skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought this was about open source outdoor / surveillance camera... Do we have anything on that topic?
How did birds survive while dinosaurs went extinct?
> And for business, they will use the official VS Code anyway.

Our company only has VSCodium in their repos.
Does AI Understand Language?
that's what he's trying to explain - the datacenter is the bank here.

the analogy sort of works if you flip a few things around, but it obscures more than it elucidate at this point.
Bitmap fonts are not covered by copyright: <https://cdn.loc.gov/copyright/history/mls/ML-393.pdf>, <https://cdn.loc.gov/copyright/history/mls/ML-443.pdf>

It is vector fonts, which can contain copyrightable code, which can be copyrighted.
Essentially a "VNC client in iPhone Photos App"
I'm working on a Civilization type game but built on an economy simulator[0]. So far I've mostly been working on the simulator side but I just started adding player interactions! The goal is to create a system that allows for emergent behaviors and unintended consequences of buying/selling, tax policies, interest fluctuations.

[0]https://github.com/omikun/EconSim
This template provides a ready-to-use starter kit for building Nuxt.js applications with essential third-party integrations. It's designed to streamline the setup process for projects that need subscription management, internationalization, authentication, and donation functionality.
Sony is the manufacturer who had me search for the battery release camrra for a solid minute - it was on the opposite side of the camera.

If I didn't have to use those cameras they would be engineering marbels, but their professional video segment really could use a new generation of designers.
> You really, really do. This may sound contradictory at first, but cameras are operated blind. Even when you’re looking at the camera, you’re not seeing the camera, you’re seeing the subject.

I completely agree.

Touchscreen interface and touch button are terrible UI in a car for the very same reason: you're looking at the subject/the road, not at your camera/your dashboard.
I'm working on https://symnix.com/ to simplify deployments of various applications on your own infrastructure without any agents that need to run on the target system.

It is so much fun to build stuff that you need for your own and additionally want to share it with other people!
RansomGuard: An anti-ransomware filter driver
Love this idea! I presume you're using cellular? Won't it rack up a lot of costs?
If I may amend, try a "Wow, that's beautiful! That must have taken a lot of work!" and you might keep your kid drawing long-term. It's nearly always better to praise effort over skill IMO.
It doesn't matter. It will become a carrier for ads and that's all that matters to those who use NotebookML to generate those podcasts.
> So your argument is that the good things about the state have nothing to do with the governance, but all the bad things do? Just want to make sure I get your point.

No, I’m saying people who think the state is successful because of its state government and not because it’s a part of the US are out of touch. If California wasn’t part of the US, Silicon Valley would be a shadow of itself or wouldn’t exist at all.

It thrives on being the tech Mecca for the youth of the entire US to go to school there and get jobs there. If there were immigration barriers there, there would be significant incentive to just go to something in the US (nyc, Chicago, Miami, wherever). California had a massive GDP because that’s where US citizens are congregating to do business, not because California is good at making businesses go. Remove spigot of brain drain from the rest of country and cali would be fucked.

Secondarily, Silicon Valley wouldn’t have started at all without the funnel of money from the fed military, NASA, etc. But that’s not worth dwelling on if the scenario is California leaving now.

My overall point is that California has immense success due to reasons far outside of the control of its state government. The state has done very little to help the tech industry apart from maybe the ban on non-competes. When people start to credit the large GDP to the government, that’s some super scary shit that leads to ideas that will quickly kill the golden goose.
I picked some loquat the other day that were growing over a fence in my neighborhood. When I got home I just sort of stuck the seeds in a pot and forgot about them. A few weeks later they all started to grow! So I moved them all to large pots and have been every now and then day dreaming of all the other fruit I could grow.

Pawpaw feels like they would match the vibe of my loquat trees, and I bet they’d love the climate in Italy.
I'm skeptical about the whole ordeal, but at $80/mo it would still be worth it unless you sit somewhere at the very bottom of outsourcing well.
Remembering the 90s when I grew up really into alternative music I think what has changed is maybe public perception. AI back then would not have changed much because mainstream pop music was already accepted as generic derivative existing only to make money. Quality was already seen as secondary to be successful. But nowadays maybe due to social networks incentives instead of journalists curation only numbers seem to matter.
The others don't do a document cost, so it does make it much harder to compare.

The others just have a document limit, eg Docusign has a 100 document limit per user.
Docusign has a really high cost per user (I don't charge for users, only for sends).

So it is harder to compare apples with apples – at the end of the day GoodSign is just that simple. $1.50 per send, unlimited users : )

I choose 6 – because that's about the typical team size I see with GoodSign. So that feels like a good comparison.

