skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very neat, thanks for making this. Tested it with Italian and it's very good :)

One minor feedback: I would like a larger, much more prominent toggle to turn the translation on and off — not that the setting is hard to find, but I found myself wanting to quickly toggle the add-on (e.g. off for serious work) and the small checkbox feels a bit fiddly.

More technical question since I'm interested in language learning software: How do you implement sentence difficulty, and how do you track user progress, aka when do you show harder sentences?
I don’t know - I could argue that the user’s browser should be the preferred way to navigate, duplicating it’s functionality is redundant and adds clutter to the interface. It’s at least a defensible position.
After what they did with domains, it's hard to recommend them for anything to do with cloud.
That’s why I got good at getting through videos quickly and figuring out when or if they’re a waste of time.

There’s plenty of “research” videos that are just spewing crap that can be found on a wiki or a database somewhere else on the web; but see enough of them and you pick up on the pattern and cadence and quality they’re produced at quickly enough to just move on when you see it.
How does this compare with commercial OCR APIs on a cost per page?
That whole post boils down to Mark & co(s) not having the necessary protections for their product, so they’re left with nothing to do but cry “foul” as a leech non-consensually sucks value from their body of work.

(A)GPL provides no protection here.

Polyform NonCommercial however does protect against this, because WP Engine would have to pay for the privilege of re-sale.

https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0/

See also the closely aligned Fair Source:

https://fair.io
Thanks! I appreciate the explanation and your fuller comments above too.
Great use case for llms?
Shouldn’t these all be smoothed out by UI frameworks, design guidelines and best practices? It doesn’t look like the industry should spend so much productivity on these sanding works?
Plus what thief is checking your carrier before running away with it?
I just got an email from my credit union that they're "transitioning from email passcode delivery to more secure methods such as phone calls and text messages". I need to send them this video.

That credit union is awful for many other reasons, so I don't keep much in that account, but I wonder why banking in the US is so bad at security. I don't think I have a single bank or credit card online account that allows for TOTP. It's all SMS or phone call, with one bank allowing for app push notifications.

Is there a compliance check box that requires SMS over something with at least some security?
I think he meant How?, meaning normally a calibration is placing indoor monitors outdoors for 20 mins.
One reasonable compromise would be for video makers to provide a transcript or written article to complement their video. Video is a terrible format especially when you're actually using the video and not just using it as a mechanism to deliver audio. Audio is not a bad medium because you can do something else while listening to it.
I like the IDE "defined here/used here" features but I wish the page would be faster. It can be quite painful to read code on GitHub. The code view is also broken and unusably slow in some mobile browsers (Firefox) when scrolling horizontally
PS: There is a double/extra words on the first paragraph.

> "had to migrate my domain after Google decided to shut down Google Domains decided to shut down."
That time of the year when everyone can see there is craftsmanship in the tiny details.

https://littlebigdetails.com is exactly that
Idk. I just visited the site (McMaster) for like 2 minutes and found a few annoying things. I filtered for cotton (o rings). Nothing happens after click for 4 secs. Then it chooses something else to filter on.
Next the animation to get the filtering menu is bugging out. And dragging it down triggers a site refresh.
Just make every classroom a Faraday cage. No need to detect if you can disable.
They also just totally fucked anybody making use of the Google Photos API to access their own data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41604241

They're a trash company, and anything you get from them, even when you pay for the storage, is at best accidentally delivered to you and they could roll over in their sleep at any moment and snuff it all out.
Something to Andrei-Akopian
The Cookie-monster was just a project which was just to see how websites store cookies so sorry but thanks for testing it (if you did)! i've been making other projects like SQLbrutify (brute forces SQL server passwords)! I thank you for testing out the project (also when i asks you to enter a website URL, do that because then in the same-place there will be a new text file open it and you may see how a website stores cookies!
Yes.

When a carrier orders lots of phones, the manufacturer would customize the built in software to some extent (how much depends on the manufacturer and the order size)
> You can trust that the government wants to protect the children.

The moment I hear a politician say "protect the children" is the moment that I want to know what kind of garbage they're trying to pull under our noses. It rarely comes across as being little more than a pretext to pass some other agenda through.
The idea behind "agile" is to recognize when something isn't working and improve it.

You obviously have a process that does not serve your customers' needs: work with your team to fix it.

If you have SCRUM ceremonies, a retrospective is where you can raise it, but really, any time works (retrospectives are to purposely look at the past few weeks, but things you notice along the way, look to solve along the way).
A couple of months I was evaluating Dialogueflow for a chatgpt like ReAct agent I was working on. They have this blue "contact sales" button where you can chat with the sales team. Easy enough I thought, jumping right into it to ask my questions. I am greeted by a virtual guide that doesn't help. Then I ask for a human "Live chat with sales". Again another bot. How did I find out? The bot didn't bat an eye when I informed them I have 6 Billion customers on Mars, Venus, and Pluto. I ended up using streamlit.
With the tools I'm aware of you just add clips of as many types of voices you want blended in and it blends everything in them to an unknowable uncontrollable degree plus entropy of the system. I suspect their story is they have added in more pleasant sounding voices to the mix which provides enough differentiation.

