skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Just going to put it out there because I don't intend to do anything with it, but I have created a terminal emulator that is twice as fast as the closest GPU-based renderer I've found (at least on Linux) which was Alacritty."

> "I don't care too much because creating your own terminal is like 20 lines of code these days. People who really care can just create one as easy as configuring an existing one."

These sentences sounds conceited and arrogant.
Apologies, thought we were talking economics, where barter is every bit as legitimate as cash. But you’re talking polemics where there’s moral failing in Google’s and user’s parts. Fair enough.
All dating stats I've seen shown white men get the most matches on apps
If I want to operate a service on top of the eth blockchain, I have to factor in gas fees as part of the operation costs.

That's overhead.
How are you handling concurrency/multithreading? I wrote a lot of MOOcode back in the day and often explicitly relied on the fact that property values couldn't change out from under me during a verb's runtime.
All our lives we're told that skills matter. Society will reward those who are most skilled.

Inevitably groups form around a skill, programmers hang around programmers and so on. Since programmers "create" all the value we believe we should get paid the most etc.

Alas schools emphasise "hard" skills (programming, math, doctors, lawyers etc) and those are all good jobs that make decent money. They ignore "soft" skills like selling, marketing, and so on.

In truth sales and marketing are orders of magnitude more valuable, and their pay reflects that. There are a lot of pharma reps, realtors, insurance salesman that earn mega bucks.

This is not something the average hacker wants to hear. I expect to get down-voted for saying it. But if you're reading this, and you're thinking of starting out on your own, then I recommend you consider;

Who will you sell to?
How will you reach them?
What can they afford?

Only then start thinking about what to make.
Microsoft hiring for “small modular reactor” strategy to power data centers
Here is the job :

https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1627555/Pri...
so it's uno card put on HARO?
Unilad being posted on HN??
I studied CS and graduated top of my class and have 20 years of experience and learnt the past couple of years that now all that matters is grinding leetcode and my degree and experience are mostly ignored.
Sadly, a big percentage of recent movies or music hits is already a mashup of old original ideas, automating the "creation" process to increase profits is just going one step further. Indie or niche movies or bands won't be touched simply because that's not where the money is.
Startup time is very important

Some apps get poorly reviewed due to slow startup time

Also 3sec on your dev machine = 10sec on regular machines

Don't be like Microsoft, don't pretend 9 seconds is fast startup time :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT7nnXej2K4

"10MinuteMail shared how they used GraalVM and Spring Boot 3 to reduce their startup time from ~30 s down to about 3 ms, and memory usage from 6.6 GB down to 1 GB, with the same throughput and CPU utilization."

https://medium.com/graalvm/graalvm-for-jdk-21-is-here-ee0117...
Curious how you went with this approach.

I too have been playing with agents. But I’ve explicitly biased away from having them do things that can achieved directly with code.

Stringing together tool selection into steps with reasoning imo is the crucial brain layer. Code is one of the tools. I’ve also gone with a kind of preemptive memory, where the brain gets injected with relevant memory automatically, instead of it requesting for it. Same for retrieval from the internet.

But wanted to understand how you’re thinking about.
they didn't even restore the history of the old terms of service repo...
I am guilty of both, naturally :)
> Currently, puzzlefs is implemented as a userspace filesystem (FUSE). A read-only kernel filesystem driver is underway.

Ahh interesting. I hadn't heard of PuzzleFS, but it sounds like they are anticipating Rust support will become good enough. Neat!
Alchemy, by virtue of association with hermeticism, gets an unnecessarily bad reputation. We know it to be mostly false today, but it really did help develop chemistry.
What happens if there is no match in the database?

My guess is that you are replacing each pixel in an image with the "best" color in the database. Is this correct? Can you post a good and a bad sample image?
I notice that in Firefox, selecting the search engine always has them in this order: Amazon, Bing, DuckDuckGo. They should at least be randomized every time.

