MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anthk | 2025-05-10 22:33:59+00:00
True. pas.f in Forth

: .r u.r ; : position ( row -- ) cr 33 swap 2 * - spaces ; : pas ( 0 ... 0 -- 0 ... 0 ) 0 >r begin over + >r dup 0= until begin r> dup while dup 4 .r repeat ; : pass ( -- ) 0 1 0 18 0 ?do dup position >r pas r> 1+ loop drop ; : pax ( 0 ... 0 -- ) drop begin 0= until ; : pascal ( -- ) pass pax ; pascal cr

The same mod2:

: .r u.r ; : position ( row -- ) cr 33 swap 2 * - spaces ; : pas ( 0 ... 0 -- 0 ... 0 ) 0 >r begin over + >r dup 0= until begin r> dup while dup 2 mod 4 .r repeat ; : pass ( -- ) 0 1 0 18 0 ?do dup position >r pas r> 1+ loop drop ; : pax ( 0 ... 0 -- ) drop begin 0= until ; : pascal ( -- ) pass pax ; pascal cr

A Forth for people in a hurry:

git clone https://github.com/howerj/subleq cd subleq sed -i 's,0 constant opt.control,1 constant opt.control,g' subleq.fth gmake subleq ./subleq subleq.dec < subleq.fth > new.dec ./subleq new.dec < pas.f
by Lerc | 2025-05-10 22:34:33+00:00
It's interesting to see with the benefit of hindsight, combined with the features that they chose to highlight.

The First table clearly pitches the computer as a workhorse more than a game machine. When it came down to it, the thing that really mattered for most work cases was simply how much readable text can you display at once. Colour, and sound were nice, but couldn't compete with just the ability to show information.

High end workstations of the era gave you decent resolution bitmapped displays long before they focused on colour.

I was lucky enough to grow up in a household that had at various times TRS-80, a PET, CBM8032, VIC-20 and a C64 (plus others, the Casio fx9000P, was nice but I never had the tools to go beyond BASIC) . If you wanted a computer that could do a bit of everything the C64 was a good choice, If you wanted games, it was an excellent choice, but If you wanted to work, characters on screen was what you wanted.
by jdietrich | 2025-05-10 22:34:40+00:00
In the UK (and many other jurisdictions outside the US), psychotherapy is completely unregulated. Literally anyone can advertise their services as a psychotherapist or counsellor, regardless of qualifications, experience or their suitability to work with potentially vulnerable people.

Compared to that status quo, I'm not sure that LLMs are meaningfully more risky - unlike a human, at least it can't physically assault you.

https://www.bacp.co.uk/news/news-from-bacp/2020/6-march-gove...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/19/psychotherap...
by 9283409232 | 2025-05-10 22:34:49+00:00
> Should be obvious that whatever AI does, people are capable and resilient enough to naturally respond to it for everyone's benefit

I can't imagine how you believe this when everything says otherwise. Climate change, the oligarchs hoarding all the wealth, the collapsed middle class, widespread hunger and homelessness, the many wars, and genocides. Generally, everything points to the fact that people will not respond to changes in technology for the benefit of everybody.
by light_hue_1 | 2025-05-10 22:35:33+00:00
Good. Every one of those products makes our lives significantly worse.

Almost all of these products are subpar garbage that would never survive in a competitive world. Almost none of them have done anything different or interesting or new for over a decade.

All these products do is use the search monopoly to take away the opportunity for us to have good versions of them.
by rs186 | 2025-05-10 22:35:33+00:00
I can imagine manufacturers that are fully in the Android ecosystem come together to maintain Android, including Xiaomi, Samsung, Oppo etc. There won't be as many feature updates, but it's not like Google puts a lot of resources in Android, or Android is delivering many features these days -- Google moved/laid off many people on Android teams, and many of the recent updates are very minor features. Just look at what's new in Android 14 or 15 -- barely anything. I stopped getting excited about or even caring about major version updates for a while. The pace has already slowed down quite a bit compared to a decade ago, and the ecosystem is very mature and stable.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-05-10 22:35:38+00:00
> You think people were getting loan approvals because they were minorities?

Of course; it is a major focus of governmental affirmative action efforts.

