skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2006 or so I bought a house at the top of the real estate market (whereupon it quickly crashed and we enjoyed the wild ride of refinancing and property value swings until we finally unloaded the place at cost - at least it was a really nice neighborhood).

The real estate agents, as a token of their thanks for allowing them to claw back 6% of an outrageously priced house, gave us back some of the money in the form of a $2500 gift card to BestBuy.

Of course, I immediately used it to buy a state of the art Samsung DLP rear projection TV with more inputs than you could shake a stick at including then new HDMI and VGA. I still have that TV, it looks pretty good for 720p and 46" or so, and has a chromecast dongle permanently stuck in its HDMI port to make it useable. It works amazing as an impromptu VGA monitor, and old games console system as well. The cost, with stand, was something like $2400 plus some change and I was left with a few dollars at the end.

I wanted to finish off the gift card so I looked around the store. There, off in the corner was an absolutely massive Sony CRT tv with a yellow sticker on the side. "$1.72". I gasped.

"Is that TV really $1.72?"

"Yup, the future is these DLP or these Plasma TVs, we're getting rid of our CRTs"

Instant purchase, closed out the card, set the delivery dates for both and waited.

A week later two guys showed up "we got two TVs, one of them if fcking heavy, where do we put 'em?"

The DLP went of course into the living room without any fuss, but the Sony...well that was the heavy one. It took two guys, working hard, to move all 39" of it up a flight of stairs into an upper bedroom. It sat in its place until we sold the house and decided to move. That's when I learned what a monster it was.

For absolutely foolhardy reasons, I decided to junk it, so I had to take it to the curb. I tried to lift it. No go. I was like trying to lift Mjolnir or free Excalibur. I had a friend come over. It took us about an hour to move it down that flight of stairs and drag* it on piece of plastic to the curb.

The trash people, even prepped for an unusually heavy pickup, had to make three attempts at it before they could get it. During that time it was at the curb, two cars stopped and tried to pick it up before giving up.

Looking up the specs now, it looks like it was probably somewhere north of 300 lbs (136 kg). I see on Ebay that today it's probably worth around $600-$1000. But damn, if it wouldn't cost that much to move it within the same county. I still have a 24" I'll keep until I'll die for old gaming reasons, but man, that other monster was too big.

A guy at work the other day moved a 72" TV by himself, like it was nothing. There's a reason some tech falls away.
Dupe (87 points, 25 days ago, 30 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42273516
>Japan's really ill situated for industrial museums. Land is at premium, summer steam is brutal, disasters are routine, and public support is weak.

This makes absolutely no sense. Japan is full of museums of all kinds, including really weird ones you'd never see in America. Not far from me, there's a museum of miniatures, a museum about sewers, a museum about tap water, a museum about subways, and a museum with an indoor recreation of an entire village from ~300 years ago. And the summers here are better than most southern US states like Florida or Arizona, and disasters much less routine than Florida.
I really wish I could have the opposite. To authenticate with my SSH key (openpgp on yubikey) on the web.

I'm not really happy with the Fido options.
Compute Express Link (CXL) should mostly solve limited RAM with CPU:

1) Compute Express Link (CXL):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute_Express_Link

PCIe vs. CXL for Memory and Storage:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38125885
If you have stained/yellow teeth and have trouble starting flossing regularly I recommend going for in-chair whitening. The idea that I spent good money on them suddenly made me floss from 1-2 weekly to everyday and is now a ingrained habit
Except that the blog is also in French. https://ploum.net/2024-12-23-julius-fr.html

The author is running a poll to establish the plural: https://mamot.fr/@ploum/113704470821790664
I see, so every time you pay the interest, you're losing x% of the loan in current dollars, but the loan is getting cheaper in real value by y%, where x is the interest rate and y is inflation. So despite paying more dollars overall by the end, you're paying less real value overall. I guess the risk is that y falls below x later, at a time where you would have paid it off if you had been doing extra payment, so you increase your payments, but maybe the change could be dramatic enough to undo the benefit?
A 3k bankroll isn’t remotely close to enough working capital to employ any kind of useful risk management strategy and get any kind of return worth the bother.
My yubikey always requires a physical touch so even if the agent is forwarded my keys can't be used. And I'll notice when it tries because I see it flashing.
He who pays the piper calls the tune. The taxpayer is paying for the food and the healthcare consequences. So yeah, sugar water should be banned. As should all junk food. If you want to eat something sweet buy an apple.

