skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy, first step just stop watching the news. There is no FOMO or if you really need your dosage keep it to end of the week roundup.

Because in reality there is nothing you can do.

You can't have a shot of vodka with Putin and ask him to stop war.

You can't stop Twitter and Elon from raging, nor can you can't Isreal.

What you can stop is giving these puppets headspace time and hold compassion to those who are involved in the conflicts.
Yes and no.

Likely due to cost, Google hasn’t decided to use any LLM model (what basically everybody refers to when they say AI now) to generate the subtitles and by modern standards they aren’t very good.
They would have to pay for them.
Seems like properly-priced insurance should fix that, if you add a little bit of tort for the owners of the hazardous housing?
Haha, thanks for the tip! libSQL and Limbo do sound pretty interesting.
I hope this is a one-off expensive Pi and not an indication of a new pricing strategy. It would be very disappointing if these hacker computers became expensive toys.

The article is very feel-good with the carbon credits and all, but the inflating pricing is a disservice to the hacker community. It shouldn’t be sort of greenwashed.
... and one with 32GB/64GB/128GB ECC RAM
... and one with USB4/USB4 2.0
... and one with 2.5/5/10Gbps Ethernet
... and one with M.2 SSD port
... and one with 2nm litography
The meaning of "AI" and "open source model" have both been muddied enough to be pretty meaningless.
We don't have to guess. Just look at languages which have been around for a while, achieved some baseline level of popularity to have a decent amount of public code available, like Elixir.

I haven't found an LLM that could reliably produce syntactically correct code, much less logically correct code.
> Imagine if traditional hotel sold you a room that is on fire, and said that they don't have enough people to monitor all their properties so it's your fault.

That can and does happen with regular hotels. For them as well, the priority is the safety of the guests already there (aka, to get them out), and the pipeline of new bookings can be dealt with once the immediate danger is passed.
There’s no need to cut them out, the symbiosis is working perfectly.
I felt nothing. Been through UK/US customs a few times with a magnet in one finger and 3 rfid implants and I felt nothing. Nothing was detected.

Maybe the magnet was detected but as I have my hands out and fingers spread a visual check would dismiss any threat. The same could be said for non-magnetic steel implants I have - one in each hand.
Why AI Progress Is Increasingly Invisible
In a ideal world isa shouldn't matter so much but x86 has been so dominant for so many years...
It's hard to imagine a world without x86
If you care about the price, youth hostels are way cheaper (and includes you in the local life faster), if you don't hostels are just better. For medium-term, Airbnb is still great though.
Areas of the Brain Involved in Language Processing
Which is a very common feature, even YouTube can do it if you press "," (or the button next to "M" I guess)
> And we have -- we can kind of almost see the end. We`re vaccinating so very fast, our data from the CDC today suggests, you know, that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don`t get sick, and that it`s not just in the clinical trials but it`s also in real world data.

This quote is literally from the director of the CDC (source in comment above). I mean.. who better to 'trust'?
One of the attributes I like about HN is the variety of subjects that get posted. With the amount of reading material on the web, I read fewer books than I used to, so having serious essays pop up here on eclectic subjects makes me feel like I'm not completely frivolous.

While I don't find the Trump innuendo ridiculous, I understand why some people would. The thing is, the article itself doesn't 'go there', and is interesting. If the post attracts annoyingly political comments that do 'go there', people can always flag the those comments.
There's an art to subtitling that goes beyond mere speech-to-text processing. Sometimes it's better to paraphrase dialog to reduce the amount of text that needs to be read. Sometimes you need to name a voice as unknown, to avoid spoilers. Sometimes the positioning on the screen matters. I hope the model can be made to understand all this.
Yeah there still wouldn't be much money in it, it's pretty niche, and would probably only grow the viewership slightly. But at least it wouldn't be dumb.
Do you have a source for that claim? On the face, it seems pretty outrageous.
Athletes seem to appear in Playboy fairly often. eg Dutch skater Joy Beune was in the December 2024 issue ( in Dutch Playboy and possibly other countries )
Addendum to note I got my reference numbers subtly wrong.

