skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So over a year later and openai couldn’t be further ahead of all its competition. Google is still trying to catch up with its ai-flavoured Google search 2.0 and it’s becoming painstakingly clear that this was also the wrong path taken. They’re not even playing in the same league.
But that make no sense, as the second someone pulls from that branch it would be noticed.
Cutting User Drop-Off by 50%: A Lesson in User Acquisition
> He is formerly French.

Frank Melloul is French, and he formerly worked for the French government, and he was even active (at a low level) in French politics.

> And i24news is israeli.

Technically it's from Luxembourg[0] actually;).

> It's part of Altice as a buyout by the branch Altice USA...

I wasn't bought out, it was founded by French[1] billionaire Patrick Drahi in 2013.

This isn't a game, you're just flat out lying for gods knows why.

[0]: https://www.i24news.tv/fr/conditions-generales-d-utilisation

[1]: yes he has 5 different nationalities, but his familly arrived in France when he was a teen, studied in France, made a fortune in France, most of his empire are French companies, and so is his political network, so I'll count him as a fellow French, even if he also has the nationality from Saint Kitts and Nevis…
You could write a book about how egregiously stupid that is.

And on such an important topic! It's horrifying that grown adults take this bullshit at face value.

Like - we know for a fact, thanks to many leaks, that scientists believed lableak was possible and even likely, that they were pressured from "on high" to say otherwise.

We know for a fact that scientists and others who talked about the lableak theory - at all - had their posts delete, suppressed, "fact-checked", restricted, and were even banned or shadow-banned.

So for that to be said with a straight face - it's vomitous. It's about as daft as calling Corbyn an anti-semite, or calling protestors who want a Gaza ceasefire 'violent extremists' and 'Hamas supporters'. Media's gonna media, I guess.
Those numbers are quite impressive for a 7B model!
You need a filter. Maybe an AI filter?
I remember reading about it when I was a kid.
What specific evidence lends credence to the “overwhelming scientific consensus” you claim?

There’s still no known natural precursor and the only thing we see with a similar Furin cleavage site (which greatly enhanced the virality) doesn’t look like the backbone of the virus. The only US intelligence agency which assessed the situation with moderate confidence was the one who concluded that it was a lab leak. The natural origin conclusion only received low confidence.

Never mind that multiple virologists stated in emails that it looked engineered — until a private call with Fauci, when they recanted, and wouldn’t you know, got millions in grants shortly after.

You seem to be ignoring the actual scientific data, the work of intelligence agencies, and the documented human aspects which impacted this.

But yeah, keep throwing that abuse out there to shame others because they don’t recite the headlines as good as you.

Edit:

People who ignore you led with scientific facts and expert analysis to focus on the documented conspiracy — then try to call your whole post “conspiratorial nonsense” are funny.

Are they self-aware enough to realize they were fishing for a pretense to ignore you?
Show HN: AnyCable – real-time for Next.js, open source alternative to PaaS
You might have heard that scaling WebSocket infrastructure is not an easy task. It was true–until recently.

We built the open source real-time server, AnyCable, that deploys to Fly.io in one command (and configures itself), and the SDK for serverless JS/TS that allows you to build real-time features without any 3d-party PaaS. We call it a real-time server, because it has WebSockets and more, and it’s easy to run and scale.

Here’s all you need to add real-time to your Next.js/Vercel app:

– Deploy AnyCable to Fly.io with one command (see the docs)

– In your Vercel app add one serverless function (copy from docs)

– That’s it! Now you can write our business logic using AnyCable Serverless SDK :https://github.com/anycable/anycable-serverless-js

Benefits:

– Pay for the gas, not the taxi (unlike the PaaS)

– Own and control data

– Get as much flexibility to build out features as possible

– No vendor lock because it's open source

– Proven and tested abstractions–channels and subscriptions

– Guaranteed delivery and restoration of any messages lost due to connectivity issues

