skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of it might be the normalization of extreme and obvious paranoia, falsehoods, and anger. Even mainstream leaders do it - look at the Republican party talking about people eating cats, and what was (and is) said about toward trans people. Somewhat more fringe talk(ed) about pedophile rings in government, etc. Is the consipiracy theory you cite so far advanced from that?
Yes, once you are used to such rich ORM, you would want to use it everywhere!

Do give it a try, and write me a feedback - either here or on Github issues.
Happy New Year may the next be the best one yet....
Before posting this have you checked the state of preservation [0] in the West? The real issue IMHO that if stolen good are returned to their rightful owners, Museums will be empty and libraries will be half empty.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgy4w221z5o
Last time I was in SF I took 3 waymo rides and attempted a fourth. The attempted one was cancelled after 15 minutes of waiting for it being 2 minutes away. As best as I can tell, the waymo was stuck at an intersection where power had been lost and didn't understand it needed to treat it like a 4 way stop.

2 rides went fine though neither was particularly challenging. The third though the car decided to head down a narrow side street where a pickup in front was partially blocking the road making a dropoff. There was enough space to just squeeze by and it was clear the truck expected the car to. A few cars turned in behind the waymo, effectively trapping it in as it didn't know how to proceed. The dropoff eventually completed and it was able to pull forward
There's several funny stories of their hiring oddities on HN going back at least 10 years... For myself, I only talked to them about a back-end SWE role, not avionics, but they were the only company to ever ask about my college GPA. (Not good.)
They are mostly useful for front-end/React because front-end shouldn't been code in the first place. They can do the UX but not the state management. Honestly, as someone who sucks and dread UX building (and having to frequently adjust my divs/components), they are a life saver when you are doing very conventional things. That is things you can find 100s of examples of but will take you hours to glue together.
Thanks, hopefully you find it useful.

If you try out - then don't forget to write a feedback/review - either here or on github issues - will help in out in planning further improvements.
I was also around then, and even then it had a reputation of being trash, not really anarchist, and probably dangerously poorly put together.
> It is in other countries, is my point

Give me one example. Where e.g. a public figure or terrorist suspect is kept under wraps until they’re found guilty.
My odds/best guess breakdown at present:

90% : We actually cracked it in 1954, and the new physics (including "free" energy) makes it trivial to build a gigaton bomb
10% : We barked up the wrong tree for a generation
It's not the children who are paying.
Happy new year to everyone, hacker news is more than my home page. This community is awesome!
> If you look at the rate of mathematical operations conducted, we're already going hard vertical.

Not if you remember to count all the computations being done by the quintillions of nanobots across the world known as "human cells."

That's not only inside cells, and not just neurons either. For example, your thyroid is busy brute-forcing the impossibly large space of antibody combinations, and putting every candidate cell-release through a very rigorous set of acceptance tests.
Lobbying is certainly integral to the US oligarchy.
This kinda reminds me of the anime Silver Fang (Ginga Nagareboshi Gin), which is hugely popular in Finland (well, at least among the millenials), but apparently quite unknown anywhere else, even in Japan where it originated from.
Happy new year to readers who are fellow humans, to any bots who, unbeknownst to us, can already experience happiness, and I guess if any gorilla, parrot, elephant, or dolphin is having this message communicated to them, happy new year to you too. Let's hope all our respective species keep existing.
> if you include exploitation of natural resources in the calculation

Well yes, if you change definitions I am a pink elephant.

There is no evidence “exploitation by the rich” of everyone else scales with population. (There is some evidence for the opposite.)

Even if we talk environmentalism, economies of scale mean larger populations tend to be more efficient ceteris paribus. And the whole premise is foundational wrong: longer adult lifespans predict lower childbirth and population declines. Not increases.
"No user serviceable parts inside."

Though... honestly... if you buy a new Mercedes, you're really asking to be fleeced by the dealer. It's a "Luxury" car, not an "economy" car.

