skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or colliding head on for the first time with a huge bunch of non-yes people…

Which doesn’t bring out the nicer side of narcissists
How do you browse Hacker News from your phone these days?
I'm using Android chrome browser and the links and buttons are so tiny that they're barely viewable. Is it just my settings or everyone is facing this? Seems like the viewport meta tag or something wasn't done right.

I don't want to use any third party apps as my phone is already full of them. A pity Android chrome doesn't allow extensions, otherwise I'd have written one myself to fix this as I've done on my desktop browser for many sites.

And there is that firebase API of course but it's read only, no use if I want to comment or vote.
iOS and macOS ships with Pomodoro. Open Shortcuts and you should see it.
A stop-motion video of an engine
Afraid of the rising alternative parties, the current power structures seek to forever freeze their power in time by passing authoritarian laws. Sadly, they only way to end this it by massively voting alternative parties no matter the cost.
Also, Quarto to reveal.js is an amazing pipeline, and ties in well with the rest of the Quarto ecosystem meaning that you can reuse content from other mediums more easily.
Magnetar QPOs and Neutron Star Crust Elasticity
No, the endmyopia stuff specifically rejects the bates methods (which include staring at the sun?? "palming"??).

Mostly it focuses on learning to focus at the edge of what you currently can at a distance, and then as you improve getting lighter and lighter prescriptions. I got as far as -1.5 better, but now sit at around -1 better. Also ensuring lots of super bright outdoor environments, and focusing at a distance regularly.

Whether it's a cure or studied well, I dunno. I just encourage folks to try it out if it helps them. I have an astigmatism as well, and I haven't seen any improvement there. So definitely not a panacea.
What if it was their natural voice and cadence?

People can sound alike or even identical.
I this the US government understands this very well and are more than willing to put their money where their mouth is.
Just like any sufficiently complex program inevitably grows to have both a reimplementation of Lisp and a homegrown email client... any sufficiently complex library inevitably grows to have people arguing about whether it deserves the term language or not!

EDIT: I wish I were smart enough to have come up with these references, but I'm entirely riffing on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law . I can say from personal experience that both adages are resoundingly true.
> replacing search

But since Google is adding LLMs to search, an LM competitor might not win still.

> lucrative queries

Also the hardest for an LM.

I predict this won’t end well for anyone. Google will destroy a bunch of their own value preemptively self-disrupting and burning a ton of cash only for everyone to discover that it’s not lucrative to use an AI to tell people the distance to the moon. Viagra and insurance queries will stay valuable and be least useful for a LM to disrupt. Google will maintain their market share, at the expense of more cost per query, so they’ll purge more of the loss-leaders across their consumer offering. We’ll all discover that an LLM isn’t great for search and better integrated into Gmail and similar.
So, to avoid having a blurry vision and having to wear glasses, their solution is to wear glasses that blur your vision?

That's not a dig at them; more like life having a laugh at us.
Maybe it was mostly a Québec thing. In 2012, premier of quebec, jean charest (know him? He lost the conservative parti race to polievre) anounced he would increase university tuition fee many times over, to reach canada's average. Scolarship would be changed to loan. Students were not happy with this and went on strike.It was pretty eventful. After a few month it did start to look like OWS.
It ended in fall, costing charest his re election.

It really was eye opening in many ways. The media sucking up to the gouverment, the gourverment not giving shit about what end up being a large chuck of the population, forgetting they were in a democracy.
Trucker were err. Well see for yourself.
> while everybody (Apple included!) is already working on building hardware to avoid using Nvidia's H100s.

the question is if they will succeed. Only Google so far has competitive product(TPUs).
There seems to be some mysterious method by which negative OpenAI comments and stories get downranked. The story ChrisArchitect links is missing at https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=2 -- it appears to be outranked by other stories which are both older and have fewer upvotes.

dang has confirmed this happened in the past, but hasn't provided details. See this discussion I had with him 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38342850

I'm currently composing an email to dang requesting some transparency.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/business/apple-siri-ai-ch...:

> a tent pole project — the company’s special, internal label that it uses to organize employees around once-in-a-decade initiatives

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13305285
Title: “‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated]”
Hooves, Headsets, and Hedonism
Thanks for reading!

