skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is definitely not true.

Are you open to understanding why this isn't true? If so, I'm happy to help you come to the correct understanding; please ask whatever questions are necessary. Otherwise, then, well, okay!
What I love about you guys is that when somebody asks for a feature, you never come back with “sure, maybe we’ll bolt that on”, you come back with “We agree! That’s why we completely rebuilt the thing from scratch to handle that legitimate and central requirement! And still we’re not satisfied!” It’s awesome!
That's the "Modern" cultural movement.

The "Modern" Age instead ended at around the 17th or the 18th century.

Naming anything "modern" is pure hubris.
Show HN: AI Event Scheduler – Create Google calendar events from selected text
Hi all! I have created a Chrome extension that makes scheduling events a breeze. AI Event Scheduler allows you to create Google Calendar events by simply selecting text on any webpage and clicking a button.

The extension is perfect for anyone who frequently schedules events and wants to streamline their workflow. It's especially useful for professionals, students, or anyone who manages a busy calendar.

I'd love to get your feedback and hear about your experience if you try it out!

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I am well aware of the benefits of a REPL, and find it pretty essential for learning any language. It didn't help me grok clojure any better, though.

I'm not sure what you mean by structural editing support. I usually find things like autocomplete or automatic parenthesis to be more of a nuisance than a help.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240827103538/https://nymag.com...
Personally, I focus on the process, not just the results.

Process goals are actionable, and thus more motivating.

Consider these goals:

1/ $1b/yr in revenue.

2/ 10 cold emails per day.

Both goals may take you to the same finish line, but I find only one of them to be motivating.

Which goal is more motivating to you?
Correct, for the sprites. However, the walls in Doom are texture mapped, and so have the same issue as videos. Interesting, though, because I assume the antialiasing is something approximate, given the extreme demands on CPUs of the era.
I wonder what your thoughts are on Firefox's absence of an AdBlocker on iOS? Edge has one, Brave has one, but Firefox still doesn't have one. I know that on iOS they can't run plugins, but since the other browsers can, it feels like a lost opportunity.

Could Google's funding be related?
Yeah, I agree. I took a Six Sigma class and somehow a planning class taught by Welch himself back in the late 90's. I really only spent a day with him but I remember him talking a lot about quality. This article feels like a stretch from the tiny bit I know about him.
Information on openai changes quickly and is very unreliable, but:

https://www.maginative.com/article/openais-annualized-revenu...

This site says 3.2B of that comes from subscriptions. Omitting usage via API and assuming 1 user = 240$ annually that makes 133.3 million subscriptions.

https://backlinko.com/chatgpt-stats (says Jun. 04, 2024 but this might be outdated a bit more)

Here it says openai has roughly 3.9 million subs in USA. On that basis I would assume roughly 8 million in Europe. Even if we add India and China(but they don't operate in China currently from what I gather) with numbers raised linearly along their population this doesn't add up. Maybe they rake in a lot via their enterprise plans or am I dumb and missing something ?
> Certification: MIL-STD-810H, MIL-STD-461G, IP66 and optional C1D2

That's why they always seemed a bit overbuilt to me.. most field work does not require such rugged devices.

They are made for military use and similar areas with crazy requirements. Few laptops exist that can check their boxes.

If you design a laptop to these specs, you end up with a passively cooled rubberized metal box with an unpleasant keyboard.
I think the naivity may be thinking the primary demographics of HN users are American.

It's been shown multiple times[0][1] that the majority of HN users are not American, certainly not 100% (as you assessed further up). It would also be reasonable to assume that not all American HN users work in a graphics card relevant space, or even tech.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35567986

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210378
For those of you wondering what this is about: http://www.6502.org/users/andre/petindex/poke/index.html
Indeed. Although this tool looks like a way to work around those holdouts which refuse to provide an official customisation point
Actually the modern period began in the 15th century; one common starting date is the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
> but replacing the fundamental principles of existing licenses with new simple principles that slice the world into acceptable and unacceptable behavior in a better fashion.

