skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have started using AI for all of my side projects, and am now building stuff almost everyday. I did this as a way to ease some of my anxiety related to AI progress and how fast it is moving. It has actually had the opposite effect; it's more amazing than I thought.
I think the difficulty in reasoning about 2) is that given what interesting and difficult problems it can already solve, it's hard to reason about where it will be in 3-5 years.

But, I am also having more fun building things than perhaps the earliest days of my first code written, which is just over 7 years now.
Insofar as 1) goes, yes, I never want to go back. I can learn faster and more deeply than I ever could. It's really exciting!
Amazing! Well executed idea and great example that less is more. :)

Consider:
(a) locking mouse
(b) hiding cursor
(c) fullscreen mode

Here's an example if you don't want to search docs: https://mdn.github.io/dom-examples/pointer-lock/

As other mentioned UI needs a few more iterations, but it's ok. I don't think you need to track coins during the run as you don't spend them to buy upgrades - which is not obvious and may require a change in how you communicate things - but on the other hand it's yet another thing tickle your lizard brain and generate additional dopamine boost. A life counter is a must.

Take a look at Electron or Tauri.

This is enough to put it on Steam. In current state it's a very solid freebie, and with some additional work you could charge an entry tier indie fee.
I breed, train and sell horses. So I do construction, which started as a need to build structures for horses, and then turned into side gigs. It's easy as an engineer with a maxint salary and -tism to enter the construction field, because you have the discipline and the skill to read and retain manufacturer's manuals and code. I mean I have one of those autistic recalls for multimillion line codebases, I can probably remember what pitch requires ice and water shield, or nailing patterns, and such. A lot of respectable construction outfits don't, don't bother, or rely on your ignorance to do a shoddy job. Because of -tism, my work started baseline good and only improved with time, like that scene from game of thrones "many maesters whose chains are heavy with healing links have attempted it and failed, yet you succeeded. how?" "I read the books and followed the instructions". the maxint part means that you can easily outfit yourself as a pro from the very beginning. I bought a coil nailer before I even laid my first shingle, I bought a bunch of scrap material to shingle a sheet of sheathing as if it was an entire roof in my workshop, I then did it over and over and over again until I was satisfied with the result. by the time I started on the run-in which was my first roofing project I burned $$$, but got an excellent result. by the time I was doing it for other people I had a solid understanding of the failure state space, so I could make strong claims about results. this is not an approach that most apprentice builders can afford to take.
What the FUCK
That reminds me, it's about time to renew my VSCode license. If I knew it would be so high maintenance, I never would have paid for the three-year plan.
Remember, this is Microsoft! A friend told me of a fairly major corporate firm that found MSFT had arbitrarily pushed an AI tool to run on their SharePoint, scooping up site data outside of any formal agreement to do so. MSFT are no doubt covered by a general agreement but this seems underhand/inept and yet a remarkably common flaw in their approach (I've seen similar behaviour with Teams apps)
classic SLA hacking
> You turn a O(n^2) operation into O(nlog n). Sounds great until you realize that n is three on average.

Sure, but are long convolutions avoided precisely because they're expensive? This paper is talking about an alternative to an attention mechanism, which covers the entire context window, no? Isn't this paper saying: you could use a long convolution for this instead, and long convolutions don't have to be slow?

> you have to use complex numbers for calculations which are also less numerically stable

I haven't heard numerical stability being a big deal in neural nets; in fact don't people often use 16-bit floats as weights to save on space? Does the numerical stability of complex numbers exceed the precision dropped off by quantization anyway? Are complex numbers really inherently less numerically stable, or are we just not as good at using them yet?
In firefox, gets wrong ram, cores and gpu.
In chrome, gets wrong ram and cores
model agnostic, meaning a model is enlisted based on specific task, rather than a shoehorn and a single model.
And how many unused Linux licenses?!

(VSCode is under, essentially, the MIT license; my guess is that someone entered a dummy number into some license management tool.)
I have been a Post subscriber (in a Post-subscribing household) for almost fifty years, and my consumption of the opinion pages has gradual declined over that period. I just wish the news content was back to what it once was.
Nobody is going to comment because of that, among other things.

Imagine you published a blog but the hosting provider could delete it any time they want or just not make it visible in the first place. It would be unfair because you are paying money, but readers/commenters of your posts pay with their effort and if they have no guarantee of you honoring your informal obligations they won't be doing that for you.
I should be clear, you don't need a Mastodon account to read my blog and comments. But you do need a Mastodon account if you want to reply to my Mastodon post about my blog entry and have that show up in the blog.

