skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Almost no-one is pro-spam

In fact there are really only two groups that are pro-spam: spammers, obviously, and the entities that provide them services from which they may spam.

Oh sure basically any provider of any service be it phone, web hosting, email, etc. will say they don't want spammers, and the email providers may actually mean it what with them not wanting their server's scores trashed and be unable to get email to anyone (though plenty others don't give a shit), but website hosts, telephone companies, and SMS providers? They utterly do not care and in fact go out of their way to not know when spammers are (mis)using their services.

Meanwhile like that other commenter said, everyone is incentivized to enter walled garden services that actually do the barest minimum of enforcement for spam activity. I doubt they're conspiring in a dark room somewhere, but neither side is going to upset at the other in that situation.
LivePortrait: A fast, controllable portrait animation model
We are excited to announce the release of our video-driven portrait animation model! This model can vividly animate a single portrait, achieving a generation speed of 12.8ms on an RTX 4090 GPU with `torch.compile` from PyTorch. And, we are actively updating and improving this repo!

Related Resources:
- Homepage: https://liveportrait.github.io

- Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03168

- Code: https://github.com/KwaiVGI/LivePortrait

- Jupyter: https://github.com/camenduru/LivePortrait-jupyter

- ComfyUI: https://github.com/kijai/ComfyUI-LivePortraitKJ and https://github.com/shadowcz007/comfyui-liveportrait

We hope you give it a try and enjoy!
You're not entirely unbiased about this. :)
Pretty screwed up that a single judge can block an entire agency
When you open the chest freezer, you don't have cold air "spilling" out of it. It remains in the chest.

On the other hand, when you open a freezer that has a door on the front, a substantial portion of the cold air spills out of it.

When freezers are coupled with refrigerators, the way that many of them work is by having the freezer air descend into the refrigerator through baffles (which again, makes the freezer work to cool the air that was exchanged with the refrigerator).
As someone deep into Microsoft ecosystem since MS-DOS 3.3, it feels like the old ways of WinDev vs DevDiv politics have slowly creeped back into daily Microsoft.

It is as if DevDiv is now full into UNIX like, poliglot, FOSS culture and such, now under Azure business unit, whereas WinDev is back into how to sneak people into Windows licensing and the usual old culture.
Unfortunately my taste buds get more intense with exercise and not less like some people. I just had to throw out a smoothie this morning I bought as a treat for finishing a race. I forgot how sweet this beverage was on a normal day and it was like candy to me.
It also facilitates half hourly settlement. Previously we used standard profile curves based on the average household to attribute consumption to each 30 minute settlement period, where with smart meters sending half hourly reads you can settle based on the actual consumption.

The transition period includes "elective half hourly settlement" which basically means that as a supplier you can selectively settle meters on a half hourly basis, which created an interesting (but time limited) arbitrage opportunity where you could do some data science to predict which meters would be beneficial to settle half hourly or not

Refs
- https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/energy-policy-and-regulation/policy...

- https://www.elexon.co.uk/settlement/profiling/
SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet
As I said, style over substance is indeed what chrome offers. Can’t even see the damn URLs at a glance.
Best? Pgp or cert auth. Not the most practical.
This is highly relevant to my interests, thank you for disclosing that.
Show HN: We fixed entire consulting niche with our app
Hey HN.
A few years ago, we realized that every agency owner faced different challenges in building a business. I think it's because they started out as experts in something, with some specific skill set, but at the same time, they don't know much about other things like marketing or distribution etc.

So, we created a marketplace where mentors and consultants could help a business and earn money for their time. We also want to remove all "business gurus" with this app, which cannot be evaluated in any way before people buy them
I have reports from the last 3 months about this. So maybe you were before that.
The license is confusing. Github states its AGPL, text states it's not yet open source but sources available (so does the site). Then it states in the followup paragraph of the readme, that its AGPL for personal use and separate commercial license.

Either you're not revising your readme or someone mucked up. If it's AGPL the further commercial use constraint cannot apply. If it's source available state it so, with a free for personal use note.
Hey, I'm Dmytro. Why we build it? Cuz for us it was worked as a charm when we did this offline some times ago, problem there was that we was limited by our communication circle. Not sure would this worked the same for online platform like this.
Any thoughts?
They don't offer Authy Desktop anymore officially and you need a specific version. Not sure if the hack still works if you have it installed.
We've been hiring non-stop for years. It's a lot of work to review resumes and interview candidates, I can't imagine why we'd keep it up if we weren't making good hires.

I'll admit that we are selective. Our positions are in high demand, I think partly due to macro reasons, and I think partly because we make an effort to offer entry-level positions with training.

