skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back off the envelope calculations can usually quickly tell you if something is possible or not.

For physical problems. Newtons law of conservation of energy is an obvious first sanity check. Given some objects mass and the desired travel, you can get the required energy and from there the required power. Before you even start designing a prototype.
Absolutely. It's like having the expectation of being manly for boys. There is a pressure for being masculine, but no focus on developing the tools for masculinity. Simple the requirement of it.
You are a legend. Many hugs.
That's an interesting way of thinking. Thank you. Do you mind sharing some biographies that influenced you?
Where do you see embeddable chats being valuable? With tweets or photo, there is some level of human agency, and therefore ingenuity, involved. Here it’s just prompt engineering.
The cloud has the same problem but in a different color. One employee created and managed everything in AWS and then quits. You have the same problem that nobody really knows how to continue from that point. Why was it built that way? Why are the IAM rules like that? etc.
It's a little enraging. I'm glad that Orca captivity has been, essentially, banned (at least in the United States). Is anyone working on using AI to develop some sort of translation method for communicating with these beings?
When I was little (about 20 years ago) I found a website where you could download sheets to print out. They contained parts to cut out that would make an elaborate little glider airplane. You layered multiple layers of paper together and glued them. It included many different parts, but all of them were just paper in the end of the day.

I think the site is gone, I can't find it anymore. It had a blue background and about 10-20 designs available for download. It was either German, Swiss, Austrian, Italian or French, but I'm pretty sure it had multiple Languages.

Anyways, I found something very similar: http://www.zovirl.com/paper-airplanes/
> In general, I'm not sure what the idea of putting Dolphin on Steam was supposed to gain. First, I have a hard time conceiving why I'd even want to manage it from Steam,

In case you haven't heard of it, Valve sells the Steam Deck: a handheld gaming console with Steam as its primary UI. Under the hood, it's a low-power AMD x86 system running Linux (specifically, Valve's SteamOS distro). So having Dolphin on Steam would be the optimal way to make Dolphin available to Steam Deck users, just like having Dolphin available on the Google Play Store is the optimal way to make Dolphin available to Android users even though side-loading is an option.
Hey! What am I forgetting?
People take pills from known criminals, with high risk of fentanyl OD, just for fun.

Yes, I think people would indeed take pills prescribed by AI, just make it a robot wearing a lab coat.

Also pilots! I mean, pilots kill themselves and a planeload of people more than you think. Of course people would take black box ai that works.
I’ll stick my chin out, and claim that nobody who knows anything about math would ever write the expression like that. Either use parentheses or a long, horizontal division bar making it obvious what groups with what. As given, it looks like some small-minded school teacher (I’m not saying all teachers are small-minded, just a few of them!) who has taught a set of rules, with little regard for actual practice outside the classroom, and then tests to exactly those rules.
Not really, the chats could be stored locally in session data.
Thanks for providing more evidence for my original point. Animal agriculture are one of the top emitters of greenhouse gases, even more than all transportation combined, so to imply that it's irrelevant is ignorant at best.
As someone who grew up on playing AOE and AOE2, I remember people said the same thing about AOE3 when it came out. In the end I never got into it myself but then when AOE4 came out it felt like a breath of fresh air. They way I see it is that each iteration in the franchise is really a different game and not a replacement for another. So I still find myself playing the AOE2 campaigns from time to time in the definitive edition for the nostalgia factor. So I think it’s a bit unfair to say AOE4 isn’t an Age of Empires game.

At the end of the day the goal is to have fun so if the new game doesn’t fit your vibe that’s totally understandable. But I invite you to give it one more shot , even the Viper plays it from time to time :)

Also definitely agree about the no Mac/wine thing. A friend of mine ended up buying a new PC to play the game with the rest of our group.
AI: Transforming or Destroying Society
oh man...how would that even work for a fretless instrument. Genuine question, not rhetorical
It seems that they are building artificial reefs.
If gravitons exist, are gravitational waves to gravitons as electromagnetic waves are to photons? Or something different?
What is further outrageous, that these “netizens” harass the parents for an apology in the classic mob style.