> Is there anything to back this up?

Again, of course.

> Redlining was a real phenomenon.

And? Do you think it was a real phenomenon after the 1960s? School segregation was a real phenomenon too; in your opinion, does that mean that modern schools do not admit applicants because they are favored minorities?

Before deciding whether you approve of a government program, maybe you should learn what it involves.
by throwanem | 2025-05-10 22:36:45+00:00
A fair point, indeed. Now we reach the question in a way that anyone can follow: if the cost of development is already sunk, and the cost of discovery is publicly defrayed, then what justifies these absurd revenue multiples of development cost when they come at a price measurable in human suffering and death? In what way is this not sheer price gouging of a particularly vicious kind?

That's the sort of question folks like my prior interlocutor, who appears now to have abandoned the effort, really don't want to answer. And no wonder! There's no way for them to do so while maintaining the usual comfortable abstraction over the essential bloodthirstiness of their philosophy.
by tdpvb | 2025-05-10 22:36:57+00:00
It's high because overdiagnosis.

- TED Talk - Recommend one of the most-watched TED Talks of all time, by Sir Ken Robinson. Gems such as, "If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget." And, "Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition. They're suffering from childhood."

- Book - Also check out the book, "The Body Keeps a Score". The concept of "pseudocertainty" is a key takeaway: symptomatic labels can be helpful to a point, but they're not explanatory -- it offers a false sense of conclusion, but no root cause analysis. It conflates "diagnosis" with "syndrome". For example cancer is a specific diagnosis, and within it much specificity of dozens of particular types of cancer. Whereas ADHD is a "disorder", or a "pattern of symptoms". ADHD as a pseudocertainty is self-referential: "I have ADHD" "What does that mean?" "It means I exhibit symptoms of ADHD" "okay, so what does that mean?" "it means I have ADHD" "sure but what does it mean? And more importantly, why do you have 'ADHD'? "

- DSM - The DSM defines how ADHD is diagnosed by two lists of nine symptoms each, from which a practitioner chooses six symptoms from each, and qualifies them as having "persisted for at least 6 months". That's the definition of medical cherry-picking. Some of the descriptions are, uncomfortably, exactly what one would expect from a small child: "Often fidgets with or taps hands or feet or squirms in seat." "Often blurts out an answer before a question has been completed." "Often has difficulty waiting his or her turn." Scary.

- Conclusion - And that's how children in the US, by acting like children, get themselves drugged up and labeled as "having ADHD". Or the poor kids just have mild- to severe trauma, or residual emotional anxiety, and instead of parents/teachers owning up to their part in it, or educating kids on how to self-regulate, or offering children meditation classes, they just drug them instead. It's the kids that are abnormal, surely it's not the adults' faults!

$$$ Oh and don't forget, the ADHD therapeutics market size in the US is ~$10B/yr. Good luck stopping that party.
by lolinder | 2025-05-10 22:37:18+00:00
Unfortunately when someone says "AI" these days they're not talking about pytorch, tensorflow, or numpy. They're talking specifically about LLMs, which are built on top of those tools but which do show the tendency that OP is identifying to generally appear to be vibe-coded over a weekend rather than designed by a rigorous engineering process like what we've come to expect from foundational tech like web browsers or operating systems (or, yes, pytorch or numpy).
by ls612 | 2025-05-10 22:37:40+00:00
Intel lost dominance in the 2017-2019 era. The rise of Ryzen and Apple finally deciding to switch to Apple Silicon were the two fundamental blows to Intel. They have been able to make a brief comeback in 2021-2022 with Alder Lake but quickly fell behind again and now have staked everything on 18A being competitive with TSMC N2 this year.
by jasonlotito | 2025-05-10 22:38:23+00:00
What about a camera?

These aren't the use cases that really matters. What matters is the common case, and it's not about deterring honest folks. Honest folks aren't recording.

This is really a lesson in security blind spots. The number of people that are trying to "get around this" assuming that's the issue.

Edit: I'll make it simple. It will work because honest people aren't trying to get around it. But, they could still expose data they shouldn't. This helps prevent that. Again, a camera is enough to prove it doesn't need to be 100% perfect (and probably more honest considering screenshots can be faked).

