skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been slowly but steadily working at building a mobile Planetarium over the past year. I want to take it to the students of my community. The existing mobile Planetarium kits are inflatable ones that are noisy, flappy and rather expensive. I have based the frame of my dome using pvc pipes tied together using reusable zipties and figured out the projection surface using gores made out of EPS sheets. These steps I have completed.

I considered both multi-projector setup as well as single projector based on a fisheye lens and have decided to go with the later due to ease of use as well as cost. But getting the right lens in my corner of the world is proving to be near impossible. There is a specific lens that is suggested but the original manufacturers have no stock and the only used lens available on US eBay is proving impossible to order. So, that is where I am stuck at: twiddling my thumbs.
Automation can be phased in. As existing workers in a given field retire or leave for different work elsewhere automate their positions instead of hiring replacements.

Similar when expanding. Fill the new positions with automation.
Nice fact check, thank you. I didn’t know H-bombs used fusion but it makes complete sense. Hydrogen is not exactly the heaviest of elements :)

Well then, for my example, imagine a different future discovery that could be abused. Let’s say biological robots or a some new source of useful energy that is misused. Warring humans find ways to corrupt many scientific achievements for evil.
That's exactly what the author ends up with, too. It's also how you might handle this in any other language that allows for some form of "join", either intended or usable as a join. Waiting on promises, thread joins, channels (as a signal mechanism), it's all the same pattern: Instantiate a bunch of asynchronous activities and queue up a "handler" corresponding to it, wait on the handlers in your desired order.
No, it means unemployment for a portion of the workers, shifted jobs for some workers and more responsibilities for the rest who get to keep their jobs. And it also means more profits for CEO pay and shareholders, and no net benefits to end consumers.
Definitely a better move nowadays! Wasn't an option for me before college, though.
I was blown away by how impressive it was. I honestly thought it was real. I still can't believe these realistic audio capabilities are not being used for pure evil everywhere we look.

> like thrown into every sentence

I think that's actually part of why it sounds real, because tons of people do actually talk like that.

To me what would make it even better is the ability to throw in random jokes and utilize information about their surroundings and recent events.

I have been using MeloTTS for text-to-speech and I thought that was about the best we could do right now, but apparently I was very wrong. Is there an offline model one can download today that sounds as good as this NotebookLM?
In some sense, this ought to be an opportunity. VSCode’s ecosystem is, in many respects, quite weak:

- cpptools is kind of amazing but also pretty bad. It regularly malfunctions for me. It’s essentially undebuggable. I have less experience with the other extensions, but I don’t expect that they that much better.

- The VSCode security story is very, very weak. Extensions are not sandboxed. The client, accessing remote repos, is wildly insecure, by design.

And that second point is a big deal. Maybe when poking at your own company’s code, you aren’t that concerned about your repo attacking you. You probably should be concerned about malicious extensions, but we’re all far too used to trusting dev tooling. (Don’t forget that MS’s extensions are just this side of malicious.)

But, with AI, you should absolutely not trust your LLM. It is entirely unsafe to give an LLM that might try to exploit you the ability to write into your repo directly or to run JS code in the context of any portion of VSCode. And it’s really quite easy to convince LLMs to engage in all manner of shenanigans.

There’s an opportunity to make a better ecosystem. In a better ecosystem, the equivalent of cpptools would not have telemetry, because the equivalent of cpptools would not have Internet access. It would have the ability to read the workspace, to create cache files for its own data, and to operate its UI, and that’s all.
As a whole section of tech sector that builds a lot of useful tools and products exclusively on Microsoft stack? I understand that Windows Server, MS SQL Server and ASP .Net folks are less represented in the HN crowd, but pretending that most of them regret their tech stack decisions is absurd.
I'm working on https://www.stonkys.com.
Not really Slashdot, not really Hacker News.
I always like programming and I was always curious about the world.
I figured, why not make a tech/politics website I would like to use?
Wouldn’t that be limited to the single function?
Would be trivial to show the results live though, especially for atomic values:
https://go.dev/play/p/PRzzO_skWoJ
I know someone who was a post-doc researcher in climate policy. a seeming sorely needed are of expertise. But a large enough group of the population just wanted to cry, the government is too big, and we don't want to waste money on policy analysts so there has been no opportunity to actually do anything.
Still Waiting for the Elder Scrolls VI? Yeah, Me Too–and It Might Be a While
Kris Kristofferson was one of my fav song-writers. For the longest time, I thought _Me and Bobby McGee_ was Janis Joplin's original song, until I learnt it was Kris' writing. He actually wrote it for a woman named Bobby... the rest is history. [1]

A Golden Globe-winning actor, Golden Gloves boxer, Rhodes scholar, author, U.S. Army veteran, pilot, and onetime record-label janitor. A full fledged Renaissance man. They sure don't make 'em like that anymore.