– Stability: we ensure auto scaling, smooth reconnection on deployment, fallbacks from WebSockets to other transport, and many more

– Integration with GraphQL ecosystem

Demo Next.js+Vercel+AnyCable chat app:

- live app: https://vercel-anycable-demo.vercel.app

- source code: https://github.com/anycable/vercel-anycable-demo

AnyCable: https://github.com/anycable/anycable

We hope you will give it a try and tell us what you think!
Are you sure the moon's not green? Hey I've made a few edits over the years and there they are. Maybe that's just another part of the big ruse? They cleverly keep /my/ edits around? Maybe only I see them? Maybe we're all living in a simulation...
Show HN: GoPilotX – An AI-First Running App (Open-Beta on Android)
Brilliant and truly innovative stage design, mounting the "do not ever look into those" scan lasers vertically, at head height ... ...
> The old-timers tend to say "learn to ride your bike, you can beat ABS." Manufacturers site statistics saying ABS saves lives.

It seems to me that both of these things can be true at the same time.
The Houthi are using Scud-type missiles supplied by Iran that normally reach an altitude of 160km / 100 miles.

https://www.indianpolitics.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/...
Winget is great package manager. I am staying with Chocoately due to WinGet have less software in their catalogue. WinGet are missing software that I regularly use in my Windows that I am able to get it through Chocoately.

It missing some like mupdf, TeX Live, Tixati, Q-Dir, Emulators, UMLs, etc. Through it have MiKTeX but I was burned by miktex's package update procedure weirdness.
100%.

The sales and use tax returns of companies that import more than a few thousand $ in goods into CA in a year are audited at least every other year, and they are quick to levy penalties.

For dropshipping companies with a significant amount of sales tax collected from CA customers, the sales tax they collected from you probably got to Sacramento before your item was even loaded onto a ship headed east.
Ask HN: Genuine confusion over AI generated fake Disney Pixar movie posters
1.) How does this work from a technological standpoint? There have only been 27 Pixar feature films.

2.) Why Disney-Pixar in particular? Why not Dreamworks, Illuminatiom entertainmemt...

3.) Is this just an attempt to ruin the reputation of the Pixar brand? Genuine question because I don't get how they could have allowed something like this https://i0.wp.com/www.piratesandprincesses.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/caust.png?fit=800%2C519&ssl=1 or that one https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2F9j5vugqof6tb1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1280%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Da5ff469ccc942d9ad6e846d0cb6484508cd5e9bc slide.

4.) Is there even any interpretation that would allow this to be seen as anything different than industrial style IP infringement?
you're layering the application semantics into the transport format.

It's fine, in the sense that a JSON with duplicate keys is already invalid - but the parser might handle it, and i suggested a way (just from reading the stackoverflow answer).

It's the same "fine" that you get from undefined C compiler behaviour.
Ugh, yes, but then I fall into the "too complex for bash, too simple for Python" trap. I feel like everything goes to hell the moment someone writes a Python class to deal with /something/ in a build pipeline. For bash, well, we all know where that goes... the other options are simply too obscure for me to invest in.

But I agree with your assessment, as much as the classic

script:

- chmod +x pipeline.sh

- ./pipeline.sh

makes me want to die.
I have literally never once in my life had that happen. It sounds like you had a driver issue or the like -- something that still happens today: https://windowsreport.com/windows-11-freezes-when-printing/
The Simple Path to Wealth fits well in there too. Acts as a nice follow up to YMOYL
TLDR; Basically too much UV light resulted in people getting skin burns and burned, red eyes

The likely cause imo? Someone bought/used UVB fluorescent tubes/lights (~200nm) instead of LED UVA (~400nm) as blacklights. They're cheaper, brighter and have a stronger effect.

Unprotected skin/eyes can feel the difference in <10 minutes (anecdotal evidence*), depending on how close they are. Being in a dark room at a party, makes it worse, as the pupils dilate and drugs/alcohol can dull the initial itchy/burning feeling from the eyes.

