skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got one for the winter, and it was fine for getting a little extra exercise. Now that it's summer, I'd rather go outside.

I found I could only really use it when I was watching something on the screen. Watching videos was fine, and so were meetings if I didn't have to have my own video on. The motion was pretty distracting for other people.

Trying to do any work while on it was difficult. I could do a little if I went at a much slower pace than my normal speed. Even then, the static electricity would build up, and I'd get zapped after every time I took a break from touching the desk.
Yeah. I've donated hundreds of dollars to the EFF, but cancelled my recurring donation after reading the EFF's response to that article because I believe the world would be a better place without social media. As you said, the EFF's article lacked scientific rigor - and its dismissal of non-physical harm sat especially poorly with me.
I don't regret my previous donations to the EFF and still agree with their overall mission, but I can no longer support them.
Which says everything that needs to be said
Noam Chomsky's wife denies reports of death
Here's one effort, unfortunately it looks like it never got off the ground: http://rescience.org/x.

Here's their motivation in a Nature letter to the editor: https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-020...
> I will never stop talking about him

Don’t.

https://allpoetry.com/poem/13601954-Death-Is-Nothing-At-All-...
Yes, I don't worry about hundred-dollar bills on the sidewalk either.
> If they didn't spend so much money on renewables they could have used it on the grid.

Even if thats true, they wouldn't have though. The neglect of infrastructure by pg&e is pretty much classic corruption and profit extraction. In a different universe where pg&e isnt a terrible organization protected by political corruption, sure maybe but we don't live in that world sadly.

tree clearing regs are true but irrelevant to OPs point about renewables.
Adi Granov calls out DC cover artist for alleged use of AI
It's absolutely easy to forget, though it's especially the case for annual billing. I found out today (from my bank app sending me a spending notification) that I've been paying for a basic Curiosity Stream plan for the past 4 years, with the price slowly rising. Looking back through my emails, I can only find one mentioning a change in my subscription price.

It's fortunately not a huge amount of money in this case (it was the cheapest plan), and they did refund me for this year's renewal, but I was annoyed that a service that I never log into would keep renewing with no notification. Digging through emails, I found two. One from a while back, talking about a change in my subscription, and another talking about changes to their terms of service, which I would expect to get even if I wasn't subscribed.

For as evil as Amazon is, at least you can easily cancel Prime after it auto-renews and get your money back.
I don't know what to tell you. I've been successfully using Haskell in production for over ten years, and it's the most maintainable language I've used for a variety of reasons, including the one given in my message above.
This is a symptom of cruft. Clean breaks are needed to keep software fresh.

The Tree of Elegance needs to be refreshed with the blood of both users and programers. Or something like that.
BM25S – BM25 Library for Python
How did Adobe think that this would go over well?
What could be more simple than having 1 joint account?

What could be the reasons to have separate accounts expect some external technical/legal constraints? If the simplicity is the priority.
State-fixed prices are rarely interesting though, as the price is calculated to be above-market.
Los Angeles School District Votes in Favor of Cellphone Ban
Narrator: Urban legends say they're still in his stomach to this day.
Basically I am in a similar situation (my optimal speed was 3km/h) but I gave up as I had no space for treadmill AND the chair. I tried with the gymnastic ball but it take also much space when fully blown.

So what do you do after those 4 hours? You put the treadmill away and sit on the chair, you change the desks, you put a gymnastic ball on top on the treadmill to sit on it?

This question motivates me to rethink the whole operational strategy and to start using it again and maybe your answer would give a fresh idea how to solve my limited space issue. Thanks.
If anyone else still can't hear anything even after cranking the volume - the grandparent comment means take your phone out of silent mode in addition to raising the volume above 0
Thanks!

The code is not obfuscated or minified in any way, so it's easy enough to read. But I'm not sure it deserves to be actually published... ;-)
When I heard the song about kookaburra and where they sit, I damn near shat.

("Kookaburra sits in the old gumtree, eating all the gum nut he can see...")

:- O

I was confusing kookaburra with chupacabra, and I also confused capybara with chupacabra too... and umpires with vampires... being a child was terrifying. LOL
I don't see anything (non-archived) about direct bicycle power, for the grain grinder and the blender and sawing wood and stuff. I will look in the archive.
(Answers: page 9 on the paginated website.)
One of the reasons I made pip-chill was to have a tool to make it easy to me to have a minimal set of non-versioned requirements for canary builds on the latest-and-greatest versions. When the canary breaks, you realise you have work to do.
It's true, Gaussian Splatting is just an alternative to meshing a pointcloud for companies which currently rely on photogrammetry or lidar (Lidar works well as a basis for splatting when there's reference images taken as part of the scan). But I think that misses all the new opportunities that exist with Gaussian Splatting, which really just don't with existing techniques.

