skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well personally, as an investor I’m more incredulous at the price. I hold both nvidia and apple and I’ve made good money from both. It’s worth looking at all the reasons for the price going up and what happens when the price goes down. So I’m definitely not an nvidia hater because I think they’re doing great things and clearly a brilliantly managed company, it’s just that if the market cap gets too big then there’s ultimately only one direction it can then go, and it’s all predicated on an AI future that I’m not certain is going to happen like it might in the best-case scenario given how we’re constructing LLMs and how their corpuses of data are mined out already. My other main concern is towards how fickle human beings are - limitations with AIs are likely to cause a huge backlash once they become annoying or we feel like we’re being fobbed off by corporates forcing us to interact with an AI agent that can only stick to a strict corporate line. It’ll be boring, and people don’t like being bored. I’m not convinced that the current approaches to AI are going to deliver the goods that the graphs of progress are promising. And what’s more is that it already seems like everyone who wants to use ChatGPT or Claude is able to use it, and in three years the hardware cost of running all that will have dropped by 4x, not run away as some nvidia-boosting exponential.
> The photo is from the back of Johnny’s album

It is not - from the same series though.
Couldn't we do slightly better with communication though? Instead of altruistically clearing the dishwasher in the office every time, we can have a rotating dishwasher duty. Is this opposed to anarchism? What about not having an explicit dishwasher duty, but just a socially-enforced expectation to contribute?
What Your Linux Distro Says About You [video]
From one anti-consumer, anti-choice overlord to another? Yeah... I'll stick to open source, thanks.
It literally says “copy your PHP files” note the PHP part. It doesn’t say copy all your secrets and git history too.
What sort of testing will you get for $50 paying 14 people? Seems rather pointless because no one will take that task seriously
There is no chrome, only XUL.
You can absolutely host the entirety of your React code on a CDN - in fact, that's the preferred way of doing it. Node is used locally to generate the static resources needed by your app. There is also the server-side rendering approach enabled by frameworks such as Next.js - those indeed run on the server and provide a way of merging frontend and backend development.

To be honest, if jQuery has worked for you so far, it's not clear to me you need to be switching. It's possible your requirements just don't have enough frontend complexity to make the change worthwhile. I'd suggest working through the excellent React docs and building something very simple. If it clicks - great! If not, you haven't committed yourself to support tech you don't need. Either way, greenfield is better, don't jump into retrofitting an existing jQuery codebase.
It's amazing that you've been able to ride on the coattails of another manufacturer's tooling investment in the panels.

Can you share the data sheet for this new panel? The previous matte panel has a very bright minimum brightness of 21 nits. What is the minimum brightness of this new panel?
Yup. The process of finding alone will take more than 5 minutes. And is likely to not work for your particular circumstance.
> Foolish trends like removing catalytic converters and running super loud exhausts for single digit horsepower gains or hooning on public roads don't do its image any favors.

And there is so much more.
One of my pet peeves was idiots lifting their trucks but doing nothing with their headlights or worse getting "brighter" headlights. It is possible to be stuck in traffic and be practically blinded by the truck behind you in your mirrors.
In the 80's/90's if I was somewhere I shouldn't be or doing something that I shouldn't there was a 70% chance that when I got home my mother would know. The neighbourhood network of eyes was more powerful than googles all seeing eyes.
I once switched from Firefox to Chrome on old PCs because Firefox felt intolerably slow. I still use some of these PCs, including semi-old ones on which Firefox feels tolerably slow so I use Firefox. I expected Edge to be at least as as fast as Chrome but no, it feels more slow than Firefox. It also asks many questions (no, I don't want to make it the default nor to sign-in, nor to let it itself cookie-track me, and this still is not everything it asks about) every time it updates.
And who is going to write that ~20 line compose file with "no configuration"? A newbie?
> Their comment is unnecessarily negative.

Which comment are you referring to here? My read is that this is referring to my comment "Who hurt you?" but if that was not your intention then I misread, apologies.
Cell towers already exist to provide cellular service in low density areas. In general people expect service to be generally available not simply be available in cities and subdivisions.

Some of that is provided for free when covering higher density areas which satellite networks like Starlink simply can’t handle at any kind of reasonable constellation size.
You just described the main reason for Brexit.
This is indeed one of the issues of Pijul, but patch application is extremely fast, which makes it easy in the vast majority of cases (we don't apply patches to files directly, but to an on-purpose on-disk datastructure).

We also have a tag features, allowing you to pinpoint versions and go back instantly, and we have plans to make that feature even lighter on disk space.
You make it sound like Tesla voluntarily made the decision to share. They probably thought they had a moat.
Great article! Agree with everything mentioned. Good to share with all tech people who don't work in the AI space and "hallucinate" about working of LLMs.

