skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The exact same thing happened to me with League of Legends. I was inexplicably banned for cheating, despite never having done any such thing (and despite regularly playing on three accounts (this is fully permitted), the other two of which were not banned!) Their support people repeatedly said "we reviewed your case and the ban is correct", etc. all the while giving zero information about what I did so I could correct it. I have a couple of the rarest skins in the game, and have played thousands of hours since 2009. I only play ARAM, so the suggestion I was risking my account of great sentimental value by cheating at the most casual mode in the game is beyond ridiculous. Anyway, nothing in gaming has ever stressed me out more. I got unbanned solely because of a contact in the industry who had it looked into, and the ban was inexplicably lifted. I still play, but I think about the false ban almost every time, and League will probably be the last competitive multiplayer game I ever put any time towards. Part of me doesn't want to play it anymore because I dread that happening again. :(
Hard to believe that there is 6 available seats in academia for every 10 postdoc.
But would you want the rest of the world to operate the same way?

If ycombinator wants to show HN to somebody in Germany then they would have to spin off a company owned by Germans to be able to show HN there? Same for France and the other 170-200 countries in the world.

This is obviously an unreasonable way for the internet to work.
Are there opportunities for those of us in the USA to take in fiancés from other countries in the current climate? I'm currently in the dating circuit for women who have software engineering backgrounds and this situation has made me very nervous about how I'm going to actually bring a fiancé to the USA now.
yeah, and then you need to get refreshed orbital elements for those satellites. not good if you are in an airtight environment.

celestial ephemerides don't change nearly as much.
Legitimate question, according to you, this person should be going into the woman's room: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Angel#/media/File:Buck_An...

How do you feel about that?
And yet, Andromeda is the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way: next door neighbors in the small patch of the Universe known as the Local Group.
I really hope you'll be right -

But the first one is a human using things. Its big guy vs little guy.

The prescident is there, google already "reads" every page in the internet and injests it into its systems and has for decades and has survived lawsuits to do so.
I'm from a former European communist country.
> You clearly think the principle goal should be the U.S. foreign policy outcome.

What about just not being a total money pit AND the money not being used against us?

That’s a far cry from optimizing for US foreign policy,
No it is not. A house is just totally impossible to finance with the average salary of two people, especially if you have children or a car.
The Porsche 356 was the first car made by the Porsche motor company, and it's not electric:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_356

The guy who founded the company, Ferdinand Porsche, did work on an electric car for another company before that, called the Egger-Lohner C.2 Phaeton. But, while the Porsche marketing department seems to be hard at work to make it seem like he was wholly responsible for it, if you go to the Wikipedia article for that car you get this gem of a sentence:

> It is the first vehicle that Ferdinand Porsche somewhat contributed to

Further down it seems like he designed the car's drivetrain. And also that Porsche (the company) has a history with this car: they acquired it from another museum and then started displaying it with the incorrect label of "the first Porsche".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egger-Lohner_C.2_Phaeton
Had a friend once who wanted to do research in an urgently necessary direction. Didn't get the money or academic support.

Couple years later she told me that happens a lot but one is so focused on their work and the illusion that "once I'm there ..." so strong, that one ignores the hard evidence and much debated proof, despite, well, one's own training.
`uv` really is amazing.
>Not for the average person

OP was talking explicitly about start up founders.
i learnt a lot about virglrender, spice, opencv and ocr (and a bit of python but that was the easy part) by making a cv pokemmo bot
Dude, I was suggesting that you, not the LLM, write the tests in this scenario.
I would add it also uses an ancient analog TV for manual sighting in combination with the GUI for semi-auto centroiding. I always thought that was funny to see, but it seems to work well enough. Also, inserting that baffle is somewhat terrifying because it slots into a hole next to the main vacuum window and if you dropped it on the membrane, bad things would happen. Always fun to bump into Polies here :)
But Ms at CMU, aren’t you looking at about 400k?!
You can ensure a model trains on transformative not derivative synthetic texts, for example, by asking for summary, or turning it into QA pairs, or doing contrastive synthesis across multiple copyrighted works. This will ensure the resulting model will never regurgitate the training set because it has not seen it. This approach only takes abstract ideas from copyrighted sources, protecting their specific expression.

If abstract ideas were protectable what would stop a LLM from learning not from the original source but from social commentary and follow up works? We can't ask people not to reproduce ideas they read about. But on the other hand, protecting abstractions would kneecap creativity both in humans and AI.
Yup, used this exact same model for some time. The problem is it does not block voice sound as well as other. But anything else? Silence. It is crazy how loud an AC can sound after you remove those.
Not particlularly angry (at you, not at all; at web sites, a little), just a very different experience than yours: Many articles I come across refuse to display in reader view.

