skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are actually wrong about the accelerometer, you're almost making the same error as the poster above.

The accelerometer shows 9.8m/s² IF you are holding it in your hand. And that acceleration is pointing up away from the earth, not down towards it. It is measuring the force of your hand/the table pushing it up to stop it from following its normal trajectory.

If you drop the accelerometer, it will show 0 until it hits the ground. If you're holding it while in a plain, it will show slightly less than 9.8, but if you drop it will still go down to 0. If you take it into space, it will show 0 even when it is touching your hand, because it's trajectory is no longer curved towards the center of the earth.
Why is it that when describing EV technology, HN people have a tendency to frame it as "imagine if it could, that would be amazing if"

While describing stuff that exists in some form, and usually has existed for years already now.

It's not evenly distributed new tech for sure (1). But maybe it's the false assumption that "if it was anywhere, I'd be among the ones to see it early".

1) See William Gibson: "The Future is Already Here, it's Just Not Very Evenly Distributed."
And what many don't understand Nvidia is an accelerated computing company today which is something which will benefit almost any industry.

Compute power from Nvidia's ecosystem can benefit everything and Nvidia is working on growing the ecosystem with HW + Networking + SW. Nvidia's data centers as ecosystem will become as flexible in doing whatever you need as the PC and Smartphone became that way. And that is their real moat. They will have competition in many specific areas but no one will compete with Nvidia solutions on a global scale of applications.
How does Notebookcheck test laptops and smartphones?
> usually based on a fear mindset and a desire to enjoy a life of overconsumption, leisure, and gluttony.

Not everybody can be a saint like you, your Holiness.
I love this post , true hacker spirit!
Ectoplasm
I haven’t, thank you for the link!
I'm working on an app that let's you blur a portion of your screen.

Currently written in Python with OpenCV, plan on a re-creation with Electron, but I'll need to learn more of it first :)

https://github.com/hasithsen/blurscreen
cool project! I'm currently (as a part of learning) importing and playing around with quadruped in simulation. Mostly for the purpose of training RL agents and do sim2real on my little quadruped I got.

If you end up generating Meshes & URDF or SDF file along the way it would be cool to try using it in simulators!
Truly the Year Of The Linux Desktop
For Catholic churches, it depends on the period (for example roman-style churches have smaller windows because the architect of the time didn't really knew how to build bigger windows) and in how it got maintained since stone darkens a lot when exposed to the polluted air of our cities. But churches with big windows and that have been restored within the last 50 years can be very bright, especially once you add modern lighting in the mix.
Not sure this is a good comparison because the PHP Foundation is "relatively" new and afaik there's no strong correlation to "the php development team" besides these people being paid and also work on it. PHP had a 20y history before this foundation, and the main difference is that it was never steered directly by one big company. Zend, yeah, but they had influence, they had neither started the project, nor ever had a long-stretching majority of people in the important positions. (Disclaimer: have not been an active part of the project for a couple years)
That's not what is happening. An old generation is profiting by selling to the new generation that don't know .NET, Java, Ruby, Python, Go, PHP.

Mainly Vercel after they took over React.
Thanks for your feedback !

Well I'm proposing to have a workspace with everything structured indeed, where all the documents would be "programmable" and "queryable" and where unstructured data would simply be attachments of structured data.

At some point when uploading a new "file", I think the framework should systematically call a multimodal LLM to extract structured data from it, so that it can be queried from anywhere in the workspace. My main concern on this is that the LLM should stay local...

Yes you are right this is lacking a good and simple demo usecase, I'm working on it.

Yes, as you've seen, some field types have a limited set of "builtin methods" that I've added just for the demo, and List is clearly the one that should have much more ! (map, reduce, filter, sort, sum...).

And indeed, being able to call methods dynamically in "formulas" like Excel does, and not just when clicking on buttons (what excel calls "macros") is a must-have as well !
Bigger just means they can charge more for it.
> in my view has no place in modern society outside of art.

