skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great write up. We’ve migrated to NextJs App Router where I work. While RSCs introduce a certain level of complexity, we’ve appreciated their benefits. The telemetry on the backend is something we’ve been looking to improve, and there doesn’t seem to be a lot of info out there, so this helps.
Yes, I wish Google would fix that.
'The Rizzler' and the creeping childishness of pop culture
https://archive.ph/RJTue
>Hydrogen is not a path to clean energy

I agree for blue hydrogen, but for green I think that depends on what/how you use it. WE have two current problems that lend themselves to green hydrogen. The problem of de-carbonizing heavy transport and the problem of energy storage as more energy is coming from variable renewable sources. Creating green hydrogen at times of excess power generation, instead of load shedding or attempting large scale battery storage, and using it to fuel long haul trucking or trains would help solve both issues. Hydrogen powered vehicles don’t work for personal vehicles, since there is no infrastructure for convenient refilling, but the logistics of heavy transport already have central hubs where hydrogen stations could be installed.
Hah, very true. I never drive there for a reason.
I love my Subaru as far as reliability, all wheel drive performance in snow and ice, and such.

But OMG it's consumer tech was dated when I bough it, and it's just full of inexplicable issues and caveats and such. Even just the limitations and the UX issues are so obvious that it sends a message that if they tried to fix them they would introduce just as many new issues. I'm at the point where despite the car being good, I'm not interested in a new one from Subaru.

I just want carplay or android auto whatever similar services a given mobile OS provides to do similar things. That's it, every time it's something else (even when offering car play) from a car maker it is so bad and so naively built that it makes me less confidant in that company.

I know, they want my data and all and that's the motivation, but man it's just such a downer with every system.... and here I am with a good car in most respects and I'm not planning on buying from them again.
It might not be legit, but I think you are being too harsh. The second and higher floors of that building have D units. It is not uncommon for floors in buildings like that to be carbon copies. The D unit might just be commercial space and listed separately or not at all. The owner could have removed it from the listing because it was commercial, or maybe the owner of this thing also owns the building. Making a phone is not a poor man's passion project. Secondly, without knowing how they intend to implement this you can't really draw many conclusions. Startup companies don't need huge offices to start with and the manufacturing is almost always in Asia.
Leibniz's I-Ching and binary letter
Arguably more.
Up vote this enough and they'll be able to solve it next week --- the same way they solve most things --- by memorizing the answer from "training".

LLMs exhibit the characteristics of "savant syndrome".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome
From simple motors to levitating trains – how design shapes innovation Videos
The info on that page seems a bit contradictory, but maybe I need more coffee.
Cool project. Keep building!
Would really appreciate that, thanks!
if you've worked at soup kitchen, which your comment indicates you have not, you would know that serving people what they want to eat is the dignified way to give people food.
For sure, I'd argue that's mainly because any industry that centralizes or grows big enough to really matter finds itself the subject of new government oversight and regulation. As soon as the government becomes involved, for better or worse, its no longer a free market.
A much larger percentage would seem to sympathize with the accelerationists' goals, even if they're ignorant of their methods.
> What complexity does next.js solve?

in our case it solves performance, it actively keeps cache warmed up preventing it from ever serving a stale page or serving a non cached hit, preloads content for fast navigation, optimizes images, it's lightweight, scales horizontally, it's stable.

it has all the bells and whistles the big boys have, for free, you almost don't need to think about it, just follow some guidance.

while people say it's too much magic (there are 4 cache layers), you are always free to pop up the hood and read the documentation, which is excellent.
Where is the vast market for molecular hydrogen?
> Unless they are forced to learn things that are uninteresting to them.

This really resonates with me. I love math now, but absolutely loathed it in high school. The curriculum lacked any sort of way to apply math to real problems. I simply cannot learn things in the abstract like that. It's like learning a programming language without ever building a program.
I mean does it surprise you at this point that it’s hard to find integrity in Silicon Valley? My current theory is that it’s a side effect of easy wins since the fall of the Soviet Union. There was no competition and only the US knew how to build software startups. It’s interesting where the next decades will go. I’m not saying the US will surely loose, but based on the products I see coming out of China, it’s going to be interesting. For example, in my local MediaMarkt, the most high-tech section is the drone section and these are all Chinese. Also, if you purely look at the specs, Chinese electric cars outperform all European and American brands (charging rate, battery capacity, and performance). Not only in the budget segment but in the performance segment as well.
Do you have a source for your statement about copper? The closest I can find is [1] "The expansion of electricity networks means that copper demand for grid lines more than doubles over the same period". That's a doubling of demand, not of total current circulation.

