skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree! I think it’s “worth it”. A parallel: it costs an OOM more to drive places than, say, bike places, but it allows us to do the things we did before an OOM faster and expands the types of things we can do.

You can make the argument that it’s not “worth it” in terms of cost to our environment, but you have to acknowledge the upside of it simultaneously.

And the dynamics are different in that we’ve reached an efficiency asymptote with cars and are still in the middle (or perhaps at the start) of the S curve with AI systems.
My understanding is that it changed in 2012 - the church released a statement then saying that the prohibition only applied to coffee and tea. Before that, it was ambiguous but customarily interpreted to apply to all caffeinated drinks.

As a (anec?)data point, I had a Mormon friend growing up and they drank caffeine-free Coke for this reason.
Worries about the US, and the fact that launch stations on the Pacific are very visible to US and US allies.
Unfortunately Solid's velocity has been kinda weak for awhile and it's missing its own hype. At this point Svelte is many many times bigger than Solid.
> No NeoGeo game […]

Not only NeoGeo games — I would say that there is no game that could give me the experience of A Link to the Past for the SNES. Best game ever (for me).
nice, but some of these are very old!
Discussed in July 2021 (43 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27781784
Just two words to add to this theme:

Pantala flavescens
> Also, be very careful with sandboxing. It can be deceptively easy to break out of.

Back in 2018 when Surviving Mars came out with mod support (no sandbox of any kind), someone asked about os.execute on Reddit I think?

I whipped up a mod showing a couple other fun things you could do. I must've panicked someone because they pushed a sandbox update out pretty quickly, then sent me a polite pm asking me to let them quietly know about issues before hand.

About a week later I sent the dev an email with 5-6 different ways to get access to _G
The comments here are kinda silly… the haystack test measures how well a model can natively attend to its entire context window. Of course a more elaborate pipeline, or a way for the model to use a shell, or whatever will easily (trivially) solve the problem.

But that’s not the point, the point is a task that’s trivial to generate and exercises 10s-100s of thousands of tokens of context in a falsifiable way.
I agree that LLMs are less useful for smaller scale use cases. I’ve found success using them for creating mock data, reformatting unstructured text into structured data, and a few other menial tasks that would take me a while to do on my own.

I think so much of the hype is about potential larger scale applications but the models just don’t seem reliable enough yet for that.
If you want it to be fully native and not have to carry a runtime, C++ is pretty much your best choice. I think technically Python could be pretty slim if you just bring the runtime and build the GUI out of raw Win32 calls in Cython. That is something I've been thinking of trying for a while but mostly as a toy project to see how small you could get a Python GUI tool and not something for production.
In related news in the 2016 Olympics, a bronze medal winning weight lifter [1] had his medal revoked for having ingested rat poison, strychnine, as a performance enhancer.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izzat_Artykov
> I believe it is a courtesy to remove one's headphone when talking to another person.

Social norms change over time; expecting someone to remove headphones will become less of a thing in day to day life.

AirPods Pro 2nd generation supports the Conversation Awareness feature that lowers the volume of what the person is listening to and raises the volume of the person speaking automatically when it's enabled.

Apple is expected to be approved by the FDA for some uses as a hearing aid [1] and they have patents for adding medical monitoring in future AirPods [2].

So when we're talking to someone wearing AirPods as times goes on, we won't know if they actually need the AirPods to assist them in being able to function in the world.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/apples-airpods-pro-c...

[2]: https://applemagazine.com/apple-patents-suggest-future-airpo...
I’ll bite and say I don’t agree with

> But, if it's not made with the same ingredients, or for example isn't actually food (as with many marketing images for food), then it's deceptive. I hope you agree?

The point of the image is to give a preview what you’re about to get. It doesn’t have to be the real thing. If I sell screws online and only have CAD drawings and 3D renders of them, is that deceptive? As long as the product is properly described by the image, it doesn’t matter where it comes from. You could also sell burgers with hand-drawn preview images of them if you wanted to.
That looks like civilization but as a board game.
LLMs are very good tools for automating tasks which shouldn't exist at all.
It will not happen.

