skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buyer's remorse was strong for me after I got the OP-1.
As the OP correctly said, it is an expensive toy.
Also, I bought that DIY semi-modular from them - it was broken and, when I returned it, the guy at the store told me to get a refund instead of a replacement since they had many DoA returns and it was just not a very stable product line it appears.

I admire their playful approach to basically experiment out in the open, but the customers end up paying for it it seems (which I guess is fine, but its not very clear that thats the idea I think).
PHP is a bad choice to begin with if your use case is that performance critical
As the article says: yes.
This is an example of the "No true Scotsman" fallacy. These arguments for communism have been refuted thousands of times before, no need to waste electrons doing it here again.

Communism is always and everywhere a violent ideology, because the core tenets of communism are an exercise in theft, repression (economic and otherwise), and envy. People naturally don't want to be repressed - the communist answer is that those people, then, need to be murdered.

I resent the fact that communists created a history where terms like Lesser Megamurderer and Deka-Megamurderer[1] (sic) are simply factual descriptions, rather than works of dark fiction.

I'm ever hopeful though that good people like yourself, that have been unintentionally absorbed lies about what communism is, can be given an opportunity to read broadly, learn about history, meet victims of these regimes, and look back with discomfort at what you advocated in the past.

[1] https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.TAB1.2.GIF

[2] https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/POWER.TAB4.GIF
Don't understand one thing: I can read any code of any legacy code base, sure. What I cannot do is to asses if the code is supposed to do its job (e.g., the business logic behind it). Is the code I'm reading supposed to calculate the pro-rated salary according to the "law"? Just by reading the code, you cannot know that. You need help, either from other developers who perhaps know the codebase of from product experts that know the business logic. Or documentation, sure, but this is usually a luxury one doesn't have.

So, definitely, I always need help debugging any kind of code (unless it's rather code that doesn't deal with product features).
Quitting the Internet
Am I really quitting the internet?

In some ways yes. I've turned the security in my browser up to a thousand and disabled javascript. I've also removed the browser from my phone and all entertainment on that device is isolated to podcasts. My home screen is my Calendar, Reminders, Time, and Weather widgets, with Phone, Messages, Notes, and Podcasts apps on the bottom row.

What are some of the most interesting and functional sites you have found without JavaScript?

Outside of this site I like:

old.reddit
searx.org
wikipedia
I uploaded a mortgage I know well, and the results were pretty accurate.
One of the trials Jones faced in Texas was an appeal on whether the fine levied in Texas was excessive (worth noting: the $1.5 billion is a running tally, not a single ruling; his harm spread across multiple people in multiple jurisdictions, and his actions keep convincing separate courts with separate trials that punitive damages are warranted. Legal Eagle has more details on the whole thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSm7sRx-0hA&list=PLzBQ6LRv47...).

There was a law passed in 1995 by a Democratic majority to cap damages at $750k in Texas; the judge on appeal to Jones's Texas ruling found that the law was unconstitutional.

On point 2, we will probably agree to disagree. If anything, I believe the GOP has taken the most steps to disrupt and destroy norms of legal practice and has opened the door to using the law as a tool for shaping society. The Trump administration, for example, tried to rig the census in 2020 (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-trumps-census-s...), an initiative that fell apart primarily because the daughter of a GOP political operative attained a hard drive of her father's that revealed that a citizenship question would bias the results, under-counting the population of areas with more (legal and non-legal) immigrants.

It's actually quite hard to get the Executive's authority on the topic of census questions put under scrutiny, and the evidence in the email correspondence on the drive was so damning that it caused the census change to fail to pass a judicial challenge (essentially the only way for the Executive to fail to pass that bar is if they were lying about the justification, and... They were).

What you may be observing is that both sides practice lawfare but one side seems consistently bad at it...

Back on Jones: I don't know if $1.5 billion is fair. I do note that the Information Age gives people much larger megaphones to spread information much further than ever before. I don't think we fully comprehend the effect that has on society. In the short run, I don't consider the fact that if you say something so egregiously wrong that you hurt people in multiple jurisdictions, you could be on the hook for damages in multiple jurisdictions and that could result in a sum-total civil penalty larger than any individual jurisdiction would levy to be obviously wrong? Criminal law doesn't generally work that way (federal authority would subsume), but civil law is a different beast.

On the plus side, this fate is eminently avoidable: don't maliciously push lies that hurt people in multiple states. I'm not sure you've recognized how egregious the lying was, how unapologetic he was about it, and how much that impacts a final court decision on one's fate (in general, not just if someone has an [R] after their name in a political census).
This comment would be perfect in the mouth of an ordinary politician, there is this, there is this other, we are ruining lives, etc.

