skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this guy isn't, and he didn't, and you just hit the wrong button dude
Your impression is exactly right. The difference lies in something called smoothness. Loosely speaking, a smooth curve is one where if you zoom in far enough at any point, the curve starts to look like a straight line. You might have to zoom in a very long way, but as long as you eventually end up with something that looks straight, it counts as smooth, even if the overall shape is very wiggly. Loosely speaking, smooth curves behave well when you use calculus on them.

The coastline paradox is a situation where that doesn't happen. No matter how far you zoom in on a part of the coastline, you always find more detail -- bays and peninsulas, cliffs and inlets, pits and protrusions, tiny bumps, and so on. And the more of that detail you try to include in your measurement, the more your measured length will increase. In mathematics, we say that the length diverges. If you were measuring a smooth curve, the length would converge on a single value -- incorporating more detail would change the length, but only by tinier and tinier amounts.

Now of course a real coastline is a very complicated thing, and there are lots of practical obstacles to measuring one very precisely. So at some point we stop talking about real coastlines and start talking about a mathematical ideal, a kind of perfect roughness that's the opposite of the perfect smoothness we use for calculus. Such a perfectly rough curve is called a fractal.

There are also other things that can break calculus -- pointy curves, discontinuities, and infinities can all cause trouble.
It’s a lot easier for me to play with proper dynamics on an actual piano versus a keyboard. Maybe if it’s an extremely fancy weighted one, it’d be okay, but I generally don’t have access to one of those.
A few comments here about lack of version control being a problem generally with low code.

We're a low code platform (app integration) and what's worked well for us is to have the platform store the generated workflow design (yaml/json) in source control.

Additionally, we map environments on to source control branches so merging to a branch is what promotes a design version to qa or prod.
Yes, good point. But let's not overestimate leaders' deep strategic thinking or rationality; they can be mislead and emotional too.
Remember the Maine!

The military responses are difficult to predict because most of the time the headlining events only provide casus belli for plans that are already in motion but kept secret for strategic reasons. They're the sparks that politicians use to justify their actions abroad and at home because few people want to die for unrighteous causes but they're a sideshow to the planning and logistics that goes on to prepare for war. Predicting when war begins requires being in tune with the internal realpolitik of both sides which is unrealistic for most people.

Game theory is useless if you don't understand the interests of all the relevant players in a polity and even in an authoritarian regime like Russia or Saudi Arabia there are a LOT of them.
Since semantic information had to be generated from syntax in the first place, why not retain that linkage somewhere so that it doesn't have to be searched again?

Also to find usage of symbols generated by macros, can't one make compiler plugin to dump usage information somewhere (or modify compiler if impossible with plugin)? This might be a bit stale but much better than nothing.
It’s true, I’ve only been here since COVID and from what I understand 2020-2021 were exceptionally good years. Lots of growth, fully remote, and plenty of new people and ideas.
> I do think it shouldn't be permissible to hide behind a shrink-wrap liability disclaimer when publishing software claimed to be of "commercial" or "enterprise" quality that doesn't even meet basic standard of rigor.

I am not sure that "commercial" or "enterprise" implies anything in terms of quality or should. "enterprise" for example is defined as "Enterprise software, or enterprise application software, is computer software used by organizations rather than individual users." by the following aws page[1].

Aerospace software already has to follow aerospace regulations, medical software already has to meet medical regulations.

Holding a company responsible for selling software with implicit claims but a liability disclaimer makes sense to me. Clarity in contracts, advertisements, terms of service, and similar makes sense. The CRA currently seem to to hold non commercial entities or individuals who are not making claims and explicitly going out of their way to disclaim liability responsible. That does not make sense to me and seems counter productive to the goal of safe software as well as a productive economy.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/enterprise-software/
This post about low code seems to be about companies using the wrong tool for the job.

I would be interested to know which low code tools the blog author has actually used, and what they see as the viable alternatives are?
It will be interesting to see how robust their signature cryptography will be. Hopefully strong, otherwise this is just further metadata to manipulate.
have you customized your results and lowered or raised many domains?
But for a completely different customer segment too.
Yeah, if one typed “YouTube downloaded cli” you the results the author was thinking.

It seems like the author wants to search to read their kind without specifying what kind of YouTube downloaded they want
In our system every node gets inlet water at the same temperature via parallel piping, but when it’s in node, it goes through processors first, then RAM, then PCIe and disks. Delta T between two sockets is 5 degrees C, and the delta T between input and output is around 15-18 C depending on load.
> Game theory is useless if you don't understand the interests of all the relevant players in a polity and even in an authoritarian regime like Russia or Saudi Arabia there are a LOT of them.

Game theory can be applied to infer interests when behavior and context are known as well as to predict behavior when interests and context are known (it can also be used to infer hidden elements of context when interests and behavior are known.)

