skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That will be something quite feasible for an alien civilization to build, and highly believable, if we found something like that.

Visits from actual beings (that overwise stay incognito), travelling tens or even thousands of light years, hyperadvanced sci-fi technologies like FTL and invisibility (suggested above) and so on, not so much.
Google Lays Off Thousands More
The kids are alright
To further Anotheroneagain's point, the basic assumption is that an idea needs to be protected separate from the execution. And potentially, help small companies make the best from their invention.

That flies in the face of reality where the devil is in the details, and the execution usually matters more than the idea.

Then applying for patents is a burden for small companies that has little upside when the 500 pound gorrilla can step on them and litigate the hell out of it, dragging any court proceeding for years if not decades. Looking at the Masimo case for instance, even as they're clearly winning on the legal standpoint, Apple sold 3 generations of watches before anything happened, and the ban is only on the US imports until perhaps some more years of litigation.
Show HN: I made a site that creates the documentation of your code
I'd be interested to know what "successful" means to you in this context?

Being faced with the limited time we have on earth, I have had a hard time deciding whether it'd be better to spend time on building a career that makes a lot of money, or to enjoy the richness of life right from the start. (Or any of a zillion other ways to live a life, for that matter.)
Almost every pharmacy drug is dangerous if you take too much of it.

I wouldn't go as far as to say that they shouldn't exist. They're quite useful in certain circumstances.
as a designer, ability of naming thing is extremely crucial regardless of how hard it is. As you mentioned figma, I agree that not just the components, but also frames should be named properly.
HTML is already lightweight. It takes a very low IQ to make it seem complex.
I don't want to live near cars yet it is virtually illegal for me to get that short of becoming a hermit in the mountains. What about me?
oh, title buried the lede there
Programming is mostly thinking interspersed with a bit of typing. Nobody thinks as they type. The typing bit is just getting your abstract idea of what the program should do into the computer.
China slashes mortgage reference rates to revive property market
Shocker! Old peeps have been wiping out since the beginning of time. They always get over it though.
> Similar, but 6 or 7 years ago and with no discernible reason. The process of filing a police report and then compiling all the documentation required by insurance took longer and cost more by wage than I ultimately recovered through insurance.

How could it cost more? Are you counting the time spent compiling the documentation?
Character-Based Outfit Generation with Vision-Augmented Style Extraction via LLM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_craftsman
I read 99% percent accuracy in a given time. For 1% the algorithm could ask the user for patience and perform a "deeper" search increasing its overall accuracy.
Just get an Odin 2: https://www.ayntec.com/collections/odin/products/odin-2
I honestly don't see that? If it drops inputs, you can't have confidence in your input; but, if it is merely slow to process them, then you don't lose confidence. If you know for sure that something will happen--and even that it will happen in the correct order, as in this case--you can just move on with your life. Have you never worked with a remote text editor over high latency? Or played a musical instrument that had a slow reaction time?

For avoidance of any doubt, I care deeply about my editor latency and agree that those terminals who claim to be "fast" and yet only care about average--not even common--throughout instead of latency misunderstand the problem space... and yet, I still can't say that it is reasonable to lose "confidence in your inputs" if a system is merely slow to process without losing any of your events. If an editor drops any of my inputs at all ever I 100% lose all confidence in what I'm doing; but if it always works then I can close my eyes and still use it without issue!
How can a person that introduces breaking changes in patch release and then just says everyone to piss off when facing critics (just because mister "has needs for this": https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues/15553#issuecomme...) be a maintainer of such a widespread tool ?
that's about 0.0539% of 1 trillion. Apple is worth about 3 trillions. So about 0.02%... I wish I could pay 0.02% of my worth to make any issue go away.

Seems like a REALLY small fine for an anti-trust issue.
You don't need a proof but a police report.
> Hey, I've realized the same thing (that my workflows are stack-based) awhile ago, but didn't get to the point of writing a tool yet. Dare to share?

Sure, but because I'm only using it for myself, you're going to have to compile it yourself if you want (for now, anyway).

Originally designed to be CLI app, I find I only use the GUI these days (also in the repo).

Start here in case this is not for you: https://github.com/lelanthran/frame/blob/master/docs/FrameIn...

> Also, which approach you use to efficiently store and re-store relevant context information? I often find that intricate but important details are lost during context switch.

