skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The old fonts that have been designed as bitmap fonts or as scalable fonts, but with good manual hinting (which is equivalent with designing bitmap font variants for a set of usual sizes), can indeed be perfectly sharp.

Nevertheless, such fonts are always uglier than the good fonts which are rendered on a high-resolution display, where more pixels per character cell are available.

Even the 4k displays, when at typical desktop sizes and viewing distances, have a significantly lower resolution than what has been provided by the traditional printing of books on paper and than what is needed to exceed the resolution of normal human vision.

I do not consider any display that is uglier than a printed book from a few centuries ago as an acceptable display.
I'm trying difft for git now and I also really like it. One reason why I think it shouldn't be the default is that it hides whitespace differences. Maybe that's configurable though, haven't looked into that
I wasn't impressed. I do use them to vacuum and make frozen pizzas though.
OI's 01 Lite – Open-Source Personal AI Agent Device
> * Spotify's weekly picks used to be pretty good at recommending new music, although it's actually got worse in the last 2-3 years.

In a similar vein, I remember using Pandora for the first time in the late 00's and thinking "Is this software reading my mind??" as it picked song I either already loved or a new song I like immediately.

Amazon Music, YouTube etc all feel like it's some version of "this what other people liked" but that just spirals me into some very specific genre.

I haven't had an experience similar to that first Pandora one in tech in a long time.
Some contemporary reviews:

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/atari-falcon-030

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/cubase-audio-atari-f...
Not necessarily AI at all. Collision avoidance can work purely based on range finding. Self driving that actually does use AI is all over the place
If you clear a notification on your watch does it clear it from the phone? It's a tiny thing, but it's really nice to have.

Similarly, if the notification has a "Reply" option (say a Slack message), can you reply on your watch? Very useful when I get a work message when I'm walking the dog.
Is that not what e.g. this project allows you to do?

https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-pkcs11
Macs have GPUs and their architecture means that GPU has access to the full system RAM. Cuda isn’t a requirement for running ML workloads on a GPU.
I am aware but that does nothing to prevent total dominance of Chrome as the primary browser on all platforms moving forward. The EU is not calling for a random subset of the population to forcibly run Firefox.
With the power of Google they will corner the market incredibly fast, and it will all be “user choice”.
I had a developer friend called Maico. His email was maicosoft@ I aways found it funny
If you imagine the space of possible things we can do, the vector marked "make as much money as possible" isn't perfectly parallel with how most people would draw the one marked "be as ethical as possible"[0]. But the entire reason capitalism happened was that 248 years ago some Scottish dude noticed that, quite often, they're pointing in similar directions.

Adam Smith didn't phrase it like that, and many people have mistaken "similar" for "identical" when this is absolutely not so (we also didn't have a deep understanding of what's now called Goodhart's law until much later), but it has made a huge difference to the quality of life of many people despite the things it does wrong.

Also don't forget that we don't, and never have, lived in a pure free market, and that governments can and do pass laws to restrict what business are permitted to do — lots of money to be made in selling cocaine and heroin, both used to be sold as cough medicine, and then the law changed.

[0] phrased weirdly because most people disagree about how to draw the "ethics" vector, too.
Well, like others here, I was under the impression that GitLab was a Dutch company but it turns out that they are actually incorporated in the US, which makes that whole line of thinking pointless.
Yup. Promises and talking big works up until someone calls the bluff.

NATO in a certain way is based on that as well. If it fails a single test regarding article 5 after someone challenges it, it becomes instantly worthless.

The danger as I see it currently is that the West is tired of war and it’s an opportunity for Putin to challenge NATO. Attack a small village in a Baltic state. Are Americans and Germans and the British going to risk their lives for a small village in a Baltic country? I hope they would, but I realistically don’t see it. And that one non-response would make NATO worth less than the paper the agreement was printed on.
I've always been puzzled by the argument that, since cannabis is less dangerous than alcohol, we should therefore remove legal disincentives for cannabis consumption rather than the seemingly more logical conclusion we should try to disincentivize alcohol consumption. If it is a matter of harm, you don't remove disincentives on less harmful things simply because there are less/no disincentives on more harmful things.

Of course, if we're instead making an argument about liberty, matters are different.
And unlike breweries, growers won't be allowed to sell what they produce.
The German GmbH doesn't need to obey US law. The GTLB that's listed on Nasdaq needs to obey US law.
In ML courses, you’re taught to try simpler methods and models before turning to more complex ones. I think that’s something that hasn’t made it into the mainstream yet.

A lot of people seem to be using GPT-4 for tasks like text classification and NER, and they’d be much better off fine-tuning a BERT model instead. In vision, too, transformers are great but a lot of times, a CNN is all you really need.
Subjective. I much prefer written interactions to spoken
Yes, I did.

