skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of the greatness of the 90s, does anyone have a good version of the classic "Under Construction" GIF?

You know the one — it was in the style of a yellow road sign, and on it was a pixelated silhouette of a construction worker diligently shoveling.

Long before Gmail had the smug audacity to leave "Beta" on their product name, you could use this GIF (or even a whole row of them!) to proudly announce to the world that your site was — like all great works of art — never complete.

I've searched high and low for the classic version of this GIF — the true, original, platonic ideal — but all I've been able to find are poor knockoffs.
Those features are a worse substitute for that awesome generic UI mechanism called immediate visual feedback (for the same reason Helix's visual-first mode, which unfortunately neovim also lacks, is better)
I think all these term are too loaded and deep to answer your question, almost all words in the sentences we exchange are subject to subtle interpretation and definition differences.

I still enjoy the process though, which perhaps also doesn't require consciousness, yet here I am.
> Given how bad the Benz Patent-Motorwagen was, I think the DIY/"open source" LLMs would count as equivalents of that, and that OpenAI, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney (especially given their popularity and economic disruptiveness to buggy whip manufacturers/artists) are equivalents of the Model-T

It's difficult to put things on a scale when you don't know what the end outcome will be. There was over 20 years between the Benz Patent-Motorwagen and the Ford Model T.

I think the AI equivalent of the Model T won't be available for 5 - 10 years but it will follow some of the notes of the Model T (Mass Produced, lower cost of ownership, Changes most other industries, mass customisation, etc)
It's not hard to put all the meat in containers run via a Makefile.

Then to test locally you just do "make check".

The problem comes if you start using pre-made actions instead of simple commands.
488 people for a country of nearly 1.5 billion is a pretty slim number. The US has 6x the death row inmates despite having less than 1/4 the population.

India is pretty far behind the rest of the world, but to be fair, they were enslaved for centuries then dropped and left to build a society from scratch less than a century ago. There are going to be problems, but on many fronts, India is doing better than a lot of countries in some aspects. Instead of comparing them to Western/Central Europe, it's better to compare them to other countries in their class. Countries in Central America, Subsaharan Africa, etc.

As someone who just visited a few weeks ago, one thing really impressed me about India: government hospitals provide free service. I had a medical emergency, a total foreigner who pays no taxes, and they helped me without hesitation in my time of need and refused to take a single cent. That's something I can truly admire about their country and something the world could learn from India.
I don't understand why people use MKL on AMD hardware rather than AMD's (current) library, which is basically upstream BLIS for those architectures; their old one from the Operton era wasn't good. OpenBLAS has been largely competitive with MKL even on Intel anyway over many years, and the MKL licence used not to allow the sort of use people made of it. MKL is infinitely slower than OpenBLAS/BLIS averaged over the hardware relevant to HPC, like the POWER system I support.
Ukrainian drone with AI target recognition capabilities deployed
> 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.

Product details -> Good to know -> Connection rating: 1800W. That's max power, I imagine they could run it at 900W, which, from what I see, would be 2-3 panels.

Also, I don't think it's the "majority of the underdeveloped world".

Based on this: https://www.statista.com/statistics/521212/number-of-off-gri..., to me those numbers look something like 20-30-40% of the population in these underdeveloped countries.

Anyway, it's kind of a moot point, this will probably happen on its own over time, where it makes sense.

> ( 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 )

This snark is irrelevant. I didn't say they should buy it from Ikea, ergo my comment about the $10-15 copycat (probably from Aliexpress). Nor did I say they should buy an Ikea <<kitchen>>. You can plug that thing on top of a $2 table to a regular wall plug or even an extension cord.
Maybe that's the Great Filter? All sentient beings must get rid of their brains and associated baggage to progress further.
> Don't forget that tables could be used for rounded corners.

