skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I agree with a lot of what you said to some extent, but not entirely

> Big picture, sometimes people are saying too much construction (you). Other people are saying not enough. It’s complicated right?

For what it’s worth, I’m not saying “too much construction” - I’m value-neutral on how much construction will happen over the next few decades and was just trying to state the fact that there will undeniably be a lot of it, for better or for worse.

> Why do free R&D for Autodesk and EPIC?

I mean I know people working on the sorts of tooling being discussed here, and yes some of them either go on to work at Autodesk or sell IP to Autodesk. A major path in academia is to try things out that are even farther at the bleeding edge than industry R&D, then go on to form startups (which yes often result in failure when they realize that production-grade development is significantly harder or that there is no market for it or, like you said, Autodesk folds it into a pre-existing product).

> This is true but what does it add up to besides more features in Revit?

You say that like it’s a bad thing. It might be a depressing realization for people who hope to change the world with their work, but even if just a handful of buildings end up taking advantage of a certain feature that results in a better column grid (eg), it can end up offsetting more carbon than the original researcher would by riding their bike into school for like, 20 years rather than driving. In fact, if you really care about maximizing your impact as a researcher, having your tool folded into an Autodesk product, even if they copied your methodology from the papers you published and you get 0 financial compensation of any kind, is kind of the ideal outcome (even if that makes you a chump). You should just go work for Autodesk if you are upset about being a chump.

> You’re talking about stuff that goes into slide 30 in the pitch deck. The prince has already walked out of the room by then.

While I love this last paragraph from a literary perspective, and it does resonate with me, I’m not entirely sold on the idea that the entirety of analytically informed design should be viewed through such a pessimistic lens. I agree that a lot of numerical analysis of building performance in the context of clients/sales/etc is just smoke and mirrors/dog+pony show stuff, but that doesn’t mean that it does not still have a real impact on the actual buildings being designed. The point of these tools is not to make better pitch decks, it’s to make better buildings (from a carbon perspective, from a user perspective). It’s not like the work just goes out the window.
Ask HN: Researchers who develop algorithms, what do you do if you hit dead end?
When developing new optimization algorithms and prototyping different formulations of energy functions to be optimized, the algorithms don't usually work the first time you run your program :).

Feel free to comment on any of the questions below:

1. What do you do if you checked the correctness of the underlying math several times, checked that there is no bug in your code, and checked that the constants/weights should be correct, but when you run the code, it still "doesn't work"?

2. How do you figure out the right *combination* of the constants? Is it eventually just endless trial-and-error until you are lucky enough to find a correct combination or do you automate searching for the correct set of constants?

3. How do you know when to keep trying and when to admit the problem is too difficult (after a week, month, year, 5 years of trying)?

4. You finally found the correct set of parameters and your codes seems to produce a plausible result. But how do you know that there isn't a slight mistake either in the math or a bug in the implementation, which causes the results not to be up to their full potential?

5. Do even top researchers with excellent track record end up in dead-ends sometimes? How to they get out of them?

Every time I read a paper, I admire that the authors were able to find a correct set of constants and develop a working code. It seems like finding a needle in a haystack. What keeps you motivated even after a long period of trying?
Are you talking about just the OpenMapTiles spec, or some adjacent software? I'm certain that you can build software to some specification without ever agreeing to the spec text's licence, and that a CC-BY licenced spec doesn't limit any implementing system's licence.

Even so, CC-BY is permissive and you could include CC-BY content in a, say, GPL project. You just need to include both licences.
Download Castle for mobile: https://castle.xyz/
* All agents are not created equal

* A good agent is absolutely worth it

People aren't really arguing against these things. I don't get it, if the settlement didn't really change anything, why is everyone making such a fuss about it?

My other question is, is there a linear correlation between effort to sell a home and its price? Is a 3 million dollar home 3x the effort to sell over a 1 million dollar home? Because I pay 3x the money to sell it...or am I paying for the "connections"?
There’s a key difference to understand: web pages have individual reputation. If I see something about the moon landings on NASA.gov I assign it a different trust level than something I read on youcanthandlethetruth.social, whereas LLM output comes with the imprimatur of the company which made the system. Some LLMs do generate citations but those don’t always exist, come from authoritative sources, or say what they’re listed as saying but users are notoriously prone to not checking unless they’re primed to be suspicious.
Required reading before throwing your child into the machine that is Roblox: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/jan/09/the-trouble-wi...
Proxima Centauri: Coherent Picospacecraft Swarms over Interstellar Distances
> I'm genuinely confused why they released it like that.

I agree. Right now it's not very useful, but has the potential to be if they keep investing in it. Maybe.

