skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is why I wrote [1] for myself. It stores links in database, which I can query. Everything is later on exported, like in [2] and [3]. I can browse history, I can find useful data. I do not say it has replaced google for me. It is a nice addition that helped me gather data I encounter on the Internet.

It is a link database, at first glance resembles Reddit clone, but my focus is on creating link database, not on providing social media experience cancer.

Links:

[1] https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive

[2] https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database

[3] https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2023
Agreed, though I have to say Phillips Hue lights have been well worth the money in this regard. I have some Lutron switches that snap over my standard flip-switches which prevents accidentally cutting power to the bulbs, and the switches talk directly to the lights (or perhaps through the hub, it's been a while since I've set it up) rather than through a server.

With HomeKit this all also works as long as my local network is up, with no dependency on Apple servers except for off-network access.

My ISP has had several outages, but I haven't run into the issue of "the lights don't work" at all yet. Only thing approaching this is I've automated them to turn on/off when I arrive at and leave home, so when I have people over and step out to run a quick errand all the lights turn off while they're at my place.
The real question is how many of these did you use or have exposure to during the time... I lost count after a while, but I also switched platforms all the time back in my youth ;)
I'd add, polish often means different things to different people. For example, failure planning and risk management often only happen when there is funding.

There also was no content moderation.
> It's not all-or-nothing.

Based on the comments here, most don't seem to understand that. Restricting access requires someone to actually parent and that seems to be too big of an ask for most of these folks. Instead a blanket ban is the only solution. And then it's only a solution if you can ban everyone else's kids from having phones as well so their precious little snowflake doesn't suffer from FOMO. There is a post on here about a dad whose relationships with his children were "ruined" by giving them smart phones. As if he has no agency outside of giving them the phones in the first place. It's ridiculous.
Not these ones:

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.myringgo.com
I think a society where people mean what they say and say what they do is preferable to a society with more implied expectations.

So go ahead and take care of me, but put it in writing. In my experience its pretty common for small businesses to have wishful thinking and have a desire to take care of the team, but for one reason or another, be unable or unwilling to actually follow through once they get into the details of it.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/sn6SX
I was under the impression that this article was talking about how to store nulls in memory not their usage. An Option type still needs to store either the value or the None value, which takes up the same space as having a Null value.
>I see many people claim GPT-n is "dumb"

Depends.

Can't do math or logic. I have a question I ask ChatGPT to see if it can do logic yet, it still cannot. (Can't mention this question here or it will get fixed.)

Its great for brain storming or low risk problems. I don't think the accuracy problem will ever be fixed.

I probably 5x my productivity as well, but that doesnt mean its able to do logic.
Well at or above average for 3 stars.

The view that it's overly negative is a curious cultural norm.
Justice served would be jail time for execs or a corporate death penalty. Levying a fine means it's just a cost of doing business. And a billion dollars sounds like a lot, but it's a drop in the bucket for these massive multinational corporations that have been in business for decades.
There are humans today that refer to Africa as the 'third world' even though it's a continent with countries more developed than some US states or European countries.

Significant outdated cultural knowledge seems the norm for humans too.
I was on the road yesterday and stopped at a McDonald's that offers you a free value meal if you submit a survey and give them top ratings.

Considering it took 28 minutes to get through the drive-thru, my drinks were watered down from melted ice, and they were missing two items, the gaming of corporate survey mandates make the results meaningless.
I mean, I think even still charging (a reasonable amount) for the public API, and in return bringing it up to near the standards of the Reddit-built app’s private API, and possibly allowing some ad revenue split with the large apps where by showing Reddit ads (currently impossible with the current API!) is compensated with some minute fraction off the API bill/paid to dev if no outstanding balance.

Reddit won because it was the Digg-alternative, they’ve always been on shaky ground if people just start posting less. What ever per-impression value they get now on their own apps/website will plummet if people just start using it less, regardless if they’re making ad revenue off every user or only some users.

