skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really nice collection. Thanks for putting them together. I'm very partial to this writing style as well.

I took a crack at making it slightly nicer to write this style of blog post via markdown with codeblocks you can mark to execute instead of display (and hot reload + gist rendering support)

It makes the source easy to read, even on GitHub preview, etc.

It's what I've been using to write my recent posts.

https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/mdxish

But at the end of the day, content itself and the code that powers it is more important than any framework you might use.
What is DDG doing?
the best engineers focus on outcomes. They use the best tools available to achieve the best outcome as fast as possible

AI coding tools are increasingly proving to be some of the highest leverage tools we’ve seen in decades. They still require some skill to use effectively and have unique trade-offs, though. Mastering them is the same as anything else in engineering, things are just moving faster than we’re used to.

the next generation of successful engineers will be able to do more with less, producing the output of an entire team by themselves.

be one of those 100x engineers, focused on outcomes, and you'll always be valuable
An 11" SCT is a commitment to use. Do you have it on a permanent mount?
> The defaults are awful - most of my config is just fixing papercuts, like adding support for light/dark mode, finding a reasonable font and applying text size consistently, locating the correct LSP executable, or following platform conventions for copy/paste (all across Linux, OpenBSD, and macOS).

This describes virtually every editor on earth. In fact because macos leans so heavily on readline input, emacs comes with far more compatibility with native keybindings than VSCode does. IntelliJ is a downright horror show in this regard.

The runtime environment of emacs is definitely showing its age. Freezes and long pauses of non-interactivity are pretty common, although they do get fixed, new ones are regularly introduced. Separating the language fundamentals from the editor itself seems to show promise in opening up alternatives that allow competing with more modern editors on more even footing.
A Third Person Has Received a Transplant of a Genetically Engineered Pig Kidney
>>And don't get me started on the number of cars with ZERO lights, or only DRLs (no tail lights) at night here in the Bay Area (CA).

As sort of a personal mea culpa, shortly after I got a new car, I realized I had done a nighttime drive with just daytime running lights. I leave the lights on Auto usually but it's relatively easy to hit the headlight dial with a finger when activating the turn signal. (Or, as I think was the case here I had just gotten a state inspection and the lights were just turned off.) I'm more aware now. Something seemed a bit off but it was a fairly new car.
The law is special because everyone has to obey it or face punishment. It is an injustice if most people can't figure out whether things they want to do are legal or not without employing a lawyer.
Show HN: Manage Your Inbox with AI
for real, it's so much better i've started using it everywhere, to the point where if a service asks me for a password i get really annoyed.

no i don't remember this random string i typed in months ago and no i don't want to have to type in the password to unlock my password manager for the 82349th time

this whole thread is perplexing, a forum full of tech people bitching about something that's more secure and more convenient
A PIN is not a password, because it only works on a device that you have already autheticated using some much more secure mechanism.

if there is anywhere that you can use a PIN without additional authentication it's not a PIN, it's just shitty insecure password.
> But, when you go down some arcane rabbit hole that will normally be interpreted by functionaries -- bankruptcy comes to mind-- suddenly everything is prescribed with remarkable precision

If this were really true, there would be zero appellate cases (and probably not even trial cases, as the clear and only correct resolution would be apparent to all parties without a trial which would only add expense) in these areas, and yet... That's very much not the case.

If law, even in these areas, is “code”, it is so more in the sense of the Pirates Code in Pirates of the Carribean, not computer software.
> I am keenly interested in seeing if someone can leverage AI for query performance tuning or, within the RDBMS, query planning. That feels like an excellent (if highly specific) domain for an LLM.

Pay the $20 for Claude, copy the table DDL's in along with a query you'd like to tune.

Copy in any similar tuned queries you have and tell it you'd like to tune your query in a similar manner.

Once you've explained what you'd like it to do and provided context hit enter.