So, no, its not strictly useless when interests are unknown.
It does seem intuitive that you'd be able to, I can certainly understand how you'd think that. But no!
It is difficult to reconcile the actions of political movements falling into despotic trajectories.

We lived in an age of false kings, great bandits, and imbeciles.

=)
> Moreover, direct conflict between two nuclear-armed states isn't something we've ever done before. Nobody wants to go down that road.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kargil_War
Listen to customers. Learn their business. Help their business be better. There is a difference in asking and doing what they want vs listening and synthesizing.
Bullets take the same amount of time to fall as if you dropped it!
Reader mode might do the job.
Reading this, really reflects how I think about rewinding my day. Scary stuff to me. I would prefer a light version of that. Maybe aggregated data, more then screen time from Apple tho.

Is there a tool recording your browsing behavior. That would be smth I'd try for starters :D
I absolutly take it for granted. Thats why im suprised about the hype
yes, that's why they remain a superpower. If you have the ability to make life on earth extremely unpleasant for all of humanity, that's super power status. Even just having nuclear weapons isn't enough for that- you need large numbers of fusion bombs -- which Russia has, and the US has, and no one else does.
The people born in Palestine or Ukraine don't want to build a new country in the ocean using limitless energy. They want to stay in their homes. The same is true for most people, I'd wager.
The US War in Iraq was not due to misinformation. Misinformation may have sold it to the public, but to give the people responsible for that war a pass, as if they were just mislead, is .. well it's just covering for their actions.
Why do you exclude the value of the pizza delivered?

It isn't like they only got $20 total...
the saudi military is kind of a joke. They have a bunch of expensive gear, but their soldiers aren't particularly well trained or motivated.
Ask HN: Looking for People to Build the Next Generation of AI "Front-End"
Disclaimer:This might be a lame post and in all honesty,I do think chances of success are quite less as there is a lot of completion in this area.Please keep in mind the the concept is aimed toward mass consumers whose use cases are often similar

The Concept:
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are advancing at a rapid pace. However, the ways these models are currently advertised and used aren't completely showcasing their full potential. This is particularly noticeable with open-source software (OSS) models. These models are becoming as powerful as leading alternatives, but they are generally run by smaller teams with fewer resources and this leads to lack of marketing aimed towards mass consumers

Take Mid-journey as an example. The need for users to interact with it via Discord complicates the user experience and makes it harder to interact directly with the model(as far was I know!)

If these OSS models were paired with a custom-built frontend , we could make them more intuitive and user-friendly. and less boring.Such a platform is easier to market and more effective as it is giving a one stop solution to majority of the needs of the. consumer.Furthermore, a custom API client could be developed to facilitate the use of different OSS models, taking into account a variety of conditions.This can lead to less computation time and less costs.

Other Information: Obviously The above text has been simplified to keep the overall text short. If you are interest in joining as a co-founder or a founding team member, You can reach out to me at my email lightofheaven9001@gmail.com I would love to learn and grow as a person so if you are interested in AI,I would like to hear from you.
did anyone say it was not an act of hostility?
You have to understand the US position and the assistance the US provided first and then this question makes less sense. We ran their airborne refueling ops used in many of the strikes for years for a start.

No opinion of this being good or bad is made with this comment
DNS Block: Canal+ Sues Cloudflare, Google and Cisco to Fight Piracy
""If I'd asked my customers what they want, they'd have said a faster horse.
" - Henry Ford" - Steve Jobs
Your reasoning seems to assume the U.S. has near-infinite power to wage war. Rather, right now the U.S. is stretched thin in Middle Eastern waters. They can't move their ships far from where they have them already without major strategic sacrifices.
So Germany can build insulated windows that fit into historic houses, but in san fransisco its impossible?
Brink of Utopia: Reinventing Innovation to Solve the Largest Problems
Externally canceling a task at a location other than a known stopping point is used as an example here, but in most environments doing this is a known-bad design decision, since the terminated thread-or-task might have been holding a mutex, and now that mutex is stuck closed forever. .NET has been closing the door on this primitive for years (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/compatibility/...)
Anyone who's been paying attention knows that Tether is an opaque money-laundering scam, and it's only a matter of time before it totally unravels. The only reason Tether is making noises about cooperating with the US government is because they're being told in no uncertain terms that their continued near-term existence depends on it. Check back in a year.

[1] https://amycastor.com/2023/12/28/crypto-collapse-mt-gox-payo...

