skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole basis for information and data is totally corrupted and we are not even allowed i.e., enabled to talk about that, let alone the corrupted nature of the information and data, largely because entrenched tyrannical people and their mindsets are in total control of the mainstream and have even made significant headway in shattering the dissident opposition. The consumption side incentives are effectively irrelevant when what is consumed is basically worthless. What’s the value of lies?
Show Them Something Good
> My daily-driver laptop at home is a T420 from 2011 with a Core 2 Duo, SSD and 8GB RAM. Works fine still.

I am not sure I would be productive with that. Any Core 2 Duo is 10x slower single core and 20x slower multi-core than a current generation laptop CPU at this point.

Eg: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/8588187?baselin...

I think it would mostly be good as an SSH terminal, but doing any real work locally on it seems frankly unfeasible.
I have a T420 with a Core i5 2500 in great condition which still runs great on Windows 11. Core 2 Duo just didn't have the performance to have longevity. Sandy Bridge and later really do. Windows devices last for ages and it's really weird pretending this is an Apple only thing.
> You could 'explain it like I am five' to write a really good story book for bedtime reading for kids, going from the depths of the ocean to space, with follies that follow the same story, all the way

I love that concept!
Are you on Linux by chance? Your font doesn’t look like it has anti aliasing which seems like a common Linux thing
There's attempts but you can only do so much in hundreds/thousands of dimensions. Most of the time the visualization doesn't really provide anything meaningful.
Agreed, I'm seeing people of all ages not having to interact with the desktop metaphor at all any more. Typically people that manage to do all their "computing" on Android, iOS or sometimes ChromeOS (where they are email and SaaS based).

The metaphor is more of containers/projects and save slots/objects. Far more like video games than the traditional model.
Been following this via proxy, i.e. Sabine Hossenfelder, for a few years. The charges are very solid afaict.
Funding is the essence of scarcity. Funding one thing means those money will not be funding anything else. But you're free to be content with countless minor variations on existing treatments [0]. Curing cancers will require an actual breakthrough.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=capitalism+breeds+innovation&t=fts...
From https://www.sgoc.de/pentium.html

Q: How many Pentium designers does it take to screw in a light
bulb?
A: 1.99904274017, but that's close enough for non-technical
people.

Q: What do you get when you cross a Pentium PC with a research
grant?
A: A mad scientist.

Q: What's another name for the "Intel Inside" sticker they put
on Pentiums?
A: The warning label.

Q: What do you call a series of FDIV instructions on a Pentium?
A: Successive approximations.

Q: Complete the following word analogy: Add is to Subtract as
Multiply is to:

1) Divide
2) ROUND
3) RANDOM
4) On a Pentium, all of the above
A: Number 4.

Q: Why didn't Intel call the Pentium the 586?
A: Because they added 486 and 100 on the first Pentium and got
585.999983605.

Q: According to Intel, the Pentium conforms to the IEEE
standards 754 and 854 for floating point arithmetic.
If you fly in aircraft designed using a Pentium, what is the
correct pronunciation of "IEEE"?
A: Aaaaaaaiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee!

TOP TEN NEW INTEL SLOGANS FOR THE PENTIUM
-------------------------------------------

9.9999973251 It's a FLAW, Dammit, not a Bug
8.9999163362 It's Close Enough, We Say So
7.9999414610 Nearly 300 Correct Opcodes
6.9999831538 You Don't Need to Know What's Inside
5.9999835137 Redefining the PC -- and Mathematics As Well
4.9999999021 We Fixed It, Really
3.9998245917 Division Considered Harmful - No Life-
Maintenance Devices Should Be Used With This
Processor
2.9991523619 Why Do You Think They Call It *Floating* Point?
1.9999103517 We're Looking for a Few Good Flaws

And the 0.9999999998th Slogan Is...
The Errata Inside
While there is no general doctrine of ‘fair use’ in Japan, there are
some equivalent exemptions provided by the Copyright Act, such as:

• quoting from and exploiting a work already made public fairly

and to the extent justified by the purpose of the quotations;

• private use, to a limited extent;

• reproduction in libraries;

• reproduction in school textbooks,schools and other educational
institutions;

• use for those with disabilities; and

• reproduction for judicial proceedings.

https://www.aplawjapan.com/archives/pdf/file/GettingtheDealT...

