skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm fully aware the F in FOSS stands for free-as-in-libre. I'm also aware that FOSS developers by and large refuse the exchange of any and all money both as buyers and sellers for services rendered.

You say developers of free-as-in-libre software can charge for them, but in practice any developer that tries to sell his free-as-in-libre software will be viciously laughed out of the room by everyone else.

The F in FOSS in practice stands both for free-as-in-libre and free-as-in-beer. And you don't get to talk about the quality of free beer.
I spent dozens of hours in kdenlive since last year with 1 well-identified crash. The situation might have drastically improved since 2017?
How does this compare to html/template in the Go standard library?

https://pkg.go.dev/html/template

Which is based on top of text/template.
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> You might want to read up on this topic.

What, by reading the Uranium Resources, Production and Demand Red book every year for more than two decades?

Perhaps by developing and authoring a large chunk of a global mineral intelligence database and flogging that off to the US S&P ?

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met...

Reading several thousand economic feasibility studies?

Having a career in geophysics? Maybe mapping global K-U-Th from radiometric surveys after developing instrumentation?

Perhaps you might want to be less of a condescending tit?
I guess ISPs will start charging toll for congestionless lanes...
Amazon is known to be a bad place to work for the exact issues you list. The OP was talking about generally, which I agree with.

This conversation feels very similar to comp conversations where outliers drive the discussion.
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YouTube archive: https://youtu.be/QvAkaJsvAXs
I’m having trouble determining if my 3.1 cable modem supports the draft spec. Is there a way to tell based on serial number? Are there hardware limitations that would prevent older 3.1 modems from receiving a software update to enable support?
Cattle stations, analog computers, LORAN navigation, agriculture, camel trains, glass blowing .. same as now only more of that and less of the blinken lights.
Same. The first thing I looked for was the TOC, and never found it.

Failure.
*Sony prevents everyone else from making a PS5 controller so they can sit on it and sell it to you for a limited time.

Playstation controllers have a DRM chip. Without that we could have all forms of accessibility controllers.
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(and for the result to be authentically diverse)
I usually say “be specific, look it up if you have to” and that works pretty well.
Is that a serious limitation, though? Sure, the terminal cannot support all the keyboard interactions that an old-style DOS TUI could use, but it can get pretty close for most purposes.
Ha, this appears to be sold as sugar substitute. Of course it would be promoted on here. Very profound, thank you. Any other suggestions popular with fat people?
Nobody working at microsoft can really be considered underpaid. Maybe the janitor, but engs? They are paid more than enough to care.
I think an AI summary, clearly marked as such, can be just as useful as the obligatory Archive link.

I understand the aversion against „AI spam“, but I find it weird that a supposed tech community rejects AI tech wholesale.
Even in React we do a lot of programmatic “UI generation” for data structures, and mostly use react for the more “unique” things, which is arguably a big part of our Enterprise application. We do use shared components, but it’s also very nice not to share them too widely in terms of testability and maintenance.

So I think it’s perfectly reasonable not to use tempting if it works for you. Especially if the templating isn’t very good, which is frankly most of them. I do think some templating can be good for prototyping, but as soon as you’re doing the same thing a lot of times and that thing doesn’t really change beyond what happens to the underlaying data structure, I think it’s very worth it to build it programmatically. Which is basically a lot of data CRUD UI in many organisations.
That was my first thought. It looks perfect for use with HTMX.
As I understand it, the request to have data removed is what's legally binding, not the format in which the user makes the request. If the site owners see it or otherwise become aware of it, they are obligated to remove my data even though it was a post on HN. Whether all of that actually happens is a different story. They could probably claim truthfully they don't know which data is mine. If I were determined, I'd contact them directly.
> Am considering adding saving notes as txt files

Why prioritize that instead of saving notes as editable notes (just the way it feels to use temporarynote.com, but from a file on your disk)? Output an HTML file instead of plain text.
Many weren't, too.
Yeah, but this is a system that actually gives you what you want if you ask it in natural language. Why introduce a bunch of programmatic cruft into it when that is exactly what it is built to solve.
Time to unleash a potato blight.
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Thanks for the tip.

The opt out is supposed to be as easy as the opt in, so I'd bet it crosses the line.

Edit: furthermore, even after opting out, you nevertheless "agree" that (that is to say, you cannot opt out of):

Certain information (like an IP address or device capabilities) is used to ensure the technical compatibility of the content or advertising, and to facilitate the transmission of the content or ad to your device.

