skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Passenger" and "Stella Maris" by Cormac McCarthy are fantastic. In general, I enjoy McCarthy's work because I believe he manages to present interesting ideas drawn from philosophy and religion, and if you read between the lines of his work, there is a fairly elaborate cosmology behind them. With these final works, he manages to combine this tendency with his decades of residence at the Santa Fe Institute and work with researchers in complexity science, mathematics, physics, etc. Moreover, he does so without the more trite ways non-scientists often draw upon science (for instance, just crudely using quantum mechanics as a stand-in for the supernatural). I think you could probably write a thesis on the way he integrated advances in complexity science and mathematics/physics with philosophy/religion/mythology with a close reading of his work. I mention this first and with particular emphasis because I believe it is chronically under-discussed and deserves a systematic study by someone who understands philosophy and modern physics and complexity science much better than I do. There is a hauntingly dark and beautiful cosmology behind this work, in a way even darker than his earlier works like "Blood Meridian."

I can also see the works of Arthur Schopenhauer being of great interest to many HN readers. His reconciliation of Western philosophy (especially Kant and British Empiricists) with Buddhism and Hinduism is unique and for me the most interesting overall system. His work is entirely worth reading for the quality of writing alone. For me, his works evoke the experience of mathematical beauty. I would recommend gaining a basic understanding of Kant, Buddhism, Hinduism, and then reading his work "Essays and Aphorisms," followed by "The World as Will and Idea."

"Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes" by Jacques Ellul is the book I have read that best explains the human experience in the modern media environment. Like "The World as Will and Representation," it also forms a sort of complete system, which can be read as an organic whole as well as with self-referential parts. I believe most of the "alienation" we experience from technology, which is often blamed on the internet, is really a much older and broader phenomenon, which Ellul attributes to the development of the radio, "technique," and broader phenomenological experience within 20th-century totalitarian societies.

"Simulacra and Simulation" is another that I have enjoyed. It is the work I have read that, in my opinion, best provides a model for living in a post-modern, post-industrial society, and my intuition is that it will also prove authentic in the age of artificial intelligence.
The asset value minus the debt (both on the date of death [0]) is what contributes to estate tax liability on the 706 form [1]. Then going forward, the asset basis is stepped up to what it was on the date of death (for both the estate entity and downstream beneficiaries), based on the idea the asset has already been taxed by the estate tax. This assumption falls apart when there isn't much value left in the asset-minus-loan that counts for estate tax, because most of the value had already been realized and spent during the decedent's lifetime.

[0] ignoring the "alternative valuation" option

[1] at least per my "decoupled" year 1999 understanding. And no, that doesn't mean my experience is from 1999.
Picasa was rather different: it had a desktop client, had tags, did not have a dedicated view mode, etc. It ran as a separate product, and then was shut down, not integrated.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa
It didn't happed specifically with bread, as other comment exposed, but it happened with other products, specially in bars, cafés, and restaurants.

On the other hand, inflation affected different products in different ways. I remember how in January 1st 2002 a small bag of Ruffles Jamón costed €0.15 in a kiosk and now it's around €0.50 (or even more) in same places (and now contains less product and more air), and I doubt any other product that are nearly 300% percent inflation since 2002 (outside homes sadly)
This is really cool. I also had similar frustrations with excel on big group trips and made an app called https://avosquado.app that is similar but also different.

I like the live save of input. I had some UI issues on mobile web but am curious to check it out more on my desktop! What did you use as a backend?
It's a valid USP and people are happy to pay them for it, but I don't think they are relevant in a discussion about the difficulty of building a search product.

