skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're pretty close now, and I'm increasingly dissatisfied with software on both iOS and macOS.

The privacy features for messaging and cloud storage, plus not having to worry (as much) about security as I might with Linux, are the only reason I still use Apple. Every year I get more and more disappointed though. More and more nostalgic for the Apple software I used to enjoy using.
More recent example: In GTA SA in a mission I wasn't able to reach an airplane before it took off unless I lowered the resolution of the game.
In practice you don’t use that many, and also for most of what I use I’d have to create additional custom “bangs” anyway. For me it’s a browser-level feature (this has been present in browsers from very early on), independent of which search engine I use. And unless a search prefix actually maps to a search engine search, the search engine service has no business of knowing what I query. Better keep it separate.
There is a tool cool lovable that is basically targeted at that exact thing having designers and product managers get something that kinda works
Show HN: I made a puppet of myself to demo my free Apple Watch voice notes app [video]
Hey HN,

I just released my first iOS app, Stardate– a way to take very quick voice notes with your Apple Watch or iPhone.

The features are kind of a mouthful: one tap to start a note, local Whisper transcription, automatic export of all data to iCloud Drive, metadata export for use with an AI...

Since it's kind of hard to explain all that in text, I knew I needed to make a demo video. But I'm a bit camera shy and didn't want to get a haircut. Fortunately I made this puppet of myself for Halloween so I thought, maybe it'd be better to have Lil Dean do the demo.

Is it working?

Check out Stardate here:

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stardate-notes/id6496679661

[1] https://stardateapp.com
I'll take that bet, easily.

There's absolutely no way that we're not going to see a massive reduction in the need for "humans writing code" moving forward, given how good LLMs are getting at writing code.

That doesn't mean people won't need devs! I think there's a real case where increased capabilities from LLMs leads to bigger demand for people that know how to direct the tools effectively, of which most would probably be devs. But thinking we're going back to humans "writing readable, functional, maintainable code" in two years is cope.
> “PR is viewed as a big mess internally right now,”

When you have bad media because of your actions, polishing the communication is only possible after an earnest effort to do better.

Which is going to be difficult without the knowledge of the digital teams they fired (and which can show results and savings as per the article).

The quote at the end sums it up nicely:

> “Anyone can make something look nice,” the employee said. But following the correct protocols to ensure government systems don’t break “is a lot more complicated. And I don’t think they care about it at all.”
A big issue during WWII is that the submarines were trying to find and approach the ships in order to sink them - and the ships in turn were looking out for the submarines. The submarine is forced to be close to ships equipped with radar.

Ballistic missile submarines are a completely different story. They aren't chasing anyone. Their entire goal is to be unpredictable and stay hidden, so if there's anyone with a radar around they are just going to keep quiet and move somewhere else.

Finding a sub prowling a shipping route is quite doable. Finding a sub in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? Not a chance.
If you're using the LLM poorly. Many team leads spend very little time programming, and spend a lot of time reviewing code, which is basically what working with LLMs is. If the LLM writes code that you couldn't have written yourself, you aren't qualified to approve it.
Pre-AMD acquisition ATI also often had better hardware specs than NVIDIA, but their drivers were so often buggy and terrible. By the time they'd been fixed the reviews were long since done on the initial release versions.

AMD seems to run a better software shop, at least.
seems like OP ran out of tokens
Having encountered some of the 3dfx people involved with that, bowing, scraping or apologizing was not really their m.o.
I'm not really sure I understand your counter argument. Pretty much everything about personal productivity is anecdotes because it's so uniquely tied to an individual. I showed you my numbers - I am 2x to 5x faster at delivering projects.
This is the difference between the scientific approach and the engineering approach. Engineers just need results. If humans had to mathematically model gravity first, there would be no pyramids. Plus, look up how many psychiatric medications are demonstrated to be very effective, but the action mechanisms are poorly understood. The flip side is Newton doing alchemy or Tesla claiming to have built an earthquake machine.

Sometimes technology far predates science and other times you need a scientific revolution to develop new technology. In this case, I have serious doubts that we can develop "intelligent" machines without understanding the scientific and even philosophical underpinnings of human intelligence. But sometimes enough messing around yields results. I guess we'll see.
I wasn’t meaning to apply that ILS was a sufficient alternative . I was using it as an example of tech technologies that have been around for a long time.

