skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is also a numbers and a money game. Those Russian missiles are as numerous as they are cheap.
Your problem there is that both search engines place this image and backstory at the top of the results, so neither Google nor Bing agree with any of you.

If you think they're wrong, be sure to let them know.
Take a loss on every sale and make up for it with volume!
It's landmines no matter how you approach the problem.

If you treat the web as a free-for-all and you scrape freely, you get sued by the content platforms for copyright or term of service violation.

If you license the content, you let the highest bidder get the content.

No matter what happens, capital wins.
I might be wrong, but I've inferred from OpenAI's pricing behavior that they use it to encourage people to migrate to more efficient models. The 3.5 Turbo pricing is maintained to encourage you to stop using it. Look at davinci-002's pricing, for example - it's very high for something that's relatively ancient.
Thank you for the link. This sadly makes me consider switch to another email provider. I think it is great that they listen to their customers, it really is, but it makes me think that what I value in an email provider seems to be different from what the average (or at least questioned) customer values.

The words privacy and ai are in my mind almost irreconcilable. I wish them all the luck in the world and hope their other customers stay happy, but it seems they will have to lose me. Which is fine. I think they do what is best for proton, it is just that proton might be no longer what is best for me.

I just keep wondering if companies know that while lacking a certain feature may cost them customers, having it may do so as well.
thank you for writing this. it was very tender and heartfelt
I know HN doesn't like quibbles about site design, but I'm literally having difficulty reading the article due to the font size being forced to be at least 1.3vw. Zooming out doesn't decrease the font size! Downvote if this is boring, but (a) I've never seen a site that did that before, so it's just notable from a "Daily WTF" kind of perspective, and (b) just in case the submitter is on HN: it's actually preventing me from reading the content (without changing it in DevTools anyway).
Entertaining starting points for some pointless browsing. I like the fact that they compiled the prospective list by downloading TLD data. DNS data is mined in surprising ways.
> but like so many things at Microsoft

as always. e.g. the "C: drive" or the Virtual Memory instead of swap, etc.
strange. still not indexed by google
Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life features
I’ve seen that a lot of Siri features defer from Watch to the iPhone. Even things like changing the lights.
The world of luxury fruit: Does a $156 melon taste sweeter?
Apple TV+ is the new HBO. They have fantastic shows and are willing to take chances. The production values are great.
I'm eager to try blue bananas! I hear they are great.
So long as they dont follow Google with the graveyard then I'm all for it.
LED are somewhat temperature sensitive devices, and getting repeatable high-granularity bit-depth may prove a difficult problem in itself.

There are ways to compensate for perceptual drift like modern LCD drivers, but unless the technology addresses the same burn-in issues with OLED it won't matter how great it looks.

You may want to look at how DMD drivers handled the color-wheel shutter timing to increase perceptual color quality. There are always a few tricks people can try to improve the look at the cost of lower frame rates. =)
A geology professor named Jon Cummings at Cal State Hayward. Why? Consider this: An earthquake struck while he was lecturing. A friend looked down the hall and Prof H. was standing in the doorway (a safer place in an earthquake). Prof. W was standing in the doorway. Professor M. was standing in the doorway. Professor Cummings was standing in the doorway enthusiastically lecturing about the earthquake.
The concept of a Universal Turing Machine (UTM) suggests that, given enough time and memory, it can compute anything that is computable. By extension, if human cognition is computable, a sufficiently advanced computational system could, in theory, model and explain it.

