skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does show how out of touch tech workers are that they are shocked someone is able to live off 1k a month. It sometimes feels like hn posters were born on college campuses and shielded from normal society until their twenties, after which they move to the Bay Area with the upmost confidence that they know everything there is to know about the world.

Especially if you are doing it voluntarily, 1k a month can provide you more then enough for a comfortable life in many part of the country. More so if you can avoid car ownership/insurance and health insurance (Which gwern seems to do).
I have been going through a heavy jungle phase recently thanks to these mixes I found when investigating what's possible on the Commodore A600 (I recently came into possession of one):

https://inv.nadeko.net/playlist?list=PLF8fxbriplbmwB7zypOxa_oV4fkzTQOEh

It's a channel called "off1k", and a playlist called "Jungle / Drum & Bass", and all the tunes come from people making music on Amigas in the early 90s on software called "protracker".

A600s, A1200s, maybe others, maybe other versions or variants of protracker, I'm not sure. Anyway, if someone can get through 30s of mix 1 without losing their sh*t, I want to hear about it, I'll keel over.

And, to top it all off, about a week in to these mixes on loop, I ask myself: what is that software? Is that still going? And I discover some fellow called "Olav Sørensen" recently wrote an identical-looking protracker clone:

https://16-bits.org/pt2.php
EDIT: GH link https://github.com/8bitbubsy/pt2-clone

Which I can confirm runs very smoothly on Arch (btw). It says it's available for Mac and Windows on the site. In the words of the sample from the first track on mix 1: "annihilating the rhythm". Get jungling people!
We know the ai isn’t generating this because it’s too accurate.
Sequels aren't a problem if they're continuously improving on their predecessors. Setting aside Atlus which you already mentioned, and stale N+1 sequels, we've got: Square Enix with Octopath Traveler and Dragon Quest Builders recently (which improved with their respective sequels), From Software with Sekiro and Elden Ring, and Nintendo with Breath of the Wild (and its improved sequel).

However, I think in the main you're right (the industry is slowly dying), I just don't think it's as manifest (or irreversible) yet. I do think if Nintendo and Game Freak prevail against Palworld, things will get bleaker for Japanese development, though.
Counterpoint didn’t have “chords” anyway.
This is backwards. The first step is innovating and creating a radically better search experience. This is then easy to market (and is likely to spread by word of mouth). Users love and it becomes the main way they search.

Eg see how chatgpt grew
Show HN: Knowing – an LLM tool built on concept hierarchies, not prompt-response
Hey HN! I've spent the past year full-time building Knowing, a tool for interacting with LLMs directly inside hierarchical structures instead of the usual prompt-response format. The idea started because I realized how much more intuitive it felt to build concept hierarchies continuously—no more endless copy-pasting or wondering how everything connects.

The journey’s been a struggle. While I see huge potential in structuring AI interactions this way (writing books fast, planning projects, or organizing ideas), it’s been hard to pin down clear use cases in the market. I’m also working in near isolation on a small island in the Baltic Sea (born and raised here!), so any connections or feedback on direction would be a game-changer.

I’d love feedback on a few things:

- Does using structured hierarchies to interact with LLMs add value?

- What use cases could resonate in the market?

- Anyone here interested in helping me connect with others to bring this further?

Try it here: https://knowing.app (100 free credits with sign-up)

Docs: https://docs.knowing.app

Demo video: https://knowing.se

Thanks for any feedback or advice!
Because if you don't do things exactly the way cdecl wants you get a Syntax Error
Regarding GCP migration: I would just add the new account(s) as Owner to every relevant project. Then they can remove you after the 30 days or whenever they're comfortable.
It lacks explicatory power past the triad.

Sure, if you look at major triads only, and ignore extended harmony, it works fine.

