skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pipe to sh is simple, transparent

Not so transparent[1]. Packages from a package repo are signed, usually with keys not stored on the same server so if someone nefarious breached a server they can easily replace a bash script, they can't re-sign and replace a package.

Sure it's safe if you download the script then review it then install it, but hey, you reviewed it last time, it's probably unchanged, what's the harm of piping it directly to bash next time you need to get set

https://web.archive.org/web/20240228190305/https://www.idont...
... sure, on the other hand way less competition, and smaller companies can also simply go ahead hire promising juniors and do on the job training.
Speaking as someone with only a tenuous grasp of how VLMs work, this naïvely feels like a place where the "embodiement" folks might have a point: Humans have the ability to "refine" their perception of an image iteratively, focusing in on areas of interest, while VLMs have to process the entire image at the same level of fidelity.

I'm curious if there'd be a way to emulate this (have the visual tokens be low fidelity at first, but allow the VLM to emit tokens that correspond to "focusing" on a region of the image with greater resolution). I'm not sure if/how it's possible to performantly train a model with "interactive" data like that, though
Another comet,asteroids, another mission to Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, and moons. More data on heliosphere. A modest space telescope measuring parallax. I am not proposing flagship missions just something so we can see something new a little more often.
> Police in the UK and Japan don't carry guns

Police in Japan do carry guns.

Also police in Sweden and almost all other European countries carry guns, and they have much less levels of violence than USA as well, guns are illegal yet still a very small fraction of criminals have guns. A police doesn't get to decide when they meet a criminal with guns, when they do the police really really need a gun, and they need the protection of the criminal knowing that the police has a gun.

Only a handful of countries in the world has police patrol without guns, the majority of the most peaceful countries on earth still have policemen patrol with guns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_firearm_use_by_country
As a fellow Christian, this is true but it's unfortunately untrue in certain ways - at least when you are travelling across America. There's now certain... conversational dances you may have to play.

It can honestly be kinda tough to even bring it up sometimes because there has been such an invasion of culture wars toxicity even within like-minded believers. I made the mistake of mentioning Timothy Keller to the wrong person and I got treated worse than had I been a total stranger.
Reading this reminded me when last year I found a few old venue printed ticket stubs to concerts I went to the in the late 90's and 00's. I almost threw them out when I realized they weren't really taking up space and could be maybe put into a collage or photo/scrap book. I just suppose I find it laughibly absurd that something as mundane as a ticket stub was replaced by an energy wasting Rube Goldberg contraption that doesn't do anything for the person who wants to go to the concert.
> - Rust for plugins.. this is painful, compare it to Sublime Text's python API, it's night and day..

Yes, this is unfortunate as they've unsuitably chosen the barely usable & unstable "component model" for their Wasm plugin layer. It's really only half-decent in Rust (to write the code & compile to CM non-standard version of wasm binary. it's also only truthfully usable to call components _from_ rust too.)

I think they are banking on the eventual support for cross-language async - which likely could never come, or could take longer than the company stays solvent!
Any examples? I can't say I've noticed them in particular; I think my brain probably ignores AI, stock photo, and advertisements, equally.
$2,000 to $3,000 per square foot is absolutely the asking price for condos in parts of New York like Tribeca and Soho.
The hardest thing for me when I started using Go after a decade of writing C# is to accept that Go and C# are very different and Go is a much simpler language. It is actually more similar to C than C#.

For a time I tried to write Go like it is C# and got frustrated a lot. After accepting that they are fundamentally different languages it became much easier.
Your teammates don't have to care. That is the point. It's only a thing on your local computer. The team sees all the normal stuff they'd see if you used git.
Thanks! I made it with debugging as primary use case, but you can also use it to browse through your message types and read the comments. Also a code generator (just a GUI for protoc) is included. You could also perfectly use it as a data entry program.
One article header image I made was a word cloud style-transfered into an AI image, making absolutely no one happy except me.
Not so much ruin, as make me ask questions.

I'll admit, I feel a certain cruelty to using AI-generated imagery alongside writing or information: it's disrespectful to the audience, and it cheapens the work.
I agree they probably don't have bad intentions. But other options still seen better than the one liner.

