skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People voted for real/current issues, not for abstract/future issues. They voted like shareholders. It is how people are when they are struggling.

Their struggle is built in to the inflationary currency they use. If they were to use a less inflationary currency (1%/yr), e.g. gold backed, they would struggle less, but the oligarchy won't allow it.
That is how they got started but I don't think it accounts for much of the revenue now. That was my impression at least.
I gained a lot of respect for Picasso when I saw the works of others in the movement. You can walk into a room full of notionally similar paintings and immediately pick out the Picasso because it looks better than the others. I still don't particularly like his work, but he was evidently doing something that's harder than it looks.
If you’re at the point where this kind of optimisation matters, you don’t need to drop into C: You could achieve the same with numpy (I.e a contiguous array of that type).
PHP 8: After 4 yrs, only 37% of PHP sites use it
IPFS doesn't work like that. It's not an immutable archive. A node on the network has to actively host (or "pin") the content for it to be available on the network. Yes the content can be cached by other nodes, but see the definition of a cache for why you can't rely on that in the long term.
No intention to mislead, but to fit their gist into an informing title. I was originally linking to X, describing their tweet with laundry vid, then changed to point to their source blog post, where their title doesn't fully convey the content.

So this title is firm name and blog post title, adding the "laundry" from their hero video under the title and featured video on their x.com post that links to this blog post, as well as the first featured/labeled "Laundry" task discussed in body (not to mention, answering HN commenters such as this, since "doing the laundry" is by now a meme):

> I’m still waiting for a neural net that can do my laundry. -- sheeshkebab 11 hours ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42098153

The response to this, portrayed in both blog post and x.com feature videos, is in the third sentence of the blog post:

To paraphrase Moravec’s paradox, winning a game of chess or discovering a new drug represent “easy” problems for AI to solve, but folding a shirt or cleaning up a table requires solving some of the most difficult engineering problems ever conceived. To build AI systems that have the kind of physically situated versatility that people possess, we need a new approach — we need to make AI systems embodied so that they can acquire physical intelligence.

The synthesis is, this is about “doing your laundry”.

Finally, to take it out of air quotes, the article's first explicit and bold labeled text task description is:

LAUNDRY. We fine-tuned π0 to fold laundry, using either a mobile robot or a fixed pair of arms. The goal is to get the clothing into a neat stack. This task is exceptionally difficult for robots (...and some humans): while a single t-shirt laid flat on the table can sometimes be folded just by repeating a pre-scripted set of motions, a pile of tangled laundry can be crumpled in many different ways, so it is not enough to simply move the arms through the same motion. To our knowledge, no prior robot system has been demonstrated to perform this task at this level of complexity.

They hold they have demonstrated this robot doing the laundry.
Decades? In your comment and in your thinking lies everything that is wrong with this world.

It does scale because it eliminates dozens of redundant oncologist visits.
All languages have these problems. Even Go with famously excellent std has many rough spots that either were not available (such as context) or was just a bit poorly designed.

The most important job of std is not (contrary to popular belief) to provide a “bag of useful high quality things” but rather providing interfaces and types that 3p packages can use without coordinating with each other. I’d argue that http.Handler, io.Reader/Writer/Closer are providing the most value and they are just single method signatures.

When there’s universal agreement of what shape different common “things” have, it unlocks interop which just turbo charges the whole ecosystem. Some of those are language, but a lot more is std and that’s why I always rant about people over focusing on languages.
It definitely does not for Chicago
Another counter-example: the movie Tokyo Story.

The main characters have already entered their uncomfortable situation before the first scene. The twist happens unexpectedly and isn't even shown on screen. The uncomfortable situation remains, with the only change being in character understanding of it. I think it's best understood as the four act "kishōtenketsu"[0] structure, not the Hero's Journey type structure described in the article.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kish%C5%8Dtenketsu
Posthaven is an option.

https://posthaven.com/pledge
Part of the magic of mathematical reasoning in humans is our ability to sidestep incompleteness theorems or undecidability headaches by simply changing the rules as befits the problem at hand: using a logical tool to solve a math problem seems largely formalizable and testable with Prolog/Lean/etc, but selecting or designing such a tool - e.g. choosing good definitions and axioms - is much more mysterious.

Put a bit more poetically: a Prolog benchmark can adequately test an LLM’s ability to create proofs in Euclidean geometry. But it will never test an LLM’s ability to reason whether a given axiomatization of geometry is actually a reasonable abstraction of physical space. And if our LLMs can do novel Euclidean proofs but are not able to meta-mathematically reason about novel axioms, then they aren’t really using intelligence. Formal logical puzzles are only a small subset of logical reasoning.

