skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think being a big user of whatever you're building is incredibly useful for finding these kinds of issues. If you're a big user as well as a dev then you will often stumble on these little things before a user does, and you are also perfectly placed to fix these issues before users can stumble on them.

I suspect this is why small teams with strong ownership can be so effective. If you feel ownership of a thing then you feel users' pain when they hit these little paper cuts, and it becomes a point of personal pride to fix these things and make the UX as smooth as possible.
https://archive.is/thGqx
That is not a tricky example. Those tables are as clear cut as clear cut can be.
Yeah at this point I normally blow away all of my byte compiled packages before any large updates because it can be so flaky (due to melpa, one imagines).
problem is not celebrities, problem is general every day people.

With celeberaties, atleast they are famous enough that the idea of fakes exist... but you are Johnny nobody, that's not a fake, you just got caught and don't want to admit you said/did it!

The court of public opinion is much smaller and personal, and 'evidence' is much more realistic and detailed.
It doesn't have to be dangerous allegations. Fabricate a video of your country's dictator carrying a giant Boulder, with a flattering subtitle. This will send a message that videos could be deepfaked to such a degree.
You’d be surprised how heavy a language pack is!
I'm currently solving this problem for work and thinking of a spin out, what's a ballpark figure you'd be willing to pay per 1000 pages for 99.999% character level accuracy?
I used GPT4o to convert heavily convoluted PDFs into csv files. The files were Florida Lottery Pick(n) histories, which they deliberately convolute to prevent automatic searching; ctrl-f does nothing and a fsck-ton of special characters embellish the whole file.

I had previously done so manually, with regex, and was surprised with the quality of the end results of GPT, despite many preceding failed iterations. The work was done in two steps, first with pdf2text, then python.

I'm still trying to created a script to extract the latest numbers from the FL website and append to a cvs list, without re-running the stripping script on the whole PDF every time. Why? I want people to have the ability to freely search the entire history of winning numbers, which in their web hosted search function, is limited to only two of 30+ years.

I know there's a more efficient method, but I don't know more than that.
I'll try to make the checkbox more prominent - it could perhaps be toggled by clicking anywhere in the privacy box, or replaced with a larger button. I'll experiment with it a bit.

Sentence difficulty is all calculated on the English side, because it would be prohibitively expensive to translate before doing the calculation. It uses the vocabulary difficulty (via bloom filters - I'm planning to write a blog post with more detail on how I made it performant) and some grammar heuristics (punctuation, case/tense, etc).

Users don't automatically progress - perhaps I should have made that clearer. You choose your difficulty using the slider in the extension popup, deciding yourself when it's a good time to increase it.
> The large model is the one that has memorized the whole internet

This is totally wrong and a potentially dangerous way to think about LLMs. They have no clue about what's factual knowledge and what is not, per design.
I would be very interested in mondodb support, mongodb has an official inspector tool but it’s such a memory hog that it sometimes crashes my laptop
A Peek into Japan's Convenience Stores
Ask HN: Has anyone been on GCP's springboard programme?
GCP is inviting our startup to enroll on their springboard programme. I hadn't heard of it before and can't find anything online about it. From what they describe it's a ~3 month programme to get your product onto the GCP marketplace, which you must make a (soft) committment to do. They send some form of "integration expert" to help you get billing setup and by the sounds of it do a form of audit to make sure your product is suitable. They said this was very light touch but I'm not sure how they can say that without knowing any technical details of our product.

I like the idea of opening up this new distribution channel and can see it help in procuring enterprise customers who are more likely to trust a Google certified 3rd-party. However, I'm wary of it being a big distraction. Keen to hear if anyone has direct experience with springboard or even just general advice on the process of getting onto GCP marketplace. Thank you.
> Scarlett's baseless accusation

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jul/18/scarlet...

> The actor made headlines earlier this year when she issued a public statement saying OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, had contacted her in September 2023 to provide the voice for Sky, in an ode to her role in the Spike Jonze film Her, but she had declined for “personal reasons”. In May, as the company released Sky, Altman shared a tweet that simply read “her”.
This sounds like saying Text, as a medium, is already destroyed. But as we can see, despite thousands of years of fraud potential, we still use text a medium. We're back to needing witnesses and corroborating evidence.
RockAuto is my favourite website. Incredibly simple and utilitarian, but also quite powerful. You can easily drill down or search for parts, depending on what is more intuitive to you. Price comparison is automatic, and grouped into useful price/quality categories. You can see year/make/model compatibility for a part number once you’ve found it, as well as a brief description, at least 1 picture (usually more), and determine whether it will be shipped from the same warehouse as other parts in your cart. It does all this with 0 friction, from one page, blazing fast on any platform. I end up ordering almost all my car parts there, not because they necessarily sell the best parts but because it’s just so easy to.
The second part from 2023 (https://sillycross.github.io/2023/05/12/2023-05-12/) is even more interesting, but the last commit of https://github.com/luajit-remake/luajit-remake was eight months ago, so the development seems to unfortunately have stalled. Does anyone have information about the reason?
This sounds like the old Marxist argument of Capitalists appropriating (or parasitically leaching) the surplus value of the laborers they employ.