For example, if you are discussing manufacturing issues in China, talking about how good drop-shippers on Amazon are is irrelevant.
I did it -- posting it here: https://github.com/Qbix/Db
Even GPUs have quite a long lifespan. I finally retired my 980ti which was used for Cyberpunk 2077 and Starfield. It's 10 years old!
I will say that you definitely shouldn't start gamedev by making your own engine. To your point, you need to learn the language of game development to actually understand how game development works and is different from other fields of software development.
Have you come cross more fine-grained data of wealth or income data? (i.e histograms with many bins across whole range).
You would think an attorney of all people would be more careful with their words, especially with terms like "non-profit".
Which band do you consider as punk?
Assuming people want to keep using/maintaining the code, you just prove the original maintainer has either abandoned it or died, and then you contact the repository admins (i.e. CPAN). Make your case that the original maintainer is gone and they'll probably make you the new maintainer.

If nobody wants to maintain the old code, or the design wasn't ideal, often times people will create a "v2" or "-ng" rewrite of it and try to keep backwards compatibility. Then the people who made sub-modules can simply publish their modules on top of the new base module. Old code continues running with the old dependencies until somebody links the old code to the new base module.
Radiance Cascades (Building Real-Time Global Illumination)
US DOJ wades into Realtek lawsuit that accuses MediaTek of patent abuse
> I cannot find a single logical reason for why we would actually need character line limits when writing code

I always have multiple files open in my editor, side by side, since reading and understanding the code base is as much a part of the job as adding to it. With unlimited line length, this would be difficult. I would feel a little bit blind if I could have only a single code view open, as in the author's screen shot. Simple as that!

We don't have a strict policy about it where I work, but in practice, almost everything fits within an 80-column view.
Oh interesting. Were you thinking of the "subjects" on Memepool as tags already?
Good. Then Apple, Then Amazon, Then Facebook. All of them are squeezing innovation in this country.
Just noting it here: your code is incorrect. In case of a KeyboardInterrupt error and another error raised by `log_tons_of_debug_info()` (there's no error free code, right?), KeyboardInterrupt would end up being masked (it would go into the __context__ attribute of another error). The program won't abort its execution. And it's just one example out of many where it's critical to not mask error types.

Correct code would be:

try:
something()
except BaseException as ex:
try:
log_tons_of_debug_info()
finally:
raise ex

But really, you don't want to mess with BaseExceptions at all, so just do `except Exception` instead of a bare `except:`.
It’s free if you get a job on a base there!
Who gets to decide? Thats the challenge.

The amazing thing is that the pursuit of personal enrichment, when regulated in moderation, tends to create a system that is in the public’s benefit. So we allow companies that are self interested because that, at scale, actually supports the public benefit more than requiring all companies to do specific things mandated as for the public benefit.
> Google is famous for not innovating on anything successfully, they produce graveyards of trash.

- AlphaFold (just won a Nobel prize)

- Transformers (the "T" in GPT)

- Waymo (autonomous vehicles)

- Sycamore (quantum computing)

These are just a few off the top of my head.

If your idea of innovation is a better RSS reader, then sure, I agree with you. But in terms of things that push the forefront of technology, I have a hard time thinking of another company with greater impact in recent years.
I agree that in this case, PBC is a downgrade in terms of strictness of mission. In general though, PBC is better than standard corporate goals of strictly maximizing shareholder value, employees/customers/the public be damned.
I don't understand this. To me, a bare exception is explicitly that. By not providing a specific exception, you're saying "nothing specific, literally anything".
https://archive.ph/59oI0
Regarding the last paragraph, I'd recommend the feature film "Mystery Men" and the graphic novel series "Astro City." The Amazon TV series "The Boys" also covered this ground but did it a little too ham-handedly for my liking.
You might want to give a shot to Stippl! It aims to simplify your travel (planning), and also has document forwarding. Doesn't yet do email parsing though.

