skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm in the anything above 400-600 wpm is in the bullshitters club.

Hi there. I am the walking talking proof you're wrong.

But I don't know how I can prove it to you.

I read this:
https://www.amazon.com/Victory-Island-Tale-Penguin-Classics/...

In 2-2.5 hours.

I read this:

https://www.amazon.com/Mission-Gravity-Mesklinite-Book-Maste...

In half an hour, and that was for pleasure.
How I Journal
AC/DC. Foo Fighters. Guns 'n Roses. Queens of the Stone Age...
It is worse when story tellers come in and hog conversations. It is even worse worse when there are more than one and it is one upmanship on the war stories. Find this unpleasant and tiring. I prefer listening from more people.
Yes, I know that in France Le Monde did that, and they were in close cooperation with I think The Guardian and El Mundo
Is anyone else experiencing huge issues with Youtube on Firefox (MacOS) lately? The UI completely hangs for a few seconds, a restart of the browser helps, but I've disabled all extensions and it still hangs. Using the devtools it seems there's a huge GC happening periodically blocking the JS thread, no idea why.
Something tells me that

(a) zero infants killed and butchered their own mammoth;

(b) the meat from a dead mammoth was not held in reserve for infants.
And this has a use case only because of the reclutance of outgoing US Democrats government and Gensler's personal reclutance to provide regulatory clarity. Had Bitcoin ETFs approved 10 years ago when they were first applied we would not have this kind of outlier.
if we define direct ROI as the canonical monetary gain that private entities tend to optimize for, and then _indirect ROI_ as something that might cause monetary gain because of second or nth order consequence, then I was mostly referring to indirect ROI.

I tend to agree with you that public spending would be wasted or even misdirected in optimizing for direct ROI (EG prison system, education, healthcare...)

I should have better specified in my original response.
I haven't visited Elbonia in a while. Do you live near Weenus or Chelidon? How's the weather this time of year?
How I Got into Software (2023)
That's not so much because it's five people as it's a new person.
Generally what's going on with claims of short premodern lifespans is that people are confused over the difference between life expectancy at birth and life expectancy at 10 years.
People neglect the priorities of working life. First safety, it is best to avoid any unnecessary risks and to act so that you stay safe. second security.
People's use of spec varies widely. My take is that error maps are for internal work. Contracts are for what passes over some sort of system boundary, so it seems feasible to just...not spec the monadic aspect?

Personally I haven't worked on a project where the two overlapped, so perhaps someone with direct experience can chime in on how they navigated it.
This makes much more sense
Why not create crappy frontend to validate demand for MVP then hire a designer? Designer is cheap.
Oral defense season was always a good way to get ahead, financially. You do get sick of pizza, though.
An Implementation of IPFS in TypeScript
On the other hand a lot of drug abuse among the homeless is self-medication because of the stress associated with living on the streets or due to untreated mental health issues.

As long as housing and mental health remains an open issue, personally I'd rather have them consume stuff made by an actual pharmaceutical company at pharmaceutical grade instead of completely unregulated dark market stuff that can have absolutely wild (and deadly!) swings in dosage, even from the same batch.
Because HTMX is declarative and the declaration is in HTML, people have weirdly extended the "no need for js+json+rendering for ajax" to "don't use js".

This is making your life needlessly difficult.

HTMX is just a fancy ajax layer with a little event handling sprinkled on top. You can and should script to your heart content even if you use it, when you need so.

I use js in all most of my HTMX powered pages. Sometimes just a few lines. Sometimes a whole lot. Sometimes vanilla, sometimes alpine. I even have one where I load react for one single page because I want a community widget while the rest of the site is pure HTMX.

You can do whatever you want.
Except giving out the tools makes easier for competitors like TikTok to do the same, drawing revenue away from meta.

