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bottom999mottob··on Show HN: Keydogger – Minimal keyboard macro for Linux (Wayland)
AutoKey definitely has more features than this, but I think this looks easier to automate with pipes after a cursory look at the repo.
bottom999mottob··on FDA denies petition against use of phthalates in food packaging
I know it's the lesser of two evils but I'd rather have quality vinyl off-gassing PVC than carpet emitting PFAS and trapping dirt.
bottom999mottob··on Mycotoxin contamination in organic and conventional cereal grain and products
Use paraquats and PFAs concentrated bio-waste to grow crops -> Widespread health issues

Don't use fungicides -> Mycotoxins

Doomed if you do and doomed if you don't. Honestly, eating cereal just isn't appealing anymore. I recently ate some granola without yogurt or honey, and it tasted rancid. Shame because the texture of oats is excellent.

bottom999mottob··on Feynman Computer Science Lecture – Hardware, Software, Heuristics (1985) [video]
Is Feynman just the GOAT'd physicist, computer scientist, bongo-player, and teacher of all GOATs? I'd be inclined to believe so.
bottom999mottob··on Codestral: Mistral's Code Model
Exactly, expecting one shot 100% working code with one prompt is ridiculous at this point. It's why libraries like Aider are so useful, because you can iteratively diff generated code until it's useable.
bottom999mottob··on Abusing Go's Infrastructure
You might be thinking of the General David Patraeus case, a national security leak that was slightly worse than Snowden's, but with little repurcussions :)
bottom999mottob··on Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)
Descarte didn't say thinking implies self-consciousness. That saying is a thought experiment about the existance of self regardless of sensory stimulus, not a declaration of self-consciousness...
bottom999mottob··on Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet
At this price point, I'd much rather have an portable e-paper external display at a cheaper price. Seems quite underpowered
bottom999mottob··on Department of Justice says Boeing may be criminally liable in 737 MAX crashes
Honestly this quote is one of Chuck Palahniuk's best dialogues. Recommend checking out his other work like 'Rant.'
bottom999mottob··on A low budget consumer hardware espionage implant (2018)
The free market did a terrible job incentivizing disassembly... Can't count how many no-screw assemblies have triggered me.

The right-to-repair situation is a joke right now with automotive, consumer electronics, and appliances.

bottom999mottob··on Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images
Higher liability means they need to extract more money from you. That's the point of insurance. See: wildfires in California and flooding in Florida causing insurers to pull out. Once the insurance companies lose money, the risk is too high...
bottom999mottob··on Banana prices to go up as temperatures rise, says expert
False dichotomy, appeal to ridicule, and generalizations about climate change science in two sentences is impressive.

Honestly one of the worst arguments I've read this year. Might be the witches talking though.

bottom999mottob··on Intel, Microsoft discuss plans to run Copilot locally on PCs
Same reason people virtualize dozens to hundreds of machines in one box, hardware efficiency.

I don't understand this sentiment.

bottom999mottob··on Banana prices to go up as temperatures rise, says expert
Arguing lack of one-to-one causation is really tone-deaf if you've been following the climate change conversation for any time now.

Climate change is affected by multiple factors...

bottom999mottob··on Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal
Reminds me of the Chinese hacking company leak a few weeks ago.

Hack-a-Nation-State-as-a-Service and Hack-a-Service-as-a-Nation-State. The most predictable and boring dystopia. Like was anyone surprised Facebook was doing this?

bottom999mottob··on IBM and NASA build language models to make scientific knowledge more accessible
Using pre-trained language models like the encoder and retrieval models mentioned [1] typically doesn't require writing a lot of code, but there are still a few steps involved.

The retrieval model, [2], is hosted on the Hugging Face platform. To use it, you can use Hugging Face's Inference API to send HTTP requests to their servers and receive responses from the model.

HuggingFace's docs [3] provides instructions on how to use the Inference API, including code examples in Python and other languages. Essentially, you'll need to format your input text according to the model's requirements, send an HTTP request to the API endpoint, and then process the response.

