skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoever designs and/or approves buildings like that should be forced to live in them.
Since Mozilla has started to provide an official Debian-style repository there is no reason to use snap on Ubuntu any more. Well, except if some users don't know or don't care to switch.
Many protections are baked into the models themselves.
Probably saves a bit on the gas bill for heating too
Since spring of 2023, the world has been warmer than climate models anticipated
They are trying to introduce something similar in Firefox too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41643991
Is this not something that you can with non-hosted LLMs like ChatGPT? If you expose your data, it should be able to access it iirc
Show HN: EasyPosters AI – Generate Beautiful, Text-Perfect Posters with AI
Hey HN,

I’m Brian, and I’d like to introduce EasyPosters AI, a tool I built to make poster design easy while ensuring high-quality, clear text.

The idea came from my frustration with existing AI image generators. I tried using them to create posters, but they mostly fell short when it came to handling text. Either the text was grammatically incorrect or completely irrelevant to what I needed. This is a huge problem, especially when you're trying to make professional-looking posters.

That’s why I built this. It’s designed specifically to generate posters where the text not only makes sense but also looks crisp and readable, no matter the background. Whether it’s for event flyers, ads, or educational content, the AI knows how to keep text at the forefront without sacrificing design quality.

How it works:
AI-powered design: You input details about your poster like target audience and the offer.
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HD resolution for print: Posters are generated in HD (1024x768), and for printing at higher quality, we can provide custom resolutions for larger formats.
No free trial sadly due to the costs involved in AI processing, but I’ve made the monthly subscription affordable so you can try it out. You can cancel anytime.
I built this because I wanted a better solution for people like me, who need great-looking designs without spending too much time or money. Would love to hear any feedback from the HN community!
Bursts of exercise boost cognitive function, neuroscientists find
Key extracts:

Based on the results of their modeling approach, cycling and high intensity interval training (HIIT) produced the most consistent effects in improvement of memory, attention, executive function, information processing and other cognitive functions.

"We found that vigorous activities had the largest effects," Giesbrecht said. "Also, the effects were strongest for studies that tested cognition after exercise, as opposed to during exercise. And lastly, the effects of exercise less than 30 minutes in duration were bigger than those that went beyond 30 minutes."

"Also among their findings, the team discovered that executive functioning was the key cognitive domain impacted by vigorous exercise, such as HIIT protocols."
Yeah, they even went to the length of setting up a fake ISP with a FreeBSD nerdesque 1995 web design vibe too.

If you've ever done tech support you know this call is all too real.
Graphics is "fixable" as you can stick a PCIe video card into an ARM or RISC-V system that has PCIe and it will work. Integrated graphics is a mess, that's true. But then so is NVIDIA drivers (Do they ever care for graphics any more or is it just LLMs go brrr for them?).
The device can have a bigger battery with a thick bezel.
A government paying for a thing does not in any way imply that the thing is a good use of money. How many decades of fabric replacements could you get from the savings of bolting on a simple metal frame as compared to an elaborate electromechanically actuated arm mechanism?
This is the main reason I went for screens, which are a fine mesh fabric that cover the whole window, but you can still see outside - over shutters, which are double layer aluminium whatsits that really keep anything and anyone out. I mean it still gets pretty dark in the house with them closed, but in the hottest days of the summer, dark means cool and cool is good.
The html it spit out was horrendous, but it was a good gateway to web development.
The linked page is margin, not equity backed loans.
I've heard through the grapevine that Apple is having trouble making Apple Intelligence not give lots of bad or wrong advice/suggestions/etc... (same as most LLMs).

I would be amazing to me (as in "get out the popcorn") if Apple decided not to ship Apple Intelligence and came out with a public statement saying LLM tech is not ready or is a dead end and effectively implying that other LLM companies are selling snake oil.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/llms-cant-perform-genuine...
> Redbox.HAL.Configuration

> .ConfigurationFileService implements IConfigurationFileService

> STOP MAKING SERVICES AND FACTORIES AND INTERFACES AND JUST READ THE FUCKING

> JSON FILE YOU ENTERPRISE FUCKERS

I know it's cool to "hate" on OO, but "just read the fucking file" doesn't work if you want to run your unit tests without reading a fucking file.

It makes sense to abstract configuration behind an interface so you can easily mock it our or implement it differently for unit testing.

Perhaps you also want to have some services configured through a database instead.

This isn't a ConfigurationFileServiceFactoryFactory.
Nah. Everyday Astronaut youtube channel.
I'm using v4 beta in the blog post. Didn't try v3 so there's no point of comparison but I'm loving it so far!

It was so easy to get other non-AI stuffs running!
Astro. It's not the same, it's a static site generator, but with a few edge functions for server-side stuff if you need it. Deploys to Cloudflare or another CI/CD environment for free.

