skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Crazy AI/"CoPilot" challenge: have a GPT build an app on Git posts to HN
Could one have a GPT/BOT (what are we calling these going fwd, GPTs?) - with a prompt:

Build me an app that does [X] but only use open code sources from GIT posts to [SITE] (HN, in this example.

Could one build a bot that catalogues then builds (apps/library/pip-y package thing) based on the inputs to a site such as HN?

(are these questions stupid? I think them constantly and I have been on the internet since 1996... I always look at how things could be better utilized)

Have a slurp of code and thoughts and discussions and train it to build based on those inputs?

Or a function-crawler that goes and catalogues examples, but classifies them based on the discourse in the function discussions...

This is how we can achieve an AGI with app build - go LLM the crawls for HN, SoF, and if you're in a FAANG - feed a crawler that will emerge with new interactions and apps that leverages all the old code?

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THEN

Present small re-enforcement apps across screens/interactions (email/txt/etc) - and get input

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Serious - I assume many are under NDAs where they cant reveal working on any such thoughts - or your own.

UPVOTE IF YOU ARE SURE YOUR COMPANY IS BUILDING SHIT THEY DONT WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT YET.
I here this a lot but in the North East at least those extra spots can be used during the winter for snow management.

Snow management can be done in other ways but that is a cost analysis exercise.
Ask HN: EMF Exposure from Starlink Satellites?
I’m trying to understand EMF exposure from Starlink satellites. Am I right to assume that anyone within the 15 mile cell area would be exposed to EMFs if someone is using a Starlink receiver?

In other words, if I had a millimeter wave meter would I be able to pick up any V/m in this 15 mile cell area?

Please reference the article below.

http://www.satmagazine.com/story.php?number=1026762698#:~:te....
Kudos to this person for forcing Italy’s hand on the definition of pizza, but the rest of the world moved forward ages ago

I had a pizza in Sweden once with banana, seafood and curry powder and honestly it was better than most of the authentic Italian pizzas I have tasted.
Right. Going back to the original message though, this doesn't say anything about whether or not this is the right path.

It's definitely a path.
It's not a loop, it's a spiral
The Nissan Leaf is a nice size for an around town EV. I currently have a twenty year old truck that I need for a side hustle, along with normal household and yard work, but I really hate using it for all those short trips to the grocery store, the library, and anything else nearby that doesn't involve moving around a large, heavy, or messy objects.

The economics of having a Leaf as a second vehicle just doesn't work very well, especially since my primary job is a remote work from home one which requires no daily commute. Used Leafs, even with batteries in terrible shape that will need an expensive replacement, are priced too high and the days of being able to add additional vehicles to an insurance policy for little cost appear to be gone. From an environmental point of view, using the truck for short trips probably is net better than having an entirely different vehicle, even if it's an EV, but it always feels wrong.
> This will drive up the price of apartment complexes that provide parking, pricing many people out, while doing nothing to eliminate the need for their cars

There is zero evidence for this. There is evidence for parking minimums raising housing prices.

I’m curious about the overlap between off-street parking minimum requirement advocates and anti-development NIMBYs who don’t believe in supply and demand.
Yeah, in the US, customers need permission from an optometrist.

Edit: When buying for nearsightedness.
The described technique of RAG is not only expensive, but also prone to hallucinations.

I would have liked more discussion on hallucinations, which is the ultimate pitfall of LLMs. This is critical for discovery-based public-facing chatbots.

I'm also very skeptical of real-world HyDE applications as they depend on the underlying model to properly answer the question, and can easily drift from the intention.
To be honest I just used the Shopify template for the website privacy policy. I think the policy overstates what’s happening, in reality there should be a cookie banner for EU users. (Yay…)

I admit that’s on me and I should clarify the policy.

I want to switch away from Shopify anyways, and then I will also try to find a way to attribute clicks to marketing campaigns that doesn’t involve 3rd party cookies.

