skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
surely you've seen all the LLM generated fake lego images?

https://www.core77.com/posts/126450/People-Easily-Fooled-by-...

https://www.instagram.com/lego_rick_/reel/C0HaaoRLNG9/
Agreed. It's especially infuriating that their arguments against jxl would have applied to webp too (even more so) but for some reason that was pushed trough (as were other Google formats).
I read this story this morning how a director might have stole the idea of a music performance for someone famous from a less known source that was posted online.

I don’t see any issue with this and don’t understand why anyone should have to give credit to the original source. Are there any copyright issues?
Practices for governing agentic AI systems
This is cool of course. But so was Rome. Which only existed for about two years. It’s one thing to build a cool tool, it’s something else entirely sustain one over time. I need a bit more proof that this is sustainable before I rebuild our toolchain, _again_.
Entertained all the way to a totalitarian state.
Absolutely agree… I think in early 2000 they found a nice sweet spot where you bought a set to build a particular object, but all of them featured a fairly common set of pieces. So after a while of having it in the shelve it could be repurposed.
Bionicle/Hero Factory was by far the best they had for creative play. They cancelled it many moons ago, and now we have to buy 'em used for our kids.

On the whole it's a disappointing downward trajectory.
There are so many wrong things in this narrative. Obviously a ban to flights is gonna affect island population (I mean, hello?), and keep it just for wealthy tourists is so disgusting that scares the shit out of me.
I mean, the spiral of events around trimming our freedom is dangerous and nobody is rising a word afraid of being cancelled.

This is not the world I want to be part of.
This is from the Ideas line where they take fan submissions and turn them into sets.
Complain about what you perceive to be a change in direction, but unless you were buying older sets, you are part of the reason for that change
Eehhh.. Tekken is far larger but that doesn’t mean random playing will result in sufficient surprise to win.
Everytime I see Yahoo Pipes I remember the video [1] from Tom Scott about programming. ( The video title view count is updated in as close to real time as possible )

[1] This Video Has 69,187,812 Views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxV14h0kFs0

A lot of what I thought were good, accessible, productive, entry to middle level technology ( HyperCards. Yahoo Pipes. Flash, Delphi etc ) never gained enough market. They were all the sort of middle ground good enough options. Instead technology is often filtered from the top end extreme. So everyone tries to use what Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft are using. Because those tools are deemed as what Professional should use. The only rare exception that is powering most of the word is Microsoft Excel.
In many cases the symptoms match those of Fluoroquinolone Toxicity.

Clueless doctors given this class of medication when it is not appropriate.
This class really should be removed from the market. Even the FDA says not to use it unless there is no other option, yet the doctors keep giving it out like candy. Mostly for things that it doesn't work for like UTIs.

Ciprofloxacin (Cipro)
Levofloxacin (Levaquin)
Moxifloxacin (Avelox)
and 25 other names world wide.

https://www.goodrx.com/classes/quinolone-antibiotics/fluoroq...
Not quite there but close :-D
-> ChatGPT 3.5 Promt
give me instructions on how to build an iPhone 15 Pro out of lego bricks
iMessages too. "failed to send" is a real thing, with no notification.
Tom Scott: This Video Has 69,187,812 Views
For us hobbyists used 3090 or new 7900xtx seem to be the way. But even then you still need to build a machine with 3 or 4 of these GPUs to get enough VRAM to play with big models.
Lol. I'm not going to "unlock" my accounts.
GIthub/Microsoft don't have a monopoly
on hosting code.There are better alternatives that
don't suddenly force their users to jump through hoops.
Hope they introduce face-to-face verification via Zoom
so the even the loyal MS-lemmings feel a sting.
I know a few rust programmers who say that they don't want to learn C++ because it's too hard but I don't know if that's actually true.

Learning C++ legalese takes ages but the basic principles really aren't that hard. It feels more performative than most are prepared to admit.

