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Show HN: TypePractice Select – Improve Focus and Typing While You Read
TypePractice Select is a Chrome extension that turns reading into an interactive experience. Instead of passively consuming text, you type what you read—enhancing focus, comprehension, and typing speed.

Try it now

Chrome Extension (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/typepractice-select...)

GitHub
https://github.com/zerubeus/type-selection

Would love to hear your thoughts!
Alright, what's the thing being trained to become the model? If a model means "already trained," what is it before being trained?

Is the model not the network that awaits training data? Or is the model just the weights applied to some standardized network?
I agree that it's amazing as a learning tool. I think the "time to ramp" on a new technology or programming language has probably been cut in half or more.
Vaguely interested in the topic, this was a nice breakdown. I felt like I had to actively go looking for an article making the case for tariffs, and I thought this article[0] from The Atlantic made sense.

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/09/economi...
6502 would give them a dose of reality, but I think teaching people by having them program an 8-bit CISC chip is cruel. There's so many asymmetries that get in the way.

(Also, I don't think anyone actually likes NES games except for nostalgia, but this might just be because square waves make my ears hurt.)
Calling this UX seems disingenous to me.

If you want something smooth and easy that uses the google engine, visit udm14.com

If you want to integrate the google engine more directly into your browser(s), understand how to use &udm=14

Two different UX's, each appropriate for a different audience.
These days, I personally haven't had any issues with odd scanners or printers and getting them to work. Years ago it was nightmarish, but now it tends to be a lot easier than Windows in my experience. My scanner still doesn't work in Windows (granted: I haven't sunk more than about 25 minutes into trying to get it to work), but it works just fine on Linux (with zero effort).
It's not just $200 tasks. For example, it's really good with producing music... Which would have cost several thousands of dollars before. E.g: suno.com

I've been recording short tunes on my low-quality $50 Ukulele (which I self-taught myself) and then getting Suno to turn it into full songs. The quality is better than anything I could possibly have produced. Even if I paid thousands of dollars to a professional, I could not get better quality than what I'm getting from Suno. I cannot tell that it's produced by AI. AI is surprisingly suitable for music.

If I want lyrics, I type out the topic and underlying message of the song and the aesthetics I want (e.g. short lines, rhymes, etc...) inside Claude or ChatGPT and make it generate the lyrics.

Also once you have the first draft of lyrics, you can make it refine them by telling it to rhyme in particular ways. For example, the first words of each sentence can rhyme with each other as well as the last word of each sentence and you can tell it to change the rhyme pattern each paragraph. It's amazing how it can keep the meaning of the lyrics the same but totally transform the sounds of it by swapping out words with synonyms.

AI video capability is impressive but it can't get it all the way to a production-quality film. For music though, it definitely seems to be production-quality. Sometimes it takes a few attempts but it definitely seems to cross the 'professional' line regularly. Often, you don't need any tuning, trimming or intervention to the piece; it's just done.
Exactly. Lots of instable mental health conditions that make driving unsafe(mood disorders, schizophrenia, etc) can onset in people's 20s with almost no warning, as well.

A decent traumatic brain injury can happen at any time and most people never go to the doctor for those, too.
AI probably can do very nice landscaping design too. It's just that image generation models are not made for it. If we manage to give AI a more structured input, you'll get a nice design in return.
Show HN: Lambda Core – Minimal Lambda Calculus in Every Language
Hey HN! I'm working on Lambda Core, a collaborative project to implement the basics of lambda calculus (Booleans and Church Numerals) in every programming language.

The goal:
• Show how functional concepts can be encoded in languages from COBOL to Python.
• Provide a clear, low-barrier code challenge for anyone interested in functional programming or language theory.

All contributions are welcome. If your favorite language isn’t already in the repo, please add it! The instructions are simple, and it's a fun way to explore how different languages handle higher-order functions.

Check out the GitHub link for details. I'd love your feedback, and hope you'll join in!
What state or territory does that? Not a challenge, just curious, there are over 50 to track.
Just curious, did you try a code model like Codestral instead of a MoE?
Yeah, I no longer consider the SWE-bench useful because these models can just "memorize" the solutions to the PRs.
> will end at a steady state that will be at all familiar to us.

admittedly, it probably wont, but i think a lot of replies like mine above are because your hinting at something vague... what's the concrete worry?

> horses marvelling at this mechanical carriage

so you mean to say, the end-result of all this is humans will be out-of-the-job so to speak?
Definitely not as mature and portable from my experience.
SCQA: What is it, how does it work, and how can it help me?
Okay but can you parse my question a little more carefully? Because I said "the whole point".

