skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I’ll stick with Path of Exile. Not a fan of the Blizzard scene these days, lots of toxicity. Some say PoE is toxic but at least you aren’t forced to interact with anyone there like in WoW. Playing hardcore to avoid toxicity isn’t a selling point and sounds like a futile cope to me.
Two months without a commit could still be quite active and useful software, especially for a personal project. Where would you draw the line?
> with PirateSoftware hoping to win the title back on April 1st[1] (which, in my opinion, is a weird proclamation considering it's directly asking your fans to give you a lot of money

he wants to make money, that’s not really an odd proclamation
Individual mice don't really live long enough to observe technological change though. Humans probably look like giant slow lumbering ancient wizards.
The Livescribe pen goes well with this philosophy.
That’s one of the cases where query-based CDC may out perform log-based (as long as you don’t care to see every intermediate change that happened to a row between syncs)
Maybe, its somewhat appealing, but it's complicated. I guess I could definitely afford to retire, if I budgeted carefully, and lived in a modest cost of living location.

The thing is, I don't mind working per se, and the social, teamwork, learning/challenge aspects can be nice. I just don't need all the BigCo corporate bs, politics, agile, performance review, 80 hr week stuff. It's a pity there doesn't seem to be any such thing as a chill job with chill people any more.
> Whatever weird programming language life is made from it seems to be a surprisingly forgiving environment.

Either that, or we truly are more similar than we seem to ourselves. It makes sense that humans would have a greater sense of discernment at the sensual level genetically nearer to us than further from us.
Maybe because it never had currency?
In general I'd be very surprised if code alignment had much effect on a 10,000 instruction block, especially since the instruction is 5 bytes long so it will quickly unalign itself
The problem is that for every 1 percent that actively does the nasty stuff, you have a lot more people watching and, at best, pretending that it doesn't concern them, and at worst, sympathizing with the violence.
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As for practical limits, if you do the arithmetic naively, then you'll generally need O(n) memory to capture a region of size 10^-n (or 2^-n, or any other base). It seems to be the exception rather than the rule when it's possible to use less than O(n) memory.

For instance, there's no known practical way to compute the 10^100th bit of sqrt(2), despite how simple the number is. (Or at least, a thorough search yielded nothing better than Newton's method and its variations, which must compute all the bits. It's even worse than π with its BBP formula.)

Of course, there may be tricks with self-similarity that can speed up the computation, but I'd be very surprised if you could get past the O(n) memory requirement just to represent the coordinates.
Ah, remembering the phone-book Inside Mac volumes! Those were the days.

(Kids these days with StackExchange and Copilot have no idea.... now get off my lawn!)
Interesting, I went a little down the rabbit hole.

And it's not what I'm actually looking for. I'm looking for controlled studies with a falsifiable hypothesis and a detailed section on the study design :)

I've spent some time looking for such studies and I didn't find anything (convincing). So if anyone has something to share, I'd appreciate that
Why are you blathering about the "global south" when Russia is shooting very powerful missiles at hospitals in Ukraine?
I'm sure we've just been in different discussions, the "enough so that I can treat this work as a hobby" definition is the one I've ever seen before.
It's Not Insurance
This post is the latest in a series about Townie, our AI assistant.

Our first had a nice discussion on HN: https://blog.val.town/blog/codegen/

The other posts in the series:

- https://blog.val.town/blog/townie/

- https://blog.val.town/blog/building-a-code-writing-robot/
Same.

I sometimes write TypeScript for 2 hours straight without actually running the code or any unit test, and it would just work -- the return value is exactly what you want. I don't think I can do that for JavaScript for more than 15 minutes even though they are the "same language".
Your argument plays with the idea that the phone listening stuff is the only source of information for the ad networks. But it would be much more complex. It would be only one of many signals, that are used to serve the consumer the right advertisement in the right moment. So it doesn't need to have the exact phrase "pool fencing" in the database. It just need to detect that something about pools, or swimming, etc. was talked about. Since Google has thousands of signals and statistics (like browsing history, current location, the other smartphones that are near, and those histories etc.) about this person, it can sell the ad space to "pool fencing" and expect a high click through rate.
Selling ads is a bit like the current LLMs. It's just a stochastic parrot, that hallucinates stuff. But the stuff is often that advertisement that brings in the most money.
It's really interesting seeing the progression here, integrating AI-assisted coding tools into something like Val Town is a great arena for exploring different patterns for this stuff.

Worth checking out their Cerebras-powered demo too - LLMs at 2000 tokens/second make applying proposed changes absurdly interactive: https://cerebrascoder.com/
> treating it as the most probable theory (and then making decisions based upon it) is something I have concluded for myself as folly.

