skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bookmark dump. Sadly I haven't had time to dig into many of these.

Overtone (clojure) for music
https://overtone.github.io/

Bauble
https://bauble.studio/about/

Nannou (rust)
https://nannou.cc/

Quil (clojure)
http://www.quil.info/

Open Frameworks (C++)
https://openframeworks.cc/
BlockMax Wand: How Weaviate Achieved 10x Faster Keyword Search
Great to see more competition in this space - I'm currently on Slack and not happy about it. Here's hoping Emdash can fill the void left by Workplace and get some momentum to put pressure on Slack. It's much needed
Born rule doesn't need index, it needs statistics of a sequence of measurements, then statistics is rationalized as a result of a stochastic process.
I'm probably a crackpot, but I'm convinced it's the other way around--matter emerges from mind. The only refutation I'm familiar with is Samuel Johnson kicking a rock, which I don't find very persuasive.
Release this on Steam for $4.99

Promo it to some Twitch streamers and bilibili/huya streamers in China

Instant success

I legit think someone will copy this sooner or later if you don't do it.

(Generally I think any "well known"/traditional game combined with rougelite elements can be a huge success nowadays)
Yeah must’ve meant MW.. I’ve got more than one 3KW generator at my house and they can barely run my AC much less a locomotive.
I have a few Google home mini's and an Alexa. All have deteriorated since I bought them, becoming worse at both what they offer, and how well they understand or do what they still can.

My first google mini I could ask for a recipe and it would read one out. Next step to move along, it was cool but slow. I got one with a screen which was pretty good as you could see the steps and jump ahead more. Then it 'upgraded' and the recipes were just web pages now. It doesn't read it any more, it's worse at finding them, half the time it'll try and play a music video instead.

Alexa's the same - you've a good 20% chance at any moment of it figuring you want to listen to music about whatever you just asked. I never want them to play music, but there they go playing loud enough you have to yell to shut it up.

Lights were great at the start. I have a long room with lights nowhere near the bed. Google turning the lights on and off was amazing. Dimming the lights even better. But after 'improvements' it never seems to know fully about lights. The same spoken word might get the lights off. Or might turn every light in the house off. Maybe it will say there are no lights. Or say that, then turn the lights off anyway. Why did it work so well years ago, but now they never know what you mean?

They don't seem to distinguish like they should either. My mum has several Alexa's(visually impaired it's a great tool for her) but she complains they don't listen anymore as well. Used to be the one in the room you were in would answer. Now it might answer in the adjacent room, and control lights in there leaving you in the dark. Even worse with google, as your phone also listens then takes over to tell you it doesn't know what room your in so which lights do you mean?

And even my mum has noticed the increasingly bad question responses. She used to ask Alexas questions all the time, but now she says it's either confused or wrong.

I don't know if this is all because they cut back on the abilities to reduce the money pit these things became, or if the newer Gemini style assistants are just worse at giving practical help, even if they're more natural sounding while being useless.

But it's annoying as hell seeing something that was a pretty good system get worse and worse over time, losing the skills to do what it did.

Maybe Alexa+ will change that, but I'd put more money on it continuing to play random music in rooms you're not in and make up weird answers to questions rather than just do some basic but actually useful tasks.
I was evidently unclear. I mean, if an image of a parakeet is flashed up on a screen for 100ms and you can say "I saw a parakeet" you were conscious of the image. If the image is flashed for 50 ms and you can't you weren't conscious of the image. In this paradigm being conscious is being conscious of particular things.
Huh! Today I learned that inverter technology is advanced enough that batteries can also provide inertia and powergrid frequency control that flywheels were used for!
Mercury defeats phishing with device verification
Sounds like someone bought into the Dyson tree meme revival that was floating round the internet a month so ago!
Ditto. This isn’t exclusive to programming. Everyone that I know who has worked in any office environment has downtime.
I'm pretty sure their search results intentionally suck to make their ads more valuable.
Sadly, Claude 3.7 is still failing pretty hard on Svelte 5 even when provided latest docs in context. It just fails more confidently and further into otherwise decent code than 3.5. Ex: built a much more complex initial app, but used runes incorrectly and continued to use <slot>. Even when prompted with update doc snippets, it couldn't dig itself out of its hole.

