skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does not make realtime GI a solved problem.
AI drone warfare contract 'Project Maven' silently erased from public record
Brand New Approach to BI Inspired with VS Code, Jupyter Notebook, React and AI
"the alternative to my choice"?

I voted for some third party candidate just like I have every other time.

I do attend Trump events almost weekly however. There's people who want to get rid of elections entirely. This is a strong belief among many of his supporters. They didn't think elections can be trusted - the "wrong" people are voting, the counting is corrupt, etc. They want no voting or only voting by an extremely vetted group that only agree with them.

The few Democrat events I've gone to, their supporters are completely hallucinating reality. I got constantly blindsided by the irrelevant issues they think are front and center.

I spoke with one recently who thinks the personal religious convictions of the candidates will make evangelicals switch their allegiances to the Dems. Mickey mouse is more likely to pop out of a movie screen. Total whackjobs.

Anyways, simply distancing oneself from a party is part of the problem. It requires the cult of the individual as an insitutional necessity.
To be honest, this is already a very charitable interpretation of the 1912 exam in the first place. If you strip out the questions of the arithmetic section, the remaining questions don't look like a test of "foundational, concrete knowledge" but rather a test of trivia the school board expects you to know. The grammar questions don't ask you how the English language works, they ask you how to mechanically parse a high register subset of the English language (i.e., avoiding colloquialisms) in a very particular jargon. The history section is even worse, treating wars as sequences of Important Battles™ and otherwise seeming to suggest a Great Man view of history.
Can you name a single European city that is positively teeming with large American SUVs?
The API part of this project sounds interesting - do you have a sharable repo ?
I wish you could develop your point a bit more.

Names having connotations is one thing, their connotation coming either from the sexy field or a character in a giant commercial franchise is I think pretty rare.

It makes me wonder if there isn't some random system level library named "Pooh", getting it into a China target project could be an honorable feat.
https://hitt.ai/
You should point out that weak evidence is on the side of those things.

Frankly, the number of carbs and fiber you need throughout your life is 0.
Discussions on hacker news about Project Maven:

(152 points, 6 years ago, 145 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17208892

(53 points, 6 years ago, 38 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19087442
It’s been around for awhile though.
It's interesting, this isn't the first time Shopify's CEO Tobias has looked to videogames to find skills he wants in employees.

He's a longtime Starcraft fan for example, and offered an ex Starcraft pro a job on the strength of that alone.

There is a reddit thread where he participated in that had some interesting perspectives that I think may be of interest to this forum: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/dl3o2p/billionai...
This sounds very cool - I'm really interested in this angle. Got a sharable repo?
> If you have any language where it is "semantially correct" to execute it with a simple interpetter, than all optimizations in that language are not semantically important by definition, right?

Not when "correct" needs optimizations to meet real-time guarantees. It's hard to argue that a program which doesn't run is "correct".
Lots of languages are very easy to embed, why not something more common and popular? Seems generally worth the effort to pick an easier to use language.

Unless you know ahead of time your target audience probably likes it, or you're on a tiny embedded system.
I’m working on my ESP32 based ZXSpectrum recreation. https://www.crowdsupply.com/cmg-research/esp32-rainbow

Just finishing off a few bits of setup and the crowd funding should be live.
Does this even really mean anything?
What makes ranching/farming industrial?
My take it is an attack tactic to convince the public that alternatives are not necessary, or the challenges don't exist. It serves to get commitment and action from people, and when/if they figure out they have been duped, they have no choice but to double down.
Maybe… I’d say Yes to some extend. Yet, highly simplified.
Read between the lines please, it wasn't a technical question.
Having spent two years working for a paper company, marketing had a lot of work trying to get rid of the public perception that recycled paper is good. It takes a lot more energy to deink and treat recycled paper than manufacturing from fresh fiber.
If anything, the players slapping each other on the ass cheering each other on as they lose game after game seems like the problem here. Not criticism from fans.

