skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For this exact use case I used instant-ngp[0] recently and was really pleased with the results. There's an article[1] explaining how to prepare your data.

[0] https://github.com/NVlabs/instant-ngp

[1] https://github.com/NVlabs/instant-ngp/blob/master/docs/nerf_...
DeepSeek-R1 WebGPU
- "and if they hadn't gotten it from the silk road they'd have gotten it elsewhere"

That's very unlikely to be true in the case of the high-school kid who died buying a synthetic drug off the internet. They almost certainly did not have a dealer connection sophisticated enough to sell that. They almost certainly would have lived, if Silk Road were not available to them at that point in their life.

You're advancing an argument about drug markets and personal autonomy in the general case, but it's a very poor fit to the concrete facts in the specific situation we're looking at.
Simple self-hosted event management
If you parse a value into a guaranteed non-null value at the system boundary, then you have eliminated the need to check for that nullability throughout the rest of your codebase.

Did you mean to write the literal polar opposite of what you wrote?
Is Donald also refunding everyone’s deposits on Silkroad?
I really don't understand the national security argument. If you really do fear some fundamental breakthrough in AI from China, what's cheaper, $500 billion to rush to get there first, or spending a few billion (and likely much less) in basic research in physics, materials science, and electronics, mixed with a little bit of espionage, mixed with improving the electric grid and eliminating (or greatly reducing) fossil fuels?

Ultimately, the breakthrough in AI is going to either come from eliminating bottlenecks in computing such that we can simulate many more neurons much more cheaply (in other words, 2025-level technology scaled up is not going to really be necessary or sufficient), or some fundamental research discovery such as a new transformer paradigm. In any case, it feels like these are theoretical discoveries that, whoever makes them first, the other "side" can trivially steal or absorb the information.
Paying people to leave academia does not seem like a major endorsement of the academic system. No one is arguing that intelligent people who have spent years working in a field aren't valuable, just that they might not be reaching their full potential under the current conditions.

Further, I would recommend very strongly against using big companies as the gold standard of innovation, especially not efficient innovation.
No, a ribbon microphone is sort-of a dual of a dynamic microphone if you squint hard enough. An electrostatic speaker is closer to the inverse of a condenser (capacitor) microphone
> Some of us see a major difference between selling heroin to someone, and building the marketplace from which these victim's freely bought drugs.

I kinda do see your point, but I think I reach the opposite conclusion. If you are one person on a street corner it's one thing, if you enable a whole electronic marketplace you have a much larger effect.

Then again we should decide whether it's a bad thing to sell drugs, but if it is I would see him as more culpable than a random street dealer.
With respect to this particular topic, one may consider The Hitler Myth: Image and Reality in the Third Reich by Ian Kershaw to be a worthwhile read.
founder of Resend here.

this looks great!
Yep, and this is what I have been telling people that the reason why Trump won is because the right cares much more about their agenda than the left. It's all just surface level virtue signaling for the left, which they will drop immediately if they get a good discount on a local mirror in a city group.
On the other hand, be openly LGBT friendly and see if a Trumper comes to buy from your store. Not a single one will.
I always gravitate to Caret-T app on Google chrome. It was just as fast as notepad. And allowed for some customizable shortcuts like multi cursors.

These days the only thing that comes close is a feature rich vscode that is slower than other pwa apps.
From article: "Here, in the Battle of Issus, Alexander's army of 75,000 Greeks faced Darius' vastly superior force of approximately 600,000 Persian troops."

From Wikipedia: "Modern historians find Arrian's count of 600,000 men highly unlikely. They argue that the logistics of fielding more than 100,000 soldiers in battle was extremely difficult at the time."

Basically, the ancient agricultural landscape would be unable to feed an army of more than 100,000.
In my opinion, strong AI is inevitable. And I also think superhuman AI is inevitable, though where that point lies in future is guesswork.

