skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The LLM/compute is the least interesting part, IMHO.

Enterprise knowledge context and a platform to currate that and feed it to LLMs, on the other hand...
Did you tell the judge or could you get a sense of what they thought?
What if we take AI out of the equation. Should the voice actress who voiced Sky (call her A) be unable to do any voice work because she sounds too much like SJ?

How about if the production company that made "Her" wants to make "Her 2". SJ declines the voice work. Are they not allowed to hire A to do the voice work? They ask SJ again but she still declines. They make the movie with A. Was it bad form?

Just trying to figure out where people would draw the line.
Sounds like a safe assumption. The only realistic assumption, really.
What are you talking about? The AVERAGE CD right now is 5%. My local CU is almost 6%. US bonds are currently ~4.5% - if you consider those unstable, I guess the US economy isn't stable - and if the US economy crashes, wikipedia will be the least of their or our worries.

Wikimedia's expenses are almost ENTIRELY going to staff. Their balance sheet for 2023 included $101m in expenses for salaries and benefits out of a total expense of $160m. Their hosting was $3m. So yes, I'm confident their network links and servers cost almost nothing, and they don't need anywhere near $101m in compensation to keep the lights on when the VAST majority of their content is contributed for free.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/W...
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>Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.

Don't see much dishonest. And honestly, it may fall under a bribe, but bribe implies the person in power was the one who affected you. Which clearly isn't the case here.

In my eyes, this is just making a public service of something we 100% know people who make tech companies profitable already have access to.
Agree with the last bit. This is the perfect way to start racially stereotyping.

For the first bit, unfortunately that's hard to control and is actually talked about quite a bit (speaking as a HS student). I would be interested in alternative suggestions to limit these advantages, but I don't think it's realistically possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(computer_graphics)

> February 1995
You're right - we're all on the record here, but I'll ignore your personal insults.

I guess you didn't read what I wrote: "...the generated code is a single key-press away from being sent to a remote server" - this is an accurate statement. I have no idea where you got the rest of your comment from, perhaps you replied to the wrong person?
> As a side note, the criticism around this incident seems to have some racial tones.

Noticed that as well. I feel like it has unfortunately become somewhat socially acceptable to be slightly racist against Indians and Chinese people due to a mix of politics and demographics in tech.
They are. I've seen it in books showing the graphs.
Not necessarily; WCAG doesn’t actually mandate a minimum font size, only that your fonts respect the user zoom and font size settings.
I've dabbled in tor nodes on and off over two decades, but never seriously had one up and running. My actual usage of tor has consisted of finding the hidden wiki, following a couple of links, reading snippets of conspiracy paranoia, getting bored, and not re-visiting it for another 2-5 years.

I have also dabbled a bit with Tribler which, as it turns out, has built-in functionality similar to that of a tor node. I have a vaguely niggling suspicion that Tribler is a honeypot, but it's providence appears so wholesome, and it's been around a long time.
This looks promising. I'm occasionally interested in trying out different project management software. The challenge lies in overcoming the momentum of the specific tool we're already entrenched in at work. Even if I discover a superior tool, it's unlikely I'll have the opportunity to implement it. Has anyone managed to adopt a different tool successfully, diverging from what the team is using, or is it simply unfeasible without team-wide adoption?
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The article is about Windows, a proprietary OS with proprietary drivers. Open source isn't the topic here.
I'm American and I am ashamed of my Governments reaction. This war will reach out and touch us very personally and we will regret that we let Ukraine down. You don't have to be a genius to see what is coming our way....
The Luddites said the same thing about textile machinery.
I think I went through a few of them and it became clear I didn't know the difference at all and didn't feel I'd get an explanation of why so stopped there.

It would have been better for each result to talk about why it was classified as a toad or frog.
It's frustrating that we encourage fraudulent behavior for the college application process. I blame the judges, and college admissions departments.

It orients the entire USA public education system around training sociopathic behavior into teenagers.

We tell young people the best way to get ahead in life is through exaggerating. Then we train them to do it in their college essays and extracurriculars.

Gross.
reminds me of that time when linus torvalds took a dig at nvidia.
looking back at it, it seems very well deserved.
You can't know the truth about a painful family situation by consuming internet drama. Internet users have their own reasons for engaging in such drama—no doubt rooted in their own painful family situations, and from that point of view their reasons make sense—but none of this discussion is reliable. It is frequently harmful though. Internet users don't pause to consider the harm they may be contributing to, but sometimes it's real.

Given that you can never find out the truth this way, and that the discussion is motivated by other things, and that it can have unintentionally harmful effects, I think the HN users who flag these posts are behaving responsibly.

