skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, that is exactly what's the case with most homeless. Their mental health is in too much of a bad state that they could take care of renting a flat etc.

You can't just solve the problem by sticking them into flats; that might technically make them not homeless anymore, but at the same time fixes basically none of their problems.
Amazing, thank you for taking the time to make the site :)
Yep, the future is JS full-stack. Especially with stuff like Trpc, Next, Server Components. These frameworks just have much more options to integrate the frontend and backend nicely.
Readability and unfamiliarity are two different things.
Sure - gas companies such as Chevron, Woodside, Santos, et al have excess hydrogen to burn (that's the blue).

Oddly mining resource companies running huge billion tonne per annum truck fleets are pushing for green hydrogen as a night time buffer for daytime solar in order to save money in the longer term.

By sinking a billion or so into massive solar farms and hybrid truck fleets they save in the long run by paying less for energy to third parties (the Chevron, Exxon, et al. crowd).

These are the company statements made to stockholders by the likes of Rio Tinto, Fortescue Metals, and others .. so they carry the weight of legally binding statements of intent at least.

Still looking at a ten year transition, of course, but these a massive consumers of fossil fuel energy that are moving now to use renewables.
Do checkout Blindsight because is great, but the Portia reference is actually from the sequel Echopraxia (a good book, but inferior to Blindsight; I mostly remember it for the Portia reference).
I love helix, everything just works
For me personally this is a nice bit of absurdist humour that so few people cherish lately.
Was it common? Have you looked at the data? Or is this based off of Clint Eastward movies?
But those people are the kinds that we don't want anywhere near the good kind, nor anywhere close to our children. Hence why a lot of us feel like they should be, within reason, separated from the rest of us.
I get your point, but I don't agree. Following the privacy example, I'm not in favor of privacy just because bad actors could steal data from a company DB. I support privacy (and privacy regulations) because regular companies misbehave with that data. They have incentives to do so, they did it and continue to do it if they can. Reduce data theft risks is the cherry on the cake.
That won't fit into a ESP32, Arduino or embedded hardware with similar restrictions, leaving the space for C and C++, or the Basic, Pascal compiler vendors still enjoying that space like Mikroe.
The former is bad design, it has no gradual fallback and works in a terrifying way. It pulls binaries from MS servers and runs a headless vscode instance on the remote machine.
You are dead in the water if you target a machine/architecture it doesnt support.

You want to target FreeBSD? Linux on POWER or RISC-V? An old (ARMV6-TDMI) Raspberry Pi? Sorry, no remote work for you.

They are not an apple and pears comparison...
Except OpenAI kept pretending that they aren't a real "business" for quite a while.
but that's a browser problem, not a frontend framework issue. you'd have the same limitation without a frontend framework, wouldn't you?
The "global industrial system" is what took us out of the Middle Ages. You make it sound like it's a nefarious cabal out to destroy us.
That just means you never have the need for implementing a querying or search functionality. Range query and search are used everywhere and need ordered maps.

I'm not saying we should rush to adopt it right the way, but at least don't dismiss it hastily. It has some novel ideas to advance the art.
So the subscription model worked well for (some kinds of) software.
And yes, businesses want reoccurring revenue (they'd rather rent/lease me the car than sell it outright.)

But fundamentally, with software, something is on _offer_ for the subscription. In my case we use subscriptions to pay for ongoing support staff (which customers _want_) because we can't fund support from sales (that's not sustainable.) Support-pay-as-you-go is not popular because the person needing support needs it now (not in 30 days once procurement has signed off on it.)

Sure, there are subscription models for cars. There are also lots of cars that are sold outright. There are lots of cars sold on lease or HP basis. There are lots of models to choose from.

Chips have been running software (microcode) since forever. That software pretty much never changes, I certainly can't phone Intel for support, so I don't pay for a subscription on it.

