skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not everyone likes having to have rules or a table for everything. For some people, they're okay with the DM adjudicating a ruling and letting dice tell them whether there's a success, a success with consequences, or a failure. Personally that's not for me except in certain small doses, but I'm more of a GURPS player than a D&D player, which is its own different play style altogether.
If you're in the SF bay area, we might be able to get one put together... I've built several adapters for mice and keyboards, assuming the voltage levels are compatible it's mostly a matter of twiddling the right pins on a microcontroller. In return I would want to pick your brain about your lispm time :)
New Internet Thing, Chapter 12 (The Price of Success)
Peng (Ward Off) – The most important Taijiquan skill and how to build it
Ubiquiti is a fantastic target for these kinds of integrations because the hardware is so affordable. Thanks for the data point!
If end users can't access the model without going through the prompt system then that distinction doesn't matter.
Eh, is this ideal with chasing when it’s all fucked anyway when we start shipping code to Mars?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Coordinate_Time
Interesting read.

Apparently, a lot of this expansionism is an attempt to restore China to it's original boundaries - prior to the "Century of Humiliation" (1)

You would think we could all just learn from the past and move into the future peacefully. Unfortunately, some people clearly can't simply be cool (I'm not saying China is the only one acting childish, clearly Russia wants the to live in post nuclear winter Gattaca, and the US can be just as dumb).

It's really quite silly that in an attempt to erase 100 years of shame, China's swiftly working towards yet another (win or lose a conflict - there actually is no winning).

The question I have is will China be strong and evolved enough to abandon its march on people's homes who are happy just as they are so that we exit this decade with a peaceful, powerful, and revered China, or will we end up with another bloody greedfest and a China that makes everyone else in the world just down right miserable and disgusted. To me, the latter would be most humiliating. I would opt for the former.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation
The queries you see and the resulting user interaction should be trained into the embedding model.

This is a foundational problem that requires your data. The way you search Etsy is different than the way you search Amazon. The queries these systems see are different and so are the desired results.

Trying to solve the problem with pretrained models is not currently realistic.
I had played enough TTRPGs at that point that when I encountered Apocalypse World that I found the advice to generally just be common knowledge. But if you're new to TTRPGs I highly recommend it for good advice even when running traditional TTRPGs.
That would be my ideal device haha... have any particular devices of that nature you'd recommend? Lower end on cost would be preferred.
pretty much this weird seeing all the ppl trying to deflect/minimize this as a non issue
I did not run the code myself. The code block and console log I have pasted is verbatim copy from Claude3.5
good, if they use it in a threatening manner it's good that they get themselves banned. I've personally gotten 27 people banned on twitter and 11 suspensions. I'm sure some came back but I made sure they didn't just look like russian/iranian bot accounts and were people as best as I could determine. All were obviously white supremacists or people threatening others.
Earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39481933

I'm not so sure about the "forever" part as git gc is a thing, and at least in 2013 they ran it regularly: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56020315

No idea about nowadays though. There is this blog post:

https://github.blog/engineering/scaling-gits-garbage-collect...

> We have used this idea at GitHub with great success, and now treat garbage collection as a hands-off process from start to finish.
Is there a way to search the large scrap yard?
> The decision does need to be unanimous from the jury.

Not in civil trials.

Louisiana and Oregon didn't require unanimous juries in many criminal trials either until 2019 and 2020 respectively.

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/a4f065037299491913827b7d8eda9023

[2]: https://www.findlaw.com/litigation/filing-a-lawsuit/trial-an...
This has been discussed to death at this point, but I do have one comment, which is that I honestly still enjoy React. I love how JSX allows me to treat html components as values. I love the functional programming style of React components. And there are parts of React that do bother me, like the necessity of memoization and how easy it is to create out-of-order state updates. But I don’t keep choosing React because I’m scared of other options, I keep using React because I enjoy it.
I bought stock back when they changed ceo. They seemed to be doing well fir a while. Sadly I kept them.
> That would be true if p were the probability of null hypothesis being true given the data observed, but that’s not what it is.

