skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very difficult thing to make a good metric for: take alphastar (deepmind's starcraft 2 AI), for example. They made a big deal about keeping its average APM (actions per minute, more or less how many button presses and mouse clicks a player makes) within human limits, and yet the general sentiment is that it's better because of extreme micro performance that's not replicable by humans. The issue is twofold: firstly average APM is not a particularly good constraint because humans cannot generally burst APM as high as an AI can (and it's generally useful for them to 'waste' APM in slower periods to keep a pace going). Secondly, not all actions are equal: the vast majority of actions a human player takes are pretty low-impact, and the high-impact actions are harder to do at the same rate as the low ones, wheras the AI can far more efficiently spend an APM budget even if a peak rate is enforced. Which basically leads to an AI that beats pro players because it can perfectly micro blink stalkers, making that army substantially more powerful, as opposed to being particularly good at strategy.

(Which all-in-all means I would consider this kind of AI more comparable to a TAS (tool-assisted-speedrun) than a human run. It would be very interesting if such an approach can beat human-created TAS)
Neither are public information. The current registered address is, amount of taxes paid - yes, these are public (although for the latter you have to pay some very small fee, IIRC).
This seems to be a common problem with the fediverse ecosystem.
Oregon passes right-to-repair law Apple lobbied to kill
>Why would Indigenous people have to follow tradition?

They don't "have to". But they can break with it in a nice way or in a bad way.

Same way a culture can change their tradition in a respectful way or to replace it with McDonalds and Starbucks for example.

This is not confined to "indigenous people". The same critique can and does apply to any group.
You talk about lowest common denominator but that's kind of always been a core issue.

Imagine an enlightened and advanced technological culture that refuses to fight. For all their advancements and liberal policies they're still open to being obliterated by another culture that doesn't really care about the whole "war is bad" thing.

I think as society/morals/ethics/law advances, we still need protections in place for "how could somebody exploit this if they don't play by the same rules that we do".

We'll always, unfortunately, still need a person with a large stick and the threat of violence even in a peaceful society.
It's a real shame the site is never improved due to the captive market and lack of need to make things better. I am constantly downvoting on mobile when I mean to be upvoting for example, surely they could just make the clickable area bigger.
I sell software consulting services - a very saturated market. I bought access to a SaaS/database of companies and key management phone numbers, identified which companies use technologies I can offer from their job posts etc, and started calling. Many declined, many were rude to me, but at the end I found one that needed immediate help I could offer.

Offer solutions to problems, not products. Don't talk about all your features - ask them whether they have the problem you're solving and tell them about your solution. You'll have to get creative to get them talking - model situations, past successes and case studies of your other clients... Don't try to milk them - just set a fair price and be open about it, people don't like feeling you're going to take advantage of them. Build rapport, friendship and trust.

Check out how Michael Scott sells. I'm doing it just like him, it really works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYWwfdb2A88
Most of the complexity actually comes from encryption. If you don't need encryption, HTTP/1.1 is great. Especially since unencrypted HTTP/2 and 3 are usually not supported.

HTTP/2 is sometimes considered a mistake.

HTTP/3 is certainly more complex than HTTP/1.1, but that's in large part because it is actually several protocols in one. It replaces TCP with QUIC and therefore implements its features. It also has encryption built-in, so it also provides some of TLS features.

It is based on UDP, but ideally it should QUIC/IP, the only reason why UDP is in the middle is to facilitate adoption.

So if you consider HTTP/3 with builtin TLS vs HTTP/1.1+TLS+TCP, I don't think there is much of a difference in complexity.
What happens when an HTTP client raises $225M at a $5.6B valuation
I'd like to see an example on the same level as the Sokal article. That is a completely made up gibberish that is full of difficult words to look complicated and sophisticated.
That’s the question, innit. Is there a sand-ologist around here?
I'm considering on supporting it. What kind of package and for what distro would you need?

But some users use it through Wine for the moment.
Security.txt in the Wild
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It’s also not meant to be a generative model - only to be used as an encoder model (they list retrieval as a potential use case )
I imagine everyone in this thread is basically correct.

The only real thing we have done to combat cancer is stop smoking so much while at the same time increasing every other factor imaginable to promote cancer.
I don't understand... "obesity" has been "contradicted by practical experience"? Or do you mean the idea that following a calorie-restricted diet leads to weight loss?
Definitely feels like we are advancing towards AGI quite rapidly. As another commenter mentioned (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39693035), the OpenAI DotA game was a big milestone for me.