Match and combine data from other data sources

Link different devices

Identify devices based on information transmitted automatically
Kind of, it is still updated to keep being used in .NET latest, and at very least consume newer APIs, and profit from runtime improvements.

Much better position than VB 6.
Yes, the samé for me, just that I've used the Pro(?) version of Lightworks before BM released Resolve.

But the least stable, unusable piece of (compositing/video) shi^H^H^Hsoftware had been Discreet's (now Autodesk) Combustion, which I got for free with a Quadro graphics card.

If the first sentence in the press release is

> Discreet's Combustion is a robust 3D compositing package

you now what to expect ;)

https://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2001/Volume-24-Issue-1-...
The problem is that inaction is also fraught.

"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

Some time ago scientists were concerned that the Earth was headed into another ice age. Then we started burning all of this carbon, so that's not happening anymore. Great, catastrophe averted. Now we're burning way too much and going hard the other way.

Damn it.

Okay, so the status quo is no good, maybe we should build a whole bunch of nuclear plants so we can stop burning coal. What could possibly go wrong?

Or we could do this geothermal thing.

Indolence is fatal. Pick your poison.
Sure, All python related bookmarks go into a folder marked Python, or the system looks at your folder structure and then puts the correct bookmarks in the right folder by learning from some type of training.
Some more anecdotes and stuff from earlier today:

Sigil II, a Doom WAD from J.Romero, has been released

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38593248
Yeah, but you have to still work the land and survive off of what it gives you. It’s not a comfortable retirement. Cops today on the other hand have it really good, they work for 20 years and then they get a pension for the rest of their lives. You can essentially be retired by 38 and outside of some rough urban areas cops don’t have to work very hard at all.
gemini-ai.com
Diceware Passphrase FAQ
ECC Minicourse [pdf]
Nothing's stopping users who want an AI summary from feeding the content into their favourite GPT. But it's not contributing anything meaningful to a HN discussion.
The part out of tolerance could have been caught by comparing it to a master part within tolerance?

Laserscan it or capacitor probe measure it and encounters the lack of material.

In car part companies there is usually a qm-lab drawing samples from production. Does airplane turbine production not have this step?
> There are so many heroes out there casually looking at work while eating cereal in their underwear at 1am.

Please don’t call these people “heroes”, and if you’re doing this, please stop. You’re setting expectations that everyone else should also be up at 1am “casually looking at work”, and if they’re not, they’re not a true “hero”.

This is how unhealthy work/life balance starts at companies. People that work after hours for fun is is called workaholism. Meanwhile, the people that are also having fun from 9-5 are suddenly not doing enough, and are no longer having fun.

And of course the “heroes” are not stressed — they’re able to enjoy working long hours, and making their way up the ranks by being a “hero”.
You shouldn't be downvoted, IMHO. In fact, you pose a really interesting question, and also challenge, to the rest of the world.

Your country has a resource, it could monetize it, the rest of the world should incentivize you to NOT cut down the forest, in order to have a better Earth.
I think it’s cool that people are building all these tools, but I’m also struggling to see why they are useful instead of just using ChatGPT directly. To me it’s sort of like building a top layer to Google, which might’ve been cool 15 years ago, but again, sort of I really don’t want to be rude but useless?

Maybe I’m just missing something here?
I read this as "who prefers to work non-standard workday" e.g. 11-7 which I used to do to avoid traffic. I really enjoyed it and the slower morning was really helpful for me. early morning stand-ups post-pandemic really killed my morning happiness.
Some more Doom chat today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38596634
You might be replying to the wrong comment.
Codegen based?

Edit: Yep, codegen based.
Well... I could go back to things I did before taking up a career in software: retail, carpentry work, being a 911 dispatcher, etc. Or I could possibly find a position in the fire service after having been a volunteer firefighter for quite some time (and having most of the relevant certifications, aside from not being an EMT which most agencies want these days).

And I took a couple of years of welding in high-school, and did a lot of shade-tree / hobby auto repair stuff in the past, so I could see welding or auto repair work as possibilities. I also toyed with the idea of becoming an electrician when I was younger, so maybe that? I also kinda always wanted to be a private detective.

So yeah, I dunno, there's a lot of paths I could imagine going down, in a world where I can't do this computer stuff.
> We'll except the fact that deep geothermal plants are completely theoretic as a means of production

Not theoretical at all:

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/geothermal/americas-fir...
Or equally. Maybe people who are well organised are more productive. Which, personally, I think is self evident.
Perhaps this is revealing my ignorance, but I've never even heard of potemkin before
During university days, had NT really properly supported POSIX, I probably would never bothered with that "Linux Unleashed with Slackware 2.0 CD-ROM" book.