I think you're interpreting that sentence as talking about one false positive out of 20 positives? Which would be a very incorrect statement.

But it says one false positive out of 20 experiments. That's a valid statement. (Though it does depend on the proportion of negatives you're getting.)
you can't use a vector image of the emoticon (if you like it) ?
Haha, exactly. I switched to local Llama 3 and never looked back.
> Why don't you just stand up and admit that you didn't bother testing everything you send to production?

The "What Happened on July 19, 2024?" section combined with the "Rapid Response Content Deployment" make it very clear to anyone reading that that is the case. Similarly, the discussion of the sensor release process in "Sensor Content" and lack of discussion of a release process in the "Rapid Response Content" section solidify the idea that they didn't consider validated rapid response content causing bad behavior as a thing to worry about.
Centering a widget regardless of orientation (and detecting the orientation) is incredibly trivial with Flutter. You might have just been tired at the end of a long day and missed something.
For someone who has never written an Android app before but knows Java, what's the "happy path" to getting a native MVP out the door in 2024? Must I learn Kotlin? Is there a "blessed API" or design pattern these days that's better supported than the others?
>work exceptionally hard to even be on par with others, it's only my innate interest in these subjects and refusal to give up

I mean, you're obviously not mediocre at least at tenacity and perhaps discipline? Lots of people don't have that, think about it.

Then, how are you comparing yourself to others (leading question yes). You're employed as SWE, how hard did you fail fizzbuzz?
Two couples = two cards (at most) in my experience. Some people are really particular about bills though. Did you split evenly or itemize the bills?
Revised rules needed due to 'toxic' chemical found in marijuana products
That sounds useful for someone who already signed up, but I’d rather read them before signing up or installing anything. The documentation is how I decide if it’s worth looking further.

(I also don’t play videos or animations, and try to ignore them if they autoplay. They are usually too fast or too slow. A slideshow that you step through is okay.)

Maybe I’m not your target audience, though?
Putting keys in repos should not be done, full stop. Even if GitHub forks weren’t public, their _private_ repos could one day be compromised. Instead, store keys in a shared vault, .gitignore the .env and have a .env.example with empty keys.
Does that mean that in some ridiculous sense, a neutron star is a unique element?
> Reworkd raises $2.75

It's not a surprise this company managed to raise only $2.75 given its past history https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40627558
We Should Stop Using JavaScript [video]
Thank you, it worked
You’re allowed to make your letters however you want too, even if they’re ambiguous.
Fine-Tuning Llama 3.1 405B on a Single Node
Sandboxed code execution is a bit different than RCE.
Then you can look up how much the tax is when you are making your voting decision. This isn’t secret information.
The bit you quoted is referring to public forks that were deleted. That sounds like a non-issue to me, and I'm not at all surprised that

1. Public "forks" are just namespaced branches that share an underlying repo

2. They don't run the garbage collector all the time

I'd be surprised if those weren't true.

Like I said, the behavior with private forks sounds indefensible.

The OP is mixing together multiple things. Being able to access deleted public data isn't that surprising and definitely isn't a security issue as far as leaking keys is concerned (it was already public. Assume it has been cloned). Being able to access private forks is a footgun/issue. They should be garbage collecting as part of public repo creation so that unreferenced commits from private forks aren't included.
TimescaleDB's $110M series C would like to have a word :)
Honestly, my service is most similar to Kafka (it can replay), but implementing the routing of RabbitMQ doesn't seem too complicated.
I've been using a Librem 5 as my daily driver for years now. I also have a PinePhone, but it's quite slow compared to L5.
From the other thread, I just noticed that this is a company YC has invested in. Not surprising.
Cool, so the top two players are now the only players and everyone else is now trapped feeding off of them
Nice to know that variations in spoken English are still used to segregate people into good and not very good groups rather than merit or personality. I apologize ahead of time for not using a solid Midwest Accent annunciated as per traditional evening news.
I asked this question in other communities, and they all expressed that RabbitMQ (AMQP) has more features. Can you tell me which features of Kafka you think are more complex and difficult to implement?
Ah - I assumed you were talking about the in-app experience. My bad!

