skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beauty is, in many respects, an objective quality, especially regarding colossal architecture. Geometry doesn't change. Perspective and proportion are enduring qualities, and all humankind hold these in common.

Furthermore, some architects and engineers are deliberately provoking ire by designing ugly and offensive structures. I mean, in what reality would someone enjoy having their eyes and senses brutalized by a Brutalist? It's sadomasochism on a civic level.

Eiffel strikes me as sort of a utilitarian skeleton piece; a proof of concept that made Lady Liberty a reality. But yeah, the tower itself is still kinda ugly, especially in comparison to the graceful and sinuous surroundings it was plopped into. I must admit that any true fan of Erector Sets would find it somewhat cool.

Notre-Dame, as a building, embodies Truth, Beauty, and Goodness, just as her faithful people do, and the edifice stands to project the Gospel of truth. I'd never object to a veggie garden, but perhaps let's not encourage gardeners to clomp around on the sacred roof.

John 20:15
It's not even close to his voice lmao, just has similar cadence.
Like slapped together particle board furniture vs hand crafted beautiful designs, I expect the price difference to be so significant that, like the artistic wood carvers of old Japan, that the market will dry up and fewer and fewer will hold the skill until it is practically lost
amen. and at some point Gmail was perfect, but they kept fixing it, so now it's getting bloated, slow and occasionally just does random things.
(for context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity%3A_What's_Inside_the... )
I'm not sure how that'd save you here unless you go out of your way to block the youtube domain entirely.
Oh no, they have to live in Palm Beach? The Florida punishment for murdering 5 people in cold blood is a needle in your arm. What should be the punishment for murdering a million?
Mackerel, sardine.

I believe they are amongst the best source of Omega 3.
Technically you could still eat cod liver but you would still eat big amount of pollutants because it's the liver.
I don't think you even need PMs and UX to be involved here. Let the eng get a little bored and they'll find stuff to fix. The way it actually works though is we set some arbitrary impossible deadline, rush to meet it, creating a wake of tech debt, launch, and then straight on to the next thing.
Globalization is not at all designed to exploit inequalities, it is in fact the exact opposite. The purpose of globalization is to increase the efficiency of the global economy, and the effect that has is to minimize inequality. Which is how China has ended up with the worlds largest middle class, Mexico has ended up with a very respectable middle class, and the middle class in India is growing at quite an impressive rate, despite all the other problems those countries have. It is also the reason that hunger/malnutrition and deprivation in general have been on a rather steady downwards trend over the past 80 years, "the 99%" are the primary benefactors of the improvements in quality of life that it has brought with it.

None of this would be possible without the security provided by the militaries of the western democracies. Strong militaries don't cause this outcome, but they are 100% required if you are trying to create it. The only way to prevent all of those bad things that you have the described western militaries doing from happening where you live is to have the protection of a strong military yourself. This is such a plainly obvious fact, denying it is about on par with the "defund the police" rationale. Sure they can do bad things, and that can be addressed, but society needs the military possibly even more than it needs the police.
I also had my doubts about Einstein and Hawking, you know? but you found quantum computing that might be the reason.

Is it true that Linus Torvalds and Guido van Rossum actually ask him for advice and have him check their code? He is a cult personality in india and was told that no one is close to him when it comes to coding
I messed around with some rotating tables in that Apollo 17 demo video - you can check it out in the repo if you want. It's pretty straightforward to tweak just by changing the prompt. You can customize that prompt section in the code to fit whatever you need.

Oh, and if you throw in a line about LaTeX, it'll make things even more consistent. Just add it to that markdown definition part I set up. Honestly, it'll probably work pretty well as is - should be way better than those clunky old OCR systems.
Office365 is way better. You get native apps, which are obviously better than a web app, you get device integrations for enterprise, you get more advanced tooling, more features. Plus MS has better compliance options. If you're actually running a business, and not just a startup employee who doesn't need to do much, MS is the way.
The article reads a bit like those blog posts from junior developers in third world countries who are trying their hardest to prove that they’re capable developers who know what they’re doing, in order to make it out of their current situation.
> I think it offers an optimal balance of affordability & reliability.

