skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t that illegal in several markets at this point (unless you also initially signed up via a phone call)?
Pick a common language in a different language family that results stilted translations. It was always Chinese telephone.
Only four stars though...
well the owners mom yeah

they apparently tried to get itch.io removed from their registrar earlier today
I like the idea, but I don't think today's fragment works. "ETC" isn't really a word, it's an abbreviation. "AF" also isn't a word. The "CH" down block isn't a word. The "AGO" down block is a word, I guess, but it started off as a word. The ending solution felt pretty random.

(From the console, the seed is "2024-12-09T08:00:00.005Z")
Thanks for your input! All the design proposal RFCs have shown they cause an issue with the Go Compatibility Promise whereby adding any enum value can cause a semver-MAJOR breaking change. This causes a greater rate of ecosystem churn which, in every design proposal so far, has been deemed a net negative outweighing the modelling benefits.
Most important is the appearance of transparency.
> Users, not tools, should be judged.

You can argue that that’s how it should be, but that isn’t how it is. And we don’t know what a world that adhered to that principle would look like, it’s possible it would be a disaster. There are a lot of bad things people can do where it’s difficult to catch someone after they’ve done it, and prevention at the tool level is the only way to really effectively stop people.

I’m not saying I like the idea of any of these methods when it comes to AI, but it feels naive to act like there isn’t precedent for stuff like this.

> It is unlikely anyone is going to perform act of terrorism with this, or any kind of deep fakes that buy Easter European elections. The worst outcome is likely teens having a laugh.

Citation needed bigtime. Sure, people doing organized disinformation campaigns won’t log into OpenAI’s website and use Sora, they’ll probably be running Hunyuan Video with an on-prem or cloud-based GPU cluster, but this feels like as good a time as any to discuss the implications of video generation tools as they stand in December 2024.
Okay, but if your house is on fire the chance of your battery storage catching on fire goes way up.
https://research.google/blog/validating-random-circuit-sampl...
Of course I agree that github should follow the git spec for branch names. I meant that I don't think github should impose any additional restrictions on branch names.
Cool? Is that supposed to be a downside?
So what do we do if it's impossible to have a perfectly fair system?
Llama 3.3 is now available on Sourcetable
Since the Millennial generation, pretty much, at least among the (over-)educated. It kills me; I'd prefer to pretend we're all participating in some shared project called "civilization".

But, as the shooting in the street and the cheering on the Internet have shown (and the price gouging before that), our society has been coarsening along a great many dimensions.
Guess that's a warning for everyone that filled the "Registrant Mom's" field in their domain purchase.
Yep I’ve had that happen many times , where people assume my work is real and the practical is CG.

Worse, directors often lie about what’s practical and we’ll have replaced it with CG. So people online will cheer the “practicals” as being better visually, while not knowing what they’re even looking at.

I’ve seen interviews with actors even where they talk about how they look in a given shot or have done something, and not realize they’re not even really in the shot anymore.

People just have terrible eyes once you can convince them something is a certain way.
Show HN: ImageEditor – A Lightweight Image Editor
Hello everyone. I developed a basic image editor which allows users to easily edit photographs in their browser.

It supports rotating, flipping, cropping, adjusting brightness and contrast, as well as adding arrows, circles and text. A major feature is that it checks for the maximum canvas size (which, as I have discovered, conveniently differs between browsers) and resizes the image to fit, so it supports editing larger images as well (an important point, as many users were uploading JPEGs straight from their camera and getting a blank canvas).

You can try it online for free (all processing happens client-side, without any tracking) at:
https://photo.kigun.org

Please let me know what you think. Thank you!
I'd love to see my Tesla use Starlink LTE.

Whatever local provider my Tesla connects to doesn't have great reception. The onboard streaming music often cuts in and out.
No other tool needed, this is usually solved in Maven projects with a “bill of materials” POM. There’s an example in the Maven docs: https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to...
> Analogous would be how we have very limited regulations on guns

This is strictly limited to the US. In most advanced democracies you need a stack of papers to get even a small handgun.
Definitely not if you're a white male under 60 years old. They won't even give you opioids after surgery now because you are "high risk" .