So that’s not it. Naively so.
Yeah, it doesn't have to be centralized. I watched aghast at the narrative building around the Trayvon Martin murder in real-time across Reddit and The Website Which Shall Not Be Named. No one was giving marching orders; it was just a milieu of people throwing out ideas and the most convenient ones propagating outward. "He was slamming his head against the concrete," etc. (How could you possibly know? The word of the accused?)

Look, we're doing it now.
Web Host Metadata RFC
people dont kill themselves because they dont have a good job.

Countless people have killed themselves upon losing a job. Jobs are fundamental to our identity in society and the ramifications of job loss are enormous.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9530609/
It’s really obvious to anyone who has ever studied human behavior with any seriousness.
I don't think we need more change right now. We're struggling to make a healthy society with meaning with the leaps in technology of the past 15 years in ML and computing and manufacturing power/ actual power
> 4. A bookmarklet which, once clicked when on a HN post, would insert a meet.hn logo next to all user names of users commenting there and registered on meet.hn

> 5. An HN "proxy website" which would copy HN in every way, but would add the meet.hn logo just like the bookmarklet described point 4 would do, but everywhere and automatically.

No, you need to flip the idea. Make a browser extension that adds a link to every username that is registered on meet.hn.
Specifically it’s data useful for training language models. Using text generated by another model has been shown to be counterproductive. This is why so many companies are trying to lock down access to their user generated content and set up data sale agreements for access to data prior to the major release of large language models.
That's why architectures - including x86! - have opcodes they promise will always be undefined.
Example of 'agentic': https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/google-gemini...
> I myself struggle with reading and am left handed.

I am a natural speedreader -- I never studied it -- and I have read accounts of several other natural speedreaders in this thread and agree with them.

I'm left-handed too.

I doubt there's any correlation, TBH.
Well put. Almost all of the SF startups I worked for were run by sociopaths willing to break any rule I eventually learned. One is now being charged by the FTC for massive violations. I hated the immoral mindset of winning at the cost of everything from employee comfort to flagrantly illegal activities with customers.
ah! nice, i really didn't notice it
That depends on the project. I’m a technical artist— sometimes my personal projects get pretty elaborate and pretty technical and don’t have the equivalent of an MVP that can be put together with a few handmade pages. Even something like a simple gallery of images that each have their own page (or the functional equivalent) is going to involve a ridiculous amount of manual work right off the bat. The only dumb way to approach it is not considering the right tool for the job.
I think the limit for discernible features when using an optical microscope is somewhere around 200nm. This would put the limit somewhere around the 250nm node size, which was used around 1993-1998.
I considered "Idiomatic error handling in Clojure" and decided to err on the side of concision.

Tbh the latter interpretation was not one that occurred to me. Curious what you would put in such an article.
Not exactly Shakespeare but this reminds me what I enjoyed so much about the opening act of Cirque du Soleil's O show was how it used so many acrobats and dancers to choreograph a concurrent scene, you were just overloaded with what you could pay attention to at any one moment. Their specially designed stage was large enough to show multiple things going on in a 3D space.

Bach's fugues using 4 voices and other such classical music is also an interesting example, the complexity is often written to be beyond the reach of even an experienced listener to grasp everything concurrently, and the performance of this kind of music is necessary highly challenging for the pianist as well.
Is the current AI capable of destroying a whole city?
86 years after 'War of the Worlds' broadcast, visitors in sky have NJ panicking
That's fair, I guess someone could be doing that. Not quite sure why you would though, if you're already in JS and aren't updating the DOM, fetch() would make more sense.

Either way it sounds like this was a fix to a bug introduced in the last patch so the semver makes more sense here.
Again, look at the IP header format and see for yourself that there is no place to create wider fields. This is what everyone here has been trying to tell you in a myriad ways and you are not hearing this. There is no possible way to do what you are proposing. What you are saying is the definition of nonsense because there is no sense in it. You are arguing that an 18 wheeler should be able to fit inside the trunk of a car and getting upset when people tell you that it doesn’t fit.
> I have no option except to make premiums higher for all of you because I want my wife to have a breast pump.
> There is no other way to fix any of this nonsense except to socialize healthcare completely.