What's "forced reader view"? If I could force it (and get a readable result every time), there'd be no reason to be even a little angry.
Yes, once again I think it's all fine, provided that people who did not provide any value to anyone are not allowed to own all the hammers, which implies at least abolishing inheritance. "Choosing freely" when the choice is "use my hammer or die, because btw my ancestors got all the hammers" is not choosing freely.
Working on a team in a larger python application, type checkers and linters are such a time saver. It's so nice not to think about how I'd like to format my code any longer. We've made some tweaks to our ruff rules to suit the team's opinion, and now even when I don't _love_ the way it formats a particular part of code, I just move on and get something productive done instead.

And type checking is so great for both preventing bugs (which it does all the time) and self-documenting code. Can't recommend them enough.
You can actually usually get a pretty good starting point from just a single build, and only refine it once you find a build it breaks on. It's essentially just finding a unique substring. In my experience this almost always involves some wildcard sections, so the signature in the parent got lucky not to need them. I like to think about it as more of matching the shape of the original instructions than matching them verbatim.

To manually construct a signature, you basically just take what the existing instructions encode to, and wildcard out the bits which are likely to change between builds. Then you'll see if it's still a unique match, and if not add a few more instructions on. This will be things like absolute addresses, larger pointer offsets, the length of relative jumps, and sometimes even what registers the instructions operate on. Here's an example of mine that needed all of those:

"48 8B ?? ????????", // mov rcx, [rdi+000001D0]
"48 85 C9", // test rcx, rcx
"74 ??", // je Talos2-Win64-Shipping.exe+25EE729
"E8 ????????", // call Talos2-Win64-Shipping.exe+25E45F0
"48 63 ?? ????????", // movsxd rax, dword ptr [rbx+000005D0]
"8D 70 FF" // lea esi, [rax-01]

Now since making a signature is essentially just finding a unique substring, with a handful of extra rules for wildcards, you can also automate it. Here's a ghidra script (not my own) which I've found quite handy.

https://github.com/nosoop/ghidra_scripts/blob/master/makesig...
Very cool! I think an interesting variation could be to try and generate ASS subtitles for the video with the chords and/or karaoke. There are some very cool transition and vector graphic effects possible there.
It’s such clownery to try to lock down a thing you’re trying to sell to a community of tinkerers. The brand damage (the article fighting strawmen does little to reduce it) can’t be worth whatever upside they’re seeing unless they really are positioning themselves to use their unjustified power for profit (which will, of course, result in greater brand damage).

FWIW, I was really interested in the Bambu models until I found out about their shitty corporate behavior.
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Why just mothers?
Scientists say they found oxygen where it shouldn't be
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Talk is cheap. China shifting their economic model would be a geopolitical event of the decade. Nothing other than talk has happened.
This could speed up linking:

https://github.com/rui314/mold
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At least for me personally when I use my iPhone as a hotspot it tends to be one of two cases:

1) Tethering to my laptop when I need to check something for work in a pinch

2) Letting friends use my data if they don't have any or have a limited plan

In both cases, I think it makes sense to not automatically connect every time my phone is near.
MyPy is nice, but it has missed some things that pyright caught, which were legitimate bugs that could have arisen.
I have a lot of grips with AWS, but long term support isn’t one of them.

They’ve given nearly 2 years notice here (more than double what a lot of other SaaS providers offer) and there will be an army of AWS engineers available to help customers migrate too.

AWS do actually discontinue services all the time. It just doesn’t make the headlines because their depreciation process is so good.

Now, if you wanted to discuss their billing, difficultly to navigating the literally thousands of products they offer, contradicting documentation, half baked implementations, cryptic error messages (assuming you’re even lucky enough to get an error) when deployments fail, or the dozen other hurdles that make using AWS a highly paid specialty, then I’d agree with you. But depreciation of services is one of their strengths.
The full title is:

> An Algorithm for Affordable Vision-Based GNSS-Denied Strapdown Celestial Navigation

Emphasis mine.

In what kind of context do you expect drones to operate in an area where GNSS is disabled by electronic warfare devices? Do you really think that a $400 cost is of any issue for military use?
> The sensible thing would be to pull NATO back to more reasonable boundaries and leave the Russians alone.

This does nothing to address the core issue of Russia viewing over 100 million Europeans across more than 10 countries as "lost colonies" that must be reconquered and subjugated under a Russian supremacist ideology.

It is us, not Russia, that must be left alone. In February 2022, European tanks did not roll into Russia; Russian tanks rolled into Europe.
you can buy travel esim packages like arialo, that gives you easy data in a lot of countris.
Plausible Fiction – David Spivak
Because the party is actually only reacting way to late to events. Want to know how they plan economically in reality? Look at the botched covid pandemic- that was a pulse (the pandemic) and the party reacting to it. Now you know about capabilities and reaction speeds of the CCP in the most dire of emergencies.
I suppose the translations may have a strong modern bias. Even the languages were only learned indirectly. First Old Persian in an unknown script had to be deciphered, then phonetic values for that script had to be used to decipher Akkadian, based in its similarity to other known languages. Sumerian was deciphered based on some education materials in Akkadian, and its translations seem like it's little more than a delusion that anything is unserstood at all.