If you're really rich it may be a different story, but any of the "middle class" good luck. And if you do find a doctor with some compassion, they are probably about to retire.
Would you / do you still use them? I like their branding more than PorkBun.
My assumption is that if you're in a rich family you have access to more than your personal assets, but it probably depends on how much your parents like you.
I will never understand why blogs on a subdomain will STILL not include a link on the page back to the organization they are blogging about.
Hans Reiser was far too smart to ever get caught.
While "normal people" often have crude political opinions, the stupidest political takes often (usually?) come from high IQ, well educated, people.

And among those are also the ones with real influence and power to promote and/or enforce them.
When will people learn about cloud dependent gadgets. And if this thing already cost $800, how much more would it have cost to put some basic AI into it for use as a fallback? Can't you run stuff like that on smartphones these days?
RF sputtered Gallium, so AlGaN, or GaAs? Is he going to take HF route or does he likely have something else in mind?
Operational military ones? Tanks that are basically very dense semis don't really count for this point.
Impersonators claiming laptops at Apple stores before owners can pick them up
How so? All he had to do was continue to fly under the radar for a few more weeks until everyone forgot about it. Being on the lam implies they knew his identity; they did not.
El Salvador to scale back Bitcoin dreams to seal $1.3B IMF deal
Yes expensive landfill merchant.
Some Other America, One I Do Not Know
https://archive.ph/38Iiq
Is it? I thought I was sounding like a bit of a conspiracy theorist. Thanks for validating me :)
Probably a kind of "boundary-pushing" personality type.
https://archive.ph/FwZcm

Be careful ordering MacBooks and having them delivered to an Apple store, or even to yourself. Impersonators are somehow getting inside info. and snagging them first. And Apple isn't reimbursing anyone.
Scientific Computing on the Sony Playstation 2 (2003)
It's why I think the lottocracy people might have a point. Rocketing people from zero to power keeps you from experiencing the traumas associated with attaining or being given success and keeps your ego to a minimum because you know you literally did nothing to deserve it.
Woah!! You say "If you never hit these needs, you don't need Bazel", but even for a small-ish project, I would like to have Automatic caching of everything, Dependency based test selection, Automatic sandboxing of build steps, or seamless shared caches!

I guess for a small team (say less than 10 people) the complexity of Bazel is too much to make it worth it, but those features you mention seem like universally useful for any project. I bet there are lots and lots of reinvented wheels out there trying to do just a subset of all these.
Reddit rolls out AI-powered 'Answers' search feature, redditors don't rejoice
Are you sure you got a serverLock and not a clientLock?
The truth is probably somewhere in between "social media/technology is the cause of all problems" and "social media/technology causes absolutely zero problems that wouldn't be caused anyway"
Thank you all for corrections and clarifications.

I had confused Antimatter in particle theory (where there is no gravity) and Dark matter, which has no explanation in particle theory and maybe probably shouldn't be necessary for a unified model that describes n-body gravity at astrophysical and particle scales.
It’s a mixture of Chinese Whispers and Telephone, two names for the same game.
Ironically, people doing this en masse would probably force some attention from those with power and might cause the scales to be a little more balanced. One can dream I guess.
Ask HN: Pros and cons of RVV "VLEN > DLEN" architecture?
The semidynamic has released their RVV core, which use VLEN > DLEN, url:https://semidynamics.com/en/file/pb/thcafgphypcx70yyirsvasa0vtuvgk

As described in ppt, there are some advantages for this arch:

1. Extracts more “Data-Level-Parallelism” from your application

2. Large DLEN, however, is quite expensive

3. Helps cover FMA latency

4. Helps reduce core power

But on the other hand, this design may cause scalability issues with larger DLEN, and forwarding implementation maybe diffcult?

