skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Single player video games are not going to die. And the market seems to punish any push for always online model (which is obviously a scam). I say this because a bulk of market for personal computing is driven by video games.
What subscription? They're restricting remote access APIs in new firmware because they pose a security threat.
This was back in the day when alliances, particularly European ones, meant something.
This would be an Apple Maps-level disaster, if people actually relied upon smartphone A.I. features for day to day use.
I prefer light mode as well but the grey text is much more pleasant to read then the white text on my ~$300 screen
Yes, I had the same feeling. There's still a massive amount of money sloshing around in cloud vendor market to ensure people remain glued to their services. And then there are a range of new technologies that are all like dark clouds threatening this digital cloud playground. Local-first, P2P networking, generic sync protocols, Wasm-everywhere, etc. where a paradigm shift in computing away from both cloud and web browser hegemony is possible, and these become optional choices instead of 'where it all happens'.

There's much more interesting innovation waiting for adoption on that lower part of the internet stack I suppose. As someone for whom that's a too specialist area I would love to have more overview of what are the promising technologies and upcoming standards to place early bets on.

The other day by accident I found out about Named Data Networking networking [0] via a paper [1] "Exploring the Design of Collaborative Applications via the Lens of NDN Workspace", and saw that NDN still sees active development after many years, so I wondered about the extent the technology still is considered promising for mass adoption today.

[0] https://named-data.net/

[1] https://arxiv.org/html/2407.15234v1
Maybe they can build an editor with a working remote SSH extension. The one in Cursor has been busted for months.
1. Basically all the examples given in the article are of tech that is better now:

- Nintendo Switch games don't have microtransactions now

- VHS are unplayable now because people no longer have the machines. You can still buy anything on Blu-ray and own it forever but most people prefer the convenience of not needing a machine and disc collection.

- On Amazon now, nearly literally anything you could find in a box store is available, and you can have most of it in 1 day. Just buy from reputable brands or Amazon itself and you will be fine.

- There are so many benefits of a smartphone -- maps, internet browser for emergencies, music streaming, audiobooks, 2-factor. Flip phones are still around but no one uses them

- Google search is barely even needed now because of chatgpt, which also doesn't have ads and seo trash

- Ubuntu is better than Microsoft 95 and doesn't track you

- Social media is worse now, I'll concede here.

2. The article seemingly champions personal liberty and then has a section titled "How we can reclaim control". How about we let consumers decide what they want? If you don't like microtransactions don't buy games with microtransactions, eg.

3. It's ironic that the community run by the premier tech vc seems so against capitalism.
In Amazon's Bangalore office, getting rooms for meetings was hard even before Covid. When we managed to get rooms, a couple of minutes extension wouldn't be possible because someone would be breathing down our necks for their upcoming meeting.
> would have otherwise ended up buried/fossilized

Trees don't live for all that long. Many common varieties only live for around 100 to 200 years.

> so maybe it shouldn't actually count at all?

The targets are just policy targets. That anything "counts" is just a paperwork game. However, as the article points out, if you want to make good administrative policy you should always consider the cost:benefit ratio. Perhaps California's policymakers have actually lost track of this give the sheer scale of recent fires.
Bone Filament, for Printing Practice Bones
It does not say they have to sell to the US. Only divest as to no longer be considered controlled by a `foreign adversary` of the United States.[0] The bill also gives this power to future administrations.

It was literally called Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act.

Not, All your app are belong to us.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Americans_from_Fore...
The work was harder but people also didn't wash their shirts after wearing it a single day/time. Machines increased expectations, resulting in workload to remain comparable, since more of it needs doing.
You can do your own research on how much disposable monthly income the typical low-to-middle-class American has, and how much good (i.e. significantly better than employer-provided) insurance costs.
That's depressing and yet unfortunately not very surprising to read.

> but in practice, we just saw a fleet of major Matrix tenders go to system integrators who then apologetically cut Element out, despite AGPL - putting Element's funding for 2025 directly at risk.

I appreciate the transparency and you totally don't have to but not sure I fully understand this sentence, do you mind explaining that further?
Are regular printers that bad, if buy brother?

I bought a B/W laser printer and have been generally impressed with the lack of BS that came a long with it.

It did ask for toner once, so I bought something from a third-party.
You can't write comments like this here. Calling people's parenting into question is a bright line.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
USA politics is pretty much a joke or reality tv these days so anything can happen. Not a presidential crypto rug pull though, tHaT wIlL nEvEr HaPeN.
It's odd that they don't include a real-time clock. Signatures include timestamps, and those better be trustworthy.
Even in quantity, those rounds are $1 apiece, more for actual military ammo (as opposed to budget, hobbyist options). Imagine setting thick stacks of hundred dollar bills on fire without hitting anything. That's the downside of this otherwise fun pastime.
With zero reference to IDE based tooling, which exists for 30 years for a reason.
people would rather complain than put in a little effort, especially if it means losing the chance to invent an evil empire to rebel against
> What's even more suspicious is that these tweets from Elliot Glazer indicate that they are still "developing" the hold-out set,

There is nothing suspicious about this and the wording seems to be incorrect.

