skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People hissy with Microsoft’s product because of OCR of the screen or is that only a factor?

I mean that seems like an absolute mountain of a factor. Who asked for or would want this? Delivering the ingestion of agents before the consumer use-case was never going to work. At least apple intelligence (:rolleyes:) seems to be tailored around the hypothetical needs of users.
> We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.

- Jean-Claude Juncker, former president of the European Commission
You Might Need an Adventure
No. It also doesn't make pigs fly, or put your pants on for you like in Wallace and Gromet.
Linux Desktop isn't perfect, but it's in no way a dumpster fire. I'm much happier using Linux than any other viable alternative. Your experience clearly differs, but I personally have very few complaints at this point. Calling it a dumpster fire is extreme hyperbole.

I'm hoping they're incentivized to support Linux just based on the developer market share of Linux. The StackOverflow developer survey looks like it unfortunately allows people to choose multiple options which devalues the results and obscures the actual numbers, but at the top level 27% of developers are using Ubuntu desktop.
On this topic, do y'all think the HN Who's Hiring thread has ghost jobs? I know I've applied to one and never had back (a few years ago).
FUSE does local filesystems, and there are also HTTP remote
VFS for sqlite.

sqlite-wasm-http is based on phiresky/sql.js-httpvfs, "a read-only HTTP-Range-request based virtual file system for SQLite. It allows hosting an SQLite database on a static file hoster and querying that database from the browser without fully downloading it." "but uses the new official SQLite WASM distribution." [1][2]

[2] sql.js-httpvfs: https://github.com/phiresky/sql.js-httpvfs

[1] sqlite-wasm-http:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/sqlite-wasm-http

[3] sqlite3vfshttp: https://github.com/psanford/sqlite3vfshttp

HTTP Range requests:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Range_requ...
But diet and exercise are drastically more effective at eliminating these health issues and then some. You can't make a pill for that, though.

It does not "solve" addiction, obesity, or diabetes, it helps alleviate some of their effects. Solving would mean addressing the reason you're addicted, dealing with the underlying behaviors that cause most obesity (unhealthy food, too much food, and too little exercise) and type II diabetes.

There are corner cases where some genetic predisposition, or other factor like cancer treatments or injury lead to obesity or diabetes, and for those cases you probably do need an intervention. But this should not be the case for the masses. It is insane to consider "just giving this drug to everyone" especially when some of the side-effects include:

- Hypoglycemia

- Gallstones

- Pancreatitis

- Kidney failure

- Thyroid cancer (maybe)

and often include

- Diarrhea

- Constipation

- Fatigue

- Abdominal pain

- Bloating

- Burping

- Heartburn

- Blurred vision

From an investor's perspective, I'm sure this is magic. From an interventionist medical system like the U.S., I'm sure this also seems magic. But for nearly all people dealing with these problems it doesn't address the underlying behavioral issues.
A Surprising Window into the Growing Pains of Older Adults
The fun thing about disassembling a cube is that not all reassembled states are solvable; makes for hours of fun with unwitting Rubik solving friends.
Sure, but that’s why I originally replied to brtkdotse, since their comment did use it in a sentence like that.
It's possible it's in a superposition of states. Like if someone stupidly misremembered which Springfield, then it would be in many states at once until observed.
> - offers unrivaled voice-to-text models at different sizes (Whisper).

It may be (close to) the best, but Whisper is nowhere near good enough.

So, if you're got a great idea for how to massively improve on that (I don't), there's a business opportunity there.
Not to mention the cost of your time, which should factor highly for well paid people that can afford to fly anyways, and if you are low paid, it’s likely your vacation time is scarce, so you wouldn’t want to use it all in the transport.

The comparison just makes no sense to me. I take road trips because I love road trips, not because I think the economics are somehow better than flying.
Funny thing is, when I talk to Chinese people in China, nearly all of them understand why the US and China are fighting: economic reasons. There isn't the same level of hate/demonization of the US in China as there is the opposite in US.

People in China seem to be able to separate the emotions from the situation and able to understand the circumstance logically. Meanwhile, in the US, it's become more of a hate thing through nonstop anti-China propaganda.
man cal:

Two different calendar systems are used, Gregorian and Julian.
These are nearly identical systems with Gregorian making a small
adjustment to the frequency of leap years; this facilitates
improved synchronization with solar events like the equinoxes.
The Gregorian calendar reform was introduced in 1582, but its
adoption continued up to 1923. By default cal uses the adoption
date of 3 Sept 1752. From that date forward the Gregorian
calendar is displayed; previous dates use the Julian calendar
system. 11 days were removed at the time of adoption to bring the
calendar in sync with solar events. So Sept 1752 has a mix of
Julian and Gregorian dates by which the 2nd is followed by the
14th (the 3rd through the 13th are absent).

