skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked into Marc Andreeson's genius once and it surprised me that there were several GUI web browsers before Mosaic. Marc made a better one at the right time for it to take off. He's a coder, a good one, but to say he's a maverick following his own path is incorrect. It was a no brainer to start Netscape, so that's not so original either.

Q: What were some GUI web browsers before Marc Andreeson wrote Mosaic

A: Before Marc Andreessen and his team developed Mosaic in 1993, there were a few early GUI web browsers:

WorldWideWeb (later renamed Nexus): Developed by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, in 1990. It was the first web browser with a graphical user interface. (WorldWideWeb on Wikipedia)

ViolaWWW: Created by Pei-Yuan Wei in 1992, it was the first browser to support scripting and stylesheets. (ViolaWWW on Wikipedia)

Erwise: Developed by a group of students at Helsinki University of Technology in 1992, it was the first browser to support inline images. (Erwise on Wikipedia)

Midas: Created by Tony Johnson at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in 1992, it was another early graphical web browser. (Midas on Wikipedia)

These early browsers paved the way for Mosaic, which became widely popular and laid the foundation for modern web browsers like Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer.
Sorry goldfish but having a heron hunt in my backyard is worth your sacrifice
BGE-M3 vs. Splade
ICD10 is not the problem - x12 is.
Calendar types in watches
The model provides verbose answers even when I asked for more succinct ones. It still struggles with arithmetic (for example, it incorrectly stated "7739 % 23 = 339 exactly, making 23 a divisor"). When tested with questions in French, the responses were very similar to those of GPT-4.
It is far better in knowledge based questions, I've asked this difficult one (it is not 100% correct but better than other LLMs) :

In Anna Karenina what does it mean: most of us prefer the company of Claras ?
What a way to wreck havoc.
You sound like me, when I was 22 and worked on a virtual slot machine game, trying to convince people that a virtual slot machine game was a real game in some sense.

Anyway, I think what everyone wants is an email tab called “Personal and Transactional,” which would omit all emails of all other categories, including marketing or spam or whatever you want to call it. And even then, I find it so fucking annoying that my ISP and my bank sends me marketing emails via its transactional domains, obviously with the blessing of Google, because people mark those as spam and yet their domains are not blocked. Google already has the capability to do this easily, and chooses not to because email marketers are part of their customer ecosystem.
I assumed the page was in Icelandic and the author translated the UI for his english-speaking audience?...
Most speculations so far are that this is a preview of the latest model from OpenAI. But there's not much supportive evidence other than it identifies as "based on GPT-4" and seems to be at least as good.
Thank you! There's still a bit of the pins who's purpose are unknown to me but thankfully ended up not mattering for my purpose.
Nevada has no nuclear power plants, and gas accounts for 56% of its power. The Hoover Dam only provides about 4% of the state's energy. Partly because the power from the Hoover Dam is split up between the surrounding states, and Las Vegas only gets about a quarter of it.
We have a kind of popular legal forum in my country and I'm convinced if I managed to scrape it properly and format QA pairs for fine-tuning it would make a kick-ass legal assistant (paralegal?). Supply it with some actual laws and codification via RAG and voila. Just need to figure out how to take no liability.
I do actually use monthly snow/ice cover images in both projects! They're in the repo for the live clouds service [0].

I created them using the monthly images you linked combined with the Blue Marble "Land Surface, Ocean Color and Sea Ice" image [1]

[0] https://github.com/matteason/live-cloud-maps/tree/main/stati...

[1] https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/57730/the-blue-marble-l...
I think it's a serious mistake that they allowed unlimited borrowers at a time, because that shifts from fair-use format shifting to effectively making multiple copies of the format-shifted document.

That said, IANAL and I don't know what actual legal conclusions were arrived at from the trial or appeals.
Marc is likely a controversial character, which leads to people disagreeing about comments.

Lots of conflicting up votes and down votes is a signal HN uses to detect disagreement.

