skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
State churches like Anglican church might be more apt comparison. And those often do look like corporations when squinting, with lot of state funding or even taxation instead of sales... You even get various managerial classes, which do need to perform slightly different corporate rituals.
How are they doing it though?

Full transcription is really difficult to do at the edge on battery power. It's either bandwith heavy or CPU heavy. Both of which nail the battery. The only really practical way I can see it being done is with keyword tracking, and then recording snippets either side.

But that still takes a reasonable amount of power to do.
> So I do dream of a laptop running on an mcu with an eink screen that has 1 month of battery but no commercial power. And running common lisp at boot as that's all I need anyway. I am close to just forking over 10k to have one custom made, but still hope someone else will do it.

I share that dream (and have written a few times about it in comments on HN). In case you find one, or go ahead with having one built, let me know. I might put in 10k as well.

Specs:

- low-energy CPU, no GPU

- e-Ink display b/w or gray

- very good keyboard (ThinkPad-type quality for intensive writing)

- battery life: 2-4 weeks

- size: A5 or between A5-A4

- 64 bit OS: Linux or BSD

- good text editor (Emacs, Sublime)
with mail client (VM), GCC/Clang++

- weight: 700-900 g

- EDIT: icing on the cake: "no boot mode" that fires up a shell prompt in <2s, e.g. based on starting an OS instance that had a snapshot taken _after_ booting up, to give you the same feel of the Cosy Computing home computers of the 1980s. - because it's possible (hey, my washing machine and dishwasher don't need to boot either!).
> Windows is pretty fast nowdays on modern hardware

This feels the wrong way around. Windows development just stagnated for about a decade while hardware made huge leaps, so hardware speed increased much faster than Windows became slower. Therefore, "Windows is pretty fast nowadays on modern hardware".

I remember Windows XP being able to boot from a hard drive without the progress bar making two full revolutions (so, like, 3-4 seconds?).

Windows 7 managed to do something similar (finish booting before the animated Windows logo has fully "bloomed"), but already required an SSD and a multi-GHz multi-core processor to do so.

Windows 10 does a few spinny spins, but uses a CPU that's another integer multiple faster and an NVMe SSD delivering hundreds of thousands of IOPS and gigabytes per second of bandwidth.
It could be a trait of autism spectrum or it could be active listening strategy.

I wouldn't bring it up with them though. They might not even know why they are doing it. But it's not rude and it's not really annoying.
A handy report crafted by biased people in some unproductive sinecures, but the numbers really do speak for themselves.
It's not directly not paying, it's not paying at all.

I don't see how this is different from disputing the banking sector by conducting a heist.
This is true. Drugging a person is not a healing process: it's a punishment, retribution for their moral offenses which may not be punishable as crimes.

If a person complains too much, or becomes a nuisance to society, or disruptive, then they are penalized and sentenced to a "virtual incarceration" by means of drugs and clinical monitoring.

Psychiatric drugs were explicitly developed as a replacement for confinement and physical restraints. The asylum system was shut down deliberately once the technology was in place to turn them out on the streets.

All those homeless you see today are actually imprisoned and being punished. The apparatus is simply invisible to you.
Cell phone coverage has been abysmal in my part of the world, to the point where 911 calls can be unreliable (1).

(1) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-cell...
A different article about the same subject is not automatically a dupe. You are overdoing it quite a bit.
"To think they started in a barn..."
Just rawdog it on the whiteboard
I think amazon solved this partly with hardcoding "alexa" as the wake up word. Meaning a specialized program monitors for "alexa" and ignores everything else and does not record.

Smart TVs might work similar, but I surely won't have anything like it in my home anyway.
Bitwarden is the answer.

If you don't have much of a budget, then it can be self-hosted using VaultWarden which supports the various BitWarden clients

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
Couple posters have replied and attempted to answer, but the true reason is the concept of adult adoption.