A simple solution to this browser selection problem might be this: when the OS is installed, choose a browser at random. Then if the user wants to change it, they can, and the choices should also be presented in random order.
> Researchers, platforms, advertisers, government agencies, or other institutions interested in accessing the full list of domains ... can contact us here.

Also the post title should be corrected to "Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation".
Interesting. Is there a source for this claim?
I agree, but the article was written in 2023 when middle class families can reasonably aspire to become millionaires, so making the headline talking about millionaires being impossibly privileged just seems inexcusably lazy and dishonest to me.
Not commenting on the ethical implications, but it's fairly obvious that dogs dream. We could tell our dog was chasing squirrels in his sleep by the running and yelping.
I'm doing it as well because I though it would be fine (I was mostly wary of BPA leaking from the plastic to my food so it didn't seem too big of a problem to microwave it), but that's a habit that you can change if you know about the risk. (And manufacturers should be mandated to engrave a warning in the lid “do not microwave” so that people are &actually made aware of it).
One country recently seized 300B of funds of another country. Not necessarily a bad thing but still…
Was he more famous than Chaplin?
We have (or had? Haven't seen it in a bit) one of those Knightscope things on our block in SF.

It's a giant 400lb thing with a few cameras. It wonders around in a pre defined area, playing pre recorded messages when it thinks things are in its way that shouldn't be.

It seems deliberately designed to be smooth on the outside and shaped such that it would be difficult to grab it and do anything like load it in a truck.

That's it, that's the product.

I dont see how it helps, it was nothing more than a novelty and distraction in our neighborhood.

Honestly, the thing like this that seems to do the most good are those trailer mounted surveillance towers with 25/7 monitored cameras, police lights and megaphone.
> First, those are bolt-ons and I don’t actually want them tied to the source code management system.

Anecdote: when Richard first proposed the /chat feature in fossil i was highly skeptical about its utility but (as the fossil project's "JS guy") wrote it anyway. Now, almost 3 years later, we've been using chat 24/7 across multiple fossil-hosted projects and can't imagine doing without it. The majority of the sqlite project's coordination happens via fossil's /chat.

Yes, it was bolted on, but it's also become indispensable for us as a feature.
The reason historically for multiple concurrent implementations is because we're building a protocol, and multiple implementations dogfoods that - plus the different implementations service different segments. In practice, Hydrogen and Dendrite are currently deprioritised in favour of focusing on polishing Element X and Synapse. And Element Mobile is in security-maintenance mode only in favour of Element X.

Meanwhile, we massively fixed Element Mobile's UI a year ago: https://element.io/blog/an-unrecognisable-improvement-elemen... - and Element X is essentially the same UI... but on a different engine. So I'd argue that we were very aware that Element's UI was crap, which is why we fixed it. Rewriting the Element mobile apps as Element X is unquestionably the right thing to do in terms of sharing the same rust codebase between the two platforms and letting the app layer focus on UI.

Agreed that our progress has been slow, and our focus been has very broad at points. But we got there in the end, and certainly have learned from the journey (and built Matrix to be a much broader and successful heterogenous ecosystem as a result).

I'm sure your projects are all much more successful though - I'm jealous! :D
True, and I resonate so much with that. So many amazing ideas that were abandoned at 60% completion, after passion fades, a few days or weeks later.

It's tough to scope, build, deliver. Let alone then market, sell, and keep on improving. All of this with no promise of revenue, big or small.

Now, I hate these Twitter humblebrags but one can't knock his hustle.
Most mammals clearly dream, they even do the twitchy thing in their sleep. Has no one done eeg studies or is that not considered proof?
Outside Kubernetes and DevOps, hardly anyone cares Go exists.
I recently went on vacation abroad and struck up so many pleasant conversations with other Americans and some Brits, Irish, and Australians - maybe its cause we were excited to speak the same language, but it was strange, because this rarely happens in my part of the US (everyone seems to be in their own clique or group).
> Netherlands we have the world's cleanest tap water.

Eh? Dutch tap water is fine, but do you have a citation for that?

