skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that this site is called "Hacker News", it's worth mentioning that '"useless" programs - pieces of code that serve no practical purpose but are fun, creative, or challenging to write' is one of the central definitions of ”hack”.

I've written some: a programming language interpreter based on Abadi and Cardelli's untyped ς-calculus; a two-kilobyte web server in assembly (which accidentally did turn out to be useful); a self-compiling compiler from a sort of Forth dialect to i386 ELF executables; a translator from standard English orthography to an ASCII alphanumeric phonetic orthography I designed; a one-kilobyte programming language interpreter with dynamic multimethod dispatch and pattern-matching; a base-3 calendar based on the Sierpinski triangle; a C interpreter in Python I used for bytebeat livecoding; several implementations of Tetris, one of which is a 2K ARM executable; an operating system for ARM consisting of five instructions; a few raytracers; a Space Invaders game; a minimal roguelike in Forth; a library for manipulating Boolean functions as Zhegalkin polynomials; many symbolic differentiators; a sort of polyrhythmic drum machine called Pygmusic; a parametric CAD system in PostScript for laser-cutting MDF; 3-D rotating objects in ASCII art in 20 lines of Python; Karplus-Strong string synthesis in one line of C; an audio PLL in one line of C; an RPN calculator with forward-mode automatic differentiation; a slide rule in Tcl/Tk; a port of the logic-programming EDSL μKanren to OCaml; several fractal renderers; a decoder for the "gridfonts" Hofstadter and his research group designed; a Hershey font decoder; several maze generators; a generator for balanced-nonary multiplication tables; a vocoder; a Doom-like first-person raycaster; a teapot mod for the Minetest game; a compiler for a subset of Scheme written in itself; etc.

A lot of this is in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/ which you can clone with Git. I'd be happy to elaborate on any of these if you are interested.
Maps Solution for iOS Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem
Our app used the Mapbox and Mapbox Navigation SDK to provide the most efficient route between multiple points (Traveling Salesman Problem or TSP). However, Mapbox no longer provides adequate documentation to update its product for recent newer versions of IOS. Google maps is very expensive and IOS native MapKit does not handle TSP. Can anyone recommend a Maps solution--preferably open source or low cost--that handles TSP? Have heard good things about MapLibre and MapTiler but would appreciate anyone's first hand experience. Thanks!
Number of Young People Accused of Serious Crimes Surges in New York City
This enshittification is surprising for Bitwarden, given how much it emphasized its open source strategy and that practically made a bunch of us recommending it to our friends and family. But maybe not too much because, as you say, its a natural process for organizations.

This is primarily the reason I am careful going deep into the Tailscale ecosystem (which, similar to earlier Bitwarden, is touting a "hey, we are the good guys" horn for now). My network is a critical piece of my infra and I don't want to put too much trust in one company.
I pronounce API as "appy", which sometimes draws quizzical looks (people think I'm using next-level cutesy slang for "application"). But I never could do the "earl" thing. Or "sequel".
Related NYT piece https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/crosswords/kurt-vonnegut-...

https://archive.ph/t3CBZ
Absence is odd because there are an infinite number of things that are absent at any given time. How do you figure out what the thing is that's absent?
This was my experience as well. It tried to drive us (me, my wife, and my FIL) into a tree on a gentle low speed uphill turn and I’ll never trust it again.
Indeed. I am finding it hard to fire up some reason for conker beyond "it's yet another British drinking game". Perhaps because the name sounds like Conquer, as in William, The.
It sounds like the kind of narcissism that perverts justice. People understand things they could see themselves doing, don't understand things that they can't see themselves doing, and disregard the law entirely. It makes non-doctors and non-engineers incapable of judging doctors and engineers, rich people incapable of judging poor people, and poor people incapable of judging rich people.

It's just a variation of letting off the defendant that looks like your kid, or brutalizing someone whose victim looks like your kid, it's no ideal of justice.
The important question is: what is considered a language?

> You can ask whether people who have these severe language impairments can perform tasks that require thinking. You can ask them to solve some math problems or to perform a social reasoning test, and all of the instructions, of course, have to be nonverbal because they can’t understand linguistic information anymore.

Surely these "non-verbal instructions" are some kind of language. Maybe all human action can be considered language.

A contrarian example to this research might be feral children, i.e people who have been raised away from humans.[0] In most cases they are mentally impaired; as in not having human-like intelligence. I don't think there is a good explanation why this happens to humans. And why it doesn't happen to other animals, which develop normally in species-typical way whether they are in the wild or in human captivity. It seems that most human behavior (even high-level intelligence) is learned / copied from other humans, and maybe this copied behavior can be considered language.

