skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's an interesting question that you won't be able to get an answer for, because most new things are still not accessible to the average HN reader. I mean, you can look up ML research papers to see what's new, but none of that is going to seem anywhere near as impactful as ChatGPT because it's at the level of research.

It's not like when the first theoretical models that make up the basis for GPT came out, people were instantly sure where we'd end up in 5 years.

I'm sure people within OpenAI or other AI companies would be able to tell you of very interesting advances, but they won't do so on HN until the things are public.
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You can see a cross-Browser WebGL Game Engine here:

https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js

In general, the tradeoffs are:

* WebGL is not always available and enabled in all browsers

* Spacial Audio effects and formats are inconsistent across platforms

* mouse/keyboard/game-pad support is tricky (browser security is messy)

* Rigging a mesh for animation gets computationally expensive

* Basic collision detection and snapping to surfaces is always computationally expensive, so to make it performant people use 90's style sphere/cube assumptions

* mutable textures are supported, but basic animated effects still bloat into video memory

* all game assets and runtime code are exposed to end users

Thus, most conclude JS+WebGL are incompatible with most commercial settings, and basic anti-cheat enforcement. Note, WebAssembly+webGL is marginally improved, but again further reduces the number of supported platforms.

People tend to prefer native App binaries, as unity3D/OpenGL can allow better content experiences without the added resource overhead. One could try to fight this trend, but Apple/Google/Microsoft want their cut... and will continually do things that enforce their bottom line.

Have a wonderful day... =)
Is there a use case for WASM here and rust for example to run games in the browser?

There are game engines written in rust Bevy for example
Show HN: Martian Technology (Audio-Article)
Montefiore's "Young Stalin" which covers his life from birth to the revolution is a wild book. I like Montefiore because he has a real respect for the maniac genius and energy of the guy. What kind of person does it take to overthrow a whole society?

"Court of the Red Tzar" is less fun and more of a portrait of him using his enormous capacity to work and execute to relentlessly grind out his plans to take over the world in the name of Marxism/Leninism and absolutely steamrolling over anyone or anything in the most brutal way possible that got in his way.

One of the things that people miss about Stalin is that more than any leader in the past centuries, he wasn't a puppet for a shadowy cabal, or a front man for someone else, he was fully totally in charge and running the whole thing totally outmaneuvering Trotsky and anyone else who would attempt to grab power away from him. He could do this because he had a legendary memory for people and their personalities. He was able to take over the government by remembering thousands of people who he considered loyal to him and placing them in key posts throughout the government after he was appointed party secretary. There have been very few leaders with that sort of raw cognitive capability.
This

> it's not like I think about letters anyway

is exactly why the following is of little use and is a design mistake for heavily used keybinds

>Almost every key in vim has a meaning, most of them are kinda semantic (webdrtfi...),

Which unfortunately has persisted for ages reminding us yet again how defaults matter :(

(and due to the high frequency of their use the arrow keys shouldn't require you to move a finger off the home keys, so jkl; is better than hjkl; (in qwerty))
“Coercion” might be a strong word, but there’s many form of “very strong incentives” applied in most religions. Not being included in the group and face critically harsher survival conditions by not participating in the religion is a form of that for instance.
He's being practical. If someone doesn't like you, it's better to be safe than sorry.

But I suppose you think it's ok to hate all Russians.

And anti-vaxxers.

And Trump supporters.

This racism nonsense has been created mostly by the media.
Linux distros are not by any means walled gardens. You can always install new software by building it from source or often from just downloading something someone else built (as long as it's statically linked or you have the shared libs).

Windows is also not a walled garden but to a lesser degree than Linux. It is far harder to get a "standard" build environment up for windows simply because Microsoft refuses to distribute the UCRT (or VSRedist) build libraries in a form that doesn't require manually digging through installer internals or setting up Visual Studio. It can be done for free & legally but it's a significant pain in the ass. Regardless of how annoying it is, there is no financial/legal barrier to building software for windows and you can trivially install 3rd party software or even execute it without installing.

