skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and this was a terrible idea. Deb and Ian ended up divorcing. Not a good omen for the future. Ian should have picked a better name.

Edit: corrected history of their relationship
I’m not saying design based work isn’t real work or has no value. But I don’t consider it software development in the way I don’t consider magazine layout software development, even though it’s complex and difficult work. But it’s fairly rote and mechanical, and doesn’t require any software development.

For instance I consider developing react to be software development. I consider making a chat system in react software development. I do not consider making a brand layout using a web framework to be software development.

As an example, generally in business you classify software development as R&D for accounting purposes. It’s speculative, has uncertain payout, uncertain development times. Website creation on the other hand can’t be treated as R&D. It’s capitalized under a different amortization schedule.

I’m sorry if it sounds like I’m making some qualitative distinction in terms of value or whatever. That isn’t my point. My point is when we discuss software development and software engineering they are about development of software. I think most people can distinguish between front end web development, and say, developing a web development framework as distinctly different pursuits with very different characters in terms of skill sets, riskiness, predictability. You can adopt an expansive view, but you took issue with my statement without taking into consideration my measure.
https://catnip.vip

Catnip is an RSS web app with two main differentiators:
- it's an RSS 'aggregator', not a reader mode. I believe the browser itself is the optimal reader. Every RSS app has a bespoke reader mode that tends to suck in comparison to the browser itself.
- it has a frontpage that's an aggregate of some popular feeds, making it useful without an account. I plan on adding some boosting of popular feeds once I have users.
It's actually interesting how Peter Pan is portrayed. I can't actually think of any other characters like him. Obviously there are many who kill hundreds of people (or thousands? who knows how long Peter Pan has been at it for), but unless it's some weird edgelord thing there's at least a story reason for it, even if it's not commented on by anyone in the story. The near-zero edge in combination with the repeated complete omissions of a reason is very uncommon if not unique.
I've been working on a new newsletter for the last month and a half called Rooms where I feature creative individuals homes as well as a brief interview regarding their thoughts on design:

https://rooms.substack.com/

Would love any general feedback or ideas!
Yes, I’d also like to know what politics I’m supposed to be implying?!

For the record, and despite the handle, I’m not “white”. A “quadroon”, if you must!… Furthermore, I’m politically neutral - abstaining from voting, fully. I’m not American, either…
Why US-born panda Bao Bao is leaving for China: panda diplomacy
A symptom of the web's own growth in the mainstream and Wikipedia become much more serious as a resource than its early days, that it requires serious attention and effort, not casual hobby moderation. The generation that was really into it in those early days is/was most likely representative of the early Internet generation who believed strongly in the open information movement, and had years of experience in moderated/moderating communities. Now? multiple generations of people who came up more 'digitally native' but only really consume, consume, consume, and take for granted the effort that many services require unseen to appear 'free'. Who's gonna join the small dedicated but exceedingly fussy team of editors with the amount of process and tape involved with keeping up wikipedia pages?
The arrogance is pretending that user configs and wishes can be arbitrarily dismissed because you can’t be bothered to adhere to them. My computer is mine, not the app maker’s.
This is a very intriguing problem!

Not trying to steal thunder, but quicktype (https://github.com/quicktype/quicktype) does all of this–JSON schema or TypeScript definitions to de/serializers and types in nearly 30 languages at this point. Try it here: https://app.quicktype.io
It may come down to cost, but other physical properties enter the picture. For example: thermal expansion is an issue for overhead power lines, along with how ductile it is.

In other cases it is more important to reduce resistance, not so much because of the power loss but because of what the power loss means: the generation of heat that may be difficult to remove.

Of course you can get around those problems at extra cost, but it is more than a straight up comparison of the material cost of the conductor.
Another way to teach GPT about the model is to program a portion of it or use chain-of-thought approaches. (Well, not sure if CoT is the right way to think of it... templating a thought process?)

A template seems like it might do the trick, something like:

Respond in the form:

Topic: [The topic the user wants to talk about]
Feelings: [How the user seems to feel about the topic]
Therapist: [How a Rogerian therapist would reply to their patient]

---

Then GPT has to "think out" those first items before it actually produces a response. I just made up "Topic" and "Feelings" – what you force GPT to describe will determine the therapy process you are trying to inspire in it. Then you'd only show the user the Therapist line where is actually responding. (I think it's fair for users to actually see all of the response, but not necessarily by default)
>I'd love to hear specific reasons why someone believes one isn't.

How can you disagree with the reasons those books were removed when you admit you don't know the reason.
Are you talking about money or fame? Honestly, I think most folks who work in open source are either funded by some sort of start up or they are independently wealthy and can spend time working on projects that "interests them".

