skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I set it up and placed it on table, I've got "bring your face into view" banner on the top of the screen.

Still, on my 13 Pro it doesn't seem to be following my eyes correctly half way thru the screen - I need to actually look a little bit up away from center of field to get pointer to select anything. I tried setting it up few times and same thing happens over and over. Scrolling seems to be done via the widget - similar to the Assistive Touch one. Unless there's some "eye gesture" I haven't figured out yet.

It's really interesting feature, surely helpful for people with mobility issues but for majority is rather a novelty you can show your friends. The feature I do use quite often is voice control which can be activated without training and it helps when you have busy or dirty hands and you don't want to touch the device
Worked at DocuSign. Even with all the fancy software and tools we had the real world use cases for non-digital tasks was always at odds with it. We built around it but at some point it leaves the digital space with a real person with a real red marker. And maybe a fax machine.
Just read through the motions and pleadings and you get the picture of what is going on https://infowarslawsuit.com/heslin-versus-jones/

They brought a case. They asked for discovery. The Jones team explicitly did not respond to discovery. The court sanctioned for a while, giving Jones more time. Eventually the case was brought to default. Because this is a civil case, that is very reasonable given the extraordinary lengths Jones's team went to avoid actually complying with court orders.
Then the damages hearing was held, where evidence was presented to show that defamation happened. The jury agreed.
The only real issue with this is that people don't like to read, and they would rather listen to Alex Jones's version of the story. This was a defamation case, which everyone has a right to, and Jones repeatedly spat in the face of the process (including destroying evidence).
It is hard to see how this case was handled poorly, and bad vibes alone aren't enough to say it was mishandled. This was a long process that Jones could have handled, but he gambled with his legal strategy and lost.
Seeing ads can still affect you psychologically even if you don't click them.

Also lots of ads prey on people with worse impulse control who bankroll the rest of us who don't click ads. Similar to how casinos are bankrolled by the addicts at the slot machines or many games are bankrolled by the addicts spending all their savings on in game items.

Doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy.

Plus there's something just aesthetically pleasing about an ad-free experience. I started paying for youtube premium to avoid ads and I must say its a much nicer experience.
You explained it perfectly. I’d never lie, if I interviewed someone comparable the process ends immediately internally. But the employee (who is still an amazing employee, exceeds, promotions,
Etc) is not fired
we should eliminate income taxes on wages as well at the federal level.
If you use a VoIP service like Twilio and voip.ms, you can set up a very simple IVR menu that just asks unknown callers to press 1 to be connected to you. No AI involved.

For me, this has been surprisingly effective against robocalls. Obviously this isn’t going to work against scammers who call directly, but most of the spam calls I receive start with some pre-recorded message which isn’t going to pass the menu.

Edit: s/auto/pre
I also think calling them "low-information" is incredibly ethnocentric, to the point of offense. Perhaps they just weight their information differently, especially when they exist at different levels of Maslow's hierarchy? It is hard to be "enlightened" (which probably in and of itself means different things to different folks) when youre hustling for food and rent. Poverty is exhausting; poverty impacts higher cognition.

Meanwhile, the Dems are seen as the party of DEI, which are wayyyyy above base survival needs, accoring to that hierarchy.
If you have a hacker’s soul, an old Kindle, a jailbreak, and a Python installation, anything becomes possible. I’m working on something like that (though I hadn’t thought about markdown!). The Kindle is a particularly fun device once it’s hacked!
Historized attributes: systematic table design
I think the point is that this needs to be made clearer in the official docs from the get go.
And when one of your followers has done the deed throw them under a bus.
Kinda feels like an unfinished project?
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> I can tell you that a lot of the EU hope the same

This is because 99.99% of people in the EU have zero understanding of how heavily reliant they are on American big tech under the hood. Nearly every piece of technology or every running service in the EU relies on it.

I guarantee you most EU citizens don't want YouTube, Google Maps, Google Search, everything running on AWS/Azure/GCP, everything reliant on Intel/Nvidia IP, etc taken away from them.

> blatant lack of antitrust initiatives

The fact of the matter is that the EU model does not work. If we adopted it, we'd be 20 years behind in tech, as evidenced by the sheer stagnation in the EU.

The EU is great at academic research and has absolutely shot itself in the foot when it comes to industrializing any of it in the tech space. Your best engineers and companies often simply move here after they get sick of being underpaid or hamstrung.
Did he actually call for people to make threats or use violence? Did he even imply it?

Do you apply the same standard to public figures who call Trump a fascist or a Nazi? Are they responsible for the person who shot him?
would be real nice to see how postgres does the same thing, compare and take notes
Matt Bencke, former CEO of Mighty AI (bought by Uber in 2019).