Gaussian Splats are able to handle more heterogeneous information sources, allowing more sources to help splat an environment. Devices like drones, surveillance cameras, or autonomous systems can be used to create or incrementally update a Gaussian Splat; and there's interesting work to allow them to locate themselves within the splat, not just to show themselves but also to place vision ML outputs into it (such as object detection or segmentation results).

Up till now nearly all digital representations of physical environments are either based off the original designs (by things like CAD or BIM files), or are an approximation of the environment (from photogrammetry or Lidar scans). CAD and BIM files suffer from drift, the real environment almost never perfectly matches the design files, small (and large) changes are made; and many times those files aren't even available if the structure isn't new. Photogrammetry and Lidar scans struggle because their output is a pointcloud, and it's very difficult to accurately mesh a pointcloud (Matterport only partially solved this problem and sold for $1.6B). Gaussian Splats overcome these issues; they're comparatively easy to generate for any environment, and allow for very accurate and easy viewing from any angle.

I think the Digital Twin space will be turned upside down, and they could potentially even cause huge changes in autonomous and semi-autonomous factories, warehouses, and depots. A single Gaussian Splat could be the source of truth that many autonomous vehicles update through their separate SLAM systems. Operators then would have access to this splat (and it's history) as a source of truth for the environment. Then, using techniques like iComMa[1], it may be possible to directly align XR devices into the Gaussian Splat; allowing operators direct access to location-based information generated by the environment.

That's a lot of words to say: Gaussian Splatting is a very neat new technology that could really underpin many future technologies, I'm really excited about it

[1]: https://yuansun-xjtu.github.io/iComMa.io/
Sony Buying the Drafthouse Is (Probably) Good
I personally know two people who complained about fabrications, and both had to restart their careers, no longer pursuing research.

I've heard stories from others, such as when a fabrication was known to students in a lab, and of some playing along with it anyway.

We routinely hear on HN of fabrications discovered in journal publications.

Exactly how bad is the problem? What's the prevalence, scale, and impact?

What are the causes, and how does society address the problem?
System Tests Haven't Failed
No. AlphaGo et al gave the appearance of "world class researchers achieving state of the art on problem classes that humans have been devoting lifetimes of study for thousands of years". the current desperate LLM scramble, including stuffing shitty, hallucinating, half-baked paraphrase spam to the top of every Google search result page, gives the appearance of "panicked flailing and tacit admission that high level decisionmaking has been captured by terrified MBA types"
Railrat: Real time Amtrak train status tracker
Show HN: I made an open source and local translation app
A few years ago, right after high school, I decided to try to make a simultaneous translation app for Android as a side project, it took longer than expected (about 2 years) and I had to make a lot of compromises (I had to use Google's API and therefore make users use a developer key because at the time there were no free solutions for speech recognition and translation that had good quality). At the end of university, I decided to pick it up again and finally, using OpenAi's Whisper for speech recognition and Meta's NLLB for translation (with both running locally on the phone), I managed to make it free and totally open-source (as it was meant to be from the beginning).
The app is still in beta, so I would love your feedback.
I still do! Love my Sony CRT PVM. I bask in its glorious glow like a serpent in the sun.
But you don't need millions of pictures of lions as a kid to know what a lion is.
You could stake fiat in a bank account I guess?
I have a small software company, under 10 employees. We make B2B applications and focus 100% of our efforts on understanding our customers' needs and the quality of our product. No marketing, no "incentives", nothing. Just honest work and creativity.

I've done consulting here and there and going full time could easily clear half a mil a year. I make a LOT less than that.

Our customers are happy. They are warm and praise us. They are forgiving when we make mistakes because the trust is high. They tell us about all the trickery they face from most other companies all the time.

It is a true win win. I do not sleep on a pile of cash but I sleep very well nonetheless.
Tesla to face lawsuit claiming monopoly on vehicle repairs and parts
What's in a Name? How abstract representation can shape the brain and behavior
published June 28, 2024

Time traveler...
That's the goal of the capacity market.

https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/markets-and-consumers/cap...
How does it benefit VR specifically?
I'm the original developer and it seems very few people really understand how to use this tool. And I did a poor job explaining it too.

No, I do not think of this of patches to be integrated anywhere. Even if you want to do this, its much easier to review the patches than to write them. But why integrate the patches to the code when you can regenerate them all in hours?

This is a post-processing tool. You add additional checks to your existing code. This will help to catch bugs, (and also perhaps introduce its own bugs), like basically every other compiler-level protection.

