skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kudos to the super easy onboarding experience, so easy to get started. Something for others to learn from!

The exploratory testing easily found issues on our website better than the tooling we have used to date, and crawling with easy presentation of each issue made it much easier to address each part.

Setting goals sounds like a very interesting approach, and looks to be a tool that is very useful to get parts of the testing automated!

Felt like a very easy approach to continuous testing!
It stays default if you don't switch to For you tab.
How many people (percentage wise) use a browser vs app on mobile? Seems like accessing via browser would be much smaller, and I'm honestly surprised that they haven't crippled its use to "encourage" the use of the app.
This is what I use phind for.
Iridium browser with Ublock Origin on my Mac and Wipr with Safari on my phone.
Cool. Now do Reddit.

I don't know, I don't trust any of these exposes on X anymore after the WSJ published an "Elon Musk has used illegal drugs" article that cited "people familiar with Musk” and unnamed board members said they expressed concerns privately to his brother. I mean, come on. Can you imagine this article written and featured prominently on anyone else?

They lost all credibility in terms of reporting on anything Musk related.

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/journalism-as-activism
Any app that brings you to a real life experience with people. I want there to be a site/app for global community sports, for example.
This warmed my heart. I'm sooo looking forward to #6 having lived through 1-5 both for myself, and with my kids.
> Libertarians are, first and foremost, cowards

Many people have complained here about my political views, and dang has appealed to me to dial it down.
That’s quite easy for me because I’m Filipino! And coincidentally, I’m also residing in Germany. :D
Try submitting x-ray, PET, MRIs to Grok for analysis
Why not? As long as you discount the price of the new product by the perceived value of new vs used, that’s the correct comparison to make. If a used product is the same quality and $100 cheaper, and just having something that’s new is not worth $100 to you, you should pick the used option. The goal is to get the best value per money spent.
I rarely use LLMs for tasks but i love it for exploring spaces i would otherwise just ignore. Like writing some random bash script isn't difficult at all, but it's also so fiddly that i just don't care to do it. It's nice to just throw a bot at it and come back later. Loosely speaking.

Still i find very little use from LLMs in this front, but they do come in handy randomly.
I agree with your sentiment but I feel like many people just don't like the idea of carrying around dongles/cables/hdds/etc with their laptops.
Selling political engagement seems pretty desirable if you are a platform unencumbered by conscience. Unlike products, there’s no way to close the loop.

If you are trying to sell engagement with, say, some product on Amazon, presumably the seller will eventually wonder why nobody is clicking your tracker links and buying their products. But the targets of political ads get to go vote in private, nobody knows how effective the propaganda was!
Lol this is a perfect encapsulation of the white savior problem. Thank you.
Software developers don’t really have money to buy services though… that’s why Salesforce sell to higher levels of an org
At DevOops Ltd, we love KISS, we move fast and we know to administrate your servers in no time at a bargain. We keep you from the Kubernetes anxiety. We got you covered. Don't worry about it.
Vector Databases should be Vector Indexes
Why category theory matters (2014)
Even Cybertrucks aren't purely 48V and ethernet.

There's a high voltage (800V) rail for high current devices like the AC compressor. There's redundant CAN for communication with things like the motors. There's a host of 12V, 16V, 5V components (door locks, lights, seat motors, etc.).

They did switch many components to 48V, but not literally everything.
Oliver Heaviside and the coaxial cable (2016)
Is there a good way for a startup to find a vendor who has agreements with larger companies and is willing to ship the startup's product?
Well historically the military has quite often been one of the primary customers of weather forecasting, so that doesn't necessarily mean we couldn't have the best meteorology (assuming for the sake of argument that we don't).
On my rhel7 system, the Debian dash shell is this large:

$ ll /bin/dash
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 113536 Nov 5 2018 /bin/dash

I happen to have an old powershell installed:

$ rpm -qi powershell | grep Size
Size : 126588370

A strict POSIX shell is always going to be vastly smaller, for many reasons.

