skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>India is not unique in this pursuit. China also has taken charge

No? India is unique in this pursuit because China didn't take as big of an hit as India did. The fact that The Vedas were preserved till now is well enough proof that oral accounts were not useless.

I'm an Indian. I myself can't trace my ancestry past my great grandfather lol(similar to most of the current native black Americans living in the USA) because no records were maintained as that was how insignificant avg. Indian life in India was viewed as back then, thanks to great philanthropists like Mr. Winston Churchill(not like I care). I don't think I can get through to the other comment that started out with the "c-word" and pointed out about castes and oral accounts but lineage of nobles and kings were well maintained by Brahmins and after a rough 2 centuries, very little was left to back up such claims of proper record maintenance so there's no point in fretting over it. Thanks sharing about Nazism, that's news to me.

After seeing people around me, I started to believe that Indians have an inferiority complex engraved into them due to the colonialism and they don't value books or their own history because they don't value themselves in the first place, which was the context behind my previous comment. I think it resulted as a side effect due to the helplessness they felt after what they lost, namely their heritage and their identity along with it. All this makes it seem like their inferiority complex is not going away anytime soon. Gotta see.
I wonder if it would have been easier to have a small electromagnet in the base to pull the pendulum down either before or after the lowest point, as necessary. Wouldn't that have been a much simpler solution?
Yup, wormhole and portal are better in most aspects. Beam is helpful when you have novel constraints like not being able to install arbitrary binaries, or if you have the need to transfer streams and not just files, or maybe even pub key based white-listing of access.
Pure Garbage: https://tma.live/video/5fe506ca-3831-4ba3-b9c6-ff899c571bf1

Although it is pretty impressive for what an LLM can generate these days.
Canada is certainly not this example. Immigration is a big issue.

The only place where immigration worked I can think of was the USA, in the old times.

The recipe for successful immigration is very simple: no benefits, import only people with some money and with skilled jobs qualifications, hard stance against illegal immigration.

Anything else is a recipe for disaster.
The Unisys Icon: One Canadian Xennial's Memories of Ontario's Obscure Computer
World's oldest person dies - Tomiko Itooka dies at 116
dalton + michael

startup things aside those two are hilarious as fuck together
Cooking as Therapeutic Exercise
He actually himself writes that he doesn't want to spend too much time on his apps:

> now i have lession that i shouldnt build apps that consumes so much time.

Sounds like somebody really devoted to the perfect UI experience.

Look, I don't want to talk down this kid. Everybody starts somewhere and I like the enthusiasm. But him expecting to make $30 off everybody for plumbing together a bunch of FOSS libs is rubbing me the wrong way.
Probably an AI translation artifact, but there are several usages of “other than on [XYZ]” that really should be “unlike on [XYZ]”.
Oh! thank you for bringing it to my attention. still iterating on the page text, will fix this soon.
Elastic Binary Trees (2011)
But search is not just another service, a hardly noticeable addition to the daily internet experience. Much like a browser is not just another app you barely use.

Search is central to my internet experience. If there is one service worth paying for, it should be search. But for that it should be better enough than ad-supported options to be worth the subscription. I think Kagi has got so close that I should start shelling $10/mo for it.

(Another service I think is a no-brainer to pay for is YouTube, mostly because ad-ridden YouTube is insufferable.)
Compiling JavaScript to WASM with WASI Support Using Static Hermes
> consumers still fundamentally refuse to pay for search.

Let's try again. Very few services that ask for "the price of a Starbucks coffee" subscription are actually worth that much to consumers.

Search or not search.

As long as the service providers don't understand that, they'll be limited in audience to high income techies and won't be able to grow any further.
> > Having enough money to be able to dedicate to things I like

Money doesn't buy time, whatever you like you'd be better off starting now then at some point in the future when you think you have enough money because you make the fallacious equation "enough money = enough time" but that is wrong because mental and physical acuity diminishes with time so a minute in your 20s is worth more than a minute in your 30s and much more than a minute in your 60s etc...also odds of mental/physical illnesses increase, life gets in the way in modalities that you don't expect yet, inflation, collapse of society...in one word entropy.

Money cannot beat entropy or slow it down
Upvoting you because my comment saying the same thing is getting downvotes and I really think the message is important.

However I don't think it's fair to call this a "shallow wrapper". It's clear that a lot of work went into the design of this GUI and, and making user-friendly interfaces is also an important work (that is far too often overlooked in the open sources communities).

Yet the fact that FFmpeg, the tool that does all the heavy background work, isn't even mentioned anywhere on the website, even in the FAQ or the footer is at least a non-negligible ethical problem.

