skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As it says in that link, the author of said link applied for a software patent after the initial GPL violations (that even in your article, he doesn't apologize for; he simply points out that he was a jerk about it while not meaningfully accepting guilt). If you look at the actual events of that situation, Pearson acted far worse than what you would imagine from just reading his own words, years later:

https://wordpress.org/book/2015/11/thesis/

Pearson never made amends; he continued his bad actions long after being called out (and possibly still does).

The correct solution to bad actors is to raze them to the ground; Matt isn't wrong in this. He has the means and is doing something principled with them: Destroying a bad actor.

This should be encouraged; it is how capitalism is supposed to work.
I'm working on Voohy (https://voohy.com), a platform for leadership development.

It's a leadership development platform, aimed at new managers who want to do it right. I'm solo bootstrapping it.

It has a combination of learning resources (courses, research paper insights etc) and tools.

While the learning resources are for helping you with knowledge, the tooling aspect is for developing the right habits for staying a good leader.
What kind of alt data?
> C&C is pretty much what you get when you want to produce a sequel to Dune II but can't (or don't want to) license the Dune I.P. again so everything has to be re-skinned...

What REALLY set C&C apart was its presentation, which was like nothing else* when it came out. It made a serious and earnest attempt like you were actually using your computer as an interface to command an army*, from the "in-universe" installer to the present day setting where "you" choose a side after NOD and GDI hijack your TV, to the non-western battlefields, to the way Kane and General Shepphard addressed "you" personally in the live-action kinematics. The CD music was awesome too.

* Dune II also was known for its great graphics and having strict system requirements
* This continued in later games, but they were much more self-aware.
Bert is already not an LLM and the vector embedding it generates are not AI. It is also first general solution for natural language search anyone has come up with. We call them vector databases. Again I'd wager this is because they actually work.
Even if we were affected we wouldn't support policy that negatively impacts our quality of life. The point of policy is to improve QoL.
Just an astonishing mismanagement of the situation.

I expect a non-trivial amount of game devs (of any political alignment) to at least pause and wonder if this is a good investment.
I also write tutorials and guides on my tiny blog because other people have inspired me with their writing. I have great memories of trying to answer a question about some obscure Unix or programming thing, only to come across some minimalist 90s style blog that had already explored those ideas. it's such a vibe when you are in the zone at 2am digging through the internet and using that resource to bang out some code.
This list is hosted on github, contributions are welcome: https://github.com/ruby-conferences/ruby-conferences.github....
Claude, SSI, Grok, GPT, Llama, …

Should we crown one the king?

Or perhaps it is better to let them compete?

Perhaps advanced AI capability will motivate advanced AI safety capability?
Reminds me of hair, seems like every woman with curly hair wants straight and every woman with straight wants curly. I imagine hair color is similar.
While that's predicted to happen, it doesn't appear to have happened yet.

https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/

> In summary, it is premature to conclude with high confidence that human-caused increases in greenhouse gases have caused a change in past Atlantic basin hurricane activity that is outside the range of natural variability, although greenhouse gases are strongly linked to global warming.
Dedicated cameras that can do this are widely available.

My (cheap, 15 year old) DSLR goes from “off” to capturing a photo in under 300ms. The battery essentially lasts indefinitely if you’re not actively fiddling with it. It will take about a thousand photos per charge, and changing the battery takes about 5 seconds.
Don't forget about the category 4 Hurricane Helene from September of 1958.

Every time there's a huge storm you shouldn't just go about yelling "climate change!", just like you can't claim we've fixed climate change just because we have a few nice calm sunny days.
It's anthropogenic (human caused) warming.
They already have Chemtrails and TV for that.
Note this is hosted on gh so you can open a pr to add yours: https://github.com/ruby-conferences/ruby-conferences.github....

I’m on mobile at the moment otherwise I’d do it myself
You're not disproving the OP's assertion. His claim was that HSR (with the implication that it was actually built and working properly) would be good for California and be the envy of the rest of the country, and that seems to be true. The problem is that California tried to do HSR and completely bungled it somehow. Well, of course a bungled project that never gets completed isn't a great thing, that should go without saying.

As for Florida's "HSR", it doesn't really qualify for the "HS" part. The fastest segment is only 200kph. At least it's built and working, which is nice and all, but it's not a real bullet train. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightline)
> You can get a camera with gps, wifi, Bluetooth etc.

No, I can not. There are no cameras cheaper than around $7k with GPS. I checked.
Desperate people work harder and longer for less pay. That's pretty much peak number go up. It's a horrible long term strategy, but companies are not minmaxing for long-term retention, nor even quality at this moment.
VC has a sexual harassment problem. One woman has a plan to change it
How do you do the collection per paper? Is that manual or automatable?
Is it regionally common somewhere to call a "jigsaw puzzle" just a "jigsaw"? Or is this just done by fanatics? From the title I couldn't figure out what this was going to be about.

