skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so we are completely ignoring the science, now, ey?

someone always has more data. 50 years for you might be a lot but someone else will tell you they are gone faster than you think.

a) doomers are just buffs, superficial or nerdy.

b) never forget that due to how the web and social hierarchies are build, some people have an ugly information flow, are constantly lied to, and bots flood their feeds with the worst shit just because they had a bit of moment, once.

some people are stilled told EV's are shit, buy a diesel. they are told so by some sort of "authority". or: "don't get a credit for "solar" if you don't have half the money right away" ( even though you'd start to save/make money after 10 years but you don't know math and that person is some sort of "authority" )

the world is full of mostly sub-average competence in positions or with the status of some sort of "authority" and these sub-average competent people, some of them saved and domesticated dogs, absolutely need others to have it worse then them so they will feed them lies whenever those people need advice. and these dogs usually work in collectives.

truthy information flow is imperative but even the German state media slaps incomplete or outright misinformation into their audience brains' all the freaking time. it's ugly, especially if you read and watch news from a bunch of international and national sources, which is why the educated youth stopped caring long ago and gladly joins Ponzi narratives ... written and played by people who rely on misinformation, polarization and some sort of ... "show" ... it's boring until the future arrives and there's nothing but obedience and or confusion and or drugs to cope with either or both.

critical thinking is a dying idea, a skill soon extinct. defense mechanisms against it are hard-wired into languages and schools of thought ... the whole "just doin' my job" thing got outta hand because a bunch of other people were sabotaged just doing their jobs ... but someone makes you feel cool, or luxury does ... and that's that.
>I am entirely confused by this. ChatGPT is absolutely unimportant to me. I don't use it for any serious work, I don't use it for search, I find its output to still be mostly a novelty. Even coding questions I mostly solve using StackExchange searches because I've been burned using it a couple of times in esoteric areas. In the few areas where I actually did want some solid LLM output, I used Claude. If ChatGPT disappeared off the Internet tomorrow, I would suffer not at all.

OK? That's fine. I don't think I ever claimed you were a WAU

>And yet I probably duck into ChatGPT at least once a month or more (I see a bunch of trivial uses in 2024) mostly as a novelty.

So you are not a weekly active user then. Maybe not even a monthly active one.

>Last week I used it a bunch because my wife wanted a logo for a new website. But I could have easily made that logo with another service.

Maybe[1], but you didn't. And I doubt your wife needs a new logo every week so again not a weekly active user.

>ChatGPT serves the same role to me as dozens of other replaceable Internet services that I probably duck into on a weekly basis (e.g., random finance websites, meme generators)but have no essential need for whatsoever.

You visit the same exact meme generator or finance site every week? If so, then that site is pretty important to you. If not, then again you're not a weekly active user to it.

If you visit a (but not the same) meme generator every week then clearly creating memes is important to you because I've never visited one in my life.

>And if I did have an essential need for it, there are at least four well-funded competitors with all the same capabilities, and modestly weaker open weight models.

There are well funded alternatives to Google Search too but how many use anything else? Rarely does any valuable niche have no competition.

>It is really your view that "any service you use at least once a week must be really important to you?" I bet if you sat down and looked at your web history, you'd find dozens that aren't.

Yeah it is and so far, you've not actually said anything to indicate the contrary.

[1]ChatGPT had an image generation update recently that made it capable of doing things other services can't. Good chance you could not in fact do what you did (to the same satisfaction) elsewhere. But that's beside my point.
Are you able to use o3-mini-high through these tools?
I think it's hard to tell about the FPS. The video is recorded in 60fps, so it might be causing the recorded footage to look higher FPS.
Linked in this article is VileR's excellent website <https://int10h.org/>. In fact, it is linked 8 times in this article. If this kind of thing interests you, I highly recommend following those links. VileR's site is probably the best resource we have today that preserves the various PC OEM fonts from a bygone technological era -- an era that lives on in the memories of those of us who first encountered these machines early in life.

I'm genuinely in awe of the time and effort VileR has poured into recovering each font, and their countless variants, from a wide range of ROMs. The site not only archives them all with incredible attention to detail, but also offers live previews, aspect ratio correction, and other thoughtful features that make exploring it a joy. I've spent countless hours there comparing different OEM fonts, and hunting down the best ones to use in my own work!
Why is this work important? To me it just feels so distant from my reality. At the core of this, is there an answer to the "who cares?" attitude?

Because if the answer is that we might incidentally create new useful technology in the build up of a new collider, why not just diversify the investment and put that money into a bunch of smaller projects? Hedge your bets sort of thing.

