skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personal attack? I just said it was interesting you mostly only comment about Kitty. Which is factually true. (It’s also not a criticism to be singularly passionate about something.) I’m often curious about people’s previous comments, it’s not some decision I made to research your comment history.

I make one, single, lone comment about ghostty. You regularly (almost exclusively) seize opportunities to talk about Kitty, especially in threads that are about other terminals. And I’m the shill? Ok.

You’ve also successfully set the goalposts up such that, even if I did have something to prove to you (which I don’t), I can’t prove anything anyway! It’s impossible to prove what terminal I use or don’t use. And impossible to go back and change my comment history. So, well played I guess ;)
I was going to say you couldn't pay me to use Notes again. I went to the link you posted and here was on the top carousel something interesting... So domini/notes is under active development, by a witch company no less.

I just have a terrible experience using Notes. I have either somehow erased or locked away most of this memory but I remember getting back to Outlook with a job at a different place and thinking I'll never bad mouth excel again. Yes, notes was that terrible for me.

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Apple and Alphabet Led the S&P 500 in Stock Buybacks
Removed: I misunderstood what GP was referring to.
As an experiment, I tried implementing this for Stable Diffusion lora training, where I'm training on a single GPU with a batch size of 8, and it does actually seem to have an appreciable impact. In my case, I'm keeping a per-parameter grad EMA, and then computing the cosine distance between the parameter's grad and its EMA, and then multiplying the grad by 0 if (1.0 - cos_sim) > 0.99.

My loss metrics stay roughly the same (they're slightly lower, but SD loss is fraught to interpret because variance by timestep renders it more or less meaningless), but tracking the means of `param.grad.norm / param.numel` (which shows how big the grad updates are) shows the grads stabilizing significantly quicker than baseline. I'm tracking suppressed params / total params via tensorboard, and I show that it drops (as expected) but then stabilizes at around 7%, suggesting that there are model parameters which consistently don't agree. I'm gonna try tracking the variance from the mean, as well, and perhaps down-weight or eliminate grads for parameters which show high cos similarity variance over time (suggesting a generalized lack of agreement in the direction to move, further suggesting that the parameter cannot contribute meaningfully to the task).
I have invested quite an unreasonable-amount-of-time rendering fractals, (just on 1 node so far) myself, mostly only at 2k (square) pixels but really quite a few at 16k (16384x16384 pixels) and I'm also hoping to figure out how to do some magic with these images one day!
I don't understand. If kaggle solutions were able to do those, what the hell do these mean?

https://arcprize.org/2024-results
> What about ostensible threats against CEOs and other powerful people being used as a pretext to give them special protection by the state, and corresponding encroachment on the liberties of others? Could this elevate a fascist overclass even more?

Here's the quote, readers can decide for themselves.
laravel, inertiajs, react

using cursor ai and claude sonnet
I don't believe in any of this but I miss the days when the internet was FULL of shit like this
Halt new year! May Good bless you richly in your pursuits and may He bless the work of your hands.
Don’t forget to enable those anti-procrastination settings in 2025! :-P
Forget about future tense. In many industries China is already the undisputed leader by far.

https://itif.org/publications/2024/09/16/china-is-rapidly-be...

China leads in Computers and Electronics, Machinery and Equipment, Motor Vehicles, Basic Metals, Fabricated Metals, Electrical Equipment.

The US leads in IT and Information Services, Pharmaceuticals, and Other Transportation.

It’s not about to happen. It already happened, and it is largely due to hubris that the US doesn’t talk about it.
Happy new year to all of you, fellow visitors of Internet best website.
The bloat is real, but it’s not all bloat. We ask for a lot more from our software today. Simple example: rendering text isn’t that simple when we expect full Unicode support.

It’s not altogether different from how everything seems to be much more expensive than it was in the 1950s. There are many real and concerning reasons for that, but one less concerning reason is that we have higher standards and expectations now, and that translates to higher cost.
In addition to what the others said, Xbox was released long after the DC was already discontinued. What’s more, some of the same people behind the DC were also behind the Xbox.

In a way, the Xbox is kind of like the Dreamcast 2
The AI stuff these days is probably the easiest type of thing for Emacs to replicate, since all of the APIs are essentially just passing in and parsing strings of text. May more easy than IDE-like features and easier than LSP.