I think Google, Microsoft, etc are all pressured to release something for fear of appearing to be behind the curve.

Apple is clearly taking the opposite approach re: speed to market.
> For comparison, GPT-4o is currently $5/million input and $15/million output and Claude 3.5 Sonnet is $3/million input and $15/million output.

Google is the only one of the three that has its own data centers and custom inference hardware (TPU).
Author of the project here, yes! - electron done well is amazing, try to write a cross platform gui app in a RAD way these days with other tech. I am experienced in flutter too and would still stick to the curent stack. Maybe one day when text engine is better in flutter i would port it. You cant be that cross platform, cross os, cross arch with anything better than electron these days. Electron done well shouldn’t create any problems.
> I'm pretty skeptical of that number.

The actual study is here.[1] "Depending on the segment and current processes, retailers can recoup upwards of 200-500 labor hours a month per store." It's related to ads for cash handling systems and armored car services.[2] It's not promoting card use.

[1] https://www.ihlservices.com/product/the-cost-of-cash-handlin...

[2] https://player.vimeo.com/video/441475326
Don't underestimate kids... just give them proper tools, and they will surprise you.

JavaScript is a very forgiving language to learn:

https://playground.babylonjs.com/

Game level designers are also a fun high-abstraction, and won't overwhelm the impatient.

https://levelsharesquare.com/games/supermarioconstruct

Have fun =3
Still have this info kicking around on my computer:

COMPUSERVE:
Modem: (800) FINDCIS [host name = "phone"]
Phone: (800) 848-8990 [tech support]
(800) 848-8199 Sales (toll-free) 8am-10pm M-F
(617) 457-0802 Sales (direct)
BBS: (212) 608-6021 [local NYC access number]
> How are you preventing hallucinations and plainly false information being sent to buyers

You must have missed this part of the question.

Seems pretty important.
today? i've been watching the sun rise, benchmarking fibonacci in tcl, designing analog electronics, trying out zulip, helping ukrainians build rf jammers, listening to 80s music, building a database of historical bar data from financial markets, and watching an episode of skibidi toilet. how about you?
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a double-articulated bus filled with people going to work/play/shop.

Also, slow = safe. Around here, the operators are cautious, diligent, and the best drivers on the road.
I find the constant talkiness of the AIs shown in these demos to be super annoying. It's not a human, it's an AI bot. I don't want to hear it's faux-human faux-opinion about my question. I really hope that shit defaults to "off" or at least has a one-click disable.

Decades ago Douglas Adams already knew inserting gratuitous "Genuine People Personalities" in devices would be so annoying it would be comical (http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1811). I don't get why OpenAI keeps releasing demos that make their product look comically dystopian.
wow what a great article -30-
For example Fractint was first developed on compuserve by the "stone soup group"
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13117834-200-review-f...
If you are not anti-competitive you won't be a monopoly.

"I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks" -- Bill Gates
Parking isn’t too much of a hassle in the outer burrows compared to Manhattan.

Also lots of cars get driven in from outside the city, so presumably there were fewer of those during Covid.
I've used LSD a few times, but to my knowledge never had any "acid flashbacks". Maybe that's for the best... but seems like it might be fun if one was in a safe environment.
> I think it's a semantic argument

Exactly! And all I wanted to say is "Please don't use harmful semantics, even if a lot of people do so because it's convenient or widespread. Your identity is yours, no one can give it to you or take it from you, it is simply who you are - don't let others believe otherwise and don't let others switch the meaning."

Gradual acceptance of such quirks leads to gradual transformation of thought and erosion of identity. And that leads to all sort of bad things.
I think that almost every episode featuring food from replicators always has someone lamenting that it isn’t the real thing though. So tastes vary. There is tradition. Point enough to have a be vineyard.
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There is plenty of parking space for the cars that you see on the streets of New York. It's just mostly in the outer boroughs, on Long Island, or in New Jersey.
>> has eventually revitalised the desolate site into a thriving, lush forest.

That's an understatement. every hard core gardener knows organic matter is the key to wonderful soil which is the key to wonderful produce. We want as much of it as possible (to turn into compost). Personally, I keep all my orange peels, all my fruit refuse/kitchen scraps, every last oak leaf that drops on my property and thensome (suprisingly no one wants them!). I compost pretty much every last drop organic matter that comes onto our property.
Thank you for sharing this, I'll make a issue about both.

