skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What gets me is that the videos warp the perspective of the Earth in a way where it doesn't appear large anymore; and I wonder if that would happen with astronauts too.

They break through the atmosphere and then all of a sudden it looks like a small globe when the point-of-reference switches to the blackness of space.
Mercurial is Git without at least 50% of its hassle. This was valid 15 years ago when I last worked with M, I suppose it didn't get worse since then but rather improved.

Shame Git won so vehemently, most software projects don't need that much power (and guns to shoot their own feet), but cargo-culting after Linus was too strong a lure I presume.
Python Virtual Mouse and Keyboard
Curious if anyone strongly prefers "keyboard" or "pyautogui"?
Amazing reporting and photographs.

Sam sounds like a real hero.
> “If the government buys a tank, that’s GDP,” Lutnick said Sunday. “But paying 1,000 people to think about buying a tank is not GDP.

Is thinking about how to run a company GDP? Perhaps we should include CEOs from the GDP calculation as well.
Geothermal is great except for one thing: It's not portable. And that factor alone limits its usability tremendously.
How much has the endowment increased?
He is working long hours most likely. The problem is that C-levels include all commutes in the work hours (not possible for a lowly grunts), all dining in the work hours, all meetings and chatting in the work hours, all golf matches and so on. So the real work hours are most likely not that higher than 50-60, but he is paid for that x1000 times or more (indirectly, 1$ stunts are for the dump media).
It does seem insane to me that we have things like oauth when browsers support (used to support?) client PKI. They just needed a couple pieces of UI to generate a self-signed identity or install e.g. your gmail identity.
Scientists demonstrate time reflection of EM waves in groundbreaking experiment
Doubt it. You can bet the bankruptcy judge will be taking a hard look at where these funds came from.

More likely he just has wealthy friends/allies.
Expect to be using cryptocurrency a lot more than you're used to in the future. How does native integration with Windows and all major operating systems/phones sound?
Heh - it's even more helpful when your shop class teacher is missing a finger/part-of-finger or several, and holds up his hands during introduction to safety when operating machines.

He never did say what occurred, but thinking back, I am hopeful that it was from trying to save some students from their own carelessness...
Oligarchs don’t declare bankruptcy very often.
Try taking any of the LLM models we have, and making it learn (adjust its weights) based on every interaction with it. You'll see it quickly devolves into meaninglessness. And yet we know for sure that this is what happens in our nervous system.

However, this doesn't mean in any way that an LLM might not produce the same or even superior output than a human would in certain very useful circumstances. It just means it functions fundamentally differently on the inside.
What about the famous solution provided by Descartes, “Cogito ergo sum”? Let's assume the fact that “we think”, so we can put it in a function to be computable, how is that going to prove that “I exist” for a machine? How is the machine going to perceive itself as a conscious being?
How to Sample Your Signals? Sampling Theorem and Anti-Aliasing Explained [video]
Drone delivery is a bad idea especially in exceptional cases like a medical emergency because it is much less robust to inclement weather.

emergency systems need to _just work_.

Your "take a bike" solution is far superior. Thanks for your post.
Aha, the title isn't, as I first thought, taken from Disney's _Mickey's Trailer_ (1938)[1] -- there, Mickey asks (@5:16) "Who's driving?", not "Who's steering?".

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[1]: https://youtu.be/DFw-V_LelRg?t=316
Not really. More like testing a list of known exploits. That can also be greenfield.
Show HN: pdfdark.com – view pdf's in "dark mode" all on client
I wanted a way to read PDFs at night and not burn my retinas out so I whipped together this super simple website with Claude to solve my problem.

It uses Mozilla's pdf.js library to load and render a PDF and then inverts the colors with CSS. It has basic controls like zoom in, zoom out, reset zoom, previous and next page. There are some keyboard shortcuts that you can find by toggling the "q" key.
A bit cheap to hide all the criticism in the footnote, but otherwise - yeah. Fully agreed that the LLMs of today do help cruise past all the prior "roadblocks".

