skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the point you're trying to make, but in the fictitious scenario you're making, if everything, I mean absolutely everything, is done in 4 days and you're just spending the 5th doing nothing, this isn't Parkinson's law at play, this is just inefficiency.

The idea that something that could be done in 5 could also be done in 4 is less about 'wasting time', but about 'aggressive prioritisation' (which may or may not involve corner cutting).

And even in the case where there is no corner cutting, I think it's a mistake to think that the work going into prioritisation has no cost or overhead, or that this is scalable for months to come.

At a personal level, I find that if I push myself to finish something "more efficiently" because of a deadline (most of which are typically arbitrary rather than organic), this has a backlash effect on my ability to do things efficiently in the projects after. I would imagine a similar risk exists at the organizational level.
Going from changing the code and then describing it to describing your planned change and then implementing it is a good idea.

Now, I just need some GUI indicator or CLI prompt to ensure I don't lose track and I'm good to go!
In comparison to the Us? Literally every other state in the world. And I do mean "literally".
This will cause problems with many things.

Delivery Drivers/taxis use their own phones to tell you if their arrival times will change.

Medical calls can come from personal phones.
> Which country? I am in Finland

That's your answer right there. Finland is a small country with a very niche language of just about 5M people - it's too expensive to teach people Finnish good enough to convincingly scam off the elderly, not enough marks to return that investment, and you need a sizable population of poor and desperate/dumb people to act unknowingly as money mules.

In contrast, for English language scams, you got 340 million Americans, 68 million Brits and dozens if not hundreds of millions of people speaking primarily English in former colonies (India, Australia) that are potential marks. And to make it better for Indian scammers, people there are already used to Indian call center accents so their alarm bells don't go off immediately.

For German language scams, it's 84M in Germany, 9M in Austria and 4.4 million German speakers in Switzerland. For us, it's mostly scams based in Turkey, because there are a lot of Turks who learn German because they have relatives here or their parents had a stint in the 60s-90s.
Surely you can just use git and limit yourself to the commands you're comfortable with?
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Here’s a basic question I have:

So he’s only worth that much on paper. He’d have to sell everything to get a big pile is cash.

Would there be enough money sloshing around to buy all his shares and assets at the indicated value?

I guess there is, but surely he wouldn’t get that much if he had a fire sale? LOL

What about all the billionaires combined?

Bezos, Musk and so on.

Could they just sell everything?

Do other people have enough money to buy what they have?

I suppose they do if you extend the net wide enough…

Just seems crazy to me and meaningless.

It’s madness :-/

What are they hoarding it all for?

I just dont understand it at all.
That’s different than aiming to reduce district tax levied. I’ve read a variety of statements from charters themselves, including that one. There are also proposals to privatize administration of school districts using the same reasoning. In education, no matter who is speaking, typically the focus is on performance, retaining teachers and meeting more diverse student needs.
Yep.

A corollary of this is the following paper

https://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning=Sterman_CMR_su01_....

Basically stating the fact that people fail to see the value in reinvestment of time and resources for improvement. Being Idle is not a failure but a way to think and be ready if a period of higher intensity comes. And it is healthy to have sometimes more time for a menial task.

People get so crazy about the idea of optimization, but fail to account for severe issues that arise when time is always occupied by something, which seems to happen more and more these days...
How cool would it be if the timeline could switch to a log scale and show prehistory too, with morphing continent shapes?
I was neither criticizing your comment nor choice of words - I actually agree with both. Was just curious about the phrase. Your guess seems like a good one!
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Amazing initiative ! I see that recent 'changes' to some territories are not taken into account. I bet this is because you take the history path with global consensus. Great work !
I think it’s just the linguistic style of TWZ from their military culture not intentional.
Show HN: Festive WebGL object rotation game
Hi all!

This is a festive edition of an object rotation game I had made which got picked up by some online newsletters and found some audience, so a special version with some major tweaks was required.

It is yet another outing of the JavaScript renderer also used in
https://luduxia.com/showdown and https://luduxia.com/reversi with some major updates that improve overall precision while removing support for some ancient Android devices.

I also recently released a hacked up prototype WebRTC SFU https://github.com/atomirex/umbrella and this isn't entirely unrelated.