I'm sad that you (or someone you know) didn't have a good experience applying for one of our positions. Please accept my apology (on their behalf).
Show HN: Auto-create relevant B-roll for creators' videos
Hi HN,

Harris here, one of the builders of Jupitrr AI, a tool that auto-creates highly relevant B-roll, such as stock videos and GIFs, for creators’ videos.

I know it’s absolutely weird, but Jupitrr was originally “Quora but in short-form audio”. We made a video to clip the UGC audio content onto Instagram and users love it (instead of our product). They then reached out and asked how we did it, as they want to do something similar to turn audio into video.

Fast forward to 2024 >> we noticed B-roll creation is a huge pain point (super time consuming), so we picked B-roll as the niche to focus on!

Core features:

- Turn audio to video: auto split scenes with fill relevant stock videos

- 1-click stock video generation: turn sentences into relevant stock videos

- GIF generation: turn any part of the transcript into a GIF

- Auto animated subtitles, supporting 58 languages atm

The product is far from perfect at the moment, that’s why we’d love some brutal + honest feedback from you all. Would really appreciate questions and suggestions for us to improve.

Thanks!

Harris, co-founder of Jupitrr AI
Show HN: I built a Home Server | NAS with LXD
>> Perl is more powerful but learning and remembering all (or a sufficiently more powerful superset of awk's capabilities) of it is going to take time. The peculiarities of its syntax is certainly not a small set.

I disagree.

Perl's syntax is easy to learn for anyone who has used C-style syntax as found in C, C++, Java, Javascript, or C#:

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro

Perl's syntax is more similar to AWK and C-style languages than Python is.

That said, there is nothing wrong with Python or AWK. They work great and have their places. But it is silly how many people treat Perl like it is impossible to learn or read without ever having used it or seeing where it is used.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7700770/#:~:tex....
> and you keep adding more weirdly circuitously specified conditions.

1. I explicitly acknowledged I misspoke and wanted to clarify: "I think we're not talking about exactly the same thing though, which I'd say is my fault. I would like to modify this:"

2. What is circuitous about my question? Is my refined question non-valid?

> At this point I'm not sure what point, if any, you're trying to get at

I encourage you to interpret my question literally, or ask for clarification.

> ...and it's hard not to form the impression that you're being deliberately obtuse here...

obtuse: ": lacking sharpness or quickness of sensibility or intellect : insensitive, stupid. He is too obtuse to take a hint. b. : difficult to comprehend : not clear or precise in thought or expression".

I'd like to see you make the case for that accusation, considering the text of our conversation is persisted above.

Rhetoric is popular, and it will work on most people here, but it will not work on me. I will simply call it out explicitly, and then observe what technique you try next. You do realize that you people can be observed, and studied, don't you?

> ...though it also could just be the brainrot that comes of overabstraction

Perhaps. Alternatively, my question could be valid, challenging to your beliefs (which I suspect are perceived as knowledge), and you lack the self-confidence to defend those beliefs.

You are welcome to:

1. genuinely address my words

2. engage in more rhetoric

3. stay silent (which may be interpreted as you not seeing this message, regardless of whether that is true)

4. something else of your choosing
I don’t think I fundamentally disagree with anything you said, except your conclusion, my position would be, that it’s macro forces that make news organization ABC untenable and untrustworthy. if ABC kept being ABC the pattern you noticed would have happened anyway, maybe just faster or differently.

And maybe counterintuitively, I think a real ABC would be the least trusted source of all.

The only alternative I think would be to go back to a time where there was only an ABC(haha).

I do think it’s interesting that the only solution people come up to these problems is something authoritarian, this isn’t a criticism of you actually, I don’t know your politics but it’s something I’ve been wrestling with lately. Is the only way to have a free/informed/unified society to have total control of the information flow? Or total control of the culture?

Or maybe asked another way, how do you create the ABC that people want to watch when there’s so much other media out there customized to your exact perspective.

There’s also the fact that ABC is inherently conservative(small c) because what about D! And E! and L!
There needs to be penalties. Massive penalties for breaches like this. That is the real problem. Nothing will happen to Twilio even though they caused such loss. They need to suffer economically for this, then quality will improve.
The original poster of the thread mentioned it.

