skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am from the US originally, and I literally never heard anyone call Australia "Oz", and didn't even know what it meant, until I moved to Australia. Americans — at least all the ones I encounter — are almost always confused by the designation (they think you're making a reference to The Wizard of Oz).

I think that's because "Oz" comes from "Aussie", which Americans mispronounce (they say something like "ossy" rather than "ozzy").

It's uncommon for Australians to say "Oz" in my experience, but it's still definitely a thing (albeit mostly in ads/marketing rather than daily speech). And even the ones who never say it still know what it means.

I don't know what people say in the UK because I have never been there.
I want this:

- as an actual app on my Mac

- not in retro/bw but with a high res and high colors support

Please
>If these Korean apps were so good, you would expect them to penetrate foreign markets. But they don't.

Dumb reasoning. Their apps are targeted at Korean life on purpose. Their app being good or bad is irrelevant.

The reason American apps penetrate the world usually is because America is a superpower that has almost colonised the web.
Different strokes, I guess. One of the main draws of buying games from GOG instead of Steam, for me, is the fact that I don't need an extra bit of superfluous software just to purchase and launch my games. I have a perfectly good application launcher already, which relies on standard .desktop files.
pretty impressive!
Please repost any bugs you may find down here :)
Not OP, but I have been using LibreChat until now. However, now that I see some of Anthropic's "artifacts" capabilities, I may start using their web UI a lot more.
Hard agree. Jobs was much better at this (being a control freak with weird ideas). I don't think the butterfly keyboard would've happened on his watch.
Did you really watch the helicopter video and think 'wow the US military is definitely in the right!'. I was young when the video was released, and it was a huge step in my journey to becoming critical of imperial powers.
Where is the API sign up?
I guess you misunderstood the word “location”.

The voting centre is typically the closest public school to where you live.

So when I say location here I mean the neighborhood where you live.

Also the main concern isn’t the government. They clearly already have the data and will always have that data. They also have the actual address of people.

The main concern is literally anyone can access the data and this thread is about countries protecting PII lol.
> The solution I've been waiting for is source-code-in-the-database. I'm cheering on multiple projects attempting this.

What are the projects you're especially bullish on?
This seems like the option that would make the most sense. If developers can "write once, run everywhere", they might as well do that instead of Cuda. But if they have to "write once, run on Intel, or AMD, or Nvidia", why would they bother with anything other than Nvidia considering their market share? If you're an underdog you go for open standards that makes it easy to switch to your products, but it seems like AMD have seen Nvidia's Cuda and jealously decided they wanted their own version, but 15 years too late.
Coastal or near-coastal sites are interesting because they are often very rich for forage food. But they're also complete buggers because of erosion. Coastal sites with hard rock and large caves/caverns which are capable of being continuously occupied for millenia are doubly interesting!
What are you on about? People dropping things from buildings is way more scalable than this.

Having a shitty robot that needs to be reloaded every time is not scalable.
Very understandable. There is an emptiness because it should have never come to this.

The last line of Chapter 31 Tao Te Ching sayings it right.

"Fine weapons are instruments of misfortune; all creatures fear them. In peace we favor creation; at war we favor destruction. Weapons are tools of misfortune, not the tools of the wise. The sage uses them only as the very last, with calm restraint. Victory is no cause for rejoicing; victory comes from killing.
If you enjoy killing, you can never be fulfilled. When victorious, celebrate as if at a funeral."
They solved the wrong problem. I still have to sit in a car for 30 minutes after work. If instead they made a robotic chef cook, that would actually save me 30 minutes every day.
I’m genuinely interested to see whether we can throw a little ML at simulating dumb virtual desktop pets… we ought to have made some progress in the last two decades.
> Myself I think Singapore has it right about gum

Singapore has it right about very little. Extravagant punishment for the sake of deterrence is not justice.
I read that title wrong
You're not wrong, but I think part of point of storytelling is about connecting people with each other and creating a sense of community.
Show HN: Fluffy – Answer-Engine for Interacting with Public / OS Repos
4 years ago, I dove back into coding after a decade-long break and immediately noticed how much had changed.

