MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drivers99 | 2025-09-22 22:29:28+00:00
One year (2022) I could see, on an early problem (day 2), that I could define a handful of words in forth such that I could execute the (modified) input file itself as code (there were only 9 possible combinations since it was rock-scissor-paper, although I did have to alter the input by removing the spaces first, like "A X" was changed to "AX") to get the answer. I defined words that matches the 9 inputs and had those do whatever the problem said to do. https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/2
by fuzzfactor | 2025-09-22 22:29:29+00:00
Here's an edge case I'm sure everybody has seen very rarely, but that's still not as uncommon as you think. Watch the video by Martinez if the top video is not correct:

https://abc13.com/post/loose-spool-involved-in-crash-near-be...

This was the 5th time in two months.

Now 2018 might have been a record year, but there have been a number of others since then.

Fortunately for us all, drivers don't have to go through Houston to get from CA to NY, but you're likely to encounter unique regional obstacles the further you go from where everything is pre-memorized.

As we know 18-wheelers are routinely going between Houston and Dallas most of the way autonomously, and a couple weeks ago I was walking down Main and right at one of the traffic lights was one of the Waymos, who are diligently memorizing the downtown area right now.

I'll give Tesla the benefit of the doubt, but they are not yet in the same league as some other companies.
by 999900000999 | 2025-09-22 22:29:31+00:00
The mainboard cost as much as a new laptop.

https://frame.work/products/mainboard-amd-ai300?v=FRANTE0009

AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Series - Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370

1000$

https://www.newegg.com/asus-vivobook-s14-14-0-non-touch-scre...

ASUS Vivobook S14 Laptop, Copilot+ PC AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 32GB RAM 1TB SSD

1000$.

The pricing just isn't competitive imo. Plus PC laptops go on sale pretty often.

Except for Framework.

The issue IMO is a lack of scale. If Dell did this they could probably offer cheaper parts.

Plus the warranty options drive the price up, I can add a 200$ warranty on the above Asus and get 3 years.

1200$ vs 2000$ on the Amd 370 framework.

That said, I want Framework to succeed. It's good for the industry. It doesn't mean I'm personally ready to make the investment.
by AndrewStephens | 2025-09-22 22:29:53+00:00
I loved CYOA books as a child of the early 80s. It was a boom time for choice-based books. CYOA was first but books aimed at more mature (meaning much more gory) audiences were common. Fighting Fantasy was probably the best known, but Lone Wolf and Way of the Tiger were also amazing to my young mind.

This kind of Interactive Fiction is still being developed today. If you like Star Trek you might enjoy my own choice-based game[0] but literally hundreds of games of various level of complexity are being produced every year.

[0] https://sheep.horse/voyage_of_the_marigold/
by firefax | 2025-09-22 22:31:28+00:00
Uh not, it isn't "your word against theirs" -- a competent attorney will put a litigation hold on the CCTV footage, and they'll do it on contingency.

Makes me wonder if maybe you're being accurate, since you'll telling an unusual story and inventing reasons not to seek redress.

Also it'd be a criminal matter, not just a civil one -- having their LP have to get bailed out of the county jail sends a message.
by nradov | 2025-09-22 22:31:36+00:00
I don't think you understand what an embargo is. The USA isn't blockading Cuba; they're free to trade with other countries like Venezuela or whatever. International trade requires the consent of both parties, and there's no moral or legal obligation to trade with a hostile foreign power (or allow our financial systems to be used to facilitate such trade).

The embargo would likely end soon if the Cuban government takes basic, simple steps like introducing open multiparty democracy, free market capitalism, and freedom for political prisoners. These steps would obviously benefit all Cubans so there's no possible reason to delay making those changes regardless of their impact on international trade.
by baobun | 2025-09-22 22:31:50+00:00
2 months notice is very short, especially considering some of these will have been deployed for a decade... A year or so would have been expected.

Some of these will have their owners on the other side of the world with no way to get back in time.

Keep this in mind next time you consider depending on Assa Abloy - bummer to see them lose their ways.
by observationist | 2025-09-22 22:31:58+00:00
You have the choice of assuming the worst in everyone, or not.