[1] https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in...
Google acquires part of HTC XR business for $250M
It includes some of the engineering team and a non-exclusive IP agreement.
Third Base (2001)
Don't include social engineering in penetration tests (2017)
Imagine that manufacturer can do that without any hacks and your knowledge about data collecting. Now imagine that you sell those cars to foreign countries that your government consider as enemy. I'm curious when there will be some ban of car brand, like TikTok.
> emails now

Not sure what time-frames we're talking about here, but I remember having to work around this particular issue more than 4 years ago, I'm sure it was also an issue before too. It's been like this for a long time.
did a paper for AAMAS 20 years ago where I reviewed the use of performative acts by real developers. No one in my project would co-author it with me (bad sign) and it got rejected (doh) but I do believe that it was useful and it's a shame that it didn't get into the literature.

Oh man. Bummer. I don't suppose you have a copy available online anywhere? I'd still love to give that a look if it's available.

Zeus has a FIPA transport as well as its native transport, it's got reasoning engines that it uses to act as approximately a BDI agent. The problem is that its STRIPS style planner can't reason so much...

Oh very cool. Zeus was somehow not on my radar. I'll have to give that a look. Currently I use Jason for BDI, but it doesn't have built in inference or planning. Which may be good or bad depending on your point of view. But that's where I'm going with the stuff I'm doing... looking at how to combine a BDI loop, various inference/reasoning techniques, planning, etc.

The interesting thing is, we know how to do those things in isolation reasonably well. It's combining them in a way that makes a cohesive whole that seems to be the big challenge. :-)
It may well be over the line, but it sounds like subaru is grateful for the report, so nothing will come of it. Definitely not a risk I would take.
This is a very interesting standpoint.

I personally believe that having lots of parties founded on concise, coherent principles would be very nice from a voter point of view (to express preferences), but those would be completely unable to actually govern-- because there are a lot of decisions to make and compromises to find, and trying to do this solely based on a small set of principles is just not possible, because you would need to abstain from all decisions that your founding principles can not answer clearly (and no current democracy is set up in a way that enables this).

I can picture a system where this could work in theory (lots of parties forming the government, but most parties abstain from voting on any single decision), but I can see no way of preventing scope creep/consolidation...

Regarding the "both main parties equally bad" aspect:

What are your main pain points with the previous administration? As an outsider, to me it appears that despite getting dealt a rather bad hand (Covid/Ukraine/Middle East chaos), they made a lot of correct decisions (in hindsight).

Post-trump republicans, on the other hand, appear irresponsibly selfcentered to me in many ways (climate/emissions, Covid policies, foreign/trade, anti-pluralism). I also think that (2016) Trump poisoned political discourse in a insidiously harmful way, by basically forgoing any form of factual debate in favor of spewing insults at every opportunit (lying Hillary, sleepy Joe, ...)-- this alone I feel almost requires opposition...

What issue would your ideal party tackle first?
Depends what you mean by "similar philosophy". We (largeish household name though not thought of as a tech company) went through a pretty extensive review of the options late last year and standardized on this for our internal service<->service communication:

https://github.com/stickfigure/trivet

It's the dumbest RPC protocol you can imagine, less than 400 lines of code. You publish a vanilla Java interface in a jar; you annotate the implementation with `@Remote` and make sure it's in the spring context. Other than a tiny bit of setup, that's pretty much it.

The main downside is that it's based on Java serialization. For us this is fine, we already use serialization heavily and it's a known quantity for our team. Performance is "good enough". But you can't use this to expose public services or talk to nonjava services. For that we use plain old REST endpoints.

The main upsides are developer ergonomics, easy testability, spring metrics/spans pass through remote calls transparently, and exceptions (with complete stacktraces) propagate to clients (even through multiple layers of remote calls).

I wrote it some time ago. It's not for everyone. But when our team (well, the team making this decision for the company) looked at the proof-of-concepts, this is what everyone preferred.
Well done!

Mental note, a commercial laptop of similar specs should never cost more than $4,673.81.
Yeah, for now. Profit motive will eventually force them to enshittify. I hope I'm wrong, but history suggests otherwise.
Precisely what I meant when I wrote "solidarity is key: serving people in the ways they choose to receive care"
Well that's highly confusing. I'm surprised there wasn't a trademark dispute.
For anyone who wants to understand the economics of hydrogen, I can't recommend this lecture [1] by Michael Liebreich highly enough.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Q9cuF8zKg
The article is basically a short summary of this book: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/UK-Books/The%20Sinclair...
The browser is also driven by an advanced wetware AI system that knows which links to click on and how to interpret the results.
I get a 403 on this page. Is there another source?
A possible explanation is a design student's project for a portfolio, or a startup's obligatory fibs. I suspect your explanation is the most accurate of these.
Glad they had unit and integration tests to make sure that an unauthenticated user couldn't reset passwo... oh, wait...
The node_modules folder is still somewhere on your system (~/.npm/_npx probably?) containing the same tailwindcss dependency files, but if it helps you sleep easier at night it’s okay to pretend it doesn’t exist.
RIP Gaia: Revolutionary Mission That Mapped the Galaxy to Come to an End
Yep, that works too. I wrote the shortcode because I didn't want to have to manually resize pictures. That's effort and it means if I change my layout to require wider pictures I have to go find the originals.