Sure, but your tools reasoning about the past are quite limited. Occam's Razor helps us identify where narrative elements are unnecessary for an explanation, and in that it's quite useful. For most of history we must rely on Occam's Razor to even construct any sort of probability model. After all what's easier to believe—acting like the historical record was fabricated with the intent of deceiving us, or acting like the people who wrote the historical records generally had rational reasons to do so? The basis for preferring the latter is inherently an application of Occam's Razor.
Also from legal and liability point of view it opens a can of worms.
Show HN: Liquid Budget – A zero-sum envelope budgeting application
Hello hackers, I built Liquid Budget, a budgeting application as an alternative to YNAB. The core concept is that every dollar is allocated to digital envelopes, and as daily transactions occur you spend from your envelopes and manage overdrafts, almost as if you had micro bank accounts.

Tech stack:
- Frontend: React/TypeScript with Zustand for state and Shadcn/Radix components
- Backend: Java/Spring Boot/MySQL

I built this primarily for users who wanted a cheaper alternative to YNAB with a guarantee of no price increases. Along the way I improved on a number of things such as credit card handling, but the main catch is that there is no automatic bank import for transactions. I understand that's a non-starter for many, but not all people.

I'd love any feedback on:
- Additional features and UX suggestions
- Useful reports to add

And whatever else!
Australian here: I think anyone can become Australian.
I've found its helpful to divide notes into two separate categories: notes & logs. Anything that is not a log is a note. This includes recipes, people, tools, reading list, etc.

Logs are meant to serve as a labnote book. Each entry is saved in a daily journal & with a date and simple description header. What I'm doing, why, how its going, checklist, etc. Basically a dumping ground for everything I could possibly have a use for re-using later. This help eliminates entire categories of notes(e.g. call with mechanic), and give you a chance to leverage smaller notes with backlinks to the individual experiences using it. The effort to keep notes evergreen is very difficult when the content keeps changing.
Are there any studies out there that managed to replicate their results? Anyone aware of any they could share?
I consider almost all deaths of people I don't know personally as a Schrödinger's box of possibilities. There's usually no need to collapse them. Except in cases where it's obvious, such as extreme sport accidents, there's no way to know for sure. Even terminal patients could resort to assisted suicide, which is ambiguous; is that suicide, or dying from the disease? A cause of death stated by relatives could even be an outright lie.

"Lost battle with <disease>" could be used to refer to depression -> suicide. "Sudden [cardiovascular event]" or "died in their sleep" could be suicide or overdose. etc.
Programmer turned manager, yes :)
That's a funny way of saying "sorry, I looked at the statute, and you're right, it repeatedly discusses the Bell Operating Companies", but: apology accepted.
Apple CEO Tim Cook donates $1M to Trump inauguration
That's a small drop in the bucket compared to all the jobs that are outsourced over seas. Even mainframe work for fortune companies is done in South America, because the companies went out of their way to train those people. They just expect us to train ourselves for their niche needs when they do hire us.
1m is more then enough for some people to not work. You may need to be willing to be frugal and change your ideas about what comprises a good lifestyle.
Ha, tell that to Apple. Last time I logged in to their App Connect it said that passkey can only be used from iOS or MacOS device.
This is precisely what I'm looking for too. All critiques of Hancock I can find with my feeble googling skills seem to be focused on unimportant stuff such as encouraging uses of psychedelics and accusations of racism.

But what's far, far more important, is debunking evidences like rock painting dating, geoglyphs dating. That thing on Rapa Nui about statues being more-than-half buried seemed really intriguing. The speculation he makes about why that might be so (spoiler alert: that famous lost civilization being there first) seemed interesting to me. Is there a specific debunking of that somewhere?

I'd also be interested in specific debunking of his theory that incas didn't have the capabilities to do some of the rock walls they've made. You know, with heated rocks and all. That seemed interesting too.
Cf. https://spaceengine.org/
How does this produce orbits?
its on the front page $95m fine
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> What? What on earth does my stance on net neutrality have anything to do with the incoming administration?

You seemed very eager to allow the state to have more control over ISPs so I assumed you were bullish on the incoming administration since they're the ones appointing these unelected bureaucrats. I just mentioned that even though you may like this new administration, you may not like future administrations and think they are filled with self-serving billionaires with authoritarian tendencies and may abuse their power
Is it just me or is 5G not an appealing feature? When I had good 4G signal I never felt limited in terms of speed. Now that I have 5G everything’s the same. What more am I going to do on my phone besides watch one 1080p video stream?
> they just are dealing with next token prediction.