[2] https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/12/06/bitcoin-goes...
Do you commute to work in a car, or on horseback?
An "easy" response against the houthis would not be particularly effective -- lob a bunch of cruise missiles at them, which would be more annoying than anything else. An "effective" response would be the full shock-and-awe treatment -- wiping out their air defense, followed by a massive bombing campaign that destroys their ability to fight. Then -- what next? Yemen's in the middle of a civil war as it is... does the US then have a responsibility to stabilize it to prevent a humanitarian crisis? And then how does Iran react? Do we have to get into war with Iran, too? And then presumably hezbollah would launch a war against Israel.
Decision Table Patterns (2020)
Related: Decision Table based Methodology for Software Development - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38821708
It’s not a thing. The comment is (appropriately) facetious.
Could you expand on what does "web gui for configuration" mean?

Do you mean that CF came with a default system to create db-backed configurations with some pre-built UI?

That seems cool but somewhat nasty to deal with when having different environments.
Classic mistakes in product management:

1) assuming the user understands what they want/need - this is rarely the case. Figuring out what they really need is your job.

2) assuming that what you are building is something the user wants - until people use it, you have no proof for this. Lots of startups fall into the trap of building stuff that nobody wants or needs.

3) assuming what users ask for is actually what they need - always figure out why they are asking for this, whether they are actually going to use it if you build it (I've had cases where we built stuff that was never used), and what it is worth to them.

4) assuming that what your sales people say the customer wants is actually what they want or need. This one is tricky. I've had sales people go "unless you build X, I can't close the deal" and then you build X and it doesn't make a difference. Reason: the sales person's analysis was wrong.

Especially with new products, figuring out if it is something users want is tricky. Do users actually like the new thing? They won't be asking for it because it is a new thing. You have to pitch and explain the thing to them and even then they still might not get it. Only when you show them the thing and they like it will you get some confirmation that this might be something they want/need.

The classic example is selling cars when they were invented is that all customers ever asked for was faster horses.
Not exactly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_effect#In_external_ball...

can make ULR bullets drop faster or slower depending on crosswind direction and strength.
That's just ivory tower wishful thinking.
no idea but seems to be this one, +500 comments: https://old.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/18urvll/nasas_rot...
Unlocking SVT-AV1's Encoding Potential: Optimizing for Animation
This blog post on the Codec Wiki by encoder Trix presents extensive benchmarking of SVT-AV1 1.8.0 on animated content using both objective metrics and subjective image comparisons (the subjective part is coming soon). Short high-quality anime clips were encoded directly with SVT-AV1 across a range of settings. SSIMULACRA2 visual quality scores and encoding speeds were measured for each encode, along with bits per pixel to calculate encoding efficiency. The results are presented through graphs showing metric scores and speed, alongside comparison images enabling subjective evaluation of visual quality (again, comparison images coming soon for subjective analysis). This rigorous testing methodology provides insightful analysis of how SVT-AV1 performs when encoding animation.
Random compression-related story time:

I once had to run a program hundreds of times and capture all the stack traces to help the author catch a stochastic bug. I zipped up all the stack traces and sent the resulting file to the author. The compressed file was only a few dozen MB, and the uncompressed stack traces all together were only a few hundred MB... on my ZFS filesystem with compression enabled. When the author unzipped the file on their end, they were surprised to find around 10 GB of very repetitive stack traces.
I wish understanding what the customers actually want (or even better, what they will want) were more valued in the tech world. I have a peculiar knack for it, which has extended from web design to data analysis and even tough medical conversations. One would think it to be something valuable, but instead bosses seem to value a slavish "drive into a brick wall" conformation to their orders over foresight and insight.
Yes, that is indeed the main use case.
Just a tad opinionated :)

Instead of a bit-grinding processor raping and plundering data structures, we have a universe of well-behaved objects that courteously ask each other to carry out their various desires … Examples of success in this area include LISP, which is built on the model of linked structures; APL, which is built on the model of arrays; and Smalltalk, which is built on the model of communicating objects. In each case, large applications are viewed in the same way as the fundamental units from which the system is built.
> The USS Gravely and USS Laboon responded to the incident, with the USS Gravely successfully shooting down two anti-ship ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen.

Surely this is a defensive measure against the next incident, rather than a response to this one?
Consider yourself part of the sizeable group of vocal folk then.
> I really hate the advice of don’t build something before validating. That has literally never worked for me.

> It’s so easy to sell something that people just get at first glance because it’s actually good at solving their problem, because you had faced that same problem and decided to do something about it.

What am I missing? You did validate it. You were the (prototype) customer, were you not?
this is a minecraft group of college founders.
Come ask around in here, if you'd like?
https://discord.gg/tVX4ATqq
Wi-Fi consortium to the researchers: Stop trying to make fetch happen.
After saying that it's a dynamic general-purpose, actor language, the introduction talks about spacing style, comment style, naming and purity.

That's very lackluster. Show me a Fizzbuzz or an advent of code. Tell me a story of why it exists.

