skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a proprietary locked-down "computer", closer to an iPhone or iPad or other smartphone than a standard PC.
My 3yo realized that sausages were pigs. He asked does that mean pigs eat sausages made of humans? Can WE eat sausages made of humans if we run out of sausages made of pigs?
True, but PCs are 128 bits wide, apple lets you upgrade to 256 bits wide (M4 pro), 512 bits wide (m3 Max) or 1024 bits wide (M2 Ultra).

Unified memory is much more useful when you can get more bandwidth to it.
Nope sorry. There is no data that supports that. We are mostly talking about emulation to play games that are no longer playable that are considered abandonware. Copyright was meant to be a short limit so an organization or individual can profit and then the work gets put into the public domain. There is no god given right to maximize profits beyond 5 or 10 years a most. The whole 95 year thing is a sham meant to prevent creative works from entering into the public domain.
> I think this easily beats any sort of desktop PC you can buy at that price

Not really. Do a quick googling for cheap miniPCs from brands such as minisforum or Beelink. Years ago they were selling Ryzen5 and Intel i5 with 16BG of RAM for around $300. No "educational software" bullshit either, just straight from Amazon to anyone who bothered to click on a button.
About as likely as some random mid level Microsoft PM getting a role in the Harris administration via blog post about Agile. Cliff isn't some giant in meteorology, he's just a prof and Seattle weather blogger. He says in the comments, "I am not endorsing a candidate on this blog. I am having FUN," but you are polarized enough to think that any form of non-critical satirizing is an endorsement. That's fine. Cliff is a moderate which many leftists in Seattle misread as hard trump supporter.

How many trump staffers read his blog, do you think? Are weather models a hot topic among them?
Semantic Search for Trends
hello HN!

it's pretty hard to tell signal from noise when it comes to social media trends when trying to make short to mid-term inferences about anything.

We recently built semantic search around a (semi)real-time trends dataset we've been curating for some time now (~2 years). tldr, search queries are embedded and we perform a similarity search against our vectorized trends dataset, returning X most related trends.

There's been some interest in accessing the data directly so we built an API and some ui around this feature - we welcome you to give it a look or try and let us know what you think!

I think there could be many interesting applications in leveraging and applying this data - financial/market analysis factoring in real-time trends, AI personas that are "up-to-date" (I'm currently working on something like this), curating information/news feeds for your niche, etc. would love to hear more ideas if anyone would like to share.

you can try it out at https://trndgtr.com

leave a comment or feel free to email me directly at fred@trndgtr.com for any questions or thoughts :)
It's also worth mentioning that google spent a lot of time (and probably money) and human capital on their TPUs and slowly got there. Other companies that have a proven track record of hyper-scaling also tried and missed (tesla) so it's not as easy as locking a bunch of phds in a room and have them crank out LLMs. Hardware is finicky, slow to develop, slow to prove itself and extremely expensive.
"Side Effects"
I am using a 43 inch 4k monitor so I am allin on big screen real estate. But I find that even with a quarter of your screen area, I struggle to read the corners of the screen, the bottom is often obstructed by whatever is lying on my desk, and I had to make the mouse cursor bigger as I kept losing it. I doubt that an even bigger screen would be practical. I do have two 43in monitors side by side but the other one is more like a secondary screen for playing movies or "storing windows", it's too far from the eye to be useful as a primary monitor for reading and writing.
Landmark AI – A Tailwind CSS landing page generator for busy developers
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how an LLM trained in really high quality code would perform.

I’m far from impressed with the output of GPT/Claude, all they’ve done is weight against stack overflow - which is still low quality code relative to Google.

What is probability Google makes this a real product, or is it too likely to autocomplete trade secrets?
Well of course?

The world is vastly more complex than say the world of 1945, so almost certainly there are now likely several dozens to several hundreds of ‘epicycles’ that are in fact true and necessary for full understanding.

