and their output, not an algorithm or AI that mimics ones and is trained by questionably feeding on their output.

No, none of this is appealing. I can't control what anyone else does, but for me? No, no thanks.
> burned-once experts

More like burned 2x / 3x / 4x of this time it's different people.

Looking at you Intel
They would have to invent a new business model to operate with an hourly minimum wage. Currently they demand very little of their drivers since they don't have to pay when the driver doesn't have a client, but add an hourly minimum wage and now they have to manage drivers a lot more to ensure they are worth that pay per hour.

Now they will get replaced by more traditionally run taxi companies that managers their drivers tighter.

Edit: Or no, the law explicitly said how much ride shares should pay per mile and per minute riding. So scratch that, not sure why they pulled out here.
right yea, modern CPUs seem to have all sorts of abstract optimizations. its kind of strange how we meet in the middle with hardware ISA manufacturers. they do all sorts of tricks on their side to make code go faster, and we try to generate machine code that we think will go faster, but neither side works with the other (compiler writers and ISA developers). i bet there is easy low hanging fruit here.
If you're willing to work in the SSA domain, and not do any spill/fill, you can do optimal RA in polynomial time. (Usually quoted as linear, but quadraticish IRL.)
You and what fab?

It's almost impossible to manufacture at scale with good yields and leading edge fabs are almost all bought out.
Fun fact: each human uses an average 100W of power and generates mostly useless crap.
At this point the formal submission process is designed to filter out applicants.
Author needs to find ways to get introduced to the hiring manager or have someone put his resume in the hiring manager's hands.

He should also consider remixing the skills and accomplishments he has in his "box of LEGOs" and exploring other possible careers that would leverage his talents and experience.

Edit: My mistake not reading more of his older posts, looks like he has started on Plan B https://mattplotecher.substack.com/p/you-forgot-one-ben-fran...
Apple Joins Hollywood and Netflix on a Pirate Site Blocking Trip to Oz
> high contrast of font to background requirement is so extreme

Extreme? The WCAG standard for text most organizations use (Level AA) is 4.5:1 with 1:1 being black-on-black and 21:1 being black-on-white (or vice versa). The higher standard (Level AAA) is only 7:1. Most people wouldn't want to read your content if everything was 7:1 or lower.

> Facebook has long resorted to using AI descriptions

Facebook didn't upload those images, their users did, Facebook isn't responsible for them having good text alternatives.

> Just like someone may need to buy a wheelchair to move around

To go along with your poor analogy, blind people have "wheelchair" equivalents, called screen readers. They're useless if don't build "ramps" that meet established building standards, websites and apps that follow established standards.
The tying up of the guard constitutes kidnapping under New York law, and the fact that they did so pursuant to another felony (grand theft) means that there is no statute of limitations on this case. Everything else about the case is past the statute of limitations, though.
I remember working in a record store about a decade ago and coming to the conclusion that 99% of our (very large/broad) catalog was, to me, terrible music that I would prefer to have never, ever heard. Us warehouse guys would listen to all the new tracks as they came in during our receiving shifts, which sounds nice on paper, but really was much closer to 8 hours of punishment. Lots of really terrible execution of even worse ideas — algorithmic renditions of real books, half-assed dub reggae covers of classic rock songs, note-for-note European remixes of zombified disco classics. We had a saying: "most music is bad".

It's great hearing the dreadful output of this infernal contraption named "Suno" and being reminded specifically of this bittersweet time in my youth, but also broadly of how difficult it is to make memorable, sweet music, and how precious that can be.
I am not sure what the fuss is about, honestly. Elon didn't storm off the set, he answered all the questions asked, Don seemed to pick up on some negative vibes but of course he would since they're having an intense discussion where there were several points at which they had to simply disagree and move to the next subject.

