skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you (1) are broke to average financially (2) have no need for AI / gaming / 3D-modelling et cetera, then laptops & most PCs are a losers' game for you.

An ergonomic portable computer that can run emacs, lynx & imagemagick; made from entirely replaceable brandless parts, would cost between $10 and $100 to make.

FDE would provide reasonable security. Since you'd be able to get enough of these for the rest of your life for the price of one MBP, each device could have different profiles from "access social media of relatives" to "communicate through onion-nets." ALSO, would not it be cumbersome & costly to tamper 100 portable computers (probably leave evidence of your tampering techniques making them much less reusable)?

Old ThinkPads are still competitive for this role, but even they require somewhat special parts and have very long mainteinance manuals. Simple fixes are doable, but replacing the motherboard or screen approaches the level where it is better to simply buy new one.

There was https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/PICOmputer_Mothe

I wonder if the new microcontrollers could be used for a PC. Good mainteinance for years, $5 price...

I believe that a frugal (+ ergonomics-focused) approach to design instead of what MNT has done is the noble path. A minimal device may not really be a laptop, but with today's technology whatever it actually is, it certainly can be good enough to compute most programming, writing & internet browsing.
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I think the concern for Boeing is being broken up rather than going bankrupt.

People forget the current situation is both a recent development and one that happened under unique circumstances. In the 80s and 90s there was a 1-2 whammy neo-liberal fiscal policy which basically abandoned all opposition to acquisitions, and the end of the cold war which made the government think it didn't need a robust aerospace/defense sector any more. The environment has changed considerably in the intervening decades.
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> various wireless standards

Electromagnetic waves do not interact with one another, so it is difficult to build a transistor with it. There's some research into optical transistors but doesn't seem to work well yet.
For now, in most domains, insurance is optional. If it smells worthless, they have a problem.
Fair enough. Maybe I'm splitting hairs here, but at least in the US you will almost certainly spend a bit of time in a jail when being charged, booked, and arraigned.

Given that we're talking about legal, rather than extra judicial, pursuit and punishment I would expect jail to be a part of that process.
It feels like these two books need to be read in order
Great questions! To clarify the demo, we were ssh'd into a linux machine with no GPU.

Going into more details for how this works, we intercept communication between the CPU and the GPU so only GPU code and commands are sent across the network to a GPU that we are hosting. This way we are able to virtualize a remote GPU and make your computer think it's directly attached to that GPU.

We are not copying your CPU code and running it on our machines. The CPU code runs entirely on your instance (meaning no files need to be copied over or packages installed on the GPU machine). One of the benefits of this approach is that you can easily scale to a more / less powerful GPU without needing to setup a new server.
This package seems to use llama_cpp for local inference [1] so you can probably use anything supported by that [2]. However, I think it's just passing OCR output for correction - the language model doesn't actually see the original image.

That said, there are some large language models you can run locally which accept image input. Phi-3-Vision [3], LLaVA [4], MiniCPM-V [5], etc.

[1] - https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/llm_aided_ocr/blob/main...

[2] - https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp?tab=readme-ov-file#de...

[3] - https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3-vision-128k-instruct

[4] - https://github.com/haotian-liu/LLaVA

[5] - https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM-V
Live Transcribe in the accessibility settings. AFAIK it's available on any fairly recent Android phone. I bought a Pixel tablet for no other reason but to run it -- nothing else I've tried comes close for local-only continuous transcribe-as-they-speak. (iOS has a similar feature also under accessibility; it's good but not at the same level. Of course I'd love to see an open-source solution.)

This was for English. One problem it took me a while to realize: when I switched it to transcribe a secondary language, it was not doing it on-device anymore. You can tell the difference by setting airplane mode.
They are a defense contractor. We should give them more contracts! Then they will fuck, and not get the defense contracts.
Fourth this.

Other than making sure you find the right person/people from a raw skills+personality/capability perspective, it's the next most critical item.
I think a defining aspect of our time is that we've passed a threshold where technology will no longer help us more than be used against us.
You’re not wrong that it’s been hijacked as productivity theatre.

But it also doesn’t reduce the wildly positive impact of growth mindset.

It’s kind of like exercise. It’s a basic thing. People know in a logical sense they should do it. And we feel like we get the benefit by learning about it. But we get zero of the benefit if we don’t do the work, and do it consistently.

