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Title: If the keyword "1776" appears anywhere in your YouTube search, the auto-complete functionality vanishes. As far as I can tell, this is not the case with any other important year. Does anyone know why this is the case?
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Title: TLDR: Wear OS app for Samsung Galaxy Watches and Google Pixel Watches to connect them with iPhones, after Samsung and Google ditched iOS support back in 2021.<p>Hi all!<p>I recently switched to an iPhone and became frustrated when my Galaxy Watch was rendered useless, due to Google's and Samsung's decision to cut off iPhones from Wear OS back in 2021. I then started a project to create an alternative integration.<p>I launched it 3 weeks ago as a Google Play app for Wear OS watches, most prominently for the Samsung Galaxy Watch and Google Pixel Watch. With this app, these watches can now connect to iPhones to control notifications and take phone calls.<p>The response has been fantastic so far, with nearly 1k downloads and a steady growth rate. Should the demand continue to rise, I intend to expand the integration with additional features.<p>I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback, and answer any questions you might have. Thanks for your support!<p>--<p>Merge is also on ProductHunt today: <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/posts/merge-connecting-wear-os-to-ios" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.producthunt.com/posts/merge-connecting-wear-os-t...</a>
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA
when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is <i>not</i> an option,
include ONSITE.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name,
explain what your company does.<p>Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about
something. It's off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.<p>Searchers: try <a href="https://hnjobs.u-turn.dev" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hnjobs.u-turn.dev</a>, <a href="https://hnresumetojobs.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hnresumetojobs.com</a>, <a href="https://hnhired.fly.dev" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hnhired.fly.dev</a>,
<a href="https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/</a>, <a href="https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com</a>.<p>Don't miss these other fine threads:<p><i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37351665">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37351665</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37351666">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37351666</a>
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
</code></pre>
Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
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Title: I've been trying to get a stable connection from my living room to my work room, for almost a year now.<p>The Wifi repeater[0] I had is too unreliable to deliver anything for very long. The Powerline[1] adapter works for maybe a hot minute and then loses the pairing over the power socket, and now I'm seeing the same with MoCA[2] over coaxial (yes I have PoE filters).<p>Are there any other alternatives?<p>0: <a href="https://fritzshop.nl/2222-large_default/fritzwlan-310-wifi-repeater.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://fritzshop.nl/2222-large_default/fritzwlan-310-wifi-r...</a>
1: <a href="https://www.digitalred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/71oxmxhuI4L._SL1500_.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.digitalred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/71oxmx...</a>
2: <a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41UgxVVrRBL.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41UgxVVrRBL...</a>
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Title: When I go on YouTube, all I get is a blank page with a functioning hamburger icon, search box, and 4 placeholder icons.<p>When I click on the hamburger icon and go to home, videos appear on the feed. When I click on a video I get ads as if I didn't have uBlock Origin enabled.<p>Looks like others are facing the same issue.[0]<p>[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1679jmx/is_anyone_else_not_able_to_load_youtube_with/
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Title: Hello everyone! I've been working on this project for a few months as part of my thesis in Machine Learning. It's meant to be a library that provides an easy-to-use but flexible API to design and train Diffusion Models. I decided to make it because I wanted to quickly prototype a Diffusion Model but there were no good tools to do it with. I think it really can help people prototype their own Diffusion Models a lot faster and only in a few lines of code.<p>The base idea is to have a Model class that takes different modules corresponding to the different aspects of the Diffusion Model process (noise schedule, noise type, denoising network, loss function, guidance, etc.) and allow the user to mix and match different modules to achieve different results. The library ships with a bunch of prebuilt modules and the plan is to add many more. I also made it super easy to implement your own modules, you just need to extend from one of the base classes available.<p>Contrary to HuggingFace Diffusers, this library is focused on designing and training your own Diffusion Models rather than finetuning pretrained ones (although this is possible).<p>I would really appreciate your feedback.
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Title: XRss is a simple RSS reader web app built to showcase xtemplate, a new web development tool based on Go's html/template and Caddy server.<p>The entire site UI for XRss comes from <i>a single HTML template file</i>. This index.html includes everything from SQL queries and route definitions and handlers to htmx state transition attributes and tailwindcss classes, and developing it requires <i>zero build steps</i> (amortized).<p>Check out the source which manages to be at once banal and gnarly: <a href="https://github.com/infogulch/xrss/blob/master/templates/index.html">https://github.com/infogulch/xrss/blob/master/templates/inde...</a><p>xtemplate preloads the whole template structure into memory and builds the router at startup, so responses to matching requests are rendered after a single lookup. Combined with direct queries to sqlite makes for a very snappy experience typically responding in less than 5ms. (Fingers crossed.)<p>There are various places where XRss could be improved (PRs welcome!), but it already delivers on its purpose of demonstrating the plausibility of xtemplate. See the xtemplate readme for an overview of what you can do with it. I think of it as 'PHP but the syntax looks like Go templates'.<p><a href="https://github.com/infogulch/caddy-xtemplate">https://github.com/infogulch/caddy-xtemplate</a><p>Let me know what you think! Does remaking PHP from scratch out of Go templates make me a lunatic? (yes) Is it a good idea anyway? (yes) What kind of web application do you think would be a good fit for a platform like this?
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Title: Forgive the throwaway but I'm opening up for the first time about this...<p>I used to be able to set myself a task and focus on it until I finished. I could imagine a product and build an MVP in a weekend, flesh it out in a month and launch it. Now I can't focus on my tasks for more than a few minutes, I'm constantly context switching, procrastination is killing all productivity even for tasks that I was looking forward to. Today I wanted to really knuckle down and make some real progress on my side project. I've updated my iPad, fixed the leg on a tripod, cut the grass, cleaned the mower, scrubbed the driveway. Guess how much progress I made on the side project?<p>I talked to my GP - she said it could be undiagnosed ADHD, I filled in a quiz she gave me but she said it will take 2 years to get diagnosed(!) I can't wait that long.<p>How do I get back to how I used to be? Focused, driven, talented? I feel like part of me has rotted away and I want it back!
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Title: We all know SICP is recommended by experienced developers all over the internet as a mystical book that turns your mind inside out and makes you a better programmer and computer scientist after you work through it.<p>If you are someone from that gang, what did you learn from SICP that really caused this transformation? What did it do differently than other programming languages or CS books?<p>Have you had similar experiences with other books (Lisp based or not)?
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Title: This is a side project I've been working on for the last few months. I built an automated system to continuously mirror all the code on PyPI to a series of Github repositories. Mirroring PyPI code to Github enables:<p>1. Scanning of all new Python packages for accidentally published credentials<p>2. A browsable/searchable index of published code with a nice UI<p>3. Large-scale analysis of <i>all</i> published code to see how the language is evolving<p>Using this project anyone is able to download the contents of PyPI to their personal machine and analyse every piece of code ever published in a matter of hours.<p>I hope it enables people to do things with the worlds largest and oldest corpus of Python code that wasn't possible before, and while this is likely totally useless to most people I think that is kind of cool and unique.
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Title: There's been a trend of startups basing their entire business on Discord like Midjourney AI, and Discord themselves pushing for people to do so with their subscriptions system.<p>Well just a few days ago I found out that my account of 7 years was just banned without a warning for a very obvious error on their part. Just hours before my account was banned I posted a list of ASNs (basically ISPs) connected to a non-discord server I had that looked like this:<p>22773 ASN-CXA-ALL-CCI-22773-RDC, US<p>5432 PROXIMUS-ISP-AS, BE<p>577 BACOM, CA<p>To someone who doesn't know what ASNs are, they would probably assume they are addresses. This is not personal information, and there's no way to tie this information to any individual.<p>I opened a ticket and the only reply I get is that the ban will not be reversed and that the account will be deleted in 14 days. I've tried posting on Twitter and they have selectively ignored me while replying to everyone else. Any submission I make on the subreddit gets instantly deleted.<p>Screenshots for proof.<p>https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F49XZ4zaEAA_7mR?format=png&name=small<p>https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F49XZ4zaEAErD3J?format=png&name=small<p>https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F49XtAiaEAMmDdK?format=png&name=900x900<p>This also isn't the first issue we've had with Discord. They threatened to delete my server a few years ago because 1 person said they were underage amongst thousands of lines of chat and we did not see it and ban them. They refused to tell us who it was so I had to spend hours looking through chat to find the offending user.<p>Think twice before you decide to base your business around Discord.
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Title: I've seen lots of generalized lists of items that people carry in their EDC backpacks, but I'm curious what unique things folks around here carry specifically!
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Title: What fields in tech are going to be prevalent, disruptors or gain a foothold in business or consumer markets?<p>I have seen that people on forums like this one and stackoverflow are usually able to predict the next big things in tech quite well. Like this thread:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21324768&p=2<p>So, what CS areas would be good to invest time in learning for the near future?
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Title: Howdy! RSSfeedASAP scratches my own itch. I run a regional podcasting directory which gets dozens of messy submission for podcasts. Often they don't even include an xml file and me being a good samaritan I sometimes do the manual work and find it myself. I got tired of that manual work and decided to build a microapp.<p>RSSfeedASAP is this app and I decided to release it in case someone else finds any use in it.
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Title: I get a lot of letters in the mail, texts, and phone calls from real estate investors trying to buy one of my rental properties. I know they found my info by checking county assessor offices, but why is this information publicly published by every county in the US?<p>I recognize that this data is super valuable, particularly to brokers and wholesalers, so I'm curious why websites like Zillow don't also publish the name of the owner of a property, yet they publish all other information about the property and its history?
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Title: I'm a machine learning engineer and researcher. I got fed up with how difficult it is to understand why neural networks behave the way they do, so i wrote a library to help with it.<p>Comgra (computation graph analysis) is a library you can use with pytorch to extract all the tensor data you care about and visualize it graphically in a browser.<p>This allows for a much more detailed analysis of what is happening than the usual approach of using tensorboard. You can go investigate tensors as training proceeds, drill down into individual neurons, inspect single data sets that are of special interest to you, track gradients, compare statistics between different training runs, and more.<p>This tool has saved me a ton of time in my research by letting me check my hypotheses much more quickly than normal and by helping me understand how the different parts of my network really interact.<p>I hope this tool can save other people just as much time as it did me. I'm also open for suggestions on how to improve it further: Since I'm already gathering and visualizing a lot of network information, adding more automated analysis would not be much extra work.