This doesn't necessarily mean we'll easily achieve this understanding, as the computation required might be extremely complex and time-consuming. But it does suggest that the explanation of cognition isn't fundamentally beyond reach, even if we're using the system to explain itself.
1. It's not a worse model, it's a better model. Two years ago all we had was text-davinci-003, which is much, much worse than, for example, the current Claude 3.5 Sonnet which costs like 5x less.
Here’s the scenario, hot shot intern comes in, calls a meeting to use generics so things can be done “easier”. He does a good job at presenting it and its value, the dumbass team lead oks it. Fast forward 1 week everyone complains behind on how much pain it is to use
I have a 165 DPI monitor. This honestly just works with far less hassle on X. I don't have to listen to anyone try to explain to me how fractional scaling doesn't make sense (real explanation for why it wasn't supported). I don't have to deal with some silly explanation for why XWayland applications just can't be non-blurry with a fractional or non-1 scaling factor. I can just set the DPI to the value I calculated and things work in 99% of cases. In 0.9% of the remaining cases I need to set an environment variable or pass a flag to fix a buggy application and in the 0.1% of cases I need to make a change to the code.

VRR has always worked for me on single monitor X. I use it on my gaming computer (so about twice a year).
> value of Apple computers is that they're more general-purpose than a gated cell phone

Philosophically, yes. Practically, even a locked-down iPhone can do vastly more than a general-purpose computer could in the 1980s. (Particularly when you consider it has access to VMs on the web and now emulators.)
What would be the purpose of this?

The human eye can't distinguish light spectra producing identical tristimulus values. Thus for display purposes [1], color can be perfectly represented by 3 scalars.

[1] lighting is where the exact spectrum matters, c.f. color rendering index
The EU can only miss out on so many Industrial Revolutions before it fades into irrelevancy.
These days, people north of the Finger Lakes, Mohawk Valley and the southern part of the Adirondacks often call those northern counties "Northern New York" or "North Country."
This an evergreen IMHO, and it’s very good:

https://cryptopals.com/
Yeah, that’s my point. It’s not like they’re dumped onto the side of the yard, when they get decommissioned they end up going into these or parts can come out of them.

People make these comments then have no problem swapping their car out every 4-5 years and it’s like what do you think happens with those eventually?
> You sound as if the only answer that would satisfy you is "we'll turn back the clock".

There are methods to manage risk that don't involve turning back the clock. The open source creators /and/ shady companies have responsibility for the tooling they release, just like any other company has responsibility for any potential harm, be it to the environment, infrastructure, or the public that they create.
Playing with radios teaches you so much: no hobby has been more helpful for my career than ham radio.

And it's such a broad hobby: you can make contacts just like your granddad on MF/HF CW today, and then on monster microwave arrays doing Earth-Moon-Earth with modern digital encodings tomorrow. You only need the one license.
Color data has three components for the simple reason that the human eye has three different color receptors. You can change the coordinate system of that color space, but three components will remain the most parsimonious representation.
Indian crypto exchange WazirX exploited for over $230M
[dupe]

Official post: https://proton.me/blog/proton-scribe-writing-assistant

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40994602)
>> The words privacy and ai are in my mind almost irreconcilable.

You can run many AI system on user machines. Some versions of stable diffusion can run on laptops. They can be run privately, even on air-gapped machines if necessary.
It doesn't really matter. They're both fast and you're aren't really going to notice or care for most workloads. I go between an M3 Max 30-core GPU system and an i5-12600K and 99% of the time I don't really discern a notable performance difference (although some of that 1% is "whoah!").

Apple Silicon processors are generally much faster than equivalent AMD and Intel laptop processors.

Which OS matters more to you? If Linux, then use Intel. If macOS, then use Apple Silicon. Linux runs well enough on M1 processors, but you should not buy an M1 for Linux alone. Linux does not yet run on the newest Apple Silicon processors.
A wizard?
Why? It's a local model that runs on the device. How could ChatGPT see anything to do with it?
Offense is defense.

War is peace.
For a given value of "week" ;)
>if they are stupid enough to inspect

That's sadly true. There is no requirement to test; there is only a requirement to abate if you know its there.