They will find a way to claw back everything including Shakespeare and The Bible into their copyright mafia.
Thanks for trying.

I feel like either I've gotten really stupid recently (always a possibility) or maybe this paper is not very good at explaining string diagrams. :(
People want to find the secret to living with joy in their lives. Someone who “quits caffeine” has enough mindfulness to have noticed something wasn’t quite right in their life and they had the courage to try and change it. That mindset right there is the key to reducing stress. It’s not caffeine (unless you’re consuming a lot), it’s a perspective and framing thing. Daily coffee ritual can absolutely be a part of a routine that has been having negative affects on your state of mind, but it’s much more complex than “caffeine is a drug and it’s bad for you”.
And the majority uses Windows and have never used a command line...

Overleaf new ShareLatex is a godsend when collabing.
Yea I did alot of debugging of the networks hardest problems, and the crossover is especially true with telecom systems since all the inter-connectivity comes from the standards bodies, which share a lot of the same base and history. But some stuff differed as well, it was difficult for a bunch of the hardened circuit switched folks to move to an all IP world, and I only had a cursory view into the circuit switched world which was on it's way out when I was in industry.
Why do you specifically want to use AI or even care how its done?

If you have to do this for only a few things, you can do it for a pittance through a service like Fiverr.

If you have higher or recurring volume, you can employ an offshore company to do this for a very modest monthly retainer.

Just let the provider on the other end figure out the tool that makes it cost effective for them -- AI or otherwise.
I’d venture that Mormons (and SDAs, with which I’m more familiar) have more close knit (Caucasian) communities for generations that support each other and have elevated their collective socioeconomic status. So perhaps they’re less likely to be bottom-level corporate drones, code moneys or Amazon warehouse workers.
Improved workouts / training etc too. The mile at that pace is a lot like a long sprint- which requires pretty different muscles / preparation.

Look at how close the top high school kids are to breaking 4 and how many have.

I don't think it can be explained away with their shoes and diet.
abort() isn't really an option for broad classes of applications (UI applications, services, web servers &c).
Update them!
Twitter is another cesspit of Russian apologists and bots.

However, it seems a lot of them are in the US, influenced by the MAGA camp, and apparently unable to discern reality from fiction. (I'm not making a political statement, just an observation.)
Same.

Some genius hired a "software architect" who doesn't know how to write code. When I asked the genius why he would do that, he said it was because regular architects don't know how to build houses, so why would he know how to program?

That was some next-level shit. He showed us a diagram once where the database was calling github which was calling a microservice. These are the days before Github had a CI, so it was pretty funny.
I think it is a safe bet that they are mostly computer games by now, though there is a long history of using board games for training. That said, there was Freedom of Information Act request to uncover some of the games Mr. Rhunke developed for the CIA and they turned out to be physical board games.
Stable Diffusion Dreambooth.

The basic idea is you find a rare unused token (like say f$#sdafad) and then finetune your image generation model with a specific set of images (say 20 images of your red cap at various angles) while telling it that f$#sdafad is the same thing as your red cap.

Then you can start prompting "f$#sdafad resting on the head of a monkey" and your cap will appear on a monkey's head.

The problem with this technique is the finetuning part. Finetuning can take minutes to hours depending on how many gpus you have and needs to be done individually for every new "token" you want to map to a specific individual or object you want to add to your pre-trained model.