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Title: Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here.<p>A few months ago, we introduced here at HN (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34806482">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34806482</a>) Keep as an “open source alerting CLI” and got some interesting feedback - mainly around UI, automation, and supporting more tools. We were VERY early back then, and we understood that although the current DX around creating alerts is not great, it's not that critical and developers don’t need another tool just for that.<p>But we did find something else.<p>While talking to developers and devops, we found that a lot of companies use many tools that generate alerts - from Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog to tools such as Zabbix or Nagios. We definitely agree consolidation in the observability space is a real thing, but while talking to those companies we feel that there are still real use cases for having more than one tool (and for example, according to Grafana’s 2023 observability survey, 52% of the companies uses more than 6 observability tools <a href="https://grafana.com/observability-survey-2023/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://grafana.com/observability-survey-2023/</a>).<p>So we that in mind, we rebuilt Keep with a simple mindset: (1) Integrate with every tool that triggers alerts - it can be either pushing alerts to Keep via webhooks or routing policies or Keep to pull alerts via the tools API. (2) Create a simple abstraction layer to run workflows on top of these alerts. (3) Maintain a great developer experience - open source, API-first, workflows as code and generally having a developer mindset while building Keep.<p>During the time we rebuilt Keep, Datadog released their workflow automation tool (<a href="https://docs.datadoghq.com/service_management/workflows/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.datadoghq.com/service_management/workflows/</a>) which led us to the understanding that's exactly what we solve - but for everyone who uses tools other than Datadog.<p>A short demo of Keep with a simple use case: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPMRCZM8ZYg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPMRCZM8ZYg</a><p>You can try it yourself by signing into <a href="https://platform.keephq.dev">https://platform.keephq.dev</a><p>Like always - we invite you to try Keep and we are eager to hear any feedback.
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Title: Hi HN community, I have been working on benchmarking publicly available LLMs these past couple of weeks. More precisely, I am interested on the finetuning piece since a lot of businesses are starting to entertain the idea of self-hosting LLMs trained on their proprietary data rather than relying on third party APIs.<p>To this point, I am tracking the following 4 pillars of evaluation that businesses are typically look into:
- Performance
- Time to train an LLM
- Cost to train an LLM
- Inference (throughput / latency / cost per token)<p>For each LLM, my aim is to benchmark them for popular tasks, i.e., classification and summarization. Moreover, I would like to compare them against each other.<p>So far, I have benchmarked Flan-T5-Large, Falcon-7B and RedPajama and have found them to be very efficient in low-data situations, i.e., when there are very few annotated samples. Llama2-7B/13B and Writer’s Palmyra are in the pipeline.<p>But there’s so many LLMs out there! In case this work interests you, would be great to join forces.<p>GitHub repo attached — feedback is always welcome :)<p>Happy hacking!
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Title: The head master of my primary school took a small group of students every semester on industry site visits.<p>I believe these site visits played a meaningful role in developing my engineering and entrepreneurial interests/thinking. Although I only vaguely remember the details, I do have a strong lasting impression of the locations/factories we visited and people we met.<p>I got to see a plastic pipe molding facility, coke cola bottling factory, first wind power turbines in Cape Town area and assembled a door alarm prototype at the neighboring university. This was all before the age of 13.<p>In university I had similar practical exposure doing an internship at a boiler manufacturing factory, chicken processing plant and finally a tech startup.<p>I truly cherish these experiences and glimpses into the real world. Obviously I knew very little of what was really going on, but these experiences helped me build a sort-of mental map to unpack my options at the time.<p>Do you think practical site visits as a teenager is a good idea? Have you had similar exposure and did it have a lasting impact on you too? Do you think we need to create more opportunities like this for students?
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Title: Hey folks!<p>I know CSV parsers (especially in JS) aren't terribly exciting and someone writes a "better" one every week.<p>I'm in the middle of my parental leave, and this was a project that came out of me looking for the fastest/smallest CSV parser. It all started so innocently, and then turned into a benchmark-validation-athon; the library itself took ~2 weeks to write, but the performance comparisons took another ~4 weeks (on and off).<p>The benchmarks were a huge effort, but I think they are the most thorough to date, both in breadth and in depth, so hopefully you find them useful: <a href="https://github.com/leeoniya/uDSV/tree/main/bench">https://github.com/leeoniya/uDSV/tree/main/bench</a><p>Let me know if you have specific concerns / questions / improvements :)<p>cheers!
Leon
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Title: Those who have ADHD, self diagnosed or diagnosed by a psychologist.<p>1. What is your hobby that never gets boring?<p>2. Does it help you control your thrill seeking?
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Title: Hey, just a work related project I made, which could be open sourced :D<p>If you're looking for an example on how to use/fine-tune yolov8, I feel like taking a look at this repo and reading the README could help you get up to speed (also linked some nice refs)!<p>This is actually a full rewrite of a proprietary project I made (and documented on my site) like a year ago, will do some finishing touches (write blog post about it, mark the old version deprecated, record a tutorial on how to set it up on an Ubuntu server, etc, etc) in the following month, but felt like sharing it now, cuz I consider it done<p>The only proprietary part is the client, which receives the images and does stuff with db (has to interact with internal APIs, so there's no reason to make it oss anyways). Also, the client contains only the business logic, all of the fun ai/web server stuff is fully open under AGPL-3.0 (and an example client without the business logic is available ... in rust btw xdd).
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Title: Hi HN! We’re Brad and Scott from Nullstone (<a href="https://nullstone.io">https://nullstone.io</a>), a developer platform to deploy and manage cloud apps and infrastructure. Here’s a demo: <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/924b1f57ba2143eeabb43ee8cbe3fe88?sid=91afe471-e5ac-462d-829a-1f762f3ab2fd" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.loom.com/share/924b1f57ba2143eeabb43ee8cbe3fe88?...</a>.<p>Running your app on a major cloud provider makes a lot of things easier, but it’s tedious to configure IAM, security groups, networking, secrets, autoscaling, health checks, zero-downtime deployments, and more. It is also difficult and time-consuming to release and synchronize app and infra changes across many apps and environments.<p>Nullstone provides an intuitive developer experience to deploy any app—be it an API, web app, static site, or one-off job—to AWS or GCP. We provide a simple, consistent experience for automatically deploying to any platform (e.g., Fargate, Kubernetes, Lambda, etc.). We provision and configure infrastructure depending on your use case (e.g., networks, clusters, datastores, load balancers, third-party logging providers, and much more). We offer many features that are hard to build in-house: automatic secrets management, GitOps, and preview environments.<p>Everything runs in your own cloud accounts. You own your data and we cannot access it. Secrets are stored in your secrets manager. We support all app types (e.g. APIs, web apps, frontends, jobs, etc.) and platforms (e.g. containers, serverless, s3 sites, VMs, etc.).<p>Instead of being a black box, our infrastructure modules are open source and you can hot-swap each module for your own Terraform. You can automate deploys and preview environments via GitHub integrations, CI/CD integrations, CLI, or API. All infra/deploy logs are easily accessible through the UI, CLI, and API.<p>We scan our modules against compliance frameworks to provide a foundation of compliance for your infrastructure. If there are vendors or platforms we don’t support, we provide a quick framework and open hooks to add support.<p>Nullstone is intended for software teams that don’t want to build an in-house platform. Our customers span many industries and have used us to reduce cloud costs by up to 90%, provide developer self-service, fully automate deployments, migrate to containers, and more.<p>Previously, we built an internal developer platform at McKinsey (serving 300 workloads across 1000 engineers) to solve a major pain point: engineers were building apps in weeks only to wait months to provision and secure infrastructure (and once provisioned, making changes to the apps was a frustrating back-and-forth process). Later I joined a cybersecurity company and as our team grew, I saw the same challenges: we were spending more time configuring infrastructure than building the product.<p>We decided to build Nullstone because no existing solution fit our needs. Some of the products we found were all-in-one solutions, meaning we had to sacrifice the tooling we liked and use infrastructure with insufficient security, compliance, and reliability controls. Other products, built for enterprises, provide a poor developer experience in exchange for costly licenses and significant internal resources to operate.<p>To provide a fully customizable experience that is easy-to-use for developers, we had to solve a few problems. (1) We had to present infrastructure as code configuration in a way that isn’t overwhelming, but allows for flexibility to handle various architectures. (2) We had to insulate developers from infrastructure-as-code errors that would confuse them, while maintaining a level of transparency that devs demand. (3) We had to build tooling around module development because infrastructure takes 10x longer than app code to get feedback on whether it’s working properly.<p>Nullstone is free for individual use. After that, we charge $100/user/month. A user is anybody committing code that is deployed through Nullstone.<p>Our docs are at <a href="https://docs.nullstone.io/">https://docs.nullstone.io/</a> and our public roadmap is at <a href="https://github.com/orgs/nullstone-io/projects/1/views/1">https://github.com/orgs/nullstone-io/projects/1/views/1</a>.<p>We would love for you to try it out and give us feedback, and we look forward to your comments!
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Title: Hey hackers, OP here!<p>I've been dipping in and out of this problem space for the last few years with many of my clients.<p>Puck sits somewhere between an old-school WYSIWYG-powered CMS and headless one, allowing content teams to author content using real React components.<p>Traditional CMS solutions were flexible but often resulted in page that completely broke the brand guidelines. Headless CMS solutions are a fantastic way of controlling brand by restricting UI changes to developers, but makes layout changes restrictive and slow as developers often need to get involved.<p>Puck provides a visual editor for React that can sit on top of your existing headless CMS (or act as standalone). We've been dog-fooding it on a few pages at <a href="https://measured.co" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://measured.co</a> and on <a href="https://wellpaid.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://wellpaid.io</a>. So far, so good<p>The API is built for React, which allows FE devs to quickly integrate their existing component and add some form fields for author input, or connect it to a headless CMS of choice.<p>It's open-source under MIT, and pairs nicely with Next.js (check out the demo application). Next in the pipeline: support for multi-column layouts, richer demos, new plugins.<p>Looking forward to hearing your comments!
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Title: Hey all<p>I wanted to show a sneak peak of something I've been working on the for the past few months.<p>I build a lot of projects that involve static hosting and became frustrated by how complicated it is in 2023. All I need to do is move files from my CI onto a server that can serve the files. It shouldn't be as complicated as it is on GCP, AWS, etc. And the ones that are marketed as easy (e.g. Cloudflare Pages, surge.sh) still require the end-user to install a tool first.<p>With pgs.sh the user doesn't need to install anything. Signup is as simple as SSHing into pgs.sh and creating an account. Creating new static sites is as easy as copying files to pgs.sh.<p>To go even further, we have added features like instant promotion and rollback to make it easier to manage deployments safely.<p>The entire service can be managed via SSH commands. Pasted below is our help SSH command: <a href="https://erock.pastes.sh/pgs-cmds.md" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://erock.pastes.sh/pgs-cmds.md</a><p>This service is in closed beta, but if you join our irc channel #pico.sh @ libera.chat we will invite you to test it out.<p>I'd love to read some feedback on this service, thanks!