Edit: Now the pentagon doesn’t contain the entire complexity of mankind within it… but it’s probably not that far off.
In order to protect astronauts from decompression, the hull of a spacecraft has to be insanely good at stopping gas particles. Not 99.5% good, but like 99.9999999…% with 20 zeros! That’s very good.

But a thin metal sheet has no trouble doing this, as demonstrated by the Apollo lunar lander.

Some things are just not as hard as they sound. Magnetic confinement works very well. It easily achieves the necessary 9’s.

It’s just hard to keep it stable at millions of degrees, but that’s a different problem.
I did in fact buy a knock-off from ebay battery, but it kept it kept it's charge for hilariously little time. Had to run it of mains power permanently (ran it as a little server for a while).
My sitch was around the same time period.
> You may just not be seeing the visual artifacts on your screen because you don't know what they look like, or mentally adjust to what that screen looks like.

Does any of that matter, though? Who bothers with the existence of hypothetical artifacts in their displays they cannot even see?
This is about the only use case I found it helpful for - saving me time in research, not in coding.

I needed to compare compression ratios of a certain text in a language, and it actually came up with something nice and almost workable. It didn't compile but I forgot why now, I just remember it needing a small tweak. That saved me having to track down the libraries, their APIs, etc.

However, when it comes to actually doing data structures or logic, I find it quicker to just do it myself than to type out what I want to do, and double check its work.
SmartTube is even better than that: it lets you select from a huge range of speeds (I frequently like 1.25x and 1.5x personally, but it has even more fine-grained settings like 1.15x, 1.20x, etc.), and it remembers that selection for that channel, so if a particular Youtuber is a slow talker, you can pick a speed that works well and all his videos will show at that same speed.
If you can install a third-party OS without exploiting a security bug, then it's not "locked-down".
Ask HN: Writing Privacy Policy for Your Sass?
I see that most social logins require a link to a privacy policy.
How did you write privacy policy for your SaaS?
Did you hire a lawyer?
Did you use an online lawyer website ?
Or did you just get ChatGPT to write one for you?
The whole world has been formed already by our presence and will continue to be. Humans modify our environment, for good and ill, and this is happening in all cultures and at all scales of civilization. Gardening proves microscopically what happens on the macro scale. To presuppose that is hubris is one way of looking at it, but a very narrow one.

The real fault in your reply, besides missing the substance of mine, is that framing such things as “hubris” doesn’t really help us weigh the value of the idea. At most it’s a critique of ambition, but an idea’s ambition isn’t related to its validity.

Also, wanting other humans to flourish is nearly the opposite of vanity.
This would be more interesting if it were supported by representative examples from Google open source projects.
Place the vending machines/pay phones inside other locations...train stations, etc.
Samsung is ~2-3 years behind, which is not as bad as HN claims it to be. But if you can sell the chips at 80% profit, you would want the best.
> ActivityPub seems to require a lot of hardware resources in order to run properly

Correction: "The Mastodon software requires a lot of hardware resources in order to run properly"

Alternatives like GotoSocial, Akkoma, even Honk are much less resource intensive.
You may want to look at the Samsung 5K monitor. It can often be had for $700. The sharpness of text is beautiful, especially if you're using a mac since it's optimized at 218ppi to avoid scaling. But, it might be smaller than you want. Apple also makes one that is nearly identical, except for the price.

PS - I have seen Dell go downhill as well. I returned the last Dell laptop I bought. My wife was sitting next to me on the couch and her macbook had full wifi bars while the dell had one bar. I did some research and they were using a pretty cheap wifi controller and maybe also had poor antenna design. I ordered a ThinkPad for the same price and it was great.
Wait til you guys hear about DNA transcription error rates!
That's a bit overdramatic.

For most people, assuming you have a decent power supply, running without ECC is quite acceptable.

