skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Man. My daughter's head would sometimes detach from her body and fly around the room by itself.

Is this satire, or am I missing something (going by the serious replies)? Not sure I would ever use this phrasing to describe anything serious - much less about my own child.
The LLM can’t verify anything - it just generates what it thinks is plausible
>I reach conclusions by feel

That sounds like intuition to me
The link I sent gives precise claims compared with advertised features. Anyway I realise I’m feeding a troll here so good luck
No they were just pressure sensitive screens. You could use a finger to navigate but again not as accurate. The solution instead was to perfect one handed navigation which was what palm os 5 did and input writing with either a keyboard (handheld/onscreen) or graffiti like you said.
> How is a non-expert in the language supposed to learn tricks/... things like this?

just like everything else in life that's complex: slowly and diligently.

i hate to break it to you - C++ is complex not for fun but because it has to both be modern (support lots of modern syntax/sugar/primitives) and compile to target code for an enormous range of architectures and modern achitectures are horribly complex and varied (x86/arm isn't the only game in town). forgo one of those and it could be a much simpler language but forgo one of those and you're not nearly as compelling.
powershell is light years easier than bash. like, im fluent in bash enough to get stuff done, but i only got there over years, while i picked up powershell fairly quickly. also wayyyyy more readable.

i'll admit the object vs text thing is annoying, i feel like bash is more straightforward there, but PS will let you do the same thing eventually.
Can't make this stuff up. When I heard they were going in to space on a Boeing I thought "do they have a death wish?".

But of course Boeing would make a special exception with their space ship and do a proper job of it... right?

Nope. When you an MBA-driven shitshow, corner-cut shit is all you know I guess
Huge difference between a local business supporting daily needs versus a tourist focused business. Not to mention different infrastructure.
In certain cases, yeah, why not? For example, maybe at an epidemiology or food hygiene conference, or for Halloween.

But in general, no.
It makes me think of the saying “a jack of all trades a master of none”.

I cannot help but think there are some similarities between large model generative AI and human reasoning abilities.

For example if I ask a physician with a really high IQ some general questions about say anything like fixing shocks on my mini van … he may have some better ideas than me.

However he may be wrong since he specialized in medicine, although he may have provided some good overall info.

Let’s take a lower IQ mechanic who has worked as a mechanic for 15 years. Despite this human having less IQ, less overall knowledge on general topics … he gives a much better answer of fixing my shocks.

So with LLM AI fine tuning looks to be key as it is with human beings. Large data sets that are filtered / summarized with specific fields as the focus.
AIUI Firefox on debian still has telemetry and phone-home on by default.
"We've learned that our helium system is not performing as designed," Mark Nappi, Boeing's Starliner program manager, said at a news conference on June 18. "Albeit manageable, it's still not working like we designed it. So we've got to go figure that out."

That's the first I read of someone in charge admitting that the delays are due to these failed components.

Everything up to now has been "oh, NASA is giving us bonus time so we can do more extensive, general testing of its capabilities."
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40755539

The biggest discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40755969 (9 hours earlier, 62 point, 55 comments)
Yeah same here.
Thought Sonnet had added some ML stuff into their EM simulator.
Probably should have the date of (2001) on it.
did cookie banners exist without the law? largely not, which is why people perceive it to be a "cookie banner law" no matter what is technically written in it.
My experience with 3.5” diskettes was too that they were unreliable- however the older 5.25” ones seemed a lot more durable. I suspect it has to do with the fact that by the end of their market-life 3.5” had to be made super cheap as nobody considered 1.44mb big enough in the late 90s and thus the quality of late-production floppies was low due to cost cutting.
To bystanders who are interested in V: I recommend that you read the articles (especially the most recent one from 2022) and alex-m's response here, and decide for yourself which side you find the most trustworthy. I have nothing more to add and will not respond further. Goodbye.
>More architecture generally means more complexity in the short term and less in the long term.