I'd be very surprised if having done this you can't find value in what it generates.
Making creation of before/after comparisons for OpenStreetMap more accessible
What a narrow view of the world. I’m sure that there are things that you do that others find irritating, that doesn’t mean your hobby has any less merit or value to you.

I’m also sure you’re conflating the one or two obnoxious vehicles you’ve heard into “any vehicle that I can hear at all is now bad”. As many others pointed out - motorcycles is even mostly considered a point of road safety to be loud.

The resistance you get to your argument is because instead of simply asking your neighbor to start their car quietly (most new cars have valvetronic exhausts and can do this) you immediately jump to “I want to jail another person and take away their freedom because they’ve inconvenienced me momentarily”.
I hope so. It's a "war" that I can get behind. Nothing more annoying than some insecure loser revving his engine while driving by your house. It's both noise and air pollution. Should be banned outright.
The best mental model I’ve come up with is that 1pm just makes a better midday for most people than 12.

Yes, We want to logically make midday be when the sun is directly overhead. (Split sunlight hours evenly in half)

But human nature is that it takes a little longer to get going each day and this helps us align daylight with human nature.
Leica M11 signs each photo. "Content Authority Initiative" https://leica-camera.com/en-US/news/partnership-greater-trus...

Cute hack showing that its kinda useless unless the user-facing UX does a better job of actually knowing whether the certificate represents the manufacturer of the sensor (dude just uses a self signed cert with "Leica Camera AG" as the name. Clearly cryptography literacy is lagging behind...
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/30/falsified-photos-fooling-ado...
If you do any groceries in bigger markets, the shelf positioning and location of the aisle is also a part of advertising. Companies pay premiums for some spots.
What if my phone irreparably broke?
Driverless bus service in Scotland to be withdrawn due to lack of interest
I can't figure out what the point of this article is, but let's talk about advertising and AI, since that seems to be a primary focus.

Advertisers using generative AI to create ad campaigns is a diversion at best. The only use of AI advertisers are interested in is how they can embed ads directly in the personal AI assistants the world is starting to use. If a conversational AI model can be manipulated to casually mention a specific brand in its output at precisely the right moment, then that's the most accurate form of targeting, with the highest chance of engagement. AI assistants are trusted much more than any search engine, or any media we consume, so it's only a matter of time until we start seeing these integrations with mainstream models. No AI service provider will be able to resist cashing in on the advertising dollar, regardless of what their "benefit of all humankind" marketing agenda claims. They're sitting on a data gold mine much larger than the one adtech currently controls, with user demand that will eventually surpass social media and entertainment sites. The opportunity to monetize AI is enormous, and that's the next advertising frontier.

Advertising is a scourge on humanity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h9wStdPkQY
https://archive.is/lgUsJ
This might be dynamic lighting. Where they have high-beams on, but the lighting computer routes the light around your car.
>There are countless games that can't be played any more only because a company behind it has discontinued its DRM servers.

I want those companies (and especially connected device manufacturers in similar positions) to be liable for damages. It's basically destruction of property.
Apple‘s password manager is available for Windows, although I don’t know if it supports passkeys.

Also, there are mechanisms to use a passkey from another device (over Bluetooth I think?)
Ingram Micro to 'stop doing business' with Broadcom, VMware 'limited engagement'
> The law is special because everyone has to obey it or face punishment.

In theory, yes. In practice, not “everyone”, and very much not equally true of everyone to whom the law practically applies at all, even in the places which tout “equal protection of the laws” as a bedrock principle.
The problem is, Meta et al. has shown their ad targeting ML models are best in class, and drive sales. So, these investors want a piece of that pie.
This looks great. I was able to quickly connect and visualize my YouTube channel data in Metabase. Pretty cool! How do you plan to keep up with connector requests? That seems like it would be really challenging?
People seem to be comparing it to Simulink, but to me the language seems to have more in common with matlab / octave's symbolic package / python's sympy.