A friend of mine had a contractor say "those look like asbestos tiles, but you havne't tested them right ;) ;) ? If I dont know they are asbestos I can do this job for $X. Otherwise it will be $X + $5K so I can do abatement"
I imagine it's a mix of all that. I'm only in my late 20s. I remember in my early teens, when internet access was still mostly something done at a desk and giving children a cellphone with service was not as common, I had a large vibrant friend group whom I used to spend a lot of time with. Though in hindsight I don't really remember it fondly since the friendships were kind of toxic and not as deep as with my 2-3 current friends.

During college I didn't really make friends, mostly just saw them as acquaintances since we mostly didn't really have much in common.

I only really interact with my current friend group over the internet and we've been sharing almost everything with each other for pretty much every waking moment for the past 5-6 years. I consider this to be fulfilling my social needs pretty well, particularly since I'm not all that outgoing in the first place. What I am missing out on are ancillary benefits of physically present friends, like being able to ask them for favors.
We should appreciate new abuse vectors becoming more well-known and releasing their stuff does help with that. What pranksters do with any new tech vs. public misunderstanding arbitrage comes down to the ethics of the prankster.
E.g. mix 480nm cyan and 590nm orange.
I had a guy tell me he had experience with Apache's mod_rewrite module and, when asked what its purpose was, he said verbatim "It gives you, like, more commands and stuff."

Other questions were met with equally disastrous responses.
> If I ran a country, I'd collect health data on all my towns (perhaps blood tests of 1% of the population each year).

And maybe flag 0.1% of your population for lots of medical testing, for their whole lives. Partly to catch unsuspected stuff, partly to have really solid baseline statistics.

And if some of those those tests are widely know to be less-than-pleasant (bone marrow sampling, colonoscopy, etc.), and the busybodies & hypochondriacs find it easy to get on "the list" - that may increase citizen satisfaction with your heath care system. Both in those with more-is-better mindsets, and those too quick to imagine that the forbidden fruit is sweeter.
You aren’t saying very much. What is a rape apologist in this context?
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40996248
This list is a mix of chemical substances (e.g. water), categories of substances (e.g. salt) and elements (e.g. carbon), so it doesn't really make sense. It would make more sense to stick to elements, e.g. list hydrogen and oxygen instead of water.

Also, ammonia is very toxic and only exists in trace amounts in the body.

Apparently it's a quote from the manga series Fullmetal alchemist.
Ha! That explains a lot. I've started looking into Prolog recently, and there were some... familiar echoes in there, reminiscent of Erlang.

But of course, the submarine is like a cigar, not cigar like a submarine.
Well the requirement is that the AI was developed with the necessary care, and after that, what it says is not negligent by definition. If the developers mishandled something during the development, they are responsible. If the police enters wrong data and it is found to be negligent, they are responsible. I don’t really get the ethical problem here.
It depends. Of course we don’t see the whole picture because it’s just an example by OP, but I also find weird that the de facto solution to abstract classes is: interfaces. Sometimes, duplication is better than interfaces.
By mixing two complementary colors.
Thanks for explaining! That makes sense, it’s mostly that it’s mainly used for relatively long distances. I’m not very familiar with Aussie projects, but it’s cool to hear that the govt there seems to be aggressively planning for this type of cross-regional energy transfer.
The problem isn't that we can't define intelligence, the problem (IMHO) is that people aren't comfortable of the implications of any given definition.

I like to play a game whenever I meet a new group of programmers/lawyers/board gamers/pedants. I ask them to define a sandwich, then I point out all of the edge cases until we get to the point where I can either say their definition is bad because it e.g. doesn't include subs (short for submarine sandwiches), or I can say that poptarts are sandwiches.

The problem is that reality is blurry and clear definitions are fundamentally incapable of capturing the nuance there.
And what proportion of the RVs squatting in Seattle neighborhoods do you think have those systems?

Where do you think those squatters are going to dump that waste?

