skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I mean HN is a community and it’s all technology. IRC is a ton of fond memories for me in a time where my irl community was failing me as an awkward nerd, and gave me friends that I can irl meet and chat with now.

Well, personally, I would love to know what percentage of people here actually cared about the other people here in terms of actually caring, like having a real friend. I'm assuming it's rather close to zero. Don't get me wrong, I like debating on here but it's nothing like an in-person community.

You can disagree all you like, but I think one thing that is near-universal is that there is something special about in-person communities that cannot be replicated online. Sorry to say, although I like talking to people on here, I have no idea who any of you are, what your faces look like, and for all intents and purposes, you could even be AI.

The truth is, and I think most average people would agree, there's nothing like a genuine, real community with real people having face-to-face interaction.

And an idealized notion?! Come on, seriously! I'm just talking about some basic stuff like interacting with neighbours, talking to employees at the grocery, helping other community members out with basic stuff, etc. In fact, it would be nice if community bonds were even stronger at times...
TinyTimeMixer: Open-source time series LLM by IBM
I'll bet there are a ton of people making pretty good salaries and bonuses before profits.
With more and more big players starting production of customized private proprietary hardware compatibility becomes increasingly difficult.
Which works out well for the big players who can leverage it as lock ins.

Regular people wont be able to buy the chips from Microsoft, Google,
and you only get M* chips if you buy Apple hardware.

Good luck with the frankenMacs now.

At the same time devices that you buy get locked into company as well,
and if that company goes out of business you are screwed.

Like I was when Ambi Climate closed up shop and left with e-waste.
All the hardware I need is in there but I can do anything with it.

Or when Google decided to close down access for Lenovo Displays, because
they didnt want to support 3rd party Displays anymore.
Two more e-waste devices for me.
(There might be a way to save the Displays I just haven't got in working yet)

Open, compatible, standardized omni purpose hardware seems to be dying.
Much more profit in lock ins
> Provide services on top of the protocol? Adjacent to it?

You can't, because those features would then not be available on said open protocol making these features another "serfdom".

Or you'd have to add them to the protocol negating the differentiating factor.

Niceties that don't break interoperability of data?

> Ads that are relevant to the core group using your version of the site for the protocol?

Wait until you hear how Twitter, Facebook and Youtube get monetised.

> I'm sure business people would find many ways to monetise just like they have monetised an open protocol called "web".

This is wishful thinking and does not form a coherent end-to-end strategy.

> Don't start with this bullshit, it just makes the discussion become inflammatory, fuck off with that, please.

Lets not start calling all businesses "technofeudalism" then.

For someone as left leaning as Yanis he seems to enjoy all the "niceties" of capitalism just fine. I'll wait for his books to be open source. I'm sure this will happen any day now.
Google Research, https://github.com/AmbiML/sparrow-manifest

> Sparrow is a project to build a low-power secure embeded platform for Ambient ML applications. The target platform leverages RISC-V and OpenTitan. The Sparrow software includes a home-grown operating system named CantripOS, that runs on top of seL4 and (ignoring the seL4 kernel) is written almost entirely in Rust.

> Archived on Jan 4 2024
Thanks for the feedback! Glad you got the default setting working quickly!

Right now, we are focussed mostly on offering support for open-source models but we can definitely extend support for OpenAI formats.

May I ask what history means?
(2001)

Also, this is "teensy" as in "very small" rather than the Teensy microcontroller.
> Also, BART doesn't share tracks with any other system, so there's no reason to do it for compatiblity's sake either.