The HN algorithm is designed to promote good discussions, explicitly at the expense of discussions where people interact poorly with each other, even if those other conversations are important. Lots of disagreement is a common precursor to bad behavior, and the algorithm automatically pushes those posts down in the ranking.

Not a conspiracy. An algorithm that intentionally and successfully encourages well behaved commenters here, at the expense of some important topics algorithmically being pushed down.
> fruit of my spleen

Google returns zero results for this phrase (when quoted). Congratulations.

I like it.
Would it help the economy though?

It helps to think of our current super-rich as an outcome of the asset bubble that currently exists in our economy, due to the fed’s post-2008 money printing; because it’s stock that accounts for most of their net worth.

So what happens if we tax away the majority of that wealth? It’s a huge amount - enough to have a marked effect on the economic system. Well, we get a lot more money spread around the system, but we didn’t get any more products, services, or value being created. What do we get? Inflation. We have the same amount of everything - it just costs more.

So the super rich end up being a place to park inflated dollars to keep them out of the real economy. They’re actually a useful deflationary mechanism.

I’d prefer if we would get out of this asset bubble and return to a “normal” economy but this is the situation we are in.
Everybody used AI before it was cool. In fact people avoided the very term AI because it was uncool.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter#AI_winter_of_the_199...

> Many researchers in AI in the mid 2000s deliberately called their work by other names, such as informatics, machine learning, analytics, knowledge-based systems, business rules management, cognitive systems, intelligent systems, intelligent agents or computational intelligence, to indicate that their work emphasizes particular tools or is directed at a particular sub-problem. Although this may be partly because they consider their field to be fundamentally different from AI, it is also true that the new names help to procure funding by avoiding the stigma of false promises attached to the name "artificial intelligence".[49][50]
According to this source it comes directly from Latin: https://www.etymonline.com/word/nonplus
That's one way to do it!
Styling I understand but to tick the clock when time actually has changed you need to use animation frames APIs and check for clock change more often than "every 1000 ms" because setTimeout will eventually drift even if you start exactly on first second time change. This is a test for depth of knowledge of a programmer I used to use in the past in interviews.
> > Nix is a software project, not a social movement.

I believe people say that in part because every political topic gets dragged into the community. Yes, there is a political aspect to everything, but that doesn't mean everything under the sun has to be dragged in.

Just take a look into some of the discussions that frequently happens in the NixOS offtopic Matrix channel. A small yet vocal portion of the community constantly brings up extremely hot takes on a broad range of topics. Anyone who objects are met with dismissal, condescension, and personal attacks.

Topics include:

* How tech companies should handle takedowns

Many of us probably already know how this is a very complex and controversial issue. But some folks advocate SESTA / SOPA like measures, accusing anyone who objects of supporting Kiwifarms and telling them to shut up.

* The use of the term "enshittfication"

A vocal member expressed annoyance and went into a long rant when someone mentioned the term. Apparently the term is a self-benefitting slogan for privileged folks because it wasn't popularized by someone they approved of. Fortunately, that didn't result in a argument because the other person immediately stopped engaging.

* AI use

In another case, someone who said they use AI was accused of supporting modern slavery. I'm somewhat skeptical of AI too, but this is just absurd. It really looks like the accuser was looking for a fight because "AI" could've been replaced with literally any other commercial product, from the clothes we wear to rare earth materials present in computers we use to write code. It's a modern day supply chain problem, not an AI problem per se.

