skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm old enough to know we already have and nobody gave it a second thought:

- When is the last time anybody took dictation?

- Switchboard operators were automated out of existence

- Remember the days if you needed a memo typed you would send your hand-written memo to the typing pool?

- If you needed copies you would hand-deliver your job to the copy machine operator. Heck, that was my first job in high school!

So...why would I expect AI to be any different? The past 150 years has shown us if a job can be automated out of existence, then it will be.
> That's fair. It is highly hypocritical to call for the end of civilian gun ownership but expect civilian gun owners to save them from authoritarian goverment.

I wouldn't say hypocritical. I'd say cognitively dissonant. Not the same thing.

> It is also hypocritical for civilian gun owners to claim they will use their 2A rights to protect themselves and other citizens from authoritarian government but fail to be vigilant enough to recognize the rise of authoritarianism.

Private firearms ownership is an indirect and implicit threat of violence against tyranny. It may or may not work as such. It might only limit the degree of tyranny. Remember, armed citizens can't organize to commit violence against the state because the state has authority (or a patina of authority) and the ability to bring a great deal of force to bear on any hot spots. The state's ability to bring force to bear is limited though, but only in such a way that a huge number of citizens would have to rise up simultaneously and be patient enough to keep rising as the going gets tough. Therefore I think private firearms ownership can't stop tyranny altogether, but can moderate it. There is no hypocrisy or cognitive dissonance here.
cgmath is nice, but it uses old Rust 2015 and hasn't been updated since January 2021.
Usenet was great until the spammers arrived.
> Trying to take down "apple.com" will get vastly more scrutiny and pushback than trying to take down some little guy.

I wish that weren't the case. It's grossly unfair.
Thanks! I think the limitation is in my knowledge and not in the article or schematics!

I have a rtl-sdr and I’ve played with gnu radio, but the signals that I had to explore were very limited! Apart from few remotes for fans and stuff around the house I only had fm radio and little more.

What I find very interesting from this is the possibility of taking a Si5351A breakout board, configuring it with I2C (I can do that), modulate it with something like audio and a mixer (I can code that… maybe) and plug that directly, likely through and attenuator, to gnu radio!

It would certainly be a lot easier to get a sdr transmitter, but I wasn’t aware of the possibility of modulating a Si5351A with a “simple” signal like 48kHz audio!
Many thanks for your words.

> Are they at least supportive or are their expectations too much without giving you anything in return ? Focus on that. If you have a good supportive environment with people you like working with, think twice before leaving.

I can very well give them that, in that they're pretty much ok with me learning on my own and not immediately contributing to the codebase (aside from the matter of this particular project having to wait months before things will start advancing in that direction), as long as I occupy my time with prototyping stuff for future use... you're right in saying that a supportive environment is more often than not a rarity to cherish rather than the norm. I will keep what you recommended in high regard, thank you.
I tend to enjoy the banter on 4chan more than here. Everyone is expected to dish it and take it there. Peoples' biases are obvious, because they make it clear who they dislike fairly often. Nobody actually takes any real offense to it all. It's quite pleasant compared to the sanitized world of... literally anywhere else.

Of course, if seeing the N word makes you obsessively clutch pearls, then it's not the place for you. If you can let stuff roll right off you, it's fun, and there can be dialogue of interest here and there. /g/ being most similar to here, of course.
It's not fair to call it a "Mistrial" just because it hallucinates a little bit.
This is my biggest fear of retiring from programming and doing something else. At 55, I feel like programming keeps my brain elastic. I fear leaving that and going into slow decline.
The actual title in the linked media is: "Trump pausing tariffs on some Canadian goods until April 2". So, media did not lied nor committed error by omission. To be fair, OP did not mentioned or accused media.

The hacker news title is "Trump says he is pausing tariffs on Canadian ...". So, either Trump lies or the HN title lies.
Classic bagon comment! :)
A significant number of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Hard to save without having the $$.
Maybe but isn't France cutting back on research funding? Their economy has been struggling as of recent, they're still below the 2008 peak https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/fra/fra...

Further I can't imagine Trump is going to be cutting engineering research, they're more likely to cancel gender/DEI research, which isn't exactly regarded as especially high quality research (even if it's only 10-15 million in funding)
“Will creep” is the wrong tense: we’re doing it now. At $bigco we’ve rolled out GH Copilot and an AWS sandbox with Sonnet3.7 et al to the whole engineering org (which is big). We already have a 2025 KPI around copilot use by devs, human review required for generated code commits (by policy) for now. Just this week we started rolling out automated copilot PR reviews for human code, it’s already packaged in github action runners. PMs are already using genai for fleshing out epics and features and the architecture org has a demo next week of a genai diagramming tool.

