skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Start a passion project, make a website and put it on github. It will display your skillset in an easily digestible way. Making something that doesn't make money isn't necessarily a waste of time. Also you could join a dev bootcamp.
Even our local Habitat for Humanities Restore wouldn't accept used natural stone countertops in good condition. The guys manning the donation drop off didn't know the reason.
People are getting less patient for hype cycles.
Nope; but to be fair, I also think it's better without it - especially in a post-smartphone era where everyone has a camera in their pocket. The repercussions are just not worth it.
It was fine because we let them.
"Any organization embedded in a larger organization or community needs to invest to a certain degree in
establishing the right kind of social relationships to maintain this embeddedness. Incentives must be
aligned, and both parties must also recognize this alignment. We did not invest enough in university
politics and sociality to form a long-term stable relationship with our faculty.
There also needs to be an understanding of how to communicate across organizational communities.
When epistemic and communicative practices diverge too much, misunderstandings proliferate. Several
times we made serious missteps in our communications with other parts of the university because we
misunderstood how the message would be received. Finding friendly local translators and bridgebuilders
is important."

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/660e95991cf0293c2463b...
> It's over the air, not even phone lines. PDW, SDRSharp, and an rtl-sdr dongle is all that's needed. And yes, there is a lot of patient info in that traffic. It's not illegal for the hospital to broadcast this, and it's not illegal to listen in and decode the signals, but it is very much illegal to do anything with the information gathered.

I'm not familiar with this particular technology, which is why I didn't make a definitive claim in my previous comment. But I am quite intimately familiar with HIPAA and related regulations, and I am extremely skeptical of the third sentence you wrote.
What happened to cache invalidation?
#2 is a clear FTC violation if I'm not mistaken.
By "enemies" you mean the sinking boat that e/acc people jumped out of, giving way for the next scam.
Yeah, we agreed once, but nominally you would prefer to have repeat business. I assume that there are venues that either buy pre-made no-brown-M&M mixes or just don't book bands with that clause.

Van Halen got away with it because it's Van Halen.
From launch page:

> This traffic is rerouted to an SSH service inside the Tailscale daemon instead of to your standard SSH server.

Was their sshd code audited? This is a lot of trust to use different sshd imho.
List of people who arranged for cryonics
You should check out the text books the University of Nebraska and CIA made to radicalize Afghan schoolchildren against the Soviets.

This link does not do the content justice-- math examples using "dead Russians" as the item counted. Encouraging dismemberment and beheading to grade school children.

https://sites.williams.edu/wurj/social-sciences/islamist-edu...
And fuck people with anxiety, right?
No, it doesn't taste the same. It's different from Diet Coke because Diet Coke has it's own unique formulation but Coke Zero 100% has that artificial sweetener taste.
Keywords is a little too handwavy for my taste - there's no universal definition of what this means.

For example, a lot of the stable diffusion 1.5 checkpoints can generate better looking imagery if you add in essentially keywords such as "trending, masterpiece, award-winning, etc.", but they aren't nearly as important in certain SDXL checkpoints.

To me it sounds like you want an interactive wizard / tutor which could be useful, but my point is you'd have to customize or fine-tune it at a very deep level per model (in the case of images generation). It would definitely be a non-trivial amount of work.

That's why ChatGPT DALL-E 3 is so nice, it's end-to-end in terms of allowing simple expression of what you want to see and an iterative workflow. My younger siblings are in elementary school and are able to get great results from it.

Midjourney also lets you upload an unrelated picture as a stylistic reference, so you can find a picture that has the aesthetic you want (ink, watercolor, matte, etc.)
This release is interesting because of the theme. I don't remember much controversy about the many Star Trek themed releases. However, in the past being a trekkie was uncool and being called a trekkie was practically a slur. I think that is worth keeping in mind when discussing the theme of this release.

On the flip side, as a practitioner I care more about the tech than the themes. People can get hung up on the smallest things. I don't want the release theme to get in the way of the tech as much as it pains me to suggest stripping away the light natured individualism of the release theme.
An open-source tribute to the macOS Drift screensaver
Thanks for reminding me of that.

That was one of the dumbest fucking startup ideas most people had seen in awhile. Many just sort of said the obvious out loud, which is that it made no fucking sense as a business, and then all these rich supposed geniuses tried to shout them down.

Even by the usual standards of the genre that one was a head scratcher.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40071539

> I went to a lawyer and was told it wasn't worth suing, because they required arbitration in NYC, which would cost more than I would save.

It sounds like arbitration does not work, according to people who had their lawyer look into it for this exact case. What are your thoughts on it given this new information available to you?
I don't think they call themselves granite - caesarstone is one I've heard of.
There was a time about 5 years ago where tech companies were desperate to fill various minority quotas. The idea was those people were very valuable, there were very few applicants who were hotly contested by other tech companies, and lack of skills wouldn't matter - they'd learn on the job.

