skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might just be one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_cascade

I do find PG's idea of "aggressively conventional-minded" people to be a useful concept: https://paulgraham.com/conformism.html
AWS App Studio: The fastest and easiest way to build enterprise-grade applicatio
Crucifixion? Really? Come on now...

I paid Dell a bunch of money for a laptop. They pushed a bios update, that ubuntu kindly relayed to me that meant when I closed the lid and put the laptop in my bag as I sat beside my daughter's ICU bed, it fried the motherboard. No really. That was the /purpose/ of the bios "upgrade." Warranty after they remotely fried my machine? No, because it worked as designed.

So yeah going bayesian given none of us can be 100% sure about anything, my prior on Dell is they suck donkeys' gonads on all levels. Competence, honesty, service, everything - until evidence shows otherwise and I've just told you why.

Why is your prior that Dell are competent even when evidence suggests otherwise?
I understand the desire for drones and other technology that's going to reduce your sides risk and casualties but there is another side to that. Waging war without risk isn't good either. War should not be "safe", it should come at a cost beyond $$$ a cost that is not exclusively paid by children sent afar, but also by the leaders sending them. If you can wage war like a video game with an infinite money glitch, then what is restraining you?
Hahaha that’s so true. Your employer wants you to act like a robot anyway so give them what they want.

It’s a sad race to the bottom but at least it’s kinda funny.
Slightly less than $7B may be indeed less positive than $8B but is far from negative.
Truly remarkable creative thinking in a way that does not exist today. This was a year after humans landed on the Moon, and I can understand the inspiration that drove the 70s.
I was checking out the Python API today (the "firehouse" via "atproto" package) and got 5000 posts in 7.5 seconds.
It's a nice little netbook. But does anybody still want or need a netbook? Especially a rather expensive one.
I’m inclined to say that if they enter prompts like that the result is very much desired.
Well, I'm not so sure… we computer people care about integrity checksums, bit-for-bit copies, lossless compression, version control, and the like. (Copies not differing even to the slightest extent more or less distinguishes digital from analog copies.) But it is not clear that this is something everyone cares about, or should. An equally viable attitude is that an author has some ideas which are the “actual” thing, and the words in which they are expressed are somewhat incidental. From this perspective, making changes to render the text less distracting is not tampering with the integrity of what actually matters (the ideas), just removing irrelevant obstacles that prevent the ideas from spreading.

In fact, if you look around to find out who made this transcription (and the minor edits), it turns out this page is a copy from a Geocities website that is now preserved at https://www.oocities.org/toritrust/ and https://www.geocities.ws/toritrust/ — it says “This Web site contains the words of Dr. Jack R. Gibb, and is respectfully dedicated to his memory and to his work” and even carries some unpublished work from him, so it is clearly interested in spreading his ideas, and many of the (minor) changes seem indeed in that spirit. Also it was maintained by Donald Skiff, which matches the "des" signature in:

> Edited only to reduce gender-specific references. des

The OP page (from the submission here) has now a disclaimer at the top saying “I provide this HTML version of a historical article because it was not easily available […] I am not responsible for the transcription or edits otherwise” — no doubt added a result of the discussion on this HN post. It is unfortunate that the carping on this thread (some comment was even trying to use his interests to ascribe motivations to him, assuming he made the edits) has wasted someone's time like this.

Anyway I bought a used copy of the Trust book (1991 edition; the older edition doesn't have this article attached), and will update the gist or add a comment on it comparing the book's version with the webpage's.
This seems very similar to the GameCenter CX games, which is basically the "Nintendo World Championships" Switch game, but with made-up games, and it was for the DS.
V (vlang.io), Jai, and more WASM.

Fun to try a bit different (not too far out and are Go and C alternatives), that also are languages with some potential, and not get trapped in the corporate usual (C# and JavaScript, looking at you).

2025, let the good times roll.
Most, even
This is awesome. Would it be able to integrate Pocket bookmarks into this somehow? Would love to be able to keep a cache offline of all the things I wanted to read (esp if I can prevent link-rot), and to be able to query them.
You don't want an Instagram hack app. You want to go home and rethink your life.
Prices shot up during the pandemic and never really went back down. You're lucky to find a good carbon bike for under $4K these days where you used to be able to find them for $2K.
> The main culprit is that anyone estimating battery life in percentages.

