skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the indicators of whether a source is credible or not. Traditional newspapers always include an original publication date and a "last updated" date, along with notes—such as an "Editor's note" or "Update"—to indicate factual corrections or major changes to the article.

What qualifies as a major change can be subjective at times: there have been controversies where newspapers change an inaccurate headline without notice and larger controversies where there is a "stealth edit" that many readers believe should have been publicized. But this expectation that there should be transparency with edits should be the norm.

I believe that articles on personal websites and blogs can only gain by following the practice, too, as it's an indicator to the reader that the author cares about transparency and accuracy.
Your comment is extremely shortsighted given the history of Khan Academy and the goals of that organization. I'm pretty sure that if they could pay for a tutor for every kid on the planet, they would. AI is being used to democratize access to education for underserved populations, and we should laud that effort despite some of the drawbacks of AI.
Maybe the numbers didn't look very good and they thought it was better to leave them out
Funny..but I was expecting them to have it all be done with just one Ai Prompt.
"Computer.. generate a 10-slide presentation with my branding style in `file-X`,
The goal of the presentation is to pitch investors about our startup. Focus on these slides : [Sure! Here are the main section titles for the 10-page slide deck:

1. Title Slide
2. Problem Statement
3. Solution
4. Market Opportunity
5. Business Model
6. Go-to-Market Strategy
7. Traction and Milestones
8. Team
9. Financial Projections
10. Closing and Call to Action]

dont forget the hockey stick figures.
Impressive, but I can't foresee any project where I would pick this over the vastly more powerful PJRC Teensy 4.0 [1]. It is only slightly larger and only costs $3.85 more.

[1] https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy40.html
Haskell has linear types now, so there's your lifetime and ownership, though thankfully they're optional... wrangling linear types makes Rust look friendly and lenient.
Yeah this type of madness is rampant when it comes to AGI believers, always makes me want to drive a nail in my hand.
It kept me busy for several mins. omg lmao. i met the server crashing
Flames?
> Steve Jobs was famously an asshole. Apple couldn't exist if every manager acted like him, but would it exist if he didn't?

Is there any reason to believe it wouldn't?
Bing censors mentions of Xi Jinping more than Chinese competitors
Or you see things very differently, the difference is that you are defending justy any arseholery as "journalism and hacktivism", while the GP wasn't.

Funny how you seem to think that your view on everything, even on a difference in views, is automatically the authoritative one.

I don't feel like interacting any more with you either, so why don't you think to yourself about it why what you think is "so obviously correct."
I'm no product manager, but how on earth does it not make sense to elevate a use case that people clearly want from ad-hoc solution to actual feature?
Agreed 1000%.
US lawmakers wave red flags over Chinese drone dominance
So, this morning I happened to be reading a crossword blog - written by an English professor - and, reflecting on this conversation, thought, "Jeez, I'll bet Rex Parker uses the -y construct." So I scrolled back a few pages in his archives, and sure enough, earlier this month he described something as "bro-y" [0].

In case you still feel like you're more of an authority on whether this is acceptable in colloquial English than me (a Canadian native Engish speaker), OP (who - I peeked at their profile - appears to be a British native English speaker), or an American professor of English:

I also noticed, while scrolling through Rex's archives, that the Times itself had used the "-y" in the crossword. See the cited clue on 36A on June 18 [1], which describes something as "sting-y" - not to be confused with "stingy". Good enough for The Gray Lady, good enough for me.

At this point, I think - if it's still causing you to struggle with reading comprehension - you need to accept that it's a construct in common usage and spend some time practicing until you start to feel comfortable with it. Sorry, I know it's inconsistent; English is known for having quite a few quirks that you just need to get used to.

[0] https://rexwordpuzzle.blogspot.com/2024/06/strong-as-ox-in-s...

[1] https://rexwordpuzzle.blogspot.com/2024/06/extremely-damaged...
I expect Julian Arrange to get a substantial award.
NB: the lazy pattern of linking to a brief microblog post rather than giving the payload text is one of my long-standing pet peeves. Particularly as such sites have a longstanding tendency to die (e.g., Google+, Ello, Imzy, Posterous, Blogger, ...)

And for those unable or unwilling to view The Site Formerly Known as Twitter, the payload is:

Elon Musk: "We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it."

Bolivia just stopped him from mining in their country. I'd say they dealt with it pretty well.