>You mentioned that building tinypilot suddenly sparked way more interest than your other attempts. Do you have a plan for your next product? Try out different things and hope you find something that gains similar traction? Or do you have some sort of evaluation criteria for your ideas?

Yes, the market's reaction to TinyPilot will definitely impact how I evaluate future businesses in the early stages. That said, I don't want to overindex on this one experience, as I know other founders who found product-market fit more gradually.

But my experience with TinyPilot does support lessons I've been taught that you should launch early, potentially without even a working product ready. In previous projects, I'd gotten too excited about the engineering and convinced myself I needed it first, but TinyPilot was a really small amount of engineering before I started selling.

My other takeaway from TinyPilot was how much of a difference it makes to sell a product that's aligned with my blog audience. I'm not really an IT blogger, but a lot of my readers are IT people and enthusiasts, so my blog was a huge advantage in finding early customers. My other products were things that had nothing to do with my blog like parsing recipe ingredients or finding live comedy.

I don't have a strict plan for my next product, but I want to focus on things that I can test quickly and drop if I can't find paying customers within the first two or three months.
The use of comments alongside the HTML was the result of a very long (and honestly very public) discussion, ultimately, it boils down to those reasons:

- Comments exist to define a block boundary.

- JSON inside a comment exists to load up user preferences for things that can't be easily parsed from the HTML.

- HTML has to be the final result and representations, and it has to be the source of truth.

- The outcome has to be portable to any other platform or system, you can't move the website tomorrow and get a bunch `[xyz_shortcode]`.

I encourage you to read this post by one of the senior engineers who worked on the project since its inception:

https://lamda.blog/2018/04/22/the-language-of-gutenberg/

The documentation is in itself very expansive and throughout, you should give it a read:

https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/explanations/ar...

Gutenberg in itself is a very versatile tool and isn't locked to WordPress btw, you can build your own editor if you want (all JS, no PHP):

https://wordpress.org/gutenberg-framework/
Related and possibly more helpful if you want to asses your risk - https://www.mirasafety.com/blogs/news/nuclear-attack-map
Sure. Now tell me about his monthly payments on a 30 year mortgage for that same house, as a fraction of his monthly pay, then and now.

The demand part of the supply/demand curve on houses is set by monthly payment, not purchase price. Interest rates change the relationship between the two.
This is so darn cool. Better than 99% of modern computer art. Really says something about good graphic design.
We use Elixir for our primary application, with a fair amount of Python code to manage our ML pipelines. But we also need real-time inference and it's really convenient/performant to be able to just do that in-app. So I, for one, am very grateful for the work that's been done provide the level of tooling in Elixir. It has worked quite well for us.
Though there are probably things AWS could do anyway, this could well be caused by a large customer using a custom AMI, and not because of anything Amazon did or didn't do.
A voice seems to be covered by trademark as opposed to copyright.

Two people can naturally have a very similar voice and it would be pretty absurd to have someone not allowed to use their own voice.

It isn’t absurd for someone in a specific industry to have their voice protected within that trade.
That's good to hear that the Go team themselves test wazero. Thank you for clarifying.
EU would just force the client to do client-side scanning. But then again, if the client is open-source: fork, compile, repeat.
>citus is a bit out of date, now mostly native azure not flexible at all
>neon has not released all of their kubernetes operator so its not fully open source yet
> Crunchy is just a kubernetes operator for HA postgres. but they are working on a cool thing to natively use IceBerg as FDW. But their attitude is that this serverless separation of compute and storage is not the right approach for the primary operational data store
The bit about PHP made me yearn for those simple days. Now creating a website with all the trendy technologies creates such a barrier to creation and creativity. It seems large scale system good practice has trodden the small, quick and creative.
It's a hardware product, so profit is much lower than revenue. SaaS businesses can often sell as a multiple of revenue because they have relatively low costs, but with hardware, there's a lot of overhead.
She listed an awful lot of incidents. “Sam could always…”
I mean, 10KT is a tiny explosion for modern nuclear weapons. You really only hit that by intentionally dampening the explosion with "dial a yield" weapons.