I thought this was a solved problem, like, decades ago? At least I remember even the first gen MacBooks having accurate battery percentages, and it’s a more vague memory but my PowerBook G4 did too I think.
I always thought this scotus case was interesting and relevant to the question of “can a private space count as a public square?”. Clearly in some way it can. Curious what a real lawyer or constitutional scholar has to say about this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...
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hi there
I'm a non coder but about 2-3 months ago i began building a full stack website using ai.
it's a video sharing site for ai videos. the entire site is/was coded with various ai agents. heres what i used
initial layout and components: v0.dev
IDE: Cursor with claude
Complex features and bugs check: o1 preview and gemini 1.5 pro

what i've learned:
v0 is very good at designing the initial app components. if you tell it what you want, it will create a long list of components that you need
v0 code aren't great lots of bugs but you can use claude to clean it up inside cursor.
for complex components, o1 is the best. it can writes 300-400 lines components fairly bug free. you need to give it the correct context by providing codes to other components that it needs. it's not entirely bug free, it often makes little mistakes like type error or null error. claude once again is good at cleaning it up.
No it doesn't, it just has a bsd syscall adaption layer
Your stuff looks good, and that's a generous offer. I hope someone takes you up on it!
except not really correct because you are only allowed one set of parens
This tech is going to be ubiquitous, it's just too easy to distribute it. Grandma better starts adapting now.
I think the point is that in newer languages like typescript, the price paid for static typing is lower because type inference does so much of the leg work. You get all the benefits of static typing, and the cost is usually tiny - you just need to define your types (a valuable exercise regardless) and add them to function signatures.

We’ve come a long way from the C++ or Java I wrote when I was young, where types were named and renamed constantly. As I understand it, even C++ has the auto keyword now.
> When Windows Defender mistakenly recognizes a [virus] as a Trojan, this is often called a 'False Positive'. To solve this problem, you can go through the following steps:
> that it's strange they're unable to iron out the issues in test before ...

It's the deadlines.

"Must ship feature before WWDC"
oh good eye, I didn't catch that
>We believe that there must be better strategies to sustain social networks that don’t require selling user data for ads. Our first step in another direction is paid services, and we’re starting with custom domains...

>...

>We’re partnering with Namecheap, a popular domain registrar, to offer a service for easy domain purchasing and management.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/7-05-2023-business-plan
I'm absolutely using celebrity voices for my Home Assistant voice. Amazon has spent the last couple years removing the voices for Alexa that people had paid for.
> brew install node

> brew install nvm

Installing both node and nvm seems redundant; nvm is written in shell and doesn't require node to be installed by brew. Also, nvm's purpose is to install and manage node versions and so a brew installed node would be a completely unused dependency that just takes up space and adds an extra thing to upgrade every so often.
Patents were invented for a good reason. They prevent important inventions from dying as trade secrets, and being lost to the society.

A patent requires a clear explanation of an invention, in exchange for a limited time of monopoly on its use. After that, the invention enters public domain.

Before patents. important inventions would stay tightly guarded secrets, because once the invention leaks, there's no recourse, every competitor can freely use it, and put you out of business. Hence the inventions were lost forever (at best, need to be reinvented from scratch) if the original inventor went out of business somehow without sharing the secret.

Patents are a boon for everyone as long as the detrimental effects from the monopoly don't outweigh the beneficial effects of sharing knowledge and general ease of business operation without thick shrouds of secrecy. That is, as long as the time of protection is set right.
From the article: “SRI captures day-to-day variability in bedtime, wake-up time, sleep duration, and awakenings during sleep.”

This has nothing to do with when you sleep, it’s about variability.
A modern alternative are bamboo frames, e.g. https://my-boo.de
Sound like this could be used to train an open source LLM.
It probably is, but if sleep becomes more regular it’s pretty likely that stress also goes down?

Not guaranteed of course, but the correlation likely works in the other direction too.
> Would it make a difference if we were talking about articles on a news website.

News articles are pretty explicitly copyrighted and published for a commercial purpose. The websites make their terms clear when you visit. I don't think anyone can argue that it is legal to copy and distribute these articles, same as a book or movie or song.

Data posted on Bluesky on the other hand is meant to be broadly shared using the AT protocol. It is quite literally a feature. If you create your own Bluesky client, for example, you aren't committing copyright violation by downloading someone else's posts on there. Similarly, you aren't going against any terms of service by consuming a firehose of data from an AT relay.
I wonder about the knotted rope. How much information could it contain? Not very much. It's hard to imagine it being very useful.
most chinese people have no interest in those who started the first civilization.
in fact most of them there have to work about 12~14 hours a day and have no ability to spend any time to 'think' and 'assert'.

only a few people there that have higher position and get well educated that know a little about the very old times... and most of them believe Egipt or middle east started the first civilization because that's what the schools there teach.
Gen AI space to everyone else: “Your computer scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they should, they didn’t stop to think if they could just do it anyway”
M2 MacBook Pro with 64GB of RAM.
The headline is about Firefox on Windows for a good reason: that's where the regular users are.

If you want Rust on Nonstop, a niche proprietary platform, your large financial company is welcome to invest in it.
Reminds me the early periods of personal computers.
14 million pays for a couple salaries and a few server bills. That burns away fast when users get higher and higher into the tens of millions.