Even just as a two liner leaves people a copy of what they ran if something goes awry.
By the very nature of ai-generated content, a typical internet user is going to be exposed to a huge mass of ai posts. Then, to associate ai images with ai text is a logical step.
The software is on-premise, as in it runs on infrastructure you control, as opposed to a SaaS. Self-hosted might be the better term, but in the context of self-hosted GitHub runners, it’s a bit of a mouthful to say self-hosted solution for self-hosted runners.
The problem is apps raising the minimum iOS version. Apple usually doesn’t backport new APIs, so developers are eager to bump it up to use new APIs/frameworks. Similar thing is now happening on macOS. A lot of apps require macOS 11/12, which is pretty crazy compared to how desktop software used to run on much older versions of OSX.
I wonder what symbol or emoji could indicate "I am using genAI as a joke"?
When I see an AI generated image, I just think of the digital artist / photographer who missed out on a cut because of this image. That in itself is a pretty big turn off.
Cut it out. If you don't want to keep engaging, just bow out. Don't flashily and ostentatiously say weird stuff like this. Just don't reply if you don't have anything substantive to contribute.

Or maybe I guess you are realizing you are in beyond your depth and want to save face.
Hey I hope you see this: you can use your fire cube offline, the thing that doesn’t work is the home screen. But if you hold down the home button, you can get to the app quick launcher (first or second selection, depending if you use profiles) and launch the app directly

I get around this with my custom setup but the hold down home / quick launch is available on all fire tv devices since the beginning.
Use Case for Stateful Property Testing in Go
A 501(c)3 requires at least 50 employees? That would surprise me if it was true.
Keep in mind that website comments section are filled with a special brand of people and aren't actually representative of the population at large.

People who can't stand AI generated pictures and get triggered by the very idea of it are going to rush in here to complain about it, people who are like "meh, it's fine" aren't even gonna bother loading the post.
I think, in your scenario, the initial "bland script author" is adding nothing of value. You'll get more quality quicker by writing it from scratch.
Creating DSLs using F#'s Computation Expressions
I also have this impression. The software problems that are plaguing AMD are in the "less than $10 million" range, if they hired the right people to work on the most severe bugs in their GPU drivers and let them do their job.
AMD PE ratio is that high due to their purchase of Xilinx. It's forward PE ratio is much much lower, in the 50s.
It just replaces one overly-generic aesthetic with another.
It’s going to be easier to maintain and cheaper. Plus you get compatible images included and more flexible runner assignment. But if you’re already happy with ARC then there is no real need to switch. RunsOn is really for people who want more of a turnkey solution.
But if that happens (almost) every time for a potential company, then you will never likely have successful company in Finland, where the decision making also stays in Finland, and the money benefits the country in larger scale.

There is this saying that "don't sell the cow when you can sell the milk" - maybe there is still some wisdom... but Finland keeps selling the cow and buying the milk back over and over again. And then they wonder why the state of the economy is so sad and they never see "new Nokia".
> $1000 for 200 feet of garden hose

I know it's not really your point, but what kind of hose? I bought 100' of 3/4" "contractor" hose from Tractor Supply this last winter for $79. Even the in-ground stuff doesn't cost that much.
The Woolly Mammoth's Extinction
Would be nice if they did go into more details where exactly they tested, ie Paris means a massive agglomeration of 10+ million people that probably get water from N sources.

And even better would be some map that gets continuously filled and cca kept updated with measurements. I saw once something similar (also found it here, thanx HN!) but it was a map of known containment sites, usually around certain factories/manufacturing places.
I think this could work for some people, but some of the more aggressive verbage is immediately off-putting and unnecessary. I think it's just that some people are more prone to a drill sergeant approach, which given your selection of an AI generated image, is your approach. Personally, I could benefit from this exact same method but with a more encouraging kind of accountability. Hopefully this is helpful feedback.
Actually it's a rabbit hole to wander around in. But only if you know. IYKYK.
Static linking essentially freezes not only the ABI to the kernel, but many implementation details of the linked libraries as well. Including, for example, how library client code talks to daemons, or formats of files directly read in by the libraries. The timezone configuration would be one instance, or things related to NSS.

It's really not viable in a lot of cases, unless you like rebuilding (or at least relinking) with every system software update.

And then there's of course the memory savings. macOS and iOS for example have giant "shared caches" which are mapped into all processes and comprise of all the system libraries. (Other OSs often do this on the individual shared library level.) With static linking, you'd instead have many copies of lots of potentially-but-not-necessarily identical library code pages in DRAM.
We have been using alpha-fold, and various other protein folding algorithms (ML based and otherwise) in our lab work. Unfortunately it is difficult to divine the details of how each works which leaves us apprehensive.
This blog has been incredibly helpful in understanding and appreciating what is happening "under the hood."
Thanks for all of the time that this must of taken - we all benefit.
The point is to spawn a new medium, you'll have to imagine harder how positive that could be as people with lots of ideas are not going to give them to you for free.