Archive link: <https://archive.is/JjyYL>
Ironically a lot of my data science peers only use SQL to extract data, then they like to bring it into excel or python to analyze. I’m pretty convinced that you should use SQL right up until you can’t. If you need to do text analysis or compute complex statistical measures you should just use SQL for extraction (to max effect) and then use the appropriate tools. Unfortunately a lot of my peers only use SQL for about 10% of the analysis that could be done in SQL which makes peer review and team work extremely difficult. I really wish data science had just been a sub category of software engineer, where programming skills were required full stop. In data science sometimes people can have terrible programming skills but good math skills which in my opinion is like an airplane with a great engine but no wings.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression
People in highly dense places don’t have as many children either. I don’t think we should optimize for density and efficiency above all else.
I'm actually biased towards older articles, given the rise of SEO oriented writing, and now, LLM generated content. Standing against the test of time should be a badge of honor. But readers like me may be the minority.
I love GNU Units for stuff like this, it's just such a fun utility:

You have: microcentury
You want: minutes
* 52.594877
/ 0.019013259
That's the whole history of the last 250 years of the Industrial Revolution.

May it never end!
Why does this feel like the post office enquiry. What’s the frame of reference here?
Historically the way to deal with legacy urban design like this was to, you know, build new cities.

Alas, we stopped founding new cities over a hundred years ago in the U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_the_Americas...
While we're at it, let's have CUDA.js and let me map CUDA objects to WebGL Texture and Vertex Buffers. So many cool visualization to be built.
> Our mission is to provide a free, world‑class education for anyone, anywhere.
The https://transitcosts.com/ project is appropriate to link here - while the projects are different, the conclusions seem to apply. Here is one place where the author wrote a summary https://pedestrianobservations.com/2023/04/26/more-on-consul...

IMHO, all governments create a map of their infrasructure and require utilities to update it with as built information within 1 week of the work (if the work takes more than a week they must update weekly!). They should also be putting "as-planed" information in to this. When someone calls the "one call" they need to update existing infrastructure as found. And within 15 years they need to update the entire database.

Once the database is created (that is you call the one-call number a week in advance for your proposed project) contractors who encounter anything else are justified in cutting the pipes/wires since they are not used. When two projects are planned in the same area the designers are required to contact each other and make plans - they are encouraged to work together to save money (dig one hole...)

I realize finding something in the ground is hard. There needs to be a reasonable amount of tolerance for measurement errors and the earth moving (half a meter?). However that the above is hard isn't an excuse to not do it.
Yes. That’s a completely different type of CEO.

If he wasn’t an asshole he might have spent time with his daughter and maybe not came back to Apple at all when it was failing.
You can call from wasm back into js, I believe some webgl games do that
WasmGC allows you to reuse the native V8 garbage collector instead of having to bundle and run a virtualized garbage collector.
> Maybe it gets the details wrong, but like even if it's wrong sometimes, it's far better than googling or wikipedia or even a text book sometimes

Are people consulting only one book/source on any given subject? I remember learning Python and C, and it was such a mixture of books/articles/forums/wiki, I can't even remember the process. I do remember understanding pointers easily because of a chapter of another book about memory models in OS. Learning is an iterative process and the expert is just there to shorten the way, not to carry you through it.
It is, and others agree with you (and yet others disagree) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_No_Asshole_Rule#Propo...
Likely they don't calculate how much they are making after expenses or don't understand how expenses work.

For example, a reddit post I read a little while ago (can't find it again) the person said they do ride sharing so got to take a lot of deductions on their taxes so they said "on paper" it "looks like" they make "much less" than they "actually" do.

The comments rightly pointed out the poster's "on paper" income is their actual income, because they are deducting expenses they paid and it wasn't an accounting trick.
Hi, I've updated the home page on my site (https://grantkot.com) with links to my other socials, like the YouTube and itchio pages. Twitter for more casual frequent updates, and YouTube for longer summary updates. The itchio demos need to be optimized for a wider variety of machines.
I think presenting costs as a rough “per user/player” calculation might be more effective than presenting just the total cost. That way people are reminded of their own personal resource usage, which seems like a more manageable/tangible number, and it can be accompanied by the broader stats since of course not everyone voluntarily pays (and some people pay more than their fair share).
> but would it exist if he didn't?

But was the rise of Apple contingent on Job's assholehood, itself?

... that is was his (documented) assholehood sine qua non?
Discussed recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40497496
Yes you can compile CPython and utilize its GC.

The idea of WasmGC is to make objects which are available in the browser environment (like window) available in the wasm module. It is a spec which allows you to pass objects which are actually managed by the browsers GC to your wasm code.
You are right! Thank you. I went back and looked at actual benchmark numbers from a couple of years ago and the numbers I got were ~26ms one-way. I rounded up to 30 to be conservative, but then double-counted in the table above. Will fix in the technical write-up. I don't think I can edit the Show HN.
Why not be deeply invested in hiring strong rickshaw pullers?
I know a public defender (in family law, so adoption, foster care, child endagerment, etc).