Being mission driven and not getting distracted is nice, but that doesn't put money in their pockets. Firefox and other products that are/were beloved by similar crowd have been asking for donations for years and it hasn't worked out. Wikipedia seems like the rare exception that pulls it off, and that's because they're aggressive with their campaigning for cash and they're basically an indispensable public service at this point.
Yeah I also noticed the install instructions is run this batch file that gets administrator access and starts downloading things…
"Except the networks studied here for prospective configuration are ... neural networks. No changes to the architecture have been proposed, only a new learning algorithm."

In scientific investigations, it's best to look at one component, or feature, at a time. It's also common to put the feature in an existing architecture to assess the difference that feature makes in isolation. Many papers trying to imitate brain architecture only use one feature in the study. I've seen them try stateful neurons, spiking, sparsity, Hebbian learning, hippocampus-like memory, etc. Others will study combinations of such things.

So, the field looks at brain-inspired changes to common ML, specific components that closely follow brain design (software or hardware), and whole architectures imitating brain principles with artificial deviations. And everything in between. :)
Crop farming, sure. Livestock farming? You basically can't leave. Can barely even do anything else.
Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser is still doing great, however.
Companies are going to continue to enshittify as long as customers refuse to leave them. There's no incentive not to.

People who want to do stuff like making custom apps or scripts that use these APIs should instead be building their own music servers.
More in keeping with the Unix philosophy of doing one thing and doing it well (GnuPG in particular does a mediocre job of many things), the best move is to replace it with a suite of single purpose tools.

For example, signing commits with minisign or signify.
It's the robot bath from Roujin Z, but in real life

https://youtu.be/X5i0JU_NsZU?t=464
Because people make it so, not because the natural order of the world gets us there

For some reason because we can validates that we should. Any jackass has the power of a research team of phds. It's kinda weird.
Blockchain Capital

https://www.blockchaincapital.com/blog/bluesky-13m-users-and...
That is a pretty dark view on almost 1/5th of humanity and a nation with a track record of giving the world important innovations: paper making, silk, porcelain, gunpowder and compass to name the few. Not everything has to be around politics.
If you're a nomadic hunter-gatherer tribe, you're not going to carry around clay tablets that say "Happy Birthday, love Gramma" on them.
Neither of the other city states in the Aztec Triple Alliance had walls either and they weren’t built on islands.[1] They seem to have had some walled precincts to separate sacred spaces from common areas but now broader system of defensive walls. Much like Ancient Rome they had large and well organized armies.

[1] https://www.public.asu.edu/~mesmith9/1-CompleteSet/MES-SAA-0...
a) most thinkpads come with a physical camera shutter https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/ht512980-what-is-...

b) this story is about Windows. Linux has its own firmware update solution https://fwupd.org/
Well, he is correct. Look at WW2 when Germany optimised their tanks and tank strategy. Now loot at Ukraine and the war there. Drones are in an explosive growth spurt. I have seen Octo-copters by Ukraine carrying 8-10 finned bombs, each singly droppable. Their biggest problem is battery duration. Combination swivel prop flyers use the greater lift from lifting wings to achieve vertical operation and transition to level flight with 10-20 times the range and better lift. The F35 is already fly by wire, add a data/video link and the pilot sits in his living room or the air base. Not there yet - but soon - jam proof coms are needed, perhaps a bi-direction self centering retro reflector link? Is there a frequency that lases and penetrates clouds? Millimeter radio - sub-millimeter? At what point do droplet dimensions and other smoke-like vapor block these ultra-high frequencies?
Already we have piloted jets with speedy drone 'wing-people' that can keep formation with jets.
We do live in interesting times!!
I'm sorry you experienced this. Don't be hard on yourself for not calling them out, you shouldn't have to shoulder the burden of doing so.
This should have multiple stepper sizes, and I will use the kids' settings regularly for my kids. Yes, I know the security concerns, and I will watch them, talk to them, or read a book while they are being washed.
What? I've been upgrading my laptops with fwupdmgr for years without any issue.
The CIA's Gateway Experience [pdf]
This happens on both of them, the difference is that on Bluesky you can remove their ability to interact completely and the support staff will remove people who use insults. You can't avoid abuse on Twitter and the support system doesn't do anything even for outright nazi comments let alone an insult.
Larger clients will often require you to have liability insurance. I was able to get some quotes for this as an independent consultant myself. However, given the extra expenses you'll have to charge more. I'd suggest using this higher cost as leverage toward the liability they want you to accept (for you, ideally as-is). I'd also explain since it's hourly if they dislike your work they can just replace you.

