skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get it. I didn't say anything at my grandfather's funeral, although I was this close. I just... didn't. Easier in that moment to stay seated for a few extra seconds, but it bothered me. Years later, at my grandmother's funeral, I spoke. Not long, but I said some of the things I'd wanted to say years earlier, though with the benefit of a bit more hindsight and perspective. But not speaking all those years earlier had bothered me. FWIW, it still does, but a little less than before.
Battlefin Acquires Exabel
As jimnotgym explained, you don't have to 'keep accounts' in any onerous sense. You just need to keep a rough track of the business's income and expenses (which any sensible person would be doing anyway). No-one at HMRC is going through the accounts of very small businesses with a fine tooth comb. You just tell them how much money you made and pay the taxes on it.
No, in my reading you were conflating the financial trader bucket and the socially positive bucket in a way that minimizes the socially negative bucket. Which is a very common defense of crypto.

Your analogy, driving cars, certainly primes people in that direction, as the great bulk of current car trips aren't caused by traders looking to make a buck off the underlying motion of the people who actually need to get somewhere.

I think you're also grossly misunderstanding the most relevant claim, which is not that most crypto trades are directly criminal. I think most informed people agree that these days the bulk of them are speculative. (But speculators can speculate in anything, so crypto doesn't add anything to the world there.) The common claim is instead that the places where crypto has a direct advantage for actual use are mostly criminal.

And I think that's pretty obviously the case. When you compare the original Bitcoin paper with the current state of things like online bill pay, debit cards, Zelle, Square, Cash App, Venmo, M-Pesa, and the like, it's clear that Bitcoin has failed in it stated goals. It's just not very good at solving the problems normal people have transmitting money. Who needs to move money around but can't use any of the effective legit options? It's mostly criminals.
Plato has the answer in the Republic. Since de Gaulle (or before de Gaulle), we’ve passed from timocracy, in which honor is the highest motivating value, to oligarchy, in which love of money and avarice replace honor. We’re now passing into democracy in which all desires are given equal importance, and a preoccupation with base and even depraved appetites dominates.
Not only that, he's also a child prodigy, because (depending of the edition of Rust that was implanted into his brain at birth) he can be at most 12 years old? I am however told that the early versions had little to do with the current version, so having one of those hardwired in your brain would be more of a hindrance than help...
I sympathize because I tend to be a slow thinker as well in some ways, but really, how fast one can solve a problem is a feature of how intelligent one is, and bad sleep or illness does decrease one’s ability to think intelligently (and not just in terms of speed).
Could you say more about the hosted service you're using? It's pretty rare I hear from an actual user.
A formal eulogy is a different part from when they ask if anyone from the audience wants to get and share a few words about the departed.
Hence the idea to only throw away almost all of it.
I know the author in the sense that I know who it was written by, I don't know his reputation or how credible he is and where it was published does matter. If this Stephen Hawking published in the National Enquirer people would justifiably be wondering if it was a joke.
Gemini 2.0 is the first model that can return precise bounding boxes. Other providers and models can't handle this.
IIRC, inside iron, the magnetic field makes "electrons" with spin up and down have different band that have different curcature and then diferent effective mass. So perhaps it's possible to have a similae effect in one direction, but we should ask an expert...
Waymo to launch robotaxis in Tokyo in early 2025
Just skimmed it, but really?
Not if you connect to all the nodes
They could take it as a unique chance to experience/reenact a multi-generational project as it was common in the Middle Ages with the building of cathedrals or castles.

Different times have different constraints, and so what constitues a multi-generational project varies.
Really interesting blurb about how electricity prices are set in North America. It may not be the same in Europe. https://practical.engineering/blog/2024/11/14/which-power-pl...
The management in this game is being done by a deep misunderstanding of statistics. They’re using random noise as a signal and taking action based on it.

Actually using statistics would tell you that your numbers are random noise and can’t be used to make sensible decisions. It would tell you that performance outcomes aren’t being determined by the worker. There might be better ways to figure that out (in this case, taking five seconds to look at the process) but statistics will get that job done.
The largest problem will be finding qualified and vetted personnel. All the people who worked at the plant when it closed five years ago had to find jobs elsewhere. Even though the plant was an important employer in Middletown, I don't know if those former employees will be willing the quit there current jobs to go back, especially if there is a risk the plant will just be shut down again when it once again becomes too expensive to operate.
>Right until there is an update or anything and a bootloader or one of its required files gets written past the 8GB barrier, rendering your system unbootable.

I do not fully understand this. Can you add specifics ? To me the article indicates he used a small root partition. Or did I miss something ?