Android I somewhat agree is a walled garden in practice (certain features are limited to gApp/play store apps only and setting up 3rd party play stores or apps is annoying) but by the simple fact that you can build apps for android or install them without any financial or legal barriers, it can't realistically be called a walled garden (maybe a hedge maze might be more accurate).

MacOS isn't entirely a walled garden despite getting pretty close (kinda like a worse dev/install experience from windows + *nix).

iOS however is 100% a walled garden.

Point being that out of every OS you mentioned, exactly 1 of them qualifies and the rest do not (despite having anti-user/anti-competitive practices)
I wonder if you could run it on a Orange Pi board or Nvidia Jetson board (or perhaps even the Nvidia Grace arm CPU) as well or does it check for the RPi chip?
Surprised gov doesn't just buy it and adjacent buildings out and close it.

If even one worker gets cancer from it then the math likely works out (nvm the suffering).
Somehow this tutorial never clicked for me. I finally looked elsewhere and it got way easier for some reason. I think it has to do with him using his own little library in almost example which hides away some important setup (which obviously helps him out efficiently writing the articles but if you're there to learn I think you should see that too without layers hiding it).

These are fantastic though: https://www.youtube.com/@osakaandrew/videos
The wikipedia on the page is suspiciously absent of evidence, so I'm not sure how true that actually is

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization
Yep! For another area, it’s very difficult to use any Electron app with OS-built-in voice control, while almost all native apps work fine.
I buy them. I’d even suggest a deviation: make them a few mm thicker and fill the extra space with battery. I’d use a small powerful multi-day battery smartphone far more than anything else.
Ask HN: Snapsearch for All Your Documents
Have you ever had the issue where you can't remember where you kept a certain file or document. Wether it was on your Google drive, or maybe in your one drive, dropbox, or maybe even your trash?

What if there was a website, desktop app and mobile app wherein you just had to link your various cloud provider accounts to the app once and you can search all your files on all your cloud providers!

Later on, i would also like to add image recognition to this so you can search for images across various providers.

Does this solution sound like something you'd be willing to try?
> That is not entirely true

what are you referring to?

Obviously x^4 != x^10, but noone has ever proven that "if SAT is P, then it would have the lowest (or highest) polynomial complexity among the other problems", or anything similar
I once read somewhere that an estimated 70% of all technical knowledge has only ever been published in the form of patents.
I always find it fascinating to see these ideas described in detail and with technical drawings in old patent applications, a quick google search results in this one [0] describing a mooring mast, filed by the same company that built the R-100.

[0]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US1636354A/
On traditional Japanese carpentry for houses (not temples, where it is still the norm), one of the best english sources is Akinori Abo:

Japanology Plus - Wood : Carpentry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBzszOLt2Ms

木組展おうちでミュージアム／竹中大工道具館「木組みの家/Kigumi House」（Japanese and English）
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HMa5tofqps

Takenaka (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takenaka_Corporation) museum has many videos: https://www.youtube.com/@user-wx9vl7xn6s/videos

I do not have anything about temple carpenters handy.

There is also traditional Japanese joinery (the profession), like e.g. Edo sashimono or Kyo sashimono (in Japenese)

Sashimono Woodwork in Japan Japanology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UEEz111uIM

And there is Suda Kenji
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epCgloUe9dU

And lumber porn:
Massive Lumber Warehouse in Shinkiba, Tokyo - Understand Wood from a Professional Japanese Carpenter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLTrDQ3vaVU
"They keep costs down in part by pursuing home remedies for a lot of things instead of seeing a doctor."

