skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My team's go-to site for ice-breaking questions began recycling questions, so I built a no-track open source icebreaker that weekend.

Feel free to use and abuse it for your own social icebreaking needs. You can use it to break the ice at work, in a bar, at your church social, on the bus, in jail, wherever.

Site: https://rendall.github.io/icebreakers/

Repo: https://github.com/rendall/icebreakers
Many missing tools, but I think this is an open Pandora's Box that devs will be afraid to touch.
Based on what data ? I checked and I can't see these claims being supported. I could be wrong but and may have misunderstood something.
Locational Marginal Prices Obey DC Circuit Laws
3Blue1Brown is really a godsend. I had been trying and failed to get an intuition for the self-attention mechanisms, and also why you want to stack you transformer layers. I went through a lot of material (Key-Query-Value interpretations, SVD of these, etc.) but his comment in chapter 5 video [1] made it click for me: "But you should think of the primary goal of this network that it (the word embedding) flows through as being to enable each one of those vectors to soak up a meaning that's much more rich and specific than what mere individual words could represent".

Here is my intuition:

Transformers are merely a Convnet for token sequences. In the sense that information is first local and each data means something wrt its immediate neighbors. You extract data locally, and then you dezoom to and redo exactly the same at a higher level. Convnet have been shown to reproduce edge detecting kernels first (vertical edge), then assemble them into basic shapes (vertical+oblique: corner), then bigger shapes (something round), then link shapes together (round+round separated by a horizontal shape with rectangles on top), and then it's a car! [2]

Transformers do the same. They assemble meaning among tokens ("ju" + "mps" : a conjugated verb), then assemble these at a higher level ("cat jumps" -> noun+verb), then it's a sentence "the cat jumps over the wall", then a paragraph, then a chapter, then a book. All differentiable so any deviation from something coherent can tweak its knobs higher up the chain at any level of detail.

Convnets just relate to 2D data topology, Transformers to long 1D sequences. This begs the question of 3D data btw: will Nerfs/Gaussian-Splats have their hierarchical-dezoom moment? (have they already done so?)

So, why haven't LLMs appeared before? RNN and LSTM modelled sequences accurately earlier, but these are not "BigData". They are small, by design, and must forget the long tail of residual meaning. Transformers are a hardware-friendly way of keeping all the joint-interactions across tokens in large windows. Because sometimes text needs it: you mention a cat at the beginning, and 3 chapters later you can refer to it without saying "cat". Same for code: "import java.sql.Date" will have a pretty important meaning 5000 tokens down the line.

LLMs are a BigData instance all over again. Dumb algorithms that scale better do better than complex ones, just out of the sheer volume of ingested examples. That's why -to my knowledge- you still have logistic regression at the core of placing ads. You don't model 1 person clicking one thing, you just let 100 teach you how they do it. You just crush the problem with data. It's also been called "The Bitter Lesson" [3]. And LLMs, as Moore's law progressed, were the first structure to ingest a sizeable portion of the internet.

[1] https://youtu.be/wjZofJX0v4M?si=Zdz4sQAvch5B-QA1&t=1177

[2] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~epxing/Class/10708-19/notes/lecture-...

[3] http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
I personally far prefer rgb() over #rrggbb, it’s really just muscle memory making me use the latter. So given that #rrggbbaa was introduced later, I don’t and won’t get that muscle memory.
But does it provide a way for them to stream all of the artists catalog?
Only a very stable society is capable of tolerating dissent (in fact it is much better to tolerate than to make martyrs). Once it becomes unstable all bets are off
Australia 'mugged by reality' on Aukus deal as US set to halve submarine build
I had a look at it and immediately learned about some utilities I didn't know existed. I'm going to have a browse through this in my leisure time. Thank you for your hard work!
If you watch Formula 1 racing, you'll know that the tyre strategy is a core part of the race. Inspired by that, I build a stripped down racing simulation game, over a weekend. It was featured on front page of F1 reddit and got some media coverage as well!