Navigation without GPS is not a problem for a commercial airliner. Landing without it in poor visibility is a different issue.
The example is not ideal for showcasing a graph analytics database because they could have used a traditional relational database to answer the same query, Which of my contacts work at Google?
There is some push, but still quite a bit of reluctance to see free trade between provinces.
Yes, and the only current alternative to Mastercard's Maestro is Visa's V-Pay :/
Just to add my experience to the pile: when I went to college I was able to convince my parents to get me a custom PC from a company called GamePC. Among the specs in 1998:

400Mhz Pentium 2
128MB
Nvidia Riva TNT
3DFX Voodoo2
CDRW (4x4x24 I think)
Syquest SparQ (Awesome, but had major issues)
Internal Zip Drive

Just a ridiculous system for the time. Quake 2 and Starsiege Tribes were really popular in our dorm and that system was just perfect for it. Also popular was burning lots of pirated games, so we'd order CDRs in bulk from this really random site overseas. High quality "gold" CDRs and they were far more reliable than any of the ones you'd find in stores in the US for about half the cost.

Halfway through my freshman year I decided to swap the motherboard and CPU for a crazy motherboard/CPU combo. There was a brief moment where Intel Celerons didn't really prevent you from using them in a dual CPU setup, so I had two 366mhz Celerons overclocked to ~433mhz (sometimes up to 533mhz, but that was less stable) and started playing around with OSs like Linux and BeOS to actually take advantage of them.

edit: corrected the amount of memory

/end reminiscing about a simpler time
A couple of universities built a telescope called Dragonfly, that utilizes 48 Canon 400mm lenses to photograph the skies of New Mexico. The kicker is they don't use camera bodies. Instead, they designed and built mounts that directly connect the lens to a sensor. A PC controls each lens through some custom electronics using commands they reverse-engineered from the Canon control software. These commands control focus, aperture, and triggering a photograph. Images from the 48 lenses are then combined in the computer into a highly detailed final image. This was done back in 2013 so its possible Canon has released an API by now but I suspect they still keep it proprietary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_Telephoto_Array
> They were revolutionary as product genres, not necessary individual companies.

Even then, they were evolutionary at best.

Before Netflix and Spotify, streaming movies and music were already there as a technology, ask anybody with a Megaupload or Sopcast account. What changed was that DMCA acquired political muscle and cross-border reach, wiping out waves of torrent sites and P2P networks. That left a new generation of users with locked-down mobile devices no option but to use legitimate apps who had deals in place with the record labels and movie studios.

Even the concept of "downloading MP3s" disappeared because every mobile OS vendor hated the idea of giving their customers access to the filesystem, and iOS didn't even have a file manager app until well into the next decade (2017).
Okay, well it sounds like you're deeper in the rabbit hole than I am, then. (I also live in Germany and have a passing interest for the law, though I'm no lawyer).

Regarding your last paragraph, where you say that a foundation provides better insulation from founder control, it sounds to me like you answered your own question: Retention of control vs. insulation from control is precisely the distinction here.

Foundations are typically for people who don't have the option of retaining control, even if they wanted to, because they are typically close to death and in the process of structuring an inheritance. Handing over control to person X is something they see as a threat, because they assume that X will screw it up, so they'd rather make it so that no one can have control.

With social entrepreneurship like Ecosia, founders are typically still young and somewhat idealistic. They want to retain the control, because them being in control is not something they see as a threat. Rather that's what they see as the best possible mechanism for their company/cause retaining its idealistic values. (Also, they are looking for something meaningful to do with their lives).

A cynic might notice that you're kind of looking at regular narcissism vs. communal narcissism here.

If you wanted to structure your social entrepreneurship type business as a foundation which owns 100% of the shares in "your" for-profit corporation, that doesn't work as a "have your cake and eat it too" solution, because either that means that the trustees of the foundation are actually your boss and you're just a replaceable employee with replaceable employee wages or, if you try to pull any shenanigans to make it so that this is not the case, the trust loses its tax-free / "community interest" status. Trying to game this system is something that rich people are routinely trying to do. I'm not saying that some don't get away with it, but the authorities generally have a lot of tools at their disposal to fight this sort of thing.
Although my company isn’t recognizable as a startup given its age, I can say confidently that the typical advice to avoid rolling your own is not a given.

Many new founders and businesses fail to consider the supporting systems they need outside the code their product or service is comprised of. This can cause a lot of unnecessary re-engineering later.

As we built our company we had to make a number of decisions about whether to build our own or go with a third party. At various points we did both, and for us the DIY approach has continuously been the better option over time. That doesn’t mean we write our own code for everything but it does mean we sometimes do, and it means we don’t just go with whatever is the most convenient. An increasing amount of our IT estate is self-hosted applications rather than SaaS apps, for example.

