skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely an overlooked responsibility in hosting is making sure everyone is included and enjoying the experience. Or at least making the effort.
Robots at this point are specialized for a highly specific task. None of them are as dynamically deployable as a 80 IQ person. You can let a walk around a construction site doing whatever, no such robot is available right now.

If I'm wrong please post where I can buy such a general robot.
Why not? A fast piece of metal is different from a slow piece of metal, from a legal perspective.

You can't just say that "this really bad thing that causes a lot of problems is just like this not so bad thing that haven't caused any problem, only more so". Or at least it's not a correct argument.

When it is the scale that causes the harm, stating that the harmful thing is the same as the harmless except the scale, is like.. weird.
Fair, but see also my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42418281
I'd even go so far as to say that the removal of all adverbs from any technical writing would be a net positive for my newest graduate students.

I've heard this before. Stephen King hates adverbs. However, it can be very difficult to remove all adverbs from your writing. "randomly" for example is an adverb, and if your sentence uses it, it can be difficult to rewrite the sentence without "randomly" that isn't long and complicated. Many adverbs are emphasis words that don't need to be in the sentence ("extremely" for example), but other adverbs are critical to the sentence.
Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford were all autodidacts, and their contributions to society are beyond imagination.

You bring up a good point though, and the two directions in this thread are both important.
IMO verifying a solution is a great example of how reasoning is unpredictable. To say "I need to verify this solution" is to say "I do not know whether the solution is correct or not" or "I cannot predict whether the solution is correct or not without reasoning about it first".
Show HN: Beta for adventure travel expert network.
Adventure travel expert network with local guides to enhance your travel experiences with 1:1 conversations.
Have you tried pixi? I haven’t, and i’m hoping i can continue to avoid conda, but it’s a uv-using conda replacement: https://pixi.sh/latest/
Hi, I am sure Buzee could be of great help to you! It certainly helps me out with my work which is quite similar to your scenario.

For Windows, you should try this link [1]. Unfortunately, it'll only work if you install it under admin privileges since I couldn't afford to buy a $500 code signing certificate. Otherwise, you could build the app on your machine from the source code! I'd be happy to help you with that.

Let me know how it works out.

[1]: https://buzee.co/download/#buzee-for-windows
Wow! That’s impressive. The video at the top of your post really helped me understand the coordination involved. Thank you for sharing.

I imagine you’ve been playing music most of your life. How long did it take you to bring all of this together and start “one man band” improvising?
> It's not can't, it's won't as you are willing to add tipping but not a paywall to your content

The "won't" is because of two reasons: 1) too high overhead, and 2) bootstrap problem. Nobody has the ability to pay with one click set up.

When I say "can't" I mean that they can't set up a payment system that everybody can use, and also doesn't have too high fees. Of course they can set up a method that nobody will use. They could set up a bitcoin paywall, and have huge waiting times, enormously expensive overhead, and no customers for the payment method.

> All you had to do was add a single line of js to your site, as easy as Google analytics/ads.

Super easy on the server side. Yay.

> The cost was 0.01% of transaction. You could even move to self hosting and not pay us.

Oh, neat. But you're missing a step in the explanation, I think. How did it work on the client side? Presumably:

1. Clients need to create an account with you (lose 99% of people already)
2a. Client needs to create a balance with you, e.g. by paying in $10 in one go, to spend this month. (lose further 99% of people); or
2b. Client gets charged once a month for their total amount (probably better client acceptance)

For the server side to create an account, that's not a problem at all. If you had said that you had your software on 30 million users, payment set up and done, then I'd imagine more publishers would be willing to add a tip jar / alternative paywall.

But in any case, what are your card fees? I can't imagine this product had 0.01% end to end fees, given the hoops I have to jump through just to send money between my own bank accounts without paying fees.

And that's not even tackling currency exchange.

Some (but definitely not all) cryptocurrencies may fare better in the fees department, but not only does that have its own sets of problems (e.g. legal and PR), most people would still need to acquire a balance.

> Anyways I think our solution was great but no product market fit.

It does sound great. But also doesn't sound like it solved the hard problem.

When you pitched this to publishers, how many users could you say were ready to send them money today, using installed extensions and pre-filled wallets?

Maybe the digital euro will help, here.
Pair programming is pretty popular. Has anyone tried "trio" or "quad" programming?
Show HN: Disk Prices on eBay
Hey HN. I made a site[0] to browse disk prices by $/TB on eBay similar to labgopher[1]. The other diskprices[2] site only uses data from Amazon.

- https://unli.xyz/diskprices/

- https://labgopher.com/

- https://diskprices.com/
Release files on PyPI are immutable: an attacker can’t overwrite a pre-existing file for a version. So if you pin to an exact version, you are (in principle) protected from downloading a new malicious one.

