skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't use the desktop Office stuff at work and the cloud stuff only begrudgingly.

But you and I are effectively rare cases. The vast majority of the business world isn't going to drop Office products, just like they aren't going to drop Windows.
You might as well solve the whole problem and just compile to WebAssembly. Cut out JavaScript now as much as possible now and eventually altogether.
100 visualizations, and still room for more! Which really tells us how hard this is.

At least one or more alternatives I can come up with is to use the map more. Adding colors to the countries.

Another similar to #76, but show miniature to each heritage site.
It must mean cooling significantly below the target temperature, and thus wasting power to do it
Not necessarily bad either! Thats what the downvote button is for :)
I might stand corrected - my own citation lists dragonflies as incomplete metamorphosis. I guess it’s true that they don’t pupate, but I thought the juvenile was still striking enough to mention as not necessarily obviously a dragonfly.
> most frequent gotcha with this kind of arithmetic is treating the streets as if they were already there

This seems fair when comparing buses to Waymos.
About St Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean
In case anyone's curious, the longest word with unique letters (as well as the most distinct letters) is "obliges".

If we forbid 0, we get "bilges" and "sleigh". Both of which strike me as great opportunities for an extremely obscure Easter egg in an adventure game ...

Also, for completeness: 0O, 1I, 2Z, 3E, 4H, 5S, 6G, 7L, 8B.

So you can `grep -ix '[iozehsglb]*' /usr/share/dict/words` yourself.
Not quite frosted, but I went for a glass pane effect on the sidebar at https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/
I agree that it looks nice and similar to what SSS eventually renders like. But strictly speaking it's not SSS. Actual SSS happens when the medium is somewhat transparent (light can enter the material) but also diffusive (light gets randomly bounced around within the material). Glass lacks this second property. A good example of a material exhibiting strong SSS would be wax.

Not that this matters much anyway, the effect is cool nonetheless, albeit a little bit improperly named.
It's not unenforceable at all. Major players would be forced to abide by it, smaller players would reduce their use of LLMs, and not marking LLM content would be a bannable offense on most platforms.
Paper was only one written medium. All of the cultures you've listed constructed stone stelae with writing, like the Rosetta stone. South Asian cultures used palm leaves instead of paper. Maya used fig bark. Europeans and Nahuatl often used animal hides instead of paper. There's a long list.
A previous submission from a year ago has an interesting comment from someone involved:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37105056
> each taxi needs to satisfy eight people's to-work commutes during that time

Then the solution might be 7-seater Waymos that operate in shared mode plus standard Waymos that operate as private rides.

Nothing beats the density of grade-separated urban rail. But it's fair to question if buses can be made better by making them autonomous, smaller and point to point.
Funny enough I also implemented the 3D cards in Forza Motorsport 7 :p
Tiktok and all the other social network are inherently a platform for spreading lies. It's a bad fit for quality news.
thanks for the PSA, I use the network tab alot and was still unaware. If you hover in the field the '?' symbol will actually link to this help page.

when you filter the requests and export an .har, the archive will include only the requests listed. For adhoc extraction I then poke at the har with jq to get what I need.
Reminds me of the CSS Zen Garden https://csszengarden.com/
Enter the hypothetical ice age civilization that was destroyed 13k years ago in a global cataclysm.
I agree a big blocker to LO adoption is LO, but not for the reasons mentioned here. It's true that for many purposes it's hard to get around MS Office simply because people specifically want it and will accept no alternatives.

But aside from that, LO is full of bugs and missing functionality. I use Impress regularly and I constantly encounter awkwardness and pain. There is no sure-fire way to set fonts for an entire document. Things are distributed across styles and master slides and those don't seem to cover all cases. Audio or video clips inserted into slides often don't play correctly, with various glitches or sound cutting out early.

I agree it would be nice to have better import/export with MS formats, but I'd settle for a LibreOffice that provided a bug-free core of functionality, even if that was somewhat smaller than the big proprietary tools.
The personnel didn't bother with us, they didn't know why the computers where there. Sometimes we even made a joke, coding a 5 minute delay, then some loud sound, turning sound up, blocking RUNSTOP/RESTORE and then waited behind some clothes until the computers started very loud sounds and the personnel didn't know how to turn them off.
In Japan workers comp insurance covers commute by law.