I just didn’t have the time yet.
That's what I was taught. If you're doing 270 degrees in a roundabout, you signal left when entering, cancel in the roundabout and right when exiting.
Find startup/smaller companies, be totally honest about what happened and make your case. Large companies will filter you out during application/HR process itself.
Why do we always have hardening guides? Ain’t there any OS where an easening/loosening guide is needed instead?
I was thinking the same thing when I saw this. Thanks for finding the video! His early stuff is especially good.
Sure. Bad enough designs should not be allowed on the road.

But that's not the issue here. These cars are allowed on the road in Norway.

So traffic schools that only teach how to drive cars they like don't seem to serve their students well.
I’d wager that 52 room castle is cheaper than the average 4 bedroom stick framed house here in Southern California. They’re prohibitively expensive to maintain so no one really wants them. European governments have a maze of financial incentives to keep them from falling into complete disrepair.
Show the spaghetti?
Ask HN: Pydantic has too much deprecation. Why is it popular?
Almost all tutorials I see online (and ChatGPT's knowledge base) teach you Pydantic v1. There are numerous things that are deprecated during transition to v2 (@root_validator, @validator, using 'always', etc. are all gone now.). I even found a code example on its Github from November 2023 which now throws an error, saying that FieldValidationInfo is deprecated now, use <new_thing> instead...

I wanted to use something to validate user inputs to my API, but getting Pydantic right and then keeping it updated has been too much unnecessary work, which makes me wonder if you have also faced this problem and what your solution is?
Why not replace some on street parking with a dedicated bus lane and stops for such?

Two birds, one stone
Sell OSS software? The way OSS makes money is: hosting the service (good luck) or providing paid support (does not scale, unless u scale the number of your devs too).
Yeah.

Last I'd heard (2018?) they were researching the 3d printing business, but since their main site doesn't say anything to that note I have to believe it's not going too well.

https://patents.google.com/?assignee=Xerox+Corporation&sort=...
I learned a lot about Rust by making games with Bevy and writing down everything I learned: https://taintedcoders.com/

The smaller the game the more likely you are to finish. I usually started with making the movement fun and then developed some game like concepts around it.

I also highly recommend starting by making simulations instead of games as when you're alone they are still a blast to see come alive. Building boids is a fantastic exercise I do in any new engine.
Sorry let me amend my statement, I am against a diet that promotes malnutrition which is caused by influencers that don't know about nutrition. Deaths are commonly attributed to vegans from this propaganda, and they are common not a trend of influencers but a trend in general. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/ve...

Anyone who promotes this unhealthy propaganda should be treated with suspicion. The mockumentary propaganda was shot in the style of a documentary funded by vegan companies. So surprised by what we saw though fake science.
I'll look into the Sonos API. The problem I've found with other casting/streaming APIs (Google Cast in particular) is that it expects a single URL to stream from, whereas Ambiphone is just loading individual sound files and playing them simultaneously on your device. It should work fine over Bluetooth but I appreciate that's not the best experience with Sonos and other smart speakers
Ok, I understand what you are saying. Essentially, you would have liked different type of perturbations tested to get a baseline effect of how much a random perturbation can get people to agree. They did do this in what they call Experiment 3. Their control perturbation is simply the adversarial perturbation but flipped left/right. They claim this was to preserve perturbation statistics. Still, I think baselining against a control perturbation is not the point of the study. My takeaway of the study is that they give a constructive way of influencing human perception of images.

I understand that the concern could be something like "random perturbations of cat images make every image simultaneously less cat-like and hence more like anything else". My opinion is that Experiment 4 (making an image more cat-like or truck-like) covers concerns of this nature. Even if there are two random perturbations where one makes an image cat-like and the other more truck-like, it is completely arbitrary whether you label the perturbation as cat-like or truck-like (since they are randomly generated). That means, even if you measure a difference (and even if two random perturbations have larger differences than this construction!), you cannot control the direction. This method gives you a way to control it. Personally, I don't think this study is about measuring the influence over some baseline. It's about showing that you can indeed choose the direction of influence.
App hits 2k users, makes source code accessible for $20
good presentation. watched it a few weeks back.