Plus, yeah it’s an awesome LLM training resource. Make it cheap, why not? Your competitors are expensive, and your data is well indexed by topic and conversational in tone.
I am interested in learning more about the Sr. Software Engineer position. Is there any way I can contact you regarding this?
why not increase density? it looks like single family home zoning. A denser core would surely be possible
I have experienced the same. An absolutely ludicrous set of suspicious data points like that and Stripe scores it a zero or near zero. We process hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions. Have gotten zero help from Stripe on this scoring.
I would definitely not assume that English majors communicate more clearly and precisely than STEM majors.
> - Competitors have caught up and now the market for animated family movies is utterly saturated. Old formulas are not enough to stand out.

The competitor landscape has not changed significantly in the last decade.
Seems strange to say Justin Sun an CZ are even close to one another in terms of impropriety.

Justin Sun is a snake oil salesman, CZ potentially broke the law while running a legitimate service. One that worked and was actually quite successful.
Climate change: How is my country doing on tackling it?
I'm surprised people aren't mentioning this more. Usenet may be dead for discussion, but it certainly isn't a dead technology.

edit: I guess they are. Took a second to search around the comments.
How India is using digital technology to project power
Again, nothing to do with whether UBI is fair. I accept progressive income taxation isn't fair and in fact I'd rather we did look for better ways to structure how tax is collected. An ideal economy wouldn't tax income at all - why discourage people from earning money? And if a UBI could do better job of reducing extreme and destabilizing levels of inequality, we could probably do away with income tax, and tax things there's a reason to discourage instead.
> Workers were not “terrified of mechanical looms,” but outraged that they were used to reduce pay and working conditions, instead of improve them.

This is consistent with what I wrote. They were terrified of their jobs vanishing and sought to stop this. Ultimately it’s not realistic to prohibit useful new technology, even if it has harmful effects on some groups.

I’m sympathetic to people that are fearful of new technology that will obviously have a major impact on our society but there’s a reason Luddite is a shorthand for futile technological obstructionism.

It’s not a matter of pro vs anti AI and I wouldn’t put myself in either camp, it’s a matter of naïveté vs realism about how the world works.
Torches and T-shirts: Hong Kongers defy attempts to forget Tiananmen
Write unsafe code wrapped in layers of those advanced features that half the team didn't even know existed, and push it into production.
this some cyberpunk shit
More like: don't be a department head on an unlucky project.
What do you disagree with? What is the opposing viewpoint?
> where did you get the idea that 3 stars is above average?

Because people do not think of stars as intervals, but as their upper bound reached. In this case, the average would be 2.5 – whereas yes, if you consider stars an interval, then yes, the 2-3 interval is average, but virtually no-one thinks this way.
> They can never really know that you were there and change action.

True, but that's the website's problem, not mine.

I figure that everyone using Cloudflare knows that they're excluding a portion of their audience by doing so, and they've made the calculation that they're OK with that. So if I'm in the excluded group, I assume that I'm one of the people they deemed as an acceptable loss.
Here is another, just launched: https://greppr.org/
This first line made me wonder if the author had ever met a cat, or a human baby. Or a chainsaw.
Changed to that from https://old.reddit.com/r/AI_Agents/comments/140e03v/sail_7b_.... Thanks!
Nope.

Source: SO works in a field where they handle other people's money and payroll. Not a small mom & pop shop either.

The employees use Excel sheets handed over from "someone" and just plug in the numbers.

In Britain they messed up the covid numbers because they used the wrong format to store their infection numbers and lost all lines after 65534...
It's the rubbish parents who cannot build a relationship with their children without dictating what other parents are allowed to do. If you cannot be a responsible parent because of what other parents are doing, you're the lousy parent.
Remember Guestbooks? you'd visit a website, and volunteer your name and which country you were from and leave comments. And it wouldn't be a cesspool of spam and porn and XSS attacks? How quaint!
Correct original link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-05/sec-sues-...