Back then, as a college freshman, I tinkered with code in isolation. Today, I primarily build custom logic into the functionalities extended by open source libraries—standing on the shoulders of giants.

However, I encountered three main challenges:
A. Sometimes repo are poorly documented or maintained... or really new (I had to watch a tutorial in Spanish on Vercel's AI/SDK, lol)
B. Or at times, I’d stumble upon bugs so specific to my use case that I ended up spending a lot of time trying to figure out a fix
C. Or at times, you want to quickly check out a new research driven repo that's come out

To address these issues, I built Fluffy over the past four months. To make my life a bit easier.

What does Fluffy do?
A. Ingest Any Repo: Simply ask Fluffy to ingest a repository.
B. Fluffy then parses the files (markdowns, docs linked in them, code files, header files et al) to create a graph of the repo ('cause a repo is not like a PDF)
C. Depending on your query, you choose between explore, debug or answer modes and type in the query, much like how you would on Google or Stack Overflow - you no longer have to worry about prompting right
D. Fluffy uses GPT4 (for now) to generate an answer using the context from the repo.
E. It then evaluates the answer it's generated to highlight edgecases / issues in them so that you don't have to squint to figure out if good ol' GPT isn't hallucinating

I think of repos as Pokémon—they constantly evolve. Why rely on outdated tech blogs when you can directly interact with the source?

I’m want to improve Fluffy and would greatly appreciate your feedback. What do you think?
That’s just a bunch of statements made by people in the US.. Maybe you should ask the Chinese and Russians for a list and compare lol.
The official story, at least, is that his will dictates his former holdings be sold off and the proceeds donated to charity. So it sounds like she's doing her duty as executor of his estate. Similar questions have lingered for years over what will become of the Seahawks and the Trailblazers.
For whatever it's worth, when I first wrote this I submitted it to /r/haskell (https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/cs7jyu/a_reckless_...) and it doesn't look like there were any corrections from that; and since then I've implemented an HM type checker and don't remember finding anything that made me think "oh, I was wrong about ...".

So I'm more confident in the essay than I was at the time. But yeah, getting put on guard by those caveats doesn't seem ideal for intro material. (But if I hadn't had them and I'd gotten something wrong, that would also not have been ideal...)

For writing the type checker, "write you a haskell" that someone else linked was really helpful, and so was a paper called "typing haskell in haskell": https://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~mpj/thih/thih.pdf
Firefox reader mode is a little bit customizable. Font size column width and so.

Cumbersome, but one can change width of a single tab by using the inspector and using the responsive design mode.

Perhaps there is room for another Firefox feature to limit width of a page. Perhaps multi-column mode, where one can for example split the page in 3 columns and each column displays, what could not be fit on the previous column. And resizable columns maybe.
If you're in the area Manorbier Castle is also great. And Bosherston ponds (not a castle, just nice)

basically all of Pembrokeshire coast is great!
AI Startup Etched Unveils ASIC Claiming 20x Speed-Up over Nvidia H100
> Redundant Array of Independent Planets

Might want to keep workshopping that one.
It’s impossible to produce cellulose and amylose in this way from barley and claim it was done safely in a protective atmosphere.

They already do this in many sweets by using sugar from wheat because it’s cheaper to produce but it makes many people with gluten allergy extremely ill.

They separate out the sugar but it’s contaminated.

A single molecule of gluten or nuts from cross contamination can make people with these allergies very ill.