It never crossed my mind to reduce literal supercomputer that costs 1,5k euro, and can fit into my pocket, to a feature phone.
Yes. This is good for Bitcoin.
If neural network is AI, then translation tools, deepl being one of my favorite.

There is also AI in video editing apps: fast autofocus on faces, face detection and modifiers that follow you. It's really incredible and intuiive enough so that many people use it (too much maybe).
Get Instagram user posted medias, stories, media comments and search user/hashtag/music, etc.
But the reality is that if you want achieve that, at least one of the parents has to sacrifice their career, at least temporarily but that usually means a dead end in the long run.
Without that there is just not enough time available in a dual working household, that is even after the kids have been dropped off to other people for most of the day (school, child care and the likes).

Historically this is what the women did and unlike the feminist rhetoric likes to pretend there were (and still are) very good reasons why this is the case.

Even if you find a woman making enough money and willing to have an at home husband, the risk of divorce will very little recourse for the man are so high it is really an extremely unappealing proposition for most man.
That is before talking about the psychological issues the women will display after enough years of being married to a "worthless man". I have experienced/observed that first hand, multiple times, and let me tell you nobody gets out that in good shape.

I am at the same time amused and amazed that they are still numerous willing man that are still talking the bullshit coming out of feminists and nowadays, society at large, at face value; even though careful observation would teach you otherwise.

Men and women are drifting appart, because while the propaganda would very much like you to believe otherwise, there is a very large value mismatch between man and women.
We have built an extensive set of bullshit qualifications and whatnot to pretend otherwise, but reality has this habit of catching up to lies and at some point, most of the interested parties figure out what's what.
I'm actually incubating my first round of eggs today and we're trying to get an 8:1 ratio of hens to roosters. I found a paper from the early 1900s that documented the old way of sexing eggs.

After the egg is laid and has cooled off, a bubble forms in the wider end of the egg. If you candle the egg the bubble will either be centered in the end of the egg if its male, or the bubble will be offset and not touching the end point of the egg at all.

No clue if it will actually work but interestingly enough we did get roughly a 50/50 split from our chickens. I guess we'll find out in about 9-12 weeks if the trick actually worked!
This should be higher up. This whole blog post is mostly worthless because the way they are extracting data is less than optimal.

Lower end models do not have the attention to complete tasks like this, GPT4Turbo will generally have the capability. But to have an optimal pipeline you should really be splitting up these tasks into individual units. You extract each attribute you want independently and then combine it back together however you want. Also asking for JSON upfront is equally suboptimal in the whole process.

I have high confidence that I could accomplish this task using a lower end model with a high degree of accuracy.

Edit: I am not suggesting that an LLM is more optimal than what ever traditional parsing methods they may use, simply the way they are doing it is wrong from an LLM flow.
The older I get, the less I can pretend I understand HTML or that it is simple.
"disincentivising", also known as "war on drugs" is making criminals more rich and police more corrupt.

"dry laws" have also mostly resulted in proliferation of illegal alcohol sales and criminal groups dealing with that.

perhaps harm reduction should be dealt with in a different way than prohibition and use of force.
Ok, then let's start by getting away with all the wasteful animal farming.
Brother laser printers are such a sublimely simple experience. Quite honestly a contender for the best piece of computing-adjacent technology I have ever owned.
All I'll say is:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
No need to pull the ropes manually. We have motors now.

https://www.yachtingmonthly.com/sailing-skills/mainsail-furl...

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/04/sailing-at-the-tou...
These videos talk about it a little:
https://youtu.be/zvPkAYT6B1Q?si=99J7GUo3l_ggQCjM
https://youtu.be/xgKY9hmbfgo?si=GzBOx9p-sLPchKL1
https://youtu.be/yj9Gk84jRiE?si=FmhiSO9Qd8WIsVzS
TL;DR: forming a hydra-summary of the three: Nintendo’s strategy has been to position themselves as a premium video game brand since the 1980’s. They use high pricing, exclusivity, and close integration with hardware to distance themselves from other companies. Because they want to position themselves as the one and only Nintendo, knockoffs and copycats represent an existential threat to their brand. They also want parents to have absolute trust in the family friendliness of their games and knockoffs could diminish that as well. Because of this they do literally every scummy thing in their power to aggressively pursue and litigate anything from piracy to fan projects. Control of their image is their biggest asset.
As someone who didn’t really grow up playing Nintendo games I have a slight fascination with how people worship this company and continually make excuses for them, so I really like these videos, even if they’re probably not 100% accurate.
well you can’t really sell (at any scale) self-made alcohol without a license in most countries either
Reddit Soars 48% in Debut as AI Pitch Gets Warm Reception
Unfortunately, I don't think the real world applications of this exploit are explained anywhere. From skimming the paper , it looks like the attacker needs to be able to a) run code on the victim's machine and b) trigger the encryption process ("For our cryptographic attacks, we assume the attacker runs unprivileged code and is able to interact with the victim via nominal software interfaces, triggering it to perform private key operations.")

