skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From your description it sounds like in-memory application state is lost with Hot Reload, but I don't think that's true? I admit might be wrong about this, it doesn't apply to Unity which is my main development environment.

Quoting from the docs (emphasis mine):
> .NET Hot Reload applies code changes, including changes to stylesheets, to a running app without restarting the app and *without losing app state*

That sounds more like how you described edit-and-continue to me.
New Transformer architecture modifications from Nvidia researchers
Ask HN: SaaS influencers/Guru on YouTube, X and Reddit
Just want honest opinions about influencers lecturing SaaS business ideas on YouTube and X and Reddit.

It seems that it is easy to have an idea off the ground and just have money rolling in with some effort.

It's good and too good to be true.

I'm not here to bash anyone who's talking SaaS ideas on these social platform.

As an entrepreneur-wannabe myself, I'm learning and trying to make it myself.

If you are making money, why you share the good business idea in the open? SaaS is hard to make money. If you found a niche area, you want to keep it to yourself for as long as possible before anyone else step in.

There are a few categories.
(1) AI generated content and AI driven SEO techniques.
(2) Boring business categories. Buying car wash shop, laundromat, self-storage business.

Tell me what is your experience as business founders on how did you make you first dollar?
What do you think of the future of your business?
One thing that stuck out to me in this article that the author mentioned is that India is safe. Having lived there for a large part of my early life and having travelled to all 28 (probably 29 now?) states over time, I found this to be very true. What makes India so safe amidst all the poverty and relative chaos?
only if that religion claims exclusivity in exclusion to others. in order to address todays problems a religion must not do that but it must be inclusive and open to all. technically, at least to a degree the abrahamic religions do that in that they do claim that their predecessors are genuine and their followers are considered people of the book. the fact that many members today reject them is a misinterpretation of their respective holy words.

a modern religion must be inclusive to all others, not just the abrahamic religions. at least all those who expect a return of their prophet which is the case not only for all abrahamic religions but at least also for buddhism, hinduism, zoroastrianism, and even native american religions. (there may be others, but i am not familiar with those)
The video is basically a high-level overview of general control algorithms available for this purpose. Lots of speculation and "might use" qualifiers.

Does anyone know of any talks where engineers who actually worked on these problems discuss the unique and interesting challenges they encountered, and how they worked through them?
> other rating boards do play the games...

...to check whether the video they watched was representative, sure. Not in full, or to view "all dialogue and content".
This is a fantastic app. Thanks for sharing the breakdown.

If banks would get their head out of their ass, this would be a native feature with ach/zelle/fednow as the backbone. Organizer creates group in bank app and can invite other users which may have different bank accounts. Payment requests satisfied through 1-click. No more manually checking if Cashapp/bank accounts/venmo have received payment then checking off the expense in third party app
Are there statistics on the scale of compute available to GIMPS for this search? Is there any evidence that by crowdsourcing the clients, we are searching faster than, eg, a dedicated cluster financed by a government or a corporation? What is the impact of GIMPS as a distributed problem solving tool? Like, if there was a practical application, how much money would it take to exceed GIMPS throughput, that curious people provide for free?

I’d like it to be astronomical, but given the niche of this, and the low cost of cloud compute, the answer is predicable depressing, like, “$50k/year in AWS costs would equal current GIMPS search throughput”
Wow I’ve heard about jj multiple times before but didn’t realize it was compatible with Git. You got me interested in just 1 sentence, nicely done!

Well, guess I’m on my way to read the tutorial.
Since my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, I've gone down a rabbit hole on environmental oncogenic drivers, including "out there" ones like RF. This study doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
I am a bit confused about this advice. Who's decisions? The tool makers? Or the users?

In general, this seems like an oversimplification. It's more useful to first understand what kind of document you are writing: learning, goal-oriented, understanding, or information. [1] It would be annoying to look up the API for a function and get inundated with "decision" information, for example.

1 - https://www.writethedocs.org/videos/eu/2017/the-four-kinds-o...
there is a nice "staticscope" package in python, which acts as a context manager, and does pretty much what you refer to. pretty neat.

https://pypi.org/project/scoping/
Clearly marked as unsplash
System that moves water around Earth offbalance for first time in human history
We have known paintings from the time period - the paint is still visible under a microscope.
that book [0] appears to be mostly a re-telling of the situation, enactment and repercussions of the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) with some speculative material tacked on the front and back of that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lucifer_Effect
That's a pretty strong claim, (and since most inner circles are hard to get into, I even assume it's not without any basis in reality), yet could you please provide some exhibits to support it?
> Tesla however, they change stuff alllll the damn time because they make so much of their stuff in-house, the vertical integration eliminates the need for rigid contracts. You absolutely need the VIN because for some differences even knowing the week of the production doesn't give sufficient resolution.