Wrapping all food in our society with this stuff will lead to great suffering and danger for many. At least initially until the problem is acknowledged and fixed like in the cases of asbestos, tobacco etc
Silphium, 'Miracle Plant' Used in Ancient Greece Rediscovered After 2k Years
Fighting the late-night bright light could reduce risk of diabetes
"In the large modeling study, the research team investigated whether personal light exposure patterns predicted the risk of diabetes using data from approximately 85,000 people and around 13 million hours of light sensor data."
The only thing I can think of when reading this is the "damn, you live like this?" meme. I can't imagine using OS that does this to you and not being angry all the time (I'm not tribalistic, Linux has its own set of infuriating problems, but at least it feels like I'm in control).
Here’s a better answer, in my opinion: https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2020/so-what/

> If you have never listened to jazz before, Miles Davis’ Kind Of Blue is a great place to start. The heart of the album is its first track, “So What.”

> “So What” is famous for being one of the first modal jazz tunes. This just means that it doesn’t have a lot of chord changes compared to the fast harmonic rhythms of bebop. The A sections use the D Dorian mode. This scale is especially easy to play on the piano; just play the white keys. The B section is up a half step, on E-flat Dorian. If you play the black keys on the piano, you get five of the seven notes in this scale. I had a complete beginner pianist improvise a solo over “So What” in class. I called out when she needed to switch between the white and black keys. It worked!

> “So What” occupies a similar place in jazz pedagogy to the blues: it’s simple enough for beginners to play, but you can devote a lifetime to practicing and never get to the bottom of it. If you want to learn how to improvise jazz, you should definitely learn Miles’ solo.

> Black American music uses lots of call and response as a structuring element. “So What” has many call-and-response pairs at different scales. Here are all the layers I can detect, ranging from micro to macro … (7)

> I would bet that this fractal-like self-similarity across different levels is a major reason for the tune’s appeal. Any tune this immediately catchy yet also structurally deep is going to attract a lot of imitation.

> Anybody who’s been to music school can write complex and abstruse jazz tunes, and blow complicated solos over them. Not many musicians can write memorable hooks. And only the most profound artists can write a hook that conceals as much depth and possibility as “So What.” I wonder if that level of creativity is teachable, or learnable?
Would you consider yourself as to have "chased the new shiny"? If you don't mind, how many changes (overhauls?) would you say you've made?
> There are smartphone cameras that do depth sensing and HDR

Depth sensing is again, estimated or using time of flight sensors which is pretty much short-range lidar. HDR is used already in AV perception, but still loses to your eyeballs in dynamic range and processing time.
Me too, I was wondering if this cave was the inspiration for that story.
Not all env vars are secrets. About half is just regular config. If mandatory how would it know what's a secret?
https://hcsimulator.com/havacow/RoundRectsRule
I see these as two completely different topics. One is about retelling classic stories in a way that is more relevant to modern audience. "Disney's The Little Mermaid" is most definitely not "Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid" and is never really presented as such. It's just a retelling of a story that happens to have been first told in some fashion by Hans Christian Anderson

As a completely separate issue we have censorship, where Mark Twain or Roald Dahl have their works republished using words that are not their own but still using their name. That's deliberately confusing and masking historical context, and that's objectionable.

To object to a retelling of a Hans Christian Anderson story is basically to advocate for unlimited copyright terms.
Standardized testing came out of Bush junior which in turn came out of education reports in Regaen's time that US education sucked. That is, we've played this game with huge emphasis with and without. We can't whine all the time.

The goal of standardized testing was to measure then enforce accountability, which is the right thing to do. Underperformance would be met with no/reduced federal funding. It was also intended to push back against too local too state control in an attempt to root our lagards. The fed level had no other way to influence local decision making except with cash.

Others have written that bad schools is a particularly American problem. The US is average or so with respect to OECD countries especially given the huge variations in student background. The UK is not acing us for example.

Now there is one aspect of it's only the US that is true. And it's self imposed.

First, education has been made too political. Second, education is awash in American daydreaming of idealism; it's a proxy for arguing about larger issues in American society by trying to fix them earlier. Part of that idealism which is a inherently American sentiment my child has some greater purpose, talent, destiny that beurceatric teachers will screw up. So only if one finds and nutures it then ... fill in the blank with more guessing ... cause it's not like kids know any better.

