skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relatively old post.

In such cases, I tend to go with "never attribute to malice what can be sufficiently explained by incompetence".

Most things that people assume are malicious often are usually prioritization issue. FF market is small, engineering resources are scarce (you may think they are vast, it's google after all, but you need to think of the "impact" engineer has to drive for promotion, which FF barely clears if anything).
That might work for some purposes. How hot do they need to be? Will I be able to mold them with my fingers? Or will I need to make a mold? If I need to make a mold, out of what material?

Thank you.
Anecdotally, using the Gemini App with "Gemini Advanced 2.0 Flash Experimental", the response quality is ignorantly improved and faster at some basic Python and C# generation.
ugh thanks. I didn't see that when I pasted. I hate how apps will not give you clean share links.
AlmaLinux 10 Beta Released for Testing
Spoiler: they aren’t.

Most Googlers use Chrome at work so it’s going to be better supported incidentally. The reason behaviors change when switching UA is because features vary across browsers and the UA ends up acting as a flag that turns features on or off. Not because someone is putting in a sleep() when they see Firefox. That would make for a very awkward code review.

When I was a Googler I exclusively used Firefox. Things were never so bad that I had to switch over to Chrome even with internal tools, though I suffered many hiccups due to this choice.
> nobody uses Vickrey because it's impossible to explain to the public why the highest bid wasn't accepted

Google used to use second-price for all their ads, though I think they've stopped: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/10858748

(Which I think, sadly, supports your claim around them being confusing)
the demos are amazing

I need to rewire my brain for the power of these tools

this plus the quantum stuff...Google is on a win streak
Thanks for trying it out, and glad to hear the idea generation is working well

You are absolutely right, those names are often a miss, very surface level or just 2 words glued together.

I guess that will be my next challenge to solve, thanks!
Apple knows which devices Facetime will run on. Traditional calls need to run on old embedded infrastructure that barely has 2 bits to rub together.
Considering so many of us would like more vRAM than NVIDIA is giving us for home compute, is there any future where these Trillium TPUs become commodity hardware?
So where were all the other bidders offering $10 million plus?
In what ratio? Can you tell me more about its properties after curing? Thank you!
Ask HN: Does Steve Yegge's platform rant resonate in your workplace? Or
Does Steve Yegge's platform rant resonate in your workplace or after all these years is the service and platform orientation more mainstream now? with microservices, REST, cloud, etc. Just curious.
I hate how every hyperlink just leads to another TC article with the same content. I want to see some kind of source and the actual wording of the legal claim.

I'm curious specifically about what laws cover this form of "extortion and abuse of power."
I hate YouTube's algorithm. It keeps showing me the same videos over and over.
fyi, You can set up rss feed searches on pubmed and load them into your favorite rss reader for a much better, more up to date feed of what is actually being published around topics you care about. Its dramatically better than anything you will see on hacker news as long as you can get a good set of search topics so its a trickle of hits, nit a firehosex
how pure though if it's using react.
it's insane on lmarena for a size, livebench should have it soon too I guess
Everyone's got their own ethical standards.

This guy won't touch anything related to the military.

Palmer Luckey is part of society's "warrior class that is enthused and excited about enacting violence on others in pursuit of good aims" [1].

I'm somewhere in between.

1. https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/01/palmer-luckey-every-countr...
In this case, about half a billion dollars in punitive damages.

Free advice, kids: stay in school, don’t do drugs, and comply with court orders when you’re sued.
Really terrific contribution.
I’ve been watching this for a while. It’s the most promising tech framework I’ve seen. If they succeed, it could obsolete all other frameworks.

Mobile, desktop, web, rust

They have an eye on performance up front which is where most previous attempts fail.

And rust gives them the security and performance foundation up front.

