skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Friend, there's a world of difference between being a smart guy who completed a hard math class and being one of the world's best researchers in differential geometry.
Recommendations (and thoughts about those recommendations)
Ah, yes, I know this of course, and I somehow temporarily imagined some kind of madness where the earth's sunny side is permanently pointing towards the sun.
Keeping Our Kids Safe Online: Reflections from a Bereaved Mother
Even on HN there's no nuance anymore.

I suspect most Linux users don't "hate GUIs" but hate the garbage that GUIs enable, like pointless/stupid transition animations, hard to see flat UIs, dumbing down of preference/setting dialogs, etc.

Most GUI design is focused on dumbing things down for first time and beginner users, and most Linux users don't fall into that demographic.

If a GUI helps me get my work done faster then I'm all for it. If the GUI gets in my way and wastes my time then I'm not going to use it.
I'm worried things like this will incentivize startups to take risks with that 30-day retention period.

Startups were a way out for me.

I may have the strength, but that's not necessarily a good thing with long-term health choices.
Researching adversarial patterns is important especially for systems you can’t formally verify other than through exhaustive use testing.

It’s not just about are they harder to fool than humans but to find the conditions under which they are fooled which are often can be very different.

This is needed to both identify edge cases where these patterns can appear in the wild and to make the systems resistant to outside interference.
Homebrew also installs everything under /opt/ on aarch64. Pretty convenient when you want to nuke it and start fresh.
People love outrage. Many are not aware of it though.

If you're engaging with it, it's for you.
Not needing a sub-panel is almost certainly the reason.

The North American residential electrical code limits how many circuits you can put onto a generator based on the circuit capacity, not the expected use. You aren't allowed to pinky swear that you won't run your electric oven and dry laundry at the same time. It doesn't matter that your generator will just trip its breaker or die.

So if you want to have most of your house on a permanently wired standby generator you need to wildly oversize that generator such that it can entirely replace utility power.
Quite a lot of services send both… and the text/plain version is completely different. They used to be the same many years ago, but then whoever is in charge of changing the email template only changes the text/html variant, and keeps the text/plain content stuck in the old times. It'd be almost funny if it wasn't tragic.
There's a chain of arcades called Round1 that also specializes in Japanese games, mostly music games. They're all over the USA, including Denver.
From the same Twitter account, "Orson Welles talking shit, a mega thread", very pleasant and funny: https://twitter.com/JFrankensteiner/status/15227611538222694...
Somewhat related - but there are a ridiculous number of platform/systems that ship with derivative of Dinkum C++ standard library - MSVC (included). When you lookup the company behind it - it's basically small shop that seems to be primarily one guy up in MA.
This paper estimates Kp = (8.4±0.8). Because the scale is logarithmic, the difference between 8 and 9.2 is obviously quite extreme.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/asna.2022007...
Interestingly, basketballs are designed to be as standardized and replaceable as possible (so there’s no question about whether they affected the game.) Whereas musicians do not think of instruments that way. Nor photographers and their cameras, etc. The reaction might be specific to artists. They’re represented on HN, but not as much as non-artists, I bet.
If we start forcing women to carry children against their will maybe our civilization doesn't deserve to survive.
You also had the option to not buy automatic transmissions for a lot of time automobiles have been sold. The example is relevant.

I think you're misunderstanding that Elon has not made this statement just once. He's literally said it every year multiple times per year and he still has not delivered. At this point it truly is fraudulent.
I picked up one for the '50s in an antique shop, and then a friend gave me a 12 inch and a 6 inch slide rules with instruction book! Good times.
Oh absolutely, but fbterm has a lot of nice stuff, like unicode support with nice fonts, eye candy, multiple screens etc.
I wasn't outraged, I was disappointed. No manufacturing needed.

"Let's take dozens of objects people enjoy, put them in to a gray featureless factory under a gray featureless industrial press, destroy them in a splash of color, and replace them with a bland featureless grey slab no one really asked for"

And that was my reaction as a loooong-time Apple user.