Like, no one would need to form Emacs to support all of the features Cursor provides. VSCode had to be forked and lost a considerable user-base to it.
React Native and ASP.Net Core
I don't see any claims of negative ramifications being made
Hitting the Jackpot: The Birth of the Monte Carlo Method – LANL (2023)
I swear if this begins to be a form of ad hominum attack on the interwebs I am going to table flip
Happy new year 2025!
In a very small subset of cities, road conditions, weather condition, &c. Basically US grid cities with 300 days of sun per year
Uncompressed - maybe.
Avoid this next time by using a password manager, keeping the list of recovery codes for that password manager in a safe place or two, and checking every so often that you can still find the recovery codes.
In the mid 80s my best friend brought in a select fire (aka full auto capable) mauser c96 with the case that doubles as a stock. His grandpa acquired in wwii, the teacher just asked if it was loaded.
loop {
year += 1;
live_on();
}
I did something similar but opposite, reverse engineered the serial protocol of my phantom joystick so I could use it to play drone simulators on my laptop and practice. Ten years ago now, so hopefully not needed anymore, but was a fun project:
https://github.com/Matsemann/mDjiController

Those first generation consumer drones were so wack. Hard to fly, and very brittle software. I lost it when it randomly decided to "fly home" when I took off from a new location without storing a new gps location. I just had to watch it go straight north and out of view.
I can’t imagine the negative amounts of goodwill incurred from telling all your customers that they won’t be able to file their taxes.
I filed bugs against both GCC and LLVM asking for compiler warnings that would inform developers of the risk:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118263

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/121427
Along a similar theme, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote an essay in 2021 entitled "Embrace the Grind," also quoting Penn & Teller:

> I often have people newer to the tech industry ask me for secrets to success. There aren’t many, really, but this secret — being willing to do something so terrifically tedious that it appears to be magic — works in tech too.

https://jacobian.org/2021/apr/7/embrace-the-grind/ Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26747305
The magic lies not just in the effort itself but in how it is directed. Teller’s months of work burying boxes weren’t random. Sustaining long-term effort toward an uncertain payoff requires more than discipline—it demands resilience and a reimagining of gratification. The real magic, perhaps, lies not in the final trick, but in cultivating a mindset where the process itself becomes fulfilling, where the act of burying boxes is embraced as a craft, not just a means to an end.
This is an abandonned project :(
I don’t think Microsoft have any interest in hardware consoles. They get their money from Xbox subscriptions so for them it’s more about pushing Xbox live rather than hardware.

I get their move though. Hardware is an expensive business and full of risk.
Godot's 3D engine, I want to see if it's usable in business apps
There’s a massive difference between using limited funds to buy your daily driver, and buying a product specifically for the purposes of a review.
Mozilla first needs to regain the trust of its users. They aren't privacy-first at all, they run a lot of telemetry on their users. Have you ever checked the number of DNS queries and IP requests that go to Firefox servers every minute? If you haven't, I have, and it is a lot. They literally ping home every minute in the name of network connectivity and other things, if you believe it. I don't mind using Mozilla products, but I just don't trust their motives and data practices.

If you want privacy first AI in the browser here are the tools

https://ollama.com

https://github.com/n4ze3m/page-assist
Some more context https://www.railengineer.co.uk/migrating-from-gsm-r-to-frmcs...
I bought mine in 2022 and I still use it as my main system. There is not much to complain about. As someone else said, the laptop tends to get warm and my impression is that this has happened more frequently in recent years. Linux support is great. I don't rely much on the battery, so that's not an issue for me personally.

I don't know how long this one will last me, but I will try to keep it alive with spare parts for as long as possible. Repairing things, especially if they are treasured things, feels good. There was no need for any repairs yet, but I expect it to happen eventually. Or maybe I just want to upgrade things at some point.
To be honest, the Anarchist Cookbook had some really dodgy recipes. It was arguably a collection of future Darwin Awards.
There was an ancient temple near Mysore to which a metal plaque was attached, with corresponding rust stains.

It explains in some swirly script language, execpt for "5Rs", that there is a fine for defacing the building (I had it translated).
Happy New Year to all the hackers!
Emacs maximalism is the way to go. I spend most of my free time at my job re-implementing all of the companies internal tooling in Elisp, along with integrations using the Jira/Gitlab API, and also random automations that I need/want.

Then there is org-mode containing a record of everything I worked on with all my notes, executable scripts, all my time tracking information, org-roam notes, auto-generated request libraries using the verb package, literate API request documents for each micro service, etc.

It's such a good feeling when every tool can interact with any other tool in a variety of ways and that in a few keypresses you can modify and fix anything.
What do you mean?

I'm one of the majority non-millionaires and I'm not feeling any threat of being murdered daily?

What do you mean?
Not sure where that comes from. By any measure China is more integrated into the rest of the world than ever before.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/biggest-trade-partner-of...

