skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I've always struggled with intense structured exercise. Instead I walk quickly, park at the far end of lots, run up the stairs instead of the elevator, do some jumping jacks while waiting for the microwave, and lots of small things like that and it seems to work. You can get a lot of exercise minutes and increased heart rate out of doing routine activities with gusto. Admittedly, it's not so good for building muscle, though.
Yeah, all lossy compression could be called "perceptually lossless" if the perception is bad enough...
"It's not sexual harassment, it's flattery to get you to do a favor for them. They would never sleep with you."

That's the same with men too, usually. Why do you think it's sexism?
FWIW, I'm a vegetarian and drink fair trade coffee. Some of these decisions aren't things from which we have a choice. I need clothes / a computer, I can't function without them. I can function without working for Meta.
Increasingly mobile networks are like this. There are all kinds of bandwidth issues, especially when customers are subject to metered pricing for data.
I've met some pretty obnoxious and difficult programmers but statistically most managers I ever met were difficult.

So yep, agreed with your point.

Problem with hiring good people is that you also have to give them the space and time to show their talents. Shoving them into meetings mostly aimed at people who are bad at communication and/or are junior in terms of abilities is the best way to destroy their motivation.
Survivability is much greater though. Funnily enough it happens approximately 100 times every year in my city of 650k, but fatalities are rare (I'm not aware of any). Pedestrians are less fortunate, as a few die annually being hit/run over by a tram.

But I would rather restrict cycling than trams, as the latter perform a valuable service.
Make 1TB of SSD not double the price and I’ll get one
The cloud portals are rediculously slow. It's almost like I'm on a free tier paying $20k per month.
It goes back to how society deals with outliers
In Japan I commonly hear "The nail that sticks out gets hammered down".
In America I commonly hear "The squeaky wheel gets the grease"
I suspect both are true depending on the circumstances
They seem to really prioritize “just works”. I am currently reviewing a PR that assembles some code as a string, using a CSV with carefully named columns. It does, in fact , work on the example CSV. I would invite this team to approve and support that for me over the next 5 years.
I'm certain social media will be defined as "any media platform where content is both published and consumed by the public".

Which would comfortably cover every method of person to person communication from SMS to the telephone app.
> some censorship

How the hell is everyone okay with it?

Why should I be "forbidden" from understanding a text written in a foreign language if it contains something inappropriate?

I don't know of any translation service that does censorship.

Not even Google does it and Kagi was supposed to be less user hostile than Google, not more.
Not quite lossless... look at the bicycle seat behind him. When he tilts his head, the seat moves with his hair.
> Do we just submit to our techno-feudal lords and pay rent to access crumbs? Is it over?

It's too important to give up.

But yeah, the capital inequality in every important field - not just AI - is far more of a problem than the vast majority of people grasp. And the trend isn't looking great either.
>I'm impressed that you are able to keep track of so many things over an extended period, considering that apparently 3.5 hours are long enough for you to forget a question that you asked.

>Let's recap.

Let's not.

>In fact many people do sometimes forget to do those other things. But those other things are all easy to correct with little or no negative consequences when they forget so the penalty is small for not developing an ironclad system to never forget them.

Sucks to be them, then I guess.

Perhaps you've forgotten to do something important while you were making unsupported statements about what I know/don't know/remember/don't remember and blathering on about something or other?

I'll keep using my (apparent) super powers to be a responsible adult. Perhaps others should try it instead of whinging about forgetting important things.

Or not. It's no skin off my nose either way.
I confirm we removed google analytics (a year ago), and added plausible or another italian governamental analytics like

can that be the reason? :(
> Having a mobile phone it's inevitable I will be tracked by multiple entities from government to Google

Not, it's not. You could use a GNU/Linux phone with hardware kill switches for modem and WiFi/Bluetooth: Librem 5. This is what I do.
> I'm sorry. It's just another wrapper for a 3rd party model

The main challenge with working with LLMs is actually one of "ETL" and understanding what data to load and how to transform it into some form that leads to the desired output.

