skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
maybe it's time to centralize crawlers and search data, making it publicly available to anyone willing to process it.

Not only would that reduce crawler traffic on websites to a single crawler entity it would make page data available for any indexer.

The idea that one company owns this data is kind of silly, it should be a coalition or a group of companies working together...
@tracker1 If i'm not mistaken i think thunderbird and other email clients who support conventional maildir often include a local db (such as sqlite) whose purpose tends to be mostly for helping indexing content to ease some aspects of search. That being said, as others have noted, search mostly tends to be fast enough at the filesystem level. ;-)
Computers have had conversational voices at least since Lost In Space.
I've made a small repository with current record holders that also shows examples of running these machines with Wolfram Language: https://datarepository.wolframcloud.com/resources/The-Busy-B.... I guess I also need to update it now.
Something I'd love to see more of is documentation that includes video or audio recordings of a screen reader being used with the site or components.

I'd find it so much easier to trust claims that something had been built with screen readers in mind if those claims were accompanied by video evidence of the core flows working with those tools!
There are exactly 0 miles of FSD driven by the public without constant attention from a driver keeping their hand on the wheel. There are disengagements of FSD in virtually every trip, where the driver feels that they need to intervene or the car would do something wrong. The safety record of FSD is basically due to the human drivers, not the AI. Tesla themselves don't have any confidence that the car can drive without constant human attention.

This is in contrast to Waymo and Mercedes, where the car actually drives itself, using both vision and other sensors, and the driver can actually disengage.
> The motivation isn't 'economic sense', it's not dying when sleeping outside in a cold snap.

You keep misrepresenting the situation by dramatizing it. People sleep on the streets of San Francisco (one of the most expensive cities in the US) not because it's literally the only place in the country or even the state where they would not die in a cold snap. SF is brutally expensive, it's unreasonable to expect it to solve homelessness by housing people. It hasn't happened and it will never happen. Ever. We can spend $100B more on this next year, and we will just have more homeless people.
I think it's better understood as, "global and static state should only be declared by the client". So all of your functions should take pointers and all of your data should preferably be declared as types, and the points of your program that consume your code can declare their lifetime.

So if you're inclined to declare 2 global variables, instead define a struct with those two values and your functions take a pointer to that struct, and whatever code calls into yours can then decide whether they want to define that struct as having global scope. It just makes for more modular code.
I think we can surely all mostly agree 'her' presents a much more realistic portrayal of a near-term future than Lost in Space et al.
Big Tech thinks it can do everything better than everyone else. Sometimes they are right.

In the case of planting trees at scale, it's hard to imagine that they will do any worse than anyone else. Because planting trees at scale doesn't work. You need a few dozen million people to each plant a small number of trees, and then care for them until they can survive on their own.
> Maybe other companies shouldn't completely optimize away the humanity in their services

Plenty of fliers just want the cheapest flight. (Some, like me, see longer flights as mini in-day vacations.) Having a competitive market means we get to have both: a cheap, inhuman option; a mid-priced human option; and a high-priced, human and luxurious one.
Not all the aircraft built were used by the US: a sizable minority (18% according to one contemporary source [0]) were transferred (by sale or lend-lease) to other allies.

[0] https://www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-hist...
> streetlamp effect

I agree completely, all of these kinds of conjectures are shaped by what is detectable. If there are any "dark matter" programs out there, they by definition will be difficult to find. That said, I find it entirely plausible that the champions will win by exploiting complex and exotic mathematical facts, while the implementations of the math do not themselves need to be complex or exotic at the code level.

More rambling thoughts about this: https://nickdrozd.github.io/2021/09/25/spaghetti-code-conjec...
Midler v. Ford is a poor comparison for this case specifically because of:
1. hiring an impersonator
2. copying a song
3. intending to confuse.

