skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main problem is various vents along the side of the hull. Typically these are placed closer to the centreline of the vessel such that they can't be flooded at extreme heel angles. On luxury vessels they are placed out of sight of guests and in this case along the hull. Hatches into the water tight compartments were close to the centreline but in this case flooding would have occurred rapidly through the various ventilation systems instead.

The boat builder will blame the crew for not closing these but I doubt there was any procedure to actually close them. The engine needs to run to generate power and the engine needs fresh air and an exhaust.
Huh? I never said that, clearly. What I said is that journalists use it extensively, it has an influence much beyond the numbers, as the journalists then push the topics and POVs from Twitter into their writing.
Glass Tupperware also just feels better, like more mature. Wished I switched sooner.
Google created a printing money machine. OpenAI is absolutely trying to create one too. They aren't trying to "fix the web". Search is a proxy to get into people's wallet. OpenAI might directly get into it buying agents. The problem of miss aligned incentives on the search space isn't a technological problem. A new technology might solve it as a side effect, but it is unlikely IMO.
Mastering Regular Expressions published a long time ago by O’Reilly. Still relevant, regexes haven’t changed much.
99.99% of all data is complete garbage and impossible for a human to sift through. Most spam email doesn't even end up in your spam inbox. It gets stopped long before that.
while I continue to underrate the emotional appeal of offering struggle:

— Isn't there something in living dangerously?

— There's a great deal in it. Men and women must have their adrenals stimulated from time to time.

— What?

— It's one of the conditions of perfect health. That's why we've made the V.P.S. treatments compulsory.

— V.P.S.?

— Violent Passion Surrogate. Regularly once a month. We flood the whole system with adrenin. It's the complete physiological equivalent of fear and rage. All the tonic effects of murdering Desdemona and being murdered by Othello, without any of the inconvenience.
Hm, I think we got our first cordless when I was in 4th or 5th grade. First phone I remember was rotary, pulse-dial.
When my kid would fall down and then look at us, we would say “dust it off, dust it off, keep going.”

Specifically because we had seen the behaviour you describe.

I’m no child psychologist but I’m sure there’s a reason for kids responding appropriately to their parents’ behaviour. Fascinating.
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Great post!

One quick minor note is that the resulting embeddings for the same text string could be different, depending on what you specify the input type as for retrieval tasks (i.e. query or document) -- check out the `input_type` parameter here: https://docs.voyageai.com/reference/embeddings-api.
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Gunports were meant to be used while sailing. (Good documentary: the pirates of caribean)

reason according to wikipedia:

> Vasa sank because she had very little initial stability—resistance to heeling under the force of wind or waves acting on the hull. This was due to the distribution of mass in the hull structure, and to the ballast, guns, provisions, and other objects loaded on board placing a lot of weight too high in the ship. This put the centre of gravity very high relative to the centre of buoyancy, thus making the ship readily heel in response to little force, and not providing enough righting moment for her to become upright again.

My memory of vasa museum:
At that time, ship designers not necessarily calculated center of mass and center of buoyancy.
What a horrendously complicated mess. No wonder modern websites are so bloated with a fraction of the functionality and information density from before the 'let's design everything for mobile users only, fuck the desktop' era. And this is supposed to be 'simple' and 'minimalistic'.
> that seems already underway, with Uber[Eats] drivers being the "robots".

One of the primary benefits of automation is actually a reduction of costs. Uber eats did reduce delivery costs a bit, but probably not to the same order of magnitude true automation could achieve. Historically, you could always "automate" by having some guy do it, but the difference between having a bunch of people copy a book and a mechanical printing press do it is revolutionary.
I'm so glad it doesn't. There is absolutely no need for it and when it's used it usually makes a big mess. It goes in the same pile as multiple inheritance.
> if one is to believe the reports

I know this is a predominantly white, upper middle class site (read: progressive), and people from that demo sure love to point out that "you can't say the leg is broken just because the foot is dangling at 90 degrees, you aren't a doctor!" ..... but at some point you surely have to start to trust your own eyes and use critical thinking, right??

It's not a conspiracy theory Google ruined their search to serve more ads. It's so obvious and happening for such a long period of time, anyone above certain age and with decent memory can see it. You don't have to "believe the reports", you don't even have to be smart, just use your eyes and your memory.
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What sort of software setup do you use on the micro?

I have one, but coming from a tiling wm, and Vim I have a hard time imagining using it productively. It is in my sell pile.
Additionally issues around global carbon footprints quickly become tractable when you eliminate the bulk of humanity.
I use vanilla Ubuntu 24.4 on my work laptop (thinkpad) after a decade of macos exclusivity. After a month or two its easy to understand why more people do not use Linux. Its improved a lot in recent years in its desktop environment, but vanilla ubuntu is still not even close to the polish of macos, even older versions, at least in my experience using it.
Typescript can infer a lot of types, but you cannot read an SQL file at compiletime (with custom logic) and make it generate types that you can then use.

