skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"lunacy"

Middle English: from Old French lunatique, from late Latin lunaticus, from Latin luna ‘moon’ (from the belief that changes of the moon caused intermittent insanity).
I don't have my phone on me at all times. More, it is often the case that I will set the timer for whatever I just put in the oven and let the kids know to take it out when the timer goes off while I go take care of something in the yard/other. That is, the timer is often specific to the room I set the timer in. Not to me.
> "On sale" usually means "the price is the same it's been for the last six months, but we're showing a big discount on a price that was never charged", in my experience.

In many/most jurisdicitions, this isn't permitted by regulators (e.g. it would typically qualify as false advertisement), but enforcement is mixed. You can help regulators by reporting it and including supporting documentation when you see it.
I get the feeling that the next step in this evolution is Typst.
I tried to do this myself about ~1.5 years ago, but ran into issues with capturing state for sockets and open files (which started to show up when using some data science packages, jupyter widgets, etc.)

What are some of the edge cases where ForeverVM works and doesn't work? I don't see anything in the documentation about installing new packages, do you pre-bake what is available, and how can you see what libraries are available?

I do like that it seems the ForeverVM REPL also captures the state of the local drive (eg. can open a file, write to it, and then read from it).

For context on what I've tried: I used CRIU[1] to make the dumps of the process state and then would reload them. It worked for basic things, but ran into the issues stated above and abandoned the project. (I was trying to create a stack / undo context for REPLs that LLMs could use, since they often put themselves into bad states, and reverting to previous states seemed useful). If I remember correctly, I also ran into issues because capturing the various outputs (ipython capture_output concepts) proved to be difficult outside of a jupyter environment, and jupyter environments themselves were even harder to snapshot. In the end I settled for ephemeral but still real-server jupyter kernels where I via wrapper managed locals() and globals() as a cache, and would re-execute commands in order to rebuild state after the server restarts / crashes. This allowed me to also pip install new packages as well, so it proved more useful than simply static building my image/environment. But, I did lose the "serialization" property of the machine state, which was something I wanted.

That said, even though I personally abanonded the project, I still hold onto the dream of a full Tree/Graph of VMs (where each edge is code that is executed), and each VM state can be analyzed (files, memory, etc.). Love what ForeverVM is doing and the early promise here.

[1] https://criu.org/Main_Page
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Unfortunately I feel like recruiters at larger companies are squinting at CVs and think like: "Open source? Entrepreneur? Eh, oh. Smell of despair and discarded pizza boxes.".

Of course unless your passion project is very successful one, but majority of them are not.
You are forgetting why it ended, it seems. You appear to me to be Cicero clinging to the way things were and not realizing they’ve changed.
Had plenty of mosquito myself around Cork and Galway, but maybe it's different in the east.
You know, people said the same thing the first time voice assistants came out. They said the same thing when VR came out. Even when 3D printers came out for God's sake.

"Everyone will have one!"

It's a mistake to think every person is the same level of enthused with new technology as you are.
i said "typewriter", and there is only one kind of underline on a typewriter.

converting old typewritten notes, they may contain typewriter underlining, and it may represent italics. Markdown would be entirely sufficient to handle that.

there was no need to de-clarify my comment.
That doesn't solve the cost issue. Rooftop is at least 10X as expensive as plopping down panels on flat land, even before taking into account the efficiency of doing it in a desert vs rainy SF.

Same for home battery storage. A Powerwall ~$1000/kwh, grid storage is $250/kwh and can actually stabilize the grid.

Incentivizing it is a massive waste of public money. It is mandating citizens spend $1, when a commercial operation can do it for 10 cents.
Netflix's games were once its best-kept secret – where did it all go wrong?
>You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet. When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

Emphasis added.
I have similar issues, though maybe not as extreme. Daily Metamucil send to be the fix.
Can I use this to convert flowcharts to yaml representations?
Ask HN: AI Agents for Automated Web E2E Testing
Hey HN,

together with a friend we realized in our engineering jobs that e2e testing is often broken and not worth the effort. But AI Agents could change this massively.

There are a couple of reasons why AI agents could revive the topic:

- LLMs can automatically adjust tests to the evolving product by simply looking at the git diff and changes in the UI

- It'll become much easier and cheaper to have functioning E2E tests

Trends supporting this:

- Vibe coding is on the rise and the increasing amount of changes needs to be tested

- Software will be interactive, like games, where the task and suggestion comes to the user instead of the user navigating to the workflow

Are current tools just not good enough yet, or do people simply not care enough about the problem?
The best way I came across doing this is to try and do a "thousand yard stare" while looking at the image. It's super reliable.
That is crazy coincidence. i just released demo my rogue like breakout clone on Steam next fest. i picked a more of a bullet hell/shoot em up kind of approach. Faster the better.