Now, this is a comment on a forum, but I was asking, what is the policy/vision, and I can never get a straight answer.
Let's say that in the last few years 5 million (maybe, who knows) people have entered the United States illegally, and as I see it, that is irresponsible, illegal, immoral. Now, if you propose to do something about this situation, which would ordinarily be “you are illegal, you have to go back and apply through the regular channels,” the charade of families who have been here for 50 years and are undocumented begins. Smoke, fog, “other things are more important.” The inevitable history lesson, Ellis Island, what about the Italian mafia? All nonsense.

I still cannot figure out from those in favor of (illegal) immigration a vision or policy. The only transparent ones are those who say that because some of these immigrants are paid much less than citizens or legal immigrants for certain jobs, it benefits "the economy" to have them here. Everyone else just presents their mood affiliation.
Then again, it may be because FOIL is stupid.

I've always had a difficult time wrapping my head around this acronym. What counts as "outer"? What counts as "inner"? And yes, when there are more than two items (not necessarily variables!) to be multiplied, you suddenly have to ignore this little trick, because now it's confusing to know what to do about the middle stuff -- and it doesn't take into account non-commutativity either.

And yes, some of the problem may be due to my (very recently diagnosed! at least, formally) autistic mind. But I cannot help but think that if someone with a PhD in math struggles with and largely ignores "FOIL", then the problem may be with the technique, and not with the people who don't understand it.
They probably meant "the human world", cities, etc. For example in the subway, the warning for the closing of doors used to be only audio, now you can see more modern ones that have both audio and visual cues that doors are about to close. In the same way, when crossing at a traffic light, there used to be only visual cues. In some cities now you have places that also have audio cues for people that need it.
> I find the range argument silly - if I start with a full tank and drive my car until the tank is exhausted, I'll be exhausted too and need several hours of rest.

This seems odd to me. Several times a month I drive more miles in a day than I can get out of one tank of fuel and I don't get exhausted from it. Maybe I have good driving stamina though, I don't know.
A grammar is really just a special case of the more general issue of how to pick a single token given the probabilities that the model spits out for every possible one. In that sense, filters like temperature / top_p / top_k are already hacks that "do the work" (since always taking the most likely predicted token does not give good results in practice), and grammars are just a more complicated way to make such decisions.
Aha! How to Cook a Wolf (1942) had the recipe for life-sustaining sludge.

(neither glop, as I'd misremembered, nor british)
You could, but this website's better.
How are you defining bad code?

Imo unreadable and undecipherabe code is one subset of bad code.
When the ancient taboo of speaking ill of the dead goes online
I was ready for this to be another complaining post about having to write code during an interview, but found myself mostly agreeing with it.

Having to spend time to do some work before an interview to prep (like a presentation about your experience or something) seems reasonable, but a company should be able to test technical skills adequately in the 5+ hours they spend interviewing candidates.

I feel like the take home assignment trend is part of the backlash against doing coding problems live in interviews and I agree with the article that it's just worse. It takes more of your time and also opens things up to candidates cheating even more than live coding over zoom does.

Just stick with the live coding and ask good questions.
While javax->jakarta was huge PITA (less motivated by technialities but more by politics though) let me introduce you to https://docs.openrewrite.org/ which should make such upgrades easier :)
Interestingly, where I am they take no money - and give the same advice. My partner just received the all-clear after detecting it early, following advice, and attacking it early. And the doctors got paid the same as if she’d never existed.
I see this as entirely surmountable. We’re still making geometric progress in small model accuracy, and breakthroughs like test-time training and synthetic data are poised to deliver immediate gains in self-training performance.

Your point about skepticism being warranted when viewing this linearly is well taken. But this isn’t a linear path. The Internet, at its core, was about connecting computers to unlock the value of those connections—a transformative but relatively straightforward concept.

What we’re dealing with now is the training of cognitive digital intelligence. This is an inherently dynamic and breakthrough-oriented process, one that evolves in ways far less predictable or constrained than simple network effects. While the metaphor of connectivity is useful, it doesn’t fully capture the parallel, multi-dimensional approaches at play here.

Pessimism, in my view, is deeply unwarranted, especially given the history of technological progress. Time and again, advancements have proven to be far more impactful and beneficial than even the most optimistic predictions. Consider the projections for AI in 2017—most futurists undershot its actual progress by an order of magnitude.

