skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twenty years later, I still remember the images of making a cottonball float like a cloud, and piloting a pneumatic tube of toilet paper rolls.
Long ago it was a goal of Servo to adhere to the Chromium embedding framework, and differentiate itself from Gecko by having a good embedding story. I'm unclear whether that is still a goal of the modern project, however.
You mention C++, Rust experience being desirable, but does Grafana actually build any products where such experience would be continuously useful? My understanding was that Grafana was mostly a golang shop?
So you started out your hiring practices focused solely on one race...and you don't think it's racist?
NASA is ripe for some cuts. The Senate Launch System is a waste; both Space-X and Blue Origin have cheaper big boosters. There are too many NASA centers. The Space Force can take over Canaveral. The moon base should be all robots.
> I (16+ years developer) prefer to iteratively go between coding and designing

I have an extra ten years on you and couldn't agree more.

There are two jokes:

- A few months of programming can save weeks of design.

- A few months of design can save weeks of programming.

Inexperience is thinking that only one of these jokes is grounded in truth.

Recognizing which kind of situation you're in is an imperfect art, and incremental work that interleaves design with implementation is a hedge against being wrong.
There can't be a more democratized language than Python and in Python closures are defined literally using lambda keyword
To expand on it, I believe we could detect signs of possible biosphere by finding oxygen in the spectral lines of the planet's image. The idea being, free oxygen is highly reactive, and thus can exist in the atmosphere only for brief periods before oxidizing the first thing it bumps into. So, should we find a planet with lots of free oxygen in the air, we either got improbably lucky to catch it before it's gone, or... there is some process on the planet that's actively replenishing it.

On Earth, that process is the biosphere.
So this is mainly optimizing the prompt itself? E.g. RAG + optimizing few shot examples?
One of the things that we've been thinking about is when we're at scale (I would say scale is 50,000+ Coops in the field) I would love to build a circular food waste system where we use food expiring / thrown out from grocery stores to feed our Coop member's chickens. Then we'll do partnerships where our members can sell excess backyard-to-table eggs back to the grocery stores.

Most people don't get that eggs usually are 30-60 days old when you buy them at the grocery store and they have to travel up to 1000 miles to get there in cold storage.

Want to know how old your eggs are? On every egg carton there's a 3 digit number from 1 to 365. That is the day of the year the producer of eggs handed them off to the distributor. Producers have up to 30 days to hand it off to distributor and the distributor has an additional 30 days to hand off to retailer. Kinda wild!
The paper has been cited 104 times

so there are another 104 useless scientific papers to add to the ever increasing pile

No wonder I am so sceptical of modern science

I love Retraction Watch
Same issue. I haven't been able to visit any websites powered by Cloudflare on my SeaMonkey browser recently.
True but anyone that cares about battery life or runs more than one of these apps hates it. So I guess my threshold for "taken by storm" is both "very common" and "users don't hate it".
it doesn't. The largest egg producer in the nation had no infected birds. There was no shortage. The companies just conspired to restrict supply so that they could gouge consumers and stuff their pockets. They were ordered to pay millions in fines because of it (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/egg-suppliers-ordered-to-pay-17...)

They successfully tricked you into thinking that their prices are set by supply and demand. They're probably not the only company fooling you either. For just one other example, literal tons of unsold/unworn, perfectly wearable and desirable clothing gets shipped overseas, burned, or thrown into the ocean or landfills. The excess supply of clothing is so vast that it's now a form of pollution (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/chile...). If clothing prices were set by supply and demand they'd be paying us to take the clothes off the rack. Supply and demand are a good explanation of economics for grade schoolers, but it doesn't explain the world we live in.
I've never seen one actually kill a chicken but I killed one a little bit ago that was in there eating a carcass. And that's what I've seen come sniffing around the traps I leave. I've trapped 2 skunks in the last year - only 1 raccoon, and he was able to make an escape. Smartest animals I've had to battle in the wild.
My rooster was a jerk, but he deserved to die the way he did, which was the way he lived: picking fights with things that could kill him in an instant if they bothered to care. I'm glad that he died fighting the beak and talons of an osprey or bald eagle, and not to the remorseless (literal) machinery of market efficiency.
It gets even wilder than that.