I had great fun playing yours. Sound design is especially good.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3499470/Rogue_Bricks_Demo...
They are posted by the Quaterminions.
Personally I disagree. Older versions of office were better, yes, but we've been on ribbons for a while now. It's awful UX, we're all just used to Microsoft making shit software that mostly works so we look past it.

This is pretty consistent across all Microsoft products. Over time they sort of deteriorate and rot. We're up to, like, a dozen different settings windows in Windows now. Half of them don't have an "apply" button. The other half don't even report when configuration fails. And, cherry on top, Microsoft has taken a "pretend it didn't happen" approach to modern error reporting. So, you don't even have a number to take to customer service.

It's difficult to take Microsoft software seriously when Excel can't open two workbooks with the same name (for three decades, btw) and Windows says "oops! Windows made a fucky wucky :(" when anything bad happens. And, heaven forbid you have to configure IIS on Windows Server. Jesus Christ, I would rather blow my head off, blend the flesh chunks into a smoothie, and then drink the aforementioned smoothie by pouring it into my now exposed neck hole.

But, bright side, at least NTFS is only 1000x slower than competing filesystems (ext4, btrfs, zfs). So, you can grab a cup of coffee while trying to open the logs on your failing Windows Server.
I still maintain that if that's the case then something is wrong. More users reporting bugs for relevant edge cases is not a nuisance, it's the crowdsourcing of testing and each such reported issue is gold because then he can fix it before he as a user of his own software runs into it. Assuming he actually uses the software. (I also do maintain a bunch of packages and I do use them daily.)

Making software proprietary and for-pay, especially such a small tool, doesn't just significantly reduce the number of eyeballs this testing is crowdsourced to, but it also disincentivises issue reporting .. why should I spend the time to for free report sth to somebody who is making money off my testing and doesn't even bother to be transparent about how things work exactly (i.e. the source)?

If you really care about the quality of your work then maximizing the eye ball count and incentivise high qualith issue reporting.

Though if you want to maximize income instead, you keep it closed and ask for a subscription.

Quite obvious which option he chose.
would be nicer if there was a cheaper / simpler alternative (offline voice recognition, just timers and clock, possibly weather)

but it's nice to use your voice so you don't contaminate your phone. (preparing chicken and such)

the kitchen is pretty much the only use-case for voice assistants imo.
Got it. So you are just affirming the same kind of exogenous force your socialist interlocutors would, except its the colonial Spanish/Portuguese, not the United States? And when you spoke of attitude and preference above, you meant specifically those of these colonizers?

And hopefully not to be pendantic about it but you did in your reply precisely show how and why one might compare cocaine to alcohol. I am still confused about your point there, but it doesn't really seem important to your conceits anyway.
It's just an easter egg in case someone accidentally clicks on api.docspring.com or sends an API request without a path. I thought it would be more fun than a generic 404 error like this:

{
"status": "error",
"error": "Unrecognized request URL (GET: /)
}
I disagree. Getting a computer to play a game like a human has an incredibly broad range of applications. Imagine a system like this that is on autopilot, but can get suggestions from a twitch chat, nudging its behavior in a specific direction. Two such systems could be run by two teams, and they could do a weekly battle.

This isn’t an exercise in AI, it’s an exercise in TV production IMO.
Could you please stop breaking the site guidelines? We've already had to ask you once. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. Note this one:

"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads, and you've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly.

If you know more than others and are smarter and more above-average than others, that's great—in that case please share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn. If you don't have time or don't want to do that, that's fine too—but in that case please don't post. Posting putdowns instead doesn't help anybody, and it degrades the container.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Correct. Energy generation >1 is targeted for 2030. So it fits "fusion is 5 years away" trope.
The AI Plays Pokemon project only made it to Mt. Moon (where coincidentially ClaudePlaysPokemon is stuck now) with many months of iteration and many many hours of compute.

The reason Claude 3.7's performance is interesting is that the LLM approach defeated Lt. Surge, far past Mt. Moon. (I wonder how Claude solved the infamous puzzle in Surge's gym)

https://www.anthropic.com/research/visible-extended-thinking
Also that you won't necessarily know when it makes that wrong turn until it's too late (you're in the river now).
It sounds like you want universities to instill a sense of respect for other people with a different socioeconomic background. The current administration would consider that to be "woke" or "DEI", and fine Duke the equivalent of it's endowment based on a tenuous link to the anti-affirmative-action SCOTUS ruling.
I remember scoring an early key for the Xbox 360 edition by solving a puzzle tweeted out by one of the developers. I was thrilled… my friends weren’t!
Idk what the parent comment said but let’s make AI robots fight each other gladiator style.
The complaint is that people cannot connect, and that hardware vendors dont want to go down the pit of other peoples sh*(blobs).