Question is: who is to say how much is needed before it escapes likeness theft? The king of generic nerd voices is going to claim excessive likeness and the accused lifter isn't going to reveal his whole process. Also tuning AI voices by ear is surely possible soon so category kings are not saved by demanding to be left out of training. A ministry of voice authority sounds bleak.
> The point of making it open source being that others will run into bugs

As I see it, that's part of the OSI's revisionist history they want you to believe. The "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" phrase was coined by Eric Raymond and _named_ after Linus, without it having been "the point" of why Linus chose to release Linux with the license he used.

I don't know if it was intended at the time, but it's an idea that's widely been used to sell value-extracive behaviour to businesses. The worst example in my opinion being project that rug pull the users/contributors when the close the permissiveness of the license after having built their project/product taking full advantage of those "many eyes". Yes I'm looking at you Mongo and Hashicorp...
This is why everything Google feels evolved, nothing lasts long enough to be obvious legacy bullshit.

Cut backs have finally forced AWS to sunset services, but they just hard refused for many, many years. People like using it because the workflows evolve, but AWS will not force migrations on you, sometimes to your own detriment.

When you first build an app, everything is fresh because developers haven't had to hamfistedly shove assumption breaking models and patterns into their program yet.

Cloud customers want to evolve to the latest tech, but redoing 20 years of the company for no business reason makes programmers happy but executives nervous.
Wish I was good enough at holding thought, on my long thinking walks, sometimes even just a screen is enough to kill the thought I want to flesh out. Typically I just take a notepad but the pin thing would be better!
Unless you have special needs like very high usage, privacy or other ones depicted in the article, buying another computer many hundred dollars for the unique purpose of running local models is a hard sell.

If you use their API instead of their sub-based offers, the most popular models are cheap to use and with BYOK tools, switching model is as easy as entering another string in a form.

For instance I put $15 on my OpenAI account in August 2023, since then I used Dall-E weekly and I still got more than $5 credit left!
I completely agree. The CLI tools are fantastic, and the logging tools are much more user-friendly than AWS. Plus, the console manager is way better than Azure’s clutter. But the decision about domains was a huge misstep. It used to be so easy to buy a domain from Google and get a server running quickly. Why make the user experience so frustrating right from the start?
I'm a solo using .Net it's been fantastic
One-time purchase alternatives to popular subscription tools
The sides were cut to fit a place in the old city hall (now palace) on Dam square in 1715.
Hard to believe that .NET is now on Linux - .NET 4.0 feels like yesterday. The Windows factor was a big scare factor for me for sure; I won’t forget the time a client spent more than 70% of their hosting budget on Microsoft licensing fees…
Facebook might know that you posted this here.
Boo to associating Britain with heroic failure. We do this too much to ourselves! Actually, British game development industry is a notable success and has turned Leamington Spa from a byword for chintziness to an exciting place to work.
Would you want it to ignore the teacher's phone?
We have 100s of tools that are about voice cloning - of course we’ll get content with cloned voices.

Same as it happens with unauthorized use of someone’s images. And platforms and their moderation teams have processes in place to report and remove that. Looks like we need something similar for voice.
They definitely lost my trust with Google Domains, somehow I thought that such a foundational infrastructure layer will not be axed as easily, oh boy was I wrong..
This is not a democracy.

Who voted for these judges? Not a single person. Why do they get to ignore the laws put in place by our actual representatives?

Our constitution is ABSOLUTELY clear on this matter.

> Any and all censorship of a political, ideological and artistic nature is forbidden

1. The accounts that this judge is after were engaging in political speech.

2. A government official ordering these political accounts blocked and their political posts deleted matches the "any and all censorship of political nature" clause.

3. The order is therefore unconstitutional.

As you can see, it's a very simple argument. There should have never have been an order for Musk to defy to begin with.

Why do they keep getting away with it? How do you explain this?

Our representatives move to impeach this guy as demanded by the citizens they represent, then they back out at the last second. Their lawyers advised them to back out due to the risk of retaliation by the supreme court. How can you call this a democracy, when our elected representatives are clearly cowering in fear of an unelected judiciary?
Sounds like you need to apply for software engineering jobs elsewhere (specifically, at some other company), and this will be one of the stand out examples of (production) software you've written at your current role.

