skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Usually it's because too much is hidden.

No. It's. Not.

You get crap inbound because the process is frictionless.

> I wanted more information, but I didn't want a phone call. I filled out the form asking for some high-level information on pricing, and that I didn't want a phone call.

Needless to say, the rep never responded to my inquiry.

But, put yourself in my situation: I don't want calls at random times of the day that are convenient to a salesman. I want to talk on the phone at a time that's convenient to ME, and only if I know the (ballpark) range of what you're selling costs. If a new shower costs $5k, and I won't be in a position to spend that for 18 months, I want to know that I should pick up the phone then, not now.

I feel you. I really do. I've been in this position before. But until you operate a business at scale and see what absolute utter crap comes through the door, only then will you really understand what's behind the scenes.
There's plenty of skepticism of corporate influence in health care. I am skeptical of anything where money is involved.

Cancer is an extreme example here because being 1. Based on hard physical evidence and 2. having a huge liability for misdiagnosis, doctors/hospitals would be in huge trouble if they diagnosed you with cancer and gave you chemo when you did not have it. This serves as a check against pharmaceutical interests.

Mental diagnoses/treatment on the other hand is mostly done in independent offices, private practices, and in prisons/institutions on committed people, and it carries very little risk if misdiagnosed. With adhd its even worse, because its often a diagnosis a patient seeks.

I really don't understand where you're coming from. It seems you don't want people to criticize psychiatry because it makes some people feel bad not having the validation of these disorders being a totally legit, agreed upon science?

I think that's taking the completely wrong angle, like I said I am diagnosed and I don't feel bad about it one bit despite all my opinions here.
The issue today with most of those sustainable takeout containers is they are lined with PFAS.

Not true for everything but the vast majority are.
Man sues Apple for accidentally exposing his infidelity
From a 10000 foot view, the non-profit designation is the way the government says "the tax we'd get from you, and your cost to file the paperwork, is not as valuable as what you provide, so we'll skip it."

It's one of the available "force multipliers" that the government has to try to "cost X but do Y" - just like backstopping loans, etc.

It does distort the "market" - that's the whole point.
This is a bit meta.. an article about your hacker news post[0], and then reprint from well investigated Wired article[1]

[0] (622 points, 5 days ago, 536 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40690898

[1] (65 points, yesterday, 43 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40728732
I give you Sir Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowasji_Jehangir_Readymoney
Socio-Digital Vulnerability by Daniella DiPaola, Ryan Calo: SSRN
> Be careful what you outsource. Better a creator than a proofreader, IMO.

Or as authors put it: "write drunk, edit sober".
Enjoyed the tutorial very much, thanks.

As a suggestion, I would dearly enjoy a follow-up rigorously connecting those visual, intuitive ideas to actual mathematics.
This is getting popular due to the recent 'Laravel vs JS Frameworks' controversy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaodD79Q4iE
My favorite footnote from Entangled Life [1] (a great book mostly about fungal relationships) is about tapeworm memories: scientists can train them to solve mazes, cut off their heads [which re-spawn], and the trained maze memories are still implemented by the new neuronal cluster ("brain").

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Entangled-Life-Worlds-Change-Futures/...
I know. I'd like to be able to buy purple potatoes by the bag.
Stories like this make me thankful for my locally-owned gym, which won't even renew your membership without explicit verbal permission over the phone or in person.
Strangely, the most boring people are the ones that seem to hate the article.
https://pragprog.com/titles/swdddf/domain-modeling-made-func..., even though it's F# rather than Haskell. And maybe https://leanpub.com/algebra-driven-design depending on the exact use case.
> The tests are not visible to the model

> The model is allowed to write and run code in an agentic loop and iteratively self-correct during evaluation

What does this mean? How does the model iteratively self-correct without seeing the tests? Can it see the test results?
A hape ‘a spuds with a slatherin of real butter is hard til bate,bai!
I wonder why NGO advice does not correlate with decision directions at all. Remember the CCC talks by NGO lobbists, usually culminating for everything they do in a"anyway that was what we advised, they however would vote/do/the thing we advised against". Had a huge speakerscorner going nowhere vibe and europes youth kicked that play pretend democracy in the nuts last election.
Hence the “enough” modifier. NodeJS isnt a browser framework, do your research.
As a note these kinds of things the IRS figures out ... eventually, and then they have you.

