skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's because most people's mental models for machine learning isn't great. They're not like brains or neurons, they're like a really convoluted quadratic regression calculator over an arbitrary number of variables. So if you stick to domains that this is appropriate for, you can actually spin together some pretty neat stuff. I think once one understands the XOR Problem [1], it all starts to mentally come together pretty quickly.

[1] - https://www.educative.io/answers/xor-problem-in-neural-netwo...
Except we live under capitalism, rather than the pre-capitalist world thee imagine. So while the democratization you imagine sounds hypothetically possible, it's a pretty big stretch. Also how exactly are you 'taking creativity back' by having a button that says 'generate'...
A lot of art is about re-recognizing our shared humanity. Is it so hard to believe that so many others have "had enough" of GenAI corrupting the connection that art fosters between us? What makes you think your opinion is more valid than anyone else's?
IMHO one of the main drivers for multiple monitors today is the wasteful use of whitespace in UI design, which requires having large windows and lots of screen estate (without actually having a lot of information)
Fun fact about Win-. (the emoji keyboard): this is an Input Method Editor, something formerly used by writers of ideographic languages for example, so now we all have no excuse not to test our Win32 code for IME support.
There's a list of cognitive biases -
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/every-single-cognitive-bias...
Best place to build lithium batteries _and_ charge them!
https://frankonfraud.com/fraud-trends/it-was-internal-fraud-...

https://frankonfraud.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Material...
does displacement mapping not hold up in VR?
GG: GUI for Jujutsu/Jj
Show HN: Sonic Moves – A Platform for Body-Interactive Sound
Hello everyone, some years ago I posted here about my project "Affine Tuning", a body interactive music app for iOS. Back then I also spoke about maybe developing an editor for this medium. Fast forward to now, and I have founded a small company with a friend, and we are currently in a closed beta of "Sonic Moves". We call it a "platform for body-interactive sound". On the website you join the beta if it sparks your interest. Looking forward to your feedback!
There are some sites (anything on fandom, for example) that always fill the top search results but are literally unusable on my phone unless I turn off javascript. The ratio of useful content to ads is way out of whack.
The point of the article is that you can be incredibly disciplined at doing things of low importance, and you will accomplish very little.
As much as I would love to see this succeeded, I simply cannot believe that you can sustain a browser development without millions of dollars. Web got so complicated. And it's perfect for all these huge ads companies owning browser engines. Nobody can catch up with this.

There's only one way we can make sure we can get really independent browsers:

SIMPLIFY THE WEB

- Limit the platform to absolute minimum - give way to render things, fetch stuff from the network, etc.

- Get rid of CSS - leave just some basic rendering primitives, so libraries can be created to paint on the canvas. We don't need 78 new animation primitives. We'll build them ourselves if we have a sensible canvas and execution platform.

- Move JS out of the browser to a WebAssembly compiler and make browsers run only WebAssembly

- Or keep JS in the browser but don't add any new features, features should be in libraries
outside of the browser. Language should be as simple as possible.

- Get rid of all semantic html junk. We only need some basic blocks to move things around.

This way we can have simple browsers and move all complexity to client libraries, which you can pick and replace when needed. Just keep things as simple as possible and let people build on that.

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Not bad.. Tried a couple, they actually grab the context really well..
I would like to see some research done on the long-term impact on the spine of constantly turning your head from left to right all day, every day for years (decades?) as happens when using multiple monitors.

It has to accelerate the degradation of the cervical discs in the neck.
Rails, SQLite
except they jettisoned the Servo project...
The fundamental problem of AI cars--they have a set of rules rather than common sense. They will fare far worse than humans when given impossible directions.
But this is not open source? It is some cloud stuff.
I think my memory is probably colored by BitKeeper being my first DVCS. I was never a heavy user of it.

I was exposed to BitKeeper when I was managing my team's CVS server. On my next team, we moved to svn, which always felt like cvs with better porcelain from a developer perspective, but when administering that server fell onto my plate, I liked it a lot better than CVS. And I thought BitKeeper would be nicer from a developer perspective.

Then on my next team, we used mercurial. I really, really, really liked mercurial, both as a developer and as a dev infrastructure administrator. It also sucked a lot less on Windows than git or BitKeeper.

The last time I had to decide for a new team, mercurial and git were the obvious options. I went with git because that was clearly what the world liked best, and because bringing new team members up to speed would require less from me that way.

All that goes to say... my direct comparison of git and bitkeeper came from when bitkeeper was mature and git decidedly was not. Then I lumped it in with mercurial (which I really would still prefer, right now) and fossil (ditto). You're probably exactly right about BK.
Yes, but 1) it's unnecessary conjecture when the facts already make them look bad, and 2) it's not the limit of what they could actually do - their TOS says (IIRC) "as long as it's for the purpose of improving our software, we can use anything you make". So they could use peoples' drawn art directly, for splash screens, or even, (speculation) offer it as a template/stock material for anyone who pays them for it.