"such structural destruction[3][4]" should be [4] and [5] instead, apologies.
I always imagine how useful Sora.ai could be if it would generate 3D models to render their animations from instead
> the way they handled it makes me just want to walk away.

Assuming you mean the project, not your degree, that sounds reasonable but from your description it also sounds like they aren't willing to let you do that. Hence the advice to at least talk to a lawyer.
Kurt Gödel, famous Austrian mathematician, was afraid that the US constitution has a flaw which makes it vulnerable to a similar seizure of power. Unfortunately, he never wrote down what it is, so we don't know what he was concerned about specifically.

Fortunately, the event most similar to the Reichstag fire - January 6th - did not in reality lead the US down that kind of path.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_Loophole
A system like that would be pretty nice as long as it wasn't a privacy problem. You wouldn't really need LLMs to do the subtitles as all then though, for any video common enough to be sharable the subtitles probably already exist from the original source.
Yes! CouchSurfing still works well in Rio although it looks like an abandoned ship that doesn't fix bugs for ages. It is definitely one of my inspirations!
For 20 years Fastmail allowed any customer to spoof From: another

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42536750#42539217
Reminds me of this enlightening video mapping out a possible future where self-driving cars have dominance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040ejWnFkj0

It's very possible that it won't be the utopia it is portrayed to be.
Car (and other I assume) forums always were a magical place in this regard. You send a random person a PayPal, they send the part or piece. There were always a few people who got taken here and there but the self moderating and reputational aspects of a forum really kept things quite in check.

Accountability and reputation is the missing secret sauce in this world it seems.
This happens if I take too much melatonin. The dosage in US-sold melatonin is unnecessarily high. Finnish tablets are typically 1.9mg, while US ones can have 10mg in just one.
Absolutely. I need browser, VLC, IDE and some games.

...only one of those was a linux showstopper.
AceSphere
I don't think we can know about the long term, but I would assume that in the short-medium term, Nvidia can make a lot more money by continuing to sell its cards, where it's almost a monopoly, rather than competing in the overcrowded product space.
Actually $9 more to go from 2GB to 4GB, just for the RAM chip itself. See my reply above.

32GB is impossible at present. No-one makes a 256 gigabit (32x8) chip to fit in the same footprint, so then you have to do a new board design to support multiple chips, which might not be doable in the board's current footprint.

Micron do a 192 gigabit (=24GB) chip but it's LPDDR5, rather than LPDDR4x, which I imagine the RPi 5's SoC can't drive.
Right, if you get stabbed you lose points, so the people who win both stabbed good and also didn't get stabbed. Whole dynamic of the sport would change and would actually look closer to in the movies.
> I write this while holding back tears (:/)

Dunno about all other things, but it's totally possible to self-host email. I do it for myself, and I did it when running the IT of a media company.

I now work for the government, and I know that sensitive mails go through foreign entities and none can do anything about it because we lost not only the skills but the understanding that mail can be self-hosted.
I wonder if VLC tracks their downloads per day or region. Similar to Pornhub Trends, it'd be interesting to correlate a spike of downloads with events like Netflix hiking up their prices/enforcing anti-password-sharing policies, dropping some series from their catalogue, or some hyped-up movie being released...
No, this is https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/project-digits/
It's driving in a loop, not spinning in circles.
My kneejerk reflex: "create-browser-app" is a very generic name, should just have called it "stagehand"
I might just jump in the driver's seat and take over
Not sure where you’re getting that from. Most of them look like regular job listings to me.
perhaps Junior will follow in Father’s footsteps. :)
HN isn't only about tech. Today I've seen articles about photography (of workers), literary agencies, raves, wildfires (2 such) and the pronunciation of Latin.

