skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you read a story about a drug kingpin being convicted at trial, do you assume that he might be innocent?

That's a very fair question.

To answer: I try as hard as I can to not draw any conclusion from something like that.

I'll be 50 this year. I've seen so many examples of media manipulation, "spin", crooked prosecutors, etc... that I try very hard not to jump to a conclusion. Especially with outrage stories like "child pornography was found on his laptop". There are countless examples of police and three letter agents getting caught red-handed planting this stuff, so I'm always skeptical of news stories like that.

Then there's the whole argument of "what's a criminal?". It's frequently the ethical choice to violate an unjust law. Was Ghandi a criminal? If someone broke a law, but then the law was changed or removed, are they still a criminal?

What kind of drug kingpin? (I'm purposefully being pedantic here for rhetorical purposes) Were they "dealing" ibogaine? Maybe for injured vets, but the news is just calling him a drug kingpin? It's strange to me that ibogaine is schedule 1, and I probably wouldn't consider them to be a criminal for doing that. Or maybe they were doing some combination of things, some good some bad. Or maybe there's a good reason why it's schedule 1, and I just don't understand and they really are a bad guy.

My point is that there's usually nuance. I don't trust stories like that, I don't "believe" news articles. I read them, take them in, and reserve judgement. Really. My initial, unconscious reaction and inner voice immediately says "are they framing him? What's the other side of the story? If he is a bad guy, does he see himself that way?"

I've just been burned too many times in my life by getting sucked into media stories that I believed were true, and made an idiot out of myself because I didn't think critically about it and jumped on a bandwagon that later turned out to be BS.
this is a great write up, thank you
> When mathematicians do succeed in proving a number’s irrationality, the core of their proof usually relies on one basic property of rational numbers: They don’t like to come near each other.

This property of the minimum distance between two rational numbers is what the ruler function* relies on to be continuous at all irrational numbers while being discontinuous at all rationals.

* When x is irrational, f(x) = 0; otherwise, when p and q are integers, f(p/q) = gcd(p,q)/q. Note that this leaves f(0) undefined, which is fine for the result of being discontinuous at rationals. You could define f(0) to be any value other than 0. The function is traditionally defined over the open interval (0, 1), which avoids the issue.
There is already conflict in his life at this point. The question is how best to resolve it. The school is in a position of authority and is telling the student that after spending tens of thousands of dollars at his school, he can't register for his final quarter necessary to graduate, unless he provides additional free work for them. This absolutely should not be tolerated.

Everyone in this thread is simply suggesting he talk to a lawyer. The lawyer can help guide him on the next action to take.
Agreed, it looks pretty nice. I remember admiring it in a computer store. ST is also a bit faster.

Although I take my blitter, copper, hardware display overscan and flexible per scanline resolution & color depth, sprites and 4 channel PCM audio any day over an ST.

Sadly many early games were direct ports from ST, not utilizing Amiga's hardware.
This is pretty true for MDs, but I don't know how true it is for PhDs.

The classic meme is that MDs love organic chemistry, but they hate biochemistry [1], because one is about memorization and the other is...less so, anyway.

But then again, neuroscientists do tend to love their big books of disjointed facts, so maybe it's more like medicine than I realize. I remember the one class I took on neuroscience was incredibly frustrating because of the wild extrapolations they were making from limited, low-quality data [2], that made it almost impossible to form a coherent theory of anything.

[1] ...except for the Krebs cycle! Gotta memorize that thing or we'll never be able to fix broken legs!

[2] "ooh, the fMRI on two people turned slightly pink! significant result!"
Yes, and not just at public universities.
While I had a 8088 based PC, the hours spent on a friend's 1040ST playing games were in the 500+

Really grateful to the friend and to Atari of course :)
> We would have an ecosystem of native GNU/Linux games

Or we wouldn’t, perhaps a small fraction would be available on Linux severely limiting the appeal of devices running SteamOS etc. which would just give the entire handheld market to MS without them even having to do anything.

Of course it possibly wouldn’t exist in the first place because Valve would have had much less incentives to develop the Deck if the market for it would have been much smaller.

> Likewise Apple's approach

And nobody cares about it or gaming on Mac. IMHO despite all of Apple’s success gaming on Mac is in a worse state than it was back in the early 2000s.

