skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TeX is kind of an unfortunate accident in that respect: Knuth had explicitly set out to make a relatively underpowered macro processor, not a general-purpose programming language; yet at the end he couldn’t help realizing he had, in fact, built a Turing-complete language. (Some parts of appendix D of the TeXbook are much easier to comprehend if you know what continuation passing is.)

When he did set out to build a programming language, Knuth built METAFONT, and it’s just ridiculous how much nicer that is to program—even though it shares with TeX its token-stream-transformer nature and the standard pitfalls of grammarless macroexpanders such as miserable syntax error messages.
At first blush, this might seem like another silly roll-up. However, I believe in Marc Lore completely and it will be interesting to see what this becomes. This is bad news for DoorDash (imo).
No, the housing crisis is caused by an imbalance of supply and demand.

Immigration (legal or otherwise) increases demand for housing. Your argument that immigrants are poor doesn’t change that, immigrants still live somewhere, and that drives the demand for housing up.

Increasing the housing supply is a solution, but allowing demand to increase is also exacerbating the issue
of course not, check their username.
Ask HN: What's your "I wish I knew this before starting" tech stack decision?
I need more engineering blogs like this. Just seems like a fun project.
Maybe it's the hacking equivalent of Schrödinger's douchebag? If the hacking attempt succeeds, then you've achieved your goal. If it fails then you obviously joking or doing "research."
Show HN:I Made an MVP Agency to Turn Ideas into Products–But Hard To Earn Trust
Starting my SaaS MVP-building agency was supposed to be my way of helping non-technical founders bring their ideas to life. I’ve put in countless hours refining the workflow, setting up my website, and preparing to deliver fully functional MVPs without requiring clients to know any code. But I didn’t anticipate the challenge of getting clients on board without an established portfolio.

Without a track record, I’ve found it difficult to earn the trust needed to land that first client. I've tried everything: connecting with people on LinkedIn, joining founder groups, and even offering discounts for a chance to prove the concept. But so far, I haven’t had any success, and I’m curious if anyone here has been through a similar struggle.

How did you overcome the lack of a portfolio to get that initial momentum? I'm open to any ideas or advice that can help break this cycle and make this project a success.
Had to make an account to just echo this sentiment. I recently joined bluesky and holy hotdog as a developer it feels good that you can actually build stuff, data wrangling or whatever you might feel inspired to do.
Discussion (26 points, 3 hours ago, 63 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42127304
Frogs kick back against lethal fungus
I don’t think Xi cares about carbon. He just wants to build as much power as possible so that China becomes an economic powerhouse (no pun intended). Imagine what would happen in Europe or the US if power is 1/5th the price or lower. It would open many opportunities for building and innovation.
I see this is as simply buying scale more quickly than they could grow organically.
Agree, I'd rather see JSON extended to something dumb like this
{
"name": "Alice" :\s,
"age": 30 :\d,
"isMember": true :\b,
"scores": [85, 90, 78.5] :\a,
"profile": {
"email": "alice@example.com" :\s,
"joinedDate": "2023-01-15T12:00:00" :\t
}
}
I used Kagi for half a year - I loved it!

I was hoping Kagi got some media coverage and this was an article covering how it's so much better than Google.

My problem is with companies who start by declaring they are going to take on Google. These kind of companies are nowhere to be found a few years later.
Please, go ahead and explain how this is not corruption: https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishi.... I’m a huge mental gymnastics enthusiast.
Do archaeologists or other relevant experts have any sense of how common these things were / what fraction have been destroyed either through natural processes or human activity? Are there a smallish number of these sites because they were always rare (and took a lot of labor to build) or were there a lot more of these but like a lot of them were deconstructed by iron age farmers or something?
Net carbone negative is bullshit (no such things as net emissions if you don't have a "removal" side, which is not happening rn)

Then nuke is much better for low co2 energy mix, cf France vs Germany
I also wish I'd spent more time trying to get my parents to talk about the early parts of their lives. Only one grandmother lived until I was old enough to think of this, but I didn't think to do it with her either :(
It is also possible for war to be prevented by last minute magic deplomacy, albeit I would agree that it's the much less likely of the two options.