This does require some basic programming knowledge to interact with APIs and handle the requests/responses.

There are some third-party applications and services that provide a front-end for accessing pre-trained language models like this one, like Hugging Face Spaces, Replicate.ai, and Google Colab. However, these often come with additional costs or limitations...

Here's a related model by IBM and NASA for geospatial stuff [4].

[1] https://research.ibm.com/blog/science-expert-LLM

[2] https://huggingface.co/nasa-impact/nasa-smd-ibm-st

[3] https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/v0.14.1/en/guide...

[4] https://huggingface.co/ibm-nasa-geospatial

bottom999mottob··on Leaked Files Show the Secret World of China's Hackers for Hire
All one and the same: Nation-State-in-Service's-Clothing

Ok gang let's see who this nation-state really is

Pulls off the mask

Jinkies! It's not just a service; it's a nation-state in disguise

Recursion intensifies

bottom999mottob··on Can tin foil hats block anything? (2015)
What big tin foil doesn't want ya to know! That's hilarious
bottom999mottob··on Automate the creation of YouTube Shorts by providing a topic
Dear lord I haven't seen a DarkRP reference for 12-15 years. You just triggered a wave of memories evading the police, blowing up people's bases, and raiding the Mayor's office to jailbreak people.
bottom999mottob··on Textual Web: TUIs for the Web
I've been using it to build a dashboard for a web scraper with postgresql backend. Thing's it's helped with that could help you 1. Formatting tables of json from API specs 2. Keep track of growing database tables 3. Have buttons to start tasks queues

Things I've noticed are the debugging and logging experience are pretty good. You could have multiple processes dumping to different log files and grepping those.

There's a lot of formatting you can do with Python and the sister library Rich.

Have spent about 12 hours on it and it's much easier to get a UI running than say learning a flavor of the month JavaScript framework.

0: https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/jira-re...

bottom999mottob··on How too much daydreaming affected me
Maybe I'm out of the loop here, but why would this be a reason to want to be in contact with someone? You can read accounts of this and imagine it.
bottom999mottob··on When did people stop being drunk all the time?
Sugar is correlated to obesity which is correlated to all types of cancer. Not sure I fully understand this argument, as many people promote many things that are risk factors for cancer.
bottom999mottob··on Practical comparison of ARM compilers
Gcov is great until higher-ups start demanding 100% line coverage, and you end up with hundreds of thousands of lines of unit tests. Then you gotta hire someone to check why the Jenkins builds are failing because some of your code isn't thread safe, and running the unit tests takes longer than compiling and taking a smoke break...
bottom999mottob··on AI watches millions of cars and tells cops if you’re driving like a criminal
There's no way searching someone's car, based off their legal driving behavior, could be misused!

The police have no repercussions for sending warrants to Google for phone information. Is searching someone for their legal driving behavior any better?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-geofence-warrant...

bottom999mottob··on Show HN: Dependency Hell (Short Story)
Now try using pip where some 3.10 packages aren't compatible with anything lower and requirements.txt are nigh useless! NPM is heaven comparably.
bottom999mottob··on FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process
Dark patterns like this should be regulated. I'm tired of having to click through obfuscated menus to cancel subscriptions, notifications, and tracking.
bottom999mottob··on FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process
I'd be careful about buying mattresses from Amazon as quite a few have been found to have fiberglass.
bottom999mottob··on Prem – Private Open Source LLMs for All
So at first glance, this is a Javascript wrapper around a bunch of open-source LLM Docker images? Correct me if I'm wrong. How is this different from OpenLLM?
bottom999mottob··on Men who helped run Megaupload sentenced to prison in New Zealand
I think open season on anyone two standard deviations from mean income is fair. /s
bottom999mottob··on Ask HN: My YouTube feed constantly recommends nonsense, anyone else?
You can nuke your watch history or say "Not Interested."
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