skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The standard may suck due to too few local dimming zones, but the "pathetic amount of brightness" is a hard "for you" kind of deal. It depends on your use case.

I use an LG OLED TV as a monitor for work (and a game here and there), 4k 120Hz and I'm more than happy with the brightness in HDR content. In fact, it's kind of just at the edge of being too bright for me... given the distance.
Gov.uk is probably the greatest thing our government has achieved for quite a while.

That's not hyperbole.
Because it’s way out there and hard to visualize as part of the total area.
I'm pretty much the same.

However, one thing that throws me off is that when I see my parents or other people I don't see often, they look markedly different than I remember (aging). But I can't picture them in my head. So why is said disconnect occurring?
Walkers in the City–and Everywhere
The world won’t end for billions of years. In the next few decades, a whole bunch of humans will be financially devastated, physically relocated, and made dangerously jealous, defensive, and angry by climate change. Spin it how you like.
The problem then is that you have to use jmeter, it's a great example of early 2000s java desktop app user experience.
I don't get it - why can't the "right holder" who wants a site blocked drag Cloudflare itself to the court over this, just like ISP's are asked to do the blocking now?
Really unfortunate, the only reason I switched back to chrome.
Didn't Postman start as an extension?
No it doesn't. It results in more context switching costs maybe, but I seriously doubt that would make a difference in all but the most extreme cases.
Check out https://recipeui.com! It’s an open source Postman alternative with TypeScript and autocomplete.
The point I'm making is that humans do not in fact have "less language data". We're heavily predisposed to learning languages. We don't start with random weights.

GPT has no such predisposition.
The March revision is for the entire year, so divide by 12 for the monthly average.
And it's huge! https://www.royalalaskanmovers.com/how-big-is-alaska-compari...
Show HN: A simple Pastebin Clone using Deno
This is a simple Pastebin clone I made using the Deno Typescript runtime.

I created a simple templating system, and implemented server-side rendering for the UI.

Demo: https://paste.jlcarveth.dev/
We need a free Postman replacement tool with Photopea business model that is driven by ads, not VC-funds.
BNW was written in 1931, so to me it's obvious that it is less about any -ism and more about exploring* a society in which every pre-WWI virtue becomes a vice (and vice versa). If it's a satire of anything, it's of Edwardian society (through the looking glass).

Did you notice the (prescient) shout-out to Logan's Run?

* to this day I fail to see the dys- in what my high school teacher claimed was a dystopia (apart from the utter lack of high school english teachers in the BNW, that is)
Re. your pricing page:

* "User-friendly interface" - that's the minimum bar! you don't need to mention it.

* "Enhance productivity" - again, I should hope so.

* "Fair usage policy" - oh good, you'll cut me off just when I need you most.

Also:

* How are potential customers finding out about you? Online ads? You being a sales team and reaching out?

* How do I know that your product is worth me paying money for? There's no trial or similar.

* Who's your customer?

1. Individuals? If so, how likely are they to need to constantly scan PDFs that $5/month makes sense each and every month? Consider doing a usage-based pricing model instead.

2. Businesses? Who are you - i.e. what's the legal entity they're dealing with? Do you have APIs that they can use? Why you instead of a proven competitor?
How many megabytes of text is it reasonable to expect a user to read? This could have been interesting, rendered meaningless by overflow of legalese.
Alaska is like ~20% of the entire US area. It's the single largest state, which when removed, drops US from >1 million km^2 bigger than Brazil to 500k km^2 smaller than Brazil.
my suspicion is that FTL travel wouldn't work with this drive because of what the wikipedia article states here:

"Another possible issue is that, although the Alcubierre metric is consistent with Einstein's equations, general relativity does not incorporate quantum mechanics. Some physicists have presented arguments to suggest that a theory of quantum gravity (which would incorporate both theories) would eliminate those solutions in general relativity that allow for backward time travel (see the chronology protection conjecture) and thus make the Alcubierre drive invalid."

My fun layman conjecture based on absolutely no credible knowledge of this area beyond reading articles like this is:

-- the universe has a forward direction of time & causality that is as unbreakable as exiting from a black hole is

-- in a black hole space & time are so warped they sort of switch roles - any direction you try to move in X,Y,Z only brings you closer to the singularity. In much the same way I think the outside universe operates in Time - no matter what you do, you move forward in time.

-- My somewhat unpleasant belief here is the reason you and everything in the universe can only move forward in Time is because of the Block universe[1] concept: all of X,Y,Z,T are already set & predetermined, so it makes no sense to actually try to change your path through it.