Perfecting the tech for wide-spread use has trade offs; need for caller id, ease of slandering until trust in voice uniqueness recalibrates, all of which is going to change soon anyway but giving only rich/bad actors the tech at first has its own set of trade offs. Head in the sand is the irresponsible way.
And you don’t see an issue with that and why Apple might want to take precautions against it on a wider scale?
"way less competition"?
If someone uses an AI generated image, the alternative is almost always going to be a CC-licensed or otherwise free image. Almost no one is paying for photography for a non-commercial blog post.
Neither is all GenAI; in both cases there are certain patterns — woman laughing at salad, the actors holding soldering irons by the hot part, hackers wearing black hoodies and having their faces illuminated by a projector showing a text editor with some HTML, etc.
If you convince the game to give you responses outside the parameters of the game play itself so that you can use it without having to pay for your own access to an API, then what would you call it?
Show HN: I built a cool alternative to the boring "Book a demo" link
Hey HN!

How many of you hate the "Book a Demo" or "Talk to Sales" CTA on a website? Now, how many of you have the same on your landing pages as well?

Instead of asking for a form submission, which everyone hates, Chirp creates a Slack channel between you and your prospects in just 3 clicks. The idea is to get the conversation going ASAP instead of asking developers to sit on a 30-minute demo.

We will be working on more features like lead enrichment, qualification, and routing based on any custom business logic to make it easier for you to run enterprise GTM as cool as self-serve.

We're open for early access when you join our Slack channel :)

I would love to hear the feedback from the HN community and make improvements wherever necessary.

PS: We don't access any sensitive information and we are working on making it explicitly clear to prospects and vendors that your conversations are secure.
I think this could work for some people, but some of the more aggressive verbiage is immediately off-putting and unnecessary for me. Some people are more prone to a drill sergeant approach. Which, given your selection of an AI generated image, is apparently your preferred approach.

Personally, I could benefit from this exact same method - a real human being checking in, which is a neat idea. But with a more encouraging kind of accountability. Hopefully this is helpful feedback.

edit: as a sidenote there are several services where you zoom in with someone (often a stranger) and you check in with them about what you're working on, and they do the same, and then you work and at the end of the session you recap. Your idea is similar to that - different of course, but just be aware that this idea is already out there.
On Steam Deck it just exits, or rather it and the old node.js it bundles stays in memory. But no UI.
Oh, thank goodness. Yeah, that's going to be a major quality of life improvement for me. I had a feeling it'd eventually make its way into Zed eventually, but when I initially read the issue I was under the impression that there was no plans to add options around this, which I found confusing.
That's just how the world works. It's not fair, and it never was. You're simply told that it's fair because that's what the people on top need you to believe in order to keep society from crumbling.

America is in a dangerous position right now because they've let financial inequality grow too big - which, historically, precedes a sharp decline/collapse or a revolution (bloody as in civil war, or peaceful as in rebooting government). This is also why people are voting for crazies like Trump: He promises to fix things, and that's what people want to hear because they know it's all broken and no other politician will even admit there's a problem. Trump is of course toxic and will destroy everything, but that's beside the point because the people have lost hope and they need to hear something good for a change, even if it's an obvious lie. But I digress...

Yeah, you got shafted. But you're still young, and you can take that knowledge of the inherent unfairness and start making things work for you instead of staying in the box they've prepared for you. The people who get ahead know what rules to keep and what rules they can break. Learn from them.

This is nothing new. It's always the same story because in the beginning of an empire, it actually is true that things are (mostly) fair and you have every opportunity if you work hard. But over time it starts to decay, and eventually it becomes not true. Even George Orwell knew that ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_(Animal_Farm) ).

Take this as your first real life lesson (there will be many more).

The only other advice I can give is: The poor people work for their money. The rich people make their money work for them. How do you get enough money that it can start working for you? That's the trick - it's always changing. Right now the money is in luxury goods and subsistence goods (ultra rich goods and ultra poor goods) because the middle class has been hollowed out, so they're not buying middle class goods.
Depends on your goals, bittorrent does without STUN servers by coordinating over other peers in the network. Time-based coordination and simultanous-open is another strategy.. And there's IPv6. Local peer-to-peer wifi can probably use multicast for discovery.