If this tech saves four cents net/net it doesn’t matter how many engineers go away. It’s short sighted for sure, nobody cares if we don’t have junior devs in five years as long as we decrease headcount.
Senior leadership was on the fence a bit until they came back from re:invent, AWS must have pushed hard in those closed door meetings. They came home positively GIDDY
> We use LLM for exploring data with language

That seems problematic, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HARKing
thanks, i didn't know that keyword was special.
It’s the same thing. Anything that could be automated but isn’t automated is because it isn’t cost effective to do so or there is insufficient capital to invest. These are resource allocation issues. You can’t just wave that away.
There is, though. You'd be going at it alone. That's what this post is about - taking the pulse of the community at large to see how we all feel about possibly making a new org.

You can't make a viable browser product by yourself.
So, instead of engaging in a discussion, and sharing your knowledge, with someone genuinely interested in learning from you— to improve upon the seeming misconception that bothers you — you link to paper and do nothing to correct your own pet peeve. Maybe consider that human life is finite, no person will ever be able to read or analyze everything, so you can help others when you have a piece of knowledge. Relevant - https://xkcd.com/1053/.
I wonder if they could get away with an extra L and using ascii art of the pokemon...
An answer to what? To some half-baked theory you dreamed up just to sound deep and insightful about intelligence? If you think you have some insight about intelligence go do something useful with it, I don't know, try to publish a paper.

Or, you know what? I've had it up to here with all the wild-ass swivel-eyed loon theories about what intelligence is and isn't. if you really think you know what intelligence is all about why don't you write it up as a program and run it on a computer, and show us all that your theory is right? Go ahead and create intelligence. Intelligence is compression? Go compress stuff and make it intelligent or whatever it is you think works.

Put your money where your mouth is. Until then don't accuse others of bad faith.
Great question! So the dataset includes prompts and solutions, but no "gold" answer per se to use for SFT. You could sample responses from larger models and then train the smaller model on their answers, but as outlined in the benchmarks there is still a lot of headroom on this task and I wouldn't expect that to get the same results. At the very least you would probably want to do rejection sampling to discard bad results. It would definitely be a good experiment!
Stupid idea. We're already having to kill them because of rising numbers.

England is a nation of floodplains. Its also overcrowded.

Another STUPID green fallacy.
Add Locations to 1Password for Instant Access Anywhere
You completely missed the point. This discussion is about dementia. The assisted suicide laws in Canada and other countries generally require the patient to be of sound mind, as evaluated by a qualified clinician. The laws don't apply to patients with severe dementia.

In the comment above, @thinkingtoilet apparently wants someone to kill them if they ever have severe dementia. Presumably that desire would be expressed in some sort of "living will" type document. If the patient meets the criteria then should a healthcare provider strap them down and kill them, even if in the moment the patient says then don't want to die? That seems ethically dubious. It essentially puts providers in the position of being serial killers.

Canada has also had some serious abuses and ethically questionable situations. They are not necessarily a model to emulate.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/some-health-care-workers-...
It's easy enough to say, but damn, those golden handcuffs must just be so shiny.

Plus, if a principled and ethical engineer leaves the company, I assure you there is a large backlog of very eager replacements. Personally, Id rather see effective dissent from within the org.
Only insofar as you trust the root programs to use their leverage responsibly, both today and in the medium-to-long-term future.
Actual article: https://blog.1password.com/add-locations-to-items/
I don't have an issue with the UX, but the design of the user interface seems to have been copied almost pixel-for-pixel.

I wish this project a lot of success but also that it ends up devloping its own identity.
> I can't imagine Trump is going to be cutting engineering research

Singular lack of imagination on display considering recent events
Terrell Effect Observed
So peace is bad, oppression through mask mandates is good, but let's not hold politicians to their own actual rules if they're in a position of influence?
> Google will just buy everyone and slowly suffocate the rest.

> A browser cannot cost a billion per year, that’s bullshit people want you to believe.