For trivial tasks, this is certainly easy. For complicated tasks, like understanding a codebase or a product catalog of tens of thousands of entries, this is non-trivial.

My team is not working in the code gen space, but even though we also "just wrap" an API, almost all of our work is in data acquisition, transformation, the retrieval strategy, and structuring of the request context.

The API call to the LLM is like hitting "bake" on an oven: all of the real work happens before that.
Bandwidth is not the limitation in space comms, latency is.
I don’t understand your q around food comas completely, but yes they have improved. I take all the supplements I mentioned
OpenWater wiki > Neuromodulation:
https://wiki.openwater.health/index.php/Neuromodulation

OpenwaterHealth/opw_neuromod_sw:
https://github.com/OpenwaterHealth/opw_neuromod_sw :

> OpenWater's Transcranial Focused Ultrasound Platform. open-LIFU is an ultrasound platform designed to help researchers transmit focused ultrasound beams into subject’s brains, so that those researchers can learn more about how different types of ultrasound beams interact with the neurons in the brain. Unlike other focused ultrasound systems which are aimed only by their placement on the head, open-LIFU uses an array to precisely steer the ultrasound focus to the target location, while its wearable small size allows transmission through the forehead into a precise spot location in the brain even while the patient is moving.

FWIU NIRS is sufficient for most nontherepeautic diagnostics though. (Non-optogenetically, infrared light stimulates neuronal growth, and blue and green lights inhibit neuronal growth)
Reasons to Ditch LastPass
> Rust weirdos

Rust is not even my primary or secondary language. Instead of knee-jerk reaction, maybe consider that I'm just advocating for 1. using languages correctly (asking for defer is a clear indication of the opposite) and 2. using modern and expressive languages that solve entire classes of problems for good instead of struggling with cognitive complexity of doing everything by hand (which is what C and Go are about).
World-first stem-cell treatment restores vision in people
Once you layoff your people will it be time to fire cloud?
It is incredibly sad that companies and executive leadership teams are more devout to cloud and long-term contracts than their people. This is a function of poor procurement and short-term IT strategy, sure. More on that later.

Every day we see the hits come in. 15% here, 20% RIF there, it is relentless. Eventually these places get down to a skeleton crew.

I wonder, though, when many of these companies who push terabytes or petabytes across cloud and SaaS services -- will they begin to take a serious and sober look at an on-prem strategy?

In the last 18 months I've been part of a few projects to support teams in their efforts to do the forensics, hunt idle resources, waste, duplication, and not just trim the fat but really innovate back into on-prem.

Fixed costs with lots of overhead to grow.

Imagine that -- having petabytes of storage ready to go with a much bandwidth as a 10gig line can push all at relatively fixed costs?

Its possible because is it not 2013 anymore. All those APIs and automations you enjoy in cloud are available in one form or another on-prem.

But you still need the bare-metal expertise that seems to belong to older Millennials and the grizzled Gen-Xers (remember those salty bastards?). They are out there, hiding in the cool isles of the data-centers racking and stacking all those nvidia GPUs right now.

Think about it -- its time to re-evaluate the value of all this surplus SaaS and cloud convenience. We are way past the time of being intellectually lazy and hand-wavy "cloud is just better" conversations.
Yeah,it reflects the “feel” I get from lLoRa as well, especially if I overdo it. The new data becomes the preferred output even for unrelated inputs. I always felt like it was bludgeoning the model to some extent vs finetuning.

Also, LoRa tuning an extensively tuned model occasionally provokes full on delusional “insanity” or gibberish seizures.

I have had really good luck though using a highly tuned model as the training basis for a LoRa and then applying that LoRa mask to the base version of that model. I’m not sure why that seems to work better than the same LoRa training directly on the base model.
oh interesting, fair enough; I didn't know jabberd still existed! FWIW, Prosody, Ejabberd, OpenFire, etc. all mostly have sane defaults for a basic chat system (both in terms of performance and features). They won't be an exact match of course, but all the basic stuff should be there.
Ask HN: Who Has Automated Their Side Hustle? How Did You Do It?
Hey HN,

I’ve been hearing a lot about people automating parts of their side hustles to free up time and even make passive income. I recently built a Python script that handles order processing and customer support for a small e-commerce store I help run, and it's turned into a steady income stream for me with minimal ongoing effort. This got me wondering: how many of you have done something similar?

