skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot enter into the Apple Developer Program, or I would have released a lot of free builds of f/oss iOS apps already.

Sadly Apple requires doxxing yourself to publish apps, which IMO is a human rights violation. You also need to provide a working phone number to be able to install even free apps on a phone or tablet you have already purchased. These policies stand directly in opposition to their stated value that “privacy is a human right”.

The time of forced side loading support cannot come soon enough.

> Of course, I would welcome and am waiting for the release of your alternative free version. Until this time I’ll take your comment as yet another “i hate apple” post.

In my home a few minutes ago I just re-hung a framed, signed, and numbered print of some of Susan Kare’s pixel art for the original Macintosh System 1.0. It’s a common misconception that I hate Apple, but nothing could be further from the truth. Of course, you are free to continue believing incorrect things. :)

FWIW, I paid the $5 and have Möbius Sync Pro installed on my phone. But, as a Syncthing contributor, fuck them.

(Separately, it doesn’t even work right, whilst iCloud does, because of Apple’s anticompetitive bias against third party apps replicating OS functionality.)

> Judging by your comment I suppose you don’t use generic drugs or any products based on expired patents not by the original patent inventor.

I don’t believe in the concept of intellectual property. You misunderstand where I’m coming from. It’s a dick move to profit directly off the misfortune or hard work of others, which is precisely what the Möbius Sync authors are doing. It has nothing to do with patents or copyrights or what is or is not legally permitted to be done with the code.

You will note that I release all of my own software into the public domain, not under copyleft licenses. People should be free to be a dick, just as I’m free to point it out.
Yes, you're right that's the same everywhere except the US.
I've spoken to natively multilingual friends and they weren't very positive about LLMs, particularly with French. That was GPT-3.5 though, so it might have improved. Certainly worth looking into.

The other issue is latency, which DeepL is pretty good at.
In my experience, it can make a huge difference if the developers are allowed to talk directly to the users of their product. The users tell them which parts of the product hurt them most, and the developers find a way to fix that.

If instead the communication is something like "the end users give information to their manager, their manager gives information to our analyst, our analyst gives information to our manager, our manager creates Jira tasks for us", there is often a lot of information lost at every step.

For example, once my team made a web application that allowed users to edit some forms. When we asked how many rows there will on a form, we got an answer "five, on average". So we made forms that supported unlimited number of lines, tested them with about 10 rows, everything worked, we considered our job well done.

One day, we met a guy who actually used the software. He complained about how it sucks, that validating or saving the form takes forever, that he sometimes loses data because of a timeout, etc. It turned out that although most of the forms contained about five rows, some of them actually contained thousands of rows. And yes, with over ten thousand rows in a form, on a bad day the web application lost the data because of a timeout.

The developers were quite shocked. We complained about the analysis, but the analyst insisted that the average number of rows per form was about five, so the analysis was not wrong. (Technically correct; the best kind of correct.) Had we known this in advance, we certainly would have chosen a different web framework, but now it was too late to rewrite everything from scratch. So we just did what we could at this moment, some ugly hack like validating only 1000 rows at a time, so the end user had to push the validation button multiple times for very long forms or something like that, but at least he didn't get a timeout. The hack took about a week to implement and test, and the end user was happy, because it was a huge improvement over the previous situation.

The management still insisted that developers meeting with the end users were wasting time. There were Jira tasks waiting to do, no time for chat.
"an output encoding and associated group actions under which the loss is invariant"

What loss is that, exactly?

One of the difficulties in speech processing is that we generally don't have a great model for speech quality or equivalence. The human hearing system is a finicky and particular beast, and furthermore varies from beast to beast, depending both on physiology and culture. Good measures (eg, Visqol, a learned speech quality metric) tend to be helpful for measuring progress when iterating on a single system, but can give strange results when comparing different systems.

So it 's easy to imagine (say) pushing the generated speech into some representation space and measuring nearness in that space (either absolute or modulo a group action), but it begs the question of whether nearness in that space really represents semantic equivalence, and how to go about constructing it in the first place.

Let alone why one would bother allowing some group symmetries into the representation when we plan to define a loss invariant under those symmetries... Throwing group theory at speech representations feels like a solution in search of a problem, as someone who has worked a lot with group theory and speech compression.
You’re not going to easily detect supply chain tampering of code, but you might be able to detect the covert inclusion of explosives in your devices with imaging (X Ray and CT) and random sampling tear downs.
Alternatively: when Siri tells you "you'll need to unlock your iPhone first", it doesn't mean "please jailbreak your phone".
Agreed. And I don't understand why people keep thinking Qt is not 90% LGPL.
The Saturn development was started around 1992 and was released in Japan in 1994.
That's a bit too simple, not all functions work well as fields (differentiability is quite desirable) and you have no way to interact with the fields that way.

