skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you have a warped perspective. Not everyone has the time or skills to use CLI tools. People will pay to save time. The market is multi faceted and complex and there's a market for everything. In this case you're just not the customer.
He sat in the White House watching the violence unfold on fox news for hours egging the protestors on on twitter while leaving Mike Pence to be hung while he very likely could have stopped the violence with a few tweets. Instead, he waited until it was clear that they already failed. We all saw it live on tv and Jack Smith's investigation brought out the details. Unfortunately, he was not permitted by the supreme court to provide his evidence.
Oh, I see - yeah I've never heard of a restaurant using the pasta water across days. I don't think that's a thing. In fact it's a whole thing about how the pasta gets better throughout the day, because you start with fresh water each day. And remember that water is constantly being added to the pot as it gets soaked up by the pasta.

Just from a food safety perspective I'm not sure it's legal to reuse across days, given that it's going to take all night to cool, only just in time to be reheated again.
Might be a good name for a competing service.

“Get BrainRot on the iOS and Android app stores and start feeling important today!”
> 404 Media previously reported Cox Media Group (CMG) was advertising a service that claimed to target ads based on what potential customers said near device microphones. Now, here is the pitch deck CMG sent to prospective companies. Google has kicked CMG off its Partner Program in response.

https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-list...
>One is not entitled to a clean social or occupational reputation

In plenty of jurisdictions people are entitled precisely to that. Here in Germany the entire basis for punishment is a right to full reintegration after you have been punished. A just community punishes once, not five hundred times over and that goes both for the people and the state (which are the same thing in a democracy, the latter punishes on behalf of the former). If you come out of prison and you've paid back your debt only to be ostracized and arbitrarily pursued by a witch hunting public that's not a just society, it's a mob. It's worth repeating, if someone goes to prison you're putting them there, it's "we the people vs X". "The state" is exercising power on your behalf.

That's the basis of a working social contract. You harm the community, you pay, but afterwards we have an actual duty to resocialize you, otherwise we just acted in arbitrary and disproportionate fashion. Criminals have rights in a civilized society, including to privacy and not be discriminated against, by say employers.
> things in the UK aren't looking that great

Sure they are. No election for about 4 years. Left wing party with 100% of the actual power.
> It was much better than CVS,

I completely disagree on that part. SVN was a namespace nightmare, the whole repo history was expressly a monorepo (else, all your monotonically-increasing revision numbers would change), there was no per-file revision control whatsoever.

SVN basically had all the drawbacks of both CVS /and/ Git, yet without most of the benefits of either CVS /or/ Git. Subversion was a dead-end however you put it.

I would use either CVS /or/ Git over Subversion any day. I'd rather use CVS than Subversion, and I'm being completely serious here. If we look at the 4 major BSD projects today, half still use CVS, whereas the only one that has switched to Subversion at one point, already migrated to Git, so, it's 0/4 SVN, 2/4 CVS and 2/4 Git now.

I once tried doing a local mirror of Subversion of the FreeBSD tree when they still used it. It was a total failure; it was basically a complete regression compared to the ease with which you can mirror the entire CVS history of any of the other BSDs at the time. It used up WAY-WAY more storage than either CVS /or/ Git. There was no way to selectively mirror things with Subversion, unlike with CVS. (At least Git uses a really smart packing system and compression, so, even if you have to mirror the entire tree, it's still relatively small, compared to SVN.)

CVS is actually very lightweight, simple and flexible to deal with, and the fact that it's still the version control system of choice of NetBSD and OpenBSD, to this day in 2025, proves that it's actually relatively scalable to this day, even for very large projects with a very extensive multi-decade history. Whereas Subversion was so poor that even FreeBSD, an early adapter, moved off of it in 2020.

BTW, for the sake of completeness, DragonFly BSD has completed migration from CVS directly into Git back in 2008 — https://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/commits/2008-11/ms... — that's close to 2 decades ago now — or, to be more precise, just a little over 16 years ago now!
Dilberito
Heavily depends on labor market, costs, and subsidies. I dont think I can make the numbers work out in the Bay Area. Panels are cheap but maybe 10% of the total price.
Well I've seen and programmed on Burroughs Corporation Mainframes(IBM Mainframes as well) and have seen an actual Sperry Corporation Univac Mainframe Drum Storage system(Ginormous beast) in actual use! And has anyone here actually played Space Invaders(ASCII Characters used) on a Burroughs TD830 CRT monitor! And modern day Unisys is the merger of those 2 mainframe makers some time ago!

But none here are maybe from that Era that was coming to a close in the late 70s and are not yet qualified to shake their fist and angrily yell at that singular cloud floating in a beautiful blue sky!
I looked it up, thinking he was Native American.

