skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grocery stores are experts at sales tactics throughout the store. All that fruit does not look so beautiful in the field, and virtually every store is trying to develop their 'ethos' to capture the customers with enough money to be able to care about that.

There is no way to avoid selling in life. Otherwise, at the least, you will be constantly overlooked. There should be no shame in it. The shame is only when sales replaces instead of presents the value proposition you are offering.
Random thought: could you insulate high voltage wires in pipes and blow cold air through those? Any loss would become “free” heating for homes nearby.
A fun website to try out different Dithering algorithms and settings.

https://doodad.dev/dither-me-this/
Did you hear about hundreds of thousands of people dying in South Sudan’s civil war since 2013? Did you hear about the return of open-air slave markets in Libya since NATO intervention in 2011? Did you hear about dozens of other hideous things happening in Africa? It’s almost comical that you think people elsewhere would give a shit about such a comparatively minor thing as Internet interruptions.
The visuals add a lot to this article. A big theme throughout is latency, and the visual help the reader see why tape is slower than an hdd, which is slower than an ssd, etc. Also, its just plain fun!

I'm curious, what do you do on the internet without js these days?
Show HN is a great example to bring up! I often find the hacky projects a lot more valuable and worth my time than the ones that are clear adverts.

HN can obviously be gamed, but I think when people ask or share tools they use to solve certain problems, that demonstrates a desire to discover something new showing that there are ways to discover valuable tools without ads. That type of discovery is a lot different from an ad on Instagram for a drop ship company advertising its US roots while repackaging cheap Chinese manufactured products. In the latter example, I feel the ad exists entirely to sell something that is completely unneeded rather than to inform about something the person genuinely could find valuable.
I won’t push back on that. I wasn’t trying to assign one side as victor or morally superior by comparing the Taiwanese to the Confederates.
Lmao, "now" controlled? Mozilla has been run by hyper partisan political operatives since it's inception.
This is the best approach and avoids long context windows that get the LLM confused
> Yes, you're allowed to make personal copies of copyright works that you own.

That’s not the point. It’s about books you don’t own.
Are you allowed to download books from Z-Library, Sci-Hub etc. because you want to learn?
Disgusting defense, there is something wrong with harassing any citizens whose face you don't think is white enough to belong to "your people", like "Keep Sweden Swedish" did.

Why would the skin color of those who lived there 1000 years ago be relevant to anything? I don't see many Americans advocating for an expulsion of all non-indians (rightly so).

Also, when was the last time a nationalist wave led to anything good for anyone? All I can recall is ruin and suffering.
"I have now downgraded my expectations, learning is indeed optional."

So I ask you a question and you then don't answer it but instead just reply with sarcasm?

I don't think this is a polite way to have a conversation, so I'm out.
I live in Canada in an older home with terrible insulation.

Out two tonne heat pump works just fine even at -25C this past winter.

We still have a natural gas furnace but our gas usage is down 65% despite this winter being colder than last year’s.

Tell me again how heat pumps don’t work in colder climates?
It really hasn't been one of the Big 3 since 2014 when Fiat purchased Chrysler and Chrysler became a European company. Big 3 refers to American automakers. Tesla has been the 3rd largest American automaker for over a decade.
I already have this working on firefox. They have an openai integration but I point this to my own server.
- Stripe CFO joined Vercel's board.

- V0 turned out just to be off-the-shelf Claude 3.7.

- Vercel Fluid was launched without fanfare.

- Their $250 million Series E round was all preferred stock.

- Rauch has been in Tokyo, Seattle, and now Bordeaux all within three weeks.

How are they doing?
Don’t threaten me with a good time
I think content creators want to be compensated for their work that's being used for commercial purposes.

I think you're framing it in a way that makes it seem like they don't want to be compensated for working, they just want to stop other people from starting a new industry, which doesn't seem like a good faith understanding of the situation.
With 100+Hz displays it's not that hard to do temporal dithering as well. Your cones are surprisingly low bandwidth (why old color TVs even worked at 30Hz), while your rods provide danger/flicker cues outside the fovea.

