skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self-answer but leaving in case anyone else has the same question... seems there are some new options in GCP TTS. Both "studio" and "jorney" are new since I last checked (and I check pretty often).
Rockchip RK3588. I mean, not sure how trustworthy/accurate these are, but:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/4906vs817/Rockchip-RK35...

https://gadgetversus.com/processor/intel-core-i5-3320m-vs-ro...
Yea, I agree that it’s a little less science fiction than it used to be.

But remember the subtlety of it; the constable didn’t have his face recognized, or log in, he literally made a promise to the book while pretending to talk to the owner. It’s still mostly science fiction :)
better link now that a few threads are consolidated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41498358
If it seemed full of annoying product placement, no. If the content and presentation were sufficiently good, yes.

I believe (but then again I also want to believe, so make of this what you will) that I'd be holding the AI to only the same standards I hold humans to. It's not like I'm trying to build a relationship to the speaker in either case.
Employment is also a flywheel. Much has been written about the fact that recruiters and employers prefer candidates that are already employed and have been continuously employed for long durations without gaps. Make of it what you will but the reality is that taking two years off means that landing a job will be substantially harder than it would have been if you worked during that time. Attitudes towards this seem to be changing for the better but the last time I embarked on a job search I had several people misread my resume, ask me about an employment gap that wasn't there, then act relieved when I corrected them.

Question for international HNers: is this a US-centric phenomenon?
Like SSML? See azure tts or google cloud tts, or ibm Watson or even old school system tts like SAPI voices on windows. But I hear you. In a VITS typical model system ssml isn’t standard. Piper tts does have it on the roadmap.
This will most likely end up like prop 65 where the warning will be completely ignored and if anything make make people not care about the important warnings like on wine bottles. A surgeon general warning makes sense on a bottle of wine to prevent pregnant mothers from causing their children to have FAS or worse. I'm generally a proponent for government enforcing companies to improve consumer knowledge, but only for matters of simple fact such as nutrition labels or the recent ISP speed labels.[0] I could see such labels also making sense for eg. laptops or mobile phones, but there is no evidence that these manufactures are hiding these specs so it seems unnecessary. Similar arguments could also be made for movies and video games. In those cases, companies voluntarily provide age restrictions such as the MPA and ESRB rating systems. This is perhaps infeasible with mass user generated content like social media. However, I'm not sure the issue people have with social media is the "content rating" per se but other issues such as bullying or addiction (taking these claims at face value). Lastly, I have read that the evidence for a teen mental health crisis caused by social media is not as substantial as claimed in news media, but I haven't looked into it deeply.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/starting-today-i...
Although if you're not too picky about the finer details or being perfectly consistent across every platform, the system fonts are generally good enough nowadays to put together a pretty decent stack without having to resort to serving web fonts.

https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks

Even if you are using web fonts, those stacks make for good fallbacks.
Not surprised to see the actual product seems to be an uncredited fork of an OSS project.
Just because git won does not mean it is the apex in design. Especially for a monolithic company, what does a decentralized operation buy you?
Have the user agent default to no for everything unless manually allowed by the user via a discreet, intentioned toggle similar to the tracking toggle Apple implemented.
Genmoji... That's what i'm talking about
Having re-read the thread, I totally agree. What you have listed is table stakes. I'd also say that internal headers would also be encrypted to a narrow protection domain.

If all internal headers were prefixed with X-CF-, you could strip them all via SIMD that had no knowledge of any specific header. Hell, you could probably do it on the NIC.
I believe they used the game to show how the same underlying technology would build a mental model not because the game was perfect-information, but because it was easy to probe for without a lot of other unrelated concepts getting in the way.

Perhaps this is what you're looking for (similar technique, larger model?)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude

> In the “mind” of Claude, we found millions of concepts that activate when the model reads relevant text or sees relevant images, which we call “features”.