If what OpenAI is saying is true, then none of the conditions apply. I'd say (1) is unlikely, (2) is very unlikely, and (3) is maybe, at least to some degree.
Show HN: MusicGPT – An Open Source App for Generating Music with Local LLMs
What is telling for me is that ROCm itself is on regular cadence updates. Not just small updates, but actual meaningful fixes and improvements.

Not only that, but it is all being done in the open, unlike their competition. Hotz demanded some documentation, they provided it and he still complained. Some people just can't find happiness.

Now, whether or not I am pushing them forward is yet to be seen, but at least I'm trying. By positioning myself as a new startup who's trying to help... that will easily garner all their support as well. As I said in another comment, why not let them try too?
Hi yall, founder of Daylight here.

Happy to answer any questions you have. Long time lurker, so this is pretty cool to finally take part :)

I made this because I wanted the eye-strain free and minimalist qualities of my kindle/Eink applied to so much more of what I do on a computer.

Lack of speed and ghosting felt like it made traditional Eink impossible to do most computing tasks. So we focused on making the most Paperlike epaper display that has no ghosting and high refresh rate - 60 to 120fps. We started working on this in 2018.

We developed our own custom epaper display tech we call LivePaper. We focused on solving the tradeoffs RLCDs traditionally have - around reflectance %, metallic-look / not Paperlike enough, viewing angle, white state, rainbow mura, parallax, resolution, size, lack of quality backlight, etc.

First proof of concept in late 2021, and then it took us 2.5 years to get it into production.

And we built a whole android tablet around it.

It’s essentially our attempt at making a remarkable tablet on steroids / kindle on steroids. Definitely some trade offs, but on the whole we think it’s worth it. (& on twitter a bunch of early customers seem to think so too)

Note: it’s 60fps epaper, not off the shelf Eink. We spent years developing what we think is the best epaper display in the world and it’s exclusively manufactured by our display factory in Japan.

There’s still many cases where traditional Eink is going to be better (bistability, viewing angle, white state color, etc), but we feel for more general purpose computers you can code on and do google docs on and do fast multitouch amongst a thousand other things, the speed and lack of ghosting totally makes it worth it.

Think of it as a Godzilla sized pebble watch with a decade of improvement

Or think of it as a gameboy advanced, advanced
I don’t see the word transflective anywhere on that Reddit post, and don’t really know what it means. Where did you get that info, or is it obvious from looking at it?
Fedora favors shifting the technological overton window over shipping working software. I first tried Fedora out on the initial release which switched on Wayland by default -- this was in like 2017, or around there. I installed it, booted to the login screen, and then logging in went to a black screen which booted me back to login. I was on an Nvidia card which was unsupported and I had no idea what Wayland was, so I ended up uninstalling it in favor of Linux Mint.

It's not like they weren't aware this wouldn't work for the majority of the desktop marketshare. They didn't try to mitigate this by detecting your card and defaulting to x11. They did not apparently care. Evidently causing friction and getting the ecosystem to switch was more important to them then my machine working with their software.

I'm sure Fedora is great, but I think it's poor form to recommend it to people new to Linux.
Yeah, this could well be true. I was using a Hex Editor a lot back in the late 80s and early 90s, and that involved many of the Sierra games. Most of the time I was looking at the files installed on a hard disk though, as I generally installed the game from the floppy to the hard disk first and assumed I had everything. I think it would have been rare for me to be viewing the whole floppy disk of a Sierra game sector by sector in a Hex Viewer, although I did do that a lot for some disks. I'm surprised I didn't spot this back in those days. I bought this version of Space Quest II back in 1989.
It'd be unduly familiar.
Hi HN! Author here, I wanted to show off the latest side hustle that I've been cooking for the past few months.

This is a terminal application that runs the latest AI models for music generation locally, using
the CPU or GPU of the device, and without the need of heavy dependencies like Python or machine
learning frameworks. It works on Linux, Mac and Windows seamlessly, with a binary size of just ~30 Mb
for the non-GPU versions.