Pay for it yourself if you don't like it.
I’m starting to get the feeling that we’ve created a human simulator, not a device for artificial reasoning. It’s a highly searchable database of the aggregate of most publicly accessible human knowledge.
Global deflationary bust caused by the FED being too tight for too long.
Good to know. That’s not that many and a great place to start from.
Totally valid concerns. If you have time, I would like to show you my solution to get your thoughts as I believe I have found ways to mitigate all of your concerns.
Currently I am using STCC (Schmitt-Thompson Clinical Content). I Have sent you some of the PDF's we use for testing.
I can totally spend time watching them, rooting for them to randomly (well, one is the random pinball type, one has some kind of camera and makes nice straight lines) pick up a piece of dirt in the middle of the floor. It’s kind of the same feeling as watching a bunch of puppies play.
Brickster's the criminal, Pepper chased him with a rebuilt police helicoptor lobbing pizzas and donuts to help Nick and Laura on the ground catch Brickster.

Also, second you on LEGO Loco. Of the original trilogy (Creator, Loco, and Chess), Loco by far was the most fun. Kudos to the Chess King though, saying the Knights are BMX bikeriders still hasn't been surpassed.
I like PGP keys for ssh auth because they can be hardware backed through openPGP. That makes it a great option (and also the actual crypto is then executed on the key itself, not by the gpg software)
The cancer reporting protocols from the College of American Pathologists are available in structured format (1). No major laboratory information system vendor properly implements them, properly, and their implementation errors cause some not-insignificant problems with patient care (oncologists calling the lab asking for clarification, etc). This has pushed labs to make policies disallowing the use of those modules and individual pathologists reverting to their own non-portable templates in Word documents.

The medical information systems vendors are right up there with health insurance companies in terms of their investment in ensuring patient deaths. Ensuring. With an E.

(1) https://www.cap.org/protocols-and-guidelines/electronic-canc...
In the long term fundamentals will matter. But the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Ordinarily I would say that an investment in a broad index for the long term (a decade or more) is always wise, and there's no point in trying to time it more specifically than that. However right now it's been irrationally exuberant for a long time. it's going to have to correct itself... Either tomorrow or another ten years.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer
Here's more evidence https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/1evdt9p/c...
"We don’t actually want them to do math for the sake of replacing calculators" - couldn't the article just end here? People aren't giving it multiplication problems or asking it to count letters because they want to know the answer. Given that you can "patch" the issue by having it invoke python for computation, the real value is in seeing whether current models can learn to follow a simple step-by-step procedure.

The linked tweet https://twitter.com/yuntiandeng/status/1836114401213989366 is far more interesting to me, gpt models clearly _can_ learn to multiply with intermediate tokens, but even o1 currently doesn't. And yet this would be a case where generating synthetic data is almost trivial. And moreover, being able to perform computations in this fashion would be valuable for many types of benchmarks (e.g. FrontierMath, since I'm sure at the end of the day you'll have to grind through some computation).

So why hasn't it been a priority? I remember some NeurIPS presentation claiming that heavily training on math in this fashion hurt language scores. But then the follow-up would be to have specialized models for each and route between them...
But to flip this around, let's say you want to use this third party in some other "modern" language how would this become better?. Clearly if someone hadn't done the work to package in vcpkg/conan you can expect it wouldn't exist in pip/cargo/npm either. So if you had a bad time in C++, you would have a dramatically worse time in other languages. Goes to show what everyone else is saying here, there are parts of historic C++ which are in very bad shape particularly the build story. However, if it's in vcpkg it is exactly as easy to install as the other ones.
No, I'm talking about std::optional<T>. It's a type designed to store an object of type T, or nothing. You use '*v' to get the value out (if one is present).

It was originally discussed as a way of avoid null pointers, for the common case where they are representing the possibility of having a value. However, it has exactly the same UB problems as a null pointer, so isn't really any safer.

I'm going to be honest, saying that memory corruption in C++ is 'almost never a problem' just doesn't match with my experience, of working on many large codebases, games, and seeing remote security holes caused by buffer overflows and memory corruption occurring in every OS and large software program ever written.

Also, that 'penalty' really does seem to be tiny, as far as I can tell. Rust pays it (you can use unsafe to disable it, but most programs use unsafe very sparingly), and as far as I've seen benchmarks, the introduced overhead is tiny, a couple of percent at most.
It's not even a database. It's exactly what you say, a human simulator. That's a good way to describe an LLM. It's not accurate or predictable enough in its retrieval of training material to be a database.

A reasoning engine it certainly is not either. Vendors try to shoehorn it into that purpose like OpenAI with their o models. But I think that's more because of the popularity of LLMs. Other types of AI models will be better at this.

