skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Valve released Portal 2 in 2011, it was still 32-bit. This wasn't a problem for Windows users and still isn't. Valve tried as much with the Windows release of that game as the Mac one.

Mac is just an unstable platform. Developers either put up with it or get shown the door. Valve doesn't like to be pushed around by the platforms it uses, which is why they rejected the PS3 and began to prop up Linux as a viable alternative for gaming.
Amazon taking on Temu and Shein with new discount section
A shame. They used to be the free (freedom) option.-
That thing about the presentation having a color scheme match the emotion and villains and heroes.

Is there an essay that analyzes the iPhone launch as you would a book or a movie?
Islam and Cats
Facinating to see the same game played across nations, technologies, and time: https://slate.com/technology/2010/02/the-little-told-story-o...
Think about it for a second mate: competition leads to winners and winners don't like competition, they like monopolies.

And no, the car industry has almost no competition. It's an oligopoly with very few players and a notoriously hard industry to get in.
> For a moment, let's take your highly simplistic statement at face value. USSR gave up East Germany and voluntarily dissolved itself on the agreement that NATO won't expand east of Germany and Russia will be "admitted" into the West. What do we do about that now?

"Myth," Gorbachev said. "Had we had an agreement, we would've written it down," he added: https://x.com/splendid_pete/status/1650735533826375680
I don’t have a philosophical problem with LLMs. I have a problem with treating LLMs as something other than what they are: Predictive text generators. There’s no understanding beneath that which informs the generation, just compression techniques that arise as part of training. Thus I wouldn’t trust them for anything except churning out plausibly-structured text.
One thing that always bothers me with both matplotlib and gnuplot, is that they literally seem to have a command (or function call) for everything. To set the tick size for the third-level ticks on the Y axis, you call set_third_level_y_ticks() or something like that. This is not necessarily bad (and maybe it has to be this way — I haven’t even tried to analyse the problem) but it feels very un-orthogonal, like everything is special-cased.
Love these reflections from Gian-Carlo Rota

In the past, similar discussions have occured: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Gian-Carlo+Rota
If I'm used to waiting 2 days, and you get it down to 30 seconds you can call me what ever you want.

I'm more pissed if I'm waiting days for a response.
If you believe so contact the HN mods, it's very frowned upon to use comments to accuse people of brigading.
> Jody Allen is simply bent on destroying her brother’s legacy.

Jody Allen is respecting her brother’s wishes. Paul Allen wanted his estate liquidated and the proceeds donated to charity. That’s exactly what’s happening.
Quick LLM Lookups in Emacs
Yes, that is my main concern; an attached cable will put a lot of force on the pads and underlying tracks. I would consider sandwiching a small board with a plain horizontal connector soldered in.
Maybe people have learned how to exploit this for money

It's easy, they just provoke cops who tend to not follow the law until they got a case.

If I could get wrongly arrested by a cop or even hurt to gain 300k, that would be worth it, and I would imagine people would learn the law and observe cops to make it happen.

It's very malicious, but it seems the gains are high.
Fx 35.0.0
Claude 3.5 Sonnet can solve the farmer and sheep problem with two small changes to the prompt:
1. change the word "person" to "human".
2. change the word "trips" to "trip or trips". (Claude is probably assuming that the answer has to be in multiple trips because of the word "trips")
s/chat/cheat in my school.
The lifespans of ancient civilisations (2019)
That's the parasitic equilibrium: "try to take too much - oops, now you killed yourself by becoming too much of a nuisance."
Dashboard and UIs for Node-Red
Note that (a) pointer representations can contain bits representing the provenance that don’t participate in equality comparison, and (b) a “C implementation” in terms of the C standard includes the compiler, which means the compiler is allowed to track pointer provenance statically even when the representation in memory doesn’t differ (e.g. exactly what GCC is doing here). In addition, a C implementation is also allowed to track pointer provenance externally at runtime, again even if the pointer representation (as exposed by memcpy into a char buffer) is the same.
The problem is it’s only valuable to those who hold value to it because they grew up with it. Once those collectors get old and start dying off, the bottom falls out of the market because subsequent generations don’t have the same nostalgia. and thus those once valuable collectibles are then basically worthless.