My entire point is that however flawed Wine/Proton approach it is better than wasting money on a platform nobody cares about or develops for. I assume Valve could start paying developers to port their games to Linux or something but I can’t really think of much else..

> they have started rewriting even the core components in Kotlin

Exactly. Valve can start doing the same when they gain enough market share to justify this. If Linux gains at least 10-15% of the PC gaming market game developers won’t be able to afford to ignore it anymore. Anyway that’s a relatively nice problem to have compared to the alternative.
You glorious bastard, what a cool project! This is already a contender for most hacker project of the year :-)

(below is not serious)

I would advise people against using this in production though because it's still missing some critical features. For example:

1. The Javascript stops working when printed to physical paper. The resulting paper just has a static image and the controls no longer work.

2. It doesn't work properly in Evince. It just shows an error "The document contains only empty pages"
I’m being downvoted for each comment I make on the topic but anyway …

I found a source article [0] about how the Bureau adjusts the cost for features with a “hedonic” score. So yes, a new feature (a Netflix app? AI? Voice recognition? Soundbar?) is counted as an improvement with value and that in turn affects a prior.

On another BLS page: “if a television in the CPI is replaced by one with a larger screen and higher price, the BLS can make an adjustment to the price difference by estimating what the old television would have cost had it had the larger screen size.”

I bought a 42” mid range TV in 2012 for 900, a 55” mid range in 2017 for 900, and a 55” mid range in 2024 for £1200. Although this is a 30% or so discount (in inflation adjusted terms) the BLS can call it 80% because it has Smart Features like OLED and internet connectivity and so forth.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/questions-and-ans...
> The installation/setup process is completely bespoke for each different app

For the majority of them, there's a docker container, often with example configs. It's not that far removed from installing a mobile app and then having a wizard ask you how you want stuff configured.
I particularly like this part from the final thoughts:

"solicitation is one of the first and most common signs of a scam these days"

This is true about most scams these days. So much so that I have been advising non-technical friends and family to stop directly responding to any communication you did not initiate. Instead ask yourself, "how would I go about addressing or confirming this with the supposed source if I hadn't received a message about it?" Also helps with avoiding the encouragement of marketers.
And in practice, both.

Save image... for short-term convenience; build clean every week from archived text files.

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1984 "Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment" page 500

"At the outset of a project involving two or more programmers: Do assign a member of the team to be the version manager. … The responsibilities of the version manager consist of collecting and cataloging code files submitted by all members of the team, periodically building a new system image incorporating all submitted code files, and releasing the image for use by the team. The version manager stores the current release and all code files for that release in a central place, allowing team members read access, and disallowing write access for anyone except the version manager."

https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/TheInteractivePr...
Ask HN: HN Fellows, Domain Name Feedback
Hello HN Fellows,

I hope you're doing well!

Could you kindly share your thoughts on which of the following domain names would be the best fit for an international trading company?

1. GlobalTradeWorlds.com

2. GlobalEximX.com

Or anything else?

Thank you in advance for your time and feedback!
No inherent problems, just a very fractured landscape where install could involve: Linux, MacOS, Windows, WSL, Docker, or AWS. If your setup has anything that differs from the developer, it could unexpectedly take hours of extra troubleshooting.
> One, the Nazi (or rather, the nationalist coalition) was on the decline, as were the conservatives in power, and were set to loose multiple seats in the next elections. Seizing power, fast, was needed.

The Republicans are going to run the US into the ground in the next couple of years. Midterm elections are 2026.
> I have noticed that if I turn my blue light filter on my screens off, that has a huge impact.

Just to confirm, because this is a surprising result: disabling the blue light filter on your screens improves your sleep?
That was a long read. Just be happy that you never had to deal with Trigraphs.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-language/trigraphs?v...
I've seen plenty of orcas in Walmart
Thanks for feedback, let me break it down:

Code is just a representation of the agent execution flow, different than static workflows like in Glide, or typical ping-pong type of re-act agent in any other framework.

It's not meant to replace your application logic, but serve as a dynamic plan the LLM is generating to complete your ad-hoc task, so there is a little sense of committing it to repo.

In your app code, control flow also changes based on data using `if` statements. And you don't need to know the data to write your code, right? LLM can handle those as well.

We are working on making the execution more dynamic, possibly allowing code to be generated and executed progressively when data arrives and new prompts are given.

Tools will indeed need to be written as idempotent, especially for the interactivity and human in the loop mechanism we are working on.