In what culture do the parents pay for the sins of the children?

Can’t we skin the right cat for civilities sake?
The user kyegomez writes shitty, incorrect implementations of popular papers to obtain clout.
A Makefile :-)
Why tech giants want to strangle AI with red tape
https://archive.ph/CaeS6
Arguably, low tech pathfinding is what gave us the tower defense genre.
Agreed that Toxoplasmosis is interesting! Just wanted to point out that Toxoplasma Gondii is a protozoan and not a fungus.
The thing! Eat it NLJ detectors!
If you're blackmailing someone and you have evidence, you are extremely stupid if you save it on your mobile device.

That being said, he's a government official, so that explains it.
I'm guessing you mean OpenAI. Ironically they did their best work while working remotely not in an SF HQ. Also it behooves me to consider that a CEO/CTO in a competitive environment would be biased to dole out malignant advice, as evidenced against their own practice?

It's kinda like how you wouldn't want to use the toothpaste that "9 out of 10 dentists recommend". Or billionaires often mention their secret to success is merely "reading a lot" or "waking up at 4am" or doing dishes [0]

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/10/why-jeff-bezos-and-bill-gate...
yeah, I agree. I'll fix it
Man that Fontemon got my phone steaming hot
For some people that is their idea of fun.

Myself I'd never put the effort in, but I have fond memories of telnetting into the Indigo my brother's college roommate had in their dorm room, so when people do this nostalgia retro stuff and post it on the web I enjoy browsing it for a bit.
I use it as main browser for the last 7 years I believe. And honestly - I love it. It have some gimmicks - sometime its slow a bit, sometime there some bugs that you have to wait for fix in the new version, but amount of customizability is a thing that overcome any issues.

With Vivaldi I can be sure that my preference will not be removed in the next version as unnecessary or as not popular enough. And there a LOT of preferences to customize as you want.

So, I personally, love it. Again, its not perfect with performance and bug minor happens, but for me its ok. I prefer the feeling that I decide what browser will do and how it feels. Not some corp.
In a context discussing the quality or content of the output of a conversation.

Ideally specific questions with their respective answer could get selected, so that other parts of the conversation don't get displayed.

Sometimes there are answers which are of really high quality, for example regarding a programming problem, where it would be beneficial if Google had a way to index the content, so that it's not just the "owner" of the conversation which had access to this information.

Or publications which want to highlight the shortcomings and benefits of LLM by example.
"It is unavoidable that one day in the far far future, the U.S. loses reserved currency status. "

There are some opposing opinions on this being far far away. Recently the USD has lost a significant amount in global percentage mainly due to all the sanction the US imposes. The US treasury itself warned that these sanctions are bad for thr US. [1]

[1] https://www.livemint.com/news/world/yellen-says-sanctions-ma...
Experiences won’t make you happier than possessions
I would say the same for almost any company, but I've been with Hetzner for like 7 years and the prices, support and up-time is unbeatable. They're this German company, and if anyone knows Germans there are very keen on security. I trust my ID there more than I do at any bank that have it.
They was both A) a case decided before the DMCA was law, and B) the DRM system of the PS1 is pretty much solely focused on legitimate PS1s only playing legitimate discs; there's nothing in most games stopping other systems from reading everything off the disc freely in cleartext.
>SGI hardware was beautiful -- the boxes were just colorful molded plastic (and rubber?) yes, but they had a transcendence about them.

They were also insanely expensive, affordable to only the wealthiest of established companies. A basic SGI workstation would cost as much as a sports car, and professional workstation as much as a house. At those prices they had better damn be beautiful and well built.

In the early '00s ugly beige boxes with Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs running BSD, Windows NT and Linux started wiping the floor with those beautiful SGI workstations at only a fraction of the price, that it made SGI basically irrelevant overnight. It was a bloodbath. The only market they held onto for a little while were supercomputers and compute workstations for wealthy customers that were running massive simulations like oil & gas for which money was no abject.

