skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “You’re going to have the most powerful PC ever,” says Yusuf Mehdi, executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer at Microsoft, during the briefing. “In fact, it’s going to outperform any device out there, including a MacBook Air with an M3 processor, by over 50 percent on sustained performance.”

Is it really a Personal Computer though? Also, haven't they said the same thing about xbox and "The Power of The Cloud (tm)"?
It could take years to lawyer this out in court. Why shouldn't we discuss it now?
Have you seen https://dagger.io? (by the OG creators of Docker)

Fully containerized builds based on BuildKit with a <language> SDK interface. Works really well on both linux and mac

Does the caching, parallel, lazy DAG really well, removes the need for intermediate or base containers to run builds, or more generally containerized workflows

What Dagger enables is you to have your builds run the same locally and in CI. We still want builds that are auto triggered on commits, but we can end the stream of commits to fix CI
I think the comparison to FAANG is unfair. Most operators, after a priced round, AFAIK, are paid fairly, sans FAANG. The idea that any startup should have similar comps to companies that have been growing 50%+ year/year for decades with money shooting out of every orifice isn't realistic. Most startups don't compete with comp packages from FAANG for the same reason that Target doesn't offer competing packages - they aren't making that much money. An exception, OpenAI, which is completely flush with money.

More succinctly, FAANG salaries aren't market rate salaries - they are above market. I find operators are paid in comparison to similar sized companies, especially companies that appear "mature" after their 2nd or 3rd priced round. It's the same reason the quants at Chase don't make as much as the quants at RenTech, doesn't mean the Chase quants are being paid under market.
well yeah, they removed all the heavy industry that previously were the largest consumers of electricity. I'm all for renewables but this isn't exactly as it seems a "win".
we also talk a big game about caring about it but then still shove traumatized people to the margins.

Like honestly, should we prevent suicides then continue treating people the way they were treated pre attempt?

Weird idea of empathy.
I certainly do understand that dynamic of economic stress causing poor decisions. It's just a terrible setup when a president/party can trash the economy, and then pin the results on their opponent-successor as the effects play out over several years. See also the ongoing Trump income tax increases that were baked into law in 2017. To the extent voters are gullible enough to fall for this, as I said, we're doomed.

In general I don't see why the Israel situation should be laid at Biden's feet specifically, as opposed to the Israeli lobby that has had a stranglehold on US politics for quite some time. Short of waiting for generational change, the only way to sidestep that would be to paralyze the US government's foreign policy, but that also means the end of US hegemony, USD as a reserve currency, and the generally high standard of living we take for granted. Frankly it's odd to attack such conservatism as a "privileged" position, when the fact of the matter is that people with wealth will be generally fine regardless of what happens.

As for Biden, his personal aspirations, and internal party jockeying, I've got little opinion. Swap in another not-Trump candidate and I'll vote for them instead. Personally at this point I'd likely support someone even if they were a blue-flavored extremist, because the incumbent power structure would be inherently set to resist them, whereas at this point a reelection of criminal Trump would essentially be throwing in the towel on our system of government. But obviously another extremist would turn a lot of people off, and let so called "conservatives" maintain their cognitive dissonance that Trumpism is about conserving anything at all.

Ultimately I think if we want to throw off the chains of the military industrial surveillance complex, we've got to take that bottom-up from the grassroots (eg decentralized communications tech) rather than thinking a power vacuum at the top will lead to anything good.
Did you read past the title? The main point of the article is a syntax for knowledge bases - plain text is just an implementation detail.
Curious to read about this. Do you have a source?
indeed. Thank you for the link kind one
I might have finally found a use for having a 3D printer. This allows me to optimally organize every single drawer.

What printer do I start with, fellow hackers?
>>> An excellent game is, practically by definition, a game that people would recommend. And the Steam algorithm does a pretty good job of snowballing success. My favorite example here is Kenshi. [1]

Steam early access launched with only 12 games in 2013 and Kenshi was one of them! This is not evidence of the algorithm working, it's evidence of Valve employees personally going out of their way to try to sell this game to you!
The citizens move there of their own accord, which is permissible

In the sense of Article 49 -- "transfer" obviously means any form of actively supported migration (not the coerced transfer) of these peoples into the OT.

In fact, in this specific case, there exists a pre-occupation law that specifically allows for it.