I've been using my old desktop systems for my NAS for over a decade, with no ECC, and between bi-weekly scrubs and a lot of files with internal checksums like archives and backups which gets verified monthly, I've not noticed any data loss over the years.

Sure there might be some random jpeg or whatever that got corrupted in flight, but for me it's an acceptable tradeoff of reducing the hardware cost.

Of course, if you really care about all of your data and/or you got the money, ECC is of course definitely a good thing.
Did you read the comic? It addresses this exact criticism. There are links to sources at the bottom of the page. Economix Comix has been completely fine to post in the past.
What does your reply have to do with a thread about healthcare in Alberta?
> From my experience, TCO on most apple products ends up being roughly the same when you factor in resale value.

This reads like the epitome of Apple's reality distortion field. I mean, you're trying to convince yourself that a product is not overpriced when compared to equivalent products and subjecting customers to price gauging by asserting that you might be able to sell it later. That's quite the logical leap.
Documentation is definitely lacking - I just got the design to a point where I'm pretty happy with it. So far only 1 machine exists and the build has a few bits that are... less than ideal.

The plan was to build a second machine and optimize some of the assembly, take notes and document the build.
You're right that all I have to do is find the first line of the footnotes, because everything above is the text and everything under it is footnotes.

For now I have selected a crude approach: there is a gap in the page between the text and the notes, of about one line height. So if one simply takes all the first words of each line and compares their vertical distance, when that distance grows significantly, it's where the footnotes start.

I have tested this method on a dozen of pages and it works, but it remains to be seen if it will stand the test of many pages, esp. those that are askew.

Using the average width of letters instead of their height is a neat idea though; visually it's undeniable that there is a greater difference of width than of height between the footnotes and the main text. I may resort to that if the crude approach proves too simple!
> ...and I can review code very quickly so the overall productivity boost has been great.

Color me skeptical. After a certain point, greater speed is achieved by sacrificing accuracy and comprehension. So, "I can review code very quickly" starts to sound like "I don't read, I skim."

IMHO, reviewing code is one of the parts of the job that sucks, so I see "AI" as a wonderful technology to improve our lives by replacing fun with chores.
A quick search for news articles will show you that Singapore does execute people for trafficking marijuana in rather modest amounts.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/singapore-death-penalty-drugs-exe...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65395390
Ah never mind, read through the site a bit more. They are aiming to be the Mondragon [1] of music. The co-op modal seems interesting, so is socially beneficial corp. In the end of day it is all about implementation. It is nice that there are lawyers and economists involved, but are the founders sound artists? have they toured? run a music venue? Asking for the founding fee of $100 seems quite a bit much, but then again does seems a bit like the vibe coming from LA area who is out of touch with the rest of the world.

[1]https://www.mondragon-corporation.com/en/
I would replace author with a boolean of if the author's account is new or not (the green marker that HN has for new users' posts and comments).
Is there an easy alternative to the standard Android version running on Sony TVs? In the past year, the home screen now shows ads and it can’t be disabled.
I love it too. I just wish it was also available on Android mobile.
Well that will work great if you let the AI decide if the code is working or not.

User: This is calculating the result wrong.

AI: CLOSED WONTFIX: WORKING AS DESIGNED.
Not at all. CRTs are terrible in every way. What I'd like is uLED displays to maximize contrast and minimize lumens.
> If a $600 Mac lasts 5 years and still worth $150 and another machine loses all its value in six months (...)

Your hypothetical scenario is so absurd you didn't even noticed your catastrophical scenario falls well within any warranty period.

In the meantime, I own cheap miniPCs that I used as daily drivers, and they soldier on for years.

I mean, do you really believe that NUCs from Intel and AMD will simply fall apart if they don't have an Apple sticker on them?
Same reason as programming language flamewars. Coders assume their individual experience holds for every domain. Yet LLMs are good for some things, bad at others.
Good point - there is a provision for laser-cut steel or alu plates that sit inside pockets inside the enclosure panels as I figured many would be turned off by a full plywood design.