> One of those was the concept of the Golden Gate Bridge. We found that there’s a specific combination of neurons in Claude’s neural network that activates when it encounters a mention (or a picture) of this most famous San Francisco landmark.

Sounds like a mental model to me! An internal representation of an external concept which exists in the real world.
SpaceX: Polaris Dawn Program
From 2016, a bit tangential, but a wonderful read by Nadia Eghbal- Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure.

https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/learning/research-report...
I know I'm taking the wrong thing from this - but I really struggle to read this site. Something about the contrast and aggro gradients.
Did you know iPhones used to have 3.5" screens? They sold fine. Did you know the SE still has a 4.7" screen? It sells fine.
> In order to write resilient software, programs must handle not only the "happy path" when things succeed, but the path where things might fail

And exceptions let you handle error conditions without making the actual business logic harder to read, with as little or much specificity as required.

> Thus it is important for developers to 1) be aware of which operations may fail fail, and b) think about what the program should do in that case

Checked exceptions/effect types exist, being explicit or implicit in function signatures is not a fundamental property of exceptions.

And what is clearer in terms of error handling — if err being every third line, with questionable handling logic, e.g. just printing or swallowing stuff (or gestures at the article), and definite human error from repetition —— or a well-defined block with proper scoping, without which the error case does the only reasonable thing — automatically bubbles up, making it possible to handle higher up. There is often no immediate action that can be done in certain exceptional situations, e.g. your ordinary function that writes a file can’t do anything about a full disc. The best it can do is to yell, so that the action that called it somewhere can do some evasive action, e.g. re-trying/notifying the user/etc.

> Exceptions make it easier for the programmer to forget that something might fail, and to avoid thinking about what to do if it does fail.

Disagree. If anything, something not being in a try-catch block says that it will be handled higher up (or checked exceptions making it part of the signature), and when it’s surrounded by it, I know what is the happy path, and unhappy path immediately, without it being crossed over (usually badly), as it would happen with if errs.

> Go's error handling idiom makes it clear that an operation might fail

What about the case when it both returns a value and an error?

> and prompts programmers to think about what to do in that case

Blindly if erring and printing out a random string is not error handling. That’s just noise, and a terrible trap for yourself, having to grep for useless error codes later on.
This is the most prescient point I have read hitherto regarding LLMs. We are fashioning for ourselves gods of wood and stone.
Developer of the model here. We built this model in the form of an LLM precisely to address this problem - to be able to utilize the textual data that accompanies the image such as the order history or clinical background e.g. patient demographics. Images and text are both embedded into the conversation, meaning the LLM can in theory respond using both.

Of course, there are lots of remaining challenges around integration and actually getting access to these data sources e.g. the EMR systems, when trying to use this in practice.
The issue is you have similar regulation from California, which is on sites that are not necessarily doing business in the EU, and vice versa. So while in some cases it might not be EU compliant, it might be CA compliant.

This has spawned some services you pay for which handle the dialogs for you.
Having built and offered SSO to non-enterprise customers, there is a good reason people don't.

SSO is a two party system, which means even if you have everything configured perfectly, your customer can still mess up their Okta setup. And no amount of docs will stop them from doing that.

And when they mess it up, they'll blame your auth for not working. And if it's an enterprise customer that's fine. Just spend a day debugging for them. But if it's a free tier user, it creates pure headache with no upside.
It's easy to lose track of the number of times Google has been convicted of breaking the law.
Nice! I was searching for something like this!
Jus got a install error:
corepack install
Adding pnpm@9.9.0+sha512.60c18acd144bff695d339be6ad13f7e936eea6745660d4cc4a776d5247c540d0edee1a563695c183a66eb917ef88f2b4feb1fc25f32a7adcadc7aaf3438e99c1 to the cache...
Internal Error: Mismatch hashes. Expected 60c18acd144bff695d339be6ad13f7e936eea6745660d4cc4a776d5247c540d0edee1a563695c183a66eb917ef88f2b4feb1fc25f32a7adcadc7aaf3438e99c1, got 60c18acd138bff695d339be6ad13f7e936eea6745660d4cc4a776d5247c540d0edee1a563695c183a66eb917ef88f2b4feb1fc25f32a7adcadc7aaf3438e99c1
Unfortunately that is not how it will be perceived. If he drinks the water it will be taken to be proof that there is no problem with the water. This stunt has occurred before where a CEO drinks water that is later shown to be contaminated to prove it is safe.
Well, by "immediate" they mean: "was user space through Win2k, went to kernel space in XP to match 9x performance, reversed in Vista".

