skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Run Stable Diffusion 10x Faster on AMD GPUs
Can’t a VPN bypass the filters, as is done in China?
Hilariously, during WW2 there was also a research project to build guided missiles using pigeons in the nose cone. "The nose cone of the missile would be split into three compartments, with a lens projecting an image of the intended target onto a screen at the front. A pigeon in each compartment, trained by operant conditioning to recognise the target, would peck at it continually."

https://www.military-history.org/feature/pigeon-guided-missi...
I never knew this or had thought about it. My girlfriend is a great lover of sea glass, I had no idea it was a finite resource.
This makes me sad for the companies you worked for. I'm at the director level at my company, and I make sure to both give credit to whomever does good work, and to enable them to do it. I do enough good work of my own that I don't need to steal credit to be successful.
Do you know Lucee?

https://www.lucee.org/
Have I not made my case with sufficient explanation?
Seeing the BASF cassette immediately reminded me their advertisement:

https://youtu.be/CD6S8DZHpG4
Deloitte hates this
The lock screen is even worse. I have to slow down to input my passcode or button pushes don’t register.
What if people came up with other, better ways of doing things? What if they're just straight up doing something very wrong and very inefficiently and they don't know that because they've hired a bunch of ignorant people who accept the status quo? That doesn't seem a very open minded approach.
They should start a Substack
So sad. I even create a userscript to reformat your website to read articles there. This is a screenshot of that format https://github.com/dxxvi/node-express-example/blob/master/Sc...
Had to go back to view it as it wasn't visible on my screen width.
I would say it's a feature: it's supposed to be like a mechanical odometer.
> - This video seems to combine the concepts of lexing and parsing. It is usually beneficial to separate these two steps and lex the input into tokens before passing to the parser.

With traditional techniques, yes. But if you eg use parser combinators (which would admittedly a bit unusual in Go), combining both steps is pretty common.

> - Go actually has a pure Go implementation of Yacc in the toolset and I've used it in several projects to make parses. Dealing with the Yacc file is often much easier than dealing with code directly since it takes care of writing the actual parser. There is a lot of boiler plate that goes into parsers that when you use Yacc it "just works".

You are right that it's best to avoid Go when you can. Just like Java folks (stereotypically) seemed to avoid writing Java at all costs and rather wrote XML config files to drive their logic.

Yacc (and lex) are otherwise not good choice for specifying languages these days.
EU ChatControl is back on the agenda
Is that a reaction to Svelte, Solid JS etc?
This isn't a Linux kernel clone. The whole argument is that producing a "bug-by-bug compatible" Linux kernel clone should be much easier to pull off than a "research kernel" where you may get lost in exploring design dead ends.
I've been using a Pi 3 for years and years, it's always been rock solid. The only problem was in the beginning, when I didn't use the official power supply, I'd get frequent brownouts, even with good bench power supplies. Apparently the Pi (especially older ones, not sure if they've fixed it now) had too much of a voltage drop, and needed a slightly higher voltage supply to work properly.

After that, zero problems.
QR Code generator library (Java, TypeScript, Python, Rust, C++, and C)
I’m glad someone else noticed this. I never manage to unlock my iPhone first time.
No, everyone is not "conscious" in the same way. Some can control their consciousness at a deeper level. Waking dreams, access to involuntary bodily systems, aware of their own internal states, not just mental imagery or internal voice. Others are stuck in a first person perspective.
Comically, I didn't even notice those wobbly numbers in the first screenshot, I was too busy noticing:

- "Unicode" button label way off center

- The 8/10/16 selector being off center in its own position

- The indicators for bits 31 and 63 are not aligned with each other

- x and + not being horizontally aligned (I believe this is an icon-font issue, seen on HN before so knew to look for it)
Well there are strange cases when we talked with a friend about something and then suddenly the algorithm decided to push content or ads that are related to the topic. While we didn't search stuff on the topic.
That is the model I've been playing with for my homebrew assistant, as mentioned here[1].

The medium and lower models wasn't quite up to the task, miss-interpreting some crucial words here and there, but so far I've been very pleased with the large Q5 model.

It directly translates into English well enough that subsequent English LLMs understand the meaning with high degree of accuracy, at about 5-10x real-time on my 2080 Ti.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41396649
Gleam is great. I think adoption will highly depend on developer tooling, LSP, ide integration etc.

The experience is alright now but it has to get better to go mainstream (if that's even desired). If I had time I'd love to contribute.
This looks impressive, I wonder how long before this cane added to a smart watch?

I’m guessing it would be a dedicated one system strap first before it can be integrated with other sensors.

This could open up quite a lot of new insights for healthcare seeing how the body reacts in a lot more situations, or just monitoring it 24/7.

It would be interesting to see if unobtrusive blood sugar monitors can be added too.
> There's something increasingly messed up with Google's algorithm lately and there's little control.

