skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm down to contributing to such a project. But there wouldn't even be a need for scraping, just crowdsourcing: people can submit coupons on checkout (perhaps try to detect if they are using one, at least on popular sites) and be offered to share them.

Once shared, they are presented to other users, who can try and validate them, or indicate they don't work (for single-use coupons or expired promotions). "Bad" coupons get removed, good coupons keep getting presented to users.
> minimum wage laws somehow enhance the laborers' productive capacities

It's even in TFA: higher wages means lower rotation, which means less constant re-training from scratch, which means higher output quality.
CFPB Sues Walmart and Branch Messenger for Illegally Opening Deposit Accounts
If AGI resulted in software engineer employment getting wiped out, that would not result in governments introducing UBI, no.

I have my doubts that the people owning AGI would allow the rest of us to make money from them, when they could make money from them instead.
This project goes back to the LEGO Island Rebuilder [1] by (some of?) the same authors, which fixes several bugs in the original game release by patching it in memory (iirc). These fixes include some involved ones, like for the wonky framerate-dependent controls.

MattKC, who developed much of this original work, has a nice Youtube channel full of video postmortems for some of these [2]. It's kind of fun just to watch him poke around with a hex editor, unraveling the arcane mysteries of a long-sunken civilization of Win95 developers.

[1]: https://github.com/isledecomp/LEGOIslandRebuilder

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/@MattKC
in the US we just generally underfund schools. Asking parents to donate supplies is not that normal elsewhere for reasons like these.
Yeah, I do nearly all of my grocery shopping IRL, and about 75% of hardware shopping (at Rollin' Oats and Ace Hardware, respectively, here in St. Pete).

Last few things I bought on Amazon, that I'm not sure where I'll get, at least with reasonably fast shipping:

* Case for a 32" monitor

* Pegboard-mounted magentic knife rack

* Outdoor folding table

* USB and HDMI cables (I guess Newegg?)

* Spice grinder (a particular one)

* Bulk organic coriander seeds (actually they might have these at Rollin' Oats - but what about other bulk dry goods that aren't at small grocers?)

* Shower head

etc etc

And yeah, I guess at this very moment, walmart is perhaps a more ethical option.
Congrats on the launch. Cool to see a RAG specific tracing tool. Excited to try it out. Full disclosure, I am the cofounder and core-maintainer of Langtrace(https://github.com/Scale3-Labs/langtrace) which is also an open source tool for tracing and observing your LLM stack and our SDKs are OTEL based. Based on my experience, I think the biggest challenge right now specifically for RAG pipelines is the lack of flexibility in the current crop of tracing tools to not just visualize the entire retrieval flow across all the components of the stack - the framework calls, vectorDB retrievals, re-ranker i/o if any and the final LLM inference. But, also being able to do experiments by freezing a setup, iterate on it and measuring the performance and improving it to clearly know how the changes map to the performance end to end. This is what we think about mostly while we are building Langtrace as well.
I remember being called outdated, a contrarian and 'in the way of progress' on this site when I expressed doubt that the Vision Pro would be 'the next iPhone', as people on this site put it. I was told that our way of working would change within the year and that everybody would be scrambling to emulate Apple.

I don't mind enthusiasm and excitement, but for others to directly make such bold claims then put others down was a disappointing experience for me here.
PGP is hairy and many developers don't have it installed and configured. It's full of non-obvious options and capabilities.

SSH is a common tool which most developers have installed, keep in a working order, use often, and reasonably understand.

Guess which tool is easier to piggyback on and achieve easier and faster adoption.
I've been playing with the same thing, it's like a weird mix of social engineering and SQL injection. You can slowly but surely shift the window of what the bot thinks is "normal" for the conversation. Some platforms let you rewrite your last message, which gives you multiple "attempts" at getting the prompt correct to keep the conversation going the direction you want it.

Very fun to do on that friend.com website, as well.
My comments were from 2019. Paypal acquired Honey in 2020, and MegaLag's "expose" is for their alleged post-acquisition business practices.