Full disclosure: I'm one of the founders
Performance Measurements of IPC in Rust
But you could've made $8,879 every 37 minutes instead, making you more wealthy than Elon. Astounding.
Writing an engine also has made more so much more aware of the implicit decisions of other engines and the "why" behind them. Largely I've come out of the process with much more respect for what they've done so far to get to where they're at.
Library mentioned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41681344
Engineers create a chip-based tractor beam for biological particles
They were punk, just mainstream, pop punk. It was a common label for them in North America in the 90s.
Eh, cheap Indian outsourcing isn't viewed as a near-peer threat.
Oh I know for sure. It takes some creativity or trading a golden leg and left brain hemisphere for one of the squatted 2 through 4 letter easy to remember and type when inebriated domains. For my hobby domains I mostly use .net and .org. If I started a business I would plan to spend some duckets on the .com variations.
Penn Station commuter creates app to predict track numbers, avoid stampede
That's not uncommon in general, but English is a particularly bad instance of that, partly because it has so many prominent source languages with widely different spellings, and partly because of the lack of any significant spelling reforms for a very long time.

There was an interesting study (https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigtyp-1.1/) where they evaluated phonemicity of various language orthographies by training a neural net and then seeing how accurately it could predict things. Of two dozen languages they had there, the only ones that scored worse for writing are French and Chinese, but most notably, English is the only one that scored below 50% accuracy for reading, and with a significant gap at that. This is very unfortunate for an international language, since reading is kind of the most basic practical thing you can usually do with a second language.
Passkeys for Decision Makers
Yeah, I’d love to use AMD cpus for my Plex/Homelab/VM/unraid system but when you’re building one for home use, every watt matters and an Nvidia GPU, while nice, is hard to justify just for transcodes.

I feel like my Dad saying “turn off the damn lights” now that I gotta pay the ‘light bill’ on a machine that runs 24/7 with spinning disks.
There's probably a really interesting, bit potentially controversial topic to be discussed here.

As a Non-Indian, I'm quite aware/familiar with this kind of culture you speak of within Indian culture in the workplace and, to be blunt, if I were applying for a role as say a high level product manager (my current gig) and there was a native-born/raised Indian person as the hiring manager, I would at the very least be very cautious about this risk.

But in this situation, given the power dynamic is in favour of the other party, does this make me "biased"?... Or just "careful"?
Some discussion (12 points, 2 days ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41765074
Python is not my favorite programming language, but back in 2006 Python felt like a breath of fresh air for writing short programs. I felt more productive in Python than in C, C++, or Java, which were the other languages I knew at the time (I was an undergraduate CS student), and I still use Python as my first choice for short data processing scripts. In addition, Python has many libraries, built-in and external. When I worked as an AI researcher before returning to academia, Python was our team's main language since there's a rich ecosystem of numerical computing and machine learning libraries.

I agree, though, that the ecosystem has many rough edges, especially when it comes to package management, dependency management, and environments/containers. This is especially true in the AI ecosystem, especially as a researcher, where I had to deal with third-party code that is sometimes written by people who are solid scientists but have little software engineering experience.

I'm now back in academia as a teaching-oriented professor; it's been a few months now since I've had to use pip and conda, though I have written some Python scripts to aid with grading. I teach C++ and Haskell to undergrads now, and I also have side projects involving Scheme and Common Lisp :).
You can do a lot with a program that looks like:

while(1) {
if (condition1)
...
if (condition2)
...
// etc
}

Subroutine calls can be eliminated by inlining everything, using macros to make the code more manageable. Loops can be simulated using macros that expand to multiple copies of the code, one for each step.

One advantage is that the program will never get into an unbounded loop because the program counter will always advance towards the end of the main loop.
English takes influence from other languages left and right, but there's always someone salty when it goes the other way.
If the intersection of English and German interests you, this essay beautifully captures how the two intermingle: https://europeanreviewofbooks.com/beamer-dressman-bodybag/
There are few things more punk that spawning a 30+ year argument about them not being punk enough to be considered punk. They don't conform enough to the standards of the non-conformists?
Reads like it was AI generated.
I see - I suppose that’s a fair viewpoint to have!

