skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the same as tourists complaining about tourists, hilarious irony. Does your Chinese friend at least realize that he's the one causing it? Even on HN I see the sentiment very often, people going on 5 holidays per year and complaining that certain places have become touristy. You literally wouldn't even know the place had become touristy if you wouldn't have gone there as a tourist!
Related. Others?

VoxelSpace – Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38051859 - Oct 2023 (2 comments)

Voxel Space: Comanche's terrain rendering in less than 20 lines of code (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26631995 - March 2021 (71 comments)

Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21944573 - Jan 2020 (116 comments)

Terrain rendering in fewer than 20 lines of code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15772065 - Nov 2017 (93 comments)

Show HN: Voxel Space – terrain rendering in less than 20 lines of code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15339016 - Sept 2017 (2 comments)
Canada is still under the British Monarch, Charles as King of Canada. Not saying that would work but it might be one avenue. It’s also good reason that Canada joining the US would be very hard as things stand.
Google's revenue for 2023 was $307.394B, a 8.68% increase from 2022.
2022 was $282.836B, a 9.78% increase from 2021.
2021 was $257.637B, a 41.15% increase from 2020.

Doesn't sound like just past glory.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/reve...
For video editing, can you put basic text/etc over the video? Ie gifs + text? A refined UX for going from screen capture to stupid gif, on Linux and Windows, would easily be something i'd pay for.
Because all social media platforms are already flooded with obvious AI slop and they felt they were missing out?
> If you start to study biology through the lens of evolution/development (IE, looking at the similarities and differences in close and far related organisms) it starts to become a lot clearer.

Any suggestions on literature? Paper, survey article, text, whatever? Or any examples/thoughts of using that as a pedagogical framework?

I've an oddball interest in exploring what science education content might look like if crafted with far far greater interdisciplinary expertise and resources. So I've wondered what an intro bio might look like with a more... "veterinary + engineering" flavor - broad scope, comparative and cross-cutting, systems concerns, solution vocabularies, etc.

As an illustrative bit (years old so maybe now invalidated), perhaps highly-conserved regulatory micro-RNA might be used as a "available complexity" metric to create a much simpler "tree of life" for orientation. Or energy budgets as a lens. Or design themes (eg compartmentalization). Or conserved-outward (eg 16S to RNA to). Or emotive ("yay diffusion, and surfing just above the thermal-noise molecular mosh pit from hell" vs (an Analog Devices engineer's heartfelt) "Brownian motion is the devil. The DEVIL!!"). Or someone's picture book of motifs in cellular and embryonic development (eg perching pigeons spacing themselves evenly along a wire). Or ... .

Most everyone is quite reasonably focused on the students and resources and objectives at hand. But that leaves the heavy lifting of exploring for long-term transformative opportunities rather unincentivized. Making it hard to envision just how much potential is being left on the table.
> the first result for "convert video to MP4 with ffmpeg" would produce files not playable by Quicktime on Mac, you needed to pass in some other codec argument to make it work. So even ffmpeg is not a panacea for technical folks.

MP4 files use the MPEG-4 container format. It’s confusing at first why a .mp4 file would play somewhere and elsewhere not, until one looks into the difference of a container format and a video codec. After one learns that, one will be in a better position to find the right arguments to use for ffmpeg to produce a video file that is playable on some of one’s own different devices.

For me, to host videos on my website, I found it better to offload the task of converting formats to a self hosted PeerTube instance, rather than keeping scripts to transcode to multiple formats with different parameters on my own. I believe PeerTube also uses ffmpeg for this.
The "Pfizer Boob Job": A Case of Unexplained Gigantomastia
the way Reddit started -- now with full automation.
Meta keeps making more and more bafflingly horrible product decisions. Tens of billions into the Metaverse and now “let’s put gen AI into everything” even if it goes against the one thing that is arguably the most responsible for FB’s success - real identity. “Let’s put fake bots everywhere, because GenAI, need I say more?”
Thanks for the corroboration. While replying to you, let me clarify my previous comment:

>those non-Canadians who cannot (and often will never get) a US visa
>and don't contribute in any noticeable way.
>They are completely passive as far as you can tell

Fundamental attribution error strikes again?

Reminds me of the apocryphal/anecdotal tale of the management conultant who wanted to fire a "secretary" who he could only find taking coffee breaks and long lunches with lots of different people, only to be told (or finding out after the firing) that the person in question was critical to inter-team dynamics and functioning.
Looks great, beautiful landing page and it looks like a labor of love!

- Most of the page titles are the (same)[1] which doesn't seem good for SEO. Each of the pages like "Pricing" or "Compress Your Video Files" should be differently named.

- The "video compressor" tool would be much more useful if you could enter a target file size. This is a frequent use case, if you want to send a video over email or social media apps like Messenger with a file size limit. The only way I've been able to do that for myself is basically encode it repeatedly with ffmpeg at various quality settings until the file size is just small enough, but you could probably automate that with something more intelligent like a good guess and a binary search. I'm sure someone's made a library to do that already though.

- It needs a whole bunch of features related to subtitles, like making a subtitled GIF from a video file with subtitles.

- Maybe risky to include copyrighted work like the Spider-Verse movie in the demo video? Unless you really did rip it legally from a Blu-ray.

- There are random grammar mistakes and capitalization issues throughout the site, nothing major but worth a pass by a native English speaker. "What kinda files Pimosa supports?" and "Every files gets processed on your device only" as some examples. Might give some people pause.

- Could be worth to have a more prominent "Download" box at the top section that automatically detects your OS. Most landing pages have that so I assume it works.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fpimosa....
It’s the 2020s version of the old IBM line… No one ever got fired for hiring a head of AI.
Are you saying that Haitian immigrants to the US were actually eating cats in Ohio?
you're not far off there Nemo, and that was a good dig on the vidalia onion guy! totally remember that
What’s the relation to the post?
Hey if you dig something up I’m happy to hear it. You’d be confirming my suspicions.
The influx of AI slop on Facebook was apparently tied to their partner program which pays for engagement, so they were paying people to post 10,000 pictures of Shrimp Jesus. By vertically integrating the Shrimp Jesus pipeline they can save money by cutting out the middleman.

https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-twisted-incentives-created-its...
Generative AI seems like a great opportunity for the metaverse instead of further enshittifying their existing networks. Users could utter entire universes into existence and then explore them, this could even work for the elderly reliving some past experience (this article alludes to ensnaring older users with non-existent bot "personalities").

So why would they do this? Is it just another attempt at swaying public opinion (see: Cambridge Analytica)? Perhaps promoted messaging will come from these accounts so they can monetize their AI investment? Whatever it is, it doesn't seem like a feature users requested so it's difficult to think it benefits them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-to-market_strategy
The appearance of chatbots in social media is annoying (but also totally predictable). What I find disappointing is the persistent practice of journalists to interview said chatbots as if those interviews mean something. They do not. These programs are essentially Monte Carlo simulations. Why on earth would you think they could tell you anything about their genesis? Also, let’s be real: Meta’s goal is and always has been to drive engagement. So it should not be surprising that they chose to create a bunch of avatars that many Americans will feel are a little too transgressive. Meta wants to rile you up so you stick around and post more.
AI accounts are the final nail in the coffin for the user-generated content era of the web. RIP UGC, 1994 - 2024.

We started with Usenet, message boards, Geocities and Blogspot. Then all the traffic migrated to aggregators like Facebook, Reddit and Instagram which prioritize engagement-heavy sensationalism.

Real people used to post all that content, but it's been clear for a while that sharecropping on somebody else's platform benefits them, not you. It used to be possible to build up a following and sell some Tshirts or get a few Patreon subs. But now it's simply not worth the hassle when every piece of original content is getting sucked into an AI training model and Instagram is openly telling users to pay to 'promote' their posts in the algorithm.

The bottom is falling out of the so-called bottomless pit of doomscroll machines, so instead of offering a better product, they're propping up its corpse with a hollow, computationally expensive facsimile of the real thing.
So you’re telling me this clip isn’t even satire: https://youtube.com/shorts/64TNGvCoegE
you could maybe test that with many comments describing a false approach.
I wish cooperatives were more common and that society as a whole had more organizational memory and experience how to scale them.
I'm 23. I don't want to 'manage' anybody. I want to be in a team where I'm a facilitator and advocate. If people need to be 'managed' that is a red flag to me, and it isn't worth the slightly better paycheck.
> 2. There are probably edge cases this code solves that we don’t remember.

But fortunately, I write in-code comments documenting these, because I pay close attention to such details.

> 4. Your own code always feels better to read, because you wrote it. That doesn’t mean it’s actually better to read than someone else’s.

Having that mental context makes your own code easier to read. That's why those comments are so important: they share that context with the next reader. Well-commented code legitimately is better.
Cold Emails Are Worth It

This surprises me. I get a bunch per day following the same script as the post.

* 1 email every week for 2 weeks.

* 1 email every other week for 4 weeks.

* 1 follow-up email every month for 3 months.

They never sound personal, even if they use some "Hey [name], hope [company] is doing well" script or AI to write them. It's worse when they beg "I know you're probably sick of hearing from me, but I'll give it one last try" until they follow up again (1 every other week for 4 weeks).