I think principal bundles come closest to what physicists call fields. Though I'm holding open the option that really the things in most equations are more like elements of the corresponding Lie-algebra.
> PS. States like Texas and Florida seem to get by fine without a state income tax.

An income tax is just one of dozens of taxes that states collect. Here is Texas:

https://bivisual.cpa.texas.gov/CPA/opendocnotoolbar.htm?docu...

Note that this doesn't include property taxes, since the state doesn't collect them (they are local taxes).

> But I’ve always wondered why states that favor income taxes feel the need to have their own separate (and complicated) income tax system. Why don’t they tell taxpayers “send us a copy of your federal forms and then pay us X% of what you paid the IRS”? Are there any states that do that?

The state doesn't need you to send them a copy of your federal forms, they get that data directly from the IRS when you file your federal taxes. I've never heard of any state (that collects an income tax) that doesn't start with your federal adjusted gross income, and then determine your tax by applying the various deductions that the state has determined are worthwhile.

Does this person even know anything about taxation?
- Reach out to investors in your greater area.

- See if your university has an entrepreneurial program or club.

- Look up uni alumni who have started their own company which has failed and see if they want to do another.

- Apply as an early employee to a startup and start building your network.

- Forgo a co-founder, just do it yourself.
Youtubers regularly swap the video thumbnail + title. Youtube even has tools to A/B test various thumbnails + titles nowadays for different users.

I can confirm that the title "I Hacked My Friend's Phone to Show How Easy It Is" was the actual title when the video was uploaded. However you're right that it now looks like it changed to "Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone System" a day later.

Watch an older Veratasium video about Youtube's title+thumbnail clickbait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng
Fujitsu lifebook. Smallest laptop with a removable CDROM drive.
Cool! Hope it helps.
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Yea, I'm not a web developer, but coming from the desktop world, I am shocked by how little web UI frameworks do for you and how buggy their implementation is. Adding padding here and margin there and flex boxes and all that shit just to get a radio button or a drop-down that we do in one line of code on the desktop side? It's like the software development equivalent of using stone tools and chisels to build a car.
> If you lowered the drop ceiling anything would be less conspicuous on the inside.

The product is for fitting into existing buildings, with minimal impact. Being inconspicuous is a secondary concern, it only needs to be inconspicuous enough to not be obvious. Drop the ceiling on an entire floor to hide would not be low impact.

As to a plastic white box, sure you could do that. But it would be a plastic box that contains some kind of antenna on a rigid substrate. At which point you might as well just use glass as the substrate, and get rid of the extra enclosure, and manufacturing fiddlyness involved in assembly.

The cost of a glass antenna vs one housed in a plastic box is going to be negligible compared to overall cost of the installed equipment. At that point you might as well just use glass, simplify the construction and install process, and get a product that’s less visually distracting as a bonus.
In the past, the discussion about sync speed seemed to focus on the webdav implementation that nextcloud uses.
Could you cheat and get a software patcher for the synths? I’ve done this in the past for an old Ob1 with similar screen issues
It's a lot easier to write a wrapper converting two's complement values to one's complement and vice versa than a GUI framework appropriate for safety critical systems. I have no idea why you'd choose to do the latter.
Ableton is an epitome of software design innovation. I think few people understand how groundbreaking the Session View vs Arrangement View design was to advance the workflow of both produced and live music. Subcomponents like Operator created design patterns that are widely adopted by most VSTs today. Kudos to the Ableton team for crafting a product that is so beloved.
My dad is 98. Started smoking when he was 9. At one point he was smoking 70 a day. He worked as a fireman on steam trains when he was in his 20s. He lived in London during the 1950s when the smog was so bad you could walk into a lamp post when the lamp above was lit. People warned their houses with coal, powered the city with coal, burnt their trash in the back garden and smoked a lot. Sure, the average lifespan was low. But he only quit smoking in the 1980s. I'm not saying that smoking isn't bad, but if there is a sudden rise in cancer among young people, it's not that simple. The number of smokers today is tiny. In the UK, smoking rates among young adults (aged 18-24) have significantly declined over the last few decades. In 2011, about 25.7% of this age group smoked, but by 2021, that number had fallen to 13.2%. I don't have stats from the 50s but according to my father he didn't know anyone who didn't smoke.
Yeah seems fine. Some people got upset that they were boycotting Russia or something, but those people can be ignored.
That study doesn’t say that the vaping itself has lower associated health risks, just that it doesn’t have the same, known risks as smoking. It could very easily have more risks that are as of yet unknown, because studies haven’t been around enough to tell. If I had to pick from the two, I’d go with smoking, because at least then there’s hundreds/thousands of years of knowledge about the long term effects.