.5 was a huge leap, this looks like the polish that should make it viable.
Maxar partners with Satellogic to enhance monitoring for defense agencies
It is interesting then because it shows how laughably ineffective the actions of the Japanese were in World War II. All they needed to do was have Joe do transliteration, then pass the results to intelligence analysts. It would have yielded something, albeit likely limited
But that just ruins the spontaneous movie watching experience you get with DVDs.
Thanks for checking it out! What did you think of the ideas?
Contrast this with another story on the first page this morning: "Google are deliberately breaking YouTube when it detects you're running Firefox" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42388983).

Open-source content on the Fediverse will become more critical as corporate oligarchs continue to exert their influence.
In the article they quote the judge saying "nobody did anything wrong". And the judgemental was to get more money from the sale. Absolutely 0 about Jones keeping anything.
In some tech circles, it’s not denial of involvement, but that involvement is good and needs to be stronger.

See the recent viral monologue from the CEO of Palantir where he says we need to dominate and have everyone live in fear of us (and if you disagree, you’re a woke pagan).
Blanket statements like this are worse than useless. It's a nuanced discussion of damages, not a conversation of whether Alex Jones was right or wrong.
Only if trying to learn the language of Lithuania, or is an immigrant from Lithuania. I'm not sure how common those are, I expect the total market is around 10... This is a real problem for the language learning community - they are too small for the studios to worry about, but the studios are making a lot of content that would be very useful for learning if only someone could get it.
Criminal inquiry into Post Office has identified dozens of persons of interest
Dioxus is similar to modern React Native in architecture. Your rust code is running natively and you can call into JNI and Objective-C freely without a VM in your way.

It’s retained mode and stays close to the architecture of a React/Svelte app.

On the web, it talks DOM directly. We have SSR, hydration, streaming HTML, and a fullstack nextjs-esque framework to go with it. All done via webassembly.

The async story is great. Our state management is multithreaded and many users are using web workers and PWAs.

We have focused less on building a good multi-tenant story but you can definitely integrate React into Dioxus and Dioxus into React. We’re close to runtime compatible but React core is a shifting foundation to build on.

The API feels closer to solid now but the scope of the project is big and APIs are bound to change. This update, we changed a few things but upgrading is quick. It will be a while before we want to rework interfaces again, and we’ll likely provide codemods at that point.

I think the community is quite large (gaining critical mass for library support) picking up steam, but JS land certainly is going to be much bigger.
> Do we want activist software engineers?

Regardless of whether "we" want them, we already have them, and that genie isn't going back in the bottle. In my view, every person has to decide their ethics and then act accordingly. The alternative is forcing people to accord with the principles of the employer or government or guild or whoever. There just isn't a coherent supermajority morality anymore - and no real path to one.

I don't have a solid object level opinion on the llm stuff. For the most part it seems like a tempest in a teacup to me. Some things will get easier, some things will get more annoying, and everyone will still have to get up and put on underwear one leg at a time.
Now that it's public knowledge how low the bids were, a re-auction might attract many more bidders and raise a LOT more money for the creditors. It is certainly not an asset with any appeal to me, but a talented brand and e-commerce operator can likely generate a river of cash flow from the IP/audience for sale here.
The value of an abstract machine is that it allows you to specify how a given program behaves without needing to point to a specific piece of hardware. Compilers then have this as a target when compiling a program for a specific piece of hardware so that they know when the compiler's output is correct.

The issue here is that the abstract machine is under or badly specified.
Often great execution = basic execution + luck
Since when does this "Ability to pay" metric have anything to do with "Damages"?

A judgement is what happens when the parties fail to come to any agreement about a settlement; A settlement would be where you'd figure in realistic actual compensation odds.

Also: "Destroying a business" and "unethical"? Businesses are artificial constructs we create and protect only for the social benefit they bring; They have inferior ethical status to human being in terms of accountability, behavioral psychology, and the sheer intangibility of meaningfully "harming" a business. We should be employing meaningfully large civil judgements against businesses far more often, because our criminal laws being difficult to apply at corporate scale so often fail to deter criminal wrongdoing which the justice system would otherwise throw the book at a biological human for.

