skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I ask why? What is the harm in saving users work unexpectedly especially when I see a version history here?

I have been working with computers for 30 years, and I would find lack of a timed autosave surprising. Autosave was common on desktop applications in the mid 1990s. See: Everything in the MS Office suite.
Manual save-points are still useful though if you want to go back to a previous version and branch off a different experiment.

Pretty much the same how (mostly PC-) games combine auto-save, manual quick-save and manual 'explicit' save (with a name chosen by the user), and where the last N auto- and quick-saves are preserved (where N is usually a fairly small number). It's less about not losing progress (for that, having only auto-save is fine), but being able to go back to a previous 'checkpoint' and branching off a new timeline.
Microsoft Hires Engineer Who Kept Facebook Data Centers Humming
The website SoundsGirls.space explores the connection between music tastes and personality, offering interactive features like a music-focused bot and a virtual girlfriend experience for ideal communication. These services aim to enhance engagement through music, revealing personal preferences and cultural influences that shape musical interests. Through its unique approach, the platform seeks to connect individuals with compatible personalities based on shared musical vibes.
CATL unveils new battery for extended-range hybrids
> Simplex algorithm should never work given its exponential worst case performance.

Note that it has been proven however that if you slightly perturbate the inputs then the expected complexity becomes polynomial, meaning the inputs for which it's exponential are actually just pathological cases and it is polynomial in practice.
Same. Cleaning up the hot water and coffee grounds slurry off the counter top or floor early in the morning is already a huge pain in my assholes, I don't want to add glass shards in the mix.

Or the thought of pressing too hard on a glass AeroPress, having it tip over and shatter, slicing through my arm. Would be the silliest way to go out.
What specifically about emacs org mode made you more organised?
It seems like you're just trying to get people to check out your homework helper app.

In the future you should just transparently post this as a "Show HN".
Have a friend who was doing is masters at the time in neural networks, and was making use of FP a lot. He was getting strange results, especially in comparing what he was getting at home on his PC and what he was getting in the school labs on SPARC.

He had (a) do a lot of effort to 'prove' to Intel that his CPU was faulty, and then (b) sign an NDA to get a replacement chip.

A week after he signed the agreement and sent it in they publicly announced the recall.
Totalitarian dictatorship point of view, but bear with me:

Would it be wrong to simply stop them doing this? As in; you're free to leave, but the money you made in this country stays in this country. Of course I understand that may not be feasible given how complicated it would be to work out, but just on a hypothetical moral basis, would it be wrong?
There have been no announced plans to remove win32 nor would I expect one. Too many apps still in use are win32. Win16 support was only discontinued after basically zero actively developed apps were still using it.

You might be thinking of the fact that current versions of Windows itself require x64 processors to run.
Roc Camera Beta – Capture verifiably real moments in the age of AI
The core tenet is that you've paid them for their work in order to profit off of it, in an exchange both parties have entered into freely.

Not that you've used their work without paying.
ThinkPad X220 here. From late 2012 until late 2023 in service with Linux.
It is still usable but finally replaced it by an X13 Gen3 AMD with Linux. The magnesium body is a bless and feels a lot better to the skin than aluminium. The HiDPI display is the biggest upgrade. The six row keyboard is sturdy but a downgrade from the seven row keyboard. I miss the notch to open the lid.

It got worse with Gen4/5 which now have an awful hump (reverse notch) like a smartphone.

The long usage of the X220 depends on the built quality but also on the five year replacement part support. New batteries and a new palm rest (cracked during a journey). It not just quality you pay for, it is this support level. And of course more memory.
Apple still fails in this regard and barely does something when forced by the European Union. Anyway - Apple doesn’t officially support Linux therefore I cannot buy them for work.

This is the part wich saddens me, they do good work and the next MacBook will also not run fully with Linux. This kind of catchup things by hackers cannot be won - until the vendor decides you’re a valuable customer. Therefore, don’t buy them that you can run Linux. You maybe can. But these devices are made for macOS only.

But if you want to run Linux on a MacBook? Talk your politicians! And send „messages“ with your money to Apple. Like buying ThinkPads, Dells Developer Edition, Purism, System 76 and so on :)
The AI stuff is cool, but the unlock for consistently improved developer experience and productivity has been the consistent use of linters, formatters, type checking, strict commit messages, and automated releases, and change logs.

Having all that in place really changes my attitude from "playground on my machine" to "put my name on it and ship it." -- it makes me proud.

I'm heavy on python, so there are a few "aftermarket" bolt-ons:

- ruff for linting and formatting
- flit for package management (will experiment with uv in the coming days)
- commitizen for commit formatting
- pyright for type checking (but not for Django projects)
- pycharm is where all the magic happens
- pre-commit for commit hooks and final checks before it get shared to the repo

I don't mention all the CI/CD stuff here because that is a separate thing.

