skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on the launch!
For anyone curious who wants to dig deep and solve document processing workflows via open-source, do try Unstract https://github.com/Zipstack/unstract
Call summary is such a good feature. How many times has your wife snapped her fingers for you to jot something down when she's on the phone with the pediatrician? you go crazy looking for a pen or something

This is why I love my pixel. They build stuff that affects my life day to day. My biggest vote of confidence: since buying my wife a pixel, I've had zero tech support requests. it really just works.
7 years from release date for this and last generation.
7 years, also Android version updates:

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en#z...
100% agree. No-profit high valuation businesses can easily borrow its way into existence, and profitable businesses in the real economy have to compete for the same pool of money.
What I Learned from spending $400 on X Ads
Hey Hacker News Community

About a month ago, with fewer than 500 followers on my account, my posts on X barely got noticed. Curious about the potential of X ads, I decided to invest $100 to see what could happen. The setup process was straightforward and user-friendly (they made very big improvements compared to pre-musk era), leading to 310,000 impressions and about 1100 clicks at just $0.3 per click. However, this didn't create the value I expected just eking out a profit.

My Conclusion: Despite the lack of direct sales, the visibility I gained was comparable to well-known influencers in startup niche like @ levelsio, was impressive given the modest investment. Although direct sales were limited, the exposure was valuable.

Would I Recommend X Ads? As a developer rather than an ad expert, my perspective might differ, but I understand the challenges to market SaaS in today's saturated market. Despite the traditional marketing often feels forced, and consumers are increasingly skeptical of paid ads, if you're tight on ad budget, X ads are worth considering.

An Interesting Pivot: : I knew there are thousands of potential customers out there actively discussing problems that my product (SaaSquare) could solve – but how could I find the convos and engage with them authentically?

So post-experiment to address the issue, I tried to create an AI bot that crawls the conversations on X/Reddit and posts an insightful reply that addresses the conversations and plugs the product naturally without spammy or bot like behaviors. I aimed to overcome ad skepticism by raising awareness in a more organic manner. The results were rolled in and even surpassed my expectations that prompted me to formalize the solution as Mentio. I launched it just two weeks ago, and it has already attract over 100 clients without any complaints.

Moving Forward: I've seen better ROI with Twitter ads compared to Meta and other SMPs and plan to continue using them for future product launches/promotions.
Is there a new camera system? As I recall the physical hardware of Pixel cameras have not changed in years.
Good call, I've added an MIT license to the project.
> but it's most definitely funded development now

Mozilla spent millions, Andreas got 2 hundreds thousand dollars to pay him and 2 other devs
I don't want AI on my phone, so will pass on this one.
In June 2025 new EU regulation will come into effect, mandating at least 5 years of OS updates, starting when the model is *removed from the market* aka the last unit is sold.

So in practice that'll mean 7+ years.

Note that Apple and Google made a big deal out of extending their upgrade timelines, without mentioning that they actually have to ... if they want to keep selling in the EU.
AI-Driven Java Performance Testing: Balancing Result Quality with Testing Time
Wow Asterisk looks exactly like what I'm interested in!
In your “What can I do” section, should add:

“do not add google/apple/facebook(meta)/github sign on in the first place”

Not only are we centralizing identity to entities known to shutdown accounts for vague reasons. It can introduce painful debugging issues, increased support costs, and loss of sales.

Personally, dealt with an issue where a user signed up with “Sign in with Apple” but forgot whether they provided Apple associated email address or the “ @privaterelay.appleid.com”

Also, emails sent to the private relay address would occasionally bounce… Very frustrating and time I will never get back lol
Go 1.23 Released
Mirrored Mode Networking in WSL2
> the cost of a Hall Effect sensor

They start off at a few pence each as an electronic component but can be much more expensive, often to be more rugged unit.
I think the domain was lost long ago, sadly

I totally get the allure of building this stuff :)
Please let me know the issues and happy to get it set up correctly for you. I'm at mac@runtrellis.com
Very slow on mobile browser. I'm sorry but it has to be said I would not browse such a website in the wild if it performed this way.
Show HN: Free-friendly serverless support for AWS and GCP
Text: Hey HN, Zan here, cofounder of Coherence (withcoherence.com). We’re excited to announce the launch of serverless deployment options for both AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), both of which are free-tier compatible. This new functionality enables developers to deploy applications directly to AWS Lambda and GCP Cloud Run, leveraging the power of serverless architectures without intermediary platforms. We hope that these provide a way to use Coherence for low-volume or R&D type projects, and open up some interesting new use cases!

You can learn more in our docs:

AWS Lambda - https://docs.withcoherence.com/reference-architectures/aws/l...
GCP Run Lite - https://docs.withcoherence.com/reference-architectures/gcp/r...
Sorry, are we still talking about There Is No Antimemetics Division? I haven't read the book, but I've read the series on the SCP wiki (before seeing it here on HN) and I don't really get what you're talking about.