I notice that Wikipedia[1] says "with context, sometimes just jigsaw" but as jigsaw owning American who doesn't do jigsaw puzzles I don't think I've ever heard it used this way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigsaw_puzzle
I’m also from the Internet :)

I miss that cozy weird familiar and insane place.

OTOH, 20 years ago my only concern was school and I had the energy to pull all-nighters. Now I have to pay my bills.
looooooooool indeed i was somewhere else
I don't eat fish but all the locals were raving about Lingcod when they were biting a few weeks ago... Now there's a creature I think I'd be like "What is this strange sea monster I'm throwing it back".
TinySecrets: Technical information about small Lenovo PCs
> So there’s a 0% chance that they’ll supports any climate policy

/me reviews dozens of serious mass actions, hundreds of long form publications, and legislation in California and elsewhere.. wondering how this fits with "zero percent" of anything.. can we regroup and rephrase a bit here?
more power to you finding something you love and providing so lovingly to the community, money be damned, it's all the other things that truly matter!

my wife and I when visiting a new place specifically seek out the local bookshop and buy something, her heading into the nonfiction section and me into fantasy/scifi. always a pleasure.
I remember working in a team where the backlog was controlled by the PM and he created a separate backlog that developers got to use - unsurprisingly, pretty much nothing ever got moved out of the separate backlog.
Where I live the ridesharing/delivering startups didn't bring goodies, they just made everything worse.

They destroyed the Taxi industry, I used to be able to just walk out to the taxi rank and get in the first taxi, but not anymore. Now I have to organize it on an app or with a phone call to a robot, then wait for the car to arrive, and finally I have to find the car among all the others that other people called.

Food delivery used to be done by the restaurants own delivery staff, it was fast, reliable and often free if ordering for 2+ people. Now it always costs extra, and there are even more fees if I want the food while it's still hot. Zero care is taken with the delivery, food/drinks are not kept upright and can be a total mess on arrival. Sometimes it's escaped the container and is just in the plastic bag. I have ended up preferring to go pickup food myself over getting it delivered, even when I have a migraine, it's just gone to shit.
the guy killed three people and maimed a couple dozen others to get his rambling manifesto in a newspaper. he wasn't some troubled eccentric or even a plausible revolutionary.
I keep telling people to think of Rails as a “ruby-like” language. Rails monkey-patches so much and has so much magic that it’s substantially a different thing.
A blog post related to the Rails 8 beta 1 was posted by dhh shortly after his talk. It's not a transcription of the talk, but hits many of the key points:

https://rubyonrails.org/2024/9/27/rails-8-beta1-no-paas-requ...
The original SQL was essentially Prolog restricted to relational algebra and tuple relational calculus. SQL as is happened when a lot of cruft was added to the mathematical core.
I'm quite certain you'd leave more performance on the table by pinning in general and on average.

Just let the CPU scheduler do its job. Unless you know better, in which case, by all means go ahead and allocate computational resources manually. I don't see a way to make that a sensible default, though.
You broke the site guidelines egregiously in more than one place in this thread. That's not allowed here and we ban accounts that do it. Moreover, you've done it repeatedly in other places also, e.g.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601160

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41590528

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41563488

If you keep doing that, we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you! Therefore if you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it.

Among other things, that means not posting any more personal attacks.
This is only slightly related, but if you don't understand, what value do your notes actually have? Or is this an environment with no lecture recordings, digital presentations or notes shared with the class..? I ask out of a genuine curiosity, since I know many people benefit from live note taking. I can only imagine notes being useful if they constituted a synthesis of the teacher's guidance.
Awesome! Are you planning to build a bookshop or something more like a library?
And nuclear power plants would solve it for a fraction of the cost without the chance of a world wide power grid failure.
No, this an incorrect analogy on most points. Amazon retail marketplaces are absolutely not correlated with distributed data centers. Most markets are served out of a single cluster, which is likely to be in a different country; eg historically all of Europe from dublin, the americas from virginia, and asia pacific from seattle/portland.

The move of the retail marketplace hosting from seattle to virginia happened alongside, and continued long after, the start of AWS.

It is an utter myth, not promoted by Amazon, that AWS was some scheme to use “surplus computing power” from retail hosting/operations. It was an intentional business case to get in to a different B2B market as a service provider.
Using harvesters to scoop up gold and gems is kind of dumb, but I think it's acceptable as a game design convention.