Two other factors for low cost would be their healthy lifestyle and end of life care choices. The Amish get about 20k steps in per day - double the recommended 10k steps that most English fail to meet. Rates of many chronic diseases are lower. When they do get old, they don't drag things out and they generally don't go into longterm care facilities. Most English tend to want the doctor to "do everything you can".
Why can they never use flagship CPU? Power users who would buy want the latest snapdragon like myself
I used sqlc[1] for golang, while it’s very cool and keeps things simple, at the end I switched to gorm as I needed hooks and dynamic queries where annoying to write. I could have build these things myself on top, but that would have been a homegrown orm in the end. But as every orm, gorm also has its problems, pick you poison.

[1] https://sqlc.dev/
This is one of the most important problems to solve IMO, especially for people who have left the traditional academic system. I feel that having the pressure to perform under examinations, as horrible as it was, at least got some level competency over the line but not having that anymore and learning outside of work has been a tricky affair.

I suspect that the solution to this problem might be whatever is common in lots of different learning styles.
But if 25 need wheelchairs to get on but only 5 to get off...
This package is using GPT-3 via the “ChatGPT” export from that module, which is—somewhat misleadingly—not ChatGPT, but GPT-3.
As an engineer and long-time consultant looking for part-time or short term consulting, the directory is the least of my problems. The problem that needs to be solving is being matched with someone that actually needs me.

Unless you know someone in your network that can personally recommend you, it's only spammy LinkedIn recruiters or going to interview that go nowhere or are just about full time employment.

What freelance engineers need is a manager like an actor might have. Someone on retainer I can call and they find me a job. Someone that sends me high quality tailored contracts. I have been looking and talking about this for so long I should just do it myself, if only I had the time.

The choice right now is either shouting in the void, the race to the bottom of freelance platforms or wasting an enormous amount of time cold calling. It boggles my mind how substandard, inefficient and often exhausting the tech recruitment system for freelance/consulting is.

Yet everyone else is building yet another job board and competing for a minute in the spotlight in the monthly "Who is hiring" threads.

--

On the "Create account" page there's a small typo: "Sing in" should be "sign in".

And maybe add a 11+ years of experience category. It just goes up to 10, which is not a lot.
I’ve trained with bodybuilders for years. I assure you willpower and choosing boring foods is a huge factor. Plain chicken, rice, broccoli, water. Try to gain weight.
Tomato-free pizza on the menu as chefs choke on the price of fruit and veg
Disability is a binary in the minds of many - either you are and thus entitled to assistance, or you aren’t at all.

The difference between being able to walk 500m in 30 minutes with a bench or two in the middle and being able to walk 1km in 15 minutes without sitting is one that seems to escape lots of people. The latter capability is necessary for making a lot of connections at big airport, especially if immigration/customs and/or a delay is involved, and the latter is all many of my 70+ year old relatives are capable of.

I encourage them to register as needing assistance to get to and from their gates (there usually is an option without wheelchairs), telling them that airlines assume “able-bodied” is a healthy frequent flyer around my age or younger.
I thought we were discussing the article, sorry, my bad.
openSUSE, Spiral Linux, Garuda Linux and siduction can all do the Btrfs eequivalent of this.

AIUI, Void Linux is actively working on this, and it's not the only one -- I think, from faint recollection, Chimera Linux and NixOS are working on ZFS support too.

SUSE and Red Hat won't touch it because of the fear of legal action from Oracle. Oracle itself won't touch it, even though it'd be a huge win for Oracle Linux -- I strongly suspect because that would legitimise other distros.

It's a shame Ubuntu is backing away from it, but now it is, it's opening the door for other distros.
Ask HN: What's Your Experience with Pioneer.app?
If you haven't heard of it before, Pioneer.app is an accelerator with a tournament-style selection system. Startups compete by submitting weekly updates, which are ranked by other startup founders. There's an ELO-like points system.

Wondering:

Do you know anyone who has been selected for the accelerator program?

How's the "product quality" of the accelerator program?

