skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah that’s what I meant. Capital can be used for non-zero-sum games and increase the size of the pie. That’s certainly the narrative of the current central-bank-inflationary-fiat hegemony – some fisherman who wants to buy a boat, or a farmer buying land and equipment. That’s why we (allegedly) accept the that the money in our wallets and bank accounts lose their purchasing power.

However, my understanding is that the reality is quite different. That the majority of money creation (70%+) is issued as debt for asset transfers. In either case, the idea that capital, in general, is not just a proxy for, but equivalent to “productivity”, means that the system is self-reinforcing; the only outcome is success, and the only fix is more of the same system. If I argue that say functional programming is the best way to program, I have to define an external metric in which another paradigm can win. Otherwise it’s just blind belief.
Didn't you forgot the part where the AfD would fire thousands of rockets into Russia just this year?

Hezbollah formed a party later for political reasons. It exists to attack Israel and Israel is more than allowed to defend itself and that includes such offensives.

Are you actually serious with this comparison? Because frankly, this is beyond uninformed.
Oodle is a registered trademark:

https://uspto.report/TM/88478792

RAD is now owned by Epic Games (acquired in 2021) so they have very deep pockets.

A lot of people, including myself, were clearly initially confused that there must be some association given you are using this name in a not-entirely-unrelated field.

IANAL but I hope you're real sure that you are legally in the clear before you commit too deeply to the name.
Yeah, you can (almost) make Iosevka feel any way you want, and it would be nearly impossible to do it justice in a comparison like this.

Here are the options I currently use: https://www.jonashietala.se/iosevka/
TFA also refers to visual novels as "Text based games"
You're talking about processing data, then moving data and processing it somewhere else, which is the opposite of the locality that presentation is saying valuable.
> I've found out even seasoned (but more often junior) devs and other folks have trouble accepting that their job is just another cog in some corporate machine where their added value or morality of job is often sorta grey area, without clarity even on the shade of it.

This was/is very difficult for me. I am about a decade into my career and 15 years into when I first started seriously messing around with tech - in those days, ~2010, tech was seen as the future to the planet and that message very much was pitched all around silicon valley and trickled into my coursework. The massive disillusionment I felt right out of school was a really hard hit and caused a bit of depression. I wasn't changing the world, I wasn't even doing anything remotely useful for a company that also wasn't doing anything remotely useful and I think that's been the case for most of my career, outside of the occasional instances where I do consulting (which I find rewarding actually).

But such is life, outside of tech as well. I take pride now in my work, not whatever I think I am contributing to society. If my work is doing something ultimately pointless or supporting something that is morally or ethically gray, I take pride in ignoring that (because I have no control over it) and doing it as best as I can and that has helped a lot. Some may judge me harshly for that, but I don't care, it is really one of the only sane ways to cope - rather than conjuring insane justifications for why things are the way they are (which suck).
Do you mean things like character.ai ? It seems they were successful, but not wildly so given that most of the researchers (incl. founder) just moved to Google, and character.ai plan to continue using off the shelf models. If the business had been growing very fast, I'd have thought that the founders would have stayed on for a larger pay day.
Final act in the USA my workplace Kaspersky seems to be working fine.
In a sense though, seeing that whatever project we're working on is no longer worth pursuing, is finishing that project.

That's very different from letting life happen and stop working on it without really having decided it.
LOL, the first line of the ChatGPT response:

`Lord Rayleigh didn’t know a priori that surface tension would cause the oil film to be exactly one molecule thick, `
Indeed. Though, as I said there are others next to rivers.

The map here:

https://www.connexionfrance.com/news/map-where-are-frances-n...

shows 6 reactors on the coast, and 12 inland on rivers which are susceptible to summer river water temperatures and levels.
One of the coolest things about BBC BASIC was the ability to slot inline assembly, and (I think?) reference the same variables in both modes as in the code on the op site.

