skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can get an acceptable picture of the moon with my phone (at least when autofocus doesn't decide to do something stupid), yet also I can't get good pictures of birds in nearby trees or urban foxes on the other side of the road.

Phone can do night with just hand jitter ok, can't effectively compensate for target motion.
Probably the same reason we write things like

SECONDS_IN_DAY = 60 * 60 * 24

The individual components have some meaning that loses clarity when we just write the result of the calculation
Unless you have a Samsung phone…

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23637401/samsung-fake-moo...
I use Parkinson’s Law to get less done. Because productivity is a disease, not a virtue.
>It seems like the only use case is to trick people into thinking they're having a real interaction.

As opposed to the genuine interaction the porn star you follow offers to you and the 10,000 other subscribers. The whole thing is theatre.
Proof of work as a way of making spam expensive was literally one of the suggested applications of hashcash, the first proof-of-work scheme (no ledger yet), at the time of its announcement in 1997[1].

[1] http://www.hashcash.org/papers/announce.txt
I consider them noticeably above average. The problem is with the average.
Yea, I’m not following why this approach is radically different from just doing that
Fourth Amendment in action !
Tomorrow on HN frontpage: introducing the David Mayer programming language.
Kate Bush joins campaign against AI using artists' work without permission
These kinds of things just strike me as trick questions, why would anyone ask that?

Also

> Freddy LaStrange is a fictional character and his first name is Freddy.

and

> Freddy is a nickname for Frederick. So, the first name of Freddy LaStrange is Frederick.
I miss the days when we used to implement custom versions of stuff like this. Now it's all "just use Unreal" and every game has the same tedious bugs, glitches and frankly gameplay. Oh well.
> First, banks refusing to open accounts for people or organizations is not a new phenomenon. Banks are very much allowed to do that.

They should not be. This is the thing that makes me side with even the most obnoxious crypto bros on this point. They may be the loudest and most politically and financially powerful people to exeperience and complain about this issue to date, but they are far from the first, and even if you don't like them, it doesn't make them wrong here.

At the point you operate as close to government and as close to the core of society, and are able to benefit from such protections and the regulatory moat, you use the right as a "private" business to be picky and gatekeep who has access to the financial system.

In modern society, having a bank account is so fundamental to the normal everyday exercise of one's rights and freedoms that if you (or a business you start) cannot get access to basic banking services, it has a huge impact on how you can live, what you can do, and the potential success of your business.

We would not stand for the same arbitrary exclusion of certain (again, legal) parts of society from any other infrastructure provider, be it transport, electricity, water, etc. — even if they are privately operated — and we should not stand for it when it comes to economic and financial infrastructure either.

Banks are protected by governments (bailouts, forced mergers to avert failure, etc.), customer deposits are often protected by governments (giving bank accounts a commercial benefit in attracting customers), and starting a new bank is so massively expensive and difficult due to regulation that it provides a large moat around incumbents. Given these huge benefits banks receive from society and their place in it, it seems entirely reasonable to me that we should demand every citizen and every legal business has the right to open a current account (e.g. at a minimum deposits, withdrawals, debit card, electronic transfers, etc.) at any bank that finds itself in such a privileged position.

This means a weed business if selling weed is legal where the company operates. It means porn sites. It means sex workers. It means crypto bros. It means privacy companies, even the ones the government really wish they could destroy. It means cryptocurrency, stablecoin, and token issuers. Everyone, and every legal business.

This should be enshrined in law.
CFO's perspective: wanna sell me something, anything? you're out.

However well crafted your email is, you're an unacceptable distraction from the priorities that the company has set, the achievement of which is materialized by projects of varying size and scope. Upon starting any project of any size, people do due diligence: they assess what exactly it is they are looking for, and then research the market for it. For macro-projects, consultants may be hired to help with the process, which may lead to a proper tender.

Either way, the company contacts you, not the other way round.
I'm reminded of https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/01/the-mystery-...

No "official" conclusion, but the common sense position seems to be that most or all of the reported incidents were nothingburger.
What’s amazing is that if you install and run BonziBuddy (in a Win98 or XP VM, ofc) is his little RAM the whole thing uses - despite being blatant spyware.
It does here. FF 133 on OSX
>Not sure why you're quibbling over the fact that everyone thinks Musk paid an inflated price.

Not everyone thinks this. Are you talking about the financial geniuses in the comments?

>To the point, he was forced by a court to honor his original higher price than what he wanted to pay after re-evaluating it.

