skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once someone is independently wealthy, personal priorities change. I guarantee she'll crop up again as founder CEO/CTO where she calls the shots and gets the chance (even if slim) to turn millions into billions.
Oh yeah, I ran a location logger on mine for years until Google Maps location tracking popped up.

Now that they're killing it… I don't think I'll go back to using a TomTom any time soon lol
I dunno, it seems pretty clear to me that's what they're trying to do.
The differences between renting and buying are so large, you shouldn't make the choice based on which one is cheaper. If you rent, you have a flexibility to relocate that can have a very high value. If you own, you can greatly increase the stability of your life.
This seems exactly the kind of result I would expect from LLM automation. I would never trust any system that used LLM output without human review. Actually, I don’t think I would trust any system that used LLM output even with human review.
And there's nothing wrong about that: the fact that _artificial intelligence_ will never lead to general intelligence isn't exactly a hot take.
> X11-Basic will compile on 64bit systems but it will not be 100% functional. X11-Basic internally uses 32bit pointers (--> VARPTR()). These are not compatible with 64bit. Some tricks have been implemented to make it work anyways, but do not expect 100% compatibility.
Show HN: Orb – See what your listening history says about your emotional state
I developed a web app that tracks your mood using your Spotify listening history.

The idea came from a discussion with a friend about how listening to Radiohead and Duster made me feel sad. I built this app to prove him wrong (spoiler: according to orb, he was right).

The app analyzes your last 15 songs on Spotify to determine the emotion associated with your listening session. You can keep track of these sessions, download an image to share with friends, or simply share a link to your session. You can also create a new playlist based on your mood/session and delete sessions as needed and see other data about your spotify account.

Currently, you can save up to 5 sessions at a time. When you reach the limit, the oldest session will be deleted as you add a new one.

You can try it here: https://feelorb.com/signup
Datomic is built around a simple log of fully serial transactions. It doesn't have MVCC or other such magic to coordinate concurrent writers, and this means (1) read-only queries don't require open transactions and (2) the whole stack can have mechanically sympathy with this accrete-only design, affording massive efficiency and scaling potential. Capabilities may look similar on the surface but that's where the similarity ends. Take a look at slides 13 & 14: https://qconsf.com/sf2012/dl/qcon-sanfran-2012/slides/RichHi...

Datomic is much more similar to Delta Lake or Apache Iceberg than to a classic RDBMS like Oracle in that respect - but then that analogy severely undervalues it's information modelling qualities.
No one knows how deep the bunker goes
Panels: New Wallpaper App from Marques Brownlee
>You can put an arbitrary amount of cable in a given hole diameter by making the spool taller.

Wouldn't this be limited to the tensile strength of the material and the weight of the cable? Granted, Europa has much less gravity, but 25km is a lot of cable weight.

Consider something as small as fishing line; one online estimate gives it .245g/m. At 25km, that's over 3 tons of line weight hanging down a hole on Earth or nearly 800 lbs on Europa.
at the very least you could say "parsing and predicting text, images, and audio". and you would be correct - physical embodiment and spatial reasoning are missing.
What do you mean by "monitoring muscle contraction events only"? Not trying to argue with you, just understanding how the technology is being perceived.

If I hold your fist/fingers and you try to make gestures, how do you expect the device to behave? I.e., if you think of a movement and signal that intention, but are not capable of carrying that through, because of someone else's hand, a mug, etc.
Lampert failed at the personal profiting part big time:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/business/sears-edward-lam...

Probably one of the worst business moves in the 2000s.
The 3rd party library stuff makes sense, to an extent. But then you're debugging a 3rd party library.
Related. Others?

A brief history of microprogramming (2005) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32149149 - July 2022 (1 comment)

A Brief History of Microprogramming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11412846 - April 2016 (8 comments)
Hand tracking has also been pretty great on the Quest for some time now. I've got the first-gen one, and you can very comfortably type/navigate the UI with no controllers.
or an alternate - "Come at the king - you best not miss" -- Omar Little.
It's so frustrating that rather than treat the climate crisis as an actual crisis, we've instead decided to heavily tax EV buyers in order to support domestic manufacturers that have been dragging their feet for decades.
The FIPS Compliance of HKDF
A bit ironic for a non-profit
> The problem is that these companies keep wanting to put processing in the glasses.

