skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Starting things and not finishing them is just... The default.

Exactly what I was going to write. I don't need a manifesto telling me to do this, this is what I do naturally unless I force myself to stick with something.

If anything, the "finish rarely [NOT never!]" bit is what needs emphasizing, yet the entire page is about the "start often" bit instead.
S3 is acting as a backup, not a data store. The SQLite file is local to the app. This recent post discusses the tradeoffs in more detail and includes metrics.
https://fractaledmind.github.io/2024/10/16/sqlite-supercharg...
I suppose Eric Hoffer inverted this quote.
+1, people that are giving up on tools like Cursor are just less productive, that's not theoretical, that's a fact.
Wait, are millennials suddenly the wealthiest generation?
> Nothing of this is new. In the 1940s, Russians acted the same way...

This whole paragraph isn't a serious argument. Putin was born in the 1950s and while it might be in living memory none of the leadership class involved in this were alive in the 1940s, the economic concerns of the pre-WWII world were different to the modern era, and Russia had a dramatic shift of government philosophy in the 90s.

You may as well make policy on the basis that the British have global imperial ambitions, that the Germans are genocidal, that the Japanese are threatening to invade the Philippines or that the US has a small government. You can't lumber people with the assumption that their government is going to behave the same as in the 1940s.

> Russians are huffing and puffing about NATO because it makes riskier and costlier for them to invade other countries and kill people there. That's the simple truth. Everything else is bullshit and the theories you are spinning do not hold up to any scrutiny.

Can you articulate my theories? Because you seem to be in furious agreement on this point, you just haven't managed to take the next logical step and append some serious reflection and a "Did the policies we adopted make the situation better or worse? And who for?" on the end. Because we seem to have adopted a position that has left almost literally everyone involved and most of the bystanders in a worse position than if NATO hadn't been posturing against the Russians for the last 30 years. Driven, I suspect, by the same inane tiger-with-unchanging-stripes logic that you are suggesting.

And even if that logic is right, looking to the 1940s should come with a "and policy today has to be completely different to avoid the large and catastrophic war that then followed". Not this gentle escalatory madness that is taking place and the breakdown of communication and empathy that many people seem to want. The big lesson of WWII is Europe can't afford to solve their problems with big military actions. The NATO strategy of avoiding diplomacy suggests we are going to relearn that lesson which is moderately terrifying.
I built something very similar called Failboard FS (filesystem). As a scientific experiment I took an old video card and wired it to the wall power socket. The chips on it blew with a stinky smoke and a whistling explosion sound and everything and my circuit breaker threw a switch. After getting power back on line, I broke open an old hard drive and superglued that drive platter the to the burn out old video card. TADA! Failboard FS. Great stuff. Advanced. Innovative. Useful. Thank you for taking the time to read this, I hope to present Failboard FS at various conferences and events since it is marginally more practical and sophisticated than the projects most people cook up.
At least one paragraph in this article is incorrect:

"Last week, the Tesla CEO and the card game company "Cards Against Humanity" offered $47 to people to refer registered voters in swing states to sign a petition supporting free speech and gun rights."

Musk is not working with the card game company "Cards Against Humanity" as the paragraph implies. In fact, the game company has it's own campaign which is working against Trump using Elon's tactics.
(https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/politics/2024/10/10/car...)

Ugh, the state of journalism these days...
To Offer Gigabit Speeds, SpaceX's Starlink Makes New Push for 30,000 Satellites
Digg was basically Reddit except with a single subreddit.

Reddit demolished Digg because it offered people fiefs rather than just karma.
Chrome, Safari, or Firefox, depending on the device.

Plus the Dark Reader extension: https://darkreader.org/
There seem to be a bunch of folks for whom shaking the legs is an important part of the process. Can be a bit distracting to others in a team workspace. It makes me wonder whether they should have bicycle desks.
This is a cool project, but I'm not OK with normalizing an AI agent that calls every McDonald's in the country periodically to scrape information. If you're scraping a website, that's fine; if you're taking time from real human operators, that's not fine.

This information would be much better obtained via regular crowdsourcing.
Aves Libre – Android Photo Gallery App
Previously:

(14 points, 10 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41878685

(12 points, 8 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41879831

(11 points, 7 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41880181
What Are Random Forests in ML
https://archive.ph/XECpF
Right on. Pretty quickly that's the better solution
Oh sorry, I went from memory and mixed up the numbers in "16.3 -> 17.0".
i also had a lot of that (except for the bad decisions and lack of planning) and i also became adaptable. what i didn't learn was attachment. and it took me decades of my adult life to understand that, realize how it affects me, where it came from, and i still don't know what to do about it. my brother on the other hand suffered from depression. despite being very similar in age and thus similar experience the outcome was very different.
I encourage you to read through this section: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen... and go through the pull requests that it references.