If you think about it abstractly, humans are basically models that take input from our senses, do some internal processing of that and then take actions with our bodies. SIMA is the same - it takes input from video, and takes action through keyboard actions. There is nothing against introducing additional types of input and taking different actions.

The ability to train on one game and transfer that knowledge to a different game should allow future models like this to train in games, by reading text, watching videos etc, and then transfer all of that knowledge to the real world.
Seems like a repeater could be powered just from induction with neighboring powerline, or solar+battery.
This looks interesting! One thing I like about docker is being able to inherit from other images, so for instance in their webserver example, I could inherit from a simple webserver Dockerfile and then my local code would be only the static files I wish to serve.

Is there a way to inherit from config files?
Shh. Make sure the tribe’s leadership knows to stay quiet for a while until they can pick up a few more parcels before unveiling their plans to exceed the height of the Burj Khalifa.

I’m obviously half joking here. No intent to be insensitive. Even if they don’t build anything it’s better than a parking lot.
Pretty sure the first YouTube link you provided is some scammy fake stream.
A thing not mentioned in the article is that most of the example data is also available directly from the authorities. Not as easily accessed perhaps. However, these services also keep data not available like old convictions. There are other lawsuits regarding that.
> jimbo making CoI edits. He got caught

I mean he made the edits under his own name, not sure there's much to "catch" there. This made it sound like he was editing via a sockpuppet.
CRDTs are cool for tiny concurrent edits. For example two people typing on one line. But it doesn't save you when you get large conflicting edits. No system can automatically merge instance A removing a sentence and instance B adding some words within the that sentence. It's still the user that will have to make a decision. And at that point, you're effectively looking at a git style 3-way merge.
While I'm a huge fan of the lean startup method, Ries was heavily associated with the R E S I S T movement and ultimately ended up creating resistbot. Kinda lame imo.
If someone from the company reads this: for gods sake, limit the width of text. This is horrible on wide screens.
But isn't this development entirely within Metro Vancouver, and apparently in an expensive part of it too?
The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming
The navigation doesn't work in Firefox.

> Uncaught TypeError: document.querySelector(...).computedStyleMap is not a function

This happens because they hijack the built-in hash navigation, essentially breaking functionality that would've worked if they just left it alone.

If you really need to use shiny features unsupported in all browsers use polyfills, we learned this decades ago. Screwing up something so simple doesn't give me much confidence in the rest of the project.
There's Vimix for Linux and Mac (no windows binary yet), and it's great!
https://github.com/brunoherbelin/vimix
I am using the free version. 3.5
Coding riddle based in the constant Pi.
IANAL but I don't think that intentional deceit is necessary to prove Musk's case, negligent misrepresentation might suffice. And I agree that the judge ultimately has to rule whether or not the time-period between the ousting and pivot is reasonable; this decision would probably be based on precedence, the specifics of the case and the judges opinions.

However, please remember your comment which is the root of this discussion:
> The (imo) shakier part of the argument is that he is entitled to damages even though he doesn't own shares in the company.

I was never arguing that Musk is entitled to damages. I am merely arguing that it is possible to not own the shares of a company and be entitled to damages.
Please update the title...this is not the Daily Mail..
Wikipedia's notability requirements in particular are quite arbitrary. It doesn't make sens for an online encyclopedia that isn't limited by physical space restrictions to not document everything. If you must, layer curation of what is notable on top of that.
I find it hard to believe that every indie hacker who built a successful macOS app/cron runner/uptime monitor--had to go through calling people and asking if they need a habit tracker.

Sure, they might have been active in online communities and "spammed" their app very time someone was looking for a habit tracker, but it's far from cold calling and talking with customers 6 days a week.

I understand that all niches are different. And from what you shared, it seems like you are in a big B2B business, which I believe requires more cold calling. But not everyone is doing consulting or building for big businesses. There are people, here and on other social networks, who build simple SaaS tools or macOS apps that can make a decent living off them.
Campus free speech was in trouble in 2018, and the data shows worsening
Cancer drug 24 times cheaper: Patent ends, Rs 72 lakh drug now costs Rs 3 lakh
The special issue certainly wasn't a matter of joking around, but it also wasn't a normal issue of the journal. After he submitted it they wrote to him (wikipedia quotes them): "We requested him (a) to excise a good deal of the philosophical speculation and (b) to excise most of his footnotes."

