skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah, classic example of thinking so hard about something that you miss the obvious explanation. I already have a decent coat, so I'm not going to wear the shitty one you gave me. I already have a decent scarf too, but if you give me an especially nice one, it might become my new favorite. unless I'm planning to go straight to the store and return it, I don't really care which option cost more.
Assuming you're all of those, then one day you might meet someone younger than you who does all of these a bit better than you, and also is good at piano. And he or she will be nice and graceful about it, too, so you won't even be able to hate on them.

It's not a personal attack against you, it can happen to (almost) everyone :D.
You seem to suggest that the truck buyer is somehow causing you / others harm. By what metric?
I recently started a tech meetup [1] in my small city (Charlottesville, VA), and was surprised at the amount of interest!

One tip for finding a space, try your public library! Mine has plenty of meeting rooms that can be booked for free.

I initially was buying pizzas for the meetup, but they didn't really get eaten, so now I don't bring anything but an HDMI cord.

[1] https://cvillecreativecoders.com/
> A brand is totally dematerialized—Harvard is not the buildings and libraries—every school has those.

Yeah, no. Harvard has a $50 billion endowment, other schools don’t.
Ukraine has permanently lost huge chunks of its territory. On top of that, the entire country is being structurally wrecked and it will take decades to climb out of the bottomless pit.

It's mind boggling that one would not see this as losing or delude oneself with shifting-the-goalposts thinking ("get to Kiev")
Nestle wants to bottle it ?
The Antarctica Internet one reminded me of http://hn.zip, which caches as much as it can for spotty connections.
I tend to agree with this on discord, as I really dislike dms about not-directly-personal things when they can just share it in the server.

In real life though, my severe congenital hearing impairment means communication ability is stunted for all but one-on-one meetings. Cursed...
In England we also seem to use curl. I’ve similarly never heard of rot.
Specifics like this make it much easier to agree on LLM capabilities, thank you.

Automatic proof generation is a massive open problem in all of computer science and not close to be solved. It’s true LLMs aren’t great at it and more is required for example as with the geometry system Deepmind progresses on.

On the other hand they can be very useful to explain concepts and allow interactive questioning to drill down and help build understanding of complex mathematical concepts, all during a morning commute via the voice interface.
cuDF is the most impressive DataFrame implementation I've seen and have been recommending for years. The API is exceptionally close to Pandas (just a couple of different function arguments here and there), much more so than PyArrow or Modin. Throughput and energy efficiency were often 10x that of PyArrow running on a comparable TDP SotA CPU 2 years ago [1].

[1]: https://www.unum.cloud/blog/2022-09-20-pandas
No, proof of NGO status is not required. Anyone can buy a .ong domain.
It might be ok for Elon to depart tesla now. It successfully did the big thing - now it has to become something like Ford and GM and create a normal corporate culture and compete with the big 3
Great use of a Teensy!
Referring to smoke detectors, right? Right?
They are already winning (how can anyone today look at the situation objectively and come to a different conclusion?) . Not only that, but they retain escalation dominance. If it comes down to a few tactical nuclear weapons, it is highly unlikely that the US will choose to get involved.

But that is something to be avoided at all costs. It will be doom for Ukraine and horrible for the rest of Europe. Unfortunately, with every passing day it becomes more likely.
Why are there 62,208 puzzles?
Only a few years back did I fully realize pickles and cucumbers are the same vegetable.
What does "aha" mean to you? To me it means understanding. And isn't that the point of teaching?
From the readme, no. Says NVIDIA drivers required
I think the same thing will happen that has happened in the past with music & movies: the technology part will disappear in the eyes of the audience, and the artist will remain and collect all the prestige as the auteur.

Take two examples: pop stars, and auteurs. The producer, who is a huge contributor to their sound, stays invisible, or if not then vastly less known. People attribute all the music skill essentially to the pop star alone. Directing's an even better example: essentially a pure technology job that we've still managed to abstract away into its own form of art.

Eventually the use of AI will involve enough knobs and levers that it will be like directing a movie. Then people will become famous for doing that, for delivering the unique experience that only that person, the "face" for the technology, can bring.
> Every time I read Elixir code such as the one in this link, I get worried and stressed due to the lack of type annotations. I guess my mindset is "write code that never crashes", but then BEAM apparently instills the mindset of "let it crash", which gives me anxiety tbh.

I don’t think the “let it crash” philosophy is about types though. It’s more about not needing to defensively handle every edge case due to fears of your program crashing. Crashing due to ending up in an exceptional state is a feature in Erlang/Elixir, but if a function expects a number and is passed a tuple, that’s still a bug.
Which remote desktop solutions which haven't proven as convenient or low latency as scrcpy have you tried?
Finding out at age 44 that I am autistic.