A better representation would be the W88 at 475KT. That's what's currently used in the Trident SLBMs. And remember that this is an MIRV system with 8 warheads per missile. Yes, the idea is that some of those will be intercepted, but at the end of the day that's still almost 5MT of explosive power per missile dropping down on your city.

Edit: for reference Little Boy and Fat Man were in the 15KT to 20KT range, and for comparison to a modern conflict, about ~50KT of conventional bombs have been dropped on Gaza in the 2023 Israel-Hamas war so far.
So, you want to install Caddy
This is a very cute project and evokes like HN's own Arc. I'll give it a spin this weekend and see how it compares.

The Start button to manipulate the DOM in Lisp on an open page seems particularly lovely and makes me wonder how far you can push a real REPL with web technologies (not that I actually use it very much.)
This is being shilled to tucker carlson viewers now. The Battery off-switch is kinda interesting.
Satoshi Kon also did Paranoia Agent.
I don't disagree, but we didn't had a choice and now we have. How much guilt is a parent going to have in, the unlikely situation, that something unfortunate happens and that it could have been prevented by this device?
> how much additional risk they want to introduce to the rest of society.

Even at the time, despite very strong claims from on high to the contrary, it was becoming more and more clear that the only people who might benefit from the shots were those taking them (and the people selling them of course).

It’s surprising to me to still see people making the "social good" argument in 2024.
Given this attitude, the answer to your other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40511726
"As a junior employee, I have no patience for your point.
Going into office is one thing juniors can do about the "problem with the culture" so my stance stays the same until the so-called culture changes.
In my experience, the number of seniors who complain sbout RTO and don't hoard knowledge is tiny."

... is that it is likely that nobody is hoarding knowledge, they're just avoiding you because you're unpleasant.
Escalating delays can help with this. Get it to be slow enough that people notice.

XML schemas have had a similar history, tanking w3c.org servers.
Parallel this with White Man's Burden and you have the two sides to the coin of Western Imperialism
> the term came from the banking sector themselves with the purpose of doing so

As far as I can see after a bit of research, that doesn't seem to be the case. Do you recall where you first heard that idea?

> No one has stolen any one's identity.

Nobody thinks that a victim of identity theft is left with no identity. It's figurative language just like your computer firewall isn't there to keep the flames back.
I'd be vaporized on the spot before I knew it. That's why I hope Putin's missiles are precise enough to hit NATO. I should be able to see it, even for a moment.
Disclosure: I work at Haproxy.com

It is an interesting topic. We don't see UDP in Kubernetes that often but we do support it in various ways depending on the application. HAProxy Community supports QUIC, which is UDP and Syslog load balancing. HAProxy Enterprise (the paid one) has a UDP module that supports other applications too.
Interesting. That seems to further unwind the bias accusation, though.
now it would be mega cool if someone got a grant to do this with the open source stack. fly uses firecracker underneath etc...
How could this make slack a better product? The platform was very convenient for sharing files and proprietary information with coworkers, but now I can't trust that slack won't slip in some "opt out if you don't want us to look at your data" "setting" in the future.

