skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's nice, but can we add a feature to terminals that actually understands what it shows and can post-process/augment the data? E.g. when `curl -v` dumped 10k json, the terminal would be able to prettify it right in the terminal. When there's an output with seemingly table data, it would be able to show it as a table with sorting, aggregations and export functionality. If it's code, do some syntax. Logs? - collapse long lines and highlight the parts of them.
Here's one: https://jamesclear.com/buffett-focus
I'll second NATS. It's "doing a bit too much" these days by also having an object system in addition to durable messaging queues, but it's otherwise a really great little service.
Being mean here:

Why use either? Aren't they both just "opinionated" wrappers around this basically:

qemu-system-aarch64 \
-M virt,accel=hvf \
-cpu host \
-smp cpus=8 \
-m 8192 \
-boot d \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu/9.0.0/share/qemu/edk2-aarch64-code.fd \
-drive if=virtio,format=qcow2,file=debian-12-nocloud-arm64.qcow2 \
-net nic \
-net user,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22,hostfwd=tcp::6443-:6443 \
-device virtio-gpu-pci \
-device nec-usb-xhci \
-device usb-kbd \
-device usb-tablet \
-nographic
> Electricity is not an energy source. You need to make electric energy at a power plant. Usually, you end up burning coal or natural gas,

FYI, this old argument has the name "the long tailpipe"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/enriquedans/2018/08/19/myths-an...

"In short, the long tailpipe theory is a myth used by those who, for whatever reason, oppose change."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_tailpipe
Not just uphill, but also through thunder and flames.
wikipedia:
“From 1796 to the 1880s, the vaccine was transmitted from one person to another through arm-to-arm vaccination.”

(Variolation used real smallpox, arm-to-arm used the vaccine virus instead)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine#Types

“As medical researchers subjected viruses to serial passage, inadequate recordkeeping resulted in the creation of laboratory strains with unclear origins.[95]: 4 By the late 19th century, it was unknown whether the vaccine originated from cowpox, horsepox, or an attenuated strain of smallpox.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine#Origin
When i know it's going to do what i want it to do.
Was astonished that this is supposed to refer to type 2 diabetes (would expect "cell therapies" more fitting for type 1), but it seems you are right: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3263878/chin...
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no need to joke: ive got the social grace of duckweed and even I'm astonished at the lack of awareness displayed here.
If you're worried that what you're putting into the text box might be used to train the AI, I don't see how any of this matters. There's no transparency (or control) on whether your specific input is being used for training or not, so the only safe assumption is that it will be used.
This is kind of silly, disingenuous, and sad, don't you think? A possible human out there takes the time and effort to type a comment on your wife's Instagram, and gets replied to automatically. Now we just need a bot to comment on your wife's Instagram, then the cycle will be complete.
Fully remote van-life YouTubers are in crisis.
Tell it to most javascript people and they'll look at you like you grew a second head.
"One thing that the HN crowd should appreciate is just how expensive and shit hearing aids are."

Expensive, yes. My hearing aids cost ~$2500CAD each but "how shit hearing aids are" is not my experience at all. My hearing aids (Widex) are awesome! The quality of audio in normal situations is fantastic. My only real complaint is that they're not completely waterproof so I have to plan ahead a bit if I'm going to be outdoors in the rain.
Honestly AI speech recognition still sucks so bad I'm basically convinced it will fall on its face in many daily use cases.

I realize this is slightly tangential, but please don't replace customer support with chatbots or whatever you want to call them. It's a freaking horrible experience.
We're taking about audiobooks here. An actor recording an audiobook does not read the sentences or paragraphs in a random order without context.

Sure, voice acting for games or movies is done piecemeal. But the actor still gets information about the story ahead of time to inform their acting, along with their general cultural knowledge as a human. Most crucially, when acting is done in this way it is done with a human director in the loop with deep knowledge of the story and a strong vision, coaching the actor as they record each line and selecting takes afterward. When the directing is done poorly, it is pretty easy to tell.

Sure, for a movie or game you could direct a TTS system line by line in the same way and select takes manually, but it would be labor intensive and not at all automatic. And to take human direction the model would need more than just the text as input. Either a special annotation language (requiring a bunch of engineering and special annotated training datasets), or preferably a general audio-to-audio model that can understand the same kind of direction a human voice actor gets.
Show HN: I created Habit Tracker to help you build habits and achieve goals
Try AdGuardHome. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

I basically have all my devices use it when I am on my network, and when I am off my network, my Wireguard connection (or Tailscale depending...) uses my home DNS server.
I wish I could vote for people like you on the elections. It would be a far better world to have representatives that understand the issues, and understand what we still don't know for certain about those issues.
I would guess that it's because it doesn't have any special meaning in American English primarily, most Americans have never even heard of its meaning in British slang
The author of this isn't wrong, everything he says is correct but I think the order in which he says things is at the very least misleading. Yes, there is technically training which is separate, but as he points out, the companies that are running these things are recording and storing everything you write and it more than likely will influence the next model they design. So sure, today the model you interact with won't update based on your input, but the next iteration might, and at some point it wouldn't be particularly surprising to see models which do live train on the data as you interact.