A hold-out set is a percentage of the overall data that is used to test a model. It is just not trained on it. Model developers normally have full access to it.

There is nothing inherently wrong with training on a full/partial hold out set. It just means you have done a different split to train again.

The confusion I see here is that people are equating a hold out set to a blind set. That's a set of data to test against that the model developers (and model) cannot see.

Even so blind sets can also go stale after a few runs and nothing is wrong with ingesting that blind set, as long as you have a new blind set to run against.

Trying to game blind set tests is nothing new and it gets very quickly found out.

What I took from the original article is that the blind set is likely unbalanced and it answered more easier questions than hard ones.
World Without Mind (2017)
I'm making very small amount of money (1k USD a month) selling 16x Prompt for lifetime license.

Many people have told me to switch to subscription but I just don't think it's the "right" thing to do with a desktop GUI app.

https://prompt.16x.engineer/
I've been trying to make it work for ages, but it's not going to work.

"News" are not actually that easy to automate as in "serialising posts".

Big companies are experimenting with UI all the time for a reason.

Especially because it would involve a lot of heuristics.
You're really not going to enjoy history class when it comes to American empire
IIRC the Bangalore office only had cameras at the entries and exits, not over employees' desks. Might be some privacy thing.
Probably doesn't want Tesla banned everywhere on "national security grounds". The car is chock full of sensors and it phones home all the time. If I were Apple or Google I'd be against this ban as well, for the same reasons.
Yeah, exactly. Undiscerning shoppers hear "Smart" TV and either assume it's better or buy whatever's put in front of them most loudly without even wondering if it's better or not. Those same people will ensure that AI products are successful and alternatives will similarly disappear.
> Interestingly, the article contains a "Meta" section that claims that their criticisms are completely technical (I would disagree, they're largely subjective organizational criticisms based on "best practices").

I'd argue that it's a matter of threat model; most of their objections appear to be that they come from a completely different idea of what the goals of the system is and what it tries to protect against. Which... yeah, isn't a technical matter at all.
But the hardware availability and affordability gives them the opportunity to learn and experiment if they want to.
Even tech-savvy people couldn't do that a decade or 2 ago. Not on a budget.
Teenager's school fusion reactor project achieves plasma (2024)
> not insider trading at this level

The definition of insider trading does not take into consideration "levels."

> This is a freakishly small amount of stock.

That he personally purchased. I don't know what private and public entities he may have shared the information with or what other purchases traded on his information.

> At these levels he would own a lot more META if he just bought QQQ (META is 3.3% of composition) with a fraction of his net worth

At the level of an individual game a card counter is mathematically not a huge problem. They're just shifting the odds by 1 or 2% in their favor. I wonder why casinos bother to kick them out? They'd stand to win a lot more if they just flopped everything on roulette anyways.

I think you're letting the imputed scope interfere with your evaluation and mistaking net worth for liquid assets.
Thanks for the input. The potential decline in work quality is definitely an issue. We believe this can be mitigated by designing a system where:

1) The maintainer has the final say as to what gets merged. Hence those that submit subpar solutions won't be compensated.

2) As this system grows and more data is acquired, we can implement a reputation system based on a contributor's quality of submissions.
What are <A|B> and f[C]?
They mention NTP.
If you want to be able to fully present the full range of HDR you need at least 1,000 but more like 10,000 nits.
I'm visiting Tirana in March. Any must-see suggestions?

What was your favorite Albanian dish?
As far as CO2 is concerned, wouldn’t burning “yard waste” be neutral year over year? If you’re only burning this year’s growth, you can’t release any more carbon than the plants took in to grow in the first place. The wildfires might not be neutral because our forests are overgrown, but if they happened more frequently and only burned a years worth of undergrowth, they would be
THANK YOU!

you articulated it perfectly

the issue is not that tiktok harvests user data, not free speech, not that China is refuses to let US counterparts operate in China - the issue is, TikTok is an insidious propaganda machine that influences our your people, and entire generation, to abandon their values and replace them with views favorable to the CCP

daily, hourly, and each minute young people interact with TikTok, they're influenced by a foreign adversary.

it's telling them Ukraine is the actual aggressor, that Putin is "based", that China is a paradise, that the West is falling, that China has a valid claim on all the maritime disputes, among other things that are non-truths

i owe the rise of antisemitism among young people to TikTok. young people who otherwise do not hold a negative opinion towards Israel suddenly became anti-Israel and hold hatred towards Jews

i have experienced the above first-hand. my account doesn't interact with any current affairs, yet I am bombarded with anti-Israel narratives. there are thousands - yes, thousands - of antisemitic comments and replies under each video. and young people read them and think it's normal - that it's normal to think this way and say such things at loud

i reported hundreds of such comments. all my reports, according to TikTok, did not violate their "community standards". instead, my replies to those comments were removed for violating their "community standards"