> That isn’t what they do though. Defcon 30 shared what an actual Darknet user did.

and he got arrested, and did actual prison time. now it sounds like it wasn't all his technical opsec that got him in trouble, but just cuz some dude played fast and loose doesn't mean they all do.

the ones who ain't been caught are probably a lot stricter... or a lot more lucky.
Yes, always check when the device was released before buying a Chromebook. They get 10 years of updates after release, 8 years for models released before 2021.
The city I live in added "transit oriented development" a few years back along with a bus rapid transit along the same area.

The results appear to be a full bus, the whole sale replacement of one and 2 story buildings along the bus line and a general consensus in the city that it worked pretty well.

We just approved ending parking minimums and by right auxiliary housing units, read anyone can put in an apartment over their garage, this summer so the jury is out on it as yet city wide.
Why Is This Roundabout Modelled on Star Wars? (Auto Shenanigans) [video]
> When you're living in a place that's designed with cars in mind,

Being born in a place is a lottery with random chance deciding the rules for you. Sure, as an adult, you can potentially choose to leave for the less green pasture and live in an urban environment of city designed for other means of transpo if you're one that doesn't mind moving away from their entire familial support structure. Not say it can't be done, but people just assume these decisions are something people are willing to make just because they did. It's nonsensical.
Have you tried taking her to a doctor?

This sounds like an immense burden and impact on quality of life for which modern medicine has likely already found a solution.
On one hand, I appreciate Muratori showing that loading code into your program dynamically isn’t actually difficult. On the other, the hard part of general hot reloading on systems that have tried it (from Smalltalk to VC++ Edit-and-Continue) is migrating obsolete state—or at least reliably telling the user when you can’t, so as to avoid leaving them to debug a mad world that could never be encountered in a fresh run. As far as I remember, Muratori basically does not touch on that at all.
We just need C99 with compiler flags that define the undefined behavior. Basically just turn off strict aliasing and force the compiler to assume 2's complement as the signed integer representation. The -fno-strict-aliasing and -fwrapv flags fix a lot of problems.

There's been some pretty good quality of life features introduced by recent standards. Just backport them to C99 or something.
Anything is possible, but I don't think judgement of visual aesthetics maps at all to quality of writing.

I'm a damn good technical writer and can break down complex ideas into clear and understandable prose, but I don't know the first thing about fonts or typesetting.
checkr
I am simply using the well-known UN population forecast here...
' Oldest Pyramid' in Indonesia? A Study Draws Skepticism
Those circular color displays look incredible! I had no idea these things were available, but outlets like adafruit have them in stock. Amazing.
Weight (and the battery capacity to deal with it) is a major factor in EVs; we should be seeing things like Ford Focus wagon EV, Honda Fit EV, Toyota Corolla EV.

But everything we have now was planned assuming zero interest rates forever and that consumers will always demand more technology regardless of what it does.

Have y'all seen the photos of the new version of Apple Car Play in a Porsche? It's like nobody ever stopped and said "wait, is this a car that people are going to drive? Or a really uncomfortable workstation?"
unlike the dropbox case, my point isnt, "oh go and do it yourself" -- my point is why-t-f doesnt gcc/clang, etc have a obv-build-tool --live-rebuild option?

Or, more alarmingly, why are things like jrebel fawned over? Rather than, say, it being an embarrassment that java dx is worse than programming dx 30-40 years ago?

Why isn't the basic thing all OS do, ie., live reloading of code, a day-to-day essential element of all development?

I really don't know. But to be clear, it was 50+ yr ago, 40+ yr ago, 30+ yr ago --- and as of today, it's $100/yr subscription (lol?!)
>People here hardly read,

I feel it's not so much that people don't read, it's that people don't read books anymore in lieu of other mediums (most prominently social media) or methods (eg: watching television, playing games with a story component).