He was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

Trigger warning: https://www.wired.com/story/the-day-i-found-out-my-life-was-...
> Allow yourself to find poor execution of agreeable messages distasteful. Allow yourself to enjoy good execution of messages you disagree with.

This makes sense. If you find yourself understanding and judging messages based simply off of their merits then you have failed to insert an arbitrary aesthetic filter into your cognitive process. The wisest sages know to value style over substance
The title of this article made me think that paying down traditional tech debt due to bugs or whatever is straightforward. Software with tech debt and/or bugs that incorporates AI isn’t a straightforward rewrite, but takes ML skills to pay down.
When you reach the point where you are cross checking a comedy website's comedy against itself you might have caught a case of the old.

I remember hearing my dad talk about how SNL isn't as funny as it used to be, too. It happens to the best of us.
Ask HN: How do you explore the web?
It is nearly impossible now to perform any meaningful exploration for the internet on my own these days.

Search engines are full of garbage. All these articles to promote products and optimize SEOs.

My "virtual portal" to the internet is HackerNews and Reddit, Spotify (some podcasts), and Twitter to a lesser extent (something always feel wrong about that platform).
I used to have Newspapers as part of that portal, but not anymore (always depressing, always marketing).

I am curious about how you are exploring the internet? What is you typical daily journey look like? Where do you start?
Curating a list of best black Friday deals for developers and designers
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You know what’s actually obnoxious? spreading nonsense for internet points. This is all public data btw so you can easily go on DOL website and pull those apps with real salaries.

If we are trading anecdotes here I personally dont know any h1bs who are making less than 300k total comp. Hows that for obnoxious?
This reminds me of Cloudflare's focus on the innovator's solution and how they justified competing against giants like AWS and Google. They created a new market focused on startup adoption, based on ease of adoption and more reasonable costs (free egress fees on R2 for example, to reduce data lock-in concerns).

Detailed article from Stratechery here that's worth a read - https://stratechery.com/2021/cloudflares-disruption/
Wasn't it that the Greek govt allowed the NSA in to monitor the Olympics but they overstayed their welcome?
There is nothing like this anywhere else in society.

I wonder why others don't work for free too? Even my 13 year old neighbor expects to get paid for mowing my lawn.

But its not clear it cannot be done.

It's not possible to prove that something can't be done.
In my refactoring I always refer to that as Chesterton's Fence. Never remove something until you know why it was put in in the first place. Plenty of times it's because you were trying to support Python 3.8 or something else obsolete, and a whole lot of the time it's because you thought that the next project was going to be X so you tried to make that easy but X never got done so you have code to nowhere. Then feel free to refactor it, but a lot of the time it's because of good reasons that are NOT obsolete or overtaken by events, and when refactoring you need to be able to tell the difference.

https://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/ has the full cite on the names.
I hear people say this a lot but invariably the tasks end up being "things you shouldnt be doing".

E.g. pointing the AI at your code and getting it to write unit tests or writing more boilerplate, faster.
This is exactly what we're talking about here and you are proving our point.
Yup. He will get to request a role that is a better fit for him.
We also live in the age of architecture. Should everyone who drives over a bridge or work in an office know how those things were constructed and how they are maintained? Should everyone be trained extensively on the infrastructure that gets water to their taps?
It's said explicitly in the second sentence in the usage docs[1].

> Attestations are currently only supported when uploading with Trusted Publishing, and currently only with GitHub-based Trusted Publishers. Support for other Trusted Publishers is planned. See #17001 for additional information.

[1]: https://docs.pypi.org/attestations/producing-attestations/
You need to be self-reflective enough to laugh at your own BS. Monomaniacs spouting out their grievances don't make for the best laughs.
I dont think chatbots like ChatGPT are productive for students at large. There is def an argument for high-performing students who understand how to use chatGPT productively but more importantly low-performing students struggle to get the most out of chatGPT due to bandwidth issues in the classroom. When I talk to teachers about AI in the classroom they prefer their students to stay as far away from chatGPT as they can because building a strong educational foundation with long lasting learning skills should come before using tools like ChatGPT. Once that foundation is there, generative AI tools are way more useful. In the classroom AI should be teacher facing, and not centralize around students and quick answers.
IMO, the quality of the translations has dropped significantly. When they first launched it was noticeably better than almost anything else. Now it's comparable to the alternatives. And I don't think the alternatives got that better, it's DeepL that is not as good anymore.