These companies have survived because any time the family had only girls, one of the women would marry and their husband would be adopted. Thus making the husband the eldest man, and keeping the business in the family.

Japan having family businesses is not the factor, all businesses were good family businesses before the invention of the stock company. Instead what doomed most family businesses in the west was the eventual chance of getting unlucky with inheritance.

The general acceptance of adult adoption to continue a family line, kept those businesses in a single family and justified passing the business whole to the "eldest son".
Paolo Melchiorre – So long, and thanks for all the tabs
Write audio to disk. Upload when on external power and wifi (i.e., when charging).
1) There is definitely value in endurance. Examples abound: whether history, religion, etc.

2) Evolution is possible with endurance. Religions and these family business have adapted to changing requirements of the world (mostly). It's core principles that have perhaps stayed the same. There's also confirmation bias at play - theres plenty institutions that were at odds with evolution did die out for sure.

You raise a good point, but IMO we're giving close to zero thought on how our current institutions will endure. Perhaps one answer is don't do anything and some will anyway.. (I don't like that answer, personally)
This is very light on details and the only reason it's upvoted so much is because people want to believe it.
Chiba – the framework for next generation of cloud computing
That is more indicative of Google’s culture and lack of focus than the viability of the idea. With the death of Google Reader, plenty of RSS aggregators popped up and are still kicking.
I've been using Colima which has been great, and much better than Docker Desktop which sucked ass for me.

With Colima, file mounting and sharing caused reliability and permission issues for me though I've applied some workarounds with success. To avoid this mess, I'd much rather move to a VM though. I used VMWare Fusion and UTM but I still had the struggles with file sharing between host and the guest.

So I took a lot of steps back and I'm currently running a Lima VM with headless Ubuntu and things are great so far. For Vscode we got the remote SSH plugin and then there is the Jetbrains Gateway as well.

I'm sharing my experiences for people in similar shoes to try these out, if that helps!
> Template specialization means more generated code, which, again, must fit in 2kb.

modern compilers are way better about de-duplicating "different types but same instruction" template specializations so it's less of an issue than you may expect , especially if you're coming with template specialization generation from the mid/late 2000's.
Ok yeah, that's pretty bad indeed.
Australians already own those lithium mines. The largest here in Brazil is very close to my hometown.
For sure, but they are also much cheaper
not every hero wears a cape
They don't want to know. They just want you to reconfirm their own bias in different words.
It’s not about mobile devices, but smart tvs and cable boxes.
There is. The problem is that automatically attached alt-text isn't particularly useful.

You don't know what the intention is of an image. Is it of a banana? A specific banana? The sticker on the banana?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/should-you-embed-alt-text-i...

And, no, this isn't something which AI can help with.

https://tink.uk/thoughts-on-screen-readers-and-image-recogni...
I have a P14s Gen4 AMD that works like a dream with Linux
Court Denies Cheat Seller AimJunkies a New Trial, Affirms Bungie's $4.3M Win
You know, I find hard to enjoy fiction because I have read so much history.

The things that actually happened to real people, the things real people have done... they are just way more incredible and terrible than any one author is capable of dreaming up. The fact that they actually happened also gives them more heft...
My ex had some time in the hospital before i met her, she told me sincerely that electricity applied to her head was the best thing that ever happened to her.
That's fine, but it can be misleading at times. For example, metabolic damage to fasting glucose from red meat and high-AGE foods can develop over time, and it won't show immediate results via the CGM. Not all things that cause diabetes show an immediate rise in blood glucose, only some do.
What do I need AI consulting for?
A typical battery-powered IoT device like the Ring video doorbell will last ~2 months on a ~6000mAh ~3.3v battery. An average power draw of about 14 milliwatts.

This is quite low - a power LED can use more than 14 milliwatts. Of course some products have power consumption even lower than that, right down to the tens-of-microwatts level.

Meanwhile a raspberry pi, when idle, consumes ~3 watts [1]. That's 200x more than the video doorbell.