It's life-changing as much as any other good tool is/was. The printing press was massively beneficial, but the ideas needed to be there before they could be printed.

LLMs in their current stage are, (un)fortunately, just not reliable enough. They can get the 3/4 of the work done. Then you can refine the last part and get 1/2 of it done. Then the next iteration undoes a quarter of that... etc. etc.

It's a guessing game, and the guesses _are_ good. But as any capable engineer will tell you, the N% is easy, it's the (100-N)% that gets ya ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety%E2%80%93ninety_rule ).
Will that make the function more useful?

In general you can write better code when you can make assumptions.

Code to handle every possibility is filled with error prone branching, that reduplicates effort at every function.
Show HN: AI Crushes All Translation Benchmarks
FastAtlas: Real-Time Compact Atlases for Texture Space Shading
Sounds like companies managers are shit at their jobs then if they can't make sure that people are actually doing there jobs.

Its really simple -> give them assigned tasks. If they don't get them done and can't prove they actually worked on it (provided it was reasonable for their skillset) then fire them.

It is really that easy. But people continue saying this "grift" exists of employees abusing their companies. If this is really true, then all it says is that managers at these companies are really REALLY terrible at managing and they should be the first to go.
> How did that claim cause 1.5 Billion, with a B, in damages to the victims?

I dont think it's about assigning a dollar amount to the victims as much as it's about punishing a morally bankrupt liar for telling the world that a mass killing of children is a hoax to sell the equivalent of diet pills. It's like kicking an asshole in the balls a few times for good measure.
Edit: as another commenter pointed out, you have a misspelling which is why your search works. This link is correct and demonstrates the censorship:

https://search.nih.gov/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=nih&q...

Adding an extra word to censored searches appears to defeat the effect for now. For example, “diversity” is censored but “diversity a” works.
There was a tarball last time I looked.
apparently that only accounts for less than 20% of the operating budget:

https://dbp.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FY25-Oper...
Young Coders Are Using AI for Everything
Personally I think it's kind of the opposite. AI is like having a personal assistant that aced the first two years of undergrad courses in every subject under the sun, but isn't capable of original reasoning on the frontier of knowledge. AI rewards users who have a good high level map of different areas of knowledge and the verbal/analytical skills to ask good questions. It used to be that to approach an engineering problem in an unfamiliar technical domain, it might take weeks or months of background study to even know what search term to use. I've found that AI reduces that knowledge bootstrap to hours or days. I've been able to work in problem domains I never would have touched otherwise.
I really like this. And conveniently, I am just now working on creating a new personal website[1] + blog, and I could very well see using this for at least part of the site I'm building.

The only nit that I really have is that my intuition was that I'd be able to select new "sections" (or "bubbles" or whatever they're called) by clicking or double clicking. Having to grab and drag isn't bad but it violated the "principle of least surprise" for me a little bit. But not exactly a big deal.

[1]: https://www.philliprhodes.name
Because the graph is a query and not a model with methods on it. If you realy want to, you can code it (and deal with conflicts)
Making Lumos faster using Tiered Loading
The author is Japanese, cut them some slack.
uBO never had the ability to do CNAME decloaking in Chrome though, the required API (browser.dns/chrome.dns) wasn't there even in MV2. It was always a Gecko-only feature (and a big one!). IIRC Brave rolled its own CNAME decloaking mechanism in its Shields blocker, without exposing a chrome.dns API.
The proximate cause was that the owners didn't put in enough money to keep the site good. The ultimate cause is that there isn't much money to be made advertising to techies, so it's not worth spending much on.