The biggest difference for daily use is you don't get an editor. You can pick your markup language (markdown being the most popular) then it's just files. If you're a developer this should be natural.
Selling machine learning stuff as "intelligence" raises false expectations and is ultimately fraud. I can't wait for this whole overblown hype to crash and burn.
This sounds like a great idea but really fails the sniff test:

- you’d need to borrow for decades, where, even at low interest rates were burn through significant capital (more than taxes would)

- you’d need low interest rates to exists for decades which we know doesn’t happen

- finally, all these Uber rich (Bezos, Musk) have all sold significant portions of their equity and paid taxes on it

This seems like nothing more than a hypothetical idea.
I mean yeah, if you have a big house with large porches / overhangs that'll work. But those are luxury houses which only few people have access to.
The original thread:

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407#iss...
Thanks, I'm certainly going to try that. I was more asking if anyone has experience getting tests done properly in light of their low accuracy. From what I understand, an antigen test is still a stool test, meaning they are only 50% accurate. As a commenter on this post shared, managing the health system is challenging in this area. I just did a bit of googling, and found a couple of leads here:

> CDC recommends collecting three stool samples from patients over several days for accurate test results. Commercial testing products for diagnosing giardiasis are available in the United States. [1]

Perhaps running three tests is the standard of care, or if not one might advocate for this based on the CDC recommendation. And if dismissed, perhaps there are commercial products available at the consumer level.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/giardia/hcp/diagnosis-testing/index.html
Homeland Security tries to get local first responders to join the SHARES emergency radio network.[1] This is 5 HF channels at 5 MHz, and some more around 15 MHz. They test on Wednesdays around noon. Transmission is voice or PACTOR. It's ham-type technology for
government emergency response.

Although many local first responders are not on this net, the USCG, military, and Homeland Security monitor it. So it's a way to reach U.S. Government resources in emergencies. This isn't something you access with a handheld, since it requires at least a long-wire antenna. You can get hundreds or thousands of miles of range. The idea is to have something that can get through from a large disaster area.

[1] https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/programs/shared-resourc...

[2] https://ema.arrl.org/wp-content/uploads/files/SHARES_Spectru...
I don't mean the language spec but what is commonly used in the wild.
So supressing the cultural diversity of the region? Bretons are/were likely unhappy
Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations
These things take time to sort out. Anyone moving platforms now, due to the drama, isn't going to show up in surveys/polls until after they've migrated. And depending on the size of their site, a migration could take the better part of a year. I expect we'll see how the sands are shifting by next July.
People just have less tolerance for errors using apple products.. that doesn't mean that other LLM companies sell snake-oil, people just have a higher error tolerance for them and are learning to work 'with' those LLMs
That's an interesting and valuable study. I was slightly disappointed though that only a single host was used in the 'network' performance tests:

"SR-IOV was used on the NIC to enable the use of virtual functions, as it was the only NIC that was available during the study for testing and therefore the use of virtual functions was a necessity for conducting the experiments."
Why I Brought My Toddler to Watch SpaceX’s Flying Skyscraper
Best covert is overt.
Unlike your photo collection, passkeys aren’t precious. They’re just meaningless data. You can and should generate additional ones for each password manager you use, so you have multiple independent ways of getting into an account. As long as you can do that, everything is replaceable and there’s no lock-in.

Similarly, I wouldn’t copy a private key for ssh to a new laptop. I generate a new one and copy the public key instead. It makes it easier to revoke access to the old computer.

I do think this new spec will sometimes be useful for populating a new password manager, though.
hahah dude this is great idea. This is something very fun to play with. Maybe you can consider to add more memes related data on it.
Bezos has paid $1.5B and Musk over $12B in taxes according to Google.
> The USPS is legally required to deliver to every address.

What if there is no address?

The house where I grew up was very rural, it had no address and USPS definitely did not deliver anything there.

The only address we had until my 20s was my father's work office, that's where we received all mail.
My house has strategic overhangs (and trees with summer foliage to the south) leading to drastically different winter/summer insolation. (in addition, the dark stonework on the ground floor functions to passively clear light snow in spring and early winter)

It was built in the XX, but according to local vernacular, which likely (we have a few examples surviving from the XIII) predates both the modern profession of "architect" and metal-framed awnings.

(my friend the architect has plenty of local work, but maybe that's because we live in different countries?)
All the self-hosted LLM and text-to-image models come with some restrictions trained into them [1]. However there are plenty of people who have made uncensored "forks" of these models where the restrictions have been "trained away" (mostly by fine-tuning).

