skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact of the matter is that there are many motivations for creating software. If someone profits off of my work, that I released into the world with licensing terms that allows them to do so, there’s no obligation that I be paid for it. I could have, myself, recognized the potential and done the work to make a marketable tool, but my motivation was different.

You can fault the FOSS community for promoting default libre licensing that created the “exploitable” nature of this, but the fact of the matter is that people creating software are able to make a choice. They can make a different choice if they wish.
>> Recursion is great for CS education, but recursion should be rarely/never used in production code.

How so?

Do you mean "in Python" or similar languages, or do you mean in general? I write all my code in Prolog basically and there it's all recursion, no iteration. There's no iteration constructs. The Prolog interpreter has tail-call optimisation and you learn to use it soon enough.

Anyway let's not be all dogmatic like that. Rules always have exceptions (including this one ha ha) so there's no point in being so absolute about things.

>> Check out the famous NASA coding rules. Rule number one is no recursion. :P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_10:_Rules_for_Dev...

Edit: Rule no 1 from NASA is "avoid complex control flow". From your link:

1. Avoid complex flow constructs, such as goto and recursion.

Seems that even NASA accepts a modicum of GOTOs and recursion.
Sure, you (presumably) want the police to be sensitive to cultural issues -- the problem is you can't use skin color as an indicator of inclusion in a cultural group.

I was watching an interview the other day from one of the Tuskegee Airmen and just going by his physical appearance he looked as "European" as I do.
Not in the least. I’m just saying there are good reasons for everything that did happen to be public record. (And some good reasons for privacy. There’s a conflict and a balance to be found.)
Also don't forget U.S. debt to China. the picture is painted clear of who depends on who.
I was there as well. I punched the cards and read the core dumps and programmed in machine language using the front panel switches and lights. I programmed the Burroughs machine in Algol, and the IBM in assembly language (BALR, USING); the GCOS operating system which gave the GCOS field in the Unix/Linux /etc/passwd file its purpose and name; and the Univac 494 with the FASTRAND II drums. It was the most fearsome computing equipment I've ever encountered thanks to its spinning tonnage.

You are seen.
Identity risk detections and conditional access. The more you know during an authentication attempt, the more effectively you're able to manage risk. What and how much signal you seek is a function of your use case around identity and access management.
I saw a whole PR release for adtech oriented keyword spotting tech like this one time, I wish I'd saved it... I can't remember the name of that particular company.

But read through this doc:

https://picovoice.ai/docs/faq/porcupine/
It's harder.

1. Older adults are less open. I wouldn't just start texting someone from work about my favorite bands after knowing them for a couple weeks. In college that was common.

2. Children and family responsibilities are primary relationships, while in college friends are primary relationships.

3. Energy levels drop and responsibility rises as you age; limiting what you want to do.

4. There is a light social pressure to "act your age" that has a small governing influence to adult relationships.

I have good friendships, but almost all of my adult friendships are from college and highschool. Hanging out is usually a set activity like hopping on a game, grabbing lunch, or maybe biking, golf, etc on a sunday. Work is where I meet people and all of those relationships tend to be tainted by the professional relationship.
I was thinking it’d be similar to tractors, which I’m guessing are already legal (but maybe I’m wrong!)
A lot of apps ask for it up front upon installation.
Wonder if they're going to open source the code they used!
Finally an Air Bud movie I'd watch.
Xfree86 never did anything different to Xorg here. If you boot via CSM on a modern PC (which is really not something you should do, but, well) you should get Xorg running with the VBE backend using x86emu to execute the video BIOS, and if you boot via EFI you should get modesetting running on top of efifb using whatever mode your firmware and bootloader left you in.

But note that this is actually easier for 16 or 32 bit operating systems! Setting VESA modes involves making a real mode 16 bit call (there's nominally a 32 bit entry point for VESA but it was specced late in the standard's life and basically nobody implements a working version), and once you're running in 64-bit mode you've lost the ability to do vm86 so calling 16 bit code from userland becomes impossible. This is why x86emu is required (basically we read the video BIOS code and then run it under an x86 emulator), and it's not always perfect.
This was a story set in the south, where such pipes are rarely buried more than 2’ because the frost line is basically at the surface.

I’ve done it, so I’m not underestimating it. I’ve had the exact problem described in the story. And I’m definitely not a plumber.
Aspersions aside, the content’s actually typically pretty involved and has a lot to speak for itself, it’s not low-effort content that one would typically associate with AI.

