skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a game developer, I'm absolutely not going to risk my players' engagement with the game by putting character personalities, dialog, and (therefore) plot into the hands of an AI that's going to play out differently for each player. No way, no how. That's where all my game's value is - that's what pays my rent - and I will not be handing it off to a glorified RNG.
Ah, that's cool if it's better than other browsers' reader modes. I'm currently on GNU/Linux so I don't have this option, and none of the browsers that I know about have anything actually usable as a daily driver (so, site navigation, simple forms, etc) rather than decluttering articles now and then.
Yes - I haven't bought these yet but I do intend to, because I need to brush up on all three (well, I don't think I ever really learned calculus, to be honest).

Joan Horvath is a superhero -- I've seen a few interviews now.

I will very happily use OpenSCAD for that because it seems like a well-chosen tool for the job.
My vote goes to EndeavourOS as others have already mentioned here. Manual install was the way to go and is still the preferred way to setup a server/cli. With that experience in mind for a daily driver with GUI I use EndeavourOS. The default KDE works.
It's understandable that people whose career and lifelong skill set that are seemingly on the precipice of obsolescence are going to be extremely hostile to that threat.

How many more years is senior swe work going to be a $175k/yr gig instead of an $75k check-what-the-robot-does gig?
Personally I disagree, but can understand your point.

I think I'm fairly experienced in shell and Python (~20 and ~8 YOE, respectively), and still find value in linters, type checkers, etc. Maybe moreso in Python, but that's probably a function of me writing larger programs in Python than in shell, and usually changing my mind on something as I'm writing it.
Even while writing pseudonymously and innocuously you are at risk of being doxxed and subjected to mob "justice;" as an example of this see Scott Alexander's writings on Slate Star Codex.

In light of this the safest recourse is to simply not post anything online at all, for fear of being doxxed at some point in the future (an inevitability given modern standards for and cultural attitudes towards privacy) and subjected to invective for years' old posts and writings. This is the culmination and terminal state of "anonymous nonexistence" you refer to.

In this way the chilling effect achieves totality, and nobody feels comfortable sharing genuine thoughts online at all. It's arguable that this is a societally healthy state of affairs.
Be careful what you wish for. The majority of my fellow engineering graduates would not have gotten an engineering degree in Germany.

They would have flunked the first year - a weed out year - and then been forced into a technical diploma program and not be allowed to call themselves engineers.

My friend who went to the German school said they have a target of flunking half the students that first year. Funds are limited and shape how many can graduate.
True it isn't necessarily about gender (of course not every woman wears them) though I haven't seen anyone who identifies as male wear them (though I suspect it might happen in the Gothic community). Hence the way I stated the question. Sorry I didn't mean to offend.

I asked my female identifying friends and most of them said that they don't like to wear them but they think they look good so they do it anyway :) And one said she loves them because she can sharpen them so she can scratch people (she's a dominatrix :). So yeah, reasons can vary.
> To me this sounds like a totally different type of "knowledge" than stringing words together based on a training set.

We're desperate to keep seeing ourselves as unique with key distinguishing features that are unreproducible in silicon, but from my long experience with computer chess, every step along the way, people were explaining patiently how computers could never reproduce the next quality that set humans apart. And it was always just wishful thinking, because computers eventually stopped looking silly, stopped looking like they were playing by rote, and started to produce "beautiful" chess games.

And it will happen again, after the next leap in AI, people will again latch on to whatever it is that AI systems still lack, and use it to explain how they'll "always" be lacking... only to eventually be disappointed again that silicon can in fact reach that height too.

Humans aren't magic. Whatever we can do, silicon can do too. It's just a matter of time.
no idea how it’s done in the game, but you can have validation methods other than proof of work. e.g. When blockchain is used as a distributed ledger for international trade, a consortium decides who can have a validating server.
Road noise isn't much better (perhaps even slightly worse, they're heavy). B

But in the local roads with 40 km/h (30 mph) or less, then yeah it's quite noticeable when an ICE comes along. The EVs you hardly hear.

However, the 80 km/h (50 mph) roads make a lot of noise, so you'll hear them far away.

So overall I'd say not really.
>Woa, is driving without airbags even legal nowadays

I'm sure new vehicles require them in the US. But there's very wide latitude on safety feature requirements for older vehicles in the US.
Isn’t a limited pipeline intentional? Keeping the supply constraints keep wages higher.
Many error types implement std::error::Error, maybe using that would make things easier.

An example: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
> They are, however, pointing out you didn't do your research Well when picking programs to apply to.

That's presuming a whole hell of a lot, and it's insulting. You know absolutely nothing about me or my history except what I've already said, which is not much.