Put simply, I’ve met old dudes who have been rolling their own grits for half a century or more, and still have the physical capacity to bushwhack up mountains with me. I’ve never met a fit old vaper.

(as an aside, rolling your own is the real best approach IMO: no disgusting cigarette butts littered everywhere, and there’s a mindfulness associated with the process that provides a limiting factor)
Sure if you’ve designed the building around housing an antenna. But I don’t think carriers want to pay the cost of major architectural changes to buildings, so they can better incorporate new 5G antenna.
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What country is immune to this?

As far as I can tell the collective conscious of every country is swayed by propaganda.

A written headline is enough to incite rage in any country much less a voice or video indistinguishable from the real thing.

Folks in “developed’ countries have their lives destroyed or ended all the time based on rumors of something said or done.
It is hoped that posixutil's awk's bytecode-based modern design should keep performance high, theoretically higher than ancient C-based awks.

Inspired by Ray Gardner's "wak" awk implementation https://github.com/raygard/wak

A volunteer benchmarking our awk on a 1-billion line text file would be welcome.
I made a sub-100k Android app once (I am now banned from the Play Store, and I should be lucky they didn't delete my Gmail account too) and every time I opened the IDE (Android Studio at the time) it would automatically add a Google "support library" to the project that Google obviously wanted to force me to use. If I forgot to remove it and built the app, it would be closer to 10MB. So that was the minimum size of almost every Android app at the time.
No hope, no effort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJ4hkpQW8E
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Wow incredible, could you give a small glimpse in how you collected/normalized/vectorized all the different reviews + information? Just lots of scraping + chucking it into Pinecone etc?

> Me: Give a list of the new and old gene sequencing tools

> Reply: Based on the available reviews, I’ve compiled lists of new and old sequencing products mentioned by users: Genemod, Mixmax (email sequencing...?), HubSpot Sales Hub (????)

Are you guys using a pure RAG for your responses? I think you should have a function caller traverse a tree of topics before retrieving data from the right area/space or you'll have lots of "contamination" of similar phrases across fields
Linear has the best UI/UX of all the web apps I have used. After Gmail and Google Maps, I don't recall any other web app wowing me as much as Linear.
Yes

The only product I know well in your list is pre-VPC ec2 instances, which (to be fair) are a terrible product : it is cross tenant (as in : you can impact other customers). Good riddance.

I think many AWS services are well designed : isolated software-only components. They build a lot on top of a very stable infrastructure (VPC / s3 / ec2 / IAM), which means supporting a service is really cheap : they are just a couple of containers running somewhere
While not impossible, it's currently wishful thinking (as implied in the message).
Tried a refresh, a force-refresh... no change at all (Firefox and Chrome)
>Even though the underlying tweet tells a different story, by truncating and framing the material the way they did

It seems like a stretch to argue they're "truncating" the material, when twitter doesn't provide a way to link threads besides quoting the first tweet.

>it's very clear that what they're trying to do is to convey a simple 3-second emotional impression: "protesting Israel's actions in gaza == support for terrorists == terrorism".

I certainly didn't get that impression when reading the tweet. I agree the video was nondescript, which was why I went out of my way to use a nitter instance to see whether there were more to that tweet. The standards around "well if you read between the lines..." accusations are seemingly so low that in any given argument you could use them on both sides. For instance, you could plausibly argue that by linking to a thread where the worst pro-palestinian protesters were called "terorrists", and describing that as "[israel] consider US students protesting Israel's actions in Gaza to be terrorists", it gives the "emotional impression" that you can't denounce any aspect of pro-palestinian protesters without being accused of thinking the entire movement are terrorists.
Almost none, at most as little as a professional impersonator requires. GPT-4o's advanced voice mode would clone the user's voice by accident. A recording clip of one incident is available:

>During testing, we also observed rare instances where the model would unintentionally generate an output emulating the user’s voice.

>Example of unintentional voice generation, model outbursts “No!” then begins continuing the sentence in a similar sounding voice to the red teamer’s voice

https://assets.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/4CG0G7y9WOfEkzBpi7...

https://openai.com/index/gpt-4o-system-card/
I advocate for spot (or preemptable in GCP) because one is financially rewarded for practicing chaos engineering. If the system "has to" have one magic node always up, that's something which deserves attention and can lead to better system designs

The bad news is that such an exercise can often be literally more laborious than it pays back in cost savings, but engineering is filled with trade-offs so at least one can have a good explanation when someone points to a line item on a cloud bill and raises an eyebrow
Belgium destroys Miller High Life cans bearing 'Champagne of Beers' slogan
Maybe it's because I have no knowledge of lynch mobs in my country but I find that fear is a bad adviser. I think currently there is no way back in AI development. I read Microsoft is getting a failed nuclear reactor repaired to power the power hungry AI.

