skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also doing that but to develop side projects instead of playing games or reading news, it's an effective way to spent in transit / before sleeping, waiting on lines, in boring talks etc etc

I'm using
Keep notes - for crafting the issues and bugs I want to fix, reshaping the solution
ChatGPT -
Copy shortcuts - I'm able to copy various parts of the application and sent to ChatGPT (file path, code...) and then after the code I'm writing my plans. asking to tell what to change
Neovim - with many great shortcuts to make life easier, copying and pasting specific parts, quick save, run python scripts, the tree navigation and search is awesome, git plugins as well
Fastapi & Vue - I'm running on my phone the Web app and debugging it with pdb
Kiwi browser - has great debug tools
Termux of course
Git - pushing to a repo and it's being deployed to vercel
it's great when I find small bugs in the app when I'm using it, i can fix it right away without opening laptop
Sorry should have mentioned that I need PGlite or SQLite support. I am very much looking forward to PGlite on Expo/RN!
Not true. Programmable looms and player pianos existed. They weren't Turing machines, but they were certainly more sophisticated than mere calculators. And of course there's the analytical engine, even if it was never built. These technologies were far more influential (both culturally and within the context of CS itself) and practical than QCs are. It's possible if electricity had taken a bit longer to develop that we would've seen honest-to-goodness mechanical Turing machines during the early 20th century. It's not like just didn't know how to design and build the machines, they were just very complex and expensive.

So if you want to make analogies between quantum and classical computers, QCs aren't even at the level of early 19th century technology. They're still trying to figure out what's even necessary to build devices of a practical size.
Hey I read your article.

Have you ever considered:

1) Ditching social media (everything - Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn - everything. I don't mean delete the app. I mean delete all your accounts, and all the apps. No going back.)

2) Ditching your smart phone (Buy a brick phone)

I'm completely serious. I'm currently living this way, the phone was a recent addition in the last month. But social media, has been for years. I don't watch TV segments either (news etc).

I spend almost no time on my phone now. I spend my time building things, coding things, learning things (University courses/papers). I'm planning on kicking things up a notch next year.

The horizon for my learning in 2025 is:

- Game programming in TypeScript/C#/.NET/Unity

- Modding existing games (C/C++/C#)

- Low-level Graphics programming in C/C++

- Embedded programming in C

- Small amount of electronics

- Small amount of Assembly

- Diving into Backend Programming and Testing (.NET)

- Fleshing out my browser extension (React/TypeScript)

- Gaming (Fallout 4, Stardew Valley, Minecraft)

- Picking up University Papers (Probably Computer Science, Electronics, Machine Learning)

You should email me if you have any questions <hello> @ <PAPILLON><sOfTWaRe> <DOT> <dev>

If not, consider trialling, I mean REALLY trying the no social media and dumb phone thing.
Isn't that just lying?
It really hammers home the point about Scrabble being more about "recognizable tokens" then words and their associated definitions.

He's also won the US tournament numerous times - which might not sound that bad until you realize that the US has a far more restricted acceptable word list which means he has to keep the world's English word list (SOWPODS) and the United States English word lists (OSPD) completely compartmentalized in his head during play in the states.
>The other creditors are far better off getting more cash

The other creditors get more cash from The Onion's offer. It was specifically structured to give better-than-next-offer remuneration to minority creditors.
What makes you think that MB doesn't have the same capability, but they aren't willing to ship a half-arsed highly dangerous, people killing feature like some other companies do? Unlike any of their competitors, they assume full legal liability for their car's behavior while Drive Pilot is enabled.

MB also has a luxury brand reputation to maintain. When they ship a major feature like that, it absolutely has to work 100% as advertised.
Stellantis Destroyed Jeep
Joking aside, why?
Wait, so you can be fined 1.5 Billion for reporting on a conspiracy theory?

BTW, this is a lot more than pharmaceutical companies pay out for actually killing people.

I remember watching the trial and it was the most ridiculous thing every. The defendant (Alex) wasn't allowed to say he's innocent because the judge defaulted him. Yet the prosecution was allowed to bring in all kinds of evidence of his guilt (other than him being defaulted) and present that to the jury.

So in essence, you're guilty because the judge said so, and the prosecution gets to pile on about your guilt, but you can't testify to the jury counter your guilt.
Yet somehow this a jury trial.

The other ridiculous thing was he was defaulted for namely not showing Youtube ad revenue for his shows, after youtube deleted his channel.

They also awarded an FBI agent, I guess for hurt feelings, not even related to the families.

1.5 Billion .... apparently not a political prosecution of a critic, designed to silence him by taking InfoWars off air.

You know when Alex offered $55 million to settle. The lawyers somehow decided to get less by pushing for the bankruptcy.
The game is here: https://kokoscript.com/games.html

A web demo is available. I tried it, looks fun. A couple of small problems, (this might be due to limitations in the dosbox on the web?).