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Title: Hi everyone, I’m FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington, and I’m here to discuss security updates for IoT devices and how you can make a difference by filing comments with the FCC.<p>As you know, serious vulnerabilities are common in IoT, and it often takes too long for these to be patched on end-user devices—if the manufacturer even bothers to release an update, and if the device was even designed to receive them. Companies may stop supporting a device well before consumers have stopped using it. The support period is often not communicated at the time of sale. And sometimes the end of support is not even announced, leaving even informed users unsure whether their devices are still safe.<p>I’ve advocated for the FCC to require device manufacturers to support their devices with security updates for a reasonable amount of time [1]. I can't bring such a proposal to a vote since I’m not the chairman of the agency. But I was able to convince my colleagues to tentatively support something a little more moderate addressing this problem.<p>The FCC recently issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking [2] for a cybersecurity labeling program for connected devices. If they meet certain criteria for the security of their product, manufacturers can put an FCC cybersecurity label on it. I fought hard for one of these criteria to be the disclosure of how long the product will receive security updates. I hope that, besides arming consumers with better information, the commitments on this label (including the support period) will be legally enforceable in contract and tort lawsuits and under other laws. You can see my full statement here [3].<p>But it’s too early to declare victory. Many manufacturers oppose making any commitments about security updates, even voluntary ones. These manufacturers are heavily engaged at the FCC and represented by sophisticated regulatory lawyers. The FCC and White House are not likely to take a strong stand if they only hear the device manufacturer's side of the story.<p>In short, they need to hear from you. You have experienced insecure protocols, exposed private keys, and other atrocious security. You have seen these problems persist despite ample warning. People ask, ‘why aren’t there rules about these things?’ This is your chance to get on the record and tell us what you think the rules should be. If infosec doesn’t make this an issue, the general public will continue falsely assuming that everything is fine. But if you get on the record and the government fails to act, the evidence of this failure will be all over the Internet forever.<p>If you want to influence the process, you have until September 25th, 2023 (midnight ET) to file comments in the rulemaking proceeding.[4] Filing is easy: go to <a href="https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/docket-detail/23-239" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/docket-detail/23-239</a> and click to file either an ‘express’ comment (type into a textbox) or a ‘standard’ comment (upload a PDF). Either way, the FCC is required to consider your arguments. All options are on the table, so don’t hold back, but do make your arguments as clear as possible, so even lawyers can understand them. If you have a qualification (line of work, special degree, years of experience, etc.) that would bolster the credibility of your official comment, be sure to mention that, but the only necessary qualification is being an interested member of the public.<p>I’m here to listen and learn. AMA. Feel free to ask any questions about this or related issues, and I’ll answer as many as I can. I just ask that we try to stay on the topic of security. My legal advisor, Marco Peraza, a security-focused software engineer turned cybersecurity lawyer, will be answering questions too.
I’m open to incorporating your ideas (and even being convinced I’m wrong), and I hope that my colleagues at the FCC are as well. Thank you!<p>Edit: The Q&A is over now, but please keep this great discussion going without us. Thanks again everyone for your input. Don't forget to file comments if you want to make sure your arguments get considered by the full FCC.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.fcc.gov/document/simington-calls-mandatory-security-updates" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.fcc.gov/document/simington-calls-mandatory-secur...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-cybersecurity-labeling-program-smart-devices" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-cybersecurity-labe...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-cybersecurity-labeling-program-smart-devices/simington-statement" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-cybersecurity-labe...</a><p>[4] If your comments are purely in response to arguments made in other comments, you have an extra 15 days, until October 10, 2023.
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Title: Hello! This is Jeane and Samuel and we’re building RecipeUI. RecipeUI is an open source Postman alternative that uses TypeScript to statically type and autocomplete requests.<p>We built this because current API tools don’t deal with the fact that some APIs are just painful to work with. For us, it’s usually error after error as we try to figure out how to properly form the first request.<p>We recorded a demo to show you how TypeScript helps us autocomplete a request correctly.
<a href="https://youtu.be/O_Mly_p-g5s" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/O_Mly_p-g5s</a><p>How does our platform improve the developer experience? The analogy is similar to using a statically typed language vs dynamically typed. Most API tools are dynamically typed. You’re guessing the params and relying on the request to magically work at runtime, only for you to go back to stack overflow or the docs when it doesn’t.<p>We take the approach of defining parameters and the schema first. When you add a new parameter, you need to mention upfront if it’s required and what type it is (integer, string, boolean). While this can be painful in the beginning, it will save you and anyone you share this with the hassle of understanding how this API works.<p>Our app is cross-platform on web and desktop. Our desktop app is <20mb and built on top of Rust with Tauri, NextJS, and Supabase. We open source our code because we want to be transparent about how API requests and secrets are handled (all local IndexDB).<p>I built the first version of this at Robinhood when my colleagues were sharing bash scripts and internal APIs on slack to test things. I wanted to make it easier for anyone to use an API quickly and made use of our OpenAPI specs to generate a nice autocomplete API tool. Soon after, the Options team, then the Crypto team, and then the whole eng org at Robinhood adopted this tool!<p>Try it out at recipeui.com! Please star us on GitHub if you like the product <a href="https://github.com/RecipeUI/RecipeUI">https://github.com/RecipeUI/RecipeUI</a>.
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Title: Honestly the more random the better
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Title: Hi HN! I've found this visualization tool immensely helpful over the years for getting an intuition for how an LLM "sees" some piece of text, and with a bit of elbow grease decided to move all compute to client side so I could make it publicly available.<p>I've found it particularly useful for<p>- Understanding exactly how repetition and patterns affect a small LM's ability to predict correctly<p>- Understanding different tokenization patterns and how it affects model output<p>- Getting a general sense of how "hard" different prediction tasks are for GPT-style models<p>Known problems (that I probably won't fix, since this was a kind of one-off project)<p>- Doesn't work well with Unicode grapheme clusters that are multiple GPT-2 tokens (e.g. emoji, smart quotes)<p>- Support for other models (maybe later?)
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Title: Hey HN, maker here. It was a serious 4-6 months of effort to build this. I have never poured as much love, attention and detail into a project before. So I really appreciate you having a looksie!<p>The homepage has a fresh list of articles every hour and is open to all. Still, I recommend signing up so you can add stuff to your reading list and follow blogs.<p>My initial plan was to monetize this with subtle ads, but that didn't work out as the traffic to the site isn't nearly enough for that. That said, I have a fair bit invested in this and I need your help figuring out a way to make this sustainability profitable. If this was yours, what bits would you charge for? Are there any features I could add to a "pro" subscription?<p>Appreciate any help and support!
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Title: I registered for an Instagram account today. Immediately after I signed in for the first time, I was suspended due to violating the Community Guidelines. I appealed, which they require a phone number to do so. After verifying my phone number, I was immediately redirected to an unsuspended page. "We reviewed your account and found that it does follow our Community Guidelines." It happened too fast for a human to have been involved. I've heard of this happening recently to other people as well[1].<p>Is this a required flow in order to siphon phone numbers from new accounts without making it "required" on the sign up page?<p>1: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/8/4.html
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Title: Hello! This is Edgar and Robbie and we built nix-snapshotter. nix-snapshotter brings native understanding of Nix packages to containerd.<p>We built this because Nix is a great fit for making efficient containers. They don't need an OS because Nix captures all dependencies exactly. However, the current process of creating Nix images is subpar because one needs to transform Nix packages into a format that container runtimes understand.<p>Using nix-snapshotter, instead of downloading image layers, packages come directly from the Nix store. Packages can be fetched from a binary cache or built on the fly if necessary. All existing non-Nix images continue to be supported, and Nix layers can be interleaved with normal layers.<p>nix-snapshotter also provides a CRI image service, which allows Kubernetes to resolve image manifests from Nix directly too. This enables for the first time, fully declarative Kubernetes resources, all the way down to the image specification and its contents. With this, you can even run pure Nix images without a Docker Registry at all, if you wish.<p>We'd love for you to try it out, there is a one-liner for Nix users to boot a VM with everything pre-configured: <a href="https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter">https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter</a>
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Title: I wrote this silly thing a couple of weeks ago. It's absolutely useless but it's a fun tech demo for my web server library. Enjoy!
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Title: It sounds crazy, and maybe I'm just doing something dumb, but I've seen a similar issue in two different MS365 backup products this year. I can't reproduce it reliably, but <i>feel</i> like there could be a serious issue, even though I can't prove it.<p>My issue is specific to OneDrive. When I reconcile a backup set against live data, files are missing. I've had it happen with both Veeam Backup for MS365 and Synology Active Backup for MS365. Neither system reports any issues when backups run. I don't know the cause and I can't reproduce it, but it happens consistently for at least one of my tenants and seems to get worse over time. I've seen the issue on more than one tenant, so I don't think it's anything tenant specific and the only (untenable) solution I've come up with is to restart the backup from scratch.<p>The tenant that has the most issues is a business with about 200k files. The business owner owns the files and everyone else has access to a few shared folders near the top of the hierarchy. They have about 350GB of data which ends up being about 1TB of quota after versioning.<p>I originally ran into the issue with Veeam by randomly spot checking 1-2 files every once in a while and running into missing data by random chance. That made me realize I needed to do some kind of bulk reconciliation on a regular basis. I gave up on Veeam because they append the OneDrive file version to all restored files and it makes it difficult to reconcile. For example, locally restored files end up with ' (ver 2)' or similar appended to the file name.<p>I switched to the Synology system because it's ideal to reconcile since an up-to-date backup set can be shared via SMB. That makes it possible to have an up-to-date OneDrive sync and a mapped drive to an up-to-date backup set on the same machine. After that, it's a matter of comparing two folders as long as care is taken to get a consistent point-in-time for both sets of data.<p>The only noteworthy thing that I <i>think</i> plays a part is how frequently the tenant reorganizes their data. They're always renaming and moving files and folders to keep things organized. I'd frame it as being frequent, but not unreasonable. The reason I think this is noteworthy is that in cases where I'm able to track the life-cycle of missing files, they seem to "disappear" after being impacted by a directory rename or move operation.<p>I can't engage with support for this particular tenant because the data is supporting documentation for government work. I can't even share examples or screenshots with the file names AFAIK.<p>I've seen people complaining about similar issues, but the complaints are from years ago [1]. This [2] caught my eye.<p>> The root cause for the missing data was due to incorrect representation of the changes from the SharePoint API side.
Veeam RnD team performed an investigation and found that sometimes the SharePoint API mechanism of tracking changes did not track the changes inside the Child files or Folders inside the Site`s list.<p>Does anyone here reconcile their OneDrive backups well enough to say you're confident you can reliably restore your data with 100% consistency?<p>Is it possible there's a change tracking bug lurking in the SharePoint API? I don't know anything about how it works, so any insight would be useful. For example, would the OneDrive client and backup clients use the same change tracking? That seems unlikely based on what I'm seeing, but, again, I have no idea how it actually works.<p>1. <a href="https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-for-microsoft-365-f47/community-edition-folders-but-no-files-backed-up-t58862.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-for-microsoft-365-f47/...</a><p>2. <a href="https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-for-microsoft-365-f47/major-issue-with-incomplete-sharepoint-backups-files-missing-and-lost-t78312.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-for-microsoft-365-f47/...</a>
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Title: Hello Everyone,<p>I'm excited to introduce a new open-source observability platform and would love to hear your feedback.<p>We are aware that there are lots of open-source/commercial tools out there. However, we believe that monitoring the clusters and extracting actionable insights requires deep know-how about the tools/domain. We mainly focused on this problem.<p>- Alaz is an eBPF agent installed on your K8s cluster as DaemonSet. Thanks to eBPF, Alaz collects traces directly from Linux kernels. This means there's no need for sidecars, instrumentations, or service restarts.<p>- The UI not only visualizes data but also provides actionable insights. Using the Service Map, you can:<p><pre><code> - View latencies and RPS between services.
- Detect zombie services and underperforming SQL queries.
- Monitor golden signals, such as 5xx status codes.