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cal.1.html
> people are going to be using intelligence with Siri. Siri sends all transcripts to Apple, even if processed locally. Will this include text transcripts too? That’s some seriously private information that gets sent to Apple that you can’t opt out of.

I don't use Siri. I have never been interested in talking to my computer. So that's one way to opt out.

On the other hand I kind of need a screen to use my computer.
Of the obvious fake job postings I've seen, I always assumed they were attempts at Russian or Chinese espionage. Example: for a very brief time I was a US DoD contractor.
This should be prosecuted. Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act prohibits “unfair or
deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce.”

Posting ghost jobs is a deceptive act.
Maybe it's better to build specific applications with OpenAI's products (e.g., using the API to automate a specific business process in your company) than to build a company offering a generic additional functionality like a UI or fine-tuning or custom prompts. Or at least, that seems like the target audience that OpenAI wants to sell their product to.
How to prevent yourself from enjoying any vacation ever again in few simple steps...

I was like you, dedicated or own servers in colo all the way.. I saved so much money! I had so much performance!

Few years in, my girlfriend got seriously angry with me because I was always checking my phone at least few times an hour (checking for downtime notifications, looking at the status monitoring page) and never agreed to going out of mobile network signal for more than few hours even though I told her I want to. I realized this is the reason, and started checking...

Turns out that compared to DigitalOcean prices, I saved a thousand dollars over a decade, definitely NOT enough to offset the stress, additional work, boring vacations and angry/sad partner... That's 2 times my daily rate. I'd rather work 2 extra days per decade. And compared to Hetzner Cloud prices I lost money.
> Legacy ad-based search has devolved into a wasteland of misaligned incentives, conflict of interest and content farms optimized for ads and algos instead of humans.

> Path forward requires solving the core challenge: actually surfacing the content people want to see, not what intermediaries want them to see

These traps and patterns are not inevitable. They happen by choice. If you're actively polluting the world with AI generated drivel or SEO garbage, you're working against humanity, and you're sacrificing the gift of knowing right from wrong, abandoning life as a human to live as some insectoid automaton that's mind controlled by "business" pheromones. We are all working together every day to produce the greatest art project in the universe, the most complex society of life known to exist. Our selfish choices will tarnish the painting or create dissonance in the music accordingly.

The problem will be fixed only with culture at an individual level, especially as technology enables individuals to make more of an impact. It starts with voting against Trump next week, rejecting the biggest undue handout to a failed grifter who has no respect for law, order, or anyone other than himself.
By state-supporting our own battery makers? Or does the Chinese government have more money than we do?
Study suggests there's no incentive for older birds to make new friends
Pick an industry and OpenAI will never compete with you. They are going for the AGI dream, they want to be a company valued at 50T. They will never settle for doing any actual grunt work.
As someone who has a chronic illness myself, I think it's absolutely important to consider anxiety as a potential source. I'd much prefer if meditation or therapy would fix my health issues rather than something more expensive/annoying/side-effecting.

My complaint is that "this is caused by anxiety" is treated as an assumption, rather than as a potential cause to be investigated. Moreover, I've seen doctors use anxiety as a way to write-off and dismiss a patient ("it's all in your head" shouldn't be dismissive; it's still something that needs to be treated).

Sometimes a doctor might say, "why don't you try exercising three times a week for three weeks and tell me if that makes a difference," to test if that makes a difference. But I've never heard a doctor say "try meditating every day and then we'll see if that will stop your fainting episodes."

All that is to say, I wish doctors viewed anxiety as a cause to be investigated, rather than a dead end that they can use to ignore a patient.
Or Dice. Dice is just a spam magnet for "I know you're a PM in Washington looking for remote roles, but we have this two month onsite Kubernetes contract in Indiana, can we talk?"
> In those visions, users simply asked questions and received reliable answers - nobody had to fact-check the answers ever.

This also seems like a little ridiculous premise. Any confident statement about the real world is never fully reliable. If star trek were realistic the computer would have been wrong once in a while (preferably with dramatically disastrous consequences)—just as the humans it likely was built around are frequently wrong, even via consensus.
>If there was ever any doubt, this action makes clear that the Chinese government will use supply chains as a weapon to advance their interests over ours.

In particular this sentence demonstrates a näive credulousness.

Kissinger would be laughing.
I think twitter is an outlier because people hated the employees already for various reasons.

For example they thought that twitter had a bloated workforce because of videos like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buF4hB5_rFs).

And a lot of people heavily disagreed with how they handled moderation. You can take things like the hunter Biden laptop suppression or in the funny category you had the getting banned for saying learn to code (https://reason.com/2019/03/11/learn-to-code-twitter-harassme...).

Take random company without controversies and you will find less vitriol about them getting fired.
> [...] the majority of them appeared on LinkedIn and the companies’ websites. [...]

