skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't Mozilla a non-profit though?

Why does mozilla.ai exist?

Didn't we like a trust the product more in 2007 than we do now?

I mean, yay for scale, but haven't we lost something here?
I really enjoyed that show. Such a shame it was cancelled! Despite critical acclaim (in later seasons, at least), it apparently wasn't profitable enough.

I actually tried to find a legal way to rewatch it the other day, but all of my current subscriptions list it with "rights expired" or some such.
Tribute by his son (1)
(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcBM3p3wYlg
Why would it be? I can understand wanting us to be free of having to do the work, but having essentially no-one understand the systems they're using is something we haven't encountered once in the modern period. It feels more akin to the post-Roman Britons, who inherited the Empire's hydraulic infrastructure but not the know-how to fix it when things went wrong.
not only was there not "definitive evidence"; if you said that the companies did that sort of thing you were called a conspiracy theorist whackaloon. oddly 85% of the general public suddenly was like "well of course they spy on email" after all this came out.
I did not find this very convincing. I suspect it has to do with the author being very comfortable with site-generation tools, and not super comfortable with JavaScript. They don't mention any frameworks (React, Vue etc) so I suspect the JavaScript they write is doing things "the hard way" from scratch.

> My first impulse was to have a list of posts you can filter with JavaScript.

> But the more I built it, the more complicated it got. Each “list” of posts needed a slightly different set of data. And each one had a different sort order. What I thought was going to be “stick a bunch of <li>s in the DOM, and show hide some based on the current filter” turned into lots of data-x attributes, per-list sorting logic, etc. I realized quickly this wasn’t a trivial, progressively-enhanced feature. I didn’t want to write a bunch of client-side JavaScript for what would take me seconds to write on “the server” (my static site generator).

This is pretty trivial to implement in any framework.

Generally speaking, I find most of the "You don't need Javascript and frontend frameworks, just write static HTML!" posts reflect the skillsets of their authors. Me, I never really did any site-generation or server-side rendering stuff, so writing everything in VueJS + JavaScript is the easy way.
There isn’t a clear line, that’s what makes it tricky. Think of it like troubleshooting a very advanced robot that’s misbehaving or underperforming. The first question that gets asked is “hardware problem, software problem…?” And the answer is ‘neither, and both, it’s complicated’. Usually the problem is a feedback loop between mechanical, hydraulic, electrical, software, environment… If your robot is overheating, is it design (undersized radiator), mechanical (insufficient coolant flow/airflow), software (wrong current limits, temperature setpoints, no thermal throttling), configuration (inefficient design of routines), usage (duty cycle too high), or environment (too hot)?
This is good practical advice
I don't understand these articles, they've stumbled upon what many of us have known which is that the iPad just doesn't feel the same as a Macbook laptop. The iPad just doesn't suit what they need, some people it does suit them better, others not.

They could've just gone back to the Macbook and left the iPad for others, but felt the need for an article.

I was telling people back in 2012 that whilst the iPad is a shiny new thing, it doesn't fit the bill like a laptop and subsequently our staff wanted both laptops and iPads once they realised that.

There's a lot of loose connections and frustrations in this article whereby the Surface Pro not being able to upgrade to Windows 11 being another source of issues, whilst this also impacts Desktop users it still wouldn't fix the keyboard and trackpad issues.

If you like the Macbook and its functionality, keep buying a damn Macbook then. Apple didn't lock you into anything, you tried to use a different Apple product in the same way you use your Macbook and found out they're not designed to work that way.
> partnership restarted the project with a specially made gas turbine designed to run on ammonia.

And that gas turbine can also run on many other fuels - LPG, LNG, gasoline, diesel, etc.

My guess is this ship will do 1 run on ammonia for the press release, and then will run on LPG for the rest of its life for economic reasons. The original fuel cell design is far more picky about fuel sources and therefore wouldn't have had that possibility.
He was a kind person who offered SO much useful advice to people who needed help with Office and Windows.
> A revealing anecdote shared at one panel highlighted the cultural divide: when AI systems reproduced known mathematical results, mathematicians were excited, while AI researchers were disappointed

This seems very caricatural, one thing I've often heard in the AI community is that it'd be interesting to train models with an old data cutoff date (say 1900) and see whether the model is able to reinvent modern science
Alternative fuel? yes.

Greenhouse gas solution? no.

Ammonia will (and does) leak into the environment where it becomes a part of the natural nitrogen cycle. The end result of the natural nitrogen cycle is N2O (aka laughing gas) which is a greenhouse gas 250-350x more powerful than CO2.

Running the world on ammonia, even if logistically possible, will likely accelerate climate change, not slow it.
It's kind of like that on all websites, or worse.
Nearly all of reddit is presently political spam, and bot spam - often political bot spam. Every subreddit has to some degree been infiltrated by political spam - even subs that have absolutely nothing to do with politics.