We really still need a better unified workflow for working on the cutting edge of tech with LLMs, imo. This problem is the same with other frameworks/technologies undergoing recent changes.
You'll want to read timelines of blackouts, e.g. this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003#Tim...

It starts with a small thing at 12:15 p.m. and takes a while for other things to happen. But then bam 4:05:57 p.m. to 4:13 p.m. results in:

End of cascading failure. 256 power plants are off-line, 85% of which went offline after the grid separations occurred, most due to the action of automatic protective controls.
Smile? No, it's a penis.
Cyber truck does
Super dopeee!!!
I haven't been able to reproduce this. It correctly transcribes racist as racist.
DevContainers allow for setting up your IDE with extensions, rules, and other configuration. They also support Docker compose so migration shouldn't be that bad
Basically every activation function throws away half of the dynamic range at every neuron, which across a deep network is a lot.

You make a good point about LayerNorm, it's probably even worse.
I totally agree for basically every craft I've done.

I think one thing the article neglects to mention is that by making a lot, you learn a lot. You might not learn things in a framework you can recite to sound small over dinner, but you learn practical things.

I think it's most pertinent for cooking. I know many people who can cook extremely well, but almost nobody could explain the chemistry of it.
What would be the point? Why waste time parsing and ignoring types? Types are for static analysis during comp time, they have nothing to do with the runtime and they don't provide "type hints" to the runtime about types, and code isn't optimized based on static typing analysis. Or should the browser do that? In that case which version of TypeScript? And by version I actually mean which tsconfig? Sorry for being picky but can't image why we would want something like that. If all we wanted was a compiled runtime like flash/actionscript was then I wonder why we killed flash
Opium use in China was largely ended because of the Communist revolution there in the 20th century, and its policies on the matter.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/347925/
> and we believe we’ll witness Q > 1 within a few (say 3) years. That’s huge.

I think it fits squarely in the "requires extraordinary evidence" bucket - what makes you so bold ?

Also, what's you intermediate plans between :

2025 -> Post on HN

2028 -> Q>1 achieved (by you ? by someone else ?)

???? -> ????

20xx -> a ship goes to sea powered by a fusion reactor

???? -> ????

2060 -> fusion is so easy, let's use it for baseload

Sorry if I sound stark, but I'm already burnt out and fed up with the "breakthroughs" on batteries that never materialize - I have a very low tolerance threshold for startups promising fusion for next week ;)

If you're on to something, more power to you - we need that yesterday.
Perhaps there is just something small you can do that is passed down or acknowledged by others who will pass it on. A behavior, an action, or some other change.
This is a good general tool for less-mathematically-deep folks to keep in their pocket: look for well-behaved objects that do something nice under the operation you're interested in. Typical "well-behaved" objects do things like stay where they are, or end up as a constant multiple of themselves, or end up as 0 or 1, or something like that. Then try to represent everything else in terms of those objects, so that you can take advantage of their convenient behavior. Less-difficult examples include:

- Prime factorization: primes have nice properties, and you can turn every integer into a product of primes (polynomial factorization is an extension of this idea) and work with the nice prime properties

- Vector spaces: basis vectors have nice properties, so you write vectors as sums of them and do operations on the coefficients instead of the vectors themselves

- The exponential function: it's the unique function with f'(x) = f(x), so you try to turn everything else into exponentials anytime you have to solve some painful differential equation because you know those terms will go away

- Fixed points in dynamical systems: if you don't want to analyze how arbitrary things change, find the points that don't, then think of the other points as (fixed point) + (small perturbation) and reduce your work to handling the perturbation