[BASIC]

FOR I% = 1 TO (TILES_Z - 1) / 2

[

[ASSEMBLY]

OPT pass%

EQUB &E3, TILES_X \ Tile row data (even)
EQUB &E4, TILES_X \ Tile row data (odd)

]

[BASIC AGAIN]

NEXT

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https://lander.bbcelite.com/source/all/lander_a.html#landsca...
Chesterton's fence. Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean there is no reason. Sometimes it's a vestigial evolutionary thing, sometimes it isn't.

A lot of "intelligent" people get caught up in this way.
Anyone who says they learned a long-term employee's job in two weeks is either full of shit or hopelessly naive.
pretty sure the taxi driver had spent a lot of time around christians too, but apparently you have no idea why the official name of bolivia is 'the plurinational state of bolivia'
Also, George Gamow's work is exemplary in making complex ideas understandable.

See, for example:

>One, Two, Three... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science (1947)

https://www.amazon.com/One-Two-Three-Infinity-Speculations/d...

PDF: https://archive.org/details/OneTwoThreeInfinity_158

..........................

>Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory (1966)

https://www.amazon.com/Thirty-Years-that-Shook-Physics/dp/04...

PDF: https://archive.org/details/ThirtyYearsThatShookPhysics-TheB...
Head of United Nations calls global situation 'unsustainable'
Hand-wired CPU that natively executes Brainfuck code [video]
A blockchain funded by data contributors is an interesting idea.

If fees for adding data were continually adjusted to keep data size to an economically viable size.

I.e. there would be a continual auction of adding data, with the fees spread out among verifiably maintained repositories (say fastest generation of hash across all data from previous hash, every minute.)

And each repository could compete by price to service data requests.

The point being: long term distributed incentive to maintain and serve data.

(Scaling to vast amounts of data vs. sharding - allowing individual repositories to hold partial data - balanced to ensure distributed backups, but not more than necessary to keep each archive size manageable for many providers.)

——

Best done without creating any new coin type. I.e. avoid creating any non-aligned hype incentives.

Maybe this has already been done?
> In that case, I certainly wouldn’t want to deal with it if I was GitHub. It is a terrible user experience, where a user clicking one of the most popular buttons on the platform suddenly becomes a legal problem.

As others have mentioned, GitHub has already covered that with their ToS. All public repos may be forked.
Organizations (Salesforce, Adobe, etc.) that have lots of proprietary data (chats, documents, clickstream, etc.) will benefit from applying AI tools to their products to automate work. It' almost certainly folly for those companies to build novel foundation models themselves.

There's also the possibility that this is a great and useful new technologies, but it becomes so cheap and democratized that there will be no big winner (aside from Nvidia stock price in the short to medium term).
Is There Any Safe Place to Complain About Work Online?
It's risky business, though, as code of course gets reviewed a few times (at least at Nextcloud). If it gets detected once ppl are put on notice. If somebody can squirrel out that the code came from a competitor, a lawsuit is waiting... And just imagine the bad publicity it causes.

Besides that, it is unethical and I wouldn't want to work at a company that pulls such stunts. I think a lot of people wouldn't. It'd be hard to keep secret, too, I mean, 5 years later the employee that was asked to do it works somewhere else and BOOM.

So all together, I think it's extremely unlikely to happen.

I CAN imagine a disgruntled ex employee or angry employee at a competitor would pull something like this. We have seen employees at a competitor create social media sock puppet accounts to spread FUD about us - but management at the competitor put a stop to that once we notified them.
> Running downloaded executables considered harmful

Most executables are downloaded. :)
Where does it say that the money he is asking them to contribute would go to Automattic?
That's most of it, though. Also, who cares about being charitable towards folks who would deny others compassionate care?
What's your browser? The server is using an old TLS version which is no longer supported, and some clients will try https and fail there and not try http.
Totally a tangent, but he's right about that. It was a flaw in Harry Potter as well. There was no logical system to how magic worked; spells did whatever plot requirements said they did. And it detracts from the sense of realism in a world when the magic just does whatever is needed at the moment.
For the obvious reason that they may not be of sound mind to make the choice you’re “assisting” them with.
> Some oddly defensive reactions here.