It is hard to trust "you" when ChatGPT wrote that text. You never know which part of the answer is genuine and which part was made up by ChatGPT.

To actually answer that question: Pricing varies quite a bit depending on what exactly you want to do with a document.

Text detection generally costs $1.5 per 1k pages:

https://cloud.google.com/vision/pricing

https://aws.amazon.com/textract/pricing/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/ai-documen...
Linear app is quite polished.

Stripe is also quite excellent but not entirely bug free. I think they have a bit more surface area though.
>I remember when OpenAI practically cloned Scarlett Johanssen's voice...

There is absolutely zero evidence for this. I find it infuriating that this keeps being stated as a fact. So they go and hire a voice actor and clearly use her voice to train, but then they also scrape Scarlett Johansson from youtube and splice it into the training data to make the voice a bit more like hers? Really does that sound realistic?
I definitely didn't necessarily mean an app that had a way to make money. I mean exposing the work to more people who would get fun or utility out of the painstaking effort put into it. The world could use this sort of taste in a game, an activity, a tool, etc.
On mobile so not looking for the link, but a couple of years back, a motorcycle enthusiast vlogger who was this cute girl had her filter drop live and it was a middle aged guy the whole time. In that case, I recall the viewership accepted him
Nextcloud: Open-Source Cloud Apps
I wish they'd make more apps. I use Linear but with a team of 1, it's not exactly the best fit for me.
If you've got your rule working for arbitrary named (i.e. not the name of the file) modules and submodules and an arbitrary number of modules and submodules generated by a single source file which uses FPP (whatever program that actually is ;) or CPP as preprocessor, then yes. And with "working" I mean adding each module file as a single target which is able to trigger a rebuild of the module.
You should be able to get that to work easier with GNU Make 4.3 and later, as that now supports grouped targets - which I have learned elsewhere in this forum. Now the only problém is getting your module dependencies without first compiling all files to generate the modules, as `gfortran -M` (and any other compiler that generates dependency information) AFAIK still doesn't "know" which file produces which module without actually generating the module files.
It wasnt that long ago I was using a 16 year old IBM Thinkpad. Wrote a lot of good code on it. It could barely run MATE/Debian.
I like standards and abhor bloat, but I must admit there are GNU extensions that are so useful and well known that it would be difficult to do without. Probably this happens when POSIX specs are too strict or feature-poor to be of use even for medium-complexity tasks.

One example is "make": I'm afraid that a POSIX-only implementation wouldn't run most Makefiles out there!
You've got a point, but try testing it on a tricky example like the Apollo 17 document - you know, with those sideways tables and old-school writing. You'll see all three non-AI services totally bomb. Now, if you tweak it to batch = 1 instead of 10, you'll notice there's hardly any made-up stuff. When you dial down the temperature close to zero, it's super unlikely to see hallucinations with limited context. At worst, you might get some skipped bits, but that's not a dealbreaker for folks looking to feed PDFs into AI systems. Let's face it, regular OCR already messes up so much that...
Surely this refers to decomposition and not living plants. Your link doesn't appear to finger plants as the culprit at all.
California Drivers May Soon Get Speed-Warning Devices
Link to the cybiko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybiko

That is a really wild design
20 most-expensive areas with population 10,000–50,000

Vineyard Haven, Mass.

Jackson, Wyo.

Breckenridge, Colo.

Steamboat Springs, Colo.

Hailey, Idaho

Gardnerville Ranchos, Nev.

Hood River, Ore.

Ellensburg, Wash.

Los Alamos, N.M.

Astoria, Ore.

Juneau, Alaska

Fredericksburg, Texas

Kill Devil Hills, N.C.

Easton, Md.

Sandpoint, Idaho

Prineville, Ore.

Ketchikan, Alaska

Brookings, Ore.

Sheridan, Wyo.