</code></pre>
In addition, Alaz can capture system resources like CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network through the Prometheus Node Exporter, which is embedded in the agent.<p>Setting up is straightforward: just install Alaz as a DaemonSet, and the platform will handle the rest.<p>Finally, the combination of Alaz and Ddosify Performance Testing makes it possible to do load testing and simultaneously monitor the system to find bottlenecks instantly.<p>For those interested, check out Alaz on GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/ddosify/alaz">https://github.com/ddosify/alaz</a><p>Your feedback would be greatly appreciated!
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Title: I've been playing around with <a href="https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT">https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT</a> and wanted to create a simple Python package that made it easier to run ChatGPT-like LLMs on your own machine, use them with non-public data, and integrate them into practical GPU-accelerated applications.<p>This resulted in Python package I call OnPrem.LLM.<p>In the documentation, there are examples for how to use it for information extraction, text generation, retrieval-augmented generation (i.e., chatting with documents on your computer), and text-to-code generation: <a href="https://amaiya.github.io/onprem/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://amaiya.github.io/onprem/</a><p>Enjoy!
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Title: On July 26th, my Apple Studio Display spontaneously bricked itself. Though the repair shop it's with has been diligent in swapping out components and corresponding with me, we've made almost no progress. It's still not repaired, and a timeline for a fix isn't available.<p>So far a lot of components have been replaced, and the last one they're trying is the LCD panel itself. This isn't in stock, so we've been told to wait 2 weeks for a notice of shipment, and if we hear nothing, to "try again". This is after 42 days of waiting.<p>I'm putting this here in case anyone else is considering getting one. If anything happens to it, good luck getting it repaired. And you might take excellent care of yours like I did, yet evidently it might be bricked while you're in another room for totally unknown reasons. It went black, as though it went to sleep, but never came back.<p>I know people ask about these displays here, so it seems worth talking about. This level of customer service and the extreme inconvenience to the customer isn't something worth risking. I depended on it for important visual and programming work, as well as video calls and audio. I've since had to replace these features with other devices, and I'm not about to get my money back or my display. It's totally bizarre and unacceptable.<p>I'm not trying to drag Apple here; I still use the Mac Studio and absolutely love it. My experience with the display on the other hand is so abysmal and disappointing that I can't in good conscience carry on without warning people.
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Title: I had a bad service experience with a bank employee last week who acted in what can best be described as a slightly deranged way; I was disturbed to receive an email from LinkedIn this week stating that someone from the same bank had searched for me (and presumably viewed my profile anonymously).<p>I decided to have a look at my profile from that of my spouse (we aren't connections and they don't really use LinkedIn) and I was shocked to see lots of detail fully exposed, despite me setting privacy settings at the maximum.<p>Unlike Facebook, which has had the ability to lock your profile down for years, LinkedIn still exposes most of your details to potential stalkers. Even Twitter/X has the ability to make your profile private (although who knows how long that will last).<p>I'm sure most people on HN are aware of this, but if you're in danger of being stalked, and you've locked your socials down, you're still at high risk because your LinkedIn profile is wide open to anyone with an email address who registers on the site.
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Title: What are some well-designed websites in term of design, look & feel, and usability? The Apple website might be an example.
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Title: Hi there, a YC company 'pivoted' into copying our product completely, even the API calls. I discovered that, noticing their employees in our Slack Community channel. As a female founder, having my app rejected by YC with this product, it just makes me angry. What can we do, apart from, of course continuing on our mission??
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Title: Hey there HN!<p>I wanted to share a pet project of mine. I built HackYourNews [1] to scratch a personal itch: Knowing which stories to focus on while browsing aimlessly (though there is a certain joy in that, as well!)<p>HackYourNews uses OpenAI's gpt-3.5-turbo to summarize the destination article as well as the comments section. Summarization of the article is always cached, while summaries of the comments are regenerated if the comments count is >10% (or >10 comments) different.<p>While I styled the homepage to welcome HNers, my preferred view is the Mobile view, accessed from the navbar. This no-frills view honors OS-level dark mode and is easy to skim on any device.<p>Tried to keep the site minimal. The only JS is Cloudflare's privacy-preserving analytics [2], just to gauge interest.<p>This is the first time I'm releasing something to the wild.<p>Hope you find this useful!<p>The frontend is pure HTML+CSS.<p>The backend is NodeJS (Puppeteer) + Python with the excellent Microsoft Guidance [3] library to interface to OpenAI's API.<p>[1] <a href="https://hackyournews.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hackyournews.com/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/web-analytics/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.cloudflare.com/web-analytics/</a><p>[3] <a href="https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance">https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance</a>
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Title: Throughout my career I have tried my best to avoid work in industries that I consider as doing harm, e.g. oil & gas, defence and financial services companies like JP Morgan that have a large prescence locally.<p>In the last few years I have worked for a cloud consultancy with similar values, however, I have still found myself working on projects for clothing companies that I would consider as fast-fashion with questionable supply chains.<p>I am starting to wonder if I need to take my skillset in another direction to find more meaningful work. I took an interest in C# and microservices in the past and while that has worked out well for me, it seems to have locked me into a very enterprise world with values that rarely align to my own.<p>Has anyone faced a similar dilemna? Basically, I am struggling to find my Ikigai as I do not feel like the world needs the work that I am doing.
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Title: We just launched Rivet, the open-source visual AI programming environment! We built Rivet, because we were building complex AI Agent applications at Ironclad. It unlocked our abilities here, and we're excited to make available to the entire community.<p>Backstory: A few months ago, inspired by things like LangChain and LlamaIndex, we started building an AI agent that could work with legal contracts. Unfortunately, we couldn't just use retrieval augmented generation (RAG), because a lot of contracts are basically identical (many chunks with near-identical embeddings), except for a few key details. So, we turned to things like ReAct and AutoGPT for inspiration.<p>At first, things went great. We were adding agent capabilities, doing chain-of-thought prompting.<p>But then we hit a wall.<p>The agent became too complex. We had debugger breakpoints on almost every line of code, but we still had no idea where the agent was breaking. Every change we made destabilized something else. After two weeks of fumbling, I decided to end the project.<p>But one of my teammates, Andy, didn't give up.<p>The following week, he showed me v0 of Rivet. He'd used it to refactor and improve our existing agent. I was skeptical... it just seemed like a visual programming environment, and I was not a fan. But I gave it a shot, and suddenly found myself able to add new skills to the agent, debug brittle areas with ease, and update prompts with confidence.<p>Rivet is a game-changer. And more than that, it makes building with LLMs super fun.<p>What exactly makes it different?<p>First, the debugger is incredible. You have to experience it to believe it. You can update a graph, and then immediately run it, and see where it succeeded or failed. Even better: you can attach Rivet as a remote debugger, and watch your agent graphs execute in your app.<p>Second, visual programming is actually a game-changer for prompting LLMs. I don't know why exactly, but it's way easier to understand and organize your work when you have an extra dimension to work with.<p>Finally, Rivet is built to be embedded into a larger application (TypeScript for now, but we've also found a way to run it in Python). Beyond importing Rivet as a dependency, you can also define "external functions" dynamically at run-time. It feels pretty sketchy to give a LLM a key and unfettered access to an API. With Rivet, you can give it access to a specific set of defined functions, potentially pre-scoped to the access level you want.<p>...Sorry that was long. If you read this whole thing, thank you!<p>We're really excited to hear what you think! We just launched our first Rivet-based application at Ironclad, and we've been working with companies like Sourcegraph, Attentive, AssemblyAI, Bento, and Willow to make Rivet useful for others.
