skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've had to turn down dishes that wouldn't have worked for the cafe, and it makes me feel bad. I've requested users contact me before writing a PR but of course people don't read the FAQ.

As someone who has submitted PRs without much communication to repos asking to talk before PR are submitted: in my case these were generally cases where it just seemed easier for me as a user to just change the code rather than to contact the author, try to make some sort of social interaction online, explain why and what I'm trying to do, potentially enter some sort of negotiation trying to hammer out some agreement and then doing the code change PR dance anyway. Much easier to just make some straightforward code changes - done and dusted in a few hours.

And sure, I completely understand if a maintainer then says "no thank you". That's the risk I took by my just do it attitude. No hard feelings on my side.
IT Security: A Pre-War Reality Check
And everyone in Ireland surely saw this one coming.

It is a sad state the country is in and can't bring themselves to fix it.
> I highly doubt they'd be criminal indictments.

This is a reference to an existing criminal indictment, for which Boeing entered into a deferred prosecution agreement in which they paid $2.5 billion in penalties and compensation and accepted various behavioral commitments, which DoJ is now saying they have breached, allowing prosecution to be recommenced.

So, no, your prediction is wrong, it is a criminal indictment.
Show HN: Interactive breathing exercises for sleep, with 3D soft body solver
Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever leaves OpenAI six months after Altman ouster
It is vscode right? But Gemini is terrible here; I tried it side by side with co-pilot and Gemini is really useless it seems.
Mutexes are for thread safety, channels are for communicating between threads and waitgroups is an alternative to Promise.allSettled (in JS anyway, not enough experience with C# or other await impls), except you don't need to load up the promises first and then fire them. Wat.
Yeah AirBnb value seems great for shorter term bookings like hotels, might be cheaper in that sense but when you scale it up to 3 months+ the price doesn't make sense anymore
>LLMs can’t even count the number of letters in a sentence.

It's a consequence of tokenization. They "see" the world through tokens, and tokenization rules depend on the specific middleware you're using. It's like making someone blind and then claiming they are not intelligent because they can't tell red from green. That's just how they perceive the world and tells nothing about intelligence.
Companies cannot go to jail for crimes, its not an available sanction.
> Negligent manufacturing

Among other things. There are very strict rules in aircraft manufacturing on procedures to follow, documentation to have, etc. And Boeing have been found lacking to say the least in a number of those.

That plus all the coverups and lying around MCAS are probably enough to put a few people in jail if one had faith in the Justice department.
Not saying it’s going to be the same, but I’m sure computing progress looked pretty unimpressive from, say, 1975 to 1990 for the uninitiated.

By the 90s they were still mainly used as fancy typewriters by “normal” people (my parents, school, etc) although the ridiculous potential was clear from day one.

It just took a looong time to go from pong to ping and then to living online. I’m still convinced even this stage is temporary and only a milestone on the way to bigger and better things. Computing and computational thought still has to percolate into all corners of society.

Again not saying “LLM’s” are the same, but AI in general will probably walk a similar path. It just takes a long time, think decades, not years.

Edit: wanted to mention The Mother of All Demos by Engelbart (1968), which to me looks like it captures all essential aspects of what distributed online computing can do. In a “low resolution”, of course.
> I just identify as normal

Oh, my god, they said it, they said the thing!

As I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, this is exactly what the more sensitive right-wing snowflakes were professing to get upset about in the late 90s and early noughties, only about the term 'straight'.
> Unclear how to value the equity I gave up, but it probably would have been about 85% of my family's net worth at least.

Percentages are nice, but with money and wealth absolute numbers are already important enough. You can leave a very, very good life even if you are losing 85% if the remaining 15% is USD $1M. And if not signing that NDA will help you landing another richly paying job + freedom to say whatever you feel it's important saying.
But fixing it in Windows doesn’t mean they also need to fix it in embedded systems. Microsoft is in control of their whole ecosystem from the kernel to userland to visual studio. Microsoft could make C++ on windows sane without anyone else’s permission. Their failure to do that is on them and them alone.

I think browser vendors have the right idea when it comes to evolving standards. Vendors experiment using their own products and then come together and try and standardise their work at committee. I think that would be a much better idea than either doing nothing or, as you say, trying to boil the ocean.
Are we sure elites actually lived on those sites? Eastern Europe always had "warlords", that traveled with their army around their empire (Rus, Avars, Mongols...). Transportation of food and goods was not practical over large areas, so the elites moved instead.

I bet those "mega houses" were just for slaves!
...OTH just 54 commits over 16 years ;) Most of the more recent commits seem to be project scaffolding (build system, CI support etc).
You can fly carriers that don't have any Boeing planes. JetBlue, Spirit, and Frontier don't operate any Boeing planes, as far as I know.
latecomer, but actually shares a lot of the original BBC Micro code! https://www.bbcelite.com/nes/
Wherewords.id (Whatthreewords Alternative)
That's 0.00006% of all your pages per second. Even if it's sustained it really isn't much at all.