Which "law"? Something from the time of the Mandate?
Underscores work as emphasis in many markup languages, including markdown, but not here in HN regrettably.
Without knowing anything about CAD, it's surprising to me that the author didn't try any of these matrix solvers. Particularly since the case of non square matrices with iterative methods is common to many fields.
Speeding up saxpy and matrix vector products with SIMD Intrinsics and OpenMP
Pretty sure that's the Juniper voice. See the live demo for the new sky voice that is allegedly problematic. Fwiw the client is glitchy when changes voices, so it may have displayed as sky.
There will be some, either due to their current contributions or decisions they make later in life. It is just hard to see that in the present since news tends to (and has always tended to) focus upon controversy.
So does it take more battery to render several small video feeds versus one large one? If I'm on a call with a bunch of people, does "speaker mode" take less battery than "gallery mode"? Somehow I doubt it would be noticeable, if the effect exists at all.
I think something you miss about the HN dynamic is that posts that fall off the front page quickly almost invariably have low-quality discussion compared to the ones that stay on the front page for longer.

Some of that is because low-quality discussions fall of the front page quickly, but most of it is because the first comments on a post are always low quality, because they're disproportionately from drive-by posters who read the title but not the article or the existing comments. If a post falls off the front page quickly, then those comments become the only ones that get seen, which means even if someone comes along with a more thoughtful comment (unlikely) it ends up buried with no upvotes and no replies.

If you let a "dupe" that's finally catching on stay on the front page for a while, the conversation invariably becomes better as the thoughtful commenters arrive and begin to leave their mark on the conversation.

In other words: just because 5 threads are ongoing and uninteresting doesn't mean that this one didn't stand a good chance of having a good, useful conversation if left alone.
Ask HN: Tools for Overriding ChatUI's AI Prompts
I am using the Chrome Dev Network analysis tool to find out what prompts ChatUI i.e. ChatGPT is sending to the backend, but I don't know what to look for or how to override default system prompts.
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Just looking at the index I think one thing that I'd really like to see is an example of how to deal with e.g. some I2C peripheral where in c/c++ world you'd just get someones library.

Because as much as I like Rust, I probably wont write my own OLED display driver and graphics library of I have the choice to avoid it.
Ah yes, let's omit the defining factor of Nazi Germany which wasn't the same before WWI - and in case you didn't know - was not the same after WW2.

> Historical Germany name is Germany

Right, there was no such thing Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, just "Germany"? Right?

Literally, two different countries, which were different from Nazi Germany, which was different from the German Empire. Yet to you, this is all the same.

I'm struggling with where you're trying to get to with this one.

Is it a new propaganda spin? The "Let's ignore History, and how things are called" because you're bothered by Historically referring to Nazi Germany as Nazi Germany? Like the Russian propaganda addressing British People as "Anglo-Saxons"?

I'm assuming your goal is to bring clarity to History, and not confusion right wink wink?

Well unlike you, I agree with the Historical designations, and it's important to bring clarity, so I see no problem in saying: the USSR was an ally of Nazi Germany.
Microsoft, it looks like. Elon’s tweet is in response to https://x.com/netcapgirl/status/1792692524047581477 which is quoting https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1792680674060832829.
Not hands on but I've been paying attention. IMHO several things world mentioning:

- Compose desktop is for now dependent on the JVM. That is despite Kotlin now having a stable native compiler. Reason for this is that the library eco system is still lagging. That being said, you can build some nice things with it pretty quickly.

- IOS support is not stable yet. It kind of works but you'd be an early adopter.

- On web, there are two compose variants. Compose HTML is a bit of side show but uses a traditional DOM based approach. Compose web exists in wasm and js variants and renders its own components in a canvas either way. Compose web mainly makes sense for people wishing to target the web with their mobile Android/IOS code base.

- Google just announced a recommended status for KMP on mobile at Google IO. So, this is significant in light of the recent layoff rounds affecting e.g. the Flutter and Dart teams.

If you feel adventurous it's worth checking out now but you probably have to wait something like a year plus for this to stabilize on IOS. I'm personally curious to see how the whole wasm/web part evolves. The wasm compiler is currently alpha. My prediction is that compose multi-platform will stabilize over 2025 and will start going mainstream the year after. At that point it could become a serious alternative to flutter and react-native.
An interesting question is how many distinct voices are there? I think there is a good possibility there may be thousands of people who sound like this.
I would have agreed with you six months ago, but the latest models - Claude 3, GPT-4o, maybe Llama 3 as well - are much more proficient at outputting JSON correctly.
The NPU runs this Silica model at 1.5 watts. MacBooks cannot even drive multiple monitors in this price range.
That's not how taxes work. Investing $1 doesn't count as a loss for tax purposes.
Maybe they should move to a climate that is suitable to their needs? Moving somewhere unbearably hot and then relying on technology to make it palatable is not sustainable.
I like the Irishnews.com version

Howler monkeys ‘falling out of the trees like apples’ in sweltering Mexico.

The Irish love a howler
> arguing that "criminals can still use illegal E2EE" is not fruitful.

That's why I mentioned 3 points, I would say :-). They go together. They mean that it makes no sense to say "we want to weaken E2EE for the sake of our children". Either you remove E2EE (and enable mass surveillance), or you don't (and protect the children differently).