Should you buy physical books, or just ebooks for your kindle? That's up to you. Some like one way, some like the other. Clearly the ownership is different. But then some people own a house, and some rent. I'm not sure any of this is new.
My wife gifted a course for me for my birthday. We know it was a little bit selfish (to get me to learn fancy coffee drinks rather than chase perfect espresso), but I enjoyed it and I learned a lot. It was directed at people who will actually be working professionally and I learned a lot of stuff I would not have learned otherwise.
Show HN: Translate Subtitles Using GPT
GPT-4 excels as a translator, but it often encounters issues with content warnings and formatting errors when translating entire subtitle files via ChatGPT. The solution is straightforward: divide the subtitle file into sections, focusing solely on translating the text and disregarding the timestamps. While it's feasible to have ChatGPT maintain the correct format, I've observed a decline in translation quality when attempting this in a single pass. My preferred approach is a two-phase method: first, translate the text, and then, if necessary, request ChatGPT to adjust the formatting.

To streamline this process, I developed a simple web application. Alternatively, one could manually refine the translations. The prompt is also customizable, allowing for more specific instructions. For instance, you can specify that certain words should be translated according to a provided dictionary.

Considering the cost of translation (approximately $1 for the GPT-4 model per movie), each user utilizes their own API token. The app makes requests directly to OpenAI, ensuring it's safe to share your token. This approach allows users to manage their expenses while benefiting from the advanced translation capabilities of GPT-4.

Source code is at https://github.com/afiodorov/subsgpt
Yeah, I think there's some deliberate mistakes in there for understated comic effect - e.g. "To this day [1x1.gif] is the only way to vertically center elements."

The joke (at least the DHTML one) is probably that only people who were developers then will know that's wrong. (Or I suppose this could have been written by someone who wasn't around at that time and this is a bit of faux nostalgia!)
Cut down on ultra-processed and sugar.
Took 12 sec to load on my phone.
Agreed.

I merely went halfway to frame out where it came from, how it has been used in history, and dodged the breakdown of how it became increasingly offensive post WWII.
> The majority of the underdeveloped world has no way to achieve that in the near term.

Why, though? Solar panels are becoming very cheap and induction stoves aren't necessarily high tech. Ikea makes this:

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/tillreda-portable-induction-coo...

Surely a cheap knock off could be made for $10-15 or something.
Honestly, in some ways, borderless tables for layout was nicer than grids and flex boxes.
It's also easy to wave a magical wand technological solution like desalination instead of looking into the issue more holistically: what is currently wasteful that we could make more efficient?

Desalination is just more waste of energy, it can be part of a solution but shouldn't be the solution. We really need to look into the natural systems we modified/interfered and figure out ways to be much more efficient with them. And that is what usually gets called "sustainable".

It's not being a mennonite, much rather the opposite: be smarter about what we use, extract more from less.
(let's see how this will age)

I am very healthy for my age. People look at me and they tell me I look 12-15 years less. I am not strong but I am lean. I don't smoke, drink, do drugs, I eat 'well'(?). My blood tests are great, I 'move' a lot. I do squats and push-ups every day (irrespective of going to the gym)

I don't fear for my body, that thing will take me to 110. I fear that my mind will give out at around 80(?) and I will live 30 years pissing and shitting myself in some 'home'.

So I starting considering my 'exit plan' in case I start losing my marbles. I don't want to be a burden to anyone, and waste any wealth to a nurse wiping my butt. I prefer to give as inheritance and/or donate anything I got, and then call it a day/night/life.
It is based on Mistral which llama.cpp supports, so I assume it does run (you might need to convert to GGUF format and quantize it).
Crime rates like that measure convictions, don't they? If police stop convicting for certain things (which has been a decades long trend), crime rates will go down.

IMO the only clear window into this are victim surveys.
> I'm not so good at grinding out tasks that just need to be done. I tend to try to find ways to avoid doing a lot of repetitive nonsense work, which means I usually try to find ways to automate it or negate the need for it.

Work on yourself, you're like everyone else. One of my boss used to say: if you enjoy doing it, it's not work. And it's kind of true, no actual job comes without annoying things to do. There is always something that you don't want to do that needs doing.

