skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>With o1, a layman can sit in front of the computer, and ask 'I want a website for tracking deliveries for my webshop and make it pretty', and the model will do it.

I just punched that prompt into Sonnet 3.5 and o1 and I wouldn't say that o1 is doing anything better than Sonnet. o1 certainly didn't "do it", it gave me a very broad outline of how to accomplish that, from "Define requirements" to "Test and deply on Vercel"
I'm wondering now if it also serves as a better way to also make users stick around (and ultimately buy more hardware).
eg., with a subscription model, it might make it slightly easier to bail and try an alternative? (especially when those alternatives might offer discounts on subscriptions).
> The guys are printing physical letters and hand-inserting them in envelopes with stamps

These things can be done at massive scales cheaply.

> for free!

That increases my level of concern, not decreases.

> Yeah maybe they should have not put up the language of “we get to sell your data if somebody offers to buy our web site”.

Maybe? What the heck do they need the data for a second after they sent the envelope?

> But so what!

So they don’t get my friends addresses. So that.

> The whole thing is just a kind adventure that brought a smile to the faces of some strangers, and will never be more than that.

You say that. But that is at contention here.
Because what matters is _Capital_ requirements, which differ by the _risk_ of the loan. A bank's Capital is what limits their ability to lend. Reserve requirements are irrelevant in the modern banking system.
It was a lot harder to SWAT people when the White Pages existed. American society was much higher-trust then; people didn't show up to pizza parlors with assault rifles because of something they read online.

You'll have to forgive those of us who simply want to remain safe.
You don't know who you are excluding by working against accessibility. It's very naive and small-minded of you to think that you are only inconveniencing some caricature in your head.
So basically it's not really the transfer that's the base of the system, but the account? Ie each account gets its own entry, and because there are two parties in each transaction, we naturally get two entries?
I was confused by the same thing. I guess that the patents are only related, and don't actually contain the trade secrets.
Show HN: Chronos Timeline – interactive timelines from Markdown in your notes
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You can also do text-to-timeline with AI.

Install for free here

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> Presumably hard coal is more expensive.

Yeah, Germany did have hard coal mines but they closed a few years back as they've gotten too deep and difficult to access to be economically viable (and it was subsidised until 2018), so Germany imports hard coal. Meanwhile germany is either #1 or #2 lignite producer.
Exactly. Scam protection needs to focus on staying calm and being open to the possibility of a scam. Once you’re in a good mental state and the thought has occurred, “hey, this might be a scam,” then you’ve basically already won. Finding a question that can authenticate the purported family member is trivial by comparison.
I've seen a few workers take the employer to court and the company usually settles as it doesn't want the reputational damage and court costs so they just pay up. People just assume the worst of the employers when these court cases become public if even it is later dismissed.
>What prevents this from being a superset?

There are various syntax changes, such as let. Of course, if Borgo could be modified to not have let, but that would be a backward incompatible change.
Where Does Power Consolidate on Bluesky?
See demos here

https://x.com/clairefroe/status/1862536872011891150
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C++ Switch Statements Under the Hood in LLVM [video]
I think that's more rational than giving to individuals. The various NGOs can take advantage of economies of scale, an efficiency that the folks who want to donate very specifically overlook.
Or you could just not do illegal and/or immoral things that are worthy of reporting.
Perhaps the mosquitos could be infected with a modified parasite that confers immunity but doesn’t cause sickness.
One should realize life is temporary. You probably will leave very little legacy. You should aspire to have a large attendance at a remembrance. My father’s funeral filled the church. An in-law’s had less than 10 people. Best you can do is have and rear good children. If hard work helps that, it will be a net benefit.
I have a good many neighbors with Teslas and while the media loves to spin a tale about Teslas and Liberals being a thing, my first hand observations don't support that narrative.
Show HN: Electrobillion, a city builder game where you build the power grid
Hi everybody!

