skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks nice and like a good idea, but according to the FAQ it's Windows only and there are currently no concrete plans to change that - maybe you should mention that somewhere in the introduction, e.g. "Ritt supercharges your Windows file management with the power of tag trees"? You might argue that Windows is still the dominant platform, but not so sure how true that is for your target audience (users who install a paid file manager). Of course, being cross-platform would be an additional selling point (people would be able to use the same file manager on several platforms).
The winning move is to work remotely/hybrid from the countryside (close enough to a city though), and invest all the savings in housing to stock market.

I can't see the value in pure city-living when quality of housing keeps going down, and prices go up. Better salary alone doesn't mean anything.
Oh no, I meant that this feature was made so people could continue to use memory-unsafe languages, but it turns out to be defeatable. If only there was some way to prevent this.
ChatGPT, can you remove the unnecessary violence expressed in this article please?

Fucking internet.
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Yeah, it was that. Semantic submarine something.
So many good things would happen if the coastal class occasionally remembered that the United States is a huge country with a vast interior. There are tons and tons of towns with affordable housing in Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and so on. The problem is that the incomes are lower, too – but that is fixable with remote work, companies being incentivized to hire locally, and so forth. There is really no reason why everyone needs to be centralized in 10 urban centers on the coasts.
Show HN: Webacus – The Missing Calculator for Developers
Hey HN,

I’m excited to share Webacus, a project I’ve been working on that aims to solve a common frustration for developers: the constant need to switch between tools (e.g. base64 decode, hashing, formatting, etc.) and copy-paste data during our workflow.

Webacus is a versatile calculator designed specifically for developers. It combines numerous operations that developers frequently need into a single, consistent interface. Instead of Googling and learning the interface for each operation, you can perform everything you need within Webacus, seamlessly.

The idea for Webacus came from my own frustrations as a developer. I often found myself juggling multiple tools, switching between tabs, and spending a lot of time copying and pasting data. This fragmented workflow was not only inefficient but also prone to errors. I wanted a solution that would streamline this process and make it more fluid while ensuring my data remained secure.

Unlike other calculators and tools that serve a singular purpose, Webacus focuses on interoperability. You can chain various operations together into a single stream, producing the result without the hassle of manual copy-pasting. Additionally, Webacus is built to be local-first, meaning all computations are done on your machine, ensuring your data stays private and secure.

Try it Out:

https://webacus.dev

I’d love to hear your feedback and thoughts on Webacus. Your insights and suggestions will be invaluable as I continue to develop and improve it. Thank you for checking it out!

Best,
Valentin
Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things (Tonsky.me)
Niki, do you have any suggestions for serif fonts with (nearly) balanced metrics?
There was something very Douglas Adams about that story.

Robot: can I get you some towels?

Man, confused just enters room and shuts door.

Eight hours later he emerges for breakfast.

Robot: well?
It was more influenced by computer algebra systems written in Lisp, like Macsyma (-> Maxima), REDUCE, and others.

> astonishingly similar semantics

The "Wolfram language" has at its core a rewrite rule systems. Expressions are being rewritten by applying transformations to it. Lisp does not use anything like that. Lisp has an evaluator mechanism, based on fixed evaluation rules (+ macro transformations, which are again Lisp functions).

As a result, code in the Wolfram language is difficult to (fully) compile. Good and extensive Lisp compilers exist since the early 60s. Current examples of complete compilers are SBCL for Lisp and Chez Scheme for Scheme.

The Wolfram language also has no formal spec (compare to something like Scheme) and the language itself is not open sourced, including its main implementation. It's basically defined by its main implementation, while its proprietary language documentation looks like written in a such way to prevent implementations of the language.
There's business in routine agricultural overflights for year to year comparison and records, with multispectral cameras (expensive) for ANOVA plots when cross breeding for new crops with resistance, for rock outcrop plotting | individual large rock recording for { later pickup | hazard enty into tractor maps } etc.

A lot of that is done locally here ( large grain fields in Australia ).
I wonder whether genetic engineering can give nitrogen fixing abilities to plants that currently lack this ability?
You can copy events and set up repeating events. I do this all the time.
I also know quite a few people who work in that industry in developing countries and I don’t think you know what your talking about.
Proposed ballot measure to raise corporate taxes, give every Oregonian $750/year
That some will remark that you do not need consciousness to achieve reasoning does not lose truth because a subset sees in LLMs something that appears to them as reasoning.