I think you could do this with a render hook if you want to get fancy (with the benefit that the Markdown for your posts stays as plain Markdown): https://werat.dev/blog/automatic-image-size-attributes-in-hu...
Microsoft can try quite hard to make their requests look like a user.
> It's more like if someone tried to delete/hack your account but you send a confirmation email to protect such a thing, and Microsoft clicked on the accept & delete account button in that email. So you deleted the user's account.

And then the user says "why did you delete my account?" and you say "well I chose not to support outlook but I didn't tell you that at the start" and the user says "that's stupid, everyone uses outlook" and leaves a bad review
That seems like a culture issue rather than an appsec issue?
If we're considering tax changed, I'd love to see a government run like a kickstarter. Government departments' role should be designing programs, estimate costs, and pitching the program to the public.

For taxes, the government provides estimates or recommendations on what a household would owe but its voluntary. You throe your money into programs that you want to see funded.

It could go horribly wrong, but so can centralized planning. At least this way the people are responsible for it either way.
This is an age where you can write your own LLM extension.

There's no moat, all the clever prompting tricks Cursor et al. are just that - there is no secret sauce besides the model at the other end.

Complexity isn't an issue either, have the model write the interface to itself.
Doomscrolling == Channel Surfing.

"Doom" doesn't have to describe the content. It could be your state of mindlessness as you thoughtlessly iterate through your standard set of net waypoints and the content that's spoon fed to you therein.
Chess is a classic case which LLMs are structurally inadequate. The strength of LLMs is that they can "short circuit" and arrive the right answer by the wrong methods for squishy problems like language. [1] Chess is about precision and I'm awful at it myself because of the line noise in my schizotypal brain, even if I can compensate pretty well for it doing hard math. Short-circuiting just doesn't cut it for chess, which is why you get the invalid moves (the only requirement for a chess program is that it never make invalid moves)

It is a tree search problem, even if human intuition makes it so we can think through about 20 board positions whereas my α-β program has to look at 2-20 million positions to challenge a serious beginner. Yes, the problem could be solved by a lookup in an endgame table; the 5 piece table is reasonable to keep with a specialized chess program (think how big an AAA game is!) but not reasonable to store in an LLM which does many other things than chess.

To make my chess program able to challenge better players the direct path is to make it look at more positions, and most of that is optimizing the code, not allocating any objects in the inner loop, calculating the evaluation function incrementally, off-heap transposition table, etc. Not the path of ChatGPT-o.

It is a thing to make a neural chess engine that picks better moves and doesn't have to look at as many positions [2], but it's a specialized thing; chess just isn't a model of general intelligence.

[1] I was working on foundation models the summer BERT came out and had a technique of "predictive evaluation" that let us look at a small number of examples in detail and decide what the potential and weaknesses of a system were. By this method I saw BERT as a huge step forward, yet, this method entirely discounted "get the right answer by the wrong path" and we might have rejected the path that led to today's LLMs.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaZero
Wait, from reading the article it looks like the link they send to their users send them to a page with some javascript which automatically POST data for them. Which MS will correctly do: your "POST" is in fact a simple GET for most users with javascript on.

What you should do is send your user to a page with a form requiring a manual action from them.
Man, you just triggered me. This was also me in school.

I even have a huge interest in history, but I remember my first history exam on World War 1. I was ready to answer questions on its causes, the people, how industrial war changed the nature of fighting, the new countries that formed after the war... First Question: What was the date the Serbian nationalist Gavrillo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Second Question: What was the dates each country declared war...

It also took me years to actually sit down and read JRR Tolkien as we read the Hobbit as a class book in grade 8. First question for the test: List the names of the 13 dwarves that attended the party at Bilbo's house (1 point each for a test out of 30 IIRC).
Show HN: A directory of maps about famous people's lives and special topics
Hi all!

I love traveling to places associated with people I admire, like historical figures, entrepreneurs, celebrities, musicians, or filming locations, etc. On my trips, I usually find myself researching houses and restaurants connected to certain intellectuals. I realized there are others with this same interest. That led me to create Maptale.

Maptale is a collection of maps covering the places where famous figures’ have lived, studied, visited, dined etc., or other themed spots. Think of it as “Netflix for maps”.

