skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, thanks for your time! I'm really keen on finding alternatives for bash scripting, and from looking at the examples, it seems to go a long way in that direction.

I'm not keen on trading bashisms for elvishisms though :-)
A somewhat random example from looking at the docs, where you have this example:

~> curl -s https://dl.elv.sh/$platform:os'-'$platform:arch/elvish-HEAD....

Quoting '-' instead of using (bash-style) "${platform:os}-${platform:arch}" seems really counterintuitive to me. After all, '-' is simply itself (a plain dash), it's the variable name that is special here and deserves quoting. Any thoughts on this?
> An LLM can only look at each token and can't, statistically speaking, think in terms of the entire query.

There's always some space in high-dimensions to put that extra context somewhere. So yes, only one token is predicted, but there's a lot of information squeezed into the "condition" (as in conditional probability, as mjburgess' comment shows)

> [hype instead of NLP]

yes, exactly. we'll see what remains after the bubble bursts.
It's just another fraction to multiply in the drake equation. Start with planets, cut down to rocky ones, only in habitable zone, only rotating a certain way, only with plate techtonics, etc etc.

Or using your numbers,
1/4 factor eliminates 750 million possible candidates. That's not a happy thought.
> which makes the claim even less legitimate

To be fair there was nothing unusual from the Roman perspective about there being 2 emperors. Even during the Byzantine period it was not particularly uncommon for heirs to be crowned as “co-emperors”. Despite effectively becoming a monarchy the empire retained some “republican” traits with the emperor reigning with the consent of God and the people of Rome.
Not even a maintenance issue (though it probably wasn't maintained well) - this airplane is 10 years past the safe life span and should have been scrapped long ago. Sure it flies, but metal fatigue builds up over time and eventually something serious will break. Since airplane failures tend to be catastrophic and we cannot know how bad it is on any particular airplane Boeing gives conservative estimates for how long it will last - even in the worst case the 737 is safe to fly longer than the 20 years Boeing gives - but nobody has any idea for how much longer - could be 1 year could be 30 years. Which is why airlines where safety isn't a concern can get by with flying planes well past their end of life date. However this airplane has been living on borrowed time and should not have been on the runway. No amount of maintenance will fix the problem. (only a complete rebuild with all new parts could - cheaper to buy a new airplane from Boeing even at Africa labor rates)
what I meant was the top 1% is one in a hundred, and you personally know some people that are at that income and wealth percentile, don't you?

however for the 1 in 10_000 you may or may not know people in that tier and for the 1 in 100_000 let alone 1 in 1_000_000 you are close to that tier or part of it to personally know them (in such a way that they know you).
How useful is such a feature in reality? On smaller devices, the web brower almost always covers the whole screen, and even on big monitors, it usually touches at least one corner.
Manufactured outrage. Designed to entice clickbait farmers to spread the word. Gone are the days of blasting millions into a TV ad. No new age ad gets that attention anymore. Instead, the idea is to go viral.
The article reveals that Welles was under the influence of a sleeping pill, but the intro states that he was “obviously drunk.”
Such a good point that having things come out of an ipad would have been the effective way to portray the same point they are trying to make.
I don’t see web apps getting the native windowing system integration you envision anytime soon. The fact that some standard controls behave that way is an OS-specific implementation side effect of them being implemented as OS-native, which they aren’t required to be.
Every non-Chinese (and many Chinese, too) is on the receiving end of the New Chinese Man crazies. The Christian crazies are mostly isolationists - I am not in the US so I don't care much.
This is wild. I've been creating my own dataset of trending articles and ironically this is how I came across your post. I'm doing a similar project for my uni thesis.

I set out with similar hypotheses and goals like you (on a slightly different scale though, haha) but I've been completely stuck on the interactive map part. Definitely getting a lot of pointers from how you handled this!

Maybe one key difference in approach is that I've put more emphasis on trying to extract key topics as keywords.