It's like the bell curve meme - the person who knows nothing "This system is going to learn from me", the person in the middle "The system only learns from the training data" and the genius "This system is going to learn from me".

No one is re-assured that the AI only learns from you with a 6 month lag.
>A University of Washington team

Oh, so it barely works and its a proof of concept.

What is the interesting thing here? We all know how sound waves work. Pretty sure this technology is old. Until there is a product here, it just sounds like you are rehashing noise cancellation.

Academia has dug this grave of skepticism. I just have 0 faith this will get to market through University of Washington. Maybe it will be patented and used even less!
I guess IDA is the Photoshop of software RE.
Huh? It allows for programming via JavaScript which is then transpiled for WebGL or WebGPU. It doesn't seem fixed function at all.
Except you are forgetting that building dependencies from source is also something that happens in real life, as it is opening such projects in IDEs.

In one thing you are right, I make my life easier by choosing other alternatives when possible.
My God, this toxic POS company needs to die.
The Economics of Working 80-Hour Weeks
Libraries still exist and sort books like that, don't they?
No one ever mentions those students who fail their degree but are still liable for the full cost.

A friend's son decided to do an aerospace engineering degree after showing promising skills at college.

A three year degree course.

He wanted to be a B2 licenced engineer but the college sent him, wrongly, to Norwich university where he found out after a few months that the degree course was only a B1 licenced engineer degree.

The college arranged for him to go to Bristol university to study for a B2 liceneced engineer degree.

After two further years squeezing in three years of study he failed the final module and so failed his entire degree.

Because he had wasted a year at Norwich university he was unable to do the extra year that he should have been entitled to if he had been sent to Bristol university in the first instance.

His parents could have forked out £9,000 to do the extra year but could not afford the cost.

£30,000 in debt with no degree.

This all happened back in 2010.

He did manage to get a role at British Airways and is now a manager but sadly his dream of being an aerospace engineer is long gone.
Are there just not enough teeth in these laws? Shouldn’t the executives be going to jail instead of an easily ignored fine? And shouldn’t their jail cell be next to a Patriot Battery on Taiwan, so they start to take their actions on geopolitics seriously?
I commented with links to wikipedia’s relevant sections
Again, you seem to be talking in bad faith. I'm not "quibbling" about anything. I'm not going to engage with someone speaking in bad faith. I might reply elsewhere, and you can look out for it, but this is a really inappropriate way to conduct a conversation. Even if you can't see the other person.
It depends. I would have had the same opinion as you until recently when I switched to an M2 for travel work, and it is completely adequete for getting work done.

There’s a handful of edge cases where I’ll fire up the real Linux laptop, but between UTM and Parallels I can get a lot of real work done on the MacBook.
Hum... If you are already refactoring, it's a very good evidence that you didn't throw the code away.
This is likely to get better reception as a Show HN:https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
> The fact that more robust, effective, and relevant security mechanisms are now not only available but have grown far more popular in Java applications

Like what? Or are you referring to isolating the entire JVM? That's pointless for plugin systems that don't want to deal with the ridiculous amount of overhead that'd entail.

> SecurityManager was (actually, still is as it has not been removed yet) simultaneously one of the most expensive features and least used features in the JDK

Well, yeah. It was hard to implement, I'd know because I was working on integrating it in a plugin framework I was working on at the time. But we eventually abandoned that idea when we heard the announcement of SM being deprecated with no replacement.

Would've been great to be able to support sandboxed plugins for the game we were working on.
I’m not sure what’s sideways, how is this different from what I said?
I'm on it. I have gotten multiple jobs from it. I log in regularly, but am not "active".

As far as the downsides - nothing is forcing you to read anything on the site, so that is an easily avoided problem. I find cold messaging to be a good thing - ignore it if you are not looking, reply with your desired role if you are looking. Data privacy is a valid concern, so only post the public information you want people to have to find jobs.

So sure, if you try to use it as social media it is problematic. If you think of it as a directory to let recruiters know when you want work, it works just fine. Just don't make it anything more than it really is.
Fantastic advice. While reading the article I kept running across advice I had seen before or figured out myself, then forgot about. I am going to summarize this article and add the summary to my own Apple Notes (there are better tools, but I just use Apple Notes to act as a pile-of-text for reach notes.)
This is what I mean when I talk about the AI trust crisis.

