skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I investigated. I don’t think it works well that direction. It is appealing and you can see some elements of it in my current design, though that’s a particular part I’m still unsure of.

It gets way too complicated real quick and a lot of things you _dont_ want to expose in documentation. It’s better to generate docs from a spec than the other way around, I’m pretty sure of this now.
People need to live within their means and save emergency funds, and develop marketable skills and positive work ethic.
I predict AI will make virtual reality finally take off, and it will open new worlds. I don’t really know what that will mean for humanity, culture, and the economy.
I have to admit a weakness for reading not-quite-crackpot-but-likely-wrong theories. In particular, big fan of Julian Jaynes and The Development of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bi-cameral Mind, and the aquatic ape hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_ape_hypothesis

I get that they're probably not true, but I do enjoy reading novel thinking and viewpoints by smart people with a cool hook.
not necessarily, I think translators that work in high stakes scenarios will remain people, such as notarized translation of documents, while others, like the ones from Duolingo can be replaced more easily
Prolog is dead? I was thinking of learning it.
This looks more like a case study of program language use for a specific set of scientists.

Can someone explain why Fortran remains popular within the scientific community and not elsewhere?
One counterexample for why I think it's not always the best approach is that there are sometimes disproportionate rewards for being right when everyone else is wrong.

Doing so, however, requires you to take an idea seriously before it has gone through analyses so extensive that everyone else believes the same idea too.
There are different types of yoga in the Gita
We only seem to know or care about the commercialized version of hatha yoga promoted by gyms.
AI isn’t vaporware, but in my view there is a massive AGI bubble right now.

Everyone is attributing high level reasoning and intelligence to LLMs and quite frankly there is little evidence for this being the case.

There is almost certainly an AGI winter coming.
To actually think this requires nothing but raw ignorance of the creative process.
Yes, collaborator is a nice way to put it.
I have had the (dis)pleasure of spending a bit of time near Brussels with some people that do "work" tightly related/linked to EU stuff.

This is EXACTLY what it feels like; and in most cases it was pretty clear to me that those people cost more money to society than any kind of "value" they were bringing.

But the whole thing is politics anyway, so outcomes are kinda irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. To me it looks like a prototype of some sort of new communist system, where the "leaders" choices are completely disconnected from the rest of the population...
It doesn't make logical sense but this is currently a big meme in social sciences. If you follow anthropology you'll see many similar quotes so I'm not surprised it spilled over into archaeology as well by now.

The best part is when you look them up, it turns out the researcher who said this is European, from France.
Yeah for 'a dead language' there would only be ALGOL, PL/1, and not much else. Excluding really niche languages that never made it out the research lab in the first place.
This is where things start being human and not only technocratic. If I, the user, have (only) an iOS device - how can I do this re-linking? I can't. I must get permission from (Apple Developer Account), buy a Mac, and re-sign binary blobs.

"The user wouldn't be able to then run the recompiled application, on their device" - I think that's where we get into the spirit of the license. It's pretty clear the license was not written to mean "here's some bytes, we write a lot about the freedom of the user" all for it to end with "can't run it though".

I can't understand someone carefully reading the LGPL license and then thinking, "great fit for a locked down app store distribution!"

I rather think that because LGPL historically saw a lot of use for platforms where this is not a problem, like Windows, where all this relinking is pretty doable, people just assume its fine on iOS.
> you are living in an alternate reality if you don't agree with the fact IRC is mostly dead.

200K daily users[1] would disagree

> no enterprise is using i seriously

No surprise. I'd hate to use IRC for anything related to work.

> chat platforms of course don't use it

Twitch still uses IRC.

> niche/hobbyists have long since moved to discord and reddit.

Many popular open-source projects, gaming groups, youtube channels, and forums still use IRC.

[1]: https://netsplit.de/
Tell HN: GitHub broke feeds for individual commits
We can append .atom to certain GitHub URLs to get a feed for that page. For example, this is the releases page for Homebrew:

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/releases

If we append .atom:

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/releases.atom

We can now subscribe to be notified of releases in an RSS reader.

This used to work for the commit history of individual files. Let’s say we wanted to be notified for changes to Homebrew’s python alias. First we’d open the commit history page:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commits/master/Aliases/python

Then append .atom:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commits/master/Aliases/python.atom

Except now it returns JSON output. Not only does this prevent checking for changes to individual files in an RSS reader, the extension is misleading. If you have any scripts that parse the feed or are tracking changes to any file in an RSS reader, those are now broken.
They are not particularly fast, but for just ride comfort they are superb. Both the Sienna and the Pacifica have very comfortable seats and very good noise dampening.