In my opinion, the key to this problem is to try and understand how and why your repetitive and annoying tasks are relevant to a broader "mission". Try to find a sense of accomplishment. Carpentry work is full of these repetitive tasks, but once you finish a project, it must feel pretty good.

The other solution is to take a job that is zero-thinking, pure execution, and do it part time, then tinker on the side. The zero-thinking job can be pretty meditative, if it's physical, can be good for your body too, and it brings some money in, so it can actually be good to reduce the stress level overall, and if you do it part time, you won't have a sense of losing your time that much.

Just some thoughts.
It's just poking fun at the overall dumb acronym.
> (mainly the STM)

Interestingly the clojure community at large does not really value or use it so much. I think even Rich Hickey commented on that at some point.
Human-AI Interaction – Is It Trust or Emotions That Mediates Behavior?
The 1x1.gif, I haven’t thought about that for a long long time!
Automating based on time has been possible for decades with a simple timer that switches the power for the device. Still no computer necessary.
And at least my purifier thinks 100% of the time that the air is perfectly clean no matter what, so in auto mode it would never run anyway.
"hacking tesla" is much broader than crashing a car that's self driving.

It's lifting secret keys that allow criminals to open any Tesla 'till an OTA update, or callback has been rolled out. For days exposing your Tesla+luggage to theft. Or just breaking stuff: imagine the flack of every tesla driver suddenly losing access to navigation or entertainment for weeks. Or camera access: imagine the outrage if hackers can record and publish anything done and said inside and around Teslas in the last months?
I have my doubts about the validity and reliability, but they're on the right track, I think.

Polarity and "directions":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39086848

Practice:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39065749
This is one of Hofstadter’s big ideas that he explored in his main work: GEB, Mind’s I, and I am a Strange Loop. The latter is a good intro to his work.
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky is probably the best sci-fi I've read in the last 10 years. Its won the Arthur C Clarke award and recently the series (the other two books in the series are also great) won a Hugo
LittleFS Design (CObW) – Combining advantages of COW and log-structures
> I had trouble finding benchmarks for Clojure vs. Common Lisp, but Clojure is basically just Java at runtime, so this[^3] will do.

If only it were that simple ! Clojure has no provision for compile time type checks, unlike Common Lisp running in SBCL. On the other hand Common Lisp running on JVM (see Armed Bear Common Lisp) could theoretically achieve those results because, but if we are including calls to host systems then Embedable CL could better it since it runs on top of C. The optimized Java in the benchmarks you quote in fact looks more like C or Cpp code. Im not informed enough to make a judgement if idiomatic Java even looks like that. Idiomatic SBCL (as opposed to just idiomatic Common Lisp) code does look like the versions achieving best results, because people often use SBCL for compiler optimization

> The benchmarks I could find had Java beating SBCL on most benchmarks,

Most of the benchmarks are actually quite similar - ie within the margin of error. Most of the times when Java did beat SBCL by a somewhat more significant margin I noticed that Java's submission used multi-threading whereas that particular submission for SBCL didn't, so the difference isn't so much as Java vs SBCL, but algorithm a vs algorithm b.

Also, as far as I can remember, it is worth mentioning that there was some controversy over some SBCL submissions. One of the submitters had solutions which saw SBCL beating C, Cpp, Zig, and Rust on some of the numerically intensive benchmarks, however their submissions were rejected later for using a SIMD library which at the time was not yet part of SBCL, but now it is.
Isn't asbestos safe until it breaks.
But what happens in water leaks?

Is there anyone that is using asbestos in new developments or is it phased out and just "laying there"?
> I can't help but to think that self-deception is the best weapon people have to use a facade for their greed.

I don't find it hard to believe that they in fact wanted to build something new and innovative AND get rich in the process. Which is not unreasonable and no "self-deception" needs to be involved in the process. OpenAI would be dead in the war if they stuck to their principles.

