skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad has maintained relationships very well throughout his life. He's 70 now and still has friend from high school, college, old co-workers, former bosses, former employees... he gets together with people regularly for lunch, golf, or whatever. He takes a road trip once a year and stays at several people's homes on the way down. When I was growing up it was very normal for him to run into people he knew regardless of where we were in the country.

One thing I've seen him do, which I have a real hard time with, but it seems to be successful, is he makes the effort without judging the other person.

>I’ll invite an acquaintance to get a coffee or beer with me a few times but never have this acquaintance seemingly think of me if I’m not directly asking them to hang.

When my dad talks about it, he says that he recognizes people are busy and if someone doesn't reach out, things go on the back burner. Making plans isn't easy, and many people will accept plans or even want them, but have too much other stuff going on to spend the time to do it.

I'm pretty sure he schedules when he follows up with people so the ball doesn't get dropped and the relationship is maintained. Every few months I'll get a call from him asking to get together for dinner, it's completely one sided, but he never holds it against me. He knows I'm busy with work and stuff.

If people are accepting the invites you make and not making excuses, that must mean they still want to see you.

I always assume people are busy or don't want to commute. I had a friend reach out who I text with regularly, but haven't seen in 2 years. He asked if I wanted to go to a concert. I said sure, and we went. He lives 1.5 hours away. I would have never thought to ask him to go to a concern on a Wednesday that would require him to make arrangements for his kids, spend 3 hours in the car, and all that... but apparently it's something he's willing to do. Who knew...
Looking at their revenue charted tells a different story.

One in which they are thriving.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/382619/paypal-annual-rev...

PayPal ($29B) also does more revenue than Mastercard ($25B).
Indeed, they never had any intention of awarding a bounty.

Heads I win, tails you lose.
What's your definition of 'big train station hubs'? There are plenty of places that have small train station that connect to bigger hubs. The claim that its only useful for people close to 'big hubs' is simply false.

Yes there are places where cars are better in some aspects, but that is the case no matter how the ticket is structured. You can't magically extend the train network by reducing ticket price.

And if cars are the only viable option is questionable, as there are many people even in those places who don't own a car. They just have to live with subpar bus system or other local transport.
First news (in Spanish) about the results shown in the special TV programme: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41823437
Toronto, Canada.

Are you around? :D
Build it with emacs
Young people who think they already know everything better than their seniors :)
Fennel is a better Lisp than elisp. Neovim is extensible, and to a large degree written in, Lua, which the target language of Fennel.

Most developers do not like writing Lisp. That's just a fact, slamming the downvote button won't change it. I am not among those developers, I like writing Lisp, but most, flatly put, do not.

So by choosing Scheme you are competing with a remarkable number of little-used editors which can be extended in Scheme or Common Lisp, as well as Emacs, far and away the top dog in the extensible-in-Lisp-editor niche. Neovim has achieved the best of both worlds, because it can be extended in a rather nice Lisp, and also in Lua, which, while some find the quirks of the language annoying, is at least Algolic in structure, matching the mode of thinking and writing used by the vast majority of devs.
Could be name of a cool project.
It’s not really an issue for me because I use a Mac. Having said that, I did remap the caps lock key to control which helps a lot. I usually press it with my ring finger.
Would be interesting to hear or find at some point what was the split for early iD games for example. Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3D. Which seems to have been published by Apogee(3D realms later).
There’s already a 72-bit random part. That should be sufficient to address conflicts.

