skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's such nonsense lmao.

I usualy don't like to hate on people's work, but damn I hate this thing.

I prefer trustless rather than believing in other entities good will.

I rather use a pen and paper.

Also, when people already know it's a bot, there is no illusion.
It actually is slow, you can see the loading bar load... In 2024 with the hardware we have, it is BAD.
On the basis of GANs or diffusion models turning default skeletons into whatever style you want including photorealism, and that those skeletons can be animated by other AI, and that plots in most* games and porn are worse than the extremely basic stuff the original ChatGPT could provide, I think that's nearly at an end.

When they run in 240 fps on your phone, that's the end. I've seen 5 fps on unknown hardware, so give it a decade at most.

* Exceptions exist, but there aren't enough hours in a year to support even just 23 games like Bauldur's Gate 3 even if you're unemployed, and there's more coming out each year than that.
An alternative approach is to get involved and drive out the bullies, or better, drive out the bullying practices.
Without arguing about the "right or wrong" of the whole thesis as it applies to Britain, as an American I thought this paragraph definitely held a good warning for the US:

> Because only the best paid people can afford to move to the most prosperous cities, there is no longer general migration across the economic spectrum, as there was in the nineteenth century when it was the poorest people who were most likely to move to find better work. Today, this has created a situation where only the most gifted and educated people can afford to move to richer cities and stay there. Their less well-off peers are quite literally “left behind”, and compete with one another over a narrow pool of jobs, driving the wages down even further, making those places feel even more deprived.

Most cities in the US have gotten insanely expensive, primarily due to housing costs. As someone who lives in Austin TX, I've seen it first hand with people in non-tech jobs just concluding that they can have at least an easier quality of life if they move to someplace cheaper.

But Austin also should serve as a glimmer of hope, because since the peak of pandemic-house-price insanity of about early/mid 2022, house prices (and especially rents) have dropped considerably, bucking the national norm. The primary reason is that Austin and surrounding areas built a shit ton of housing (especially multi-family) starting right around 2020, with a lot of that coming online just in the past couple years.

I think it's rare and usually a mistake when one tries to tie so many societal ills to a single cause, but in this case I believe doing everything possible to build a crap load of new housing in desirable areas is the #1 thing to do to fix so many of today's societal problem. Not a "cure-all", and I'm also not saying it's politically easy, but I think it would give the biggest bang-for-the-buck given that so much of are problems today are due to people becoming disillusioned that they can ever really afford a stable, comfortable, "opportunity-providing" residence. I've often said myself I feel lucky to have gotten on the "property train" early in my career, as without the increased equity value in my home I wouldn't be able to afford to buy here now.
I worked 3x12 in grad school. It was the most productive i have ever been. Relaxing is actually kinda critical for solving nontrivial and complex problems.

The desire to return to 3x12 is one of my biggest motivations i consider when contemplating becoming a contractor instead of a fulltime SWE.
> The people behind Foundations (and this author, since he's their buddy) are beating the same old drum: deregulation blah blah blah if only we cut the red tape and pave over everything with concrete then we'll all be rich!

When it costs over a billion to build a mile of railway, you do have to wonder about how much red tape there is.
So Cloudflare now wants to collect money to not block people. Is that about the gist of it?
> Surely my damaged iphone mini 12 will be easily repaired at a reasonable price by the skilled technicians at the Genius Bar who have parts in stock and tool ready to go. It would be absolutely wild if their price for that service was based on the price of the latest iphone rather than the cost of parts and labor for the actual service. But certainly they wouldn;t be able to get away with that due to, as we agreed earlier, the thriving market for third party parts and repair.

Surely my damaged 4 year old car will be easily repaired at a reasonable price by a skilled mechanic at the car dealership who have parts in stock and tools ready to go. It would be absolutely wild if their price for that service was based on the price of the latest model year car. But certainly they wouldn’t be able to get away with that, thanks to the thriving third party mechanics.