In any case, happy holidays and I hope you enjoy it!
You could add it to the bankruptcy laws; the trustee would hire someone to release the code.
I don't think that really helps if the company doesn't have any money.
My whole life has been a lie, thought I was danish but apparently I'm burmese
"Magic 8 ball" is obviously a metaphor about how an LLM's output has little connection with reality. You also don't take an LLM in your hands and shake it to make it produce output.
Prehistory is less certain. And doesn’t fall in category of history of people which I think this map is meant to show.
How do I get my name added to the no-no list?
It does, because 100-200 kHz and 6.1-6.2 MHz are not the same. Lower frequencies are generally more valuable.
Both, I would contend, come under the "American English" banner and thus can be rightly shunned as abhorrent misuses.
Different people are motivated by different things. Some people are motivated by pressure. Some people are motivated by rewards. Some people are motivated by solving problems. The trouble is, if you blanket apply a strategy that some people find motivating, you risk under-motivating and even demotivating people who are motivated by different things.

Personally I am motivated by solving problems, which strongly implies shipping working solutions. I find artificial deadlines, theatrical recognition ceremonies or financial rewards that amount to a rounding error on my compensation to be demotivating. Everybody is different.
Ad-Hoc Effects in Rust
Likely a Zilog Z-80 CPU with 28C256 eeprom.
>These drones probably don't have 1000mi range.

Since you're replying to a question about tracking fixed wing it's worth mentioning that their range can be well over 1000 miles as some of the Iranian Shahed drones have a range of almost 1600 miles.
> it can't name Rothschild family members

Why is that? Illumitati theories spring to my mind, despite not believing most of them at all.
Mostly but not entirely true. If Google oauth gives you an @gmail.com email, you can trust it.

A more accurate formulation would be: the email address you get from an oauth provide must not be trusted unless the oauth provider controls the email domain and guarantees no re-use of addresses.

Not that it’s practical to special case every such provider, but with Gmail handling 25% of email, there can be good UX affordances for them a few others.
For a non developer, an LLM interface is absolutely the right tool for this job.

"Mr. Smith, why didn't you just sort -o students.txt students.txt. Are you stupid?" (Not to mention that real data is messy, and requires pre & post processing)

LLMs are access to computation for people whose "standard library" is a quiet old building downtown.
https://archive.ph/F7fIg
How beautiful is this project exactly if it presents quite an inaccurate data?

I'm not talking about minute details.

For instance, lookup wikipedia for "Grand Duchy of Lithuania" and note the active years of that state in all its different phases. Then compare with what this map shows.
Okay I really dont understand this, nvidia has a 3.4T market cap google has a 2.4T post run up, and its PE is like 38 vs 25 so its a higher multiple on the business too. It appears making the best AI chip is a better business than googles entire conglomerate.

If TPU's are really that good why on earth would google not sell them. People say its better to rent, but how can that be true when you look at the value of nvidia.
> I just hope we see a gradual stepping away of "everything clientside" and the JS framework hell that exists today.

The nice thing about Blazor is you can either have your templates as WASM, or have them be back-end driven, and Blazor does a bit of the gluing for you so your site updates as things happen and need to be updated, like Phoenix LiveView.
'Never' is a bit strong. It depends a lot on what you're using the email address for. And it's probably safe to trust gmail addresses coming from google, for instance.
Is it ported to Raku already?
Similar to geacron.com--love it! Bookmarked.
You're absolutely right. I wasn't thinking about it when I wrote the comment, but I really should have included it. I'm still pissed about that, and I don't like how Core releases are deprecated in 1-2 years. For my personal projects that's a breakneck pace.
> GGP also said that kids commited suicide after talking to a chatbot

A chatbot telling a kid to kill themselves and then the kid killing themselves seems like causation [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/technology/characterai-la...
Web search "mullvad onion" -> https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-onions-served-best-anony... so yes, they do, it's not hard to find
Auto-generate your front end API service layer
SIM cards are doing relatively basic transactional crypto functions, not processing many Mbps of data in real time.
Get your tech! You can probably learn from the flash cards in an hour or less.
It can, just needs to be built. I'm thinking of something that can both compile to WASM AND be somewhat like Phoenix Liveview.

