skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are also under fire for putting misleading adverts in low-income countries like Brazil and India, sounding like they are going to be sold if they don't get enough donation.
Turning off automatic autocorrect is one of the first thing I do when i get a new phone. Sure, show me suggestions, but let me decide myself if I want them or not!
People have been saying this forever.
Remember that you still need to include an instruction to produce a CSV to get the prompt into the right context to generate a CSV that makes sense. Otherwise, you may get output that is technically in the CSV format but doesn't make any sense because the model was actually trying to write a paragraph response and the token sampler just selected really low-probability tokens that the model didn't really want to say.
The blog write-up is incredible -- technically interesting, hilarious, and perfect in both tone and scope. Well done!
Shouldn't something that unavoidably severe show up pretty clearly at a population level for military kids? I'd think there'd be some high-profile lawsuits by now.
Look Deep into the Mind's Eye
> What they don't tell you is that employers are suspicious if you are out of the job market for more than a year

literally one of the first things "they tell you" (it's common knowledge).
Agreed, and I'm not the only one to think this. The hover previews are SO DISTRACTING because I move my mouse around when I read an article, and I also like to select text to visually maintain my reading position. I have accidentally clicked into the previewed link quite a few times before, forcing me to hit the back button to compensate.
YouTube video into a summary, quiz, and flash cards
If SCOTUS takes it up, it will almost certainly overturn the ruling.
I own d12bf171-1ded-4bf6-a87c-b62c202f9e4b now nobody use it thank you.

Edit: and the following 2^8-1 for friends and family, thank you.
I'm surprised that, out of all of the East Asian languages, they chose Thai to support: do they have a big office there? (I imagine compared to, say, Japanese or (some form of) Mandarin?)
> The problem with allocating bit-packed storage is that then you are into the issue where types don't agree on where any pointers are.

The solution to this should be trivial. You just have to extend the gcshape concept to account for the enum discriminator.
Mostly, there's a large amount of CSS that has been written over the years that assumed it was on a light-colored website. In mediawiki itself, in mediawiki extensions, in gadgets and userscripts, and in site-specific overrides across all the Wikiprojects. Most annoyingly to deal with, sometimes hardcoded into pages -- table formatting on wikipedia is often using inline styles to get specific background colors, for instance.

You can see a few hundred tickets about dark-mode related issues if you're curious what's been done and why it's still in beta: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/8zofdVSnra...

(I work for Wikimedia. I didn't work on dark mode, beyond a few minor adjustments to components I do work on to be compatible with it.)
Professional judgement.
That and it seems like VW can't reliably deliver any decent software on any kind of platform. It's incredible how they have so many cars hobbled with some of the worst UXs on the market. It's not even like most of their competition is that competent, they're just exceptionally bad.

Look at a lot of the reviews of the ID series, like the recent ID.Buzz.
UHC does not provide care, they are a leach on society, as all health insurances companies are.
Love the submission right above this one: "DraftKings sued after father-of-two gambles away $1 million of his family’s money"
Looking Back at Speculative Decoding
I've used that before. It works really well and was pretty easy to use. I had no idea the whole thing is just a giant shell script.
This is a major incident. All of our uuids were leaked!
too funny. SCOTUS will do whatever the ruling political party tells it to do. funny people still think SCOTUS is anything more that that these days…
I don’t know if I follow. So starving yourself alone in a van is a better use of time and money than going on adventures with friends? To what end?
How is TTT anything other than a deep learning algorithm? We have a deep learning model, we generate training data based on an example and use a stochastic gradient descent to update the model weights to improve its predictions according to the training data. This is a classic DL paradigm. I just don’t see why would you consider this an advancement if you your goal is to move “beyond” deep learning.
Handling Arabic (right to left) in a mobile app
How do you adjust a REACT mobile app so it can also handle Arabic text (right to left)? Tks
How do you do this, with custom code in a maintenance thread?
AI Chatbot vs. Agent vs. Chatbot
Badass Russian techie outsmarts FSB, flees Putinland
With current charging times, I wonder if EV companies are considering buying up the surrounding land of their charging stations and subsequently leasing the land. Once EV becomes more mainstream/adopted, people are very likely to stay in the area for a long period.

