skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This time however has been different. I've been using it basically full time for around 3 days on my laptop and I don't see myself stopping any time soon. So what changed? What's making it easier for me to use? Why didn't I give up? Why am I writing this when I have to be up in 6 hours?

It's not the FreeBSD, it's just that guy got matured. One more year and he deserves being FreeBSD user. Two years more and he will bless it. ;)
'Everything's Locked Up': Shoppers Turn to Net as Big-Box Retailers Combat Theft
Publicity like this should really help. How many people would even be aware of it? Well, clearly a number of people in the music world, but not many outside it. Now a few more.
It only does it once. Re-running it does not usually make it better. But I have some ideas on how to improve that.
..but our ability to communicate quickly and broadly has.
https://archive.ph/1e0J7
I mean no offense, but are you not a touch typer? Labels are for training the fingers in the early stages of typing but devs should not be looking down once they've trained their fingers, which shouldn't take more than a year of practice.
More than 20 years ago, a company was hired by Intel to develop an automated migration of 32-bit C++ code to 64-bit C++ code specifically for the Itanium.

The CPU was not yet in its final form and we had access to a prototype version , it was an incredible interesting project...that was cancel after some time. Sometimes I reflect about that work and how impossible the end goal really was, but we tried!
Not that I maintain any hugely popular deep learning code, but my own "hobby"/dev hesitance at adding multiple devices is that I don't own them to test them.

If I have an NVIDIA GPU, the only PyTorch backend I can promise even "somewhat works on my machine" is CUDA.
Im using office depot

Are they safe?
> I am pretty sure Yalom can be ruled out a source : I learned about the saying around that time, and sure his writing couldn't have reached me so quick.

He will have said it multiple times in his career e.g. Love's Executioner (1989) - I (perhaps misleadingly) quoted a later book that let me chase the source. As an existential philosopher/psychologist writing self-help books about death I can imagine he might be the modern populariser because people struggling with death/mortality might reach for his books. They contain many ideas/aphorisms about death intended to help.

Irvin D. Yalom - Love's Executioner (1989)

> You know, there is no one alive now who was grown-up when I was a child. So I, as a child, am dead. Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead—when I exist in no one’s memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that old person dies, the whole cluster dies, too, vanishes from living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
The Wink vehicle is from a New York startup, so it's designed street legal for America day 1 :)
That's how I instantly read it. And it is a wonderful new word. May it spread.
Per the table at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium#Processors

nope, both Poulson (2012) and Kittson (2017) used the same 32nm process.
They used to. This has dramatically changed with new federal regulations around chargers.
So what's wrong with that?

You could also argue that almost all studies are done with adults, or individuals who aren't deceased, etc.

PS: Look up the Doomsday Argument
It is fair to assume a riddle is solvable, which means two balls. "It is unsolvable" is the correct answer but it is a gotcha riddle.
The sad thing it took another 100 years to whaling to truly decline; afaik whaling peaked in 1960s so the grand ball was somewhat premature.
Quick google and found this[0] - fun little read so far

[0] https://www.theringer.com/2021/11/17/22785868/radiohead-cree...
Very cool. If you like this sort of thing, I recommend searching for "slice of life", especially in anime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slice_of_life#Anime_and_manga

Unfortunately, there isn't a ton of cyberpunk-themed SOL like "Street Food." Closest thing I can think of is this scene from Ghost in the Shell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47aU7CiX7lQ
Do any other names jump out at you as preferable?
Ask HN: How next YouTube should look like?
So much content is sent to youtube these days. It's annoying I need to watch it linearly, watch ads, even with YT Premium you need to watch "sponsored parts".

A bird's eye stenogram should be primary means of consuming content with sections thumbnails next to. If something catches my attention, I should be allowed to click and watch only relevant part.

YT somehow goes into this direction, but we're not fully there yet.

Do you have other improvements ideas? What will happen to monetization if YT 2.0 will work this way? We'll we have ads in stenogram?
Space Straw Futuristic Story
In the mid-21st century, humanity faced a dire environmental crisis due to excessive greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists and engineers globally collaborated to devise an innovative solution: the Space Straw Project. The project’s goal was to construct giant straws extending from Earth’s atmosphere into space, designed specifically to filter and expel excess carbon dioxide (CO2) into space, thereby reducing the greenhouse effect and mitigating climate change.

