skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fine with me. Their ideals and cultural preferences won't be present in the next generation. A self-fixing problem.

The governments of Japan and South Korea disagree.
Ask HN: How to check who the black bar is honoring? (for this one) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42151976
Inside The Republican false-flag effort to turn off Kamala Harris voters
> Why would anyone teach with code that cannot be used for legal reasons?

Ask the Numerical Recipes guys!

But for real, you can use this code, I don't think anyone said that you couldn't.
It's worth contextualizing that the decline of coal in the US has been fuelled (sorry) more than anything by the rapid expansion of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas extraction. The US is now the world's largest natural gas producer with 60% of that gas being produced by hydraulic fracturing. This isn't going to be easily accessible — or acceptable — everywhere around the world.
Wow this is neat!

Stark contrast to the stupid locked-down new API rules twitter rolled out post-Elon.
People aren't built to ignore attacks on them and if they make themselves do it constantly it really has an effect on their self-esteem. See: bullying.
so if you pick up a package that says "Unsalted Butter" and nothing else, who the hell is going to assume no milk was used

Lots of people in the U.S. don't know that butter is made from milk. I have met plenty of people who don't know that cheese is a dairy product. I have met plenty of people who think that mayonnaise is a dairy product... Very few people know that American caramel is a dairy product...

while avoiding this kind of bureaucratic nonsense.

This is not bureaucratic nonsense. Reporting ingredients has been table stakes for selling foodstuffs in the U.S. for several decades. A company that can't get something that basic right is also getting something else wrong. And that's the point of these seemingly bureaucratic rules: they're basically unit tests for the regulatory agencies to identify issues they require followup.
Made it through the first two video chapters and will certainly finish later on.

For a lot of similar material in coffeetable book format, there is a concept art book; searching around suggests that it is "Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar". My beloved copy is buried somewhere deep in storage, but it is a prized possession.

E: Turns out this book has gotten pretty rare, and a re-print with added content was announced as part of all of these updates.
Report Spam Email Better Filter Them Out
Show HN: I made a demo of my Prolog-successor. Try it please
Nonsense, lots of people are doing text editors.
Another data point. When Musk bought twitter and started wrecking it, several people I followed created an account on blue sky but most did not use it that much. This seems to have changed over the past week (i.e. after the US election). Dozens of users have moved, pro-Ukraine people in particular. Some double post. As certain content creators move, others do the same, amplifying the trend. It's interesting to see network effects at play.
That's a rather silly thing for an adult to ask. There's multiple reasons why a police report is more official than a tweet.

* A police report is a legal document.

* A tweet can be removed by either its poster or by the platform's operator after it's been posted, while only the police can make a report disappear.

* You can tweet at someone anything you want and they don't have to accept it to receive it, while the police can refuse to accept an unfounded report. An insurance company might require a police report be filed before accepting a claim, but it would not accept a tweet as a substitute.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

err, I mean. I have not! What's that?
Baseload power comes at the expense of renewable power, the latter of which is much cheaper, much faster, and less riskier to deploy than nuclear. Peaking gas plants are much quicker to build than nuclear and should tide us over until grid storage (of all kinds) catches up – which looks to be around 1-2 decades at current scaling and about the lead time for a nuclear power plant
This is cool and a big reason to root for BlueSky over X, all politics aside.

I wonder if they (or some third party) offers zip files of dumps of various kinds? It seems that would go easier on thier servers.
If you look at a food package and don't see Contains how do you know if it's truly absent or if perhaps it's on a different part of the label and you missed it?
I find that oils such as petroleum jelly or olive oil do provide pain relief for burns. I can only speculate as to the method of action, but I’m clearly not the only one. Apparently even air movement or contact can cause pain to burns due to the exposure of the dermis, and possibly other reasons.

> Also, oxygen's a gas.