If you've been through ANY accelerator before, would you repeat the experience even if you could build and MVP and raise a seed round yourself?
Ok I’ll be the one to ask — 1,000,000x means what, exactly?
Ask yourself this - If you were about to invest in an App, would you ask the dev those questions? They seem fair imo. Imagine if you were pitching to Y Combinator - would any of the potential investors ask those same questions?

Equally it could just be someone on a fishing expedition to see if it was worthwhile developing a competing app so do some background research of the potential partner to see if they are either a VC or a possible copy-cat
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34939717
Weird would be to differentiate between Romanians and Moldovans. A lot of Romanian families, on both sides of the river Prut, have been forcibly separated at the end of WW2, while being "just" Romanians prior to that. Insertion of Russians post Moldovan annexation to USSR (not only in Moldova, but also all over Romania), and associated deportation of Romanians, from places like Ungheni, Chisinau, Tighina, Orhei, Balti, etc. (from actual Republic of Moldova territory, but not only), into the further NW regions of USSR, took place over quite a few years post WW2, and made a difference, also.
Although there is no agreed upon standard for encapsulated single-file web content, you can try to run your finished product through SingleFileZ or single-filez-cli, and ship that around, or embed it with an Iframe. I'm just not sure if it's suitable for games or application that load static assets upon certain interaction.
Adding composer to WordPress isn’t gong to fix it. The problem is more fundamental - WP was conceived as a blog engine and has proven itself constitutionally incapable of truly moving beyond that frame.

* features
People say that “you can just add a plug-in” for whatever, and that’s true. But so many things that should be core are not (advanced custom fields, forms) and other features have no place in modern WordPress (comments). Gutenberg is an incomplete answer to page builders. While the page builders are impressive, they still have a pretty substantial learning curve.

* cost
I’ve been using WordPress for over a decade and it’s fallen woefully behind other CMS’s. Recently I spun up a site for a client and the plug-ins cost over $1000 just to get them going. That isn’t _WordPress’s_ fault, but it doesn’t help.

* speed
WordPress inexplicably gets slow after about a year unless it’s managed by someone with masters-degree level skill. It’s like the system gets tired. The caching plug-ins help, but why doesn’t WordPress offer better caching itself?

* deploying
Recently, I decided I’d had enough. I was doing a one-day build for a small marketing site and it took two hours to deploy because the “yoast” plug-in broke the WP CLI’s ability to search and replace the database for URL’s. Not to mention that source control is a nightmare because people can install their own plug-ins from the dashboard.

I’m writing an open source visual page builder for Laravel. It fixes the problems I see with WordPress for building marketing sites. Think of it as a blend between the visual ease of Webflow and the programmatic power of Laravel. By default, it’ll run off of SQLite (but any sql db will work), so they’re awe only two things living outside source control - the SQLite database and the uploads folder. That makes managing transitions from dev to production an absolute breeze.

I’m very excited about it! It should be ready for beta testing in a few weeks…if anyone wants to give it a shot, let me know.
The Industrial Revolution was why they were able to colonise the world. Being much, much more productive means you can afford a lot more bullets/cannon/artillery/small arms and you need less of your population as a share growing food. Europeans were better at war than anyone else because Europe was always at war somewhere. It was geographically fragmented enough that any one power becoming hegemonic never happened again after Rome. The difference wasn’t big enough to explain conquering most of the world though. They Sikhs came very close to defeating the British and Japan was almost certainly outproducing Europe in firearms by the end of the Sengoku Jidai.

The Industrial Revolution made European conquest possible.
Some parts of this trend I find it positive for society. The traditional pressure to have a partner is too much, learn to be alone is important to self development, have to sleep in the same bed every night is bananas to me.
EasyOS kirkstone 2.0 release – lightweight Linux from the guy behind Puppy Linux
> Canonical has flat out rejected the idea

I need citations.