The realities of real estate investment involves a ton of things, but there is probably some advantage to renting to veterans, it's not to the point of writing off the entire income from an entire building.
Nuclear disasters worldwide killed thousands - tens of thousands of people.
That's probably not a good example. The odds of an tow-truck owner/operator needing to setup a linux server is pretty low. I exited the tech industry and now run a handyman service and even I probably wouldn't pay those fees.
Great job! I enjoyed going through the steps.

The final though seemed like a huge leap for me, who don’t know anything about those math mysteries (which I assume is your target audience).

First I was curious to learn how is the fast way to understand that 1, 2, or 4 colors suffice. And why finding out such a way for 3 is so hard.

The zero-knowledge proof demonstration felt like “changing the subject”. Probably I missed the connection there.
Decompress Anything with "X Uz"
Thanks! That’s really valuable feedback. I’ll do some research and see what I can do!
> So you need MOND and something else, which is two things, which Occam's Razor disfavors anyway.

Misapplication of Occam's razor. LCDM also needs multiple things: non-interacting dark matter + a fine-tuned distribution of DM that cannot be a priori predicted from any observations, but only post-hoc fitted after observation. By contrast, MOND has successfully predicted rotation curves (and lots more) from the visible matter alone.

You can't naively apply Occam's razor to two theories that both fail some set of observations. However, as a scientific theory, MOND has a better track record of successful predictions.
Ask HN: Seen any developer docs with a RAG chatbot?
Creating a chatbot with access to a company's documentation, guides, and API reference material seems like an excellent use case for RAG. Developers could ask the chatbot how to build specific solutions with the company's platform and receive a response in the form of a tutorial.

Taking this further: if the developer verifies that the tutorial works, it could be submitted to the company for review. Chatbot-generated tutorials that are verified and reviewed could then be published as guides on the company's documentation site for other developers to find via Google.

I haven't seen any companies that provide such a chatbot. Have you?
Validating gigabytes of Unicode strings per second in C#?
:) i'm glad you found it useful
We can also open first 50 bottles, mix drops of each, use test, if positive then we know that one of them is poisoned, if not then we know that one of the other 50 is poisoned. So we take the poisoned 50, split on two brackets and repeat. With 7 tests, we can narrow down to a single poisoned bottle (50, 25, 12/13, 6/7, 3/4, 2, 1)
The Benefit of Living Life with No Purpose [video]
C can be memory safe
> The way those resistors are twisted together makes my heart hurt....

YKINMKBYKIOK
What NASA wanted was a space station, a small tug to move stuff in space, and a small shuttle to move people and cargo from earth to that station.

The whole point of the space shuttle was to have it service the space station, but the station wasn't greenlit. Instead we got a much bigger shuttle that was useful as a military asset but was a money pit with terrible safety record. Luckily the Soviet Union collapsed and the ISS was funded as a job program for Soviet rocket scientists (out of fear they could be poached to work on ICBMs for other nations).
I used this technique to send data from the cell-phone to an ESP32 using the phone's flashlight: https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/wfea4r/send_data_wit...
Jit compiler allowed to go full stack for optimization.
Higher network costs just reflect added expenses for redispatch and additional grid infrastructure required by variable energy production. The more decentralized and intermittent energy in the system, the higher the cost for infrastructure and keeping backup power plants running - in case of Germany, coal and gas
It's not a popular term in Ireland. Britain and Ireland is often preferred, and has less colonial implications.
I know HN frowns upon sappy positive comments, but I have to say:

I have been using Midday for a few months now and it's been an incredible experience – from the "ask AI" feature to the product notifications, every part of this product is crafted with tender loving care (TLC).

The fact that they're fully open-source and self-hostable is just cherry on top :D
Big corporations have a ton of dead weight that they have to pay for somehow.
$850m is revenue projection for end of this year. We don't have actual numbers for now.
Nah, if you want heavy backend, go with Go/Ktor/C#, not node. If you want light backend, use sth like Hono or H3. If you want to primarily produce html, use Remix or Next.

Adonis/Redwood/Nest is something you will regret in few years because it will lock you down to "their" ways of doing things instead of something with replaceable components.

Admitted, Adonis looks most sensible out of these 3. Redwood is poisoned with needless GraphQL and Nest is written like 2008 java.
In Adonis you can at least pick the db layer.

But even Adonis locks you to their validator instead of Zod or his cousins, they use their own Request/Response classes instead of the platform ones, has yucky inheritance and annotations magic etc.
Here's more info on how to use it on AWS with Amazon Bedrock:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/anthropics-claude-3-5-sonne...
>does the period of a point mass moving in a potential well depend on its mass?

