skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might not want them to have that information, but I think Google's history search now supports that for Chrome users: https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity
The quality of my life would be better improved through public transportation and these sound absorbers than almost any app I use. Hooray for basic infrastructure.
Apple's iMessage Service Is Down
Why do you want to dilute it in freshwater?
Show HN: A collection of prompts for enhancing productivity with LLMs
It was really cool.

Skinning was pretty easy to do. The packaging format was a zip archive with a renamed extension. You could do a lot with a little photoshop skills and trial and error.

So many people used it that skins would get a lot of distribution, too.
We need to be considering the impact of any big changes we make in regards to our energy. But the thing is, we already know the answers to most of these "but what about" questions and they've been answered time and time again, yet they keep being brought up and used in an effort to slow progress.

Which is worse, the __________ caused by technology Z or the airborne carbon dioxide they prevent?

THE CARBON DIOXIDE IS WORSE, most of the time.

Can we at least start at a place of the carbon dioxide is worse and go from there? I'm not against listening to reason, I'm just against people looking for every reason not to change how we gain and consume our energy.
OpenAI strikes deal to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT
If we assume "supervised setup", then doesn't that negate the fingerprint issue too because a supervisor can tug off fake-fingers and wash tips with alcohol etc?

Either way, I think this is one of those "if it was used properly, people won't like the limitations, so they'll use it improperly" situations. Kind of like with social security numbers.
> There is no need for roads to be public infrastructure. It can be fully privatized and people be asked to pay for its use. (While entire compontent of taxes that go towards road building be returned back to the people.) We will have better roads, less traffic and more money in pocket with that model.

As evidenced by the many successful and popular real-world cases where it's played out exactly this way. For example, um, uh...
This already happens! There's a global effort to measure and update these every few years, and that creates "realizations" (versions) of the ITRS reference frame: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog862/node/1803
It doesn't help that most of the career advice out there now is to move to a new role every 2 years if you want to get underpaid. Developers don't have the opportunities (or don't give it to themselves) to see how well what they build stands against the test of time.
Ask HN: What's your opinion on GPT-4o so far?
For those who used it, how does it compare to GPT-4?
Big O notation is theoretical worst-case analysis of runtime or space that rarely/never maps to actual performance. It's nice to wax about, but what really matters is quality benchmark data of actual code ran on real systems.
Literally just yesterday I was staring at Winamp's basic visualizer because I was trying to make something similar in my Godot game.

I'm still not sure exactly what I'm missing, as I have the "gist" of the visualizer working, but it just doesn't look as smooth as Winamp's. I think I need slight persistence and the little effect with the 'caps' that slowly fall down for each column (right now mine looks too jittery).
It could be a rough transition. But on the bright side, once AGIs get capable enough, maybe they'll leave jobs to us that they find too boring to work on...
This is exactly how I read it until working my way through this thread.
At Wadi al-Jarf[1], one of the oldest harbors in the world (~2600 BCE), they discovered numerous stone anchors, a stone jetty, and storage galleries carved into limestone that contained several boats, sail fragments, oars, and rope. They also found jars that have been discovered at another site across the Red Sea, indicating they may have been used for trade.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi_al-Jarf
The blades could easily be cut and used as modern "sleek" housing, or games for kids in parks

There is market for that I feel
Could you sidestep inference altogether? Just return the top N results by cosine similarity (or full text search) and let the user find what they need?

https://ollama.com models also works really well on most modern hardware
You can turn it off. DuckDuckGo
This is great news, but simultaneously disappointing that it is necessary. FFmpeg underpins tens of billions of dollars in value for the companies that use it, yet the support from the community is proportionally minuscule.
Currently dating myself by playing Portishead's Dummy in Winamp 5.66...

Looking forward to this code being lightly maintained for minimal compatibility with future OSes. I dislike change!
If they're indulged by society as a whole, are they delusions?
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It really is silly it was classified as more dangerous than cocaine.

A drug that you can actually overdose on.
Yeah it'll move offshore, but if you cut off dollar access and list on FATF black list any nation that does it, it will mostly stop, at least while USA has it's current influence. Not saying you should.
Strange that they didn't include a single screenshot on that page.
You can reskin a lot of modern software, it just went out of fashion.
Is it preferable to burn coal and natural gas then? I'm not saying you're wrong (you could be right) but let's not forget why we are pushing for renewable energy.
Special Characters Attack: Toward Scalable Training Data Extraction from LLMs
Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT
Between work and personal stuff, I use quite a few prompts daily so I figured I would throw them into a repository and share with whomever wants to use them.