1. Can't see the starting letter because the bunny is on top of it. Maybe make it flash until the player has made a move?

2. On my laptop (no numpad), if I hold two arrow keys down for a diagonal move and hit space, the space is not detected.

Being able to try a game like this in the browser without installing anything is a great plus.
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one person can post several ideas with no limits....
My side project is managing several clients websites on a subscription based service. My buddy and I started a web design agency for small companies. It was just us two and we bootstrapped everything and were in the process of building several apps for the dozen or so architectural firms we were working with when he died suddenly of an aortic aneurism. It was such a shock to me and so I just shut the company down.

Several clients begged me to keep going because we did such a good job doing the SEO, their sites were generating a ton of great leads and we had built a way to track the leads and send out first response emails with a phone call follow-up with 2 hours of the firm getting the email. Because of the fast turn around, they were beating other firms to the punch and we unknowingly had created a significant business advantage for them.

Those 4 clients pay me for 8 hours of work a month at $65.00/hour. If you do the math, I'm clearing about 2K/month just to manage their sites, send out analytics and make content suggestions. It was a nice side hustle to have a few years back when I was laid off and was able to lean on this income until I got hired again.
> The thought that a person dying from Alzheimer's is not having a painful existence is radically disconnected from reality.

While I understand your point I think you're talking from a perspective of the other extreme, the one where there indeed was a lot of pain but the person couldn't communicate it. Still, Alzheimer's itself mainly works in your head and it's probably more likely to assume that in most cases caregivers will have at least some means to see if patients are suffering.

The person you're replying to does probably have a lot of experience with sufferers, although, obviously, he also just states his anecdotal experience.

> I respectfully ask you and any caregivers for dementia patients to avoid conflating your own understanding of reality with the actual reality of your patients.

IMHO this would not help, but maybe even create a bigger gap between patients and caregivers. We are humans in the end, and the only thing we can do is to try our best to give them the best care and make the rest of their lives as good as possible. I think, what makes the difference, is being aware that any patient with Alzheimer's or some other kind of dementia could be in a position of not being able to communicate their pain in any way. But it doesn't help to generalize this, stopping to trust your feeling and assuming the worst.

That said, I’m truly sorry for the loss you experienced, and I hope you and your family find some measure of peace. I know how it feels. I hope I don't sound too rude or harsh, it definitely wasn't meant in that way.
they are doing this on behalf of clients

That's what all private equity firms do. They get paid to manage private equity funds. The managers don't usually put up most of the money. It comes from outside investors.
> the salesperson told me Super Cruise was not enabled for test drives

I wonder if this is a liability thing (driver would be responsible).

Or it could suck and the chances of buying the car go down.

I remember walking into an apple store and seeing the apple vision pro headset. I asked to try it, and they said "you can't. You have to make an appointment and blah blah". If someone adds friction to the buying process, there must be some reason - they must be hiding something (poor performance, complexity, price, etc)
No, Legal Eagle covered the sale, and the agreement giving it to the Onion maximized the proceeds to both of the Sandy Hook groups that have won judgement against Alex Jones. With the sale to Alex Jones's set of straw buyers, that wasn't true.
They go to the creditors including his primary sponsor. This is not a bad outcome it's the only correct legal outcome.

What you are saying is we should allow a creditor (of many) to sell an asset to whoever they choose at a lower market rate because it's the right political move in this one case. Why wouldn't those rules be applied in other cases.. you can sell any asset for a dollar to yourself and the bankrupt person will still be on the hook for the total debt minus a dollar. Letting a single creditor value assets below marketrate and direct a sale to someone they wanted would be a completely unfair process.
Right, the whole point of these tricks is to compound a continuously larger amount. If you liquidate, you pay taxes (even more in one year with tax loss harvesting) and begin compounding from a lower starting point going forward.
How tf do you come back from being "homeless in the woods" to "working towards a mathematics PhD"?

Also, as what did you reinvent yourself in the end?
As are we :) btw checkout LiveStore if you haven’t already:

https://expo.dev/blog/local-first-application-development-wi...

It’s not fully released yet but it is now open to GitHub sponsors and it’s very cool.
> schools focused on religion and/or patriotism

Being from Arizona and having some experience with the charter schools there, I'm curious which ones you have in mind
Regarding a fast string lookup: you really need a short string optimization here, if not static perfect hashes. Short strings directly from the word in the cache.
> require an app + subscription

I would walk away if I saw that.
> There is no difference between a sensor being offline and not reporting info vs a sensor being online but reporting a repeating (previously seen) value.

