skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know where the hype comes from, which says that reddit posts are particularly smart and useful

They're useful because there's comments from actual people.

I do site:reddit.com queries when I'm looking for product (and software) recommendations because otherwise you just find affiliate spammers (like cnet, wired, nyt and forbes).
I had it in Lenovo X61 Tablet. It was called CompuTrace back then. It was a BIOS module that Windows executes while processing ACPI tables during boot. Now it's probably a UEFI module that does the same.

I removed it by 0-ing out the module in a BIOS update image and reinstalling Windows. This method probably doesn't work with UEFI anymore because it invalidates the signature, so yes, it's unremovable.
I'm not sure about this.

I know various hackers, back in the day, were congratulated for their "public service" of showing vulnerabilities. The problem is that we've to a network infrastructure that is only secure by piecemeal bug fixes and ad-hoc filtering and moved to situation where hacking is a (maximally shady) business.

Will things be different with power grid and other infrastructure because lives depend on it? I don't see any indications.

"The society at the stage of the integrated spectacle is characterized by five principal features: incessant technological renewal; fusion of State and economy; generalized secrecy, unanswerable lies; a perpetual present." Guy Debord, Commentaries on Society Of The Spectacle
Realistically I can’t imagine the old owner would keep paying for the data connection on cars they’ve decommissioned and sold off. The device probably is just searching for a network all the time.

Probably. Obviously this assumes competence, attention to detail, and responsibility with corporate funds.
The market is not kind to consumers that put their faith in "brands" without owners.

I put brand in quotes because anyone can produce and sell honeycrisp apples. It is not trademarked.

Buying one is like buying a hammer on amazon and assuming it will have the quality of different hammer you used.
Hi, migrations are 1 select statement + `n` insert statement for `n` rows right now.

This might be improved to insert in batches in the future without changing the API.
This is the way... there's research already at WSU for when the Cosmic Crip runs its course and the world is ready for the next apple with the same basic characteristics.
Have you seen the Tesla Model S Plaid, or the Lucid Air Saphire? Heck, even the supercar/hypercar market is slowly becoming predominantly BEV.
> Me having a cup necessarily means you don’t have it. That’s not how ideas and pictures work. You can infinitely perfectly duplicate them.

This is a stupid argument, no matter how often it comes up.

If I hire Alice to come to my sandwich shop and make sandwiches for customers all week and then on payday I say, "Welp, no need to pay you—the sandwiches are already made!" then Alice is definitely out something, and I am categorically a piece of shit for trotting out this line of reasoning to try to justify not paying her.

If I do the same thing except I commission Alice to do a drawing for a friend's birthday, then I am no less a piece of shit if I make my own copy once she's shown it to me and try to get out of paying since I'm not using "her" copy.

(Notice that in neither case was the thing produced ever something that Alice was going to have for herself—she was never going to take home 400 sandwiches, nor was she ever interested in a portrait of your friend and his pet rabbit.)

If Alice senses that I'd be interested in the drawing but might not be totally swayed until I see it for myself, so she proactively decides to make the drawing upfront before approaching me, then it doesn't fundamentally change the balance from the previous scenario—she's out no less in that case than if I approached her first and then refuse to pay after the fact. (If she was wrong and it turns it I didn't actually want it because she misjudged and will not be able to recoup her investment, fair. But that's not the same as if she didn't misjudge and I come to her with this bankrupt argument of, "You already made the drawing, and what's done is done, and since it's infinitely reproducible, why should I owe you anything?")

Copyright duration is too long. But the fundamental difference between rivalrous possession of physical artifacts and infinitely reproducible ideas really needs to stay the hell out of these debates. It's a tired, empty talking point that doesn't actually address the substance of what IP laws are really about.
Somewhat off-topic, but I wonder why there are so many comments against renewables on the same X thread (https://x.com/RARohde/status/1858475515780157783), and none on Bluesky.
This is a much better plan. One issue with 100 probes around, say, Enceladus, is the downlink bandwidth. This is why I suspect on site infra is going to be required.