For a lot of use cases I agree, but no place is to ... abrupt in my opinion. Computers for sure have a multiplier affect in many cases.
But when you really want to think something trough it's advised to slow down. For those cases paper and pen is the perfect medium.

And I have a personal preference when making notes with pen and paper about hikes and climbs I'm working on/doing. But that's just me
Tarkovsky’s adaptation is incredible but it is only loosely based on the book (for the better as far as I’m concerned but Lem fans might disagree).
We are playing semantics here, but the impact is about the same.

Would you accept that the decision had a weight of a law?
> Baristas in Norway get paid far more than here

Are they? Google claims the average is about NOK 200 per hours? That’s barely above the tipped minimum wage in Washington or California. So it would be considerably less with tips?
Its very easy to upgrade storage on any desktop machine - my Mac Mini has a couple external drives attached to it. In the case of an iMac, a little Velcro tape would even hide them behind the screen.
Find smaller communities where this is less of a problem? Possibly filled with neurodivergent people you click with?

Like, there is a reason Discord I am most active in is full of people that have ADHD. And big chunk on spectrum. And big chunk queer.

Other thing I presonally often use is ... many times I got bad reaction online, it was because I posted my opinion on particular thing, and too many people took it as if I am stating an universally true fact. So I am adding little extra things that make it clearer that I am not making universal statements.

I.e. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38899647 I spent 5 lines advocating how diversity is the best - but I still end on "But I do understand the pull of insular culture and small villages, where diversity is less of a virtue."
> The windows phone experience was: sign up for a dev account to download visual studio with WP support. Start up VS, asked for your account again.

This is something that Microsoft still struggles with. Some things have improved, but a lot of the dev experiences on the Microsoft side are still cumbersome and not aimed at small time devs.

My experience here is with browser extensions and publishing these for both old Edge (pre chromium) and the newer Edge. The entire publishing dashboard is/was overly complex and assumes you are either a single person or a big organization with (azure) AD set up. With Mozilla AMO you can just add individual developers to your extension by mail, and with Google it is as easy as setting up a group.

With browser extensions specifically (and Edge as well) you can also clearly see where it is still a dedicated motivated internal team setting things up and where things were handed over to more general teams and support was also outsourced to somewhere else.

Anyway, my main point is that even now, many years later, Microsoft still struggles in this area making me think this is more fundamental to the company culture and way of operating.
Blaming capitalism doesn’t make any sense because it’s a different axis. The security vs privacy debate is quite old and different societies handle the trade completely independently of how capitalistic their economy is.
Sounds like you haven't really used macOS a lot. What is this thing about every app having its own updater? Animations slow? It's like the polar opposite, and I've been using macOS since it was called Mac OS X in 2003. IMHO the biggest asset of the macOS ecosystem is the OS itself - not the HW (which of course helps). But the OS is incredibly good as a desktop Unix.
More evidence that limiting social media won't boost your well-being
The most interesting things aren't yet known though. Finally 16GB in base? Price?

After all that's what the mini is for. A cost effective Mac (by Apple standards :) ).

Maybe the M4 Pro one with 64GB might be a fairly cheap AI option..
Nvidia's gross margins have been 50% with gaming cards only a decade ago.

They have been above Apple's since back then. And Nvidia had grown them to 65% even before the AI craze. They main reason why it becomes so crazy is that demand exploded and with it unit shipments which have grown gross margins and net profit insanely.

Nvidia's management has the best track record in the industry concerning margins. Jensen himself said that he says no to business opportunities if he thinks the margin there is too low. That's why Nvidia has left consoles and left it to AMD almost entirely. Nintendo Switch is an exception because Nvidia could there simply deliver a developed shelf product and skipped the huge effort of developing a console specific chip.
He made Microsoft an insane amount of money when they were at their "least" coolest.

