skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have a good amount of "not taking themselves too seriously" as well.

The Enemy Within is a great read and I'm planning on running it one day, this has some spoilers about it, but is funny:

https://www.reddit.com/r/warhammerfantasyrpg/comments/7hzz1l...

The original blog post is gone I think,
Haven't lived back then I'm not sure today's CD is better. Too often web breaks features people rely on. Worse they just do it randomly with no notice and no ability to have a transition time while you update. I miss the stability of knowing things will work like they did for a long time and when they break it is at a time I choose to apply the upgrade. (it didn't always work out this way, random bugs were a thing and still are)

Quality control was also a lot more important - you couldn't ship something with many bugs as customers would be forced to look at competitors if they hit your bug.
The Chinese have said they have radar that can detect stealth aircraft as well. As the Airforce replies, "there is a big difference between knowing we are there and being able to get a missile lock, at which point I've already seen you"
It's common with PC laptops. Mac doesn't cook but it doesn't fully go to sleep either.

I set my framework up with a little over 32GB of swap so that I can do hibernate. Resuming takes about a minute, but at least it's not draining battery since it is shutdown.
Is that true for all of the future? I suppose it's only a matter of time before Satoshi's and all the lost wallets will be broken?

Even if it's 70 years from now before we have the compute to do that, the wallets will be worth so much by then that whoever does that will end up with a level of money that is high enough to menace and threaten entire countries if they are malicious.

Why doesn't Bitcoin require keys to get longer over time? Require 256 bit now but require 65536 bit in 20 years to make any transaction?
When my account was closed by an ISP, Thunderbird (unexpectedly for me) mirrored the lack of access to the IMAP folders and deleted all my local mail. Fortunately this was a temporary issue that I was able to recover from.

Apps like imap-backup (https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup) allow retaining IMAP data.

In short, don't rely on TB to retain IMAP data, (like Dropbox) it is not a backup and IME will sync data losses, deleting local data if it is no longer accessible on the server.

Take care.
I think those are references to the Dogpack404 videos: https://youtube.com/@DogPack404/videos

They were the ones that stirred up a bunch of controversy, but had some former employee experiences in them.

I have no idea about he greater situation but I think that’s what the comment is referencing.
I’m a huge ledger fan (hledger specifically) and have used it to run my entire accounting life for the past 8 years or so.

A few tips:

* Resist the urge to break up your various accounts into too many separate files. I tried that and went back to one file per account per year (aka “venmo-2024.hledger”). Also helps with below…

* GitHub CoPilot is remarkably and shockingly good at working with ledger files. It will do the balance addition/subtraction on following lines almost perfectly. Also, if you need to manually enter a new line, you can often just enter a shortcut one-line comment and it’ll fill the entire entry, aka:

; 10/1/24 -$250 for new business cards
What customer service? It's impossible to get a human
that'll stop people from using simple text tools on it
UFO 50 is a collection of 50 games
Ask HN: How to run a startup sponsored competition?
We plan to run a competition with a prize pool as an experimental way of finding amazing candidates. Has anyone seen this work out?

For the top submissions we will extend an offer to join the team.

For the winning submission, we also plan to ship their solution into Danswer so that their work has impact beyond the competition. The goal will be to create a solution for query expansion to use in RAG. To be able to actually productionize it and to encourage more creative thinking (can’t just finetune a pretrained encoder decoder transformer), we have a few requirements:

[1] If it’s deep learning based, it must be capable of running on CPU (up to 50 tokens in 200ms or less on a 4 cpu core machine)
[2] It must not rely on any proprietary or restrictively licensed software

I know there is Kaggle but I don’t believe they allow constraints like the above ^

What is the best way to run a competition like this?
> We visualize these using [cambecc/earth] (https://github.com/cambecc/earth), one of our favorite open source weather visualization tools

From the post.
Royce's paper is one of the best pieces on how to manage software projects that I've ever read. It's quite short, but every time I re-read it I notice a new insight I hadn't noticed previously.