They're not odd. These reactions pop up to all criticism of the current tech hype bubble. Happened with metaverse, NFTs, blockchain, etc.

They know that the emperor has no clothes. That the moment people in power start asking "So... where's all the profit on this investment?" it's game over.

AI is supported by massive subsidies and R&D from the big tech giants. Wall Street demanding that Microsoft stop wasting tens of billions on investment in a product that does not generate a profit for Microsoft will kill AI as it exists right now. OpenAI will raise their prices significantly, killing most-to-all of the startups relying on them.

This is especially dire because there's copyright and regulatory changes going on. An AI winter now means there's substantial risk of the next "AI summer" being crippled by actually having to abide by copyright and being subject to regulations.
Show HN: I made app that makes chess books interactive
Get for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.chessvision...

Get for iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chessvision-ai-ebook-reader/id...

How does it work?

1. Open a chess PDF, DjVu, or ePub file

2. Wait for the processing to finish (only needed the first time)

3. Double-tap any chess diagram to interact and analyze

The app is a mobile version of https://ebook.chessvision.ai/ which I built some time ago. Over time I've received many requests to create a native mobile experience, so here it is.

To make it easy for everyone to try out the app, I’ve created a small PDF book with 18 mate in 2 puzzles from r/chess. You can claim the book directly within the app or download it from https://chessvision.ai/mates_in_2_from_rchess.pdf, then open it in the app. Have fun solving!
Fake AI "podcasters" are reviewing my book and it's freaking me out
I feel this is an unfair characterization; there are a lot of very good reasons to argue against assisted suicide and to avoid normalizing suicide in general:

There is always the potential for those mechanisms to be abused, making it taboo instead is the best prevention you can have for this.

There is also the problem that suicide is a very final decision; people regret their choices (often years later) all the time, opening the suicide-door would lead invariably to cases where people throw away the rest of their life even though it would've had immeasurable value to them later had they lived on.

Normalizing suicide in general could also lead to societal changes where death is the expected/desired outcome, and people are basically compelled by group dynamics, even in situations where we would absolutely not see this as justified or desirable currently (i.e. people suiciding because they killed their child in an accident).
It's worth noting, whatever value you place on the fact, that 99% of all creatine from 99% all suppliers is made in China, typically listed as, eg "Packed in the USA with globally sourced ingredients". Follow-ups with various companies always confirms this, even for products listed as "Made in USA".

Made in USA, except not really....

One exception may be Con-Cret, which may be producing creatine in Nebraska. But I'm not sure if they're NSF certified.
Stable carbon isotope evolution of formaldehyde on early Mars
I'm very late to this, but actually it was the resort in this case. The whole process was clearly very undocumented and had a very backroom-y feel to it but they made it happen.
I miss some libre client for Google's Street View. On 3D maps, adapting Marble for OSGEarth should be a piece of cake.

If not, declaring one with IMGui+layers can be done in a week from any experienced C++ programmer. The included demos for OSGEarth already depict a minimal client with impressive 3D maps for a nearly non-supported demo.

I think KDE/Plasma lost a great oportunity there by not adopting OSGEarth.
In my experience it doesn't beat doing row monocrops in my backyard. It just turned into a big mess of plants shading each other, competing for nutrients, impossible to weed, etc. Never again. I'm native and I thought I would try it. Now I wonder how much of it is true and how much is romanticizing an idea that is a meme and sounds good.

https://growingfruit.org/t/3-sisters-the-original-survival-f...

