skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
seems a bit weird to use a service worker to do an offline version... the tutorial linked is long and worthless if you want people to quickly install and use it, you need to either make a shorter more concise tutorial.

imagine somebody loses internet access, he can't really open this thing to just access a map, I don't understand.

why not just provide a html file with the tiles encoded as base64 or something similar? just provide a zip file... I am not a web developer, this seems like a good thing, but deployment is 1/10... minimalist things are supposed to be very easy to deploy.

EDIT: just saving the page, and it works. I don't understand what the service workers are for. web dev has mysterious ways.
Our generation is highly advanced but we have become very short sighted. We have made a mess of our world because of it.

I remember a story about Oxford. When it was built they planted entire forest of Oak trees so that in 500 years when Oxford will need repairing they have ample amount of wood available. In that age people were capable of thinking 500 years ahead. And we with all our advancement can't even think beyond ROI. Living on other planet should not be seen as choice but something that is necessary.
We're talking about admin access to your own machine. Local admin. Not root access to servers.

I can't say I have ever "blown up my admin access", whatever that means. Especially not late at night because I am in bed. And even if I did, so what? I have backups. Just means I lose half a day restoring my laptop.
„The venerable “baseload” concept—that grid stability needs gigawatt-scale, steadily operating thermal (steam-raising) power plants—reflects the valid and vital economic practice of dispatching power at least operating cost, so resources with lowest operating costs are run most. This traditional role of giant thermal plants led many people to suppose that such plants are always needed. But now that renewables with no fuel cost are taking over the “baseload” role of being dispatched whenever available, those big thermal plants are relegated to fewer operating hours, making the term “baseload” an obsolete honorific. Thermal plants must now adapt to follow the net load left after cost-effective efficiency, demand response, and real-time “base-cost” renewable supply have been dispatched. Nuclear power’s limited flexibility, and its technical and economic challenges when cycled, have thus become a handicap, complicating least-cost and stable grid operation with a rising share of zero-carbon, least-cost variable renewables. That is why Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) found that early closure of its well running Diablo Canyon reactors would save customers money and, by making the grid more flexible, raise renewables’ share. Those reactors had become cheaper to close than to run: the power systems’ shift to renewables had turned them from an asset to a liability, so they’ll be replaced by competitively procured low-carbon resources, saving both money and carbon.“

Source: https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/The-World-Nuclear-Industr...
GPT Overperformance over Humans in Cognitive Reframing of Negative Scenarios
It doesn't seem like we are close to robotics providing housing, food, and healthcare for nominal costs to everyone. Seems like we still need a lot of humans working in those spaces.

In particular, durable goods (and human bodies and even hair) need a lot of maintenance. So far, at least, robots aren't especially gifted at maintenance tasks.
Id argue that there is art in figuring out how to continuously churn out features. Its really hard to write your code in such a way it can handle being jerked around, all while not wasting time on what might happen.
Stuart describes one type of mentality. I’ve recently joined a small company as the senior person. My goal is to understand our deliverables, our timing, and can we do it?

In enterprise companies like the one I recently left, management is incentivized to kiss up try and do more with less, but wants more people to buttress their role as well as help determine the role above them. My prior boss in this same organization had multiple teams but rather than have the teams talk about their work insisted on being the one to present upward and rarely invited his teams to join.
or "best friends with the big boss" gets his way, this is an organization problem and the start of the slippery slide for a good company to become a bad company and is the point where most CEO's fail to do their duty.
In the pre-streaming era, Radio Heads In Rainbow is one of the best albums and it was distributed as a pay what you want.

It’s a cut the middle man move, it may be more trouble than it’s worth because the distribution channel is a pain to setup
I install this on everything. It is really really good, and IMO the way more games should be made: make a fast simple windowmanager friendly interface presenting puzzles and games in a very pure and unencumbered form. Another example: I love SimCity 2000 for Win95, but not SimCity 3000 or SimCity 4. Why? Wright did 2000 right, the post-EA SimCities were all full screen flashy playskool interface monstrosities. 3000 brought some cool features in, but I wish they had kept to a 2000-like interface.

My ideal games look something like Siemens PLM NX or something, and less like a one-armed bandit in Vegas.
Oh, not all AV is created equal and even with the good ones, sure, they're fallible. But there are still many, many incidents where people get exploited by basic malware that most AV would stop. I would not actively recommend _against_ AV.
> It's clear that technological development creates a shift in jobs, i.e some jobs are lost, but new ones are created as a result.

That was true in the past, but as technology gets better that won't be the case. Yes new jobs will be created, but there'll be fewer and fewer.

