skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t even play DnD and I know it’s 1d6 bludgeoning per 10ft fall damage with some very high cap that is unlikely to matter for player characters.

I heard it once on a podcast. Rules esoterica sticks to me like glue. I’ll remember 1000 of those rules before I remember the name of some person in a fantasy world and what exactly they were doing.
I just find your approach to "discussion" uninteresting, because it's all about you.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/learner-english/...

> to be covered with a thick, dry layer of something
Well maybe "taking over the market" is also a monopolistic and anti-competitive practice and if we had say, working regulation that forbade the existence of these behemoth companies then the landscape of value would look a little different.
I sure as hell hope so.

If you are a framework junkie that cannot write original logic or standup some small original application you are already largely irrelevant but your employer just hasn’t determined how to replace you. Everybody else pays the price for that inefficiency.

Software is littered with developers that cannot program. If there is some magic solution that makes these people suddenly irrelevant the world is in a better place. Consider the manual transcription jobs that instantly evaporated because of photocopying.
The US seems to be trying for "Ukraine pushes the russians out, but not so hard that Russia collapses (because a collapse of a nuclear-armed state is a bit of an existential risk)", which may or may not be possible.
It's not really a syntax bloat, the linked docs mention how to define strict string types and elaborate on type-level programming, something that is a very rare and powerful type-level capability.
As far as I understand Virtual Threads aren't type oriented feature, which is basically the context for this thread.
60 p/e ratio, means that you need 60 years of profits to get back the price you paid for the company. It's very very high, by historical standards.

As the CEO from Sun Microsystems said after the bubble burst:

"At 10 times revenues, to give you a 10-year payback, I have to pay you 100% of revenues for 10 straight years in dividends.

That assumes I can get that by my shareholders. That assumes I have zero cost of goods sold, which is very hard for a computer company. That assumes zero expenses, which is really hard with 39,000 employees. That assumes I pay no taxes, which is very hard. And that assumes you pay no taxes on your dividends, which is kind of illegal. And that assumes with zero R&D for the next 10 years, I can maintain the current revenue run rate.

Now, having done that, would any of you like to buy my stock at $64?

Do you realize how ridiculous those basic assumptions are? You don’t need any transparency. You don’t need any footnotes. What were you thinking?"

The number is more like 30 for Nvidia today...
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Wow, after playing with it for a few minutes, I find it to actually be better than the horrible desktop version in Sonoma, where click-and-drag to move the map around inexplicably _drags place labels_ if you accidentally start the drag on one, and where clicking on a category search like "supermarkets - search nearby" always recenters around your current location instead of honoring your current map view.
It is Israel's problem either way.

Either Israel is involved themselves, which is quite plausible given their history of this shit.

Or Israel is not involved, and they massively fucked up by letting their malware be used against their supposed allies.

In both cases, we are left with the question: Why are we letting this country develop malware with our approval and funding?
Floyd Ryvest also does the job . A bit more efficient IIRC.

However I never managed to understand how it works.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd%E2%80%93Rivest_algorit...
One thing I'm missing when modeling FSM like this is different states having different set of constraints, even if only being concerned with nullity. It's a shame having to make the field optional just because you do not have the appropriate value in the initial state of the entity.
I use hilbert curves and I can assure you they are very useful for performance..

Hilbert encoding does take longer than Z order, but I have a SIMD optimized routine for it so it isn't that bad.

Your comment about compilers doesn't make sense, compilers can't rearrange memory order so that are incapable of making a hilbert or zorder like transform.

I profiled hilbert vs zorder and found hilbert was sufficiently superior to justify the extra overhead, hilbert was about ~22% less work vs zorder.
Thanks, anal_reactor, very cool.
I think the Hugos are a thing of the past. I follow the Prometheus awards instead (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_Award). Hugos have become a joke.
Monday was hottest recorded day on Earth
Datacenters guzzled more than a fifth of Ireland's electricity in 2023
> I like that it tells me what lane to be in, so it's my main mapping app.

Google maps does that too.
That's a profit share plan. Something implemented like as xx% (usually 20%) of net profit is dispersed to staff each quarter. You don't buy into shares or anything. You don't get them when you leave.
iPhones will soon be able to stream live video on 911 calls
Most precise RCT so far shows face masks protect against respiratory infection
so in the extreme case, the employees can decide to return 99% profits to themselves and return 1% to shareholders? It sounds cute but will be hard to make it work when incentives are not aligned well. Just like Communism sounds good in theory and everyone with a kind heart will like more equality but in practice, it destroys the entire cake.
Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm (2023)
- https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm?tab=readme-ov-file
Yeah, it's a feature enabled by default outside of the EU (in the EU it asks you if you want to enable it). Makes for some fun stats/recaps, and is useful for tracing back steps (wait, where was that awesome store/restaurant/park/whatever we went to while on a trip to XYZ?) at the expense of Google knowing a lot about you.
Birth rates are driven by the hope for a better future, not current conditions.
To take over the market companies need to attract customers - i.e. make their lives better. Usually there are more consumers than employees - so I think that measure works quite well with optimising for humans. Profit is a side effect of taking over the market.