I have first hand experience of this happening too. My dad collected a specific type of model railway. His collection used to be worth thousands but by the time I inherited it all the other collectors were also dead and neither myself nor my brother wanted to maintain the collection. So we sold it for practically nothing.

Dad would be turning in his grave if he knew but frankly, he was the only person who had sentimental value to that collection and we needed the space. It wasn’t even about the money for us, it was literally just multiple boxes of stuff we knew we wouldn’t ever use and didn’t want to keep indefinitely just to honour the memory of dad (we have far better ways to honour his memory).

This isn’t meant to sound insensitive because I loved my dad and still miss him a lot.

I have a large collection of retro gaming consoles and 8 and 16 bit computers. Plus hundreds of games on physical media. I love my collection just like my dad loved his trains. But I know my family will sell it for a pittance the moment I pass away. And I’m fine with that. I own it because it brings me pleasure. I didn’t buy it thinking my family should honour my legacy by hoarding it too.
The AI nativism vs. AI empiricism debate
Where do you stand? Do you believe we are merely the tools we create and that civilisation is just the sum of its technological progress? Or do you think there's an "Atomic Human" (cf. N.D. Lawrence) that can't be reduced to technology, intelligence, or data?
Is the spelling intentional or what
The makers of macOS chose to implement and enable SIP. If you are not comfortable with it, you aren’t comfortable with macOS.

> Or Linux that lacks the apps that I want to run?

Emulation exists.
Five new ways to catch gravitational waves – and the secrets they'll reveal
German AI defence startup Helsing poised to triple valuation to $4.5B
The C Standard charter was updated, now with security principles as well
Good! More UB for the rest of us!
Sure. And Pong was implemented in pure logic circuits with no CPU at all. Your comment takes up 530 bytes.

When tools like the RP2040 are available, using an ATTiny should be carefully considered. There’s many better options now, and I think this is worth pointing out to people who might not be aware of its limitations.

You can take a sailing ship across the ocean too but it’s cheaper and faster to fly.
I read the announcement ages ago. This is it now? Something everyone can replicate with html in less than 5 minutes? Edit: and of course it's subscription-based.
Mars One is a cute prospect when it's just a dream, once reality sets and those people realise that the novelty of being in an inhospitable place, millions of kilometres away from any semblance of a life (air, water, food, nature, hobbies, loved ones, etc.) wouldn't be a good choice to live for 20-50 years I highly doubt that even 1% of those millionaires would still choose to be shipped off.
Show HN: Vercel for Long Running and Recurring Tasks
Easy to say when you made money, that's the good moment to get out.
Looks like it's been hugged to death.
Can someone explain the sweet spot here? WP has a REST API. It has a GraphQL plugin. Whether you use those via BE or FE requests, the backend is already open to anything.
> it's more apparent than ever nobody has anything interesting to say,

Krugman's observation, so often maligned and mocked for the past 20 years, to the effect that he was ignorantly claiming to have seen through something he had not even seen, is starting to look more and more prescient:

'The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in “Metcalfe’s law”—which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants—becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! '
HTTP/1.1 502 Bad Gateway
Server: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
Apple, Microsoft Shrink AI Models to Improve Them
Amazon Fire tablets are the best bang for the buck.
@clumsysmurf, nice catch!

Could it be possible that the coffee lobby is behind this 'counter'-study?, since a relatively simple inference from the OP has catastrophic consequences for the coffee business:

Deep sleep is necessary for the slow electrical waves that clear the brain of waste including amyloid proteins. (Excessive) coffee intake reduces the quality and quantity of deep sleep, thus leading to a build up of waste products including amyloid, resulting in cognitive declines such as Alzheimer's etc. Therefore, coffee intake (indirectly) causes Alzheimer's.