This kid was not a silver tongued charismatic con man able to dupe and swindle victims, he was taking advantage of ignorance, incompetence, and bad management. his criminal skill consisted of being able to repeatedly and shamelessly call people and repeat a plausible script. High school drama club skills - not "hacked the school server to give everyone 4.1 GPA" skills.

I can grab a clipboard and safety vest and get almost anywhere in the world, even sounding awkward and not particularly smooth, because people expect IT and technician types to show up and be given access to nearly anywhere. "Hi, I'm from IT, I need to get to the phone line/computer in back/ network cable for the display" - people are gullible and ignorant, and the "hackers" that figure out that fact get away with outrageous things based on that alone.

They farmed out these low level social engineering tasks to dozens or even hundreds of participants whose only "skill" was to learn that "one little trick" which broke the security model of all those corporations and departments. That's how law enforcement swept this guy up, because he was not technically proficient or particularly good at what he was doing, from a security standpoint.

10 years of prison is definitely going to mature this person - all I'm saying is that I wish the best for him, because ultimately, that's what best for all of us. I hope he finds a purpose and meaning in life that obliterates the superficial exploitation of people that landed him in prison, and makes the world a better place for his family and community when he gets out. If he can still think of himself as wanting to be a good person, to be better than he was, then I think there's probably hope.

If he was completely unrepentant and unwilling to be accountable, it'd be different - No credit at all to him, I'm just hoping for the best and recognizing that possibility seems to still exist for him.
by gamblor956 | 2025-09-22 22:32:35+00:00
No, the Louis Vitton cases would not help M&M here.

To successfully make a parody case in regards to trademark the parody itself must make it obvious that the defendant is not in anyway connected to the owner of the trademarked thing. The Morgan and Morgan ad doesn't do that; without the disclaimer at the beginning it wouldn't be obvious that the ad wasn't a animation created by Disney. (In the original Steamboat Willie, Mickey causes a number of accidents that harm other characters. Causing a car accident would not stand out from the list of things he does.) Importantly, a disclaimer doesn't really mean much for trademark law since this body of law is about how the trademark is used.

Why does MOB get away with parodying the LV bag (in the case you cite)? Well, for starters they didn't just rip off the look of an LV bag; they stylized their renderings of the LV bags to over-emphasize aspects of the LV bags that weren't actually present in the LV bags (but were clearly evocative of the bags). They also were juxtaposing the stylized LV bag against their own product.

The case you cited also specifically refers to other LV cases in which the defendants lost (and LV won). In one case, Hyundai briefly displayed a basketball with a logo very similar to LV's trademarked monogram. Hyundai lost, even though the ad was about the ostentatiousness of luxury goods (i.e., social commentary), because nothing about the parody itself indicated that the trademark owner wasn't involved (and indeed, part of why Hyundai lost was because there was evidence that people believed that LV was making limited-edition basketballs and wanted to buy them).

More on point, the defendant in the Debbie Does Dallas case was sued by the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, and lost, even though DDD is clearly a parody. The problem is that the parody was not sufficiently specific to the trademarked content (in this case, the uniform), and also it wasn't clear from the content of the film itself that the DCC wasn't connected to the film.
by cbradford | 2025-09-22 22:32:51+00:00
Disney was probably inundated with demands from other on air talent to reinstate the employee. They then made the calculated judgment that maintaining good employee relations was on balance better served by putting the employee back on the assembly line. This is all usual and standard business. Anyone on here that has ever worked a job has contract that says what they can and cannot do while in the employ of the company.
by wubrr | 2025-09-22 22:32:59+00:00
I mean, in your example you just have an incomplete test suite. (Though writing a complete one is often unrealistic)

While understanding algorithms and data structures is important, the only way you really know how well it works, and how well it's implemented is by thoroughly testing it. There are an infinite amount of clever algorithms out there with terrible implementations.