Likewise, when Euclidean proofs were a fun pastime among European upper-classes, the real work was being done by mathematicians who built new tools for projective and analytic geometry. In some sense our LLM benchmarks are focusing on the pastime and not the work. But in another sense LLMs are focusing on the tricksy and annoying sides of actually proving things, leaving humans free to think about deeper problems. So I’m not skeptical of LLMs’ utility in mathematical research, but rather the overinflated (and investor-focused) claims that this stuff is a viable path to AGI.
Secrecy is a core part of legitimate security. But mere obscurity is not secrecy. In a secure system design you know exactly which parts are secret and which are not.
That’s funny — I have the opposite opinion, and think people like you might be poor engineers or problem solvers. These tools are amazing for productivity.
Since you can afford it, personally if I were you, I would think of my health first and then the rest; I would take some time off and let my self heal.

Take your time to recharge your batteries and then you decide how make your next move.

Usually when you relax your mind, things become clearer and quite often the solutions are right in front of you.

Best of luck!
YC application portal is down
It seems I can't open https://apply.ycombinator.com/
If you are not logged in then a page opens but after the login, it does not open. It times out and an error page is shown by cloudflare.
Real ethics isn't what you think it is. Real ethics is in getting the treatment asap to everyone that it can save.
Show HN: BladeEvader – Move Your Head to Evade Blades
Are vehicle strikes causing millions of bee deaths per day on US roads?
iZotope RX with musical rebalance, great to reduce drum spill from vocal mics
Linux kernel mailing list
If every person is giftet USD1M, prices of all things will go up by a lot. Furthermore, prices of necessities will rise by larger fractions because most people in the world are significantly poorer than the median of this forum.

More generally, gifting every person worldwide the same amount of money seems roughly equivalent to taxing every above-average wealth person a fixed percentage of their surplus and giving every below-average-wealth person a fixed percentage of their deficit...
I wonder if too much of the workforce would essentially be incapable of getting a new driver's license just if standards were made closer to Germany's.

If that's the case, then so long as most of the economy needs tons of replaceable, underskilled, underpaid drivers IN ADDITION to virtually everyone requiring a car for basic autonomy in most of the country, i see perfectly why there'd be so little enforcement -- it's just perhaps very cynical.
It's not pointless, because you get to select exactly the design pattern that is best for the situation. Other languages may decide this for you.
That's their brand of ethics; it's Ethics with a capital E, whereas real ethics lies in getting the treatment asap to as many people as possible who need it.
For a more in depth look at this check out Domain Modeling Made Functional [0] by Scott Wlaschin.

It will change how you write code.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21487547
just because there are more keywords/syntax, it does not necessarily mean it has to be ugly. they could have made better decisions when designing the language.
Note it almost works on an iPad. It seems that it should be possible to scroll the palette of blocks but I can’t. I had trouble with it loading the one that makes a circle, it displayed only a tiny piece for a few seconds before finally showing the whole.

Otherwise though it is most of the way there to being a really fun tablet app!
Climate breakdown will hit global growth by a third, say central banks
Show HN: I built a side project to manage my side projects
Hello HN!

I got pretty overwhelmed with Notion, Trello, etc. (Even though they are great tools!) as an indie dev, so I built an app that is simpler to use and perfectly suited for an indie like me :)
You can basically divide your projects into multiple milestones (a milestone could be e.g. a new version), and the milestones can have multiple tasks that are either todo, in progress, or done. The progress for each milestone is calculated with those tasks, and you can also prioritize and categorize the tasks using tags (E.g. for me, #ph turns into "High Priority", and #pm into "Medium Priority", etc.).
Each project also has a backlog for future tasks & ideas, and I'm also currently working on adding markdown-based project notes to describe more complex ideas.

I built this tool for myself (and I'm actively using it), and thought it would benefit others as well.

I'd love to hear feedback and your thoughts! :)
> At best, there was a single screen, but positioned in such a way to be invisible to at least half the carriage (on the side in one of the ends); at worst there was only the driver saying stations names over an intercom system that garbled everything.

That’s the old (but not very old) trainsets. The new ones have a digital display above every door. Be happy you weren’t on the very old ones; those don’t have displays at all, besides a paper map.

The answer to this isn’t about usability, but about the fact that the NYC subway runs old trainsets and isn’t given very much money (relative to its economic impact on the city) to upgrade them. But that’s slowly changing.
Do you have examples? I haven't heard of this phenomenon.
I wonder, where do SVG filters fall on the vector/raster spectrum? I really like that I can tune them hands-on in Inkscape (e.g. fractal noise + displacement map), and then use it anywhere that supports SVG. A little interactive demo from a while back:

[0]: https://observablehq.com/@dleeftink/svg-workbench#options
Probably because you didn't watch the later (2173) related holovid from the Neonapoleonic Empire period titled À la recherche du temps perdu. Long but worth it.
Ask HN: Why there are no startups building car infotainments?
Car infotainment seems to be at the forefront for car manufacturers and they obviously suck at it.
I am puzzled that there are no startups building what could easily be just a linux distro with its own DE in a relatively well defined and constrained environment.
I'll offer a weird but (I hope) valid alternative to the other great suggestions here:

print the code of the static webpage on a piece of paper. Even better, archival paper [0], so it will really last a long time.

