skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And that's what the community does't get: the last 20% is the hard bit

I think a lot of people in OSS do get that, but in many ways it's significantly harder to do that last 20% in an open source project than it is for a proprietary software company to do it.

But ultimately I don't care that much, honestly. If you don't get what you need out of open source, that's fine. You not using it isn't a problem for me or for my own open source work. As long as there are enough users to keep communities going and developers interested, that's all that matters.

> and the above is the last 20% and it has never even once in the history of OSS got anywhere even remotely near that.

That's provably false, and it's pretty annoying when people make uninformed absolutist statements like that.

> No one cares about the political purity and ideology behind it.

A lot of people do. No, not a majority, and maybe not even a largely sizeable minority, but it's very very far from "no one". If you don't, I guess that's fine. I hope your proprietary software continues to do what you need and want, and that your needs and interests continue to be aligned with what those software companies want to give you. That hasn't been true for me for a very long time now, but certainly people have different needs and different thresholds for it to matter. But if that changes, feel fortunate that all the work we've done will still be available for you to take advantage of.

> The job of the computer is to free us from slavery and everyone seems to have bloody well forgotten that.

Your use of the word "slavery" is a bit bizarre and overwrought, but it's funny you say something like this. Open source software is the only kind of software that's going to respect your freedom. Proprietary software never will. You're at the whims of its makers, and can never take control of your own computing destiny.

Like the sibling said, I guess that doesn't matter to you now. But maybe it will, someday, when the game changes yet again.
What problem did going to the moon solve?
The linked article describes an attack against NotebookLM, which is limited to people who deliberately create a Notebook that includes the URL of the page with the attack on it.

I had a go at something a bit more ambitious a few weeks ago.

If you ask Google Gemini "what was the name of the young whale that hung out in pillar point harbor?" it will tell you that the whale was called "Teresa T".

Here's why: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/8/teresa-t-whale-pillar-p...

(Gemini used to just say "Teresa T", but when I tried just now it spoiled the effect a bit by crediting me as the person who suggested the name.)
Wow. Status and age in a single comment. Loved del.icio.us
Can we still have AM radio via usb c?
This is no different than the decades-old technique of "cloaking", to fool crawlers from Google and other search engines.

I fail to see the value in doing this.

"Oh hey everybody! I set up a website which presents different content to a crawler than to a human ..... and the crawler indexed it!!"
Sketch and Visualize Airflow Dags
Been working on DAG Sketch Tool (dst), it lets you sketch and visualize Airflow DAGs with YAML. Super handy for spotting issues and managing task dependencies before pushing to Airflow. You can see everything in real-time and even handle >> operators with Bitshift mode.
Nice! This seems like a reasonable compromise.
Inferences may not be clear, but you still need to have some idea, even a guess, of what is implied.

you cant even produce one possible comparison.

>If you don’t believe it was inferred then agree to disagree

You have got to be trolling me. In several posts, you have failed to identify what "it" is. what's the implied comparison being made?
The community got fractured when the N9/950 did MeeGo Harmattan. This was a continuation of Nokia's Maemo OS that was based on Debian, but they just called it differently when they announced a collaboration. Nokia and Intel started a 'merge' called MeeGo (based on moblin and fedora). Nokia never actually used this in a device as they signed the famous partnership under Stephen Elop's guidance standing on a burning platform.

Sailfish is a successor of this actual MeeGo work that was done and therefore had an uphill battle. They never got the same traction as Maemo (or even Mer), so I never called this a successor of Nokia's work. Nokia created a community with developer conferences and handing out devices. Jolla couldn't do this ... and therefore remained niche.
How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?
Mexico is part of North America, interesting you left it out.
Let me ease your conscience. If you become an organ donor it's not your decision whether any of your organs are actually transplanted. And you'd be dead. So you wouldn't be participating.