Your current role is (or has included) being a software engineer, so make sure your cv/resume describes it as such. :)
Yep, it was Simon: https://til.simonwillison.net/caddy/pause-retry-traffic
AWS used to just bake keeping the light on into the cost of launching a product. They wouldn’t launch something they weren’t ready to support until the sun becomes a supernova.

Sadly, that seems to not be the case anymore, and it’s a worrying development. AWS giving up on their customer obsession makes it easier for the other CSPs, who aren’t as customer friendly, to compete.
Counterpoint for this. How may of the packages in your node_modules folder have you contributed even an issue to, never mind a patch? Do you even know what packages are in there?

Does that not make you or your company a thief?

If your argument is you don't use JS/node then answer the same question about your languages package manager / standard library / compiler etc.
> In Brazil apparently the law against free speech was not clear enough.

Our constitution is ABSOLUTELY clear on this matter.

> Any and all censorship of a political, ideological and artistic nature is forbidden

1. The accounts that this judge is after were engaging in political speech.

2. A government official ordering these political accounts blocked and their political posts deleted matches the "any and all censorship of political nature" clause.

3. The order is therefore unconstitutional.

As you can see, it's a very simple argument. There should have never have been an order for Musk to defy to begin with.

The problem is that the constitution doesn't matter. He's a judge of the supreme court. There's no court above him to countermand him. So he does whatever he wants. It doesn't matter what the law says because the truth is whatever he writes on a piece of paper becomes law.
It is a lot cheaper! While cost-effectiveness may not be the primary advantage, this solution offers superior accuracy and consistency. Key benefits include precise table generation and output in easily editable markdown format.

Let's make some numbers game:

- Average token usage per image: ~1200
- Total tokens per page (including prompt): ~1500
- [GPT4o] Input token cost: $5 per million tokens
- [GPT4o] Output token cost: $15 per million tokens

For 1000 documents:
- Estimated total cost: $15

This represents excellent value considering the consistency and flexibility provided. For further cost optimization, consider:

1. Utilizing GPT4 mini: Reduces cost to approximately $8 per 1000 documents
2. Implementing batch API: Further reduces cost to around $4 per 1000 documents

I think it offers an optimal balance of affordability & reliability.

PS: One of the most affordable solution on market, cloudconvert charges ~30$ for 1K document (pdftron mode required 4 credits)
Window of Opportunity
I didnt like all the animations and dialog menus.
They do this in an attempt to combat ad blockers. It's an arms race that is sadly bound to create cruft like this.
Oh so its like patents
This was fine 10 years ago because I would, if I wanted to get an impersonator of someone's voice who carries a lot of weight, I'd have to go through to the work of hunting them down, finding out if they were willing, paying them, or I guess having tons of children and waiting decades and hoping their voice is right for what I need.

Now I can sit at a computer and spend a few hours doing it.

You are completely blowing past the facts of what a person's voice is, and the value it has if that person is someone special to a lot of people. Are there people out there who can do spot on Obama impersonations? Of course. Is the former President not wanting someone who sounds like him to pretend to be him to endorse a local candidate trying to unfairly "fence off" too much of the "voice space"? Give me a break.
So this is not Cloudflare, the hosting service, renaming SVG attributes as they are served, but the Cloudflare Pages build process hooked to the developer's Git repo.

Weird behaviour. I'm interested in reading the actual reason that build ends up doing this.

(Side note: I really wish people would leave out the image memes when writing something like this. The animated one at the end even makes it hard to read the final paragraph.)
LsCs is a cross platform C++ GUI library focused on Medical Devices
While I am only an armchair physicist and not a professional or academic, the way I like to think of entanglement is as follows.

Any closed system in the universe has certain symmetries/conservation-laws it must follow. Things like "the total amount of energy in there must remain the same", or "the total amount of angular momentum has to remain the same".

Let's look at spin (which is a cousin to classical angular momentum) because that's one of the properties folks like to work with in entanglement experiments.

If you create a new pair of particles, the total spin before they get created is zero, so the total spin after they get created also has to be zero. Thus whatever spin one particle has (when measured along a certain axis) the other has to be opposite.. by dint of our knowledge about the closed system that the particles inhabit.

Saying that they are "entangled" does more to represent the knowledge we have about how the particles were created than it does to represent something special about the particles themselves.

And this entanglement only holds as long as the wave function does not collapse, because that represents the cling-wrap around the fact that they exist within a perfectly closed system. Allowing the particles to interact with their environment in some uncontrolled fashion for example would ruin our closed-system guarantee, thus losing any measurable entanglement. They would not longer be guaranteed to have opposite spin because some other phenomena dumped some un-accounted-for amount of spin into the two-particle system.

So the answer to "How can an entangled system be differentiated from a nonentangled system?" is exactly "Do you have some closed-system guarantee of a precise total amount of spin (or other conserved/symmetric quantity) that all parts of the system must add up to?"

