skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not a potential user.

I clicked, landed, read, and left, thinking "I don't know what it is."

Then I read your comment and clicked again.

Swap fonts so the first thing people read is:

An Ai powered survey builder

Or better

Collector is An AI powered survey builder

Because Build easily. Share quickly. Analyze deeply. needs context to be anything other than line noise, and that's all I read before giving up on the link.

The three questions are:

What is it?
What does it do?
Should I care?

In that order. Good luck.
If government on the US takes away water rights, and thereby decreases the value of land, the 5th Amendment requires compensation to the land owners.
FYI, the Houthi flag literally says "death to America" on it. They've made their position pretty clear.
It's not a ghost town, it's just not as noisy as HN. It's quite active.
We see this same article every year or so. Same song for 20+ years now.
> Were forests bigger and less gardened to prevent spread of fire? Definitely. So for each tree, there was a much larger area of vulnerability to lightning strikes.

May be. We can't be sure about that.

Those forests housed a lot of megafauna. I can easily imagine American mammooths "gardening" the forest and removing everything green and edible from the soil. Giant slots, giant rhinos like Paraceratherium, Giant marsupials like Diprotodon, elephants and other mega herbivores most probably roamed searching the huge bulk of plant products that they needed each day. They most probable needed to complete its diet with suboptimal food like fallen leaves, barks, branches and dry weeds to reach its quota.

Most of that megafauna went extinct by men and that can't be fixed. Of those that survived, the 60% of the extant big herbivores are in danger of going extinct now, so the problem could take a big turn for worse.

European bison was a candidate to reintroduction for the possible benefit of cleaning branches, thorn shrubs and flammable materials from forests soils that cattle don't touch.
> GitLab absolutely innovated many hard parts of CI/CD as a platform-native piece

As someone who only used GitLabs CI briefly when it initially launched, what hard parts did they innovate on exactly?

As far as I could tell, it's a run-of-the-mill CI/CD platform, for better or worse, but nothing I'd call "innovative".

But again, maybe since the first time I tried it when it launched, it has changed, and I missed something really cool they did.
Generally deterrence is most effective when acted upon immediately.

Nations are like children or criminals, if they do something wrong, you need to immediately act, in proportion to the action, to punish the bad behaviour. If you wait, people think they get away with it, and then when the eventual punishment catches up with them, they take it personally rather than attributing it to their actions.

Please read up on the theory of punishment.
In the time that it took you to ask several people for the TL;DR, you could've watched the video.

I guess I summarize things different than others, but at the 32:00 minute mark, he talks about what he was actually scared about:

NASA is essentially, a business (my addition) -- that does not know how to communicate. The left hand very much does not know what the right hand is doing. He brings up a fantastic example of how many rockets are required for a particular phase of a mission and showed how multiple people gave different answers without even realizing their launch date is set in stone.

In essence, issues abound.
Keynote has had this basically since the iPhone existed
If you want an invite, ask your friends if anyone has an account.
I'll will test this out later. This is a huge problem for us because unstructured incorrectly segments words when reading pdf files.
Unless I missed something, there is no mention of the risk. (e.g. what % of house fires are caused by small low voltage/low capacity cells? By what factor do storage interventions reduce that risk?) There is a "Battery Safety" link near the bottom of the page but it's 404.
lower end GPUs like T4

Alright, nothing to see here.

I could really use some kind of filter for stuff that does work with a beefy consumer GPU and stuff that does not.
> By this I mean headphones where the noise-cancelling electronics can be powered over USB

Sennheiser's noise cancelling headphones do this. Bose's noise canceling headphones cannot be turned on when charging.
Groups working together is fairly common. The importers handle logistics into the country. Another group handles distribution within a country. Others may handle distribution within towns/cities.

They all have a mutual benefit of clear division of responsibilities in the journey - and thus will reduce the inter-group feuds from trying to branch out.

The underground market can be incredibly efficient.
Hi!

I'm a versatile Fullstack engineer building human-oriented high quality web products and services. Have over 6 years of experience building all kinds of products with modern web technologies. Also have a strong background as an interface/information designer. Particularly interested in educational/science, visualization or professional tools.

Looking for a full time job or contract/part-time project work.

Location: London
Remote: Yes, hybrid type of work also OK.
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Typescript, Node, React, HTML/CSS, Jest, Cypress, everything inbetween.

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nAkmI3rClSsuNxIuKmzNZ8Qb...