It's really unfortunate... reddit used to make me laugh - now it just makes me angry.
There are plenty of places [1] where garbage is sorted for free by poor people who scrape a living from recycling it.

Sorting garbage is a terrible job for humans, but it's a terrible one for robots too. Those fancy mechanical actuators etc are not going to stand up well to garbage that's regularly saturated with liquids, oil, grease, vomit, feces, dead animals, etc.

[1] https://loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=96-P13-00022&s...
As the other respondents said, it’s an issue of threat modeling. If you essentially model the origin country as your ally, you still need to worry about rogue developers and bad code quality enabling outside exploits. If you model the origin country as a potentially enemy then you need a level of assurance that is vastly higher.
I get where you're coming from, but defending this particular guy also offends me. When Trump apprehends someone for, say, protesting Tesla, I'll climb on the barricades.

But not for this asshole. Sorry.
How to hand solder it?
Super familiar. Thanks!
It's very classy. I personally, still have a soft-spot for the Tango Blackcurrent that nonchalantly slips in three Harrier jump-jets right at the end

https://youtu.be/odCBml5TuNI?si=-pXipIDTLImrFNDo
G&A = General and Administrative (expenses)
Single source, 0 dependency cross platform audio library
Yeah, I think something like that will be properly supported once I get around to implementing an aws integration in the future
I would agree with you if computing devices were trivial aesthetic devices, instead of central to a lot of what we do.

I would agree with you if 1000 vendors of versatile computing tools put out 10,000 products with all kinds of uncorrelated options.

I would agree with you if even one vendor put out high-end quality, safe but ungated, customizable products for all form factors. (Safe out of the box, but all safeguards opt-out enabled.)

But neither wonderful extreme exists. Unfortunately, not even scaled down, bad caricatures, in a dark room, if you spend a mint, versions of that reality exist.

Instead, due to increasingly locked down devices, we are all left making tradeoffs we wish we didn’t have to make.

And not because guardrail opt-outs would be hard or costly to provide, but because manufacturers work hard to eliminate technically trivial opt-outs, or even any hero level effort opt-ours, and tell us they are doing this — for us!?!?

“We want you to be safe.” I don’t want to be safe. “No, we want you to be safe.” Help, let me out! “No, we want you to be safe.” Can my family and friends at least visit me? “No, not those family and friends. Would you like to see our menu of family and friend options? We want you to be safe.”

If each of us only chose devices on one dimension, it is likely everyone could find a product they like. But we choose devices to balance many concerns, and the artificially inflexible offerings can feel bleak. Because they are! (Both artificial & bleak).

This is essentially the reason open source software exists. Providing ungated alternatives - enabling self-serve specialization by customization - and keeping closed/gated software on its toes. But the real economic conundrums of open source are nothing compared to the *practical* economic conundrums of open hardware. And increasingly, wide appeal operating systems are low-level integrated with hardware defenses - for good reasons. But without opt-outs.
does anyone know if any of the robot arms being used in these videos, especially the ones that look like just an aluminium extrusion, are off-the-shelf things that can be purchased somewhere? even if its a kit?

I would love to experiment with something like this but everytime I try to figure out what hardware to do it with there's a thousand cheap no-name options and then bam 30k+ for the pro ones.
I agree, but it's difficult to make the criteria objective. "I was drunk last night and I realized X..." vs "Last night, a molecule of alcohol hit just the right neuron and fired off a chain of thoughts that led to a discovery"... Aren't both valid?
Also lets not forget this is special case with digital products where using something like Paddle completely solves it.

The systems are way crazier with physical products and there is no easy merchant of record solution.

This seems more like arrogance that for some people some nations are beneath them (even though they gladly take their money).
I mean, if a sufficiently capable entity is interested in snooping on an individual like this, mimicking a sewer tv inspection van is a trivial endeavour. You don’t know at all what that van was doing.
It's not even on the same level. Container tabs as the name implies are all in the same window, and you can program them, for example always open up google.com domains in my Google container, while opening amazon.com in my shopping container.

This keeps the cookies separate and means you are tracked less. Yes you can manually do this with Chrome profiles, but before this feature was introduced into Firefox I had a dozen or more Chrome profiles to keep all my work, community and personal Google/Microsoft logins separate.
mise is higher level. i use it to install uv in projects with other non-python dependencies (helm, terraform, npm), which i also install with mise.

Then all the python dependencies are managed with uv.

For a non-python project which needs a python-based CLI tool, i’m not sure if i’d use mise or uv (uvx).
> the problem of producing ammonia has already received the attention of several generations of the greatest minds humanity has.

Sure but they were working with the constraints of the times. Renewable electricity generation doesn’t have the same level of maturity and it’s already surpassing fossil options with tons of room to scale.

