skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I detached this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39230689 for reasons explained below.)

The subthread your comment generated here already answers your question. (<-- not a criticism! just an observation.) People are flaming each other about the inverse square law, droplets vs. aerosols, who is refusing to face reality, and sundry other nastinesses in the comments below. It demonstrates what a shitshow a frontpage thread would have been.

It's not that the topic itself is "untouchable". HN had quite a few threads about the lab leak hypothesis for example. But these things are sensitive to initial conditions, and something about the way that headline frames the story feels doomed to me, from an HN point of view. The sweet spot for HN is substantive, thoughtful conversation driven by intellectual curiosity. That's what the site is for. We don't always get there by any means, but I only want to turn off user flags when the odds give us a fighting chance. I remember seeing that story get flagged and thinking: it'll never work.

Another aspect of this: like it or not, curiosity and repetition have an inverse relationship. After the mind has been hammered with the same hammer enough times, curiosity gets sick of it and goes "ugh, not that again". That means that on a topic like all-things-covid, which we all got hammered with, the majority of the audience, who don't care that much, check out at first mention of the topic. Who does that leave? The ones whose motive is more intense than mere curiosity.

From an HN point of view, that's a ticket to hell. Curiosity can only operate within a certain range of nervous system activation. If the needle sinks too low, the topic is 'bleh' and nobody cares; but if the needle goes into the red, people will care—my god will they care—but they'll no longer be functioning out of curiosity. That's a failure mode for HN.

When it comes to divisive, heavily-covered topics like that one, the thing to watch for is some kind of interesting new information that isn't entirely reducible to existing battle lines. The same forces driving the thread into flamewar will still be present—but at least you'll have some current running the other way.
We need to bring back constitutional amendments, cmon people we can do this
Connecting a Server to the Internet
Will this happen to foundational protocols like TCP? New developments (e.g. increasing the initial congestion window ~2010) keep taking place from time to time in TCP. I think technologies which have ongoing research will always have a pool of folks who understand them deeply. I'm not aware if that's true of NTP.

On a different note, your comment reminded me of what happens to the atomic generators as the Galactic Empire collapses in Asimov's Foundation series. As research and innovation die out, nobody understands how they work anymore, and their maintenance is taken over by hereditary guilds of "tech-men" who refuse to entertain the possibility of the great generators ever breaking down.
Yes. Planes don't fly the same way that birds do.

They are go up in the air like birds but what they are doing to get up & be up in the sky is very different.

Just like LLMs, planes are way less energy efficient than birds. Just like how Human brains are way more efficient than Convents & LLMs
I hope that in whatever afterlife he ended up, they don't have him pushing too many pencils.
'There is no such thing as a real picture,' says Samsung exec
Hey HN! I'm the founder of Brainbase one of the many AI companies in the current YC batch

We created Brainbase with enterprise customers in mind but recently we had a lot of small and medium sized startups use it in the most creative ways.

Brainbase is essentially a table that you can bring in all of your data (docs, audio, images, emails, Slack, ...) and run complex actions on them like send email if X happens, extract names and emails from these pdfs using AI, etc.

So far our amazing users have set up

- Make shift call centers (Brainbase takes calls for you using AI and emails you the summaries)
- Hiring evaluators (upload 1000+ resumes in and have the ai give you the best candidates for your job)
- Email filters (your email falls on Brainbase real-time and it analyzes the urgency and action items)
- Warehouse dashboards (you upload images of products and it categorizes them into prespecified categories)

Check our youtube for more :) (https://www.youtube.com/@BrainbaseHQ)

We just wanted to hear what you would want to do with automations like these, individually or in your company - much thanks for any feedback!!
Actual Mozilla page: https://research.mozilla.org/browser-competition/over-the-ed...
Ask HN: Do you think software quality is going downhill? If so, why?
> isn't this more of a class (rich vs non-rich) issue than an immigration issue?