Incrementing a sequence completely kills the purpose of a UUID, and requires serialization/synchronization semantics. If you need that, just use a long integer.
Land can't be duplicated for free
That's significantly longer than I would have expected. That's longer than the retention policy on my work emails, and this is data for ads...?
yet another shady move by wordpress.org admin
The marginal cost to produce the few milligrams of the drug that goes into the pens is much much less than $2.83; it's on the order of cents. Plus, scaling up manufacturing of the drug is easier than scaling up manufacturing of the auto-injectors (which have a decent number of parts in them). The auto-injectors really are the bottleneck, and manufacturing of them so far has not been able to be ramped up quickly enough.
Here's the Shanghai one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGCp4PPaRSg
What happens if someone contracts HIV and dies over the next 2 weeks before the virus is detectable in tests. Would it propagate even in a dead body? Using an organ from this donor would cause HIV either ways and so is honestly a risk factor for US donors as well.
^^^ much like the terpenes in weed different mushrooms have different chemical compositions that alter the way your body interprets the psilocybin. Cubensis make me laugh/most folks I know get the giggles on them. Blue meanies make you see things (super visual). Or atleast this has been mine and others experience over eh, probably around 20 to 30 trips over the years.

Lsd is good but definitely not as good or as easy on the brain as mushrooms. Dmt is wild, dmt with a maoi I'm too scared to try.

I've tripped a lot. It's my preferred way to party, but these days I party rarely. Mdma,ket,coke,heroin,speed all leave me feeling gross and the risk factors for addiction are far too high for my liking.
I hv starred the repo will come back to you in few hours
The 49 Euro ticket is about local transportation, when you are talking about 3h you are talking about intercity transportation not covered by this ticket.

Intercity travel has lots of punctuality problems but many of the local train operations and S-Bahn are often much superior. At least in places where I have been, like Karlsruhe, Berlin, Hamburg the local transport has been very good.

Not everything in live is about long distance communing.

> 3h down to the 1h

That completely depends on the details of your route and ignores lots of possible aspects. As a universal statement its just outright false.
Part of me is asking whether some of the 'mitigations' to various things in microcode have necessitated reads from RAM?
Huh. Does anyone actually care whether or not it's certified? Like is there any business or use case where it would matter?
Serial is just a terrible idea for UUID. UUIDs shouldn’t require synchronization to be generated.
In the context of man off the rails, wrecking careers and reputations, etc. the nose bleed is a possible signal. It's not something to be ignored, again based on the context.

Frankly, it would explain a lot. Cause as it is, it's baffling.
So it compresses info better.
Oh nice. Then WordPress shouldn’t be able to take over without renaming, right?
It kicks you out to a website if you are lucky (I had this when traveling through Austria), but often it just says: "Sorry, I cannot book this for you.".

In any case you will have to start from scratch, which is in my opinion the worst UX.

It is good that the app allows to research all theoretically possible connections, but I want the info if I can practically book a connection right there in the process and not just at the end. The SNCF-Connect app shows that this is possible, and even possible for Deutsche Bahn trains.
Focusing on the cost-per-tonne for carbon reduction misses the broader value of railways. They're not just about reducing emission! They facilitate daily commutes, expand job opportunities, and help drive the economy. It’s a subsidy for businesses too.
How much does it cost to keep up the motor roads in Germany? Likewise, how much do the externalities of it (like pollution, and massive numbers of deaths and injuries) cost?

Without it this comparison is meaningless.
Grand Theft Hamlet: A documentary filmed in GTA 5
Just is did NSA and friends already slip through the door
>Entropy is a fancy word for potential distribution over negative potential. Negative potential is the “surface area” over which potential may distribute.

I don't understand this. Please elucidate.
Most documents do not want or benefit from interactive elements. The desire is a static representation which renders and prints the same everywhere - and PDF is that format. Everything reads it. Nearly everything writes it. It supports all of the essential functions.
Same here, I absolutely despise PayPal but end up using them often because I simply don't trust most retailers with my card information :(

(and it's often faster checkout if I don't have my CC details handy)

That being said, there's quite a bit of competition these days from BNPL vendors (klarna, afterpay etc.). I don't believe they are any more virtuous though...
Resinator's error messages look amazing! I also feel like I’ve gained a lot of cursed but useless (to me) knowledge, so thanks for that. :-)