I understand the intent. The execution is abysmal.
If my metronome app stops complying with iOS developer guidelines, it will stop working or Apple will pull it. This doesn’t happen to a real dedicated metronome. The App Store is a problem for iPad. Developers need the freedom to develop solutions for iPad without Apple constantly breaking their APIs or introducing new standards. Otherwise nothing on iPad is timeless.
I built a testing and documentation framework to solve precisely this problem (google for my username to find it).

You write the StrictYAML based tests structured according to your domain language/interactions and then you write one class that interprets them to execute the test and one template file that you apply to generate the markdown/HTML/whatever docs (with test artifacts like screenshots if you want them).

How to documentation then becomes a build artefact that, since it is generated from a test, never goes out of date by definition.

I usually combine this kind of docs with other types (e.g. explanatory) which can't be generated but also dont tend to go out of date.
A militant/direct-action/anarchist far-left group like Vulkangruppe is drastically different from your more garden variety left leaning or environmental activists like the Green Party or factions of the SDP or Die Linke
Ask HN: What are some command line utilites that have great UX?
I'm currently building a small utility (mainly for personal use), but I've realized I don't really have any great complex terminal interfaces to model off of. I mainly use programs that are required, not fun, so I was curious: what are the command line utilities that you enjoy using? What programs do you get a lot of use out of, but aren't bogged down with weird options or commands?
Thread with 170 comments from 35 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39945733
I mean, I definitely feel a little bit of guilt, but I need to invest my marginal time unit where it will give the mos
Yes, this is the concept of the Firmata project.
Welcome to the world of VC-driven tech ecosystems!
The irony keeps going!
> Showing a bunch of mixed colors of paint oozing down the side of something is not "emotionally distressing", it's just unappealing, especially to Apple product customers, who buy Apple products precicely because they are sleek and minimalist and clean. Steve's & Ive's entire universe was clean & sterile.

For me it was a different reaction: They literally replaced a bunch of colors with grayness. In a gray factory. Under a gray slab.

This is very different from what Apple used to mean and advertise.
A single tree won't, but a forest (aka, a system of trees growing and dying, to be replaced by more trees), will sequester CO2 meaningfully better than an open field.

You're missing the forest for the trees, my dude.
> I think it’s a problem of intent.

The intent to create musical instruments is a tiny fraction of the history of woodworking etc. If you’re looking at things that narrowly there’s nothing particularly interesting left about em.

With that mindset a hammer has a much longer and richer history than a Tuba and musical instruments are just a trivial edge case crated as little more than novelty items.

On the other hand if you bring in the skills required to craft precision objects and the culture required to support such endeavors then tablets are clearly more wondrous.
"some industrial capacity in the early 20th isn't saying much"

Quite a lot of industrial capacity since the early 19th. Czech Lands had a lot of black coal and water, so heavy industry started flourishing early, once steam engines were available. The first industrial ironworks in Ostrava started producing steel in 1828; the heavy ingots back then had to be transported by horses, because first railway only reached the region a decade later.

" for most of it's history, it was CzechoSLOVAKIA"

Nope, bad history. Czechoslovakia was a relatively short-lived country, only extant for three generations. The Slovaks spent almost a millennium, from approximately 1000 to 1918, as a Hungarian de-facto colony, Felvidék (the Upper Land); subject of a different kingdom. The Czech crown lands never extended to Slovakia. The only unitary state was the 20th century republic.
> React has RSC because Vercel wanted to fight Shopify

Dan Abramov (react core team) already said that the React team wanted to do RSC, Vercel were the followers that were eager to integrate and productionize what the React team wanted to do.