Between those two points is a period of instability. Judging from history, many people will be impacted and those people may not transition to new jobs. Though in my case, if I were to lose my software engineering job because AI had become good enough to replace me completely then my ego thinks that we'd be much closer to superhuman AI than I thought and all bets are off. Software developers don't just write code. They think, and think, and think and second guess, and look at the larger stack impact, and scaling, and so on. AI may well get to that level but IMO there is a reason we still don't see robots fixing plumbing, and it is because the reasoning part of these jobs are much deeper than some people realise.

Once we get to the point that huge amounts of white collar reasoning workers can be replaced, then I optimistically think we'll also be closer to reducing scarcity. What I'd hope for is that we would adjust to other types of work that we find hard to predict at the moment, just like every other leap in technology has resulted in. I know the strong narrative is AI can simply do those too, but try to imagine a world where we have superhuman ability to produce, but no consumers because no-one has the means to pay for the produce. That just doesn't work. These so called "elites" will have no-one to sell to. So it seems self obvious to me that a balance will be found. If it isn't people will elect governments who force that balance. Maybe some rough period ahead, but I don't subscribe to the doom theories on the economic side.

What I do unfortunately subscribe to is doom of another type. Once near superhuman AI is possible, then it feels impossible to stop it from being widely available, eventually. And given how many humans there are on the planet, I feel there will be some who are deranged enough to use the technology for full planet wide destruction of some sort. I think this feels almost close to inevitable.
I was a few years ago for a year or longer. Like anything on the fediverse, your account and content are at the mercy of whoever runs the instance. I was on the official pixelfed.social instance and the admin (who’s also the main developer and has been doing a lot on this app) deleted my account without any warning and without any way to recover it. He “thought it was spam” when the content was not spam at all. It was about bringing a community together. There’s no support whatsoever (emails don’t get responses). There wasn’t even a conversation where things could be discussed to see what looked wrong or needed any changes.

If you run your own instance and connect to others, then it can be a good option. I’d say the same for Mastodon too, though I don’t have practical experience with it.
What Is Your Social Media Spirit Animal?
I expected those would come out sooner, by rubber hose technique in prison.
Bernie Ebbers and Jeff Skilling both got more than 20 years for Enron. The CEO and co-owner of NCFE got 30 years and 25 years respectively for their role in a securities and wire fraud relating to that business.
Is that the prequel to Idiocracy?
Relevant Wired articles from 2011:

* "Relics Reborn: Ribbon Microphones Rally for Vintage-Audio Geeks" https://www.wired.com/2011/01/gallery-ribbon-mics-part-1/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240118172709/https://www.wired...

* "Ribbon Microphones: Audio Icon You Can Build in Your Garage" https://www.wired.com/2011/01/ribbon-mics-part-2/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160326035336/https://www.wired... (the internal link from part 1 to part 2 in the Wired story is currently broken!)

(These were posted in 2011 by user mainland but didn't get any comments.)
That's certainly not the take away I have from the show. It inspired many to think for themselves and made science approachable and fun. They made a genuine effort to be scientific within the bounds of the show. I think they've done a great service to the field, personally. Can you cite any sources for Adam being a 'tool'? He seems like a high-energy kind of guy, but this is the first I've heard of him being disliked by crew. Usually I've heard the opposite; that he gets on well with other crew members.
When you can't even undo properly (while you're used to this in other apps), does this annoyance not distract you from whatever you're doing in the text editor?
> Of housing and public infrastructure in the UK? Politics: Green belt and similar planning restrictions, austerity, Thatcherism, privatisation, restricting local councils' ability to own and supply council housing.

So you don't know. All you have done is provide a list of grievances with previous governments.

Even if I accepted all of this being true, then having more migrant construction workers wouldn't solve these problems anyway.

> And supply. Not at the expense of supply.

Yet the sources I cited indicated the opposite. You constantly assert that but there is no data I've seen that proves that. Supply of labour != supply of houses. It can certainly help, but they may not be directly proportional.