That Doesn't really seem to matter if there are few rich Samoans and lots of rich foreigners. Their culture will still disappear if they have no where to collectively live and access to the things the culture cherishes.

> allow only people who live long-term and actually reside there to buy property might be one strategy?

That's one idea. It has the issue that you can't sell your house if you can't find a local to buy it, even if you desperately need the money.
Great, so it’s a police department Internal Affairs office on a whole lot of steroids. I’m sure it’s on the up and up
An alternative to Excel for job applications tracking
A couple of years ago, when looking for a job out of college, I applied to 333 positions. I tracked the first 10-ish on a note. Then I moved to Excel (afaik that's the most common approach for people that want to track applications), but it was pretty hard to know at which step of the interview process I was and which deadlines were approaching.

Also, I wanted to see all the cool graphs, charts, and stats about my applications. This helps a lot understanding what should be improved.

So I created an app, just for myself. Recently, I told a friend about this app and he was interested. I decided to redo it from scratch with a nice UI and a better architecture and make it available for everyone.

Currently it's free with no ads, and it will remain free with no ads for a while. In the future, I might either add ads or a paid plan.

If this starts getting used, I already have in mind a few additional ideas to make it more useful for the entire process, not just keeping track of applications.

The website is https://JobApp.cloud

Thoughts/ideas/feedbacks are extremely appreciated :).
Over the edge: The use of design tactics to undermine browser choice
The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship
Very cool way to think about it, I like it.
Any kind of application that acts as a server needs a direct IP connection.

Gamers get errors about "strict NAT." Traditionally the solution to this problem caused by NAT was to forward the ports. If their ISPs has chosen CGNAT port forwarding is impossible.

VoIP calls that have one way audio are a symptom of reachability issues caused by a firewall or address translation problems. VoIP services have adapted to IPv4 NAT by relying on proxying instead of STUN but CGNAT really degrades reliability.

Smaller newer ISPs that can't obtain one IPv4 address per household are incurring significant CGNAT costs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35047624

Video chat uses the kludges of TURN when peer to peer connectivity does not work. This increases costs for the video chat service who in turn require a paid subscription as they will not relay traffic for free.

BitTorrent and file transfer services need direct IP connectivity. If p2p file transfers worked on any network we would not need to mind Gmail's 25MB attachment limit, or pay for intermediary cloud storage.
Yeah same, after the Colorado state level judges took Trump off the ballot, people I considered intelligent were saying “Biden this is an ironic way to convince people the election wasn’t stolen”

like, do they not realize these are completely separate governments? is this the general understanding amongst Americans

do they really believe there is a perpetual unfalsifiable plot where the President is not only undermining the judiciary, but the judiciary of a separate sovereign institution, 1 out of 50 that nobody thinks about, and based on political leaning

and even if its just hyberbole? why? why not criticize the judges themselves, the rationale of that state’s due process, why not attribute such collusion to the governor

its all so dumb, people are dumb
And it's relation to the movie The Matrix... https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

In fact in one of the many various interviews with cast over the years I seem to recall it being mentioned as required reading prior to filming.
This is one more reason to allow alternative web browsers everywhere.
I made a solver for it using svelte 5 https://www.carsonshort.com/summarysolver
It looks nice, but the news, while possibly factual, is very depressing. I saw something about airstrikes, powerful storms, decapitation, and the death of a famous actor. Maybe you could balance the stories a bit?

(I would be interested in a site with factual, interesting stories about non-ephemeral and not always depressing issues and trends.)
Bitcoin and other crypto get big enough, regulation will follow shortly after. That said, the first to flee regulation in the financial sector are much more heavily weighted toward the grifters and fraudsters.