I think eventually the LLM will just handle the human interaction and behind it will be a host of more specialised models to provide the actual content. For stuff like reasoning, knowledge, calculation etc.
SvarDOS: DR-DOS reborn as an open source OS
I disagree with the comparison. A "drunk woman out by themselves" is, at the end of the day, just a person exercising their right to exist. A stock-market gambler, on the other hand, is literally betting on the bad decisions of whoever is on the other side of their trades. It's a predatory position to be in, and deserves a whole lot less sympathy.
Replied to a sibling but in addition to the notice I got from their robo lawyer here's a thread of others showing the etsy listings getting yoinked and the facebook groups getting shutdown.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/1evdt9p/c...
NetVentory Beautiful TUI and Web Network Inventory Scanner
I got comments yesterday, and added a web GUI, which is beautiful dark mode and super responsive with -w!
Sure. That Party City gift card bought last week may not be honored today due to bankruptcy and certainly won’t be honored after the stores close in a couple months.
Found the easier to read/download from Arxiv link

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10533
The above take is worded a bit cynical but is their general approach to GPUs lately across the board e.g. https://www.techpowerup.com/326415/amd-confirms-retreat-from...

Also I'd take HN as being being an amazing platform for the overall consistency and quality of moderation. Anything beyond that depends more on who you're talking to than where at.
The good news is that there is some LSP support now. I recommend PerlNavigator if this is something that interests you: https://github.com/bscan/PerlNavigator
Hmm the hallucination would happen in the auto labelling, but we review and test our labels and they seem correct!
Insider look into how billion dollars revenue retroactively reorganised
Long-time admirer, first-time poster.
The pump.fun team has been claiming to reporters that the pump.fun project 'is not and never has been a UK company,' which leads one to suspect they're afraid of the current Financial Conduct Authority warning against their domain - even though the organization that paid me while I worked there prior to May 16 is Baton Corporation Ltd.
When questioned about the frequency of Pump and Baton mentioned sidebyside in the Rex v. Dunn trial, Sapijuju (Noah Tweedale, CEO) said "PF never was and is still not a UK company." Then when the reporter said what about my case and my employment with Baton and Alon said "Just because he was employed by this company doesn’t mean that this company owns pump.fun."
This is an interesting twist in the story - where I've personally overheard the CEO say to their accountants 'can we just start buying houses or something? like how do we just not pay taxes' as their looming 1 billion+ in profit this financial year should have yielded the King 200m+ in taxes...
If I were a betting man I'd wager that they won't cut their nose off in spite their face, have me walk a free man for blowing the whistle on their operation before the livestreaming went out and they later turned it off instead of doing their best to moderate it. This newfound love of rule and order is a clear 180 degrees from their original stance of 'we want all the content on our platform, anything goes' as overheard on their twitter space and later published by Jack in Darknet Diaries 152.
Honestly, I feel bad for these young bucks and the predicament they find themselves in - as I clearly showed with irrefutable blockchain evidence, the winners in this whole ordeal are those brokering transactions for more savvy devs to reorder or sandwich by allowing them to bid on them in a market to see who has the ability to control the juiciest ones, as jito makes millions a day at current rates in pump-related transactions.

The pump team are willing and knowing fallguys for the greater solana ecosystem to continue extracting money from the West, or my name isn't Jarett Dunn.
Oh god who cares!!
There's no need for this. If you want to make sure consumers don't want to return to CRTs, all you have to do are the following:

1) point out how heavy they are. Give them a facsimile to lift to show them, after making them sign a waiver that they may permanently injure their back doing so.

2) show them how deep they are, and how far away from the wall they must sit because of this.

3) show them two power meters, showing the power consumption of a CRT and a modern LCD for comparison. Also show the actual costs for that power, and how much typical usage of these displays will cost per day and per year.

The last one alone should dissuade most people from wanting to go backwards.

Most people don't give two shits about latency, and modern LCDs with >= 120 fps capability already exist.
> everyone I knew either donated theirs and/or moved CRTs into smaller rooms when they replaced a working one.

That might have happened for a while but by 2008-ish CRTs were being dumped left right and center. My city runs a annual kerbside collection program for large appliances and furniture, and I distinctly remember metal scavengers cruising the street gutting old CRTs people have left out for the copper coils, leaving whatever remains to be collected as hazardous e-waste. Around the same time, my parents got rid of a 16:10 CRT IDTV they bought in the 90s and semi-forced me to throw out a 21 inch IBM P275 I had because "it's using too much power".

In any case I doubt any corporate (or rich household) owner of a 47 inch CRT back then would think too much about replacing it with a larger screen that took up less space. After all it's just another piece of asset that has depreciated to zero value on their books.
Insurance and Taxes Now Cost More Than Mortgages for Many Homeowners
how do you interact with perplexity? mobile app?
Depends. If the fundamentals are already good, they're priced in, you probably have little upside, even long term. Maybe you'll just match the market. You have to think the fundamentals will improve over time more than the market expects to beat the market.