At this rate sustained it would take more than 20 days to crawl all the pages.

Again, this is really not painting the picture you want it to paint.
To be fair, at this point GitHub is the only thing most developers know. To the point where most developers don't really know the difference between "git" and "GitHub".
You can literally go into almost any corner shop in the UK and buy a SIM with no ID and cash.

I do this regularly.
I got a DIY basic kit, and was pretty surprised when I saw that after 8 hours of sleep the CO2 level was 3600 ppm in the bedroom. My wife still jokes about the way I woke her up. I immediately said "We're basically suffocating". Maybe it was a little bit too dramatic sure, but kind of true.

The levels go above 1000 ppm in less than an hour with both of us in there.

Opening the windows to ventillate doesn't really solve this, as you'd need to keep opening and closing them every hour. I'm thinking about installing a HRV system, but struggling to find a model that could be integrated into Home Assistant. (ERV not necessary as I live in a european country with temperate climate, the humidity is mostly OK)

In the meantime I have two windows tilted open permanently in another room with the doors open. This keeps CO2 under 1000 ppm, but pretty bad for energy efficiency.

Overall pretty happy with the product, definitely made me much more aware of the air quality. I want to build a portable one with a display and logging to check out the car, the office, maybe the hotel rooms on a trip, the plane, etc.
Because definition defines what it defines? Then all definitions are self referential, that's not a difference.
Tonight I end a 21-year blogging career
Fifty years ago there was a big debate about whether or not pocket electronic calculators should be allowed in exams since they would enable people with poor arithmetic skills. Slide rules were allowed since there is some skill using a slide rule. If someone is smart enough to harness AI to cheat on an interview, they are probably worth hiring, unless there is concern about dishonesty, eg in a bank.
Do the AI features apply to content from sites that block their 'Google-Extended' crawler (which they use to index content for their LLMs)?[1]

I'm not as worried if that distinction still applies – I can just block 'Google-Extended' and let the normal Googlebot through. If not, though, that feels like the beginning of the end of people wanting to be indexed, eventually leading to Google eating itself.

[1] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...
That fact that it has some statistically significant performance is irrelevant and difficult to evaluate for most people.

He's a much simpler and correct description that almost everyone can understand: it fucks up constantly.

Getting something wrong even once can make it useless for most people. No amount of pedantry will change this reality.
Very cool! Didn't know about the game , but this is all pretty excellent even when just reading the code!
This is a factual description. Is your gender on the same side as your biological sex? That's all cisgender means today. Like tall, or blonde, or young.

Sure, you can have another preferred label. You can even try to make it popular - maybe others will like it too. It wouldn't be the first time there's a shift like that.

By "get over it", I mean realise nobody's using it to insult them and there's zero impact on their lives due to the term existing. (For many, if they don't actively seek out conversations about this topic, they may not even realise it exists)
> Why in the first place u need a separate word for that?

'Cis[whatever]' means 'Non-trans[whatever]', essentially. 'Non-trans' is an incredibly awkward phrasing; there is already a way to say that, and it is 'Cis'.

I wonder, in the more right-wing-aligned US universities, do history lectures have to talk about Julius Caesar being made governor of Non-Transalpine Gaul, to avoid offending the snowflakes by using the Forbidden Prefix. Cislunar space? Surely you mean Normal-lunar space, praise be to Musk.
You are right that authorities try to push the burden on the small guy. Look at the paper straws "solution" - not a wrong idea per se but compared to the fishing nets it's merely a blip. Also the ovens do spread microparticles and are often forbidden during summer heat here in Switzerland. But. While all this is true and helping a little bit, yes, we should focus much more on the BIG causes of trouble, and cattle unfortunately are one of them, just like fossil fuels.
It's still an important distinction. Your list of things doesn't seem relevant to that at all.
Android Support for Kotlin Multiplatform to Share Business Logic
Even though the crashes happened outside the US, the malicious actions around the engineering of those planes happened on US soil.
Hard part there is getting the wear and tear from oils in your hand to look identical.

Although maybe most people don't pay attention to that.
I Hate "Unknown"
Does anybody else think unknown is a useless, worthless, hateful bug in Typescript? There has never been a single time when it helped me and it annoys me 100% of the time. Why isn't there a way to turn it off?

