skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, zero-latency is cool, but I gotta admit that I do not miss cathode ray tube TVs. They are really heavy, the picture was fuzzy, I never personally liked the scanlines, they're bulky, and I never liked that high pitch squeal that they make. I'll confess a little nostalgia for the CRTs sometimes, my first TV was a hand-me-down RCA from my parents and that served as my only TV until I was 20, but the second that 1080p (or better) LCD TVs got cheap, I never looked back.

Even in regards to the latency, I'm kind of convinced that those claims are a little overblown. LCDs do increase latency, but some of the more modern LCD TVs have a "low latency mode", that claims to get the latency to below 15 milliseconds; assuming most games are 60FPS, that's below a single frame, and I don't think that a vast majority of humans can even detect that. and for the few that can, OLEDs have you covered with latency on the order of like 2ms.
> and I'd much rather have the 0 calibration that a CRT could provide.

Would it really be 0 though? Assuming 60Hz, the bottom of each frame is scanned out 16ms after the top. Assuming that Rock Band 3 renders an entire frame before displaying it (definitely true) and that it actually renders at 60FPS as opposed to rendering at a higher resolution and tearing (definitely true on console, might not be true on an emulator?), the video latency will range from 0ms for the top of the frame to 16ms for the bottom, for an average of 8ms.

Admittedly, I don't know what Rock Band 3 calibration numbers actually measure, e.g. whether they already take into account factors like this.

If you can manage to render at a high frame rate then you could reduce latency by tearing, but at that point, I feel like you're leaving a lot on the table by not using a 240Hz OLED or something, which can show the entirety of every frame.

Supposedly OLED has comparable response times to CRT anyway. The article says that OLED gaming monitors are unattainable, but it's 5 years old and things have changed.
A company could fix the situation by implementing an access method for the canteen. Not necessarily a fob to get inside, but say, a card needed in order order the food there. At the end of the tax year, the company could issue a boilerplate letter to each employee who doesn't have the card for the canteen food discounts. For that matter, for each employee who has a card, their purchases could be detailed and the below-market-value saving tallied up for them to declare as tax. (Thus everyone could have a card and some could choose not to use it.)

The baseline assumption that everyone has access to the canteen and uses it is the company's fault for not implementing a more detailed system.
I'm assuming you didn't read the parent comment to mine saying "humanoid robots are dumb", so I'm not sure what you're trying to say.
"How many bathrooms have (fossilized remains of) Neanderthals in the (wall/floor) tile?"

I had to start reading the article before I was able to parse it correctly.
Ask HN: How did you get better at Open-Source?
To any good Open-Source Contributor:

How do you approach a large Codebase without getting overwhelmed by it?

How do you find a good project that suits your taste?

When to stop looking for good first issues? (I couldn't find any good guide that does not tell about searching for good first issues)

I know that I should find something that is somehow connected to my work, like a library/product I am using and then start working on it and I agree that it is true but it's easier than it sounds and there's more to it.

so if you have any good advice also, please...
I have been following along in the early days of Linux vs BSD. Believe it or not, the main reason people especially developers flocking to Linux at the time despite the superiority claim of other BSDs of their self-evident stability and security was mainly the licensing of GPL for Linux kernel. It was a stroke of genius from Linus by adopting the GPL but he probably hardly admitting the fact. No decent open source programmer (open source terminology was defined in the midst of this) at the time were willing to compromise people ripping their codes and put them inside other commercial OS, and at the time the usual suspect was Microsoft Windows of course. This very thing happened right infront of their eyes and under their noses when Microsoft literally took the entire TCP/IP stack from FreeBSD, but as a compensation they probably hired some of the FreeBSD folks after that and this latter fact is only speculation. It is really philosophical rather than technical superiority but in technology the superior product hardly win the contest, remember Betamax and VHS?
No, tobacco products kill a lot more people, in the U.S. about 400,000 people a year--three to four times as many as alcohol.
Cardio toxicity cannot be ignored, especially in the typical context of consuming cocaine- dehydration, high amount of physical activity and sleep deprivation.

Any stimulant is potentially harmful, especially one as powerful as this. Even ephedrine, which is considered relatively mild, is actually dangerous.

And that's if you don't consider risks that are inherent to the drug's price- cocaine is expensive and thus frequently isn't too pure, to say the least. Pretty obvious how it affects its side-effect profile
I mean anyone with money and time to burn can sue people. This isn't unique to the food industry, this is just SLAPP which is a much more general problem.

So while you're right it sucks and it's bad that they can do this, it's not specifically a "big hamburger" problem.
19% income reduction, didn't we just get a 50% income reduction through uneven inflation (everyone pays uneven inflation that is much higher than the cpi)... these governments don't need to do this over 26 years, they just did it in 2
Why is this the top comment (at time of writing)? It makes no reference to the actual content, just complaining that the article was on the frontpage.