Yeah, I think it must be carbon dioxide or some other gas that is naturally occurring in the atmosphere that causes the painful sensation, otherwise they wouldn’t use specifically oxygen?
Spam Checker API
I think a syntax highlighter and in-line documentation for future language features before they are created is also necessary. I'll stick with more established languages, too. Time in a single direction is already hard.
The author seems to imply that "winning" here correlates with a measure of posting frequency:

>If Bluesky comes out as a “winner” and more posting happens there, I think I’m generally fine with that. At least for now.

If that's what the match between microblogging services is about, I wager Bluesky has no chance whatsoever to come out the winner. It sounds like wishful thinking to me. Mere delusion.
All of these things can be done without looking if you use voice commands. They can be done with a scroll wheel/button as well if you spend five minutes, once, to set your preferences for what the wheel controls.

That said, I hate the touch screen only UI of my car. There are times when I can't use voice or the scroll wheel and want (not so much need) to do something with the menus. In most cars, it's trivial to do most things by feel if you know where the buttons are.

Even if you could get really good at only touching the "right" place on the touch screen, one software update can change things enough to where it's now accessed differently.
My claim to fame on the 20th anniversary (84 views thus far) is to have completed Ravenholm without inflicting any deaths or receiving any injury:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_XN_RwjnqM
Solar and batteries are getting so cheap so fast it won’t matter for the rest of the world. China installed a 3GW solar facility in 14 months, just turned up, second largest in the world [1] [2]. 14 months. And they are not slowing down.

[1] https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/12/worlds-second-largest...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42124253
Filevine Legal Case Management Software
Filevine current has developed many tools for legal software from case managament and document management. We are currently in development of new AI products that assists with different legal tasks such as drafting demand letters, depostions, and immigration forms.
A repo would be nice. I was recently given a 500 meg .zip of "backend stuff" and asked to figure out what's going on. No repository, no history, the read me is useless, the APIs look like they were built by rabid animals...
Not only performance per dollar but also battery duration/consumption.
This isn't QA over food. It's not like the butter was contaminated or something.

It's QA over packaging.

And you have no evidence that this was motivated by trying to "save money by doing less QA".

US food manufacturers generally do their absolute best on QA because recalls are super expensive and the headlines are bad. But companies are made up of humans who are never going to be 100.0000000% perfect.
It's Larian for me
What about Swedish fish?
Note that, if the labeling for the "contains" section is accurate, I do not have to give a fuck what some marketing wonk has decided they have to call their product for my safety.

THAT's why this isn't about government overreach. The SANCTITY of the labeling is important, so that it can be relied on NO MATTER WHAT
All I’m saying is, “There is no discourse there anymore, only loads of hate,” doesn’t reflect my experience. Apologies if I offended you.
I had a lot of issues getting black mesa to run on linux natively or via proton. Frequently crashes. Not uncommon per protondb. Food for thought of you're on a linux setup.
I suppose the only thing I can tell you before flagging you is that you might not want to go with the first thing you find if you want to find the truth.
There is absolutely zero value in making an exception to the rules about allergen labeling here. Yes, it has the net effect of having a requirement that a bag of peanuts says "Allergens: peanuts". So be it; this is the kind of rule that works better when made universal, with zero exceptions.
I have friends who share links to podcasts on Spotify, and I can always get them as RSS in my podcast app.

Maybe it exists, but I have not encountered a situation where I could not access a podcast with RSS.
I like your point and analogy about safe places being a normal aspect of society, where like-minded people gather. Perhaps you're right that it's not the end of the world to have multiple massive social networks.

Secondly, I find it so interesting that you come to HN for "contrary opinions" from your self-described "politically far left" viewpoint.

I hold a politically right viewpoint, and I come to HN for the same reason - it feels far left of my own world view.

I think it's pretty cool that HN can serve as a more neutral safe meeting place of minds.
Pretty common in corporate world. Email scanner will helpfully drop all manner of useful files between staff, so make an encrypted zip with simple password.
> You are arguing that the regulation should be more complex...

