skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm writing this on an iPhone:

> Think about how long it takes/ho many steps it takes to put quotes around a chunk of text

4 taps - beginning of word, quote, end of word quote.

> to correct a misspelling

double tap on word, start typing the correct one. Double tap the word, and use the "replace" dropdown. Or, tap and use spacebar as a cursor to selectively edit a single word. This is certainly no worse than a mouse, but it is sub par to a physical keyboard.

> to rearrange some words

I'm not sure what you mean here, as I can't say that I find myself doing this often, so maybe I'm not your target audience here.
No explanation on the landing page and just a login wall.
I can't believe how well that nails the problems of the nuclear industry .. from 1953!

By comparison, solar power costs 1/100th (99% fall) of what it did back then. https://news.mit.edu/2018/explaining-dropping-solar-cost-112...
Why would app developers need to support that? Just let the iPad run MacOS apps. It has the same CPU after all.
Our supply chain is not fragile at all! It took an enormous, global pandemic to cause a disruption and even then, goods kept flowing.
Don't forget, Everyone braced for an economic downturn and all of a sudden demand for transported goods shot up. That's what caused the congestion, hugely growing demand. Containers never stopped moving, demand for transport was simply greater than supply. Prices rose, sure, but that's what's supposed to happen right? After the pandemic was over prices plummeted even faster than they climbed and are now under pre-pandemic levels.

Right now containers ships have (largely) stopped transiting the Suez Canal, passing the Horn of Africa instead. Adding weeks to their transit time. This is a mayor disruption and, while freight rates are once again rising, no one notices. Goods keep flowing, stores are stocked.

I work in logistics, so I'm somewhat biased, but to me it's amazing how robust supply chains really are
Set a memorable verification phrase with your friends and loved ones.
POSIX sh has “set -u” to handle this category of errors — scripts that attempt to expand an unset parameter will exit with an error message.

Perl has “use warnings ‘uninitialized’” for the same reason.

It sounds like this feature would be worth considering for the Dockerfile spec.
It sounds like SpaceX wanted to make Starshield & Starlink a bundle deal. To fulfill the DoD contract, they could only operate military Starshield and not consumer Srarlink. They even use different satellites as far as I know.
From 0.3 per 100,000 to 1.3 per 100,000. Not saying this isn't significant, but whenever you see a phrase like "increase of x%" it's often worth your time to see what that is in absolute terms.
> Or upgradable offensive capabilities to outmaneuver the customer service agents when they try to decline your warranty or whatever.

Yeah, OpenAI is not going to do that out of fear of liability. But that's where open source LLM projects will come into play, eg Dolphin.
I think the point is that for every Mr Beast view there are many more views of content by smaller creators, and whilst Amazon or a major network could definitely buy exclusive agreements with Mr Beast et al (and many leading stars already save a portion of their content for Patreon subscribers), they can't do that with the long tail. Plus if Mr Beast did end up exclusively on a network, YouTube's recommendation algorithms would surface other creators instead.

That's even more true in much smaller niches. Amazon and the BBC actually did pick up a couple of the top narrowboat YouTube channels (and offered them more money and viewers than YouTube ever did) but if you want to search for videos on a particular boating location or how to fix a particular issue or just to have enough content to binge watch to live the lifestyle vicariously without the expense and complications of owning a boat, only YouTube will satisfy you.
Depends on what one means regarding taking off, several industries are quite happy with it.

https://info.juliahub.com/case-studies

Any language designer would be crying of joy if their language had so few users as Julia is currently having.
Fire your bank if they don't respect your boundaries.
That‘s not funny at all.
They take longer to build, which means the cost overruns are worse, and because you build so few of them the learning curve doesn't kick in to reduce costs. Similar philosophy to SpaceX raptor engines; build lots of them to drive down the per-unit cost.

This has not yet worked for reactors.
Diesel generators are really dirty and they need to be regularly tested in order to function as backup, which in city cores, nature protected areas or protected water areas is a major issue.

Batteries are better. They are a bit heavy, carries a fire risk, and can be a bit expensive, but can work depending on situation. I do know however that data centers being built in my country are not using batteries for backup. They want to use diesel generators given costs and capacity, and they also want to use places with clean fresh water for cooling. Thus they ask for environmental protection exemptions so they can use diesel generators.
>We tend to see those questions from the nightmarish movie plot perspective in which someone is wrongfully institutionalized. Cuckcoo's Nest and all that.

