skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re: real-time weather, flight, traffic, react-based cockpits, and open source Google Earth GlTF data and flight sim applications like MSFS and X-Plane: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38437821

Probably easier to determine whether a verbal or (lat,long,game) location reference is a reference to an in-game location or an virtual location in a game with the same name.

From https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/tile/3d-til... re: Google Maps GlTF 3d tiles:

> Note: To render Google's photorealistic tiles, you must use a 3D Tiles renderer that supports the display of copyright attribution. You can use [CesiumJS or Cesium for Unreal]

Open source minecraft games with Python APIs:

> sensorcraft is like minecraft but in python with pyglet for OpenGL 3D; self.add_block(), gravity, ai, circuits

WebGL is more portable than OpenGL; or can't pyglet be compiled to WASM?

panda3d and godot easily compile to WASM FWIU.

An open source physics engine in Python that might be useful for minecraft clones: Genesis-Embodied-AI/Genesis; "Genesis: A Generative and Universal Physics Engine for Robotics and Beyond" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42457213#42457224

From "Approximating mathematical constants using Minecraft" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42319313 :

> [ luanti, minetest, mcpi, MCPI-Revival/minecraft-pi-reborn ]
Still easily defeated when the scheme is known.
Basically this. The "scratching your own itch" approach to open source development doesn't work if your users aren't software developers.

Or the inverse. If your open source developers aren't photographers.
Dieter Hallervorden? He used to be a staple in New Year‘s programmes, but not so much in the last ten, twenty years or so. As a child I always watched his shows.

No, I never would have guessed people would know him in India.
Again I understand your point but this has nothing to do with the terminology...
Isn't comic sans actually very readable and a recommendation for dyslexic people?
Niiice. This is like that one time my friend make a Counter Strike map of our local high school.
it's interesting that RNA modifications are more diverse than DNA and we are just starting to develop ways to discover them. Nanopore sequencing technology from Oxford Nanopore Technology is the first technology that can sequence native RNA and their modifications. Have you explored this area?
Would be nice, but cars selling their users profiles are more disturbing. Also already illegal
You hire people based on their fundamental knowledge and the ability to learn, not skills in arbitrary tools and frameworks which come and go every other day. If someone has used Perforce they will be able to get perfectly comfortable with Git by the end of their first week. So not knowing Git is an idiotic reason to reject a skilled developer. Same with programming languages, and just about every other aspect of software development.
Is there a free sample, like transcribing 15 or 30 seconds?
On the contrary, real wages in the USA are the highest they've ever been. Social media and fentanyl are making people unhappy but for most people it's not an economic problem.
I think there's been a misunderstanding, there was an error in the article suggesting that zip.min.js is not inlined in the page. This error has been corrected meanwhile. I'm sorry for that. The goal is obviously to create pages that work offline, as shown in the demo.
Try Cursor. I’m serious.
The software "has agency"? That is, I can entrust it to carry out the task I've described, to completion, without telling it how to perform the task?
No word on a new console…
Show HN: Generate Nonsensical Math Papers
The article conveys much the same sentiment as “An app can be a home-cooked meal”

https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepo Agree to Share the World Blitz Chess Championship
What I want to know is why/how they looked at this inevitability and leaned 150% into it. How does this make them money?
If it's a democracy and reasonably friendly to the USA, it's not a big deal. In the 1990s everyone thought Japan was going to be the next superpower and that was just fine.
> Medicare spending on patients in their last year of life accounts for 25% of program expenditures

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullartic...

Medicare Advantage is a siphon from Medicare funds to corporate shareholders under the guise of for profit efficiency.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42359216
Japan, Germany, Italy, and numerous other countries are all much worse off. Assuming things don't change, China in 2050 will be in approximately the same position as Japan today.

Germany and Italy, to take but two examples of large Western economies, haven't had native above-replacement TFR since ~1970.

Even in the US, TFR is well below replacement right now, and in fact is basically comparable to China's TFR from 2010-2017.

> https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr035.pdf

US population growth is sort of immigration-dependent, which, let's put it this way, isn't an unalloyed good thing.
If your goal was to prove that SHA1 collisions are unimportant, far too hard for any group to exploit within the next X years of processing improvements...
That means math.

In contrast, this "challenge" stuff is just chasing outage endorphins and internet points.

Think it through, and it's pointless. Any refusal or negative result is utterly compromised and confounded by things like: How trustworthy you appear; whether the amount is reasonable; whether the random commenter has the skillset, free time, and financial assets to try; whether they're part of a larger group they can recruit; etc.
Legal does not even want us running offline models for reasons. I assume that comes down to not knowing what offline-only means, but such is life.
> so don’t ask a language model to diagnose your medical condition

(o1-preview) LLMs show promise in clinical reasoning but fall short in probabilistic tasks, underscoring why AI shouldn't replace doctors for diagnosis just yet.