I don't have a horse in this race, but regarding FONT resources, I would like to humbly suggest not supporting them at all. Radical, but from what you wrote, they do seem pretty weird and ripe for accidental misuse. Plus, they are obsolete and it seems like Resinator already intentionally diverges from rc.exe in a few cases anyway.
Yes we use agents in a human support agent facing application that has many sub agents used to summarize and analyze a lot of different models, prior support cases, knowledge base information, third party data sets, etc, to form an expert in a specific customer and their unique situation in detected potential fraud and other cases. The goal of the expert is to reduce the cognitive load of our support agent in analyzing some often complex situation with lots of information more rapidly and reliably. Because there is no right answer and the goal is error reduction not elimination it’s not necessary to have determinism, just do better than a human at understanding a lot of divergent information rapidly and answering various queries. Cost isn’t an issue because the decisions are high value. Speed isn’t an issue because the alternative is a human attempting to make sense of an enormous amount of information in many systems. It has dramatically improved our precision and recall over pure humans.
Sonnet 3.5 and other large context models made context management approaches irrelevant and will continue to do so.

o1 (and likely sonnet 3.5) made chain of through and other complex prompt engineering irrelevant.

Realtime API (and others that will soon follow) will made the best VTT > LLM > TTV irrelevant.

VLMs will likely make LLMs irrelevant. Who knows what Google has planned for Gemini 2.

The point is building these complex agents has been proven a waste of time over and over again until, at least until we see a plateau in models. It's much easier to swap in a single API call and modify one or two prompts than to rework a convoluted agentic approach. Especially when it's very clear that the same prompts can't be reused reliably between different models.
I suspect there’s a lot of self selection at work already. The vast majority of people don’t jump straight into psilocybin and LSD, they progress to them by taking softer drugs like alcohol and cannabis. I think a lot of people who don’t need “adjustment” figure out drugs don’t do much for them and stop before they take the intense psychedelics, or they figure it out at lower doses and stop before they take the intense dose.
I started a thread here a couple of weeks ago, "Ask HN: What's a Good Alternative to WordPress" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41731867

I feel like it's time to move off Wordpress. I don't feel comfortable about its future for my clients.

What suggestions do you all have for alternatives?
Depending on who wins the election, but one party has made publicly known that they will specifically defund or worse the agencies that will report this kind of information. What other examples of political shenanigans do you need? The same party that when they were in office removed the ability of these same agencies from making these type of releases to the point that they created "rogue" social media accounts.
Ha I think I joined here in 2007. It worked back then.
My Self-Hatred Jailbreak
I've been really interesting in simulated annealing abstractions for ways to handle various parameters over time. Thanks for sharing!
If you’ve experienced that one great teacher that inspired genuine interest in a subject where you previously had none? It’s historically hard to scale, but I think that’s the potential here and it’s a subject that a lot of people lack interest in but has wide reaching impact
> That means you need to redesign everything that currently uses people to not need people

Simplest redesign is running longer trains - they still need just 1 driver.

Britain’s trains are sometimes comically small (3 carriages) and overcrowded. French trains are 2-3x longer, Russia/China even more so.

Second is standardisation - all of Uks train companies run different stock and it’s ovsoleye
You can predict the first bit of sha256 with 100% accuracy with the following pseudocode:

`sha256sum(input) & 0x1`

What's the significance of being able to predict that bit with an ML model instead?
I would like a tax relating to privacy violations to be retroactive in all these other states. It’s actually legal to apply a retroactive tax, so why not?
I wrap my slow .emacs loads inside #'run-with-idle-timer so they run when I'm not looking, and not likely to notice.
> maybe some therapy for addiction (of all kinds) and a shift in focus toward health is a better idea than being on a drug for the rest of your life.

It doesn't work for nearly as many people as GLP-1 agonists do. There are many different treatment methods that have been tested and evaluated, and being told to diet and exercise through therapy barely works at all. GLP-1 by contrast works very well.

> At some point, we may find that these drugs cause long-term health problems of their own, too.