Point well taken and we'll definitely add more details/docs on the site.

Thanks!
Are you not aware that half the industry is using it to generate (at least some portion of) their code? And that many are paying for the privilege?
Ideas for Master's Thesis
>textSelectHandleLeft, textSelectHandleRight

Done

>textColor, typeface, textColorLink, textFontWeight, textStyle

handled by TextPaint in StaticLayout/DynamicLayout. For example textColorLink is just `linkColor` from TextPaint.[0]

>text, textSize, maxLines, justificationMode, breakStrategy, hyphenationFrequency, lineBreakStyle

handled by StaticLayout/DynamicLayout

>shadowColor, shadowDx, shadowDy, shadowRadius

mTextPaint.setShadowLayer(radius, dx, dy, color);

Wow, that was so difficult. Only those that "know about UI" must be capable of such a feat?

>numeric, digits, phoneNumber, inputMethod, editable, cursorVisible, textCursorDrawable, allowUndo, inputType, imeOptions, privateImeOptions, imeActionLabel, imeActionId, editorExtras,

Only needed if you add a text editor into your text view, which I did not do.

I'm not going to go through all of these because I'm not sure exactly which side implements them (for example elegantTextHeight sound like something TextView does, but I'm not sure.) I suggest you actually sit down to read TextView before you make comments about it.

[0] https://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/TextPai...
To stop the carbon in the atmosphere from increasing, we only need to grow the biomass in the soil by a hundredth of an inch per year. Good topsoil contains about ten percent biomass, [Schlesinger, 1977], so a hundredth of an inch of biomass growth means about a tenth of an inch of topsoil. Changes in farming practices such as no-till farming, avoiding the use of the plow, cause biomass to grow at least as fast as this. If we plant crops without plowing the soil, more of the biomass goes into roots which stay in the soil, and less returns to the atmosphere. If we use genetic engineering to put more biomass into roots, we can probably achieve much more rapid growth of topsoil. I conclude from this calculation that the problem of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a problem of land management, not a problem of meteorology. -- Freeman Dyson
> I've interviewed many people on Alexa before.

I got a recruiting message once for a ML engineer position in Alexa, ignored it.
Big Tech says AI is booming. Wall Street is starting to see a bubble
On top of that, when you consider how often Alexa plays the wrong song, it's pretty hard to trust it with purchases. The equivalent of asking for a pop song and getting heavy metal would be trying to order some pens and ending up with a canoe or something.
No one would blame the business. Receipts should show sales tax clearly.

I would very much blame the business for leaving out tax, concealing how much I'll need to pay to try to get me to overspend. Businesses claiming they don't want to be blamed for sales tax existing seems like misdirection from the real reason: it makes it look like you're spending less.
...the receipts show what tax is charged in the total. This is a total non-issue. Tax-exclusive pricing is ridiculous.
Ron Paul was too far ahead of his time. Wonder how he would do this year?
Show HN: LogoMVP – Generate quick, professional logos for your MVP
I've always struggled with creating branding for new product ideas quickly.

To solve this, I developed a formula for generating good-looking, easily replicable logotypes.

I've now turned this into a tool that others can use.

LogoMVP (https://logoMVP.com) lets you:

- Choose a color scheme
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It's perfect for MVPs, side projects, or any situation where you need a decent logo fast without the hassle of complex design work.

I built this tool to scratch my own itch, and I thought others in the HN community might find it useful too.

It's free to use, and I'd love to get your feedback!
>> is there anything wrong with that?

