skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ass kissing paragraph that launched Andrej Karpathy's career. One day I hope to have a chance to email a billionaire and get hired as a director like this.

>The most promising option I can think of, as I mentioned earlier, would be for OpenAI to attach to Tesla as its cash cow. I believe attachments to other large suspects (e.g. Apple? Amazon?) would fail due to an incompatible company DNA. Using a rocket analogy, Tesla already built the "first stage" of the rocket with the whole supply chain of Model 3 and its onboard computer and a persistent internet connection. The "second stage" would be a full self driving solution based on large-scale neural network training, which OpenAI expertise could significantly help accelerate. With a functioning full self-driving solution in ~2-3 years we could sell a lot of cars/trucks. If we do this really well, the transportation industry is large enough that we could increase Tesla's market cap to high O(~100K), and use that revenue to fund the AI work at the appropriate scale.

>I cannot see anything else that has the potential to reach sustainable Google-scale capital within a decade.
Looks like Dagger has a Rust SDK [0]! Going to give it a try.

[0] https://github.com/dagger/dagger/tree/main/sdk/rust
Are you trying to say that wearing gloves is a bad thing? Because while yes, you can get used to cold hands if you have good circulation, there is a point where you cannot function without gloves. If the temp is -20F with 20mph winds, you are not going to be functional in bare hands. Although sure, if you are talking about +20F with little wind, some people can work in mild cold like that all day.
> Need an example image? Try ours.
Great idea, I wish more services would have similar feature
This entire conversation breaks HN guidelines about meta/moderation.. but if anything, I believe that some recent Bsky posts have been getting kicked down the rankings by mods, a bit.
> You can redirect your old profile to the new one in another instance, or permanently move it keeping your follows and followers

But you lose all the posts and interactions. Most importantly, you are not keeping your identity, but merely creating a new account with a copy of your follower/following collections.

> No one there wants to hold your information hostage,

Tell that to a friend of mine who got banned from their instance for committing the crime of being an Ethereum developer. The admin suspended his account and didn't let him go back or initiate the migration process.
OLED has had lower peak brightness than IPS. It may not be perceptually so because of no-backlight absolute blacks and higher contrast, but the difference starts to matter in broad daylight where OLED may not be bright enough, irrespective of matte vs glossy.
Hows the build quality with framework laptops? I fear that making it so modular might have required engineering tradeoffs with regard to build quality and endurance.
I uploaded a multi-page PDF and it did not know what to do. This is before I went to the github repo and noticed that it wasn't supported. I think the tool should let the user know when they upload a file that is not supported.
> Those of you how know me, know that I am not a big fan of the X86
architecture, which I think is a bad mess, mangled by market power
considerations, rather than the CPU architecture this world actually
needs, in particular in terms of performance/energy ratio.

Meanwhile, ARM is a complete disaster, a mess and mangled by profit considerations when looking at the complete lack of platform standardisation and issues around compatibility. Issues which require significant engineering effort to bring a single ARM device in line with any random x86-based device that came out this year.
"The weirdest part of this narrative for me is how the supporters say he wont do what he promises and the detractors fear he will. I don't know enough history to know if that is common but it sure feels backwards to me."

That's pretty common on all highly polarized topics. Happens all the time with stuff like democrat candidates and firearms seizures - supporters walking it back and detractors believing ever word.
It was supposed to be automatic! Shaker and stirred or whatever.
I mean sure, logging metadata is better than nothing. But that’s akin to saying you don’t need a car because your feet have never failed you at crossing distances. Yes, you need to learn driving first, and that can seem hard at the beginning, but I doubt you’d want to go back to walking after.

To each their own, but I wholeheartedly recommend learning about debuggers. It should be one of the core tools of every software engineer.
Pro Tip: Do NOT wear your nice gold jewelry at the beach, nor swimming, nor ...
China pledged to stop funding coal plants in Africa a few years ago. More recently the seem to be aiming to fund green energy transitions abroad.
> X is paying lots now to content creators

Sure, but most of that seems to be to engagement farmers who provide little to no value to actual humans.

> And it seems their advertisers are coming back.

Anything to back up this claim?
Study confirms Egyptians drank hallucinogenic cocktails in ancient rituals
Netflix is trying to expand into live sports. This event wasn’t a one off thing. There is an NFL game they are streaming at the end of the year.
I have done all that, so IMO GP is really not trivialising anything. This is about the same we've been hearing for years.

If you want to know the effect of those "fixes" on the wrong person, re-read my big text. I've done it all. The "fix" only makes me sleepy early enough for the first or second night of a roughly weekly cycle. It also means a night with enough hours but not enough quality of sleep.

> Most of these practices are zero-cost and risk-free

They are really not. I went through a lot of issues for trying them. I nearly lost a job once, and I have missed social gatherings as I had to recover sleep in the weekend.