Admitting that last part is suicidal for the coffee business.
Computer prices are a bathtub curve for interesting computers. Very expensive at the start, then they're worthless garbage for 10-40 years, then prices start to rise. If it's not interesting, then they just stay worthless.

Examples:

- Supercomputer parts

- SGI, HP 9000, Sun SPARC machines and parts

- More esoteric UNIX workstations

- PDPs

- VAXen (how many complete cabinet-style VAXen still exist?)

- Apples

- Terminals (since almost all of these were tossed, these are surprisingly expensive even in bad condition)
> Actual templates have substitutions, like you enter the name of your project and that's used in the text of the files.

You could have a settings file in your template for those substitutions. For example:

stamp
settings.scroll
replace TITLE My Blog
replace AUTHOR Breck Yunits
index.scroll
import settings.scroll
title TITLE
author AUTHOR
import footer.scroll
footer.scroll
import settings.scroll
You are reading TITLE
I do not understand what 'failing lifts' is in this context?
Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs
I'll throw my hat behind this horse because, honestly, if I was just learning to code, I would have probably quit by now due to the frequency of these types of comments. LLMs have certainly improved at an impressive rate, and they're fairly decent at producing 'Lego' blocks. However, when it comes to block building—the real meat and potatoes of programming—they're, at best, bad butchers. Building functional systems is hard, and it's simply something LLMs can't do now or perhaps ever. Or I just don't know how to prompt. 50/50.
Found same.-

PS. Consistency is everthing sometimes.-
Steam is getting an official controller, but Valve isn't making it
Now now gentlemen, play nice. There is enough UB for all of us :)
Yes, to the point that only two production quality GC C++ exist, C++/CLI and Unreal C++.

C++/CLI is only considered safe, as long as pure MSIL is being generated, and specific C and C++ features are forbidden, if you make use of them, the code is considered unsafe by the verifier, and some surprises might happen, just like with Objective-C.

Whereas Unreal C++ makes use of specific macros to mark the GC aware objects, and possible bad behaviour is covered by the fact that those objects are mainly used from Blueprints, not raw C++ code.
And yet https://mastodon.scot/@rasteri/112683926331617000 was found within the first 2 hours of the FediVerse post.

Honourable mentions go to the TARDIS picture at https://mstdn.ca/@Chigaze/112683847369819438 and the Sierpiński gasket attempt at https://mastodon.online/@Zotmeister/112684295968651688 .
You have checked -448 (-9) boxes
Collision detection is usually a tree search, and this is a very branching workload. Meaning that by the time you reach the lowest nodes of the tree, your lanes will have diverged significantly and your parallelism will be reduced quite a bit. It would still be faster than CPU, but not enough to justify the added complexity. And the fact remains that you usually want the GPU free for your nice graphics. This is why in most AAA games, physics is CPU-only.
PS. "Neko" will bring the Singularity about :)
Most likely no DOS, just us HNers :)
I'm curious to know if you followed a specific guide, or if you had to take any extra steps to get it functioning beyond running the installer?

I run Linux, and dearly miss being able to use Fireworks. My attempts to get it running on Wine in the past (probably a year or so ago, if not more) were not successful, and I haven't been able to find anything that feels like a suitable replacement for working with vector graphics. It is a genuine (perhaps irrational) point of sadness.

I'm still bitter that they killed it off.
Your commercial heater has code written by a professional engineer who understands the limitations of that system. I’ve been writing embedded systems code for 25 years, and I’m well aware of what can be done by an informed engineer with a limited system.

But this isn’t about running doom. Any beginner that tries to use this system runs the risk of importing a library that carelessly consumes half their ram. If they want to use an I2C sensor with a specialized library, the random person on GitHub who wrote that library might not have optimized their code. If someone sees this board and wants to try it because it looks cute, it’s worth warning them that they’re buying a chip with a 20 year old architecture and extremely limited capabilities.