>Yes. They are losing billions on the deal

biz 101: losses in business commonly happen anytime. losses are not wrong or right. they just happen, for various reasons. it is called an occupational hazard. if getting profits all the time was guaranteed, every tom, dick and harry would be running a business.

so companies know about the possibility of losses before they start up.

>and consumers didn't have their expectations met.

naive. companies don't do businesses for that reason. that is kind of a side effect, although a desirable one for companies, because it makes customers continue as customers. companies do business to make money (i.e. profits, not even just sales), plain and simple.

whether we like that or not, and whether their behaviour is ethical or not, and legal or not, are separate, though related issues.

how many times has this been stated on hn, even if in other words? plenty, I bet.

apart from that, it is sheer common knowledge.

>>is one of the main reasons for the existence of companies, that is, to increase sales, and hopefully, profits

>You're describing the main reason for owning one.

Yes. Is that not obvious?

>This has nothing to do with why we collectively allow them to exist.

you are jumping around, and skirting my question. you, i, or we, may or may not wish to allow them to exist, but what the heck does that have to do with my original question? :

>>>The core issue is that Amazon envisioned Alexa as a product that would help it increase sales.

>>is there anything wrong with that? I kind of thought that is one of the main reasons for the existence of companies, that is, to increase sales, and hopefully, profits.

I doubt that there is any company that envisions a product that will decrease sales, or even keep them flat. then why go to the trouble?
I have been battling with my web devs not to use JS and I have been winning.

Every time they say they can’t do x without JS, I prove them wrong with modern CSS.
Here's how I've built a career without a big golden grant
welcome to real software development
Firefighters battle to save Jasper as wildfire engulfs town
IF the early gen: Alexa, is massively unprofitable, and VC money is burning to get the Current AI Rush going, I don't see how it is not a bubble. Real people and companies can't afford the real cost. People are just cheaper (tm).
Yeah, my thought was it was someone unfamiliar with mobile measurements. It's meant to handle mobile UIs, which means "pixel" doesn't exist as measurement because screens are different densities, different aspect ratio. You could do a thing like make an empty block with full padding to the left or right, or just center align it.

I made a mobile game in Ren'Py and it was hard for me because of the fixed assumption that something was 800x600 and such and you'd add padding on the sides lol. Unfortunately with mobile, everything is relative to each other. iOS was a little easier back when it was one size, but now it's not.

It's still a lot easier to do than fixing sizes on CSS, flexbox, etc because you'd be able to have fine control over these things.
I was really interested in Sourcehut and some of Drew's other projects until I stumbled across his blog. The guy is completely unhinged. He writes long, expletive laden screeds against anyone in the open source community that he thinks isn't tolerant enough (these people never seem to understand the irony or futility of producing intolerant hate speech towards people that they perceive to be creators of intolerant hate speech). Basically if you offend his chosen people he will fly into a rage and seek to offend and deplatform you for years on end.

Gen Z is cooked man. All they seem to be able to do is hate each other over the topic of offensive speech. I don't know how movements like open source which managed to unite everyone manage to survive in a future society managed by Gen Z.
We used Runway's AI to make a cat drink beer, and it grew hands
Such a great album. Every time I scroll by it — right after John Hiat and right before John Mayer on the playlist — I give it a listen. This is an album my uncles told me to listen to after I started listening to Led Zeppelin so that I could start to learn the history of Rock & Roll.
I think feedback or commentary on this is going to bifurcate endlessly into dichotmous observations:

esports aren't sports the IOC shouldnt be here (chess was in the olympics)

saudi arabia is greenwashing its theocratic state by buying things at the IOC (like, every economy which bids (yes I know cities bid not economies) is doing this)

how in holy heck do you get what is basically R rated imagery out of esports in a nation which thinks women should live inside a lead lined shroud in public (I got nothing. That anime- level fake boob artwork is going to be there. Or kids riding dragons spitting flame. And ads for booze and drugs and sex)

On the whole, I think it's possible that this level of engagement is net beneficial, and that ultimately in 100 years or so, Saudi Arabia will join the 19th century in terms of reproductive and legal rights for women, voting, clothing, sex.