The article probably shouldn't be here just because HN users won't respond to it with the sort of discussion that is wanted on HN, but it's about history and the functioning of systems of government and these are definitely not topics that are "far removed from HN stuff".
The AI race is one of the most impressive examples of Capitalism making the market efficient. Or at least I've witnessed in my life.

We went from Google having complete control. To Open AI releasing GPT2 which really inspired a lot of people to try it. Then GPT3+ convinced the world to try it.

After that, Gemini, LLaMa, every type of fine-tune... The noteworthy thing is that LLaMA was good enough that ChatGPT had competition. Then within 1 year of that, we have a dozen companies with models that are good enough.

The competition has been the best type of brutal.
It's a sword fight sport you goofus
Both sides received significantly less votes than previous election. One side just happened to drive better turnout. That is all.
If you see it that way, things will never change.

I don’t care about immigration either way, I don’t have an axe to grind.
There are many good options for passively cooled N100s (or even machines with significantly faster chips) roughly the size of a mac mini.
I love the idea of low power computing, but I have seen rpi 2 and 3 fail so many times (microsd technology is unreliable, cpu fries at room temperature, gpio randomly stops producing voltage) over the years, no idea why this brand still exists and sells products. Maybe it is just me.
The only feasible way I can think of is a locally run model. Perhaps whisper?
It all depends on the load profile using the allocator. You never know, that said you cannot beat, in theory, a semantically specialized allocator for a specific load... in other words, the right way(TM). This means applications should bundle their own allocators for the various load types they have. The "generic" allocator is sort of an heresy for the lazy, short termists or those who are in hurry. Don't worry I still use such generic allocator, sometimes, but often I do mmap myself the memory and deal directly with it.
If anyone would like to try an alternative to Copilot for Excel, I've been working on an addin that is designed more for advanced users who know what they want. It's currently free while it's in beta and I gather feedback to improve it.

It can be used to quickly add conditional formatting rules, charts, pivot tables, formulas, perform data manipulation tasks that you would have to use VBA for, etc. It's also private - it doesn't include the data in prompts, only metadata (table headers, etc).

I'm sending invites out as they are requested. You can request an invite here: https://www.incant.app/
> Sometimes it's better to paraphrase dialog to reduce the amount of text that needs to be read.

Questionable. It drives me crazy to have subtitles that are paraphrase in a way that changes the meaning of statements.
I like using dell Wyse 5070. Cheap and available, basically same or less power than a Rpi but without all the limitations.

Building any server on a SD card or external HD is just causing stress for their future self.
Run the model on your PC. Done?
Totally personally skewed perspective, but thinking about the number of systems I've installed VLC on, some multiple times through rebuilds etc, 6 billion feels like a huge underestimate!
To be honest, I am seeing so much blandness that I will welcome patterned carpets for a change.

I would definitely go to the hotel featured in "The Shining" if it wasn't for the murders.
I think they meant the sharing
As mentioned, the subsidies are the biggest player.

What you mentioned does probably play a role as well, with much more $/revenue being spent on marketing for non-animal milk than cow milk. None of the big milk players are trying to present themselves as a hip startup like Oatly is. Wouldn't be surprised if the latter was even VC backed.

But again, good ole' communist subsidies are the number one cause.
I had exactly the same experience. Human expertise in subtitle makes the experience really better
Rubber Soul, but it's Motown [video]
Or, hear me out, it's purely a cultural thing. Some communities are into hockey, wrestling, soccer, football etc. You could say the same thing about ski jumping, yet it's extremely popular in a few EU countries and pretty well funded. AFAIU barely anyone gave a shit about gymnastics in the US before Biles - if we have pipelines for young athletes to succeed, their sports can absolutely become regionally popular, sufficiently for them to be self sustainable through direct sponsorships.
How would someone force a driverless car to get stuck in an infinite loop?

Also, requiring someone to stop the car via an app is appalling. What if there's no phone reception?
Raspberry PI lead the way, and made a big splash a decade ago. The defined this market.

But wonder if the competition has caught up.