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Title: TypeScript playground: <a href="https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/KYDwDg9gTgLgBDAnmYcCiBHArgQwDYDOAPABoA0cAmgHxwC8AUHHABREAq1LAlPbe3FAxgAOwAmBOCTgB+OAEY4ALjgAmXkNESmrDl151+gkMPGTKshcrW85MKFlQqAZvgLAA3AwZIUcAMLAeHj0cADkIGFwAD7hAHRhPsioAEIQOFBioYHBANoAugXevqgAavgAlmIAkuKgRACCUFDGphJwWCIA1iIQAO4iBbSMzGggAMZ4WGLARF3AiBDOcE1QFGOT07Pzi8urFAAGACQA3iJYALYARsBQAL4H1LSaZnDHJxUizrdwAHKtWkk52utweOjkvx0KhEwAAbrdvAB6RFwAAiEGABBEYXgAAscOI8KgYQBzHAwCrwuDQOAzcYVC74ODjHDuAgMZFwaowMKSAm9RCfEkICBwfGE1AwXHEuE-FnuCgEUXVMIXDoEIVwAC0ilZcBwcHcIgpMJCsPwjjgnwIwhwYiSfgAylgrvIiP8Xu1gTc1gEAa8AAwFUJDeg6eyWz2STC4QjuigB2ixGNueNwb23Wjg7XyKF-f3tXJxYv+BOFMJEkQkqVhfI6Zhyfy5Cuiau42v16zO11poslsvUYrJFZiMRuj0mQFwAAKEAIBHKU0xFFn88XjkkUfTlx9FH8BckQfyIfywx0KbjvwoGagz0nrwjwGzOrzE7akibLarNbrzAbcD7OJSzgANy0rNtawPGc5wXC1MU7f9AOA0Dm3An8EOsHVmE5MAoFlY0rTqEBqSweAljgK4IE6bQ-2sBpR3HFcYPXZcAOLICByHPxqgIAAZSlZjSDIxEdGByVQLchMyChpC3G8KAsOSd0zMNmFk+92n8CA8FqGYQAAeWcIgpJEsThEHf9FI0yQACV+l00BDOM9JMlE8SLL-OQTLc4RckoQoSGPLcIkSWj-0fDCXDcJ9aKiwgYusVx4q41AtM6GB2AcWZVigglEAKPcoKPE8z2YHKt1yT5vhaXiKHYqqfhs39LF4qCItoxsqONTLHCIGyKCQzjYoCLqMqyvq9w8lRPzQ9s6wdVKgjwHzBJc0zxKgkyZKgrSdKIpzvLM4BqAUqC7L6ByDKMw73NKkb0p62Zck7Hj+PhZzhJWihuzdEgTrgH6iBoE6Xr4gSPtco6ZO+l03WBshQbe1bPqhkcx1IPdtMug61pWp4YZ7eHEfBm7hAoej0fIEa9r0nGUduhSQdo16Sdx1GKd+zGacc662YZtG4Yoc7sd5+nzPx4n3tJ4BoYFoGhfs-bRch26mb-Fmpb5smAdh0h-o5+W4GFpWIfW8W1eYDXkZV7XAb+xmdFPFL0FhbT4RyPBTZWza1u2rddpFr2jv+qz3yNxXaeVs3jru6W-ICoLrPiULLA9lag-E2WaCggBmTs5BCzsVDCBI8zj-zckCqDC46gIlvT6Ws7vMPVBiOA87Cywa7C4vS+GmF4SgZ20FdvB4XOogdH0qAKhJaWfeEhHmFDqdjcjohp9n6W1f8dSw+KugAPyJeAiwZpzp2pbg0PgqGGGOAdF31DWx-HasZNze56147sxHt3gAnhhT+jcMKUBPrRJCVNQLgL-EhM+UBzrrFHu7JaG8Z5fzFjLAIJBn7fjmozZqzApqn3Pv0YeyDZhT3QfPSSvtH7wJoUnEyJ4T7+BXoGa+R8Eb30fpQXBEFE5hzXjzNBW9v4eTkH-MesxgHfwGuxfwDC5Eu3-hPWRmC9x8K-AI6gx82IljASBJ2zBppKMweQ-+vwM7CAXtJfMSkQS+n3FuA+R87ozRfnNKCkJ-zSzzFI+EViAnW2jv9K8+iOJGMHAtcOF0TaMLDiZe+i4qiXWsT-Eo1NA4JKnEk0IKSahEXSbkG8TsOQojoJUqp1Sam1LqdU8p9A6lwBSGgAA4tUf47A0COnYJ0tpTS6mNPqSM0ZNSkQonYJiE0woACqFI8AVApPBGJAApCAnwJ4X39lfPRjooI2hnlWUIYQwh3W2UnSqXwfitR2cEOqxYGotBspfPI+RmpyHWZs-oE03inEdHcU4vEHjEMdM7acRyYAmXSbYsQFB+IwkdMAMABz7CakPmEAAOtib6qKjnCgxWc0IOgcmvCudVEhCD+ivLwAVOA9VrktF+EIc6m4mFrQ+QDauKd-wQs+FCta7oWX9AIPCz4wAkVgAoF8kQE9FGkL6E8IuM5IXQuZSYVlYrEXIsOP8wFJwEUSuRfqmVcr4HnWoCCvMYKYmiXxewCA0L9lbkOUKPcZjMiwpYZSi5YcPacNDCMLlW53hPLgMC04YabJgn-LcpOWLsT5x9f0fhr8XEYTkHaoUDroX9UpVtNxkUAZoqrDmwVea4HNALfKqlfQ9FDGVXGv1S0M3FvtY68t7qq2+wiTWxB4bjE9zbdmjtwlfk1urea-oxCJ1rQmXAKZNoAisngpyAAEhAQe1It1SklMOEQOALiYhFIaYAkppQkRgGAUi87cQwCvQQJQyJxgQBEH0HAiBFnfDiC+i4iI+gVC6BUREKRFndARJyactwKgQCyKoGJoHPjzBaIfLNpbR2ZCIAcBg7EGAgHwzh4sDBHjgsQ+BqAihD58uNNCsjyHByZOnHR24rcqOqsFcE4yYH6MMeHEx7jtwc6hGowKsdwSrHMd9KoJVjHJMABZhPsbExQiTAnfQ5yVY0u9D6n2IhfW+j9X7gA-ogH+gDQHERtLnCgKAAB9EkiyZh2ZJJ0RpUGZ6wfbgGGJVmCA2baY524bTOihDQySMtY7sPsWizF2LcX4sJaI4l5L0WQApdi4R9L8W0tpay7h9L+HYuFeS8VmLmWEu5biJVqr1Xsu1aS6VmLtXKuNbyw1+rxYWs1dS1VtrSXEvNbix15L5XsvsWG31-rJWJuTam7N+bRGSMxOnMFkQlGVX8uhb5-zgWoCrcHJyRjq3WMbZoxxlTRBttBd26tig8glWHb46toTbHNvncsZd6z12qhBc6BQaTB2URHc6Ap17Z3lMfau3tm7f324PaB09zoABWRTb2IfSKsVDgLP29uw7k-DhAiORAADZUfg8w+Jz7fnvtOdu3AJHBPgciAAOxk9ExTi7WOYciAoMTxnROAAcbPoWU65zjunzP+d+BW50AAnML97GOqc7fF7DgXUvUAy7WwGBX6PAnK5p79nncBZca5nKt+Q62RMi85196HqvjfyETIDwn0uLcnet4r-XYvaew8t2brX8gXunfZ2IIgou7fY9947gHjSmfyFByHm3kPI-c7uxpl38eUdg9D+H231P7fR7u-jzPRP5Ck5z8npXPujd3YZ6Xt3nR5Cs8r174AmPU8O7u3zhvmuLdC9b3r9vBvC+14UJL3v5um-y8HxzlPBeo9j-kOryfWvVA69n2HiPC+08KFN6v47VulNz+r53ovahndx6J6oD3x+t-55V+f1Q92D+dFUMHz3Q+O87672oWPj3G8RBVBE9P8T9vcz8x938A9jts8k829v9H9ICS8r9ADVAK84Cv8R9F9cdjdVB68UC+838W8MCwDh8a8cD-se8CCp8gCB8SD7959ECKC1AJ9qC18Z96C89GDDdmDVAV82DnsN9ODt8mC6dVB99ltnsj80dSCECeC6cc5L8ADCCRAc5b8ZCGDT8f9z8c4X8GAgA" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/KYDwDg9gTgLgBDAnmY...</a>
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Title: I'd like to break into this area in my next role and I'm looking for resources to learn about this over the next few weeks so I can try to get a role in the area. My context is embedded linux.<p>EDIT: I don’t know what I don’t know so I’m looking for a “point in the right direction” and anything the fine people of HN think is a good resource
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Title: I've been exploring new ways of testing Ghidra processor modules. In this repo, I was able to emulate NES ROMs in Ghidra to test its 6502 specification, which resulted in finding and fixing some bugs.<p>Context: Ghidra is used for reverse engineering binary executables, complementing the usual disassembly view with function decompilation. Each supported architecture has a SLEIGH specification, which provides semantics for parsing and emulating instructions, not unlike the dispatch handlers you would find in interpreters written for console emulators.<p>Emulator devs have long had extensive test ROMs for popular consoles, but Ghidra only provides CPU emulation, so it can't run them without additional setup. What I did here is bridge the gap: by modifying a console emulator to instead delegate CPU execution to Ghidra, we can now use these same ROMs to validate Ghidra processor modules.<p>Previously [1], I went with a trace log diffing approach, where any hardware specific behaviour that affected CPU execution was also encoded in trace logs. However, it required writing hardware specific logic, and is still not complete. With the delegation approach, most of this effort is avoided, since it's easier to hook and delegate memory accesses.<p>I plan on continuing research in this space and generalizing my approaches, since it shows potencial for complementing existing test coverage provided by pcodetest. If a simple architecture like 6502 had a few bugs, who knows how many are in more complex architectures! I wasn't able to find similar attempts (outside of diffing and coverage analysis from trace logs), please let me know if I missed something, and any suggestions for improvements.<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/nevesnunes/ghidra-tlcs900h#emulation">https://github.com/nevesnunes/ghidra-tlcs900h#emulation</a>
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Title: I have been wondering consistency guarantees at scale, specially with a massive number of concurrent users.<p>It seems that Booking.com mainly uses MySQL for most product features and use-cases and I am wondering how do they ensure that a listing is not booked by multiple users? Is the reservation system a single service with it's own storage and they run serializable transactions on it? Or do they utilize other means of distributed transactions, such as: distributed locking, 2PC, 3PC or Sagas?
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Title: Google is doing their "deleting inactive account" thing.<p>I have some old gmail accounts that forward email to my main account. I don't login to the old ones, but I read the mail that comes through.<p>Does anyone know if they'll count those old ones as inactive and delete them?
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Title: Hello HN!<p>I've been thinking about the idea of a LLM thats a clone of me - instead of generating replies to be a helpful assistant, it generates replies that are exactly like mine. The concept's appeared in fiction numerous times (the talking paintings in Harry Potter that mimic the person painted, the clones in The Prestige), and I think with LLMs, there might actually be a possibility of us doing something like this!<p>I've just released a fork of the facebookresearch/llama-recipes which allows you to fine-tune a Llama model on your personal WhatsApp conversations. This adaptation can train the model (using QLoRA) to respond in a way that's eerily similar to your own texting style.<p>What I've figured out so far:<p>Quick Learning: The model quickly adapts to personal nuances, emoji usage, and phrases that you use. I've trained just 1 epoch on a P100 GPU using QLoRA and 4 bit quantization, and its already captured my mannerisms<p>Turing Tests: As an experiment, I asked my friends to ask me 3 questions, and responded with 2 candidate responses (one from me and one from llama). My friends then had to guess which candidate response was mine and which one was Llama's. Llama managed to fool 10% of my friends, but with more compute, I think it can do way better.<p>Here's the GitHub repository: <a href="https://github.com/Ads-cmu/WhatsApp-Llama/">https://github.com/Ads-cmu/WhatsApp-Llama/</a><p>Would love to hear feedback, suggestions, and any cool experiences if you decide to give it a try! I'd love to see how far we can push this by training bigger models for more epochs (I ran out of compute credits)
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Title: been working on this for nearly a year
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Title: Hey HN,<p>After hours of re-watching Brandon’s creative writing BYU lectures[1], we converted his ideas into a framework to rapidly iterate and build sci-fi fantasy worlds.<p>The app is divided into 3 sections:
- World: To create a unique magic system intertwined with distinct physical and cultural phenomena
- Characters: To create character arcs and give them unique traits that evolve over time
- Plot: To weave a series of events in this world following the character arc<p>We are newbie devs, any suggestions on the app improvements and usability would be great!<p>The idea is to capture the essence of Brandon's approach. We can't help but wonder if other 'earned insights' can be converted into similar applications for different use cases outside of fiction.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cf-qdZ7GbA&list=PLSH_xM-KC3Zv-79sVZTTj-YA6IAqh8qeQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cf-qdZ7GbA&list=PLSH_xM-KC3...</a>
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Title: Recently I learned about this effort by Homeland Security, Border Patrol, and other government agencies to track the online discussions of citizens & immigrants, and tie those discussions to their SSNs.<p>I suppose LifeLog (Facebook) was merely a stepping stone in this effort, which appears to be accelerating with the advent of low-cost AI.<p>https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bge3/dhs-uses-ai-tool-babel-x-babel-street-social-media-citizens-refugees
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Title: erlmacs automatically configures and updates your .emacs file with support for the emacs mode that is included with Erlang/OTP. It frees you from having to locate the installation directory of Erlang/OTP and its bundled emacs mode.<p>It is an escript that only depends upon Erlang/OTP and Emacs.<p>Note: There is not much in the way of error checking at this moment, but it does make a backup of your .emacs files before any destructive operations.
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Title: I get bombarded by ads on social media. Would like to get recommendations from the community. Topics of interest is applied AI in areas of marketing, development, technology.
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Title: I have this habit which I'm sure many other dev have of thinking through programming problems during routine moments throughout the day.<p>At times this is an amazing blessing because some of the more out-of-the-box solutions get formed in these moments but more recently it's been veering into unhealthy obsessive territory (e.g. out for dinner or exercising).<p>Please share your experiences + any tips around striking a balance?
