skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i like!!

audio interrupt handling is quick and neat (as it should be).

feels really responsive -- good!

would love to see elevenlabs integration -- though i suspect that would change the flow dramatically.

i'd love to self-host something like this!

:thumbsup:
What happens to those private collections when those data hoarders die though? As the data hoarders die off the private collections will too as hard drives fail and surviving family members, less passionate about preservation, inherit media and servers they don't know what to do with, much of which will just end up in the trash.

If given enough warning about my own death I might be tempted to pay for a couple seedboxes on bulletproof servers and just hope the files stay up as long as possible and find many new homes before the money runs out. The RIAA/MPA can't come after you once you're dead.
git blockchains are famous for being easy to fork (-;
Maintenance and vacuum is likely what’s causing this. Can definitely tune it down. 256mb is really not very much these days though.
GenAI destroys the whole toiling artist mystique.

There is plenty of room to be affected by both old and new approaches to creativity with different degrees of human input, sincerity, and appreciation.
You didn't have to contribute this snark.
How does it work when you have something in your calendar?

I will often put locations in my calendar, get in my car, and then I can tap the location of my next appointment in CarPlay to route me to my next location.

I think I’d miss similar integration with a lot of apps that require my personal data to be useful.

I can’t see something from the OEM doing this well, especially if I’m not willing to send all my data to them. I would have been squeamish about it before, but it’s a hard no after the auto marker privacy report came out and everyone did horribly.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-...
> Since peaking last month the share prices of Western firms driving the ai revolution have dropped by 15%.

NVDA's high closes were $135.58 June 18, down to $134.91 July 10th and $130 close today. It's highest sale is $140.76. So it's close today is 8% off its highest sale ever, and 4% off its highest close ever, not a big thing for a volatile stock. It's earnings are next week and we'll see how it does.

Nvidia and SMCI are the ones who have been earning money selling equipment for "AI". For Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, OpenAI etc., it is all big initial capital expenditure which they (and the scolding investment bank analysts) hope to regain in the future.
When a species thought to be extinct suddenly shows up somewhere, it usually means that the species is functionally extinct anyway, it's just a matter of time.
Take a look at the articles on Valhalla's site. They're another goldmine https://valhalladsp.com/learn/
Large-scale layoffs almost never means better software though.
I have to say the Embraer E195-E2 is a lot more comfortable than a 737 or A320 as a passenger, and that's for a plane that's significantly smaller.

It really shows that it was designed in this century. The focus on type certificates/training is really holding the industry back (as well as causing the terrible MCAS crashes).
One of the great tragedies is that Fahrenheit never got off the ground. OpenInventor on top of DirectX as a standard... would have been sweet.
Asking an API to write three paragraphs of text still takes tens of seconds and requires working internet and an expensive data center.

Meanwhile we’re seeing the first of the new generation of on-device inference chips being shipped as commodity edge compute.

When the devices you use every day — cars, doorbells, TV remotes, points-of-sale, roombas — can interpret camera and speech input locally in the time it takes to draw a frame and with low enough power to still give you 10h between charges: then we’ll be due another round of innovation.

The article points to how few parts of the economy are leveraging the text-only API products currently available. That still feels very Web 1.0, for me.
How’s Nextdns been? I’ve been using pihole for ages but i’m not too impressed by how much latency I have hitting my home network for dns when far from home. I use Tailscale to vpn on demand when off my home WiFi and route dns thru my pihole vm. Considering relocating it to a VPS but then I started to think maybe nextdns will be less painful to manage and offer better performance. I have decent upload speed (50mbit) but the latency over cellular isn’t the best.
Which is great, the internet exploded when TV stopped talking about "the internet" and everyone just used it.
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Hilarious. The article tries to go even one step further past the loss of hype, by making an additional argument that ai might not be in a hype cycle at all. Meaning they conjecture that it might not even come out of the trough of disillusion to mass adoption.

That’s gonna be a bad take I think.
Looks ok to me, though at the very end it has this odd paragraph:

`(Adds analyst comment in fourth paragraph.)`

Are you using an ad-blocker? If so, the problem might be a paywall. I suggest adding this line to your uBO custom filters:

https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clea...
Android Auto is really useful for navigation and playing your own music/podcasts. I don't own a car but every rental car I've had over the past decade has supported it and I don't know what I'd do without it, it's that essential.
I’ve said similar before but I’m just so impressed with Julia Evans as a technologist and technology writer/blogger: from very humble beginnings the scope and sophistication and arc of growing expertise is a masterclass in how to become a legend via putting in the work: and in an age of so many bytes on how to take shortcuts this is exactly the kind of role model we need.

In this particular instance I recall the post about DNS some years ago and the callback is amply enriched.

Keep it up @jvns. You hold us all to a high standard.
This is the path I took when purchasing my most recent vehicle. A ford with a ~5" non-touch screen. Basically just big enough to show you the backup camera and the radio station.