Plenty of AI vendors will swear that they don't train on input to their models. People straight up don't believe them.
$40 shipping (to Europe) on a $45 paperback was a tough sell, but you're right - his SNMP "Networknomicon" was funnier than any book on the topic has any right to be. I think I read it in two sittings.
Codestral-22B
There’s an opt-out: https://www.groovypost.com/howto/opt-out-your-data-on-chatgp...

Of course, there’s no real way to know if it’s respected or not.
If this bothers you, I advise extreme caution when reading the comment section.
They day Google starts blocking ad blocking users is the day the exodus starts from Google services.
heck I would do it just for the perk of having to do less documentation at work
When I went remote, I went all-in with a dedicated home office. Not a bedroom with an office chair, but an actual separate outbuilding on the property that I had to walk to (even if it was only a few second walk) to "go to work." Comfortable chair, many screens, whiteboard for brainstorming and designing, sound insulation, mini-kitchen with a coffee maker, a bathroom... basically everything I need to pull an entire day of work without "commuting" back home to get something. My family knows when I'm out there I'm working, and they don't disturb me.

Understood this is extreme, and not everyone is fortunate enough to be able to build something like this, but it is possible to do remote work and have a hard, clear separation between home and work life.
Okay that fair, but it's a rough consensus among political entities, each with their own flaws. Some are authoritarian, some don't share Western values, some represent countries with deeply ingrained antisemitism. It's not a consensus among impartial ethicists or something.
Thanks, I see. I guess the real issue is the reach. For now at least I don't see ai having that sort of reach that would make me uneasy, like interacting with kids in video games.

I can see how it should have guard rails there on what to say. However, since llms are approximations of the same neural nets as humans, I wonder if it will ever be 100% safe. Even with humans who we assume to be for sure good have bad intent sometimes (eg doctors, teachers abusing kids).
There’s something called Auditory Processing Disorder where you are not able to able to differentiate sound and it supposedly can develop later in life.

I’ve had it since I was a kid because I always passed the hearing tests but every other kid had no trouble listening to music and understanding the words and so on so I put two and two together.

Anyway, I have never been able
to understand anyone in any loud public space which absolutely blows when you’re not a home body.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder
I wrote this a year or two ago and have forgotten the details, but there was definitely some reason why you couldn't "just statically link" it, otherwise that's exactly what I would have done, and saved myself some hassle.

IIRC it was either because there wasn't support for it back then, or the static version didn't support older Windows versions, or somesuch Microsoft nonsense.

But for whatever reason it was, they strongly push people to use the DLL, and deploying DLLs in installers is a PITA, so...
I like it. Slides are the right approach for a lot of things but writing on blackboards and overheads had their own benefits that just scrolling a document doesn't really replicate.

As others have noted, you probably need to be cautious about just creating a wall of text but I can definitely see its uses.
I’m already dating someone long-term, so the point is somewhat moot. But, I wasn’t saying that they should never date anyone else ever. I was saying they should only be dating one person at a time. Again, referring to the OP - if this is so unreasonable or silly how come everyone thought this way only a decade or so ago?
The key message I'm trying to convey in this piece is that models don't instantly remember what you tell them. I see that as an independent issue from the "will it train on my data" thing.

Some people might be completely happy to have a model train on their inputs, but if they assume that's what happens every time they type something in the box they can end up wasting a lot of time thinking they are "training" the model when their input is being instantly forgotten every time they start a new chat.
Altman has said that he doesn't think LLMs alone are sufficient to achieve AGI:

https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/17wknc5/altman...
That REALLY depends on the type of housing, not only on location. And it also depends on the interest rate relative to inflation.

In fact, it's really similar to dividends on stocks, just with cost instead of profit.

For a house in a suburb or rural area, maintenance (enough to keep the house in the same condition you bought it in) can easily cost as much per year (on average) as the cost-of-money (interest rate - inflation) for the debt.

And in some case much more than that.

If one such house is twice as expensive to maintain (over time) due to differences in building materials, environmental conditions, size/geometrical factors, etc, the cost of owning the house over a time period may easily be 25-50% higher for the most expensive compared to the least expensive if we assume the same purchase price.
I'm frightened of every step of ease

You're frightened by 'ease'? Do you think this is a real problem?

Will people really then go farther to end up understanding what's really going on and become physics engineers

Who cares, that's up to them.

but every simplification scares me

This is irrational

What if that's knowledge we never get back?

That hasn't happened for the last 50 years and there have been a lot of toy languages that no one ever used. I don't think this niche side project is going to somehow erase the decades of global computation progress.

Who among us

What?
OpenAI is substantially different from other companies in that the capital part is almost totally ephemeral (the Azure credits). Amazon employees can’t just walk across the street and start a new company because they’d be leaving all the warehouses and trucks behind.
If one broker goes down is it game over, or can they be run in redundancy?