Why support this and not allocate more into high temperature superconductivity for example? I don't understand what is the justification that entitles such a large amount of money to a singular project.
my mail user agent says: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
So they designed five board layouts of the ROM replacement for various revisions of hardware. That's some real dedication.
Cofertility's "Freeze your eggs for free by donating half of them" plan
Honestly wrapping code in a front end is enough of an “app” experience that people don’t care as long as it brings value. Perfect case I ran into last week, I had to convert a legacy .pst outlook file to .eml for new outlook. Only a handful of these tools exist and I picked the one that had a front end and a nice looking installer. $110 to that company for something I will likely never use again.
Not to mention no one is investing in manufacturing if the economic conditions to support it get changed every day or two.
> I am genuinely at a loss at how his supporters don't understand this.

His supporters value blind loyalty and obedience, not logic. They don’t stand for themselves, they stand against others. They’ll gladly suffer if they think the other side is getting it worse. They’re the perfect target to be exploited.
This is just a blanket excuse to call things fascist when they aren't. Want regulations? Care about your community? Think that the US should be run on popular vote rather than the electoral college? You're a fascist because fascists are anti-free market, love their country, and are populist. Sure, those are very extreme versions of the above, but fascism doesn't appear overnight, now does it?
Why does it need to be either/or? I make do almost the entire week without a car. Schools within walking distance, then mass transit to work.

So what if I own and use a small family car, to go shopping and take the kids places?

Let's not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

My neighborhood is a real life 15min city, and most people of all ages choose to walk. We don't need to prevent families from owning a car and taking it grocery shopping once a week.
> Would namespaces, lexical scoping, etc be better? Almost definitely. But it would be a marginal improvement, a difference in degree not kind.

That's the thing - it probably would not be.

IMO, the key things that allow Emacs to succeed and last, while being somewhat unique in how it "routinely flouts every single software engineering "best practice"", are not merely conceptual, but cultural or even philosophical. The most fundamental of those, IMO, is that Emacs is ultimately owned by users, who are treated as intelligent partners in the relationship. Everything is designed with extensibility in mind. There's no hard boundary between "core developers", "third-party extension developers" and "end-users" - everyone can be any of them, including all three, at any time.

Maximizing extensibility and interoperability, not demanding "users" to coordinate with "developers" and ask for permission, not chasing user growth (it's all Free Software), expecting that everyone is a responsible adult, encouraging users to make Emacs "their own" - all that leads to an approach that goes the opposite to standard software development practice, because the standard practice is built around entirely opposite assumptions.
The term for this is extortion.

The last time tariffs were this high, it led to rampant corruption as companies would pay off customs officers. This was one of the reasons for switching to an income tax. For the current administration this possibility counts as a major opportunity to generate personal wealth.

But this isn't the only reason for the policy. For someone who is at heart a coward, bullying and brandishing raw power over others is its own reward. That reason enough for the policy, and damn the consequences for the nation.
What ended up happening with that weird Roam cult stuff? Did Conor finally go fully off the deep end or something?

Tried to figure it out a few months ago and it seems like they just disappeared.
How timely, good day to you!
Reputation or not, people are just falsely assuming that the state the feature was in during the very first beta preview is what the final product will look like, and in articles like this they are plainly making up threat vectors out of thin air.
This is exactly the situation unfolding with JetBrains right now. They've lost all touch with their professional enthusiast core and have gone hell-bent on acquiring new users at the cost of alienating a big chunk of their core. I don't think it's going to go well for them, they don't have the chops to compete with Microsoft like they're presently trying to do.
I'm not sure why you say it's a scandal. The author worked with the publishing company from the start, and from the start the intention was to "unveil" the truth to make an impact.

> And those words aren’t his either. They came from two AI platforms (still unnamed).

According to interviews, he used AI platforms in a very specific way that couldn't be called "vibe philosophizing". It seems he treated the AI as a mirror instead of a system that would give him answers. I'm waiting for an extended interview this sunday, but if I understand it right he used AI as a tool for self-reflection and self-questioning.
A Tesla Model Y is 30% heavier than a Honda CRV. They have alot of other advantages, and are about the same weight as a three-row SUV and lighter than a Tahoe on a truck frame.

We shouldn’t be singling out EVs if we suddenly care about tire wear… it’s pretty ridiculous.
> Don't waste time on discussions within a level. For example, JSON and YAML both have their problems and pitfalls but both are probably good enough.

Disagree. YAML is considerably easier to work with than JSON, and it’s worth dying on that hill.
Mismanagement is (very) well documented but corruption is a very serious accusation. Do you have examples ? ( that don’t go back to Jacques Chirac )
If that was the case there'd be more coherency. There's these days where multiple people are asked a question, each answer is a shocking departure from policy and they all contradict and then an administrator comes out and is like "you're going to bring mining the global supply for rare earth minerals to Ohio?! Geology does not support you my good man".