> that will never be more cost effective than doing it with natural gas.

We have an effectively infinite supply of electricity but a finite supply of natural gas. The trends are clear. Electricity is going to continue to get cheaper essentially forever and fossil fuels will continue to become more scarce and thus expensive until it's not economical to use them.

You just have to draw the timeline long enough and electricity becomes the cheaper option for ammonium production and renewable electricity becomes the cheapest electricity source.

> Fucking with the global food supply is the last thing anybody should be doing.

Ammonia prices don’t have to go up if demand goes up. Price increases are only one possible outcome of an increase in demand. The other option is an increase in supply. With sufficiently cheap electricity everything becomes affordable. When we deplete natural gas supplies ammonia will get more expensive.

Food will also cost a lot more when farmland gets too hot to be productive.

The last thing anyone should be doing is betting the food supply on scarce fossil fuel sources.
Congratulations on the launch. Looks very cool.
If anyone is looking for a local non Web based editor please check out qstudio: https://www.timestored.com/qstudio/help/duckdb-sql-editor
Mark Klein was not some mythical hero, but a real person who did heroic things. It's nice to be reminded of that. If anything, I find it inspiring.
finally! this was the thing keeping me from switching every time i looked into it.
Yes we do. It was a sewer inspection van. If it was the NSA, their van wouldn't look so goofy that people took one look at the photo and assumed it had to be an NSA van, which is what happened here. This is a bad movie plot trope: the bad guys can't simultaneously be omniscient and so dumb they're trivially outed like this, just like the real supervillain isn't going to monologue while you free yourself from the chains lowering you into the shark tank.
Teaching a course for a corporate client this week for data scientists. The first day (of five) we covered uv. Minds blown.

"Course was worth it just for uv"
That's UK.
Indeed, I am still perplexed at YC going so heavily for the 'GPT wrappers'. Clearly some are going to help generate quick wins.

As soon as the tools and capabilities are more widespread across developers, I think there will be a larger wave of 'intrapreneurship' easily solving many problems. In some of my consulting I've been specifically trying to help with this. Many larger companies already have the talent and understand their processes sufficiently to whip up solutions in timeframes that actually make more sense than going to external vendors. Sort of like the anti-YC, heh.
man did you read that wrong. was it intentional to make a point that is lame at best?
Honestly I am so frustrated with the approach of "lets take a population of millions of people and ask them all to sort perfectly". 'Tis a silly thing. Some people won't care, some people will care but mistakes will happen, some people will care about money more and so will deliberately dump things in the wrong bucket.

Get everyone to dump their crap into one pile and actually invest in industrial processes to sort the crap out.

Huge con: this is a complex problem with possibly poisonous/explosive ramifications if it goes wrong.

Huge Pro: If we can solve this issue, that is a society changing capability, forevermore.

Or until armageddon/robot overlords/singularity/zombie plague at least.
Its not Europes fault Americans want to sell there without respecting local laws.
The author's thoughts don't make sense, though. He's expecting a locked-down tablet appliance to suit the same needs and use cases as a laptop running a general-purpose OS. Or at best, he's not expecting that, but is at least complaining about it, which feels a little pointless.

He can get what he wants by buying a new Mac, as he suggests. It's not like what he wants doesn't exist. He's just complaining that some other random product doesn't do what he wants, even though it's not designed to. Pointless.
What benefit does merging provide?
When they're competent enough to cook meals, that's the point of no return for the job market.

These models are nowhere near that for now, but I'll be watching to see if the big investments into synthetic data generation over the next few years get them closer.
Yeah, I read it all the way through and enjoyed most of it. The rice part got a little preachy and the speculation about dog domestication was kind of annoying, but I learned a ton. It was originally recommended by a friend.

At risk of being accused of self promotion, if you're curious for my in-depth take, I reviewed back in 2021 on my newsletter: https://eleanorkonik.com/book-review-tamed
Kakistocracy:

a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.
Are you using the LTSC version on your desktop or also for some of your remote systems? I think if it's only for the desktop, I can fix that as that isn't really intended to be limited to the Professional version. Didn't really test it on an LTSC system so far, so I will look into that
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
I'd guess this is one of the side effects of the 'sugar tax'. A few years ago the UK introduced a tax on sugary drinks, but there is no tax on sugary free drinks.
Want a mac with just one USB C port and the butterfly keyboard that would fail after a year?
With profiles can you use the same window for multiple tabs? Based on a video I saw, the entire window is only used for that profile and switching between profiles will lose your other profiles tabs.
Odd that it slowed down. I wondered what happened. For me and my clients, uv has been 2-4 orders of magnitude faster.
uv is worth changing to. it legitimately solves python packaging problems the way no other proposed solution thus far could.
Can I interest you in some fresh alien urine? Still plenty saturated with Zephyron. I'll give you Dale Gribble's price! :)
You got to be kidding.