I'd say a use by any other name is just as fair.
My daughter was making fun of me!
People talk about Apple prices being higher but the longevity of their devices really erases that price difference for me.

I still have an old iPhone 8 that I test with that runs well, I’ve had numerous Android devices die in that timeframe, slow to a crawl, or at best their performance is erratic.
You can still leak memory via a container. You can still create deadlocks. You can still throw a panic (with a backtrace). It does not solve the halting problem. But if it compiles you will not have any form of undefined behavior. No reading or writing out of bounds. No use after free, no dangling pointers, and no data getting modified across threads in an inconsistent way. If it needs a lock, the compiler will tell you with an error.
> Trees don't make choices and engage in that type of creativity, nor does the forest floor or canopy.

From a philosophical point of view, I'd argue that trees and life have much more of the ability to make choices and even express creativity than inanimate objects like a rock or even a computer.

IIRC in some courts recently, it was decided that the output of LLMs cannot be copyrighted.

It will be interesting to see how this legal case goes.
You still have to solve the minimum number of rotations to get the "1" at the top and the "3" in front
Using Google Free Android
I’ve had really strange replies to my original reply. I posted some information that I had to look up for the benefit of other people and now for some reason I need to say that school starts around age 6 in my country when my son started Primary 1 when he was closer to 4.5.

Others are trying to say that I should somehow automatically know that most of the world uses the similar(?) age ranges. I don’t even know what age school starts at in other parts of the UK despite sharing borders with them. Maybe I’m ignorant but it’s never been information that I needed to know or retain.

Was posting the age range of US grade 8 so controversial?
https://libraryofbabel.info/

it's all there regardless
I started with Windows XP and things were so unreliable, with power cuts and software crashing that I saved everytime I took a break from actively working (switching programs, looking away, from the screen,…)
Explore Vortex Dynamics Using Julia
> That is a very cool idea! I've been thinking about something like that to help fund the website, which is a network of book trades, and you get credit for a new used book for every trade. Although I was going to charge $10 a year or $1 a book to go 80% toward authors and 20% toward the website.

Sounds like a nice way to generate some funding, especially as you already have a number of users on your site to start with. I have no idea how much bureaucracy it takes to be able to take 5% of each transaction or so, so I'll probably leave mine completely free - if I ever get the time to implement it, that is.

> When I last looked in 2020, the data quality on open library was really bad, so I didn't use them.

> Now things are 90% automated, but we still have to source a high quality cover for each book as the book APIs have such small images.

Not great, since that would have been a starting point for me. ;) Cool though, that you can invest into a custom database, since you can tailor it to your task and aren't relying on potentially bad data.

> I am hoping to expand our book DB in 2025 to all books for a lot of the new features.

Is there a public roadmap somewhere for the features?

> I also could have been too pedantic back in 2020 when i looked at them :)

Maybe, maybe not. It takes huge effort to go back and improve a system relying on bad data, especially if it's already a certain size. I know from experience, as my company just did that with a large internal catalogue. Not fun.
I have been using Emacs ever since I bought an Amiga in the 80s. I love Emacs and Elisp.

Some 15 years ago I started using Orgmode heavily. But a lack of a mobile solution and it not being available ubiquitously made me go back to Markdown and Obsidian for note taking and Kanban boards in Notion for task management.

Markdown is available everywhere. In forums, in chatgpt, in any kind of text editor.

So although I still use Emacs, I stopped (heavy heartedly) using Orgmode.
I will invest that time later. In anticipation, thanks.

I came here to see if anyone was talking about state machines that generate their own flowcharts, or codegen from flowcharts. I'd like to know if there's prior art.