In that world, the school only has to get the students to do a "hello world" in python and apply for the right jobs. Such a school is very cheap to run, and very lucrative as long as a decent proportion of students fit into the desirable categories.

The students themselves usually aren't aware how desirable their application is - and therefore believe the school is their route in rather than a few youtube tutorials and a direct application.
Ingenuity has a last gift for humanity, but we'll have to go to Mars to get it
Here we go again... Another nobel prize, another decade of impotent battery news, and countless superconductivity false starts.
Right and in most of those countries even the capitalists want better educated and/or skilled people but in the USA there are some states where there are billionaires (Tim Dunn, et.al.) actively trying to retard public education efforts and force tax payers to pay for private religious schools and have the highest officials in the state trying to push the agenda. Texas for example. So the past isn't always a good predictor of the future.
I found the wallpaper used in the article picture, in case anybody else was curious (turns out it's a League of Legends fanart which I'm not too familiar with but was hoping this was a cool JRPG I hadn't tried yet or something) https://www.deviantart.com/zuqling/art/LoL-One-for-the-road-...

Edit: also the DigitalFoundry video referenced in the article is a much better watch imo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8BVTHxc4LM
It seems that the deleted post cannot be reposted due to mistaken operation. Can the administrator help to restore the deleted post? Thank you.

Hi,

This is an open-source project that I have been developing full-time for over two years.

Name HertzBeat, in terms of functionality, it is similar to Prometheus and Zabbix.

Recently, the project has just entered the Apache Foundation Incubator.

Here, I want to share it with HN readers.

In a word, it is an easy-to-use, open source, real-time monitoring system with agentless, high performance cluster, prometheus-compatible, offers powerful custom monitoring and status page building capabilities.

github: https://github.com/apache/hertzbeat

I hope this product is helpful and any feedback (even negative) would bring me joy.
"Back then pundits obsessed over ultra-young tech founders, such as Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Patrick Collison (Stripe) and Evan Spiegel (Snapchat). Today, by contrast, less than 0.5% on the Forbes list are Zoomers."

Pundits should be ignored. Perhaps we will now see auto-generated pundit BS. Because "AI" is trained an old version of the web where people believed this pundit garbage.
Is this seen as any less of a "Wii" than a trimmed board? What if parts were replaced with newer, functionally identical ones?

This is kind of a Wii ship of Theseus.
Do they tell students they may be saddled with debt for 30 years and that the cost of tuition is much larger than the incomes they get from their majors?
OMG what are you using to browse the internet?

are you sure you don't have any hidden extensions and/or computer viruses?
Thanks for reporting the typo.
Menu will be there soon.
I am high level member of a volunteer based org that does online workshops in the tech space, and does dozens of workshops in dozens of countries every year. I fail to understand how you can mess up basic things like having a predecided curriculum, good teachers, a fixed schedule, or providing quality outside class support. We do all of this on a shoestring budget.

The stories I have heard about Lambda/BloomTech seem to show almost a willful attempt to not get the basics right. I understand the financial component might have been difficult, but the education is straightforward. To fail it with millions of dollars of funding is outstanding.
Show HN: I Made a ROS Package for Realtime Semantic Segmentation
This is tangential to much of what this article discusses, but I've had this idea kicking around in my head for a while, that, to some degree, the artificial imitation of acoustic instruments using synthesizers is to music what skeuomorphism is to design, and I (generally) dislike it for all the same reasons. This isn't to diss synthesizers on the whole - I unequivocally love them, and they really opened up my musical world by a wide margin. Nor am I saying that there is no place for synth patches that attempt to "sound like" "real" instruments (for lack of a better word; I consider every "model" of synthesizer to be its own very real and distinct instrument).

Skeuomorphic design, to me, largely feels lazy and unattractive; rather than designing for the new, maybe unfamiliar, medium you're working in, you attempt some facsimile which inevitably cannot live up to the original, either out of lack of ambition, or lack of faith in your audience to understand or appreciate without the anchor of a common metaphor. It lacks idiomaticity - there are particular details, quirks, associated with different mediums that lend themselves to different sorts of designs, and a skeuomorphic design language ignores these. (The same is true of musical instruments. A piece written for the lute, say, played on piano, would feel very different than a piece written for piano, played on piano; what is easy, or possible, on one instrument, is not necessarily as sonorous on another.)