(to the people who'll say it's not true, i have data to back it up, and i can send a link to a huggingface repo that contains the dataset)

it is clear pro-CCP and CCP-aligned views are promoted while others are supressed.

i live in a country with tensions with China, and my TikTok FYP page is flooded with pro-CCP narratives and narratives that suggest my country is weak and hopeless

TikTok is a national security issue. it's not enough the TikTok divests from China. it must be banned for the sake of the next century.
Never thought of that, now it will be the first thing I'll try.

Mailinator is great if the website wants you to click a link or enter an OTP to verify whatever it is that they verify.
> Trump signaled that he would sign an EO allowing a 90 day extension to the ban terms on Monday

How does that work? If congress passed a law banning TikTok how can the president just override it for 3 months? What's to stop him from overriding it for the next 4 years?
One factor complicates things a bit: this is one way to encode that the timezone is UTC, but +00:00 is also commonly used for example.

RFC 3339 is nice for this reason. Always UTC and terminated with a Z.
Definitely not the Waymo's fault. Someone was driving 98 MPH in San Francisco's SOMA district. 7-car collision, two human fatalities. The Waymo was stopped at a red light, with no one inside.

Edit: only one human fatality. Total of 8 victims. One dog killed. Location was 6th and Harrison.
Why would they add a subscription? Uhm print farms already have subscription based software. Bambu would just be an easier entry. They already have screenshots of it on their wiki.
An outlier in which direction? If you have to make even one transit connection, it's hard to average less than an hour.
What does "supports DRM and may not be fully accessible" mean for SATA SDDs?
Wildfire carbon emissions are very different from fossil fuel carbon emissions. Wildfires are releasing carbon that trees and other vegetation pulled out of the atmosphere in the relatively recent past. It's carbon-neutral for the same reason that burning firewood to heat your home is carbon-neutral.

Fossil fuel carbon emissions are releasing carbon that has been sequestered for millions of years. It's a net increase in current atmospheric carbon.
Actually, you're supposed to order them on Amazon.
I Built a Mechanical Calculator [video]
1 technology has moved on significantly. There are new options, and increased focus will deliver more.

2 if a few hundred million people burn coal while we move up the tech tree it’s not a huge deal. If 7 billion people do, it really is. That’s a big part of why China has embraced solar, hard. It’s a new reality and we need solutions that fit the context.
PRC would probably be satisified if Musk wants to be TikTok's American 51% JV partner. Hell, they'd welcome Twitter back in PRC if Douyin becomes X's PRC JV partner.
> hereby they retain most of the equity upside but give majority voting control to a US buyer.

Keen to see this opinion when the Chinese government demands the same from Apple.

'cos we're all equal, no?
Nothing says genuine like lying to get a contract.
Especially since those ironically are among the long list of American websites banned in China for decades...
For Lisp users this is 35% extra vertical space for zero readability benefit. Or negative readability rather. When I see this formatting style I have to fix it before I can read it. It's like trying to read C code with an extra blank line after every single closing brace.
> The construction of prefabricated bunkers alone cost an estimated two percent of net material product, and in total the bunkers cost more than twice as much as the Maginot Line in France, consuming three times as much concrete.

Incredible.
Why wouldn't OpenAI cheat? It's an open secret in industry that benchmarks are trained on. Everybody does it, so you need to do that or else your similarly performing model will look worse on paper.

And even they respect the agreement, even using test set as a validation set can be a huge advantage. That's why validation set and test set are two different terms with precise meaning.

As for "knowing it's bad", most people won't be able to tell a model scoring 25% and 10% apart. People who are using these models to solve math problems are tiny share of users and even tinier share of revenues. What OpenAI needs is to convince investors that there is still progress in capabilities going at high pace, and gaming the benchmarks makes perfect sense in this context. 25% was surprising and appeared to surpass expectations, which is exactly what OpenAI needs.
> But look, you want to do 3D printing, 40 hours are just a small initial investment

No. None of this crap. I want to 3D print. I don't want to service industrial machinery in my spare time. Why should 3D printing require spending weekends troubleshooting machines just to keep the thing working? I want to print models not play repair technician.

Vorons are fantastic printers and a fantastic kit if 3D printing itself is your hobby. 3D printing is a fantastic hobby. There's tons of fun to be had building up and dialing in a printer kit. A well tuned voron can be up with the best of the best 3D printers. If that's what you want to do go for it!