Feel free to come up with a different set of principles, but don't call it FOSS.

What frustrates me about this current FOSS discourse is that the are a bunch of people who want to change FOSS principles without (seemingly) understanding what those original principles are or why they were chosen. These critics live in a world in which FOSS has been uproariously successful but don't appear to appreciate what was necessary for it to be successful in the first place.
TFA should be arguing for use of the phrase "du jour" instead.
I'm certainly not anti-environment. It's just I recognize that the only path forward that is both possible and not horribly destructive is nuclear. The technology to make renewables practical simply does not exist even on the horizon. The storage problem is always handwaved away with "batteries" or "hydrogen"--the greens never do the numbers because that will expose the fact it doesn't work.

Renewables reduce oil and gas use. Period. You still need just as much generating capacity and you still release a lot of CO2.

And in that other comment what I said is that going pure renewable would get people lynched for how badly they wrecked the economy. The "green" approach is basically "pay no attention to the fact that the storage tech does not exist." In the real world we see it *increasing* emissions. (Shut down nuke, the load falls onto gas because it actually exists.) What would happen to our economy if power was dollars per kWh?? Because that's what it would take to ensure the lights always stay on in a pure renewable environment.
One thing about this story is this During woman tells her story exactly the way every grad student does. That they tirelessly work their fingers to the bone for the relentless pursuit of science. I can assure you, there's a lot more coffee breaks and drinking beer in the office then she's letting on lol.
"Harassment" and "disagreement" are two separate things, and the fact that you're conflating them here tells me you're not a member of a marginalized group
A lot of the code written in math, physics or data analysis settings is really written for the authors alone to understand. They benefit from tens of pages of documentation (papers) plus decades of previous experience from the readers. None of which commercial software systems have.
Yeah we definitely wouldn’t want them chasing fads. Like, say, crypto currencies for example.

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-mobilecoin-cryptocurrency...
Ask HN: Where to find domain experts for 1:1 tutoring?
I’m looking to get a crash course on a few topics and am hoping to do that by sitting down with domain experts for intensive 1:1 sessions. Has anyone here approached learning in a similar way, and if so, how did you go about sourcing experts? Currently looking for an AI expert.
Small nitpick: How does this calculate the health score shown? I see a vague description in the about page, but I'm confused by the weights. For example the Guild Wars 2 API shows 95 prevent, but clicking for details shows 100 percent reliability. Perhaps it's the high latency that drops it's score by 5 percent?

This is really great overall. I like the interface on mobile, and search works great for me so far. Bookmarking for later.
I have a similar feeling towards "Legacy." Aka "Everyone who wrote it doesn't work here anymore and I can't be bothered to learn how it works"
Anyone know how feasible it would be to use this for doing mocap for a game?
No, it’s not. Gallina is not a specification tool in the way TLA+ is (even if coq calls it its specification language). Gallina is a language used to write mathematical statements which you intend to prove. It’s not designed to write specifications.

Coq is definitely not a specification tool. You can probably prove a specification with it in the same way you actually can do symbolic manipulation with C if you really want to. It still remains an interactive prover.
They won't have to accept anything if the developer never writes code in the first place... this is a ridiculous argument. How do you think most open source desktop software gets made?
Why does Israel bomb apartment buildings, leaves civilians without drinking water and electricity instead of just arresting and prosecuting those who participated in terrorist acts?

I guess it is because it cannot arrest terrorists but citizens of Israel want to see something destroyed anyway.
Holy moly new fear unlocked, is this a real issue beach goers face? Have never heard of it.
That's some good news and way overdue.
Humans can communicate with dogs using soundboards, study suggests
Ppp would have been a perfect time and mechanism to employ mandatory universal sick time; only forgive the loans if employers could post a "bond" showing they had accounted for sick time per employee.

