skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do mention WP (Word Press)... I am confused. What exactly this does?

I get it takes care of content and they mention Stripe, so that is good. But is this WP compatible layer or this is accidental use of shorthand for something else?

It is more like those templates that people use to jumpstart sites, I think this can be very useful.

I don't want to sound too complainy over the free code you can get and examine yourself, maybe adding thumbnails of 3 templates would be fantastic.

Overall some clarity would be great, maybe developer should talk to someone outside his little circle and explain and see what they should include.
Tropical Semiring in Dyalog APL
For me, Copilot degraded over time. It started like magic. But they were losing money pretty fast and my impression is they had to dumb it down. I wish I could pay more for the old Copilot.

Aider is the best of them all, but I spend too much money... Like, I can easily spend $10, $20 in a day. Which is still a great deal for the added productivity it gives me, but it's $200-$400/mo, which is salty.

Cursor didn't impress me.
I see, you aren't having a discussion in good faith.

> we have very thorough studies of people dying from hitting static surfaces at high velocity

What are those studies?
I guess it's great that you have internet access, even if it is fully monitored (I assume). How locked down are these tablets? What can you do on them? Or what are the main restrictions?
This is why I don't run Zoom or Office or Photoshop or versions of Firefox or Audacity not distributed by Debian.

Browser sandboxes pretty heavily though of course one does want to be a bit careful there too.
Could you say more about what branching/unification is in this context, and how Rama supports/uses it?
I mean, they have at least one button to trigger a factory reset, yeah.

Even most input-less smart devices have a way to do that though - like those ridiculous smartlight bulbs where you have to flick the light switch on and off in morse code to trigger the factory reset
I am using a KaiOS phone, a Nokia 6300 4G. It works well as a 4G WiFi hotspot for a laptop and as a small phone for making calls and sending texts. Have a few apps on it for mapping as well as using the browser occasionally.

The KaiOS WhatsApp app will stop working next year though.
Holy moly, you must have very different life than most people I guess. I am from the younger generation which supposedly avoids making old-style phone calls as much as possible and I don't think I know anyone who has made less than 100 calls in the last decade.
Since you guys are running Gnome, you might be interested in helping with (or funding) this native GTK WhatsApp client: https://github.com/tobagin/whakarere/

Since these days something like >90% of people is on WhatsApp, it’s beyond quintessential to have a good WhatsApp client.
The cross product is a generalization of the wedge product which does exist in higher dimensions.
I feel like the rule against editorialising submissions makes it hard to say which this is interesting: You can find shortest paths in just four APL symbols. Change two of those symbols and you can solve systems of linear equations. Change them again, and...

Additionally, it shows that many CS problems are equivalent in some sense: They reduce to doing linear algebra over different semirings. GPU optimisation presumably comes free.
Matt's response to him shows just how delusional Matt has become. He basically trashes DHH because he hasn't tried to extract every last penny of value from his contributions.

I'm absolutely disgusted by Matt at this point.
The Cutting-Edge Hearing Aids That You May Already Own
Yes. By not running it.
That is how you wind up with new office workers who don't know how folders or a file system works.
Ask HN: What makes for a great bug report?
Ah, what would be a lisp thread without the inevitable lisps-decline-because-of-the-syntax-explainer, who will write a small roman about how bad lisp is and how no one cares about them /s

On a more serious note, anecdotes are not data, correlation has to be proven. Lisps may not be popular (a fate they share with most c-syntax language without corporate money) but also absolutely un-dead at that point. I am fine with it. In fact, as someone who earns good money with mostly JS, I couldn’t care less, I wouldn’t touch JS with a stick for my personal projects.
Usually a terrible idea (imo) to profile without optimizations, I think the point is profiling with optimizations is tricky (without much better alternative).
It's not even the same class. Copilot does autocomplete essentially. Cursor does that but with the scope of a file/project. That means after you change one thing it will offer to skip to another part of the file and do the other part of the change there. Refractors often end up being a single change then (tab), (tab), (tab), ... And it's correct a shocking amount of time. The UI of proposed changes is also better.