You need both.
by axoltl | 2025-09-22 22:33:42+00:00
It'd run on a 5090 with 32GB of VRAM at fp8 quantization which is generally a very acceptable size/quality trade-off. (I run GLM-4.5-Air at 3b quantization!) The transformer architecture also lends itself quite well to having different layers of the model running in different places, so you can 'shard' the model across different compute nodes.
by Kon5ole | 2025-09-22 22:33:55+00:00
I agree with the gp. I like some aspects of tiling vms but gave up after a while.

The main pain points for me were

1) I often end up with two windows each taking a side of the screen leaving basically nothing of interest in the centre. So I end up jumping through some tetris-like hoops to make a window be centered.

2) If I close any window all the others move, often causing a repeat of problem 1

3) apps not supporting it properly causing weird graphical glitches

4) some apps should never be small windows, others never large.

Basically I ended up spending more time managing windows with a tiling vm than I ever did before, which eventually outweighed the benefits.
by roscas | 2025-09-22 22:35:13+00:00
I kinda like it, but have a few notes (got it?) about it.

It should never ever connect to anything without the user asks for it. That is the only way it is really private.

But since it is a electron app, it will always contact Google everytime you open the app. All electron apps do that, no control about it. Privacy zero.

It still connects to notesnook site and that compared with telling Google you're using the app, it not that serious.
by leakycap | 2025-09-22 22:35:34+00:00
> Your comment made me look up who Nate Silver is. I doubt I will remember in a week from now.

That was the entirety of your comment/response/addition to the conversation. Someone has to read into it because there's nothing to it.

Should I make a post every time I look something up but think to myself that I'll likely forget it next week, as you did in the quoted example? Perhaps everyone in the comments section would like to know how my working memory is, too?
by lapcat | 2025-09-22 22:35:50+00:00
> What I was getting at, in any case, is that it sometimes the need to add the date after-the-post-is-up can arise. To that, the objection that "but who would post outdated information knowingly" is moot.

I am the person who asked rhetorically, why would someone even submit an article with out of date information, in the same comment where I suggested adding the date after the post is up. Thus, it was not an objection to adding the date after the post is up, and again, you've unfortunately misinterpreted the context. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45324088

> I don't care nor have a use for a date stamp on evergreen or still relevant content. Even if it's older article or post someone posts here.

You're free to disagree with the HN convention. However, this is not the place to argue with it. I would recommend creating your own HN submission for that. The only reason I'm still here is to clarify my previous comments in this thread, which I believe I've done now.
by plqbfbv | 2025-09-22 22:35:56+00:00
In my experience include/extends works well for importing or extending whole jobs, but not so much for defining a small snippet of text that I want to reuse across many jobs, perhaps when overriding stuff.

An example of how I normally use them and why I still find them useful:

# Imports whole pipeline architecture jobs include: - project: company/ci-templates ref: "master" file: "languages/stack.yaml" # Define a command I need to use exactly the same # across different jobs I'm going to override .vpn_connect: &vpn_connect - cmd1 - cmd2 - cmd3 & job1: extends: imported1 script: - .... - *vpn_connect # 2nd command - ... job2: extends: imported2 script: - ... - ... - *vpn_connect # 3rd command - ...
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-22 22:35:57+00:00
The algorithm I'm talking about is at the very end of the book. If you start reading it from start to finish you might stop before you reach it. Certainly happened to me. Someone had to point it out for me to realize SICP had the answer all along.

https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Computer_Science/Prog...

The explicit control evaluator. It's a register and stack machine which evaluates lisp expressions without transforming them into bytecode.
by anthk | 2025-09-22 22:36:00+00:00
I loved "The secret of the ninjas". It had a better research from Japanese culture than tons of local pulp novels (from Spain) about some US born Kung Fu fighting spy/secret agent soon-meeting-a-Japanese-sensei-with-cheap-tropes-everywhere.

That being a book for kids compared to cheap pulp novels were meant for lowly-educated adults, but I would expect less for preteen books where a perfect mythos depiction wasn't always a thing.

Still, Hollywood movies and some Asian exploitation series weren't much better...
by Borealid | 2025-09-22 22:36:07+00:00
The term to search for is "UKI".