I make no claims that their business model remained the same after the acquisition. But on that note: Paypal's acquisition of Honey was vetted by multiple law firms and by regulators in the U.S. and Europe, and even scrutinized by shortsellers. Nobody found anything wrong with Honey's business model or any serious legal risks with what they were doing. Another public company, Rakuten, has since launched a competitor to Honey with the same business model (and some of the same personnel).

Seriously. If Honey was doing something wrong, at the very least the shortsellers would be all over this because they'd be making a killing. This morning, Paypal's stock barely budged (and has actually gone up after-hours now that the market has had time to review MegaLag's "expose"). That should speak volumes to anyone with common sense.
Aside from the visuals (4:3 to 16:9, etc), converting the analog console signals into digital formats for your flatscreen creates lag, enough to often ruin the gameplay.
Show HN: The Photo API for Developers
Built an API to transform photos programmatically (resize, compress, sharpen, blur, rotate, grayscale, format conversion) with single HTTP calls. All tools are free to use (www.change.photos/tools), capped at 2-4MB file sizes, while the API offers 50 images/month on free tier - mainly for those needing to automate image processing at scale.

Background: I used to use Photoshop to resize images without cropping and optimized them that way. But there is no way to do this programmatically, so I got tired.

Zapier also doesn't have great tools for it, and the only one that is there is f*ed and doesn't work for me.
I wonder if we're going to eventually lose institutional memory of the efficiency of broadcast systems.

Today, the obvious answer for traffic data is to make it an on-demand "pull" service. So a million users means a million individual requests for the same data clogging the infrastructure, and a server and/or caching infrastructure ready to service one million requests scattered within the window of 7:30 to 8:30 AM.

A broadcast "push" model would only need to make a few transmissions-- with effectively zero load balancing and distribution hardware-- to cover the same million users, and the client box would just listen and cache.

A more ambitious idea might be caching CDN nodes-- potentially at the neighbourhood or single-customer level-- that were fed with popular data on a broadcast basis. Netflix pre-streams Episode 1 of every new series to your cable modem, so on "release day" there's a guaranteed smooth experience.
I specifically asked what "those british people" think in response to a post saying "If British people don’t feel like they’re part of “the Continent”".

I was clearly asking what those specific british people think.
Clickable link is https://www.learnthinkai.xyz
Maybe, but it's pretty lame when you buy a new $500 CPU (7800 XT) and the docs say it's unsupported, and makes you feel like even if you reported a bug they would just say "Sorry, not supported".

Did make me wish I bought a Nvidia.
Isn't it just because all of the people vulnerable to fatal cancer have already died?
Agree with your assessment. I enjoy the little networks of people that develop as others use and share content. I enjoy the personal messages of thanks, the insights that are shared with me and seeing how my work influences others and the work they do. It's really cool to learn that something I made is the jumping off point for something bigger than I ever foresaw. Hell, just being reached out to help out or answer questions is... nice? I guess.

It's the little bits of humanity that I enjoy, and divorcing content from its creators is alienating in that way.

I'm not a musician, but I imagine there are similar motivations and appreciations artists have when sharing their work.

> I work in a pretty niche field and feel the same way. I don't mind sharing my writing with individuals (even if they don't directly cite me) because then they see my name and know who came up with it, so I still get some credit. You could call this "clout farming" or something derogatory, but this is how a lot of experts genuinely get work...by being known as "the <something> guy who gave us that great tip on a blog once".

Yup, my writing has netted me clients who pointed at my sites as being a deciding factor in working with me.

> I honestly think we should just be done with writing content online now, before it's too late. I've thought a lot about it lately and I'm leaning more towards that option.

The rational side of me agrees with you, and has for a while now, but the human side of me still wants to write.
Sadly I lack expertise. Do you have any concrete examples? How does, say the Wiki entry on the topic compare to your expert opinion.
> doing the absolute minimum to make the thing work is the way they want to go

It isn't the way they are going, no. Hyundais and Kias in the USA will have native NACS ports in all 2025 models onwards. Starting with Ioniq 5 shipping in Q1 2025, I believe.