Royce did not present that waterfall diagram as a straw man. The structure of the paper is itself rather agile: he starts with the simplest thing that could possibly work, identifies problems with it, and then progressively iterates on it.

That certain people in the Agile community continue to perpetuate the myth that this model is a serious thing that people actually thought was a good idea might be a straw man. But ignoring the rest of the paper is probably good strategy. That one page is a useful starting model for them, too. But they really woudln't want to call attention to any other page of the paper. The rest of the pages are too full of hard-won observations that speak to why Scrum seems to work out so poorly in practice for large, multi-team projects.
It's fun to see Amber described as internally consistent, but it seemed to me obviously built as an onion of lies and most of that onion was built a layer at a time seemingly by the seat of the pants for what would be most jarring/weird/fun at the given part of the book where Zelazny thought he needed a big twist and/or gut punch to the current protagonist (and by proxy, the reader).

Perhaps that's partly why the attempt by a different author to build prequels failed so spectacularly, too, because it assumed too much the world was internally consistent and so was boring and didn't reveal anything truly new because it wasn't really trying, it was just playing out the obvious consequences for if you believed in some of the consistency of the previous books. I suppose that it didn't really understand the onion it was trying to emulate and that there should have been a lot more lies and a lot less consistency.

(ETA: It's also why sadly it felt like the last five books were all gearing up [often literally, new equipment every stage like levels in a videogame] for a war that will now never happen, because we don't know with who and for what reason or why because the lying protagonist wouldn't tell us, probably because Zelazny hadn't yet figured it out either and was waiting for the right moment to strike in the books that would have followed in some other timeline freer from cancer. I do still wonder where those books would have been leading. I don't know the author that could answer that definitively for us other than Zelazny.)
How performed your Hurricanes forecast versus the reality?
VSCode needs a server, LSP runs in that server.
> at the base of a lot of techno-utopianism lies a lot authoritarian and anti-human thought.

This is certainly true. At the very least it's obvious in terms of the attitudes that circle has been expressing over the last decade or so.
It wasn't meant to be read from a screen. (A browser doesn't show the Form Feed character at each page number.)
I listen to the sounds of my code loading from my cassette tape drive. And my modem makes sounds too, when I'm doing stuff in the cloud.
> but Nvidia themselves are trying to spin up their own cloud provider offering, and unsurprisingly don't want to help a competitor

I thought Jensen recently said he does not want to offer their own cloud offering. He instead wants to focus on creating ready made solutions for cloud vendors to purchase & re-sell services with.
You should also at least check for TERM=dumb which is an older convention than NO_COLOR.
> Developers are still constrained by process, and it's their fault.

How is it my fault? I don’t get to make the decisions and I can’t just change jobs if management doesn’t listen.
Yep, they cite it on their "about" page (select about from the menu): https://hurricanes2024.silurian.ai/about.html
so what exactly are you launching that I can see here?
That's a problem of the retirement system and the government/pension funds, not workers' problem. Just say the word that the money I am putting towards retirement are not counting towards MY retirement, and I'd stop paying the government/pension funds, and start building the retirement fund myself.

A system where I am funding some random people with the hope that some future random people will be funding me is inherently flawed and assumes

- constant population growth
- a constant proportion of less old people vs more youngsters entering the workforce

That kind of system, naturally, is insane and has no base in reality, considering that the trend is old people live longer, and people have less children.

> The idea there is a pot with your name on it is way out of date here

To say that I am not entitled to MY money, and that me expecting MY money to be there when I retire is some sort of ultimate entitlement, that I vehemently disagree with. So either the pension funds and the govt have to accept reality and actually guarantee MY money (by, for example, not touching some % of it), that I put, towards MY retirement, or they can f-off, and I can start saving myself.
Are you dealing with MBB consultants? These are ivy-educated MBAs with no operating experience and no real expertise in almost anything other than powerpoint and credential attainment.