Concept and Design

Each Space Straw was a marvel of engineering, a colossal tube measuring about 5 kilometers in diameter and extending over 100 kilometers from the surface of the Earth to the vacuum of space. The design incorporated advanced materials like carbon nanotubes and graphene, known for their strength, flexibility, and lightness, making them ideal for withstanding the harsh conditions of space and the Earth’s atmosphere.

Technology and Execution

The key technology behind the Space Straw was its selective permeability membrane, which allowed only CO2 molecules to pass through. This membrane was developed using nanotechnology, enabling it to filter out CO2 from the Earth’s atmosphere effectively.

Construction and Deployment

The construction of the Space Straws was a monumental task. It involved launching segments into orbit using a fleet of heavy-lift rockets. Once in orbit, these segments were assembled by an international team of astronauts and robots. This process was streamlined by the development of autonomous construction drones, capable of working in the vacuum of space.

Number and Location

A total of ten Space Straws were constructed. They were strategically positioned around the Earth’s equator to maximize efficiency in filtering CO2 from the atmosphere. The locations were chosen based on atmospheric CO2 concentration and logistical feasibility.

Timeframe and Challenges

The project took approximately 20 years to complete, from the initial design phase to the final deployment of the last Space Straw. One of the most significant challenges was the cost and logistics of transporting materials into space. This hurdle was overcome by advancements in rocket technology and the establishment of orbital assembly stations.

Impact and Legacy

The Space Straw Project proved to be a significant step in combating climate change. Within a decade of their activation, a noticeable decrease in atmospheric CO2 levels was recorded. The project not only demonstrated humanity’s ability to address global challenges through technology and cooperation but also sparked a new era of space-based environmental solutions.

The Space Straws stand as a testament to human ingenuity and the relentless pursuit of preserving our planet for future generations.
If AMD 10 years ago tried to compete with NVIDIA and Intel both simultaneously, would it have survived? They did well to stay in business, and now they can address the AI thing.
Its almost the exact opposite tbh. We got far more out of Newton doing boring uncontroversial recording and measuring than we ever did from his obsession with heretical interpretations of the Bible. If we're losing our capacity to be gullible enough to take Graham Hancock seriously (and I'm not sure we are) it certainly doesn't seem to have held back scientific progress relative to historic norms.
Fascinating, but I have photo-sensitivity and continuous blinking would give me an headache.

But I used to reproduce a similar behaviour with music (repetitive)
I'm an Israeli. These people are not the mainstream, they are extreme religious fundamentalists. They are similar to the terrorist movements on Palestinian side and their actions are often referred to in the Israeli news as "Jewish terrorism".

Most of them also can't join the Israeli army because of their dangerous views.

Don't let these terrible people taint your views on Israel.
I have no dog in this fight, but I’m pointing out that they didn’t say there was misanthropy in your post, but that your post inspires misanthropy in others.
Mr. Buffett on the Stock Market (Fortune, 1999)
Kudos for explaining the colors in that hires mode! Peak idiosyncrasy :) apple ii is a c64 minus all custom asics.
Yeah, since recording the demo, I added the ability to edit a generation so if you say "you missed the left hand navigation", that should fix it.

Only issue is it'll often to skip other sections now to be more terse. But if you're a coder, you can just merge the code by hand and you should get the whole thing.
Regarding long-term rewards and global warming: What is the actual long term reward here? As I see it, there is no way to collect any sort of reward for helping to prevent global warming by changing your habits. Before the problem gets really problematic, most of us will be dead and burried. I fail to see how "caring for the future generation" has any kind of reward attached to it. Its an act of kindness, but there are no rewards attached to it.
Its MIDI though so it depends on the sound card being used. They are using Adlib emulation so its not the best sounding.

Using something better like a Roland SoundCanvas it does not sound that bad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if6n3QIJqbs
> What body of law allows government to prevent a private company from using the atmosphere to get to space?

U.S. Code, specifically Title 51, Subtitle V, Chapter 509, also known as the Commercial Space Launch Act.

> OK, so, if you could launch from a ship in the middle of the ocean you would be free to launch as you wish? Is that the case?

If you are a U.S. citizen, you are required to comply with FAA regulations and obtain the necessary licenses for commercial space launches. This is in line with the Outer Space Treaty, which places responsibility for space activities on the country of origin, regardless of where those activities actually take place.
"The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation" - Terence McKenna
install the nitter app (available on fdroid) and associate Twitter/x.com links.

problem solved for good
Yep. Nugz and OiNK were how I got into vinyl ripping and live tape swaps afk. Only one tracker I joined in the early 2000s now yet remains.

