skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People, culture, values, morals and ethics predate law. The code of Hammurabi reflects those aspects of ancient Babylon.

Law must reflect to some degree and scope, the morals of its culture or people. If this does not happen for enough time and affects enough people, then you see a regression to tribal or vigilante justice.

Law is a form of centrally managed punishments that strongly influence individuals to behave according to the local population's values, morals and ethics.

What if a small class of people with enough resources, wit and motivation can hack this system to their favor? How will the rest of the population react when they realize this had been going on for years? Will they be able to "patch the bug" in the code of law and stop the exploiters?

What happened with the CEO of a system that is antithetical to American values, culture and morals, is an individual workaround to a long running lethal bug ignored by the maintainers of the code of law. This was ignored because the maintainers are a cog in the machine of that small class.

I agree with law and democracy, but we may no longer have that since the bigger population has no agency to shape laws. We may just have some other unnamed system that on the surface looks like law and democracy, but under the hood seems to be an oligarchy.
> Sort of like if you have an infinite number of coin flips then at some place and time you'll land on heads a million times in a row, no matter how unlikely.

If random event result is any real (i.e. not limited integers and fractions) number from interval 0-1, then no number will appear twice even after infinite number of throws.

Open question surely follows: Time and space, are they integer or real?
DeepNotes: Open-source, end-to-end encrypted infinite canvas tool
Driving tests in Europe, certainly in northern Europe and Scandinavia, are considerably stricter than in the US and many other places in the world. In Norway the test is also not enough, there is also obligatory practice with a qualified instructor including driving on motorways and on a skid pan to simulate driving on ice.
> Seth Lloyd has stated, "They fail the Monty Python test: Stop that! That's too silly!"
There are so many caveats to your "guarantee" that it isn't really guaranteeing anything.

People are wildly diverse when it comes to food traditions, actual state of intestines and also cravings. What worked for you may not work for a Vietnamese guy who ate rice for 50 years of his life.

Extrapolating carelessly from N == 1 is a bad idea.
> Brushed motors routinely trip arc fault breakers, it'a a fundamental problem with them that can't be fixed because brushes will always arc a bit

What kind of device do normal households use that's still using brushed motors directly attached to mains?! It used to be power drills and vacuums, but it's been ages since I last saw one. Maybe power tools for shops and farms, okay, but in that case just leave that one circuit secured with a plain RCD breaker and keep the rest with AFDDs.

> Arc fault and GFI breakers have a way higher DOA and crib death rate than conventional breakers.

RCDs of ye olde days aka 70s, yes, they tend to get more sensitive as they age for some reason, but modern RCDs are rare to see DOA.
For me, "aha" moments often make me feel like I've come closer to understanding myself and the universe. I suppose it's a kind of pleasure, but it's not directly a practical goal. It can definitely happen with learning a new language, because the language may encode and communicate information in ways I've never thought about before.
> How do you look at that description, and not conclude that according to that argument, Bayesian reasoning is just strictly wrong?

I believe you're conflating epistemics with decision theory. Sure, the measure of all minds experiencing your current mind-state may be dominated by Boltzmann Brains, with observations that do not correspond to any local state of the world, and which will dissipate momentarily.

But, since your decisions as one of those BB's have no effect, you should make decisions based on the fraction of minds-like-you which are living in a persistent world where those decisions have effects which can, in principle, be predicted.
No, that's wrong. It's perfectly normal to use 青 for vegetation, e.g. 青葉. And it's perfectly normal to use 緑色 for everyday non-vegetation things (e.g. on a quick search I found clothes, cars, wallets...)
Amazing, a company with a vested interest in our AI future of software development is bullish on the use of AI in software development.

> Many of those graph nodes are leaf-node tasks, like “write an auth library” or “modernize these unit tests”. They tend to be fairly self-contained. We often give these leaf node tasks to junior developers because the scope is small.

You know, the companies that hand "write an auth library" to their junior developers will, I'm sure, do just fine by having an LLM do it for them. No worse than their normal output, absolutely.

I'm sure a future where this is a good idea is coming, but I've seen nothing to persuade me that this is where we are now. IMO they're glorified intellisense - useful, but if you trust them blindly they'll take you where you deserve to go.

Does anyone have any hard data (not anecdotes/opinions) to suggest I'm wrong on this?
Show HN: Minima-RAG On-Premises Python Framework
Why do you think they would be extremely wealthy, given it's a product they're giving away for free, and it was everyone else (like cloud providers) making money off of it?
Minima is an open source fully local RAG, with ability to integrate with ChatGPT and MCP. Minima can also be used as a RAG on-premises.
What is “something reasonable”? In Pyhon you get a runtime error automatically if you perform an operation not supported by the object, e.g performing a mathematical operation on an object which is not number-like. This is out of the box behavior in a duck-typed language, just like a compile-time error is out of the box in a statically typed language.