But honestly let's do both. Infra and something like Planet Labs for outer planets. We can.
Won't it be more reasonable to run it inside bubblewrap then?
Yes, and it’s a shame people have abandoned physical media. Who said you had to host it though? You can also simply keep them on your phone. 1GB of storage comes out to around 20 hours of 128kbps OPUS, which will sound identical to Spotify’s offerings, and takes all of a few minutes to rip the disk, have a program automatically tag the metadata, and convert every song to OPUS. It’s also more likely that your friend will find their music on YouTube, but that doesn’t mean you should get YouTube Premium.
Honestly, if you're looking for practical experience, you can learn a lot just from having that language's linters/security/style cops up and running and building a toy app (with tests) in that environment. If you want high-level understanding, the tutorials are usually enough.
Discussion (21 points, 38 days ago, 45 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927684
Everyone remember to go thank President Carter before he passes (promoting solar before it was cheap/efficient)

BTW it is really neat that BlueSky allows noscript to work by simply displaying the text of a post despite the "javascript needed" warning.
Any examples of good sci-fi armor?
Just a side note here... it's shocking to drive through the orchards of Washington and Oregon and see how much fruit never gets harvested because there's no commercial market for it. Acres and acres of fruit left on the trees until they fall off and rot because they aren't varieties desirable in the market any longer. Why don't farmers replace with new varieties? In some cases they do, but the capital expense is considerable to tear out trees / bushes / etc and replace and wait for mature fruit.
That must be on media I don’t use, as I didn’t even know they advertised. I independently settled on cosmic crisp (and the nearly identical crimson crisp) as my standard.

I never did like honeycrisp all that much, though. It’s a little too sweet and something about the flavor is just a little bit wrong. It’s hard to describe but it’s like they tried a little too hard to make the ideal apple. It’s alright and I’d be happy to eat one but I don’t buy them.
Ah, fascinating, I’ve never used Order Statistics. It doesn’t look exactly like what I was thinking, but there is also a continuum from min to median to max, similar to min to mean/sum to max. I’m not sure but I might guess that for the special case of a set of independent uniform variables, the median and the mean distributions are the same? Does this mean there’s a strong or conceptual connection between the Bates distribution and the Beta distribution? (Neither Wikipedia page mentions the other.) Maybe Order Statistics are more applicable & useful than what I imagined…
Overcoming the Threat of Intelligence Decline
Ah, I missed that you were talking about the code in the appendix, not the top examples. Yeah, you’re right on every count then, aplologies.
Discussion (6 points, 1 day ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42271756

Related Google Maps leads three men to death as car plunges from incomplete bridge (30 points, 3 days ago, 32 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42260645
> It’s not like I ranked github lower, it’s actually in the normal rank setting.

Why not just raise it?
> There were no barricades or sign boards indicating that the bridge was unfinished.

WTF?

If I fall off that bridge without using Google Maps, who would be blamed? Would I be the one responsible for not using Google Maps, so it couldn't be blamed instead of the road maintainer?
In 2024 to assume a company is not exercising virtually all the rights you’ve given them when you agreed to their terms and services - especially when they stand to make a ton of money doing so - is wild to me.

These companies do not get the benefit of the doubt. I do not need proof to assume they are selling us to the highest bidder when they explicitly outline it in their terms and services and have done it time and time again. Experience has shown us that more often than not they will.

I also didn’t say Nissan stole or broke into anything. My example is appropriate.
> Merkle hash every entry with its predecessors; normalize entries so they can be consistently hashed and searched; store everything in an append-only log;

Isn’t this how crypto coins work under the hood? There’s no actual encryption in crypto, just secure hashing.
> It's just not as good

Again, the evidence (as limited as it is) suggests otherwise. You are more likely to succeed if you're going with dynamic language and not doing "proper engineering". This has been widely accepted before type-checker era, and I see no reason why it would be different now. Utilize type checker when it's free, but don't waste time on type puzzles.

"Proper engineering" doesn't get you to product-market fit faster. All it does is tickle your ego.
But they are consistent and reliable, for now. I know if I go to the store and I've got the option of 6 different types of apples (I live in WA, we've got apple choices...) I know cosmic crips (grown barely an hour drive from where I live) will be consistent in texture and flavor.
> Sheesh. I can only imagine what is your interest in personal expression--seems diabolical.

Think about the older people or not tech-heavy people in your life and try to imagine them building their own website from scratch or using a hosting platform, marketing it on various socials, doing what you're recommending. It's not impossible, but people go with the lowest friction option.

I personally go through times where I try to be active online, engage with people, and share my life experiences and knowledge, both on my website and on my few social accounts. I do this largely to build my personal "brand" so that when I move jobs, I can point to my website and all that it aggregates as a supplement to my resume.

However, I usually hit a point where I realize that most anonymous online communication ends up facilitating name calling and other negative behaviors, and I get tired of people accusing me and others of things, and then I drop off the Internet for a while.

I don't know what I stated about how the non-techy people in my life think ("share now" being easier than posting a link on HN) is diabolical.

Your recommendation of using social media as just a boost/plug for your website is great if the person has the wherewithal and interest to create a site in the first place. That's not how the non-techy and older people in my life think, and not how they ever will think without some substantial incentive and training.
Show HN: Noema a declarative AI programming Lib
Hi there!