Archive: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/TiwuL
That’s a fixable problem.

First of all — if you are so worried about being overrun by nazis, you should worry about being overrun by bots, who could gradually astruturf any ideology including nazism or 4chan QAnon or recruiting of incels into jihadism or something as simple as “let’s go to war against China”. (And furthermore, Carthage delendum est.) It is far more insidious because it would be done as a coordinated, long-term swarm attack. A persistent advanced threat, in all communities, available to anyone to deploy. All open communities would turn into a dark forest and you’ll cry out to Zuck and Elon to save you, and trust them even more.

That is why we will soon all be moving to private communities where we — not Zuck or Elon’s algorithms — select who we hear from, and where membership is grandfathered in and/or depends on actually showing up to events in person once in a while and interacting (gasp, you mean like, BEFORE the Internet? When people had fulfilling social lives?)

Rather than preventing people from forming their own communities, you should support open source tools that give them access to their own infrastructure. If they want to label Nagorno-Karabakh on their copy of OpenStreetMap “Armenia” or “Azerbaijan”, they can, and don’t have to kill each other in the name of The State flags.

How about if we each have our own private keychains to sign what we say, rather than Facebook and Google’s “real names” policy (which Google apologized for) or their centralized sign-in which basicallly controls your identity? Or CBDCs and National IDs from The State which are coming? Or even worse, scanning your eyeballs by “Worldcoin” founded by the same OpenAI guys who promised to be open nonprofit and later became closed for-profit?

Tell me, when you are jacked into a metaverse for 10 hours a day (eg for work and some fun), would you want it to be owned by a corporation, their world and you just live in it? Are you preferring to trust Facebook, a company that has surreptitiously spied on your audio and your camera every chance they got until they got caught?

We have perfectly good Web2 solutions like Verified Claims and certificate chains, for many of these things, and you can watch my interviews with the technologists who actually roll it out, such as:

Private Keys and Civic Participation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GRzVj2W9WGM

Founder of Freenet, the first decentralized encrypted file sharing platform: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JWrRqUkJpMQ
Don't people realize many companies charge for API access?
Trie Implementation in TypeScript
Just anecdotal but none of their recent work is really that inspiring or extraordinary, especially compared to alternatives. It's hard to articulate it but its like they've lost their touch and are now pumping out corporate-approved / critic-approved slop instead of their previous "more authentic" work.
Listen to the pattern of a babies cry. It isn’t just one WAAAAAA, it has stops and intonation.

Similar to my cat (he is a loud purrer) who makes a Puurrrr-hurrr-purrr-urrrr kind of ebb and flow in the same way babies go WAAAAA-AAAA
Unless you type really fast, then it’s awesomeness!

I once typed around 120 wpm, then I took a year off working and traveled the world. Since then, I’ve never been able to reach above ~80.

Some of the most impressive intellectual (and coding) minds I’ve known were hunt and peck typists.

Blazingly fast typing however is a super skill worth enjoying.
I did rich-people home automation as job for a couple years, like 7 years ago though. It's all broken. It sucks.

There's no good graphical programming thing in existence. The A/V or HA people are not the people that are going to invent it.
Morgan Stanley Expects a Shock 16% US Profit Drop to Kill Rally
> Umbrel is another relatively popular one, particularly with the crypto space.

Impressive that Umbrel's popular because IIRC it doesn't take security as seriously as say Sandstrom. You'd think the crypto folks would at least care about that, if nothing else?
Its even stupider than that. There are only two major, publicly available web indexes in the USA, Google's and Bing's. After 24 February 2022, DuckDuckGo ended their partnership with Yandex, and since then they say "we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing" https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
> CZ potentially broke the law while running a legitimate service

Intentionally broke the law, according to his own statements. Also, co-mingled personal and client assets like Bankman-Fried.
SEC sues Binance, CEO Zhao over alleged mishandling funds, lying to regulators
Multiple subreddits and moderators are protesting Reddit’s API changes
Amazon is so bad that I shop on Walmart's website now.
Would you (or someone) define "alignment" in this context? Or in general?
> You can fix both these issues in the app settings. Turning off feed thumbnails is also a big improvement.

