skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would have been assembly code, probably 6809 or 68000 system I had back then. 6809 would have required dumping intermediate data to a disk. I don't recall just when I first got a hard-disk, which would probably have been a massive 10 megabytes in size.

And yes, I saw that transition. I learned to program using Fortran IV and IBM 11/30 assembly in the mid-70s, using punched cards. Wrote a MIXAL assembler and simulator for the minicomputer at the local college around 1976; it was about 7000 punched cards in length, all assembly. Got a Commodore PET in 1978, moved on to SS-50 based 6809 and 68008 systems in the late 70s/early 80s, with a serial terminal.
>> The fundamental barrier to government reform is in Congress, nowhere else.

The most salient point here.

I had a huge conversation with a friend of mine last night at a Christmas party our mutual couple friends have every year. We both agreed on this and one thing we both understood was the fact that Republicans talk about smaller government, but at no time, either when they've had the presidency or been in control of congress have they ever reduced spending.

If you want to really reign in government, you either have to raise taxes to account for all the social program spending, or you have to reduce spending. Both are political suicide and no candidate ever wants to be on record saying they'll do either.

As an independent, I see both sides making the situation worse, but only one side saying they want smaller government, but then doing nothing to stand behind that principle.
They could have done that, but they decided to do a map
I bought a dumb tv some 2 years ago. 4k, 50ish inch and it has a chromecast v2 attached. Works great.

The funny part is when younger family members come over, they get frustrated there's no netflix button on the remote! Last time that lead to a drawing sessions instead of some paw patrol nonsense.
Oh, insurance companies will collect data, the feds won't. Weather data shows climate changing. Employment data demonstrates discrimination, and wage theft. Crime data demonstrates civil rights violations, discrimination and police brutality. Insurance cares little for those, and neither does any megacorp.

Not collecting the data means every policy argument comes down to "well, common sense says...".
I’ve applied to a couple of jobs on that platform and I really like that there’s always feedback from the platform or hiring manager
I work from home with a young child. I think if I put a sign up, it'd just prompt more questions from her lol
Show HN: I'm building 12 tools in 12 days, starting with Code to Image Converter
I'm challenging myself to build 12 useful developer tools in 12 days. The first one is already live - a tool that converts code snippets into beautiful, shareable images.

What it does:

- Takes your code and generates clean, styled images
- Supports syntax highlighting
- Makes code more shareable on social media

Why I'm doing this:

- Build useful tools for developers
- Challenge myself with rapid development
- Drive visibility for BoilerplateHub

You can try the first tool here: https://boilerplatehub.com/free-tools/code-to-image-converte...

I'll be releasing a new tool each day. Would love feedback from the HN community on what tools you'd find most useful, or suggestions for improvement on the current one.
> GDPR is simply ignored by any bigger US company

I work for a very large US company and can assure you that GDPR is something we pay a lot of attention to. This isn't the opinion of my employer, but my personal experience is that the big players take it seriously and meet and exceed all their obligations because it's too risky not to, and they have the necessary local legal teams to understand the law as best as is possible.

I think it's the small/medium companies who are where most of the issues are. Small companies write a non-legalese privacy policy because they think that's better for their users, but in fact have written something legally meaningless that gives their users no protections. Some small companies just don't know their obligations because they think they won't apply as they're not in the EU.

Then there are the companies who are big enough to know better, but small enough to know they can get away with it because all the scrutiny goes to big tech. I was asked by a medium sized advertising network to implement a keylogger on our website at my previous company so that the network could enforce their revenue sharing by detecting all user data input into our site and match it against their records. I laughed them out of the room, but they made it very clear this was how everyone did it.
Neat project!

But I’ve realized, after doing a number of puzzles with my wife over the past several years, that most real life pictures don’t make great puzzles.

I mean, if you like the challenge of just putting random pieces together, maybe. (Or a pure white one [1], if you’re really up for the challenge.)

But the best puzzles are the ones that artists hand make specifically for puzzles that are super busy and detailed, and have all sorts of Easter eggs in them. Good examples are the Magic Puzzle Company ones [2].

I suppose that there are good pics you can find online of distant scenes, like a map of a city, or a crowded stadium, or a crowded street, etc. Maybe that’s a good use case for this.

EDIT: just tried it out with an image I found via Googling “detailed images”, and realized this is meant for much smaller puzzles than I’m used to doing, so not sure my comment is super applicable. My problem with digital vs physical puzzles comes down to 1) I don’t find small puzzles super fun, 2) not having enough real estate to sort/organize, and 3) the pieces are usually already oriented properly for you, or it’s fiddly dealing with orientation.