I'm not convinced of the latter. More architecture = more complexity in both short and long term, everything else being equal.

That is, if you can meet the required feature set with LESS architecture, it will be simpler both short and long term, compared to more architecture (which, since it's not essential for meeting the feature set, it would be adding abstractions and YAGNI features).
oooh let me look into that. You're right; it should be a number.
I agree with you that an application needs discoverability. Like a text processor for a writer or a photo editing software for a photographer. It should make sense for a particular domain, requiring only minimal training for the medium. But we can't abstract away the notion of computers. An analogy is car. Driving a car only require a minimal interface. Racing with one, however, requires a lot more knowledge. Repairing a car is where knowing the internals is the minimum. Different needs, different levels of knowledge. Most people would be happy with the iPad if only the applications were a tad more useful (File sharing is aweful). But some people do "general computing" and graphical interfaces usually fail in some way or another (especially with automation).
Downplaying one of modernity's most complete genocides with 'they were actually persians that sold some slaves' and 'actually some of the people in charge were western european' is frankly disgusting.

Moscow's reach for the Black Sea had nothing to do with anti-slavery idealism or whatever you're getting at, they wanted ports and trade and didn't consider muslims as human as christians. It also seems to me that you don't consider serfdom a form of slavery, only international slave trade, which isn't a position I share.
wayland annoys the toxic people, because it is currently favoring easy alternative implementations.

It won't last, probably.

Those toxic people usually always get their way into "core", pouring tons and tons of interfaces and dirty everything, viciously adding "features" to provoke some level of planned obsolescences over some few years cycles.

Pure evil.
It sure does look like it
I'm not convinced it's a fact we all think as differently as implied. Try and get a room full of people to even agree what "internal dialogue" means or whether you actually hear a voice when you recall it.
Show HN: Envelope – A modern environment variable cli tool
Hey HN! I've built this cli tool to manage env variables of a project, but mostly for fun and to try out Rust and the clap crate.

I had this idea when I made a big mistake and broke some production stuff because I had a very messy .env file laying around in my project.

I was implementing new features for one of my projects and in my .env file I had the test database url commented out and the production one was not. Long story short, I applied migrations to the production database instead of my local test one and broke a lot of production APIs :')

I wanted a tool that could easily help me spot these issues before something bad happened, and so I built envelope for that reason.

Instead of a \.env(\..+)? file, I now use this tool to add variables to different configurations: dev, prod etc. and I feed them to the program I am executing on a one liner.

$ envelope init
$ envelope add dev db_url localhost:5432/postgres
$ envelope add dev db_username username
$ envelope add dev db_pwd pwd
$ export $(envelope list dev)
$ ./run.sh

This way I am explicitly exporting the dev environment without relying on the fact that everything is in order in my .env file (another approach would be to have a .env.dev file)

A very useful feature that I use quite a lot is the `check` command which is going to tell you which environment you have currently active

$ export $(envelope list dev)
$ envelope check
> dev

I don't think this tool is going to be useful to anybody, but I wanted to share this with you in case there is someone that can make good use of it or find particular scenarios where this could be used instead of .env files, either way I had a lot of fun building it
Apple 'stole' the rectangular capacitive touch screen form factor from the LG Prada [1,2] which they combined with their own operating system. Android which was initially targeted at devices with physical keyboards and pointing devices then 'stole' the form factor from Apple. Microsoft took the idea and ran with it to create their own multi-touch capacitive display devices, as did many others. Most fell by the wayside but let's all be glad that there are at least two competitors instead of a single vendor hogging this important market.

Jobs himself claimed that 'good artists copy, great artists steal' (another 'stolen' quote by the way [3]) so the pot could call the kettle black but that did not make him any less so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20070403110422/http://www.applem...

[3] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/
Yes and please run the examples from the 2022 articles to verify that these type checker bugs have all been fixed.

(Not that having type checker bugs makes a language a scam in the first place.)

