skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Quickly scan HN for new articles
I have a dedicated HN tab that I come back to and reload multiple times a day to see whats new and hot.

I wrote a Chrome Extension to:

- quickly scan new articles since my last reload
- quickly scan highly discussed articles
- open actual articles and discussions in a new tab

This links to the source code. The chrome extension is linked at the bottom of the github page.

Note:

- This extension only operates on the HN front page (https://news.ycombinator.com/news)
- The first time you reload the HN front page after installing the extension all articles will get highlighted.
I'd prefer a system where all experiments are replicated by another independent party. This would prevent fraud but also all other kinds of wrong results through mistakes or incompetence. This would essentially close to double the cost of research, but I think it would be worth it.
Assume things do not represent a discontinuous change until proven otherwise.

AI has changed some things, and will change some more. Pretending otherwise isn't healthy skepticism, it's hiding your head in the sand.

The real question is, which things does it change, and how much? Don't assume a discontinuous change without enough evidence, but there is enough evidence that something has changed.
All of Apple's investment in AI edge capability is almost totally undermined by their huge price discrimination on RAM, shipping 8GB laptops in 2024 and charging like $300-500 for 8GB more.
On the days I meet friend at the gym, I work harder and leave happier, and it just feels like I'm hanging out with a buddy.

TL;DR - Bring a buddy. :)
> because the cost would be large to treat the air in all hospital rooms.

It would not.

Compared to the rest of hospital maintenance costs, UV-C hydrogen peroxide generators for the HVAC system are cheap, and effective.
If you train for health instead of body building, going from sedentary to a regular body weight routine is a colossal improvement.
The Blank Canvas: How to Add User-Centered Design to an Office
> Why should “niche topics” even exist anymore?

I don't care what the "internet economy" wants. People are interested in niche things. If the internet economy won't help them on those things, they'll find something that will.
In a functional democracy, the state is working in the best interest of the people. And your assertion that GP is arguing that the state is "synonymous with the population" is a straw man, as they didn't say that.

Let's look at the phrase "value they've created" that you used. That's a bit of an idealistic way of thinking. After all those with money and power in society have historically used that money and power to get more money and power. Does a king sitting on a throne produce more "value" than the farmers that feed his cities? Does the hedge fund manager choosing stocks to buy and companies to liquidate produce more value than doctors who save people's lives?
I'd imagine by insourcing.
Some goodies for POSIX sh programmers:

* readlink/realpath (https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1457)

* find -print0, xargs -0 and read -d (https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=243)

* find -iname (https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1031

* sed -E (https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=528)

* set -o pipefail (https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=789)
Well, I certaintly find it useful since I’ve removed X from my phone but still want to peer inside on occasion (a few people whose posts I value refuse to move to Mastodon and I don’t want to use Threads or Bluesy), so this is pretty useful. The ads have become so obnoxious that being able to just have “Following” open without hassles feels refreshing.
Assed a Resolution on supporting the adoption of nuclear energy in Estonia
Water, chemical industries challenge rule to restrict PFAS in drinking water
No, but when you do that you have to make sure it's used in a maximally ironic way like making a spy plane to use against them. Double points for telling them (or saying you told them) a story that makes them look like mugs in retrospect like "it's for pizza ovens, don't worry about it".
> I think GP's point stands that rolling back LVT would be highly desired by big landowners (who could then return to do-nothing land appreciation for their profits rather than be required to actually _do something_ with the land to earn over its taxed value), while the average Jane couldn't care less, because it wouldn't really impact her tax bill.

I think the average person actually cares an incredible amount about property taxes, especially when it comes to local politics. Local news stations talk all the time about "property tax relief", and there's a general sentiment from just about everyone involved in local politics that property taxes are a useless drain. Which in some cases they are - property taxes really only "work" when they roughly approximate LVT, but it leaves suburbanites feeling overtaxed (because they are, compared to the value of their land) and they have massive political power.

I think that if LVT was simply touted as a "Property Tax Relief Plan", you could make it have massive, massive support. It wouldn't be perfect, but you could give eveyr single person a massive tax credit based on what LVT revenues would bring in, and make up for that tax credit with the LVT.

For example - if you lived in a city of 100,000, and total LVTs bring in $200,000,000, you could give every single person a $2000 "Tax Relief Credit" deductible from all city taxes. You change nothing about how much money is raised, only the distribution, and in a way where 95% of people visibly see their tax bill go down. Good luck getting rid of that!
Show HN: Static, fast, SEO-friendly bank holiday website
Hi all, made a tiny website in Jekyll that tells you if the current date is a bank holiday in England and Wales.

It leverages the Gov UK Bank Holidays API (https://www.api.gov.uk/gds/bank-holidays/), runs a script once a day and creates the static files for each day available in the API (see https://isitbankholiday.com/sitemap.xml).