It would be great for user acceptance. I'm minded to have a go myself, possibly with mermaid as an intermediate description. Stupid? Non-stupid?
You can escalate your privilege if you can freely choose which kernel to run. Maybe you won’t have _more_ privilege than the kernel but you would certainly have as much.
Anthropic has hired an 'AI welfare' researcher
Search is one of the top ways startups can generate traffic. According to some studies, it delivers 40% of referral traffic to websites. Does an answer engine calcify incumbents and make it harder for new businesses to disrupt them?
Just do what Microsoft does with large Word documents saved on a slow network connection: Wait until I maximize the open Word document and then immediately start auto-saving, locking up the UI exactly when I started to use it again and haven't yet made any new changes. Genius!
"Yes i'd like to help you with your homework but on a side note i'll recommend you this tablet, science shows people who's done this purchase are much happier people, also remember the financial plutocracy is watching out for you, they are friends of the working people, and the war machine makes the world much safer for everyone so please do go ahead and vote for either of the two pro world peace forever parties, no other ideologies or parties are safe"
Exploring Field Recording Battery Solutions
Bonus: if you never need to leave home, you don't need ironed shirts, either.
The New ClickHouse SQL Playground
What would the advantage to not have it lowered be? Like you're sitting there, sails down, anchored. Why would you go "Nope, better if keel isn't lowered"?
The form with quaternions from 1873 was not really correct, because at that time Maxwell did not understand yet the difference between vectors and pseudovectors (the "imaginary" components of a quaternion are the components of a pseudovector, not of a vector). This difference was clarified in the geometric algebra of Clifford, but both Maxwell and Clifford have died about at the same time and too early, so Maxwell did not have the opportunity to correct his treatise in a new edition.

I always wonder how physics could have evolved if both Maxwell and Clifford had not died in 1879. Many years later, Heaviside still did not understand the nature of vectors and pseudovectors (a.k.a. polar vectors and axial vectors, a.k.a. vectors and bivectors), so he has used extensively what he named as the "vector product", which is actually a pseudovector product, and not always in the right way.

On the other hand, the original version of the Maxwell equations was in integral form, not in differential form.

The integral form is applicable even when the equations of Heaviside do not exist and based on the integral form it is possible to derive forms of the equations that are valid even for bodies in movement, for which it is quite difficult to apply the Heaviside equations without obtaining erroneous results (because the Heaviside equations as normally presented in textbooks depend on additional unwritten assumptions, e.g. about the reference system, so their correct application e.g. to a motor is non-obvious).

The integral form given by Maxwell is the fundamental form of the equations, while the Heaviside differential form is a derived form whose applicability has serious restrictions and its only advantage is that it is easier to write and memorize by students.
I think you are exaggerating the importance of undo/redo. Even in google docs, if you restore from a savepoint you can only go backwards. And besides, the complaints OP got were "I'm losing all my work" - I doubt someone who had some recovery point would be in a worse position to recover than someone who had no recovery point at all.

(in other words, it's not necessary at all to support this feature from the ground up - it just might be necessary in order to have a third, even better way than "no saves" and "imperfect saves")
California SB 253 and SB 261: a guide for companies
Why Zellij?
This was submitted once before (by someone else), but I’m interested to hear HN’s thoughts on this— particularly on the plugin system.
Great question! Looking around, I notice that younger generations seem to assume ‘everything is stored’ automatically, without needing to do anything beyond creating content. For instance, in Google Docs, there’s no need to click ‘save’, that feels counterintuitive to the ‘save generation’ but works brilliantly!