Still... yes... fie, foh and fum on Mercedes for being jerks about this.
I consider history to be useful right now. The past influences the present and guides the future. I meant immediate as in like instructions on how to build a car.
Wouldn’t it be a specific performance? The performance at the funeral?

If it was a Catholic funeral, the order of the mass is certainly copyrighted.
Countries that do have socialised healthcare, are economically stuck though. And socialised healthcare which relieves pressure on people might actually be one of the reasons.
Happy new year to all of you still at work! We are what make holidays possible for everyone else.
5) sum of the single digits squared:
(1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9)²
C23 has constexpr, albeit only for objects, not functions. The code also uses namespaces, as in `std::aligned_alloc(P, T)`.
I started the project with create-react-app a long time ago. I've since updated it to latest versions of webpack and switched from React to Preact. It's not using any hooks or any modern React conventions, but I don't really need it. I've kept it simple, the only two libraries I include are preact-easy-state and preact-router. Everything else is components I wrote. All images used are SVG, I'm using LESS to compile to CSS, and everything is bundled into a single HTML file that gets gzipped down to about 48KB. I've tweaked the default Webpack configs to get exactly the payload I want. This gets compiled into my ESP32 firmware and served directly from flash. The web app handles all devices configs as well as wifi access point config, and it controls all kinds of device functions using custom sliders and buttons, etc.
ThinkPads are timeless square black boxes with a red trackpoint. Having the same design since 1992 definitely makes them iconic, and this probably helped in creating a large fanbase. Realistically you might get the same mileage with a Dell, but to fans, it feels different.
I'd assume signaling software requires years of certification. Nobody starts refactoring before it's too late.

Disclaimer: No insider knowledge.
The best forecast available on the internet is norwegian.
I didn't know about Yocto, but reading through its documentation, it looks far more complex than NetBSD's build.sh. And then, I read:

> If the machine you want to use Yocto Project on to build an image (Build Host) is not a native Linux system, you can still perform these steps by using CROss PlatformS (CROPS) and setting up a Poky container.
...
> With CROPS, which leverages Docker Containers, you can create a Yocto Project development environment that is operating system agnostic. You can set up a container in which you can develop using the Yocto Project on a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine.

... which is not close to what NetBSD's build system does, like at all.

As for buildroot: "Buildroot is designed to run on Linux systems." (a "red flag") and the list of host dependencies to install is pretty large, which is also different from NetBSD's build.

Plus Buildroot and "other embedded-oriented systems" are, well, something specifically designed to build embedded system images with Linux, not a "standard" Unix-like OS that happens to have a build system that works well for embedded. A big plus for BSD is its monorepo style of development: customizing and patching the system is trivial. With buildroot, well, you have Linux's hodgepodge style of development, so picking and choosing components is simple, but modifying any of them is hard.

So what NetBSD's build system offers doesn't "seem fairly standard" to me. Definitely not the "run on pretty much any host POSIX platform", which is not common. And when you involve Docker in the picture, I also say that other systems fail the test of "all without root".
I really believe it is currently the state of the art !
Waitless: Collect sign ups with built-in referrals
I've done no research in this, but if this were true, why are there orders of magnitude more Sanskrit manuscripts than any other ancient language?
Yes so basically bias it into what you think it should reply in the question and it will magically somehow give the reply you wanted! Very useful :D
I think it's an information diet thing. Once you accept Fox News as being truthful, you move on to at least giving some thought to what folks like Alex Jones are saying.

And the first thing fringe folks tell you is, "you are right, you are smart, you are clever. You've seen that they are covering up the truth, and you are wise to start questioning everything."

Once you get isolated by a bunch of media that tells you how impressive you are and tells you that anyone questioning you is trying to hold you back, you get separated from those who care about you. Once your loved ones give up on you, you turn to forums and chat groups of others in similar situations. They also tell you that you are smart and clever.

