skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The unfortunate truth (that I've had to learn the hard way as a founder) is that whole IT approval process is inevitable for any vendor indexing source code.

Even when I've tried to offer lower price tiers, ~every company of 20+ people puts a ton of bureaucracy in place before disclosing source code. Dealing with this bureaucracy has a fixed cost, so it's inevitable that many companies end up excluding the lower end entirely.
-heavy sigh- this is frustrating.
I prefer human readable datetime for debugging, because there are a lot of programs which have timings and timeouts for certain operations. Being able to quickly observe that a timeout happened in 500 ms instead of 1.5s would be interesting, epoch does not show you this information.

Similar with quickly jumping to a certain day.
At this one startup I was at, I asked one of the fresh grad hires who had a really neat looking terminal what his Oh My Zsh plugins did. He couldn't name more than two and didn't really know them. I asked him what a process' exit status was and somehow he didn't know it.

All of the other fresh grad hires tried to use Ubuntu systems with a Windows XP mindset.

Having a central bank really is a great evil.
I’m not an expert in any way on this, but my impression from reading maybe half a dozen books involving the Soviets + living in a former Soviet-occupied country is that the USSR simply wasn’t ever going to work sociopolitically by nature of its multi-nation imperial structure. The client states were never really assimilated and didn’t want to be - and the relationship with them was hostile from the start - see the lack of help during the Warsaw Uprising, Hungarian Revolution in 1957, Prague in 1968, etc. So my impression is that the USSR would inevitably collapse and it was mostly just a matter of time.

The arms race definitely had an effect on the Soviet economy, but I don’t think it’s correct to say that was the main reason for the collapse.
> test cases might have owners

I hope the owner is the same person that owns the code.
All the web metadata I consume is organic and responsively farmed.
Finding something or someone to blame -- whether it is an operator, the UI, training, whatever -- typically halts all insight-gaining processes, and is therefore not recommended. Especially if that something is "100% to blame".
Chesterton’s network stack.
Shein sues Temu for copyright infringement, says rival loses money on every sale
I don't see why mDNS would be any less stable than UPnP. If anything, it should work better, as common advice (and these days even router defaults) is to disable UPnP. I'm sure the stack isn't tested as well (after all, the existing stack has been receiving patches for a decade) but if anything I'd expect the new stack to work better once the bugs are ironed out.
mini_httpd, merecat, [a-z]httpd (choose one), OpenBSD httpd is nice but not portable. Your OS likely has a a built-in web server. Hell, Microsoft shipped something called Personal Web Server with Windows 95/98 nearly 30 years ago.

Stop inventing new static web servers. Contribute patches to an existing project if you feel so inclined but this has been a solved problem for decades by very intelligent people who understand how the Internet works. We've gone full circle from bloated behemoths like Netscape, to serving from kernel mode (http.sys, Tux Web Server, etc.) and back again.
W...what? What does it matter if you have non-competes when companies have gentleman agreements not to poach each other's staff?
I mean, shutting down the library for an entire year still seems like a fairly unfortunate outcome.

What if someone accidentally sees a forbidden book before it's removed from the shelf??? Better close the whole library until it's been totally audited, just in case.
Cold outreach and finding another market [video]
Are there people who like temporary tattoos? Do you need a tattoo search engine?
Developing a tattoo search engine could be valuable？ When I use temporary tattoos, I often search on Google, but it takes a long time to find ones that I like.
In soviet Russia you were completely free to express your negative opinion about the government, as long as it was the government of the United States.
Bun 1.1.25
You can do this with inotify-tools and a wrapper script. Needs a little something on the browser side to make it seamless however.
I’m interested to know more because I don’t understand what you mean?
I hope it’s the product managers that committed malpractice who are losing sleep.
I am doing through the book 'How not to Diet' by Michael Greger. Yes, it has an agenda (plant based diets) but I do like how he goes into detail about how various studies try to isolate various effects. The need for either very thorough studies that capture multiple angles or compounding studies to try and isolate impacts on diet.