The main caveat to the above is that files are immutable on PyPI, but releases are not. So an attacker can’t overwrite an existing file (or delete and replace one), but they can always add a more specific distribution to a release if one doesn’t already exist. In practice, this means that a release that doesn’t have an arm64 wheel (for example) could have one uploaded to it.

TL;DR: pinning to a version is suitable for most settings; pinning to the exact set of hashes for that version’s file will prevent new files from being added to that version without you knowing.
One factor is the format: it's a time-trial event, not a head-to-head race. So if a rider dies, it's hard to pin the blame on anyone but the rider, who clearly knew what they were signing up for.
I will not rest until I have you immortal, flying your fusion powered car, using augmented reality VR controls, to your very own immersive shopping experience with AI assistant android sexbots catering to your every whim and I will not REM enhanced super-sleep until that happens!

I'll give you fifteen minutes to call me back.

/Jerry Maquire out
Haha you are right! The releases were actually hosted on a separate public repository to handle automatic app updates since the source code was private.

I have updated the readme with screenshots. You can visit the website [1] or the releases page [2] to try it out.

[1]: https://buzee.co/

[2]: https://github.com/gsidhu/buzee-releases/releases
I have very fond memories of working at Papyrus (1995-1997, including the very start of GPL; some of my code probably lived on in the telemetry recording and replay system, though I left early enough to not be in the credits [correctly so, IMO].)

The iRacing crew has a large overlap of ex-Papyrus, unsurprisingly.
It is important to note the context: he it was in a private email to an investor with vested interests in those fields, and someone who is also prone to giving over-optimistic timelines ("Tobo-taxis will be here next year, for sure" since 2015)
That's pretty cool! What you're building is kind of what my vision with Buzee was. Wishing you good luck!
Hacking physics from the back of a napkin (2020)
Wouldn't you want the incentive for false coordinators to be as strong as possible?

Otherwise, the coordinator has more to gain by actually coordinating collusion (i.e. secretly pay off shardholders, reassemble the key, monetize what's in it, don't do anything on-chain) than by revealing the collusion in non-iterated games.
That's the OP's point. At the time, the community was split between word-level, which has the shortcomings you're describing, and byte-level which is uselessly compute intensive. BPE was the first reasonable in-between. BLT improves on BPE by having the the compression learnable rather than precomputed
GDPR helped a lot with that in my previous companies. They applied vicious "delete after X years" policies to everything (files, emails). There is an ability to change it to longer but each element requires action, like moving to special folder with different retention.

Absolutely bonkers, as the only metric is creation time, so good luck if you have a precious folder you forgot, with old contracts or something like that.
>> widely

>

> Bullshit.

Dark Reader has >9 million total users across browsers as reported by the Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Mac app stores [1][2][3][4]. That is definitely a very small percentage of total web browser users - with some estimates putting chrome users at 3.2 billion(!)[5], but 9 million users isn't something to scoff at either.

FWIW - I completely agree that mckirk's comment was a great passing "fyi" that doesn't put pressure on the dev. I also think it relevant to the original post (not some tangential common complaint, nor against the HN guidelines).

[1]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dark-reader/eimadpb...

[2]: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/dark-reade...

[3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/

[4]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dark-reader-for-safari/id14382...

[5]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/543218/worldwide-interne...
Is there an ergonomic keyboard you recommend? I used to buy Msft Sculpt but want one that is compatible with macOS.
For the 10,000 of today: http://linyun.info/phd-grinding.pdf
All that stuff looks fun, but I'm utterly terrified at the idea of it malfunctioning. Like, in a false-positive way. And, as a professional deformation, I guess, it is basically an axiom for me that any automation will malfunction at some point for some ridiculously stupid and obvious-in-the-hindsight reason I absolutely cannot predict right now.

I mean, seriously, it isn't a laughable idea that a bomb that will explode unless you poke some button every 24 h might eventually explode even though you weren't incapacitated and dutifully pressed that button. I'm not even considering the case that you might have been temporarily incapacitated. People wouldn't call you paranoid if you say that carrying such bomb is a stupid idea.
It would be great if you can share your journey, and why you think it failed? And how you would do it differently if you start today?

Also this is not the first time I'm seeing a universal search startups fail, some even YC backed. It sounds like an interesting idea, but why is it failing, I can't seem to figure out, maybe not enough market or adaptation?
(Author here)

If I understand your question right, this is one of the reasons BPE is nice and the parent liked it. For any character sequence, provided the characters are in the alphabet used to create the BPE vocab, there are no unknown words/sequences. One downside of some previous tokenization methods is you could have unknown/UNK tokens, EG dictionary based methods.