But it’s also not that useful if you look only at triads, because there just aren’t that many triads.
I have just positive feelings about facebook recently, big power, open mindset
To be fair, top-of-the-line proprietary models suck at i18n. Try gemma-27b it's much better
Java is more widely used even within Google itself, and every single positive mentioned applies multiple-folds to it. Java has significantly more, battle-hardened libraries, and in the territory of web backends it is definitely by far the biggest player. Any service worth its weight will have a Java connection library made first, and that will often be of the highest quality. Many libraries are depended on by multiple software giants, not just Google.

Java is also GCd with significantly better implementationS, they have far better throughput, and they also have a low-latency one where pause time is actually decoupled from heap size, unlike what Go does with simply blocking threads under load.

Also, Java has virtual threads which are the same as go routines, so not even that is a relevant difference.

And due to it being a bigger language, more of it will be found in LLM data sets, ergo LLMs will more useful in case of Java.
"Although some studies have shown various gains in achievement (Marzano & Pickering, 2007), the relationship between academic achievement and homework is so unclear (Cooper & Valentine, 2001) that using research to definitively state that homework is effective in all contexts is presumptive."

American Secondary Education 45(2) Spring 2017 Examining Homework Bennett
On a properly configured server you'll be waiting forever, because the users actually running the applications on that server aren't the same users who have privileges to make changes to the system or have access to stuff like sudo. So if you take over the nginx/postgres/whatever user, you're not really going to get anywhere.

On the other hand you probably don't need to. Those users already expose all the juicy data on the server. You don't gain much from obtaining root anyways, except better persistence.

This attack might be more interesting when chained with some other exploit that gains access to a users system via their e-mail client or browser. In other words nice if you're NSO Group making exploits for targeting individuals, but not that useful if you're trying to make a botnet.
File over App: A Philosophy for Digital Longevity
> For me that's just a great example of how basically the vast majority of AI influencers (who vie for influence on social media, rather than research) are basically clueless about AI and CS

This is a bit stark: there are many great knowledgeable engineers and scientists who would not get your point about a^nb^n. It's impossible to know 100% of of such a wide area as "AI and CS".
Tried this a while ago, it's really bad. Often freezes or overshoots the target.
We are not living in a world that was created yesterday. Trump has been president before, we can look to that record when making predictions.

Last time he pulled out of the Paris accords and incentivized increased oil production, while making none of the massive investments in renewables and EVs that the Biden Administration would later make.
There are people who do believe UFOs a really demons in disguise. Supposedly a lot of them are Evangelical Christians in high places in the US intelligence and military hierarchy, and one of the reasons for secrecy about UAPs/UFOs is that they don't want to risk calling up or empowering some existential demonic force by calling attention to it.

I don't know how true the latter part of that is (the former is definitely true) but people like that aren't going to be disabused from their beliefs regardless of the criticism, it's religion at that point.

All I'm saying is if people want this to be taken seriously, and approached credibly, they need to stop taking the word of people like Lue Elizondo uncritically. We don't know that any of these people actually know anything about anything. We do know they can't or won't prove anything beyond a reasonable doubt. We also know the proof they do provide, when they choose to provide it, is often unreliable, circumstantial or outright fraud. That should be more of a red flag for people than it seems to be.
This is one of the few HN articles that have profoundly moved me. Such a beautiful and simple use of technology to make a clear and big improvement in someone's life.

As a side note on his mother remembering that the tablet exists, it sounds like she has amnesia quite like Henry Molaison, a famous case study in neuropathology. He had very specific brain damage that seemingly stopped him forming new memories in the same way as OP's mother, but studies showed that he could remember some things, just not consciously. So for example he would have warm feelings towards people who'd been caring for him despite not remembering them, and would also pick up card games more and more quickly as he played them repeatedly despite saying he didn't remember the game. OP's mother remembering the tablet sounds very similar, particularly when paired with the feeling of being remembered and loved by her children.
Do we a know whether the current SOTA foundation models (Gemini, gpt4o, Claude, etc) are actually all GPT-based (as in, causal models)?
Those of Algol/Wirth linage, or influenced by then.