(Make absurd statements, get absurd replies)
So there are at least two of us writing things down in README.md, nice to meet you
Except that none of the fundamental limitations have changed for many years now. That was a few thousand papers ago. I'm not saying that none of the LLM stuff it's useful, it is, and many useful applications are likely undiscovered. I am using it daily myself. But people expecting some kind of sudden leap in reasoning are going to be pretty disappointed.
There's anecdotes [0] [1], surveys [2], analyses [3], direct statements from companies after layoffs (Duolingo and Klarna for example), a decrease in job postings and a decrease in freelance work. But HN just shrugs and says none of this counts because it's not hard empirical data (as if data about jobs was ever reliable). So let's just keep pretending everything's fine and tell the people who lost their jobs to stop gaslighting us.

[0] - https://www.reddit.com/r/technicalwriting/comments/1fuz4m6/a...
[1] - https://youtu.be/U2vq9LUbDGs
[2] - https://bloomberry.com/i-analyzed-5m-freelancing-jobs-to-see...
[3] - https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/20/business/ai-jobs-workers-repl...
The federal government is incredibly inefficient, about 50x too large, most of the money is just shuffled into pockets of senators or their high value buddies. Despite incredibly decisive evidence of this, there is a massive backing to increase taxes. I truly don’t understand the disconnect here. If the federal government was on charity navigator, it would have negative stars for deliverability.
It's so interesting to be able to run the experiment and see for one-self, especially if it's really a matter of 10-15min.

It should be noted that research in this domain is usually done with multi-sensory tasks (e.g https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31277054/), and not same channel input like this experiment. It better balances the cognitive load and it's also more realistic, as most people multi-tasking will be using different resources, for instance filling a form while on the phone, or sitting a team meeting while releasing in production.
See the Open Source Definition, it mentions "No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups".

https://opensource.org/osd/
I thought a lot of b(+)tree advantage was in bigger-than-RAM something or other for large databases and these benchmarks seem relatively small in comparison
>SafetyNet

PlayIntegrityFix I hear
> Rust is the only language where I can open something like Notepad without an LSP or highlighting, write code for an hour without testing or compiling, and then run clippy a few times to see and make the suggested fixes.

> anxiety when I'm forced to touch fragile bits written in Ruby

Wild, because the first sentiment is exactly how I feel about Ruby.
I fed my resume into this thing and I can't stop laughing.

https://masto.xyz/tmp/podcast.mp3
USB-C permits analog audio passthrough so you could literally use a passive headphone adapter for the antenna but it's a feature rarely supported anywhere.
You can not test for the absence of behavior. You can design type systems to ensure the absence of specific behaviors.
Gboard Double Sided Version
It's actually the other way around.

React was originally designed as the PHP on the browser side. Facebook was a php powerhouse, Jordan Walke invented React based on XHP, HHVM, etc.

https://github.com/jordwalke/FaxJs
It’s still HTML, CSS and something. It’s different but not that different except now you use JS frontend and backend. It’s also not 2002 anymore.
Every person who puts themselves at risk in the military, fire department or other rescue type situation does so because life/death outcomes of other people are not considered neutral events.

All our lives are interconnected and interdependent. Most untimely deaths will leave a financial, practical and mental health crater in many lives around them. When children are involved the fallout can last generations. Not to mention the lost investment of parents, the education system, etc.
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick (2012)
I install and configure at least around 20 packages/extensions/tweaks on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Another 10+ browser extensions per browser. That’s not even listing the apps themselves (the ones that aren’t primarily a utility or tool).