I do not really understand who you are accusing of a «good enough» stance: we have never defined "consciousness" as a goal (cats are already there and we do not seem to need further), we just want something that reasons. (And that reasons excellently well.)

The apparent fact that LLMs do not reason does is drily irrelevant to an implementation of AGI.

The original poster wrote that understanding consciousness would be required to «crack AGI» and no, we state, we want AGI as a superhuman reasoner and consciousness seems irrelevant.
Big discussion 2 months ago (1419 points, 455 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40069599
A state doesn’t insure the value of a currency. In order, the largest influences on currency value are:

1. Speculation / belief

2. Approx 10x less influential is trade, most currency transactions both by volume and by value are in speculation which is underpinned and driven by beliefs in a particular currency. Some estimates put trading as low as 2.5% of all forex. Trading does impact the price of a currency, but in miniscule proportions to speculation

3. We can fairly confidently say tax collection is a lower influence than trade because of so many examples (and extraordinarily rare counter examples) but I don’t know of any reasonable way to quantify how much less the effect is. The threat of incarceration and / or asset seizure drives demand for currency which influences its value.

Places like Argentina are fascinating (said while acknowledging the extreme hardship being placed on people who have to use Argentinian currency!). In recent history all of the above have had visible influence on their currency along with pegging / dollarization which attempts to introduce a control on all the above factors with various degrees of success.
World population grew from 4.6 billion to over 8 billion over the last 40 years, rather more than 50% growth...
Agreed. At the same time, regulators too need regulation.

From history, governments have done more physical harm (genocides, etc) than capitalist companies with advanced tech (I know Chiquita and Dow exist).
had it been any other country (as long as not opposing the western bloc), i wonder if he would be able to be so open and vocal about it.

two wrongs don't make a right, usually.
> The bottle being labeled is sufficient, just as the LLM being labeled as sometimes wrong is sufficient.

Labeling LLMs as "sometime wrong" is like labeling drugs as "sometimes have side effects, especially when mixing". It's a truism, such label would be completely useless. You need to take the drug anyway, so knowing that "some side effects exist" doesn't change anything. And often you also do need to take 2-3-4 drugs at same time, so the mixing clause is not helping either.

It took us many decades to build the system around drugs that today you take as granted. Drugs are studied very carefully, with all observed side effects listed explicitly. Drugs compatibility is a big topic and all new drugs are checked in combination with common-use drugs.

At the other end of equation awareness of side effects and mixing was increased dramatically both among doctors and patients, who were previously completely oblivious of them. Mere 100 years ago people were prescribed heroin against cough. Only 60 years ago the thalidomide disaster happened.

If all you can say to people destroyed by Kevadon is "you are at fault, the bottle said CAUTION: new drug", then I'm afraid we see this too differently.
This is what Simulacra and Simulation is about, or at least what I think it’s about since I haven’t actually read it myself.
> I used to think that alot of physics was bs until I found a tutorial on Box 2D physics.

Haha. Thanks Newton for Angry Birds.
MRTG the Multi Router Traffic Grapher (1998) [pdf]
TL;DR: I think you're right. Ty for maintaining HN!

> are more a statement about the perceiver than about HN itself

I may have some rose tint to my oldest memories of lurking HN. Not only was I younger, but I was also seeing hours-old threads instead of comments arriving in real-time before any sorting or flagging.

In other words, thank you for maintaining the site all these years.
Looks good! Maybe you could update it to use the list of processes Scarecrow uses?
https://pastebin.com/JVZy4U5i
One data point:

https://openai.com/index/openai-appoints-retired-us-army-gen...
The first rule of Subnautica: if in doubt, go deeper :).

But yeah, I remember there were a few moments I wasn't exactly sure what I'm supposed to be doing; fortunately, the world was interesting enough to explore that I ended up stumbling on "next steps" at random. Probably as intended - the game doesn't really force you into taking a specific path horizontally; the vertical axis provides a natural progression path. See also: the first paragraph :).
I wouldn’t advocate running everything as root either but it is worth noting that most of the valuable information (bank account details, for example) are going to be stored under your current user rather than root.

https://xkcd.com/1200/

What we really need is a better way to segregate sensitive user applications from non-sensitive ones. Like Firefox containers but closer to an application level and something that is easier for the average user to manage than the likes of SELinux.