Then again people complain that they are too verbose, and they rather write in hieroglyph friendly languages.
The normal is the orientation
I just found out you can sync sleep in JavaScript. I’m using it to implement multi-process sync file locks that need to interoperate with a large non-async framework (eslint).

Atomics.wait(this.sleepBuffer, 0, 0, ms)
The kickass aluminum welding process doesn't melt aluminum at all. It's called friction stir welding. Invented in the UK in the 1990s, it involves moving a rotating tool through the aluminum. The rotation softens and mixes the solid metal, refining the grain structure and blending the two pieces together. It's what SpaceX uses to weld the tanks on the Falcon 9.
Oh sweet! I've used little tabletop ones at work, and ended up building myself one using the housing of some scrapped microwave equipment (it got hit by lightning so the circuits were junk, but the RF-gasketed housing was in great shape.) It worked but I never built many passthroughs for it.

The trouble with the tabletop ones is that it's such a pain to set up all the I/O passthroughs and stuff, often it's just not justifiable to go through the hassle, and it just doesn't get used.

Being able to walk in and just use your own hands to manipulate the DUT is huge. If you're not dealing with high power, it's plenty safe, and it just saves a ton of time.
Typesetting and printing a family memoir (2017)
Yes! When you watch a YouTube video, a part of your subscription directly goes to the YouTube creator, so you are actually paying for this content.

If you are using an adblocker or just watching for free, fair-enough, the ad can be baked-in into the stream, but when you just bought a movie and in the middle of the movie there is an ad, this is infuriating.
Visual Studio is what matters.

VSCode is never going to be as good, you are better of with Clion then.
Amazon Reportedly Developing Smart Glasses for Delivery Drivers
Yes, because Polymarket offers sports markets, which are still illegal in the US (for US users, anyway). Kalshi has been careful to offer markets in basically everything except sports.

It should be obvious what happened here: Polymarket has been offering grey or black markets to users, using only IP address as the discriminator, which is very easy to work around. They've operated under the Feds' radar for quite some time, and the Feds noticed them after they started getting significant press regarding the election.

The election is the reason they got noticed, but the likely crime itself is sports, not elections.
Postgres has a mechanism for importing CSVs. Not sure what the value of something like this would add.
The OP was saying that having any spending limit would be antithetical to enterprise usage because it could bring critical services to a halt.

My point was, if that's a reason to have unbounded spending, why allow me to spin up a service that can get CPU or RAM bound?

> Determine your own graceful envelope, implement accordingly.

Which most people do have, but we then also want an "ungraceful" backstop — trains have both a brake and a dead man's switch.
Congratulations, you are part of those 10%.
Newspapers don't generally do it, but I've never seen it as a matter of avoiding interference. Rather, it's just that we simply don't have much interest one way or the other in most elections. The newspapers don't spend a lot of time covering them and would not consider themselves sufficiently knowledgeable to make an endorsement.

The American election is special, in that it's the "leader of the free world". What we do here affects everybody, in a way that even the leadership of Germany, France, and England doesn't. Perhaps we'd have an opinion about the leadership in Russia or China, but they don't have free elections.

The government should probably refrain from making an endorsement, but if people can't figure out the distinction between a government and a newspaper, that's their own lookout.
> No, you don't need to melt the metal to mix; it's just almost always easier to do it that way.

Except for welding aluminum, where friction stir welding does exactly that to solid metal.
That's true! I also listen to lessons while walking,it helps me remember
As I referenced elsewhere in this thread, I'm specifically thinking about the fact that if tools for AI coding become a standard part of dev workflow, new languages might not ever get off the ground because the AI hasn't seen enough about the new language on the internet and thus doesn't know enough about new languages to be helpful in AI assisted coding- a new kind of negative feedback loop.
The latter: you've used the service so, even if your card rejected the payment, you'd still have a debt with your provider.
If I'm right that this condition is like that of Henry Molaison - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Molaison - then the real difficulty is that you don't remember that you have amnesia.
Also as Jung said unearned wisdom can be dangerous.