The metal parts are symmetric so you can cut 2x of each - that is way cheaper on send-cut-send (afair only 25% extra for 2nd part).
if you don't drain connections, you are slapping users in the face. if your deploy commands fail, you are shipping downtime.
>I don’t usually watch movies on this, but when I do, I set it to 4K 120 Hz mode. The 120 Hz is nice as it is divisible by both 24 fps and 30 fps, which are common framerates for movies, although The Hobbit running at 48 Hz would benefit from Variable Refresh Rate (which does work).

This is naive speculation lacking empirical support. Most movies are released at 23.976 fps, which would necessitate at least one double frame being presented per minute at refresh rates which are multiples of 24 fps. Also there is no 48 fps version of The Hobbit currently available on home media.
>They would have earned that money with far less time and effort.

Prize or not, time 'invested' in reasoning out an original solution will very likely 'pay off' in the future much better than investing in flipping burgers. In satisfaction and fulfillment for sure. What's life for? No doubt Erdos and Euler, and certainly van Gogh, might have made more at McDonalds as well.
TLDR: NASA knows the issue and is working on validating it and making changes internally before releasing it to the public. Nothing was found which would jeopardize Artemis II
Show HN: I Built Notetoos to Organize My Todos and Notes
Please tell your reviews
Next step is to forbid newlines from file content itself, to fix conforment json parsers ?
Our neighbor has chickens. We sometimes help out with the eggs.

One day my son asked if we can go eat one of our neighbor's chickens.

I had to explain the difference between egg laying chickens and meat chickens.

Also I explained that it is rude to eat your neighbors' animals without asking first.
> You move instances because the old one announces a shutdown? No old posts visible, no import possible.

But this isn't "utterly basic" to solve on the backend due to how ActivityPub (currently) works. First you have to allow backdated posts[0] (not supported in the spec) which requires a mechanism to stop them being sent out (else they'll appear in current timelines[0]) but also you need a mechanism to send them out (to update the old URLs except how does the new instance know where the old instance sent the status? And how do you prove that you have the right to even request the change?)

These are probably not insurmountable but they do require a lot of thinking about!

[0] I ran into these importing an old Twitter bot into my Akkoma instance. I had to modify the server code and it was not a fun time.
Escape the Algorithm: Meet Social Reader, Your Personal Feed
Failed Shark Tank Product (Lugbug) Could've Saved $750k with 3D Printing [video]
Same, I switched back to a single 27" screen last year. For me it's better to focus on one thing at a time especially since my eyes aren't the best, and I switch between virtual desktops with F1-F4 (or when I use my mac with the 3-finger swipe gesture).
Oh we've gone over the complete list of what eats what including all the bidirectional cases towards the top of the food chain.

Sometimes he'll think up of a pairing and ask me to check online which animal eats the other. Yesterday it was praying mantis Ed VS spiders.

Turns out that can go either way depending on the spider.
Maybe dinosaurs were just more advanced when it came to building a society that coexisted with their environment
Interesting post. Thanks you for taking the time to write it.

In the long stack trace example, the first two traces start at the same line 277 which, I think, solves part of the problem you've posed. I need to look at the source code for the rest of the stack trace.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "requests\packages\urllib3\contrib\pyopenssl.py", line 277, in recv_into
return self.connection.recv_into(*args, \*kwargs)
File "OpenSSL\SSL.py", line 1335, in recv_into
self._raise_ssl_error(self._ssl, result)
File "OpenSSL\SSL.py", line 1149, in _raise_ssl_error
raise WantReadError()
OpenSSL.SSL.WantReadError