Suddenly my whole life made sense, I understood that there are well-known and documented reasons for why I am the way I am, and that I'm not alone in my experiences.
The focus on inequality is a massive mistake. The focus needs to be on absolute living standards. I would rather live in a world with a 10x Musk and no homeless people than a more equal world like the current one but with no billionaires. In point fact, I don't see how that second world is better for anyone. Literally nobody is better off in that scenario even if inequality has dropped.

There is no reason to believe that one person being insanely well off makes someone else worse off. Inequality is an interesting indicator but gets far more airplay than it is worth.
Show HN: Image generation to give your recipes a cookbook feel
Hiring someone to pitch my project for me?
So in all practicality I'm just not a business person. I have no interest in cold calling VCs all day.

However I'm working on a small hardware project I'd like to at least get feedback on.

Is it possible to hire someone to do all the pitching for me ? I'm not an idea guy, I'm writing ( or paying people to write) all the software for this project. I'm paying to get the hardware designed.

Alternatively should I just open source everything under a non commercial license? I have no problem if you build your own clone of this thing, but I wouldn't want you to be able to commercially sell it.
Hacking charges presumably
To really drive home the point, in the 19th century there were ingots of aluminium among the crown jewels of some royal families, because at the time it was rare, expensive and required a significant resource investment to refine.
I live in an area where the low population doesn't support language-specific meetups. So I run the 'Nelson Dev Group' meetup, where we have a short talk (on anything) then a lean-coffee style group discussion. The idea is that if a topic is outside of your interests, there'll be something else for you. It works pretty well and we've been running monthly for about two years now.
I think most people are just reacting to "redneck" culture. I don't really like it either, but I think people should be able to do what they want. Including buying a truck they don't need or taking an unneeded trip to Paris to visit museums and art galleries.
The two salient points to me:

> my friend had a question to ask me, and the email asked it over the course of a few paragraphs. It then disclosed that, oh by the way, I used AI to write this

So his friend wasn't writing to ask about how's the weather or if they're doing well, there was a specific question that had enough requirements to be detailed in paragraphs.

The second part being that the their friend made it transparent it was AI generated.

And honestly, that rings a bell to me. Call me names, but even for family, if I have to ask them for precise info about something specific I'd completely borrow a premade form or auto generate one and have them fill it and send back to me (it's actually said late "The email felt like getting a form letter").

Remember when you needed your parents to send you their banking info, and not some "we're at the bank around the corner" cheesy explaination but the exact branch number, leading 0s included, and account type they're registered under.

There would probably be a quick "Hey, long time no see, could you please give me these info ?" kind of humanish introduction but the rest if probaly better done automated.
I'm numb to it. It's just a fact of life because tenures are so short, quality is often very opinionated, and jobs are readily available, and you usually get a raise from the next job too. You do what you can to stay employed until you can get the next job lined up.

It has become overwhelmingly obvious that the industry is never going to reach a state where technical debt and bad code is exceptional and high quality is the norm. If there is a maximum amount of pessimism I could have, it would be for this.
I wonder if super-people like this balance their various activities so that doing each charges them up for some of the others, and then they can hit a resonance like state of being in-the-zone excelling at each one in turn. And not letting small interruptions derail the system. It would be the opposite of being stuck in a soul-sucking
rut between unsatisfying work and unsatisfying non-work life.
Tacoma's have a reputation for being the stereotypical choice for actual recreation or practically though haven't they? Relatively small, reliable, pragmatic if you're already in a position to use it.

Do you think you'd feel the same if someone in approximately your situation got something like a 2024 Silverado with a laughably large grill, much larger and more expensive? To me there's practically I wouldn't even second guess, and then there's everything beyond that, but I'd be curious what a truck owner thinks.

My grandfather's always had a truck, but it's always been something the size of a Canyon or Tacoma, and with that he's never struggled with any of the relatively large crap he hauls around.
250 people is an insane number for a meetup!
so… many… acronyms… is this a thing in military like there are million acronyms everyone uses??! :)
I can relate , My retired Dad discovered GPT and has been using it to post pages-long updates about his retirement trip. It's got a strong "oh god, the olds have taken Facebook" vibe.

I love my Dad and want to hear about his adventures, but knowing it's AI-generated makes me recoil immediately. It’s hard to shake the doubt, and I worry that I'll start dismissing even his genuine messages.

