skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh wow. ChipWits was one of the first games I ever played on my first computer, the Apple Macintosh way back in 1984 when I was 6. Just wanted to drop you a line and say thank you so much for making one of my favorite games. I've just downloaded the new demo and added the game to my Steam wishlist.
I certainly would not trust that dot at all, especially given that it is completely software-driven.

Nor would I trust that the hardware only ever listens for Siri.
It's also not really a case of "rewriting in Rust" anyway, it's more just "writing it in Rust" since most of the stuff the Oxide team has built is greenfield work.
That depends on a lot of things. There are lots of clear mountain streams with all kinds of things living in them, and not all brown streams are brown for the same reason.
Hyperthreading is a feature where a single core can process two unrelated instruction streams (i.e. two threads) which is useful for software that executes few instructions per cycle.
Why do you claim Nuklear is not a "true single-header style library"? And who gets to say what that even means?
yes, indeed, they are.
but within those 2 weeks notifications could still be useful, i think.
Bidens approval of the latest missiles has to be the most bone headed — nay, straight evil — actions committed by a US Chief of Staff since Bush. January can’t come soon enough. How many humans have died from this administration? Has it reached millions yet? Will it?
"born secret", maybe. But by a US government program? Lately besides corruption and inefficiencies, the government didn't have much to show. NASA go trounced hard by SpaceX.

The Kamala "broadband" project did cost $42 billion to taxpayers and not one home has been connected with this new program. In nearly four years. Zero. Meanwhile StarLink is actually connecting people.

Be it NVidia, OpenAI, Meta, Google, etc. all the models are coming from private companies. The government metastasized and seems to be unable to do anything besides create more pointless public servants.

They could spent 1 trillion on this (what's 1 trillion when you spent $42 billion to not connect a single home to broadband? and what's a trillion when you're already 36 trillion in debt), I still don't think the US goverment could beat private companies. Too much bureaucracy. Too many people with the sole goal of making the government ever bigger.

Now on a positive note (I guess), I'll grant everybody that it's even less likely that AGI would from the EU bureaucracy.
There should be a law for this. Who in their right mind wants this?
X11 needs a real alternative :(
This is incredible!!!
I love it so much, thanks for making this.
Interesting. I haven't compared with 4o or GPT4, but I found DeepSeek 2.5 seems to be better than Claude 3.5 Sonnet (new) at Julia. Although I've seen both Claude and DeepSeek make the exact same sequence of errors (when asked about a certain bug and then given the same reply to their identical mistakes) that shows they don't fully understand the syntax for passing keyword arguments to Julia functions... wow. It was not some kind of tricky case or relevant to the bug. Must have same bad training data. Oops, that's diversion. Actually they're both great in general.
I've come very close to be the "sir" mentioned in the article (for hobby stuff only though), luckily always I did catch myself and was able to stop before it was too late. I decided at some point that I do not want to build a compiler/transpiler, and if I do some day, I want for it to be a conscious decision and not an accident like in the article.

It starts innocently, e.g. doing some template files and replacing some simple values, then you start to have to do more replacements and more "smart" parsing and then at some point it's too late, as the article suggests.

TBF, I did put together a transpiler from PHP to JS, but I didn't build it, just found the different pieces that luckily fit together and hacked around it enough that it could run in the browser.
How awfully impractical.
Lies, Lies, Lies, and then some more Lies
Are you forgetting who invaded whom here? What did the US have to do with any of that?
I wrote a similar recently: Oops! you built a database https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34941650

direct link https://dx.tips/oops-database
Apple has spent over $10B on AVP and made back less than 10% of that with no signs of improvement in the next year or two and continued big spending on dev and content.

Meta has spent over $50B on Quest and the Metaverse with fewer than 10M MAU to show for it.

If you think those are successes, I'll go out and get several bridges to sell you. Meet me here tomorrow with cash.
'm Brazilian, and here, many people, especially in the tech field, dream of moving to other countries. The main focus is usually Europe, due to our closer ties with Portugal, or the USA. Being Black and hearing stories about situations involving racism (because I'm Black, and that's a very important factor to consider when thinking about moving) and xenophobia has only made me never want to leave here. I live far from central areas, working remotely, and I can't understand what another country could offer me that I don't already have here.

That said, nowadays, I always advise young people to stay here so we can develop our tech industry and not go abroad to be mistreated and make foreign companies richer!
It's very clear that GPT-3.5-turbo-whatever is cheating and that LLMs cannot, in fact play chess. It was trained in sequences of chess moves and has explicit coding to recognize chess moves and respond accordingly. If you only define "cheating" as calling a chess engine like stockfish, then your definition of cheating is too narrow.