We all do plenty of reading in our lives, after all.
The externality is already accounted for there.
> There is zero evidence for this.

When most people need something, and there is suddenly a much smaller supply of that thing, prices for the now scarce but still needed thing tend to increase. That's basically self-evident.

If you have evidence that shows otherwise please feel free to provide it. I suspect that if examples showing otherwise exist at all they won't be remotely representative of the situation these cities will face.
For many cases yes. With llm based embeddings you get “semantic search”, so for example if someone searches for “pets” they will most likely get results that include “dogs” and “cats”. This is not the case for regular text search.
You’re being dense. He directly answered your question.
Nothing about this makes it a 'car free area'. They are saying no more arbitrary minimums. Nobody is saying parking is not allowed. You better believe businesses will still want parking for their customers. And a new apartment complex/condo is still going to have them to attract tennants.
Rails does better than the rest of the Ruby ecosystem without types because it has strong conventions, but if you’ve ever adopted a rails app that doesn’t follow these conventions (or follows different ones like in the 3.x days where they were less defined) refactoring things across an entire codebase can be a gargantuan task.

Following variable life cycles in Ruby in general is much harder than a typed language. There are tools like pry for this sort of thing, but that’s more work than just having types with good ide integration.
I think this is a prodigious feat at any age. I remember trying to write Hello World in Malbolge as a teen, I think I was able to do "He".
Besides his contribution to language design, he authored one of the best puns ever. His last name is properly pronounced something like "Virt" but in the US everyone calls him by "Worth".

That led him to quip, "In Europe I'm called by name, but in the US I'm called by value."
Yeah it sucks that you might have to pay for parking to do free activities like shopping or visiting medical services.
Autonomous, multiproperty-driven molecular discovery
Couldn't you do the same with Kindle samples? Seems lower effort.
Since Twitter is suppressing the visibility of tweets that link outside their site I think it would be perfectly fair to block links to twitter, rewrite them to nitter, etc. There also ought to be gentle pressure on people who post to Twitter to move to some other site. I mean, even I've got a Bluesky invite now.
I may have missed it, but what is the difference between `@scope (.card) { img {} }` and `.card img {}`? From an implementation perspective, I can see that scope might be calculated beforehand, so only that tree is searched for `img` elements (which would be faster than the default right-to-left way it's normally don), but is that the only real difference between these two selectors?
Newt: My mommy always said there were no monsters, no real ones, but there are.

Ripley: Yes, there are, aren't there?

Newt: Why do they tell little kids that?

Ripley: Most of the time it's true.

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But yes, I do believe this has a strong, serverless future.
Maybe these containers should be build for wasm-wasi instead of x86 from the beginning? Then there would be no need to emulate x86 in wasm
Good points.

The first point is probably true for most research in computer systems. Different systems have different constraints that make a simple design very complex or not possible.

Can you elaborate on the second point more? It feels to me that S3-FIFO is optimized for latency, throughput, and scalability than existing algorithms (e.g., with multiple LRU queues).
(It might have been 'Oz'-something.)
This basically doesn't happen, mostly an urban legend.
Orwell couldn’t imagine such an effective propaganda device. We aren’t hiding in a corner of the room to avoid the telescreen, we are all too eager to hold it a good 8 inches from our eyes every time we have 5 seconds of free time. No time left to even freely think.
Thermo Fisher halts DNA collection kit sales in Tibet
Not influencers, but I personally know a couple vegans who have brittle bones and one who is going blind (albeit she is in her 60s I think). Also these are vegans who cook almost everything from scratch and probably could qualify for a PHD in nutrition based on the amount of research they are continually doing.

