skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am using ChatGPT every day. It helps me on my engineering tasks since it has a lot of knowledge. It also helps me on coding a lot but there I am using Github's Copilot.
Certainly LLMs made my life way easier and they simplified many tasks that I was procrastinating and considering them huge hurdles on my everyday work and hobbies as well. This greatly improved my productivity and creativity!
Trying to solve an engineering problem sometimes mind stucks in stupid ways to implement them. LLMs helped me to see another way of doing thigs greatly improving my efficiency!

So we have improvement on creativity, productivity and efficiency. What else do we need from LLMs really? I don't understand why people are not using it.
Any unusual voting pattern would certainly make it more likely that Stackoverflow noticed and investigated. But I wonder how many people are likely to try downloading a library they've never heard of from a post with zero upvotes?

Of course, once an LLM scrapes that answer and regurgitates it, then you'd never know.
According to random online sources, that is around 150 metric tons of CO2e and it takes around 10 metric tons for a vehicle to be manufactured.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Injury-death-rates-for-c...

Unfortunately, I only had time to do a quick search, but it shows that mortality has dropped significantly in the last 20 years. I imagine it was only higher 40-60 years ago. This doesn't prove that more surveillance brings mortality down, but it shows that the "we survived just fine" argument is shaky at best.

I think parental supervision correlates with the survivability of offspring in general, not only in the human species. Also, the more present and engaged parents are, the better the children are. This is supported by research on children raised by single parents, parents working multiple jobs and shifts.
We use ambiguous statements, innuendos, and hints, explained with Seinfeld
"What did the Romans ever do for us" am I right?

Though of course naturally people can search what they think is better for them. I bet you would have a lot of fun in lower regulation places (though usually by having a remote job in one of the 'boring and full of red tape' countries)
Until James Hoffman (https://www.youtube.com/@jameshoffmann/videos) has done a video on it, it may as well not exist ;)

Interesting idea, always nice to see new ways to brew coffee. I wonder how easy it is to replicate their process? The article isn't hugely clear. It talks about using a modified off the shelf domestic espresso machine but the picture at the top looks like a custom built device with potential complex machining involved to build.

If it's the case you can buy an ultrasonic transducer and bodge it into an espresso machine lots of fun possibilities for coffee geeks (and to my point above someone like James Hoffman will give it a go and build up a bunch of interest in the technique)

If it's the case you need a bunch of complex machining and significant technical skills (say those possessed by chemical engineers conducting cutting edge research...) then I imagine this will struggle to go anywhere.
I spent some years in Italy and can't agree. Their cheapest wines poured straight from the tap are still great compared to just about everything else.
Afaui, training takes a lot of time and money for base models and it is not incremental. Dataset elements don’t simply pile up at the end, they must be baked into a model together with every other element. You can make additions through loras, but that’s limited. There’s also a risk of model crash by including its own (or derivatives) generated texts.

It strikes me what would be possible in pics/video AI, if training was quick or incremental.

Is this even theoretically possible?
GraphQL is the peanut butter to Reacts chocolate at FB.

It works there because

1. Every user is logged in. Is there anything you can do at FB without giving up something to the Zuck?

2. Because it's all behind a login, you can front load the first login/request with a giant SPA and then run all the custom queries you want.

3. everything at FB is some sort of blended context (my user, someone else's user, a permissions interaction)... security is baked in to every field.

4. Because of permissions, and login requirement it's hard to be a bad actor (FB just locks you out, nothing is public).

If you have a SPA and logged in user requirement and that robust permissions model then GraphQL might make sense... Otherwise its a shining example of conways law and might not be fit for your org... The same can be said for react too.
Why in this world would you buy clay, turn it on a wheel, fire and glaze it, just to make a coffee-mug?

Yeah, it'd be easier to go to a shop and buy a mug, maybe with something banal like "Worlds Greatest Dad" or Darth Vader printed on it

But making your own, you learn something. You apply effort. You apply intelligence. You apply your sense of aesthetics. You work through trial and error. You refine your technique. You spend time.

In the end, you've constructed something that is meaningful, and not disposable. Something that you understand, and something that reflects yourself. How much more value would that be as a gift? Or even just as a "because I could"?

This project is that. I'd hire that artist over you in a heartbeat because the artist understands something, worked through it, and applied themselves.
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> This logic moves right into victim blaming territory real quick though. "Have you taught your child what to do if they get lost?" doesn't fix the fact that you don't know what they'll do till it happens, and then it might be too late.

I think that's a bit of an uncharitable take. If the commenter upthread hasn't sat down with their kid and talked through a plan for if the kid gets lost (including having them memorize names, phone numbers, and addresses), then that's negligent on the part of the parent. But no one is saying "if you've done this, it will work 100% of the time, perfectly, and you'll never have anything to worry about".
As a long-time Anki user (and memory enthusiast), I would like to offer some caveats for those transferring actors' memorization techniques to study techniques (programming languages, chemistry, math etc...)