Whether China can beat NATO in a head to head military contest is one question, but separate from whether they can take Taiwan, for example.
My own experience has taught me that titles are kinda dumb, and at times very very insular, which seems to be the case here.

I went from eng, to sr eng, to principal eng, back to eng, making more money each time along the way across different orgs.

Our industry has little to no real standards. Congrats on your promotion, but your title ultimately means little across companies.
Then you're using Brave or Opera.
A DSL for XState[0] by the co-creator of astro.build[1], cool! But the repo[2] has been archived and there is an active FSM library from the same developer called robot[3].

[0]: https://xstate.js.org/

[1]: https://astro.build/

[2]: https://github.com/lucydsl/liblucy

[3]: https://github.com/matthewp/robot
> Yes. I've known people with robotics startups, and have visited some of them. They're all gone now. But that was all prior to about 2015.

Lots of dotcom busts in the late 90s were concepts that worked 10-15 years later. We just did not have broadband and smartphones. Battery and AI tech is quite likely to be the missing piece robotics lacked in the past.
I have an i5. It’s decent but the machine stopped booting on battery after the cmos battery died. They sent me a bypass kit which is nice. The delete key on the keyboard failed and this is apparently a common issue, so I’m disappointed to have had to replace the keyboard when they know it’s their error. Horrible speakers.

I love the idea of it but am meh on it after 2.5 years. Good Linux support though.
No.

If you had a magic gun with unlimited ammo would you rule the world? No.

For the same reason, AGI/ASI is not really a threat to humanity.
Tl;dr you have to be grifter-grinder and disregard all the “important” bullshit of mentoring, interviewing, training as only shipping will give you a slight chance of promotion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42319997
>Instead, we have a professor who seems to feel obligated to gaslight the US and portray it as “colonialist” even in the face of incredible outcomes of public policy.

I'm not talking about this particular case right now, although I may comment separately about it a little later, but the US did have a colonial past. See:

European_colonization_of_the_Americas:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_colonization_of_the...

From that article, the 7th or so paragraph, highlighting is mine:

>Violent conflicts arose during the beginning of this period as indigenous peoples fought to preserve their territorial integrity from increasing European colonizers and from hostile indigenous neighbors who were equipped with Eurasian technology. Conflict between the various European empires and the indigenous peoples was a leading dynamic in the Americas into the 1800s, although some parts of the continent gained their independence from Europe by then, countries such as the United States continued to fight against Native Americans and practiced settler colonialism. The United States for example practiced a settler colonial policy of Manifest Destiny and the Trail of Tears.

And links from that paragraph:

Settler_colonialism:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settler_colonialism

The graphic after the first paragraph there (labelled "Graphic depicting the loss of Native American land to U.S. settlers in the 19th century"), is, well, graphic. See all that blue area disappearing?

Manifest destiny:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny

Trail of Tears:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears

Also see:

Banana republic:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic

Also see:

Philippines:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines

Under the History section there, see this sub-section:

Spanish and American colonial rule (1565–1934).

A link from there:

Philippine–American War:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_...
It's the edge computing.

Similar to autonomous vehicles, doing complex multi sensor things very quickly.

Surgical robotics is a great example, lots of cool use cases coming out in that field.
What is the difference between a senior engineer and a staff engineer?
Based on your writing you are clearly emotionally invested in this technology, consider how that may affect your understanding.

By multiple rewrites, I meant that, to me, at least, it is silly to spend N compute on producing effectively the same summary on demand for the Mth chatbot user when, in some cases, we could much more economically generate one summary once and make it available via distribution channels--to be fair, that is sort of orthogonal to whether or not the "golden" summary is produced by humans or LLMs. I guess this is more of a critique of the current UX and computational expenditure model.

Yes, my whole point about the process being the point sometimes is precisely about lack of insight. It goes back to Searle's Chinese Room argument. A person in a room with a perfect dictionary and grammar reference can productively translate english texts (input) into Chinese texts (output) just by consulting the dictionary, but we wouldn't claim that this person knows Chinese. Using LLMs for "understanding" is the same. If all you care about is immediate material gain and output, sure, why not, but some of us realize that human beings still move and exist in the world and some of us still appreciate that we need to help fashion those human beings into rational ones that are able to use reason to get along, and aren't codependent on the past N years of the internet to answer any and all questions (the same criticism applies to over reliance on simplistic "answers" from search engines).
Yah, it does, but just leave it assembled to the point you had to assemble it and ship it rather than making me put the ram/gpu/nvme/whatever back in putting wear on the insertion slots and taking my time. I get that they are trying to put a barrier big enough that people are willing to pay the few hundred dollar convenience tax, so maybe just leave the NVME out and avoid the wear and tear on the GPU and the ram. It's basically the same barrier because you are removing the keyboard and undoing a bunch of scary screws in both cases but you get to spend less on labor at the factory and I have to install less crap myself (I was always buying the self assembled one, I like that stuff).
>Todd Michelson-Ambelang, librarian for South Asian studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, wonders if vast collections from the region in US and other Western libraries took away literary resources from the Indian sub-continent.