A UKI is a kernel+initramfs+boot-arguments bundle all as a single WinPE/UEFI executable using the "EFI Stub Loader".

You configure your system firmware to execute it, passing no arguments. It boots using the command line you set earlier. It's signed, and verified by the platform secure boot.

Hibernation works fine with this approach.
by mullingitover | 2025-09-22 22:36:10+00:00
> So where is this 10GW electric supply going to come from

If the US petro-regime wasn't fighting against cheap energy sources this would be a rounding error in the country's solar deployment.

China deployed 277GW of solar in 2024 and is accelerating, having deployed 212GW in the first half of 2025. 10 GW could be a pebble in the road, but instead it will be a boulder.

Voters should be livid that their power bills are going up instead of plummeting.
by tptacek | 2025-09-22 22:36:19+00:00
It wasn't one of them. The implication of the statement was pretty clear. I'm twitchy about this because my TL and all the spaces I talk about politics in were lit up with people trying to find some combination of tea leaves indicating Robinson was a Nick Fuentes follower. I was personally convinced the shooter would be ideologically illegible, like the Minnesota shooter --- another "O9A" case. I was wrong. So was Kimmel.

And there was just no reason for him to be! I was mouthing off on local politics boards and in Slack channels; there were no consequences. Kimmel went out on that limb on broadcast television. It's a dying medium, but it's still a bigger deal than saying it privately.

Again: none of this is to say that he deserved the outcome he got. Though, I've said this before and will repeat it: the administration probably did us a huge favor here, shifting the narrative from the Kirk shooting to Kimmel's censorship.
by ethbr1 | 2025-09-22 22:37:16+00:00
The en vogue 'Supreme Court always sides with the Administration' is a lazy and inaccurate take. (That's usually used to justify 'And that's why I don't need to spend time looking into the actual details and just give up')

If people actually took the time to read the opinions [0], they'd realize...

1. Many of the 'allow the administration to continue' rulings are overriding stays, rather than actual decisions. Those cases are still pending in the courts and will eventually end up back at the Supreme Court.

2. Of the actual Supreme Court decisions, the news typically gives the most dumbed-down, hot take version.

3. Even to people without a legal background, much of the decision or dissent is written in plain English, attempts to lay out the rationale, and can be read by anyone with a secondary education.

[0] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/slipopinion/24
by Implicated | 2025-09-22 22:37:22+00:00
While I understand your perspective here - let me counter with mine. I have the same issue where I maintain a 'state' that I'd prefer to maintain but my interest in maintaining it does have this anxiety you describe.

It's just a huge waste of time to get it all back. I see it no different than being in the middle of a heavy coding/mental task and being interrupted to the point that you have to 'start over' in the sense of getting all that context back in the right places.

Sure, I _could_ neatly close everything out and have a pristine perfect work/desktop environment. But, personally, when I see the work/desk environment of someone and it's absolutely pristine all I can think about is how they're spending energy to maintain that.

To give another example - in my workshop (woodworking), if I'm in the middle of something and need to take a break/leave the shop... I'm not putting _anything_ away. I turn off the lights and walk out. That way when I return I don't have to set everything back up. Now - when I finish something, then I go through and clean up and organize and get the state freshened up. Same thing with my laptop/computer.

Zero anxiety about it all - it's not about losing anything but time. And that's what's most important.
by atkailash | 2025-09-22 22:38:16+00:00
I wouldn’t call a $100-270 electric bill a “fraction” when it’s about 5% post tax income. I use a single light on a timer and have a small apartment

Especially since these sorts of corporations can get tax breaks or har means of getting regulators to allow spreading the cost. Residential shouldn’t see any increase due to data centers, but they do, and will, supplement them while seeing minimal changes to infrastructure

When people are being told to minimize air conditioning but then these big datacenters are made and aren’t told “reduce your consumption” then it doesn’t matter how big or small the electric bill is, it’s supplementing a multi billion dollar corporation’s toy
by bayarearefugee | 2025-09-22 22:38:17+00:00
> Disney content, financially motivated or not, is some of the most left friendly media there is.