Whattay guy! RIP Kris. Thanks for all the enduring songs!!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNblxfWTWU4
For this to be a valid pedagogical technique it has to be applied properly for the intended student. As described in the linked article for middle elementary aged students it seems effective. I can easily imagine my own middle elementary aged child responding well to it.

Your experience however seems to be either in secondary or collegiate classrooms and I can easily see where this approach there would often be problematic. That said if an instructor is trying to get students to engage in critical thinking about why something works then an intentional mistake could be educational. You can copy code from stack overflow all day long but it’s going to work a lot better if you can actually analyze it and understand what’s happening.
Sure, but after so long of seeing +5c it's getting a little unnerving, plus, it's just hot all the time, I love cooler weather and wearing jeans when working outdoors etc, usually by now it's very cool, but We just can seem to get to that point yet.
The FRED blog discussion makes an interesting point about whether deflators are calculated from import or export prices changes (or both), and the effects it has on the analysis.

Reminder of how difficult it is to make real-terms adjustments to economic measures over multiple decades spans when a country's balance of trade with the world in different sectors is also changing!
It's providing value to whoever is spending the money. Right now, that's "investors". We'll see about society. If it provides that much benefit to "society", what is the activity that benefits? It's not just going to be people knowing things, there is a finite limit to what people care about. If the outputs from AI drive increased economic activity, that'll be reflected as increaded energy usage. Which will likely dwarf the AI's usage.
They're also typically pretty rough on your GI systems. Though it's worth the trade-off, usually
What a wonderfully insane movie.
Don’t think there is a way. I bought it the usual way - shipped to a friend in EU.
Someday negative externalities will have to be factored into the costs of doing business. Hopefully it will occur before we turn the world into a toxic shithole. Likely not though.
I don’t think that this will handle what the author wants, though. If each function takes db as an argument and uses it internally, those don’t count as references that you can change globally, right?
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i've started this sideproject weworkjs[0], which categorize comments on the WhoisHiring thread by location, roles, technologies, and summarizing them.

[0] https://weworkjs.com/about
It already feels more nuanced than the usual podcast.
I concede the last part, it is slightly a soapbox from my part about the OSI. However, it's not really a strawman because these issues are very much linked together. The definition itself is very strict yet not comprehensive - false positives and false negatives are both common.

The sentiment that "VSCode is OSI-compliant so it's morally okay to support it" is very common, and it's substantially derived from the OSI definition. I do not think that it's an irrelevant issue or that it would be misrepresenting the definition.

Is it really free (as in freedom) software when it contains DRM? Is it really open source when critical extensions are unusable if you build the software for yourself? It might meet the definition strictly by the words but in my view, this is not much better than TiVo-isation (when the license is adhered to but the user can't effectively use a modified version) or other shady practices.
Take it up with China. They are building tons of coal plants as we speak, and also eating our lunch in trade.

Edit: I got a "posting too fast" nonsense message. So here is my response to "solar is cheaper than coal, they are fools":

China has a TON of solar panels and batteries. They make most of them. So they apparently think coal is worth it anyway. If coal was more expensive or worse overall, theu would be absolute suckers to ship their product to us.
We shouldn't right wrongs by deliberately capping economic efficiency, especially in sectors that are foundational to the rest of the economy (e.g. maritime trade and energy).
So if you've ever loaded Bauble before you might have a stale and no-longer-working version of the tutorial cached in localStorage -- if you just clear out the script and refresh it will restore the default one. If that's still erroring, please let me know!
People innately believe that intelligence isn't an algorithm. When a complex problem presents itself for the first time, people think "oh, this must be so complex that no algorithm can solve it, only AI," and when an algorithmic solution is found, people realise that the problem isn't that complex.

Indeed, if AI was an algorithm, imagine what would it feel like to be like one: at every step of your thinking process you are dragged by the iron hand of the algorithm, you have no agency in decision making, for every step is pre-determined already, and you're left the role of an observer. The algorithm leaves no room for intelligence.
Care to elaborate by referencing examples from the video?
Same! There was another add-on that sort of did it, but it was broken with modern versions of Anki. Was very surprised nobody built this yet.
I won't say that things like stoicism or humanism never worked. But they never got to the level of strict logical or experimental verifiability. Physics may be hard science, but the very notion of hard science, hypotheses, demand to replicate, demand to be able to falsify, etc, are all philosophy.
If you care about this, let's take cryptocurrency offline first.

Crypto still uses many multiples of the power consumed by AI, and unlike AI it can _never_ improve and provide more utility per watt since it is inefficient by design.
This was exactly my reaction to listening to the example podcast. Although, I wonder if the base material weren't so meta-level product overview, maybe it would be better. I do think the liveliness of the conversation was good (interjections, tonal variety, etc), so at least parts of the demo are impressive.
First, "Muslim" is a very broad category. For some it's a pious belief, for others less so, for others a cultural marker and nothing more. I don't see much value in the commenter's rant about "pro-Palestinianism" either (as it basically seems to be crude smear against this group for exactly the reasons you state), but ironically, it seems that you're guilty of projecting assumed beliefs here also, to some degree.