Also you're talking about the context of the art and it's meaning. That does not depend on any actual person being involved or any long drawn out process of creating the art. In fact, if you really dig into the capabilities of AI tools today and think about it, they dramatically accelerate the ability for some artists to create lots of meaningful work that is very contextual. Or to make more carefully refined works that they have iterated on and carefully curated.
No and that's not the point I'm making; cloning the technology is not the same as cloning the data. The claim was that they trained DeepSeek for a fraction of the cost that OpenAI spent training ChatGPT, but if one was trained off the web and the other was trained off the trained data of the first, then it's not a fair comparison.
Was there a period earlier in Californian history where it was the norm, or has it always been discouraged?

In South Australia which is similarly dry to parts of California, newly built houses are required to have rainwater tanks installed and plumbed to the house (e.g., to flush a toilet, for example).
Models should be better at clarifying the prompt before actually spamming with bad answers.
Huge shout-out to the ISL706ARH for saving our butt through heavy ion testing.
Here's the language proposal for those that are interested.

https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/8928
Don’t forget that the USA federal government has hit the debt limit and is currently attempting "extraordinary measures" to avoid sovereign default. The next few days/weeks will be interesting.
When my work laptop got an upgrade recently, I received a Dell Precision 5690 and it seems pretty MacBook-like, like they tried to clone a MBP. Granted, I haven't ever owned a modern MacBook so maybe it's not quite as high quality but it's definitely sleeker than my old ThinkPad. The one thing that's very non-Mac is the power adapter. It's a brick, and while it's USB-C, they used a non-standard voltage/wattage so it's unclear if/how well third party adapters would work.
No, that will provide justification to divert the 60% of "environmental water" flow sustaining natural wetlands and fish populations into agricultural usage, an issue central valley farmers have been unhappy about for years.
o3 mini’s date cut-off is 2023, so it’s unfortunately not gonna be useful for anything that requires knowledge of recent framework updates, which includes probably all big frontend stuff.
sama and OpenAI’s CPO Kevin Weil both suggested this is coming soon, as a direct response to DeepSeek, in an AMA a few hours ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/EElFfcU8ZO
Is the deeper connection to art just about the fact that there was another person who felt something, or is it about what the art is communicating/representing? I would argue that the real value is in what feeling or information is actually being communicated, not what person or process was on the other end.
Neither of the reservoirs in question are on that graphic, FYI. Both of these lakes are empty and generally would be in January. Which is why combined outflows of 2500 cubic feet per second is extraordinary. https://www.spk-wc.usace.army.mil/plots/california.html?name...
This put such a big smile on my face!

“Abstractions that aren’t obstructions” is always the goal, feels good to hear you say we’ve hit that sweet spot :)
E-Ink TRMNL device firmware
An actual private structure running parallel to the pseudo-private structure that the American polity is turning itself into.

̷W̷h̷a̷t̷ could go wrong ̷?̷
I can't even believe how many times in a day I frustratedly think "whatever, go away!"
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> The activity monitor in my dock set to show CPU is sufficient for my needs.

Another #TIL for Apple hidden features
Most artists create art that nobody cares about. This is just reality. You can make music, and likely nobody will listen to it. You can write a book, and probably nobody will read it. You have to create for yourself and if you’re extremely lucky someone else will care, but probably not.

AI art is a cute trick, but it makes this point even more true. Why would you care about a picture I drew when you could generate 100 of them in minutes and way better as well? The fact that you can put a coin in the vending machine and get a picture or song or novel completely devalues the end product.

What remains is the process of creativity, of choosing a medium and exploring the boundaries of what it can do. I saw a Picasso exhibit that showed all the studies and sketches he’d done in preparation for a piece. That process IS the creation of the art. The final picture isn’t even that interesting.

If someone feels fulfilled generating images, good for them, I guess. To me it seems like a cheap fix and a trick that we will all eventually grow tired of.
No, an acrefoot is defined as a foot × an acre. Acres are a unit of area, and can be any shape. They’re especially useful for lakes because you generally know the area that the lake covers and measuring the depth is really easy. If your lake covers 1234 acres and the water rises by a two and a half feet, then obviously you have gained 1234 × 2.5 = 3085 acrefeet of water. It’s designed to be useful without requiring anyone to do any unit conversions at all.
I don't think so. Good landscaping requires knowledge of the site, the local ecosystem, and an understanding of how water and soil flow. It's a whole lot more than generating an image. The image is simply an output of the process.
Should be merged with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42895466
Small government at its smallest.
You just linked to three anecdotes. That doesn't prove anything, it just shows that HN users are willing to take a stance one way or the other sometimes.