No, these are happpening in real time. Look at how many people on death row get off and you see that the justice system is far from objective.

That's exactly why many US states took down asylums. The idea was good, isolate problematic individuals and get them back on heir feet. Then the system abused it to treat people who needed help badly, and put disproportately marginalized groups in there.

The nuance is that we historically failed to be nuanced, and let biases get in the way.
Sure you can. Measure performance when not thermally throttled and at the lowest speed / no boost. All real devices will fall in between those numbers.
> So long as LLMs regularly hallucinate, they're not going to be useful for much other than tasks that can accept relatively high rates of failure.

Yep. So basically they're useful for a vast, immense range of tasks today.

Some things they're not suited for. For example, I've been working on a system to extract certain financial "facts" across SEC filings. ChatGPT has not been helpful at all either with designing or implementing (except to give some broad, obvious hints about things like regular expressions), nor would it be useful if it was used for the actual automation.

But for many, many other tasks -- like design, architecture, brainstorming, marketing, sales, summarisation, step by step thinking through all sorts of processes, it's extremely valuable today. My list of ChatGPT sessions is so long already and I can't imagine life without it now. Going back to Google and random Quora/StackOverflow answers laced with adtech everywhere...
Doctor recommended ibuprofen can be at considerably higher dose rates than what's listed on the bottle at your pharmacy.

This whole "too many painkillers are prescribed" thing really annoys me. It leads to cancer patients suffering because of the risk they could become addicted. So f-ing what?
See also https://github.com/vnmakarov/mir
Every one of my phones before was rooted with custom os flashed, but now I feel exactly the same a as you, it's just not worth it. Kinda sad how stuff is being more and mored locked down.
> Well, I don't think the reactor design mattered all that much to the many liquidator that died from cancer

Maybe not to them personally, but the reason they were needed, and died at all was the design.

The RBMK's design was uniquely awful in that it had a positive void coefficient that lead to it blowing its top off, lacked a containment building to contain the mess, and the graphite moderator burns in the air and spews radioactive material into the air. That's a whole lot of things that could have been done far better, and are done better in modern designs.

Better designs can still melt down, yes, but they lack such an awful failure mode. Liquidators were needed because the burning reactor was contaminating everything around it every second it was burning and uncovered.

Better designs are less prone to failure in the first place, and when they fail it's more on the side of being a very expensive problem. They destroy the reactor but they don't require throwing lives at the problem to contain it.
I like your thinking, a few thoughts (I'm on iOS)

> Bring back deep presses, which isn't very discoverable, but it's memorable once you get used to it.

Apple does this with many gestures already. Double tap to select a word for example. I think bringing back deep press would be a great move, and agree with everything else you've said here on that.

> 2. Allow touching with two fingers. If they're next to each other, immediately position the cursor.

Long press will put the cursor where your finger is, and will give you a magnified bubble for finer selection (did you really mean to select before or after the hyphen?)

> Spread them and the selection widen ... Pinch on a selection to...

these pinch style gestures would be unusable on a 5" screen I think, and incredibly fiddly even on a 10.1" iPad screen. I work in games, and even though our controllers can handle multiple inputs, we generally tend to avoid chorded inputs because the average person's dexterity is not as good as you would think.
> Do you remember when they teased GPT-2 as "too dangerous" for public access? I do.

I can't help but notice the huge amount of hindsight and bad faith that it demonstrated here. Yes, now we are aware that the internet did not drown in a flood of bullshit (well, not noticeably more), when GPT-2 was released.

But was it obvious? I certainly thought that there was a chance that the amount of blog spam that could be generated effortlessly might just make internet search unusable. You are declaring "hype", when you could also say "very uncertain and conscientious". Is this not something we want people in charge to be careful with?
Precisely. AI is hyped right now, and all its flaws are being ignored. Also over time regulators will get involved and put more restrictions on AI.

It was the same with cryptocurrencies and driverless cars.
> Relax. Go select some text with a mouse, you’ll feel better.