On an interesting note, I'm still being commissioned for analog capture and restoration projects through connections I made back then.
I was quite surprised by this. I played some guitar in my teens and a good guitar was quite an investment (mid-late nineties). My dad is a bit of a guitar collector and it is surprising what guitars he finds for ~300 Euro, quite respectable quality.

(Maybe it also has to do something with the lack of demand now, guitar music was still very popular in the 90ies.)
Yeah you should be able to modify the prompts to achieve that easily: https://github.com/abi/screenshot-to-code/blob/main/backend/...

I'll try to add a settings panel in the UI as well.
Chess engines are very important for grandmasters, for sure. But for beginners they are mostly useless. That’s what I was arguing about.

Regarding openings - the best place to learn are books/studies/even Wikipedia articles that explain the ideas behind the major moves and variations, which chess engines don’t do. Also, a human can explain which opening are good to play at your skill level and which are not.

Regarding free coaches, playing with a friend/relative over the board and discussing the game afterwards has a similar effect.
I'm not arguing semantics; there's a large amount of math and theory here.

LLM's are basically lossy compressors, they decrease information entropy.

Humans increase information entropy whenever we do anything.

(Some) information entropy is potentially very valuable, so in effect LLMs destroy value by design, while humans can potentially create value. From an economic point of view humans can never be replaced by an LLM.
I thought the leading theory was that seasonally migrating nomads built Göbekli Tepe — because there is no housing.
> So it sorta seems like they both agree on 'One China', but not who should be running it.

"ROC claims the mainland" only exists because any change from the status quo would look like declaring independence. It's not taken seriously in Taiwan.
Your Planck-length-attention to detail seems to have failed to parse the "at least" part of the sentence, which by formal logic makes it correct again, doesn't it?

By the way you're saying yourself that this scale has to be deduced and isn't observable anymore. I suppose it could be argued that the essay is rather about what we as human individuals could observe by more or less direct means, and about what normal people could comprehend if they wanted to. It's not a stretch to say that musings about the quantum realm are beyond the scope of most.

You're not wrong, of course the author could have chosen to extend his argument deeper into the fine structure of matter itself. But he didn't, and I think he gets the point across just as well, so the discussion seems a bit silly.
Open-Meteo: an open-source weather API
Quite a chunk of Israel's population seem to be extemists, as these extremists are literally in the government. Also majority of Israeli voters don't seem to mind empowering these extremists to further their own interests (this is of course not specific to Israel, although endorsing and actually enacting genocide level extremists are rather rare).

Look at the previous protests where palestinian protestors were vilified from all sides.
Interpolated decompression increases information entropy by definition.
I think part of the reason is that audio streaming is relatively cheap and easy. I was never on oink but I was on what.cd, and I remember I started using it less and less as services like Spotify got better and better in terms of quality and content.

If we compare music to movies and TV where the official ways of accessing content are such a complete shitshow, you have amazing sites like passthepopcorn and broadcasthenet, which to me are of a similar quality to what.cd was for music.

I think it just demonstrates again the fact that piracy is in large part driven by difficulty and cost of access to official releases.

I mean, I'm not badly-off, I have a very well paying job and I /could/ afford to spend the money on a load of subscriptions, it's just such a hassle. Much easier and less frustrating to just check PTP or BTN for something I want to watch.
It already is perfectly legal for Russian balloons to float where ever they want as long as they are at a high altitude that doesn't interfere with air traffic. It's also legal for the US to decide to shoot them down.
Are countdowns scheduled such that the launch ideally happens right as the launch window opens?
But if you use a specification language, then how can you build a pixel-perfect, unique set of sliders that’s subtly different from everyone else’s?
Cellular automata bridged math and CS for me and it's beautifully chaotic. It's the same backwards with deep learning. Chaos to structure in classifying numbers or "doing" math.

It's the unexpected that's exciting.
I never want to hear this stuff but you know they're going to make it available for every content junkie publishing hype beast low effort mouth open consumer product placement having youtuber so it's going to be forced into your ear holes at some point. I hate google so much.
I see this as a useful tool for creating interactive demos and prototypes which allow to quickly iterate over ideas. Could keep the feedback loop with clients short and allow to minimise miscommunication. I could see for example Figma implementing this.
I remember it well. Before their store went offline I ended up buying two T-shirts. I wore one and the other one might still be in the bag brand new. Has to be worth something by now.
I thought the same way in my first engineering management position. I worked really hard to build the team I always wanted to work on. We trusted each other, worked well together, performed at the top of teams in the company, it was great.