Maybe that’s the point of the containers in EasyOS?
I disagree. I think we should have more human labor take over farming but on an individual level that's working much much closer to the consumption source. Think having your own farmer and food-producer in your own house or property, or perhaps shared with your small flock of neighbors.

Way too-many of the problems plaguing society atm can be solved by reducing transport and eliminating all the huge intermediate steps between our food (other other food-related products) and ourselves. Just think about how much effort is put into something simple like flour or butter or cheese (nevermind all the crazy processed stuff). The food will be more natural, it'll be healthier and with less additives, we'll be be contributing less to AGI/automation and creating actual valuable jobs, we'll be reducing the amount of plastic, fuel and electricity used for transport, storage, processing, packaging, labelling, accounting, lawyering. Every one of the major food production + distribution industries has huge support networks.
This GUI is as discoverable as a command-line tool which defaults to a help message
Yeah, this sounds like a classic Irish solution. It's hard to see any light at the end of the tunnel here between the shortfall, cost and availability of labour and materials, and so on. To paraphrase what someone once said on this site — housing as an investment or a human right, choose one.

I bought a house in Cork city six years ago, paid more than I hoped because it's quite the fixer upper — we've done almost nothing and "the market" suggests that its value has increased about 50% since. Which is meaningless to me but means a lot to many people I know who can no longer afford a buy a home.
This is one of those things where there was a clear desire but the technology was far too immature to make it happen in a cogent fashion.

That could summarize a huge chunk of tech ideas in the 90's.

The key technologies here was cheap storage and widely available broadband, which both arrived by the mid 2000's. Thus Steam, and the entire online catalog of the Xbox 360/Ps3 and beyond.
Yes exactly! These perceptions are strongly conditioned by each generation's "rose tint".

It's ok though, because the perception "HN isn't what it used to be" is somehow part of the overall system.
TLDR:

> Because drones spray or scatter the ideal concentration uniformly over a precise area, farmers require less pesticide and fertilizer than they would if applying materials by hand, says XAG engineer Long Hung.

I hope Long Hung knows that for sure and not just fantasizes.
Oldest wine ever discovered in liquid form found in untouched Roman tomb
My bad, I meant too many C-level executives believe that they actually work.

And the reason I believe that is that, as far as I understand, many companies are laying off employees (or at least freezing hiring) with the expectation that AI will do the work. I have no mean to quantify how many.
yet another tale of internet illiteracy.

even if you believe that llm can think/recall/etc. you should be vary of the information on the web, as part of internet literacy 101. especially with things that affect your health.
I mean the numbers are just bad unless something changes. I have a small house with a low mortgage rate and low payment that's more than doubled in value over the last 10 years. Yet there aren't any near term realistic situations where it's worth it to sell unless interest rates go up by quite a bit more or the overall cost to rent crashes.

As it stands, rental income would be like 3.x the monthly cost. Even accounting for vacancy while assuming any kind of continued value growth is comfortably ahead of any reduction in payment on a new place that I'd get from selling.

The only things that make selling look attractive are much higher interest rates (IE something that would let common bonds approach 10% yield), or significant depreciation in home prices, or some combo of the two, neither of which look that likely for now. (I guess substantially lower rates without significant price changes would be a third option that seems even less healthy.)

At the same time I'd love to have more space, my house is waaay too cramped. But purchasing also looks like a non wonderful choice (since it's likely to increase monthly costs by > $2k for a mediocre larger house even taking rental picture into account).

At the same time you'd think at some point declining birth rates would become a factor and make houses cheaper again. Problem is also maybe partially that geographic concentration of economic activity into the top urban centers outweighs overall population behavior? And that household size it probably increasingly one person.
> some people just work better in person, and others work better remote.

Yes and there is nothing wrong with that; we (company founded in ‘96) never hired people who ‘need’ office and in person stuff. They can if they want but we are not going to facilitate it as the founders (I am one) do not like it; I prefer chat over calls and meetings, email and forums over real life discussions and wiki over whiteboards.

It has been effective for us and it has saved us numerous times: we had Fortune 1000 clients trying to pin things on us when they made mistakes, but as we have literally everything in writing, that ain’t gonna fly.

I digress; I think it’s a matter of hiring the right people depending if you want in or not in office; not sure about hybrid; I cannot really see that work for these distinct personalities: wouldn’t work for me for sure.
I'm Australian and concur that OP sounds full of himself.