Building up this stack took a while to onboard into. Taking it on all at once would be overwhelming and leave me bewildered.

It is nice to have claude or chatGPT around to have around for going into the weeds. However, "trust but verify" -- these LLMs will hallucinate, so you should check the original documentation.

The overall impact has been that I now use template repos where I can spin up a production-ready codebase with all the fixins. Not only that -- it is also ready for others to consume in a predicable fashion.

I still need to write docs, use cases, and things like that. But having this in place give me the opportunity to run faster, ship faster, and revisit old work with a confidence that was not there before.
It's easy to get a capitalist to come out of retirement. Most of the time you just have to ask them to take a look at your business. Before you know it they accept a board position and shortly thereafter they are running point as President.
Am I right in thinking that this has no bearing on America due to their double-tax policy? i.e. You can leave, but we still want our taxes.
It's not that cheap to operate and pretty poor conversion. So given the spending cap of £34m per party in the year before the election, it's probably not worth it.
And how many of these recently-employed and recently-deceased people were whistle-blowers? I mean, I don't know, it's Boeing, it could be a high percentage.
Not the case universally. My son's school in south-central UK does everything via Google Docs or apps specially built for distance learning. If it weren't for Minecraft mods, he'd have no concept of the file system.
< slow clap >
I 100% agree. This has nothing to do with files, but rather with expectations of how web apps work.

Maybe current web apps implement auto-saving with bad feedback, sure, but this factor should be taken into consideration when building new web apps.
This is amazing. If anyone likes this kind of functionality and doesn’t mind expanding beyond vanilla org mode I recommend org-roam.

https://www.orgroam.com/

Roam Research, what it’s based on, might also be of interest.
>change how people find and access information

As someone who has been using google for search basically constantly since 1995, I've switched probably 90%+ of what normally would have been google searches over to Perplexity (which gives me references to web pages alongside answers to my questions, to review source materials) and ChatGPT (for more just answers I can verify without source). The remaining searches have gone to Kagi.

On the one hand this has got to be hurting Google search ad revenue. On the other hand I don't know if I ever clicked an advertised link. On the other other hand, not having to wade through SEO results has been so nice.
The email can have a video link.

Unless there's a need to interact (and there rarely is at an all-hands), it would save everyone time to just prerecord it. Any followup questions can be sent via email with reply-to-all (or an internal mailing list).
When importing the passwords into a new devices you’re required to enter the device password of whatever device created the password initially.

Still no proof that there’s no back door, but as far as the system on the surface goes, it does make sense.
For the record, in my local elections, we have plenty of people voting illegally.

"Is it legal" is very different from "Can they."

By "local," I mean municipal and below. I didn't mean "federal elections conducted in my locality." Election security kicks for state, federal, and some municipal elections.

Others are intentionally fraudulent (e.g. local corruption) or unintentionally broken (e.g. using Google Forms for a school-level public body, where people not legally qualified to vote might still do it, unaware they're committing a felony).

And "public body" has a specific meaning under my state law which extends the same laws as e.g. cutting for my state senate. That's bodies like local school boards, but not random school clubs.

That's the level where we have massive illegal voting where I live.
I tried the playground on my Android phone and none of the key presses get through to the source code.

I can position the cursor by tapping and I get a virtual keyboard but I can't type anything.

Is this a bug or am I just missing something because If terrible UX?
Andrej Karpathy
https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy/videos

Sasha Rush (an underrated creator who deserves more eyeballs)
https://www.youtube.com/@srush_nlp/videos
Well, that feels like a rather extreme jump to conclusions, and was certainly not something I thought the GP comment was even suggesting.

I don't see any reason why people couldn't adjust from meeting friends at restaurants to hosting friends at home instead. (Unless, of course, your living space is limited)

If you aren't cooking and cleaning up after, what's the difference between that and meeting someone at a restaurant?
I've been wanting to provide some type of service for a while now. Unique endurance races and endurance challenges recently caught my eye as an area that doesn't have a ton of coverage.

My first idea was to jump right into building a website that made these types of races easily searchable. But I decided to slow down and just figure out the market first by creating a weekly substack newsletter. Each week I'll send out important upcoming dates for various unique endurance events and challenges. If I can grow this substack, I'll put effort into building this into a full fledged website!

The newsletter is call Feat of Strength and here is the latest newsletter: https://featofstrength.substack.com/p/feat-of-strength-newsl...