I'd recommend just trying it, because it's hard to summarise how much it's not copilot.
ahh that's incredible. I've attempted similar projects with various devices over time. this looks cool!
But that way you make stacked diffs/changes/PRs really hard, so is it really worth it?

I firmly believe GitHub makes reviewing individual commits in a PR so painful that I'd rather not do that.
Would it even matter if they don't? Like okay you don't have to have USB-C in the UK but you do for the entire rest of Europe so it'll all be USB-C anyway.
Thank you, that's worth a lot! Definitely gonna check it out
attempt to interpret the parent comment more charitably: when different people who've shared a common experience try to put it into words, there is some consistency between what they write. the harder the experience is to verbalize, the harder it is to come up with meaningfully different precise descriptions of it, and the more aware you are of the limitations of language
Permanent contact between the Americas and Eurasia was inevitable. If it hadn’t been the Europeans coming here, it could have been the Chinese.

Whether it was a Columbus or a Chan, the introduction of diseases which the Eurasians had been swimming in for eons would have still slammed into the Americas like an apocalypse.

Even if you gave it another 300 years (after vaccines were invented) there’s no way a distribution strategy could have effectively blunted the impact. You’d need to give an additional 200 years for that to be conceivable. The odds of the Americas staying isolated for another 500 years after Columbus are nil.

My comment has nothing to do with the cultural expressions of the various groups at that moment in time. A group of Homo sapiens were cut off from the rest for tens of thousands of years for better and worse. The ‘worse’ part is that they were ferociously vulnerable to the viruses in the other population group.

“Brought together” wasn’t a phrase meant to convey happiness or agreement, it was a very literal description of two groups making permanent contact after being separated for so long. There’s not an event like that in memorable history to compare it to, as far as I know. Certainly not at that scale of isolation.
The Uncertain Art of Accelerating ML Models
Matt has unfortunately been very unresponsive to any feedback about what should or should not go into core. Despite claiming WordPress core is open-source and open to almost everyone, the team leaders responsible for what goes into each release have been all Automattic employees since 2019.
Geez the creator obviously doesn't think this is a necessity. It's just introducing a little whimsy and fun. Nobody cares if you don't want to buy or use it.
My biggest hold-up with that sort of work is that Facebook has previously threatened to ban users who use third-party clients, and then they have gone through with the threat. Is this no longer the case?
All I have to do is stumble upon a heated 100+ post discussion on the implementation details of an arcane feature of CSS to understand how mammoth an undertaking it must be to develop a fully compatible browser engine.
> I could easily imagine myself in the same position as WPEngine.

You can easily imagine making $400 millions per year, and contributing close to nothing back to the open source software?

> But right now, I can pivot into another framework with a couple months of work

If you become as big as WP Engine, you'd have money for those couple of months to support another framework too.

> pivot into another framework with a couple months

Sounds like a misjudgement to wait for that long and not launch now, I think. I wish you good luck whatever you choose :-)

(With all that said, right now I do think Matt did some or a bunch of mistakes. I hope he realizes sooner or later.)
I don't work in an office anymore either, but when I did (years ago), I would get constantly interrupted by people walking up to my desk and talking to me. I like talking to people but I also need uninterrupted focus time.

I made something similar with a blink USB light: https://blink1.thingm.com/ . I had a little sign that said "when it's red, I'm busy". And a keyboard shortcut to toggle it from red to green (it just ran a little bash script that invoked the blink CLI). It was duct-taped to my monitor so you could see it from far away.