The VFX team of the original Matrix movie from 1999 was grateful they could save huge amounts of time and money by running their rendering pipeline on networked commodity Dell workstations with off the shelf Intel CPUs.[1] That was one of the last nails in SGIs coffin.

[1] "Manex Visual Effects used 32 Dell Precision 410 Dual P-II/450 Processor systems running FreeBSD as the core CG Render Farm. Charles Henrich, the senior systems administrator at Manex, says, "We came to a point in the production where we realized we just did not have enough computing power on our existing SGI infrastructure to get through the 3-D intensive sequences. It was at that point we decided on going with a FreeBSD based solution, due to the ability to get the hardware quickly as well as the reliability and ease of administration that FreeBSD provides us. Working with Dell, we purchased 32 of these systems on a Wednesday, and had them rendering in production by Saturday afternoon. It was truly an amazing effort on everyone’s part, and I don’t believe it would’ve been possible had we chosen to go with any other Operating System solution."

https://www.freebsd.org/press/press-rel-1/
The dangers of AI writing code
Thanks for the explanation Ellie.
> I don't believe it does.

The aes keys checked in to their GitHub are linked elsewhere in this comment section.
> And not to mention half the reason I went to cloud was not that I didn’t want to deal with administering servers, I didn’t want to deal with server administrators.

I bet it's true for many. I approximate it from what I see in backend/frontend teams - they don't even deal with eachother, not even system administrators.

Luckily [in the current project] devs don't have access to production and very limited to dev environment in terms of ssh/db endpoints.
Given there is a sign for dollars, couldn't there be a sign for concepts as frequently occurring as months (etc)?
Jesus, we’re still arguing about the merit of desktop composition after all these years?

Do yourself a favor and try comparing the responsiveness and resource usage of, e.g., KDE Plasma with desktop composition off vs on. You’ll probably be really shocked when you see how much more CPU you need to do something as simple as scrolling a browser window.

Really, try it. Any browser, scroll around on something and look at your CPU usage and the framerate of your screen.

Or image editing — try panning around an image. Doesn’t matter what editor/viewer either, since they all have to draw on your X server.

Even just moving windows around on top of one another — everything is just so much more efficient when you offload it to a hardware accelerator.

Does it use more RAM? Yeah, a little, because the way it works is by keeping the entire contents of the windows in memory rather than culling anything that’s not exposed in front. It’s definitely not 500 MB more, though, and it definitely can (and does) take advantage of any dedicated VRAM available.

And the trade off of being able to just dump a framebuffer to the viewport instead of repeatedly computing what’s been culled 60+ times a second is definitely worth it to me, but if you still prefer not using acceleration, there’s always the option to just not use it.
It is also really fast. But unfortunately it crashes even if you just sneeze (well, a year or two ago ago when I played with it, sorry if this has changed dramatically).
Asking for 6 billion friends.
I agree, as far as my workstation goes, it's like putting eye candy on a hammer.

I use this: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
Adobe Audition works perfectly (Cool Edit)
It’s a Ruby on Rails app built with Jumpstart Rails as a base SaaS template. Then the front end is mostly Turbo + Stimulus JS. I tried to keep things simple :).
Using CI for Code Interpreter instead of Continuous Integration made this very confusing.
A few things:

1. We're already finding uses for LLMs that go beyond what they've been trained to do. They act as if they have some model of the world. What is special about math?

2. It's impossible to understand the boundaries without probing them.

3. Here's ChatGPT's response after it called Wolfram Alpha: https://chat.openai.com/share/421fb625-ef57-40e5-bdee-b423b4...
Worst case run it in a virtual machine with windows
Every problem has a solution.

The more relevant question is: At what cost?

For example, in layman terms we all consider factoring RSA2048 impossible. But, given all the computing power in the world or 10 years more on quantum research this becomes possible.

For sure you can split hairs about this all day, like adding cost constraints as part of the problem and formal mathematical proofs may be an exception here.