Another strategy is to use some kind of autocropping strategy + generative infill. You can take a semantic segmentation model like Meta's "Segment Anything", then use it to segment out the item of interest manually (perhaps a UI could be built to make this a one-step process). Then take the mask and do a generative infill using some sort of image generation model like stable diffusion.
Overleaf supports a basic git push and pull setup. Everything on one branch, no staging, no commit messages on overleafs side. I've used it for pulling to a server and then having new Tex files migrated into wordpress. It worked pretty well for that.
The shoes Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute mile in are NOTHING like modern running shoes, which were invented in the 1960s and only popularized in the 70s.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/11/roger-bannis...
Newsletters and directories like https://microstartups.co/
Somewhat tangential, but this reminds me of these delightful product photos on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4YP8MKY

The third photo is my favorite.
Beneath offshore [Danish] wind turbines, researchers [farm] seafood and seaweed
Look at that, California got annexed.
Remix is better than GraphQL
The report this is based on:
scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/
In real time we’ve seen “LLMs are the future” becomethe AI research into AGI is the future”. What’s the next movement of the goal post?
Channeling dang, "just stating facts" isn't sufficient defence: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29811958>.

Generally, mods' goals are something of a dual mandate: intellectual curiosity (see: <>), and trying to keep the discussion from boiling over, which it's constantly on the verge of. I'm not finding the comment I'd had in mind yet, but this one at least hints at the concept: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32588063>.

And a longer one which goes into the whys and wherefores: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29803838>.

Another long and good one: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28176705>.

For clarity: I'm not a mod, I occasionally disagree strongly with mod's positions. But I've also come to understand, if at times grudgingly accept, their principles.
The American version would be number of football fields smoked.

But you have to further specify whether you're using Carolina freedom units or Texas freedom units, because the two groups can't agree on whether it includes the end zones or not.
Some PBEM games, like the venerable VGA Planets, had all players complete their turns and then play those simulatenously by the host program, resulting in the next universe state.

There are rules within the game engine to disambiguate in which order some interactions resolve. If I remember correctly, the classic boardgame Diplomacy plays the same way (all orders are simultaneously, with some precedence rules for conflicts).
The report this is based on is here:
scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/
Thanks for giving me the first real laugh i've had in over 24 hours, even though it was a completely obvious thing to say in retrospect.
You should make it something random like “pineapple”
Exactly my experience. I have a big cup of cold brew in the morning and nothing the rest of the day. When my head hits the pillow at night I’m out and sleep without any interruption.

There was a point a long time ago where I wasn’t under control, and in an effort to rein it in I quit for two months. It was awful. I struggled to concentrate and felt no real benefit from being “clean”.

I decided to set limits and started up again. That blast of caffeine in the morning is all it takes to set my brain on the right path the rest of the day. My theory is that people who end up struggling with caffeine, do so because they equate more caffeine with being even more productive. If you treat it like you would a (enjoyable) medicine, you can have the best of all worlds.
Standardized Texas A/C hours.
No, Trump just says what he knows the electorate want to hear. Hes a fake too. He does what the deep state want him to do. He took out that Iranian General remember? That's pure neocon.
Show HN: 350 plus websites where you can share/promote your SaaS/side project
Stumbled upon a goldmine.
Let's say I'm working on a feature branch, and end up realizing I should really be opening two PRs because this one PR is going to be two hard to review. It's much more difficult to reorganize commits on your feature branch if you have merge commits from the main branch mixed in with your changes. If there was merge conflict resolution along the way as well - good luck making sense of things.

Merge commits 'lock' you in to the commits you've made so far.
True, and I mentioned that. But there's no reason for China to not consider building in much sparser Gansu, Ningxia, etc now that the USSR hasn't existed for 30+ years.
„Is“ is a model that is indistinguishable from truth.
I'm sort of dreading the next year or so at big corps, in which engineers will hear from their management: "We've made a big investment in AI, and need you to make this work".
It made more sense 20 years ago when it was more generally true. Veganism seems to have spread beyond the merely self-righteous now. It's a very old joke (possibly from the 90?s).
You can pull public company data straight from SEC / EDGAR. They have a public and free API
Yes this is exactly what rebase is for, but a lot of developers do the merge based workflow.
Meanwhile Germany is still operating over 130 coal-fired power plants. Despite 25 years of energy transition.
I think you need minimum 2 neurons to solve xor (given normal inputs)
Not everyone can afford to have extra team members doing that. Some of us are working with skeletal teams to begin with, but would still like ways of validating/reviewing a11y concerns with real people, not just scripts and automated tools. And yes, on an ongoing basis, not just a one-time thing.
SQS: Amazon Simple Queue Service
If your fine with zigbee, I could see having one of these aqara door sensors in the cushion of the seat, triggering to closed when you sit on it: https://cloudfree.shop/product/aqara-door-and-window-sensors...