I'm not here to be second-guessed by anonymous rando strangers.
At least here, we can agree. If I ran a business and allowed employees to run Linux (which is reasonable, IMO), the last thing I want is someone's riced-out Gentoo with an unpatched security exploit onto the VPN.
Maybe someone thought if the FTC can do it we can too
Does anyone know how USPS/UPS/Fedex trucks can start and stop their engines over and over and over without running down the batteries? Do they have 400 amp/hour monsters installed and recharge them at the depot, or what?
Richard Lewis coined 'the blank from hell'
Forget WebAssembly, win32.dll is the true universal target.
I think if you want to do complex things in OpenSCAD, you have to use someone's library or write your own.

For example, I wrote centering code that basically work for arbitrary length, which then become a frequently used part of the codebase. Then when I faced the limitation of the centering code, I wrote more code for arbitrary subdivision of elements.

I haven't extracted the new arbitrary subdivision of elements out into a module for my library, but I will eventually.
Yeah, that's basically the takeaway I had (and I failed to summarize as concisely, ironically enough). It seemed like there was some insight there, but I had absolutely no clue what it was.
> your default assumption must be that everything it gives you needs verification from another source

That depends entirely on what you're doing with the output. If you're using it as a starting point for something that must be true (whether for legal reasons, your own reputation as the ostensible author of this content, your own education, etc.) then yes, verification is required. But if you're using it for something low-stakes that just needs some semblance of coherent verbiage (like the summary of customer reviews on Amazon, or the SEO junk that comes before the recipe on cooking websites which have plenty of fiction whether or not an LLM was involved) then you can totally meet your goals without any verification.

People have been capable of bullshitting at scale for a very long time. There are occasional consequences (hoaxes, scams, etc.) but the guidelines around fide sed vide are ancient; this is just the latest addendum.
Taking steps that drive resiliency and security for Windows customers
Many leaks have happened over the years. While a leaked email address isn't always an identifiable target, correlating various leaks along with the various other identity resources out there isn't very challenging.
How long are there updates for old TV boxes no matter if AOSP, Android TV or Google TV?
I think the list of hackers should show everyone in any of the icons that are currently visible.
From my reading I couldn't tell they were crypto bros. That was obvious to you from reading it, or did you know about them prior?
It is, check out the sibling reply. Dassault's web 3DEXPERIENCE stuff is weird and unnecessary, but can be abstracted away behind a desktop shortcut.
Fine for on-site backup, but my NAS is mostly for media storage.

Also, many drives are not happy to restart too many times.
Daisuke Shimura: One of Japan's Most Inventive Plant Artists
Show HN: A X/Twitter bot that creates Google Maps lists
I'd love your feedback on my latest project.

To try it for free, simply reply "@maplistbot create a list" to any thread with place recommendations. The bot will reply with a Google Maps link to your newly created list of places.

If you like it and want to explore the Pro features, use the code PH40 for a 40% discount.
Pro Features include:
- Lists include notes for each place
- Unlimited places in the list (Free version is limited to 10)
- Add places to your already existing Google Maps lists
- Create lists by category. For example, create a list with the restaurants mentioned in the thread but ignore the sightseeing places.
Just be mindful that it is one's interest to push the "LLMs suck, don't waste your time with them" narrative once they figure out how to harness LLMs.

"Jason is a strong coder, and he despises AI tools!"
> a much slower max charge rate

Max charge rate is such a poor metric, as actual charge rate as a function of SOC varies so much between cars.

I'd like to see some standardized figure which is max average charge rate over 15 min, or perhaps minimum charge time for 30 kWh (~150 km range) or something along those lines.

My car has 120 kW peak IIRC, but I've never reached it. Once it's past 20% it has dropped to like 70 kW or something like that. And since I try my best to keep it above 20%, that 120 kW number doesn't mean much to me.

My sister has an ID.4 and it's the same story there. However I do know there are cars that are much better at this, able to sustain quite high charging rate up to or above 50% SOC.
[dupe]

Actual report: https://news.drweb.com/show/?i=14900

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41536961)
Because PDF is a decent format for archiving paginated output formats, and a clear intention of this project is to let people print out the entire timeline and stick it up on the wall somewhere?
Wouldn't you be protected against cryptolockers by using snapshots?
I mean, the premise is more or less the same as that of keeping your money in gold bars under your bed, except without the physical labor. So yeah, seems like a bad idea.
I'm friends with my neighborhood mail carrier and during the summer he's told me the inside of his truck is like being in a tin can. It gets super hot. He tries to park it in shady spots while he's out making runs but that's not always possible.
Show HN: Live Demo of Composite Image Retrieval (CIR)
The recent progress in multi-modality retrieval is to augment image search with text instruction, so called Composite Image Retrieval (CIR). Related research includes https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-visualized and Google's https://open-vision-language.github.io/MagicLens/. We built a live demo for people to play with it and get a feeling of the quality of this retrieval approach.
No they did not. They threatened to simply stop offering loans for school. The only way to get them back on board was to make the loans they issue for school was to make it so such loans could survive bankruptcy.

