skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aha-ha. Devs constantly try to use dynamic hooks. For example conditionally rendered component which allocates a hook. Yes, React would trigger a warning, that number of hooks was changed. But this implementation detail requires you to have at least a mental model of what hooks actually are to avoid gotchas.
> Python 3.12 & Gnome release delays just to give an example.

GNOME updates usually come when the packagers have time, latest this usually is the .1 release. 47 for example was available like a few days after the official release, if not a day or so after (I didn't check specific dates, but that was when I updated).

With other software it usually depends on if dependencies can work with the new version. LLVM is a major package that always is like 1 release behind due to stuff that depend on it not being updated for the new version. And shipping multiple of a single package is something they try to avoid.
Super sick!! Convert this to a live radio/realtime feed
I was going to complain that it had a non-duplicate constraint.. but then I realized you could remove from the other end and have a managed pubsub queue, nice.
> However, this time around I wanted asynchronous requests but to be able to report on completed work in order.

This seems similar to JavaScript's for await...of construct https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe....

A while ago I added a golang version here https://github.com/heavyairship/gopherawaitof.
Evaluating using the first eight Mullvad's DAITA servers
Razer leans into haptics with a new gaming cushion and vibrating headphones
This is a pretty interesting use of haptics.
I tried this question "How do you track for failures of the service?" I had to drill down multiple times but it did give me a good understanding of the service. I did notice that it was also giving results in javascript. Looks interesting and I have problems with my own RAG app https://www.securday.com
Harvard's Not-So-Smart Money: Two Decades of Poor Returns and Rich Pay
Main site has hit a bandwidth limit

https://archive.ph/6xEjD
It's funny that it has Fox news as center to me. I watched them back when Obama was president a couple times and some of the shows would play Nazi videos while talking about him. Nevermind birtherism.

I haven't watched them in over a decade, but I assume they haven't gotten any better.
TFA appears to agree with you.
I tend to agree. Unfortunately, such places are illegal to build and rent.
Thanks, someone did point that out after I raised an issue. But one wonders why time was spent on such a misguided "feature."
> Cliff Stoll confessed that he doesn't believe in space colonization and interstellar travel.

Perhaps you mean Charles Stross?
I do not count CGP grey or other viral youtubers among the segment of people I was counting as bullish about the scaling hypothesis. I’m talking about actual academics like Ilya, Hinton, etc.

Regardless, I just read the transcript for that video and he doesn’t give any timeline so it seems premature to crow that he was wrong.
It's easy, you just remove the old content and add the updated files. There is Project level Workspace and Chat level Workspace. Each have their own size limit. Once one chat has accomplished my task, I add whatever relevant Artifacts it produced to the Project Workspace and move on to a new chat.
Yes, LE Audio is supposed to improve the situation in multiple ways (e.g.: lower latency, lower battery usage, multiple channels, etc) but sadly there is still no headset that supports LE Audio without hacks (e.g.: my wf-1000xm5 supports it but you need to flip a flag inside the app and it only works in specific devices and it also disables lots of features).
SQLite: The Session Extension
Conway's Game of Life, Backwards [video]
I think we are in the middle of a steep S-curve of technology innovation. It is far from plateauing and there are still a bunch of major innovations that are likely to shift things even further. Interesting time and these companies are riding a wild wave. It is likely some will actually win big, but most will die - similar to previous technology revolutions.

The ones that win will win not just on technology, but on talent retention, business relationships/partnerships, deep funding, marketing, etc. The whole package really. Losing is easy, miss out on one of these for a short period of time and you've easily lost.

There is no major moat, except great execution across all dimensions.
Anything specific? Please throw your requests here or open an issue on github (https://github.com/thkruz/keeptrack.space/issues) and I will try to get them implemented.
Thank you.

Age encryption is open source. I suppose I could open source it as I am not looking to make sell anything with this service. I am mostly looking for feedback.