I don't think these were UVC, since the UV light affects DNA in a logarithmic scale. UVC is soooo much more likely to damage DNA, UVB is somewhat likely to damage DNA, UVC has a low likelihood of damaging DNA, blue light has an even lower chance of damaging DNA and so on. The time of exposure and effects were likely high nm UVB/low nm UVC. I could see this being the effects of a 280nm-315nm LED light source, or a skin treatment fluorescent tube. UVC bulbs and tubes are really hard to buy and cost a ton, so unlikely.

*I'm a nerd, wanted to solve myopia, there was a paper that suggested that UVB or UVA could help form crosslinked proteins that would prevent myopia from getting worse. It could explain why outdoor exposure helped so much. So I bought some of these UVB fluorescent bulbs and stared at them them for 10 minutes. Started feeling the itchy, burning feeling and stopped. Currently my theory of myopia has to do with regular defocusing to relax the eyes (that's what the myopia prevention glasses do)
Contrast these with Radio Shack sales brochures. Radio Shack was fascinating, full of neat gadgets, but as dull as paste compared to the wonders of the DAK and Sharper Image catalogs (and we had a Sharper Image store in Seattle at that time...a great place to wander into at lunch time).
The video pans to the audience near the end. 2500 people sounds right
https://x.com/dj_soda_/status/1721510442621861925?s=20
Do you have experience with 3D printers or CNC machines ? Essentially , a laser engraver/cutter just needs a 2D drawing like an SVG or DXF and it turns on the laser once it moves the laser head.
There have been stories of venues using UVC (germicidal) lamps because they looked pretty and fit standard fixtures. It resulted in sunburns and lots or eye pain.

I don't know if that's what happened there, but I think that using the same fixtures for dangerous yet pretty looking germicidal lamps and regular lighting is not the smartest idea.
0 days without Google being a jerk
Funny, for me it was like 30 euros at a thrift store and we were golden. I walked out with some really dope army-green tight Levi's, I still have those and I wish they still fit.
> Besides our custom kernel modules and business applications, Debian has everything these systems need and more.

The thing is that even in embedded, people are starting to see the value of using libraries when writing those business applications, and they end up being the same libraries that parts of the base system will use. So either you need to align how the OS approaches those libraries with how the developer wants to, or you need a user-friendly way to have OS-managed versions and developer-managed versions coexist. Current Debian does neither of those things.
Obviously it may or may not be like that, depending on the specific laws, parties involved, and possible consequences
I’m surprised they didn’t stuff the room with paid actors. The closest tangible value to NFTs is that they grant membership to an exclusive social club.
> Netflix pays well because they don't believe in work-life balance, at all.

I'm surprised you've made a general statement out of a company you've never actually worked for.

For engineering roles, work life balance at Netflix is mostly what you want it to be.
“All you need is pretraining on the test set.”
Why Meta could struggle to defend itself against state lawsuits on harm to kids
It definitely is as part of the UK driving test, though they normally tell you it's coming up and intentionally take you to a quiet back road and make sure it's completely empty first. In my test the instructor told me to keep driving until they wacked their clipboard on the dash, then I had to STOP as quickly as possible, and you'd fail if you didn't apply heavy brakes quick enough. And as this is common in the test it was gone over a few times by my instructor to prepare.

Though they also checked the car I was using had ABS first, they might have had a slightly different process otherwise? Though in the UK it's common to have a professional driving instructor with their own car you'd use for learning and borrow for the test, so there was likely an expected minimum age and spec of car people were doing their tests in.
I've never seen teams as efficient at shipping stuff as when they switched to Go. At multiple companies. Complete fallacy on your part.
Now you are talking magic mushrooms.

> but look at per person in the city and the amount is tiny

In a city of about 400,000 people the per-person taxes that pay for the system are no-fucking-where-near "tiny".