However having said this, I do think that contributing to an OSS project is a great way to get a job in the "real world". <--- whatever that means.
What is the advantage of this versus running something like https://github.com/simonw/llm , which also gives you options to e.g. use https://github.com/simonw/llm-mlc for accelerated inference?
To publish blog posts? No, it's really not.

I don't like WordPress either, I prefer static site generators, but if you're going for something simple and fast to setup it's a legitimate choice.
https://Rarsy.com is an AI Carousel generator for LinkedIn. This is a high-demand application. The site already gets tons of organic traffic daily and has 500+ email subscribers.

Could monetize this eventually fairly easily with a premium version with expanded suite of features and improve the UX.

If anyone wants to help me take on some of the more technical aspects.

--> I need a clean HTML/CSS to PDF export functionality, but it's proving challenging.

Any interest or feedback?
Unit: A visual programming system [video]
Heterosexual sex acts in books are allowed?
> I said "allowed a tiny bit more of free speech"

I see, so on the one hand banned journalists, but on the otherhand reinstated white nationalist accounts so, you know, net positive in your books?

Okay. Sure. Why not.
Agree. Using "free and open" is still rather deceptive.
You talk about 5 years and things take time. I point out that the subject is 15 years along, and still not there. So now you've gone almost 80 years back...what is your point other than "if I move the goalposts enough...maybe I'll get to be right".
People are assuming this is about gender, but it may well be about COVID. Wu refused to go along with China's huge policy shift, from trying hard to contain COVID to giving up. She still takes precautions and has been plugging for UV sterilizers and HEPA filters. The government of China has been hassling people who still want to control COVID spread. It's like "return to office" enforced by the cops.

She had a previous visit from "the authorities", and wrote on Twitter, back on June 30th,

"I think the "plainclothes cops" who came to visit today and I told to fuck off were fake since they left when I threatened to call the real cops. That said, in the future it would be super helpful if whoever runs things could give me a contact point so if there is a real issue, I don't tell them to fuck off."

"Personally, I think my uncensored rants and the fact that I get away with them makes us look really good, but if there are certain areas where things are delicate, I'm open to toning it down. Just ask." (She repeated all that in Mandarin.)

"For those of you that are curious- Shenzhen isn't some podunk 4th tier hick town, we have laws- and in my experience they are followed, which is why these two clowns were a whole bundle of red flags. (Yes, they need a warrant and would have had one if they were the real deal)"

Meanwhile, her online store is still up.[1]

[1] https://cybernightmarket.com/
Depends how telsa implemented it. If it locks out 27% of the cells entirely, then if you charge to 73%, it will charge those remaining cells to 100% each, rather than spreading it out over the whole pack, and charging each cell to 73%.
The point is that you could use those locations if you wanted, but many apps don’t make it easy to make them respect your desired config.
So far it's been ~8 months since ChatGPT started the (popular) LLM craze. I've found raw GPT to be useful for a lot of things, but have yet to see my most frequently used apps integrate it in a useful way. Maybe I'm using the wrong apps...

It'll be interesting to see what improvements (in a lab or at a company) need to happen before most people use purpose-built LLMs (or behind the scenes LLM prompts) in the apps they use every day. The answer might be "no improvements" and we're just in the lag time before useful features can be built
> Not successfully.

Never?
I've been playing around with a limited PCB autorouter for mechanical keyboards. You feed it a KLE layout file, and it spits out a KiCad PCB, layout map for QMK firmware, and various SVG cuts for case machining.
>"Bedrock Linux is a meta Linux distribution which allows users to mix-and-match components from other, typically incompatible distributions."

https://bedrocklinux.org/faq.html

>"How does Bedrock Linux Work?

[...]

Bedrock has different strategies for different subsystems. Its most widely used strategy is to:

o Organize the system's files and processes into units called strata. Think of these as chroots with selective holes punched in them.

o Make resources such as executables and fonts available across stratum boundaries via a FUSE filesystem called crossfs that alters files on-the-fly to make them portable across stratum boundaries.

o Resources producers - namely package managers - are not told about the crossfs. This way, they usually cannot conflict with each other.

o Resource consumers are configured to consider crossfs. For example, cross binary locations are added to the $PATH so that bash can find them."

Some very interesting OS design ideas here!

Related:

Bedrock Linux 0.7 Poki Distro Compatibility Matrix:

https://bedrocklinux.org/0.7/distro-compatibility.html

Bedrock Linux 0.7 Poki Feature Compatibility Matrix:

https://bedrocklinux.org/0.7/feature-compatibility.html
Your application use cases should dictate the database choice - eg consistency needed, access patterns, data normalization, reliability, etc.
You have to build it if you want it for Ubuntu, Windows, or anything else. Just build Go on your machine and have at it.
MLIR (Multi-Level Intermediate Representation) is an LLVM project made to address some of the shortcomings of LLVM IR. Many languages using LLVM as a backend (e.g. Swift, Rust) have have resorted to defining their own IRs because dropping all the way down to LLVM IR loses almost all of a language’s semantics.
Wait until you learn what the F7 shortcut does in the Windows Console.
Except EVE really isn’t interstellar. I can instantly see market data for anywhere and move a hauler across the galaxy in a day.
It's just JS: You can do that, or you can use any helper method, or write your own helper. Can't really do that in Svelte.
Do you not see how that's circular? Cookbooks in the old days were just as calorie dense as McDonalds is today. People used to eat tons of sugar and butter in everything, including things that were home cooked or marketed as healthy.