And drop shadows!
http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/ If it isn't here, it probably can't be found anywhere.
I have a little problem understanding why this article is dated by February 1, 2024. Is it an UX bug and they show the date of the print issue, did it come from the future or my clock are off by a week?
> What gives me hope is that we’re not driving in North Korean or Russian cars, nor use their chips, or airplanes.

Most of the things we're using in the western world have parts manufactured in China. Less and less in the US or western europe.
> that the complexity of the Vulkan is like 5x more than OpenGL for… 5% better performance?

The complexity of Vulkan can (and in naive cases, always) slow things down in comparison to OpenGL. What you get with Vulkan isn't +X% more performance, but consistent performance.

Both OpenGL and DirectX already did all of the things that you need to do with Vulkan/DX12. The difference is that drivers were black boxes back then, and everything worked with heuristics. A relatively minor change could evict you from the fast path into the oblivion. You had to blindly figure your way out, or if you were "big enough" you could contact the driver team, at which point you would enter the world of GPU politics. GPU mafia was/is a real thing.

Vulkan cuts straight through that. Yes, synchronization is hard, but it is way harder to figure out when the driver arbitrarily inserts a gigabarrier and when it doesn't. Even with Vulkan/DX12 you still encounter these issues, but at least with these latest APIs you can reason about things, and be generally correct.

It was never about more performance. It was always about consistent performance.
Explorer 0.8: The `dtype` release (Elixir dataframe lib)
That sort of support has come and gone in different versions, though I couldn't tell you which. But, really, why bother? There is too much mythology around Intel stuff.
Scientists have been experimenting with portia spiders for a while and the surprising thing is specifically that a lot of their planning behavior does not seem to be hardwired. They can genuinely adopt to new preys and new environments and show learning behavior.
That read like a house episode. They did all the test, only to discover it was the one rare thing that explains all symptoms contracted in the most obvious way. :)
I've seen multiple products that let teams collaborate/leave comments on any website. Examples that I found now:

- ruttl.com/website-annotation-tool

- xaviesteve.com/common

but I remember seeing others in the recent months on r/SaaS and r/SideProject.
I quickly went through the slides, and this point regardling Sun, IBM and Oracle's java alliance just doesn't make any sense.

> "Aimed to counter Microsoft’s .NET framework"

First of all the alliace came to be during the 1996 - 2001 timeframe that predated .NET.

When Network Computer came out there was no .NET.

When Oracle adopted Java into their database ecosystem there was no .NET.

When IBM refocused from Smalltalk into Java, there was no .NET.

Secondly, .NET was only born with C#, after Sun's lawsuit due to J++ language extensions (J/Direct reborn as P/Invoke, COM interop, WFC reborn as Windows Forms, events).

Had it not been for the lawsuit, the updated COM Runtime being researched would have most likely used J++, as shown on the Ext-VOS paper.

Also 20 years later, Microsfot saw they had to embrace Java on Azure, and they are now an OpenJDK contributor with their own distribution, talk about strange ironies.
I also remember finding out about scripting with either VBScript or JScript (which was different from JavaScript).

Shortly after, I discovered that there's a function capable of listing folders and files from the visitor's hard drive. No permissions needed. The browser just had full access to the hard drive.

Naturally, I wrote a script and loaded it on the homepage of my website. The goal was to save, on a file, the contents of visitors hard drives' contents.

For some reason that never worked. But yeah, the internet back then was a very scary place.
Good news don't attract as many eyeballs as bad news does.
British man Aditya Verma appears in Spanish court over plane-bomb hoax
One thing used a lot before CSS and JS was the "usemap" attribute in the img tags to make hyperlinks within images. You had to indicate the coords and whether the shape of the hiperlink was a poly, rect or circle.
I don't think I would like that. I haven't been impressed with the experience of running GUI apps within WSL. Weird window controls/resizing, compositing, and font rendering issues would be a hard blocker from using this as probably the second most important app on my computer.
The article could mention the wave of "semantic web" at the end of the period.