So what's is the pros and cons for the "vlen>dlen" RVV design?
So God plays backwards, so to say. He does what’s called retrograde analysis, “a technique employed to determine which moves were played leading up to a given position” (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrograde_analysis)

I had a vague intuition of doing the same (going backwards) to generate the winnable Solitaire card deals, but I didn’t get far with it… Does anyone have experience/ideas on that? FTR: a similar discussion on X, started recently by Jonathan Blow: https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1865520149891346634

I ended up generating totally random deals, then filtering-out those unsolvable by an algorithm of mine (described at https://FreeSolitaire.win/strategy#remarks). It’s fast & good enough to run on-the-fly, when a player starts a new game. But this isn’t an intellectually satisfying solution.

Note that “The probability of being able to win a game of Klondike with best-possible play is not known, and the inability of theoreticians to precisely calculate these odds has been referred to by mathematician Persi Diaconis as "one of the embarrassments of applied probability"” dixit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_(solitaire)#Probabili...

We need another genius like Ken Thompson for Solitaire!
Gang violence would often be random offender, random victim too. I imagine a motivated murder by a related party is significantly easier to solve than a random shooting where the perpetrator hightails it immediately.

Related parties are easy to name and find, unrelated murderers which you don't find immediately are only going to get harder to catch - where do you even start when with something like that?
This post is dumb in many ways not worth listing. And because of that, I realized I just read something nearly word-for-word on twitter (@peruvian_bull). Is that you or is this just copy pasta?

https://x.com/peruvian_bull/status/1866213955687022656
They meant “made a business out of converting files between formats”, I.e. those “mp4 to mov” sites. Supposedly they’d be on the hook for converting copyrighted content, in this Funko world where basically touching their IP in some user-done way torches the whole business.

> It’s so wrong that it makes me wonder “does this person understand anything at all about the bare fundamentals of intellectual property?”

You really don’t have to assume the worst or attack them for using the wrong word here.
Finnish speeding ticket fine calculator

https://poliisi.fi/en/fine-counter
My manager made a joke about it, and then later I had a discussion with another coworker who the worst CEO in the UK is.
>Isn’t that a little insulting to the hostel employee?

Why would that be "insulting"? HE was supposed to be flirting, not necessarily her.

Plus, even if both were flirting, there's nothing insulting about that.
In theory you're right. On practice - until you're an equipped firefighter, you wouldn't be able to do anything once a regular car develops significant fire.
Yes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42363727 - Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
Cars are probably a pretty good application. Plenty of power available, good view of sky usually (or in a city with cell reception), and stable platform might help with directional antenna compared to handheld.
Al Capone had the police working for him.
I think this one is more ideological than traditional class. Either you agree with the way American healthcare companies operate, or you don’t. The dysfunctions of the industry have the potential to directly impact anyone of any class.
A less-radical Fox & co would be a boon to the US.

>Robert Thompson, a media scholar based at Syracuse University, said even after the court loss, the Murdochs may stick with their empire’s right wing-pleasing business model.

Maybe, but Rupert is worried enough about it to stab 3 of his children in the back.
> [dark matter] has no explanation in particle theory

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42369294#42371561 :

> One theory of dark matter is that it's strange quark antimatter.
I'm peculiarlyrevokingconsent on Discord. Sent FR.
I don't see how that analogy works, especially so as in your attempt to make a point you have DuPont as the explicit actor in the direct harm, and the people drinking the water aren't even involved... like, I do not think anyone disagrees that DuPont is responsible in that one.

I also, to draw a loose parallel, think that Microsoft should be responsible for the security and correctness of their products, with potentially even criminal liability for egregiously negligent bugs that lead to harm for their users: it isn't ever OK to "move fast and break things" with my personal data or bank account. But like, that isn't what we are talking about constantly with limiting the use cases of these AI products.