You can find plenty of uncensored LLM models here:

https://ollama.com/library

[1]: I personally suspect that many LLMs are still trained on WebText, derivatives of WebText, or using synthetic data generated by LLMs trained on WebText. This might be why they feel so "censored":

>WebText was generated by scraping only pages linked to by Reddit posts that had received at least three upvotes prior to December 2017. The corpus was subsequently cleaned

The implications of so much AI trained on content upvoted by 2015-2017 redditors is not talked about enough.
I dunno, it could be construed as a marketing phrase well enough, not unlike other technologies they have - True Tone, Cinema, etc. I mean the Apple TV isn't a TV.

Autopilot is more henious I think because it was actually marketed as autopilot.
It has a sanitised output. You might want to look for "abliterated" models, where the general performance might drop a bit but the guard-rails have been diminished.
i don't think that's generally true. quality of life at old age could be increasing due to several factors. for example: decrease of hard labor and better protections for laborers, doctors telling their elderly patients to go to the gym and train their strength and people generally being more health conscious.
Alibaba says its new AI translation tool beats Google and ChatGPT
QT, unfortunately.
But if a procedure is medically necessary in Germany, public insurance pays for it too (and if they deny, you can, often successfully, appeal or sue them). The biggest difference is that you’ll get an appointment much faster due to the quota system for public insurance patients, and that private insurance can cover more things that aren’t strictly necessary.
Okay, I think it is is more like Typescript. You hate it but one day you just write small JS program and convert it to Typescript to discover that static analysis alone had so many code paths revealed that would have resulted in uncaught errors and then you always feel very uncomfortable writing plain Javascript.

But what about tools like valgrind in context of C?
> the incredibly low amount of tax paid by the ultra wealthy

According to IRS data, the top 1% of earners pay roughly 40% of all federal income taxes.
You can obviously build any runtime system you desire in C, including one that parses and executes C code with additional features added in. The wisdom of doing this is questionable.

Though I've actually seen macro systems that do things akin to destructors, although less automatically.
Programming? 6-8 hrs
Coding? 3 hrs

Junior dev btw. I'm assuming that the coding part goes down the more mature I get
> No copay/deductible/coinsurance bs.

Many highly developed countries have copays in their national health insurance programme.
but most times, even in such cases, people underestimate or not estimate at all the "hard task they do as a challenge" it's kinda part of the whole thing
I opened this article hoping it would mention the point about the rules concerning reduced sulfur content of the fuel used in super tanker marine shipping, and it didn't disappoint:

"A lot of people have looked at the impact of the marine shipping regulation change. If you take that and you put it into some climate model and you estimate the temperature change, right now you’d expect about 0.05 of a degree, 0.08 of a degree [of warming per year], and then building over a decade to about 0.1 degree. So that seems like it helps, but it doesn’t seem like it’s sufficient."
Hopefully that company had enabled FDE on those laptops. (It still would be prudent to wipe them before recycling, of course.)
i think the problem isn't the phone number, but the special hardware/vendor lock in that is required for it. if you travel a lot or live in a country where it is just easy to cross borders as a part of life, it quickly becomes obvious that being tethered to a regional provider for your phone number is a problem.

you end up paying ridiculous roaming fees to keep your number active in the other country, or you lose any ability for people to contact you by phone. it's incredibly frustrating when voip is so close, but not the 100% solution. couple that with providers still charging ridiculous fees to call numbers in other countries and it gets even worse.
The Netherlands seems like the most sensible country on earth. How did they manage it?
Tried that. I am still banned for https or https with 'www.'.

My telephone operator seem to block it as a scam site without https, curiously.
That's why it's at 1pm instead of at noon. They don't fire it the rest of the year.
Not sure. But is it possible that the reason could be for such a statement - just open eyes, ears, and more importantly an open mind and immunity from iFandom?

I mean please just look at their product pages on apple.com.
Before they introduced Daylight Saving Time, it was probably at local noon. It would be at local noon if it were fired between October and March, but it's only May to September, so...
working with llms as part of my day job and i wouldn't fault them one bit. the errors and reliability issues are not overblown.
There's also a lot of regulation and lots of subsidies (the US has similar per capita public spending to Canada - old people on Medicare are not cheap). If something is so heavily regulated and subsidised that the private sector is only there to outsmart the government to line their pockets, it's inferior to even a public system.
I don't even use Windows, but I need to write portable libraries. Unfortunately, MSVC does strongly influence the baseline, and it's not my decision if I want to be interoperable with other projects.

In my experience, Windows devs don't like being told to use a different toolchain. They may have projects tied to Visual Studio, dependencies that are MSVC-only or code written for quirks of MSVC's libc/CRT, or want unique MSVC build features.

I found it hard to convince people that C isn't just C (probably because C89 has been around forever, and many serious projects still target it). I look like an asshole when I demand them to switch to whole another toolchain, instead of me adding a few #ifdefs and macro hacks for some rare nice thing in C.