Sounds like a maintenance nightmare. Who decides when parts go EOL?
And is, well, entirely contradictory. An absolute absurdity; what happens when the irresistible force of the legal department meets the immovable object of marketing.
Completely agree. The next revolution in AI will be the person who can successfully combine both symbolic and connectionist architectures.
From Systems of Record to Systems of Intelligence
Sure, I'm not against GIMPS or anything, I'm just a bit doubtful that finding a few more Mersenne primes could be the key to unlocking some secret pattern in the primes is all
What does does Chrome do better? For example, Chrome lacks the ability to tag bookmarks.
No Tesla vehicle has legally driven even a single mile with no driver in the driver's seat. They aren't even trying to play Waymo's game. The latest FSD software's failure rate is at least 100 times higher than it needs to be.
How do you avoid getting banned for posting a link to your business?
I honestly don't think genocide, at least outright, is a goal of Israel despite some of the comments from their senior political leadership hinting at genocidal aims. I just think their military isn't very effective.
Credz to the farmers for fighting back
Ask HN: Is ChatGPT-o1 underlying model better or just using more inference time?
Is chatgpt-o1 just using more time during inference and passing it through more routines than the underlying model being better at reasoning?
It’s really unfortunate that puffery survived as a common law defence. It’s really from an earlier era, when fraud was far more acceptable and people were more conditioned to assume that vendors were outright lying to them; it has no place in modern society.

Also, that’s investors, not consumers. While the rise of retail investing has made this kind of dubious, investors are generally assumed to be far less in need of protection than consumers by the law; it is assumed that they take care about their investment that a consumer couldn’t reasonably take around every single product that they buy.
I watched the movie shortly before going to Lesotho (the enclave country Donald Woods and his family escaped to) and crossing the border into "Transkei" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantustan) at the same bridge he entered Lesotho.

To be honest, I was prepared to see all white South Africans as evil oppressors, and it took me a while to see that there was a spectrum -- many of whom I met -- from oppressors to opportunists to passive enablers to freedom/justice fighters.

One of my distant relatives in South Africa was decidedly racist, but mourned how his son had gone from playing with the children of black farmworkers to, after a stint in the South African Defence Forces, being a vicious white supremacist.
If Bosch couldn't supply the motors required in the contact, I don't see why Rivian has to commit to not making motors themselves.

Seems like the logical thing to do. If Kroger says they'll sell me 100,000 apples and only delivered 23k, I might buy an orchard
>> The Greek-lish interjection says approximately "that is going to bite me in the ass down the line". Because it will. The better I get with Prolog the more I worry nobody will be able to maintain my code but myself, and my future self will hate me with deep, burning passion.

Isn't that similar to the GPs "I'm not smart enough to make sense of my own Scheme meta-programming when I revisit it months later."? Commenting your prolog won't help?
Amazon discontinues the last Kindle with physical buttons
The quoted study does not mention fitness. It does find (1) physical activity level increases of e-bike vs bike riders is similar. (2) e-bike riders ride farther than conventional bike riders.

From the linked study:
> E-bikers take longer trips by e-bike and bicycle, compared to cyclists.

> Physical activity gains from active travel are similar in e-bikers and cyclists.

The second point is non-obvious IMO and interesting.

The first point makes sense though IMO. AFAIK the majority of pedal bike trips are short ranges. A subset of bike riders travel larger distances. This averages out to be relatively short distances. An e-bike I believe is not attractive for a short distance (why pay the cost when a cheaper pedal bike that you will ride for 10 minutes would do just as well and for a fraction of cost?). I think it makes sense that e-bikes then push that distance-travel average up over conventional bikes.
> I love being able to glance at it at night with a half open eye and know what time it is.

You mean confirming that the time you already knew it was, was actually correct.

Just like you also wake up 2 minutes before the alarm goes off.
I just left the industrials space. All the other manufacturers are racing to implement AI and the John Deere model. Of course, most of them don't command the control over their customers like JD but they are definitely planning to lock things down. A major concern is the capabilities and availabilities of technicians. The techs as a whole do not have a good reputation for being competent so they are looking to provide remote diagnostic services with the help of AI...again, looking at JD as the exemplar.
So if "else None" is omitted, if bar is false, then does spam == None or is it unmodified? The former is what I think you want, but that would be very confusing.
Oracle also didn't support Boolean data types for a long time, and had a 20 some odd year public thread arguing that no one needed a Boolean data type (https://asktom.oracle.com/ords/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_...). They finally added it in Oracle 23 which is nice, but I wouldn't consider it to be in good company to be lacking something Oracle also lacks.
Might be nice for senior citizens.
OpenAI Billing Issues - Overcharged Me 14x, No Response – What to Do?
I'm dealing with a frustrating situation with OpenAI billing and wanted to see if anyone else has experienced something similar or has advice.
Here's what happened:

- I used about $20 in API credits one day while testing some software I was working on.
- OpenAI then billed me 14+ times for approximately $30 each.
- This happened despite having auto-pay turned off.
- I tried contacting OpenAI through their website (the only method available) but haven't received any response.
- On the same day, American Express contacted me about fraudulent charges from OpenAI.