There is a psychological concept called "anchoring" which associates two different things perceptually. For example, it's what happens when you listen to a song during a particular time in your life, and then many years later you hear the song and feel all the things you felt in that moment with all of the memories triggered etc.

You make a good point about language itself being some form of abstraction in reference to the objective world. But this conversation reminds me of a famous artwork called "The Treachery of Images." It is a painting of a tobacco pipe with the caption "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" ("This is not a pipe" in English).

Through the painting, we can appreciate that a picture of a pipe is an abstraction that represents a pipe, and is not the same thing as a pipe itself. It is a painting that appeals directly to reason.

The philosophical and scientific question is: when a dog hears the word "walk", or sees a leash, is it conceptual abstraction at play; the understanding of a logical category... or is it emotional anchoring that came about through Pavlovian conditioning and having that word associated with a memory of a concrete?
And this argument reveals the grotesque truth of the matter: it's not actually about ensuring that everyone is treated equally and fairly—it's actually about socially engineering segments of the population other than one's own, to act in accordance with one's wishes, such that one feels good about oneself. This is all done utterly selfishly and self-servingly, regardless of not only whatever said population segments actually desire for themselves, but also regardless of potential nth-order consequences of these actions for the rest of society.

Additionally, in acting this way, one unwittingly (I hope!) infantilizes these other population segments, robbing them of agency and self-determination in the process!

The whole thing is a complete mess, top-to-bottom—and, as a society, we are long overdue in reevaluating this entire line of thinking and how willfully we accept it at face value.
> Also, Fedora's gnome has no windows minimize/maximize buttons if you can believe it!

That's a setting, isn't it? Install gnome-tweaks, then under "Window Titlebars", you can turn them back on.

Granted, it's a stupid default, and I have no idea what the GNOME team was thinking on that one.
I've been fighting trying to chunk SEC filings properly, specifically surrounding the strange and inconsistent tabular formats present in company filings.

This is giving me hope that it's possible.
From the description:

I have one "Intro to LLMs" video already from ~year ago, but that is just a re-recording of a random talk, so I wanted to loop around and do a lot more comprehensive version.

I think he has videos on building GPT2 from scratch, but this seems more high-level.
Apple Has Become IBM [video]
》 So there's a very real chance at this deal offering something closer to ~1 month of pay before it suddenly gets dropped due to budget negotiations.

I do not see your arguments

US has worker protections, even if US government goes bancrupt, it has to pay its obligations. And if government refuses to pay, no worker, even if employed, is getting anything!
I basically agree, which is why it's kind of funny to see all the discussion in other threads here with people arguing about why can't ban AI or how Facebook was good because it created market value or whatever. Most of those platforms would be better off just outright banned.

I do think, though, that for at least some platforms it's possible to use them in a limited way where you confine yourself to relatively small communities that are focused on some common interest that genuinely brings together people who enjoy sharing it. You mentioned Discord for instance and that's one, if you can find the right servers. I think it's possible to do that on Reddit too. You just have to never visit the "front page" and stick only to subreddits that you actually get value out of. It's harder approaching impossible with ones like Facebook that are more doggedly algorithm-driven and don't put moderation in the control of users in the same way.

Of course, the lurking issue is that putting moderation in the control of users is building the platform on free labor and those good subcommunities are at risk of imploding when cracks emerge in the dike separating them from the wider platform userbase. And that's likely to happen because even those "safely usable" platforms are ultimately beholden to VC money that's going to demand enshittification eventually.

