skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Playing around with LLMs to generate fictional stories and I'm working on a journal of sorts based on a traveler that goes to various parallel worlds not unlike our own except for one or two minor but key differences. He reports on his findings there and how it affects social, political, and economics for that timeline. A new timeline drops every day and I have a lot more planned to take it beyond the simple blog format it's in now but it has been a fun challenge to learn how to do some deep prompting with AI to generate random entries without veering off into crazyiness or getting locked onto the same thing over and over again.

Here is the site: https://twistedtimeline.com/ - Feedback is always welcome!
Looks very interesting and useful.

I am looking to create a reusable React template for a lot of POc /mockup/ demo websites - was thinking of using react-bootstrap so I can use components from bootstrap and apply bootstrap themes for the styling and colors.

Any advice on better choices today for this use case?
If you mean how do backups, there are tools like https://litestream.io/ which help with SQLite backup to S3 (or other cloud storage)
How does your assessment of the relative usefulness of ‘classes’ from youth relate to the possible existence of a retarding effect arising from language differences?
I think it fits. Basically parent is saying capitalism caused this issue with sugar and he's right. But he's going into a dangerous repetition of history where he sees to "fix" the problem with capitalism.

What he doesn't see is that the "fix" is liberal politics and communism. That's the most extreme end of the fix.

Also as much as you hate it, identity politics is not part of being liberal. I was a liberal back in the early 2000s. Things have changed, a liberal in the early 2000s is now a moderate and the moderates are the majority. But they are also the least active.
I used to be able to just buy a season of a show for $20-ish. Much cheaper than a subscription, and significantly cheaper than traditional cable.

I don't want to have to manage subscriptions.
I will undercut you by offering only 0/10 reviews on all products
The Small Questions: Questioning the apparently obvious
What I find surprising about this is that the amount is so little to Apple.

Their net operating cash flow is something like 120bn, and they've let their flagship product be banned in a country of 270 million people, and all the negative press, and the public perception of them, all just by not paying out 15m.

I can't believe this is deliberate, so I wonder what really happened?
Sal Khan, is that you?
You're rewriting history. We don't need to list all the extreme claims and exaggerations. And his 'short form' communication is not someone else taking him out of context, but how he regularly communicates - on X.
Is Indonesia even a big enough market for Apple to need to worry about losing it?

Looks like Asia Pacific in general is a very small portion of Apple's revenue. https://www.statista.com/statistics/382175/quarterly-revenue...

On a side note, iPhone's seem to last quite a while. I still have a Xr and it runs the latest iOS quite well, so people might be good for a while if they stick with the 15.
Tiktok huawei...so many more
What do the terms of your commercial license allow customers to do and what do they prevent them from doing?
This is incredible. I have a biochemistry and bioinformatics background, and I've always been curious about how easy and cheap it could be to do various experiments at home. Godspeed!
You can have a first round to verify that no prompt injection takes place, before it being processed.
I tested this on one of my favorite deliberately-obtuse research papers in Human-Computer-Interaction, and it basically nailed the summary in a surprisingly digestible way.

10/10 would recommend this to grad students
This is such a great idea! I’d love 3b1b style explanations of different algorithms and how big oh notation works!
There are several room options for the SEA to CHI train leaving tomorrow, Monday Oct 28th, from $600 to $1100 depending on room size. Them. Being booked six months out might be a misperception or dated, it seemed easy to find.
It's the literal definition of a chemical. Your body is a metabolic machine made of chemicals and performing all kinds of metabolic chemistry. People hysterical about "chemicals" and "toxins" are almost always uneducated and unspecfic about which ones they mean. Plenty of manufactured chemicals are nontoxic or even good for us. And plenty are bad for us. So we won't get any improvement health-wise by making a vague blanket boogeyman term like "chemicals". Learn some chemistry, educate yourself, and be part of the solution rather than just a ignorant voice adding to the noise.
Cables made of cooper or optic fiber, both are flexible and can absorb hits and other nasty mechanical stuff.