UPDATE: The same goes for ImageMagick that I just saw this app installs and uses too.
When you’re just running out the door with your kids it’s hard to pick up the full frame behemoth.

I’ve been considering a m43 for that reason.
Locking the UI while doing a lengthy operation is hardly an acceptable solution. A better solution would be to indicate to the user an async operation is in progress, and optionally provide a button for canceling the operation.
Try group therapy! It can significantly change your life. I was saying "no fucking way" whenever my psychiatrist suggested it, but after I tried, it turned my life upside down in the best possible way. It will be very uncomfortable first, but worth it!
The explanation is that this will be abandonware pretty soon after he moved on and made enough $$$ off this project.

Just read his webpage, it's quite obvious.
all the arguments pro isp ubderprovision here misses the point that they are a sanctioned monopoly, either on access to wires on the streets or wireless spectrum.

they are guaranteed a insane high profit because of the assured monopoly and presumed technology and capacity investments.

if you defend their "profit" by under provision you are extremely uneducated on the matter.
Mentioned in the article, this was considered too boring!
The homepage slide animation without JavaScript is impressive!
Another reason that comes to mind is the camera bump. If you put the camera in the middle then it’d kinda rest on that on a flat surface and wobble. With the camera in a corner it sits on the camera bump + the opposite corner which is a bit more stable and less obvious.
Those harder times that caused more trauma were themselves almost always caused by traumatized people who had no way of getting help. Friend/family support systems rely on people actually knowing what to do, and most have no clue whatsoever. The treatment for "shell shock" was to man up, and "hysteria" got you an ice pick to the brain.

Evolution works on the scale of millennia, we've been the same organism for the past 300k years and it's random best effort that only selects based on what kills you before you procreate, it doesn't guarantee anything at all.
In 2022, there were 65,000 H1-B visas.

The "top H1-B employers" constitute then those companies which took about 50% of the total cap. I'm not sure how meaningful this is.

The 85k workers laid off is I think (it's not quite clear) for all workers, not H1-B.

The article presumably seeks to imply non H1-B workers are being laid off in favour of H1-B.

It's not really possible to say from the article and its data, I think - for example, Amazon is listed as the #1 H1-B sponser, and they have 27k lay-offs attributed to them - but Amazon has a very high turn-over rate and there's no indication whether or not these lay-offs are for H1-B viable roles; perhaps they were warehouse staff.

I could be completely wrong, but looking over the highlighted bullet points, I have the impression of numbers being presented to lead the reader into the article's argument, rather than being a proper examination of data.
Recursion is natural and easy to understand when the argument of the function is a recursive data structure, and the cases are patterns on the constructors. These are natural and useful cases, much better than the alternative. Starting with misguided examples like factorial is demotivating.
Maybe it's just me, but I read it first as "WEM"
Admittedly some people are using AI out of curiosity rather than because they get tangible benefit.

But aside from those situations, do you not think that the developers using AI - many of whom are experienced and respected - must be getting value? Or do you think they are deluded?
> Obviously I use a version with ligatures mixed in:

Thanks for the link!
They're not talking about the low skilled illegal immigrants.

If someone can manage to clear the bar to immigrate in the US they're likely to be way more productive than your average american, so it makes sense that they're creating value for society.
As far as I understand, windows store is no longer available on enterprise windows. So if you want to sell a business app, it is not even an option.
Show HN: Generate interesting running routes locally
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The website
0. Downloads spatial data from OpenStreetMaps based on your location and target distance
1. Processes the data into a mathematical graph and calculate paths between points
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This means that you are only sharing your location with OpenStreetMaps and your browser. No one else. No other APIs or service. Nada. All the processing and routing is done on your device.

If you have any questions or comments, please reach out to me on HN or on `hello @ running-routes.com`.

Thanks checking it out.
Also Bedrock is full of mtxns while Java Edition is just the base game.
> Yet it's orders of magnitude easier than writing ffmpeg.

If there's one thing that I've learned, is that "It Depends™" is my mantra.

ffmpeg is the sharp end of years of work by a whole lot of folks. It isn't just a single developer's "pet project" (although its originator[0] deserves enormous heaps of credit). It has been maintained by a whole community of really good (and dedicated) developers (and people with all kinds of other skills)[1].

It's not just a library. It's a platform. People have made entire (lucrative) careers, from just "tuning" ffmpeg.

Because of the infrastructure provided by ffmpeg, people can build some really useful implementations, and create focused applications.