Also note that "clean tap water" is a bit of a fuzzy non-metric. I live in Amsterdam[1], where the pH of water is around 7.8, but H^2O would be 7.0.

So the water can be trivially he demonstrated not to be "clean", otherwise the pH value wouldn't differ.

But of course what people usually mean is "has bad stuff in it", not how far it is from being chemically pure.

> my wife can't stand the tap water here.

Yeah, I also don't like it. I grew up in Iceland, which has particularly "dirty" water, but it's the "good" sort of "dirty", i.e. minerals and the like.

That and other things contribute to taste, also temperature, Dutch tap water is too warm for my tastes.

I'm not right, nether are you or her. It's just an acquired taste.

> The baby bottles are all plastic. Glass is available but they're hard to find

They're quite easy to find? Search for "glazen zuigfles". But...

> our baby only likes one particular brand of bottle, refusing to drink from others.

...ah, that might be, i.e. perhaps it's just that manufacturer.

Also are you looking for 100% glass? Usually the fitting to close it and the "nipple" itself are plastic/rubber.

> My son's children's water bottle is plastic. I've never seen children's water bottle not made of plastic. Frankly I'm not sure what to do here.

Get him a stainless steel water bottle, my kids have that (I'm not paranoid about plastic, but it's a more durable bottle for school). Blokker, IKEA etc. sell these.

> I'm going to replace all the food containers with metal or glass soon[...]

Respectfully, I think you're going a bit off the rails here, there's probably 10 much easier things you can do to marginally move the needle further on your family's mortality, e.g. applying sunscreen consistently.

But just to feed your paranoia a bit: some things that are "metal" are really just epoxy, e.g. aluminum cans are just epoxy "bags" surrounded by aluminum walls.

Food grade stainless steel is almost always "pure" though.

1. https://www.waternet.nl/service-en-contact/drinkwater/waterh...
China just stopped exporting two minerals the world’s chipmakers need
Seems like JetBrains Rider will take everyone onboard if VSC won't catch up fast
https://tomaszs2.medium.com/microsofts-phasing-out-visual-st...
> anything remotely not-far-left somehow flamebait?

That's an illusion. People always assume that the site and/or the mods are biased against them. The other side feels exactly the same way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Can this transactional model be made to handle in-transaction I/O?

I've seen MOOs that had verbs for performing HTTP requests, through shelling out to curl IIRC. If you have a verb that reads a value, sends it out and updates it based on the response, what do you do if the value changes in the meantime? When is the transaction committed exactly?
ahhh ok
"You'll have to go through a sort of Matrixical unplugging to find them, however. Unplugging is the new turning on."

It's funny, those sentences don't really make sense, and yet I totally understand and agree. If that makes sense :)
Cory Doctorow's coinage "Plausible Sentence Generators"[1] rings true to me.

1 https://locusmag.com/2023/09/commentary-by-cory-doctorow-pla...
That first sentence is quite euphemistic though. There's a lot more to both sides that she quietly implies (by reference to "normal people" finding it "crazy") but doesn't outright mention.
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California's Governor Vetoes State Ban on Driverless Trucks
Cryptographic Autonomy License
No one reading this article has any possibility of verifying this story. They could say they have found flying pigs, and we would have to accept the story.
Show HN: Gambeth, fully decentralized, serverless prediction market platform
Hi HN! The last couple years I fell into an "interesting" relationship with "investing" and so I decided to focus my ludopathy into something remotely useful. Unfortunately, instead of that I bring to you... Gambeth!

Anyone can create their own market with an arbitrary number of options. The submission links to Argentina's presidential elections market, feel free to try it in the Goerli testnet and let me know in the comments if you need some testnet USDC to play with it.

The "Explore markets" option is super barebones but should at least give you the list of all created markets.

I plan on doing a release on the Polygon network, but I'd love to have some feedback for the beta version.