You are absolutely insufferable. This all reeks of ego.

Just don't bring it up if you're not willing to openly discuss how you got there. Not that I believe you, anyway, of course.
Yes, it has to do with how its type inference interacts with certain language features (particularly return type overloading).

It's unfortunate but I would honestly be ok with a "strict mode" that requires extra annotations from the programmer if it would prevent this stupid error in practice.
That was the intention of that paragraph.
I don't see the use case. CSV imports are fairly standard tasks, not rocket science. Anyone without the skills to handle such a routine thing wouldn't know what to do with a bunch of tables in an RDS DB anyway.
I can read that.

I don't think it is gibberish. It's code and in order to read that code you need to understand the language, and to understand language you need learning and experience.

Maybe it can be useful for learning, but if you have to use such tool, I suspect you won't understand it anyway - so in a way it is more a gibberish-to-gibberish translator.
Did you read the article I linked? You keep saying this is an easy thing to do, but don't seem to acknowledge any of the problems it causes. It is not easy to identify people. It is easy to identify people with 99% accuracy. If the remaining 1% are unable to access society, that is an unacceptable risk.

Consider for instance the people who currently exist, don't have government ID, and don't have an accurate record of their birth. Such people exist. Should they just die, or something?
Hi there. Author here. Thanks for the heads up. I would never even consider using LLMs for this, this is just a subject that was always interesting to me so I thought it would be a good idea to write some of it down. Some of these mentions look like shortcomings of English not being my first language; I'll try to review it and change the words or terms that you suggested.
https://crowdfund.news/crowdfunding-project/blotch-the-world... funded recently and there are others with similar if perhaps less slick implementations on the software side.
It was a meta-joke, sorry everyone.
Quarry: A modern computing environment for your World
If you can solve the mobile UX, I would love to switch from notion where even a text selection is tedious on mobile app.
Is there notion -> affine migration tools ?

EDIT: being behind cloudflare makes some url inaccessible with Brave on mobile. The captcha never solves. I know it's a very specific issue but worth knowing. It's an issue I encounter frequently on the web.
It's a bootstrapped business, no investors/board.
> they suggest ROS as a robust industry-ready software, which absolutely hasn't been my experience

Also BY FAR not my experience.

Personally I see ROS as a cool thing for prototyping and research, but I see it certainly not as a serious solution for industry.

> This is due to the horrible build system, odd choice of defaults, instability under constrained resources, and how it inserts itself into everything.

This is an excellent short description of the main pain topics. I would add, that the need to work with 5 different languages (YAML, XML, MSG, CMAKE and C and/or Python) from scratch, makes it difficult for SME that are not software people to be productive in short time.
Youtube recommendation system seems like an anti-recommendation one. There is at least 10^6 videos about woodworking on Youtube, but how many are you really able to reach?
Door-to-door saleswomen are fueling Shein's rise in Mexico
Yet companies like Eiffel Software, and Ada vendors with Ada/SPARK, are still in business with people paying for using their tools, in a day and age where many devs refuse to pay for their tooling.
Thanks for the heads up. It's funny how we encounter different sources telling us different things about the history of these subgenres. I'll go back and review/expand that paragraph soon.
It seemed weird to me too.

In my country, when TV series are interviewing anonymous people they use specific visual language - pixellated face, or facing away from the camera, or face clad in shadow.

Having an actor voice the words is normal. But having an actor showing the anonymous person's face is an... unusual choice.
Definitly, otherwise Eiffel Software would have closed shop by now.
What was the town called again were the police didn't do anything while there was an active shooter the the school?
Here is summary

IF you want to do a little bit with AI

Get a BS in AI.

If you want to know AI a little more in-depth

Get a Masters in AI.

If you want to go into more advanced research into AI.

