skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sort of thing seems to improve over time. The USPS has had automatic sorting machines for a long time. At first they could only read pre-barcoded mail. Humans had to key in zip codes. Then character recognition got good enough that printed and typed addresses could be read automatically. Some items were still rejected, and they went through manual stations that added a bar-code sticker.

Then manual reading was made remote. There were about 20 USPS remote envelope reading centers at peak. As the vision systems got good enough to read handwriting, then bad handwriting, those were cut back. Now there's only one remote envelope reading center in the US, and what gets there is really bad.
Did you stagger the power-on times? Otherwise you could get tightly correlated failures.
Trump Media sues two of its own co-founders, seeking to wipe out their shares
Thanks!

You saved me. ;)
> "More Eyes On The Code" works

That's the whole problem right there: lack of eyes on the code. If this code was actually maintained by more than one person, there's a high chance one of them would have caught on to it.
Try the ones at Home Depot. Pretty sure they developed it in-house.

It may not prevent loss but from a customer experience, a good barcode scanning gun and legible barcodes is about as friction free as it gets.
Oh yeah, I mixed up addition and multiplication.
I wonder about the logistics of moving so many elephants such a distance, even if you do it gradually. Surely Botswana has better ways to spend the money.
This wheel has already been invented. Amazon Echo devices can detect (and respond to) beeping appliances.

I have one in the kitchen (which is near the laundry), and another one in my office (where I cannot hear the things in the kitchen).

When things beep, the one in the office says "beep beep".

And if things beep for a long time -- I think it's 2 minutes or something -- it also notifies my phone.
So does having somebody sitting next to the checkout machine watching me (directly or through security camera) while I finish my groceries ?
I fail to see the major difference with somebody working physically in the shop that makes it ridiculous and excessive.
One may even argue that remotely it could opens the job to more people (one could do that from home in their wheelchair while their baby is taking a nap )
My big takeaway is that modern build systems are fundamentally broken. Autotools, even Makefiles, are (or can be) incredibly obtuse, even unreadable. If I read this attack correctly, it relied on a payload in a test file (to obfuscate it). It shouldn't be possible to include test resources in a production build.

As an aside, C/C++'s header system with conditional inclusion is also fundamentally broken. Even templates are just text substitution with a thin veneer of typing.

I think about Google's build system, which is very much designed to avoid this kind of thing. The internal build tool is Blaze (Bazel is the open-source cousin). Many years ago, you could essentially write scripts in your BUILD files (called genrules) that were hugely problematic. There was no way to guarantee the output so they had to be constantly rebuilt. There was a long project to eliminate this kind of edge case.

Blaze (and Bazel) are built around declaring hermetic units to be built with explicit dependencies only. Nothing shipped to production is built locally. It's all built by the build servers (a system called Forge). These outputs are packaged into Midas packages ("MPMs"). You could absolutely reconstruct the source used to build a particular library, binary or package as well as the build toolchain and version used. And any build is completely deterministic and verifiable.

C/C++, Make, CMake, autotools, autoconf and all that tooling so common in Linux and its core dependencies absolutely needs to go.
A lot of the waiting is for age restricted items or machine errors rather than trust issues. I have never once been randomly sampled after self surface purchase in either the UK/US.
I have a clothes dryer which works like that, the other way around: equipped with an intelligent controller and an array of moisture sensors, it will spend 40 minutes chugging through the last 10 minutes of its cycle before presenting a load of washing which is just barely damp enough that you're not sure whether it's actually done.
If they show me a single ad I will be cancelling my subscription.
lol, it's all dudes.
> Another benefit of having a proper social safety net I guess.

I doubt it's as simple as this. People don't only steal because they could technically afford things. Just as people don't only kill in self defence.
I ordered one of these posters a few years ago as a gift for my mom, who is a scientist. Large posters with lots of information to get lost in are always fun. This one does not disappoint!
> The bottom line for workers: Higher wage floors ultimately raise the earnings of low-income workers and young workers most likely to be impacted by the policies by thousands of dollars annually. Further, on average, these workers are no less likely to be employed following the minimum wage increases.