What's your point? The original comment was to imply "Haha! Elon overpaid for Twitter!". The company is worth more than $44B. Not sure why you're quibbling about being able to buy at the absolute rock bottom price, even when he got and will continue to get value from the purchase.
Show HN: What do you think about Code Generation?
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Just as an FYI: I recently learned (here on HN) that this is called Body Doubling[0] there's some services around (there's at least one by someone that hangs around here) that can do this too.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_doubling
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All the nitpicking here is insane. Can we all just appreciate the work that went into this?
Over 47? Have you gone through midlife transformation?
The age of 47 is said to be the bottom of the midlife crisis U curve.

Have you gone through this? If so, was it a period of professional transformation for you? How did you transform? Or, after a period of turmoil, did you eventually stay in your previous role? How did it relate to your personal life?
Won't be easy.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/18/malaysia-china-real-est...
A random war-story from B2B integration land... One customer system we had to interoperate with required an are credentials to be provided via an HTTP header. However it kept giving errors, until I realized that it only recognized the HTTP header when "authorization" was entirely lower-case, a sensitivity in violation of the HTTP spec.

Since our stack's own HTTP client libraries always used title-casing on the wire, we had to find a way to slot in a special exception, code to modify that header before it went out.

Another fun one is all the services which say their mime type is "application/json" while emitting generic (non-JSON) error message pages. So our logs are full of JSON decoding errors, rather than something describing what actually went wrong on the other end.
rich autistic children ?
That's why it's a meaningless statistic. Because zero net worth is the status many people are in when young - which makes sense, you haven't had time to build any net worth! And negative net worth happens when you take on debt, most commonly in the US student debt.

Maybe there is a valid metric worth talking about, but this metric rates the average student in med school as extremely badly off, despite them very likely going on to become one of the top 10% when they're older. So this statistic is just not a very good way to look at this.
I'm not particularly impressed by Odin but maybe i'm not the audience. If you like strictly procedural languages (or a die hard C fan) it's probably fine but it feels like a 'My First Language™' kind of project.

What I really miss are methods on structs a'la Go. Just simple receivers would be a great addition imho. Because of this choice, it's affected the entire stdlib and boy does it look old. Creating a typed variable to pass it to a stdlib init function (for allocation, etc) is terrible decision and it's everywhere. The stdlib looks muddled too.

Odin is obviously heavily inspired by Go (among others) but it's learned nothing of the lessons of the Go authors. For example, Odin is a larger language and has fewer features.

I got an ICE while compiling once and it reported something like `TODO(bill) support this`. Not a good look.
That's the whole point of being local: you don't give a crap about needing to comply with scrubbing requests.

"Hey, you, you cannot stream the movie OperationEclipseBRRip1080p-x265.mp4, it's forbidden." "Launches local Plex server...".
Wood.
> backups

Just to point out, if the data is important you'll want backups anyway. Even with S3.

Just in case. :D
In a bigger organization you're further away from the actual mission of the organization, which eliminates the internal motivation to perform well, even in the absence of a measurable reward. For example, I'll always go above and beyond when doing something together with a close friend of mine, but I give zero fucks about my big corporation.
You also need to define whether the code has to be raw CPU instructions or if it's allowed to use an external library containing all the code humanity has ever produced.
It did. Till it didn't - one day, after an update, it just refused to work without full access to contacts. (On ios).
Where is this option? I often get errors about the video being too big and then need to crop my video length to send it. Super annoying
>It's indisputable that Twitter was worth $44B at the time of the sale because by definition the price of something is what the buyer and seller agree to perform the transaction.

I know you think this is some kind of deep philosophical insight, but there's an entire industry built around getting value from an asset beyond the price paid. We don't live in a world of perfect information.
> The filter also means that it's likely that ChatGPT won't be able to answer questions about this article when browsing the web, such as through ChatGPT with Search. Someone could use that to potentially prevent ChatGPT from browsing and processing a website on purpose if they added a forbidden name to the site's text.

Like the arcade game, LLM safety whack-a-mole only ends when you are exhausted. It's kind of glorious, really.
Not public.. I build something very similar a decade ago but that was part of a low-code system so had access to far more information than most databases (the full history of schema changes with a little bit of metadata over the change).
Ah, this is the missing piece: using the tremendous power of the secret state for personal gain.
It's really highly disturbing and it induces a weird "Deja vu" symptom in several people. I think HN should think about adding a little explanation saying "this thread was first shown on 2024-12-07 and then got revived on 2024-12-12".

Because it simply throws so many people off.
Not necessarily, i'm sure one could construct scenarios where offloading to the CPU makes sense. Think of highly branchy double precision stuff.
love this! Works well in FF 133.0 (aarch64).
YouTuber LegalEagle: I'm Suing the FBI and DOJ [video]
Not really. At the end of the day, in both systems, the person paying for the healthcare decides what healthcare options are available to the patient. In the US, the patient themselves (or their insurer) is paying.