Many banks were fine not offering loans if it meant they could not decline offering loans for specific degrees, schools or even based on the applicants grades.
1) The game has been rigged since the beginning and the unis have been the biggest beneficiaries and the most malignant actors. You don't think they knew damn well what they were doing by charging $100k+ in tuition for an English degree to an 18 year with no hope of paying back the loans used to pay the tuition?

2) The universities have already gorged themselves at the greed-pig trough. How is it you think they can afford to pay all those $100k+ salaries to liberal arts profs, have a 1:1 ratio of admins to students, and pay their chancellors and presidents $500k+? All of it is funded by indebting students to the tune of $10s or $100s of thousands while granting useless degrees.

Let them suffocate under the weight of their sins. They are the worst actors in the entire ecosystem. Worse than the naive student borrows. Worse than the predatory lenders. Worse than the traitorous legislators. Why? Because they know they're in a position of trust. They wrap themselves in the clothing of the teacher and the philosopher while picking the pockets of naive teenagers who were told they're following the path to prosperity.
This seems like it's either a linguistic or philosophical question; either I don't interpret the words "such a thing" in a way that the author meant it, or I have a divergent different philosophical worldview on the concept of "existence" from the author's own view.

Either way, this stuck out to me because usually these type of lists have very simple, understandable statements that just happen to surprise some people by not being true; in this case, the statements themselves are confusing, so I can't really say for certain whether I believe them or not because I don't even know what truth they're asserting to try to negate it.
The exact same way? Or perhaps you could tell me, in which cases can an Int not be turned into a Maybe Int?

Again, I don't know Haskell, so from the outside it looks like much the same as the float -> complex conversion.
You can drive a model-T if you want to. They are lacking any safety features.
This is epic. I'm going to try this tool. I love doomscrolling and watching the brainrot reddit videos!
Maybe backdoored at the factory
https://archive.ph/MMrIo
You've spent the time to go on Hacker News, read about the online drama, and then comment on the online drama.

The author considered their writing on social media to be social activism, so that may be why they spent so much time on it, for a higher purpose.
Tech giants fight plan to make them pay more for electric grid upgrades
I don’t know how you romanize that, but I’ve never written or said funabashi as anything but funabashi.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepburn_romanization

It’s no surprise to me a romanization method aimed at english speakers is used for romanizing an internet input field.
Related. Others?

The Bastard Operator from Hell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37881524 - Oct 2023 (2 comments)

The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29590667 - Dec 2021 (98 comments)

The Bastard Operator From Hell (1999) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21903668 - Dec 2019 (94 comments)
I tried playing with it long ago (like 1.0 era) but it was too specific.

From what I can tell, it seems that 3.x os updates are distributed as an entire os image?

It is based on arch, but you don't update individual packages with pacman.

Basically everyone gets the same unchanging os, with individual games and data separately.
The hallucinations seem to be related to AI's agreeableness. They always seem to tell you what you want to hear except when it goes against significant social narratives.

It's like LLMs know all possible alternative theories (including contradictory ones) and which one it brings up depends on how you phrase the question and how much you already know about the subject.

The more accurate information you bring into the question, the more accurate information you get out of it.

If you're not very knowledgeable, you will only be able to tap into junior level knowledge. If you ask the kinds of questions that an expert would ask, then it will answer like an expert.
Show HN: Insta2000 – Re-render Instagram locally, retro, and ad free
I've been avoiding instagram for a few years, as it feels very noisy and addictive. I'm starting to feel out of touch from friends though, so got wondering if I could build a tool to get just my friends updates, without all the other junk.

It turns out scraping my own profile and re-rendering a static webpage is quite a successful way to achieve that goal. It has no ads, no discovery injections, no trackers, no infinite scroll, no notifications. It does include stories and posts alongside each other. It does sort things based on recent updates. In the end, it proved better than I expected with a relatively small effort. I made it retro as well just for a fun throwback, and as a protest against the modern web!

It leans very heavily on the [instaloader package](https://instaloader.github.io/)and I'm quite grateful for the contributors there!

Repo is yours to use and build on, and feel free to contribute as well.
https://archive.ph/AoETG
There’s also often exceptions and issues when it comes to one agency in the government trying to enforce rules on another.

Notably, the death toll on 9/11 was made worse because the state used its authority to override the local building code which would have required more staircases and further spacing of them.