"For a simple harmonic oscillator, the period does not depend on the mass of the object. However, for a general potential well, the answer is more nuanced:

Simple harmonic oscillator: In this case, the period T is given by: T = 2π√(m/k)
where m is the mass and k is the spring constant. However, the frequency of oscillation ω = √(k/m), so T = 2π/ω. The spring constant k is typically proportional to m, making the period independent of mass.

General potential well: For a non-harmonic potential, the period usually does depend on mass. The period is given by:
T = 2∫dx/v(x)

where v(x) is the velocity as a function of position. This velocity depends on the total energy and the potential energy:

v(x) = √(2/m * (E - V(x)))

Here, the mass appears explicitly, and generally doesn't cancel out as it does in the simple harmonic case.

Would you like me to elaborate on any part of this explanation?"

>why do you say the spring constant k is typically proportional to m? a spring's force when stretched to a given length doesn't depend on what's attached to the end

"You're absolutely right, and I apologize for that error in my explanation. You are correct that the spring constant k is a property of the spring itself and does not depend on the mass attached to it."
The whole point of this is that ESM was very poorly handled. It's irrelevant to TypeScript, esbuild, Webpack, etc. That tooling handles the complexity for you and sometimes that backfires. I've run into a lot of headaches with the TypeScript compiler.

The fact that you don't know whether your codebase uses TypeScript, esbuild or Webpack is disappointing. It means that those worries have been handled for you and you don't care to learn them, which is never a good stance if you work with this on a daily basis. But I somewhat agree that it should all be vastly simpler.

I also kind of agree with the downvoted/flagged comment re: Golang. The way the JavaScript ecosystem works is highly dependent on the way Node is handled. And Node has, for many years, made ESM needlessly complicated.
This is the strategy we're adopting at work.

People are currently implementing a simple self-service for common SAML and OIDC providers, like O365 and such. This will be free and recommended for all customers to use, because I believe in providing actual security for our customers.

And then you can order a consulting project on top to figure out a good way to import user groups, user identities and such into the platform, and ideally to integrate our preferred group structures with a customers existing approval and group structures. This also includes help to initially connect us to the IDP. This is priced at a relatively cheap consultant level.

And then there is a second tier of consulting projects if the customer is using a non-standard IDP and can't do it on their own. Like, we have one customer that has an in-house developed SAML provider, but the original people who worked on it aren't there anymore. That was an interesting project and I learned way more stuff about SAML than I ever wanted, and also fixed a bug in their SAML provider code. This is priced right between "subject matter experts" and "no".

That's what I consider a very fair split. Simple SSO for everyone, especially on standard providers. And if you want to save a day or two of your identity and authentication teams, you can hand us some cash to do so. Smaller customers generally won't need this, they usually just have 1-2 groups they want to push and that's easy to do, but large customers with complex directories and many users in different departments like these projects a lot.
Mentally healthier + seeming to eat more cheese doesn’t NOT mean “eating more cheese makes you mentally healthier”

There are established correlations between gut biome and mental health. But correlation is not causation.
save the best for last!

from the book:

> This gives us our fourth, final and perhaps most important opportunity to generalize HTML:
Opportunity 4

> HTML could be extended to allow the responses to requests to replace elements within the current document, rather than requiring that they replace the entire document.

> This is actually a very old concept in hypermedia. Ted Nelson, in his 1980 book “Literary Machines” coined the term transclusion to capture this idea: the inclusion of content into an existing document via a hypermedia reference. If HTML supported this style of “dynamic transclusion,” then Hypermedia-Driven Applications could function much more like a Single Page Application, where only part of the DOM is updated by a given user interaction or network request.
Is there any survival or revival of "Gizmos & Gadgets"? [0]

It was a very cool simulation game for various STEM topics, including:

• Balance – balancing a scale using different weights and distances

• Electricity – constructing various types of series and parallel circuits

• Energy – matching activities to energy types: chemical, electrical, kinetic, nuclear, potential, light, heat, mechanical

• Force – propelling various sized objects into a flashing hole (depending on ramp, gravity and/or friction)

• Gears – constructing machines using gears of various sizes

• Magnetics – constructing various north–south pole patterns

• Machines – building common objects out of simple machine pieces

My daughter enjoyed it. (though she didn't go into science)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmos_%26_Gadgets!
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Ah. Is 8 bits really optimal? I don't know how many UTF space characters there are, I thought there were only a few. Why not a 16-bit lookup?
But isn't that what the training algorithm does? (Genuinely asking since I'm not very familiar with this.) I thought it tries anything, including wrong things, as it gradually finds better results from the right things.
https://archive.ph/TXPbL
I do. Just please don’t mention that to my wife.