You cannot. The "classic" layout is still less information dense than Apollo, and disabling autoplay only disables autoplaying videos in the "card" layout. Videos still auto-play once a user taps a submission.

While we're here, I forgot how hostile their navigation menu is. At the bottom of the app Reddit has "Home," "Discover," "Create," "Chat," and "Inbox." The latter doesn't even take one to their inbox. It takes them to their *activity." These are clearly not the most used actions on Reddit. They're the actions Reddit wants to encourage.
> Most mainstream languages conflate memory layout and type definitions

for example?
Two more practices that are relevant to how transformers work:

- instead of using it as a source of facts, use it to transform the text with the facts you provide, which is does much better. (if the accuracy is important for your case)

- to improve the answer, ask it to reflect on its own result and reiterate the answer. The model produces the result token by token, so it's unable to check its validity at the inference time. This way you put it back into the context and explicitly tell the model to make a second pass.
For what it's worth, I've already seen several posts on Facebook where people are claiming they were sacked because they made that movie "woke"
Show HN: Think, CL tool that makes AI your command line copilot (written in Go)
Hi HN,

I'm thrilled to share with you think, a command-line tool that I developed while diving back into the programming scene.

For the past few years, my focus had shifted from hands-on programming to managerial roles, my last one being at Affirm (I started Affirm's Polish office). However, I recently left my job to revisit my passion for coding and see if I could still write code that works. Not to mention that with what is currently going on in AI if you are a developer this probably the best possible time for a sabbatical in human history :)

My first attempt was with LangChain, but I found it too abstract and elusive for my liking. I knew that Python was the go-to for serious ML research, but as I was primarily dealing with API calls, I wasn't bound to it. So I picked Go for its simplicity, performance, and to spare myself from the notorious Python dependency issues.

Over the last few weeks, I've been hacking on Agency (github.com/ryszard/agency), a framework for writing agents backed by AI. Agency provides an idiomatic interface to various LLM providers (currently OpenAI works and Hugging Face is experimental/brokenish). It simplifies the creation and management of Language Learning Model-based agents, aiding the implementation of autonomous agent systems. It also offers features for production deployment, like caching, retrying, or rate limiting. The idea was to allow managing how data flows between different AI agents without sacrificing my sanity.

With Agency as my foundation, I was able to write think over the course of a weekend. Most of that time was spent figuring out the right UX (and how to use the readline library, whose documentation is... sparse).

Today, I'm presenting you with think – a utility that uses OpenAI's AI models to assist in crafting shell commands. Simply describe what you want to do in your own words, and think generates the relevant shell commands.
Are you a dev for the app or Reddit employee? The official app is a case study in bad UX design. The only positive reviews in the app store are easily identified as bot or part of paid for campaigns. The recent reviews though tell how more average users view the official app…and it’s not very good.
Compare that to a raccoon which they tell you not to let in your house because it might have rabies. Both raccoons and foxes can learn to come around when you feed them but neither one is an animal you can live with, it will attack you or trash your house, either one of which is unusual behavior for a cat.
Not really. An F150 is 8' wide to the mirror, and most people like to open the door. And they are 17.5' long, and nobody likes to touch the wall with their nose. If anything that's an understatement of the space used. Unless you have valets/robots packing the cars into solid blocks, every single parking space needs a full driveway beside to enter/exit, and that driveway needs to be wide enough to accommodate the turning radius during parking. For the F150, that's another 150sqft or so.
The discriminant will be optimized away if possible you end up with a sentinel but no performance hit.
My 2016 XBox 360 still runs great. Watched a HD-DVD off it just yesterday!
I'd vote no on most of these for Java language itself; it's supposed to be a C-like language, not a Ruby-like language. However, the jvm doesn't care what the source language is, it just cares about bytecode. These belong in a Kotlin or other language.
Dave Smith founded Sequential (Sequential Circuits) in 1974, produced the groundbreaking Prophet-5 synthesizer, and invented MIDI, which had a profound impact on the electronic music industry. In 1987 Sequential went belly up due to some bad business decisions, and its intellectual property was largely purchased by Yamaha. Smith went on to develop some groundbreaking synthesizers for Yamaha and Korg.