And nuclear power plants are just heating water.
> the more complex case of an homogeneous universe

s/homogeneous/inhomogeneous/ ?
And now we are all stuck doing leetcode interviews primarily because of Google.
That is very exciting. Beyond the obvious applications in humans, it would be interesting to test whether love to see whether this could help reverse immune damage from cross-species heart transplantation.

Small comment, the Hubrecht Institute showing an "artistic representation" that looks exactly like actual histology data is very weird. They should make a cartoon graphic if they are trying to establish a model. How did they even make that? AI?
Yeah, if only people who chase happiness their entire lives, just because they saw it few times in others and suffer immensely in the process had this insight ...
There aren't Internet neutrality regulations. If there was a statute requiring net neutrality, you would have a point. The FCC invented their regulations out of whole cloth, and they were never granted that authority by Congress, which is why those regulations were just overturned. Yes: if AT&T, Bell Atlantic, Comcast, the Longmont Colorado municipal fiber network, Moviephone, or the Chicago Public Library decided to start selling hot dogs from a cart, they would be subject to food regulations, because those exist.

Since the FCC's entire premise for coming up with neutrality regulations was that they were granted this authority by the text of the Telecommunications Act, it matters a great deal that the Act never mentions ISPs at all, and chiefly concerns itself with deregulation of local POTS phone service.

This strategy you have of deciding that ISPs are bad and Net Neutrality is good and then working backwards to how the law should work is always, always going to disappoint you.
Thank you! That’s good advice and thankfully I have told her many times and in many ways that she has 10x my life.
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Spent past few years at bloomberg and amazon, looking for a platform engineering / infrastructure / SRE role primarily. Also interested in financial roles (quant if training provided, I have a very strong quantitative background physics degree, math minor). Physics in college -> software engineering.
Extremely passionate about this career, got into software because I found my free time being sucked up by messing around with raspberry pis and watching CS related lectures on OS's, C++ related HFT talks, random talks on exotic data structures.
I'm a fast learner, looking for a challenge/fast paced environment where learning on the job is encouraged and rewarded.
I assume we only hear about the cases when the protein does something interesting, and not the 999/1000 cases when it doesn't.
As a way to rid yourself of excess funds, it probably works? Likely more effective than a sailing habit, unless you get into racing.

But there's no need for it in your investment portfolio. Pick a mixture between 20/80 and 80/20 stocks/bonds, buy index funds and you're good. Easy and scalable... This works for normal money too, but you probably want a meaningful amount of cash and you may want to more carefully choose your stock/bond ratio. Maybe if you've got tens of billions you might need something else, but it'll probably work for that too.
I don't see the point. If/when that happens, programmers start doing the thing that comes next. The thread was about skills, ASM skills aren't irrelevant for doing C, C skills aren't irrelevant for doing Python and so on.

One-trick ponies aren't good programmers in the first place.
They want buffer states with puppet leaders such as Lukashanko, as Russia and East Ukraine is all flat and supposedly easy to invade.

Basically the expansion of NATO and the EU screwed up the Kremlin's plans to weaken Russia's Western neighbours and bring them into its sphere of influence. Poland and Romania are the new West Germany. In fact Moldova was part of Romania before it was occupied by the USSR after WW2, so it's pretty much in a similar situation to East/West Germany. It became independent after 1991 because Russia wanted to control it. They are using narratives such as the "Moldovan language" (in fact Romanian) since at least the 70s and later blackmail using Transnistria in order to divide and control. Moldova being admitted into the EU is basically on a path to de facto unification.
This was released in December 2024. As of today (January 3, 2025), the Senate Budget Committee has been reorganized to match the political affiliations of the new US Senate.
Treat your LLM input like it's user input and don't execute SQL directly from a LLM output.
The video intro is bad. Make a 30-second pitch. Also, please lose the fake accent; it is okay to sound native.
It is like hiring bodyguards. Bodyguards could kill the person they are protecting at any time BUT they have an economic and legal incentive to not do so and so you bet that the odds of being killed by bodyguards is far lower than by some random stalker.

Like wise giving Crowdstrike root access to everything is a bet that you will on the whole be more secure than if you didn't and for most companies I believe this is true. But if you are Google or AWS you are going to be able to do better than Crowdstrike.
Show HN: Short Tutorial on Adding Gesture Support to SwiftUI Charts
This is a quick tutorial on adding selection and zoom gestures to SwiftUI Charts.

Not especially groundbreaking, but I hope that it makes the process understandable.
A developer who’s new to the React web framework won’t understand terms like “JSX transpilation” or “reconciliation engine.” They probably also won’t understand “SPA,” “soft reload,” or “virtual DOM” unless they’ve worked with other JavaScript frameworks.

Unfortunately if you don’t use that, your beginners will have hard time to believe you are “guru” that they seek. Like if they find other guys tutorial with fancy words they will flock there - looking for some magic trick or some revelation that will hopefully come down on them while reading bunch of hard words without understanding.

