skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's living churn. It's just constant change often for gains that don't matter to a lot of people and losees that do. Linux is radically different because of him. People were deeply invested in how things were. Think about how hard it is to learn a laguage as an adult compared to when you're a kid. Even when some of his stuff is amazing, it's still going to cause stress for a lot of people due to its radical nature.
I mean, it may be a couple seconds (like 5, not 30+), but ~every modern house in Japan has a heater like that.
Reddit rewrote a small part of their website with web components using lit. 100+ requests and over a megabyte of Javascript to render a side menu.

Because they probably did the "several runtimes don't matter" thing, and every tiny component loads the full lit runtime
>Honestly, I'd love it if companies took the tack of giving employees projects based on the skills they want them to develop, instead of the skills they already have.

Has your manager actively asked you what you want to work on or do?
I keep seeing this asertion: "the robots will get there" (or its ilk), and it's starting to feel really weird to me.

It's an article of faith -- we don't KNOW that they're going to get there. They're going to get better, almost certainly, but how much? How much gas is left in the tank for this technique?

Honestly, I think the fact that every new "groundbreaking" news release about LLMs has come alongside a swath of discussion about how it doesn't actually live up to the hype, that it achieves a solid "mid" and stops there, I think this means it's more likely that the robots AREN'T going to get there some day. (Well, not unless there's another breakthrough AI technique.)

Either way, I still think it's interesting that there's this article of faith a lot of us have "we're not there now, but we'll get there soon" that we don't really address, and it really colors the discussion a certain way.
I build a website related to fraud (detection), bot (detection), fingerprinting, email intelligence. You can test your browser fingerprint here https://deviceandbrowserinfo.com/info_device and get information about disposable emails https://deviceandbrowserinfo.com/data/emails/disposable/inde...
Is AI using more or less power than crypto is/was at it's "peak"?
Specifically you should look at the JetBrains All Products Pack. That's what I have and I've used Pycharm, CLion, Datagrip and Rider extensively. I love being able to switch languages without having to learn a new interface, keyboard shortcuts, etc. You get a nice JetBrains Toolbox app to manage all your IDEs.
I am well aware of that, but, as I pointed out in my previous post, when X is ipso facto true, X is already affirmed as strongly and as unconditionally as is possible.

What groby_p wrote is this: "Physical controls aren't just ipso facto better, there's decades of studies to support that." In the first (independent) clause, groby_p asserts that physical controls are superior as a direct consequence of being physical controls (when one says something is 'not just' true, one is saying (ipso facto!) that it is true.) This, however, is empirically false - a badly-designed physical control can be at least as bad as a touch control (and for an example of how it could be dangerously worse than a touch control, take the fuel selector valve in the airplane John Denver crashed, which was difficult to operate in flight without accidentally applying full rudder.) [1]

The dependent clause claims that decades of studies justify the ipso facto claim, but they do not: they strongly support the somewhat lesser (but highly significant) claim that well-designed physical controls are superior (at least in most cases.) This is something I agree with, and nothing I have written suggests otherwise.

As I have pointed out ways in which some physical controls on today's cars are so poorly designed as to have the same significant problems as touch controls, I don't think this is a pedantic point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Denver#Death
These practical problems make the project less feasible:

1. Making end applications implement your protocol (eg Facebook) makes it way harder to scale, simply because the enshittified big tech apps are unlikely to care. Now the apps will have to maintain a separate service and not get paid to do it.

2. Having deliberate physical couriers travel across borders are a massive risk - a hop to hop mesh network where connectivity can be easily established across all users (every user is a courier when they connect to unlimited mobile data or wifi) will make the network a lot more available
Hey HN,

we've built FieldKit mostly for our own project at the start. We think it might be useful for others building embedded software.