I would love constructive criticism on this. What would make this newsletter more valuable to you!
Unfortunately, the world now wants to be autosaved. One day, you might need to look at the usage pattern and AutoSave, perhaps when idle or after a set action is done (or fall back to the default timer). Otherwise, get a checkbox/radio that turns ON/OFF the options to "Autosave."
You can have 64-128GB RAM on a laptop these days. You could push to 3-4 easy.
Unfortunately, I think that's right. I've always thought this policy outrageous, but in this context I think it could make sense the other way around; don't double-tax income, but wealth.
Python Is Now the Most Popular Language on GitHub
Seems like the paper is a result of more than work of 4 years, which I did not realize previously. Not a simple research, for sure.
My take:
The meta move at play here would be China positioning the use of Meta's models for "military use"
(when they could full well independently build their own better models) to force a knee-jerk response in the West that slows down progress by hampering the spread of open models.
Hard to fault them for taking that stance
It's nice someone appreciate coffee [shops] ;)

But it looks like this is design after problem domain mastering.

Or rewrite :)

That "newer rewrite - look on Mozilla!" is just half of the truth.
>Google's Altavista moment

I'm wondering if they've seen the writing on the wall for a long time, and if diversification is going to save the day. I don't know that I've ever clicked on an ad in Google search results, but I happily pay them for a family account for Youtube and 2TB of drive storage, plus, you know, a flagship phone every couple years. :-)
Surely, the reasons are multivariate with all kinds of interactions and feedback mechanisms between the variables.

It is really a good example of what natural dimension reducers we are, even when we know it makes no sense. It is like we can't but help ourselves to reduce things to one explanatory variable.

My favorite is the news headline "The market went up today because of X".
> Boat people are usually not cheap to hire.

Costs a lot of money to make people put up with boat owners.
If it were to generate an environment rendered by classical means, it would most likely have object permanence instead of regenerating something new after briefly looking away: https://oasis-model.github.io/3_second_memory.webp
I would say that there are no other way besides AC to cool down residences. Only building something akin to a palace with thick stone walls. But naturally, everybody cannot live in a palace. What people did before AC was invented, is to go to the river for a bath to cool down. And if you are unfortunate to not have AC in a place were you'd need it, you'll have to take a lot of showers, and drink a lot of cold water (but fridges are AC technology).

But I don't think anybody should consider themselves lucky to have AC or heating or plumbing. We're in the 21st century, these should be granted. We've moved beyond the phase of bare survival.

If you consider Northern European countries, human survival would have been near impossible there without artificial heating in the form of fire. You could say that thick fur clothes and a protein and fat heavy diet is enough, but you still need to dry your clothes somehow if it's been pouring 0 degree rain for a month straight. On the other hand, eskimos seem to have found a better technique, but I think their advantage is that they live so far North that they don't have to worry about cold rain: https://time.com/archive/6798620/science-the-cozy-eskimo/

The cool thing (hehe) with AC that few people think about is that it actually conditions the air. It's not just an air cooler, but more importantly it removes air humidity. Humidity is much more important than temperature. For example, a day with 32℃ temperature and 45% humidity will not feel too hot. You can sit in the shadow and be comfortable. But a day with 27℃ temperature and 80% humidity will be suffocatingly hot. I'm not sure why, I think it has to do with how we sweat. Or maybe that heat is conducted from the air to our bodies more efficiently in higher humidity.

If you have any suggestion for a cheaper solution than AC for keeping cool at home, I would be happy to hear. The noise of the machine can be annoying at night.

I'd like to give you a tip for reducing your heating bill there in France: Electric bed sheet/blanket. I have been using these for a decade now (where I live it gets both hot and cold). They keep you warm and comfortable all night and they use almost no electricity. I even believe they are beneficial for your health, but I cannot prove that. Been telling my European friends for years to get them, but there is great resistance. From HowStuffWorks:

"The consumption of energy depends on its wattage, typically between 15 to 115 watts. If you're based in the U.S., you might be charged around 13 cents per kWh. So, if your electric blanket consumes 100 watts and you use it for 10 hours a day, that will cost about 13 cents."
>Of course they could. Being an "illegal immigrant" does not imply unlawful border crossing.

Same difference. Whether it's border crossing or visa overstay, from a pure legality aspect the answer is still "they couldn't".

>The contracting states shall not... impose penalties on refugees who entered illegally in search of asylum if they present themselves without delay (Article 31), which is commonly interpreted to mean that their unlawful entry and presence ought not to be prosecuted at all

I'd wager 99% do not "present themselves without delay", so don't fall in this case...
It generates the pixels, including the blurry UI at the bottom.
I don't think the 49 guy was even attempting in a hurry. It took him 4+ years, right.
That line made me laugh too... langoustine as appetizer yes please, as dessert I don't think so.
I’ve used org mode as a daily driver personally and at work for awhile but ultimately transitioned to Roam Research in part because the mobile experience is better.

I still use org mode to write my blog and journal but my knowledge management is all in Roam.
SEO can feel like such a balancing act—one tweak, and it’s a waiting game to see the impact! Sounds like you’ve learned a lot about the sensitivity of robots.txt.