No offense, but you also had the option to just buy a breast pump for $50. That option would have the cost of the goods just between the entity selling the pump and you. No one else need be involved, no one else needs to share in paying for your transaction.

But…you got to save $50.
There was a Scrabble documentary called Word Wars (2004) and a crossword documentary called Wordplay (2006) that came out relatively close in time. Both are excellent films but reveal just how different fans of these two popular word games are. The top level crossworders had a general fund of knowledge and were mostly “normal” people. The hardcore Scrabblers were monomaniacs and dispositinally eccentric in many cases.
Yeah I dislike it when people always jump in with their experience rather than relating to the person who is talking.

I figured out that some people are "relators" and some people are "analyzers and askers" and it's usually the latter that is much more fun to talk to. But I know that two "relators" who seem to talk past each other often also seem to enjoy this method.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/h264ify/
My significant others' family we see several times a year has several such folks, and at least three of the top level people at the small company where I work are the same way. I've grown to be able to handle it much better than I could 20 years ago, but it's still deeply exhausting.

On a bad day it will drain my energy to the point where I truly lose most of my ability to function and need significant time to recover.
My takeaway from all this is that "quite" means literally nothing and belongs on the banned words list.
How is this "greed"? What does youtube have to gain from removing a link back to them?
Are you suggesting we put them all under suicide watch? How would we keep these people from killing themselves otherwise?

This guy had plenty of money for a therapist to help with his mental health issues.

What more do you think we could we do for them?
Robots can acquire data on their own (hopefully not via human dissection)
You can directly start coding in Veryfront Studio using the same components from the Figma Library as ready-made React components. Having tools for both designers and developers which integrate is key imo.
David Sacks, from 'PayPal mafia' to Trump's AI and crypto tsar
Bringing back good old memories :)
Tornado Warning for SF
well I have not seen them in particular ^^

There are good bands like that but not most.
The switches themselves do (IIRC by a factor of about 1e4), but if you have to space them farther apart then the combined whole may not benefit from this.

If you have a system clock running at 3 GHz, the speed of light limits your causal distance to just under 10cm per clock cycle. CPUs are already close to that for size and frequency, but let's say you're taking a 1 cm by 1cm silicon chip on a 2nm feature size process and replacing it like-for-like with a photonic chip with light that limits it to 200nm features — now it's 1m by 1m and can't go faster than 300 MHz, likely a lot less.

This doesn't mean it is useless — for example, there's a hope that it will reduce energy use, which is directly useful all by itself, but also means it may be sensible to move to a fully 3D structure which silicon can't really manage because of the thermal issues. Going from 2D to 3D helps a lot, might allow that 1m by 1m by 200nm (*2 thickness for insulation) sheet to be compacted to a 7.4mm cube, which then doesn't need to be slowed all the way down to 300 MHz due to causality.
Numbers aren't everything.

Python has been around for a long time and there were some attempts at creating a modern package manager for it. If it were feasible to create uv in Python, it would have probably happened by now.
We’re just getting all the things now…
So, how do I add a new public transport route (so it can be indexed in Farebox)?

I tried entering some coordinates as input, but it returned an empty array instead. I’m wondering if this means there’s currently no public transport route added around that location.
To get a Doppler-shifted reflection you can also... move. Ground-based surface radars can work (somehow) with just no Doppler info, cataloguing, mapping fixed reflectors and very often just building ground maps. If your radar has multiple vertically and horizontally spaced receptors (eg. phased-array) or you can aim your beams, you can also somehow build a 3D map or at least map surface features/masks. This is before anything moves.
The media is a core and very successful part of the power structure. It is in their best interest to promote the support of this action as "dark fandom". The true problem for those in power is the following:

1. If they do nothing, they risk more problems/attacks

2. If they do something by improving healthcare, they create a clear-cut example that violence works

So, the media needs to frame this not as an ideologically-motivated thing, but as someone unhinged and crazy, or just someone who had nothing else to lose: an isolated event that in no way is trying to make a statement.
This sounds right from my experience.

