skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a very minimal example using C++ interop in Qt’s test suite:

https://github.com/qt/qtdeclarative/tree/dev/tests/manual/he...

I’ve kicked around with the C++ interop a few times. Projects like Qt that use raw pointers extensively seem hard to expose. Ended up having to wrap Qt classes to model as a value type which was straight forward but it’s not nearly as seamless as the Objective-C++ experience
Yes, fine tuning is fast, cheap and "easy", you can do it in a no so expensive GPU without issues.
This problem will be solved with a vengeance when the next OpenAI model is released, because it will incorporate Stackoverflow content[1].

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/stack-overflow-will-charge-ai-gi...
C++ with heavy template use or C++ as glorified C-with-classes?
Noam Chomsky hospitalized in Brazil after stroke
> I swear, not enough people have kids.

My friends toddler, who grew up with a cat in the house, would initially call all dogs "cat". :-D
Ok, I think you're referring to this:

> Specifically, the user’s device will wrap its request payload key only to the public keys of those PCC nodes whose attested measurements match a software release in the public transparency log.

But what’s stopping Apple from returning a node which lies about its “attested measurements” (possibly even to a specific user)? Whats to prevent any old machine, not running the TPM at all, from receiving a certificate?

I get that “the process is further monitored by a third-party observer not affiliated with Apple”, but I don’t know where I read their report, or even if they are still paid by Apple, so this feels like a trust-based proof.
25 years ago I was in high school and pretty much everyone had an inexpensive cellphone. Where did you live where it's so unreachable?

And EPIRBs have been around for more than 50 years.
> Why do we trust human journalists exactly?

Well, by default we don’t. We typically trust human journalists either because they produce evidence alongside their work or because they have a good enough track record of being right that we believe they are this time too. It’s a pretty fuzzy thing.

To me the core failure in the concept of AI news is that all AI does is regurgitate things other people have written. I know, I know, “that’s all journalists do lol” but in reality journalists do a lot of boots on the ground reporting, they conduct interviews, so on.

Even if GPT-7 totally solves problems like hallucinations there’s still the fundamental problem of it having no first hand knowledge. And very specifically in the world of breaking news (which human journalists get wrong often too) it feels immensely risky.
There is very little "why" in stock market questions and much more "who".
That's pretty neat. Does that mean it lacks a stack trace or is that preserved in some other way?
Show HN: Nativish, improve your writing in your 2nd language
Nativish is for people who can express themselves in their second language but want help to sanity check and make their writing more fluent. Think of it like Grammarly but for any language and with a focus on helping get that last 5-10% fluent.
In the US, patients generally don't have adequate transparency to make decisions that impact how much medical debt they acrue.

They see a medical professional, the professional makes some recommendation, and then the patient accepts or rejects the recommendation. Neither the medical professional nor the patient know the costs the patient will eventually encounter.

The patient only finds out their costs some months later when they receive one or more bills negotiated between administrative groups and their health insurance provider. Any goods and services have already been rendered, and the patient is now on the hook for whatever the bills happen to see.

Maybe the more "fair" answer is to make medical costs transparent instead of treating medical debt different than other kinds, but the system is broken and needs critical attention either way. This is essentially a path of least resistence.
I've had a 0% success rate compiling other people's Rust apps statically. I always end up with a shared binary or a failed build, even when building with musl.
None of those problems are solved by using humans instead of AI. Very few journalists are doing "boots on the ground" interviews. They're lazy. And why can't an AI do a zoom interview?
This looks very helpful: https://github.com/neoneye/arc-notes/tree/main/awesome
Huge trigger warning ahead: suicidal things.

I made oak gall ink once. My plan was to turn my own pen blank, make my own paper, and make my own ink.

To then write my suicide note before I did it. It seemed, I don't know, poetic?

The process of making the ink was so interesting that I got into making natural dyes and things. It sort of distracted me long enough to stop the suicidal thoughts.

Now I make tie dye shirts as a hobby when I feel dark!
PIPs can be the result of a bad manager. I think "low performers" should be given a 2nd chance on a different team. If their new manager says the same thing, then fire them. I've seen people who didn't gel with their assigned team or project for whatever reason, only to be transferred elsewhere in the company and do well.
You’re kind of saying some of what I am trying to so I’m not sure we disagree. I boil down the core problem described to being roughly: people lacking expertise to judge code advice critically are putting bad code they do not understand into places they shouldn’t. This is the problem that is not new. LLM’s are a variation on the problem because they have the downside of not allowing you to view for yourself the surrounding context to determine on your own what the correct answer is. The fact they are so convincing at it is a different, but definitely new and horrific problem on its own.

