skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what I find interesting in her short films is the "disconnect" between visual and audio. it is not perfectly synchronized, perhaps it would not have been possible to do so.
but today with all out technical possibilities, to see something like this, it transmits a kind of purity and innocence.
I always wonder why your generation avoids such calls... Voice calls are so much more efficient to get the things you want from the person you call...
> Why not split the big tickets into smaller tickets which are delivered individually?

Because it is already the smallest increment you can make. Or because splitting it further would add a lot of overhead.

> There's cases where you literally can't but in my experience those are the minority

I think in this sentence, there's a hidden assumption that most projects look like your project(s). That's likely false.
Yes. The inescapable tritium production from Be sets the lower bound on how pure the 7Li has to be.
Reminds me of the Royal Society's contributions to science - we benefited from a bunch of landed gentry with time to spare, keen to self-actualize. (Stallman had that MacArthur Grant, too!)
$499 is not cheap. At all.
How is this a useful observation?

You went blind in one eye to see out the other.
This let's play experience sums up the web pretty well too.
Keep watching till 9:15.

https://youtu.be/2Ch_PtGAaZg?t=222
For some reason your comment made me think about computed gosubs - pretty sure I've managed to forget about those for ~40 years!
Good BMS systems which don't stress the battery, limiting max SoC, liquid cooling, not using its peak current draw as often, etc.

Also most drivers won't really use that many charge cycles per day or whatever. I easily use like 90%+ of my phone's battery every day, I'll use up most of my laptop's battery when I'm on the go. Both of these devices often sit at a high state of charge and goose the voltages more to get more juice out of the pack at the expense of how many cycles they're good for. Meanwhile it's not like I'm driving >200mi every day.
Use case? ELI5

The LLM itself is still in the cloud right? If using one from anthropic or open ai
There's a third option which I call "The Pet Future": the AIs decide we make great pets. Look at how we deal with pets. We look after them, we love them and care for them. We feed them and have them share our lives. All in the knowledge that we are superior and that they are "simpler" than us.
...I mean, you could play conkers with smartphones. They even have that strap attachment built right in. Might have to outlaw old Nokias though.
I was curious too:

> An "airplane" in conkers is when a player swings their conker in a wide, sweeping, horizontal motion, typically at about shoulder height.
This feels different. It’s deception not overpromising or being late. It’s like if one day FSD drivers found out there was a human on the other end. I wouldn’t be shocked if there were now.
I'm working on a Password Generator and thinking about adding a "Copy Password as Image" feature. The idea is to let users copy their password as an image instead of text, potentially to avoid clipboard sniffing or sharing passwords in a way that’s harder to extract.

Would this be a useful feature? Or are there better approaches to securing passwords when sharing or storing them?

I’d love your thoughts! Full discussion on GitHub: Issue: https://github.com/combokitnet/combokitnet/issues/1
It's not too surprising that Crew Dragon is a bit like a Tesla. But, wow, the ISS has leaks on board.
Oh nevermind, I must have misread your comment (or you updated it) to represent the opposite. I think looking for under-seen/under-resolved niches is useful.
You're both missing the forest for the trees, when the airship is electric obviously you don't have to add ballast while flying because you don't have to compensate for burnt fuel.
That's assuming 'real AI' is even possible. On a different note, there's an argument dating back to Hobbes' Leviathan that the State and corporations are in fact a form of AI.
Very nice short films! Had fun watching them
Panoramic and intraoral.
This is really good. Tried out the cloning. It sounded very similar to my voice. But then I did a blind test with 5 people. All of them didn't recognise it as my voice.
So is there a bias when we listen to our own voice?
> Instanbul

We found Eric Adams’ HN account. And got a clue about where he really lives!
Every time I want to install a package off AUR I have to use sudo preceding the command. And people want to whine about that.. /shrug
Nice Artice!
Nice site! Only pet peeve is that I wish I could revisit/save a specific set or maybe open the HN comments on a new page?
I love the logo and I love the name. Sounds like a polarizing logo; that's a good thing. I remember having similar thoughts to this other person when Google first launched their search engine with their "ugly rainbow" logo. You're good.
Not yet, but I will compile one at some point. I'm in the middle of moving right now so I don't quite have the time to sit down and finish the write-up...
Here's a previous edit: https://archive.ph/7ZRbY
what is magic about 7B? why not 8B, 9B, 11.234B? Is 7B some power of 2 reinterpreted?
There is a "second chance" system, and I seem to remember it doesn't have a proper check for duplicates.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dangerous-daffodils-and-1...
After finally releasing a Vision Pro version of my app last week, I've sold a total of 7 units. That's by far my worst software launch ever, even worse than my past failures.