It's surprising how little money there is in advertising to a tech audience, considering that we buy a lot of discretionary stuff personally and influence many billions in corporate IT spend. But the only tech sites that manage to make a few bucks on advertising are product review sites or shallow mass-market journalism like Wired. There's a lot of money to be made if you can figure out how to monetize a tech audience.
income is what people consume, it's what we should measure when thinking about inequality.
It's funny that some folks seem to assume AI writing style just arrive out of thin air....
How Clay's UI Layout Algorithm Works [video]
Because XP is no longer receiving security updates
This is a pretty dumb idea. This article is from researchers at a University. Has anyone done this for real without a grant subsidy?

I understand the interest in maximizing space utilization, but this just doesn’t make any sense.

Some replies indicate field setups for solar should take priority and tractor/equipment systems should adapt to these new systems.

Crazy stuff.
> Should such questions even be considered?

Yes, a better understanding of the problem gives you a better understanding of the preconditions. Always ask if you have that right and weaken accordingly.
Yeah Opera uses Blink just like Chrome. Vivaldi browser, created by Opera's original team does as well.
Definition of NIMBY does not involve dogmas or opposing any change - it's just opposing a change while supporting it to happen elsewhere. It has nothing to do with the change having real or perceived negative impact on the individual. In this specific case, yes there is a real nuisance to the people - but they are happy for the testing to commence elsewhere. This is textbook definition of NIMBYism. The examples here in UK are, "Oh I love renewable energy, but I don't want to see these ugly wind turbines from my window" or "Yes please more bicycle paths, but, no they can't pass through my street".
I try and live a low impact lifestyle. I reuse, drive an old ICE car sparingly, I buy more expensive stuff that lasts instead of cheaper disposable stuff when I can, I recycle, I compost.

I'm just not pretentious about it, and have no illusions about where my food comes from.
In Europe there's a good chance the 'corner shop' is run by a national business or franchise, benefitting from their supply and logistics systems.

That means prices are usually the same as in their larger stores, although the cheapest (low margin) brands might not be stocked in the smaller ones.

I would never consider buying toothpaste or normal batteries online. What a hassle! Just take the packet off the shelf in the small supermarket that's at the end of my street, or the one by the station, or the one near the station by work, on the one just the other side of work.

This is one supermarket chain in Denmark, and you'll note I haven't centred the map on the middle of Copenhagen but the suburbs: https://www.google.com/maps/search/Netto/@55.736038,12.46374...
It really has a Ghibli-like feeling. I found that it has the same dream-like feeling that Spirited Away and The Boy and the Heron have.

And that discomfort that the commenter felt is what I felt when watching Ghibli for the first time.
What point are you making in relation to what I said? USD can still be devalued.
For more oddly adorable hummingbirds, I highly recommend this video of a swarm of them having a bit of a party in the water fountain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeKu6NEf02g

Incredible little feathered narwhal bees. And there are so many different kinds of hummingbirds; several hundred I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdR7WW3XR9c
Do you think that the technique of using the last 4 bits to choose a further pseudorandom 31 bits from the rest of the hash MIGHT mitigate SOME future weakness as a PRNG? Or do you have confidence it is completely useless? Or neither, of course.
Many parts of the charred scrolls are readable...but those are in vastly better physical shape (comparing "before" & "after") than the few pea-sized cinders remaining of this brain.

Plus - information storage in the brain is both distributed, and micro-scale.

At some point, you are trying to recover compressed data from a HD where only one or two bits can be still read from each 512-byte sector - basic information theory says that the only good-enough tech to do the job would be a time machine.
> always find myself asking that am I turning into a sour conservative who doesn't like progress

You have every reason in the world to be critical of the version9s) of "progress" we're being served by a few billionaires who control medias and dip in politics more and more. Something being new doesn't automatically means "progress", and in case of workers or social progress it often means the opposite.
Or better yet, offer help
The reality of many countries show that people are not averse to local shopping. They only become so if there are no really good options to use a car and drive a few miles to buy a single toothpaste.
The problem with the original Kinect (v1) is that good tracking software for it was never really written. Most application that support it, just use the original Microsoft SDK to do the motion tracking, and it's just not very good, the main issue is that it always assume that the tracked person is directly facing the camera, and is very bad at dealing with occlusion. The good thing about it, is that it ran in real-time on a potato.

