skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are we seeing random videos of this from bystanders? Why are there not video cameras constantly recording the activity on the ramp and runways?
eBay and Facebook Marketplace don’t really compete. FB is better for normal fungible items. eBay is better for specialty stuff. Don’t forget that you have to pay to list and usually have to ship on eBay. It’s two totally different vibes.

If I wanted to sell a Dewalt angle grinder, I would go to Facebook first.

If I wanted to sell a Sony E-mount camera lens, I would go to eBay first.

Most used things I buy make more sense on Facebook. Most people I know use Facebook because they are usually looking for regular things.
The only one of these that I ever felt good about taking was the Apple Keyboard settlement. They sold me that lemon laptop after they already knew it was defective, and it was always being repaired.
This was interesting until I got to Day 2: Cabbage Burgers. That you can use as ready-meals by freezing them. Then I went out for a $65 meal of Sushi to put them out of my mind.

I'll have my eye peeled for some sort of happy medium, like $20/day, but this feels too much like the masochistic version of frugal-jerk.
How do you find your recipes? Looking to get into meal prepping but I don’t really want to wing my meals for a whole week
Eating is the easy part. Now wash up
Makes no sense to have a CPI that just confirms what consumers are already feeling. Rather it should serve as a rebuke to personal experience: data don't lie, you're imagining things.
Making something available to purchase is all I want from marketers, but then the other 99% of marketers want to make money too so it's just a game of who can lie most convincingly
Stories, Statistics, and Memory
Makes me think of the big tent philosophy of Grafana Alloy for OTEL

Where does log layer fit into the broader ecosystem?

https://github.com/grafana/alloy
Is this similar to Microsoft Xbox’s “Cloud Gaming (beta)” where it just streams you the picture from the server? I see comparisons below to Chromebook but at least a Chromebook boots offline. From my experience with the cloud gaming, the image quality is atrocious and honestly I can’t believe the marketing team features it so prominently on the store page. So all I have to say is, those shots in the youtube video are probably composited.
https://practicalbetterments.com A collection of one-off actions that improve your life continuously — however marginally.

https://stephango.com Steph Ango, CEO of Obsidian, writes about the simplicity and usefulness of plain-test, plain but powerful ideas. @kepano at HN.

https://marksblogg.com Mark Litwintschik on GeoSpatial, Satellites, Machine Learning. @marklit at HN.

https://simonwillison.net and of course, Simon Willison’s daily blog with high-quality content. @simonw at HN.
Some people use TOR, but the internet generally started using https for everything.
Maybe the footage from runway cameras was sequestered for internal review.
`enc(coffee cup) == enc(donut)` would be an interesting guarantee.
Fortunately Akamai is still operating in Hong Kong and not pulling out. Unlike Gitlab which pulls out of whole Hong Kong and China.
> happy medium, like $20/day

If you're cooking, $20/day is very high.
The one difference is in re you sometimes go up no matter what because there isn't enough information. (in minesweeper I typically pick a few squares early because without them the game probably won't be solveable anyway. Typically in thegame once you have enough solved you have it all - once in a while a couple squares are unknowable. In re you hit points where you know all the clues can get you more often and so have to try something at random. Otoh it is much rarer in re for a wrong try to be catestropic [not unheard of but rare]
I dont know why they would choose 200m deep, its pretty dark at that depth and not super interesting. Why not park it somewhere near a reef at 30-50M, dive in dive out experience for tourists, good vac options, good lighting and easy to work on.

Think of it like your first subnautica base.
I think Australia should join the EU. We have lots of resources too.
I have never had any trouble with flexbox or grid, but am curious how do you use LLMs to do your layout or to get it to do layout with flexboxes? Do you just give it a very detailed description of the layout? Or do you give it an image that you have put together? Do you have an example of this? I am very curious to try it myself.
How did you test the throughout? Seems quite weird. Does it go to both ports still?
It's probably more a reflection on me than the authors, but one thing that stood out for me in this paper is that there is a spelling mistake in the conclusion ("spar phishing"), which immediately made it come across as poorly-reviewed and got me wondering if there are other mistakes that are outside of my expertise to identify.
Apparently peepeepoopoo# or whatever doesn't think I need to use "cis". I normally don't, but because I saw that's how the conversation was going, I did the same. "Straight-male," does that make my words make more sense, like they didn't before? I apologize if "cis" in a sentence triggers you, I didn't think it mattered either way, other than just matching the conversation. I'm guessing it doesn't, but I just haven't had a negative reaction like this before on HN. I'm used to it on most other websites.
20yr ago they were all stripping for all of the same reasons but that was easier to keep on the down low because some journalist couldn't see and contact a dozen of them from their desk and many employers didn't even know who these people were.

It really is a no brainer when you consider the investment they have to make in their bodies.
Confirming that this is how bureaucracy works.
https://blog.breathingworld.com/
Naw, I’m not mad at all. Sorry I came off that way.