The app works like this:

- It accepts a natural language prompt from the user

- Generates a music sample conditioned by the prompt

- Encodes the generated sample into .wav format and plays it on the device

Additionally, it ships a UI that allows interacting with the AI models in a chat-like web application,
storing chat history and generated music on the device.

The vision of the project is that it can eventually generate infinite music streams in real time, for
example, an infinite stream of always new LoFi songs for listening while coding, but not quite there yet...

Hope you like it!
I wouldn't want to assume the details or the difficulty someone else has or is going through related to this.

What I have found helpful, when I went through something like this, is to distinguish between the "feeling" of certainty and the "choice" to put my faith in something. A lot of the time, we talk about "faith" and we conflate those two. I can choose to trust something and not feel confidence in it until after the fact. How much confidence I feel in a choice varies for a lot of reasons, but I may still choose to accept the risk and act on the little information I do have because I don't have better alternatives.

In that sense, you can choose what you believe. Or at least, you can choose what you put your faith in.
The Law of Jante seems to have less effect now than when I grew up. People are much more encouraging of entrepreneurs in my little home town, and cheering each other on. Of course, there's still pockets of discouragement, and it's worse in small towns than big cities.
Depends on your definition of slow. Throughput-wise, I think it’s fairly decent — we typically set up 4 EBS volumes in raid0 and get 4GB/sec for a really decent price.
Advancing Our Bet on Asymmetric Cryptography
> This war must end one way or another sooner

Sorry, but this is detached from reality. If your country were invaded, would you give up just to make other people's lives a bit more comfortable?
I wonder if anybody ever made an analog flux reversal-level disk copier out of consumer floppy drives. I'm not an electronics person but it sounds like it would something like a "dubbing" tape deck. Provided the reading and writing drives' spindle motors and heads were synchronized (which, presumably, could be done with an encoder on the reading drive) I would think it would be a fairly simple device. All the analog circuitry for reading and writing would be in an off-the-shelf floppy drive.
Every commodity service like flights needs to be available through a standard API. We need to maximize the impact of market forces, via price discovery and then competition, for the benefit of passengers.
The post isn’t asking our opinions of TA but rather for those that use TA to provide feedback. There’s obviously a market and this provides a product for that market similar to creating an app for astrologers.
Same feelings but specifically about Space Quest II.

I played SQ I way later in life, and SQ III didn't resonate as strongly with me. The rest were no longer EGA "text input" games either.

SQ II brings back memories. I learned some of my English with it, too. I remember the feeling of satisfaction when I discovered I could "rub berries" on Roger Wilco ;)
An article like this is the sort of thing the developer with the least interpersonal skills drops into Slack the day after someone's presented a transformation plan that has been researched, vetted, piloted, and roadmapped because they don't want something to change, and they didn't read the top two paragraphs before scrolling down to the part with all the capital letters. Good on the author for helping that person remove all doubt.
Content negotiation considered harmful (2023)
Not if you want speed. All of those objects and working out the history takes time. The API is not speedy when it comes to key:value lookup. At that point you're better off with a local object mapping cache. But then now you've created a half arsed file system
> Yes it’s expensive, but the screen is the biggest and probably the hardest to manufacture part on the phone so it’s going to be expensive.

If it weren't glued in place and if they wouldn't tie Face ID components to the goddamn screen, it would be far less expensive. I managed to break my iPhone 12 Mini's screen in a freak incident - the protection glass is intact, but it shattered below it, right over the left Face ID illuminator.

A new display + glass would clock in at 60-100€ plus maybe half an hour of time to do the replacement - but that would break FaceID as the components are paired for whatever reason. Apple's quote is 279€. What a fucking joke!
It literally never did that. There's some crypto wallet button that you get in the address bar that you can disable with a right click, and that's pretty much the extent of it. All crypto and other related functionality is completely opt-in.
›› "just save all the clipboard history, too bad if you don't want that"

I feel your pain. If you accept a bandaid: change the samsung keyboard to a FOSS keyboard without internet connectivity. The clipboard still exists, at least you can't see it.