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Title: Hi,<p>I created loopy, a website to share and discover music you love.<p>A former coworker answered an ice breaker question saying his superpower would be to know every language fluently since he travels a lot.<p>Mine would be to hear every song I would fall in love with.<p>I realized that I will die without hearing every song that I will fall in love with. So many of my all-time favorite songs I randomly have heard at a club, coffee shop, traveling, walking by a store, etc.<p>There is a high chance that I would have never heard those songs. Loopy aims to fix this.<p>You can post your all-time favorite songs. If someone else love this song, there is a chance you will too :).<p>Here is my profile: <a href="https://loopy.fm/kyle" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://loopy.fm/kyle</a><p>Happy listening :)<p>- Kyle
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Title: Introducing QuaranTab: Companion extension to quarantine tabs so you can safely use them offline with private data<p>I find myself wanting to use online format parsers to quickly decode that production JWT or decode a base64 Authorization header but cannot trust these websites to not leak my information. I thought to myself if only I could cut-off network access to this site, use it offline, and then throw away all browsing data. So I created an extension just for that.<p>It uses Firefox contextual identities API (Containers) to isolate browsing data and inter-tab communication. Once the site is fully loaded, I then inject bogus proxy settings for any requests leaving that container to effectively cut-off network access. And once I'm done, I simply delete the Container.<p>Use Cases:<p>* Parse a live JWT token<p>* Convert a Base64 Authorization header<p>* Hash a password<p>* Parse a Protobuf message<p>* Submit my name and birthdate to estimate my date of death<p>Check out the MIT source code on GitHub [1] and install QuaranTab from the Firefox store [2]. If anyone is interested in a discussion, I'd love to chat about:<p>1. Any ideas on how we could implement this in Chromium? Using private window as a "Container"?<p>2. Can you come up with an exploit? I posted a 100usd bug bounty [3] if you find one!<p>3. Is there any way to prove an extension in the store was built from source in GitHub? I am imagining some kind of third-party escrow service managing the Firefox store account and building from specific public git repository.<p>1. <a href="https://github.com/matusfaro/quarantab">https://github.com/matusfaro/quarantab</a><p>2. <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quarantab/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quarantab/</a><p>3. <a href="https://github.com/matusfaro/quarantab#bug-bounty">https://github.com/matusfaro/quarantab#bug-bounty</a>
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Title: The discussion [0] about the recent changes has been upvoted by so many developers, that it's currently the 3rd most upvoted discussion on the platform [1].<p>I've been talking about it on Twitter [2] and tried to ping a few people I know who work at GitHub, but to no avail - there has been total silence since they made the change 5 days ago.<p>Is there someone here on HN who can bring this to the attention of the right people? Even though I understand it's a corporation, I can't imagine nobody cares about so many developers being unhappy.<p>The ask is pretty simple: leave the old chronological feed [3] as an option.<p>0: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/66188<p>1: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions?discussions_q=is%3Aopen+sort%3Atop<p>2: https://twitter.com/beeman_nl/status/1701278872858178005<p>3: https://github.com/dashboard-feed
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Title: I've been a software developer for almost 30 years.
I remember using VB back in the 90's and I was thinking about it the other day and it dawned on me; despite all the advances in technology since then, nothing I have found compares to that development experience today. I would go so far as to say we've gone backwards in a big way.<p>Now, I'm no fan of Microsoft products but, I have yet to find a tool that can allow me to be as productive in so short a time as Visual Basic. Yet I can't help wondering what problems it had that caused them to abandon it? Moreover, why hasn't someone come out with a solid replacement?
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Title: Main Question: What tech do you remember over the past years that seems to have withered or vanished from the public zeitgeist? (even if it's really just stealth).<p>Motivation: Was reading "Ian Wilmut, Creator of Dolly the Sheep Dies" [1] today, and realized that Dolly was born back in 1996 (>1/4 century). Yet, I rarely, if ever, read about cloning of any kind until Dolly's creator dies.<p>Notably, this appears to be a case where the tech is being used, yet not written about very much [2]. The list of species cloned is pages long, yet I have not read about any of these in major news. [3] Cloning hamburger (cattle)? Cloning housepets (canines)? Backup housepets in case Yeller falls in the well (Sooam Biotech, South Korea, was reported in 2015 to have cloned 700 dogs for their owners @ $100k / each)?<p>Other examples from my own view:<p>Graphene - First sighted 2004, still cannot buy graphene in any real quantities (cm's for $100's)<p>Digital/Smart/Bionic Contact Lens - First sighted 2010, apparently existed earlier (1999). A lot of companies have appeared and then failed or pivoted [4] (Mojo Vision being the most recent [5])<p>Thermal Cameras - I really thought every phone would have a cheap, mass manufacture thermal camera by now, so everybody could do "U so hot" jokes.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-scientist-who-created-dolly-sheep-clone-dies-79-2023-09-11/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-scientist-who-created-do...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_animal_cloning" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_animal_cloning</a><p>[3] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_that_have_been_cloned" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_that_have_been...</a><p>[4] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality#Contact_lenses" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality#Contact_lens...</a><p>[5] <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/05/after-losing-sight-of-its-initial-pitch-mojo-vision-eyes-pivot-with-22-4m-raise/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/05/after-losing-sight-of-its-...</a>
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Title: I’m talking the most native look and feel for the Windows platform.<p>Is it XAML and C#?
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Title: Rust support was added to the Linux kernel almost a year ago, in Linux 6.1. Are there examples of Rust being used in the kernel today?
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Title: I’m just super interested to learn about this language that is effectively never used with the huge caveat that it still underpins some of the most critical financial and government systems.
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Title: Do a Google search for "python endswith". Obviously, <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.endswith" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.endswith</a> is the correct best hit for that term. Why does Google rank that page below all of the well-known low-quality content farms like GeeksforGeeks, W3Schools, and Tutorialspoint?
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Title: Given Unity's recent announcement what's your favorite engine/framework to work in/with and why? It can be one you made, niche, or super popular.<p>My favorite is Panda3D [0] because I can use it from Python and C++ and that it lets you code your game how you want while being batteries included at the same time. It was used for some of Disney's MMOs and themepark rides too so it's production ready. Overall it's a lot of fun to work in and I'm also always discovering cool new features like the very good async support it has.
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Title: I created <a href="https://www.howmuchrent.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.howmuchrent.com</a> last Friday to help bring this kind of transparency to Ireland, allowing people to submit their rents. Would love to get any HN feedback on the idea/website.
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Title: There has been a lot of interest on HN in fine-tuning open-source LLMs recently (eg. Anyscale's post at <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37090632">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37090632</a>). I've been playing around with fine-tuning models for a couple of years, and wanted to share some insights and practical code. I’ve condensed what I’ve learned into a small set of notebooks at <a href="https://github.com/OpenPipe/OpenPipe/tree/main/examples/classify-recipes">https://github.com/OpenPipe/OpenPipe/tree/main/examples/clas...</a>, covering labeling data, fine-tuning, running efficient inference, and evaluating costs/performance. The 7B model we train here matches GPT-4’s labels 95% of the time on the test set, and for the 5% of cases where they disagree it’s often because the correct answer is genuinely ambiguous.<p>What is fine-tuning? You can think of it as a more-powerful form of prompting, where instead of writing your instructions in text you actually encode them in the weights of the model itself. You do this by training an existing model on example input/output pairs that demonstrate the task you want your fine-tuned model to learn. Fine-tuning can work with as few as 50 examples but I usually try to get 1000+ if possible.<p>Prompting still has some big advantages over fine-tuning. It's way easier/faster to iterate on your instructions than label data and re-train a model. And operationally it's easier to deploy one big model and just adjust its behavior as necessary vs deploying many small fine-tuned models that will likely each get lower utilization.<p>Fine-tuning has one huge advantage though: it is far more effective at guiding a model's behavior than prompting, so you can often get away with a <i>much</i> smaller model. That gets you faster responses and lower inference costs. A fine-tuned Llama 7B model is 50x cheaper than GPT-3.5 on a per-token basis, and for many use cases can produce results that are as good or better!<p>For example, classifying the 2M recipes at <a href="https://huggingface.co/datasets/corbt/all-recipes" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://huggingface.co/datasets/corbt/all-recipes</a> with GPT-4 would cost $23k. Even with GPT-3.5 it would cost over $1k. The model we fine-tuned performs similarly to GPT-4 and costs just $19 to run over the entire dataset.<p>Disclaimer: My brother David and I are working on an open-source product called OpenPipe (<a href="https://github.com/openpipe/openpipe">https://github.com/openpipe/openpipe</a>) to help engineers adopt fine-tuning as simply as possible. But none of the information above depends on our startup. The current post is just about sharing information that we’ve learned about fine-tuning. I hope it’s useful!
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Title: We are excited to share Lantern! Lantern is a PostgreSQL vector database extension for building AI applications.
Install and use our extension here: <a href="https://github.com/lanterndata/lantern">https://github.com/lanterndata/lantern</a><p>We have the most complete feature set of all the PostgreSQL vector database extensions. Our database is built on top of usearch — a state of the art implementation of HNSW, the most scalable and performant algorithm for handling vector search.<p>There’s three key metrics we track. CREATE INDEX time, SELECT throughput, and SELECT latency. We match or outperform pgvector and pg_embedding (Neon) on all of these metrics.<p>** Here’s what we support today **<p>- Creating an AI application end to end without leaving your database (example: <a href="https://github.com/ezra-varady/lanterndb-semantic-image-search">https://github.com/ezra-varady/lanterndb-semantic-image-sear...</a>)<p>- Embedding generation for popular use cases (CLIP model, Hugging Face models, custom model)<p>- Interoperability with pgvector's data type, so anyone using pgvector can switch to Lantern<p>- Parallel index creation capabilities -- Support for creating the index outside of the database and inside another instance allows you to create an index without interrupting database workflows.<p>** Here’s what’s coming soon **<p>- Cloud-hosted version of Lantern<p>- Templates and guides for building applications for different industries<p>- Tools for generating embeddings (support for third party model API's, more local models)<p>- Support for version control and A/B test embeddings<p>- Autotuned index type that will choose appropriate index creation parameters<p>- 1 byte and 2 byte vector elements, and up to 8000 dimensional vectors support<p>** Why we started Lantern today **<p>There's dozens of vector databases on the market, but no enterprise option built on top of PostgreSQL. We think it's super important to build on top of PostgreSQL<p>- Developers know how to use PostgreSQL.<p>- Companies already store their data on PostgreSQL.<p>- Standalone vector databases have to rebuild all of what PostgreSQL has built for the past 30-years, including all of the optimizations on how to best store and access data.<p>We are open source and excited to have community contributors!
Looking forward to hearing your feedback!
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Title: Hey folks. I'm the author of kr8s.<p>I’ve been working on kr8s for a while now and one of my core goals is to build a Python library for Kubernetes that is the most simple, readable and produces the most maintainable code. It should enable folks to write clean code when working with the Kubernetes API.<p>If you're interested in how it compares with other libraries then check out [this post](<a href="https://jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2023/comparison-of-kr8s-vs-other-python-libraries-for-kubernetes/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2023/comparison-of-kr8s-vs-...</a>).<p>Happy to answer any questions you might have in the comments here .
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Title: Hi,
I was wondering as I am starting startup, are there here any one person startup/SaaS?