For a grid public network that also works at night the costs would easily be thousands per year per person (I did look up the current figures).

The bus service is virtually unused by the vast majority:

On average, Christchurch residents spend 221 hours a year behind a wheel to just 10 hours on public transport. For Aucklanders, it's 187 hours to 25, and for Wellingtonians, 134 hours to 34.

Because buses are simply unusable without rediculous compromises.

I know because I try to use buses and this expensive system is usually unavailable to me (my parents place has no service, there is no service at night, I can't carry tools, trailer, zero recreational trips). I have lived without a car for plenty of time (6 months last year) so I know the actual individual costs and benefits.

Other people can't afford the compromises required to use the bus service. If you can afford a car you use one because the public alternatives are shit.

Only a despotic Stalin could force most people to use a public transport system in my city. Perhaps you don't believe in freedom of choice. You wish to tax people to pay for a system they don't want to use. Cars are the long term outcome of people voting with their feet and their wallets.

I understand why public transport is good. But you seem unwilling to listen to why public transport in my city is unusably bad.

> However for most of the trips people make every day a great transit system could exist that we be as good as - or better - than a car trip.

Condescending. Even the best public transport I have used is often a shit experience.

Wave that magic wand again and give us all our own unicorn
A question about such distant observations: How can our direct observation of something 13.2 billion light years away not be blocked by intermediate objects? Seemingly adding to the problem is that small closer objects can occlude much larger distant ones; just go outside and shade your eyes, for example, or block your view of an entire galaxy with a small pebble.

Is the universe so empty that it's not a problem? Are we just lucky that this object happens to be directly observable? What proportion of the sky is directly observable at 13.2 billion light years?
Working through "Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms":
https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/comput...

Finally found the trifecta of an engaging lecturer with recorded lectures, an excellent textbook, and a solid set of exercises.
They'd do better for Russia than the ones that are currently in the drivers seat.
What's the difference between this and Gitea/Forgejo Runners that are compatible with GitHub Actions?
His father was in on the take. Sam offered him a pay of about $250K/yr for part-time work. Doing philanthropy. Giving away money that belonged to FTX customers. Dad got really upset and said he expected around $1 mil/yr and added mom to the email conversation to apply pressure on Sam.

The parents aren't innocent in this scam.

Truth is stranger than fiction.
12ft.io seems to be down for me. Is it still functional?
Do you have any sources on birders directly causing extinction? I think it’s absolutely wild that someone in that profession would drive a species to extinction just to draw it so I’m curious to read more.
Same, for the "education"! In my hometown, lakes and rivers remained frozen for half the year. There were two such lakes separated by narrow dirt trails through the trees. Each winter, some kind soul went out there with their plow and created a drifting course that snaked around one lake, through the woods, wound around the other lake, and back. We'd take whatever vehicles we had access to and race there at night. I'll never forget careening around that track with the windows down, snow blowing in, music blaring, swerving around my friend's mom's minivan and trying to fend off another buddy in his rusty Toyota pickup.

I like to think we became safer winter drivers as a result.
It is great that you’ve found your passion.

I believe a blissful life is possible, even if it seems implausible.

I’m OK with my words causing some discomfort, even some hate towards me if people become happier in the long run.
IDE style shell autocomplete for JavaScript or TypeScript programers

Because otherwise requiring `npm` as a package manager for those of us who don't develop in either is silly.

(Yes, I know npm also implies JavaScript as a runtime environment, still nope)
I had no idea it had been around so long. I only discovered it about 2 years ago when I wanted to convert some multiple-layer files from Illustrator to .STL for 3D Printing.
No.

Firstly, he built the Apple 1 with a 6502 before the Apple ][, which was a major improvement on the Apple 1.

He had designed the Apple 1 on paper before the 6502 was available. He had preferred the Motorola 6800 processor but couldn't afford it at $170 ($925 in 2022 dollars). Then when the 6502 came out priced at $20 ($103 in 2022 dollars), he used it instead.

