skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to tell whether you're being intentionally obtuse or are just naturally pedantic, but look at the headline in every news article (including this one on HN).

No reasonable person in the US knows this as anything but The TikTok Bill.
Same for me. I can easily see some Chinese competitor figuring out distribution and simply crushing them if they don't have a global brand, Oppo-style.
Dealing with the app stores. Hands down. The DUNS number, the certificates, the keys, identities, and profiles, the app review, the maintenance and updates on ever-changing APIs, SDKs, xCode, etc. Their needless updates will outpace your ability to keep up.

Anything to do with the actual code of your app is fine. Once you have to interface with Google and Apple, it's an endless nightmare.
I'm a big fan of the library, but that doesn't mean I can get access to every film that exists on Netflix.

I check out a lot of books at the library, but I can't get access to all of the books I would like to access.

Should a tech solution replace the library? No. But there should be another option than buying it from Amazon.
Sadly true. There are also major product categories that are literally impossible to buy US made goods in even if you're willing to pay the premium for it. Additionally, many of the "US made" products are merely assembled here from foreign made components.
Yes, but <simple option> is not <action>. "Just implement it" may be said in spite of required complexity, "Implement just this one option out of many" is typically already defined and is a narrowing of scope.
Yes the _CPU_ perf of OpenVINO is a thing of beauty. Debuggability is a nightmare story but if it works you're GOLD. The GPU/Myriad story was very clunky last times I tried.
The main blocker is the requirement for TPM 2.0. It requires a minimum chipset (motherboard) version, which is only compatible with a minimum CPU generation. I'm not sure how much is implemented on the CPU die vs the mobo chipset, but you effectively need both.

So I think you're right, saying it's a motherboard thing may be slightly more accurate :)
Eh, that's something a lot of people would notice and the government would get involved in, and it's been played out already. I generally trust GM's steering and brakes to work. Infotainment is not their expertise, and if they were releasing a self-driving car, I'd also be wary given their track record.
And Tesla is trying to reward Musk with $56B for these results:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqqndqndpq5o
The machine creates a detailed pornographic-detail-grade image [1]. You have no way to know if it is saved. What is displayed on the external screen is not relevant.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Image-generated-by-L3-mi...
Off the top of my head, Andreas Kling and Casey Muratori don't fall into any of those buckets. There are probably more examples as well.
Or, extracts from its digital rectum?
This bridge is under 24/7 hacker attacks from all parts of the world. Some of them try to unscrew bolts, some dig around the foundation, some remove a brick or two here or there or cut suspension cables.

In absence of these hackers bridge could be used without any modifications for any number of pink or orange vehicles. It supports any kind of traffic requested in specification. So it's not really a problem with any kind of regular use, it's a problem with huge number of adversaries who try to find a weak point and then actively exploit it.

Flawled analogy aside, is there an example of an OS which is actively used on open internet and doesn't require security patches or bug fixes? Or any other significantly complex software? Why should we expect from Microsoft what was not achieved anywhere else in our industry? It could be that software development is more complex and more error prone than bridge building after all.
Another take on replacing HCL with something more sensible:

BCL https://github.com/wkhere/bcl
You could do much more damage than that. In poetry and Shakespeare especially, each word is used very carefully as a unit of very dense information. You could make Hamlet not related to his own father and fundamentally change any structural meaning behind the play. The resulting work would be named "Hamlet" but not be THE "Hamlet" at all.
"Everything" is another good option, at least from my basic usage of it.

https://www.voidtools.com/faq/#what_is_everything
> George Washington

I'm a huge fan but nobody's perfect. Two parties were not only inevitable but work unbelievably well.

I'm not American, and I really don't want to inflame the political passions of either side, but take the US 2020 election, for example. I remember reading an article comparing various polling results on policy points and candidate popularity to the election outcome.

The polling results suggested that people didn't want Trump again, but liked many of his policies, and didn't want a far-left candidate either. Through votes for president, governors, senators, etc, they got exactly what the polls said they wanted.

Using the two-party system, over a hundred million US voters were able to send a very clear and nuanced message to the political system. How's that for a solution to a distributed co-ordination problem?
I really like the idea of businesses that try in parallel. Instead of creating a team to do something, create 3 teams or 5 teams. Then see how different efforts compare against each other.

As long as your teams are performing reasonably/not-dysfunctional, it feels like you can keep teams separate but try to share some lessons.
I think this is the biggest argument for an OS. The OS is a virtual Nanny or representative of yourself. It does what you would do if you could control the machine: provide security for data, keep code from running through fences, and ensure multiple simultaneous routines don't block each other.
Yes. Down sampling makes only sense if you store per pixel data, which is obviously a dumb idea. You get a stream for 480p which contains frames which were compressed from the source files, or the 4k version. At some point there might have been down sampling involved, but you never actually get any of that data, you get the compressed version of those.
Heh, I'm not actually sure whether Nathaniel meant to invoke Eric Raymond's hacker emblem on the book cover or not. The grid is there, and the glider orientation is right, but the cells are squares and not circles. That orientation of the glider is kinda canonical, independent of the hacker emblem -- e.g., it's the phase that shows up in the "glider" LifeWiki article.