Oh, except… yeah, these are the exact same thing pretty much. The only difference is cars have many more components and individually they cost less, whereas phones only have a handful of components and each cost a considerable portion of the phone cost.

Your specific complaint about the iPhone 12 mini seems extremely unfounded, as well. Their repair cost (which is totally turnkey) is $89. Seems extremely reasonable for a turnkey repair from a first party vendor. Surely, maybe you can buy a “new” 12 mini for $200… but this is just like cars. At some point it’s “mechanically totaled” and the repair cost doesn’t make sense. And that point changes for a car too, depending on if you use a dealership service department or a third party mechanic.
Since charging phone can get hot, PLA may not be the best choice, as it can start to misbehave past 50C.
No, AWS market share is 99%. Go to any conference regarding cloud ever. Vendors just laugh at GCP, what a joke. Azure mayyybe 2%.
Yes, but in the US motor vehicle infrastructure is seen as a given, whereas cycling infrastructure is seen as a privilege.
>>Britain's wealth was tied up in far away colonial dominions that understandably wanted to take that wealth with them.

Any citations on Britain's wealth being tied up? At least in case of India, it was reverse with Britain extracting wealth out of India for most of its stay.

It is like saying a thief's money is tied up in the house they wanted to robe.
Do you ride as a commuter, or as a recreational cyclist or as Strava beater?

The point I'm making here is that a commuter cyclist is not supposed to be hyperaware or extra vigilant of the dangers they are surrounded by if they are not riding on a dedicated motor highway.

In fact riding on what in the UK we call the hard shoulder on the motorway (which is illegal anyway) is way way more safer than riding in the city, even though there may be cars whizzing by at 70mph.

Drivers going around town don't drive in a hyper-aware state for fear that they may be crushed by an 80 ton battle tank traveling at over 70mph for a minor lapse in judgement, or even carelessness. They even divert their attention to fiddle about on their mobile phones and their Tesla touch screens without coming to any harm.

Why should a cyclist making the 15 minute 3 mile journey in to work in an urban environment be in a hyper-vigilant mental state unlike the driver?

I'm not saying it is okay for cyclists to ride around in alackadaisical manner which too many of them do, but the consequences for such lapses should not be death or serious injury, especially if they are just riding around town.

When a cyclist says that they find their 4 mile commute to work more stressful than the weekend rides out of town where they may do a 100 miles in day, you know there is a problem, and this is an experienced cyclist.

Take a look at this clip and tell me where the young woman erred? In fact she didn't. If the driver had been ahead of her in the outer lane, checked for her presence before swinging out and waited for her to pass there would have been no danger. He just swung out from the inner lane assuming that she had noticed him, when she hadn't and had no cause to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnd1lCwI9Yc

There is nothing to even suggest that the side of the cab had turn indicators that she would have noticed when he begin signalling only after getting alongside her - in the other lane -.

The comments should tell you the kind of dangers cyclists face, and it is usually drivers most of the time.

Please remember that not all cyclists by nature are as aware as you are, but they should still be able to ride their bikes just like drivers who may be even less than vigilant cyclists.
Sure, I'm not denying the artificial supply constraints is a huge problem (I've complained about this on many instances on HN). I'm saying that it is orthogonal to the problem described in the article.
Yeah it looks bad in the readme. In the actual code it's cleaner. Font rendering is hard
US moves to block all Chinese auto imports through software crackdown
There's a fine line between "carrying the country" and "dominating things to the detriment of literally every other industry people could generate wealth from"
It's impossible because I made it myself and released today. Read the blog post please :)
is there like a right way to do it?
I'm not questioning whether cylindrical cells used to be popular for laptops; they were an iconic part of old ThinkPads. But I've opened up plenty of chunky gaming laptops in recent years from Asus, Dell/Alienware, MSI, Razer and have seen nothing but LiPo batteries. I think cylindrical cells may have genuinely disappeared from the laptop market at this point, unless they're still around in some niche that's significantly more obscure than big heavy gaming laptops. Most laptops these days that opt for a thick enclosure are doing it for the sake of the cooling system, not for the sake of fitting in a thick battery.