If Microsoft could tell the future, they would have improved POSIX, instead of killing it, and then briging a Linux VM into the OS.
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It has an absolute fuckton of gear inside of it, however. The camera equipment alone is quite a volume, to say nothing of all of the racks of stuff for experiments, exercise stuff, life support and water recycling, power storage, etc.
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Tangential to this topic, my favorite example of dynamic music is in Need for Speed Most Wanted 2005's police pursuit soundtrack: https://youtu.be/YtSQCYStwew

While certainly much more primitive than modern games (it's merely looping segments of a premade track), Most Wanted 05 does a great job of live scoring the pursuits, playing, looping, and smoothly segueing between the track segments. From experience I guess it selects the segments based on the heat level, player speed, police proximity, and other factors that I'm not even sure about.

There are 4 pursuit
soundtracks in the game, I highly recommend people listen to them if not try the pursuit mode itself in game. If nothing else it's thrilling as hell, a feeling that the modern entries still somehow fail to capture fully.
What Happened to Malaysia's Missing Airplane (2019)
That’s the official API for HN: https://github.com/HackerNews/API
"Oh, CHERI" was a Steve Perry song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-WpsdC2-Cc&t=2m
Exactly: this "license" thing has to be changed to buying digital content.
IMO, an LLM-generated summary is almost never a useful post without further comment.

I don't trust current LLMs to correctly summarize complicated and nuanced text. Now, if someone with the relevant expertise wanted to carefully read an article, feed it into an LLM for a summary, verify its correctness, and post that, I'd be alright with it.

Or if the summary is interesting in some other way - like is it super wrong? or does it make interesting leaps? or maybe it is startlingly correct? - then sure, share it, but also share why it's interesting.
Let me say this. Whoever is going to be able to let "normal" Mac users to install and run a local copy of an LLM, is going to reap tons of commercial benefits. (e.g. DMG, click-install, run. No command line).

It is nuts to me that we have 100M computers capable of running LLMs properly, and yet only a tiny fraction of them does.

Heck, let us do p2p, and lend our computing power to others.

Let us build a personalized LLM.

This is, IMHO, a really interesting path forward. It seems no one is doing it.
Not always, I think that is an unfair reflection of LLM's in their current state. See two trivial examples below:

https://chat.openai.com/share/ca733a4a-7cdb-4515-abd0-0444a4...

https://chat.openai.com/share/dced0cb7-b6c3-4c85-bc16-cdbf22...

Hallucinations are definitely a problem, but they are certainly less than they used to be - They will often say that they aren't sure but can speculate, or "it might be because..." etc.
> A place that's fun and interesting enough that you feel happy to randomly think about work in the middle of the night for an hour or two

I feel like in my experience it's actually less about fun and interesting and more about do you feel like the people running the company see you as a compatriot or a cog? I worked at a pretty tiny startup in college where I regularly talked with the CEO and worked directly for one of the VPs. They were great and from start to finish it's been my most positive work experience, since I felt like one of the team. Dare I say it even felt a bit like a family (well, the CEO and VP were a husband-wife team and I was a college kid at the time).

Then I switched to a company that billed itself as having a startup culture but really couldn't because of turf wars between layers of irrelevant middle management, never mind regular tone-deaf decisions from upper management and repeated bad bets from them that lead to multiple layoffs. The work itself is actually more interesting than what I was doing at the real startup, but the mismanagement has pushed me into a mindset of mostly only giving them what I'm contractually obligated to, with rare exceptions for smaller projects that I feel I can have a greater direct impact on. I would hazard a guess that management in that company is actually a net negative because if it wasn't for all the bad politics there, I'd probably be just as happy to give them extra time because like you say the work is fun and interesting. And I know a couple other guys there who -were- regularly giving extra time until they got repeatedly personally burned by management.
Make managers personally responsible.
TIL that ScummVM now supports Macromedia Director apps! I had no idea.
Thanks for the input. Do you happen to have any examples of names you think are good for this industry? Such as company names or fictional or just your ideas?
The foundations of statistics are very much based on calculus, though. You can't really have one without the other. Even study/experiment design is at its root an optimization problem.
ESP32 Game Boy Printer (2018)
“Big Tech executives are protecting profits by squashing competitors”

Beeper isn’t a competitor to Apple, they’re a pest. The type of pest that could be squashed like a bug if Apple ever chose to support Android.