If you've automated parts (or all) of your side hustle, I’d love to hear:

What kind of tasks you automated? (inventory, marketing, customer support, etc.)
What tech/tools did you use? (Python, Zapier, Selenium, APIs, etc.)
Any lessons learned or tips for keeping it low-maintenance and scalable?
I’m especially curious about anyone who’s using automation to manage time-consuming parts of their business while they focus on other projects. Looking forward to your stories and maybe picking up some ideas for my next project!

Thanks!
Thanks to the Administrative Procedures Act, and per the release from the FDA, the proposal will take some time. Comments are accepted until May 7, 2025. If the government moved with all legal alacrity, the order might get finalized by this time next year, that's if there are no lawsuits, petitions, etc.

I mention this because I can't help but feel the APA takes too long when an agency is doing something proactive for the public good. This should take sixty days, not years, because it's not a removal of a product for safety reasons, that's often done via the FTC.

There is a hole between FDA's authority to create and amend regulations, order the removal of products due to safety, and what should be a more routine streamlining of the FDA cleaning up..

APA - 5 U.S.C. §§ 551–559
Yeah, I think it's a real stretch to call what that website does "doxing". Voter rolls are public record, after all. I suspect that a lot of people are somehow unaware of what data is public record (and has been for longer than I've been alive). Things like your driver's license and car registration, real estate holdings, etc.
On a high level the question is "how do you bootstrap X, if you need X to bootstrap X?".
This is fun, but would be even better if you could randomly seed it or have some starting default. Cool quick demo!
Unless you're talking about the SALT cap, which was set to expire... but maybe now not so much.
Thats why we recommend obese people to walk first, even if they think they would enjoy running.
Does the Coen Brothers 2010 version of True Grit count? I think it was better than the 1969 John Wayne version, but maybe it doesn't count as a "remake" because both were based on Charles Portis' novel.
This article summarises a report carried out by Which?, the UK consumers’ rights magazine. I submitted this article because I found it surprising that people would spend money on a kitchen utensil that is connected to the Internet.

After reading the report, it turns out that the most egregious privacy invasions are from the opaque smartphone apps that are used with the air fryers. Having an associated app for a fryer or oven would be a big red flag for me.

A couple of years ago, I switched my mobile phone from Android to iOS primarily for privacy reasons (I work as a sysadmin in my day job and don't really want to spend my free time as the sysadmin of a Lineage system). This finding seems to vindicate that choice:

> Far more information was taken from those with Android phones, as Apple now disallows some types of data gathering and offers additional privacy protections.
So any negative comment is somehow bias and I should be doing Matrix instead? I don't get what you're getting at.

I am still aware of both protocols, I still don't like Matrix and think XMPP is "good enough", or at least the best choice. Having an opinion doesn't make me biased against one or the other.
Ah, one of those things we think are romantic but are actually abuse. :/
GP is incorrect.

There is "Is identical", "looks identical" and "has lost sufficient detail to clearly not be the original." - being able to differentiate between these three states is useful.
Can You Make Winter Less Dark? (2022)
Signatures are okay though.

And you can do encryption, when you have to control remote devices which belong to you.

and internet still can be non commercial.
I think also because we’re not all that great at solving human problems.

I can run code and we can agree what it does or doesn’t do.

But when we decide it is time to organize humans and understand the results we struggle.
Thank you, I was reading https://github.com/monal-im/Monal/wiki/Considerations-for-XM... and misread the requirements, 0.13 is required for SASL2, not for cloud_notify.