There isn’t an OS that’s good to go out of the box. But the Apple hardware on a MacBook is completely unparalleled; people acting like there’s anything like it on the windows side are delusional. As are the apps (from the store, from the internet, from GitHub, and from brew). The quality is just much better, and so is the likelihood of finding an existing app/utility for a niche use case. Many packages on Linux are just binaries without even so much as a TUI, let alone a GUI (NordVPN). Oh ya Brew, also substantially more pain-free than other package manager experiences.
Show HN: AI Agent That Uses your Product!
Autonomous AI agent that uses your product and gives you feedback :)
That's where experience comes in. I can check someone's work way faster than I can write it. AI's right now are like junior assistants who need to be supervised. They are wrong sometimes but they can help you as long as you know their limits.
There's waydroid:

https://github.com/sailfishos-open/waydroid

There were also rpms of Alien Dalvik (the official Android app runner on paid Sailfish devices) that you can install. But that's kind of piracy.
> Every injury or death makes health care more expensive for everyone, even in a place like the US that don't have socialized health care. The costs of these emergencies are largely borne by health and car insurance companies, and those costs mean everyone's premiums are going to be just a little bit higher.

Insurance is a bet between you and the insurance company. If you decide to engage in extra risky behaviour, then a competent insurance company will charge you extra. (Or rather, more PR friendly but equivalent: your insurance company will offer you a discount, if you can prove that you are exercising, don't smoke and always wear a seatbelt, etc.)

Realised average accident rates for certain parts of the population can help you fine tune your risk models, but they aren't mathematically required.

That's why insurance companies can profitably insure one-off events just fine. Eg have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize_indemnity_insurance for example where you can get bespoke insurance for your one-off novelty promotion. Golf course A making their golf holes wider won't affect the hole-in-one insurance premium that Golf course B has to pay.

Of course, that's all unless there's some regulation that forces insurance companies to set premiums a certain way. But then, blame that price control regulation.

An insurance company that prices risks accurately will outcompete an insurance company that solely relies on population averages. The latter will overcharge less risky people who drive with a seatbelt on (so they will move to the competition), and will undercharge risky people without seatbelts, and thus lose money on them.

> Also consider the effects on family (or friends) when someone dies (or is much more severely injured) because they weren't wearing seat belts. Maybe the breadwinning spouse dies or becomes disabled, and now the remaining family has to go on welfare. Maybe it was a single parent who died, and the kids end up in the foster system. In the disability case, insurance (which might be Medicare) companies will have to pay for rehabilitation and possibly care for the rest of the person's life. Hell, just the emotional anguish of a loved one dying in a situation where it was easily preventable is an externality worth trying to eliminate.

You are proving too much here. Yes, this argument could apply to driving without a seat belt. But it could apply just as much to any driving at all. Or to lazing on the couch instead of exercising, or to living in the New Mexico instead of Maine, or to drinking or smoking, or working as a lumberjack.

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Just to be clear, on the object level I'm ok with smoking bans (instead of just high taxes) and laws requiring seatbelts. But that's just because they are convenient for me. They aren't properly justified.
Strongly agreed. This is likely more obvious, but I think it's worth saying: the "Treasury" in the Kildare Street building of the National Museum of Ireland should also be at the top of any visitor's list. The Ardagh Chalice and friends are more or less the equal and equivalent of the Book of Kells in metalwork. https://www.museum.ie/en-ie/collections-research/collection/... .
https://pbskids.org/

Content from their YouTube channel can be ripped with yt-dlp and converted to audio only if desired. They also have mobile apps for phones and tablets.
I agree with your point. I see this type of comment on HN frequently when EVs are discussed. There is a certain (very vocal) minority of people, that no matter how good is an EV, will only focus on the negatives. It is best to mostly ignore these types of comments, unless they are bringing new ideas to the discussion.
> The worst roundabout beats the best 4-way stop any day of the week. Sometimes there really are easy answers.

Maybe you haven't seen the worst ones, then. For instance, one by my house had traffic lines which gave people the wrong impression about the right of way within the roundabout, leading to every vehicle treating driving like that. I actually drove like that as well for a long time - when you're spending every day driving the exact same way that the hundreds of other cars surrounding you are driving, and the lines on the road suggest that it's correct way to drive, it's easy to mistakenly think this is what you're supposed to be doing.