But it's also something that's much less likely to become public knowledge. Slow and tedious efforts over years and decades contains plenty of discussions of the sort that often can be made public to make both sides look good (or for each side to make themselves look good to their domestic audience), while last minute, last ditch deals to prevent a war that was about to happen is much more likely to involve deals/threats/whatever that one or both parties require remain classified for many decades.
It's someone attempting to setup/frame someone else

https://x.com/vxunderground/status/1856450468945506615

https://x.com/evildojo666/status/1856413636748562827
The interesting thing is that Valve is not a "huge company". They're privately held and only had 336 employees the last time headcount was reported (2021).
Actually, I meant to say Pi Zero 2 W as well. But basically, any device that supports USB OTG
How do you mean?

The moment the Soviet Union crashed, capitalists had no reason to sit on the table and negotiate salary increases, welfare, etc. That's what effectively drove inequality up.

The biggest problem with tech companies and wealth inequality is tax evasion. Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big-anything in the west pays no taxes.

Assuming that (a) taxation is progressive and (b) everyone pays their share, VCs are a net positive because the _move_ money from those who have it to those who don't, giving them chance. Even if the startup fails, the overall result has a net positive effect on the economy and society on multiple levels.
I'm pretty sure that such a legal system does quite a bit of work to destroy trust in the legal system and institutions.
People buy Teslas because they go fast, get 300 miles to a charge and have five star safety ratings. "Software" is thing main thing capable of rivaling build quality and repair costs as the thing people most complain about. They're leaving a major untapped market for competitors to fill with electric cars that have tactile HVAC controls etc.

There was a meme a while ago where thing thing people used to want out of their car's entertainment system was satellite navigation and fancy everything, whereas the thing people want now is a dumb standard plug to connect their phone to the car's speakers.
Hey, I get it , it’s so tough starting out without a portfolio. Maybe try creating a mini project or sample case study to show what you can do. Offering a “pay if satisfied” guarantee could help too. Hang in there; that first win is closer than you think !
What browser, OS?

On windows both Firefox and Chrome have no discernible latency for me at least.
Thanks for the update. I just started using your plugin and it seems like the most feature complete for jetbrains IDEs.
Middle America sees immigration as:

Outsiders coming in and changing the society. People who don’t speak English sending their kids to their schools. Moving into their neighborhoods and making it more competitive for their friends and family to move into their neighborhoods. Creating “bad neighborhoods” and increasing crime.
What's even more interesting is that even the great pyramid itself wasn't the beginning of it all, they built it in the later Old Kingdom period.

And we know so much because of the unusual culture of having to carve out one's achievements on the tombstone. In fact, serious people of the Nile cared more about the afterlife than life itself.
Ah, that is why I have added the number of moves and the ideal number of moves :)
No offense but this comes off as an equally narrow accounting of the historical record.
Where did all the money go?
Their voice sounds so realistic, that unlike the avatar, my monkey brain is not fathoming it being unreal.
Those CPUs can fly. Now you have to show me a single study about the flight response of the given CPU.
Not much to see there yet. I find it unfortunate that they have decided not to include any more real live demonstrations in their videos and it seems that this is a bit of a closed deal at the moment (you have to contact their sales team to get access). But if this product is anything like their others (which I use almost daily) and delivers on its idea, there is so much scope for it to really make people's lives better. Very exciting!
That sounds a lot like TRT; NAT64 seems to have been more successful. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_transition_mechanism for all of the various flavors of mixing ipv6 and ipv4.
According to the article, they also own Blue Apron.

Feels like they might be buying clout in the industry by buying business that already exist in it.
Interesting...the name of this makes it sound like criminals will be using it to transfer cash around the world, like with gift cards?