I must have made my point poorly, sorry I wasted your time.
A lot of the food looked pretty tasty. Fried chicken, pulled pork, homemade bread. Mostly he got his costs down by buying in bulk and cooking from scratch, not by eating weird stuff. Although, his diet was almost totally lacking fresh fruits and vegetables.
Interesting choice having a little (i) icon in the Turing Test card but having mouseover not bring up any text. Or having the link icons in that card that you can click on to do nothing.
Exactly. Overall the idea of selling more people its ad targeting service is peanuts compared to search ads, or more relevantly, selling people the ability participate in the Display Ads market at all in the first place (through the aforementioned exchange monopolization).
Foraging enough mushrooms to provide any real sustenance sounds like a real challenge (except for fall in the northwest).
I think that reserving bands for meteorology, Radio navigation, radio location, critical services (maritime mobile, time signal), science (space research), amateur radio, and microwaves is a very good idea. But if you were to redesign the allocations from scratch with modern technology, you could probably clear up a whole lot of spectrum.
That somehow looked very similar to the typical powers of ten table found in floating point conversion routines. I got the first confirmation by searching for 0x5c3bd5191b525a249 / 2^67, which happened to match how many exabytes are equal to 5 exbibits.
Inflation is the change in the Consumer Price Index, calculated by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. They explain the difficulty in representing accurate cost of living:

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm

>The CPI frequently is called a cost-of-living index, but it differs in important ways from a complete cost-of-living measure. We use a cost-of-living framework in making practical decisions about questions that arise in constructing the CPI. A cost-of-living index is a conceptual measurement goal, however, and not a straightforward alternative to the CPI. A cost-of-living index would measure changes over time in the amount that consumers need to spend to reach a certain utility level or standard of living. Both the CPI and a cost-of-living index would reflect changes in the prices of goods and services, such as food and clothing that are directly purchased in the marketplace; but a complete cost-of-living index would go beyond this role to also take into account changes in other governmental or environmental factors that affect consumers' well-being. It is very difficult to determine the proper treatment of public goods, such as safety and education, and other broad concerns, such as health, water quality, and crime, that would constitute a complete cost-of-living framework. Since the CPI does not attempt to quantify all the factors that affect the cost-of-living, it is sometimes termed a conditional cost-of-living index.
I had to ask chatgpt to summarize a couple of papers on the topic.

The "theory of informatons" is a conceptual framework introduced by Antoine Acke to explain gravitational interactions through the emission of hypothetical entities called "informatons." According to this theory, material objects emit informatons—massless and energy-less particles—that propagate at the speed of light, carrying information about the position and velocity of their source. The accumulation of informatons in space forms a cloud that represents the gravitational field of the emitting object.

In the article "Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation Explained by the Theory of Informatons," Acke proposes that the gravitational force between two masses arises from the interaction of their informatons clouds. This perspective offers an alternative explanation to Newton's law, suggesting that gravitational attraction results from the exchange of information via informatons rather than a direct action-at-a-distance force.

The second article, "The Gravitational Interaction Between Moving Mass Particles Explained by the Theory of Informatons," extends this concept to dynamic systems. It posits that moving masses emit informatons that not only convey information about their position and velocity but also about their motion. The interaction of these informatons clouds between moving particles leads to gravitational effects that depend on both the masses and their relative velocities.

This approach aligns with the idea that gravitational interactions can be understood through information exchange, resonating with concepts in information theory and entropy in physics. While the theory of informatons is not widely adopted in mainstream physics, it represents an innovative attempt to conceptualize gravitational phenomena through the lens of information transfer.

For a more detailed exploration of these ideas, you can refer to Acke's publications:

"Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation Explained by the Theory of Informatons"
SCIRP

"Gravitation Explained by the Theory of Informatons"
Vixra

These works provide mathematical formulations and further discussions on how informatons are hypothesized to mediate gravitational interactions.
Just the usual caution that Melatonin can be effective, but it's also really easy to overdose a kid. Consult your doctor first if you decide to go that route.

https://ukhealthcare.uky.edu/wellness-community/blog/melaton...
The obvious explanation is that cats are constantly tripping.
This is what I find most interesting about Japanese culture. The Japanese do things for seemingly superficial reasons which can seem redundant to an outsider but the more I learn, the more I see utility in a lot of it.

They’ve seem so much come and go over the centuries they seem to just go their own way because it works for them. Almost feels like they’ve been burned enough times to know better than to just throw the baby out with the bath water.

