skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How much of that wealth is tied up in home equity?

Home equity is often the first real wealth American families accrue.

Most of the time, by the time a parent dies, the children all have homes already.

> private equity firms buying all the nursing homes siphon off the wealth transfer as the boomers wither away

The defense for this are living wills and trusts that transfer wealth from the elder and shift the burden to public insurance (Medicare). Most of the senior care world is grifting off of government money.
Blackrock would definitely never swoop up a whole class of assets and then something to inflate the prices. /s
They are saying that glyphosate was considered to be a less toxic pesticide
This is a very cool game. It's worth continuing to work on it. Here's some thoughts:
* it's hard to tell when the moves have been charged up or not. It would be better if you could visually indicate when these are/aren't charged.
* The idea of including a quiz into the game is pretty neat. If you could make the question set configurable it would be better as your users could study whatever they are interested in studying
* The "you win" page is a bit anti-climactic. Can you make this a bit more exciting?
You are advocating for the killing of random people just for where they work. Many of them also happen to frequent this forum.

I don't think this is something you should say out loud, and I definitely don't think it's something that belongs on HN.
Fashion is more than just an aesthetic - it's tied to history, labor, economics, and identity
Morally wrong? Sure.

Un-American? Sounds pretty damn American to me.

We're hardly unique in that, of course. I don't think America is any worse than average when it comes to the spoils system. But we're not better, either.
Honestly, I think the closest experience to a classic Roguelike is playing Minesweeper or Solitaire. Most of the time your next move is pretty clear, but you always reach a point where you have incomplete information and you have to way the risk/reward of, say, trying that armor on or zapping that tough enemy with a wand of polymorph. Not a lot of video games really lean into incomplete information as a core mechanic. Experimentation is necessary to figure out all the interactions.

Though to be honest, I like my Roguelikes pretty limited in scope. I could never get into Nethack because it felt like the number of factors you needed to take into account outstripped my working memory. I found myself going to a wiki, which isn't my favorite activity.

And if we want to really get nerdy about the history of game design, I have a theory about Dark Souls. Dark Souls is a roguelike/lite... but without the three gameplay elements considered most necessary to be a descendant of Rogue: there's no permadeath, it's not turn based, and it's not procedurally generated. And yet... no other game of its era leaned as hard into the idea of incomplete information, high challenge, necessity for experimentation, and risk/reward calculations.

The history of games is so cool, because nothing ever gets forgotten. There's always some visionary who grew up on some genre of game considered outdated and niche but who can adapt that genre into a new form which can find a fresh audience.
> This language feature is best understood as an attempt to mitigate the complexity of this other language feature

That doesn't really make any sense. Move semantics aren't meant to mitigate complexity of function overloading. It's more like, it uses function overloading as part of its implementation.

I do strongly prefer Rust's strategy of move being the first class citizen (and being destructive), with copy (/clone) layered over the top. But of course C++ got where it is for historical reasons. And I've never used Rust properly so I don't really know if the grass is greener.

> Rust isn't as far back on that road is it pretends and is likely catching up.

This is just vacuous trolling.
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Highly recommend his biography, "No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin."

He was a commando turned computer scientist turned billionaire who died fighting terrorists at the age of 31. And, remarkably - 9/11 was a big turning point for Akamai because it was a first news event that people monitored using the internet, so many news websites had to turn on Akamai to handle the traffic surge.
I somehow managed to mess up 2FA in my Twitter account shortly after Elon bought it. I think it was around when some 2FA options were only available to paid accounts. I was trying to delete it, so I decided the account was pretty well locked and just left it.
> I don't think it'd be fully correct to say that knowledge is only encoded by relations between words. The input/output of the model is tokens of text, but internally it'll be converted into high-dimensional semantic vector spaces of concepts.

All right, how about this: LLMs do have actual knowledge - the knowledge that was encoded in the words in the training data. That's not how they store the data internally, but the actual knowledge comes from there.

And I wasn't saying that that's enough. I was saying that the LLM advocates think, or at least claim, that it's enough.
Humans routinely misremember facts but are relatively certain those remembrances are correct.

That’s a form of minor, everyday hallucination.

If you engage in such thorough criticism and checking of every recalled fact as to eliminate that, you’ll crush your ability to synthesize or compose new content.
I've developed GraphVis, an interactive web tool that visualizes graph algorithms such as Dijkstra’s, A*, Bellman-Ford, Prim’s, Kruskal’s, DFS, Kahn's, and more. It offers:

Step-by-step Visualizations: Understand the inner workings of algorithms with detailed animations.