Having lots of high-calorie foods available has never caused people to get fat until recently, when it suddenly started happening all over the world all at once, especially to people who work with heavy machinery. You can't just blame McDonalds for that.
Chemical photography still has a lot of magic. Holding a developed photo in your hand is very visceral and satisfying compared to scrolling through hundreds on your phone.

I've started ordering prints (Fuji prints directly and the colors are fab) regularly and I'm considering buying a printer, mostly to try and scratch the same itch (I can't justify the space for a darkroom at the moment). If your snapshots are good, give it a go, you may be pleasantly surprised.
You can submit your own 360⁰ photos to Google Maps and they will appear in Street View. You used to be able to submit whole tours with navigation through the Street View app, but that functionality is now mainly reserved for paid 3rd party services (which have much better software). You could possibly still do this via the API, but I haven't looked that far recently as it would involve building tools that I don't have the time to write.
I'd be curious to check it out!

I've been wondering this last year about the use case of compressing highly repetitive logs in a streaming fashion, and whether fine-tuning a model or combination of LLM / datastore might make a sort of adaptive online compression perform well (e.g. allowing central versioned coordination of compression steps/layers as they evolve)
Not necessarily, institutional investors are playing with other people's money. Many of them are happy to accept lower returns in exchange if they get to their personal politics.
Thanks for the feedback. In the product, we'd like companies to approve/reject who they speak with (mutual for approvals), so that unsolicited communication doesn't impede operations. Thoughts?
Batteries are still expensive, and wear out. We are realistically not going to replace ICE engines in substantially less time then 20 years, probably closer to 50 or 100 even given penetration.

What we can do is replace the origin of their fuel source, and the cheaper the better. You can synthesize methane into any liquid fuel you like. Now you'll lose energy in the transformation, but if the input energy is cheap and abundant enough - and can be stored well enough - then maybe that doesn't actually matter.

There are large areas of the planet which get more then enough sun to provide all our power needs and would impact no one if we harvested there. But we can't get the energy out of them, and we can't store enough of it to cover the times we can't.
To know where to break stuff, you have to know how to build it too, especially for 0-day.
https://waggledance.ai another Agent+Data+Tools app, like AutoGPT et. al. I’m trying to apply a nice UX and combine a lot of techniques (namely concurrency, streaming, review, ReAct, loop detection, skill recall) to make Agents more effective. For now I am probably about 85-90% to my MVP.

- working on cleaning up the source for open sourcing

- the first task is failing right now due to a bug

- doc upload is bugged

- tools are disabled

- tons of loose ends in the UI

- Actively developed: database is likely to be wiped frequently until launch, along with any user accounts.
I started a CMS bundle for Symfony projects, and released it. It still needs more work, and people to actually use it.
https://github.com/SeleneSoftware/seleneCMSBundle

And a skeleton application that uses the bundle.
https://github.com/SeleneSoftware/SeleneCMS

Issues and Pull Requests welcome.
You are confusing science with math.
Probably too early even for this discussion, but why not: https://github.com/cconvey/cpu-n1

It's a simple (WIP) ISA and corresponding simulator. I want to get experience adding a new backend target for LLVM, and this is will be the target.

The idea is to be similar to other LLVM targets, but different enough that I can't just copy-and-paste existing LLVM code.
> they told me the new CDO was already convinced that said "RT-based" datalake was the way to go forward

Is the desire for "RT-based datalake" itself misplaced? Or just that the implementation isn't up to the job? Nobody _wants_ slow data, and reports that are usually fine with T+1 delay can become time critical (for example, a "what's selling?" report on black friday).
I am building a Web UI called paisa[1] to visualize personal finance data. We currently have very good command line tooling for this (ledger/hledger/beancount). A Web UI will make it even easier to see what's going on with your finances.

I am interested in knowing what are the common problems you face with command line approach that can be solved via a Web UI

[1]: https://github.com/ananthakumaran/paisa

[2]: https://paisa-demo.ananthakumaran.in/
Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?
Mine would be The Utopians trilogy[1], I recommend it to anyone looking for a good sci-fi read.