But the US didn't connect many useful strings.
The idea that the LLM violates copyright by reading/viewing a work is the same idea that you violate the copyright by reading or viewing the work. Perhaps you're creating an organically encoded copy of the work within your brain.

No copies are being made, and definitely no copies are being sold.
I tested this on safari and chrome + mobile but not the fox as I rarely use it. I know that ff is more common in the dev world so on the next toy I will be sure to give things a whirl there too.

For ref, I didn't test this on windows, linux, or android nor the browser combos within.
FWIW it has been illegal to use lead piping in the UK for at least 50 years now. Of course it's still in older properties.
Indeed. The kings of AMADEUS.-
This is ridiculous. Imagine you're in the middle of a battle and you need to get an okay to fix something outside of an approved/certified repair outfit?

That would be a physical DDOS attack with severe consequences.

I hope, one can hope, the brass, despite any consequence to their kickbacks, care a little about the grunts on the ground who would be exposed to the consequences of this nonsense and quash this unpatriotic grift.

This is mercenary attitude --which if you're dealing with mercenaries, you can expect, but your own people and companies? That's... insane.
Contemporary is a better term. Less loaded.
Warpvideo AI
10 to 20 years sounds wildly pessimistic

In this sora video the dragon covers half the scene, and its basically identical when it is revealed again ~5 seconds later, or about 150 frames later. The is lots of evidence (and some studies) that these models are in fact building internal world models.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXJ-yLiktDU

Buckle in, the train is moving way faster. I don't think there would be much surprise if this is solved in the next few generations of video generators. The first generation is already doing very well.
I guess the word for this is... weird.
I appreciate the empathy and the context. It definitely helps.

> I spent some time working as a consultant

Did you consult on your own or work with a company? If you were on your own, how did you find clients? I've got a business entity ready to go and am heading to meetups to try and network. What else should I be doing?
> how would serverless help with spidering and indexing?

Because these are tasks that lend themselves to massive concurrency and serverless makes that instantly possible. If you were going to put this on your own hardware that will be a pretty big project of its own.

How many months of dev time can you budget for rolling your own indexing/spidering infrastructure and getting that just right? How does that affect your launch date?
> It is very, very simple, and I would say easier to learn than Python, as long as you remember that it is not programming but maths. For example, suppose you specify this function on the integers:

> f ≜ CHOOSE f ∈ [Int → Int] :
> ∀ x ∈ Int : f[x] = -f[x]

> What function is it? Clearly, it's the zero function

Did you mean your example is the constant function [1], rather than a zero function [2] (where c = 0)?

[1] https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ConstantFunction.html

[2] https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ZeroFunction.html
As someone who's fascinated by formal verification and who's early in their career, what advice do senior folks who have been using TLA+ have?

TLA+ isn't taught in most universities and while I've read about so many interesting applications, I'm yet to convince myself that someone would hire me for knowing it rather than just teaching it to me on the job. Any tips to get started would also be appreciated!
Where "enough" = two accounts.
C'est donc à la mode, c'est-à-dire, avec de la glace.
> Databases that are built into the application by default are the future. Our computers are definitely big enough.

Interesting point. It's easy to forget that in the past local storage was small and expensive so that it was necessary to have a separate database machine.
That’s my post.
Happy to answer any questions
”every pointer is simply adding a dimension to the data.”

No, it’s not. The concept of having a pointer to a pointer has nothing to do with the concept of dimensionality.

You must be thinking of lists of lists (of lists…), which can be implemented using pointers. The dimensionality, however, comes from the structure of the list, not from the pointers.
Is the problem here with the TLD or the domain registrar?
> I'm not the person you're replying to but I interpreted what they were saying as meaning "tech savvy."