Montrose, Colo.
Belief is irrelevant, it’s what evidence exists for that matters. Any intervention for PTSD that has an evidentiary basis and consistent effect across multiple studies is good. There is a tiny bit of that building behind Tetris as an intervention for traumatic experiences, including evidence that it may help prevent conversion of traumatic experiences into post-traumatic mental illness; be glad for that because it means people in the future may not develop PTSD at all. By any measure that potential preventative effect is more important than treatments that only work (if they work at all) for people who already have developed it, so Tetris is getting some serious research study… good, nothing to be frustrated about here. If ketosis worked for you, great, but there’s little more than exactly that anecdotal evidence yet, it needs time and investigation too.
3D Doom game improved graphics made by AI
No, jailbroken means that you make the device do something that manufacturer prohibits (breaking out of a jail). Unlocking the bootloader where the manufacturer supports unlocking the bootloader is using it as designed. The correct term is "unlockable bootloader", not unlocked. No one ships a production device with an unlocked bootloader.
So what is a field?
The alignment is not exactly the same when you just put them side by side. Flex can center the radio with the text a bit nicer. Otherwise it sits above the text baseline I believe.
It's clear google wants to be a dumb pipe rather than a business that's responsive to end-user needs.

Unfortunately, they're also notoriously unreliable as a dumb pipe.
You and him are incorrigible. Him for the naive assumption and stereotype that “techies” don’t do any manual trades or crafts, you for looking at the count of activity on stack fucking overflow for woodworking.
The pitch deck I used to raise a round in South Korea as a foreigner
Never forget what happened to Australian UniSuper when google accidentally deleted their account. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/...

"More than half a million UniSuper fund members went a week with no access to their superannuation accounts after a “one-of-a-kind” Google Cloud “misconfiguration” led to the financial services provider’s private cloud account being deleted, Google and UniSuper have revealed."
Is this true that Maaori is crapped by Ænglish spelling? In all other languages long vowel is just two wovels, not some stupid umlaut on top.
You can recommend adding analytics to all your flows. Then recommend some of these sanding tasks in order to improve metrics such as drop-off rate. Managers are more inclined to say yes when there is data involved.
I enjoyed Fable so much that, yes, I will buy what ever game platform they release the 4th installment on just for that game
On my iphone I can! Tested to 3 levels deep.
Good for you. Modular programming goes a long way, of course, but I'd say that your changes were then those that could be foreseen, for example by drawing the right modular boundaries from the start.
> which means that the choice of another waveform including, say, an additional particle off to the side, would imply that the entanglement -- which is supposed to be the behaviour being described, not the theory used to describe it -- actually changes.

But the entanglement between A and B _doesn't_ change by adding C.

"Entangled" is the negation of "separable". If A and B can be described by a wavefunction that looks like (wavefunction A)x(wavefunction B), then we say the system AB is separable. This means, essentially, that A and B can be considered independent. If we can't write the wavefunction of AB as a product, then we say AB are entangled.

Now, I hope that it is more clear that adding C to the side results in a wavefunction for ABC that is (wavefunction AB)x(wavefunction C). The entanglement of AB is unchanged, since the AB part of the ABC wavefunction is unchanged. All we have done is add a C part to the wavefunction, but this C part is not entanglement with AB.
priority matters though, if you want to go full Apple with UI/UX then you need to lock the UI/UX for years, like Apple does, and refine every little thing to bring a fully ecstatic UX to the user. Or accept that most users won't notice that or wouldn't mind it behaving like that and build new features that will bring useful behaviours to the app (and revenue to the company).
If you have to spend 50 hours to explain why it's a bug, most likely only you care about it.
In some cases it may matter to be THAT precise with UI/UX and it's cool, not saying i don't appreciate quality but you can't have everything.
One thing I'd like to point out is that most of the time it isn't even a matter of priority, lots of dev energy gets wasted in useless refactors and picking "the right library/framework" and building the "next outdated design library", instead of being used to improve things ;)
> Those championing the technology argue that it could save lives—consider that in 2022, 18 percent of the passenger-vehicle drivers, or 8236 people, involved in fatal crashes in the U.S. were speeding, according to NHTSA.