For another, if the commenter is trolling about their Muslim identity, then it would appear to be a highly cultivated effort, not limited to this post -- see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41028368 -- so Occam's Razor suggests that they most likely are not.

Make of that what you will. I personally don't care about anyone's identity, religion or lack thereof. In any case, the commenter is definitely riffing on a basically pretty lame stereotype about Palestinians, and seems highly indifferent to their plight as a group (on top peddling another stereotype that seems to consider all those who have strong concerns about the issue as being "woke"), so whatever motivations they may have for cultivating this nonsense are immaterial, in my book.
Notice though that the FRED blog post does not explain away the discrepancy but merely mitigates it a bit. Note the decoupling still starts in the 70s. The great wealth disparity that exists today started at the same time. I don’t believe this is a coincidence.
My experience was the same; they were like a bandage we put on to allow us to heal without infection, for me SSRIs were a mental bandage so I could heal enough to get to a psychologist. I came off them, and was fine. My situation is confounded by my buprenorphine script though, as it's known to be a reasonbly effective anti-depressant in it's own right, albeit via a completely different mechanism (it's an opioid-receptor agonist, partial agonist and antagonist. Weird drug)
I really enjoyed playing that! Just did the frog and the eye :) Seems like a good thing to mindlessly do for fun
On the other hand, I've recently been helping someone out with their messy SvelteKit website, and I've personally found the framework horrible to learn. The routing and rendering logic is all diced up between +layout.ts, +layout.svelte, +page.svelte, another +page.svelte, and a few other .ts and .svelte files scattered around lib/, to the point where I can hardly understand what data is going where, and which parts are rerendered when that data is modified. Also, prerendering has bitten me with odd discrepancies between localhost and production.

While this messy project likely isn't the best showcase of SvelteKit, I just haven't experienced its alleged simplicity: there are too many files with special roles, and too much magic transforming things behind the scenes. I'd take React over this any day, where the components form a simple tree, and the dependencies are (often painfully) explicit instead of being swept under the rug.
No, we aren't really. Did you ever hear someone say they couldn't use their computer or TV because it uses too much power? How about refrigerators? Air conditioners might be in that category, but only the poorest people would use an AC less because of cost.
I’m currently working on a Static HTML Comment system for my blog[1]. I recently moved my blog from Wordpress to Hugo and wanted to move away from Disqus. The goal is to build a backend that receives the comment, forwards to Telegram for approval and then push a code to Github for rebuilding the site. I’ve implemented a POC currently with Google Apps Script, but trying to build a robust backend with Flask. Preventing spam is also yet another puzzle.

[1] https://rishikeshs.com/
36-year-old's Etsy side hustle brings in $220k a year–and costs $40 to start
He’s a popular coding YouTuber, ex Twitch engineer, YC founder, comments here on HN. He knows his web dev stuff, which I’d rather see than a non technical journalist here.
And those that change gene expression, like Accutane for acne.
Nuclear weapons, at least in the quantities they are currently stockpiled, are not an existential risk even for industrial civilization, nevermind the human species. To claim that in 10 years AI will be more dangerous and consequential than the weapons that ushered in the Atomic Age is quite a leap.
They will just go somewhere else where this isn't a limitation. Somewhere that actually has a functioning power grid.

If the power grid regularly can't handle the customers it has them it isn't a functioning power grid.
Spotify itself is an effective way to deal with pirates in the music industry — https://www.musicweek.com/digital/read/spotify-has-everythin...

You really just have to offer a better deal, and it doesn’t have to be a perfect one. Don’t hyper-focus on preventing IP from being shared by people. So long as there are mass storage devices and paper copy machines, there will be piracy. People used to even transmit computer programs over radio at night in Eastern Europe shortly before the collapse of USSR. You can’t outlaw all means of piracy even if you take down all the sites, but there is a different way to combat it with your own creative products — offering a better legal deal to pirates. And there is evidence that it works. :)

And if it doesn’t work for you, then the market doesn’t work for you. That’s the practical reality. We can daydream about piracy not existing but it will remain a daydream — maybe a nice daydream, I don’t know. But I do know it is not the market we have in reality.
Test drive all the programming fonts
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> translates really well into construction, trucking, and warehouse work.

I agree with you, but I think Amazon has shown how much it values warehouse workers.
I had the same curiosity. Every time I've tried meticulous note taking it turned in to this thing where now I've given myself permission to do something mechanical now and put off the hard thinking until later. And then when I tried to do it later, the moment for asking for clarification had passed.
Godot team block dev for political reasons
I said GPS for a reason. Tying it to fine-grained map lookups is so much more fragile and dangerous than a fixed speed limit.
That dude didn't leave much on the table, in terms of life experiences. RIP.
WSJ's paywall, particularly against Archive Today, has been hardening markedly of late.