But they chose not to, and while I don’t agree with that, it’s their platform. All this company is doing is cashing in on that.

I’m an advocate for reverse engineering and FOSS, but once you try to monetize like this, that’s a dangerous game.
I saw a comment in another thread about people who write software for work "at 1AM, in their underwear." It called them heroes.
If you're interested in B+Trees, and especially if you find yourself implementing one, go read this: https://w6113.github.io/files/papers/btreesurvey-graefe.pdf

I certainly haven't read the entire thing but gosh there's some good bits. E.g. "B-trees Versus Hash Indexes" - tons of insights jampacked together into a couple pages for anyone who hasn't already been exposed to B-trees in detail (e.g. in a research context vs the usual data structures class)
I just hope they pronounce it "L-Force"
I think if the same LLM were trained on audio and video input instead of text, and produced audio output, including silence tokens, then the notion of time would get "built in". Audio continuation without translation to text has been shown to work. Mixing it with text is also possible. But all this would require a massive network that maybe even be difficult for the world's biggest companies to train and serve at any kind of scale. So it's more of an engineering problem than a theoretical one imho.

Also imho, I think until the context/memory problem is fully solved we won't really see the AI as having any kind of agency. But continuous, low latency interaction would certainly feel like a step towards that.
> I'm well aware that its marketing and I'd hope my comment makes that clear. The question is why oversell the product, and frankly by a lot.

Most marketing sells the dream, not the reality. There are just many shades of grey (although 50 tends to sell well).
Elon Musk's own AI assistant Grok roasts him
Yes, but users that you have lost because of crashes don't come back if they've found an usable alternative.
I am with you on this one.

But I think many tech books carrying some of flavor of being a manual, especially those centered around some particular library/framework, thinking of 'XX in Action' series.

Ones that talk about more abstract ideas, like on the art of developing/testing software, will continue to thrive. However, I think the bread and butter for the tech publishing industry are those manual books, which follow a relative mature format of writing, and are produced in bulk each year. If they are going away, this might speak trouble for the whole industry.

But that is just my hypothesis for now, I hope the industry find a way to sustain itself.
I guess WSL/WSL2 is Microsoft's mea culpa. :D
But your talk "it's impossible, trust me" is cheaper since it's a much stronger claim
This sounds more like a Visa problem though. I think the best stress reliever is when you know you are safe losing your job or walking away by yourself, you have enough money saved that you can spend more than a year doing whatever you want even if you were to lose your job and without having to worry about it influencing your life. Then the motivator to do long hours and work at odd times is passion, desire to climb and feeling of ownership rather than fear of losing your job.
This is only of historical interest, but still a cool find.
Hi Greg,

Congratulations, great demo!
The $0.47 bill seems reasonable for an experiment, but imagine someone doing a task of this complexity as a daily job - let's say 100x times, or a little more than 4 hours - the bill would be $47/day. It feels like there's still an opportunity for a cheaper solution. Have you or someone else experimented with e.g. https://localai.io/ ?
SDFs are cool, but they have the problem that they become very slow very fast. If all you want are a few abstract shapes they're great. But, as soon as you want something more real world, they slow to a crawl.
Animation vs. Physics [video]
Another video by Alan Becker written in history
Nah, it's like learning the violin. You can learn it to a certain degree, but to play it like Menuhin, sorry, to play it like it's actually enjoyable you have to have innate skill.
sure but cache warming works on the order of 30 minutes
Panama is part of the runtime, it can be made to make the best use of that knowledge.

JNA relies on JNI, and exposes a better Java interface.
Well twitter doesn't exist anymore so yes it is dead.

Also it is funny that for a lot of people including me, slashdot, digg, twitter and reddit are already a thing of the past while we are still visiting regular old forums.
So I gather from your invective spiked tantrum that you concede there are no fundamental hard limits that prevent the recovery, in principle, of at least 1 billion tons of U from the oceans, at a future price point we can't currently estimate?
I wonder how Sonatype detected these malicious packages.
The part about "clean codebase" doesn't really help raising confidence either ;).
Smart! I especially like how the styling is customisable. It would be nice to also include timestamps which act as permalinks to each comment, and also the usernames could link to their HN profiles?
Is that really how you interpreted my comment?

My critique of Notch is that he doesn't do cool stuff anymore.

Stuff like that weird space game that he was talking about making, or something like BSD on windows.