"This story is an exaggeration which has been further glamorized by plant sellers and periodicals that cater to advertisers of natural or organic seeds and other products. In reality the practice was not widespread. The Farmer’s Almanac is rarely a source of factual information." - Richard

"Three sisters is a very inefficient way to grow corn. It is not the way many Amerindian tribes grew their corn as shown by the fields of corn grown by the 5 tribes of the Iroquois. It was used by some tribes, but only if they had corn, beans, and squash adapted to the growing method." - Fusion_power

Fusion_power usually knows what he is talking about, I recognize his name from Tomatoville where he is one of the best scientific posters and farmers around.
It's really (really) quick but the first line of the second para is:

> In view,
however, of the great interest which attaches to the determination of
molecular magnitudes, the matter seemed well worthy of investigation...

So it seems like his main goal was to understand the size of molecules via his film-thickness measurements
But it also suffers from people who insist it makes perfect 'logical' sense though they've never been confronted with the situation and still have a notion of 'logical thinking as though there's some perfect Spock-like way of viewing the world. There is no 'logical/emotional' divide in the way humans make decisions and the belief is almost nonsensical.
I can personally second all the kind words for Evan in the comments here.
Desktop apps. It's a lot of fun.
A perversion of the term "open". The licensing terms do not allow redistribution or resale, which is a condition of "open source" (as it's commonly accepted).

Note how the title nor the repository says "open source". I would have called this source available, not that "the source is now open".
I thought I remembered something about certain nutrients (magnesium?) being something you could intentionally reduce to slow down cancer growth -- kind of like a DIY chemotherapy; your cells need Mg to grow and multiply, but cancer cells need it more. Paired with other treatments, where applicable, the reduced nutrient diet had positive clinical outcomes.
> Android system shell

This hurt a little.
The problem is that you can't use nuclear to compensate for low wind/PV supply.

The cost of nuclear energy is dominated by the need to pay back the massive construction loan. Nobody is willing to take that risk on an open electricity market, so they've signed a contract with the government to guarantee price and demand. If the price on the open market is less than the "strike price" the government will pay for the difference, and if the plant wants to supply power to the grid but the grid doesn't want it due to technical reasons the government will pay them for every kWh it could have supplied.

This in turn means nuclear power plants operate at 100% capacity 100% of the time - minus forced maintenance downtime. It can be used to supply a base load, but not to handle peak load. When there's an excess of supply, the grid is forced to turn off cheap wind/PV capacity to make space for expensive nuclear capacity.

I agree that it would indeed be nice if we could use nuclear to fill in the gaps left by a renewable grid, but the economics simply doesn't allow for it.
Ahhh that's cool, thanks for clarifying
You can compost sewage and ship dirt back in dump trucks though
Good job, Blue Origin.

We desperately need some form of competition in the space (pun not intended).
I agree that permission requests should include sufficient context -- but I think that paragraph is way too long for the purpose. People do not read unexpected dialog text. I'd save that for the App Store description, when people are more receptive to detail.

For the permission request, I'd condense your paragraph into a sentence or two.

It's not unusual to download an app, but not launch it immediately. Demanding that the user remember your App Store description is unfair. It's your baby, not theirs.

They might not launch your app for hours or days after downloading. And Apple, reasonably I think, wants developers to try harder to accommodate user's realities.
pay attention to this space. the puck is moving to this direction (finally!!) and like wayne gretzky and steve jobs famously related it's good to skate in the direction it is going to be.
Everyone thinks AI can do somebody else’s job. I dunno, maybe they are right, but it seems like there might be some bias. Can AI do your job?
It can if you have someone knowledgeable driving it. Otherwise it gives out wrong or outdated information enough that it would quickly cause bugs in production code.
And that’s the thing it can do narrow scopes of a job well but ask it to do the entire task it will often mess up somewhere slightly enough to cause a snowball effect of failures by the time it’s “done”
Most ideas cannot be explained simply
Insecurity Through Mandates
An archive of censorship attempts in libraries since 1990
These are things I have dabbled in using only web dev skills. The first is my favorite:

* A/B testing

* test automation

* API management and proxies

* transmission protocol authoring, and client applications

* streaming media distribution

* media/game/file server application
Does anybody have an opinion or comparison with respect to easy_profiler?

https://github.com/yse/easy_profiler

Especially interesting if based on real practical experience.
So besides not paying people you depend on you also want to tell them what programming languages to use?
What I learned in year four of Platformer
Show HN: Airbyte 1.0, Marketplace, AI Assist, GenAI Support and Enterprise GA
Hi HN friends!