Magnificent article. Clearly shows his expertise going down the sh*/rabbit hole, the more I read, the more dismal it got.

Clearly the way to get around the technical side of the DNS bug, is to do what cell providers do: Start the device in the office of the provider, and let the DNS resolve there, and if it does not work, get a ticket started right then and there.

Out in the field... use another devices Wifi, and do the same thing.

If you cannot get cell phone service or Wifi, then ( I literally took about 45 mins on the phone to T-Mobile, which immediately refused to take responsibility, and also refused to put anything in writing: Then their recommendation is to get a satellite link with, StarLink!. I would rather be slapped in the face with a cold fish.

Cell phone service providers all let this happen, until of course they almost all sold out to T-Moble. ( LifeLine, Assurnace, etc.. )
The next challenge could be making TypeScript types run an LLM. I wonder how their performance would compare to that of Excel sheets.
Soon to be replaced by IEEE P2874.
Mermaid charts! Supported by github and very readable as plaintext

https://github.blog/developer-skills/github/include-diagrams...
I'm aware of Rust code in various states of "development/experimentation" within GM and Toyota, as well as rust applications that might already be in your home if you've purchased any expensive, brand name appliances recently. It's slow, but happening.
The average office worker is productive for less than 3 hours per day https://www.vouchercloud.com/better-living/office-worker-pro...

That's normal across all industries. If there are people who are actually productive for 7 hours per day, they are extreme outliers.

I used to think that I worked 8-10 hours per day. That was until I measured my actual productivity.

I worked as a translator once. When I timed myself, I found that I can translate about 2,000 words in 1 hour. But in a day, I struggle to do more than 5,000 words, no matter how hard I push myself- even though that's just 2.5 hours of work! And if I do 5,000 words every day, I burn out within a week.
Protomolecule comes to mind.
I don't think this project is meant to "solve" a task (hammer, nail) insomuch as it's just an interesting "what if" experiment to observe and play around with new technology.
Quaternions and spherical trigonometry - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42880242 - Jan 2025 (48 comments)

Visualizing quaternions (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38043644 - Oct 2023 (42 comments)

Visualizing quaternions: an explorable video series (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31083042 - April 2022 (15 comments)

Visualizing quaternions: An explorable video series - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18310788 - Oct 2018 (32 comments)
it's been dead for a few years now. At this point it's just standard monopoly behavior -- weasel in, take over, dominate and extra maximum value until real competition happens or the government/regulations come into play.
From the abstract, it looks like they've tuned an anodization process to go all they way through the aluminum.

Transparent aluminum predates the existence of life on earth. Oxidized metals and transition metals result in a crystal or glass that is clear, hard, heat tolerant, and brittle. It's not malleable like metal, but the extra hardness and heat tolerance makes it extremely useful in applications where malleability isn't needed.

Anodizing aluminum oxidizes it into what is technically corundum but most people call artificial sapphire. Usually it's used to coat the surface of an already formed aluminum object, so that it has a hard surface, but otherwise functions like any other piece of aluminum.

Artificial sapphire has a lot of uses, and historically has been used to make the window in watches, and is still used for screens on modern smart watches. There are a few phone models that use sapphire instead of silica glass, but it's rare because it isn't as drop resistant.

The process outlined in the paper may make it easier to manufacture artificial sapphire products, especially ones that are in any shape other than a flat sheet, but it's not a new material.
Big fan of Roni Kaufman
https://bsky.app/profile/ronikaufman.bsky.social
TBF it sounds more like grandma
Thank you for that recommendation.
Different approach with no energy/volume (kWhr/m^3) metric in the abstract:

"Photocatalytic C–F bond activation in small molecules and polyfluoroalkyl substances" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08327-7 ..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42444729
Summary: We know, we know, but don't make us rewrite everything in Rust.
Why do you think person capable of making doom run in such an environment is incapable of basic tree operations?
Lucid Is Getting a New CEO as Peter Rawlinson Steps Aside
Yes, I agree. That's why I say it has the edge over its peers, i.e. Slashdot. But AFAIK Slashdot is still operating just fine. It's probably helped by its sophisticated distributed-moderation system, but surely mainly because it's the same kind of users as here.
Neobrutalism Components
What’s your stance on Trump’s $30 billion crypto thing? His 30 felony convictions and being found by a jury to have committed sexual assault? When he lusts after Invanka does that cause you concern? Do you find it dignified that he hawks products from the Oval Office? Do you think it is statesmanly to engage in a Twitter feud with a 15 year old kid? When he used a sharpie to change a NOAA hurricane map to fit his own uneducated view did it make you proud of him? When he mocked a disabled person’s disability did that feel good to you?
Nitroglycerin-responsive switch for on-demand production of therapeutic proteins
The Perceived Cost of Living
I worked in the automotive space (CAD/CAE/CAM) and there was tons of code that had commit headers starting in 1996 - the year they moved the previous code base into that particular VCS. Plenty of files had less than 10 commits to them since.