Getting an extra 2bits of hue (ab) while maintaining luminance (L) is quite doable except at the chroma and brightness extremes where your eye mostly ignores them anyway. That could be done pretty high in the display stack. I'd also say that the DACs in many displays are capable of higher chroma resolution, but gamma non-linearity eats up a bit dynamic range.
Problem is, once you centralize, that remains in place for a long time, but the original intent, even if it was genuine, rarely outlives the people who implemented it for long.

Generally speaking, every point of centralization is also a point where a lot of power can be acquired with relatively little resources. So regardless of intent, it attracts people who are into power, and over time, they take over. The original intent often remains symbolically and in the rhetoric used, but when you look beyond that into the actual policies, they are increasingly divorced from what is actually claimed.
You may copy, but you may not circumvent the copy protection.
> I still think this is phrased in an unfortunate way.

I do not discount your notion, but why?

> To reiterate, my point is the damage has already been done

What damage has been done, exactly?

Call it a lie if you will, but the Typescript team claims to be ecstatic about how the port is nearly indistinguishable from the original codebase, meaning that nothing was lost - all while significant performance improvements and a generally better end user experience was gained.

Perhaps you mean the project has always been fundamentally flawed, being damaged from the day the first Typescript/Javascript line was written? Maybe that is true, but neither C# nor any other language is going to be able to come in and save that day. Brainfuck would have been just as good of a choice if that is truly where things lie. To stand by C# here doesn't make sense.

> I do not think Anders or TS team are up-to-date on where .NET teams are nor I think they communicated internally

Whether or not that is the case, did they need to? Static methods and classes in C# are most likely of Anders' very own creation. At very least he was right there when they were added. There is no way he, of all people, was obvious to them.

> Having to prioritize ease of porting for such a foundational piece of software as a compiler over everything else is not a good place to be in.

Ease of porting was a nice benefit, I'm sure, but they indicate that familiarity was the bigger driver. Anyone familiar with the old code can jump right in and keep on contributing without missing a beat. Given that code is written first and foremost for people, that is an important consideration.
Sure he knew how to get there: build SOTA fabs that can compete with TSMC. The problem was that it was going to cost $100B and take 10 years. The board wasn't patient enough and wanted a quick fix. There is no quick fix.
I need to try out this line on my manager in stand-up later today.
Do you think OpenAI used fewer sources than Meta?
You Need Regulators to Deregulate
A man can forget his prostate, but can a prostate ever forget its man?
I missed the part where OpenAI got library cards for all the libraries in the world.

Is having a library card a requirement for being hired over there?
You can entirely turn off all animations. You can also turn off only some, like workspace switching, and reduce the durations globally.
Thats a cool idea. Instead of initializing our hard disks with 0's we should fill them with things like that so that people have a chance of finding them as needed.

Does it have a corresponding repo or blog post or anything like that?
Didn’t say it was a good plan, just that unless you’ve got some brilliant replacement for late-stage capitalism, it’s a logical progression.
> I'm curious, what do you do on the internet without js these days?

Browse the web, send/receive email, read stories, play games, the usual. I primarily use native apps and selectively choose what sites are permitted to use javascript, instead of letting websites visited on a whim run javascript willy nilly.
There's this growing sentiment among some Republicans that Trump isn't conservative enough and that Democrats, a centrist party relative to most developed nations, are left wing lunatics/socialists/communists.
You have to go quite far north for -20F to become frequent.
It doesn't, a real person can't legally obtain a copy of a copyrighted work without paying the copyright holder for it. This is what OpenAI is asking for: they don't want to pay for a single copy of a single book, and still they want to train their models on every single book in history (and song, and movie, and painting, and code base, and anything else they can get their hands on).
I’ve worked in healthcare tech and this is pretty bad. You get fined per patient record and it’s not cheap. You also get put on a “wall of shame” where anyone who might do business with you in the future can look and see. You can also be held personally liable if you mess up. It’s really intense.