Steal one person's house out from under them using fraud and we throw you in prison for 10 years. Do it with 100,000 houses from beneath the corporate veil, and we bail you out for your losses from having to relinquish the mortgage.

If not sizable fines, we should be employing "The Death Penalty", and simply revoking their corporate charter and seizing all their assets in a blanket action, when they do abhorrent things. Because, and I can't stress this enough - they aren't people, they're potentially dangerous, amoral / psychopathic algorithms which will only comply with rules to the extent that rules will be enforced in a way that destroys shareholder value.
They've intentionally broken YouTube for a competitor before - Windows phone.

But this time, I'll assume a mistake because the potential anti trust fallout isn't worth it.
It’s wild to me anyone would think turning on barrels is an edge case.
In a different place a long time ago we were approached by a company that wanted a collaboration. They had a very specific project in mind, with requirements already set. It was a humanitarian project to "find earthquake survivors". If you read the requirements in a very positive way it was an ethically clean project.

But the company is a major defense contractor and it was very unusual for them to be involved in humanitarian work. So it made sense to question the requirements after a less generous reading. Detecting mostly occluded humans in a highly cluttered and destroyed urban environment has other use cases. They got as far as "highlighting the survivors with a laser designator" before I started to ask some very pointed questions and start discussing the ethical considerations of us helping to build a system to kill people.

I was asked to leave.

After that meeting the potential collaboration was rejected and it never came up again. The company continued shopping around other places to get help building their "earthquake rescue system".

Never get distracted. Always question the purpose of work. Consider ethics.

Getting another job can be a pain. Living with knowing what you helped to build would be much harder.
And now they have to manage register pressure for it to keep being faster. And false dependencies. And some more. It doesn’t work like that. Developers can’t optimize like compilers do, not with modern CPUs. The compilers do the very heavy lifting in exchange for the complexity of a set of constraints they (and you as a consequence, must) rely on. The more relaxed these constraints are, the less performant code you get. Modern CPUs run modern interpreters as fast as dumbest-compiled C code basically, so if you want sensible semantics, then Typescript is one of the absolutely non-ironic answers.
The whole point of Turing Machines is to eliminate all of these different kinds of uncertainty. There is in point of actual physical fact no such thing as a Turing Machine. Digital computers are really analog under the hood, but they are constructed in such a way that their behavior corresponds to a deterministic model with extremely high fidelity. It turns out that this deterministic behavior can in turn be tweaked to correspond to the behavior of a wide range of real physical systems. Indeed, there is only one known exception: individual quantum measurements, which are non-deterministic at a very deep fundamental level. And that in turn also turns out to be useful in its own way, which is why quantum computing is a thing.
FWIW the Fasten link (goes to https://fasten.com/us/cities/austin) is broken
Thanks! I’d love to hear what you think.
Let me know if there’s a feature or tweak that could make it even better!
this is a meaningless metric. if you have a positive net worth, you hold more wealth than the bottom 25% combined. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/whats-your-net-worth-25-of-a...
Not there because the auction was run in a terrible way - it was very hard to submit a bid and the due date got moved forward at the last minute.

There were rumblings that Elon Musk was going to put in a big bid.
I suspect you can increase your conversion rate to paid quite easily. I've been using the free version for sometime. And I have no idea if the paid version gives me the improvements that I care about. I'm sure a 7 day trial, or an explainer video that walks through the differences would go a long way.

For what it's worth, there's a lot of functionality that I want removed from reddit. I've never crossposted, yet often click that link because it's next to 'hide'. I hate the hide link and would rather have 'hide everything above'. On old.reddit.com many of the links are too small, so increasing their size would be nice. Just a few things off the top of my head.
I do a (better-looking, I dare say) version of this on my site https://joeldueck.com , which changes the color scheme depending on the outside temp. Currently it's blue because it's a little cold outside. I also have a 1D slider you can play with in the page footer.

