skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they marketed it every enthusiast/pro/gamer would buy it and it'd make their default offering look like some kind of economy version.
I’ve been realizing that while I’ve found an incredibly effective solution to a problem I keep having, it does not automatically lend itself to becoming a wildly thriving business. If the problem that is being solved is a somewhat infrequent one (once a year or less), and not applicable to a super-wide audience (think Facebook), then it simply won’t result in enough business to commit to fully.

I built a domain hunter (with availability checks) for .com domains based on idea prompts and while I see people purchase domains all the time through it, they won’t even shell out $3 to get any extras or a list of more than three domain ideas or so. Zero willingness to pay anything, but high success rates on search and result conversion.
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. "

I think a stronger interpretation would be that Boeing's management/corporate culture needs a dramatic shake-up.

Short of letting the company fail completely if left alone, nationalization might well be the best measure out of a long list of not-great measures to shore things up.

Not saying that it's the measure that should be chosen per-se, but as usual it's often better to be pragmatic than ideological at least.
I've been making an RGB LED version of the game 2048: https://hackaday.io/project/197115-tiny2048.
It's only a little side project but I've been having fun doing it!
Meh... utf-8 validation hardware accelerated with _crypto hardware extension_.

We can expect this extension on public servers where the utf-8 validation would be kind of very useful to have in the various 'hardening' of input data from the unsafe internet stage.

What's important is not to fall in the 'using all extensions' extreme... actually it is important to go the other way to maximize code reuse:

While writting rv64 assembly, I am still carefull at using as few as possible extensions, and I push the envelop to the compressed instructions and the assembler "official" pseudo-instructions (yes, I manually load my constants in a way which depends on the hardware context).

Since I am interpreting rv64 instructions on x64(x86_64) (on linux), unfortunately I use the ZACAS extension as a base for the synchronization operations (risc-v atomic operation are too alien to x64). I am carefull at using a preprocessor (I use a basic C preprocessor) holder to be able to switch those synchronization operations to the native atomic operations if needed.
Emacs 30 Highlights
As a lightweight user, I had literally no idea what you’re talking about.

Not saying you’re wrong, just that it’s not something in your face and you need to actively search for this (now that I know this exists, it took me a minute to find it).
I'm working on a social website where you can share the soft drinks and sodas you try, similar to untappd and maybe swarm, it's not yet ready to share, but I'd love to know if there's any people here that might want to try it (my email is on my profile)
Just get a flash drive with a linux iso from elsewhere and boot directly into it.
Nice thread! A lot of interesting projects. Fingers crossed for all of them

On my side, I'm working on https://flatcal.com that aims at simplifying sharing multiple calendars from different sources as one ical link. Like combining work, freelance, and personal calendars to display my busy time for easier scheduling etc. I'm finishing handling time zones which are messy as each provider has its own approach, but manageable. Expect it soon :) A have a huge list of usages for it so not short on ideas right now. But first things first, I need to focus on releasing the basics now. I'm having way to much fun with this one
Breakthrough in Tenant Solar Energy: Cheaper and Flexible, Even with Grid Backup
We’ve developed a method for tenants to use solar energy produced on their landlord’s roof at a lower cost than grid electricity, while still maintaining the flexibility to keep their own electricity provider for non-sunny days.

Our solution not only lowers energy costs for tenants but also encourages the use of locally produced, green energy. This hybrid approach offers a seamless transition between solar and grid power, ensuring tenants can always access electricity without needing to switch providers.

### My Questions for the Community:
- What specific features would tenants need to fully embrace this green, local energy solution?
- How can we design the user experience to make the benefits of switching to solar energy clear and compelling?
- What incentives might motivate tenants to prioritize locally produced solar energy over grid energy?

I’d love to hear thoughts from the community, especially any ideas on improving user adoption and ensuring a smooth transition for tenants.
Working on plump.ai – job-seeker's AI hiring agent. Think you have a personal career manager who searches for better job opportunities, applies you to them, speaks with recruiters on your behalf up until the interview scheduling, and does it 24/7 without involving you until real human action is required.
I have deleted Telegram for now because I don't want to be associated with international terrorism. These are serious accusations and I expect that Pavel won't live long enough to defend himself in a court.
> Most of the people I know use Telegram to buy drugs

I'm in France. I use Telegram extensively for chatting with friends (1:1 or group chats) because its UX was vastly better than any of the alternatives when we started a few years ago (stuff like polls to decide when to meet, location sharing to find one another in a crowded place), custom bots, being able to edit messages to fix typos, etc. Nowadays WhatsApp does those too, but UX is still worse, especially on non-mobile.