Don irritated the guy who invited him into a partnership and then that partnership was rescinded. Don himself prefaces the clip by saying his show wasn't cancelled by X. Seems pretty in line with what Elon said in the interview about how everyone's free to post, but that doesn't mean X will promote it. X decided not to promote Don Lemon's show.
What else stops people from playing the first 10 seconds from a song? Its just a few chords in a sequence. The reason I've heard people don't do that is that they will get a copyright strike.
> I have yet to see ChatGPT or something similar ask a followup to clarify the question.

I don’t use it for dev, but other things and I get chatgpt asking me follow up questions multiple times a day.
You are assuming too much about what I think of myself. I am a software engineer and have been so for a long time. And I've written my fair share of UIs and apps.

If all the things we do are so varied and creative, then we shouldn need to worry about AI replacing our jobs. But that is not what I am reading in this post. What software engineering jobs will AI replace then?

In fact, what I wrote suggests that specialization is a way to make software engineering save itself from the AI threat by making the task of the software engineer more irreplaceable. No matter what you think about its complexities, making web sites is not it.
It doesn't seem like a completely different thing to generate specifications and formally verified programs for those specifications (though I'm not familiar with how those are done today).
For one, the new ui displays images inline.
> Sam Hill

Thanks, TIL this phrase.

> LoRaWAN GPS Concentrator

So the "GPS" is oddly placed in the name, it just means "using a GPS receiver to have accurate clock on the gateway".

The "Concentrator" part is just another name for gateway, but specifically one that receives data from different devices over LoRaWAN, collects the data into packets and sends it on to a database or other application somewhere - typically over 4G/5G or wired internet.
interesting that code size is important to you. hey everyone, write shorter programs :)
That's technically correct but not entirely true.

The ePrivacy directive and GDPR don't literally require cookie banners but the former requires disclosure of specific information and the latter requires consent for most forms of data collection and processing. Even the 2002 directive actually require an option to refuse cookies which many cookie banners still fail to implement properly post-GDPR.

The problem is that most websites want to start collecting, tracking and processing data that requires consent before any interaction takes place that would allow for a contextual opt-in. This means they have to get that consent somehow and the "cookie banner" or consent dialog serves that purpose.

Of course many (especially American) implementations get this hilariously wrong by a) collecting and processing data even before consent is established, b) not making opt-out as trivial as opt-in despite the ePrivacy directive explicitly requiring this (e.g. hiding "refuse" behind a "more info" button or not giving it the same weight as "accept all"), c) not actually specifying the details on what data is collected etc to the level required by the directive, d) not providing any way to revise/change the selections (especially withdrawing consent previously given) and e) trying to trick users with a manual opt-out checkbox per advertiser/service labeled "legitimate interest" which is an alternative to consent and thus is not something you can opt out of because it does not require consent (but of course in these cases the use never actually qualifies as "legitimate interest" to begin with and the opt-out is a poorly constructed CYA).

In a different world, consent dialogs could work entirely like mobile app permissions: if you haven't given consent for something you'll be prompted when it becomes relevant. But apparently most sites bank on users pressing "accept all" to get rid of the annoying banner - although of course legally they probably don't even have data to determine if this gamble works for them because most analytics requires consent (i.e. your analytics will show a near 100% acceptance rate because you only see the data of users who opted into analytics and they likely just pressed "accept all").
With scaling and some tricks, FP4 inference can be very close to 16 bit.

And most software out there is still missing on FP8 lol
Beach erosion has Atlantic City casinos desperately seeking sand by summer
> If all the things we do are so varied and creative, then we shouldn need to worry about AI replacing our jobs.

Your argument is built on this flawed premise. ChatGPT can generate poetry and stories. Does that mean writing poetry and stories is neither varied or creative?

The fact that AI can do something doesn't diminish its value when it comes from the hands of a human.

Machines in factories can make all sorts of household decorative goods too, but there's a reason people still buy hand-made things.
I don't think that's true of the mechanism I saw, which I believe was quite common, but it's 20 years since I looked at the mechanism.