Of course you need to test for NaN, Infinity etc because these are number-like but still invalid. But you also need to do that in a statically typed language.
I personally would prefer a randomly selected load of strangers to vote on, say, my best corporate headshot to display to the general public rather than my friends who are a small and biased group.

I guess the people that self-select to go on a photo ranking site may not be representative of the general public, though are probably better than the (all male) 10ish engineers and 3 accountants that I socialize with on a regular basis.
> It reminds me of a concept of “micro-district” from ussr. Everything that people need should be accessible by walking.

True for many communist countries. It was one of their better ideeas.

> Obviously list of things needed decided by government.

Also one of their better ideeas. In my country, after the fall of communism, all of the shops were replaced by banks and pharmacies. Even the post offices moved out.
I have a margin on the credits for the models. So it's a credit model and I sell them for more than I buy them.
AlloyDB
Exactly, ~10-15 years ago Denmark decided to start integrating "problem" children into the regular classroom and scores have dropped across the board. Currently private education enrolment has been massively on the rise since private schools are not forced to accept these kids, and/or they can more easily kick children out.

What's really sad is that now the parents are not only paying extremely high taxes to cover the standard school, but now also are having to shell out extra to make sure their child gets the eduction they deserve.

Why this is shocking is that Denmark (the whole nordics) has an extremely strong public education tradition which is being very quickly eroded. Just 20 years ago private education was seen as something for the elites (e.g. Royalty) but now it's becoming an expected expense.

Almost everyone is frustrated by this: teachers, parents, students, as well as their special needs counterparts. The only people winning are the politicians who get to morally grandstand.
This was after they tried to figure out why the battery kept dying (and failed). Which eventually resulted in this.

https://www.subarubatterysettlement.com/

But they tried to just charge me for it even though I knew how to reset the window and didn’t ask them to. They were thinking I didn’t know how to do it myself, so wouldn’t know any better that they didn’t actually do anything.
I imagine that's what the start of the French revolution felt like too - one day you could walk down the streets of Paris as a noble minding your own business, the next day you had your head chopped off because people got fed up. Not saying that this is what's happening in the US right now, but I imagine the societal feelings of anger against "the elite" are similar.
Neural Networks (3Blue1Brown) [video]
What would you feel if you did all the work, but other companies made all the money by redistributing your software? Wouldn't you find that unmaintainable in the long run?
haha, it's the ultimate uno reverse card. Did it work? There are some known issues with German titles on the Cover page, sorry if you've encountered that. I'm trying to improve it.
This is terrific!

On Firefox Android, in step four, I managed to get into a situation where one of the notes kept playing. It occurred when pressing too many keys on the keyboard demonstrating the chromatic scale. Pressing each key again for not "unstuck" it.

And if I'm already providing feedback, then a nice improvement for the end of step two would be an option to hear the two notes of the displayed waves, together.
To be fair you don't need to know advanced quantum physics to understand a lot of quantum computing, including Aaronson's discussion of this paper. It's pretty accessible with undergraduate-level linear algebra and computer science concepts.
You know what'd be better? Put up H1B approvals on auction instead of handing them out in a lottery.
I wished that all these products, based on AWS Lambda, actually allowed to use the full set of programming languages available on AWS Lambda, but apparently if we want AWS Lambda, then we are better off using it directly.
Show HN: Rezible – Open-Source Mission Control for Oncall
Hi HN, Tex here!

Equal parts excited and nervous to release what I've been working on solo.
Rezible is a "mission control" platform for oncall teams, aiming to automate, support, and report on all the overlooked, less glamorous aspects of being oncall.

While working as an SRE in different teams across Google & Canva, I saw firsthand the impact an unhealthy oncall rotation can have on engineers as individuals and as teams.

I believe oncall is a huge missed opportunity for many teams - it is often viewed as a necessary evil rather than as a source of growth & learning. This is not surprising considering the continuous administrative burden involved in keeping a rotation healthy: without care they will degrade.