Don't bother developing for this platform. The customer base is miniscule.
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> I hope to one day be able to jump in and contribute to break that moat!

The moat isn't caused by a lack of non-chrome browser engines, it's because so few people use a non-chrome browser engine. Firefox already exists - it's just that ~no-one uses it and for websites that don't work with it those users have learnt to just open up chrome.

I'd love for the moat to be broken, and contributing to a browser engine like ladybird would be fun - but it doesn't contribute to breaking the moat. I'd love to know what would.
My Halloween pumpkin is also going to decay before the sun explodes but that is neither here no there to whether the problem of dealing with its waste is overblown.
What you say is correct but isn't it the case that numerical solutions necessarily involve approximations and the error in those approximations in some systems becomes too great over time. Thus the predictive power isn't there for numerical solutions that is present when exact solutions are known.
Yes! This library is great and definitely helps, but I still had problems with performance. For example, smaller models would still hallucinate when extracting a JSON field when the given field wasn't present in the text (I'd expect null, but it provided either an incorrect value from the text, or a totally made up value).
SW Engineer here.

Speaking to someone, even over video chat, is very information dense.

Their mannerism, how quickly they arrive at answers, how they communicate during their process, are they easy to talk to, do they give the sense that they know what they’re doing or are they typing every question to chatgpt.

These things are very important signals that I look for in potential coworkers, especially for juniors, where their culture fit and willingness to explore problems is worth more than their experience.

These are the kinds of things you’d 100% lose with Ai Interviews. They are an extremely poor replacement for actual interviews.

Also, as a candidate, I would be incredibly insulted if I scheduled an interview, put time aside, and the company I’m applying to didn’t even care to put a human on the call. Why not just let candidates write an essay at that point.
I think they were just parodying the typical text that used to be shown against a page 3 girl bitd.
Discovery of one of oldest-ever dinosaur fossils sheds light on dinosaur rise
Never heard of it, reminds me of DreamWeaver, instant favorite. Thanks for sharing.
> I don't see why people would sign up to get frustrated like that.

I actually use this as a learning trick. Pick two or three things to learn simultaneously, then when I get stuck on one aspect, switch to another. When I finally switch back, I often find the background time I gave my brain to process the problem means I'll now be much faster to get unstuck on the original issue.

There's definitely ways this can go sideways, and it's not for everybody, but I find it pretty effective.
Did you have 'stamps' in Ireland too?

When a player's conker comes off the string but remains whole, the opponent can call "stamps!!" and attempt to stamp it to pieces.
It's impressive how well the hardware seems to work now, though the software is still clunky. You can see how well the hardware works under human nervous control in the recent MIT bionic foot https://youtu.be/1tD7qd68i3o?t=36

(from https://spectrum.ieee.org/prosthetic-leg)
Practical Concurrency Guide in Go
Multimodal LLMs are not up for these tasks imo. It can describe an image but its not great on tables and numbers. Now on the other hand, using something like Textract to get the text representation of the table and then feeding that into a LLM was a massive success for us.
Logic will only tell you what follows from your choice of axioms, not how to choose them, and only if you can trust your ability to apply it correctly. Absent that, your only option appears to be to put your trust in other people - which is, I suppose, what you are saying in your final paragraph.
Honestly the focus on financial stratification here highlights the differences between what class means in the UK and the US.

In the US class distinction is (almost) entirely down to money. If you’re rich you can buy nicer things than someone poorer and so you can be immediately sorted into a higher social class.

In the UK just because you’re rich that doesn’t make you upper class. British society is riddled with subtle dress coding, language, and social cues designed to trip people up and differentiate the nouveau riche from the real old money aristocracy.
Pretty good! Just a few observations:

* The Firefox (BETA) entry does not work on default Ubuntu installs, where Firefox is a Snap. Yes, snap bad, bla bla bla, but it still remains one of the most likely way Firefox will be installed on Ubuntu. This comes from the fact that your script attempts to locate the profile folder in ~/.mozilla/firefox, whereas snaps stores them in ~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla/firefox/.

* New profiles unfortunately don't share logins on Firefox, which means your app is disconnected at first. Not a big deal, but could maybe be changed by copying some things from the default profile ?

* Firefox does not display _any_ titlebar when ran in this way.