I have found that making an approachable interface for a complex substrate, can be incredibly valuable, and definitely worth paying for. It can often mean the difference between soaring success, and miserable failure.

"Easier" is in the eye of the beholder. Ever watch a really, really experienced studio musician at work? They sit down, and in five minutes, your scratches on a piece of paper, take on a magical aspect. They make it look absurdly easy, but that comes from intense practice. There was a documentary (don't remember the name), about a bunch of major musicians, that came out of the California scene, in the late 1960s/early 1970s. In it, there was a discussion about someone (I think it may have been one of the Grateful Dead, or Eagles), that lived above Jackson Browne, who is a very successful singer and songwriter (BTW: The "songwriter" part is the bit that makes the money). They talk about hearing him practice, as he was developing songs. He'd play just a few bars, over, and over, and over again, until he got it right.

Songwriters and studio musicians may not be able to command roaring crowds at Glastonbury, but they can give you the album that you'll need, to get that crowd to show up, in the first place. So success requires contributions from many different places, and each has its own measure.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard

[1] https://www.ffmpeg.org/community.html
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Yet another Python marketeer. I suggest Lisp or SML to understand recursion.

The author was vocal on Reddit defending the suspension of Tim Peters. I'm not sure if he ever has contributed anything substantial to Python itself. Implicitly defending slander and ostracism is vile, so avoid this one.
26 days since I started testing my new product
Hey everyone! I'm Tim, the founder of ProductDemo.

On December 9th, I kicked off the beta of ProductDemo. It's a tool that lets you create interactive demos in just a few minutes.
You can check it out here: https://productdemo.app.

In the first two weeks, I tried out a few different channels to grow my user base. Here's what I did:
1. Hacker News: It brought in my first users, but they didn't stick around for long.
2. Reddit: This channel drove way more traffic than Hacker News and gave me some lasting exposure.

Most users found the product really helpful, which I'm super excited about! I've started getting a ton of feedback. One of the bigger changes I made was to make the product look and work great on different screen sizes. I'm really thankful to everyone who has tried it out and shared their thoughts.

So, what's next for me?
1. I want to explore more marketing channels. I'm thinking about cold DMs and e-mail marketing as my starting points.
2. I'll be sending out weekly updates to my users about what's new with the product.

As an indie hacker, I believe that getting customer feedback and finding that PMF is more important right now than just chasing after more users. If you have any ideas or suggestions, feel free to get in touch with me (DM me)! You can find me on Twitter @timchen98. Thanks a lot!
But you did, and Firefox flies these days, thanks!
I'd say people for a long time, in many cultures have gone to trusted faith leaders or elders to seek guidance their peers weren't suited/equipped to give.
The paper title is "Training Large Language Models to Reason in a
Continuous Latent Space". It's true it says training in the title, but the goal (reasoning in continuous space) happens at inference time.
Aren’t their in-house agents doing the “support” ?
No. CBT is still a mumbo jumbo of concepts and approaches that have no relation to reality (like any other therapeutic school), other than "if you follow these practices, you will maybe get better".

You'll not be able to prove validity of the concepts behind this school of therapy themselves in any other sense, even if you would be able to identify some coherent set of concepts from all the various techniques and approaches that CBT subsumed over the years.

And certainly just because "if you follow these practices, you will maybe get better" metric does not say anything about validity of the concepts of a particular school of therapy in any case, no matter what school you're talking about.

I mean yeah, many people usually care about whether some therapy works and how well, and not whether the concepts that you're told in therapy to justify what the therapy is doing make coherent sense or can be scientifically validated, so this is usually not a problem for people in need of care. But idea that CBT's concepts are more objective than other mumbo jumbo therapies out there is just plain wrong.
Although I partially agree, there are definitely bad therapists (a lot), and it implies there are good ones.
Do consumers refuse to pay for search, or has nobody asked them if they'd want to?

Kagi is well-known on HN, but I guarantee my parents have never heard of it. I told my wife about it the other day, and she had never heard of it either. She thought it was a cool idea. $10/month is just too much.

Sure, YellowPages had lots of ads. Hell, PCMag was ~35% ads. The difference was that their ads were clearly labeled and physically distinct from the actual content. They didn't camoflauge the ads to make them blend into the rest of the page layout. Advertisers occasionally tried, sure, but the layout would still be visibly different. Ads on the web are more insidious, and more intrusive.
you're not welcome. is their message.

not a single mention of advertising on all these comments.

those captcha are not against bots. bots are only one item in the broader category they block. you, an unmonetizable user, is another.

cloudflare et all have the "marketplace conundrum". they need to provide value to both sides, and for the site they do this by blocking hard to monetize traffic. that means traffic that won't generate high yield on ad networks those sites care about.
The problem is the best way to weight the accuracy of results (as you say, SEO exists) is with skin in the game.