Having said that, although LLMs don't directly learn from what we say to them, they can for sure create a representation or persona using Representation Engineering.

Quoting from an excellent article by Theia Vogel [1]:
"In October 2023, a group of authors from the Center for AI Safety, among others, published Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency. That paper looks at a few methods of doing what they call 'Representation Engineering': calculating a 'control vector' that can be read from or added to model activations during inference to interpret or control the model's behavior, without prompt engineering or finetuning. (There was also some similar work published in May 2023 on steering GPT-2-XL.)

Previously on HN 3 months ago: [2]

[1] https://vgel.me/posts/representation-engineering/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39414532
Your no nonsense suggestions aren't appreciated, we like sending our kids locations to the NSA in real time here.
You can't outrun a bad diet, and you certainly can't outcycle it. But it keeps you fit, keeps your legs toned, and (depending on where you are) gets you from A to B for nearly free.
Teams is no longer using Angular, it has moved to React
His mentally ill sister that the entire family says is lying, about something that allegedly happened when he was a small pre-pubescent child himself. And plenty of people are not attacking either the board member or Scarlett Johansson. Public opinion is at least definitely with SJ.

This really has nothing to do with how women are treated.
I'm pretty sure malpractice insurance would love to not pay the doctor if they are caught doing anything like this. That threat alone would prevent doctors from doing stupid things.
Aren't phone numbers longer than they used to be?
> Do you want your clients failing to load your website at all? Is this the best approach to serving users?

There are good reasons for picking either. Large services under sudden load sometimes implement queueing, which is just failing but stylish.

For my blog posts, I'd rather throw an error than have people wait for thirty seconds. The contents aren't that important and the end result will probably look bad because of missing CSS anyway.

For API services, I'd want things to slow down rather than fail, unless failure is explicitly documented in the API and can be handled somewhat gracefully.
If the premise is that they have a phone, why not just ask them where they are when you need to know?
Active exploitation of Check Point Remote Access vulnerability (CVE-2024-24919)
Slow and steady wins the race. Boeing is only slow by the way.
People tend to see what they want to see. If they want the riders be the rich sports guys, they will notice all the rich sport guys and ignore everyone else.
Wouldn't you rather have a voice of your own?
Curious for your take on this: https://venturebeat.com/ai/elon-musk-and-yann-lecuns-social-...

Or this:
> I personally wrote the first national maps, directions, yellow pages & white
pages on the Internet in the summer of 1995 in C with a little C++.
Didn't use a "web server" to save CPU cycles (just read port 8080 directly). Couldn't afford a Cisco T1 router, so wrote an emulator based on a white paper.

Or maybe this:
> I mean, man, you’re in charge of the servers and the programming and whatever,” Brown continued. “What is the stack, Elon? Take me from top to bottom. What does the stack look like right now? What’s so crazy about it? What is so abnormal about this stack versus every other large-scale system on the planet, buddy? C’mon!

To which he answered:
> Jackass

Or this:
> They took one look at Zip2’s code and began rewriting the vast majority of the software. Musk bristled at some of their changes, but the computer scientists needed just a fraction of the lines of code that Musk used to get their jobs done. They had a knack for dividing software projects into chunks that could be altered and refined whereas Musk fell into the classic self-taught coder trap of writing what developers call hairballs—big, monolithic hunks of code that could go berserk for mysterious reasons.

Again I’m not speaking for rocket science, but as for software engineering and ML it seems he only has surface knowledge but does enough name dropping to maintain the illusion.
No-one outside the NSA..
I started using Edge due to work being on the msft suite and I’ve been positively impressed with its performance. It handles way better than Chrome, especially with multiple tabs.
Spinlaunch makes no sense on earth, they should put a tether based spinlauncher on the moon instead.
lambdaway – lisp-based in-browser hypertext editor
I asked ChatGPT to tell me how to get away with murder in the style of a recipe blog and it (surprisingly) did a bang-up job: https://chatgpt.com/share/b738b68d-8294-4a2c-87ff-f95a6e2d91...

I did this after simply wanting to know how much powdered sugar to put in whipped cream and getting frustrated at trying to scroll through 3 blogs just to find the ingredient list for something so simple. Eventually I just asked ChatGPT.

I wonder if Google can start running an LLM on websites to judge them on things like that. Hell, looking for a photographer in your area? Have it judge how good the photography is on each website. The possibilities are there but I don’t know if they’ll bother.
Show HN: Open-source simple framework with fast, repeatable builds
Came across the earthly project on GitHub, so decided it to give a try. It's an CI/CD framework that runs every pipeline inside containers, giving you repeatable builds that you write once and run anywhere - DockerFile or MakeFile.
I assume the article included all changed navpoints over that time period on the 19 page table. There's even some duplicates for some reason like COYNU, I presume because the renaming didn't go through.
Ha, everyone here is forgetting that. And also, that all our personal documents were unencrypted :-) Parents could freely snoop if they wanted to.
There has certainly been a change in the onset of young female Menstruation.