I read words all day, everyday on a computer. I have read hundreds if not thousands of non-fiction books but for fiction in the last 30 years, have only read 1984.

It is like a club that I am not dressed for to gain admission. I am just not able to get into the story. 1984 was different though because I think I was half in the story, half comparing things to actual reality.

It really sucks because works like The Brothers Karamazov or War and Peace are just completely impossible for me and I know how much I am missing out.

All the great classic science fiction...tried many times, failed many times, know how much I am missing out.
I wonder if we will see (or already are/have been seeing) the XR/smart glasses space heat up. Seems eventually like a great way to generate and hoover up massive amounts of fresh training data.
one could argue bitcoin is used as a currency considerably more often than gold, so I'm not sure what your point is, as all the arguments against btc you can apply to gold just the same (except time, obviously)
Not anymore. In May 2024 OpenAI confirmed that it will not enforce those provisions:

* The company will not cancel any vested equity, regardless of whether employees sign separation agreements or non-disparagement agreements

* Former employees have been released from their non-disparagement obligations

* OpenAI sent messages to both former and current employees confirming that it "has not canceled, and will not cancel, any vested units"

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/24/openai_contract_staff...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-24/openai-re...
Oh, I got a lot of those for hate. The good news is it was easy to report them and I got most people who sent them banned. It's highly against reddit's TOS and something they enforce.
This. All this bullshit about "AI will kill us all" is purely a device to ensure regulatory capture for the largest players, ie the people saying said bullshit.

Pretend your meme pic generator is actually a weapon of mass destruction and you can eliminate most of your competition by handwaving about "safety".
Own your pedantry, comrade. Be neither bashful nor apologetic.
Joe Biden just pardoned his son from crimes that would have gotten you and me in jail already.

The only crime there is evidence he committed is never prosecuted against regular people, so it's the exact opposite of what you claim.
Let's not forget: the water fountains used to be an inexplicable focus of hate as well.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3khH9ih2XJg
It's a fair comparison. Daniel Penney too. The main difference between the four parties is who killed people who'd killed others, and who killed people who hadn't actually done anything.
I don't think my keyboard handles the first very well (we did switch from spelling the city of "Peking" to "Beijing" though), but for the latter, sure.

In some cases name changes are political so I could see there being resistance to going along, if the politics doesn't align.
Good lord, what an atrocious Gish gallop of selective quotes and evidence. This might be one of the worst displays of sharpshooter logic I've ever seen.

AND it features a quote from William Pierce, an infamous neo-Nazi. Probably more, but I gave up after the umpteenth unverifiable quote. Just goes to show how much modern right-wing propaganda aligns with traditional neo-Nazi propaganda.
Microsoft filed a covenant not to sue and made all the formats open ~20 years ago. A lot of people bitched at the time but there's a long list of software that supports the format now. It is complicated because the apps themselves are complicated and decades old, and imperfect because the format or app you're converting to likely doesn't support all of the features and certainly none of the quirks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

It took browsers 15 years just to render HTML whitespace nearly consistently, so keep that in mind as you read that history.
I am left wondering if the differences in brain anatomy happen because these people read more and thus become good at reading, i.e., the brain is plastic, or these people have a proclivity to be better at reading because their brain is structured differently.

Unless I missed it, there isn’t much mentioned on plasticity in the original paper.
DOGE fans that don't realize that the GAO already exists.
If you want to make Youtube videos, start a Youtube channel and make videos.

If you work hard enough for long enough, you might get enough subscribers and enough views to meet the requirements for Youtube monetization.

But if you don't enjoy making videos, you won't enjoy trying to build a Youtube channel.