So the KIM-1 had no bearing on the Apple 1 or Apple ][.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I
That tweet honestly reads like a pars pro toto of the whole NFT world ...

"visionary revolution, it's the future, it will change everything, also it absolutely ruined me!"
justine is probably working on a version so small it will trigger the singularity irrevocably
In phase 1, how is geeks enjoying the technical details illegal? You said "It's the complete and utter lack of anything else but crime".

Regardless of that, you've stated that crypto can be used to buy things. The parent post said "Let's transition to cashless society". Why can crypto not be used?
I don't get where is a place for chatGPT plugins now. are they gonna allow plugins enabled in the new gpts now?
Are you ruling our hardcover books that still get written and published? I'm on email mailing lists of two small/Independent publishers, and they still make books.

And where I live, there's a book binders workshop on my street.
> If these tools help to write more code, but do not assist with maintainance, I wonder if we're going to see masses of new code written really quickly, and then everything grinds to a halt, because no one has an intimate understanding of what was written?

Yep. Companies using LLMs to "augment" junior developers will get a lot of positive press, but I guess it remains to be seen how much the market consistently rewards this behavior. Consumers will probably see right through it, but the b2b folks might get fleeced for a few years before eventually churning and moving to a higher quality old-fashioned competitor that employs senior talent.

But IDK, maybe we'll come up with models that are good at growing and maintaining a coherent codebase. It doesn't seem like an impossible task, given where we are today. But we're pretty far from it still, as you point out.
50%+/- of your investors, co-workers and customers aren't going to agree with you on most issues. I understand it can be troubling to work with someone who has a different view but I try to let everyone have their opinion and just ignore the polarized political landscape when it comes to business.

Granted there are red lines where maybe you just don't want to be involved. But keep in mind every company, startup and set of investors is going to have people coming down on both sides of the many issues everyone is dealing with today.

I try to be positive and keep an open mind and not get involved in sharing my opinions on hot button topics in my business life. It's a tough world out there right now.
Reminds me of the Lana del Rey Pixar album covers
Hi,
I'm interested in the Quality position, but not seeing it on the careers page. Has it been filled already?
Thanks,
-Demian
Becoming a dad or are you already one and just upping the excitement? If you’re new, my two pieces of advice are that there’s only right now to deal with when things start to feel rough, and lick your fingers to open the nappy sack before you start dealing with the nappy. Both gems and hard-won
So you agree that it would raise a syntax error?
Take RFK Jr's opening sentence:

> Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954), also known by his initials as RFK Jr. and the nickname Bobby, is an American environmental lawyer and writer who promotes anti-vaccine misinformation and public health conspiracy theories.

That's the #1 most important thing to be known about him, Wikipedia? Compare to the opening paragraph on Stalin:

> Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941–1953). Initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he consolidated power to become a dictator by the 1930s. Ideologically adhering to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, he formalised these ideas as Marxism–Leninism, while his own policies are called Stalinism.

Or Mao:

> Mao Zedong was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC). He led the country from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976, while also serving as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party during that time. His theories, military strategies and policies are known as Maoism.
It sounds like 90% of "sudoedit" can be done without elevated permissions, assuming your user can read the file.
Interested in this as well - do you already work on this somewhere out in the open?
I doubt Yemeni rebels are able to source and build ICBMs. They most likely get the missiles ready for launch.
It looks like latchkey edited their answer to be correct. lol Took me a bit trying to figure out what was meant by this.
Tons of maker vids on YouTube.
Wasn't there a thing about the mistake of using different tricks and techniques to beat benchmarks but in the end, the product would only be good for getting benchmark scores and nothing can surpass raw computation in general purposes?
Almost nothing in my career (13 years) was ever really fun. Very discrete moments. Only consistent fun I ever have is on my personal projects... Actually the more the things I'm working on on my clients projects resemble my personal projects (I'm into game dev) the more fun I have. Which is very very rare.