> I frankly have more respect for scammers, at least they know firmly where they stand on a moral spectrum.

Why? You need massive amounts of money and resources to build something useful. Especially in tech private for profit enterprises seem to be best positioned to achieve that (the same applies to opensource, Linux etc. would be a niche project with limited usefulness without corporate backing).
Be honest, you'd be on HN arguing with the rest of us.
I can almost see how they'd get away with a review process under the guise of security, then add an app's fingerprint to some blacklist and automatically remove it from all devices.

Charging fees for sideloaded apps though? Even ignoring the part where it goes against the Digital Markets Act, how does it even work in practise? If I (as an end user) sideload some file I downloaded from the web, the developer/publisher of the file wasn't involved, possibly hasn't entered into any agreement with Apple, and won't have an account set up to pay whatever ridiculous fees Apple demand - which, of course, was the point of the DMA in the first place (freedom from a monopolistic app store).
Both BMW and Mercedes have EV platforms, have you done your homework?

I find especially US folks (sorry) very un-informed about non-US car companies regarding EV technology.

Also, Mercedes sold ~250k EVs last year and BMW sold about ~380k. Yes, Tesla sold 1.8 million or something, but you're acting like Tesla is some hyperscaler. And this is in a context where both BMW and Mercedes sell more cars overall, than Tesla, so they have to take care of the going concern, too.

A lot of wishful thinking in that comment.
Yes? I literally just said "HN hyper-selects their own bubble, but if I do it, I get entirely different results; neither of them are likely to be correct."
Think about this that way: how much a screenshot of this post would take vs how much it takes in its textually described form?

Yes the demo is still impressive, but the fundamental behind the wonderful work are clear and can be summarized in an approachable explanation as the post admirably do.
Don't forget image slicing and image maps!

https://www.creativebloq.com/adobe/image-slicing-photoshop-6...

(2014)
Gitlab also shows a badge for signed commits.
I guess it shows one's age, when I remeber to see magazine ads and reviews to most of those models.
A few assholes, and a few apathetic (or encouraging!) people who won't engage in the anti-social behaviour, but cultivate it.
The link didn't appear to have the current draw .. but there's a very good chance it's high relative to a single solar panel or two in areas that lack reliable grid electricty.

Hence the comment about the majority of the underdeveloped world and the near term.

( A key feature of much of the underdeveloped world is a general lack of IKEA kitchens with handy wall plugs and 24/7 high wattage grids )
Ask HN: Make money on browser extension – possible?
Is there anybody out there making money on browser extensions? I wonder if any business models are based on that (most browser extensions are free / just an addition to the main product).
A bit of nostalgia.
> To this day it is the only way to vertically center elements.

Not true anymore (edit: didn't see the 2014) but the productivity cost of not being able to just "vertical-align: middle;" inside divs for the last 30 years must be billions of dollars.

Also does anyone remember the fade of the overline style on :hover links? It must has been around the IE4 or IE6 era.

Tables were also used to make divs and buttons with rounded corners, but that was true into the 2000s as well. The agony of designing and splicing them in Photoshop and putting them in table cells...
The difference to a usual standard is referring to the likelihood of the standard getting changed by feedback from pragmatic applications.

In contrast to standards that are developed by large committees where iterations tend to be slow and sometimes complicated.

I believe JSON is often an example for a living standard because it contrasts the numerous XML standards, which are so extensive that no or very few applications implement it to the letter.

Another example for the attempt to develop living standards are RFCs, where input is desired to adapt a possible future standard.
Deno Deploy dropped from 35 regions to just 12
The new list is not available in their documentation: https://docs.deno.com/deploy/manual/regions

This is a huge reduction in availability and quality!

For example,
Seoul moved to Tokyo,
response times went from 8ms to 42ms!

3x smaller network

5x slower responses

---

We hope they respond promptly, and update their documentation.

We have lost 23 cherished red dots on https://RTEdge.net (click on dots / lines for exploration), and we don't quite know which ones!