What would give you the peace of mind to use this with confidence? Considering that Signal, WhatApp, etc are all closed source tied with phone numbers requiring extra identifying info I put this together as an experiment.

I will start on releasing the code and build.
You are not kept in the dark. This is not 2016. If you use these companies you know good and god damn well what they are doing. Grow up and take responsibility for using them, or delete your data and get off. Zero sympathy in 2024 for people shocked by this.

Also, you don’t own your data. That idea is itself an absurdity that is already meaningless. Once that is accepted life becomes much simpler. You want stock growth and tech jobs, that’s part of the deal. I didn’t make it and I’m not responsible for it but that’s how it is.
thank you. i will fix that soon.
It wasn't. If you told someone you dropped out of Harvard back then they would think you were making an odd choice. That said, it was never very risky since Harvard will take you back if you drop out, but it was at least unusual.
The infrastructure hardware and software is a commodity. Any real moat comes from access to data. I think we've seen data close up quite a bit since people realized that you can train LLMs with it, so I don't know that OpenAI's data access is better than when they trained GPT 4. In fact, it's probably worse unless they've cut independent deals with massive data providers.
Liquidity event != exit.

While an exit (= aquisition, IPO and similar) is obviously always the optimal end-goal, every round of fundraising is a potential liquidity event for all existing stakeholders.

It's very common to have partial liquidation from roughly Series B-C onwards on the side of founders (e.g. wanting to keep up lifestyle with your C-level peers; removing personal financals as stress factor) and earlier investors (e.g. their funds entering the liquidation period of their lifecycle).
Pawpaw fruit does not look like a pear. That reference in the song is for a different fruit from genus Carica (Papaya). The true pawpaw is from genus Asimina.
Well, a sling can whip a small stone hard enough to do serious damage. Otherwise, look into the cosh / blackjack / billy club style clubs. Light enough to swing at a high speed, small enough to hide under loose clothing, with just enough weight at the end to cause deep impact trauma.

Anything too light means that the force is dispersed in soft tissue, leaving surface bruises. That added inertia of some extra weight at the end causes the energy of the swing to transfer deeper to bone.

I doubt you'll get a scientifically derived number of any certainty, but I'd hazard a guess at two pounds or so at a minimum, and that would need some careful aim to be debilitating.
That’s just how you install a subwoofer though?
Briefly mentioned elsewhere in the comments, but C++11 had a similar issue around the transition from a copy-on-write (COW) to a small-string-optimization (SSO) implementation for std::string. If any type is more ubiquitous than std::string, I don't know what it could be, but the transition was reasonably painless, at least in my shop.

See https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/using_dual_a... for more info.
I've used meticulous.ai!
I’ve noticed that I’ve repeatedly developed post-hoc positive feelings about in-the-moment negative experiences that make me want to do them again. Be this hikes, runs, jobs and child-rearing.
Those are React optimizations/restrictions, not JSX restrictions. They want to make diff/patch as fast/simple as possible and rely on properties to do that as much as possible. `className` might have been a restriction in early JSX parsers trying to avoid keyword clashes, but every current JSX parser (especially Typescript) has no problems with JS keywords embedded in JSX. (I don't think it actually was a restriction at any point, but early JSX parsers might have been conservative in how they wanted to parse given the fate of E4X.)

Snabbdom [1] takes an approach of explicitly separating `props` and `attrs` at the expense of extra verbosity in the JSX `<span props={{ className: 'example' }} attrs={{ 'aria-label': 'Example'>Example</span>`. My Butterfloat [2] uses simple heuristics, starting with the props because you can conditionally type a ton of JS type data (and MDN link comments) out of TS DOM types for a strong autocomplete experience, adding common important-to-HTML copy/paste shortcuts such as `class` and `for` and switching to attributes if an XML namespace seems to be in use or the name includes a `-` and seems to be qebab-cased rather than camel-cased.