But he was Sikh (Indian Indian), and arguing his proto-Indo-European ancestry qualified him. He was ‘acquitted’ of being ‘white’, and case thrown out. Really interesting case, actually.

Some pretty nasty stuff in there from the plaintiff about his revulsion too and not wanting to marry the ‘lower castes’ (and some argument regarding Mongoloids) to help quantify him as ‘white’ in case you get too sympathetic.

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Sing...]
Digital Privacy and, Well, Privacy
ECH Interoperability Report 16 December 2024 [pdf]
> Neurosama, an AI streamer, is massively popular.

This only proves that there's enough people on the planet around that bit of the bell curve to develop an audience.
we're reading a lot into a two word phrase. NPC coworkers could mean a lot of things. For instance, in a world of gamers, it could just mean none of them are on an actual quest and only have menial tasks.

it so easy to misinterpret text, ask any religion
In striking down net-neutrality rule, Sixth Circuit asserts judicial supremacy
> It was just over-hyped by unscrupulous sales demons in that it doesn't cure baldness, liver disease, incontinence, erectile dysfunction, blindness, anxiety and surely does not attract the ladies even when mixed with horse urine.

Just as LLMs have a useful niche but they are hyped as being able to cure baldness, liver disease, incontinence, erectile dysfunction, blindness, anxiety and surely and attract the ladies even when mixed with agentic tools.

In medicine,
it's a rule of thumb that if a product claims to cure a wide variety of things that have no common pathogenesis,
the claims are bunk.

In software, if a product claims to solve a variety of problems that have no common cause, those claims are bunk.
Only if by "just short" you mean they get life without possibility of parole or pardon in max security and never see another screen as long as they live.
I understant it only partially but still loving it!
Human educational systems penalize you for not citing sources (i.e. not showing your work, not crediting referenced works). Why should an AI system be exempt?
It's specialization. Windows 3.x runs with a GUI on an IBM PC. XFree86-era Linux runs with any UI on an IBM PC. Xorg-era Linux runs with any UI on any computer. Therefore you have to specify what kind of configuration you require, and don't get it out of the box. But note that every distribution that runs on IBM PCs with a VGA GUI does come with that configuration out of the box, because they are re-specialized for that system.

And Wayland requires a GPU as far as I know, since the entire protocol is based on passing GPU memory buffers around and compositing then. Deleting the backwards compatibility for software rendering was half the point of creating Wayland.
Books Without Covers
"Product Requirements Document," I think.

A high-level specification of what the thing should do and why.
You must have been watching different videos of the event than I did, because I saw people breaking windows and forcing themselves against police, who were blocking doors.

Evidence of planning is available from court proceedings:

> Beginning in late December 2020, via encrypted and private communications applications, the defendants and various co-conspirators coordinated and planned to travel to Washington, D.C., on or around Jan. 6, 2021, the date of the certification of the electoral college vote. The defendants made plans to bring weapons to the area to support the operation. The co-conspirators then traveled across the country to the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area in early January 2021, with paramilitary gear and supplies including firearms, tactical vests with plates, helmets, and radio equipment.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-oath-keepers-found-guilt...
Wow what an amazing blog post!!! When will part 2 come out??
> "I call on NASA to adopt new policies and embrace a new mindset," then-Vice President Mike Pence said in May 2019. "If our current contractors can't meet this objective, then we'll find ones that will."

Can't wait for the day NASA and the rest of the worlds engineers, scientists et al *take a week* to find proper people for government.

And no, Micky Musk is not the first of many steps.
Go listen to Casey Muratori talk. We've created a giant pile of abstractions but we don't actually need them and all they is make performance worse.
Fun idea, but the gap in values between America and Europe is immense and growing.

Canada has jus soli, like all countries of the Americas, but unlike any European country.

The EU is getting more radical about border enforcement and deportations.

I'm not sure how land acknowledgements are supposed to work in europe.
In this case the article says that the former member of the squad, Kinch, described himself in a Facebook post as being White.
Well, I am neither an italian grandmother nor a skilled home chef so I don't care.
They could be galaxies that have been fully colonized, but searches for them have turned up nothing. Specifically: if by "fully colonized" we mean fully exploiting the energy resources of the galaxy, this would show up in the spectrum of emitted radiation, with energy being emitted as waste heat instead of starlight. Infrared surveys put the fraction of such fully colonized galaxies at less than 1 in 100,000, and consistent with none at all.
Isn't the whole approach wrong? All that stuff should be in another thread. That's it. Re-inventing a bad version of cooperative multitasking, in 2025, really?