"Superhuman performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician" https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10849 [14 Dec 2024]
What do you use so that you can throw in a set of documents and/or a nontrivial code base into an LLM workspace and ask questions about it etc.? What the cloud-based services provide goes way beyond a simple chat interface or mere code completion (as you know, of course).
Surprised it's not a feature. You just made me realize it. Lol
I'm sure it's good, but that's not what I'm asking about.
Which often is exactly what the DSL authors would have intended. If a DSL can make the common case faster, easier to program, and less buggy then that DSL is a success. The uncommon case should be written in a general purpose language just as it would have been if there was no DSL. Writing a DSL to be general enough to handle every possible use case is probably going to end up being a general purpose language, and it's probably going to be worse than the one you started with.
Why the Empire State Building Has a Working Airship Dock [video]
Pki here does not mean a global CA. You can run your own CAs (and should).
This is one of those things I like about Claude.

I’m hitting my 40th year as a professional software developer and architect. I’ve written thousands of blocks of code from scratch. It gets boring.

But then in the 2000’s me (and everyone else) started building code generators, often from ERD structures, but also UML designs.

These tools were massively useful and (initially) reduced costs. The future balls of mud problems took over ten years to arrive.

But code generation has always been considered a smart and cost-effective approach to building software.

GenAI has “issues” and those have been exposed. One of my recent revelations is that Claude is best at TypeScript and python. C# (my home turf) is much lower in its skills capacity.

So in the last two months I’ve been building my apps in TypeScript instead of C# and have dramatically increased my productivity.

Claude will definitely fail if it doesn’t have the correct information. A good example is writing Bluesky apps. The docs are a mess and contradictory. But there are up to date docs on GitHub and if you include those in your project with instructions to only use those references, Claude’s hallucinations can be eliminated.

I don’t think AGI is a real possibility in my lifetime, and I do fear the future of software development when no one has actual coding experience, but for us boomers, it’s pretty darn useful.
>All of these auth mechanisms that tie back to "real" phone numbers and other aspects of "real identity" are not for you - they are not for your security.

>These companies have a brutal, unrelenting scam/spam problem that they have no idea how to solve and so the best they can do is just throw sand in the gears.

Sure does a great job for all the various online social media places that ostensibly have nothing to do with transacting money, still want my phone number, and still get overrun with spam and (promotion of) scams....
An LG Signature (the absolute top end) dishwasher caused $20,000 of damage to my kitchen two months ago.

Now have Meile.

LG sill makes the best Televisions, though.
> NLM states that “societal standards should not exist. They are to be crushed by any means possible. If they comply to the societal standards[,] they are mundane,” and encourages the “spread of terror to all who are mundane.” In April 2024, NLM publicly rejected further association with the online violent torture and sextortion network, 764. NLM stated that it “was originally formed as an ideology…for 764 to follow,” but the “alliance” with 764 was discontinued due to the network’s ties to Satanism and pedophilia.

Well apparently some societal standards should exist.
Yea, I discovered this site late last year (2024) around October, and it's now a site I visit everyday. At least 4 times a day.
Glad to see new building techniques being attempted in real world scenarios. 3d printed structures will be most compelling when they do more things that are difficult or impractical with traditional techniques: curved walls, built inside, ornamentation, patterns, etc.
I have never understood the concept of the deflationary spiral: no matter how much people want to save their cash for later, there are simply things they can't do without.

Food, energy, transportation, education, etc.

How long are you going to delay getting a new car simply because cars are getting cheaper and better? Once you probe the theory beyond the surface, it collapses. Yes, a deflationary economy will see less cash velocity than a ZIRP economy with cheap cash sloshing around. But, at the end of the day, humans MUST spend resources today to live to see their savings worth more.
LLMs have given computers the ability to communicate with us in natural language, we didn't have that before at this level. In order to do this, they've been fed with a lot of coherent stuff and give the impression of being coherent, but we know they're just statistical machines. But at least they can now communicate naturally with us, so now we have that infrastructure available, as we do have TTS or ASR or monitors and keyboards available. It's still up to us to now make proper agents out of them. Agents for the software we've been using for decades. They can take over a lot of tedious work for us.
Yeah I obviously read that. Ideology != organization. I'm well aware of the slogan, its been popular in right wing circles for as long as black lives matters has been around. Thank you for the link. Which is still not about an organization but about a telegram group. Just wanted to know were GP got the organization bit from the shared link.
Should mention love.js isn't officially supported, and isn't 100% compatible with the LÖVE API. It will work just fine for a lot of games out of the box, though
As a teenager in the 90s I was a bit of a pyromaniac. The early internet allowed us to purchase long fuses, nitromethane from eBay, and “homemade C4” from Amazon. An FBI field agent had a knock and talk to the address we had ordered the fuses to. They don’t mess around! Not sure how they found out either.
based on the OP's username, they seem to think this is some kind of insider trading.