The whole code is open source but honestly pretty illegible at the moment. I need to dedicate a day to splitting/reorganizing the code, and probably start to consider an actual framework instead of vanilla JS. If all that hasn't scared you away: https://github.com/chiplis/gambeth

I'm looking for people willing to contribute to a UI revamp but PR's are welcome on anything and everything, all of the time.
A row in the DB has 7 columns: c,m,y,k,lightness,chroma,hue. I used the colorspacious python library to create the DB which took about 24 hours. I wanted to map all the colors in the CMYK gamut (about 10^8) over to the CIECAM02 model but I changed some of the math to make it populate the database faster and that DID introduce some error but the errors were on the order of 10^-6 and I don't know enough about CIECAM02 to tell if that's significant or not. Also I don't really have the time or the compute resources to test 10^8 colors. But I would make the DB again if I had some assurances that the math I was using was accurate and also I need to figure out how to parrallelize python because that would speed things up significantly.

I think a row in the DB is 7 floats, it should be 4 ints (c,m,y,k) and 3 floats (lightness, chroma, hue) but I don't know how to fix 10^8 rows in a reasonable amount of time.

The reason it takes so long is because first it searches for the source CMYK color. Then because of how floats work I can't just tell it to pick all the colors with the same hue, I have to specify some delta and pick all the colors where the absolute value of the hue minus the hue of the source color is less than the delta. That's the part that takes a lot of time but I can't really think of a way to speed it up beside changing the data types of the columns.
EU fines Intel $400M for blocking AMD's market access
> On *ix, threads don't use up file descriptors

Thanks - this caused me to dig into the specific scenario where creating threads was exhausting file handles in my experience and you are correct - consuming a file handle is indeed not intrinsic to creating a new thread in Linux. It's insanely easy for literally anything you do with the thread to consume a file handle, but of course, that applies to virtual threads as well. Thanks!
Honestly all the "fancy new" stuff only gives you benefits at galactic scale compared to what most solo folks will build. You already start well behind the curve being a solo dev, so you lose out on a lot of benefits of orchestration, rapid microservice deployments, etc. That stuff is built for teams, not one person hacking away in their home office on nights and weekends. You get all the bad parts, because they can't be avoided, and none of the good, because you don't have the throughput to take advantage.

My current job has 80 or 90 devs and we have both on-prem k8s, on-prem monolith, and plenty of "cloud-native" AWS stuff. Everything TS, GraphQL, messaging queues, exactly what you'd expect from an organization that size.

My side projects are all .NET MVC apps. Full-page reloads, manual deployments out of Visual Studio, etc. The only excuse for me to go the TS etc. route would be if that was the only thing I knew how to do, and honestly with as much as I've heard from folks like Tony and Pieter, if I was green now and only knew TS, I'd probably be learning PHP and Laravel.
> While Apple can manage that 8GB of RAM relatively well, 16GB RAM is a must on any Mac which is used for serious work.

I think developers all using higher end hardware than the common base models is a big part of the reason bloat like this exists is a problem in the first place. You've got programmers with 128 GB of ram and 32 CPU cores writing application software for people with 8GB of ram. A few hundred megabytes is nothing to the developer, but substantial to the common user who is also trying to use the same machine for several other things simultaneously.
We live in an age of technical marvel but the goalposts have constantly shifted so nothing feels amazing anymore.
What have you been trying to use agents for?

I think most of the actual value created short/medium-term with agents will be in entertainment where things going awry is OK and no action they take can really be catastrophic.

Some people are already spending a ton of time on character.ai (https://beta.character.ai). There are sims-like games like ai-town (https://www.convex.dev/ai-town). My friend and I made an open-source murder mystery novella with agents (https://gron.games).