I certainly meant "tech savvy" at the last-- if not out right someone who works in IT. The kinds of questions you rhetorically asked re: the activation process are the kinds of questions I'd ask as an IT worker evaluating a product for use in a business. Those kinds of questions are well beyond what the average tech saavy person would even think to ask. They are "unknown unknowns" to people who haven't dealt with intricate software licensing arrangements.

> I also really don't understand why you're "simping" so hard for MusicMaker. Is it that you've taken a position and you're debating it as an academic exercise or out of boredom? Or are they paying you? I mean ... I've never seen anyone go to bat so hard in favour of a company screwing over their paying customers.

Thanks for articulating this. I was thinking the same thing-- particularly as I watched your interaction the grandparent poster in other parts of these comments. I wanted to say something like this but couldn't come up with an articulate way to do it quickly.
> like a Camel in a desert at an oasis

Well the camels stop after 30ish gallons. Military Vendors lap up Gov. money like a blackhole laps up pretty much everything in it's vicinity.
I'm cracking up reading this article because in Architecture (buildings not software) the word "modern" is basically used incorrectly as a rule. The "Modern" period started like 100 years ago, and yet it has somehow come to mean (tacky) high-contrast, open layout homes, only suitable for Mediterranean climates.

The author is totally right though, software people are subject to fads probably worse than the general public and second only to teenagers. This trendiness is rarely useful since we are constantly re-inventing the wheel and more effective solutions tend to take longer to win-out
Oh interesting. Is Twilio suffering overall? I've Twilio for SMS in the past. I just assumed they were a rock-solid company.
This is a popular pattern in apps or other "frameworky" code, especially in C++.

I can think of at least two open source C++ apps I used where every time I checked in the IRC channel, the main dev wasn't talking about new app features, but about how to adopt even newer cooler C++ abstractions in the existing code. With the general result that if you want to know how some algorithm backing a feature works, you can't find it.
It feels like the military is well into pushing back in a lot of ways. "Modular Open Systems Architectures" ((M)OSA) is a buzzword you can't go ten pages through a proposal or strategy doc without running into, after years of the military enduring the same locked down IP shit the rest of the world has been mixed in for decades now. And the military seems to be one of the few places opening up expectations that this unevolvable hell isn't good enough.

One particular write up that really got me was just a brief part of the extremely long & sad ProPublica write-up on the Litoral Combat Ship (LCS). The part about the sailors not even having physical access to a computing center was off the wall madness to me, really epitomized & made real to me a certain despairing level of madness that unregulated capitalism tries to steer humanity into.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-navy-spent-billions-l...

It's not entirely clear how much remedy we're getting from this (M)OSA kumbaya, what are the bigger successes & failures or what technically it looks like (would so love to be able to see how the Arsenal of Democracy is coping with the corporate raiders within), but there's at least strong lip service to change, mutual recognition that systems need to be flexible & reconfigurable & adjustable & modular, which is something.
There were several of these in the early/mid-2010s and all had different drawbacks that made them awkward to deal with. Offhand the only one I remember the name of was BugsEverywhere: https://github.com/aaiyer/bugseverywhere

Some issues I remember in general (not all of these applied to all these distributed bug trackers) that caused them to largely be abandoned:

* No single view of cases: At least one of them was tied to the current commit, so a case could be resolved on a branch but not master

* No central view for non-devs

* Updating happened outside normal git operations so it was easy to forget to push/pull case changes

* One of them that avoided the previous issue made heavy use of branches to keep its data in the main repo, so it turned the repo into a mess

* Even if you did push/pull, updates aren't synchronous with a central location so it was totally possible for two people to assign a case to themselves locally and not realize it until later
(We moved this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41258356, since that thread didn't get much attention and we invited marcprux to repost this one.)
>Trying to buy cheats should be like trying to buy chemical precursors to illicit drugs

Totally agree, both should be absolutely legal and accepted
Show HN: DotNet 8.0 API Categorized Broswer
The Decline of Uber
If they only diversified to reduce their risk, by doing something like buying an email platform.
It seems almost impossibly stupid for IDF or Russia (two of the most sophisticated hacking entities in the world) to use unencrypted messengers for anything important.