Either stay in your vehicle, or grab a nice hot meal for an hour. Maybe vicinity of EV charging stations will revive the “strip mall”
> The gambling frenzy is mostly about people being free to enjoy themselves

"The smoking epidemic is mostly about people being free to enjoy themselves"

"Gladiatorial combat is mostly about people being free to enjoy themselves"

"Genocidal warfare is mostly about people being free to enjoy themselves"

"mostly" does a lot of work in all of these statements.
If someone ever gets the itch to play RCT again, I’d recommend taking a look at OpenRCT2 [0] for a bunch of QoL improvements (and MacOS support).

[0] https://openrct2.org/
It can't be a coincidence that, as I read this UUID page, there are 255 comments before mine.
CS professor here. Don’t quit. CS has been one of the most enlightening experiences of my life. I have made many friends along the way, been able to participate in inspiring projects, and felt like I worked in a vibrant field that gave me a powerful lens on the world. Yes, it is hard work. But the work is worth it.

Since coming to CS my highs have been higher and my lows lower than in other disciplines. And I came late. I started grad school in my thirties. But something that I learned when I was young, from well before my time in CS is true in this discipline too: if you do good work, people eventually notice. There will be a snowball effect.

It’s true, it doesn’t work out for everyone. But nothing does. And if you don’t take the opportunity to do something difficult, you’ll never know if you could have done it. I personally could not live with that thought. Those who do not try cannot succeed. But those who try—and retry when things don’t work out—probably will not fail either.
Military kids hang out with other military kids for protracted periods (6+ months). Living in an ev in a foreign country where you don’t speak the language is different.
I once referred to one of my daughter's classmates as Skibidi Rizzler. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head as she informed me that nobody says Skibidi Rizzler, and that putting those two words together doesn't make sense. I'm going to show her the code example on the left and inform her that she is incorrect.
the rest of the Fortune 500
Right down to the Stablediffusion-generated corporate-memphis artwork
The chargers shouldn't have been made so short as to only ever accept 2-3 models of cars with identical charger placements. But they were designed to only work with a few Tesla models, so they weren't designed with flexibility in mind. Even Cybertrucks towing have a big issue with the vast majority of existing deployed chargers.

Lots of ICE vehicles have their gas inlets in a number of different spots. Some even have them behind the rear license plate! And yet people don't seem to have an issue getting gas in their cars.

IMO having the vast majority of chargers at the head like that was a bad decision. Putting them on the side of the spots makes a ton of sense and really opens up a lot of flexibility.
can’t believe the number of comments talking like this… the only way I would work for an employer like this is if my kid and wife were hungry and I had no other choice. without my family I wod rather be homeless than work for an employer like this (and yes, they are in a majority).
It’s not the same system. The message catalog based method requires entering your message strings in .mc files during compilation. It is an aid for localization and display is up to the application as to time and method of output.

ETW is for high speed general purpose logging of low-level events with multiple collection mechanisms including realtime capture.
Hard times token
I searched for 1337, and then 13371337, and then 133713371337, and I was flabbergasted they've got a search setup for this (which ctrl-f opens up). Thanks for posting the blog post!
The food in different places is truly different, in surprising ways. It really is worth it to travel for food.

I’m not sure what factors make it that way, but my experience tells me that it is true.
The system wasn't designed. There were no design choices. The entire thing is a legacy result of expectations and costs that all started snowballing from the moment FDR decided wage caps were a good way to stop inflation.