Hopefully, it helps at least one other person :)
Using a different search engine != disabling a feature
Have you checked out foobar2000? To me, it always felt like the true successor to Winamp.
Some context: Winamp's owners have been going through financial difficulties since last year and as a result have laid off the skeleton crew they previously had maintaining Winamp (their main focus seems to be a streaming service also called Winamp for HTML5 and phones). This looks like they're willing to let the community take over maintenance for PC Winamp, which beats letting it die IMO.

https://forums.winamp.com/forum/winamp/winamp-site-design/46...
It's also weird that the timestamp on the press release is "Dec 16, 1".

There are 5 press releases total on that site, 2 from 2023, 2 from 2024, and this one from year "1". It just seems very strange.
Why not just do what you think is best? Why do you care so much about conforming or not conforming?

It's good to have a balanced opinion about technology. You're not a luddite for thinking so. Think for yourself.

Edit: Thought you were the same person. Comment still applies regarding conformity.
> I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

Civil society around the world has decided on UTC as the basis for time. What’s easier, convincing everyone to switch to TAI or changing the definition of UTC? I would guess it’s the latter.
> He certainly got some things wrong like heavier things falling faster than lighter ones

That's wrong only if you stop at Galileo. If you go a bit further, Newton's laws tell you that the gravitational force between earth and a higher-mass object is stronger than with a lower-mass object (specifically, F = G m_1 m_2 / r^2). So the heavier object will hit the ground faster, not by virtue of accelerating faster, but by pulling earth towards it a bit more than the lighter object.

Arguably, that's not what Aristotle meant, though, and it's completely negligible for all practical purposes. But then again, once you factor in air drag and especially buoyancy, it's really not as simple as saying that all objects "fall" at the same rate. Unless you want to argue for contrived definitions where you say that perfectly stable floating objects are "falling". It is in fact relatively easy to perform experiments where objects fall at close to zero or even negative speeds (upwards).
In my view, with a rental car you can at least know they got regular maintenance. I know they're driven harder, but the fact that they're getting oil changes puts them above the average mystery car for me, even if they're not ideal.
Sometimes I think trying to drive with car sensors (cam, radar etc) instead of looking outside might be of help to develop less ugly self driving solutions...
Yet... look at the sheer volume of wind turbines Scotland has to operate

What 'sheer volume'? You didn't give any numbers or sources.

Here is some actual information:

https://www.gov.scot/publications/renewables-and-wind-power-...

" In 2022, almost 28 TWh of zero carbon electricity was generated by renewable wind in Scotland, representing 35% of all wind generation in the UK. This could power the equivalent of approximately:

a. 10 million households - over a third of the total households in the UK.
b. 85% of total Scottish annual electricity demand."

It requires other non-temperamental energy sources to be available when the wind isn't blowing. Solar? What if it's an overcast day?

Good thing the entire UK is on a shared grid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Grid_(Great_Britain)

Using wind and/or solar does not automagically make your system better or more green.

Why not?

People have pigeon-holed themselves into a reality where only wind and solar are acceptable...

Says who?

and then we hide away the actual sources that provide the necessary backfill.

What does this mean? People are happy that there are economically viable and scalable sources of electricity that don't burn oil and gas. Who is 'hiding' anything away?
For me personally it's not a problem that OpenAI can scrape my posts, it's a problem that only OpenAI can scrape my posts.

I don't want one company to have the monopoly to train an AI on everything that me and all my friends post on a particular platform. If we're going to decide that training AIs on scraped data is fine, then everyone should have equal access to the dataset. Otherwise it's just a massive data grab and a massive transfer of power to whoever wins this data race, enacted by some platform owners hoping to monetize their users even more
No answer is complete without getting into fundamental physics, information theory, and blackholes: https://www.ilikebigbits.com/2014_04_21_myth_of_ram_1.html

TL;DR: Time complexity of memory access scales O(√N), not O(1), where N is your data set size. This applies even without hitting theoretical information density limits, whatever your best process size and latency. For optimal performance on any particular task you'll always need to consider locality of your working data set, i.e. memory hierarchy, caching, etc. And to be clear, the implication is that temporal and spatial locality are fundamentally related.

Yes, some cache levels have lower intrinsic latency than others, but at scale (even at-home, DIY, toy project scales these days) it's simpler to think of that as a consequence of space-time physics, not a property of manufacturing processes, packaging techniques, or algorithms. This is liberating in the sense that you can predict and design against both today's and tomorrow's systems without fixating on specific technology or benchmarks.
People have been doing this for millennia. It's called religion.

When people don't understand something they attribute it to a higher power.[0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps
In many jobs, you're not provided a separate device to use for work. It's just expected that you will have a personal device that you can use. And if you have a problem with that, you can just go work somewhere else.

I have been told in at least two interviews that a condition of my employment is that i have a relatively recent Android phone.
About 20 years ago, I almost got hired on the Winamp team. They were busy working on Winamp 3, which, from what I gathered, was a pretty much total rewrite using modern C++.