In those discussions by politicians, there is systematically someone who comes back with an argument like "no, but imagine we could detect child pornography without actually weakening the encryption", and that argument just does not make any sense at all. Decision makers need to understand that, so that they can choose between keeping E2EE and removing E2EE improperly.

Then of course, some politicians could try to push for mass surveillance. That's a political stance. But at least they would be having the real debate, instead of hiding it behind weird technical solutions that do not and cannot exist.
There could be some ways around that. They could pay these would be founders in IOUs which can be cashed in for a generous amount of money once some condition is met, such as the company becoming successful or going public. :^)
> I'm not sure how the Ottoman law is connected to this at all? Why is that the reigning law of that land, the Ottomans haven't had ownership of it since 1918.

I failed to address this in my previous reply.

The Israeli occupation can not change the laws of the West Bank. An occupation can pass temporary orders, which are usually limited to (and often renewed after) three years.

Neither could the Jordanian occupation changed the laws of the West Bank, for the same reason.

The British Mandate was allowed to changed laws, and they did change many laws. However Ottoman property laws are very, very complicated and they decided that there was no reason to mess with it. So during the British Mandate the Ottoman property laws remained.

So the land in question has been through a UN mandate and two occupations (one still ongoing), without the property laws being changed. Those Ottoman laws still stand.
A Real Breadboard [video]
And the events of the cartoons would play on in a timed manner, so if you're not at the main point at the right time you could miss it. That would be cool.
Thanks for the book recommendation! I found an English translation of a book by the author and I am ordering that.
You can opt out.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot
You don't understand.

A lot of the time, founder CEOs decide their own salary, as well as that of their employees. Why would a founding CEO want to shorten their runway by paying MAANG salaries to themselves an others? It decreases their likelihood of success by shortening runway and burn. As soon as the funding that VCs give founders is wired to the bank, the founders are playing a zero-sum game with every dollar. Their job is to decide the best allocation of capital.

A startup, by definition, is a team in search of a business model. They're not profitable or self-sustaining. If you're Google or Meta, you have at least a chance of saying "for every dollar I pay this engineer working on ads, I get this many dollars back." And sometimes that return/salary ratio is very large, so it makes sense to pay them a ton. That reasoning does not apply to startups. That is, you earn your high salary by contributing to a profit-making product.

When your product or profit do not exist, you get compensated in options so that your incentives align with those of the business as a whole.

VCs invest progressively larger sums as an idea is proved out and risk is eliminated. I don't see any other world that makes sense. Most overfunded startups die before they ever find product market fit because they hire too many people, have a hard time pivoting, and lose their hunger.

Given the choice between hunger and complacency, I'd say founders with hunger are probably more likely to succeed that complacent ones. Earning a MAANG salary makes you complacent, all other things being equal.
Prior founder here: I think this is a fair question and glad it was asked for discussion. They raise a good point about the pool of potential founders being limited by the necessity of a low salary. I think it will always be part of the VC funding model, though.

However, also important to note that VC funding isn't the only way to do a startup.
Yeah I almost feel like it is tongue in cheek / a joke.

Doesn't seem like a real service, what employee would risk their job for a few hundred dollars.

Maybe it is a dig at how the customer support for these huge companies is so poor that this seems like a real thing.
You can’t do that.

Hiring a lookalike or soundalike is already settled case law.

OpenAI made it easy for Scarlet Johansson’s lawyers. They referenced the movie Her multiple times.

It’s a slam dunk if one of open aisle employees mentioned sky sounding like scarlet Johansson as a plus.
FAANG base salaries and bonuses for most roles aren't all that different from similar roles at other companies in the Bay Area - it's just the stock comp that makes the difference.

A PM II at Google Cloud is earning the same base+bonus as a PM II at Cisco Meraki or Databricks.
How do you get rid of the "3D printed look" surface? Sanding?
Perhaps the system's secure boot integrity process can confirm with a giant desktop visual indicator, whether Recall is disabled or enabled by policy.

2003, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog

> LifeLog was.. to be "an ontology-based (sub)system that captures, stores, and makes accessible the flow of one person's experience in and interactions with the world in order to support a broad spectrum of associates/assistants and other system capabilities". The objective of the LifeLog concept was "to be able to trace the 'threads' of an individual's life in terms of events, states, and relationships", and it has the ability to "take in all of a subject's experience, from phone numbers dialed and e-mail messages viewed to every breath taken, step made and place gone".

2007 Microsoft Research, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/the-microsoft...

> The SenseCam is a personal, wearable camera developed by Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, and used as a lifelogging device in projects like MyLifeBits.. is based on wearing the SenseCam for lifelogging of ‘events’ during your day, and generating a fast-forward movie of the event as the memory recall interface.