I have a script [1] grab the local temp and convert that to two hue values, which it stores as CSS variables --base-temp and --accent.

Then in my CSS I set colors of various things using hsl() values based on one or the other, e.g.:

background-color: hsl(var(--base-temp),50%,96%);

[1]: https://joeldueck.com/code/jdcom/file?ci=tip&name=static/res...
AMD was licensed by Intel to produce x86 processors so that IBM would have a second source for their PCs. That licensing arrangement ended with the 386 (well, Intel ended it, AMD claimed it was still valid). AMD was forced to produce their own 386 which then prompted a lawsuit from Intel claiming their intellectual copyrights had been violated since AMD had to reverse-engineer the 386. That lawsuit was settled in AMD's favor just two years before this bug. During that time before the lawsuit was settled, AMD was on the ropes, and it didn't look like they were going to make it. Intel's PR fiasco with this bug put AMD back in the market and to their credit, AMD went on the offensive and went on to make outstanding products.

As you probably know, there are even more stories of AMD besting Intel throughout the 90s and even on to present-day. I'd like to see someone put together a timeline of Intel missteps, starting with the 286.
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Very cool! Could be a kind of open-source, text-based (eg recipes are .md with instructions) version of KeyboardMaestro!

I'd love to see such an "open automation" format (could even be more general than pure software, could also automate your IoT or whatever, through extensions)

eg you could have a file "Type my bank login password" for bank websites which doesn't let you use keyboard input but force you to click on stuff, like a self-documented script using .md with code

# Type my bank login password

## Trigger
```trigger:hotkey
key: cmd+l
filter: frontmost-app=Chrome and chrome.tab.url=~mybank.com/login
```

## Deps
```ensure-deps
shell-runner>=1.*
screen-ocr>=1.*
python-runner>=1.*
```
Ensure that my system has the proper extensions for the framework, to run all tasks

## What it does
This automation lets me input my password in a "click-only" input for my lousy bank UI

```run:shell /bin/sh:capture-output=password
echo $(op --vault personal --site mybank)
```
(the above runs the shell script and captures the output as a "password" variable I can use in other scripts below)

```run:screen-ocr:capture-output=ocr-result
window:chrome
```

...go on scripting using typescript/python to locate the numbers in the ocr-result
> You don't need to make a random choice as part of your physical model

You do if you want to model individual quantum measurements.
A significant percentage of people alive today have never made an analog phone call, or know just how good (and low latency!) it was to literally have two copper wires connecting two phones thousands of miles apart.

Direct at the speed of light (almost)!
Like, "joinpeertube" ? The first result if I type "Peertube" on Google (I'm french, it may be different in USA).

https://joinpeertube.org/en_US
I wouldn't really put too much weight into the marketing speak, MariaDB feels like the same MySQL offering that always existed, at least to me (and I do run it in production, albeit only on a small scale.) And MariaDB has done plenty of work that is available in the open source product: performance improvements, new storage engines and so on. The only thing that's surprising is that MySQL continued to do the same.

I don't think what MariaDB is doing today is what everyone was really worried about Oracle doing. Rather, Oracle simply never did what everyone thought they would. Personally, I think MariaDB keeps them honest, and if MariaDB ceased to exist as a serious alternative there is a good chance the lawnmower would fire back up.

Though who knows. Maybe Oracle is different. However, I would prefer not to waste the openness of my mind. I reckon if they thought they could pull the rug they would do so.
It's the fishnet problem.

There are problem kids, but the effect of concentrating them is much worse than the effect of distributing them, much like piling things on one section of net is more likely to break it than distributing them.

There is, in IMO, a ceiling to the percentage of behavior and academic IEP kids you can have in one classroom without it impacting regular kids substantially. (Though for very extreme kids it might just plain not be viable or safe at all.)