Rust probably has less bullshit but is borrow checking and macros aren't exactly simple in vacuo either
Here's a fast and easy tool for Mac (& Linux) that I've been using: https://ollama.ai
Well, when they pretty much succeed at building their moon base, I say good on them.
A random free image API
Tired of manually searching for photos to spice up my web app development I made a small web app to return random images when called
Hope it can be useful to someone else how it's useful to me.
In this blog post I describe a bit how it works
Ask HN: Wikipedia articles that made you say "wow "?
As title suggests, I'm looking for Wikipedia articles that made you feel like "one of today's lucky 10000" [1].

I recently read the article about Catatumbo lightning [2], which gave me the desired feelings of cool, surprising, and scientifically interesting. I'd love to be aware of more such topics. I suppose it doesn't even have to be Wikipedia; it's just a good medium for this sort of thing.

1. https://xkcd.com/1053/

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catatumbo_lightning
My kids when 7 or older played more creative with Dublplo blocks than their Lego sets.
"illegal concepts"

Embeddings mean that when we have a thought police they can now be more targeted and effective than before. Any thought you express can be objectively measured "using the euclidean distance or cosine similarity" for illegal concepts, and censored, corrected or punished accordingly. I imagine that this will come early for comment sections on the web.
On Quest 3 it’s interesting that it has good passthrough, but no way to record 3D passthrough videos and share them.

Meta could basically do an early version of Strange Days right now, but they have chosen not to.
Funny, you couldn't pay my kids to play with those! But they never seem to have enough 2x4s...
what can you buy with my dna

thanks to multiple health insurance breaches, if you know my name you can find my ssn
Apple Diagnostics for Self Service Repair
I am curious how useful LLM based AI will be in Microsoft 365 and Google Gmail, Docs, YouTube, etc.

I don’t have access yet to the AI extensions in Microsoft 365 but I have spent a fair amount of time with Bard + Workplace plugins. The best experience has been giving Bard a link to recipes on YouTube and getting short text summaries that are adequate for making the recipe. Sometimes queries against my GMail and Docs are useful but still a work in progress.

Anyway, I have very high expectations that within 1 year, both Microsoft and Google will have nailed CoPilot-like AI tools for their cloud productivity apps.
Thanks...but back at the coal face - you can't write per-spec. software when the customer is refusing to tell you the spec's. And (beyond CYA basics) there is no "re-arrange the paperwork on Project Titanic" way around that.

The fix for this situation, more-or-less, is learn what you can about the customer's internal issues, then have an experienced and diplomatic manager of your own play a few rounds of golf with the customer's C-suite. There may be some good reasons for the resistance you're facing. Or "understandable" reasons.

(Not saying that diplomacy is easy, nor that favorable results are assured.)
How long until I can make my own?
I think it's great that they publicly took responsibility however it's not clear what controls they've put in place to not allow this to happen again.
Duplo is interesting, it allows kids to quickly build pretty massive stuff if they have enough of it. But mine were done with it relatively fast and we ended up donating it to other people.
Well yeah, you gotta grow the business, as any good visitor of this site knows. You can only sell so many $30 buckets of loosely assorted pieces intended for children.

There's much more money to be made in $200 sets with the popular IP of the day or $500 collector sets for adults.
Why Are Most Indie Games 2D Instead of 3D? (2013)
> The resulting sustained shockwave builds its own pressure, as well, leading to even greater fuel efficiency.

The concept of a "sustained shockwave" defeats me (somewhat). I guess the sonic boom is a kind of sustained shockwave; but I think of a shockwave as being a discontinuous increase/decrease in pressure, and not something that can be "sustained" in the usual sense of the word.
With the unwinding of twitter, RSS has become invaluable to me as a replacement.
This week's ASP .NET Core newsletter is out
I'm guess it's also true that HN is definitely the wrong audience for this post. As the author suggests, if you spend all day in VScode/VIM, you're among the segment of computer users who looks at images the least as a percentage of time spent on a computer.
People used the same argument when saying AMD would never beat Intel in CPUs. Intel has a lot of software engineers. Also these days AMD has a good number of software folks, thanks to the Xilinx acquisition and the organic investments in this area.
This is one of the best examples I've seen yet and you appear to have minimal dependencies. Kudos and thanks for sharing.
I found Cosma Shalizi's notes on the subject pretty insightful.

http://bactra.org/notebooks/nn-attention-and-transformers.ht...