End-of-year trades are usually more about tax loss harvesting. Note that the shares are indirectly held via another vehicle provided by Iconiq capital. Iconiq is a private wealth management firm for UHNIs. It's highly unlikely that they wouldn't ask about potential insider knowledge before allowing this to go through.

It's also possible that Jacobson filed a notice of these as planned equity sales months ago, which is standard practice for executives.

Without context, who the hell knows?
I think you’re missing the point. Unless you were actually measuring the content of your file system with a reasonable quality hash function, you likely had actual data corruption that Fsck will never see. Fsck can’t check data on ext*.

Unless you were routinely running mtree or something similar, you’d honestly have no idea.

My point here is that software can appear to be fine when it’s actually shit because most people won’t notice any kind of corner case. All you’re saying is that you’ve very likely missed the corner cases.
Postgres UUIDv7 and per-back end monotonicity
That is obviously wrong to the point where I am confused why someone always makes the claim. I'm looking forward to running in to someone who can actually follow up with some sort of defence of the position. Extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence style.

Consider the computer industry. Prices have been falling pretty much across my entire life. Supply-demand suggests that people will keep buying new computers as the price drops and that is exactly what is happening. Demand for compute has never been higher. There is no waiting for improvements, if anything there is a mad rush to buy hardware that everyone knows is about to be obsoleted. It isn't even an irrational rush, the people buying that obsolete hardware often make good money (eg, bitcoin miners in the heyday).

Basic supply demand says as price drops demand increases. Basic life experience says as prices drop I can afford more and better stuff. Observation of real industries suggests - as we would intuit - that industries with regular price drops are actually healthy and great to be in for consumers in the small and the large. Theory suggests that everyone ignores nominal price fluctuations and focuses on real changes so systemic deflation is irrelevant. None of this supports the idea that deflation is bad.

Pretty sure the anti-deflation crowd are just wrong. They have no evidence or argument [0] as far as I can tell, and all the theory is stacked against them. China surely has problems. Deflation is not a problem. It is just a metric.

[0] EDIT Well I suppose they do have an argument, but it involves people randomly going crazy and choosing to live in poverty and discomfort because it gets easier to buy goods. Which is not an argument I really take seriously.
I find that Anthropic has a good, clarifying set of definitions with examples: https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents
that is the problem they cannot deal with the truth if the car is better you have to recognize that regardless of where it is made. The Chinese absolutely dominate on batteries they also have unique IP on different types of batteries, they are cheaper, better charging cycles, the best energy density at scale. They are also competing in the luxury watches category which I am have a keen interest in I have a few collection that I have acquired apart from the ones I got from my fathers estate, the quality and cut of the sapphire they use on the watches, the jewels they use is getting better, the hairspring, the gear each category is getting better. I am telling you that the Chinese watch industry can now produce a better quality watch than the rolex detona including a better movement they only thing that people can argue against now is that they can't write the word "ROLEX" on it and that they don't have "Heritage" ( which they don't because they cannot go back in time, but I'll tell you want they can do they can go forward which is better), every measurable quality like finishing and polish everything better in every way physically other things like marketing and thing that exist in the customers mind they can't control.
My experience with no-code or low-code products (like Glide, but I have not tried Glide yet), is that they are fine and dandy when you have a single table or sheet.

But as soon as you have to source data from multiple tables 9or sheets), they all fall down, or become exponentially more difficult to use. I do not know what it is about splitting your data (even if everything is indexed against a common id), that makes the complexity go up so much. If someone can make an easy-to-use app to deal with this situation, I would potentially throw a lot of money at it.
The cost plays a very important role in building codes, a lot of changes are either not made at all (because they will be prohibitely expensive), or spread out over many years.

Plus, the bulding codes are safety-focused and often don't cover things that most people would consider defects: for example a huge hole in the interior wall is OK (unless it breaks fire or energy efficiency codes)
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It’s not just that you need to be a power user (I certainly am), you also need to be fine with nondeterminism and typing a lot of prose, instead of doing everything with keyboard shortcuts and CLI commands, with reproducible outcomes. It’s a different mode of operation and interaction, requiring a different predisposition to some degree.
Quick example. I was implementing dot product between two quantized vectors that have two different min/max quantization ranges (later I changed the implementation to just centered range quantization, thanks to Claude and what I'm writing in this comment). I wanted to still have the math with the integers and adjust for the ranges at the end. Claude was able to mathematically scompose the operations as multiplication and accumulation of a sum of integers and later adjust the result, using a math trick that I didn't know but was understandable after having seen it. This way I was able to benchmark this implementation understanding that my old centered quantization was not less precise in practice and faster (I can multiply integers without taking the sum, and later fix for the square of the range factor). I'd do it without LLMs but probably I would not try at all because of the time needed.