To me, the use of synthesizers to emulate acoustic instruments, where the express intent of the composer/producer/whatever is to evoke the sound of that acoustic original (read: where the creator would prefer the sound of the real instrument), is, at its most generous, telling of a lack of creativity and at worst laziness. (If what you want is expressly the
sound of a synthetic imitation for the purposes of your art, none of this applies.) It is a lack of creativity in the case where the creator simply does not have access to "real" instruments they'd rather use, and it's laziness where you have access and ability but opt for something you yourself deem inferior.

Of course, this all presupposes that there is something lost when say, a synthesizer plays a violin patch in an earnest effort by the creator to emulate a violin - where a real violin is actually what's desired. I think this isn't controversial to say, but of course it's a spectrum; I have much less of a problem in cases where the delta is smaller; e.g., simple legato harmonies from a string section can be emulated more convincingly (by orders of magnitude) than some virtuosic cadenza by a solo instrumentalist.
yeah, as i understand it - i did a lot of research on this for a service i was building way back - these third parties (like scalpers) are useful because they actually find the "true" price of the tickets and, through the resale services, a good chunk of that extra money makes it back to the ticketing companies/promoters/artists. i wouldn't be at all surprised if a lot of these scalping operations are actually being run (secretly) by the ticketing companies and promoters themselves, or at least with their tacit approval and some revenue sharing.

so, it's a hard one to solve because it actually ends up generating more revenue for the promoters/venues and (sometimes) the artists. but the audience, who have the least power in the relationship, get screwed. well, my feeling is we/they get screwed, but many others would say this is "just capitalism".
I just had a flashback to using Winamp with multiple .m3u/.pls playlists for local and streaming content I had collected and curated. I always liked Bagel Radio and probably first heard about it from the old Penny Arcade forums or on one of the offshoots of their forums whose name I now forget. I also quite liked nearly all of Soma FM's stations, especially the Indie Pop Rocks station, but I feel that Bagel Radio was usually more my taste.

I'm reminded of listening to the Dr Demento radio show and discovering a lot of niche acts that way too, and realizing my dad was actually a cool guy for recommending it to me, and being surprised that it was still around as was he, at least at the time.

I just looked him up, and he's STILL at it, the madlad. Brings a smile to my face. Music really is universal.

Thanks for the reminder, happymellon!

https://www.bagelradio.com

https://somafm.com

https://drdemento.com

http://dmdb.org
launch month M1 MBP w/ 16GB - I constantly have to close discord and browsers to keep enough RAM to keep browsing without huge slowdowns from paging memory.
We are always serving someone or something.

For many, money is their master. Or prestige is their master. Or self image is their master. Or personal desires are their master. Since this thread quoted bible, I will point out Jesus said (it is rendered in red letters) that "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money" (Matthew 6:24).

Anyway, I am not trying to hijack this thread and sermonize or anything. Just tying up a loose end that forms a important basis for how I personally have grown to understand the world.
>the hype about LLMs has calmed down

The hype of LLMs is not the reason the likes of Cyc have been abandoned.
at least before Silicon Valley scoundrels didn't pretend to be virtuous too
Technically if it works in Cloudflare it also should work on browser as both are run in same runtime
NB. When I submit examples of FTP servers to HN I submit the HTTPS mirror, so even people using popular web browsers that have removed FTP support can still access the files. I prefer using a dedicated FTP client myself but it's good to have an HTTPS mirrors, too.
I believe the pledge is "don't give weapons to / install weapons on robots." Boston Dynamics do sell to various police departments and armed forces, but don't have weapons.
You can get these in resin jewelry making kits. The gold leaf in those is super thin!
> but I wouldn't say it was random, just based on metrics unrelated to the individual's contribution.

You're right, it could have been based on the number of letters in their name, or the last digit on the clock when their name came up for a decision. It could have been every employee who hit a certain ratio of salary/years of experience. For the purposes of many employees being laid off, it was completely random. We had a lot of farewell drinks in Seattle, but the offices there aren't going anywhere.
Google lays off more employees and moves some roles to other countries
I get anxiety when I see helium balloons.
This is my go to stack too.

Hono, Cloudflare workers solves most of my server problems at affordable price
Too bad it's not for the gen3. They're pretty nice hardware. I still have one I hoped to repurpose but I don't think it'll ever happen :(
Isn’t this the case with a lot of these science studies? Keep tweaking the stats and inputs to achieve the funders’ agenda..
Shoulda posted that if you knew there was a link
*off-by-three errors
How to Get More from Your Pinecone Vector Database
I'm in favor of space travel because of the way we keep messing up this planet as much as anything else; we're clearly running out of runway.

OTOH the death of the Sun is a stupid rationale, because changes in solar output are predicted to be hundreds of millions of years away, which is not a useful deadline of any kind. You might as easily argue for saving money on oversized fireworks and solving teleportation first.
Could you please add references to the > 100 years old books? Genuinely asking.
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt
and concurrency
All 5 of them operated at a time without weather radar, satellite and internet.