Do you often select text to feel better? Are you OK?
63 Percent of Americans want regulation to actively prevent superintelligent AI
Nix fork Aux.computer fixes the political but not the technological objections
I've been using LineageOS for 2 years now since my 2020 phone started to slow down due to bloatware. From the moment I installed it, the phone became fast again. Regarding notifications, I haven't had any problems with WhatsApp or any other messaging apps. As for my bank, I downloaded the app from the Play Store (I use microG) and I haven't had any issues either. I think it depends on your bank and the restrictions they place. In my personal experience, LineageOS has allowed me to continue using a phone that would have otherwise been thrown away due to planned obsolescence by the manufacturer.
800 million dollar studio expansion halted - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/23/tyler-per...
I studied maths as a remote degree (after having completed another degree earlier at a regular university), so I didn't have lectures. There were (optional) tutoring sessions (that I didn't make use of) and a few optional in-person sessions with the teacher where they would summarise the material, but otherwise we were just expected to read the lecture notes (that were self-contained like a textbook) and do the exercises. To me that worked very well and from attending the in-person sessions, usually meeting the other students was more valuable than the actual content itself.

So I guess I don't fully understand the value of lectures, at least not in maths. If I read up on the material, I can go at my own pace.

Of course, everyone learns differently, so YMMV.
OnePlus are my go to
Because writing a garbage collector to run on graphics cards is a thankless PhD class problem, even if technically possible, no one will adopt it.
That woman's voice intonation is just scary.Not because it talks really well, but because it is always happy, optimistic, enthusiastic. And this echoes to what several of my employers idealized as a good employee.

That's terrifying because those AI become what their master's think an engaging human should be. It's quite close to Bostondynamics di some years ago. what did they show ? You can hit a robot very hard while it does its job and then what ? It just goes on without complaining. A perfect employee again.

That's very dystopic to me.

(but I'm impressed by the technical achievement)
That's a good tip. I've got a moto g32 (ca. 130 € new) running LineageOS and am happy with it. Only downside is the CPU which could be a tad faster.

Unlocking the phone's bootloader is also not so easy, because you have to register your phone online and the web page is quite finicky. I had to try with different browsers to get the registration form to work.
The last time I checked, audio and video firmware wasn't there.
Preview is honestly such a good app. On top of everything else, it's also a very powerful PDF editor, which is something many companies built full paid products around — but on macOS you get it for free.
Sorry to hear your banking system sucks.

Try being your own bank. Dump the fiat.
>The only non-creep people these laws really impact are the photographers who actually do want to take pictures of unaware strangers for artsy reasons.

That just isn't true. Imagine any kind of event where you want to take photos and publish them. Now you have to get an agreement from people on who is allowed to be photographed and who's photos you are allowed to publish, assuming that not all people agreed you now have to go through every single photo figuring out which one you are allowed to use and which one you aren't.
This isn't a hypothetical, I have agreed with many, many such waivers for many different kind of events.

To say that this law only affects creeps is plainly false. Even if you are just planning a wedding this will affect you.
It's more of an experiment than a real development environment. But it's funny to try a new hack with a simple android tablet
So how do they set up troikas? A team lead from CS, janitor from main office building and someone from legal?

Can they send you to GULAG? Is that a German firm offering enterprise prison services?
It's not just about peaks, it's about covering the gaps when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow. We know the former happens every night, and wind is less predictable.

That's why I'm advocating for nuclear. It's not meant to turn on and off -- fine, but it will buy us time to invest in storage infrastructure and develop plans to move those electrons around at a moment's notice. We're not there yet -- not by a long shot. Someone pointed to California as a leader in this field. Even if California manages to piece together something, do you think the 49 other states will follow suit? Certainly not with this federal government at the helm.

Speaking in general terms, I'm guessing these nuclear facilities probably have a capital runway of a few decades. Hopefully in that time, we'll have the storage networks and plans to offset peaks and cover intermittent lulls at the energy source.

The priority is to stop GHG emissions, and it's absolutely absurd to me that we're willing to sit on this technology from irrational fear while we poison our planet and our bodies. It should outrage people here how many die from pollution and how many more will die from climate changes. Enough is enough.
> PS. Enter AI "personality packs".

"GPP feature?" said Arthur. "What's that?"

"Oh, it says Genuine People Personalities."

"Oh," said Arthur, "sounds ghastly."

A voice behind them said, "It is." The voice was low and hopeless and accompanied by a slight clanking sound. They span round and saw an abject steel man standing hunched in the doorway.

"What?" they said.

"Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut into his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. "All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done."

As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sigh-like quality to it. "Hummmmmmmyummmmmmm ah!" it said.