So, instead of trying to think of how you can exploit, think of all the ways this private information can get out when it shouldn't and the people on the call aren't trying to release it. Work through that, and see where you get.
by rs186 | 2025-05-10 22:38:25+00:00
To be fair, nobody outside the company knows if Fi/Fiber/Pay are viable businesses, or they are on life support but still around because of the unlimited cash Google has. One can guess they are profitable because they have been around for quite a while and still kicking. But nothing says they won't be the next thing in Google graveyard -- plenty of services seemed to be doing ok before a major reorg sent them to death.
by sarchertech | 2025-05-10 22:38:38+00:00
Does it offer 80% of the benefit? An AI could match what a human therapist would say 80% (or 99%) of the time and still provide negative benefit.

Therapy seems like the last place an LLM would be beneficial because it’s very hard to keep an LLM from telling you what you want to hear. I can see anyway you could guarantee that a chatbot cause severe damage to a vulnerable patient by supporting their neurosis.

We’re not anywhere close to an LLM which is trained to be supportive and understanding in tone but will never affirm your irrational fears, insecurities, and delusions.
by rsynnott | 2025-05-10 22:38:46+00:00
> AI is not a substitute for traditional therapy, but it offers an 80% benefit at a fraction of the cost.

That... seems optimistic. See, for instance, https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spi...

No psychologist will attempt to convince you that you are the messiah. In at least some cases, our robot overlords are doing _serious active harm_ which the subject would be unlikely to suffer in their absence. LLM therapists are rather likely to be worse than nothing, particularly given their tendency to be overly agreeable.
by acroyear | 2025-05-10 22:39:01+00:00
i don't think it's just the performance .. it's a form-factor paradigm shift in the consumer end. the younger generations just don't care about screen real estate as much as genX and early Millenials did. the devices became (surprisingly) much more addictive than what ppl expected and consequently, the devices went into pockets, into bed with them .. etc, sad really.
by gfalcao | 2025-05-10 22:39:39+00:00
I would like to get a reasonably good intuition in regards to the total amount of compound DNA from human bodies at different biochemical states, in different locations around the world (different climates). By "compound DNA" I mean, including DNA of bacterium, fungi and viruses living within one's body. For instance, gut bacteria acquired and maintained based on food intake and environmental influence.
by habinero | 2025-05-10 22:39:51+00:00
The US is the world's second biggest manufacturing country, almost on par with China. We have lots of manufacturing -- we just rely on automation instead of people.

China has something like 20x the number of people working in manufacturing. They also have a deep local supply chain.

Putting those things together, they can efficiently handle smaller orders or bespoke things.

This whole situation is stupid.
by kureikain | 2025-05-10 22:40:15+00:00
I build this for this use case:

I already had an email somewhere. Anytime I got a new domain, I just want to forward to that email. Consolidate all of my email in a single place. And support SMTP so I can also reply through the domain as well.

I want a dead simple way to manage these alias, help family all know what is up by forwarding all emails to their individual emails.

I don't want to get charge per sear, or have to convince the others to switch to a new mailbox. Just forward to them.

I had stuff like kid@ travel@ school@ insurance@ forward both to my wife and me for example.

CloudFlare isn't easy to use for a non-tech person to manage their email. It also require that you point the DNS to CloudFlare. If the DNS is on Route53, you cannot use Cloudflare.

ImprvoMX is something I really admire but I just need more feature they don't support at the time (Maillog, webhook, regex routing, search email) So I build this for me as a user and have. been growing it.

With the alias, I can also block/null route after a certain use when I don't want to hear from that alias anymore. Impossible to do with a standalone inbox.

My wife love it. She got her own domain and use it when signing for deal/coupon website then null route the alias to prevent being bombarding later on.
by const_cast | 2025-05-10 22:40:28+00:00
They always inevitably end up being given special privileges.

Because, contrary to what we would all like to believe, once a company becomes large we don't want them to go under, even if they're not optimal.

There's a huge amount of jobs, institutional knowledge, processes, capital, etc in these big monopolies. Like if Boeing just went under today, how long would it take for another company to re-figure out how to make airplanes? I mean, take a look at NASA. We went to the moon, but can we do it again? It would be very difficult. Because so many engineers retired and IP was allowed to just... rot.