Seems like lots of other options with more power, cheaper. Or maybe not. I'm kind of looking for an opinion on this.
There seems to be quite a few such loopholes. Another one is POTUS’s ability to suspend Congress indefinitely when there is a “disagreement” between the House and Senate as to whether they’re in recess. It’s not clear what “disagreement” means and hypothetically the courts could disagree, but even in light of that you’re talking about 1 POTUS, 1 Congressional majority leader, and a few Justices required to suspend Congress indefinitely.

(Article 2 Section 3)
What model did you get? I've been looking at various micros on eBay/local sites, but none that I find are actually available for reasonable prices shipped to me (Norway). Finding lots of machines around ~$220 USD, but then add in $50 shipping + VAT and it adds up
No, the question is, do you 'trust the science', the quote from the director of cdc:

> And we have -- we can kind of almost see the end. We`re vaccinating so very fast, our data from the CDC today suggests, you know, that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don`t get sick, and that it`s not just in the clinical trials but it`s also in real world data.

...and the visit grandma, who cannot get vaccinated (immunocompromised), because you're vaccinated, and don't carry the virus and don't get sick?

Or are you one of those 'conspiracy theorists' who say "the vaccinated are carrying the virus, even if you're vaccinated, you'll still get sick and kill grandma"?
> You get solid OS support right

One thing that frustrates me after running Raspberry Pis for years is that RPiOS doesn't really support in-place upgrades. You have to more or less set them up a new with each major release, despite the Debian origins where this is of course robustly possible.
Amateur philosopher here:

What is the debate going on here? Is it epistemology? Or linguistics?

I imagine its some subset, if anyone can point me in the right direction, I'm interested.
Perhaps expecting at least an honorable mention for Kurosawa: from solo combat, through small group engagements (there were only 7 + a village :) up to the sweeping mass banner-men battles of Kagemusha and Ran.
You get what you pay for I guess.
Translators are paid pennies and AI is making it much worse.

Who in their right mind would aspire to become a professional translator today?
What was it? Model?
I'm guessing that's just from the main website. It's distributed so wildly I'd wager we'll never know the complete number. But yeah, I've also must have installed it at least 50 times or so, since the first time I came across it.
How about you get off your 17th century witch doctor house and admit you're a human following practices that broadly work which have been refined and tested by a large group of humans using a scientific like model over many years. Done...

And please try to do some actual outreach with children. It helps refine what you're talking about into short simple statements vs rambling comparisons between Maoist china and the clergy.

Comparing yourself to a priest in a tower turns away many and encourages anti-thesim type conversations to start which I think is what you're ironically making fun of here. (A lot of very vocal people simply don't/won't see that).

And simply put, no I don't have the free time to finish reading all of that...
What is the alternative?

The results could be cached, but it's probably unlikely that they would need to be used again later, as I imagine most videos are watched only once.

Another option would be to upload the generated subtitles to some service or p2p, but I believe that would also problem (e.g. privacy, who runs the service, firewalls for p2p, etc).
Strictly speaking it's a West Australian Inseminator's Ball (as titled) which were for a while run in parallel with the B&S balls although to the best of my knowledge they've both died down in popularity - Muresk Agricultural College very nearly closed, although it's gotten fresh grant money in recent years which may have changed things up a bit.

It shares a bit of overlap with many other variations of a bush party that I've been to, they've all been a little bit unique, a little bit the same.

There's even been a odd local lesser version of the more famous US Burning Man here - inspired by is perhaps the best description: https://blazingswan.com.au/ and not like a B&S, a bush doof, nor a Burning Man.

None of these things look like an inner city warehouse rave or nightclub either.
No problem. If you are in EU, you upload your input to a server located in US, that way EU law can watch you do that.
These days I start to think (US) college sports, as bad as they are for many reasons, are much better than the Olympics, in the sense that at least athletes don't need to worry about being able to afford the training.
https://ngc.nvidia.com/
I just bought one for 120€ (from AliExpress). I will use it to replace my small 2-disk NAS by adding an usb HDD dock and to host some small personal servers (for managing recipes, groceries, tools, downloads, etc, nothing fancy).