And how do you manage marketing/sales/development, as I feel those are completely different skill sets.<p>Edit: If anyone is wondering my MVP is: https://sentimentscanner.com/- google play analytics/statistics/reports of comments by chatgpt
Edit2: I was inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072
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Title: Author here. I've been working on this for the past ~12 months, lately full-time.<p>I'm releasing two things today:<p>1. Nue JS: <a href="https://nuejs.org/docs/nuejs/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://nuejs.org/docs/nuejs/</a> — A tiny (2.3kb minzipped) JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It's like React/Vue core, but there are no hooks, effects, props, or other unusual abstractions on your way. Know the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and you are good to go. Nue JS supports server-side rendering (SSR), reactive components, and "isomorphic" combinations. It takes inspiration from Vue 2.0 and Riot.js. (I'm actually the original author of Riot).<p>2. Nue ecosystem: <a href="https://nuejs.org/ecosystem/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://nuejs.org/ecosystem/</a> — This is the ultimate goal and once all the sub-projects are finished, Nue will be a serious alternative to things like Vite, Next.js, and Astro.<p>The thing is that I'm not happy with the current state of web development, so I want to write a completely new ecosystem from scratch. I'm taking advantage of the "old" innovations like progressive enhancement, separation of concerns, and semantic web design. Benefits highlighted here: <a href="https://nuejs.org/why/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://nuejs.org/why/</a><p>All projects will be released under the MIT license.<p>Happy to answer any questions.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>Last time I showed free-music-demixer, which people seemed to enjoy. It was a static website with a Javascript + WASM module to perform music demixing (or music source separation) using an AI model UMX-L (Open-Unmix) running client-side in the browser.<p>Since then, I have overhauled the project and made several improvements:<p>- The demixing/separation quality is higher now, since I implemented the missing post-processing step<p>- Memory usage is lower now by performing a custom segmented inference with a streaming LSTM, which should allow larger tracks (or, dare I say, arbitrarily-large tracks)<p>- There is a batch upload feature now to demix an entire folder of songs (and provide zip files of the stems)<p>- There are now dev logs printed to the website to show the progress better
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Title: I quit my software engineering job about 4 months ago, went to travel, and building my side project into a business.<p>However, things don't work as fast as I expected. My least preferred option is going back to being an employee, therefor I'm considering switching to freelance or consulting. I believe that I have a very vast experience, and can be of good use.<p>I, however, have no idea how to get into becoming a freelancer/consultant. I don't want to complete with people on Upwork, and similar, and I tried to reach out to my old connections.<p>Are there any other tips, or recommendations that you can share? Thanks in advance!
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Title: By "Family Data Warehouse" I refer to all the info and documents that one tracks over the years, perhaps for one's self, but then also potentially for spouses, kids, parents, siblings, relatives, etc.<p>Some common categories:<p>(1) Financial: account statements (pdf, paper, etc), transaction CSV/ofx/etc, insurance policies, financial institution correspondence (confirmations, T&Cs, etc), tax forms, deeds/titles, loans, debts, contemporaneous records, paystubs, employment letters, receipts, etc<p>(2) Health: test results, diagnoses, medications used, doctor info/correspondence, vaccinations, hospital interactions, statements, bills, etc<p>(3) Product and services info: products purchased, maintenance info, warranties, replacement parts, recall notices, class action events, professional used (CPAs, lawyers, contractors, plumbers, etc), etc<p>(4) Personal legal and other documents: wills, trusts, health directives, pre-nups, legal settlements, personal contracts, rental agreements, government IDs, immigration/naturalization docs, law enforcement interactions, etc<p>(5) Memories and other info of sentimental or other value: pictures, videos, cards, recordings, music, diaries, clippings, personal notes, etc<p>For many of these one might ask the usual questions:<p>A. do I have a reason/obligation to retain it? for example, tax authorities often require certain classes of record keeping. sometimes commercial entities make false claims in retrospect that you can only rebut with evidence (even major banks!). some documents can end up only being used by heirs at end-of-life (ex: basis information for assets like a home, which can require proof of improvements over the years, depreciation claimed if the home was ever rented, etc)<p>B. is there a downside to retaining it? clutter, hard/costly to move, identity/other theft risk, physical decay over time (ex: obsolete storage formats (VHS, mini-DV, blueray)), etc<p>C. will I (or the appropriate person) be able to find it when I need it? physical paper vs electronic mgmt, indexing, filing, passwords, legacy services for transferring access.<p>D. can I actually retain it? backups, water damage, fire, theft, physical safe management, etc some online services don't provide any/easy export of data, many have inconsistent retention policies (ex utility companies)<p>Some of the categories above have specialized software and services dedicated to them (ex: photos services, quickbooks, etc) while some are more ad hoc (goog drive, dropbox, local HDD); even specialized services often fall short on key matters (quickbooks doesn't track statements afaik); many specialized systems have various platform limitations (no turbotax on linux, say); many vendors try to play various lock-in tricks; some vendors go out of business or discontinue products over the years; some institutions are very paper oriented so one perhaps scans or tries to limit paper delivery; some services place data in the cloud creating security exposure; etc etc
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Title: Oyie is a micro social app to stay in sync with your friends by sharing very short status updates or web links as push notifications.
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Title: His startup, Apex, has shut down: https://apex.sh/<p>It appears he stopped using Twitter in 2022. 0 Github contributions in the last year.<p>For those that don't know TJ, he's created numerous NPM libraries, including Express for Node.js. For more context, here's a blog post I found that talks about TJ's contributions: https://medium.com/@kelas/how-is-tj-holowaychuk-so-insanely-productive-604818b4e9eb<p>Is he alright? I hope he's OK.
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Title: This app and widget and related code is free to use for anyone. This was a side project to learn Android, Kotlin and the many libraries that came along with it. Screenshots in the Google Play link above.<p>app code: <a href="https://github.com/ddxv/hackernews-app">https://github.com/ddxv/hackernews-app</a>
backend api: <a href="https://github.com/ddxv/hackernews-api">https://github.com/ddxv/hackernews-api</a><p>There are many Hacker News apps, but this one focused on two features:<p>- Widgets: This app supports dynamic widgets using Compose Glance. The widgets can be themed and set up with one of the three main categories: "New", "Top" and "Best".<p>- Themes: Both the widgets and the main app support a number of color schemes based on user preference.
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Title: Hi, I am looking for advice on how you make time for side projects and activities such as Leetcode grinding. I want to do both, but am having a difficult time making it happen.<p>It’s much more difficult to find time now that I have two small children (6 and 3). Also, my job is rewarding, but I easily have some 50-60 hour weeks semi-regularly and get on the hook for after-hours support. I’ve been a software engineer for over 15 years, so I’m pretty good at picking up new skills at this point.<p>I’d like to do some projects both because they’re fun and they are also helpful to highlight your skills. Additionally, Leetcode grinding is important in case you need to find a new job.
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Title: Through controlled breathing it is possible to regulate your body's stress response. I've built an app to measure and train this effect with a Polar H10 Heart Rate monitor.<p>With every breath you take, you can set the pace of your breathing rate, measure your breathing control with the chest accelerometer, and see how heart rate variability responds.
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Title: I'm pretty comfortable with AWS from work experience, but I also recall the insane bills we paid. Of course, the place I worked at was/is doing great so the insane bills aren't a problem for them (when we're talking billions in revenue, a few million per year on AWS is okay I guess). They also have many, many petabytes of data and millions of users, though I'd argue there is also a ton of over-engineering.<p>Now that I'm working on my own company, I'm curious about alternatives to AWS.<p>I'm keeping things simple, so I've got mostly Go services, pg + caching, and a svelte webapp. I deployed my Go services on a low-ish end bare metal provider, and for now it is fine. Deployments are triggered via scripts, and so far so good. Is it sexy, using all the latest and greatest tech? No, its just simple shell scripts. But it works?<p>I also benchmarked each endpoint with tens of millions of records (not a whole lot but still) and I'm seeing a pretty good latency to throughput ratio. In fact, the performance is better than what we got during peak at work, and this setup is costing me tens of dollars a month.<p>That makes me think if I even ever really need AWS. If I ever need to do multi region, I can just spin up a new machine there. CDN covers all static content.<p>Am I wrong to think that I could probably scale like crazy and avoid AWS completely with my stack? Why should I pay hundreds/thousands per month plus a premium for bandwidth? I'm also enjoying staying sane avoiding IAM.
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Title: We have created our Stripe account on Feb 2023, and for past 7 months we have been building our product, integrating Stripe, and working on going live by getting clients.<p>Our website is (https://onclickcheckout.com/) and we are Stripe Connect marketplace account where we advertise for other Stripe accounts and get them clients without any upfront fees. We only charge when their customers pay them and we charge via application fee feature of Stripe Connect.<p>We use Stripe Standard Connect where if you have existing Stripe account you can work with us to get new clients<p>Few days ago, after integrating CRMs, 7 months of intense work on building our advertising platform and getting 5 clients (5 connected accounts) we finally went live and it was successful in terms of business where our tech brought 30k worth of sales in couple days, all that work finally paid off and I could finally pay our team as none have been paid yet<p>and today Stripe closed our account froze our funds and marked our account "fraudulent" and saying "unauthorized payments" and sent us appeal form which all you can do is upload company formation documents which we did and they automatically denied it<p>I need everyone to know the real face of Stripe, now if this issue cannot be resolved after all the work done, I need to find a way to pay our team or shut down the company and lose all my team
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Title: Chess, but each square also follows the rules of Conway's Game of Life.<p>Only your own pieces count as neighbours when deciding births/deaths.<p>For births, an empty square must have 3 neighbours for 2 consecutive turns.<p>For deaths, a piece must have <2 or >3 neighbours for 3 consecutive turns.<p>This is a simple proof of concept I made with python and curses.<p>You can play with a friend locally or over a socket connection.<p>Controls: Arrow keys to move the cursor, enter/space to select and move a piece, u or backspace to undo a move, r to redo a move, q or escape to quit, s to perform a move with stockfish if installed (useless since it has no knowledge of this variant), any other key to unselect a currently selected piece.
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Title: Hey HN!<p>I've been curious about the history of computer science and decided to try to read Turing's 1936 paper where he conceptualizes the Turing Machine, etc.<p>I had trouble understanding the paper, read The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold (which is wonderful), but felt that reading a reference implementation would help formalize my understanding. When I couldn't find an open source implementation, I decided to write my own.<p>The implementation includes:<p><pre><code> - Abbreviated tables (m-functions)
- Conversions to Standard Descriptions and Description Numbers
- A working universal machine
- A walkthrough of the paper section-by-section in the context of the codebase
</code></pre>
I'm still working on sections 8-11 (the math/logic is a bit difficult for me) - if you understand these sections well enough to explain, I'd love to talk to you!<p>In general I am interested in new mediums for learning source material (web annotations, walkthroughs, reference implementations, etc.), and was inspired by Karpathy's Zero to Hero course in particular for this project.
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Title: I am a founder working from home on my small business, in an apartment complex in a nice location in CA. Every day there is at least 4 times a garbage pickup, by an extremely loud garbage truck. Then there is the people racing their motorcycles and cars up and down the street, the airbnbs on weekends, stay at home moms/dads or nannies with kids on balconies, the endless moving trucks, amazon/fedex/ups trucks, and so on. Then there is the endless landscaping and street cleaning trucks. Gas powered garden equipment and blowers. Even with the windows closed it is very hard to block out all the noise. How do people who live in tech metros in apartment complexes manage to concentrate on their work on a day to day basis? Love to hear stories and tips and what people have done to improve their productivity even if it means moving somewhere else.