The most efficient in the short term, certainly not always.
> Yeah, we made a fake post and just lied to everyone on the internet. I'm not sorry, because not only was it popular - it became the top post of the day.

this is why we need better societal guardrails in place against lies... people will just do this kind of crap otherwise. I mean look at politics right now, it's a complete disaster in terms of information accuracy.

lies are too powerful to be (un)regulated by the free market.
They should do it somewhere shallow first, next to a large city surrounded by water where the land values are high. Requiring a boat for access would make it less feasible, so perhaps just a stairway and/or an elevator at the water’s edge instead. Put it just deep enough that it’s not visually distracting to passers–by, and shallow enough that the residents can still see the sun through skylights.

The renders with tropical ocean life right outside the windows are a fantasy; most of the sea bottom is undifferentiated mud.

Of course you could just build a marina and let people live in houseboats. You’d get the same population density with fewer of the problems and lower costs.
It’s frustrating that this is necessary but it definitely makes sense, and I will probably add it to several projects soon.

Thanks for your hard work!
Allegedly, attaining AGI will get them out of the Microsoft deal (if I understood correctly on a recent Pivot episode).

Notice the lawyerly « AGI as we have traditionally understood it »
It does if you scroll down.
That's a pretty insensitive point of view. I hope you live long enough to be able to make this choice.
Eventually, all the better AGI tests should have large private evaluation datasets with no possible cheating or feedback loops. We're getting there.
Pairs Not Taken
Why did they have AI profiles to begin with?

How did they sit in a meeting and somehow concluded that more idiotic worthless content - the very problem that has effectively already killed facebook years ago - would solve anything at all?

These people get multi million dollar salaries, yes?
Implication is along the lines of "We all need accessibility features sometimes" , I assume. Show a newborn the stairs and see how they do vs an elevator (though I assume the buttons would flummox them), and extreme age will make stairs difficult (whereas being run down by a motorist at 45 prevents needing an elevator in old age)

I think it's a little bit forced with the elevator example, but I fully agree with the argument that "We all need the accessibility features sometimes". It can be something as small as needing crutches for a sprain (elevator), your arms being full of groceries or bringing coffee by for coworkers (door-opening button), or because your toddler struggles with stairs (and a ramp is less of a tumble if they take one)
> But I do not expect TypeScript to be the primary language I use for the rest of my career!

That's like saying, "I do not expect English to be the primary language I use for the rest of my life." Think about what it would be like if you had to work in China and speak Chinese because all the jobs went away in America. Is that good for you? Probably not. That's what the industry does to software engineers every few years with all these languages. It keeps the engineer down by preying on his curiosity with distractions that put him at a disadvantage.
>Kurt Cobain ended up dying by suicide as a result of complications from his use of the drug.

Oof... you skipped right over the Heroin part of that equation.
> We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it.

Yes. Its just going to be another marketing term.
>They should do it somewhere shallow first,

Does no one remember “Bioshpere”?

It didn’t go well; and it was in the desert.
That’s funny because that’s the point where I left the article to go find a recipe for krautburgers cause they looked and sounded so good
Ask HN: An invoicing platform specifically for Freelancers
Over the past few months, I have been building an invoicing platform designed from the ground up, specifically for freelancers.

Removing all the bloat from free-to-use platforms and only including the features you want to see. No more forced payment methods, which take 4% of your hard-earned cash, and no more over-complicated UI's that include all the features dedicated to small business owners.

I'm including all core features, such as customer management, invoice tracking, payment statuses, finance metrics, and various optional payment methods. I want to hear what other features people would like to see.

Some ideas that I have already validated are:
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This will be a platform built specifically for YOU, so your input will be the core of this project.
We look for employees like you.
Cognitivecomputations/Dolphin3.0-Llama3.1-8B uncensored
there are some cool uses cases in the enterprise space:
https://youtu.be/7p_AHPIVo_0?si=cgPQWPSwpN-yML-5

main benefit for home use is that 6 ghz is uncongested, which is very very nice if living in a dense neighborhood.

and of course lightning fast wireless file transfers are possible on the LAN now, which could be beneficial to certain people.
Congress can set standards for weight and measures. So they could set a standard car size or something like that - the question is should they. I don't know.
The Unifi U7 Pro is $189 with 2x2 WiFi 7 6Ghz. Seemed reasonably priced to me.
You get way more than 2.50/day on food stamps!
IDEs? mine just used online compilers
As someone who's reversed some basic MIDI stuff in an old video game and has always wanted to get into hardware hacking, I really enjoyed reading this article. Great work!
Don't bother with this one - the latest post (The Return of Magic) is promoting a load of unscientific woo (The Telepathy Tapes). The author seems to seriously mean the title of the post literally.
Last time I ordered from amazon, I repeatedly declined prime. My bank called me the next day about a suspicious charge for a year of prime. I had to cancel my card and get a new one. The banker told me they'd had dozens of similar problems where amazon was charging people for stuff they never ordered.