They stuck it in the special issue after he refused to make these changes.
i.e. socioeconomic status is correlated with SAT performance because socioeconomic status is also correlated with stronger basic academic skills.
As one of my math teachers would remind me, don't forget about 22 June, Pi Approximation Day!
You also have 22nd July the pi approximation day, which is also mentioned in Wikipedia and much more accurate.
This is a silly argument.

The US is about the same size as Europe.

Size is not a reason why the US has lack of access to high speed internet.
Yeah the ISS is actually a big consideration when doing orbital stuff. If you plan on changing orbit across the path of the ISS (remembering that all orbits of a given altitude insect) you have to do significantly more paperwork and be able to show you can make the transit quickly without stopping and getting stuck on a collision course with it.
Well not even, Aerial gives you the geometry and the aesthetics. But it's not easy to understand the defensive structure without considering the different elevations, that's easier to grasp on-site.
Y - the concept of frequent validation differentiated the stuff I’ve worked on that’s done well from the stuff that didn’t. Put a different way: the items that we didn’t get good validation on had to landed with a thud in market, or needed to make sizable changes before they were accepted. The items we validated effectively had to make the same changes, but we got there in smaller steps with less pain.

Also: don’t forget business model validation. Having great tech that sellers won’t sell, or customers can’t buy is a tremendous waste.
I just don’t buy how this is a productive way to build websites. Having the functionality of HTMX natively supported would be nice but you’d still need much of what React does. HTMX’s docs seem to hand wave away front-end state management as something that no longer applies. Simultaneously, they also assume that every API you interact with will return HTML partials.

What could convince anyone to abandon the rich and bountiful lands of JSX and TypeScript? Who would prefer to move into a write-only and stringly typed HTML that competes with PHP for the slot of least performant debugging experience?

Maybe the answer is in the question…
Yes, I agree with your take.

But please reread the comment which is the root of this discussion:
> The (imo) shakier part of the argument is that he is entitled to damages even though he doesn't own shares in the company.

I was never arguing that Musk is entitled to damages. I am merely arguing that it is possible to not own the shares of a company and be entitled to damages. Whether Musk specifically is owed damages is something a judge has to decide.
It's useful if you just need to hook up a chat assistant and don't want to bother with the busywork doing it. All you care is loading the messages from the thread(which are conveniently kept for you) and add new messages.
> Ultimately everywhere that has wired power should be able to get fiber, if right of ways were reasonable.

That's quite a caveat, but still doesn't get you to 'fiber is feasible everywhere'.

Where I am (about 250km north-west of Sydney, Australia) my nearest exchange is 30km away, and no one is going to come up with the money to lay fiber out to me.

Starlink has been an amazing enabler.
I'm having difficulty understanding the Resolume products/pricing structure. I'd like to create some visualizations based on music I'm making, such as to create YouTube videos. Would I need only the Avenue VJ software to get started, or would I also need a second tool like Wire?
I saw this announcement in my email yesterday and thought to myself "I didn't know T-Pain was an API fan"
You’ll never go poor overestimating developer laziness.
software vs content is an irrelevant distinction, they're both digital objects composed of files and bytes. I see no reason the government should not able to regulate either one of them. The government already regulates lots of software via ITAR laws.
There's a lot of these!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bastion_forts

They're particularly dense in the Netherlands for some reason (had to be broken out per province).

There's a bunch along the US East Coast too. I even visited one (on Governors island, New York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Jay )

Now that part still makes sense to me, since the east coast was colonized in the 1700s-ish. What surprised me is that apparently there's a few forts very far inland!
Significant for us South Africans, but to be realistic, not significant at all at a global scale.

I'm guessing it's either an international link or routing configuration issue with their data centers.
Subsea cables have built-in repeaters and they span thousands of miles.

On land it’s usually easier and cheaper to use huts with power.
To save you the click to Twitter, the post links to an announcement about Postman's "POST/CON 2024" conference:

https://www.postman.com/postcon/

"Celebrate at our after-party with a performance by six-time Grammy winner and multi-platinum recording artist T-Pain. Conference-goers will stroll to the historic August Hall to enjoy evening drinks, our own bowling alley, and an unforgettable live show."

And Postman describes themselves as:

"Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster."
https://www.postman.com

So, I don't know. Enterprise sales gonna enterprise sell? It's part of the game...
Nix on macOS
Now, proper plan9-style namespaces, that I miss. :)

User namespaces are still a hell of a lot clunkier than "each process inherits its parents' namespace".
Halfway to the Tau Day (179th or 180th day of year) is March 29th or 30th depending on your definition of "halfway". Pi day is only 73rd or 74th day of year.
> when he saw plain-clothes police coming to arrest him for crimes on the mainland, made a spectacular exit through the dining room window (which was shut at the time)

I guess life does imitate art

I'm guessing the wikipedia page is so detailed with his colourful life because he basically co-wrote it in an autobiography.