Weird, I have a device with a flaky wireless connection and when it is offline HA definitely reports it as unavailable. Graphs covering these time periods have gaps when the device was offline. Perhaps what you are seeing is device specific?
Something something wealth
Your wife needed to know how to demand special ed evaluations most likely (or get the parents to), since that would create costs and cause action. What you're reporting is typical for a profit driven charter that doesn't have much pressure to show high academic performance and is driven by profit motive. Keeping the kids in the seats keeps money coming in. Probably didn't have much of a wait-list to give them more discretion with behavioral bouncing.
Yes, the set of Sandy Hook parents who won $1.5B would normally get essentially everything, but the Onion agreement had the minority creditors get a lot more money.
It's a shell company made to have an acronym that sounds like "eff you AC".
Are we forgetting that this only happened because they got in huge trouble with regulators and had to withdraw their cars from the street for like a year? I wouldn't take their statement at complete face value and don't see any reason for pessimism for Waymo.
Exhibit A for technical people alienating artists: this comment section. Why in the world would an artist willingly interact with a group of people that said these sorts of dismissive, hostile, arrogant things about their practices and professions? It's ridiculous.
If you have not monetized it how does it have a $500/mo revenue?
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A lot of immigrants come as refugees from war torn countries, they already have problems, and their new country might not provide resources to help them deal with those problems well, especially the kids. They’ll be fine in one or two generations, but right now is trying for them and their new countries, and there is definitely blow back from that.

I’m not sure the economic lever really exists, but then again it might just be where I live since those immigrants are usually making lots of money as techies while the refugees aren’t really seen as sources of cheap labor (although the adults invariably get entry-level jobs while teenagers need help to integrate, work not being an option by the standards of the areas they settle in).
It said that exact thing, but didn't need a number of tweets to say it. Advantage: article.
What are you using for your WASI runtime?
A statistical model is still a model. Lots of physics works that way. Newtonian mechanics might be deterministic, but because you often don't have perfect information on initial state that's not a useful model.

For example in statistical mechanics you work with ensembles of microstates. That doesn't mean thermodynamics is fake and only F=ma is real. Models are tools for understanding the behaviour of systems, not a glimpse into god's simulation source code where the hidden variables are.
It's probably the fact that it costs money at all. Python libraries and Jupyter notebooks can technically do a lot of things for free, so even rich tech companies just default to the free option. Getting approval for paid software is a huge pain in the butt. Also, the fact that it doesn't use simple ASCII character code is probably frowned upon since you can't diff it in a version management system for code review.

I do have a personal copy and I definitely do open it up when I really want to solve a hard mathematical problem quickly. Then I translate it after the fact to whatever corporate language I was supposed to solve it with.
I feel abdominal pain when I see the words “thinking” or “reasoning” related to LLMs.

I feel back pain when I read the crazy, unsound speculation about how the brain is supposed to be like a computer. Serious mistake.
GM is hemorrhaging money on several fronts:

Dec 4th, 2024

GM braces for a $5 billion hit as it fights to keep up in China’s intensifying EV price war

SAIC-GM revealed in a regulatory filing on Wednesday (via The New York Times) that it expects to write down between $2.6 billion and $2.9 billion in the fourth quarter. The automaker is also expecting another $2.7 billion in restructuring expenses.

https://electrek.co/2024/12/04/gm-faces-5-billion-hit-ev-bat...
Apple killing Dark Sky is one of my major peeves.
The open source nature of WordPress is largely irrelevant to this case. Neither party is contesting the copyright status of WordPress or its plugins.
Well, no...backs away slowly
What kind of messed-up logic is that? How many products do you think you own that contain hidden features that you're not supposed to know about? Just about everything with at least a microcontroller inside has extra software modules that you never learn about as the end user (e.g. service modes and factory calibration routines).
No, it's a set of straw buyers for Alex Jones.
Microsoft appears to be the only major player that isn't going with Valkey and established some sort of licensing deal with Redis [0].

[0]: https://redis.io/blog/introducing-azure-managed-redis
Please spread the word that predicting the next one is not intelligence. It’s markov…
> The Onion is an entertainment company with more attachment to reality than Infowars

