skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh my god, you aren’t kidding. As of right now, there’s 350 (plus or minus a few) dead spam comments at the bottom of this page. Someone obviously misplaced a decimal somewhere - you obviously don’t want to flood a forum with THAT many bot messages.
function modifyElements(pSel, cSel, rxStr) {
const regex = new RegExp(rxStr, 'i');
const pEls = document.querySelectorAll(pSel);
pEls.forEach(pEl => {
const fEl = pEl.querySelector(cSel);
if (fEl && regex.test(fEl.textContent)) {
pEl.style.display = 'none';
}
});
}

let rx = /(hi are u lonely|want (an )?ai gf?)/i;

modifyElements(".athing.comtr", ".comment", rx);

People can add onto the regex as needed, I guess. I haven't seen enough of the comments to be more specific since that seemed to get them. :-/
Hmm.

How about we start with the politicians and ensure they cannot communicate without we know about it. Then we might get a little better understanding how they spend our money and who helps them create all these new rules.

It is a bit hypocritical that we shouldn't be allowed to have privacy.
QDEL: The backlight-less display tech that could replace OLED in premium TVs
Netflix Fast Laughs shutdown has left me economically devastated with no hope of recovery.
There was at least one Game Boy cart with fun features: Aprilia had a GBC cart[0] that had an interface cable for diagnostics on one of their scooters:

[0]: https://youtu.be/bknfVpctoSY?si=_neVHq_fkJRfDH5I
I'm surprised he got the go-ahead from Amazon to film there
Just a guess: a teenager who learned to script and thought this was novel. This isn't an organized marketing campaign, it's a DoS with some links for amusement. Other than the volume, it's not even script kiddie level. Presumably they have access to proxy servers, though.
Copyright is intended to promote technological progress. I'm all for ignoring it, since it's so obviously a broken system anyway.
> If you are outsourcing over the entire globe things like this tend to happen. There is very little you can actually do to verify how the work you require really gets done

There’s very little you can do at minimal cost. They could have on-site auditors or collocated employees, but that cuts into the margins. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing: each poorly-monitored subcontractor is a security risk and likely hiding labor law or environmental violations so an outcome of less outsourcing to China would be a net-win.
My use-case for NixOS : Got tired of breaking Arch and never ever wanted to solve package dependencies issues again, so I installed it on my workstation laptop.

I havent tried it yet for home server stuff. I am still running containers on a Proxmox host.

Nix documentation is bad/incomplete, so I helped myself with some Youtube videos to get started.

This might get you started https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/01/01/some-notes-on-nixos/
That’s the Orwellian way that discord cracks down on users that it deems, for whatever reason, “suspicious”. It is tied to the IP address and anything else associated with it, but if you had an existing account before the flag then that account won't be flagged, only new accounts. There is no appeal process and they won’t even tell you what your offense was.

Unfortunately I’ve had to pay for an extra cell phone line just to use the app for work. VOIP numbers are rejected and must be unique per account. In my case it was likely because I had the audacity to back up my chat messages with a script. After a few years I can make new accounts again but I feel like I’m playing Russian roulette every time I do.

If you don’t use separate accounts for privacy someone can dump a list of potentially any known server you’ve ever been in. I knew it would be only a matter of time until something like this would happen: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/s/A5nvuZBLab
Ground truth data is generally something used as an offset for some other data. e.g., if I told you that you moved 1 meter to the right and your old position, you'd be able to tell your new position from the ground truth.
> It looks like they put her on a PIP with an obviously impossible goal, so it sure does look like that.

Isn’t that the norm for PIPs in tech companies?
Efficient finetuning of Llama 3 with FSDP QDoRA
My comments above were referring to the axis alignment used in a projection transformation that takes 3D points wrapped about a sphere and maps them to a flat 2D plane.

Most of the common global world projections use conic projections that have a major axis aligned NS and conic slices that are orthogonal to the cone major axis mapped to latitude lines that are East-West.