I also don't care whether it does increase supply. I don't think we should keep on constantly importing people at the expense of everything else to get the GDP numbers up a few percent.

There are other problems with high amounts of immigration that I have seen up close because I've lived in poorer areas. There is a lack of integration in the communities, language barriers and it causes tensions.

I used to be an expat. So you tend to actually notice this a lot more because you see your own country with a fresh set of eyes.

Additionally none of this matters now. The UK has left the EU. The situation has changed. If we can't import labour now (there is no reason we can't issue temporary visas), then demand has to be decreased. Like it or not, however much you want to dodge it, immigration has to be curbed to help lower demand.

> You don't understand that keeping people from leaving was because of the economic catastrophe that the people in charge knew would have happened if they didn't keep people from leaving?

Are you suggesting we should have kept people from leaving by force?
Most of the time you are not able to fit the "Why?" in the summary.

That's what the body of the commit message is for.
Thanks for writing, sounds interesting. And yes, Twitter does not look stable at the moment. A blog, ideally a self hosted one, sounds perfect; but I don't know how to approach community interactions there. To clarify, I'd like to post personal photos and interact with viewers; I don't want to make money in any way. I'm curious how this works in 2025, I'd love to hear more if anyone has anything to share.
capitals could damage the ribbon
Deskflow – the official upstream project for Synergy
one sec – Stop mindless scrolling – scientifically
Maybe? I suppose it depends on the quality of the controller agent, which then comes back to the quality of the original LLM.
I guess its time to get rid of all Tesla stocks or anything else touched by Elon
Almost like hackers, doing shit just for the heck of it because they can (mostly)
It's something I've observed personally.

One example that stands out: I was playing pool in a quiet bar in a sleepy village. The next thing I know, a sixteen year old walks in and attacks another 16 year old. They are at each others throats, smashing cues on each other and throwing pool balls at each other. They are absolutely battered and bleeding by the end of it. One of the kids was the barman's son. As they finish their fight and are dragged out, another barman says to me "there's no need for that in here" and adds "you know what it's all about - who owed who money for drugs".

Just one example, but I've seen it a few times.
neither. even a shortcut saying like "total energy delivered" is not accurate, because it depends on how it is delivered and how it dissipates.

styropyro made a fascinating (if terrifying) video about it
I expect you to be able to use your brain to distinguish obvious hyperbole (it was absolutely obvious) with a matter of fact statement.

I am starting to suspect that this playing dumb is entirely disingenuous.
Could you describe what you imagine an end state to look like? If you could, please be quite specific. How do people go about their days?
> I find it can be a real slowdown to...

Not OP, but this is the vibes approach I often use (and believe they're advocating for).

If it feels painful to add a new test, it's likely time (or nearly time) to make adding tests, or at least that test easier.

I've found that once it's easy to add tests, new tests often start appearing, so that first effort can be some of the most high-impact work available to me.
Yes, but you can learn it!

1. Get inspired, get motivated. Shaders like these are breathtaking (and well-commented): https://www.shadertoy.com/view/l3cfW4

2. Watch "Learn to paint with mathematics" to see a simple shader being built gradually: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ifChJ0nJfM

3. Work through https://thebookofshaders.com/.
The formats seem to all be extensible in a way that allows you to update the version to make them compatible. The magic of XML.
It opens anything — the "Open" dialog will allow you to select any filetype and you can also drop any kind of file onto the TextEdit icon in the Dock to open it.

As for plain-text, you can go into the Settings and switch it into plain-text mode, which it remembers.

You can even set it not to append ".txt" to the filename when saving, allowing you to enter whatever file extension you want when saving.
Architects Are Useless Until They're Not
Not certain about Polish any more (it’s 15 years or so since I studied) but certainly Russian uses the genitive singular after numbers ending in 2, 3, and 4 (e.g. 02, 23, 34, but not the “teens”) and genitive plural for numbers ending in 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0). The endings here look the same.