It's a classic abuser playbook, and unfortunately it's really really hard to unwind after a certain point. And we value freedom of speech too much to cut off the early on-ramps to this path. But we don't fund the education or the high quality information sources enough to help provide alternatives or defenses.
It was said the fact of a shutdown was not a huge exception in Norway, it had happened before. The fact that they couldn't just restart was. Just what I read.
FYI the link at the top of your GitHub to play doesn't work. Seems maybe you changed the domain name or maybe the version is outdated compared to the link you pasted here.

play.carimbo.cloud vs carimbo.run
I'm grateful for this community. It's good having a place where some reason prevail.

I wish everyone here had a good one and has a good one.

Merry 2025!
Some more (thanks to chatgpt-o1)

6) sum of the first 45 odd numbers: 1+3+5+...+89

7) is a Harshad number: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harshad_number
As someone who occasionally has to use google crap, I find these useful. They’ve killed 90% of the stuff I found useful, and I migrated off most of the remaining stuff voluntarily.

I assume the few absolutely critical things I rely on them for will be discontinued at some point, and this gives me an idea of what’s likely to be on the chopping block.

However, the list is missing one big item: Cheap storage for universities. That caused me all sorts of headaches a few months back.
It’s actually possible to make a positive comment about something and for it to be sincere. These are not mutually exclusive.

Though it seems if there’s a positive comment about a terminal that you don’t personally think deserves it, the commenter must be a shill.

Honestly quite bizarre how this sub-thread has turned out. What I thought was an innocent comment, you’ve turned into ghostty vs kitty. Not everything has to be turned into Vim vs Emacs, systemd vs anti-systemd, or which is objectively the best terminal. It’s possible to be impressed with ghostty’s release velocity without it being a judgment about Kitty or any other terminal or software project. But alas, in order to make a positive comment about ghostty, I must have already had a proven history of making positive comments about other terminals ;)
> Nobody will re-think their worldview from the conclusions.

Did you read their dissertation? How do you know?

> It was selected as a topic because it hit the right buzzwords, and nobody will ever read it out of genuine interest

I don't think that is true. How societies balance group needs versus individual needs, especially for individuals with unique needs or who may not be able to contribute in the same way as most is a pretty perenial question.

Certainly in the greek context people have talked and argued about sparta's alleged harsh attitude towards disabled people since forever. Like its a pretty pernial source of debate, and has echoes in more modern movements such as eugenics in the 1900s thousands of years later.

All that is to say. This isn't a particularly buzzwordy topic. Most computer science disertations are more buzwordy than this.
Have you ever had a creative feeling programming in a higher level language? Did you realize you were harnessing the power of the abstraction, “ripping it off”, without writing a line of assembly yourself?

That said, the LLMs are weak right now. They are great for getting some initial boilerplate (how do I draw a circle with HTML Canvas API?), but as the project grows you’ll be fixing them more and writing your own code. Give it a try, especially with Cursor. It’s awesome.
Happy new year fellow humans, wishing for more love and a healthy 2025!
Reshaping the wedding industry via mobile app technology
How do we change the status quo of the wedding industry? We flip it on its head..

Imagine a world where the wedding party no longer incurs the exorbitant debts of hosting a wedding.

Isn't the ultimate gift the presence of the loved ones you invite?

Imagine a mobile app where there are hundreds, if not thousands of wedding venues across the globe that host weddings, which requires the guests to pay for their attendance to subsidize the cost of the event for the wedding party.

There has been a consistent notion that giving a gift to the wedding party, wether that be a physical object, a vacation and/or cash is a token of wishing them well as they embark on their new journey and helping them solidify a solid foundation.

Does spending $50-150k on average sound like the start of a strong foundation for newly weds? I happen to think not.

Allowing the guests to pay for their seat and meal, instead of giving gifts that usually never amount to even half of what is spent on the event would rid of the grossly overinflated costs charged by the venues.