But maybe for your blog, you could use the same basic technique and do BlueSky comments instead.
> Alexa+ costs $19.99 per month, but is free for all Prime members.

Prime costs $140/year ($11.66/mo). Why would they even waste their time with the other subscription? To make the Prime option look more enticing?
If it's small enough to fit in every ship used in a carrier group, you could revolutionize US naval operations.

The carrier is nuclear powered and can travel at its top speed indefinitely. But it doesn't except briefly in emergencies, because the rest of the group is powered by oil and would quickly run out of fuel.
$1500 is 100 million output tokens, or 500 million input tokens for Claude 3.7.

The entire LOTR trilogy is ~.55 million tokens (1,200 pages, published).

If you are sending and receiving the text equivalent of several hundred copies of the LOTR trilogy every week, I don't think you are actually using AI for anything useful, or you are providing far too much context.
It's mentioned in a comment here that the existing restrictions are due to Windows APIs and NTFS does not check file names in a restricted way. Therefore, if devs want to filter these out or not in the API, is another story.
Civics isn't neutral. Selecting what is covered by a civics test is non-neutral, even before considering that the answers will often be contentious.
Yeah, U.S. citizenship for existing Green Card holders, specifically.

Leaving the U.S. is a whole different thing that I wouldn't even be sure where to start with, unfortunately!
> Which I forgive because it’s the hazmat suit for the internet I’ve always dreamed of.

You dreamed of this? Why not dream of a web where you don’t have to brave a veritable ocean of crap to get what you want? It may surprise you to learn such a web existed in the not too distant past.
On the one hand, I don't disagree, and I certainly don't think the right strategy is for Pete Buttigieg to sit on his hands and not say anything.

But, Republicans are no better. Like outside of a few key celebrities (and even within those key celebrities) are a bunch of people who look even more out of touch than the average Democrat. Trump and Elon Musk are maybe two of the greatest salespeople the world has ever seen (and within that all the implications that implies) But like, arguably even Pete Buttigieg, probably the best communicator in the party right now can't come close to them. The point of which is to just assess benchmarks. What is the art of the possible? We should certainly expect more of the leaders of the party, and I think everyone suspects there are core problems at the top, but the rank and file will probably always be sort of a median level of successful. Though we could go like the Republicans and just do some ideological purges.
all the kms activators and the MAS-scripts never worked for evaluation editions

edit: it seems like it at least doesn't work for expired evaluation editions. see https://massgrave.dev/evaluation_editions
So the license "scan" is just what the package manager's metadata says? That's not even close to being enough in practice. And we already have many of those tools that do the insufficient data collection, but nice dashboard thing.

See fossology or scancode for what's really being done in a professional context.
And Gemini was a girl you used to date in high school :-)
Okay, but coffee and meals are luxuries to purchase, not necessities. And it's extremely clear that the thing that's rocketed up in price, and delivered less and less over time, has been housing. We (e.g. here in the UK) now pay far more than our grandparents did for smaller dwellings. This is the main cost of living increase. And it's baked into all goods you buy far more than commercial rent, because every employee in the supply chain has to be able to afford to live.
"First-wall power flux" - am I right in thinking that means the heat energy the innermost wall has to contain? Half a megawatt per square meter? Good lord. You're not making it out of 3/4" plywood then.

Maintenance isn't just about downtime though right? This is gonna have to be supported by your crews traveling globally with trade secret, exotic parts. Not even on the top ten hardest things about this of course.

It's an exciting bet for sure, so good luck - if it works, you're taking a big bite out of a really nasty carbon source.
> Offer real and significant benefits.

Yeah! The criterion is just there like you said.

> Do you have an opinion on the dotnet version of generics?

I'm not familiar with dotnet languages, but I have much experience implementing generics, especially how to avoid getting the poor C++ templates. Also, I believe traits (not that of C++) and typeclasses (Rust/Haskell) are definitely needed, and it's already proven too, to pair with the generics feature.

> Ceph.

My former job was to write a distributed object storage in Go and it was heavily inspired by Ceph. But subset of the design could make much benefits for a smaller company, since the initial idea to write a new one was from the pain of doing rebalancing in Ceph... oh you want to know the solution? Manual partitioning and migration by our SRE/Ops team lol. It's unexpectedly effective.
Ongoing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43178831
Would you though? A lot of freight lines in europe are already electric, wouldn't it be much more efficient to have a stationary high-power reactor than carrying around a smaller one on each locomotive?
Because the site is not coming up for I will post my first thought:

"A single acid drop turns lots of things see-through"

The page finally open and wow. Can I try this at home. I saw the abstract [1] for the paper but do not have an Institution to Access the full paper through. Is his something I am going to see someone on youtube try at home?