The Nx elements figure is a speedup you would expect if you introduce a shortcut to any algorithm that can bypass doing full iteration, and >100x speed-up is what you would expect from going from interface dispatch per element (even if devirtualized behind a guard) to a bespoke vectorized implementation.

Even if you happen to have irrational dislike of .NET, this is still useful learning material and perfectly applies to other languages that expose similar functionality (provided they have sufficiently good type system and generics).
Water is already a subscription model.

Food sometimes is, and honestly a more centralised food subscription system could drive down the cost of food by making demand more predictable and enabling better economy of scale.
Germany's most spectacular espionage cases – DW – 04/18/2024
Definitely they will.

OpenAI’s potential issue is that if Google offers tokens at a 10% gross margin, OpenAI won’t be able to offer api tokens at a positive gross margin at all. Their only chance really is building a big subscription business. No way they can compete with a hyperscaler on api cost long run
Not sure if that's earnest or satirical - remove all the regulation, and things will improve for some, but I am not optimistic they'll be ordinary people. It seems much more likely to me that wild-west financial transactions will benefit banks and not ordinary folks? I am quite fond of regulations limiting arbitrary fees, for example...
As long as we stay remote my leg shaking won't be a problem. If we have an RTO we aren't going to have words, just legs.
Far too late for the edit window, but the keynote[1] is an absolute must-watch for anyone who does anything related to web development

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cEn_83zRFw
So this orb scans your eyes and face and stores your ID on your phone. Why wouldn’t we just use Face ID and passkeys to authenticate a human? I don’t get the value of this product.
Claude's API usage absolutely registers (60% the size of OpenAI's), their chat interface just isn't as popular. [1]

[1]: https://www.tanayj.com/p/openai-and-anthropic-revenue-breakd...
It quickly gets convoluted since Camry has been produced for more than 30 years with regular model refreshes throughout the years, e.g. 1997, 2003, 2025 etc. JSON Pointer quickly falls short since we now require a selection expression to figure out which year model we need to update in the array of models: «makes.toyota.models[?year == `2025`]» (using JMESPath).

Both, JSONPath or JMESPath, support query expressions whereas JSON Pointer does not.
I read Vizio TVs run Linux/systemd, after this lawsuit concludes, you should be able to get the source code and reinstall Linux at least.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
Memory Safety with MallocPlusAI
I think this is an interesting point. I don't think the article makes it well. So I'm going to throw away the article and just make what I think is a better argument. But if you want the tl;dr version (and this is the Internet, so people want that), I would say:

Math.

Frankly I don't think math is really a 'story.' You can try to fit it into that frame, but I don't think it's a natural fit. So often the data we need doesn't easily compress into story form: in fact, the best way to describe it is to use mathematical terms. Which leads me to my other example:

Physics.

Now here's an area where we've become really explicit about saying "Do NOT tell a story about this" in many situations. There's the math and what it describes, which goes first, and then some limited descriptions around that, which comes second and tends to get more wrong the more of a "story" it becomes. In fact we often say something like "this is what the math says and all interpretations beyond that are speculative." Which is about as anti-story as you can get.

Which is interesting and worth reflecting on. Because what could be more fundamental than that? And yet, if the most fundamental things cannot be fit into story form, that really calls the whole story framing into question.

A writer who's taken that concept and developed it is Timothy Morton, with his idea of hyperobjects. But you don't have to agree with that; the above examples make the point - they're as 'basic' to reality as you can get, and yet resistant to the story format.
Another one for LG TVs https://openlgtv.github.io/
Is it not pushed yet? I went to try it and it's not in the list for me.
Jujutsu is terrible in my opinion. people hate the index, but I think they just dont get it. to me a commit is something that is ready to push, and the index is for stuff that is done but not ready to push. just because I wrote one line that I am happy with, doesn't mean I am ready to commit and push that. I prefer to add stuff thats done, then when enough is done I can commit and push. if you remove the index it makes it too easy to push half done stuff
Link to the excellent book "Mathematics and Computation" by Avi Wigderson mentioned in the article (PDF): https://www.math.ias.edu/files/Book-online-Aug0619.pdf

Source: https://www.math.ias.edu/avi/book
It was people teaching that the danger was from a directed source that did

i'd rather think it was the demand for an explanation for those events. and just like any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, so is any unexplainable event indistinguishable from an act of god.
There has been a discussion on HN regarding TOS if you think that's important: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713133
I also want to be able to insert into the array after an item as opposed to at a specific index.

Biggest issue with JSON patch is its inability to handle even the simplest concurrent writes.
Nice and tentative congratulations.

I use to run Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), but now all I have is laptops. It runs to hot on the Laptops I have :(

Will need to play with throttling some more.

