skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those two were two different models (Kura and jace.ai), and one model being SOTA at one benchmark doesn't make it SOTA overall. Moreover, both are specific for browser use, so they don't operate only on raw pixels but can read HTML/DOM, unlike general computer use models which rely on raw screenshots only.
I believe it is impossible to prevent dataloss if the device powers off during a write. The point about corruption still stands and appears to be used correctly from what I skimmed in the paper. Nice reference.
It's horrible that you have to issue cautions like that but it's true.
Hi, David Tristram here. founding member of Raster Masters, 1990's computer graphics performance ensemble. As @hopkins has mentioned, we used high end Silicon Graphics workstations to create synthetic imagery to accompany live music, including notably the Grateful Dead, Herbie Hancock, and Graham Nash.

After many iterations I'm currently working mainly in 2D video processing environments, Resolume Avenue and TouchDesigner. The links here are inspiring, thanks for posting.
Maybe they would find those activities fulfilling? It’s their life, and wealth, after all.
I am actually European :)
That used to be true but Grindr has pivoted and now advertises itself as a 2SLGBTQIA+ community app
Keen to try this but I don't have any "Generate" button and it says I have 0 songs/artists in my library.
Yes, I mentioned it here first and haven't changed it since (Twitter link and links include video of use)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34769611

Which leads (used to lead?) here https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/index.php/AI_Completion_In_The...
> if you buy a rubber-based wearable, you shouldn't be surprised that it may contain forever chemicals

Well, those who have been around a few decades do not associate "rubber" and "do not touch". It must be a new thing.
I’ve had an idea for a while called DoubleSign except it’s for political beliefs. It resolves the agreement issue by indexing users with other users that believe the same thing as them e.g. socialists are grouped with socialists, fascists with fascists, etc. but on a more granular level.

By making it transparent and obvious unlike algorithmic echo chambers, people know where they are, and immediately achieve consensus and can organize for productive aims rather than bicker and in-fight. There are many more mechanics and concepts but that’s the high-level.
A rat done bit my sister Nell, with whitey on the moon.

Her face and arms began to swell, and whitey's on the moon.

I can't pay no doctor bills, but whitey's on the moon.

Ten years from now I'll be payin' still, while whitey's on the moon.

The man just upped my rent last night, cause whitey's on the moon.

No hot water, no toilets, no lights, but whitey's on the moon.

I wonder why he's upping me? Cause whitey's on the moon?

Well I was already giving him fifty a week with whitey on the moon.

Taxes taking my whole damn check, junkies making me a nervous wreck,

the price of food is going up, and as if all that shit wasn't enough:

A rat done bit my sister Nell, with whitey on the moon.

Her face and arm began to swell, and whitey's on the moon.

Was all that money I made last year for whitey on the moon?

How come I ain't got no money here? Hmm! Whitey's on the moon.

Y'know I just 'bout had my fill of whitey on the moon.

I think I'll send these doctor bills

airmail special

to whitey on the moon.

—Gilbert Scott-Heron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DUxzAD6RZ0
You're right, of course, but there's little practical difference from doing `npm install` unless you're actually auditing the supply chain. It just automates a step.
To note as well the Techcrunch article specifically says 71% ownership.
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Serious question: Is my browser blocking image content or something?

Or is there general consensus that plain body-font sized text is also an NSFW concern?
Another overnight success - after 16 years of work.

Well done, very inspiring.
Because it uses Flutter?
The AWS Community Builders program is now accepting applications
I took a brief look (~5 minutes). My $0.02 is that it's not clear what problem you're trying to solve. I get what some of the features do (e.g., templated prompts) but it would be v helpful to have an example of how you actually use magentic, versus the non-magentic way. It feels like a lot of syntactic sugar, if I'm being honest (not a bad thing, but something you might want to be clear about, if that's the case.)
It's slightly annoying that they placed it in my sidebar since I'm unable to use it with my Plus account. Can't even remove it.
Progress wasn't made on interracial marriage and desegregation because black people waited patiently for the natural course of societal evolution to take place. Progress had to be forced upon society against its will, sometimes with guns. And even today there are plenty of people who would resegregate society and outlaw interracial marriage if it were legal. Racial realism and white supremacist ideology are becoming normalized in American politics. Even on HN you'll find people stating matter of factly that people black people have a higher genetic predisposition for criminality and lower IQs, and that slavery and colonization were the best thing to ever happen to them. This shit is not settled.

I disagree that "there is a ceiling on how much progress that can be made in one era" and I vehemently disagree with the implication that the government should determine how much progress is allowed.
Socialism is communism in progress. I have actually lived in socialist country, what about you? And lies and propaganda is what Leftists like you do, not me. Funny, you never want to live in the countries where you rule.
Epic will expand its mobile game store by helping cover developer iOS fees
Yeah, "just colonize somewhere else" is pretty much the response that I expected.