For ex:

article (title): "Useful Uses of cat"

keywords: ['Software design', 'Contraction', 'Code changes', 'Modularity', 'Ease of extension']

My hypothesis is this will be a faster search solution than using the embeddings, but potentially not as accurate. Not that far yet to really prove this though.

Would love to hear what you think! Any other cool ideas on what could be done with the keywords? I explain my process a bit more here if interested: https://hackernews-demo.streamlit.app/#data-aggregation-meth...
I was giving them the slight benefit of the doubt for that one, the VP can consume 3D photos and they hadn’t released the new iPhone that can take those photos, so it was more of a derived situation to get the plot to “you can rewatch rewarding 3D movies you took”.

I do agree the test marketing groups are not providing good feedback about secondary interpretations…
I can read "the destruction of human experience" two ways. One, it's a just a descriptive label of the symbolism the act of crushing creative instruments/tools/materials represents, even if that symbolism is clearly not something the creators ever intended. Two, is the more hyperbolic--or perhaps even hysteric--you're literally destroying the human experience and it's hurting me emotionally take. A lot of the commentary on social media is probably closer to the former, but it doesn't discount the latter.

It's pretty obvious what marketing intended. You take a bunch of creative instruments/tools/materials, squish them inside the iPad, and you get to carry them with you with your iPad. Heck, I'm almost certain it's been done before as a cartoon gag: everything gets sucked into one super tool. There's probably an old Looney Tunes episode with something close enough--maybe stuffing books inside someone's head to teach them the material--to make my point.

In any case, the metaphor's pretty clear; unfortunately, the Crush ad completely botches it. There's no mechanism by which the props 'enter' the iPad. Instead, you just see wanton destruction, the hydraulic press lifts up, and then there's an iPad sitting on a giant chunk of steel. Paint is dripping down the side, but the press itself is oddly sterile. The mess? The parts? The paint? All gone on the press except for what's left on the floor. And if it's smashed into itty bitty bits, even if it's now metaphorically "inside" the iPad, what's the point? Did the press somehow squeeze out some metaphysical meaning from the tools that got sucked into the iPad? Now throw in some of the angst about the possibility of generative AI replacing some creative jobs.

If the idea is that an iPad will 'replace' those tools--or more likely, just let the user take them with you wherever they go--there's an implicit assumption that the user values those tools and would like them so close at hand. So literally destroying tools that, for many artists and creatives, are objects of affection closely tied to memories that are critical parts of their self-conception, is an absurd kind of symbolism that would have never made it off the drawing board under Jobs. People tend to respect their tools, and filming their meaningless destruction is going to rub people the wrong way even though it really has no actual impact. Especially with an ad that's simultaneously trying to get you to buy the product they were symbolically destroyed to revel.

Will Crush turn many people off from buying a new iPad when they need one? Almost certainly not. But it does underscore that Apple's changed as as a company. Apple users--myself included--might still love the products they buy, but it doesn't seem like they're in love with them like it once seemed (for way too many of their users).
Show HN: I made a circuit board to explain EV tech [video]
Would be great to get your input, there is a landing page here:

https://foxev.io/ev-mastermind-kit/

I collected some pre-orders and am now getting the first boards made.

I am a software engineer and taught myself the electronics to build custom EVs (I built three, drove them 20k miles, lent one to YouTuber Tom Scott for a video of his)

A board like this is what I would have loved when I started out, so hopefully this compresses my knowledge and enables others to learn faster than me :)

What do you think?
Within 6 months iPadOS will have side loading in the EU.
There’s something very odd going on with this site, on iOS I get no ads. Maybe Safari is blocking them or something.
Long-Term Harm of Early Academic Training
> most basic definition of open source is the code is available for you to read

What crap. That's 'source-available', NOT open-source.