It's one thing to express these opinions. But the aggression that followed in many of these cases is unacceptable. It seems to me that this constant cycle of hot takes and aggression is in no small part fueling this conflict even further. Like, supporting the same causes as the EFF can get you branded a right winger by very vocal people.
Can you explain your reply a bit; how will MEG tech evolve from this breakthrough?
Text of bill: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
Can you give an example? Sounds strange to me. Even within Schengen area there can be temporary border checks and you usually need to identify yourself when leaving it.
What is the server component? Why is there a server component? What data does this send to the server?
related discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40198766
You can have a look at here
https://awesomesteam.org/
from basics to advanced stem things
Show HN: Gimli Tailwind is now available for Firefox [video]
This is awesome, I work in Astronomy and what would be really cool is if you could get different space observatories on here with what they were observing, I know that's no small task but I could probably get you telemetry data for atleast a few :)
Nah prior auths (prepay) can get screwed up just as much as claims (postpay) for the same reason.
>What could make them a bad idea?

An arsonist can get rid of all the fire extinguishers before setting their fire!
Examples/source? According to this stack overflow question, the US is (fairly) unique in not having immigration exit checks.

https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/122289/why-don-t-...
This has nothing to do with format shifting at all. The IA's normal book-lending service works that way, but the "emergency library" allowed more copies of a book to be "borrowed" than they actually physically owned.

This is straight-up piracy, and there's a 0% chance of it being legally justified.
The problem is that Google puts out products as feelers to measure market fit, then kills them if they aren't a massive success right out of the gate. This has given them the reputation of not being worth the development/integration time because the product is going to get killed right as you become most dependent on it.
It worked for me 8 times :)

Thankfully the bottom pad on DFN packages reach the edge on 2 sides and I would think this technique wouldn't work with QFN.
this isn't really an apple thing. thunderbolt requires the ability to use multiple displays, if you don't then you can't advertise thunderbolt.

since macbook airs don't have multi-display capability, you can't call it thunderbolt. you can call it usb4, or usb-c 40gbps, or whatever, but it's not technically thunderbolt - thunderbolt is the brand for the full-capability standard.

this is not something consumers normally bump up against since x86 laptops generally either have multi-display support or don't exist in a product tier where 40gbps is a thing. Stuff like chromebooks falls into the latter, too cheap to have 40gbps, and the entire x86 space is dominated by literally two companies both of which happen to support multi-display. but you'll probably see this show up more in ARM notebooks once other vendors have a shot at releasing processors besides just those 2.

like idk what you expect anyone to say here - usb standards are kind of a shitty free-for-all and always have been. usb gives you the freedom to make a confusing port that doesn't support everything. The simple fact of the matter is the base-tier Mx processors don't support multi-display without a software-driven dongle, that's all you need to know, it's otherwise a full-capability tb3 port, basically usb4 but without the baggage of being unable to connect to certain tb3 devices like usb4 sometimes does.

there is absolutely a justification for laptops like air to not have multi-display support. not everybody needs it, and those processors cross-over between the tablet and laptop spaces. it's a fancy tablet apu, regardless of how good it performs. the sin is not offering a M3 Pro variant on the 15" MBA, and I'd say offering the M3 on the MBPs at all. But it totally makes sense for ultramobility laptops to cut power and cost, and you'll almost definitely see ultrabooks start doing that as the wintel monopoly crumbles over the next year or two. That will be branded as USB4 and won't necessarily support all the capabilities of TB3... or be compatible with all legacy TB3 devices. USB standard sucks, or rather: USB Implementers Forum is responsive to their customers, who aren't you (at least not directly).
>Brits don't insult your intelligence too greatly in their spook shows; the American variety always involves some sort of super-human characters.

This is why I could never get into House of Cards, it's just so over the top compared to something like Borgen which for me to this day is still one of the best political dramas ever made, also sadly went somewhat under the radar especially across the pond.
I tried GWT years ago and it seemed clunky. It reminded me of Swing and SavaJe. Learning Flutter now, which seems vastly better. as you point out "more complex and more ambitious" but also seems much more ready for creating end-user-facing software.
How to Use Modern Qt QML Tooling in Practice
And here is the response thread from the state senator that introduced it.

https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1784964914236227757

Has anyone with less of a bias actually analyzed this bill because I'm not sure if I trust either of these guys after reading these two threads?
Anybody got any additional context on this? The headline / tiny screenshot really leaves a lot to be desired. What is the bill? what does it do? how does this benefit OpenAI? Does it also benefit other "big players" (Meta, xAI, etc)?
I heard comparisons of the number of stars in the observable universe to the number of all grains of sand on Earth's beaches, or the number of molecules in a bottle of air. Not sure if that helps anyone, though.
> I need to sit down with it for a month and write "cookbook". If one person uses it and goes to bed that night without crying them selves to sleep it will have been worth it.