Meanwhile I know people buying drugs off WhatsApp.
Don't discount the effects of marketing here. Companies found a loophole and started marketing to exploit it.
SpaceX is a US company too. The government has to be comfortable letting the incumbents fail, so that companies like SpaceX and Anduril can take their place.
A better phrase would be “Use it but verify”, simply.
Spam is very easily defined and identified, no need to read anything or to look at any images. If you message someone for the first time, they can click a report button and bam it's automatic weekly spam ban for you. Do it three times, forever ban.
That’s been implemented for ages, hasn’t it? I had my imported Airbnb calendar always up to date.
Why fans of nuclear are a problem today
> There is no other purpose they are serving, no secondary masters or considerations that need to be used to weaken their attacks.

Nowadays their purpose has some sort of monetization component, therefore there is consideration as to which attack vectors seem to be the most likely to lead to the kind of a monetization scheme they are targeting on. For example does a group of attackers ransoming companies prefer the same attacks as phishing individuals? Are these the same companies / groups (I prefer companies at this point, they are organized crime, they are a company and have the same sort of problems in that any small company have in deciding where to put their resources - we don't have a phishing division here, we ransom data, we don't denial of service - nobody is paying us for that, we ransom data and that's it!)
> A cage of 5 mice costs ~$1k upfront and ~$5k/yr recurring

You can get mice a lot cheaper than that, I'm not sure what kind of mice he's referring to but the prices depend on the vendor and mouse type.

Where I work it's about $2 a day to house a cage of 5 mice. It's about $30 a mouse if you get C57BL/6NJ's from Jackson: https://www.jax.org/strain/005304

So more like $150 for 5 mice and $800 to house for a year.

Another good one to know if the size of antibodies (10-12 nm).
If I change the color hue of all the CSS variables from green to red, and make the text a bit darker and larger it's not so bad. With a light gray background on the sidebar to provide some contrast with the main content like the Rust doc does I quite like it.

I'll probably create custom CSS rules for the doc if this is the final version and be happy with it. I've been using a custom dark theme for HN for years and I'm happy with it. I'm glad we still have enough control over web pages to do that!
Yes, which boils down to "verify".
XKCD as a new (pattern) language you say?

At least it's more pithy than "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra".
Australia's a democratic wonderland. A vote of thanks to one rather man
Check out the Karousel (KDE) link from the "related projects" comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41342596

It has a short clip, I assume it is similar enough to the actual submission to give an idea what it's about.
We need Erlang's BEAM interpreter done up in AWK
That's for the IoT variant, which is further segmented into incrementally expensive editions depending on the CPU you want to use it with.

And good luck finding somewhere to buy a single license of that. And even then, there's a high chance software you use (browser, IDEs, ...) will not keep getting updates after 2025.
How to run Valgrind on a CGI program in C
What we really need is a common downloadable documentation format so that we can more easily build tools to read documentation of all languages and libraries in one place with unified interface, instead of jumping between tens of browser tabs each with a different (new) look.

I know there is devdocs [1], but unfortunately it need to implement scrapers and filters for each site specifically.

[1] https://devdocs.io/
That's weird because it's really a convenient chat app and unlike WhatsApp, works equally well on both phones and desktops (Whatsapp works great on phones but desktop client sucks, Skype in it's old days, worked fine on desktops but totally sucked on phones, Telegram was the first app that did both well).

In our company all of the work chats are on Telegram although it's 100% legal, audited, and does nothing wrong. It's just the most convenient way to communicate. We use Slack only when some client heavily insists on it.
> For example, you'll hear the advice from the 1% of people who survived drinking every day and who might even think it was good for them, and not the warning from the 99% for whom it didn't work, or worse, who died from it.

Let's use an example to understand.

Let's say that 30% of the population fifty years ago drank and smoked, and 10% did neither. Say that if you drink and smoked, then your chances of living to a hundred years is 1%, but if you do neither then it is 10%.

In that scenario, how likely is it that when you ask a centenarian they will be drinkers and smokers vs abstaining from both? How does it compare to the general population? Would you live longer than the general population by following the advice of the centenarians?

Does it make sense now?
I wish Sony made a retro style camera. Maybe not full ISO / shutter / Exposure dials tercet on top, PASM dial is fine.
I want to know how these people are in the UK legally.

To get a work visa you need to be sponsored by an employer. I struggle to believe UberEats and Deliveroo are sponsoring people from Brazil to come to the UK.
> why not just start there?

Because there are many categories of problems where it's much easier to verify a solution than it is to come up with it. This is true in computer science, but also more generally. Having an LLM restructure a document as a table means you have to proofread it, but it may be less tedious than doing it yourself.

I agree that asking straightforward factual questions isn't one of those cases much like I agree with most of your post.
I love the analytics dashboard idea.
> annoy you to no end with cookie banners

That is due to o malicious compliance. The actual problem is the amount of advertisement cookies, how invasive they are, and how advertisers really don't want to let them go.