But at least co-option of terminology is an indicator of success.
They'll do what every vendor does; find that one workload that it's better at, and play that off as if it's that performant at every workload. Bad at 3DMark? Try Cinebench, Superposition, PCMark, Geekbench, SiSoftware Sandra, or even some other customer benchmarking software no one else uses.
It is a 30 year old plane. 20 years is the expected safe lifespan.
I am seeing a trend here. Does everyone have a pet project like this? :)
It could also work well for modding, for example, creating a natural dialogue system in Morrowind (replacing the vanilla "interactive signpost" NPCs).
Amazon Cognito introduces tiered pricing for machine-to-machine (M2M) usage
Funny you mention that machine I still have one of those laying around.
It was a very cool machine indeed with a very capable graphics card but that's about it.
It did some things better/faster than a Pentium III PC but only if you went for the bottom of the barrel unit and crippled the software support (MMX just like another reply mentioned).

On top of that Intel increased frequency faster than Apple could handle. And after the release of the Pentium 4, the G4s became very noncompetitive so fast that one would question what could save Apple (later, down the road, Intel it turns out).

They tried to salvage it with the G5s but those came with so many issues that even their bi-proc water-cooled were just not keeping up. I briefly owned of those after repairing it for "free" using 3 of them, supposedly dead; the only thing worth a dam in that was the GPU. Extremely good hardware in many ways but also very weak for so many things that it had to be used only for very specific tasks, otherwise a cheap Intel PC was much better.

Which is precisely why right after they went with Intel. After years of subpar performance on laptops because they were stuck at G4 (not even high frequency).

Now I know from your other comments that you are a very strong believer and I'll admit that there were many reasons to use a Mac (software related) but please stop pretending they were performance competitive because that's just bonkers. If they were, the Intel switch would never have happend in the first place...
I wouldn't think most (if any of it) was real. At the most I'd expect they were destructive props in the same way the table with the legs sawn to break in the just the right way for a movie stunt is a "real" table, but not a "real table".
Misery might be a bit hyperbolic, but I'm referring to the larger scale model of engagement being a tier 0 metric for success. Instagram & cohorts stealing people's attention spans is something I'd describe as negative and almost evil, with the larger scale problem of the smartest people in our industry having been at ad companies for the past 2 decades.

In the context of LLMs I think that they're useful tools, and if "we" play it right they can be a great boon. Short-term they'll lead to the enshittification of the internet even more though imo.
You'll have to quantify "people", we're in a bubble inside of a bubble here on HN
In my case because of [1], which makes working with a particular library I need to use almost impossible. I went from exclusively using JetBrains tools to having VS Code installed for rust-analyzer, which is a slippery slope.

[1]: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RUST-13097
Use this to get the functionality without setting up a windows server instance
https://github.com/kimmknight/remoteapptool
The book looks awesome, thanks for pointing out, I'll give it a read.
+ the nugget that, after a few hours sleep, he later nailed it the same day
For large (>10m) telescopes, it doesn't matter much, because no one is building rockets with big enough fairings. Even if the cost of launching to LEO was $0, in-orbit unfolding/assembly is a bottomless hole of engineering complexity that you cannot avoid. Again, see JWST/ISS.
I run an email newsletter company and deal with bad actors on a daily basis doing this. As justinludwig says, a common reason for this is to flood your inbox so you miss other important emails (often banking related ones). We've also recently seen a huge increase in attempts from Russian IPs doing it for seemingly random reasons. You may also have fallen out with someone/a customer who has thrown your email into such lists just to cause you a headache. Most good systems will have mitigations in place to prevent/reduce this (we use a range of IP reputation and other mechanisms to nip it in the bud quickly) but enough don't for it to still work.
According to https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/ranges/filter_view return value of views::filter is either a new ranges::view or some sort of range adaptor that seems to be equivalent to a ranges::filter_view.