This is kind of true, but it isn't correct to color this as Disney doing a favor to the left. The reason their content is "left" friendly is that most people are pretty aligned with the "left" when it comes to social issues.

They are offering this content because it is popular with the majority of people (and thus profitable), not as some sort of favor to their friends.
by lazide | 2025-09-22 22:38:18+00:00
More precisely, each ‘AI’ is just a statistical grouping of a large subset of other (generally randomly) selected humans.

You don’t even get the same ‘human’ with the same AI, as you can see with various prompting.

It’s like doing a lossy compression of an image, and then wondering why the color of a specific pixel isn’t quite right!
by firefax | 2025-09-22 22:38:21+00:00
>When I lived in San Francisco, backpacks were marginalized as being associated with being too poor to own a car. High-school students might carry a backpack, college students might carry a backpack, people on the bus might carry a backpack, but mostly not professionals who drove to work.

Huh? By extension you seem to be implying anyone who doesn't drive to work is not a "professional", which is bananas.

Smart people took Caltrain, BART, or a company sponsored gentrification shuttle into work and reclaimed the time they'd spend driving to "work". (AKA shitpost -- I noticed a remarkable uptick in trolling during commute hours back in the days I lived in the bay during rush hour.)

Anyways, no, carrying a backpack is not a sign someone is "poor" in SF, or anywhere else -- it's usually a sign they value their back.

Some folks wear messenger bags instead, but those were usually bicyclists.
by esafak | 2025-09-22 22:38:38+00:00
I'd just upload my presentation to my AI tool myself, forget about the personas, and describe the intended audience instead.

If the value proposition is in the personas, I do not see it. On a related note, presentation quality is hard to gauge, so such a tool may be hard for you to monetize. Prospects may wonder if is it any better than just doing what I suggested, and by enough to pay for?
by ryanrasti | 2025-09-22 22:39:06+00:00
Agree, and to add, from what I see, the main issue is that server-side data frameworks (e.g., ORMs) aren't generally built for the combination of security & composability that make them naturally synergize with Cap'n Web. Another way to put it: promise pipelining is a killer feature but if your ORM doesn't support pipelining, then you have to build a complex bridge to support them both.

I've been working on this issue from the other side. Specifically, a TS ORM that has the level of composability to make promise pipelining a killer feature out of the box. And analagous to Cap'n Web's use of classes, it even models tables as classes with methods that return composable SQL expressions.

If curious: https://typegres.com/play/
by moogly | 2025-09-22 22:39:14+00:00
Oh, you'll be hearing from now on that he saved America from the scourge of autism, something no other president has ever managed to do, and certainly not Obama or Biden because they were horrible, just horrible, presidents. Just like he stopped 7 wars, but really, it was 10 wars, and they were horrible wars, and he saved mill-yins and mill-yins of lives. Just tremendous work, he'll have you know.
by hermannj314 | 2025-09-22 22:39:21+00:00
It seems to me the kid is going to be out around the time he is 30, most likely has many millions stashed away the Feds never discovered, and he will do fine.

If I have learned anything in the last two decades, crime does indeed pay, the risk is absolutely worth the reward, and there is almost no long-term reputational damage from dedicating yourself to this sort of life.

He is going to land on his feet and live a life better than most of us too scared to break the rules.
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-09-22 22:39:28+00:00
Perhaps I'm missing something, but aren't local-first apps the overwhelming norm? Like if I think about the apps I use, my friends use etc, most of them are local. Unless the author means "local first web apps", which would make more sense. And I think the oxymoronic nature of a "local first web app" gives a clue as to their unpopularity.
by Implicated | 2025-09-22 22:39:45+00:00
This, so much. I read that comment and immediately recoiled at the idea of waiting "less than a minute" to be able to do anything. I'd estimate that 1/3 of the time I even open my laptop, I'm done with what I needed in less time than that boot up sequence takes and have closed it and moved on to something else. So often I just pop it open, do/check something and close it within seconds.

I go _months_ without rebooting/proper shut downs. And this is on a MacOS install that I've migrated from one Macbook to another for 5 macbooks now O.O