But the UX for doing smaller puzzles seems polished and well done, if you enjoy small digital puzzles!

[1] https://a.co/d/ddf9p6V

[2] https://a.co/d/dp3INCp
Many would disagree, solely on the basis of the many knock-on effects where such companies in other areas have cut corners with egregious failures.

> Augmenting a parent so their child has a world class tutor is incredible stuff.

So does replacing the underlying meaning of the label tutor, with a cult leader. It is incredible, just not in the way you intended. How will you know the difference if this was done outside your awareness?

Machines are programmed by people you never meet, or can hold to account (in many cases). Many seem to think LLM's are magical replacements for people, they are not.

It seems more like you want to further offload parenting to a blind machine you can't control without recognition of the consequences, while taking away the economic benefit of tutoring as a job at the same time.

The internet raised a lot of kids in the late 80s/90s, many were very intelligent, but became maladjusted from exposure to things on places like 4chan. That maladjustment led to acts that landed some of them in prison, which has become the modern form of slavery.

I think you need to more carefully reflect on both the negatives and positives.
Money has the property of medium of exchange, yes. It's also a store of value, and a unit of accounting. I took econ 101.
It means it isn't a "proof", it's an illustration of a partial domain of the original equation.
Seems clickbaity: the selected dates are pretty weird. If you just maintain 1x long, you end up down ~5% overall. Obviously, there's hefty volatility in the days they selected, but I'm surprised that the vol averages out down given that the last decade was quite positive on average.
That sounds exactly like what I'm trying to do. I have no experience with the agency world and most of my contacts are in giant corporations. Do you think it would help to do some work in the agency world?
The first thing I do in any fresh Teams installation is to disable all notifications, except maybe for voice calls. Then I check for new messages maybe once per hour. I would have gone crazy otherwise.
Windows offered me 3 separate subscriptions during setup. After managing to decline all 3 and complete setup, it then re-ran the Windows setup process a week later to help me "finish setting up", where it re-offered all 3 subscriptions.
My motorcycle has a rev limiter for a reason. If you let the motor run wide open it will fail catastrophically. Economies are no different.

It is an interesting metaphor to draw because you didn't need regulation to get a rev limiter.
I'm not a fan of rewriting in Rust but maybe there are some lessons to learn here that can be applied to the original.
The key is to mean it. Then it's not inauthentic.
you can also just not connect it to a network
Whether regulation is a good or a bad tool for solving problems is an opinion. It cannot, by definition, be "untrue". At most one can say that they disagree and cite evidence as to why.
Preventing brain injury complications with specialized optical fibers
One of the funniest tech subplots in recent memory.

TL;DR it was nigh-impossible to get it to emit the proper "end of message" token. (IMHO the chat training was too rushed). So all the local LLM apps tried silently hacking around it. The funny thing to me was no one would say it out loud. Field isn't very consumer friendly, yet.
Networking, honestly. There is no "go do this, go buy this, etc" advice. You've never had a friend/colleague who needed contracting work done on their house? Or who was helping another friend develop a Wordpress site for their business? Or a person who knew a lawyer/doctor/plumber that could solve your problem?

That's networking. You start doing work for people around you and/or at conventions/social events for networking and then start cultivating long term contacts that continue giving work or referring others.
Maybe for teeny weeny keys -- the 50e6th prime number is ~30 bits?
The costume shop owners daughter whispers “you should get a cloak lined with ermine” suggesting she (an underage girl) knows where Bill is going (the mansion party). It feels like there’s at least one scene missing that ties that together a bit less subtly.
Have you thought about getting one implanted?
Somehow I've never found an explanation for MLE that's intuitive and suitable for someone who didn't take graduate-level statistics already. I'm 100% on board with the introduction (MSE and cross-entropy make total intuitive sense; you can see how they penalize 'wrongness' to an increasing degree) but in the next paragraph we jump right to:

>Let pmodel(x;θ) be a parametric family of distributions over a space of parameters ...

and it's straight to the grad-level textbook stuff that breezily assumes familiarity with advanced mathematical notation.

One of the reasons I loved Andrew Ng's machine learning course so much is that it eased you into understanding the notation, terminology, and signposted things like "hey this is really important" vs. "hey this is just a weird notational quirk that mathematicians have, don't worry about it too much."
I'm sorry, which part of my post did you have trouble with? I can try to break it down for you further until you understand. What do you perceive to be the moved goalposts here?
Not controversial, just wrong.
> Hardware that by most metrics is technically better

I think that's a hard one to sell with projectors. Picture quality is substantially worse, and images are substantially less bright, than with TVs. People buy TVs on 3 axes: price, image, and smart features. Here we explicitly don't want the smart features, but TVs are much cheaper and much better image quality (even at that much cheaper price) than with projectors. Brightness matters a lot for where/when you can use them.
Astronomy and Astrophysics 101: What Is a Light-Year?
In my experience, teacher absences just meant substitutes, another teacher swapping over / handling two classes, or an impromptu class period spent watching something on tv.