After four months of hard work, I'm finally launching the demo for my little game.

It's called electrobillion, and it's a city builder where instead of building the city, you build its power grid. As the city consumes more power, it sprawls out further, and demands ever-increasing amounts of electricity!

It was born out of the confusion I had one day when I turned the lights on, and realised I had no clue how electricity made it to my house. I started digging around, and soon figured out that it was a lot more complex than I could have ever imagined it to be.

In turn, I set my sights on building a game such that others also get a rough idea of how the electricity comes from various sources to our various sinks.

My goal with this game is to be educational. So far, I've worked on a rather superficial level of complexity. Electricity flows without much struggle, prices are fixed, and costs of various elements such as fuel or energy storage are not really accounted for. However, my ultimate goal is to strike a good balance between education, fun, and realism.

...

Like my last couple games (Maginet and Critter Showdown, both available on itch as well https://evrimzone.itch.io/), this one is also built in Rust. This time, I got a little fancier and included WebGL to improve the rendering performance of the much larger amount of sprites. Besides that, it's essentially pure HTML5, including all of the UI running inside the Canvas.

Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions here, and check out the source code of my previous big release, Maginet (which is an online multiplayer chess-like puzzle game): https://github.com/evrimoztamur/maginet

...

I'm going to take a short week-long break from development before going for another sprint where I:

- Push players into a constant battle against the forces of nature and their own pollution.

- Design a larger simulation of the economic factors hindering your path to profits: Government policies, fluctuating market prices for fuel and resources, chaotic weather events.

- Include real-life mechanics such as marginal pricing systems, grid congestion, and long-term storage.

So watch out for more updates, and let me know how you liked it so far!
...just how big was that "first ever contribution" pull request that it gathered 300 comments? My first commit in the current company was a 2-liner addition to an existing function plus another 20 lines for a test that verified that indeed, the change does affect the outcome.
I've always enjoyed the idea of "pragmatic truth". I'm probably misquoting a bit, but generally take it to mean "truth is what's most useful to your long term goals."
I understand that regulations exist and how there can be copyright violations, but shouldn't we be concerned that other.. more lenient governments (mainly China) who are opposed to the US will use this to get ahead? If OpenAI is significantly set back.
> That the bank's internal bookkeeping balances doesn't change the fact that the Fed considers that more money exists.

The Fed considers that more M1 exists and the same amount of M0 exists. Both are considered monetary aggregates, but M0 is the "money" the bank needs to worry about to stay solvent, and it can't "print" that.

Whilst it's semantically correct to refer to both M1 and M0 as money, it's pretty clear that it's wrong for people people to elide the two to insinuate that banks are printing themselves balances out of thin air like token issuers or insolvent companies that screwed up their customer balance calculations, which is what the OP was covering.

And the Fed wouldn't consider more money to exist if the bank's internal bookkeeping didn't balance...
The extreme recoiling and rejection of the clearly obvious idea that most left-wing movements were hilariously co-opted by the IC circa the 60s (likely continuing now) and that critical theory specifically is co-opted, is evidence of it happening. We've both posted multiple articles showing evidence of this, but folks in this thread get big mad when you bring this up.

Btw, if you want a rejection of meta-narratives without fashionable nonsense, go read STIRNER

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Stirner
I found https://www.nauticed.org/sailing-simulator immediately but there are also decent games out there apparently: https://www.reddit.com/r/sailing/comments/s0k7jc/simulator_t.... Apparently this is a good one: https://store.steampowered.com/app/794860/eSail_Sailing_Simu...
I use more than one app at a time. If your app performs great and starves out all the others, then it’s going in the trash.
This isn't DOS 3.2, apps don't get the whole computer ever. Applications play nice in the multi-tasking world or they get replaced by ones that do.
Newcleeur
Sure, but I can grab the scroll handle and yank it down to 75% instantly. How much superfluous motion do I have to endure on a long page to even find 75%? Can I see how far along I am on the page with the invisible scroll bar that barely renders anything? Is the rendering of its overall progress consistent between applications, if not completely broken?