Isn't that a chicken/egg issue? How could BART share tracks with systems using incompatible rails?
I used Taskwarrior a lot before mobile smart phones were common. I want to use it again but the lack of a good smartphone app is a blocker. I know there were some that worked ok with Taskserver but now that the sync process has been completely changed I have no idea if there will be a mobile app that works with the latest version.
I'm wondering if this might have been a result of wireless internet traffic being overwhelmed with everyone in the areas of totality uploading pictures and video... actually using internet bandwidth at the exact same moment? The resulting congestion reducing overall internet usage because it was focused on wireless networks only vs/ broadband home connections (since obviously everyone was outside and not inside)
Key point here is the SawStop CEO is promising to open up the patent and make it available for anyone, so it's a bit more complicated than the typical regulatory-capture lawyer success story.

The 3-point seat belt is another time this happened and probably one of the few feel-good "this should be available to everyone" patent stories: Volvo designed it, decided the safety-for-humanity* benefits outweighed patent protections, and made the patent open for anyone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Bohlin (*: at least the segment of humanity that drives cars)

I'd be curious to hear the cynical take here. If I was to wargame it, I would guess something like: SawStop doesn't want to compete with Harbor Freight and cheap chinese tool manufacturers -- that's a race to the bottom, and power tools have turned into ecosystem lock-in plays which makes it difficult for a niche manufacturer to win in. So they'd rather compete on just the safety mechanism since they have a decade head start on it. They're too niche to succeed on SawStop(TM) workbenches, and they forsee bigger profits in a "[DeWalt|Milwaukee|EGo|...], Protected by SawStop(TM)" world.
Even though it runs locally, it is network-connected to the tile server that provides you with the vector tiles (unless they are cached locally after their first use). You currently have to wait for the requested tile(s) to be downloaded, processed, and available in memory before continuing rendering (which is slow in direct comparison to rendering itself). Could be improved by continuing to render the zoomed features of the parent tile until its children are ready (triggering a re-render) - but for now, it simply lets you wait until then :)
Sorry to hear about your wife. This looks interesting.

I find this quote a bit funny:
> While Dimity Jones is still in its debugging/proofreading phase, please refrain from sharing it more widely or putting it any (other) public place.

If this is picked up here on Hackernews, be ready hehe.
Yes, and to be clear, the benchmark used here is merely the 300 simplest problems in the larger benchmark suite, which itself is only a tiny subset of issues from a dozen large (and presumably well-curated) Python projects.

Not to mention that making the code fix is only a tiny part of resolving an issue. There should also be explanations and added test cases. In other words, I doubt the 22% of “fixes” would pass review by the project owner if a human submitted them.
>We don’t need a thousand features in a car. Power windows, touch screens, self driving and every other tech that adds to the cost can take a bike.

The BYD seagull has all this from what I understand?

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izvdO-zdlKg

>I think it will be a good thing because then perhaps are home grown car manufacturers will see the writing and start offering affordable to the masses cars.

With Tesla supposedly canceling Model 2, it seems like the incumbents cannot possibly offer this car at this price because of their cost structure (overhead due to unions, expensive real estate, regulations etc.)
Scientists Race to Protect Future Lunar Telescopes
I'd expect that somebody that can do that is doing the hiring, possibly as a founder?
The wooting keyboards have been able to do this for years.
Do you think SQLite performance on user devices changes anything for UX/DX? i.e. if SQLite were 10x faster than today on user devices in the future.
You are not wrong but will be downvoted on HN which is ironic given the subject.

Perhaps "left leaning" will be scrutinized but it is a spectrum and definitely left of center.

Even me writing this comment may have some risk as postulated by the OPs quote.
But still, why won't these objects get shredded before, since the Sun will have had the same mass all along? Wouldn't gravity remain more or less the same during the entire stellar evolution?
Everyone has a price. If you want upward of 60 - 70 hours a week from me at any given point, great. We're gonna double that comp package right? There will still be some boundaries, but we'll get that in the contract.