A little hint for people (like me) who have a separate partition for /usr, /var, /tmp and /home due to cgd encryption or other reasons. If using wireless, you may need this in /etc/rc.conf to force a mount before daemons kick off. In my case, without this wireless breaks.

critical_filesystems_local="/var /usr /tmp"
I wonder what 17th century pasta tastes like.. our crops and processes have changed quite a bit.
> As a walker, I use them for the same reason everyone else does—they are welcoming, social, inexpensive, and have Wi-Fi, good food, great coffee, and clean bathrooms.

Great article, but McD's has mediocre coffee. I am no coffee classist; Starbucks also has bad coffee. Who has the best coffee? Dunkin Donuts.
Would be nice to see a Battle Chess [1] version of this!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Chess
A college dropout from Missouri did pretty well as US president.
Exactly, and that's why it's so pointless to ban politics. Whatever you include in or exclude from that ban is in itself a political decision.
Lists of things don't make good Show HNs, this is mentioned in the Show HN docs here https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Some more on lists on HN in general

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Figuring out that the numbers are pure luck is the only important thing here.
Similar here. Good friend of many years - his mother passed a few years back, then his dad earlier this year. In both cases it was relatively sudden, but the compounding factor is I live 800 miles away. In both cases, I debated whether to go up for the funeral, but one case scheduling was near impossible. In the other... I rationalized that... he'd just be too busy with other family issues, and that was the case. I feel like I still should have gone, but we did catch up in person a couple months later, and he'd had time to process and reflect a bit more. Lots of drama was going on (and still is a bit) so being there in the moment might have been more about me trying to feel like I was doing something ("being there") instead of actually being of any real benefit for his family.

I've only got a couple of other friends that close that I would consider attending their parents' funeral. One parent passed away during covid and there was no service. When that other parent passes, I think I will go, even though we've not seen each other in years. Several states away, again, but I will plan on going.
And yet he has an incredible sense of timing: https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2011/0430/429220-mullenl/

> Mullen thought that the click track was slightly off and insisted it was a fraction of a beat behind the rest of the band. ... It was only after the drummer had left, that Eno checked the original track again and realised that Mullen was right: the click was off by six milliseconds.
I pretty much always go. The only time I missed a funeral was during the pandemic for one of my teachers, and my wife was due at any moment. His funeral was well attended.

For one particular funeral, it was for a childhood friend who I had lost touch with. One of the photos, in the rotation, was from a bus trip where I said, "hey, give me your camera." It was touching. His brother showed up at my mother's funeral a few years later.
When there’s an obvious workaround to the allegory, you can take it as implied that it’s not allowed.
Smallweb – A self-hostable personal cloud inspired by CGI-bin
Smallweb is inspired both by serverless platforms (e.g. cloudflare workers and val.town), and older standards like cgi-bin. To create a new app, you just create a new file, and you're basically done.

Try out the demo at https://demo.smallweb.live

Smallweb is super easy to self-host (you can even keep it local to your device). It is distributed as a single golang binary, and there is an install script allowing you to set it up on a new VPS with a single command (https work out of the box, no need to set DNS records):

curl -sSL https://install.smallweb.run/vps.sh | sh

Since the app is based on deno, it supports url imports. It allows you to host complex apps like vscode or excalidraw by writing 3 lines of code: https://www.smallweb.run/examples#excalidraw

We also have a small community at https://discord.smallweb.run !
HunYuan is also open source / source available unless you have 100M DAU.

Then there's Lightricks LTX-1 model and Genmo's Mochi-1. Even the research CogVideoX is making progress.

Open source video AI is just getting started, but it's off to a strong start.
Thank you for saying this; I commented something similar.

The HN commentariat seems to be comprised of FAANGers and related aspirants; a small part of the overall software market.

The "quality" companies doing high-skilled, bespoke work are a distinct minority.

A huge portion of work for programmers IS Java CRUD, React abominations, some C# thing that runs disgusting queries from an old SQL Server, etc etc.

Those privileged enough to work exclusively at those companies have no idea what the largest portion of the market looks like.

LLMs ARE a "threat" to this kind of work, for all the obvious reasons.
AI is a distraction here. You can use whatever tool you want. Copyright does not care how you made it. It cares about likeness and in imagery, music and text, especially names.

I’d assume you can freely use content from the earliest works, so if you eg use a character introduced in a later book it would still be covered by copyright. But I’m not sure.
If it makes you feel better, while someone with blindsight is able to interact with the objects in front of them through a subliminal awareness of them they can't form memories of those objects. Memory is actually very useful and consciousness[1] is necessary for its formation so you don't have to worry about non-conscious lifeforms out-competing conscious ones.

[1] In the sense that is related to blindsight. Maybe someone with blindsight still has philosophical qualia of the objects they say they can't see, I don't know
Are you refering to me or 'the elite'?

I think some sort of 'bias' is the term. Narrative bias? Opportunity bias?