> This deep understanding of a script is achieved by actors asking goal-directed questions, such as “Am I angry with her when I say this?”

1. Do embed emotions. For example: Go's CamelCase for exporting variables implies capital letters want to be loud.

2. Do invoke experience. Don't merely read and write code, teach it and activate multiple sensory inputs and multiple contexts!

> Deep, elaborative processing enhances understanding by relating something you are trying to learn to things you already known

3. Do chunk it. Instead of creating new standalone memories, chunk it with other programming languages' syntax.

In summary, while engaging with the material is important, it is not sufficient for passive tasks (how many times have you read a book and forgotten the main points?).
It can and does work for many people.

But for most it's just a time sink.

You want to do a cool software project over a longer time? Build your own blog!

You want to write? Write!
Show HN: I built a 12x cheaper remove.bg alternative
Probably not, and I'm not saying the tool is bad or anything like that, just wondering what people might use it for. Tools like DownThemAll make sense to me; they're used by end-users who may wish to violate copyright, if it even is copyright violation. I don't mind.

But I don't think a lot of people keep a collection of SVGs for personal usage. Me, personally, I only collect SVGs if I intend to use them in a product I'm working on, which is often commercial, and means violating copyright becomes a business risk.
I'm not sure about a lot. There are tools available that let you just extract some files from Xcode and build on Windows. These work a treat and are maintained by a single guy.
Along similar lines, Louis CK said he does not write down his material (or at least, did not until recently). He explained that _knowing_ rather than _memorizing_ makes it come out more natural.
Why use mod-php when you have fcgi and fpm?
Quantum time travel: The experiment to 'send a particle into the past'
Yes.

Last week I didn't know the exact steps of the TLS handshake. Now, I do.

There are probably a bunch of people like me last week.
Sometimes they do! (to great effect). I feel a bunch of Woody Allen movies capture this (real conversations) pretty well.
I was curious: they all have two-syllable names except for Doc (leader).
Earspresso, what else?
> it's nice to glance at Find My app and see if the kids are still hanging out at Starbucks or they got to school on time. […] I can see if my wife's still at Whole Foods and send her a message to pick up baru nuts.

That’s creepy.
It cost the FAA that. There's probably many more downstream costs.
In my previous job at a big ecommerce business I had to manually process hundreds of images weekly.

I had to dynamically crop, remove the background whitespace, compress and convert them to the correct file type. All one by one. This took hours of manual labor.

So I spent 2 years building a tool that does all of this automatically.

This has saved my lazy self a lot of hours. Hopefully I will save you some too.

You get 500 credits for free. Enough for small businesses. Bigger businesses need to pay a small fee.

Any feedback or additional feature requests are appreciated.
Funny how it didn't take Uber that far.
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/steve-jobs/

According to this film, which Wozniak said was very accurate, Steve Jobs was a douchebag.

Android sucks, too. I only use it out of necessity, not choice.

Why do I use a TLS forward proxy.

Because I loathe using popular, so-called "modern" web browsers. I prefer using smaller, simpler clients.
From a quick internet research - They got stem cells from some other part of somebody's body and somehow "reprogrammed" them into pluripotent (iPSC) stem cells which can then make other cell types. They made brain cells with them.

Also, the organoids are 0.5 mm diameter balls.
>Once it seemed to change its mind about the optimal route a few times over the course of 10 seconds, switching safely between two lanes back and forth a few times before committing. It used its turn signal fine, and the lanes were clear, so it wasn't a problem, but this isn't something humans do.

Oh, I disagree, this is something I observe and in fact do myself quite a lot. We all run it through our minds which route might be the quickest spending on certain factors. The difference is Waymo (or any tech) will base this on actual data (i.e., getting there quicker) vs humans who will be more emotionally driven (i.e., frustration at the driver in front, wanting to take the more scenic route, being undecided about stopping at that cafe halfway).

I'm all for self driving in highly populated areas. In a perfect world I'd like to see it integrated into all vehicles, and when entering specific areas you are told your car will enter self-driving mode. Arguably this makes the most business sense for Waymo, licence the underlying tech to manufacturers that already have capacity to produce vehicles vs compete.
> VONNN

`My girlfriend is named Lynn. She spells her name "Lynn". My old girlfriend's name is Lyn, too, but she spells it "Lyn". Every now and then I screw up, I call my new girlfriend by my old girlfriend's name, and she can tell because I don't say "n" as long.'
We live in a client-server world.
These comparisons are never quite apples-to-apples because the heavy rail line assumes only a few passengers have any luggage and that the entire line is used only for passengers, whereas the capacity rating for a road allows everyone to take large amounts of luggage and freight is always mixed in as well.