It's not just AI.
iPXE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPXE :

> While standard PXE clients use only TFTP to load parameters and programs from the server, iPXE client software can use additional protocols, including HTTP, iSCSI, ATA over Ethernet (AoE), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). Also, on certain hardware, iPXE client software can use a Wi-Fi link, as opposed to the wired connection required by the PXE standard.

Does iPXE have a ca-certificates bundle built-in, is there PKI with which to validate kernels and initrds retrieved over the network at boot time, how does SecureBoot work with iPXE?
I would say physical fitness does not fit the thesis of the article. It requires disciplined consistency doing the same thing repeatedly on a regular schedule to see benefits.
FWIW my 1995 Whirlpool refrigerator cost $499 new and will celebrate its 30th anniversary — without service — in less than a year. Works perfectly, just like when I bought it. I wouldn't accept a free top-of-the-line Bosch or Miele in exchange for it. Food is cold, what more do I need?

My GE Electric Oven was installed when my house was built in 1967, which makes it 57 years old. It still works perfectly, calibration spot-on. Full disclosure: one of the four burners is inoperative. I can live with that forever.
After having issues with QUIC timeouts with Doggo, I switched to q and it has been great.
I'm not quite sure yet - I need to do my research on what kinds of companies would meet my preferred criteria.

In terms of what I envision as sustainable for myself, I would require no on-call, more independent work, less bullshit meetings, less managerial oversight, and ideally fully remote.

I also have a strong preference for open-source tooling rather than being forced to used shitty internal tools with poor documentation.
Modern washing machines, fridges and appliances come with other advantages - especially in terms of efficiency and lower water use.

We have Maytag Centennial dryer and washing machine - they may be robust but they're quite inefficient compared to "modern" washing machines both in terms of water use and cleaning performance (our last known-unreliable LGs lasted 5yrs until we moved). Same with our old Whirlpool dishwasher that seemed to have been tuned to the olden detergents with phosphates and barely cleaned dishes, you often had to rerun some of them vs our millenium Bosch that cleans the same dishes with 1/4 the detergent.

But it's not quite as bad with appliances imo. I have had good luck getting the higher end models without _all the unnecessary bells and whistles_.

It's probably like new cars, efficiency gains come with complexity, so efficiency/reliability might be a trade-off. I, personally, can buy a used replacement board online and replace it myself after 5-10yrs but that still means someone else threw out their machine for parts.

And then on top of that, at least here in CA with $0.4/kWh, a 300kWh/y fridge costs $200/y less to run than an 800kWh/y fridge. That's $2000 over 10 years and might cover several repairs. I wouldn't generally prematurely replace a machine just for efficiency but I'm also not sure running that fridge from 1935 is really monetarily efficient, even if your newer fridge does break more often.
Does owning a business in the US mean you support the bad things the US has done?
Honestly, I still love Firefox and I'm a bit skeptical about rewriting everything from scratch when you have a fairly decent codebase. What's the point? Just burning money? You still need to implement the specs.
When it does need repairing, good luck finding parts for it.
If you don't have any external library (e.g. npm) dependency you're golden. Unfortunately, this means that you now have to write all your code from scratch, which is ok if you're writing a very light website, but it's unsustainable if you do anything non-trivial.
This user is using ChatGPT to generate replies.
This shows how important the right title is in your news article or blog post.

That post that got 9 points and 1 comment should have been called "Hatetris has been SOLVED (infinite score)" instead of "Losing the World Record in Hatetris".

And indeed, the original Hatetris has been solved: a loop has been discovered that lets you get any score.
I'll do my best: "That guy is pretty dumb, man."
What was the competitive play scene like? I thought TA was much more spectator friendly than the RTS games that blew up.
This seems like a good time for people to learn about what modern Luddism is. No, it is not simply a group of people destroying the machines that replace them. It is about people as a whole refusing to be swept up in the sole narrative by thinking critically as to what the new technology gives or takes away and to whom or what.
In some ways, left wing ideology is the radical rejection of reason.

Reason, being the ultimate tool of survival, becomes the dominant value of any social hierarchy. The left-wing instinct is to give voice to the unformed chaos, so that it may receive the attention it requires to realize its potential.

Thus, that which is rejected by the dominant values of society is seen as the domain of chaos, that requires tending to in order for its potential to come forth.

For that reason, anti-rationalism comes to be seen as the highest value for the left-wing instinct. In the long run, the destabilizing and decentralizing effect of this instinct may spur innovation and counter-act ossification.