'China' was the main reason but Gaza tipped the scale, I would say.
> That seems to me like a cherry picked metric

It’s not. Gerrymandering arises when politicians vote with their party—it doesn’t make much sense otherwise. But if the net effect of gerrymandering doesn’t change the party representation in Congress, that’s largely a theoretical problem.

> And gerrymandering means that redistricting is also being done by an unelected and unaccountable body -- the legislature.

What’s the alternative? Relying on “neutral” judges or commissions to make such politically important decisions is just bunk. If there was any such thing we wouldn’t need democracy. They wouldn’t produce “fair elections,” but would instead introduce an easily manipulated process (e.g. like in California: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-democrats-fooled-cali...) that was opaque and resistant to voter pressures.
> NAMMs are trained separately from the LLM and are combined with the pre-trained model at inference time […]
Special Properties in .NET Projects
I agree that rust, with Option and Default, is the only right choice - at least from what I've tried. Elm for example has Option but nothing like Default, so sometimes it's tedious that you have to repeat a lot of handmade defaults, or you're forced to use constructor functions everywhere. But at least the program is correct!

Go is like PHP in regards to pushing errors forward. You simply cannot validate everything at every step. Decoding with invariants is the right alternative.
Show HN: I built an AI form builder that works like ChatGPT
Perhaps a better title would have been "Skyscrapers of Shanghai."
I use this tool daily. And this while I use IntelliJ as well!

There are several git-related things I prefer to do in IntelliJ, like: fixing merge conflicts (I love the magic wand) and reviewing complex changes.

But otherwise I prefer the command line (mainly some of OhMyZsh's aliasses and `tig`). Probably just a force of habit.
The logic is pretty straightforward I’m not sure what your complaint is. They don’t need the power now, but they calculate that they’d need much more power in the future than non nuclear ways of power generation would be able to give them in the same timeframe.

The US is already adding record amount of solar and wind power to replace coal and natural gas plants. What makes you believe Microsoft can just buy more renewable energies? Did you privy to the terms and conditions of the PPA?

The alternative to Three Miles Island restart would be to add natural gas plants, or to buy renewable energy at higher price. I’m sure they have plan B.
I imagine a peer to peer scheme could also work. All nodes are control plane and data plane and advertise/broadcast to other nodes (similar to how network routing tables are distributed)

That'd be a pretty big architectural change, though
Only the model’s view, doesn’t have to be yours, just like you can participate in a long conversation without perfect memory that might in retrospect slightly differ from a recording.
You're thinking in abstract terms, I'm talking about the concrete implementation details. If we, just as an example, take C. and int can never be NULL. It can be 0, compilers will sometimes tell you it's "uninitialized", but it can never be NULL. all possible combinations of bit patterns are meaningfully int.

Pointers are different in that we've decided that the pattern where all bits are 0 is a value that indicates that it's not valid. Note that there's nothing in the definition of the underlying hardware that required this. 0 is an address just like any other, and we could have decided to just have all pointers mean the same thing, but we didn't.

The NULL is just a language construct, and as a language construct it could be defined in any way you want it. You could defined your language such that dereferencing NULL would always return 0. You could decide that doing pointer arithmetic with NULL would yield another NULL. At the point you realize that it's just language semantics and not fundamental computer science, you realize that the definition is arbitrary, and any other definition would do.

As for sum-types. You can't fundamentally encode any more information into an int. It's already completely saturated. What a sumtype does, at a fundamental level, is to bundle your int (which has a default value) with a boolean (which also has a default value) indicating if your int is valid. There's some optimizations you can do with a "sufficiently smart compiler" but like auto vectorization, that's never going to happen.

I guess my point can be boiled down to the dual of the old C++ adage. Resource Allocation is NOT initialization. RAINI.
To me, this is the worst kind of design.

1. Aesthetics completely annihilates function. I mean good luck figuring the pieces apart.

2. To me it looks like shit. I mean the pieces look ok-ish (I don't really like the curve stuff, I think they could be a lot better, but ok), but the board, oh my god it's hideous. The idea of the curved board is so bad. ugh. It's sad though cause the material is awesome.

Come on architects, you can do a lot better than that.
Advent of code is a boring waste of time
Sprite (Lightning)
Good question.

I would say more like the prohibitive cost of compliance comes from the non-productive (or even anti-productive) nature of the activities needed to do so, as an ongoing basis.

An initial risk assessment is a lot more of a fixed target with a goal that is in sight if not well within reach. Once it's behind you, it's possible to get back to putting more effort into productive actions. Assessments are often sprinted through so things can get "back to normal" ASAP, which can be worth it sometimes. Other times it's a world of hurt without paying attention to whether it's a moving goalpoast and the "sprint" might need to last forever.