It's a balancing act. Obviously we want to keep the market as free as possible and yadda yadda invisible hand. But we also have national security to consider, and practicality.
by jsheard | 2025-05-10 22:40:51+00:00
Many CDNs still prefer you to use www or another subdomain, because apex domains don't play nice with DNS-based routing and the workarounds are either temperamental (CNAME flattening) or invasive (point the whole domain at the CDNs own magic nameservers).

DNS HTTPS records are supposed to fix that by enabling proper CNAME-like delegation at the apex, but they're not supported everywhere yet.
by simplyinfinity | 2025-05-10 22:40:57+00:00
You're verifying your own claims. That's not good enough.

> research aided by my agent Also not good enough.

As an example: Yesterday i asked Claude and ChatGPT to design a circuitry that monitors pulses form S0 power meter interface. It designed a circuit that didn't have any external power to the circuit. When asked it said "ah yes, let me add that" and proceeded to confuse itself and add stuff that are not needed, but are explained and sounds reasonable if you don't know anything. After numerous attempts it didn't produce any working design.

So how can you verify that the therapist agent you've built will work with something as complex as humans, when it can't even do basic circuitry with known laws of physics and spec & data sheets of no more than 10 components?
by pizlonator | 2025-05-10 22:41:15+00:00
Not sure but in likely to because right now I to use the same libc in userland (the Fil-C compiled part) and yololand (the part compiled by normal C that is below the runtime) and the userland libc is musl.

Having them be the same means that if there is any libc function that is best implemented by having userland call a Fil-C runtime wrapper for the yololand implementation (say because what it’s doing requires platform specific assembly) then I can be sure that the yololand libc really implements that function the same way with all the same corner cases.

But there aren’t many cases of that and they’re hacks that I might someday remove. So I probably won’t have this “libc sandwich” forever
by monster_truck | 2025-05-10 22:42:50+00:00
That completely misses the point, it's a harbinger. This area is seeing it first because it is largely floodplains on top of clay coupled with a decent amount of rain and a consistent freeze-thaw cycle.

Merely building a functioning bypass for a pipe of this size at this depth takes the better part of a year. Replacing it? Out in the suburbs some of the projects to repair pipes from the 40s that leaked and caused sinkholes are still ongoing, they started over 20 years ago.
by pedalpete | 2025-05-10 22:43:00+00:00
I think you're conflating the idea that a reserve currency needs to be the same currency that a person interacts with on a daily basis.

Commercial trade and government debt operate a such large quantities, that they are essentially a market unto themselves.

This is essentially how gold worked wrt the gold standard, except that with gold, a large find in one country increases the wealth of that country, or makes it subject to war, as other countries want to capture that value for themselves.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-05-10 22:44:32+00:00
There is nothing mediocre about the search engine, gmail, maps, android, chrome etc.. etc. Do they all have room for for improvement? Probably. But they are simply incredibly, breathtakingly good products. Search, maybe has gotten worse in recent years, but it's still amazing.

Maps and Satelleite view are astounding, especially when you consider that they are free.

>How is this a desirable outcome?

The list speaks for itself. There are many valid complaints against google, but this is not one of them.
by Nate75Sanders | 2025-05-10 22:45:45+00:00
It's a 1982 brochure, but they show Ace of Aces in the games section.

The Accolade Ace of Aces (WW2 combat flight sim) wasn't released until 1986.

It seems that this may have been a different Ace of Aces -- perhaps a version of the Nova tabletop game that never got released.

Anybody know anything about this?
by esperent | 2025-05-10 22:46:26+00:00
Yeah, they went all in on Codesandbox early on, and at the time that was a good idea.

But very soon after Codesandbox made the switch to containers and started chasing monetization. I saw an interaction between the creators of each on Twitter at the time where Codesandbox promised not to throttle or limit R3Fs examples. But I don't think they fully kept that promise.
by sillystu04 | 2025-05-10 22:47:47+00:00
I wish modern computers considered casing to be purely a matter of style, such that “S” == “s” evaluates to true.