I'm not sure that was much better than just telling the students in advance when you know a schedule will change and sending them to the library to study or etc.
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Just a matter of time before they start taking data updates and ads over an ATSC or FM subchannel.
Your last sentence makes no sense. Something can both be good, and be undesirable for government regulation. For example, it's good for me to eat vegetables. But it would be odious to have a law requiring me to eat X number of vegetables per day. Similarly, a person can be in favor of wearing seatbelts but opposed to a law requiring seatbelt use.
I’d agree with you that it was accurate pricing if they sold power for similarly cheap at that time, such that you could just install storage and profit off of time shifting by backfeeding when there’s not a glut. But I’m pretty sure they still charge their absurd rates at noon on a sunny day.
We agree. The case was about Renaissance breaking the law. The best lawyers their money could buy lost and did not avail themselves of their right to appeal. The ruling body found they were tax cheats.

Philanthropic work is great way to get shills to come out of the woodworks.
Nice! Thanks for this. I'll try to replicate it.

I'm in the same situation as you and this is what my daughter's school uses.

Edit: ahh, I see you are also in Leipzig! :)
Bronze Age massacre victims likely cannibalised
A point, part of the reason insurance companies deny claims isn't because they think they can get out of paying. It's because doctors don't get paid for dealing with insurance. So they tie doctors up so doctors can't see more patients and generate billing.
Thank you—#1 is what I was most concerned about, especially with M1/2/3/4 chipsets making hackintoshing less viable. I’m confident enough that if there’s a git repo I can install an OS, but if I need to write the driver personally then I’m going to be up a creek. How much would it cost to hire an OS Engineer to write a new hackintosh package? Would it be possible to do in 9 months of full time work? Could 9 women make a baby in a month?

Re: #2, I’m setting the upper bar for my performance expectation at the DASUNG 25” monitor, which I did love, but couldn’t fit in a backpack.

My use case is in the “viability valley”—I’m happy to give up on video, but not happy to give up on vsCode. COTS e-ink devices don’t fit my professional needs, even though the e-ink screens themselves wouldn’t have an issue.

Alternatively to hackintoshing, how viable would it be to simply buy a 13” M2 MacBook and just install the screen? I’m sure a driver needs to be written, but I imagine “write a display driver” is a more common job description than “write a hackintosh package”?
As a level 99 druid, I have not moved from this spot in over 300 hundred years. My clothes consist of centuries accumulation of dust. I eat meat, but only beings that choose to end their existence in my perpetually open mouth. I breathe four times a year. I reproduce by sporulation, prodigiously, my offspring is responsible for the ozone layer. I convey this information to you by way of telepathy through an intermediary, Shawn of Ohio, an intern in IT who maintains his WFH infrastructure by peddling a stationary bicycle.
I don't think there is a rule that your own work must be tagged with Show HN. You can opt-in to Show HN if

> you've made something that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread. [1]

but afaik nothing in the guidelines [2] requires it.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I agree with the apps are bad argument because they are just so addictive

I think its very challenging to come up with a solution of what part of it makes it addictive and how they can not do that.

Taking that logic we would need to remove almost all video games, social media and even online videos.

They are all marketed to keep people engaging with them.

Almost everything we create has been developed so that people engage with it, that's why we have marketing companies.
I'm a New Zealander. I got a degree in Philosophy and entered a Masters in Computer Science here. I definitely learned a lot about critical thinking. Both from humanities and sciences - I think the combination is probably superior to either in isolation
I've been on Linkedin from the start and I don't think I've ever gotten work or meaningful benefit from it other than seeing what some acquaintances have been up to over the years and occasionally getting a message from an old friend reaching out to catch up personally.
What if you have a Macbook Air with 16GB (the bechmarks dont seem to show memory).
Not controversial, but simplified. My flow comes from working out problems on my notebook (pen and paper). Typing into the editor is the outcome of my flow process. This aso applies to my writing. I figure stuff out on paper and then put them on an electronic document. Works for me as I need to think while scribbling notes while doodling on the margin.
Has anyone managed the opposite feat, i.e. made a piece of hardware that can recognise an iPhone over NFC? I'm trying to design control system that relies on you touching your phone to various hardware readers (with some kind of unchanging key/identity), but off-the-shelf MFRC522 etc don't seem to work, and the 'official' Apple way requires an NDA...
One easy place to get some intuition for signed areas is in the context of integrals.