Love the idea. There's many times where I'd like something to have a bit more "privilege" on my toolbar than what a regular tab (even pinned) gets.
You should still get familiar with it in the event that the next one will be cheaper as that will increase the customer base a lot.
All of them just display an error message for me. Nothing is playable.

What am I missing here?
Show HN: MacProxy Plus – Surf the Modern Web on Vintage Computers
I created an enhanced fork of the popular MacProxy project called MacProxy Plus, which makes it possible to browse the modern web on vintage hardware. You run MPP on a machine on your local network and configure the Mac (or other vintage computer) to use it as a proxy server. MPP converts HTTPS to HTTP, strips out CSS, JavaScript, and other tags the Mac's browser doesn't recognize, then serves super-simplified HTML that actually loads pretty fast on the nearly 40 year old machine. Custom handling is enabled by "extensions" (individual python scripts) which intercept requests for given domains (like chatgpt.com) and return simple HTML interfaces. Current extensions include Weather, ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Wikipedia, Reddit, Hackaday, WayBack Machine, Web Simulator, and (not) YouTube. Though this solution was developed with early Macs in mind, it should also work to get many other vintage computers online.
A lot of very cheap chinese made stuff still uses micro-usb for charging, technically I imagine that stuff is illegal in the EU, though I doubt it's that well enforced.
Respectfully, you're over thinking it. In the time you took to write this post (what was the ROI on that?), you could have soldered your first thing. Unless you're really not interested, you should just do it.
> two knobs are digital spinner knobs

Ahh, nice, talking about inaccessible household items. The number of products I am able to buy is decreasing with every year, being blind and all that...

However, in this special case, I am really not missing out. If there is one thing I will never buy, thats a microwave. Stuff made in it tastes awful, and even water for tea sucks out of the wave thingy.
Tell HN: DigitalRiver/MyCommerce stopped paying vendors since July
We're a small family company and the $20k MyCommerce owes us is a big deal.

For those who don't know MyCommerce is a platform for selling software online. They're merchant of record, they handle taxes, generate license keys, etc so they're a bit higher level than Stripe or PayPal. We're with them since 2005. Things started going south in August. July payment was due on August 15 but never came. Few days afterwards they sent and email that they're changing contract terms and that payments will now be sent 60 days instead of 15 days after the month. Sadly, I didn't switch to another payment processor immediately that day - accountants were on holiday, we were investigating our options, and we were generally happy for 20 years with them. We switched only in September, where they worsened contract terms even more, introducing monthly fee, hourly fee for support, increased payment thresholds, etc. By the time we switched, MyCommerce already sat on entire revenue from July, August, and half of September. Their support is not helpful.

This is not only about us, it's about myriad other vendors, mostly small ones. Unfortunately, we didn't have online space to share our findings and experiences. I only found today that it was discussed on kvraudio forum, and a bit on LinkedIn. There are many small vendors who are now in a hole for tens of thousands of dollars/euros.

It looks pretty much that MyCommerce / DigitarRiver Gmbh are in financial trouble. There are news of layoffs and new management. It's questionable whether we'll see any of our money and when. But the troubling part is MyCommerce still operates and takes orders. If there are vendors who still only know about what MyCommerce officially told them and wait for delayed payments - please reconsider your position.

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=612462

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=614929&start=...

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lorant-barla_mycommerce-digit...
Real-time processing is the next frontier of audio transcription APIs
I think it only means they don't crash nor escape, not stable as the opposite of chaotic.
It's a common and pervasive mistake to assume the meaning of a term by association with the words used in the term. Names of terms are at best mnemonics.
A couple years ago I heard an interview with someone that has stuck with me. He said that human “reasoning” didn’t evolve to reason in the logical sense, but to _provide reasons_ likely to be accepted by other humans, allowing better survival by manipulating other humans. This matches my perception of most people’s reasoning.

What’s funny is that AI is now being trained by a human accepting or rejecting its answers, probably not on the basis of the rigor of the answer since the temp worker hired to do it is probably not a logician, mathematician, or scientist. I suspect most people’s reasoning is closer to an LLM’s than we would be comfortable admitting.
I don’t mind the nit on word choice but in my mind a game becomes a sport by the existence of a Championship match and title.

Also, I think this follows how most sports come to be. They are started as child play, when we have the time/leisure/energy, then they eventually become something some of us want to continue with as adults and the rest of us will pay to watch because we enjoy the sport so much (often fostered during youth play).