- Taylor series: polynomials are easy, smooth functions are hard, so turn your smooth function into a polynomial and do polynomial things with it
I don't know if I'd want that in a water bottle, since most high quality ones will maintain temperature for a long time. That said, I love my Ember "smart" coffee mug which keep coffee hot despite being open air. At the same time, I don't use any of the smart features. You can tweak things via Bluetooth, but I just keep it in default mode (ditto for my Oral-B iO9 toothbrush)
The big differentiator for me is "Does this use of technology solve a problem?" I do have a smartphone, FWIW, but it's a tool. And granted, one of it's uses is to kill spare minutes while I'm waiting for someone in a car, or riding public transport somewhere, but that is a choice. I am consciously choosing to partake in social media as a distraction because I have nothing else going on.

In response to your examples here:

> Im not going to live in an apartment that requires a smartphone to get into the door.

110% agreed. I think some kind of smart lock or maybe an RFID thing is just a door lock that is far more error-prone than it needs to be. No reason for it.

> If parking somewhere requires an app

These I can like. The problem is you inevitably run into the problem you always run into: a given app provider is almost certainly not your local municipality, and you have no idea which provider a given area will have chosen to accomplish this. If this could be standardized into one provider, operating as a utility, that simply works everywhere in the United States, that would be fucking brilliant. Just pull up to any public owned lot or stall, scan a QR code, select how long you're parking, and be auto-billed according to pre-set preferences.

But of course that's not the real experience. You have to download a new app for any given place, set it up with an account, another password you're almost certainly going to forget, give yet another nameless corporation your personal details and payment information and fuck knows how they're going to store them, and repeat this process wholesale the next time you have to park somewhere else. That's maddeningly stupid.

> eating at a restaurant requires a QR code

Perhaps controversial, I think this is okay. Especially if it's the type of restaurant where the menu frequently changes, I think this is honestly a good move. It saves a bunch of paper from being thrown out constantly and gives the staff one less thing to need to juggle as they seat patrons. And QR scanning and opening a web-link is essentially built-in functionality to any smart phone made in the last 5 years or so.

Now, if you scan a link and you need to download a fucking app... fuck that. Hard fuck that.
Uber Auto is now on SaaS – What does that mean for riders?
In the beginning Unicode was only meant to be used for extant languages afaik.
They've been talking about getting rid of the EB-5 for years but it always seems to hang in there.
Thanks, that is a much better overview!
> in a bit more of a controlled fashion

The guiding intellectual principle in the US at the time w.r.t. the economy of the ex-USSR was "You can't cross a canyon in two leaps". This was what passed for intelligent thought.
As it applies to shipping, I'm curious to know if you initially considered alternative/hybrid approaches which would augment current/modern approaches to shipping, like using sails. It seems to me like this is an obvious miss in modern (dirty) shipping.
Not the worst thing Trump has done, but it does make the US look a bit more like some mafia-style government that you expect from someplace like the DRC.
I have a relative who’s a lifelong electrician, and now in his mid 60s he’s basically confined to a recliner unless he takes his pain pills. Twisting, turning, and kneeling takes its toll.
We have a Labor Law that protects employees.

Work here is not perceived as an ultimate goal in life, and someone who is a hard worker is seen just as that: a hard worker. Not some kind of saint.

We like to works, this brings all kind of advantages in everyday life, but this is not at all driven by a puritan culture - rather like something you get to like because you meet people and so on.

We earn less, but also take less to the grave.
> Wouldn't that be a better world?

Only if your world is small enough that you can trust nobody is cheating. If everybody is doing their share to ensure there is always food in the store it works great. If only a few people are cheating it still works well enough. (I'm going to include the disabled in the cheating category for this discussion, because this is complex enough without trying to fit everything into the mold). As your world gets larger eventually more and more people start to realize that they can get by without working until there is no food in the store for anyone.