Thanks for pointing the pricing out - it really is that terrible! Hence why I built a product I would buy and I could understand. : )
>The short summary is that MS uses multiple, constantly changing methods of DRM to make it impossible for people to patch out the "only official VSCode" check from the Pylance extension. This is very clearly malicious.

Huh? If anything, MS prevents people from shooting themselves in the foot and illegally installing a piece of software against the license terms.

You can use vscodium for free, it's great, you literally don't have access to a few MS extensions (with open alternatives, which you can support financially if you care).
It's sort of normal. Legacy software can be (re)defined as "what runs in production." It generates revenue but has accreted significant tech debt.

Not saying normal isn't dysfunctional--no tests at all is a little insane. At the same time, it enabled the business.

With better tooling now, of course some issues are more obvious. Maybe the codebase has its own patterns or way of doing things; some fixes might be more risky than others.
Ah right apologies, I misunderstood what you were saying. Yeah absolutely, though it does require the SoC for the "phone camera" to not be under-powered, which unfortunately for the attempts so far, they usually have been
Same thing on Chrome mobile
I thought that this was going to be another article talking about how apple really messed up the photos app this time around.
From Fidelity: Elon Musk has wiped out 72% of Twitter's value since taking over
> 3-5 years ago, I guarantee you wouldn't be able to tell it's AI generated

You would however be able to tell that it was extremely obnoxious and bland, and without the novelty of the technical trick, you would not be listening to it.
AI run on remote(to make code) ,operations(code) run in local.
>Taiwanese culture has also never understood software which is why they are stuck in the lower margin business of hardware.

What would have been the alternative for them? Excluding the US, software is not a high margin business.
> lingua-franca serialization format

it isn't, fundamentally can't be as it has no support for binary blobs

and base64 encoded strings are a pretty terrible solution for this

and the space overhead of many small number can also be pretty bad

and while a lot of IPC use cases are so little performance sensitive that JSON is more then good enough and large blobs are normally not send over messages (instead you e.g. send a fd) there are still some use-cases where you use IPC to listen to system events and you have a situation where a pretty insane amount of them is emitted, in which case JSON might come back and bite you (less due to marshaling performance and more due to the space overhead which depending on the kind of events can easily be 33%+).

But what I do not know is how relevant such edge cases are.

Probably the biggest issue might be IPC system mainly used on 64bit systems not being able to properly represent all 64 bit integers .... but probably that is fine too.
I'm reminded of how long it took Garmin to add touchscreens to their sports watches, and how controversial it was in the user community.

If you want to check your heart-rate while sitting at your desk, scrolling through the touchscreen on an Apple Watch is great. But if you're wearing gloves while skiing, or your hands are covered in mud and sweat during a trail run, a touchscreen is not a great option.

Garmin's modern sport line now has optional touchscreens, but all major functionality is still accessible via physical controls alone. Their lifestyle models are touchscreen-first, though, which really demonstrates the different requirements for different use-cases. I suspect the same is true in the camera world.
The irony here, maybe unperceived by yourself, is that you're using one science fiction concept (time travel) to opine about the inevitability of another science fiction concept (artificial intelligence).
> Bug givers (the evil version of a bug chaser) deserve felonies.

I agree; I think that knowingly transmitting any communicable disease deserves a felony, but I don't think that HIV deserves to be singled out when all other such diseases are a misdemeanor. Hepatitis and herpes (oral herpes is very common; genital herpes much less so) are also known to cause mental issues and to increase suicide risk, if that's your criterion.

(Poppers are recreational drugs, I'm not aware of any link with AIDS except that they were thought to be a possible cause in the '80s. Were you thinking of prep?)
Virtually nobody uses mainline Linux on Raspberry Pis, so not sure why would it be so surprising.
Japanese: there's no stress, all syllables are the same length, except there are explicitly lengthened vowels which are semantically different and can occur almost in any position in a word. A syllable ends with a vowel or with "n", and there are no consonant clusters at the beginning of a syllable. There can be "long" consonants but they are always on the split between syllables, always inside a word, and actually make recognizing the boundaries easier. Usually it's easy enough to just listen to the sequence of syllables and cut it into probable words. Regular grammatical markers (particles that represent grammatical roles, endings of verbs and adjectives, which are also basically verbs) usually give enough structure to split ambiguous combinations correctly. (Not a native speaker.)

Spanish: most words are reasonably short, grammatical features like the articles and the endings of nouns / adjectives / verbs intersperse the speech all the time and give you clues where a word may begin, and what kind of word. The stress is not very regular but the very irregularities have some internal patterns. You only need a pretty short syllable buffer before a word can be recognized unambiguously, and the rest of it mostly predicted, except maybe for the ending, but you know which kind of ending it may be. Even if you don't know a word, it's easy to see its boundaries and its grammatical role. If the words were as long and grammatically varied as Finnish, this could become much harder! (Not a native speaker.)