Detecting recursive loops and other issues is a technical and solvable problem, we'll get to those as well.

Running code in deno or e2b, you cannot pause it to wait for human interaction for a day, then resume it, so it won't really help with interactive agents doing really long running operations and interacting with real world.
I tend to agree that this is not an issue with many of the applications that are mentioned in the post.

Fundamentally this boils down to essentially bugs in functions that are supposed to transform untrusted into trusted input like the example they gave:

`system("wget.exe -q " . escapeshellarg($url));`

`escapeshellarg` is not producing a trusted output with some certain inputs.
System memory is not able to sustain such memory bandwidth so it seems like a moot point to me. Intel’s CPUs reportedly cannot sustain such memory bandwidth even when it is available:

https://www.ixpug.org/images/docs/ISC23/McCalpin_SPR_BW_limi...
It’s the hardware that’s the issue not the browser… so apps are slower on Android too

Chrome on iOS will be faster than Chrome on Android for this reason
>who is still using Airbnb.

When needing an entire apartment for groups, especially work groups, we still use Airbnb because in some cities it just feels more reliable than booking.com. For hotels I try to call and ask if they can match booking.com rate. I can't do that with all countries easily so booking.com gets their cut in that case.
Venture capitalists openly buying themselves into government.
That... is... mesmerizing... ... ... ⠋ ⠙ ⠹ ⠸ ⠼ ⠴ ⠦ ⠧ ⠇ ⠏ ⠋ ⠙ ⠹ ⠸ ⠼ ⠴ ⠦ ⠧ ⠇ ⠏

Thank you. I wonder if I could use it for meditation. If only it would not require a blue screen.
If you are not willing to spend $1000 on a cellphone you will likely not spend $9.99/month for my subscription AI fart app.
Everyone is saying lawyer up like it's the author's only option, but it's not, and likely bad advice. Here's the order of operations I would take:

1. Mea Culpa

Talk to all of the faculty (dean of students, etc) and do your best to get people on your side. You need the petty person on the other end to reverse their decision, and having a lot of administration on your side, and more importantly, expressing (fake) remorse makes it easy for these jobsworth asshole(s) to fulfill their God complex. I'm actually convinced that this would have the highest probability of success. These Dolores Umbridge types adore getting to be the ones issuing mercy to the sinners.

Additionally, informing staff of the expulsion will help bring awareness of this abuse, and spread the word and prevent this from happening to other students.

While you perform your mea culpa groveling, record everything, which can be used as ammo later.

2. Agree to the (illegal) terms

Blackmailing you into slave labor is obviously illegal, but no terms have been laid out, so I don't see any harm in agreeing to them. Best case, they reverse the decision with the expectation that you'll do something (which you can then phone in or do a token exercise of), and worst case they outline terms which are the perfect ammo for negative publicity or a lawsuit.

3. Transfer schools/credits

I don't actually know what is involved in transferring schools or how expulsion factors in, but the reality is that you are effectively already expelled. Try and figure out the feasibility of saving what is salvageable at a school that is less insufferable.

4. Negative publicity

This story is easy to believe, sell, and consume- i.e. perfect ragebait. Start emailing every news outlet you can think of. Post on all social media. If it gets high enough, and probably not even that high, the weight of the negative publicity can easily outweigh the narcissists that started this, forcing a reversal.

5. Seek employment

If you have any employment cards in your deck, I'd consider playing them. If everything else fails, then at least you're financially secure and gain experience.

6. Lawyer

The combined weight of all of the above will assist a lawsuit, even prior to taking any legal steps. Note that all outcomes of a lawsuit that aren't "total win" are effectively a loss (of time, money, energy, and mental health), so I'd hesitate to take this course at all.
The Challenges of Generative AI in Identity and Access Management (IAM)
https://archive.is/6iNbW
It would be like if someone you never met came up to you and held a revolver to your head, and told you they were going to play Russian roulette.

If they told you the 99% percentile odds of the next trigger pull, would it be okay to stay if you thought you liked the odds?

And if you were silly enough to believe him, who would be to blame if he was wrong?

Oh, here are some more [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarnell_Hill_Fire]. Oh and [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Griffith_Park_fire]. And [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_Fire_of_1937]

There is a reason why firefighters are considered to be one of the most heroic professionals.