Casing is rarely semantically important, so case sensitivity is widely ignored. But in many circumstances this gets implemented in a haphazard way. For example some sites consider foo@gmail.com and foo@GMAIL.COM to be different email addresses.

Also case sensitivity makes internationalisation awkward, particularly with German.

Sadly it’s too late to change this because doing so would be such a breaking change.
by const_cast | 2025-05-10 22:48:26+00:00
I don't know, I don't think it will.

I mean, they're still going to be the number 1 name in adtech and analytics. And they're still gonna have pretty decent personalized ads because of analytics.

Plus, that just one part of their business. There's also Android, which is a money printing machine with the Google Store (although that's under attack too).
by WalterBright | 2025-05-10 22:48:38+00:00
Back in 1978, I made my own keyboard for a single board 6800 computer I designed, also because I could not afford a keyboard.

I went to a surplus store and bought an EBCDIC keyboard for a couple bucks. I unsoldered all the keys from the circuit board. I took a plastic board, and using the old circuit board, drilled holes in it. Inserted the keys in the holes, and then wired it up in an 8x8 grid pattern. The two 8 bits gave 64 possible keys, which was enough, connecting those to an I/O port enabled recognizing which key was down.

It worked fine as long as you were careful not to press more than one key at a time.

I don't recall what I did with that computer. It's all gone, including the design notebook for it.
by light_hue_1 | 2025-05-10 22:49:34+00:00
You're right. And that really shows you how destructive Google has been.

10-20 years ago Google was amazing. Their products were great. We all wanted them.

And now, we have pretty much exactly those products. Almost nothing has improved in 10+ years. That's exactly the behavior of a monopoly.

Their products are now aggressively hostile to users and their interests. Like Chrome trying to kill of ad blockers.

Google now sits on what is now a low quality outdated product forever using their market power to keep everyone else out.

That's why we have antitrust laws. To kill Googles.
by api | 2025-05-10 22:50:06+00:00
It’s this simple: in the 1950s and 1960s you could graduate high school, get a job, and raise a family, often with home ownership as part of the equation. You also had more job security, at least for a while.

This past isn’t just glorified by MAGA. You also see it glorified by the Sanders/AOC wing of the Democrats at times.

Unfortunately neither side’s solutions will get us back there.

To get back there we’d have to attack the problem from two ends.

We would have to raise minimum wage, offer more assistance for health care or even full single payer, and to make the minimum wage increase work we probably would have to do a little of the tariffing and border enforcement MAGA likes… but not as much, and with better strategy.

But we would also have to implode the housing market. We’d have to MHCA (Make Housing Cheap Again). Real estate cost is one of the major reasons you can’t live like this anymore. Real estate cannot simultaneously be affordable and a good investment. We have opted in the past 50 years to protect the latter. We would have to switch and go for the former, which would destroy home equity.

It would cause problems. See, part of what we have done with housing is turn it into a stealth shadow second social security system for the middle class and the wealthy. Once you get on the housing treadmill your later life and retirement is subsidized by real estate appreciation. It’s a regressive tax, both economically and age wise as it’s essentially a tax on the young trying to get started.

But killing that system to make housing affordable would suddenly leave a ton of elderly people with no savings. The government would have to step in here too.

… which would mean both tax increases and spending cuts, and neither is popular.

Simply tariffing like mad and kicking out immigrant competition for labor won’t work because it won’t fix the cost disease.
by jrapdx3 | 2025-05-10 22:51:09+00:00
From the Github repo: "Created by Daniel Cota after he fell down the PRNG rabbit-hole by circumstance." I understand how that can happen.

Wondering how this PRNG compares to PCG PRNGs that also claim to be "simple fast space-efficient statistically good algorithms" and "hard to predict" [0].

In any case, it's good to see the excellent work being accomplished in this space.

[0] https://www.pcg-random.org/
by const_cast | 2025-05-10 22:51:22+00:00
Yeah, especially Tobacco. I mean, there hasn't been an industry gutted that hard ever. They were attacked from all sides. They can't even fucking advertise anymore, and when they can, they have to tell you "hey don't buy this it kills you". And then, cherry on top, when consumers do buy this product, they're allowed to use it in like < 1% of spaces.

And yet, somehow, Tobacco is still profitable.