So while all dysfunctional rotations are somewhat unique, there are common practices that healthy ones share - these are what I am trying to build as features in Rezible to provide "healthy oncall on rails":
- Oncall shift event annotation (flag noisy alerts, measure toil)
- Automated shift handovers
- AI powered post-incident debriefs
- Real-time collaborative incident retrospectives
- Searchable & discoverable knowledgebase (populated from retrospective learnings & analysis)
- Structured oncall training & onboarding

The backend is in Go + Huma/OpenAPI, and the frontend is Svelte 5 + SvelteKit (which has been a pleasure to use despite not being a frontend engineer).
It's still very rough around the edges, but I'm sharing now to avoid it never being "ready" :)

Github repo: https://github.com/rezible/rezible

If you're interested in receiving updates: https://tally.so/r/wLJ5ll

Would greatly appreciate your feedback & a star on Github!
Maybe some prettier ones though. Crusty vomit green on skin rash pink is not my ideal for a webpage
The point is that you, dear reader, could be the Boltzmann Brain, and that would mean that all your memories spontaneously came into being, giving you the illusion of a past history, and it would also mean that you will dissipate again shortly after; there is no continuity, and we're not all BBs. 'We' are all just figments of your imaginary imagination, conjured momentarily into memory and then lost again.

For a Boltzmann brain there is no real past or future - your reality does indeed collapse immediately and you'll never know it; the idea that 'reality doesn't collapse immediately' is not a verifiable fact, because the only evidence you have to the contrary is encoded in and perceived by your brain...
Formalising Graphs with Coinduction in Agda
> established editors should try to do a better job helping people learn the ropes

Translation: you're not welcome unless you adhere precisely to established editors’ views and practices. There is no room for introspection, civilized discussion that questions the status quo, and hence, no room for improvement.
Really, really a good point!
No one organization in the world funds the LF in a way that is more than 1% of the total LF revenue... it has nearly ~2000 members across the world. You can usually get some of this from the LF Annual Report: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/resources/publications/linux...
Sauron Security
You can also for Veritasium's videos on quantum computing, if you are a fan of his videos.
Well, that's depressing... luckily the upcoming US administration will put a stop to those bad news by defunding NOAA and making scientific results illegal, because it's bad for big business.
We never will if we don't attempt. So the discussion ends before it starts.
I wonder if, in this case, 10 is too few, and it'd been better with a technical person and manager at the same time? Maybe everyone manages themselves pretty well?

Tech Lead Manager maybe? But I'm guessing. https://www.developing.dev/p/tech-lead-manager-tlm-roles
"Any child of any ability, race, socioeconomic background has a right to an education."

Public education is notoriously bad at addressing the situation when some particular child frequently disrupts education of twenty others who would like to make use of their right. This is something that the noble proclamations like yours tend to just ignore.
› Wikipedia is unique in that it still feels very web 1.0 in its design and aesthetics

That's what I like about Wikipedia, it may not be always 100% accurate but it's quick, isn't filled with ads and it gets things right most often.

It's either that or looking at seo optimized website for dozens of minutes.

I don't donate nearly enough considering the time it made me save.
Hey, it's possible to use PGlite on the client, along with Drizzle. Our "Linearlite" example show this (albeit without Drizzle) with a "write through the database" pattern to sync back to the server.

Live demo: http://linearlite.examples.electric-sql.com

Code: https://github.com/electric-sql/electric/tree/main/examples/...
I think that is the way. I also ditched social media, used a brick phone for a while but went back to a smart phone for gps. Don't use it for social media though, since I have none.

Although, how do you feel about using your computer to "waste" time? Like spending too much time reading random things you find on the internet, for example.
To be fair there isn't much inside a Tesla to yammer on about otherwise.
QC – nowhere near practical applications

AI – being practically applied in many areas where it doesn't seem to be working well

I really do hope these aren't our best lanes of progress
I don't agree. A belief in a god/gods generally also includes beliefs about what that god(s) wants or does. A Boltzmann brain would have no special powers apart from what a (very) specific arrangement of particles would have. There's no hint of them operating outside physics at all.

Also, there is at least a connection to experimental physics in that we can measure "virtual" particles (e.g. Casimir effect) and can calculate their probabilities etc. There's no such underlying experiment for God(s) that I'm aware of.
The very reason for the Loop Buffer was to let decoder power down within tight loops, so I'd assume micro op cache would have similar effect, except with more impact on performance.
Countries in EU have a hard limit on cash transactions. Buying a car for over a few grand and it has go through bank. Renting a flat, even if you pay monthly, the tax man considers the whole duration as one big business deal, so the rent has to go through a bank
Why? And I’m curious if you would you pay more or less to avoid people who are texting/reading while driving?

What about people who make snarky comments to posters who are sharing their experiences in good faith?
>>Would you go to work without being paid? I wouldn't.

Do you think doctors and nurses work for free in countries with socialized healthcare?

They do get paid. A lot if you're a specialist too - it's a very lucrative field to be in. Admittedly, not for everyone - nurses and junior doctors usually don't get paid very well, but it's my understanding that in US it's not like these professions make bank either.

>>if there was a ton of people who wanted to found, fund, and work at nonprofit health insurance companies.