AMA about the tool
> or made for a single framework

And then each component will have the entirety of that framework packaged with it when you distribute them. Unless you take special care
Does anyone have some examples of use cases for timestamped random entropy values?
Not a terrible thought, and loquats are highly variable in fruit quality, but loquats aren't citrus so there is no chance they will hybridize with it. It's in the rose family thus genetically closer to pears and apples, and (apparently) can reliably be grafted to quince rootstock. I think it's highly unlikely that anything but another loquat will pollinate it. Perhaps you are confusing it with kumquat? http://www.dbnursery.com/brendas-blog/what-is-the-difference...
I am working on second edition of Kamal Handbook targeting Kamal 2.0.

https://kamalmanual.com/handbook/
> a "we totally saw that coming" after the fact.

That's not the case, though. This isn't an "I told you so," like the 2022 Pittsburgh bridge collapse. (https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20240221.as...)

The study ended 7 days before the collapse, and it only concluded that an on-site inspection is needed:

> Its findings revealed there were significant indicators present prior to the incident to suggest inspection/consultation with on-site engineers would have been necessary.
This was a common view back then. By 1986, Americans had long been culturally and geographically insulated from other cultures and nations. Post-modern philosophy was in full flower, promoting the idea that no world view nor cultural practice is inferior to any other. It was quite easy for the liberal wing of the American intelligentsia of the time to adopt a paternalistic universalist outlook, given that there were no immediate challenges to this perspective. In fact, examples of conservative-driven imposition of American ideals abroad were actively punished: Viet Nam, Iranian Revolution, Korea, etc. The Soviet Union appeared to be going strong.

I'd argue that the rise of the internet, 9/11, Iraq and Afghanistan wars, fears of disinformation and misinformation and foreign influence, bot-farms, the rise to prominance of China, all put the lie to this idea that all ideas have merit. It's an idea that is held by few American intellectuals these days, conservative or liberal.
Show HN: Native macOS app for chatting with Ollama models
Hello everyone,

I've built a simple macOS app for chatting with models downloaded by Ollama - https://github.com/sheshbabu/Chital

It's written in Swift, consumes less memory and loads fast.

It has these features:

* Support for multiple chat threads

* Switch between different models

* Markdown support

* Automatic chat thread title summarization

It's my first time working with Swift and Xcode, and it has been an interesting journey. The performance of the application is a big plus when building native apps, but I wonder if I'll be able to add features like document processing, RAG and other capabilities that are easy to implement using Python.

Give it a try and let me know what you think :)
The observability tools in question (strace) follow the UNIX tradition of displaying and processing data as text by default. I don’t think that means that they suck.

I’ll go even stronger than that: IPC and RPC should prefer plaintext-representable forms by default and only abandon them for binary once the real world costs of the textually-representable protocol are found to be unacceptable and unmitigateable.

The benefit of being able to use pre-existing introspection tools that were not designed with your protocol in mind—-and use those tools without extensive configuration—-is huge.

I think the existence of bad textual formats (e.g. JSON) and the presence of largely-orthogonal-to-binaryness useful affordances in popular binary formats (e.g. schema validation and strong typing in Protobuf) muddies the underlying truth: textual-representability-by-default is rarely costly and often a huge boon to protocol implementors and protocol debuggers.
A better URL: https://radarr.video/
Now this is a unique idea.

I'd like to see this rolled out widely so we can get some map of music.
Thanks! I am updating the benchmarks to take into account the different payload sizes as we speak, maybe we can discuss the difference in our methodologies and results then? I'll drop you a mail once updated.
Ask HN: Does this AI generated physics paper make any sense? [pdf]
I spent the weekend running ChatGPT in a loop on a theoretical physics paper. This was the result. It seems to have come up with some type of conjecture.

I'm wondering if anyone who understands Langlands program mathematics or Quantum Field Theory can opine on whether it's gibberish or makes real sense.