> While some respondents said employers did it to maintain a presence on job boards and build a talent pool, it’s also used [...]

For securities fraud?
No surprise that Galileo made enemies while some of his thoughts on math are spot on, he really underestimated Sersi throughout the work, who himself was a math professor.

On the nature of comets - looks like Sersi was nearer to the Truth compared to Galileo

Galileo was definitely a hostile/belligerent character.

Plus, a lot of his claims turned out to be pretty wrong, yet he stated them with such absolute confidence, which didn’t help his case at all.

In comparison people like Da Vinci, Newton were more politically/socially savvy. They knew how/when/where to communicate (relatively speaking)
I don't agree with the attitude of the grandparent poster either, but work at a small company where I've been on the receiving end of many extremely low-effort applications from ineligible individuals, so it definitely goes both ways. Companies are also bombarded with spam from recruiters, just as candidates are.
Generative Pretrained Transformer is also a terrible brand name but it doesn’t seem to matter.
> distillation from larger models to smaller open-source models and smaller-closed source models

They don't limit it only to open-source models. And you can finetune 3.5 Turbo on OpenAI API.
There's something about automatically taking screenshots of everything people do on their computers that creeps people out, it's weird
Have they read Shakespeare?
sure, ignore $1k-$2k/month HOA
Hireing and being hired seem to have devolved into a bilateral spamfest. The more applicants per position, the more applications you need to fill.

“Always, always, always put networking as one of the top components of your job search strategy,”

This is such a strange advice. It is too late when searching for a job.

A 'network' takes year to build.
Sure, just get any of the lightweight linuxes. Classical toolbar, good contrast, captions... Some apps do have inconsistent shortcuts, but many don't.

I type this comment from old Ubuntu Mate system, but my next system is going to be Debian-based.
Is this actually true? From what Ive seen and read, the US is constantly demonized in the Chinese media.
Off-topic: Can someone recommend a good stats book for running non-deterministic simulations?

Questions like how many samples to collect, what methods to fit the uncertain data etc.
I hope Valve responds by just ignoring them. Game companies wanting to put in kernel mode shims for their game. That's just ridiculous and a blatant piece of spyware on your system that is untracked and unknown. Because as we all know if you've read any amount of history these companies cannot be trusted to do the right thing. Perhaps if they wanted to open source their anti-cheat mechanism that would be a step in the right direction.

Really the big problem is they just suck at writing software and they don't want to put appropriate controls server side because it is more resource intensive for them. So might as well hack your computer, because why not. There is literally no reason user mode anti cheats with appropriate server side verification cannot work.

Honestly I wish valve would put in stronger customer protections such as disallowing most third-party eula's when acquiring software through steam.
It would be nice if Amazon integrated a failure report feature, so we could get structured data on how long things last and what failures happen at what time.

There's reviews, but unless you manually read every one they're not useful, most bad reviews are things like "the motor isn't very powerful" on something that doesn't need to be powerful, or "it feels cheap and poorly made" because someone prefers metal over plastic.
A key and screen logger is what I consider malware. At least with Siri it can be disabled during the setup Wizard and you can choose to use it or not (i never do on Mac)

And Apple intelligence is mostly local on device. I don't think I'll use it either as I have my own AI server already and I only use a Mac for work. But Apple's implementation is privacy-first, where Microsoft's is "get this to market first, worry about everything else later"
Hey, author of the wasm-audio-decoders library here. Actually, I wrote this library for this very reason to supplement my other library, icecast-metadata-player which is an Icecast (Shoutcast) browser client with ICY metadata support.
https://github.com/eshaz/icecast-metadata-js
Governments are one of the worst offenders when it comes to posting jobs which have already been basically handed to internal candidates. They do it for the same reason as everyone else: compliance with external regulations or internal rules.
> ikea is for people who will settle for worse than builer grade so long as they can convince themselves it is better. sure it is better than walmart furniture and a lot of 'high end' is just as bad, but it isn't real quality.

Irrelevant. I'm not debating the merits of Ikea furniture, but they do not produce appliances, they rebadge Electrolux, Whirlpool (Amana) and Frigidaire, and the models they are offering are simply not the most basic ones (though they have just the tier above - this gets you at least a fucking oven timer and lighted, windowed oven), that's just a fact.

I grew up with a Calrod cooktop, like non-stick cookware they are iconic post WW2 marketing Americana. Like Oscar Mayer bologna, they were considered suburban "luxury" and marketed as superior to gas (the marketing of gas superiority is whole other thing, but prior to inductive it was actually superior for most things, that's why it was/is the mainstay of the restaurant industry).
https://thisoddhouseblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/electric-s...
But I have no desire to go back to that. Terrible heat conductivity, slow response, imprecise temperature control, terribly inefficient especially in the summer (as a side effect, piss poor cooking power compared to even a domestic gas range, yet no ability to go as low). It's hard to overstate how much easier (if not just possible) to cook certain foods on something with precise wide range heat control whether it be gas or inductive.

