skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are three additional reasons:

* Google Reader is often cited as the best RSS Reader but was killed, which reduced amount of users (I never used it, thus can't judge it)

* Many publishers want people to go to their site, thus don't provide full feeds, only headlines and limit it in additional ways.

* People went to Twitter and Facebook as their news aggregators, depending on the social graph to preselect "relevant" news.

Aside I think the pure list of entries only works to a limited degree for news sites: in RSS all articles are equal, but for news many people want to see the "main" news highlighted as on a news page. For some of my feeds on some news days the feed is barely usable when they push a main story combined with different detail articles, making it hard to find the main story (for instance on election day there is a main article for summary and then bunch of articles for different districts, different parties, ... which appear equal while they aren't equal, also the article with first results is already outdated and replaced ...)
and most times it's not really any value added; it's something lame like "this other popular product does it this way" or "industry standard" or "our human optimization team found this was better" and give the middle finger to previous users. It happens with all interfaces, but people look to stuff like emacs and vim to be better than that
This stuff was cash money. Firefox's RSS and Atom support used to be amazing, especially with extensions.
There is an old science fiction concept of 'slow glass', where light travels very very slowly, with 1/2 day glass used for windows that allow light to dally for 1/2 day before it exits - also good for street lights. Extending it to week/glass, year glass and so on, with the glass becoming a defacto streaming video display to watch burglars/traffic etc.
Interesting concept, smashing a pane of year glass - would it release all that energy as an e=mc2 blast??
https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/slow_glass
I have seen, used, and have built themes for quite a lot of blogging platforms. I also started all the way from Blogspot, to MovableType, to WordPress to the simplest one (current) written in Markdown with an idea to even further simplify it.

Here is a personal promotional plug for an upcoming idea that a friend and I are working on. Right now, we are reaching out only to my connections, founder cohorts, and people I know. We plan to start release to the public by 2024-Q1.

https://lxidd.com

Blogging or content creation is very segmented and has to start from a niche and stay within a few categories. For instance, a whole set of people primarily aims to create ephemeral content, e.g., the marketing department. They do not care if the content lasts nor is in Markdown or how bloated the underlying HTML/JavaScript/CSS is. There is money to be made there, but on the opposite side of the other who want to squeeze the best out for performance, longevity, simplicity, durability, open formats, etc. It will be really hard to satisfy those two -- you will end up being neither.

We are creating a toolset for early founders and people who want to start. We are doing an export-friendly with the most straightforward format possible as the priority. We hope the startups, projects, etc., succeed and move on from us to their dedicated host and the other players.

We came to this conclusion after talking to many non-technical people on the fence who wanted to try while still at their jobs. Our first feature is a template-powered website or an identity formation place (a URL) where one starts by typing out the content akin to how iA Presenter[1] works.

1. https://ia.net/presenter
Just use a temporary email from some temporary email generator like https://temp-mail.org/ (use an AdBlock, I'm sure the site is littered with ads, but I wouldn't know cause I use uBlock)
With non-destructive editing capabilities that gets complicated rather quickly, because then the file format starts depending on the precise implementation of all the various available filters that can be applied.
> So when people like the author start claiming that Andreesen is "embracing fascism" it rings a little hollow. It's more like a trendy VC firm is chasing trends and trying to appear hip. I don't think there's much more to it than that and over-analyzing whatever manifesto they pump out this year to seem relevant is missing the point.

When someone with his power and wealth starts quoting proto-fascists among other far right-wing figures, even ridiculous ones like Ayn Rand, I think we need to start paying attention.
Show HN: Slap – A Social Notifications App
VS Code now support multiple windows
"We are happy to announce that with this release you can move editors out of the main window into their own lightweight windows. Changes to an editor in one window apply immediately to all other windows where the editor is open."
Simply posting your product manual online ought to be easy for you and helpful for your potential customers.
Because these are businesses that are probably using a calculator anyway.

It's very much a cultural thing - punch numbers into the calculator and pass it back and forth when negotiating on a price, or add up the costs on a physical calculator on your market stall. You aren't giving receipts or anything, so hard to keep track.

I'm in the UK so don't see it often, but if you go to India / Vietnam / Thailand etc you see lots of people punching numbers into calculators everywhere rather than using some sort of POS system.

Asking why you don't just use your phone with a numberpad is missing that the selling point here is that the user interface IS a calculator.
> It’s about as non-approved as ad hoc shell scripts.