>Unless you have a stake in the company, it is NOT your job to make sure the company is the most profitable it can be. Your job is to create great software. What's great software? The kind you'd be willing to put on your resume without feeling bad.
Thanks a lot! Yeah I see how the simpler design that has non-stacked implementations one on top of another is easier to understand and test. Yours is not only a lesson in design for Rust, but in general for any technology! This later idea is just to compose parts together, but those parts are able to work independently just fine (given properly formatted inputs). A simpler and more robust way of designing components that have to work together.
the website says the geode closed down in 2018 for renovations. the website was last updated in 2022.

wikipedia says the geode is closed til september 2024 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_G%C3%A9ode.

what kinda shenangigans are going on there?
Sure but sometimes we have to do things twice because of a fuck up.
So it's not possible to keep a business private? Are we talking from the government or from other people in the private sector? I know the former isn't possible, but it would be nice to have some isolation from some of the crazier elements of the internet.
Most password managers support it and offer mobile + desktop clients.
Advertising is a cancer on modern society. It will metastasize to any new communications medium, public or private, and destroy it from within. People will switch to new medium that offer less spam, but advertisers quickly follow to strip-mine the new channel. A cycle of life, so to speak.
Scrum is good for delivering small incremental results in a chaotic environments, and is popular because it naturally provides a tunable paper trail for mediocre managers to cover their asses with. But if you are trying to anything ambitious from either a product or engineering perspective then scrum will absolutely kill you, first by sucking the life out of your best engineers until they leave, and then obscuring any important ideas or real progress under a sea of administrivia.
Good news, the Earth's circumference is around 40,000km, and the actual distances sailed by each of the competitors in the most recent Vendee Globe were all around 50-51,000km. So they all exceed your requirement.
The sandboxing (by way of example) is a hardware affordance, not a software feature. In order to hardware virtualize every instance running on Fly.io, we have to provision hardware globally; we can't run customer jobs in namespaced userland containers under a shared kernel on cloud-provisioned hosts.
Couple of things:

1. I wrote countless of times on my site that I love emailing with people so if you want to engage in conversation my email is public and it’s also in my profile here

2. I’m also more than happy to send actual mail. Like handwritten on paper. If you like that send me an email and I’ll give you an address.

3. If you like the concept of having penpals this app is worth checking out https://slowly.app/
Latency and Buffer in DAWs
If you want to get better at mathematical modelling in general I recommend a traditional text book dedicated to modeling, like the 11th edition of "Introduction to Operations Research" by Hillier and Lieberman.

As for the "mathematical equations" referred to by a parent, we're talking linear algebraic equations with perhaps a 2nd order term thrown in for quadratic models. I think these should be within the grasp of someone who wants to delve into the topic, and if not perhaps it's a good place to start dig deeper.

edited to be less of a prick.
Under project goals:

> Avoid Scheme/Lisp
>
> Scheme/Lisp should not be forced onto the user. It's error-prone and harder to read by humans, compared to Rust/TOML/Lua/...

I mean, any single language that's "blessed" for a plugin system will be "forced on the user," whether it's Lisp or Scheme or something else. So why specifically shouldn't Lisp be used that way? This phraseology betrays a bizarre, deeply unfair and wrong-headed double standard that views Lisp or Scheme as somehow inherently worse or more coercive or something to select as the plugin language.

> If upstream Helix moves to a Scheme-based configuration, this project will seek to keep a user-friendly alternative.

And sure enough, their second paragraph reveals this nonsensical view.

How in the world is Scheme or Lisp harder to read than Rust, a language that has almost as many complaints about its syntax as Lisp does and is much lower level and more verbose / complex?

How is Lua less error prone than Scheme or Lisp when Lua has all kinds of gotches around tables and arrays and is weakly typed?

And TOML is totally not sufficient as a plugin or extension language, and it's bizarre that they included it next to Rust and Lua. How in the world is it a fair comparison here?

Some people seem to have this weird, irrational hatred for Lisps. Just use proper paren completion like 99% of editors have and you'll be fine. And there are a lot of upsides, too.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised about that from Vim users, but still.
Hence my other example of the inability to police prisons enough to prevent abuse, I didn't allege an explicit scheming but a happy little accident. Allowing a problem to fester when it benefits you is totally normal and expected behavior. But if there is a role for government at all it would be regulate such dysfunctions.
Some Scientists Think (2022)
I'm not sure how Go's fuzz tests differ from what you linked in your article, but you article said proper fuzzers need to run for days or weeks, and that PBT should approximately always chosen over fuzz testing.

But I'd take one step back, and ask a more meta question about testing: does a successful test mean successful code, and vice-versa? Is there anything in Go's contract that specifies that the same inputs to the same code will yield the same output?
The founder of Octopus was from a software background and has claimed that Octopus (the energy company) was initially just to demo the potential of the software.
Internships, and check with the CS dept and see if there are any things you can work on. My school had a letter and arts class that basically allowed us to work on projects freeform with a mentor, either from the class or from the university on projects they needed help with. I ended up doing a stats project for the medical school to help them monitor grades and help students that were statistically falling behind their cohort.
> Still can’t find a “smart fridge” that runs in ultra-chill mode when rates are cheap and backs off when they’re high. Kinda antithetical to use more electricity to save but it’s true.

https://home.howstuffworks.com/green-living/ice-block-ac.htm

A company called Ice Energy manufactures the Ice Bear, a unit designed to work alongside a traditional air conditioner. Like the large system used by Credit Suisse, the Ice Bear is designed to run indoors and at night, when temperatures and energy costs are lower. Ice Bear creates a block of ice at night that cools the refrigerant during the day, rather than running the refrigerant through a condenser (at peak hours) that requires a lot of energy.