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "requests\packages\urllib3\contrib\pyopenssl.py", line 277, in recv_into
return self.connection.recv_into(*args, \*kwargs)
File "OpenSSL\SSL.py", line 1335, in recv_into
self._raise_ssl_error(self._ssl, result)
File "OpenSSL\SSL.py", line 1166, in _raise_ssl_error
raise SysCallError(errno, errorcode.get(errno))
OpenSSL.SSL.SysCallError: (10054, 'WSAECONNRESET')*
I don't have one to test but if their history with the PlayStations is any indication you'll have good luck with https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jailbreak%20sony%20tv&ia=web
That's neat, but it's meant to get its parts from feeders. It's a small-volume production machine.
I did. Most of them if not all have tried it once just out of curiosity. None of them is using it on a regular basis- not even once a week. Maybe I am in the wrong group? Includes family / friends (non tech). Tech people (friends) use it regularly for coding though.
People working on VMs have to maintain compatibility with old bytecode and evolve the bytecode format forward, does that count?
PFX – How Not to Design a Crypto Protocol/Standard
Supernatural Abilities of a Virtual Kubelet
Ignore the SPLC's own editorializing --- I don't take SPLC's analyses all that seriously either --- and just read the quotes on this page.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi...

Nobody here is defaming Lynn. You can disagree with the appellation (though I find a number of fact-checked publications claiming that he does describe himself that way), but I don't think it's reasonable to call the argument libelous.
I think your AI-generated content mainly shows up in the text, while the layout of the webpage is consistent, which doesn't really showcase the superiority of AI.
I designed a little machine that's smaller than the Carvera with a 300W spindle at a lower price-point but requiring DIY (my build is probably around $550-600 now), I kept it smaller for a couple of reasons but stiffness was one of them.

The Carvera has an excellent work-volume to machine size ratio. Afaict it's not the stiffest machine but quite decent. The spindle power looks about right for it's level of stiffness judging by the YT videos I've seen.
Do You Ever Receive Insider Information from Search Engines?
I'm curious about the extent to which SEO experts rely on insider information from search engines like Google or Bing.

Is all your knowledge based on publicly available resources, personal experimentation, and community insights? Or do some professionals have access to non-public information through partnerships or exclusive programs?

I'd love to hear your experiences and thoughts on how insider knowledge (or the lack thereof) impacts your SEO strategies.
take a look at https://xhr.dev/, a product I built to avoid bot detection challenges in the first place.
I made this simple day planner app with GPTEngineer
Thanks, yeah, a separate 4mm socket with a handle is certainly a possibility, but I liked the idea of a 4mm hex hole in something like this, to accompany the holes that are already there:

https://knifeworks.com/crkt-9100kc-eatn-tool-black-oxide-fin...

I'll look at the rotary broach video. Yes the hole would go all the way through, so a punch sounds ok. Anyway it's not about making this one hole. It's more an example of the kind of stuff I'd like to do with metalworking gear if I had access to it and knew how to use it.

It does sound like hard materials are an obstacle as well. Aluminum is a start though.
I've found explaining boilerplate code to Claude or ChatGPT has been very worthwhile, the boring code gets written and the prompt is the documentation.

OTOH tab completion in Intellij and Xcode has been useful occasionally, usually distracting and sometimes annoying. A way to fast toggle this would be good, but when I know what I want to code, good old code completion works nicely thanks.
Lossy Image Compression with Foundation Diffusion Models [video]
You’ve been eating the wrong things all your life. Animals aren’t obese in the wild, nor would you be if you didn’t eat slop.
Don't take every comment so seriously, you do what works for you.
Oh wow, I had never heard the word used before in that way -- thanks!
Ha e a look at Tauri for a less resource intensive electron alternative. Written in rust and supports any framework on the frontend side, with strong access control & lightweight backend.
It is a joke, but not related to Borges, at least not intentionally.
Bezos is completely out of touch like most billionaires.
All you got to do is write the unit tests and let the AI evolve the code, right??
I’m sorry. I’m just frustrated enough scanning the QR code in the restaurant.

Now I have to scan another QR code just to meet you?

I prefer looking for new friends.