skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today we are supporting a new kind of Digg. A digg you may remember that supports user summited votes (or Diggs) daily activity to promote news stories submitted to the home page. This promotes a style of social bookmarking and ranking.

You might remember this implementation of digg.com under kevin rose startup days (implementing the digg api v1) and how it empowered the user who decides what stories make it to the homepage via user submitted votes or diggs daily promoting the good in the news submitted. Well sir we are bringing it back! If this interests you please read on!

Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.

Once a story is submitted by a user it is instantly posted in the digg area queue. This is a temporary holding place where stories wait to be promoted to the homepage. To help promote stories to the homepage, simply visit the digg area and digg stories you think are cool. Once a story has received enough diggs, it is instantly promoted. Should the story not receive enough diggs, or is reported, it eventually falls out of the digg area queue. Digg works because a large group of people actively promote good stories to the homepage. Since this site's content is user-driven, it is up to YOU to contribute.

Submitting stories is easy. Simply click on "submit a story" in the page header and enter the URL of the story you would like to submit. Then fill out a title, description, and category for the story. Should you encounter a potential duplicate, please digg the original story and do not submit a duplicate entry.

Welcome Digg [Sigma] the social networking news website where the news is user submitted and moderated. Start voting for your favorite stories on https://digg.one/all/upcoming

Instructions: Simply signup, then login and then navigate to a sub category to be able to submit your own unique news story for others to vote on with their diggs! https://digg.one/c/

Upload your images for voting (and story image inclusion) at https://digg.one/c/images

We are open source so please submit your bug reports and feature requests as we are keen to discuss the site with others. https://digg.one/contact/bug-report and https://digg.one/about/open-source

Cheers,
//kracker

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No, because Dropbox actually follows the API guidelines.
Does it tile windows automatically like Yabai for example?
seems like chime can have a disagree button. problem solved
btw : chime is one of the most worst product Amazon has ever built
Yeah, exactly this. If I ask Cursor to write the serializer for a new Django model, it does it (although sometimes it invents fields that do not exist). It saves me 2 minute.

When I ask him to write a function that should do something much more complex, it usually do something so bad it takes me more time because it confuses me and now I have to back to my original reasoning (after trying to understand what it did).

What I found useful is to ask him to explain me what a function does in a new codebase I am exploring, although I have to be very careful because a lot of time invents or skips steps that are crucial.
Exercise as an equivalent to medication for treatment of depression and anxiety
And there's lots of gossipy talk about who is "beloved" and who isn't. Like who has time to care about these things if you're not directly reporting to them?
The issue was fixed, now handling 100'000 trips per week, and all seems to go well in the last 4 months, this is 1.5 million trips.
> With exceptions for cosmological process like the expansion of the universe that we really don't purport to understand

That's not accurate, expansion of the universe (that the standard model of cosmology describes) does not violate conservation of energy. It makes it a little different from the classical view.

In classical mechanics, energy conservation is a well-defined concept in a static or non-expanding spacetime. However, in an expanding universe, especially one described by general relativity (like ours), the energy of the universe is not necessarily conserved in the traditional sense, because the global energy of the universe is difficult to define when spacetime itself is dynamic (expanding)

So GR does not require global conversation of energy in the same way classical (here classical means strictly newtonian mechanics) mechanics does. This dynamic nature of the spacetime allows for energy to appear to "change" due to the expansion. It is more complicated when you add things like dark energy to the equation.

One interesting aspect is the phenomenon of cosmological redshift. As the universe expands, light travelling through space is redshifted. This means that ita wavelength increases and its energy decreases. This "loss" of energy from light is not violating conservation of energy. It is rather consequence of the expansion itself.

Now lets back to dark energy which is driving the accelerated expansion of the universe, the energy associated with the vacuum of space remains constant per unit volume, but as space itself expands, the total energy associated with dark energy increases. This again does not violate the laws of physics because energy conservation is more complex in general relativity than in Newtonian mechanics. And of course the local energy conservation works in a well-defined way if you take a localized region of the spacetime.
There's plenty of R&D to be done on operating systems and systems software in general, but if you define an OS as merely a hardware abstraction then indeed there isn't because the hardware is, almost by definition, hard for researchers to change. Nor is there much reason to do so.

The problems that are interesting to research in systems are all at a level much higher than the kernel. They're around software distribution, distributed computing, user interfaces and so on. There's plenty of scope to do interesting stuff there but academia has mostly given up on doing this stuff, I think because better designs at higher levels aren't considered "research" by granting agencies/journals.

Most of the interesting OS research is getting done by cloud vendors, Facebook, Apple and startups these days.
Do you expect better hardware to suddenly start appearing on the market, fully-formed from the brow of Zeus?
> If it's difficult as a human to work out what the intent is, I don't trust a largely computer vision-based system to work it out.

Most likely, every self-driving car company will send drivers down every road in the country, recording everything they see. Then they'll have human labellers figure out any junctions where the road markings are ambiguous.

They've had sat nav maps covering every road for decades, and the likes of Google Street View, so to have a detailed map of every junction is totally possible.
Is there a good estimate of the split? My impression from AI startups whose operations I know something about is that a majority of their VC raise is currently going back into paying for hardware directly or indirectly, even though they aren’t hardware startups per se, but I don’t have any solid numbers.
Do you have a source about "Piracy Shield"?
You are getting derailed because of the name we've chosen to call these models but only the first few and last few layers of LLMs deal with tokens. The rest deal with abstract representations and models learnt during training. Language goes in and Language comes out but Language is not the in-between for either LLMs or Humans.
>Sure, you'll have an easier time making decisions if someone else makes them for you.

You're comparing two tools that are both at the top of a very tall stack of pre-made decisions.
Turns out asymmetry plays an important role here...
> So if someone figures out to do this, it will probably take less hardware than an LLM.

We have, it's called DreamCoder. There's a paper and everything.

Everything needed for AGI exists today, people simply have (incorrect) legacy beliefs about cognition that are holding them back (e.g. "humans are rational").

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08381
Inflation is a middle ground between respecting the debt and canceling the debt. Depending on amount of inflation and time window, the government can reach any point in the (0%, 100%) debt cancelation interval.
This response does not address the parent's question, and ignores that issuing currency with a debt mechanism isn't anything but an artificial constraint (not an immutable law of nature).
Here we go again with genocide and nakba and settler colonialism.

Here's the thing about settler colonialism: it's when you're sent by an empire to settle on land you're not native to. Jews are native to Israel. Dig in the ground, you'll find coins and pots and tablets in Hebrew.

"Thousands of years ago" is not OK, but "for centuries" is. Sorry, you don't get to choose.

As for the second Nakba, October 7th really was as close to a second holocaust as the Jews experienced, one in a long line of pogroms. To do that and then hide behind and below women, children and innocent civilians you're using as human shields, that's beyond a war crime, it's a crime against humanity.

As for the idea of a Jewish majority homeland, go check the bible. It predates "polish jews in the 19th century" by a few centuries.
“Text of the site below because looking at that site hurt. A lot.”
For fucking real!
It depends on what you're doing, but 500g shouldn't be dangerous as long as you wear the weights tightly bound so they don't bounce or slide. What you want to watch out for are anything that overextends or puts pressure on the joints - those movements can cause damage even unweighted and having weights just makes the danger worse.
Why's that?

Navigating to and then copying and pasting specific text out of twelve different emails (and then removing commas and dollar signs and reformatting dates as YYYY-MM-DD) is still a whole lot more work than watching a 35s video to check that it did the tedious data entry for you.

For the 100 email version I'd do more of a spot check, depending on how high the stakes were.
Money is the way we divide up the productive capacity of a country. To become richer as a nation, you increase the productive capacity of a country, you don't collect little pieces of paper.
> It failed with a cryptic system error while driving

I’ll give you this one.

> In my opinion, the default setting accelerates way too aggressively. I'd call myself a fairly aggressive driver and it is too aggressive for my taste

Subjective.

> It started making a left turn far too early that would have scraped the left side of the car on a sign. I had to manually intervene.

Since you intervened and don’t know what would’ve happened, subjective.

> It tried to make way too many right turns on red when it wasn't safe to. It would creep into the road, almost into the path of oncoming vehicles

Subjective.

> It would switch lanes to go faster on the highway, but then missed an exit on at least one occasion because it couldn't make it back into the right lane in time. Stupid.

Objective.

You’ve got some fair complaints but the idea that feeling safe is what’s needed remains subjective.
There is also git-annex, which supports S3 as well as a bunch of other storage backends (and it is very easy to implement your own, it just has to loosely resemble a key-value store). Git-annex can use any of its special remotes as git remotes, like what the presented tool does for just S3.
Many years ago I wrote a text editor in brainfuck. It wrote out the file in memory as the user typed, and it'd shift its data structures successively farther in memory to avoid overwriting them as it went. A friend gave it one of the best compliments I've ever received and called it beautiful after watching it execute in a memory editor.
This is marginally useful, but I wrote a small ‘subleq’ playground — it’s an instruction set with just one instruction, “SUBtract and branch if Less-than or EQual to zero”.

https://github.com/incanus/subleq

It was fun to see how simple a model of computation could actually be.
You’re ignoring inflation. At 2.5% inflation, this is a 0.5% real interest rate.
Seriously though, what are you doing?
Every single example everywhere throughout the internet that tries to show how good AI is at programming shows so mindbogglingly simplistic examples that it's getting annoying.
It sure is a great learning tool when you're trying to do something experimental in a new stack or completely new project, I'll give you that, but once you reach the skill level where someone would hire you to be an X developer (which most developers disagreeing with you are, mid+ developers of some stack X) the thing becomes a barely useful autocomplete.
Maybe that's the problem? It's just not a tool for professional developers?
Yah - I think there's value there too. I am a huge fan of FOSS ofc - and also it's good to look at how FOSS allows companies to avoid hiring developers because they can use FOSS products. The first benefit I think of is trying to come up with FOSS approaches that would convince or coerce companies to contribute back to the projects they use at least a little.
Or perhaps from someone who doesn't think it's useless
I haven’t had the chance to use Svelte in even a semi-serious project. From what I’ve tracked, Runes allow for better handling state complexity and allowing finer grained explicit control of reactivity.

Maybe you don’t need that. Seems like a bunch of the Svelte community did. I wouldn’t frame that as a bad decision.
> via a command sent through an onboard RS-232 interface

Christ
> rights that belong to governments

It's not that at all. If you report phishing / malicious content to them, you have a right to expect them to take action in a reasonable amount of time - not weeks, and certainly not never. This isn't a "right", this is a reasonable way to work on the Internet that's worked since the '80s.

Do they have a "right" to just ignore abuse complaints and host whatever they want, even if it's illegal, malicious or that violates someone's copyright, and to ignore all requests to take appropriate action?
This "feeling" of full comprehension can be an illusion. Similar to how we think we are taking in 140 degree of full visual information through our eyes. In truth, we can only take in accurate information about the size of our thumb at arms length. The so called saccades phenomenon.
One Speculative Theory of Spacetime:

Our universe is a 3D Manifold in a higher dimensional space.

All event horizons have a "surface normal" (orthogonality) direction at any point. For example a conventional Black Hole (2D one) has an event horizon that is a 2D surface. That is, for a flatland creature living on that EH it takes two coordinates to define a location, but these flatlanders would experience "time" as the "growth" of the EH (like when more mass falls into it, and the EH grows), and the direction is "outward" (perpendicular to EH surface)

Now here's the interesting part: Event Horizons come in all dimensions. Our "Universe" is a 3D EH, but of course at any point in space there's a unique "rate of time" and a common "direction" of time, which from a higher dimensional space perspective is simply the "orthogonal direction" to all our space directions. (Time orthogonal to Space [i.e. Minkowski]).

As matter falls into our "Universe", that moves time forward for us. But our universe itself consists of all the "points" (Quantum Decoherence Points) which are co-located on a 3D manifold embedded in a higher dimensional space.

This means the Big Bang has things exactly "inverted", and is wrong. Matter didn't "originate from inside". It's the opposite o that. Everything "fell in" from outside. The reason our universe is expanding and accelerating is because it's a black hole EH. Black Holes mainly just grow (excluding tunneling etc).
The people who say nobody uses blockchains for actual money are showing their privilege.
Recently did a standup comedy app where an AI laughs at my jokes: https://github.com/btahir/standup-comedy
I think Apple's "problem" is that their vision doesn't usually end up being very revolutionary. As a musician I really see this in the iPad - Apple assumed that having a headphone jack and USB-MIDI would make the iPad a breakout success between musicians. Their vision didn't exactly line up with reality though, people wanted custom drivers and desktop plugins that Apple wasn't willing to encroach on with their vision. As such, serious musicians don't really shackle themselves to the iPad unless they want to challenge themselves.

Same goes for the iPad with AI. What are people going to use it for? Not for coding, which seems to be the most opaque application we've seen yet. You won't do research or play with cool repos you find, since Metal is a second-class citizen everywhere you go. Do... you stream responses from OpenAI to your most serious questions? Generate clipart of a 7-fingered salesman for your sales pitch? Use it to SSH into an Nvidia box for your serious AI-based workloads?

At this point I'm getting really exhausted of Apple's vision. I'd much rather they implement a serious interface like ONNX or Vulkan instead of giving people toys and expecting them to treat it like a tool. Nobody wants to work on Apple platforms when they're this blatant about their EEE intentions.
If the storage is a singular entity then this is not a distributed systems problem at all, no?
Put a lot of scary warnings around it then. It's for the user to decide if they want to take the risk or not. Google took something that solved real problems better than any alternative could, did so for many years, and destroyed it for no real reason other than to further tighten control they have of the supposedly "open" platform.
On one hand, it really has gotten much better over time. It's quite impressive.

On the other hand, I fear/suspect it is asymptotically, rather than linearly, approaching good enough to be unsupervised. It might get halfway there, each year, forever.
I ain't readin' all that, mate. Free Palestine.
I asked ChatGPT to rephrase your emotive reply into an expression of personal preference (which I think you were trying to express):

> I feel that transforming such a wonderfully written story into a podcast with robot voices might result in a shallow and awkward rendition that doesn’t capture the essence of the original work.

I can definitely agree with that in the general sense! But I have a long commute, and I thought the content of it would still come through well enough, and I've appreciated it for a few other subjects. It's not as good as having professional voice actors read it out, but it still has some value to folks!
> No idea how to do this

We need to add the 5 senses, of which we have now image, audio and video understanding in LLMs. And for agentic behavior they need environments and social exposure.
I’ve found most modern codebase have good gitignore discipline, but it’s true that there are codebases that are not. There are also some tools that by default write files to the current directory.

The auto add feature is configurable these days though, so if you don’t like it, you can turn it off.
Naked mole rats live over 30 years, because they have additional copies of a gene known to protect against DNA damage.
The Fed raising rates will increase inflation at this point (and further increase fiscal deficits), nothing stops that train.

Arguably if the investment here works out we’ll see deflation through extreme technical advancements.
I feel like you're dancing around admitting the core issue that Martin points out - RedLock is not suitable for systems where correctness is paramount. It can get close, but it is not robust in all cases.

If you want to say "RedLock is correct a very high percentage of the time when lease timeouts are tuned for the workload", I would agree with you actually. I even possibly agree with the statements "most systems can tolerate unlikely correctness failures due to RedLock lease violations. Manual intervention is fine in those cases. RedLock may allow fast iteration times and is worth this cost". I just think it's important to be crystal clear on the guarantees RedLock provides.

I first read Martin's blog post and your response years ago when I worked at a company that was using RedLock despite it not being an appropriate tool. We had an outage caused by overlapping leases because the original implementor of the system didn't understand what Martin has pointed out from the RedLock documentation alone.

I've been a happy Redis user and fan of your work outside of this poor experience with RedLock, by the way. I greatly appreciate the hard work that has gone into making it a fantastic database.
Show HN: I built open-source Apple Intelligence-like Writing Tools for Windows
I posted this a while back, but there's been a major update — it now supports local LLMs, multiple cloud LLMs, code editing, chat mode, themes, dark mode, and more!

As a high school student, I love LLMs and the execution of Apple's Appel Intelligence Writing Tools, but was disappointed that nothing like that existed for Windows.
So, I created Writing Tools, a better than Apple Intelligence open-source alternative that works system-wide on Windows!
It can use the free Gemini API, or a multitude of local LLMs via Ollama, llama.cpp, KoboldCPP, TabbyAPI, vLLM, etc.
It's much better than the tiny 2B parameter Apple Intelligence model!
It works in any application with a customizable hotkey - Proofreads, rewrites, summarizes, and more - Free and privacy-focused (your API key stays local, no logging, no tracking, local model options, etc.)

It's built with Python and PySide6, and I've made it easy to install with a pre-compiled exe. For the technically inclined, the well-documented source is available to run or modify.

I'd love feedback from the HN community on both the concept and the implementation. Are there features you'd like to see? Any thoughts on making it more robust or user-friendly?

GitHub: https://github.com/theJayTea/WritingTools

P.S. This is my first major Windows coding project, so I'm especially keen on advice for best practices and potential improvements! Thanks so much for your time :)
We have VoIP phones on people's desks at work.. no one would think twice about calling them phones, because that's what they are.
I do believe I am responsible. I recognize I’am now in a position that I can speak without fear. If I get fired I would make a party tbh.
Yes, this book is an incredible gem. Hard to believe that one human wrote it. I've been attempting to mine its secrets for a long time. Sometimes it makes me a little
embarassed that I've probably spent more time trying to understand it than he spent researching/writing it but I am appreciative that it exists.

But it's especially great if you want to appreciate PN's code more. He actually offers explanations of choices for his distinctive style of coding here. His 6 rules for good code are particularly good. He says they are for good
lisp but I think they broadly apply to any language:

https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp/blob/main/docs/chapter3....

*Edit:* After reading this book I am often really surprised that this book is not referenced as often or more often than SICP is. Not the time or place for a soapbox rant but SICP is often cited as landmark functional programming text when in fact it is largely advocating OO practices implemented in scheme, whereas PAIP really demonstrates full power FP programming on display (type system independent), and where OO practices such as CLOS are used he is quite explicit about it.
I think GPUs and datacenter is to AI is what fiber was to the dotcom boom.

A lot of LLM based software is uneconomical because we don't have enough compute and electricity for what they're trying to do.
I guess that would make sense if the company without competition had a stranglehold on the industry and was taking part in anticompetitive behaviour to build a moat around themselves but as far as I know Space X isn’t doing this?

What would you expect them to do differently under this proposed scenario?