Laid bare, it’s generally a variety comedy show of a human host and AI riffing off each other, the AI and the chat arguing and counter-roasting each other with human mediation to either double down or steer discussions or roasts in more interesting directions, a platform for guest interviews and collaborations with other streamers, and a showcase of AI bots which were coded up by the stream’s creator to play a surprising variety of games. There’s a lot to like, and you don’t need to be on “that bit of the bell curve” to enjoy a skilled entertainer putting new tools to enjoyable use.
I would doubt that one could get it insured for use on public roads. Is having liability insurance a requirement for operation in Sweden and Finland?
The fact you are willing to attach your name and reputation to this post is a true indictment of our ability as a society to resist fascism and disinformation. This comment and the boldness in which you tried it will sit with me more impactfully than the original article.
I do AI/ML research for a living (my degrees were in theoretical CS and AI/ML and my [unfinished] phD work was in computational creativity [essentially AGI]). I also do SRE work as a living.

and yeah that's a useful way of characterizing some of the behaviors of some kinds of neural networks. There's a point at which the distinction between belief and "frequency (or probability-amplitude) state filter" become less apparent, though, that's more of a function-of-medium vs function-of-system distinction.

However, systems like these can often become mediums, themselves, for more complex systems.
Additionally, a system which has "closed-the-loop" by understanding the medium and the system as coupled as "self" and separate from the environment along with a direction/goal is a pretty decent, if imprecise, definition of a strange loop. Contradiction resolution between internal component beliefs gives a possible (imo, highly probable) mechanistic explaination for the phenomenon of free energy minimization in such systems. External contradiction resolution extends it to active inference.
That sounds dysfunctional.
Thanks for the idea, I'd not considered it. LaTex may have some use, I'll take a look. Indeed, probably the best solution to publish a game with diagrams.

For personal notes, I would also consider embedding PGN into Markdown. Sadly, PGN rendering in Markdown isn't supported yet, as far as I know (something like Mermaid would be awesome).
It's mind boggling you are denying the fact that having many people from the same group clustered in a "multicultural" environment has no impact on society has a whole. Of course it does, this is why we have laws protecting minorities, it's irrelevant how the majority is established (either per-existing or minority suddenly growing), the impact may be positive but it's naive to assume it will always be so.
The picture in this blog is the later version of the ICON, but it ran the same QNX OS, programs, and games, and used the same LEXICON file server for it all.

In case anyone is interested in more information about the earlier version of the ICON (and the LEXICON file server it ran from), here are my two blogs posts:

https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/icon-computer/

https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/lexicon-computer/

One interesting QNX command we used to get in trouble in high school was apb (all points bulletin) - here's a demo of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr8ts6zV2DU
Only if you define “combined left” to include the centrist liberal democrats, who were part of David Cameron’s Tory-led coalition from 2010-2015.

“Membership is primarily made up of middle-class professionals and the party's composition has a higher proportion of university educated members than the other major political parties of the United Kingdom.”

These folks are far afield of the traditional Labour working class base, many of whom have defected to Tories or Reform. They are what we’d call the “Acela Class” in America.

Luckily for Labour, they don’t have to make any policy concessions to these voters.
Ship of Theseus now with your own mind.
I'd say semver with a 0 major, e.g. 0.20.3
A skip list cookbook (1989) [pdf]
I’d pay for youtube in a heartbeat IF they weren’t double dipping and stealing my data (which is now much more valuable to them because they can associate my data with PII).
Well I think Amazon and many other huge companies are having many unethical activities, and I think we should not think that if big companies do certain things, that it should be ok for us to do it too.

HN is a community of hackers, not business people that are only commercially interested. But Hackers need money too, so we also need to be a little bit commercial. But it would be ideal if we could be commercial without having to give up the hacker ethic.

But many people don't believe it's easy to be open source and commercial at the same time. Why would people pay if they don't have to?

I'm thinking of a new form of software licencing: what if we make a license that says that a particular piece of software must become open source after for example 5 years. Then the developer can sell the software they wrote for 5 years long, and after that it will become open source.

This would give FOSS developers more motivation to create software, and the community will benefit eventually, so people won't feel too hesitative paying for the software, because it will eventually benefit everyone.
GitHub Actions doesn't even support arm64 compilation yet for Linux. Without good support from GitHub, open source compilation and adoption for diverse platforms struggles.
I used A&R Solar (https://www.a-rsolar.com/), and had such a good experience I recommended them to all of my friends. The company seemed to have some growth issues - friends who hired them two years later were less impressed - but that was a good while ago now and they're certainly still in business.
The control force would be the product of the air density change and the pendulum bob volume. If he increased the pendulum bob volume with a light but fixed-size object (a foam-filled sphere?) he wouldn't need to adjust the density as much.
Using it for a side project right now and since last year it really became an inseparable part of my work, while in 23, I restricted it to writing emails, docstrings and unit tests. Now, I use it for a hell of a lot more. I am working on something cool and I feel kinda dumbfounded that Copilot/Claude etc. know of various SDKs etc I plan on using without me having to go through their docs. I am trying as much as possible to keep the code of high quality, but it feels like cheating, and at the same time I know if I don't use it, I will be left behind.