You have to generate those types as source code (like you basically do with the llm).

In F# and other languages, you can generate those types on the fly and use them. It can even go as far as describing errors with sql columns. Then, if there is any mismatch, the project won't compile. And if you add a new field, the code and validation will automatically work.
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In my process, there is “iPad time”. This is the step where I sit in a cafe and create a sort of hand-written design document in Notability. The goal is to flesh out ideas without being able to work on them.

Sometimes this stage lasts a few weeks as I let the idea simmer. I add a few lines every now and then, ask new questions, draw UI sketches and refine the concept.

It’s very effective.
You just take the boat to the travel lift and it hoists out pretty easy.
Under 1 or 2 boat bucks for in/out lift, dry storage, and paint if you DIY is reasonable for smaller vessels, like under 30’.

The tough part is scheduling and finding a boatyard if there’s not one close.

Your nautical mileage may vary
I've always found the weights-as-binaries description woefully inept, words do indeed mean something.
I was unable to use the free version without a phone number.
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thank you for EC ... as to thermidorian reactions, I haven't read tRB yet but it's on the slush pile now (and I have an ice pick —albeit full length— for set dressing while I read).
If your website is created to promote a product of course you are incentivized to be included.
To quote Prince: ahh, now people can finally go back to making music for the sake of making music.
Who are "they" and why do "they" care if we eat meat? And what evidence do you have, anyway?
Or enabled the security features anyone should be running in first place, thus yeah since Windows 11, it is for all practical purposes.

Same applies to XBox Windows flavour.
I wish my OS did this. And no, not with a LLM “summary”. Just literally rate limit the notifications.
Using raytracing on a very recent, high end game that has been designed for raytracing has an extremely noticeable positive improvement on visual quality. Wukong is a perfect example.

Unfortunately most people’s experience with raytracing is turning it on for a game that was not designed for it, but it was added through a patch, which results in worse lighting. Why? Because the rasterized image includes baked-in global illumination using more light sources than whatever was hastily put together for the raytracing patch.
All my UX work starts with a sheet of (digital) paper. How are you supposed to design an experience is you go straight to the UI design part? You have not even considered the underlying needs yet.

This is the design step in engineering terms, aka think hard about your approach.
This is not clickbait, it’s like a movement with a catchy name so it sticks. You seem to be stuck with clickbait but at the same time you don’t understand what clickbait is.
The future is that of manually curated content by human beings. And pay walls. Most of the other stuff will be junk.
It’s not mentioned because we’re on HACKER NEWS discussing adblocking, FFS.
Terrible design. This is why I hate modern software. If the devs barely understand it how are the users supposed to.
In most cases of high end / AAA game titles, it is. Not all, but certainly most.
Quora content is a bit of a horror show in my experience. I think I’d rather have blogspam.
Ok, understood. The part I'm confused about is the focus on NVMe devices - do you also have a bunch of SATA/SAS SSDs, or even conventional disks for your media? If not, I'd definitely start there. Maybe something like six spinners in RAIDZ2, this would allow you to lose up to two drives without any data loss.

If NVMe is your only option, I'd try to find a couple used 1.92TB enterprise class drives on ebay, and go ahead and mirror those without worrying about the different performance characteristics (the pool will perform as fast as the slowest device, that's all) - but 1.92TB isn't much for a media server.

In general, I'd say consumer class SSDs aren't worth the time it'll take you to install them. I'd happily deploy almost any enterprise class SSD with 50% beat out of it over almost any brand new consumer class drive. The difference is stark - enterprise drives offer superior performance through PLP-improved latency and better sustained writes (thanks to higher quality NAND and over-provisioning), while also delivering much better longevity.
I used Orion Browser from kagi. It lets you install extensions.
Hard disagree there.

It isn't about the medium; it is about the people writing and creating.

That mentality is like going to the skate park and saying someone isn't a skateboard because they are wearing Nike shoes.
Confidence intervals are incredibly potent, both in describing the extent that a phenomenon is happening _and_ critically being simple to create for researchers and consumed by lay persons.
Electron slop, a literal insult to the people who worked hard on what powers all of that bloated crap
> Advancing models without advancing search is like having a michelin star chef work with spoiled ingredients.

What a great analogy
I can’t help but wonder if the lag time in chatgpt responses is artificial and intentional, to prevent people spamming requests.
Anything can get bad, that is why you have to keep working/fighting to keep it good. Notion is still great, Google docs is still great, etc.