Cohost was by far the best attempt I've seen for many years, but sadly couldn't make a go of it in the toxic ecosystem we've got.
Before the mid 1980s radio was much different. Basically MTV started the era of music industry consolidation and the Billboard charts getting corrupted. Before the mid 80s there was more regional music and the charts pulled from most cities. Then they switched to just 8 or 12 markets and incorporated other factors that allowed for a #1 based on Corporate influence.
Is this where we're at now? Thinking that the new administration will just openly refuse to pay people's salaries as part of a formal deal?
Is this disturbing? This is the state every eu citizen potentially live in, due to the cloud act
818k jobs, not 818k USD

https://www.bls.gov/ces/notices/2024/2024-preliminary-benchm...

They're usually within +/- 0.1% for the estimate, that time it was 0.5% off
I saw a Republican (not a politician) pushed on the above points in a debate. Their response was that America should be doing exceptionally better than other countries, not merely better.

You might think that this isn't a very satisfying answer for those who aren't already onboard.

I'm not saying that this is a steel-man rational argument for Republicans, but I think it is a popular narrative to quell cognitive dissonance within their ranks (applied to other issues as well).

The pain is easier to endure if you truly believe that the pain is for your own benefit.
Oh sorry, just noticed this.
> Of course it changes.

That's literally the opposite of your original claim.

> We went from Biden to Trump: do you want to explain that with electoral composition?

If I wanted to do that, I probably would have actually claimed that particular change could be explained that way.
At $PREVIOUS_JOB, the team I was on worked the best when we had no manager. Or rather, we had a director (who should not have been managing us directly) meet with us once a week to tell us "here's what we're headed ... good?" and let us go work in quiet until the next meeting (or meet with us sooner if something really important cropped up).
The code blocks aren't in a preformatted tag like <pre> so the whitespace gets collapsed. It seems the intention was to turn spaces into &nbsp; but however it was done was messed up because lots of spaces didn't get converted.
>>> The sad part is the starvation and suffering was brought about by their own government.

>> That is not true. The starvation was planned by Hitler and he gave explicit directives

>> to that effect. You're essentially reproducing the nazi propaganda.

> And you're essentially reproducing Soviet propaganda.

Are you actually claiming that the explicit Hitler's order to starve the city and bombard into submission is "Soviet propaganda"? Per Generalplan "Ost", city was to be flooded, population - starved.

You are engaging in literal genocide denial here.
Yeah, I even resubscribed to chatgpt. I have free Gemini, but it is really underwhelming
It is more insane to me that we need a law for this.
Uber Opens Waitlist for Waymo Rides in Austin Ahead of Launch
Additional discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42944631
I LOATHE peacock. I don't know what checks they do at the start of the stream, but they always peg me at 720p or lower resolution despite having over 300mb. Its not an issue on any other streaming app and they give you no option to set it manually. Streams look like a dog's breakfast on my 4k TVs.
Man the hit pieces keep coming. Trying to convince everyday Americans to distrust a different country and unequivocally trust their own. This kind of propaganda won’t last forever.
My advice would be to give it a try! There are literally no downsides to crashing and burning, if you do decide to show up. And you'll be surprise how quickly you can improve with very little experience under your belt.

I'd recommend trying to attend an in-person event, and try to join a team, or attend with friends.

I think the biggest revelation will be just how much work goes into making a semi-polished game, and how many different skills are required.
During the summer I was getting ~9-10 eggs a day, and we probably averaged eating 6 a day - so besides the size and taste, a big thing is that unwashed eggs last a long time.
Comparing this to the current situation in America, both Hitler and Musk/Trump largely said what they wanted to do before hand:

>Mein Kampf, in essence, lays out the ideological program Hitler established... Hitler's revolutionary goals included expulsion of the Jews, and the unification of German peoples into one Greater Germany. Hitler desired to restore German lands to their greatest historical extent, real or imagined. (Wikipedia)

On the other hand Musk/Trump are mostly about reducing government bureaucracy, excessive wokeness, illegal immigration and the like which is quite a different thing.
> I don't trust the product's ability to stay around.