Those two comments contradict each other. And the second one shows why Google won't just buy everyone out. Competing as a business/org is totally doable if all Big Tech does is throw money at problems.
Anyone here using similar tools? What features do you find most useful, and what do you think is missing in most website monitoring apps?
Another reframe: "Do we need millions of dollars to hire a ton of devs, or can it be done in a lean and mean style team?"
This seems really cool! From an architectural standpoint, how does the Conversational AI Engine handle concurrent voice streams and manage real-time speech-to-text and text-to-speech processing at scale? I ask especially since I’ve seen other implementations struggle with latency and reliability under heavy loads.
Agreed. I'm assuming there has to be some emacs plugins that do this in an interactive buffer right? I'm curious now
Nobody cares about tech debt when large orgs are happy to rewrite every workload each decade. Every reorg finds the debt, blames it on “the last guy” (now in management), and they replace some components with new tech. Rinse and repeat.

Source code just isn’t an asset anymore, and it’s been slowly growing since Serverless; genai just accelerated it, and “bucket o’ lambdas” is a valid architecture now.
I ran a partial benchmark against marker - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker .

Across 375 samples with LLM as a judge, mistral scores 4.32, and marker 4.41 . Marker can inference between 20 and 120 pages per second on an H100.

You can see the samples here - https://huggingface.co/datasets/datalab-to/marker_comparison... .

The code for the benchmark is here - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker/tree/master/benchmark... . Will run a full benchmark soon.

Mistral OCR is an impressive model, but OCR is a hard problem, and there is a significant risk of hallucinations/missing text with LLMs.
That's funny, but there is no information whatsoever who did it by which means and for what purpuse. The pieces sound nice, but there seems to be an issue with the relative loudness of the voices.

Any hints?
Ask HN: How frequently should one read the news?
Americans as a rule tend to look down on protesting.

America is very geographically dispersed. Any commerce that gets impacted generally only draws attention locally. And because of the strong urban/rural political divide in the US, you are mostly only going to attack your own interests.

That is not to say there is not a lot of active mobilization. Mostly through our legal system as well as PR.

Some other things to note:

- While the extent of the damage to the federal government is massive, the domestic impacts are not really felt yet. Most of the stuff that comes from "government" is paid for and administered at the state level.

- The current party won the popular vote and controls both houses of Congress. So most of the frustration is happening between the American people for letting this happen.
Yeah being doing that for a while. Doesn't work as expected as the primary sources of frustration cannot be removed.
No it isn't. Using a script to automate a process frees me from having to carry out the process manually. It has nothing to do with central economic planning.
Yeah definitely enjoy that as well. It's just so much better than a hand-written spreadsheet. Also, since you're re-using open-source software, I think it's evidence of good faith (whereas if your own spreadsheet's numbers are off, then you'll have to deal with concerns of bad faith acting).
It will take some time for people to organize, and it's still quite cold out. Also, Trump has indicated his desire to use the US military against protests that get violent, and nearly every peaceful protest still has some folks going around being violence and destructive.
The stakeholders in this matter are primarily third-sector organizations in support of beaver reintroduction, of which the many regional Wildlife Trusts are most prominent, and farmers, who are generally but not entirely against reintroduction.

The licences are necessary because with such a sensitive issue, it must be ensured that only responsible and well-resourced organizations can release beavers into the wild. Otherwise, beavers may be introduced into areas that are unsuitable for them, or into areas where they will cause disproportionate damage to farming operations, and either eventuality would harm the perception of beavers. If that happened, the beavers might become so unpopular that it becomes politically impossible to continue with the reintroduction, so it's in everyone's best interests to be careful. Beavers are wonderful animals and can be very beneficial to their local environment, but you can't just dump them on a housing estate or something and expect good results.

I don't know what the exact criteria is, but the winding, damp brooks of the area where I live have been among the successful trial areas for beaver reintroduction. An abundance of willow trees is one factor that makes for an ideal beaver environment, for instance.
I am thinking about that time and hosting a forum myself all the time. But there are a few issues connected with it: (1) If I hosted one, I could only do it invite only, because I don't want to be responsible or held responsible, if some shithead posts illegal stuff on it. (2) So it is back to friends only. But my friends do not show motivation or interest in being very active initially in such a media. I would have to artificially create topics and discussions around them and ask them to comment or so. It feels like it would require a lot of initial investment to get something that sustains itself by having active people and good info on it to be worth it for people to interact through it.
How do you work with your CTO?
Open ended question.

I'm curious to hear stories of good and not so good experiences working closely to a CTO, mainly in an early stage startup context.

Was it hard for you to push back? Do you some times just have to accept their decisions? What are some things you wish you knew before working with them?
Lol. If trump said jump it wouldn't be how high it'd be straight in front of a bullet for this lot.