But in the case of social media, people get paid not only in money but also with attention and status ('likes'). Actually, the vast majority of users aren't getting paid any money. But we're social creatures, and we'll do almost anything for status and attention.
I'm turning my car into a ROBOTAXI
Hacker Leaks 3.3B Emails and Yes Every Single One Is Unique
A hacker leaked 3.3 billion emails from multiple public breaches, because who needs privacy anymore?
That is true. I found this article enlightening though:

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5366945/Multiplatform-X...
This is a two hour video. Maybe somebody can use their amazing AI technology to create a few bullet points?
Python, in general, would be much faster for prototyping than Java.

That is the main attraction of Pyhon.
An number of github issues is even a worse metric than CVEs, many people just post wishlist issues there.
He played a significant role in the design, yes.
> I had my 70 year mother ask me last week if she should remove her voicemail message because can't people steal her voice with it? I was surprised but I guess she heard it on a Fox segment or something.

Out of curiosity, how much training data is needed currently to mimic a voice at various levels of convincingness?
Hello Games - No Man's Sky

And one that probably few here have heard of: Lapioware - Diesel Railcar Simulator

Mentioning that one because it's a one man show. Made by a man who felt nostalgic for the diesel railcars & landscapes of 1960s Britain. So he ended up making one of the most realistic train sims.
Wowwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope DBs get cosmopolitan ports

like

KuzuDB, RocksDB, SQlite and DuckDB
a computer
What’s expres?
Given the independent software vendor model, you were going to end up with a very small number of mass market operating systems/platforms one way or the other. It was certainly happening in the large commercial computer system space. In fact, the somewhat surprise is that Microsoft didn't become even more dominant. A lot of people certainly expected it to.
The Cloudflare Discord is interesting. It's mostly maintained by community volunteers (Champs and MVPs), with team participation varying drastically from team to team. The community does a great job when they can, but it doesn't feel like most teams are empowered to help people there. There are some fantastic employees who do help regularly though, but as far as I know, most employees are doing this out of kindness, since it's not actually part of their role (whether Cloudflare should make this a part of some folks roles is definitely something they should think about heavily).

The best way in Discord is to post in a forum channel like #pages-help or #general-help. There's tooling the community has to actively monitor and reply to those, vs a fast-moving text channel where things can be buried quickly. This is one of the reasons Discord isn't a great platform for offering support.

Community Champs / MVPs have the ability to escalate some things, but posting on HN will always get more attention. We've been raising issues around some things that are impacting lots of people every single day (wrangler.toml + Pages config breaking projects regularly for example), but if you want something fixed quickly, making some noise on social media is always going to be the quickest way, sadly.
Show HN: Comparisons – OpenAI's o1 preview vs. mini
O1-Preview costs around $60 for 1M output tokens.
Meanwhile mini performs better in STEM.
Let's try to make sense of the latest release by comparing the two models against each other.
Where did you see this documentation?
This is idealistic. People still haven't fully learned that images can be photoshopped in its twenty years of its existence. (Deep)faked porn is still harmful which is why it's a crime.

Worse, there isn't an attitude of default skepticism in many areas/cultures. If a person is suspected of violating the moral code the priority will be punishment and reinforcing that such behavior isn't acceptable. Whether or not the specific person actually did the specific act is a secondary concern.

It's just going to increase the number of people who will be harmed or killed.
I have been working with streaming LLMs and Server Sent Events. It provides a very simple interface to work with, but you can feel SSE was never designed for this use case. As mentioned in the blog post:

> Annoyingly these can't be directly consumed using the browser EventSource API because that only works for GET requests, and these APIs all use POST.

It is not designed to send data to open a connection. You will then struggle to work with this streaming approach using frameworks and libraries that are based on the EventSource API.
> I have, and I’ve seen old ladies die from OD’ng on morphine. I’ve also seen relatives in hospice get blessed relief from morphine overdoses.

How did that even happen in the first place? Something seems missing: history of substance abuse, suicide, etc.

> And that IMO the worst part of the Oxy crisis (and heroin before that) isn’t that it was an opiate. It was that the manufacturer got to lie about how it was less addictive, when it actually was more addictive. And that meant people were less cautious, and it caused more damage.

I agree, I am in favor of harm reduction techniques and regulations instead of an outright prohibition, etc.