I mean, do I think OpenAI should be responsible if their AI causes me to poison myself by confidently giving me bad cooking instructions? Yes. Do I think OpenAI should be responsible if their website leaks my information to third parties? Of course. Depending on the magnitude of the issue, I could even see these as criminal offenses for not only the officers of the company but also the engineers who built it.

But, I do not at all believe that, if DuPont sells me something known to be toxic, that it is DuPont's responsibility to go out of their way to technologically prevent me from using it in a way which harms other people: down that road lies dystopian madness. If I buy a baseball bat and choose to go out clubbing for the night, that one's on me. And like, if I become DuPont and make a factory to produce Teflon, and poison the local water with the effluent, the responsibility is with me, not the people who sold me the equipment or the raw materials.

And, likewise, if OpenAI builds an AI which empowers me to knowingly choose to do something bad for the world, that is not their problem: that's mine. They have no responsibility to somehow prevent me from egregiously misusing their product in such a way; and, in fact, I will claim it would be immoral of them to try to do so, as the result requires (conveniently for their bottom line) a centralized dystopian surveillance state.
So.. did he use vectorizarion on the overflow checking ?
Starlink Direct-to-Cell isn't normal LTE service. It has low bandwidth, which limits it to messages, voice, and slow data. It is basically 2G or a satellite phone. It would not be enough for streaming music.

Starlink is only allowing text messaging for now. They are going to offer data but haven't announced how much.
I don't think edge ML is competitive for now. It can do simple things but not the big beefy LLMs. State of the art AI chips are so expensive that you can't afford to idle them. They need to be M:N shared - M chips for N users so they have maximum utilization, and that fits perfectly for the cloud.

However, there is a middle ground: pluggable AI could potentially be a thing. The device would use an open protocol to access cloud AI. If the original company goes bankrupt then someone else can implement the protocol and the devices can be repointed.
Show HN: Deploy AI code scripts and run them by asking on Slack (YC F24)
Hey HN! Recase is a framework to build workflow automation in code. These are run through a simple UI, API, or a natural language command on Slack.

We just finished the YC batch and decided to pivot from fintech compliance to the space we love most: devtools

When I was a PM, I got the same tasks from support or sales every day.
- Can you tell me why this payment was declined?
- Customer requested this feature. Can you create a ticket?
- Please upgrade customer X to new pricing plan

I hated the context switching (logging into different tools) to resolve them. Even when we built internal tools or FAQs, colleagues still came to me.

With Recase, devs can code and deploy AI process automation quickly. Each workflow is defined as a single typescript file, in which you specify the inputs to the task and the function to run. You can use our primitives to call LLMs, scrape and search the web, and deploy them with one command.

Some examples of workflows we're running on Slack:
- /rc refund payment_239847 for customer 23459
- /rc pull all declined transactions over l3m for customer 23490.
- /rc book my annual leave from next tuesday to friday

In each case, Recase figures out which of my workflows should be run, extracts the inputs, and runs it.

We’re super early, and if you have any honest feedback, we’d love to hear it!
3.5% means it killed 1 in every 29 or so people it infected.
> You all understand that Sam, the gaylord of OpenAI, is here to control you, correct?

I see this kind of comment from time to time. do you have any evidence to support this claim, or just paranoia vibes?
Right, but you’re missing the person I replied to, who was clearly referring to the used office PC market:

> Any of the Lenovo or Dell mini pc's are cheaper (around £50-£70 depending on the model) on eBay
Companies only ever have ethics when forced.
You are getting that response 300ms beforehand because your request is denied.

If you auth with the bearer token "And There Are No Friends At Dusk." then the API will call you and tell you which request you wanted to send.
there's a reason the Claims Adjuster is a folk hero
> If Excel added a new headline feature to scan your financial sheets and auto-adjust the numbers to match what's expected when audited

- Sounds like what my accountant already does.
At this phase of the game a lot of people are pretty accustomed to the pace of technological innovation in this space, and I think it’s reasonable for people to have a sense of what will/won’t go away in a few versions. Some of Sora’s issues may just require more training, some of these issues are intrinsic to their approach and will not be solvable with their current method.