I also generally have this mindset, but I've come to think of it through the lens of me getting a better experience for a while and going back down to what I had before vs having never had that better experience.

Before I paid for Kagi I worried "what if it's great and then they go under?" But then I'd just go back to Google and move on, having never had that better search experience. I guess it's kind of like "better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?" Except that quote seems a bit over dramatic for a search engine...
Rust Game Engine Fyrox 0.36 is out – Version 1.0 is next
According to the maintainer, the next version is version 1.0. This is the largest release in the history of the project. Production ready Rust Game Engine is coming soon! What are use cases for a game engine using Rust would have that's unique compared to other engines?
> a technical disagreement.

For it to be technical disagreement, there should be _anything_ to back it up. All I've heard is "another language would spread and become unmaintainable" is one, that's just emotions. There is nothing technical about his reasoning on why he doesn't want those patches to land.

> If that's "sabotage" then anyone saying "I don't think we should go ahead with this" is guilty of "sabotage".

Sabotage part is saying "I will do anything to stop rust from landing in Linux code base" (paraphrasing). Calling in cancer just unprofessional and rude, but that's another story...which probably also violates CoC.
Suspicion warranted, but citation needed. For now my money is on archives.gov over archive.org.

And loc.gov over a website that prioritizes making Pac-Man and Donkey Kong playable in the browser yet leaked the drivers licenses and passports of its patrons, and whose public policy on their wonky javascript UX is "don't read books on a phone."
Please don't try to equate the criminal and its victim.
If I didn't want to have opinions, I would join a cult.
All Bear blogs can use hashtags now via Octothorpes
We can't ignore the influence of money even on open source, though. How many people are contributing in an anonymous manner, so they can't claim financial benefits from publicity and networking? How many open source projects are rejecting VC funding?
Remember all the hyperbole a year ago on how Google was failing and over?
Now, I could look at this relatively popular post about Google and revise my opinion of HN as an echo chamber, but I’m afraid it’s just that the downvote loving HNers weren’t able to make the cognitive leap from Gemini to Google.
Google's models have historically been total disappointments compared to chatGPT4. Worse quality, wont answer medical questions either.

I suppose I'll try it again, for the 4th or 5th time.

This time I'm not excited. I'm expecting it to be a letdown.
> Perhaps not with abortion rights, but maybe by shedding some of their zero-sum economic thinking, or race-centric thinking.

I think this is the big one here. Race and gender, this seems to be the only thing Dems can even talk about. I just saw videos from the recent DNC winter meeting. Watch for just 75 seconds starting here: https://youtu.be/1pHvkq4ehkE?t=93

I guess this apparently plays well among the tiny base that the DNC still has, but when most independents and moderates look at this nonsense, this party is a caricature of itself.

And my point isn't that they need to pull the far right into their tent somehow. But rather that most people including the average first-time voters, are much more moderate than the current DNC has positioned itself now, and it seems like Dems mostly just want to shock them rather than win their hearts.
BBC article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42948849
Show HN: Pomodoro Timer with Astrojs and ShadCN
This is my first full-fledged astro project, which is live and running. I'm primarily a designer but have a CS degree and love to tinker with code.

Features:
- Session history
- Session stats
- Custom timer with quick presets
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Not-so-annoying alarm sound

Please give me feedback to improve it further.
Have you seen any models that perform better at this? I last looked into this a year ago but at the time they were indeed quite bad at it across the board.
Private Credit Is the New Public Credit
Also, the last House was wracked with all sorts of deadlock because the Republican majority was only 5 representatives, and having 5 splinter off was incredibly easy.

The current House has an even smaller majority of 2 currently, so it's now infinitely more possible for a deadlock to happen.
It’s opt-in, as in - only works when you open app, go thru few steps and hold up phone in specific way.