Because of this, it is common for companies to get a cheaper policy that does not cover car commutes and set a company policy requiring employees to walk, bike or take public transit.
I haven't done HTML or CSS since HTML4 and CSS2 were cutting edge. This kind of stuff blows my mind now. Very cool, too bad frontend is arcanine magic these days because I don't have time to learn all this anymore.
Probably both? Why does it have to be one or the other?
I agree that there must have been earlier writing, likely written on wood. Early systems could have evolved from markings on trees, like we still use on the Appalachian Trail, and other trails. Warnings for bears or tigers, symbols for different tribes on different paths. If you've hiked much then you're aware that even experienced woodsmen can get lost as the season changes and a valley changes, or after a hard storm washes away evidence of a trail. Children, in particular, would have been at risk, but would have almost certainly needed to do work over distances, in particular fetching water, which is something that even today children as young as 5 are asked to do. Notches on trees would have been a likely starting point for a system of symbols to communicate.

When I was much younger I used to work as a hike leader for a summer camp in Virginia. We would take a small group of teenagers out for 7 day hikes, during which we could cover something between 70 to 90 miles (112 to 145 kilometers). At one time I knew that stretch of trail so well I thought I could walk it blindfolded. And yet, I only knew it in the summer. One year I went in the fall and I was astonished how different it was. I was helped by the markings on the trees. (This was before cell phones and GPS.)
Ok. Maybe I should have been more generic. Organic thin sheet material... velum, parchment, papyrus. The bulk of writing is done on material that is gone in a few thousand years at most.
Have a site called webfiddle that got popular because of seo mostly but then got blocked, it makes it easy to develop extensions and share them by using a proxy server, the proxy server itself is what caused it to get blocked.

But same SEO strategy of building lots of content still works
Ah yes let's not use bad abstractions like docker, let's use pyinstaller...
Look around better?

It's easier than ever to use technologies to accomplish my goals, and the ratio of usefullness/effort was never that high. Back in 2000's, if I wanted to design something as simple as "warn me if my basement gets cold", It'd be a complex design, likely requiring a spare PC and custom protocol. Today, it's one evening project using $10 worth of parts (ESP32 + CircuitPython). If you spend a second evening, you can set up fully self-hosted hub for it, independent of any corporation (HomeAssistant).
This reminds me of the drag and drop system in Risc OS, in that it's a little unusual:

https://telcontar.net/Misc/GUI/RISCOS/#files.operations
I've been using Docker CLI for Mac happily for years. What am I missing?
Connecting to the brain with living neurons
Never forget haha.

I remember my parents being mildly outraged about this. 18 year old me thought it was fucking hilarious.
> Whether those new sources of truth are better or worse is irrelevant.
> What’s the benefit of generating embeddings for such large chunks?

Not an expert, but I believe now that we can fit more tokens into an LLM's context window, we can avoid a number of problems by providing additional context around any chunk of text that might be useful to the LLM. Solves the problem of misinterpretation of the important bit by the LLM.
Supreme Court allows multibillion-dollar class action to proceed against Meta
Correct. Things are breaking all the time. If you’re not a hospital or air traffic control, nobody is going to die if your website goes down.

There’s a time and a place for heroics, but we go to it for shit that doesn’t really matter, or worse, allow the culture of heroics to cover up the real problems that are much harder to fix.
Young girls are using anti-aging products they see on social media
Asking LLM for thought processes only generate hallucinations. Spotting AI images are same. Those subtleties are justifications ex post facto, not necessarily the actual cues that trip BS detectors.
why does this site accept Github login ONLY? why not a simple email sign-up or other options?

I am rather wary about sharing my Github login/profile with third-party sites -- just keeping a separation between the profile that has links to many other automations and deployments

Someone else may not have a github profile for many reasons
"Certainly. Here is a new blurb that promotes the product while using the term AI four additional times."
> I'd like to articulate a case why supporting the the author's use cases is likely uneconomical.

You describe the use case as publishing, but really it’s interacting with others in a professional capacity. It’s much broader than just publishing.
do you feel the less censorship yourself from their instruction tuned model, or is there some public reference to showcase? (i haven't used mistral model before). It's interesting if a major llm player adopt a different safety / alignment goal.
I only rarely encounter people who use Google Docs, but when I do it’s a huge pain if you care about preserving the formatting at all.
I did try to do that in 8th grade, it worked for a bit but it was quite dim and uneven.
I got hit by MPTCP shifting gigs of data from hetzner Germany to Australia. The solution was to intrude a relay host on the west coast.

It's great tech which can reach out and bite you in the bum at random. In my case it was a 10x drop in throughput by out of order packet arrival and effects on window and flow control.
A bit off topic, but the proliferation of maps and GPS is not celebrated enough IMHO. It's such a mind shift regarding freedom of movement - as a kid (1990s), going somewhere new carried a strong risk of getting lost, so we rarely ventured far. Even if we had maps, they were not detailed enough, and it was difficult to figure out where you are exactly. Many from my parent's generation (now in their 60s, 70s) never learned to work with maps (with or without GPS) which limits them to travel alone only to places they already know. There are also other factors (ability to call for help, looking up your travel connections etc.), but IMHO the detailed maps + GPS is the biggest factor in this mindshift where travelling/exploring anywhere is easy and accessible to anyone.
> the dominant ideology of our time is a mix of utilitarianism without the ability to calculate utility, and cost-benefit analysis without the ability to calculate benefits

This is the crux of the issue. Assessing the “business case” will vastly underestimate the upside and overestimate the downside of infrastructure projects. There are emergent effects that businesses never get to tap into but governments can, because they have a monopoly on being the government. It’s a scarcity mindset.