@mort96

It's very unfortunate that you make strong claims like "None of the features which sound interesting actually work, and there's no sign that anyone working on the language has any idea how they'll make them work."

and fail to post a single proof of such features.
What's your nationality? Because it is absolutely relevant. If you don't employ some empathy and self-reflection of your own history when judging the historical actions of others, you literally get no say in the matter.
I was just thinking about that haha. I'd think she's kinda the opposite of a rust lover though.

(did you know the game + expansion are available for 4.99 on Steam and it runs out of the box on linux? Just saying)
Dynomight recently wrote a good breakdown of anti-seed-oil theories, assessing whether they're plausible:

https://dynomight.net/seed-oil/
I learned about Aphantasia about eight months ago, and it really sent me for a trip. I have no problems visualizing in my mind and sometimes can get lost in it, to me that’s what daydreaming is.

I discussed it with some of my friends, and it seems to exist on a spectrum. The most different from me was one friend who had to really focus to visualize in his mind, and even then he could only do so in black and white.

I find it absolutely fascinating that the human experience can vary so greatly at such a fundamental level, yet it doesn't manifest in ways that are obvious to others, and everyone thinks that their form of thinking is a common shared experience so they don't even bother to talk about it.
TikTok NPC streams of course
They don't parse the tmpfiles.d configs nor are they the ones that create the directories. sd-tmpfiles effectivly is part of the package manager (if they make use of it during uninstall) just like sd-sysusers for creating service users. They indirectly use it by installing files to tmpfiles.d, so it does somewhat follow that they should use it to remove the affected files again.

IIRC idealy services wouldn't even need any tmpfiles.d entries at all and would rely on the service StateDirectory= and RuntimeDirectory= but there are also a decent amount of other cases (mostly programs that require config files in /etc/ which idealy shouldn't be required) where there need to be some other dirs/files present.
They also provide you with a lot of hidden features that you will take advantage of if something bad happens. None of that is offered by airbnb.

The reason why hotels are expensive is because they're properly regulated and are forced to be a net positive which is passed down to the customer. airbnbs had none of that until recently and all the negative impact was pocketed by the landlords.
I have been lucky on multiple installs on multiple computers? I'm not saying what people are complaining about are lies, I'm saying the issues don't seem to exist in EU installs on Windows. For example the only ads I've seen were during the initial setup screen and pre-installed apps/shortcuts that are gone in a minute of work, and OneDrive can be uninstalled in two clicks.

The only issue that is still here would be bing in start search but that's trivial to disable compared to the configurations I had to do on my linux desktops, so while it is bad and shouldn't be a thing I don't see it as a big issue when comparing to linux.
If all you know is MBA crap, how can you suddenly switch on engineering acumen when you've driven it out?
Windows is literally different in the EU and the rest of the world.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/eupolicy/2024/03/07/microsoft-dm...
Did you transition to HN from Reddit by any chance?
Did you mean 2021?
Do NOT put words into my mouth about what I consider slavery or not (or anything, unless I explicitly write it). Yeah, Slav serfdom was shitty as was Russian Imperialism. And American Imperialism, British Imperialism and so-on.

And I'm not downplaying anything (and sure, the Russian Empire made justifications for what it did), I'm pointing out that my God - that was two centuries ago. By your measure, every modern American and Spaniard is a genocidal maniac...
Reladiff: High-performance diffing of large datasets across databases
I never said the books have to be physically printed. Digitize the book and sell it online. Make it available through a kindle unlimited subscription. It doesn't matter, as long as it's readily available. Until then, they should have no right to sue to remove the books from IA.

Also keep in mind that, for many of the books, the authors are dead.
Please provide a feature to load data from notion export
Many, many executives are bullies and tyrants without shipping anything like what Apple shipped under Jobs.
> If you ever come across a bright teenager getting lulled into communism keep this in mind as a very edifying example of the pitfalls of that system

This does not work at all in most instances. I'm a descendant of Poles who suffered greatly from Soviet oppression and later due to communist rule in Poland. I'm always open to share their horrific stories because it's important to know the past.