But because their profile is much more aerodynamic and they are lower to the ground, they just drive very smoothly. Especially when covering long distances on the freeway.

It's also amazing to be able to open every door and control every feature with a physical button on the dash and be able to haul full sheets of plywood in the back.

My personal cars have all been sporty little manual hatchbacks, but if I just wanted all out comfort it's really hard to beat a well equipped mini-van.
I'm kinda suprised how accurately those early images depict what actually happened. The drilling machine, the way the tracks are in the tunnel.

They didn't have the tech yet but it was pretty accurate IMO.
>How much do current AIs contribute to their own development?

Really a pretty fair amount these days as AIs can contribute to their own training data. In addition they've got pretty good at measuring their own success. In the past for example, if you had a robot hammer hitting a nail, you'd have a person judging the quality of the strike, but now you can face a few cameras at it and self judge far better. Yea, you still need some people around, but the amount required has dropped a lot.
Let’s not over romanticize the starving artist. There are plenty of creative people who could create good, worthy art if they had the means and support to pursue it fully. It’s not a moral failing to have a need to make a living, especially if others are relying on you.
The very first A320 demonstration flight _and_ one of the first A330 flights both crashed and killed multiple people due to issues with the autopilot programming. The whole “if it’s not Boeing, I’m not going” thing was because of distrust around the fly-by-wire system that Airbus used.

I guess all big companies eventually succumb to this fate. It sucks.
> There will be zero work, humans will be completely useless economically and we'll just have to hope that some how, all of this wealth is fairly distributed and we don't lose our minds from feeling completely useless.

That's delusional on a disturbing level. It's as if those people have no clue about the real world, or are willingly lying. All the wealth we have now, is not fairly distributed, and just having more to distribute won't change this. Unless they speculate on putting enough stress on the system to break it, and think it will lead to something better, because...?
Biden says "Report it right" and the media emits ooze to order.

This WSJ piece today is a reasonable example: "Americans Begin to Believe Inflation Is Cooling" https://archive.ph/apsHD
It figures Airbus wouldn't add a new production line for an aircraft first introduced in 1988 and for which a replacement could arrive in 2024 or 2025.
It's not really on Charlie, any more than he's the one making the lists. His mother wasn't like "OH, we should honor that Post Office lady, I like receiving letters and I bet she's somehow responsible for that". She just got a list with Paula's name on it, along with various crooks, financiers, consultants, political hacks and maybe the odd charity worker.

Issuing Honours is something a Monarch does, but like declaring War or deciding what Laws should govern the country, they don't actually make decisions, that's a government problem.

So long as the general public were barely aware of a problem, this could skate along as not important for years, but now lots of people are angry because they saw a TV show and for once when they said "Hey this is terrible!" instead of "It's just a TV show it's not real you idiots" those of us who were paying attention are like "Yes, so what are you going to do about it?" which as we've seen puts pressure on government to actually do something.
Agreed, I've been through something like this before and it was not legit. They'd compromised a Bangladeshi police email account and used it to try to get data out of us.
> This is a negative or low-vibration idea, I realize. Which is actually my point. If a policy causes one to go down these anger/fear/ego-based rabbit holes, then something is suspect with it. This is the litmus test I use.

This is brilliant.
They have been reporting on this story extensively for years.
Noone wants to cut during the holidays. I'm guessing most of these were decided months ago. You're just seeing them happen as people get back into the office.
I'd like to see some SpaceX veterans spin up a jet engine company. SX500 FTW
I would argue it is a very good thing.
Most “bad” things historically have been created by those clamouring for progress and justice.

Like Bukowski said

those who preach peace do not have peace

beware the preachers

beware the knowers

beware those who are always reading books

I would extend it as

those who preach justice are not just

those who preach rationality are not rational

those who preach correctness are not right

And those who preach progress are against change

/edited for readability
Edward Jay Epstein, investigative journalist and skeptic, dies at 88
Product Managing to Prevent Burnout
Because the most convincing argument is not necessarily the most correct, nor does comparing one argument to another discriminate truth from lies.
Perhaps the net effect is ostensibly positive, given the greening and habitation of that blighted area in CA.
I rather missed the point where he explains why immersive games are bad. There's some hand-wavey bit about "[they] don’t teach them anything valuable about the real world, and don’t relax them at all" but that appears to be it. The first bit is beside the point and the second hugely debatable.