Just because you got burned once doesn't mean you go full Amish.
I was going going to say she should work for Valve to help get Steam working on Linux on Macs, but it seems she already does? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyssa_Rosenzweig#Career
> But they've also _explicitly_ focused on ad-dollars over algorithmic purity

I think they prioritized large and fast incomes over long, steady incomes.

Also, there isn't just money that taints Google search results. It's also censorship and political motivation, which is mostly obvious in image search.
bzzzt Hello

* waits 20 minutes *

bzzzt How are you?

* waits 3-24h *

bzzzt Can you help me with XYZ?

I answer ASAP

I hate these people. It’s such a drain on my mental well being.
AdGuard is really good, amd almost as good as uBlock for me.
Sorry dude, I think you don't understand what independent means, and maybe you are independently wealthy or something. People need food to eat, and that means running ads as that is what pays for this stuff :)

If you want to sponsor the website with a big grant, hit me up at ben@shepherd.com. Then we can eat + get rid of ads.
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Doesn’t OpenAI embedding model support 8191/8192 tokens? That aside, declaring a winner by token size is misleading. There are more important factors like cross language support and precision for example
Good summary. One thing to note about org is it's not opinionated. Even the word "Todo" is up to you, in fact you can just tell it a bunch of "not done" keywords and a bunch of "done" ones. Over the years I've tweaked these. For example I use STARTED for tasks that I've begun but not yet finished, because I hate starting things but but not finishing them. I've set my agenda views to display these right at the top. Similarly I've added more resolutions like DELEGATED.

This flexibility means you can bend it to rather odd requirements. For example, in my current job I'm required to track time against project codes, but I have to scale the proportion against the hours I'm contracted for (it's a tax thing, I'm told). Org supports clocking in/out of things. It doesn't know what those things are, they are just items in the outline. So I structure my todos under the project codes then track time against those tasks or just directly to the project. Then I have an agenda view which shows me totals for each project and a column scaling the proportions to the total contracted hours over the period.

But you might have completely different requirements. You might want a flat backlog and to "refile" tasks into "sprints" when they get properly defined then set a deadline on the whole sprint. Org supports it all because it doesn't really care that much. Seeing people struggle with the likes of Jira becomes rather comical.
What I really respect is the dedication to completing support for the M1/M2. Too many projects get dropped the moment the next shiny ray-traced toy comes along.

I know this type of work can be challenging to say the least. My own dabble with Zig and Pinephone hardware drivers reminded me of some of the pain of poorly documented hardware, but what a reward when it works.

My own M1 was only purchased because of this project and Alyssa's efforts with OpenGL+ES. It only ever boots Asahi Linux. Thank-you very much for your efforts.
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If AI produces a correct answer for something you know, there's no guarantee that it produces the correct answer for something you don't know. I'd rather find a way to verify that answer, if that answer has any importance.
The issue is that sometimes something comes up that I can choose to quickly address and get folks going again. Adding that friction causes waste of time.
There’s a lot of free time when you’re in college.
They should make these masts retractable.
Alan Wake 2 has had path tracing from day 1, and it looks excellent with (and without) it.
No one paid you to write that?
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But what if I don't want simple answers?

What if I am looking for a medical page or a technical page or whatever else where I need to see, read, experience actual content and not some AI summary?
Instagram, WhatsApp. Granted that these were acquisitions but they have nicely been integrated into their overall product suite.

And now their VR products.
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Ostensibly there won't be any carpenters to hire because they've all been bankrupted by automated contractor services. This seems like a pretty big change to me.
iOS can play audio with the screen off and doesn’t require YT premium. Bit of an OS hack but it’s just a few taps:

-Start your YT video (from iOS app)
-Swipe up to have the floating player while it plays.
-Swipe down from top center to bring down your notifications bar. The video will automatically pause but you’ll have the large play button right there.
-Hit play
-while still on the notification bar screen, and while the audio starts playing again: Swipe down from the top right corner to bring up your control center.
- now turn off your screen and audio should still play.

This has been working for me for a while. Don’t recall where i first came across it but it’s been a few years now.

I don’t use it often because I have streaming services with higher audio quality but it’s nice to not worry about accidentally tapping the screen while listening to YT. Esp if you wanna keep the phone in your pocket. Also saves battery juice.

Cheers.
I think renewables also continuously lowering costs as they scale
I know how Google can fight back: they should introduce AdGPT, where they only serve AI made ads for every user query.
Nice!

That is a very cool idea! I've been thinking about something like that to help fund the website, which is a network of book trades, and you get credit for a new used book for every trade. Although I was going to charge $10 a year or $1 a book to go 80% toward authors and 20% toward the website.