This research clearly illuminates a path forward:

https://ekinakyurek.github.io/papers/ttt.pdf

Deeply appreciate your thoughtful comment.
here, take my data but tell me nothing about yourself.
96 RETURN
Seconded. The best we can do right now is

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
A non-trivial part of our artificial world is designed on the tacit assumption that listening to spoken language is what we do.
It was a joke. The lecturer (Barry Mazur, at Harvard) had made a T-shirt with Lang's catchphrase "This notation sucks" and was trying to get Lang to say it with the most over-the-top example of bad notation he could come up with so he could bring the shirt out, but Lang didn't say anything so the whole thing was a bust.
We’re definitely heading in that direction and currently experimenting with LiveKit’s Agent framework. I’m guessing you’re Russ from LiveKit? If so, I’m a huge fan of what you’re doing! Would love to connect and explore ideas further ahmad@onair.io
Kill four innocent civilians and all that happened was one of the killers was "severely reprimanded"
Hack superficially looks like PHP, but is a completely different beast under the hood.
Or maybe not https://149909199.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/201...
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...
To be sure, the burning of the library happened during the early days of WW1, which had neither nazis, gestapo, nor Nuremberg trials.
August 28, 2018
And then google should be allowed to link everything to itself until it collapse...

Has muricans not learned from AT&T merger and split? Why there is soooo muuuuch idolation of (broken unregulated) pseudo-free market?
Ethics are only morality if you spend your entire time in human social contexts. Otherwise morality is a bit larger, and ethics are a special case of group recognized good and bad behaviors.
You generally give the company whose platform you're hosting on a license to use your work. That's not something that they'd have that groups scraping the data would not. If the tide turns on AI having to respect copyright, that could significantly change the significance of that promise. Will it? Probably not.
I like how gdb with qt creator works without any complicated configuration. You click on some breakpoints then hit play and the ide takes care of the rest.
28.000 Year Old Immaculate Saber-Tooth Cat Cub Found in Siberian Permafrost
lack of regulation ≠ morals :shrug:
Interesting post. It's been a while since I was in law school (and it wasn't in the US) but I don't remember spending anything close to 10 hours a week doing citations. I don't remember it being a significant portion of my workload at all. I was on the editorial board of a journal where I was reviewing a lot of citations, but it was on the authors to actually do them, and if I found they weren't doing them correctly it was a simple matter of "please ensure your citations conform to our house style" (it wasn't Bluebook). I wouldn't have paid to use this software either, though it might have been a worthwhile investment for the journal itself to make (or the law school, as others have mentioned).
ctrl+l is a must know for TUI stuff, including when vim messes up. that fixed so many mysterious "crashes" for me after I found out about it.
2-4 years is too long? That's what it currently is in Germany where 1kwp now costs 350 EUR/USD including inverter.
How to present MS-DOS screenshots
Yup, that's the one. I have a hard copy on my shelf :)
Excellent, thank you. I do this with sed & awk & sometimes an IDE, and scooter looks better in every way.

I'm adding scooter to my cargo install favorites:

https://github.com/sixarm/cargo-install-favorites
and drop down into gdb for complicated prints of variables and such
Your claim is that doing fine-grained detection in a more chaotic and dynamic environment with unrepeatable inputs is easier than fine-grained detection in a controlled environment with consistent inputs? Not sure I follow.
Well I hope the worst does not come to past and if you are deported it goes as amicably and procedural as you describe.

I do not think dehumanizing people leads to peaceful and productive outcomes. The mass deportation plan does not address the humanitarian issues nor do I think it will solve all the problems it claims to, while creating many more problems.

If you still haven’t I highly recommend you read the linked article in my original comment reply. The past doesn’t dictate the future but what the past teaches us is these moments of mass forced deportation rarely turns out well.
Hey, Aaron the builder here.

The scamming that happens to homebuyers is not even comparable to the risk in uploading docs to a website which promises they won't share user data with anyone. This is genuinely a pro buyer tool with no association with any 3rd party.

The tool has already helped many people negotiate and get a better deal on their mortgage. Please before judging understand that 70% of buyers overpay in their mortgage 1-3% in closing costs and bad rates. It's mind boggling how much lenders get away with profiting in junk fees from stressed out homebuyers.
Thanks, Mikel, for the explanations!
PyTorch Deprecation of Conda Nightly Builds
Show HN: I launched a non-profit startup to teach you modern programming and AI
Hey everyone! I’ve built a free, non-profit platform to teach modern programming with AI integration. I’d love for you to check it out and share your feedback to help improve it!
Thanks in advance!
Show HN: Twitch plays Codebuff – a natural language coding experiment
Hi HN! We launched Codebuff last week, and it gave us a fun idea to try: Twitch plays Codebuff.

We rigged up Twitch chat to control an old laptop of ours by sending Codebuff commands. Any chat message prefixed with ‘>’ is interpreted as a command for Codebuff. We’re starting with a blank web app running on localhost. So if you say “> Make the header spin”, then Codebuff will modify the css to make it happen. Codebuff can also run any terminal command (I hope you don’t brick our laptop haha).

Yesterday we tested this out with our community and they successfully got Codebuff to add a map of the US (via installing some package that it found), add all the state capitals as red dots, and draw the shortest path through the capitals. They also built a little synthesizer together.