Is there a tech sector inside S.A. which is productive to goods and services outside? I get the sense there is a lot of inbound tech, they have IPv6, they do good networks but I don't read of e.g. chip fab plants setting up in Riyadh, or of a massive tech brain drain to live in S.A. -I do however read of them making massive sovereign fund investments into tech sectors in other economies. So they get the goodies and the profits and the product, but they don't need infidels to taint their social order. Is that a fair view?
The crazy thing to me is that you’re confused about this. These companies make huge margin fooling consumers who aren’t paying attention. Nearly all the consumers I know are barely conscious, the first promoted link on Amazon is the one they buy. Losing customers like you who actually inspect the listed price is a pittance to the Amazon machine.

How much time have you spent in physical stores observing the physically listed price per volume labels? These things are all labeled specifically to fool people who are alive but not conscious. Again, we are just a rounding error to these monoliths
Isn’t it out already? I can definitely use something very similar right now on their app.
This is the book I'm currently reading.

I guess that's not so interesting a comment, but it's an old and pretty niche book so I'm surprised to see it mentioned on HN today.

Anyway I agree Strogatz does a good job. He's both telling a good story and he also explains more of the mathematical ideas than a lot of books for popular audiences. He also has a podcast that's worth checking out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Yunick#Automobile_racin...

Another Yunick improvisation was getting around the regulations specifying a maximum size for the fuel tank by using 11-foot (3 meter) coils of 2-inch (5-centimeter) diameter tubing for the fuel line to add about 5 US gallons (18.9 liters) to the car's fuel capacity.
How can I check if I’m in their database without giving them all my information?
How are they capturing this data?
Sorry this essay missed the plot.

If we are to combat climate change, we need cheap, abundant, reliable, zero carbon energy. If we don’t have that, people will just burn more fossil fuels
>Right, but wouldn't you be better off by admitting it, then making amends to address it?

No? By denying it there's still a chance you'll get out of it, however tiny that chance is. That chance becomes zero when you admit it. A "shred of integrity" won't pay your trainers mortgage.
When I worked at iFixit ~12-13 years ago most of the site was already aggressively cached whenever possible, and I’m sure it’s only gotten better since.

They are no strangers to bursty traffic. We would get insane bursts of traffic many, many times greater than typical wherever a teardown of a new iDevice was published shortly after release.

If Kyle and the devops folks there are noticing it, it’s definitely disruptive behavior.
I was hoping to be able to put in my own three words and get a palette output.
I first learned to use TECO back in 1981 at Rose-Hulman, it was the OLD editor back then, but I thought it was interesting. I've always had some nostalgia associated with it. So much so, that I wrote my own clone for MS-DOS in Turbo Pascal back in 1989.... which is now usable in Windows 10, thanks to Free Pascal.[1]

I'm not sure if I've got things quite compatible enough to run all of those macros. I could run them in my Virtual VAX/VMS system, and see how they do on TECO32 there.

[1] https://github.com/mikewarot/teco
That's how I've always worked. I create everything in HTML and CSS and enhance the design iteratively, then I hook up the data fetched from the backend. It's way faster for me this way.
If you suggested we let through potentially bricking level changes without 100% testing coverage by basic testing including reboot testing on many different hardware/VM combinations then I would fire you in that same meeting if you weren't joking with me (and I was in a position to do it)
As a fun aside, there are plenty of rocket engines that run on hydrogen + oxygen. For instance the Space Shuttle Main Engine [1] was fueled by hydrogen + oxygen, which means its exhaust was literally water vapor.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-25
What do you mean “going to see”? It’s been that way for over a decade, albeit with some ebb and flow.