Most (all?) modern superconductors are ceramics, so it's like having a huge stick made of the porcelain.
There is a `version files` command to list the files for a version, including the SHA. I plan to add an export command also to make diff easier
Thanks for the feedback if you are talking about me ;). I frequently get suggested to put more punctuation...
This wasn't really what killed a380. Many major airports are near the limit of their runways with planes landings/takeoffs every 2-3 minutes. Constructing 3th/4th/5th runway is often impossible. Yearly traffic keeps growing. A reasonable forecast would be that it's only a matter of time until demand for planes like a380 will rise. But evidently it came too early and then the 2008 recession and then COVID moved that point even further into the future. Will see in 20 years I guess.
Oh wow! this is _exactly_ I was looking for (and still am) a couple of days ago. Please let us know once its ready.
I am working on:

1. https://typezebra.com : Adding type editor/designer so you can design type-heavy articles and share with others (codepen but for typography)

2. https://boxento.com: Finishing support for server side rendering so users can take the benefit of SEO - also working on adding new blocks like menu (useful for restaurants) so you can have a block that changes based on the day of the week.

Suggestions and feedback welcome :)
https://www.flightconnections.com/flights-from-iah-to-hav there are direct flights from USA to Cuba these days
Title: Wonder
Indonesia is the 4th most populated country in the world.
As a Chinese native speaker, I should admit that I forgot how to write them ("sneeze" characters 喷嚏) before I saw them just now. One of the reason, I think, is they are used quite often in oral Chinese, but rarely in written Chinese. And those characters are not easy to write, as you see.
Does the O-Ring model hold for AIs?
The sneeze example is contrived because in English, sneeze is both phonetic and a word with common occurence.

A better example might involve a common English word with a wierd, non-phonetic spelling. A word that you might imagine it forgivable for even someone who recieved an English PhD to misspell. After all Chinese is a seperate language from English and it is neccessary for it to be evaluated in its own context.

If you think this definetly couldn't happen in English, take a look again at this post -- for it contains eight outright, unambiguous, misspellings of common English words that I would not be surprised if even an English PhD from Harvard made on occassion, especially if your choice of three students were unlucky and they were having embarassingly bad days. (After all, English PhDs isn't the study of spelling, it's the study of literature).
The counter-argument would be that the person could just use the pinyin or use a digital device to get them the characters. But as the article pointed out, those are both modern conveniences. Less than 100 years old both. The script absolutely gives no clues otherwise.

Let's put it this way: We know what ancient might egyptian (most likely) sounds like because they gave their writting system the uniliterals, which are pronunciation guides for complex words. We know that they said waw, and we know what a waw sounds like. They did this probably so they would not to explode their character count from hundreds to thousands.
US sanctions are basically an illegal scheme. They're not supported by any kind of foreign law or treaty, unless such a sanction has been agreed by the UN. In general, the US just takes that out their own *ss and shove into other peoples throat. No wonder other countries are banding together to avoid these criminal practices altogether.
It's varied. Taking as little as 1mg per day with 1 day off worked well. But so does spot treating with 4mg every week or so when symptoms flare.
I'm working on a serverless VPN that works without relay even for those behind symmetric NAT (most of the time).

I'm not aware that it exists at the moment and would love to be proven wrong.
I wrote (some) of a Lua interpreter in Rust, which runs PUC Lua 5.1 dumped bytecodes. Now I'm rewrite it all because I want to do type specialization: I'm implementing "Simple and Effective Type Check Removal through Lazy Basic Block Versioning", which is used as the basis of Shopify's YJIT for Ruby. I have a decent idea of how it needs to be implemented and have a prototype kinda working, although some of the jump targets are still wrong right now. Once I get it all sketched out then I'll have to scale it back up to a full Lua implementation again, and then I'll add table shape specialization afterwards (which is a bit trickier, and outlined in a sequel paper).
Yeah. It was parsable, but took a second reading.
An explanation some teachers beat into me over the years is that everyone already knows you're only stating a thing because it's your opinion. It's discourteous to waste time repeating something so basic, so such hedging language should only be used when it actually adds something to the conversation -- warning the reader of something with an unexpected level of certainty.