They still have the only online playground that allows WASM imports by URL!

We use Deno DOM WASM when a user deploys code on https://RTCode.io.

The deployed code is then served by the larger Cloudflare network using Workers for Platforms.
It's curvatures and geometries matching too close, not the overall impression is kind of similar too close.

I think the game's massive instant success is a circumstantial evidence in its own, it's just inconceivable a lookalike indie game on Steam becomes a ~20th top selling AND second most simultaneously played game on PC ever. Granted, games like Stardew Valley and Half-Life 2 sold more over longer time periods, but never even reached the same peak player counts.
"paying more in one way or other " I think is the key here. You can pay more for the gadget because it has more insurance, or because you bought it at a local retailer, or because there is more tax to keep more people in prisons, or to keep fewer people living in tents by railroads.
How inequality force people to abandon work and do crime?

Property and violent crime is caused by lack of enforcement.

In Monaco inequality is huge, but crime levels low.
It's almost certainly a joke but not obvious exactly what the joke is. What it actually stood for (in case you don't know) is "Dynamic HTML." My guess is that he's drawing a parallel with "distributed" as a modern day buzzword that's used in so many ways it's almost meaningless, but attracts attention and money almost automatically (other modern-day buzzwords like this include "blockchain," although that's fading, and "AI").

Incidentally, nowadays we never refer to DHTML because probably over 99.9% of pages use at least some JavaScript and CSS, so it's redundant to even mention them; you just say "front-end development."
Ah, the 90s - a time when <table> was the answer to every web layout question. Miss aligning your text? <table>. Need a fancy menu? <table>. Creating a full website? Nested <table>s! Who needed CSS when you had rows and cells to hack your way through design? Good old days of <td>-ing everything!
> without an array of camera systems in some indoor environment, drone research is a non-starter right?

No, that is not right. For practical reasons many people working on control algorithms for multicopters do use facilities like you describe.

The indoor nature helps managing risk to third parties and decouples your experiments from the weather. Many experiments are helped by an external ground truth localisation data, and camera based systems are relatively cheap and relatively simple way to achieve that.

That doesn’t mean that multicopter flight control is the only thing worth researching about drones. Nor does it mean that every possible experiment requires a sub-centimeter external pose tracking solution.
Nope.

Always raw SQL. I move the SQL statements into minimal functions that live in their own files to separate them out from the code as much as possible.
Lem wrote about software-defined matter in a more humorous way in Observation on the Spot. It was an exploration of a society whose needs are automatically fulfilled.
Precisely. If you were to divide languages as high level vs low level, or garabge collected vs manual mem management, I feel that SBCL would be on top in terms of energy efficiency in both the formers.
> Because the board is not VCs.

Except that's not really true. Almost everyone on the board were either VCs themselves or had very strong ties to the them. In any case OpenAI would be irrelevant without significant investments from organizations/people who want a return on them. So it's basically a moot point: no VCs/big corporations = no fancy,extremely expensive to train & develop LLMs.
Will it also be limited to only a few countries like your direct sales?
I still use &nbsp; when writing headlines, to avoid breaking apart 2 key words that should stay together.

I also use the non-breaking hyphen for this, which is a different char than the regular hyphen or the em/en dash.

> 1x1.gif let you push elements all around the page effortlessly. To this day it is the only way to vertically center elements

If you can think of another way to vertically center, I’d like to hear it.
That’s nothing. The real state of the art was putting a smiley GIF inside a horizontal marquee, inside a vertical marquee, and setting behavior=“alternate” on both marquees.

For your pleasure, here’s how to do a marquee in pure CSS:

@keyframes marquee {
0% {
transform: translateX(100%);
}
100% {
transform: translateX(-100%);
}
}

.marquee-container {
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
animation: marquee 10s linear infinite;
}

.marquee-content {
display: inline-block;
}

<div class="marquee-container"><div class="marquee-content">Microsoft™ Internet Explorer™ 4.0!</div></div>
Still true for email layout in 2024