Meta commentary on this, I honestly don’t mind if this is the hell that the business/management world wants to build for themselves. I’ll make a fortune cleaning it up.
Yeah agreed, that's why I was wondering! But esp-idf has been great recently. It used to be very patchy and undocumented but I prefer it over everything else now. I'll check the rp2040 docs and try out the dev board I've had for a while, because now I'm wondering if I'm missing something haha
17M insects fly each year through narrow pass in Pyrenees, say scientists
In total failure mode, yes.

But with one of the two though there are other humans not far away to send help, and land/open sea to rise up if you see a problem emerging.

In space it can be nightmare to get any help or get back if something goes wrong.
> there isn't a remotely affordable consumer friendly solution for "I want these batteries to take over when my power goes out".

That's called a UPS. You can buy them in stores. Closer fit for this purpose might be solar-charging portable power stations, which are also COTS hardware that similarly costs a few hundred dollars each.

Anything more elaborate than that needs to be wired into your breaker box, requiring licensed electricians and inspections. Not terribly expensive, though. Installing an automatic transfer switch in your home is pretty common in rural areas with frequent power outages, for generator installations.
Ask HN: Using Voice Cloning and TTS to Fine-Tune Diarizer
I have a pet ML project that I am doing for fun. I am trying to build a custom transcription and diarizer model for a friend's podcast[1]. My initial solution involved a straight forward implementation using Whisper medium for transcription, and Nemo for diarizing, based on [1]. The results are not bad generally, but since my application involves a fixed set of five known speakers, I thought surely I could fine tune the nemo (or pyannote) diarizer model on their voices to improve accuracy.

Audio samples are easily obtained from their podcast, but manual data labeling is painful for a hobby activity. Further, from what I understand, the real difficulty in performant diarizer models is not speaker recognition generally, but specifically speaker recognition while there is overlapping speech between multiple speakers. I am not even sure how to best implement a labeling procedure for segments with overlapping speech.

I started to wonder whether I might bootstrap a decent sample by leveraging TTS vocal cloning models to simulate the five speakers in dialogues with overlapping speech segments. So I ask HN, is this hopelessly naive, or potentially useful technique? Also, any other advice?

[1] https://www.3d6downtheline.com/
[2] https://github.com/MahmoudAshraf97/whisper-diarization/
Non Chinese as in not made in China? Pretty hard I believe.
As for near equivalent, I recall about the old (and now possibly hard to find) WiFiMCU modules and the W80x MCUs by Winnermicro.

http://wifimcu.com/

https://github.com/SmartArduino/WiFiMCU

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003456975478.html
They claim credit scores negatively affect "economic opportunity." This do-gooder idealism will be the basis for extending much more credit than advisable to people who proven themselves to not be credit worthy, and the result will be an utter catastrophe.
>No, they are popular because someone who lived 80+ years ago got it right

That's a very charitable reading, Asimov had a very different interpretation in his not very positive but I think great review of 1984 (https://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm)

"The communists, who were the best organised, won out and Orwell had to leave Spain, for he was convinced that if he did not, he would be killed From then on, to the end of his life, he carried on a private literary war with the communists, determined to win in words the battle he had lost in action. During World War II, in which he was rejected for military service, he was associated with the left wing of the British Labour party, but didn't much sympathise with their views, for even their reckless version of socialism seemed too well organised for him. He wasn't much affected, apparently, by the Nazi brand of totalitarianism, for there was no room within him except for his private war with Stalinist communism. Consequently, when Great Britain was fighting for its life against Nazism, and the Soviet Union fought as an ally in the struggle and contributed rather more than its share in lives lost and in resolute courage, Orwell wrote Animal Farm which was a satire of the Russian Revolution and what followed, picturing it in terms of a revolt of barnyard animals against human masters."
R3 (Strong) radio blackout observed on 10 June
Will be super interesting what materials are required to make burn up easier so this never happens. Disappearing satellites.
I'm working on a system for data annotation that might support apps of that nature.

I'm focusing on simpler datasets for now, I want people to be able to annotate a paper restaurant menu with notes about allergens in a way that other people with those allergens can summon those annotations and steer clear--all without participation from the restaurant. Like an augmented reality layer for text.