Edit: found mprime (mprime-bin-24.14) is available in NetBSD pkgsrc. But this uses 32 bit linux emulation to execute, I have been trying to avoid it, but may try it.
How likely is it that the text you're testing with was in the training set?
When the UK enclosed their fields so that they were privately controlled crop yield immediately went up 20%. Theres overwhelming empiric evidence of tragedy of the commons being real.
And then you run git blame to see who to smite and turns out you wrote the code two years ago ;)
This is a sign they're storing it unhashed on a mainframe system. Airlines also do it.
The llama.cpp --grammar flag just raised $12m from European investors.
Publication 15-B (2024), Employer's Tax Guide to Fringe Benefits - https://www.irs.gov/publications/p15b#en_US_2024_publink1000...

You can exclude any occasional meal you provide to an employee if it has so little value (taking into account how frequently you provide meals to your employees) that accounting for it would be unreasonable or administratively impracticable. The exclusion applies, for example, to the following items.

Coffee, doughnuts, or soft drinks.
Occasional meals or meal money provided to enable an employee to work overtime. However, the exclusion doesn't apply to meal money figured on the basis of hours worked (for example, $2.00 per hour for each hour over 8 hours), or meals or meal money provided on a regular or routine basis.
Occasional parties or picnics for employees and their guests.

Meta can exclude the occasional meal enabling a company to work overtime from tax reporting as benefits.

However, once the employee is not using it in a way that qualifies as specified under De Minimis Meals, then it gets into an actual taxable bonus.

The employees that were doing this over a long period of time were causing Meta to inadvertently commit tax fraud. The accounting department probably didn't like that once they found out about it.
Yes, but it's the only way that keeps the internet alive.

I like the old school internet years ago where everyone put effort in websites as a hobby, but this was another time and good websites deserve making money.
They don’t come solely from over/underflow. The do come from math. Sort of neg, 1/0, and plenty of other mathematical operations result in these, no matter how you want to store numbers.
Most of these TVs run Linux. This lawsuit by Software Freedom Conservancy is aiming for eventual creation of an OpenWRT-for-TVs project (similar to how an earlier lawsuit created OpenWRT).

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liber...

TBH though, we don't need another distro specific to certain hardware types, instead we need standard distros like Fedora and Debian to support TV hardware and use-cases.
BTW I wouldn't consider those to be "free" features. #NOBUILD allows assets to live much much longer in cache. with minification + whatevah, everytime you change something in a js file you invalidate the whole bundle, which means the client will have to fetch megabytes of javascript, potentially very frequently. So you need to see for your self whether the savings from minification outweigh the savings of caching.

Bundling is also something that we no longer need to do since the introduction of HTTP2. I would even consider it an anti-pattern these days, since it means you're sending the client much more data than they actually need.

Tree shaking is definitely very important for something like tailwind though.
OpenAI is 80% product revenue and 20% API revenue. Anthropic is 40/60 in the other direction, but Mike Krieger is now CPO and trying to change that. Amazon is launching a paid version of Alexa. Google is selling their Gemini assistant (which is honestly okay) and NotebookLM is a great product. Meta hasn't built a standalone AI product that you can pay for yet.

The combination of the latest models in products that people want to use is what will drive growth.
Title should probably match H1: Germany's most spectacular espionage cases ("If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
How is it different than crowdsourcing?
what a hilarious take..

american tech companies need the world more then the world need then.. specially social medias..

twitter was banned in Brazil for a month and life here just kept going as usual, in the end it was Elon that came back crawling with the tail between the legs..

American tech companies withdrawing from EU would be a glorious day to EU..
It may be that one LLM had text from the language in its training set along with translations, and the other didn't.
The specialist machinery that Deere makes is really well refined and good at what it does and the fact that farming in the US has consolidated a lot over the decades so the median tractor is bought by some "large enough that they don't really care" business of a farm who doesn't really care because they'll be buying aa maintenance contract and getting rid of the thing in X years anyway.
"Theoretical approaches to loneliness" Perlman and Peplau (1982)
Well long story short is i can only access sites labelled ass new ie. new.google.com or news.yahoo.com and the securety on my device wont let me sign in to those sites
Steve's (Klabnik's) Jujutsu Tutorial
Do you deal with kidney stuff or know people who do?
some cities/counties have (and publish) bike friendly commuting maps.

Sort of like maps with the road B's highlighted.

don't see why this data can't make it into maps, like A B C roads for cars.
The relevant IRS document is

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p15b#en_US_2024_publink1000...

The relevant section is on De Minimis Meals.
> Discoverability is especially hard because 99% of the music people create sucks

This - as a listener, quality is the hard problem. It is encouraging that the proposal affirms the value of curative functions (like labels).

As an artist, I actually don’t really care about music’s commercial problems - I’m more annoyed by the constraints on musical art objects inherent in all music platforms.