Unfortunately it didn't support mobile browser since it was quickly done and that meant a lot of interested folks couldn't play it then.

You can play it here - (https://pitlane.radx.in/)
I got one, but it took months. I'd almost forgotten when, possibly even a double-digit number of months later, a license arrived.
I play games in my mind all the time, without equipment
Applejuicification: Why the fruit is found in so many mixed juices
Where does any of that contradict what I wrote?
Before the war when I studied Russian, I had the unpleasant experience of having to get a Russian visa, which is usually subcontracted to "VFS Global", a private company. Didn't do anything to improve the experience at all.
This is wonderful! You may be the first group to make me actually create a BandCamp login!
I'm looking into this as of now. For your situation though, from what I've read about iron supplements. A week is too short of a time for anything. So your situation was placebo; in my opinion.
You don't have to get into tmux configs. It's perfectly usable out of the box.
The very first MVP early version of https://microlaunch.net took me a weekend, then perfected it and put it in the hand of beta testers. The whole idea to launch took a month
Is it more like they must follow these steps to comply with EU regulation? What is it like for transactions from other countries such as Japan, Canada, and the US?
Back in 2019 I was working on a poorly managed project, so one Friday evening I started making a tool to help me with the work. It was an inventory of the ~ 100 environments where I had to do deployments and configuration changes. It took a few hours to do that and it served me well. 5 years later this personal productivity tool is used by half of the department as a configuration management system and it is dangerously close to become a critical component - there were more weekends where I added functionality, one at a time. Tricky part is this is a personal productivity tool, so officially it does not exist in the enterprise architecture diagrams and it is not officially supported; it does not even have a repo in the corporate Github, but in a separate Gitea instance.
What about a competitive salary they lose (i.e. get fired) if they underperform? We’re used to underpaying and overprotecting government employees but if you were setting up a new publicly owned company there’s no reason you’d have to do it that way.
I like the idea! I think the mobile site could benefit from having some screenshots of the app.
British Placename Mapper
> why the fuck is dot a shortcut for `source`?!

The dot is the standard POSIX name for the command [0], `source` is a bash-specific alias.

[0] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...
This is why so many orgs find remote working hard. Everyone has to be willing to compromise on how they communicate to find a middle ground, or the company has to hire for people who work the same way as everyone else. When you have a team made up of people who communicate with different expectations, and they're not willing to accept that other people will think differently about what's reasonable, remote working starts to break down.

Maybe that's why so many companies push for people to return to the office. In-person working where someone can just walk up and interrupt someone else is equally awful for everyone.
Rank it on https://microlaunch.net to give it a second life and exposure over a month of rankings overall
For $5 a month put $15 a month crossed out with $5 (66% discount for the next X days and hours)

Cheesy, but that’s the way it is :-)
> I think it is one of the best things that came out of the cold war.

Better than integrated circuits? Better than cheap air travel? The direct human impact of manned spaceflight has been very marginal.
A simple game I posted here before [1].

I think it’s rather hard to finish a project in under one weekend. And we tend to easily say “I did it over the weekend” but mean “I had something working after one weekend”. Especially if the weekend is not one where you spend 48 hours in front of the computer (counting Friday evening in). So, I was quite proud to get it finished in one weekend under normal conditions.

[1] https://reach-100.com
Not all Russians, no. I think the suffering during the Cold War, and the current war in Europe (which has so far only reached Georgia. Moldova, and Ukraine, with a satellite conflict simmering in Bosnia) is due to only one of the evils being defeated in WWII, and the other left to grow and pretend to be an esteemed citizen of the world.)
The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island
I sell apps for a living - I have a few iOS apps and a macOS app. Each of them uses a different way of billing (app store, revenuecat, lemonsqueezy etc), which makes it a PITA to check the total revenue (which I need to do everyday because I am so obsessed with it).