On the other hand, I find it frustrating that every popular OS and web app now offers multiple options when working with files: save to the branded cloud (e.g., Google Drive), the filesystem, external URLs, ‘share-to’ options, etc. While intended to add flexibility, this approach introduces unnecessary complexity and indirection to what used to be a simple load/save feature.
here's a small search engine with no ads: kgrep.com
We have a faulty information network to begin with, and have for millenia. There's no such thing as "reliable" answers in a world full of unreliable humans.
Also a great css tool for creating quick designs in html https://almonk.github.io/pylon/
I think we need decentralized search engines because big companies control too much of what we see.
Interesting. I didn't notice any reference to Idris [1] but that was the first place I saw this style of development.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOtKD7ml0NU
kgrep: small search engine, no fluff, no hype
Show HN: Nondeterministic finite queued dialog automaton
A kangaroo court decision if there ever was one. Doesn't courts realize that by coming up with nonsense like this they destroy their credibility? You can't take a court or the judge that came up with this sentence with a straight face.
> who at Boeing is motivated enough to take on the personal liability of a first degree murder conviction

Say an exec at Boeing paid someone to pay someone to 'handle' the situation. "Will no one rid me of these meddlesome whistleblowers - oops I dropped my huge luggage case of unmarked bills" kind of thing... I'm not saying they did, to be very clear, just answering this hypthetical.

Where would you put the odds of that person ever facing "a first degree murder conviction"? If it's anywhere over 1%, I think you might be naive, and would benefit from looking at actual conviction rates for serious crimes (~2%) [0].

Even if they were incredibly sloppy about it, the motivation to admit in front of the world that Boeing did this to multiple whistleblowers is strongly in the wrong direction.

And as others have pointed out, repeatedly, Boeing is in the business of killing people. Billions of easy dollars are at stake.

So, who at Boeing might be motivated enough to take the <1% chance to keep raking in billions of dollars, protect America's 'reputation' (such as it is), and personally keep cashing in 6 or 7 figures a year? Any of them. Damn near all of them. Easily over 80%. It's not a job for people of conscience.

0 - https://theconversation.com/police-solve-just-2-of-all-major...
The movie, "The Matrix", actually is a clue. In it humanity is reduced to mere batteries. But in fact it IS the energy we bring which is crucial. No AI, made by no machine, would ever exist without our energy - focused thought, industry to make machines, ideas to put them to use, insight to see problems. The future is still humanity.
Not to mention SELinux CIL, Common Intermediate Language, https://selinuxproject.org/page/PolicyLanguage
> Peculiar individuals, no matter how famous they are, no matter how brilliant they are, if they’re off that consensus, and they’ve been off that consensus for a long time, they’re probably wrong.

So this guy works on string theory and has never heard of Einstein?

Why not use science to check what makes sense? - Because anyone would instantly notice that string theory is bs.

I think there should be a system, that when scientists act in bad faith (wasting money on questionable ideas because they personally profit) should retire.
This was resolved in 2023. [1]

A workaround prior to this was to have a local instance of dnsmasq or Unbound or any other resolver that can use TCP / EDNS. Some companies do this on all nodes regardless to avoid hammering their edge recurive DNS servers and improve retry methods. And optionally have query logging to a ram disk for security tools to monitor queries and to block santioned tld's at the source instead of flooding the edge.

[1] - https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/16/alpine_linux_318/
Do you have any resources you recommend for representing sub sections? I'm currently prototyping a note/thoughts editor where one feature is suggesting related documents/thoughts (think linked notes in Obsidian) for which I would like to suggest sub sections and not only full documents.
Show HN: Pokémon Ketsugo v2.0 – AI Powered Pokemon Fusion Guessing Game
Ask HN: What are your life hacks?
What hacks do you use to make your life easier? My recent cooking hack is air fryer. I can air fry tasty veggies like broccoli, cauliflowers, etc in 10-15 minutes. My next car maintenance hack is to put in a Fumoto oil drain valve.
What does .com do which .jp does not?
For those who check the comments before reading the article, here's a key piece of info from tfa:

During a vacation in the rain forests of Queensland in 2001, we saw some strangler figs. These are vines that germinate in a nook of a tree. As it grows, it draws nutrients from the host tree until it reaches the ground to grow roots and the canopy to get sunlight. It can then become self-sustaining, and its original host tree may die leaving the fig as an echo of its shape. This gradual process of replacing the host tree struck me as a striking analogy to the way I saw colleagues doing modernization of legacy software systems. A couple of years later I posted a brief blog post about this metaphor. While I've not used the term in my writing since then, it caught attention anyway, and the term “Strangler Fig” is now often used to describe a gradual approach to legacy modernization.
Having a mop-capable robotic vacuum myself I have a completely different experience. It is simply too stupid(despite being a smart model with camera and room mapping LiDAR) and get stuck at carpet edges and under chairs.