But that's not the bottomline. The bottomline is to ask: After a year, do these workers have more disposable income, or does - for example - local housing cost raise and eat up the higher wages?
Have you talked to folks behind prior startups in the space like layervault?

See http://web.archive.org/web/20150424103031/http://layervault.... and
https://kellysutton.com/2015/07/21/startup-theory-of-relativ...
What people eat, affects how they smell and their.. um, liquids.
> A 10c RFID tag would be 10% of the cost of many products, which im sure is unacceptable to grocery stores which I can't imagine have great margins.

If the store decides to eat the cost of those? Sure, I can buy that logic.

However, I don't see stores being unable to just raise the price of items by 10c without much pushback, which would eliminate that issue with the profit margin entirely (since the cost of it is offloaded to the customer).

I, personally, would love to be able to pay just 10c extra per item, if it meant that I can have a checkout experience similar to that of Uniqlo.
A buddy of mine would scan meat as bananas in college. Probably saved hundreds.
Even if you're right, why sign up a new account on HN to post a one-line insult about someone you've never met?
Over a dozen people die every year due to wild elephants. You can't just ignore that. That also makes it completely incomparable to the situations you're talking about.

The quote from the Botswanian president is very applicable to your comment: “It is very easy to sit in Berlin and have an opinion about our affairs in Botswana. We are paying the price for preserving these animals for the world.”
> Could this be solved by software instead of expensive hardware?

Yes.

Imagine a human putting a screw in a hole. You don't follow the "optimal" trajectory, you adapt it on the fly, even do several quick trials to do it.

Humans do it with a combination of vision, touch and planning.

Each of these is currently still a huge problem for AI, nowhere near human level.
Apparently this news came out in May 2023. I also was bamboozled into thinking that sophisticated computer vision algos -- that worked -- were doing this.

I'm now picturing the remote workers constantly switching between cameras, studying: Did he put down the can of kidney beans or the can of corn there? Wait, the man picked up the bananas, but then he handed them to the woman in the white shirt. Let's charge them to her account. Wait, she handed them back at 14:42 in aisle 16. Going to switch them back to the man.

All day long, day in day out, for years. I am the last to criticize 'low wage jobs' paternalistically, because I know they may be much better than what the workers might otherwise be doing: perhaps just toiling in the fields for 16 hours a day (or worse: something like 'melting down discarded PCBs to recover trace metals'). But still, I do not think I would want to do this job nor that it was worth it. I get that they were supposedly trying to train an algorithm to do it. I'm glad that they aren't keeping at it any longer though now that it's proven so unworkable.
My recollection (I’m not checking) is that congress passed a law restricting the deductibility of private air flights, but that there’s widespread fraud in the form of “security consultants” advising boards that such flights are necessary for security purposes and so they are deducted anyway.

It’s pretty unreal when you think about it that our culture has not small cadres of credentialed, professional liars for hire. Not just for CEOs either, think about the fake service pets for another example.

Is this what the kids call late stage capitalism?
> 700 out of 1,000 Just Walk Out sales required human reviewers as of 2022.

Or not ...
I was wondering if that would be released also. I hope so but wouldn't blame them if they decide not to.
I’ve read a few pieces by these folks, and they all just rub me the wrong way. They’re all very strident and confrontational and say that we’re all doing everything terribly wrong, but always seem conspicuously light on any answers.

The one cool thing that I might have taken away from this article - the productivity/value density map of Houston - was just a low-res image and not a map you could zoom and examine (but happily linked you to some consulting outfit that will sell you that map).

….LMFAO, I just noticed for the first time that, in addition to their consultant cross-selling, Strong Towns sells courses on how citizens can solve urban planning problems.