This got me thinking about the development world. We all know that one guy at work who shits out GPT code left and right. Being "the GPT guy" is not something you want. Even though I use GPT, I admit the frequency less openly and can only assume others do as well. It feels like a crazy dance we're all doing. Trust in their abilities diminishes (and likely their ability as well) , and people might resist reviewing AI-generated code, fearing it lacks the depth and understanding that comes from human effort.

everyone talks about the AI is going to replace devs but underestimate the psychological resistance and acceptance of the people actually making the decisions
That's not bikeshedding, but the product of these types:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_astronaut

...bikeshedding is when you have that all-day, all-teams meeting where marketing and design and management argue about whether to put X content in the header or footer.
Of all the things potentially worthy of "just", the status quo sounds most appropriate.

But I think you not being able to state what a saner solution is is enough for this conversation.
By the way i think the modern formulation of Maxwell equations as four equations is an intuitive reformulation of the original formulation of maxwell i believe.
> turn that feature off

Send location/signal/command to public cloud, to request non-tracking of location.

> put in a faraday bag

Local action. No network connection or location broadcast needed.
I should have been more precise to say that I wondered if there was anyone trying to port it to the M1. It seems like every other ML project has some pull request trying that. Or, perhaps there is another project that is attempting to do the same thing for pandas on the M1. It's a noble goal.
Cat as a Service
> rather than evolving organically as they did in post-Roman Europe

You think the borders left after Rome fell were organic? They just used the old Roman province borders. Rome replaced the rule of every country it conquered and the conquest lasted so long that there was no trace of the old rule left, they all had to rediscover themselves afterwards, including figuring out how to redraw the borders.
maybe related, but everything I do for the first time, I will do incorrectly at least in part. Even down to things like opening a new type of jar, taking public transit in a new city, making a big purchase, etc. I don't know if it's just me, or says something about my intelligence or not.
Also 100 spend doesn’t all go to the creator. Twitch wants their cut and on merch the actual stuff costs money too
It seems to me like the original comment could be easily generalized across genders, without losing any of its substance.

It's a strategy to avoid unintentional gender bias, like using "they" instead of he/she. It also helps the conversation to not get derailed by gender, if that isn't the point one is trying to make.
Ditto 1980's era Australian physics and engineering courses.

Throw in a right hand thumbs up for "direction" of curl (fingers indicate rotation, orthogonal thumb direction is orientation) and other results about paths having to have a zero rotation between places with opposing rotation, etc.
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"Get feedback" is the key part here. When feedback is "just do what comes naturally", you will not get better.
Founders and CEOs are first and foremost people managers, at least the vast majority of the successful ones.
I am unaware of tipping customs for a tour guide. I wouldn’t even have cash on me while rafting.

I would have thought paying for the tour pays for the tour guide’s services.
Everytime I've seen mention of Micropython, mostly on Hackaday projects, I see comments that are very negative, mostly questioning the purpose of running an interpreter, especially a subset of python, at all on a uC.
There are plenty of reasons, but I actually have one that I never see mentioned:

Because the code is interpreted, the main.py file is always there in the original form - no binary. On a Pi Pico for example I can just pull the main.py file that is stored in flash on the Pico and see the original code just by connecting to USB.

Why is that handy? Well, of course not having to compile every time before flashing to the uC is nice. But the big thing for me is, if I ever forget what the hell I wrote that is running on a project... instead of having to dig through my files and find the C source I compiled and then figure out how I compiled it etc etc etc... I can just plug into the uC and download the python file and read what I wrote. If I have a little machine, maybe a specialty oven temp controller and I want to add a sensor reading to the LCD display but I did the project years ago in a hurry and don't want to try and look up the source code and reinstall the compiler toolchain- fine, just plug in via USB, the python file is there in the flash storage, open it up, modify what I want, and save back to it and restart the interpreter and the new script runs.

It's a way for projects to better 'self-document' themselves.
I think that in North America the deal is done, there is no way of going back this far down the path and private vehicles on the road are never going away until the fall of said civilization (or plan B: making the country dirt poor, but this may lead to plan A anyway)

And props for being a responder and seeing it with your own eyes. I actually think it should be more widely spread, showing it on the nightly news, etc. it’s an effective strategy to make more careful drivers.
I was building 3D engines a few years before the days of Quake, and having recently watched videos about optimizing the trig code in Super Mario 64, and these other faster algorithms, it makes me wonder how much more can be squeezed out of old hardware.

I was optimizing my assembler to the nth degree, but optimizing the algorithm is always going to be the real winner.
how good do you think the crimps are nowdays at Boeing and Space-X?
This is the right answer. Where possible, tailor management practices to the needs of the individual employee.
https://archive.ph/b9mwg
That's great, thank you. I was just thinking about starting a collection of these to begin rewriting my old 3D engine from the late 80s.
I really wanted to know about this "Undo" exhaustion. I was expecting a complaint about single or limited level undo systems.
Does anyone have a summary? ;)
Ah I did the same thing. why is it even necessary?
Thanks, this is the most informative writeup I’ve read about the current and upcoming missions.
> and the code debt is often worth it.