I'm currently on the phone with AmEx to dispute all the charges. They've put some on hold, but a few went through.

Has anyone else encountered this kind of overcharging issue with OpenAI? What steps would you recommend taking beyond disputing the charges with my credit card company? I'm concerned about the lack of response from OpenAI and the difficulty in reaching their support.

Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, HN.
Hi guys, we will be launching Souly this November, build an AI in 4 clicks, deploy anywhere, tune as much as you like, build as many as you want. Adjust personality, knowledge, tone.
Triaging Clang C++ front end bugs
>The system is working.
Given that this is an issue I've heard from wikipedia admins themselves, I am impressed by your confidence.

>The point is, train on the NYT. Blogs don't change what's on the NYT.

The counter point is that NYT content is already in the training data because its already replicated or copied into random blogs.

>So yes, either don't train on them, or only train on highly upvoted solutions, etc.

Highly upvoted messages on reddit are very regular bots copying older top comments. Mods already have issues with AI comments.

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TLDR: Pollution is already happening. Verification does not scale, while generation scales.
To me, the photos of the skin "splayed" in a large frame feel highly disturbing.

While the photo of the skin wrapped onto a mannequin seems not just entirely tasteful, but beautiful even.

It's the same thing, but preserving the shape of the human body somehow makes it feel so much more respectful. I never would have guessed that would make any difference, since I'm aware of it being the same cadaver skin in both cases.
But is there any reason to use them besides a demo to investors while you actually build the business on llama? Why build a business with a permanent subscription that's the entire core to your business?
> I see an ocean of startups doing things like ‘AI accounting systems’ that scare me a little.

I’m a CPA and software engineer currently interviewing around for dev positions, and most of the people I’ve encountered running these companies are neither CPAs nor accountants and have little domain knowledge. It’s a scary combination with an LLM that demands professional skepticism for every word it says. I wouldn’t trust those companies in their current state.
My feeling is that the most important situation to consider here is where the updating happens from third-party JS. If you're writing your own JS, it isn't that much harder to just target the selectedoption as well as the original one, and if you're using a full-fat framework like React or whatever it's downright easy. So I think the benefit of providing an explicit API to trigger a clone is limited.

So that leaves the various automatic options, either synchronous, debounced, or the fancy targeted version. This seems like a pretty straightforward complexity/performance tradeoff to me, with the synchronous version being the simplest (both to implement and to understand) and going up from there.

With that in mind, I'm inclined toward the middle option (changes are synced automatically, but batched in the next microtask) since it feels like the best balance of complexity/usability. Seems like it would eliminate some of the biggest performance footguns, without being too much of a bear to implement or too difficult to understand.

On the other hand, I would personally also be ok with no syncing at all, just the initial clone when an option is selected, if it would mean we get this feature sooner. Really looking forward to not having to roll my own dropdowns.
I agree with your main points.
> I didn’t say the author was obscure or that his ideas were not relevant, but rather that this particular text was rare.

I’m frankly puzzled at your assertion that this is a rare, out-of-print book when it’s the top search result on Amazon for “Marshall McLuhan” and costs $31.22 in paperback: https://a.co/d/dhOl4EJ

Your claim that “you can find it pretty regularly on biblio for ~$150” seems approximately true if you insist on only buying a first edition hardcover, which is fair enough. I don’t know what changed between the first edition and the 1994 edition currently available on Amazon. But if the Meta execs are sticklers for the first edition in particular, that’s an indication that they’re taking the ideas in the book more seriously rather than less.

> I was overly dismissive in referring to its contents as tangential

You also referred to it as “basically completely unfollow-able”. In other words, you weren’t really able to follow or grasp what McLuhan was writing. Maybe it’s not your fault and McLuhan was just writing incoherent nonsense—I can’t say either way since I haven’t read him—but this admission on your part undermines your attempts to assess the relevance of Understanding Media to Meta’s business model.
Some damning bits if true:

> “Bosch made a calculated gamble to overpromise to multiple start-up electric vehicle companies on the theory that at least some of them would soon fail,” the lawsuit read.

> Rivian engineers said one of the lines was “in shambles” during a visit to Germany and claimed Bosch was not using “industry standard technology.”

This coupled with BMW's recent pushback against EU ICE phaseout seems to paint a picture of legacy manufacturers unwilling to invest in what is the obvious path forward. It is hard to imagine that in 20, 30 years ICE vehicles will be the dominant mode of transportation for most consumers.