That's not a fair comparison. There's a big difference between your own ad hoc shell script (or command line or whatever) that you fully understand, and downloading and running third party code without any kind of audit.

Meanwhile, the industry keeps talking about "software supply chain".
I currently use Hugo for my personal website, but if I were to start from scratch today, I think I would give Astro a try. https://astro.build/
Mistral-Medium outperforms GPT-4 in Winogrande benchmark
Hmmm surely a website error
This is a great article. Very interesting. Thanks for posting!

I recently developed a new interest in optics and it’s cool to see this posted on HN.
> He lost more than any of the Kagi billing plans would cost him.

This is a nonsense comparison as the Kagi fee is guaranteed while the loss from a scam is not.
Does nobody remember that RSS integration with browser (Firefox Live Bookmarks anyone?) was spectacular before Chrome showed up? They easily could have integrated it a hundred different times a hundred different ways. They didn't. They've even shut their own RSS reader. They don't want content to be available to your standards, they want it available to advertisers'.
thanks for the heads up. i wasn't that interested in this topic anyway.
Manually memory allocation has been there since the begining in interop APIs, and improved later on.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.runtime....

There is always C++ for those that don't want a tracing GC.
Ask HN: Why do Microsoft have two identical apps?
The two apps I’m talking about is Microsoft Start [1] and Bing Ai [2]. What’s their strategy here? Both do the same thing but branded under different name.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/se/app/microsoft-start/id945416273

[2] https://apps.apple.com/se/app/bing-chat-with-ai-gpt-4/id345323231
Google started late with any serious LLM effort. It takes time to iterate on something so complex and slow to train. I expect Google will match OpenAI in next iteration or two, or at worst stay one step behind, but it takes time.

OTOH Google seem to be the Xerox Parc of our time (who were famous for state of the art research and failure to productize). Microsoft, and hence Microsoft-OpenAI, seem much better positioned to actually benefit from this type of generative AI.
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This wasn’t status quo. In fact, it can serve as an example. Why wouldn’t google or microsoft follow the same path with mistral? Being open source, it serves their purposes well.
The Counterintuitive Physics of Bicycle Turns
> challenging should always be an option.

By someone else in the field, not by some jackass online.
From what I understand, GDPR applies only to retention of data, and not such technical requirements. It does not require operators to inform users unless the server will be retaining the IP address.
How does it compare to Kdenlive? I'm not an editor and also looking into floss video editors now. From what I see the most popular are:

1. Kdenlive
2. Avidemux
3. Openshot
4. Shotcut
5. Olive Video Editor
6. PiTiVi
7. Cinelerra
New England stone walls deserve a science of their own
Do you think it's getting close to the point where it adds a euro of value per workday (on average) for them?
The name is split as:

Anuj Deshpande

So Anuj is probably what you wanna call him on first name basis :)
Python JSON REST API wrapper library: a How-To in 15 simple steps
Great 15-part tutorial on writing a wrapper package with great insights along the way for a range of readers: strong data models, logging, refactoring, code smell, low-level vs high-level API
I think if you had followed Andreesen over the last ±5 years, you would have seen that he quotes random people that he thinks are hip all the time. He also likes to go on podcasts that are perceived as "edgy" in order to get more attention. There is no pattern to any of it. Last year, all of their essays were about decentralization and crypto. The year before it was about "rebuilding America" after COVID. It's a media operation, not an intellectual one.

The Italian Futurists were also not "proto-fascists", they were an art movement of which a small proportion of which later became involved with fascism. And hell, if quoting Ayn Rand is cause for concern, then half of American entrepreneurs must be political radicals. The fact that he supposedly quotes Italian "fascists" and Ayn Rand (who are essentially on opposite sides of the political compass) should make it obvious that there is no ideology at work here.
Tell that your average data Joe and he will say "But C is a letter, not a programming language".
> We moved our site to a different infrastructure that doesn't support the automatic generation of RSS feeds.

I had been wondering why https://developer.chrome.com/feeds suddenly died.

> I needed our team to hit a deadline

Why?
I noticed the same for Google's site https://web.dev/

The last article pushed to the feed was "Changes to the web.dev infrastructure" few months ago https://web.dev/blog/webdev-migration

The feed still there but with no updates https://web.dev/feed.xml and on the site you can see new articles published.

Is sad that on a infrastructure revamp of a modern site, the RSS feed was left out of the features list (at least for now).
Very cool idea and implementation.