The flew astronauts to the moon on machines with hand wired magnetic RAM. But if you can get a modern architecture with 264k of RAM for $5, it’s worth warning people that they’re looking at something that is extremely limited compared to other options.

I also have some Twitter followers that seem to love micropython. You can’t even run micropython on attiny because of insufficient RAM.
https://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic.php?t=9102

Or let’s say someone wants to run a rainbow pattern on an LED strip. Let’s say they’re using the SK6812 LEDs which are 21 bits per pixel. Let’s also say the rest of their code uses zero bytes of ram and the library is perfectly efficient. Well I hope they don’t try to control a light strip with more than 83 LEDs on it! That would consume all the RAM. If they get a high density LED strip with 244 LEDs per meter, then 83 LEDs represents a 34 centimeter long section of that strip. That’s 13 inches.

People do lots of things with microcontrollers these days, and RAM is cheap and plentiful on modern chips.
popcount is actually a secret instruction to detect dissidents who use Hacker News. Wake up sheeple
Sandly, Automattic / WooComm is responsible for such thing.

For example, the product gallery is such all images - thumbs and main slides - load on page load. If you don't click any thumbs - and had 10 total images - 9 would have loaded for naught.

But there are BE + FE ways to fix that :)

Also, WooComm recently introduced HPOS that moved order meta into its own table. Smart! But there is still order data captured for every order (e.g., customer order IP, etc).that's in the meta table. Why those we're moved to the new table IDK.
Obsidian has a plugin to get the hilights to Obsidian notes: https://github.com/hadynz/obsidian-kindle-plugin
I've been longing for the ability to disable media queries. Just serve me the default.

It's not only useful against fingerprinting, but also when the creator's idea of what layout is appropriate on my setup differs from mine.
> locally everything is finite.

You don't know that.
international shipping, and _maybe_ eventually travel

you can launch a rocket from anywhere on earth to arrive anywhere on earth in under 30m. first we'll just have better express package deliveries (oh, and military logistics). but eventually they'll decide it's safe enough for people to ride on and you'll just kiss the Kármán line on your way to and from lunch in Kathmandu
See: https://web.archive.org/web/20140901100550/https://developer...
No one can see the MMO at the moment, it's been HN-ed. So no idea how minimal it is.

And if one ignores the mmo part and thinks of other show HNs, one can assume it's 300 lines of js in the main app and 2.4 gigabytes of js dependencies including 10 separate tracking frameworks...
PCB prototype manufacturing is already exceptionally cheap compared to pretty much all other forms of outsourced manufacturing.

You can get 10 PCBs for $20 including worldwide shipping. Pricing for CNC or laser cutting or 3D printing just doesn't go that low.
To authenticate with remote repositories.
Any advice on good composite and/or S-Video mods for the 2600?
Video and Image Improvements in Construct
Yeah that makes perfect sense, I don't think you can do better than that.
That's actually a very good point! Things always looked worse when you know how the sausage gets made.
> Is Soviet Union and Russia the same?

Russia is controlled by people with the same worldview as the people who controlled the Soviet Union. So in a sense, yes.

That worldview to be clear is "Russia is destined to be great, but the entire world is conspiring to bring it down". Stalin had been using the phrase "capitalist encirclement" since some point in the 20s. Nowadays it's "NATO encroachment". It's not an argument to be engaged in good faith by anyone who's paying attention.

The "Soviet Union" was a tool invented by Stalin to bring under his control the people that he couldn't assimilate into Russia directly. Yes, they're the same thing.
Show HN: Use Telegram bot to send 2FA code and connection notification
How to think about creating a dataset for LLM fine-tuning evaluation
sliceline, sort of a rhyme pun
>"Only CSS"

CSS is by far the most advanced, flexible, and powerful layout technology in existence.
Agreed! I subscribe to a couple serialized novels, and having chapters appear automagically on my ereader is a really nice experience.
> Swift, had it not needed backwards compatibility with Objective-C, could probably have gone with a tracing collector.