On some level, that makes even more sense in scientific writing. You already have method sections, experimental results, .... If you haven't been overconfident in those sections then the reader really ought to have all the tools they need to appropriately examine the paper.
We still don't have squirrel-level AI. This is embarrassing.

Now that LLMs have been around for a while, it's fairly clear what they can and can't do. There are still some big pieces missing. Like some kind of world model.
Still it’s the 4th largest country by population after China, India, and the US
>>Dropping out of high school to go be a "doer" is a great way to become a high school dropout, not a prodigy.

The adult equivalent of this to quit your comfortable paying jobs to do a start-up. Fail bad, and realise you are landed way behind people with 9-5 jobs.

Most of the times- "Do this scary thing and win" requires lots of luck going for you. In fact it can be attributed luck alone in nearly all cases.

The problem is people think if they work hard enough that chances will be in their favor. That's rarely, if ever the case.

By and large. Study well, get a job, save, invest, tend to your health and relationships. Just do the well set formula. You can't go wrong here.
I’m on a 13 mini as I refuse to leave the smaller form factor. It’s still working AOK - at some point they’ll EOL it but I don’t notice any performance issues or anything
Chain Large Language Model Actions and Workflows Using YAML
I’ve just launched CoMandA, a tool designed for chaining LLM operations in a simple, YAML-based DSL. It enables you to build complex workflows across multiple models and providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama) from the command line. Some features:

File and image analysis: Process images and screenshots alongside text files.

Flexible configuration: Easily set up and switch between providers.

Vision and text modes: Use both image analysis and text generation.
Bootstrap ?
A netmask is different and deprecated terminology.

The "/24" you refer to is a "prefix length", i.e. a network prefix being advertised by BGP.
You don't need software bugs, if your power goes out at just the right time and the phone doesn't have enough charge to last you through the night, there goes your precious alarm. Same if you e.g. don't fully push the charging plug in.

Ask me how I know.
That doesn’t mean the residents have the means to buy a premium product, however.
Population isn't the only factor. Do Indonesians buy a lot of Apple products?
Idk if I’d call it a killer app.

The podcasts are grating to listen to and usually only contain very surface information I could gain from a paper’s abstract.

It’s a wildly impressive technical achievement though.
I'm not sure where you've got this from, but I lived in Taiwan for years - you might be thinking of 注音 which does look similar to kana but is distinct and unrelated.

And the authors article is referring to the writing of the logograph - 注音 is strictly for pronunciation.
Create an AI agent with a crypto wallet (and optional X account)
- could actually do useful work reliably with minimal supervision

That's the big problem. LLMs can't be allowed to do anything important without supervision. We're still at 5-10% totally bogus results.
After reading the article I think this reflect more negatively on the business environment of Indonesia than Apple.
You can be arrested for even owning the iPhone 16, and are encouraged to report people owning it - this is some real authoritarian loser energy.

No one is gonna want to invest in Indonesia if they keep doing shit like this.

Indonesia will relax real fast if the US imposes some harsh tariffs (which it should.) We let other countries rent seek from our companies way too much.
I'm working on a weekly "tournament game" in which the goal is to select the top 5 open-source projects (in a particular topic) per programming language. The first iteration is going to be a copy of SaaSHub Experts https://www.saashub.com/experts/about but for open-source libraries. If this sounds interesting to you, please let me know, and I can send you an invite this or next week (hopefully).
A new YouTube app/player, for my kids.

It allows us to control the algorithm. It’s all LLM translating to YouTube search queries under the hood.

Visually it looks the same.

The suggested videos come from predefined buckets on topics they love.