I can only guess that it is those return values that are temporarily put on stack so that the consequent | operations could be chained. My hypothesis, without knowing much about this stuff, is that since the compiler cannot elide them (according to the godbolt link from the presentation), stack usage, as found by Google, has cubic growth. I don't quite understand why since I guess it's expected to grow linearly, e.g. 48 bytes at a time.
> I was thinking, would it be helpful to keep track of how far behind each dependency is in terms of minor, patch, and major updates?

This is exactly what I've added for depshub.com, and people seem to like it a lot. It just gives you better visibility across all of your connected repositories about what the current status of each dependency is and how the major vs. minor vs. patch ratio changes over time. While it's still a naive metric, it's the easiest to understand and visualize - and as a result, the one that is used the most.

> Any ideas on how we can measure improvements?

- Quantitative: Spend as little amount of time as possible on trying to keep everything relatively up to date (hours/month)
- Qualitative: not having any CVE issues, not having major updates for core libraries and tools.
I don't understand it either. I do creative writing, and it didn't shock me or made me feel bad. I thought the ad was meant to show what kind of CGI you could make with an iPad.
I agree launch capacity is getting cheaper, but the cost of making a telescope is not. For example. https://optcorp.com/products/planewave-1-meter-observatory-t...

This scope is not built for space travel. This model for space telescopes from NASA put a price tag on all the major components for building and operating a single space telescope is counted in billions. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20110015780/downloads/20...

A couple of things not covered in other comments are the costs of mission control and end-of-life deorbiting. It is far cheaper to rent a car, drive to an observatory, mount your evolving experiment on scope, and debug it on-site than to put the same experiment in orbit. Terrestrial telescope mission control is ad hoc and usually in a heated/air-conditioned shack on the mountaintop.
Good art is art that makes you feel something. The ending of Requiem For A Dream is good art, as is this ad.

It may be unfit for purpose as an ad, given how many people reacted with negative emotions, but I don’t think they did anything wrong that warrants an apology (except perhaps to their shareholders for running what may turn out to be an ineffective ad).

Then again, all publicity is good publicity.

I liked that the ad had a hollywood destruction-for-destruction’s sake spectacle to it. I wondered how much was CG and how much wasn’t, and how much stuff was actually destroyed. Some of the closeup shots must have been practical, or CG these days is way better than I realized.

It ultimately doesn’t matter, though. Destruction on this scale is irrelevant.
Make it 100%, I figured detailing that I went out of my way to watch the video again would make that clear.
California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices
They are expensive to take too. (Need movers and piano tuner)
different implementations of vnc support different compression algorithms and for some reason vnc always defaults to the worst (most compatible?!?) ones.
You can achieve a lot by tweaking the client and server settings.
The results were good enought for me to support customer with ISDN internet between 2001-2006.
Between the fact that you think that entry-level instruments cost more than iPads, that somehow "fingering" an instrument is a bad or obsolete thing, and that you think iPads are affordable to the impoverished, I'm really not sure where to begin correcting you.

Just... yikes. I hate to be flippant, but you're so out of touch that my only thought is to tell you to touch grass.
While I run an ad blocker, I think it is something everybody ought to do, and I can’t think of many reasons not to do it, IMO we should still consider the blocker-less experience to be the default one. For better or worse, (almost certainly the latter) it is what you get out of the box.
This has been at the front of HN for 10+ hours and has almost 300 points

Seems like there really is no bad publicity
The name "inverse hyperbolic sine transformation" or "IHS transformation" is common in econometrics.

https://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/12856

https://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/201...

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29998/w299...

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevaluations/interpretin...

https://academic.oup.com/ectj/article-abstract/24/2/334/5948...

https://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019...
Indeed, but there's probably a very real funding and attention (heh) issue, if there's ton of both then there will be progress. But. Usually the bigger the hype the more progress is expected so the faster the fund-tention will dissipate.
I'm afraid your knowledge is a bit out of date. Even Flynn has given talks about the "reverse Flynn effect" in the past three decades. IQ scores have been going down.