It seems interesting, however I have only a cursory understanding of Quantum Field Theory and don't know anything about the Langlands program.
Agreed. The price between just IDEA and the all products pack is not terribly different and I enjoy using IDEA and Datagrip. I've also played with a few other of their IDEs and it's nice to not have to learn anything new. That said, I do 99% of my work in IDEA since it can do pretty much everything.
I had understood that one of the reasons for the reduction in consumption was related to having one of the highest priced electricity in the world. With more being deployed it should bring prices down too to allow increased consumption. Hopefully.

It really does make things uneconomic here, and painful for the poorer folks in society.
This is easily solved. Particularly as industry is such a large contributor to GHG emissions, imposing a carbon tax on industry and possibly even allowing grandfathering allows the costs to be baked in to (only) future considerations, and makes cleaner companies more competitive compared to dirtier ones.
A well annotated cookbook like the article describes is truly an heirloom item, like a well seasoned griswold pan.

Moreso now, as good recipes in general are becoming harder to find via conventional internet searches. Most google results now are garbage clickbait sites with plagiarized recipes, just 'adjusted' enough to claim it's different than the original publication. The results of these adjustments vary from slightly worse to maybe the dog will eat it.

I now only trust new recipes from a few 'legacy' sites, (e.g. Serious Eats and classic culinary magazines,) but these resources are endangered. Classic print magazines are especially vulnerable to predation by vulture capital.

What a catch 22 for young people trying to learn to cook now... without prior experience it's hard to spot a broken recipe, but gaining experience requires using unbroken recipes. It break my heart how many novice cooks will be discouraged when they try broken clickbait garbage and think the failed result is their fault. Never mind the cost of food as a penalty of failure...

(Edit: formatting)
I like when horses die on the racetrack. A symbolic sacrifice.
I wish web components had a bit more to them

1. I wish you could reliably parse their attributes in the constructor instead of connectedCallback, so that they play better with typescript readonly properties

2. I wish I could declare properties in the class and have them automatically map to an attribute

3. I wish I could construct them using html instead of manipulating domnodes manylually

4. I wish I could construct child nodes first so that I can compose webcomponents with other webcomponents

As it stands webcomponents provide the ability to construct a single element at a somewhat predictable moment in time, automatically. That's cool, but their interface is lackluster to me
I once heard or read an interview with him on NPR, saying that he wrote the song at a time when he was working flying helicopters to oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. This had the odd effect of reminding me of the distance between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, and calling into question size of the truck driver's repertory of songs.
Now that certificates are free, of course, all phishing sites use Let's Encrypt.
Evaluating a website's legitimacy using SSL should not have been initiated by browser vendors. The messaging was wrong for the non-tech folks.
They do not have anything to do with the site is fake/fraud/malicious. It was just the data-in-transit is safe or not.
> Absolutely everything in the real world is quantum-related because that’s the very structure of reality.

Yes but AFAIK, reality is "quantum" in the sense that something like the scale of Avogadro's number (N=10^23) quantum processes interact and average out to typical classical behavior. It's only in limited situations where the actual quantum mechanical nature pops up in the macro world, right? (eg Bose-Einstein condensate, the ultraviolet catastrophe, energy bands of semiconductors, emission spectra, etc).

The idea that Penrose posited is intrinsically HARD to measure. Moreover, consciousness itself is not well defined to begin with.

If anything, it appears that neural networks are far further along than any quantum mechanism for approximating whatever "consciousness" actually is? And neural networks are absolutely not quantum mechanical.
This style of rhetoric around BRICS is just scaremongering.

If BRICS is on track to be a major global bloc, then so is the QUAD and I2U2.

In action, it's as detoothed as APEC because of mutual blunting by China and India.

> Lula increasingly China friendly

What tangible policy can you show for this? Not rhetoric - actual legislation.

Rhetoric doesn't matter in hyperfederalized democracies like Brazil and India.

> GDP adjusted PPP

I've brought this up a number of times before, but GDP PPP in isolation is a bad metric, along with other GDP metrics.

