skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh fracking please.

When the likes of Zuck, Dorsey and Schmidt evidently censored everybody and everything on behalf of radical left wing ideology and radical left wing elites everybody was dead silent, but now the likes of Zuck, Musk and Pichai are licking the boots of Trump to ensure that they financially, and their companies, survive this presidency we are heading into "technofascism" and Silicon Valley suddenly has rightwing roots?

Give me a fracking break.

And before you come with Peter Thiel: Alex Karp, on behalf of Palantir -- which has Thiel on the board, supported Kamala Harris. ALSO EVIDENTLY.

If anything, the top of SV consists out of unprincipled, spineless opportunists.
With all due respect, Hacker News is not the place for making blanket assertions with no references. Please post a citation if you have one. Otherwise please don't waste readers' time with unfounded rumors.
Doesn't make me want to buy the next Pixel.
The source code for APL\360 was published by the Computer History Museum. People have gotten this to run under Hercules. https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-apl-programming-languag...

Mainframe APL2 is still marketed I think
jank is also garbage collected, since Clojure practically demands it. Currently using Boehm, a conservative GC, but we'll need to switch to something more competitive when that becomes a priority. I have my eyes on MMTK + Immix.
> Because ephemeral environments are reproducible on demand (via Docker images, Kubernetes pods, or a cloud VM), you can guarantee that each bisect step sees the same conditions. This drastically reduces "works on my machine" fiascos.

Agree on this pattern for all code changes. Hard to understate the amount of time we've saved by testing against the full prod-like environment right away. An ephemeral env implementation makes this easy and low stakes, so diving right into E2E testing a copy of your real infra isn't wildly unreasonable. However, I work for Shipyard (https://shipyard.build) so I'm a bit biased on these processes.
You’re looking at the world from a very anthropocentric pov. Sight, sound, touch, feel, taste are all human senses, but they’re all just one thing: ingesting information. An AI can ingest information… that’s just a fact… so… what are we talking about here?

Also, we have absolutely no idea how the brain works. Current AI was developed off of modern theories on how the brain works. Saying that AI doesn’t represent how the brain works is ridiculous because the whole story of AI was that we developed a theory of how the brain worked, modeled it through tech, and it worked way better than we thought it would. Shit there was a whole article here about how AI resembles Kant’s theory of the mind. Like I just don’t know how you can be so confident here.
"People are saying"

What reports, specifically?
Collabora Online may be what you are looking for. It's commercial, but it is LibreOffice (Collabora is a major contributor to LibreOffice). https://www.collaboraonline.com/writer/

There is plain LibreOffice Online, but it is apparently frozen at the moment: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/
Would this work for non-text data? Like finding outliers in a time series or classifying trends, that kind of thing
You can say and do and give your own credence to whatever you want, but the evidence you are providing repeatedly is that you don’t understand what the economic concept of revealed preference actually is.

If you did understand what revealed preference theory is trying to do, and how, then you’d understand why your “simple English” rhetorical question isn’t asking a useful or economically valid question.
Obviously, the AI has been an Xfinity customer.
Has anybody heard of Hirundo before? They seem like they’re onto something interesting. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on them!
wow love the fact that you can interact with the videos
Dr. Octagon has the same vibe.
Since whitehouse.gov couldn't be bothered, here are some quotes from "Straight Arrow News":

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President Trump also appeared to blame a “diversity push” at the FAA for the midair collision, reading some news headlines.

“I do want to point out that various articles that appeared prior to my entering office. And here’s one: the FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities,” Trump said.

When he was asked to clarify why he thought a diversity push played a role, he said, “It just could have been. We have a high standard. We’ve had a higher, much higher standard than anybody else.”

Trump did not cite any evidence.

He also placed blame on the Biden administration’s transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, using an expletive to describe Buttigieg’s time in office.

“He’s a disaster now. He’s just got a good line of bulls—,” Trump said of Buttigieg. “Well, he runs it, 45,000 people, and he’s run it right into the ground with his diversity.”

Trump’s pick for transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, who just started the job, also spoke during the press conference.