Or any locality trying to enforce payment of parking tickets from higher entities or even their own off duty officers.
This doesn't really change my reading of those statements; the issue to me is that "there is such a thing as X" sounds to me like an existential proposition, i.e. "X exists". The idea that an abstract descriptive concept only sometimes exists doesn't really make sense to me; it sounds like saying that addition only "sometimes" exists because there are equations that only use division and not addition.
The OSS Guide to Organizational Sabotage (1944)
To this day, I still occasionally imply that perhaps someone needs to power surge their drivers.
Before it can replace the brilliant programmer, it needs to be able to replace the mediocre programmer. There is so much programming and other tech/it related work that businesses or people want, but can't justify paying even low tech salaries in America for.

So far, there is little chance of a non-technical person developing a technical solution to their problems using AI.
Coming from freecad as my only frame of reference, even though I understand the concepts of build123d, I found it wildly difficult to express anything useful in it.

Not saying it's not possible - I've seen what it can do - but even with my software background it was hard for me to really work with something that isn't based on constraints.
Using the average here seems a little sus too - what about the median? Surely that is quite a bit lower?
Was it worth it then? Was there a benefit like meeting your classmates? I have to make the decision for my kids.
Maybe they can do something like Discord, and append a 4 digit unique identifier?
Well, the author does kinda come around to that at the end:

> I’ve read more books in the last 16 months than I have in the 16 years before them. I’ve ran 5k, 8k for the first time in my life. I’m able to do more situps now than at any point since I was probably 15 years old.

At the start, I was definitely thinking "why keep going to a website you say is like hell?"

> We so belovedly called it the “hellsite” for good reason: the daily trek through the timeline was like tapdancing in a minefield. Twitter was awful because it rewarded awfulness.
> Trying to explain that different species can't procreate like that resulted in him pointing to the fact that other people believed it in the comments as proof.

Those two species can't interbreed apparently, but considering the number of species that can [1] produce hybrid offspring, some even from different families, it is reasonable to forgive people for entertaining the possibility.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetic_hybrids
Anyone who describes themselves as an openly queer activist and microblogger is not really representative of the avg person. Their entire thing is being online all the time. It's not a hobby for them, it's their whole personality. I'll guess you're probably a straight white male due to the odds on this site, like me. We don't have the same struggles perceived or otherwise. It does seem alien to me. But, live and let live.
Sounds like user-error, not a software error. Learn to use the software and its idiosyncrasies. RTFM.
I have a Pomera and I like it. Just wish I made more time to write.
Even in that age range I recognized that trying to keep up with fleeting drama was a red queen's race. That said I think whichever generations are "always online" at the current time are going to find it a lot harder to leave that headspace in the future, both because of the addiction-promoting behaviors baked into platforms and because of various motivations for trying to keep up. Social topics/"politics", influencer aspirations, toxic positivity, and lack of any other meaningful interactions all come to mind.
Attacking another user like this will get you banned on HN, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are. Please don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I always wondered when tech moved to San Francisco, given San Francisco's funky "people-centric" history, including the eccentric, it seemed a shoehorn fit.

I used to visit San Francisco in the 80's, pre tech-boom. Multicultural, funky, literate, cosmopolitan, touristy, and a real cool break from the heat in the South Bay. I used to visit a bookstore in "Japan Town" that had to move when rents started to skyrocket.

It was expected that business would move to the lower-cost Oakland/EastBay area but I never saw that happen. I think that a lot of tech will remain in San Francisco after some big companies migrate elsewhere. San Francisco probably won't return to its funky roots, just less tech-centric in the downtown, IMO.

I briefly worked across from The Pyramid, at the intersection of the Italian, Chinese and financial districts, with the office of Angela Alioto and the first location of the "Bank of Italy," now Bank of America, nearby. Nothing like it.

One windy morning, my wife was watching TV, which showed a downtown intersection including me, my 5 seconds of fame.
The first sentence says they’re not going to win a beauty contest but I think they’re kinda cute! Presumably the low hood helps a lot with visibility.
Imagine being new to the CAD landscape. There are so many technologies, and approaches. Different resources talk about the merits of the individual techs.

I would rather someone just flat-out tell me that OpenSCAD etc is ineffective for most projects compared to SolidWorks, Fusion etc; save the trouble of finding out the hard way. Your points are all great, but I don't mind the post you're replying to for this reason.
It's easy to say that forgetting is an ethical act if you're the perpetrator of things you want people to forget. Reading this article, it seems she once got her jollies making the world a worse place for her political enemies.

She seems to sincerely think that Twitter is bad, but it's not bad because of what she did with it, it's bad because well, you don't always win fights on it and when you attack someone you can get in trouble too and that's really messy and she doesn't want to deal with that. If she didn't want to deal with it, she didn't have to participate; the kind of political activism described in this article is not how most people use Twitter.

I can understand wanting people to forget if you said one or two things years ago and people took them out of context. Or even if you did one misdeed, but it was years ago. This is not, according to her article, why she wants people to forget.