I haven't used Google Maps outside of the US, but I've always felt that it's got to be designed and built by people that have never driven a car in their life. They've almost certainly never driven in Australia. Sometimes updates bring good things, and sometimes they declutter the screen by removing important information like the names of cross streets.

If it's regularly sending you down avoidable gravel roads, you really ought to use something different. I'm more or less happy with google around me, although I'm comfortable enough with my surroundings to recognize and ignore most of the bad ideas; otherwise, I'd try something from Here --- they're the corporate successor of NavTeq, and have been doing digital maps since the 80s, and I liked their maps on Windows Phone. Something based on openstreetmaps is also attractive from an ability to influence the data perspective, too.
I've been working on using spiking neural networks (highly recurrent) to directly transform text via buffer mechanisms actuated by spiking activity. Ive had some marginal degree of success but there seems to be a bit of a wall. In these experiments, "thinking harder" takes the form of a growing pending spike queue. For practical reasons, this activity needs to be clipped or inhibited at some point. In real world biology, I suspect the power law growth in spiking activity is what contributes to much of cognition/intelligence. There's really no practical way to simulate it at full scale outside of hypothetical neuromorphic settings.

For now, I think we need to rely on probability, statistics and clever functions to drive most approaches forward. "Thinking harder" seems to require unconstrained resources if you need a decision in near real time.
Few people know, but Bitcoin was actually invented to stop the time war.

Huge amounts of human activity go into the blockchain and then the timing of blocks and who finds them is dependent on all of it in a highly non-linear and computationally expensive way.

This, of course, makes it infeasible to construct alterations of the past with predictable consequences in the future.

As such, its invention was almost inevitable as it's a stable solution that prevents history from constantly changing. :D
Lmao glad I could help. Sedated myself with this for six months straight.
Guess me using every ""racist"" word possible didnt catch on as funny as i hoped.
> An ex-nasa guy had told her that soon the water will rise, “and climate change has nothing to do with it.” Rather, it’s because “two or three planets or asteroids are going to collide and mess up the natural spinning of the Earth.”

wtf
Further, instead of tonnes of batteries in a tunnel underground, could we deliver power directly to the rails the platforms run on?
> That fake data is dangerous because data brokers don't really care how accurate their data is.

This makes me think that people could make bank by doing nothing at all but generating 100% fabricated data to sell to brokers then. Why bother even collecting it, just have some GPT clone hallucinate some gigabytes of formatted BS. xD
As an elixir developer I'm so jealous at Gleam (but stay with Elixir because ecosystem and phoenix)
It’s pretty sad
They are holding a multi tool[0]. Yea, a multi tool. Should I start post their proud tweets about finding pointy sticks?

Ban fists? Ban feet? Sandpaper?

[0] http://v6y.net/456654b7.png
Show HN: PodSnap.AI – automatic AI summaries for your favorite podcasts
Hi HN,

A couple months ago, a friend mentioned that there are too many great podcasts to keep up with. We searched for a solution but didn't find one and realized that many other listeners likely face the same problem.

So, I built PodSnap.AI, a service that keeps track of new podcast episodes and automatically sends AI-generated text and audio summaries to your inbox as soon as they are published.

This way, users can quickly get the key insights and decide whether to watch the full episode.

The service supports podcasts on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.

It's still beta, so I'd highly appreciate any feedback or suggestions for improvement.

Thank you!
I've seen claims up to 300 Wh/kg for batteries, but yes this is still more than that.
Basically you need to run this docker compose file from below and enable "Wyoming" integration in HA (I think it'll detect piper & whisper and propose it automatically). Don't worry about picking model too much - you can change it later in HA UI.

version: "3"
services:
## wyoming
whisper:
container_name: whisper
image: rhasspy/wyoming-whisper
command: --model base-int8 --language en
volumes:
- ./whisper-data:/data
environment:
- TZ=Europe/Brussels
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- 10300:10300

piper:
container_name: piper
image: rhasspy/wyoming-piper
command: --voice fr-siwis-medium
volumes:
- ./piper-data:/data
environment:
- TZ=Europe/Brussels
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- 10200:10200
Train is a bit of a shorthand here, though. Basic operant conditioning probably won't cut it. But the idea itself came to me after encountering similar thread about crows on HN many years ago - both comments and referenced articles would contain personal anecdotes about human-crow relationships, and from those I gathered that it's possible to kind of befriend a crow (or a group), and teach them behaviors as a kind of play.

So, I don't expect it's easy to train crows like dogs and pigeons, where one person "pre-trains" them and gives/sells them to someone else. But I think it should be possible to "train" a crow for yourself - bond with it and have it voluntarily indulge you reliably enough that it's pretty much like training.
I have some idea who I’m connecting/interacting with and how they communicate.
I have some knowledge of the problem space, how we got here, and why we are solving this.
It is unlikely this is the first time hearing of this issue.
I know the team and/or technologies which will likely support the solution.
I know the broader org goals and direction that might affect choices.
I have safety to ideate, iterate, and draft solutions.