Definitely read through to the last section.
I found a way to code like Shakespear
Go is 14 years old

Swift is 9 years old

Rust is 8 years old

Zig is 7 years old
I respect your opinion, but

> Maybe the only thing worse than trying is not trying.

I and others in this thread have been trying to say that from experience, any discussion (unless maybe it's between trusted friends in a face-to-face interaction) about this topic turns into an absolute shitshow sooner or later. I'll admit that this isn't the worst I've seen on the internet, but scroll down far enough, and you'll find enough people engaging in basically flamewars.

"Hearing each other" is all well and good when we're talking about technology, where lots of people on HN are either very knowledgeable about a subject or can at least share their personal experiences. For a topic such as this, I don't think that the HN audience can give any particular insight. Nor do I think that this can be gleaned by individual news articles. The history of this conflict is incredibly complex and anyone who wades into inevitably discovers how little they know about it. That book I mentioned has more than 800 pages and it stops somewhere in the early 2000s, I believe (indeed, the first edition came out on a hopeful note in light of the Oslo accords).
I know your being sarcastic, but I genuinely wonder if the net benefits actually outweighs the problems.
I can't afford the same apartment I could as a waiter 10 years back. So yeah, fuhgeddaboutit.
Except when it decides to not work when you are on a trail 200 miles from the closest town lol.
I hate Google.
Per another comment, there apparently is something along the lines of that now: https://www.arm.com/architecture/system-architectures/system...

Took them long enough.
Exapunks and all the games from the developer
Which is why we need laws that make doing so without very explicit consent for every generated work a felony offense with social and penal consequences equivalent to rape.
and he can globally remove whatever he wants from being displayed in his browser with global style overrides!

what a glorious world we live in
Sadly what I see is Lego producing sets, even for kids, which consists of an endless amount of tiny bricks which is impossible to build stuff with quickly. It's absolutely wonderful when you want to build highly detailed reproductions.

What you can do, as you say, is to go get sets/buckets of classic bricks and use those, but the sets are getting annoying. As a kid I have pretty large number of various Lego sets and I mostly mixed and matched to build rough castles, space stations, house whatever, but you can do that with modern sets, to many tiny tiny bricks and very few blocks suitable for a five year old who just wants to build a house.

I get that Lego would have gone out of business if they had continued to produce the type of sets I played with in the 1980s, but it's barely a children's toy any more. Don't get me wrong, it's great that they can make things that brings joy to adults but I just feel that they've done it at the cost of the youngest children.

Also, the display pieces are often terribly unstable and a pain to keep clean. The Lego flowers are basically junk and you shouldn't buy them. They aren't nearly stable enough to have on display and they will certainly break when you try to clean them.
Thanks for all the examples!
Moreover, if it's about cross-compilation, why not using zig?

https://zig.news/kristoff/building-sqlite-with-cgo-for-every...
Duplo is also from Lego. It's basically just larger blocks:
https://www.lego.com/da-dk/themes/duplo
When all you have is a hammer, everything is a nail.

We know why js devs chose js already.

We also know some of them learned rust and used their new hammer to bang out better solutions. See OP :)
> My EdgeRouter finally bit the dust

Do you still have it?

You might just have one with an on-board USB stick which is user-replaceable. Literally a USB stick in a USB type A port.

It seems that was the only part they cheaped out on, since it failed for multiple people I know that have models with the USB stick.

Source: erlite-3 wouldn't boot up, changed usb stick (with their downloadable OS image of course), good as new.

Bonus: quadrupled the available storage.
Emphasis on "creative". Bionicle was was their product line that was simple enough for a child to have a complete mental model of it, and at the same time complex enough that they could build their own "real" adult sets, something that isn't obviously a throwaway pile of bricks.
I think the other parameters are way more difficult to get right than any optical system alignment considerations. Things like statistical process control make photolithography look less scary.