It's surely a nice exercise, but I really hope this is not production code anywhere. If it is then I'm not surprised about the current state of web software (myself working in a very different area, so I don't really have a clue).
Not 3D, but Stamen (a data visualization and
cartography studio) made a beautiful watercolor map renderer:

https://maps.stamen.com/watercolor/#14/52.3718/4.8958
One of Europe's best-performing stockmarkets
I don’t understand the lack of interest by journalists. What more did Williams need to do the first time he reached out to garner interest? Does ProPublica overestimate the seriousness of the militia movement? I’d think based on J6 the journalists ignoring Williams’ communications should have paid attention.
Disregarding just being teenagers (using their phones, doing burnouts), not having a proper driver's license (usually a 20+ lesson affair in Sweden) and driving old cars without safety systems; driving at less than half the speed of regular traffic in a smaller city or a more rural area means a lot of dangerous overtaking as the standard road is one lane in each direction (especially where the terrain doesn't allow for much more) and these cars are not allowed on highways. Since you are allowed to choose high school in Sweden, some choose one further away and driving. Making such roads congested.
I have been using o1 chatgpt to make and work on side projects where I don't know the language (Swift) but I started to understand enough where I am not using o1 as often and it has really helped me to learn Swift which is a great side effect. Although there are many gotcha's and the biggest is that visionos and ARKit get confused on o1 and it won't compile.
Archive: https://archive.ph/8Yc5T
Unix and Microservice Platforms (2021)
It’s trivial to search and check. The numbers appear to be accurate.

However that is misleading, the below link talks about problems with the definition of a ‘criminal record.’

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/aug/18/andrew-cuo...
What Smartphones are doing to kids' mental health is NOT terrifying
> I can go to a sports game with a digital camera and come back with 700 images.

Cool, but there are other use cases. I shoot maybe 10-15 rolls a year, I remember vividly every single time I pressed the shutter for the few dozens shots I truly love. Compared to my backlog of thousands of digital snapshits I never even bother looking at... Hundreds of gigs sleeping somewhere on one of my portable hdds.

Meanwhile my film pics fit in a thick binder, 10 years of pictures, usually looking at the negatives from arms length is enough to identify them and remember when/where I was, with whom, &c.
IMHO it's unrelated to GitHub, and it's a fear created (in part) by its "social media" side. Stop thinking if it's rude, and open an issue or a PR to ask any question.
If it was reported in a newspaper, then it was deemed to be newsworthy, and that record should be preserved for posterity, for myriad reasons.
Oh that's a real shame then. The resulting composite images are certainly artistically interesting to look at, and you can see the big-picture effects like sunrise/sunset and moon, but that explains why you can't see the gradual brightening at dawn, or degrees of darkness at night.

It seems like if you wanted to do this accurately, you'd need to lock exposure to handle a bright blue sky without blowing out -- both aperture and shutter speed. And lock white balance. The question is whether that would allow for sufficient sensitivity at night. But if you're just averaging color values across a section of sky and mainly looking for moon and moonlit clouds, I think it would, since pixel noise will get averaged out and the moon is bright.
> Would it be possible to render retro pixel art from a simple 3D model?

Not exactly retro pixel art, or maybe it is since it's been 25 years (omfg) but in Commandos 2+ we had 3d models for the characters, vehicles, etc which we rendered at runtime to a 2d sprite which we then mixed with the rest of the pre-rendered 2d sprites and backgrounds.
I don't think any such conspiracy or secret-keeping is required; one need not attribute any of this to malice which can be attributed to incompetence. There already exists a system, on everyone's phones, which is listening to audio at all times, occasionally activates in response to a wake word and runs search queries and such from it. The point of this system, when used properly, is intended to take a recording of your voice, transcribe it into text, send it into a search engine, associate the query with your account and search history and use it to influence ad preferences in response to future queries. The functioning of this system involves sending data through an opaque and complex chain of custody, sometimes involving third parties, which - even if intended to comply with privacy and security protocols - could easily be mishandled either maliciously or accidentally, as happens in software development all the time. This includes but is not limited to:

1. The occasional false positive response to a wake word that wasn't really a wake word, causing search queries to be run that you didn't intend.

2. This data being accidentally mishandled behind the scenes in Apple's servers in some way, such as developer error leading to the data accidentally landing in the wrong folder, being labeled with an incorrect flag in some database somewhere, or otherwise being given the wrong level of sensitivity.

3. This data being deliberately "correctly-handled" behind the scenes in Apple's servers in some way that users wouldn't like, but technically agreed to when they first used the phone.