2010 Microsoft Research, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/now-let...

> Lifelogging technologies can capture both mundane and important experiences in our daily lives, resulting in a rich record of the places we visit and the things we see.. Previous work has demonstrated that Lifelogs can aid recall, but that they do many other things too. They can help us look back at the past in new ways, or to reconstruct what we did in our lives, even if we don’t recall exact details. Here we extend the notion of Lifelogging to include locational information.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/mylifebits/

> MylifeBits is a lifetime store of everything. It is the fulfillment of Vannevar Bush’s 1945 Memex vision including full-text search, text & audio annotations, and hyperlinks. The book Total Recall.. is the culmination of our thoughts regarding MyLifebits and the larger CARPE research agenda .. Gordon Bell has captured a lifetime’s worth of articles, books, cards, CDs, letters, memos, papers, photos, pictures, presentations, home movies, videotaped lectures, and voice recordings and stored them digitally. He is now paperless, and is beginning to capture phone calls, IM transcripts, television, and radio.

HN ranking history for this thread: https://hnrankings.info/40433884/
Riffing on this too, the other bit of it - from a founder and early employee POV - is that at a startup, money is quite literally time.

Oversimplification: pay yourself 2x and have a 6mo runway, or take x and have a 12mo runway. If you aren't expecting to give up quickly, and don't want to just try to fall back into a Google job after 6 months if it is struggling to find traction, you're gonna want the longer runway.

And time turns back into future money because if you're doing a startup you're also likely considering the potential upside. Most startups don't get there, but if you just wanted to play the aggregate numbers, that would probably already stop you[0]. So you want to get more customers, you want to raise that next round, etc, and all those things are helped by runway. Most startups fail - but the ones that spend faster fail faster.

[0] why work for $GOOG for 12 months at a startup then have to look for a new job when it fails instead of just working for $GOOG at Google with job security?
Show HN: AI interior design tool that gives product recommendations
What started out as a Hackathon project more than year ago is finally live on product hunt!

Me and my 2 cofounders have taken this from an idea to the current stage where we are working with some of the biggest names in the GCC, while still being pre-seed.

Along the way we have won a major PropTech Hackathon in Saudi winning $100k prize, been a part of a generative AI accelerator program, pivoted a couple of times and did all sorts of stupid stuff as well.

What we do at our core is use diffusion models to bridge the visualization gap in industries such as e-commerce and interior design.

Today was our first major launch and the feedback has been incredible. I would love to get your feedback as well on our tool at www neo-locus.com.

Please email me at nom@neo-locus.com with any feedbacks or if you just want to chat!
It doesn't sound like her at all. People are getting primed hard, or we're doing "all white women sound the same" now.
I'll agree that I was the one ultimately responsible for solving the novel problems!
I’m slightly confused by the 2D constraint problem solver, it seems to me like they have a probably sparse, possibly banded problem. Of course, in a high level description a whole lot can be excused under

> In practice many optimizations are made.

And I’m sure there’s a good reason to do physics. But, do iterative solvers like gmres or whatever have trouble with these kinds of problems?
This flight experienced "clear air" turbulence. Such turbulence is not visible on radar and is not predictable.

Turbulence due to weather is what you are talking about.
Funding that goes to editors (for example, stipends to travel to Wikipedia conferences) has been decreasing steadily each year. It's not due to a lack of money - Wikimedia consistently brings in millions of surplus revenue each year, see WP:CANCER[1] - so it's not clear that an additional revenue source will change anything.

^1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
Some notable exceptions I'm aware of...

Ultima I was written in Applesoft BASIC with portions in assembly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_I:_The_First_Age_of_Dar...

Wizardry was written in Apple Pascal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizardry#Development

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pascal
Summary of Lecture by Robert Tarjan
Helping you read the intonation of me talking. It’s how I write.
> It's the way in which audio and spectrogram are both representational while being encoded by the same information.

They're not, really. If you've spent much time reading spectrograms, you can look at the images and see which part is the sound. Occasionally the picture and sound are "chosen" to line up (notably the birdsong, disguised as distant blurry flower petals – notably not the large flowers, which don't really sound like birdsong at all), but usually the sound appears as clear, visually-distinct banding (e.g. the kittens meowing), and the image shows up as very audible distortion (e.g. the tigers).

Choosing sounds and images that line up properly might not be something a human has tried before, but I can already see how I'd do it, if I were better at drawing. It's like a multimedia ambigram: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigram. The diffusion model is missing a lot of tricks: I could get similar quality by making a collage of clip art.

Edit: just saw the third "painting of a farm" one. That one is actually quite good, the way it uses the solid space in the barns. The first "painting of a farm" has the right idea (if I may anthropomorphise the system), working the birdsong in as clouds and trees, but its execution is severely lacking.
Unfortunately, noone has simulations that do soft contact well enough for this to be any good at all (which is why you see plenty of academic papers about it, but very little in terms of actual products doing it.)