English has a lower contrast between vowels than Spanish, it's easier to mishear a word, and harder to recognize it in slightly distorted forms, like singing. Again, the articles and, to some extent, the verb endings, help recognize some boundaries, but less efficiently. Many of the most frequent words only have one or two syllables though (like "blue" or "open"). Most really long words are recognizable as a single word long before they end (like "discombobulated"), they rarely sound like shorter unrelated words glued together. The sheer amount of daily training as a speaker, and predictability of most words in a sentence, still allow to speak and understand English at a very high speed. Intonation sometimes helps, too.
am I the only one surprised by by how much the example sounds so much like the "Money Stuff" Podcast? E.g. the male host going low with his voice and the female host using a more informal speech pattern. I wonder if it's just a perception thing.
Im working on https://www.5outapp.com/

An app to track your groceries, to save money and eat healthy.

I think healthiest food is cooked at home and people are eating out and doing takeaways . So I am planning to build tools and features which help people to cook more at home.
For context, this came out in 2016.

SSDs were not yet the ubiquitous default, not by far. Many laptops shipped with HDDs or SSHD (solid state hybrid drive) for faster storage. The most common SSD fit in the slot to replace these so they were 2.5" and SATA. Cheap NVMe as a category started to emerge that year but only H2 of it especially with the Intel 600p. Also, most laptops could only run them at x2 because the On Package Interconnect between the CPU and the PCH was set to 2GT/s instead of 4GT/s for better battery life. This made total sense: SATA only could use less than 1GT/s anyways so why bother? The other potential bandwidth hog was Thunderbolt 3 which did appear on Skylake laptops but most laptops used the Intel JHL6240 which only used two PCIe lanes instead of four once again for power consumption reasons and so they thought oversubscribing the 2GT/s link with SATA and Thunderbolt is okay. Even to this day the only semi-common high bandwidth Thunderbolt peripheral is the external SSD.

The next year, in the ThinkPad T470 Lenovo will start selling what OP hacked here: it had a kit which put a M.2 key M slot inside the HDD bay and connected with the appropriate cable.
In Lit, a web component framework, you can set properties with, for example, href=... and you can set attributes with .href=...

This can be taken over to JSX.
Emotions are a fundamental part of human communication, and decoding them from facial expressions has always been a challenge. Imentiv AI, an Emotion AI company, offers a powerful solution with its image emotion recognition technology. Using advanced AI and the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), it transforms facial cues into detailed emotional insights.

The tool doesn’t just identify emotions like happiness or anger; it goes deeper by analyzing micro-expressions, providing a psychological analysis of the emotional state, and offering granular insights through features like emotion graphs and face analytics. This has applications in psychology, marketing, education, media, and even customer support, making it a versatile tool for professionals.

Curious to hear thoughts on the potential and challenges of emotion AI in visual data. How could this technology evolve further? What are the ethical considerations in using AI to interpret emotions? Would you trust such a system to accurately reflect emotional states? Let's discuss!
I think it's more like 3-4 orders of magnitude (i.e. 1000 or 10000 of these sites), but yes, it would take quite a few to completely offset CO2 emissions.
FinSync – Automated Bank Statement Fetching for Bookkeepers and Accountants
> A guitar doesn't make the musician, and the hammer doesn't make the carpenter.

Is that why famous guitarists play only on specific expensive brands and professional carpenters have favorite instruments?
No thanks. No hp printer anymore. No matter if ink or toner - no hp in my home(r).
Javascript runtime Deno released RC2: Review and alternatives
Nope, shareholders got wiped out and the bank was done as a bank.

What you’re thinking of is FDIC which is completely the opposite of a bailout for the bank. It’s a bailout for depositors (a huge portion of which were normal people). Arguments for the FDIC protecting people from keeping money in bad banks is a different argument, but it most certainly isn’t a bailout.

If you think going bankrupt and the FDIC seizing your company and wiping out shareholders is a bailout, you don’t know what a bailout is at all. That’s standard bankruptcy with an extra heavy boot on the throat from the government because they are ruthless about maintaining consumer confidence in the banking system.
Raspberry Pi AI Camera on sale now at $70
Working on Afrim a library to facilitate the development of an input method engine.
https://github.com/fodydev/afrim
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>What incentive do they have to keep it secret except being evil?

Money. Which is OK. Developers need salaries. They need to justify the department budget to bean counters and sales internally. The company you work for is most likely not a charity too.