Mr Beast is talking about actual experts in incredibly niche things, like baking giant cakes. Completely different type of person to the extent that "consultant" is just a total misnomer if you're used to the term in the land of F1000 corpo-speak. Mr Beast is probably reaching out to people guerilla-style that don't even have "consulting" firms -- which makes total sense if you're doing crazy stuff on YouTube.
The Westwood Blade Runner game is the true sequel to the film I say.
"Obsession" predates the DSM and psychiatry as a profession.
Eh, for a big portion of the past few years the USD-EUR rate has been very close to 1.
Related note: It'd be great if cities were more child friendly. A big challenge is cars, the 4000+ lb fast moving metal boxes... It'd be great if there were more car-minimal areas in cities, enclosed areas with parks and restaurants that had parking on the outside, but no cars and parking on the inside. And, in areas where there are cars, it'd be great if it went: sidewalk, bike lane, barrier, parking, then cars. That way there's a big "margin of safety" between where kids walk and where the cars are.
Yeah, I'll definitely figure it out. I'm actually a fairly positive person. It's just that the brain chemicals distort my thinking, unfortunately. I'm working on a few things, and going through exercises to retrain my brain. My main issue is lack of direction. Lately, I've been happy making generative art and building things in Blender. But, I'm not sure how to turn that into something that's useful or productive.
Individually developed domain-specific products. Even ones that long predate the hyperscaler offerings are often much better... except for billing and security and integration. Not through any fault of the developers, but integrating those things takes work and the ability to reduce that work is a killer advantage of the hyperscalers. But the hyperscalers know this so they invest less in making the core product any good, so it isn't. Reduction in billing/security/integration suck -> increase in technical suck. That's my whole point.
People said the same thing about renewable energy for decades ... "It's so niche! How could it ever replace fossil fuel?".

The point stands - BTC's limitations mean nothing to the potential of digital currency as a whole. Cryptocurrency has been proven not to need fees or mining, and yet people love to attack it on that basis. Anything to feel superior I guess.
The Valve one has been floating around for years
The bitcoin protocol isn't fundamentally flawed, but it is fundamentally outdated. If it wasn't for public bitcoin/crypto FOMO, bitcoin would have been deprecated years ago.
You went to the effort of posting 2 HN comments, tweeting, and taking a screenshot because you are annoyed that this project used an open-source library and were transparent about doing so.
It is just open source version [1] of that, I assume. It's a visualization, but data is their own. earth.nullschool is visualization of NOAA's GFS model.

[1] https://github.com/cambecc/earth
Having to spend ~£120 (rulebook and codex) every 3 years for a hobby is probably okay though?
That is like young media professionals who think being stressed is a badge of honor that shows how important they are.

As a freelancer I had to interact with these people and was constantly annoyed by their lack of efficient communications. If you are a freelancer your own time is actually valuable to you, wasting time is not a luxury you might be willing and/or able to afford, depending on your agreement.

If your company/project is constantly in emergency mode you should reconsider the quality of that companies/projects managment. Personally most companies/projects where I have wittnessed emergency mode the emergency was not only self-inflicted by mismanagment, it was also routinely self-inflicted.

If your emergencies could have been avoided by a thin veneer of foresight that emergency is on you. If you routinely get into emergencies without learning: congrats you're stupid.

If you conjour emergencies out of thin air to squeeze more work out of your employees you suck as a human beings.

If you think working under emergency mode makes for quicker, cheaper or more reliable results you probably never witnessed how quick, cheap and reliable a well planned project can be finished.
Waterfall was named as a strawman. However it is very similar to what a lot of projects do. No project does waterfall as described because there are always things that can't work that way. (some projects get closer to waterfall than others)
Bit Bang SPI with Ruby+YJIT
We explored several examples from the 2024 hurricane season in our blog post: https://silurian.ai/posts/001/hurricane_tracks. We overlaid the true paths of the hurricane over our predictions for everyone to see!
Where are you based? I just talked to a rep on the phone last week about a missing package (EU/DE). I've also had pretty frictionless interactions with CS over chat.
But doesn't this beg the question: why not GET with query params?