Which can also be coped with successfully, like dealing with large bureaucratic institutions as customers, since that's another time when you've got to have your own little bureaucracy. To be fully dedicated to the interaction and well-staffed enough for continuous 24/7 problem-solving operation at a moment's notice. If it's just a skeleton crew at a minimum they will have a stunted ability for teamwork since the most effective deployment can be more like a relay race, where each member must pull the complete weight, go the distance, not drop the baton, and pass it with finesse.

While outrunning a pursuing horde and their support vehicles ;)
I agree with all of that except districting. I don’t trust judges or “independent commissions.” That should be the lesson of the 20th and early 21st century—there is no such thing as a neutral, objective body when it comes to large scale, politically significant decisions. The current districting process isn’t perfect, but inserting unelected decision makers into the process would be worse.
Well at least it compiles again. sigh....
Improving Unit Test Coverage with Gemini LLM
I wouldn't trust the science on something I'm injecting into my body if it was illegal for people to disagree about it.
Texas medical school says hackers stole sensitive data of 1.4M individuals
Wow, haven't seen those images in a long time. I can't recall where I read this Gaston comic—translated of course—but I have never laughed so much at comic strips in my life. I still remember that cigarette machine he built as well as alcoholmeter.

Should have been made into cartoon series, but seeing how old it is I wonder if it was before its time. It really had an originality unlike anything I've read before or since.
https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2024/1/niae039/7920510
See also this previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25442510 (302 points | Dec 16, 2020 | 96 comments)
15GB is tiny, db selection doesn't really matter at that small of a scale
The future you got, thanks to all those "I have nothing to hide!" fools.
Meta fined $263M over 2018 security breach that affected ~3M EU users
The French Third Republic was a democracy in which the military was subordinate to the civilian government. Responsibility flows uphill to the people in charge. When the consequences involve the defeat and occupation of the country, it makes no sense to blame one organization and absolve the people who were in charge of it.
This is, like the article states, hostile to the user.

First, moderation should be clear enough that I do not have to ask "why?". Second, I have to trust the person I am emailing to give me a true, unbiased, answer. I will assume dang cannot spend time to thoroughly think through every question and complaint.

I know why I get rate limited, it is because "We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments and/or get involved in flamewars." I am always accused of this but it is never explained. In trying to defend my idea I get labeled as getting into a flamewar even when I am doing things like citing evidence to prove my point.

But dang is the only mediator of this subjective label.

Dang has said "Flamewar comments routinely get the largest number of responses." What? So post post a controversial hypothesis (note that something controversial does not mean it is not true) which creates a lot of responses, and then the comment gets flagged?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Also, for me to communicate with dang, it means I have to give him my email, which is not required to make an account on this site.

Also, the HN Guidelines say "Please don't post shallow dismissals".

What is a downvote but the perfection of a shallow dismissal? Requiring people to comment when voting would end the gang dismissal of new/different ideas and foster creative thinking instead of crushing them into oblivion.
> In a world ( well US at least ) where the trend is moving to deregulate things. UK decided to quite literally regulate everything. This is sad.

This is being pushed by banks and tech billionaires, including the world's richest man.

Why is that considered a good trend for regular people?
Gain Of Function research is far more pressing, non-hypothetical, issue which may have already caused a major pandemia.
Are Apple and other phone/camera makers working on ways to "sign" a video to say it's an unedited video from a camera? Does this exist now? Is it possible?

I'm thinking of simple cryptographic signing of a file, rather than embedding watermarks into the content, but that's another option.

I don't think it will solve the fake video onslaught, but it could help.
Factory Farming Is Better Than Organic Farming
Why too much Pydantic can be a bad thing
Dito on the upvote, esthetics are pleasing and I love the transition of the board. Not sure if that was sand or not… but now in hunting for the files… would make a nice gift for a friend that has it all, rated at 2000+ in chest.
Hue is amazing, the reliability of their products is truly impressive. I've had ~40 lights for years and not a single one has died or ever had connectivity issues.
Learn Phoenix LiveView
I like seeing all these NetBSD articles ob various sites. That OS, especially 10.0 seems to work great. I recently started using NetBSD again because I finally got a couple of free "older" thinkpads. My old hardware failed about 5 years ago and the Laptop I replaced it with has troubling hardware for both Open/NetBSD.

The 2 "new" systems (T430, T61) runs NetBSD without any issues. FWIW, if running a BSD you may want to add your dmesg here:

https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/

Also curious, what is that file manager in the print ?
The Curta Mechanical Calculator [video]
You've now learned that the internet will provide counterexamples whenever you make a categorical statement :)

My first language wasn't C++, it was BASIC, but by the time I got hold of Microsoft QuickC and Borland Turbo C++ they were available as self-contained IDEs that Just Worked.
Yeah, the "Full English" breakfast is popular worldwide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_breakfast
It's more like Rust 2018 was sent back in time 18 years and implanted as latent circuits into my head.