Time Complexity Reference: Quickly grasp the efficiency of each algorithm.

Cycle Detection Techniques: Explore methods for detecting cycles in both directed and undirected graphs.

Clean C++ Code: Access comprehensive and reusable C++ implementations for all included algorithms.

Built using modern web technologies, GraphVis aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice, making it easier to learn and teach graph algorithms.

I’d appreciate any feedback or suggestions from the community!
Why? There's no free speech environment if it lacks spaces that upset you for existing. X's existence in the name of "freedom", even if you disagree with the characterization, in turn protects your free speech. In fact, nothing else really does.
'Brutal' math test stumps AI but not human experts
What the --

This is such a great idea! I've had this same problem for as long as I can remember, and I feel like most intellectually-oriented folks have this same problem, as well.

My work firewall blocked the site, but I will check this out later :)
I like Kreb reports, I wonder where they are with the Ubiquiti drama.
I think it may depend on how reading is taught.

I learned whole word reading, as did my children, and i think my siblings too but, we all learned to read at home.

I think phonics may work better in a class room where you want to minimise the difference between slow and fast learners page, and kids do not get much individual attention. My kids learned to read from playing one to one games with flashcards and reading to/with a parent so whole word worked for us.
> [citation needed]

Of the top of my head.

Uber, has to do all sorts of gymnastics to make rides work across different EU countries. And still they are routinely asked to stop serving in a country for some reason or another.

Amazon. It took them years to launch across EU, they went country by country and didn’t launch across EU at once.
Usually starts with "Scratch" at a very young age. It's block based drag n drop programming.

Here's the path my son followed:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42313045
I said „unhealthy“- not sickly. You can be 100% fit and have an unhealthy lifestyle at the same time.
The constant race to market dominance can easily divert you from producing creativ output but as a creative you always have to strike a balance.
Working as an engineer at google or facebook, paypal, airbnb just seems incredibly boring to me. This is probably my core point.
Misremembering facts isn’t a negative mental health event, yet is an example of imagination rather than recall — similar to LLMs hallucinating.

Humans imagine events all the time, without the ability to know that happened. Part of why eye-witness testimony is so unreliable.
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https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-open-source-upstream
I think you've overlooked something: people can leave a social media site without deactivating their account. I haven't used Digg or Slashdot in at least a decade, for example, but never got rid of my accounts. I've also got a few alt Reddit accounts that I haven't logged into in a long time.

I'd expect in general the number of people who leave a site but don't bother to actually go through the steps of deactivating the account to be quite a bit higher than the number that do deactivate.
JEP Draft: Remove the Terminally Deprecated Applet API
Please God, Don't Run Your Own Race
haha that's awesome!!

pounder monster is my favorite animation
Maybe, but then standard of living in India was always poor - in fact, much poorer before than it is now. Yet it is only now that entrepreneurship is at a peak never seen before in the country.
I've used NEAT a few for a few different things. The main upside of it is that it requires a lot less hyper-parameter tuning than modern reinforcement learning options. But that's really the only advantage. It really only works on a subset of reinforcement learning tasks (online episodic). Also, it is a very inefficient search of the solution space as compared to modern options like PPO. It also only works on problems with fairly low dimensional inputs/outputs.

That being said, it's elegant and easy to reason about. And it's a nice intro into reinforcement learning. So definitely worth learning.
Clarence Darrow is one of the most famous lawyers in US history, and is widely considered to perhaps be the best attorney in US history as well.

The main way normal people have heard of him was that he was the defense attorney in the Scopes monkey trial.
Close, but inflation also makes Americans poorer. Global asset holders (US included) are just fine as the dollar cost simply rises against the asset. Holders of dollars will lose value. Holders of dollar denominated debt (mortgages) are winners.

The US Government does gain a lot of wealth doing this, but it doesn't necessarily trickle down to Americans or American companies.
Racism is nothing like health care.

Health care is a good or service that depends on other people's labor. People do not have a right to other people's labor (no matter how much they insist otherwise). It's entirely reasonable to bring up the fact that most Americans are happy with their health care.
While the underlying mechanics are similar (pension funds), the average European (at least in my corner of the EU) is completely unaware. They know some (government-mandated) amount is withheld and paid out to the government (which then routes it to appropriate mix of pension funds), and that's it.

While you can be aware of the details (and make your own pension fund choice), most people are blisfully unaware.
You make the most money on a PUT you sold if it stays above strike, it doesn't have to go up at all for you to make 100% of the possible profit of the trade. You just wait as it goes to zero. The example was to show how to profit off of something staying flat.
I like it, although I listened more to SiriusXM than Spotify this year so my results were skewed. Last year, several video messages were included from my top artists, which is neat.