You also have to take into account all the other factors that make roads preferable, for example, that rail capacity number assumes perfect utilization. In practice railways often have lots of downtime due to overnight shutdowns, broken signals/trains and labor strikes. None of these affect the roads.
That sounds great for the cinema: if it goes off the rails the director can let it run for a bit if it looks some great improv or else shout CUT if it doesn't. However, on the stage ... I'm not so sure ... your fellow actors might not be so flexible and you might need to help them. Also, stage drama doesn't necessarily aim for the kind of "naturally" that is expected in modern cinema: a lot of it is deliberately "theatrical" in one way of another. The audience can't see a slightly raised eyebrow so you can do some dramatic gesture with your arms for the audience while slightly raising your eyebrow to communicate something to your fellow actor. Perhaps. I don't have practical experience of this. I'm just speculating. I expect someone will tell me if I've got it all wrong.
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> It can be used for constant, intrusive monitoring, or it can be used for emergencies only.

When the child is very young, this is maybe (maybe) fine, but as the child gets older -- likely before their teen years -- there's really no difference between the two from the kid's perspective. They know that, regardless of their parents' stated intentions (the latter, hopefully), they are just a few taps away from knowing the kid is not quite exactly where they're supposed to be. It's stifling.

I frankly feel so lucky that I grew up when I did, in the 80s and 90s, when technology was just starting to get really cool, but not quite into this dystopian panopticon 1984 nightmare that we seem to be getting into today.
Shooting the Blue Lake on the Moon [video]
Buzzbrew
> That’s right – most databases no longer have any data in them.

That's a pretty outlandish statement.
Great post and it hits the spot.
From Wikipedia:

"On January 20, 2021, Bradley was struck from behind by a motorist while riding his bicycle near his home in St. George, Utah, which resulted in a traumatic spinal cord injury in his neck that left him paralyzed.[39] A driver attempted to pass Bradley on the left in the same travel lane while Bradley himself was in the process of passing another car parked on the shoulder of the road."

So not really a bicycle accident, but a motorist accident?
In case they would both have been riding bicycles, I doubt Mr Shawn Bradley would have been so unfortunate.
Might sound like nitpicking, but in places actually designed for multi-modal traffic and not just for cars these accidents are very rare.
How about nest? https://nestjs.com/
This is inspiring stuff.

Was extremely interested in the Inmos Transputer in the 80s. Seems like an idea way ahead of its time… a bit like REX.

I find the parallels in design with the Actor concurrency model of Erlang, Elixir and Transputer/REX are very compelling.

Really hope something happens with this project or some spinoff from it.

The current interest in RISC-V is testament to the fact that it may still be viable.

I wish you great success. Wish there was a way to sponsor or crowd-source fund this.
Good question. I guess I don't have any expectation that someone would. I was just stuck by the somewhat aggressive tone and strength of their statement. When people talk so aggressively I prefer to see them putting their money where their mouth is.
How is the CONTINUATION frame issue handled? Max number of continuations per stream?
> I think the win here - these days - for Forth is in things like "running on small embedded devices"

In principle that's not a bad idea, it's just that you're at least 40 years late to the party. FORTH was and propably is used in embedded systems for most of it's existence. Often simply with a minimal text console over UART, that being your "way in". Once you've got that going you can start builing up your system from the inside.
> S3 is absolutely "serverless" storage (...)

I think this take is ridiculous and it tries to bring absurdity to a label.

Storing data on a third-party computer is not "serverless". Gmail is not a serverless messaging service. Flickr is not a serverless photo service. HN is not a serverless message board. Just because you store data on a third-party computer, that does not mean you're dealing with serverless anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serverless_computing
Yeah humanity in general and people like you and I are saints and would never respond to someone telling them to shove their creation up their arse by insulting back. The fact that one time in his life he did that is unforgivable.
I couldn't ride a bike until, ugh, maybe 21? Once I discovered the joy of it, I never let it go and still biking every day for almost 20 years.

When I lived in China, it was very easy to bike. China's infrastructure is new and it has dedicated lanes. It can be very stressful though because it's so dense, and since there's general lack of any culture or manners, people on scooters can be very rude and pushy. Also nobody would help you if you fall, they just keep passing by (source: fell 4-5 times in my 12 years in China).

Now I'm living in Bangkok which looks like cyclist's hell: horrible pavement, narrow roads, motorcycles, and constant traffic jams. However, I find it easier to bike since everybody are generally courteous to each other, and I fell once and had like 10 people rush to help me. Very heartwarming.

The point is, you can build a great biking infrastructure, but culture is very important as well.
Sorry, I didn't mean the blog became the income source, but blogging/technical writing in general.