The boring, "ugly" built-in OS widget works extremely well. Every attempt to replace it with something better for one use case inevitably throws out a dozen others that the designer didn't think about.
on a different side: it also tell you (a lot) about specific people.

I've seen good/great people call out the nitpicks (in my case it was often mis-spelling, due to not being a native speaker of english) but will approve the PR anyway (implicitly expecting another revision to be sent, trusting the submitter).

On the other hand bad/toxic people will drown you with stylistic nitpicks and won't approve (and trust) you to do your best work. You will be essentially blocked pending their approval (so that nitpicks are changed according to their likings).

The weird thing is that all this traceability leaves traces for management to see who's doing a good pr review job and who's not... But I've learned that management usually does not care much.
Btw renting GPUs in Nvidia GPUs in China is cheaper than in the US
What's stopping you from just... sending a letter or a postcard? Benefits:

1. It comes from your heart.

2. You don't leak PII to internet randos.

3. It shows you put some thought into it.

4. Writing letters is fun, and the post office needs all the help and support it can get. While you're at it, why don't you give THOSE folks some praise, too?

5. A personalized letter doesn't look like something official and frightening. Seriously, you're underestimating how many people this is going to unnecessarily scare, at a time when our institutions are failing more and more.

Maybe we don't need to automate away every last bit of being human.
Nursing Home Industry Wants Trump to Rescind Staffing Mandate
Recently I allowed everyone in my team to push to develop without PRs and even without doing feature branches. We review the code all together (max 2 ppl) just before the release and that's it. But great CI pipeline is must for this. It will get even better soon when AI will be able to slightly refactor the code.
I suppose it depends if you value your own ego over your financial well being?

I don't hold any expectations from my employer other than being an employer. Being hired is as much part of a job as quitting or being fired.

All that said, I don't care what reason an employer has to wanting me out. It really does not matter to me. All I need is time to plan ahead so I come out unscathed. Who knows? I may even find a better job on my way out.
TV in 2024
Creators freely sharing with attribution requested is different than creations being ruthlessly harvested and repurposed without permission.

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/
C# vectors do a great job of simplifying those intrinsics in a safe and portable manner.
Why do you give them you your data?
Why would you pay for that ?
The Hyperion series is spectacular and a must-read for any scifi enjoyer.
Visual Studio debugger for C++ is still best in class. It’s far from perfect. But Linux doesn’t even have anything that attempts to compete. Command line GDB and LLDB are not comparable.
Because some sites need to change those things. So they can't just deny it for everybody.
IIRC it was mandated by law after the "420 lol" tweet.

But he's above the law anyway so you're right.
Just running Creative Cloud's daemons seems to double my Macbook's power usage. (I have a startup script to kill most of it because of this.) Maybe the battery life tail wagging the dog here, but there is something smart about displacing this mess with an...app? Which is all I ever wanted.
Ask HN: How did you make your first $1k online?
This month, I crossed the $100 mark in earnings as a web developer on Upwork, and I now have my eyes set on crossing $1,000. I know it won’t be easy, but nothing good comes easy. Also, already have a personal blog with hopes of growing a fanbase that might leave donations.

I’d love to hear from others—what strategies, platforms, or approaches helped you reach your first $1,000 online? Any tips or lessons learned along the way?
I mean why don't they do it for the source library too? There are very few operations in C that can't be done in Go (mostly inline assembly and some pointer manipulation) under a standard userland assumption.
This kind of thinking is exactly why Electron-based apps end up consuming 4% CPU while doing nothing, and why some games use 100% CPU just sitting in their menus.