So, I recently converted my old phone into a 24/7 live sales dashboard[1] which consolidates the revenue from each service. It resembles a retro device inspired by the pip boy and was finished within a day!

[1] https://twitter.com/kushsolitary/status/1777306909344715158
Private means nothing if it's just another monopoly without any competition.
I'm German and have a GmbH. Go found one; it's completely ridiculous. Not just founding it, but running it, too. Esp. when you know how easy it is in the US/UK/Sweden (the three other places I've lived).
"Some time" does have pretty much that implication. The exact amount of time is unspecified, but I'm unsure that 6 months is enough to count. Maybe this is an American vs British English thing?

You dan't have to trust me: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/for-some...
A fairly simple proxy for unencrypted HTTP transmissions (although it will proxy any TCP transmission): https://gist.github.com/lelanthran/0ab8830c753dba63bbc1c9851...

Clears any compression format headers so that both parties are forced to communicate in the clear. Generally I have a split terminal with client transmissions scrolling down on the left side and server responses scrolling on the right side.

This is something that I find myself using daily, especially when programming embedded devices that talk to a server (esp32, for example). It's nice to be able to switch to a screen and see all the messages scroll by, especially with esp32-type projects where there really is no good way to figure out what the device didn't like about the response (or in what way the request was mangled so that the server program didn't like it).

I use it on web projects as well, because frankly, the three-finger-salute I have configured for switch screens/desktops is much faster than clicking around in devtools.
> because of the way they did the conversion to open offices, they no longer have enough room for everybody in the company

Stop me if you heard this one:

Act I: "Since most employees are working from home we'll move to a smaller office and assign shared desks. Please remove all personal items from your office."

Act II: "No one is coming to the office and the few that do feel lonely. Please come to the office three days a week."

Act III: "You are all coming Tuesday-to-Thursday and we don't have enough space for everyone at the same time. Please choose three non-consecutive office days."

Act IV: "There are too many people using the meeting rooms. If you have lots of meetings then please stay at home that day."
Reduce immigration done? are you serious?

>Trudeau seems obsessed with spending $1b / day in new programs until the election, in a vain attempt to secure his legacy.

We agree here, his time is done and he is leaving a mess behind.
Not AI, people who trained AI and who use it for profit

You can learn yourself but if you use an automatic tool to bypass and automatically make similar works and compete with original authors then you're IP thief
tergooi MC in Hilversum has no one to talk to when you walk in, really. You get a ticket with your Dutch id, wait where it tells you, and someone calls your name. It's really efficient if you have Dutch id!
Missed the point on communicating with the Tax Govt people by snail mail - you want it that way. Working with them over phone or email will inevitably lead to you being hit with fines and other nasty scenarios.

Always get a lawyer to represent you when the Tax folks start an audit. Never tell them anything over the phone or email. Always ask for a letter and provide explanations via letter. Do record all communications with them. Never say anything they did not ask for.
> People (mostly) need to feel like they are capable agents and also like they are contributing to something larger than themselves.

100%, but that doesn't mean it has to be work. That doesn't have to be a job, especially one that you enjoy only 30% of the time. Purpose can come form lots of things, but we just push everyone to make that thing commercial, part of capitalism
I'm not very familiar with the equivalence problem, but at least for Xr0 abstracts (what we call the annotations attached to functions & loops) there is an extremely strong structural similarity between the implementation and the annotation. So it's not at all clear that we'll run into this.
Pretty much. I feel like the whole fear drive German conformism comes from the Prussian times where strict hierarchies were enforced and respected, where your superior is always right so don't question it, and the same top-down leadership culture can be seen today in big traditional German corporations.
Yes, it is necessary if the world wants to have high-end chips manufactured more than a few miles from China. China's government has been spending billions and billions on an utterly massive military build-up. The US goal is to be able to continue to have chips, which are necessary to power almost everything else. I think what's going on is a geopolitical struggle. The US views this as a national security issue.