I really like Prosody because it was trivial to reuse the same user store I use for Postfix/Dovecot so every email account gets an XMPP account automatically.
OMG, I finally understand what's happening there. Thank you so much!
Almost twice as fast as M2 Pro while using half as much energy. How is Apple able to pull this off as a consumer hardware company. What is Intel et. al. doing all these years?
Money, also TSMC.
Robustly learning Hamiltonian dynamics of a superconducting quantum processor
Either way they’re not scared of spiders any more! (p < 0.01)
How much slower is it to attach an external drive here?
Musigram – A Browser-Based Spectrogram Tool
"Robustly learning the Hamiltonian dynamics of a superconducting quantum processor" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52629-3 :

> Abstract: Precise means of characterizing analog quantum simulators are key to developing quantum simulators capable of beyond-classical computations. Here, we precisely estimate the free Hamiltonian parameters of a superconducting-qubit analog quantum simulator from measured time-series data on up to 14 qubits. To achieve this, we develop a scalable Hamiltonian learning algorithm that is robust against state-preparation and measurement (SPAM) errors and yields tomographic information about those SPAM errors. The key subroutines are a novel super-resolution technique for frequency extraction from matrix time-series, tensorESPRIT, and constrained manifold optimization. Our learning results verify the Hamiltonian dynamics on a Sycamore processor up to sub-MHz accuracy, and allow us to construct a spatial implementation error map for a grid of 27 qubits. Our results constitute an accurate implementation of a dynamical quantum simulation that is precisely characterized using a new diagnostic toolkit for understanding, calibrating, and improving analog quantum processors.
The news does seem more entertaining from there. Here in London it's all delayed transport, stabbings and phone snatching.
There is no secret ingredient, Yandex just put more effort into supporting languages that are spoken in ex-USSR countries, because that's the most important market for them.

Other translation tools do not consider i. e. Kyrgyzstan an important market therefore do not put much effort into supporting Kyrgyz.
In any YC application, they request a list of competitors and why your product is better! Curious about what OP listed as competitors in the application.
Tempo too seems to be hard to control at the low end of the range. Great work here
New Star Wars Trilogy in the Make; Simon Kinberg to Write and Produce
In poor countries the government sometimes runs TV ads explaining how to make the rehydrating solution this at home. This simple program saved millions of children.

Boil the water, add sugar and salt... Voila
Except with bicycles you very well can find a plane to jump out with no ground to be seen.

Your analogy is car brained and bad.

I live in germany and have an extremely safe bike commute.

I would not commute by bike in the US tho
It's faster (shorter start time).
What do you call 'modern serfdom'?
Not just lanes! We have entire routes exclusive to bicycles and use bicycle lanes only as a fallback where there are none
I read “perceptually lossless” to be equivalent to “transparent”, a more common phrase used in the audio/video codec world. It’s the bitrate/quality at which some large fraction of human viewers can’t distinguish a losslessly-encoded sample and the lossy-encoded sample, for some large fraction of content (constants vary in research papers).

As an example, crf=18 in libx264 is considered “perceptually lossless” for most video content.
This one explains it best:

https://x.com/prayingmedic/status/1854216932872093776

P.S. you left-behind-still-deep-asleep will have a brutal awakening happening to you during 2025...
> Perhaps only if you have highly restricted set of posible input, which online meetings aren't.

Are you sure? After all, you can effectively summarize meetings in a plain text which is extremely restricted in comparison to the original input. Guaranteed, exact manner of speech and motions and all subtleties should be also included to be fair, but that information is still far limited to fill the 20 kbps bandwidth.

We need far more bandwidth only because we don't yet have an efficient way to reconstruct the input faithfully from such highly condensed information. Whenever we actually could, we ended up having a very efficient lossy algorithm that still preserves enough information for us human. Unless you are strictly talking about the lossless compression---which is however very irrelevant in this particular topic---, we should expect much more compression in the future even though that might not be feasible today.
They're close to as cheap as they come for CDN bandwidth list prices without minimums, especially for CDNs with their level of global coverage. Competitors in this space in particular are often much more expensive, like Deno Deploy's $0.50/GB.