> and attached bottle caps

What major problem is that?
Did you go back and check all the dates?
Not icons, buttons. The gray boxes with highlights, shadows and the description written on them.
A companion that you chat with to keep track of your health symptoms. I was inspired by seeing family members go to their doctors appointments and not knowing the important symptoms to report in their short appointments.

Right now, it's Ruth, a companion you can WhatsApp with. She will take your history and record your symptoms, then you can ask her to summarise it before your appointment.

Try out the prototype on WhatsApp: +1 (516) 734-6593

(It's not HIPAA compliant and shares data with LLM providers currently, so best to use a fake patient profile if you're interested)
So we can all agree that Trump certainly doesn't support free speech.

And he's AMERICAN.
This is a good point. The fact that Firefox does exist on Android supports your point that the article only mentions Chrome.
Woman tired of her mail getting stolen used an Apple AirTag to catch the thieves
"Why do you want your country to have access to your private thoughts and opinions? "

Anyone who does not want that, should stay away from Telegram in the first place - an app that stores all your private messages unencrypted for the company to read. All your interactions on any channel ever - all their data. All this is about is sharing that data with the western governments. The russian government already has it for example.
God. Thank you. All these LLM conversations are making me hate this website so much, because apparently at some point actual scientific enquiry took a back seat, and turning one’s nose up at anything in a blatant attempt to seem smart has taken charge.

If all the people whinging on here took some of that time and actually ‘formally’ experimented with LLMs, measuring their reliability / correctness against a human in some task in their domain, they may be surprised by the results. And no, “I tried Copilot for an afternoon and hated it” doesn’t suffice.

At work, recently, I happened across an opportunity to do just this. There was a task that I thought that it was quite possible for an LLM to be good at. The task was such that we could run a bit of a ‘study’ to see how the LLM fared against a real-world meat-bag person. A skilled person at that. The person we would’ve had do the job in the first place. The LLM and the human agreed the vast majority of the time (>99.9%), and the LLM with its infinite ‘attention’ (heh) was on more than one occasion correct in cases where the human wasn’t, because it was a repetitive task that’d put someone to sleep.

It was a task that involved parsing language, but I’m sure one that the geniuses on HN would say requires “understanding semantics”, “intelligence” or whatever armchair philosophy nonsense they whip out in lieu of intelligent conversation. It wasn’t sentiment analysis, categorisation, or anything of that nature. Maybe it’s something I could’ve tackled without an LLM, with traditional ‘deep learning’, or whatever. I really don’t know. I couldn’t think of a way off the top of my head. It was beyond ‘throw linear regression at it’ anyway.

Software engineering isn’t engineering, but evidently computer science is increasingly not a science. This industry deserves all of the belittling pejoratives people throw at it. There’s a disappointingly large contingent of utterly unengaged, incurious, drones that let their entire professional skill set be guided by whatever some other incurious drone says on a social network.
And South Korea has cyber offensive ISP-teams toward it's customers ;)
That's fair feedback. A direct parquet comparison in the presentation would have been useful.
I've been working on Habitat for the last 4 months. It's a self-hosted social platform for local communities. The plan is for it to be federated, but that's a while off yet.

- The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-net...

- A build update and plan: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/

- The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat

- The project board: https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2
That brings back memories. I entered a 2d duckhunt game in JavaScript, lots of nice comments, but no judges recognition.
What RSS Needs
I like to use "Please interpret my request charitably", because charitability is one of the character traits that it is meant to be trained for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyJj9RxSsBY
The IndieWeb is great, and was referenced in the article too (via a link to my blog post, talking about the IndieWeb)
You can maybe try to get just to use bun shell [1]. It's a cross platform shell with sh like syntax (still in dev and doesn't support everything [2])

[1] https://bun.sh/docs/runtime/shell#sh-file-loader
[2] https://bun.sh/docs/runtime/shell#builtin-commands
In addition to what you say, it can also be easier for a (appropriately-skilled) human to verify a small program than to verify voluminous parsing output, plus, as you say, there's the semi-automated "verification" of a very-wrong program failing to execute.
According to this rule, approximately 100% of officials must be thrown out of their jobs right this second. I think you are mostly correct about irresponsibility, incompetence, and excuses, but I don't see why there should be legal consequences for people who did not take on any obligations. Especially in the situation, when people who take on, like all officials, have no responsibility
Much less than 98% would fail that, why do you think that? Do you really believe that almost all STEM college students are that dumb?