If so are there any consensus concerns?
In part I suspect that's down to prompting, which is somewhat obscured (on purpose) from most users.

"Prompts" use symbols within the conversation that's gone before, along with hidden prompting by the organisation that controls access to an LLM, as a part of the prompt. So when you ask, 'do you remember what I said about donuts' the LLM can answer -- it doesn't remember, but that's [an obscured] part of the current prompt issued to the LLM.

It's not too surprising users are confused when purposeful deception is part of standard practice.

I can ask ChatGPT what my favourite topics are and it gives an answer ...
I think people are overly worried about the training, that because of a few examples, somehow these models can memorize everyone's content, reproduce it at will, and that will be used by some nefarious actor to undermine their business. It's hyperbole if you ask me.

I use Google for my business because they do security and privacy better than any other company. Note that this relationship is very different from the free, consumer offerings
If you, as a “possible human”, comments “I love you” and I am going to comment back the exact same thing to every person who says that. What the difference between me typing it and a bot typing it? It’s still my response.
It doesn't have to be big if it's rich.

People will target Kagi because it's packed to the brim with people who have $5-10/month to spend on a search engine, and likely have $5-10/month to spend on other things too.
Any real world market analysis survey that shows what languages are used across the industry, not only SV startups, when performance matters.

Plus the whole development toolchain for the mobile OS with 80% of the world market, even if Kotlin is favoured, there is plenty of Java on Android Studio, Gradle, Bazel, AOSP, and Maven Central.
Hey, thanks for feedback. Will take a look in to that!
Our assumption was, that as per current trend storage get cheaper and cheaper, and scenario when it will become more expensive, is unrealistic, but decided to add the point, so just in case.
Regarding years, we also thought maybe to reduce years, but decided to have 30, as that is the point of the service, to store for next generation, which is 30 years, and then next will decide. But lets see, maybe we will implement some changes! Anyways thanks for checking!
The resulting mermaid is used for... more LLM processing. Converting to mermaid first is more cost-effective, consistent, and accurate for my purposes.
There was actually an NFT startup a while back that called itself "Nonce Finance." They wound up rebranding.
I suspect it's popularity is inversely proportional to the average years of experience in the sector you work in.

As you progress in experience you typically build up enough skills to DIY deps when you need to, encounter situations in which you can get burned with not vendoring, and have your eyes opened to the rather middling quality of a lot of dependencies.
"Michael... now has 30 BTC, now worth $3 million, and is waiting for the value to rise to $100,000 per coin."

Can someone help me understand this? If his 30 BTC are now worth $3 million, that comes down to $100,000 per coin. But he's waiting for the value to rise to... $100,000 per coin?
I don't need to make money anymore. But the type of person you become to earn a lot of money, and the type of systems you surround yourself with to make that happen becomes increasingly difficult to break free from. So the only thing to do is to make even more money. Only you are strong enough to break the shackles.
Shokz has these bone conductor headsets with mics.
Isn't this the case for a bloom filter (vacuum maybe)? You can have very few rules.
Firstly, the territory in question is contested. Although I acknowledge that it is occupied—the West Bank by Jordan and Gaza by Egypt—historically, these areas were never considered Palestinian. To clarify, I fully support the establishment of a Palestinian state across all of these territories with East Jerusalem as its capital. However, the historical context is crucial as it significantly influences how this conflict is perceived.

Why, you might ask?

Before their occupation by Israel in 1967, when these territories were under Jordanian and Egyptian control, they were not regarded as occupied by the local population. There was no PLO or Hamas fighting the Jordanians nor the Egyptians.

Given this background, many Israelis believe that the Palestinian struggle against Israel has not primarily been about establishing an independent nation to coexist peacefully alongside Israel. Rather, they view the aim of the struggle as attempting to dismantle Israel as a Jewish state by systematically challenging its historical and political legitimacy.

Therefore, Netanyahu position on this subject hasn't been far from the majority vote in Israel, and so he was not challenged about it
French publishers ask Tim Cook to abandon forthcoming Web Eraser
When I was in college they would use a transparency projector, but instead of transparency pages, there would be a roll with a crank that you would turn to advanced the roll. You would get the same effect as slipshow.
A Prius V is 4.1 L/100 km in combined cycle and 3.8 L/100 km in city driving.
It is unclear what the 2.9 l/100 km refers to (and if it's real, like Toyota who said the Prius plug-in would be 2.10 L/100 km), but it's not double the efficiency.

But doubling the range is not that interesting to me, they could make the tank 4 times bigger and that would be useless for most purposes, and that was just my point.
The price seems interesting indeed, but that is the price in China, which would be very different elsewhere I guess.