Almost sounds like wishful thinking on your part -- you might want to stop and consider why you're so invested in these drugs having long-term side effects.
> I'm not sure why experience requires the arrow of time or location.

Because experience _is_ the arrow of time
At a high level, urbanisation rates increased through the road building binge of the 20th century.

Perhaps those new migrants to cities would’ve chosen to stay in the countryside without roads? Worsening the economics of rail.

Or maybe they’d use their collective voting power to get more rail friendly new towns built?

I don’t think the answer is obvious.
What Matt did is basically a supply chain attack.
And even if there were data from China, there's very little that could be done about it. It's not like the US could shame the plank in their eye.
Is this similar to -대요 endings in Korean used for indirect quotation?
There's the Leo editor, if Python's what you want: https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor/
There is such a widespread standard and it known as "html". More popular than PDF ever was.

EPUB is also html, but zipped and sometimes crypted.
The sheer amount of additional benefit means this is a gallingly reductive view of it all.

The subsidy for maintaining car infrastructure is causing _more_ co2 per euro invested, how's that fit into these calculations?

This is so useless, it sounds like propaganda.
Subsidising airports and fuel, presumably.
I don’t understand the part where monotonicity of UUIDs is discussed. UUIDs should never be assumed monotonic, or in a specific format per se. If you strictly need monotonicity, just use an integer counter. Let UUIDs be black boxes, and assume that v7 is just a better black box that deals with DB indexes better.
A Georgist Land Value Tax would fix this!
But Meta is the main company behind Pytorch development. If they make it work and upstream it, this will cascade to all Pytorch users.

We don't have to imagine far, it's slowly happening. Pytorch for ROCm is getting better and better!

Then they will have to fix the split between data-center and consumer GPU for sure. From what I understand, this is on the roadmap with the convergence of both GPU lines on the UDNA architecture.
It’d also ridiculous that I can only delete my data by closing my account.
That is the duration some of us have been using web for, as a reference.
> Everything seems to be stuck in paper based processes, only occasionally and very listlessly digitized.

That's nonsense. Most public transport is digital by now.

I did a more complicated trip with multiple legs. Booked via SNCF, bc DB-Navigator would not let me book some of the border crossing legs, I tried. The only leg that
required a paper ticket was in Germany. In 2023, not last century.
they really sat on this until his special US holiday weekend

funny
Any thoughts on Helmholtz machines or wild more fringe models of computation but might be interesting to explore if you had more time?
Tho presumably the uuid would give you the creation date but not the modified date. Still very useful.
beegain ?
I would use a more mainstream dynamic language like python or lua rather than emacs lisp. It has to be dynamic and maintain the flavor of repl-driven development (the whole point of emacs is that it’s one big X repl where today X is emacs lisp). It doesn’t have to be a lisp though.
I can still defer conversion to my bank.
It is sad.

I imagine a near future result will be WPE maintaining a fork of WordPress and the plugin repo, with WP demanding plugin authors disclaim any association with WPE.
Starship the Game (SpaceX)
On the other side of this issue I started doing a couple things.

When people invited me to do things I used to hedge and say I’ll get back to them later. And if I couldn’t make it I’d just say so: as if the date and time were the issue at hand. Never even thinking of suggesting an alternate.

One day I realized it’s a big deal for some people to want to initiate a friendship and make the first step.

So now I excitedly agree to whatever they suggest and if there’s a reason I can’t make it I let them know a day later and suggest a new time.

That way they associate it with something positive and it keeps the momentum going.
Bears also have eyes, so I imagine this wouldn’t inherently solve the problem.
Gapped or non gapped, the use of USB to deliver back doors is pretty common technique
> ...which is impressive considering how old the book is now.

The human mind hasn't changed all that much in the last ... countless millennia. If anything it'd be a quite concerning data point if we hadn't nailed down the introductory level points about how to be thoughtful.
I want to be clear that I’m not complaining about the downvote, honestly I was expecting more of them. It’s rather that between when I started this comment and when I finished it, the thread vanished from the front page and became essentially impossible to find. So that’s my question here: how did somebody even find this thread to downvote my comment?