I feel like Generals had the best economic design out of any C&C game. Your helicopters / trucks / bare-footed workers simulate modern logistics by collecting crates of resources from a "warehouse". Once they are collected, you can switch to your secondary economy of pumping oil, getting supplies delivered by the UN, stealing money from the internet, or selling goods on the black market.
Because most websites today are more than just informational. Some web apps facilitate complex user interactions which typically require a lot of state which are the raison d'etre of web frameworks.
I found it really annoying to have so many things moved to locked cases. Now they have a slightly better scheme where you can open the case but it causes an alarm to sound briefly.

One thing I've noticed at shopping centers is that they seem to have made it harder to enter and exit, and there is also increased police and security presence.
Wordpress.org wrote a whole public post about why they cut off WPE and their reasons are just what I said. I don't understand how you can so confidently assert that the real reason is something different.
I'm working on a solar forecast for my off-grid PV installation. It's a small install of 1kWp (2 bifacial panels) with a 4kWh battery. I chew through about 25% of my battery each day and so a forecast of the next few days or so is very useful to help me decide whether I can dip heavily into the battery or whether I should be a bit more conservative about power use.

https://tim-burgess.observablehq.cloud/pvoutput/solar

SolCast (solcast.com.au) has a free API for home users and also some historical data. So it's essentially just some D3 code running on Observable.
How was DW compared to DL? Like yourself, I've been to DL dozens of times, but never made it to DW.
I recently set it up for syncing files between Windows and Mac. That results in many sync errors because of differences in allowed special characters in the file names. Anyone having recommendations for avoiding that? Thanks.
I wonder if more aggressive anti-burn-in measures could help. Unfortunately, on a laptop you don’t want to run the screen on full blast for a long time since it’ll run out your battery. I have a QD-OLED desktop display that has some very mild burn-in after maybe two years, and I try to baby it as much as possible by using dark mode, etc.
> You’re not capturing any of the traditional photography market by throwing all of _their_ priorities straight out the window.

You mean, the market that is crumbling fast because most people are not professional photographers?

> Camera makers are struggling because a substantial portion of the market doesn’t really care about photography, they care about capturing memories.

Exactly. And this market has a really unfulfilled niche: cameras with a decent optical system and changeable lenses. I have a Sony Alpha camera and it's plenty enough for me in image quality, but I now leave it home most of the time because I just don't want to fiddle with it.
I was excited about the Cloudflare announcements this past week. I primarily use AWS in my day job, but I wanted to broaden my knowledge. This weekend, I started building a simple to-do application using Durable Objects and the newly announced zero-latency SQLite storage. In just a few hours, I familiarized myself with Cloudflare and got the basic CRUD operations working. Next weekend, I plan to add WebSocket publications and a few other features, and then write a blog post about it. It was a great learning experience, and I’m impressed with what Cloudflare is doing.
> Turns out physical buttons for most things is very important if you want to be able to rapidly change settings as required for capturing a moment.

Yeah, this really feels like the “cars should have physical controls not giant tablets” argument argued from the opposite stance.

If your focus is elsewhere (driving, trying to capture a photo) the last thing you want is a giant touchscreen that’s modal and has no tactile feedback. The only way you can operate it is to take your attention away from what you’re actually trying to do to fiddle with the touchscreen.

Personally, I prefer being able to turn on my defroster or blinker from muscle memory and without taking my focus off the road just as I prefer being able to adjust the aperture or ISO from muscle memory without taking my focus off the scene I’m trying to capture.
I heard an interesting rationalization that retail theft to support one's opiate addiction is less harmful than other (possibly more violent) crimes.
My point is we're not actually being told that cold weather is weather and hot weather is climate change, except maybe by people wanting to muddy the waters on the issue
I am working on creating a framework for statistically identifying and measuring racial disparity in the criminal justice pipeline. This involves collecting, cleaning, and merging data from various government sources such as the FBI, DOJ, prisons, police stations, Sheriff's offices, county jails, etc.
The "me database" tracking my gps for physical location, urls visited, etc..

This way I can search through all my physical and computer activity to answer questions like: how many times did I go to the gym last year? or how many leetcode questions did I do this month?

Wrote a summary here (https://theptrk.com/2024/09/27/me-database-master-plan/)
Yes, exactly. A smartphone with a good optical system.
> Of course you don't design modern systems with 8-bit words.

Again this is not about contemporary computing or computer technology level in general, as I have already made clear. What is good or bad design for general computing is independent of those things, it is timeless. Why do you keep referring to some arbitrary “modern computing” as if that is somehow relevant when word-size in particular is a design decision that is not really dictated by technology level? It is often possible to compromise on other aspects of the design in order to have the width you want.

What you mean to say is “you don't design any general purpose system with 8-bit words.” but you won’t because it would undermine your whole argument.