If you’re into exploring new tech, you might like Rig. It’s a Rust library for building scalable, modular apps with LLMs, ideal if you’re branching out into AI or complex workflows. Keeps things type-safe and flexible.
I congratulate you, for having a son, who is able to be so principled about things like that. It is great that you had this informing chat as a parent with your child, and that he was able to understand and draw his conclusions.

That said, I think for many kids that social pressure or network effect is quite a motivator to get social media accounts. Say all their friends have one and they have a group, where they usually organize. Or say they are interested in someone and wants their contact info, but they only give them their social media details. For many people traditional ways of communication are somehow not their way any longer. I am talking about e-mail, phone calls, SMS, letters, and whatever else.

It is a sad fact, that most people become supporters of the big tech data sharks, even if unknowingly, by creating peer pressure. I wish you and your son can both stay strong in your resolves and that your environment is not too excluding.
Trump and Musk will get bored quickly if elected. Once in office your power is checked.
Agreed.. biggest problem with off the shelf embeddings I hit. Need a way to decompose embeddings.
This was a very informative article. It seems they should have shut down the generator and hvac and closed the vents. Pretty wild that a 45° heel angle caused it to ship water, that sounds pretty scary, as does the 75° righting angle with the keel up.
Those people are outnumbered 100:1 by people who simply deleted their trucks when the relevant parts gave them problem and kept the power at stock levels. Those people don't have a reason to brag anything like the "muh 100hp tune" people do so you don't hear about them.
> Unrestricted (and even more importantly, unmonitored)

As someone who grew up during the beginnings of the web, and started playing with programming when I was about 7, I'd agree that access to technology is important. As a parent that has the responsibility of making sure my kids develop good habits and stay safe, I believe that access to the internet should be restricted and monitored.
Any site that hijacks the back button has lost my trust.
I think the point of an off-line conference is to afford the speakers. Which then is put online as high quality content.

The cost thing is a main argument the author notes, but I suppose they're all doing this for free. Which only lasts as long as the author has time.
The key is Undo-Redo information is lost. On Google Docs you can "time-travel" almost on a keystroke level, so that's when auto-save makes sense.

Update, answered in detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016231
Security works best in layers
> In short, I ...

Correct. But my point was about the design & stability calculations. Not about the rigging state at critical moment, when this vessel failed. (And if things go seriously wrong up in the rigging, a few of your crew might just have to go climbing. Just like "sails could be wet", safety margins must allow for that.)
look into Rig. It’s a Rust library that works with LLMs and integrates well with vector stores like MongoDB.

Helpful for building a scalable, local RAG solution tailored to your group’s needs—plus, it’s open source-friendly if i'm correct.
What do you think of Ayn Rand’s works of fiction?
Anybody knows how either/both of the flowcharts in the post were made?

Is it Mermaid, Graphviz, some other tool/lib, some GUI tool like Visio, Lucid Charts, etc?
The interesting bit is that for years this wasn't a problem. Like for 5 years I got 0 support requests about missing Save. Also web apps were not auto-saving traditionally, many of them still don't do it today.

Update, answered in detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016231
Some traditionalist PC users use unsaved files as sort of temporary scratch space / undo buffer.

For example, imagine you've got a template for a presentation. You open the template, you add/edit as needed, then you save it with a new filename. You don't want it to autosave over the template.

Or you need to produce a cut-down version of an internal document to send to an external stakeholder, so you load the document, cut it down, then export-as-PDF. You don't want it to auto-save the deletions atop the original.

And of course traditional PC software didn't store a rewindable document history, and exiting the software discarded the undo buffer. So if the software auto-saved a cut-down version of the document over the original, the original was gone forever.

With autosave you've got to change your way of working, making the copy before you make the changes.
AI is socialism, and it's unstoppable. People are trying to stop progress and go back to the old days. Nothing about the universe permits this.

A new economy is forming and there is nothing that can stop it without causing major, unintended fallout.
Same. My reputation has more value than a few hundred dollars.
I expect web apps to auto-save because writing text in browsers is historically brittle, because browsers don't naturally persist the things you type into them anywhere. So if you don't create some layer of persistence, there is no natural point at which the user expectably saves things. Auto-save is just part of creating reliable, persisted data in web apps (regardless of whether that is local or remote) without expecting the user to do anything. There is no standard for manual saves to rely on, like there is for native applications that save to files.

So yes, you're old fashioned.

I still hit "Save" in every single offline or online app every time I've made a minimal change, because of old-timer PTSD reflexes: I used to edit files in vi over modem and telnet without screen (tmux), and if the connection had a hiccup, the connection died, my editor died, and the changes died with it. So saving (extremely) frequently was just a way to not lose your changes.