Everything is stored in a hierarchical DB, AKA the filesystem :-)

Each 'frame' is a directory with a specific set of files, and the directory name serves as the name of the frame. At any given time, a metainfo file in the root points to the currently active frame.
Don't you think it changes their goals? They now only care about the implications of their work as long as it is financial. Society? Fuck them, we've got big money to make!
Google is not a side though. It's a tool and what you see depends on how you use it, doesn't it? Odd thinking you have there.
Oh my, now that is exciting! A friend of mine had implemented procedural rigging, and physics based generative animations used in some pretty big name games. Combine those 2 technologies with this, and you've seriously lowered the entry bar for video game production by a lot!
Is this remarkable? I also find black, the Python formatter, to be very reliable. Would anyone really use these tools if they occasionally munged your code?
I think they try to unify their rendering workflow, just like chromium did when they forked off blink and switched to skia.

In WebKit, however, that implies that they refactor the Bridge API that is used in between contexts and processes which was an internal API before and broke away often.

So I'd guess they start to do incremental changes on the Web API implementations first before they break too much anywhere else (e.g. sidebars, UIs, widgets, devtools are rendered differently but rely on the very same Bridge API)
I second this, as a designer. Maintaining atomic tokens in plain css as custom properties is much more ergonomic than having utility classes.
The point is that it is a phenomenon connected with memory and thinking processes. The reaction and release of hormones is part of the phenomenon, but not the entire phenomenon.

Take this in contrast to an allergy for example. Can you trigger an allergy by remembering the food? If you see an illustration of a food you are allergic to, do you get an attack?

A more similar phenomenon instead is a phobia. It is also a release of hormones based on some internal or external stimulus (you can apply all my examples about love). However in a phobia it's even more clear that the phenomenon is based on thinking patterns. Reducing the complexity to saying these are just "hormones and reactions" is the same as saying a computer is "instructions and interrupts". That is to say that a computer has these elements but what makes it work is that there are a bunch of other systems including the humans writing the software that organize these into a functional system.
> Unless you really claim that modeling "pain" as some kind of variable in an algorithm can be equivalent to a biological being feeling pain?

Yes, I do. I guess it all boils down to whether or not you think the hard problem of consciousness is actually a problem or not. I doubt it is, but it is a totally respectable position if you do :)

> Where exactly in the cited paper is the claim that emotions are a belief? Can't find it.

As I wrote in my previous response, you can call it predictions too. Predictions are usually beliefs about the future. In the predictive brain literature, it is also used as predictions about the present. I use belief as the output of some inference algorithm that needs to deal with uncertainty.

Here is a quote from the paper:
"The brain continually constructs concepts and creates categories to identify what the sensory inputs are, infers a causal explanation for what caused them, and drives action plans for what to do about them. When the internal model creates an emotion concept, the eventual categorization results in an instance of emotion."

But you are right, the paper talks more about how emotional categories are created, and dodges the question of how the "subjective experience of having an emotion" emerges. In my mind, the step is not far though, and boils down to, as said above, how you view the hard problem or consciousness. That we "feel" stuff is a result of an algorithm/model that describes ourselves as having experiences, which is a good model, since how else would we describe ourselves? My belief is that the progress in AI and neuroscience will prove me right :)
So, did their action solve it?
> I have no idea how tailwind has gotten so popular

- marketing
- influencers
- novice developers who blindly follow infulencers
- great documentation
Laudable that politicians are seeking to protect consumers by forcing influencers to disclose paid partnerships. Wonder where else this worthy concept might be applied...
This company non stop spams me, might just have to ditch the cam. I have grown used to throwing away hardware due to infinite fees, self bricking, or hacked out of the box. Consumer electronics have taken a painful dive in quality control. And hey Wyze unsubscribe me already !!!
In my experience, I have dealt with many different technologies in university projects, internships, theses, and corporate projects

Some are useful in particular situations, while others are more versatile and applicable in multiple contexts.

I talk about them in this week's issue of Implementing

Let me know what you think!
JetBlue and Spirit are better comparison
Yes, "documentation" implies a curated and complete reference, not a collection of code snippets that may or may not apply to your current problem and version of Symfony.

(No, random posts oт Stackoverflow and generative AI responses aren't a replacement for documentation either.)
Loathed? Lol.
American Express is one of my favorite actual providers.
Huh? An autoformatter is just a one big pure function, so it's easy to test. It'd be odd for it not to be solid.

If it's not even fast, then nothing of note was even achieved. Anybody can write a slow formatter that conforms to a test suite.
So 30 min of me sitting on my ass are on the web. Ok… enjoy viewers.
"Startup job descriptions read more like religious vocations or calls to service than realistic previews of work conditions."

Right. And we still hear voices buzzing around about "propaganda" from the East, how bad the "other side" is with its citizens. While working at a company, I would read their website and job postings for the future employees. And half of it was not true. Blatant lies. And instantly wondered how in a society that puts Truth on such a high pedestal, such companies still exist, are allowed to exist and are even praised.

For a person stepping, unknowingly, into such traps it might be their mental health which is on the line. These are not just innocent lies. They shape lives. Such lives are shaped, twisted and turned in all directions by people with money or greed or just careless with their words and actions.