The reality is you can have a somewhat healthy diet for a single generation on a vegan diet, if you source ingredients from all over the world and basically stretch the variety of plants you eat to the maximum, but if you lived 100 years ago you would have quickly become severely malnourished. And we don't yet know what the impact will be over multiple generations.
Laws against slander, libel, perjury, doxxing, threats of violence and false advertising? Child porn? Planning a crime?

Society is replete with restrictions on speech that are considered uncontroversial even amongst most die-hard libertarians. It's weird that standing up against neo-nazis always seems to be a bridge too far.

And this isn't even censorship. No one is restricting the speech of the nazis on Substack. Rather, people are choosing not to associate themselves with a platform that welcomes nazis. They're voting with their money and their feet. Free speech doesn't guarantee you a platform nor does it guarantee you an audience. If it's to be a market of ideas, then it's encumbent upon the proponents of ideas to negotiate with the market.

You might reply that these efforts are putting pressure on Substack and attempting to influence Substack to change their policies. And so what? That's a perfectly valid use of free speech, isn't it?
Well, if you want less family formation, then taxing it seems like a good start, but I think contrary to the goal here being discussed here.

I've kind of been down this thread a bit and I think heavy taxes on birth control might be the intervention that a pro-natalist authoritarian government might go for. Reading the article, it does sound like China is trying to tweak these levers. But at the end of the day, if you don't have a society that women are interested in raising children in, then I think it's just going to be very difficult.
To follow up your plugs, here is another one.

SDF once or twice a year always runs a month long event around Plan9 and even offers accounts on Plan9 VMs.

http://sdf.org/
What, specifically, do you think requires a strong man in this case?

Airplane overwing exit doors come in two types. The ones that you fully detach and throw out, which weigh less than the average passenger's suitcase [1]. The larger and heavier ones are spring-assisted so you can literally open them with one hand while seated [2].

[1] https://youtu.be/RCFzEg-t_Bk?si=xACVKqIvakrrJnaT at 0:25

[2] https://youtu.be/ZW4xaHN1otE?si=rr0kHUzrRSXJY3Pr at 0:20
> I don't like copilot and want a worse alternative [that can be used in perpetuity]

There’s replit-code[1], which is pretty much that I think.

[1] https://huggingface.co/replit/replit-code-v1_5-3b/
I love it!

I hate that most of these apps are subscription based for no good reason. This is so clean and nice...

One thing that would be awesome would be an option to preload and cache the noises. I regularly use white noise machines in offline situations (planes, remote camp ground), offline mode would make it the ultimate machine!
Please tell me that ‘ambiphone’ rhymes with ‘antiphone’ as my music teacher said it, rhyming also with ‘catastrophe’ or ‘Penelope’
The thing is... you don't drive a phone or a laptop, computers are not one of the most dangerous things we routinely operate.
On it! The Apollo 11 audio is all on archive.org [0] so I'll get some samples from that added

https://archive.org/details/Apollo11Audio
Thank you all for your perspective, and suggestions.

I was on a bad psychedelic trip, accompanied with some other issues at the time and ending up making threatening statements to a very high level official, but no battery occurred whatsoever. Thank goodness, or I would probably not be writing this message
I enjoy this kind of programming too! Here's one I made a while ago: https://cjstewart88.github.io/n/
The ticking clock being an actual clock is a nice touch.
"They" already have that tool, right?
Didn't have to be that way. At one point they had the gui & mouse when the rest of the world was using paper tape for computer I/O. It's all about vision & execution.
Your tool is too effective. It actually answered our questions. Don't you know the money's in treating the symptoms? Partial joke, yet interesting to see the jump to a result (weird when they're all about bias).

The suggestion's a cool idea. In addition to generic warning updates, you could also do "send me a summary" every time it appears. Kinda RSS feed summaries. Since they're integrating the news, they could also do full news coverage of the day summaries. Might actually be helpful for some people. Daily summary of "what happened in New Orleans yesterday?"
I am not a lawyer, but I understand that recording phone conversations without knowledge/consent is legal in Utah, at least, and some other states. My guess would be that meetings are similar.