If humans are "copy machines", there's also a risk of completely losing the "what's it like to be a human" behavior if children of the future are raised by AI and algorithmic feeds.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child
Not sure how tongue-in-cheek that was, but I think your statement is the heart of the problem. Investment money chases confidence and moonshots rather than backing organizations that pitch a more pragmatic (read: asterisks and unknowns) approach.
> This is the battery “theory,” and is obviously untrue from all evidence collected. Exercise and specifically improvement of VO2max, which is the bodies ability to pump and process a volume of blood and oxygen in a period of time, are some of the strongest predictors of life and health span.

Exercise and specifically improvement of VO2max also decrease your average heart rate, so it's quite aligned with the battery theory.
Debt is not money though, debt is a future claim on some portion of that output and that claim is to the whole comingled basket of productive capacity that took out the debt so in a country's case itis a claim on all of it because a country can income tax and/or wealth tax up to 100 % of the income/wealth. So a coubtry can get richer by increasing capacity more than the claim on capacity or it can decrease the claim on capacity freeing up output for the country.
Yep. And worse, now matter how much you pay for security it is still possible for someone to make a mistake and publish a credential somewhere public.
It's awesome so much effort was put into rendering a grid. Great write up.
Unlimited photo backups? Well how many qr codes can you store in JPEG because that screams free HDD back up with a little scripting.
also the puts are 5x as expensive as the get operations
And then you have to remember which branch the each entry of the stash was on, deal with unstashing conflicts, remember to drop the latest stash after fixing those, etc.

Tools like the stash are band aids that come with their own set of “fun” failure modes.
This look great until they do not. Looking at many stocks would you own them at current valuations if you did not expect massive future growth... Or some other speculative valuation future. Same can be said for houses and commercial real estate. Why not art and collectibles as well.

In many cases one could think that prices really do not make always lot of sense. But nearly everyone wants them to go up. So lot is done to make them go up.
Are there macro statistics zooming way out so we can look at the trend line of crime rate committed by young people or just people in general?

Is it getting better or worse?
C-Motive's electrostatic motors use printed circuit boards instead of magnets
> the more compute you have, the smarter and more capable AI

Well, this is taken on faith by OpenAI/etc, but obviously the curve has to flatten at some point, and appears to already be doing so. OpenAI are now experimenting with scaling inference-time compute (GPT-O1), but have said that it takes exponential increases in compute to produce linear gains in performance, so it remains to be seen if customers find this a worthwhile value.
> Illusionism is an eliminativist position about qualia stating that phenomenal consciousness is nothing more than an introspective illusion. The attention schema theory (AST) relates this philosophical stance to a large body of experimental data and states that phenomenal consciousness arises from an internal model of attention control.

A sufficiently advanced jargon is indistinguishable from magic.
Except you shouldn’t fsck while mounted.
> Debian is a good model to follow.

While I have no idea how Debian is actually funded I'd agree. One issue might be that The Internet Archive actually need to have people on staff, not sure if Debian has that requirement. You're not going to get people to man scanner or VHS players 8 hours a day without pay, at least not at this scale.

The Internet Archive needs a better funding strategy that asking for money on their own site. People aren't visiting them frequently enough for that to work. They need a fundraising team, and a good one.

Finding managers are probably even worse. They can't get a normal CEO type person, because they aren't a company and the type of people who apply to or are attracted to running non-profit, server the community, don't be evil organisation are frequently bat-shit crazy.
> it makes the most random lane changing decisions and changes it’s mind in the middle of that maneuver.

This happened to me during my first month of trialing FSD last year and was a big contributing factor for me not subscribing. I did NOT appreciate the mess the vehicle made in this type of situation. If I saw another driver doing the same, I'd seriously question if they were intoxicated.
That's just great. It's literally the only use case I had for it. There are tons of better ways to share files on PC.
So shouldn't a two-state datum be a twit ?
I don't know what's going on with Apple Music. I can rebind Cmd-F to any of its menu items if I do it for all applications, but not if I target Music specifically.
My understanding of what the OP was discussing is an optimistic locking system where the nodes only accept commits if the last issued token matches the token included in the commit. While agreeing on the last token requested requires coordination, unlike monotonically increasing tokens you could have well-behaved clients generate token content themselves without coordination. That may or may not be useful as a property.
> Confucian-style libertarian aphorisms that is running the credibility of Wikipedia

Can you elaborate? I'm aware of Wikipedia having very particular rules and lots of very territorial editors, but I'm not sure how this runs their credibility into the ground aside from pissing off the far right when they come in with an agenda to push.
We have capacity, but not a lot. Hence why we need to ensure it's not wasted.

That said, sure, this isn't an issue with the latest crop. However I get the feeling from my more senior colleagues that this wasn't common back a couple of decades ago, at least here in Norway.