Looks like there's some attempts for Phoenix Liveview for Python.

https://github.com/liveviews/liveviews?tab=readme-ov-file#py...
Exactly. They want to only have direct personal emails so that if someone is a spammer they can easily be blocked/banned. And so that there are consequences for spamming. This is sort of the same principle as KYC.
> remarkably few use cases, it turns out, where that is okay; you really need it to _not matter at all_ if the output is arbitrarily wrong

It's probably true in most cases. Those cases don't cover kids.
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> On a long enough timeline Microsoft wins this battle. I don't think you appreciate the inertia of market dominance and a massive existing user base.

So Cursor shouldn't even have tried? It is pointless what they have achieved? That's what you're saying?

I disagree. Having people who know about your product and have a positive experience with your product can be very sticky. Coca Cola is a famous example. Also look at AWS. Microsoft has many of the benefits you said. Microsoft has scale, many existing relationships with customers, own much of the related software, and many more benefits. Still, AWS has a 31% market share while Azure has only a 20% market share. The gap becomes more narrow each year, but it's still not closed. There is definitely a huge benefit to grabbing market share by having a superior product. Even while you only temporarily have that.

You also talk about the economies of scale, but that was my point. Even while Microsoft had all the economies of scale, still Cursor came in and took a large part of the market!
> generate statistically compressed lossy databases, that the queries statistically decompress with erroneous random data due the nature of this lossy compression technology

An argument could be made that the mind works the same way, and has the same drawbacks
Have you considered using handles on the luggage? Seems like with some sort of hook you would have better hold on the luggage, but i guess it would be challenging to identify and approach each handle.
So does the TV have to scan all RF channels at startup to build a virtual->RF channel map?
Amurex.ai – an open source AI meeting copilot
I think this article misses the mark about deadlines.

The main problem with deadlines isn't that they're "poorly applied". It's that typically they reflect other people's priorities, which don't align with yours.

If the deadlines completely match your most efficient prioritisation scheme, then they will work, but you don't need the deadlines in the first place (unless you're lazy, but this is not what we're talking about; when we talk about Parkinson's law and inefficiencies we assume good-will from the outset). As soon as you introduce a deadline, you're basically introducing a change in the distribution of your work, which may lessen one particular item of work, but overall increases the Shannon entropy of your work distribution.

Consider the following. You have guests arriving in 1 hour. You need to clean (45 minutes) and cook (15 minutes preparation time, and 45 minutes roasting in the oven). If left to your own devices, you'll start with food preparation, and then use the baking time to clean. Bang, you've made the deadline.

The problem comes when your wife demands the house be cleaned first. Congrats. You've just made your guests wait 45 minutes for food.

Most externally imposed deadlines have the same effect. They ensure the 'cleaning' is done way faster, and completely disregard the spillover this causes. Typically because they may not even care about the other tasks in the first place; except in the sense that they care about the next deadline they set to you getting missed because you were dealing with previous spillover (which they don't care about).

Paradoxically, this makes people set stricter and stricter deadlines, in order to get people to work "faster". Which of course only causes more spillover and makes things grind to a halt instead.
And, like, a LARPing mode I could use while sitting in my mom's basement that would automagically post every brain fart I had to HN. That would be totally cool!
Anyone tried coding with XR glasses?
You'd be surprised how much storage space these seed boxes provide for very little cost. And these things aren't VPSs anymore. They're glorified SaaS products that give you Netflix streaming in a box, for less than the cost of Netflix itself. I would recommend doing a "reddit" search on the topic and you'll find many many recommendations and ideas.

Personally, I do it because of the "Netflix effect". Movies and series don't exist if they're not on Netflix (or your chosen streaming platform). And with my kids growing up, I want them to see the good shows and movies I grew up with just as they share the shows they enjoy now with me. I can comfortably say that 99.9% of that media is never offered on Netflix.

Screw Netflix, it's been captured.
Is there considerable utility for Cyprus being in Schengen? I mean, they are an island and in best case scenarios their Schengen will be like Romania & Bulgaria's Schengen membership until today: Air and Sea only. Which was underwhelming.
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Show HN: Put an End to Endless Scrolling
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And how does that affects those OF models who actually type out their own interactions? The problem with chat farms and AI alike is the deception, and destroying for those who are genuine.