This is basically “hire me and you’ll see”. Well, the perspective of an employer is that 80% of candidates say so and only 20% of them are worth anywhere near their desired comp. I understand the sentiment, but learn to show yourself before the marriage even if that’s no use afterwards.
Prior threads on DBOS:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Thank you for the responce but the article is about warning which obviously is a part of X's censourship but this is innocent because real censourship is about deleting/lowering in search/shadowbanning/messing with paying advertizers - deplatforming in one word. Warning is that kind of censourship which is happening inside of speaker's head, this is more like a self-censourship because the person thinks whether he/she should use the specific word in the world of euphemisms. The real censourship is whether deplatforming happens or not. It may happen with or without warning, also deplatforming may not happen after the warn and this is why I consider your example as something innocent.
From what I understand about ME/CFS, both post-exertional malaise and dysautonomia are symptoms- seems like stimulant use could make those things go either way
And the network is the computer :)
> Don’t underestimate the psychological impact a shotgun has. The sound it makes when you cock it sends fear down any man’s spine. The cocking of it is more important than the shot. As the deterrent is usually enough.

Yeah no. Maybe if that man lives in Devon and hunts foxes. Or maybe it was true when Joe Biden was a wee lad standing in the door of the family’s log cabin in Scranton, pointing his blunderbuss in the air to fire a warning shot at obliging home invaders.

Where I come from by the time they get within earshot of your Mossberg they’re so jacked up they don’t hear a goddamn thing
From https://gleam.run :

> Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. No nazi bullsh*t.

I agree, but I do not agree with painting people that disagree as 'Nazi'.

*edit: that quote was from the Gleam website, not the website linked.
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft can do anything, snuffing out some mid company is the least of their crimes.

> not contribute anything, and reap all the profit

Yeah, it's called capitalism.
What's their stance on Lina Khan breaking up the monopolies? Have they written letters criticising Reid Hoffman for pressuring Kamala?
> Ever dreamed of riding a bike down winding gravel roads without ever having to pedal along a paved road again?

Does Australia mean something else by gravel road than what I'm thinking as a US person?

Biking on gravel roads is unpleasant compared to paved or dirt IMHO. Gravel is unsmooth, loud, and can be loose. I certainly have the wrong tires for gravel, but even with wider tires, I don't think I'd dream of riding on gravel.
I have a similar problem on my Zenfone, there is a weird delay between key presses, especially when repeating a character twice, so that I often fail my password.
>The problem is that neither Linus nor the other prominent maintainers will live forever.

I agree. But likewise, Linux's design is far from the state of the art. Maybe there's value in letting it be what it always has been. It is not realistic to try to migrate millions of LoCs written with poor structure, to properly structured Rust, with barely any support from the pre-existing developers.

At some time, it makes sense to move on to something better. This hypothetical system be written in a different language. It could be Rust, it could be C23, or something else entirely. But what it will definitely be is better structured. It would have clean, versioned APIs. And drivers will no doubt run in user space.
The right question is what the efficiency of this process is. End to end, not just the charging/discharging.

Both charging and discharging seems to require a lot of heat. Waste heat is essentially lost energy that is released in the form of heat. I assume the discharge reaction is exothermic. That would be the energy stored in the summer months. Heating up a lot of tons of iron during charging is also not going to be free. It doesn't matter whether you do it slowly or quickly.

Creating the hydrogen is also not a loss free process. Nor is doing something useful with it like using it in a fuel cell (0.85), burning it (0.45), etc. These inefficiencies multiply.

All that lost energy comes out of the original budget of energy that came out of the solar panels.

Even if you use some wildly optimistic numbers, they multiply to something well below 0.5 pretty quickly even before you consider charging & discharging.

But lets do something silly and unrealistic and just do the math for an average step efficiency at 0.7, 0.8, and 0.9. We're talking four conversions here so that's 0.7^4 =0.24 vs. 0.41 and 0.66. And forget about getting anywhere near average 0.9 efficiencies with all of those steps. I'm assuming 0.7 would already be on the high side. Add more steps to the process and it only gets worse. Pipes aren't perfect. If you need to pressurize the hydrogen before you use it (like in a car), that isn't free either.

Basically, this takes a system that was already quite inefficient end to end and adds two more steps that sound like they involve some pretty significant energy losses to it (i.e. probably well below 0.5 when combined), thus making the system as a whole a lot more inefficient. Hydrogen as a battery already sucked with normal storage. This doesn't improve things.