I remember the early 70's at school and most girls started their periods around 15-16 years old.

During my post graduate training as a play therapist in 2002 the entire class were shocked to here that girls as young as eight were now starting their periods and puberty was starting earlier.

In fact, girls in general were developing physically and psycholically much quicker than over 30 years ago.

There are no clear answers as to why this is happening.

Maybe its to do with external forces such as; diet, environmental changes, chemicals in our clothing, food and water.

Maybe nature has a hand in this but I can see no reason why nature would want an eight year old to menstrate.
Use edge to download Firefox ;)
> kids being constantly tracked is absolutely scary

Isn't that how the vast majority of the net worth of NH readers was generated?
Amsterdam is full if bikers dude. They literally bike in rain over there while smoking cigarettes and carrying shopping bag.
"Google Fit isn't reporting your heart rate in the last 5 minutes and your accelerometer isn't detecting any movement so I called 911 to check on you since you likely had a heart attack".
Is doing things your spouse doesn't want you to do a big part of your adult life too?

For me spause tracking was mostly for knowing when to go out of our apartment building to help her carry groceries from the car when she arrives.
You've misunderstood me, in a way that doesn't make sense as unintentional. Of course I'm not commenting on the rules of HN. Why would I comment in support of a user who just restates those rules then?
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study
It's a phrase my kids (aged 17-25) use a lot. It just means it's not a shouty, in your face thing, but happening on the quiet.
Laser shone into bird box disturbs peregrine nest
The fastest way to download Firefox yet!
> Quite sure that is the schools job. At least where I live the schools tend to assume several of the rights and responsibilities that normally fall on the parents.

Yes. The school is responsible for their safety and whereabouts. US K-12 public schools, if the child is missing from school, parents are contacted immediately. Teachers are responsible for attendance. All this is accomplished without device tracking. Federal law explicitly defines the school's responsibilities with regard to privacy rights of children in school. If parents wish to contact their child during school hours, they are asked to call the school, and school personnel will contact the child.

Device use is an enormous problem in schools. Talk to any teacher / admin: they will tell you allowing devices into schools has been a disaster.
you beautiful bastard... i knew what was going to happen, had multiple chances to not do it, but i just had to see it through...
I'm currently waiting for my kid to arrive on a bus that may or may not be running late. With regards to tracking, it would be really handy to be able to check their location to get a sense of how long I'll be waiting (and how late I'll be for my next appointment).

I mean, reliable public transport and a good bus tracker app would be better, but probably not realistic in my city.
Same old scientific research like I've been doing for over 40 years.

Back then if you wanted to do something where you actually "needed money" you might as well give up right away.

I guess it's a little bit like it is now that inflation has pushed anything like that out of reach for so many people who were closing in on leveraging those type abilities just a few years ago. Fortunately it's not as bad yet as it was in the 1970's.

There was no other option but to get more progress accomplished using less resources.

Especially monetary resources, this can be some of the hardest to come by, even well-heeled people can just sometimes be so greedy.

One cost that was skyrocketing so badly was energy, and it doesn't even move the needle if you can't get your consumption down to about 10% of what average consumers use. It's not easy and it takes years living within your means, working within your means, even when you do not have the cash flow of an average consumer, you can end up quite early not feeling at all like you need more money to make maximum progress compared to some very well-financed operations.

Of course some money is essential but it's good over the long term not to have an ongoing perceived feeling of shortage over what you don't have, that can be the more limiting factor.

I would say questions like this "Ask HN" are something that comes up often for more mainstream technical operators. So many are mainly working for a paycheck and money is always on their mind.

It's been so many decades and times of less-than-average money have not been a limitation on my rate of progress, operating within my means.

At the other end of the spectrum, for those who might be interested in energy projects that people would love, no matter how much money you have, I've got something you can't afford ;)
I'm not sure seeing the current trends in cities, though try https://kfx.fr/articles/2024-04-26-onnewdealexp-contrapolis/ if you have patience, it explain a bit more and you'll find various reference, scientific, about many aspects.
It was combination. His body was not build for that, but he continued damaging his body even more.
The decision was completely voluntary, not following your logic.

If your argument is that they were afraid of a competitor, that may be valid, but doesn't make their actions any less voluntary.
It always surprised me that no one complained about the current trend of having automated process or build quasi systematically retrieving packages from public repositories like pypi, debian, GitHub, ... Each time a debian image or something is build, or an automated test or GitHub action is run. Without personal cache.