Getting the power consumption down requires (a) that your hardware draws very little power when it's in sleep mode, and (b) that it spends as much time as possible in that sleep mode. Hardware and software have to work together to achieve this, and the software changes can be extensive.

[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/new-2gb-pi-5-has-33-s...
I saw a documentary about the forbidden city architecture, and despite the wood it’s really a great lasting one.

An interesting takeaway was that lightning strike fires have been a major "need to rebuild everything from scratch" trigger until very recently actually. I’m always amazed at how much time it took to come with things that are all in all rather trivial to build while bringing a major difference on the table.

The documentary also went through seismic tests, explaining how the architecture was so resilient to them, how the fact that all peaces are really just plugged in together and relatively easy to replace with a fresh new copy, even large steels and pillars. Truly amazing masterpiece.
HN has a number of standards for submissions. Some of those are in conflict. HN submitters are a diverse group, and may be unfamiliar with both site norms and of better submission references.

The first submission of a given story is generally selected as primary. Comments from subsequent posts are merged to the original submission.

Primary sources are also favoured over secondary. So a Twitter post which references another source (news report, blog post, official agency or organisational statement) should be replaced with that which it references.

(This can get a little complicated for, e.g., blog posts which substantially comment on and add to an initial news report.)

rawling is generally correct in noting that this submission is a dupe of the earlier Twitter thread. The argument that the Ars story would make for a superior submission also has merits.

In either case, the appropriate response is to email HN mods at hn@ycombinator.com to make suggested changes. Include the itemID(s) for the post(s) involved in the subject line of your email for faster response.

And it's not necessary to write an essay, just state the problem and your recommended resolution. Mods will frequently follow such guidance, all the more so if the problem and solution are both clearly stated.

In the case of Twitter, the increasing bars to being able to read full threads on that site make alternatives (referenced sources, Threadreader) arguably more appropriate for HN given another guideline: avoidance of paywalled / regwalled sites.

These and other issues are covered in the HN Guidelines (<https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>), and many, many, many moderator comments, e.g.:

- Original source: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>

- Earlier submission: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>

- Email mods: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>
It's a natural response for "No true Scotsman" in the parent.
> All of the teachers were excellent b/c this was before women started entering the workforce"

Additionally and probably more important it was before the takeover of the teaching academies by political activists who have turned these institutions away from a) teaching and b) subject matter into activist training camps churning out missionaries for the cause. It takes a strong character to survive there without being turned into a minion.
Show HN: Defrag the Game
Hi,

A while ago, I came across this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR3TbL3Tl6M on YouTube showing 8 hours of defragmenting a hard drive.
For some reason, it inspired me to create this small game.

Have fun :)
I was talking more about the package lookup when running code, via e.g. `node script.js`. I think it looks in all parent directories of the CWD, or maybe of the script? It's not too complicated, but it is "more magic" IMO.

Actually building Python packages is pretty complex, but that's the case for JS too. Java avoids this by distributing compiled libraries.
In Theory: Self-Correcting Software
There's a nice short movie about that, it's in german but has english subtitles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOPwXNFU7oU&t=469
Depression was my soul's reaction to about 16 years of systematic abuse, emotional neglect, ridicule and bullying. My intellect finally shut down and I withdrew from reality entirely, or at least that was the goal.

At the time my new abuser would ask things like what I was thinking. This was a novelty for me but she was probably trying to figure out ways to torment me more effectively. She also explained that I was trying to hide by sleeping all the time. One teacher wrote a note about my laziness, and I knew he was correct.

Depression wasn't my fault, and it wasn't within my capacity to recover from it. But my family turned it into something exclusively my responsibility. I was drugged over and over; I was permitted to leave home without any means of support or homemaking skills, and I was eventually discarded by means of restraining orders and physical assaults, so I left the state.