[1]: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c03303
I remember reading an article about how Amazon would lose money every year on the Alexa service.

I wonder if /how that will change now after this.
How about first getting fusion to work for reality before getting it working for maritime.
You can keep using an older version of Xcode if you like. I mean, every other tool chain that I can think of does more or less the same thing. There are plenty of reasons to criticise Apple's developer tooling and relations, but I don't see this as being especially different to other platforms
It also seems like all integrations that use Slack webhooks are working. But the ones which are like a dedicated app are failing with the same `fatal_error` message.
Currently we are using mllms like lego blocks to build lego-powered-like devices.
author here, just wanted to chime in that I really appreciate the kind words about what we've been building :)
You need to add /s to comments like these or people might mistake you for a total tool.
I’m glad you are into the lunar colony. My biggest issue with the mars colony crowd is their disinterest in a much more practical lunar colony for us to cut our teeth on. Overall I feel like a lot of people are into colonies for aesthetic reasons. If it’s gonna 100-200 years before a colony could be self sustaining, then why are we treating multiplanetaryness as some kind of practical solution to current-day issues that appeared within the last century?
Really excited about this! Congrats on the launch. Ships make sense as a first target, but I'm curious -- do you see a future in which we have household fission reactors? E.G. power an entire house (city block, etc...) with fission reactors?
Personal backups are at least allowed for software, per 17 USC 117, and I'm not aware that the DMCA altered that, it only added the nonsense about "effective access control" which can legally be as weak as ROT13. Perhaps not for non-software media. Copyright has been broken for decades, however. It's tilted away from the average person and towards big moneyed copyright holders, who vacuum up every IP they can.
no, just looking at the properly translated menu on my phone is so much nicer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43184878
> DEI policies are discriminatory and illegal, because they focus on equality of outcomes (equity) instead of merit.

Would you say the current administration appointees are an example of the merit based society you seem to aim for?
See this video where he questions the Fed Chair about the dollar's role as the world's reserve currency [1]

He notes that the dollar's status is a tax on producing and a subsidy on consuming. He also notes it's a national security risk if we need to buy bullets from our adversaries.

This is basically the position the current administration is taking. Weaken the dollar and encourage onshoring manufacturing by imposing tariffs, or even just the threat of tariffs. You strengthen the middle class and our military position at the same time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1VzOUd5IYc
Has it taken off though? It reeks like a semi open-source Microsoft product where the only goal is to lock you into VS Code.
As someone who has never worked anywhere that tried it out, what do you not like about loki. I've been stuck in the very expensive splunk and opensearch/kibana mines for many years and I find it an amazingly frustrating place to be. I honestly find that I can better debug via logs using grep than either of those tools.
> What is neutral? Knowledge of the actual mechanisms of governance.

As someone with a degree in political science specialized in the pragmatics of the American system of government, let me assure you that questions of the actual mechanisms of government are decidedly not neutral but both highly contentious and with positions highly correlated with political ideology.

If you mean, instead, things like “the text of the Constitution”, that's somewhat less contentious, but pretty distant from the actual mechanisms of government.
> A smart phone menu is just stupid.

You could try Simple X Mobile: https://sxmo.org/
Why should it save labor. What it does is guarantee correctness which is like the holy grail for programmers. If you know shit's correct you can just assume stuff and it will actually work on the first try. You don't even need to write tests for it.
I came here just to see if anyone else shared this same experience. HN did not disappoint.
that's exactly the thing I'm trying to avoid. since I really don't need windows very often I prefer to change win-vms like underpants (allowing me to deactivate defender/winupdates fearless) and would not like to spend hours for setting up win from scratch. I had to set up win11 for a friend a few days ago and - let me tell you - that experience sucked hard
Fractal Generative Models
You want clown show? How about this video that Trump shared featuring a giant golden statue of him lording over "Trump Gaza"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/backlash-tru...
>> Note that the comment you are replying to said nor implied anything of the sort.

That's literally the exact claim being made:

> We have an astounding lack of evidence that there is a Flying Spaghetti Monster roaming around the deepest reaches of space, it doesn't indicate anything but the fact that there's a lack of evidence

A lack of evidence indicates nothing but a lack of evidence. No! That's not true! It's a widely held misconception and it's worth debunking.
Yeah, I just got an SMS from my boss
I'm a shareholder and I agree that Apple should be hiring based on demonstrated merit and nothing else.
Henri Prestes https://henriprestesp.com/

Elsa Bleda https://www.collater.al/en/elsa-bleda-photography/

But does it float used to feature generative art sometimes https://butdoesitfloat.com/
I'd expect any discussion of science in American universities that distinguishes between basic and applied research to put the Bayh-Dole legal framework covering taxpayer-financed intellectual property front and center, in particular the nature of 'exclusive licenses' of university-sourced IP to private corporations.