Then it hit me one day - this isn't how right of way works in a roundabout at all. I talked to others in the area, who were surprised when I brought it up. That's what the lines implied, that's what everyone _did_, but that's not how it was supposed to be used. Everyone was driving through this incorrectly. And it was a major roundabout, that had some of the heaviest traffic in the city.

Maybe it didn't matter because everyone was driving incorrectly, which worked most (but not all) of the time? But when it wouldn't, the accident would be a T-bone, so we can't say that roundabouts eliminate those.

Years later someone in the city seemed to realize it, and changed the design of the roundabout. It's better now, but there are still a few areas they overlooked that have the potential to cause accidents.
Yes! I think I'm going to make LLM bug reproduction my primary response to AI developer maximalists.
newbie here, how does gleam compare to golang, rust and python?
JavaScript needs a Python 2->3 moment, but like 100x the damage
Link is bad.
Together we would be unstoppable :)
You are entirely correct.

Forcing interactions with additional parties you aren't already interacting with is usually considered a non-free license condition.

For example Debian has the dissident and desert island tests for this reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guideline...
This is wrong. If you don’t wear a seatbelt and you get into an accident, your whole body becomes a projectile. One persons dumb choice to not wear a seatbelt can have potentially fatal consequences to others riding in the car who are not responsible for that decision.
Opening song is a nanban fave.. Jasmine Flower reminds one of soviet themes, everything in the vid is in fact quite soviet vorland culture? (including the nonrussian idioms, lionizing the (dubbie headed?) aquiline), just need to redraw the eyes/skin/apparel, insert appropriate song
(Nanbans perhaps otoh prefer dogs think poodles, faux sansouci)

Its standard mandarin, but spoken not by a mandarin (nonrhotic, but also not taiwanese/shanghainese elite, ie most likely nanban, exiled from the mainland south coast, macao is a good port of call)

id=41670593 <— alephnerd, you can imagine soviet folkways imported via the KR

Anime studio is in HK, but signage in the anime is inconsistent. ( there was one Taichung ad?))

p=… refers to Aaronson’s blog.
thanks for the links, always great to a see a well-referenced reply
Alleged M4 MacBook Pro unboxing video
A competition like that is for the top 1% and very difficult problems. For most people and most problems, AI is very helpful and speeds up the process.

As an example, I made a browser extension in 5 minutes this weekend using chatgpt by telling it what I wanted. I didn't know how to make a browser extension before that, so you could say AI surpassed this human quite easily.
In some ways, React on the server is worse than PHP. Server-side rendering of client-side code adds a ton of complexity, and can even introduce performance issues that must be worked around before the app can be launched (e.g. needing to pre-warm caches).

I'm sure there are valid uses for server-side React, but at the end of the day, using server-side languages such as PHP or Rails (or even rendering pages in Node.JS if you like JavaScript) can be much faster and simpler.

I say this having been involved in an app rewrite that used Remix. The project has taken 2 years (and still isn't quite out), and the engineering leaders who made the decision have agreed that we probably could have rendered most of the pages in Rails and used JavaScript for a limited number of things. With that said. I am hopeful that the project will work well when all is said and done, but there were a lot of tradeoffs associated with going to a server-side rendering framework.
That would be a good argument for not allowing people to make any independent decisions at all.

Compare and contrast https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/bad-definitions-of-democrac...
Babbage podcast from the Economist had a great episode recently on it.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2LCTSD4k9bNDn6i8DzLv9r?si=D...
How is it different for you than using StackOverflow and GitHub?
Really glad Kenton chimed in there, as it wasn't clear in the docs and I was about to implement a similar pseudo transaction pattern as this.

Pretty excited about this tech, it really flips the script on the concept of a DB per user / sharding approach which used to be costly at the schema/physical db level.
“… the science behind it, let’s just say there’s some debate.”
We don't even need to look that far. During an extended interaction the new ChatGPT voice mode suddenly began speaking in my boyfriend's voice. Flawlessly. Tone, accent, pauses, speaking style, the stunted vowels from a childhood mouth injury. In that moment there were two of him in the room.

