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This was the first explainer of LoRA that actually "clicked" for me.

In a sense, this is pretty amusing metahumor.

@dang - I wanted to submit this as a link to github.com but couldn't figure out how to avoid the dupe filter. Can you change the link to https://github.com?

> One thing that led me to start creating Pickcode was the number of bugs I encountered in existing tools for coding education. Fifteen minutes of lost time to a minor bug or incorrect instruction step doesn’t seem like a big issue, but when those fifteen minutes represent some of the first minutes a student is programming, they have an outsized impact in changing the student’s attitude toward the subject.

As a young CS student who had self-taught before taking a formal curriculum, this was one of the things I found the most disgusting about the state of high-schools CS ed.

When the exercises and grading code have bugs, that's a major problem. When the instructor can't recognize those bugs when you point them out, that's even worse.

I moved on to tutoring and teaching CS later in life, (on the side, as a mentor with a FIRST Robotics program,) and encountering bugs in the curriculum like these were some of the things that set my students back the most.

If you find this fun, you might like The Witness, a game with a similar gameplay mechanic as part of its core loop: https://store.steampowered.com/app/210970/The_Witness/

I've been looking for a tool that can passively transcribe audio files to make them easier to search - this looks like it could almost solve that use case - maybe with a scripted tagger.

This link was posted here recently, and was the most understandable explanation I've found so far: https://e2eml.school/transformers.html

I recently switched to Beeper and as exciting as this looks, I wish that the team spent a little bit more time working on their primary app rather than working on what appears to be a toy hardware project.

Beeper is supposed to be a "universal messenger" that acts as a central place for all your messaging apps. I originally signed up because I wanted to be able to iMessage on my Android device, which has worked relatively well. In order to use the app's SMS bridge though, you have to set the app as your default SMS app (an Android requirement, no getting around it.) Unfortunately, it's just really difficult to compete with the system-level messenger app.

I've been chatting back and forth with them, and their support team has been pretty responsive, but I'll likely stop using it soon. Their app is just too buggy to be such an important part of my workflow as a default SMS app. No RCS support, notification issues, totally missing SMS messages entirely with no way to recover them? (Rare, but destructive.)

Love the idea, but needs a good bit more work. (Sorry to the team, I know some of them are here on HN.)

Agreed, it seems to have been caught up in the Hacker News automatic title reformatting behavior, which prevents words in all-caps.

Also check out Wazuh, for another great solution in this area.

I used to work on toll fraud as part of IT for a large tech organization. Not FAANG but several thousand employees.

My impression at the time was the fraud detection heuristics helped, but the root cause was scammers working with telcos overseas. Many of these companies have extremely high rates in the first place, and turn a blind eye to the practice because it makes them much of their money.

Some VoIP providers like Twilio may be the same. As a middleman / carrier, they will always profit from traffic on their network, even if they disavow it as fraudulent and wag their finger at you about it.

I've encountered this in Erlang, but when using Elixir, pipes solve this problem quite nicely.

Congrats on the launch! Been eagerly sitting in the #elixir IRC channel all day :)

How easy would it be to support OpenAI's new Whisper transcription model in Bumblebee?

Appears to affect ELBs.

Could this also be an open source replacement for Airtable?

I feel like this should be relatively fair-use under the guise of parody, right? Though I imagine the dev doesn't feel like going to court over it.

On Android, in Developer Settings, it's possible to register an app as a Mock Location provider. I'm not sure the interface your app needs to surface to show up in that list for selection, but in theory that API existing means there's a potential path for this.

Your app could interface with more accurate external sensors, and then set the phone's GPS fix to be what the sensors read. Assuming that the issue is lack of accuracy at the sensor level and not lack of precision at the software / API level.

> A SIM stands for security information management

Subscriber Identity Module?

Raleigh / the Triangle anyone?

I recently purchased their newer keyboard, the Moonlander MK I. I've been very happy with it so far! This is my first ortholinear layout, so it's taken some getting used to, but I've been very happy with the customizability and the programming process.

ZSA provides a webpage that lets you remap your key layout and flash it to your keyboard right from browser, without downloading any other software, which has been super convenient.

Am I the only one freaked out by the focus on a Leon instance setup unnecessarily framed as being "born" in their documentation materials here?

> $ leon create birth

> At this stage, Leon is born and can already start to run via this command: [...]

It seems like an unnecessary anthropomorphization.

Could you cite the American equivalent legislation that protects those rights? Specifically the right to manual review?

Turn off Twilio's auto-renewal / auto-refill functionality as a first step.

I've used DataMatrix for similar uses, and found that they can scale down smaller (due to less obtrusive code patterns.)

IIRC though, DataMatrix is technically licensed, not open, so if that's a concern for you you may want to be careful.

Fingerprinting via gesture and gait tracking is an interesting (and terrifying) (mis)use of tracking data within a virtual playspace. I bet Meta et al. have a research team working on whether gait information from within VR can be used to correlate a virtual identity with a physical presence using data from cameras in, say, physical stores like a Walmart or Amazon's Whole Foods.

Very scary.

I'd like to take a moment to appreciate that the first thing I saw on this page was a GIF explaining exactly what the blog post was talking about, but visually. I didn't even have to scroll down, and 60 seconds later, I had a much better idea of what this post was communicating.

I've tried one of these, and it's difficult to type and walk at the same time. I love walking, sometimes walking for multiple hours on the weekends, but I wasn't able to make the "walking workstation" work.

I love that I can self-host this! Are there plans for federation?

Rather than maintaining a whole separate index for myself, I'd love to self-host an instance of this, only indexing sites that aren't in the main index, and then falling back to the main index / merging it with my index to answer queries. I wonder how easy that would be with the current architecture.

From the perspective of someone who has worked in the film industry: how a crew interacts with and treats bystanders is generally very telling about where they are on the "amateur-professional" scale.

In my experience, professional productions are usually very intentional about not getting in the way of people just trying to go about their day. We were filming at a busy coffee shop in January, and we held for filming whenever a customer wanted to buy a coffee. The producers were pretty serious about not disrupting the business we were filming at.