Moreover, where I live now, I don't have the option of morning sunlight for a few months each year as there is none. In fact, there are whole days with so much grey and darkness that my body basically thinks it's always time to sleep so not easily adjustable either.
1000 is an over exaggeration, but it is not just 2 standards.

xls morphed with every version of Microsoft Excel. MS Excel has pretty good backwards compatibility, but making an xls parser is notoriously hard because of the many differences between versions.
The only animal that really does it properly is the salamander and I guess our family trees diverged before they figured that out?

Still scientists are working on it - they've done frogs https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/can-humans-regr...
Coal mines also leak methane.
Is there a line windows could cross that would make you change your mind? And stop calling me a hyperbolic ignorant hypocrite for drawing the line at candy crush and ads.
A specific sale was blocked on antitrust grounds. The proposed sale to Frontier would likely not have been, but the shareholders blocked it. A sale to, like, something other than an airline would certainly not be blocked.
Visions of Nuclear-Powered Cars Captivated Cold War America, Tech Never Worked
> What is the point except morbid humor?

It'll be part of the time-spent-eating calculation, I expect.

Edit: I think I found the direct quote among a trio from a Goodreads review, which gives more context [0]:

> To get a rough idea of whether the flying squirrel’s nest indeed affords much insulation, I heated a potato to simulate the body of a squirrel and examined its cooling rates.

> I do not know how many seeds a chipmunk usually packs into each of its two pouches—I easily inserted sixty black sunflower seeds through the mouth into just one pouch of a roadkill.

> Some years ago, I took on the brave, or foolish, task of measuring hornets’ body temperatures, grabbing and stabbing them with an electronic thermometer as they left their nests.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19954417
I'm not really making any judgements on their moderation, just stating that it's a certainty that every angle is true. Big world.

Some posts are genuine, some are fake. Some of the grass is real, some is astroturf. This isn't the first campaign, it's stupid to debate.

To close on a more positive note, we are the most-effective moderators
FWIW, $7/month is a figure for running a whole server just for your domain. Mastodon absolutely sucks for single-user instances. I offer Takahe hosting for $39/year if you want to use your own domain, or Mastodon + Matrix + Funkwhale + Lemmy for $29/year if you just want an account on the communick servers.
macOS Sequoia and smart cards status
Conversely lots of contents is produced on/for less-than-stellar displays and gamma+color-profiles-be-damned overcompensate with more saturated colours at the data level because it's going to show up toned down.

When a display is actually able to put out the colours it then looks gaudily oversaturated. I've had such problems already with non-OLED "somewhat† calibrated" good quality screens as well.

† I mean I did not calibrate them, they were factory calibrated with a good enough test curve slip in the package.
I'd be interested in a Lenovo X1 Nano based on ARM.

The existing Nano is already less than one kilogram (between 700 and 800 grams), so small, thin and light. With additional battery life due to a low-energy CPU, this could be a great machine for the road, especially for management.
Show HN: Atten – Is Attention Really All Thats Needed?
It’s no secret that social media companies strive to maximize time spent in their apps—in other words, how much attention we give them. Whether it’s the infinite scroll or endless notifications, these platforms are built to keep us engaged, often at the expense of our focus, productivity, and well-being.

That’s where *Atten* comes in. It’s a free screen time control app designed to help you reclaim your attention. It’s simple but intentional, offering features to help you limit app usage, schedule focus sessions, and stay mindful of your screen habits. It’s like a “nutrition label” for your phone—helping you be more aware of what you’re consuming and when to stop.

I’ve always been curious about how people defend themselves against these attention-grabbing algorithms. Do you have systems in place to protect your time and mental energy? Do you rely on self-discipline, or do you use screen-time control apps like Atten, AppBlock, Jomo, Opal, or something else?

But here’s a bigger question I’d love your input on:
If we all agree you shouldn’t go grocery shopping on an empty stomach, should using tools like Atten become a hard-and-fast rule for our devices? In a world where attention is commoditized, could having these apps enabled by default be as essential as locking your doors at night?

I’d love to hear your thoughts:
* Do you find these apps genuinely helpful?
* What strategies do you use to avoid falling prey to social media algorithms?
* Should screen time control tools be a standard part of our digital lives, or do they just address the symptoms of a bigger problem?

Let me know what you think! P.S. If you’re curious, you can check out Atten here: https://apple.co/4dZIfKa (Free Lifetime Access Promo For This Month)
It's called Flycast and it's very good.
"Douglas Engelbart first introduced the mouse in ‘68"

Yes, I know, but Rollkugel.
The article’s tone is absolutely laughable:

> If you have one of the recalled batches, the FDA advises not to eat it under any circumstances. Instead, throw it out to avoid any health risks.

Was this AI generated?
What conditioning? I've always heard it described as the "least bad" form of government. It definitely beats having a communist dictatorship though.
PermitFlow (YC W22) is hiring senior/staff engineers in NYC
If that was the plan from the start I'd expect them to be more careful about dependences on reference counting and implicit allocations. It's more optimized than ObjC, but still has things like loops that iterate over a logical copy.

I take their old statements about replacing C and C++ as the same aspiration that Golang had to be a systems programming language.
I just bought a much older Acer c7 Chromebook (intel silicon) to install native Linux as an experiment, it's been fun. I wonder do the modern ones allow this or are they more locked down? I'd love to have an ARM based Linux machine without remortgaging my house
> the subject matter borders on pseudoscience

The subject matter being "fundamental worldviews"? How is that pseudoscience?
I assume the misconception is because EVs are massively heavier if they had comparable range, as the reason is the poor energy density of batteries. If an EV had the same range as the ICE then it would be massively heavier, but with significantly reduced range it is only slightly heavier.
Micromelo Undatus
There was also a console, the FM towns Marty
> Wouldn't this just be bribing Elon?

Indeed. I mean, it’s a Trump presidency; not sure what else you’d expect.
My thoughts are similar. I don’t think it’s a troll, this type of thing is very common.

You don’t have to engage or understand a topic if you can intellectualize it and create “theories” about it.

It’s like when you read blog posts on dating filled with game theory and statistics.

I would have liked to see the author try to spend a year or more trying to earnestly adopt an opposing worldview. Not to try to model another worldview from within their own, but to know what it’s like to be another way.

That would have been more interesting.
I read an interesting article recently about Thiel's, Musk's and Sacks' common career paths, views and ambitions.

One point that stuck out for me was how all three of them had spent a significant part of their childhood in Apartheid-era South Africa, as part of the white ruling class (so learned of Apartheid as a good thing or even had family that belonged to the ruling class). This is well-known for Musk, but I think less so for Thiel and Sacks.

Seems to me that gives their ultra-libertarian, "anti-woke", pro-inequality views another context.

The article is in German, at https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000243890/tech-investor...
Sometimes the jokes write themselves
I think that's harsh. He's right, and well ahead of his time.
In no particular order:

Unhedged

The Rest is Politics

Witness History (BBC)

The Rachman Review

Late Night Linux

The Foreign Desk (Monocle)

Behind the Lines with Arthur Snell

[edit : reformat]
Me personally:

- do my best to avoid chat stuff like Slack, yes even to ping someone before calling, it's more disturbing than useful. Mails are the way to go, much more structured so well searchable and reconstructable as needed, when needed. Doing so force people to communicate a bit more properly in written form instead of wasting time;

- a home office, meaning a room, with relevant environment (low noise, etc) to been able to talk out loud not having to wear headsets and alike, I do not care much if it's a VoIP phone classic call or something else, simply the point is being hands-free all the time, with good enough mic I can move a bit keep talking issueless;

- trying to keep a wiki, which is a VERY HARD task because when you start it's empty so there is no point in going there and after some times many pages became a bit or totally outdated and there is no easy way to bind them to what they document so to get "automatic alerts of not anymore current pages"... It's still useful because it's the sole document culture vs oral tradition enabler that most people know enough to casually use.

Aside an INTERNAL CRM-alike might be of help to being able to get some infos about a contact calling you every time he/she call (including personal stuff like birthdays who help socially).

Doing more often does not work. Most non-tech people still refuse the idea of tickets and tasks to be established/picked, assignments and reassignments rules etc try to push them outside very specific technical landscape in general is worse than giving up on them. Seriously.

That last paragraph is the biggest issue IMVHO: most tools we have are simply rigid and annoying, so most people use them badly nullifying any potentially positive outcome. To be short: more free text, more comms, less rules works regularly better, if you still manage to avoid exaggerations.

Onboarding is the hardest part: if normally docs are bad in general those to "get start with us" are the worse, essentially nonexistent or if present totally useless. In the end even in IT most people do not know how to work with IT tools and paradigm, and tend to be unwilling to learn.
Some of Substack's Biggest Newsletters Rely on AI Writing Tools
Well it makes sense
A good reminder, that I should never post something, when I'm in bad mood. Maybe I just wanted to misunderstand, I don't know. Anyways I apologise my too aggressive words and my implications. Thanks to the commenters to point that out.
Splitting the file doesn’t need to be part of the file format itself. I could split a file into N parts, then concatenate the parts together at a later time, regardless of what is actually in the file.

