skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This analogy isn’t convincing for me. My letter box and my email inbox both have a finite amount of space, but I can (effectively) infinitely extend my email inbox either “online” or by archiving it someplace.

I cannot achieve this with my letter box.

That assumes large volumes of important mail. Even without that though, an email inbox is a natural and “first class” place to store an email, whereas a letter box is not designed to be effective at any sort of reliable storage.
MIT's (Mostly) Secret Society
I noticed several prominent Chinese universities in the authors list. Doesnt this prima facie imply a breach of the chip sanctions/export rules?
You know it never occurred to me that there's probably a whole new generation (experience wise at least) of programmers who 1) know SQLIte is commonly used for web backends now but 2) don't know about WAL mode.

To me the concept of SQLite in these scenarios, without the WAL, is just nuts.
There’s also the option of “If-None-Match”, to make the request conditional. The point is being conditional, not how.
1000Hz is enough to match CRT quality on a sample-and-hold display, but only when you're displaying 1000fps content. A great many games are limited to 60fps, which means you'll need to either interpolate motion, which adds latency and artifacts, or insert black frames (or better, black lines for a rolling scan, which avoids the latency penalty), which reduces brightness. Adding 16 black frames between every image frame is probably going to reduce brightness to unacceptable levels.
Not really interested in what others do with themselves, lifestyle is a personal choice. Although things like these, if found to have an impact, should be out of reach from the general public.

I find it interesting how for many (except for things like MSG and fats) previously thought "health scares", especially regarding plastic and the likes, have been found to be detrimental to our health and still people sneer at these initial studies. Given that, I'd personally rather err on the side of caution, especially when the change is so minute to be frivolous.

If someone told to stop eating, say, pizza then that would be a whole other story. But not using plastic with hot food/beverages? Not a big deal for me.
How not? The robber never intended to finish the deal.
If only there were authorities that would take actions to track down these scammers with as much zeal as they track down pirates...
XAI: Our Series C of $6B to accelerate our progress
I use a 55" 4k curved TV. The upper portion is too high to do computer work but I move unused windows up there. It's on a desk opposite the couch so I also use it as a TV.

Ignore the other commenter, there is no such thing as too big as long as there are enough pixels!
I believe this is how some robot vacuum companies perfected their algorithms 10-15 years ago; basically simulating inputs to the software from LIDAR/bump sensors and figuring out how to avoid getting the robot "stuck" in your living room.
It’s difficult to overstate just how little lag there is in such setups. These systems had no frame buffer whatsoever - everything rendered on the fly. You could potentially affect a frame after it already started.

That said, if you ever get an urge to play Mario on modern hardware, try run ahead emulation. It’s quite magical.
I disagree. I want to open the app and get to work, if you added a feature after I started using your product, I have zero interest in it.
I often use this technique in my dev debug logs. If the last print() was more than a few seconds ago, it also prints “(2.4 seconds passed)” in gray text before printing another line. This helps with visually separating debug requests, button clicks, etc.

Mine is not a tool, I just define my log function that tracks last call time.

const now = Date.now()
if (now - last_time >= 2000) {
console.log(…)
}
last_time = now
console.log(…args)

Things like that should be in all dev toolboxes by default, I think. It’s amazing how we create animated experiences etc for users but when it comes to development it’s just println(). The cobbler’s children go barefoot.
There are people with Neanderthal genes, so it cannot be true, that they all died out.
I watched the talk, I agree that was really useful.

I did something similar, but for string references [1], rather than owned strings. It was more for type-safety rather than any sort of domain modeling; you can cast a `&str` to a branded `&CandidateId`, which has a `.to_str()` method but otherwise will not go where a generic string is expected.

The memory representation is the same, so it's mostly just a compile-time trick that disappears at runtime, same as newtypes for owned strings.

I stole that idea (and the confidence for that unsafe transmute code) from a really popular crate, but I can't for the life of me remember which one that was.