Other comments have referenced other books - is it possible your reply is in the wrong place?
> Fair points, another difficulty up here in Canada and probably in the States as well is that there are shortages of people who can build houses.

That didn't stop them before.

Joking aside, I find the build quality in the US quite poor overall (even in the north, in Ohio). We have the same issue in continental Europe (France-Germany at least) with new-ish, low-end stock (late 90s-early 2010s at least), but we're not nearly as bad (I'm mostly thinking of windows and electricity, but even carpentry is approximative from what I've seen).

Which is weird, because I've seen / talked with skilled tradespeople in West Virginia, and saw the most impressive house in the middle of nowhere, Lincoln County.
Still using my pixel 4a. I refuse to discontinue a perfectly good phone just because the manufacturer decides it's not supported anymore. Hopefully the EU does something about planned obsolesce one day.
Honestly I think you just let it happen organically. You don't have to push them towards or away from specific media, just be supportive as they want to approach things. If they come home asking to play minecraft, or whatever new trend is being talked about at school, let them. Or if you want to guide things a little bit, let them play as long as you are playing as well.

People don't need 100% coverage of what's on trend for their generation to fit, but they do need some exposure. I'm sure we all remember the "my mom doesn't let me watch tv" kid from our youth that had trouble fitting in, but rarely remember which was the "I don't really like Power Rangers, but do like Ninja Turtles" kid because they still fit in.
She's following a hunch, it's what scientists do. In this case the hunch is that the model is not wrong. That's a far cry from saying it's impossible to be wrong.
Automatic Video Captioning for Scene Understanding
The blog post do explain why some of the generation is done separately. But yes, that is also a viable approach.
My version of this was building my own tiling window manager (I also ended up building my own hotkey daemon with its own syntax and parser along the way)
Dunno about Mark Twain, but it appears the best time to launch men to the Moon was more than half a century ago. The second best is now...ok, a year from now...I mean a few years from now.
Sebastian Thrun is a great source but I'm getting the feeling that everything anyone has every written about autonomous behaviour is not something you want to follow, knowing how far we are from robust autonomy in arbitrary real-world environments.

On the other hand, autonomous behaviour is a great field for a new researcher because there are so many wide open problems. Even pathfinding with obstacle avoidance, something that every game dev knows how to code in a bit, is an open challenge in robotics. Wide open world, plenty of research hills to plant one's flag on.
It looks like Bender.
Entire leagues as well.

The Barclay Card English Premier League comes to mind.
Two quick questions: any plans on being hipaa compliant? Probably one of the biggest use cases for this is in health insurance, etc.

How do your capabilities compare to Google Document AI or Watson SDU? Also what about standalone competitors such as Indico Data or DocuPanda?
Chornobyl Family
Anything by Dostoevsky, but specifically "Notes from Underground" and "The Brothers Karamazov".

"Jean-Christophe" by Romain Rolland.
I made a website for our local rubble removal business – What can I improve?
Literally never? Do you live in a sitcom?
My cousin worked at Toyota, he obviously can't build a Toyota.

Working on something is not the same thing as building the same thing from scratch on your own time and resources.

Of all the people who worked at Google, none of them rebuilt Google, right?

Also: Apple spent billions and employed several developers.
The Case for Toxoplasma Gondii in Psychosis and Other Human Diseases (2022)
Start with source separation using demucs
The sensor feedback to stop washing is an old feature common for many years. Automatically measuring detergent could be marginally useful if it worked better than human judgement but it’s hard to implement and it’s saving only a few seconds per load, so most people are never going to see a benefit relative to how much more expensive it’d make the machines.

Worse, it’s changing a washing machine from a standalone device to an internet-connected computer which needs to regularly get software updates. That adds not just cost but increases the odds that something unrelated to the core functionality will break and make the machine unusable.

It also makes them much harder to setup and adds privacy concerns: the last Samsung washing machine I used had an amazingly clunky setup process which required a number of ToS prompts allowing them to resell your data and they insist that you need to grant their app all kinds of permissions on your phone (background location tracking, local network access, Bluetooth scanning, etc.) as part of that process. I am pretty confident that the machine will break before I would ever see a net time savings from not having to measure detergent manually relative to their setup process.

I would also be profoundly unsurprised if they get breached or abuse their data collection practices in some way which would be impossible with a regular standalone device. These features are not being added to satisfy user demand and the real customers don’t care about things like privacy or security unless it costs more than they’re making.
Picture taking and video recording have gotten unbelievably better over the past decade. They were not remotely sufficient for many use cases ten years ago and even now there's still plenty of room left for improvement.
Wow, wish I knew that last time I purchased my phone. I chose Samsung partly due to this promise.
I for one love well implemented AI features. Take immich search for example. No cloud connection, and let's you search for pictures in your library by describing it i.e. a kid with a red jacket on a bicycle... And you get the picture you made, but didn't know exactly when etc.