For example, I wrote my personal blog in Angular+Scully, thought about migrating to Gatsby due to threads here and on Reddit, and it took me one actual weekend worth of coding to get it migrated to Gatsby, though I am ironing out the kinks where I can.
Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks
Ok. Unfortunately that bit was the entire point. If it had been a “reckless driving” traffic ticket I wouldn’t have a problem with it and wouldn’t be commenting about it here.
They aren't using the same water for a week. The GP comment is nonsense.
A few days ago i complained about my internship to a friend of mine who answered: "scientific research isn't an arrow, it expands like an oil drop on the floor"

I get it now, i get it

btw, on italian subreddit cucina (cooking) they talk about how an italian chef had previously done a similar thing based on his experience

https://www.reddit.com/r/cucina/comments/1htahbk/250100536_s...

Now, please allow me a bit of sarcastic nationalism, but
Welcome to Italy. The cradle of civilization.
Assuming the email released is genuine, ProPublica itself recently sent a request for comment to someone by email with the line "Our deadline is in one hour".
What do you mean by opinions? A decision and assumption log?

Do you commit this in the same repo or a centralized note taking?
Is Social Media Dead?
I’m imagining it would have gone like the meme where the dissenting opinion person is thrown out the window. They don’t have any other ideas left, so they have to do stupid stuff like this to appeal to people that call themselves investors.
Only by insane american portion sizes. It's normal for an italian restaurant. And it's plenty of food.
Why does the sun shrink and disappear just past the halfway point on the keogram?
It's not necessarily more ads but rather more effective ads. Meta is among the best ad platforms for targeting. Customers pay a premium for this.
"Primitive recursive" applies to functions, not languages, and -from a practical, programmer's point of view- it refers to recursive functions that can be "unrolled" in an iterative loop (or just a sequence of repeating steps).

Non-primitive recursive functions are functions that are recursive but can't be "unrolled", like the Ackermann function (which was specifically created as a demonstration that there exist such functions).

Recursion doesn't have to be complicated. It's the syntax of most programming languages that makes it complicated. For example in Prolog, a clause is recursive if it has a literal in the body that has the same symbol and number of arguments as in the head literal. This is easy to show with an example:

head(X,Y):- body(X,Y).
head(X,Y):- body(X,Z), head(Z,Y)

That's a recursive predicate. The first clause is not recursive- it's the terminating condition. The second clause is recursive. The second occurrence of "head(X,Y)" is the recursive call.

The only reason you can't do that in Python is because the syntax doesn't make it easy. In Prolog a clause is a set of literals and a program is a set of clauses so recursion is very simple and natural to express as a re-occurring literal like I explain above.
The Portuguese entry into the Eurovision song contest in 2022 was a beautiful song called "Saudade" by Maro. It rightly won the contest, and that's how my wife and I know the term (we still sing the chorus around the house sometimes). So it's unexpectedly popular in various European countries.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eQul-rkcGPQ
None of the links say they brought a loaded gun into the capitol.

It's America. Guns are cheap and easy to obtain. Thousands of protesters could have easily marched into the capitol armed-- but they didn't. Why?
you can't look at "Manufacturing" and translate that to military capability. what you manufacture is very important. Nothing china has can compete with the airpower capabilities of the west. A single F35 has the capabilities no amount of chinese planes can match.
I wonder if he also infiltrated under a fake name (possibly the same fake name).

I think the “albeit” is just an aside. It isn’t necessarily enhancing his ability to create distrust. It is slightly confusing though because one could of course imagine a way of writing the report anonymously that would add additional distrust; if he was vague enough it could be hard for anybody to know that he wasn’t talking about their organization. But he’d have to be pretty vague.
How datacenters use water and why kicking the habit is nearly impossible
Isn't that why they came up with "dark matter" i.e. invisible, undetectable mass.
Why should one pay for an app containing features one could get for free somewhere else? A google search for "free video editing software" gets 650M hits...

Just to be clear, this isn't a criticism of the software on technical grounds. I don't doubt that the OP knows what he's doing. It's the commercial aspect of it that I don't understand.
Relatavistic Baseball
This so much. If America was serious about fighting China they would be signing free trade agreements with Asian countries and investing money into Africa.

Instead Trump is angrily tweeting about how he's going to make everyone pay.
The racist isolationists are back in the halls of power.
There's not a single indictment of any protester for possession of a rifle inside the capitol.

This is America. Guns are cheap and easy to obtain. They could have all marched into the open doors of the capitol armed but they didn't. Why do you think that is?
You do need to learn how to deal with negative feedback tho.

People should write letters and emails and long form messages if they want to say a whole thing without interruption. My concern with working through an idea with a bot is you end up espousing the bots ideas and not your own -- it is the ultimate ideological homogenization.
Encyclopedia of Surfing
Like so many things from Google engineering this will be toxic to your startup. SREs read stuff like this, they get main character syndrome and start redoing the technical designs of all the other teams, and not in a good way.