I hope it grows up into something that would let you ask:

> How trusted is this line of code, and by whom?
I don't know anything about the startup/VC world, but does anyone have insight on why this failed? It seemed to be one of the highest profile TTS projects and I thought money was just pouring into AI startups.
Damn how many syllables emerged? Let's get anglochinese cracking
These kids from hackers are quite welcoming of weirdness as long as you've got the skills to hang.

https://i.imgur.com/w1mNGHZ.png

I'm not trans, but I have to imagine that sort of acceptance is the goal. I wonder the degree to which our media portrayal of hacker subculture has influenced the desire among certain demographics / subcultures to gravitate towards those jobs.
To add more clarity here in case it's helpful:
If you open the Rectangle app's settings menu and open the last tab (looks like a gear), you can play around with the "Gaps between windows" setting.

I have this set to 15px, so when I drag my app windows around, they snap to a grid with 15px spaces between the windows. Dunno why I find it so satisfying, but it really scratches an itch in my brain.
From my perspective they essentially offer the same product. Would be really nice to get some competition in the game!
Flameshot is the best. I'm never going back.

And configuring it to a the print screen button just involves assigning it, and in the case of Ubuntu, overriding system defaults.
If AGI needs better hardware, then OpenAI has sped up development R&D for lowering the cost of compute and excited the next generation of scientists. He’s probably wrong unless he has access to the multiverse and he can check :)
> curious about why nobody from Chiquita went to prison for financing a terrorist group

It looks like the people who could be held individually criminally liable were in Colombia [1]. (I also imagine Chiquita gets points for notifying the DoJ versus getting caught.)

> Random Afghans and Iraqis were kidnapped for Guantanamo or outright murdered for less

To be fair, there is a world of difference between financing a foreign terrorist group and financing one that is attacking Americans. (That and we're cavalier with the lives of South Americans.)

[1] https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2007/March/07_nsd_161...
> Very few journalists are doing "boots on the ground" interviews. They're lazy.

Sigh.

Of course there are a lot of lazy journalists. There are a lot of lazy everything. There are also journalists putting themselves in significant danger reporting in warzones. Is all of their work invalid because some lazy people write clickbait? No. The answer is no.

> And why can’t an AI do a zoom interview

Not everyone is available on Zoom. Not everyone wants to be interviewed. Some interview subjects have to be tracked down and forced to answer questions.

In a breaking news scenario it’s incredibly valuable to have trusted physical presence. Imagine the next 9/11. How will we be able to trust AI isn’t being fooled by deepfake videos posted to YouTube?
> A lot (most?) people’s Apple Account name is actually their main email address (e.g. Gmail), so they would still control their email address even if their Apple Account was compromised.

But this is an example of not putting all your eggs in one basket. An all-in Apple customer is using Apple as their main email.

> You can still recover your Apple Account and iCloud Keychain without any devices

This assumes that you remember your password, and that the attacker has not changed your password, and that the account has not been permanently disabled for abuse.

> Your passkeys stored in iCloud Keychain are still protected even if your Apple Account has been compromised.

"Protected" means someone needs more than just the iCloud account to get access to them, not that you can re-download them if you lose access to your iCloud account.

It also depends on how your account was compromised. For example, if a thief observes you entering your unlock code and then steals your phone, they have the device they need to access all your passwords too.
It seems a bit unusual that there is an event for when someone creates or updates a wiki page, but no event for when someone deletes a wiki page. So if you want some automation that notifies you about page deletions, it can't be done via the GitHub API.
She marketed herself really well. Pictures of her brother in the hospital and her cat. Brilliant campaign and it forced UKAD to change their position.
There’s a great episode from Darkwish Patels podcast discussing this today

https://youtu.be/UakqL6Pj9xo?si=iDH6iSNyz1Net8j7
Refusing to give detailed references is another practice of Adult Day Cares. It's usually limited to an acknowledgement that the subject of the reference did indeed work there. This is to limit liability, they don't want to get caught up in a libel suit.

Meanwhile, serious professionals primarily use word of mouth and their networks to recruit for important roles. For less important rank-and-file roles, references are one way to de-risk new hires. Anyone applying for a senior position should be able to write down a few phone numbers that lead to glowing reviews. Never having impressed anyone is a red flag for a senior role.
> acts as a phone, does SMS

So literally the worst parts of smartphone - unsolicited calls and SMS and dependency of having a phone number in literally every government form, bank and serious website.
If WW3 happens anytime in the next 100 years, a colony on Mars would not survive because they would eventually stop receiving shipments of earth made tech. For example, replacement IC's or other silicon wafer based technology. Not like you are going to see a fab built on Mars in the first 20-50 years of a Mars colony.
>iPhones don't segment anything, yet they are locked tight.