Note that getting food includes not just the easy stuff, but the gross stuff. If you can trust the store has what you need, you need some way to incentivize someone to get rid of the trash anyway. Money provides a good abstraction for some jobs being worth more - nearly anyone can haul trash to the dump, but because of the "gross factor" it pays more than other jobs that nearly anyone can do. Very few people can pass medical or engineering school - it is known as a hard study for good reason, so we incentivize people to go that route with more pay, if you can get everything you need, does your society have the right incentives to ensure it gets better?

History is full of societies that work similar to what you say. They all have their own ways of dealing with the above problems. One thing they all have in common is most people only contact a limited number of people and so they can crack down on cheaters because they learn who they are and so reputation matters. (the few travelers paid for their food via stories or barter, and often were looked down on anyway. Or often travelers were military and just took by force)

Again, money makes modern society possible and everyone who proposes otherwise normally just handwaves away real problems with their proposal. A few are willing to accept that downside, but when I look at those downsides I conclude I'm not and I think most will agree once they understand them.
Guess I misunderstood. The first time you said "frequency of the click" -- I would personally respond with clicks per second.

"Frequency of the note" in your next comment clears it up. It probably was that, you're right.
Show HN: Website monitoring/tracking with multi LLM agents and email alerts
We have created a website tracker called Thieves. Thieves is a personal AI agent that periodically checks websites for your set conditions in natural human language. Once your condition is met you receive an email. Websites can be checked every 1 hour or every 24 hours. You can invite anyone else to receive your email alerts as well.

Examples

-"Notify me when the price of this product drops below $50."
-"Email me if a new blog post or news article is published with the keyword 'AI'."
-"Let me know when this restaurant's online menu adds a 'vegan' section."
-“Notify me if a new version number is posted on this specific page for a cybersecurity standard”

Please let us know what you think and how to improve! What would you use it for? Which areas should we improve.

You can try it free here https://negativestarinnovators.com/pricing/pricing.html
At this point the easiest way to know if a system is Turing complete is to check if someone has ported DOOM to it haha

Very impressive!
TableTalk: Scaffolding Spreadsheet Development with a Language Agent
And unexpected input from other systems. And if it was unexpected in a way that wasn't covered by your proof, then your program is not guaranteed to work correctly on that input. And the real world has a lot of ways for input to do unexpected things...
LangGraph Multi-Agent Swarm
> The ability to hide behind aliases to publish whatever you want without any "skin in the game" seems to have decreased the level of coherence overall and permitted for neurotic anti-reality perspectives to proliferate.

While I do agree with the need for regulation, I don't agree that anonymity is the issue. Today many/most people post under their real name on platforms like Facebook, Instagram and X, and still that doesn't stop people from posting the most vile stuff that you'll ever read. In some sense I feel like that's worse, because if they did so under a synonym there would be some sense that they know that they comments are unacceptable. I honestly think we need more anonymity online.
The same could be said about humans.
I know a core developer (Marek) recently got a Framework 16 and submitted some fixes after early testing iirc - might be worthwhile chasing it with him
Usually it's better to put an archive link in the comments, not at the top, so the original domain isn't obscured. I've pinned the archive link to the top now (and detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43181471).

(As throw16180339 said, please email hn@ycombinator.com with these things - that's the only way to be (mostly) sure I'll see it.)
Aha, he's way ahead of you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wz7YF2as-c
That would be in interesting direction for our tech to go, everything grown organically including space structures.
On most pages, we don't need vision, and the DOM alone is sufficient. We have not worked with the accessibility tree yet, but it's a great idea to include that. Do you have any great resources on where to get started?
The issue with scrum and agile is that it became a managerial and reporting process to force teams to hit a management imposed deadline instead of what it was intended to be: a tool for engineers to self-manage and self-evaluate their progress to provide a realistic completion date.
What do they have to do with the subject of the article?
Seconding this about Compulab. If they made a box with a Marvell CN9130 it would be really nice.
Vendors wrote those standards though, not the operators. They are complex because it’s a defensive moat against competition imho
When I wash my car, I push the seat forward and backward to vacuum. I like having electrically adjustable seats, but that's one time I'd prefer the older-style lever. Similarly, I saw a self-defense video where if someone hides in your back seat and puts something around your neck, you can lean the seat back QUICKLY in an escape maneuver; impossible with electric seats.
> People were mugged left and right for their phones.