There are many other types of projections, the older NZ map grid is an unusual one.

Once a projection is used to make a flat map, that map can be rotated about in any direction .. but that's another thing altogether.

You may, or not, enjoy looking through a free USGS projection reference of note:

Map projections: A working manual Synder (1987) https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/pp1395

The Plate 1 link is to a handy wall poster of a limited number of common projections: https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1395/plate-1.pdf
> But some kind of 1:1 correspondence was lost ages ago.

The ratio has been shifting all this time. There wasn't a one time shift that happened once.

> Optimizing for size, to squeeze out every last byte possible: who still does this in 2024?

You can still find that in the demoscene. A few years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger made a big splash. (Well, it's actually been 20 years. How time flies. But they still make small demos and games today.)
My OCD approves of this idea. Let’s also add, IDs cannot start with 0 or O.
Most geological data is generated by complex physical and signal processing models and simulations. "Ground truth" means they physically retrieved samples and measurements instead of inferring the data, in this case probably core samples from the drilling that allows them to measure the dimensions of the matter deposited by the megaslide on the sea floor.
First real-life Pixel 9 Pro pictures leak, and it has 16GB of RAM
Also, while I know the readership of HN skews young, but when you reach your 50s, having the ability to make the text larger in an ebook is a killer feature.
Saw all the CSPAN videos for the hearings on the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol, listened to Trump's call with Brad Raffensperger, and The Trump Tapes with Bob Woodward, and Liz Cheney's Oath and Honor.
Both are visually ambiguous, so we are good.
Tracing the lineage of the British royal family back to Elizabeth I.
> If you could short some of these sports betting companies (DraftKings/ MGM/ etc) at the right time with respect to theoretical regulations, I feel like you could make a nice return.

Sounds like a gamble
Reading, if you’re good at it, is the most sophisticated and powerful form of storytelling, allowing detail and scope far beyond movies or games. And writing is far more accessible and cheaper than any other form of media creation. I think thats the magic.

But it has such a high requirement of education and practice, and demands such a high price in focus and attention. Its no wonder that it doesnt fit most people’s lives.
JPL is in Altadena and Apple is in the sf Bay Area
Mostly agreed:

> Modern day developers aren't stupid; we're just all used to our current environments, but I would bet that if we all needed to, we could just as easily jump back in to writing everything in asm and custom tailoring it for a particular CPU/hardware.

Some people could jump back in, but not all.

But that's actually progress! You needed to be a wizard to get anything done on eg an Atari 2600 at all. Nowadays, game development is accessible to more and more people.
Sure, these tools don't do much more fancy than that. The early days of pyenv was "just" a tool that output a Bash script that set PATH and PYTHONPATH and a few other environment variables.

There's still some utility in automating changing your PATH when you switch between projects: do you need to support multiple shells with different syntaxes for changing environment variables? Do you need to synchronize those shells sometimes? Do you need to change PATH for random combinations of multiple tools at once? Do you want to have a tool verify for you that you are changing PATH to refer to a version currently installed? And maybe automate installing it if isn't?

This particular tool supports a half-dozen different shells (on Windows) and a single file to setup PATH (and other environment variable changes) for any number and combination of tools all at the same time.

If you are happy with your manual PATH changes today and don't see a reason to automate them, then you might not need a tool to automate them. If you find yourself changing PATH a lot more frequently and hoping to automate it more, there are tools for that. As with anything, automation is a spectrum and what you might not do enough to automate someone else might do a lot more often than you and could use some form of automation to speed things up and/or catch easy or dumb mistakes.
Because you want to compete in a different market segment.

To put this very concretely, look at Pimax. Their Crystal headset allegedly has standalone capability. All the hardware is there for it, they make this thing, they sell it -- but they don't have a standalone platform, and have no hope whatsoever of being able to develop one.