No, I'm just saying that in this particular instance literally nobody should have suffered any harm.
Perhaps the demo video was a bit confusing. You can think of it similar to how a traditional CPU memory cache works in that the client will send a request to the server (GPU memory cache in this case) which will process requests and then move the data to persistent storage async as needed. I'm leveraging the parallel computing power and memory bandwidth of a GPU to do this better than previous approaches. Does that make sense?
I've been patiently waiting for an index 2 or a price cut. I will continue to patiently wait.

I threw my CV1 that I bought secondhand in the trash when facebook bought oculus then forced login. Maybe I'll return to the market when it supplies something I want.
Don't store secrets in settings.py. Typically you'd inject those from secrets management as environment variables.
Mathdrops is a fun and educational game to improve your math skills. I created it because the place where I used to play it is now paid. I don't like paying for things I can do myself, or for anything that doesn't add value (exceptions are non-profits that rely on donations). The world is full of simple yet paid products. I don't get it. The code is open source under the MIT license and can be viewed at https://github.com/itsopi/mathdrops. I hope you enjoy it.
This should be so trivially apparent to anyone on HN using Steam that pointing it out is like noting the sky is blue.
I didn't suggest making an exception, sorry if that wasn't clear.

I'm just saying, it's hard to believe anyone was harmed in this particular case.
Truth is about logic. Humans not. The truth in the known universe is about atoms, etc.

You are also cherry picking where to apply your rules.
Great points. And an interesting idea that it might be a self correcting problem on a society wide level, although I’m not sure how heritable relationship preferences might be, versus being culturally transmitted.
What is gum?
Aside: We're teaching the kiddos ASL but all of us are hearing.

Yeah, it is a different language and culture as a result. Not any worse or better, just different.

You have to be a lot more expressive in ASL to get the points across and just more active in general. Also more patient as it takes longer to communicate, but maybe that an 'us' thing.

We like it a lot, and it's a lot of fun really. We;re thinking of tutoring in ASL for the fam, but like, we don;t have the time to even cook dinner, haha.

I'd say give it a try with your kids.
When the effort to ignore/mute/block hateful content outweighs the rest of the user experience... guess what happens?

It doesn't matter if you interact only with people you follow, given that anyone with a bit of an audience gets plenty of hateful replies.
Thank you @aoppaol!

AI tools like this don't generally need their own models or fine tuned LLMs. Uploading mortgage documents to ChatGPT may get some useful results but it really won't be comprehensive, it most probably won't take into account jurisdictional laws and mortgages rate data, and would be hard(er) to trust because of hallucinations without guardrails.

Technically this is an LLM wrapper but it utilizes around 5-10 prompts to extract and structure data from the document and ~15 prompts to analyze.
All the more reason not to overshare.
The hagiography of Palantir on here is so tiresome.
The article seems to assume the government will behave in a rather dumb way costing link $150k to remove each immigrant but I'm sure there are more efficient ways things could be sorted out? I'm not American so I'm not that up on the details.
I can't remember where I originally saw it. Hopefully another commented can assist, but it's at least discussed in chapter eight of this report https://govinfo.library.unt.edu/ota/Ota_4/DATA/1982/8214.PDF
The mirror's angle can change, while driving, in such a way that pulling over to stop and fix it isn't the safest option. With dedicated tactile controls you can adjust mirrors without taking your eyes off the road, while also verifying that the mirrors are adjusted correctly.

I think the number of people who can say that they have never needed to adjust mirrors while moving, even after having spent a few minutes adjusting them in the driveway, is very much next to zero.
Well I was answering to a comment talking about announcements from a police department.
Threads grew by a Bluesky this month
You are arguing for a much more complicated set of rules that now have to define what's obvious and what isn't. Is your preferred rule that they don't have to list allergens if they're already in the ingredients? Is it a custom cutout for butter? One ingredient items?