> The same thing that makes opiates powerful is the same thing that makes them dangerous. And destructive

In all fairness, opiates never caused euphoria in me (yes, real opioids neither). They do help with depression and anxiety, along with some of my symptoms of MS.

Oftentimes opiates are (not exactly the substance itself) an issue because we do not know the purity. You can only do so much for someone, but it has definitely been an on-going issue (fentanyl laced anything is a major issue).
> I don’t know. I assumed it is the case because of the vast and excellent interpolation AI appears to do in other domains.

Sure it's plausible just like many other forms of baseless speculation are, I still don't think to state it as a matter of fact like it is happening in this and other articles and in comments.

> I don’t know. I assumed it is the case because of the vast and excellent interpolation AI appears to do in other domains.

Yes but do you know of any examples with sequential data, and in particular transformers? I don't and I think it is a somewhat different thing. With pictures you just train an encoder into some low dimensional latent space and there you can interpolate, but working with sequences you don't want to give the whole sequence as an input to the model and generate the whole sequence as an output.

The natural way to do interpolation with an audio transformer model, which it can in principle indeed do, would be to somehow audio-prompt engineer it to speak in a voice that interpolates SJ and your voice actor. But that would be a pretty fragile method.
> I remember when OpenAI practically cloned Scarlett Johanssen's voice ...

I don't have a dog in this fight but just to be clear, OpenAI has stated that they paid a voice actor to create the voice ("Sky") that sounds like Scarlett Johanssen. There was no "cloning" or "stealing" (that they say).

https://openai.com/index/how-the-voices-for-chatgpt-were-cho...
Here’s a bit more info on generating streams like this: https://parnassus.co/building-a-copilot-1-server-fundamental...

I’m slowly building a copilot stack, and end up wrapping multiple layers of streaming: SSE as in this article, parsed on the fly as it streams from JSON (ie parsi g incomplete invalid JSON), parsed on the fly as it streams to extract Markdown, parsed on the fly as it streams to format that Markdown and render it. You can read about this here: https://parnassus.co/building-a-copilot-2-parsing-converting...
> No.

So all the good things belong to capitalism and all the bad things are something else. Got it.

> We use oil because it's cheap and comes out of the ground, not because of capitalism.

Where did the capital come from to build those oil wells? Who funded the security companies, and the lawsuits, and the governments? Why is it that the people most negatively affected happen to also be the ones with the least access to capital?

> You cannot sell me communism

I'm not. I'm saying to not put blind faith into capitalism, including to imply that a market economy and being paid requires capitalism.

But since anything regarded as a negative critique of gung ho capitalism is termed 'socialism' or 'communism' or 'Marxist', ... guess that's what I am.
You will note that the PR strengthens that model regardless.
That’s the model of Nova from Panic. Stop paying, and you stop getting updates after the moment your subscription lapses. That’s it. There’s no other complex system. It works great!
It's more Baldur's Gate 2 that's to blame. The original still has plenty of wilderness exploration, and while the main quest is linear, there's no real urgency to following it. You need to pay attention to figure out what to do next, and it's possible to go the wrong way and wander into encounters much too difficult for your character. The NPCs are lightly characterized archetypes with minimal dialogue and no romances. I think the original Baldur's Gate still retains the spirit of the older style of RPG.
I bought a used dual-socket xeon workstation with 768GB of RAM for ~$3k and can run the 405B model at ~0.3 tokens/sec.
I also notice this phenomenon in Audi. It’s as if the steering motor is applying inputs after the steering setting has been applied. So if your steering wheel is in sport mode then the motor requires additional force to turn.

I run my own forked copy of openpilot and the car cannot keep up with turns in dynamic mode. When set to comfort it can handle all turns with ease.
I really like the sticky face menu on the bottom right. Never seen this before. Gave me some inspiration for one of my sites.
For a small/solo team, which is the audience under consideration, they probably want to spend their time on their core product and not reimplementing oauth.
I'd say that the key difference is that Switzerland has compulsory military service in which you're taught how to operate a weapon properly. Therefore, everyone that has one has gone through months of training.

Vs the US, where there are loopholes that you can use to avoid even a basic background check, and then use it for the very first time to shoot someone.
Yea? Care to elaborate?
Show HN: Reverse Engineer Any GPT
Wow. That’s basically a smartphone!? Just way ahead of its time.
I've run Nextcloud for almost 3 years now via docker on a vps , it hosts my contacts, calendars and files. There is a apache reverse proxy in front of it, and a postgresql-database in the back.

Not once had I any serious issues updating when pulling new updated images.

Occasionally it whines about missing indices, but that is easily fixed using the occ command line tool. The clients real IP is forwarded by the proxy.