In our paper with bytes, we also avoid the UNK issue, since we can have an embedding for every possible byte, since it’s not that many (and for sequences of bytes we use hash embedding, although we did test n-gram lookups for the top K frequent byte n-grams in the training data).
Suggested Actions fails to suggest its own survival as Windows 11 feature killed
> The trick I’ve found is to make the conversation more interesting, if you think it’s boring. 9 times out of 10 everyone is just jonesing for someone to take it somewhere fun, but afraid to make the first step.

Not in 2024. You're 100% going to get a person who's going to get offended and make a scene.
APL has ⎕IO←0 or ⎕IO←1 to change the starting index (only between 0 or 1, not arbitrarily). It doesn't apply system-wide so different code blocks/files/modules(?) can set or reset it, and portable code has to either set it or adjust for it.

APLCast podcast has an episode mentioning it where they all seem to agree that this is the worst of all worlds, makes sharing code and integrating codebases needlessly bug-prone, and the language picking a single indexing and sticking to it would have been better, even if the choice hadn't gone the way they would have personally chosen.
That's an argument against requiring all lecturers to also be active researchers, not against the value of the field itself.
Uh, the product manager left last week.
Yeah, I assume their chargers are better engineered than the competition. And also that since they've got a national footprint they're better able to respond when one goes down. They DO go down, I've seen it, but with EA it seems there's always at least one inoperable in any bank of them.

You'd think now that Tesla is under 50% of EV sales here (and under 20% globally) that this problem will be solved soon, but I really don't know.
Rails and Hotwire is a nice stack. Thx!
Definitely, AI for coding makes sense. In the Veryfront Studio, you get a similar experience with live previews and AI coding capabilities, with the added benefit of being able to instantly deploy or export your code.
Why not Alfred or Everything?
By the look of it, it is another misguided attempt to apply information theory concepts to thermodynamics. Entropy as information is seductive because that way we think we can understand it better, and it looks like it works. But we need to be careful because even though we can get useful insights from it (like Hawking radiation) it’s easy to reach unphysical conclusions.

> How is that not right in physics?

Why would it be right? Was it used to make predictions that were subsequently verified?
There are at least two timelines, one where Jim falls off the ladder and one where he doesn't. The time machine would not change that.
Not sure. Off the cuff, as someone who only played MOBAs when they were Warcraft 3 maps,

* limited choices for actual commands to make, but still lots decision to make.

* a very active competitive community

* easy to evaluate win conditions and (I think?) somewhat easy to evaluate “am I doing well” conditions (like if you fall behind on experience you are doing poorly I think)

So maybe it is a convenient genre.
I honestly don't understand how you came to that conclusion, considering the following from TFA (emphasis mine):

> Somewhat straightforwardly, YouTube has chosen to degrade the user experience of the embedded player publishers like Vox Media use, and the only way to get that link back is by using a slightly different player *that pays us less and YouTube more*

YouTube made the B2B product worse, and in order to get that functionality back (for now), the Verge would have to take a pay cut
Anyone has used this?
>... heedful (he wasn't for AI)

Preceding the use of that word as an example, it clearly says "having thoughts" as the definition. Between the blog he posted, the interview he gave, and the fact that he was assisting an active investigation, I'd say that he both "had some thoughts" and "heeded AI".

Again, we're back to the fact that you're suggesting that it's cool to flag a simple "condolences" comment just because you disagree with how the decedent viewed the world.

Hope you have a pleasant weekend.
Larger models are more robust reasoners. Is there a limit? What if you make a 5 TB model trained on a lot of multimodal data where the language information was fully grounded in videos and images etc. Could more robust reasoning be that simple?
This is not necessarily suboptimal behavior; given that any genetically determined behavior will constitute a categorical imperative among those individuals carrying the genes, and whose offspring gets orphaned is to some extent random, the benefit of having their own offspring cared for in the event of their untimely death may outweigh the cost of raising offspring with whom they have less genetic material in common.
I remember having a bitch of a time in MS Paint as a kid back in the day trying to find an acceptable orange, everything I tried came out brown.
The point of `match` is you can combine the destructuring with the conditional. It's also why Rich Hickey dislikes it.
23andMe's failure: A warning for genetic data privacy
>If you want to kill people and get away with it, just form a corporation and have your CxO and SVP staff make decisions that kill people.

Note this only works for indirect deaths. If you form a corporation and then order a hit on someone, that's still illegal and you'll still go to jail. If you form a corporation, build a coal power plant that follows all regulations, and the particulate pollution sends a few hundred people to their early deaths that's fine.
> That’s sorta the case with frames and asynchronously loaded stuff anyway though right?