NextAuth is a competitor to Clerk auth. How is it bought out? Because Vercel pays an OSS developer to further develop NextAuth, and Guillermo also invested in Clerk? Someone using NextAuth means they're not using Clerk.
Most of the reason that collectors have to spend a lot of money on arcade cabinets, though, is not that they have high market resale value; but rather that the machines they can manage to acquire are usually in terrible condition, requiring large amounts of conservation work to get working and presentable again. And they’re so broken down, because everyone but these few collectors have valued — and continue to value — these machines so little that they’ve allowed them to rot in warehouses for decades. Many arcade cabinets are recovered from e-waste recycling centers, or even landfill.

If they truly had market value, then people other than the collectors themselves would be making a business out of finding and restoring these cabinets, in order to sell them to the collectors. But no such business exists — because there just isn’t the demand to sustain it.

I’m reminded of a recent YouTube video about MadCatz gaming peripherals. The video’s author had to spend thousands of dollars buying the few remaining controllers on the used market to use as examples. Why so much? Not because of high demand. Because of limited supply — they were so valueless (mainly due to just being awful products even when new) that every owner of one had long thrown in away; no gaming store wanted to buy any used (being seen selling such brands was a mark against the quality of a store!); and even thrift stores had long dumped them for lack of interest. These gamepads and flight-sticks had value to this one guy making this one video — but literally nobody else.

A one-time purchase, does not a market-clearing price make. The market is still just as illiquid after such a purchase as before it.
> It's Vim vs Ed.

No, not really.
I wonder how much it would cost to harden the US power grid against another Carrington Event, such that "only" thousands of people would die, instead of millions.
You mean the proof that it is art is because ppl get angry about it?

It reminds me of "Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue"

> Two of (3) them have been the subject of vandalistic attacks in museums.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s_Afraid_of_Red,_Yellow_...
Well it’s an algo trading company.
There are different levels of assimilation:

1. Gender equality : probably very high on list of desirable qualities in assimilation

2. Language : may be somewhere in middle

3. Being required to Celebrate Christmas in kindergarten : even lower I say and may be counterproductive

Not all sides of assimilation are same. With Germany, it seems like it's all or nothing though. The debate is poisoned because no one is listening to the other side. One side says, "why should we change?" And other side say, "well, why should we?" And nothing goes anywhere.
I mean, if you think of this as an "entity dating on your behalf" it's weird and dystopian.

If you consider it as a somewhat novel matchmaking algorithm, I'm not sure where the problem is and could actually be kinda cool. No worse than whatever other opaque ML techniques they already use, anyway.

Obviously you'd never want scenarios where an AI is corresponding with a human, that's disrespectful in the extreme.
Divided Supreme Court rules no quick hearing required when police seize property
I think it was more of how the latest iPads are still just a spec bump. The hardware has been perfect for several generations, it’s the software that’s holding the hardware back.
Bill Gates had the aptitude to be a leading researcher at probably anything if he set out to do it. He was already doing coding whilst working on math courses, so his attention was divided. Simons focused 100% on math until doing trading.
In comparison to air pollution measurements of PM2.5, there are not many monitors out there that measure CO2.

Last year we started experimenting with measuring CO2 outdoors with low cost sensors and saw promising results in the accuracy compared to much more expensive reference stations [1].

As a result we added CO2 to our open source hardware air quality monitor AirGradient Open Air [2].

I'm very thankful that 1000+ of these outdoor monitors have already been deployed over the last couple of months by our strong community.

With a large amount of these monitors out there, we can make a significant contribution to understand better where exactly these emissions are coming from and ways to reduce them.

Climate change and air pollution are linked together but too often still a separate discussion. By bringing both into an open hardware project, I do hope we can have a positive impact.

Please reach out if you have questions or want to participate!

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/blog/performance-of-low-cost-co2...