But if you catch more bugs than what you introduce, you win. And remember this is done with an very basic AI, next year AIs will produce much better code.
I really really really tried to switch to freecad when I switched to macos maybe 8 months ago. But I couldn't stick with it. The program is just so far from solidworks for me that I cannot justify the time and frustration... The interface feels like an ee wrote it ( I am an Ee) and honestly it's buggy. I found myself restarting the program alot to get out of certain states. I wanted to like it... Mcad is the only thing I really want on my Mac I don't have a solution for.
All of which, mind, would be readily visible to any Russian spy satellite, essentially telegraphing intent to Moscow months to years in advance. (Those are large construction projects, of an abnormal nature, which would likely take quite a bit of industrial scale coordination to pull off).

Think about it. There would be acts of Congress involved with drumming up and establishing funding and fiscal programs devoted to the task of constructing, or making available to everyone the material to construct these types of shelters. Once it was prioritized as s National Security priority posture, you can bet your sweet rear Moscow would be on the line to Washington/the State Department, and similarly mobilizing their own interests in response to what would be a transparent act of escalation in the abscence of any reasonable explanation. It would also be a clear signal to someone who actually had some intent to initiate or chance a strike that somehow, news of that had leaked to their adversaries as well, even if they vehemently denied any such intent up to zero-day.

You don't just mobilize on that kind of scale, militarily, or civically without sending very clear and obvious signals to other nation states with even a modicum of interest in self-preservation in the face of external threats. Especially in today's highly interconnected world.
Wow, that won't teach them.
> We know how to generate electricity very cheaply with solar and wind. We just don't know how to do it at the right time

I’m not sure this needs to be a goal to be honest.

It’s more practical for us to become accustomed to agile tariffs and have our own batteries + charging the car when prices drop than to hope for large scale storage solutions. In the UK the average solar install now includes batteries as prices come down on them.

We can already do this today fairly easily, and with open tariff APIs plus more integrated devices it will become easier.
I too lost my first parent back in March, my Dad. It has taken a mental and physical toll on me personally in which I question myself for not taking more time when I had it, hindsight 20/20 pounding on me nonstop and absolutely nothing I can do about it now. This is over and above being the chosen responsible sibling that is now expected to be there for everyone AND handle his affairs knowing how he functioned.

I am fortunate to have started working with my Dad when I was around 7 years of age. He was a master electrician and started his own business in the 1970s after realizing he could do it better. Outside of school and sports I worked with him everyday doing electrical work until I went off to college. He was not happy when I decided to go off to school for computer programming in the early 1990s which unknowingly then shattered his business dream of “& Son”. At his celebration of life I had so many electricians approach me that were overly grateful to finally meet me as they informed me that I was all my Dad talked about all the time. I had no idea and these relived moments in my mind have been my solace.

I will never truly be the same and the reasoning for me cuts even deeper as a serial entrepreneur as my current startup has returned me to my electrical roots and with every forward step of progress I make I must accept that my father will never get to see this energy storage creation his son invented. I now move forward with my efforts in his honor because without his love and guidance I would not be where I am today.

Damn was this difficult to type. Miss you Dad.
It is impossible to continue to rise unless something drastic happens. Nvidia is in the unfortunate position that most of it's revenue comes from a handful of companies. And those big companies are in the best position to put LLMs in hands of customers in their existing tools. So Nvidia is unlikely to get similarly big customers. Now unless those companies themselves start making a ton of new money and keep giving Nvidia all of it, I am not sure where is the expected earning going to come from. Off course if AGI is found, there will be far bigger changes.
nvidia is going to make an ai that will figure out how to prevent that from happening.
That would even be okay if there were an understanding the fines would continue until the problematic behaviour stops, but it’s unclear from the article whether that’s actually the case.

> The fines against Amazon are small compared with the company’s size — it brought in $574 billion in revenue last year — but significant for a state labor agency. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the federal agency charged with preventing workplace safety issues, frequently investigates Amazon workplaces and has issued dozens of citations, but is severely limited in the size of fines it can bring.

I mean, so? And what is it limited by, given a limit on fines is essentially a limit on the size of the company that can be regulated?
>Official statement: the new EU chat controls proposal for mass scanning is the same old surveillance with new branding.