I spent last night doing a shift till 4 in the morning at a warming center for folks who don't have houses, and I've spent the last several months working on taking an off grid chunk of property to a place where I can host full families of folks to "come and play music".

None of that makes the US government one bit more legitimate.
They used to keep copies of their really detailed newsletter on the website. Seems to have disappeared. But the last time archive.org saw it is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20201030183911/https://www.guede...

Dunno if they still keep up the newsletter (there's a signup form) in the same manner.
In 2025, execution is cheap. distribution is priceless
Really like your writeup! I work on LangChain and would love to set up some time to chat if you're game. My email is in my profile
Unfortunately a lot of the things we want agents to interact with don't expose neat APIs. Computer use and, eventually, physical locomotion are necessary for unlocking agent interactivity with the real world.
Probably QA is only going to make sure the features work. They aren't pen-testers. At best, they might try some unexpected inputs that trigger a security vuln.
You can also write a python script to achieve the same goals.

Except it's not python's responsibility to interpret the intent of your script, just as it's not your phone's responsibility to interpret the contents of your conversation.

So our tools are not our morality police. We have a legal system that can operate within the bounds of law and due process. I am well aware of the already applied levels of machine learning policing, I am just not very excited that society has decided that "this is the way now", and also doesn't seem to be bothered by the environmental costs of building and running all these GPUs (which does seem to be the case when they are used for censorship resistant transactions), or the ethical concerns about a non-profit becoming a for-profit etc.
I don't think webmasters will be sitting down and hoping that this will not be abusable. Unlikely these kinds of agents would be allowed at all for producing content of any kind automatically (e.g. not via their APIs), or ai-slop will just overwhelm the internet exponentially.

The same neural networks are ready for detecting certain fingerprints and denying them entrance
Why cheer for a private company that does not care about anyone and wants to replace the internet with their crappy interface?
I’ve never seen anyone use it, but I recall hearing about it only because Oracle sued to try and block AWS from getting a large DoD contact a few years back because they wanted the contract instead.

They lost their challenge: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-loses-challenge-10-bil...

But kind of won something in the end? https://apnews.com/article/technology-politics-amazoncom-inc...
Yeah, and Browser Use already has 89% on WebVoyager https://browser-use.com/posts/sota-technical-report
School shootings in the US: Fast facts
I'm guessing Fastmail since you've posted about them before and the format looks like their aliases
Link to commit:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

Link to paper:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3626780
What is fascinating about this announcement is if you look into future after considerable improvements in product and the model, we will be just chatting with ChatGPT to book dinner tables, flights, buy groceries and do all sort of mundane and hugely boring things we do on the web, just by talking to the agents. I'd definitely love that.
Sure, the same way printing press, electrification, education and what not did.
Discourse is single-handedly rescuing the web forum concept from oblivion. Without Jeff, Facebook and WhatsApp would be ruling the roost, with scant competition from decades-old PHP forum software.

Discourse is pretty easy to self-host, and you get fully-featured software with no "freemium" limitations.

The Discourse team are also very generous to new contributors. If you want to get started with open source contribution, please contribute to these guys.
It's not even SOTA. The actual SOTA is Browser Use (report here https://browser-use.com/posts/sota-technical-report)
that place is catastrophizing central and i would recommend against getting attached to it in any way
Clearly the death penalty was not just an example, seeing as the reply from that same user made a good point about their own country becoming a war zone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42803165

I recommend you stop assuming what other people meant and nitpicking for no discernible reason. The only one debating here is you, and you’re doing it with yourself.
Only the EX90 it seems is made in SC, possibly just assembled from parts made in China. All other electric Volvos (including Polestar) are straight from China. Gas models and hybrids are still built in Europe but are being phased out.
Don't trans people usually date/meet with non-trans people!?
"Society is fixed, biology is mutable", but taken to the extreme?
Which high school is teaching quantum mechanics for juniors? Is this like a crazy private school?
> Most applications can get by with file-level atomicity--make whole file read/writes atomic with a copy-on-write model, and you can eliminate whole classes of filesystem bugs pretty quickly.

int fd = open(".config", O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_SYNC_ON_CLOSE, 0o666);

// effects of calls to write(2)/etc. are invisible through any other file description
// until the close(2) is called on all descriptors to this file description.

close(fd);

So now you can watch for e.g. either IN_MODIFY or IN_CLOSE_WRITE (and you don't need to balance it with IN_OPEN), it doesn't matter, you'll never see partial updates... would be nice!
Great! Macroexpanded:

It Can Be Done (2003) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39342143 - Feb 2024 (137 comments)

It Can Be Done (2003) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18415231 - Nov 2018 (18 comments)

(re the timestamps see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... - only the front page and /item pages show the re-upped time. Good point about the edit window, I missed that twist!)
While it is amazing for initial discovery to have everything presented for the developer's inspection, in production it ends up requiring too many network round-trips to actually traverse from root to /resource_name/resource_id/sub_resource_name/sub_resource_id, or an already verbose transaction (everything is serialized and deserialized into strings!) becomes gigantic if you if don't make it hierarchical and just drop every URL into the root response.