Genuinely I'm curious, is there really a big market around gifting crypto, or is that market just sort of a front for criminal activity like why some retailers see a spike in gift card sales?
Related nrf52 based project: https://github.com/jfedor2/hid-remapper/blob/master/BLUETOOT...
I think there are three components here:

- There is a partisan component when democrats criticize the effect of cases like Dobbs, Janus, and Trump v. USA. This definitely exists.

- There is definitely a legal interpretation component. I heard some good analysis on legal interpretation on NPR around the Chevron deference when Loper v. Raimondo happened. They had on law professors, federal lawyers, and even one of the lawyers who argued the original Chevron case. There was a lot of content educating people on the history of Chevron deference, what it means, and what the new ruling might mean for regulators in the future. I've also seen a lot of discussion poking holes in the unitary executive theory (on the left) and justifying it (on the right). You sometimes have to dig to find this - long discussions on legal theory don't exactly make for compelling media.

- Finally, there is a "corruption on the SCOTUS" component. I would argue that the timing here is partisan, but the material is not. The conflicts of interest documented are factual, and the calls to adopt a code of ethics should have been a nonpartisan issue. Personally, I believe that the GOP learned the wrong lesson from the Nixon impeachment and Bork nomination and has adopted a more doveish stance on balancing political power versus corruption within their party, and the partisan lean of the SCOTUS scandals is a consequence of this.
> According to the US Government, yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Shkreli

According to the government he did NOT commit theft.

He was instead “convicted in federal court on two counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy.”
The first descendants of Homo erectus recognized from China
>That’s why we’ve created USD II – the perfect stablecoin to give with Burner. It’s backed 1:1 with U.S. Dollars held in reserve by our partner, Bridge.

Ah shit, here we go again. Why would I use this?
A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT
They have, its proprietary for GitHub Copilot.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41907350
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> One FMA counts as two floating-point operations: one multiplication and one addition.

Right. This is where the discrepancy comes from. I counted FMA as a single FLOP.
There are countless people who can do that and don't. There are almost certainly many people actively doing it still today. Thinking that the xz attack was extraordinary or difficult is a very big mistake.

It's news cycle should have conveyed a sense of "oh shit, we really do need to be watching for discretely malicious contributors" not "whoa, I can't believe there was someone capable of that!" -- it seems like you learned the wrong lesson.
Whatever your service is, usually the database is the bottleneck.
The database limits the latency, scaling and availability.

Of course, how much, depends on the service. Particularly, how much concurrent writing is happening, and do you need to update this state globally, in real-time as result of this writing. Also, is local caching happening and do you need to invalidate the cache as well as a result of this writing.

The most of the relevant problems disappear, if you can just replicate most of the data without worrying that someone is updating it, and you also don't have cache invalidation issues. No race conditions. No real-time replication issues.
Research shows that the willingness to incur personal cost to punish unfairness is prevalent in all cultures.

I can dig up the relevant studies if you are interested.
RedCode: Risky Code Execution and Generation Benchmark for Code Agents
Yes, but getting it to work requires that you both:

(a) disable FileVault, and
(b) enable automatic login

One option is to automatically log in to an account which has very little access, and have everything sensitive on an encrypted disk/partition, and to use a separate keychain for any credentials you want to protect.

This and more suggestions here from a company using Macs as build servers:
https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/737381?answ...

I don't like the idea of enabling automatic login on any machine, so I keep FileVault on and just accept that any rebooted Macs will need physical access on restart.

If it's possible somehow to get screen-sharing access (or even SSH) without automatic login after a reboot, I'm sure lots of users would love to know how.
will next account be 667?
Raymond Chen has an article discussing whether or not this should be taken into account:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20210629-00/?p=10...
GrubHub was always my go to. That miiight be just because I lived in Chicago when it launched so it was the default for me for so long. I used it pretty much exclusively all through Covid lockdown, but have since stopped doing delivery much. Maybe once or twice a month. I do not have Prime (so I don't have GH+), but my credit card provides "free" DashPass so I now pretty much exclusively use Door Dash when I do get food delivered. If it wasn't for the free DashPass I'd probably still use Grub Hub
LOL - I like that one! :-)
Very tardily returning to add that the same Latin textbook, a few pages earlier, gives these English translations for the six cases of the example noun causa, "cause": "A cause — of a cause — to or for a cause — a cause — O cause, or thou cause — with, by, from a cause."