By way of example, we had started off with a really popular accounting package that everyone uses for everything but which isn’t very customizable (and which doesn’t provide backups). That became untenable after only a few years because we our service demanded a more bespoke approach to linking service and financial data. We knew that going in but we took the same “it’ll do for now” attitude. That ended up creating more pain later. We moved to an ERP platform that we can host (and backup!) and haven’t looked back.

We almost did the same with our infrastructure management. We had evaluated and used a number of proprietary products and services from AWS, Hashicorp, CI/CD, and RMM vendors.

Ultimately we created our own stack on the back of FOSS and custom code which took a lot longer to mature but which has proven to be much better for our needs.
I completely agree with your points. However, my admittedly snarky comment was regarding the idea that simply searching for a term across a document is how one decides legal validity, with no regard to alternate jargon, definitions, and of course, as you point out outcomes.
Obligatory https://vgamuseum.ru/wp-content/gallery/bitching-fast/bitchi...
Much of Finland and Estonia are currently being jammed per https://gpsjam.org/?lat=58.53948&lon=24.82400&z=4.9&date=202...

Finland is reintroducing DME: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/three-fin...

Which seems to be a different concept from LORAN, but still useful for navigation when multiple base stations are in range.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_measuring_equipment
Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure
Extensions in general seem to be becoming more of a risk. Both browser and on say vscode they seem to have significant ability to do harm if the author decides to
Note those INS systems depend on some sort of navigational system to verify against due to drift and such, and those systems are GPS or VOR.. and VORs are being shut down or decommissioned as they fail (except for the ones declared required for national security).
I had one of those 3D-only cards on my first computer. I didn't know about the passthrough and got pretty annoyed that my games sucked and never worked with the hardware 3D stack. I don't know if they didn't document it correctly, or if I just missed it. But when some support person finally told me, I was so pumped. I spent a while manually moving the cable to the 3D card when playing a game, until I finally got a passthrough cable.
> In theory node has async stack traces now, but I have yet to see this work through `setTimeout` and friends. It's very common to lose parts of the stack.

You need to use the actual `await` syntax to get an async stack trace in node. Callbacks and raw promise work can't be seen by the async stack trace implementation which hooks into `await` points.
The record of a scientific discovery that is heavily criticized for plagiarism and falsehoods is probably not a good example, actually.
Ask HN: Is Trump using a randomized strategy like evolution and chatbots?
Basically he just puts out all sorts of random ideas and sees what happens?
It's not really obsolete, animation studios (and especially indie) still use the same things. There are those who only use modern tools and digital (which is mostly drawn frame-by-frame as well), but it's more like it's split by the technique used. Watch animation shorts from oscar, there are lots of them that use old stuff.
The first iPhone didn't have an app store and the idea was to just use websites and later install webapps. On that there is no control whatsoever, so no I don't think the original idea was to lock down the devices for business value.
"a slap on the wrist" by a consumer association is not the same as a legal condemnation. (I'm assuming the "consumer association" is not a regulator, but just a bunch of people coming together.)

It's useful for the consumer, and is supposedly part or the normal "immune system" of a free market.

However, the "legal" part has to be handled by regulators, following laws enacted by lawfully elected representatives.

This part is being slashed by lawfully elected executives (in part) and by unelected "advisors". One of whom is actively doing things that should get him prosecuted.

Also, I hope the consumer protection association is not depending on any kind of public funding - otherwise, I hope their website doesn't use banned words like "diverse".
ServiceNow to Acquire Moveworks
Absolutely! I'm very confident people will find it useful. Are you also perhaps going to include a light mode version of the website? It's currently hard to look at it when the sun is shining in my screen. I think other people would like it as well!
A CLI tool for security testing agent workflows
Such a cool website.

In case anyone else was looking for it, this article from the same author covers the more algorithm-y question of how a camera body decides to actually use these motors when you press the "focus" button: https://exclusivearchitecture.com/03-technical-articles-DSLR...

I can't find any articles on how a camera body decides what is and isn't a desired subject. I'm guessing there's some amount of machine learning-type stuff involved in that, seeing as how they can detect human (and bird?) faces?
I enjoy thinking about this. Not only is a sequence of digits encoding the complete works of Shakespeare in there somewhere, it's in there again. And again, an infinite number of times.
Subspace/Continuum also used lag in its gameplay, with players warping to recently exploded spaceships so they could continue to invade. It was an established technique and had to be defended against.

Edit: typo

Shout out to any EG players!
DOGE — there is no there there
> some of the tedious boiler-plate code is taken care of.