Maybe they could pick one sport -- archiving things -- and focus on that for a while?

https://ncua.gov/newsroom/press-release/2016/internet-archiv...

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/internet-a...
To note, I'm not judging if it's a good name or not, I'm saying it starts with a handicap. I didn't put it in that order, but more than politeness[0] I'd assume using a popular character might not be the best for searchability, or being taken more seriously than a fan project.

GIMP's name definitely hurted it before there was enough acceptance of it. Ultimately I think most names will work out if the project gets past a critical mass.

[0] I assume you put the sexy aspect into "politeness" ?
I wonder if there might be a way to exploit this effect to flux-pump a high temperature superconductor. Sort of like how the temperature/magnetic permeability curve of Prussian blue can be used to repeatedly ratchet up the trapped flux.
Are you planning to decompress the bytecode before execution? You might be interested in file `ingram-token-threading.md` in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/pavnotes2.git/, which describes a possible way to efficiently interpret Huffman-encoded bytecode on CPUs with wide registers.
1. It's my idea!!11 Nicely done!
Personally I can never get line-space or line-height vs height/min-height/padding/font-size or whatever. That’s why I’m using e.g. bootstrap. If I just write css, my inputs receive 1px vertical scroll on some devices, but not all.

Make css model internally consistent, i.e. allocate inputs inside-out and not vice versa, plus another thousand microissues, then we’ll talk about raw css with only colorscheme imports. Until that, writing ad hoc half-framework is a waste of time.
A rich text CRDT in Swift. I don’t know what it’s for yet but am enjoying optimising it.
You still can. The Balkans is pretty widely known as a major center for trafficking looted antiquities, including coins.
ATLAST https://www.fourmilab.ch/atlast/atlast.html is one, and PFE and GForth can also be used in that mode.
Thanks for the deep dive!
Would someone kindly explain what the authors means in the last paragraph with

"There is a bit of irony in all this: the digital technology is both a cause of and a solution to the problem."

? How is it a solution?
I have one e-commerce system that ships boxes of organic coffee to people's homes all over the United States.

I have another ecommerce system that delivers boxes of organic produce all over the Seattle region.

So I am working on building an integration between the two systems. When a box of coffee is being shipped on the same day that the delivery company is already going to that region, redirect that box's fulfilment process away from USPS/FedEx and deliver it instead.

This saves 50% on shipping costs for the coffee company, and the delivery company gets paid for utilizing extra space in the delivery vans.
It's been 4 months of work so far, and most of the individual pieces are working in production right now, hoping to enable all of it together this week or next. Just in time for the holidays ;)

The hardest part so far was integrating all the custom label generation, and mapping/routing so that it's seamless with the existing workflows of each company. The coffee company doesn't have a "separate" workflow for the new non-shipping orders, and the delivery company doesn't have a "separate" workflow for fulfilling orders they did not pack.

The real cherry on top is that it's built in such a way that N number of stores could integrate their stores into our fulfillment. This lets many local food producers who cant do their own fulfillment still participate in the local food economy without having "scale". It's kinda like an upside down Fulfillment By Amazon: they'll do your delivery for you as long as you sell through their store (and take their ever-increasing cut of the sale). This version lets the store owner maintain their own store, URL, branding, prices, availability, customer relationship, and margins, but then hook into our last-mile fulfillment.
Working on a solution for low touch categorization and archival of online data. Currently focused on one click tagging and archiving tweets.

You can check out the Chrome extension here https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jgglahegfmldmibegm...

Future versions will have online storage and low touch tagging of archiving/tagging any online data. A mobile app is also planned.