“When Americans take off in airplanes, they should expect to land at their destination — that didn’t happen yesterday,” Duffy said. “That’s not acceptable, and so we will not accept excuses. We will not accept passing the buck.”
I am strongly reminded of another time when a government plotted to forcibly deport lots of people to an extraterritorial-limbo island under their control, and I don't think it's too soon to bring it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan
I've had the exact same experience. I'd add that Substack will give you some mildly helpful distribution at times as well.
Homeless people go to libraries because libraries are the only public space left that hasn't been commodified and commercialized. Killing them in the name of even higher profits is not a solution.
Because you want the buffer to go out of scope after the last iteration of the loop. Motivating that requires bringing in more rust - It could be as simple as wanting to reuse the variable name later, but more likely it would be because you were using something that had a reference that you wanted to go away so you could borrow it again without the borrow checker yelling at you.
Better text contrast for all Chromium-based browsers on Windows
Show HN: Learning Tauri by building modern desktop RSS reader
Hello people of the internet!
Just wanted to share my project here that I've been building for the last couple of weeks. This is a RSS feed aggregator and reader project that is built using Tauri (I know Rust now!), SvelteKit and TailwindCSS. I wanted to get back into desktop app building and Tauri seemed really interesting (espcially when it is written in Rust). While building this app, I had almost 1% interaction with Rust and most of the heavy lifting was done at the frontend with using Tauri plugins (that is Rust in the backend).

Anyway want to share here to capture more feedbacks. Do you guys still use RSS? What apps do you refer to on daily basis? Let me know!!

Note: The project is far from complete and still has bugs, UX improvements and features to be added.
> A big reason for that is most people don't have the "fuck you money" to be that selective.

You don't need money, you need ethics and a backbone. My first job as a junior developer right out of University, my boss asked me to write code to cheat a benchmark, presumably so that marketing could lie about our product's real performance. I just got started with my career, began paying off student loans and could barely afford a place to live, but somehow I managed to push back. It was terrifying and I thought I would get fired.

I've been in other ethically ambiguous situations throughout my career, with a family to feed and where quitting would be perilous, and yet I can still say with a good conscience that I made the decision in each case that aligned with what I considered to be good ethics and principles. I've never had "fuck you money."
> Because memory bandwidth is the #1 bottleneck for inference, even more than capacity.

But there are a ton of models I can't run at all locally due to VRAM limitations. I'd take being able to run those models slower. I know there are some ways to get these running on CPU orders of magnitude slower, but ideally there's some sort of middle ground.
No, not literally.

That was more like something he threw out for the clueless/media to get stuck on while he works unimpeded on everything else.
Thanks!

While we want to have constructive conversations with some of these governments (I actually believe it's possible), ultimately we can't stop hostility / regulations against crypto. What we can do is offer our service and be transparent about what it is — and then users in those countries can make decisions for themselves about whether they can/should engage.

I'm hopeful, however, seeing countries like Turkey and a couple in LatAm that have significant crypto adoption without overt government hostility — when adoption reaches a critical mass, I expect to see more governments relax restrictions.
Paired with the Pixel 4a "update of death" it feels like Google is throwing in the towel on smartphones. I don't care about Pixel but I do worry about Android - as flawed as it is, it's still the only viable option for an "open" smartphone. I've been playing around with a Pinephone lately and it's lots of fun but obviously not ready for use as a daily driver.
> As a standalone app, Audiocube offers tools, workflows, and processes that go beyond the capabilities of VST plugins.

But does it support VST/AU in order to load instruments rather than "samples"?
What existed before mass-media was a shared experience with unmediated interactions. With mass media, the interactions are mediated but there is still a shared experience. With social media, there is neither unmediated interaction nor shared experience.

So I think you are correct that we are transitioning to a new "phase", but I disagree with the implication that things will be better once the transition is over. They could be worse!
Crazy idea: a small super fast model whose only job is to decide which model to send your task to.
I suspect it'll be index.php's <?php line, lol.
High and Dry: Sobriety and Transcendence at Bonnaroo
You might venture to say so, but unfortunately you'd be wrong.
This is a long-shot, but take a look here:

https://github.com/simonw/datasette.io

I've been blogging for decade(s) with:

http://blosxom.com/documentation/users/blog.html
http://blosxom.com/documentation/users/install/dynamic/isp.html

...it's basically a janky (possibly insecure?) perl-cgi-script which converts a directory of markdown files into a blog.

I love the idea of it in that it's just markdown files! `vim ~/blog/entries/some-random-thought.txt` end ups with $AUTHOR of `chown`, $DATE of the file modification time, tree of `mkdir -p ~/blog/entries/some/category` ... it's just trivial to backup, restore, and work with. You can even (probably) hook it up to a static regen which is probably safer: http://blosxom.com/documentation/users/install/static/

The link to datasette is if you're wanting to nerd around a bit more, as it's kindof a combo of sqlite and a web server for rendering data from within it. The linked github repo is how their main site is built/rendered and it definitely has aspects of "blogginess", and you can kindof see how it's done. The neat thing of `let tags = "SELECT DISTINCT tags FROM posts"` or transforming blogging into effectively updating/adding records in a database is an extension of the blosxom zen of "it's just files [records], yo! go forth and edit them..."
Yes, literally. Because he is that vain and stupid.
I agree with the bulk of this!