IANAL but my understanding is that for contractual work in the US you can only realistically be sued for at most the amount of the contract (supposing non-negligence). Asking you to accept liability beyond this sounds risky.
I’d instead like to ask why! “Why is Gamora?”
I think you're thinking of Windows Longhorn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Windows_Vista#M...). They used managed code and ended up partially scrapping it to restart development on top of Windows Server 2003.
I have a sticky piece of post it note more or less permanently affixed over my camera.
I really dislike the meme that the typical person is stupid.

The typical person is the result of a ruthless Darwinian selection process that has left the typical person savvy, agile, aware, alert, and capable.

The typical person might be coded inarticulate because the education available to the typical person stresses different vocabulary than people not subject to ruthless selection pressure recently.

I’m home schooled to put it mildly, more accurate is that I was presented books and an admiration for acumen, and I deliberately delineate by degree the dramatic dismissal of people on HN who condescend to typical people.

The typical person on HN would survive about three minutes in a legitimately menacing environment.

Summers was on Jon Stewart recently. People know who he is. They might not know his long-time advocacy for maximum toxic waste disposal in Africa, but in fairness Rubin helped quiet that down. They might have forgotten that he personally knew-capped Brooksley Born at the exact perfect time to demonstrate that LTCM was the prototype for ever godawful prop deak today.

I’ll refrain from commenting on Fidji Simo out of personal experience because it would be unfair given that I’ve known her for 12 years and merely remark that the public record is a litany of OSHA violations handled more clumsily than the already low bar Amazon set.

The typical person is a lot savvier than the typical HN hot take smartass who is dramatically out of their depth.
Depends on if people live in it or buy as an investment and leave it vacant or air bb as often happens in London
Can you give an example? I think part of the problem is that mixins and such are so hard to do in most statically typed languages that programmers just don’t code things that way.

I see your point - I certainly find myself reaching for clever high level patterns less in typescript than I do in JavaScript because complex typing can get in the way. But also, programs that make heavy use of metaprogramming are often, also, harder to read and debug. There’s something very nice and straightforward about explicit, concrete types.
Right, that's why I asked about Bluesky's content license; just because it's not in your face when you visit, doesn't mean you don't have to abide by it.

You understand that categories of usage are important, right? No-one is breaking the GPL by reading source code, but incorporating into your own codebase can be problematic if not done correctly. Similarly, human beings reading the data posted by a Bluesky user is not the same as aggregating and analysing the data of thousands of users. As I said I'm on the fence with this, but I do understand why someone might have a problem with it.
For that matter, the For Dummies books have subtitles that refer to "the rest of us". So the actual reader as well as the author are not necessarily one of the dummies.
The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) part of the kernel provides the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) application programming interface (API, BSD system calls), the Unix process model atop Mach tasks, basic security policies, user and group ids, permissions, the network protocol stack (protocols), the virtual file system code (including a file system independent journaling layer), several local file systems such as Hierarchical File System (HFS, HFS Plus (HFS+)) and Apple File System (APFS), the Network File System (NFS) client and server, cryptographic framework, UNIX System V inter-process communication (IPC), audit subsystem, mandatory access control, and some of the locking primitives.[7] The BSD code present in XNU has been most recently synchronised with that from the FreeBSD kernel. Although much of it has been significantly modified, code sharing still occurs between Apple and the FreeBSD Project as of 2009.[8]
This looks neat, but it looks like it's trying to be everything to everyone, and while that's always tempting for a new product, I think it's usually doomed to failure.

Why does it support an RS232 port, especially on such a small form factor? Why does it focus so much on local LLM support? Why has it got such a high resolution display? Why has it got swappable ports?

Each one of those features makes sense in isolation for some market, but together I'm not sure there's anyone who's the target market for all of them, and because of that there are likely to be better options for each target market. Want to run an LLM? A Mac is going to do that much better with its unified memory and ML acceleration. Want to do sysadmin stuff plugged into an old switch? You probably already have an old Thinkpad for that. etc.
Demanding responsible behaviour from everybody is not going to work. Some people don't care about negative externalities that much and it's enough if only a few of them decide not to play ball. So either grandma needs to adapt which will upset some people or distributing the tech should be regulated/prosecuted which will upset another group of people.
It's not any worse than all the projects on github with an "easy" install instructions of "curl ... | sudo sh". Heck, even an innocent "sudo make install" command can easily contain a malicious payload.
Mark Zuckerberg Had Dinner with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
You can’t adapt around brain age making it more difficult to distinguish truth from lies.
Andersen says a lot of things. Who were the political opponents that were “debanked”? I’m looking for names here, along with actual citations.
>The term "shift work" includes both long-term night shifts and work schedules in which employees change or rotate shifts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_work
Great, now sell this to your marketing department
Last major update broke all my vpns for a while. Really not fun having to switch to ssh bastions to do anything.