Similar criticisms could equally be levelled at engaging with any creative output - reading, listening to music etc. And I love being out in nature but it's not teaching me much.

His other point seems to be "talented engineers could be doing something more important" which is slightly more valid but then everyone who isn't saving starving babies could probably be doing something more important.
My problem is I see this most frequently with debugging. It's like no one knows how to debug anymore. Read a runbook, google an error, try a few things.. no, just pester a senior.

When I find myself responding to juniors/mids with the same list of rote, problem agnostic, runbook responses .. and it actually helps them, it's unnerving. It's like the socratic method of debugging without them actually learning anything from the experience.
For one, this is not an announcement of 20K layoffs. It's an announcement of planned reduction in headcount as of 2026. Also, it's global workforce, not US. Also, go look at the BLS JOLTS data. Job separations happen by the millions every month even when we see net job growth. Seeing headlines about job losses at a particular company are only news as it pertains to that company. It doesn't imply a national or global trend.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.htm
Nov 2023 saw 1.5M involuntary separations (ie layoffs) in a month that saw a net of 200K new jobs.
Twitter loses your scroll position when you go from a Tweet thread to a reply thread, then come back. This is what the extension fixes.

Twitter does keep your scroll position when you go from a "top-level" view ("For you", "Following", ...) to a Tweet thread, then come back.
Yeah, with the loose bolts discovered in several planes after the door plug incident, and the recent Boeing advisory about possible loose bolts in the rudder control system, I imagine airline maintenance staff will start wondering what other screws may be loose in their planes...
“Today is the worst AI will ever be.” I’m gonna steal this one. I can’t say the same about web development, for example, or the US political landscape, or climate change, or mental health, etc.
The Castle Game engine is not mentioned often, but it looks pretty mature from the screenshots and has been in active development for many years. Most recent news update was a few weeks ago. I have not gotten around to try it yet. Only started playing around with FreePascal a bit last year after not having used Pascal at all for some 25 years.

https://castle-engine.io/
https://wapo.st/47xn4fk
Private equity playbook
yeah it's called hard to introduce backdoor dualism in modern philosophy

"hard" is the new way of saying "beyond physical", the new transcendent plane
Or the minimum wage gig worker is the robot. If we ever get neural interfaces working well maybe the AGI could control our motor functions. Maybe not full control, I don't think most people would be comfortable with that but think of shooting a gun. If the worker points the gun in the right general direction and the AGI add some fine tuning to turn them into an expert marksman...what army wouldn't turn all their conscripts into marksman? Basically the aim assist bots in video games but for real world.

It could be used to let gig workers perform surgery, play in an orchestra, be actors in a movie.
you can tell someone lives in California when the most-used assistant feature isn't asking about the weather
from the video, I got the impression that cloudflare has a pretty standard 3 month ramp up period which, for her, ended right about thanksgiving. so it's not 5 months with no sales, it's a little over a month. and that month has two (three) major holidays that knock out ~2 weeks. so 5 months is suddenly more like ~3 weeks.

and, if every 1:1 with a manager has been glowing and then you get fired 'for performance', there's been a massive failure somewhere.
Betavolt new nuclear battery can last 50 years with the need for charging
I agree, but in practice now I've come to see that this is an extremely difficult point to discern. As the vast majority of findings flow in as a trickle, there often isn't a large enough delta to identify as a launching point for asking for help. For example, if one continues to search, they will keep finding breadcrumbs leading them to the solution. It is painful to me when someone spends 3 days looking for a solution to a problem that is very custom and unique to our system (so they're not gonna find the answer anywhere on the internet), and one I could solve in 5 minutes, but you don't know what you don't know, so as a new person learning it is almost never clear at what point it is ideal to ask for help. Compounding all of this is that many personalities don't like to be bothersome to other people, and that can cause them to hesitate to ask for help, which further sends them on the search between small deltas. It's a very hard problem.
> Could you give an example of a different avenue we could pursue?

FOSS.
I think the first roadblock to this method is the grey area for liability. I feel like a lot of the value to qualifying people for trade work is less about getting the work done and more about maintaining a chain of accountability. The AR tech can absolutely be uses, and I think is currently used in some places, but the person using it will likely still need to be an employee of a company willing to accept 100% of the risk. I wonder what we'd have to do to get around that

Some examples:

Something goes wrong even though you did what it told you to do, but it didn't account for something specific to your situation, but the fine print says you were supposed to provide info on any non-standard circumstances, but you aren't qualified to know what needs to be said.