Linux is great for developer, that's all.

Everyone else is confused about it.
If it can do diagrams, charts, etc, with any kind of accuracy, it would have far more impact.

Eg.
"I suggest moving the boiler from point A to B on the below map of the factory to reduce piping costs and heat loss"
This is written in the first person, but there is no listed author and the website does not suggest an author...
I read it and don't understand it at all.

He's bought something whose limitations and target demographic are well known.

And then complaining when he hits one of those limitations.
I get ~197g CO2/mile, unless your mile is different than mine.

~122g/km at stated 45MPG.

oh also i remember why i mentioned the water wheel. this doesn't take into account the manufacture of the car, nor any other "externalities" and that's fine, but when you say 148g/mile it sounds like that's all included.

Perhaps you meant it as a gotcha, and if so, ensure your value is correct, as i don't think it was. 197 if ~8900g/gallon of gasoline is correct. I couldn't get a quick answer to if RON 95 is fundamentally different than say 91 octane in the US, which some pages assures me means the same thing. If so, it is closer to 200 than 150 grams per mile.
I can't tell if this is honest or sarcasm
There's only one release build which contains all feature implementations, but some of them are locked behind the plans. So to some degree, they are artificial as there isn't currently a separate build for the Homelab and Professional builds.

The only service it relies upon is the licensing server, but if you also don't want to use that to be fully independent, you can request an offline license. You can find the details about that on the pricing page.

Right now, there's no direct import from WinSCP, next best thing where it can import from is Putty
Are people seeing it work well in GPU/pydata land and creating multiplatform docker images?

In the data science world, conda/mamba was needed because of this kind of thing, but a lot of room for improvement. We basically want lockfile, incremental+fast builds, and multi-arch for these tricky deps.
I really liked it but felt some of the image hints were a bit ambiguous at times which annoyed me.

I had one for the US purchase of Alaska which I got from the images of Americans building log cabins in an icy landscape and another image showing an American signing a document. I assumed it would be either Washington or Alaska (Anchorage I guess), but wasn't sure which because it depends on if you weight the signing of the agreement over the building of US settlements. It could have been either given the images were of different locations.

Similarly I had picture of British dude creating telescopes and realised it was very likely Herschel. But I also knew Herschels early work was done in Bath, while his most famous telescope was built later in Slough. Again, it wasn't entirely clear which location it would have been referring to.

Maybe I'm just being stupid though. I think you could have argued that right answers in both cases were more likely to be Washington and Bath.

That said, I really really liked it and think you have something here. Personally I'd play this over Geoguessr any day and I'll show my GF it tomorrow because I think she'll also like the history aspect of it.

Also, might worth lowering the distance penalty if someone guesses the right country, but the wrong point? Events in large countries are more risky just because of their size. Eg, if an event happened in France but you click Germany you'll often get less of a distance penalty than correctly guessing an event happened in the US but clicking the wrong part of the US.
I think it was a sewer inspection van.

Having said that, reading comments like this, I sometimes think it would actually be great cover. Because you have respected people, like yourself, unequivocally stating that it couldn't possibly be an NSA van.

But, to say it again, I agree that I don't think the NSA would need to do this. My above line of reasoning certainly doesn't hold too much water under serious scrutiny.
Show HN: Ad-hoc LLM benchmark using NYT Connections
I guess it depends.

They can be competent enough to cook meals in a controlled environment: (environment built for machines and specific dishes), without ever being able to replicate the same in a human restaurant.

There are a few companies that do robotic cooking, and it has its challenges due to the above reason. I am not aware of the cost problem though.

How cool would it be if this replaced someone at Subway though
This does use img2vid but with AI generated images. Using real pictures or paintings could definitely be fun too.
It’s quite funny the docs also say this about the configurable url:

> Be sure you trust any URL you configure, as the application can access the data you load into DuckDB.

That’s certainly not what I would expect if someone gave me a “local UI” for some database.
I’ve only just once toyed with duckdb, was planning to look more at it - looks like will need to have my guard and see what actually is “local” and doesn’t ship my data to a remote url.
Mine too, but they have existed for a while now and seems their development is stuck and left to rot, there's many improvements around them that could be made to help improve privacy.
Carrier (ISP) routers.
The EU could step in for the browser, that bit of common, required infrastructure needed to provide modern government services. If that was the task given, EU bureaucrats could be the best choice for managing it. Any attempt to step beyond that immediately fails at the planning stage, because conflating the infrastructure component with anything else creates a ball of mud and a political and technical black hole. Like your example, where the EU couldn't even consider it because member states haven't given the organization that particular power.
I enjoyed that show enough that I was willing to put up with Amazon's "Freevee" ads because they would not just let me buy the show. I've never done that with any other shows.