We found that a lot of the actions they take are pretty low stakes, so the correctness issues are much less important (in ai-town, they just talk with each other, in our game, they just beat you or run away if you interrogate them poorly).
Pretty app! I created something related, but more utilitarian. It's called CommuniqAI and may be found at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.mtc.ga.
It's not that difficult. For each question hold all other variables constant. If voting, which man does a woman prefer to date: 1. A rich man, a poor man. 2. A handsome man, an ugly man. 3. A tall man, a short man. 4. A strong man, a weak man. 5. A confident man, an unconfident man. 6. An assertive man, a passive man. Etc. The more of the attractive traits, the higher status
This gets compounded because there is a blind spot to bad behavior of ingroup people. You know plenty of people on your side who aren’t crazy, so you dismiss the extremists as crazy people on the periphery, while those outside the group see them as examples of the norm of your group.
Ok, in those terms, HN's flagging system is relative, not absolute.
Thanks for sharing I was looking at something new to do tomorrow instead of taking time off
Patronus AI conjures up an LLM evaluation tool for regulated industries
He doesn't need investors. Why would he bother?
Some people don’t take the cue that you’re done talking, and will continue to try to talk to you for the entire flight. Combine that with the fact that some of us are uncomfortable overtly shutting someone down, so we are stuck with nodding and trying unsuccessfully to go back to reading our book.
The ipad operating range ends at 35C. That's ok for airliners, but in smaller aircraft with bubble or no canopies where the device can be exposed to sunlight, the temperature can exceed the limit.

For those use-cases alternatives to foreflight are probably good enough.

For cases where it matters and must be foreflight the price of the device (even apple taxed) doesn't matter at all compared to other cost.
Fwiw, the only video of hers that I remember watching is the economics one because of the discussion it sparked, but I didn't get the impression there that she was communicating her ignorance or bias well at all. Rather, she made a bunch of dubious claims with all the appearance of authority and knowledge.

She also doesn't seem particularly unbiased to me. Like, I don't think one can ever be unbiased, but someone with a lot of knowledge about a subject can do a good job of identifying the biases they have in that area and try and approach things more objectively, or at least indicate where they're speaking for themselves and where they're describing beliefs in the field. For example, I'm a frontend developer with a bunch of biases for certain technologies and styles of development, because those are the ones I'm used to and invested in. But I know the field well enough to - I hope - be able to recognise those biases and tell you that you don't need SolidJS for your next project, even though I think it's really cool and want more people to get involved there.

Rather, Hossenfelder feels like she just doesn't know what her biases are in the first place, at least when discussing something like economics. Based on your comment, I'm sure that's not true for the subjects that she is knowledgeable in - you bring up particle physics as an example of an area where she knows her opinions aren't necessarily standard. But in the video I watched, she presented herself as this neutral figure telling you only the facts, and then said things that ranged from being out-of-date or untrue, to things that didn't even really make much sense.

I agree with you that "stay in your lane" is a bad counter to these sorts of videos, because collaboration between fields is good. But good collaboration takes a lot of humility - you need to come to the table knowing that you know almost nothing about the other field, and accepting that you're going to have to learn a lot of stuff. At least from the stuff I've watched, I don't get the impression that Hossenfelder has put the work in to understand what she doesn't understand. And that, to me, is pretty much the definition of wilful ignorance - she knows she is not an expert in this field, but she doesn't seem to want to put the effort in to get the opinions and feedback from real experts. Instead, she's assumed her own knowledge is enough.
yes, precisely. It's UI part that's broken, which cannot list snapshots. Issue is here, no fix since 2020, sadly: https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator/issues/937
The point is that primitive engines were replaced by more advanced engines in time that surpassed humans first running on super computers and now on laptops.

Computers haven't replaced chess players because chess is recreation it is an end unto itself not a means to an end.

With voice acting it is the means toward an end which is the finished audio file which can be licenced to consumers for money.

The means costs about 300 usd per hour of finished audio whereas there is every reason to believe software can drive the per unit cost so low its impossible for a human to make a living whilst still being profitable.

Eg most of the work could end up open source leaving someone to provide 2 people to burn 6 months to produce millions of hours of audio. Lets value their time ar 150k per year and suppose they produce 3 million hours the labor cost is roughly 5c per hour.

They can probably afford to offer 4.99 per hour while being wildly profitable even after other costs are considered.

A human being doing a dozen hours a week wouldn't be able to afford a good enough tent to impress the other hobos.