But I maintain that the failure of Sears, Roebuck & Co. was the free market doing exactly what it's supposed to do.

Market distortions due to consolidation are a huge problem. But Sears was not fit for survival and there's no reason to believe that cash-for-assets could have been turned into a new viable business of any kind.

There was nothing to salvage out of the business model, vendor relationships, retail locations, consumer brand equity. Nothing. They abused their brand (and their Craftsman etc house brands!) for years. Some macro events and shifts were clearly out of their control and might have been insurmountable anyway, but the brand damage was entirely self-inflicted, and ultimately the only thing that might have saved the rest.

There was nothing left except lease obligations, slow-moving inventory, and nostalgia.

But enough about Sears. Your point, IIMBSB, is that the free market doesn't necessarily produce the most viable ecosystem. No argument there -- the natural end state of a free market appears to be 85+% monopoly or duopoly, and this is harmful to consumers and the economy!
Ok, but the fact remains that in the past inequality was strictly enforced, while inequality in modern times has been systematically enforced. So I want numbers that show me that technology has increased wealth inequality.
lmao i guess i'll be the last one scribbling i, j, k in my stone tablet
Records and tuples are unlikely to ever ship, or at least are extremely unlikely to ship with the semantics around equality people want. My understanding is that browser vendors already have pretty strong opposition to introducing new primitives at this point. Reading this thread[1] will give some explanation as to the hiccups with how equality would behave. It sucks, because while I wouldn't have expected BigInt to have gotten much adoption in the first place, I constantly run into cases where I'd want collections with structural equality.

Additionally, my understanding is that the opposition to adding new primitives also affects pattern matching, though I'm not sure why. I'm much less up to date on that proposal.

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-record-tuple/issues/387
On a slightly related issue, I noticed that my nose gets bigger,in my photos, it turned out it was mostly irritation swelling due to pollution, while in a Nordic country with cleaner air quality, I noticed that is back to normal. And now I am always checking iqair.com- and it says:"PM2.5 concentration is currently 3.6 times the World Health Organization annual PM2.5 guideline value.
Plenty of designs are going to not use a traditional buck converter and instead use something cheap and easy like the AMS1117-33 to just linear-regulate their way to "it works good enough" for everything under 1A.
> I'm also curious how much of this extra complication comes from having a central database that tries to be a source of truth for everything?

You can reverse this as 'how much extra complication comes from having many disparate databases, so now you push all ACID complications at the company level instead of the software(rdbms)'

It is a tricky problem!

Having a single source of truth is a tremendous simplification, especially for the people.

It should be ideal that the other databases are pure materializations on top of it, but then not matter what you have the need to input more stuff that is not part of the central one, and now you have both problems.
Don't Make Copyright Law in Smoke-Filled Rooms
Sure, but the most common JSX compiler and language service is Typescript and Typescript is well supported everywhere. As the de facto language service for most JS work today, it certainly feels more like "native" than other template compilers.

Also, for what it is worth, JSX is mostly (despite a few attempts from React to complicate it) a very simple syntax transformer to boring function calls for mostly easy to write functions. We've had "h" functions for a long time before JSX and we'll have "h" functions still if JSX stops being an interesting thing to support.
JSON Crack – Transform your data into interactive graphs
California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023
Depending on format, they might.
I work with both node and Python. The difference in upgrade experiences is measured in several orders of magnitude. My most recent few projects jumped Python versions because features I wanted were introduced. I cannot remember a time I had to rewrite application code because of an upgraded Python version (well I do, it was the Python 2 to 3 migration a very long time ago).

In the meantime new node versions constantly break backwards compatibility. Upgrading packages is a mess. Runtime environments are not properly isolated, third party packages sometimes explicitly do not work with specific versions of node, etc. For a community so focused on creating tooling, it has the worst tools of any ecosystem I have seen. I would rather work with C than with node.
https://archive.today/8nmed
What Proponents of Digital Replica Laws Can Learn from the DMCA
The original title is:

> What Proponents of Digital Replica Laws Can Learn from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
> minimum wage increases adversely impact workplace safety

Ironic, since the intent of minimum wage was make human capital expensive enough to promote automation and prevent human slaughter in the factories of the early 1900s
Not really, but, like a lot of people buying EVs, I care about what impact my lifestyle has on the environment and society in general. And I can't (In good conscience) support that company anymore.
1-minute video game distinguishes autistic from neurotypical kids
Do you think Terence Tao doesn't understand Geometric Algebra? Just trying to understand where your hot take is coming from.