Or it asks you to do something surprisingly difficult that you don't know is outside your limit until you're in the thick of it - like holding something down with a lot of pressure and your hand slips causing damage or injury.

Or you do the whole thing and everything seems fine, and then later it breaks and causes damage/injury, the cause is linked back to your work so now fault needs to be assigned/split between you and the AI.
Rate cuts are not a given with the hotter CPI print this month
Everyones products/lives are built on theft. I mean you paid for that alphabet right, and understanding those forces of physics?
I always get a chuckle when people asked if these are used in commercial projects.

The answer is yes, they are in millions of devices.
We're building an iot product based on the esp32c6. The rust support is fantastic, making it a good choice to write stable firmware for it.
Theres no closure here though. Searching for it will just lead to disappointment.
I didn’t even see Pascal on that list. Certainly not dead. Lazarus just had a release the other day.
Show HN: Travel eSIM with unlimited validity (data only)
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> This is the correct Bayesian action: if I know that a false argument sounds just as convincing as a true argument, argument convincingness provides no evidence either way. I should ignore it and stick with my prior.

If two diametrically opposed arguments are equally convincing, it's not intuitive to me that the "correct" solution is a middle ground. Especially if both argument state that a middle ground is not possible.
The Fed's suggestion of 3 rate cuts down to 4.5% are still quite high compared to the period of a decade of essentially ZIRP that preceded it.

The futures market expectation of 6 rate cuts is likely equivalent to a bet that there will be a recession by the year's end.

Either way you have "end-of-cheap-money" conditions or "recession" conditions and so the ZIRP-fueled hiring boom needs to get reversed.

Honestly I don't think there's much of a distinction and that the end-of-cheap-money leads to these kinds of layoffs which will eventually trigger a recession, combined with vulnerable sectors of the economy (commercial real estate, private equity) popping.

For all the fanfare that we've managed to hit a soft landing, the historically based fed-cycle recession predictions were always that a recession typically comes 6-12 months after the Fed STOPS hiking rates -- which means this July.
You'll excuse me if I think the Professor probably knows a bit more about the field and its internal politics than the commenters here.
2023 was the warmest year on record, by far
I thought it wasn't that the data types were hard to express but the dynamic nature of messages across nodes...
One concern is supply chain and working with a Chinese company. If you build something that has to guarantee a 10 or 20 year supply some companies might balk at the ESP32. I think Espressif has jumped over into the "reputable" pool but it could still be a concern.
I just developed a Chrome extension using a content script, very similar to this extension.

Extension author, question: What was your process for getting updates from the content.js script loaded into the browser for testing? Was it reloading the extension through chrome://extensions?

The only thing I found that could work was changing the content script and reloading the extension through chrome://extensions. I didn't see any type of "shortcut" available. Frustrating, and increased time on my change/test feedback loop.

It got to a point where I moved the core logic from my extension into a separate npm package where I got it working through unit tests. Then my browser extension became primarily working with the DOM, and incorporating the results from my package.

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This sounds like a very useful addition to Linux - https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/entities/publication/b6b6cb90-417...
The experiment in question happened over 60 years ago. This was before the War on Drugs, before the hippies, and before most people had any familiarity with these drugs.

Public attitudes were very different. And the attitudes of Christians today are largely shaped by political battles that had not yet happened. Thus your current experience is not a good predictor of how easy it was to find Christians back then who would have been willing.

In fact I used to know some very conservative people who were exposed to LSD back in that early era. (They were old back when I knew them, and are dead now.) And based on what they told me, I would predict no resistance to such an experiment in 1962.
Such as? (Bearing in mind the ECHR)
Thus the willingness to allow the Red Sea to be shut down. We'll be happy to sell people the oil they might have bought from OPEC.

I wonder: The last few years have had lots of stories about "oil leases cancelled / new auctions cancelled" ... are we sucking our existing wells dry without opening new ones?
My dad has a little gadget for his big green egg that monitors and adjusts the temperature by controlling a small fan at the air intake. You can check the temperature over WiFi either through their app or on a very basic webpage the device serves. I peeked inside once and it's definitely a basic ESP8266 module mounted to a board. It's the perfect module for this kind of application. An ESP32 would be a little bit of overkill for this kind of application unless you wanted to add a display or some other extra processing load to the hardware. A module from Nordic would also be appropriate.
The part I like most is how every time I buy something I then get ads about that exact thing.

Mate I've already bought the thing, I'm not making a collection, and I'm not buying a $200 ham every other week either, that was a christmas gift you goof.
So did the shoe and sock.