The idea was to create a DTD+XML for your website and publish it with meaningful tags. Then you could distribute XSLT sheets that the browser applied, and have total separation of style and content.
Yeah it’s likely the magazine issue date. Bad UX but not a bug.
How big and juicy do we need to get?

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-insufferable-bros-who...

You’d think someone like the ICIJ would be doing a panama-papers style expose, but I don’t know if there’s a trove of data to build on. It’s more of a business model than a conspiracy these days. As you say it’s boring and routine.

Yea the legal community is complicit and often actually actively involved in this entire transformation. There are quite a few law firms “in the game” that are data brokers themselves.
This is not unique, unfortunately. I have been battling with them for the last two months now and I am in the process of moving everything away from DigitalOcean. Something has changed over there and they have zero tolerance concerning everything.

My account was overdue by $10 (after being paid on time for close to 5 years), I asked for a deadline extension of 1 week and it was declined. They have already turned off all of my droplets and are now threatening to delete everything with no recourse within the next three days.

Again, not unwilling to pay, I was merely asking for an extension by 7 days for $10 and they declined my request.
> but a key piece of the technology, a compiler stored on a floppy disk,[9] had disappeared and, despite months of searching, was never recovered.[10]

spooky
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/self-dealing.asp

In lesser known places such as Wall St, practices like self dealing are considered illegal. In venture they’re often celebrated. Go figure.

I think there’s a general distaste towards setting up networks of companies B, C, D, planning to profit from a success of another company A where a single person controls all the companies and there’s a reasonable expectation of plans to divert business from A towards B, C, D.

I don’t know the details but there seems to be some gripe about it. I’m speculating.
Quicksort with Jenkins for fun and no profit
Why did guestbooks die?
Cameras and social media also spread the idea that crime pays, that you can brazenly loot a store or a rob a train, and probably get away with it.
how is an airport able to MITM snapchat messages? I am assuming snapchat does certificate pinning as well...
The 5×5–Forewarned is Forearmed: Cybersecurity Policy in 2024
Much needed nuance.
Tell HN: I recommend others to code at least 4 hours a day uninterrupted
Deep work without distractions can meet deadlines and milestones, and coding requires that too.

What do you recommend?
I don't know nearly as much abstract algebra as I would like to, but when I read "A cyclic abelian group" I thought, "hold on, aren't all cyclic groups abelian?" And I remembered correctly, they are.

So there's that suspicion, never far away when dealing with something cryptocoin-related, that maybe they're trying to bedazzle more than explain. Honestly, who can follow this who doesn't already know it?
Missed out Lisp Works and Allegro Common Lisp.
I am still struggling with my central question (I read this to be the 'hard question') of why I am currently occupying the body that I am as an observer, and not another one, or perhaps even none. Does anybody have some cursory reading about this subject?
Spam I think
What are popular alternatives these days?
I honestly don’t care enough about TV.
Yes, it looks like victor boasting. As a non-American I legitimately thought it was satire when I first heard of the practice
>Crime rates like that measure convictions, don't they?

A look at the link[0] provided by GP provides the source[1] of the data, and AFAICT, both UCR and NIBRS statistics reflect reported crimes, not convictions.

So, no they don't. But feel free to ignore the actual data sources if they don't fit with your beliefs. Lots of people seem to do that. It makes life so much simpler, no?

[0] https://usafacts.org/topics/crime-justice/

[1] https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/home
> Less than a football field away

Did we really need that, Wired?
My reading (caveat: not a biologist, other sort of scientist, nor philosopher) is that a brain is required to translate the environment and its collection of problems into something (or some things) that its simpler structures can “solve” (where “solve” could just mean “act usefully in response to” and that act/response could be to ignore), and then to translate any responses but out to that more complex environment.

Cells can solve problems in their limited context, though that context can be less limited than you might first think (consider single celled life can have relatively complex interactions). Groups of cells can solve more complex problems, by working directly together or by some acting as support structures while others do the solving. Complex bodies and brains build up in parts from there over time.
But why avoid explicitly showing sex?