Fundamentally, the assumption that goods can be substituted might work for commodities, but in reality alll consumers do differentiate between products and value.

Furthermore, PPP calculations are fundamentally flawed and a LOT of behinds the scenes politicking happens as countries try to change WB and IMF's PPP metrics to show their countries in a better light [0]

[0] - https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/06/06/w...
> Extensions are not sandboxed

This is quite surprising to me if true. Microsoft has for years touted "Security is everything and the single most important thing right now", yet something that basic is not taken care of for the most security minded audience, and for the audience with probably the biggest impact in case ssh-keys and alike gets stolen?

People randomly installing extensions (and Visual Studio Code suggesting random extensions by "language support") starts to look a lot worse than I thought. Guess I'm lucky I never jumped aboard the Visual Studio Code train...
> to look, as a species, into the mirror and see neither Lord of Creation nor Worldbane, but merely the first of many in the world to rise to the role of caretaker.

I came to the same conclusion recently. As a species we have almost total control over earth. Caretaker - or BDFL if you prefer - seems to be the only viable long-term role for our species at this scale.

Whether or not we're heading in that direction is another question. But it's interesting to watch nations, societies, businesses, etc, attempt to build sustainable structures and lives for their constituents using the power structures they believe best. A microcosm of the same problem on a smaller scale.

It's not super encouraging how many different civilisations, societies and commercial enterprises have died and failed before us, but maybe diversity and resilience go hand-in-hand, and those values are how we need to approach the natural world we now control.

Of course, that all sounds a bit like the self-serving Dogma of Otherness, and another example of the double-standard in philosophy that "values that prioritise others actually elevate myself with their nobility".
Alright, I am updating the benchmarks for the newest release, I'll open a PR once done.
Their business model being bad is not my concern. They're not a broke kid whose bad decisions I'm exploiting.

Edit: OTOH reporting on this as if it's a grand surprise is a bit funny. Like come on, this was obvious from the start. I just didn't care, it didn't feel like a fight worth fighting. And I care about BSD/MIT license devs being exploited about as much as MS' business model potentially falling apart because I turn off telemetry: folks knew what they're going into, and did it anyway because "sempai corpo will notice us." Well, it did, congratulations.

As for me, I don't care. I ain't posting anything on anything lighter than AGPL, ever, but I'm a small bean and ultimately there's stuff I care about way more than software.
I can easily manage several instruments at 1.3ms latency while still using my machine for gaming and such on this patchset without more than the occasional xrun, where the same machine can barely manage 10ms latency if I don't have _anything_ running but the audio applications.

Something doesn't have to be perfect to enable a usage.
(not the parent)

I think that it's manifestly unreasonable to preemptively knock out communications in a large civilian area during peacetime for essentially any reasons; in that same vein, it's absurd to lay blame at the feet of a communications enabler who provides a means for individuals to escape authoritarian suppression of communications.

The only parties responsible for the violence you are implying would be the individuals actualizing the violence, the individuals originating falsities, and the governments who fail to actively maintain peace. The collective failures of all three to restrain their actions amidst uncertain rumors should not condemn the vast majority of peaceable humans from communicating with each other.
Wrapping up another Cloudflare Birthday Week
I'm not sure if this can be described as "warfare"- hybrid or not. You'd need to call the migrants boats that "harass" Italian ports a tool of war, too. Maybe that's warranted, but to me, it sounds like an unnecessary escalation.

Obviously, the ship shouldn't be used in such a way, but I would save the war-like language for a situation where it tries to ram its way into a port against the coastal guard commands.
Maybe wrapfs.WithModTime(... should not use time.Now() but get the mod time of the running binary?
It's not a leak, Putin traditionally wants to indicate that it is he who ordered to kill him while officially saying he has nothing to do with this. It is a kind of game - it was the same with Prigozhin, Litvinenko and others.
Yeah. You can't have an office affair if you WFH.
The author of software (or generally the copyright holder) is not bound by the terms of their own license, so they can publish the same software and/or later versions under different licenses however they see fit.