Get a PHD in AI.
The only feedback I get when installing d-spy is "Uses System Services", and "Uses Session Services", which means nothing to me as a user, and yet it allows program to enumerate all programs I use and as it turns out even hack my computer. Other platforms solved this with something like "developer mode", iOS, Android, Meta, etc. I shouldn't be able to install this app without confirming developer-mode-only permissions. As for this particular app it is offline, yes, but dbus allows for cross-app communication, so no more
Ask HN: Help assembling hacker Xmas presents for kids?
Hi there,

I imagine I'm not the only one here who has been facing difficult times financially. I wish everyone well during the holidays.

I have three very smart kids who are creative and like building things. Well, isn't that all kids?

I had been subscribing to Mark Rober's Crunchlabs boxes. My kids enjoy them, but I canceled those to save money.

I imagine there are cool tech projects that could make great Xmas presents, projects where I could source the components myself for much cheaper than something like a crunchlabs box. Am I wrong?

I would like to hear of any projects where I can put in the time to order inexpensive components and print out instructions on my own printer. There must be lots of people making these kinds of things here on HN?

Good luck everyone!
That’s not my experience at all and I’ve run hundreds of clusters across multiple cloud providers and on bare metal.

You absolutely can helm upgrade istio, why not?

Can you give any actual examples of this?
Long time Shopify customer here. Their fees are not bad at all. Have you tried selling on Amazon, Ebay or even Apples App Store?

They even have a warehouse partner that packs and ships for about the same cost as DIY.
I am genuinely impressed with what I see: Customisable tables, document editing as in notion combined with the drawing features (which I presume are inspired by Miro). The endless canvas / presentation feature reminds me of Prezi (but without transitions). All of this free and open source, really nice!

I did encounter plenty of glitches related to zoom and toolbars disappearing on firefox. As I didn't sign up all the AI integrations are not working; as someone else suggested it would be cool if I can just enter an API key somewhere. I recently tried out excalidraw. Really like the looks and how the arrow snapping works there. Excalidraw is MIT licensed so perhaps you can integrate it?
Sure, I mean I read both the wikipedia pages so I've understood that. And I'm not trying to be obtuse here, honestly, but that still doesn't really help me understand why "cold welding, despite the name, _is not welding_".

Your description, and wiki's, both sound like it is welding.

And after spending an embarrassing amount of time last night going down a welding rabbit hole, I have not seen anyone else claim that "cold welding is not welding". I'm pretty sure it is.
Hi there. That was probably just a small mistake on how I tried to explain the paragraph or the poor choice of words/terms I used. Thanks for the heads up.
Yes, with key books based on it.
If we can survive population decline at all (fwiw I think is still an open question on a planetary scale), we shouldn't worry about rebounding for a long time yet. So many problems we face that would be easier to solve at 1B people than 10B would also be even easier with 100M. The "market" will clear and human population long term will settle into something that can be sustained with available resources and biosphere services. Getting there via "attrition" is preferable to getting there via apocalyptic wars, famines, genocides, and diseases.
Congrats, good luck with your new company!

I have one question regarding your ARC Prize competition:
The current leader from the leaderboard (MindsAI) seems not to be following the original intention of the competition (fine tune a model with millions of tasks similar with the ARC tasks). IMO this is against the goal/intention of the competition, the goal being to find a novel way to get neural networks to generalize from a few samples. You can solve almost anything by brute-forcing it (fine tunning on millions of samples). If you agree with me, why is the MindsAI solution accepted?
Handy site!

Next I want one to explain some of Rust’s more cryptic pointer gibberish. Usually I just hit “use suggested fix X” until the compiler’s happy.
> Aspects that may have little to do with any meritocracy, reasonableness, fairness etc. become the deciding factors...

If you're not presenting an alterative system, then is it still the best one you can think of?
Ok, but what if we create an analytics dashboard for them. Basically the user will upload a CSV and a dashboard with charts will be created. I too don't know the use case exactly. Just thinking loud here.