I'm repeatedly seeing A.T. links posted which read "you have been blocked" or similar. Sometimes those resolve later, sometimes not.

HN's policy is that paywalls are permissible where workarounds exist. WSJ is getting close to disabling those workarounds.

The NYTimes similarly tightened its paywall policy a few years ago. A consequence was that its prevalence on the HN front page fell to ~25% of its prior value, with no change in HN policies (as reported by dang), just member voting patterns.

Given the difficulty in encouraging people to read articles before posting shallow-take comments, this is a significant problem for HN, and the increased reliance of media sites on paywalls is taking its toll on general discussion.

There are literally hundreds of news sites, and many thousands if individual sites, submitted to HN and making the front page annually. It would cost a fortune, not merely a small one, to subscribe to all of these.
I mean, doesn't he? WP Engine is certainly profiting off of Wordpress's trademark. They certainly are controlled by VCs who are not supportive of the broader Wordpress community. What makes you feel otherwise?
Pawpaw's keep coming up recently:

Consider the Pawpaw (95 points, 7 months ago, 65 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39523641

Why don't grocery stores stock pawpaw fruit? (84 points, 9 months ago, 151 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38851025
The content is nothing that special these days, you could get it out of Gemini or Claude probably- but the audio affect is awfully convincing.

You can compare it to Google's Illuminate which also generates conversations by summarizing texts but in a much straighter, less fluffy way. It's less shallow but in some ways less compelling:

https://illuminate.google.com/home
So he is a web developer turned journalist? Like where does he write stuff?
I tinkered with Unity for years but it always felt... complex. I mostly do 2D games I always felt I was fighting the IDE. C# is what kept me around though. But Godot's IDE is very noob friendly. Especially if you're not doing a lot of crazy novel things. There's a lot of sensible defaults and functionality.
wont your strategies incur short-term cap gains ? so, they will have to outperform the S&P 500 index to account for it.

great start, and good luck.
When I studied AI in grad school (decades ago), most of the classes were done in Lisp.
Cursor is amazing, esp if I index docs in and use multi composer mode to generate files and code. Once I get a good working example in my repo I'm way faster with Cursor than without. It's not just a Claude wrapper, but you have to take advantage of all its features for the integrated experience.

There are some open source competitors coming out that I'm watching but Cursor is still top for me.
Humans are the ultimate generally intelligent agents available on this planet. Even though most of them (us) are replaceable for mundane tasks, quite some are unique enough so that people seek their particular services and no one else's. And this is among the pool of about eight billion such agents.
Show HN: A nice product that helps you create pages, personal portfolios
I made webpage builder.

I always spend a lot of time creating landing pages. I needed something simple and reliable without any:

additional cost, subscription models, and complex interfaces.

There are a lot of webpage builders out there. They require to pay every month to manage domains, SSL, and hosting.

Based on those problems, I wanted something simple, reliable, and without additional cost (ideal one-time payment.

I made a simple webpage builder where you can put all your necessary information. If you want to change appearance, like fonts and view.

No headaches about Domain Integration, SSL/TLS, Hosting provider, and monthly subscriptions.

You will have a personal link that you can share with your clients.
That does seem like it would be the easiest route, but it seems that if that were an option, the OP probably would have done it already. I wonder if it wasn't an option for some reason.
Indeed. And we shouldn’t ask if it is in society’s best interest only when the discussion is about benefits for labor.
The annual raises seem to be in the order of 2-3% [1]. Inflation is also in the same order [2].

I am asking you again to show me convincing numbers.

[1]https://www.bls.gov/eci/home.htm

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGUSA
looks cool,it would be useful to have transliterations for non latin alphabet languages,or at least pinyin for Chinese, since learning characters is somewhat orthogonal to the words.
"Questionable" is a very charitable term to use here, especially for the DSHEA which basically just legalizes snake-oil scams.
NTSB issues 'urgent' safety warning for some Boeing 737s
Absolutely, but not really underrated. The large and useful std lib plays an important role in the long term stability.
>because historically that has been a guaranteed path to obsolescence

Has it? If there's one good thing about Microsoft, it's that basically anything, even from the stone age, is still supported. You can fire up some executable from the 1990s on Windows and it works and you can probably just be a .net dev for the next 50 years if you want to. If there's one company in this industry that takes long term support and backwards compatibility seriously it's Microsoft
that's awesome! I wrote a Mathematica like cas about a year ago and it was definitely one of the most rewarding projects I've worked on.

I didn't get to look too deep into the source. Do symbols in openbirch self evaluate like in Mathematica?