I’m not much of a python programmer but my experience with the language would make me tend to agree actually. There are bigger fish to fry and so the effort to go after this relatively tiny sardine is perhaps not worth it.
This is typical of software development projects - the "new" replacement wants to kill off the old one so cannot have any improvements happening to the old one. If the new ones are so great though .....

I suspect that quite a lot of maintainers of code don't want to rewrite it particularly and quite a lot of people upstream of that don't want to re-integrate everything to use something new.

So little improvements that can be taken a bit at a time are fantastic.
Duracell PowerCheck: A genius idea which didn't last that long
I use Dokuwiki with the Struct plugin.
Users don't read dialogs. They just click yes so they can get to their shiny talking purple gorilla. This also doesn't address the threat model: a good extensions that users trust and give these rights to which is bought out and changed to do malicious things.
Do you have any numbers regarding companies that have left Germany because of energy costs?
Sorry to be rude, but what are you smoking?

Google's been ahead of Apple on tons of core user-facing features since the start (widgets, backgrounds, folders). The two platforms have extremely slowly converged to near-total feature parity. The only "advantage" of Apple's total ecosystem lock-in is relative seamlessness due to the vertical integration between their various services.

The thing is, it's barely any harder to set up an equivalent Google/Android ecosystem and has been for well over a decade as well. The real issue on the Google side of things is the renaming/shifting of services. Messages -> Gmail Chat -> Talk -> Duo -> Messages, Google Play Music -> Youtube Music, etc.

The feature parity's been there
What Constitutes an AWS Health Event?
Our AWS CodePipelines started failing for S3 Deployments to certain regions yesterday with an indecipherable "internal error". After waiting a few hours, nothing ever appeared on the Health Status board. I had to sign up for a support plan just to receive: "Our internal teams are aware of this issue, we are investigating an issue causing deployments to fail when deploying artifacts to cross-account S3 bucket. We can confirm during this issue deployments will fail with an 'internal error'. "

This has been going on for almost 24 hours. Why doesn't this constitute an event worth publishing to the Health Status? If this is report-worthy, what is?
Also Ancient Greek, Albanian, Sanskrit, Ancient Iranian etc. Supposedly even "timber" (in English) is somehow derived from the the same root ..
> to go to Indian restaurants during lunch break

Don’t threaten me with a good time
No doubt, but there's a whole lot of problems shaped like that in tech today.

Look at any two sided market: Amazon/Etsy's third party sellers also want to be at the top, and there are bad actors trying to scam the intermediary and the customer. The same low friction onboarding that allows the company to succeed as an intermediary is also facilitating the fraud. Merchants can be fraudsters, advertisers can be fraudsters, users can be fraudsters producing fake clicks. There's economic incentives everywhere. See the relatively recent news of spotify getting generated songs, which are then played by fake listeners.

The companies are entering this situations with their eyes wide open. It's a necessary problem when you want to be an intermediary at a large enough scale. And if you don't have the scale, the per-interaction costs are really high, and your company gets beaten by someone with an easier onboarding funnel.
I'm currently using valibot and the author's associated modular form library in a production app and can vouch that it's been very pleasant to work with.
Came here to post this myself. It’s a great article, and a fascinating revelation! Upvoted, thanks for sharing.
My life has been more improved by people acting for their own profit and being open about it than people ostensibly acting for the “public benefit”
Is there any chance this could occur in the remaining term of Biden? If not, is Harris going to continue on this path? I assume so, since they are both part of the same machine.
Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag: Joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish and Global Englisch
> tends

Tends is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

The model of "Let's have the worst people do whatever they want, for the most selfish possible reasons, and hope for the best" has also produced a horrific amount of suffering. Crazy amounts of socialized externalized losses get hand-waved away.
Ubuntu Server 24.10 Brings Experimental NVMe/TCP Installation Support
I wish that instead of wasting time on antitrust cases, that the government would just directly fund competition by incentivizing it.