My question stands, why would someone expect a different outcome from the actual one?
nice, thanks for the idea
Who is “we” in “we will have to”? As a citizen, I would strongly reject any increased national security involvement in tech; and as an employee, this may be the thing that pushes me to unionize.
Bingo. I expect that the "home schooling" market will balloon in coming decades, and that it will no longer be called "home schooling". It will be "independent schooling" or some such thing, and will be extremely popular. Combine this with remote work, and all of a sudden parents can live in all sorts of places that would have previously been impractical or impossible.
Of course hackers need to know how radio works. They need to know how to break into WiFi, Bluetooth, and cellular comms, take over drones, break into RF-controlled industrial networks, spoof GPS, read RFID devices from a distance...

None of that is in the ham bands. Few hams have enough RF knowledge to do any of that. Hams are mostly still at CQ DX, CQ DX...
If your product is supposed to comply with Lawful Interception, you're going to implement proper LI interfaces, not leave bullshit DMA bugs in.

The very point of Lawful Interception involves explicit, described interfaces, so that all parties involved can do the work.

The systems with LI interfaces also often end up in jurisdictions that simultaneously put high penalties on giving access to them without specific authorizations - I know, I had to sign some really interesting legalese once due to working in environment where we had to balance both Lawful Interception, post-facto access to data, and telecommunications privacy laws.

Leaving backdoors like that is for Unlawful Interception, and the danger of such approaches is greatly exposed in form of Chinese intelligence services exploiting NSA backdoor in Juniper routers (infamous DRBG_EC RNG)
Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Google face this growing risk around AI
Seems to me that Zen 4 has no issues at all, but bridges/switches require additional interfaces to further fan-out access controls.
Never-Before-Seen Footage of Steve Jobs on the Future of Computers in 1983
I wonder if you could do something similar with an ssh account which is hard-wired to run 'ytalk' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(software)).
I didn’t mean the EU being regulatory as negative, I was just giving examples of how the cyberpunk I read in the 90ies is basically reality now.
Koblitz in "Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems" [1] dedicated section 3 to how to embed binary strings into points and back, which is of course necessary for elliptic curve ElGamal.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-1987-0866109-5
As someone who dies a lot of python, TS, dotnet and java - I disagree. The problem of dotnet and java is that everything is a object. And for many cases, I don't need that object at all, it can be a static class - but honestly, the python concept of a module fits a lot better. It's a grouping of functions in a module, not a class holding functions.
"Cyptocurrency-focused political action committees have raised more than
$187 million to influence 2024 elections.
They have spent more than $39 million of it so far."

That's so crypto community. Where did the rest of the money go?
> If this turns out to be true, it could be helpful to the researchers’ ongoing efforts to develop ways to more precisely control the level of anesthesia that a patient is experiencing.

It would be nice not to wake up in the middle of my colonscopy/endoscopy... again... for the third time.
These models are still really expensive to run
Forcefully Deterministic Unit Testing
RP2040 is a micro-controller and does not have an MMU. It cannot natively run any OS that relies on a MMU and that includes NetBSD. One can of course write an emulator that does and run that emulator on RP2040 and NetBSD on the emulator.

edit: Emulators, of course!
this line had me rolling. Love it!
College seems to me to be geographically structured to help you make friends. I remember reading one study that shows basically repeated random interactions with the same person will tend to develop towards making friends with them organically. Well how does college work? You take classes in your major, where you will meet other people with a common interest. Also you might live in the dorms, eat at the mess hall, etc where you're also going to bump into the same people again and again.
Ask HN: What's a good way to advertise your startup?
Hi, Im a young entrepreneur that likes to create startups with a couple of friends of mine.

We have got this one project that we think is solid, its finished with more features to come but we can't seem to understand
how to advertise it. Its is a SaaS for automated short-form content creation and we think we did a geat job creating it.

Whats the a good way to advertise it and get our first real users?
Yes, it’d be two subpixels instead of the current three. It’s not clear that that’s worth the added complexity of having to control each subpixel across two dimensions (brightness and wavelength) instead of just one (brightness).
Yup! Not everyone can be a great artist, but a great artist CAN come from anywhere
> The St Lawrence Seaway also took traffic away from the Erie.