We're not in the situation we're in because anyone thought it was a good idea. We got here incrementally over ~80 years.
don't you know that tiktok controls democracies now?

look at romania!

china is hacking the elections now!
super scared right now.
We used to call them, “military brats”. Just like they used to call PTSD, “He lost his marbles. Couldn’t take the stress like a real man.”
This is an incredible piece overall, although some of the scientists quoted are not as close to the models as the insiders... but this quote really stands out - “The way we train the ‘thinking’ is not through imitation learning,” he said. A reasoning model is “not trained to predict human thoughts” but to produce, or at least simulate, “thoughts on its own.”
The cables are going from a cabinet many meters away from the dispenser to the dispenser. They could go another 3-4 feet and suddenly support a lot more vehicles.

Or Tesla could have placed the dispensers to the sides of even some of the spaces and alleviated the issue.

But Tesla envisioned only the few Tesla models to ever charge at Tesla chargers, so they designed them with tight tolerances.
It would probably work for a Coco3, as the Color BASIC and Extended Color BASIC ROMS didn't change much (there was an additional ROM to support the extra graphics modes).
This is literally the opposite of passive aggressive. That’s my entire point!! You have to be direct with people so the know where they stand. That applies to what they’re doing well on also.

As for the “sell out” statement… I have no idea how you got that out of what I said. Sounds like maybe you had some bad managers?
There was a video of a magic trick I saw where the trick was almost certainly accomplished by false shuffles. I know how to do a few false shuffles, in theory, but, the magician (Ricky Jay, I think?) was just so good at the false shuffles that I was more impressed than if I didn't know how it was done.
I don't know how you can still be so confused about what de-facto means. But you are.
It’s “only” 7.1K LoC, but my favorite is the “acme.sh” script which is used to issue and renew certs from Lets Encrypt.

https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/blob/master/acme....
Is there an effort to make graphics for the game so that I don't have to go online to buy the files somewhere?
The problem with that is that in Go, I need to be able to put methods on those things, for reasons possibly unrelated to the interface in question. For that they need to be named. For that you might as well do what has worked since Go 1.0 and just put an unexported method in the interface and declare several instances of that interface in your package.

Honestly interfaces with unexported methods are 90%+ of what people want. It's just not spelled the way they expect. And if you're not going to be happy except at absolutely 100%, a position I can and do respect, there's no point waiting for Go to get any better because I can guarantee you no Go proposal for sum types will fix that you will be forced to have a "nil" value in the sum type, so there's no point in waiting.
Personally, I don't want my car company to also be the company I buy the fuel from. I'd want a marketplace of people competing to sell me fuel.

I don't want to only be able to fuel my Hyundai at Hyundai-affiliated gas stations. And it'd be bullshit if I couldn't get gas from the Ford station because I'm in a Hyundai.

I get Tesla needed to jumpstart the industry, but if its going to actually work the charging industry needs to stand on its own and not rely on the automakers making their own networks.
If you are willing to forgo a car, expensive food and be fine with a small studio, you can easily do 4 years on $80k in central Europe. You can do 10 years in many parts of the worlds and it'll require some adjustments but some places (ie: Vietnam) can be really okay and offer a night life unmatched by the US.
no shit. recycling doesnt work
I took that option 4 years ago and wouldn't go back now. It's not worth the increase in money vs the life improvement.
When I want some sw to go faster I do profile it, but I also give at least some thought to avoiding unnecessary copying of data or trig functions in tight loops. I regularly have run into people that say considering performance when selecting a data structure is premature optimization. It usually turns out they don't really want to test or profile and just want to churn through tickets. Anything that gets in the way of that bores them.
Precisely zero countries have dismantled a 1.6 trillion dollar, 80 year old health insurance system.

That's not to say it's impossible to do, or that we shouldn't. But, an economic, political, and social mass of this magnitude doesn't turn on a dime.

