skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you haven't experienced The Beginner's Guide - I highly recommend. It's one of my favorite experiences. I look forward to playing through his new game, even if it's a bit different! I'm fully aligned with the goal of trying to convey your sense of self through artistic creations and think he's in a league of his own in his attempts to do so.
You can adjust the spiciness level (level of detail) to the right of the prompt.

At the lowest you get

- Select a pie
- Grab a fork or your hands
- Take a piece of the pie
- Bring it to your mouth
- Chew and swallow the pie

Still probably a bit much, but I think using a to-do list for eating a pie is also a bit much.

I did "get a haircut" and it was a pretty good breakdown. Same with "Paint a room in my house". I think these types of tasks are more suitable for step-by-step breakdowns than "eat a pie".
I don't think they mean auto-complete, though I have no proof of that. If they include auto-completion, that's extremely disingenuous on their part. While I expect something like this from VCs hyping their portfolios, I'd expect NYT journalists to do more due diligence.
If you want to see a really intimidating breakdown, check out Carl Sagan's approach to baking an apple pie from scratch.
I cautiously like this. I asked it to break down “clean the bathroom” and it gave me a reasonable series of steps.

It then gave a time estimate of 3 hours 25 minutes, but I know from my own time tracking that doing a similar series of steps takes me 40 minutes on average.

It seems to overestimate the time taken to do very simple tasks, so if you break the task down too far then it will always wildly overestimate. Perhaps a fix would be to ask the LLM to make one estimate for the overall task, make separate estimates for each subtask, and then ask it to reconcile the two? Something like chain-of-thought/reasoning.
> Oxen and horses were unavailable for pre-Columbian civilizations in the new world

Eventually. Horses only became extinct in the New World around 10,000 years ago — somewhere between 15,000 and 6,000 years after humans arrived.
Look, in many ways I agree with you, but I guarantee that mindset is essentially doomed to failure if you want to win elections in the US where 68% of Americans identify themselves as Christian in some way.

The problem is not so much wanting to coddle up to the fire-and-brimstone fundamentalists. It's that a lot of people who used to have what would be considered "standard", middle-of-the-road religious views have been told, again in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, that they're stupid. Whether you believe this to be true is not the point. Calling a large portion of the country stupid is a great way to push them into the arms of an extremist.
They can't trawl my DNA in an existing database, because I'm not in it and, AFAIK, neither are my relatives.
Jesus does not condemn wealth. If that is what you are taking away from his interaction with the rich man, you would be wrong. Wealth itself is never condemned in the Bible (Old or New Testament). God often blessed his servants with wealth.
It's fair to say that most people can't hit this bug, or rather, they can't hit the grave consequence (a deadlock). To deadlock you need to specifically need shared access when you asked for shared access. A lot of people have code where they want shared access for improved performance, but they don't need it. This bug makes their code a tiny bit slower in some edge cases (where it took the wrong lock), they're not overjoyed about the bug but it has no significant consequences.
Project Operation Whitecoat (2010)
No-one ever really set the goalpost of the Space Race, so it can be whichever you want. I personally like to consider the Apollo–Soyuz mission as the true finish of the space race, where the two nations docked their spacecraft together, and an astronaut and a cosmonaut shook hands in space.

In the end the big winner of the Space Race was humanity, in the massive scientific leap forward that it created.
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I bought a røde wireless mic which definitely helped. It gives deepfilternet enough good signal:noise to work reasonably well, but I was hoping there was an even better solution.
You still do see plenty of trash in the 10-K's with all of the massaged messaging, but yeah.
For some reason, any model trips up on our FE unit tests. Which are pretty generic tests for a React app. The only difference is that we use vitest instead of jest and, even with special prompts, I can't seem to make it remember that throughout the whole context window.
Having both a hardware and software background and applying to both fields, I have the same problem. The UI needs a lot of help (sidebar needs to go), but I've been building this https://thebestresumewebsite.com/ to combat this issue. Basically, you can write a bunch of bullet points, then checkbox which ones you want for different variations, so you don't have to keep deleting bullet points!
> or, if we really hate our colleagues,

Haha
WWI seems like more of a slow motion train wreck than WWII does. There were so many pieces in motion even if Archduke Ferdinand's assassination (which came very close to not happening) precipitated it. Whereas while the aftermath of WWI planted the seeds for WWII, it seems a lot less inevitable.

Total side-note, I've actually seen Serbia's basic FU response to Austro-Hungary in Serbia :-)
An adage that I find more true than false through my own experience: It's harder to manage success than to manage failure.
I thought Wikipedia recommended against overlinking, and on looking it up, they do:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Link...
Show HN: Prefix any URL with `pure.md/` to get unblocked Markdown
23andme data is not ancestry.com data. They lump you into groups from 100ad. Hard to match to country origins when groups are broadly called northwestern european which combines Ireland, UK, Sweden, France, Germany, Sweden, etc into one group.