Recently: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016028962...
No doubt. I never did join bluesky because it was pretty doomed from the beginning.

https://bsky.social/about/support/community-guidelines

Oh ya, look at those toxicity creating guidelines. Nightmare lol.
> I bet you all replace

Yeah, AFTER they stop working, not when they are perfectly good :)
It's the product which they're describing as soulless. Apple likes to sell the idea of creativity but the device's purpose is ultimately consumption.
Show HN: Meemaw – Trustless and grandma-friendly wallet as a service
Hey HN,

Marceau here, founder of Meemaw. I was working on a different project (communities with better aligned incentives) for which I needed users to have access to a crypto wallet. I couldn't afford users to have to deal with private keys and what not, and I did not feel comfortable being locked to a non-transparent third-party provider for something as important. So I built an internal "wallet-as-a-service" around audited librairies. I dropped the original project since then and that service evolved into Meemaw.

Many "web3 projects" would be better off without any web3 component. But if you do need your users to have a wallet, there are a few good reasons to use something like Meemaw:

- great UX (no faffing around with private keys or seed phrases, easily customisable)

- great DX (get up and running quickly, integrate with your existing system easily)

- more secure (MPC, trustless)

- low dependency risk (you've always got the option to self-host or export existing wallets)

If you'd like a refresher on MPC wallets or Wallet-as-a-Service, I did my best to explain it without BS industry jargon: https://getmeemaw.com/blog/mpc-wallet

If you have Docker and Node installed on your machine, you can have a full example running in less than 5 minutes: https://getmeemaw.com/docs/getting-started

You can already self-host Meemaw, and there will soon be cloud hosting as well, with the option to easily switch from one to the other at any time.

The closed-source competitors are all (very) well-funded, but I think we can provide a better developer experience with higher security and reduced dependency risks. Right now, Meemaw is probably not ready for production, but we'll get there sooner rather than later. Your feedback would be greatly appreciated to continue moving in the right direction :)
I'd warn that there's a fair bit of work you have to do to get animations and typical modal behavior working up to the level of modern day expectations. It's completely surmountable but also quite non-trivial.
Imagine an ad for a virtual puppy game using hydraulic press to crush real dogs, showing closeup of twisted broken head and blood splashing on camera and all. Surely you can understand why most people can get very upset seeing that, and dog owners in particular can feel like their soul is being crushed?

Well, artists and musicians can have as much emotional attachment to their tools as pet owners to their pets. To most people the ad is only slight disturbing, but to the artists (and the nostalgic) it’s soul crushing. That’s why Apple is apologizing: they’ve offended their core market.
The message they were trying to convey was clear. All that shit you can replace with an iPad. I think they hit the mark.

You can make a basket of puppies sound like the end of the world with the right words. There is nothing wrong with that ad.
wouldnt it be graceland.com ?
click-bait title. authorization vs authentication. two very different beasts.
The best strategic decision Apple has made in the last 15 years is to vertically integrate and build their own processors.

M-series is so far ahead of the game than an air-cooled M4 has better single-core performance than the best desktop PC chip money can buy. Incredible.
This is not a pop-up. People hate popups because they're intrusive and have their own window. This API replaces div modals and saves time and code for developers.
There is nothing inherent in a piano that can't replicated by a keyboard.
As much as I'd like to see it being more open, a lot of people seem concerned about security and are happy with the current state of iOS/iPadOs and not having to deal with troubleshooting of their families devices
How to Build a BVH
MSE is sometimes perceived as hostile to beginners because it often closes off newbie questions that lack context or are thought to be of low quality. MO is not suffering from this because almost all such questions are migrated to MSE. In this sense, yes, MO is less hostile than MSE because its hostility is outsourced to MSE.
https://youtu.be/XL7Wxqr2ZRk

https://youtu.be/0SvfNhMlnBE

Even "cheap Chinese shit" is made by hand.