A better bandaid would be tasker to flush the keyboard everytime you copy something
It was a true catastrophe.
Context is king here.

Nobody would confuse Tina Fey for Sarah Palin, while it would be possible for someone hearing the "Sky" voice combined with the "Her" aside to assume it was SJ providing the voice.

Again it would be up to a jury to decide, but there are plenty of previous cases decided in the artists favor that any sane lawyer would be uneasy taking it in front of a jury.
I am using OpenMTP for fast file transfers and file management https://openmtp.ganeshrvel.com/
Paperless Post Changed How We Party
I don't know what a phd in "algebra" means but I don't understand how anyone with a phd in any part of mathematics can find this unintelligibility surprising. I have a phd in what could be said to be the langlands program itself and I am not at all surprised I can't follow this result.
Psychtoolbox plans to move to licencing model "on some operating systems"
My S22 is pretty great.
I was getting an error from Bing not working earlier today. Possibly related?
No more strep throat
Video tl;dr:

Psychtoolbox is a popular open source tool for creating vision and neuroscience experiments. As typical of open source projects, the project mostly runs by a single, underpaid developer's time (Mario Kleiner). They tried to be funded through "support membership" donations, it did not work, and now they announce that a paid license will be required for running their compiled binaries "on some operations systems".

The relevant part where they describe the funding situation of the project starts around 6:00 as in https://youtu.be/05gpkP_EMoc?t=363 (sorry for messing up the link in the post)
Jane Street Avoids Disclosing Secrets to Millennium in Dispute
"SJ can't own all female AI voices" is attacking a straw man version of the complaint, which is much narrower. The question is whether OpenAI deliberately fostered the impression of an association between their product and her performance, which she had so far refused.

To your point, there have many female assistant voices on the market, including Sky -- but what might have tripped the line of impersonation was the context this particular one was presented and marketed. I don't know where exactly that line should be, but you can certainly reject this kind of marketing without stifling anybody's legitimate career.
This controversy is great marketing for SJ, too.
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456834
'There are often lots of little sections of a paper to discuss in detail, and I think it's hard to do that with a linear format of comments controlled by up and down votes'

I had exactly the same thought. Trying to think of a better way to handle this. Doesn't help that PDFs are so difficult to parse correctly.
You think a PM made this decision? Not at least someone at a VP or higher level?
If you don't mind, how does All About Berlin make money?

I don't see any ads or affiliate stuff in there (... and that's awesome, btw).
If you don’t need the full 64-bit space and can go 61-bit, you can actually encode variableness in 3-bits and at most have an 8 byte value vs the 9byte value here (ie 0 overhead). Three bits to indicate whether the length is 1 to 8 bytes and the remainder for the values. This is still 5 bits more efficient if you used the full 64-bits but unless you can make use of those extra 5 bits somehow (eg tightly packing another value that’s also partially sliced), it’s not buying you anything.
YouTube already censors content considered as "misinformation" by the U.S. government and has worked with the White House to mass delete videos inconvenient to the U.S. Democratic Party or considered dangerous to U.S. sovereignty aka Jan 6 "insurrection" videos that provide non-whitewashed data.

By equal merit, Youtube should have no issues removing content that promotes Khalistan independence or anything the Indian government wants censored. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
China produces 12 times as much steel as the US, per year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_steel_pro...
it's ok, he makes himself look amateur
I like ? icons that can be either hovered or clicked on to reveal a popup with additional info.
Quickly and dangerously. There's an entire cemetery dedicated to RAF pilot cadets in Montgomery, Alabama killed during training at US airfields.