[2] https://www.airgradient.com/outdoor/
That would probably be true if all the coefficients were complex numbers. The biais here comes from the fact that all the coefficients are real numbers.
Official release: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ai-safety-institute-relea... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40319546)
Come to any engineering schools, and I mean real engineering like Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and you will see almost no one uses Mac. The software just isn't there. And even when the software is available, the exhorbitant price of RAM make it a bad deal for many students.
"Everything is great until it isn't." - Everything in this world experiences its ups and downs
1961: Aldous Huxley on the power of TECHNOLOGY [video]
Always a bad idea to destroy musical instruments.
Related: https://cleantechnica.com/2024/05/10/ember-claims-renewable-... ("Ember Claims Renewable Energy Is Taking Market Share Away From Thermal Generation")

https://ember-climate.org/app/uploads/2024/05/Report-Global-... (PDF Report)
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And you see that happening where US remains more attractive destination for highly skilled people and Europe remains attractive for people who are willing to invest that much time for whatever reason (choice or necessity). And you see that in quality of immigration and then people wonder why they don't get economically beneficial immigrants..
Visual Studio Code for Education
Has there ever been a successor to the particles + algorithmic music program Clusterworks? I used to spend hours just watching it and changing the movements and music with my mouse.
I just think we have different opinions on what privatization means.

If so much control has been shifted from the municipality to a private entity that said entity had to pay damages, it very well means that part of the system was effectively privatized.

My point still stands: The system in Germany is different (different incentives, different form of checks and balances) and would have prevented an incident analogous to what happened in Flint.

In addition to that I have a hard time to understand your point that Veolia is not responsible for the crisis just because it was not responsible for the root cause.
You're right. It's one of the few kind-of-uplifting Dark Mirror episodes.

> Having an automation that filters by your preferences and solves the whole “swipe fatigue” issue seems brilliant.

I doubt it will work, because users will try to get their dating bots to behave in whatever ways will get the most dates, regardless of whether such behavior is genuine or not. I would expect "artificial dates" to be dominated by dishonest bots interacting dishonestly with other dishonest bots.
I would, I just can't get over the name.
About diffs, that is true, but my VCS does not use diffs.

And I am aware of the combination problem, and there will be the option to lock things.

But when it comes to visual things, someone does have to stare at it. If you watch https://youtube.com/watch?v=iZre2MUyvoQ , the thing you should notice is that John Lasseter is constantly checking the integration of separate parts.

A director might tell a modeler and a designer to work on the same scene at the same time, as you said. In that case, I kinda expect the director to check the integration.

Binary files are harder because there is no integration test, yes. But integration tests don't catch everything in code either, and people still want automatic merges.
I thought it was epic, gorgeous, fun, and made total sense for the product! There are other pianos in the world. Like, a _lot_ of pianos in the world. It only stands to reason a few will get crushed in a massive hydraulic press for a fun ad.
Also check Orion!
KV is open source and can be self hosted
I'm a computer engineer, yes of course I do. What are you?
Lazy journalism is to blame here, as always. Newsrooms have been purged of any talent over the last decade and the only people left are the same "perpetually-online wannabe influencers" you talk about, trawling Twitter for easy stories and rage-clicks. Nobody would have heard or cared about this ad if formerly esteemed publications like NYT weren't running lazy stories about it.
That (or an ESP) is a really effective, easy, and cheap solution, which makes it hard for a more limited and more expensive solution to take hold. Most everyone who wants a digital output is capable of following the Arduino route to the end.
Stacking isn't a "trick". It's mathematics.

I agree my aim is to make pretty pictures, and professional astronomy is to take accurate imagery, but up until I'm making subjective calls about colors, they're not too far apart before the image is stretched to a non linear histogram.