I had considered offering something similar for https://kulli.sh which also aggregates comments on posts from a whole bunch of other sources too, but after reaching out to a number of people whose shared posts actually get comments here on HN and other places, I quickly realized there is not much desire for something like this from people whose writing is actually discussed.
There are also books critical of the U.S. right-wing, evangelists, left-wing identity politics, and Big Tech.

So do you think the three specific topics you’re referring to are unworthy of discussion? Or should China be off the table entirely?
If you're purely looking for capabilities and not especially interested in running an open model, this might not be that interesting. But even so, this positions Mistral as currently the most promising company in the open models camp, having released the first thing that not only competes well with GPT-3.5 but also competes with other open models like Llama-2 on cost/performance and presents the most technological innovation in the open models space so far. Now that they raised $400MM the question to ask is - what happens if they continue innovating and scale their next model sufficiently to compete with GPT-4 / Gemini? The prospects have never seemed better than they do today after this release.
> The F in FOSS stands for free, so nobody is under any obligation to spend their time so you don't spend yours.

This is why I really dislike the term "FOSS". It's both redundant and erroneously misleads people to thinking things like this. Free Software can absolutely be developed under contract, in which case yes, you are entitled to the developers time under the terms of the contract.
Bro, what cost in maintaining? Maybe if you're building like it's the '90s and doing it by hand.

The static site generator I use (Pelican) can produce templated RSS feeds that are exactly to my liking. If I can use that off-the-shelf stuff for a small blog, then it's trivial to put together a template and plug in database data on relevant events. Could even just run a cronjob that tracks the site daily and forget about it, most people would not care.
The pro gamer who has to rely upon sound alone
A strong_typedef library with strong operators - C++
A (yet another) strong_typedef implementation for C++.

strong_typedefs allow you to create new types that are derived from existing ones, but are not implicitly convertible to them. This allows you to create types that are semantically different, but have the same underlying representation.

Using strong_typedefs helps in avoiding some common pitfalls, like accidentally adding a distance to a time or passing a weight to a function that expects a price (where all of could be represented by a double).

This (single-header) library also provides a convenient way of defining common operators for your new types. You can express that it makes sense to multiply a price by a quantity, while preventing the multiplication of two prices.
Gnome developers gave pretty thorough reasons why they made certain changes in UI and code design, or was I hallucinating that period of my life? I mean, just because one doesn't like designers' choices doesn't equate to "couldn't extract reasoning". Also, it's their project, and I hate that they ignored the user community it still fell under their authority to do it and let users decide if they would tolerate it or move to a different windowing system. Personally I just moved back to KDE and have stayed there, other than very limited resource systems where I use lxde or just straight terminal+tmux.
How hard is your network comms watchdog asks telcos
Do you have any public examples of your real-world projects?
Maybe if you treat them like people and helped with child care, they will make more babies.
Ask HN: Anyone fancy working on an RFC for email replies?
Automatic parsing of email messages is hard in places where the protocol has not kept up with the richness of email-based communications and one area that is particularly hard is separating replies from the main body of a message, which is usually quoted with the reply.

I think a new mime-type of message/reply would provide a much easier experience for those of us working with automated message processing. The text and html body can remain the same as they are now, but all replies would be added to a message as additional parts for easy parsing. This might have more useful applications than just easier extraction of replies, for instance, richer message thread views.

Anyone from MailGun, Mailjet, GMail, Yahoo, Amazon SES etc. interested in this or know of any existing efforts?
Touring the geothermal at Hell's Gate Park in Kenya is wild. If you've seen The Lion King, it's the inspiration for "the shadowy place over there" where the hyenas live.
3blue1brown's video covers this. The effect of "changing speed" is a change to the light's wavelength, not the speed of an impulse through the material--imagine taking a standing wave and pushing the peaks and valleys up and down so the wavelength looks really long. And since the frequency is unchanged, there's your appearance of high speed. This happens because the material changes the phase of the wave continuously.
Correct URL: https://kodius.com/blog/bare-metal-part-1-why-kubernetes-bea...
Interesting to see Mistral in the news raising EUR 450M at a EUR 2B valuation. tbh I'd not even heard of them before this Mixtral release. Amazing how fast this field is developing!
That's a read only, unauthenticated API, correct?

In other words, it does not show how to get up votes for a user, which is only visible to them.
> Israel makes and enforces the laws in the West Bank, and that the Israeli military has supported Israeli people in driving the existing Palestinian residents off their land, and either destroying existing Palestinian homes and infrastructure then building their own homes, or simply moving into the forcibly confiscated homes.