Will be hosted at archivant.com
Thanks for the reference, I suspected it would be EMG as well. Especially in the video you can see how the patient modulates his eyebrow, facial muscles, and mouth. The vestigial muscle movements can be decoded to speech with the help of LLM much more easily. Actually, if form factor was not a concern, this can be done even more easily with other sensors as well.
Manny people mistakenly recognise Bopomofo as katakana. I use bopomofo and get this reaction a lot, it just have to mention its actually bopomofo/zhuyin and then they know what it is.
I don't think the point of this is to get everything ever to work. Just getting well-behaved and free software apps to integrate better than with waydroid (by reimplementing a higher level of libraries, rather than running the entire OS) would already be huge.
Rubocop-obsession: RuboCop extension focused on higher-level concepts
Show HN: CogniSim – Interaction utilites for crossplatform LLM agents
We built a tool to that makes it easy to create LLM UI automations for IOS and Android.

If You've ever tried to create tests that run with an LLM on mobile, probably encountered context problems due to the accessibility view being too long or just sending a screenshot to the LLM, which has low accuracy.

Cognisim:

1. Turns the accessibility into a more LLM parseable form for your agents, and uses set of mark prompting to combine the screenshot and text for more accuracy. We create a grid of the screen so the text representation also has some form of visual structure to it.

2. Implements a simple API to do interactions on IOS and Android

3. Maps LLM responses back to accessibility components via a dictionary that maps id -> accessibility component

Pretty simple, but we hope you get some value from it :)

We run CogniSim in production for thousands of mobile UI tests a day at Revyl. If you are interested in proactive observability - combining resilient end to end tests with open telemetry traces, give us a shout - revyl.ai
I do not consider JPEG 2000 to be a failure even if it did not displace the old JPEG in all applications. JPEG 2000 “succeeded” but not on the Web. Most people have probably seen more JPEG 2000s than all other image formats combined. Whenever you go watch a movie in theatres you see 24 of them every second; roughly 173,000 for a two hour feature. There were a few open implementations like OpenJPEG, which is the one I use.
I found that it was pretty fun for writing a minimal roguelike in: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/wmaze.fs (asciicast at https://asciinema.org/a/672405)

In terms of compelling, though, I think it's mostly interesting as a study of how small and simple you can make a computing system—and what you give up when you do.

Forth lets you get an eminently hackable REPL up and running in a couple of thousand lines of code and a few thousand bytes of memory.
I created KopiMap (https://kopimap.com) to help people discover great cafés in Jakarta Indonesia, but I wanted to take the UX further by automatically organizing user-submitted photos into meaningful categories (menu, food/drinks, ambiance).

The challenge is how to classify images as cost efficient as possible without compromising performance. I decided to go with running ML models on the client-side.

Technical implementation:
- Built and trained a compact TensorflowJS model (~3MB) that runs entirely in-browser
- Model lazy loads only when users are submitting reviews
- Classifies uploaded photos into Menu, Food & Drink, or Vibes (interior/exterior)
- Zero server costs for inference, quick enough classification feedback

This approached solved several problems:
1. Reduced server costs by moving inference to the client
2. Improved UX with immediate photo categorization
3. Maintained app performance by lazy loading the model

Would love feedback from the HN community on:
- Optimizing the model size further
- Alternative approaches to client-side ML
- General UX improvements for local discovery apps

I had no prior ML experience, so this was a fun challenge :)
Push vs pull is probably what requires all the signing up and why it feels more like a walled garden instead of the open web.
Go library for in-process vector search and embeddings with llama.cpp
This library was created to provide an easy and efficient solution for embeddings and vector search, making it perfect for small to medium-scale projects that still need some vector search. It's built around a simple idea: if your dataset is small enough, you can achieve accurate results with brute-force techniques, and with some optimizations like SIMD, you can keep things fast and lean.
>artificially increasing costs of air travel

Doesn't have to be artificial. The environmental damage from air travel is a real cost which could be put back on air travel.
This is in fact pretty explicitly not open source: https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-recipes/blob/d83d0ae7f5c...

(And given there is no LICENSE file, I’m afraid you can only use this code as reference at best right now)
I'm building an AI Data Engineer @ Ardent AI. It's an autonomous AI Agent that can perform data transformations in your databases (mongodb,postgres,supabase for now) from plain english queries

It drops directly into your stack, no new configuration needed

It has its own compute engine and will soon support spark to be able to dynamically perform large scale ETLs and data manipulation.