I'm not necessarily against it - I've had the urge to send a body on a GET request before (cant recall or justify the use-case, however).

Reasons I can think of:

- browsers limit url (and therefore) query param size

- general dev ergonomics

The practical limits (ie, not standard specified limits) on query param size seems fair but its worth mentioning there are practical limits to body size as well introduced by web servers, proxies, cloud api gateways, etc or ultimately hardware. From what I can see this is something like 2kb for query params in the lower end case (Chrome's 2083 char limit) and 10-100mb (but highly variable and potentially only hardware bound) for body size.

In both cases it's worth stating that the spec is being informed by practical realities outside of the spec. In terms of the spec itself, there is no limit to either body size or query param length. How much should the spec be determined by particular implementation details of browsers, cloud services, etc.?
I didn't know it was open source. I thought it was a ripoff.
I suggest you read the post. Reading is typically how information is transmitted.

EDIT: the post I am responding to was altered to sound much less confrontational. It was originally:

> So what exactly are you “launching” and why does it require venture capital?
Show HN: TensorZero – open-source data and learning flywheel for LLMs
Hi HN!

We're Gabriel & Viraj, and we're excited to open source TensorZero.

To be a little cheeky, TensorZero is an open-source platform that helps LLM applications graduate from API wrappers into defensible AI products.

1. Integrate our model gateway

2. Send metrics or feedback

3. Unlock compounding improvements in quality, cost, and latency

It enables a data & learning flywheel for LLMs by unifying:

• Inference: one API for all LLMs, with <1ms P99 overhead

• Observability: inference & feedback → your database

• Optimization: better prompts, models, inference strategies

• Experimentation: built-in A/B testing, routing, fallbacks

Our goal is to help engineers build, manage, and optimize the next generation of LLM applications: AI systems that learn from real-world experience.

In addition to a Quick Start (5min) [1] and a Tutorial (30min) [2], we've also published a series of complete runnable examples illustrating TensorZero's data & learning flywheel.

• Writing Haikus to Satisfy a Judge with Hidden Preferences [3] – my personal favorite

• Fine-Tuning TensorZero JSON Functions for Named Entity Recognition (CoNLL++) [4]

• Automated Prompt Engineering for Math Reasoning (GSM8K) with a Custom Recipe (DSPy) [5]

___

[1] https://www.tensorzero.com/docs/gateway/quickstart

[2] https://www.tensorzero.com/docs/gateway/tutorial

[3] https://github.com/tensorzero/tensorzero/tree/main/examples/...

[4] https://github.com/tensorzero/tensorzero/tree/main/examples/...

[5] https://github.com/tensorzero/tensorzero/tree/main/examples/...

We hope you find TensorZero useful! Feedback and questions are very welcome. If you're interested in using it at work, we'd be happy to set up a Slack channel with your team (free).
> epic high fantasy

In the early days it was much more of a low fantasy environment. The epic high fantasy angle grew over time.
On osx you can use `say "long command is done"` or whatever is descriptive.
I’ve set my shell to discreetly play the sound of a mouse button click upon completion of any command that ran for longer than 20 seconds. That choice of sound has the convenient effect that no one else seems to consciously notice it.
NASA Airport Throughput Prediction Challenge
If far more fundamental that that. Its that he went to bat for a module called slut and then tried to justify it using sophistry and pedantry.

There's a huge generational gap here I'm sure but I don't find it acceptable to have that discussion in 2024. There's enough people that will be upset by a module called slut for me to not raise an eyebrow about its deletion without a big hoo-ha.

The package can be renamed and re-loaded if its worth it to the author.

Peter's in creating the thread just shows how out of touch he is, and how he
This is a good idea imo. Cus we grow vegetables so big and fast nowadays they end with with less nutrients in them by volume.
I understand your thesis. I highlighted how the essay suggests a flaw in that interpretation.