Any idea if that's the case?
If you are not actually running ML code, of course you can remove Python and ML libraries. You could get this down to MB by removing WASM and using a Go binary

apples and oranges
Really excellent. Since I live in a high rise I've marked the cardinal directions on the floor and walls and been trying to develop a spatial intuition for the ecliptic, essentially trying to be able to easily imagine myself tilted in the northern hemisphere subtropics rotating around a sphere rotating around the sun. End goal would be an automatic intuition of where to look for the Sun, Moon, and all the visible planets. This sounds insane typing it out but its very passive and genuinely satisfying. Not being on the equator and the natural tilt of the Earth are the two factors that make this most difficult, of course.
Webhook Tester/Debugger
That is a completely different thing.
Her skills with story telling really show there, that was really engaging but stayed technical and information dense! Thanks so much for the link!
The Jetson Orin Nano Super, discussion (40 points, 3 hours ago, 37 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42442107
Max GPU: A new GenAI native serving stac
I could take you seriously if you didn't make elementary English mistakes. Also think what you like, makes zero difference to me.
the way a PIN works in other contexts is the same concept as what microsoft means.

Your PIN for your bank card doesn't give anybody access to your bankaccount. that would be terrible. your pin acts as a secondary level of authentication to secure the bank card that is your primary authenticator. just like a PIN in windows hello acts to secure your primary auth method - the computer that's already signed in to your microsoft account.
Hot take: this will eventually be the downfall of AI/burst the AI bubble, when businesses all over finally realise that 'AI-ing' their workforce was a mistake that cost them dearly, and need to re-employ almost the same number of staff to do what they're in business for.

One hopes at least, anyway...
Also, not a member: Francis Williams, denied on grounds of being not white.
Noticed was the same author of the every UUID link that came up a few days ago. Very inspirational story as I'm struggling to quit alcohol as well. My addiction isn't anywhere near as bad as his level was but it's bad enough that I do want to change.

Hopefully someone else reads this and gets inspiration as well.
From the first, no.

It does handle the second and third, IIRC.
Good news: he did some minor touch ups and then approved the PR. Seems like humans did win this round. Let's see how long that lasts.
Cloud sync.
Well… in the end SGI licensed their secret graphics sauce to Nvidia (IIRC) and you can get Linux running on pretty much any x86 laptop. You can even run MaXX Desktop. Or FreeBSD for extra Unixness.

I imagine what they’d look like today. Now sure how to translate their 90’s graphics language to the 2020’s though. Hard edges, rich textures, and colorful machines.
My understanding is that in the U.S. it's allowed to have headlights that dynamically turn on and off the high beams depending on whether it sees a car coming. The more advanced Euro version has a spatial light modulator in the headlight that dims the light specifically in the direction of the oncoming car, while leaving the high beams on for rest of the area in front of the car.
No, it really is not and there is no parallel. The French constitution is quite clear, and “French people” refer to citizens and nationals, including naturalised citizens. The common factor is participating in the democratic process and being part of the Nation.

As any label, it can be used by xenophobes, but there is no comparison with race, which is pseudo-scientific bullshit. There are many ways of becoming a citizen, it is not a frozen label that is assigned to you by oppressors.
Any larger competitor would surely discourage disassembling a competitor's code because mere exposure to it might make you liable to lawsuits if you develop similar features (and you can't trust that the fact you did it won't leak out).
> I’m also sure you’re conflating the one or two obnoxious vehicles you’ve heard into “any vehicle that I can hear at all is now bad”

That must be why I specifically stated police sirens, semis, etc are fine? I've nothing against "loud" cars that have a purpose. I've something against people intentionally modifying their cars to be loud.

> The resistance you get to your argument is because instead of simply asking your neighbor to start their car quietly (most new cars have valvetronic exhausts and can do this) you immediately jump to “I want to jail another person and take away their freedom”.