Programs using tracing GC have a higher memory ceiling than the equivalent using RC, don't they? Because things hang around for a little (or a lot) longer than is strictly needed. Apple's M.O. has been to put as little RAM in the iPhone as they can get away with.
I can only assume it means failing to lift a weight in the context of gym exercise.
It seems clear that the author has an axe to grind, conflating the blog post and "Mozilla corporate policy" kinda gives away the bias
> specifically the language is deliberately inventing things that cannot be so on hardware

So what? The standard has "undefined behavior"; real implementations always do something, even if that something cannot be determined in advance. The standard is the standard, it's not a machine.
> Wordpress offers one of the most important things to these small businesses: (relative) consistency and dependability.

Kudos. Maintainability. It matters. I wish more devs realized that their DIY solutions are a disservice to the client once they leave the project.

WP has it (many) faults. But in general a good new dev can - with some effort - pick up where the ex-dev left off.

Clients should not loose sleep tracking down support for some esoteric megalomaniac-developer solution.
I should have added this is still a cool project, and very impressive. I was just adding that it would be another level better if it was a native app.
Flow charts are a terrible use case for CSS (and HTML). The nodes and edges of a flow chart are all meaningful data. When you render the connectors using a mixture of empty divs, pseudo-content and largely arbitrary hacks, all that meaning gets lost from the _content_ (the HTML). Access tooling will largely fail to communicate your intent.

Flow charts are much better represented by something like PlantUML or Mermaid, and then rendered direct to SVG or a canvas. The mark-up is much more human-readable and could be used as source to drive an even-more accessible alternative.
For the RP2040? It’s absolutely suitable for commercial work with the caveat that it lacks any security features to hide your code from users.

I’m using it on the brushless motor controllers and CAN BUS nodes on our open source farming robot. I’m also using it on some LED controllers for fun, and really anything I want to build. I’m learning about switching power supplies so I’m designing a bidirectional buck/boost controller with discrete components and software control using the RP2040 as the switching controller.

Here’s my motor controller:
https://github.com/Twisted-Fields/rp2040-motor-controller
Show HN: I leant Swift and built a car MOT / Tax Lookup with data from DVSA
I've been diving into Swift during my evenings and weekends. As a full stack developer with 20+ years of experience, mostly in PHP, JS, and HTML, this is my first venture into something new.

I've built a fun app that uses DVLA/DVSA open data to query vehicle registrations and lets you set reminders. It's been a great way for me to learn and challenge myself.

I'd love to hear any feedback!
Apache Maven wins the third BlueHats Prize
Subject: Re: Hang on, isn't Forth out of date now? (1996)
This might be good for slicing random decorative models that weren't designed with printing in mind.

Because when I care about strength and printability I do so from beginning and base the whole design around it. There is no need for a tool to pick print orientation for me because I know before the first CAD extrude how it's going to be printed.
I think it's "cute" but a hack that abuses the spirit of what HTML and CSS are for, and what they do well. It's inaccessible and lossy.
Where's the bit with connectors, though?
Figma has done an amazing job, I just don't want to depend on a constant connection for my software, and someone else's computer
Yes! Modern systems are amazing. And with so much memory available on chips like the RP2040 and ESP32, people are writing their open source libraries to take advantage of that memory. I pity the poor newbie that wants to control a WS2812 LED string with this thing and finds out that just importing the library consumes all the ram (possibly) before the code has even done anything.
There is a small but non zero chance of being shot.
My answer from gpt4o was correct and similar to your example from claude. Maybe you were just unlucky?
Bad gateway. ಥ _ ಥ
Yes. People will use the official version for support and updates, like with everything else.
We have a client who's using fabrk.ai to let non-technical folks on the team run sql queries for looker and run analysis of csv/spreadsheet files. Pretty easy for non-tech folks to use.