E.g. 33% fun math, 33% DIY engineering, 33% creative activities.

Video recommendations that have a banned word in the title/desc don't get displayed e.g. MrBeast, anything with Minecraft in it, never gets surfaced.

For anyone interested in using it, send me an email.

jim.jones1@gmail.com
Nice collection but very US-centric. Is there a plan to extend it to other countries? Thinking tourists, historians and the like.
I don't think we're at a plateau. There's still a lot GPT-4 can't do.

Given the progress we've seen so far with scaling, I think the next iterations will be a lot better. It might even take 10 or even 100x scale, but with increased investment and better hardware, that's not out of the question.
I think they meant Apple is doing the shake-down.
A lot of the former, which then makes it habit and also the latter too.
This is not in the interests of certain countries, Israel being the main one.
Working on a game engine to help me create my take on some retro games. My first one is a multiplayer bombing puzzle game[1].

It's made with React and Three.js, using WebSocket on a small EC2 instance for now. I hope to be able to reuse all the game mechanisms in other classic games. I'm learning a ton, and I had some fun figuring out latency issues because I recently put my sockets behind Cloudflare. I still haven't gotten it quite right, but I'm hoping to find a good solution soon!

[1] https://pixelbrawlgames.com/game/blast
It's a phone, not a yacht.
So... Youtube? :-)
Building a VR IFC viewer in C++ without external dependencies.

I just implemented a parser for IFC, and am now looking into extracting BRep and CSG geometry from it, convert that to meshes, and write a simple renderer for Vulkan.

My approach is to write really scrappy, simple code with minimal abstractions.

The hypothesis now is that for generating meshes from BRep, you don't need an entire CAD kernel, as a CAD kernel seems to be focused also on operations, but this will probably lead to a humbling experience and walking back to using either OpenCascade or licensing a commercial kernel like Parasolid.

My goal is to have a simple prototype out before the end of the year, but work might get in the way :)

(here's some experiments I did with Metal and Vulkan: https://github.com/arjonagelhout/graphics-experiment, the IFC parser is currently not open source yet)
That's what it was for me. I'm really fuzzy on the details because this was years ago. When I first heard about Guix, I wanted to try it (even though I didn't understand the benefits) but there was some unfree part I needed to install it. And ideologically they were against that. There either weren't good tutorials on how to bypass it or it was not even possible. So I just didn't install it.

FWIW Nix does not allow unfree packages by default or, at least, that's what having to add a package to allowUnfreePredicate makes it feel like.
I'm going to assume this pedantic response literally citing a Seinfeld episode with a numeric footnote is intended to satire HN discourse
I'm working on a social media post queueing program where you make a post to the queue and it tells you when it goes live. This is so I can let inspiration strike but not make the backlog look inconsistent. Gonna make it Bluesky native to avoid scope creep.
There’s absolutely room for improvement. I think models themselves are plateauing, but out interfaces to them are not.

Chat is probably not the best way to use LLMs. v0.dev has some really innovative ideas.

That’s where there’s innovation to be had here imo.
Organizing all of the information that comes at you in the workplace into a social-style news feed, with AI summaries.

Unlike facebook, we want you to get the most important stuff quickly and get you back to more important things instead of sifting through 100 emails, 5 dashboards, and 10 forums.

https://aimcast.com
Samsung S10+, 60FPS although I'm not sure what I'm supposed to look at.
I'm writing a build tool for SQL. I like to write SQL directly and to use it's more powerful features (like stored procedures and Postgres' ltee extension). But this is gets difficult to manage in a linear, "migrations" based workflow. I want to edit a file tree organized by topic, not a series of scripts run in order. Which is to say, I want to edit it like I would any other codebase.