I agree. The obvious choice is to offload to our insanely powerful phones. Unfortunately WiFi is too disruptive on mobile OSs and raw Bluetooth is.. well does that even need an explanation? Apple are probably the only ones who could deliver a seamless high bandwidth link and decent pairing, atm. But they spent their prototype-billions on a headset instead.

On the other hand though.. do we really need to run multiple cameras and a realtime image processing pipeline to say that the cacao on your countertop is, in fact, cacao? These AR “experiences” make cool demos, but once the novelty wears off, nobody wants to play planetarium or anatomy class for hours a day.

Note that without the whole AR part of it, there’s still some really cool hardware for all kinds of purposes. That can be really handy when you want or need both hands free. For instance POV video for say sports, HUD and voice interface for eg cycling, maybe watching videos while working, anything requiring gloves (cold, wet hands, gardening) todo-list in the corner of eye when shopping, etc etc. You could reduce form factor and increase battery time significantly, even if you keep accelerometer, gyro, projector, light sensor, cameras etc. But for some reason, utility is not even a priority with these companies.
Excellent points above, for me personally the "Shared Find pasteboard" has been a huge productivity boost.

Everyone's aware of the normal clipboard: select some text, press ^C (⌘C on Mac) to copy and ^V (⌘V on Mac) to paste it. It's system-wide, so you can copy in one app and paste in a different one (or several).

On Mac, there is a similar pasteboard (or "clipboard") for search strings. Select text, select "Use Selection for Find" or press ⌘E (this sends it into shared find pasteboard, overwriting its contents), and ⌘G to "Find Next" occurrence of that string, or ⇧⌘G to "Find Previous".

The shared find pasteboard is also system-wide, you can use ⌘E in one app and ⌘G/⇧⌘G in another app. When you use ⌘F to "Find ...", it is expected to already open up populated with the contents of the shared find pasteboard.

The majority of the cross-platform apps are lacking this feature, since they are designed to a lowest common denominator (which does not have the shared find pasteboard). On VS Code you'd find yourself doing ^C/^F/^V followed by several "Enter" keys, while overwriting whatever you've had on your clipboard and also polluting your clipboard history.

I hope all that explains how I'm stuck with iTerm2, Safari, Mail, and TextMate. I'd pay for a native Slack client (the Electron abomination uses ⌘F to "Find" and ⌘G to "Search" while lacking ⌘E completely) but sadly they don't make it.
Discussion (18 points, 11 hours ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41645642
I'll have to dig mine out of the box and try it again, version 1 of the os basically had one gesture which was click. I hate the gaze and click interface, it works OK for Netflix but invariably I would fall back to using the trackpad on my MacBook to actually do any work.
> Yet the company is still shipping, like no other

If executives / high level architects / researchers are working on this quarter's features something is very wrong. The higher you get the more ahead you need to be working, C-level departures should only have an impact about a year down the line, at a company of this size.
He became CEO later, but was always part of the founding team at OpenAI.
We have to see if they’ll keep executing in a year, considering the losses in staff and the non technical CEO.
In the Netherlands we have the touring club (ANWB) app which shows all the chargers, their current status, all the parking places and petrol stations including the actual prices. Oh it also shows real time traffic and provides roadside help. All in one functional fast app for free. Amazing really what nonprofits can do.
You can leave and be happy with 30M+ USD in stocks and prospects of easy to find a job also.
> Log into your Meta account to continue

Pretty crazy I have to login to view this. I despise the internet's evolution where everything expects an account.
There are library-only stackful coroutines options, like in boost.
> to dismiss any AI algorithm

Or even human intelligence
I’ve utilized this in Lambda@Edge for use case half feature flag-y, half HTTP routing/proxy serving rules as mentioned in a sibling comment. Lambdas pick up ~50-200MB of data on first boot, and keep their copy through their lifecycle.