Seems like it'd be finicky though.
Amazing work to share so rapidly in this context! The results of your simulation and this discussion will stick with me for a long time. Thank you!
It's a shame the Indiana one is blurry. I wish I had a better one to put up there.
Relative to whom?

Sure, he may go along to get along, but you don't think he does so the least out of anyone else in memory? And, now, he wants to dismantle the freaking FBI. The deep state is his enemy this cycle. I can't remember another president for whom that was the case unless you wanna go conspiratorial like with Kennedy or something.
ESOP/Equity to ask from founder when joining a startup
Hey there, im joining a startup which is just about to start and not funded yet, Im joining as founding team member there, how much equity should i ask ?
I don't consider I drink _"plenty"_ of coffee throughout the day but I can't remember the last day I went without some form of caffeine. On average I take 1 cup in the morning with some milk and sometimes mate or black tea, both of which have caffeine as well, in the afternoon... plus Coke or other caffeinated drinks as well here and there.

Ok maybe it could be plenty for some people, but for me 4 cups a day would be plenty lol.

Maybe caffeine doesn't affect me much to this point and that's why I don't have any problem sleeping. I doze off 10' after putting my head on the pillow.

Now regarding stress... comparing myself to the people around me I'd say I have normal levels of it. But most of those people consume caffeine daily so it's hard to have an objective measure.

I'd like to carry out the experiment of going 15 days without caffeine to see if stress decreases though but it would be very hard considering how ingrained the substance is in our lives, even the social aspect. Mate for example is a drink which we usually share here in Argentina. You could maybe call it a ritual and a way of social bonding. And I like how it tastes too, of course. Add that to all the times you meet with people "for a coffee and chat", for example.
There’s only one reason why people want to make robots “humanlike”. It’s sickening.
How do you figure waymo isn’t fully automated? I rode in one in SF. No driver. It picked me up, drove surface streets, traffic, highway, drop off.
I finally succumbed to Covid19 this week, having never shown symptoms, nor testing positive prior. This includes while living in the same household with someone that came down with it from the holidays. Honestly I thought I was immune, but sometimes you're just on the long tail of things.
If you use HTML5 and use the alt settings, have simple tables and use a friendly color palette your 90% better than most on accessibility.
As more features get added to current and future AirPods, I'd like the ability to trigger an update or at least be notified if one happens.

I get it—95%+ of AirPods users shouldn't have to know about firmware updates. But for those of us who do care about these things, there should be someway to monitor what's happening.

It usually doesn't matter but I have experienced delays in getting AirPods firmware by a couple of days. There could be a time in the future when getting a firmware update ASAP does matter.
Even if that were true, I feel like this is off topic. In the article the winner that cheated got a time of a little over 3 hours, a time that has been unlocked these days for almost any elite due to much better scientific understanding of running, nutrition, and hydration level regardless of genetics.
Zigbee is great, but my chair has a mesh :/ I'll see if I can print something below, so that the sensor is activated, but yes, it does seem that it would be pretty finicky...
The `react-dom` NPM package includes multiple different JS bundles that are used for different purposes. See that `unpkg` link I pasted in the parent comment.

There's 3 different flavors of `react-dom` for use in the client (dev, prod, profiling), and then several variations of `react-dom` for use _on the server_.

The client bundles don't include any of the server functionality.