> Chapman loved himself, loved adventure, and loved his country, probably in that order
Another great book series on alien intelligence is the Zones of Thought series by Verner Vinge. Excellent books!
For an http client that hasn’t be shittified to hell usebruno.com
Turns out people like naming things ibis:

- The band: https://www.ebay.com/itm/225562259251

- The hotel chain: https://all.accor.com/brands/ibis.en.shtml

- The anime drawing program: https://ibispaint.com/?lang=en-US

- The beer: https://ibisrice.com/ibis-pale-ale/

- The whatever this is: https://ibis.ibo.org/

- The ibis python library: https://pypi.org/project/ibis-framework/ (disclaimer: I work on this library)

- The ibis python library: https://pypi.org/project/ibis/

- The software for reverse mortgage management:
https://www.ibisreverse.com/

- The song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO-OpFjHRbE
At this point, this is worse than parody.
The author argues that the notion that an "MVP is an outdated idea" is a misunderstanding of the definition of MVP, but I think the author is missing the the point that those folks are trying to make.

As the minimum viable product approaches the complexity of a complete product, the difference between the two shrinks to the point that the concept of MVP isn't all that useful anymore. That's the actual case against Lean Startup in 2024.

To be clear, I personally think MVP is still an immensely useful concept, but Reid's own 0-100 scale makes it hard to understand that. There is no 100. Most SaaS, and user-facing software in general, must be developed and maintained perpetually. It's not about approaching 100, it's about approaching a limit at infinity.

Today's MVP identifies a local maxima that's a composite of two axes: user experience, and technical debt. If that sounds surprisingly similar to the original definition, that's because it is.
Based on your Hello World app (TypeScript only seemingly), the mental model for writing apps on DBOS involves OO classes, async/await, annotations, and lots of punctuation.

Any plans to support app development via using SQL? There are endless discussions on its limitations but a remarkably large developer base.

What language(s) is DBOS really implemented in?

With UNIX+C there was some synergy between the OS way of thinking and the appdev way of thinking and I am not really seeing that here. The node.js mindset and declarative SQL mindset are so different. Maybe it's the best you can do trying to cross OS+DB domains but would be curious to hear your thoughts or see a writeup of what drove your design decisions here.
And for some reason the scrollbar doesn't display on Chrome (tested with multiple profiles and latest Chrome 122.0.6261.95)
I think, the European A1, A2, B1.. is better way for descriping language proficency
July 22 I think
I am not so sure that is true.

Speaking only for the US. I don't have the data but I suspect most of the grid in rural America was built long ago. Everyone needs power, it is a natural monopoly. When they were building it out, everyone got hooked up and only requires regular maintenance. Sure, if there was a sudden growth spurt maybe more lines are run or higher capacity but I suspect for most of rural America that this is not true. I even suspect most of this electrification happened for free or very low rates to the household. Now, if you are building a new home that needs a grid tie-in, it usually costs quite a bit.

Now fiber on the other hand, not so much of a natural monopoly. There may be state imposed regulation where a cable company has rights to areas. You could have a totally free market and many different providers. In a rural area you might be able to sign up only 20% of the population with your service, you would still need to build out the infrastructure though and perhaps that 20% would not even cover costs.

It is easy to say everywhere with power should have fiber but America is vast and that would be quite expensive, I am not even sure a local effort would be able to cover costs.
What does postman even do?
Postman inhabits this weird niche where it was tons of value when it was free, and now it's wildly not worth the price. The only thing keeping us on Postman was inertia, which this year's invoice has finally sprung us out of, and we're switching to Bruno.

I worry that Bruno will go the same way, as that's also what Insomnia did.
> Connect with fellow API practitioners and global tech leaders

ahahahah

on the plus side, we should be grateful they're safely incinerating so much money from VCs - far far far worse companies could have got it and done far worse things than buying T-Pain a new Bentley.
Straight out of (HBO) Silicon Valley
Right, you'd expect that there would be a complete initial import as well as semi-automatic updates of non-controversial changes.
This is an absolutely fantastic story and would make a brilliant film.
Wrap curl around a GUI
No official SpaceX stream on YouTube. Tony Stark wants you to use X, but right now is actually not working...