It's a natural part of life, it's part of the story that's going on, there's no good reason to avoid it.
A link to a blog that only contains a link to a tweet which reads "After launching on Product Hunt, I got my first real order for $49 (the other order was a test, making the total revenue $148)."

What a ride.
I'm also stuck on the same thing. Why am I me and not someone or something else? I feel like most are just going to laugh at this question as completely obvious, but for me it's almost a deep sense of angst and awe. It used to keep me up at night.
Do you mean reddit or are there threads on HN?
The cv reading here is really a POC base on off-the-self and will require some work. Fix-camera vs Spot, I can definitely see the pros and cons. So at what price point do you think industry will adopt Spot for doing rounds?
People that think using guest languages saves them from the underlying platform are preparing for failure.

Doesn't matter if it is the browser, UNIX, Java, CLR, BEAM,.... eventually that underlying layer will catch one up.
This is what I assumed as a non-native speaker. He didn't really care about the word "Oriental", rather about the way he seemingly justifies punching people presumably beneath him.
This brought a damn tear to my eye. The Internet was so damn cool back in the late 90s and early 2000s…
> where every new version requires you to pay for a fresh license. At that point, you might as well turn it into subscription software.

The huge difference being: if you stop subscribing, you lose the current version even if you don't need the features in the new version
> The Atlantic article about curtains refers to relative wealth and status, not to race.

How come you look at a reference to "wealthy white people" and still proclaim that?
26B records have been leaked in 'Mother of all Breaches
There are companies which handle this for you, by hiring employees through an "employee of record" umbrella company, keeping a percentage of their salary for any legal costs that might incur, even if in the end you want to fire them. They also handle payment, billing, visa and so on. It's really good.

Many American companies are using it to hire talent from abroad. It's good because you can hire talent from Europe paying typically 50%-70% of US dev salaries, they speak English and have similar culture and expectations. Furthermore, the salary that American companies tend to offer makes it very attractive as well, in comparison to their local markets.

Employee of record companies: Remote.com, Deel.com
Could be worse. The people at the top could be spending their time planning organizational reshuffles.

Ask how I know.
I don't see how "owning" has to include updates for life.

I use mostly open source, so I'm not used to buy software, but when I did it in the late 90s there was expectation of it including some support (eg. updates until the next major version); but not always (it often required physical media).

After that, the software was "final".

What is the standard these days?
Probably your server leaked, just move on. AWS lightsail is good enough.
That's for very small matrices, but I forget the dimensions. It was only because of libxsmm that MKL got it. (You can use libxsmm to dispatch to OpenBLAS or BLIS for non-tiny cases.) BLIS has "small"-dimension support in many cases; I don't remember what they call it, but you can see changelog items about it.
DHTML, layer vs div..

Also, JSRS was one of the first hackidy ways to do 'ajax'.

Negative margins to fix layouts..
So brains are required for multi-modality, but not actual 'intelligence' ?

(Herein everyone screams at my misuse of terms and tells me I'm wrong - which at least should help explain things)
The Flexbox stuff that allows vertical alignment wasn’t widely supported until 2015, a year after this was written.
Not your machines, not your servers
90s-early 00s. The glory days.
Where is the value of a business? Is it the idea (or ideas written as code) or the execution (or service)?

What do people pay for? The code, or the things the code does?

What is valuable to customers? Is trust more important than the unknown? Is expertise valued?

What other things apart from code makes up a business? For example customer service, marketing, etc.
ABC = American born Chinese?
"Incite

encourage or stir up (violent or unlawful behaviour)."

I'm not sold on the name.
> Or you have apps like Sublime Text, where every new version requires you to pay for a fresh license.