So for a) it might be sufficient to run javascript and for b) of course there are ways to inject data into server processes, processing data submitted by clients is what servers are for.

But a happens on clients (web browsers) and b would be a way to extract encryption keys from servers. But in what case can an attacker run code on a machine where they can also trigger the encryption (constantly for an hour like in the demonstration)? The only thing that comes to my mind would be a server side code-execution-sandbox that runs SSL termination on the same machine.

edit: Maybe stealing client certificate keys?
Read past the clickbait headline here for insight on Nigeria's approach to Internet technology and communications.

I'm usually pretty good at suggesting alternative titles, though this piece is a bit of a stumper. The subhead is descriptive but exceeds HN's length limits:

Bosun Tijani was a rock star in the Nigerian startup scene, but his transition to government has been controversial.

This phrase from the text is direct but lacks some of the poetry and drama involved:

Nigeria’s next minister of communications, innovation, and digital economy
If you would like to see the data that's currently in Open library, there are dumps published every month or so. Where the data comes from is either partners or one off projects to scrape from public sources or sometimes just people adding what they like.

Fulltext search of actual books! And also metadata.

Check it out:

https://openlibrary.org/search/inside?q=hackernews

If you're serious about getting involved I'd say the best thing to do it just come to the meeting if you can. The GitHub has a lot of things that without context can be hard to pickup. Most of the easy stuff is on the JS side.
https://archive.is/3tAvq
A bunch of people who can't stop AI ... and if it requires any kind of commitment or money WON'T actually follow through decide to make several hundred "laws" per year.

And as if that problem isn't serious enough, often the governments these delegates supposedly speak for either don't agree with their own delegates or make their delegates lie, often to the point Iran just did with Nuclear disarmament. They opened the meeting, reiterated their commitment to ... and it made such an impression laughter was heard in the next building over.

The only good thing about the UN is that obstructionism at the UN often leads to inaction of other governments that wanted to do something, which often turns out to be the better course of action.
You forgot to mention that all those Operating Systems you mentioned allow the user to break free from restrictions if they desire to do so because the machine is their property after all. Mechanisms for "Security" only become a jail if there is absolutely no way to break free.

And having certain restrictions to hide complexity from users to hide complexity is by no means comparable to "security" whose only purpose is to shackle users so they can never escape obscene fees because Apple uses the same strategy as the mafia: "pay us for protection".

If it's not voluntary, what's the difference between Apple's behavior and Tony Soprano's behavior?
Klaviyo. I know they have been around a long while but I just implemented it for the first time today on a new ecommerce project.

The signup and setup flow is quite lengthy because they need to implement email flows, abandoned cart reminders, sms flows, push messaging which of course it needs to be highly customized. All of this is needed just to unlock some of the basic features of the tool.

I was surprised and delighted to begin setting up an email series only to discover it had already scanned my website and used AI to write the content of all the messages to be applicable to our tone and messaging.

Highly impressive and it makes getting it up and running super fast.
Smell of cigars is worse (yes, that's an opinion), but "legal".
It makes sense if you care about both harm and liberty though.

We've already decided alcohol is fine from a liberty perspective, so if the argument against cannabis is from a harm perspective, and cannabis is less harmful than alcohol, then cannabis should be fine too.
PARC Engineer on Why Xerox Didn't Win the PC Wars
you're correct, but prohibition when not largly accepted socially have bad consequences.
I bet you havent't seen the guns in the movies. /s
The purpose of the mailing list software is managing subscriptions, etc. For a small and semi-private list like you are describing a simple alias/.forward is easier to maintain.
Truth is truth, but that was not truth. Just saying it was does nothing.
> is making criminals more rich and police more corrupt.

And youngsters who smoke weed in the streets learn to hate cops. Which may or may not be a bad thing.
Their original goal was a gaming console, not a general-purpose computer.

One huge mistake was not to take Sun's hand and make the 3000/UX the low end option to Sun's workstation lineup.
Climate-focused investment firm World Fund raises 300M euros
I work primarily in projects that use js and I mostly don't see the point in working with json in other tools than js.

I have tried jq a little bit, but learning jq is learning a new thing, which is healthy, but it also requires time and energy, which is not always available.

When I want to munge some json I use js... because that is what js in innately good at and it's what I already know. A little js script that does stdin/file read and then JSON.parse, and then map and filter some stuff, and at the end JSON.stringify to stdout/file does the job 100% of the time in my experience.

And I can use a debugger or put in console logs when I want to debug. I don't know how to debug jq or sql, so when I'm stuck I end up going for js which I can debug.