4. This data being used for valid "QA" purposes that, for all intents and purposes, include situations that user would probably not be comfortable with, but also technically agreed to.

5. An unforeseen security vulnerability affecting any part of this process.

6. Malware on the phone interfering with any of the above.

7. Not-quite-malware that you agreed to install, doing things you're not quite happy with but technically agreed to, which is somehow in the loop of any part of this process.

Again, we can debate all day which of these are true - hopefully none of them are true. But we're talking about software development here, where these sorts of things happen on a daily basis. None of this is "they faked the moon landing" kind of stuff, and all lead to the same result from the standpoint of user experience.
You can also just say what you are thinking: $25 of every $29 license should go back to ffmpeg. There. I made your point for you, directly.
The powerless are usually the victims, not the criminals. Criminals are by definition exerting their power (usually through physical violence) over people who have even less "power."

Not everything is about power dynamics, and crime rarely is. Far more often it is about selfishness.
A neurosurgeon shares his effective strategy for overcoming fears
The primary function of any level of manager is to be an individual and distinct responsibility (including accountability) point. LLMs don't work for that.
Wanted to share a side project I recently wrapped up after stumbling across [Karpathy's micrograd](https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd).

ML is mostly Python territory these days, and for good reason—it’s simple, flexible, and gets the job done. But as someone who spends most of their time in C++, I thought: What if I tried building something ML-related in C++? Sure, I had an idea of the challenges — verbose syntax, manual memory management, and, let’s face it, a lot less “fun” compared to Python—but I wanted to see what it’s really like.

So, inspired by micrograd, I decided to build my own autograd library in C++ from scratch. This wasn’t about translating Karpathy’s code (I’ve barely read it, honestly). My goal was to understand the inner workings of Autograd and Computational graphs, like the ones used in PyTorch, and recreate those ideas in C++.

The result? A small library that can train simple neural networks for tasks like linear and logistic regression.

It’s been a wild ride—balancing the elegance of ML concepts with the quirks (and occasional frustrations) of C++.

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to tackle ML with C++, or just enjoy geeking out over low-level implementations, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Code and project details are here: https://github.com/apexkid/micrograd-cpp.
Yes, I probably should have said "listening." I edited.
Proof of Thought: Neurosymbolic Program Synthesis for Interpretable Reasoning
Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, yet they struggle with inconsistent reasoning, particularly in novel domains and complex logical sequences. This research introduces Proof of Thought, a framework that enhances the reliability and transparency of LLM outputs. Our approach bridges LLM-generated ideas with formal logic verification, employing a custom interpreter to convert LLM outputs into First Order Logic constructs for theorem prover scrutiny. Central to our method is an intermediary JSON-based Domain-Specific Language, which by design balances precise logical structures with intuitive human concepts. This hybrid representation enables both rigorous validation and accessible human comprehension of LLM reasoning processes. Key contributions include a robust type system with sort management for enhanced logical integrity, explicit representation of rules for clear distinction between factual and inferential knowledge, and a flexible architecture that allows for easy extension to various domain-specific applications. We demonstrate Proof of Thought's effectiveness through benchmarking on StrategyQA and a novel multimodal reasoning task, showing improved performance in open-ended scenarios. By providing verifiable and interpretable results, our technique addresses critical needs for AI system accountability and sets a foundation for human-in-the-loop oversight in high-stakes domains.
What to Expect at CES 2025
Microsoft to spend $80 billion on AI data centers this year
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And yet, it was never called that, right? It would have been a Mafia task force, a task force against a particular family, or a task force against organized crime. You wouldn’t call it an Italian task force because you’re probably hoping for help from the Italian-American community to help catch the Mafiosos, and that naming convention is pretty insulting to law abiding Italians-Americans.
I hope the stock gets destroyed next earnings when people realize they've been spending all this money on AI all to not ship a single meaningful feature nor derive any revenue leveraging it. They did the exact same thing with the whole "Metaverse" thing
And in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42556904 he disappointingly repeated the false claim that I corrected at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42424685 where he said, "A solar panel is only good for 15 to 25 years."
I'm reminded of this quote Wayne's World 2 which probably references this:

"So there I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage that night. So, Jeff Beck pops his head 'round the door, and mentions there's a little sweets shop on the edge of town. So - we go. And - it's closed. So there's me, and Keith Moon, and David Crosby, breaking into that little sweets shop, eh. Well, instead of a guard dog, they've got this bloody great big Bengal tiger. I managed to take out the tiger with a can of mace, but the shop-owner and his son... that's a different story altogether. I had to beat them to death with their own shoes. Nasty business, really. But, sure enough, I got the M&Ms, and Ozzy went on stage and did a great show." -- Del Preston