As requests come in, gather their features, convert to effectively an int vector, filter for row where match and serve request
McDonald's touchscreen kiosks, feared as job killers, created more jobs instead
Regardless of what one thinks of the content, it's self-defeating to reply to the comment which you want deleted because it can't be deleted if it has any replies. Just flag and move on.
Because, for some weird reason, our culture has collectively decided that, even if most of us are capable of reading between the lines to understand what's really being said or is happening, it's often wrong and bad to be honest and transparent, and we should put the most positive spin possible on it. It's everywhere, especially in professional and political environments.
And you can dismiss any argument with your response.

"Your argument is just a reductive rhetorical strategy."
Can Math Help AI Chatbots Stop Making Stuff Up?
Discussion (252 points, 2 hours ago, 148 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651038
Interesting that gwern predicted this as well yesterday

> Translation for the rest of us: "we need to fully privatize the OA subsidiary and turn it into a B-corp which can raise a lot more capital over the next decade, in order to achieve the goals of the nonprofit, because the chief threat is not anything like existential risk from autonomous agents in the next few years or arms races, but inadequate commercialization due to fundraising constraints".

> It's about laying the groundwork for the privatization and establishing rhetorical grounds for how the privatization of OA is consistent with the OA nonprofit's legally-required mission and fiduciary duties. Altman is not writing to anyone here, he is, among others, writing to the OA nonprofit board and to the judge next year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41629493
Yes this is buying them time, not an actual product announcement but press treats it as though it were a consumer available product.
It seems to me that you're equating economic growth with "sucking every last drop out". Please correct me if I misunderstood you, but it is a completely nonsensical proposition.
AI 'Godfather': OpenAI's New Model Needs 'Much Stronger Safety Tests'
Let's be honest: in large part by Microsoft.
Some of these things are the same in the US, others not.

> 1. Slow chargers typically involve using an app or website, so you need to find that, figure out how to tell it which charger you're at, enter your payment details. Hopefully you've got internet access in the underground car park that you've selected.

Yes, this can be somewhere from mildly to extremely annoying. I have also seen chargers that accept tap to pay credit cards though, no account needed.

> 2. Each provider has a different app or website - they're typically difficult to use and buggy, but each in its own unique way.

Similar in the US, though I wouldnt describe any of the apps as difficult to use or buggy. Usually the most annoying part is creating an account.

> 3. Slow chargers don't don't come with their own cables, so you need to get your one out of the boot, and put it away again.

Never seen this in the US. I dont even know what the cable would be.

> 4. Stopping charging typically involves navigating the website/app again, hopefully you haven't closed the tab, otherwise it's going to be a pain getting back there.

Stopping charging is usually doable from the app, but usually I dont want to stop charging until I am ready to physically disconnect which also stops charging.

> 5. There's no indication on how much it's going to cost until after you've gone through all the trouble. Even then it can be unclear - for example do I need to pay for parking while I'm charging or not?

I dont think I've run into a charger that doesnt display pricing info yet.

> 6. It often costs as much or more than the supercharger - although all the prices I saw were cheaper than the UK.

Wow, that is awful. In general slow (AC) charging in the US is half the price or less of fast (DC) charging. In fact, usually public AC chargers are even cheaper than charging at home (for me, very expensive kwh at home).

> 7. There are typically idle fees, so you might find yourself having to disconnect your car and move it in the middle of the night (assuming you put it on charge in the evening)[^1], or you might find yourself having to rush back to the car in the middle of your sightseeing.

This is annoying but necessary. If chargers let you idle for free, it would be impossible to find an empty space many places. I think the idle fees (usually $1-3/hour in the US) are a reasonable compromise.
That's why DasBetterC has done very well! You could call it C with array bounds checking.

I occasionally look at statistics on the sources of bugs and security problems in released software. Array bounds overflows far and away are the top cause.