Marvin regarded it with cold loathing whilst his logic circuits chattered with disgust and tinkered with the concept of directing physical violence against it. Further circuits cut in saying, Why bother? What's the point? Nothing is worth getting involved in. Further circuits amused themselves by analysing the molecular components of the door, and of the humanoids' brain cells. For a quick encore they measured the level of hydrogen emissions in the
surrounding cubic parsec of space and then shut down again in boredom. A spasm of despair shook the robot's body as he turned.

"Come on," he droned, "I've been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't."

He turned and walked back to the hated door.

"Er, excuse me," said Ford following after him, "which government owns this ship?"

Marvin ignored him.

"You watch this door," he muttered, "it's about to open again. I can tell by the intolerable air of smugness it suddenly generates."

With an ingratiating little whine the door slit open again and Marvin stomped through.

"Come on," he said.

The others followed quickly and the door slit back into place with pleased little clicks and whirrs.

"Thank you the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation," said Marvin and trudged desolately up the gleaming curved corridor that stretched out before them. "Let's build robots with Genuine People Personalities," they said. So they tried it out with me. I'm a personality prototype. You can tell, can't you?"

Ford and Arthur muttered embarrassed little disclaimers.

"I hate that door," continued Marvin. "I'm not getting you down at all am I?"

"Which government ..." started Ford again.

"No government owns it," snapped the robot, "it's been stolen."

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> they influence it but any amount of examination or second thought is enough to balance their contribution.

That's sadly in short supply these days. distractions from entertainment or wearing down from unsustanable workloads to survive. Take your pick.

>Generally this will resolve with more experience and interaction with a broader range of ideas and people.

funnily enough it only makes me more cynical. It does make me realize a lot of people are living normally. It also makes me realize a lot of people are being crushed by society through no fault of their own.
To be fair, if the documentation isn't meeting the users' needs it is poor documentation.

One of my more tongue-in-cheek maxims is that too much documentation is worse than too little. With too much documentation the information might be there, but you aren't able to find it. The outcome is the same, but with too much documentation you've just wasted an hour failing.

It's slightly tongue-in-cheek because you can push the amount of documentation pretty far, but you have to think about how to organise it and how users will get the required information when and if they need it.
Show HN: Tool to find the right hub or dock for your specific setup
Hi HN, I had some issues finding the right USB-C hub for my specific setup and came up with this simple tool to make finding a hub or dock a little easier.

You answer a few questions and get a list of potential hubs and docks that fit your setup.

I've created two 'paths':

- one for non-tech-savvy people where you just select the types of devices you have

- and another version where you can select the exact version of each port (e.g. HDMI 2.0, DP 1.4) you're looking for, which is probably most fitting for this sub

You can switch between the two paths in the first question (how much do you know). You can also just jump straight to the results page to use classic filters to narrow down your selection.

I've tried to cover most types of ports, but there is definitely scope to make things more fine-tuned. For example it might be nice to have a filter for specific minimum resolutions and refresh rates (like 4k@120Hz), or specific performance under MacOS and Windows which is often different. I'll also add a comparison feature on the results page soon.

I was curious what people think about the tool, any feedback would be much appreciated!
> 3. No support for encryption nor compression in the protocol.

This is a feature.
...and ask your employer to pay out your salary in cash? Doesn't sound very realistic unfortunately. I don't think it's only about banking apps needing the Google services, it might actually be that they refuse to run on rooted phones?

If there are any banking apps that run on LineageOS, kudos to them - if they are available in Germany, tell me so I can switch...
Hi guys, my co-founder just launched BlogFAST on PH.

We were initially using it internally between a closed group of people.
We're now validating if makes sense to provide it publicly.

If you're interested in growing organically your leads, using GPT generated blogs on multiple separated domains that will lead traffic to your main website, BlogFAST can do the work for you.

Basically, it provides:
1. Web-hosting (using SEO optimized frameworks) (on AWS)
2. Auto-blog generations (Using gpt-4o)
3. GitHub repo which you'll granted admin access to

Peace
> It takes me repeated taps on a text entry to get the popover that allows me to paste

I copy and pasted this on an iPhone - I tapped the comment box which summoned the keyboard, and I tapped again and it gave me Paste/Autofill as options.

> On Android, I had a keyboard that allowed me to swipe on the space bar to move the cursor, why can't I have that here?

This is out of the box functionality on iOS. I had a samsung device before, and I had no end of issues with the keyboard failing to summon, certain apps refusing to use my preferred keyboard, password managers not working properly, inconsistent selection/focus/edit dialog behaviour. I don't get _any_ of those issues with iOS.