I also am working towards supporting automatic data pipeline building and data quality checks.

It's live right now @ https://Ardentai.io

Check it out :)
There is a Utopia of rolling release and Snapper/Btrfs which takes a snapshot of / each time you use your package manager so you can roll back. But SpiralLinux(can be Sid based, Snapper OOTB) was infuriating with my Nvidia/5k screen and Cachy(Arch based with Calamares) didnt install. I'm too lazy to do it with a major distro and I download prebuilt debs/rpms and dont want to fight Opensuse Leap which invented Snapper.
Yeah it's definitely the computer programmers with their bohemian lifestyles ruining everything and not the oil companies or some bigger issues...

Seems like a non-issue - don't Americans have to pay taxes on worldwide income?

Like why is this article blaming nomads for migrants drowning in the Mediterranean?
Nobody knows what an incel is, other than the terminally online.
Busy market, hard to sell to companies who need to migrate. The main reason for migrations is price (eg. Auth0 being super expensive), which is not a good thing. I'm probably not telling you anything new.
It is probably not substantial among the projects people have commented on this thread, but I am happy to be working on my first personal website made from plain old HTML and simplecss.

Learning how to arrange things, navigation, and my own blog on my own site gives me the gratification of owning something fully. Everyone should have their own site is truly what I agree with.

https://spacesanjeet.me
The literature of creativity rakes playfulness very seriously. It is playfulness that creates productive association between two apparently disparate elements. Playfulness evolved in the mammalian brain precisely for the purpose of learning new things.

The author of TFA is right to position it at the beginning of the creative process. When the fun is over, skills, craftsmanship and problem solving need to take over before the final outcome becomes real.
Going somewhere and paying for things to boost the local economy is not "exploitation". This is just agitprop.
>It would be like Ph.D. students forgetting how to spell "onomatopoeia,"

A (native) PhD student forgetting how to spell onomatopeia might be normal, but 3 I would say is statistically unlikely.
Physics and Biology in an Open Universe (1979) – Freeman Dyson
Turns out European and Asian McDonalds shops typically prefer Carpigniani.
As John Cleese once said, “serious doesn’t inevitably mean solemn”.
Researchers claim that an AI-powered transcription tool invents things
https://newbeelearn.com/tools/csvonline free csv viewer with charts and tables with usual sorting/searching/filtering etc.

I am planning to use the core of this product to create kind of arbitrary dashboard for csv but i am not sure if there is any need for this kind of product.
Bigger LLM models probably won't fix the underlying problems of hallucinations, lack of a confidence metric, and lack of a world model. They just do better at finding something relevant on already-solved problems.
It is upstream and Arch gives directions for enabling it in the standard kernel: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waydroid#Building_a_kernel
I'm still plugging away on Arbite Robotics (arbite.io).
Working on lowish level hardware and software for high performance robots.
I'm still working on https://reciperium.com where people can write recipes with a custom language and create forks of other recipes and modify them.

I'm currently working on supporting images on the recipes.

I'm proud of having launched on producthunt and now trying to figure out how to attract more users
Didn’t he also say "ni"?
Show HN: OneQR – A Digital Business Card Solution with NFC and Analytic
Hey HN,

I’ve been working on OneQR.me, a platform for creating digital business cards designed to replace traditional paper cards with a single, reusable NFC-enabled card. Here are some of the main features:

Professional Digital Profiles: Users can create a custom profile with essential details and share it instantly via a tap of their NFC-enabled card or a QR code.

Analytics for Taps and Engagement: Gain insights on how often and where your card is used. Great for tracking connections and gauging networking impact.

Environmentally Friendly: Instead of printing new cards, a single reusable card reduces paper waste while making it easier to share contact info in a professional way.

Customization Options: Choose from templates tailored to different industries or build a personalized style for your digital profile.