I love having physical controls for everything.

Honestly though, as much as I hate touch screens, this thing is terrible.

The biggest issue is the software, which admittedly has nothing to do with the form factor. It just crashes all the time, and is annoying to use. The backup camera is difficult to see. Not having navigation readily available is frustrating once you've driven vehicles that do have it. Mounting your phone is not a good substitute.

I think you really have to shoot for a design where 80-90% of your functions are physical buttons/knobs while also having the advanced software and high definition display that android auto/car play offer.
Only because they’ve made the visibility so shit
Dynamic Key/Value Pair Inputs in Phoenix LiveView Forms
Entire RPi5 seems like a bad value proposition. There several usages where 2GB is sufficient, but for most of those the extra capability of the RPi5 is entirely overkill. And as such it is overpriced.

If you need the RAM then you're very quickly approaching N100 prices, and the N100 offerings give you way more expandability and performance.

I just don't get who the RPi5 is for, except maybe companies using them in embedded applications.
Highly doubt it. That would increase their labor costs; they were already set up well with having those SWEs in Michigan.
>people don’t rent comedies anymore, so they don’t get made and put into theaters

What an odd spin.

People don't rent comedies anymore because there are no comedies made anymore for you to rent.

And nobody's making comedies anymore because present day people are too easily offended by everything and raise hell on Twitter out of every joke.
Hopefully it sees the light of day, because too many interesting Google papers remain just that, papers.
When you are working on a large monolith, how exactly do you managed pull request?

Are they split into git-sub modules/ frameworks? Curious to know the development code review flow.
I've tried various AI coding solutions and have found at best a mild boost but not the amazing multipliers I hear about online.

Copilot gives you some autofill that sometimes can be helpful but often not that helpful. I think the best it did for me was helping with something repetitive where I was editing a big list of things in the same way (like adding an ID to every tag in a list) and it helped take over and finish the task with a little less manual clicking.

ChatGPT has helped with small code snippets like writing a regular expression. I never got 100% regex mastery, usually I would have to look up a couple things to write one but GPT can shortcut that process. I get a little paranoid about AI provided code not actually working so I end up writing a large number of tests to check it, which could be a good thing but can feel tedious.

I'm also curious how other people are leveraging them to get more than I am. I honestly don't try too hard. At one point I did try really hard to get AI to do more heavy code lifting but was disappointed with my results so I stopped... but maybe things have improved a bit since then.
Writing assembly was the idiomatic way of programming before Fortran and human-readable languages came.

Writing with goto was the idiomatic way before Algol and structural programming came.

Having only a handful of scalar types was the idiomatic way until structural data types came (and later objects).

Writing programs as fragments of text that get glued together somehow at build time was the idiomatic way until module systems came. (C and partly C++ continue to live in 1970s though.)

Callback hell was the idiomatic way to do async until Futures / Promises and appropriate language support came.

Sometimes it's time to move on. Writing idiomatic ES5 may feel fun for some, but it may not be the best way to reach high productivity and correctness of the result.
OpenBSD crond / crontab set_range() heap underflow (CVE-2024-43688)
Are you pairing your data with satellite observations?
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I get a whole lot done in 8 hours.
We need some laws that will prevent companies from outsourcing those positions for up to 36 months after laying off Americans.
The market is sorting itself out right now, and eventually the wheat will get separated from the chaff.

Every cycle, theres all types of people hop on board whatever the hype train is... it's the same mindset as pioneering for gold in the wild west.

I just hope we can move along more in the "wheat" direction with AI products. There's so much low-effort crap already out there.
So they can pay more per employee to account for the higher cost of living and competition in tech? How is that the move?

It also seems like designing the hardware and software in the same place would be useful, so it actually feels like they were designed to go together.
They're also heavily involved in SLS (though it's questionable how much of a loss that would be, agreed).

And of course all the apaches, globemasters, ospreys, super hornets..

They are definitely too big to fail.
Cybersecurity: An Unsolved Problem, a New Chapter
At the same time I think Meta and big tech adding more and more cloud based inference is driving demand for the processors

OpenAI still hasnt released Sora video prompting for the general public and have already been leapfrogged by half a dozen competitors. I would say its still niche, but only as niche as using professional video editing tools are for creatives
I'm still waiting for the Virtual Reality from 1996 to change the world. Colour me surprised that AI is being found to be 90% hype.
Im really hoping that when this hype cycle ends and the next AI winter starts that all the generative stuff gets culled but we still see good work and tech using all the other advances (that would be described as “mere” deep learning).

Document embedding from transformers are great and fit into existing search paradigms.

Computer vision and image segmentation is at a level I thought impossible 10 years ago.