In other countries, it’s often the health service itself that is paying.

Don’t get me wrong, I believe the single payer system is infinitely better, but for a small number of people, it will lead to worse healthcare outcomes.
Retiring from Hanami/dry-rb/ROM-rb core teams
as the song goes “… sometimes you are the windshield, and sometimes you are the bug…”
There's a lot of 0s for preallocated space. And all-0 bitmap is just white. So mostly like white snow, with pickles of random colours in short blocks here and there, for headers.
There are more examples of its limitations.

The video with dogs shows three taxis transforming into one, the number of people under the tree changing https://player.vimeo.com/video/1037090356?h=07432076b5&loop=...

An example from the HunyuanVideo is terrible as well. Look at that awful tongue: https://hunyuanvideoai.com/part-1-3.mp4

And what we see in that marketing is probably the best they could generate. And I suppose it took a lot of prompt tweaking and regenerations.

The internet is already full of junk shorts and useless videos and soon there will be even more junk content everywhere. :(
8 seconds. Its a CULT!. There.
They did not care about becoming massive data kleptomaniacs when they trained the models, and they are going to care about an individual lawsuit threat?
Idea: if a cloud-connected product is bricked within 7 years of purchase, the company responsible must make the code open-source and freely available in a public repository.

This would not only allow consumers to continue using the product they supposedly own, but will also cause investors and managers to pause before developing and marketing an exclusively cloud-based device. CPU and memory are good enough that most regular consumer devices shouldn't need an internet connection
Thats interesting because I am healthy in other ways but my cholestrol has been high ( high ldl, total and high apob) . My trigs, a1c, bmi, homa insulin score ect are in line. No history of heart disease in either side of family.

My cardiologist has been asking me to get on statins for a while but i've been not able to convince myself to get on board to take a pill for the rest of my life.
Many airports have solved the irregular items problem by simply stipulating that items must be cubical/cuboidal/close enough in shape.

Miss the days when my parents took a kitchen sink from Dubai to India, or when my uncle took coconut saplings and a literal banana tree to the US lol.
The Perennial Question of Librarian Credentialing – The Scholarly Kitchen
Scrapping 20A was an excellent decision.

That CMOS fabrication process was intended for a single Intel product, the laptop CPUs Arrow Lake H, which will now be made by TSMC.

The costs for bringing that process good enough for mass production would have never been recovered.

It is much better to channel all resources to improving the fabrication yields of the superior 18A fabrication process, which is intended to be used for many important Intel products, including server CPUs, and also for any external customers they will be able to lure.

While Intel has used a slogan like "5 nodes in 4 years", two of those were actually half nodes, i.e. "Intel 3" is an improved variant of "Intel 4" and "Intel 18A" is an improved variant of "Intel 20A".

It would have been much better for Intel if they would have also skipped "Intel 4", but they were in a hurry to launch Meteor Lake before the end of 2023 and "Intel 3" would not have been ready for mass production by that time, and they were still not convinced that they must completely outsource the fabrication of their CPU chips until they have a competitive fabrication process.

With some difficulties, Intel has succeeded until now to meet all their milestones toward their stated goal of having a competitive fabrication process, i.e. 18A, and competitive CPUs, by the end of 2025.

The main thing that can be criticized about their roadmap is that it had included too many intermediate steps, with not yet competitive fabrication processes and CPUs, which have required nonetheless a lot of development efforts, slowing the progress towards the real goal. Nevertheless, it is likely that most of the intermediate steps have been unavoidable, because without new products for a couple of years their sales would have been even lower and their losses greater.

Only if Pat Gelsinger would have remained CEO until that time (one year from now) it would have been possible to assess whether he has been a bad CEO or a good CEO.
> Like the arcade game, LLM safety whack-a-mole only ends when you are exhausted.

... or out of coins
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42370826
This looks like a superb tool.
> Apple TV+ might be 30Mbps.

Yes, but they can scale it to any resolution. /s
You are going to go with IBM because nobody every gets fired for buying IBM.
Antelope: Potent and Concealed Jailbreak Attack Strategy
Show HN: Finsuba – Fast and lightweight stock and crypto news plus leaderboards
I made this as I felt most stock and crypto data websites were slow, bloated and missed a major part of day trading which is splitting out the market segments properly (premarket, regular hours and after hours). I wanted something that was super fast and easy to see the different market segments.

I'm an indie developer so made this with a one man team, let me know if you'd like to see a specific feature or interested in partnerships, I'd love to work with other brands or startups in the space.