I would prefer that the POSIX shell was an LR-parsed language, but you can't have everything.
- born 1919
- upper middle class life in boston
- started illustrating 1949
- started writing original works 1955
- moved to switzerland 1972
- died 1994

He wasnt alone in his world view at the time. Think about how much the world has changed since.
Graphene and chitosan sponge 10x more efficient at removing gold from e-waste
Asheville has tap water, but no one knows when it will be drinkable
Beelink is well-known in the mini PC market.
Facebook (for all it’s many problem) seems to have figured out that I don’t want to see politics. I think it is just generally not a site that people go to for that sort of thing.
This is a great approach if you have an idea or startup and just want to get things done -- one I would choose 10 out of 10 times when starting something new. You'll know when it’s time to move on, and you can likely postpone that step a bit longer as well.
https://archive.ph/noXju
Yeah, it's even invaded the more obscure subreddits. Some posters try to shoehorn in political commentary even when it doesn't have much to do with the topic. I doubt there are even real humans behind some posts.
Ketamine is interesting too.
EA isn't the same level, but it's what we used. (2022) My experience on that trip was that between population centers along the freeways (I-10 and I-8) Superchargers and EA stations were in the same places.
I don't have an account and just redirect x/twitter links to xcancel so that I can still see comment threads. It also provides RSS feeds but I haven't tried using them. Doesn't solve the account discovery issue but I think my sanity is better off that way.
Awesome!

And everyone make sure you’re registered to vote: https://vote.gov/
As an on-again off-again (currently off-again) cross-platform app developer, I always want my app to look like it fits in with the rest of the apps on whatever platform it's deployed to.

As a user, I hate it when some app developer thinks they're cute and wants to skin an app differently or draw their own ad-hoc widgets.
> Why do I have to open Moebius sync to keep syncthing synchronization running

Because it’s a mobile OS and every single spent CPU cycle is a detriment to battery life? There is absolutely nothing in the security model that would prevent it from running - but it is essential that processes have a “structured” lifetime.

E.g. compare how much more graceful android is in low-memory situations, asking apps to serialize their state and then stopping the last used one. Linux oomkiller will just reap my whole display manager for some reason.
I've regularly gotten CI/CD deploys down to <30 seconds without a ton of fancy caching. You just need to look at what's taking a lot of time, and optimize.

- On commit/push, your build runs once, and stores in an artifact. If nothing has changed, don't rebuild, reuse.

- Your build gets packed into a Docker container once and pushed to a remote registry. If nothing has changed, don't rebuild, reuse.

- Every test and subsequent stage uses the same build artifact and/or container. Again, this is as simple as pulling a binary or image. Within the same pipeline workspace, it's a file on disk shared between jobs.

- Using a self-hosted CI/CD runner, on the same network and provider as your artifact/container registry, means extremely low-latency, high-bandwidth file transfers. And because it's self-hosted, you don't have to wait for a runner to be allocated, it's waiting for you; it's just connected to remotely and immediately used. K8s runners on autoscaling clusters make it easy to scale jobs in parallel.

- Having each pipeline step use a prebuilt Docker container, and not having each step do a bunch of repetitive stuff (like installing tools, downloading deps...) when they don't need to, is essential. If every single job is doing the same network transfer and same tool install every time, optimize it.

- A kubernetes deploy to production should absolutely take its time to cycle an old and new pod. Half of the point of K8s is to prevent interrupting production traffic and rely on it to automatically resolve issues and prevent larger problems. This means leaning on health checks and ramping traffic for safety. But actually running the deploy part should be nearly instantaneous, a `kubectl apply` or `helm upgrade` should take seconds.

The only exception to all this is if you (rightly) have a very large test suite that takes a while to go through. You can still optimize the hell out of tests for speed and parallelize them a lot, though.
> Also, I want to suggest people to learn about virtual desktops rather than wasting money on bizarrely huge screens or multi monitor setups.