Easy Sharing: Aside from NFC, profiles can be shared through QR codes, making it accessible even without an NFC-enabled phone.

I’d love to get some feedback from the HN community! Feel free to try it out and let me know if you have any suggestions or questions.

Thanks for checking it out!
I was quoting an installed price. Panels are less than half the installed cost now.

If the "solar roof" people ever get their act together, that might change.
As you know, we have already had several CMS integrations (and will expand this list soon) with our system. We would like to remind you that when you install any of our plugin you don’t need to go through signup registration or worry about your application declined.
We provide simple and seamless installation. All over the world, btw.
Even without the other problems, I can assure you that the vast majority of managers will think that a 80% done project is almost done. The truth is the remaining 20% is where you have to fit everything together so you revisit an rewrite most of the project. It's a different kind of work that feels boring because you already did those things maybe 3,4 times already. It helps to understand the phase of the project you are in, to reduce the frustration. It also helps to do something even very small, every day and focus on that. One day you will run out of things to do.
It's designed for Japanese where it probably works better - pretty much all Kanji have multiple pronunciations that can be completely different to each other so it makes some amount of sense to ignore the sound and focus on the shape and the meaning. Much less relevant for Chinese where you can usually tie the character to a single sound and learn all three halves at the same time.
Really good catch. Ty.
At work, busy adding internationalisation and localising an Angular 16 application. Figured out you can do runtime language switches, without having to maintain separate builds for each locale. Angular's documentation is rubbish.

In my spare time, building an OpenAI wrapper to create SEO meta descriptions for websites. It's mostly a tool for me to use because at work the marketing people don't do this very well and I am too lazy to do it with ChatGPT (copying the prompt and setting it up every time). Plus, the API is way cheaper for me to use. Building it with Laravel and InertiaJs is so much fun. The marketing people at work said they'll find a tool like this super useful, so I already have a user haha.
I'm building a wayland sleep and gamma handler that has lua scripting integration. It bothers me that it's so hard to set different timeout handlers. So I recently integrated wljoywake, which allows me to handle timeout on joystick commands and am in the process of adding flux like functionality.

The reason why I want scripting is between I want the color to pause while I'm playing videos without having to add scripting logic to other tools.

I'm also planning to add rofi like functionality with layershell. Rofi is the only tool that has first party support for keybindings and other functionalities, but it's all done through strings. I'd rather have a lua scripting interface that can call other scripts and communicate with json or something similar.

https://github.com/fishman/wlsleephandler-rs
I continue to work on BoltAI (https://boltai.com)

It’s a native macOS AI chat client. I started it last year and didn’t think much about data synchronization. I didn’t want to store user’s data server side for better user privacy. So I decided to store all chats in a local SQLite database.

It works well but unfortunately without a sync engine, users won’t be able to continue the chat from a different machine.

I’m working on supporting cloud sync now.
also, the luggage you can carry is significantly different than a plane.

- one personal item, 25 lbs. (12 kg) and 14 x 11 x 7 inches, and

- two carry-on items, 50 lbs. (23 kg) and 28 x 22 x 14 inches each

checked:

- 2 Bags Free - Up to 50 lbs. and 75 linear inches*

- 2 Additional Bags - $20 each

- Oversized Baggage (76-100 linear inches*) - $20 each

so ~ 300 lbs of luggage and the oversized stuff you can take is comprehensive. (bikes, ebikes, surfboards, skiis, musical instruments, golf clubs, guns, etc...)

https://www.amtrak.com/onboard/baggage-policy/baggage-specia...
Drives me nuts when people use rates of any unit besides sec or min. Anything longer is not useful information, since traffic varies over time and what you care about is peak rates.
And also "Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing!", of course.
The same project I'm working on since about 5 years. Using thermal printer as TTRPG utility :)

https://sales-and-dungeons.app/
nice! I've been looking in to how people are doing OCR in 2024. Is TextSniper scriptable?