For PCVR, they just use regular standard SteamVR and OpenXR, but for standalone usage, they suddenly have to be an amazing software company and they definitely are not. Using Horizon makes a ton of sense, and makes their product more attractive and better than it is without it.
>Q-tips have many uses. Like cleaning earwax from an ear

Note that Q-tips should never be used for that purpose[0][1][2][3].

0. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cotton-swabs-qtips-kids-injurie...

1. https://www.quora.com/What-happens-if-you-touch-your-eardrum...

2. https://www.allure.com/story/q-tip-cotton-swab-ear-damage-da...

3. https://audiologyisland.com/blog/the-dangers-of-cleaning-you...
Factor provides support for both file and image based workflows. Factor is image-based and uses files when sharing, loading or refreshing vocabularies. however, just like lisp and Smalltalk, you can also save, share and restore system state via an image. For example you can save the whole state of Factor with the word

save-image

and you can restore that image using ./factor -i=path-to-image

This image workflow and interaction via the inspector provides a very similar workflow experience to both Smalltalk and Common Lisp.
From that exchange, clearly not. They do not have their stuff together. This is one area where AMD really should be employing quite a full team to ensure that major projects, including drivers, are able to support AMD cards without any friction. Whilst it's still a PITA to work.with AMD hardware in most AI frameworks Nvidia will continue to dominate.
Intro to "Ideologies of AI and the consolidation of power": Naming power
'Pivot to software' has been done several times in computing history: Go Corporation, SGI, Sun, Blackberry, Palm, Sega, and oh, NeXT. These are interesting precedents. I don't know of a 'pivot to software' that actually worked (NeXT ended up going back to hardware, thanks to the reverse acquisition!)

There's also the question of the licensees: so they choose Meta’s OS as the base for their hardware, maybe because they don't have anything else? Quest OS is neither a best in class user experience (it's still full of bugs, frictions and is a very inconsistent UI), and it's clearly not a good dev experience at all.

So your hardware now inherit all of Meta's tech and UX debts, and you don't even have a guarantee of daily recurring usage or of a killer application user will flock to.
Is that the great win for their hardware that they think it is?

Of course, as several of us predicted when the number of Vision Pro apps quickly surpassed Quest Store Apps, Meta is now forced to react and change their weird two-tier approach: they are opening a (small) marketing presence for App Lab apps and are creating a "brand new" spatial app framework, to start and get out of the Unity/Unreal game engine third-party pipeline trap.

That they only now see that giving developers a native app UI kit is a basic of any OS is… not promising from a supposedly now long term OS owner.
Technically, copyright promotes creativity and patents promote technological progress. I think patents block progress more than they help it, especially with patent trolls and all, but copyright is probably a net positive for society.
Maybe I'm just in a super niche field, but the citations would make it super obvious imo.
Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?
I have a friend whose parents are getting up in years. They're still functional enough that they want to be independent and surf the web, check their stocks, etc. He has some remote desktop software installed on their PCs, and antivirus installed and locked down. But they keep destroying their PCs with downloads, keep turning airplane mode on for their phones and can't figure out how to disable it, and recently his dad got in a cleaning mood and deleted a bunch of system files and bricked his machine. He's almost to the point of setting up an Intune tenant just to onboard and lock down his parents devices. Any suggestions on how to manage phones and PCs of the elderly to keep them functional but useful?
From a tweet:

Consumer Reports has named Tesla the cheapest car brand to maintain over a 10 year period:

1: Tesla: $4,035

2: Buick: $4,900

3: Toyota: $4,900

4: Lincoln: $5,040

5: Ford: $5,400

6: Chevrolet: $5,550

7: Hyundai: $5,640

8: Nissan: $5,700

9: Mazda: $5,800

10: Honda: $5,850
The affirmations video is great. I'm still waiting for a Makro comeback as well!
https://www.foliosociety.com/ is one of my favorites, the books are works of art.
"You were born to deploy kubernetes"

"Your feedback is actionable and important"

"There will never be another outage again"

"Your tests are reliable and have appropriate coverage"
> Copyright is intended to promote technological progress

What is your reasoning here? Copyright law doesn’t seem to do that at all. Are you thinking of Patent law?
Do you ignore software licenses like AGPL?
We know. Nobody cares and they are going to keep doing it forever.
> A separate class from photo-type images.