[1]: https://stallman.org/Bob-Chassell
A search for technosignatures around nearby stars
Local here. For the first murder (the one in Buenos Aires), the victim was initially portrayed by the media as a "crypto entrepreneur", too, and I guess that was copied over and never revisited as media usually does -- but as facts were emerging it turned out that he was just a very careless con artist that tried to run a scam with the wrong kind of people.

Shocking, I know.
Please report back your findings, I am sure I am not the only one wanting to see some real world results
434 mile range, 4C charging, charge 0 to 80% in 30 mins, even in tempratures as low as -10℃ (14℉).

It’s a big deal.
Genuine question. For lifepo4 I've never looked at DOD vs cycles.

Having a quick look, it seems that it's roughly linear, but slightly in favour of lower discharge?

One spec sheet I saw said 80% dod had 2500 cycles, and 50% dod had 5000 cycles, which means you get more "lifetime capacity" with a 50% dod compared to 80%?
Is not this why US invented shell companies ?

It's feature not bug ?
But market cap is price multiplied by total outsanding shares ( public + privately held shares ).

If you and I IPO a company. We each keep 25% of the shares and float the remaining 50%. Using your logic, our insider shares representing 50% of the company has no value.

Also, if the company were to pay dividends, are our shares not applicable?

You can't calculate the value of a company on just the float, unless the float represents all or most of the shares.

Of course having such a small float is ridiculous as well. Seems like the vinfast stock is exists solely for financial shenanigans behind the scenes.
Every console does that. PS5, Xbox, whatever. Purchases are account-linked.
I don't have a link to anything yet, but I'm working on a mac app that's intended to help programmers observe their own productivity in an objective but configurable way, and provide a more cohesive interface for working with independent project management tools. This is particularly for people who struggle with things that their managers tend to assume that everyone has the same capability of managing, like when was the last time you updated a Jira comment thread that directly connects to a GitHub PR review, that directly connects to a Git Branch. You might go and push some code, but forget to re-request review, or forget that someone asked a question in the thread, because you don't have native notifications.

I haven't worked out a coherent UI for this quite yet, but ideally you'd be able to give yourself a notification that a branch you were working on hasn't seen any updates in some time, or that you did commit but haven't pushed, or haven't changed the status of the Jira ticket back into review.

If anyone has these problems, I'd love to hear if anything like this would be useful.
Don't be snarky, did you spend 20 minutes without reading it to the end? That plexiglass cutout is an interview prompt for engineering hires. It's only a small part of their prototype.
Revolutionary if true.
Clickable links:

[1]: https://stallman.org/Bob-Chassell
https://pastmaps.com

Been working on this as a new way to find, explore, and view old historical maps and aerials of my area. Still heavily in development but have been surprised by some early traffic stats (1-2K organic uniques / mo and growing 200%+ m/m right now)

Hoping to add in more advanced map tooling within the next week or 2, including new basemap options, 3d terrain view, and then a proper search box which I've been pushing off for far too long
Wow. Lossy text compression is a... horrifying concept.
> Were any of us really ignorant of that?

Apparently a lot of people in this thread are, yes. Because a bunch of people are all talking about "nuance" and how it is good to hear from a real perspective of someone living in China.

It's not a real perspective, and never was. It is instead one only optimized for saying what needs to be said to not get arrested.

It colors everything that she has said or not said, and makes it impossible to take any argument or statement that she says at face value.

> Why would you expect to have an honest debate with someone subject to rule by an authoritarian regime?

Although this may seem obvious to us, it was never obvious to her fans and her huge social media following.

Along with all the people who did get into debates and fights with her online (of which there were many!), who didn't realize that they were not engaging with honest good faith statements.

People liked her for the things that she said, taken at face value, and not because of the real truth of the matter which is that all of it was written within the context of a culture of fear of arrest.
3D printer nightmare fuel: Bambu started printing while owners were asleep
I'm working on an application where you share your business idea with an AI which evaluates and ranks ideas. It scores the idea, explains why it scored the way it did, and offers suggestions for improvement.

That's double meta in this thread, I know.

I don't have an MVP yet but I've been testing and tweaking prompts. An early strategy might be to release this as a free open source app and then offer extra business value later. I created an email form in case there's any interest here.

https://tally.so/r/mK5J6K
New space AI images every 30 minutes: https://cosmictrip.space

I waited too long to publish this but it is still nowhere near done and I just had to publish early.

Missing most features I want to add but hey, it’s live now!
If you're a US citizen you are only allowed to make last I looked 127k USD if working in Canada (or anywhere else). After 127k USD any money earned is taxed by the USA. But not to worry, if you go to Canada for a tech job you won't earn anywhere near 127k USD. You'll be very lucky to earn a 100k CAD and that will amount to about 58k or less take home. Rent will eat at least 35k of that which doesn't leave much for everything else. After all is said and done you are living hand to mouth and forget ever trying to settle down and buy a house or maybe even a 500sq/ft Condo, both will require decades of saving for just a down payment.