The site is then deployed to Cloudflare Pages, where a CF Pages serverless function maps the request's current date to a static page to render, and renders it as the homepage.

It's a nice exercise in static page generation and programmatic SEO. Already getting organic traffic from search engines and it's only been live 2 weeks.

Let me know how I could improve it or if you have any questions about CloudFlare Pages hosting, Jekyll, etc!
I would add Delphi, Modula-2 to the list, in terms of features, not how they turned up in the market in 2024.
You could easily have sleep apnea.

You didn't mention caffeine, but the half life of caffeine can be over 12 hours. Even if you limit yourself to two cups of coffee at 8 am, you'd still have as much caffeine in you as if you had one cup of coffee at 8pm. The rule of thumb about "no caffeine after noon" is just unreasonable, it really should be "almost no caffeine".
When you say not "worth" expliciting... worth it to whom?

All I see is someone saying "don't worry, it's obvious. When the time comes, we'll make decisions based on what we believe to be metrics, but we will back that up with literally nothing."

If you wanted me to believe you, you should provide some examples. And, again, I've never received any actual examples of specific binary evaluations for specific actions. And the handwave is always the same as the one you're trotting out now: 'if you need everything to be spelled out, you're probably not smart enough'.

Good line. Great dodge! But do you see how "we'll know what to do, based on the circumstances and, thus, the more meritorious will be obvious in any given situation" is functionally the same as "the bosses will make whatever decisions in the moment they want, and back it up with whatever they choose to decide is 'merit' for the purposes of their current framing (subject to change for the next situation)"?

But if you're completely sold on it, let's start with an easier question than "how do you metric your merit?"; let's just see if you have an answer for how any employee could determine between the two scenarios I described in the previous paragraph? If a boss passes me over even though I did great work and achieved an agreed-upon goal, but I didn't do some other thing (that was never mentioned) - how would I know that, and how could I possibly petition for redress?
> Sure, but the strange thing here is nobody did anything wrong

And if anyone did anything for the business...
I wonder when the illusion is going to come crumbling down.

As long as there are teenagers that are susceptible to peer pressure and don't know marketing tricks, I think it could last forever. Look how many other Veblen good companies have existed for hundreds of years. With Apple's cash and media, they can have rappers and celebs always using/mentioning their stuff.
It is best in class for a model that runs primarily on a mobile device.
Is there a burpee equivalent that is easier on the knees?
I found my pistol squats got better after a few months of just training boxing -- so I think even just hopping around and doing jump-rope is probably pretty decent exercise for your legs.
The fundamental technology of LLMs *is* statistical hallucination. What's the probability of a sequence of tokens given a context? That's what LLMs answer.

I am not one to talk in absolutes but the basic circumstances of current LLMs have hallucination at their core and can likely not be guaranteed fact based. It's just an expression of likelihood where you rely on your training data to contain truths.

This is why OpenAI gives more weight to Wikipedia than Reddit comments - the model contains no reasoning mechanism.

It ought to be treated more as a fallible human rather than a superintelligent lookup resource based on fact checked data.
>>> The lines are basically drawn by aristocrats of one kind or another and the rest of us have to deal with it
I agree. So ? Tribes had the same interactions. Nothing's changed. We are still humans.

>>> The rights paid for in blood, sweat, and tears, as you say, were wrenched from the hands of the kinds of people

So by that assertion , wherever you live, you should vacate right now. Because if you take that line of thinking to its conclusion, it means that there are no property rights, and therefore, no security at all. And, there's the conundrum that the entire world disagrees with you, and has borders which they protect to varying degrees.

>>> (aristocrates) who draw borders and consist entirely of statements that are borderless assertions

The aristocrats are actually elected representatives. Its nice to paint them with the aristocrat brush, hey ill even join you there because i despise them too, but taking that tack doesn't change the fact that those are still elected representatives. And they made those assertions in our behalf. On behalf of free people.

>>> of the value of human beings, not citizens
I don't know what that means. If you are arguing for inalienable rights, I agree there. But inalienable rights do not include the right to force a group of humans to carry the weight of a stranger. That's aggression over a human's inalienable rights.

>>> that doesn't mean that enshrining that reality in law or even nurturing it is morally right.
It is morally right because you have the right to protect yourself and your kin. That's what borders are. Arguing otherwise goes against nature and against what's right. Once you leave your comfortable home to write on HN and instead house some malnourished somalians, maybe we will start paying attention to you.

All you advocate is charity, by usurping your tribe's rights. That is an act of aggression, and i'm calling you out on it. That's what politicians do. Maybe do something different from them, and lead by example ? (do as i say, not as i do, seems a fitting descripting here)
What is the definition of a hallucination in the context of LLM?
Not Sebastian (who I assume is the OP), but his blog/substack is also a great resource

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/
It also provides decent spam prevention, and high probability people will check the associated email address
Bulgarian split squats (or rear leg elevated squats) are pretty good, especially if you hold a kettlebell in front.