Please do. I'd be happy to pay ~$20 for it.
Well, the activity around changing the status quo was done in a github issue [1]. Which sat around for many months after proposing the Apache Software Foundation's sponsorship policy of "state of nexus". Which didn't give a basis in which to exclude Anduril from sponsoring again.

Obviously there's the "people were angry last time, they will likely be angry this time". But that's projecting personal/political views into a sponsorship.

What should have been the right course of action? I'm not sure. "Tech is easy, people are hard"

1: https://github.com/NixOS/foundation/issues/110
If I'm creating a backup table -- as in, I'm going to do some complex nebulous operation that might screw up in ways I don't immediately foresee -- then I don't care at all about indexes or constraints. I want an immediately present copy of the data that I plan to never need but is there so I don't have to restore from DB backup + WAL. Creating the indexes is a waste of both server time and disk space.

If something goes pear-shaped or I really need them, I can create those indexes later.
Does the trapped light take up space, or can we use this to accumulate large amounts of energy like some kind of crystal-based battery?
For translation, this thing is pretty amazing. "Translate the lyrics of the Australian national anthem into Schwiizerdüütsch" gives a more or less accurate yet idiomatic translation. ChatGPT 3.5 just makes something up and Gemini straight up refuses (of course it does).
Yes I believe it's acceptable to be upset at any company that undermines democracy. That very likely includes most big tech companies, and absolutely includes Google and Facebook.
Absolutely, which is why you have the LLM generate one method for you at a time.

This still increases your productivity dramatically, and shift you into the role of editor rather than writer.
That makes me think: adding a live lighting map / lightning locations would be neat, since that is the kind of thing you can see from the video feed.

There's a couple crowdsourced lighting status websites out there, might be possible to use the same data feed...
> You would also need to load an enormous amount of precedential case law

Very easily done. Is that it?

> lack of common sense, false conclusions

The AI tool doesn't replace the judge/DA/etc. it's just a very useful tool for them to use. Checkout the "RAG-based learning" section of this app I built (https://github.com/bennyschmidt/ragdoll-studio) there's a video that shows how you can effectively load new knowledge into it (I use LlamaIndex for RAG). For example, past cases that set legal precedents, and other information you want to be considered. It creates a database of the files you load in, so it's not making those assumptions like an LLM without RAG would. I think a human would be more error-prone than an LLM with vector DB of specific data + querying engine.

> I don't see the utility

Then you are not paying attention or haven't used LLMs that much. Maybe you're unfamiliar with the kind of work it's good at.

> actual work involved in practicing law

This is what it's best at, and what people are already using RAG for: Reading patient medical docs, technical documentation, etc. this is precisely what humans are bad at and will offload to technology.

> actual research is required

You have not tried RAG.

> LLMs struggle to produce useful outputs

You have not tried RAG.

> LLMs are unlikely to identify issues

You have not tried RAG.

> the LLM by definition is creative analysis

You have not tried RAG.

You can load an entire product catalog into LlamaIndex and the LLM will have perfect knowledge of pricing, inventory, etc. This specific domain knowledge of inventory allows you to have the accurate, transactional conversations that a regular LLM isn't designed for.
I didn't get on with the relative numbers either.

