skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the people actually using/consuming a product aren't willing to pay the cost required to make/produce said product, then that's probably a good indicator that the product doesn't have enough value to justify its existence.

This is not true. In many cases, we can see that people value a service by their returning usage, but... they often want other people to pay for it.
You could also download a sample extension code, strip out the text and put “Hello World” instead. As fast and no need to train a model to do that.
Does this work for the V-Tech Bugsby? or LeapFrog LeapReader?

I was wondering if they are licensing the same technology base.
I'm not sure of some of the feedback being given here - the magazine layout seems to get me focused on stories that are interesting but that wouldn't have caught my attention otherwise.
Interesting scrolling through this person's twitter which is uniformly pro insurer. Can't imagine that's a particularly popular position right now, which begs the question; why?
Can you share a particular source? I've actually had an idea in the past about changing rigidity in soft armor to reduce trauma. It's most likely unfeasible, but it would be interesting if someone already built something similar (as is the case with every reasonably patentable idea I've ever had).
“Eventually” is doing a ton of heavy lifting in your argument.

Ads have been a primary revenue driver for news media going back hundreds of years, including to when the US was codifying the civic value of news into its governing principles.

The idea that revenue choice is binary or that if you have to use ads you shouldn’t be in business is a very modern one, and one that’s outside of historical norms.
Well this is a good experiment. I don't find your idea bad at all: use AI to autogenerate bindings to expose a library in another language. This would be a good usecase for AI as it's not complex (well, most of the times) and is a lot of boilerplate.

Publishing the repo is worth it, because it showcases what the AI can (and cannot) do, and it is not there yet. But as a real package to pypy, indeed less.
I've always been a backend developer, but started my own company about a year ago. From that, I had to become full stack and AI has helped dramatically with the learning and implementation. There's a lot of things which would have simply just taken far longer to understand or fix with just stackoverflow/google.

And that's just on the coding side, even more on the actual start up side!
> I have a really bad habit of not writing docs or taking notes. Basically I just hold everything in my head (and forget about it when I would need that information again).

This was me for a very long time. I started making notes now, knowing that I will most likely forget (some of it). I still have all sorts of files scattered around though with my notes, i.e. the notes are disorganized (to some extent). I thought of using Obsidian for them and I have tried it but I do not use it consistently, I just go for my XTerm window with emacs or vim.
Monopolies are not easy to defeat. Look at how bad IE was and how much better FF and Chrome were. Both were free and yet IE still dominated for a very long time.
"Get a working prototype in hours or days instead of weeks"

This is nothing new. Algorithmic code generation has been around since forever, and it's robust in a way that "AI" is not. This is what many Java developers do, they have tools that integrate deeply with XML and libraries that consume XML output and create systems from that.

Sure, such tooling is dry and boring rather than absurdly polite and submissive, but if that's your kink, are you sure you want to bring it to work? What does it say about you as a professional?

As for IDE-integrated "assistants" and free floating LLM:s, when I don't get wrong code they consistently give suggestions that are much, much more complicated than the code I intend to write. If I were to let those I've tried write my code I'd be a huge liability for my team.

I expect the main result of the "AI" boom in software development to be a lot of work for people that are actually fluent, competent developers maintaining, replacing and decommissioning the stuff synthesised by people who aren't.
This is a nice link share. I am surprised something like that did not make HN front page. Was Ukraine and Moldova previously 50Hz, but not synced with EU grid?
Does burying wood actually work? I'm assuming it's a little more complicated than literally burying it, cause wouldn't it decay and release carbon at some point anyway?
I'm in the same camp since I subscribed. I became a 10x developer because my search results are way more accurate and I don't waste time anymore when filtering spam. I would estimate that I used to waste 1 hour per day while looking for what I wanted. It's not a cheap tool, but $10 for gaining 20 hours a month is something that I can live with.