Good write-up. Short. Straight. And to the point.
Why would they? The API they (WebKit) are providing is the Canvas API, the fact that they're using Skia behind the scenes is an implementation detail... I don't see why they would go through the trouble of maintaining a stable C API for internal use in a C++ project?
Thus the experience of food is reduced to the release of saliva?

Your point proves that the experience of food is also not just a chemical process which happens in response to food.
It’s a real tragedy how bad this field is for mental health.
OpenAI needs OpenAI to succeed. Nvidia just needs AI in general to remain in the spotlight, no matter what company.
In an exponential game where the prize is ASI, being just a couple of steps ahead may turn out to be enough.
Transit demand has a chicken and egg problem, in that demand will increase if the service quality is high but in a place like yours the service quality is low so demand remains low. I don’t think this improvement can happen without a clear vision and integrated plan for achieving it, initial low metrics be damned.
And Flutter on Canvas
Yeah, whether it’s explicit method call or an implicit macro, something is being called. A constructor, a new method, that’s what I was getting at. Saying you dislike the implicit new is valid because you can’t visually see the call where in rust you can. In go, we often take the NewFactory approach even though there’s a new. It’s easier just to return the reference knowing it will out live the stack call.
Those who are familiar with both Obsidian and Bear — what are the principal differences for this particular use case?
Replying twice, but you might be interested in the history of joint stock companies (what we call corporations). They started to deal with losses at sea, so a lot of your maritime piracy analogies are strangely fitting. This is the first o e https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company

The fundamental thing I think silicon valley got right is to make the employees shareholders and owners. Co-ops get that right too.
Appreciated.

It seems to me that you might be confusing your intent with the effects your comments are likely to have. I believe you that your intent is to spark introspection, but when you do it with snark and flamebait (as in the GP), that's definitely not what we're going to get, in the median case.

This is a common problem—most people who post flamebait comments have quite a different intent in their mind than what ends up coming across to the reader. The trouble is that the rest of us don't have access to your intent—you have to disambiguate it for us.

Past explanations in case helpful:

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https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

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What ai tool do you use to summarize?
Starfleet Command and Armada are some of my favorite games even today.
Every time I have to cross a speed bump I miss my old ZX. At the time I could not understand why people felt like they had to decelerate so much. Then I got a modern car with firm suspension and my back did not like the first speed bump I encountered.
Try a Neovim distribution like NvChad, LazyVim, LunarVim, SpaceVim, AstroNvim, CosmicVim, etc.
Meh, AI doesn't break information theory. The relationship between the prompt size to the "similarity" of the result will be such that it doesn't beat traditional compression techniques.

At best we might consider it a new type of lossy (or... replacey?) compression. Of course if storage / RAM / bandwidth keeps increasing, this is quite likely the least energy efficient technique available.
Yes this, I've found product reviews looking distinctly dodgy for quite a few years now, while the article is about something I would see as a bit niche, electronics reviews have been in a hole for a while. I noticed some sites have been using amazon reviews for a long time.

I still prefer for the most part, to buy some electronics from brick and mortar shops, at least then I can see the products in action, and I will seek out and travel to specialist shops for things like audio gear, they'll usually match online prices and let you try things out.
More intersections are much more pleasant as a pedestrian, instead downsize the roads and add parks.
I've been a pretty big Snap fan ever since hearing they fixed the forced updates issue. I still wish they had an open backend, but I think traditional package management just is not a good fit for complex third party apps that need to be up to date without breaking.

It's kind of an unreasonable expectation, but Snaps(And presumably Flatpak and NixOS, if they were as popular) meet it pretty well anyway.

I'd prefer GNOME stick a little closer to the traditional desktop metaphor, but they've gotten a lot closer and more mouse friendly, and burn-my-windows is nice.

I probably wouldn't have designed a DE like that... but it seems to be "The standard Linux DE" and it seems to be extremely reliable, although that might just be because it's the first Wayland DE I've ever used.

I did always like KDE, but the older versions always seemed very slightly unpolished with something just a few pixels off from where you might think it should be, and things like that, and Ubuntus never really did seem to fully work quite right on customized DEs, without lots of work.
I may see if I can find a sample of an old BBC Model B floppy being accessed.
Leaving the believability of the prose to one side, does anyone have any insight into whether these things have really gained traction?

I'm somewhat in this space, but not in the US. I saw the industry try to clumsily embrace UDMI just in time for Google to drop IOT, and now I'm seeing more azure-based specifications but it's all very prescriptive w.r.t tech and not at all descriptive w.r.t value added.
A few more:

https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/

https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/quordle
This is hosted in Kenwood House which is a free entry if you ever find yourself in London on work or whatever.