Adapters are the short-term "stopgap".

Sources:

"Hyundai Is About To Have More EVs With NACS Plugs Than Tesla ... In the United States, all-new or refreshed Hyundai EVs will come exclusively with a NACS port, beginning in Q4 2024."

https://insideevs.com/news/742221/hyundai-kia-genesis-nacs-c...

"Hyundai’s first EV with native Tesla Supercharging is the new Ioniq 5"

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/3/24235272/hyundai-2025-ioni...
yeah absolutely epic, watched it yday
This is exactly why I save all of my business email and I don’t mince words about that. I’m very up front with my customers that email is important and that both parties should save our correspondence. Whenever I’m asking for/proposing/communicating about changes to the terms of our relationship I always explicitly say “you should keep a copy of this email as evidence of [...]”

On the flip side, when a company refuses to acknowledge things like arbitration opt-outs that comply with the requirements articulated in the ToS (you know who you are), I email myself a copy of the Exchange trace report showing that the server never recorded a reply. I’m also usually open that I’m doing that, too.

Generally speaking records are an asset not a liability, unless you’re up to something shady. Generally.
AI Semiconductor Landscape Feat. Dylan Patel – BG2 [video]
An implication is that you would expect ancient advanced civilizations to form in the voids.
Looking at that Dallibor Farney company and how hard it is for them to get new nixie tubes to be a sustainable business, I shudder to think how much more effort it would be to get new, high quality CRTs off the ground. It would be cool though. A good start might be bringing back tube rebuilding more widely.
Asemic Writing with Poisson Disc Sampling
Wait until they hear about LLMs, since they just found out about the Bible.
> Those C89 hardliners have a different point of view.

C89 was only a thing because Microsoft somehow decided to drag it's feet and prevented msvc from supporting anything beyond c89 for a long, long time. Only in 2020 did they manage to finally do something about it.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c11-and-c17-standard-...
That is the article! The same author, the same subject. What else do you want?
Haven't been a Windows user in decades, but lately was helping a friend with his laptop and it was an immediate indication it hadn't taken a turn to lure me back in for sure. Decent global interface, but a pure mishmash of elements that just doesn't work for the user...
My personal verdict is "not AI"
Well, yes. But the blog is an English blog and plural is Juliuses. The rules of grammar apply from the language, not from the word. Sometimes the language inherits the rules from the language of the word. But that's an exception.
Sure they’re against them - they’re much simpler to service and most likely significantly more reliable. Given that dealers typically make most of their money on service (repairs) than on sales of vehicles, it’s no wonder they’re more likely to be biased against EVs. I have an ICE F-150 (2016) and I can’t fathom only having 240ish miles of range. I’ll wait 5 years for the 450 mile version.
Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42496619
Absolute garbage study. Leave this on reddit and tiktok.
Interesting, I always felt if they want to ban sex in books, the bible should be the first on the list.

I wonder if any other religious texts meet that standard ?
not sure if that's correct - i think the user has to click on something in the honey popup for them to overwrite the affiliate cookie. outright stealing everything would be too brazen and would probably get noticed by competing programs like rakuten.

however they insert themselves in the checkout page and offer measly honey points in the form of cash back as a cut of the commission they'd get.

there are stand down rules in the affiliate marketing space where you're not supposed to show your popup if someone has already claimed attribution of a purchase but i've heard many extensions don't follow these well.
Anyone know when sign ups actually come online?
Edited because some people don’t believe God has a sense of humor.
Wait until they find out about the Internet.
For competitions, the performance benefit is zero time lag between controller inputs and the screen output.