At my old job we didn’t even allow PII to pass through our API so we couldn’t accidentally log it and kept all of it in its own VPS totally isolated from the rest of our system. When we needed a record we’d put it into an S3 bucket and hand back temp link that only the caller could access (and expired within a short period of time) Total pain but you could sleep at night.
Well, the people who designed that system were very skeptical of political parties in general, and thought they could be avoided. Turns out that this isn't true, and once you have parties, they can in fact capture all three branches of government, and then those "checks and balances" kinda stop working.
It's interesting to think that if the US Constitution had been created in today's technological environment, the founders would have authorized a federal United States Internet Service, as opposed to a postal one.
The level of your effort really shows through. If you had to ballpark guess, how much time do you think you put in? and I realize keyboard time vs kicking around in your head time are quite different
I absolutely do not want CoPilot, but I almost clicked on a button to request it from my organization of just me a couple of times.
You can use basically the same old xkb configs as with xorg. I have some hacked together keyboard layout in an xkb file, that I share across tty / xorg / wayland.
Honey Bunnies
Gross. History is not for LLMs to generate. I find the praise in this thread disturbing. The amount of completely anachronistic scenes would probably lead to worse historic understanding, making this an anti learning game.
>> If you can slim the processes, a.k.a reduce bureaucracy, then a ton of people can be let go. Also if you let go a ton of people, processes are forced to become more efficient.

Or broken. The latter has a higher a probability.

This is pretty naive, one dimensional thinking. Making things efficient requires deep systems understanding and lack of which is on display here (Chesterton's fence). And one can achieve it reasonably for physical/technical things, however dismantling social processes that have evolved over the years for variety of reasons indicates neither the capability nor the desire to improve them.
It's an array of pre-calculated values that I extracted from an image donated to the Public Domain by Christoph Peters (the link is an interesting read about bluenoise - recommend!) - http://momentsingraphics.de/BlueNoise.html

No textures or masks, just brute computing on the CPU.
I'm aware of that. I was more surprised the first time it happened to me as a bit of imposter syndrome where someone took my image as professional. I've never claimed to be one. I just play one on TV
The two brands that could have a claim to producing "the model that everyone says are the best" are Bose and Sony. For Bose, the QuietComfort Ultra are the top of the line, but the cheaper/older QuietComfort 45 and 35 are both good too. For Sony, the WH-1000XM4 is the consensus favorite, even though the XM5 is newer. I own the XM4 and the older XM3 and I prefer the XM3 because I like the way it sounds with nothing playing better. I don't know how to describe it but the "silence" of the XM4 with ANC on but nothing playing feels too artificial for me. For office use, though, I prefer the XM4 since it has bluetooth multipoint and I can use them easily with both my laptop and phone without mucking around in settings.

I'm changing jobs and going from having my own office to hoteling desks, so I imagine I'll be wearing the Sony's a lot more and I'm not sure if they'll be comfortable enough for all day use. At home or on a plane, I usually need to give my ears a rest every hour or so. I'll give one of the Bose a shot if I can't deal with the Sony's all day.

Apple is also very popular. I haven't tried the new AirPods with ANC, but I love the Pros. I have to fuss with them a bit to get a good seal, and they don't stand up to city or airplane use, but they're fine in a relatively quiet environment, and they're so small I pretty much always have them on me. I have no experience with the Max, but from what I've read they can be uncomfortable for some people.
Efficient exists on multiple dimensions. Generating software quickly and cost effectively is just one of them. Maintaining, adding features and managing security liabilities also factor into that overall efficiency. And the ability to managing this maintenance, growth and security concerns depends on the continued ability to reason about any facet of the software that might become relevant - something that programmers writing code have shown to be capable of, but LLMs generating text continuations that contain code have not.
Got some interesting uses from the new DuckDB UI tool from Motherduck. Can be used as the query editor for Iceberg data lakes
Notable that Grok is incorrect 94% of the time.
Ask HN: How can junior devs/designers get a job with Indie studios?
I’m a senior DevOps engineer and I see a lot of job postings for my field and level, but I have someone close to me who just graduated last year and she has been struggling to get a job at any game studio for any role she qualifies for (junior game dev, or junior game designer) she’s now looking for QA roles as well.