This applies equally if their own license is MIT or if it's GPL/copyleft.

(From that point of view, Microsoft would be able to release VSCode as GPL while also shipping binaries under a proprietary license, if they wanted to.)

Things get more complicated when they aren't really the authors because they have merged contributions from other authors, e.g. pull requests. Then what happens depends on the license used by the other authors for their contributions. Sometimes the contribution's license is implied, or legally unclear. To avoid problems, some diligent organisations require contributors to sign or confirm something to make it clearer, before they accept contributions to be merged.
Sane editing experience to start with. And proper intellisense, etc.
Show HN: Smartclip – Clipboard Manager/ Application Launcher with Plugins
I’ve been working on Smartclip, a tool designed to streamline workflows and give quick access to various utilities, all from a simple, user-friendly interface. It’s similar to app launchers like Spotlight, Celebro, or Albert but goes further with a range of specialized plugins:

- Launch apps and search for files quickly

- Manage and reuse rich clipboard content effortlessly

- Render and paste mathematical expressions on the fly

- Pick, search, and paste emojis with ease

- Instantly translate words and paste them into your workflow

- Set reminders to stay on top of your tasks

Smartclip is currently in Beta, and I’d love to get feedback from fellow hackers. Whether it's thoughts on the functionality, bugs, or feature requests, feel free to share them here or in the GitHub Issues section.
Ask HN: Are you even using open source web libraries?
i went from being an early adaptor of Angular 2 (while it was in RC) to being a never-next.js guy.

i learned how to build react server components on my own, learned how to build tailwind on my own, learned all about typescript's generics types and how to define them.

i removed googleapis in favor of writing raw http calls, same with stripe, same with every other 3rd-party library.

now it seems obvious to me because i don't have to rewrite major swaths of code because somebody else decided to change the abstraction. now it seems obvious that this is what smart teams have been doing all along.

if you're going to tell me about open source libraries making it easier for new developers i'm going to tell you you're wrong. i'll have the fair debate about whether it's better to learn a guaranteed-to-be-shorter-lived-dependency over a long-lived web standard any day.

what about you, are you using open source web libraries?
I had a collogue who installed his speaker setup facing backwards out of his trunk. He knew what he was doing.
I've been trying to work on things that aren't necessarily economically valuable but that are on my mind and I want to share.

For example, a carbon footprint calculator that pokes fun at the idea of the individual being to blame for climate change. https://a.mancato.nl/climate-calculator

And after seeing my dad struggle to find stuff online because he was seeing so many ads, I made an adblocker ad. https://a.mancato.nl/adblock
Sign me up, Scotty!
Neat! It's very cool to see what appears to be the 'hoop' formed by all the geosync satellites. Yet then there appears to be a 'cylinder' that contains the hoop whose axis is slightly off the hoop's access. Any idea what that represents? By maintaining the same distance from Earth as the geosyncs, they would seem to be synchronous with a particular longitude, but would rise up & down latitude above & below the equator with every revolution (i.e. onr full cycle per day).
A few that I've personally used.

- OpenMPT (music tracker)

- FamiTracker (music tracker for NES chiptunes)

- WinSCP (FTP,SFTP,etc client)

- WinMerge (file diff tool)
My only major complaint about JetBrains is that they make me switch programs when switching languages. I have a license for CLion and PyCharm Pro, and while they're both great, the fact that I cannot 'import' all the features from one into the other is quite infuriating.
MPV v0.39.0 Released
It's a highly speculative subject, but one source is Roger Penrose's book from the early 90's: "The Emperor's New Mind". Not sure if that's where the hypothesis originated about quantum mechanics and microtubules... I think there's another work by Bohm and the guy who invented holograms that predates Penrose's thinking (but doesn't mention microtubules).