Historically reform schools have not been an effective model, but they were also often basically just a way to keep problem kids away from more normal ones and would have treated teen pregnancy the same as severe autism the same as emotional disorders.

You do see more and more self-contained rooms in publics for severe case kiddos that can't be in normal classrooms, which is a bit similar.

Which is to say one child really can ruin the experience of other children. But making it so that private schools and charters have means to keep down the ratio of destructive traumatizers, IEP time wasters, etc., compared to publics doesn't solve anything. It just artificially makes public schools seem worse, cost burdens them, and creates more social stratification.

You basically end up with a tiered system where most public schools have turned into bad reform schools that can't avoid underperforming. Meanwhile, it's not that charters are good, it's just that they've been able to take advantage of two layers of selection to filter out cost centers that decrease performance.

And in turn you are now damaging the prospects of any kid whose parents aren't interested in keeping them out of the public school compared to the other options.
I wonder if the Pentium Navajo Rug has the same errors. ;-)
When will we be able to download 3D-printable and drivable cars?
True title (too long for HN): Police criminal inquiry into Post Office has identified dozens of persons of interest
I wish Kaleidescape[1] was more affordable. It's a download rather than streaming service, with a comprehensive movie library (12,000+ titles) and you buy movies individually rather than a monthly subscription. But then you can watch the movies as many times as you want and they don't disappear from your library if Kaleidescape stops carrying them. I don't know if they include the extra content typically available on discs or not.

You have to buy their player ($4,000) and their media server ($5,000 for 8TB up to $27,000 for 96TB). Then buy movies (about $9 - $30 depending on how new they are).

If you have the money, you can buy a pre-loaded system for $98,000 which includes their entire 4k library (only about 2000 movies), two 96TB storage arrays and a 4k player.

If the player was around $2,000 and I could use my own storage, I'd have bought one already and ditched all the streaming platforms.

Edit: looking through their library, some titles do include extra content (special features, deleted scenes, music videos, etc).

[1] https://www.kaleidescape.com
> physics will somehow magically forbid us from scaling up quantum computers

Not magically

>with predictable error rates etc

This isn't my field of expertise, but my understanding is that this is precisely the issue: these predictable error rates are predicted to be a deal-breaker for the amount of qbits that are needed to break RSA with today's commonly-used key lengths. In my view, the fact that the error rates appear to match predictions so far, only sustain this point. A reason to be optimistic could be that sometimes we get to hear about new promising error-correction techniques though.

We'll see how future development goes, in the end it is hard to predict what will happen. But this is also why I think we should be more careful in claiming that quantum computer will break classical cryptography in the short to medium term.
> restoring WPEngine’s and Related Entities’ access to wordpress.org in the

> ...

> slack.wordpress.org); and

That is going to be a very awkward slack channel.
I built a Google Sheets Add-on that imports bank transactions via Plaid into Google Sheets.

It formats transactions, auto-categorizes them, has custom category rules, and can automate data imports nightly.

It's called BudgetSheet ( https://www.budgetsheet.com ) and has been my side hustle for almost 5 years now.

Revenue is just over $5,000/month. Growing well. Targeting $9k MRR for 2025. Expenses are high because Plaid is expensive (last invoice was over $1,600), but still good margins and will get better with scale.

It's good software and I've put a lot into it, but the user experience really just comes down to how well Plaid supports your bank. Folks with really well supported banks love it, and folks with banks not well supported by Plaid tend to churn quickly.
£18/month

https://gemini.google/advanced/?Btc=web&Atc=owned&ztc=gemini...

then sign in with Google account and you'll see it
Furthermore, how do you distinguish successful runs from malfunctions?
a quick read shows it tries to be 'flutter but in rust'
> everything you mentioned at whatever purity you can imagine.

Are you familiar with the trace metals requirements of semiconductor processing? And the volume of an iso tank? And the volatility of the petrochemical refining industry? I wouldn’t write off the difficulty of maintaining qualified suppliers quite so cavalierly.