In 2002 Dave Smith decided to make synthesizers on his own again, but as he did not own the name Sequential any more he resigned himself to naming his company Dave Smith Instruments (or DSI).

In 2015, after talking it over with the head of Roland (another major Japanese synth manufacturer), the President of Yamaha decided to unilaterally give Dave Smith the highly prized Sequential trademark (and sequential.com) back. It is my understanding that Dave didn't even know they were going to do this. They just gave him the intellectual property as a gesture of goodwill between synth manufacturers and in recognition of everything he had done. DSI was promptly renamed Sequential.

Pixar could learn something from this.
Mind you, HomeKit really is offline-first. The home hub does operate as the internet bridge, but on your local network you don’t need internet to operate your home.
Thank you, Michael @ Phoronix.

The amount of content being put out is incredible.
Your thoughts, comments, stars and pull requests are welcome!
uLISP, an arduino and a bunch of peripherals for it.
I'm no expert but here are my opinions:

One goal is to find an 'efficient' annotation of a superposition. That is, "what is the minimum superpermutation string length of of N symbols", which itself is a sort of optimization problem. We can presumably get bounds on the minimum and maximum it can be and maybe the 'optimal' shortest superpermutation has enough variation that the bounds aren't/can't be exact.

As to what "practical" applications superpermutations have, nothing comes to mind but considering how many applications de Bruijn sequences show up, I'd be surprised if they didn't start cropping up from time to time in the future.

As to the travelling salesman/Hamiltonian path/cycle problem, my impression is that they used a clever construction of a Hamiltonian cycle on a hyper-cube/Cayley graph/high-dimensional-high-degree graph to show lower/upper bounds on the number of superpermutations. In other words, the implication is the other way. They construct a Hamiltonian cycle on a specially crafted graph to show lower/upper bounds rather than use superpermutations to say anything about Hamiltonian cycles.

To get a flavor for how this works, I'll copy pasta the de Bruijn "construction" section of Wikipedia [0]:

"""
The de Bruijn sequences can be constructed by taking a Hamiltonian path of an n-dimensional de Bruijn graph over k symbols (or equivalently, an Eulerian cycle of an (n − 1)-dimensional de Bruijn graph).
"""

With a de Bruijn graph [1] being a specialized graph construction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence#Constructio...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_graph
Thanks for that.

What about it being $2 is going to bring abusers?
I've actually gone one step further and I'm pretty sure I can adapt to anything now.

I coded in Java for 20+ years and then switched to Kotlin. Semicolons were gone, it was a breath of fresh air.

And then I learned Rust and I faced what I thought were two absolutely insurmountable obstacles: semicolons AND snake_case. I considered Rust ugly for these reasons and really dragged my feet. But I was curious about the language, so I perservered.

One week later, I wasn't noticing any of these any more. I still do think that semicolons are a manifestation of a language developer who favors their time over mine, but it's become more of a pet peeve than a deal breaker.

The human mind is wonderfully flexible.
Reviewers have learned if they say anything remotely negative AND give less than perfect stars, the review is found “wanting” or “in violation of our code of conduct” and never published. So people work out how to game it.
I mean, a matter of degrees still matters. The difference between a bad cut and a sucking chest wound.

What happens when somebody points the chatbots at Reddit? Wikipedia?