I emailed back and forth a little bit with Eric Raymond when the hacker-emblem proposal first came out, but I don't remember that I had anything very interesting to say. Mostly I was hoping to get the Life Lexicon factoid about the unix oscillator into the "Anticipations" section on the official Hacker Emblem page --

Unix: ... The name derives from the fact that it was for some time the mascot of the Unix lab of the mathematics faculty at the University of Waterloo.
Open Agent Studio: Introduce new RPA concepts for the agent era
Introducing Open Agent Studio
We were the first startup approved by openAI to sell GPT-3 for automation in August 2021. Two years ago, we started working on solving fundamental roadblocks for general agents that break all other RPA tools today. It finally works-- we've published a new multi-modal model that enables building future-proof agents that are robust to even design changes.

Agentic Process Automation (APA)
We introduce powerful new RPA concepts like "Semantic Targets" in simple language that are more robust and easier to use than the previous generation of brittle code selectors.

Agent Recorder
Records clicks/mouse movement/keypresses to re-build the automation graph for you with accurate semantic targets in english, making it as easy as possible to build agents and edit them in simple language.

Live Agents
Automate common processes and trigger them from visual queues across your business with agents that intelligently suggest automations from your library based on the context of the screen.

Prompt To No-Code Graph
Type open-ended automations as prompts to generate custom no-code graphs. Our framework has access to install every open source python library, so you can ask for wild custom automations like generating movie trailers. Our generalized agent state machine can perform arbitrary tasks like booking a flight from Boston to LA, buying products on Amazon, and it even takes a different path each time since it considers each step using GPT-4 Vision.

Target Markets Untouched By AI
Open Agent Studio is not just another co-pilot--it's a no-code co-pilot builder that enables solutions that're impossible in all other RPA tools today. Our customers have a head start over the new few months to target markets previously untouched by AI with their deep industry insight. Subscribers have access to a free 4 week course, which teaches how to evaluate product ideas and launch a custom agent with an enterprise-grade white label.

Key technical breakthroughs

Semantic targets are a 100% replacement for previous targeting strategies, solving a problem that frequently breaks all other RPA tools today when services update their designs.

Our own multi-modal model Atlas-2, outperforms all public UI models today using a mostly synthetic dataset we generated to get our accuracy from 95-100% for detecting UI elements.

Websocket server integration with the browser for advanced automations, including scraping links using semantic english targets.

Ships with multiple unlimited free open models like Llama 2, Mystral 7B, and top performing models like GPT-4 Vision and Claude 3 Opus.

We're excited to see what will be built and appreciate your feedback on how to make it even better.
This morning, the Yamaha RX5 Rhythm Programmer. Lots of dedicated buttons and a backlit screen. Body scaled not hand sized. Job -> Option architecture.

It was designed to build complex operations. The interface is designed for expertise developed over time (it's a musical instrument after all). It is not designed for casual beginners.
It really depends on how much you know what you are doing, If you stick to:

*) IP Routing that would normally "fit" in a vendor switch

*) Bridging

*) VRFs

You will be fine

If you try and do some weird stuff then it's best to check with "ip route" to see if it was actually installed into hardware or not, but I would simply not do anything weird on such hardware
I find that subject facinating - can you recommend any resources or literature on this? I'm not religious, but I find relegion facinating!
> Give me all the people who are attracted to people like this one

This can be handled with a simple batch query rather than a join, even if you want to query for multiple users, fetching all of their related users. In qdrant, for example: https://qdrant.tech/blog/batch-vector-search-with-qdrant/
Wonder how long until Hollywood CGI shops have these types of models running as part of their post-production pipeline. Big blockbusters often release with ridiculously broken CGI due to crunch (Black Panther's third act was notorious for looking like a retro video-game), adding some extra generative polish in those cases is a no-brainer.
Trump Media CEO calls on GOP lawmakers for help in Wall Street fight
Started with friends introducing me to anime in highschool (with english subtitles), which I got hooked on, then got into the music as well, and later into vtubers (so no subtitles when watching live). I haven't ever really been into other entertainment, so for a little over a decade I've been listening to japanese on a near daily basis.

I know it's a meme for people to claim to know japanese from watching anime, which is why I don't claim to be able to speak it, but over time I did pick up enough that I don't need subtitles anymore. I'm slowly working on reading with practice books, wanikani etc, will eventually figure out some way to practice speaking too.
Any part you would be interested in particularly?