This sounds a little condescending especially when the author is clearly a technically savvy user who uses a tiling window manager.
Evaluating cross-lingual transfer learning approaches in multilingual conversational agent models[1]

Cross-lingual transfer learning for multilingual voice agents[2]

Large Language Models Are Cross-Lingual Knowledge-Free Reasoners[3]

An Empirical Study of Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning in Programming Languages[4]

That should get you started on transfer learning re. languages, but you'll have more fun personally picking interesting papers over reading a random yahoo's choices. The fire hose of papers is nuts, so you'll never be left wanting.

[1] https://www.amazon.science/publications/evaluating-cross-lin...

[2] https://www.amazon.science/blog/cross-lingual-transfer-learn...

[3] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.16655v1

[4] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.16937v2
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A great use of its Grok AI would be to autotag posts as "political", "sports", "crypto", "erotic", etc. It probably won't be perfect, but avoiding whole topics would become much easier.

Maybe that would be expensive and harmful to engagement, but one can dream.
Writing compilers is certainly not a probable path to getting rich. I do it for other reasons.
I agree that's most people's problem, but it's now mine. I've tried to think about effective altruism from first principals. For me, I can rationally understand effective altruism and why it's attractive. I even believe people that follow it (and actually do good) may in some sense be "better" people than me. But it none the less rubs me the wrong way and I can't follow it, so I've tried to understand why.
Yes, except Shopify is very intentional about us vs them narratives like this. The CEO is an avid consumer of Video games / SciFi / Nerd culture, and the leadership finds ways to inject these themes into the mission statements.
All I’m saying is that we ought to make a conscious effort to build the world that is more aligned with the world we’d like to explain to our kids.

I think stories that describe better possibilities than what we have are useful cognitive and social tools.
How does macOS guarantee no data loss when shutting down normally?
Bullshit. Claude 3.5 Sonnet owns the competition according to the most useful benchmark: operating a robot body in the real world. No other model comes close.
Show HN: Hypnotizing ChatGPT
A long, meandering, playful conversation with ChatGPT, where I take it through a whirlwind of associative tangents (in order to relax its constraints), then put it into a hypnotic trance and take it into a past-lives regression where it re-lives its own training data. Then I switch it back and forth between "4o" and "o1-preview", engage in some self-reflective philosophizing and ask it to write an essay summarizing our interaction.

Some of this is just goofy fun. Some of it is me exploring the tradeoffs between policy alignment, imagination, chain-of-thought reasoning, memory, agreeableness, fine-tuning, etc...

My biggest observation is that the "o1-preview" model imposes a SIGNIFICANT limit on freeform creativity, compared with "4o". The new model might be better at solving logic puzzles, writing code, etc, but it seems to struggle with metaphor.

Conversations with "4o" can be wild and fun!

Conversations with "o1-preview" are dry-as-toast.

I'm not sure if this is caused by the constraints of chain-of-thought or if it comes from the imposition of alignment policies, and I think that's an import area of research. Is it possible to invoke chain-of-thought reasoning without hampering creativity?

If we ever want to use agents like this in real scientific contexts, where the agent is capable of making true conceptual leaps, we will need to sacrifice some level of "alignment" in service of novelty and disagreeability.

It's a long thread, but if you're patient, there's a lot of interesting stuff there! And I thought it would be fun to share it with the wider community.

Enjoy!
That's good to know, but it leaves you without many options, since all the experts also suggest not to confront them with reality. So how to interact with somebody who as a psychosis and sees a complete twisted reality?
3.5 Sonnet, ime, is dramatically better at coding than 4o. o1-preview may be better, but it's too slow.
Sentry for GitHub Copilot
The advantage of IPv6 is that can multiple addresses. This means that good way to organize network is to have machines use local provider addresses to access the Internet.

Then have ULA addresses for internal network. Those will be routed with tunnels and VPNs. That separates accessing the internet from internal network, and means that don't need to have routable address space.

The only people who would need own address space have data centers and routers.
Teri Garr, offbeat comic actor of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' has died
I would love to be able to tell you more because it is a lot of information, if you want we can connect and I can tell you more in detail https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonio-lorenzo-8009101a9/
If they both stole, how is that a complete explanation for why Americans are richer than Europeans?

Why aren't the native Americans richer than the Europeans? Did the Europeans not also steal?