Would love to hear feedback on what we think the reality is regarding the possible changes of the industry that has grown long legs of its own and is sprinting away from affordability.
I love mine too (have owned every 13" they have made either personally or at work, plus the new 16"). Having the actual usb recessed and having a sacrificial usb-c as the one you use has saved taken me from breaking usb-c ports at roughly one a year to zero. The upgradeability and serviceability is real as well.

That beings said, my complaints about them are:
They are a few hundred dollars more expensive than comparable hardware most of the time.

They were pretty slow releasing bios updates, although they seem to be getting faster at that.

There is no kensington lock.

After seeing the Linus tour of the factory where they fully assemble the DIY edition for testing and then take it back apart for shipping. I'm kind of annoyed. Find a different way to discount home users, you're spending more labor to get a lower price for your product.
I plan to make a BitGrid chip, through Tiny Tapeout.

Once I have an actual chip, I can measure its performance/watt... and decide if it'll bring Petaflops to the masses, or not.
As someone who worked in V&V for AV systems for a decade, it’s exactly the kind of thinking displayed here that has held back real assessment of AV safety for years.

There is absolutely no meaningful signal about a system’s safety that can be derived from one person using a system for two weeks.

At best it can only demonstrate that a system is wildly unsafe.

There is a very large chasm of 9s between one person being able to detect an unsafe system in two weeks of use and actually having a truly safe system.
I've heard the two gateways into becoming interested in chemistry are getting high and blowing shit up.
I do exactly the same with Apple laptops. Just replaced a 2015 MBP (that I bought used in 2019) with a 2021 MBA. Before that I had a 2011 MBA. New one is 16GB/2TB and was $700. It’s the fastest computer i have ever used by a wide margin - editing tens of thousands of raw files in Lightroom, editing 4K footage (which previous machines could not even do).
I sold the old MBP for $200, so I’m spending around $500 every 4-5 years and getting thousands of hours of use.
It's stable when pure. This guy made his own, and lost three fingers in the process. It seems to have developed a reputation with suicide bombers, probably due to the illusion of easy manufacture.
Baidu Apollo. They also have a commercial fleet without in-car safety drivers (they use remote operators for real time monitoring, though, so hard to say how hands-off it really is)
Don't show up alone.

I got recruited to organize a "Nurses for Single Payer" campaign (I was the web person, I'm not a Nurse.)

When it was two of us, our congress-critter wouldn't return our phone calls. When it was 10, they still didn't return our phone calls because we didn't know we were supposed to put our membership numbers on the web-site. When we were about 50 and realized we should put something like "representing over 50 nurses in our geographic area" we got a call back and when we had 100 real members, we got a sit-down meeting with a staffer. At about 125 members we got a meeting with our congress-critter.

YMMV, but if you can get at least 100 people to sign a petition or agree to be counted in some form of official membership list, that seems to be about where policy-makers start responding to you. I am willing to bet you have to have a lot more to truly "influence" policy, but it's a good start.
Tell HN: Claude is a crap learning tool
I have paid for Anthropic Claude, and I'm bloody sick of it, I regret it.

I have been learning C in my spare time, doing the NandToTetris course and implementing my solutions in C. This has been great for learning.

I got stuck on a regex problem and JUST wanted to know how to do a particular regex for interpreting an expression. I struggled to find resources on C-style regex.

Heres exactly what I asked Claude

Can you write a C language regex, using regex.h, just to split the following structure on "=" or ";"

<DEST>=<COMP>;<JUMP>

Only comp is mandatory so you could get any of these combinations:

dest=comp
comp;jump
dest=comp;jump

Claude then proceeds to solve the entire assignment for me using the context to realise I'm talking about a NandToTetris assignment.

This really pisses me off, these fucking AI tools assume you want a full solution every time. I'm not here to maximise productivity, I'm here to LEARN! I just wanted a concise regex, nothing else. Pisses me off so much that I've cancelled my subscription.

I hope all this AI shit fucking fails and we go back to human-led programming.