In order to get a good result, someone would need to train a good model for HPE that could use the cloud point data directly, but it seems nobody cares about depth sensor anymore, most efforts are going to HPE from regular 2d video (like media pipe holistic model). And given the result you can get with media pipe, openpose and the likes, it's understandable nobody is bothering working with low resolution cloud point anymore for 3D HPE.

The only use-case I can think of for a Kinect v1 in 2025, would be robotics if you want a low latency low resolution cloud point for your robot control, but even there I think we are moving to big vision model capable of making sense of regular video feeds.
Some of what they are doing is simply what was lost due to the ubiquitous nature of the relational model.

The hierarchical model is applicable to many problems and actually in part why moving off mainframes is challenging because IMS is so much more efficient than the relational model for applications like airline tickets.

There have been several efforts to leverage object stores in the way they did that I am aware of but it was a hard sell.

The hierarchical model really only works for many to one relationships, and it's integrity model differs and is not as DRY.

There are lessons to learn here but it requires some relearning.

When you have a shopping cart, having data local to the server handling the transaction is also a benefit.

Codd's relational model has advantages, but has held back some efforts because we are just use to dealing with the painful parts that we often don't consider other options.
Show HN: Noethia – a specialized search engine for online physics lectures
Noethia is a search engine for online physics lectures. Designed for physicists by a physicist, so it supports specialized features such as equation search. I started with physics and aim to expand to other subjects in the future if there’s a demand for it.

Currently, it hosts around 100 physics lecture notes, including the Feynman Lectures and David Tong's lecture notes. I’ll continue to add more, so if there are any specific materials you’d like me to include, let me know!

Noethia was born out of my love for reading and my need to search for high-quality, citable materials when I want to study certain topics. There’re many hidden gems waiting to be discovered.

If you’d like to provide feedback or simply have a chat, please reach out!
I love how Zelensky said Lindsey Graham is a nobody. Honestly, Congress needs to hear that more often. The Executive has made them irrelevant.
"Hey Grok, I just fired the entire Optimus team, write me some code for the robot so I can sell it to private security…"
> While I don't disagree with your point, I think VR's issue is that most people don't want to strap things to their face.

I'd go the opposite way. The problem with current VR is it is just some goggles. What you really want is a full exoskeleton to capture all your movement and add some force feedback. Put it on servos so you can add a little free fall here and there, some fans around to get the feeling of wind. Yeah it would not be cheap (at least at first).
isnt daisy ui basically just doing what bootstrap did back in the day?
Exactly, clicking should be the default so the drag handler doesn't prevent users from highlighting text - I literally cannot read anymore without frantically double-clicking/dragging on the words in the text
LLMs make embarrassingly parallelizable scripts even more embarrassing
It was a medium format camera; it's going to be good camera at any point.

I think it had a 7x7cm film - that's a humongous, 49cm^2 sensor compared to a regular full-frame camera, which clocks in at 8.64cm^2. As far as I can tell, the iPhone's is a tiny 0.25cm^2.

Combine with no-holds-barred lenses and you're bound to get fantastic pictures even six decades ago.

https://www.hasselblad.com/about/history/500-series/

https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/a11/a11-hass.html#:~:text=...
Can either one of you elaborate why? Supposed they were absolutely silent, why would it bother you if they fly 100 feet over your backyard?
It's still getting a second life in Touchdesigner / music audiovisual projects.
are you aware of this prior implementation [0]? it's now defunct, but may give you some ideas!