Same for writing a blog...it will be better if you enjoy writing.

Finally, successful Youtube channels and Blogs usually succeed based on personality. So make/write what comes naturally. Good luck.
ChatChart – Flowcharts in Seconds
The script appears to be missing a check for "long series of single-sentencr paragraphs", which quite harms readability.
Sure, I don’t mean it should be that way, just that there might be a tacit assumption.
Luigi is a verb now. I love it!
I'm curious why they ended up focusing on DOTA. Prize money? Valve make the game particular amenable to machine interface?
The Stinking Legacy-Prisons and Concentration Camps of the USA
Decent gag that baits my click every time
As context on Ilya's predictions given in this talk, he predicted these in July 2017:

> Within the next three years, robotics should be completely solved [wrong, unsolved 7 years later], AI should solve a long-standing unproven theorem [wrong, unsolved 7 years later], programming competitions should be won consistently by AIs [wrong, not true 7 years later, seems close though], and there should be convincing chatbots (though no one should pass the Turing test) [correct, GPT-3 was released by then, and I think with a good prompt it was a convincing chatbot]. In as little as four years, each overnight experiment will feasibly use so much compute capacity that there’s an actual chance of waking up to AGI [didn't happen], given the right algorithm — and figuring out the algorithm will actually happen within 2–4 further years of experimenting with this compute in a competitive multiagent simulation [didn't happen].

Being exceptionally smart in one field doesn't make you exceptionally smart at making predictions about that field. Like AI models, human intelligence often doesn't generalize very well.
> The product market fit is fantastic. This isn't the first time I've heard random strangers discussing it in public.

People were constantly discussing crypto in public, it even regularly made it into Tagesschau. Yet it remains an (influential) niche product.

People discussing a topic in public is not a good proxy for product market fit. It does not imply those people are using said product, nor does it imply people would be willing to pay for said product.

> even the current models meet every definition of "very smart" I had while growing up, despite their errors.

I recently tried to read a grocery store receipt into GPT4o and asked it what the KG price for the steak position was (it was listed as €/kg right next to the position name). It came up with some elaborate math, but not with the correct answer.

So yeah. These models might be able to confidentially answer questions, but I found them to be (partially) incorrect more often than not.
Further piling on potential stress for any whistleblower in a highly specialized field, once you're publicly critical of that field, you're basically unemployable there. And that's without any active retribution from the offending employer. Any retribution, such as blacklisting among peer HR departments would bring an even dimmer outlook.
This reminds me of the different foods in Anathem; the different people (Trying to keep this spoiler-free.) are unable to digest the the foods the others eat.
If You're Asking Someone to Be Your Mentor Then You're Doing It Wrong
My question, from using ThreeJs and @react-three{fiber, drei} and seeing this site, is why I do I continue to use CSS & HTML? The question is what is important, not the answer.

In my experience there are times when building HTML CSS components is an anti-user pattern. I know HTML-CSS well, but is it the best experience for users? In some cases my answer is no.

In particular, with complex websites I believe that using graphic navigation is superior to other alternatives. When we want to navigate using {Google,Apple,Etc} maps we do not have a list of hierarchical menus. One does not navigate to the continents menu, then countries, then states, then cities, etc. You zoom out, you zoom in or you type a location. A user can quickly and easily go from a street view in NYC to a street view in Osaka.

I suspect that direct 3D graphics could be used in other situations, but have not had a chance to explore them. Low hanging fruit first.

(And yes, this is not a bug free system. Getting things to work across platforms, browsers, etc can be tedious. On the other hand most {iPhones, Android phones } seem to have strong graphics capabilities that make them able to handle a modicum of graphics. :-) )
Why can't the tokenization be implicit, so we only feed bytes (or characters) to the model?
Why use a language with Oberon syntax, when there's Teal, which has Lua syntax and a TypeScript to Lua compiler?