But actually to have any employees companies need to optimize for workers lives anyway. And it seems that cooperatives are not any better in this area - otherwise everybody would work for cooperatives.
This seems very interesting approach to scripting. Does it basically provides with an alias to child_process.exec as $ and besides that I can write in the same way I'd do in Node?

> Node.js standard library requires additional hassle before using

I read the hassle as having to setup Node runtime in advance, but zx requires npm to install so I'm not sure.
While I was writing a tool for myself to summarise daily the top N posts from HN, Google Trends, and RSS feed subscriptions I had the same problem.

The quick solution was to use beautiful soup and readability-lxml to try and get the main article contents and then send it to an LLM.

The results are ok when the markup is semantic. Often it is not. Then you have tables, images, weirdly positioned footnotes, etc.

I believe the best way to extract information the way it was intended to be presented is to screenshot the page and send it to a multimodal LLM for “interpretation”. Anyone experimented with that approach?

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The aspiration goal for the tool is to be the Presidential Daily Brief but for everyone.
One commonly sees the implication that radix sort cannot be used for data types other than integers, or for composite data types, or for large data types. For example, TFA says you could use radix sort if your input is 32-bit integers. But you can use it on anything. You can use radix sort to sort strings in O(n) time.
Every time this comes up on HN I make a point of commenting, just so that at least one more person is aware.

My daughter was caught up in one of the Roblox-oriented paedo rings when she was 12. Fortunately the outcome wasn't that bad (relatively), because we picked up the change in behaviour.

Roblox knows that it has a problem, and is unable or disinterested in addressing it. While there are some parental controls (disabling chat etc) it is such a toxic place masquerading as a game. The currency system, rarity of items, and how particular games are made popular drive the kind of behaviour that make children easy pickings.

I will get comments on this from people that monitor their kids' access, or watch them play every moment of the game, or set rules and controls. If you are 100% comfortable with that then that is fine.

For everyone else.... Where there is a smidgen of doubt, or you have seen stuff that looks a bit odd, or if you are fed up with being nagged for robux, or can't watch your child every moment in the game. Just stop your children from playing Roblox. It is simply not worth the risk.

My previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32015542
As mentioned it works for valid short hashes, if there are multiple commits with those first 5 characters then you need to make it more specific by bruteforcing, appending a 2, 4, 7, or 8 will lead to a valid commit.
Well I'd say you are definitely a stereotypical AmEx card holder.

My salary is decent enough compared to the general population (>$200k yr), so does my SO. But when we travel it never occur to us to check FHR -- those places are too expensive, and we didn't see value in those "perks".

Chances are that your income is much higher than mine, or at least you are much more willing to spend even at the same income level.
> … is compatible with Safari and Chrome on Mac and iPad, as well as Chrome and Edge on Windows PCs.

So Apple forces you into walled gardens and leaves you to be spied upon. So much for their pro-privacy stance. Firefox isn't just not supported, it is being actively blocked: “Your current browser isn't supported”!

More evidence that the relationship between a user and a megacorp can only be adversarial (not that this is news).
JetBrains Space, Atlassian Bitbucket, GitLab (also On-Premises), Gitea

Order does not indicate any preference.
This is not just EU, in our here Middle Eastern country there's the same law. (And also mandatory "high sugar" warning stickers on unhealthy stuff.)

Customer-friendly regulation sure feels nice.
There are whole countries where that is a high barrier, where that could be a many hours or days of work. It might not be a high barrier to you, but there are many millions to whom it is.
The Soviet Union never even attempted communism.
Android had its worst second quarter in years as more users switch to iPhone
It's incredibly robust compared to Windows

https://recorder.easeus.com/screen-recording-resource/macos-...

https://lifehacker.com/tech/mac-os-sonoma-update-fixes-scree... ... okay I don't even know what's this :D
Some would argue that the freest markets are regulated to prevent collusion, to ensure free and equal access to all relevant infomation, to penalise deliberate falsehoods, etc.

Certainly the OG Free Markets that inspired the first order Invisible Hand model were.