I don't see any cogent generative AI tie-in for slack, and I can't imagine any company that would value a speculative, undefined hypothetical benefit more than they value their internal communications remaining internal.
The Unitree is what made me think we are headed for a bubble. The machines themselves will become commodity hardware. Tesla bot will push the hype side. I just don’t believe current AI systems have what it takes to operate in the real world. It doesn’t have to be AGI at all, but it needs a bunch of capabilities not present in existing models, some of which cannot be created by training on large corpuses from the internet like text and images. [1]

Also people can’t afford to spend $20k on a robot just to do their dishes. My good friend tried to make a robot that could pick up dog poop from your back yard, and he went to HAX accelerator and everything, and through extensive research he found that the addressable market for dog poop robots is just too small to fund a company. Now he makes farming robots. (I do too as it happens, on a separate project.)

The point is a humanoid robot worth the price of that robot needs to be very useful, and I don’t believe current approaches can get us there.

Maybe some uses will be found, just as current AI systems have their uses, but I say it will be a hype bubble because companies will fund raise on massive promises they will never achieve, and investment will move on to something else after 5 years or so.

Could still be robotics, but I actually think modular purpose built machines make way more sense than general purpose humanoids. What if instead of a humanoid to load the dishwasher you had a dishwasher that cleaned dishes one at a time. You load up to six table settings in to the bin and a little robotic mechanism grabs them one at a time, runs it through a little car wash setup, and stacks them on the other side. That’s what I want, not a humanoid!

[1] I’m really inspired by Yann LeCun’s recent podcast where he talks about the fundamental limitations of current popular (autoregressive) models. https://youtu.be/5t1vTLU7s40
Tom Bombadil Steps Forth in the Rings of Power
Yeah, I do feel you about the "stuck"-ness of it all. Just as a sanity check I looked into what moving out of this house would look like. And like you said, due to interest rates, it's not pretty.

So I've just leaned into it and invested in the house. New water heater/furnace. Remodeling & finishing things. Landscaping. I figure I should be ready for the long haul.

And you can definitely do worse than living in central Seattle in a townhouse :) it's a wonderful city.
Can confirm, Caddy is pretty neat and very easy to setup. I'm using it as a proxy for a streaming backend right now. The only issue that has come up is proxying webrtc connection. They connect but timeout after a while because the ICE Server is not proxied by Caddy.
Then why would they need to contact SJ 2 days before the release?

According to OpenAI, they wanted SJ for a separate voice (https://openai.com/index/how-the-voices-for-chatgpt-were-cho...), possibly as a "one more thing" conclusion to the demo. You can say that they're lying, and certainly OpenAI doesn't have the highest credibility at the moment, but it's at least plausible.

or they were trying to get an agreement signed with her before the release, anticipating that this would happen (likely)

If they anticipated this would happen, why wouldn't they just ditch the Sky voice altogether?
Also, LLMs not withstanding, you can’t pose questions to a book. Or even necessarily know when you should be asking a question you haven’t considered.
You're right! Thanks for the correction!
We're from the same era, but I have decent respect for BASIC. Pounding the square peg of my applications into the round hole that is BASIC.

BASIC has everything assembly does. At a high level, Assembly offers GOTO and GOSUB. Obviously, you can have pointers to anything, indirect jumps, etc. but, to be honest, unless you're writing your own malloc (and it a lot of assembly cases, you're not), you're dealing with static allocations of memory for data. A pointer can be no different from an offset into an array in BASIC (or set of arrays -- array of ints, array of strings).

You can recurse with BASIC, you just need to maintain your own stack for the data (the BASIC will handle the stack for the GOSUBs, if you continue to use them). You may well maintaining your own stack in assembly (ye old Forth-ish data stack v return stack). I've seen several different compilers written in BASIC. You can have "Structures" in BASIC. PNAME$, PADDR$, PZIP$, PBDATE. Turn those all into arrays, and you have arrays of structures. With a Pointer! (P!)

It's inelegant, but so is assembly. It's too primitive to not be. Outside of macros, there's no real abstractions. At best you can offset a memory reference to get something akin to a structure, and use constants for that offset. But, in the end, unlike todays legos, you're still stuck 2, 4, and 8 pin bricks to build everything. Plus all the fun register juggling.