I'd bet they'd all be safe today by simply not moving into weather systems.
Thats pretty much it. There's also building on top of an existing graph and making sure new nodes are coherent and well connected to surrounding nodes which is a much tougher can of worms. Also, Navigating a KG (without multiple llm-hoping) is another challenge that needs to be solved for 'working-out retrieval'. Something that can navigate a forest of dividing paths without resorting to an llm call. Thanks for the name "keyword search on graphs". I found some great articles on the topic.
I can tell you why. The CEO wanted to "hire quickly" for a project that did not even go live until 3 months after the original fake deadline. He ignored any suggestions that we keep looking at other candidates, then left for a different job several months later.

PS. I love TheDailyWTF!
a wee wii
Any chance of this passing the Senate?
There are two opposing extremes of building philosophy.

If there's an architectural design up front then there's a need to source materials that fit the plan, as you describe.

The opposite approach was taken by a friend of mine who was, for a decade, a prolific builder here in Australia .. he continuously had two or three houses on the go in staggered completion (clean builds and|or significant rennovation) that all sold well for their design, uniqueness and craftsmanship.

His starting point was salvage yards, looking for cheap big statement pieces; bay windows, big wall cabinets, doors, window sets, impressive looking ketchen sets, big counter tops, etc.

The next step would be to design a house plan that fitted around quality salvage and well suited the site for views, access, etc.

His arc in life was art school in Victoria followed by | interleaved with a salvage job that dismantled entire (small) towns ahead of dams, flooding, other projects - they prepped wooden houses for moving elsewhere, disassembled structures to "flats", reclaimed historic bridges, etc.

Then came the building that built up his cash reserves, then a big rural property with sheds, glassblowing studios, metal work, etc.
I'll just leave this here... https://eclecticlight.co/2024/03/06/apple-silicon-memory-and...
The homepage is still making false claims: https://www.bloomtech.com/
> CRTs are still likely to have ... better contrast,

This isn't true, and hasn't been true for decades. CRTs have relatively poor display contrast due to all of the light bleed. CRT contrast in real scenes (that is, not just comparing all-black to all-white screens) can be around 100:1 or 200:1. LCDs have been better than that for a very long time. Even the cheap oens.

> zero motion blur,

Also not true. CRT phosphors have some persistence. Even the best CRT monitors back in the day had several milliseconds of persistence, depending on what you're measuring. Definitely not zero!

Modern LCD monitors have motion blur in a similar range, perhaps less if you're getting a gaming panel.

> no fixed resolutions

At the cost of some very blurry text, of course.

> You can find some modern screens that do better at certain things than others but compared with what most people have

It's almost certainly easier to find a high performing LCD than a quality CRT. A working FW900 CRT can easily fetch $1000-2000, which will buy a modern OLED display that completely blows it out of the water.

The only reason to buy a good CRT monitor is for the nostalgia/retro effects.
"unhoused residents"... I mean don't tell me that if you treat people who do this with baby gloves that you are not asking for this. When your heart breaks for this kind of behavior, you are literally enabling it.

And sure, this is probably some tiny minority or some anomaly, but it's gotta start somewhere. Soon the tent cities will be a norm and people will have no parks or public places to go to, and they will be largely unregulated, and dangerously unhygienic places. This is pathological empathy because it's not like the problem is solved by letting people do whatever they want.
Anything other than clear definitions and unambiguous axioms (which happens to be most of the real world) and gofai falls apart. Like it can't even be done. There's a reason it was abandoned in NLP long before the likes of GPT.

There aren't any class of problems deep nets can't handle. Will they always be the most efficient or best performing solution ? No, but it will be possible.
In Taiwan we turned the under-bridge areas into markets, basketball courts, concrete parks (for BBQ or whatever), and skate parks. In Japan they do one better and turned them into full blown malls and shopping areas.

No matter where you want to put a parking lot, there's something better, more beneficial to society, less environmentally damaging, more conducive to a nice place to live, and more capitalistically valuable than the parking lot that can go there instead. And if you want to start talking about drilling holes in the ground to put parking lots, great, let's make them horizontal instead and spend that money on a subway.

Cars are simply a bad solution to moving people, automated or otherwise. Ever hear the story about how they had to take realistic parking lots out of sim city, because they made the game boring? There's a reason for that.
Beautiful, thanks! Just go new playlist
It is possible for employers to fund employee training through external schools using loans, and then forgive those loans after a few years of continued employment. A former employer paid for my Master's degree that way.
Not sure if this is a joke, the cover image is of a Sikh scientist ——Sikhs famous for never cutting their human hair ever (Thus in a turban)