To that end, it is actually extremely important to nit-pick this stuff. For those of us using these tools, we need to be able to talk shop about which ones are keeping up, which are work like shit in practice, and which ones work but only in certain situations, and which situations those are.
A huge reason SD cards have been unreliable in the past is because of a lack of wear leveling functionality, and architecture assuming sequential writes (e.g. large buffers that require larger blocks of data to be erased and rewritten even when writes are small as is typical in random writes, resulting in excessive write cycles).

Modern SD cards have much more intelligent controllers that perform wear leveling and work with the OS to reduce excessive write cycles.

Not that they're as reliable as modern SSDs, but I'd be willing to bet a modern SD card from a reputable brand is as reliable as SSDs were a while back when they were generally regarded as reliable enough.

Almost every time I've teased the info out of people with failed SD cards on Pi's, either it's either physically damaged, or it's an off-brand, or it's an ancient card.
code is the new no code!!
Empirically speaking, unless you are already a Bazel expert or are lucky enough to hire one, most orgs I've seen need at least 3-5 full-time engineers to become experts in Bazel and about ~1 person decade of engineering to roll it out (i.e. it takes those 3-5 guys 2-3 years). Adopting Bazel is not something you do over a weekend hackathon; the cost starts becoming reasonable once you have 100-200 engineers who can benefit from the 3-5 guys maintaining their build tool

For your small-ish project I'm guessing you have wants, but if the project grows at some point those will transition into needs and then you may have to make hard choices. That's my experience rolling it out Bazel myself and maintaining it for a growing organization and codebase over 7 years

I'm hoping the Mill build tool I'm working on can become an easier/friendlier alternative that provides many of the same benefits, even if it can't support the extreme Google scale that Bazel does. So if you think these things sound cool, but you don't want to spend 1 person decade on your build tool, you should check out Mill!
Thanks for the encouragement! I care for a 6-year old I've nurtured through anarchic principles. This feeling, if it can go missing, is reignited by things they say and normalized forms of childhood oppression they experience/witness.
I mean if he's giving himself up, why not gift a mcdonald's employee 60k?
Probably not a bot. Just reposting content from twitter over here.

It's quite entertaining though that this particular conspiracy theory is catnip to HN users. Perhaps it's for the same reason it's blowing up on twitter: vague enough to capture the imaginations of people who might be imagining wildly different concrete scenarios?
Anywhere you'd recommend a hobbyist can learn more about remeshing or feature detection?
Even then he might have escaped further notice if he'd ditched all the incriminating stuff. It's one thing to kind'a look like a guy in a low-quality pic; it's quite another to have the cops checking you out find all your murder gear with you.
I don’t think it’s publicly available yet.
The guy's face has been plastered over the news for several days and there's a $60,000 reward. Getting a tip from a fast food worker is very plausible.

More plausible in my opinion than the FBI having some kind of agreement with McDonald's to access their store surveillance network in real time.
> I don't think it'll be possible for a closed source tool to compete with the open image/video ecosystem.

And I don't think the current status quo of open source models being entirely subsidised by startups and corporations is sustainable, they're all hemorrhaging money and their investors will only have so much patience before they expect returns. Enjoy it while it lasts.
..And he was smart enough to ditch the burner phone, clothes, and the backpack but he kept the untraceable weapon and the fake ID? Seriously what..? I hope we'll learn something that brings this all to a sensible narrative but here and now it seems like completely incoherent behavior.
Or someone who read the tweet, liked it, and wanted to share on a forum where they more actively participate.
I would hazard a guess that most Americans or someone they know have had a negative brush with healthcare, and that CEO was an ideal personification of the cause of their troubles, so the social media picture is probably not that far from reality.
With justice and healthcare, people are absolutely, explicitly, and intentionally treated differently based on their position in society. If you’re a CEO you get treated 1000x better.
Much simpler explanation: he wanted to get caught to increase coverage of his political views.