That takes some doing.
Always relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23003595
Without knowing much about my prompts and work you’ve just assumed it’s why AI gives me bad results. You’re wrong. (Can you see why this is a bad argument?)

Don't get me wrong I love sloppy code as much as the next cowboy, but don't delude yourself or others when the emperor doesn't have clothes on.
If such collisions are common, then yes.
Exactly, the idea that it would take a weekend seems crazy to me. It’s certainly not something I need AI for.
This post addresses the data migration specifics well. Besides, there is the part about scaling the organization to deploy database migrations. We've built a project https://github.com/bytebase/bytebase to address this.
"The Invisible" was the first adult sci-fi book I read. I think I was in 2nd grade and had just learned how to read. Very early 80's.

I recall that my arts teacher told me about Lem in 4th grade when I was drawing some spaceship and I told her I already read some books by him. She didn't believe me until I told her details about the stories.

"The Invincible" was mind blowing at that age and set a pretty high standard for everything in that genre I read after.

I still think my dad left it laying on the living room table intentionally for me to find.
He had almost everything Lem had written until then and was probably fed up with me reading the pulp kids/teen sci-fi that I was at the time.

As I grew up in Germany pretty much all of Lems works were readily available in German, which definitely helped.

Speaking of Lem adaptions: I was already doing computer graphics/VFX in my early 20's when I gave reading "Solaris" another try (it had been too long in the tooth for me in parts as a teen).

And I recall the visual description of the ocean at multiple scales (it's two pages or more) and though: that will take years for VFX tools to get to the stage where we can visualize that.

I'd say we've only been there since less than a decade.
It is term life + an annuity in disguise, with worse returns. That is also why it is the dominant product that life insurance sales folks try to sell. Because term life is well regulated and understood, so not high margin.

They generally get really disappointed when you buy a standard term life policy, but they’ll still sell it to you because money is money.
Half an hour is still an overestimation, most of these frontend tools go from 0 to hello world in a single CLI command.
As a lay reader, it's fascinating to see how much oomph we're getting out of LLMs on non-language-related tasks by figuring out clever encodings/linearizations.
The argument is probabilistic, it’s not required that food seeking behaviours are entirely genetic for it to go through. As long as food seeking behaviours and/or preferences are to some degree genetically determined, then the argument is sound and valid.
Avatar Therapy
Robust LLM Pipelines (Mathematica, Python, Raku)
I have, now what do we do? Which of us controls the language?
Post Noticeable IPv6 Addresses
meta: `2a03:2880:fffe:c:face:b00c:0:35`

bbc: `2001:41c1:400c::bbc:1`
> Standing on the ground, the accelerometer should show zero because gravity is cancelled out by the floor being solid. If latter can be a force, why not the former?

This is the part where you are demonstrably wrong. This experiment has actually been performed. Take an accelerometer that shows 0 in space far away from the Earth, where there is no gravity. Bring it back to the earth and let it fall from your ship: it will keep showing 0 (well, because of friction with air, it will show some value, but a pretty small one). When it reaches the ground, it will "suddenly" show 9.8m/s².

This is not something you can debate: this is the measured reality. You can debate how to explain this, of course. But the reality is there: being in freefall towards the earth is equivalent from an accelerometer point of view to being in deep space with no engines running.

Another similar observation is this: the feeling of being in a gravity well is not the earth pulling you down, it is the floor pushing you up. If you're on a space station in deep space, to feel the same as on the earth, you need something pushing at your feet in the direction of your head, not something pushing on your head in the direction of your feet.
Those weren't middle class children.
A mandatory fixed/clearly defined tip is effectively a service tax. Nothing wrong about that if it’s clearly advertised (e.g. you don’t have to pay it if you take out). Quite a few countries in Europe have stuff like that.

Variable, pseudo-optional tips seem like a much bigger problem.
> it exists independent of the language

Rates of dyslexia are much higher in countries with less phonetic spelling systems. The general conclusion from this is that, while dyslexia may exist at equal rates in countries with phonetic spelling, its effects are diminished to the point where many individuals with it can read unimpaird.