If you have a good 40m to run, then I would also do interval sprints.
I don’t things is much worse than OAuth itself. You just have to make a login with Google/Facebook/X button.

Also the thing about the URL won’t have much practical difference for the user. The reason is that a lot of the flows can redirect through different domains. For example, when I sign in with Google into a third party site, I often see a redirect through the YouTube domain.

So users are not expecting full fidelity to the domain.
this: https://archive.is/GXshA ?
Are those safety systems really that expensive? They're all stock options on the lowest trim level of a $9500 Kei car.
Bubbles, my friend.
Why would it be? Price is simply the best information we have about the interaction millions of various desires, distilled into one number.
Some past superpower invades, rivals give weapons endgames for potential guidance:

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - Soviets went home, split up a bit

American troops in Vietnam - America went home, had a rethink

Nazi invasion of USSR - nazis went home, were defeated

Following that pattern maybe the Russians go home, Putin replaced?
Maybe 4x, 100x is many years away.

The exponential graph people are posting is just to pump the stock price.
> Why would you cherish being left out?

Not suffering from FOMO is a delightful thing. You can enjoy life while others scramble after the “greatest” and latest. There are far more important things to worry about than whether you get ML models running on your phone.
Very subjective opinion: there's something special about deadlift methinks. I used to be an runner and doing all kinds of sports. My health went low, and there's a particular sensation about finally being able to carry more than your own weight off the ground and stand up. No other workout exercises give this (pushups, planks, situps, pullups, you name it) It's probably a very primitve neural pathway and balancing need.. I don't know.
When word processors became popular, educators lamented over the loss of handwriting skills. This became generally true. Many people have terrible handwriting, since, as it happens, if you don't practice something, you lose the ability to do that thing over time.

When spellchecking became popular, educators were afraid of students losing the ability to spell. This also became generally true. How many people do you know depend on spellcheck to write an email?

When the Internet and Wikipedia became popular, educators were afraid of people being unable to do their own research. This became generally true. Many students (afaik) still turn in Google search results and Wikipedia articles as sources, and mis/dis-information is a massive problem that's been hyper-accelerated by the rise of low-information, high-volume social media.

When smartphones became popular, educators were afraid of students getting sucked into them during class. We all know what happened here.

These technologies have certainly made our world better, but let's not forget that real skills were lost in each evolutionary step.

As for "actual evidence" of AI causing educational regression, honestly, talk to teachers. ALL of them have stories on stories on how AI is short-circuiting critical thinking skills.
Yes, but it will strongly decrease demand for new ideas. AI is a "win more" technology for current software architecture incumbents. The more popular a tech is, the more content there is about it, the more capable an LLM is of giving a usable answer. A programmer who relies on LLMs for coding assistance will be far less likely to try something new, and it will have a chilling effect on the adoption of all new tools, architectures, and libraries.
Would be funny if you read the article and learned that the components were first purchased in 2019.
This is correct. If imagine if all you had was a desktop which was shut down between sessions. Just needing to walk to a different room, boot up your desktop, and sign in -- a minor ~1 minute of inconvenience would prevent much of this compulsive using. When the barriers are low enough, people cannot help themselves.
> A too-simple protocol

An issue with BLE is that there is a lot of IP in the typical software stack and bill of materials. Its one thing for the protocol to be too simple (for example in cases where IEC 62304 are to be applied) but its another thing entirely to have no way to audit the stack that your chip vendor, who also happens to be your software stack supplier, is selling you in certain quantities.

Of course, there are outliers like Nordic, but there are in-liers, like Qualcomm. This field is rife with issues - and, especially, with peer-based audio streaming, in general.

Because we are approaching a point in the BLE grey-goo-iverse where the CPU's are perfectly powerful enough to not have to peer audio, and can just be used in a network topology - yet the vendor protocols are designed to disallow that happening.

The sooner we disenfranchise (literally) ourselves from BLE and just make the devices client/server instead of master/slave, the better.
Our brain is a face reading machine. We're very attuned to inferring emotion and inner state based on subtle facial movements.

Most of uncanny valley is down to the face moving in a way that sends disturbing emotional signals.

Not too different to how you feel when seeing the weird stare of a Zuckerberg or Elizabeth Holmes for instance.