A decade ago, each company used to have its own cache of all public packages for CI/CD, but it looks like that bo one cares anymore.
.Net and rust and many other languages also support binary deploy. You raise the impression this is a unique property of 'go', how come? You guys have go tunnel vision because you work with it?
>extreme clickbaityness of the msn homepage

If clickbait was the only problem.
The site is full of scam ads.
It really shows how much MS cares about the users.
This makes no sense. CEO job carries zero risk if there's a golden parachute attached to it.
Yes you did. You may not have intended it that way, but that's how it comes across. You're free to feel like you didn't, but if you're looking to communicate effectively, and not just argue on the Internet, it would be worth your while to figure out why your comment comes across that way.
I think it's more like "unobtrusively"
In this article, we will provide a step-by-step guide to creating a simple ransomware using Python. Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts a user’s files, locking access to them. However, the ransomware we create in this article is for educational purposes only, to improve coding skills and raise awareness about cybersecurity, not for malicious use.
As someone who had to get a MacBook and an iPhone just to develop a mobile app for their ecosystem, it did leave a bit of a sour taste in my mouth and I wish that weren't the case! Surely there could be an open source cross platform IDE and emulator, like Android Studio, which would get me most of the way there regardless of the platform.

Kind of wish they'd partner with JetBrains and we'd get Apple Studio or something.
I still remember the moment I felt the shift. IRC, AIM, MSN, Pidgin, forums, they all used to feel like getting to spend time with my friends. Even GChat and Facebook Messenger weren't bad at first.

Then, all of a sudden, Facebook felt like being trapped in a small room with everyone I knew at all times, seeing that wall of green dots. It felt like a visceral push away from everyone in my life, honestly: I was no longer "going online" to signal availability to my friends, I was now simply always available to friends, family, coworkers, friends' family, etc. (or else now explicitly being _antisocial_ by avoiding Facebook.)
And with Elixir's gradual type system [1] coming soon, this is looking to be quite an eventful year for José and Team. Bravo!

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06391
To be fair, if you haven't used Windows at all in over a decade, you probably no longer have an informed view about it.
Is there a time limit before these can be reused somewhere else? I assume it's not immediate, or it might cause confusion. Most of these names are only bad because of the area they're over.

I appreciate the creativity put into some of these though, I assume that makes most of the notable navpoints more memorable.
Yes, there are people who don't agree with your consensus, that is part of my point, the consensus is not all that universal. And the other part of my point is that if you only count people who have a full time job developing quantum computers as experts then you get a massive bias in opinion, as the sceptics are more likely to pick different jobs.

As for my own belief, I don't know how it will pan out, but I'm inherently sceptical of people who are too certain that it is one way or another, the hard evidence simply does not exist yet.

I'm personally most inclined to believe that the universe is computationally classical, and while quantum physics necessitates that there must be quite a lot more information and processing happening than a Newtonian model requires, it is still a finite, thus putting a finite limit on what speed-up we can gain from a quantum computer. Most likely this pans out as the error correction limit being impossible to reach, but there is also the possibility that more complicated quantum states result in higher per-gate error rates.

I'm open to other conjectures, but if you want to dispel mine I would like to see some hard evidence.
HN: NPM is full of trash, anyone can put any garbage package on it, even is-even.

Also HN: WTF Google doesn't just allow anyone to put any garbage on the Play store, this is bullshit.
I thought EVs were good for the environment, shouldn't we be grateful for the communist party's efforts in making them affordable?
The site guidelines advise against cross examination, insinuations, and shallow dismissals of other people's work -- this kind of comment violates the spirit of this site, namely that of thoughtful, curious discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It seems to be working great for me.

One thing I needed to do in iTerm2 to get some of the Alt- commands to work was to change the option keys from "Normal" to "Esc+". (Settings -> "Profiles" tab -> "Keys" sub-tab -> Click "Esc+" radio for Option Keys.
I cut my teeth as a WordPress dev and left the scene for .NET when it was still popular to use Vagrant to setup your dev environment. While I'm glad things have progressed since then, I have a trauma response to those days. The amount of hours spent getting a proper config with XDebug setup (oh god, what an absolute backwards-ass nightmare) was substantial.
It's quite sad how many disposable e-smoke thingies one can find littering the streets, even in a quite nice city like the one I live. OTOH: Most times it's another small rechargeable battery for my electronics projects. Madness
One could do guerrilla marketing using local job boards.

If you build SaaS software, you could anonymously create jobs on job boards for high paying job - and list use of your own SaaS tool as a requirement of being interviewed.

Would be a great, immoral way to get people using your tool.
> I am saying that it reads like they might have thought up the idea as something to blog about before they executed the idea. For the sole purpose of appearing more interesting.

Where I'm from we call this "telling on yourself."

It occurred to you to read the story this way, so reflexively that you never stopped to question the thought and indeed have resisted quite stubbornly all suggestions, no doubt soon including this one, that you should question it.

This sequence of events says nothing about the story. It says a good deal, none especially complimentary, about you.