But yeah, we've been 7 devs for a good while, we've grown to 12 over the last year or so, hence why a single person makes such a difference. Once we reach 20+ I fully expect to have room for more junior devs. If not we're doing it wrong.
I have written a lua interpreter in JASS (the language used for WarCraft 3 maps). It's useless because at that point WC3 gained native lua support.
I suspect it could be, however it sounds like the author has lost all motivation to continue work on syncthing android and has formally announced that no further development will be done. And as much as I like syncthing-android I appreciate this sort of straight forward communications more and salute the author for clearly stating intentions.

Now seeing as it is open source (hooray) The way I think that will go is as follows, we will continue using the existing apk(I get mine off f-droid) for a few months to years, in the meantime seeing as the app is so useful to so many a few forks will arise, one will end up being the best, and we will eventually start using that one.
I too have great memories of cypher. Such an elegant way to write queries.
The words came from a message written by the people you are calling script kiddies, rather than being editorializing by bleepingcomputer, as you seem to believe.
I would think that a user competent to use and want sync thing, is perfectly capable of depending on f droid as a source for the apk.
Can that not be enough of a distribution channel.
crucially, it's not a choice for the user, who can treat it as hardware. so free software developers can write code on top of it and pretend it's part of the hardware - not that it's "free" as the poster above was trying to say.
Looks very interesting. I’m confused by the note in the intro though:

> Note: I highly recommend viewing this article in dark mode.

I’m trying, but it seems like Medium doesn’t even have a dark mode? Is this reposted from somewhere else?
Do give KDE connect a try. It's great
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Not sure how making chips at TSMC, would have allowed Apple to get a head start on Nvidia.

This is all about company mindset. Nvidia was all about AI (and a bit of video games). Apple was not. Apple got caught with their pants down and scrambled to answer with Apple Intelligence.

Apple does not have a foundational model that can compete against Meta, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic. They're severely behind because they did not see the LLM wave coming - not because of hardware.
Now let’s talk rebase/merge conflicts, stash conflicts, forgetting to un-wip, and on and on and on and then maybe acknowledge that all of these “but my git workflow is simple” comments are a convenient fiction that doesn’t actually exist in practice.
Weirdly enough, I cannot find either on Play right now..even though I have it (the original, I believe) installed through Play.
Full lyrics :

(Verse 1)
I was born with a vision, built from the ground,
Turned every failure into gold, I never back down,
Hustle on my mind, dreams in my soul,
Every sleepless night is just part of the goal.

Yeah, I fell a hundred times, but I got back up,
Pourin’ sweat and tears, never knowin’ when enough’s enough,
Through the storms and the rain, through the joy and the pain,
I learned to dance in the struggle, never walkin’ in vain.

(Chorus)
This is for the ones who rise when they fall,
Who see the mountain high, and still climb tall,
For the fire inside that will never fade,
Entrepreneurs, we built this world—we’re self-made.

(Verse 2)
I took a leap of faith, and I learned how to fly,
No net, no plan B, just my heart and the sky,
They said I’d never make it, but they don’t know the grind,
Every “no” I heard, just sharpened my mind.

We’re the dreamers, the builders, the ones who believe,
Turning nothing into something, we never deceive,
Yeah, we walk the hard road, but we never lose hope,
In a world full of limits, we created the scope.

(Chorus)
This is for the ones who rise when they fall,
Who see the mountain high, and still climb tall,
For the fire inside that will never fade,
Entrepreneurs, we built this world—we’re self-made.

(Bridge)
Every battle scar’s a badge of pride,
We’re changin’ the world, one dream at a time,
If you feel the weight, know you’re not alone,
In every entrepreneur, there's a kingdom of their own.

(Chorus)
This is for the ones who rise when they fall,
Who see the mountain high, and still climb tall,
For the fire inside that will never fade,
Entrepreneurs, we built this world—we’re self-made.

(Outro)
So stand up proud, let the tears run free,
This is our anthem, this is who we’re meant to be,
Through the highs and the lows, we always survive,
Entrepreneurs, we keep the dream alive.
Banks usually stock pre-counted rolls of coins, and it's not much hassle to count out several of those. Though I guess 15 kg is probably going to be several dozen.
I'm not sure I understand - can you expand on that?
> you can also "buy" coins "for free"

Free till you count inflation and opportunity cost. (What you could gian as interest with some other investment)

But yeah, probably still cheaper than some product from a store.
> I kind of assumed that already happened.

Road layout can change daily, sometimes multiple times per day. Sometimes in a second, like when a tree falls on a lane and now you have to reroute on the oncoming lane for some distance, etc.
I avoid the thorn. I do that by substituting “th” for it or sometimes “y” as in “ye olde bakery.”