Text to speech that sounds natural? I might actually use Siri and Alexa! (Ok, that one might be considered “generative”)
Not that I think this is a Twitter-in-a-weekend project, but… what is a car infotainment system doing?

Show a map, working Bluetooth drivers (obviously the white whale of the modern world), control a music playlist, and route a phone call. Aren’t there already standard protocols to communicate with a phone for all of these things already?
Performance Law of Large Language Models
https://archive.today/ihAH5
I was out at Defcon this year and it was all about AI this, AI that, AI will solve the worlds problems, AI will catch all threats, blah blah blah blah...
it's probably a decent HD streamer. I have Kodi running on a pi2 (1GB) and it's OK at 720p but 1080 lags. The pi5 will do 1080, and might even pull off 4k depending on the source.
Tesla owner here. If you have the Tesla app installed on your phone, you can "share" addresses from map apps to it and it will auto-sync them to your car. So the workflow is open calendar on your phone, click on location for appointment, open with Tesla app. It's not quite as seamless as android auto, but much better than having to type everything in manually.
Jupyter can run JS kernels these days.
They're a 20x coder now.
> my experience has been that the time I most need other people and social situations is exactly when I least feel like I want that.

I'm conflicted. I think I get what you're saying, but it doesn't seem to be an argument against bulatb's point, in that both can be true.

It's conceivable for me to want to feel like you don't want social interactions and pursue non-directly-social endeavors (think building something, learning an instrument, whatever) without actually being in need of social interaction.

I think the point isn't that you should self-regulate 24x7, forever, but to do the social thing on your own terms, not on other people's schedule.

Maybe it's a question of quantity. If you only ever do things alone at home and never go out in society, then perhaps there is an issue. It reminds me of alcoholism: wanting to have a drink and saying you're not an alcoholic doesn't mean you're one. It's a question of degree.
Layoffs almost always mean the few engineers that can do better than more engineers are on the way out, if not via layoffs, then voluntarily.
I'd venture a company like GM would just try and replace them with as many third party contractors or outsourced vendors, and not actually "slim the team down", etc
> The congestion window size is calculated with the formula cwnd * 2^wscale . In the output above, notice that wscale equals 7 , and cwnd equals 10. This comes out to 10 x 2^7 according to the formula, equal to 1280 bytes.

That's just not true.

If the author is reading this - cwnd unit (in linux) is in packets not bytes. I'm not sure where they got the formula from (that's the receive window scaling formula, and has nothing to do with cwnd), but iirc slow start defaults to 10 packets. With their mss being 32K (a loopback connection) the actual cwnd size in bytes is at least 10 * 32K.
Yes though it's not really because of a drive to outsource but more because it was a European multi-state project, that want to see returns on their investment.
That form is if you want to install the code review bot or other GitHub integrations for free on your repo .

If you want to chat with your repo for free you can do that on the website, assuming it’s a small public repo.
Show HN: Please criticize my Real Estate Analytics App I want to improve
I'm genuinely hoping anyone will help me look at my application to see if it has any real market potential.
yeah, seriously. In WA, you can't hold your phone while you drive. I guess in theory, you could mount your phone on your dashboard where it gets sun/heat damaged?
I have a slightly contra view here. Conway's law means you often ship your engineering structure in your code. As such, larger dev teams will necessitate more modules. This will lead to more code and to more bugs

Some modularity is desired. Enough to support a thousand devs? Hard to say.
Out sourcing can predate the layoff. You gotta train the new people before you let go of the old.
Thanks to 3hour workday videos, now everyone thiks that Software engineers are lazy and unproductive
The Radxa X4 is a recent entrant and starts at $60. It has its compromises but is an interesting alternative with an onboard RP2040 providing GPIO.
Software estimation is fractal. Just like the UK coast [0]. The closer you look, the longer it gets. I have the idea that your software project has a fractal dimension. This would be 2-3.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox#Measuring_a_...
I've seen this too and it's so weird. The vast majority are totally clueless on it.
Auto adjusting other parts of the car based on what is happening, e.g. my car reduces fan speed when a call comes in.

Typically cars come with their own complete voice control system.

Customers expect much of the car to be accessible remotely and well, my GM Bolt EUV is far behind everyone else in this regard.
Famed architect's sole skyscraper poised to list for sale amid financial fallout
YouTube just "infers the context" meaning it uses some sort of tracking to realize you're at the gym versus "just chilling." But what's really chilling is that they don't mention location data or how they get it anywhere in this post.
As of 21 June 2023, there were 52,642 distinct sites submitted to the front page.

Counting those with 100 or more appearances, that falls to 149.

Doing a manual classification of news sites, there are 146.

Even at a modest annual subscription rate of $50/year ($1/week per source), that's a $7,300 subscriptions budget just to be able to discuss what's appearing on Hacker News from mainstream news sources.