I personally enjoyed reading the sentiment of the article and don't mind it being on the frontpage. But I would never think of writing a comment complaining that the article wasn't on the frontpage.

Why should the frontpage content only make you happy? This made me happy, so I was glad it was on the frontpage.

I guess the comment could also be juxtaposition on the headline: stop acting like you're famous.
There was a related game to Demons Crest, the Gargoyle's Quest on the Game Boy. It mixes several genres. If you have access to it (or an emulator) give it an eye because it's worth it.
The original Unix people were also - allegedly - aware of the pun on "Eunuchs", and joked about calling it an emasculated or "Eunuch" version of Multics. I'd love a bit of historical information on that, but it certainly is amusing.
Another pet peeve of mine is that some websites would intercept Cmd+F to provide their own, usually inferior, version of search, and all browsers being complicit. I wish there was a setting that would prevent websites from overriding browser's own hotkeys.
> Scotopic vision occurs at luminance levels of 10−3[5] to 10−6[citation needed] cd/m2

They should have more than enough brightness to be clearly visible in those light conditions on almost any visible wavelength they chose for the laser, so it's weird if they optimize for this instead of the outdoor performance.
From the title, I fully expected the story to be about a next-generation CAPTCHA.
> The problem is that scam has certain meaning and if we use scam more liberally we dilute the meaning

Language is not something you can manipulate so easily and you absolutely cannot fight language changing, but also I promise that no one is diluting the meaning "scam".
They don't do that either.

Google's value in tracking is in providing services to users with the tracked data and (in the ads arm) linking advertisements to potential interested users (which is a system they broker internally).

They don't hand data to third-parties; third-parties hand data to Google, and Google might kick out answers to questions, but it does not kick out answers to questions like "Hey, is this person a terrorist?" There's no program for that. Hell, Google doesn't even kick out answers to questions like "Would Bob like to buy my shoes," the entire ad network is architected to minimize the ways an advertiser could glean the identity of a specific user who saw their ad.
> if an attacker is able to compromise Tailscale and add a key to your tailnet

that's why tailscale has https://tailscale.com/kb/1226/tailnet-lock

> that person will immediately have access to your network AND shell access to all of your boxes

it would be extremely weird and negligent to deploy Tailscale at a company and not have any ACLs.
World Chain
Yes. When I need something, my first stop is the physical stores in my area. I only go online if nobody carries what I'm looking for.

> Specialty items are still hard

I stopped using Amazon years ago, and what I've done for specialized items is to find the actual manufacturer and order directly from them. This works 80-90% of the time. When it doesn't work, then I hit up the likes of craigslist, eBay, etc.
I really feel like, regardless of where you fall on the particular war, we really should not like the idea of supplying resources like this to an active war.

It also concerns me that given the nature of this war, that the idea of protesting this is not ok.
This is a completely reasonable take, though do note that they’ve come a long way over the past decade, in both improvements to materials and active management to reduce burn-in risk. I use a newish OLED TV for gaming and it’s both glorious and I’m not actually worried about burn-in.

I’m not sure I’d risk full-time desktop use, but in a couple of years? Maybe.
No - but my impression was that you were attributing this to the theory GP was referring to and to which I replied.
ETags are also a built-in way to avoid conflicts when multiple clients are mutating the same data. Instead of each client sending

PUT /doc

And blindly overwriting what’s there, they send

PUT /doc
If-Match: <etag they fetched>

If the current server-side ETag had a different value, it can return a 409. Then the client can re-fetch the document, re-apply the changes, and re-PUT it in a loop until it succeeds.

You wouldn’t do that for huge, frequently changing docs like a collaborative spreadsheet or such. It’s perfect for small documents where you’d expect success most of the time but failure is frequent enough that you want some sort of smart error handling.
I still kind of have PTSD from having to lug my old RCA TV up four flights of stairs in my dorm in college. I'm not in spectacular shape now, but I was a scrawny guy who never exercised when I was 19, and so I was sore for like a week after that endeavor.

Fortunately my roommate at the time was very nice, and also a huge gym bro and was able to help me lug it back to my car after the semester was over.
I have been using mixtral daily since it was released for all kinds of writing and coding tasks.
Love it and massively invested in mistrals mission.

Keep on doing this great work.

Edit: been using the previous version, seems like this one is even better?
You can't upgrade it?

Edit: I haven't owned a laptop for years, probably could have surmised they'd be more user hostile nowadays.
>tools with a cooldown

I really enjoyed this line. Seems like a good median point between extremes of scarcity or abundance mindsets.
I didn't think those were bad at all
This is why my wife and I started our son in swimming lessons somewhere around 1 year old. Yes, it was fun, but it's an important life and survival skill.