It worked very well to prevent interruptions from other people walking up to my desk and chatting with me.
We need to do more research into this, honestly. The biggest factor - time - isn't accounted for (I.E., do you eventually acclimate to colder temperatures, nullifying all of the bad effects these studies find in the aggregate).
Caveat emperor
I actually love the Amtrak dining cars and being forced to make new friends. The food sure beats the snack car.
those who like this probably also like the kastle (https://bastl-instruments.com/instruments/kastle)
The actual lawsuits are available here to download, https://freewp.com/2024/10/14/matthew-charles-mullenweg-defe...
You could try my Chrome extension that will crawl pages on a site looking for SEO problems like missing titles/headings/descriptions, duplicate pages/titles/headings/descriptions and broken links:

https://www.checkbot.io/

It's a general web crawler so it'll work on WordPress sites and static sites, and only requires you to install the extension to get going.
I should never say "everyone" anymore. Because everyone is almost never true. I mean overwhelming majority.
Play 3.0 mini – A lightweight, reliable, cost-efficient Multilingual TTS model
This trolling is unworthy of Hackernews, IMHO. It is just mudslinging without content.
Huh? What are you trying to say? There's no conflict between distrusting applications and trusting the user. Even on Android (which is pretty paranoid these days), you, the user, can still opt to trust apps with things like accessibility API access and background location.

Why exactly should we perpetuate the insecure old single-privilege-level desktop model?
Cool but not $189 cool.
I'll bite.

The perspective is indescribably real. An attempt to describe: a lot of the camera trickery used in most movies and docs to change perspective is removed and distance and scale are evident feel real.

Sleep No More fans eat your heart out, etc.

I'd love to see Cameron, Fincher, or another director who embraces tech to take this format for a joy ride.

You could be right about sharing with other platforms. On the other hand, I could agree to an argument that presenting immersive experiences in any format less than AVP's extreme HD cheapens it. My understanding is this is the highest resolution available in the normal market. Maybe offering a cheapened experience wouldn't be so bad?
OpenAI stopped releasing information about their models after gpt-3, which was 175b, but the leaks and rumours that gpt-4 is an 8x220 billion parameter model are most certainly correct. 4o is likely a distilled 220b model. Other commercial offerings are going to be in the same ballpark. Comparing these to llama 3 8b is like comparing a bicycle or a car to a train or cruise ship when you need to transport a few dozen passengers at best. There are local models in the 70-240b range that are more than capable of competing with commercial offerings if you're willing to look at anything that isn't bleeding edge state of the art.
I was excited for that headline, but I didn't get a clear & fair sense of comparison, like how prompt engineered etc was the comparison, or a false comparison?

There was not enough detail to determine what was ultimately useful & truly better, if anything. So lessons learned near useless. Likewise, I could not tell how useful the fine-tuning was and why, vs basic other tricks that would avoid all this complexity. The work seems good, but I found almost no scientific value in the experimentation and reporting. So I can't comment because there is little to comment on that I normally would. We focus more on the coding & analysis side, logical QA on fuzzier questions, so I am genuinely curious, supportive, am informed, etc, but left frustrated and wanting my time back.
To be fair (insert meme here)

Maemo was "mostly Debian" as well, it was one of the big selling points. Except Maemo was quickly abandoned by Nokia and left unmaintained. To further complicate matters Maemo required arcane tools to build it and install it to a device. Custom community kernels quickly became standard for enabling basic functionality which Nokia should have provided, but, didn't. However, the custom kernels were also frequently left unpatched and abandoned because they were being built and maintained by random internet users who found other hobbies.

I think the idea is awesome and I am excited if not skeptical. I hope Furi manages to build a healthy community around this. And doesn't go the path of so many previous Linux phones.
Those are explained in the post starting here: https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2024/10/10/rama-on-clojures-t...
very nice visual design as well
Nice idea. It would be good to find an AliExpress supplier to ship the whole kit.
I'd recommend something like a couple $25 Quansheng radios instead. More reliability, more range, less finicky, more durable and about the same size as this add-on.

(For some reason the radios are showing as $30 right now)

https://www.amazon.com/QUANSHENG-200Three-Frequency-Receivin...
I agree that HN etiquette is generally more polite. However, this was in direct response to your comment to him/her:

> I don’t think parent knows what he’s talking about.