I'd say the recall is probably more pointless, who is going to check this at home?
Lol no revenue source and a promise to never sell or share their data.

Gotta figure this one out...
I'm a bit puzzled about their weird naming. "T14s Gen 6" when apparently "T14s Gen 5" was Intel based. Surely changing the entire CPU architecture deserves a new model name?
How to harness the ancient partnership between forests and fungi (2022) [video]
> Lots of people in the U.S. don't know that butter is made from milk. I have met plenty of people who don't know that cheese is a dairy product.

If there are people who are allergic to dairy who don't know butter or cheese come from milk, then I think there's an even bigger problem here...
> Self correcting in many ways but it is often 'corrected' by oppression and violence. Women did not forbid themselves from going outside or showing their faces.

Where in the western world is this happening?
> No other technology comes even close to the energy density of nuclear power.

The dollar density is also huge.

Trying to get new reactor design actually deployed in the US is brutally expensive. And figuring in the cost of nuclear waste disposal kills the project.

All other means of grid power generation are able to externalize expenses. Our society, for better or worse, won't let anything "nuclear" get away with that.
Not only do other HN commenters largely agree that it belongs to HN, they decided that it deserves to be the top comment on this discussion, at the time I authored this comment
If there is any game worthy of a remaster or remake it's HL2, and all of its episodes. It remains one of my most memorable gaming experiences, and not just because of nostalgia. The story, writing, characters, dialogue, environments, gameplay, graphics, audio... Everything was pretty much revolutionary back then. I remember being awed by the physics in the demo, and couldn't get enough of the gravity gun once I got the game. It was so brilliantly versatile and satisfying to use.

And yet these days we get "remasters" of games that are not even 5 years old. Most of the AAA industry is just putting out lazy cash grabs and predatory live service garbage. Valve itself has profited immensely from the live service business model. I just wish they would get back to development, or sell someone else the rights to their single-player franchises. Spinoffs like HL: Alyx and Aperture Desk Job don't really cut it for me.

Anyways, this update looks alright. I'm looking forward to the new commentary.
Not used to US gears, aren’t they only used when you park? Not sure if that’s the dangerous part of the commute.
My experience with comments on announcements from public entities (like a police department) is that they are more toxic than informative.
GazeGen: Gaze-Driven User Interaction for Visual Content Generation
Also, supposedly the whole radically flat org structure thing.

Which I imagine doesn't lend itself to doing hard things like making Half Life 3...

Why would any game dev choose to go through a death march to perfection, if they had other project choices?
Not contradicting your point, but adding tangential interesting information.

Blu-Ray UHD discs can no longer be played on modern computers as Intel has removed the trusted execution environment needed to decrypt them. Blu-Ray UHD players do a handshake that verifies the use of Intel SGX.

One might have always been skeptical of these discs, especially as AMD had never implemented those TEE instructions.

But I believe the interesting takeaway is that even physical media is becoming something you can’t count on using without the continued permission/assistance of some outside party.

Without regulation I would expect that all new media will eventually require players to be always-online.
No one yet knows the extent of that 'etc'. That much is known.
> Why does this even need to be spelled out...

Indeed. Why did you bother?
If you shift the computational result back in time to the same time you started it, your O notation is just a zero, and quite scalable. Actually it would open the programming market up to more beginners, because they can brute force any computation without caring about the time dimension. Algorithm courses will go broke, and the books will all end up in the remainder bin. Of course, obscure groups of purists will insist on caring about the space AND time dimensions of complexity, but no-one will listen to them anymore.
Missed the chance to call it “Actinium”
Threads is big in the same way that Facebook is big. No juice, as they say.
It’s perfectly logical.

Even if the company doesn’t intentionally have sesame in their product, what if one of their suppliers gives them sesame tainted flour or something?

If they don’t have a ‘May contain sesame’ warning then they might lose tons of money because they have to recall the product later.