In IdeaVim and VSCode, I've mapped the spacebar in Normal mode to EasyMotion. For jumps that aren't very close, you can land on any character you can see on the screen in 4-ish keystrokes.
But that's a lot more work than a simple bash script
> I also use the NAS for some light server workloads and it was just annoyingly slow when running on a USB 2.0 thumb drive. System updates took forever too.

Ah, fair enough - I suppose NAS/server is a bit of a continuum anyways.

> I want to add though that the main reason behind this is "for fun" :D

Yeah, that seemed more likely up front:D
It would be more like if the Confederates won, took over the entire land mass, and what was left of the Union fled to an Island to form an independent government. Our adversaries would probably support the breakaway government to whatever extent they could get away with it.
Yes, when home copmputers hit in the 80's and the internet hit in the 90's, if you were a half-way decent programmer the odds were pretty good that you'd make a lot of money. Physicists and non-microchip engineers didn't strike it rich like that
- "Hough transform"

Oh, that one has much nicer properties—thank you!
It's not like everything looks absolutely better today than it was for anyone anywhere in 1200s. For one thing there wasn't the anxiougenous messages broadcasted continuously h24 about massive extinction and global warming well on their road.

This is not saying all is darker, and denies the many benefits that social and technological progresses thhat can be hand picked.
My problem with the "rest of the archive" is that it's arguably 98% unchecked mass piracy that their own people seem to be ok with, in the form of "we're not copyright police, so just upload whatever you want and let companies deal with it later." which is exactly what Jason Scott has said.
> Maybe you and I are on the side of The Internet Archive. Maybe we are such big fans of Archive.org that we want to come to their defense.

> But feelings don't matter here. Only facts. And the facts are simple. The Archive's actions and statements (and questionable legal defense) have all but ensured a loss in this case.

This is what has surprised me about people's defense of IA. When you look at the facts and ignore the admittedly good work they do elsewhere, it's clear that they not only ran afoul of the law but thumbed their noses at it. But so many people are quick to come to its defense because they love IA so much for the other stuff they do and don't want it to go away.
Should Microsoft be allowed to sponsor the next FSF convention?

Fuck no
We are pretty much on the same page. My experience in Cambridge MA though (which has great bike infrastructure) is that bike lines have really done fuck-all to improve the walkability/livability of the city. We still have one story retail along major commercial avenues and the stores do suffer from a lack of parking. (Case in point: last week I tried to buy a present for my partner at a local store but ended up forced to drive to a box store because I couldn’t carry the present on a bike in the rain, and there was no place to park, and the MBTA sucks.) My point: density promotes walkability, bike-ability, and mass transit within urban cores.
I definitely know some humans that make doubt blanket statements like "humans are self aware", but I have no formalized way to call them stupid.
Be patient, it takes a while to get it done in ink.
The Amish decided that a few hundred years ago.

Tech not invented but popular in sci-fi like transporters or replicators could end hunger or change how we move. 3d printing has reach a general price point on par with other manufacturing but when it does it could change things.

Plenty left that is good and necessary. Don't give up because llms and social networks are overhyped.
Your gut microbiome plays a huge part in brain health and mental illness. That's likely why improving your diet improved your mental clarity and emotional stability.
Wages by geo is just “pay the lowest price you can for the requisite quality of product/service you need”, which is what effectively every person does day in and day out.
My wife is a librarian. The elephant in the room here is that patrons are shifting toward a preference for digital distribution. However, Fair Use has not caught up. So, libraries end up spending a large portion of their operating budget "leasing" ebooks from publishers at extraordinary markup over the print copies. These leases are only good for so many "check outs" -- often as few as 4-6 -- after which point, the lease must be renewed at a price that can be 2X or 3X the cost of the print book. It's downright predatory.

IA may have gone beyond pushing the envelope and well into stepping over the line on this one, but it is an important legal challenge. I don't think IA will or should win, but I do hope that their loss shifts the needle of public opinion a bit toward actual Fair Use.
This is the basis of a startup I’m working on.
Well, also according to the article itself :)