Very rare example though. As a matter of fact, I couldn't name another one right now.
It’s total trash AI. I keep forgetting to unsubscribe. Can’t do anything.
Thanks! Yea the latency is kinda high now because of the TTS. I turned it off by default now so it should be faster unless you want it on.
also as a consumer, don’t use big tech single sign on. If big tech 86s the account for whatever reason, then you lose access to the services you linked the account to.
> I think it's funny how many people really don't want to just wear glasses.

In many situations they're not practical. Sports and sex to name a few.
It would be nice to be able to run llama.cpp on my phone but if I had the choice between that and a root shell and c compiler I'd definitely take the shell.
I have heard this for years. Not much you can do with a rectangle that's basically just a screen in front.

It's more about the software than anything. Maybe the camera too
I avoid async/await in JavaScript (2022)
I just finished off a blueberry bagel, the taste is still in my mouth. Maybe the universe is torus-shaped?
It’s predatory if you have a poor credit score, but the alternative is that you have no availability of consumer credit, which is the story in Europe.

You want to take out a loan to start a small business and aren’t well connected? Tough luck. Want a 30 year fixed rate loan to buy property on a median income salary? Take a hike. In a world without consumer credit the 99% become the permanent renting class.
Show HN: Direct Booking for Airbnb Hosts and Hotels
I built it using Vike and Express. Do you think there is room for a new Airbnb competitor. Yearly membership for unlimited listing and no Booking Fees. What do you think?
Hi abetusk! The first tool I implemented in the program was the Stipple Pencil, which is a variant of the pencil that only colors over the target pixel when the mouse is pressed down, even if the cursor is dragged over other pixels thereafter. The pun was meant to be on that and the term "ripple effect".

However, if I could go back, I'd probably change the name to something more fitting to what the program actually is.
That was true up until the Pixel 7 or something.
This kind of conspiracy theory mindset really just doesn’t stand up to any scrutiny. Every keyboard manufacturer is going to build this in without anyone ever giving away the secret? How many people have to be in on the secret for this to work?
The previous camera bulge was questionable but this one looks horrendous
This looks neat. I tried VB.NET a few weeks ago, and felt like it was mostly pointless since almost all resources are done in C# and so you have to translate from C# to VB.NET anytime you want to do anything, which can be a bit of a pain.

But one thing I really liked was the "begin end" type of code blocks.
The problem with this is it doesn't support OAuth scopes. So if you need any Google account permissions beyond a simple sign in you can't use it.
Astigmatism correction requires toric contacts- you should have a small line you have to orient upwards to align it properly, which myopia only contacts don’t have.
I can't recall which episode it is exactly, but there's a Seinfeld episode where he's doing a standup bit in the opening sequence where he's talking about how glasses are a thing that are associated with intelligence and style while hearing aids are not.

Coincidentally I was thinking about this but yesterday and how it relates to Bluetooth earbuds. Somehow Apple managed to make hearing aids cool.

It crossed my mind when I was thinking about a coworkers hearing aids and if they were ever picked on as a child for wearing them. I bet that the rise of earbuds has made life a lot easier for children who are hard of hearing.
> So it not being implemented in the snippet proves nothing.

It doesn't prove anything, but is what we've been talking about. Indeed, there is nothing to prove. Never was. What is it with this weird obsession you have with being convinced by something? Nobody was ever trying to convince you of anything, nor would there be any reason to ever try to. That would be a pointless endeavour.

> And what do you mean "someone else"?

He who wrote the "citation".
I hate it so much when it rings out of nowhere and I don't even know which tab it is.
Is there a technical reason for the ai feature to be on this phone and not just like an app, or is it just limited on purpose to this phone?
Karlicoss's HPI idea was one of my earliest inspirations here. I loved their idea of being able to somewhat "call" this database of information. The infra diagram is truly impressive!
RPN is cool, glad to see stuff like this still being written.

Back in undergrad we used to program our HP calculators in RPL, Reverse Polish Lisp, which I found very hard to grok at the time but a few of us managed to cobble together a set of utilities to render the final exam of third year electromechanics pretty trivial.

Good times.
> I don't think robust control actually describes deriving an improvement from perturbing an input.

Not really. But using a step input to get info to tune a control system is well known. Eurotherm's auto-tuning system for temperature control was one of the first commercial products to self-tune PID loops that way. It started by setting the control value to 0 and listening to the sensors for a while to get data on sensor noise. Then it set the control value to some large value and watched the sensed value ramp up, being careful not to overshoot the goal. This provided enough data to tune the controller. Simple, but practical.