An AI equivalent would be the JetBrains AI for the same price which seems to be integrated to CLion but I'm still not completely sold about it.
Don’t care. One or the other not those figure way a way to make it work. I’m furious when I pay for add free and I still am subject to ads.
StackOverflow has been in trouble for a while. That became obvious to me when the moderators went on strike. The site was being spammed with AI-generated questions and answers to farm reputation, and the site ownership forbade moderators from enforcing rules against AI-generated content via a secret dictate they weren't allowed to publicly reveal. The site's activity has been declining, and apparently allowing the highly problematic AI-generated content is the only available avenue for further "growth". It's like google degrading search results to artificially inflate the number of queries to create the appearance of growth. It's short-sighted, to say the least.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389811/moderation-s...

The linked question isn't really a programming question. Maybe a better fit on SuperUser. But IMO it's tangential, close enough that it could be allowed. If you want real growth, relax the rules for humans, not for AI spam.
Link to a post I wrote some time back about OS/2 and some of its nice and unique features https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33107065#33119146
> nuklear barges or small nuklear power plants on trucks

Does this exist in practice, or only in theory?
Just because your state draws a line doesn't make that line just.
I wonder whether the murder, and the immediate strong social media reaction supporting it, were part of a foreign influence operation. Normalising the idea that murdering a CEO makes you a hero and that a large percentage of the population would react to a murder with a laughing emoji will be effective means of furthering division.
I'm a Kagi subscriber, It is good, I am finding myself using perplexity.Ai quite about now it's very good.
lidar doesn't see far forward enough

It's not possible for a simple lidar sensor to "see" very far ahead on the freeway --- too many other cars and big trucks in the way. By design, these sensors are near sighted --- they really only "see" the nearest obstacle that reflects light back.

When self driving cars can't "see", what is their typical response? Slam on the brakes? This could easily be disastrous on the freeway.

Driving at high speed on a congested freeway is a risky high wire act that demands quick, almost instinctive decision making based on more than what is directly in front.

Nothing short of AGI may be required to do it as well as a human.
This feels such a breath of fresh air, especially being the top comment and coming from a 2009 account.

>This feels like a situation where an organization tries doing something laudable, but still gets criticized for it.

Ads is evil has been a thing on HN for a very very long time.
Allowing purely numeric usernames seems like a terrible idea to me, because it creates ambiguity between what's a username and what's a UID. It's common for tools like ls or ps to display a username when one is found and fall back to displaying a UID if it isn't, and similarly tools like chown will accept either a UID or a username and disambiguate based on whether it's numeric or not. Now suppose there's a numeric username that doesn't match its own UID, but does match some other user's UID. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to see how this would lead to vulnerabilities.
The upcoming XTDB v2 is a SQL-first engine. We also built an experimental Clojure/Datalog-like 'XTQL' language to go along with it, to provide some continuity for v1 users, but the primary API is now SQL over the Postgres wire protocol, where we implemented a variation on SQL:2011 - see https://docs.xtdb.com/quickstart/sql-overview.html
> how do you sanely present to a user the fact that there are new messages to read, but they're scattered throughout the history of the message log arbitrarily far back?

Like this[1]. It's how Element does it, and it's perfectly fine. Show the unread messages with a different background color until the user dismisses them if you must distinguish them from previously read messages. Alternatively, add a "jump to last unread message" button (and change the "jump to first" icon into a double up-arrow) that marks said message as read after jumping to it so you can just keep clicking it to hop to each one. If there's anything I'd change about this UI element, it's to display the number of unread messages in the green dot.

[1](https://imgur.com/UMboT1o)
I found a more authoritative reference, from the Institute of Structural Engineers, which appears to be a major international organization [ISE].