> But the designers of early micros did need to limit themselves,

It would have been more difficult but not impossible to create an IC with a larger word-size in the early 70s. The 8-bit word size was not entirely chosen for technical reasons but also because they were targeting a specific market, one that did not have to meet all the demands of general computing and one for which the general computers were ill suited so this made the most sense. Would you really not say they were designed for and are better suited for the subset of computing applications that is called “embedded” computing? Don’t forget that most of them were designed before the desktop computer market existed and were never intended to be used that way. You can force them to be more than what they are (and people did) and pretend that they are but it doesn’t mean you should.

> But calling the elements which were good enough for the second wave of the computer revolution completely impractical is also absurd to me.

Design concessions which are intrinsically bad, awkward or inappropriate do not become good because it “still worked” or succeeded in a particular market. Not that it counts for much since those computers were not marketed in the same way or purchased for the same reasons. You say it was “good enough” but a lot of people didn’t think so but I guess most of them are dead now (like Wirth). The word-size was not a selling point, and only not enough of a hindrance to upset the novelty of the overall product. What it takes to introduce people to electronic computing is not the measure of general computing.

What is absurd is people like yourself insisting those particular machines, out of all machines, should be used to inform us as to what is reasonable for general computing when, considering the context of their creation, it is completely unwarranted.
US emissions peaked in 2007 and have since fallen to 1980s levels: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=52380

2021 reversed this trend. Guess why?
Totally agree!

[1] https://taylor.town/synthetic-intelligence
That's a good point. 1 storm in isolation is not evidence of anything. A pattern of increasingly severe weather events is.
we have a really great local library system where i live so what we're working on is definitely more a local store. we'll have a mix of titles based on our knowledge of community preferences (my wife is also a writer and knows much more than me about the local scene), seasonal titles (e.g. featuring new and old horror titles in october), plus events like author readings and educational seminars.
It’s easy to disagree when you aren’t looking the grass that’s not so green on the other side.

California is run amazingly well compared to a significant number of states.
We removed sulphur from ship fuels and managed to increase the temperature by 0.1C almost immediately. We may not intentionally be using non-CO2 methods to influence the climate but we are certainly capable of it by accident.
A number he pulled out of his ass.
Imagine that, a multi-billion dollar company who treats valued employee like just-a-number/trash. I wonder if there's someway they could group together and somehow force the company to recognize their numbers and their value?
Built DIY-It: A Platform for DIY Projects Looking for Feedback and Insights
Hey HN community,

I’ve been working on a project called DIY-it, and I’d love to get your feedback on it. The idea came from personal frustration while working on home improvement projects—constantly jumping between YouTube, blogs, and Pinterest for decent tutorials, only to find incomplete or ad-heavy instructions.

DIY-it aims to centralize all DIY projects in one platform, making it easier to find, create, and share DIY projects. The key feature I'm excited about is DIY-it, where users can upload a photo of anything they want to recreate, and it generates a step-by-step tutorial with a materials/tools list.

I’m curious to hear from others:

What are your thoughts on the idea of centralizing DIY content?
Have you faced similar frustrations in your own DIY or creative projects?
What would be a deal-breaker or must-have feature for a platform like this?
Any advice for scaling or improving this concept?
I’d really appreciate any feedback or suggestions. Thanks!
sorry I did not know about `shadowrootmode` but your original comment was just a single statement with a very specific claim.

Now you are right about that you can use template without js. But I have to ask: what is the point of declarative shadow root?

The point of template is to be reused instead of being used once at the same place that it's declared. This seems like adding more markup and introducing shadom dom for absolutely no reason. You may as well just write the markup directly .
Fascinating.

There are some other interesting repos from the same author, namely https://github.com/pijng/goinject, which lets you inject code as part of preprocessing. Feels a lot like Java’s annotation magic.

Thanks for sharing. I wasn’t even aware Go had pre-processors, or that modifying the AST like that is even possible.
Tangentially, if you're still suffering from long covid, I heard recently how nicotine patches were helping reduce symptoms over 2-3 weeks. I can't recall the original article (perhaps it was here) but here's an NIH post on it https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36650574/
Ideally, you should only work at learning something if you don't know it. Repetition wastes a lot of time to get that guarantee, but it would be much more efficient to just recognize where you're weak and work at that. It's a rather lazy meta-learning strategy to just throw spaghetti at the wall until everything sticks.

I think it's fine if someone chooses to learn this way, but it's unfair to expect all the other students to waste their time---I really hated when math teachers assigned 30 problems of homework, because I didn't need 30 of the same problem to know how to solve it, and almost no one does. Really, you only need repetition for a small percent of the content, it's just what "clicks" for each person is different.

I appreciated what my high school chemistry teacher did instead: all problem sets were optional, but there were recommended problems. Then, we had tests every two weeks which we were allowed to retake, but only once we solved the problems. That way, we quickly see if we're missing any knowledge and are forced to learn it for a good grade.