Third, it's gotten caught up in culture wars all which are a huge waste of energy. We did that to ourselves. That's why it's covered and yacked about so much.

We adults ought to fix our adult problems in our context and get kids ready for same.

As others have noted unschooling has a nasty tinge of too much money, too much time on their hands with too many opinions. That leads to weird roll-your-own for those that afford it.

I'm American and raised two boys here one now through university.
There is still a caching effect of the CDN for your servers, even if there isn't for the end user: if the CDN serves the file then your server does not have to.

Large CDNs with endpoints in multiple locations internationally also give the advantage of reducing latency: if your static content comes from the PoP closest to me (likely London, <20ms away where I'm currently sat, ~13 on FTTC at home⁰, ~10 at work) that could be quite a saving if your server is otherwise hundreds of ms away (~300ms for Tokyo, 150 for LA, 80 for New York). Unless you have caching set to be very aggressive dynamic content still needs to come from your server, but even then a high-tech CDN can² reduce the latency of the TCP connection handshake and¹ TLS handshake by reusing an already open connection between the CDN and the backing server(s) to pipeline new requests.

This may not be at all important for many well-designed sites, or sites where latency otherwise matters little enough that a few hundred ms a couple of times here or there isn't really going to particularly bother the user, but could be a significant benefit to many bad setups and even a few well-designed ones.

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[0] York. The real one. The best one. The one with history and culture. None of that “New” York rebranded New Amsterdam nonsense!

[1] if using HTTPS and you trust the CDN to re-encrypt, or HTTP and have the CDN add HTTPS, neither of which I wouldn't recommend as it is exactly an MitM situation, but both are often done

[2] assuming the CDN also manages your DNS for the whole site, or just a subdomain for the static resources, so the end user sees the benefit of the CDNs anycast DNS arrangement.
Looks very useful. I didn't dive deep, but don't understand yet where you define access controls? I mean, How you say that a given Users can only Access their own data.
Well it's because as Uber expanded and had to desperately fight for its margins, it started to lower its standards for UberX. Before, cars had to be fairly new and in a relatively good condition. Now it's no longer the case.
Discussed yesterday:

Round Rects Are Everywhere

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40781838 (170 comments)
Transfer function would need to be learned online because room reverberations contribute a lot.
"Call my broker, tell him to sell all my NVDA!"

Combined with the earlier paper this year that claimed LLMs work fine (and faster) with trinary numbers (rather than floats? or long ints?) — the idea of running a quick LLM local is looking better and better.
Who knew there were that many people doing tech reviews on YT?
I love this. I think I'll just keep this app open at all times so I always have a little ball on screen. :)
Use whois to find out which company is hosting the domain and for good measure, ping the sites and use whois on the IPs you get back to see which networks they're being served from, then contact those ISPs

Fake storefronts can be served from compromised devices (often using a residential IP address) so reporting those will get them cleaned up/secured and while most hosting companies don't have much to fear from managing a scammer's domain/DNS (nobody blacklists godaddy or namecheap and they know it) hosting scammers on your network is much worse since you risk getting your IP space blacklisted (unless you're google or cloudflare) so sometimes it's easier to get the sites removed by going after the networks involved, although that can also turn into a game of Whac-A-Mole since the scammers will often just point their domain to a new IP.
I’m not super well versed in continuations, is right-now/go-when analogous to reset and shift, or are these different ideas?
All the more reason to take historical accuracy seriously. These stories were intentionally written to scare the shit out of little children in immediate graphic horror, to give them paralyzing nightmares.

The primary reason was to teach child to stay out out of the forest, or if absolutely necessary, then at the very least stay on the damn road and listen to their parents. The forest was a scary place full of beasts and bandits. People did not have cell phones. If a child got lost and injured in the forest they would probably starve to death, or if lucky, be devoured by wolves.