Watching all of this it seems like it’s a Herculean task to get a job when you’re fresh out of college, especially in the gaming field.

I was wondering if anyone had advice for how to be more appealing to indie gaming companies so that she might have an easier time getting her career started.

Any thoughts/advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I can understand what you're saying, but there's a different way to look at it. Imagine yourself in the future. You're in a position of leadership and people want your advice. Let's say a student asks you how they should get a high level job in a competitive marketplace. What would you say?

Personally, I would tell the student they should be ambitious and tell people what their skills are. They should ask for responsibilities and compensation. They should tell people that they are worth the risk.

If you agree with me about giving that advice, then you should now put yourself in the place of the student. Shouldn't you receive the same advice? Shouldn't you be ambitious and ask people to give you responsibilities and compensation? If so, then you can understand why selling yourself is actually important and there's nothing immoral or slimy about it. It feels wrong sometimes, but that feeling may not be aligned with reality.
I don't think they are, and I don't think it's necessary (or possible) to be better than anyone else.
Nice concept. Have you considered a way to synchronize the locally stored data across browsers?
The more literature I consume, and the more I re-draft my own attempt, the more I see the patterns and tropes with everyone standing on the shoulders of those who came before.

The general concept of "warp drive" was introduced by John W. Campbell in 1957, "Islands of Space". Popularised by Trek, turned into maths by Alcubierre. Islands of Space feels like it took inspiration from both H G Wells (needing to explain why the War of the Worlds' ending was implausible) and Jules Verne (gang of gentlemen have call-to-action, encounter difficulties that would crush them like a bug and are not merely fine, they go on to further great adventure and reward).

Terry Pratchett had obvious inspirations from Shakespeare, Ringworld, Faust (in the title!).

In the pandemic I read "The Deathworlders" (web fic, not the book series of similar name), and by the time I'd read too many shark jumps to continue, I had spotted many obvious inspirations besides just the one that gave the name.

If I studied medieval lit, I could probably do the same with Shakespeare's inspiration.
thanks rob! yeah, my favorite learning was the one about CSS. this project really helped me understand where the AI and I understand things the same way, and where me being a human and the AI being an LLM will necessarily have friction
mermaid-cli uses puppeteer to run a browser. The container packs Chromium. It makes no real effort to render anything without all that overhead.
And yet at the same time a rental car fleet is when I most need my map up there and not an advertisement.
History of Maths for Beginners
It is... but basically it need to remember which groups are sync'd. For example if you use an extra, you have to keep track of it constantly because sync thrashes around between states all the time unless you play close and tedious attention. At least I haven't figured out how to make it remember which extras are "active".

uv sync --extra gpu
uv add matplotlib # the sync this runs undoes the --extra gpu
uv sync # oops also undoes all the --extra

What you have to do to avoid this is to remember to use --no-sync all the time and then meticulously manually sync while remembering all the extras that I do actually currently want:

uv sync --extra gpu --extra foo --extra bar
uv add --no-sync matplotlib
uv sync --extra gpu --extra foo --extra bar

It's just so... tedious and kludgy. It needs an "extras.lock" or "sync.lock" or something. I would love it if someone tells me I'm wrong and missing something obvious in the docs.
This is actually one of the scenarios where AI (I just mean machine learning) would have a real value proposition, because of the need to infer the implicit constraints from many example circuits. Figuring out all the things that people think are obvious, but that take too long to input, is kind of the thing AI is useful for.
Look up "alignment tax".
>which in 10 years could not be the case anymore

What makes you say that? A lot of things can happen in 10 years. Should we all just do northing and wait until then?