Edit: I looked at the Gigabyte A5 and agree that it's probably using cylindrical cells. It appears to be a Clevo system, so there were probably other brands reselling as well. But it's not quite a current model (3 year old processor), and the reviews seem to agree that the battery is one of the worst things about the machine, because the capacity is way too small for that class of machine.
It's not enough to look at averages. When growth happens, someone benefits. If you have a very unequal society, which the U.K. is, that benefit goes to only a few people. On paper it looks good, but the lived reality is different.
>Just what the typical Whole Foods home delivery patron needs, about a dozen reusable bags delivered to them every week

Really, it seems like the service should also be able to pick up all the extra bags if you leave them on your door or something. Retail Whole Foods (sometimes, apparently it varies by location) gives you a discount if you bring your own bag, delivery could have a similar option for returning the reusable bags.
Took the mathematicians only 43 years to discover Soft Cell...
Most of the people who wanted standardized testing done away with knew exactly what was going to happen. They knew that asian immigrant families in particular did well on standardized testing and hoped to keep them down by shifting the focus of admissions to BS like sports and after school club participation. It wasn't an accident, it was the intent from the start.
Lovely idea! I have a 'Note To Self' chat that gets used for all sorts, it's really hard to beat the convenience of Whatsapp for sharing things. Do you support voice notes?
3pm as a limit seems to work pretty well for me.
I don’t think mass adoption is their goal. They had a problem. They solved that problem. They shared how they solved said problem.

Every engineering company releases stuff like this. It’s not meant to change the world. It’s marketing to recruit other engineers who would find that problem interesting.
Actually probably not. Does it have the same size as the 14 Pro ? If it's the same you can use it with no issues. All the orange photos you see are from an 14 Pro, so it should work nicely.
you have less patience and become irritated easily which blends into personal life too

you do not feel like helping any team members

you feel tenseness around your heart area whenever something related to work is on your mind
That Steve Ballmer interview was excellent. It was a masterclass in how people seeing things differently can come together and talk things through.

The sad thing is that American Corporate Media has gotten so bad I now have to resort to comedians to get insightful interviews and a "main street" perspective on the news.
Google also should not show x.com on search engine as its another social media platform, it has nothing to do for ranking
Just wait 3 months and you'll see someone selling it on Ali Express :-)
There are none? All the photos are straight from my Bambulab X1C. I used eSun PLA+. No special treatment was done.
My guess is since its closed source, no one beside them can verify that the supposedly e2e is even true, or exist in current latest binary. Sort of telling everyone that I've got a mountain of gold inside my house but the door is locked, no one beside me could verify my claim. Security and/or privacy via obscurity is moot.
The first one? Don't know, but I have a Maxpedition one, works fine.

I'm looking for the second one, the leather valet tray. Appreciate any information.
For people fleeing the rise of extremist content on Xitter, that seems an oddly appropriate analogy.
> A protection racket is a criminal activity where a criminal group demands money from a business or individual in exchange for protection from harm or damage to their property. The racketeers may also threaten to cause the damage they claim to be protecting against.
The American lifestyle certainly isn't, but compare Munich or Frankfurt or Berlin to Manchester or Leeds.

Other European countries have their urban/rural problems - France has the Paris problem like the UK has the London problem, Germany has the East German town problem like Dresden and Leipzig, but Germany at least has Urban transport sorted. (Long distance is falling to bits mind)
Are those the ones where you have to add up dice and select a matching third one or something? The ones GitHub used for registration, say, ~9 months ago?