Considering that more than 18% of CA drivers are speeding, I guess it follows that speeding saves lives - perhaps by narrowly evading the accident?

Maybe there should be an audible warning if you're driving over 85, as in years old.
I support your assumption.
The mechanisms of how EDMR affects the PTSD symptoms are still debated, but indeed a quite prevalent opinion (which i also subscribe to) is that EMDR is not at all about the eye movements but about the exposition therapy happening concurrently. Exposition has been robustly proven to be effective at PTDS treatment and as far as i know, there is no rigorous evidence for EMDR having more effect than standalone exposition, highly suggesting that the exposition part is what makes EMDR work.
If you consider it a terrorism, it is it, and it's up to you to decide.

Most modern countries terrorize people by design, because they can use the 51% illusion to justify any of their actions.

They also use the same illusion to teach you what's terrorism and what's patriotism, and they will for sure try to teach you young — if they don't, it will be kinda hard to distinguish later on
I imagine it would then depend on the intent and how that voice was presented.

If you got Bob who sounds awfully like Mr Very Famous Guy to record vocal that you then use to train your AI and use that vocal clone to sell your nutritional yeast extract as though it’s Mr Very Famous Guy selling it that would likely be a problem.

If you used the vocal clone to sell it, but said something like “oh hey it’s Bob here lots of people tell me how much I sound like Mr Very Famous Guy but I’m not him” then Mr Famous might have a case for his name being used without permission, but probably not the vocal clone.

But it’s all so new and there’s no precedent.

Given the lawyers are all busy working out whether using copyright protected books and music to train generative AI is legal or not - and have good arguments on both sides - it’s all a bit unclear how stuff like this will work out in the end.
Probably Netflix?
Seeking Feedback on a Tool to Automate Ticket Creation for IT Teams
A friend and I have been working on a tool designed to help IT and development teams automate the often tedious process of ticket creation. We’ve all been there—spending too much time manually creating incomplete tickets or lacking the necessary details. Our tool changes that by using a virtual assistant to generate tickets from a simple chat. It asks follow-up questions based on context, gathers all the necessary details, and creates well-structured tickets that are immediately ready to go.

Here’s a quick demo video showing how it works: https://youtu.be/cs9fQu5ezmA.

I’m looking for feedback from developers, project managers, and IT professionals:
- Would this tool be helpful for your workflow?
- What’s the biggest pain point in your current ticketing process?
- Are there any features you think would be essential for this to be truly useful?

I’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions! Your input will help us refine and improve the tool as we continue development.

Thanks in advance!
I've only ever heard "jailbroken" as using exploits to take control of a device that is intended by the vendor to be locked down - hence, breaking out of jail. I've only ever really heard of it being a term on iOS devices - on Android it's known as "rooting".

Bootloader unlocked generally means that the vendor permits the execution of arbitrary operating system code, ie there is no jail to break out of.
Relatedly, when I was young, Notre Dame was black from years of pollution from the industrialization period. They cleaned it up and restored its original stone color.
In principal I agree, but there is a benefit that you're missing out. The fact that the US is in a constant state of war for so long has made it by far the best country at doing war. Aside from being better equipped than probably the rest of the world's armed forces combined, the US armed forces are broadly speaking the most experienced and competent armed forces in the world, with the only countries that come somewhat close being the ones who regularly join us on our stupid wars.

The effects of inexperience and general unreadiness amongst some of our biggest adversaries are currently on display for all to see in Ukraine.

Not that I'm saying this is an adequate justification for any of the terrible wars we've waged, but it is an outcome that should be accounted for.
Show HN: Model2Vec: make sentence transformers 500x faster on CPU, 15x smaller
Hi HN!