Of course they do. There's market segmentation between iPhone tiers, between just using the iPhone as a computer (connecting it to a monitor and running macOS on it), differentiating iOS from the much less tightly maintained Android ecosystem (for which "walled garden" is a feature felt as "less hassle, less malware, more secure, mostly just works"), and several other things.
Looks like this was the bus:
https://i1.wp.com/www.techtraveleat.com/wp-content/uploads/2...

From a link I found in Wikipedia: https://www.techtraveleat.com/story-of-london-culcutta-bus-s...

https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/search/london-to-calc...
Oh man, I couldn't live without Alfred's clipboard manager [paid] feature. I started using Alfred eons ago, bought their Powerpack, and haven't looked back since. The ability to resurface text or images I copied up to 3 months ago has saved my bacon too many times to remember.
I worked at Aim Tech (of Aim benchmark fame) on a performance management tool Sun contracted with us to build for its servers that had a physical view - photorealistic images of the rack and each board with component level highlighting of status/failures. Way over the top compared to any other system I ever worked on.
> not hobbyist home soldering friendly for custom board designs

I assume by home soldering friendly, you mean too small. I'll make a case for why this isn't a bad thing...

If it's difficult to solder a QFN package, then it will be equally difficult to solder the passives and flash it requires. Its price, availability, and good documentation make up for the package by creating an ecosystem of cheap boards hobbyists can use instead.

For example, I designed a keyboard around the Solder Party RP2040 Stamp (https://www.solder.party/docs/rp2040-stamp/). It integrated all the difficult components in a package that fit between the arrow keys and delete key.
Columbo: “Say, you aren’t posting on a throwaway because your main got flagged for disinformation, are ya?”

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3501247.3531573
Journos absolutely do talk to each other...do you know any journalists? How many of their friends are journos as well do you figure?

The press release effect is real however
of course. i meant they weren't under pressure to cut corners and ignore problems in order to make a profit. it was a different kind of pressure, to make sure they didn't miss any problems and to eliminate any risks, and possibly they risked the project being aborted if they could not solve all the problems.
TL;DR: Our medical billing practices in the USA are fraud.

Medical practices bill an insanely high amount with zero upfront disclosure while demanding every bit of personal information (employers past and present, educational history, SSN, all possible insurers, etc) and are often caught billing people they failed to serve (left after waiting hours) or refused to serve.

The medical insurers aren't any better is the real kicker!
>Have you ever experienced anything for which you didn't have the words to explain?

Yes, and some of it I'm only aware because it can be easily expressed in one language but not another.

For example, "itadakimasu" in Japanese is a very simple phrase that you say when you start eating to signify appreciation for the food. It may surprise you that there is no suitable translation in English. "Thank you for the food." is awkward and strangely esoteric, "Amen." has religious implications that did not exist in "itadakimasu". "Itadakimasu" also means "to take", in this context meaning you will consume the food, but expressing that makes the English even more esoteric.

What's more, there's also "gochisou-sama", literally "Mr. Feast" (yes really), that you say when you're done eating to, again, signify appreciation for the food. "Thank you for the food." is again awkward and esoteric and doesn't fully translate the original phrase, but what's more Japanese clearly has two similar but very different concepts that cannot be adequately separated and expressed in English.

Moving away from Japanese, some languages like Spanish and French apply the concept of gender to their words and grammar. That's something completely foreign to me and I certainly can't think like that since I don't speak such languages.

The ease with which someone can conceptualize something depends significantly on their vocabulary, the language(s) they speak. If you don't know or can't speak certain words, you will naturally gravitate towards trains of thought that don't require as much complicated brain power.

Speaking more fundamentally, knowing or not knowing a language determines whether you can or can't understand someone. That difference is going to vastly change how you think about him, demonstrating once again that language affects thought.

This is why freedom of speech has become such an important human right and why it's a very good thing to learn more languages than just your native one. Speaking more languages opens your mind to more versatile trains of thought that would otherwise not be possible.

Suggesting that language doesn't affect thought is a very ignorant claim, particularly in this day and age when more people of all backgrounds desperately need to communicate more effectively with each other.
Amazon Commits $1.4B to Build 14,000 Homes in Seattle, Nashville and Washington
They also created wolfenstein, which I feel was more incredible given the limited hardware it ran on.