You can explore these maps on our website, and some are available in augmented reality too. Most are created with Auglinn (an AR app I co-founded earlier), allowing you to see markers appear in real life when you visit a location and use the app outdoors.

Some other maps are standard (like Google My Maps).

I used a no-code approach, so there may be a few issues, but it works well enough to explore and share maps. Users can also upload their own maps, and I plan to introduce a marketplace for them in the future.

I’m not sure if this will remain a hobby or evolve into something more, but my team and I will continue adding new maps.

I’d love any feedback or ideas on how to improve it, especially if you’ve got your own themed map ideas. Let me know what you think!
pedantic comment but the screenshot of Elite on that site is of the original BBC Micro version, not the Spectrum version (which was a technical marvel in its own right)
FWIW, I eventually got mine migrated, but it took months and a lot of back and forth with customer support.
That's not going away at all though.

But I am glad we now have more paid options available. Tooling is important and people that do good work should be able to charge for high quality tools.

I would be much happier in a world full of tools licensed like Sublime Text, where I can purchase a license and just run it without the need to constantly phone home though.
Reminds me of the Hutter Prize: http://prize.hutter1.net

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize
It's not only me saying that. A long list of prominent people have noticed, described, and given names to this well-known phenomenon over the past four-plus decades. I think it was billionaire investor George Soros who first popularized the term "market fundamentalism" to describe it, back in the 1990's. Josepth Stiglitz, Nobel prize in economics, often talks about it. It's not hard to find hundreds of books on the topic on Amazon. There's nothing arrogant (the opposite of humble) about repeating what all those prominent people have said before me.

If the notion of market fundamentalism is truly news to you, you may want to start here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_fundamentalism

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8292.2009...

https://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Global-Capitalism-Society-Enda...

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/03/excerpt-from-...

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PS. I never said anyone calls it a religious goal. What I did say is that for a lot of business executives and government officials it's akin to a religious goal, i.e., they are unwilling to change their minds about "free markets" even when the facts contradict their beliefs. In fact, they are so unwilling to change their minds that even mathematical proofs -- proofs! -- won't do it.
> Groq / Cerebras, the fastest LLM inference companies

What do you mean by fastest LLM inference companies? Is there a leaderboard for this?
It really depends on the person and the school they go to. I've had wayyyyy more free time in my 20s than I did in high school. With kids its a different story, but having a job and no kids is peak freedom. 8 hours of work, then I'm free. Meanwhile in high school I'd wake up at 6:30, school starts 8am and ends at 4pm, sports practice until 6pm, start homework at 7:30pm and hopefully finish by 11:30pm, then rinse and repeat. Weekends just meant more homework and very long sports events (swim meets, XC races for me). Summers were more chill but I was working full time starting from 15.

Highschool was genuinely awful. So so sleep deprived and stressed. I went to a prep school so for those who didn't, your experience may have been different.
Try to create native Android apps without Android Studio, or Windows native apps without Visual Studio tooling, by native meaning using the platform GUIs, SDKs, APIs and blessed tier 1 programming languages.

Not trying to fit somethig that requires lots of yak shaving, and workarounds, to make it work without the vendors tooling.

Native APIs from the platform, not stuff that abstracts the platform.
Physical Wifi/BLE/5G kill switches, but no SD card slot or audio jack? Odd choices.
Cool web app but doesn't work unless I take my glasses off, sadly.
Physicists Discover Hidden Quantum Forces That Could Supercharge Your Devices
Yeah, when our security team does phishing audits, clicking a link in the email without doing anything else is usually considered a soft failure. I guess this would cause everyone to fail and they'd have to ignore that result.
iirc Moore Threads founder worked for nVidia in the past.
I use Shelly dimmers as they offer you the ability to use their cloud app thing or completely roll your own including flashing new firmware into the ESP controlling the thing.
Bristol has the highest traces of cocaine in its sewage.

https://www.itv.com/news/2019-03-14/which-uk-city-tops-list-...
Can anyone in the industry enlighten me to the drive for putting a full OS into a vehicle charger? If you've been watching Phoenix Contact, they are going all in on marketing their EV charger controllers and such. I'm just not seeing what additional functionality they are leveraging vs. an embedded system?
I'd rather we use mined hydrogen than continue to destroy precious water molecules to get it. Water is an important resource and once split the water is gone forever.
Very cool concept. It’d be helpful if there was videos of it working or some details on the process you made to build it. Or even why you did.
Psychedelic Graphics 0: Introduction
The cold LED headlights also strain your eyes more as the driver. It's much less comfortable to look at IMO.
I feel like his yacht shouldn't be that hard to track...

What a dystopian hellscape we are approaching.