That's the whole point that Americans are missing - you don't need the insurance companies in the first place, if the entire system is owned by the public. You go to a hospital, you get an operation done and that's it, at no point is there anyone sitting there are processing your "claim" - if the operation is one allowed by the system(and it almost certainly is) then it's just done and the system pays for it from general taxation budget. No one negotiates rates with the hospital, argues about your excess or premiums or in or out of network coverage. Health insurance is something you get for travelling abroad, like if you have an accident while skiing and need a helicopter to get you out, not for visiting a doctor or a hospital.
I still see a difference here: the blog post author isn't claiming that we will never have quantum computers. What he is disputing, is Google's claim that a specific quantum device that they have is already able to perform several orders of magnitude better than classical computers. Arguing that this is false, is different from arguing about what will happen in the future.
the challenge is not to click that link
Consider Using excluding Instead of where.not in ActiveRecord
Hm, they say it's safe for children's toys, according to some certification:

https://store.anycubic.com/collections/uv-resin/products/bio...
Memories of dumping, patching, and reflashing my DVD drive firmware to make it region free thanks to resources such as Doom9.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom9
We launched a Markdown resume builder called ResumeyPro (https://resumey.pro/) as a side project in 2020. It has been consistently generating revenue with barely any active marketing from our side. Most of the revenue is via organic search.
In the 1980s we had Shareware, Beerware, Postware, whateverWare, Public Domain, "send me a coffee", "I don't care" open source, magazine and book listings under their own copyright licenses (free for typing, not distribution).

Most of us on 8 and 16 bit home computers didn't even knew "Stallman and others" were.

Additionally, GCC only took off after Sun became the first UNIX vendor to split UNIX into two SKUs, making the whole development tools its own product. Others quickly followed suit.

Also, in regards to Ada adoption hurdles, when they made an Ada compiler, it was its own SKU, not included on the UNIX SDK base package.
If you can't continue arguing in good faith when someone defends WITCH company with "you're just racist", you are unprepared for the argument.

Because if anything, the sweatshops are even more exploitative towards (majorly) Indians than locals in whichever place they decided suck dry.
Yeah - I realised after I posted this, it could have an impact on the economy.
Rooftop system lets any EV harness the power of the sun
I'm quite curious, what are people doing with AI-powered browser automation at the moment?

This is such a new capability that I'm having a hard time getting a sense of interesting use cases. I'm quite sure this is more than just a shim for web services which don't expose APIs. But I also wonder whether LLMs are good enough to be trusted with more open-ended tasks at this stage.
Btw I'm making an interactive music theory course right now.

I'm 2 months of polishing away from being HN-publishable, but I decided I'd share at least in comments.

https://rawl.rocks
> I = SK

Wrong. I = S K M where M can be anything:

I x = S K M x = K x (M x) = x

K and S K represent True and False, since K x y = x and S K x y = y.

> essentially an obfuscated mix of S and K

Most alternatives are tuples of S and K like λz. z S K or λz. z K S K.
But the arguably shortest one is indeed a proper mix:

A = λx λy λz. x z (y (λ. z)) = λx λy λz. x z (y (K z))
> The time passes anyway.

All the more reason to spend it on things that matter to you. The opportunity cost of six months spent deep in abstract CS papers is six months not spent teaching your daughter to play guitar, visiting that place you always dreamt of seeing, finally finishing that book on your nightstand, etc.
> do you? Are you open to be convinced of the opposite of your view on this issue?

Yes, always.

But I think it's a pretty high burden of proof to convince me that murder is OK, or that it should be celebrated.

> I think you are wrong. Society very often sides with the side that is perceived as the threatened person acting in self-defense even when they use violence.

I think very few people would consider killing someone in cold blood an actual act of self defense.

I could be wrong of course. Hard to tell how people genuinely feel without some kind of real survey.

> Also we cannot rule out racism. If the killer wasn't white (then fit for the role of hero in the US), it would be all different.

I'm not sure what you mean here, could you explain?
'Ghost Gun' Linked to Luigi Mangione Shows How Far 3D-Printed Weapons Have Come
It's always worth giving people the benefit of the doubt on the first
time. After that....guess there's one exception I still make. I
learned that it's called "sealioning". When someone repeatedly,
dishonestly professes ignorance as a way of making an obtuse
argument. I see a bit of that wilful ignorance here on HN when people
say things like "I don't see why... <self evident, commonly known
truth>"
https://archive.is/dTBOW
Thank you for mentioning the effect of Paypal, that's very interesting. Did you add it as a full-on alternative to Stripe, or just activate the payment method in Stripe ?
Or on some home DVD players, making them region free by typing a sequence of buttons on the remote control.