Does Polish also use the same form for 20 as for 0 (i.e. 20 książek)? As I remember it does. If I remember correctly, Polish also differs from Russian in that it only uses the singular for 1, not for all numbers ending in 1 (except 11).

(Note for linguists, it’s not actually quite the genitive, but it’s close enough not to warrant its own case)
Further down, paraphrasing a thread,

> why is the dot spacing different on the left vs right can?

> When a product design like this gets licensed out to others in the same industry, they will often change the design slightly to make their version incompatible with other potential suppliers

> why want incompatibility?

> to enforce supplier loyalty

Another kind of moat. Everyone is for a free market until they can use some form of lock-in to force a transaction.
> "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on,"

Let's be honest. He isn't wrong. I'd rather live in a society with zero crime than what we have now.
This is also common in the Italian/Greek/Indian etc. American subcultures. Immigrant cultures take their time - and sometimes never - in absorbing the larger anglo-saxon culture into their own.
>One spent 10 years in a jail for making himself rich (and some others), the other never spent a day in a jail for committing at the highest level election subversion, retention of classified information, hush money payment (and more) - and was caught on the latter, eventually.

What an interpretation!

Another one might be: they tried to throw all kinds of things at Trump, and they all failed because they simply aren't true, until they managed to catch him on some triviality.

The fact that you "rule of law" people keep putting out accusations as if they were convictions, and insinuating people should be judged on these accusations is truly horrible for the system.
> A serious question though, what does happen when AIs are filing lawsuits autonomously on behalf of the powerful

It won't just be at the behalf of the powerful.

If lawyers are able to file 10x as many lawsuits per hour, the cost of filing a lawsuit is going to go down dramatically, and that's assuming a maximally-unfriendly regulatory environment where you still officially need a human lawyer in the loop.

This will enable people to e.g. use letters signed by an attorney at law, or even small claims court, as their customer support hotline, because that actually produces results in today.

Nobody is prepared for that. Not the companies, not the powerful, not the courts, nobody.
Exactly right. Op uses “snails have no legs” because most things have 2+ legs or none. But snails do have one foot. If there was a snail without a foot, you’d say “this one has no foot”
Nobody will undo whatever has been done to him. I don't know all of the specifics but I have spoken on HN here about my incarceration at much much much lower level facilities.

This man was at a USP and at other times other facilities. Those are places where even with the best intentions you are not expected to move in any capacity without serious safety concerns. We're talking "shower with your boots, a spotter and and a shank on you" environment without the slightest joke.

It took a while likely because Ross is non-violent and smart, but eventually he was unable to stay in general population to some capacity. My understanding is he has spent significant time in solitary confinement or PC - effectively the same thing at these facilities, very small single cell rooms with a slot in them and the minimum required 1 hour of "yard time" per day, most of which has been suspended to some degree due to COVID and the slow response.

The end result is this guy for sure has spent months to years in a very small cell, possibly without even seeing the sun. I didn't see the sun "for reals" for 6 months. A keyboard warrior can swoop in here and talk about how they cannot do this or how X time restrictions exist, but the reality is they just need to move you back to your cell on paper for a day and then back in or trick you into signing some kind of paperwork consenting.

My heart goes out to both of them and I am reminded that I was the person that help mined the first 1FREEROSS Bitcoin vanity address to help crowd fund his defense. Lyn never gave up the slightest even during times that were fucking impossible to imagine.
There was also a nifty scratchpad by Google for Google chrome that would sync to gdrive. Google axed it. Then a couple of years later launched Google Keep. In summary, google destroyed Google Scratchpad PWA app, then destroyed Google PWA app store for desktop browsers. Then Google launched Google Keep but I thought it was not going to last long so I never got the hang of it.
I encountered this almost first person. When American company goes like an elephant, bribing local officials left and right, using dirty practices to push out concurrents. At the same time, Chinese companies try very hard to abide to local regulations and trying to resolve all issues using local courts, etc. Like actually civilised people.