This is something that I like about the metaphor of 'code debt', and which tends to go over peoples head: debt can be a perfectly fine instrument, and just like a real debt, it can be a good thing when leveraged wisely. The issue is more when debt is treated as 'free money', and is used carelessly.
There was a lot of that post 9/11 too. It used to be that you could walk into nearly any office building in the world with little more than a smile and a confident wave. A lot of previously public areas got locked down on September 12th.
You actually don't need the first constraint at all for serializability: see "A Critique of Snapshot Isolation"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.18393
I wouldn't say it's particularly common but I can do it myself and know others that do it too. However the common theme for me is that the reason it happens is species dysphoria (lack of tail, etc). It's easy to imagine having different parts from reality once I've been trying to imagine myself that way for years.
Isn't MSVC closed source?
Probably. The effect seems to depend on light interacting with textural surfaces of the PMMM material. If those surfaces are surrounded with a fluid having the same refractive index, the surfaces will disappear as far as first-order optical interactions go.
You don't have to add types to things, but you can via typespecs. The type analyzer then attempts to discover the types of things and can type check the program as well as it can based on what you give it. Some people use more explicit type signatures, others less.
I was homeschooled from 3rd through 8th grade And then attended public high school. I think home school can be great. however, I've never met anyone who is obviously advantaged because of home school, but I've met a few that were obviously disadvantaged.
the usual data mining and privacy concerns - ads, LLM training, etc
Ask HN: What do you do on flights?
I have a few longer flights this year (4+ hours and 8+ hours) and was curious how everyone spends their time on the flight? I have usually just read or listened to podcasts, occasionally try to sleep.
If somebody can't be fucked taking the time to write out their thoughts, why should they expect me to waste my time reading generated text? It's insulting.
The title seems misleading, it should just be 'better ways to buy things/spend your money' or similar.

I do like the ethos that you should carefully consider/choose the things you own, and then look after them, repair them etc. They then carry the story of their ownership, and become much more valuable to you (witness the 'I repaired my broken mug' story on HN this last week). Our current semi-disposable fast-fashion money-go-round mode of consumption needs to stop.
Mind linking this video? It sounds dubious but I'm curious
Show HN: I made a HN client with Reddit theme
I recently came across Hackernews, and I really love the community.

I am more used to Reddit thread lines, loading more comments buttons, etc. So I decided to make a client myself that would help me browse HN better.

Main features include:
Collapsible thread line/comment,
Lazy loading comment tree,
Dark theme,
Better code block styles,
Links open a new tab (insane, ikr)

Comment, upvote is still under development

I'd love to get your feedback on the UI/UX, any bugs you might encounter, or general suggestions. If you find this useful, consider giving it a star on GitHub to stay updated on future enhancements

Link to Github: https://github.com/KaiyuanMa/hacker-read-it

Check this post on Hacker Read it: https://hacker-read-it.netlify.app/item/40558368
They can see in anyways without the tint?
Re #2: Jackson was the standard text for undergrads like me doing a Mathematics degree. It was a late second year or early third (final) year text if I recall rightly. This was 1992, so I'm still amazed to read that its still a commonly used text.

Fwiw, other standard texts used in Durham (UK) back then were Spivak on Calculus, Goldstein on mechanics, and for the mathematical physics kids, landau and lifschitz on mechanics and electromagnetism, and (an absolute doorstop) Misner, Wheeler and Thorne on Gravitation (relativity).
The point seems more to me that in engineering, breakthroughs worthy of academic repute aren't given much fanfare, though probably a bit of an exaggeration. It's hard to tell to what extent his comics reflect actual sentiments or rather an artifice of some abstraction taken to an absurd level.
Yeah, exactly. I was blessed with inexpensive tastes, so I find it easy to live well below my means.

Plus, one lucky break with some early equity goes a long way.

It's not the right game for everyone, but it's totally viable once you get the hang of its rules. And many of us find they're a better fit than the normal rules ever were.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23700295

(Link from 2020 w/ 93 comments)
With Webgpu users should be able to run other models as well. I have built chatllm.pro cheome extension that can run all sort of small models incliding the phi2 natively using a wasm library. You will be able to chat with the page as well
Swarm Parallelism: Training Large Models on Poorly Connected Devices
Huh, I live in the other Nelson on the other side of the world that commonly gets mistaken for yours and just thought "no way there is a dev meetup in Nelson!".