The Embodied Carbon figure they use is 1.64kgCO2/kg timber as a rule of thumb [ISE-EC], and agrees with what I posted above

For processing that yields built lumber, they account in stages, with % CO2 emissions added:

A1) Raw Material Extraction, 20-25%
A2) Transport to Facility, 8-10%
A3) Manufacture, 5-10%
A4) Transport to Site, 50-55%
A5) Construction, 10-15%

A1 to A3 reduce sequestration by 0.28, for a net of 1.36. They then say A4&5 account for 1.5x more emissions than A1-3, so .42kg total factor, for a net sequestration of 1.22kgCO2/kgBuiltLumber. They separate these as the transport is the largest variable between projects.

These figures are from Austria to UK. From the reporting, the PDX project is using mostly local wood.

So I think they're getting a net sequestration for the roof project.

It's really interesting that building with wood has this major sequestration factor. It'd be really something if we could build our way out of the environmental crisis just by switching to wood! :)

[ISE] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institution_of_Structural_Engi...

[ISE-EC] https://www.istructe.org/IStructE/media/Public/Resources/ARU..., p17: "The amount of carbon sequestered can be assumed as -1.64kgCOe per kg of timber when product-specific data is not available". I take the e to be emission, so a negative is a sequestration.
I still remember the days when I couldn't use π and é in the same document, because there was no codepage that contained both of them. I also remember the days when pretty much any website that had non-English text had to have instructions on it for how to view it properly, because mojibake was so bloody common.

(It should also tell you something that not only is there a name for "computers failed at charsets", but the name is Japanese.)
I don’t think that has to be the answer, though. We can probably all agree that plaintext code is not the best form to represent the schematics of a process, and neither are images. But that seems to be a very limited set of options, and I wonder if there aren’t any other dimensions to express what is essentially persisted chains of reasoning. For an example of alternative modes of input, have a look at the Reactable, a pretty innovative way to compose music. Sadly I think they didn’t disrupt the music industry as they should have, but it’s a pretty good example of a new way to think about making sounds.

Edit: forgot the link. Here is: http://reactable.com
I'm sure it's domain dependent but for me I really don't, I write maybe one or two a year.
This is what AT&T would rather give its customers: “AT&T Phone Advanced”, which is just a bullshit telco grade LTE VoIP adapter.

https://www.attconnects.com/meet-the-next-gen-home-phone-ser...

They’ve been selling it/hawking it at their business customers for a bit now. It’s made by Dataremote.

https://www.business.att.com/content/dam/attbusiness/briefs/...
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42334531
> They're probably both fighting at maximum capability already.

Absolutely not. In my view, NATO should be supplying 1M+ artillery shells per month, so that UA can unleash scorched earth tactics on Russian positions inside UA territories.
What field are you in, or what type of searching do you regularly do?

I’m also curious about the LLM integration with Kagi. I currently pay for a Claude subscription but would be happy to drop that and pick up the $25/mo Kagi if LLM access was similar. Is there a dedicated chat app? Interface?
> You can produce energy cheaply at noon, but it has little value compared to electricity produced at 18:00

Batteries literally solve this problem more cheaply than nuclear.

And given the speed with which people have actually been building both reactors and batteries, this specific issue is also being solved with batteries faster than with nuclear, too.

> The higher the share of renewables in the electricity mix, the more storage is needed, and it grows faster than linearly.

What's needed for the grid is also less than needed just for fully electrifying cars.

> You can also not stock electricity in advance for months in northern areas.

There's a single grid connecting bits of Canada with bits of Mexico: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Interconnection

Pertinently to this case, all of Ukraine is south of me (I'm in Berlin), and both Ukraine and Berlin are on the same grid as Spain and Denmark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta...
In various contexts, you would draw the distinction here between `ads` (that is, marketing sold against large swaths of content) and `sponsorships` (marketing sold against a small targeted set of content) but the distinction is subtle and the terms are pretty overloaded.
Kagi has been slowly positioning itself as the single point of entry for both search and AI. They offer some LLM integrations and are working on making the whole experience well integrated.

Not a bad idea, just quite hard to pull off when Microsoft starts pushing Bing and Copilot to their enterprise clients more aggressively.
Sure, high ISO causes noise, but what's the alternative? Both longer shutter times and larger apertures cause blurriness, which is worse! People are way too scared of noise.