You're right! I forgot about those. A colleague and I tried to complete it independently but literally could not. One run would take multiple minutes and on the second try I was more diligent (taking even longer) and certain I did all the math correctly, but registration was still being rejected. Our new colleague did not sign up for GitHub that day and got the repository from a colleague who already had access instead

Edit: seems that's yet another one. Arkose <https://www.arkoselabs.com/arkose-matchkey/> is the ones OpenAI used to use on their login page until ~2 months ago, I found them very reasonable (3x selecting a direction an object is facing in), even if unnecessary since I provided the right username and password from a clean IP address on the first try
> Is it really too much to ask cyclists to stay in the bike lane?

Yes, this is like asking cars to stay in their lane. How often do you see a car outside of their lane? For me, every day.

Even if everyone had perfect intentions, mistakes would still be made. What then? Everyone has been operating on the assumption mistakes would not be made. So then, your assumption was incorrect. If you instead assume mistakes will be made, i.e. defensive driving, then you're better off.
Show HN: Calendarco iOS app for batch event creation and sharing
While searching for some travel options from agencies, I noticed that their timeline of different places mostly one big chunk of text which is not very readable. Then I got idea to create tool to generate batch events, and make that batch shareable via QR code, or via .ics file using native sharing system.

It might come in handy to anyone who would like to share some events straight to other people’s calendars, in my example that would be travellers with some travel agency, e.g. “Rome sightseeing, 15:00 - 18:00”, “Florence walk, 21:00-23:00”.

Also another example for soccer fans, you can create batch events for when your team is playing in the Champions league and easily share it to calendars of other fans. Possibilities are endless :)

Any feedback is welcome!
Exactly. When certain smug people come about I just humor them. Like, "oh isn't that nice", when I'm really holding my nose internally. Like who dumped a bunch of toenail clippings in your code? When I see Lisp my reaction is like when my dog makes a mess on my carpet. And macros? You get paid to write code. Is it too much to write a few more lines? Python's nice and all, but Algol, that's a rugged person's language, feels very solid. Not like this squishy Lisp. Like how many parens do I have to type?? Please.
ACPI[0] and UEFI[1].

0. https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-acpi

1. https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-uefi
I've been 3d printer-curious for a while now, and I think this might just be the thing that pushes me over the edge.
> pools are in dire need of cuda developers

Pools have money; if they need CUDA engineers, they are fully capable of hiring them at the industry rate.
Thank you! Yes, if you share a file or picture with the bot it will be uploaded on a Google drive folder (in your account) and linked into the spreadsheet.
I cite her from time to time: taking things at "interface value..."
Thank you! Voice notes - not yet. But definitely on the radar. Would you prefer voice notes as it is or transcribed?
Extremely malicious and baiting article. But my favorite terrible take is that Amazon's "retail website has been used by hate groups to raise money and sell products". Guys, did you know that you can buy conservative books on Amazon?/s The implication being that Amazon not banning wrongthink from their marketplace is somehow "undermining democracy".

Also:

> The Vanguard Group was included in the report due to its role in financing some of the world’s most anti-democratic corporations.

Okay, if we are going to go by this logic, the top holder of hedge funds are union pensions. So presumably unions should be included in the report on being anti-democratic by the same criteria.
I've always wondered what the economic implications of longer lifespans are. It seems like this is one of them-- imagine we have 80+ year mortgages once human life expectancy reaches 150 years.
The model 3 is a track car [0], literally with a tunable track mode. It weighs less than other track competitors like the M3 competition. It is fun in the bends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXqxiSZAevY
Article clearly says that he saw the existing ones and decided to tweak it for his use case? He didn't say he invented and patented it. Weird thing to complain about.
I heartily recommend the Bambu printers. I started with a Creality CR10, then an Anycubic Photon, then added an Ender 3 Pro. About a year ago I picked up a Bambu P1S and I was blown away. It's way more than just a step up from an Ender. Auto leveling, way, way faster, etc.

I also ended up adding the AMS, which is super handy.