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Title: A minor annoyance for some of us older folk is seeing so many "digital help" courses for seniors. All too often the spiel implies something like this: "You grew old before digital devices became ubiquitous. Learn how to operate a smartphone or tablet, go online, send emails, share photos, shop online, join social media..."<p>Actually, some of us grew old <i>while</i> digital devices became ubiquitous. We've been using digital devices for decades. The teenager who was programming in BASIC on a microcomputer is now in her 60s. That grey-haired 70-something might have been using UNIX at work every day in the 1980s.<p>What grates about the "digital-help-for-seniors" programs is that they offer only a tiny subset of the learning we did and are still doing. For some of us, the nicest feature of general-purpose computing in the 2020s is the survival and ready availability of the command line, so we can do end-runs around complicated GUIs to get work done digitally.<p>If you're one of the seniors to whom that last comment makes sense, do you think an online organisation of like-minded people sounds interesting? It doesn't exist yet, but I suggest calling it OFUS - Old (Folks/Farts) with Unix Skills. For starters, email me at [email protected].<p>FYI, I'm 77 and still work every day in a BASH shell (as a data auditor).
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Title: I used this quite frequently but since Google """"improved"""" it last year (there was a popular HN post complaining about this) it doesn't work anymore. Search for a domain name with quotation marks for example just recombines the contents of the domain and returns a bunch of unrelated content completely cluttering what I am looking for. Until last year it used to return no search results if there weren't any exact matches, which is the whole point.<p>Does someone have a work around for this phenomenal Google decision?
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Title: Hey HN,<p>Michael and Scott here. We’re open-sourcing an interactive murder mystery featuring LLM-driven character agents. Solve the mystery by finding clues, taking notes, and interrogating agents. They all have distinct motives, personality, and can impact the game in different ways (attacking you, running away, etc). Try it out, it’s pretty fun!<p>We’re also open-sourcing the framework that we used to make and refine the agents. The goal is to create an intuitive interface for storytellers to create, debug, and test game agents. We then take those game agents and expose an API beyond just chat - such as actions, player guardrails, emotional queries, etc.<p>We’re not done yet - there are a lot more features coming on the way: scenario-based agent evals, agent-storyline consistency management, automatic agent generation, etc.<p>We would love to hear your feedback.<p>Thanks!<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/mluogh/grontown">https://github.com/mluogh/grontown</a><p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/mluogh/eastworld">https://github.com/mluogh/eastworld</a><p>[2] <a href="https://discord.gg/qRaWE2jp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://discord.gg/qRaWE2jp</a>
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Title: Hi HN, Mike and Warren here! We've been building HyperDX (hyperdx.io). HyperDX allows you to easily search and correlate logs, traces, metrics (alpha), and session replays all in one place. For example, if a user reports a bug “this button doesn't work," an engineer can play back what the user was doing in their browser and trace API calls back to the backend logs for that specific request, all from a single view.<p>Github Repo: <a href="https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx">https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx</a><p>Coming from an observability nerd background, with Warren being SRE #1 at his last startup and me previously leading dev experience at LogDNA/Mezmo, we knew there were gaps in the existing tools we were used to using. Our previous stack of tools like Bugsnag, LogRocket, and Cloudwatch required us to switch between different tools, correlate timestamps (UTC? local?), and manually cross-check IDs to piece together what was actually happening. This often made meant small issues required hours of frustration to root cause.<p>Other tools like Datadog or New Relic come with high price tags - when estimating costs for Datadog in the past, we found that our Datadog bill would exceed our AWS bill! Other teams have had to adjust their infrastructure just to appease the Datadog pricing model.<p>To build HyperDX, we've centralized all the telemetry in one place by leveraging OpenTelemetry (a CNCF project for standardizing/collecting telemetry) to pull and correlate logs, metrics, traces, and replays. In-app, we can correlate your logs/traces together in one panel by joining everything automatically via trace ids and session ids, so you can go from log <> trace <> replay in the same panel. To keep costs low, we store everything in Clickhouse (w/ S3 backing) to make it extremely affordable to store large amounts of data (compared to Elasticsearch) while still being able to query it efficiently (compared to services like Cloudwatch or Loki), in large part thanks to Clickhouse's bloom filters + columnar layout.<p>On top of that, we've focused on providing a smooth developer experience (the DX in HyperDX!). This includes features like native parsing of JSON logs, full-text search on any log or trace, 2-click alert creation, and SDKs that help you get started with OpenTelemetry faster than the default OpenTelemetry SDKs.<p>I'm excited to share what we've been working with you all and would love to hear your feedback and opinions!<p>Hosted Demo - <a href="https://api.hyperdx.io/login/demo">https://api.hyperdx.io/login/demo</a><p>Open Source Repo: <a href="https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx">https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx</a><p>Landing Page: <a href="https://hyperdx.io">https://hyperdx.io</a>
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Title: To be (dis)continued:<p>"We’re writing to let you know that the Gmail Basic HTML view for desktop web and mobile web will be disabled starting early January 2024. The Gmail Basic HTML views are previous versions of Gmail that were replaced by their modern successors 10+ years ago and do not include full Gmail feature functionality."
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Title: This is a Discord bot I made, which lets you write and evaluate Lisp code in collaborative sessions on Discord.<p>I wrote it in a short amount of time, partly for learning purposes, but also because I found the idea exciting and it was fun to hack around.<p>I'd be happy to get your feedback, especially on how to improve the deletion mechanism (maybe make deletion sexpr-based?). I've tried to make the README detailed enough so that it's easy to make some changes and run your own version.
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Title: Last ~40 mins or so we've been getting intermittent internal DNS failures in us-west-2 in our Lambda-hosted app. AWS status board now shows "Lambda invoke issue: We are investigating increased invoke error rates in the us-west-2 Region."<p>arn:aws:health:us-west-2::event/LAMBDA/AWS_LAMBDA_INVOKE_ISSUE/AWS_LAMBDA_INVOKE_ISSUE_ab21a726-de18-5a2f-b2ac-5cefd2794db9 on https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/home<p>edit: Status page now says "Operational issue - Multiple services (Oregon)" and "Operational issue - Multiple services (N. Virginia)"
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Title: Hello HN,<p>I've been working on this project for a while, and it has been in an "open" beta for some time. I finally believe it's ready for its first release.<p>I hope you like it.<p>Here are some potential questions that may arise:<p>1. How does it compare to LM Studio? It's likely that if you're already using LM Studio, you'll continue to do so. This project is designed to be more user-friendly.<p>2. Is it open-source? No, it is not.<p>3. Does it use any open-source libraries? Yes, it uses llama.cpp and a few others, as indicated in the license information included with the application.<p>4. Why is not using electronjs? Two reasons, I wanted total control over the whole tech-stack and second, I wanted to be able to send this to my friends over iMessage.<p>5. Does it support Intel macs? It should, but I couldn't test it.<p>6. Does it support older macOS? 12.6 is the lowest version at the moment.<p>7. Is XXX a bug? Probably :)
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Title: I think it started about a month ago, but recently got out of control. I mark ALL videos on my homepage as not interested, refresh the page and see about 20% of videos I just marked suggested again. Or next day, or the day after.<p>It seems Youtube just decided to ignore my "NOOO" signal.<p>Anything I can do? Any tampermonkey scripts that will add the video to local blacklist database and hides it from suggestions?
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Title: Planning a Japan trip and it's acting very weird.<p>1. Just now I was zoomed into Kuwana, Nagoya and clicked the 'restaurant' button they show at the top. It then moved to Tokyo and showed me like 3 random restaurants there. Clicked back, tried again and it showed me restaurants in London.<p>2. I searched for 銭湯 (public bath) while zoomed into my hotel and it zoomed out to basically the whole of Japan suggesting some random places. I KNOW there are multiple good options nearby.<p>3. Similar searches for supermarket or convenience store showed results 10-15 minutes away but completely hid some places really close to the hotel. This seems to be based on them having a 3/5 rating - it's a convenience store. Rating is not the issue.<p>This is on top of the badge spam (Google show so many badges for hotels and things that I can't even recognise my own marked locations in the quagmire) and it's tendency to zoom out to the whole country when I search for things, which is very frustrating as I almost always want to search nearby.<p>I have maps search and location history off, so it might be punishing me for that.<p>Just curious if anyone else has noticed this, as imo this is a fairly recent (last year or so) issue.
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Title: I just noticed the training cut-off date that ChatGPT usually mentions in its response is no longer September 2021 but is now January 2022.
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Title: I rarely see it mentioned and Google seems to have forgotten it as well. The name "Bard — an experiment" sounds like it'll be pulled down any moment.<p>How the hell wasn't Google able to do something like GPT-3.5/4?
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Title: I work in an enterprise environment that has multiple development teams, one of which uses Powerapps and another that uses Outsystems.<p>My group writes .NET code, but we have an interest in ensuring that whatever low code platforms are in use elsewhere don’t make our lives harder. I know most “normal” developers have a reputation for being hostile to low-code platforms, but I’m quite open-minded, and some members of my team like Powerapps in principle, and based on past experience.<p>Outsystems seems to be good for rapid development, but (maybe unjustifiably) I get demoware vibes from it, and find my team having to compensate for its shortcomings.<p>Has anyone got strong opinions on which low-code platforms, in 2023 are capable of getting out production-ready code for non-trivial projects?
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Title: Hello HN,<p>My name is Sudhanshu and I'm the Co-founder/CEO of Cheq UPI (<a href="https://www.chequpi.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.chequpi.com</a>). We are the first UPI wallet for foreigners and non-resident Indians travelling to India.
Using Cheq, you can purchase almost any goods/services across India .<p>Just scan the merchant QR code / choose the pay by UPI id option to make the purchase. You don’t need an Indian bank account to operate Cheq UPI. Our prepaid wallet can be topped up with any international debit/credit card.<p>10mn+ foreigners visiting India each year, invariably face one of the below problems<p>1) Indian merchant not accepting international credit/debit cards<p>2) Unavailability of ATMs/money changers at remote locations<p>3) Indian merchants not tendering exact loose change<p>The Cheq UPI app was launched to help all these individuals travel cashfree across the country.<p>If know someone planning to visit India this year, please ask them to try us out!<p>A lot of time, hard work and luck has gone into building Cheq and we hope it’ll make travelling to India more convenient for citizens across the globe.<p>Some quick pointers to know about the Cheq UPI app:<p>- The Cheq UPI app works ONLY in India and we must verify your passport in-person before activating the UPI wallet.<p>- Once activated, you’ll be able to scan & pay with UPI anywhere across India.<p>- Funds can be added to the Cheq wallet using any international debit/credit card, you don’t need an Indian bank account / aadhaar card.<p>- Apart from the 10$ account opening fees, there are no other costs for using the product. Funds added can be spent anywhere across India.<p>I’ll be available to answer any questions you may have throughout the day about Cheq, UPI or Indian fintech in general.<p>Look forward to seeing you all try Cheq UPI<p>PS: We're continuously improving our services, so critical and constructive feedback is most welcome.
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