Like, experiencing art objects in a gallery hits different vs scrolling through bandcamp. The internet is, already, the gallery but it’s like we replaced all of the paintings with tiny prints, eclipsed by the placards.

The thing I would really love is a music platform that feels like a hosting platform, not a marketplace. Where a user can simultaneously act as a listener, an artist, a curator or a critic.
I wonder if it was the actual game genie, or just the same concept. If you're just modifying a single byte at a single address, of a fixed ROM, you could easily throw something minimal together with a handful of transistors/resistors.
This is neat, and it's great that Go provides such simple access to low-level primitives.

But for the particular case of SIMD operations, wouldn't it make more sense to use the GPU instead of the CPU? GPUs excel at parallelism and matrix operations, so the performance difference would be even greater. I suppose the lack of well maintained GPU packages and community around it don't make Go particularly well suited for this.
Discovering The Elephant Graveyard gave me hope that gen AI could really be a cool thing, as far as creativity. Specifically, these "radio hour" videos.

This series is proof that gen AI can allow a tiny team of insanely creative people to make the coolest ish on the planet.
PasteBin with sources of LogicallyAnswered (corporate history YouTuber)
It got ratioed in other words.

In other words: generated more heat than light.
Vortex86
Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac
Ford is replacing some NACS adapters sent to EV owners
First step would be to contact Samsung and ask for the Linux kernel and other open source code for your TV. Without it you won't be able to replace the original OS properly. Also mention to them that they have to allow you to update Linux on the TV or they have to stop using Linux on their TVs.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/
The color schemes of front/rear tags are censored in the video. But just as the Tesla is overtaking the film car, it's rear tag briefly reveals a blurry, California-looking color pallet.

It might not be California. Might.
Publication 15-B (2024), Employer's Tax Guide to Fringe Benefits https://www.irs.gov/publications/p15b

The section on de minimis meals covers what is allowed. Buying toothpaste and groceries doesn't fall under that exclusion. Employees doing this were inadvertently causing Meta to commit tax fraud with unreported fringe benefits.
How would you implement that though? As soon as you push a law in a single state, the company will move states, over a single country and the company will move countries, and you’re not gonna get this law passed somewhere like China
Dupe (23 points, 6 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41881204
I do appreciate this summary. However, I highly recommend experiencing the video in its entirety. The voices, the music, the dialogue, the flow.. It is truly amazing.

While it is long, just put it on in the background. I promise that this art is very likely worth your time.
When I read your question of "where is November" I immediately had a floating number line in my head and November was "somewhere on the right side" and I instinctively wanted to point to my right and say "over there!".

I don't really see things in a very clear way though. I can't specifically examine things. When I try the "image" tends to slip. I can't get details. It's more a general idea in my mind. So I'm really not good at visualizing a UI and whether it would look good to place a button in a specific place for example. But if I think of our app for example I do immediately have a "picture" of what it looks like in my head.
Yes so making the sequences all the same ie through packing them into one still introduces issues since packing them into one has an unpadded token at the end due to the autoregressive nature of the training process.
At a bank back in the Blackberry days they were handed out with Qwerty1 as the default password. Just incrementing the digit would get you into 80%+ devices in the firm.
How well does it propagate the effects of the files it has modified?
I notice that the terms "debt" and "bankruptcy" (and their variants) appear nowhere in the article.
But, to be fair, I found that the very basic architectural diagrams often are the most useful, especially when introducing someone new. Like three nodes connected with three lines shows the data flow (or who calls who).

More complex diagrams are often a waste of time and get outdated soon anyway.
The US government(s) spend about as much money per capita on health care as the average European country. Obviously US health care costs are out of control for other reasons than the existence of private insurance.

To be clear because that's easy to misunderstand: despite the fact Americans do not have universal public health care, the government already spends as much as many European countries that do, per capita. Part of this, of course, is because US public health care spending is concentrated on the old (Medicare) and disabled/poor (Medicaid). But it's still a shocking testament to US health care costs.
I hope the feds are looking at a right to repair software too, Deere is in violation of the GNU GPL due to withholding Linux kernel source code, which means you can't fix bugs in your tractors.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/mar/16/john-deere-gpl-vi...
where's the original encrypted zip for this?
"Translate this into Inuktitut using syllabograms: "How likely is it that the text you're testing with was in the training set?"

"ᖃᓄᓪᓗᐊᖅ ᑖᓐᓇ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᖅᑕᐃᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕈᑎᒋᔭᐃᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕈᑎᒋᓯᒪᔭᑦᑎᓐᓃᓐᓂᕐᒪᖔᑦ?"

The translation seems to make sense overall, it could be perfect or slightly off, only an Inuktitut speaker can verify that. Still, it's a better translation than what Google Translate offers.
This reminds me of Temple Grandin's paper:

https://www.grandin.com/references/thinking.animals.html