Underneath the Jordan Quad Parking Lot at Stanford University, 360 miles of piping run through a four-million-gallon tank of water. At night, subzero ammonia -- a common refrigerant -- runs through the pipes, freezing the water into giant blocks of ice. The system, which is one of the largest of its kind in the United States, sends cold water from the melting ice throughout Stanford's campus, cooling buildings from noon to 6 p.m. When the facility was first built in the mid-1970s, it skipped the ice stage, instead directly cooling water that was piped through campus. A $22 million renovation -- completed in 1999 -- converted it to its present form, which saves the university a reported $500,000 a year on energy bills.
Do you suppose there are stats on number and success of breakaways out there? Could be my imagination but this year seems less dramatic than the ten years or so around Armstrong’s rein.

Did anyone else feel like there was more drama around the end of the Indurain era?

I feel like doping could show up as more intense struggles for first without necessarily increasing the spread of placing. Also people who drop out don’t count right?
Mastiff dogs are the real culprits in more cases that people would expect. Had been videotaped doing exactly this. A wolf pack will kill the prey, two mastiffs just bite, sit and wait watching the cow die. They can't kill the cow efficiently.

They will respect animals in their "family" herd, but don't have this restriction against cattle from other herds or species that are not defending, specially when not feed accurately by the owners (If they guard sheep they can still see young cows as fair game).

The main difference between wolves and shepherd dogs is that dogs aren't neither afraid to cows or men.
Thought we were talking about the sub thread but okay, I'll give you that.

You did omit the first part of my comment however.
If you can help us drastically reduce our Brazilian hosting costs, we're all ears. :)
I struggle with sleep and I was excited by this—until I saw it requires a subscription.

I’ll pass, thanks.
In the Scheme programming language community, there's a convention of naming implementations using variations on the term "scheme".

So "Plot" is the ultimate name for a Scheme charting library.
You can always disable multi-device, so it can act like a regular OTP auth app.
The beauty of Brexit is that voters could project whatever they wanted onto it.
Scrum starts at the management level.

Let's say a project is expected to take 4 weeks to complete. Then, it is no longer a Scrum project. It is a waterfall project that is pretending to be a Scrum project.

With Scrum, everyone commits to working on something that will be done within the release cycle (usually 1 week), then re-evaluating based on feedback. This means asking for smaller things more often.

Trouble is that most people don't know how to ask for and build by starting lean and staying lean. They get ahead of themselves (and the team) by assuming more than they should.
What's really astonishing is that no one at apple dared to fix the bug that creates these files...
If you’ve got a 240v water heater that is on a 40A or smaller breaker, this would work: https://www.intermatic.com/Catalog/us/Products/Timer-Control...

If it’s larger than 40A @ 240V, you could buy a 120v astronomical time clock switch and use the output of that as the input to a 120v control coil for a contactor sized for your water heater.
Invasive species also were predominantly (and legislated as such) about how it affected economic (agricultural) growth over any sort of ecosystem effects.

It’s why some birds, despite not being harmful to humans, are considered invasive species because they’ll eat crops. It gets turned into a money situation, where their existence now has to be justified through the millions of dollars of “damaged crops”. They then are killed by the hundreds of thousands, and an agenda gets pushed with very little backing evidence to support the demand for their death (like common startling birds “killing other birds”, when there isn’t much supporting research about that).

What’s worse, there’s no global organization to tie countries together at least in terms of preservation. So in one country an animal could be considered endangered and in need of saving, and in another is treated as invasive and hunted down (often using brutal poisons from helicopters as it’s easier to spread). Imagine being killed because you and your family are doing better in another continent. It’s quite short term thinking.

Thankfully, this “invasive” perspective in science is slowly going out of style. It’s far too rigid to be a meaningful lens to study the world through.
It's not clear from just pasting a link what you're trying to say in this context. Could you elaborate?

PFAs and fluropolymers are all fluorine based. Most plastics and geopolymers are not.
I wonder if mods would be interested in hosting a official IRC channel for the site. Though now that I look back on my own memories of IRC, the amount of drama is probably not worth the hassle for the them hah. Perhaps an unofficial channel would still be nice.