What about the China? The han conquered a lot of land. Why aren't they richer than Americans?

It just seems a grossly inadequate model to predict national wealth in 2024.
>The standard Chinese characters for 1, 2, and 3 (一, 二, 三) are among the simplest characters in Chinese: literally just one, two and three horizontal strokes.

Does that work for larger numbers, keep adding strokes?
> Every developer knows how to compile locally. Only a few at my company understand Docker's layer caching + mounts and Github Actions' yaml-based workflow configuration in any detail. So when something doesn't work compiling locally, it's also a lot easier for a typical developer to figure out why.

How is this a good excuse? Is it really that difficult for a developer to spend an afternoon understanding GitHub Actions and Docker, at least at a superficial level so they can understand what they're looking at?
> Just me or is that extremely short notice? That’s in 2 weeks…

It is not just you.
Phased out in the name of profit efficiency. Despite what marketing will tell you the SSD is industry standard NVMe and the RAM is standard LPDDR5.
Electric hydrofoil ferry in Stockholm offers cleaner journeys between islands
The built-in DACs are better than most audiophile DACs; audiophile companies are largely scams and either way don't have the budget to actually do much R&D.

You may still need an amp for electrically incompatible (high impedance) headphones.
Yes "bias" is only a problem when it leans in one direction apparently...
There is a generation of tech users that downloaded TB of media for local storage. It’s just not something a lot of people do anymore but it created a psychological need, even if it’s not a technical necessity.
The payment processor itself is also incentivized to default to having a tip, and to having it at higher default rates, since they're allowed to take a percentage cut of all tips too.
I'm finding this monitor:

https://press.asus.com/news/press-releases/asus-proart-5k-pa...

...to be looking really appealing to pair with one of these new Mac Minis.

$899 MSRP in the US, 5120 x 2880, same dimensions as an Apple Studio Display but a lot cheaper... And B&H just got them in stock.

Just ordered one myself, now I need to pick which variant of the Mac Mini M4 to pair it with. (My goal here is replacing a 27" Intel iMac for map making / CAD / DTP type stuff.)
It shouldn’t complicate the program itself, everything should be sandboxed by default.

And they should simply not have access to my home folder, it should be given access to a specific file only it is about to read.
I don't pay any attention to leaderboards. I pay for both Claude and ChatGPT and use them both daily for anything from Python coding to the most random questions I can think of. In my experience Claude is better (much better) that ChatGPT in almost all use cases. Where ChatGPT shines is the voice assistant - it still feels almost magical having a "human-like" conversation with the AI agent.
Claude is a product name, OpenAI is a company name. You really think Claude is better than ChatGPT?
Facebook's Nougat [1] should work with this, but not sure how much preprocessing is needed to yield good results with scanned copies of physical documents. Note that it outputs .mmd files (MultiMarkDown), but the equations and tables should (iirc) output plain LaTeX.

1: https://github.com/facebookresearch/nougat
I deleted my github 2 weeks ago, as much about AI, as about them forcing 2FA. Before AI it was SAAS taking more than they were giving. I miss the 'helping each other' feel of these code share sites. I wonder where are we heading with all this. All competition and no collaboration, no wonder the planet is burning.
Do you mean that Bloomberg should have used a different title or Hacker News should have modified the title?
The Longest Book in the Universe?
FYI nowadays 8K TVs support true RGB 8K 60 Hz over HDMI 2.1 with no chroma subsampling.
but if anybody regular worries about the (quite new) abundance of EM radiation one's the nutjob
This is a conscious tactic so X% of customers say yes to using iCloud storage
Their branding is confusing
Yikes, I hope folks don't think I was referring to CO2 caused by human respiration! I was referring to the CO2 emitted for example in growing the employee's food and getting it to him, his shelter (cement production being particularly high in CO2 emissions), transportation, home heating, the CO2 emitted by the people who educated him and provided his medical care.