Compare to Alice's "A mouse — of a mouse — to a mouse — a mouse — O mouse!"

[1] https://archive.org/details/bellumhelvetiumf00lowe/page/201
I didn't understand anything in that article, but I'm very excited for the record-breakers and other mathematicians involved. Good job, ya'll.
Damian is an excellent writer and communicator for sure. But I don't know if it answers the question of what you would use these features in Raku for. If one wanted to compute e to higher precision, I feel like one would use a DSL. But we also don't need to compute e presently.
Lowered expectations.
Not sarcasm. When parsing untrusted, complex input with untrusted code, one should use multiple isolation domains.

pgsql -> http -> [ firejail [ deno pdf.js (file:///untrusted.pdf) ] ]
Earlier investors. Ever hear of pump and dump? After you sell you’re insulated from future performance as long as you don’t commit actual fraud etc.
Well, when you're in the business of selling a dollar for eighty cents, all the money probably got flushed down the toilet.
Because I'm both interested in, and need to do a lot of different things. I enjoy being self-reliant.
This discovery was already commented a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41475177

As I wrote in the comments, I was the record holder, twice, in the 90s:

Fermigier, Stéfane - Un exemple de courbe elliptique définie sur Q de rang ≥19. (French) [An example of an elliptic curve defined over Q with rank ≥19] C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I Math. 315 (1992), no. 6, 719–722.

Fermigier, Stéfane - Une courbe elliptique définie sur Q de rang ≥22. (French) [An elliptic curve defined over Q of rank ≥22] Acta Arith. 82 (1997), no. 4, 359–363.
Are they thriving? DoorDash, instacart, grubhub, and uber all lose money.
It's a form of Steganography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
70% of the US Dept of Ed budget backs the majority of student loans
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Funny because Grubhub themselves went on a buying spree about 12 years ago purchasing tons of independent food delivery apps to gain marketshare.
There's no such thing as "the will of the people", though -- "the people" is a loose aggregation of lots of different individuals, communities and factions that are not uniformly aligned in their interests and values.

The point of having a political process is to define a structured way of resolving the conflicts that arise from those divergences of interests and values, not to pretend that the output of specific elections somehow represents the singular will of the entirety of society. Presuming that is a grave error that inevitably results in the strongest faction imposing its will unilaterally onto all others.

Democracy is a great way of deciding political questions, but without safeguards in place to ensure that that it's kept within defined bounds of what qualifies as a political question in the first place, it will degrade into authoritarianism pretty rapidly.

We absolutely need judicial review, and plebiscites in which narrow majorities approve of policies that are unconstitutional, or otherwise violate people's fundamental rights, should unquestionably be struck down, just as equivalent policies enacted by a legislative body would.
Netflix's Distributed Counter Abstraction
You get $10/month dining credits if you’re an Amex card holder. Imagine the cost of all promotions.
I didn't like this either, seems kind of slimy.
https://scopes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dataformat/#at-a-gla... for some syntax examples
Maybe this was different per region, but I used GrubHub when it first launched in Chicago and even back then they had "their own drivers" (contractors same as Uber/DoorDash).