In my spare time, I built Noema, a declarative AI programming approach that makes it easy to interleave Python and LLM (Large Language Model) generations.

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/AlbanPerli/Noema-Declarative-AI

In a nutshell:
Noema enables prompt programming using Python.

The longer story:
For humans:
Noema generates a kind of ReAct prompting that interfaces seamlessly with Python. It allows you to express algorithms as a combination of semantic reasoning (from the LLM) and classical algorithmic logic.
The goal is to provide a new way to think about programming—merging traditional code with the flexibility and power of AI. (Whether this approach proves practical or not is still an open question!)

For LLMs:
Noema could potentially serve as the foundation for a language tailored to LLMs.
These algorithms act as a description of thought processes, which LLMs could generate, execute, and then critique to iteratively refine their outputs (i.e. thinking path)

I’m looking forward to feedback, ideas, or discussions—any input is welcome! :)
To be fair, VMs are a better isolation mechanism; sort of like qubes but less extreme.
They were developed in Washington and apparently that's a first for a widely grown variety:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Crisp
It used to be but it has been until 2017 when the Stellantis group, itself a merger of PSA and Fiat Chrysler, bought them.
I would normally only buy apples around september/october in the Netherlands, trying to get them fresh from local orchards when possible. Elstar is amazing when plucked right from the tree, but becomes mealy before the end of the year IMO.

My new go to is the Magic Star variety, which has been sold as "Sprank" for the last 3 years at least in the Netherlands. These apples keep amazingly well; they ran out of stock around the summer in the last two years, but I found them delicious year round. I hope that this cultivar does not befall the same fate as the Honeycrisp, which I had the pleasure of tasting 5 years ago.
ByteDance seeks US$1.1M in damages from ex-intern who sabotaged AI project
Surely it is easier to just check that all migrations have run before you start serving requests? Column existence is insufficient to verify that the database conforms to what the application expects (existence of indices, foreign key relationships with the right delete/update rules, etc).
The question is whether a customer has to actually connect these things to the net.
anything similar that works with solaredge ?
It’s not just apples, dear. Mass market capitalism does this to *everything*. Everything just becomes so bland. When I moved from my native Canada to a poor backwater Eastern European country (not in the EU) I suddenly noticed how different the experience is with everything, from your local coffee shop to the tech coworking spaces. The experience was just so much more personal, rich, and boutique, and lovely. Now I can’t stand Starbucks and WeWork, and most Western consumer brands anymore. Sure, being in a poor country you also get a lot of rotten apples as well, but the variety is just so invigorating.
I read it as the parent poster is addressing a likely comment asking if they had not taken the Covid vaccine.

They're not blaming the vaccines, as you seem to be implying. The Covid vaccines developed were effective and highly recommended for very good reasons. No one ever claimed that they would be symptom-free for all people.
I think it’s fundamentally hard to make tools like that because models can be sensitive to specifics, so dumbing them down is generally not great
Pretty sure they're paying Google for the data and not scraping it.
$2-$3k? That's a credit card. Or get a job? Either a medical one, or burger flipping, shelf stocking? $3k isn't an unattainable amount...
The point of article is not just to debate English translation of Planck's original paper, but to also point out that there is nothing "fundamental" about Planck's scales in any known experimental physics - ie Planck's length isn't the dimension of one pixel of universal reality, or movement.

In all String Theories "the characteristic length scale of strings is assumed to be on the order of the Planck length, or 10−35 meters, the scale at which the effects of quantum gravity are believed to become significant."

In Inflationary cosmology, the unit of expansion is Planck's time scale, and is needed to justify existence of negative gravitational pull (repulsive force).

If as the author argues, Planck scales are merely "defining" renormalization constants and don't represent anything physically "fundamental" in experimental physics, then both of these theories lose their foundational connection to reality, even theoretically speaking, let alone any experimental evidence.
Requesting what? To be killed. Sorry if this is hard to admit but that's just it. I'm not trying to be inflammatory or edgy, just the plain definition of words is such that to actively cause someone to stop living is signified by the word "killing".
I gave you a selection of top 50 startups out of thousands funded by YC. You're giving me one anecdote.
Study of Gabapentin in Transient Insomnia Induced by Sleep Phase Advance
While there is no expectation of privacy when one is out and about on the city streets, it generally means "you can take a photo of a fountain on the city square without getting every tourist that was caught in the photo to sign a release", not "you can rummage through everybody's bags"
> Truly understand your motivation

Sad to say I've only recently come to this realization. It applies to pretty much anything, whether it's building a business or exercise or learning to draw. And if your motivation can't sustain you long-term, change your perspective so that you have a motivation that will let you see it through. "Make something cool and get rich" doesn't take you very far once you step back for a moment.
Man you dumber than I thought. You got flagged because you made a low quality comment on a website where quality is expected. This isn’t Reddit where you can post literal garbage and receive zero pushback. and this post is filled to the brim with victimized word salad, calling those who disagree a “one-sided thinking mob” and that you were “scapegoated”. Bro we are not mad at you in place of Spotify, we said your comment was low quality and not worth showing.