It also took traffic from the rail lines between Northern New York and points south, many of which are now disused. It also impacted rail in Canada, for instance the spur to the port of Brockville Ontario which serviced rail ferries to Morristown NY.

> With modern ships, it is easier to send big ships the longer way.

Interestingly, the Seaway was designed for the modern ships of the 1960s. The locks can't handle the new breed of giant container ships above the port of Montreal. Nowadays, the only ship traffic on the Seaway consists of "lakers" and bulk carriers. Small container ships disappeared long ago:

The early years of container shipping saw the operation of ships of under 1,000 TEU. Continued growth of international container-based trade resulted in the development of progressively larger ships, which eventually reached the maximum allowable vessel dimensions of the original Panama Canal, the early Panamax ships. Container shipping occurred along the St. Lawrence Seaway during the era of small container ships. However, these services eventually faltered, for multiple reasons.

https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/renewed-potential-...
I'm really missing a middle-ground llama3 model. Llama 2 had a 12b but Llama3 is 8 or 70. 12 or 13 would be pretty ideal for a 16gb card :(
I'm not sure that answers my question, but whatever - I'll play along. The statement you quoted was written by a Wiki poster, and is most likely false. It is a fact that the overwhelming majority of people infected with syphilis did not pursue medical treatment (at least in Georgia). The clinicians for the Tuskegee study had an extremely difficult time even convincing the farmers to allow themselves to be examined when doctors were proactively approaching them. They ultimately required the assistance of an intermediary civilian (trusted by the farmers) to convince them. To suggest that the farmers were largely indifferent (if not averse) to medical treatment is fully justified, and absent some significant evidence to the contrary should be seen as true.

The thing you continue to conspicuously ignore is that it is the behaviors of the clinicians that were wrong, and behaviors are what I think everybody should focus on. Whatever the clinicians thought, said, felt, or whatever else is irrelevant. The race of them, the race of the subjects, and everything else - irrelevant. All that matters is their behavior, which are unjustifiable. Even if every single imaginable bias, prejudice, and everything else were 100% true, it would not make what they did right. And so the real value in the story is looking to put yourselves in their shoes hypothetically, so that you never find yourself in those shoes in reality.
Show HN: Turn family photos into illustrated kids' stories
My friend and I made an app (https://trystorytime.com/) that lets families generate AI-based avatars from their photos and use them as characters in illustrated children’s stories.

It’s something I wanted to try with my son.

Parents can order hard cover editions of your favorite stories and we’ll print and ship them.

It’s still a work-in-progress MVP, but we’d love to hear what you think!

We’re considering focusing more on releasing the software we used to create the initial demo stories (screenshot here https://trystorytime.com/img/book-builder.jpg), rather than producing more content.
For some, how a language is implemented seems to be the paramount thing.

For many, how the language faces the user, how its paradigms fit the problems at hand and the user's mode of seeing the world, that is more important.

These days, with the terabytes the petaflops and the megajoules, it might be even less relevant how the gears are turning inside the black box.
New gene therapy for muscular dystrophy offers hope
I like to think there’s better self-selection and moderation here, but I’ve been prone to self-delusion before.
Is this CommonMark, or a different flavour of Markdown?
Also not to be a downer, but there are tons of time tracking apps in the market.

It's saturated, and honestly not a big pain point to solve for most people.

Customer profile that make sense and might retain: freelancer, agency that employ freelancer.

General public will find time tracking cool, but they majority won't use it day to day because it doesn't solve a problem.

Or it solve a problem, but resolved in a short period of time.

You can use app.sensortower.com (pretty accurate with some margin of error) to benchmark revenue for similar apps—at least those that released on App Store.
What's her hourly rate?
> Having Lived in the Midwest and CA, I strongly suspect this is some kind of artifact of CA doing something better

Texas and California have the highest "percentage of public school students who were English learners (ELs)" of any state or jurisdiction [1].

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cgf/english-learn...