Essentially, you cannot take a single study as proof but another POTENTIAL step towards some conclusion.

That we have been studying this stuff in detail for well over a century says it all - this stuff is difficult to get a signal out of the noise.
We are considering quickwit as an alternative to AWS OpenSearch and SolrCloud due to its simplified architecture and cost-effectiveness. We found most of the studies provided in their blogs very helpful. However, we may need to update some documents, and it seems like quickwit doesn't support updates (suitable for immutable docs). I wanted to check if anyone has found any workarounds for that.
Here is an interesting tidbit: the Japanese version of the SNES was called Super Famicom. There was a physical notch that prevented Japanese cartridges from being used in the North American SNES. But for people who knew, it was actually possible to just cut off the notch in the North American SNES, and then you could use Japanese cartridges. My cousin gave me a Japanese Star Fox cartridge back in the days and I could play it on the North American SNES.

What I really never understood is how the whole system dealt with the differences between PAL and NTSC. For starters, the Japanese system outputs in PAL, which is 625 horizontal scan lines at ~25 fps. The North American system outputs in NTSC, which is 525 horizontal scan lines at ~29.97 fps.

Does anybody understand how that worked?
“Defense tech” should not be a capitalist for-profit venture. The incentives are all wrong. The business model is basically “milk the government for as much money as you can get, over the longest possible time period”, which is never a good business model for incentivizing efficiency or innovation. That is how American defense manufacturing got so slow and costly. It’s why America struggles to produce something as simple as cheap artillery shells at scale: simply not profitable enough. Much more profitable to sell fancy tech at $3m a pop.
They made shareholders very happy by replacing all those expensive in-house employees with cheap outsourced labour. Sadly, nobody knew that there was more than one type of coding bootcamp. That's how they ended up with the React crew for a bare-metal job.
The cognitive dissonance here is outrageous - people whos ideas ruled the world without great disruption ever since the cold war ended, offended by the idea the bloody mess these ideas helped to built and these weapons aim to solve, is somehow not there responsibility. Own your results people! If your ideas and ideologies arm and support blood thirsty dictatorships and they do bloodthirsty dictatorship things. Thats on you! Thats what you aimed to do.
Not making the world a better place! More like making the world a better place for Nod!
If you want to know where this is heading, keep an eye on the fortunes of Cohda Wireless.

https://www.cohdawireless.com/

Cohda was started in 2004 by three very smart Information Theorists (Grant, Alexander, Rasmussen), who basically solved the problem of how to get a WiFi/OFDM signal to/from a vehicle moving at speed through a built up city. The company name is Ad Hoc, as in Ad Hoc network, spelled backwards. Cohda's original version was effectively a preprocessor between the WiFi and the antenna, that tamed the multipath channel. Back then they had some impressive coverage maps of the Adelaide CBD, whereby plain WiFi struggled to get coverage in a 100m radius, whilst the Codah system had seamless coverage out to about 1km. They were (and still are?) the leaders in this space.
Potentially nothing, but apartment buildings don't move, so an artillery shell at one-hundredth the cost would probably be the preferred option anyway for nations motivated toward such things.
Does anyone know if Zen identifies itself as 'Firefox' at program-level when running on Windows? This is the biggest mistake that FF forks and offshoots make, since it makes it impossible to run Firefox and the derivative work at the same time.
Yeah I wish all time is given in some standardized iso/unix time and then have user reformat depending on on browser or OS settings.
Not many straightforwardly positive comments here so far, so I will write one.

I'm a Firefox user but I've recently been tempted by Arc primarily because of its 'workspaces' feature and its minimal UI that gets out the way. I used Arc for several weeks and really got a taste for these features, so I'm really happy to see them come to a Gecko-based browser. Thank you, and keep it up!

My advice would be: don't advertise wooly claims about performance and security, when it's not clear exactly what's different from Firefox there. Instead, focus on this simple fact: it's an alternative UI for Firefox-based browsing, and that's great.
Is one of the first, not the first.