Now the only discussion I can have is why are there no reserved words and can we call our functions and variables "set", "call" and "def" then?
I guess? If I were in his position and worked in technology (he doesn't, see sibling comment), I'd be worried about skill degradation.

I've never been hired because of my resume, though that definitely helps with an interview. There was always a skills test.

I suppose you could grind leetcode or otherwise cram for a skills test, though. You definitely have enough time during the week.
The conversation often goes like this.

creating UI's in VB6 was so much faster and easier than html+css

yeah, but they're not reactive to resolution changes.

me: but they could have been updated rather than throwing them away and going with the complexity of today's solution.
Ask HN: How often and what permissions does a junior dev needs for his work?
Hi, I am trying to understand the approval process of permissions like GitHub, jira, azure etc. so how often and what kind of permissions do devs require to go about their daily tasks?
I cook at home a lot. I'm no chef but I've been cooking for decades so I'm not terrible at it. I can and typically do about $10/day per person. It's not what I'd ever describe as luxurious. Good yes, healthy yes, but luxurious no.

But you're not wrong there's a wide gulf between a $50 restaurant meal and a $10 home cooked meal. That gulf shrinks when you account for your time cooking and cleaning.

Which gets back to the original point, the value of a subscription isn't a function of the raw cost of it but the delta between the alternative and the subscription.

A $50 dinner costs more than a home cooked $10 dinner. But if the inconvenience of cooking and cleaning "costs" you $15 worth of effort because your time is worth something then it's only twice as much as the home cooked meal. So the actual additional "cost" of the restaurant meal is $25 because you need to spend $25 of time and materials for dinner anyways.

That calculus changes depending on how you charge yourself for time spent cooking and cleaning. In terms of subscriptions if a subscription costs you $10 a month but you'd spend $5 a month doing that thing by hand a subscription might be worthwhile if it offers $5 or more of convenience of time saving. You need to judge the subscription on the delta between it and doing the thing yourself.
Sounds similar to this: https://github.com/akavel/up
> all rocket companies compete with paper rockets

I don't understand this statement. In this bid, SpaceX is competing with a real, proven and profitable rocket family. Everyone else is competing with vaporware?
I'm so sorry. My comment got mangled.

Color theme and polish feel really good.
iPhone 13 iOS 17.3
> The classic example of selling cars when they were invented is that all customers ever asked for was faster horses.

I look at the Segway as a counter example. Maybe people really did just want a faster way to walk through a city. No offense to Dean Kamen —- he has a very impressive set of accomplishments.

I fully support performing user studies to better understand the problem domain and the feature space. I think your bullet points illustrate some of the challenges in finding the right balance. Unfortunately, I’ve run into way more Segway builders than I have car inventors. They build something based on founder intuition or just bad user studies and then glibly dismiss customer requests as calls for faster horses. I lack the time, energy, and desire to adapt to whatever custom workflow is added because I supposedly don’t know my domain well enough to know what I want.

There’s probably a B2C and B2B split in there, but I’ve never seen that distinction made in application of some of this advice. I know you aren’t advocating for the outright dismissal of user feedback, but I’ve seen that interpretation time and time again. I’d love for us to get a new metaphor or apocryphal story.
Its no more ivory tower wishful thinking for the other applications than for predicting behavior; they are all idealized in that one never has certain knowledge in any of everything relevant in any of the dimensions.
I'm the lead developer of zrok. I've also had a habit of building static site generators over the years. Might be an interesting little crossover possibility.

There's a bunch of zrok stuff in the pipeline that's way more important to get to first... but maybe down the line we can support some kind of extension mechanism in zrok and static site generators could just sort of snap right in...

Stuff to think about anyway.
AI Is Scarily Good at Guessing the Location of Random Photos
You are not the only one. Every parallel user has to fight moreutils
Like most nations, makes sense
Same here, I was curious about Kagis low ranking, and couldn't replicate the search results. Also saw ublock Origin on #3, good results for tires, transitors and snow, etc. I've never used any of the Kagi search result weighing features.

Ctrl+F on the page for "System prompt" doesn't show any hits. Given how important those are for ChatGPT (another thought - was the author testing GPT3.5 or 4?) I'm not sure how much weight to put into the ChatGPT results either.

Not sure how much I can take away from this comparison.
Ask HN: What were your 2023 moonshots and why you didn't achieve them.?
What were your moonshots you had for 2023 and why didn’t you achieve them?

For me, 2023 was the year I was going to go into business for myself, but family, health and finances shot that down pretty quickly (mostly fixed interest period of a mortgage coming to an end, plus a knee surgery)

Go on air tour dirty laundry, own it and use it to move forward in 2024..
Their model names are outstanding as well.
These are not in the same realm. An extra $10 on a $500 or $1500 ticket that you ride maybe once a year is not the same as going from $0 to $10 every single month.
Why wouldn't they say faster travel?