The two most frequent arguments I'm getting from those young people fascinated with communism is:

1. The history books are false, Gulags were education communities where people chilled and exchanged ideas

2. USSR was not real communism and we'll make it work this time.
Reading Microsoft's post on the EU's DMA shows that the only way they will make user experiences better is when forced to do so by regulation.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/eupolicy/2024/03/07/microsoft-dm...
It's a bad driver for adhering to the speed limits?

I'm having a hard time understanding how that makes sense. I understand that matching the flow of traffic is important, but more important than the speed limit? They're there for a reason.

If the speed limit is 30km/h and everyone is driving in 50km/h, you're saying you'll opt for driving at 50km/h?

Besides, if there is multiple lanes, you take the right lane and follow the speed limit. The ones who don't want to adhere to the speed limit, have the left lane(s).

And in the case of it only being one lane, you can literally decide the flow of traffic by adhering to the speed limit, and everyone behind you need to follow it, and once it stabilizes, that's now the flow of traffic, problem solved?

(Just as a disclaimer, I do sometimes drive above the limits myself, but limited only to the highways, never on road with a limit below 120km/h)
> Sometimes I daydream about what would happen if FTL communications were possible, but only over short millimeters. It’d seem useless right?

this is already a thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light#:~:text=In%2...).
Upon reflection, thanks for "♥ reflections"; I see the commentary there doesn't use the Star Wars Sith analogy I prefer, but instead talks (after Allison?) about a 修昔底德 trap.

Is there any english-language equivalent to this site? Did it grown organically out of the tradition of posting essays and counter-essays on village walls?
Plausible...but if Short-Term Bottom Line is your top priority for hiring and promoting managers, for years - then don't expect either your engineers or engineering culture to be much good.
Over entire trading blocs. It's crazy.
Honestly I dont even do history anymore for small projects, I bisect twice a year tops and I have never evee have had to look at a 3 year old commit to figure out a bug, not that the code could'nt be 3 years old but the blame is so tangled at that point..
> And that's me following best practices to have `"` around the values in the XML!

Are you implying those are optional? They aren't. You can choose between " and ' but you need one of them. You might be confusing HTML rules with XML here? HTML is not XML. (That was XHTML, which failed…)
I think the real problem is "really really wanted the sqrtps to be used in some code they were writing" is at odds with -ffast-math.

Clang transforms sqrtps(x) to x * rsqrtps(x) when -ffast-math is set because it's often faster (See [1] section 15.12). It isn't faster for some architectures, but if you tell clang what architecture you're targeting (with -mtune), it appears to make the right choice for the architecture[2].

[1]: https://cdrdv2.intel.com/v1/dl/getContent/814198?fileName=24...

[2]: https://godbolt.org/#g:!((g:!((g:!((h:codeEditor,i:(filename...
An alternative is using txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai). It's lightweight and works with both local and remote LLMs.

Here is an example article that shows how to use OpenAI calls with txtai: https://neuml.hashnode.dev/rag-with-llamacpp-and-external-ap...
I use https://github.com/Adamcake/Bolt to play on Linux with a Jagex account.

It's frustrating that Jagex won't support Linux directly, though.
Great, just don't force it on me, or grumble when not everyone on the team does it.
Is there any solid scientific background for “Human Design” or it’s one more of this pop science feel good horseshit? Because it sounds like it.
Here are some thoughts:

#1: Apple locks you into their ecosystem, and feels even creepier than MS.
#2: The Linux distros I've used are designed in a way so you shouldn't have to use the CLI and sudo for normal tasks, but you end up having to anyway in practice. It's a combination of annoying, and I, sooner-or-later, end up in a state where the system is "totaled"; easier to do a clean install than get it working again after the wrong CLI C+P broke something important.
That document has a really good summary of all the problems surrounding text rendering onto a canvas[1]. Having been through the pain of implementing such a system for my canvas library earlier this year I can sympathise with the decision not to include it in the proposed format's MVP.