Xbox started doing the same thing with games this year, and that's cool, too. I found out I'm in the top 2-3% of all players for my 3 most played games.
I thought it was clear that arbitrary here refers to any modern reimagining of said limitations, which obviously don’t have to be identical constraints either.
In developed countries kids who are not going to school are probably still getting an education. it is a legal requirement in the UK (for example) that parents ensure kids get a "suitable and efficient education".
"Vigiliante justice" is an oxymoron.
Cool, good luck!

PS I just bought a license for myself. My partner and I were coincidentally talking about eye strain just last night, so perfect timing!!

Oh, and a throwaway thought: Just saw the custom backgrounds & messages feature. I'd probably be willing to pay some trivial fee ($5-$10/year) for curated backgrounds, quotes, and quiet sounds that play peacefully in the background during break mode. Meditative instrumental music with nature scenery or curated art, etc. Or even if each themed pack like "nature" or "classics" or "cityscapes" were each a one-time fee with occasional updates, that'd still be the kind of thing that requires a server connection (thus harder to pirate), while still being entirely optional for people who hate subs (most of HN, from the looks of it).
There was mention of the sound becoming 'dull' at the higher octaves. This is not a limitation of the DAC as was suggested, but caused by the phase modulation algorithm aliasing badly at the top of the range. Basically the modulation causes higher harmonics to appear in the output, and if these are higher than nyquist (half the sampling rate) they reflect back into the audible range, and produce unpleasant very digital sounding artifacts.

So, the DX designers avoid this by adding keyboard scaling for the operators - as you play higher up the keyboard, sounds could reduce the amount of modulation applied, and hence reduce the level of the aliases till they were inaudible. Unfortunately if done too aggressively, this will lead to a noticeable reduction in the harmonic complexity of the tone, which is perceived as a dull tone.
The previous page behavior with the weird animation and reload is too horrible for that.
> Trying to find people who haven’t been fucked by health insurance will be near impossible

What world do you live in?
Senators sit in their oh-so-comfy Senator chairs, and vow support something called "exercise".
Federal Court Says Dismantling a Phone to Install Firmware Isn't a 'Search'
Improving clarity around charging is on his plan. Its a big issue with the current version.

I'll show him your feedback about the end-game. He was just excited to use document.write()'s side effect of blanking the page if it was the first use of the function. Partly he just wanted to do it because I told him we don't use that function anymore.

Appreciate the feedback!
You could be an engineer doing something physical like construction or mechanical engineering? Advanced degree and high pay but you spend plenty of time doing real tangible stuff. Also, there's obvious stuff like surgeons: highly respected and you're doing physical work.
Creating Desirable Difficulties to Enhance Learning [pdf]
It's not cowardly to leave your abusers. It is a very bold act. People decided they were tired of abusive Twitter users, and so they left.
Several of them have been massive disclosure leaks in SPAs. All of the ones targeted at Crypto Wallets, for instance, were supply chain attacks in Electron code and/or SPA code.
Didn't they just rebrand to moz://a or something like that recently?
The full title is:

> Federal Court Says Dismantling A Phone To Install Firmware Isn’t A 'Search,' Even If Was Done To Facilitate A Search
Aside from the concerns with decentralized servers that the other poster mentioned, this has the disadvantage that your messages are going to get constantly reordered to not match the intended flow of the conversation when you have poor connectivity, which is a bad user experience
I always hated twitter, but I have to say I started using it in the last month or so.

It's the only social network that feels unfiltered and not the typical politically correct crap.

I can understand left wing people leaving the platform and they account for half of the population so the numbers make sense.
If true, it’s not necessarily evidence of race being independent of class, it would only be evidence of color being independent of class. If true, it might to some degree be the opposite of what you claim, it might be evidence of race mattering since Americans and Nigerians though they might share some physical traits, are now from different countries for many generations. Is it true? I’d love to see this evidence, can you link to some?