[0] http://www.spicynodes.org
'Cosmic Horseshoe' may contain black hole the size of 36B suns
I think it's much more difficult to fix a broken down human than a broken down car. Does it mean, by your logic, we are closer to cars?
Further detail from Stanford here: https://irds.stanford.edu/data-findings/staff-headcounts

"Methodology & Definitions
Staff Headcount
Staff headcounts include all regular, benefits-eligible university employees. With rare exceptions, employees must be appointed at 50% FTE (full-time equivalent) or more for at least six consecutive months in order to be eligible for benefits. The Professoriate and employees of SLAC are not included. Employees with multiple jobs are counted only in the job that is tied to their benefits, typically the one with the largest number of standard hours."
Least dangerous only within the limited context you defined of compilation errors. If I hired a programmer and I found whole libraries they invented to save themselves the effort of finding a real solution, I would be much more upset than if I found subtle logical errors in their code. If you take the cynical view that hallucinations are just speed bumps that can be iterated away then I would argue you are under-valuing the actual work I want the LLM to do for me. One time I was trying to get help with the AWS CLI or boto3 and no matter how many times I pasted the traceback to Claude or ChatGPT, it would apologize and then hallucinate the non-existent method or command. At least with logical errors I can fix those! But all in all, I still agree with a lot in this post.
DeepSeek became a fortune teller for China's youth
And yet 99% of YouTube's users use it as is.
The main problem for Nintendo was that countless Wii buyers never moved beyond Wii Sports and maybe Mario Kart. Despite having over 100 million units sold, staple franchises sold pretty badly compared to the Switch.

Smash Bros Brawl? 13 million sales. Smash Bros Ultimate? 35 million.

Animal Crossing City Folk? 3 million. Animal Crossing New Horizons? 47 million.

Mario Party 8? 9 million. Super Mario Party? 21 million.

Zelda Twilight Princess? 8 million. Zelda Breath of the Wild? 34 million.

Basically, the Switch has 50% more units in the world, but you can tack on 200%-400% more sales per franchise entry in general; and some extreme breakouts. For this reason alone, Nintendo is never returning to Wii-era gimmicks, and we’ll probably never see “Nintendo Selects” again.
I live in an area of Belgium with plenty of countryside sprawl. We're kind of famous for our endless suburbia fragmenting the agricultural land and nature.
In my grandparents era most people out here were backyard farmers. That's not even remotely the case now.
Assuming you want to not grow less produce you can prep for higher agricultural land prices.

Meanwhile It's ridiculously bad for traffic and getting every other kind of utility available everywhere.
Preparing them for the war machine. This is what they want.
The moon is a long way away. The furthest man has ever been from terra firma. The Earth is small at that distance compared to images from ISS or even a geosync satellite. The distance to the moon is about 30 Earths for perspective, over 400,000 kilometers away.

Here's a very famous image from Apollo 8:

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/82693/earthrise-rev...

For a different perspective, check out the view of earth/moon from Mars:

https://science.nasa.gov/resource/earth-and-moon-as-viewed-f...
I don't think these drones are for places that can be traversed safely or reasonably on bicycle. They're great for suburban sprawl where cycling isn't really viable and road trips take 10x as long to reach the places a drone can go.
Maybe it's a good idea to have a currency that isn't being inflated and devalued all the time with every little thing the government does. Kind of gold. Maybe digital gold? I'll call it bitgold. Or what about bitcoin?
> FaceTime requires the Mac or iPhone or iPad user create a link.

Yes, FaceTime requires that the Apple user initiate.

> It's a regular (persistent but revokable) link

You are correct that you can save the link somewhere for future use.
> Why is that unacceptable to say to women, but acceptable to say to men?

Because this is typically in response to allegations of rape? I haven't really noticed any stigma associated with this sentiment outside of that context.
> That works out to 12 hours per day, Monday through Friday, which Brin calls the "sweet spot of productivity."

Is there a term for when higher-ups find something that works for them (usually due to very specific circumstances of their lives and biology and possibly drug habits), and then insist that it's a universal feature of human beings?