So...one generation, and about 7 years later.
Who doesn't like free manpower to kickstart your VC backed startup?

"We only have 2 employees btw, we are so good"
When was this introduced? This is surprisingly enlightened.

Can I edit keys with a text editor?
Common food dye lets scientists see through skin
Really impressive. The podcasting spam we will get from this will be a pain, but really impressive demo
If can tell where content came from, it's fine with me. If a host of paid spammers or bots can astroturf an opinion and fool me into thinking they are a wide demographic, that's a problem. And it is -- but it predates LLMs.
> say the music industry.

Yeah or the vanilla film industry. With characters like Weinstein and the others..
There's still tons of it around! The Marx Brothers movies are a great example of high-quality content with questionable segments that perfectly capture those old stereotypes. And as a classic movie fan, there are tons of movies with incidental black characters like that. I don't think those should all go in the bin, they are a product of their time.

The WB content is aimed at kids, and I think that makes a difference.
That item is the lowest cost of the options depicted, and has more reviews (which are proportional to sales) than the rest combined. I think most algorithms would put it on top.
On the contrary. Google have the best lawyers. And they did the math and came up that the profits from several years of now following the laws makes up for any potential fines for breaking it.

You know that scene from Fight Club when on the plane, Edward Norton's character explains to his seat mate that he works for a very large car company where they have mechanical issues that kill people all the time, and his job is to do the math and only issue a recall if the cost of the lawsuits is greater than the cost of the recall. Google, Apple, et-al have the same thought process for following the law.
My aunt used to take me and my sister to the El Capitan theatre to every big Disney tentpole that premiered there in the late 80s and early 90s. I think Lion King is probably still the best movie-going experience I have ever had and ever will have. It was the first one where I was a teenager and that was probably the end of my true childhood and when I started losing interest in stuff like that. I don't think any scene will ever again touch me like James Earl Jones voice booming from the clouds telling Simba to remember who he is. The swell of that Hans Zimmer score still brings tears to my eyes instantly every time I hear it.
> We already regulate many things for harm

And are there any politicians who are making a career out of that advocacy?

> I think you are confused with regards to current state

I think you are confused about the context of the conversation vs. what you wish the conversation was.

> The discussion is adding additional items to that regulatory list.

And the items on that list and the proposed additions are _significantly_ different. In particular, most of those do not enjoy constitutional protections, and the proposed does.

> It’s still democracy even when you aren't happy with the outcome

The constitution would disagree with you.

> You got the vote

I'd rather have the rights that are guaranteed to me, and I would like to know that neither you nor your strongman politicians can take any of those away from me, regardless of how many slips of paper you manage to collect.
I've had friends take their phones in for a battery replacement, and let's say the results were not better than before they took their phones in.

As with buying a battery from ebay, it's still not gonna be an OEM battery (or am I wrong?). OEM stuff is more important for phones than for laptops, I have found
Handshakes and kickbacks would be what would happen if they hadn't been publicly fined.

If anything, this is a counterexample to your comment.
A related experiment from Google: NotebookLM (notebooklm.google.com), which takes a group of documents and provides a RAG Gemini chatbot in return.