But for heaven's sake I want to print models, parts and other practical things. I have other things to do and problems to solve. My 3D printer is a tool. If I have to spend just as much time working on the machine as I do using to actually print things then I'm not interested.

Bambu is still the best game in town for a turn-key, just works printer. Prusa can deliver the same experience at double to triple the ticket price. A voron is not a replacement for a Bambu printer no matter how good the printers actually are.
The dominant enough part is questionable though! There were the go to... but that was based on a calculation price, quality, lack of hostility. People were already factoring in the cloudness of it and it just came ahead. Now other options will look better even if more expensive. They are the iPhone 1 not the 3S yet.
Even with IDEs, reading C++ source code and compiler/debugger output consumes so much mental overhead for no reason. It is so ugly.

Do I need to see the freaking train-long types of every single thing in my entire codebase at all times? No.

We should have an option to only reveal types of specific items. For example I could hover over a variable and then reveal to me that it is a boost::beast::basic_flat_buffer<std::allocator<char> >.

By default types should be hidden, you care about the logic flow of your program. If you are triaging types, then they are still there for you.
Most Prusa models can print a wide range of filaments. I regularly print ABS and PC on mine. And there is a MMU add-on for Prusa.
I was very against Bambu in the beginning for their lack of proper network (not cloud!) support. Then they added LAN mode and I actually considered getting one. Luckily I was lazy and never got around to it. What the fuck Bambu?? Security, really? Not even HP dares to make that excuse...
You'll never guess what happened next!
They can move. They can be repositioned. They can congregate to provide mutual support.

More significantly they can be used in attack as well as defense.
Gaming benchmarks has a lot of utility for openAI whether their product works or not.

Many people compare models based on benchmarks. So if openAI can appear better to Anthropic, Google, or Meta, by gaming benchmarks, it's absolutely in their interest to do so, especially if their product is only slightly behind, because evaluating model quality is very very tricky business these days.

In particular, if there is a new benchmark, it's doubly in their interest to game it, because they know that other providers will start using and optimizing performance towards that benchmark, in order to "beat" OpenAI and win market share.

On a personal level, their model is getting beat handily by Claude Sonnet 3.5 right now. It doesn't seem to show in the benchmarks. I wonder why?

This is a company which is shedding their coats of ethics and scientific rigor -- so as to be as unencumbered as possible in its footrace to the dollar.
1. Commit for half the sprint, then add one uncommitted item. Say, you have a 10 day sprint. You commit to 5 days of work. You add another item, but don't tell anyone.

Studies show the work takes about 1.8x the estimated time. But if you underestimate, then Parkinson's law fills out the time and the 1.8x rule still applies. The uncommitted item is there to combat Parkinson's Law.

2. Sketch a full plan before any code. Wireframe, which fields does this item fetch from, where is it stored in DB. Especially if you're either FE or BE, it prevents blind spots from either of you. You also want peripheral vision of the whole playing field and this is how you do it. Spend minimum time on this; all plans are meant to be thrown away. If you don't need it, it takes 5 mins.

3. (and to answer your q3) If you can't spare half an hour, then you need half a day. The more out of control things are, the more discipline you need. If you can't make it, then accept that you have lost and figure out how much ground you need to concede. Overextending is how you lose everything, burn yourself out and burn out your team.
if you do fresh manual J calculation, with updated design temperature (which in reference manual is still incorrect) and blower door test, than maybe. And it still very theoretical

but realistically, very few people do it when they update hvac system. in fact, most (all?) of hvac installers simply refuse to do it.
"seems pretty reasonable" is not evidence.
I think RTO really should only apply where the nature of the business requires people to engage directly. Engineers do not really need this. Also technically remote employees save companies thousands a month per head per space needed. Renting an office and the capacity to seat it is pricey! Bet you Spotify and Netflix save millions of dollars not paying for office space.
What if children could crush academics in 2 hours, 2x faster?
Intellij is also a subscription, although with yearly subscriptions you get a perpetual licence for whichever version you get while the subscription is active.
I can't imagine the printers being open source or not mattering for that, nor can I see any reasonable government banning printing of specific things. If something is illegal to own or manufacture, that already applies to 3D printers just as much as it did to CNC machines or any other method.
Admit you posted this only to trigger lispers.
An iPhone is a very non-typical device. Apple is a non-typical company which builds lock-in to every step of the process.

If you chose to use iAnything then it's a bit late to start complaining about lock in now.
moonshine stopped working also. I guess it was under the same parent org. They all back to working now.
Probably not very well because the reporting is significantly delayed and politions swing trade often.

This is probably a pretty bad idea to let loose wkth your bank account
I think “getting beat handily” is a HN bubble concept. Depends on what you’re using it for, but I personally prefer 4o for coding. In enterprise usage, i think 4o is smoking 3.5 sonnet, but that’s just my perception from folks I talk to.
Aren’t they for a different reason, like workers law protection?