I'd assume that the photo-type image decoder is optimized, right? If so, how does the optimized photo-type decoder compare to the apparently unoptimizable JBIG2 decoder?
My Founder Intro Video for YC S24
This is a great operation, hahaha. US politicians are using their political power to try to buy a tech company. It's like China! Pretty good, pretty good!
That's exactly why I get paper books. An e-reader is too much like a smartphone and I start circling the UI looking for distractions.
> A radio signal takes about 22 ½ hours to reach Voyager 1, which is over 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth, and another 22 ½ hours for a signal to come back to Earth.

It has taken 46 years to get 22.5 light hours away from Earth!
:/ I was hoping you would debate my views, since everyone seems to either engage in bad faith or refuse to engage at all

C’est la vie I guess
Questmate's YC S24 Application Video
Jeremy from Answer.AI here. Let me know if you have any questions or comments about this work. (Although I can't take any credit for it -- this is the work of Kerem Turgutlu!)
This just sounds like a bunch of excuses for supporting a protectionist set of policies.
Super computers are almost at this scale, if you go by FLOPS.

Distributed cloud systems certainly surpass this number as well.
https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2023/11/
Voyager's cameras were shut off after only 13 years to conserve power. Still a long time, but some people might mind if their phone did that.
Cheers — Merle Travis after whom “Travis picking” is named!

If you’ve ever attempted Travis picking, and you haven’t spent a heck of a lot of time practicing it, you may recoil in horror at the name.

Looking deeper into it - “Travis” picking really goes back to Arnold Schultz (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Shultz) — who is practically lost to history, having never been recorded.
This had me laughing too. Very cool.
Kind of neat that this one sits right next to the meta OS article...

Cue music from the lion King ...

Can you feel the irony tonight...
It's so obvious..

Huge meta corps writing a spurious OS..

What a hideous mess...
Sort algorithms and linked lists? Solved, but we keep interviewing on them anyway.
The fact that JSON is UTF-8 doesn't contradict the fact that it's bytes!

That's a feature, not a bug.

i.e. "exterior designs are layered" - https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2023/06/ysh-design.html#exteri...

This is not a trivial point -- there are plenty of specs which are sloppy about text, try to abstract over code points, and result in non-working software.

A main example is the shitshow with libc and Unicode - https://thephd.dev/cuneicode-and-the-future-of-text-in-c#sta...

It suffers from what I call "interior fictions", like wchar_t.
I am a developer, FreeCAD is a bit of fun to wrangle a model out as a puzzle but it's not even in the same universe as Fusion360.

I'd love to use something like KiCAD is in the EDA world.

I highly expect, at any moment, Audodesk to pull the rug from under the hobbyist licence and I'll not be able to use it anymore.

While I feel kinda 'dirty' when I use it, I have been using it for maybe 8 years and the thing is a masterpiece. It's like a third arm for me.

Once your brain knows the whole constraints workflow it is so natural. I can very quickly model up pretty much anything I can think of to make.
The constitutional power is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Threat Actors Are Abusing GitHub's File Upload Feature to Host Malware
The software that I am using to simulate the courses is GSPro. There are hundreds of courses on there. It's got just about every course you could imagine.

Launch monitors come with their own software too and there are a few other options for simulating courses. E6 is one and GolfClub2019 is another. AwesomeGolf. GSPro is hard to beat though.

For launch monitors, there are two main types: camera based and radar.

Garmin offers the most affordable radar based option with R10 for around $600.