Believe me, I understand as well as anyone how being a salaried employee can turn into abuse, but it shouldn't be a crime for someone to need the unicorn, rockstar, 10x leetcode ninja to really crank for months on end.... so long as they're appropriately compensated! That said, I'll never, ever do that again UNLESS it's my company.
You can make any and all kinds of criticisms in peer review.
Show HN: A Chrome Extension to Personalize Your Web Experience
Hey everyone,

I'm just a regular guy who spends way too much time online. Whether it's scrolling through articles, binging blogs, or just doing some work, I realized something – the web can be a pretty dull place, visually speaking. Ever got tired of staring at the same old fonts and colors on every site? Yeah, me too.

That's why I created BetterFont. It's a simple idea, really: let's make the web a bit more us. With BetterFont, you can change fonts, tweak colors, adjust spacing... all that good stuff, directly in your browser. No coding, no fuss. Whether you need bigger fonts to read comfortably, or you're just in the mood for a change, BetterFont's got your back.

I made BetterFont for two main reasons: 1. To give you (and me) the freedom to see the web in a way that suits us better. 2. To save our eyes from the monotony of the same look every webpage offers.

I genuinely hope BetterFont makes your web browsing more enjoyable and personal. Keen to hear what you think and looking forward to your feedback!

Cheers!
No, given the amount of injuries caused by table saws and their importance to carpentry and job sites, this is quite literally one of the more important things for them to be doing.

Education on existing safety features and measures just isn't enough to improve safety here.

Much like seatbelts and air bags, we all benefit if the baseline technology can be transparently improved to prevent entire classes of injuries.
Heh. Gotcha. https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
Now there's a comforting thought!

(When I first learned about the future of the Sun as a child, I was honestly worried about earth being destroyed a few billion years from now. My time preferences have changed somewhat in the mean time.)
That’s the theory, anyway. In practice, the acceptability of the hypothesis in the current paradigm is central.
Gemma 2b instruct worked well for me for categorization. I would also say it felt 7b-ish. Very impressed. The initial release left me a bit underwhelmed but 1.1 is better and punches above its weight.

Also looking fwd to use 2b models on iOS and Android (even if they will be heavy on the battery).
Approaching the problem of doctor burnout by spamming patients with half correct responses to important medical questions is not a solution
The rather balanced 1985 LA Times article posted by lr1970 ought to be instructive for the folks here that think the year zero was sometime in their late adolescence or early adulthood. There has been a hunger for the "women beating all odds" story for a long time now. From it:

>Remember Lore Harp? The housewife-turned-MBA who was splashed on the cover of Inc. magazine, lionized in Savvy and interviewed at reverent length by the Harvard Business Review?

>If you have forgotten, it’s not surprising. Vector Graphic, the company Lore and Bob Harp founded nine years ago on their kitchen table in Westlake Village, was ambushed a few years back by management blunders and a good-sized competitor by the name of IBM.
I have to imagine that all these new EV rickshaws are significantly cleaning up the air in countries like India, Vietnam and Thailand. Anyone on the ground floor confirm this?

I recall the particulates in the air of decades past being super hard on the lungs.
Cyber Safety Review Board Report on MS Online Exchange Incident, Summer 2023
I do like the idea of the sawstop, but in Canada at least. They're quite a bit more then a few hundred dollars: 700 CAD vs 2200 CAD.

https://www.amazon.ca/BOSCH-GTS15-10-Jobsite-Gravity-Rise-Wh...

https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop/tools/power-tools/saws/...
Yes, I read it.

No one is owed FDO membership.

FDO is a community, and having people be treated with respect is crucial for maintaining this community. Letting people with a history of not respecting others be a part of that community is a problem, even if that behavior was displayed elsewhere.
I suspect that depends on where you're looking.

The overall trend line of more carbon emissions -> more heat -> less snow makes sense, but the complexities of terrain can create local conditions that can counterintuitively have a certain spot on the globe end up with more snow due to climate change. This can happen due to things like warmer oceans and warmer air off coast increasing precipitation, as snowfall, in mountains that are hundreds of miles inland.
I've been playing with Continue:
https://github.com/continuedev/continue
I don't think it's as simple as "American vehicle trends are very safe"

"ongoing pedestrian safety crisis in the US in which fatalities are at a 40-year high and the number of pedestrians killed has increased by 80 percent since hitting a low in 2009."