The previous codebase had been more or less just C, written by Justin Frankel. I think everyone kind of hated Winamp 3. It was very buggy. The plugin framework was extremely complicated. I wonder which source code they'll open up. Maybe both.
Huh, this is such an unusual design goal in programming languages "just try something and it'll probably work"

Only css is done this way... but not even intentionally
I'm a former engineer at Sprint and I strongly disagree with this characterization. Sprint's goose was cooked but it was due to debt from selling junk bonds to build Network Vision at the time of the original LTE rollout. Their credit was ruined by that point from 30+ years of absolutely terrible and corrupt c-suite executives.

Marcello has a lot of faults but he didn't run Sprint into the ground. He is actually pretty smart and at that time we cut over a billion dollars out of the operating budget circa 2016/2017 iirc. It was an impossible position and it's really sad because it was a great old company in my estimation. T-Mobile is just the worst.
I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you're just mistaken rather than trolling:

1. I never said Amiga DOS was the same as UNIX CLI. In fact I never even compared the two, that was all you

2. I do get why different command line interfaces are different -- I author a significant amount of code towards terminal emulators, shells, command line tools and maintain a hell of a lot of retro systems. So I'm definitely experienced on this subject. In fact I bet I could teach you a thing or two on this topic too ;) But that wasn't the point of what was being discussed. We were talking about the state of the status quo, not how some niche interface that nobody has used for serious work in nearly 30 years compares to the entrenched standard.

3. I never once said the UNIX CLI was peak command line design either. In fact I actually said the exact opposite. What I actually said was that it was dominant. Dominance != well designed

4. ANSI escape sequences, the $TERM env var, and all the other terminal UX stuff that are being discussed here, came about with hardware terminals like the VT-series. Yes, teletypes are part of mainframe history, but they're not relevant to this specific discussion here. Terminal emulators don't emulate a teletype, the POSIX kernel does that. Terminal emulators ostensibly just open a file and emulate how VTs interpreted ANSI escape sequences. This is the same reason why you can have terminal emulators on Windows (like PuTTY, Microsoft Terminal, and my own terminal emulator) despite Windows never having a concept of a PTY. Though, perhaps ironically, Windows now does support an approximation of a PTY.

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My point was very clear: the current status quo sucks but it would be an order of magnitude more work re-implementing everything from scratch and it ultimately wouldn't likely gain adoption anyway because of the momentum behind the current status quo. Microsoft understood this and ended up re-implementing some of the concepts despite literally decades fighting against it.

History is littered with examples of sub-par technologies becoming dominant because they work just good enough to maintain any initial momentum they have behind them. And people would sooner use what they're familiar with than learn something entirely new just because it is technically better.

And the fact that you keep harping on about Amiga DOS is, frankly, absurd. I love the Amiga, I honestly do. I have one sat next to me right now. But if there was one example in history of a command line interface that sucked more than the Bourne shell, it would be DOS. Mentioning Lisp machines might have earned you a little kudos yet you chose to lead with Amiga DOS.....
temp 0 means that there will be no randomness injected into the response, and that for any given input you will get the exact same output, assuming the context window is also the same. Part of what makes an LLM more of a "thinking machine" than purely a "calculation machine" is that it will occasionally choose a less-probable next token than the statistically most likely token as a way of making the response more "flavorful" (or at least that's my understanding of why), and the likelihood of the response diverging from its most probable outcome is influenced by the temperature.
The summary product is a gimmick, takes too long and it’s being force fed to users.

People wouldn’t complain if it was useful.
> If by “formal identity” you mean that Arab nationalism didn’t exist until the late 1800s/early 1900s, no quibbling

That's what I'm saying.

If UAE special services (some of whom are Baloch) are on here, yk. I got into a fist fight with an ethnic Baloch al-Nahyan bouncer a couple years ago in Novella (Iykyk)

But Islam was the first form of psudeo-globalism in the 8th century (along with the Tang Empire).

I agree with you that it was is Ajams that powered the "Islamic Golden Age" but that detracts from the fact that before the 19th century, Identity was inherently ephemeral.

But that does NOT mean Islam is inherently Arab. Say that shit and you will get a bullet in your jet in most areas

> I think GP is complaining the credit seems a little weird; the religious conversion happened due to violent conquest, not peaceful proselytizing

No argument there, but based on GP's history, it's just racism morphed as Islamophobia.

History was bad, and for some ethnic groups, "Muslims" were bad. No argument there from a Pahari/Koshur Hindu (I have Hindu/Sikh that died in the 1990s and 1947, but also protected Muslims in both decades - shit's tough)

But that's a statement for all fundamentalists. Doesn't matter what diety your rever - it's the -ism aspect that makes you a fundamentalist
Definitely better than burning coal. Doesn't mean we shouldn't look for ways to reduce or recycle waste products.
I find it very unlikely that you have exposure both to the extreme left and the extreme right.
Wow, 1973. 50 years ago. A professional lifetime.