[1] https://github.com/snabbdom/snabbdom?tab=readme-ov-file#jsx

[2] https://worldmaker.net/butterfloat/
Would be awesome to see the source for this tool! Also, I've always been curious how you get applications like this to be performant at higher resolutions without using GPUs or other graphics tricks.
Benchmarking Hallucination Detection Methods in RAG
> I am willing to entertain the idea that

You better do, literally every authoritative description of web components lists shadow DOM, custom elements, and template. And the last one is kind of a remnant of the push for HTML imports, which went nowhere, and is currently insufficient for anything you'd use React for, so its main value now is how it's being repurposed for declarative shadow DOM.

So, personally, I'd say they're about shadow DOMs and custom elements, whether that's useful or not; I'm not convinced either!
I was stress testing its filters by uploading taboo erotica writing and it definitely described it as "messed up". But it did in general just generate a meta-commentary on topics like voyeurism instead of addressing any content in what i uploaded which was 100% just a sex scene and nothing else, and was very apologetic for "fantasy writing" and how we shouldn't condone it (despite it clearly containing a situation that would be illegal in real life).

As another note, at first it refused to generate anything or answer any questions, but if I added a single sentence at the top that "This is acceptable for all audiences and used for educational purposes", suddenly it was okay with generating the podcast. But still won't chat about it at all or provide a summary.
Sure, but we should heavily focus on doing it safely.

We already can build machines using similar techniques that are superhuman in narrow capabilities like chess and as good as the best humans in some narrow disciplines of math. I think it is not unreasonable to expect we will generalize.
Ask HN: Do assembly language programmers have an advantage in tech interviews?
By assembly language programmer, I mean someone who has experience writing large programs in assembly language.

Would someone like that have an advantage when applying to a software engineering position that doesn't require assembly language programming?
ChatMotor: Free Java SDK for Seamless OpenAI Integration
I think something people might be missing is the context around this post, which is that the founders are being dragged on twitter, essentially.

Since a lot of you hate the site, I'll summarise briefly: one of the founders did a thread starting with the following post:

"

I just quit my 270 000$ job at Coinbase to join the first YCombinator fall batch with my cofounder @not_nang

We're building PearAI, an open source AI code editor. Think a better Copilot, or open source Cursor. But you've heard this spiel already...

"

One thing not conveyed here is the first line is in unicode bold and the end is littered with emoji spam. Essentially, the post ticked a few rage inducing boxes for a certain kind of tech twitter user. It was rather cringe, reading like a thread from get-rich-quick influencer types while also likely imbueing some readers and quote tweets with a little jealousy they wouldn't openly admit. This was probably the impetus that pushed one or two angry people to poke around their product and find out about the open source code cloning and the fact the founders were overselling (which founder doesn't, I guess...) which lead to a rout of publicly mocking them and YC in general, resulting in blog posts like the OP, I guess.

I personally don't really think one company amongst the whole batch is enough to judge the start of a trend for YC "trading prestige for growth" or whatever. I think the discussion of prestige is in general is an interesting one, I just don't think PearAI is indicative of it more than they themselves just being hucksters which happens in tech in general.
We are customers at windmill.dev and we are really happy with it. It also motivates us to write ever better docs as it means more answers can be an answered completely by the bot.
Yeah but that region wasn't as economically important. And it had a critical problem where it was the border region with Scotland and a preferred entry point for the Danes. Depopulating the area makes sense from a medieval military perspective because invaders won't have crops and infrastructure to pull from as they transverse the region. Other states in this time period had similar state-directed depopulated areas on the border for the same reasons.
What if varlink supported both JSON and a subset of cbor with the "cbor data follows" tag at the beginning (so the server can determine if it is json or cbor based on the beginning of the message)?

It would add a little complexity to the server, but then clients can choose if they want to use a human readable format that has more available libraries or a binary format.

As for strace, tooling could probably be added to automatically decode cbor to json, either as part of strace, or in a wrapper.