Technology will allow for more generalized approaches that can be quickly adapted to new solutions. So new jobs will also be replaced quicker and quicker.
The guides are generated from pure transcript so you don't have to worry about it being AI.

That just means you have to worry about voice recognition errors instead.
I’ve always wondered what the solution is now that we’ve opened Pandora’s box.

Is it simply to regulate against dark patterns when gamification is being used to manipulate users for profit?
Cicadas are coming, bringing mysteries that fungus scientists hope to study
When one read the acronym "AI", should be replaced with the synonym "statistics", which shows how contradictory about redundancy and accuracy can be the people who ate the marketing about these algorithms, and are thinking about to replace real trained intelligence, humans in this case, with it.
This is really interesting.

We build multimodal search engine on day-to-day basis. We recently launched video documents search engine. I made a Show HN [0] post about ingesting Mutual Fund Risk/Return summary data (485BPOS, 497) and searching it with AI search. We are able to pinpoint to exact term on given page. It is fairly easy for us to ingest 10K, 10Q, 8K and other forms.

You can try out demo for finance-application at https://finance-demo.joyspace.ai.

Our search engine can be used to build RAG pipelines that further minimizes hallucinations for your LLM model.

Happy to answer any questions around this and around search engine.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39980902
Cicadas aside, it's interesting to see how an article title changes during the publication process.

I submitted this with the text from the <title> tag, which seems less clickbaity than the headline on the page itself:

> The cicadas are coming, and some may become ‘flying saltshakers of death’

I have to confess that I like that headline more! The saltshaker quote comes from a "cicada expert" and refers to the fungus that takes over the lower part of the cicada's abdomen and doses the little critter with amphetamine and psilocybin.

As often happens, the subtitle is helpful:

> This year’s double emergence will be a gold mine for scientists trying to unravel the many mysteries of periodical broods

And here is a syndicated copy of the article with no paywall:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/ar-AA1nlA7a
- blackhawkC17
Nuclear had similar impacts decades ago, with "excess" energy at night.

Similar responses happened then, including night storage heaters, variable tariffs and pumped hydro storage.
Has anyone claimed technological changes will impact every group and subgroup on a literally equal basis?

Some will have better prospects and others will have worse. Since roughly half the population must have below median average prospects by definition.
Article (in russian language) about the product and why Scheme was used: https://web.archive.org/web/20210506123442/http://fprog.ru/2...
Ironically this is what people said when they were focusing on cleaning the ocean: "they should focus on rivers, that's how most trash gets into the ocean".
> for this reason alone it's not the future of music

The opposite - it is a future that your platform hasn't caught up with yet.
In my job search for remote USA roles it seems a little less popular than Django just bolstered by the GitHub and Shopify postings. Node, dotnet, go, and Java all seem more popular.
You talked about when iOS/iphone launched. Youtube did not work on iOS safari back then since it used flash. You're moving the goalposts.

Either way you still have not proven that less user choice now somehow leads to more user choice in the future.
The audio track in nature documentaries is unfortunately almost entirely foley.
I completely agree with this. If something seems at first blush to enforce a security control, but does not in reality, it should somehow be made very clear that it is just disabling a footgun rather than actually enforcing a security control. Either the setting in the config file needs to be named something silly like disable_alter_system_not_a_security_feature, or it needs to be overridable with something like "WITH FORCE", to make it really clear that all it is is a stumbling block rather than a control.
Your Trainee just took down our business and has no idea how or why
Examples of cells that have engulfed other cells, and then had the ability to recreate both itself and the engulfed cells faithfully?

Where? If you're pointing to mitochondria, there's only science fiction wild theory that has no evidence unless you like to believe Alex Jones theories. It's far more likely that it developed organically from within, like how real science believes, ie. evolution.

You have to remember that engulfing another organism is not even 10% of the job here. It needs to be faithfully replicated when the cell divides. To just assume that another organism can be engulfed and then the cell magically can figure out how to recreate an entirely new copy of it from within itself is absurd.
I’m gonna be blunt, that’s a strange position.
I mean, even just math wise/FFT, you can break down a lot of stuff into a dc component plus your variable component.

But the other part is you can absolutely adjust the output of a nuclear reactor, we just don’t because the availability is there. Look up the largest power stations in the us/globally, and sort by capacity factor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_power_statio...
Most companies will have a counter force, the 'cutter'.

The 'cutter's compensation is tied to how much they cut.

Of course, they will also need a team, to more efficiently cut other teams.

And they in turn will also be incentivized to grow their team, the manager of the cutting team isn't immune to wanting to grow their team.

But then it gets up to CEO, who has someone reporting to them who's only goal is cutting. The cutter has a team, with some managers of teams of cutters. It's turtles all the way up, but it does end at CEO.