I've written code allowing me to express dependencies between .sql files and to concatenate them into one big .sql file that builds your schema. I'm working on interrogating the systems tables of the database to analyze the difference between successive versions of a schema, to automatically generate simple migrations (like adding a column or renaming a stored procedure). Eg, `sqlite_master` in SQLite, and `information_schema.*` in Postgres.
Can it be a thesis if it is not a convincing thesis?
YouTube recommendations for kids shouldn't be driven by engagement (e.g. "oh, you watched 20 hours of MrBeast videos. You probably need another hour.")

If my kid watches an hour of unboxing toy videos, I shouldn't have to try and disable 3,000 channels of toy unboxings in an effort for that topic to never surface again.

The thumbs down button essentially has zero effect.

https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-dislike-button-mozilla-r...

Diversity of thought and topic is much more critical when they are kids.
From the article...

>A hoard of Norman-era silver coins unearthed five years ago in southwestern England has become Britain’s most valuable treasure find ever, after it was bought for £4.3 million ($5.6 million) by a local heritage trust.

Different article about the discovery of the Sutton Hoo treasure...

>The exact value of the Sutton Hoo treasure isn't widely known, in part because the items in the treasure have never been up for sale. They were donated to the British Museum by Edith, and have remained there ever since. Typically, the items are described as "priceless," suggesting that their value to the museum and as historical artifacts makes them incredibly valuable.

>Given their historical significance, it's easy to imagine that the value of the items in the treasure would be valued in tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars.
Exactly. It seems like so many people fall into the logical trap that school is about getting you to permanently memorize facts that, in a typical adult life, end up being largely trivia.

School is about teaching your brain how to retain information in general, so you can retain what you need to use.
There's a huge difference between prohibiting the import and sale of a product (much more reasonable) and prohibiting the ownership and use of a product (much less reasonable).
a literal home lab!
Finished a project that serves as a launching pad for GoLang HTTP APIs. It does decoding of request parameters into structs using instructions found in tags amongst a bunch of other utilities.

I am learning react-native now. Just finished building a themed components library.

These are for building a simple intelligence platform. Intelligence meaning a way to model entities, events, documents, and the link between them.

I want to use this instead of having thousands of documents on dropbox organized by a random folder hierarchy.
200g of lentils is not that hard. 200g of kale requires cooking it
> Come on, this is ridiculously pedantic. They used

"most browser" to include the major ones, it's a commonly used way of expressing it

> But I guess there's no pleasing the pedants.

who come up with imaginary examples like this:

> There could be 100 browser hobby projects
A series of articles on writing parsers using:

- Hand rolled recursive descent in TypeScript

- PLY, Python Lex Yacc

- FParsec, parser combinator library for F#

The goal is to compare each approach while tackling some common use cases for parsing strings of text.
You are still leaving out that using TikTok still won't be illegal in the USA, it won't be blocked either, just that TikTok won't be able to do businesses in the US (i.e. sell ads), or having other companies do business with it (so no app on the iPhone).

It is not like the states are going to block TikTok with a GFW that doesn't exist. Of course, the inability for TikTok to make money in the USA is going to be a huge hit that the company probably can't get out of.
I've taken the family on the California Zephyr a few times — Emeryville to Omaha. On one trip when the (three) girls were older and we had a foreign exchange student the wife and I gave them their own sleeper cab.

Riding the train when I was I young was a memorable experience. I wondered if it would even be around when my daughters were older so wanted to give them that experience too.

We enjoy it every time.

As far as influencers, I love this guy on YouTube that has done a lot of train travel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@DownieLive
You’re incorrect.

https://www.amtrak.com/on-time-performance

> For over 50 years, freight railroads have been required by law to provide Amtrak with “preference” to run passenger trains ahead of freight trains.
If I do X I will get lucky != Lucky people can do X and win.

Simply put the act of doing something doesn't make you lucky. However if you are lucky already, you can do most things and win.
Use (and shipping via mail) is allowed according to this article, so one of the articles is wrong/outdated:

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/iphone-16-allowed-...
I thought we’ve seen diminishing returns on benchmarks with the last wave of foundation models.

I doubt we’ll see a linear improvement curve with regards to parameter scaling.