Yep, that's exactly why it could have been the most entertaining outcome. What's funner than replacing "BS made for serious people" with "serious parodies"?
It is. They can't put it in bold, but they can avoid special ed evaluations and services, have policies that make undesirable students repeat grades so their family will put them elsewhere, and more. It's just very much "unofficial."
I think they are now allowing serverless and edge functions in the free plan. Previously it was only site builds and static hosting. They're also allowing 100 form submissions.
Timeywimey: Timezone app that works on mobile
GM has a minority ownership at 49%, so I expect that SAIC is taking an even bigger hit? Reading the article, it seems like SAIC-GM is taking the hit, not GM, so divide those losses/expenses in half and that is the effect on GM
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You need 4 colors
It is clear that Jones and his relatives have moved money and assets around in order to shield them from the verdict. Now, money that should have been already given to the victims is being used to steal back the megaphone that caused harmed in the first place. The end effect will probably be even more subscribers and money for Jones which he will use with even less restraint since he knows there are no consequences. There are no words for the evil going on here. What recourse is left when the legal system is this broken?
The dealership model is an anachronism from the days when the Big 3 US automakers were basically a cartel with a lock on the market, and predates the internet. For new sales it has no real advantages over what Tesla is doing, and for service the public would be better served by strong right-to-repair laws so people can have their vehicles serviced at any independent mechanic (or do it themselves).
I'm from Texas.....
Dead reckoning while flying is hard even today. If you are flying under IMC (instrument meteorological conditions, pilot slang for "bad weather/can't see shit"), you generally have to trust that your meters and instruments are working. Without GPS (or ground based triangulation methods), you generally have to guess where you are. It's very easy to accidentally end up in a small country like Switzerland.

If anyone's looking to build a startup in aviation, try building an alternative to pitot tubes. It's pretty much the last remaining vacuum instrument that hasn't been replaced by a solid state/MEMS alternative. And vacuum instruments are about as reliable as Windows Vista.
Well, if you consider the case of a linear regression, fitting on your output will add no new information to the weights. Try that on any notebook.
> I’m not sure where we’d be.

They didn't solve any new problems. They took old ideas and just cranked the dial all the way up to 11. Then an entire market formed around building the hardware necessary to crank it even further. This all represents a revolution in computing power not in what neural net folks were doing at all.

> Faith and Vision are truly spiritual things, even in tech.

Yea, but money isn't.
No, not really. Safeway's advertising and store layout isn't directly a Coca Cola problem business model problem. They care, they have some influence, but if the one seller goes under for being crappy another will pop up to take its place.

This is just a car dealership tying its hands behind its back and not competing well. If it isn't widespread it isn't a GM problem.
I don’t get it. What else could it possibly output first, and what languages do that?
CSZ: Cascadia Suduction Zone

"Cascadia" is a place name that can refer to the mountainous regions of the north-western US states of Washington and Oregon.

PNW: Pacific Northwest
They have never been thinking. This is important.

Predicting the next word is not intelligence.
> some non-public schools even get district IEP resources for their IEP students

IE public school has to pay but the money goes to the non-public.
> The succeeded operations would skip because workflow has run completion record for same idempotency key. Is that correct?

This sounds about right. But you need to make sure the service being called in that step is indeed idempotent, and will return the same response which it earlier couldn't in time.
> Chinese Taipei

I assume they mean Taiwan?

Hong Kong is listed as a separate country, but China is not on the list.

Is China also playing dark on this TIMSS test (similar to Top500)?
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> A car dealership has the opposite incentive: every dealer-performed warranty service is a payment from the manufacturer to the dealer.

Wouldn't this be served just as well by having independent repair shops certified by the manufacturer to do recall and warranty repairs, without prohibiting direct sales of vehicles?
I thought supercruise only worked on "qualified roads".

Tesla autopilot 1.0 has been around on tesla since 2015. It's actually pretty good on the freeway as traffic aware cruise control + autosteer. I think it's a pretty good balance of driver + assist.
I have infinitely more to learn from this community than I imagine you have to learn from me!
HN priorities are not real world priorities
Just say that you think white people are special, it doesn't matter how they actually do, and Asian immigrants don't count except when comparing between non-white groups.
American Companies?
There's a deep irony in your post that you say it's the correct decision when it's Alex Jones attempting to strongarm his Infowars rights back after losing them in court because he failed to pay his outstanding debts.

Like you do see the obvious corruption here, right?
If ASI is artificial specific intelligence, I bet your pardon; intelligence can hardly be specific. Intelligence can reflect upon itself.
Am I living in a bubble or is much of the excitement behind autonomous cabs just hype? Like, sure, it will be popular, but the way some folks(and not just Tesla zealots) talk about it, it will be 25% of global GDP.

Beyond, idk, saving my relatives the task of driving me to the airport, I don't see my family using an autonomous taxi at all. I think I'm like many Americans in that I like my personal vehicle because it's mine. I'm comfy in it, it's filled with only my stank, and I have tailored it to my liking.
You continue repeating this without any scientific evidence, yet any modern source points that racial theories are not supported by genetic research. There‘s no such overlap.
I want you to know this made me laugh very hard.
Except Indians are the richest ethnic group in the country.
Thank you. Seeing this as the top comment actually makes me feel better as I now know that I am not alone.