Having had to push 400 ISO film to 3200 during development, I'm super impressed by how little noise modern sensors produce. Sure, colour noise looks awful but it's also really easy to remove because humans are not really sensitive to high-frequency components of chroma anyway.
Extensions for blocking are not only about ads. If you take a look at ublock site it does say it uses privacy and malware lists.

Therefore it is quite easy to understand and follow, and was suggested by FBI that we should use such extensions for our own protection.

Anyone saying, or implying that we should not use commonly named 'ad blocking' is spreading real harm to people.

When it comes to YouTube it is easy to understand the throwback. It always has been free. Now it is changing, but people are accustomed to this, and it is very bad to shame people for wanting things to keep that way. I agree, that if YouTube TOS say you should not be using them, then fine by me. YouTube goes bye bye. This is the only reason why they did not close all the loopholes, because that is how you loose your viewers, publicity, eyes, and eventually shareholders, and entire ad business. Microsoft for years tolerated piracy to keep them the most popular operating system. That still allows them to shame everybody for what they allow.
More soulless "content" to fill the empty vessels we became, yay!

Llms trained on movies scripts used to write new movie scripts: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/hollywoo...
For most people. "regular use" (and "gaming") is the expectation that the CPU doesn't self-destruct.

Regaining the faith of users will take years if the best Intel has to say is "this SKU is unaffected by this flaw"; less years if they openly switch to more trusted TSMC processes and/or ARM designs.
> N=1 but T-Mobile US appears to be IPv6 enabled, not IPv6-only: https://i.imgur.com/ZPi398P.jpeg

"On handsets".

If you look at the HTML source of that page you'll see:

<p id="ipv4-head" class="public-ipv4-address">
My Public IPv4<!-- -->
:
<span id="ipv4">Detecting...</span>
</p>
</div>
<div class="ip-address-details-inline ip-address-ipv6">
<p id="ipv6-head" class="public-ipv6-address">
My Public IPv6<!-- -->
:
<span id="ipv6">Detecting...</span>
</p>

* https://www.whatismyip.com

The "Detecting" is replaced by JavaScript (see "commons-[hash].js") that goes out and tries to hit some hostnames:

$ dig +short -t a api.whatismyip.com
34.117.39.86
$ dig +short -t aaaa api.whatismyip.com

$ dig +short -t a apiv6.whatismyip.com
$ dig +short -t aaaa apiv6.whatismyip.com
2600:1901:0:d110::

> T-Mobile in the United States was running out of IPv4 addresses and needed an IPv6 transition strategy. Their solution was 464XLAT and IPv6-only.

* https://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/2014/case-study-t-...

The fact that some services on the Internet are (sadly) IPv4-only means they had to use a technology to allow connectivity, which is why you're seeing an IPv4 address: it's not on your handset but the translation box.

Also, I simply menion T-Mobile as one example, but given they have 32% marketshare in the US:

* https://www.statista.com/statistics/199359/market-share-of-w...

that means that one-third of all Americans with (smart)phones are using IPv6-only, without being allocated an IPv4 address, everyday: 125 million people.

Verizon Wireless has a similar situation:

> Verizon Wireless proactively deployed IPv6 even though they had an existing IPv4 network. Per reports, they had at least 70 internal instances of the same private address space, and found themselves spending effort and money on the resulting network complexity; IPv6 deployment was a solution that simplified their network and reduced the cost of operating it. Over 80% of traffic from Verizon Wireless to major online content providers now uses IPv6.

* https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/2018/state-of-ipv6...

They initially (2014) had private IPv4 addresses on handset and NAT44ed them: not sure what they're doing in 2024. So that's another ~125 million people.