Also, it's very very difficult to get the "look" right on an hdtv. The original graphics were intended to be displayed on a slightly "fuzzy" CRT, and if you care about the aesthetic, just transferring those same graphics to an hd-tv display often doesn't look right in a bunch of different ways. (Pixel aspect ratio, aliasing, frame blending effects, color bloom effects, interlacing artifacts, etc.) It's a very deep rabbit hole you can go down.
Dr. Russell Ackoff – Systems Thinking (2h)
I know there have been conversations here about simulating crt subpixels on hidpi displays. There are some games that used subpixel rendering to achieve better antialiasing. With hidpi you at least have a chance of doing it well.
You seem to be misunderstanding why a website would make llms.txt

Obviously, they would not make it just for an AI company to scrape

Here's an example. Let's say I run a dev tools company, and I want users to be able to find info about me as easily as possible. Maybe a user's preferred way of searching the web is through a chatbot. If that chatbot also uses llms.txt, it's easy for me to deliver the info, and easy for them to consume. Win-win

Of course adoption is not very widespread, but such is the case for every new standard.
There are many similarities in your comment to how grandmasters discuss engines. I have a hunch the arc of AI in math will be very similar to the arc of engines in chess.

https://www.wired.com/story/defeated-chess-champ-garry-kaspa...
Chewing gum in Singapore has been illegal since 1992
It would be done stepwise.

When the Dutch florin was introduced there would have been an agreed (or imposed) exchange rate. Looks like that was 1:1.

Later when the Euro was adopted there was an exchange rate for that too.

To get to USD use the floating exchange rate of the open market.
how do you think rakuten cash back works
Stop Trying to Do It All, One Task Is Enough
Hey all, I explain in the blog how focusing on the most important task helps me move forward. I stopped multitasking and started making real progress.

- Sanju
Please inform the EU about this.
And I'm saying it is less insane than shooting CEOs and expecting change.
Tilting or rotating a TV is different from lifting it (especially if there isn't much friction by design?) and might require much less force.
To be fair, a Level 2 charger probably costs them less than $200, it's not a crazy thing to throw in with a $50 000 car.
Early traffic laws were actually created in response to child pedestrian deaths (7000 in 1925).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-06-10/how-citie...
Latest: Dylan Patel ( SemiAnalysis )

"Met with @LisaSu today for 1.5 hours as we went through everything

She acknowledged the gaps in AMD software stack

She took our specific recommendations seriously

She asked her team and us a lot of questions

Many changes are in flight already!

Excited to see improvements coming"

https://x.com/dylan522p/status/1871287937268383867
I missed the twist also. When he said he was surrounded by Juliuses I thought he meant his other colleagues had gotten to their positions by cheating with LLMs to look like Julius.
Sapiens in Europe went extinct roughly the same time that Neanderthals in Europe went extinct, or shortly thereafter. Careful DNA testing has not been any to detect any DNA signature that carried from 30,000 BC to the present population. All humans, of all species, seemed to have gone extinct at some point. It is known that Europe was colonized by Neolithic farmers who expanded out of Turkey about 17,000 years ago, this group had DNA that is still found in the modern population. But none of the older DNA seems to have survived. Therefore it is not clear that Sapiens eradicated or diluted Neanderthals in Europe. They all died out.
I grabbed a 40" Sony to play lightgun games on.

Sadly the 40" have a framebuffer and I didn't have a chance to find a way around it. The 43" in the post has a bypass.
Ev Williams has a similar playbook.
My comment had nothing to do with lambdas. The point is that Kotlin uses fun and : instead of fn/func and ->, which is a needless and tedious break with other modern languages using Pascal-style function declaration.

Using val instead of let is similarly off-putting.
Crap, what happens if they find out about people? There's people on Earth I believe.
I recently bought a big CRT to take up space in my home.

Yes, of course, "objectively" speaking, an OLED display is superior. It has much better blacks and just better colors with a much wider gamut in general. But there's just something about the way a CRT looks - the sharp contrast between bleeding colors and crisp subpixels, the shadows that all fade to gray, the refresh flicker, the small jumps the picture sometimes makes when the decoding circuit misses an HBLANK - that's hard to replicate just in software. I've tried a lot of those filters, and it just doesn't come out the same. And even if it did look as nice, it would never be as cool.