Why would you expect users to manage threads, processors, and system resources themselves?
The github readme has something unusual re licensing:

> All our open-source models, except for the 3B and 72B variants, are licensed under Apache 2.0.
That’s more than halfway through the post. The GP’s point that railing for pages about how X is good and Y is bad before defining them stands.
I recently learned about pg_duckdb and I'm excited about this developing ecosystem.

Can you explain a bit about the difference between how this project works and what pg_duckdb offers?
I think an ethical hacker is someone who uses their expertise to help those without.

How could an ethical hacker side with OpenAI, when OpenAI is using its technological expertise to exploit creators without?
Do you mean creating an Agent through Slack or Discord? Or do you mean having integrations of the Agent with Slack and Discord so it can interact on it?
Ehh you definitely have to tack if you want to go somewhere windward. You can do about 45 degrees into the wind. In valheim.
> And for anyone who wants to looks at the fundamentals, all large telecom companies (Bell, Telus, Rogers) in Canada have lost >20% of their valuation over the last 2 years. Pretty sure that if they "owned" the government they would have found a way to buoy themselves.

They are buoying themselves. If we had proper competition all 3 would be bankrupt by now.

https://www.thestar.com/business/rogers-bell-and-telus-colle...

https://www.ndp.ca/bell-payback
The OP above you is literally 100% correct and the downvoting is indicative of folks who don't want to be intellectual honest about the lineage of progressive/left-wing thought.
Article uses "carbon" and "carbon dioxide" interchangeably. This material supposedly absorbs "carbon," and then releases a gas? Definitely not written by a techie!

Unfortunately, carbon capture is just not feasible at the scale necessary to ameliorate global warming. But this could still be a useful technology.
Another angle is that a PR with over 300 comments is probably way too big.

Many small focused PRs is IMAO much better than big PRs with weeks or months of work in them.

But that requires fast and friendly PR reviews!
Find AI v3 – Perplexity Meets LinkedIn (1B+ Profiles) + New API
Earlier this year, we launched Find AI v1:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40801494. It was a tool for searching LinkedIn-style data with natural language queries. It worked well for tech-focused searches, but the dataset was small and queries were limited.

With v3 (yes a 2 version improvement), we’ve overhauled everything. Our new algorithm uses deep research agents combining multiple data sources and can search over 1B+ profiles (more than LinkedIn). The new version also handles more nuanced searches, like:

- For selling GPU Cloud services: “Companies that have done a Series A hiring for Pytorch”

- For SDR’s: "AI companies that raised $20M+ Series A."

- For VC Partners: "Ex-OpenAI employees founding 'stealth' startups."

- For IR Professionals: "Head of alternatives investing at large private wealth firms."

- For Recruiters: "Fullstack engineers experienced with Go and Svelte."

We deleted all our old code (Ruby on Rails) and rebuilt the entire stack with Go + Svelte 5 (which we love) for speed and scalability. It’s now 10x faster, with a new UI and features like threaded searches.

We’re also launching an API, so you can integrate Find AI into your own apps. The API has also launched as an integration in Clay—learn more here: https://www.clay.com/university/lesson/find-ai-integration-o....

We started building Find AI to help founders, recruiters, and investors find the right people faster. Try it out here: https://usefind.ai/.

Would love your feedback and questions!
Let's say you have a type L (for letters) with values A and B, and you have another type N (for numbers) with values 1, 2 and 3.

The sum type L + N is composed of the values A, B, 1, 2, 3. It's a set union, and the cardinality of the union is the sum of the two cardinalities.

Likewise, the product type L x N has the values (A, 1), (A, 2), (A, 3), (B, 1), (B, 2), and (B, 3). It's the usual cartesian product of sets, and you get the cardinality of that type by multiplying the two cardinalities.

(For bonus points: The type of functions L -> N is an exponential type, with cardinality N^L)
I mean, Tim Cook doesn't spend all his time on Twitter (or whatever the Apple equivalent of Twitter is, perhaps Ping) ranting and raving, so there's that.