It's exactly like the strawberry problem. No LLM can count the letters in a word. But when shown that, they explicitly were taught to recognize the prompt and count the letters in the word. They didn't create a letter counting algorithm, but they did build a table of words and letter counts. And every "new" LLM explicitly looks for a phrase that looks like "how many Rs are in stawberry" and then the LLM looks in the "letters in words" neural network instead of the the "what is the next likely word in this sentence net".

All "new" LLMs (in the next few weeks) will suddenly become decent at chess because they will have weighted preference to look at the "chess moves" neural net instead of the "random numbers and letters sequence" neural net when they detect a sentence that looks like "d4, d5; nd3, ?" etc.
Also who fired the nuclear-class missile…
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Looks much more like a case of a guilty Afghan framing an innocent Afghan for a crime, than a case of the US flipping coins in order to kidnap civilians 'at random'.

You're being far too charitable to the occupying forces.
Remember, they tortured the guy to death. Whether their own people picked the guy up off the street, or they outsourced the task to their local proxy forces (likely offering cash incentives, thus more or less guaranteeing that exactly this sort of thing would happpen), ultimately doesn't matter too much. If at all.

This article doesn't appear to substantiate the claim that anyone was kidnapped solely for owning a Casio. Can you quote the specific excerpt that you believe substantiates this claim?

This fellow, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salih_Uyar

According to Mother Jones:

More than a dozen detainees were cited for owning cheap digital watches, particularly "the infamous Casio watch of the type used by Al Qaeda members for bomb detonators."
Oh cool, I’ll come back after it’s BSD, this looks neat!
Part of the political circus here is around the definition of occupation. The ICC essentially claims that Gaza has always been and is currently occupied. The ground truth is that Gaza stopped being occupied when Israel withdrew in 2005 and that Israel at this time is not actually occupying most of Gaza. It is occupying portions of it and blockading other parts.

The argument is more or less around: "In international law, occupation is when a foreign power gains effective control over a territory during an armed conflict, even without armed resistance. The territory under control is called occupied territory, and the foreign power is called the occupant." and whether Israel is in effective control of all of Gaza or not. I think a reasonable person who sees the actual reality would conclude that Israel does not have effective control over the entirety of the Gaza strip. Therefore Israel does not bear the responsibility of the occupying power according to international law. The claims that Israel does occupy Gaza are political in nature, not factual.
How much of that is converted back into AWS credits?
Actually, LLMs do call scripts that correct bad math, and have gotten progressively better because of it. It's another special case example.
> If anything you ever say during routine business operations can end up as evidence, clear and honest communication will suffer

Just pick up the phone or meet in person and speak plainly.
Being as good as a professor at confidently hallucinating nonsense when you don't know the answer is a very high level skill.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42156680
How old is that article? (not that it's bad but it feels a bit old)

It references very old Linux kernels, Slackware 10 (released in 2004), old hardware with little RAM, it talks about iptables (it still exists and the syntax is fine, but it's just now mostly an abstraction/compatibility layer on top of nftables) and there's no mention of IPv6 (if I'm not mistaken on most stacks now DNS queries are made for both IPv4 and IPv6).
Nothing, if you assume Putins decisions are made in a vacuum.

If on the other hand you grant that he might observe the leaders of world super powers, you’ll notice a striking connection between the change of power in America and the launch of his invasion of Ukraine.

And of course you can assume all of Netenyahoo’s decisions are made in a vacuum too, or you can open your eyes.
I'd say the opposite. Building a compiler incrementally, driven by clear needs at each step, as described in the article, tends to work out better than trying to build a compiler from day 1.
This makes it sound to me like Cursor is a waste of money?
Used to be called 5DWM.

Also CDE is now open source, being actively maintained, and is still the CDE you remember. Even on a vintage hosting platform
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/
Having recently built 90% of a compiler by mistake, I felt like this post was written specifically about me. Hilarious writing, congrats to the author.
Very fun. I played all the levels. Thanks for sharing.
Laos Methanol Poisonings
I was thinking the opposite: Seems useful. I need my other hand free to look at my watch when I'm wearing a coat, in order to pull back the sleeve.
The search term you're looking for is "monero miner"
Biden, on his best days, cant hardly remember his name mate… if you think Biden is making these decisions I have some Enron stock options to sell to you
Good point. I’ll update the post.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man, married or not, in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a bit on the side.
Why does it matter if it is "nuclear-class"? Were there any actual nukes? No. Then who cares?
You mean "Commander-in-Chief" or "head of state".
Synecdoche.
The Pilgrim as a Historian
"He who must not be named" has a curse upon that name.

Binary optimization through stripped static-embedding and packing is a level of evil even I find upsetting. lol... =3
In software development it's pretty important to know when to build "on top" of something else, and when to start from scratch.