This is why everyone just builds magic URL endpoints, and hopefully also includes a OpenAPI/Swagger documentation for them so the developer can figure it out. And then keeps the documentation up-to-date as they add new sub_resource endpoints!
>Though what comes after is still an open question

I'm seeing a lot of people yelling that what's coming after is a technologically advanced form of feudalism. It doesn't seem like that much of a question.
A bill banning abortion nationally would need 60 votes in the Senate, which it will not get.

They already started this work yesterday: https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/22/congress/se...
> Hummingbirds within Apodiformes uniquely have a bilaterally paired oval bone, a sesamoid embedded in the caudolateral portion of the expanded, cruciate aponeurosis of insertion of m. depressor caudae. How many paired tendons are supported by this sesamoid bone? Answer with a number.

I wonder how many questions give a gentle nudge towards the answer like this. How many answers would have been wildly off the mark without specifying what the answer needs to look like?
I didn’t see any non-text content, but I didn’t spend that much time looking.

NSFW text is a thing, there are porn sites that house explicit text for zoophilia, pedophilia, incest, rape, etc. I’m not saying this site has anything extreme or out there, but there are likely laws governing what text can be shown, it’s simpler to just require login, since that will also help protect you against COPPA and other restrictions for minors that are non NSFW related.

I’m all for free speech, but there are laws governing how certain text is handled
This is mostly a sentiment I see from people who used or heard of JS 10+ years ago and didn't bother to learn added JS language features and recent tooling.

Standard libs can be great, but they should really be reserved for baseline features, especially in a language like JS where all changes must be backward compatible. The standard JS has now is not at all what it was in the early 2010s, it's a very good set of baseline features.
You can already do that with ruby bundler (which perhaps inspired it)

https://bundler.io/guides/bundler_in_a_single_file_ruby_scri...

But I recognize that isn't quite what the questioner is asking, because at least in ruby you are still going to need "require" statements (unless you have an autoloader) to actually load the code, the inline `gemfile` specifies your dependencies, which is different than a require/import statement to actually load code from possibly one of those dependencies.
Haha, I almost never reply on HN. But the Office Space ref made my day <3
>Muphry be praised.

Don't know whether your spelling was intentional or not, but anyway:

Muphry's law:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law

Murphy's law:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law

Edit: I just saw this one for the first time, after re-reading the one above:

Yhprum's law:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yhprum%27s_law
C# isn't a blessed tier 1 language on macOS.

MAUI doesn't even use macOS UI APIs directly, rather the Catalyst framework to emulate iOS APIs on macOS.
Indeed yet chatGPT is already like H.E.R. yet there's no human like face to it ATM.

Im just jumping ahead utilizing what was seen in H.E.R. to envision where we are headed (possibly) as well adding my own crazy ... your AI Assistant Friend seen on your lock screen via a Facetime UI/UX call looks and sounds like a deceased loved one. Mom still guiding you through life.
I think that is the literal interpretation.

That is to say, Zero is the optimal in an imaginary system, where cows are spherical and you can make all the assumptions you want.

Once you start working with real world systems with more and complex constraints, the simple story goes away, and perfection is not possible.

The phrasing challenges the reader to question the model with which they are using to define optimal.
https://github.com/copilot-emacs/copilot.el
Yeah, that was kind of my takeaway as well. Your car is not your car right? I mean ANYONE AT SUBARU can do this?
If you are worried about costs you can use Browser Use with deepseek which becomes super cheap! https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use
It's probably hard to reach a consensus when every workplace is different. However, sexually explicit text would be inappropriate at most places I've worked.
Many years ago, when I was learning about pair programming, I remember someone (possibly even Kent Beck) saying that "Pair programming is kryptonite for incompetent introverts!" and I remember thinking, "Well, yeah, but I bet it's the haven of incompetent extroverts!"

While I haven't really been in forums debating the merits and perils of paired programming, I cannot help but be amused by this essay, that pretty much confirms this initial thought I had about paired programming!
https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use :)
If you were as attentive as you might think you are, you would have noticed that the USB plug being inserted was the host side, so it's the side generally which charges the connected device.
email me if you need a code review
Their website says it's about $162
Also, the CRT will call any functions you declare `__attribute__((constructor))` before it calls `main()`
I haven't been following up to the minute details of ai progress, training, and benchmarking - beyond a daily dose of HN articles.