Processes exist for bringing such topics into public discourse. For example, there's institutional journalism (which has many defects, but on a matter like this I think it's functional)—there are hurdles that have to be overcome to report on such things, and rightly so. And then of course there is the legal system, with its higher standards of due process.

I don't know anything about this specific situation and as mods we haven't been killing those posts, but the HN community has decisively deemed it off topic and I think that's a good call.
Ah, fixers. This used to be a problem mostly in corrupt third world countries. Now ordinary Americans need them.

Lawyers usually serve this role in the US.
This guy has a great youtube channel also

https://youtube.com/@Bisqwit/videos
One of the details that strike me is that the cheater comes from a fairly wealthy background and has no need for that prize money at all. They have much more to lose than gain and this doesn’t seem rational at all.
Devslopes made an ad joking about suicide and then teased someone in comments
I'm here to raise awareness about something disgusting that I just found.

The company Devslopes (https://www.devslopes.com/) made an ad/video which I just saw on Facebook Reels. In the video it portrayed a janitor that wanted to end his life by jumping from the top of a roof. Someone ran up behind him and said "...you can still learn how to code...".

I was absolutely disgusted and then checked the comments. A top comment was someone explaining how they were a janitor and had similar thoughts and then Devslopes commented something that seemed a lot like teasing them. I've uploaded the screenshot I got to imgur.

Let's not forget nor forgive Devslopes for this disgusting behavior...

https://imgur.com/a/devslopes-is-disgusting-ZRqfxjH
Harvard is also exceptionally greedy to charge tuition, but also it wouldn’t be fair for legacy admits to get the brand and network without paying what is peanuts to most of those families.

LLM trainers need to pay for Wikipedia to help balance the information economy. If Google had to pay something substantial versus just lifting the content into their own “smart” results, then other sites would follow and wouldn’t have to rely on crappy SEO tricks.

Another perspective is that LLM trainers have largely been so disrespectful of IP / copyrights from their own greed that the content creators need to fight back with greed of their own. If the WM approach to media loses out to corporate and/or state control, it could e.g. make the Western internet much more like state-owned China.

Not entirely convincing arguments but it’s probably going too far to call WMF too greedy.
Having written some esp-hal rust, you can also just use crates which use embedded-hal (for the I2C part) and embedded-graphics (for the display driver part).

If they don't exist it's usually quite easy to port the C/C++ code to rust which implements those traits
How are you so certain? The voice was only changed 2 days ago.

I think you and several other commenters have totally missed the point. In a causal situation, I’m not going to do a side by side comparison or a spectrogram of the voice. If it sounds like her enough and in the right context, here she’s talking about movies she’s been in, I’m going to be fooled as are most people. Whether the voice is exactly the same is largely irrelevant.
> Yep, it feels like them being a monopoly effectively kills every incentive for them to try harder.

Microsoft at its worst had insanely good enterprise level support.

Even small business owners had access to paid premium support options, and if the issue you reported turned out to be a product bug, the support costs were refunded.
What's Linux going to have to equal this?
They don’t need the money. They want to win so they can get into college.
You're right, the Stasi was significantly less powerful and capable than their modern equivalents.
> Humane is seeking a price of between $750 million and $1 billion in a sale, one person said. The process is still early and may not result in a deal.

Overpriced, just like the pin.

Kudos to every individual who worked hard on their little corner of the product, but it is a bad product (with no future). The entire product can just be an Apple Watch with better Siri enabled. Surely the future we'll actually end up with. Not sure if they generated any valuable IP, but it seems dubious. With any luck, the sale will give rank-and-file employees the opportunity to cash out their stock options and move on.
> Its why the rich always get richer too.

But even the non-rich acquire more wealth over time as well.
Yeah, I saw that. The GMKtek boxes I linked to can fit in the palm of your hand, have great power efficiencies, and cost less than $150. I have a couple of the Intel N100 models but would love to get one with an ARM processor instead.
OK. What's yellow ice?
It helps to avoid timezone details within a day or two. I agree "a month ago" is pretty bad, but I haven't seen that.

But it's good to say "1hr ago" if I send an email from New York to San Francisco.
Horrified and Impressed.
> The biggest issue for me is that it increases the attack surface

What's your threat model?
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I didn't quite understand how the screw being loose triggered the system, but the screw falling out completely would have been ok. Did I misunderstand that section?
Why are we imagining a hypothetical situation in the context of talking about things that are currently happening? It's an interesting thought experiment but it's kind of irrelevant because brain implants are nowhere near that level and as far as I know, freedom of thought is already part of western law. I am not a lawyer though, I just think we can think about the actual damages to real people rather than make shit up.
Aging and death is an abstract concept to youth, for the most part. Source: I've been there.
For all mega man fans you should be aware of this band

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2rVDi66o7gdeUq1OHUzM0W
Software that works offline, respects your privacy, and runs on nearly all hardware back to the 90s?
I agree. I think that these fancy visuals are not the right way to appeal to the target user base. I just want to read some text.
> The image boxed in red above is a falsified image taken from online, and has had mirroring performed in the hopes that no one would notice.

This probably won't happen in the future... because future competitors will learn from this mistake and know to run their image generation through AI so that their images are "novel"...

> Don't mentors have to sign off along the way? That part I don't get...

Can someone explain this? Is it plausible the mentors genuinely had no idea?
I see what you mean now, and I agree.

I thought that you were hinting that DI can be done (esp. on a smaller scale) often manually without any complex container magic.

Like in a smaller app, construct all your service instances in the main method while passing the dependencies into constructors and voilà - you have a DI based application without a container / any framework.
A few months back we were also planning to start a similar project which would include an interactive AI that can give answers / charts etc. based on user prompts from the provided events. But we scraped that project and started something else entirely.
Glad to see this project - would definitely try it out when you have the self hosting option ready.
> Do you not find it mildly depressing that you have effectively excused 'terrible injustices' by saying they are at least stable ( and predictable I suppose )?

More than mildly so. But it remains the best option.

> With that in mind, can you elaborate on how 'turning off' Israeli dominance would 'hurt things very badly'? I am a sucker for balance so it is possible I am missing something.

When you want to kill someone else, but they are overwhelmingly superior, you can't. So you won't try, for the most part. When their power wanes and yours grows, there comes a point where you think you can win. And that's when you roll the tanks.

"Balance" is about stability, not equality. Fuck with Israeli dominance and eventually Iran sneaks enough weapons into Gaza that we see Hamas start to take and hold territory. How is that better?
The (mafic?) object of 18 May brings us right back to JvN and prediction vs control. Depending upon how isotropic a skipping stone one picks, the resulting trajectory may be predictable or chaotic: in a world of too cheap-to-meter compute and effectors, one might imagine a "skipping stone" with LEDs and some kind of mechanical effectors that could be used to write Peristence-of-Vision messages by "skipping" it across a lake surface?
It feels like nvidia is coming around lately
Hopefully you can blow a fuse and have complete control over devices like these.

It'd be nice if the ARM-based SoCs had the same openness expectation that x86 historically has had.
It depends what the PDF is. Reading a PDF book is tedious because you're endlessly panning back and forth at every line. But you don't read a restaurant menu from start to finish like that so it makes sense to have a less linear way of navigating than scrolling.
Rhodes has a very nice story about how hard it is to make things happen, somebody is asked to set fire to "a lump of wood" which turns out to be petrified, a stone fossil. The moral of the story being getting above the energy threshold to make interesting things happen fast, is really hard.

Your point is well made. We're under continuous bombardment (bad word) by the products of fission and fusion, and live surrounded by "active" things in the radioactive sense. Some people in some areas with high radioactivity are told to vent their sub-basement because it can be bad over the lifetime of living there.

Coal miners have different exposure risks to other people. Fly ash from coal power stations has a different level of radioactivity to other waste products. And so it goes on. As you point out, even absent human activity, there's "radioactivity" all around us all the time.
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I like the idea of "Recall" but surely it will have some controls on what apps it is allowed to track? I don't think it is a great idea to have something like this if you're working on a sensitive project; or at just doing something you don't want others to know about in general. Suddenly if someone has your PC, they have your entire history. Not just browsing, but of -everything.- They did something similar with Windows "Timeline," but I never used it because I had absolutely no control over what it tracked. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvTJ8kGRi18)

Apparently, this is done all on-device, with no phone home, but that's only one concern addressed.
Ollama, llama.cpp, whisper, assorted frontends over those backends, and an actual history of respecting user choice and privacy.

(I do grant, we might need to get NPU drivers in good shape; not sure what the state of that is right now.)
We have Linux support on the roadmap in https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt.

OpenAdapt has similar functionality, except:

- it's open source

- it only records when you explicitly tell it to

- it has multiple PII/PHI scrubbing providers built in (see https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt?tab=readme-ov-file#...)

- the purpose for recording is to automate tasks in desktop apps

- it's cross platform (Mac and Windows now, Linux coming soon)

Full disclosure: I'm the primary author. Contributions and feedback welcome!
> The problem with xorg is per monitor scaling. If your laptop is 4k and you want 2x scaling and your external monitor is a 32" 4k monitor that doesn't need scaling (or 1.25x) then you're basically shit out of luck with Xorg.

> I think it's on the verge of being impossible to be honest.