I still use it for most of the translations I need (mostly English <> German). And sometimes I have to check the translation because it can mess up the actual meaning of the sentence. Sometimes I can catch it with my limited German, sometimes I run it through another translator. And it "hallucinates" often enough, unfortunately.
Scientists discover laser light can cast a shadow
>You could add "I don't care about fixing security vulnerabilities" somewhere in the beginning of the readme

I care about fixing security vulnerabilities in my OS projects, but I care more about my sanity, my family, getting enough money to survive, and a few other things. Unless you pay me I don't care about your problems with my free (as in a beer) software.

And that's a good thing btw - I tried to ask for donations once, got the equivalent of a few cups of coffee per month, and... burned out almost immediately. I started to feel responsible for that project, staying up late to fix reported minor bugs, and it turns out watching Github issues 365 days a year for a few dollars monthly is not a great business strategy.
Advertising is showing you products and services that exist. What you're thinking of is marketing.
Why free public transport doesn't fix traffic (and what does) [video]
"[Thing] that just so coincided with my formative years was the absolute best. it's been downhill ever since" is a tale as old as the hills.
> partially religious appointments from the state religion

There are also, in practice, a number of other religious appointments made to provide other religious groups with representation.

> in addition to those appointed by the elected government.

Those are the most problematic IMO. Businesspeople (because the rich do not have enough influence on politics and cannot get their voice heard?), and former politicians.

I think how it works is nicely summarised by the fact that at least one of the founders of an ecommerce website (lastminute.com) is a peer but no-one like (for example) Tim Berners-Lee is.
Exactly, and I don’t understand the fraud comments because this is exactly how US lawmakers intended the system the work. Easy to come for 3-6 years, hard to stay forever

It would be better if the “replaceable” part was determined on the federal level and not on the team level. That would get rid of all the ghost jobs
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When the internet started it was weird to pay for something ephemeral like certain bits being delivered to you. But totally normal to pay for magazines. I think that early mindset just continued and became the new default. Electronic media just feels weird to pay for for people.
Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of employees, ends open web advocacy, privacy
Internet freedom is fading in the new era of social control
Happens to every new word that becomes popular on the internet.
Maybe appointing Paula Deen as the secretary of health. Show a "food pyramid" that is just multiple pies stacked on top of each other with a side of melted butter to wash it down with, and her vice secretary is a disgraced police officer with over 800 sanctions kitted out in full milspec riot gear whose job it is to beat every child who fails to eat 15 pies a day into submission?
It all feels like their only goal is circumlocutions over the subset of contemporary glyphs they know?

The physical principles remain regardless of how humans write them down.
assuming your eink display would be on the same LAN as some always-on PC...

1. install python
2. make a file named `index.html` somewhere.
2a. put this in the "head" tag, so it'll refresh hourly: `<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3600">`.
3. run `python -m http.server` from the same folder
This will start a single-threaded web server on 8000
4. On another machine on your network verify you can pull up http://firstmachine:8000/.
5. having proven it works, go buy an e-ink display and point it to http://firstmachine:8000/, make it the default homepage.

Voila.

Any time you have anything to say, just edit the `index.html` file and the eink display will update.

No need for fancy subscription services or kickstarter projects or crowdfunding... just... batteries included python.
My NaNoWriMo Was a Train Wreck
I hate shallow confident people.
I remember setting up Lenny and forwarding calls I used to get to him while commuting on the bus early in my career. It was a lot of fun to listen to scammers start to freak out when they realized what was happening.
It really depends on the firm and their existing approach to file storage. In legal, they call this a Document Management System (DMS). Some firms have a loose process, so they use this as a standalone app. Other law firms have 20+ years of files in their DMS, so they use this as an integrated feature.

The DMS providers have a great business and their product is stickier than glue. Fortunately, they are very startup friendly and have built out a whole app store ecosystem so other companies can layer on new capabilities that deepen the value of the DMS and make it even stickier.
Successive new major leaps in technology (concurrent with a dying culture of consumer protection) lead to qualitatively worse advertising experiences.

We're going from skippable ads (cable/DVR) to unskippable ads with surveillance (streaming) to algorithmic output/content that can be influenced by advertising with no transparency or disclosure.
Not in all EU members; in parliamentary republics (as opposed to presidential republics) governments are not typically elected.

That's also the case in the UK.
Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF
If a company is paying $1 to advertise to you, they are making more than $1 from you in profit

You pay for it anyway. The ones that really pay are the ones who think they are immune to the brainwashing of a trillion dollar industry.
I'm highly skeptical they'll step away from this approach once it becomes a core part of their business metrics. With VCs pushing for higher growth, resources and new outside hires will inevitably be directed to fuel it. Eventually, growth through ads will become embedded in their culture.
(We want money)
btw the actual couch used by Marie Antionette is now on display at the San Francisco Legion of Honor.. a very expensive couch! at least a dozen people must have benefited economically from that couch.
If you take that advice in isolation while your Diet is shit, of course it is not applicable.