The only way forward is making sure most people know that digital content can be easily faked. If you hand out good faker tools for free, it will happen faster
A hack to by pass the YouTube censure
I share with you a github projet in python to by pass the youtube censure.
Does every comment previously attached to your account have a unique username or do they still all share the same?

Sort of moot point considering the multiple HN archives that would still have the original username attached
I have such fond memories of Dungeon Keeper, Dungeon Keeper 2, Fable, Black & White, Populous.

I think the biggest take away from Molyneux's work is regardless of how seriously he talked the games up, the games themselves never once took themselves too seriously. There was a level of playful whimsy that just didn't exist back then (and probably still doesn't today). You could tell he wanted to say more and do more, but was always limited by the technology available at the time. It felt like he was searching for something in the games he developed, and I was always happy to go searching with him.
A lot of times the solder joints have aged and broken in electronics of that age. Are you competent with a soldering iron? You might have a simple reflow job.
Pretending that money is a social construct is not quite meaningless, but certainly non-constructive. It doesn't help understand or decide wisely. It's like saying that consciousness is a retrospective illusion.

The point is that construct or not, you'll never get agreement to dramatically change the proportions of spending. The "construct" of the United States is right now quite thoroughly tied to continued military presence. It's also quite tied to reluctance to spend on universal, un-means-tested, uncontributed social programs.

Politics in a democracy, of the American sort, is an exercise in manipulation of national myth, of dealing with the "construct".
Idea: treat a subscription as a perpetuity (forever) or annuity (set time), and offer customers the choice of paying a regular cashflow or the present value of the perpetuity or annuity. You as developer need to smartly invest those larger payments to ensure you stay paid.
The Mystery of Human Wrinkles: Scientists Unveil Secret Mechanisms
Then I guess we better archive that entire site before someone new in middle management decides to make a name for themselves by killing it.
It was sold to an adware vendor that is milking the brand hard. Another one for the 'used to be great' pile
Oldest DNA discovered in South Africa rewrites human history
VitelloTag: A tool for high-throughput cargo delivery into oocytes
If I remember correctly, it was random.
Given that background, the odds you've never seen this are exceedingly low.

Nonetheless, and for the benefit of the Lucky 10,000, I must present: QWOP.

https://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html
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Interesting. Android or iOS?
Yes! It doesn't make sense. It took me ages to remember where to go for each.
Qt Company tries to hide that as much as they can.
One way of viewing it is that math is games. Not in the winner sense, but in the activities with rules sense. Addition is a game.

Some games make you better at other activities. Like, playing chess could make you better at logistics because you’re practicing planning and managing losses.

Some games match some real world situations so tightly that we can go through them step by step and solve the real world situation in the game. You can play addition to figure out two apples and two more makes four apples.

Whether the game is “real” or not is immaterial. It just needs to be internally consistent and matched to the right thing.

There’s also the idea that math is another world that we can visit, similar to the dream world. But that’s a whole other thing.
A Bay Area boy was kidnapped from a park in 1951. He's just been found alive
>Many of these cars don't pass western safety standards and can never be sold in Europe.

Same for the Cybertruck
What is your ideal career in 10 years: topics, day-in-the-life, talens you're using, etc.?

Work backwards, check those jobs exist, look at what qualifications they'd benefit from
Sounds a bit like LoRa.
I don't have a source. Probably a YouTube video. Having deployed it my anecdotal experience supports it is a heuristic. I now treat it as a ceremony.
Why is that are they mostly fake? Or paid for?
No doubt it’s bipartisan!

Politician’s careers live and die in the fickle Court of Public Opinion. They’re probably the most susceptible cohort to AI fakes.

One of the rare times, it seems, that politician’s incentives are aligned with the populous. (Yes, I could have left that last part out.)
Creative uses of Mode 7 on SNES
No one is aborting "children".
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One more possibility to throw on the pile..
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5860074/
She said finding dinosaur fossils at a high elevation — in this case, 2,000 metres above sea level — is unusual because it means they would have been living there.

No indication of geological age, but presumably more than 65mya, so maybe it wasn’t that elevation when they were left there?
South Florida man says he almost became a victim to AI real estate fraud [video]