Over time my conclusion with 3D printers is that the capital cost of the printer is (within reason) largely irrelevant. Unless you're on an extremely tight budget and are going to print in just one color, the cost of filament pretty quickly dominates. Especially with the inexpensive printers. $20-30 a pop adds up in a hurry.
@rahulg Could you tell me about your experience getting approved for production on the meta business account? I’ve been trying to get approval for months now. it’s always denied. Building on Whatsapp has been impossible for this reason. Any tips?
Will A.I. Be a Bust? A Wall Street Skeptic Rings the Alarm
Non-repudiation of commitments to a transaction can be good when both parties want to avoid later disputes about the authenticity of these commitments. It requires careful design of the data to be signed, the public key certificates, the policies governing the signature creation and validation processes, and the signature formats to enable validation as long as needed.

Attribute presentation is not designed for this feature. When attribute presentation becomes non-repudiable, it creates legal uncertainty:

1. In court, the verifier may now present the proof of possession as evidence. But this is, at least in the EU, not recognised by default as an e-signature. It is yet unknown if it would be interpreted as such by a court. So the verifier keeps a risk that will be difficult for them to assess.

2. Even if it would be recognised as evidence, the holder may argue that it is a replay of a presentation made in another transaction. Presentation protocols are not designed for timestamp assurance towards third parties, and generally do not include verifiable transaction information.

3. The verifier may protect itself by audit-logging attribute presentation input and output along with publicly verifiable timestamps and verifiable transaction information, and by editing its terms and conditions to claim a priori non-repudiation of any presentation. Typically such a solution would not create the same evidence files at the holder’s side. So the holder would not be able to present as strong evidence in court as the verifier. (This asymmetry aspect needs some more elaboration.)

Non-repudiation is well arranged in EU law for e-signatures. If anyone would want the same for attribute presentation, this should involve changes in law. As far as I can see, non-repudiation is now opportunistically being considered in mDL/EUDI just from an isolated technical perspective.
No, they can't lawfully do that. And neither can they block roads, or seize and destroy trucks' cargo, etc. (which often happens) The issue is that the police (which in France is under government control) may be unwilling to intervene for political reasons. In the case of this "kidnapping" is must also depend on whether the police was called at all.
I don’t know where you’re going with this. The fact is that some extensions are paid and they have value. So why not pay the developer for the value they’ve added?
Show HN: Build an AI Agent from WordPress Paywalled Content (GitHub)
Fellow hackers,
I see a lot of people struggling to build AI agents from private content. Here is a simple no-code / low-code repo to help with that.

GitHub project: https://github.com/adorosario/wordpress-to-customgpt

Here's a loom video : https://www.loom.com/share/077b0015d55648c09e67a1c5d78949a1?...

An AI agent like this can be used to drive subscriptions (especially for paywalled content or SaaS products).

Please feel free to discuss features, development and sideproject-y things, I'm really curious!

cheers

-- Alden
its worse than that...people have to rent forever cause the downpayment is unreachable
Not one word about colonialism. Just economic navel gazing about productivity measures lacking all context of the major contraction in the British empire.

"When my parents were born, Britain had been the richest country in Europe for a century". No questions as to why Britain was the richest country. No mention of India.
Ocean plastic waste is terrible and a good proxy for cultural attitudes to discarding plastics in general and the United States is in the absolute minority of regions in the world regarding plastic pollution.

South East Asia is indisputably the main problem when it comes to harmful practices around plastic waste disposal.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/161rmp9/the_source...

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/visualized-ocean-plastic...
> If it's the only car you've driven for five years of course it doesn't feel sterile...

I don't understand what you're trying to say here, but clearly we disagree. To each their own.
I'm somewhat intrigued by the idea that these are fully new. I had thought the general view was that "sharp edges" are not common in nature. The idea being that sharp edges are the result of the simplifications that go into our notation and reasoning tools. Much like how right angles are seen as ideals, not necessarily something that appears in nature.