The problem here is how lawsuit friendly America is.
> Then that SunButter should probably be probably labeled contains no milk.

I do think it'd be better if there were a standard allergen block that contained an explicit "yes" or "no" for each standard allergen.
For better or worse Facebook are the ones keeping VR on life support, without them it would have flatlined years ago. They have the only good affordable headsets, they throw tons of money around to bankroll VR game studios in exchange for exclusivity, and even for games they don't bankroll it's a no-brainer to prioritize their platform because >90% of sales happen there.

https://x.com/MuchRockness/status/1849543449906942094

Even the minority who do buy VR games on Steam are mostly playing them on a cheap Meta headset, so without Meta those sales might not have happened either. The most recent Steam hardware survey shows that of the users who have a VR headset, nearly two thirds of them are using an Oculus/Meta model.
I just bought a 1.111b domain from Spaceship for 67 cents a year. They are [0-9]{6,9}\.xyz , i.e. 6 to 9 numbers under the .xyz TLD.
New Starlink satellites could be 32 times brighter in radio waves than before
In the video doc they talk about the failure to execute on Episode 3 or even a Half Life 3. Has a weird tone to it, the whole thing ends on a depressing note.

As Gabe says, they didn't fulfill their obligation towards their customer and fan base to complete the story. Alyx is cool, but niche.

Oh well, Half Life 3 not confirmed, yet again.
It was fun playing with Twitters firehose way back when that was accessible to the common developer. Excited to see the idea make a comeback!
And thanks to modern CPU design, they are often actually faster than more complicated data structures.

I know in interviews they are looking for the solution that is the most efficient by big O standards so that’s what I use

But big O is often just not a reflection of actual performance on modern computers
If you're a fraidy-cat, look into "SwitchBot" which you can mount externally to physically push the button on the wall.

Otherwise, I've been really happy with the iSmartGate I put in years ago. The wiring isn't difficult, and the HomeKit integration is essential for me.

Similar "that's useful!" experience as everyone else in the thread, but an annoyance sometimes is that "closing" is free, but opening requires "FaceID", which makes a ton of sense but means I never use it outside of automations since it requires fishing out the phone and a free hand (and that's just easier to mash the button on the wall).

I have automations to automatically close the door at 10:20am, 5:30pm, and "sunset" which catches like 90% of the "accidentally left open" use cases. Asking Siri if the garage door is closed even when you're out of the house is super useful as well.
> Who would take that over a job with a 401k that moves with you?

Just going to say that the perspective of having kids and getting to spend your time not working, or stressing about work, and instead spending it with family and raising your kid, doesn’t seem like a hellish job to me, and besides that it isn’t clear to me the father would be the “employer” in that context, rather both work in the way they agree to within the context of their relationship for the benefit of their child. Many men would like to raise their kids while someone else goes to work.
>Instead, to please some faceless career bureaucrats...

I own a food-manufacturing business. Such businesses aren't trying to please anyone; we're following regulations. There are plenty of other such safety regulations that might seem unnecessary or pointless, but they're in place and they exist to help make certain food remains safe.

>...80,000 pounds of butter will be destroyed to "protect" the dumbest among us.

Regulations like this are meant to make certain even those most in need of awareness are informed. You may think they're the "dumbest," while I see them as people just as qualified to be informed as any other consumer.
Except Nostr is mainly populated by crypto bros, that's not something I'd like to read on a daily basis.
I’m torn here. I would personally use whatever was fun and interesting. Threads was immediately political and I assume bluesky is too.

It’s just a lot. Twitter will be awful. Bluesky will be a little over the top. I don’t know what’s happening in threads these days…

People want to yell into the void and don’t want to think about more than 140 characters… and there really isn’t a place for just easy going goofy fun
Family car, probably lots of accidents due to kids distracting drivers.
It's got 128KB of on-die SRAM - you could have a Z80 and a 6502, both with a full complement of SRAM!