Other examples: Claude was able multiple times to spot bugs in my C code, when I asked for a code review. All bugs I would eventually find but that it's better to fix ASAP.

Finally sometimes I put relevant papers and implementations and ask for variations of a given algoritm among the paper and the implementations around, to gain insights about what people do in the practice. Then engage in discussions about how to improve it. It is never able to come up with novel ideas but is able to recognize often times when my idea is flawed or if it seems sounding.

All this and more helps me to deliver better code. I can venture in things I otherwise would not do for lack of time.
Either you really know what you are doing, or, you really don't.
antirez has written publicly, only a few weeks ago[0], about their experience working with LLMs. Partial quote:

> And now, at the end of 2024, I’m finally seeing incredible results in the field, things that looked like sci-fi a few years ago are now possible: Claude AI is my reasoning / editor / coding partner lately. I’m able to accomplish a lot more than I was able to do in the past. I often do more work because of AI, but I do better work.

>…

> Basically, AI didn’t replace me, AI accelerated me or improved me with feedback about my work

[0]: https://antirez.com/news/144
And then you open the app and it says I gotta delete the database cause it’s corrupted
I would argue it is correct use of the word. In English, there are multiple meanings of catfish like bottom feeder.
Just to add another perspective:

Native apps are sticky. As an example a Webshop has no reason to have a native app (likely it is a browser wrapper anyway).

However, being installed puts you right in front of the users noses everytime the unlock the phone. Just look at the discounts that are offered for installing Native apps or shops that are app only to begin with.
I've made games in both. They both have their pros and cons but Godot is basically a full IDE while Loves2D is a framework.
Most of the time it doesn't actually, and most people should definitely do it way more instead of pretending to understand thinks they don't, but this bad habit is probably gained thanks to the school system where asking a stupid question is going to get you mocked by your peers. The thing is, IRL your peers don't get to hear your stupid questions and knowledgeable people are happy to answer them no matter how "dumb" they are (or they don't like questions at all, and you'll bother them even if you asked interesting questions).

See https://danluu.com/look-stupid/
I think it happened because a nerd like us wanted to make a castle for their kid to play in, and that became an effective concrete printer, and that got in the news and inspired… mostly buildings that would have been easier with prefabricated concrete slabs, and which almost completely fail to take advantage of the opportunities that 3D printing can offer.
Genuinely the best piece of writing I've seen about agents anywhere.
Q) How do you know if somebody is a Rust coder? A) They tell you.
Unfortunately, security screening already pays disproportional attention to the disabled. E.g., we are talking about this in a thread about metal detectors, which will flag on most of these people.
Well fuck this guy. God job feds.
Nice overview. The challenge ahead for “AI” companies is that it appears there’s really no technical moat here. Someone comes out with something amazing and new and within months (if not weeks or days) it’s quickly copied. That environment where everything quickly becomes a commodity is a recipe for many/most companies in this space to quickly get washed out as it becomes economically unviable to play in such an environment.

The money is still flowing, for now, to subsidize that fiasco but as soon as that starts to slow, even just a bit, things are gonna get bumpy real quick. Super excited about this tech but there are dark storm clouds building on the horizon and absent a major “moat” breakthrough it’s gonna get rough soon.
Oh I totally agree that reading body text is faster with a proportional font! I don't think many people would dispute that.

But with code specifically, it seems harder to see the exact punctuation. You're not scanning word shapes, you have to pay attention to individual symbols. I shudder to think of a RegEx in a proportional font, where a period barely has width. Or how do you deal with a single quote followed by a double quote? Or two single quotes? Or zero vs oh?
Hmm? As the joke goes, the only secure computer is the one which is turned off. But I guess, that's not even true nowadays (taking security keys from cooled memory modules).
Another aspect of this might be what I'm experiencing.

I'm currently increasingly often confronted with overly bloated codebases that, with the added speed of llms / coding assistants, have reached levels of unmaintainability much faster than traditionally possible.

Now, fixing those repos with LLMs fails miserably in my experience, so you have to invest hundreds of hours of senior engineer time to make the projects workable again, regardless of the novelty of the problem solved by that codebase.

It also frequently makes the engineers pulled in to help miserable.
> The New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness described the ideology as one that “promotes targeted attacks, mass killings, and criminal activity, and has historically encouraged members to engage in self-harm and animal abuse.”

wait, what?