My working hypothesis is he has at least an understanding of most fields of advanced maths and if he's looking into something it's because he thinks something interesting is there. That carries a lot of weight.

Edit to add: he has done research into Quaternionic Hilbert spaces in the past https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jmp/article-abstract/37/11/5848/465...
Most of the news coverage I've seen of this story is omitting what some might consider a relevant detail: almost all the members of this group are trans.

This is a divisive topic, but failing to mention this makes me worry a story is pushing a particular agenda rather than trying to tell the facts. Here's what the story looks like if the trans activism is considered central to the story:

https://thepostmillennial.com/andy-ngo-reports-trans-terror-...

While Ngo's version is definitely biased, and while I don't know enough about the story to endorse or refute his view, I think it's important to realize that this part of the story is being suppressed in most of the coverage elsewhere.
like drawing triangles on a beach ball!
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42872536
Warren Buffett's $127B Warning to Wall Street
XCKD has a grim and humorous breakdown of the logistics of moving billions of people: https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/

Spoiler: It's an XKCD What If, so lots and lots of people die.
> traveling at 65k KPH

You could say 65 MPH (megametres per hour) ;-). Or more formally: 65 Mm/h or 18 km/s.
YouTube is not a good representation of what you hear in a headset. Half the time the mic taps aren't impedence matched and sound like shit.

Besides that, most "controlling" (i.e. instructions that require action) comms have a handshake of sorts - the pilot repeats back the instruction for the controller to confirm. They don't just bark out instructions and hope you heard it, they listen for you to read them back, and will keep doing so until successful. So, even in cases when the comms are degraded, you will go back and forth until there has been positive confirmation (readback) you heard the instruction correctly (or they'll just give you a new frequency).
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42871847
RFC: agents.json, a robots.txt for agents
I disagree. Illegal immigration and immigration are two separate topics.

For example, one can be completely in favor of x amount of immigration, and be completely opposed to illegal immigration.

In the context of rayiner's post, the historic political cry of "immigrants bad" was not usually about illegal immigrants, it was about legal immigrants willing to work for less than people who grew up in America. There are plenty of records of anti Irish and anti Italian immigrant sentiment (or any other wave of ethnic migration that causes competition for the existing working class).

I would go so far as to say that current Republicans did skillfully weave the two political causes together in modern times to gain support of both those seeking law and order and those who dislike immigrants.

I think maybe that local level Democrats tarnished the national branding of Democrats by glorifying acceptance of illegal immigration, which might be popular in a select few cities or states, but not on the national stage (referring to sanctuary city policies).
Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics by Benade is a great Dover book for those interested in musical instruments.
They're not doing "voluntary exits" out of the goodness of their hearts, they're doing it because their accountants determined that the cost of paying employees to quit outweighed the reputational damage of doing another round of mass layoffs.
You might find this comparison chart helpful: https://www.airtrain.ai/blog/how-15-top-llms-perform-on-clas...

Note: from October; also I work at Airtrain
search for <<< "Аналитик" язык >>>

results in russian/ukrainian/bulgarian, and actual accessibility is unknown

https://ya.ru/neurum/c/nauka-i-obrazovanie/q/gde_mozhno_nayt...

pff whole book from 1982 comparing it to fortran/algol :

https://unicat.nalis.bg/Record/RU.000025764#description
I imagine that many Christians agree that we will have a corporeal body after the resurrection. Jesus had a corporeal body after rising from the dead--that much has been orthodox tradition since the time of Christ and is recorded in the gospels.
> pixelizing should be relatively simple

https://www.yankodesign.com/2024/07/04/this-crystal-fragment...:

“The Pixel Mirror measures 16mm x 16mm x 10mm, which means it’s small enough to be worn as a pendant in a necklace. Monoli’s series of wearable and handheld prisms are all handmade, and because of the nature of polishing natural stones, they are not perfect square “pixels”. They are handmade to suit the condition of the available stone.”

Discussed on HN in

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40895907 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40890633
2024: Nested CSS
2025: Temporal

Once we can style <option>'s HTML/CSS/ECMA will be complete. Thank you for everyone's hard work. Let's focus on interop and PWA apis!
2023 and 2024 interviews, https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kANyEjDDFWkhSKbcK/two-interv...

> Liang Wenfeng is a very rare person in China's AI industry who has abilities in “strong infrastructure engineering, model research, and also resource mobilization”, and “can make accurate high-level judgments, and can also be stronger than a frontline researcher in the technical details”. He has a “terrifying ability to learn” and at the same time is “less like a boss and more like a geek”.
"How large is the field of view of a UH-60?"

Massive, you're practically against the glass. Visibility below is more obstructed than visibility above or to the sides.