_None_ of the bundles are treeshakeable at all, because A) they're shipped as CommonJS modules and not ESM, and B) the way the React library is written and architectured as a whole. All of the reconciler logic is intertwined and unshakeable, so even if React did suddenly switch to shipping ESM modules instead of CJS, it would still end up as the exact same bundle size.
Definitely open source too: https://opensource.org/license/agpl-v3

All free software licenses are open source licenses.
Gemini's data-analyzing abilities aren't as good as Google claims
Minnesota must really be compensating for something!
Nusantara (City)
Animation vs. Geometry [video]
The main thing I feel here is that generally people want the ability to have site specific preferences for dark mode / light mode and this doesn’t seem like it enables that.

Also the problem it’s solving is not that big, it’s literally less than a dozen lines of JS. These “hacks” are exceptionally well documented solutions that exist for about every possible framework or library.

Idk maybe I’ve just built out the solution for it too many times and now I think it’s easy. I am still learning how to better implement the solution, including using inline JS to avoid the color change. But still I have a hard time understanding how moving this logic into the browser would help people.
There won't be any energy efficiency improvements until they are able to make analog VLSI chips like Carver Mead's. Nice to see this idea is getting more recognition. The potential has been there for a long time, but the business went digital.
I drink around 3 or 4 cups (around 50 oz total) per day 7 days a week and I sleep well enough. I try to avoid drinking it after 7pm though. I don't drink alcohol more than a couple times per month, if that much.

If I skip a couple cups I will get a headache, it's very predictable.
Uneconomical to corral macroscopic ingredients several orders of magnitude larger than dust? I'm unconvinced although I'm certain that's the line of rhetoric being advanced by manufacturers.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation

A reform of the US voting system would make elections much more competitive and greatly reduce the risk of electing another Biden or Trump.
I wonder what could be some good test sequences for monospaced programming fonts, like:

,.:;!? 1234567890 {}[]()@#$%^&*-=_+\/<> Common issues: lLiI1oO0

(maybe throw in some ligature related stuff for those who enjoy those in their fonts)

I made a super basic site like that for some fonts that I enjoy, but never really put that many in there: https://fonts.kronis.dev/

Surprisingly Ubuntu Mono is also pretty good in most respects, maybe I should add it, currently it's a split for either Liberation Mono/Cousine or PT Mono for my programming font of choice, here's a nice font chooser, tournament style: https://www.codingfont.com/ or just a look at bunch of fonts https://www.programmingfonts.org/

Not to detract from the article itself, I just stare a lot at fonts while doing programming.
This is a really weird response to a comment posted… on the internet.
Can't open the page as of now, suspiciously look like just got attacked (they use wp). For anyone interested here the archive https://web.archive.org/web/20240630013513/https://nodicenog...
CodeTyphoon and U++ are 2 valid alternatives to LiteCode+wxWidgets.

You can cross-compile with all 3 of them, but most importantly, you will only see the advantages of using them in the long run (rather than Visual Studio)

It's hard to explain until you try yourself doing a big C# project, in the short term it seems so convenient and such a good idea (same as with Unity, or Embarcadero)
Previous videos:

Animation vs. Math - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J6Ou4q8vE

Animation vs. Physics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErMSHiQRnc8
this is me, I drink about a pot per day and sometimes drink caffeinated soda with food. only a small amount of half and half in the coffee. my sleep schedule is pretty routine, hardly ever stay up past 11:30 and wake up naturally with no alarm between 6:30 and 8 every morning.

it is noticeable if i don’t have a cup at least at some point during the day but there are plenty of days i don’t have as much or hardly at all. but i just like the warmth and how it tastes, the caffeine is a non factor if i decide to have a cup or not.

other things that are probably significant factors: low stress job at a small private company where i don’t really have hard deadlines or deliverables and WFH as much as i want; wife and pets but no kids; low stress otherwise is areas of my life
The key bits of the battles would still always be on the corner of the map.