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/14/23960624/truck-suv-hood-...
It reminds me a bit of when people worry about collisions in random uuids
I prefer to have the power to negotiate a contract with my employer that includes being on call after work. I've used that power in the past to gain extra work for extra pay, at the cost of being woken up a half dozen times per year. For me it was a worthwhile trade off.

For my employer it made it unnecessary to hire an additional two or more additional senior engineers to cover my time off. I wasn't the only staff member in that position. For that small, not terribly profitable company that could have been the difference between staying in business or not, or having to leave California.
Those are extreme examples, most probably in sand or a loose mix. Roots need oxygen also so can grow a lot in this conditions as long as they are watered.

Most dandelions live in heavy clay. There will be much shorter, reaching just the phreatic level.
Hack Club Blot: A CNC drawing machine for programmatic art. Built with teenagers
Blot is completely open source (hardware and software). You can find the GitHub here: https://github.com/hackclub/blot

I spent the last year building Blot with teenagers in the Hack Club community including but not limited to B (age 19), Henry (15), Kai (17), Shawn (18), Hugo (15), Ella (19) and Bright (15).

At Hack Club we’re working on building a new model for public education through open source projects. We believe people learn best by building things they care about and sharing those things with others. We want to support motivated teenagers around the world to pursue technology this way. That’s why we created the “You Ship, We Ship” model. We build online creative coding environments that are gateways to other subjects in technology. When teenagers create projects with our tools and share them publicly we send them more creative material. At the end of 2022 we released our first “You Ship, We Ship” project: Sprig.

Sprig is a microworld for making tile games, when you share your game we send you the hardware to build a handheld gaming console that can play that game. https://github.com/hackclub/sprig

Today we are releasing our newest “You Ship, We Ship”: Blot. Create a program that generates line art and we’ll send you a robot that can draw that art in real life. We hope Blot will encourage people to explore the beauty of programming and be a gateway to digital fabrication. Nothing feels more magic to me than writing an incantation on a computer that can materialize into a real thing that you can hold in your hands. I hope to share that magic with you through Blot.

Everything is free and open source so anyone is welcome to use the editor, submit to the gallery, or build a Blot machine. You have to be a teenager for us to send you a machine for free though.

I’m excited to see what people make! Enjoy.

If you want to learn more about Hack Club you can check out this short documentary we made about our 2023 summer hackathon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1s5HqSqKi0
The most advanced health optimization platform
Upload your health data and understand where you are, where you’re going, where you could be going, and how to get there.
This reads like the result of a team bonding exercise and doesn't contain much material content.
Open Source Financial Sponsorship Breakdown for 2023
Show HN: Universal AI Drone Controller
Hey all!

I highly suggest watching the demo to visually see how much better our controller performs (2.5 min):
https://youtu.be/fWgD7tjZugY

We’ve trained ML model(s) to receive commands from a user and execute them, replacing the PID Loop(s) currently in charge of controlling most drones. We achieved this using Reinforcement Learning to train these models. Namely PPO and TD3.

These models perform better than a PID Loop, require no tuning, and retain this performance in many more situations than a PID Loop. Requiring no tuning also means that the same model is interoperable between multiple different drones/configurations, so it works out of the box!

To make these models work regardless of platform dynamics (E.g. weight, size, power, etc.), we trained it while simulating a massive amount of variation.

The models are lightweight, so most hardware should be able to run them. However, we are still in the process of writing the wrappers for the various hardware/firmware combos. At the moment, we are working on a wrapper for hardware running PX4.

We are hoping to talk with people who want to boost the performance of their drones and remove the headaches of tuning!

If you own, fly, or work with drones and are interested in trying this out, please let us know. We are trying to learn what kinds of drones, what flight controller hardware, and what firmware people are using so we can make something that runs on your system.