Also, like, Cook isn't notably left-wing. If he was a loud Marxist (which would be weird for the CEO of a large company, but whatever), you might find that attitudes would be a little different.
While I've never worked on financial systems myself, I was told many times that monetary amounts should always be stored and manipulated as integer amounts of smallest units of currency (cents). One reason being that integer math is always exact, while floating-point isn't. And when money is involved, you want your math to be exact so everything always adds up every step of the way. So I'm always calling it out when someone is using floats to store money.
It is for people who see themselves in others and get offended, apparently.
Also:

Syrian rebels enter Aleppo three days into surprise offensive
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/29/syrian-rebels-...

Syrian rebels claim to have entered city of Aleppo - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly27r5p0yno
This is not a really easy thing to do:

Lets analyze a bit just on the top of our heads what kind of content goes viral on social media?

I so far almost (I write here almost just in case I missed one case) NEVER saw any rational, sensible discussion.

So no, not all parties or arguments get the same amount of exposure even if they use TiKTok. Only the simplest (as in ignoring the complexity of situations), conspirationist, false and sometimes stupid challenges ones go viral.
Tornado across the Nullarbor desert 2 years ago but we didn't notice until now
True, but in my experience being able to "Amazon" something to my house by 8AM tomorrow really lowers the bar for things I purchase, meaning I buy wayore than if I went to the store to get it, resulting in way more miles for my household.
Before reading the entire page did you consider clicking the header. This will bring you to the main landing page of the product/project which more often than not contains a helpful summary of what it is and why it exists. You can also apply this pattern to other unknown things you come across.
The main problem is that there are no good abstractions in popular programming languages to take advantage of SIMD extensions.

Also, the feature set being all over the place (e.g. integer support is fairly recent) doesn't help either.

ISPC is a good idea, but execution is meh... it's hard to setup and integrate.

Ideally you would want to be able to easily use this from other popular languages, like Java, Python, Javascript, without having to resort to linking a library written in C/C++.

Granted, language extensions may be required to approach something like that in an ergonomic way, but most somehow end up just mimicking what C++ does and expose a pseudo assembler.
> Conducted by everyone, including the US and the west

No we don't unless you think helping a victim defend against an aggressor is on the same level
Whenever I encounter a pull request that I find many issues with, I ask to meet with the engineer and review it one on one. More than half of the workplace problems engineers have is due to their introverted nature and their refusal to get on a teams/zoom call to explain their issues and get resolution. Comments are a really poor mechanism for teaching programming best practices.
I wish hardware exposed an api that allowed us to submit a tree of instructions so the hardware doesn’t need figure out which instructions are independent.

Lots of this kind of work can be done during compilation but cannot be communicated to hardware due to code being linear
Scientists find a brain circuit that instantly deflates stress
Also:

Yellow Powder Quickly Pulls Carbon Dioxide from the Air - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42225265

Discussion 36 days ago, 45 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927684
That's not correct. There's substantial evidence for kin selection and inclusive fitness:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_selection

(Used to be a biologist)
I don't know why you're getting downvoted.

Anyone actually reading papers in this area knows there's a lot of interesting work coming out of Chinese universities.

For many years, American immigration policy has meant a PhD is particularly beneficial to immigrants, with predictable effects on who earns PhDs [1]. It's no surprise that, when industry needs advanced degrees and people who can read and write papers, we find author lists full of one-syllable surnames.

[1] https://cra.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2023-CRA-Taulbee-...
That's a good strategy, but you have to have the right case. One where OpenAI feels confident they can win and establish favorable precedent. If the facts of the case aren't advantageous, it's probably not worth the risk.
Yeah I really love the doc!
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Hmmm but the documentation seems poorly written, what is the team behind?
I think you're forgetting how many businesses are powered by Excel spreadsheets. This solution seems too advanced and too auditable.
The reason why this doesn't usually exist is because anonymous text sharing is almost immediately taken over by people using it to do crimes. So be aware of that.