In the future, anyone would be able to point a... smartphone, or a camera, to the paper, and instantly retrieve the webpage. An AI will ask them if they want to render the page using one of these very, very old things called browsers.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid-free_paper
Don't just use one solution, use all of those mentioned here, redundancy might help.
Hyprland 0.45 Release Smooths Round Edges, Window Snapping for Floating Windows
Show HN: A CLI Tool to Polish Your Text with AI
Hey folks! I’ve been struggling to improve the English copy for my side project apps, so I decided to create a utility CLI to help with that instead of opening a new tab every time to ask ChatGPT. I hope you enjoy it, and feedback is more than welcome!
I thought about it and added something positive to my comment which was more of a bug fix than a feature request. Maybe it was an open face sandwich.
A whole lot of works to say Infotainment
True, but also Apple is somewhat famous for releasing “faster but worse” redesigns of their computers. Like:

- making MacBook Pro thinner and faster, but now the keyboard fails after 12 months and no SD card or HDMI port

- making Mac Pro a desktop sized trash can, but now no CPU or GPU updates or PCI expansion slots

Since Ive’s departure and the M1 era Apple has reversed course on all these blunders which is great, but I guess no new blunder is newsworthy.

(I think the better headline is as MKBHD put it, this m4 mini at the $600/$500 EDU price point is the best deal in computers)
I’m surprised we don’t use archived/cached links for read-only content more often.
I do see a theoretical difference, but in reality there’s no guarantee that they don’t ship AB testing in the ipa/apk and do it at runtime. In fact, everything points to them doing exactly that already. By running a closed source medsenger client with a closed backend service, they have the power to say “WhatsApp off, use messenger now” if they want to- and they don’t need to push a client update to do so. I’m not concerned about meta having root access to my device - they already have access to my contacts for messaging, all ny message data (I’m in Europe, WhatsApp is my default communication method),Bluetooth and WiFi settings because you need it for location stuff. They have the data, and the permissions already. The only thing they can’t do is install another app (which I would have to grant the permissions WhatsApp already has) to do the nasty, but they can just do the nasty in the app I’m already running.
> when people disliked the wrong things and made Susan (RIP) sad.

That is wild.
Almost all car head units are custom fit now. We've lost the era of the standard Double DIN. Pioneer, Kenwood and others are still around because people are still retrofitting older vehicles. But once all of those are off the road, expect the entire market to disappear.
This is true in the US as well. It's just that people don't always drive like they do during their test.
No one will allow you to fly a commercial airliner without a license (without the law needing to be involved).
Cities ocuppy maybe 0.5% of available land, if you’re generous. We’re not wanting for solid ground.
It’s funny, because movies still have the prestige television and games do not, despite both of them outstripping cinema in many ways. Movies have become increasingly global common denominator, with razor edge finances, and have ceded so much ground to TV it’s ridiculous.

An example of this: watch Kramer vs Kramer. It’s a great movie, with a big name cast telling an emotional story. Try to think of a more recent movie like it.
I agree with you, and also about the Postgres part. And that was my point: if it's performant enough or not depends on the use case; it's just here on HN everyone thinks they 'will make it' (something something facebook/google etc scale) while they won't. So then anything works fine, because you have got no traffic or data at any significant volume.
Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem (2018)
There's no "sounds like" about it, Iron Mountain has been around for much longer than that TV show and is very well known by anybody who has had to deal with archiving data for regulatory or contractual purposes.
Yes, I saw that. But untill there are 3rd party parts confirmed to work, I won't buy it.
Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice (2019)
Ask HN: What bad things happened when FIIs withdrew from a country?
Historically speaking, in which countries in the past, did FIIs withdrew big time? Why did they do that and what were the consequences of their action on that country?

I would appreciate factual answers with references to news articles for further reading and exploration.
Apple upgrade price is annoying, but the thunderbolt ports mean a good external SSD can be really fast; for a desktop computer as opposed to a laptop, it’s not such a bad option.
I think that's not quite true, because rich people mostly keep their wealth in assets, not cash. Stock will just rise.
Thanks. Mediapipe but not threejs.
This may matter eventually but right now the fact it’s not soldered isn’t helpful to buyers. I wouldn’t recommend anyone buy a machine from Apple gambling on being able to upgrade the internal SSD at some point in the distant future.
possibly but finding a 2000 year old human remain is a big deal today and was probably a big deal back then. If the skeleton was assembled for some purpose you'd expect the bones to be at the most several centuries apart.