Am I wrong? It would make Durov the most valuable target for military intelligence in the world.
Do you care that you're wrong, or... ?

Pedantry doesn't enter into the discussion -- the definitions at play here aren't subject to any kind of subjective interpretation.
The fact that there's confusion on how to use the word "modern" is why I dislike it.

When people say they hate "modern" art they usually mean contemporary art.
> If I were them I’d just port one of the many macOS looking desktop environments like whatever ElementsryOS or PopOS uses to FreeBSD and build from there. That’s obviously more productive, but productivity can be boring because it’s real and not a hobby project. :P

I’m not sure how much productive it’d be in the long run, at least if faithfully replicating macOS is the goal. PopOS is bailing on GNOME (what it had been using) in favor of a bespoke DE because modifying GNOME had become too much of a pain, even for their relatively modest changes. Pantheon (elementary’s DE) closely resembles GNOME for likely similar reasons.

Not that any of the other DEs would serve as better bases, unfortunately. No matter what making a Mac-style DE is going to be a steep uphill climb.
More Than Fine: Multi-LoRA Support Now Available in Nvidia RTX AI Toolkit
That's a bail amount of 0.03% of Pavel Durov's personal net worth

For a person who has $100,000 in net worth, that would be a bail amount of $30
Forget about the market reaction for a minutes, which is always difficult to interpret. More holistically, aren't we underestimating their dev ecosystems (CUDA etc.)?

Think of the dev ecosystem effects in all the various permutations, e.g. from Windows or Apple to AWS to more granular like PyTorch.

Those advantages aren't easily eliminated just by more competitors or even 'better' competitors.
For reference, Japan has special daycares for sick kids; this reduces the parents changing schedules and results in better care for kids and more isolation.
https://www.japanfs.org/sp/en/news/archives/news_id032900.ht...
I find old.reddit.com to be far more reliable than the normal one
The main reason why System76 decided to build Cosmic in the first place was to avoid having to spend an inordinate amount of time (I heard 50%) fixing their extensions any time Gnome made a new release.

The fact that they were able to release this alpha of Cosmic DE in one year just goes to show how much better a use of time it is.
> "specification of system behavior" sounds like a programming language to me

By "specification language" Lamport means one capable of verification via model checking.

In contrast, "programming languages" are not capable of such verification.
>you can get REALLY good deals on used Toughbooks through eBay.

Wow you are right, I took a look and many are in the $200-300 range, though without a drive. I might just grab one to mess around with, and stick in a spare drive I have laying around
Blockchains absolutely do not satisfy the definition of a CRDT.
Can any explain succinctly where the $40m/yr comes from? Is it in the 990s?
The nerve, taking good jobs away from young qa testers. Wait till the IT Union hears of this!
Did friends and classmates ride the subway (mentioned in the post) for him too?
I seriously don’t understand how searching for a file in windows takes so long and yields such crappy results? What abomination must there be under the hood for it to be this consistently bad for all of these years? Microsoft devs chime in if you have any insight.
So it was a PowerPC, not so much Software was optimized. Then it was a new language written to be used on Windows. And that was run via Mono, which was a 3rd party actually writing it for Linux and not a BSD derivative on a CPU that no one is using with a kernel that's different.
It might not have been that horrible, but it was just a quick presentation. Nothing that should even run for a minute.
THIS IS FN DOPE.

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I need more examples of datasette!

Thanks for showing this.
It's one of many things that can give you some idea what an asset is worth.
I'd love to see a list of pros. There are no pros. It's effectively death to competitors and actually extremely damaging to the companies themselves as well.
The downvotes are perplexing. Could someone explain how a statement about income in the 1990s contradicts one about 2024?
Best offer your $64 and see if you get it. My bet is no and the eBay seller knows a bit more about what it’s worth