You sure about that? QT seems to handle per-monitor scaling fine (at least with 'kwin'), so it doesn't seem to be at all a problem with xorg. Read on:

QT has environment variables that let you set per-monitor scaling... even fractional scaling. See: <https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/highdpi.html#high-dpi-support-in-qt>

On my system, I have two monitors, DisplayPort-0 (a 32" 4k) and DisplayPort-1 (a 24" 1200p). I also have Dolphin installed, and it has a "Desktop" item in its sidebar that has a "minimal" square-cornered icon. When I run:

QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS='DisplayPort-0=2.73;DisplayPort-1=1' dolphin &

Dolphin produces a "Desktop" square on DP-0 that's 44x44 pixels, whereas

QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS='DisplayPort-0=2.60;DisplayPort-1=1' dolphin &

Dolphin produces a "Desktop" square on DP-0 that's 42x43. (There's some dithering/blending/whatever going on that's obvious when you zoom way in.)

And, when I move Dolphin to the DisplayPort-1 monitor, once more than half of the window is on DP-1, the icons shrink to 16x16, and scale back up when I move back to DP-0.

Now, for some reason neither 'QT_ENABLE_HIGHDPI_SCALING' nor 'QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR' seem to do anything at all. Given that xrandr knows the physical size of each monitor, and how many pixels each is configured to output, my expectation is that they simply never wired this up when running on xorg. I wonder if they're accepting patches.

EDIT: I also wonder if the reason they never wired this up when running with xorg is because nVidia's scaling performance is absolute dogshit, and they (somewhat reasonably) really want to have this autoscaling stuff on by default.
copyright law doesn't have to make sense. a recipe isn't a creative work, it's a list of ingredients and potentially the mechanics of putting them together. The actual recipe cannot be copyrighted. There are a lot of articles that are factchecked with a search for "recipe copyright". The rule of thumb is what i stated, in order to protect one's work on recipes or a compilation of said, one has to insert prose and other media.

Anyhow the main point is that recipe sites being the way they are has nothing to do with SEO, it's the "generally accepted practice" of protecting your work.
Correct, they're still a source of revenue, they're a customer. But legitimately good customer service is expensive, and it may not be viable to provide it even for marginal customers
Not this visual content that connects everyone, but using something like Google's NERF to generate the real world, and then with the help of mature VR devices in the future, make for a better life experience, the technology feels achievable at the moment, it's more about privacy and geopolitical issues
A marketplace for social engineering access to internal DBs.
So it's ok for you to use your contacts to get avert 'extinction-level disasters' but it's questionable ethics if others try to do the same?
I don't know of anything yet on desktop, but I have my own Nextcloud server that is advancing its local AI models quickly. You can run Nextcloud on just about anything, but to take advantage of the full AI capabilities, you need HW capable.
I am curious, what is the definition of winners here? Do they make more money or do they invent more successful products/ideas or is it something else?
I'd give up instantly and outsource it to a SaaS. I'm no expert on email but I know enough to know it's a PITA and managing delivery is a thing, and you have to make sure your DNS is configured right out the receiver will just reject it, there's reputations to consider, you probably want to throttle how fast you send it.. ugh.
Slightly offtopic : there seems to be a lack of articles loosely related to climate change / green-tech on HN... given the amount of new tech and the size and urgency of warming, Id expect to see more discussion/argument.

It seems to be a self-censored topic on HN, for reasons I genuinely cant guess.
As a vim user, I’ve been using doom emacs for the past 3.5 years and haven’t looked back yet. I really enjoy the Common Lisp experience while using doom as well.
But what if they love arguing? That might train the extremists to be better at arguing their point until they manage to convince the bots or at least make some headway. A free adversarial neural network to improve persuasion skills at scale.

Oh wait, that’s what the internet already is.
This is good advice. I had a hard time with this aspect of go until wrapping clicked. I think (as mentioned in the post) creating custom errors can be extremely useful as well, in moderation. Go error handling is really not that bad if you embrace it and use it well.

Like many things in go, I think a lot of us unwittingly hope it will behave in familiar ways because so much of the language seems simple or intuitive. Unfortunately, without a good grasp on it, many parts of go will appear to cooperate with your hopes until it doesn’t.

I think a great example of this is the type system. There is a correct way to use it, but it’ll let you misuse it quite extensively before things start to implode. Errors are a bit like this. You can return raw errors for a long time and it’ll seem fine until suddenly, debugging and tracing issues is incredibly inconvenient and unintuitive.

I found the book “Learning Go” really helpful in breaking these bad habits and helping me get acquainted with how things actually work under the hood.
If there was nobody to buy on the dips, the dips would go all the way to zero.
Golang error handling is terrible by default. The lack of sum types also make it hard to know what errors a function might return and libraries rarely wrap their errors. There also isn’t any stack trace by default which makes it hard to find the original source of the error.

Check out https://github.com/rotisserie/eris. It really is a lifesaver