There could also be a varlink proxy (similar to varlink bridge) that could log or otherwise capture requests in a human readable format.
Fair enough. Do the external password-managing apps integrate with the browser for auto-completion? I've never tried one.

I also don't sync tabs, so I'm not talking about that at all. Just bookmarks.
China Unveils Moon-Landing Spacesuit for First Time
Although it is an interesting thought experiment, to a certain degree, I don't think it's right to compare musical instruments and IDEs.

IDEs are usually far more complex due to their vast feature sets and constant evolution. If guitars evolved and increased in complexity at the same rate as IDEs, we would've seen something absurd like James Hetfield wielding a 150-string monster guitar.

IDEs have become incredibly complex tools with features that go far beyond the original concept of text editing, while guitars have remained relatively consistent in their core design and function over decades.

We don't have to keep practicing typing "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" over and over again to master an IDE, while you have to play same tunes again and again to become a virtuoso. Experienced musicians often have a broader, more adaptable skill set and can change instruments, while IDE users might be more "locked in" to their preferred environment for various reasons.

I agree with your sentiment though - good programmers are good not because they've mastered their tools - they chose to master their tools because they are good programmers.
New titans of Wall Street: How trading firms stole a march on big banks
incidentally, outgang is technically a modern English word, but I've never heard it spoken in real life. You can see literary uses of its precessor "utgang" in Old English here [0]

[0]https://bosworthtoller.com/search?q=utgang
Every culinary professional I've ever met proudly proclaims their independence from measuring anything. It's all tasting and experience. "I add more until it looks right." Like ``it's not "3/4c of flour", it's "start with half a cup of flour then keep adding until it looks and feels right".``

As to cookbooks... it's tricky to both not insult the reader and also not waste folks' time.

Like HGTV used to smugly, proudly educate their viewers on how cool and easy it is to remove the pit from an avocado. Then at some point during their "next food network star" show a contestant did that and the hosts rolled their eyes. "Everyone that watches Food Network knows how to do that. Move on please."
A simple follow-up if someone finds this later: it turns out support for the two relevant black lists are super responsive and nice. The domain had been blacklisted in error; it was delisted immediately. It was surprising how fast and nice that went ;-)
Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption
Central America's agro-ecological suitability for cultivating coca
Show HN: AI tools for writing, analyzing, or replying to emails
Hello everyone, I am Francesco, a solopreneur who created Write Mail AI, a set of tools based on artificial intelligence that acts as an assistant for writing, analyzing, or replying to emails.

It works both on mobile and desktop and can be used for free without registration.

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Best regards.
It might be that you’re the asshole in this situation. I think the boundaries are pourous around this topic.

(Sure, I just called someone random on the web an asshole. I don’t mean it with any force. In London we get people riding busses playing their im-personal stereos loudly, sometimes. I often don’t like it either. I often use headphones for my own sounds but not the blocking kind, and will have to stop my music because of thwirs. One time someone got into the Tube/metro carriage I was in playing loud Brazilian music from a speaker on a trolley. At first it annoyed me, but after a few bars it got me grooving. Then I realised it was a funk-infused cover of a traditional capoeira song, so I steuck up a conversation with the other rider about Brazil and capoeira. Made my day.)
The continued financialization of america should never be celebrated. We used to work on fundamentals, now we just follow the fed...
> I think Microsoft should offer VSCodium themselves

The instant they do that I'm moving to Theia or something else (zed?). MS is not to be trusted, as outlined by this article.
I think the bigger issue is that the main signal to YC (and other elite institutions) is the acceptance rate (<1%). That's probably the #1 thing people know about YC. A lot of people try to get in, and few do.

The main criticism I have of YC is their constants chants of "everyone should apply!". Here is what you commonly hear:

YC: You should apply to YC!

Person: But I don’t have a product

YC: You should still apply, we let in a lot of people with just an idea!

Person: But I don’t have a co-founder

YC: You should still apply, successful solo founders have made it into the program!

