skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm absolutely fascinated by this. It's such an antiset to the "we know best" approach on touch screens, and whilst I welcome it, it begs questions:

Who initiated it?

Who signed off on it?

What's the path to outcome? Are they usb HID devices faking out a keypress (for instance) and how does the cancel on turn completion work?

How many other "we'd like knobs, dials, switches and levers please" could be coming?

As a non tesla driver, this has always been on my wish list along with "no FSD please"
> Why would/should they?

Because they care. That's it.

> I've never paid for curl.

I'm sure people who develop it doesn't want money and fame, but they're just doing what they like. However, curl has commercial support contracts if you need.

> Who even develops it?

Daniel Stenberg et al. Daniel can be found at https://daniel.haxx.se.

> Sounds like a thankless job to fix obscure worstfit bugs.

It may look thankless, but it's not. curl is critical infrastructure at this point. While https://xkcd.com/2347/ applies squarely to cURL, it's actually nice that the lead developer is making some money out of his endeavor.
That's the correct analogy and chronology.

Another one is Ready Player One borrowed from Sword Art Online, which borrowed from .hack, which borrowed from Serial Experiments Lain, which drew upon a rich pantheon of cyberpunk novels.
Counterpoint: I do both.

There are situations that make one or the other clearly preferred within a repo, besides per-repo/org-consistency for more widely shared work. After a few years excavating in a merge-only-salt-mine as well as working orgs where merge commits are banned you get a feeling for what's helpful when (esp considering auditability and history legibility).

Always rebase incoming feature branch on the base branch before merging into a shared repo regardless of approach, though - "merged from main" inside a merge commit on main makes anything an inscrutable tangly mess very quickly.
The EFF won't stop anyone from turning fascist. That's not their mission. It sounds nice though.

I wouldn't give the EFF a dime.
Court docs allege Meta trained AI model using LibGen
Regarding gameshows in which you have to pay with your life there was a mockumentary called 'Das Millionenspiel' [0] from 1970 . People where rather shocked at the time.

[0] https://m.imdb.com/de/title/tt0066079/
The best metric is CO2 reduction. Running fossil fuel plants for less time is a useful objective towards that.
I fallback to google when I need to search for anything shopping related, e.g. in what store can I get this item in my country.
I don't want Gemini on my TV.

I don't want an LLM on my TV.

I would like android, or as close as possible with an ability to manage 3rd party app installation by myself please.
What should the ui layer atop porcelain be called? Gilding?
This is my take, as well. "Work with the smartest people" has been said a lot here. But from my experience, you can hardly go wrong if you follow what you are most passionate about. Build things you want to build, build things you want to exist. If the field you picked seems like a bit of a dead end, there's usually a way to pivot into something valuable. Maybe I just got lucky that this approach worked for me, but I think life is too short to not prioritise joy in what you spend most of your waking hours doing.
Because Kaiji is just less popular
Courts have yet to decide on which it is, and it might depend on how well the model can transform vs. recite.
I have an LG remote and hate it. Why do I need to use an onscreen pointer to switch inputs?

I like their OLED, but mostly I chose LG more because I was voting against the other guys who are worse.
> It seems definitionally that any physically realized outcome must pertain to a rational number because it is impossible to physically measure one at any level of precision.

Sure, that's correct, but it isn't what people are talking about here.

> By most people’s definitions of random points along the number line, including the dart throw, it seems to me the probability of getting an irrational is 0.

That depends on the number line you're using. You can say that irrationals don't exist and you won't lose anything. But if your number line includes the reals, then the rationals form 0% of it.

> Invoking the number of possible outcomes has bad feeling implications.

That isn't how this is measured. You don't want to compare a count to an area. For probability, you need to compare like with like. A number line is one-dimensional, so we consider one-dimensional areas, or "lengths".

The interval from 0 to 50 has length 50. How much of that length is occupied by rationals, and how much by irrationals?

Each value is a point with no length. So, to measure the rationals, we assign to each rational point an interval that contains it. We will estimate the total length occupied by the rational numbers within the interval as being no greater than the total length of the intervals we put around each one.

Since there are only countably many rationals, we can use an infinite series with a finite sum to restrict our total-length-of-intervals to a finite amount. (Rational number one gets an interval 3 units wide. Rational number two gets one 0.3 units wide. Number three gets one 0.03 units wide. What do all these intervals add up to? Four thirds.) We can scale those intervals however we like. We will scale them down. If our first set of intervals had total length 20, we can multiply them all by 1/400 and now they'll have total length 1/20. The limit of this process is a total length of zero, which is our upper bound on how much of the length of our interval is occupied by rational numbers.