I just grew up there, so most of it was less books and more just personal experience. But there are no few resources, books, shows or documentaries about the area.
Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest
Now I know what my next bike accessory is going to be.
.. to be too pedantic, but it's only less than 1% if you exclude the founders, who are still employees.

(and possibly Sundar?)
Both products actively position themselves as push to talk to avoid wake words and maintain privacy.
"Everything" by voidtools is decent for local searching in my brief time using it. Not FOSS though.

https://www.voidtools.com/faq/#what_is_everything
There's a Matt Pharr-level story to tell here if you feel like it one day. I'm also looking at what the very cool maxas authors became. Intel seems like a dark hole of blackness and holeness for acquired tech these days.
> My general experience is often people think problems are easy to solve from the outside because they just don't understand the problem.

There's an old H. L. Mencken quote:

"There’s always an easy solution to every human problem; Neat, plausible and wrong."

And another one of my faves:

"The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake."
Another one:

If it takes 2 hours to dry a shirt on a clothes line, how long will it take to dry 11 shirts?

Sometimes I get "2 hours" other times it multiplies.

Or similar:

If it takes a woman 9 months to make a baby, how long does it take 9 women to make a baby?
I just went through our personal collection of baby formula and lots of them have added sugar. Specifically, all of the vegan or "gentle on the stomach" formulas have added sugar as a replacement for lactose, which is the type of sugar found in milk.

In other parts of the world without established dairy industries (because most of the world is lactose-intolerant) it would make sense to have to find a different sweetener.

> "Children get used to the sweet taste and start looking for more sugary foods, starting a negative cycle that increases the risk of nutrition-based disorders in adult life," Vianna told the organizations for their investigation.

Someone here is being intentionally dense. Mother's milk is naturally sweet - nearly all calories come from simple carbohydrates. All formula is naturally sweet. The only thing different is the form the sweetener takes.
Streaming services already deliver in lower resolution than they available based on network conditions. Good upscaling would let you save on bandwidth and deliver content easier to people in poor network conditions. The tradeoff would be that details in the image wouldn't be exactly the same as the original - but, presumably, nobody would notice this so it would be fine.
I wonder if there is a difference in what they sell in different parts of the US. Does NYC get better or worse nutrition than Texas?
Tale as old as time, in graphics papers it's "our technique achieves realtime speeds" and then 8 pages down they clarify that they mean 30fps at 640x480 on an RTX 4090.
Additional citation: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-24/battery-r... | https://archive.today/dT7Rw ("Battery Recycling Shatters the Myth of Electric-Vehicle Waste")

(breakeven is 15k miles with Redwood's recycling)
Quite a few construction companies too.
Congrats that's pretty impressive !
Formal methods: Just good engineering practice?
"Give me ten words that have X as their second letter"
It seems everyone will have different pain points, depending on their skills and aptitude for various aspects of the overall project. One person may be great with writing up app descriptions, making screenshots, and marketing, but struggle with actual development… while others will be just the opposite.

If I had to guess, it seems your main challenge right now is getting started, so you’ve created this post as a way to procrastinate, thinking if you do enough research, you can avoid any issues. The best way to go is to start. You’ll run into some issues, and when you do, you’ll be able to look for ways to solve those specific problems. Asking blanket questions like this will leave you worried about problems you may never personally experience.
As you say this can cut both ways. A good example would be the US where people constantly wonder whether $thing-that-29-out-of-30-developed-countries-do-since-decades could truly work. Yeah it works, we have seen it work, it is currently working.

Now imagine you are a software developer entering the offices of a group of bueraucratic clercs that keep an intricate fax-and-scanner-based system of bullshit just barely afloat. Of course as a person that is specialized on thinking about the storage, transformation, santitizarion, transmission and deletion of data you are going to probably have a slightly more sophisticated take on information processing than them. They might know the law better or which combinations of checkboxes a person is allowed to tick on a form, but they suck at the meta task of organizing the efficient, fast and error free flow, storage, deletion, etc of information. And sure now one could argue about the merrits of paper (and I routinely argue it's merrits for democratic elections, where correctness and traceability are more important than speed), but that would be like arguing for making doctors use medival hand tools in the age of the scalpel.

Now it is true that outsiders to a system won't see what reasons there are for a certain thing being shaped a certain way, but this can sometimes even happen to insiders if the information handover is bad enough.
> I’m very unclear on why these (rabbit and humane) aren’t just apps.

Try to get a VC to give you $100M for an app
Sort of. Except for "weird logic classes", people would not bother to informally prove (i.e. no computers / strict system) such elementary things. But we can and should ask whether in fact that is the best curriculum structure.