A bidding-based advertising system ultimately results in the most valuable solution winning, since the ad spend will be marginally bid up as close to the value the consumer is willing to pay for the product/service minus producer input costs.

The most successful companies ultimately have the most to spend on ads. Again, this does not result in perfectly rational outcomes all the time (because humans are irrational), but comes damn close.

Now, whether we should let one company take the profits off of that ad bidding system (since it inherently trends to monopoly) is another question.
Or alternatively it can be the start of a feud/rivalry with the "envious" , and I mean not at the political level but at the human to human level.

Might seem counterproductive or even "toxic" but it's sure better than the nihlism that the author is expressing.
I take it you meant to write every car older than 10 years is a manual?
Looks impressive, I gave it a try.

Using Safari on an iPad, it doesn’t seem to ask for my location.

I can move over to my part of Essex, but it whips back to Melbourne, the other side of the world-ish.
All of this is missing the point that doing basic arithmetic like this in Python drowns in the overhead of manipulating objects (at least with the reference C implementation).

For that matter, the naive "convert to string and convert each digit to int" approach becomes faster in pure Python than using explicit div/mod arithmetic for very large numbers. This is in part thanks to algorithmic improvements implemented at least partially in Python (https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/_pylong.py#L...). But I can also see improved performance even for only a couple hundred digits (i.e. less than DIGLIM for the recursion) which I think comes from being able to do the div/mod loop in C (although my initial idea about the details doesn't make much sense if I keep thinking about it).
I own one of her drafts, as I was a 3rd party beta tester for the Mac a good 9 months before release. My copy is mimeographed and filled with pencil and pen corrections and notes that were scribbled on the mimeographs as I worked with the Apple OS developers. It's all in a binder I keep in an airtight zip locked bag. I've been meaning to get it scanned and put online for decades now.
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Hi HN! I'm a senior software engineer with 11+ years of experience, looking for a job as I move to the US. Over the years, I've consulted both senior and junior software engineers on a variety of technical problems, and even ran a few programming courses for kids myself. As a result of my experience with contributing to open-source software, I enjoy writing documentation and not leaving it as an afterthought. When debugging, I can dive deep into codebases I've never seen before. In the future, I wish to grow in the area of improving end-user experience.
I think I’ve posted this here before but the best short explanation of recursion I’ve ever heard was from my programming languages professor 35 years ago when we were testing out algorithms in a toy Lisp we had to write at the start of the course. All non-infinite recursive algorithms should have a “base case and a smaller caller”, meaning there needs to be a terminal state and the algorithm should narrow its scope on each recursive call. I still use that to this day when I happen to need to write a recursive algorithm.
Ahh thanks, turns out I missed it because it was a small sentence right over the big equation that my eyes glazed over :P
Snake oil salesmen were also not selling actual snake oil most of the time. I think the analogy works.
Indeed. Wonder how it managed to land here.
I’d love to take a look as well!
That's why it was mind blowing for me (Europoor) to see hot rods and things like that on public roads in the US.

There truly is more freedom in the US than there is in Europe in that context.
None of the demo videos work for me, stuck on the loading icon. For both Safari and chrome, iOS 18.3 beta.

I agree that "Buy Now" is shown too early.

The horizontally scrolling list of feature icons under Buy Now stops scrolling when you tap an icon, and the icon turns blue; but they're not buttons that lead anywhere. And if I want to see the rest of the scrolling icons, I have to deselect the touched icon. I'd suggest not making this an interactable element, and speed up the scrolling a bit.

And yes, have someone do a proofreading pass.

Look forward to seeing the updated landing page!
There is plenty of perceptual testing involved in the color science for a standalone camera. And more in the lenses.
Out of curiosity, what programming language and GUI is this written with? Can you write a bit about what the experience was like writing a multi-platform GUI desktop application?
Of course - you are completely right, an oversight in wanting to correct my mistake as quickly as possible.

With that fixed, is there any reason not to use push here?
Flash was a proprietary browser plugin that went out of support (although you can still play .swf files with the standalone projector or Ruffle), whereas WebGL is a web standard which is very easy to implement on top of OpenGL ES; and that one is also a standard with many implementations, both in drivers and as open source libraries on top of more modern APIs, like ANGLE.

So I think WebGL is not going away anytime soon.