“I have a secret plan to save the urban fabric of America, but I can’t tell you until you pay me $300.” What a grift.

(Also, headline seems incorrect - Houston is going broke, expect all these other, non-sprawly cities are going broke much worse, so if anything arguably the growth and low housing prices enabled by Houston’s sprawl is keeping it solvent? Plus the author seems ignorant of the actual practices through which Houston selectively annexes outlying areas. Or maybe you just have to pony up for the class to learn about that.)
Is that an up-to-date critique? Because iOS 17/MacOS Sonoma have the rewritten JSON decoder:

> The code in our GitHub repository 20 has indeed shipped as part of iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma. That includes our new, dramatically faster implementations of JSONDecoder and Calendar.

https://forums.swift.org/t/any-updates-on-the-new-foundation...

That comment was from Nov 2023, and if you look at the GitHub repo, you’ll see that the JSON part of Foundation has commits within even the last month (perhaps getting ready for Swift 6.0?).
It’s also in the middle of a massive hype cycle right now probably partially due to a “halving” event coming up soon. The swings have been wild lately.
Well, just tried suno.ai and asked it for "A cool fusion jazz session in weather report style", and it produced some easy listening jazz with piano, contrabass and brushed snare with a female singer singing about weather forecast and jazz fusion ;-)

Here it is: https://app.suno.ai/song/4807127b-4896-4aa3-b6a0-291432b64b5...

But overall the generated music is surprisingly good. Composers specialized on elevator background music will have a hard time in future.
Heh, Read the instructional sign outside the store. Opened up my Amazon App and got the QR Code on my screen. Could not figure out where on the turnstile to scan it, and I'm a barcode app guy. There was a screen prompting me for my palm print. Um, no. You don't get my money AND my biometrics. We turned around and walked out.

To top that off, the associate carting out in the parking lot ridiculed us and gave us a "buh bye". So, Amazon Fresh is off the list for me. I don't even go to Whole Foods after that experience.
That's not what happened. Downstream was building from source, that source just had malicious code in it.

One part was binary, the test file (pretty common), but checked into the repo. One part was in the build config/script, but was in the source tarball and not in the repo.
I think Godot is the closest thing to this today, and I agree, would love to work with them! Particularly on the Wasm and packaging side of things.
Can't https://bevyengine.org/ do this?

AFAIK https://wgpu.rs/ makes this possible with Rust.

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But this is very different than what was demonstrated in the vimeo video.
The issue is that speed is not the only thing necessary. You need speed, and trust.

A cashier-less, grab and go store that works as advertised would be hugely convenient and valuable. But where we are now, people don't think it works, so they double check and get nervous.

And that goes doubly for Amazon. Amazon doesn't care about doing things right. They've shown that over and over via their (lack of) protections against counterfeit items.

Ask anyone in the eastern US, would you trust getting your eclipse glasses on Amazon?

Why would you trust them to get your grocery order right?

And that destroys the convenience.
Looks like Pokemon Jirachi
When I was younger and watched movies like Star Wars that had 'computer targeting screens' in their fighters, I thought that computer games would be exciting.

When I was able to finally play those computer games a few years later, I found that they held no interest at all for me. I got a bigger kick out of programming in its own right.

But I am not the World ....
That's how I deal with a mint infestation. After 6-8 prunings the plant is usually dead.
It's right there in what you copied, or you could also look at the design. That will always tell you more than the words around it.

But, regardless, I am happy that you were able to solve your problem.
> It is really asstonishing how dev hostile those game consoles were...

What's actually astonishing is the range of things that seem strange at first, but are actually very clear and logical, IF you also understand the historical context. The path that led reasonable people to make these decisions. Here, see the comments elsewhere about how licensing worked for physical cartridges (they were expensive -- open source cartridge games doesn't make much sense). Plus a dash of copy protection and especially, read into the video game crash of the 80s. This was part of the plan to avoid shovelware (which arguably made Nintendo the success it was).