Can I pull more downvotes by discussing the details of the June 4th incident? Here’s a helpful Wikipedia page on the subject: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protes...

You see, what happened was, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army massacred a large number of civilian protesters whose anti corruption, pro democracy views were seen as a threat to the regime.

I’m posting this in the name of science. Nobody with reasonable reading habits is going to see this. Are there people out there with unreasonable reading habits?
that piece of code is for llm response evaluation, but we are not really using it at the moment.
Thanks, but I wanted to hear specifically from the person I replied to.
> This is a diabetes drug, remember.

No, Wegovy and Zepbound are not diabetes drugs. They are weight loss drugs.

> ... but problems with controlling themselves around food.

Problems that Wegovy and Zepbound solve for most people taking them, when no other solution worked for those people.

> There are hugely beneficial approaches that rely on CBT,

CBT is much more expensive, time-intensive, and less effective for weight loss than GLP-1 drugs. It also scales incredibly poorly, as you need a huge number of therapists. There are roughly a hundred million obese Americans. We can make enough drugs to treat all them, but can we make and pay for several million therapists to perform CBT on all of them, all for less efficacy than the GLP-1 agonists? Fat chance.
Not to mention the money spent on funding food stamps for Amazon’s underpaid employees.
I mean, to some extent maybe.

A surprising number of video games have at least one 'master switch' statement for at least one important aspect of the game logic that has to evaluate on a single thread to maintain some level of 'coherency' while operating at any given frame rate.

The challenge with using threads without careful control of or understanding of the underlying system hardware is that you can wind up with various quirks (Every computer I had from 2000-2010 had this weird 'judder' with HL/TFC/HL2 and explosions, didn't matter the sound card type, CPU brand, or Video card brand,) at best or a rats nest of logic bugs at worst (i.e. the pains of coding multithreading.)
Oh, the GOG client is one of the worst. If you firewall certain parts of it, it just constantly cries to a central log server that something is wrong, every 5 seconds or so. Terrible stitched together abomination.
I am the last person in this world to malign Drupal, I have been contributing for twenty long, long years to it.

But no, Drupal is not an alternative to Wordpress. Perhaps ten years ago but even then barely. Now? That's like saying a Kenworth semi is an alternative to a motorcycle. Sure, you can get from A to B on either but beyond that, they are really different tools for different jobs.

Maybe the new "Drupal CMS" (nee Starshot) initiative will bring them into direct competition again. We will see.
How would that be phrased in Spanish? Are you talking about the future tense in constructions like "Será que...?" or "Estará volviendo" to say "he must be returning"?
That's how it works.

That's how it works in Germany. Everywhere else I just swipe my mobile and I am done.
You could also start at the bytecode level so that the specific language itself is less relevant.
Well, basically nothing happened in the last 10 years with Steam.
30 Days of JavaScript
They Clapped: Can Price-Gouging Laws Prohibit Scarcity?
Hi Christof! Really interesting project! I have used your VSTPlugin before (and probably other stuff..).

Have you tried AOO on embedded platforms e.g. Bela, RPi?

Would you consider supporting bindings to other langs, e.g. Python? At iil.is we have an OSC package called iipyper and I'm curious what we could do with AOO in the Python ecosystem https://github.com/Intelligent-Instruments-Lab/iipyper
Honestly we should just stop funding the ivy league schools entirely. Their endowments are large enough to keep them running on the interest indefinitely.
PDF reigns as kings because of the ability to represent graphics as well as text formats easily and ensure that compatibility doesn't break on any device that can render it.
It is not the same with HTML, and other media file formats, such as Office docs didn't work on MacOS for a long time and on Linux until recently,this dilemma of having a software but not being able to share the file format, across ecosystems and devices limits the ability of adoption of many other standard documents.