This phenomenon can occur in all “overlay” functions, for example the legal department will try to run the entire company if you don’t have a good leader who keeps the team in their lane.
Rigorous Numerical Integration in Arb (2017)
There is a new approach to doing code-signing called "trusted signing".
Havent used it myself so can't comment on the benefits

https://www.advancedinstaller.com/trusted-signing-integratio...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/trusted-signing/over...
Thanks for your anecdotal comment, but it really only means something to you.
There is the counter-incentive that people won’t upgrade if they don’t think it’s worth it. What you describe doesn’t usually happen, in my experience.
Meanwhile zoom runs perfectly fine on vision pro.

imo, Meta should ditch metaverse and focus on gaming/media/productivity for the headset and leave the social aspects to their rayban-kind devices.
Getty Images explores merger with Shutterstock, Bloomberg News reports
deepseek is what you want. comparable quality to sonnet and by the fastest of the llms.
Sampling a categorical: more than meets the eye
I explored three ways to sample from a categorical random variable and wrote code to experiment with runtime performance. The math is made concrete with graphs and ideas with code. It turned out that added complexity is not always worth it.
To have fun? No idea how AI changes it...
Since I started using all flavors of Gemini 2.0 I haven't been back on Cursor

Gemini Exp 1206 and Gemini 2.0 Thinking Model exceed o1 in my experience and best part is that its free with insane context token size.

For agentic code experience RooCline is quite good but I actually do most of my work in ai studio and like to create the folders and files manually.

I almost think agentic code generation is the wrong step forward. Without knowledge transfer/learning involved during the code generation phase, you end up cornering yourself into unfixable/unknowable bugs.

You can see the examples on the linked site are quite simple. These are hardly real world use cases. Most of us aren't generating things from scratch but rather to gain understanding of systems being worked on by multiple people and very carefully inspecting and undertanding the output from GPT

This is why a lot of tools like Bolt, Lovable, Cursor, Windsurf will be toys aimed at people looking to use codegen as a toy rather than a tool. It will serve you better if you look at AI codegen as a knowledge transfer/explorer tool and an AI agent isn't wise imho.
Interesting, especially as I'd have to say that events have proven both of you right from my perspective:

- soldiers gladly obeyed orders to essentially end all democracy

- soldiers mostly seemed to stop obeying their dictator's orders when they got confused about who's even in charge and what was legally standing rather than the public will.

- Yoon is not dead, not even imprisoned

Given all that mess, I can see aspects of both of your claims being true. It's quite interesting!
Hmga1 reduces repressive histone marks (H3K27me3), effectively unlocking genes typically silenced after embryonic development. This process seems to tap into an evolutionarily preserved "blueprint" encoded in the DNA. By reactivating these dormant pathways, differentiated cells like cardiomyocytes regain some of the plasticity and regenerative capacity characteristic of embryonic cells. If we combine this with the work coming out of Dr. Michael Levin's Lab at Tufts (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XheAMrS8Q1c)showing the existence of electrical blueprints that orchestrate life, we should see, as we do in this study that the regeneration observed was precisely tailored to the injury, avoiding pathological outcomes like cardiomegaly or uncoordinated growth. This preserved blueprint exists in all differentiated cells.
I'm Scandinavian and not invested in the American culture wars and I still got a good chuckle out of how bad an idea this was. Who on earth could've thought it was a good idea to get an AI to pretend to be a black queer mother of two? I'm sure it'll piss off a lot of anti-woke people, but really, how on earth did the issues with this not become obvious for the team? I'm not sure if the AI knows who trained it (and I wonder how they did it) but the team can't have included a lot of common sense or real world experience for them to do something so fundementally stupid.
“Some of those that work forces…” indeed.
Quite a long ways from "give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together", unless you consider homogenizing behavior through interacting with a borgbot "bringing us closer together"
didn't timothy mcveigh also say that it was specifically a retaliation for waco?
I'll also plug St. John's College. https://www.sjc.edu
Are they the ones also committing more of them statistically - is that why (or are you saying they are targeted)? And if so why is that the case - there are plenty of people who are disadvantaged and poor and don’t commit crimes. Look at various immigrant minority groups for example.
I don't think America fails on all of those. Our universities are probably the best in the world. There is a lot of freedom.

And having a strong economy is generally a good thing -- there are jobs, which matters.
For the lmarena leaderboard to be really useful you need click the "Style Control" button so that it normalizes for LLMs that generate longer answers, etc. that, while humans may find them more stylistically pleasing, and upvote them, the answers often end up being worse. When you do that, o1 comes out on top followed by o1-preview, then Sonnet 3.5, and in fourth place Gemini Preview 1206.