> The games would surely have been prettier as a result.

What are you basing this on? 80s and 90s era console hardware was quite restricted, and the software we got did I think all that the hardware could do.
Every single cost, labor or otherwise, is being passed on to customers. It's wild that people still eat McDonald's at 2020 prices let alone 2024 prices and beyond. There used to be a contract that the worst food would come with a proportional discount but that's out the window.
Microsoft aren’t paying, but are still demanding responses to their problems. Now sure you can ignore it (and the ffmpeg lot are a hardened bunch), but I can see how a lone developer can feel pressured by leviathans

Microsoft are being the twats here, not the ffmpeg devs
Well, have you tried the one at Amazon Go stores? I've been using those once every month or so, since the year the very first one opened in Seattle, and not once have I had any issues at all.

It was truly fantastic, especially since the app would notify me afterwards how long I spent at the store, and seeing that number always made me feel good. TLDR on this: my average shopping experience from the moment I entered the store to the moment I left took around 3-4 minutes, with plenty of them being under a minute long.
Moving beyond the hit-or-miss nature of the traditional bored button, Taranify introduces a new level of personalization into the mix
Actually, this xz-utils was a sort of reproducible build issue. But the twist it is wasn't the binary not built reproducibly. It was the tar ball. The natural assumption is it just reflected the public git repository. It didn't.

Debian's response is looking to be mandating the source must come from the git repository, not a tar ball. And it will be done using a script. And the script must produce the same output every time, ie be reproducible. Currently Debian's idea of "reproducible" means it reflects the source Debian distributes. This change means it will reproducibly reflect the upstream sources. That doesn't mean it will be the same - just that it's derived in a reproducible way.

As for trusting the person who gave you the hash: that's not what it hinges on. It hinges on the majority installing a binary from a distro. That binary can be produced reproducibly, by an automated build system. Even now, Debian's binaries aren't created just once by Debian. There are Debian builders all around the planet creating the binary, and verifying it matches what's being distributed.

Thus the odds of the binary you are running not being derived from the source are vanishingly low.
this might be my first comment here heh.

i've worked on a similar product before.

there's no way they were turning a profit. they definitely missed stuff all the time even with a ton of sensors. and sensors aren't the only cost. annotation is by far the most costly operational expense. new product? needs several annotated photos and recalibrated weight sensors. merchant decides to put Christmas branding on the same UPC? now all your vision models are poisoned for that product. it needs to be re-annotated for the month and a half it exists and the models need to be swapped out once inventory changes over again. as long as merchants are redesigning products (always) your datasets will be in a constant state of decay. even if your vision sensors are stationary and know the modular design up front, you still need to be able to somewhat generalize in case things get misplaced (big problem for weight sensors) or the camera gets bumped.

between dataset management, technology costs, research costs, rote operational costs, etc this is a very expensive problem to solve. and large models with a ton of parameters are little help; they may lower annotation costs a bit but will increase the cost of compute.

once i really dug into this problem i saw Amazon Go's Just Walk Out for what it really was: a marketing stunt
DSPy is the best tool for optimizing prompts [0]: https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy

Think of it as a meta-prompt optimizer, it uses a LLM to optimize your prompts, to optimize your LLM.
Looking at the lists of healthiest and unhealthiest cities, it seems like what's actually being analysed here is wealth...

Gee, I wonder why Gulfport, Mississippi or Columbus, Georgia are more unhealthy than San Francisco or Seattle...
If nobody can afford to buy the food, then the workers preparing and serving the food would be out of a job due to a lack of revenue from the restaurant.

Pretty simple.
I’d actually call that a good bar. If you’re looking 5-10 years down the line for consumers, it’s reasonable. If you think the results can influence hardware directions sooner than that (for better performance) it’s also reasonable.
I've never used their API but the first google result for Hubspot API is their API reference documentation which starts with:

"HubSpot’s developer platform is a core part of our mission to empower organizations to grow better. Our APIs are designed to enable teams of any shape or size to build robust integrations that help them customize and get the most value out of HubSpot.