Bushnell offers an all camera model and for $2000 you get all the ball data. For a subscription fee you can play GSPro and other 3rd party golf apps using the Bushnell and for another fee you can get all the club data. This model sits beside the ball.

FlightScope has a launch monitor that operates with radar and/or camera and sits behind the player. For about $1800 you can get the ball data and its free to connect it to GSPro. For another $1200 you can get club data, with impact location. It's unreal how accurate this thing is. I've had mine for about a year, and since then they have pushed some incredible updates, including what they call "Fusion", which is combining the camera and radar for readings. Its how their really expensive 20k+ unit works.

At the very top end there are monitors that go on the ceiling and give you readings from there. And then there are commercial simulators where the floor will move up and down. It really never ends. One company showcased lighting from above that shows you where you should putt. It never ends. . .

https://gsprogolf.com/

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/695391

https://www.bushnellgolf.com/products/launch-monitors/launch...

https://flightscope.com/

https://www.foresightsports.com/pages/gchawk

https://uneekor.com/
What was actually invalid about that input? Why shouldn’t that html escaped string be shown as is to the user?

I guess I would tweak my first comment and say input filtering is not enough. You must do output filtering to truly be safe.
I've been buying scifi books from thrift stores for a decade or more.

But in the last couple years, there's been a near complete collapse in it. The racks of scifi have abruptly dwindled to a handful of lonely books. The entire book section has dramatically shrunk as well. This is across thrift stores, not just one.

Is it:

1. nobody buys physical books anymore

2. nobody donates physical books anymore

3. donations seem to be driven by estate sales. Maybe the book lovers have already all died out and their estates are liquidated

I don't know. But I'm glad I bought the books when I could.
> Let's pretend Fuchsia is just as easy to deploy on (I'm 99% sure it won't be).

To stress this beyond a doubt: don’t do this unless you’re willing to become an early-masochistic-martyr adopter. My knowledge is outdated by years though. I don’t know how far you’d get today.

> Does Fuchsia buy me any cool stuff long-term that isn't possible on Linux?

I don’t think so. Fuchsia shines with capability-based multitenancy, and basically anywhere you would have different processes from different vendors communicating together (like a mobile OS with multiple partially trusted apps that may need to talk to one another). If you own/audit all code on your device, especially in a single app, you don’t gain anything from that.

Some auxiliary stuff like content addressable file system and OTA deployments may be attractive, but I have no idea if those things are actually supported or even around these days.

Oh, one thing that may be worth tracking in your domain is how fuchsia is progressing in terms of power management. If you’re on arm and battery power, and they prioritize it, it may beat Linux & android in terms of low power devices. But that’s pure speculation.
I wonder if the 3D version exhibits behaviors similar to the 2D version, including periodic patterns.

I also have to link my favorite pattern, XKCD's homage to John Conway: https://xkcd.com/2293/
> What caused what most people perceive as inflation is really greedflation that, quite simply, was caused by it suddenly becoming acceptable to raise prices "because everyone else is" and corporations piling on by saying to themselves "let's see just how high we can put prices before people cut back buying

How can you believe that when the graph of M1 money supply looks like this: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
Bluetooth coffee mugs. I disliked Ember’s app, particularly on Mac, so I built a substitute for the menu bar. While expanding to knockoff mugs on Amazon, it was entertaining to see how bizarre and inefficient some BLE implementations were. Some write every second unnecessarily. Ember starts the heater during cooldown, even though they could do so closer to target temp and save 5-10% battery.
YC Application
Submitted my application to YC S24. Described how I built an agentic AI over the course of 2 years (including a product, a team, and customers) whilst being homeless. I wonder what they will think.
That's why a retina display ipad is now my preferred reader.
FWIW I got a Kindle in 2010 for a trip and found that I really liked it.

I also wound up inadvertently encouraging other people to get them.

Only one person out of about 6 who got them after I got them didn't use them. She didn't actually read much.