If I want to use it on schedule I need to perpetually have all areas I want it to clean adapted to robotic vacuuming. Which I don't, meaning I have to manually go over the entire area and pick up objects, move chairs, move the small carpets and then empty the all too small storage bin on the robotic vacuum after it have done its rounds.

And don't even get me started on the mopping function.

The end result being that if I take a regular vacuum in my hand and do the pre-robot screening round, I've managed to already vacuum the entire flat with a much more powerful machine in less time than the robot vacuum process would've required.
All opinions are biased. It is a tautology. I guess my biased question is to do with cost. I’ve not been able to run any models of the caliber that could pass a medical test on my local machine. What kind of hardware do I need to own or to lease in the cloud to write code that doesn’t arbitrarily include comments without comment initializing tokens, and how much will the whole pipeline run me? Is that already cheaper than my salary? Some 25% of code at Google is now written by AI, but all of that code is still reviewed by humans. Is it worth it if you still have to pay for both? Quite possibly, for some of the huge companies, but most devs are working in smaller shops: is it still a reasonable expense for them?
They're mostly not comparable. High-quality streaming keynotes (especially for conferences I couldn't otherwise justify attending) not-withstanding.

Two very different experiences, and the fact that a lot of conference presentations would probably be better at half the length also not withstanding, a bunch of YouTube videos may be fine for some but, as someone who has probably attended hundreds of conferences, they're really not the same.

During COVID, I resigned myself to attending and presenting at online conferences, but it was mostly a waste of time.
> With a search paradigm this wasn't an issue as much, because the answers were presented as "here's a bunch of websites that appear to deal with the question you asked". It was then up to the reader to decide which of those sites they wanted to visit, and therefore which viewpoints they got to see.

It is very similar. Google decides what to present to you on the front page. I'm sure there are metrics on how few people get past the front page. Heck, isn't this just Google Search's business model? Determining what you see (i.e. what is "true") via ads?

In much the same way that the Councils of Carthage chose to omit the acts of Paul and Thecla in the New Testament, all modern technology providers have some say in what is presented to the global information network, more or less manipulating what we all perceive to be true.

Recently advancements have just made this problem much more apparent to us. But look at history and see how few women priests there are in various Christian churches and you'll notice even a small omission can have broad impacts to society.
Well don't keep us waiting, what happens?
My instinct would be a principal component analysis (which someone has demonstrated here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=brt88wwoZtI). Not sure it would tell you much though, but it looks nice.
I still have an M1 Air. I love it.

I considered upgrading but it’s hard to care to cause my M1 is just so good for what I need it for.
> I've hired support workers in short bursts for this as well.

Can you expand on this?

I recently moved and have been procrastinating the myriad of paperwork moving from one state to another involves. What helped was my insurance broker pressuring me to get some of the paperwork completed.
For me the biggest one lately was due to miscommunication and bad assumptions.

The designer was working in a redesign in their own free time, so they were using this "new design" as a template for all recent mockups. The Product Manager just created tickets with the new design and was adamant that changing the design was part of the requirements. The feature itself was simple, but the redesign was significantly hard.

Talking with the business person revealed that they were not even aware of the redesign and it was blocked until next year.
Are there recommendable sources on how to learn solving/the concepts of a classic cube?
7k$ is about what yards quoted for such a job in NorCal. It's easy to DIY if you know what to do, but (1) it's a nasty job (2) it's toxic (3) it takes time and (4) you still end up paying about 2k$ if you're thrifty (in NorCal). I both hired and DIYd the job and it's a wash as to whether one prevails over the other. If I were doing nothing else but boating fulltime, I'd DIY it. But I have a job and family.