You can check if you correctly patterned the wafer almost immediately. You won't know if the layer is any good until many process steps later. Maybe not for sure until EDS. Tuning the interactions between manufacturing processes is the actual secret sauce that all the manufacturers are trying to protect. How much dose on the EUV machine depends a lot on how you intend to etch the wafer. Imagine iteration cycles measured in months for changing individual floating point variables.
Prepare for the war.
I have visitor statistics enabled on my site and I like to see how many visits I get on articles. The point is to not see more in it than it can tell you, so I don't really understand the 'remove all statistics because it doesn't matter' argument.

However, I must say your idea is a very good one!
Is a difference perhaps that computers tend to operate even when someone isn't directly using them in a way that most tools do not? Something like a shovel or even a forklift only operates while someone is there using it. Something like a sign or a barricade "operates" all of the time, but an individual can often move it if they need to (e.g. if a "road closed" barricade was poorly placed such that it blocks an unrelated road).

On the other hand, when "the algorithm" messes up there's often no one operating it to talk to and no way for the effected individual to bypass it. In that sense, perhaps computers behave like "entities" in a way that other tools do not?
Except companies are not "incentivized to have as little R&D expenses as possible (aka fire fulltime devs doing R&D)"

Anytime you see such categorical claims you're being manipulated by the author. As an aside, people here go crazy over calling out logical fallacies but seemingly fail to recognize actual rhetorical persuasion.
rust gravity field is getting stronger
Dexterity is not the issue. For Tekken it’s just knowledge and experience. There’s a ton to learn and practice. It’s huge. Much higher than stuff like street fighter. And I’m not talking about fancy tech. I mean the basic controls and move lists. You will not likely get to a point where you know everyone’s moves.

The reason to play fighting games is strictly that you like the idea of honing the skill and playing competitive 1v1 matches to improve. Progression and reward is pretty different from other genres in this sense.
Turning a blind eye to obvious malice in exchange for the temporary bliss of apathy is a form of malice all on its own. Hanlon's razor is one of the dumbest memes ever devised, please stop promulgating it.
Perhaps a different type of problem solving, but you might like Ready or Not[1].

More or less the spiritual successor, or love letter, to SWAT 4.

Played a significant amount of game myself in early access, and the developers have outdone themselves with mechanics, polish, and AI[2] on the 1.0 release a few days ago.

Particularly in a genre where the trend is to off-load any meaningful cooperation in game to other human players (Tarkov, GTFO, etc).

[1]https://store.steampowered.com/app/1144200/Ready_or_Not/

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nj6qWDNU0A
“[A game is a] voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles” — Bernard Suits

Within this definition, in theory, programming is not a game. In practice, it often is.
Thanks for reaching out. I'm in a good place where I think I'm doing great. The description of the main character's negative attributes sounds identical to what my partner accuses me of. These perceptions are impossible to shake no matter the contrary evidence. In fact the person would rather ignore me than learn the truth.

So I identify with what I believe the character is struggling with in the film. I have no question about what I'm doing. My partner on the other hand has completely lost/never had faith after 30 years.

It's a tough spot to be in. Currently I'm discovering Jack Benny and there is a lot to learn.
See Ravi Chugh's Sketch-n-Sketch work: http://ravichugh.github.io/sketch-n-sketch/

You might find it useful to look at the papers that cite the paper: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=2233351225886461130...
> They are trying to migrate to DB2 [..] It’s not as simple as just moving the data from IMS into DB2, they also have to update their modules to load & save data from DB2 instead of IMS and they have thousands of modules, many of which were developed by programmers that have either passed away or have retired.

I would think that this is a task tailor-made for A.I./ML
I always associated bongos with that 50/60s salsa music and Desi Arnaz https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000789/?ref_=tt_cl_t_2.
What a shit take. JXL did have plenty favorable responses on HN before Google removed it for reasons that they never applied to their own formats. And FF did get plenty of complaints for not supporting JXL but those are often shut down with the opposite variant of your take.
I've wondered can a game similar to MTG be created but cards for real-life, as a means to educate those who gravitate to devour such information and strategy as a force to first spot and raise the alarms loudly enough to counter any tyrannical-authoritarian tactics?