See: Mt. Gox

People flocked to Bitcoin because they saw people get rich. That's it. Real estate is very heavily regulated by comparison and yet folks were buying, selling, and flipping like crazy. People want money. Regulations are an excuse, not the primary motivator.
Ask HN: What are downsides of non-Delaware C-Corps for VC funded startups?
Practically speaking, are there any downsides in the fundraising process if one incorporates in Nevada or other US states as opposed to Delaware? Do VC funds have limitations or allergies when it comes to funding such entities?
It makes the game way better in my experience(not having any probabilistic decisions to make). Once I started playing Simon Tatham's version I started picking up all sorts of tricks I hadn't thought of before, simply because I knew a solution must exist.
Community is hard. And requires moderation. DN was a disaster of spam and grift and died much longer ago in actuality.
> when I think we can safely say they do in fact support the html element.

Not if it's included, but I use wget a lot. Checking src/html-url.c, it does not, in fact, support <html> at all (treating it as a unrecognized tag).
Not to mention, it's a simple filter which requires no more explanation.

Bear in mind that there are always plenty of candidates for any post. Any possible (legal) way of filtering that down to 3 is great.

Being able to say "wouldn't/ couldn't turn on video in meeting" is a great score for the person detailed with reducing the list.

(Sure, maybe today your webcam is broken or maybe you don't like the idea of a webcam being permanently attached, but making this your point of difference will seldom move you up the selection list.)
This intentional nitpicking is necessary for anyone who has taken a first course in chemistry.

You do not appear to have done that. That's why you are arguing with the colloquial usage of the word. Because you can't offer a useful and precise definition.
That's a good observation!

But then, my criticism of the people's criticism of Tan's free speech is also criticized. And then we only get criticism of criticism and no actual productive dialogue. Or so it seems. Looks complicated. Where does it end?
Schmig: Database migration tool written in BASH
WW3 has definitely already begun. Looking back, we count all the years between 1937 and 1945 as years of WW2. Japan and China were the two belligerents who fought the longest, all eight years between 1937 and 1945.

So you could compare this current time to the China-Japan conflict during the 1937-1939 period or the 1939-1940 period of the 'phoney war' in Europe or even the period 1937-1941 before the Soviets and the US were both involved.
The research in this space is very conflicting about what methods actually work. In the graph on the page, the ETS model (basically just a weighted moving average) outperforms multiple, recent deep learning models. But the papers for those models claim they outperform ETS and other basic methods by quite a bit.

You can find recent papers from researchers about how their new transformers model is the best and SOTA, papers which claim transformers is garbage for time series and claim their own MLP variant is SOTA, other papers which claim deep learning in general underperforms compared to xgboost/lightgbm, etc.

Realistically I think time series is incredibly diverse, and results are going to be highly dependent on which dataset was cherry-picked for benchmarking. IMO this is why the idea of a time series foundation model is fundamentally flawed - transfer learning is the reason why foundation models work in language models, but most time series are overwhelmingly noise and don't provide enough context to figure out what information is actually transferrable between different time series.
roenxi: "This is a terrible idea"

ttfkam: "You literally just described everyone who has a bank account."

In some sense, well spotted. That is why I think the system is a bit cooked. People can't just put hand their money over to one institution, ignore what is done with it and expect to get a good outcome. This is a good way to get vast capital misallocations and, eventually, a lot of people ending up poor. More people than the alternative of the occasional bank run. I can see an argument for setting up full-reserve banks. But if people are going to lend their money to institutions that on-lend it, we should be seeing banking institutes get rolled up regularly and depositors losing at least some of their money. People shouldn't be allowed to ignore what is done with their money; it leads to some of the worst incentives in the modern economy.

But technically no, some people have their money spread over a few institutions. And most people don't seem to have cash savings these days anyway (which is rational given the inflation regime).
https://archive.ph/gjhHA
Interesting subject, for a change. Usually old camera stuff is just boring and bring up bad memories. We had color camera in 1950s, and the film was so expensive that using flash bulb everytime was good practice to ensure exposure was ok. Soviet-made bulbs were also cheap in Finland, but Agfa-film was developed only in West Germany and took a month.
Having to answer this question every time you meet them.
How does the United States "lead the world in air safety" with only one of their airlines (and not one of the major ones) even making the top 10 from a US source[1]?