There is simply nothing among the finds that could be money, and contracts seem to be in the form of I gave you 18 measures of wheat for three fat sheep. You gave me 7 jugs of oil, and I will make you 8 pairs of sandals" (all numbers and everything made up right now)
>If you charge a lot, it's a tough or impossible sell for users who aren't yet sure they'll get that amount of value from it.

Customers often value things by how much they pay for them. I saw my sales increase after my first price rise.
It's an opportunity cost. Since they can't have infinite employees, their current employees are better allocated to other things.
Lot of seats are basic researchers. Chasing after grant after grand or doing some work for someone else.
> But all of that personal opinion set aside, what triggers my initial statement is that so many persons are so excited to run to use Ruff because... "It is so fast"... when I'm quite sure most of them would never notice any real speed difference with their modest codebase.

I work on a fairly modest code base (22k lines of python according to sloccount), and I'm seeing a significant decrease in runtime between `pylint src/ tests/` with default parameters and `ruff check src/ tests/` with the majority of checks enabled. More specifically, I'm seeing a decrease from 18 second to less than a tenth of a second with a hot FS and having deleted the ruff cache between runs.
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> No project within a single organization is completely independent. In general they all serve to meet a unified business objective and developers often need the global context on occasion.

Of course; I was only quoting the article. I am a firm believer in making things as simple as possible until you need something complicated, and monorepos/Bazel definitely get a “complicated” label from me.
Because it listens actively and asks questions.
True, and that's why I wish there was a greater focus on preventative care in the US. Takes a lot of motivation to get a physical when things are mostly fine.

I'm working on the habits I have most direct control over: healthy eating, cardio exercise and reducing stress.
Some of the noise is also there in German, cf https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergfried (the English page has the same name, but does not mention Burgfried). Just an example, could be very well unrelated.
> That's the gold standard in the industry though, you don't warn(suspected) cheaters to not give them opportunity to adjust their tactics.

Is this supposed to do any good? The actual cheater is still getting a signal that they've been detected, because they get banned. Then they figure out how, make a new account and go back to cheating.

Meanwhile the normal user is both confused and significantly more inconvenienced, because their rank etc. on the account you falsely banned was earned legitimately through hard work instead of low-effort cheating.
1) It's definitely copying, but that doesn't necessarily mean the end product is itself a copyright violation. (And that remains true even where some of the steps to make it were themselves violations).

2) Agreed! Where this becomes interesting with LLMs is that, as with people, they can have the capacity to produce a derivative work even without having seen the original.

For example, an LLM that had "read" enough reviews of Harry Potter might be able to produce a reasonable stab at the book (at least enough so for the law to consider it a derivative) without ever having consumed the work itself or direct derivatives.

3) It's more of a tool-use and intent argument. One might make the argument that an LLM is a machine, not a set of content/data, and that the liability for what it does sits firmly with the user/operator, not those who made it. If I use a typewriter to copy Harry Potter - or a weapon to hurt or kill someone - in neither case does the machine or its maker have any liability there.
Ah, indeed – we’re on the same page! (I wish this wasn’t a belated reply…)

One thing is that I’m “forced” to pretty strictly wire my circadian rhythm to the societally defined clock.

This also defines much of what is the actual input into my circadian sensorium: Artificial light :)

I am able to have a remarkably consistent circadian rhythm, going to sleep arounnnnd, say, 11 PM? Waking up around 8-ish. Those times wiggle around a little.

It’s subtly tricky to put into words –meaning it’s interesting! — and I’m not even absolutely sure that this is everything that defines the machinery,
but given this, uh, “framework”?, it’s ludicrously consistent: If I back my neuroendocrine system into a corner, it will bite at 5:30. Sometimes a bit earlier.

Thanks for the discussion! I hope we are actually on the same page w.r.t. premises and that I’m continuing this on the avenue you’re looking down!
Can you tell us a little bit more about your codebase? I'm curious. Because for it to take tens of minutes, something should be crazy over there.
It depends what you mean by useful. On its own, all you're doing is taking pictures of the sky and figuring out where the camera was pointing (and its field of view). Where it's useful is calibrating the pointing direction of other systems. It's fun to try the software at home (there is a public web interface), you just need a camera that can take long enough exposures to see stars without too much noise.