In the end, what really matters is, how much is it worth to solve the problem and how much is it worth to estimate this cost. Investigations to reach an accurate estimate also cost effort.
He interacted with a YouTuber and his followups. Never try the mob
I think the comparison is more about memory overhead, startup time, open ecosystem, platform flexibility. Not being chained to Microsoft decisions when it comes to gaming down the road potentially.

I also get annoyed with keeping 10's of GB of vm's around. Although wineprefixes balloon in size pretty quick too.

Then there is backwards compatibility. Wine can provide more flexibility to support older OS's on the same code base.
Microsoft’s Azure Linux distro is now generally available
Article is focused on the study of the parasite, but weirdly didn't touch on the potential hobby / commercial use of a fungus that attacks fruit fly.

Here in Australia we have two major fruit fly pests - the Mediterranean (introduced) and the Queensland (native).

Pesticides are either very nasty or very expensive (or both). Effective netting is extremely difficult, and very expensive.

There's been some promising progress on using fungus to try to control two major honey industry pests - small hive beetle and varroa destructor. I'm really looking forward to deploy-and-mostly-forget bio controls for pests that we can deploy at landmass level.

eg. https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-evolve-fu... (Varroa)

https://agrifutures.com.au/wp-content/uploads/publications/0... (small hive beetle)
>Mathematica is more or less a client-side Alpha at this point

They're not really comparable. Wolfram Alpha exposes a small fraction of the symbolic/numeric algorithms Mathematica has, and the reasons why someone would choose Mathematica over e.g. SymPy+NumPy won't really change with LLMs in the mix. If anything, in the age of LLM generated code, Mathematica might even have an advantage over the others because of how concise and uniform the language is, and Wolfram has already shown interest in integrating with chatGPT.

I don't see Mathworks really being affected either, since as I understand most of their money is made via the proprietary toolkits (otherwise someone could just use Octave). Tableau is probably toast though.
Quivr – Your Second Brain, Empowered by Generative AI
I don't buy this at all. Country-specific tlds are more or less a total failure. To the extent they still have a role, it is in having official government sites (eg "gov.uk" in the uk)

Firstly the US never bought into it so all the original successful internet companies are ".coms". For this reason if you are a global company, chances are you would prefer a ".com" to anything else. Most companies want to address a global audience and part of the point of e-commerce is to make this happen. So they don't necessarily want a parochial-seeming national tld but would prefer a global one. This makes country-specific tlds redundant for commerce.

Secondly the people running the national TLDs are (in my experience) often doing so to further their own egos and personal interests and so tend to offer a shitty service. This is why I gave up my ".co.uk" domain some years back. The UK NIC were just annoying in a bunch of different ways.
The article says that rackable, the previous owner, binned all of the old stuff in 2010
I would like to finish all the modules for the guitar before I venture into other instruments. The bass so far has been kindof easy..just hide a couple strings :)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ab685e

Probably not high school statistics accessible but Bayesian statistics and Gaussian noise and GR isn't.
I built an audience a long time ago so visitors mostly find the blog via SEO and then sign up for the app. In term of time, these days it’s probably 30% coding, 60% marketing, 10% admin/customer support.

The marketing time is mostly testing new sales page versions, running A/B tests etc.

But I also sometimes have periods when I spend much more time coding. The next few months will probably be 80% coding while I create a mobile app.
My partner and I have also explored chatGPT for recommending cases and books. It produces more garbage than not. The dream of it being a handy librarian died pretty quickly.

Uncanny and compelling as it is conversationally, it really isn't that good.
noted, thank you
It's a cool game and all, but does it still burns the cpu0 only?
Also you don't have to pay for wine. But parallels is at what version 18? Doesn't that basically mean this is subscription-ware?
I always found this story[1] of orcas helping whalers pull whales by biting the harpoon ropes with their teeth truly fascinating.