>The US is in a terrible fiscal shape right now

If being the worlds leading economy and military superpower is what a terrible fiscal shape looks like I think many countries in the world would want to be "terrible" right now.
Yes, the Turing Test tries to give an operational definition of 'think'- can a computer give the same response as a thinking human.

Further, we can even disallow decisions based on the human/machine signature. The computers don't need to imitate human frailty and examiners decide based on the quality of the output, not whether it feels human or machine. I think that this is also why one of the stipulations is that the human/machine is not physically visible.

But even then, this goal is far away. We are not asking just about simple short chat imitation games but whether a computer can operationally do everything humans are capable of in the textual medium. This often requires experts.

The chat game version can be solved. But, the foundational goal is far away.
After this, the FTC reversed position saying it was "fully prepared" after pressure from the Trump administration.
Regulatory moat and copyright relief for me, but not for thee.
Yeah, translators would probably lose their minds when they have to translate horribly ambiguous sentences like 今日はウナギ？行くなら行く。 (lit. "Is today an eel? If go, then go."), which means "Are they going to have eel today? If you go with them, I'll go too." or "Today's daily special is eel, isn't it? If you go, I'll go too."
> but I don't write blog posts at the office about what kind of transformational and high-impact work I'm capable of, and about this week's top-10 coding life-hacks, and how I can single-handedly turn your project around from life support to on-schedule deployment.

That's not at all what the comment above was suggesting.

Saying you're open for work and offering services is not slimy.

I think you're confusing LinkedIn slop with offering services. They're not the same thing.
OMG there was one about how an engineer in San Francisco is crying about his $2K in salad bills and his Cyber Truck while making like a half a mil a year
you mean, exactly like most the public on this site did when moving from Gmail and abandoning their isp provided email?
You can remain dignified and poor or become demeaned and rich.
I agree overall, but I don't think it's a secret to anyone, except, possibly, for people new to iPads, who haven't researched about what it really is.

YMMV, but I don't find this situation funny or deserving a sarcastic remark. What happened is that a person had seen an ad for a device with very good hardware specs that they cannot use because it doesn't work for them software- and policy-wise, and they're unhappy about it. I can understand if that person would make fun of their unhappiness (a perfectly valid way to handle the discomfort), but I wouldn't make fun of them as a bystander.

I think it's perfectly natural and expected to voice discontent if you saw an ad but the product wasn't a good fit for you and ad failed to disclose it (for obvious reasons, but still creating a conflict of interest). Especially because Apple is marketing to everyone, including software developers.
I'm imagining a kind of weaponized innocent straightforwardness:

"GitHub support, it appears a hacker compromised our organization, and slipped up by clicking to request an AI feature. There's not enough auditing on this, so we need to know exactly which user-account did that in order to disable it and stabilize the situation."
> copyright isn't the tool here

It's not the only tool. I agree that "use for ML" should be an additional right.

What people are pissed about is that copyright only ever serves to constrain the little guys.

> If I steal a book and read it, I'm guilty of the crime of theft

You or I would never dare to do this in the first place.
Thank you! I started this back in October, but of course have worked on plenty of other things in the meantime. But this was easily 200+ hours of work spread out over that time.

If this helps as context, the git diff for merging this into our website was: +5,820 −1
Web Applets, an open protocol for LLMs to talk to web apps
sick bastard
The Prehistoric Psychopath
Surely it was satire? Surely...? Please
Where's the proof they were Russian puppets?
> The trick to making this ergonomic is to choose what to stack vs tab

This is exactly what TFA mentions: you van remove choices via a simpler model that does not really sacrifice anything.