> Do you use something like openlibrary.org as well?

When I last looked in 2020, the data quality on open library was really bad, so I didn't use them. We created every book recommended in our system manually, as we needed to find high-quality cover images, and it was an easy way to start.

Eventually, we licensed data from the Nielsen API. It has not been a great experience, but it works "ok." I also looked at Ingram and Bokwer. Now things are 90% automated, but we still have to source a high quality cover for each book as the book APIs have such small images.

I am hoping to expand our book DB in 2025 to all books for a lot of the new features. I am going to look at Open Library again then, as it might work better for that limited functionality. I also could have been too pedantic back in 2020 when i looked at them :)
I like the German workplace (to white collar job) for several reasons but this one is one that drives me away.

We used to have an issue of deployments breaking in production, and one of the reasons was that we did not have some kind of smoke test in the post deployment (in our case we only had a rolling update as a strategy).

The rational solution was only create that post-deployment step. The solution that our German managers demanded: cut access to deployment for the entire team, “on-call” to check the deployments, and a deployment spreadsheet to track it.
It depends on the mod. Some mods are easily an improvement; new tires are probably a good example here, because automakers frequently install crappy tires at the factory because of some sort of deal with the tire company, and worse, replacement for that same model of tire end up being much more expensive than better tires in the same size, probably because many consumers mistakenly think they need the exact same tire.

But yeah, most "enthusiast" mods are a waste of money and make the vehicle worse.
> The Wait Until 8th pledge empowers parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until at least the end of 8th grade.

For context, students in eighth grade (US) are usually 13–14 years old.
I use Wipr on iOS+Safari and MacOS+Safari. It works just as well as Firefox+uBlock Origin on Windows/Linux.
on other hand i would love a Gemini finetuned on all papers or ability to refer to papers in my prompt when researching an idea.

right now, I download pdf and upload it to chatgpt to bounce ideas.
Are you sure that's the complete set?
I disagree. One thing that large education-focused institutions have found over and over again is that a person’s family is much more consequential to their lives than even their schools or the government at large.

One of the most important functions of a school is not just to provide students with education, but with a proper perspective.
It's called jealousy. They've got all these big brains and nuanced thoughts and somehow not a one of them accomplished something that got that kind of recognition at that age.

Didn't have the motivation? So what? They did.

The things they did seem obvious? Yes, I bet they do in hindsight. Touch screens on cell phones seem obvious today too.
"Wait until 13" is not much worse than "wait until 8th".
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I disagree the diesel crowd doesn’t discuss air/fuel ratios but perhaps I’m misunderstanding something. Sizes and types of turbos, fuel pumps, injector nozzles are frequently discussed.
I do agree rolling coal is dumb but most/many daily diesel drivers don’t like it either, have always seen it as kind of a high school thing.
Quality of life for who, though? That's kind of the point of all this back and forth isn't it? Because if prior examples are anything to go on the likeliest outcome is we're talking about further increasing QoL for a small minority of individuals who least need it at the expense of basically everyone else.
The internal politics and shifts in focus you've mentioned make it harder to believe that they're truly dedicated to that goal right now
Sure. Probably trawling was the wrong word and conveyed a technically-inaccurate meaning. I'm not sure what the correct word would be.
Your child is a special case. Speaking from experience, most kids get too sucked into the social aspect of phone use, to a detrimental degree. Group chats end up being the location of cyber bullying, for example.
Is anyone using this? Perhaps for transpiring to a more limited compiler?
There is a distinction in the dotnet world too. The docs[1] seem to refer to ABI as "Binary compatibility" and API "Source compatibility".

Jon Skeet has some good examples [2]

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/compatibility/...
[2] https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2018/04/13/backward-compatibili...
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Hi HN,

I recently completed Makr.io – 15 simple web apps, all open source on GitHub, created in just 30 days using Next.js, Vercel for hosting, and plenty of help from Claude and ChatGPT. Each app took me around 2-3 hours to build, with more time spent brainstorming ideas and framing problem statements.

Here’s my approach: I’d start with an idea and problem statement, then ask Claude for a detailed Python script to set up the project. Using the generated code as a foundation, I focused on refining essentials like mobile optimization and core functionality. This project was mostly built during early mornings and late nights as a personal challenge.

Here’s a sample of the apps:

SVG to PNG – Convert SVG files to PNG
Email Preview – Preview HTML emails
RSS Feed Reader – Read top RSS feeds
DMARC Checker – Check DMARC records
Event Countdown - Create countdowns for special days
Email header analyzer
HN client with dynamic sitemap

You can find the full collection on GitHub all open sourced.