Telling self-righteous... friends, to wind their neck in is far more Australian than OP's behaviour.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome

Edit:

To clarify, I have no problem with his style of writing, which is great, but "I am clearly better than most of my competition"? Lord, get a grip.
UBI can be done, just not in a cash form. You get an efficiency apartment with all the amenites, food stamp allowance per week, healthcare, cheap android phone with internet, and a chromebook.
Should we apply this level of examination for every HN comment. Responding to you.

1. Opinion pieces can cite evidence-based and peer-reviewed research

2. Ad hominem

3. Ad hominem

4. Ad hominem

5. Ad hominem and Straw Man:

6. and 7. Straw man
Email apnea - was an article linked here a while ago. It's a big problem - the ridiculousness of the proposition makes it most likely less talked about...
Having tried a lot of them, Contexts is one of the best Window Switcher replacements i could find, have been using it (and Rectangle) for a long time;

It’s fast, great quick search abilities, including `fn + [key]` to quick switch (acronym), etc.

And it doesn't constantly get updates, it just does its thing and does it well.
Congrats in launching this.

One point of feedback, as a developer I click the page and look for something to try it out, see it in action, screenshots, anything. Only thing I see is some text, no call to action, except signup/login but I won't take the effort if I'm not convinced more that it's a waste of time. If the url to the github is the main thing, don't put it at the...bottom, make it a button at the top.

I would just really put some extra effort in the landing page, Google how to see others do it. https://www.landingfolio.com/ is a great place as well to see example. You've run a marathon with building your product which is great, but if you don't finish this last mile (landing page)...

Good luck!
Ah-ha, "Boys just havin' fun"™. Being Australian is not incompatible with impostors' or being a good troll!
I don't disagree entirely, but there is a pretty strong hint of the self-aware dry humour typical of Australians. I think he believes what he's saying, but they're probably not taking themselves that seriously or literally.
You mean there should be a general solution (not just pairwise) or none at all?
Sorry this actually sounds like a real use case. What was the classification? (I tried google “sidebar archive”). I assume somehow you visited 20,000 web pages and it classified the text on the page? How was that achieved ? You ran a local llama?
The term "artificial intelligence" was marketing from its creation. It means "your plastic pal who's fun to be with, especially if you don't have to pay him." Multiple disparate technologies all called "AI", because the term exists to sell you the prospect of magic.
I would have felt a tad better if such tool had originated in Switzerland rather than France.

The railway system in Switzerland is far, far more reliable, far more central to the Swiss economy and proportionally (Switzerland is smaller than France) services much more of the country in terms of both geographical reach and service frequency.

But ... credit where credit is due, kudos indeed to the Frenchies for building and open sourcing something like this, I would love to see a video of it in use.

[EDIT]: I skimmed through the documentation, and I haven't found anything pertaining to monte carlo simulation of a complex railway system subject to external perturbations, as in: throw a bunch of unexpected events (accidents, breakdowns, blockages, late trains from a neighboring country entering the system, etc...) and see how well the whole network's efficiency holds under such disturbances.
Maybe I am misunderstanding the purpose of the system.

[EDIT 2]: OK, found something. Such a "how well does the network do under perturbation" is not part of the feature set yet but seemed to be in the cards. From [1], in section "Operations studies / Planned features include", I read: "automated timetable robustness assessment using stochastic simulation".

[1]https://osrd.fr/en/about/use-case/#%C3%A9tudes-dexploitation
Guys, look. You know when I say systemd is evil and will screw you over, and never like any of my examples?

HERE. RIGHT HERE. This is the evil and/or incompetence I don't want interacting with my machines. I, and the rest of the community, frankly, is being held hostage.
This seems like a rather "baiting" response but I'll bite

I think systemd is a useful evolution in the problem of "Linux plumbing"

Even if it ends up being replaced by something else, for better or worse Lennart sat down and tried something. That's better than 99% of the systemd haters who sit and postulate on reddit and phoronix

Conversely replacing GPL tools with more permissively licensed ones just seems like the "time is a flat circle" idiom

We'll use our GPL'd systems to build BSD/MIT/Apache licensed ones where benevolent mega corporations "allow" our contributions. Until they don't

And then we'll begin the cycle all over again trying to liberate ourselves from corporate controlled software