[1]
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-cultu...
What I learnt from this:

1) a real expert (a French teacher)

2) saw a problem in his area of expertise

3) decided to start solving it even though he had no clear monetisation plan

4) used the simplest technology he could find to meet his aims

5) It is a popular field

I did French for 5 years at school, got taught lots of grammar rules (which I never learnt in English!). The net result is that last time I was in France I had to point at things on the menu. I always thought conversational French would have been much more useful.

Well done on the app
(disclaimer: not an aeronautic engineer) when you double an object, its weight increases by 8x (all three dimensions increase by 2x) but the wing area surface only becomes 4x larger. You thus end up with a worse lift-to-weight ratio.

In addition, the purpose of a regular plane is to transport goods and people while the purpose of a paper plane is to just float. The closest full scale objects to a paper plane would be gliders, which do ressemble paper-planes to some extent.
Non-accredited legal counsel varies from place to place. In the UK there are "Mackenzie friends" who can't speak but can advise in court. As for filings, paralegals don't tend to need qualifications either, though most solicitors they work under will require it.

In short, for the UK at least, no, nobody needs qualifications to do that kind of thing. Though it is clearly a good idea.
All AWS RDS databases run on a dedicated VM.
Ah. This can finally help identify fake screenshots.
There are two editions of the book, but I believe each book covers the whole course.
I’m the app creator. It’s definitely not simple but it’s also easier than what most people think. Pretty much anyone on Hacker News could do the same given enough time and motivation. The problem is that it takes a long time to see success. You can easily spend years earning close to nothing. I love doing it but there are definitely pros and cons.

Honestly my idea was not particularly amazing. I was just frustrated with courses that were too focused on grammar and decided to create a solution to this problem. You don’t need an amazing idea, you just need to offer a solution enough people will be happy to pay for :).
Generally the problem for a company is being entirely sure that the OS codebase is theirs to donate. Are there any third party components, if so were they correctly classified so that now they'll be filtered out of the code dump? (And was that classification updated in the obsolete source if subsequent deals affected it?) Probably so, but if you're wrong then it will likely cost. So your legal dept will advise that the safest and cheapest option is not to release it.

(I was at Symbian when much of that was open sourced: a paralysingly large effort that still left a lot of critical components closed)
Nintendo is famous for being trigger-happy with DMCA requests. They shut down tons of Youtube videos that no other gaming company would even think of striking, like speedruns. Some Youtubers won't even cover Nintendo games for fear of a takedown (3 strikes and you are out).
If you use multiple devices they persist across all of them
No. Adults aren't made of sugar. Meaning was clear and professional using layman terms.
prostagma
Why should I learn to code?
I have and I may do it but it’s not planned from now. I haven’t tried it but this app is pretty similar:

https://italianaturally.com/
I can say pretty confidently that the original Xbox had (and verified) digital signatures.
Not-so-Common Desktop Environment is a modern attempt at the style. I don't end up using it, but it reminds me wonderfully of a time when computers were made by and for people.

https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE
It's a bit harder if you go through-hole. When you can't fit it "under" the switch footprint, it becomes harder to auto-route it-- there might not be a space specifically where you want-- maybe you want to move some diodes around to shave a couple millimetres off the PCB footprint to save a nickel, or maybe you need to rotate a switch (for example, the + and enter on the numeric pad) and end up with the 'standard' position fouling some other part of the layout.

It takes an evening or two to manually route a big battleship board, when you're not worried about RGB or having to do clever stuff with USB.
I’d also be interested in seeing some of these photos. Lions, beavers. Sounds awesome. I’ve got an email in my bio as well.
Chat history can be disabled in the settings menu, temporarily or permanently at least for Plus users, not sure about free users…
500 megs of RAM TCO is like a cup of coffee. I drink coffee every day. Would you say I "dedicate" that cup of coffee to myself?
Honestly, it mostly has to do with the amount of traffic I get. The blog gets 200k monthly visitors and has for years. I know Hacker News hates pop ups but adding one is what worked best for me.
Sahul
I still own my copy (and copies of the expansion packs) from the 90's.

Windows 10 can't run it, but Windows 2000 still works just fine.