There are dozens of sports that I have no interest in simply because I wasn’t exposed to them as a kid. As an older American, we did not play Soccer(football) when I was a kid. It’s pretty popular now and my kid has had me go to professional games and such but I still just don’t really understand the game/rules/strategy or fully appreciate the difficulty of things that occur. I could learn I suppose but I still just have little effort in doing so as a middle aged person. I could say the same about Cricket and a handful of other sports that I never played as a kid but know are popular elsewhere. Likewise, when people move to the US, it usually takes them a while and likely never fully get into American Football and Baseball. Basketball has become more global and so I do expats that follow that sport. More likely than not, they follow the sports that interested them as a kid and just live with the time zone issue.
Stewardship of Lithium-7 Is Needed to Ensure a Stable Supply (2013)
transmission upgrades are needed for renewables due to their distributed nature https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germany-looks-specia...

> They already do, in good weather.

We haven't reached yet such renewable market penetration to get this problem. It'll happen when a lot of days, 10 day hours will be covered by renewable output.

> And how much of that was for a guaranteed price made way back when the stuff was still expensive?

I have no idea how are these are distributed. Do you have a link for recent vs old projects?
It's not obscure in the UK. You can find any number of equally 'obscure' cultural practices referenced in American newspapers without explanation. It's unreasonable to expect a British newspaper to be free of British cultural background assumptions just because it's viewable by an international audience.
I just work from home and leave my Teams status set to "offline" at all times.

I still receive messages, but only reply when contacting me through Teams is the agreed-upon approach. In other words, I simply don't reply to messages that should really be emails or tickets.
Ask HN: Recommendation for LLM-based "documentation interaction"
I would like to try out fine-tuning (or whatever process is the right one) a LLM on the documentation of one of our frameworks.

Motivation: It's often difficult making the vast amount of information accessible for new users: A question may have been asked a couple times before, we may even have a good guide covering that, *but* the new user may not be able to exactly match their "point of confusion" to an actual question, a specific topic, etc. My idea was that a small LLM that "read" all of the existing materials might be extremely efficient mapping a "plain text human question" to an actual starting point in the documentation.

Question: LLMs are not my field, so I'm kind of lost in the vast amount of different tools, projects, repos, ... that seems to grow every day. So, what's your recommendation for something that I should check out?

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Additional information:

- All "documents" to be processed are either markdown files or jupyter notebooks (could clean/convert them to markdown)

- Since the documentations changes/grows (e.g., new tutorials, new functionality) I would like to "retrain" the model quite often, to ensure it's always up to date. This step should be easy and not to consuming (time/money).

- Anything that could be integrated into some kind of automated process, triggered on a documentation update, would be cool.

- Having the possibility to not only answer questions but also return links to relevant pages in the documentation would be amazing.

- The model does not have to be "good" at anything (besides answering questions / knowledge retrieval). However, if it could handle simple coding related questions with common tools, that would be a big plus (e.g., "How can I extract X into a pandas dataframe and only show Y?" => we may have a `to_pandas` function, but then "showing Y" would require a simple pandas command which the tool could also suggest).
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You take it in turns to hit, moving yours on their turn is cheating. Given that you have a lot more control over what kind of hit happens on your turn than on theirs, skipping your turn is never going to give you an advantage (unless your opponent is somehow anti-competent).
Plain JS Replacements of Lodash Functions
Any thoughts on the cancer screen they’re always trying to upsell?
For once doesn't seem like a hit piece, the arguments are pretty solid and well documented.

Very thorough job and if RMS was smart he would gracefully step down.

The only argument I find here against it is the question of whether someone's personal opinions should be a reason to be removed from a leadership position.

Edit: Oh wow just read the recommendations. Can't agree to most of it, sorry.
No word on HDMI out ?

That's the only thing stopping this from being a full computer.
> what competition?

Shockley probably thought the same in early '57...
It's only cheating if my competitors do it!/s
You'll be asking the same thing by trying to pay through a totally custom phone. As I'm repeating here, the blocker is lack of trust from banks, not technical reasons. THEY have to trust YOU, and then banking apps will work. Otherwise any tricks to get past security check to manipulate your bank accounts will be just short-lived hacks.

If the King of England walked into the Bank of England and wrote a hand-written bond for GBP1k with a bic pen on back of copier paper, they'll take it. Electronic platforms has nothing to do with that. That's why it's stupid to keep asking if banking apps would work.
You're not addressing the issue of triage also being an interruption.
I really think you'd like these two project pages, they were posted to HN some time ago but the original links have been slain by bitrot.

https://austinhenley.com/blog/challengingprojects.html
https://austinhenley.com/blog/morechallengingprojects.html
If you can assume you're talking to a human when talking to an AI then it is real enough.