Looking back over the years, the US has never hit this metric. Have I misunderstood how it's being calculated?

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2024/01/03/ran...
There is more to computing than these companies.

After I switched to NetBSD then I was able to avoid those companies. It's a UNIX-like OS that comes with everything disabled. It's up to the user to decide what to enable/install.

Before I ditched Windows/Mac operating systems permanently many years ago I resented computing, too. This was before "smartphones".
I started my career as a print designer and hung around designer news, helped me into my transition to digital and then ultimately as a developer!
It's great to see an article about spam where the spammers are losing and their customers are victims.

I used to spend a lot of time working on the Wikipedia conflict of interest notice board, [WP:COIN]. Hate mail. One lawsuit.

Here's my essay on that.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Hints_on_dealing_wit...
What input data did you feed into TimeGPT? Did you fine tune it?
wow, mind blown at this ps5 "detail"
yuk
Posting an affiliate link is frowned upon, btw.
This looks interesting, and I will try it out, but I don't feel any friction using git directly. The only exception is rebasing in some situations can be very annoying, and git LFS. How does JJ deal with submodules, subtrees, and LFS objects?
Lots of links, zero relevance. Real “ignore the words and listen to my confidence” vibes.
Past performance is no guarantee of future performance but not a bad indicator.
I really like that the map functions exactly how I’d expect it to on a phone, and doesn’t constantly tell me to use 2 fingers, and then freak out.
I’m sad to read this. I enjoyed Designer News many years ago.
Has anyone created a small, lite version of pandoc yet.
Easy: Trust the experts.
Why question science, when you have fact-checkers?
I have to wonder if the really good engineers know better than to go work for any company like this or those you mention. They literally may not be able to hire good help, no matter what kind of compensation package they try to throw at the problem.
Again. Yes, some people have dumb theories. And yes, military is one of the best places to cut. The point still stands, you simply, can't get there with just military cuts.
Last year I drove my bosses fulled specced out Cadillac Escalade and I was blown away.

My best friend has owned a M3 since launch and nothing in it even compares.

The inside is pure luxury and it feels like you are driving a boat on a bed of feathers.

It has features like audio zones. Notifications and alerts came from different speakers (or sounded like it) than other sound effects or the music itself.

The driving alerts/hazard indicators were piped into the subwoofer under the seat providing a real feedback instead of an annoying beep the whole car hears.

The way it allowed multiple phones to connect and the ease of all the electronics integrated into the dashboard was amazing.

I was a big fan boy but not after borrowing that car for a week.
Connected miners remain in China.
Lots to digest here! I have been keeping an eye on Pijul so it is cool to see some of its features implemented in jj. Sapling[0], similarly, is a new VCS tool out there which can work with a git repo. It also has anonymous branches, no staging area, supports stacked commits and can track the history of a commit over time. I've been using a similar workflow to the article's author: git with a UI to handle commits of hunks of a file to group related changes. My working branch often has unrelated changes that get tossed from branch to branch as I am able to commit. I haven't figured out where these new tools fit into my workflow yet, but I am glad there's new options that will help making working on a project more flexible and organized.

[0]: https://sapling-scm.com
Whoops, I don't actually use them so I may have flipped it in my mind.
The worst kind of pedantry is incorrect pedantry. The internet is a collection of routes, and that they most certainly do bring.
Chinese cars released today, especially EVs, by BYD, nio, xpeng, huawei collaborations, Zeekr are some of the strongest built vehicles on the market.
> it shouldn't be a surprise that such evidence is lacking, no?

So there's no way for you to be wrong? But there is indeed all the ways for everyone else to be wrong?
Sounds like an unconstitutional ruling to me.
This is the best, most helpful message I've ever received in response to something I've typed on the Internet. I'll take it to heart, thanks boss.