Ok I've found a video with one in: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/zLuJYlHBSkU

The counter weight is always taking the full weight of the door, there's just a linkage which rotates the door on the way up. So, not the same as the spring ones, which follow a curved channel.

This makes me less keen on them as in theory it's going to fall when it wears out, albeit with only 50% of the weight. Unless there's another failsafe.
It did not made sense to me, because I am not a gorilla. They have different bodies. They look kinda similar in body shape, but they climb treat the way I will never be able to no matter how much I train.

So, gorila sleeping position implies exactly nothing for my sleeping position.
I'm making a WASM browser dungeon crawler game using WebTransport. It currently does not have great support -- namely Safari -- but because of other API incompatibilities I'm not planning on supporting Safari :P

WebTransport is a bit more work than other ones, like SSE, but the flexibility and performance make it work it IMO.
What gets you as I understand it is that the turning handles for the springs. If you lose your grip on them its a rod of steel that's going to flung around at high speed with enough force to counter-weight an entire garage door.
Get back to me at spyrecovery36 at gm ail co m if you want to proceed so i can explain in full details, that is if you want me to hack remotely
and install bugs on your spouses Email, social account, phone and other means to get contact of someone without him/her knowing,
My solution to broken connections has actually been to have relatively short timeouts by default, eg 10 seconds. That guarantees we have a fresh connection every so often without any assumptions about liveness. You can even overlap the reconnects a bit (eg 10 second request timeouts, but reconnect every 8 seconds) as long as the application can reconcile duplicated messages - which it should be able to do anyway, for robustness reasons.

Really, anytime there is any form of push (whether SSE, long polling, etc) then you need another way to re-hydrate to the full state. In which case you are nearly at the point of doing plain old polling to sidestep the complexity of server-driven incremental updates and all the state coordination problems that entails.

Of course with polling, you lose responsiveness. For latency-sensitive applications (like an interactive mmorpg!) then HTTP is probably not the correct protocol to use.

It does sound like Second Life has its own special blend of weirdness on top of all that. Condolences to the engineers maintaining their systems.
In the repo the model weights file is 9.37GB, whereas sdxl turbo is 13.9GB, and I don't see any mention of huge context windows, so probably it just needs a decent graphics card.
Did you read that document? It relates to a _single_ authorised usecase (electrolysis diaphragms used in chlorine production), plus some national laws which allow second-hand sale of existing things (generally buildings and old cars) which contain asbestos. It amounts to a ban.
very good point, I do think in general plastic packaging should be avoided as much as possible exactly for that reason.
But Blackwell in the graph is FP4 whereas Hopper is FP8.
Some people, but I very much doubt most.
But that required those platforms, such as Qt and Flutter, to figure it out in a bespoke manner. I am not aware of any existing cross-platform accessibility frameworks.
The most truly 'human' music is a group of people chanting in unison, maybe stamping feet and clapping hands. It's unlikely we had instruments for most of our evolution. There's no evidence we had complex harmony nor even chords for most of the existence of our species.
Think this is catching on slowly, give it another 10 years or so we will probably have something like that everywhere. America is pretty good at adopting popular food vehicles.
There is a rod that contains the broken spring. If an installed spring were to break when the door was open the most likely cause of danger is a few hundred pounds of garage door coming down on whatever was under it, so wait for the door to fully open before driving through.
Failed American Startups: The Pony Express and Pets.com
Freedom is also choosing to respect our environment and making a conscious effort not to waste our resources just for the hell of it.
AI, even in its current form can provide some interesting results. I wouldn’t underestimate an AI, but I think you might be underestimating the ingenuity of a bored human.
What ever harm it might be causing, is below the detection threshold, and thus meaningful risk tolerance of everyday life.

Living near a freeway for instance is substantially more dangerous to your health than occasional incidental exposure to asbestos.

You are breathing asbestos right now. In every breath.
Nvidia Launches GenAI Microservices on CUDA
Elegant. I want to review this more. Could __slots__ work here? I always compulsively try that to save memory. Keep it up.
They also bought infiniband which has played a big role in being the best at clustering, though Google's TPU reconfigurable topology stuff seems really cool too.