It’s a “mastery of the basics” situation, where getting yourself to avoid the fixed mindset mental trap, and think in a growth mindset moment to moment, results in a level of effectiveness that almost cannot be explained, only experienced.
I should clarify. Ford advertises the non-sport version capabilities pretty heavily and then lists the sport side by side with it when capability-wise they are very different vehicles.
Why can’t you put a company in jail?
Open to global remote if you are willing to shift hours to US hours :)
Oh good catch! updated!
Two of the attacks:

"crucially, once a hacker has access to someone’s work email"

"who, again, must already have hijacked an email account"

If a hacker already has access to someone's email it's game over. Using "AI" to mimic the victim's writing style is just an enhancement. There's nothing stopping the attacker from using ChatGTP to do the same thing, albeit with a couple extra steps.
The robot did not directly kill the cow or calf. That was a result of the cow records being inaccessible due to ransomware.
I have found RAG to be more effective in its specialization. querying across your company's data has never been easier. Using a solution like the one I built at customgpt.ai, you can even turn on citations to see where your answer is coming from, and we have the best anti-hallucination rating in the market. you can find the link to the API page on my account
Can these threads be bumped?
Cheers and good journey to a bonafide hacker.
It’s actually much simpler than that

k8s makes it easier to build over engineered architectures for applications that don’t need that level of complexity

So while you are correct that it is not actually that difficult to learn and implement K8S it’s also almost always completely unnecessary even at the largest scale

given that you can do the largest scale stuff without it and you should do most small scale stuff without it, the number of people for whom all of the risks and costs balancr out is much smaller than the amount that it has been promoted and pushed

And given the fact that orchestration layers are a critical part of infrastructure, handing over or changing the data environment relationship in a multilayer computing environment to such an extent is a non-trivial one-way door
Love your username - I had a friend who used to live in one of those :)

Sorry I missed this thread, I think it was meant for me.

I currently work for a small logistics company as a senior engineer. I am pretty happy and not looking for work (like many of the comments here), but I am happy to converse or schedule a call sometime if you're interested to discuss. 0x03e14@protonmail.ch.

Other commenters had I think the correct answer - you just need ONE REALLY GOOD IT co-founder or vice president to help coordinate that, who can both leverage outsourced solutions but also build things on their own, and most importantly who truly understands and cares about the logistics and cost savings.

I see a lot of dysfunctional and large tech teams building out over-complicated solutions with zero industry awareness, instead of lean solutions.

Did you see this article [1] here from a couple months ago about Temu's semi-managed delivery model? I was pleasantly surprised to see logistics on YC. We don't talk about it enough but it's the backbone of global economy.

Best of luck! Let us know what you decide to do and shoot me an email if you want to connect.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40497472 - Temu's semi-managed model could change everything
One big reason for this I think is the big investment that Google made into the Chrome development tools, that were simply better than Firefox.

For some reason as well, Firefox tabs just look wrong to me, as if the label is separate from the tab itself. I know it sounds minor, but it somehow messes up my workflow.

I recently tried debugging and profiling on Firefox and I was surprised it's gotten way better; it's just that old impressions are hard to shake off.
Damages due to lack of maintenance are not covered and you don't see the local application?
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Sometimes it’s very interesting to reflect on how technological advancements can redefine human possibilities
does this mean you have a customized/dummy kernel gpu driver?

will that cause system instability, say, if the network suddenly dropped?
How does this compare in terms of speed, quality, and price to sending images to VLMs like GPT-4o or Claude 3.5?
If anyone is looking to compare results visually, I have created an open source OCR visualiser to help identifying missing elements (especially in tables).

https://github.com/orasik/parsevision
Sure but mutual insurance requires a large uncorrelated pool. If those guys don’t like me I’ll have to find those who do (who will be half more risky than me and half less, but I can always take higher risk and insure with the more risky guys) and if I can’t, I’m just too risky and I’ll have to self insure.
We get an ICE in Apple shader compiler if we use the name "v_texCoord"
Before you hold the US system in too high esteem for its price "transparency", consider the following:

* Often (perhaps most of the time), a hospital will be unwilling/unable to quote you a price for a procedure.

* Even if they do quote you a price, it's a BS price: every insurance provider negotiates their own prices for procedures.

* To further illustrate this point: while working on software to bring visibility regarding lost income, prospective clients were downright indignant that early versions calculating loss figures using the prices in their own system were useless because the prices themselves were meaningless.