We can all do better.
They all do too to varying degrees. You can say "X enables cybercrime" and "Y enables more cybercrime than X" and both could be true for any given X and Y.

For instance, someone buying a flipper is far more likely to do something illegal with it than someone buying a soldering iron. Both could be used only for legal purposes too, of course.

For every news story you can find of someone doing a legal thing with a flipper I can find you at least 10 stories of someone doing something illegal with it. Same for metasploit, nmap is borderline, and soldering irons not so much.
Yeah but it wasn't quality right? I mean the both modes need to have a UX on par with a regular laptop and a high quality phone.
The Foundation's public filings are online, and I think they only had $22k in donations last year. Doesn't mean his contributions were all charitable, but they don't appear to have gone to the Foundation at least.
PRC?
I'll write something in the dev blog, thanks. We use Phosh, with some minor patches. Upstream Phosh is pretty good as it is!
Whether you find the people who want RMS to resign obnoxious or not, this is a very well documented and clear-headed collection of what they think (and convinced me) is wrong with the man
Can you use extracts of autumn leaves as a pH indicator?
Meshtastic(Lora) also doesn't require a license since it's in the ISM bands.

Lora also has really good FEC and other things that make it work incredibly well(at the cost of throughput). Honestly I wish we saw more things like that in the ham bands(other than FT8).

There's a couple Lora radios out there that are USB serial based and can be controlled with AT commands that would let you so something similar if you want to build up from scratch.
Spoiler Alert. If you haven't read "Endurance" the article gives away a critical piece of info - which crew members didn't make it. Read the book first, it is the greatest survival story ever told. Not just because it's true. It's just that incredible.
Why we're teaching LLMs to forget things
Spilling fuel into the water, dumping garbage into the water (nearby restaurants and hotels)
"I’ll just remind everyone at the start that this is a respectful debate", proceeds to insult the guy in every paragraph
> Wouldn’t folks feel better making smart, reasonable, and incremental improvements? Consider cases like introducing Kotlin to gradually level-up a Java shop.

I'm mostly a Java guy (with occasional dabbing in Python/Rust or some web-y stuff) and recently had to quickly jump into Kotlin codebase and I find it utterly clusterfuck-y... I may felt awesome in Java8 days ages ago but nowadays with nice, steady Java development I don't see much need or appeal of using Kotlin...
They were one and the same until some people protested against the Catholic church telling people they could buy their way into Heaven - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-five_Theses
What is the endgoal for WpEngine.I am not following the drama closely.

1.Are they legally in the clear?(Note:Legally)

2.Can they rebrand to something other than Wp?
Servo and Ladybird are more active than ever, each having fresh funding and ramping up focused development. Flow is a commercial project for embedded media devices (not just available on rpi, it actually came there later) and seems to be doing well? Sciter I don't know one way or the other about, it seems to have a few popular apps using it but I don't know if it died off since then or is just going strong. Netsurf has always been a bit by the wayside but it doesn't seem like founders getting exhausted has much to do with that.

There are plenty of browser engines that have fallen by the wayside, often for reasons unrelated to the founders, but that particular list actually paints a surprising amount of the opposite to me. For once since Chrome came out (it at least introduced v8 even if it started with webkit) I have the feeling there are browsers engines in development that can actually attempt to load the modern web and will actually have products for general use cases (instead of specialized ones) in the coming years.
Yeah it's a real shame. The complex (and ever expanding) nature of the web is the real thing entrenching incumbents like Google. They have the existing codebase and resources to handle the complexity.
This isn't true, it is not exclusive to the ISM bands. You can run it on any band you choose so long as you have a license to do so. Case in point: the ham bands
It's a British English word, so don't use Merriam-Webster [0]:

> a person, especially a man, who is stupid or unpleasant

Or [1]:

> If you refer to another person as a git, you mean you dislike them and find them annoying. [British, offensive, disapproval]

[0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/git

[1] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/git
had to google the trick to disable ai search results, now how to apply it to all searches
You haven't read it and you should, maybe it would cut down the paranoia. This is not an attack on the free software movement and this is clearly from people who do care about the free software movement values.
Long time ham. Never been that interested in 2 meters but I am ready to buy it! Such a clever idea, wonder why no one has ever thought of it before.
Both.

How do you differentiate between say 20 real people with low skills and LLM output lightly edited by a high skilled individual?
As long as the end user assembles 51% of it, you don't need it. You self-attest that the device is in compliance. You also have to perform an "RF study" but there is no requirement for documentation on that.
I can do something not unlike that with the second-hand displaylink adapter I currently have gathering dust... I would just need to install a desktop environment on termux for it to be complete (not sure if I could get 3D acceleration with this). The only real problem there is the adapter I have cannot charge the phone while connected.
Strength training may be the key to longevity. How to do it safely as you age
Are beaver dams not natural then? But technology?
> What I want is quality to the level of flagship android phones or the iphone with the ability to plug it in to a keyboard, mouse and screen and have it function as my laptop as well.
>
> One single integrated experience.

Purism achieved that with their Librem 5 phone [0]. However having a polished experience like with iPhone requires to invest billions in software. It can be used as a daily driver [1] but there's a lot to improve yet. Sent from
my Librem 5.

[0] https://puri.sm/posts/converging-on-convergence-pureos-is-co...

[1] https://puri.sm/posts/my-first-year-of-librem-5-convergence/
I am not a lawyer, but I'm pretty certain that a plan like this is blatantly unconstitutional. Harris knows this too, and knows it will never happen, but it may buy a few votes in the meantime.

To be sure, I'll vote for her anyway, because it's not as batshit crazy (or dangerous) as many of her opponent's plans.
> I decided to rebuild it from scratch in another tool

That rarely ends well, at least for me.
Play 3.0 mini sounds like a game-changer for real-time multilingual TTS with its speed and voice cloning capabilities
Finally, 24 years in, it’s really starting to FEEL like a new century.
OLED or nothing
I mean, the two main issues here seem to be : poor placement and bad thermostat control, both of which seem (?) to be fairly easy to solve (at least for manufacturers) : place one horizontally over the top of the TV, focused on the sofa (since it's basically a big lamp, would it work better with a parabolic shape and/or a reflector ?), and don't use a thermostat so dumb that it can only do on/off, but instead one that slowly modulates power output %.

(The expensive electricity point is also kind of moot in case that's your only heating option.)
signalfd or ppoll or a million other options
Making home cooking easier with Cooktok
From the title, and skimming over this article, I notice an irony: the analysis is "short" by Eastern standards

They're only talking about the last 100-200 years. That's significant on the American time scale, but insignificant on a Chinese one.

It's interesting to me that older cultures like the Chinese, Japanese, and the Maya view history as cyclical, while Americans tend to have more a narrative of "linear progress", or even "manifest destiny" (a term I heard in grade school but probably didn't really understand until being an adult)

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I think Ray Dalio's explanation is the most concise and takes into account the cyclical nature of history (and wow this video has 55 M views now)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8

Roughly speaking, [edited] China and India likely had most of the world GDP for more than 1000 years [1] ... you can think of it as a miracle for them to rise again, or just part of a cycle.

And there are absolutely cycles in history, just ones that are longer than any "news" article tends to talk about

I also think Americans are now waking up to a cyclical view. Everyone is talking about how this is the "first" generation to make less money than their parents, or the "first" to have shorter life span

But it's only "first" if you don't recognize the cycles! That's understandable because of America's history, but it is a limited analysis

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[1] edit: I looked deeper into this, and I agree it's flimsy, as mentioned below. But I think the larger point still stands -- it's a only a "miracle" if you're looking at a certain time frame, and n=1
no, that's not how much that costs at all lol
Which adds to the disingenuousness of all of this. Matt thinks WP Engine should have contributed more to the core... but only on features that Automattic decides? Clearly madness.