Hoare got so close. He found the problem, and in hindsight solving it using a type system to enforce shared xor mutability seems like a small step. Had he figured out that small step back was the solution back then he would have saved us 50 years of enormous amounts of pain.
Oh, yes! I remember being shocked when I saw some text I had sent to a friends phone on his phone. A couple of the emojis looked very different from my phone's rendering, and it dramatically altered the meaning they had to me. If I had known they rendered that way on his, I wouldn't have used them.

That was the first inkling I got that emojis were risky.
Immich is self hosted and open source
I have to assume from this that AACS 2.1 hasn't been defeated yet, unlike the original AACS?
> a transparent noise barrier

Most rail noise barriers in Germany are completely covered in graffiti [0], so I wouldn't expect them to remain transparent for more than a few weeks.

[0] https://ga.de/imgs/93/8/5/9/3/0/9/1/9/tok_8596521c60eeaa53ee...
DeviantArt was never perfect but it really is a wasteland now. Regardless of where you stand on the ethics of genAI the results in practice are just boring, the feeds are an endless stream of the same handful of prompt templates, and the volume of AI posts is so enormous that it drowns out anything else a hundred to one. Manual curation of good posts eventually hits a breaking point when the volume of white noise posts becomes so unbearable that the curators just give up and leave.

Even categories that are supposed to be for specific mediums where AI shouldn't be applicable are full of it regardless - just now I scanned the Photography section and almost immediately spotted a conspicuously three-fingered woman. Posts made using AI are supposed to be tagged as such so users can opt-out of seeing them, but that "photo" isn't tagged, nor is anything else on the uploaders profile despite all of it being blatant AI.

You could almost turn it into a game - pick a random category and see how far you have to scroll before you see anything at all that doesn't scream "babbies first copy-pasted MidJourney prompt".
I just remembered I used to hangout in an IRC chat with the creator of Sonique as a pre-teen when I first started to teach myself to code - Sonique being the main competitor to Winamp way back when.

Strange how memory works.
How so? My Kobo works great with anything, my Pocketbook and Onyx Boox also worked great with pdfs. Only Kindle sucks at non-ebook formats.
This reminds me of what my cousin was doing last year, while on our Christmas lunch. (At a south hemisphere country, we tend to party hard that summer night and meet with family the next day.) She had some macro software moving her mouse and throwing keypresses at some notepad app or whatever. And she would get a random videocall to check on her at some point. I am sure that if they were to add an always-on video feed she would find the way to send some video loopback device like any Linux power user would do xD
While it maybe expedient for merchants, this worrying trend discriminates against the unbanked and creates a Hobson's choice requiring the leaving of metadata that can be used and abused.
I used to love Winamp for internet radio/tv.

Maybe plug-in NewPipe or similar instead and fork it?
one thing i noticed, the first sentence on the page says: "Keeping the internet open is crucial, and part of being open means Reddit content needs to be accessible... "

but if you use the text-to-speech reader it reads "Keeping the internet open is crucial, and part of being open means public Reddit content... " (emphasis mine)
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I refer you to the definitive resource on this issue- the movie "Mean Girls". This movie is the key to understanding the current age.
I've used the Airalo app to buy data-only eSims in multiple regions, and they have global ones also. I would guess it's not as cheap as you'd get if you waited to buy from local providers in arrival, but it's very convenient.
This is the case with all LLMs as far as I know.

With the chatGPT api you just send everything up to that point + the new input to get the new output.

I think the benefit for the service is that it’s stateless. They just have requests in and out and don’t have to worry about anything else.
Seriously did nobody read the article?! The article was specifically about this question, windfarms generate all the energy they needed to make them in 2 years time. This is completely unrelated to government subsidies.

Sometimes I loose faith in humanity.
I'm running ollama, but it's still slow (it's actually quite fast on my M2). My working theory is that with standard cloud VMs, memory <-> CPU bandwidth is an issue. I'm looking into vLLM.

And as to sidestepping inference, I can totally do that. But I think it's so much better to be able to ask the LLM a question, run a vector similarity search to pull relevant content, and then have the LLM summarize this all in a way that answers my question.
On one side it is true and I am actually OK with it. But my wife has iphone 12 and it was fantastic at the time and now she always complains how slow and laggy it is. I checked it myself and it is true. Of course it's been almost 4 years since the release but I don't think user software changed that much during this time.
This definitely feels like a case of buyer beware.

From the article: "quarter-sized hole."

If you're buying a former rental car and aren't giving it an intense enough inspection to spot a quarter-sized hole, you're rolling dice.

If you take the time to methodically go over one... and reject a few... I'm sure you can find a pretty great deal.