Generally every big company I've worked for, yes, had empire building. But then also had people to cut empires.

So every few years there were layoffs to trim it up.
Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North Face logo
Perhaps for now, but I wouldn't count on there always being a Meta spending $$$ to train enormous models and then giving them away for free. What's the long-term game plan for open-source models when the corporate charity inevitably dries up?
But the reality is: most glibc functions like `dirname` could not handle non UTF-8 encodings, because some encodings (like GBK) have overlaps with ASCII, which means when you search an ASCII char(like '\') in a char array, you may accidentally hit a half of a non-English character. Therefore, people in Asia usually do not use the non UTF-8 locales.
I've come to realise that actually coding is the part of software development I enjoy the least, and in many staff software engineer positions, that is basically entirely what you are doing

Other people are doing the fun/interesting stuff, project managers, product owners, scrum masters, etc etc are doing all of the fun interesting figuring out/thinking, and then it's just your job to code it.

When you work on side projects, you get to wear all of those other hats and it's way more rewarding
TinyTapeout 07 opens with Z80 clone
If that's all that happens then humanity has been lucky. At the other end of the scale, billions die of starvation, wars over resources, etc.
In the future if artists can get their way, they would release this as an exclusive for 2 weeks on a site then release it on streaming. 1. People would pay to listen to it first. 2. People will still use stream to listen subsequently as it is easier.

Negative side is that streaming service may not like it, and people will spin it as a rip off even if it technically isn’t.
> There are plenty of 15 hour jobs out there. You can get one right now!

Not without a 90% pay cut (i.e. as opposed to the ~60% pay cut you'd expect for working 40% of the hours), I've checked.
My understanding was that they're saying it's the act of replacing the worker with a robot that requires more skilled workers to maintain/design/manufacture/etc., not that it merely resulted in a layoff.
You can turn all this shit off in the group policy editor. It takes less time than writing an article for The Verge.
The layers above do likely understand the actual business goals better, and want to be sure that this thing you are asking for is actually going to support achieving those goals. Ideally that is the case, anyway.
Bay Area startup founder gets 18 months prison time, $1M fine for fraud
I don’t really get the “I’ve been trying to use the web for something it isn’t meant to do (graphics programming)” sentiment or the question.

What you have produced is wonderful, but has nothing to do with the web. That’s like comparing apples and oranges.

The web was built for images. All the glsl you have is rendering to that image. Cpp or whatever, your problem domain is pixel shader. A program, run on a gpu, for a single pixel and ray marching through a dataset on also on a gpu. It’s a hardware problem why debugging is so hard. Unfortunately, this is the reality of graphics programming in general.

Vite, React, Typescript, etc etc are all faff exterior to what you are doing.

If you want debugging tools and a good graphics programming experience, and a simple view with some interactivity something like Unitt, Godot, TouchDesigner or if you want lower level, OpenFrameworks, Processing, etc. would be leaner.
Yeah, that was really cool. A couple of years before that, Harvey Danger (yes, the Flagpole Sitta band) literally released their album Little by Little on BitTorrent. I loved that move, and it also happened to be a great album.
Plexi: A graphical development environment for constructing neural nets (1989)
(Saving people a click for link#1: qrank sorts Wikidata entries by their pageviews across Wikipedia, Wikiquotes, Wikibooks, etc.)

I'm not sure that an online popularity contest should be the input for a base map. I understand the reasoning that they're more likely to be viewed by someone, but it's also a bubble: is Wikipedia / are Wikimedia projects as popular in Asia as this base map will be? Is that used for the same purpose as this base map? Should something be shown on a map when there's a lot of drama about it rather than because a lot of people live there?

I see the advantages also, like if literally nobody lives there but it's an interesting or large landmass then there's cause for it to be included. I just don't think this is the right (objective, fairest) importance measure to use
https://eclecticlight.co/2023/07/24/how-to-fix-problems-with...

https://eclecticlight.co/?s=icloud
Found on Reddit (posted by u/NeillDrake) and thought HN would find it interesting.
This is speculative decoding with a n-gram Markov chain instead of a weaker transformer model in the “speculating” position.
Shutting down Reader was a monumentally stupid thing to do. Social features aside, I liked that it was a website I could go to and catch up on things no matter if I was at home or at work or elsewhere. The alternatives were things like apps, that didn't have that kind of access, or a self-hosted thing that I didn't want to manage, or some services that I don't think lasted.

All of the alternatives are worse. And imagine if you're dependent on gmail and they shut that down. Reader was like that.
> In the coming years, Bayer’s workforce will consist of constantly evolving “5,000 to 6,000 self-directed teams” that work together on projects of their choosing for 90 days, before regrouping for their next project.