The situation isn't pretty, but there's more than what WebRTC with its single-use sessions offers.
This is a really good point. The shuttle was doomed to be a failure before the first part was produced. A whole bunch of different organizations wanted a piece of the pie and were forcing changes on the design that turned it into a pasted together swiss army knife. If you said no to any of those organizations, they would have fought against your funding.

Space is an arena that needs a lot of hardware rich testing to see what works and what fails and fast turn around times.
DMX-1000 signal processing computer (1978) (2020)
The underlying issue is that those tickets have a "no resale" provision that doesn't apply when the original seller acts as a broker.

Do other brokers, when they go and work around that limitation break the sales contact? Maybe. The legal system would churn an answer in a few years.

Do AXS et al with their "only we are allowed to engage in a secondary policy" are abusing their monopoly on original sales? The legal system would churn an answer about the legality of this in few years, but I think it's obvious they at least break rules in the spirit.
LLMs are absolutely a sandbox that can be cleared and purged at will with even less investment into the setup of individual tools. I am having a hard time understanding what distinction you're drawing and, if anything, I'd expect GTA to be more restrictive because someone had to be paid to program all of the possible outcomes explicitly.
Show HN: I Made Slack AI Better with Action Items and Task Management
Hey everyone,

I am the founder of Twing, after multiple iterations and seeing people not finding value with just summarizations!

I created TwingBot which basically sits in your Slack and gives you:

1. Open Action Items assigned to you
2. Action Items assigned by you
3. Task management and tracking
4. On demand summarization and digests
5. Automatic extraction of tasks from texts.
6. Privacy (No conversations gets stored, ever)

I like to think the insight is that people don't want to go and ask a bot to do things for it, they just want the bot to give it summaries and action items etc.

I like to think I have been able to validate that from my current users seeing as they are saving like 30 mins a day.

If video is more your style, maybe this would help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yskK8KxE_Sk

Will you use something like this? Do you think this has value?

Feel free to try it out! It's free!

Would love to hear your opinions!

Fun detail: It was not easy to implement something without storing conversations. It's a pain to fetch data from multiple channels from Slack at a time. :(

PS: If you wanna know the future of this. Twing plans to be the nerve center of your org sitting on top of communication tools and SaaS apps breaking the silos between different departments and making it all AI-native. You can get some idea at https://trytwing.com
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Haha wondered who was going to be the first
I find Posthog interesting because it launched around the same time (2020ish) as Stan.Store.

Not Posthog is a technically much more challenging product and is more geared towards developers and yet in terms of ARR it is at 10 million whereas Stan.Store which is basically link in bio + a very basic store is doing 25 million ARR.

Goes to show, selling to developers is really hard. Hopefully Posthog makes it in the long term, but graphing time spent vs returns, something like Stan.Store will make the founder + investors a lot more money in a shorter time period.
Men will do anything except go to therapy ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H learn Nix.
> when it comes time to update the software I would prefer to know how exactly it is installed so that I can update it correctly

Then read the script you complain about.
> and smaller companies can also simply go ahead hire promising juniors and do on the job training.

Not before FAANG hired the promising juniors first, FAANG are very willing to give on the job training. Or at least were a couple of years ago.
Is this better than VS Code?
This looks great. I love that it's using YAML files that can be version controlled and shared.

I developed Just-API (https://github.com/kiranz/just-api) with YAMLs for automation testing of APIs.
By "official replacement" I meant taking it to the store and having them do it. My wife recently got a battery replacement at the Apple Store, around $100. Paying that every 2 years is a lot cheaper (and better for the environment) than buying a new $1000 phone.
Wealthfront partners with Greendot. I believe deposits are FDIC insured thru Greendot.

https://support.wealthfront.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600441608...
I love what they’re going for, but I couldn’t help but react negatively at finding out that I had been hyped up for a post on some small technical topic for an OS I don’t know of. Maybe title it “At the Mountains of NIXos Madness”? But then again I’m just a grouch! Well written article regardless, from what I was able to get out of it
"High-performance, Reliable, and Parallel APL" -github

because i had no clue what co-dfns is
The iMac Pro, while very noticeably slower than my M1 series machines, is still respectable. Reasonably snappy, quiet, and of course the display is great.

It still runs the current macOS, but I'm sure that's changing soon. When that happens I might downgrade mine to Mojave and use it as an offline-only "zen pod" machine for creative work.
Skool is backed by notorious scammer Alex Hormozi (who built his entire brand on lying about being worth 100 million). This is that part of the internet where people like Tai Lopez used to inhabit back in the day.