-- All of these things put together invalidate the concept of FTL travel, because FTL travel (even with a clever trick like warping spacetime) would violate causality & allow travelers to go back in time

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_time...
That's not my experience though after doing sprints for the better part of a decade.
Erlang/BEAM is significantly slower than either Go or Rust. Its speed reputation was often misunderstood; it was very good at juggling green threads, but it was never a fast programming language. Now that its skill at juggling green threads is commoditized, what's left is the "not very fast programming language".

It's not the slowest language either; it has a decent performance advantage over most of the dynamic scripting languages. But it is quite distinctly slower than Go, let alone Rust.
Not open source, though?
But he has hit a key issue which is that final response rates are normal, but historically low for the first survey, so revisions are actually more important now
Ever wondered how these “small group of extremists” came about holding the entire country hostage? That’s because US nation state apparatus decided to overthrow democratically elected government there for their own interests.

When you study American foreign policy, you can’t help but wondering it’s indeed not the interest of USA to have once unconquerable empires like Persia to be thriving and realize their full potential. US would rather have dysfunctional corrupt extremists dependent on foreign aids rule an entire region than challenging its hegemony.

So next time you hear our media preach how detestable other foreign leaders like Erdogan or Modi or MBS is, think twice what the agenda there is. USA has had no problems supporting savage regimes for their own interests. I will pick WMD monster Saddam Hussein any day everyday over whatever there is left in Iraq today. History repeats itself. Nation state with media collusion saturating its own citizens mind with propaganda to serve their own interests (often just a very small group of people living north of Richmond) where the same group of people keep drumming the war machines for decades under different banners. Enough said.
The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines
Ah, I follow. I was confused because a small, open-source extension should be sufficient to handle sending test requests. Sounds like they're doing something much bigger than that.

POSTman started as an extension; hence my confusion. I was wondering if there was a technical issue I was unaware of.
The Montreal Protocol has been a massive success and was even strongly supported by Reagan (possibly due to his own skin cancer scare, according to one article). Though I'm highly skeptical it could make it through today's political system in the US.
Is that what happened? I DO have an account (begrudgingly made because it doesn't just let you do a JSON export of your collections, you have to send it to the cloud and then download it for some baffling reason) and last time I opened it all of my environment variable values were wiped.

I've been wanting to get off Postman for a while. It's so clunky these days, and they're shoving way too much shit in it that I don't care about.
In addition to tokens there were software-only solutions:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/KEY (RFC 1760)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPIE_Authentication_System

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTPW
no paywall: https://archive.ph/o7XUs
Running standalone binaries by a VC-fueled project on your host is even worse.

I guess a separate quarantine browser profile is the best of both worlds?
My bootloader is all screwed up because of the TPM2.0 requirement for Windows 11 so I have to boot to BIOS and select my drive whenever I restart. It's a pain.
> Is it like in a school when you need to write a text with a specific lower bound for a word count?

More text/article == More ad space
I think this is actually a mistake. More often than not I find myself not paying for something that I really like, because it is such a hassle.

Privately, paying for apps is fairly easy, but I don't because there is enough free stuff to keep me entertained for centuries.

However, professionally it takes just too much effort to transfer actual money. TPS reports, having to convince your boss, and worst of all: the expectation that something will not be supported in a short while.

You can blame my specific company, but this is how it works for most companies. In some cases it is better to charge a lot, because the amount of money is irrelevant, it is the non-zero amount that requires effort.

(A lot of people get to spend some MAX amount freely without having to consult with their manager -- it might be a good idea to account for that.)
Imagine getting 7.2 billion dollars in funding for a Water Bond, and using that to blow up Dams instead of building new ones.
Under under the demolition plan, $200 million will come from California and Oregon ratepayers, and $250 million will come from a voter-approved California water bond, with no liability for PacifiCorp.
$250 million dollars meant to build dams is used to destroy the 4 Klamath River Dams
Great post! Also, Rotterdam is definitely worth a visit.
Based on pure statists about the number of important, business critical java-applications that run most of the internet, it seems like it just straight doesn’t matter in any significant way.
>If you can field a competitively priced consumer card

if this unicorn were to show up, what's to say that all the non-consumers won't just scarf up these equally performant yet lower priced cards causing the supply-demand situation we're in now? the only difference would be a sudden supply of the expensive Nvidia cards that nobody wants because of their price.
Microsoft tried to license it, failed, and wound up licensing DoubleSpace instead. As usual, the utility being built into MS-DOS 6 pretty much destroyed competition in that space. Stacker's ace in the hole was their coprocessor card, which I coveted pretty hard..
Hidden information and Solving Dominoes (Prolog)
Yeah maybe, but how many people are running these high performance async servers on 2 core machines?
That’s actually what I do and did. I have a whole bunch of scripts that allow me to replicate a lot of what Postman did for me.