'free market' is such a nebulous term, bandied about en masse in forums where rarely is it questioned what specific type of free market a specific person might mean.
I would love to see their initial “vision doc”, which amazon usually writes for new products.

How were they envisioning to make lots of money with it in the first place?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/24/...

"All of the 10 hottest days in the last 50 years, occurred in the last 15 years"

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Also: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/25/...

UK sea surface temperatures 0.9C higher than the 1961 to 1990 average
This is actually important for all professional communication (maybe with an exception of marketing), if you want the best chance of getting what you want from the person you're communicating with, get to the point within the very first sentence, even if it's just a high-level summary, you then have the person's complete attention and can elaborate further.

If you don't get to the point quickly, people might think it doesn't really apply/matter to them and ignore it.

This became very obvious to me when my day job for a few years was responding to customer service requests over email for World of Warcraft. I would often find myself skimming all the useless (quite literally) pretext as quickly as possible scanning for what their actual problem was.

Stereotypical example of a poor email from a customer:

> Last night I finished the raid with my guild where we downed the Lich King. Then this morning I went to school where my friends and I also talked about WoW, then when I got home, everything seemed normal, I turned on my computer, logged on and entered my password, but it didn't work, then I went to the website and used the password reset, then I tried to log on and it said my account was locked, then I checked my email, and it said my account is locked and I need to contact Blizzard...

At which point I stop reading and I'm thinking "finally, I see why he's emailing us".

To be fair, these emails are often from adolescents who understandingly do not yet have the experience to do effective communication (which is actually an additional interesting aspect of customer service for a computer game compared to services which are only taken up by adults, but I digress).

I now work as a software developer for a startup and often have to interact directly with clients, and when I communicate with them, I always make sure to have my desired "call to action" (even if only summarised) within the first sentence.
Probably had to stay in the oven a bit longer...

Jokes apart, Zig is moving forward a lot which is why it's not 1.0 yet, but it doesn't mean you can't write safe and performant applications right now.

Zig is also a rather simple and straightforward language (like C) and has powerful compile-time code generation (like C macros, but without the awful preprocessor).
You can express all that in a shorter form: "Hope for a better future".
Collecting dots/vectors on a map doesn't necessarily invade my privacy. The problem comes with linking that dot with a person. As long as that link is lost and unrecoverable, I have no problem with Apple (or anyone) collecting it. The second problem is actually ensuring that.
> Britain must be ready for war in just three years, new Army chief warns

"We f**ed up our economy, now we need to steal from others"
Exactly. In our household Alexa is used for playing Spotify, switching some lights on and off, and as an intercom. There is absolutely no chance that I am paying a subscription for a device that is pretty bad as an intercom, and only okay as a light controller/speaker.

In fact, this quote from the article is a little concerning:

> The new technology would more seamlessly allow users to control functions like smart home devices using their voices rather than opening an app.

Problem is, the existing technology can already do this, most of the time. It sounds very much like Amazon is going to try and charge me a monthly fee for something I already have. That's not going to work out.
A piece of advice: Avoid using general and indirect terms like "Them" when referring to the state of Israel and/or it's government.

Antisemites deliberately use such language to conflate the Israeli government with the global Jewish population, in order to blame & slander the latter for the actions of the former.

If you use similar language, you'll sound like an antisemite.
Apple: Launches beta product

Hacker News users: oh ma gad they can't guarantee it works on my Netscape fork
> crazy recursive dependent types

Some edge-cases involving those have bugfixes and ergonomy improvents I've run into on 5.x.
I see none of those as 'chill', so ye. Maybe actual boring liberals in a American context. When I was younger I despised social democrats, but I realized I would not want eager young people like I was decide things.
My last 2 commit messages before I got banned were "Updated css and formatted the code with prettier" and "add mobile compat x2", 2 hours later I was banned
> (b) HN commenters who consistently dismiss any and all criticism of "AI"

I do not really get the same vibe from 'HN commenters'. The way I repeatedly see it presented is, it is a language model (very good at that) and nothing more than that. If with AI we are talking about ChatGPT and alike.
Other AI is often cracked as 'just' very advanced machine learning, reinforced learning etc. In general, HN commenters' seem to be very sceptical or realistic about 'AI' at least in my perception. Of course there may be exceptions (in both commenters and threads).
Yes exactly. This is why, European countries, with the strongest worker protection, such as Norway, Sweden, Germany etc. are so much poorer and far behind than US in terms of QOL and quality of goods they produce.
Exactly.

The overhead is no more than swapping out the cards in the wallet every 3 months and try to remember what the categories are. That's not even necessarily if you regularly use digital payments (and of course if the merchants support that).