My implementation ended up... something I don't really like. I hope Rust will eventually make this kind of stuff easier (the nightly-only coerce-unsized would make that happen).

[1] https://github.com/andreivasiliu/fluctlight/blob/master/fluc...
I think you’re missing the point here. I agree Windows can be a pain.

What this person essentially did was describe why their workflow is the best for them. You responded by saying “I don’t understand why people like things that work for them” and then described the reasons that you like your workflow and how it is more comfortable for you. Do you not realize that you are doing the same thing? You are saying you “don’t understand” this person who is doing exactly what you are doing, solving the same puzzle and just arriving at different answers.

It’s not about which OS is better, I regularly use like four different OS for work and play, I get they all have strengths and weaknesses. It’s about the complete and total inability of hardcore Linux desktop users to empathize with anyone who disagrees with them. Which happens to be something like 95% of computer users.

This is one reason why I really appreciate people like Nate Graham and his work on KDE, he seems quite invested in making KDE polished and usable for everyone, not just Linux dweebs like us.
I’m right there with you.

This thread suggests that there are many who view email as something to curate in the same way you would a letter box or a physical office inbox.

I find it more freeing to disregard whether I’m saving dust. I can purge that dust en masse any time I want without having to stay on top of it. The other side of that is that I can also locate anything important from one place with just two pieces of information, one of them being “it was an email”.
https://www.checkmateaviation.com/ seems to agree, but they pack a lot into a 3-column checklist, where most items are just a few keywords.
I'm amazed there isn't more talk about how bad the nationwide charging infrastructure is. Non-Tesla public chargers are a disaster. Terribly engineered, buggy as hell, constantly failing, perpetually out of date, improperly configured, insecure. As someone who has worked with them, I would probably not buy an EV at all unless I could use the Tesla chargers, so thank god that's an option now.
True, but I like it how Obsidian does it. Open a new tab which I can leave open for days.
SpaceX and NASA countdowns aren’t quite checklists in the same sense of the surgeon’s or pilot’s checklist.

Those countdowns are verifying that a bunch of launch blocking gates have not been closed. The key difference is that it’s not a reminder for people of stuff that needs to be done. It’s more like a roll call to make sure they have a unanimous vote to go from all teams that have a stake.
There’s a principled argument that can be made about why learning about sex and learning about murder become age-appropriate at different ages, but I don’t think the people involved in this circus are interested in discourse.
The papers mention that the co-authors did research while affiliated with Princeton.
I agree with everything you said, except I think we're both right at the same time.

Ol' boy at the Depot is constrained by his own experiences and knowledge, absolutely can hallucinate, oftentimes will insert wild, irrelevant opinions and stories while getting to the point, and frankly if you line 6 of them up side by side to answer the same question, you're probably leaving with 8 different answers.

There's never One True Solution (tm) for any query; there are 100 ways to plumb your way out of a problem, and you're asking a literal stranger who you assume will at least point you in the right direction (which is kind of preposterous to begin with)

I encourage people to treat LLMs the same way -- use it as a jumping off point, a tool for discovery that's no more definitive than if you're asking for directions at some backwoods gas station. Take the info you get, look deeper with other tools, work the problem, and you'll find a solution.

Don't accept anything they provide at face value. I'm sure we all remember at least a couple teachers growing up who were the literal authority figures in our lives at the time, fully accredited and presented to us as masters of their curriculum, who were completely human, oftentimes wrong, and totally full of shit. So goes the LLM.
Which is true for the US.

The latest figure for Fukushima from 2016 is looking at a $200B clean up cost.

Meaning each reactor in the US insured for ~1% of their total liability with the entire pool making up 5%.
There was one gal who used a ouija board and it told her to stop using ouija and practice working with her dreams instead. ??? O-kay...
> He also seems to have a knack to leave ship before his acts catch up with him, and when he decided to leave the job for a promotion and significant raise, management will miss him.