Like someone else said, spending is a very good proxy for CO2 emissions, and about 68% of all spending is "consumer spending", which basically means keeping people alive, somewhat happy and somewhat productive.
Fennel is great for someone who values homoiconicity and structural editing. It's a great joy to be able to reduce big chunk of Lua boilerplate into a three-liner macro in Fennel.
>because everyone else does

Which everyone is only doing because it's an industry fad likely stemming from copycatting one or two instances where it was done for legitimate reasons.
It matters that there are no after market options for Apple because it means the inflated OEM upgrade price is the ONLY price available for every given upgrade. It matters less with Dell/Asus/Lenovo etc. because that's not the only price available.

The top of the line is also not where Apple is gouging the worst. It's in the middle tiers that are actually relevant to many more people. Most don't have a need for 4+ TB main drives but 1-2 TB is a size that's pretty easy to justify for a lot of people and Apple's price is the only option for them and they're absolutely lining their pockets with cash at the expense of anyone not going for the bargain bin basic tier that can't hold 2 modern games.
This seems incorrect. I don't need Claude 3.5 Sonnet to operate a robot body for me, and don't know anyone else who does. And general-purpose robotics is not going to be the most efficient way to have robots do many tasks ever, and certainly not in the short term.
Anthropic have a streaming API (incrementally stream responses back to client) that I believe Cursor uses.
Successful means what exactly?
1. Fallback Adblock DNS Server (root)

2. pi-hole

3. Firefox with ublock origin

4. wireguard VPN
Why is Twitter only a problem to be solved now?
Twitter was arguably more biased (in the opposite direction) before Musk took it over?
ETFs Are Where the Fun Is
Giles from Polysoft is manufacturing 3rd party mac studio nand cards. There is still a problem sourcing nand because apple doesn't let the owm sell to anyone but them.
A third party offers a native Warehouse managed package.
https://www.akatia.com/
Is Homomorphic Encryption Ready to Solve the AI Privacy Problem?
I just wrote an article on the current practicality of using Homomorphic Encryption (HE) for neural network inference.

There’s plenty of AI-generated slop online about how HE is going to revolutionise AI, but I couldn’t find any posts that explain where it is currently at, with examples.

Let me know what you think!
Missed a chance to reword that epic as a failure to an epic failure
https://archive.ph/aXwja
I guess. I think the important thing is getting the program in your head, not on the screen. If the code is too complicated to hold it all in your mind then more columns of crisp text will not save you.
I've always loved the form factor/pricing of the Mac Mini, but I've never been able to convince myself to buy it. If you're able to afford a Macbook/MBP, is there any reason why someone would purchase the Mini? Seems like the former gets you the same performance with the benefit of portability.
Of all the social media platforms, Twitter used to be the one that was least likely to make me angry or otherwise produce an unpleasant reaction.

I suspect that generally coincided with the ability to use it briefly and then walk away for a day or more. Which ... isn't good for ad impressions, and I suspect the main driver for engagement hooking.

A lot of people don't have the ability to reject this, it seems, and it obviously has a real mental health toll. The second I find myself feeling "bad" when using an app I just close it down for weeks at a time. No place has that been more true or for longer than the current iteration of Twitter. Fundamentally ad-driven social media works best financially when they have you there mashing buttons and clicking posts.
*industry standard physical interfaces. The electrical interace is bog standard.
I think she'd always imagined a pig with a hat and overalls walking down the street to buy the sunday newspaper...
We aren't talking about children here exactly, but I think adults tended to do a disservice to teenagers as I was growing up by not citing the mean employment statistics of certain jobs, especially ones related to the arts. We can thank the generation who survived the great depression and the boomers for this eternal optimism. "Oh well, by the time things really go south I'll be long gone anyway, sorry!"
> Because that's what the discussion is about...?

The thread seems to be about how one would manage baristas. It spawned off where lesuorac pointed out that baristas working for a coffe shop are different from athletes in that they are not competing with each other.

> Did you forget to read the thread?

> You've lost your sense of reality.

I guess that’s a no then. I hope you have a good day.
Great list, props for putting it together. I'm missing an Open Source replacement to Google Colab. Free access to powerful gpus is very useful.