Lots of developers will find it much more interesting, challenging, rewarding and just plain fun to develop something from scratch, even when there are better things that already exist.

They'll cleverly manipulate and convince the boss, against the better discretion of their elder developers, that they can do it, and if they're one of the better developers, the boss won't want to risk losing them so they'll agree to the escapade.

Then said escapade turns into a shambles, as predicted by the elder devs, and the developer who created the mess simply quits and moves to some other job, in search of more fun and greener pastures. Any developer with decades of experience has probably seen this same pattern multiple times.
Yeah, but I'd say it's more of a fashion statement
Yes. I can’t edit unfortunately.
Claude is absolutely incredible. And I don’t trust openAI or Microsoft so it’s nice to have an alternative.
I had this kind of risk in mind when I wrote a server-side "HTML template" feature for Racket.

The template language intentionally only handles static chunks of HTML, escaping of values, and a little safety guards.

Everything else (including the usual template language behavior like iterating over a collection/stream, such as from a database query result) is done with arbitrary normal Racket language, which the template feature's implementation doesn't have to know about nor handle specially.

https://www.neilvandyke.org/racket/html-template/

More recently (for employability reasons, or under-resourced startup pragmatics), doing Python with Flask, JavaScript with SvelteKit, and Swift with SwiftUI, I still miss the clean simplicity and available power that I had with Scheme/Racket.
If they didn't, people would be talking about how their red lines are bluffs. The Russians are being given two options by the US - surrender or escalate. They aren't going to surrender. I'm not sure what people expect to happen but given the strategic madness out of the west we're probably doing well if we get all the way through this without London being targeted.

Whoever thought it was a good idea to try and turn Iraq 2 into WW3 really should be relieved of their power to make decisions. Russia was behaving well within international norms established by the US's actions until the west got involved in Ukraine. Now we've seen orders of magnitude more casualties for nothing, and the risk of nuclear war are off the hitherto plotted charts.
Ask HN: Best non-fiction book you read in 2024?
Tyler Cowen just published his best non-fiction books of 2024 list on Marginal Revolution: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/11/best-non-fiction-of-2024.html

The best non-fiction books I have read this year are:

"Six Pillars of Self-Esteem" by Nathaniel Branden - Interesting insights into the concept of self-esteem and how it is influenced by the wider world

"The Code Book" by Simon Singh - An oldie but saw it recommended last year on HN and found it to be a fascinating look at the history of cryptography, written in an engaging and approachable way

"Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger" by Charles T. Munger - After Charlie's unfortunate passing, I read this again. So much life wisdom on every page

What's the best non-fiction book you read in 2024?
I don't think so. A siege is not prohibited under international law. The Palestinians at that point had plenty of water and food. The bar, to me, would be at the point where they're actually starving, i.e. they have used up the entirety of the stuff they stocked up, including Hamas' stocks in the tunnels, and were starving/had nothing to drink, and Israel at that point refused to let any provisions through. This is actually starving the population. You can lay a temporary siege that's well below that bar.

Again, a siege is not prohibited under international law. The civilian population being to leave would be one example. Allowing humanitarian relief would be another. Along the lines of what I said above, the question of humanitarian relief only arises later into the siege when there is actually a humanitarian problem. And Israel reversed course on some decisions and allowed aid even before that. Gallant did not say Israel would prevent Gazan civilians from leaving to Egypt (e.g.).

This was said at the heat of the moment. I do realize it's hard for random people on the Internet to understand the shock Israel was under at that time. It's also fair to expect the minister of defense to moderate what they say. It's also still very much a cherry pick reduced to a propaganda line item.
Does anyone remember Sonique? It had freeform skins years before Winamp 3, and I remember being fascinated by them. The player itself wasn't that great, and it always paled in popularity compared to Winamp, but those skins made it stand out like nothing else at the time (late 90s).

I do miss that era of computing, beyond just nostalgia. The web was still in its infancy, and the dot-com bubble was booming. There was a huge momentum of experimentation in tech, as trends haven't yet been strictly defined. We had all kinds of quirky software and hardware. MS Bob/BonziBuddy/Clippy, Tamagotchis, MP3 (CD) players, P2P software, PDAs, beepers, early cellphones, etc. When smartphones came along all of this got consolidated into a single device, for better or worse, and the experimentation happened digitally in the form of apps. That was fun for a few years, but the experience wasn't the same. Now there's a growing sentiment of dissatisfaction towards these devices, and we're finding that technology is only driving us further apart. Anyway, old man yells at cloud...
Mach 11 hypersonic missiles? Is it even possible to intercept something going that fast without your interceptor tearing itself apart?
This is known as the Cocktail Party Problem. It turns out or brains do an incredible amount of processing to allow us to understand a person talking to us in a noisy room.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect?wprov=sf...
Yes, and it's worth pointing out these examples because they don't work as quantum memories. Two more: magnetic memory based on magnets which are magnetic because they are build from many tiny (atomic) magnets, all (mostly) in agreement. Optical storage is similar, much like parent's example of a signal being slowly sent over a wire.