We (Thomas and Stéphan, hello!) recently released Model2Vec, a Python library for distilling any sentence transformer into a small set of static embeddings. This makes inference with such a model up to 500x faster, and reduces model size by a factor of 15 (7.5M params or 15/30MB on disk, depending on whether you use float16 or float32).

This reduction of course comes at a cost: distilled models are a lot worse than their parent models. Even so, they are actually a lot better than large sets of conventional static embeddings, such as GLoVe or word2vec-based models, which are many times larger. In addition, the performance gap between a Model2Vec model and a sentence-transformer ends up being smaller than you would expect, see: https://github.com/MinishLab/model2vec/tree/main?tab=readme-... for results. Fitting a Model2Vec does not require any data, just a sentence transformer and, possibly, a frequency-sorted vocabulary, making it an easy solution to implement in whatever workflow you have lying around.

We wrote this library because we separately got a bit frustrated with the lack of options if you need extremely fast CPU inference that still works well. If MiniLM isn’t fast enough and you don’t have access to a GPU, you’re often resigned to using BPemb, which is not flexible, or training your own GLoVe/word2vec models, which requires lots of data. Model2Vec solves all of these problems, and works better than specialized static embeddings trained on huge corpora.

We spent a lot of time thinking about how the library could be easy to use and integrate into common workflows. It’s a tiny thing: we’d rather make only a few generic functions that work well instead of having a ton of integrations.

Please let us know what you think. We’re very interested in getting feedback from you. We’re already using this in our own projects, and ultimately built this because we kind of needed it, but we’d be happy to hear from you if you have interesting use-cases or questions.

Finally, If you think this sounds a lot like WordLlama, which was featured last week. It is! We were working on this in “stealth mode” for a while, since May, so I guess we and the WordLlama authors came up with the same idea at about the same time. We directly compare our models to WordLlama in our experiments. In short: WordLlama does a little bit worse, and is not unsupervised or multilingual, so it’s more difficult to adapt to new domains than Model2Vec.

Have a nice day!
If LLMs are the ultimate remix machine, then is anyone with a RAG a digital DJ?

One can't help but wonder what theft even means any more, when it comes to digital information. With the (lack of) legal precedent, it feels like the wild wild west of intellectual property and copyright law.

Like, if even a superstar like Scarlett Johansson can only write a pained letter about OpenAI's hustle to mimic her "Her" persona, what can the comparatively garden-variety niche nerd do?

Like Geerling, feel equally sad / angry / frustrated, but merely say "Please for the love of all that is good, be nice and follow an honour code.".
Almost, but not quite.

It means something about a specific system, but it can only be verified statistically by producing copies of that system (not "class of systems") en mass.
There was a lot of variation in aircraft engines before jet engines took over. They often used sleeve valves for e.g.
Ah Operator. This synth is so deep. Not only is it a fantastic FM synth, but it does subtractive synthesis well too. Also, it really is impressive how the UI manages to fit all those parameters. I mostly use it for cool synth leads. Here's one of my favorite videos on Operator https://youtu.be/rfeY0_k1ctk?si=s68Lr033cHf34a4M by Robert Henke himself.
To be honest forget being better, if there's a Google competitor even on-par with Google, I'd switch to that immediately and never use Google or any of their services again.

Though it's just me of course, can't say the same of the masses.
That is kind of impossible for the FCC to regulate. If they mandated that, everyone would be able to install any OS on any hardware, notably iphones too. And that won't happen. If anything, FCC is anti software freedom. A lot of bullshit shenanigans that manufacturers pull (wifi whitelists etc.) are to please the FCC.
"While in some countries, entire segments of the population between certain ages may be drafted into the armed forces in the event of armed conflict, only those persons who are actually drafted, i.e., who are actually incorporated into the armed forces, can be considered combatants. Potential mobilization does not render the person concerned a combatant liable to attack."

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule3
Aren’t we usually coding for another goal though?

Does shipping slow help us achieve those other goals?

If we look at coding purely for the goal of coding and having maintainable code, then of course we should ship slowly. But that’s not the only goal of most coding projects.