I guess there are burial mounds used for long periods - like the mount of olives in Israel. But even then it would take quite a bit of effort to find the 2000 year old remain over a more recent one
What is “FII” in this context?
100 years is too long. Maybe not because the company or institution where you will host it directly or indirectly will vanish (the Lindy effect matters choosing one), but because we, as internet and its users, moved on. The changes are accelerating, in the last very few years AIs are being used as search engines and providing content, new generations doesn't read so much (as they consume things like Instagram or TikTok), and that is a relatively recent development.

You may still find user pages on universities that goes back to the early 90's, before that simply there was no web, and that was just 30 years back, 10 years earlier was the start of TCP/IP, mail and DNS protocols. But 20 years later from now things may be very different to what we know so far.

Maybe it would be for the better to ride the waves, and instead of doing things like we did till a few years back, rely on AIs or other systems that will hold that knowledge somewhat and that can be interacted with. And hope that where you put the today's style static web page with your book addendum gets indexed by them and used when the consumer of the content you created request it somehow.
I was reading the article posted on HN yesterday from Matt Lakeman about Guyana. Then I read this quote about this fictionalized country:

"...a local Indigenous population that for some reason loved British colonizers,"

Grifters don't really have to come up with a truthful sounding story. They need to come up with something absurd.
I clicked the top link (nlm) and the bottom link (some forum) - the top link is a a pretty positive review, and the bottom link is incomprehensible, and the second link is... reddit...? controversial.
I remember the right-bar surfing, too, when you got new or related / relevant videos.
1. Get yourself to write anything.

2. Get yourself to write every day.

3. Get yourself to continue writing something you previously started.

4. Improve the quality of your writing with specific detail.

5. Learn that it's not enough to just have specific detail--it must be significant detail.

6. Learn about the architecture of story.

7. "Story Structure Architect" by Victoria Lynn Schmidt.

I have completed 13 book manuscripts, and had 4 published. My last thriller novel got me an agent. (Took me 2 years for the original draft followed by 4 years of rewrites over 30 drafts.)
carve it as QR codes in stone
Sure, also amazing, pain management is really important. In tier list of amazing things I would put them below vaccines as preventing the disease is better than managing the symptoms, plus certain NSAIDs (usually when taken in higher doses or longer terms) can have real adverse effects.

Not sure what point you are trying to make with a banned medicine that causes heart problems. (Most) vaccines are proven to be incredibly safe, they are likely one of the most researched and rigorously tested medical interventions we have. If certain vaccines would have effects like Rofecoxib they would get banned as well (likely before reaching the public), that's how this works..
"The Hero with a Thousand Faces"
"Story Structure Architect"
I get what you're saying, I was watching this the other day:

Titanic (1997) - Iceberg,Right ahead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYOn3-PhA9c

It's all so incredibly manual, from the guys who literally stand at the front of the ship just looking out for icebergs, to the man running and pulling on a giant ringing lever of some kind to tell the engine room what to do, the guys in the engine room running around in a panic, yelling orders across the room, turning giant wheels, the levers being pulled to shut the engine down, the guys manually shovelling coal stopping and shutting the boilers... it's all so manual

Meanwhile today a majority of that is fully automated and/or a few clicks of a button

The movie would be a hell of a lot more boring today!

Titanic 2024 edition:

Some random person most likely: Iceberg right ahead!

Random staff member: We know... we're going around it

But your comment reminds of this:

What will AI Programming look like in 5 Years?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaedq1Jl2fc

It's the same I see with ICE engines vs EV's, and smart phones and laptops compared to desktops

All the manual work in the world is going away... but I guess if you're really itching for manual work farming and the trades don't seem to be going anywhere... yet

As to AI, I quite like it, I use:

https://www.nomic.ai/gpt4all

Which runs LLM's on my local PC which is running on my solar and solar battery, so no co2 emissions ^^

and as I have trouble learning, sometimes I have to search for 5 to 10 websites explaining something before I 'get it', with AI it helps for me to poke it and go, explain this, almost like a second person is there just to try and help, sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't.

Same with coding, sometimes it might just give me an idea or a thought that I wouldn't of had without it that gets me closer to where I want go.
Ultimately you have to give a human direct responsibility for it; or in your case, a series of humans.

I'd suggest you do buy a domain, but set up a legal/financial framework so that a long-standing law firm will keep up the payments for N decades (or for as long as the firm & its successors exist).