The problem with these VC companies is that they enter the market with a whole bunch of lies and I was convinced that building on my ad hoc scripts wasn’t very useful since there were multiple alternatives including open source ones.

It’s taken me a decade however to learn that if these projects are VC backed as opposed to having some sort of govt or heck, even a benevolent dictator, they will screw you.

And while I might have learnt this lesson, which so much of the knowledge ecosystem also being filled with VC backed individuals (including this very forum) a whole another generation of potential OS developers will learn the lesson also too late.

And that’s how Silicon Valley has built a massive eco system to suck money out of everything across the globe, especially open source, but not limited to it (taxis, restaurants, hoteling, everything…).
> We just don't need the sensationalism - it turns people off and away from all the silliness.

By contrast, this is the exact sort of haughty condescension that pushes people further away, often right into the hands of real extremists.

The sensationalism is there because the problems of our ecology are literally sensational. Dismissing that is the real turnoff here.
Having a dedicated browser profile is a good solution to this if you’re ever uncomfortable with a particular extension.
Most people will pay for it, I’m suprised it took MS that long to realise it. I love Haiku, use Linux professionally, also have a MacBook Pro, but lets face it, all the best software works best on Windows.
Can anybody explain what NGP VAN is and why their product is so important?
I think it's fair to criticize them given a fair number of alternatives in this thread (with their own shortcomings). It's kind of silly to post something to hackernews and not expect criticism.
Vision Transformers Need Registers
Good! You’ll be able to derive some upper limits from simple equations then. More complex equations bring those limits down.
I would really like to see Chrome offering an alternative to Postman. For me, it feels natural, to have everything in one place.

What do others think?
Awesome! Thank you for posting this. I'd edit my response to include this, but it's too late.
Seriously, python with the requests lib in a jupyter notebook is always a nicer user experience than any REST API GUI, most importantly once it's grown a bit.
I also found it surprisingly how pleasant this was. For all Powershell’s quirks, this is one of those features that just makes sense to me.
> Here is Szabo last post about Bitgold before he renamed it to Bitcoin;

Come to think about it, this Bit gold -> Bitcoin renaming theory would also explain why miners are called miners in Bitcoin. "Minters" (with a t) would be a much more logical name if you started with the coin analogy from the beginning.
I am not so sure.

Everyone knows that CUDA is a core competency of Nvidia and they have stuck to it for years and years refining it, fixing bugs, and making the experience smoother on Nvidia hardware.

On the other hand, AMD has not had the same level of commitment. They used to sing the praises of OpenCL. And then there is ROCm. Tomorrow, it might be something else.

Thus, Nvidia CUDA will get a lot more attention and tuning from even the portability layers because they know that their investment in it will reap dividends even years from now, whereas their investment in AMD might be obsolete in a few years.

In addition, even if there is theoretical support, getting specific driver support and working around driver bugs is likely to be more of a pain with AMD.
Anyone who has iterated on trained models for long enough knows that feedback loops can be a serious problem. If your models are influencing the generation of data that they are later retrained on, it gets harder and harder to even maintain model performance. The article mentions one experiment in this direction: "With each generation, the quality of the model actually degraded." This happens whenever there aren't solid strategies to avoid feedback loop issues.

Given this, the problem isn't just that there's not enough new content. It's that an ever-increasing fraction of the content in the public sphere will be generated by these models. And can the models detect that they are ingesting their own output? If they get good enough, they probably can't. And then they'll get worse.

This could have a strange impact on human language / communication as well. As these models are increasingly trained on their own output, they'll start emulating their own mistakes and more of the content we consume will have these mistakes consistently used. You can imagine people, sometimes intentionally and sometimes not, starting to emulate these patterns and causing shifts in human languages. Interesting times ahead...
For me personally Kotlin does not bring that much to the table over a modern version of Java. Sure if you're stuck in Java 8 it can be a win, but compared to Java 21 it just doesn't bring enough to warrant the switch for me.
and the Mercator projection is horrible.
I don’t understand this: context switching takes microseconds, I/O latencies are typically in the millisecond range. I’d think thread overhead would be negligible in an I/O-bound application (especially if you take steps to reduce the amount of memory per thread)
I agree, but people have been ringing the bells about climate change for 40 years. When will we actually do something about it? I think the increased sensationalism is, at the very least, a sign that people are becoming afraid about our lack of action.
Is this even legal according to FTC guidelines? I thought ads had to be clearly marked in digital content.

Either way, whatever. X is dying. I think the mainstream assumes “it’ll never happen, it’s too big to fail.”