A good question is whether or not this will work. A big building is not the same as a working best-in-class fab.
It seems unlikely to stay that way. With ~$4M in revenue, the $41 IPO price is >1000x earnings, which blows game stop, AMC, and Tesla over valuations out of the water. They were around 200x iirc, which is still ten times the 20x rule of thumb, or maybe it's 10x... the market has gotten crazy and separated from fundamentals
I’m not okay with the German and Japanese civilian casualties during WWII either, but I think the world is better off with Hitler defeated. Similarly, I think we would be in a better place if Stalin was defeated, and Russia rebuilt in a western image like Germany and Japan were.
Video: Crafty quadcopter sits on power lines to recharge
I have a silly "trick" for this. In Firefox you can add a SOCKS5 proxy and click "Proxy DNS with SOCKS5 proxy". This bypasses the system DNS.

So for example, if you make a container with this, then you can just quickly open the URL that's blocked in the other container and it will bypass the network-level DNS adblock.

There are other ways to do it without a container, I'm sure, maybe with an add-on/toggle or something.

My VPN provider gives free SOCKS5 access to a few servers, so it didn't cost me anything more.
Could be slow and ineffective. It's as likely a company would run it into the ground because of short-sightedness. There are so many examples of government services becoming private company enterprises and in short order everything got worse. But I guess there are equally many examples of the other way around as well.
I've Been Tracking Everything in My Life for a Year
(Here we go...)
* Put everithing in written. It ensures that everyone understood the same thing and you or your frinend will not post here in 2 years about a big fight. "cuentas claras mantienen la amistad" (clear accounts preserve friendships) I'm not sure the best tranlation https://www.google.com/search?q=cuentas+claras+mantienen+la+... (Did you said 50% and 50% or it was proportionel to the time in the office? Did it included the previous years? No salary means more equity? Who paid for the new server? ...)

* 4 years vesting with 1 year cliff: How long have you been working in this? How long has ypur friend been working? Full time? Part time? Only a weekly free Zoom of 40 minutes?

* Who will make the angry calls to the contractors?
Ghostty

I’m most interested in seeing the cross platform terminal named Ghostty, created by the creator of HashiCorp

https://mitchellh.com/ghostty
Also AdGuardhome will use optimistic caching, which is great.

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/discussions/4002#...
This is also the company that hired 5000 engineers to work on anything that occurred to them, under some monkeys-typewriter theory of software. Condensed the project down into one totally ridiculous moss-covered three-handled family credenza of a thing that was completely unmarketable. Fired all those same people a couple years later.

If some of us have less confidence than others in their prognostications, well, there are reasons.
Thanks. I've bought one :)
FWIW PyMuPDF doesn't do OCR. It extracts embedded text from a PDF, which in some cases is either non-existent or done with poor quality OCR (like some random implementation from whatever it was scanned with).

This implementation bolts on Tesseract which IME is typically not the best available.
I first read this as the cat becoming a steward and losing toes to frostbite...
I run dnscrypt-proxy on my OpenWrt Router. It's like Syncthing. Install and forget, like how softwares should work in general.
Build Systems à La Carte: Theory and Practice (2020) [pdf]
Show HN: I converted my old phone into a pip-boy inspired live sales dashboard
As an avid F1 fan I'm stoked to try this out, thanks for sharing!
To the person commenting on whether notepad-plus-plus.org was a legitimate domain: this is the strongest proof I've found: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/...
grep -C $n word document

will get you $n lines of context on either side of the matching lines.
It's about war.

The US wants on shore chips facilities with trained US staff so that if we end up in a shooting war with China we won't lose our supply of chips.

That's the whole thing.
Dangerous manual labour like mining or tunnel building. In woodworking the art is art but if you use a machine to copy my original design then it's the same old theft again. :)

> A market that is not changing has already stagnated.