Body language and movement would be the same, albeit simpler.
I don't think there is anything that can't be built. It's me a matter of the increased expense and inefficiency making things too expensive to be practical.
It's called late stage capitalism and the scary thing is I think we still have a way to go. Check out the explosion of PE into our healthcare system recently if you really want to feel some goosebumps.
I've worked as a developer with developers for 10+ years, and I sure as hell don't always recognize when they start doing something funny... Not sure I'd be able to keep up with monitoring thousands of lines of generated code beyond simple boiler plate stuff.
RTG-Slam: Real-Time 3D Reconstruction at Scale Using Gaussian Splatting
Thanks for clearing that up! However, we don't have cases of embezzlement but of fraud. Of course the fraudster, ie. the involved corporations, would have an interest in obfuscating their tracks, but the sponsor would not. The controlling power is the sponsor, ie. the federal ministry of environmental protection, and I doubt they wanted to be defrauded. This is why I said I don't get why anybody would sponsor under these conditions. That's a case of ineptitude and neglect, but not malice.
Academia is also usually a single person trying to get stuff working so they can publish a paper to get tenure/a job.

Good SWE practices are 100% not taught in school.
> Deadlift is more fun, hits the big muscles, and you can go even heavier.

Since this is in the context of benefits for older people, Stuart McGill, a back expert who has helped lots of power-lifters recover from major injuries, recommends against going for higher and higher PRs as you get older:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM599A6wUAw&pp=ygUXaXMgZGVhZ...

(What's not clear to me after watching the video was if just doing moderately-heavy sets of 12 would introduce the same kind of risk he's talking about.)

ETA: The kind of injury he's talking about is decades-long cumulative bone and joint injury that only starts to be noticeable once you're 70. (Unless you're a wordl-class competitive athlete, in which case you notice a lot earlier.). Early in the video he talks about 50-year-old powerlifters coming to him, asking how they can continue to do PRs into their 60's. And he says, basically, do you want to do PRs through your 60's, or do you want to be able to get down on the ground and play with your grandkids when you're 85? Because I can help you do one or the other, but I can't help you do both.

One of the points he makes frequently in his videos is that while bones can get stronger, similar to muscles, the rest time they need to actually recover from being stressed is a lot longer; something like 7 days. And so if you're deadlifting PRs for years and years, with only 3-4 days between maxed-out sets, you're going to be accumulating micro-fractures in your vertebrae, which will eventually catch up with you.

Anyway, def worth the watch.
Yes, the versions between client and server do need to be in lock-step. As far as needing to be in the system default path, I haven't run into that: when I initially started using it, I had dropped the executable into ~/bin and that seemed to work (that is in my shell path).
Agreed, Reddit's solution works quite well. And yes, hnreplies.com is very useful (I already use it).
It's interesting. The naive way to write this would be not use any special formulas, and just recalculate mass and acceleration each frame (based on the new mass). And to calculate intersection with the ground at each frame boundary.

I guess the idea is that the lower your frame-rate, the less accurate this approach is, or maybe the idea is it's fun to use the actual equations.

I'm curious how perceptible the difference is between the two at the original framerate.
Because plastic straws are something that people run into frequently so when they are gone it’s very noticeable to everyone
Is anyone training LLMs outside of Meta, OpenAI, etc... ?

I don't much get the point. For huge models, it's impossible to outcompete them. For smaller models, isn't mistral or LLaMa good enough?

What are other startups finetuning LLMs for?
E-bikes to the rescue!
What kind of time frame is "any time soon"?

If you're thinking over the next 3-5 years, then AI is a novelty in most cases, a useful tool in some cases, and something truly disruptive in a fairly narrow set of cases.

If you expand the time frame to 10-20 years, then AI is poised to become something that truly upsets most of the economy. Obviously, nothing can be said for certain, there could be black swan events, etc. But on the current trajectory of cheaper, more powerful compute and better understanding of the engineering around getting useful results out of AI, you'd be foolish to think any white collar profession won't be deeply affected by the technological shift that's coming.
aside from what others provided: https://kagi.com/smallweb
Ffs please tell me you are joking
North American Beaver [video]
I used to take advantage of the browser's "work offline" functionality. This started to work less and less reliably, even by the early 2000s, but Wikipedia still worked nicely. I would dial up at night when everyone was asleep and click through to all the pages surrounding some topic, like internal combustion engines. Then the next day I'd work offline and digest it all. I was sad when I clicked a link that hadn't been cached, but somehow having only the limited amount available meant I actually did read it all. Nowadays it's all available and lots of people don't seem to read anything ever. Sigh...

There is an app for Android called Kiwix that lets you download the whole of Wikipedia for viewing offline. I keep meaning to do it but never got around to it, though.
I get that the gentle snark is the point, but I feel like a tiny shift in perspective would universally improve "take" posts like this.

Add a "why I might be wrong" section, or "why this might not apply to you". Just show me that you've thought from more than one side of the issue and I'll be more receptive to your side.
Yes. That is totally true. You can feel the CNR stimulation deep in your soul.

I feel great on a DL cycle and my proportions make me relatively much better at deads than squats so I tend to do them more. But I also recognize that for general health and fitness squats are probably better if you were forced to choose.