Retro gaming has to be retro. And to be honest, the CRT plays Netflix better as well. It doesn't make you binge, you see? Because it's a little bit awful, and the screen is too small, and you can't make out the subtitles if you sit more than two meters away from the screen, and you can't make out anything if you sit closer than that.

Does that mean we have to restart the production of cathode-ray tubes? Hopefully not. But you can't contain the relics of an era in a pass-through device from jlcpcb.
Of the existing plans to ban the purchase of gas vehicles in the future, do any have exemptions for low volume production of enthusiast vehicles? California's plan (which 17 other states follow) seems to only have exemptions for heavy duty vehicles.[1]

My guess is that enthusiasts will get around these laws by modifying old vehicle frames. New emissions and safety standards tend to grandfather old vehicles in, so as long as the VIN says it was made before a certain date, you can avoid having curtain airbags, backup cameras, tire pressure monitoring systems, electronic stability control, etc. (There requirements are why new cars have so many computers in them.)

1. https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/9.23.20-EO...
Even though I have a CRT and NES, I bought one of the NES minis when they released.

I played some Mario Bros 3 and... I kept dying. Jumping too late led to running into holes and enemies. It was so bizarre, I couldn't believe how bad I'd gotten. Tried the next day, same deal.

Then I had a thought re delays. Pulled out my NES and hooked it up to the CRT and all that stopped

There was sufficient delay in the NES mini and modern TV it made a huge difference.

I'm sure I could retrain myself, but it was honestly stunned at how much of a difference it made
Super capacitors have very high self discharge rates relative to a lithium battery. For something like an RTC which only uses a tiny amount of power, you’d quickly discharge the cap and have no way to charge it again.
“When first introduced, the ban caused much controversy and some open defiance. Some people took the trouble of travelling to neighbouring Johor Bahru, Malaysia, to purchase chewing gum. Offenders were publicly "named and shamed" by the government, to serve as a deterrent to other would-be smugglers.”

Reads like a fever dream.
The tooling and infrastructure in this project are pretty interesting as these things go. It's always cool to see how each decompilation project springs up with different ideas and goals - this one seems very focused on 1:1 accuracy, with a side-project for compatibility / cross-platform reimplementation:

* https://github.com/isledecomp/reccmp is a lint tool which compares compiled function reimplementations with the original binary and produces an automated report detailing the instruction level accuracy of the re-implementation, while dealing with all of the fun of C++.

* https://github.com/isledecomp/SIEdit is a resource editor for the bizarre RIFF-esque resource streaming format the original developer (Mindscape) seems to have invented.

Also while we're on the subject of vintage LEGO games, I've recently been quite into playing Manic Miners, a complete Unreal Engine remake (not decompilation/reimplementation, an actual ground-up recreation!) of Rock Raiders.

I'm hoping someone does Alpha Team next; it was a quite fun puzzle game but incredibly buggy.
On a long enough timeline, every perpetual guarantor defaults.
I’m not the one you asked, but I rely heavily on the Apple’s Reminders app.
So we know that microplastics are everywhere. The thing that doesn't really seem clear yet is whether microplastics are actually harmful. Polyethylene, for example, seems quite harmless. (There are also generally harmless substances that become harmful in the right shape, e.g. quartz as fine dust or fibers)
That Anthem scandal was about more than you think
Ah, ok. I didn't realise that.
> contemplating a 32 or 43

Definitely a 32. 43 is a bit much.

Edit: Unless you're an office manager and plan on watching football most of the day.
Indeed, the Netherlands at that time operated on a 'hard money' system. Coins were minted from gold, silver, and copper, with their value directly tied to the availability and intrinsic worth of these metals, naturally limiting the money supply. This is in contrast to modern fiat currency systems, where money derives its value from government decree rather than a physical commodity, allowing inflation through unrestricted money creation.
It’s not your imagination. GM and F are awful about this. They even significantly curtailed their plans for training and updating dealers to support EVs better.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/13/ford-ends-ev-dealership-prog...

It’s an under-appreciated intangible “innovation” from Tesla that you can order a car as simply as you can order from Amazon. People hate car dealers with good reason.