I wish Google would make these experiments more well-known!
Whenever I write a backend, it's a thin layer on top of the RDBMS like you said. I don't know if a lib or framework could help with this. It's more about designing the schema well, avoiding excessive tooling (ORMs, query builders, etc), not trying to abstract away the DB, and writing ample integration tests.

If you get that stuff out of the way, you can focus on the real problems like design, xact isolation, and performance, for which there's tons of conflicting advice rather than an agreed-upon approach. And then there's sharding. It's hard enough already.

Personally I haven't found the need for type safety in code, or even the code-SQL boundary. The DB tables have types, as does my OpenAPI or Protobuf or whatever API spec. That's basically everything already. If something slips past my tests, it's because the tests are bad, and stronger typing wouldn't have helped.
VC business is looking for the exit, so they could exit before the company charges something.
The real power of variable axes is that it's not related to weight in the slighted. That's the most obvious use-case, but it's just a mechanism to control "which points in a glyph's outline go where based on what one or more variables are set to", so just using it to change weight is... kinda obvious and boring? Let's kick it up a notch:

https://v-fonts.com/fonts/extendomatic-variable

https://v-fonts.com/fonts/tatras-shaded

https://v-fonts.com/fonts/wavefont
The excitement around new models is more for tech enthusiasts, while "normies" simply want a device that works and lasts.
Do you really think HR is looking at that and goes “oh wow, we need to do better?” lol
Nah they go on Linkedin instead and amp their message with how they learned from this experience.
Adding here my own personal experience: I have a physical machine that runs Debian for Minecraft, a few static sites, a small Go API and a handful of internal tools and I've barely had to do any maintenance (in a year's time), no issues on Hetzner's side either.
It does feel a little weird then that Apple is being fined here then? It seems like Ireland did the thing that's against the rules by offering the deal, not Apple? Obviously they worked on it together, but it feels odd that Ireland has now essentially gotten all the benefits of offering this illegal deal by having Apple do business there and now also gets all the back taxes that Apple probably wouldn't have paid to Ireland if they hadn't gotten the deal.

That seems like a bit of a perverse incentive for countries to offer deals they may know will get overturned later because they'll get the money eventually.
Taxes don't fund government programs. Taxes are a way to mitigate the buying power of private capital when it comes to bidding against government for things. Governments just create money supply for programs. It's not tax money. That's just an old cliche.
Yes I know that's a potential problem (along with using things like digital wallets), but I don't use banking apps (nor digital wallets)
One of my favourite economic paradoxes. It changes the way you think about efficiency and consumption.

My colleague introduced me to this idea. He had been studying ways to increase computing efficiency out of concern for the environment. Making programs more efficient would reduce energy consumption, right?

His advisor introduced him to Jevons paradox and he realized such efforts could have the exact opposite effect. So he dropped that research entirely. If you're worried about energy consumption, you need to make energy production more green, not machines more efficient.

Making data centers more efficient will probably cause us to build more data centers and use more power overall, not less.
Ah yes, the "ignore what I asked for, push me what sells the best" search algorithms.
It's quite expensive to get a 10GBe-capable home router and switch, but this now allows you to use any old x86 PC and a 10GBe networking card to create one of your own. That's what I'm going to try.
Safe Mode existed in Win9x.

User space drivers that could restart without kernel panicking didn't exist until Windows Vista (well, on the home user side of Windows).

Fallback drivers were never a thing on Win9x, you would have to go into safe mode to uninstall broken drivers that wouldn't allow a boot (typically graphics drivers); or manually uninstall/replace them otherwise.
And you can't bother doing a simple google search ? Their effective tax rate is about 27%, yes.
> if they could get one at say $250, they'd get that model the majority of the time.