Most tutorials are like that for this reason. If you want to teach people author is right - if you are cynical and just want to earn money on a tutorial that’s a different thing. One upside - people quitting “hard” course most likely will be embarrassed to ask for return of money as they would feel it is their fault they did not learn as topic is hard.

If they feel topic was easy and they did not learn, that’s probably guy making tutorial not knowing enough.

My cynical take :)
Possible I guess. It is yubikeyed though so would need to be a pretty sophisticated attack
It would be ideal to also include the plans for orbiting data centres as well as satellite communication clusters in this very nice resource (since those are entirely _also_ necessary as part of manufacturing in space: alerting, measurement, telemetry, etc.)
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I also like it because I can reorder items in an array without having to also add/remove a comma!
Which Countries Warn That Alcohol May Cause Cancer?
The fact that some people prefer ChatGPT over Gemini is not something that SRE can help you with. The fact that ChatGPT is rarely available is something that SRE could help Microsoft avoid.
Are you a gigachad who's up for the "give me all your money"-challenge?! I'll even say your name on stream!
Yes, given the equations of GR, there's no particular reason to assume that the cosmological constant should be zero. (Though one of the major problems in theoretical physics is that back-of-the-envelope estimates as to what it "should" be give numbers that are ~120 orders of magnitude larger than its observed value. So if dark energy is a cosmological constant, it's not really understood why it is non-zero, but extremely small.)
> But I can still have a syntax error in my condition, so on what dimensions is this a net improvement vs just... typing the code?

To me this is a massive win. Structural editing solves so many problems we face as coders. Imagine not being able to save a file with invalid syntax! Imagine if changes were defined in structural or semantic terms rather than through text! The man-hours saved are mind-boggling to even consider.

Anyway intellij + java is already pretty close to this and java syntax is certainly not LESS ugly of an interface. I really just want my editor to not allow persisting anything but a coherent program....
I use Zed or/and VSCodium regularly, the only function key I touch is F2, and frankly I should change that keybinding. Egads who can imagine such a thing!
Clearing MC like that sounds impossible. Even if everyone was familiar with it by practicing on non hardcore servers they won't have the gear they need. Are people even clearing Scholo/Strat/UBS on hardcore servers?

Probably died hundreds to thousands of times in MC. The easier runs later were possible because we were gearing up every week and then eventually had tier 2
ah yes, GTA RP, that broke one marriage (moonmoon) and one ten years old relationship (nmplol).

It did give us chad nmplol and three arcs of the most shameless farming on the platform since mizkif's good ol' days. If people here knew how much money you can make by just flirting on stream
Imagine $FOOTBALL_TEAM fans vs $OTHER_FOOTBALL_TEAM fans, except instead of their fervor being a minor factor setting the general mood in the arena, it’s the actual competition
In short, just answering this question (which as stated in the other comment is not the issue), yes that person has t done anything wrong. There is no offence for wearing hats in banks.
> I agree with you, if people knew the quality was significantly better for +20% then they'd probably choose higher quality.

Right, we agree then. People do care about quality. That was my point.
> In short, an “information service” manipulates data, while a “telecommunications service” does not.

I will forever respond to your comments with this quote until you really answer how an ISP substantively manipulated my POST request to Hacker News. This is the standard the court gave us. Tell me how my ISP is an information service here.
I wish this article was at most a quarter of its current length. Preferably even shorter. There's so much self-congratulatory and empty talk, it's really hard to get to the main point.

I think, the most important (and actually valuable) part is the mention of the work done by someone else (STPA and CAST). That's all there is to the article. Read about Causal Analysis based on Systems Theory (CAST) and System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) do what the book says.
Thank you, I'll try to do it better next time.
Utah AG Accuses TikTok of Knowing Minors Were Being Groomed on 'Live'
I have been thinking about the (I think) still unsolved problem that I got told about in grad school and recently saw mentioned in a 1987 issue of Byte magazine.

Namely people make these Poincare section plots for Hamiltonian systems like

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/61637/poinca...

That section that looks like a bunch of random dots is where chaotic motion is observed. There's a lot of reason to think that area should have more structure in it because the proof that there are an infinite number of unstable periodic orbits in there starts with knowing there are an infinite number of stable periodic orbits and that there is an unstable orbit on the the separatrix between them. Those plots are probably not accurate at all because the finite numeric precision interacts with the sensitivity to initial conditions. The Byte article suggests that it ought to be possible to use variable precision math, bounding boxes and such to make a better plot but so far as I know it hasn't been done.

(At this point I care less about the science and more about showing people an image they haven't seen before.)