skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have tried so many times to convince non-technical people that they can put together their own website quite easily, but so often they think I'm joking and that it requires a lot of effort.

Next time I'll refer the to this site and ask them to give it half an hour and see what they can create in that time. I know that so many would get hooked if they just get that first taste of "wow, i just published something on the actual web!"

@blakewatson: Any plans to add i18n to the site and accepting pull requests for translations?
> The whole point of work is that someone pays you money, so you donate your time. How exactly and what amount of time, that is the contract you negotiate with your employer. Office time is just one negotiation point.

All these statements are missing the point, which is that commute time is unpaid 99% of the time, and is a complete waste from the employee's standpoint.

So whenever I negotiate with the employer, I have to take that into account, regardless of it being specified in the contract. It's an unstated consideration - an externality.

Past 2024, we should be considering commute time (or at least a portion of it) as a cost to the employee. This should be a firm stance, or worker rights will continue to be eroded.
> often forbidden from doing the thing they were trained to do for a variety of reasons

you forgot to add `insurance company rules` to your list.
A lot of the high-end datacenter racks are getting water cooling now—you have a unit in the base of the rack that distributes water to all the servers above with a couple redundant pumps/PSUs.

Some systems are even water cooling random little components for completely fanless 1U/2U servers... I wonder about the longevity of those systems though!

With the water cooling, you can pipe all that water out to chillers and at a certain heat volume it makes more sense than handling all the heat in air exchangers.
"Here I am, a silver-haired maiden lady of thirty-five, a feeder of stray cats, a window-ledge gardener, well on my way to the African violet and antimacassar stage. . . ."

http://www.loa.org/images/pdf/Arnason-Warlord-Saturn.pdf
if you live in a major city in Europe you are going to also be paying $1M for a decent family sized house.
As in many fields, the strength of statistical practices continually improve. And the parent comment has it right about the difficulty. In physics its much easier to ensure your sample is representative (heterogeneity is huge), and you have no way of ensuring that last sample of 100 participants have the same characteristics as your next sample of 100.
Yep. I think we are generally in agreement. I just wish I knew a simple answer - or any answer - for fixing the "whatever it is" that's infecting our culture/society these days.
> After 12 weeks, new sales are so negligible that "developers could eventually remove unpopular DRM schemes with minimal losses (and possible gains from strongly DRM-averse consumers)," Volckmann suggests (and some publishers have done just that after Denuvo is no longer effectively protecting new sales).

We're probably a tiny fraction of the overall consumer base, but I'm hopeful that companies do take this finding to heart and pull Denuvo once the 12-week stress period ends, because that's certainly costing at least SOME customers.

I wonder if the same rate-of-user-reviews metric picks up the hypothetical uptick in sales after Denuvo gets removed. I recall some discussion about that re:the Dishonored games but I can't seem to find firm numbers.
Countries continually produce new value.
If one party has a gold mine, or scientists, or workers, or anything that produces net positive value, it generates wealth. If you retain that wealth and reinvest it, it can compound and this is called economic growth.

Lets say you, with your human labor, can use 10 bricks to produce 20 bricks. If you do this every year, your wealth grows. first 10, then 20, then 40, then 80, ect.

In this senario, You can trade with your neighbor and run a 10 brick deficit every year, but you wont exponentially grow your production and wealth. You will have 10 the first year, make 20, trade away 10, then end up where you started. You are sustainable forever, but not growing.

Your house will remain small, and the house of your trading partner will grow ever larger.
We've actually found the opposite -- Every client project has been based on GPT4 or Gemini, with one exception for a highly sensitive use case based on Llama3.1.

The main reason is that the APIs represent an excellent cost / performance / complexity tradeoff.

Every project has relied primarily on the big models because the small models just aren't as capable in a business context.

We have found that Gpt4o is very fast, when that's necessary (often it's not), and it's also very cheap (gpt4o batch is ~96% cheaper than the original GPT4). And where cost is a concern and reasoning doesn't need to be as good as possible, gpt4o mini has been excellent too.
Philosophy is often very well grounded, often annoyingly so. We gave up on it because it turns out you can create iPhones if you ignore the philosophical problem of induction, go do science instead, and assume the laws of physics won’t try and conspire against you.

Rather, I wonder if Psychology would be better thought of as something even less grounded than science. Something where we’re just are happy with an accumulation of stuff that’s happened to work well enough, without pretending that we’re hunting fundamental principles. Something like a profession: Engineering, Doctoring, that sort of stuff.
key difference being - copilot and recall were added to my operating system without my consent - microsoft did not ask before they added these things, via windows update.

those dubious scripts from who-knows-where are run by me, with intent and with my consent, having passed whatever my own personal review process might be for that particular script.

If I try something and it turns out bad, that's on me, and I'm okay with that. If something is done to me without my knowledge or consent and it turns out bad, then that's a different story.
To be fair, most studies of implicit bias are randomly ordered on a trial to trial basis.
> I think that latency people grow up with has a huge impact on how careful they are when using the internet.

This reminds me a ton about the studies showing harm to children's future mental health as a result of growing up poor. I definitely "hoard" data locally because I grew up with accessing BBSs at 1200 baud, moving up thru dial-uo Internet, and eventually shitty DSL. Services and products that rely on constant access to the Internet strike me as dodgy and likely to fail as a result of my "upbringing".
Poor analogy imo. It's socially acceptable to talk about movies that were aired years ago with or without a warning. It's never socially acceptable to infect someones computer with malware prior to explicit consent. There's an expectation that someone writing about spoilers, will in fact detail the spoiler in question. Given that's an expectation you consent to being told about the spoiler by reading the article. If that isn't an expectation, I'm curious what you or anyone else had hoped the article would be talking about?
Sure, there was this service to embellish the books provided by Goldman Sachs.

But moving on from moral arguments, the crux is that only some 5% of the bailout money actually stayed in Greece [1].

Furthermore, it takes two to tango: the banks did not diversify their debt portfolio [2], they lent because they wanted to, and, knew Greek debt implied higher risk. After all, that’s why these loans commanded a higher interest compared to other sovereign debt.

[1]
https://amp.dw.com/en/most-of-greek-bailout-money-went-to-ba...

[2]
https://econreview.studentorg.berkeley.edu/a-tale-of-two-cou...
> someone enters someone else's email address and that person unwittingly clicks on the "approve" link

Eh? In a sane magic link system, clicking the magic link grants the clicker access to the account. Right then and there, in the browser that opened the link.
> The stacktraces are great when logged through Sentry

<cough>Bugsink</cough> :-)
Doesn't seem like woo-woo - if there isn't even mind, how can there be time? ;) it makes sense, at least to this Buddhist lol.
Given that “humans are complex” and “it’s individualized”, would advancements be greater and faster by just allowing clinicians and scientists to just talk things out instead of coming up with “studies” which pretend to be “science” with a low reproducibility rate (and non-publishing on null results)?
Yes, only the multimodal ones.
Foxconn to build Taiwan's fastest AI supercomputer with Nvidia Blackwell
https://archive.is/2024.10.10-162504/https://www.bloomberg.c...
Very early EVs (GM's EV1 and then a few other GMs) used banks and banks of water cooled IGBTs to spin the motor.
I have a constant battle with Kudzu every year. I wish we could find an easier way to kill the stuff, or transform it into something else.

That being said, goats will dig down and eat the hell out of the stuff.
> I recently read The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence Principe, which I loved, especially because he tries to replicate ancient alchemical recipes in his own lab. And sometimes he succeeds! For instance, he attempts to make the “sulfur of antimony” by following the instructions in The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony (Der Triumph-Wagen Antimonii), written by an alchemist named Basil Valentine sometime around the year 1600. At first, all Principe gets is a “dirty gray lump”. Then he realizes the recipe calls for “Hungarian antimony,” so instead of using pure lab-grade antimony, he literally orders some raw Eastern European ore, and suddenly the reaction works! It turns out the Hungarian dirt is special because it contains a bit of silicon dioxide, something Basil Valentine couldn’t have known.

> No wonder alchemists thought they were dealing with mysterious forces beyond the realm of human understanding. To them, that’s exactly what they were doing! If you don’t realize that your ore is lacking silicon dioxide—because you don’t even have the concept of silicon dioxide—then a reaction that worked one time might not work a second time, you’ll have no idea why that happened, and you’ll go nuts looking for explanations. Maybe Venus was in the wrong position? Maybe I didn’t approach my work with a pure enough heart? Or maybe my antimony was poisoned by a demon!

> An alchemist working in the year 1600 would have been justified in thinking that the physical world was too hopelessly complex to ever be understood—random, even. One day you get the sulfur of antimony, the next day you get a dirty gray lump, nobody knows why, and nobody will ever know why. And yet everything they did turned out to be governed by laws—laws that were discovered by humans, laws that are now taught in high school chemistry. Things seem random until you understand ‘em.

Well, this example doesn't just fail to support the argument, but undercuts it. Basil successfully identified the kind of antimony that would work, -despite- having no concept of sulfur dioxide. He did not write down something like "not all kinds of antimony work for this recipe, so get a bunch of different kinds and try them all" -- that, or a stronger version ("sometimes the recipe fails, we don't know why"), would support the author's point.

So we're left with the author trying to argue that this alchemist thought the world was "too hopelessly complex to ever be understood" on the basis of ... the alchemist correctly identifying the ingredient that would make the recipe work.
Okay! I have a question, more like an observation! (Sorry I am maybe not your target audience, but to get things started)

Many buzzwords used and after reading your project page, I requested the help of ChatGPT to make any sense out of it!

Is what Chatgpt tells me about your interesting project right?

This is what it has to say:

Chroma's serverless system is designed to help developers build AI applications without managing servers. It allows you to efficiently store and retrieve data using vectors (for AI models) and text queries, all without needing to handle infrastructure. The system is scalable, cost-effective, and optimized for AI workloads, so developers can focus on their projects rather than backend management.
Anything of value should be above the first floor.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/healt...
> Do you also feel spoiled when you see an ad for a new burger because you’ve lost the mystery of what the toppings are?

Seeing the ad for the burger doesn't spoil much of the value that is the point of the burger.

Analogous spoiling would be to make the actual burger taste not as good, or to make the actual burger be less nutritious.
FWIW, in a lot of cases Amazon (and Google and Meta and all of those top tier companies requiring RTO) do in fact pay at least 30% more. And in the case of Google and Meta, they provide food and other things too.

People are really upset at Amazon because the office doesn't provide anything more than what they can get at home (and in a lot of cases provides less). At least at the others you can get some extra stuff you can't get at home.
Just chmod -w
I suggested this on a thread in /r/cpp a few years ago, and was downvoted heavily, and chewed out for the reason that coding for ease of debugging was apparently akin to baby killing.
Forking Is Beautiful
Topological gauge theory of vortices in type-III superconductors
I plan to dig in deeper, but this looks like a great introduction to building websites.

I teach a one semester high school Web Design class and currently use a mixture of lessons from these two for learning the basics of making pages by hand with HTML and CSS:

https://internetingishard.netlify.app/

https://www.washington.edu/accesscomputing/webd2/student/ind...

This looks very promising and could supplant or at the very least supplement those.
Turn Up the Juice: Flywheel Raises Hopes for Energy Storage Breakthrough (2013)
"Topological gauge theory of vortices in type-III superconductors" (2024) https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.110.0... :

> Abstract: Usual superconductors fall into two categories, type I, expelling magnetic fields, and type II, into which magnetic fields exceeding a lower critical field H_c⁢1 penetrate in a form of vortices characterized by two scales, the size of the normal core, \Xi, and the London penetration depth \Lambda. Here we demonstrate that a type-III superconductivity, realized in granular media in any dimension, hosts vortex physics in which vortices have no cores, are logarithmically confined, and carry only a gauge scale \Lambda. Accordingly, in type-III superconductors H_c⁢1=0 at zero temperature and the Ginzburg-Landau theory must be replaced by a topological gauge theory. Type-III superconductivity is destroyed not by Cooper pair breaking but by vortex proliferation generalizing the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless mechanism to any dimension.
But even that Engine has its own drama / issues surrounding it with devs being locked out of access etc..
Hot take, I guess, but can you actually say the slop that came out of dreamweaver is any worse than the React-based slop that most people generate now?

25 years ago it was font tags and table layouts, now it’s a styled components div soup generated by 2-3 orders of magnitude more code, in a sprawling NPM dependency tree that takes several minutes to install on modern hardware.

It’s all crap once you get away from the simplest prototype and single-person project.
The Future of the Web is on the Edge (2022)
Is this a thing?...

I never thought about it before... but after reading the "The Shadow Factory" I totally understand they could do that...

It's halvings are correlated to right before a presidential elections which seems suspicious.

But why? Is it a giant honeypot that got out of hand?
> Is this potentially a part of why Apple doesn't want to support Vulkan? Because they don't want to implement common Vulkan features in hardware, which leads to less than ideal performance?

Yes, it's a big reason.

I tried to port the yuzu switch emulator to macos a few years ago, and you end up having to write compute shaders that emulate the geometry shaders to make that work.

Even fairly modern games like Mario Odyssey use geometry shaders.

Needless to say, I was not enough of a wizard to make this happen!
Marcan and asahi Lina are the same person.
That's a good solution. I used xnest
I got the tip from other BEV users for charging in Germany to go off the highway and find something like a shopping center/mall. There they had always plenty fast chargers and something convenient to do as well. Their built in navigation showed them the way. (This was bmw, not Tesla.)
Maybe one day Okular will finally enter the 21st century and start supporting signing pdfs with digital cert signatures and become a viable replacement.
Have you personally developed a game in Godot?
I have personally tried like the vast majority of people who use it and any other engine, including Unity, and have yet to succeed. Why?
I mean, you can use Tesla chargers with any car these days in the EU?
> it's a brutalized self-sabotaging entity that has disillusioned the general public to veer rightwards

It hasn’t, it only disillusioned those people (like the brits) who didn’t understand the purpose of the EU to begin with. The economic benefits were always considered secondary objectives, subordinated to the main principle of cooperation. This is public knowledge, it was made very clear in the foundational documents of the EU. And therefore the EU has indeed been very successful and its effect is unprecedented: since its inception, we are seeing the longest period ever recorded without a war between European countries.
Good stuff. The model of "how to build" vs. "library that does" is a good idea when there's combinatorial explosion and you want to reduce the design space.

At a previous employer, people built some tool that auto-built Kube manifests and so on. To be honest, I much preferred near raw manifests. They were sufficient and the tool actually added a larger bug space and its own YAML DSL.
The joke about The Geysers is that it's California's "Brown Energy" because of the use of sewage for the steam generation.
Lattice QCD codes may have what you’re looking for. Having said that, I went down that rabbit hole a few years back and found only impenetrable numeric code with little explanation of where the formulas came from.

Worse still, practically all such “codes” use shortcuts, simplifications, or outright non-physical spacetimes to reduce the computer power required.

You and I are looking for the same thing, so if you do find a good reference please reply!
I would think that unbiased would mean presenting all the pertinent facts.

Nowadays, "bothsideism" is considered a mortal sin in journalism and only the facts that support a particular viewpoint should be transmitted. Any other facts are d/misinformation and should be censored.
I'm not thinking of normal people, I'm thinking of people that own companies that have more money than several countries' GDP
Keogram
The Brits perfectly understood one of the aims of the EU and always disagreed with it.

One of the aim is political integration and weakening of each member's sovereignty. The UK does not want this but was OK with the common market.
i think that that issue leads to particularly intense 'folk psychology' because everybody has experience with a mind which will lead to everybody having their own litle set of folk psychology beliefs that the scientists need to overturn.

contrast that to something like... geology. i'm sure there was folk geology back in the day about where different types of rocks come from, but for 99% of people they weren't particularly invested in it. so when the scientists came out with empirical research, most people would be fine with it.

but when psychologist confront folk psychology, people often take it as a personal affront. any comment section about psychology research (HN included) is filled with armchair experts contradicting researchers with their own pet theories
It could be misdirection. Maybe I'll wait for the fork Matt doesn't like.
As a product designer, I don’t fully grasp everything the folks at 100r make.

I’ve followed them for a couple of years. From what I can tell they have a ton focus and are serious about craftsmanship.

Nothing else to add—just admire people good at making things!
they are not an extension, they are part of core 1.0 vulkan.

Although its true that they are an optional feature (as is tessellation).
I don't have a list but over the years I've seen a lot of people that had problems after running these. This was also prevalent for earlier Windows versions and especially by "gamers" who thought they could squeeze more FPS out of their machines. Failing Windows updates come to mind, especially major Win10 & Win11 updates.
What did Bjarne Stroustrup supposedly say? There are two kinds of programming languages: the ones everybody complains about, and the ones nobody uses.

I'll put on my Scheme hat and say "with hygienic macros, people can add whichever language features they want." Maybe Rust is a good experiment along those lines: C++ with hygienic macros.

Everything that people keep using grows into a monster of complexity: programming languages, software, operating systems, law. You must maintain backward compatibility, and the urge to add a new feature is too great. There's a cost with moving to the new thing -- let's just put the new thing in the old thing.
You're giving him way too much credit seeing how much he sucked at extorting people lol
Aye, especially nowadays with the ubiquity of computing - "hello world", or console apps in general, aren't the most enticing of projects anymore.
The biggest problems with any automation are describing what the current process really is and discovering which parts are essential and which are simply accidental. This is true whether one is creating a purely mechanical system or a purely software system

The part that is unique to software is that companies often expect people whose only expertise is in software to do both of these tasks when the second often requires deep domain knowledge. When one mechanises something in hardware it is generally taken for granted that domain experts will be central to the effort but when the result is principally software, domain experts are often left out of the process.
Also page-source looks ai-generated. Each tag is annotated, as if <title> is not self-explanatory enough.
In a new survey ~25% of iPhone users said green bubbles are a dating dealbreaker
it gives ordinary people the ability to discipline their central bank and preserve their own personal holdings. there are other uses but this is the one i care about.

> I’d bet less than 0.1% of good and services are actually bought with it. (Optimistic estimates are 0.2%).

this also applies to nearly every 'normal' currency
Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed the way artificial intelligence interacts with human language. While these systems are immensely powerful, their inner workings can feel like a mystery to most.
This article aims to simplify the complexity behind LLMs, breaking down advanced concepts such as neural networks, and transformers in a way that's easy to grasp.
Why would anybody do unpaid sweat equity in founding a risky startup? A gamble that can only pay off if you were to win the startup lottery.

The same issue in New Zealand. Anyone with a professional job invests $100k/year in lost wages founding their high risk venture. Lose taxes if you win. Lose 100% of your time if you lose. Hardly economically worth being a founder given expected return is so poor (worse than the standard figure of 90% businesses fail after 5 years). We don't have a capital gains tax yet in NZ but CGT means nobody sensible should found a startup by "investing" their time.
Overland Train
Legally it's only a "pump and dump" if the people doing the pumping and the people doing the dumping are the same or working together. Otherwise it's just speculation.
Firm touts semen stealing $250 insemination kit