This article is a prime example of that left-wing instinct manifested, as it takes as a priori that the enlightenment, capitalism and technology are harmful, because the forces of reason deem them to be beneficial.
My best guess is that he means the author's characterization of the people themselves. The Enlightenment produced the modern scientific revolution, which arguably led to the largest increase in quality of life since man walked the earth. It also produced a focus on reason and empiricism, which ultimately led to modern civil rights movements and subsequent legislation. When the author attempts to discredit these people's contributions by attacking their character via unfounded accusations of misogyny, it significantly harms their credibility.
What's different between gpt4o, and Ella?
The problem is that a person's "lizard brain" is set to override rational thoughts. Although this effect can be decreased with training (something we do to all humans as they grow up) it's hardly an effective thing to rely on them following. Try telling a hungry person they can't eat without a napkin tucked under their collar (the nearest napkin store is 10 minutes away) or telling a person with a very full bladder they can't cut the queue for the toilet. It just isn't reliably going to work. They're probably going to ignore you.

(Although having sex isn't something that you need to survive (like eating), or something that will happen embarrassingly for physics reasons if you don't choose a voluntary place to do it (like peeing), it is controlled by similar mechanisms thanks to evolution being evolution.)
An infinite computable sequence is fine.

Making "choices" from an uncountable collection of uncomputable sequences is not fine.

I'm embarrassed to have to write that out.
I'm disgusted by the triumphal celebration of an atrophied cog in the military-industrial complex that monetized more efficient killing. Also, Stanford evaded their charter by forming SRI to do defense work, and hired from the USAF revolving door as well.
Looking at the map of southern Chile, it's pretty obvious why this is so. It's just immense mountains and fjords. Building a road across that terrain would be a major challenge, requiring many bridges capable of surviving harsh conditions. All to deserve a minuscule population? Chile isn't Norway...
This reads as needlessly hostile, maybe from assuming the worst interpretation of what kohbo is saying.

Charitably, I read it as 'Telling someone to get good at the thing they are struggling with doesn't work'. This is similar to the oft seen adages of 'just do things to make you happy to fix your depression' met with sarcastic 'gee thanks, I'm cured' responses.

Certain habits, skills, etc, might be more important for some people to focus on than others to manage debilitating effects, but that importance comes with the consequence of those same feats being harder.
No reason?

You mean no such reason that you want to find. Same extremely lowered (shit) quality things cost same present value, so increased through time with inflation, items made more complex as this is the case with fridges involving unnecessary 'engineering' and 'development', adding additional costs, old inventions hit wall for improvements after a while, probably we could find some more reasons if we analyse how prices increase for the same kind of product in time, which is the norm for things exist for multiple decades. (you may think about months or few years timespan here of new inventions/developments with maturing manufacturing and the pay off of investments of develping something new, but it is so very far from the situation here).
The curated items will stay the same, but we can't expect all queries to be curated.
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This is a bad faith flamebait comment
Can't see the pictures due to login required :-(

I've been on a dark ship in the middle of the ocean and that was pretty good for stargazing, though I guess Australia might be a tiny bit better due to less reflective surface (compared to the ocean)?
Several of my appliances are in the 20-25 year range and have started to fail. In the last 3 years I've needed a new water heater, dishwasher, and clothes washer, fingers crossed for all. Maintenance (draining the WH every year or two, cleaning the washer filter every few months) is a must. I replaced a switch and the belt inside the clothes dryer (21) and just replaced the heating element in the oven (23) - hope to keep them going as long as I can.
Interesting! We have a inline autocomplete as well (that's the one that uses Codestral). So in your example, you'd see a autocompletion prompt after you type pd.read and hitting tab will autocomplete the line (or many lines if there's enough context to generate that much text).

The AI mode/box with Cmd + K is for more complex prompts, multi-line code chunks and such. We've tried to make everything completely keyboard accessible btw, including the sidebar so that you never have to use the mouse :)
That would be an excellent therapy for skin cancer. If it works as described and without surprises it would practically eliminate skin cancer since blue light is omnipresent.

If the gene could be modified for wavelengths which penetrate deeper it could be applied to other cancer types too then radiation would actually heal you.
Fantastic. I was stunned at how quickly and easily Unpoly transformed my small Django app from "dusty" to snappy and SPA-like.
From a user experience, maintaining a large collection of “feature libraries” is about the last thing I want to do on top of web browsing. To me, this approach would doom the browser as needlessly nerdy and obtuse.
There is a YouTube channel by a guy who served 13 years in prison called true crime stories that is right up the alley of this story. Fraud, embezzlement, scams.
California's Impending Tax Apocalypse
Russian people begin to realize that 1991 and the following decade was very unfair to their nation and (the current) country, and the amount of humiliation and loss during that period dwarfs the losses of Russo-Ukrainian war so far.