This is not a "knack". It's a manipulative skill he has learned over time. A way to burnish his reputation at the expense of his peers. Petes suck.
I think it's less that the pendulum is swinging, and more that the processes created by the "book-banner-busybodies" are being turned back upon some books which those busybodies would probably rather keep.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem?

Many non-AI products already reduce chore time:

* Washer-Dryer Combos

* Soylent/Huel bars

* Self-cleaning toilets / automatic toilet bowl cleaners

* Robotic vacuums / mowers / pool/litter cleaners

* Pet/plant feeders
This example is what makes much of the "stealing" claim bogus, both for this and many artifacts. The Japanese owner wanted it gone and considered it trash. It wasn't some beloved item. Even Sony didn't care.

And so much of what is considered "stolen" was given away by someone in that culture as trash.
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In October, blogger Duong Van Thai -- who had almost 120,000 followers on YouTube, where he regularly recorded livestreams critical of the government -- was jailed for 12 years on charges of publishing anti-state information.
Why do that, when you could read the New Yorker article, A Life-Saving Checklist, by Atul Gawande?
my wife just got an enterprise grade treadmill (used from a fitness center) that weighs 600 lbs. moving that thing around is a nightmare.
loneliness is not about not wanting to be alone. it's about finding it difficult to connect to others even if you actually enjoy it. i am fairly introvert i guess and i can walk through a city with millions of people without connecting to anyone, which is mostly ok, but at the same time i also feel unable to connect to anyone just like that.

the last time i was alone in a city for a few days the only person i connected to was a friend of a friend who introduced us.

otherwise i usually look for specific activities like tech meetups, or other public social events
Because for Microsoft C belonged into the past, it was about time to move into C++.

https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-an...

They only changed of point of view after Satya, and the whole Microsoft <3 Linux and Microsoft <3 FOSS pivot.

And in any case, blaming Microsoft doesn't really work out, as many of those folks don't even care Windows exists, only UNIX/POSIX platforms.
Very cool. I love a HN post that has rhythm stuff, plus retro tech, plus code, and semi-esoteric art music stuff all in one. Nice one!
LPT: switch to the audio captcha. Yes, it takes a bit longer than if you did one grid captcha perfectly, but I never have to sit there and wonder if a square really has a crosswalk or not, and I never wind up doing more than one.
That sounds like a management error, not a Pete problem.
If Pete was told to get a demo done as soon as possible, that's what he did.
And in many cases that's not a bad thing for management to tell people. Finding product market fit, usually trumps tech debt.
The thing is, that management should know, how time intensive and difficult it can be to turn a cobbled together demo into a production system.
> I listened to this week’s All In podcast and the podcasters (all wildly successful tech entrepreneurs) were quite emphatic that they were seeking a world where they were not beholden to developers. They envision a world where non- or semi-technical employees create the desired software via AI; other AI agents would then figure out how to deploy it.

Okay, so, the thing is, roughly every decade since 1960, someone has come out with something that promises “use this, and you won’t need those icky programmers anymore”. COBOL was originally marketed this way! And then you had various flavours of implausibly high level language, that Sun thing where you were meant to make software by dragging and dropping flowcharts (quite why that was supposed to be _easier_ than programming was unclear), Macromedia Flash (while this eventually just became a platform that people wrote programs for, it was originally touted as being a bit like the Sun thing, with Actionscript as a mere escape hatch), the recent ‘nocode’ trend, a few similar historical ‘nocode’ trends, and so forth.

The only thing that has come _close_ to doing this is the spreadsheet, though that kind of happened by accident, as people took what was originally supposed to be a simple tool and created nightmares (and this sort of aggressive use leaves you needing icky Excel experts, which may not be an improvement).