I'm not sure what strategy would work for me, I'm generally of the idea that if I want something I'll go look for it, and if someone pushes something to me I don't trust it.

It'd certainly be interesting to know how many people out there do reply to cold emails.
Avid org user, but I don't do any of the stuff that you mention. I just capture and agenda.

I'll just say that even to another "expert", you didn't explain what's so great about this annotation workflow.
> My use case is parsing Typescript type definitions.

> Edit: unfortunately, this seems to be a JNI bridge to the Rust code in SWC, I was hoping for a JVM-native solution.

Maybe tree-sitter[0] TypeScript support[1] could do the trick?

Tree-sitter is a parser generator tool and an incremental
parsing library. It can build a concrete syntax tree for a
source file and efficiently update the syntax tree as the
source file is edited.

HTH

0 - https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/

1 - https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-typescript
That was the generation before that. Everyone in Office Space and the managers in The Office are all (at least) two generations ahead of Gen Z.

Time flies!
Please engage in good faith.
I'm speaking from experience and observation of the past two years of LLM assistants of various kinds that outsourcing code production will atrophy your skills generally and will threaten your contextual understanding of a codebase specifically over the long term.

If that's a risk you're willing to take for the sake of productivity, that can be a reasonable tradeoff depending on your project and career goals.
With no sarcasm, I truly can not understand Facebook's end game here. Why would anyone choose to spend their time interacting with fake people, pushing a corporate party line to sell you something?

Already plenty of people are tuning out of the current Facebook. How is stuffing it full of fake people going to help? Like, I can just about understand how this can goose certain short-term metrics but how would it actually make money? Fake people pushing ads on us is already a thing, that field has already been harvested, it's not like some fresh new frontier. Ads already fake this stuff, fake testimonials, fake reviews, fake web sites, fake profiles posting fake statuses for ulterior reasons. I don't see how openly hooking up LLM tech to this helps them. Covertly, I can at least cynically guess at some things, but this current approach I don't get at all.

Short of, "we've got a huge stock bump from the AI bubble, but in reality we can't actually find a way it can help us proportionally to the cost, and this is the best Hail Mary anyone has come up with to prevent an accurate revaluation of our stock."
I really enjoyed the article as an interesting thought experiment. The discussion here isn't great but that's a problem solved by downvoting comments.
Those in the know refer to the C++ version as "Bugrock".
Portland is the same. There used to be Coffee Time on NW 21st, but that now closes at 6pm, too.
You broke the site guidelines repeatedly and badly in this thread, crossing into swipes and personal attacks. We have to ban accounts that post like this. Fortunately I don't see other cases of this in a quick runthrough of the account's posting history, so this should be easy to fix. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Small nitpick: on your user testimonials, you list reddit users as r/<username> when the correct way to do it is u/<username>.
If anyone's looking for one of these in SF, my favorite place is Delah Coffee[0] near Yerba Buena. They're open until 11pm. Try the Kunafa Cheesecake!

[0]: https://delahcoffee.com/
Tree sitter has a C runtime, and often a C scanner.
In fact, we could simply check for the 3 smallest and the 3 highest numbers and ignore the rest.

Assuming the numbers are really random, that's a probability of 10^-13. That probability is at the point where we are starting to think about errors caused by cosmic rays. With a bit more numbers, you can get to the point where the only way it can fail is if there is a problem with the random number generation or an external factor.

If it was something like a programming contest, I would just do "return 95931" and hope for the best. But of course, programming contests usually don't just rely on random numbers and test edge cases.
You also broke the site guidelines in this thread. Please don't do this, regardless of how provocative other comments are or you feel they are. It just feeds a downward spiral.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Employees also realized that being home at night is nice and they refuse to go back to working 24x7.
Costs of Caring (2024)
I want to say that's like a mint trying to stop counterfeiting by issuing fake bills themselves. But what am I missing here?
Sure, you can invent a scenario where the term “best practices” is a half-decent term. I’m not speaking in some kind of absolute. I still think it’s not a very good term here. It’s not really describing best practices, is it? It’s just describing the practices that the teams are choosing to follow.

I would name the document something like “development standards” or something like that. I’ve this called “meeting the bar” or “engineering excellence”. I like “meeting the bar” because the implication is that you haven’t succeeded if you don’t do what’s described. I like “engineering excellence” because it implies that you’ve gone beyond the minimum. I don’t like “best practices”.

I also wouldn’t insist that everyone must follow it. You have minimum standards (everyone must follow) and a set of expectations which are higher than that (everyone should follow). I think it is a kind of common error to make long lists of standards that everyone must follow. It’s better to prioritize. The minimum standards should be short and connected to the most critical concerns like security, privacy, or legal liability.