Why aren't people just sick of array overflows? In the latest C and C++ versions, all kinds of new features are trumpeted, but again no progress on array overflows.

I can confidently say that in the 2 decades of D in production use, the incidence of array overflows has dropped to essentially zero. (To trigger a runtime array overflow, you have to write @system code and throw a compiler switch.)

The solution for C I proposed is backwards compatible, and does not make existing code slower.

It would be the greatest feature added to C, singularly worth more than all the other stuff in C23.
If you care to detail supporting evidence, I'd be keen to see.

Please no speculative pieces, rumor nor hearsay.
I think pointing this out will only make it worse. A harsh job market means employers don’t have to try to keep their employees because employees will be less willing to risk leaving and they can be replaced with more desperate applicants quickly and cheaply if they do. Posting this stuff on HN is just advertising to everyone out there that the top is reclaiming/can reclaim its power. You should probably limit your hiring woes to private conversations. What’s the point in anonymous commiseration anyway?

I got thirteen full stack job offers the other day but I’m holding out for something better. <_<
Conscious unbossing: why Gen Z are refusing to become managers
After some negotiation (don’t settle for the first "prize" they offer you) I got a free flight and hotel to Orlando, FL and I used the time to visit the Air Force Missile Museum at Cape Canaveral (at the time, I had a badge that let me get on base to visit the museum).

You do need to be prepared for a hard sell. They are clearly making money otherwise they wouldn’t fly me around the country.
I have not heard of anyone building their own, custom Windows though, how common is it? I do not see Windows forks around either (I get it, it would not be legal).
This is a very interesting post! One takeaway is that you don't need to re-write the world. Transitioning new development to a memory safe language can bring meaningful improvements. This is much easier (and cheaper) than needing to port everything over in order to get an effect.
> If you're coding something up, why wouldn't you know that piece of code does a HTTP/s request?

Because tracing all side-effects in a huge codebase with a lot of libraries and layers can be a daunting task.

Update: if you haven't worked with 20 year old >1m LOC codebase which went through many different teams and doesn't have any documentation whatsoever, you may lack necessary perspective to see value tools like this.
This is a good point. I had not thought of it this way before.
Trent Reznor and David Fincher need to team up again to make a movie about this.
Spongebob that can detect drowsiness gets sleepy as CO2 level in the room rises
Well, a better title is "how power gets to your house." But for an explanation of how "power grids" work, with respect to the multiple generation stations and varying load conditions, see this:

https://practical.engineering/blog/2024/6/4/the-most-confusi...
Experiment confirms that bird flu in the US is spread by milking procedures
Which is why smart retirees don't fucking live there.
Good points.

Have you seen a lot of phase-shifting transformers in the U.S.? In my experience they've mostly been in Europe with a few specialized applications in the States.

I would think a utility would want to reconductor the other circuits otherwise they're leaving benefits on the table right?
This looks very promising, it's refreshing to see a library with a sane interface.

One thing I'd like to see is the possibility to run the coroutines in the main thread, without spawning any new threads in the thread pool. It might seem strange but sometimes you just need to do I/O stuff concurrently in a place where you're not allowed to spawn other threads.

Other than that congrats on the release, I hope you keep working on it!
What do you think their motivations might be?
In your case, with an RX 590, do NOT buy an expensive x3D processor expecting any improvement. I upgraded from an RX580 (using an original HTC Vive) to an RX 5700xt (and a valve Index) and that's the position you are in. You cannot drive a high pixel density VR headset with a Mid tier GPU from 8 years ago.