Tesla went after them with Dojo and has still ended up splurging on big H100 clusters.
Dbos
Along these same lines, it is common at my organization for people to gleefully say "welcome to ${ORG}!" or "It's the ${ORG} way!" in response to some failure that comes down to managerial knee-jerk or some fundamentally broken process.

It always seemed so perverse to me to promote this sort of tacit approval--as you say--passing it off as "cute" instead of... improving things.
If you are using a browser provided by an ad company surely being nagged to death to provide data they can sell is the expected outcome? You could use Firefox, which can disable most cookie banners [0].

[0] https://community.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/firefox-cookie-ba...
Ask HN: React WordPress Gutenberg Editor with AI
Hi All,

I'm trying to build a tool to allow users to update wordpress content based on suggestions.

I'd for it to have AI capabilities like rewrite and grammar check.

I'm finding it very difficult to find an editor that maintains the Gutenberg HTML blocks, besidies for Gutenberg. But there are almost no open source examples of a full standalone Gutenberg implementation and it is especially difficult to see how I would add a "Higlight to rephrase" feature.

Any help would be appreciated!

I've tried novel.sh/tiptap (uses json, hard to make it use HTML), Lexical (very difficult to understand how it works. I can even find how to export sample code from the playground)

My tech stack is nextjs.
Our garage doors openers are better. No more loud chain and they last longer too.
It does show empathy, though.

Docker has its advantages, but the approach also has a lot of disadvantages which are not so obvious to junior developers.

Isolation seems fun, but the interfaces (Unix sockets where anything goes) are extremely brittle. Version management seems simple at first, but will become horrible once old containers offer no upgrade path in the future, or when the free hubs from today will become tomorrow's subscription model.

I'm not advocating for PHP, but it sure made deployment of several websites on one machine extremely simple. Eventually version management destroyed some of the fun, which will probably happen with Docker containers as well, given enough time.

Java's application servers were initially also hailed with similar enthusiasm as Docker containers, and look at the complicated mess that has become.

To some, all that is old is new again.
Lugging around luggage through buses and transit, especially if there are stairs involved, is not pleasant.

It’s not pleasant in cities with great transit like Tokyo or Seoul, and it’s downright miserable in most of the cities being discussed here in this thread.
I'd wager it's in most institutional sorts of buildings built in the 50s and 60s.
And MS and everyone else have plenty of interest in helping AMD commodify CUDA compatibility.
Isn't the ORM the mapper from rows to objects? Every ORM I've used has support for "plain sql", in addition to a query builder/dsl.

How are you deserializing query results and serializing inputs?

For context: I work on web apps
You know that is a direct result from competition from rideshare alternatives, right?

Growing up in the late 90s and early 2000s, taxis always added an exciting extra frisson to any airport trip or evening date. Would they turn up at all? Would they turn up, honk their horn, and drive away if you didn't run out the door in under a minute? Were you going to be left stranded at the end of the night with a constantly engaged taxi call line? Leaving you to resort to calling friends and family to pick you up?

Perth taxis were some of the most expensive and hardest to book in all of my experiences around Australia, pretty much right up to the late 2010s, which unsurprisingly was a few years after Uber's entrance into the market.

If taxis are a better service than Uber now, that's great. We probably want to keep that competitive pressure to keep the bastards honest.
Clearly I don’t know what your application is, but many heavyweight “web apps” don’t cope with a simple refresh, kicking back to a default screen or even login screen in some cases.
Also worth noting Brandon Johnson’s administration has a habit of floating trial balloons of things that will never actually happen.

The number of serious policy proposals they’ve been able to accomplish is effectively zero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaahx4hMxmw
What an amazing life. Prescient choice to GTFO of Italy while he and his wife still could. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi
Probably better to stick to the GPUs. Integration is a low margin game.