Like, I’ve never heard of that podcast, but on Googling it I note that none of the people involved could reasonably be called subject matter experts (also, argh, Jason Calacanis appears to still be a thing). I’m not sure why you’d take their word on it.
The Flickr acquisition didn’t make anyone close to a billionaire, the whole deal was for $25 million.
Meta reportedly adding displays to its Ray-Ban smart glasses
It with typo refers to C++.
Realizing is not the hardest part, imo. I avoid publishing my little subprojects/libs/funcs simply because of the burden of publishing maintenance, and that is before connecting with people about issues, frs and so on. Our packaging tradition feels more like a marketplace (with all quirks and procedures) rather than a place where you can just share code and let anyone use it.
> For insanely curious people who often feel unsatisfied with the answers given by those around them, it’s the greatest thing ever.

As an insanely curious person who's often unsatisfied with the answers given by those around me, I can't agree. The greatest thing ever is libraries. I don't want to outsource my thinking to a computer any more than I want to outsource it to the people around me.
You have to look at AGI not as an independent entity, but sort of an infinitely copiable mental slave for those that wield it. So, devs and big tech are headed towards a future where the idea is to manipulate AGI systems to concentrate as much of the wealth as possible into their own pockets. The people that will be retained (not fired) are those that are the most useful in directing these hyperintelligent units. It will become an evolutionary war of systems whose only goal is growth and the consumption of more energy to train more advanced AIs.

Make no mistake. By creating AI and nearing AGI, we have started a sort of runaway evolutionary phenomenon of new entities whose objective is to grow (obtain more hardware) and consume energy (train). Because AI amalgamated with humans will become so advanced, it will find new ways to generate energy and new ways to use existing energy (fossil fuels). The insights we will gain from it will be unprecedented and dangerous, and allow those with the most money to become scarily intelligent.

In turn, this intelligence will be so advanced that it will warp and magnify the remaining human instinct of greed embedded within it to create a ruthless, runaway growth that will likely wipe out humanity due to its energy requirements.

The only choice for devs will to either become lietuenants in directing this artificial army or rely on handouts. That is, if the system doesn't kill you first.
Not enough comments, is this the ushering of a new era of robotics? Is everybody going to be replaced now?
What companies are they? My Roomba from 3 years ago is awful
Not sure how we got to this, and it seems I may have misread you.

All apologies.
Such a well done video, thanks for sharing.

I even happily watched a very well executed sponsor ad.
Absent specific archiving solutions, most providers don’t and wont care about third party legal disputes.

I’ve never heard this argument before. It’s routine in many regulated industries with de facto or legally required preservation mandates to encrypt email, often with S/MIME or sometimes something proprietary.
I found this article a bit disappointing.

The link at the bottom doesn’t work.

The grids shown do not follow the well-known rules of (American) crosswords: every square is part of two words of three or more letters each.

Coming up with a pattern of black squares, and writing good clues, are two parts of making a crossword puzzle that are IMO fun and benefit from a human touch, and are not overly difficult. There are also databases of past clues used in crossword puzzles (eg every NY Times clue ever, and various crossword dictionaries) for reference and possible training. If you don’t care about originality (or copyright) and want quality clues, you can just pull clues from these. If you do care about all those things, you can surface the list of clues used in the past to the human constructor and let them write the final clue. Or you can try to perfect LLM clue-writing. In my experience, LLMs are terrible at clues. Like sometimes if I try to give it feedback about a clue, it will just work the feedback into the clue… it’s a little hard to describe without an example, but basically it doesn’t seem to understand the requirements of a clue and the process of a solver looking at a clue and trying to come up with an answer.

Coming up with an interlocking set of fun, high-quality words and phrases is the hard part. I agree that LLM wordlist curation is a great idea, and I started playing around with that once.