OpenAI considers this phenomenon a software bug
I'm very oblivious to Russian VC even though I live next door. Now its a closed door obviously.
I was not trying to imply that this is a mental model. I was merely commenting on OPs comment about JavaScript.
It's possible to have a non-functioning womb while still having functioning ovaries. I don't see any philosophical or ethical problems with artificial wombs as an alternative to surrogacy.
AI identify verification is currently so incredibly dumb that it blows my mind.
I have to install a separate program on Mac to get 3 finger click and window snapping. What's the big deal?
It's frustrating that when people discuss React on the server or frameworks like Next.js, the conversation rarely acknowledges the performance cost that comes with Server-Side Rendering (SSR). The excitement tends to focus on the benefits like SEO and initial page load performance, but the limitations and potential drawbacks of running JavaScript server-side are often overlooked.

As traffic increases, the server's ability to handle requests diminishes, especially under high loads with complex rendering. This is exacerbated by the fact that each request often requires repeatedly rendering the same React components from scratch, rather than reusing client-side resources.
About driving diesel: They pollute much more. Can you comment on that?

> Diesel and propane both have ~infinite shelf life.

Google disagrees with the comment about diesel fuel. It looks like 6-12 months. Do you really think that generators attached to most large buildings never rotate their diesel fuel supply? I doubt it.
Pretty misleading post from a clickbait title. The job of the fed isn't equality, it's to stop inflation and keep the economy stable. They did that reasonably well with the cards they were dealt. The elected government *should* tax these people/corporations and help even out the situation where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. There are many policies to do that and most countries have them.

But then roughly the same "anti-fed" crowd claims that this is regulation and shouldn't exist.
30 years?...and only just learning to use indicators whilst using them :-)
Based on the description it is some odd design to accommodate farm equipment. It seems a bit odd.
You can mess roundabouts, but it requires a sever lack of competence that we rarely see TBH, and it can be progressively improved (signage, better visibility, lines etc)

I'm with you on how some will still be dangerous, and can require traffic stops. But it's still better than going back to a plain stops IMHO, and it's usually in portions where it was already dangerous before putting in the roundabout. In practice I've never seen a reversal of a roundabout to get back to a plain intersection.
Your phone provider definitely has to have a roaming agreement. Without that, your phone won’t attach to any 3G network and beyond (3G introduced mutual authentication).

GSM remains vulnerable to all kinds of bad things since it only authenticates the phone/SIM to the network but not otherwise).
> That's a good argument for not allowing people to make any independent decisions at all.

No it isn't. Very false dichotomy.

The benefits of doing something have to be balanced against its costs. People's longevity and freedom both matter.

And something impossible can't have valid arguments for it. No independent decisions is an unattainable scenario even for maximalist autocracies.

What, that I actually said, do you disagree with?
In the center of the world

https://www.historyingranite.org/things-to-see/maze-of-honor...
Adobe is the Boeing of software suites.

Desktop class, you can render AI stuff locally on a $1,500 computer. Phones and tablets are building in neural processors. That will change. But the licensing thing won't change back.

Glad Adobe waited for the founder to pass before doing all this junk, it'd probably kill him.
Still better than a preterm baby dying.
> Backlinks are links that go … back. Pages within a Ring can see which other pages linked to them.

I'm reading up on web history. I believe this was one of Ted Nelson's criticisms of the web (and reasons why Xanadu was supposedly better), right?
Tired light has been retired ... https://www.science.org/content/article/tired-light-hypothes...
So they are using waydroid... nice! Use this myself a lot on Linux-based tablets/computers, like the Legion GO.

Wonder how well this integrates with the (edit: Sailfish) OS.
Unfortunately, this also does not do screenlocks and therefore has security restrictions and certain apps refuse to work properly.