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zzolo/

Website: http://colomolome.com
The most interesting part IMO was at the end when op was noting his new company doesn't have teams/engineers create and maintain their own jobs. I've worked lots of different places now and something that's always frustrated me is how reticent engineering orgs are to reevaluate their processes and policies. Like it looks like his first org could have moved on from this problem by adopting the second org's policy. There might be other tradeoffs, but IME no org even wants to hear about this stuff, and they definitely don't have metrics for evaluating anything such that they might say "huh, this isn't working."
Nice, make your problem the interviewee's problem and waste more of everyone's time.
Your observation that the LLM is probing through humans is astute. Ilya talked at great legnth at the nVidia fireside chat that the primary intelligence goal now is building out the world model through multiple observations. My own research team has found that we can fill in world models at micro levels that are missing from the LLM with human input and given enough memory you GPT4 has reached sufficient reasoning capabilities to add that it its world model without re-training.

This to me, is the breakaway point. You simply need enough human probes indexing the smaller unpublished details of the world plus efficient memory lookup and storage and you have AGI.

However, my own personal theory is that even if you achieve that, we will find limitations in giving a highest order (superposition) answer to big questions based on that detailed of a world model. The LLM will struggle to interact with humans in a meaningful way because its superposition will be a full order higher than any other humans individual perspective. This will result in answers that might be AGI, but humans won't recognize as AGI -- because they simply won't understand the super-order perspective they are computed from.
1px fonts aren’t going to save anyone.
I learned COBOL from curiosity (never using it professionally) in around 2010. It’s simple enough to read and use, but without having seen these legacy systems I don’t know what I don’t know.

This is just one of many examples of organizations squeezing an impressive but foolhardy lifespan out of some systems. Some CEO or another should have come to the conclusion (sooner) that they run a business, not a museum.
Everyone who lies values something more than honesty. What is your point?
There's only tablets, how can you use less? Even those that they recommend have this.
Let me up the ante. Why do we believe COBOL is yech-debt?
you want to get context (c) and its env inside function to get to R2 instance - in vanilla worker code it would be wrapped inside async fetch(request, env, ctx)
> Restraint is not necessarily a show of weakness.

But that is how those people read it, nevertheless.
Well I know very little about money matters, so mostly I'd be interested in coming up with a financial strategy by chatting with an LLM. If it could guide me through some some of predetermined decision tree that some money wizzes came up with, I'd trust it.

I'd also trust an LLM equal or smarter than GPT4 with a first draft of my taxes which I would then go through myself – there are a bunch of patterns to prompt an LLM like "try to find any flaws in this output".
You cut those tablets up?
I have one system that I use for photo, video, audio, and development stuff. I have two other systems that are pretty much consciously browser only plus the very odd app like Zoom.
Why would you personally care? No idea, I don't know you.

Why would anyone else care that there's discussion on a discussion forum? Because that's the point of it lol
Check history my man. War is inevitable, and gives people a cause and a reason to reset things. Especially true for unsustainable, insurmountable things, like the US debt.
The headwinds Ukraine aid face are:

a. The irrational, misguided, nationalist, uninformed, gnat-like attention of the populist and religious nationalist parts of the Elephant party

b. The utopian, peaceniking of parts of the Donkey party who profess dialog and appeasement will stop Russian tanks or deactivate millions of landmines

The reality is that it's cheaper and more strategically useful for America if someone else draws Putin into a war of attrition, giving them another Afghanistan. Either Putin runs out of political capital, money, and/or bodies. The issue is Putin needs an offramp from the war, and preferably an offramp from power to retirement or self-imposed exile.
> To put it more succinctly, they are measuring the impact of a stipend and not a basic income program.

Most importantly, they're connected. As you noted, of course people are happy to get "free" money. But what happens when the markets eats up that extra and they are back to normal, or perhaps worse off? Happiness isn't going to stay high.

In theory, I like the idea of UBI but I'm also confident the market (at least in the USA) - specifically housing - is going to quickly eat up anything extra.
They've done this several times now, has there been any significant retaliatory strikes? Isn't this a threat to international shipping? How is this not a bigger deal?
Mass Archive a List of URLs to the Internet Archive
>The best I can think of is not to let people see the penalizing behavior

I wonder if it would be possible to split HN (or any other HN-like site) into two halves: one would handle the actual storage of posts and comments, and another would handle the scoring, ie the order the comment tree branches appear in. Then we could have multiple of the latter, competing with each other on the scoring alone, with the actual content being common.
If they worked as effectively as they were touted, they'd have cleared out the cobol.
I had an account here. I still do.

Like some other people point out: Invitation-only means trolls are less likely to show up. But the higher end of quality is not significantly better than HN.

If anything, it might be worse.

My experience with the moderation there is that some people post clear self-promotion articles, but when I attempted to post my things, I get told that this content is not welcome on the site. Why my content is not welcome and other people's self-promotional articles are I don't quite understand, but it is obvious they don't need me on the website.
Bold titles like this are misleading - Wayland is a necessary replacement for X.org that allows it to evolve beyond what is currently possible.