(And I believe most people never hit that $1500 cap in specific category. If you do, like, spending $500 on restaurant/Amazon/Costco a month is like nothing to you, ignore everything I say)

I'd say the overhead is much much lower than things like "digital coupons" offered by grocery stores -- those are truly aimed at low income shoppers who are willing to spend time doing that.
I find the attitude worrying. I understand that it's maybe not easy to fix, or even fixable without breaking some use cases.

However, if they "don't care" about such an issue, how can I trust them to care about other stuff?
That’s a weird statement to be absolutist about. The majority of individuals and companies who want to be successful do not do so by scrapping websites, thus have no reason to disobey robots.txt. Most people in the world, ambitious or not, wouldn’t even understand what your sentence refers to.
typescript is still evolving in dramatic ways. The 5.0 release has some really good improvements
Also, what is succint?
Oh no. https://www.google.com/search?q=comic+sans
Avoid exposing children to loud or extended white noise
Mutual Constraint as Internal Energy
https://youtu.be/SUvfKX7yXLo?si=0C1XTGOa2NTUEaHy
I saw the film "Soundscape" at the Banff mountain film festival and thought it was great. Looks like it's won awards and been shown at a lot of festivals. Definitely recommend it!

The description:

> Soundscape shares the sightless experience of climbing a mountain via echo location, touch and imagination. It features Erik Weihenmayer, a fully blind adventure athlete and author, as he ascends a massive rock face deep in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. Using expert camera work and emotive, novel animation to bring to life a concept by adaptive climbing pioneer Timmy O’Neill, the film is a surprising and soulful adventure.
I think the perception of the middle class shrinking is that it is

1) true there are more people in lower middle class than before and less in the middle

2) even for those who moved “up” to upper middle class, the buying power has been stripped by rapidly rising housing prices, medical, and education costs. So even with a high income, disposable income has likely decreased. Those items have far exceeded inflation for years

3) much of the ability of families to move to UMC has been on the backs of two working parents. Which itself entails expensive childcare (often more than the mortgage), and a huge decrease in family leisure time and sleep. But with those rising expenses in 2), a single earner is not feasible.

In general, be wary of Newsweek articles, this is not the magazine we grew up with: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-newsweek-has-gone-down-the...
wow, have you seen any organization with more than 50+ people that can make it work this way? if everyone has equal voting rights, this company or organization would be destroyed in no time. In democracy, you vote a leader but then the leader(s) or the elite elected few would make decisions themselves. You can vote them out but you certainly don't get to vote on every decision or ideas.
Show HN: AI Video with Your Face
Jordan Eldredge, the author, has done some amazing WinAmp-related projects over the years, including WebAmp (a web-based, from-scratch reimplementation of much of WinAmp) and a WASM engine for WinAmp-style music visualisation.

His project page: https://jordaneldredge.com/projects/
Minor correction: Deep learning using gradient descent is incredibly robust to noise. If you know the mathematics, this also makes sense intuitively: gradients of incorrect labels will generally point in random directions, whereas the "truth" points in a specific direction (and I explicitly mean truth in the sense of what is portrayed consistently as fact in the dataset, not the real world truth). So when you accumulate gradients, you will end up with a net effect that moves weights only towards the consistent answers.

Since gradient descent is by far the most popular algorithm, it's easy to conflate these two things. But there are other approaches that don't treat noise so well.
It was better and you're old
the spyware and other cyberattacks get published very selectively

everybody is constantly a target of attacks but what makes it to the news is the journalist choice
Show HN: Explore unfiltered NSFW character AI chats with Soga
Watch out for sharks: the history of internet outages
It should also be noted that radix sort is ridiculously fast because it just scans linearly through the list each time.

It's actually hard to come up with something that cannot be sorted lexicographically. The best example I was able to find was big fractions. Though even then you could write them as continued fractions and sort those lexicographically (would be a bit trickier than strings).
As such we must be very aware of your first sentence. It is really important that people understand that those who manage us are people like us with their own set of interests.

Some people think it is something like an overload that takes the perfect, most fair decision and, on top of that, without room for mistakes.

Looking at the results I would say it does not respond to that premise at all.
I think this is just your anti-capitalist bias showing. “Market” is meant in purely game-theoretic terms.

> The vast majority of people in companies are workers. Let's stop optimizing for owner wealth and start optimizing for worker happiness instead.

All these workers could set up cooperatives and work for / own them instead. The fact that this hasn’t happened suggests that in reality, the for-profit companies are better at optimising workers happiness than cooperatives (maybe they pay better? Maybe they enable more job hopping?)
Well, it looks like some programmer forgot to properly escape the query or something.