But yeah, I don't make 150k a year by writing.
If you start digging into new topics lets say shaders or art history or whatever .. its hands down the best tool and teacher i ever had. You can get a broad overview over topics and repeat asking „stupid“ questions which are either hard to find on the net or you would not dare to ask anyone. I think these downplaying comments are kind of embarrassing for this kind of achievement in technology.
Neostandard: A spiritual successor to the standardjs JavaScript style guide
Taxis are a form of public transportation. After all, what's the major difference between a taxi and a bus other than capacity/driver attention?
If you enjoyed this article I’d recommend checking out the book _Moonwalking with Einstein_ by Joshua Foer. Great read and fascinating dive into the lives and practices of individuals that participate in memory competitions.
Isn't that what mainly differentiates Harvard from Von Neumann?
RaivoOTP 2FA app sold. Latest update removes access to existing TOTP tokens
I can't find it right now, but there was a conference proceedings detailing efforts structuring human thought around cons cells.
I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened
Which was an about 10x increase from the original price. Sure, it was definitely underpriced back then, but it was still a... let's say bold move.
> What's your internal experience of the repetition exercises?

It's a lot like improv in that you establish an unspoken protocol for exchanging lots of side channel information.

But unlike reading between the "yes, and" subtext to build a narrative world and rules, you're taking in raw, full sensory emotion in an intimate way by completely dropping your own filters. Brains melded, firewall open. You have to say what you see, what you understand, and what you feel. And you have to tell the truth and not lie to yourself and your partner.

It's as uncomfortable as staring into their eyes, until it stops being uncomfortable. And you don't even have to be looking at one another. You can hear it in their breathing and the cracking of their voice. You know exactly how you feel about everything with exacting precision. You're uncomfortable and vulnerable and excited and anxious, and you let them know.

Meisner removes all the social filters of the adult brain. All the platitudes and the scar tissue of decades of interacting with people in society. You stop judging and worrying and just say and do what you feel. And you hear it from them too, and you believe them because they're being honest with both you and themselves.

You know if they're lying, because you've trained and can sense it. And you'll call them out on it. They'll do the same to you when you attempt to hide. They'll really dig in. Once you're under that spotlight, there is no hiding. You can go wherever you choose to go. It feels raw and weird and more intimate than being with a lover.

With practice, "you're wearing a blue shirt" becomes "I don't like how you look at him and smile, but when you look at me you frown". And everyone cries and yells and things get thrown.

On the spectrum of our robotic "how are you? / I'm fine, and you?" programming and a raw and intense fight with a lover, Meisner is the latter. Except you get to be that authentic for the entire range of human emotions: good, bad, happy, sad. A door to everything you could potentially feel.

It's animalistic and completely cerebral. And it's real and you live it. Sometimes you come away shaking.
I remember this! The ISP we had while I was growing up let you host plain html web pages, it was probably my first experience setting up my own web site.

I feel like ISPs really dropped the ball, I could see a parallel reality where ISPs ended up continuing this but developing into being a federated (at the ISP level) social network where you'd have an account with your ISP and they'd in turn work with other ISPs behind the scenes to connect everything. It'd have the benefits that come with cebtralization along with a few of the benefits of decentralization.
I guess we will have to disagree about what is normal or not. Perhaps it depends what tools one was using before going CSS native.

Obviously I'm talking here about direct serving of CSS assets without precompiling.
Cold food, missing items, delivered to the wrong address 70% of the time for 200% the price. Shut-up and take my money for negligible value!
It goes as far as you want to take it, because every detail counts. I've done some long, long runs, and the ~300th performance is more interesting than the first. You get down to where you're working at the syllable level - noticing, for instance, that moving on this word, rather than that one changes the whole dynamic of the scene. You have to be blessed with a good script, and cast mates who'll follow you down the rabbit-hole, of course, but there's no bottom to it. It's endlessly interesting work, and deeply, deeply satisfying.
I be like "Woah, cool!"

This kind of thing is why I read hacker news and other sites that regularly throw up thought provoking, interesting and captivating things. This kind of human ingenuity, playfulness and exploration is worth trawling through all the I-used-an-AI-to-make-a-app posts.
I assume any massive Musk hater has a weird parasocial relationship with the guy, and used to love him but feels betrayed. Obviously he's a bit flawed, and makes some bold and sometimes quesionable decisions, but that's not always bad.
medium-term short opportunity. but time your entry after the next few quarters.
> Yes, we are still very strict to our food related traditions

Italian here. To those replying, this is the key takeaway. I think the poster means it'll take something insanely good for us to consider upending tradition. Not because we have the gold standard, but because we are so unbelievably stubborn and pig-headed :)