The Vatican situation is trickier than you'd think, as it's on country level, while Rome is on city level, and naturally you'd want to give countries a priority over cities. Like on low zooms you only want to show countries, then as it gets closer you show cities. Well, except for Vatican.
US accuses Visa of monopolizing debit card swipes
Were you born yesterday? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media%27s_role_in_the_A...
It's a combination of things really. Part of it was not being able to discover new content (Google notwithstanding, since Google is good for finding things when you know what you want, while social media feeds you things you didn't even know you wanted). The other part was not being able to talk back or otherwise iterate on what people had published in a way that others could see it easily. Finally, it comes down to money... people wanted to make money and social media (and yes, I count Youtube among social media in its earliest incarnation) made it a lot easier to do that.

Despite this, people are departing existing aggregators and social media for SIGs to get around the spam, the screeching, and general annoyance... so we're probably going to see a more balanced network over the next decade... because making money isn't everything.
I didn't know about it when I was making mine, otherwise, I would have definitely borrowed some ideas from it, haha. I have considered view-based editing functions, and I'm wondering if it's really necessary (if so, it will be supported), because now it's quite convenient to locate the editing position on the left from the right view using JSON pointers for quick editing. I'm thinking that providing editing functions in a professional editor might be more appropriate. And thank your for your suggestions.
I have good memories of using Alice3D [1] the 3D part is appealing.

11 is young but I don't know how difficult could be to use Unity with some help, I know people without any development background who created games there in their spare time.

[1] https://www.alice.org/
Yes! And people will defend this awful language!
Best add a LLM into the loop for real speed.
State what's not factual instead of just saying it's not factual. Otherwise I can easily say your statement is 100% top-down, in-and-out, all-around, unsubstantiated.
Have been looking fwd to watching this, even seeing the remastered first episode was a rush of childhood nostalgia. The show came at a formative time both personally and technologically in the world and there was so much to love about it, from the general fun characters to the nerdy subtexts. Creative magic off the charts. And while maybe I wasn't complete aware of its significance in the CG world at the time, it definitely helped that it was CGI, just added to the techy future magic feel. From little studio in Vancouver, Canada too!
> 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

His life might be richer, but I don't think he would get more done. I do think he is a cautionary tale, but there are also many insights to be gained.

You shouldn't optimize your life for output, but for those moments when you do want to optimize your output it makes sense to glean from those who are very good at it.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41637779.
Author: It isn’t, if you are a power user, the podman client should provide all you need. It also supports docker too. The difference is that this is a GUI, like Docker Desktop, but unlike it, batteries are not included. I dont dislike DD, but to each their own.
I think it depends on the child and parent.

My approach with my kids has always been "don't dumb it down". They may not be into programming, but at least they'll be exposed to it.

By giving them the 'easy' version, you are putting up barriers that don't need to be there. Kids are smarter than many adults give them credit for, but again, it depends on the kid.
They do, sort of. What happens IME is that the terminal is linked to a gateway, and then the gateway links to a processor, and then the processor contacts the issuer through the payment network. Most gateways can contact many processors, and many processors can contact any issuer through several payment networks.

What seems to be happening is that the payment networks are making exclusive deals with big issuers like banks and these deals are allowing specific payment networks to have a lot of pricing power with merchants, who have to pay a fee to everyone involved in the transaction(gateway, processor, etc).
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I'd hardly call chrome forks a diversity of browsers
I'm assuming there's ways to bulk download out there, or it might be a project. A few of the podcast I support still use password protected rss where it was pretty straight forward to bulk archive everything. And I'll pop in 1-2 times a year to grab new exclusive stuff.
I develop Lonboard [0], a Python library for plotting large geospatial data. If you have small data (~max 30,000 coordinates), leaflet-based Python libraries like folium and ipyleaflet can be fine, but because Lonboard uses deck.gl for GPU-accelerated rendering, it's 30-50x faster than leaflet for large datasets [1].

[0]: https://developmentseed.org/lonboard/latest/

[1]: https://developmentseed.org/lonboard/latest/how-it-works/
Cloud Domains is a weird zombie, not really alive but not dead either.
They're actively preventing people from becoming customers:

> Caution: Transferring a registered domain from a third-party domain registrar to Cloud Domains is deprecated and removed.
It's a hardware description language. We used VHDL (not Verilog, but equivalent) for some custom processing in a radio, sped things up versus running in software or with a DSP (at the time, DSPs today may be able to replace good chunks of what was in VHDL running on an FPGA in that project).
Sure, there are ACPI bugs, they hit windows too. But to claim there are "works on windows but not linux" bugs everywhere is bogus. If it works in windows, it should work in linux too, that is the point of a platform power interface like ACPI. When one actually tries to look at why the battery life is worse in linux, or the machine doesn't resume properly, overwhelmingly what one finds are linux bugs. Bugs, like the distro won't ship accelerated video codec's, or hibernate is broken due to the kernel refusing to support it with secure boot on, or the wifi or GPU drivers have bugs in their suspend/resume paths, or even simpler things like there isn't a clear project/owner responsible for detecting seat activity and making power related decisions. Sure the freedesktop/dbus/systemd interfaces are there, but often a WM of distro will replace one of those components and create another set of bugs. Never mind desktop Linux still doesn't have the concept of a foreground/background application split so even if it wants to do scheduling hints indicating that a minimized chat application shouldn't be consuming 100% of a cpu when in the background no such standardized component exists unless one is running android. Systemd rightly gets a lot of shit, but it has standardized parts of this functionality, like for example how an application requests a screen inhibit. Nevermind it takes 2-3 years from the point a machine gets released before all the driver tweaks/etc land upstream, and trickle down to your average users machine.

Bottom line, linux on laptops only really works because of ACPI, if you were wondering what the laptop space looks like without it, I might suggest grabbing a couple random arm laptops/chromebooks and giving them a spin.
> they have THREE firewalls, wtf.

I've not used ipf, but ipfw and pf have a different model and different features (although in 14.0, there's more overlap). I have to use them both.
What is "all" the cars? Less than half of NYC households own a car[1]; if 100% of households did (or owned more than one, as is common outside of NYC), the city would have nowhere near enough space for them.

(The city already has virtually no space for the 2 million cars that are owned by the city's residents, plus the millions that enter the city daily. We have laws on the books that are intended to reduce the number of unnecessary car trips in the city, but our feckless state leadership has decided that it doesn't need to follow already-passed laws.)

[1]: https://www.hunterurban.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Car-L...
The Battle for the Soul of WordPress
From the looks of the screenshot and the age of the linked articles, the tool would have been around before Patch Tuesday became a thing in 2003. In those days, every single day could have been a possible Microsoft critical patch release requiring immediate resolution from both vendors and IT.
Sorry to hear you're burned out. Do you want to work after your current job? If so, curious why you feel this is your last tech job. Is it because of ageism or something else?
Except for 99% psych studies showing that it is a poor incentive[1].

Talking to a person doing hotel reservations today - his personal incentives were to do give quality service (unfortunately the managers incentives were financially misaligned with that!). Most job satisfaction seems to be derived from internal incentives and money is not that good in my experience. Maybe different in the USA from New Zealand.

[1] see psych reproducability studies.
And 2FA is a bad thing, because...?
Concur with other comments here when I say: do not throw your child into this incredibly exploitative community
You should definitely take a look at Struckd Studio which is now part of Unity Play - https://play.unity.com/en

It's still a little buggy in places, but nothing that can't be overcome.

You can drag and drop in 3D assets and many of them come with built in and easily changeable behaviors. Then there is a node based programming language that you can use to make alterations.

It's web based, but also has iOS and Android apps available for editing and playing the games.

edit - I'm an educator working in the CS ecosystem, and am playing with Struckd with the intention of making a suite of learning resources.
Agreed when it comes to ls, but this applies to any script whose output you capture. I personally prefer “while read” loops but I’m probably screwed if someone smuggles in a newline.
Yes, I've thought about it, but I haven't come up with a good implementation approach. Do you have any good ideas? Here's the problem I'm facing:

I want the table view to support not just regular array but also complex object structures (like nested structures). The latter results in an irregular structure of tables within tables, and I currently don't have a good approach to implement this using a virtual list.
At this point, they could crowdsource it, by surreptitiously distributing video game versions to every American teenager, and then see how long before anyone figures out that they're in a peacetime version of "Ender's Game".
Not even trying to be snarky, but their lack of ability to offer products for more than a handful of years, does not lend google towards being chosen by large corporate customers. I know a guy who works in cloud sales and his government customers are PISSED they are sunsetting one of their PDF products and are being forced to migrate that process. The customer was expecting that to work for 10+ years and after a ~3 year onboarding process, they have 6 months to migrate. If my neck was on the line after buying the google PDF product, I wouldn't even short list them for an AI product.
I discovered that if you were still connected when your account expired, you wouldn't get kicked off. I remember connecting just before the end of a trial period and staying up into the wee hours (well past the 12 midnight expiration time) downloading tons of Commodore 64 sound files.
Hungary is doing about as well as Poland, almost to the dot - It's GDP per capita is within a rounding error of Poland's. Not saying it's great, but if Pakistan was doing half as well as Hungary, it would be an awesome place.
> androids can't call iphones

Oh, you mean like how iOS has a private text chat system Androids can't access, and they're only kinda partially giving access to some of the features a decade later? Wouldn't that be crazy.