Assembly lets you have better identifier names. Six letters! I remember a lady who wrote much of here companies core business software in BASIC. She was particularly proud of the fact that Z9 was the universal error/status variable used in the system. Similarly, I recall my father lamenting that he could only have variables such as A, and AA, but not AAA in BASIC (since at the time, MS-BASIC only distinguished on the first 2 characters).

BASIC is high level assembly, that just so happens to have some of the best string processing, and some pretty good I/O, in the business. (Garbage collected string processing in MS-BASIC, no small feat. Who knew you had a garbage collector in that 8K BASIC?)

I was not scarred by my BASIC experience. Nor my FORTRAN (it was FORTRAN back then) experience. (Very BASIC-ish, without the as many line numbers). I was grateful to have learned FORTRAN-77 and not -66. I would not want to go back to dealing with BASIC, particularly not 8-Bit level micro BASICs of yore, not if I didn't have to. That said, one of my favorite languages was a 4GL with in built SQL, screen forms, and reporting. It was limited in many ways that BASIC is, but, boy howdy, could I pound out usable, effective software that helped the company and its people with it, which is, in the end, what this is all about most of the time anyway.

About as far as I'd want to go back is QBASIC. It's lack of line numbers, and full screen editor send it over the top. Line numbers are what they are, but the biggest problem with them, particularly in MS-BASIC, is you can't renumber sections of lines. Like, you can't renumber lines 1000-2000 to 3000-4000. So, you can't easily re-organize and move code around.

But you make do.

Beats clicking binary into the front panel.
Can US auto makers (or even non-Tesla automakers generally) manufacture EVs at sufficient scale? Tesla seems to be far ahead of their competition:

https://caredge.com/guides/electric-vehicle-market-share-and...

BYD and Xiaomi in China seem to be catching up to Tesla far quicker than the US/European auto makers are.
> With manual memory management (and also with reference counting), whenever an object is no longer being used, its memory will be immediately released

Well, this is a fundamental space vs time tradeoff — reclaiming memory takes time, usually on the very same thread that would be doing useful work we care about. This is especially prominent with reference counting, which is the slowest of these all.

Allocators can make reclamation cheap/free, but not every usage pattern fits nicely, and in other cases you are fighting fragmentation.
Threads, mentioned elsewhere, is a good cure for hoping to survive a major nuclear exchange.

The first (IIRC) episode of Burke’s Connections is also pretty good for this. The exploration of how dependent we are on electricity and petroleum fuel, and how fast things would get very, very bad if the power simply went off and didn’t come back on, even for folks we think of as being pretty self-sufficient like farmers (“suppose they do have great-grandfather’s plow buried somewhere in the barn, and escaped a dozen other ways things could already have gone lethally wrong within the first year—do they have oxen? Draft horses? No, almost nobody has those anymore” or words to that effect). A largish nuclear exchange would turn the power off and it’d be off for a while. On top of all the direct damage from the bombs.

(The broader point of that episode is that this is basically what we’ve always done: develop new technology, then use it to increase our population such that most of us would die if that tech vanished, starting with the plow, then irrigation, et c; by the mid 20th century we’d reached that point with electricity and petroleum products)
I thought the broker fee was relatively high given the revenue multiple. I imagine hardware businesses have different multiples that what I hear about (mostly software), but this strikes me as pretty modest. If correct, that means the broker's fee is mostly based on the price that the seller could have negotiated himself, rather than on the added value that the broker brought.

OTOH, it's possible the work a broker does doesn't scale down with small deals, and he wasn't willing to work for less. Honestly, I'd rather accept $50k less and leave the broker out of it if that's the case.
4. They did the childish move to let someone impersonate her
5. The lawyers told them two days before release that this is a bad idea and they should get Johansson's approval
6. They did not and did the other childish move to release it nevertheless
Are you going to integrate the Atomos/TCS wireless system? Apogee does for audio in their apps, for example. And Zoom recorders support it. Would be nice to go with the emerging wireless standard for timecode.