Starlink supposedly works in your pocket. Which I can see why it can freak someone out, but satelite phone tracking has been around for decades…
By a whisker, I would bet you're right. But only because of your clause 'completely done by AI'. And I think that renders the bet kind of irrelevant.

I would also bet that sometime in the next 10 years, we'll have a masterpiece of cinema on our hands where the heavy lifting (visuals, sound, even screenwriting) was largely done by an AI, helpfully nudged and curated at important moments by human experts. Or, by just one person.
In response to "There is no pride in managing or understanding complexity.", I posit the following based on my experience:

Understanding and managing complexity is one of the first steps required in order to eliminate complexity. Some of the greatest achievements in my software development career have been instances where I carefully pulled apart inscruitable solutions, often short-term and built in desperation, and re-constituted them into well tested and much less complex solutions which were more understandable by devs and users.

I agree with most of Chris' observations and enjoyed reading his insights. Makes me want to do the same!
Yeah. Looks nasty. Don't the editors of the ACM have a say on how the article is presented?
Robocallers posing as FCC staff blocked after robocalling real FCC staff
This doesnt seem to change the fact there was a riot at all?? Surely you at least admit its a stain on the movement that this was the only non-peaceful transfer of power in a looong time, and if you consider how many western democracies have peaceful transfers of power, this is a huge abboration and absolutely not normal
There are other approaches such as manufacturing social proof and demand for yourself

Many women are pretty traumatized by the captive situation logic, because a lot of guys do that and its pretty obvious. Like a beggar on the street “asking a question” and you already know to ignore it but want to give the benefit of the doubt that its not about money

Manufacturing social integration is a deep but fairly simple topic that many people find attractive, but it nullifies the need to try to prolong an interaction with a woman and is pretty much the opposite. where essentially you’re too cool and have too much going on to entertain her. if you’re interested in women, plural, it doesnt have to be hard or a coveted thing with much work behind it. and you’re not putting her in a captive situation so your already ahead of the pack

honestly most attraction are gender neutral concepts that work with business partners and relationship partners a like
Yeah, I used Copilot instead of Cursor.
Why would that weaken the argument? Until Congress passes a law authorizing this stuff, it's still a blatant power grab and very much not like what has come before.
would encourage you to take a look at some of the real data here!
https://huggingface.co/spaces/reducto/rd_table_bench

you'll find that most of the errors here are structural issues with the table or inability to parse some special characters. tables can get crazy!
I am a current Roon user and have been for a few years. I will try this out and compare. Nice work! Always happy to see more competition in this space.
https://www.lyx.org/ (for print documentation), markdown (for normal documentation)
This is the castle in question:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilcoe_Castle
https://jeremyirons.net/kilcoe-castle/

It’s quite something. He bought it for IEP 150,000 (around €190,000) but likely spent an order of magnitude more restoring it.
The key is to stay in smaller, dedicated subreddits and avoid anything remotely popular or generic.
Agreed. There is exactly one way to think and believe on Reddit. The "outrage" might be tolerable or even informative in some cases if it was equally distributed.

It's disheartening when the one-track politics infects every square inch. It's a good point about bots because 1) they can be sold or rented to advertisers, 2) they are more valuable with higher karma, and 3) the easiest way to get a bot to harvest karma is by agreeing with the hive. So they're amplifying "the message" without even intending to.
I got to sign an MOU from NCSA about wage ranges about a year after he left because Marc was trying to extort more money out of them to stay there working on Mosaic. He left in a huff is the story, after they paid him a bunch including his tuition.

The plus side was I was already making 10% more than any of my other friends and got another 7% for signing it.
> Most of those platforms would be better off just outright banned.

In general, the goal should be improvement of humans, not avoidance of negative stimuli. Something has to exist where humans are rewarded for aligning to truth and reality, rather than emotion.
NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' from Its Websites