Cloudflare is effectively impossible to compare because it's all "free until you get an email from sales".
I think they are both great choices and it's a matter of personal preference.

Do you distrust the new for-profit company that owns Gitea? Do you believe that all software should be libre? Choose Forgejo.

Do you believe having a for-profit company behind gives the project more budget for feature development? Do you think that using a GPLv3 licensed software is problematic in legal terms? Choose Gitea.
I'd imagine not seeking employment at Google is a big part.
It's very interesting to see such skin issues treated with ivermectin, although they are fundamentally a cleanliness issue of skin, clothes, and carpet.

Regarding HCQ, do I have a story to tell. Early in the Covid years, I had its symptoms twice. This was before any vaccine or tests. The first time was from a coworker, and the second time from a stairwell while unmasked. Both times, nothing would fix it, but pure CQ did. This was no fish tank cleaned. It was a proper CQ medicine at 250 mg/day for two days, then repeated again after a week for another two days. The only side effects were very minor visual blurriness which resolved on its own within 3 months, and cardiac arrhythmia which resolved using atenolol. The cardiac arrhythmia could just have been an effect of Covid itself for all I know. Note that I do take quercetin which is one of the few agents that is necessary to get CQ or HCQ to do its magic, failing which it could not work for Covid. Later strains of Covid became weaker and the vaccine also protected, so I didn't need it for future reinfections.
I don't eat at Wendy's but if I did, I'd stop. I consider Palantir so toxic and harmful that I won't willingly and knowingly patronize any business that uses their services.
Yeah, I don't think it was mentioned when I was diagnosed, but the pharmacist asked about it when I next went to buy some more. That was a very sad day.

I miss being able to take Night Nurse and then sleep like a baby.
I love my Sony XMs. I only ever use the noise cancelling on flights and I don't even use the bluetooth. just plugged and I love them.
Vision Language Models Are In-Context Value Learners
Ability to tell MP3 from the original source was always dependent on encoder quality, bitrate, and the source material. In the mid 2000's, I tried to encode all of my music as MP3. Most of it sounded just fine because pop/rock/alt/etc are busy and "noisy" by design. But some songs (particularly with few instruments, high dynamic range, and female vocals) were just awful no matter how high I cranked the bitrate. And I'm not even an "audiophile," whatever that means these days.

No doubt encoders and the codecs themselves have improved vastly since then. It would be interesting to see if I could tell the difference in a double-blind test today.
Browsers should also come packages with the most popular is libraries like jQuery, bootstrap, vue, d3, etc (not a real list, just off the top of my head)
Kind of off-topic, but one thing that really confuses me about Shannon's biography is the following: according to the authors of "A Mind at Play", Shannon was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1983 [0], and the illness progressed "very quickly". They continue:

> In too-brief moments, the family was given a flash of the Claude they knew. [His daughter] Peggy remembered that she “actually had a conversation with him in 1992 about graduate school programs and what problems I might pursue. And I remember being just amazed how he could cut to the core of the questions I was thinking about, I was like, ‘Wow, even in his compromised state he still has that ability.’”

So in 1992, an actual meaningful conversation with him seemed to be unexpected, and after 9 years of "quickly progressing" Alzheimer's, I would expect him to be in really terribly shape and barely coherent. Yet there is an article about him from 1992 [1], which shows him at age 75, in good shape, still able to juggle and to hold a conversation about his achievements and about information theory:

> “My first thinking about [information theory]," Shannon said, “was how you best improve information transmission over a noisy channel. This was a specific problem, where you're thinking about a telegraph system or a telephone system. But when you get to thinking about that, you begin to generalize in your head about all these broader applications."

[0] https://www.quora.com/How-did-Claude-Shannon-come-to-terms-w...

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/claude-shannon-tinkerer-prankster-...
I totally do, yes.

> Developers who accept a high salary in exchange for contributing to Meta products are effectively working for a modern Tobacco company, and are on the wrong side of history.

This is a great way of putting it.