Oh, and if you want per-article access at, say, $0.50 per article, that's $5,475 to read a year's worth of HN front-page submissions (10,950 articles/year), and that is just based on what is captured on the archive. In practice far more articles will appear, if only briefly, on the front page each day.

Which is among the reasons I find the "just subscribe" argument untenable. Some sort of bundling payment arrangement is required.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36832354>

My alternative suggestion is global access to content through a universal content syndication tax, or fee assessed through ISPs, on a progressive basis. See:

"Why won't (some) people pay for the news?" (2022)

<https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/867c94d0ba87013aca4144...>

Discussed 4 days ago on HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41249571>
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening
The argument is that a) is very important for sellers to get a bit button, and that b) Amazon uses that as threat of relaliation to get sellers to behave the way it wants. The latter point is almost the definition of monopoly.

Note that crucially this isn't a matter of interpretation. Amazon either IS doing this, or ISNT. The only question mark is can this be proven in court.
There have been studies that found even inane socialization like ordering from a barista in person boosts happiness.

Not everything we think we want is what our animal brain and body needs.
What does it mean to be a skeptic here? Have you tried ChatGPT? Copilot?
The new chip stepping (D0) seems to also be interesting; I'd like to see how much die area was saved and how it affects thermals and/or efficiency.
I noticed those links went to the 8gb for $80. If you swap it to the 2gb when available it comes down to 50$.
Damn, this is pretty good: https://song.do/play_music/0634c077e5ff3a79746a6e7a4a3f414d?...

The pompt was: "Menacing New York style rap piece about the dangers of carrots". It kinda delivered!
> Once we've amassed a volume of artistic media so large that it would take hundreds of human lifetimes to make use of, what is the point?

By that logic we should stop creating music or writing books right now. What's the point? There are already enough of both that no one could ever have enough years of life to read/hear it all.

Obviously there are a lot of very good reason to keep creating new things, and a lot of good reasons to preserve the old ones, not the least of which is that old works create the inspiration and material for new ones. A good song or a good story is timeless and can be enjoyed no matter many years have passed since it was created.

Media says a lot of about our culture and history. It shows how art has evolved and can provide a lot of education and wisdom that can get lost when fads and trends steal the spotlight for a long time, but when older works are still around to be studied and enjoyed they can be rediscovered.
As if those 1.2 million people would have just been twiddling their thumbs.
I joke, but its stuff like this that makes the existence of bigfoot / etc possible. Take this ocelot and give him better limbs, more intelligence, and a desire / need / instinct to avoid humans at all costs.

I could see some animal / creature being so good at avoiding humans that we have never seen them but yet they are all around.
This is a very fuzzy line. When does math become "AI"?

Is anti-aliasing AI?

Is line smoothing AI?

Which filters are/aren't AI?

This is a PR stunt to differentiate against AI heavy art tools.
I can only comment on the Singapore numbers, and the housing costs are way off, 1800 sing dollars? That might get you a bedroom in a shared apartment not much else. The salary levels also seem low for SWE's.
They certainly are not providing these services at less than electricity costs. So if you are spending $20 a month on it, they are spending less than that on electricity. It's very low compared to any person in the first world's energy spend.
I am highly skeptical that a competent coder sees a 2x boost.
If one falls off the way it was planned it will be a very bad but not necessarily terrible situation. Someone else already linked to the excellent admiral cloudberg article that describes how it should have happened (which there it didn't), as designed the engine would flip over the wing and not hit anything. Though of course the damage to the wing and pylon might rip hydraulics or wiring out or something. It's never a good thing.

Also, the engines are pretty close to the centre of mass so it's not a huge deal. Asymmetric thrust will be a problem but the drag situation will be better than with 1 engine disabled! After all there is no inactive engine face catching a whole load of air. And an engine failure situation is already a known situation.
> Silicon Valley’s tech bros

The Economist, seriously?
When you do this kind of stuff, you make American companies less competitive as a whole. If GM can get as good software for cheaper by outsourcing (granted, they almost certain cannot), then they should do it because that might help save tens of thousands of other jobs within the company and broader economy. The government should not generally be in the business of telling companies how to build software.
Automakers already have satellite offices in major tech areas. Toyota, Mercedes, GM, Ford, and Kia/Hyundai all have bay area offices that mainly cater to software people already. I know this layoff affected the Austin GM office too.

The hardware design is done by geographically separated teams for various reasons, often in multiple countries. You just ship the hardware where it needs to go, which you have to do anyway to get it from the factory to an office building.
> It’s baffling to me why you would insist on consuming content produced by such dangerous abusers of your security and privacy.

Because I'm not an ascetic monk.

> And then thrusting your opinion that all content should be free onto all sites monetized by ads is further confusing.

I'm not telling you to install an ad blocker. I'm just telling you I am.
FYI: the iOS Orion browser supports ublock origin