Yeah, and that's not something to emulate. And if so, it sort of already exists in the spec: iframe.
Presumably the motorbike owner or team or event sponsors have insurance to pay for the charred front rooms and bystander injuries? I could see spectators being at their own risk, but if the event becomes uninsurable, it will stop being held.
the take-out is, getting in the way of the workflow doesnt make faster, or easier.
in my experience it is more dynamic than that. based on tech meetings that i have been to, it depends on the topic currently being discussed. larger groups will break apart if not everyone is interested. it also depends on the arrangement. if a few people stand in a circle and more join the circle, the conversation won't split, because for that to happen they would actually have to leave the circle and create a new one.
Show HN: I made a simple and free Figma plugin that replaces colors
I've never made a Figma plugin before and I wanted to replace colors in a picture, which was something that was not possible in Figma or any other plugin. Sometimes I find background removal to be too smart, and this helps when all I need is to replace or remove a single color.
Switzerland banned motor racing for sixty years in response to this event.
Ironically there are really severe restrictions on car washes in some US states now due to water use limits and the environmental impact of runoff. It's really tough for a small operator to open a new car wash in California.

https://www.vlses.com/2024/03/06/navigating-californias-wast...

The regulatory overreach has driven up prices so much that a lot of my neighbors have gone back to washing their own cars in their driveways.
The article makes a claim that it is in the insurance companies best interest to make the overall cost of healthcare to go up so they can get a bigger profit.

While I somewhat agree with that claim, I suspect that there are many systemic policies designed into healthcare by policy makers that create these inefficiencies in the first place.

1) why can’t an insurance offer a lower cost option? It’s because of the policy of what they are required to provide.

2) why do hospitals charge so much markup for everything? It’s probably because there is a lot that they can’t charge you for, they can’t charge you by hour by doctor and nurse quantity. So they have to charge arbitrary markups on random items. This allows for hidden profits esp by savvy financial data people.

3) what incentives are there to give cost effective services in the medical field? There are none. Customers will pay regardless, and insurance will cover regardless. Game theory wise, it is in the best interest for insurance companies a to cooperate with with medical service companies to push larger and larger bills to consumers.
I mean they had dystopian sci-fi back then too...

Technology changes, yet people remain ever the assholes.
That's the part that's blowing my mind. Energy harvesting is cool and tricky to get right, but it's not magic.

Sending data by modulating the data flow itself, is spooky. Absolute madness. I love it and I'm a little scared.
I never got it.

He’s a kid from a rich family. He wasn’t affected, neither directly nor indirectly through a family member.

He didn’t stand up for his crime but ran away and lied. And he got caught because 1) he had to flirt with a clerk while he as on his mission and 2) he had to sit down inside a McDonalds when he knew the whole world was looking for him.

Looks like he was both afraid of the consequences and afraid that nobody would know that it was him.

His motto seemed to be, “If I can’t do anything worthwhile in this life, then let me get the attention I think the world owes me by killing someone.”

Like the guy who shot Lennon.

Total ego trip. Should have read a bit less Wait But Why and a bit more Tolstoy. What a wasted life! Killed himself more than his victim. Very sad and very useless.
DEI Pedagogy Produces the Hostile Attribution Bias
Quite high abstraction for its simplicity, quick to learn, strongly typed, garbage collected before it was cool (same as Module 3) and yet a system programming language (Oberon OS).

You could argue that Wirth overdid it a bit with the simplicity vs. Comfort features but that's probably also dependent on your preferences and the problem you want to solve.

There are a few languages where you regret that they did not win in favour of C++ and Oberon is one of them (and Modula 3). Not that C++ does not have its strength , but for many problems Oberon would probably have been the simpler fit.
Scythe implies a large swinging blade, cutting down everything in its path. Also Death carries a scythe, so that evokes another good image.
Why not just use Claude itself to review the writing, instead of having it write a much less capable and brittle and limited bash script to do it? You could even ask Claude to write a prompt for itself that performs the same or better function than the bash script. Bash and Perl are like duct tape and chewing gum, so terrible for that kind of stuff, and it's just what Claude does best. It can go so much further by actually weighing alternatives and suggesting changes, instead of just flagging problems. And no weird regular expression inconsistencies that cause false positives and negatives and parsing errors.
We've run out of training data that definitely did not contain LLM outputs.
TikTok's Future in the US Is Unclear
And that the short story is the important one.
Thanks. I actually started playing the piano in 1975. But only in the early 2000 I started to play bass on a pedal board. In 2010 I made my first experiments with playing the drums instead of the bass on the pedal board (http://rochus-keller.ch/?p=317). In 2014 I had a dedicated setup simulating a big band and played together with other musicians (e.g. http://rochus-keller.ch/?p=962). In 2022 I bought a Mac mini M1 and since enjoy the excellent sound quality of the new plugin generations. Only this year I managed to play the ride cymble as a real drummer would do it.
> You should be considering the maps canvas as an interactive element in an HTML-CSS page.

this breaks down if my 2D/3D scene _is_ the page and has its own interactive elements and rendering tree which need to be managed with their own state and lifecycles. the killer app in google maps is the interactive map, not the inputs - the types of experiences possible on the web today go far beyond text/image content and forms.