Yep. The way art is changing is thanks to original work and no one will be making it since anything you make gets stolen for free
No, Nix by itself is these three things. NixOS is a distro made utilizing the Nix system.
Linux process injection: from string modification to shellcode
Well, you could argue that in the fast-evolving AI domain 5 months is already "a fairly long period of time"...
A utility to share environment variables with others P2P - https://github.com/viraniaman94/sendenv

Had posted it here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39098133

Got a lot more GitHub stars than I had anticipated. Still getting stars here and there.
Might also be worth reporting directly through Cloudflare https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/feedback/notepad.plus
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test
Maestro – a mobile UI testing framework with YAML definitions
Daily annoyance? Yes! The pre-roll ads on YouTube didn't get blocked anymore by my blockers of trust (Ghostery & uBlock Origin) so I decided to write my very first add-on for Firefox. I've never touched JavaScript or add-ons before - but with the help of ChatGPT I got it working over the weekend [1] and now watch my YouTube videos without any ads. (I also did a version for Chrome, still waiting for approval)

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/pureytv
Yeah, I'm still on a 1080p monitor as my main one. I don't think any of my laptops have screens where 100% or 200% scaling is the correct choice, either, unless you're DHH level obsessed with font rendering.
i second that. i would not go to a concert, but it does have a certain quality. i can see this used in games or exhibits of industrial art.
While generating offensive images is a problem, repeatedly providing offensive prompts and then being "outraged" by the results seems disingenuous.
Why because your belovered maintainer is hostile and you can cope?

There are tons of maintainers out there who have poor communication skills who don’t care if you submit a pull request fixing a bug, or raise an issue detailing a bug. They will shrug you off and make you feel like OSS is a waste of time.

Get over yourself and stop getting on your knees to suck him off like he’s some god.
Show HN: I scanned 50K xyz domains
Is Oxide Computer Company Reinventing the Wheel? [video]
They would be no worse and probably better than private equity or public markets.
My laptop breaks down after 5 years.

Is it about the manufacturer because they made a bad design that broke after some years, or me doing properly maintenance?
Especially the ones who ran away from Russia in 2022 to avoid anything to do with this
do you have listener numbers for spotify and bandcamp?
At least in its current state, notepad.plus does redirect to the official website when clicking the download button. The site itself is mostly an AI generated mess, on top of that - its rankings are manipulated by articles like this,

https://mycours.es/gamedesign2016/2023/03/21/quick-and-easy-...

https://www.bacsitannhang.com/how-to-install-notepad-on-ubun...

There are a few hundred of them but nothing overly crazy. Most of these articles look like a traditional "link pyramid" network.

But I am surprised that the site hasn't been penalized by Google yet. All the signs are there that it is a bullshit site. Looking at the current rankings[0], it appears that the site is surging also. That's around 120,000~ Google clicks monthly based on my own estimates. Don probably has the numbers himself also as far as referrals go.

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/SvOjalu.jpeg
That sounds like good old fashioned payola.
I disagree. This is not in any way overstating the state of things.

Have you ever changed cities and needed to change Finanzbehörde? Have you ever registered for driving school? Have you ever tried changing from one driving instructor to another? Have you ever got married in a district where there are no appointments for marriage? Have you ever been unable to take your children out of school to attend a family funeral in a different country? Have you ever purchased a car in a State different from the one that you live in? Have you ever had to experience the nightmare of applying for unemployment money? Have you ever tried picking up your child's sick notice without their insurance card, but just only your own ID?

I could go on and on... Not all of these are on the same level of annoyance/senselessness but there are countless more examples. The bureaucracy and stiff insistence on following processes and rules at the expense of common sense are everyday occurrences.

In my experience what is most amazing is how most citizens of this country just accept this and don't find it unusual.
I've been using camelot, which builds on the lower python pdf libraries, to extract tables from pdfs. Haven't tried anything exotic, but it seems to work. The tables I parse tend to be full page or the most dominant element

https://camelot-py.readthedocs.io/en/master/

I like Camelot because it gives me back pandas dataframes. I don't want markdown, I can make that from a dataframe if needed
See this discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39963915