> A Star Trek universal transparent real-time translator will not happen.

I never claimed it would. A delay of a few seconds between speech and translation is acceptable, much the same way actual translators do it.
> If the work is any good it will work with or without knowing details just the same

Counter example:

Only because the twist of the actual reveal of what project Horizon Zero Dawn really was (in the game of that name) did it become a very emotional moment for me. I had to stop the gameplay video (I never play games, I watch the stories of story-rich games on Youtube) and cry for a bit.

Surprises and "reveals" can be important.

I agree with spoilers found in discussions about a work though. One has to expect finding them there, and it is easily avoided by not reading a discussion about a work before you read or watched it.
It's not a strawman but the kinds of views those calling to be tough on hate crimes often espouse.

And no, celebrities getting unwanted attention is not a harm or even an issue that anyone should care about. They can go wash away their tears with the stacks of cash they leech from forced public broadcast fees and other puplic funds for all I care. Or just go play for their own country.
Yeah, we'll know the battery revolution has arrived when the US needs punitive 100% tariffs to stop imports of low cost, high performance EV cars from a developing nation. Until then it's all talk.

Meanwhile we can talk about two US companies promising that their magic beans are the future.
<< just seems like it would require not just thinking about it but probably also they would need to assemble a team to take advantage of it and that would not be worth it.

I think it has been somewhat well established that humans will do a whole lot of nasty without much thinking as long as a higher up tells them to. And this does not touch the simple fact that the companies are not exactly entities governed by morality ( and some would argue that it is not entirely certain if humans are either ).

In short, I think you are wrong.
IANAL, not from the US either. But if you register, you are signing a legally-binding licence agreement. Doesn't lying or giving false information nullify this contract?

For example, if you register on wordpress.org while claiming you have no affiliation with WPE, but you did have any sort of affiliation, they could consider the contract null/void, and claim the access was unauthorised because the contract wasn't valid.
If this were true, then an accelerometer that shows 0 in free fall on Earth would show some value when it was in deep space.
Wait, did you just publicly admit to Google collecting terminal device information without user consent?
Digital worlds used for prototyping so you can safe lots of money on prototyping.

Imagine that you can build a complete factory virtually first and then test run it. Planning is the most effort in building a factory so you have to do it in virtual or real world equally. But in virtual world you can allow mistakes and correct them while in the real world you have 1 shot and a simple mistake can cost you millions later on.

The same applies to many analog industries which aren't digital yet. Digitalization for IT and Tech is computers which are used in development and administration but analog processes in manufacturing are still far from being digital. Digial worlds is what will be a huge change in traditional industries and Nvidia is creating a global solution for it called Omniverse. And of course with a headstart, since the release was several years ago and now Nvidia is slowly distributing it into the world.

Nobody sees it, nobody gets it but just like Nvidia started DGX 8 years ago and today everyone is surprised about Nvidia's dominance in AI compute, the same will happen with Nvidia and digital worlds.

Also digital worlds will uplift 3rd world countries because they can skipp Industry revolution 2 and 3 and go straight to virtual solutions which then apply to real world. Just like many 3rd world countries in the past simply skipped cable TV and hard wired phones and jumped directly to mobile phone technology where they dominate now (see South Korea and others).
I like this 'my handwriting is write only'.

when i was 18, i looked at notes from my new coworker / manager and asked him how he learned to write that nice. He told me that he struggled writing cursive and just started writing letter by letter (print letter style?).

I changed my 'font' on that day and suddenly i was at least able to read what i wrote!
I’ve been pretty happy with vite, chakra, and Postgrest lately
The evidence overwhelmingly shows that replacing SFA with PUFA leads to a 20-30% reduction in cardiovascular disease incidence. Considering this is one of the top killers in the western world, this is massive.