If you want a little more detailed overview see my previous comments here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42138469
> This is almost certainly untrue. But if it gives you a piece of mind, so be it.

If it is untrue, they'll get slapped in the face with another multi-billion dollar fine, and have to remove the offending models.

> Have you ever done this?

Yes, I do this regularly for backups, and have asked for sketchy orgs I've had to use to delete my data.

> I don't need anyone telling me what types of devices to buy. I prefer competition and can make up my own mind about chargers. Role of the state is not de-cluttering my home.

Do you also prefer competition and to make up your own mind about unsanitary food? Unsafe cars? Unsafe airliners and airlines? Where would you draw the line of what is acceptable role of the state?

> I'd prefer Google Maps and free 2 day shipping to these

Google Maps is still there. I have free 1 day, and sometimes same day shipping with Amazon in France, so idk what you're referring to.
Read the paper, and did not see evidence presented of there being a _crisis_. Certainly, commercial companies not contributing back is a _problem_, but what is it that's about to collapse?

PS - Writing this from the perspective a FOSS developer and maintainer who feels under-appreciated and is not compensated for maintenance work of (in my biased opinion) somewhat-important code.
Then you should never work on software with security implications, or if you do you should keep it to yourself. I’m a terrible party host, so I don’t host parties. I help other people do so when I can.
Or maybe, devs could move from Company A to Company B that would pay them more money. What a terrible world that would be to live in.

Or companies in, say, SF could let people work remotely from Pittsburgh.
Firmware SBoMs for open source projects
That's a rude, tactless thing to say. People in many fields simply don't need more than a cursory knowledge of computers.

For example, I was talking about veterinarians. They need to type records into a web browser, but that's about it.

Veterinarians spend their time learning about things far more valuable to them. For example, which painkillers are safe to use on a cat recovering from surgery, or how to precisely drill into a dog's spinal cord to remove a fluid buildup that's robbed it of the ability to walk, or how to stabilize a dying animal in the emergency room.

These are the least "dumb" people imaginable. They do not need "upskilling" - they went to four years of medical school. They have more important things to do than figure out computer arcana.
Jones isn't in it for the money.
M4 is Apple's weakest CPU.
> Given the findings, [...] clinicians need to inform patients [...] after a heart attack, says Rowe. This should also be considered at the hospital, where tests and procedures would ideally be conducted during the daytime to minimize sleep interruptions.

#1 - For most patients, it ain't merely "tests and procedures" which interfere with sleeping in a hospital at night.

#2 - After a major injury, it ain't just nighttime when you need to sleep. Again, most hospitals seem determined to make that as difficult as they possibly can.
Single_file_libs: Single-file C and C++ public domain libraries
we crowdfunded one this summer and now we ship same-day. :)
https://usetrmnl.com
Have you tried RAG on Open WebUI. How does it do in asking questions from source docs?
Wouldn't surprise me if the outcome would have been exactly the same if instead of LLM's this was tried with a random selection of human beings :-)
If you don't actually need colocation for your side project, looks like you could buy an i7-11700k, 64 GB of DDR4, a motherboard, and a 512 GB NVMe drive for ~$430. That's looking at new parts on amazon. You might be able to do better with e.g. ebay.
Typical OSS is a luxury belief.

If it's not supporting a business it typically fails and is being supported by businesses as a proxy.

The core issue is that maintainers have a luxury belief counter to this. OSS is a strategy/tool for companies.

The only exception to that is fundamental software that creates entirely new markets that can sustain it like bitcoin.

That being said there is no crisis, sustainably supported OSS will continue to thrive.
That is an interesting question. Doing it without losing the load seems challenging but could work if you're basically pummeling an area with raw ore then subsequently mining and refining it? I wonder what the atmospheric consequences would be?
I actually kind of liked Joe Rogan (from the little I saw of him interviewing scientists and other ‘intellectuals’), but the more I think about it and learn the more I realise he’s just a moron.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make but thankfully, given that they obviously can't be trusted to maintain security-critical software (despite what they imply on their website and marketing material), I haven't downloaded or used it or recommended it anywhere while consulting.
The presence of ads always degrades whatever they're attached to and are a visible indicator that you're being tracked.

But, even worse than that, when a company becomes dependent on ad revenue, then that company will always, sooner or later, start prioritizing the interests of ad companies over those of their users.

These are the reasons why I shy away from ad-supported products and services if at all possible. I prefer to use products and services that are optimized for users rather than advertisers.