However, I wouldn't be surprised if their roll out involved capturing businesses that already offered delivery drivers until they had a critical mass of drivers in the region or something.
I’m pretty sure every Android phone does. It’s called a microphone. It doesn’t give absolute pressure values, but that is not needed for this use case.
Well you see, it's just a gratuity.
Text-to-Firebase
Ecosia and Qwant, two European search engines, join forces
University of Minnesota at it again?
... Ideal for a repressive government or just a mildly corrupt government agency / corporate body to use to identify defectors, leakers, whistleblowers, or other dissidents. (Digital image sensors effectively already mark their output due to randomness of semiconductor manufacturing, and that has already been used by abovementioned actors for the abovementioned purposes. But that at least is difficult.) Tell me with a straight face that a culture that produced Chat Control or attempted to track forwarding chains of chat messages[1] won’t mandate device-unique watermarks kept on file by the communications regulator. And those are the more liberal governments by today’s standards.

I’m surprised how eager people are to build this kind of tech. It was quite a scandal (if ultimately a fruitless one) when it came out colour printers marked their output with unique identifiers; and now that generative AI is a thing stuff like TFA is seen as virtuous somehow. Can we maybe not forget about humans?..

[1] I don’t remember where I read about the latter or which country it was about—maybe India?
Yeah I think this is a good point. Around ~8th grade I got pretty far into making a Final Fantasy 6-inspired JRPG in QBASIC with some friends. Obviously it was not remotely professional quality. But the delta between it and a "real" game wasn't THAT insane. There's only so much you can pack into little 8 or 16 bit sprites. It's very easy to write a 2D tile based engine, there was a lot of info on the Internet about it even then back in the late 90s. I didn't need to know college level math to do basic 2D rendering and effects. If making a somewhat presentable game in the 90s interested you, it was all pretty attainable with study and work.

Nowadays, for my own kids, the equivalent would be trying to write... Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom from scratch? Which is like asking them to solve cold fusion based on a middle school understanding of science. It's laughable. Making "old grandpa games" doesn't motivate them. Which is a bummer, because hacking on that crappy QBASIC RPG definitely set me on the path to a lifelong interest and career in tech. (Unfortunately it was never finished, because my HDD died, and the backup I periodically dumped to a floppy was unreadable, so several years of effort were lost. Great early lesson about backups not meaning shit unless you regularly test that you can restore them...).
A few points to the contrary: The primary purpose for their writing of opinions is not to defend the decisions, but to instruct lower courts on how they should reason on similar cases. So it very much matters on a practical level that their reasoning is sound. Second, if the goal is a cogent, defensible argument, readability is in support of that objective, whereas you suggest that readability is somehow (?) at odds with cogency and defensibility. Thirdly, the justices are keenly aware that the interested public consumes their opinions too, and that they are, in fact, ethically and morally bound to defend their decisions to the public.
> I fail to see the justification for not considering this a (super)tribe.

Call it whatever you want: tribalism may be an omnipresent manifestation of human nature, but "supertribalism" is something qualitatively different and not remotely as normal.
I originally thought this was about editing AmigaOS executable files.
Those contain HUNKs.
Here is one way:

use HTTP::UserAgent;
use JSON::Fast;

my $url = 'https://api.coindesk.com/v1/bpi/currentprice.json';

my $ua = HTTP::UserAgent.new;

my $total-time = 0;
loop {
my $response = $ua.get($url);
if $response.is-success {
my $data = from-json $response.content;
my $rate = $data<chartName>;
say "Current chart name: $rate";
#last if $rate eq 'Bitcoin';
last if $total-time ≥ 16;
}
else {
say "Failed to fetch data: {$response.status-line}";
}
sleep 3; # Poll every 3 seconds
$total-time += 3;
}

(Tweak / uncomment / rename the $rate variable assignments and checks.)
From the author, in the comments:

"Sorry, the reference to Sabine Hossenfelder’s views on beauty was just to get you to click on the post and hope you would read the interesting content here. I’m not about to host a discussion of this topic here now."

so... thanks for the click-bait, i guess...?
Because you don’t want to give yourself the chance to change your mind.

It’s worth nothing that hormonal birth control doesn’t really agree with all women. Hormones have health complications, including mental health. I would never push a partner towards taking them.
>> Thanks for playing Wing Commander!

captain america voice I got that reference :-)
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