Being a strong swimmer doesn't mean you're invincible, but being comfortable in the water helps in so many of the situations where one might freeze, panic, or otheriwse waste energy. Comfort allows a second or two of rational thought to assess the situation and plan for an exit.
That first video of the bot standing from the floor and turning towards the camera one joint at a time does something strange to the uncanny valley horror movie part of my brain.
Show HN: CountryGuessr – Explore 195 Countries Through Images
Hello HN,

I'm excited to introduce CountryGuessr (https://countryguessr.com/), a geography-based game that challenges you to identify countries from four unique images. This game spans all 195 countries, offering a fun and educational way to learn about different parts of the world.

The game allows you to engage with every recognized country through high-quality images sourced from Flickr. It's fairly simple and intuitive gameplay is ideal for anyone from students to geography buffs. I built CountryGuessr to make geography learning accessible and enjoyable. I’d love to hear your feedback on the game experience and any suggestions you might have. You can try it out at

Thanks for checking it out, and I hope you find it as fun and informative as I do!
I also assume groq is 10-15x faster
libxev: A cross-platform, high-performance event loop
Too bad Dave Cutler didn’t write a memoir.
from scratch:
https://research.myshell.ai/jetmoe
Thank you.

I thought it ended years ago.
We have planned to release dashboard components. In next phase we will release that.
Thank you for suggestion.
I can't even begin to describe how excited I am for the future of AI.
https://archive.is/Z4GgW

The first paragraphs:

> Kiev is concerned about Ukrainians living abroad integrating into the societies of their host countries too fast, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba told a forum in Kiev on Friday.

> Keeping their compatriots living abroad from assimilating is now one of the top priorities of Ukrainian diplomacy, he said.

> According to Ukrainian media outlets, nearly 5 million people who fled Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict were still living abroad as of January 2024, mostly in Germany and Poland. According to the outlets, up to 2.3 million of these émigrés might never return home.

> “It has become clear that assimilation would be extremely fast if we do not change our policy towards Ukrainians abroad,” Kuleba said. The minister added that he does not believe “most Ukrainians who left will return.” He also maintained that the authorities should work with those living abroad for them to “remain Ukrainian.”
Can I really make $52 million by converting coordinates into a standard format? Surely that must a niche need? How do you come up the valuations?
Groovy is still around in projects that haven't yet moved their gradle configs to Kotlin (which includes a declarative syntax basically identical to Groovy builders). Purely dynamic-typed languages are a hard sell these days, especially when they're as pokey and memory-hungry as Groovy.
My opinion is that NSA has already done that a long time ago.
My opinion is that Iaws like this are made to provide cover to use that intelligence they have gathered in a less covert manner.

If somebody asks, "where the hell did you get that information"?
They can point to this law as a legal procedure.

I dont think general encryption is a big problem for the NSA either,
thought that is less certain.

The NSO group is able to repeatedly find serious and scary 0 days,
that remain unknown for some period of time.

The NSO grop does not have the manpower, skill, budget and hardware that
the NSA does.

I am convinced the NSA is sitting on an ample collection of useful 0-days,
0 click vulnerabilities and they can access Windows/Linux/MacOS/iOS/Android/Chrome/Edge/Firefox
Dropbox,OneDrive,Box,S3, etc etc at their leisure.
but they cannot use a lot of what they find since it would raise questions.
Ask HN: Could a form of modern-day AI been made to work back in the late 1980s?
Before you answer with a loud "No," this isn't a question that asks for facts. Of course, it didn't. But also, we also know that the underlying theories behind LLMs and other artificial intelligence techniques are not new; some date back to much earlier. Plus, there were efforts on both sides of the Cold War sectrum to build a supercomputer "to rule them all."

Thus, if we imagine that the scope of my question is in the context of a parallel reality hard-sci-fi story, how plausible would it have been for any side to advance over the other with any form of artifical intelligence (as rudimentary as it may have been)?
We are going to quickly reach the point where most of these AI startups (which do nothing but provide thin wrappers on top of public LLMs) aren't going to be needed at all. The differentiation will need to come from the value of the end product put in front of customers, not the AI backend.
I'd argue it would be more democratic like that. If we had pan-European parties with their own pan-European agendas, people would know what they are voting for, and would be much more involved. Instead EU is still rather an international organization where governments of member states set the agenda, so the result is a very indirect way of decision making where an individual voter can hardly understand what impact their vote makes.
This seems like a good idea. The other variation to cover would be "this person appears to be connecting from a known VPN... [insert further explanation/warning here]"
Just got it. Have is the possessive definition, not the helper verb for a past participle.