You really think I'm talking about people starting their cars? You know what people are complaining about. You are being intentionally dense here.

Let me guess, you make a living modifying cars to be extremely loud. Right?
thanks a lot! yes, the idea was to really dial in on features that can help people learn faster!
> The term comes from fraudsters [where victims are subjected to] devastating financial losses as well as psychological harm. [...] INTERPOL argues that the term ‘pig butchering’ dehumanizes and shames victims of such frauds, deterring people from coming forward [...]

The term likely serves many purposes. A degradation of the victim out of ill will, but also as justification for exploitation. All of the involved perpetrator are likely not soulless and are in need of some form of rationalization to manage their conscience. While not critically instrumental, such unconscious group-language creates an ambience to aid the goal. Perhaps such language arises exactly because of an unconscious battle of conscience. Likely you will also find self-glorifying Robin Hood narratives.

Studies of language use in such environments would be interesting, and likely exists.
"Hey Google" is outdated: The hotword of the future is here
I haven’t dug into this but I must be missing something with passkeys.

It’s the same issue I had with getting a Yubikey.

The odds that I lose a piece of hardware that I’m carrying on me seems orders of magnitude greater than the odds of having my password cracked.

How does one recover from a lost device (other then backing up to Apple’s private cloud in which case you’re beholden to them forever to be able to access your own accounts).
How about taillight brightness?

I'm not sure if this has gotten better in recent years, but there are a bunch of high-end vehicles (looking at you AUDI) with extremely bright red LED taillights that are just painful to sit behind at a red light.
I thought Anna’s was dead?
Intel Reportedly Confirms Panther Lake to Be Built on 18A
The shift to unsafe high-blue lights is simply a matter of forgetting what was figured out. In the 20th century the lighting companies (GE, etc) had all the money in the world, and spent a lot on R&D. They figured out how to get the most efficient lights possible for their customers. The scientists figured out exactly how blue light causes inflammation in our eyes. There are good reasons why cities used orange High Pressure Sodium [HPS] Bulbs for street lights: HPS is very energy efficient (as good as most LEDs), and they emit light that is almost blue-free.

Then LEDs were invented by companies that didn't have that old R&D. The automotive industry gradually switched to LEDs for the advantage of not needing to replace bulbs (but lights that fail are now >$1000 to replace instead of $5)

Instead of putting safe low-blue LEDs on their cars (~2400K), auto manufacturers are using 4000K to 5000K LEDs. These have too much blue light.

To understand modern lighting, the term "spectral power distribution" is quite helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_power_distribution

Relative Spectral Power Distribution graphs show how much of each color of the rainbow is in a given source of light. Incandescent bulbs are mostly Red-orange-yellow light with a bit of green and even less blue. 5000K fluorescent or LED bulbs are mostly blue light with just enough red orange and yellow to trick people into thinking the light is 'white'.

I emailed Daniel Stern a few years ago and asked, essentially, 'why aren't auto manufacturers putting safe lights on their cars?' The essence of his reply was that the automotive engineers still know how to design safe headlights, but there were other considerations in play. I took this to mean that the marketing department told the engineers, "cars with safe headlights don't sell anymore, so you need to design headlights with blue-white LEDs." Daniel's response also helped me realize that the worst of the headlights on the road in 2017 were LED retrofits, where people bought LEDs to replace the halogen bulbs their vehicle's headlights were designed to use.

The shift to unsafe lights started in the 80's or 90's, when luxury brands started putting High Intensity Discharge lights on their vehicles. These lights have more blue light than the old incandescent and halogen headlights. Headlights with more blue became associated with more expensive cars, even though blue light is terrible for humans at night.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_discharge_lamp

Daniel has a webpage about how France used to require yellow headlights: https://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/lights/light_color/...

The rest of Europe didn't require yellow headlights, and there was a problem of having to put cadmium in the glass, so France got rid of their requirement.