You know position is the integral of velocity right? So say you walk in a straight line from your starting point, then you keep slowing down until you come to a stop and walk backwards past your starting point.

If you were to graph your velocity vs time at some point it would dip below the t axis because your velocity would be negative. Ok cool. If you integrate from the point you came to a stop and started walking backwards you’re calculating the area above the negative velocity curve(between it and the time axis). You’ll find it is a negative area. You know it has to be negative because you walked backwards past your starting point so it gets so negative that it cancels out all the positive area from when you were walking forwards.
It looks like a lot of people have taken this statement to be proof that the poster doesn't believe in 'regulation'. When I read this I believe the poster is pointing out how the US has a tendency to politicized anything with the word 'regulation' associated with it to the detriment of the issue involved. For what it is worth, I too see the attack on 'regulation' without context or thought and it makes it hard to accomplish things as a society, but it also forces you to think of other ways things could get done. Convincing people to vote with their wallets or just bringing bad press are also ways to influence this issue. I personally do think regulation has a very big place in this discussion but maybe if we explored other avenues more we could make progress as well.
The 50 000 000th prime is 982451653, but fun fact: you may have already memorized a prime much larger than this without even realizing you have done so!

2^255-19

This is where Curve 25519 and the associated cryptography (ed25519, x25519) gets its name from. Written out, 2^255-19=57896044618658097711785492504343953926634992332820282019728792003956564819949.
Unofficial continued support: https://deskthing.app/

Discussions:

Spotify's Car Thing, due for bricking, is getting an open source second life (132 points, 33 days ago, 41 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42119869

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> Yes, but such situations are incredibly rare IMO.

They happen all the time if you work for banks, large finance companies or government.

It’s not just the 2TB databases - it’s the 100 analysts all doing it their own thing with that data at the same time.
Comma Body: Robotics Dev Kit with OSS OpenPilot for navigation
Enhance is super cool and the fact that it can be called from basically any server language makes web components really powerful & reusable.

I work on one of the underlying libraries that provide it said portability, Extism, and I love to see how WebAssembly actually bring some of the coolest parts of the web browser into other applications.

https://github.com/extism/extism
If only he worried about UnitedHealth's negative deeds instead...
They are hung up on determinism and absolutes. In that world-view entropy is literally the devil.
I’m in the “viability valley” of e-ink applications; happy to give up video, not happy to give up vsCode. I do not care about pen-based notetaking, but I care immensely about installing 3rd-party software outside of an App Store.

I’ve been very pleased with the DASUNG 25” monitor that uses the same Kaleido 3 as the 13” display available from e-ink, which gives me hope, but as the market stands for someone to have a real laptop instead of a tablet there’s going to be a screwdriver involved.
Google is testing a MediaTek modem in the Pixel 10 series
I have to disagree. I understand it's very expensive, but it's still a consumer product available to anyone with a credit card.

The comparison is between something you can buy off the shelf like a powerful Mac, vs something powered by a Grace Hopper CPU from Nvidia, which would require both lots of money and a business relationship.

Honestly, people pay $4k for nice TVs, refrigerators and even couches, and those are not professional tools by any stretch. If LLMs needed a $50k Mac Pro with maxed out everything, that might be different. But anything that's a laptop is definitely regular consumer hardware.
Its not a bad read but it's a bit loose. I'd object to the description of

> Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), and A Clockwork Orange (1971)—three of his most celebrated works, and all three black comedies (about pedophilia, nuclear war, and violent crime, respectively).

Hardly comedies (except Dr.S) and the "abouts" are superficial. A Clockwork Orange is about the nature of free will, not violent crime!

The bit about Prescot Bush "who helped fund Hitler's regime" is a long bow to draw. Maybe technically true in some tiny irrelevant sense.
Wasn't Schmidt serving on Apple board board too at that time?
See https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis for a proof of concept.

No dynamic linking locks you out of Clang+LLVM (mostly: static clang isn't an officially supported configuration, but it can probably be forced to exist. I haven't properly looked into it yet.), Firefox, Chromium, QtWebEngine, (so no alt browsers, either), and probably a lot more. Statically linking every single package out there requires a lot of patches to build systems to get them to properly do it. Many build systems don't respect LDFLAGS and CFLAGS, or respect one or the other, or only partially respect them, causing a great deal of annoyance if you have a nonstandard desired result, such as fully static builds.
I love the full bluesky integration, opening videos on media player is chefs kiss