Beyond that, I don’t think LLMs can help with grid construction, which is a more classic combinatorial problem.
Introductions to new subjects by great people
Glenn Gould didn't tour past 31 and made money from recordings.
How ‚The Brutalist‘ Director Made a Modern-Day Epic for Just $10M
tourism of most kinds isn't really sustainable and it's an economic vice that is unhealthy for everyone involved. a sound tourism strategy anywhere would really focus on sports and arts participation driven travel instead of loafing and circuses.

the public order angle is that you have to take responsibility for your own neighbourhoods because if you don't they're just going to go to shit.
32 is enough that you need to rotate your head if you want to see all parts of the screen. I have a 32" 4k screen and its a bit annoying, I get cricks in my neck, so I tend to only really use a centre 1080p sized area on the screen, with my winXP era wallpaper showing through around it.

Tbh I'll prefer 27" 4k.

43 might be a bit better because you can move the screen a little farther away.
Can I ask how you even got into such a thing?
Curious, what makes you say it’s awful?

I have a couple roombas from that era. If I sit and watch them, their path planning makes no sense. But if I just put them on a schedule to clean once a day, and don’t think about them beyond emptying their bin, I have continuously clean floors. Which, for me, is all I care about.
It's not the best, particularly on desktop. I suspect most of the kids they have maintaining their legacy products like Office apps probably grew up on mobile devices and this looks "normal" to them for a desktop app.
It's just one notch below the Winnebago Heli Home :-)

https://www.thedrive.com/news/34753/the-winnebago-heli-home-...

I didn't realize there were so many AN-2's for sale: looks like going rate is about $100k for a piston or $2m for a turbine.

https://www.planecheck.com/?ent=ap&man=antonov&des=an2&type=...

edit, I guess you need that turbine to lug all the extra weight from the furnishings and floats around with enough Vx to get out of short mountain lakes with a little density altitude.
it's a "language" model (LLM), not a "math" model. when it is generating your answer, predicting and outputing a word after word it is _not_ multiplying your numbers internally.
The benefit to perpetuals is all bonds trade in the same pool regardless of issuance.
There are many 1 off use cases where LLM free versions look great, but when you invest to make a system of it (engineers/time/model servers), and then consider pricing, and realize most early adopters would rather use their custom contexts that they get for 1 off pricing (or free)
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Anyone know what Butterfield's next thing might be?
Just slightly confused on who got 6B here... "xAi" does that mean the company formerly known as twitter has an Ai group or is this a separate company "xAi" or is this x (the company) Ai division (separate but owned by x).
Supporting GrapheneOS among others!
It kind of happened to boomers, but it's wrong in a number of ways.

1. Interest rates were in the teens when they bought their houses. However they may have only paid $50k for a house in the 80s.

2. Most only bought their own house and didn't have many other investments. My parents for example had an investment property in the 90s, but were an exception.

3. House values have gone up because building regulations and zoning have become so onerous that supply hasn't kept up with demand. I believe this will continue and house prices will continue to beat inflation in many jurisdictions.
ChatGPT Santa Claus is costly? I built one for free
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For me, the key to effectively stopping/starting projects is to make is rock solid stable in terms of development experience and testing. Things like dev containers so you can build without any errors, running a test suite, deployment automation, etc.

When I didn't have this, I often times gave up when resurrecting an old project!
Why? Have you not seen how low quality the things they build are? Among gun collectors, Chinese made guns are considered a fat joke, unreliable. Guns of all things, they invented gun powder!

Then there's buildings, literally fall apart out of nowhere. Their standards of building things are very shockingly bad. There is no motivation to do high quality work.

There was the hospital they built during COVID that collapsed after 3 months.
That last one is a huge tipoff:

> "Shank Mods’ video is not just a celebration of retro tech but a love letter to the communities that keep these technologies alive. From the daring extraction to the meticulous restoration, every moment of this story is a testament to what can be achieved with determination and collaboration"

Not just a X but a Y

From the A to the B

GPT LOVES this kind of verbose garbage - it's the non-fiction equivalent of purple prose and reads like a 6th grader desperately trying to pad out their MLA-formatted 5 paragraph essay.
Nice try mate, but you're not flipping this one on me.