250 million people using something daily would qualify as a thing being "ready" in my mind.
The armor from Halo is done reasonably well, depending on which variation of it you're looking at. I once wrote a paper about the feasibility of it. Most aspects of it are potentially feasible, or have stand-in technology that could perform similar functions (eg active intercept systems for tanks instead of energy shields). I think the main difference is, that armor comes with strength enhancing systems to overcome the weight issues (there are several poentially feasible options for this, but nitinol wire as synthetic muscle is particularly interesting to me).
Random cross-language-script observation.

In Bulgarian, латиница ("latin alphabet") transliterated to latin alphabet is just "latinitsa" or "latinica".

In Polish "cyrillic" is "cyrylica" - basically reverse.
Ukraine has no alternative to mass conscription, if there's one, I'm happy to hear about it.

Russia has one alternative to mass conscription though, stopping the war.
Why are zoom lenses 'in-camera "cropping" with max pixel resolution'? They should zoom physically the same way a prime would, just with a less optimal optic structure, no?

I mean the perspective projection you get from a 70-120 zoom at 90mm should be the same as the one from a 90mm prime
So, like Mediapart does? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediapart
ChatGPT does have an enterprise version.

I've seen the enterprise version with a top-5 consulting company, and it answers from their global knowledgebase, cites references, and doesn't train on their data.
> Hats weren’t fashion statements: they were to help keep you dry and warm.

And my understand I'd they also kept you safe. While a bowler hat may seem posh now, I believe it was a working class hat which was favored for its hard-hat like properties.
As I recall, newspaper subscriptions basically paid for the distribution cost of physical copies.

Someone like the New York Times still has ads for digital subscribers but they're not crazy pop-ups all over the place. I'd probably prefer they weren't there but they don't really detract from my reading experience.

I get that some people vehemently hate ads and most marketing.
There are no official, broadly recognized statistics for Iraq nor for Ukraine.

The lowest Iraq estimate 120k dead civilians or so in the course of decade long conflict. This certainly tracks with estimates of Ukrainian civilian deaths.

And while Kharkiv was not thoroughly obliterated it was mainly though the strength of defensive efforts. Other cities were left in a condition that makes any comparison to Baghdad laughable.
Surprised Dragon Skin[1] was not explicitly mentioned. I see it failed testing and was never adopted.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Skin
For power production, I agree, but you need batteries to be able to replace carbon or nuclear energy sources. Honestly, I don't know about the cost of adding batteries to a major solar installation.
DEC sued Microsoft once they read the Windows NT Internals documentation, due to its similarity with VMS : https://www.techmonitor.ai/technology/dec_forced_microsoft_i...
> Imagine you decided to start developing websites today, how do you even start

I'm an embedded dev so I've so far removed from web dev, but recently started looking into learning web dev for some personal projects. My god what a mess.

Any learning resource for a single topic , like javascript, Flask, CSS can't seem to stick to what it's trying to teach and insist that you start importing other libraries and frameworks. Most of the time they're not needed and the author just assumes that you understand this other library in order to continue following their examples

So you google how to use that library, but the learning resources assume knowledge of a different library...

When all the resources of just plain javascript and plain HTML/CSS. I don't want bootstrap or react, I just want to learn the fundamentals to build upon
Headlines like this are a bit tiresome, GenCast simply wouldn't exist without having been trained on output from the world-class system and if you want to forecast with GenCast it requires the world-class system to create the assimilation and first-guess (that's what usually takes up most of the time to prepare a forecast). So it does not beat the world-class system, it enhances it.
"If my grandmother had wheels, she'd have been a bike!" is a suitable drop-in replacement.

(Made famous in the UK by Gina D'Acampo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc)
Stopped paying for Kagi after finding out that they are using Yandex for some part of the search results and are paying Yandex 2% of their revenue for that.

For the unaware, Yandex Search is tightly integrated with the Kremlin.
You say this like it is incremental improvement needed, or that we can see signs of a major shift in capabilities coming. Yes, people are predicting this. People were predicting personal travel by jet pack at one point as well.