* There is significant administrative overhead on costs. Take this with a grain of salt, but I've heard there can be as many as 10 administrators for every doctor to handle dealing with thousands of insurance providers, potentially also spanning primary, secondary, tertiary, and even quaternary insurance for a given patient.
> I don't think anyone has the moral authority to tell anyone else what they can take, especially terminal patients

Yet euthanasia is a very fraught subject in the land of the free. The country may be coming less religious, but the puritanical values remain; every life is precious, even one that's in unbearable, irreversible agony, and those who suffer probably deserve it.
GigE is actually PAM-4 at ~250 MBaud.
Ask HN: How real is the threat of AI to junior developers?
As a CS student who's graduating in 3 years, I've gotten more and more worried about the future of the software development industry. I'd say my skills are above average, having deployed a working SaaS and other systems. But I still worry that the competition in the job market in 3-5 years will be insane due to fewer developer hours being needed to get a task done.
I am not in this "space", but I second the "this is cool to see", more stuff like this needed on HN.
> Bill Gates once said 640 kilobytes is enough for everyone.

Gates has always denied saying this, and no one has ever produced the original quote. It’s more like something IBM would have said about the PC, they’re the ones that created that limit.
Sometimes when you really do have something less noticeable to offer, you have to toot your own horn a bit.

Not everyone is going to like the sound of it no matter how well-played.
By far the best git client money can buy. And it's free!

(Please support the developer)
I can confirm this is not a projected related to Nous Research in any way, just an unfortunate naming collision
I would assume they've already purchased your "anonymized" credit card transactions, no need to figure out your diet with anything that complicated.
Thank you!

> is this a remote nvapi

Essentially yes! Just to be clear, this covers the entire GPU not just the NVAPI (i.e. all of cuda). This functions like you have the physical card directly plugged into the machine.

Right now we don't support vulkan or opengl since we're mostly focusing on AI workloads, however we plan to support these in the future (especially if there is interest!)
This is an amazing idea! Love it.
What do you think of the movie? For some reason, I can’t bring myself to watch it yet. (I’m a very sensitive person.)
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>I agree with you about SMTP. Emails in general are a legacy joke.

Problem is, most replacements I've seen are even worse vendor lock in. While I hate SMTP to, it being one of last open two-way long-term communication systems out there is something most of us should be thrilled with.
Having tried this in the past, it can work pretty well 90% of the time. However, there are still some areas it will struggle.

Imagine you are trying to read a lease contract. The two areas which the LLM may be useless are numbers and names (names of people or places/addresses). There’s no way for your LLM to accurately know what the rent should be, or to know about the name of a specific person.
Yeah, I came across that earlier. Definitely impressive!!

I completely agree with your general point (articulation matters a ton!) but I have to take a bit of issue with:

> "The details of your AWD or 4WD system don't matter as much if you can keep your wheels on the ground."

That's where the details of the system matter the most. Getting torque to a single tire is the hard part and the reason folks focus on it so much. A _very good_ AWD system can get enough torque to move the vehicle uphill / out of a tough system to a _single wheel_. Most can't. Most traditional part-time 4WD systems can't either. Open front and rear diffs are the norm in "true 4wd". Locking rear diffs are starting to become commonplace, but only a few stock vehicles come "triple locked" from the factory.

I grew up wheeling an old mid 80's S10 Blazer. Fun, small, fit down trails well, had the "holy grail" 100" wheelbase. Solid rear axle + IFS. Manual transmission. Good (enough) articulation. Plenty of clearance. Big enough tires. Crap horsepower. Worse gas milage. "True" part time 4wd with a transfer case (i.e. would 100% meet the NPS's definition in this case). But open front and rear diffs. I got stuck every time I got a tire off the ground.

I've taken the little bronco sport plenty of places I tried but could never make it in the Blazer. (And to be fair, vice versa... Big muddy ruts are not something I want to put the sport through for clearance reasons, and that's kinda what the Blazer did best.) At any rate, good modern AWD can often beat traditional part time 4wd with open front/rear diffs when wheel lift comes into play. On the flip side, independent suspension all around means it's going to lift tires _all the time_, so it _has_ to be good at it. Most AWD systems unfortunately aren't, even though some are these days.
I'm surprised that Kyle Simpson's, _You Don't Know JS_ hasn't been mentioned in this thread.

https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS

When I was beginning to develop a deeper understanding of JS a few years ago, that book, Kyle's talks, and conference presentations by Chrome's V8 team were very helpful for me. It looks like Kyle has expanded the content considerably since then too.
I think this is a candidate for best two sentence combo ever written:

So we have 1 million chainsaws per second, for 335.36 hours, which is 1.215 × 10^12, a configuration known as tera-wield. This requires expert juggling skills.
We are not writing any kernel drivers, this runs entirely in userspace (this won't result in a crowdstrike level crash haha).