Note we only cover around 15% of cryptocurrencies. I am working on adding more exchanges shortly.
> As a claim, it's antique -- it would easily have been a view of Turing and others many decades ago.

Absolutely.

We discussed this in the 90s and were of the opinion, then, that event state of the art NNs (in the 90s) wouldn't get much more complex because of their actual mathematical descriptions.

It's all the bells and whistles around managing training, and real-world input/output translation code.

The core or 'general case' always will be tiny.
A lot of their endpoints are rented or hosted from ASes that are well known, e.g. M247 Ltd. If I wanted to vastly reduce annoying VPN traffic, I'd simply block these ASes as well. That's likely the cause of these.

There isn't a lot Mullvad can do about it. Not all providers of hosting are willing to tolerate VPN endpoints in the same way they don't like hosting tor exit nodes.
Time for another prediction that a computer will have a PhD, by the end of the decade. 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2010, 2020, 2030. Next, yawn.
This is specifically and overtly marketed to autistic kids, not as a mere toy but as a tool to help with emotional development.

https://moxierobot.com/pages/robot-for-autistic-child
You can listen to the account yourself at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00253mt, from around 25 minutes onwards. I found it convincing.
Ultra-processed foods may drive colorectal cancer risk
(Almost) uniquely, Ukraine is a just cause that's actually winnable and popular with the people of Ukraine. It's very, very different from the banana republics that this thread started with.
Let me introduce you to my friends bikeshedding and sandbagging
The phrase "grind to halt" is incorrect and pure click-bait.
I have never use Mullvad VPN but I can give two recommendations:

If money is no concern, use Astrill. Easy of software, number of countries, GFC, circumvent geoblocking, it is one of the best, if not the best, but it comes with a big price tag attached. I think 300 USD/2 years if I remember correctly.

If you don't need the best, AirVPN has often deals for 50USD/2 years. But the servers are very "spammy" (tons of captchas for you to solve).
> Matt, we have a pace that we work at, and we need you to work at that pace... If leadership gets the idea that we can deliver at a much faster pace, they'll expect it from us all the time.

Work/life balance is a part of the compensation package. If you suddenly start expecting your employees to work harder, the most talented ones will simply jump ship, because from their perspective, if they're already forced to spend long hours on complex projects, why not at least do it for lots of money. So the only people who stay will be hard-working ones, but less skilled. Meanwhile, in a healthy company, you need a mix of people willing to do demanding, yet simple work, and those who rescue a dumpster fire of a project and then take five coffee breaks.
It's cool but I could never live with that syntax. Impossible to read, it feels like.
On the one hand, that's sad. On the other hand, what a great way for both parents and children to learn about the idiocy that is IoT in the Clown. And oh boy do people need to learn!

It could be worse. Imagine that the children had to hand over private information to use the toy, and for that entire dataset to be leaked because the toymaker knows nothing about security. Oh, that already happened: https://www.bitdefender.com/en-gb/blog/hotforsecurity/vtech-...

Or imagine the toy had cameras and microphones uploading continuously to the Clown, then "hackers" released all of it.
Graphic Programming Language [0] for the curious.

FMT Enter sub-interpreter
HTEX 'Hello, world' Displays horizontal text
FEND Exits sub-interpreter

[0] http://unige.ch/medecine/nouspikel/ti99/gpl.htm
> [1]: I could not find any sources that corroborate the statement that bin Laden is into Nickelback, but I think it follows from the other two statements.

Pretty sure the literature makes it clear he's a fan of show tunes. So it's down to your conscience and moral backbone as to whether this is better or worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_Rhode_Island

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCw0VkmWNhc
4100 / 4200 Series Graphic Terminals (a.k.a. Unicorn)
I guess the training data should be called assets. Analogously to how you can download the Quake source, and build it and get a working executable, but without the (non-open) assets you cannot replicate what you get by buying the game.
A serial number is not a tracking device. A sufficiently determined adversary with unlimited resources and access could maybe track you via it

But practically speaking an afternoon of shopping, exchanging coins for banknotes, breaking those into coins and back again will make it as untraceable as possible.

Especially since we're talking about 60 euro per year
"I had a “Dear AWS” section since I’ve received multiple bug reports on it when used with my OAuth client library. However, I couldn’t recreate any of the reported issues so I have removed it from the post."

I wish the section would have been kept. I don't care about AWS but I think this article is an excellent checklist for common pitfalls. So keeping them, even if one provider has fixed them would still be useful.
I have so many questions about the methodology and how you can distinguish between one and two industrial robots.
Negative QALY values do appear possible, according to https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S10983015106004... (via Wikipedia).