Honestly, paradoxically it's been easier to tell people to build Rust code instead (it has MSVC-compatible output with almost zero setup needed).
Tor Browser, not Tor.

Features last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41796030
That varies a lot. In non-productive weeks I hardly look at the code I should work on, there are customer problems to investigate, documentation to produce, meetings to attend, chat messages to answer.

On a productive day at the home office coding can be over 8 hours (plus 1 to 2 hours following company chat).
I know what reflection is of course. C++ makes it easy to implement IO. If you're asking for a reflection-based solution with less effort, you are practically asking for zero extra code. Anyway, C++ does not yet have reflection but who's to say how anyone wants any particular data to be dumped? A default implementation is nice but less useful than you make it sound. In any case, there are libraries approximating what you described (usually with macros and stuff) and reflection is totally coming at some point.
Can have or does have?
That's one advantage to being gluten sensitive - I don't bother buying those kinds of things now and generally just cook from simpler ingredients.

It is annoying to go out to a fancy restaurant and find that they use wheat based tortillas rather than authentic corn - you'd expect them to be making things themselves rather than just buying them from a shop.

Just thought of another one - Thai-style fishcakes (e.g. in restaurants). Why are they covered in breadcrumbs when Thai food hardly ever uses wheat?
Devils advocate: people in a position to work full time unpaid have probably enjoyed outsized success in their career to date
Coolify is quite nice, have been running some things with the v4 beta.

It reminds a bit of making web sites with a page builder. Easy to install and click around to get something running without thinking too much about it fairly quickly.

Problems are quite similar also, training wheels getting stuck in the woods more easily, hehe.
I have never used LLM generated code so far, but I would be extremely sceptical about letting an LLM generate code and using it without full review. IMO LLM generated stuff should only be used as a starting point, not a final product
If I push myself to get as much done as possible in one day, maybe 4 or 5 hours. After a few days like this I'm exhausted.

If I follow the natural rhythm of my energy though the day, about 3-4 hours in the morning, followed by a several hours long break, then another 3 hours in the late afternoon/early evening. So about 6-8 hours total, and I can sustainable do it for many days in a row.

The issue, of course, is that I have a life, people want to schedule meetings with me, or I want to go for dinner with my family or friends. As a result it's hard to coordinate my work so that I'm following my natural energy cycle.
Teaching old assert() new Tricks
"unremembered"... this seems to be quite a thing in some people's lives. Maybe therapy should start right here.
Figma comes to mind. But yes, your rest of the analysis follows on the dot and makes perfect sense.
Idea: AI Browser Sidekick?
I have been pondering over an idea for quite sometime now. What if you could have a AI browser sidekick - let's call it Luna as a native extension to your browser. Since AI is already multimodal, what if this extension can see what you are looking at, read what the browser is showing.
You could interact with it based on text/audio. Just like how you would interact with a sidekick. You tell it her the job, how you do it. maybe show her how it's done once and she has the ability to take action on behalf of you. This would be real life Jarvis for the web
Some use cases I could think of:

fill basic ass forms for you
Sign into platforms on your behalf
scrape data from internet once you show her how to do it
It would learn from your screen and you can automate workflows.

The thing that separates her is that - she should feel like an extension of the browser, not some tool that is on top of it.
PS - I know some tools do some parts of it, but the friction is too high even to start using them. What do you think HN? Any other killer features you'd want in a browser AI sidekick?
That's why it happens at 1 PM instead of 12 AM.
They mean temporary for them
You need to choose your rabbit holes carefully.

In large and complex codebases, its often more pragmatic to build a guard in your local area against that bug, than following the bug all the way downthe stack.

Its not optimal, and doesn't make the system better as a whole. but its the only way to get things done.

That doesn't mean you should be silent though, you do need to contact the team that looks after that part of the system
most of these issues disappear with the introduction of first class functions. There's nothing noble about the thick indirection inherent in old school enterprise programming.
As a gamedev coding is maybe 1/3 of my work, but I aim for 3h/day (plus some on weekends) total for all productive tasks.
It’s about to turn up inside Android running in a VM [1] but it was less clear exactly for what purpose.

My theory is that this is essentially a long term project to bring the core of Chrome OS and Android to rely on Fuschia for its core which gives them syscall level compatibility with what they both use at the moment and that they would both essentially sit as products on top of that.

This is essentially the exact strategy they used if I remember correctly with the Nest devices where they swapped out the core and left the product on top entirely unchanged. Beyond that in a longer term scenario we might also just see a Fuchsia OS as a combined mobile / desktop workstation setup and I think part of that is also why we are seeing ChromeOS starting to take a dependency on Android’s networking stack as well right now.

[1] https://www.androidauthority.com/microfuchsia-on-android-345...
There are a lot of customers locked in the ecosystem, sure. The question is whether the ecosystem is still able to attract new customers, as it once was.