I'm so mad right now because there's no tsconfig option to turn it off. Why not. Does anybody smarter than me have a good explanation for why they put it in so I can quit getting mad when it says this:

```
const d = reactive({
searchText: "",
customers: null as any[], <-- Conversion of type 'null' to type 'any[]' may be a mistake because neither type sufficiently overlaps with the other. If this was intentional, convert the expression to 'unknown' first.ts(2352)

page: 1,
perPage: 10,
gettingCustomers: false,
error: ""

});
```
Fly airlines whose fleets are 100% Airbus?
Look at the images in your last link and look at the work of the following artists and you will see, just the rehash...

Top Left: Gerhard Richter, Mark Bradford.

Top Center: Beeple (Mike Winkelmann), or V0idhead

Top Right: Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy

Middle Left: Benjamin Von Wong

Middle Center: Maurizio Cattelan

Middle Right: Takashi Murakami, Hayao Miyazaki

and so on....
Good ones record long spans of audio, then transmit them in short infrequent bursts outside of working hours. You can leave GSM recording equipment overnight and analyze logs, but even when you see it in the logs it'll be hard to locate the device physically when it's not transmitting.
Moderate lethargy, satisfaction from eating fatty and protein rich foods, things like that.

If it wasn't pleasant, not that many people would endure it regularly as there are.
Relying on specific people was never a good strategy, people will change but this will be a good test of their crazy governance structure. I think of it similar to political systems - if it can't withstand someone fully malicious getting in power then it's not a good system
I removed a front end call to a back end API 3 weeks ago, still getting requests
Central bank money printing.
> Open AI is run by marketing, business, software and productization people.

AKA 'the four horsemen of enshitification'.
I have the same feeling. I asked to find duplicates in a list of 6k items and it basically hallucinated the entire answer multiple times. Some times it finds some, but it interlaces the duplicates with other hallucinated items. I wasn't expecting it to get it right, cause I think this task is challenging with a fixed amount of attention heads. However, the answer seems much worse than Claude Opus or GPT-4.
It read ultra negative to me, like as if they're just shit people. I didn't downvote you , just responded to your message.
Why not use an empty array instead of null for the default value?
> I feel he may be overthinking it.. people just want to understand the best options available for their use-case.

As I understand it, that is the point of the author: people feel the need to "ping" the maintainer because they don't really understand how open source works. But receiving a "pong" does not mean it is "more maintained", does it? You could ask "is this project maintained?", I could answer in the minute "yes, it is!", then you could ask for a feature and I would just not implement it for free.

In the end, before choosing to depend on a project, you should ideally read the code base and decide whether you would feel comfortable modifying it (fixing a bug or adding a feature) yourself. If not, maybe it would be less risky for you to write your own code. And if you can't do that, then you have to accept that you rely on code that is out of your depth, and choose whether it is a risk you are willing to take or not.
I've for a long time simply asked the question: with what faculty does one decide what their will is?

If it's the will itself, that's circular, and sounds like a feedback loop. If it's something else, great...tell me about it. And how it's free.
I honestly think that is the best course of actions for humanity. Even less chance to see AGI anytime soon if he leaves.
The question is whether more realistic testing is really needed. At some speed below 30km/h aero drag takes over and at higher speeds that's basically the only thing that matters. Unless you are riding steep hills in which case total weight is the thing that matters.
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I had a look at radon sensors recently and they look quite expensive, difficult to add in a 150-200€ monitor
Enhanced WWVB Broadcast Format for Radio-Controlled Clock Synchronization [pdf]
Thank you!

That's a great idea. Do you think I should change the color of the active cell depending on the mode? There is currently an indicator in the status bar - what do you think about that?

Fixed the gg bug! Earlier it worked if you typed two gs within 700ms. New implementation emulates Vim by waiting for the next character.
>For this matter, what's the point in having a huge village? I can only see protection against warfare and forcing fairness in social interactions and on the matchmaking market.

Division of labour/economies of scale are fundamental to human quality of life improvements. Even without much technology/industry, there's still a lot to gain from division of labour.
>Unless you're on the ProTour

You don't have to be on the Pro Tour to benefit from aero gains with narrower tires. Even moderately fit people usually can sustain 15 mph on flat, at which point aero gains start to matter. Even more for hilly terrain where you can easily pick up over 20 mph on descents. The wider tires roll more efficient at lower psi (when you have to air down for comfort). But roughness of pavement road usually doesn't require less than 60 psi, and above 60 psi the rolling resistance of wider tires is about the same as narrower tires, but watt savings from aero can be significant.

I got a gravel bike to replace my old road bike because everyone was raving about it, and I absolutely hated riding it. Sure, at slow recreational speeds, it was more comfortable, but when getting places, it just didn't roll as well down hills, making me having to pedal more over extended times to get uphill.