The actually unique feature of the Elektronika is that it is PDP-11 compatible though.
We research all product data manually and then have AI cross-check the data and see how well it can replicate what the human has researched and whether it can find errors.

Actually, building the AI agent for data research takes up most of my time these days.
Do you provide code examples? In my experience the more specific you get with your problem the more specific are the provided solutions (probably a "natural" occurence in LLMs). Hallucianted APIs are sometimes a problem for me, but then I just specify which API to use.
While that's true, I think GP's idea isn't necessarily a bad one. You could argue the same thing about game store clerks negating the need for ESRB ratings.
And it fails to address why SemWeb failed in its heyday: that there's no business case for releasing open data of any kind "on the web" (unless you're wikidata or otherwise financed via public money) the only consequence being that 1. you get less clicks 2. you make it easier for your competitors (including Google) to aggregate your data. And that hasn't changed with LLMs, quite the opposite.

To think a turd such as JSON-LD can save the "SemWeb" (which doesn't really exist), and even add CSV as yet another RDF format to appease "JSON scientists" lol seems beyond absurd. Also, Facebook's Open Graph annotations in HTML meta-links are/were probably the most widespread (trivial) implementation of SemWeb. SemWeb isn't terrible but is entirely driven by TBL's long-standing enthusiasm for edge-labelled graph-like databases (predating even his WWW efforts eg [1]), plus academia's need for topics to produce papers on. It's a good thing to let it go in the last decade and re-focus on other/classic logic apps such as Prolog and SAT solvers.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENQUIRE
Feels like Bismarck Analysis would really like to be confused with Hindenburg Research.
I also hate "1 year ago" when it was actually 23 months ago
That sounds a little too spooky for my taste, but you do you. What anything beyond that means, in effect, is that you (not necessarily you) want to chose my values for me (not necessarily me).

I don't see why I should care to have you do that.
If even the semantic web people are declaring victory based on a post title and a picture for better integration with Facebook, then it's clear that Semantic Web as it was envisioned is fully 100% dead and buried.

The concept of OWL and the other standards was to annotate the content of pages, that's where the real values lie. Each paragraph the author wrote should have had some metadata about its topic. At the very least, the article metadata was supposed to have included information about the categories of information included in the article.

Having a bit of info on the author, title (redundant, as HTML already has a tag for that), picture, and publication date is almost completely irrelevant for the kinds of things Web 3.0 was supposed to be.
Yes it is. Rather than being beholden to shareholders who seek profit, the company becomes beholden to voters (which is mostly comprised of the proletariat), and hence steers toward societal goods rather than maximizing profit. It's why public health care is preferable to private.

Is it perfect and pure ownership of capital by the workers? No. But it most definitely is a step in that direction, and it was taken back by force almost immediately. The reason I bring it up is as a historical example of the incremental approach not working.
I don’t want to come off as mean and spoil the article but the author writes he can’t get anything done and the strategies that might help him with finishing things is..

“1) writing a spec (i.e. a plan) upfront, and 2) timeboxing the project by giving myself a deadline.”

Isn’t this just agile? I’m pretty sure every developer already does this, it’s kind of the whole strategy for completing any project.

Not sure what the point of this article was. He could have wrote “make a sprint and stick to it”
Yeah my first response to 99% of these kind of interview questions is why? I look at ROI and how working code impacts budget and investment. It pains me to say it but the biggest companies out there have horrible code in COBOL that frankly doesn’t make sense to change it over. Similarly bug squashing usually is how did it pass QA/static analysis/dev ops.
A Brief History of Peanut Butter
https://old.reddit.com ?
The problem is probably more related to the cloud enshittification and using we sockets I guess.
I strongly recommend against using taichi because it doesn't support Python 3.12. Even if they add support now, they have already demonstrated a disinterest in keeping up with Python, unfairly blaming it on Pytorch. Note that Pytorch itself supports 3.12 just fine.