What happens inside China is nothing of my interest, it's their business. They existed for millennias, they probably know how to manage themselves. They are not trying to expand outside of may be Taiwan, they don't put their military bases in my country, they don't fund so-called "opposition" and that's good enough for me.
Really hope there are more in Rails 8.1 and 9.0. More extracted tools, more defaults, higher performance. I mean we really should be aiming at p99 350ms.
They were there already and shutting down the silk road changed nothing in that perspective.
As you’ve pointed out High SPL isn’t what breaks ribbons, it’s high SPL at low frequencies (ie wind/air moving frequencies, like those produced from a slamming wooden case lid.

Kick drums and bass guitar amps might not be a good match for a ribbon, but speech (with a pop filter) is fine.

Modern mics like those from Royer Labs can handle high SPL (cranked 100w guitar amp).

There are a few reasons why professionals still like ribbons for certain tasks: unlike condensers and dynamics, the resonant frequency of the ribbon is typically very low (20Hz), so you don’t get any peaks or artifacts when the source audio vibrates at the resonant frequency of the mic. Also, if you like the sound of your expensive mic preamplifier, the low output ribbon mics let you add gain/dirt/harmonic distortion which to some is pleasing to the ear.

Love that the op built his own, that’s really awesome.
Appeal to emotions stands on the trustworthiness/track record of the pleader. The opposition, full of public/private office musical chair players, has been in the pocket of lobbyists/corporate interests - they don't have any standing to plead to emotions (not saying the incumbents do but they have been successful in harnessing their already enraged supporters).
I think it's batter something like Rainbow Brackets, that use colors to mark each block and their delimiters. In the rare occasions I use a new editor, I waste a lot of time until the bracket highlighting is nice.

(Disclaimer: My main language is Racket.)
I'd say styropyro. He'd be up for it. The issue is, 3M or similar would never let him approach one of their plants :D
They have been "enabling" them but not designed the best of them(°), and I'm not sure how serious they are about the top end because their results are rather half-assed compared to Apple, AMD and Intel. As is, their bread and butter and main focus is still mobile and embedded chips.

(°) The best of them also seem to use barely any ARM standards except for the ISA itself
Are you saying people who lay paving blocks or asphalt on a street should be guilty of drug dealing?
I'm not sure I buy the national security argument but as you say the other side can trivially steal or absorb theoretical discoveries but not trivially get $500bn worth of data centers.
until what happened?
Ask HN: Cursor vs. Windsurf
Which do you guys use, and why
The user agreement T&C document is cause for concern. [1]

Specifically, sec 4.4:

4.4 You understand and agree that, unless proven otherwise, by uploading, publishing, or transmitting content using the services of this product, you irrevocably grant DeepSeek and its affiliates a non-exclusive, geographically unlimited, perpetual, royalty-free license to use (including but not limited to storing, using, copying, revising, editing, publishing, displaying, translating, distributing the aforesaid content or creating derivative works, for both commercial and non-commercial use) and to sublicense to third parties. You also grant the right to collect evidence and initiate litigation on their own behalf against third-party infringement.

Does this mean what I think it means, as a layperson? All your content can be used by them for all eternity?

[1] https://platform.deepseek.com/downloads/DeepSeek%20User%20Ag...
If I wanted to know this, I’d visit Reddit.
I think this is what GP was trying to get at, in response to GGP's claim about all crypto being directly tied to tumblers and illegal activity.

It wasn't confusing to me, but evidently the way it was worded confused others.
if they hadn't gotten it from the silk road they'd have gotten it elsewhere

"If I don't do it, someone else will" - I suppose this is a convenient excuse that can be applied to anything unsavory, from the little guy selling shrooms at the street corner to nation states making nasty biological and chemical weapons?

Not saying there isn't truth to it, just wondering how as a society we seem to accept that doing unsavory things is a necessity because others are doing it (or they will be doing it soon, so we better be the first)