Compare with various Chinese megaprojects like the infrastructure connecting Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Macau, and Guangzhou in China.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong%E2%80%93Hong_Kong%...

Aside from transforming the region into an economic powerhouse (most of your electronics were probably manufactured there) better transportation makes it easier to attract talent, lowers the cost of housing, and makes a generally more productive workforce. It makes businesses possible that would otherwise not be.

How many Americans have turned down jobs in nearby cities because poor transportation options force a choice between family and work? Hell, even though San Jose and San Francisco are basically neighbors commuting from one to the other (2+ hours in traffic) is a non-starter.

Further, because the Chinese have built so many railroads, China can export their expertise to other countries. Chinese subway companies built metros in Portugal, Mexico, and Turkey.

If Western governments instead had a growth mindset for their economies I think we would see a lot more infrastructure being created because they enable network effects in which the whole is better than the sum of its parts.
You don’t have to reduce a long context to a single embedding vector. Instead, you can compute the token embeddings of a long context and then pool those into say sentence embeddings.

The benefit is that each sentence’s embedding is informed by all of the other sentences in the context. So when a sentence refers to “The company” for example, the sentence embedding will have captured which company that is based on the other sentences in the context.

This technique is called ‘late chunking’ [1], and is based on another technique called ‘late interaction’ [2].

And you can combine late chunking (to pool token embeddings) with semantic chunking (to partition the document) for even better retrieval results. For an example implementation that applies both techniques, check out RAGLite [3].

[1] https://weaviate.io/blog/late-chunking

[2] https://jina.ai/news/what-is-colbert-and-late-interaction-an...

[3] https://github.com/superlinear-ai/raglite
I loved going to those stores! Long time ago, I was spending many hours there every month. But over time the hobbies changed, so I am not surprised those stores started to die out.

Why go to surplus store to fish for overstock of weird LCDs, when you can buy new one for $3, with documentation and a breakout board? Why salvage gearhead motors from industrial electronics when you can get brand-new ones for $5? And from the other side, if you've got some harmonic gearbox motor, why try sell them locally for $30 when you can get $150 on eBay?

There is no doubt a lot has been lost - those little stores had incredible deals, when some rare, high-quality parts were sold very cheap. Those $5 gear motors you buy today are much worse than that surplus store motor which was $100 new. But I also don't have to wait for six months for the right parts to appear in stores, so I think we are better off overall.
Don't tell me a publisher is using the layout and font settings of my word document to have it printed. I can go as far that tracked changes, grammar and spelling are done while the doc is being written but once it gets serious into printing I still this a proper publishing software is used to fine tune kerning and all the other font stuff. So in saying that perfect layout by LO in MS formats is not the issue.
SemVer Is Not About You
The two scenarios:
1) handing a business your life savings to manage, a
2) authorizing a company to manage your finances so they're in FDIC insured accounts

Are completely different. There's no laws to update, and the FDIC isn't skittering out of paying on a technicality.

And, frankly, if anybody reading this is looking at option #2- do yourself a favor and get an accountant and a wealth manager that both have fiduciary duties. Might as well find a lawyer as well.
I live in Asia. Passengers are treated with respect, I've never seen a 'surely' employee, nor do I remember seeing a misbehaving passenger, other than a drunk Russian guy who had shit himself by 9am while checking in. His wife didn't look happy.
Open source Local LLMs are already a thing. That pandora’s box is way way open already.
But they should use it, stop wasting time formatting a word doc to have the letter address placed correctly or the custom property fields linked to in line text.
What stops political campaign money from funding accounts and bots?
I wish more books did this. Mostly they just spoonfeed code. It kind of ruins any interaction you can have with the book.
Agree. And when iOS started doing it years ago I was disappointed for that reason — loss of contrast. But also you just know there's a (significant?) battery cost to the effect.
Browser-Based Federated Learning Game with MNIST
Yes, from the README:

> Bocker runs as root and among other things needs to make changes to your network interfaces, routing table, and firewall rules. I can make no guarantees that it won't trash your system.