The solution to theft shouldn't be taking away your right to own things in the first place.
For every person who passed on EdgeDB on the suspicion it was related to edge computing, someone may have clicked it for the same reason entirely and found something else compelling.

Personally I think EdgeDB was a much better and descriptive name than Gel. I haven't used EdgeDB/Gel yet, but have been looking at it with excitement for years now waiting for the opportunity to use it.

I am worried that the rename will work against you since you've built such an excellent brand around EdgeDB with so many glowing testimonials.
Congrats on launching. This is a hard area. Wish you luck.
Proton no longer posting on Mastodon
Very cool concept!

Here's a small but very frustrating bug report: if you click on "Menu", then "Unlocks", the individual unlock items are clickable. I expected clicking on them to bring up a more detailed description, or something. But it actually just instantly resets the game, without asking for confirmation.
I have plan to do just this. See N3211 and N3395 for an initial sketch.

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/wg14_document_lo...
Our device is larger than SPARC (~3m major radius) and less power (100MW fusion), hence the confidence in being able to solve the steady-state (repeated inductive pulses) engineering challenges.

We won’t be the first to Q>1, I’m super excited for SPARC to achieve that and will be prepared with champagne.

We’re targeting early 2030’s for our reactor, we’re going straight for the full thing no sub scale reactor in between (we do have a plan for milestone-ing it out in a meaningful way)

I’ve worked on a few alternative approaches earlier in my career (FRC at Princeton, dense plasma focus at LPP Fusion) … I think all fusion approaches are worth looking at, but I’m placing my chips on the tokamak. If I were to pick a runner up, the stellerator.
Don’t worry…. He is not a federal employee no one is gonna fire him…
He's built a working Ghost from Destiny [video]
Strong disagree on Alexa. Maybe it's the way I talk, but I find voice assistants wildly inconsistent. There's nothing more frustrating than having to repeat yourself to a robot.

Maybe AI will improve the situation in the next few years, but I'm not convinced.
Doom is Turing complete (https://calabi-yau.space/blog/doom.html), so it's just a matter of building the appropriate map.
Cylon basestar here we come
I should also mention that this more 'hands on' technique is good for learning a subject because you have to make editorial assessments as you go.

Maybe good for wider subject areas, longer reports, or where some editorial nuance helps.
It's literally in their lawsuit - they are upset about changes made to WordPress and to WordPress.com - two projects they have no rights to.
Figma Slides, Now with Plugins
Canada Supreme Court Leaves Platform X
I meant on the development side, not that end users paid for anything.
Reading just the first byte is probably wasting a read of the whole block.

Hashing the whole file after that is wasteful. You need to read (and hash) only as much as needed to demonstrate uniqueness of the file in the set.

The tree concept can be extended to every byte in the file:

https://github.com/kornelski/dupe-krill?tab=readme-ov-file#n...
The thing is, except for Twitter and Grok all the other stories have never happened.

And the other thing is: your account has been created 6 days ago and is only spreading Pro-Musk content.
I was also wondering the same thing. Turns out it's here: https://haveibeenpwned.com/DomainSearch

But it's not seeing what domains are associated with your email; rather, it's seeing which emails for a given domain (e.g. a company domain) are associated with breaches. If you can demonstrate that you have control over a particular domain, then haveibeenpwned will tell you how many (and maybe which?) accounts on your domain are compromised. If there are more than 10 such accounts, it looks like you need a paid subscription.