We can hardly believe it’s been almost four years since our original HN launch (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25917403). What started as a small project has grown way beyond what we imagined, with over 170,000 deployments and 7,000 companies using Airbyte daily.

When we started Airbyte, our mission was simple (though not easy): to solve data movement once and for all. Today feels like a big step toward that goal with the release of Airbyte 1.0 (https://airbyte.com/v1). Reaching this milestone wasn’t a solo effort. It’s taken an incredible amount of work from the whole community and the feedback we’ve received from many of you along the way. We had three goals to reach 1.0:
- Broad deployments to cover all major use cases, supported by over 1,200 community contributions.
- Reliability and performance improvements (this has been a huge focus for the past year).
- Making sure Airbyte fits with your existing production workflow – from Python scripts to Terraform, API, and UI interfaces.

It’s been quite the journey, and we’re excited to say we’ve hit those marks!

But there’s actually more to Airbyte 1.0!
- An AI Assistant to help you build connectors in minutes. Just give it the API docs, and you’re good to go. We’ve also added support for GraphQL APIs to our Connector Builder.
- The Connector Marketplace: You can now easily contribute connectors or make changes directly from the no-code/low-code builder. Every connector in the marketplace is editable, and we’ve added usage and confidence scores to help gauge reliability.
- Airbyte Self-Managed Enterprise generally available: it comes with everything you get from the open-source version, plus enterprise-level features like premium support with SLA, SSO, RBAC, multiple workspaces, advanced observability, and enterprise connectors for Netsuite, Workday, Oracle, and more.
- Airbyte can now power your RAG / GenAI workflows without limitations, through its support of unstructured data sources, vector databases, and new mapping capabilities. It also converts structured and unstructured data into documents for chunking, along with embedding support for Cohere and OpenAI.

There’s a lot more coming, and we’d love to hear your thoughts!
If you’re curious, check out our launch keynote (https://airbyte.com/v1) and let us know what you think – are there features we could improve? Areas we should explore next? We’re all ears.

Thanks for being part of this journey!
Am I reading that right that the 7900 XTX is on a par with 3090, and 4090 is twice as fast?
Didn't lame do that for years? It was distributed as a patch you could apply to the patent-encumbered MPEG "dist10" reference source code (which as far as I can see, did not even have an explicit license, the distribution only includes disclaimers of warranty)
The point here I think is that we should try doing autonomous operations on Earth first not because they are cheaper - they are not - but because it's cheaper to try them on Earth than on the Moon. When we have these tests successful on Earth, we can send the systems to the Moon.

But I'm sure this is being done.
They just need to focus some dev resources on signed posts, and the ability to move those signed posts between nodes. That should be their number one priority imho.

I believe that in order to successfully and safely move posts between nodes they need to be immutable and signed. Because you're essentially creating a new history on a new node.
That makes sense thank you for your response
Imagine how much more he would get done if he addressed his mental illness and filled his life with the richness of family and social bonds instead of wasting that time gaming an algorithm on a platform he paid too much for to become the leading proprietor of authoritarian-conservative junk posting.

If anyone thinks he doesn't have enough time for that, go over to Twitter and look at what he's doing with that time he doesn't have right now.
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 winners
Define "quality nutrition" and cite a source.
How many of their plants have already been fully decommissioned? What's going to happen when the reserved funds run out halfway through the decommissioning process? Who's going to pay for it when Bruce Power goes bankrupt? Are they going to claw back dividends decades after payout, or will the taxpayers end up with the bill?