If a child is depressed then the worst thing to do is blame, medicate, and isolate them with individual treatment. My counselor encouraged morally reprehensible behavior and never questioned my home life.

If your child is depressed then you'd better consider their environment and social networks to be suspect. If you can't identify problems, then YOU ARE the problem and you'll need to address that with decisive action, in a practical and honest manner.
After the 15 year mark, give or take, it becomes a luxury to maintain the car. There will hopefully be a point in the nearer future where ICE will become a luxury.
"but all villains do"

(This quip means that if a demagogue aggrandizes themself as a hero or savior, you should be suspicious of whether they really are as saintly as they claim to be.)

Edit:

I'm not saying this quip about paywallskip, which I think is a kindhearted service because it helps reduce the information gap, or digital divide, between the middle class and those stuck in poverty.

Rather, the joke/warning is about demagogues in politics or in wealthy churches, stuff like that.

Not about this post.

Paywallskip never called themselves a hero - an appreciative user did, which is authentic and sweet.

I think no one should ever call themselves a hero.

Just help people, like Paywallskip is doing.

I guess that what real heroes always say, both in movies and in real life, is "I was just doing my job". See e.g. this school bus driver who saved a child's life:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xnW3NHbMTRs

(short, inspiring video)
i can't parse that
If you're in eternal debt to the society you were fortunate or unfortunate enough to be born into since before you were lucid, when exactly is the cycle going to be broken?

Public roads can be taxed by use. Public education should be paid by people who participate.

You apply an "if" conditional here in a manner that's morally correct in my opinion. It's just that even if you didn't partake in those activities, you're forced to pay for them all the same. That's the issue.

You can move out of the country of course and find one that's more politically suitable, but the bottom line in my mind is that people in most societies are so different from each other that democracy just doesn't work at the scale it's trying to be applied. Sure, deciding what your society should collectively strive for at a neighborhood level might be possible. City level is reaching, and state or country level is ludicrous.

I think the only responsibility at the federal level should be watching the borders, and I can't convince myself otherwise no matter what material I read.
> Supposedly on the Pi 5, the SoC could be put to sleep while RP1 remains active [..]

You mean "echo +60 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm && halt"?
Maybe put it on codeberg.

https://codeberg.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codeberg
Well If you are a small to medium size company (no more of 500 employees) you can benefit from implementing personalized AI for your business and probably you don't have internal AI team to implement those AI solutions.
Do you get your money back if you go to the store and buy some new food/fruit/snack you don't like the taste of?

No, you throw it away, and probably won't buy it again. If you don't like NYT, don't buy from them.

If NYT is like an avocado for you, sometimes ripe and delicious, sometimes unripe, sometimes rotten, you get to decide how often you're gonna buy avocados, or if you'll develop your own methods of avocado testing before buying to increase your odds. In no case do you get to take the avocado skin back to the store asking for a refund.
Not a fan of paywalls, but the framing of the pricing comparison is just so funny to me.

Like the guy who comes into the pub offering to sell dubiously acquired meat for a bargain price.
You may already be aware of it, but in case not - it sounds like tree-sitter-graph could be something you'd be interested in: https://docs.rs/tree-sitter-graph/latest/tree_sitter_graph/r...

I haven't gotten into it yet but it looks pretty neat, and it's an official tool.
Thank you, I'll have a look at those, they seem better priced than the kobos too.
I agree with your take, but pitching your own solution as part of it significantly lowers the appeal of your comment, at least for me.
Yes, I agree whole-heartedly!

When the nights start to get longer, I have an instinct to put on a comfy knitted jumper and settle down to a raspberry Pi project (or similar).
Another tricky bit is deciding whether "/" is the division operator or the start of a regular expression.

IIRC, awk does this in a context sensitive manner, by looking at the previous token.
Doesn’t seem to work on wsj, which is the only site archive.is doesn’t work on consistently anymore. So why not just use archive.is?
To me, the real fifth column are the ones actively destroying all the values that are supposed to define "The Western world" in an attempt to save it, if only in name.