Are there js developers who reach for jq when you are already familiar with js? Is it because you are already strong in bash and terminal usage? I think I get why you would want to use sql if you are already experienced in sql. Sql is common and made for data munging. Jq however is a new dsl when I don't see the limitation of existing js or sql.
If you see a meteorite "fall" or something that looks like a shooting star, you aren't going to find it.

If it's moving fast enough to be a glowing streak, it's going to land hundreds of miles away from you. If it's near enough that you found it, you have no chance of seeing it land (sort of like seeing a bullet whizzing past your head).

Keep in mind that this flowchart is to cut down the number of people who contact this person wondering if their rock is a meteorite, which it almost always is not. I first learned about this chart from this: https://xkcd.com/1723/
1000x sooner is still a really long time, I've seen numbers like 80 years thrown around. And that's with normal PLA, not PLA+ and other popular modifications that may have very different properties. You are right that it's significantly better than ABS for example, but "less environmentally hostile" and "environmentally friendly" are not the same and imho a lot of the info out there is simply misleading in that regard.
This scares me too, I hope for an optimistic uptopia of free robotic labour to help us support the incoming flood of people (who are in that position by happenstance, and should be helped I believe)

But I am scared of a border of terminators with guns. I suspect a well armed, high speed, highly optimised robot army standing in front of an enourmous wall built by robotic near-free-labour would be sufficient to stop the flood of people, but I truly hope that never happens.

With the dexterity improvements of the latest robotic companies we're what, 5-10 years from this being an option? When will the migration happen? 10 years?
This doesn't make a lot of sense. Now you can legally carry 25 grams of weed (or 50 grams at home) while there is no legal way to obtain it. The only way is to grow your own with up to three plants (that must be kept in a closet so that kids don't have access). Or some cannabis social club that is burdened with a lot of bureaucracy.

The pronounced aim to curb the black market can't be achieved because obviously for most people the black market is still the best way to get their weed.

(In earlier drafts of the law there was a way to buy weed through channels such as pharmacies but this is not possible due to EU legislation, so it got removed from the law).
Unfortunately, so far that deferral will most likely come with the requirement for a security, typically cash. That is the prevailing view of tax specialists right now, but will depend on each individual's experience with their local tax authorities.
Ask HN: Which tools are you using for Virtual Machines?
I don't know where you live, but you have to be aware of exactly what the labelling rules are where you buy eggs. In Britain, free range only means that the hens have access to open-air spaces, but not that the hens ordinarily inhabit that area. Considering the strict hierarchy that chickens form (the original pecking order), some individuals might never get an opportunity to be in this open-air space.

Organic is a different protected term in the UK that has additional conditions, such as a more humane limit on the density of the hens' accomodation and stricter dietary requirements.

It's a really complicated issue with some fierce lobbying from the intensive farming industry to loosen the welfare requirements, but suffice it to say that there is a 'euphemism treadmill' of constantly changing terminology depending on whether the factory farming or the welfare lobbies have the upper hand at any given moment.
And if this use case hit any kind of scale. We’d just have an llm generate a parser and be back to microseconds.

This was just a blog to generate traffic on the site. Not to showcase some new use case for an llm.
Right, thanks for the correction. For reference, the v2 withdrawal thread is here: http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.o....

With the current expectations, no license will solve the problem of making software open and prevent companies from "stealing" it.
The "stealing" point is not necessarily my opinion; just pointing that there's always noise about it.
Not much of a market when Toyota lobbies your government to tax EVs while giving breaks to hybrids.
> We Gen-Xers are the original digital natives.

I had this kind of discussion with people who make good money managing digitalization projects.

Under the term "digitalization" (somewhat confusingly) companies understand "make (often service) X available via the internet". Similarly "digital" means "connected to the internet" (i.e. punchcards are not digital :-) ). This is a different usage of these terms than in engineering, but this usage is rather consistent.

The term "natives" in "digital natives" refers to the fact that this is the first generation for which (rather consistently available) internet was something that they grew up with from very early childhood on, i.e. they "never saw the 'old world without consistently available internet' in their life". Whether this is bad or worse for work can be discussed endlessly ... ;-)

In this sense/usage, from my gut feeling I would thus argue that "digital natives" refers to "from late Gen Y on".
Yes! In 2010, it could say "Oh you like Leonard Cohen? Maybe you'll like Jonathan Richman.", which was a great jump. Now, it's more like "Oh, you like Simon and Garfunkel? Here's a bland cover of one of their songs."
Very cool. If I ask to deduce the gender of my voice, can it do that? Training a projection layer makes sense, but ultimately you'd want to output audio conditioned on the input rather than text. Is there a way to train a reverse projection with some kind of skip connections to take audio input into account? Or an end to end audio model?