Truth is you don’t have an explanation. Because there is no justification for closing down API endpoints like this. You’re just bootlicking Spotify despite their unreasonable actions, and got mad when others didn’t prostrate themselves in front of your corporate overlord of choice.
I had a similar experience with wild bison - I’ve spent time around domesticated cattle and the wild ones seemed much more intelligent and aware. They would react as soon as you showed your silhouette on the ridge top.
Show HN is for things you've made others can try right now which excludes signups and waitlists, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I'm not sure if your post is ironic or if you're being serious. Perhaps you could clarify.
You misquoted:

> (which, inexplicably, Swift didn't just repeat, but actually doubled down on by largely deprecating objects).
I agree that most coders would be well served to learn some linear algebra and probability theory as those are ubiquitous. Calculus and stats are also useful depending on your specialty. LLMs don't really change any of this.
"Why Do You Criticize Scrum, When You Wrote a Whole Book on Sprint Goals?"
A bit paranoid, really: if you're the sort of person who's likely to wind up in the 13% that is the Outer Party (Venkatesh Rao's "Clueless"), the hands of the powers-that-be, maybe the world of 1984 doesn't sound good, but from the perspective of the 87%, the Inner Party members and proles, whether Oceanian or Eastasian, what is there to complain about?
What a fun time that was in the aughts for distros. Hardware was rapidly changing and made a lot of new stuff possible. I wonder if there are still emerging hardware platforms to inspire kids today. I had the most fun when I could combine software with hardware, like trying to fit a distro on a floppy, or using the business card CDs to boot a distro into RAM, creating thin terminal clients, routers, firewalls. Feels more real when there's something physical involved.

Also worth noting that the concept Robert discusses of avoiding "system rot" is an early example of immutable infrastructure, a game-changing design used to automate fixing state and entropy failures in modern systems. Had no idea that's where it would lead.
I’d argue that someone cracking CAPTCHAs has a lot less dirty hands than someone who works in an actually scummy industry like US health insurance. Those companies literally kill people by denying them care to pinch pennies. This guy might cause a little more spam on the already useless mess that is YouTube comments. Who cares. I’d take the money, too.
Maybe the solution is not to abstain from the latest tech, but to regulate companies that make these devices so the shenanigans are actually illegal. It is not a problem that should only be solved by ideologically driven people who are willing to tinker and suffer, but rather a protection all citizens enjoy.
> I like how you quoted forcing, but I very specifically did not use that term.

I like that you substituted a similar word while paraphrasing a common phrase and then used the opportunity to say “I didn’t mean what you thought I did. I meant something else but will not describe what that is exactly”
Rights management is apparently still a nightmare; I recently realized that some of my movies were missing on the AppleTV, and it turns out that many titles have restrictions on which platforms you are able to watch them on. We needed to install the Vudu app, which sucks on Apple given they refuse to pay the App Store tax and so it’s only a player slash advertising platform for Fandango.

I am not sure Movies Anywhere has legs though; I doubt owners would be remunerated or retain access to content if the whole thing went belly-up, and I am not sure how they are paying to keep it running.
>Everyone remember to go thank President Carter before he passes

Yes, I remember when he started this and young me I thought it was cool.

I also remember Reagan ripped solar off of the White House and made sure "green" energy support ended or never got started. That alone ensured we would end up where we are now.

Now, the new Admin coming in will probably do the same, promote Fossil Fuels and end subsidizes that exist on Solar and Wind. This will hand what remains of the US Solar Industry to China. Plus with the tariffs he wants to introduce, it will probably kill off green energy here in the US.
SweeTango tastes great. I’ve been buying apple cider made of it for the last two autumns.
Why so many games are failing – and why others are breakout hits
That is sort of a silver lining. We can use PR disasters as levers to make regulation happen which will hopefully add some protection in the future.
As long as companies can buy politicians in the US don't expect it to take off.
Pay. Simple. The enshitification is a direct result of the free business model, where the users of the service are actually the product, and the advertisers are the real customers. Even if kagi feels too expensive, you are still voting with your wallet by choosing a service that you pay for and showing companies that they can focus on building good products for the people who use them and are willing to pay for them. FWIW, the same is true of social networks, but they suffer from the additional complexity of needing enough people to use a service to make it worthwhile.