Wouldn't they use the citizenship data they have from the last 100 years? If they used 23andme data wouldn't they have floods of people from US, Canada, Australia, who could claim a new citizenship?
AI agents swarm Microsoft Security Copilot
>Anyhow species that were first photographed outside of iNaturalist would not be eligible...

To clarify, it would be eligible if the photograph has not been published (i.e. made available publicly outside of iNat) and you own the license.

If you had taken the first-known pics of an animal a few decades ago, and posted them on Facebook earlier, you can still add them to this project, as they fulfill all the technical requirements.
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Author here, happy to answer any questions
> The tech necessary for steam engines was available by the late Roman empire

IIRC I read somewhere it depended on the previous development of firearms, as it allowed metalworking to advance enough to produce metal tubes with very smooth and regular bores, that avoid leaks, jamming and uncontrolled explosions, to be fitted with pistons. The Roman empire had no firearms.
Networking in Bevy with ECS Replication (Using Rust) [video]
Yes, the horse is actually an American species that expanded into the Old World.

The pre-Columbian civilizations (and by that I mean the highly organized socially stratified societies that we are aware of) only emerged several millennia after the paleo-Indians hunted horses to extinction, though.
Various improvements to machinery during the industrial revolution were only possible with vast amounts of investment upfront, and the patent system made that possible. You're not going to be building a factory powering steam engine at home, even if you've found a method that will increase its efficiency by a significant margin.

Of course, patents are only respected when a country is in the lead. Early America was notorious for espionage and strategically ignoring patents to bolster its own economy, and China doesn't really care about what patents you may have when one of their companies is competing with you.
No. Leave the DPRK alone.
I'm happy to be corrected, but my recollection was that they provided some specifications, what we would call SWaP today, and some sketches to support, and Taylor designed, built, and tested the engine.

The funny thing is that today the separation of aircraft and engine design persists.
> Can you explain from first principles why you think it’s important?

I take it as given that (a) individual human flourishing is an important and worthy goal, (b) love (seeking the good of others) and hard work are the principal means of attaining that goal, and (c) formal human institutions (like marriage, family, and country) are the best means of organizing the human relationships and activities that fall under [b].

Given (a), (b), and (c), it follows that:

- to promote the health and flourishing of those institutions is to promote human flourishing itself

- thoughtfully managing shared values and expectations of members in those institutions promotes flourishing of the institutions

- love and preference for other members of each institution promotes the health of its members and of the institution itself

I also posit (but don't have the space/time to work out the reasoning) that just as individual people should not live for themselves only, each institution must not exist merely for its own sake, but also for the good of those outside of it; that its own internal health and cohesion is an important prerequisite for being able to effectively benefit the rest of society; and that institutions that exist solely for their own sake with zero outreach are unhealthy.

However, to say that an institution is wrong or unhealthy because members of it love each other more than people outside the institution is to deny that the institution itself is a good thing. We intuitively know that healthy married people love each other more than others, and that healthy family members love each other more than others. In a healthy company, we work for the good of our own company first, not other companies. The same principle should apply to countries. To reduce the principle to a pithy saying: "Put your own [country's] oxygen mask on first."

> National identity is a relatively recent concept

I don't understand how you arrived at that conclusion. Every successful society since ancient history, from local tribes to the great ancient empires to modern countries had (at a minimum) social cohesion, shared values, and a shared identity. Individual members of Visigoth and Viking tribes identified as Visigoths and Vikings and had a shared sense of identity; same with Greeks, Romans, Germans, French, English, Swedish, etc. The United States at its inception and for a long time afterwards was no exception.

This doesn't mean we should be unfriendly and not care about others. Love is not a zero-sum game. Members of families that are affectionate to one another also feel very loving to people outside the family. The healthiest countries in the last 100 years were also some of the best international partners and best places to travel...
This reminds me of a Dell laptop with a great touchpad, if you were able to install the Synaptics drivers from ... Lenovo!

The touchpad had support for edge-drag, but the Dell ones didn't expose it. And it's not that the Lenovo driver did something special. In fact, they did less work. Instead of creating a custom UI, they just exposed the Synaptics UI.
As a counterpoint, I recommend this article:
https://ketanjoshi.co/2024/08/12/texas-builds-clean-power-bu...