Given that, if the network suddenly dropped then only the process using the GPU would fail.
Works the same way as old-school junk mail. Your postal service gets paid well by junk mailers to put trash in your mailbox, so they're disincentivized to fix the systemic issue. I can't find a good quality source on this, but it's been said that about 45-50% of USPS & Canada Post's revenue comes from junk mail. They could fix it, but it would probably lead to a collapse of the entire post system due to revenue shortfalls. A true tragedy of the commons.
Scientists genetically engineer fly species to eat more of humanity's waste
Congratulations to the magit peeps for the release!

I always wanted to try magit, but I never learned emacs. Gitu is an amazing alternative that is inspired by magit and works with arrow-keys/vim motions: https://github.com/altsem/gitu
People with limited mobility and autism are also in the mix so it is not simply a matter of desire for many.
The article you link is exactly what I was talking about: some organization (different from the brand customers) stirring up a controversy about the contents of the platform. In this case, buried half way in the article, some comments from the "deputy director for data analytics of the anti-hate group Southern Poverty Law Center" make clear that the SLPC is the source of the data and therefore of the whole article. (I'm also quite confident that NBC News didn't dare to question the data or the information provided by an "anti-hate group".) Wikipedia reports such criticism of the SPLC: "The SPLC's listings have also been criticized by those who argue that some of the SPLC's listings are overbroad, politically motivated, or unwarranted. The organization has also been accused of an overindulgent use of funds, leading some employees to call its headquarters "Poverty Palace"".

Ah but there's more. The article, obviously still drawing from SLPC's report (again without saying so explicitly), proceeds detailing the names of some of the brands that have advertised alongside said contents:

"NBC News found ads running on 74 of the 150 premium accounts, either on their profile pages or in the replies below their posts. The advertisers included SiriusXM, The Hollywood Reporter and Cisco subsidiary Splunk. SiriusXM declined to comment. Penske Media, the owner of The Hollywood Reporter, declined to comment. Splunk did not respond to requests for comment sent by email."

So these brands have been warned.
Like Hiroo Onoda, who remained on Lubang Island in the Philippines until 1974
As someone who did similar thing for few, little smaller business I will tell you - it depends.

Personally I did some software that saved a lot of money on licensing and hosting, almost none on-call activity as the software is stable and it is required to work 12/5, no 24/7. The only thing - I was more than „into the business”, loved the challenges and wanted to solve them.

On the other side I’m currently helping company from different industry because they collected few great talents, bought them great hardware, explained business and paid a lot. The team wasted almost a year, produced more crappy software than the existing one and left choosing someone who don’t know yet how bad SE they are.

If you will be looking for a consultation or for the team - I’m more than sad there is no contact info, because reading your description already made me way too interested
I'm not affiliated with Nous Research in anyway, but do work in the LLM space and at least in this community it's a fairly well known org. Since this project also is in that space I was just adding support for parent's observation.
>... non blog spam source?

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my issue is the amount of old listings. is it worth replying to listings that are half a year old? it seems more likely the items are sold and just haven't been taken down. reasonably priced cars, music equipment, bikes, items that should be gone within a week - somehow are listed for half a year. what the heck?
Chills. Remembering Korova Milk Bar from A Clockwork Orange’s dystopian world where Alex and the droogs would get their fill of milk laced with enhancing drugs for a fun night of ‘ultraviolence’. Stanley Kubrick took it to another level from Anthony Burgess’ original book. Wendy Carlos musical score took it to another level. She used the Moog synthesizer exclusively. On a related note..I was telling someone how she is an icon and revolutionized digital music making.. and heard that she had removed her scores from ACO from public domain. You can still find the TRON score etc. But her Beethoven classics..I just can’t find it anymore.. at least it’s not on iTunes.
...how is it so slow?
Just curious if other people feel the same way? My kid is right on the edge of the Minecraft-Roblox divide and I don’t have a strong opinion either way (he’s almost 7)
A coach I follow put it well (paraphrased):

When I first meet with an athlete, I ask them what their goal is. I just need to know the general direction and magnitude. Are they trying to get a little stronger over the summer, or are they trying to make the Olympics. Then we put the goal on a shelf and never discuss it again unless it changes. Then it’s 100% mindset, process, repeat.

He describes it as a pyramid, with character/mindset at the bottom, where you’re trying to become the kind of person that can follow a process. Next is the process, the ability to follow basic instructions consistently (which is surprisingly hard for humans). Process builds the next layer, skills. And multiple skills get combined to form your strategy.

And the key point was, everyone nerds out about the skill and strategy layer. But all progress happens in the mindset and process layer.
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