Likely you misunderstood something here, not the people you talked to. Do you mean they get confused with that notation? Not understanding specific notation doesn't mean you can't do the thing.
It actively harmed the environment. Once the thing has been manufactured doing anything less than driving it into the ground is wasting the upfront environmental cost.
There's a whole book devoted to that, titled "10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1));:GOTO 10"
I always wondered about that
Is that in the article? I didn't see that. Where is that from?
That's insanely bad advice, yes GPU memories was a tad anemic only a few years back so it could've been an option, BUT the introduction of raytracing (RTX) means that the GPU's needs to have a full world in memory so memory sizes has started to increase quickly, this is entirely disregarding AI workloads that might have had an even bigger impact on memory sizes.

A highend consumer RTX 4090 has 16000 CUDA cores and 24GB of memory, that's 1.5mb of memory per core.
Those were for the other type(s) of shuttles, for use in space. (The ones that didn't get built).

The original STS design looked a lot more like late-game KSP1 (possibly depending on the player).
I'm not gen z, but this is giving me skibidi vibes.
Ive been doing this with chatgpt.. sometimes makes mistakes, i have to try a few times but better than by hand..
Off topic, but a funny thing about asking about George Washington's birthday is there are two possible answers because of British calendar reform in 1750 (although we've settled on recognizing the new-style date as his birthday).

footnote [a] on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington#cite_note-3
Boo fucking hoo. Being opposed to fascist dictators invading peaceful countries isn't "Russophobia", it's rational and ethical. If Putin dropped dead and was replaced by sane people, there wouldn't be anywhere near as much so-called "Russophobia". Stop painting yourself and your corrupt murderous warmongering invading fascist dictator tyrants as the victims. It's totally your fault that reasonable peaceful people justifiably hate you, as long as you're invading Ukraine, threatening nuclear war, oppressing LGBTQ people, and bullshit like that.
It's a lot simpler: nuclear ran out of time. It will take more time for any new nuclear plant approved today, to start operating, than for renewables solving electricity forever. It takes 12-14 years to build a nuclear power plant from scratch, even in jurisdictions where regulations are not a problem at all (Belarus for example). EU plans to eliminate all fossil-based electricity by 2040. It basically means: too late for nuclear.
This is a public forum and every comment here is everyone's business.

Malicious edits like that after you've been replied to destroy the context and flow of a thread for everyone else, it's a form of vandalism.
I remember this kind of UX being prevalent in the early 2010s or so. Fortunately most docs have moved on.
I mean I guess, but why not just use a lucene based system?
Language Entropy
I made a mobile app using an LLM (I'd never written React Native before) and GPT-4 was constantly making mistakes after the code was more than a hundred lines or so. GPT-4o was even worse.

Claude, in comparison, dealt with everything much more competently, and also followed my instructions much better. I use Claude nowadays, especially for coding.
This is pretty much how flat Earthers started.
While I do partly agree, as someone who is old, I don't expect the younglings to think we didn't do stupid things. We did because we did not know any better, because the world was new and fast and they seemed good at the time.
Expecting the future to value the compromises we have chosen doesn't scale, piling complexity does not scale.
I don't know how to solve this, but I doubt continuing to add complex and fragile hacks will work forever. In this sense "X is stupid".
'Hate speech' is a term deliberately coined to undermine the ideal of Free Speech.

There is no need for the label, other than to serve this purpose. We already have long existing words for what is lumped under so-called 'hate speech', such as bigotry, or invective or slander. But they don't contrast so neatly against Free Speech as the invented (subjective) label 'Hate Speech' does, which is why it was (only recently) coined.
“find me a hook up close by” literally means “find me a prostitute nearby” which is also illegal here and is indeed present on Telegram.

Considering how everyone reporting their actual experience with Telegram here is downvoted to death, it seems to really hurt some users to actually consider that maybe the reason Durov got arrested is because Telegram welcomes criminals with open arms and does absolutely nothing to moderate the platform.
Thanks. That’s more like what I’d expect given the rest of the article details.

I was worried I’d missed some kind of massive uplift.
High[Er] Dimensions
I love responses like this. Well there is only one way to find out statistically since you love statistics.

If you are not an inmate I will assume that you are a free person living in a western society. Since you are free person you a free to go and live in Stockholm, lets just say for the statistics you are going to live in a slightly not so friendly neighbourhood where the lying police said that it is an area populated with predominantly 14 years old gang members, now since police by your own words cannot be trusted we will assume that their information is not correct and the area is perfectly fine and safe.

Please run the maths and tell me with just 5% probability to get executed by a 14 years old gang member by walking down the street you live in to get to your home lets just say 100 times how likely is this event to occur? Of course the question that follow is are you going to take that chance ? I already know the answer.

Now you can choose to deny reality and look away, but the good thing about reality is, that it is just like gravity it just hits you sometimes.

I don't know if your PM have to call in the army to help with gang related crimes the situation seem pretty bad to me, again you are free to prove me wrong statistically, and take your chances.
Yep.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify