skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is slightly incorrect. I started it because I believed in the idea of modeling the working copy as a commit, but it's true that I made the storage pluggable from the beginning because I wanted to be able to convince my team at Google that we should use it internally too.
based on my reading nuclear power is much cheaper overall compared to wind solar etc?
Everything sucks where the hardware is a loss leader and just good enough to perform its function and the software is developed as a trojan horse for the actual revenue generating business. Soundbars, "smart" speakers, printers...
This paper comes from Meta and introduces Thought Preference Optimization (TPO), a post-training process that encourages small models to think, similar to o1.

The results are impressive - Llama 3 8b performs almost on par with GPT-4o across a wide range of tasks, not just logic and math.

Interestingly, the post-training process significantly improves model performance even without “thoughts” (the “direct baseline” case in the paper).
Prague is the capital of Czech Republic and has over 1.3 million inhabitants, so I'd say it qualifies as a "major city"
This is next level awful
My intuition is similar; software can distribute responsibility in ways no previous vehicle could, by virtue of speed, scale, and mode of interaction (in a McLuhan-ish "medium as message" sense). But it's still an evolution of long pre-existing social dynamics, not (or relatively rarely) an absolute novelty. Scamming is an ancient art which we did not invent, I suspect, but rather discovered ourselves doing already. Only painstakingly (and still only partially) have we dragged the concept into the light of consciousness.

I feel the same way about artificial intelligence: it's not new, it's all around us, digital computation merely crystallizes the concept. But shiny objects should not distract us from the much more general phenomenon.
> That works out to 2,53 Euro per kg. So cheaper than euro cents.

The cents are free though, cause they're legal tender — just deposit them instead of having to sell 2nd hand
Definitely! I was thinking to just show a list of all the links under the player, would that work for you?
They mean a viral abstraction.
I'd say the README should have a pic of the results otherwise I have to install it and run it to see if I want to install it and run it

Also why not host it online and let users bring their own keys?
keepassXC is and was always better
A JavaScript userspace juggling Chrome instances.
As far as my understanding goes, mbtiles is based on SQLite, so it would be a RDBMS container based format.

There was a YouTube talk published 4 weeks ago showcasing this project, which was where I discovered it in the first place. The (German) video can be found here https://youtu.be/8A51WkJ5S8I
Okay, sure, but I actually like using my devices. On 11 the only things I would consider "ads" are the shortcuts to stuff like Facebook and Spotify.
and a cat is also good against mice
So, just hypothetical, what would you do if the whole millionaire and billionaire tech caste declared for a dictatorship to protect there wealth against a democracy that would get ever more re-distribution leaning as the world succumbs to global warming?
Right, what I'm saying is that now we need to get the rest of the web (or at least the parts we want to keep) on board.
Resilio Sync is pretty good although proprietary
This seems like an extremely broad statement. You probably don't think all use of force is authoritarian, or not allowing any and all protocols to be used on the internet is force. Maybe, but not necessarily. Why specifically would retiring IPv4 be authoritarianism?
Only runs browser instances. Even Crostini is sandoxed in a way similar to WSL2.
They actually mention this as an alternative explanation other than missing fungi and parasites after rereading the article:

> Another possibility is that the queens could have developed an "acquired taste" for pesticides, as researchers put it, due to prior exposure in their environment.
Is it really absolutely unacceptable? This is not like ye olden days where you'd buy a Compaq and it comes preloaded with actual trashware. The only things preinstalled that I would consider ads are shortcuts to apps like Spotify, Facebook, Grammarly. All stuff that's very easily removed in less than 30 seconds.
I think some of the consternation we see from the anti LLM crowd (of which I'm one) is this line of reasoning. These LLMs produce fine code when the code you are asking for is in its training set. So they can be better than a mid level dev and much faster in narrow, unknown contexts. But with no feedback to warn you, if you ask it for code that it has no or only a bit of data on, it is much worse than a rubber duck.

That and tech's status inflation means when we are talking about "mid level" engineers, really we are talking about engineers with a couple years of experience who have just graduated to the training wheels phase of producing production code. LLMs are still broadly aimed at removing the need for what I would just call junior engineers.
About 60% of my calories over the last four years have come from beef fat. Of course my arteries and brain must be hardening up and I'm going to drop dead any minute. But curiously in the meantime my lab tests have moved in the right direction and I feel much improved. If I didn't know better I'd think that beef fat was a health food.
In some cases, yes, but I think the way jj handles conflicts is easier to follow. You can see the conflict resolution in `jj diff` and you can rebase it like a regular commit. rerere's state is harder to understand, I think. See https://github.com/martinvonz/jj/issues/175#issuecomment-107... for some more discussion.
Would be great to have a video of it working so I can see what it does before installing. Thanks!

Also, I’m generally interested in UIUX variations around LLMs. Hoping to see a round up of examples like this, at some point.
Do you have any examples to look at? All I can see in the readme is a page with a search field and no mind maps.
I'm surprised how little attention this is getting. I can't think of a technical reason to ban a whole country vs just the abusive ASNs. Considering the lack of response, I would assume this is an automated mistake or internal bad actors
It's not really rewarding the company if they are subsidizing the price of the TV by selling people's information through the "smart" part of the TV, when you don't participate in the "smart" part of it. You got a cheaper TV, didn't hand over any of your info, so the company loses money on the "smart" TV.
Not all of that infrastructure gets soaked up, plenty is abandoned. Look at the state of american passenger rail for example and how quickly the bottom of that industry dropped out. Many old rail right of ways sit abandoned today. Likewise with telecoms, e.g. the microwave network that also sits abandoned today.
I am relieved that when archaeologists download HN archives 7095 years from now, they won't be confused about which "1965" we were discussing!

https://xkcd.com/1683/
Why is Android moving so fast?
This is why I recommend people look into Statamic. It's absolutely smaller than WordPress, but it's set up for the professional community so there is an environment of plugins, themes, etc. It's also built on top of a Laravel foundation, so you're not stranded having to do things "the WordPress way".
Thank Google for that, as they dropped Intel contribution to WebGL Compute, with the reasoning WebGPU would be good enough.
I've asked for compensation twice (Swiss and Air Canada) and gotten it once (Air Canada). Even the successful case wasn't resolved without many many emails.
> looks more complicated and verbose than regular gi

Is Git not verbose and complicated?

It is like the poster child of it among ALL THE OTHER options in his space!

---

I was a heavy user of mercurial, I learned it in a day or two, then maybe only had one or 2 major complications for years.

I use git now for 'social' pressure reasons, and despite I use it more heavily than hg, i need to check stuff every week.

And have some bash scripts around to automate how to back out of rebase hell.
It's the cat's meow!
`--force-unsafe`
Language models would seem to be exquisitely tied to the way that evolved intelligence has formulated its society and training.

An Ab Initio AGI would maybe be free of our legacy, but LLMs certainly are not.

I would expect a ship-like intelligence a la the Culture novels to have non-English based cognition. As far as we can tell, our own language generation is post-hoc explanation for thought more so than the embodiment of thought.
Still I am very happy to use every day the technology designed in early 70s by Ken Thompson and colleagues, so far in that specific field many tried to invent something more "modern" and "better" and failed, with an exception of a certain Finnish clone of that tech, also started in 80s by the way.

So, newer not always means better, just saying
> IMO better to support the dominant tooling than invest in fracturing one of the few areas where engineers can agree on something for once

If Linus had this mentality we’d all still be using Subversion.
Not defending attacker, because I see IA as common good. That said one of the messages from this particular instance reads almost as if they were trying to help by pointing out issues that IA clearly missed:

"Whether you were trying to ask a general question, or requesting the removal of your site from the Wayback Machine your data is now in the hands of some random guy. If not me, it'd be someone else."

I am starting to wonder if the chorus of 'maybe one org should not be responsible for all this; it is genuinely too important' has a point.
There is probably a way to change calling convention to use something else instead of stack.
>After all, it was European authorities that banned Russian planes from flying over Europe, leading to the tit-for-tat ban. Why should Chinese carriers be punished for a geopolitical fallout not of their making?

I think this article boils down to the above statement.
When I was in Cambridge Virgin Media used to throttle to dial-up speeds at peak times. Meanwhile, I was still getting advertising leaflets from them through the door trying to sign new people up. Active fraud selling people a service you know you can't provide, and had no timeline to fix.

On the upside, a lot of the UK is getting small fibre companies rolling out 1G symmetric lines all over the place now. I've got that in my new place and it's been great (IPv6, CGNAT IPv4 by default but you can pay £5 for a static IPv4 too).
Is anyone interested in equity only part time jobs?
I'm trying to launch a startup and hire some employees for equity only but not sure what good resources are out there to find people who are willing to work for equity/experience.

Are there a lot of people out there who would be interested in equity only jobs? I'm not really looking for a cofounder, moreso a junior engineer who would be able to contribute on a part-time basis and receive equity.

Also, I imagine most people who are interested are those looking to get involved in a side hustle, which is why I mention part-time, but full-time is great too for anyone who can already financially support themselves.
Reminds me of Memoir '44.

https://www.daysofwonder.com/memoir-44/
People who get up in arms about "useless" uses of cat need to chill out. I read my pipelines left to right. Using a '<' redirection to pull the data in after the command means I have to swap my reading direction back and forth, and why bother with that? I have better things to do with my brain energy.
Thank you! It seems wikipedia confirms what you are saying. Sadly the article it references is no longer available, so i can’t dig into it. But it sounds 1/270 is for the requirement for overall mission while the ascent and descent phases have 1/500 apportioned to them each.

Was trying to put this 1/500 number into perspective for myself. It sounds like it is rougly similar to the mortality of having appendicites. [1]

1: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstrac...
Pretty sure you need a special cable that carries ethernet, as well as a device at the other end that supplies ethernet to HDMI, so you have to really want to let your "smart" tv to have access to the internet.
> We both know that first bit is a strawman, so we can move past it.

Privacy and security are literally the reasons for these APIs. I don't see how you could possibly call that a strawman.

> I would have assumed there was a middle ground like asking for permission to a specific folder's contents,

Isn't that what OPEN_DOCUMENT_TREE does? https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Inte...
Sounds like the plot of Megalopolis
The number one technical issue I handle for elderly relatives is explaining what the application icons mean and what they do. Most tech people have internalized the hamburger menu icon. It's completely meaningless to first time users.
Yes, I was quite shocked when I found out that all their DCs are within driving distance.
just uploaded a demo on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-9He-tG3aM
thanks for checking out!
We now have “senior software engineers” who have written zero lines of production code and are masters of jira and confluence.

:/
Is SETI those guys listening with radio telesopes for life signs and did not get the memo that pr definition every solar system by definition has a astronomically large and ultra power WIDE-BASE RADIO NOISE Generetor in them, you know, like the. Sun? Any radio signals moving in and out of solar systems are essentially scrambled leaving ours and entering say wherever E.T. go home? Strikes me as a little problematic to overpower or filter the by far largest and most powerful radionoise generators: For example our sun us so much bigger and powerful than anything we could begin to compete with, thus making listening with radio for radio that bears hallmarks life of being guaranteeed to fail using that method?

Im asking for a friend, me, myself & I.
>they get enough idioms in C++ slightly incorrect

this is part of why I stay in python when doing ai-assisted programming; there's so much training information out there for python and I _generally_ don't care about if its slightly off-idiom, its still probably fine.
> Oracle and MySQL do not have this problem in their MVCC implementation because their secondary indexes do not store the physical addresses of new versions. Instead, they store a logical identifier (e.g., tuple id, primary key) that the DBMS then uses to look up the current version’s physical address. Now this may make secondary index reads slower since the DBMS has to resolve a logical identifier, but these DBMS have other advantages in their MVCC implementation to reduce overhead.

Interesting behavior of MySQL that I have observed (~500GB database, with a schema that is more of an document oriented than relational) is that when you update single row doing SELECT id WHERE something; UPDATE what WHERE id=id is orders of magnitudes faster than UPDATE what WHERE something. I somehow suspect that this is the reason for this behavior. But well, the normal workload will not do that and this only slows down ad-hoc DML when you fix some inconsistency.
AI trained on a web that's primarily about selling things
By on-demand I mean per file or folder. So a virtual filesytem that downloads as needed.
Ah, good! A few years ago, I picked up a "pocket scale" in a legit head shop. I had intended to weigh out doses of Kratom powder I'd picked up there, too. (The Kratom turned out to be nasty stuff, but the scale works fine, even for weighing postal mail.)

I was considering picking up some accurate weights for calibrating the scale properly, but if nickels will work, I could probably figure out how to procure some nickels instead. Right now, I have a roll of quarters and zero nickels in the house. I was using one to open up my electric candles, but it went missing, so I'm using a dime instead.
Can you? In bash I end up with no input at all if I start the line with '<somefile'.
Is a variant of the plot to Atlas Shrugged?
Show HN: Use, configure, and download LLMs right from Discord
if you prefer to use cat just to read your pipeline from left to right, you can just start your command with file redirection. It doesn't have to be at the end of the command.

<file grep something | do something else ...

this works in bash too, but if you're using zsh, there're a couple of nice shortcuts

<file

on it's own works as

more file

and

> file
...
...
^D

allows you to put something into the file quickly without firing up the editor. Though

> file << end
...
end

will give you nicer line editing experience.

more zsh redirection tricks here: https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Redirection.html#Mult...
It's more of a symptom of someone who doesn't understand what's actually going on, i.e. cargo cult scripting.

Specifically, it indicates some combination of:

1. isn't aware of processes/pipes

2. isn't aware of cat's "primary" functionality

3. isn't aware of shell input redirection

4. isn't aware that shell input redirection can be put before the command
How do you generate / validate the links to learn more? If they're generated by the LLM there's a really high chance they are hallucinated and won't work.
What are the equivalent VR games? Just curious.

I don't play too much VR these days, but enjoyed Beat Saber for "stationary movement", Gorn for beating up stuff and the VR ports of the original Serious Sam games for "run and shoot like a maniac".
You don’t deal with rebase conflicts? You don’t ever unstash to the wrong branch? Or to the right branch, but it was changed and now it’s applied uncleanly? You don’t ever want to go fix a previous commit? You don’t ever need to do linear work that gets merged one piece at a time into the trunk?

All of these things (and others) can be worked around with varying levels of annoyance ranging from just living with it to new commands that help out to changing your workflow to completely avoiding some workflows. But in my experience nearly everyone deals with those annoyances on a semi-regular basis.
It sounds like you are the one with a deathwish, because objectively by the numbers Autopilot on the highway has greatly reduced death. So you are literally advocating for more death.

You have two imperfect systems for highway driving: Autopilot with human oversight, and humans. The first has far far less death. Yet you are choosing the second.
Interesting but ultimately useless article. Why wouldn’t the author talk to a political lawyer/etc and do some actual investigation rather than “ So I don’t think the Musk group is doing anything illegal here.”
I hate mobile computing so much.
US investigates leaked documents alleging Israel plans to attack Iran
Yes, I agree wholeheartedly and I actively dislike the concept of LLMs for anything real. But nothing will be worse than the flood of outright scams or attempts at rent seeking/middle man creation that crypto was. At least LLMs have some potential use cases (and line level auto complete is genuinely better now because of LLMs)
Maintenance Policy for Ruby on Rails
I hope Valve makes some inroads here. Would love something like this running Steam OS.
It strikes me as reasonable to assume (or at least strongly bet on) -- I'm not sure of the right phrase for it -- but like a mercenary type operation on behalf of some larger old media company?

There's just too much "means, motive and opportunity" there.
Africa's exception to every rule: Ethiopian genetics, sovereignty and religion
anything with tons of traffic going to it is a target. it has nothing to do with what the entity does, more with what potential reach it has. criminal behaviour is what it is. people pulling loads of visitors need to properly secure their shit, to prevent their their customers becoming their victims.
> If the work (i.e. the exercises) are important to grasp the material, they should be done in class.

I'd like to offer what I've come to realize about the concept of homework. There are two main benefits to it: [1] it could help drill in what you learned during the lecture and [2] it could be the "boring" prep work that would allow teachers to deliver maximum value in the classroom experience.

Learning simply can't be confined in the classroom. GP suggestion would be, in my view, detrimental for students.

[1] can be done in class but I don't think it should be. A lot of students already lack the motivation to learn the material by themselves and hence need the space to make mistakes and wrap their heads around the concept. A good instructor can explain any topic (calculus, loops and recursion, human anatomy) well and make the demonstration look effortless. It doesn't mean, however, that the students have fully mastered the concept after watching someone do it really well. You only start to learn it once you've fluffed through all the pitfalls at least mostly on your own.

[2] can't be done in class, obviously. You want your piano teacher to teach you rhythm and musical phrasing, hence you better come to class already having mastered notation and the keyboard and with the requisite digital dexterity to perform. You want your coach to focus on the technical aspects of your game, focus on drilling you tactics; you don't want him having to pace you through conditioning exercises---that would be a waste of his expertise. We can better discuss Hamlet if we've all read the material and have a basic idea of the plot and the characters' motivations.

That said, it might make sense to simply not grade homeworks. After all, it's the space for students to fail. Unfortunately, if it weren't graded, a lot of students will just skip it.

Ultimately, it's a question of behavior, motivation, and incentives. I agree that the current system, even pre-AI, could only barely live up to ideals [1] and [2] but I don't have any better system in mind either, unfortunately.
IPFS has shown that the protocol is fundamentally broken at the level of growth they want to achieve and it is already extremely slow as it is. It often takes several minutes to locate a single file.
Your point is clear. As far as can wrap my head around those theoretical concepts: An infinitely heavy object can’t move in space because there isn’t any space left to move. I would say that this object would have concentrated all mass in one point, no space left to
move. No observer left to measure. I would also say that there can’t be two or more infinite masses at the same time, or they would move (at the speed of c (?) But that would have additional implications on mass and time) to the point between them.

But back to observable reality: let’s say you fall into a dark place where the time stands still and that means you are not moving, from an outside observer you are still moving relative to the space outside your black hole. Let’s say the observer fall on his way to your black hole into another black hole and experience the same phenomenon like you, from a third observers perspective everyone is moving.
Norman talks about how systems need a way to veto or override the automatic decisions to be humane.

That book is now almost old enough to have a programming job.
If you dig into this person’s posting history and also if you read regularly on HN for a couple years you will notice that it is actually this very user that deliberately uses the 0 prefixed 5 digit year numbers, and also goes out of their way to include year numbers into their posts to make people ask this question.