There is a literal mountain of evidence that both color and race in the US correlate negatively with outcomes, perhaps in differing amounts, but if you ignore that, you’re also ignoring some evidence. There a lot of possible confounding reasons why one black group might fare better than another on average in the US, and that means that if you care about being accurate about whether race and class are linked, then it’s extremely difficult to separate them, and nearly impossible to declare they’re not linked. The biggest problem with your claim is that race and class absolutely were linked in the past without question, when blacks were slaves, and we have never had a period in US history where the socioeconomic outcomes of blacks matched whites on average. The situation has improved, but we have plenty of evidence we’re not there yet, and so it’s impossible and almost certainly wrong to claim that either race or color has little to do with class.
Truffle ruby could replace this with a O(1) Operation, even when it’s part of a c extension.
only after ungoogled-chromium I realised how dumb chrome omnibar without glued google autocomplete is, it not configurable at all and visited/bookmarked local search simply does not work.

it is abismal compared to librewolf (firefox)

but chromium feels faster and with better video files handling compared to firefox
From TFA:

> Oscilloscope Music is music that creates it's own visuals.

> The same signal that goes to the speakers is also fed into an analog oscilloscope to draw green glowing lines.

> The left and right audio channels correspond to the horizontal and vertical axes of the image.

> Parametric functions are meticulously crafted to create synesthetic geometries in a lab aesthetic that is retro and futuristic at the same time.

> The tricky part is to create images that sound good and vice versa, which demands novel methods of synthesis, mixing and mastering.

This is exactly was TFA does.
One has to wonder why you are spending your time here offering counter-propaganda for the Russian military.
If people don't care about the dollar, then why is "Bitcoin is over $100k" a headline?

You know why it is a headline?

Because the $ symbol in the headline is what people ACTUALLY care about. You don't even need to ask people: simply watch what people do, and you will learn what they care about.

And what they do is they buy nice things, like Lamborghinis, yachts, homes — and they do so using US dollars.
How the purpose of clothing has shifted over time, and I think a lot of it boils down to the balance between utility and status
> isn't this surmounting the problem?

I’m sorry, I’m not really sure what you mean by this.

There are techniques to lower the rate of hallucinations, but not solve it. Those techniques also vary wildly from application to application.
So, no. There are no general viable techniques to totally avoid hallucinations.
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Are you saying that the US has gotten poorer even though GDP has risen?

Are you saying that you visiting your grandma one weekend is the same as someone washing, feeding and walking her every day?
Ask HN: What AI tools changed your work/life?
New shiny AI tools and apps appear daily. Many of them are trash, but some are gems, and can change work or life drastically.

Big players/LLMs aside (ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, Github Copilot, etc), what tool you found that stands out and really nails the prolem it supposed to help with. Could be very niche tool. Share as many as you wish.
Absolutely this. Every time someone suggests dense urban living or asking for people to pay for their car-dependent life, suburbanites come out of the woodwork and scream and holler that their rights are being taken away. As if the majority of the country isn't suburban sprawl catering to car dependent life. We only have a handful of dense, walkable cities with public transit in the entire country. Suburbanites have plenty of places to choose from, literally anywhere else outside of NYC, Chicago, SF, and Boston.

As a New Yorker, I'm totally fine with people choosing a suburban life. Do you, I don't care. But don't kill congestion pricing and think you're entitled to drive into the densest part of the United States and park for free in my neighborhood just because. Don't block funding for public transit for 40 years and then complain you need your car because the train is scary to you the two times a year you use it.
I wonder if anyone is working on a fantasy console with PS3-level graphics. A lot of games on Steam today have retro aesthetics and aren’t very demanding. A game runtime that works on Linux, macOS, and Windows would solve portability and digital preservation.
I was studying for SATs. I mastered the verbal portion’s analogy and sentence completion by memorizing 4300 SAT words. Got all questions in that section right except two, one was skipped and the other was wrong (sacrosanctity is the same as sanctity apparently!).

The reading comprehension was the last bit (too much procrastination!). Used Barrons verbal SAT book, with its three difficulty levels segmented. Went through each level and understood it well enough to understand what I was doing wrong.

Realization: Each phrase has to be split up into its own sentence. Then Each sentence has to be given a context. Then each context has to have connecting pieces with the next context. The reader’s job is to understand each sentence, put it into context, and identify the missing parts and pieces of logic, and come up with a possible explanation of the contexts that are missing.

The possible explanations was a hardest one to get right. It was like I did not understand People and how they thought. (I was autistic and introverted with some adhd.) example: the class is a reflection of the teacher. Does that mean that the class is opposite of the teacher because that is how a reflection works? I had to watch many movies and tv shows to get this one right over the course of many years after I graduated and start earning money to pay for cable tv.
https://godbolt.org/z/MTo11voes > println takes 9 seconds
https://godbolt.org/z/he6Phr7nG > cout takes 6 seconds

What machine / compiler are you on where the difference between these are 30 seconds? GCC is also quite a bit faster based off a quick tests in godbolt.