(My making an easy fun game of proofs, I hope we can introduce them far earlier in the school curriculum. How many people in this world really understand the difference between reasoning and charismatic rhetoric? I don't blame anyone that isn't given the way we are taught.)
> How do deal with horizontal scaling or failovers in general?

We prefer vertical scaling over horizontal. The entire company is one server, which works for us since most of our customers are close to it.

In the future if we needed geographically distributed read replicas and failover protection I would probably go with LiteFS [1].

> if only one process can write to the db, how do you architect your system so that writes are performed by just one of the instances (the writer)

For multiple machines, LiteFS has ways of dealing with this. But the general idea applies to our system as well. All of our SQL is in either a read.sql or write.sql file. On startup, we open a connection pool for all the read queries and open a single connection for all the write queries. This keeps things clean and separated.

> how do you gracefully upgrade your app without any downtime?

We use a systemd socket and service. When the service is restarted with a new binary, systemd delays request processing until it's back online. It's really simple (thanks to our monolith setup) and entails zero downtime except a 1-2 second delay on unlucky requests. But as far as I can tell, no requests are lost.

[1]: https://fly.io/docs/litefs/
Sadly, that depends on a discrepency between npiet and the current Piet spec:

> The interpreter now begins sliding from its current white codel, in the new direction of the DP, until it either enters a coloured block or encounters another restriction.

The npiet interpreter, instead, rewinds its position to the last colored codel upon peeking through whitespace. One of these days, I intend to add that behavior as an option to the lexer in my Piet compiler[1], but I haven't bothered yet.

Following the spec, the program is a trivial nonhalting loop because the extreme corners of almost all blocks are white-adjacent. Writing complex Piet programs to target multiple interpreters and compilers is quite the challenge, as they've all got subtly different undocumented interpretations of the spec. I think that the output of my Piet backend is more or less interpreter-agnostic, but I've only dug into the details of three or four other interpreters.

[1] https://github.com/boothby/repiet/
This is amazing and all but at what point do we reach the point of there is no more “real” data to infer from low resolution? In other words there are all sorts of information theory research on the amount of unique entropy on a given medium and even with compression there is a limit. How does that limit relate to work like this? Is there a point at which it can say we know it’s inventing things beyond x scaling constant because of information theory research?
The tradeoff is that requiring all shares be worker-owned devalues the shares owned by workers, due to massively reduced liquidity. This situation does not necessarily benefit the workers since they have an interest in maximizing the value of their share.
AFAIK, and I could be wrong (though I did google this first), plugging your phone into CarPlay does not use the car’s gps unit. That’s just your phone trying to find a road because it’s connected to a car. Even if you are getting the car’s gps, it’s not going to give you raw values, but display values to show in an app, which should be smooth, IMHO.
I love solving other people's problems. If I succeed, they are usually happy. If I fail, it is, after all, someone else's problem. It's a proposition you cannot lose.
O&O team are standup software developers. I like their bluecon and disk imaging software and pricing is fair.
I like the photo of smuggling gear out of the data center in a backpack.
> If EU countries had an ongoing inflation rate of 30%+, which would result in GCP/AWS costs for european companies go up insanely every year

Inflation would mean that the nominal revenues of EU companies would also increase to the same extent. Thus, the affordability of the foreign service would, ceteris paribus, remain the same.
Ironically, most of what you’ve said here is false because it’s government in the driving seat, not business. The infamous avocado toast incident was regarding a mortgage down payment, not rent. That’s due to the post-2008 asset bubble created by central banks.

If you think fentanyl is not a critical component of the US’ homelessness crisis I don’t know what to say - go to Europe, the homeless there are not in a zombie-like state. There’s no compassion in ignoring people’s real problems and instead blaming them on our own political gripes. The festering of this problem is a product of bad government.

As for retirement savings - are you kidding me? Pensions are the most protected assets on this planet - no matter how hard they fail they will be bailed out. That inflation you speak of is, again, due to all that post-2008 money from the government. Interest rates are set by the central bank. (No doubt some unfortunate people had to draw-down their retirement savings but they’re the exception that proves the rule). For the first time in history we will have an economy where money is flowing up from the young to the old, rather than downwards - it is the young people who are being exploited! The children who will pay for this don’t even get a vote.

The real problem I see here is that people vote themselves all the money whenever they get the chance, with governments able to pile on more and more debt to be paid by future generations. Plus a government that is more interested in ideological posturing than solving problems - unless the solution is more government.
Zeekr and Lynk & Co are both available in some European markets.

https://www.zeekr.eu/test-drive?c=001
https://www.lynkco.com/en/market-selector
Have we reached peak image sensor size. Would it still make sense to shoot in fullframe when you can just upscale.