I’m not sure how you’re determining that it’s otherwise?
I’m really looking forward to his autobiography, not just another Isaacson-style biography, but something from the man himself, even if he has some help writing it. Reading Paul Allen’s autobiography gave me a deep understanding of his and Bill Gates’ journey long before Microsoft. Their story started much earlier than the usual DOS narrative!
I think it may be true only for the apps that are easily replaceable.
The tech is really here. This summer, I was fascinated the accuracy by the spoken language auto-detection capabilities. It really works and it only needs 1-2 seconds to catch the nuiance of a specific language.

So, I ventured into building 3PO. https://3po.evergreen-labs.org

Would love to hear everyone's feedback here.
This is what I always said. Nadella ruined Microsoft for consumers. Ballmer literally saved the Xbox business during the RROD fiasco and he made sure Windows Phone could thrive - it was an established 3rd operating system in Europe with over 10% market share and it could've been more but Nadella killed it because it wasn't popular in the US. Also, Windows was definitely better under Ballmer.
> is weekend/holiday

Somehow this reminded me of someone datamining spiegel.de (german news site) and using the timestamps of the posted articles to extrapolate the writers religion (holidays) and relationships (shared vacations) among dozens of other data points from several years of publicly available data. I think no AI was involved back then.
This trial has its own website too.

https://www.avatartherapytrial.com/what-is-avatar-therapy
Looks like we're up to 15 laws now! [0]

[0] https://github.com/0xNF/lawsofinsidertrading.com <- also has handy links for each rule
Crypto mining and cross-border payments will become legal in Russia next week
That's obviously impossible since it would break backward compatibility and the users' existing filesystems (and the Linux kernel will rightly never accept anything like that).

The only reasonable fix is to enhance bash and shell IDEs to track for each variable whether it could possibly include all filename-valid characters (e.g. if it comes from read with no options then it can't contain \n) and warn (off by default unless stderr is a terminal) if they can't and it's used as a filename (conservatively determined when used as arguments to processes), and also warn when using find without -print0, etc. noninteractively and perhaps interactively as well.
This is incorrect and shows a basic lack of reading comprehension. Neither I nor anyone else claimed to be a language expert. The post in question said:

> If this [writing tones] was so easy, pinyin (a standardized writing) would have replaced characters decades ago!

Which is saying that the reason Pinyin has not replaced traditional characters because it cannot accurately transcribe Chinese speech.
This is trivial to prove false.

During fine dining, a meal may consist of small portions that even when added up together total less calories than a large bag of theater popcorn which many people are quite capable of going through.

No one will argue that the popcorn taste "better".

Simply put the popcorn is less satiating but more addictive to eat.

Meanwhile the fine dining meal, if done well, will be incredibly satiating and not leave one wanting for more.

Hyper-palitability is a thing. There are foods that are hard to stop eating (e.g. potato chips), and that do not fill people up no matter the caloric content.

Starbucks frappes are another example. They can easily have over 1000 calories, barely be satiating, and yet people desire them again and again.

I hope no one claims frappes or potato chips are the best tasting foods in the world. But they are both addictive as hell to consume.
Birkebeiner are these days most famous for their ham: https://www.matoppskrift.no/bilder/bilder_store/2889.jpg

While the Baglers were reduced to hiding in cozy Bergen streets: https://www.google.com/maps/@60.400775,5.3239763,3a,75y,37.9...
Show HN: The Probability Times
Hey HN! The idea for this started when I came across the election forecast of FiveThirthyEight [1]. They show a 1000 different possible election outcomes - each one possible.

In this newspaper homepage, I try to turn these simulations into reality by feeding AI with as much detailed information about a simulation as I can (e.g. voting results per state). See source code here [2].

The whole process is explained in more depth in my blog post: https://nerology.substack.com/p/how-i-made-the-probability-t...

[1] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/

[2] https://gitlab.com/NeroVanbiervliet/the-probability-times/-/...