Since zero is also a lower bound on any length, we know that the total length of the interval occupied by rational numbers is exactly equal to 0. It is then easy to calculate the probability that a randomly chosen value from this interval will be rational: it is 0 (the amount of length occupied by rationals) over 50 (the total amount of length).

> Like as a stupid example say we only include the irrational numbers between 9 and 10 and pick a random point between 1 and 10. If the random method uniformly sampled a point along the line by distance we would suggest a 90% chance of getting a rational number <= 9 and a 10% chance of getting an irrational number above 9.

This seems to be just you being confused over the concept of a uniform distribution.
Diagnosis rates?

My wife got diagnosed as an adult where she never would have been as a child - quiet, academically bright, had a group of friends. Had increasing stress at work and depression, saw a psychologist who asked her lots of questions and then said this mat come as a shock but have you ever wondered if you have this? Did all the tests and voila. Seeing her parents it becomes very obvious how strongly it is genetic because in retrospect where I used to think her parents were a little odd, with a bit more understanding it’s clear that they both have traits.
Agreed. I finally tried Github Copilot for a bit at work. It felt like babysitting a bad developer. I have no confidence in the correctness of the code it produces, so everything requires careful review. Sometimes it spits out very broken code on non trivial tasks.

I’m still figuring out if/how it can make me more productive.
First impression is it’s more a drain on productivity than not.
And before that was Hard Target, which is arguably a better story than both.
Hardware is very much the limit.

The more compute you have to train your models the better the models become.

I've been working on a family of (new) deep learning models which outperform everything else that's been published, at between x1e3 to 1e9 the compute on the same data. If I had the GPT4 training cluster I'd be able to run it on cifar10 without having to make sacrifices, yes 32x32 color images solved with a trillion parameters.
Here in France people my age (millennials) don't have a TV. People watch movies and series on their laptop, and those who are more into it have a video projector for home cinema. I'm always surprised to read that a TV in the living room is still a thing for non-older generations.
Wow, you just made my day with this! What a fantastic result! Beautiful.

Edit: looks like I swallowed the bait, hook like and sinker
no

before Squid Game there was Liars' Game

and that one teaches muuuch better lesson - that players can cooperate so that nobody loses, no matter how much organizers want to make players clash with each other
John Earnest’s “Decker” is basically HyperCard, open source, free, multiple implementation (for web in JS and also native cross platform SDL+C).

The language is not AppleTalk, but one called Lil - nicer, IMHO.

It captures old HyperCard magic and aesthetics. Give it a try.
While I fundamentally agree with you about the lineage, I can appreciate that there is a direct thread of artistically psychotic surrealism in Squid Game that feels inherited from Battle Royale.

The pink caskets (which might be my favourite visual element) feel like they would be at home in the world of Battle Royale, but IMO feel way too dark humor for Hunger Games.

Battle Royale and Squid Game both feature characters reaching quivering ecstacy when players die. My memory could be rose colored at this point, but Hunger Games just wasn't that dark.
As a guy your height 225lbs is not “zero fat” unless you are absolutely stacked with muscle. Likely on steroids unless you are a bodybuilder and eat and train like one.

Though he was shorter, natural bodybuilder Sean Connery was 6’3” and 190lbs at the start of his bond run. That’s a useful data point. Not only is he close to an ideal male physique for non bodybuilders, he was also very fit. Ad an inch and a half to him and 35lbs and that’s not “zero fat”.

Similarly I was once depressed and 260lbs. I was definitely obese.

Things are distorted in the US. We consider fat to be morbidly obese and dismiss fatness as normal now. Look at Trump. That’s normal obesity. Loot at Musk. That’s overweight.
> "a busybody traces a zigzagging route through many often distantly related topics. A hunter, in contrast, searches with sustained focus, moving among a relatively small number of closely related articles. A dancer links together highly disparate topics to try to synthesize new ideas."

Depending on my end goal, I'll do a combination of all three.
A surprising number of things used to accept executable code.

In Microsoft Windows (~2000/ME), you used to be able embed JavaScript and ActiveX into ANY folder by replacing the folder view with your own HTML. Your customization would persist on shared network folders so others would see your HTML.

So naturally, a bunch of us 14 year olds in like 2002, between playing Runescape and Neopets in computer lab and library time, found this out and started screwing with the shared network Z: drive used by both teachers and students across every elementary, middle and high school in the school district.

There were dumb things you could do with all that power like open people’s CD-ROM reader trays by abusing the Windows Media ActiveX control. It had an eject() method on the object.