All that trust was destroyed overnight the first time I had to take a directive from executive management that required I put the interests of the business over the team. Basically, I was forced to lie and manipulate about the state of the company to keep the team in place until an acquisition deal could close. Because of my role I was involved in the details such that I knew several projects would be canceled and layoffs would be done.

After that, my team completely turned against me and called me a hypocrite. I couldn’t blame them. A few even speculated I was putting on some kind of show for them and playing some epic long game to win their trust just so I could use it to benefit myself. My best engineers left, and performance of the team subsequently dropped. Executive management blamed me for that too.

Basically, engineering management is a no win game and not worth the stress if you’re a good person. You will eventually, despite all efforts, work your way into an “us vs. them” situation. If you’ve previously preached trust and empathy and transparency or whatever feel good buzzwords dejour you’ll also look like a liar and hypocrite as I was. Anyone who has been in the role for a sufficiently long period will experience something similar to what I’m talking about. It’s only a matter of time.

After what happened, I could no longer stomach putting on another trust-fall-esque dog and pony show. Once you’ve been shown the ugly truths, it becomes hard to keep repeating the same rhetoric that you did before that oddly would make you into exactly the thing you tried so hard not to become in the first place. It really test your own mental image of yourself.

These days I try to project a more realistic attitude. I tell people I’ll do everything I can to be as transparent and open with everything but at the end of the day we’re still working for a company and business where the future is completely unpredictable and it’s in fact a lie to say there are no information asymmetry and cognitive dissonance between management and IC engineers.
Having a well run trusting team isn’t enough and can even make it more likely for one of these situations to occur.

At the end of the day, your direct reports view YOU as the company in a lot of ways. You are their main interface to the rest of the machine.
"Piracy is the new radio". --Neal Young

The new radio is now silent, and it's just a streaming service's algorithm that decides what new music you'll be exposed to. I feel like we really lost something.

Maybe I just entered a different phase in life, but back in the heydey of piracy I actually bought a lot of albums. I followed artists and was frequently excited for new releases. With so much of my music coming from piracy, it felt important to support bands I really wanted to hear more from. Now I spend a small fraction of what I used to spend on a streaming service and that's all.
Sometimes it starts in the testes, but in extremely rare cases they believe that it is of primordial origin. For example, when you are developing as an embryo, perhaps the germ cell gets stuck in the chest and takes many years to mutate. But they don’t really know how this works. Very weird stuff.
We got 4 from that last batch that Intel ran. Our cloud migration project is way behind schedule and we needed the insurance. Support for the VMS version we’re running on them goes until 2028 I think.

We’re decommissioning a couple of first-gen Itanium servers in the next few months. I think that the assumption is that we’d have to pay for disposal, so if someone wants them for Linux kernel support and can pick them up in Chicago, reply from an account with contact info and I’d send an email if it’s possible to give them away for free (I can ask).
I'd like a version of this that can do MIDI, like the next generation Band-in-a-box.
I think the state of the art has gotten pretty good, but still nowhere near as good as people thought it would be fifty years ago. More importantly, as of a year ago AI is literally everywhere, hundreds of millions of regular users and more than that who've tried it, almost everyone knows it exists and has some opinion on it. Compare that to even moderately mobile, let alone general, robots. They're only just starting to be seen by most people on a regular basis in some specific, very small geographical locations or campuses. The average person interacts with a mobile or general robot 0 times a day. Science fiction as well as informed expert prediction was always the opposite way around - robots were coming, but they would be dumb. Now it's essentially a guarantee that by the time we have widespread rollout of mobile, safe, general purpose robots, they are going to be very intelligent in the ways that 20 years ago most thought was centuries away.

Basically, it is 1000x easier today to design and build a robot that will have a conversation with you about your interests and then speak poetry about those interests than it is to build a robot that can do all your laundry, and that is the exact opposite of what all of us have been told to expect about the future for the last 70 years.
You can add Show HN to the subject so that it would end up on Show HN page.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
huh, was working with wp projects few years ago daily.
what a mess the gutenberg was to transition.

For example:
They added all kinds of adjustments on to the right sidebar, font color, bg color, and many many other but no way to disable them.
No, the customer can't have these settings visible, the site will look like raimbow after one year.
Customer's should only be able to see simple bold, underline, link, h1...h5 and that's it.
It's the css that puts the right colours there automatically...

totally wrong way of doing sites with multiple people making content into them (not tech savy people)