It looks into the numbers for the Texas renewable buildout, and there's a very important caveat: the amount of renewables you build is not the relevant metric. Emission reduction is. And Texas does not succeed there.
Among my friends, the feeling is that the USA used to be seen as a valued ally, and now it has shown itself as a fickle and untrustworthy ally. Yes people are various shades of upset, and yes people now value European countries splitting from the USA. These two views are compatible, and have nothing to do with class.
Medicalexpress is a reputable medical news website. Regarding the adblocker, how else would u earn money.
Best answer possible - too bad they couldn't align better in the long run (ie for humanity).
> The real space race, having the ability to nuke any point on earth, was clearly won by the Soviets.

The US and the Soviets had operational ICBMs at pretty much the same time-- dueling milestones from 1957 to 1959.

Then the Soviets pulled ahead with capabilities in LEO, which showed they also probably had "better" ICBMs.

Then the US caught up and surpassed them.

Then both stagnated; Russia did a slightly better job in choosing priorities for human spaceflight; the US did a better job with probes and unmanned spaceflight.
Here are the achievements of the Wrights with the 1903 Flyer:

1. First 3-axis flight controls

2. First propellor theory that was twice the efficiency of other airscrews

3. First aircraft engine that had twice the power/weight of other engines

4. First design that used a wind tunnel to get an efficient wing shape

5. First directed research and development program to identify the problems and solve them one by one, with the results culminating in the 1903 Flyer

6. Properly documented everything with photographs, notebooks and witnesses

7. The Flyer is hanging in a museum today, and exacting replicas have been built and flown exhibiting the same documented flight characteristics as the Flyer.

If you look at other contenders, they were all lacking these points. For example, with the Wright propellor, engine, and airfoil their craft had an enormous advantage over other designs that were trial and error.

All modern aircraft can trace their lineage back to the 1903 Flyer, and no other claimant. The others were all developmental dead ends.

P.S. About the catapult thing - are airplanes launched from aircraft carriers not airplanes? Besides, the 1903 Flyer did not use a catapult.
I can't take seriously any written document with a typo in the first words, and of the title nonetheless. Literally the first thing that came to my mind after I read the title was "tranhumanism" must be a new concept unrelated to transhumanism.
Why hasn't anyone built a receipt tracker app to verify restaurant tips?
I’ve been thinking about a simple idea: a mobile app that lets you scan your restaurant receipt via OCR, then matches the scanned total (including the tip you manually added) with the final charge pulled from your credit card data (using a service like Plaid). This app would flag any discrepancies between what you signed for and what eventually posts to your account—basically, a tool for ensuring you aren’t overcharged on tips, plus a handy digital archive for all your receipts.

Despite how many people deal with messy paper receipts and potential tip tampering, I haven’t seen anyone tackle this niche yet. I’m curious about what might be holding people back:
• Technical challenges? Is OCR accuracy (especially with handwritten tips) a major roadblock?
• Integration hurdles? Are there regulatory or security issues with linking bank/credit card data via services like Plaid for this purpose?
• Market demand? Could it be that users don’t see the value or are hesitant to adopt a tool that monitors their transactions so closely?

I’d love to hear from anyone who has thought about this, tried building something similar, or has insights into why such an app hasn’t caught on. What are the hidden difficulties or limitations? Any feedback, experiences, or ideas are welcome!

Looking forward to your thoughts.
Containers don't need to auto-open domains. You can simply use them to "color" tabs manually. That should cover your needs!
Beat the paywall link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250324104124/https://www.washi...
Rust works on 32 bit and even 16 bit targets. You cross compile.

That said, of course Rust doesn't support every platform that exists, but the vast, vast majority of them, it does.
Well he is official an political refugee in Germany because of his anti islamic activist activity, his origin country wants to prosecute him. He was until his arrest an anti islamic activist and had a very active social media presence in which he lamented about the way Europe and especially Germany are handling the refugee crisis which are mostly Muslims. In this context he reposted and referred to some AFD politicians and their position on the crisis.
Does that make him an AFD supporter?

Afaik his social media was so messy that people would connect him to various even contradicting things. That the big press settled with AFD supporter after they found some repost is lazy and misleading.
OK that effect is super interesting, though if you assume all the computational pathways happen in parallel on a GPU, that doesn't necessarily increase the time the model spends thinking about the question, it just conditions them to generate a better output when it actually decides to spit out a non-pause answer. If you condition them to generate pauses, they aren't really "thinking" about the problem while they generate pauses, they are just learning to generate pauses and do the actual thinking only at the last step when non-pause output is generated, utilizing the additional pathways.

If however there were a way to keep passing hidden states to future autoregressive steps and not just the final tokens from the previous step, that might give the model true "thinking" time.
Great writeup even though the dots aren’t connected between a lot of the aspects presented. Didn’t know about udev exposing consistent device names for network interfaces for example, or the efforts to open source switch software, or how easy it’s become to run intra-datacenter BGP. Thanks for all the links!