If you wanted to prove that it's accurate you might include qualitative data, or, gasp, ignore HN since it comprises largely of marketers and not so many engineers.
Two years is a long time to wait when each week moves like the last one does.
of course. Each user input would be compared with other user input and existing data in the model before. Only legit and cross-referenced data could be used. Other data could still be used but marked as "possible controversial data". Good model should know that controversial data exists too and should distinguish it from the proper scientific data on each topic.
Funny thing: when trying something similar on Deep Seek, the thinking part mentioned alerting the authorities while still being firm with me.
You can write executable “scripts” in C by JIT compiling them with the shebang.

Tcc has the `-run` flag for easily doing this with a normal-ish shebang.

With a nasty polyglot preamble of C and bash at the top of your file, you can do it with any compiler.
This seems like an overly paranoid worldview and an attempt to blame me for your "doom and gloom" view of the world.

Right people as in "people who will do the job they are paid to do", with the wrong people being "people who refuse to do the job they are paid to do".

You know, the standard, widely accepted definition of "the right people".
Vanilla CSS in 2025 is super capable
It really feels as though Amazon's greatest fear is the idea that you might search for something and get no results. If we show you BS you explicitly said you aren't looking for then we're giving up the opportunity of tricking you into buying it anyways.

A bit ago I was searching for toothpaste that doesn't have mint in it. This is already a pain at a brick retailer, but I figured Amazon's huge product variety would help. Turns out their search is actively malicious to negative terms because otherwise I could buy just the one thing and be done with my shopping.

I should probably set up a similar homebrew search to get around this. Purchase history is far less important to me because I don't buy much from Amazon.
Imagine you are a completely non-technical friend of yours. They are very smart but they do not know a damn thing about configuring computers. They mostly just use their phone and/or tablet.

How much of "just append ?udm=14 to your search query" is absolute gibberish?

Is "install the udm14 plugin" going to make any more sense?

Is "go to udm14.com for all your searches" going to stick? Are there phishing sites at umd14.com, mdm41.com, uwu44.com, and all the other variants they'll probably misremember it as?

"just search for 'fucking whatever' and the AI crap goes away", on the other hand, is funny, uses a common dictionary word that everyone above the age of five knows how to spell, and is intensely memorable.
> has horrible window management

I keep thinking I'll get used to it, but it's been years and every day I hate it a little more.

My escape is to maximize a terminal on a large monitor and use https://zellij.dev/ as my "window manager"
Seems cool but I have questions about Arcticdb - is Polars, DuckDB etc really so limited for data science analysis that it's justified to write a new library specifically for time-series analysis on S3 files?
This is presented like it's a good thing, but it quite probably implies a local maximum in cultural abilities for a long time.

How do experts become experts? Through time and practice. Many great photographers hone their skills or discover their talent when working at entry level and mid level positions - shooting portraits, etc.

Most great musicians, bartenders, software engineers, etc. do the same. Without entry level/apprentice jobs the only other model is patronage from the rich, and that was never a good model even before today's rich largely abandoned the belief that they had a responsibility to contribute back to the society that allowed them to become rich.

Without a pipeline of new talent, where will new state of the art come from? Where will more training data for the planet burners come from?
The triumphant return of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

(since it was such a bipartisan hit the first time round)
Wrong on all accounts. Open a map.
Many people see AI as a replacement for the human, but current-gen AI is in my view a replacement for the hammer. It's a tool that needs to be wielded with skill for good results... And when that happens, the productivity can be truly amazing.
Can some Trumper explain to us all why it's a good idea for Elon (the biggest capitalist in the world) to have access to all of the Treasury's data?

Naively it seems corrupt.
Do you have a reference for the legislation that originally required a permit, or is the bill you reference just a clarification to make explicit that a permit is not required? Seems like this bill is just a clarification and grants explicit permission for landscaping contractors to install rainwater catchment systems which they already had permission for hot tubs, patios, pools, and all the other things listed.
Get back to me when you can provide real sources, not some hallucinatin' jumped-up stochastic parrot.
Linux actually has some commercial apps available. Though I'm not sure how they compare to their Mac and Windows versions. Yes some apps aren't available but that's true of Mac as well, though to a lesser extent.
One can do this, but it is probably one of the least terrifying things one could use CRISPR for.
And then all of their stans taking on a persecution complex because people that actually made all of the “data” don’t uncritically accept their work as equivalent adds insult to injury.
I did a project a while back that created a wizard to fill in a form - I also found it much easier to simply complete the form, but when we demonstrated it to target users they nearly cried with relief. It was a good reminder of the importance of knowing what users actually want.