If you want to strictly use free software (as I do), VsCodium is great for everything I need.
"This framework feels very natural to me" says person using the framework for ten years.
> LLMs have already shown that people can deny intelligence and human-like behaviour at will

I would completely turn this around. LLMs have shown that people will credulously credit intelligence and 'human-like behaviour' to something that only presents an illusion of both.
Just sayin'... you have solved a different problem to the one the author describes in the article.
On what financial grounds? When did they receive bailout loans or grants?
There's background sounds and there's music. Music can communicate as much as the written word. I've listened to algorithmically generated bloop-blops and it's fine for background sound, but if it can't touch my heart it's not really music to me.
How much time do you spend following someone else's dream?

Wealth is inconsequential if you spend 80 hours a week at a FAANG and have no time left for yourself, to plan a different life. The famous golden handcuffs.
I wasn't satisfied with his idea because it assumed that the biomass had to stay dry indefinitely, despite being locked behind an impermeable barrier. It's also not very convenient geographically, because raising crops (at least for low-value types like switchgrass) is not economically viable in the driest areas where they would be stored.
I recently moved to Germany (not to Berlin, but seems like most of the content is still relevant) and your website was extremely helpful - thank you for working on it.
Getting complex jokes right would be impressive for me. I don't have much of a sense of aesthetic for music and most art. A painting looks good, but I don't understand how I'm supposed to appreciate. Half my music could be AI generated, and I wouldn't notice if it's background music. An AI generated wine would taste the same to me as a $1000 bottle. But I think most people understand comic genius. Chapelle's jokes are far better than someone who is on stage to deliver a performance with predictable material. You could probably apply this to all other art as well. A rap artist will recognize the genius of one artist vs another one who is cranking out junk. As with writing. As with music. I think we're still in that stage where we're impressed the AI can do anything at all.
I want a camera that works digitally, but all is through physical controls and only the photometer is digital as well. Not a single "auto" feature. All manual, but saves to an SD.
> the quality of the content is largely irrelevant.

But the content here has been fed into it deliberately.
Even if you think your friend would only send good things, you would realize that something is vomit in less than an hour. I cannot understand someone listening to something for an entire hour and then whining that they waste their entire hour and it was vomit, you're not in a cinema, you didn't pay a ticket for it, you listen to something because you like it or move on.
> performance delta between JSON and any other interchange data format should be a non-issue

it's hard to say, for most D-Bus taks perf. is an absolute non issues, but still you have bus-1 and all kind of tries to make D-Bus perform faster, reason is there are edge cases where it matters

and even if the marshaling speed might not matter the size can, like if something goes really wrong and tens of thousand of system events get spammed the difference between the memory usage of in-flight messages of a compact format vs. json can make the difference between memory pressure effectively killing your server and you recovering reliable

though what is an open question is how relevant that is in pracive

and that is quite hard to say without inside information for companies running systems where such a thing could happen on a scale where such a thing does happen (e.g. google)
I'll try to fix the comment you're replying to:

I think of React components as not closures but coroutines (and hooks are its yield points).

Hooks are implicitly keyed by index which is the most magic-y/surprising part... but I'm sure if you had to manually key them that'd be criticized too (and would be abused to death-by-bugs, so I can see why they went with this design).

If you understand both points above, you understand hooks.

I still fail to get the (usual) criticism of hooks. They have lots of warts but the API (which is often what gets mentioned) is the most superficial and less annoying criticism. Feels like something that would be mentioned after just skimming the docs. Very shallow.

On the contrary: useEffect is a footgun and deserves criticism. useRef being overloaded to mimic instance variables is confusing for newbies (but this is just a naming issue IMO). The difference between normal/layout/insertion effects is complex and subtle. The new stuff that tries to solve some issues with the concurrent mode (like transitions/deferred value/etc.) feels like a huge hack.

React 19 will come with its own warts (actions, RSC...)

But the API? I don't care at all. Pretty simple, at least for my mental model.
I wouldn’t agree on that
This seems to be a common trait of a lot of the more "aligned", "helpful" LLMs out there. You can drop any random excerpt from your diary into ChatGPT and it will tell you about how brilliant, sensitive, and witty you are. It's really quite sickening.
What relevance is the percentage of religious individuals?

Religion is evidently not relevant in any case. What ChatGPT already does today religious individuals 50 years ago would have near unanimously declared behavior only a "soul" can do.
What are the economic incentives for AI safety?
the errors are most likely coming from the custom code, you might need to update those yourself
If they didn’t care about it they wouldn’t do it. The reality is that they do and it’s a multi billion dollar per year revenue stream for them. You’re just making shit up here to avoid the obvious conclusion that despite Apple’s propaganda that you are the product on their platform as well.
There are upgrade branches but somehow they are stale and not worked on anymore. Probably so hard to and test everything manually that they stoped trying at all. How would you go on a project like this if you were to be the new lead there?
> Chapelle's jokes are far better than someone who is on stage to deliver a performance with predictable material.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan, but you don't have to look far to see that this opinion is not universal