>Whether you call it a backdoor, a front door, or “upload moderation” it undermines encryption &amp; creates significant vulnerabilities

>https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf

>New Branding, Same Scanning: “Upload Moderation”
Undermines End-to-End Encryption
A statement from Meredith Whittaker, Signal President, in the context of the EU debate
End-to-end encryption is the technology we have to enable privacy in an age of unprecedented state and
corporate surveillance. And the dangerous desire to undermine it never seems to die. For decades, experts have
been clear: there is no way to both preserve the integrity of end-to-end encryption and expose encrypted
contents to surveillance. But proposals to do just this emerge repeatedly — old wine endlessly repackaged in
new bottles, aided by expensive consultancies that care more about marketing than the very serious stakes of
these issues. These embarrassing branding exercises do not, of course, sway the expert community. But too
often they work to convince non-experts that the risks of the previous plan to undermine end-to-end encryption
are not present in the shiny new proposal. This is certainly how the EU chat control debate has proceeded.
In November, the EU Parliament lit a beacon for global tech policy when it voted to exclude end-to-end
encryption from mass surveillance orders in the chat control legislation.
MS Office files are also a "zipped folder full of text files". I wonder if the same approach could be used on those... Could be very handy for Excel files if they diff nicely (probably not).
Hey, vote me down to oblivion if you want; I don't care. But I think it's nice to say why.

What have I misunderstood? Is this a 4D space in a 5D spacetime? Is "block spacetime" discredited? I thought the parent comment sounded weird, as if I'd missed some important context.
Ugh, I'd upvote this if it wasn't stuck behind a paywall.
And if nvidia vanished, there would be no one to care about the IP violation.
Uh, have you worked in construction? Because that is definitely not how it happens.
The Tcl War (vs. Guile Scheme)
After the TCL programming language was introduced, Richard M. Stallman, in posting his opinion, kicked off a legendary flame war on Usenet. Glenn Vanderburg, also a participant, collated together most of those posts...
> leaving a huge opportunity for competitors to make a 5€ a month product.

Best of all, if the competitor becomes a threat, the company with 50€ a month product can just buy them out.
That's not how it works. They're Nvidia's chips. Would Foxconn go on and keep making iphones if Apple whatevered?
Biobanking the Victims of Nuclear War
Related: https://hibakushastories.org/

"The focus of Hibakusha Stories is to employ the testimony of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, Indigenous Peoples, Downwinders, nuclear test survivors and other affected communities to take action for disarmament."
Language transmission for sure. The Tower of Babel slowed technology considerably and by design.
Remember that the treadmill is heavy. Mine is like 35kg. It is compact, foldable, but it is not something you want to play with every day (despite of nice promotional videos showing how easy it is to hide it under the bed). Also consider a rubber mat (like ie. tacx) to put under because of noise and weight distributed on several legs and not the whole surface.
Discussion (19 points, 14 hours ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40714863
Can you share that ChatGPT conversation, please? (There is a share link in ChatGPT.) Thank you.
Your Cody page doesn't answer a very obvious question: does the LLM run locally or is this going to send all my code to Sourcegraph? I assume that is a deliberate omission and the answer is the latter.
Same here. I really wish there was a fork that was willing to try a new interface. Unfortunately these type of projects have complex codebases and a lot of inertia so it's unlikely to happen.
That guy could never walk again without two canes, so I’d call it more than a drawback… turns out once your muscles have actually torn the tendons clean off the joint there’s no repairing anything except in the crudest sense. The video mentions the issue of steroids allowing the muscle to grow well beyond the capacity of the tendons to keep up, which brought that sound back to my ears. Ugh.
I pay everything, give her my card and she takes care of house/kid, mostly.

If I die then I don't know, I think she'd move back to her parents and sell our apartment and she could live for a few years. She's a lawyer but currently isn't very active. But I know she misses it...
Putting Starlink satellites at an orbit below the ISS would be safer for the ISS than their current altitude above the ISS.
In Finland, speeding fines are based on your income. Can we have that, but for corporations?
Thanks for your feedback. Those are all great points! I’ll make sure to include a few real world use cases in my next demo. I will also give some thought to how I could make a UI for mobile with similar functionality, that sounds like a fun project.

I didn’t know about that Microsoft program, will look into it, thanks again!
That's an interesting perspective, and I think you are on to something.

I have some experience with a meditative/dissociative state in which that monologue - which I think of as the "narrator process" - can be observed as just one of many mental subsystems, neither containing the whole of my consciousness nor acting as the agent of my will. The narrator merely describes the feelings which arise in other mental components and arranges them, along with the actions I take, into some plausible linear causal sequence.

Minds differ in many ways, and perhaps one way your mind and mine differ is that words flow quickly for me and do not feel slow or limiting; so I suppose I am easily fooled into perceiving that narrative as the medium of thought in itself. It had not occurred to me to describe the activities of the other mental subsystems as thoughts, but why shouldn't they be? And now I have a better guess at what it might be like to experience the world in a different way. Thank you!
A process on Windows NT can do quite a lot of damage: Change registry values, change installed libraries...

A lot of the problems arose from shoddy installers that wouldn't clean themselves up correctly on uninstall; requiring periodic reinstalls.
Us. It's a figure of speech, no need to take it so literally.
My problem is usually at the back of the feet, at the heels, usually the external side

Thanks for the tips though