Read like: How many tiles contain Neanderthals within their tiles?
I've noticed some models on Hugging Face require an extra layer of terms acceptance, like a EULA. Maybe it'll be like that? Otherwise I'm guessing they want one to make a dedicated Stability AI account, accept some terms, and then enable the download.
I run it fine on my 64gb RAM beast.
A decent loose analogy might be database sharding.

Basically you're sharding the neural network by "something" that is itself tuned during the learning process.
I'd rather just wageslave than sell snake oil to these same companies.
Is Mozilla Foundation political activist organization?

When you donate to MF, you do that in order to further MF mission. Political activism should not be that[1]. When Eich donated to his cause, he did to organization that had the cause in it's mission; he did not set additional condition (e.g.: fire these people, because I don't like some aspect of their look and they refuse to change).

[1] Now, interesting thing would be to know, how many people didn't donate to MF since they turned into political activist organization.
I wonder how many people would have accepted the industry making it impossible to change channels during "spots" while watching TV a few decades ago
For the longest time I thought I was having survivorship bias + nostalgia. Back in the late 90's my dad coughed up a lot of money on then the second family computer with all sorts of peripherals and accessories. One of which being a 17 inch Sony Trinitron CRT. I had this monitor until the second half of the 2000's when I went to study abroad. None of the computers and monitors I had in the future felt like a downgrade compared to the Trinitron, even till this day, even with a few several high end oled monitors at home. Seems it wasn't survivorship/nostalgia...
I have made no such argument. My original comment above was a response to someone saying that Russia/China don’t need to engage in what I call information warfare. My response was that they do engage in it.

And your first paragraph above was to rationalize why some people are opposed to the polio vaccine. You just couldn’t equivocally state that this is an example of people being duped into believing something that is entirely idiotic. It’s not the main point you are trying to get across but it’s worth addressing this since you suggested I might be a victim of propaganda. I think, in our exchange, you are more likely to be a victim of propaganda since you can’t just say, “yeah those people are being duped”.
You quoted the relevant bit yourself:

> So my biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways in the most important time periods.

That is exactly what the First Amendment is supposed to do, and she should know that.

So if she's concerned about it, she doesn't support the First Amendment and its very purpose.
(2019)

Things have changed substantially, especially regarding the availability of OLED gaming oriented monitors. CRTs were great (especially the Trinitrons), but they were stupid heavy. I’d much rather have an OLED today.
True but how much can a bipedal robot carry ?
A sensible solution would just not to collect most data, so doing quite the opposite of all that shitty telemetry users were more or less forced into.
If you don't mind, I'm trying to experiment w/ local models more.
Just now getting into messing w/ these but I'm struggling to come up w/ good use cases.

Would you happen to know of any cool OSS model projects that might be good inspiration for a side project?

Wondering what most people use these local models for
You couldn't even use input type="date" until a couple of years ago because of Safari support. There was more than enough time of the web missing absolutely basic crap like this that you had to assume that most things weren't available batteries-included, and because of poor modularization related to css and the massive amount of Javascript needed to get anything done, too often the solution was "use a giant-ass framework".

For developers supporting projects implemented using simple raw-js or things like jquery, it's no wonder they developed a habit of DIY. I've had review so much code and push back on this stuff, so I fully understand why it happens.
Why do we expect this to perform better? Couldn’t a regular network converge on this structure anyways?
Tailscale is key distribution for Wireguard + ACLs + some proxying/auth things.

if tailscale got completely owned then obviously an attacker can fuck with the keys, which is why they have this feature: https://tailscale.com/kb/1226/tailnet-lock
> mac laptop
Generally about ~1gb ram per billion parameters. I've run a 30b model (vicuna) on my 32gb laptop (but it was slow).
Is this only available on the US app store? I am unable to download in Canada
On the bright side, they did not force you to "enter" 2FA code using spinner from "number" input field.
This. I've seen kids with wheelies these days. They can go from climbing to zipping around the place with the simplest of natural transition.
Hey, Vlad!

To support Orion with Orion+ (which I did, and don't regret having done it), you need to purchase it through Kagi. I'm guessing this was done to simplify payment systems, but it is a nuanced way of associating Orion with Kagi.

Orion works with Kagi out of the box in ways that are seemingly more native than other search engines. Specifically, the way it handles my account token is more seamless than how the Kagi extension handles it with Safari (which I understand is a requirement due to technical limitations).

While it's absolutely nothing like how Google and Chrome or Bing and Edge are inseparable, it is a slight push that had me slightly worried about deeper integration in the future. This wasn't a show-stopper at all, though!
Future of Humanity Institute shuts down
First, it's important to understand that words mean what people tend to use them to mean.

Second, "happy" and "happiness" subsume numerous meanings. You're picking one, and as I and others have, at times, done with many other words, trying to restrict the world to only that meaning.

Perhaps a more similar word to your meaning would be "joy"? It seems more generally restricted to descriptions of brief periods, in common usage.