It is right on the edge of Hampstead Heath which is some fairly large (~800 acres) and fairly wild heathland and forest that is a good place for long walks or running (quite hilly in places, great views (legally protected!) over London as a result), quite close to the center of London (~10-15 mins away from Kings Cross on the tube). Do check it out if you want some outdoor space or a good place for a run when visiting London
Emacs Viewer for Devdocs.io
OK, thanks, that's useful to know. Personally I'm not involved directly in implementing the model, so I don't know what we do there.
In a world where "AI should not be regulated", there are lots of possible corporate constructs where the "people and organizations using them" are decoupled from the entity which owns the AI, securing it from ever becoming liable for its actions.

Already today it's really hard to prove liability for a car company providing self-driving services and not just the driver using them. And that area IS REGULATED.
"Voice Assistant, hardware, engineering and ad sales teams"

Pretty broad
A mini-tool to extract links from sitemap.xml files
From Jan 15th
This was the danger, but I think Florian did something where he compared autoconf output before and after the change and identified problems that way.
I wonder if those sounds are they sounds of bits/byte data. There’s some regularity to it so it’s likely somewhat structured.
AI Engineer Hiring Trend
There's many accessibility focused input devices that lets you use your mouth/tongue. There's also foot pedals, voice activation software etc.
At least with my setup I prefer Amcrest over Reolink (based on compatibility and setup and plugins with the software I use). An open source option that just requires cameras, a computer, and a network is Scrypted + Frigate (+optional Google coral). Amcrest plugin in Scrypted to create a rebroadcast point, then capture it in Frigate for a birdseye view and other security features. If you have Google coral frigate can also do AI object detection (it can do it without but slower). Since Scrypted is the rebroadcast point I also have it hooked up to Apple home kit since I have an Apple TV 4K. Pretty happy so far.

Edit: Another comment mentioned https://gitlab.com/Shinobi-Systems/Shinobi which I haven’t explored but am definitely going to also try out now.
Have you seen https://text-to-cad.zoo.dev/ ?

But yes, there's a lot of potential and, in my uneducated opinion, low hanging fruits for 3D printing especially.
I tried for Laravel and worked fine! cool idea
This is probably a deconcentration event.

Rich people with a lot of money giving said money to smart working class nerds that happened to be hired by OpenAI.
Yes, startup culture is bullshit although not for the cliched reasons outlined in the article.

The author displays a lack of familiarity with US startup culture: "seventy-hour weeks", "Selection biases filter out most women, underrepresented minorities, and those without connections."
Individuals have an easier time cooperating than their respective governments.
When you want a very specific shape, text is probably not the right input modality. See also image generation, where to get very specific outputs, you're better off defining the large-scale structure spatially with a controlnet and only using text for the visual style and decorative details that do not need to be precisely controlled.

What shapes would you ask a text-to-3D model to create for you?
There’s still someone who do it?! I thought this myth was debunked years ago bb
Moral Foundations Test
Slightly off topic, but not by much, question. Is it possible, with the recent AI advancements, to create 16:9 4K versions of TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY?
Office politics: If you can't beat them, join them
No company in the history of companies has ever advertised themselves with the concept "we're going to destroy the world", primarily because it doesn't actually work. OpenAI are true believers, they say that sort of thing because that is what they genuinely think.
> The packer contains some countermeasures, as partially described in this issue, to prevent the use of dynamic tools. Fortunately, these can be easily bypassed.

Does anyone have more details on this step? The linked issue is devoid of information and was closed because the person refused to release the technique publicly.
Don't do it! They are about to raise 7 trillion dollars to build new ai chips! Now with more flavour but same great crunch!
Maybe apply it only to call centers?
No more Pornhub? That will depend on what happens with a Senate bill
Paper claiming 'extensive' harms of Covid-19 vaccines to be retracted
I hate to defend the author since it's clear the author has some significant knowledge gaps, but Emacs very much uses modes by default.

What is a mode? It is when key presses do different things depending on the mode (e.g., normal vs insert mode in vi). Emacs very much has modes, by default, and many more of them than Vim (or vi), including multiple vi-like modes. Emacs is so much more modal that it is trivial to implement vi/Vim modes in Emacs (and notably the reverse is not true).

Just because Emacs does not enable the exact three or four mode key binding sets that vi/Vim does on an out-of-the-box startup does not make Emacs "not modal". vi/Vim does not own the concept of "modes" by implementing three or four very specific mode key binding sets; lots of software implement modes and to put it somewhat confrontationally, Vim users tend to be a bit full of themselves thinking that their modes are super special (and I say that as a former Vim user; I still occasionally use vi, but not as a primary editor).
I've gone back to this comment so many times, it's not a clearcut guide as what to do but it has some valuable points in.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1447467