It's a mental shortcut to think that anyone who disagrees must've been influenced by some foreign power. Of course Russia picks up on dissent and attempts to amplify it, but it didn't create that dissent.
Enhance! - 2024 AI edition
There's nothing unique about Startups in this sense.

What we are talking about is people who care about the success of the business and pleasing customers, versus people who are optimizing for "corporate success" (ladder climbing).

You can find both types of people everywhere, at all levels. So it really is about "hire the best people". You just have to have the right measure of "best".
In LLMs context pytorch.nn is low level. It's a crucial thing in education to not operate on too many abstraction levels.
There are RISC-V based zero-knowledge virtual machines, to which a GCC version can be compiled. So this should be possible, although probably very slow, maybe a thousand times slower than a normal GCC execution.
What's your username (if you don't mind me asking)?
I don't think "you should just escape the oppression" is good advice per se. I think it's victim blaming, in today's terminology.
Well I would guess its an app. Spend some money and make a pretty, shiny or even actually useful app. Market it. Get people to download and install it (possibly for free), and ask for permission to access the microphone.

If this is the case I'm not sure what the fb/google/az connection would be. Perhaps, they could be buying the resulting data.

It would sort of makes sense if you installed a voice-note taking app and it asked for access to the microphone. However, when you are not using that app - is it still using the microphone? Who knows? I do get somewhat irritated with Android's inability to report which apps are doing what at any particular moment.
Show HN: RetNPhi – Phi-3.5 as a Byte-Level LM with RetNet-Inspired Efficiency
I've been experimenting with transforming Microsoft's Phi-3.5 into a byte-level language model with RetNet-inspired elements. The result is RetNPhi, a hybrid model that combines the strengths of Phi-3.5 with the efficiency of RetNet.

Key features:

- Byte-level processing for universal file type handling

- RetNet's multi-scale exponential decay and group normalization for efficient long-range dependency modeling

- Recurrent inference mode with constant memory usage, regardless of sequence length

- Minimal fine-tuning: only post-layer norms, first token embedding layer, and LoRA on self-attention output projections (o_proj) are adjusted

- Surprisingly coherent output after training on just 64 lines of Tiny Shakespeare

Technical details:

- Based on Microsoft's Phi-3.5 architecture

- Implements RetNet's retention mechanism

- Uses LoRA for efficient adaptation of pretrained weights

- Dual-mode processing: parallel for training, recurrent for inference

Sample output (input: "first citi"):

zen:
you are all resolved rather to die than to fam

This approach could lead to more efficient, locally-runnable language models. The byte-level processing opens up interesting possibilities for handling various data types, while the recurrent inference mode could be a game-changer for running these models on consumer-grade hardware.

I'm particularly interested in feedback on:

1. Potential applications for a byte-level LM with efficient long-context handling

2. Thoughts on the hybridization of Transformer-based models (like Phi) with RetNet concepts

3. Ideas for further optimizing the model for local deployment

GitHub: https://github.com/JosefAlbers/Phi-3-Vision-MLX/blob/main/as...
It is okay to differ on this. Language is not an exact science. It is however always good to factor in expectations when you describe things.

E.g. when a title says it shows you how to do a thing in vanilla javascript from scratch bringing in jquery in the first step makes that tile a lie. If you bring in a hefty dependency on step 1 and run three imported function the vanilla javascript part might be fine, but the from scratch starts to do some heavy lifting.
Technically they are "bines" not "vines". It's mostly just a historic difference from the etymology. However, I believe there are some differences in bine pests and view pests.

Another medicinal use of hops, although non-human, is for mite control in beehives.
I’d like something like this, but instead of bypassing the paywalls and stealing the articles it’d pay a few cents for each article and charge me at the end of the month.

I really, really want to pay but I really, really don’t want to set up a subscription to read a one-off article.