Other places had the luxury of solving the problem much earlier and on much smaller scales.
If you want to debate something, don't pick another person's experience. There's no winning that.
Timely as ever
They dont mean the food. They think they do, but they dont. What they mean is the sense of cultural inhabitation. Eating and living a certain way for tourism is deeply rewarding on a human level. Its about people, not things.
I’m exactly the same. I have excellent savings. But even still, unemployment is a must-fix critical emergency for me.

If nothing else, pulling money out of investments to fund expenses due to lack of income feels like robbing myself of future gains.
Purpose is intent. Your post here is just sophistry.
Over the last 4 years, I've gone through a similar "speed run" of startups after quitting my job of 10 years during COVID.

First startup went nowhere and took on a contract role after 9 months. Then tried another startup with a co-founder I met at one of the startups where I worked in the interim. About 6 months building something awesome, but no commercial path. Spent 1 month with him and another co-founder on a fintech product but realized much faster that once again that there was no viable go-to-market strategy. Started another company and built a product that seemed like it had legs. We had one early user that absolutely loved the product and we thought all we needed was to find more users like her. Turns out that she was a false signal because we never found another user like her and I'm about to shut that one down after almost a year to avoid DE franchise fee next year.

If anyone is in a situation like this/thinking about doing something like this, I've gathered some of my lessons learned: https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2024/12/lessons-learned-from-worki...

If I had to sum it up: always build the minimal thing that can be "sold". Use AI to build the dirtiest MVP as fast as possible. Even better if your "MVP" is a deck and you can get people to put money down to wait. Figure out your GTM and messaging with that deck. If you are an engineer, you must resist that urge to build until you're sure you can find enough people that have this problem and want to pay you to solve it. Don't work with a non-technical co-founder if they claim if you build it, customers will come. Don't work with a non-technical co-founder that can't demonstrate an ability to sell. If the vibes feel off, get out fast. Don't form a company with a co-founder until you absolutely have to (like your personal life, don't get married until you're absolutely sure).

Lots of mistakes and lessons learned during that time having founded startups that went nowhere, been an employee in startups that went nowhere, and left startups that are actually crushing it. I have seen a big swath of the gamut at this point with some regrets in retrospect.
Honestly, you can very easily find this yourself. Multiple independent studies carried out across both organizations and nations have shown this.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4866579/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135382921...

For the layman:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/health/moving-childhood-d...

https://www.psychiatrist.com/news/moving-even-once-in-childh...

https://www.verywellmind.com/moving-depression-and-your-chil...
If social media sites had identity proofing (e.g. IAL2) and you can definitely say who is saying what - then you can talk

A) About “Americans”

B) Freedom of Speech

If TikTok bans a post from user846859347 which American’s freedom of speech are we talking about. 98.65% of shit on TT is bot-generated propaganda and removing it isn’t violating anyone’s freedom of speech
I suppose everyone assumes that being high profile and earning a multi-million dollar salary involves such risks naturally so it's not shocking when it happens. Why didn't he have security? In NYC? TBH, I'm kind of shocked it doesn't happen more often in a nation with over 300 million people and insanely high inequality... Especially in terms of media exposure, not just money.

There is a reason why most humans are naturally afraid of public speaking. Introversion is a survival trait. This trait was useful to survival 100+ years ago. The fear of the public lost much of its utility, but did it lose all utility? The kind of scale and centralization of human awareness we have today is unprecedented in human history. Are populations THAT much more passive as humans compared to before? Or do people just have a bigger fuse which takes longer to pop?

I come from a small state with a small half-a-million population where there is high inequality and I have had extended family members (who were among the elites of that society) who were shot and killed. Our house would get robbed 4 to 8 times a year. It's just normal when you live in an unequal society. As a comparison, my grandparents said they would sleep with their windows open back in their day (same country, just different times). It's not just inequality BTW; it's also about expectations. High inequality is fine if those who have nothing have low demands and accept their position in society. It's a real problem when they don't. People in the street of the capital would give you a death stare if you looked privileged. This may be the reality that America is heading for if inequality continues to get worse.
off topic but what is the difference between functionally isomorphic and isomorphic?
They also had Novosti = the news. It led to a fun joke: "Why do we have two newspapers, Truth and News? Well that's because there's no truth in News, and no news in Truth."