Historically, prior to Bayh-Dole in the early 1980s, basic research was done at universities and was mainly financed by federal grants from agencies like the National Science Foundation, and applied research was done at industrial research centers like Bell Labs. Generating profitable intellectual property was the goal of the private research sector, but it relied heavily on the basic research at universities - eg development of semiconductor transistors follows this pathway, with a lot of basic scientific research in the first half of the 20th century followed by focused applied research efforts aimed at replacing vacuum tubes at Bell Labs.

This whole system has gone off the rails in the USA, because under Bayh-Dole, corporations realized they could essentially cut their own R & D divisions, outsourcing their applied research to universities with funding supplied by taxpayers and cutting their own R & D division spending. This decimated a lot of basic research at the university level, and destroyed institutions like Bell Labs as well. Now, threatened cuts to federal funding for research are likely to do even more damage to scientific progress in the USA, conducted by people who don't even seem to understand the system created since the 1980s, flawed as it is.

The solution is obvious: delete Bayh-Dole and make all taxpayer-funded research available to any US citizen or business under free non-exclusive licenses. Corporations will then be forced to reinvest in their own applied R & D divisions if they want that lucrative IP to be solely in their own hands.

If this doesn't happen, the USA will become a second-rate follower of others work, and it's already happened to some extent, with Chinese universities now widely regarded as superior to American ones, by several metrics.
That's what I used to do before discovering this.
That might be balanced somewhat by not needing to maintain thousands of miles of caternary wire.
thank you for referring, feel free to ask any questions you may have
What you are missing is that this whole drama is costing peoples whose business model is to help companies adopt and maintain wordpress. I have friends who lost their leads and existing clients over this drama. So no, its not as easy as this.
A lot of the stories talking about current administration gets flagged rapidly even those purely technical.
http://archive.today/Rj8Vo
Try https://vscode.dev

You can append a Github repo to the URL to open it:
https://vscode.dev/https://github.com/facebook/react
Building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network
I work for a commodities data analytics company. curious to connect!
Nix with direnv is better for something like this but it obviously won't work on Windows.
It's not about disagreement. It's about their actions.

Besides what other people do isn't even their business.
Related:

Warp, the intelligent terminal, now available on Windows

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43184559
Perhaps pricing in other markets will be substantially lower and undercut the Prime cost?
It looks like a better title for this article would be "Should We Decouple Phones from Everyday Life?"

And my answer to that is: absolutely.
Love ggwave! I used it on a short film set a few years ago to automatically embed slate information into each take and it worked insanely well.

If anyone wants details: I had a smartphone taped to the back of the slate with a UI to enter shot/scene/take and when I clicked the button it would transmit that information along with a timestamp as sound. This sound was loud enough to be picked up by all microphones on set, including scratch audio on the cameras, phones filiming BTS, etc.

In post-production, I ran a script to extract this from all the ingested files and generate a spreadsheet. I then had a script to put the files into folders and a Premiere Pro script to put all the files into a main and a BTS timeline by timestamp.

Yes, timecode exists and some implementations also let you add metadata, but we had a wide mix of mostly consumer-grade gear so that simply wasn't an option.

I posted a short demo video on Reddit at the time, but it got basically no traction: https://www.reddit.com/r/Filmmakers/comments/nsv3eo/i_made_a...
Very cool guys, I think this will crush
Is there any reason why we should associate oscillations with any such thing though? Lots of systems oscillate. It could well be that oscillations are a common emergent property of many systems, including consciousness, rather than consciousness being emergent from oscillations.

It seems to me that a key characteristic of consciousness is it's informational character. It is representational of a cognitive state, it's interpretive, introspective. It seems to me that for any system to be conscious it must at a minimum be generating and interpreting representational structures. I'm sure that's nowhere even close to being a sufficient criterion, but I don't see how it can't be a necessary one.

I think that's key to subjectivity, because different systems can have radically different ways to represent and interpret even the same phenomenon they have representations of. The details of the representational structure, and it's network of associations with other representational structures in the system, are intrinsically tied to details of the system processing and interpreting the representation.
Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185446
How much intelligence does it take to handle "Alexa, turn off the light" or "Alexa, play something by Taylor Swift"? Are people actually trusting Alexa to answer questions that require actual thought?
I am wondering this too!

EDIT: Did some research and looks like it is different code by different developers, so we should be good.
Honestly that pushes me away from it. I find kibana to be a very frustrating experience.