"The Linux desktop" is an equally misleading phrase as it leads others to believe that it's a focal point of Linux, or a product that the open source community is trying to push to compete with macOS and Windows (where the graphical desktop is often seen as a defining feature). A Linux desktop is merely a Linux distribution with at least one of several different graphical desktop environments and related components. That is all it is, and the traditional X.org windowing system used by many of these graphical desktop environments is fast being replaced by a more modern version.

It's not uncommon for people to resist change or critique features of software as it evolves (as the author has done), but in the end, Wayland really is the Way forward for X.org and the points made by the author will likely be moot in a short while.
We don't even know what a world with less death would look like, if we could be able to delay death, why wouldn't then be able to focus on stagnation, overpopulation and resources. And if something can be done I believe it will be done, if we want it or not.

I'm really sorry to hear about your mom. It's tough to see a loved one going through something like that. Wishing her strength and recovery, and hoping you get to spend many more happy moments together.
I appreciate your and the other commentators scepticism, and agree for the premise of generating text. However to play devils advocate - Can't inference of single layers be quite useful sometimes for embeddings? and the larger models could embed capabilities only achievable at large parameter size? (i.e. you don't need to finetune the last layer like the BERT days or necessarily use a certain layer for relevant embeddings, you could use the first layer outputs and finetune a custom matrix projection to make some useful embeddings that might include properties of the input that the larger models show capabilities for that smaller models don't?)

(ofc this assumes that those capabilities considered "emergent" at larger sizes do not require later layers which they probably do). There is a weird situation where we have the sentence transformer, the bge, e5 and etc kind of embeddings, and then a big jump up to generative model embeddings the model providers provide, but not much widespread adoption of e.g GPT-J or neo-20B embeddings (even though at time of release, they had notable usecases over sentence transformers)
Pentagon says a warship and commercial ships have come under attack
This is just perfection on first glance, exactly what I've been looking for to augment my Rust projects that need a command/configuration language. And with a working repl, too, apparently.

I hope the second and third glances will be good too.
It shouldn't have to stay stationary I think? As long as the shaft rotates at a different rate to the body, there should be some power generated. That's why I mentioned the need for gears.

Overall though it's certainly not going to be good enough to justify the complexity compared to either slip rings or wireless transmission.
Well, to be fair, pretty much each of these points apply to all other CI tools in existence.
I post on there most days. It's not really a ghost town, and there's a lot less noise than HN with only a bit less signal.
Beckhoff's TwinCAT platform lends itself to git pretty well, there are XML stuff on most files, but it's mostly readable as long as you use STL (Structured Text) which is their recommended language.

Siemens's TIA Portal you can export the source code to make it readable in git as long as you code in SCL (structured control language, which is really structured text), but it's not automatic and a lot of times the binary blob that is the source code and the exported readable code get out of sync cuz of lack of discipline by the programmer.

Rockwell's Studio 5000 can be readable if you use STL (structured text), may be this has changed though, I haven't used it in a long time.

Programming experiences in the industrial controls world is highly dependent on the brand/platform, the IEC 61131-3 describes the standards for industrial controls programming languages, but each brand implements them in a different way so there really is no standard. Writing structured text in one platform does not guarantee the same code will work in a different platform.
Probability theory is fundamental. Outside of the quantum stuff it's some strange macro phenomena that occurs almost separate from physics.

It's strange, I'm no physicist but at the atomic level it seems particles are fundamentally probabilistic. But then even at a macro level completely separate from the underlying physics something like rolling dice will obey the laws of physics but also at a higher macro level it converges on following the laws of probability.

It's also connected with knowledge. I dunno... it's weird, when I think deeply about probability and why it works I get confused. It started with an interest in entropy as this weird macro law that somehow lives separate from physics, but then I realized entropy is just a consequence of probability.

Maybe probability is like logic. Something completely axiomatic. Eh I'm just rambling now.
Source please? I'd like to read more about this.

Because according to wikipedia- 5 Iranian ships were sunk during Operating Praying Mantis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Praying_Mantis
> They've done this several times now, has there been any significant retaliatory strikes?

Against who? Some guys in the the Yemeni desert? Saudis have been trying that for years.
And North Korea is actually a Democratic People's Republic.

I wonder if you believe TV commercials honestly reflect their company's views too?
Works very well. I compiled the same c++ code to wasm and native (without optimization), the native version was slower than the wasm one running in this and jit'd, including startup time. Planning on using it for scripting for a game engine I'm slowly working on, instead of being locked into one language.
I don’t question the motivation to be welcoming, but a good motivation doesn’t make a good design.

The result is denuded and unmoored. It’s as soulless here in Boston as it would be if the aesthetic infected cultural institutions in Tokyo or Addis Ababa.