But it’s not. X really is shrinking and dying. It won’t die this year or next but it’s following in the steps of MySpace, perhaps more slowly. But it’s happening.
For anyone wondering what JAB means, it's a joint board that blesses certain vendors, cloud offerings, and other software/tech products. If you don't get a Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) from the JAB, you're SOL. As a small software business owner, it's such a frustrating and anti-competitive experience.

The US's runaway defense spending isn't just pricey missiles, planes, and salaries; a big chunk is now software. It's a subtle issue, though, and I have yet to hear any politician address it meaningfully.
Seriously, why not just use web?
I’ve used alternatives to explore under-documented APIs interactively and suss out their behavior. Then I could use the app’s codegen to turn the query I’d manually crafted into my chosen language’s code.

You can do all that directly in the language, of course, but by the time you go through the trouble of pretty printing the output, parametrizing the input, etc, you’ve reimplemented a less ergonomic version of Postman-and-similar.

(Not saying you’re wrong for doing it your way, but explaining why others might choose a different approach.)
In the same vein, Remote Touchpad [0] is fantastic if you don't need an extra screen.

[0] https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.unrud.RemoteTouchpad
Totally agree. The world is the best it has ever been by nearly any metric.

My father had to _literally_ practice hiding under his desk at school with a Geiger counter in preparation for nuclear war. He was then _drafted_ into Vietnam... I don't think I have it so bad.
Postman is rolling out updates over time, for many people they only saw the changes now, a couple weeks after the roll-out started.
“good for the consumer” is as subjective as the consumer.

the eu disagrees in that it views itself as representative of the consumer. similar to how us states set laws that may be more strict than others.

get a large enough government of a populace with a large enough portion of the sales, and companies can be made to act. which can be good, but isn’t a guarantee.

just because companies can be forced to act doesn’t mean the forced actions are actually good for the consumer.

(plus a decent amount is political theatre.)
Arguably, everything worked out fine until the title changed.
Yep, same thread model can be applied to Steam Workshop mods.
Going with the theory this is caused by a shareholder:

They own 40%, the only bigger stakeholder beeing Tim Sweeney, Epics CEO and founder. [1]

Assuming Sweeney wouldn't be the one causing it, Tencent is the party that would be able to cause the most financial headaches.

[1] https://www.fool.com/investing/how-to-invest/stocks/how-to-i...
I left a comment wondering aloud if this exact thing existed two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37601222. Awesome to see!
It seems that this is only true for ethnic Han executives based on the examples in the article
Is there any web app that implements badge notifications correctly? I'm not a fan of notifications in general, but the badge counter is something I value. I've never seen a web app that implements badge counters. Is there some difficulty with this functionality?
I'm not sure that this is completely true.

Yes, it's true that levelized cost is not giving the full picture. But that's not quite the point here. The point is to show that the "free market" is not the solution we're looking for and that waiting for the market to solve this will closely resemble Waiting for Godot.

So sure, that infrastructure needs to be built. But that was also the case for fossil fuels. Think of the massive infrastructure required to get gas to a power plant. Much of that infrastructure is subsidized, it's already there and thus any energy source trying to get into the market cannot just be slightly cheaper; the cost advantages of the established system is just to great.

So in a way, your statement supports my argument that the market will not able to fix this for us.
Why? Do you own that bit of road?
Due to what? CO2? Use nuclear. 4 centuries is an extremely long time at our current pace of technological advancement which I'm assuming you're holding steady since that is the biggest driver of a 2.3% increase in energy production and consumption. If that's true then most energy production and use will be off planet in significantly less than 4 centuries.
I'm not sure using Google Analytics qualifies as an "externality" but even if it does the UK government has proven time and time again it doesn't give a damn about anyone's privacy, so what makes you think any in-house version would be any better for privacy? Because it would certainly be worse from a technical standpoint.
I almost ignored HTTPie as a Postman alternative because I thought it was CLI only but learned that it has a GUI now. Unfortunately the GUI seems to be proprietary.

Also we were looking for HTTP/2 support which neither Postman not HTTPie have and found xh which is a HTTPie clone in Rust.
Maybe it doesn't matter to you, but it does matter to me.

All the power to people who enjoy working in Java, but that doesn't have to make me like it.
i really like httpie, i didn't know they had an application coming out. This is good stuff.
"If the fan is very old and no longer works properly, it just needs to be replaced. "

Sometimes it is really complicated replacing them with a danger of damaging stuff, if you have no routine. Then using something to spray is easier to fix it for some time. It helped in my cases, even though I will definitely try something else next time ..
Google had Bard (under a different name) internally for years but didn't release it until ChatGPT forced their hand. Facebook was doing ML research for years (they created PyTorch) so it looks like they were able to create llama pretty rapidly.