and

>Mr Michelson-Ambelang told the BBC that the removal of books from South Asia through programmes like PL-480 "creates knowledge gaps", as researchers from there often need to travel to the West to access these resources.

and

> It is unclear whether all the books acquired by US universities from India at that time are still available there. According to Maya Dodd, of India's FLAME University, many books now unavailable in India can be found in the University of Chicago's library collections, all marked with the stamp saying "PL-480".

Although a charitable reading is they aren't available because of decay.
It is easy to make any "logic" make sense with words like "if you build it, they will come" or "there are no bad products, only bad pricing" but the reality is that sometimes you can build the best product but if your customers don't know about it, they can't come to you. Also, there is such a thing as a bad product which is bad even for zero dollars because humans are the end of the day have a finite lifespan and at some point it isn't worth wasting my time with an Intel 14th gen processor because I don't want to gamble with the possibility of an RMA. Even if someone gave me a processor for free, there is a cost to my time and the rest of the computer which will sit idle as I wait for a replacement.

I guess the point is I don't know which if the two above is correct. I know sometimes I have biases that even I'm not aware of though...
Editors may also be a team decision in some places. Some teams are using features unique to one IDE, for example.
Oh I did this with the Facebook one and redirected them to a 100MB file of garbage that is part of the Cloudflare speed test... they hit this so many times that it would've been 2PB sent in a matter of hours.

I contacted the network team at Cloudflare to apologise and also to confirm whether Facebook did actually follow the redirect... it's hard for Cloudflare to see 2PB, that kind of number is too small on a global scale when it's occurred over a few hours, but given that it was only a single PoP that would've handled it, then it would've been visible.

It was not visible, which means we can conclude that Facebook were not following redirects, or if they were, they were just queuing it for later and would only hit it once and not multiple times.
Off topic, but I'm a bit confused. Your iOS apps as listed on your website are CarPrep and Brocly, neither of which appear to have notable review activity or buzz in the media. If the app you're referring to is one of these, the more interesting question (to me) is: how on Earth are you generating $10,200 MRR from it? Or is there another app that I'm missing?

(In my experience as an app developer, getting any traction and/or money from your app can be much more difficult than actually building it.)
You can, a random example of someone doing this is https://prefabhome.eu/en
I think the problems with the economy (consolidation, corporate/private equity power, general inequality) are too big for any administration to fix even assuming they would want to. But yeah GDP and unemployment rate are fairly misleading metrics.
I usually get about 6 hours, though of course it depends on workload.
I'm used to it. Those flinging the accusations probably need to be reminded false positive rates in essay gpt detector systems are above 40%

Beep beep boop boop this wasn't written by an LLM.
What I Did in 2024
I think it is what nobody has answered yet.. virtualized training/testing. I watched a presentation by their research team. This is a HUGE force multiplier. Don't underestimate how much this changes robotic foundational model training.
Seems pointless and expensive, and it's concrete that doesn't lend itself to modification or repair. 3D printing in this case appears to be used as a tech gimmick rather than an actually-scalable process, or it would already be in-use everywhere.

The most inherently sensible home would be protected from wind (derecho, hurricane, and the uncommon tornado), fire, flooding, and severe heat and cold (and associated climate control costs) by building mostly underground on flat, stable, high ground.
> Most of the historic records before that point were totally destroyed or lost so feeling proud of what's left and moving on is not bad but seriously not prioritizing preservation is really ignorant.

It's actually cultural. Even foreign historians from a thousand years back such as Al Biruni criticized the Indian cultural norms of focusing on oral traditions, instead of written text, and the use of assumptions, story telling and exaggerations instead of facts and accurate retelling, which in turn feeds into a culture that prioritized fantasy over curiosity. It's stunning to say how we can obtain accurate records of the locations of the homes destroyed in the Great Fire of London in the 16th century, but don't have an accurate account of many kings in the Indian subcontinent during the 19th century.

This could have been a direct result of the caste system, wherein the deep study of literature was only allowed for Brahmins - not even the kings and nobility.
Waymo works in US grid cities on highly modified cars. I know people love hating Musk, but it is still very much up in the air if Waymo will be a better solution than what Tesla or Wayve is doing.