The state pays her $75/h. Most people locally look at that dollar number and feel she is out of touch to complain, but she also has to:

1. have an office that is not her home that can recieve certified mail (and be signed for, no po boxes)

2. pay any staff out of that.

3. Maintain her own computers, and software and access to services needed

4. Hire her own PI's (if needed) out of her own pocket

5. Any other expert consultants out of her own pocket

She also doesn't get any health insurance, or other benefits. And the best part, is the state has a formula they don't disclose, that determines how many hours work they think each case is appropriate for, and don't care how many she actually works. Every time she is paid, it includes a paper only invoice that she then gets to reconcile manually to see which cases are paid off, which are only partially, and which they forgot to pay that month.
I said you would enjoy it, not that you would be able to afford to buy it. :-)

I would guess that quite a few HN readers are in the happy position of being able to spend $105 on an interesting book without suffering financial hardship as a result.
Explain to me how a large language model can decipher Brownian motion in markets. I'd love to know. Seriously, how is it supposed to understand the complex randomness and fluctuations in financial markets? It’s designed to process language, not predict chaotic financial movements. The idea that it can is just absurd.
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Personal data just isn't worth that much. You sometimes see people run around with high estimates where, like, Google's entire advertising revenue is attributed to personal data. But Uber doesn't run a massively popular advertising network, so even if that's a fair attribution it's not available to them.
Ask HN: Does anyone want an alternative to Docsend?
For the last 4-6 weeks I've been sending out pitch decks as part of our fundraising process.

I'm actually a big fan of decks in general.

- Great way to test an idea/narrative and get feedback
- Faster to setup and share than a landing page
- You can personalize them for each recipient

Every founder I spoke with told me to use Docsend. The technology behind Docsend seems simple: a wrapper using UTM tags.

What I didn't like about it:
- Quick upsell to higher pricing plans after little usage
- Analytics limited to open rates and duration (missing session replays, or anything to help with more in depth review)

Curious if anyone here used Docsend in the past for specific use cases and felt the service lacking? What annoyed you most, have you tried any alternatives?

It seems most tools are built around contract management. I'm thinking of perhaps building something for the use case of presentation/story telling. Would anyone be interested?
Yeah, I did not enjoy that part, it was basically an abrubt stop. It also sounded that they were compiling java to js and afterwards to wasm, I would like to know what engine they are using.
Is Wasm performance that far off of native that the difference between bundled GC and native GC is noticeable?
On the topic of "interruption", I think that "it depends".

Sam Bleckley wrote a really good essay on this behavior[0] that pretty much explains how my wife and I interact with each other. We interrupt each other constantly to move the conversation along faster and to express our current state of understanding. I have learned that this often comes across as "rude", but I feel like it's perhaps a difference of style between east coast (and maybe just NY/NJ) and the rest of the US.

The Holy Creedo of The Church of Interruption:

1. Thou shalt interrupt when thou understand’st.
2. Thou shalt speak until I interrupt.
3. Thou shalt use physical cues to indicate when I ought continue talking.

> “I’m talking about how you behave when we’re talking. When you understand whatever it is I’m trying to say, you don’t wait around for me to finish my sentence, you—”

> “Interrupt. Sure. It’s the easiest way to make sure I understand what you mean.”

> “That’s very insightful. You’re right; if you finish my statement in a way I agree with, I know that you understand. And, if I accept your summary, we both know you’ve got it. It’s very efficient.”

[0] https://sambleckley.com/writing/church-of-interruption.html
To quote the summary of wasmgc feature from Chrome:

> Managed languages do not fit the model of "linear" Wasm with memories residing in one ArrayBuffer. In order to enable such functionality, they need to ship their own runtime which has several drawbacks: (1) it substantially increases binary size of these modules and (2) it's unable to properly deal with links crossing the boundary between the module, other modules and the embedder that all implement their own GC who is not aware of the others.

> WasmGC aims at providing a managed heap that Wasm modules can use to store their own data models while all garbage collection is handled by the embedder.
Homebrew Z80 Computer [video]
I think enshittification is removed enough from its root word to be acceptable.

I’ve heard it said matter-of-fact-ly on podcasts which otherwise avoid blue language.
Pure curiosity, what is “game animal“ ?

Also animals farming is heavily subsidized in EU, in fact many (of not most) of the those farmers operates at loss and get a revenu from this subsidies (comming from tax payers…) so margin is not simply “cost - sales”
For clarity: are you saying that not discussing the aspects of human culture I am drawing attention to objectively reduces unnecessary suffering and death on planet Earth? That exerting collective effort as a cultural convention to minimize self-reflection and awareness is more optimal gameplay?