So not even cynicism is supported by the evidence.

I mean they're also pillaging of course. Incompetent And malice. Both are possible
Typical cult leader stuff: say and do increasingly indefensible and nonsensical stuff to isolate your true believers even more.
I'm thinking national emergency and canceling elections due to war with China.
I love that there is one comment saying JSON is better, and then yours saying YAML is better.
That was more or less the case during Trump's first administration. I think a lot of normie Republicans were hoping for a repeat of that. The ones that aren't in denial are being gravely disappointed.
I'm more optimistic about this. I've worked adjacent to this space too. You clearly have way more experience than me, and I bow to your judgment.

On the outpainting, I think in the documentary you can see some "bones" of one of the off-screen characters in a window, so it looks like they have some sort of adaption perhaps to manually animate or constrain the AI model.

The last film I've seen in an ultra-wide like this was the original 3-wide version of How The West Was Won, which I actually really enjoyed. I think it's important to remember that most of the important action is constrained the center and the edges are really just to fill-in your field of view. At least, that's how this should work.
In my experience providing detailed information in a response in the comment section on this particular topic (game development and networking) in hacker news comments simply creates more surface area for nitpicking and arguing in response, so I keep to short responses and rebuttals.

In the future, I don't feel that writing anything more here on this topic is a worthwhile use of my time.
For my personal projects I am drifting towards the simple side. More and more I try to stick with a simple single level key value configuration.

But if you do require a complex configuration, I think it is beneficial to both yourself and your users to invest in a openbsd style parse.y like solution rather than just shovel the usual json or yaml slop.

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/usr...

By which I mean it does not have to be yacc, but taking the time to think about the language of your configurations improves the ui dramaticly.
Hypnocracy would be a societal structure in which democracy and free choice is an illusion. The population's perception of reality would be manufactured by the ruling class without coercion or persuasion.

The Overton Window only makes sense when there's free choice.
Ughh, LessWrong is a bit more of a rationalist cult than anything - and I say that as somebody who is in the AIS & EA space. It's a huge problem that fields like AI Safety happen on that forum, as "normies" really get scared off by the stuff that's on there.
Right, but those online ones are also usually covered in ads, don't run locally, and run the risk of infecting the output with malware.
He was impeached twice already with zero impact. No one is forcing him to leave office.
If you’re confused about what this is - it’s to prevent AI scraping.

> Anubis uses a proof-of-work challenge to ensure that clients are using a modern browser and are able to calculate SHA-256 checksums

https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/design/how-anubis-works

This is pretty cool, I have a project or two that might benefit from it.
The pads aren't any bigger. If they last longer then they're emitting less.
Stop Letting Algorithms Define Your Relationships
Like I said, litany of excuses.

If you really don’t like cars, you’ll find a way to minimize use of them.

If you really don’t mind cars that much you’ll make up stories about how if buses and trains and bike lanes were more attractive then people would use them more.

I guarantee that if every American city had an ideal bus and train system, people would still find excuses and reasons to justify driving their cars.
It’s pretty interesting how Amiga and Atari ST followed Macintosh down a bad path of having large amounts of the OS in ROM, which may have made some sense when a single few-hundred-kilobyte floppy was the only storage most users would have, but made a lot less sense just a few years later when the ROM OS needed lots of patches and everyone had some sort of fixed disk to boot from.
Since last night, anyway. The people who make shipping work are frantically trying to keep up. One of the biggest customs brokers posts updates twice a day on weekdays. Last update 4 PM Friday, so they haven't caught the biggest reversal. If tariff rates change while in transit, the bond paid before the item was shipped may now be insufficient. So the container goes into storage (where?) until Customs and Border Protection gets paid. Some recipients don't have the cash to pay. Low-end resellers who order on Alibaba and sell on Amazon, for example.

Port operators hate this. Unwanted containers clog up the portside sorting and storage systems. Eventually the containers are either sent back or auctioned off by CBP, like this stuff.[1]

Some shippers outside the US have stopped shipping to the US until this settles. This includes all the major laptop makers - Lenovo, Acer, Dell, etc.[2] Nobody wants to be caught with a container in transit, a big customs bill due on receipt, and storage charges. That will recover once the rates are stable for a few weeks. Probably.

Customs and Border Protection is trying to keep up. Sometimes you have to pay more because Trump raised tariffs. Sometimes you can get a credit back because Trump dropped tariffs. Those are all exception transactions, with extra paperwork and delays.

Where's the Flexport guy from YC? He should be able to explain all this.

Consumer version: expect to see some empty shelves, rejected orders, and higher prices for the next few weeks.