All HubSpot APIs are built using REST conventions and designed to have a predictable URL structure. They use many standard HTTP features, including methods (POST, GET, PUT, DELETE) and error response codes. All HubSpot API calls are made under https://api.hubapi.com and all responses return standard JSON."

If it's not actually an API in the traditional sense then that's absolutely awful documentation.
You leave a message by calling the number at the top of the page
Whisper can transcribe/translate non-english speech to english text
The base 10 is referring to conversion of bytes into a long decimal (base 10) integer, not that it's being stored in chunks of 10 bits.

But yes, you're right, it would be reasonable to think of this as encoding the bytes in base 1000, where each "digit" just happens to be shown to humans as 3 digits.
Elon Musk on AGI Safety, Superintelligence, and Neuralink [video]
11 years ago, I did a 3 hour 'Introduction to Solid State Storage' at LOPSA-East 2013 that also covered how spinning disks worked, if anyone is interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3wf1HMr6b0

The SSD content starts at around 1 hour in:
https://youtu.be/G3wf1HMr6b0?si=5kdNeLGafrrU6Gmy&t=3573
None, it was desktop only
Passphrases and a browser extension, basically. The Passphrase can still be stripped off the wire and used later while passkeys are phishproof and single use.
I always put the topics list first, about which I'm going to ask. For example:
"html, css. How to center a div?"
This doesn't change things on simple topics like in the example, but helps in more complicated scenarios.
With Elon Musk chiming in with some suggestions
Hmm, I assume the pun on "undermined" is intentional, though since that has somewhat negative connotations I am not sure it's entirely a good idea...
this is the most astonishing thing I have read in a long time and I am CS not electrical engineering, so I have no idea what these drawings mean. I speak german, but I hope something works to translate this easily, as it is absolutely crazy. I did not know something like this was possible back then.

It is astonishing how advanced the world was back then...if it wasn't for this use though
Well Amazon did not think so:

> Amazon’s internal goals of reaching less than 50 reviews per 1,000 sales.
Another word for this is "theft"
Before I had a chance to work with datadog, I generally operated Prometheus / Grafana as it's basically industry standard in k8s. The ability for an application to publish it's own often very detailed metrics and have those auto scrape is powerful.

Learning that datadog charges these as custom metrics was shocking. This opens a wormhole of allow-list or opt-in considerations, and then there is tag cardinality or even introducing a middleware like vector. It feels very backwards to spend effort on reducing observability.

If datadog was crap it would make things easier, but it really is a fantastic product, and a business after all. Prometheus integration is just so very cumbersome which is probably strategic I would imagine.
Hmm, does this just use the traditional term frequency search bars (scholar, arxiv, etc) under the hood with query expansion for the prelimary search?

Without chunking the papers I'm skeptical the prelim search would be all that useful.

Also, using GPT4 as a cross encoder seems really wasteful both in terms of compute and latency.

Using GPT4 as a cross encoder also seems very wasteful.

Might try it anyways, but damn 3-6mins is brutal. Traditionally research has shown that low latency is more important than relevance for search because it allows users to reformulate queries.

Maybe this approach is worth it though.
The wealthiest districts of London have the longest life expectancy, as a local you can pretty much guess the ordering of the list.
Had no idea Grantland was still around
Funny to see just how prolific Gauss was since so many things are named after him and continue to be newly named after him, such as this example of Gaussian splatting, which, while he obviously didn't directly invent it, contributed to the mathematics of it significantly.
I think i would go with Electron in that case.

You get process spawning / IPC access via node and the view layer is easy to implement and change. Especially for 'custom views', which you'll likely want for a fancy/sleek UI. The main downside of Electron imo, the large binary filesize, won't be that important to your target group i guess.
you cannot pump indefinitely, at some point you have to dump