I don't think that's necessarily the case, people have consistently bought the premium iPhone models over the much cheaper SE. You really can't generalize the buying habits of consumers as if they all have the same buying power. Intentionally not catering to buyers of lower buying power is exactly why green bubbles have a stigma in the US.
Imagine reading a math or programming textbook where each statement was true with probability 0.95.
If conflicts between NATO and Russia escalate, it’s probable Internet infrastructure will be targeted.
There is a very fine line between "good enough" and "not good enough" in any product beyond a certain complexity. Finding the pieces that cross that line can be hard and improving "good enough" parts is (sadly) mostly a waste of time in commercial settings.
Hi HN,

Today I'm launching BAQ!

It’s a set of protocols and tools to help developers build connected apps with little to no backend infrastructure, and it lets users be in control of their own data.

Let me know what you think!

Homepage: https://baq.dev/
GitHub: https://github.com/baqhub/baq
Also check out lazyjj: https://github.com/Cretezy/lazyjj
Machine Yearning: A 4 KB musicdisk for a modified C64 with two SID chips
I wish there were some regulations giving me the right to not see ads without my explicit, free consent.
Absolutely not. Imagine a text editor failing when I hit save. Do you really want that to crash the application? No. You want a fallback to ctrl+A ctrl+C, paste into a email and send to yourself. Giving the user a choice to save on a different drive is also a possibility, maybe your thumb drive just got a nudge and lost connection for a second.

This is really all normal use cases under normal conditions.
I’ve used them in real code! They are pretty intuitive for some use cases. The last time I used a trie was for address lookup. I even used a generator, haha. Double whammy leetcode in real life situation I guess.

It’s definitely not a common tool I reach for though.
Please keep harping. The marketing myths that gets circulated about these models are creating very serious misunderstandings and misallocation of resources. I am hopeful that more cautious and careful dialogue like this will curb the notions of sentience or human intelligence that exciting headlines seemed to have put in the public discussion of these tools.
Another idea would be to do periodic snapshots of the /etc folder. That, sadly, excludes ext4, but any flavour of Solaris can easily do it.
My new cinema company pumps aerosolized nicotine through the ventilation system to help induce desire.

I (and my investors) are glad we were able to provide your desires for your """genuine feelings""". And I get money. Win/win.
A higher-carb diet can promote fullness, but the balance of other nutrients is still important. Moreover, fullness shouldn't be the main focus when discussing healthy eating
This doesn't work always..
> The 3D printed case you can see in the photos will be replaced with a robust CNC-milled, bead-blasted, anodized 6061 aluminum case.

Check out their most recent model, the Pocket Reform, to get an idea of the case quality https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-pocket-reform
The results for the search "funda" are all smartphone or tablet covers, or covers for laptop. Except for that one Amazon Basics product which is a cover/protector for hard-drives.

That doesn't seem at least a tiny bit odd to you?
Generally, there are two types of debts: consumer debt, which you just spend and the debt you invest in something profit-bringing, like business.

Average people generally only accrue the first kind and rarely the second.
The rumors is that is going to be Windows based, and have all kind of stores in it, XBox, Steam, Epic, whatever.

Basically PC in a box, in kiosk mode.

It is a bad thing, because those boxes are surely not improving the XBox Cloud streaming experience, which is quite famous for not being that great, with long waiting queues.
To be fair this is probably a good thing. I would not expect a small website managed by a handful of people to know all the regulations inside and out. It’s similar to how they need to contract a proper accountant for taxes and balance sheets if they don’t have the skills to do it themselves.

I’ve noticed some of these providers, they have a consistent layout and are localised, even on small sites purely designed for American audiences. If these services are good, then a lot of smaller website will be good as well without them needing to invest too much time or money in this.
Show HN: Backlot – Create custom "TV episodes" with just a few words
Just released Backlot and giving HN an early look. On Backlot, you can choose a "TV Show" horror, K-drama, anime and more) and generate a custom episode just by answering a short prompt ("What did she see?", "An evil clown"). Generations are completely free for the next day, would love to see what you guys come up with.

Tweet: https://x.com/metrolabsinc/status/1833482542386716988

Backlot: http://www.backlot.id
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