Long term, I think economics has more to do with market performance. Stocks rise as the money supply expands and capital has no where else to go.
The forests that powered premodern Britain into the modern age
Previously

(29 points, 10 months ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39500441

(12 points, 4 years ago, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26336923
Poor emotional regulation skills and executive function, perhaps.
That's almost word for word what geohotz said last year?
Archive link: https://archive.ph/BOPO0
The article explains optimizations to spend less cycles parsing URLs than other libraries. Very interesting work, there's no reason not to do things efficiently when it's possible.

Also, good luck using regex to write a RFC or WHATWG conformant URL parser.
> If they can't, then is it really quantum supremacy?

Yes, quantum supremacy on an artificial problem is quantum supremacy (even if it's "this quantum computer can simulate itself faster than a classical computer"). Quantum supremacy on problems that are easy to verify would of course be nicer, but unfortunately not all problems happen to have an easy verification.
My dude, it's restricted to just government infringements (Congress) in the Bill of Rights.

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights

If it was supposed to be a universal right for everyone/everything, it would be something like "no one shall make a law..."
Color or grayscale changes on a cell for repeat visits would be cool.
As per usual with c++ it depends. In some situations things are guaranteed to be compile time evaluated. E.g. even in early templates this would need to work:

Func<1+2>();

Something like this there's no guarantees around:

template <A, B>
int Func() {
return A + B;
}

For almost all compilers it should constant fold this into a constant but in theory it could end up with an add instruction. Basically we can't second guess the author here because it depends on the specifics.
Show HN: Co-Op Translator v0.6.2 – Support OpenAI and Markdown-Only Translation
We’re thrilled to announce two major updates for Co-op Translator, the open-source tool for seamless multilingual translation!

1⃣ OpenAI API Support: Now supports OpenAI alongside Azure OpenAI.
2⃣ Markdown-Only Mode: Skip image translations with -md and keep markdown image links intact.

Try it with:

"translate -l "es" -md"

Co-op Translator simplifies multi-language translations:

Translate text in Markdown files and images automatically.
Keep the original format intact.
Perfect for developers managing multilingual projects.
Seems to match your post from 18 minutes ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42499183
I notice that you've just framed most knowledge creation/discovery as a form of gradient descent.

Which it is, of course.
We already have a device for artificial reasoning, it's called Prolog.
> The medical information systems vendors are right up there with health insurance companies in terms of their investment in ensuring patient deaths. Ensuring. With an E.

Can you expand on this?
I don't know OP but 3k can be a significant amount of money for some people esp when younger. I realise people often lose more, but that can also be because they have more money padding to lose.
this is amazing. on similar note, I have spent last few months trying to fit visual inertial odometry into esp32. Combining that with this would be insane (and so cheap!)
I just found out I've been using my dishwasher wrong for 7 years
I remember reading something here recently about auto causing some painful and difficult to diagnose bug - I think string was what they thought the type should be (and some implicit cast would have made it a string if the type was specified)... but instead it created a string_view which went on to be used somewhere that accepted both string and string_view and then something tried to use it later but whatever the string_view was pointing to was gone (or something in that vein - I don't recall exactly).
I too don’t understand why technical analysis isn’t classified as a genre of fiction…
Insider look at how a billion dollars revenue is retroactively reorganized
Long-time admirer, first-time poster.

The baton corporation ltd. team has been claiming to reporters that their star bread winning project 'is not and never has been a UK company,' which leads one to suspect they're afraid of the current Financial Conduct Authority warning against their domain - even though the organization that paid me while I worked there prior to May 16 is Baton Corporation Ltd.

When questioned about the frequency of the domain and Baton mentioned sidebyside in the Rex v. Dunn trial, Sapijuju (Noah Tweedale, CEO) said "PF never was and is still not a UK company." Then when the reporter said what about my case and my employment with Baton and Alon said "Just because he was employed by this company doesn’t mean that this company owns the project."

This is an interesting twist in the story - where I've personally overheard the CEO say to their accountants 'can we just start buying houses or something? like how do we just not pay taxes' as their looming 1 billion+ in profit this financial year should have yielded the King 200m+ in taxes...

If I were a betting man I'd wager that they won't cut their nose off in spite their face, have me walk a free man for blowing the whistle on their operation before the livestreaming went out and they later turned it off instead of doing their best to moderate it. This newfound love of rule and order is a clear 180 degrees from their original stance of 'we want all the content on our platform, anything goes' as overheard on their twitter space and later published by Jack in Darknet Diaries 152.

Honestly, I feel bad for these young bucks and the predicament they find themselves in - as I clearly showed with irrefutable blockchain evidence, the winners in this whole ordeal are those brokering transactions for more savvy devs to reorder or sandwich by allowing them to bid on them in a market to see who has the ability to control the juiciest ones, as this provider makes millions a day at current rates in related transactions.