This also means that if some experimenter knows the exact total spin of a given closed system, and another experimenter does not know that total, then the entanglement is only relevant to the experimenter who knows the total.

Does that perspective help? (and/or can any folk better at physics than I confirm or deny my explanation as being sound?)
> $17bn is 2% of the US government annual defense budget

These are not fungible. Basic research, within the basic research budget, is. It's much easier to argue for $17bn being deliberated for the FCC (that's not going to happen, let's be real about European politics) to be re-allocated to the sciences than it is to shift Panzer production.

(As a rule of thumb, arguing for an expense relative to a military budget--the o.g. of state expenses--is a weak argument. And especially in Europe, where the American military is no longer a theoretical backstop, it's politically tonedeaf.)

> there's no shortage of money

There is always a shortage of money. Because human desires are infinite and our resources are not.

> lawmakers don't fear that putting too little money towards science will lose them an election

Do you really think the solution to flagging public support for the sciences is more synchrotrons? Where best case we discover a new particle, but probably not?

Science isn't a faith. There is value in exploring things we don't know. But that doesn't give every exploration mission infinite inherent value.
Agreed this is a shocking amount of cognitive dissonance.
AI will be able to generate imperfection too.
Iteration of Thought: Leveraging Inner Dialogue for Autonomous LLM Reasoning
So we will also see an increate in obesity?
This part

>What's harder to deal with from a measurement perspective is sematic equivalence. calling some kinds of errors zero-cost, but not having a great way to categorize what the loss of, exactly. But it's kinda what you want for really extreme compression: the content is equivalent at a high level, but may be a very different byte stream.

Is basically saying

> What's harder is defining a reconstruction process in terms of a "semantic group" i.e. an output encoding and associated group actions under which the loss is invariant, and having the group actions express the concept of two non-identical outputs being"equivalent for the purposes of downstream processing".

Taco Cohen is one of the pioneers of this line of research, and invariant, equivariant and approximately iv/ev architectures are a big thing in scientific and small data ml
What did AWS sunset? I probably didn't use any of what they killed so that's why unaware, would be good to know
I love FM synthesis and I love Robert Henke. Great article
I mostly agree with your rant, but I counter your example of sticking $100 bills up in your front yard as "art".

There are many people who spend hundreds or thousands (or more) sticking up outrageous displays for halloween or xmas lights in their front yard, expecting no more payoff than watching people be delighted as they pass by. That's a great and admirable motivation. Even if it's largely done just to show Bob down the street how lame he is and how you can gather a bigger crowd than him - that's less great but still OK in my opinion.

I admit that most of those displays are only able to be paid for because the homeowner is getting that $5k/week at their big tech job or their finance job or whatever. Same as how Burningman's "free" art mostly couldn't exist without Bay Area tech millionaires funding it as they cosplay being an Artist.
Wow, you're so deep into the conspiracy theory!
I’ve used Tracy on Linux about two months ago. Works fine.
Google Domains shutdown was an own-goal. They should have just ran it at a loss forever if that is what it took, the optics were and are just awful.

I get it, it was a "consumer" product essentially, hence selling the business to Squarespace instead of someone like Cloudflare. But anything related to DNS is going to make infra folk very wary of what else you might be willing to kill or neuter. It's just at that level of fundamental things that make operators skittish.
> QA doesn’t make a ticket for the space between, it’ll never get fixed.

it'll be a low priority ticket with a very large tshirt size because the product manager doesn't want it done and the newbie who estimated it doesn't know what's going on, so it'll take a very long time to figure out.
I had to Google Kovid Goyal. Ok, so he has a PhD related to quantum computing and he is the maintainer of two open source systems. Those are admirable accomplishments.

But ... to compare him with Einstein or Hawkings? That might be realistic when physicists study his papers and bestow him with that accolade. Until then, I think he deserves respect for his contributions, but not over the top comparisons.

As for the snarky responses to demands by some entitled users. It is open source, you get what you didn't pay for. If you don't like it, then don't use it. No wonder some veteran open source maintainers have burnt out and abandoned their projects.
Yeah, he's probably the kind of guy who believes Hitler was a socialist because there's “socialist” in the Nazi party name.
As a devil's advocate sort of thing...

For no reason I can give you the finger, scream obscenities at you, and there are no legal ramifications.

Was I wrong?

The legal side is not the end all.

Otherwise, why is anyone complaining about Meta's data mining? About the cost of epipens?
Not directly related to the article's message (though may count as collaborative "sanding"), but related to its UI: the page has texts centered (margin-left: auto, margin-right: auto, short lines), but paragraphs with embedded images lack that, and the images are aligned to the left. I thought it may be due to JS disabled (if it relies on JS for the layout somehow), but enabling it did not change that. Observed in Firefox 115; it is not the intended layout, is it?