Maybe this could create a new category of open source, where a bunch of people synchronously create whole apps together by guiding an AI with natural language input? It’s exciting to combine the creativity of a crowd of humans with the raw ability of a coding agent. It’s also just fun to create with strangers and take an app in wildly different directions!

We’ll be here for a couple hours, feel free to pop on by and add some fun stuff to our website! Or maybe troll everyone, iono.
> I haven’t seen anyone espouse the view that WFH people don’t mind upsetting others, other than you so far

You may not have seen it, but you yourself do it just a few sentences later:

> And I don’t care at all if anyone wants to work in an office - go for it! I get it, and it’s not for me.

If you and I work together and my preference is to work in an office with other people in that office then you don't seem to mind upsetting me.

And again, it is not bad to upset me. It is your right to upset me. Just the same as it is my right to upset you by requiring you to come into an office.

Neither option is right and neither option is wrong. It's just that each one upsets a different person.
Would appreciate any feedback! Thanks!
Doesn't matter, that's not what the judge had ordered. Trustees don't decide anything, the judge has the final say.
FB interviewer had "two hard Leetcode problems within 35min", where 25min was background and 1st leetcode problem was "changed" (adding ambiguity to the point of be without solution - later could not find any full solution, for which I stated factors and disclaimers to interviewer).

Agree, such or similar unrealistic interviews are loss for both sides, plus they are plain STUPID. I've performed ~400 interviews that most included coding in my career with consistency and standardized report (can compare apple to apple).
Well respected Space reporter Eric Berger hears rumors SLS will be cancelled
Consent isn't required for setting a cookie.

You don't appear to know what the regulation is. The "cookie banner" isn't even about setting cookies, its data sharing.
Because lawyer salaries in the US have a bimodal distribution, I would not be surprised if the disposable income of law students does as well.

If that's true, then segmenting for one mode or the other might make sense...and conversely just targeting "law students" as a single segment might not.

For example, students with money to eat at the high end cafe would tend to expect a high end experience and expect to pay accordingly, while ramen students would seek a value price and accept a less luxurious experience.

Or to put it another way, some segments are a choice between bread and cake. Other segments are a choice between bread and nothing.
So you basically say: A platform where a lot of radical right people are is full of hate and verbal violence, whereas where the radical lefts are it is nice and peaceful? Shouldn't that give you something to think about ;)?
i think people are a little bit unclear about what such a promise means or if it’s even of value for a decentralized system compared to the usefulness of such a promise for a traditional centralized social network.
"Understanding" and "self-awareness" is as much a political tool as a practical definition. Pigs are self-aware, and understand, but we don't give them the space to express it.

AI is currently missing pieces it needs to be a "complete being", but saying there's nothing there is falling into the same reductive, "scientific" nitpicking that brought us "fish can't feel pain, they just look like it and act like it".
Musk still does those things: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Twitter_in_Brazi... he just has to be prodded a bit more (read it affects his wallet) or it has to be in favor of his particular politics https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/how-elon-musk-uses....

If you want to see the outcome of an unmoderated platform without consequences or accountability see how anonymous message boards evolve every time.

Society and face to face discussion has its own inherent methods of moderation so I don’t really understand this absolutist desire for an anonymous town square we can all yell vitriol at each other. And twitter isn’t even that.
And one of the underestimated aspects is that all the best engineers won't make you a good product. They will produce the best architecture and probably constant refactoring, but they will fail to deliver [things the user care about/can see].
AI Coke Ad Shows We'll Argue About Advertisements While the World Burns
So, butylene rubber, a petroleum-based industrial adhesive. Meanwhile, Ottawa thinks it's plant based.
Lyft partners with May Mobility, Mobileye to bring autonomous vehicles to app
Hate is some strong editorializing. He hasn't made any statements against Bluesky. All he's done is encouraged people to stay on Twitter after Musk initially took over. Internet denizens saw that as anti-Bluesky. He's never actually publicly critiqued Bluesky

My opinion: he's probably trying to avoid legal trouble that would come from propping up a Twitter competitor after making a major sale. Especially one that was initially conceived within Twitter itself
All of the meaningful code I write is private for the company I work for. This is how most code is stored.
This! I had to get a court order against my bank because there was an issue and all responses I got from them were not generated. Only after getting the court order did I get the attention of a human, which was their lawyer. We had a pleasant conversation, and the issue was solved.
Don't follow Bryan Johnson

(For an equally useless advice. Why should one follow him? What does he do?)
Commit history has to be clean just as much as code has to be clean. That is to say, it doesn't - but it's far nicer working with clean code than tangled uncommented messes.
A financial crash is quite possible, even while AI keeps getting better. Most of the players are not making profits.