What I want to say is just that Nextcloud works fine.
Is the title wrong? No mentions of homologies in the link
they're just ST microcontrollers. you can put your own firmware on and do what you like with the hardware.

The hardware consists of an incandescent bulb and photodiode with amplifier and high res ADC.

The bulb and photodiode sit in a box with a silvered interior, which allows light from the bulb to reflect around inside the box a lot (and having some light absorbed by CO2) before hitting the photodiode.
It was a multi-year operation to get to the place where they could sell the targets the mined devices. Google hasn't got that kind of time horizon.

Who is your enemy and why do they want to hurt you? Is anyone really concerned that mass market consumer devices have command detonated explosives in them already? I mean, other than the iphones?
The sorry state of Java deserialization
> Human morality has no meaning if humans aren't special.

What part of this argument would fail if you identified as a belonging to a particular religion, culture or race, or as an intelligent being more than you identified as human?

I believe I should treat humans well (beyond self-interest) because I believe they have minds somewhat like mine, despite the impossibility of proving that by direct experience. I could imagine extending that to other species of animal or aliens or artificial minds. I would view them as more worthy of empathy than a braindead human, even one with a function reproductive system which would appear to satisfy your criteria.

You don't explicitly exclude AIs being seen as equals; so perhaps we mostly agree, and your rejection of the idea of superior AIs comes from the same place as a reluctance to call some humans superior to others that I share?
whatever you know best.

all those are decent options.
Sorry, I meant exposed.
I wonder if this technique works well in branch and bound for Mixed Integer Linear Programming applications. They seem to be just applying it to plain LP applications. While there certainly are some use cases for large LPs, it seems like MILP is where the action is.
Yeah, there were 100 million…

They could have waited a year and then won the next election if they thought they had such a clear case. But they didn’t because they weren’t so sure. They chose revolution to overthrow a government elected through regular elections.
A Unifying Action Principle for Classical Mechanical Systems
I didn't have the patience to read it, so I asked perplexity.ai for a summary. Here it is:

The article humorously contrasts "Real Programmers" with "Quiche Eaters" (less serious programmers). It describes the characteristics and habits of Real Programmers, often in an exaggerated and satirical manner. Key points include:

1. Real Programmers prefer Fortran and assembly language over newer languages like Pascal.

2. They are skeptical of structured programming and fancy data structures, preferring arrays for everything.

3. Real Programmers use complex operating systems like OS/370, not user-friendly ones like CP/M or Unix.

4. They prefer challenging text editors like TECO over user-friendly ones.

5. Real Programmers work on important, high-stakes projects like space exploration or defense systems.

6. They can work extremely long hours and thrive under pressure.

7. The article expresses concern about newer generations of programmers being "soft" due to user-friendly tools and languages.

8. It concludes optimistically that the spirit of Real Programming will continue despite changes in the field.

The article is clearly meant to be humorous and satirical, poking fun at programming culture and stereotypes from a particular era in computing history.
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/
Skype does it in real time (for live translation) with a few seconds of audio. For the reasons discussed in this thread, it continuously forgets its previous training from the call to not make the voice too similar, but just similar enough to distinguish the speakers.
The FIFA series of games is one of the most famous football games in the world, and one of the most prominent releases that sports fans await every year. FIFA 2025 came with major updates and new features that attract fans of the game, whether they are playing on computers or mobile phones. In this article, we will take a deep look at how to download FIFA 2025 for different devices and what distinguishes this new version.
Agile isn't entirely irrelevant, it's also not the main issue.

It's a cultural one. If someone tells me they work on an 'Agile Development' team my immediate perception is that they are a culture of cargo culting and bike shedding, without putting a ton of thought or care into their product, process, or users. These systems are designed to maximize output, not the quality of the output.

Management is likely out of touch with the demands of creating a high quality product. This leads to misalignment with the development team and probably the business needs. Most businesses need a higher quality product than they have. Some don't, though. In those circumstances it doesn't really matter - I recommend avoiding these places like the plague.
My Open Source Journey at Gitlab
I supported a NextCloud + OnlyOffice server for 4 years for a 100-person company, and have since moved to Collabora Code (which has been running for ~2 years now). IME Code has better performance, is easier to upgrade, provides better compatibility with MS Office (since it's basically LibreOffice with a web UI), and is easier to integrate with (I wrote some integrations for a couple of internal systems and it's been a breeze).

It's fully FOSS. https://www.collaboraonline.com/code
One city ? One city !?

Electrification will happen for the vast majority of people. Of course, a small minority won’t be able to make the switch right away and will have to hang on to gas. That’s fine!

Even to this day, 98% of houses have refrigerators. According to your logic, we shouldn’t allow businesses to sell refrigerated milk because of this 2%.