Linux makes it quite hard to run "containers" as an unprivileged user. Not impossible! https://github.com/rootless-containers/rootlesskit is one approach and demonstrates much of the difficulty involved. Networking is perhaps the most problematic. Your choices are either setuid binaries (so basically less-root as opposed to root-less) or usermode networking. slirp4netns is the state of the art here as far as I know, but not without security and performance tradeoffs.
I would like to see an independent benchmark.
Heh. My roommate (in NYC) at the time was involved-enough in this that one of the actual "devices" appeared in our apartment a few weeks later and surreptitiously remained for many years, fully working in its Lite-brite/LED glory.

It made for an excellent conversation piece for those that knew, and a weird piece of LED art for those that didn't.

Edit: I found pictures! Sorry they were shot on a potatocam (2008 era) but here she is:

https://imgur.com/2DcutSE

https://imgur.com/H76RQq6
Big part of SF's public transport is rail-based.

Buses are often the cheapest option to implement public transport in places that have only cars for obvious reasons. However, buses are also not very fast and, additionally, get stuck in the daily traffic jam together with everybody else unless you dedicate space to them (bus lanes).

When I lived in Taipei in the 90s they had just implemented a scheme where they would dedicate each vein of the urban grid to traffic in a single direction. Because of the way the very broad streets were built, they had a dedicated bus lane to downtown in a street dedicated to outgoing traffic. They did not see the necessity for a bus lane in the opposite direction, meaning in the morning I had a commute not unlike a Star Trek transporter, while returning home meant agonizing hours of being stuck.
> battery operated devices

I love when people clutch pearls and say exaggerated things to justify it. What does "battery operated" even mean lolol. Is the phrase supposed to conjure images of IEDs or what? They were battery powered LED signs

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_Mooninite_panic
package.json does not capture all the technologies in a repository. just the JS ones. This seems to capture full stack technologies. This would be very helpful when evaluating existing projects either as a consultant, new team member, open source, or evaluating a vendor's codebase or project.
i used it for a year or so then subscribed finally the other day. it really is well worth the money.
Yeah, I don’t use this effect across my site because it’s harder to get a good UX with it.

That being said, it has more of a place in games. Especially in HUD where you don’t want to occlude the background since that’s the main area a user is interacting.
> Was going to say about the same - this is ~2500 years after construction of the pyramids.

The first Egyptian pyramid known was built ~2780 BCE, the alphabetic writing in this article was from ~2500 BCE. That’s a gap of ~250 years, not ~2,500.

> How do you coordinate something that massive without any form of writing?

The Egyptians at the time of the Pyramids had writing, but it was logographic (symbols directly represent a word/concept), not alphabetic (a small inventory of symbols are combined in different ways to represent words/concepts.)

An alphabetic – and also phonetic – script is a big advance not because of what you communicate with it, but because if you know a fairly small set of symbols and their phonetic interpretation, you can encode a spoken language in it in a reasonably intelligible way to anyone who knows the same script (and you can even encode different spoken languages in the same script intelligibly, if they have a similar-enough phonetic inventory.)
While not good for daily driving, this gives you an idea on what docker is and how it works.

On Linux, docker is basically fancy chroot.
Ah yes. Lies. That's why it was the first place I learned about just how bad the atrocities in Gaza were; just how bad the damage of Hurricane Helene was; about the murder of George Floyd.

Social networks are the most democratized ways of spreading information to date. Some of that information is lies, but a lot of people spread fact.
I'm Tired of Upwork
Lately, I’ve been feeling burnt out using Upwork. The constant bidding wars, poorly written job posts, and unclear expectations make it harder to find quality work or hire the right talent.

I wanted something simpler—where clients are serious and freelancers don’t have to jump through hoops just to stand out. So, I’ve been working on Gigsicle, a platform focused on vetted job posts and direct connections.

It’s still early, but if you’ve been feeling the same frustrations, I’d love to hear your thoughts. What do you think could make freelance platforms better?
Heavy use of macros could be why C went mainstream.

Macros gave C efficient inline functions without anything having to be done in the compiler.

Doing things like "#define velocity(p) (p)->velocity" would instantly give a rudimentary C compiler with no inline functions a performance advantage over a crappy Pascal or Modula compiler with no inline functions, while keeping the code abstract.

And of course #if and #ifdef greatly help with situations where C does not live up to its poorly deserved portability reputation. In languages without #ifdef, you would have to clone an entire source file and write it differently for another platform, which would cause a proliferation due to minor differences (e.g. among Unixes).

Ah, speaking of which; C's #ifdef allowed everyone to have their own incompatible flavor of Unix with its own different API's and header files, yet get the same programs working.

An operating system based on a language without preprocessing would have hopelessly fragmented if treated the same way, or else stagnated due to discouraging local development.

Thanks in part to macros, Lisp people were similarly able to use each other code (or at least ideas) in spite of working on different dialects at different sites.