* https://www.findagrave.com/virtual-cemetery/622200

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakwood_Cemetery_(Montgomery,_...
When their main competitors have been streaming high res, lossless and atmos content for a while now, it’s rough to see them claim they are committed to a superior listening experience with 320kbps ogg being the best they have in 2024.

Perhaps pruning projects like this helps them deliver on higher quality streams, which they have been alluding to for years now. Spotify Hifi was announced in 2021.
NASA, IBM Research to Release New AI Model for Weather, Climate
There was an analog flight stimulator used by over 500k pilots which helped, but this was war they accepted extremely high casualty rates and not just from enemy action.

https://www.nasflmuseum.com/link-trainer.html
Our billing is protected with some product. I wanted to ensure we are foolproof against at least low-hanging frauds, and I wanted to understand from you if you're using billing or other product. What settings or extensions are you using to stop fraud? Is there any story you can share about how changing the settings helped you stop fraud and avoid chargebacks on 2checkout and other payment methods?
I love how it makes really simple web pages with HTML, and even generates working <form> tags with <input>s.
Honestly, I didn't think it sounded remotely like her. Even after the allegation surfaced and I went back and listened, I still don't think it sounds anything like Scarlett Johansson.
Presently, yes. If China doesn't push too hard, though, they've got the right partnerships in place to start building out a global military presence under the same pretenses as the US within its partner nations' borders. Give it a decade (maybe less) of serious effort on their part and they could rival the US globally, not just regionally.

If they decide to start a hot war (say by invading Taiwan) today, then it'd be catastrophic for them. Most of those partnerships would dry up (by being a good excuse to end a bad deal for the partner nations or by force from the US and other nations).
No, it certainly isn't. Creating renders and scene modelling is definitely not real-time. Teams do markups and sketches for brainstorming.
Agreed, I would love that. With how varied screen readers can act between systems and web browsers I would like to have more "good" examples of what screen reader users would expect to encounter and consider a good experience.
No, but I work for a company with a very unique perspective on education and merit. They are a large privately held firm that does not care about degrees (for 95% of things).

When I was a year in to my career I sat down with one of our senior execs and asked if I should get an MBA, and he said “don’t waste your time, you are already in a university and we will teach you everything you need to know”. And that has been true.

Make no mistake, it is definitely a disadvantage but I got lucky.
more like: wait for them to decide exactly how to present this to the public.
Fortunately, it's stated further down. It's that Google charges for usage, while Apple is (surprisingly) free, and Google returns only one result, while Apple returns many. Google rate limits, Apple doesn't. Google requires authentication, while Apple doesn't. In response and also possibly already in their queue, Apple was apparently going to lock things down further.
How hard would it be to add support for Doppler (https://doppler.com)?
WG21, Boost, and the Ways of Standardization
It isn't about copyright, it's about passing-off, it's described elsewhere in detail in these threads what it means. It's about intention and what the customer believes. If customers might believe its SJ, due to samas tweets, general likeness in voice, and the context (voice assistant), the public info about them trying to get SJ to do this - that's passing-off, even if it wasn't training on her voice per se. There are numerous law cases about this.
How the Ascension cyberattack is disrupting care at hospitals
I just want to add that security updates do matter.

I agree with everything.
What I've learned from making my first product
Meta-analysis: on average, undergraduate students' intelligence is average
Thanks—we've changed the title from "Daylight: 60fps E-ink Tablet" now.
I am not arguing about whether a "young guy without higher education" can make it. It is "young guy without higher education and a whole lot more fundamental and severe hurdles makes it on his own without outside help/luck" that i am skeptical about.
I, for one, enjoy using talcum powder in my scones
Yup! Ozempic is a GLP1 Receptor Agonist developed by Novo Nordisk!
Hi, I created an account but could not login, for some reason. I'm on Brave and have some security settings on - maybe something related to that? Never had issues on other websites.

On another note, the mobile browser version could be better - the rows exceed the width of the screen.

But other than that, you've got something cool over here, I'll bookmark it :)