For me that is the bit which stands out, I'm switching languages to TypeScript and JSX right now.

Getting copilot (+ claude) to do things is much easier when I know exactly what I want, but not here and not in this framework (PHP is more my speed). There's a bunch of stuff you're supposed to know as boilerplate and there's no time to learn it all.

I am not learning a thing though, other than how to steer the AI. I don't even know what SCSS is, but I can get by.

The UI hires are in the pipeline & they should throwaway everything I build, but right now it feels like I'm making something they should imitate in functionality/style better than a document, but not in cleanliness.
> While at SGI, Tarolli, Sellers, and Smith had all had some exposure to SGI’s Reality Engine, and with video games (especially the PlayStation) moving toward 3D graphics, all three saw the potential for consumer 3D acceleration.

Were they exposed to early versions of the Playstation? It wasn't publicly released until after 3dFX was formed.

While working at Virgin games in 92 we did see some demos of 3D gaming, but I can't recall who the manufacturer was.
I am not sure that Wayland forces you to run all those things. That might be the case if you use Gnome, but e.g. sway is much more minimalistic.
X / Twitter down for a third time
Tribes was the game I remember that showcased the card best - you had a legitimate competitive advantage if you were running this card.

(also, shazbot)
Yeah, I think you're actually right. I was thinking you double them with 2 (experimentally), so you double that again to get 4x, but my curve was pretty off.
It occasionally helps to get the vandals arrested. Doesn't seem to be deterring the vandalism though, which is what I care about. I want to be able to go about my life without having to worry about coming back to a graffitied/damaged car.
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There’s a thing we tend to do as engineers where we hear a thing and then start thinking through the implications and design, which is normal, but also we seem to assume we’re the only ones who’ve ever thought about it, and therefore our concerns must be unaddressed, and we’re brilliant, so clearly nobody’s ever thought of them before, so we’ve gotta share them. If you’d like to see this behavior in action, this is the thread for you.
I appreciate the pushback and acknowledge that my earlier comment might have conveyed too much certainty—skepticism here is justified and healthy.

However, I'd like to clarify why optimism regarding AGI isn't merely wishful thinking. Historical parallels such as heavier-than-air flight, Go, and protein folding illustrate how sustained incremental progress combined with competition can result in surprising breakthroughs, even where previous efforts had stalled or skepticism seemed warranted. AI isn't just a theoretical endeavor; we've seen consistent and measurable improvements year after year, as evidenced by Stanford's AI Index reports and emergent capabilities observed at larger scales.

It's true that smart people alone don't guarantee success. But the continuous feedback loop in AI research—where incremental progress feeds directly into further research—makes it fundamentally different from fields characterized by static or singular breakthroughs. While AGI remains ambitious and timelines uncertain, the unprecedented investment, diversity of research approaches, and absence of known theoretical barriers suggest the odds of achieving significant progress (even short of full AGI) remain strong.

To clarify, my confidence isn't about exact timelines or certainty of immediate success. Instead, it's based on historical lessons, current research dynamics, and the demonstrated trajectory of AI advancements. Skepticism is valuable and necessary, but history teaches us to stay open to possibilities that seem improbable until they become reality.

P.S. I apologize if my comment particularly triggered you and compelled you to log in and downvote. I am always open to debate, and I admit again that I started too strongly.
AI has no meaningful input to real world productivity because it is a toy that is never going to become the real thing that every person who has naively bought the AI hype expects it to be. And the end result of all the hype looks almost too predictable similar to how the also once promising crypto & blockchain technology turned out.
The law is written to prevent loopholes and exploits -- an extremely hard task, given the number of people willing to break it for even the slightest profits. The sheer number of these "false exits", that, then need to be covered, makes making reading and interpreting the law a hard endeavor. And a very precise one. It could be easier by some fraction, but never anywhere near easy.
There's no mention of privacy or security with this. I can't even tell who is behind it. That's a huge red flag to me.
Out of curiosity would you prefer Windows or Linux instead of Mac?
Jet fuel spills into North Sea after tanker collision
I'd normally agree with you, but in this case this function is meant to be used for vectorizable input so it doesn't really matter since it's using a random-access iterator, otherwise you should go with the usual std::count_if().

Then again, it doesn't hurt to be pedantic.
Why Do Researchers Care About Small Language Models?
We need people with more sense than empathy. Closed borders, criminals in prison instead of the streets, etc. I don't care that much about the S&P--I want to walk to lunch without having to dodge homeless encampments. The fundamental purpose of government is to provide an orderly, clean society for the majority, and our government has been doing a bad job of that.