If you have an Nvidia CUDA GPU, consider https://github.com/NVIDIA/warp instead.
senior – Password manager using age as back end with agent; inspired by pass
I can't read any of these images. Substack disallows zooming the page. Clicking on an image zooms it to approximately the same zoom level. Awful UI.
Fascinating background - would love to pick your brain on how you see current LLMs/ML comparing to neuroscience. What do you see that's missing still, if anything?

If I had to bet, I would start with:

- Error-correcting specialized architectures for increasing signal-to-noise (as far as I can tell these are what everyone is racing to build this year, and should be doable with just conventional programming systems wrapping LLMs)

- Improved energy efficiency (as yes, human brains are currently much more efficient! But - there are also simple architecture improvements (both software and hardware) that are looking to save 100x. Specialized ASIC ternary chips using 1999's tech should be here quite soon, a lot more efficient in price and energy.)

- No Backwards-propagation. (As yes, the brain does seem to do it all with forward-propagation only. Though this is possible and promising in neural networks like the Forward-Forward algorithm too, they haven't been trained to the same scales as backprop-heavy transformers (and likely have a lower performance in terms of noise/accuracy). Though if I'm not mistaken, the brain does have forward-backward loops, but the signals go through separate neurons for each direction (rather than reusing one) - if so that's close to backprop by itself, but probably imposes a tradeoff as the same signal can't be perfectly reproduced backwards, yet it can perhaps be enhanced to be just the most relevant information by the separate specialized neuron. I'm obviously mostly ignorant of the neuroscience here but halfway-knowledgeable on the ML theory haha

But yes, I completely agree - the flood gates are already open. This is a few architecture quibbles away from an absolute deluge of artificial intelligence that will dwarf (drown?) anything we've known. Good point on decentralized cheap autonomy - the real accomplishment of life. Intelligence, as it appears, is just a fairly generous phenomenon where any autonomous process continually improves its signal-to-noise ratio... many ways to accomplish that one! Looking forward to seeing LLMs powered by ant colonies and slime molds, though I suspect by then there will be far more interesting and terrifying realities unlocked.
Sure but do hallucinations matter then much just for categorisation? Hardly the end of the world if they make up a published date occasionally.

And prompt injection is irrelevant because the alternative we're considering is letting publishers directly choose the metadata.
I have the same experience as you and initially have the same doubts before I started to blogging 10 years ago. Now I keep telling friends around me to start blogging.

Writing blogging is really a good way to refresh thoughts about some old experience and help bring new ideas.
Yeh, I don't think it's the tech choice that's the problem. It's the choice to change the tech that has caused this.

A clean rewrite of a wireless networking stack that does real-time synced audio streaming and device discovery on any users home WiFi (which is notoriously bad!) is a decision to face a lot of pain finding the edge cases that were previously fixed 10y ago.
That's always been my interpretation of it! I would use the term "insatiably curious" to describe it to people.
I'm a dummy with very rudimentary script kiddie tier skills, and Claude has helped me do a bunch of personal projects that would normally take months of research and stackoverflow begging in a few days. For me the hype is real, but maybe not trillions $$$ worth of value real.
It seems to me that an unspoken assumption in this thread is that "design" is purely theoretical work, performed by a designer.

If the behavior of a sleep-deprived sailor is an unknown variable, then the obvious solution is to get a sleep-deprived sailor involved in the design process. This is not particularly complex, and while _some_ money is involved, preventing this accident would basically give you a budget of $223 million, human lives not even taken into account.
This whole thing comes off as very “edgy”. We just like to tinker with things. It’s really not that deep for most of us.
Dog breeds: https://www.tema.ru/crea-gif/dogs.html
"Some of the Most Popular Websites Share Your Data with over 1,500 Companies", Wired, 3 months ago, https://www.wired.com/story/cookie-pop-up-ad-tech-partner-to... w/ 3 comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39835704

> JetPunk tops the pile, listing 1,809 “partners” ... 20 websites from publisher Dotdash Meredith—including Investopedia.com, People.com, and Allrecipes.com—all say they can share data with 1,609 partners. The newspaper The Daily Mail lists 1,207 partners, ...
Seems like you're just saying if you solve the problem on your own then whatever the LLM produces isn't an issue
Are there any tools that employ LLMs to fill out the Semantic Web data? I can see that being a high-impact use case: people don’t generally like manually filling out all the fields in a schema (it is indeed “a bother”), but an LLM could fill it out for you – and then you could tweak for correctness / editorializing. Voila, bother reduced!