I bet the people in charge meant well, they just did a bad job.
It is a big deal, but what do we do in return? Iran is using their Houthi proxies to carry out these attacks. So do we attack Iran? Attack the Houthis who are pretty much living in similar circumstances to people in Afghanistan?

Without turning this into a regional, all-out war, how do we respond? Now if something like the USS Cole attack happens it will be out of our hands, we'll have to respond and damn the consequences, but until then we'll probably do things covertly.
Yes, thank you - It was unexplained, so I got stuck on "Why 48?", thinking I'd missing something right out of the gate.
Synchronizing Concurrent Teams
This also depends on population density, which is lower in rural areas.
This is a management problem. Lack of long-term planning. People knew COBOL was "feature complete" DECADES ago.

"If it ain't broke - don't fix it." does not mean "don't maintain the things you own - just let them run until they break - then fix them."
There is not much evidence cutting taxes increases entrepreneurship. It’s much more plausible to
me that UBI would have a much more
proximal impact on the desire to start a business.
It’s possible to do ‘uses’ on GitLab, but there’s a few extras needed admittedly (branch name and path to file)

include: https://gitlab.com/awesome-project/raw/main/.before-script-template.yml

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/includes.html#include-a-s...

But I agree, the social virality is what makes GitHub Actions what it is.

I used to only visit a GL project when I needed to look through Nvidia cuda container builds… everything else I needed was on GH :shrugs:
I'll just echo here what I say whenever Wayland/X11 comes up: multiple monitors and screen tearing.

Wayland rocks those two challenges. No screen tearing, I can pick scaling for individual monitors on the fly, and the colors look gorgeous.

There were features that it was missing in the previous releases -- I have to use a pretty recent version of Fedora to have all the bugs that I need rattled out of KDE so that I can use Wayland -- but it's really going well now. Zoom works thanks to pipe wire, copy and paste works. I hope KFonts will get working soon but I've been able to work around that with fc-cache.
Lawyers and judges themselves don’t read the fine print and it would take an inordinate amount of time for people to read the fine print of every service they were offered. Nobody has time to do such things.

Which is precisely why the courts tend to view misleadingly offering something for sale in the advertisement, and then adding contradictory conditions to that sale in the fine print, as just defrauding their customers. This blame the consumer mentality is impractical, unworkable, and legally wrong.
Simplifying Complexity: The Journey from WebSockets to HTTP Streams
Greetings HN community,

I've written an article narrating my recent endeavor with goMarkableStream, a tool I crafted to bridge gesture inputs from a reMarkable tablet to a web browser for seamless interactive presentations. This exploration led me down a path where the Unix philosophy and the Go language became pivotal elements.

Key highlights of the article:

A deep dive into using WebSockets versus HTTP for conveying gestures from a device to a browser, highlighting the trade-offs and practical considerations.
An illustration of Unix's enduring principle, "everything is a file," in action - capturing touch events in a Linux-based environment and the strategic choice of Go for its simplicity and robustness.
The issues and thought to design a bespoke messaging system over HTTP, moving away from the intricate layers of third-party libraries, in favor of a more transparent, hands-on approach.
I try to place some reflections on the journey of tackling complexity with simplicity, echoing Rob Pike’s wisdom: “a little copying is better than a little dependency.”

hope you will enjoy the post
I assume you mean business partner and not romantic partner. My romantic partner gives me great energy but would be like "Why are you playing with that soldering iron and not with me?"

But yes, a good business partner (or two) is, for me anyway, a requirement to move something from idea to reality.
This article has better info: https://news.usni.org/2023/12/03/carney-shoots-down-two-dron...

> While downing the first drone – believed to be launched by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen – [the destroyer USS] Carney saw a ballistic missile land near MV Unity Explorer, a Bahamian-flagged bulk carrier. The destroyer then sailed to the bulk carrier once it put out a distress call. According to an initial account of the incident, several hours later, Carney was evaluating the damage to the carrier when it shot down another drone.
> when I attempted to post my things, I get told that this content is not welcome on the site. Why my content is not welcome and other people's self-promotional articles are I don't quite understand, but it is obvious they don't need me on the website.

I feel the same. I spent a fair bit of time on the site, including posting ~600 articles and commenting. Some of my posts got a fair bit of upvotes. I got a couple of warnings when I posted my own content, even though it was 5-10% of my posts. Super frustrating, so I told the moderator I wasn't going to participate any more. And I haven't. Their site, their rules, but I don't have to spend my time there.

https://lobste.rs/~mooreds is my profile.
What is going to save the Linux desktop is:

- sovereignty over your own computer

- no forced ads, telemetry or surveillance

- the altruistic forces in this world working against evil