It ended up breaking in an edit war of the shared drive. There were some generic AD accounts used district-wide so you could avoid getting caught. We found out you could prefix the username with the domain and login with accounts from other schools. At one point, someone crossed the line, but I don’t think anyone got caught.
I read to be moved by a story, to feel with the characters, to get a sense of a different country or time or culture, to get a sense of possible futures, a sense of what it might mean to live another life, be bound by different constraints and experiences than my own, to experience another mind viewing the same world or imagining a totally different one, seldom to retain knowledge.
You’re a mech engineer so your passion is most likely robotics. You’re young and can take risks and possibly, financial risks.

Contrary to what the cynics here say, LLM agents are in fact a thing. They are already reducing hiring and will only further disrupt the labour market for white colar jobs.

I propose an middle ground. Forget _mechanical_ engineering. There’s no money in robots unless you’re building roombas or industrial scale assembly line machines.

Aim to be the person who gives a robot _agency_ something like
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/shaping-the-future-of-...
Another perspective is that it is a person who takes great care/is very thorough, to examine and re-evaluate his reasonings, and makes an effort to explain the logic in his reasoning, which can be helpful if you are trying to figure out if you agree or disagree.
Yes, free speech advocates seem to lose enthusiasm for the freedom of speech they disagree with. Curious.
Did you raise it to the Kagi feedback forum [1] already? Based on Kagi's release notes [2] they regularly fix things like this.

[1] https://kagifeedback.org/

[2] https://kagi.com/changelog
As director or VP one should be able to retire at 45 in USA. Then you don’t care anymore about next job.
> Like clockwork. [...] The HN community's response to the Raspberry Pi [...]
Dudes. It's not the same picture.

In sum, there are two groups of users who have purchased/considered the R.Pi products: (a) people who have homelab infrastructure, (b-c) people who enjoy a learning platform and may also like the Pi 400 and Pi 500.

The R.Pi's support and community are worth the increased cost.

> "Who cares I got this N100 on Aliexpress from a company with a procedurally generated brand name who don't respond to support requests, will never issue a firmware or driver update, and will be impossible to find before my next birthday, if I can figure out who actually manufactures this at all"

Cheers for the laugh. ^_^
2FA is Authy which backs up everything automatically.

Google photos for images, and a periodic download to my computer of original sized images (then backed up to other locations).

Any other data worth storing is placed in my persona Nextcloud instance (backed up via BorgBackup to an offsite location multiple times a day).
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Other than comptime, most of Zig ideas were already present in Modula-2, @ all over the place gives a "I miss Objective-C" flavour to it, and only source code ecosystem on a language supposed to be a systems programming language?
I've had this question for some time: how do jj users perform bisect? I know it doesn't have a dedicated bisect command (yet?), but surely there must be a way to do that, right? Bisecting commits/changes is crucial for debugging.
> (2018)

I'm pretty sure the article is more recent than that... After some searching I found the Conversation's RSS feed for technology[1] which says it was 2025 after searching the page for "internet" and looking through the results

<id>tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/45404</id>
<published>2025-01-08T16:44:10Z</published>
<updated>2025-01-08T16:44:10Z</updated>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://theconversation.com/how-britain-got-its-first-internet-connection-by-the-late-pioneer-who-created-the-first-password-on-the-internet-45404"/>
<title>How Britain got its first internet connection – by the late pioneer who created the first password on the internet</title>

[1] https://theconversation.com/uk/technology/articles.atom
My firefox sets user agent to windows
steve jobs and many others tried things like that. if it makes you feel good then sure, but that alone will kill you faster when a tumor(s) gets out of control.
Well Lenovo just demonstrated one at CES: https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/electronics/lenovo-think...

LG has one (but they make their own screens): https://www.lg.com/us/lg-signature/rollable-oled-tv-r
Lenovo's rollable laptop just blew my mind at CES 2025. But is it worth $3,500?
Biden Signs Law Making It Easier to Photograph and Film in National Parks
Is It Possible Apply and Positive in Favor Newton III Motion Law as Cycle System
Is it possible to apply positive + in favor Newton III Motion Law as a dynamic system in a Motor Engine Device?

3rd Thermodynamic Law Applicate in a Power-Plant Device. The Reaction at From of the Action. New Torque Power. It’s a simple Plus Formula of the Interaction of the Two Powers: 1/Action, + 2/Reaction = Retrodynamic. / For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. 2 Forces in 1 System.

RETRODYNAMIC Effect - Dextrogiro/Action => vs <= Levogiro/Reaction Phenomena Effect. / Rotor/RPM VS InFlow/Way. 3d Thermodynamic Law Applicate in a Power-Plant Device. The Reaction at Front of the Action. New Torque Power. It’s a simple Plus Formula of the Interaction of the Two Powers: 1/Action, + 2/Reaction = Retrodynamic.