They still had some FORTRAN in the code base. According to my coworker who worked there for 25 years, his first project at the company involved the initiative to replace FORTRAN with C.

So yeah, there's plenty of C code hanging around that's not going anywhere.
I appreciate the attempt but the reasoning of "it requires maintenance" is entirely moot. You have to do this regardless. Its just whether or not you publish it open-source. You are still saying, internally, this is good enough for customers, when you push it out.

This is a (very) thinly veiled attempt at a closed garden of sorts, IMHO. Its a "clean" excuse for not giving away the milk for free, but it falls short on actual reasoning.
That's a pretty low bar, at least over the last several years. I feel like any time I ask Google something uncommon, it presumes a meant something else, and is hard set on answering that question, no matter how many quotes or minus symbols I add to the search.
They certainly aided and abetted. See IBM.
If you already have one the utility is obvious in the kitchen. You don't want to touch your dirty hands to your phone and you definitely don't want to touch your food after touching your even dirtier phone.

I don't think that is useful enough to allow Bezos to listen to everything in my home, but will absolutely enable this feature in a product like Home Assistant.
Salad Oil Scandal of 1963
404. Mirror?
I've found it easiest to just leave a lightweight, compact umbrella as a permanent fixture in my everyday-carry bag!
Not talking about Reinforcement learning type AI, I’m talking about classically programmed AI with standard pathfinders, GOAP, behavior trees, etc…
But think of the profits of the defense contractors!/s
Given the reception of the factory worker post yesterday, in your mind, what would the reception of it have been a couple of years ago that it wasn't yesterday?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43166249

which got downranked, resulting in

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43170850
I bet the people involved in the decision to bork it up don't even use the product. Management by OKRs. The numbers look good, ship it!
A failed product that has sold 600 million units?
There was a YC CEO that in a podcast basically asserted that innovation was pretty much done by people less than 30 years of age. I had been gearing to apply to that company until I saw that comment.
I've read a few that were mangled horribly, people who didn't read other versions so they lost context or made really bad choices in the translation.

It will be a while before not only can the languages be translated but also the intent communicated in context.
I'll take "smart speaker that actually understands the music I want to play" first, then we can get into scheduling appointments to fix my oven.
Batteries are destined to be a commodity, if they aren't already. Doesn't seem like an obviously great long term plan.
This guy wrote a book and now we get a smattering of pay walled article submissions, or submissions with some vague quotes from the book... it's weird as I've yet to see an article that really explains what the book proposes outside some vague sort of catch phrases.
What got you to finally create an account? (not doubting you, am curious on the reader/commenter dynamic)
A 5-figure income from side gigs is pretty substantial anywhere.
But they didn't murder their own customers. Their customer, a government, did the murdering.

As long as government claims the right to a monopoly on violence, it is reasonable to hold them to far, far higher standards than anyone else, including corporations. There is only so much damage one company or one cartel can do, but with government, the downside is unbounded. As I suspect we're about to see for ourselves.
Generalize much?
“…where we solved hard engineering problems at scale.”

But were those solutions good solutions to those problems? I’ve seen enough evidence to be reluctant to point blank take this as a positive background. If you could be more specific about which problems that could go a long way to validating your credentials in another high-risk industry where catastrophic failure has large repercussions.

MagicLeap vibes all over again.
I do think shipping a product that has real users (and everything it entails, like writing the docs) is 100x more important than having leetcode and common interview tactics fresh on your mind.

Without context, I suppose I can see the Homebrew guy's case possibly signaling a sort of hubris since it was just a fizzbuzzy-level question.

In his defense, I would find it ridiculous if we just had a technical convo about how I built Homebrew and then they gave me leetcode question.

At least an easy leetcode question is insulting in a bearable way, like inverting a binary tree. But a medium+ question risks me not even being able to solve like, like having to use dynamic programming. And that's just humiliating.
Eclipse Xtext: a language development framework
Yea you can just be like the Banksy of game design. Put out a free game somewhere, easy to reach, people play it and that’s it.
He's talking about problems with the world, not with fusion power. We don't need a magic bullet to make all our problems disappear, we just need to apply the resources we have in a consistent and correct manner.
This law was absolutely crafted in full coordination with the other five eyes. Aus has a very similar law on the books.
Like the parent says, you already know where it is. I'm struggling to understand the case where you are further from the destination than the x37B, with an orbit 60,000km from earth.
Here you are: https://shop.squiggle.tools/
Add a few dozen items to an Amazon wishlist a few weeks before Prime day. Take a screenshot. Come back on Prime day and see how many are "Prime Day Deals!" with roughly the same price they used to be.

Higher, quite frequently.
https://archive.is/LCu5f