This would also address the two reasons why the author thinks AI is not suited to this task:

1. human stays in the loop by (ideally) checking the JSON-LD before publishing; so fewer hallucination errors

2. LLM compute is limited to one time per published content and it’s done by the publisher. The bots can continue to be low-GPU crawlers just as they are now, since they can traverse the neat and tidy JSON-LD.

——————

The author makes a good case for The Semantic Web and I’ll be keeping it in mind for the next time I publish something, and in general this will add some nice color to how I think about the web.
I get where you are coming from. Some times it can look like an endless wave of articles and studies that say "do this" - "Don't do this!". It can be exhausting if you are too focused on it.

I do not advocate for a longer life or a thinner grave, only better health so that the years you have are good ones. Maybe worrying less about this stuff is a good first step, chill out, relax and then figure out some changes to make if you feel like you need too.
what you didnt realize is that the "early" bus is actually the late bus from the previous timeslot.
> A naval carrier group is pretty much invulnerable to any single weapon that exists today.

I like your patriotic spirit, but the U.S. Navy doesn't seem to agree.

The Eisenhower retreated at the slightest hint of Houthi missiles.
Taking the n=10 case, because you think n=2 is confusing.

> the average winner will get prize_pool / (10/2) or prize_pool / 5.

No, the average winner will get expected_prize_pool / expected_number_of_winners.

If 5 is the number of winners averaged over all draws - including those without winners - the (average) pot they share has also to take into account draws without winners.

The average prize shared in this case is not prize_pool, it’s 1023/1024 times prize_pool.
Random Thoughts about Unity
I was recently in the market for a speaker. Had an odd set of requirements...

- Portable (i.e. bluetooth + battery)

- Loud (as it's predominantly used in my workshop and on the deck - hence portable)

- WiFi support because bluetooth is annoying for connection-sharing. Spotify Connect is predominantly how I like to connect & share.

I looked into Sonos long and hard, and it looked like a complete mess. For the price, it simply couldn't be justified.

Ultimately I couldn't find something that met all my requirements for the price. So I just bought a UE Hyperboom. 20 hours of battery life + USB Power + Optical & 3.5mm Audio in. I bought a M5 Audiocast from AliExpress that provides WiFi Spotify Connect capability.
I will also recommend parcel (https://parceljs.org/recipes/web-extension/)
We have been using it for the last 3 months, and the only time we did anything for config was in the first day
Extremely large beverage holder...bubble dome...a horn that plays "La Cucaracha"...
Very philosophical texts. These are good reads. Thanks for sharing!
Good points! Here is why I blog: http://dk1mi.radio/why-i-write/

One reason is that every project is worth starting and finishing when you blog as it will result in something useful - no matter if it is a fail or not.
I work in map annotation for waymo for europe and a lot of work is coming lately. they pay good bonuses for overtime. I suspect this is just the beginning of the scaling process.
There's a market for people who enjoy pretending to have a 100% Instagrammable life. I wonder how strong the correlation is between this group and people who are simply not happy with their own real life circumstances.
What's the cause of this development?
How much copper would you need for a 4,300km 2GW subsea cable?
Can someone explain how this makes sense economically, isn't it really expensive and lossy to transport electricity such a long distance?
Weapons prevent murder and war. War happens only when one side has an advantage over the opponent.
No ... because the incentives to lie in metadata are too high
They also managed to almost fully clone a MicroVAX II in 1990: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotron_K_1820

Fundamentally the Soviets doctrine of only cloning meant they were fucked to begin with. MVII started development in 1982, came out in 1985, K1820 could only start by 1986 and was finished by 1990.