What does HTH stand for by the way?
30 years ago was 1994. Most people did not even have a personal computer. Consumer software was a super niche product.

Subscription online software for consumers was not a big market until pretty recently. As a matter of fact, from the top of my head I cannot think of any such software that is very popular for consumers. Or do you refer to subscription entertainment?
It's got Urbit energy
Yep, that's the form I've seen it in before.
It has never been proven they legally have authority to spy on German citizens. That goes against Germany's constitution and is another case of a government acting illegally by turning a blind eye to the acts of the NSA and ignoring the rights of their citizens.

Spying in some settings is absolutely illegal, no matter the country you are spying on, whether it be North Korea, Russia, or Fiji. It goes against their Sovereignity. Some forms outside of war is always illegal, satelite imagery, cyber hacking... etc. If the US would prosecute it such as the 7 hackers from China they indicted, then the other country rightfully can prosecute in American spys.
Data engineering is, indeed, a niche skill.
Man that's insane. 10 years is a bonkers sentence. Like even if this went to trial what evidence was there besides a phone record? You bet I'd push for a trial or at very least some discovery.
Because with an AI I'm only wasting My time with all my dumb questions.

I kinda love how it doesn't lose patience with my stupidity
A chatbot that interrupts me even faster. Sorry for the sarcasm.
maybe im just slow, but when I'm trying to formulate a question on the spot, I pause a lot. having the chatbot jump in and interrupt is frustrating. Humans recognize the difference between someone still planning on saying something, and when they've finished.
I even tried to give it a rule where it shouldn't respond until I said "The End", and of course it couldn't follow that instruction.
I do love the way you segue this into tech territory by pointing out it is indeed a classic off by 1 error. Bravo
My first engineering job was doing ColdFusion in 2012. Even at the time ColdFusion was considered dated, and it was extremely slow.

When I learned SQL at that job, and when I learned you can squeeze a lot of computation out of SQL, it was huge for me. I started doing as much pre-processing with SQL as I could, just because it felt like it was giving me a lot of free performance upgrades.
The original ("v1") Node-RED Dashboard is now deprecated

https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-dashboard-v1-deprec...
Yeah, that's a corrupt judge that's going to be reversed on appeal.

The part that sucks is there likely won't be any other consequence for the judge over this bs behavior. He should be impeached and removed.
I am reminded of a grad school friend with a rich extended family, who was bent on persuading me that the super high quality luggage he acquired was more than worth the price.

What I would have had to give up to get that luggage, if that was even possible, or where I was supposed to store it in my tiny apartment, were not concerns that computed for them.
Show HN: Private AI Mac assistant for non-tech people [Llama 3]
Hi! I've built the private AI assistant that is easy to use by people who don't know what LLM is. Powered by Llama 3 8B.

- It's 100% private/offline. None of your conversations leave your Mac.
- Smart, Llama 3 8B is very capable. No dependencies required.
- Voice recognition support using Whisper LLM. Again 100% private, offline.
- Easy to install - just download, drag to /Applications and wait until it downloads its brain.
- Spotlight-like integration - press `⌃ Space` and use it instantly without interrupting your workflow.
- It's safe - sandboxed, hardened, notarized by Apple and does not need admin password or special privileges.
- This is beta and it's free :)
- Oh and it's a native app written in Swift.

It requires Apple Silicon (for now) and 9GB of free space.
The irony is that the world where AI could reasonably explain and teach any level of math is the same world where most of such graduates would be unemployed anyways.

You’re already seeing oversupply of educated folks in India and China. Graduate students working as baristas in USA, etc. Sadly inevitable.

In any case it’s good to have the resources I suppose.

I’m also fundamentally skeptical of these stats around math struggling. What percentage of kids who would be very likely to use Khan Academy are struggling with math? And what percentage who are not would even use khan academy to begin with?

Most of the problems with students doing poorly are sadly societal - not to say that this isn’t useful, though.
Decency comes at a cost. I'm sure greater things could be achieved if we discard it (perhaps the Pyramids, the Taj Mahal and the Nazi science/tech accomplishments are examples).
FWIW, very few people will actually care about this statement unless you state your name, work you've done, etc. A lot of users here don't pay heed to anonymous appeals to authority.
I worked deliveries a long time ago, before the age of food order apps, but at least at the time pretty much all drivers calculated their pay without considering expenses. It can easily be 30% of your pretax take-home, but the cost is mostly hidden until your car breaks, your tires wear, or you need to sell your car.