Now I ride an aero road bike with TT bars, with 28c tires, and even when running them at 60-70 psi for rough pavement, the aero gains from the narrower wheels are significant, as I can pick up speeds over 30 mph on some descents which carry me way further uphill.
Firebase Data Connect
Lemon juice.
Show HN: I made a website with nonfiction book summaries
If the US Department of Justice thinks it has jurisdiction over Ukrainian torrent websites hosting links to American-produced media content, why wouldn't it have jurisdiction over American-produced planes killing people in Indonesia and Ethiopia from negligent design and manufacturing, both of which happened in the US?
Isn't trade more efficient in larger villages, too? Like economics in general
There was a Y windowing system.

http://www.y-windows.org/
Not sure how valid this really is for mountain bike tyres as the terrain is so varied.

For example if you run an MTB tyre hard it will bounce around on a rocky surface and roll less efficiently than if you run it at lower pressure that allows the tyre to deform and bounce around less.

Interesting site nonetheless and a useful data point to compare tyres in a systematic way.
they have very interesting articles on the topic, and I'm happy with the monitor I bought from them. Although I can't compare it to a reference, they were tested by the company/institute monitoring the air quality of paris and got a good score. I just which they could register their data on a sd card.

They are open source, and provide the code source of their software as well as for the hardware, which is very rare. I have plan one day to build my own outdoor monitor based on their plans (as a project I don't have the usage)
Anyone else remember the original Raspberry Pi used full sized SD cards? I ripped the slot off the card with the leverage you could get with the full sized SD card.
And ironically even the authors did not fully grasp at the time the paper importance. Reminds me of when Larry Page and Sergey Brin, tried to sell Google for $1 million ...
Pretty sure he can afford a couple of bodyguards to prevent most of the cases like that.
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I come to HN for the quality of the discussions, please don't comment like this.
> As an aside, it's nice to see industry funding for work like this. I'm often cynical of cryptocurrency, but its correctness constraints really push for improvements in areas I like (Rust, Coq, funding for masters students I know, etc.).

That's part of it, but another part I think is that crypto currencies simply transferred a lot of wealth to people interested in CS (and a wouldn't-it-be-cool-if mindset in general). And they are spending that money on CS research not just because it benefits them but because it's philanthropy aligned with their hobby.
libicu is deliberately doing this because one of its purpose is to offer Unicode ordering. If consumers try the new ordering on non-rebuild objects, it could lead to data loss. That's what happened with glibc 2.28. [0]

If postgres prefers explicit library versions to prevent data corruption, then icu is doing things correctly and making sure that downstream consumers don't shoot themselves in the foot.

[0]: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Locale_data_changes
AWS Billing of Failed Requests to S3
> truly understanding… when I explain something, I have understood it

When you have that feeling of understanding, it is important to recognize that it is a feeling.

We hope it’s correlated with some kind of ability to reason, but at the end of the day, you can have the ability to reason about things without realising it, and you can feel that you understand something and be wrong.

It’s not clear to me why this feeling would be necessary for superhuman-level general performance. Nor is it clear to me that a feeling of understanding isn’t what being an excellent token predictor feels like from the inside.

If it walks and talks like an AGI, at some point, don’t we have to concede it may be an AGI?
This paper and other similar works changed my opinion on that quite a bit. It shows that to perform text prediction, LLMs build complex internal models.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38893456
I will switch away from Firefox to Ladybird as soon as Ladybird is half as good as Firefox.
I’m 100% positive lots of people at Google were chomping at the bit to productize LLMs early on.

But the reality is, LLMs are a cannibalization threat to Search. And the Search Monopoly is the core money making engine of the entire company.

Classic innovators dilemma. No fat-and-happy corporate executive would ever say yes to putting lots of resources behind something risky that might also kill the golden goose.

The only time that happens at a big established company, is when driven by some iconoclastic founder. And Google’s founders have been MIA for over a decade.
Excelent point. Personally I think I would rather run a few PSI less and have confortable ride.
congrats on launching Vivek! Followed you on Twitter
That, or something like it, might well be coming at WWDC next month...
There was another article here on HN some time ago on how big media publishers are littering the web with spam recommendations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39433451 (https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/)

This listed review spam from Dotdash Meredith which I used a clue to search and block all sites by them using uBlacklist.

Edit: Found another article saying the same thing there are only few big media giant's dominating search https://detailed.com/google-control/
so beautiful :) how much time did it take to build?
It was born Twitter and I'm still going to call it Twitter /s
> Common courtesy seems like a nice thing to do? If cis people don’t want to be called “cis” then we should use the label they prefer?

That is completely fair! My next question is: what proportion of cis people are offended by the word? I personally couldn't care less, and I can't think of anyone around me who cares more than me. I'm all for common courtesy, but it has to be based on something. "I don't like being called cisgenre and therefore I can conclude that all cisgenre dislike it too" seems a bit wrong to me.