Obviously people made do with these for years, and if one is happy with that level of functionality and convenience (especially at the lowest of the low end of features), and it allows them to prepare what they want, it's unlikely they'll appreciate any of the benefits of an inductive cooktop.

But it gives precise and rapidly changeable heat control, a radiant heater does not. This is important to people preparing more varied dishes. This sounds like this is simply of little benefit to you, because you still haven't mentioned what features on the current selection of inductive ranges is missing.

They're also wickedly more efficient because you're not radiating a ton of waste heat into the conditioned space (at least in summer and warm climates). There are people that cook and bake enough that the electricity of both the heating and the space cooling are a noticeable monthly expense. Not the primary benefit point though, true.
Four-Sides Model
The result is the same though. The water leaves the container and enters the atmosphere as vapor. You can call the former "decomposition", and the latter "leaching", but you are eating the degradation products either way.
I guess some people do want it given that Rewind AI somehow exists.

I don't understand it and I can't imagine how out of touch you'd have to be to make it the default, but weirdly the market for this is out there.
No, I wish! It's 1080 the picture isn't amazing but it works fine and it's 100" on my wall across the room from my couch, so I'm happy. I've toyed with the idea of 4k projectors but they're usually magnitudes more expensive than 1080 projectors!
I like LibreChat a great deal, but its pretty heavy-weight (over a more bundled solution like Jan) in terms of spinning up a bunch of docker containers (meilisearch, mongo, vector db, etc.)
To me the kombination of Kagi's good search results with their AI summarizer has been very useful.

Of course, layering an LLM on top of garbage will still produce garbage.
It sounds like for cases like hers, trying and pushing yourself to exercise only makes you weaker, not stronger. If you're curious, her channel has a number of videos about this.
I'm unsure where I'm supposed to look. In the Task Manager, the app I created (Video Hub App), when running, is routinely between 40MB and 120MB under the "Memory" column. Are you saying there is RAM use tucked away under different row than the app name?

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
> it won't end the cat and mouse game.

There is no way to SEO the entire corpus of human knowledge. ChatGPT is very good for gleaning facts that are hard to surface in today's garbage search engines.
After Claude Desktop’s release, I think it’s reasonable to presume a lot of people want this functionality.
I mostly see that too, but I do want to point out some genuine patriotism within China.

In the US, it seems like any conversation about China is derailed into something unrelated that the party in China does, which is confounded by the inability to separate a private sector in China from the party. Its just not a 1-to-1 mapping to our system, alongside an unwillingness to see it any other way.

In reality, people in China are just trying to live their lives, and do. They know how to navigate the rules of their system and the day to day is fine.
Given that cars are such a large investment and that virtually the entire addressable market already has one, the bar to buying an EV is incredibly high: "can it do everything my old vehicle does?"

The answer today fpr truck buyers is no, no matter how you slice it. I think Toyota played their hand perfectly with the hybrid Prius, keeping it familiar enough to regular cars that the sole element of comparison came down to something they could win at (gas mileage). EV trucks get dinged on a dozen other points of comparison where they lose, eg towing, refueling time, etc.

I'd be really curious to know if a major truck maker has a hybrid truck in development, eg a hybrid Toyota Tacoma/HiLux. That would be very interesting indeed. If nothing else it would seed the consumers' brains with real data on how they actually drive, which could influence their buying behavior for the next truck.
Gun death rates in some U.S. states comparable to conflict zones, study finds
I'm not a Shimmer user, but a few things:

1. Insurance doesn't always cover ADHD medication, and when it does it can be a pain; every time my employer switched insurers I had to change my medication because the new insurer wouldn't cover the same thing the previous insurer covered. I've never had insurance cover my psychiatrist either, which amortizes out to about $100/mo.

2. Stimulant medication improves symptoms for over 80% of people with ADHD but "normalizes" about 1/3. So If you are in the 2/3 people that still have some ADHD symptoms on medication, then you're still going to have to cultivate healthy coping mechanisms.

3. Sometimes you go on a trip and forget to bring your medication, or you forget to bring the monthly prescription into the pharmacy on time (no refills on Schedule II substances), or your pharm is out of your meds. Now you are temporarily unmedicated and still need to function.
It is and not very high quality. Sorry I didn't mean to recommend everyone get a projector here or pump projectors. I just enjoy my setup and it was relatively cheap!

It will do screen mirroring though. It has 2 inputs and I use those directly and it doesn't offer apps or anything from what I've seen.
Because the name isn't Generative Pretrained Transformer, it's GPT.
My inner voice of Nostalgia just whispered:
All the gorgeous pixels gone with the wind.
Unqualified Texas educators had someone else take their exams