I submitted an AskHN a few years ago, but it didn't get much traction: Ask HN: What prevents the automotive industry from using safe LEDs? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27334405

In 2020 I sat down to think about why blue light at night is so terrible, and sort of figured it out.
I love that the "big guys" get to support syncing passkeys between devices... but others don't (wasn't it KeePas who had issues where they were threatened by being blocked from supporting that - https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407#iss... )
Japan's Honda and Nissan to reportedly begin merger talks
I'm technically savvy. I don't nor want to own one.

Why should I be forced to pay for a YubiKey? €60 is a fair chunk of money.

Maybe buy me one I'll consider it otherwise I'm not convinced. I will once corporate gives me free open-source hardware.
Sure--I think I saw a very old version of this, so most of it is new to me--but it also refers to "Prime Number World and more", and at least Prime Number World doesn't seem to be on the map.
There are already examples of immunosilent (to humans) lipids like in Moritella.
The KV cache feels more like a graph to me, like in the RDF sense. Each parameter could be numbered and given a URL it seems. I have some studying to do. I think building a simple neural net and looking at raw data for context in whatever LLM I’m playing with in Ollama are good things to try.
They can leverage China at this point. They have options. They told the extra Russian military to leave after the last unrest.
Boltz-1: the first open-source biomolecular structure prediction model
Your pattern of:

'<term>' is always <my definition>; doesn't matter <other factor>.

Is never going to be true in spoken language. Otherwise we wouldn't be having conversations about confusion and ambiguity in the first place.
Even if this could be made to work, which it can't with polarization, it would still show huge disregard for anyone in an older vehicle or any other mode of locomotion.
Advertising should be opt-in, and user tuneable. I avoid advertising in my life as much as possible, but yet, I still find out about all the cool local things going on. How? I use instagram, where I follow things that interest me. The key difference here is that I'm in control. I use it only when I feel like it, I've disabled all its notifications.

That said, instagram still has a bunch of obnoxious ads I don't want. It's really not as user tunable as the "opt-in bazar" model should be. But that is the solution, ads should be 100% opt-in. You should be in control of when you want to go browsing vendor wares, and when you do that then sure they can hawk their stuff to you, but otherwise not.
I suppose if you reverse it would look okish
Yeah, people often think there's some magical value to words, but they only have value in the political environment they sit in. If you decide not to enforce it, it doesn't exist, if you decide to over enforce it, everyone will think about it.

It's all people's decisions, there's no magic about it.
Never mind Twitter these days.

I still follow Elon for his rocket stuff but his fanboys are relentless if you criticize him or his universe even slightly.

Or criticize aspects of capitalism even, like the one guy who said the purpose of a company is to make an impact, not primarily to make money. I think he was toast after they were done with him.
Intermittent fasting 'can make your hair shorter and thinner'
"In God we trust. All others must bring data" (2015)
DHS's Responsible Use of Generative AI Tools
Scaling Engineering Teams in a Remote-First World
> t used to be the norm though.

Yes as a consequence of WW2 not before (outside of other major wars) or currently.

I’m not saying that there is anything wrong or particularly strange about a former officer or general standing for office.

But it’s not quite the same, de Gaulle, Eisenhower and (to some extent McArthur) were pretty much slingshotted to the top because of who they were and what they did during the war. They skipped all the traditional steps and “filters” that most politicians have to pass and had huge amounts of political capital. That doesn’t really happen during peacetime in stable countries.

e.g. US had 5 presidents which didn’t hold any elected office before becoming president:

3 of them (Taylor, Grant, Eisenhower) directly leveraged their success as military commanders during major wars to get elected, Hoover was a cabinet secretary for 8 years so he barely counts and the last one is Trump.
I saw the domain name and thought the same thing. Always an event to see a new post of his.
The budgeting process already works like this and is a hot mess. And so do other things like the PATRIOT Act, the authorization of various agencies like FAA, etc.