"Changing rotation inside a mass makes it possible to change its inertial properties. It is the equation for a jet motion without rejection of any mass.” Albert Einstein.

The logic of creation of an inertial propulsion system is thus: Any motion is rotation ---- Rotation of a matter generates a space-time Torsion ---Torsion of space - time is described by Ricci torsion --- Ricci torsion is an inertial field-----the rest mass of any object is determined by its inertial field---- operating by fields and forces of inertia inside of mass we can create inertial propulsion system which moves according to the equation [m (t) dv/dt =-vdm/dt].

Newton's Third Law of Motion: III. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

It is the sum of both (two) Forces - one to other / Are two Forces in one system.

The formula of the Retrodinamic effect is a simple mathematical summation. What is Dextrogiro plus Levogiro, gives the result of the sum, of what is the total, which is the retrodynamic effect. But keeps doing Exponential.

Retrodynamic Effect, are two Forces Actives in one system. Spinning 2Two Opposites Forces (Like the Ying-Yang Concept) on a Central Axis in a Rotary Manner Way

http://stateoftheartnovelinflowtech.blogspot.com

https://padlet.com/gearturbine/un2slbar3s94
How many “executives” does meta need vs trad media companies in the 1900s - 2010. Those companies and by extension the execs that ran them have been entirely replaced by automation and AI. That’s just one example. I could name dozens of industries affected in this way. If you want to make a lot of money, look for something that’s really hard that only an “executive” does. Here’s another one: allocating capital. Investing is now increasingly run by ETFs and automated managers, not the corporate raiders of the 80s and 90s. Those people still may have monetary wealth, but not the means of production.
> If your signup form has an optional field for a full name which I don’t fill in, I still have a name. Just because a value is not known by your database doesn’t mean it isn’t defined.

There's the Closed World Assumption in a database.
First thought when reading the title was that it will look very fragile and clumsy when walking (even real birds do) and that was confirmed by the first video.
What's the purpose of actually mimicing bird legs and feet? Why not use something more simple like wheels on a board that has a spring for example?
I expected the article to justify why, but to me it seems like the big thing was the jumping itself, which does not require complex bird anatomy necessarily.
There's probably a good reason that I missed, but this feels like a too direct translation of the bird feature, unless the purpose is specifically to make it look and move like a real bird.
It's not a system, you are just describing sentiment, people generally like Kagi and generally dislike Google.
If you want more entrepreneurial type stories.

When the heavens went on sale, by Ashly Vance, is pretty good. It details the early days of the space start-ups other than spaceX

The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley is also pretty good, describes the crazy days of early paypal.

Someone already mentioned Liftoff by Erig Berger. Starting a private space company is probably as hard as things get, and it describes the early days pretty well
Nowadays, devices like the Broadlink RM4 Pro fills the same niche. It can learn both IR and Wireless protocols to remotely control most household devices (not just audio/video stuff).

The difference is that is does not come with a remote - instead there is either a phone app which can be used to directly control it or it can work with Alexa/Home Assistant.

I think it's a great way to "smarten" some older "dumb" devices.

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/getting-started-with-b...
hydrogen was never in the running in the first place. Toyota were just kidding themselves. Billion dollar projects still can't get handling hydrogen right. A hydrogen infrastructure is pure sci-fi
> Are you saying devs aren't part of the workers being laid off?

No, they are saying that the reason for the layoffs is not AI, it is financial changes making devs too expensive.

> If that is true then you need way less devs.

This does not follow. First of all, companies take a long time to measure dev output, it's not like you can look at a burn down chart over two sprints and decide to fire half the team because it seems they're working twice as fast. So any productivity gains will show up as layoffs only after a long time.

Secondly, dev productivity is very rarely significantly bounded by how long boilerplate takes to write. Having a more efficient way to write boilerplate, even massively more efficient, say 8h down to 1h, will only marginally improve your overall throughput, at least at the senior level: all that does is free you to think more about the complex issues you needed to solve. So if the task would have previously taken you 10 days, of which one day was spent on boilerplate, it may now take you, say, 8-9 days, because you've saved one day on boilerplate, plus some more minor gains here and there. So far from firing 7 out of every 8 devs, the 8h-to-1h boilerplate solution might allow you to fire 1 dev in a team of 10.
By having a default value (non-null) for each declared type of those columns.

Or, the user must define a default value in the query itself.

Yes, tedious; but, precise and forces the programmer to really prepare for the "unknown" scenario.