Whether Chinese EVs ever make their way to US markets or not, the Chinese shift in consumer behavior and infrastructure there will eventually ripple out to South Korea and Japan and the US and EU will lose that fight with a mindset of denial.
No country in the world has you paying 30-50% og your income to health care, it's more like 15-18%
Do any of these variants have cast functionality built-in?
Traditionally, encode meant to use one word/symbol to represent another, while encipher meant to transform one (usually mathematically) into another.

For example, "Tora, Tora, Tora" was a code that had no intrinsic meaning, but was the signal to proceed with the Pearl Harbor attack. No way to reverse that.

Meanwhile, "THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG" can be transformed with a Caesar cipher to "QEB NRFZH YOLTK CLU GRJMP LSBO QEB IXWV ALD". It can easily be reversed.
Tree has been used for this kind of thing for decades now.
That's probably an argument for a language with good DSL support.

When this comes up I usually link to the work of Alan Kay and others (the very mystical sounding STEPS project at VPRI)

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The big breakthrough is making it easy to create new DSLs for any situation. Every area of the OS has its own language (and you can just add more if you feel the need) so that the whole OS including networking and GUI is very compact, understandable, and hackable. This particular project focused on compactness, just to prove that it is quantitatively more expressive.
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comment by sp332 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11687952

final report from 2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11686325
That sounds like the most reasonable explanation.
It’s listed on that page as a synonym for toil or drudgery. So basically a chore is a fag. It seems like the definition you mention is likely the origin of today’s gay pejorative.
Do we really need more syntactic sugar? Frankly, I am still confused why Python is going for a separate syntax for if expressions instead of just making its regular ifs into expressions
You're getting a taste of the world that a lot of professional technical writers live in. Everyone seems to intuitively understand that you need docs, and that if you don't invest in docs it probably will be bad for the business, yet at the same time it's hard to concretely show business value. So technical writers are incessantly asked to prove their value, even though the managers subconsciously know that they're important for some reason. Over the years I have come to believe that docs are important simply because it's a primary mechanism for sharing knowledge across the company and to customers. Michelle Irvine has been doing great work quantifying this: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/deep-dive-...
Are we in need of a Framework-like company for e-bikes? Or any other industry?

Devices built from the ground up to be modular, not because of regulations, but because of market forces?
Rivian also got in a dispute with Amazon when the latter wasn’t ordering enough delivery vans; as I understand it they tried to sell to others but Amazon had an exclusivity clause

Seems like some self inflicted wounds in an industry that can’t afford a slip
The STRINGIFY C preprocessor macro
Etymology is very interesting. It makes me wonder if there’s any relation to today’s slang for being pregnant, knocked up.
Riding a bike your whole life will do that.
Nothing wrong with growth,it's natural. The population grows and so does the money supply in turn. This is good. What is not good is when a particular company is trying to retain ALL growth of certain segments for themselves through abusive leverage.

A principle that stuck out to me as a child was that our society prioritized lower prices for consumers as a whole over the prosperity of any one company or industry.

We let companies grow to the point where they now subvert the will of the people.
Sean Carroll/Ellen Langer: Credulous, scientist-as-hero reporting
This is literally just a short tutorial helping people get into the cpython codebase. This feedback is off topic.

Related to your comment, though: Python has had this syntax for a VERY long time.
Re your last paragraph, the UK gov website excels at this. There are landing pages which describe the process, then warnings and caveats, then you can actually fill in the forms.

Eg this is the Google result for renewing your driving licence https://www.gov.uk/renew-driving-licence - click Start Now and you'll see what I mean

As a "power user" this can sometimes feel like it gets in the way but I understand they need to consider everyone
This: https://recursion.is
It's well established that there are infinite prime numbers, for example https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ss44/cyc/p/primeprf.htm
Combining growth momentum from a past net-value-positive offering with revenue from a net-value-negative product change to project a future that will disappear when your users find your first competitor is an example of that strategy playing out that is difficult for shareholders to catch. Another is laying off and mistreating your employees while claiming that you're going to stay on the cutting edge.

It's not in the interest of shareholders to buy into tactics that pump up share price at the end of a quarter but we're talking about an information disadvantage; the seller is rearranging their books with respect to intangibles to deceive the buyer.
> But it has the same basic functionality of being a phone.

Where I am, simply making calls over IP is not enough to qualify a device as a phone.

If it cannot phone the local police station, the local pharmacy or the local clinic, it's not really a phone.
I did switch, I don’t use AI often but when I do, I just use Gemini and like it better.
That is a gdb problem, there are much better debuggers out there.

In C boilerplate is a called pre-processor magic.
For the parts covered under GPL, yes, which includes the kernel (if it uses Linux).

If they're covered under a more permissive license (e.g. Apache, MIT) you're out of luck as these don't require redistribution of derivative work source code, only attribution.