Keyboards since the 17th century don’t include thorn, so as long as I am not using an Icelandic keyboard I don’t have to worry.
I did, before syncthing. It... isn't great.
With every new PostgreSQL release we see yet more features and sugar added to the frontend, yet seemingly no meaningful improvement to the backend/storage layer which suffers these fundamental problems.

I wish the PostgreSQL community would stop chasing more frontend features and spend a concerted few years completely renovating their storage layer. The effort in each release seems massively and disproportionately skewed towards frontend improvements without the will to address these fundamental issues.

It's absurd that in 2024, "the world's most advanced open source database" doesn't have a method of doing upgrades between major versions that doesn't involve taking the database down.

Yes, logical replication exists, but it still doesn't do DDL, so it has big caveats attached.
Okay and how have we determined we have more intelligence than those species with this measure ?
Top 15 'Sleeping Beauties' (2015)
LiquidPiston claims their engine improves efficiency (30%), weight, size, noise
Or the related Materialize stuff https://materialize.com/
I guess this is embarassingly parralelizable in that you can shard by concert to different instances. Might even be a job for that newfangled cloudflare sqlite thing.
How would that affect the ongoing legal demands against X and Musk?
Macro Clouds on the Horizon: Patient Europe Is Dying and the Debt-Based US Model
Show HN: Requiem: No setup PHP scripts for blog, gallery
Very simple PHP scripts with zero or minimal setup - just upload to webhost and blog/share photos

Blog features:

- Uses sqlite

- Drag n drop upload of files

- Posts and static pages

Gallery features:

- All images organized through FTP

- Single file gallery

- Just upload and add folders via FTP

- Automatically creates thumbnails

- Doesn't modify directory structure

Calendar features:

- Calendar is still a work in progress and is not as zero setup as you need to rename all files manually.
I can put my content where I like. People who want my content follow the link I give them.

That’s just life, too.
> NHTSA said it was opening the inquiry after four reports of crashes where FSD was engaged during reduced roadway visibility like sun glare, fog, or airborne dust. A pedestrian was killed in Rimrock, Arizona, in November 2023 after being struck by a 2021 Tesla Model Y, NHTSA said.

This is going to be another extremely biased investigation.

1. A 2021 Model Y is not on HW4.

2. FSD in November 2023 is not FSD 12.5, the current version. Any assessment of FSD on such outdated software is not going to be representative of the current experience.
> It’s a shame that Arduino has effectively truncated kids learning with a full MCU as the “building block” of their learning

There is a reason I didn’t truly get into electronics as a kid. Only in adulthood with the introduction of the arduino (really esp8266) did any of that stuff click enough to get my interest.

All that analog stuff just got in the way from what I actually wanted to do. Build cool stuff. But back then there was way too much “complexity” between me and whatever cool thing I wanted to build and none of it was the good kind of complexity.

Starting out with modern MCU’s take all that away and let me build at the level of the project where what I do actually impacts things. If I had to worry about all that analog stuff, I never would have bother, just like as a kid I never bothered—I just did all my cool shit on the computer instead!
> Quotation marks are usually reserved for direct quotes,

Not on HN. Customary is to use > paragraph quotes like you did. However I will keep that in mind.

> Cool. I have, and many others have. I'm unsure why your experience justifies invalidating the experiences of others

If we're both grading a single student (LLM) in same field (programming), and you find it great and I find it disappointing, it means one of us is scoring it wrong.

I gave papers that demonstrate its failings, where is your counter-proof?

> Your and OP's lack of imagination at the capabilities of LLMs

It's not lack of imagination. It's terribleness of results. It can't consistently write good doc comments. I does not understand the code nor it's purpose, but roughly guesses the shape. Which is fine for writing something that's not as formal as code.

It can't read and understand specifications, and even generate something as simple as useful API for it. The novel part doesn't have to be that novel just something out of its learned corpus.

Like Yaml parser in Rust. Maybe Zig or something beyond it's gobbled data repo.

> Few thoughts are truly novel, most are derivative or synergistic.

Sure but you still need A mind to derive/synergize the noise of everyday environment into something novel.

It can't even do that but remix data into plausibly looking forms. A stochastic parrot. Great for DnD campaign. Shit for code.
Without Android what's even the point? If all I have is laptop and desktop, I probably just run scheduled rsyncs or a systemd timer something.
It is self-destruct only if you have competition. They don't, so it's just destruct.
Trello is good for the kanban side of things.
That's correct, but only for present evidence - what about the past evidence, that you didn't know you needed until it was too late? IA is broad enough to cover the past five times out of ten.
Some interesting suggestions. However, from a number of starting points I was pointed as "Songraes", a band that doesn't seem to rate it's own Wikipedia article. I wonder if this has been "fixed" somehow?