And of course the brilliant use of AI and discussion of how cost-effective it is. “Hook it up to an AI to save money” is the world we can look forward to. In this case the problem is recognizing which state a thing is in from a list of known states. Once the LLM gives the state in text form, all kinds of automation are unlocked. I think that class of problem - converting a state based on an image into text form - is wildly common, and will be on the lookout for it in my own automation work!
We've discussed bicycles before. The material is hardly simplistic. There wasn't much serendipity involved. Practical bicycles came soon after the necessary basic technology had been developed, including precision bearings and robust pneumatic rubber tires. This wasn't a case where we could have had bicycles a century earlier if someone had come up with the idea.
I think a good analogy is 3D printing. Certainly, it's faster from idea to prototype, but the actual act of carving wood or molding clay is itself a creative process that for some will never be replaced because we have cheap commodity 3D printers.
Wake up honey, another company burned a few dozen gigawatthours on a shitty LLM
$POLITICIAN is just the visible face of a much larger movement, specially in democracy. But by being the public face,it also means that defeating $POLITICIAN is defeating his backing movement by proxy.
Interesting, does that means Mac speakers may be great for certain sounds, but not others.
> Layard and his protégé, a Christian Arab from Mosul named Hormuzd Rassam ...

Hormuzd Rassam was not an "Arab". He was an Assyrian. Not many (any, ever?) "Arabs" go around sporting an ancient Iranian name for God (Hormuzd) for their first name, though it is interesting how that name somehow got adopted by the Chaldean Christian Assyrian community. And based on his bio on wikipedia, it appears his mother was in fact from a Jewish family since her father's name was Isaak Halabee (which is the Arabized variant of יצחק חליבה).

One expects more from a magazine published by the Smithsonian, and rather ironic in an article about ancient languages of that region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormuzd_Rassam#Early_life

https://www.uncomfortableoxford.com/unburying-an-archaeologi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishak_Haleva - not his grandfather but the same exact name.
JavaScriptCore uses this technique for JavaScript arrays that are used as deques, like if you unshift/shift.

Here's the core data structure: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/JavaScript...

The logic that makes it work is in JSArray.cpp and other files in that directory.

Shift-to-middle is surprisingly performant and also surprisingly hard to get right.
Yep, it's really transparent and I really hate how so many communities and platforms turn a blind eye to it.

It's not a productive comment, it doesn't invite discussion, it doesn't add useful information.
Advertising eats everything: It's the currency of the business world.
To discount individual achievement is such a disservice to humanity. There is absolutely an environmental benefit but i take issue with the totally BS if they didn't do it someone else would on all things is such a knee cap to individual merit and ability.

Merit and ability sit atop of the works of all humanity but without it nothing would be accomplished.
That was the only thing that conclusively gave it away!
If wasn't for all of the nukes involved behind the scenes, I'd say we all won.
Ah, yes, was that because of a lack of inline assembly?
I feel like these could be replaced by 'nop' operations.
Why would you want that?

I would, in general, prefer that incorrect information about me was shared with spammers, if any information is shared. Ditto for most third parties that I don't have a direct relationship with or ongoing conversation. And even then, usually the information they need about me is pretty limited.
Yes, there was debate about this in the UK. If a disabled person can only do one widget per hour, and an able-bodied can do 10, what is the correct wage for that disabled person?

If you think they should both be paid the same, who should pay the additional cost?
I guess most people don't care about small discrepancies and those who care can just do it manually.
> Emission reduction is. And Texas does not succeed there.

Are you saying they would have released less CO2 had they installed natural gas power plants instead?
This would be unbelievable in a normal administration. The combination of flagrant lawbreaking and incompetence is just so characteristic of these clowns.

No, nothing in the Clinton email scandal comes close to cabinet secretaries accidentally real-time texting imminent war plans to journalists using a non-governmental system with auto-deleting messages.
> Have been told that I have to “drop the sarcastic tone” if I want to be “taken seriously” as a “““reporter””” but the jokes on them because that criticism implies that I’ve crossed the threshold into being a “journalist” rather than a “guy with a substack”

https://substack.com/@meghanboilard/note/c-102976235?
The FDA doesn't even go over domestic supplements. Most domestic supplements don't even contain the stated ingredients and many contain illegal ingredients.

Something like 25 years to authorize European sunscreen looks like a corrupt move. Some business interest definitely is influencing it to make it happen.

>Are these claims even approaching reality? Is the science of stem cells getting closer at all?

I've heard many many anecdotal claims of this working. We'll have to see.