Get something that is at least as powerful as that RX 5700xt I had (I now have a 4070 super) and you will be satisfied. It drove my Index at 90hz.
My suggestion is aim for compatibility with cppwinrt, but not anything else. That way devs can freely intermix and get the best of the utilities of both.
McKinsey MBA brain rot seeping into all levels of culture
Here's a concrete scenario for you:
Say you are in a team of 10 developers with a huge codebase that has accumulated over 5+ years. If you're new in the team, and you need to understand when a specific HTTP header is sent, or just snoop the value in the payload you otherwise wouldn't be able to see.
just go on reels comments and tell me that's cookie cutter. there's a deliberate choice to allow raunch, and i love it.
I mean, I agree, I am just saying that it is better (in general) to have the source than not having it.
As a reminder for our viewers at home: AppleTV + never-ever-connect-TV-to-network. We bought one of these LG OLEDs a month or two ago. It has never seen a network, and it has never complained about that. HDMI CEC means never having to see the TV’s home screen, let alone an advertisement.
Or, like, any PR person from the past... forever.
I could see it being close, but also feeling an urgency to get there first / believing you could do it better.
Individual Design and Configuration of Tarpaulins
Skin effect is a high-frequency thing. From memory the down-rating tables start at 100 kHz.
What happens if we gradually transition to memory-safe languages for new features, while leaving existing code mostly untouched except for bug fixes?

...

In the final year of our simulation, despite the growth in memory-unsafe code, the number of memory safety vulnerabilities drops significantly, a seemingly counterintuitive result [...]

Why would this be counterintuitive? If you're only touching the memory-unsafe code to fix bugs, it seems obviously that the number of memory-safety bugs will go down.

Am I missing something?
> No civilian was “playing with” or using these devices

That's a statement you have to prove if you want it to qualify.
If a 3rd party library you depend on has bugs, you have bugs. And you need to either submit a patch to the library or find a workaround.
You describe cheaping out for vastly inferior solution compared to what we had for centuries. Part of studying was going quickly back, switching between X pages before and here, highlighting quickly, making quick notes on the side and so on.

Every one of us has slightly different memorization / comprehension techniques to grok foreign text and concepts within, and this crappy cheap new tech diminishes most of them. For quick overview why not, but for deeper studies this is bad, very bad.

Just like I hated when Tesla started putting some crappy tablet instead of physical knobs, for vastly inferior driver experience. But masses clearly think differently and even here on HN many celebrated is as some sort of progress, so manufacturers aligned and are happy to save on better quality controls to keep their margins fat and juicy. Who cares about some focus or safety or long term reliability studies, look at that shiny glaring screen!
I actually had the same thought because I DNS block xitter.

Somebody else archived it before me: https://archive.li/0Mea1
I met a lady once, we were in a line at DefCon. She worked on these and was quite concerned that they'd end up on the heads of children, feeding content-reaction biometrics about those children to people who would then use that data to manipulate those children in harmful ways.

I'm curious if people think that that's worth worrying about, or if the idea of optimizing ad placement based on whether it makes your pupils respond in the desired way is the kind of thing that's only effective in sci-fi.
Continued improvement is returns, making it inherently compatible with a diminishing returns scenario. Which I also suspect we're in now: there's no comparing the jump between GPT3.5 and GPT4 with GPT4 and any of the subsequent releases.

Whether or not we're leveling out, only time will tell. That's definitely what it looks like, but it might just be a plateau.
I listened to that podcast. I remember being really frustrated with the ex-cop and thinking there were so many red flags. I wonder if it really unfolded as presented.
There's a reason they call it high fashion and not just fashion. But granted, maybe theres some billionaire bubble that's in on the joke and loves the look of this.
Man in the middle HP Ink cartridge
Audio ADCs are incredibly small and the digital functionality needed isn't much for this. One can fit everything in a sub mm2 IC I think. Minus the antenna.
Just a tactful reference hahah

> the US government isn’t burning taxpayer dollars on a ten figure spaceship just to have us push a Crowdstrike update on it.
This could be really cool for teaching geometry (or more advanced math) concepts. Reminds me of GeoGebra and 3B1B.
Sounds like people dealing with code they have no idea what it does. No amount of tools are going to help with that.
easy for me to relate to that, my time is more interesting than that

being in San Francisco for 6 years and success means getting hauled in front of Congress and European Parliament

cant think of a worse occupational nightmare after having an 8-figure nest egg already
Talking about research libraries, not town libraries.