I am not saying I doubt you, but if these objections are to be reported upon, I have to be able to point to the receipts. I need to see the bug reports, or the mailing list posts, and specific examples of the "home directory pollution" and so on.
Ask HN: Anyone else had problems with ChatGPT returning real looking, fake DOIs?
I'm trying to use ChatGPT as a search engine to see how effective it is at assisting me with things I'm researching. However, I've noticed that multiple times it just makes up journal article titles and pairs them with metadata from actual journal articles. I haven't actually been able to get a DOI that has linked to an actual article yet. When you tell it, it's done something wrong it just makes up completely random DOIs that you can't even find in a search.

I know it's not meant to be trustworthy as a data source, but this seems like ChatGPT is just outright lying to me?

For context, I asked the following questions:
1/ What problem did tools like flightradar24 solve and can you provide me some academic references outlining these
2/ Can you give me DOI references for those three references please

I actually can't find the articles in the listed journals at those locations either so it's not just a metadata match issue. The articles just do not seem to exist at all.

Linked my twitter post with images of the real articles along with the list that ChatGPT supplied to me.
And we, as a society, now condemn getting away from groups defined by their race/skin color, and flocking together to others who are less likely to hate you?

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/12/us/freedom-black-cooperat...
Yeah but it appears ½ way down. I didn’t make it that far because I had no context.
Violence and Segregation Destroyed African American Innovation
I use several keyboard layouts and styles in parallel. Not a coice but I am forced. It is a bad thing having so many variants. Different number of keys, layouts (laptops, desktops), national variety. I can say that I am almost as quick in typing as I was when I was less experienced but used a single layout (full size international english 104 keys, Windows). All and every changes decrease the efficiency!

(role of Fn keys, placement of Fn switch key, shape of Enter, size and positioning of cursor keys, placement of simple symbols like slash/backslash, greater/smaller, @, #, [, ], `, etc., availability and placement of Ins/Del/Home/End, all can change just a bit with a new computer/keyboard system. All this without 'creative' regrouping or arrangement of the physical keys itself (like MS ergonomic keyboard). If we add the complication of shortcuts where keyboard plays an essential role and which changes constantly from one approach to an other inside and accross software (not improving! just changing.) we can see that the problem is too big already, no need to aggravate the situation further along questionable and marginal efficiency claims. There are other parts of personal computing that can use improvements if someone is bored.)
It used to be the big differentiator was the ability to do symbolic math and actually solve equations. Maple could also do it, as could the TI89, so I never really got into it. It was just a huge difference from Matlab.

But if I have an actually nasty equation to solve, like a system of differential equations with erf functions or something, I do actually go to wolfram alpha for help. It happens more often than I'd like, it's especially nice that no matter how nasty the equations you can still use units.
This does not accord with the Israeli experience. The Haredim have grown enough as a proportion that they shifted the Israeli median voter substantially to the right.
F# has two ways to invoke functions, ‘f a b’ and ‘f(a,b)’. You need to know when to use what. There is no way this is simpler to beginners compared to having one consistent way.

C# is not a simple language, but F# has basically all the complexity of C# with OCaml on top.

Either C# or OCaml would be simpler to learn, although the combination is powerful.
In the universe I inhabit the opposite happens. For any number of consecutive similar problems teams will pick a different approach/technology each time, because they "already did that" and the needs of the project/business are secondary to their desire for novelty.
Linux-Libre Turns 15
I dont make games but I am the architect behind and owner of the company that develops V3Geo [0] (and another paywalled version for the oil industry) and it’s been years since we felt we had to worry about compability.

Initially we needed a young priest, an old priest and a lot of luck for the setup to work properly on anything except for specifically pinned versions of Chrome but these days you can just whip up any smartphone and all our models render just fine.

More advanced stuff that requires bleeding edge and to port old games, sure, but to relive the heydays of flash games every chance we had on the library computers?? Seems like we have had that possible for years now.

[0] https://www.v3geo.com
Orthodox ≠ Haredi