I should go back to look at that and see if we could incorporate an easy ChatBot as an improvement.
Ask HN: Why did Google buy chelsea market?
I went skiing at Big Sky with bunch of Microsofties as part of Microsoft ski club back in 1999. One of them was a pretty big guy who on the first day of skiing took a bad tumble and threw out his knee. He had to stay at the chalet for most of the rest of the trip, missing out on some glorious snow. I remember asking him what he did while recuperating and he showed me what became .NET. He said it was going to be awesome and transformational, with many other nice adjectives. I didn't really get that from his demo, it was pretty rough, but yeah, he was right. I've been Csharping almost every workday since it came out as 1.0 and its an excellent framework, especially these days where it runs everywhere.
Plus, a lot of media is owned by the ultra wealthy. There’s a big incentive for them to please politicians to keep on their good side, and to lobby for their other business interests.

There’s no incentive for them to be “brave.” Capitalism doesn’t really care if you’re a coward or sociopath, just if you can make money at low cost.

Independent journalism and independent newspapers should be much more important today of all times when misinformation can spread like a wildfire. This should be a non-partisan issue. But let’s be real, it’s sadly so much easier for a politician to win by lying and stirring up hate than by being a decent person with ok policies. So there’s no political incentive to improve either.
Look, I’m not disagreeing with you here. I’m not even talking about the internal mechanics—I’m simply referring to the user experience. You're fixating on my choice of words and taking my point in a direction I never intended.

All I’m saying is that knowing .NET makes it easier to write PowerShell scripts, and I appreciate that. If that’s not your experience, that’s fine—but that doesn’t change my perspective.
find out without ever touching your spotify account, https://lustmord.bandcamp.com, only whoever you share your browser search history with will know
OpenJVM does it, iirc. If the handler is triggered too often at a location, it will swap back to emitting null checks though since it is rather expensive.

Of course, there's a big difference between doing it in a VM and doing it in a random piece of software.
Well… the moment you have to do FFI in Java is when you give up. It’s straight up the worst I’ve seen from all higher level languages. I rather do CGO than use JNI. Its actually less bad when using Rust but still bad.
"India is on track to become the largest EV market by 2030, with rise in investment over the next 8-10 years."

https://www.ibef.org/industry/electric-vehicle
Face it - FreeBSD has been taken over by corpos for years. The open source community tried warning them, but no, they never listened.
Apparently this: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/arcticdb/
page 404ing?
In this case, not dispositive.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexzhavoronkov/2022/07/27/elon...
Same reason IBM helped run concentration camps by sending their engineers to work on the machines
> Avoid concussion no matter what.

I'd revise that to "take reasonable precautions." I speak from experience: I gave myself a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) while mocking the relevant precaution in college.

> it will be multifaceted and multi factor.

Same goes for brain injury recovery. For example, there's some evidence intermittent fasting helps with TBI recovery [1] (figure 1 is an observed behavior, not a marker).

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30734244/
F/0.38 camera lens made with oil immersion microscope objective
LLMs are pretty good at using the standard utilities.

That, combined with reading the man pages if it doesn’t work first try has been really effective for me.
There's no extraordinary mandate to do anything.

What are you feeding yourself?
Seems to have been memory holed: https://web.archive.org/web/20250128092802/https://www.fresh...
I'm just trying to understand at what level the censorship exists. Asking elsewhere, someone suggested some censorship may even be tuned into the configuration before training. If that's the case, then DeepSeek is less useful to the world.
Can you explain more about comfy ui? I heard it could work for running inference locally, but I couldn't get it running because I don't have Nvidia GPUs. Does it only work if you still have those?
thanks for sharing. i made a video where we mod this FW, set up a device, spin up an open source web client, then build + render a custom plugin in < 10 mins.

https://usetrmnl.com/blog/introducing-byos
I don't really understand what you're getting at here, and how it relates to the comment you're replying to.

You seem to be making the point that censorship is a moral good for some people, and that the USA needs competition in technology.

This is all well and good as it's your own opinion, but I don't see what this has to do with the aforementioned comment.
He paid full restitution to fix the plane and also is doing 150 hours of community service to learn to not be reckless.

Not really sure what actual jail time would accomplish in this case... more of a deterrent to others? Others probably already don't want to pay $65,000 and do 150 hours of community service. Unless they're just incredibly rich and also enjoy serving the community.
Firstly I don't think gp meant it literally, but conversationally as in: the definition decomposes to foot x chain x furlong.

Acres can be any shape, but gp is correct that acres were originally defined as chain x furlong (per wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furlong ). They're also correct that it's a weird combination of disparate sizes which doesn't lend itself to visualization.
For these tests, I self hosted the 14b version of R1 and ran it on my gaming gpu with ollama.
You also have all sorts of ancillary fees like the Information Commissioner’s annual charge.
Internal forecasts predicted that Tesla, with a market cap of ~40B in March 2018, would have a market cap of 750B before the end of 2020?

What's your source on this?