Tricking a human to interact with a bot is imo in the same category as trolling, spam or propaganda. It's a way to redirect attention and energy away from people, without spending any yourself. Sure, we can laugh at the simps wasting money on "interactions" with streamers, but it's no fun when our Google searches and Amazon reviews are filled up with AI slop, is it? It was already bad before AI, and now we're moving towards noise levels that will cripple human-crafted content.

Labeling content is the first, and right thing to do, just like the unwritten rule of giving credit to a creator when you post their work. It doesn't stop ill-faithed AI slop, or human content farms, but it can at least create a social expectation and prevent normalizing it.
Show HN: Ucacher, Caching via Syscall Instrumentation
Hi!

I would like to share something really cool we've just created at Earthly.
It's a tool that makes caching and skipping in GitHub Actions smarter and easier.

While we started it as a project to increase CI/CD speed for enterprise users, focusing on easy of adoption, soon we realized that enterprises don't care about CI/CD speed as much as we were expecting. So decided to integrate it natively with GitHub Actions cache API and share it with the community, so at least developers can benefit from it.

Honestly, we're not sure how its future will unfold, it will likely evolve based on the feedback we receive.
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Another lesson to never purchase anything connected to the cloud.

It is unfortunate that the majority don't care. I'd prefer if the Invisible Hand pushed the economy towards products that weren't e-waste in waiting.
Next-gen YouTube video summarizer
Hi HN! I'm Dima. Last year, I found myself drowning in YouTube tabs when working on one of my projects. I had tens of educational videos, tech talks, and podcasts open. I wanted to watch them all, but who has the time? I decided to solve this problem.

I spent three months building Noiz with my technical partner, it will be a Chrome extension and mobile app that gives you the main points of any YouTube video with just one click. No copying URLs (on desktop at least), no switching tabs, no complex prompts, basically no hustle and just pure focus. As of right now, I have a version running that works on the website, but the apps are in development. It mainly uses a custom fine-tuned model for extracting insights, Claude and ChatGPT to generate the time-stamped AI insight. Also, there are handy export features that allow users to instantly use the summaries for your own needs (bonus: you can copy the transcript in one click).

What started as a tool for my personal problem quickly caught attention from friends who were facing similar challenges. One friend, a medical student, used it to quickly review medical lectures. Another, a journalist, used it to scan through hours of interviews for key quotes.

The web version is live now on our website that we have launched with a small team of just a few people. You can try it with your own YouTube videos for free and no registration. Just open it and paste a link to a video. It works with videos up to 12 hours long and supports 41 languages. You can choose custom insights or just see a time stamped summary.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences with it. What kind of videos would you summarize most?
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Conversations are better with four people
Settings > Data and Storage on Android. Settings > Chats on desktop. It does have a 100mb limit though; you can't send long videos through chat.
This is the thing that makes no sense to me, if TPU's are even close to nvidia its a business worth as much as search.
They could spend billions on just dx and get 100x that back on investment.

The whole TPU line makes no sense to me, if its as good as it says (which is does seem to be) sell it publicly and add a trillion to your market cap.

The only way this makes any sense is if inside google people legitimately think google cloud is going to be bigger than nvidia+ a lot of azure&aws, which seems crazy
The bit I could get to in the HTML:

> Why conversations are better with four people

> Three might be a crowd but four appears to be the magic number when it comes to conversation. And, according to an academic who has spent decades studying how we socialise, William Shakespeare instinctively understood that.

> Professor Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist at the University of Oxford, is known for “Dunbar’s number,” which alludes to his theory that most of us are able to sustain about 150 social connections.

> But his research has also explored how people act in smaller groups. At Cheltenham Science Festival he explained that when it comes to having an enjoyable chat, the upper limit is a gang of four. When social groups have five or more members, the chances of them laughing together plummet.

If anyone's got the whole thing, please post.
> but the claim might extend to the reseller.

That EU legal guarantee is only between seller and consumer. The manufacturer does not have any obligations under it.

In this case, it likely would come down to the “If this is impossible or the seller cannot do it within a reasonable time and without significant inconvenience to you, you are entitled to a full or partial refund” part
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