[1] https://bid.cwsmarketing.com/auctions/catalog/id/167

[2] https://www.techspot.com/news/107504-trump-tariffs-force-maj...
Fair point - was just listing out the tools used in this viz library! The leaflet examples are at the bottom of that page.

What would you suggest as a better title?
I think SQL is one of the best level 4/5 configuration languages out there. Whether or not it's a "full programming language" depends on your specific dialect and how it's used.
A really light car would either have to be limited to a very low speed or be terribly unsafe in case of a crash. Since lightness implies small size, it would also not have other desirable properties of cars, like their ability to carry passengers and cargo.

That said, there might be something to it:

1. The "bicycle that's more like a car" angle: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H0jtCfdvwH4, https://youtu.be/9B0eXmbrBIo?t=30

2. The "car that's more like a bicycle" angle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ly7JjqEb0
Sure there are cars.

In my ( very personal, more than 20 years living here ) experience, it’s a completely different city, and there definitely are fewer cars than before.

Now if car exhausts are better and both effects compound I won’t complain !
Firstly it’s not an appeal to nature fallacy to accurately describe how a product of nature works, secondly it’s the peak of lazy online discussion to name a fallacy and leave as though it means something. Fallacies can be applied to tons of good arguments and along with the fallacy, you need to explain why the point itself being made is fallacious.

It’s a philosophical concept not a trap card.
It's infuriating to rational thought but watching videos of Trump supporters talking about why they support Trump in spite of him hurting them makes it clear where his support comes from - it's a rainbow coalition of the discontented. Obviously the editors will pick the most provocative videos/sound bites but it's a pretty consistent picture.
gemini 2.5 is free
Much better than infinite Cloudflare captcha loops.
> But developers need to go in with their eyes open when it comes to adopting these throw-away libraries and frameworks.

For contrast: My entire company is less than 4 years old and any code from 6 months ago feels old because things (in a business requirements sense) change so fast. Zod lasting 3 years is fine.

Although I do wish v4 came a little sooner because we just started using Zod a few months ago.
Informative panels about the vote where pretty much everywhere around the city.
Thanks for this detailed comment. I don't have your expertise but I have noticed that there is some inverse correlation between "unique visual spectacle" and good storytelling. E.g. Avatar II, which was visually quite striking but left me feeling like I watched a SIGGRAPH demo... with all that budget, they definitely could have afforded better writing, so I suspect there's some weird interaction between the graphic spectacle niche of film and the desirability of narrative quality for the film to perform well
I understand the sentiment but to be very pedantic most GPUs do not understand SPIRV, it’s the drivers that do.
Drives me up the wall that medium sedans curb in the same ballpark as fullsize trucks from the 70s and 80s.
"Researchers say that a person’s intelligence plays a bigger role in their computer proficiency than previously believed, so much so that practice alone may not be enough to ensure ease of use."
I do wonder if it might have fixed the type complexity issue that has prevented me from exporting Zod schemas from a library, but I suppose I could try finding this out later
Genuine question here, but why not use dogs for this? Is it because dogs might be too heavy and trigger a mine? What is the activation weight of a landmine?
As far as I know, there isn't much theory behind the "important work" being done here, just "let's smash stuff at higher energy and see what shakes out." Science is supposed to go the other way. You are supposed to have a theory or a set of theories and then use experiments to test them. If this experiment can falsify the standard model in a meaningful way, that's cool, but it's a lot better if it can actually prove something else. Still, it's not clear that the something else is worth the massive expense and effort.

Do we have $X00 billion worth of theories to test here?
I’ve consistently failed to make writing elisp net positive for me for basically anything. I use it as a configuration language, and even then, for functions longer than a few lines, it’s still a lot of coding for very little benefit. I just can’t find things to improve in such a way that it’ll actually be worth writing elisp code for, especially compared to other tools (like a quick Python script or even a bash one-liner), or things within Emacs. What are the things you’ve written in elisp that have helped you?
What else do you expect when elevators are 100M apiece
Had to lynch a lot of people first!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_la_lanterne
> Your computer parts factory likely runs using a large amount of imported raw materials, imported machines, and imported tooling, and there are no tariff exemptions for those broad categories… so you’re screwed.

All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local 24/7 news feed for more than eight years, so there’s no point in acting surprised about it. You’ve had plenty of time to lodge any bribe worth the president's time and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now. Oh, for heaven’s sake, Americans, President Trump did a crypto scam on his supporters before being sworn in, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout.

I've no sympathy at all.
This is a massive sign that Trump's double down strategy is failing badly. He only has one play: Be a bully and double down any time someone fights back. It works when you have the leverage but as soon as you don't anymore you loose, big. The US just ran out of leverage. I don't know about everyone else but I just started looking into how to move money and investments outside the US.