I initially considered a rpi5 + SATA HAT because I don't need much power and the N100 is definitely more power hungry than a RPi but the price tag that included 16gb ram and 512gb SSD convinced me to buy the minipc.

I also considered buying a N100 motherboard with 4-6 SATA port to not rely on a single usb port for the NAS port but it was more expensive than the PC and without RAM or hard drive
Plenty of tofu dishes in Korea and part of China. Almost never vegan, but often vegetarian.
Unfortunately the solution is quite simple - don’t release in EU.
Free isn’t the issue. Google’s office products are free, have mobile apps that work offline and while a desktop app isn’t a big deal for me, some who travel for work and use a laptop that may not have internet access all of the time - mostly on a plane - might care. WiFi is available on most planes and free with some airlines but is unreliable.

If you are in the Apple ecosystem, iWorks is free, has iOS and desktop versions for the Mac and a web version. But it’s the same argument for Windows users I had for GSuite.

The poster I replied to cares about open source I assume.
What issues did the proprietary blobs cause versus porting to other arm based SBCs without them?
It requires active cooling doesn't it...
Those of us who learned computing mostly trough it's limitations are building software considering for them, even if mostly not necessary. Other just use electron for a command line wrapper.
I'd prefer to avoid the US entirely if I could help it, but that's pretty hard to pull off in today's tech word.
Meanwhile in my Russian university, everyone scraped whatever they wanted. As long as you didn't cause any harm or disruption to these systems, no one cared.

There were tests you had to take in a special classroom full of Sun thin clients. You had to register yourself for some time slot(s) to go there. Sometimes you had to go there in like 2 days to meet a deadline but there were no slots available. So, someone made an app that would continuously scrape that page and notify you when a slot for your chosen time is available. Saved my ass a couple times.
just mastodon.
This boils down to software development not being free. In VLC's case, the development is funded by several for profit companies (like videolabs) that make their money from stuff they do with VLC (consulting, commercial services, etc.).

VLC is a good example of an OSS project that is pretty well run with decades of history that has a healthy ecosystem of people and companies earning their living supporting all that and a foundation to orchestrate the development. I don't think there ever was a lot of VC money they need to worry about. This is all organic growth and OSS working as it should.

So, this boils down to what paying customers of these companies are paying for. The project also accepts donations but those go to the foundation and not the companies. It's the companies that employ most of the developers. And you can't fault them on working on things that they value. If AI features is what they pay for then that is what they work on.

I happen to share your reservations about the UX. It's a bit old school, to put it mildy. And they obviously don't have professional designers that they work with. Like many OSS products, it looks and feels like product made by techies for techies. It doesn't bother me that much but I do notice these things. I actually talked to one of their IOS developers a few years ago. Pretty interesting person and not a huge team as I recall. I remember talking to her about some of the frustrations she had with the UX and the lack of appreciation of that. I think she moved to Netflix afterwards.

Like with most OSS projects you are welcome to take part in the meritocracy and push your favorite features or pay somebody to do that for you. But otherwise, you should just be grateful for this awesome thing existing and prospering.
Given they are releasing models, whose to say that they don't have teams working -- not secretly -- just not in the open?
Not just any loop, an infinite loop.
As long as they're synced properly I don't care much, some movies/shows have really bad sound mix and it's not always possible to find good subs in the first place
> better to paraphrase dialog to reduce the amount of text that needs to be read.

That's just bad destructive art, especially for a foreign language that you partially know.

> Sometimes you need to name a voice as unknown, to avoid spoilers.

Don't name any, that's what your own eye-ear voice recognition/matching and positioning are for (also reduces the amount of text)

> Sometimes the positioning on the screen matters.

This is rather valuable art indeed!
Though unlikely fit to be modelled well
Never been in one but these things should have a big red stop button on the roof or something. Don't they?
This article is one sided: why those guys are targetting tesla, what are the reasons?