Alot of these old Soviet jokes are becoming quite appropriate again. What times we live in.
Show HN: GitBook Documentation Downloader for LLMs
I built a tool that converts GitBook docs into LLM-friendly markdown files. Perfect for feeding technical documentation into ChatGPT, Claude, or custom LLaMA models.
GitHub: https://github.com/Amal-David/gitbook-downloader
Key features:

Downloads complete GitBook documentation sites
Converts to clean markdown format
Web interface for easy URL input
Works with ChatGPT, Claude, and other LLMs
Preserves document structure and internal links [Still some bugs here, need to fix it]

Will publish a hosted version if there is enough interest.

Ideal for:

Training custom LLMs with technical docs
Building knowledge bases for AI assistants
Quick reference docs in AI chat context windows

Looking for feedback, especially from those working with LLMs/AI. What other documentation platforms should I support?
In the above scenario, they were depriving their kids of any kind of meaningful friendship with peers during a critical development period. This is neglect, and neglect is abuse in children. If you care about your children, why would you risk permanently impairing their ability to form healthy relationships?
I'd really like to know which cars and which networks have been the issues you've experienced.

I've seen people in BMW's and VW's pull up to an EA charger, try getting it to charge a few times, and have it fail every time. Then I see a Hyundai or a Ford pull up, and it works without issue.
You’re being facetious, but Peter Singer made this exact point about “ordinary people being evil” in a famous philosophy essay in 1972.

https://youtu.be/KVl5kMXz1vA?si=F__kWUXkcu4h-5iI
The way I see it, it's not CS per se, it's about solving problems.

You hone that skill, and it will shape your future, whatever field.

You'll never be jobless having that particular skill.

Don't give up.
What about the unfair advantage the incumbents have? Speaking as an outside observer, this seems like a clear case of election interference - but from the big parties, not from whoever this no-name guy happens to be.
It's a wiki, you can add it!

Looks legit to me, e.g. https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/master/usr/share/rear/lib/...
Thanks for the response! I was trying to allude to what you are describing with the bit (ha) I mentioned about higher order thinking but you obviously articulated it much more effectively.

I guess I’m not sure it’s obvious where the right line to draw the boundary for “intentional human thought” is? Surely there is a lot of cognition and representation going on at extraordinary speeds that exist in some hazy border region between instinct/reflex/subconscious and conscious thought. Still, having said that, I do see what you are saying about trying to compare the complexity of the formal path to the solution, or at least what the human thinks their formal path was.

I’m generally of the mind (also, ha) that we won’t really ever be able to quantify any of this in a meaningful way in the short term and if anything which qualifies as AGI does emerge, it might only be something which is an “I know it when I see it” kind of evaluation…

Where are you getting 300W from? The body only dumps 100W of heat at rest and uses like 300-400W during moderate physical activity, so I’m a little confused about what you are describing there. The typical estimates I’ve seen are like 20W or so for the brain.

Edit: I should also say that what you describe does seem like a great way to compare solutions between computational systems currently being developed and a good one to use to try to push development forward; it just seems quixotic to try to be able to use it comparatively with human cognition or to be able to meaningfully use it to define where AGI is, which might not be what you were advocating for at all, in which case, sorry for misinterpreting!
Recycling for most materials is effectively rate limited. Storing donations that exceed capacity would require constantly expanding storage space, so the only option left is to dispose of it.

It's far more effective to reduce and reuse than recycle.
thank you romania for saving democracy!
I considered this, but I'd just be so unsatisfied if I finished scrolling through all 2^128 rows and realized I'd seen some duplicates!
That's right. UHC has never done one good thing.