How does a currency system stay so stable across thousands of years?
Ask HN: What runs L4-related microkernels/hypervisors these days?
I've been learning about the L4 microkernel, and am thinking about doing something related to it for a research project. I'm especially curious about more recent examples of specific devices that run L4 variants (seL4, PikeOS, OKL4, etc.). I already found a few that use seL4, but to take OKL4 as an example, most of the specific devices I could find are from more than a decade ago, and I'm trying to find things from at least the last 5 or 6 years. I'm even more curious to find devices that use a form of L4 as a hypervisor.

Has anyone here worked on a device that used an L4-related kernel or hypervisor? I know one major area they're used in is defense and full of NDAs, but hopefully some of the other industries they're used in (medical devices, automotive, IoT) are a little less restrictive. Thanks in advance!
It feels to me like he's envious of Trump's ability to say and do anything, social norms and morality be damned. They both want a world where those at the top can do whatever they want and the little people don't matter because big daddy knows better... democracy just gets in the way.
This is the visualization tool they use. They generate the data that feeds into that visualization
Alright, what they presented, in the current state, is just a clone of a 10 year old project with a 2.5 month old weather forecast and some AI story attached to it.
That's a great list; while not explicitly writing them out, we raise our kids by similar rules, and I think it's been a huge help. #1 is huge. We also explicitly answer any question they ask (barring privacy concerns). The answers vary based on how old they are, and what they're capable of understanding, but they can always ask for more detail if we guess wrong. It lets them know that there are no taboo subjects with us, and they can always come to us with their hard questions.

It did mean nuanced conversations about how not to ruin the "Santa Clause game" for other kids, etc.
Yeah, I think the Waterfall model is what naive non-experts want from a project. I say what I want, you build it, it's delivered on time and on budget, and we're done.

But I think it's basically a fairy tale. "And they lived happily ever after" for executives. And I can prove it. There are basically no successful products that started with an executive idea, were created in a waterfall fashion, and then stayed at that initial version forever. Waterfall is built on the fantasy of managerial omniscience, where the people in charge know everything important on day 1. But the reality is that the beginning of a project is when we know the least. Waterfall in practice is a bet nobody will learn anything as time goes on. And on waterfall projects, that often turns out to be true, if only because course corrections would cause executives to lose face.
Don't just commit, pre-commit
Show HN: Thinkercan – AI math solver with CAS
Thinkercan is a tool that leverages AI and a Computer Algebra System (CAS) to solve math problems step-by-step. The AI reasons the problem and determines when to apply CAS for solving or simplifying. Each solution is presented in a detailed, educational format to enhance understanding like photomath and wolfram.

It’s designed to support both basic and advanced math problems, offering insight into the problem-solving process.

Looking forward to your feedback.

https://thinkercan.com/
I've heard of kids becoming fluent in English before their mother tongue simply from exposure to subtitled TV and movies! It's usually countries where the market is too small to justify dubbing.
Legally there aren't many (any?) meaningful differences with a public benefit corp. Law changes in 2020 made it such that a PBC is more of a marketing thing than anything else in my opinion.

We've already seen the number of PBCs increase quite a bit since the law change, there was exactly 1 before 2020 if I'm not mistaken. I fully expect companies to start using it as virtue signaling, making the distinction effectively meaningless.
'pollution'? actually no. why would you even think that?
Does ChatGPT get anything right, ever?

In Bulgarian the slang is Цици (tsi tsi). I imagine it's near-identical for many other Slavic languages.
I just tested SuperHTML with GitHub Codespaces and it works https://twitter.com/croloris/status/1835701531200418122
ARM chips are generally better at conserving power than x86, simply because they have less instruction decode HW.
I'm not just talking about money. They can set whatever terms they like with vendors because selling on Amazon is a very attractive business for independent dropshippers etc.