I understand that there is a very prominent lobby to present property disputes as Jews stealing Palestinian homes. I'm willing to discuss this. Present to me each case of "Jews stealing Palestinian homes" and I will do my best to research the circumstances of each one individually. I'll invest the time in that, and maybe I'll learn something. But from what I've seen, each property dispute as an individual dispute could be debated either way. I will admit that there does exist inconsistencies in rulings regarding property disputes between Jews and Arabs. But I do not think that those inconsistencies are any more prominent than judicial inconsistencies in other areas without regard to the nationality of the parties.

> It is extraordinarily misleading to pretend a) that you believe that the actual law in the West Bank is that of the Ottoman Empire that no longer exists or

Actually, yes, I do believe that the basis of the laws in the West Bank are Ottoman. That was even explained to me by an anti-settler movement whose tours to the West Bank I took a few times to learn about the West Bank. The organization is called Breaking the Silence, I encourage you to take their tour and learn about the area.

> b) that you believe Israeli settlers being friendly locals who are simply following Ottoman law and developing empty land.

No, I do not think that Israeli settlers are just friendly locals. They are, for the most part, following Ottoman law where applicable and developing by and large mostly empty land. But yes, without a doubt some settlers do encroach on Arab villages. I won't deny that, I won't lie. But the media attempts to portray that as being the 99% case when it's far closer to the 1% case if that. For what it's worth, the Breaking the Silence group made me aware of some areas, such as near Hebron, where Arabs are encroaching on Jewish settlements. And the Arabs are far, far more violent than the Jews - even the Arabs will tell you this. Settler violence exists, but Arab violence against the settlers is far far more common. Don't take my word for it, ask any Arab that lives in the West Bank. I have asked, and I continue to talk with them despite the events of the past two months.
First of all, thank you for a thorough response. I'll need to take time to read it (and the refs in your other reply) with the care it deserves.

Basically I'm talking about the subset of proofs that could be done with pen and paper and pass a careful refereeing process. And you got that interpretation in your reply. You say that it is not insightful and that is of course an opinion you are entitled to.

To me it is an interesting observation that NP is a complexity class powerful enough to basically obsolete us. The context of this conversation/thread is using Lean to formalize a proof and whether in the near future, integrating AI models would potentially give us novel tools for discovering new mathematics. We routinely solve NP hard problems in practice for many instances, so I think drawing this parallel here was relevant.

I do agree with you that there would still be out of reach proofs even with an efficient algo for NP, but as some other person replied, it would be a nice problem to have...
A really interesting data point on racism, in general, which I learned from Sapolsky (via Sean Carroll) is that using fMRI scans, it appears that most adult humans have a racist friend/foe type response when viewing photos showing "the other."

However, this visual response can be hacked with something as silly as the person in the image wearing a baseball cap from "our team." So, clearly racism is a really crappy heuristic. Learning this made me feel happy and sad at the same time... but I think mostly happy, because if that ugliness can be hacked so easily, then it must truly be nonsense.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021/02/15/134-...
Pretending you know where hidden gold is is a legitimate business if you float the venture on the ASX or TSXV
Society thinks of math as technical and functional, rather than beautiful.

The math used in jobs are also to “get things done” rather than for the sake of their beauty.

A very tiny fraction of population will ever be pure mathematicians. Most just need to know enough to “get things done”.

Considering how much society throws money at STEM, rather than art and music, it makes sense society wants a return in their investment in terms of training practical people.
Old fart here: In high school, math was broad spectrum. Calculus, Algebra, Geometry etc. Too early for specialized topics like Probability and Statistics. Those were first-year university material, where you start getting steered toward the actual math skills you'll need for your curriculum. What's wrong with that?
haha my dear, those are snowflakes! how silly
Am french. Absolute free speech doesn't exist in France. For instance saying Nazi slogans is illegal. This is a big difference from the USA.
Structured OCR with GPT Vision
Climate change might also be "impossible" to solve if one tackles it with this form of self-confidence.
This does not include the user's private data, which looks like what OP is after as well
This blog post might be interesting - https://huggingface.co/blog/moe

MoEs are especially useful for much faster pre-training. During inference, the model will be fast but still require a very high amount of VRAM. MoEs don't do great in fine-tuning but recent work shows promising instruction-tuning results. There's also quite a bit of ongoing work around MoEs quantization.

In general, MoEs are interesting for high throughput cases with high number of machines, so this is not so so exciting for a local setup, but the recent work in quantization makes it more appealing.
Programmer's hubris?