One of the more "useful" backyard astronomy tasks that is achievable for a dedicated amateur is variable star observation (eg AAVSO), because many stars don't need huge telescopes to observe and it's very expensive for a big observatory to stare at a single patch of sky for weeks. Nowadays we have instruments like LSST which is basically designed for this sort of surveying, but public data are still useful. And you do need to know exactly where you're pointing, so either you do this manually by pointing at a bunch of target stars, or you can use a guide scope that solves the field for you.
> ...even a long string of failures in specific endeavors doesn't necessarily translate to failure in life.

I needed to hear that!
>It was still bringing in sales of about $600 a month, but it felt like a weight hanging around my neck.

I had the same feeling when I shut down mine last year. In theory I could have left it running for some pocket money but after 23 years I had had enough. After a couple of really slow months I decided to discontinue it and retire.
$7 billion in assets does not seem severely limited to me. Maybe compared to a handful of the most funded/richest companies in the world
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To add to this, it’s vanishingly seldom that you would have a finished track where multiple parts of the ensemble are playing different chords, rather than each part making up the same overall chord structure.
How do you find your location from one image of stars? It is possible if you have a precise vertical but you don't have a precise vertical on a moving UAV. That is, you need an inertial system on top that will provide you with a vertical.

With satellite images, you don't need anything apart from time. And no, you don't need to "make a video to see satellites move", you start with your approximate location, make an image and find satellites within a circle where each of them might be, starting with the slowest moving - furthest away from you - ones (they provide poorest precision of coordinates because parallax is small, but you need to start with something, but their search circle will also be smaller), locating those, you get better coordinates of yours and the search circle for each satellite becomes smaller, then you can find faster moving satellites too to get precise coordinates of yourself.
Wayland also killed hobbyist window managers, pretty much like systemd kills Linuxes based on other init systems.
Great stuff! Thanks for making this. Would love the ability to turn off the sound, but that's a minor nitpick.
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Ask HN: What is the best app for realtime voice language translation?
Hi,
my wife is Vietnamese and we are looking for the best possible app to translate between english/polish/vietnamese audio/voices. What is best app currently to translate in realtime? We tried Google Translate, but the quality of the service/app is very bad. ChatGPT app is much better but it is not really focused on voice language translation. It would be awesome if the app works offline.
As a maintainer of a calculator collection website which is guaranteed AI-free I asked ChatGPT to draw me a logo for a guaranteed AI-free website, then realising I could not use that logo on an AI-free website :-)
That doesn't work well in some conditions, it's not new either.
Some cruise missiles that have TFR (Terrain-following radar) and actually do this already.

It also is not really applicable when you are on a balistic course at *very* high altitude, course correction has to happen early in these case given the reentry speed/constraints.
Cool demos! Interesting to think of these not as 64 byte programs, but something like 24 bytes or less (<3 bits each for the 6 symbols).
Hey Peter, I appreciate what you're doing here. I made a throwaway account since I don't want this part of my personal life to be on HN and tied to me in any way.

I'm currently waiting for about 6 months to get my marriage case reviewed with USCIS (CR-1). The USCIS website at one point said it'd take a few weeks, now it's back to a few months; Reddit is unanimous: don't trust what the USCIS website says. I've looked at Visa Journey and based on that it seems to take about 15 months, if I recall correctly.

In your experience, how long does it take? When should we ring the bell when it is going too slowly? Also, does it matter that I'm from a northern/western European country or does it not matter at all?
I do have a similar story with the 2.4.1 or 2.4.2 version unfortunately. Didn't take the time to debug it or fill an issue yet but when the library (between 100 and 200G) is on a USB stick it regularly hangs for 10-15s when browsing. It always came back to normal but made me sweat every time.
Cost of 1 therm from pg&e is $2.66 so variable speed heat pump can still be cheaper
Yes, there is a long migration period (almost 2 years). Yes, if you are paying for support, they will help you a lot with the migration.

But if you are using a (costly) managed service it's because you don't want the hurdle of managing the service. Migrating off something is instead probably the most time consuming thing in a service lifecycle. So, even if it is normal to sunset products and people deal with it all the time, it's still a big PITA if you are affected.
Anybody can self publish on Apple Books, and probably on Amazon as well. Who cares about Random House, or B&N endcap (whatever that is). A "good author" in this case is somebody who can independently make sure his book is readable, and doesn't have to rely on a publisher to fix spelling, get pages in order, and such.
Sorry, but I'm not following your point here.
This is a lot of fun. Thank you for making this.
Is there firmware for Bambu printers beyond the X1 that just skips all the stupid stuff this company does (while keeping the good features)? Like most companies, it seems that they shouldn’t be trusted with control over hardware that you own.
The article mentions that the galaxy is a big target for Hubble to image but doesn’t specify exactly how large: Andromeda stretches 3° across our sky compared to our Moon’s apparent diameter of 0.5°. It would be quite a sight to behold if it were bright enough to see by naked eye.