The paper is much more general, but doesn't cover how to do much.
One of the references, the one on traffic control, is more interesting.[1]
It's about traffic signal control in the presence of disruption. They only did some simulated experiments on one road setup, though. It's hard to tell if that actually works, but it's a reasonable idea with some data behind it.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.10460
The current scientific consensus is actually pretty good - the consensus being that standard theory, quantum theory, big bang theory, particle theory, universe expansion model all have as good a likelihood as not of going down in history the same way as miasma theory, phlogiston theory and Newtonian classical mechanics, given the apparent and vast shortcomings of basic science around our universe's constitution, composition and origins. It's a mature and constructive recognition of our limitations and where we can improve.

One of the proximate causes around our failure to progress in this and other areas is the funding model of publish or perish. Many researchers are trying to carve out a career, but not necessarily to contribute to progress or advancement. An examination of the funding structure and incentives for universities and researchers appears to be in order.

One suggestion would be to limit grants for private universities and colleges. Another would be to cap compensation for university and college staff. Yet another would be to add funding or tax breaks for technology scale up and application development in the private sector. And another would be cutting funding to masters', PhD and post-doc levels, and increasing funding for 1-, 2- and 4- year career oriented and skill development programs. Yet another suggestion would be limiting loan eligibility to 1-, 2- and 4- year degree or lower programs. Another would be tying university and college funding to the success of attached technology scale up and application development programs. Another would be requiring undergraduate and lower grants and tuition revenue to be spent directly on those programs and facilities, and research funds to be kept and spent separately.

I would like to know some examples of how recent, publicly funded PhD, masters degree and postdoc work or research has materially advanced or will advance our world's knowledge and progress and has resulted in material benefits to society, and not just unreproducible studies on paper and unviable technologies and products.
It goes beyond voting, people actually empower their abusers by buying the cheapest option regardless of its context. People dislike monopolies, but will happily grow one if it costs less than local or more responsible alternatives. That monopoly eventually gains the power to change the game rules.

We are mostly ignorant, and we vote, consume, act and live that way. We choose to be that way, and so good things won't last long in our collective hands.
They won't soon, the I-Pace is stopping production
They probably put product people in charge.

Which is an incredibly misguided idea specifically in the context of a developer IDE... I mean I do understand the rationale and value for the job in other contexts. Not so much in this one though.
The genre(s) of any given SCP are unclear when you begin reading, and can vary wildly. That's part of the appeal for many readers.
The supersonic dream died in the 20th century. Can the 21st century revive it?
https://archive.ph/pXJot
It is you who got confused. My comment is a top level comment on a post called "There is no Antimemetics Division (2018)" and in no way references any other works. I am not interested in talking about other books right here right now.

I was talking about the final book, not any early and partial drafts you saw elsewhere.

Either tastes vary and you just don't see it as I and many others do, or you didn't read the same thing, depending on what you read and when. What you read may have been a first draft of pieces of what became the book. The book clearly benefits from pretty good editing and it's pretty clear it evolved quite a bit to its final form. It's pretty clear it benefitted a lot from having early drafts of bits and pieces on the SCP wiki, as that gave the author a lot of free editing.

Or maybe the book itself is to some degree an antimeme ;-) like any very meta piece of writing, it lends itself to such jokes... one keeps meaning to reread it but never can remember when they're near their bookcase, etc...

Finally, maybe you can't relate due to not having had tough times that had to do with memory (several other posters have elaborated in this very thread on some examples), or other circumstances in your life that became fertile ground to ruminate on in the context of the book. Or maybe you like to read purely for the literal fun of the surface level plot and aren't interested in also thinking about the metaphorical implications of the ideas that are brought to mind by a piece of writing. Nothing wrong with any of that.

But fundamentally, you can read the same book at 20 and again at 40 and get totally different things out of it. That's OK.
I was agreeing with you. I found the statement that 'the political systems of Europe' so vague it couldn't be true. It's why I listed several different definitions of Europe.
Devin and Cognition are great as co-workers for application software. They're proficient in JavaScript and Python and excel at solving logical problems in software. However, they aren't trained in or familiar with system software, which typically runs on physical devices and requires verification against technical specifications for programming.
My ex lost 80 pounds and went from unable to run to running ultras and she found that she had to alternate between walking and running in the beginning to keep her heart rate in the lower thresholds. On the converse side, maybe integrating some strength training or speed workouts or stair climbs will help you develop a strength reservoir to make it easier to run at a low heart rate.

Now that you've recognized how gentle a low heartrate feels I'm sure a conversational pace is totally adequate for staying under your lactic threshold (but if you could sing you're going too slow!)
No credit score? A grocery list could be the next best thing