Let's not censor this so Disney can sell cartoons to the sad and ignorant. Instead let's enjoy it for what it was as it was written. People would lose their damn minds if you took the same actions to remove the violence and sexual fantasy out of Shakespeare, which was pale in comparison.
man this is beautiful and fast. good job!
When I rode in one, admittedly a long time ago when cruise was still operating in sf too, the waymo car pulled over for a firetruck. However, the firetruck was merely crossing the road we were on and it was 3 streets away. And the waymo pulled into a bus stop to do this. The safety driver had to nudge it back into traffic.
credit card fees are insignificant compared to the fact that cash payment allows the driver to evade taxes more easily.
Based on the recent post about the disposable Montreal subway tickets with a super cheap nfc chip (and amusingly on a paper ticket with a a printed on fake smart chip connection) it should be super cheap to have an automated kiosk that pairs your drink order to a paper cup that when a barista swipes shows your cup your order shows up or fills it automatically.

https://www.righto.com/2024/06/montreal-mifare-ultralight-nf...
(It was linked from here but i don't have the HN link)
I wouldn't argue that CRDT "solves" this problem, either.

The git solution exposes the conflict to the user, who can then fix it. (Or leave it there if they choose to.)

The best a CRDT can do is leave some kind of conflict marker that the user can fix. (Remember, computers can't read minds. See my "quick brown fox" example.)

Git does this. It's predictable and lossless. Deciding if it's a CRDT probably is more of a discussion about semantics than fact, because "git merge" is lossless: It presents a consistent view that the user can accept or change.

And yes, I know what a CRDT is.
A brief introduction to interval arithmetic
This may in fact be one of the most effective forms of archival available to us. (Handwaving away the preservation of compatibility with future hardware or the maintenance of an “emulation chain” to get us back from whatever GPUs are there in 2124 to something our today models would run on)

We could train a model every year and preserve it, then future historians can quiz this model that thinks it’s 2024 and ask it whatever they need to know. It’s fascinating because it will probably “know” the kinds of everyday normal people things that are very hard to glean from only reading old news stories. Things like how the average person feels about their world, or how they feel about current events and why.
To be really specific, it identified a La Marzocco Linea Mini and incorrectly, a La Marzocco Swift grinder. I cross-checked with Google and the Swift was incorrect. ChatGPT then suggested it could be a Mahlkönig EK43 or Nueva Simonelli Mythos.

Mahlkönig EK43 was the correct answer, but the combo is unusual, because people will usually get a couple of La Marzoccos from a supplier who holds both, and Mahlkönig is an unseen brand here. Why go to the trouble? La Marzocco makes good enough grinders.

With further interrogation, ChatGPT was absolutely insistent on it being a EK43, a limited edition model called The Icon, which was notable for its white color and gold trimmings. This kind of precision is easy to verify, but it's not a detail that comes up in a Google search for the EK43.

The correct answer was that the coffee shop's owner's mentor was from Vietnam, where the EK43 was more common. It was particularly good for making complex latte art like unicorns as it has a precision that allowed controlling the acidity of the crema.

But this whole thought process was just wild. I want it to give me all kinds of crazy answers. I want it to have a high miss rate. It's perfect for brainstorming. But you need sufficient expertise to guide ChatGPT to the next answers.
It was actually code for "dirk".

A dirk move is where you stab someone. Metaphorically in this case, I'm sure.
The diplomatic cables contain all sorts of information about extraordinary rendition, about the use Turkish airbases, Irish complicity, etc.

This isn't small potatoes. Here in Sweden it wasn't just the extradition from Bromma in 2001, but the US flew multiple illegal flights with prisoners through Sweden, possibly to the US torture camps in Poland and eastern Europe.

I also think these cables revealed information about the Thailand black site, where the US was torturing some people.
I played AOE3 after AOE2 as well years ago, but it never had the same feeling despite having much more variety and content. AOE2 hit the balance between simplicity and variety for me, though might be an effect of childhood memories as well.

Also never really warmed up to the bonus "cards".