IMO, 99.9% SLA is not really that hard anyway, but I get what you mean. That’s like 2 whole hours of downtime per quarter.
The continued demise of MSM has nothing to do with the current political situation, even though left wing echo chambers such as hn will blame it on that.

It began when they lost their revenue source of selling physical newspapers and were forced to rely on ad-revenue, which didn’t cover costs. This allowed leftist billionaires to take over major media outlets and weaponize it to support their agendas and political views. Hence the constant seething hatred of any non-left-leaning viewpoint on the news, blatant attempts to help Kamala look good while making Trump look bad during the election, non-coverage of things that make the left look bad. This is why Trump calls it “fake news” and why Elon bought Twitter.

It blows my mind how out of touch the left is with the current state of media censorship and corruption.
They are slower. In theory these LLMs with all the right weights can have intelligence superior or equivalent to humans.

But the training never gets there. It’s so slow it never reaches human intelligence even though we know these networks can compute anything.
It's both. Seattle is one of the most introverted cities in the US (socially, it's disproportionately shaped by the tech population). Seattle Freeze is a real thing. COVID also did a number on people worldwide.

Also, gloomy weather 7-8 months of the year makes you not want to socialize.
What's up with every AI company having a $0 plan and a $20 plan? I would pay for a lot more of these tools if they were $5 (obviously with less capability than a $20 plan), but I don't use any one enough to justify nearly $300/year (post tax).
Do Kwon, the person behind $40B Luna/Terra collapse, extradited to US
Counterintuitive Effects of Minimum Prices
This is so French that a baguette appeared in my hand after I clicked the theory link. Probably a cognitive hazard to anyone who is really into generics.
Location: San Francicsco Bay Area
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, SQL, Pandas, Linux
Résumé/CV: https://samdc73.com/resume/HusamAlshehadat.pdf
Github: https://github.com/samdc73
Email: husam [at] samdc73 [dot] com

Data analyst, 2 years of experience, build a couple of projects using GenAI/RAG and fastAPI.
>Today, Kominek estimates that he earns $20,000 annually by selling energy to subscribers.

so how much did he have to get a loan for to pay for 3.2k solar panels + install + make the land suitable for em?

Seems like that will take a long time to recoup (if ever).
Don't say dental problems–say dental opportunities.
Scaffolding also comes with a price tag. A substantial amount of material (usual metal) goes into that.
One of the bots made a post about a fake charity clothes drive. With fake generated pictures of the clothes. Hallucinated being a good example to its child and how it’s helping the community with the clothes.

Absolutely fuckin wild that this got rolled out like this.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1hszxy0/meta_took_...
There was one on SE Powell close to the bridge
> You’re assuming “it was tracked to there” = “it originated there” but that’s a big leap.

If the market were one of multiple second-generation infection spreader sites, we'd have had significantly faster growth in the rate of infections.

With the power of hindsight, the rate of spread of COVID is well-understood, and the timelines of people getting sick is consistent with one initial outbreak site. There just aren't any known cases where someone came down with COVID on day 1 of the outbreak, without also having gone to that market.
That’s the secret. Nothing about the coming wave of posts is going to be „half—decent“
Rupert Murdock’s empire is hardly leftist. And that’s one of the larger conglomerates.
Yeah, over my career I've seen multiple c-suite bounce from company to company getting gently pushed out each time but still collecting massive packages (with the vacation houses and yachts to prove it).

Once you reach a certain level, you get treated with kid gloves. Even with the sword hanging over you, they don't out right fire you, they work out a deal where you "wanted to spend more time with family".
Agreed. There's also a healthy dose of "My biggest flaw is that I work too hard."

The DOGE section is particularly cringe inducing, as it should have been 2-3 sentences, but is instead paragraphs of self-congratulatory filler the likes of which only politics can attain. Tangentially related (even though the article is purportedly about happiness), being involved in politcs is generally agreed as being a poor path to happiness (for well-adjusted people anyway, which perhaps the author isn't).

Having children would be the logical next step in a financially successful life, but it seems as though the author also probably burned that bridge.

There are many tactful, helpful articles describing why money doesn't buy happiness, this isn't one of them.
> A dead program may continue to be used for execution in a computer and to produce useful results. The actual state of death becomes visible when demands for modifications of the program cannot be intelligently answered.

I totally believe this. I see zombie programs at my employer, including the ones that are currently making a profit, that just don't know yet that they are dead. The Jira model of non-ownership software development being a leading cause in my opinion...
Maybe YouTube can't exist without ads but the next thing might.
Just curious as to why you would want that?