Edit: to further take advantage of your kindness, let me ask you a question: it looks like an old bowling alley near me has several machines reported to be non functional, including an Elvira and the Party Monsters. In your humble restoration opinion, would it make sense for me to stop by and give them the old "eh it's busted? Maybe I can do something with it. Sell it to me for $400?" type spheel and see if I can dump ~$700 into it to get a functional machine for a good price? I wouldn't be looking to resell.
https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/elvira-and-the-party-mon...
https://www.afpinball.com/restorations/system-11b-mpu-batter...
Tech, and especially software is one of the few places you can get experience without a job.

If you are st school, or college, and you want a leg up the hiring ladder, -get some experience along the way-.

It might be as small as building some Web sites for local small business, it might be a bit of custom software for yourself, it might be doing tech at the local charity. Or participating (meaningfuly)in an Open Source thing.

It doesn't really matter what it is or what language it is, or whether you sold it or not. What matters is you took the first step yourself. Showed some initiative. Saw something through. Got something done.

Personally I was at Uni, responded to an ad posted on a CS noticeboard (from the medical faculty.) Wrote them a bit of custom software. On their advice marketed to other universities. (Using Smail Mail, think early 90s). Made some international sales.

Apart from the signalling, it acts as a memorable topic to talk about in the job interview. You can display some passion, talk about what worked, what failed, the tech, the domain and so on.

Experience someone gives you I great. Experience you go out, capture, wrestle to the ground, and conquer yourself, is priceless.

-especially- I you are able to look back and identify everything you did wrong and would do better next time.
Optical fiber has been used to measure temperature in power cables for +25 years, called distributed temperature sensing
And long-distance transmission, storage, nuclear, geothermal... because we still want temperate buildings and movable vehicles when the weather is uncooperative.
This is a _very_ qualified statement. The default OpenBSD install enables an extremely small amount of services by default, which is why they can claim that. I'm not saying that's wrong, or a bad idea, but obviously a platform that doesn't enable many network services is going to have a small amount of remote holes.

this is on top of a lot of very careful programming and interesting security research, and this post isn't meant to take anything away from the OpenBSD devs.
Very nice sim, but looks like the self-intersection problem isn't solved ... the crane example under strain goes sideways.
Irrelevant to the discussion at hand and a complete non-sequitur
"It must be small".

Which is probably why C is still the widely-used language today.
Are they ever going to release the weights?
I got bit by a big capacitor trying to take apart a disposable camera as a kid. I immediately threw it across the room. I was being very dumb, I heard it charge (I was prying with a screwdriver and shorted something that caused it to charge) but didn't register the danger.

The biggest jolt I ever got (also as a kid, I guess I must've learned eventually) was from a giant homemade capacitor I thought I had discharged fully after charging it with a van de Graaf generator. I fully grabbed both electrodes at the same time - very stupid, not as stupid as pulling the trigger on a gun you only think is unloaded but stupid in a pretty similar way. Must've created a circuit right through my heart. No idea what it's capacitance was, but it was made of I think about a foot of 2 inch PVC and aluminum foil, so not insubstantial.

But I don't have any scars, so I guess I got off easy!
The paper airplane one passes though itself multiple times during the fold from 60%-100%
I think you should use nvdec instead of cuda. GPU itself is not a hardware decoder, the special decoder unit inside of it is.
I learned while building Nap[0] that sometimes ideas just need to simmer. It’s like cooking. Sometimes there’s that one step that makes the meal work, like adding wine to a hot skillet.

I had the initial idea for Nap over a Christmas break and built a working prototype. It took another 2 years for me to see a good opportunity to even use it for myself! But that was a catalyst that helped turn it into a more mature tool. It still has very few users, but I’m very happy with it, and that’s enough for me.

[0] https://naprun.dev
Happy to look at specific links if you want to mention any!