So the next question is why doesn't this work for quantum information? And this is a really great question which gets at the heart of quantum versus classical. Classical information is just so fantastically easy to duplicate that normally we don't even notice this, it's just too obvious a fact... until we get to quantum.
The file manager in this looks a lot like my beloved ROX-Filer. Would love to try this if I could install it on FreeBSD. I don't see it in a cursory glance at Ports.
Rounded corners and huge paddings
Yeah, I've been looking for a minimal SDL alternative for a long time and I was really excited reading through this as that solution, but the lack of Wayland support is a huge dealbreaker for me.

Are there any good minimal windowing utilities that support Wayland? SDL does a lot I don't need and I try to maintain minimal dependencies. I suppose I could just use glfw & libsoundio, haven't tried that yet.
Hey, I am the creator and owner of LighterFuel For Tinder, an extension which shows when your matches made their accounts amongst other features designed to help identify fake accounts. LighterFuel grew by its self over 3 years thankfully, without any external promotion.

I've recently been trying to promote my other extensions though and I'm having a lot of trouble getting any traction with them too, and I managed to successfully run a small media campaign where I made myself the most liked man on Tinder for a day by making my users swipe on my account for April fools. Although I did meet my target of 1 tabloid news article, there was no noticeable uptick in installs from that article, however it did get the attention of some YouTubers recently and I'm just working with them now to promote LighterFuel and my other extensions.

It's difficult to know the best way to promote your extensions but I'd personally start with focusing on the Chrome web store, as it's the biggest extension store, getting your listings to look great so you can then get your featured badge which looks also good to users, then linking a website to your extension to get the "verified" badge which means "Created by the owner of the listed website. The publisher has a good record with no history of violations. " which makes it look more official.

From there, I would recommend getting in key words if possible (in my case Tinder helped) to just get better SEO and discovery.

Then finally, I would always recommend setting up your own analytics (I use Google Analytics) as I've found the CWS store analytics to be unreliable.

Get your featured badge here: https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/contact/one_stop_...

My news article: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/27142401/tinder-hack-swiping-r...
The LighterFuel listing: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/lighterfuel-for-tin...
My LinkedIn article about the campaign: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-i-became-most-liked-man-t...
Oh no! Is it that time of year again?
Solarized Dark keeps CDE alive for me, sortof.
> having just a bit more control of the nascent technologies that went on to reshape our world than the corporations that created them

To me, some of the despair/nostalgia comes from how I once saw all this technology as an empowering wave for individuals to accomplish their goals, a kind of capital for the little guy.

Nowadays it feels like it's all controlled by big companies to entrap individuals in an extractive web. At best, you can only solve your problems on their terms.
Absolutely! The US ABM shield is meant to intercept incoming ICBMs, which in terminal velocity will be in excess of Mach 20. The difficulty with speed isnt that the interceptor will “tear itself apart” it’s just that it means less margin for error when plotting your intercept course
> How many humans have died from this administration?

400K russians (the enemy, remember?)...plus not as many Ukrainians which seem to have been ok-ish with it so far.

You waiting for January?...another 40k+ at current rates...if that clown doesnt owe Putin too much hell be wise to keep the massacre ongoing
> we're probably doing well if we get all the way through this without London being targeted.

Putin might be stupid, but you think too lowly of him.

You attack population centers after mutually assured destruction. There is no reason to escalate by creating a humanitarian crisis if you're not already prepared to deal with the consequences (a-la Nagasaki/Hiroshima). The first attacks are tactical and therefore negligible in civilian damage and controversial to discuss. They will certainly be condemned globally, but no one smart enough to stockpile tactical nukes is going to use it somewhere with reprehensible civilian harm. It is both more valuable, smarter, and less costly to deploy it tactically against enemy installations or materiel.

If London is "targeted" then Russia is going to find out just how fucking bad Europe hates them. The nuclear dance is about riding the threshold of plausible escalation without revealing desperation and giving your enemies casus belli.
Surface Books are nothing like Macbooks - Macbooks don't have a touch screen, pen support, or reversible screen tablet mode, and the whole structure is completely different. Surface Pro, Surface Book, and Surface Laptop Studio are some of the most original laptop form factors I've seen.
The Gilded Mirage: Prosperity's Lie and the Politics of Collapse
A computer without a fan. Worked well for the Apple 3.
Amazon famously more trustworthy