Major version updates were always payed in the past. BBEdit has been working this way for 30 year, and “it still doesn’t suck”. The notion that you pay once for software really came into being with the advent of app stores. I don’t have a problem with it, developers have got to eat too!
I mean, yeah, if you don't pay your bill you should fully expect them to stop providing the service which was being paid for (which includes the storage of the associated data).
Luck, Preparation, Opportunity
I suppose I am at the beginning of asking this question out loud, and it has brought on some interesting discussions with my friends and family.

Although nobody has a clear answer on this subject (globally it seems, not only in the local one I'm exploring), the variety of answers and debates it has led to has been very exciting. On the other hand, I am a bit disappointed that none has been able to bring anything more insightful than I could find via exploring the possibilities by digging around on Wikipedia.

In fact, one question that I had been wondering, which is, at what point does an analogous conscious experience appear in terms of the quantum to human scale of complexity, has been asked already in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F by Thomas Nagel. I still wonder what it is like to be a planarian, or a fly on the wall of a board meeting (audio fidelity must suck).
“Gymnastics is a subjective sport, like diving or dressage, where factors like nationality, body type, the location of a judge’s chair, and vague concepts like “artistry” and “performance” affect scores.”

Even though it’s a subjectively judged event, the scores somehow have three decimal places!
I guess if the asteroid was larger and more of a threat there would be more of a notice period.

Unless its coated in Martian stealth technology...

Beltalowda
Not a single use of the word 'webmaster' in the whole article. Was Zach even around in the 90s? ;-)
Scrolling text was a staple of the demo scene long before it came to the web as `<marquee>`. Of course it was not just scrolling lazily from left to right back then. It would hop up and down[1], run backwards sometimes and change its already exuberant colors. If it got really fancy the letters flew along an ever changing lissajous figure or had a faux reflection below, sometimes even with faux water perturbations.

Yes, the web was a real step back. Sensory overload became one-dimensional and we were deprived from the ability to annoy our visitors not only horizontally but also vertically. We are still recovering from that.

[1] Hopped along what looked like a sine wave to the unwitting eye, but really came from a tiny table of pre-calculated values of a quarter sine, carefully reduced to the bare minimum number of entries that still looked sinusy enough.
Maybe they just ran out of ideas? These two didn't even write the original stories; the author George RR Martin did, but he didn't finish the story before they got to season 7 or 8, so they made up all the last stuff themselves without him.

Even if they had written the screenplays themselves, that's no guarantee of future quality. I can think of two cases with movies where the same people made horrible sequels: the original "Highlander" was great, for example, but the same director (and story writer) did the sequel and it was horrible. Similarly, "The Matrix" was revolutionary, but the same two brothers who wrote the story and directed did the sequels, and they weren't that great (though arguably not the huge drop in quality between Highlander 1 and 2).
I'm pretty happy with Linode after migrating from DO as well. Their billing seems a bit more on top of things, noticing situations where they owed me a small credit that I would have likely missed. I've been a customer since before the Akamai days and feel that their service has only improved when I expected disruption (as one does when companies merge).
Show HN: Do you like anime? then check this out
> and went way into the 2010s.

Unfortunately, it is still used for html formatted emails
Martin Shkreli ban from pharmaceutical industry upheld by US court
Vultr, you can get your first month free through various referral / promotion links, where your first month’s spend (up to $50-200 depending on the link) is gratis (after you’ve added a legit payment method)
wouldn't say I'm on the fence per se, but I'm starting to think Biden might lose, especially with the rift on the left over us supporting Israel against Palestine. I'm not a Biden fan but I'm much less a trump fan, God I wish Stewart would run for president.
Interactive smart knowledge bases is such a massively cool direction for LLMs.
I’ve seen Chat with RTX at the NVIDIA preview at CES and it’s mindblowingly simple and cool to use.
I believe that interactive search in limited domains is gonna be massive for LLMs
A reasonable advice, and applies to writing too. But I'd say the 8 hour maximum postulated by agile still deserves a contemplation, especially in a start-up context -- or have things changed?