I.e, the first company to reach x% browser market share will receive $x million (billion?) in prize money

or, the first company to build an LLM-based search engine with x% market share will receive $n million

Or structure as a direct investment or heavy tax breaks.

Always better to incentivize competition versus punish success.

Or even better, if government wants to break up "ACME corp" then just tell the employees that, if you leave "ACME corp" and start your own company competing with ACME corp, we will waive taxes on all income for your first five profitable years.
I think it's also easy to conflate game development as one big thing. 100 people could say that they want to make games and all mean 100 very different things. I think for some people, like you mentioned, they ostensibly want to "make games" but also just like to tinker of engine-flavored tech, and that's totally okay.
Wow, the "is Green Day punk" argument also turned thirty. Probably older, I'm sure someone had it before Dookie.
I have known a several people who made the jump from Computer Science to Biology at graduate school. Usually, it's either via genomics or neuroscience (as in Hassabis' case), where there is a large need for people who can do data crunching or computational modelling.
More than 10x the amount of energy is spent moving bytes around. Compute efficiency is not as big of an issue as people think. It’s just that the compute is in the wrong place now - it needs to be right next to memory cells, bypassing the memory bus, at least in the initial aggregations that go into dot products.
Yes exactly. It seems intuitive that the model could generate a better distribution and thus cure hallucination but that doesn't actually match what the model does.

The model doesn't sample a probability distribution of individual "facts"[1] it samples a probability distribution of tokens which are generally parts of words, bits of punctuation etc. That we get "facts" out of it which may even be wrong in the first place is an emergent behaviour because of the attention mechanism.

Totally agree that it's a deeper problem and may be intrinsic to the design of the models and the fact that they are trained on a next word prediction task. Karpathy talks about the models as "dreaming text". In that sense it's not surprising that some of it is whacky. Our dreams are too.

[1] By which I mean atomic things that can be right or wrong
Asking out of curiosity, not to insinuate that "you were holding it wrong". The docs at https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#resolver-changes-2... say:

> If you don’t want pip to actually resolve dependencies, use the --no-deps option. This is useful when you have a set of package versions that work together in reality, even though their metadata says that they conflict. For guidance on a long-term fix, read Dealing with dependency conflicts.

Did that not work?
> "Split them up at your own (US) perils, not unlike killing own Golden Goose."
I have a Bosch smart powerpack. Is a specific Bosch connerctor part of the delivery so that I can connect the Gouach Infinite Battery Holder to the plug where normally the Bosch smart powerpack is inserted?
> is a way to transmit concepts from one humans head to another (just like writing)

That's almost its primary purpose in my opinion... the CPU does not care about Ruby vs Python vs Rust, it's just executing some binary code instructions. The code is so that other people can change and extend what the system is doing over time and share that with others.
A few hundred years ago peasants would gladly die for their lords and kings. The more things change the more they stay the same.
Luckily for everyone involved, he married his own wife, not yours.
Coworkers switched from Win11 to Ubuntu, our main Spring Boot project compiled time was cut in half. I guess ntfs is a factor in this specific use case, it's a medium sized project with a few thousands files and classes.
I was just thinking this morning about email as the integration interchange, and how TripIt did the best job of this I've seen. It is really, really hard to do right but an awesome feature IMO. I wondered if this is because I'm old and like email though; my kids never use it.
Chopping up the future and selling it to rich people is a brilliant way to obtain decentralized skin-in-the-game capital allocation decisions. But then the future arrives and it belongs to rich people whose only goal is to squeeeeeezzzzzeee.

Capitalism is good at avoiding boondoggles but it's a sucker for asset pumps. We don't have to pay heavy taxes to support a gigantic network of high-speed trains to nowhere but we do have to pay monopoly rents on land, two-sided markets, Metcalfe-law networks, and so on.
But Yup also allows to infer types from schemas...