Worth noting that recently (when couple of months is considered recent), she mentioned that she had falling out with MOND (due to some new study coming to ger attention).
Barely a third of "high-impact" packages on npm are ESM. And that's with a generous definition of what an ESM package is. [1]

[1]: https://github.com/wooorm/npm-esm-vs-cjs
For me, the problem with LLMs is their infinite capacity to ad lib and improv; it feels like trying to solve real problems during a taping of "Whose Line is it Anyway?"

Yeah of course it's not a realistic scenario for humans, but the LLM is not a human, it's a tool, and I expect it to have some sort of utility as a tool (repeatability, predictability, fit for purpose). If it can't be used as a tool, and it can't replace human-level inference, then it's worthless at best and antagonistic at worst.

I started testing with the goat/boat prompt because it was obvious given the framing that the LLM was trying to pattern match against the logic problem involving a wolf. Really takes the magic out of it. Most people who hadn't heard the puzzle before would answer with straight up logic, and those who had heard of it would maybe be confused about the framing but wouldn't hallucinate an invisible wolf was part of the solution as so many LLMs do.

To me this just highlights how I have to be an expert at the domain in which I'm prompting, because otherwise I can't be sure the LLM won't suggest I drown a ferret.
It has to drop off at some point otherwise it would affect other galaxies...
You're right of course! but I need to point out that the rule asks for titles to be changed when they're misleading or clickbait:

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's always interesting to to me that although the rule cuts both ways, people only tend to remember one. Maybe that 'unless' needs to be phrased more clearly?
Instead of top/bottom left/right scan, you can perform a serpentine scan that goes top/bottom, but alternates left/and right/left each row, zig zagging as it goes down the page.

That way the errors get spread out more evenly, and you don't get 45 degree diagonal flowing artifacts down and to the right.

The In-Laws (1979): Getting off the plane in Tijuara:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2_w-QCWpS0

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> Recipe sites are convoluted with ads and articles used for search engine optimization. We want a minimalistic way of storing the recipes that we like and want share and to be able to read from my phone while working in the kitchen.

Well... I understand your point of view and good intentions, but... IMO you should read this article first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40184673 / https://theluddite.org/#!post/google-ads

Cheers!
This is one of the traits I admire the most about German culture; awareness that government can abuse its power.

In the US, by contrast, I see one political power eager to give powers to their candidates which they would hate to give to the rival party. It's like they've forgotten that they are giving power to the Government, not to a party, and if the other party gets power they get those powers.
I went in skeptical and got completely hooked. Well played. Very neat thing to build. Wish more math were taught creatively like this.
It was proved in a court of law that no. That’s not all he did.
You mean you prefer haters and jihadists so as not to be bored? Ok for game of thrones
I've seen kapa.ai in the wild, there are at least a dozen more companies / projects doing the same
The problem is that many people hear small business and assume it's like 1-10 employees, but really small business is anything up to ~500 employees and millions in revenue.
Amazon's ditching the plastic air pillows in its boxes
How Harappa is viewed differently by Islam and Hinduism
Perhaps because courts are not a democracy? This class of problems gets much easier when an individual is designated to make a binding declaration (e.g. that these three seemingly different feelings are effectively the same) that's hard to challenge. Democracy has a hard time dealing with "obvious when you see it" problems.
Thanks for the clarification I was sure it meant only business accounts with business tax numbers.
Thanks! I will take a look.
Minimalisim is what the world needs.
Hah, I forgot about that, and their subsequent delisting. That was about as blatantly criminal as you could get and in that particular hype train I remember some noise about that but not nearly enough.
Bun handles all of the nonsense but the catch is that it blows up both in dev and in production. Wake me up when Bun doesn't segfault/fail to work at all.
I recently released Slackrock [https://github.com/coreylane/slackrock] that you may find helpful, it's a Slack chat app that can access several FMs (including Claude 3.5) via AWS Bedrock. Responses can be easily shared with others by inviting them to your channels, and Slack has an Android app. It doesn't support attachments (yet) but I'm working on it!
Total military spending in 2019 was approximately $746 billion (including the DoD, nuclear weapons spending under the DoE, and other defense-related activities).

The projected defense spending for 2024 is around $891 billion.

So roughly 19.4% in total defense spending over that five-year period. Which is not chump change, considering how high it was before.
I have about two dozen purple potatoes growing out back. Potatoes are actually easy to grow in bags of dirt.