When I got the package a few days later, the $150+ set of cello strings I ordered, sold and shipped by amazon, were counterfeits (and damaged due to improper packing, not that it mattered). I had to do a charge back to get my money back.
Keep in mind that, unlike cabled Ethernet, WiFi is a shared medium. Faster transfers also means your device uses less airtime for the same transfer speed. This is especially relevant in dense urban areas, where it's not unusual to see tens or even hundreds of WiFi networks sharing the same few channels.
I am in a similar boat. I guess I am fortunate, in that there are many interesting paths forward. But I don't know which to take, and there are so many uncertainties in the fundamentals.

I am leaning toward taking Patton Oswald's advice, and executing any plan now, rather than the perfect plan later. But I am getting older, so it feels like I only get a few more "pivots" in life, especially with financial stability in mind.
I've never seen anybody using the Web version of Office 365, outside the Outlook web client. All the companies I've worked at in the last 10 years are still using the installable versions of Word/Excel/PowerPoint etc. The web versions are not even comparable.
“No.” Says the man in Washington, "it belongs to the poor."
Yeah, honestly the answer is mainly not having a proper job (I don't have anyone who can tell me how to spend my time) combined with constructive procrastination: I've not been making nearly as much progress on my main projects over the past couple of months because there's been way too much stuff I want to write about.

I can write fast because I've been writing online for so long. Most short posts take about ten minutes, longer form stuff usually takes one or two hours.

I also deliberately lower my standards for blogging - I often skip conclusions, and I'll publish a piece when I'm still not happy with it (provided I've satisfied myself with the fact checking side of things - I won't dash something out if I'm not certain it's true, at least to the best of my ability.)

I'm hoping to improve my overall balance a lot for 2025. Deliberately ending my at least one post a day blogging streak is part of that: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/2/ending-a-year-long-post...
A couple of years ago we bought a building with an idle freight elevator. The elevator was overdue for test/inspection (required every 5 years) to remain legal. The service company quoted $5k for the test/inspection, which would not include the cost of any subsequent necessary repairs. Since we didn't need the lift, we decided to just leave it out of service, but the local OSHA office still requires $645/year to leave it marked idle. What a racket.
The worse problem with this industry is that we have conditioned people to think they need to do side projects outside of working 40 hours a week.

When I get off work, I shut down my computer and live my life.

“Life” was a part time fitness instructor that was more of a hobby than a job, running races with friends, hanging out, etc until I was 35 and then married (still married) and spending time with my wife and (step)kids until the youngest one graduated in 2020 and doing a lot of traveling with my wife post Covid including doing the “digital nomad” thing for a year.

I’ve been in this industry professionally since 1996 across now 10 jobs. I have only done any coding outside of work for 3 months and that was in 2008 and only because I had stayed at my second job for 9 years and I had become an expert beginner.

https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-th...

I will volunteer to work on projects that give me exposure to new to me technology. If that isn’t available, it’s time to change jobs.

I started my career programming in C across mainframes, PCs, and ruggedized Windows CE devices for the first 15 years, and working in strategic cloud consulting for the last 6 including 3 working directly at BigTech.
This is a slippery slope that leads to infinitely long runways.

Any length of runway you agree on can still fail. As you just said, it's an eventual certainty.

Rather than fixating on what didn't cause the crash how about we spend that energy on finding out why this flight unlike 99.99% of flights couldn't stop in the allotted space.

If they were gonna land halfway down the runway why didn't they just do another go-around? Did the thrust reversers not work? Doesn't the 737-800 have a backup way of dropping the landing gear?
Many companies are capable of doing hard but navigating vague and complex regulations requires deep pockets and institutional connections. In theory the regulations are the same for everyone but because they are often vague regulators have broad interpretation powers. Established players have favorable agreements in place with regulators on how to interpret these regulations that new entrants would not and would have to spend years negotiating these rules. That requires really deep pockets like uber level capital.
If you have any colleagues that went to University of Nebraska, ask them about Runza. They are basically these cabbage burgers and are pretty popular there. There’s a regional fast food chain based on the sandwiches:

https://www.runza.com/
I assume Fabrice Bellard will crack cold fusion as a side project some day.
Wow, I've never seen the actual link flagged out of existence before! Not a lot of comments, either. WTF happened here?
There are benchmarks that humans score close to zero on average and the top LLM scores 25%.

https://epoch.ai/frontiermath/the-benchmark
I'm surprised at how few calories per day this was

For day 1

1/2 can Campbell's Tomato Soup - 135
Milk, half of 10.7 floz - 133.75
4 slices white bread - 600
Tillamook Italian 3-Cheese, 58 g - 186.43
Butter, 32 g - 228.57
Homemade Kimchi (73 g) - 25.75

135 + 133.75 + 600 + 186.43 + 228.57 + 25.75 = 1,309.5 calories which is generally well under weight maintenance levels for anyone moderately active.
Please be understanding. Bezos needs the money!