There's a good reason that most hydrogen produced is used at or close to its site of production: it minimizes the energy losses and producing hydrogen is really expensive so it's not really desirable to lose 80-90% of the energy unless you really need to.
> Are there overlay networks that are not software only?

In the defense and government security space there are 'hardware' overlay network devices. One common use is extending classified 'airgapped' networks over less secure networks or the internet. 'Inline Network Encryptor' is a generic term; 'Taclane' is one brand; HAIPE is I think an applicable NSA standard.
> "Unicode" button label way off center

Its actually the center of the button, I made a video for context: https://imgur.com/a/1Y9O8dS

> The 8/10/16 selector being off center in its own position

Might be due to the image compression, it looks fine on my MB.
This is what I'm looking for: a way to put something in public (I'm using Vercel) that "only" me can access (anybody who can decrypt it doesn't need the content that I encrypt).
The Making Of "Shadow Of The Colossus" (2005) [pdf]
What about as a Kodi plugin?
Therefore veganism seems a pertinent subject here.
In Search of the DX in Internationalization
Existential Reality is the source of true Truth, everything else is an attempt that shall fail inevitably, we only wish for them to linger long enough to facilitate a new generation of tries.

Trusted institutions and establishments are for whoever they serve. Identity and the stories we tell ourselves are closely related. Institutions and establishments provide a narrative. Everyone wants to believe their narrative is correct and meaningful, even when it is contradicted by those of others.

The answer to your riddle is that no one is a definitive source of "truth". A story of "truth" is a form of technology. The more consistently useful representation tends to prevail (of which astrological charts are as accurate as scientific predictions of human behavior.)

Notice that "more consistently useful" does not mean "true truth". Won't you invest in narratives that get you paid, or laid, or accepted?

True truth requires a cult like fastidious intention toward integrity (consistency) with existential Truths (observable, imperical, reproducible). Such austerity is not necessarily advantageous socially, economically, or politically.
Ask HN: Is there fine-tune model I can try online?
I'm trying to understand the trade-offs between fine tuning and RAG.

Without fine tuning a model of my own, do any comparisons exist between plain LLM, RAG, and a fine tune for the same prompts/topic to be able to compare the jump in quality between the base model vs RAG vs fine tune vs fine tune + RAG ?
Stephen Wolfram has some Q&A streams on youtube where he answers questions off-the-cuff about the history of science. It's remarkable how much he can immediately recall and how easily he makes connections between seemingly unrelated scientific developments. He is a true polymath and his productivity is next level.
>It's such a good tool I hear they are trying to write drivers with it in the Linux kernel.

And it's going to be a nightmare, because Linux famously makes changes every now and again which require maintainers monkeying all over code they do not know well to change references to functions and structures.

This is hard enough with just C, it is untenable with Rust.

Let's be honest. Linux isn't even that good. Is it worth the pain? The rust devs could get much more work done and without conflict if they worked on their own system, such as Maestro[0] (unix-like, AGPL but MIT if you go back just a few non-code commits) or Redox[1] (microkernel and multiserver proper, MIT).

0. https://github.com/maestro-os/maestro

1. https://www.redox-os.org/
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I am not counting on this to happen quickly if at all. Though if FCast is the thing everyone has access to (regardless of Apple TV, Fire TV, Android TV, etc) then maybe eventually it will happen. If you have a raspberry pi, and old computer or an old phone you aren't using, you can easily convert it into a FCast receiver. Doing the same with Chromecast is more tricky since the protocol is more extensive and most clients verify the certificates of the casting device to be authorized by Google.
>If you think technical interviews are just made up garbage, you should see how bad CVs are, or how shockingly good some people are at talking about things they can't actually do to any level of competence.

Very good point.

A lot of bullshitters out there
Great programming lang article, starts with premises then shows examples, iterations, and final words. Gleam looks really interesting, though personally I’ll stick with TypeScript because it’s “good enough” and I understand where mutability can sneak in sometimes well enough these days.
I have seen several attempts at this https://github.com/c4valli/kodi-fcast-receiver being one of them. There is not one provided by FUTO (for now).
Let's translate them, it is not really that they want to protect users against fraud, but they want to put themselves up in the payment chain to try to secure their monopolistic position.

The goal is to go up the chain up to the bank account owner. For example you will need an app provided by Mastercard to do the 2fa, or the bank will have to use Mastercard technology/stack in their own apps and transmit more data about their users to Mastercard.
Even if Apple were adopting skeuomorphism it would take a lot more change in design elements to support the concept that there's a mechanical system driving it, and for a binary display I'd assume a row of lights would be more appropriate to how this would read on appropriate machines
Because hooks are both a great innovation and a pain in the ass at the same time. They make reusing and composing logic between components easier than any other framework I've used.

But all the manual dependency tracking is a real hassle and is crying out for language-level support, to which this compiler brings us a step closer.

Hooks do seem to be gaining some traction in Flutter, FWIW.