If you’d like a good jumping off point to learn more, I highly suggest this repo (and the paper(s) mentioned in the repo): https://github.com/arplaboratory/learning-to-fly

Discord:
https://discord.gg/Pu7XRxJTXa

Email:
Hagenoneill@gmail.com

- SkAI
What India can tell us about Netflix's future
Or someone who wants to change the world, for the worse.
God save their lives
Technology Changes Our Concept of the Self
You can also not wear your seatbelt, not wear a helmet, play lawn darts, etc.

If every table had a sawstop mechanism, most people would use it.
JPEGDEC seems to be about 500 lines: https://github.com/bitbank2/JPEGDEC
> the authors are pretty biased toward that system

Thanks for the chuckle.
Moore's law doesn't say anything about the growth rate of performance vs time.
Comparatively, with irrigation and good weather you could harvest rice usually 3 and up to 4 times a year in south of India.
I like it. It’s not deafening and has a unique profile.

Granted I haven’t traveled much, so I don’t know if it’s globally unique.
First languages of North America traced back to two groups from Siberia
But that wouldn't be correct syntax. That would imply the middle section was an addition to the complete thought of the outer two sections, e.g.

> Ezra Zygmuntowitz pointed GitHub in my direction (and let me take the time to really get into the problem) with the GitHub team

> Ezra Zygmuntowitz pointed GitHub in my direction (...) with the GitHub team
Counterpoint: they put a deposit/return on smaller plastic bottles and cans over here, but last year only 65% of cans were returned instead of just binned.

(as an aside I don't really understand that as cans and plastic bottles are easily separated from regular waste, but it's probably also down to reducing street waste, increasing consumer awareness, raising prices to consumers so they consume less disposable packaging, aaand get more money.)
SWE-bench Lite is a subset of extremely simple issues from a cherry-picked subset (SWE-bench) of a handful of large (presumably well-run) Python-only projects.

Here are some rules they used to trim down the SWE-bench Lite problems:

* We remove instances with images, external hyperlinks, references to specific commit shas and references to other pull requests or issues.

* We remove instances that have fewer than 40 words in the problem statement.

* We remove instances that edit more than 1 file.

* We remove instances where the gold patch has more than 3 edit hunks (see patch).

See https://www.swebench.com/lite.html
Cheap Server Box Hardwares Supported by Linux
There isn't much overlap between 2/3 Wheeler EVs and EV cars in India.

3 Wheeler EVs are booming because the prices are very low and allow you start your own business by undercutting Auto Rickshaw unions. Your average auto rickshaw or e-rickshaw driver can make around $150-200/mo tax free and eligible for subsidies, making it more competitive than working at a factory ($250-300/mo but 5% income tax and not eligible for subsidies). This makes EV 3 wheelers attractive as it's an investment in a small business.

On the other hand, EV cars aren't as popular in India yet due to range anxiety. Price doesn't factor as much because the tax incentives are made to incentivize EV cars (50% tax on disel/gas cars bit 5% tax on EV) and EVs are fairly affordable (a starting model Tata Tiago EV is around $9-10k) but no one trusts EV charging infra in India, so people are delaying purchases in order to buy a premium diesel car (eg. Toyota Fortuner, Mahindra Thar), eat the tax and buy a $4-6k Renault or Maruti ICE car for $9-10k after tax, or just keeps driving their gas car. This will change in 10 years, but the future is looking Hybrid, especially because Toyota is looking at expanding in India and lobbied a drastic tax cut [0]

No one actually buys 2 wheeler EVs - you can save $1-2k more and buy a luxury 2 wheeler like a KTM Super Duke. Most electric 2 wheeler sales are driven by Ola (India's Uber/Doordash) subsidizing it's drivers and deliverers to buy an Ola manufactured 2 wheeler while working for Ola.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota...