skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spectrum used to have a monopoly in my area, so I was stuck with their 15mbps speeds and constant outages. When Google Fiber became available here, I immediately subscribed to it (it was significantly cheaper for gigabit speeds).

As soon as the fiber was set up, I called Spectrum to cancel my account, and after being bounced around between a couple support people, I was finally transferred to retention where I could have my account properly closed. Except instead of a person, I got a machine telling me that the department was closed for the day, and I should call back Monday (this wasn't even late on a weekend, it was midday Friday).

I called back to ask what was wrong and why I was transferred to an empty department, and the support rep told me the last rep should have known and shouldn't have transferred me there, but I would indeed need to wait until Monday. Fine.

Monday I call back, get through the layers of reps, and am finally told that they're having an internal outage and won't be able to cancel my account, but they assured me that if I incur any additional charges on my bill because of the delay, they'll be happy to remove them.

I don't know how long this "outage" is going to last, so I wait a couple days and call back again, very quickly get transferred to where I need to be, and with no pushback or excuses whatsoever get told my account is now cancelled and my bill is all settled up, and to have a good day. Great. I cancel the virtual credit card I used to pay them, since I no longer need it.

A month later I get a text from Spectrum telling me they aren't able to bill me, and my service will be interrupted if I don't pay this new bill. I call and support tells me that my account is cancelled, I owe nothing, and to ignore the text. I do make some efforts to verify that the text is actually from Spectrum, and it does seem to be. No indications of a spammer impersonating Spectrum.

The next month it happens again, and this time when I call I'm told my account is not cancelled and my service has been suspended because I now owe a couple months of payment plus late fees, and they won't be able to cancel my account until I pay those. They have no record of me cancelling my account, and unfortunately the manager who has the authority to waive the late fees is out today. I'm offered the opportunity to pay the full amount of bogus charges, and wished a good day when I decline.

Every month since then they've texted me to let me know that another payment for the month hasn't gone through. Lately the texts have started saying that they will be sent to collections. Part of me hopes they take me to court over it.

I think if you asked Spectrum, they would tell you that I'm still a customer of theirs, and that I'm sticking with them because of their excellent customer service.
Zeta.js is such an impressive JavaScript library. I'm blown away. The examples where you can load a document in less than ten lines, amazing. Then, change colors of all cells in less than ten lines, amazing.

I'm also blown away that there is a gulp file in the repository. That's a blast from the past.
> The "small" benefits you list are in fact unprecedented and periodically improving (in my experience).

It's only the mechanism that's unprecedented, cementing these new approaches as a state of the art evolution for code completion, automatic summarizing/transcription/translation, image analysis, music generation, etc -- all of which were already commercialized and making regular forward strides for a long while already. You may not have been aware of the state of all those things before, but that doesn't make them unprecedented.

We actually haven't seen many radical or unprecedented acheivements at commercial scale at all yet, with reliability proving to be the the biggest impediment to commercializing anything that can't rely on immediate human supervision.

Even if we get stuck here, where human engagement remains needed, there's a lot of of fun engineering to do and a number of industries we can expect to see reconfigured. So it's not nothing. But there's really no evidence towards revolution or catastrophe just yet.
> Cruise had an accident where another vehicle knocked a pedestrian into a Cruise car, and the pedestrian was dragged. Cruise lost their California DMV autonomous license for that

Cruise didn't lose the license because the car and/or human operator accidentally dragged a pedestrian (similar to the NYPD Truck). They lost their license because some time after the accident, Cruise employees fully aware of what transpired chose to cover up that part in their report of the accident to the state regulators. The state regulators found it out anyway.
There was a time not long ago when smart people would write blog posts about the topics of the day, other smart people would reply, and a big bustling conversation would ensue. It was aggregated in places like Techmeme and Technorati.

It's nice to see a little bit of that is still alive.
The real argument for using stenotype keyboards for coding is not typing speed, it's avoiding RSI. On a stenotype keyboard you "type" chords by pushing down with your arms, not your fingers - it's a bit like playing an organ, or a synth keyboard. You don't hear about many organists getting RSI (though some piano players do). The fingers also just move a lot less, much of the "moving" to different keys is also done with the arm muscles.

I agree w/ others in this thread about the underlying challenges for using a steno keyboard for coding. You basically need to pick a custom chord for every program identifier, keyword or symbol, and somehow make those chords memorable. Perhaps a custom IDE featureset can help, leveraging the LSP or tree-sitter parsers?
The AI PC marketing campaign as of now is not good. What exactly is an AI PC?

Many consumers are still uneasy with some AI use and just tagging this label onto a laptop doenst look to be increasing mindshare or moving units.
My Lenovo Legion 5i. It freezes while playing CS2 and takes up 15 minutes to wake from sleep. It's literally a regret.

My Macbook Air M2 is the exact opposite of that. Best purchase of the past few years, without a doubt.
> Even unbleached white flour naturally has a decent micro-nutrient profile of vitamins

That doesn't match my experience, at least in the US. Per 1/4 cup:

KA organic unbleached white flour - 0 vitamins or minerals

Arrowhead Mills organic unbleached white flour - 5 mg calcium, 36 mg potassium

Bob's Redmill organic unbleached white flour - 7 mg calcium, 41 mg potassium

Caputo 00 - 9 mg calcium, 0.2 mg iron, 48 mg potassium

These levels aren't remotely close to decent.
> Why would anyone want to watch anything gen AI other than a one off curiosity?

Case in point. We've heard this statement so many times. Just substitute "gen AI" for "the Internet", "video games", "radio", etc...

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1c75mic/...
I don't switch my ISP because of their excellent customer service, instead I keep them because I have no idea how good their customer service is. When you need to know how good a company's customer service is that means the company has already failed at some level in the delivery.
Bypassing a level of indirection: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-024-00788-w
>The AVERAGE person still does not even know what ChatGPT is.

Who is "the average person" here ?

How unknown do you think the site that got over 3.7B visits (#8 in internet worldwide traffic) last month is ?

The idea that chatgpt is this unknown thing doesn't hold up to any scrutiny at all.
Right, but the breathless technobabble about the future of our AI-driven world crowds out actual consideration of these important topics.
Yale Real Living electronic locks have been great for me down to -30ish F. I’ve never used any of the wireless smarthome bits tho - just standalone locks.
Harry Potter: The book that taught me Polish
I've never found anyone telling me their opinions to be infectious - I can't even imagine using that word to describe a podcast tbh. Its a form of media I've never understood - they script the podcasts, they all kno the conversation ahead of time and just go thru the motions via voice with strangers that can either agree or disagree - only the extremes will ever interact with the podcasters, it's just so fake I can't even do it.

Infectious energy. Interesting.
Yep, df gonna run this rando script with such a detailed and inspiring README...

(in all seriousness folks, if you're gonna show HN, spend some time on your README, docs, etc).
You can make bread at home.
If you want to buy a bushel of apples and hit them with an array of objects at varying velocities and then try to construct a model that can use the resulting splatter patterns to infer the texture of the apple as experienced by humans, you're welcome to do so.

Personally, I'm going to bite the apple.
Just like nuclear fusion, right? "When" will always be some time after the next fundraising round.
Apologies, I meant my argument against US slavery being the worst. As you say, the common framing is usually a willingness to believe any framing that can support the US being the villains. I truly don't get it.
Personally I have gone max 5 level deep. It worked reasonably well with agressive break condition checking in my specific case.

How deep people have actually written useful nested loops?
PR Puppet Sora
> There is another level to AI and how we fundamentally structure them that nobody is doing yet to my knowledge

And that is...?
Ping is one of the oldest players in the business, they were founded in 2002 and had one of the earliest identity PaaS in the market (at least as far back as 2012). Haven't used their products much though.
Irregular sleep patterns may raise risk of heart disease (2020)
Congratulations on launch! We’ve faced this problem with our autonomous web browsing agent https://www.donobu.com and ended up implementing a css overlay to wait for user input in certain cases.
Slack would be so much better. Excited to try humanlayer out.
Dear Corporate AI Overlords
I don't think this is entirely true. Have you seen these "Internet Story told by TTS Voice-over a Minecraft parkour Video" ( which are what my niblings watching ) ? I noticed a lot of the story is dragged on for over minutes. These are the stories that I read in text in about 5 second.

Short form videos are often hyper focus and to the point, but there are a lot of vertical video contents that are just ( to use the GenZ term ) brain rot like these as well.
As an adult paying for your ISP service: you have some responsibility here. Whether you want that responsibility or not.
The younger generation has had their brain's development hacked by corporate advertising and can't help themselves but prefer the content they have been all but brainwashed to prefer - this was done deliberately and intentionally and obviously to much detriment to the young of today.

Nobody cares tho bc "they can't pay attention" like it's somehow an entire generation's individual faults they are like that...

Clearly a societal failure there.
> I would argue that nothing would really fundamentally change.

I argue that there would be a huge collective sigh of relief from a large number of people. Not everybody, maybe not even a majority, but a large number nonetheless.

So I think it has changed society -- but perhaps not for the better overall.
When industrial food producers decided their priorities are making stuff extremely cheap that appeals to our more addictive side so they can make as much money as possible, without any regard for our health, this is quite obviously going to create a problem.
I get 1gbps up/down for ~$74/month. So Starlink is 1.7x for much less speed.

The only way Starlink looks attractive to me is if living off the grid and its the only option. By the time I'm no longer paying for utilities, the increased for less performance will not be as expensive. That's not happening any time soon
Here you go: https://imgur.com/M3xoe2c

My opinions:

The amount of "processing" or "chemicals" is a red herring and it really comes down to prepared meals and snacks that have been engineered to make people want to eat more of them. We've gotten so good at this that it seems to override the natural hunger/satiety system which causes people to gain weight.

I eat a mostly vegetarian diet with lots of protein, massive amounts of sugar in the form of fresh fruit, and lots of whole grains.
It doesn't make him a villain, but it does make me question his critical reasoning, and is very disappointing.
How do you end up with 200 yaml file “basic deployments” without anyone looking up from their keyboard and muttering “guys what are we doing”?

Honestly they could have picked any stack as next one because the key win here was starting from scratch
https://blog.lewislovelock.com/turning-an-5k-imac-into-a-mon...

You can convert them to monitors, if you want.
Huh. How long until GenAi Can create 3D printable files?
Related:

D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bug too dangerous to identify

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42201639
That's old world stuff - I've never sent a thank you card and have lost no sleep bc of it.
The (Super)Fan Economy
I have non-stop imaginary conversation. I think this might be backwards, you feel less the need to talk to real people if you're always talking to fake people IMO.
You can really confuse it with the photography terms it was trained on https://imgur.com/a/Rr9K2dV
The README should be better but the script is like 100 lines or so.

The main issue I'm finding is that `find` seems extremely slow at deleting things.
you are on HN so this makes sense to you. imagine your car was hacked while driving your family in the middle of the desert and bricked. as an adult that bought the car is this your responsibility that you endangered your family’s well-being?
That's weird, the link to wral.com now redirects to 404 page.
If you'd be happier without the companies involved in stories commenting here, then by all means get more people to write comments like this and see if you can chase them away. I think you won't have so much luck with me, but it might work with other companies. Nobody is gaslighting you.
As far as I'm aware the "self-service" version of it on their website is in the past year. I think you're right that it's been possible over the phone for a long time though.
100% agree. Abbott should be held to account for this forever. The plan wasn't perfect, but the way they messed it up for purely political point-scoring (and keeping Murdoch happy) was criminal.
> Brain’s complaint contained allegations of wrongdoing... regarding repurposing the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program meeting space to accommodate a new hire.. “What came back was a sickening nuclear bomb of retaliation the likes of which could not be believed”

"Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law
Anyone with more cash than sense, which is a lot of people. Every business I've worked for hooked up a credit card to AWS and never asked questions, until millions of wasted dollars later. Gotta love daddy corps with billions in reserve, and VC money that pours in like rain. I've been rebuffed multiple times trying to get them to buy SPs and RIs.
North Korea has elections too!
with ultra processed flour and pressed seed oils :)
Some people do care about the plants though, such as Jainism. If you draw the line at plants - that's fine, but some others do not and are wondering why you arbitrarily drew that line where you did. Sure some may be joking around but its still a legit concern for some.
how about this: you can only abandon hardware if you enable open firmware on it.
Very much agree with your attitude here. What happens is that nice to have features like email reset/email magic login/social logins/etc accumulate and you don't want to be on the hook for implementing them all yourself, especially with other priorities. Ofc there are open solutions for most of these in most popular languages, but I've found even those take non-trivial amounts of time to setup right and test, and often aren't exactly what you want, or have unnecessary complexity.
Isn't zsh the current #!/bin/sh on MacOS?

Why is this written for bash, which isn't getting recent changes?
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Yup - in NZ the infrastrucutre and the provider were separated as part of the nation-wide fibre-to-the-door rollout.

I switched provider the other week, after the old one discontinued a discount. All I had to do was sign up with the new provider and provide the connection number. They organised everything else and my old provider _refunded_ me for part of an unused pro-rata month.

Suspicously easy.
You'd be happier with a comment saying "there will be no future outages", I see.
Previous submission link is dead, too. After two days.
Wow what a creative way to visualize the concept.

I think curves make it tricky to maintain objective perception, but the layout contributes significantly to the idea that internal latency is a different order from external.
Seconds - that's all the time I give something. If it looks draggy I will skip ahead to like halfway thru the video and if the person isn't in the middle of explaining something that they have clearly spent half the time extrapolating, that's it. They get no more time.

I often turn on subtitles and watch at 2x speed.

I prefer the transcript 100% of the time to video.
It does contain a bit of a false-dilemma though: It asserts that the only "real" form of god involves a specific flavor of Christian evangelical prayer-interventionist deity, and that the only other option is (B) no god(s) exist at all.

I'm very much in favor of showing how silly or self-contradictory (A) is, but it is fundamentally unsound to jump from that to asserting (B) is true.
There is competition in my area and it is way faster, and I did switch

But the competition isn't great either, so I get why people don't.

The modem/router the other company uses (can't use my own modem) is terrible and their support had no idea what I was talking about when I pointed to the DHCP table full of random shit that it wasn't freeing up, and logs full of DNS errors. And the wifi access points they provided were terrible too (free, but terrible). Eventually I worked around that by just adding my own router in the mix with a (internal 192.168) static IP, cut their DNS out of my router's list of DNS, and used my own wifi access points (which I had from Comcast days).

After my third support call I got a tech who provided instructions on putting their router/modem combo into bridge mode, but I'm hesitant to actually go through with that because I have no confidence their support can unwind me if anything goes wrong.

Like sibling points out, Comcast does offer faster download speed due to the competition. Still not as fast, but w/e.
Nothing prevents explicit error handling in Python either. Forcing explicit error handling just creates verbosity since no system can functionally prevent you from ignoring errors.
most definitely not. sugar doesn’t even make top-10 list
> Typically you don't mix sugar with meat.

You're joking right? There's tons of meat dishes with fruit sauces in them dating back thousands of years. It's almost Thanksgiving, think adding cranberries to turkey is really just a product of 1950's marketing?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fesenj%C4%81n

http://historicalrecipes.blogspot.com/2017/02/patina-de-pers...
AI pc sounds like something so flaky that as a user you relegate all your powers to the overlords and become sumbissive in hoppes of obtaining what they thinkn is what you wantz.
Congrats!! Looks like a super awesome upgrade to an already very useful app :)
If something isn't digital today it isn't as real.

A physical photo in my hand is sooo limited compared to the same photo in my hand via the screen on my smartphone. Same with a DVD or CD or Disc - all antiquated tech.
Who the fuck would trust a stranger with their 2 day old. People are fucking insane. These two idiots should be sterilized and the child should be taken away and given to someone responsible. It is insane to me that people have children and then hire others to take care of them or raise them.
I've read this article now multiple times and I'm still not sure if this is just good satire or if it's real and they can burn money like crazy or some subtle ad for aws managed cloud services :)
And half of that is parsing the options and processing the dry run...

The script is clean and straightforward.
> It's only the mechanism that's unprecedented

I think this is correct and also the point.

Neural networks, deep learning modes, have been reliably improving year to year for a very long time. Even in the 90's on CPUs, the combination of CPU improvements and training algorithm improvements translated into a noticeable upward arc.

However, they were not yet suitable for anything but small boutique problems. The computing power, speed, RAM, etc. just wasn't there until GPU computing took off.

Since then, compounding GPU power, and relatively simple changes in architecture have let deep learning rapidly become relevant in ... well every field where data is relevant. And progress has not just been reliable, but noticeably accelerated every few years over the last two decades.

So while you are right, today's AI varies from interesting, to moderately helpful but not Earth shattering in many areas, that is what happens when a new wave of technology crosses the threshold of usability.

Past example: "Cars are really not much better than horses, and very finicky." But the cars were on a completely different arc of improvement.

The limitations of current AI models aside, their generality of expertise (flawed as it might be), is unprecedented. Multi-modal systems, longer context windows, and systems for improving glitchy behavior are a given, and will make big quality differences. Those are obvious requirements with relatively obvious means.

We are going to get more than that going forward, just as these models have often been surprisingly useful (at much lower levels and narrower contexts) in the far and recent past.

This train has been accelerating for over three and a half decades. It isn't going to suddenly slow down because it just passed "Go". The opposite.
Try adding a way more detailed readme.
Generative Omnimatte: Learning to Decompose Video into Layers
Not the title, previously (22 points, 6 hours ago, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42248907

Related discussions

(22 points, 9 hours ago, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42246978

(13 points, 4 hours ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42250243
This touches on, and then completely ignores, one of the most probable areas of concern - additives. Emulsifiers that disrupt your intestinal lining, artificial dyes/flavors/sweeteners, fillers, consistency changers, and all the other tools in a food chemist's toolbox. Those should be individually investigated and problem ingredients eliminated (e.g brominated vegetable oil).

Also, fiber. The standard american diet is lacking fiber and protein.