Perhaps a hybrid card-board game with a foundation similar to Monopoly?

It's something I want to eventually help create, though I'm not in a position to put a proper effort needed to get the base created.

There are a few computer games that simulate this evolution though, no? But perhaps without the level of detail such as slippery-slope policies that an opponent [whether directed by a player or machine] may try to pass their parliament, other tactics like playing a card that successfully "manufactures consent" with the population to move various dials/levers ahead to implement turnkey authoritarianism - to then at a certain point in future once enough foundation is laid, the population not paying adequate attention to the empire - entertained excessively, the player-machine can then execute on locking down their society?
The combination with Aquaponics might perform better.

E.g. a non-vertical Berlin startup:

ecf-farm.de (german only)

https://www.ecf-farmsystems.com/?lang=en

Edit: they work partly vertical.

https://video.wixstatic.com/video/4b00a0_eae82fb329a7432396e...
Bryan Johnson's Antiaging Quest Has Made Headlines. But There's More
> He replied, ignoring my question and berating me for violating his privacy by using the read receipt feature.

Sounds totally legit!
Its a fact. You can open Power Automate Cloud which is basically Scratch for Grown Ups and type in “every day at 3 pm please check if i have an email from Jane Doe and if not then save a file to my cloud drive called “noemail.txt” and it basically does a halfway decent job , not chatgpt level but its getting there
Hint: they haven't put controls in place, and it will happen again.

Unifi is one of the companies with awesome potential but they just seem to whiff it constantly on security and software.
Rule #1 of web development: Don't mess with scroll.
Inspiring. Maybe one day they won't need the 20 billion dollars they get from google anymore, and they'll be able to build their own search engine.
If you're betrayed that the lawful company would obey the law then thats on you.
IMO an analogy to modern times would be a federated Reddit. I'd liken it to Lemmy but don't have enough experience with it to be sure it doesn't ruin my analogy in some way :)
https://archive.ph/GkRPc
Lol did the same, but it quickly returns "Wir wünschen frohe Weihnachten" if you go too fast...

I guess many people are trying to automatize... here the last outputs:

Fehler: Fehler:
Fehler:
in the last 10 seconds: 199
in the last 10 seconds: 207
in the last 10 seconds: 144
in the last 10 seconds: 113 Wir wünschen frohe Weihnachten.
in the last 10 seconds: 27
Se länkarna jag hänvisdade till.
Yes, but everyone else is vulnerable to not being able to run extensions.
As mentioned, I just use it for news & general web site surfing, no accounts.
So the question is: do embeddings form a linear space? I.e. does scaling and addition make any sense?
We will never understand and address this as a group as long as the underlying environment is the uncontrolled capitalistic one in which the ideas and technologies that are selected for (evolutionarily) are the ones that net the greatest profit in the shortest-term without regard to long-term consequences. As long as we have this and the ability to abuse the commons, we will never deviate from our abusive and violent use of technology.

I truly believe the only solution is to bring down the current system, which includes the technology that enables it.
Yes, because you lint everything in CI. Otherwise, linter warnings will start creeping into your codebase immediately, and the tool becomes much less useful.
It's really quite simple. The headline should tell us what happened.

Voyager 1 is sending repeated data back to Earth.

I think I saw an article on tech dirt saying the spacecraft was sending stuck in "groundhog's day" that I thought was clever
It's great that they are open about it, but it does make me seriously question the design of their cloud infrastructure and backend systems.
Do you have some source files that are somehow exempt from bugs and would be a waste of the linter's time?

Probably not, but it's a trick question: if you try to look for exceptions to the rule, you have already wasted so much time that running a linter on all files would be faster.
They didn't just add a tip how to override it, they said this should not be done at all.
> `about:config` feature only exists in Firefox for historical and backward compatible reasons? And Firefox rather actually doesn't want to provide people the ability to easily override advanced configs?

I don't think it's unfair to say that that's basically correct.
Aren't kids using Docker for that stuff these days?