It's pretending to claim we have a position other than pandering to both the EU and Trump whilst not actually taking responsibility to do anything (other than act as a banker)
I have livestock in an area with mountain lions, bears, and coyotes. There’s no fence that I could build that will reliably keep out a mountain lion, because they can jump very high and climb trees. Electrified fences with a high enough hot line will keep out coyotes and bears, but no one I know fences entire pastures that way. It would be very expensive and require a lot of maintenance. Livestock Guardian Dogs bred to protect livestock will do a much better job of scaring off and fighting predators. They’re specific breeds like Anatolians and Maremmas, not regular farm dogs.
Make the time. You're ability to provide for your family is at stake.
Possible humanities interpretations of trigonometry sine & "i":

a) Why calculus for y-combinator.

b) What happens when subdivide attention and add to many atomic locks.

c) result of separating logic from imagination -> logical type face issues.
Maybe that wasn't the best way to put it but did you see her on stage saying 200 million Americans died from covid? Twice. I think someone of even moderate competence would be able to figure it's not true over half the US population was dead. It seems to me the only way she was lined up to be president was for reasons other than competence.
No, I’m not familiar with the Python ecosystem for DEs.
I dont have the assumption that scale implicitly means evil.

Im sorry I think this just comes down to differences in values.

I cant follow your logic because to follow it I have to accept the premise that selling bread to 100 people is good, but to 1000000 is bad. Everything you are saying depends on me believing that and I dont.
In the UK people would at most grumble about it severely and then let it happen.
Hmmmm, speaking of distrust and Mozilla...

I wonder how much I should be concerned about Mozilla's trust store's trustworthiness, given their data grab with Firefox? I've switched to LibreWolf over that (more in protest than thinking I'm personally being targeted). But I'm pretty sure LibreWolf will still be using the Mozilla trust store?

I haven't thought through enough to understand the implications of the moneygrubbing AI grifters in senior management positions at Mozilla being in charge of my TLS trust store, but I'm not filled with joy at the idea.
The guy running basically 'information' for tens of millions of voters is basically curating their information and seems to be able to fire almost anyone at will, and you, for whatever high reason think a fair election is just by default on the cards?

I'm not a leftist, I'm a realist mate.
I didn't hear a single mention of Nixon or of attempting to stifle "rapid change", just general stuff about government spending priorities. Got anything on the actual interesting part?
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Are you trying to build a captcha solver?
Ah ok. It's definitely not a flat number—it depends on both flags and upvotes.

As you say, it's more complicated than a simple ratio, but I guess you could call it ratio-like :)
I have a special place in my heart for the Voyagers. They were launched just a few weeks after I was born, so I never have to remember how long they've been flying.

And when I was 9 or 10, I took a tour of JPL. They sent me home with an envelope of about 300 8x10 pictures, many of which were from the Voyager missions (but no Neptune pics because it hadn't gotten there yet!).

Those pictures decorated my walls until I left for college.

I'll be sad when they finally shut down the last instruments and the Voyagers go silent, speeding through space with a message of peace.
The "Every" Thing Blueprint
No, I fully understand.

I am saying that this type of system, that deprives the user of problem solving, is itself a problem. A detriment to the very essence of human intelligence.
And 0.5% is generous, to boot - after dilution and share classing and options expiring you would probably be better off just working a big tech job.
The amount of job postings I've been seeing in Seattle from jobs of all kinds, not just tech, that aren't even offering health insurance for full time work is absolutely ridiculous.
I mean, one can always point to negative consequences of change, but if you look at the overall results of industrial advance it's pretty hard to see the net negative for most people. Social advance on a lot of different axes had pretty impressive growth because of the industrial revolution.
It's highly predicated on local issues. I am in the path of a category 2 cyclone expected to arrive tomorrow morning, obviously I consume news more frequently than others might in other circumstances.

For mental health, I suggest not surfing all day. A breakfast ritual to catch up and an evening news bulletin is old school but not bad. I read far too often ordinarily.
What actual risk are you worried about here? Mozilla changed their data policy, therefore the root store might do what...?
The bargain is the lower price in the UK compared to US, once US sales tax is added. It's not like the pound is strong. It's just cheaper in the UK. And you're right, all Apple products are better value in that UK. I'm not used to any electronics being good value in the UK.
calm down mate
Electing a con man over and over again feels like the end of the rule of law. Pump and Dumps are legal now everybody!
Oracle's Federal Electronic Health Record experienced a nation-wide outage
You need a product that people want to get traction…

Then you can accelerate.
Common Lisp in 2055 (Satire)
The Anxious Middle
maybe humans aren't the only species on the planet