That's how you produce nothing, but a lot of it.
> cloud or license

The free tier is bought by being a firehose of data for them.
Deploy gptscript to prod with 'git push'
Maybe they are commoditizing their complement here.
Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information
I worked for NASA. That answer is wrong. The ISS and Space Shuttle have standard 15 psi atmosphere for abort-to-Earth situations, not for any reasons related to fire. A 3 psi oxygen atmosphere has exactly the same fire risk as a 15 psi atmosphere with inert gas making up the rest. Chemically, partial pressure is all that matters. Apollo 1 had an over 15 psi pure oxygen atmosphere.
I strongly object to 38 being later in life
> showing a total lack of practical skill is a status signal.

In some circles, maybe. Perhaps it commands respect in academia. But a lot of high-status occupations demand practicality and experience - expertise. Law, accounting, soldiering, finance - these are high-status occupations that require expertise; you can't fake them on the basis of second-hand knowledge and abstractions.

Apart from politics, dynastic rule and being a professor, I can't think of a high-status occupation that doesn't require practical expertise. And many professors actually have practical expertise. Not all professors are abstract.
Change in political control is a possibility in any democracy. AfD could hypothetically take power in Germany at some point - at least enough to stall things out “until the situation is clear”/“until Ukraine handles their Nazi problem” etc, and then they’re suddenly “not a reliable ally” either.

Like I understand what you’re saying, but you’re also asking for basically a dictatorship in practice. Political winds can always change, and that’s something that cannot and should not be entirely forestalled.

(Although for example drug laws kinda do this - the us is beholden to international law on scheduling etc - we just don’t do that for military situations to the same extent as we use it for jailing minorities. But nato-style alliances with trigger conditions etc are a rarity, and ultimately still subject to the parties having to actually take action. If a nato trigger event has taken place, and everyone simply ignores it… what then? If trump says Slovenia are low-energy losers who incited the conflict themselves, therefore nato doesn’t apply (which is iirc more or less his stance on Ukraine during this conflict)… what do you propose doing about it? Code is not law, ethereum smart contracts can’t drop bombs.)

The rise of Russian-aligned parties and neofascist groups within western culture is the problem. And while there’s some root causes, like letting party-controlled media sources spread actual libel and falsehoods, once the neofascist party is getting 30%, or once trump takes the presidency, it’s too late, now they get the color of state power and state legitimacy, even as they dismantle the next election etc.

The real problem is that Russia and china are using western liberal values against us. Only westerners are concerned about protecting the speech of Nazis, or the right of Fox News to broadcast lies that the election was stolen, etc. China and Russia don’t have to care. And the fact that we have to work our politics within this framework that coddles vicious and violent movements and rhetoric is an angle that they can exploit to disrupt us.

Like yes, if you allow china to have their fair say in media, and allow them to purchase a major media outlet to spread that perspective, you’re going to get china-backed media causing disruption to domestic US politics. It’s just more controversial to say it with political parties than with tiktok, but, Fox News and newsmax really ought to go too, for all the same reasons. And as long as you can come up with a veneer of American control the problem will remain.
Demo from the gptscript community call on Friday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDZ0ysNZT0g
Wow I’ve been thinking of something exactly like this! Sort of a super charged, statically typed version of Go’s context.Context. It would allow you to describe the capabilities (or effects) of every function, including IO, memory allocation, cancellation, deadlines, concurrency, and whatever application-specific stuff you need on there (like logging).

Then you could implement something like Google capslock [0] just by looking at type signatures.

0. https://github.com/google/capslock
Make it optional and give a small subsidy to encourage people to switch to variable pricing
>On the other hand, maybe this will inspire the next generation to work on more decentralized platforms.

The problem so far with the decentralized platforms is the confusing onboarding experience for new users. Sure, it’s like email, but people have gotten used to going to one app or one website to sign up in one place. Understanding protocols over platforms, and then running into issues where not all instances are talking to all other instances, leaves users confused and frustrated (if they even make it past the onboarding).

These platforms need to be good enough to stand on their own merits, and not just be for those who are frustrated enough to use the decentralized platform on principle alone.
He hustled his way to a unicorn. Have to wonder how many other unicorns out there are built upon a founders lies and deceit?
> Kernel code is normally prohibited from using floating-point (FP) registers or instructions, including the C float and double data types. This rule reduces system call overhead, because the kernel does not need to save and restore the userspace floating-point register state.

> However, occasionally drivers or library functions may need to include FP code. This is supported by isolating the functions containing FP code to a separate translation unit (a separate source file), and saving/restoring the FP register state around calls to those functions. This creates “critical sections” of floating-point usage.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/core-api/floating-point...