After all, I can't build pretty pictures on crappy data. Astrophotography is a heck of a lot of math
I think it's fair to be angry that Google has used their power to, frankly, ruin large parts of the web by incentivizing bad behavior.
Getting a project to the point where it becomes clear that an idea works is one thing. But in my experience getting it polished to the point that other people can use it, and writing documentation and ideally test cases with it, and then automating a build pipe line, maintaining versioning and a change log etc., is almost the same amount of work, except much more mundane and without a lot of room for creativity, so a lot less fun. No wonder many people don't like to finish.
If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend the Dreamcast version. It has the graphics and voice-acting of the PC version with the tight analog controls of the N64 version.
A lot of the new tooling is in Go, superfile included. Noticed this after I started using LazyGit (incredible tool btw, I can't go back to anything else even after being a die hard Magit user for years)

There's some stellar libraries in Go for terminal stuff, in particular anything from charmcli. They have an elm style TUI framework called bubbletea (which superfile uses), a styling library, prebuilt components, it's really incredible. I'm building a multiplayer tetris you can play through ssh, which is using bubbletea and another lib of theirs called wish.

they have a lot of stuff you can just use in regular shell stuff too: https://charm.sh
My goodness but there is a whole lot of these! (Found the below table from the Nnn wiki page, mentioned above.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_managers
I am not a musician or photographer, but I see the emotional value of those extremely well crafted and often beloved objects.

I create software, mostly, but I practice woodworking as a hobby, and I can tell how difficult it is to build a piano or any kind of musical instrument.

I found the ad extremely distasteful, enough to trigger mild nausea.

I see the point they were trying to make, but it is both dumb and old, and frankly nobody asked for a thinner iPad.

The most annoying part is that _they_ did not feel what countless people saw and felt, they are too disconnected from their audience.

The outrage is not made up, some of us felt it in our bones, I understand that we don't all share the same sensitivity, but you can't simply brush it off as if this was somewhat orchestrated or theatre.
This is exactly my point. People assume that human behavior won't change if the population starts shrinking noticeably, especially if that shrinkage results in reduced housing pressures.
As others have noted, Yann LeCun is looking beyond autoregressive (next-token-prediction) models. Here’s one of his slide decks that raises some interesting new concepts:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BU5bV3X5w65DwSMapKcsr0ZvrMR...
There is 1 single earth, its not getting bigger nor smaller. Dont know about you but I couldnt care less about some pollution per capita or similar. What about pollution per km2, or m3 of water? Nobody is stating goal is 0 or we failed.

Not sure why you try to divert discussion that way, its too obvious and not working.
Theoretically? Sure. In practice? You really have to bear in mind second order ramifications. People will be disincentivized from holding a stock, especially one that has unrealized loss (theyll lose money AND pay for the privilege of doing so!). You’ll hurt long term stock holders but not tax day traders and wall street bros dealing in options. You’ll tax retirement portfolios more than the normal wealthy. If stocks take a haircut every year, holding onto cash and eating the inflation might become more attractive. P/Es will come crashing down, tanking the GDP as they go.
Ask HN: Is ChatGPT slow for anyone else?
You’ve never intuited that two characters are friends? Or perhaps that guy holding a ton of cheese is the cheese guy? Or that an event was emotionally meaningful to them?

I don’t know what you’re hoping to talk to these dwarves about.

I’m not saying I would be “upset” if the head canon wasn’t actualized. I’m saying I would be underwhelmed because the generic LLM content is nearly guaranteed by this other thing that I stated as a premise I found interesting or amusing.
He just told you, he surfs HN, diving into rabbit holes. And from a sister comment, 3D prints resulting stuff. Same as all of us, right?
ChatGPT and the Web Ignorant
There's little market for the product you crave. Most people who know what GPIO is know how to buy a $5 microcontroller with a USB port and upload some firmware to convert serial commands to the pin states/transitions they need.
I use Siri for cooking (on the iPhone it can still only handle one timer at a time), for adding to Groceries, turning some lights and fans on/off, and playing music.

I enabled 'Always Show Speech' and even if the text indicates Siri understood what I said, it still often does the wrong thing anyway.
Thanks! Going to check it now.
Keep in mind that Andrej is probably holding back a lot of optimizations for the sake of keeping the code comprehensible!