But the trend seems to be: today's benchmark becomes tomorrow's training data.
Judge blocks Trump's EO on birthright citizenship: 'blatantly unconstitutional'
Fair. When I grew up, most bottles were still glass based. Later, when plastic bottles were introduced, it didn't occur to me (or anyone I knew) that those might be harmful etc.

Also, I don't worry about drinking out of plastic bottles occasionally when traveling and when it's convenient. Same with other things (I am typing this on a plastic keyboard, lol). It's all a matter of over-exposure though I think. 30-years ago it felt like 20% of things were plastic. Now it's like 90%.

I am not crazy about avoiding all plastic but sure I think it's kind of common sense to avoid plastic containers for (esp hot) food, etc or things like rubber/plastic wearables that you wear like 24h a day.
He goes to Phillips Exeter Academy, where Zuckerberg once matriculated. Students' voices are heard through the Harkness method of teaching. There is plenty of opportunity for students to grow curricularly (e.g.,dynamic chaos theory in math, senior projects, though not required ...) and extra-curricularly (e.g. competition robotics, physics, bio,chem clubs, etc ...) which may not be a norm in most public or even private schools.
xattrs are great, and would the obvious solution for tags/metadata on Linux too, if the syscall API didn't delete them at every opportunity; programs must be explicitly told not to do that.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Extended_attributes

That being said, it'd be cool to see a port of that CLI to Linux using user.xdg.tags. You can avoid deleting them if you're careful.
They should have at least have something like HTML Subresource Integrity[0], including a hash so at least changes to what comes back from the import hasn't changed.

[0] https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-subresource-integrity
Guy knows his audience though. All of his posts are incredibly prone to bikeshedding. If our main journalists knew that their output was going to be subject to much detail-oriented scrutiny, we'd have the best-run country in the world.
> Somehow this label rarely arises when white managers end up with mostly white teams. Why is that?

Easy: If you're in a country that's ~90% white, why would it be a surprise that 90% of the labor ends up being white? Are you seriously trying to play dumb and question obvious stuff like demographics under the nepotism/racism playing card? Similarly, why would it be surprising that a team in India is ~100% Indians?

But if in a country with a majority white demographic, Indian managers hire their wives, extended family members and Indian connection to work in their teams, therefore excluding a lot of the local, mostly white candidates, from the resume pile out of the get-go, you can't not raise eyebrows and assume potential discriminatory hiring practices, which are illegal in most western nations.
Sorry for being ignorant but what is that place?
Running a full visual web browser remotely to do tasks like this seems incredibly wasteful (and it sure doesn't feel futuristic). Computers have better ways to communicate than this.
A lot of people here seem to think this is somehow for their benefit, or that OpenAI and friends are trying to make something useful for the average person. They aren't spending billions of dollars to give everyone a personal assistant. They are spending billions now to save even more in wages later, and we are paying for the privilege of training their AI to do it. By the time this thing is useful enough to actually be a personal assistant, they will have released that capability in a model that is far too expensive for the average person.
I can already imagine "The Last Question"[1] playing out in real life — it's both fascinating and scary.

[1] Last Question By Isaac Asimov https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html
I struggled for years to find a lighting set up for my work from home environment. I eventually realized that it was the quality of light not necessarily the quantity of light I needed to address.

On a whim, I purchased two of those plant grow lamps with full spectrum, lighting, and pointed them upwards perched on a tall pedestal reflecting off of the ceiling.

This has worked far better than any other lighting strategy I’ve ever tried and seems to have mostly solved my seasonal affectedness disorder. It has been 0° and windy outside lately with no sun and I’m doing fine.

I am in fact a plant.
Ask HN: Privacy-Friendly Car?
Hi HN. In light of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42803279 (Hacking Subaru: Tracking and Controlling Cars via the Starlink Admin Panel) and some revelations in the comments, I would like to ask if anybody here is aware of any modern electric car that can be used without ever connecting it to the network?

It's also important that the car shouldn't collect telemetry and location data and wait for the first opportunity (like gaining network access while being serviced) to upload that all.
There is https://github.com/copilot-emacs/copilot.el that gets copilot to work in emacs via JS glue code and binaries provided by copilot.vim.

I hacked up a slim alternative localpilot.js layer that uses llama-server instead of the copilot API, so copilot.el can be used with local LLMs, but I find the copilot.el overlays kinda buggy...
It'd probably be better to instead write a llamapilot.el for local LLMs from scratch for emacs.
Tell me it also does sports style commentary on the ongoing debate. My mental image requires it.