Imagine a lecturer that did your homework for you.
I know how var works.
If I weren’t so cynical, I’d expect the ongoing antitrust case to target this sort of stuff.
Yes, there are definitely counterexamples. It’s not black and white at all.
Practice now, realize later, feels deeply dualistic to me.
What all tech did you use to build this?
Better battery isn't really an issue for factories. Same with sensors if you're saving the cost of employing a human, especially for dangerous work.
I've watched this before - its thought provoking and a good watch if you enjoy the documentary format. Covers a lot of ground.
Robot, as used here, is, in more modern forms, one or more arms with a vision system. Or some kind of mobile base for moving things around.
That's when you say "Respond with ONLY the Regex. Do not respond with any other text."

LLMs are not mind readers.
Never ask Gemini about this.
The length of the required abbreviation grows over time, while content you put in commit messages sticks around. Meaning a commit done in year 2005 may have gotten away with "Fixes: abcd" and was unambiguous at that time, whereas after 20 years of growth, there could now be multiple other commits with that prefix.

By that logic, any length of abbreviation will eventually fail if stored for a long time, those abbreviations should be seen as temporary for user interaction only. For the "Fixes:" footer they should have gone with full hash, it's hidden away in the footer so it doesn't disrupt anyone. Aanyone interacting with it will double click to copy it regardless if it is 8 or 40 characters long. Abbreviating it simply adds no value.
https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/3145

Worth noting that the comment closing the issue mentions:

> You can disable Google Analytics in about:addons by setting your Do Not Track status to on.

> Again: this only affects users who visit the page with Tracking Protection on (which automatically enables DNT) or who manually set their DNT status to on.

but Firefox removed the DNT control last month (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1928087), though it kept the Tracking Protection control and privacy.donottrackheader.enabled is still available in about:config.
If it worked, wouldn't practitioners rule the world?
I don't know of any way to replicate data ("solve the underlying problem") aside from a replicated log.

It's like git solving the problem without commits, or banking solving the problem without transactions.
It still wouldn't be remotely close to the power of any of our nuclear weapons.
Is binary search on su ch large integer data sets common? I guess maybe time series data. But I would think that this isn’t amenable to representing strings?
To be fair I think that is a hard task even for a human expert, in the sense that there isn’t much prior art.
doesn't include search?
Oh, did he start actually fixing vulnerabilities instead of insisting they aren't there while repeatedly being given PoC exploits?

In case someone didn't know, the infamous Calibre bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027
There are low lunar orbit frozen orbits that don't do that.
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes: (Unofficial) Physical Edition
Ask HN: Why is Gmail account recovery a pain in the ass?
All my electronic gadgets were stolen this week. I've interviews starting next week. I can't access my account because both my phone number and recovery email are gone. How can I avoid this next time? What alternative email service providers do you recommend?
I've come to prompt in this format and its working well for me. I once had your issue on another subject and it was indeed annoying.

"Claude - Im learning to program C - I wan't you to help me learn"

"I'm unsure what Im doing so can you walk me through the problem 1 step at a time? We can decide when to move to the next step but I want to be sure I understand each step as we go"

"Ok - I get it so far - Im ready for the next small step so we can discuss it"

You said:
Can you write a C language regex, using regex.h, just to split the following structure on "=" or ";"

I mean, it did exactly PRECISELY what you asked it to do - you asked it to write a program and it did! Never mind anything, how cool is that??
Exactly! I don’t like talking or writing or explaining.

My mind generally uses language as little as possible, I have no inner monologue running in the background.

Greatly prefer something deterministic to random bs popping up without the ability of recognizing it.

I don’t like llms but sometimes use them as autocomplete or to generate words, like a template for a letter or boilerplate scripts, never for actual information (à la google).
Again, this article has absolutely nothing to do with antiquities.
Pharma Giants, Crypto Profits: How Ozempic Could Redefine Corporate Investment