I don't say that fighting this war in the current state was a good decision, far from it. It is also kind of throwing out good money after the bad. Still, I don't see Russians parting with whatever paltry gains they just had in exchange for a lot of their spilled blood.
I love that tool but it really doesn't fix bad topology.

It gets you somewhere closer, but not a fix.

Moreover, depending on what you have at hand, the resolution of your remeshing might destroy a LOT of detail or is unable to accomodate thin sections.

Retopo isn't a solved problem. It only is for really basic, convex meshes.
I find it interesting that their entity extraction method for building a knowledge graph does not use or require one of the 'in-vogue' extraction libraries like instructor, Marvin, or Guardrails (all of which build off of pydantic). They just tell the llm to list graph nodes and edges in a list, and do some basic delimiter parsing, and load the result right into a networkx graph [1]. Is this because GPT-4 and the like have become very reliable at following specific formatting instructions, like a certain .json schema?

It looks like they just provide in the prompt a number of examples that follow the schema they want [2].

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/graphrag/blob/main/graphrag/ind...

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/graphrag/blob/main/graphrag/ind...
Any browser could do that tomorrow, and then their users will promptly abandon it when it doesn't work for websites they have to access. This will just never be a viable strategy because users want a web browser that works on the sites they want to visit, and site owners aren't going to rewrite their sites unless the browser has a big enough market share. But market share is going to be small for a browser that doesn't work. Rinse and repeat. It's a major chicken and egg problem.
It's not currently available. They're hoping to have it ready by 2026.
> The problem is the opposite - people keep using old features when the new is better. I realize not everything new is better, but most of them are, yet people keep refusing to learn and use the new thing without good justification.

I think we are saying the same thing here. Often the new is better so it's hard to really justify sticking to the old outside of project specific reasons (i.e. toolchain doesn't support new std). That people do it has less to do with justification and more to do with time commitment or laziness and the excuses given tend to fall away once pressed.
I replaced a working Kenmore refrigerator from 2001. Food was cold, yes, but I'm paying ~42¢/KW all-in here in the Bay.

New Whirlpool fridge is bigger, nicer, and much, much more efficient to the point where it made more financial sense to replace the old working one.
You want to know why a monopoly is bad, using only evidence from when it was not yet a monopoly (or not quite)? That feels to me a bit like missing the point.

I think for a lot of us on the older end, we lived through the era of Microsoft Internet Explorer dominating the web and that experience informs our thinking. As long as there was competition between MSIE and Netscape, with each one trying to outdo the other, both browsers kept getting better and the web kept becoming a more and more capable platform. But quite soon after Netscape crumbled and stopped being a serious competitor, MSIE stagnated: development didn't just slow but halted for half a decade. The web stagnated, too, and Microsoft's dominance meant that a lot of what did get built was locked in to their platform. (Partly things like CSS quirks and nonstandard rendering behaviors, and just plain neglect of new possibilities in HTML, JS, and CSS. But more than that: how many companies built ActiveX controls in that era, which mostly required Windows to function? The entire internet infrastructure of South Korea got locked in to ActiveX by law from about 1999 to 2020.) So imagining an era of Chrome monoculture brings back some pretty negative memories.

I don't expect that Google would make the exact same mistakes that Microsoft made. But it would be awfully hard for them not to shape browser design around their own corporate interests if there were no competition driving innovation and no disincentive to shaping the entire future of the web platform in Google-friendly ways. I know that's not "things that have actually happened", but the whole point is that things change once an effective monopoly is achieved.
Here's a picture of sports people using Gatorade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatorade#/media/File:Baltimore...

It may not be a super high level sport drink, and many players have moved on to other drinks (biosteel seems popular in the NHL), but it's not like nobody uses it for its intended purpose.
How is that not nothing? He continued to remain in Office until the end of his term and even attempted to prolong his stay. If those impeachments were worth more than the paper the Constitution is written on, that would never have happened.
What do you mean? Proof by contradiction with well-foundedness is exactly what "infinite descent" means.
You paid ten grand in legal fees for a suit that was summarily dismissed? Sounds like not only were you fleeced by the title insurance co, you were fleeced by your attourney too! Maybe there is some reasonable explanation for the high fee, but I am having trouble thinking of what it might be.
Maybe we can have another thread about that one specifically, once enough time has gone by.
Related One Million Checkboxes (991 points, 6 days ago, 304 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40800869
Yeah the ranking algorithm is just wrong right now. I'm working on it.
That's nitpicky. The magic cube was still Rubik's cube, even though it wasn't branded as such.