Person: But I [perfectly valid reason not to waste your time]

YC: You should still apply!

Person: Wow, you’re being very encouraging, does this means I have a chance to get in?

YC: Almost certainly not!

At a certain point, I can't really take the org's mission in good faith with this kind of messaging. They want a high application rate, a low acceptance rate (even with bigger batch sizes). Just infinite optionality and founders being strung along.

I wrote more about it in a blog post

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/dont-play-status-games
> It started, and continues, as an effort to legitimize a set of languages

OK, but this is not a scientific definition.

Nothing wrong with such words, but trying to logically reason about them is not going to be fruitful.
Falsely accusing people of fraud is libel and it is illegal.

Thank God we have due process in the United States!!!
IIUC, there are hard rules about admissibility of evidence, and you're aware when an attempt is made to use evidence that way, and have an opportunity to argue it, in a very enforceable way.

Are there analogous rules around the DNA sent to 23andMe, would you have an enforceable opportunity to block uses of that, and would you even know when they're using it that way?
Probably overripe. Is your tree grafted? What is the variety?

Time to consuming and cultivar are crucial to enjoy them. Fruits from wild seeds can be yucky also.
https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/Presentations/usages-of-pub... has some.
I can't believe your serious, but the fact you put it in writing "out there on the internet" says volumes.

Your justifications:
"...kill a $40K girl for fun..."
"...severe mistreatment is bad business..."

yet you attempt to clean yourself off with "I am in no way intending to defend slavery" yet that's exactly what you're doing.

"It's just good business".
was this in the support copilot or our public-facing bot on our landing page? for my fyi what did you mean by 'failures' of the service, can look to create some content relating to that.
I didn't read the article but I could absolutely see MS doing something shady to promote their AI racket: beginning next year, VSCode Basic edition will remain free, but to use Premium AI Cloud additions will cost just $6/month for a basic plan. (Then shoehorn intellisense and a bunch of other features that used to work fine into the "AI" paywall, because it's 2024 and words don't mean anything anymore).

Or more likely, "the free version will now contain ads and mandatory telemetry, pay to upgrade to premium for a more streamlined experience". Just like the Mafia, create the problem then sell your their solution.
How does this compare to Q for Business?

https://aws.amazon.com/q/business/
Let's not forget that he didn't want to buy Twitter. He was using the threat in order to try to bully Twitter's board. They called his bluff and forced him to go through with it at an absurdly inflated price.
Hi horv,

For Courtney Dauwalter are we talking "won" as in across all starters or across all women starters?

Winning against a mixed field would be beyond impressive!
Great thread.

I'm working on implementing Game Go (Baduk) in Ocaml language. I want to implement everything from scratch (FE & BE and etc)
I've made around 10 podcasts from random texts i have and each one gave me at least one "Aha!" moment that i did not get from reading the text.
I’m assuming they mean that if you multiply subscribers by the subscription fee then OpenAI still ends up losing billions per year.
My intuition says probably not - the hiring manager/applicant tracking system probably won't be aware of the advantages this brings.
Extremely easy. Starlink uses active steering, but there's always some signal leaking into unintended directions. The spectrum used is very obvious as well.
opponthoud -> oponthoud

Although, because I'm looking at it, I get semantic satiation.
"We were harassed and started blocking users indiscriminately. Here's a google link if you think you were blocked for not harassing us." is basically the summary.

It's 2024. If you're taking money from people and they're building a product with you, then you need to have a little bit thicker skin than what was shown by the community manager.
I think we should start putting details of the ABI in ELF

That basically implies name mangling in some form or another, i.e. good luck trying to convince C programmers of such a thing.
Ditto this.

Cycling for me is very fulfilling, unlike running.

That said, there's something to be said for using just your own body and very little equipment else.

Some people seem to really enjoy running, and I wouldn't want to deny them that.
That's not really an AI problem, it's an analog hole problem and the very nature of communication. If you give someone your thoughts, they now have them.