What did disappoint me when reading the doc was the decision to place accessibility at the bottom of the list of priorities for the proposed format. There's a footnote that says "Accessibility being low on this list reflects that the needs can be met outside the format as well, and supporting them inside the format would be beneficial only to the extent that it provides greater flexibility to designers", but to me that seemed back-to-front: why not tell the engine/device that will display the image the (preferred) requirements for accessibly rendering (or describing) that image by including such data in the format, rather than hoping that the engine/device will make "best efforts" to support people with accessible needs in some unknowable way?

[1] Text section in doc - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YWffrlc6ZqRwfIiR1qwp1AOk...
Definitely not 2Mhz, maybe 20 or 25Mhz? 33mhz was also common in that time frame. Even the original PC from 1981 ran at 4.77mhz.
How does this avoid copyright infringement? Or is it a thing you must run on specific files?
> This is a fight worth having.

Literally everyone here has already stated that they agree with you on this. There's no controversy upthread about whether copyright law needs to be reformed, the controversy is over whether it made sense to risk the entire Internet Archive (whose most important contribution to the knowledge of mankind has nothing to do with online lending) or if it should have been fought by an organization that was built to fight it.

Their instinct to help is admirable, but their lack of restraint shows a major lack of judgment and very well could have put their archives of the internet at risk. Not every nonprofit organization can do everything.
> Probably should have the date of (2001) on it.

I assume that is a typo. The paper and the article are both from 2021.

But also, did the planets stop orbiting since? Did someone turn of gravity? What changed since then which makes the date of it so important?
You can drive 1 hour, buy AR-15 in wallmart and go back without any border controls.

Gun control needs to be a nation-wide policy, and it needs to be implemented with all the common-sense measures like buying back the guns from population - see Australia for one example where it worked.
>We've had the models for a while and still no one has shown this mythical lab where this regurgitation machine reasons about things and makes no mistakes.

It would be a good experiment to interact with the unfiltered, not-yet-RHLFed interfaces provided to the initial trainers (nigerian folks/gals?).

Or maybe the - lightly filtered - interfaces used privately in demos for CEOs.
It’s an intestinator!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(1992_film)
Progress should be earned like in Dark Souls.

The best example I have is the Caprademon. Early on in the game, you face a single one (granted, in a cramped area) and it is quite an obstacle. Later on in the game you face many of them in a row, and you don’t even blink.

At that point you have better gear, but it’s mostly going through the entire game that has taught you the skillset to make quick work of them.

You should get access to the endgame mostly by skill, not gear. That’s a good game.
Wait how do they justify having an even more expensive ride with fewer people to pay? The whole point of cutting the driver out is to save on cost, without that the entire project is no better than uber or lyft (which already overcharges by an arm and a leg)
Yeah, it's awful. Used to work for a crypto market maker.

Binance run all their stuff on AWS behind CloudFront. If you want to make orders, you have to use a slow REST API via their CDN. Lots of jitter, and spikes. Their tech is probably not very well engineered for latency.
try this tool: https://www.pdfequips.com/markdown-to-pdf edit the markdown text then download the pdf, you can perform the functions you want on that pdf file.
Roger Ebert Was Right About Video Games and We Have Failed Him
> They must be wary about releasing new features deeply baked into the OS that the EU might use the DMA to try to force them to open them up.

Why is that a bad thing? Why can't I, as a developer who has a good idea about using these APIs in a novel way, just do that? Why do users need to patiently wait for Apple to maybe perhaps give a damn about my idea before they can have that need served?
Search "Why is my baby crying bloody murder" aka witching hour.

If you've never experienced this, you are very lucky.