The OP was saying that zip files can specify their own special type of splitting, done within the format itself, rather than operating on the raw bytes of a saved file.
So if this UI-effect renders on the touchscreen under your finger, then who will see it?
Not the strangest thing ancient Egyptians did, not by a long shot.
You can also float solar PV on the reservoirs, re-using the grid connections with extreme complementarity (since you want to hold the hydro power back when the solar is producing).
Exploring Deno: Is It Time to Ditch Node.js?
No, I used the regular Claude which can also (somewhat) do this and uses the same image processing backend as "computer use" as far as I know (source: Antropic CEO interview with Lex Friedman recently).

Computer use is also not very good at it (often mis-clicking for example).

I'm guessing this will work flawlessly within 6 months to a year or so, but it doesn't seem ready yet.
Slightly related, time travel has implications for the computation complexity: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0309189, https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/ctc.pdf.
That's one possibility.

Rumours have been in abundance since GPT-4 came out due to on the lack of clarity, but that lack of clarity seems to also exist within the companies themselves.

OpenAI and Anthropic certainly seem up be doing a lot of product stuff, but at the same time the only reason people have for saying OpenAI not making a profit is all the money they're also spending on training new models — I've yet to use o1, it's still in beta and is only 2 months old (how long was gmail in "beta", 5 years?)

I also don't know how much self-training they do, training on signals from the model's output and how users rate that output, only that (1) it's more then none, that (2) some models like Phi-3 use at least some synthetic data[0], and (3) that making a model to predict how users will rate the output was one of the previous big breakthroughs.

If they were to train on almost all their own output, and estimaing API costs as approximately actual costs, and given the claimed[1] public financial statements, that's in the order of a quadrillion (1e15) tokens, compared to the mere ~1e13 claimed for some of the larger models.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14219

[1] I've not found the official sources nor do I know where to look for them, all I see are news websites reporting on the numbers without giving citations I can chase up
> We -have- to have strict labeling rules around allergens and destroy products that don't comply

No, this is absurd. We don’t have to destroy products that can otherwise be put to good use. The minuscule number of people who are simultaneously deathly allergic to milk and unaware that cream is milk would be just as well served by a recall that said to destroy the product if you have a milk allergy.

This is a black eye on the FDA, and at a time we can least afford the agency to have one. They should have worked out another solution with Costco.
Why do scanners need to look inside compressed archives at all? If the malicious file is extracted, it can be detected then. If it’s not extracted and instead used directly from the archive, then the offending code that executes malicious payloads from inside archives should be detectable?
Is that the role of AutoIt in this scenario?
For me Mastodon misses some common workflows I have. When I find someone interesting I like to easily see who they follow with bios and then I may follow some of those. In Twitter and Bluesky this is pretty easy, in Mastodon it's hard and has a lot of friction points.
Qcom elite uses per-cluster DVFS, with cores in a cluster share the same freq
I recently purchased a Xiaomi 15 Pro, which features two clusters (6 E-Cores + 2 P-Cores) with all cores in the same cluster operating at the same frequency.

In contrast, Apple has supported per-CPU DVFS since the M1, allowing each core to run at different frequencies and providing greater flexibility. BTW, Linux also supports this: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221024043925.25379-5-marcan@marcan.st/

> This driver implements CPU frequency scaling for Apple Silicon SoCs,
including M1 (t8103), M1 Max/Pro/Ultra (t600x), and M2 (t8112).

> Each CPU cluster has its own register set, and frequency management is
fully automated by the hardware; the driver only has to write one
register. There is boost frequency support, but the hardware will only
allow their use if only a subset of cores in a cluster are in
non-deep-idle. Since we don't support deep idle yet, these frequencies
are not achievable, but the driver supports them. They will remain
disabled in the device tree until deep idle is implemented, to avoid
confusing users.

Question:
What’s the trade-off: PPA, R&D costs, or something else?
Ah thanks, I thought it was a figure of speech or something :')
Largely depends on your customer demographic of course. One in 10 people worldwide even touch crypto right now (2024) and most of them in Asia.

The rest of most people's customers use good old regular currency.

And as for horror stories, crypto has to take the prize there.
I’m not saying track calories specifically, it’s just very enlightening to look at everything you ate over the course of a day, a week, a month.
It's open source? Where is the code? There is no link.
Show HN: BabyGenerator – AI-Powered Baby Face Preview
Hi everyone! I've developed BabyGenerator (https://babygenerator.online/), a web tool that uses AI technology to help expectant parents visualize what their future baby might look like.

The idea came from my personal experience when my wife and I were expecting our first child. We were always wondering who our baby would look like, so I decided to create a tool to help expectant parents visualize this.

How it works:
1. Upload photos of both parents
2. Analyze facial features
3. Generate multiple possible combinations using AI
4. Provide previews of the child at different ages

A free trial is available for users to experience the service. All processing is done server-side with strict data handling protocols (images are deleted after processing) to ensure user privacy.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and suggestions for improvement. What features would you like to see added?

Note: This is an experimental tool for entertainment purposes and should not be taken as scientific prediction.