And some more (not all related to wildfires though) [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_deadliest_firefi...]
https://fontawesome.com/
https://fonts.google.com/icons

My preference for new projects is currently swaying towards Google's Material library as its just so easy and fast to use. Nevertheless Fontawesome has been a staple for me for the last several years!
Related repo: https://github.com/liam-sbhoo/tabpfn-time-series
A slightly-less-than-perfect analogy: I can mess with the execution of software by mis-adjusting the power supply far enough. It still runs, but it starts having weird errors. Based on that, would we say that software is electrical?

Is software electrical? It certainly runs on electrical hardware. And yet, it seems absurdly reductionist to say that software is electrical. It's missing all the ways in which software is not like hardware.

Is consciousness similar? It runs on physical (chemical) hardware. But is it itself physical or chemical? Or is that too reductionist a view?

(Note that there is no claim that software is "woo" or "spirit" or anything like that. It's not just hardware, though.)
If it were me, i would get a tattoo above the location saying that there is removable material underneath, and get it added to you medical records. There probably should be a way to tattoo a universal message for the medical profession [1], i.e. 'do not resuscitate', 'allergic to X', 'metal under skin here', etc. There are relatively universal signs for magnets for example [2].

[1] https://www.health4you.co.za/directory/category/tattoos/medi...

[2] https://openclipart.org/detail/281487/magnets-warning-symbol
Yea, iPhones are FAST.

My point is that in the graph showing Geekbench score and INP [1] you can draw a straight line, but what I see in the graph are three clusters – phones with a Geekbench score:
- above 1,500 (look very good)
- between 500 and 1,500 (look decent still)
- below 500 (really terrible)

Both an iPhone and a flagship Android will have a much better INP than a phone with a Geekbench score of 500. I'm not so sure if an iPhone has a much better INP score than a flagship Android though (maybe it does, I'm not seeing that in the data though).

[1] https://calendar.perfplanet.com/images/2024/alex/1_9TNKz0qd5...
Also similar to the bottom value in haskell and exceptions in other languages.
I'm not convinced, those along with dark blue and dark red/maroon seem like evergreen car colors to me, always popular. But I also see a lot more vivid "neon" colors now. Bright blue, lime green, etc. I remember those sort of colors being very novel years ago, but now they seem common. A minority still, but still pretty common.
account renamed and not even convicted yet .....

The slow walk on the pier is an example of the upcoming ?revenge? by the ?establishment?
The main difference for me was the social aspects and tapestry of characters you'd meet. Not only were they much longer (if you're a night person), they tended to be significantly less crowded for the space they were in. There were time and space advantages for that aspect to blossom.

There were events where I met so many people that it had a snowball effect. In addition to anyone there I already knew, I'd be building/merging new friend groups on the fly and sometimes hours would go by before I'd see any of the people I came with.

Conversely, at sanctioned events I'd stick tight with my friends pretty much all night... sure you'd meet other people, but not nearly to the same level. Generally dance more and socialize less.
I don't know how serious you are, but for others projects like this are virtually never a waste of time. There's opportunity cost of course, but that's very difficult to measure. I'm sure OP learned a ton about PDFs in the process, and there is/are no shortage of needs for PDF creation. More broadly they also deepened their knowledge of javascript and other things.
While I know this is common knowledge for people who were around back then I think it's worth pointing out because it's so wild.

The Atari ST was designed by ex-Commodore people. The Commodore Amiga, arguably the biggest direct rival of the ST, was designed by ex-Atari people. (Both lost to the IBM PC in the end.)

The backstory of Atari, Commodore, and Amiga, Inc. is a great one and almost feels like fiction made real.
Thank you, Peter. Appreciated.

For me, a handmade web is a kind of seal, showing that the person is able to work with older techniques and therefore has most likely been in the industry for a long time.

And it's always amusing. If we take a look at the source code of the first page of Paul Graham's website (which was fairly created in a similar manner), we will find interesting comments and artifacts.
A smartass could say that national, state, and local legislatures could eliminate crime with a stroke of the pen - no money required. Just eliminate laws.

Meanwhile, people aren't necessarily concerned with the crime rate, per se. There are crimes we care about more than others, namely, violent personal crimes: muggings, felonious assault, rape, and murder. Close on its heels are property crimes: breaking and entering, vandalism, and robbery.

Given the crimes the majority of the people actually care about, can we say that the LA crime rate has not gone down?

Meanwhile, 20% of the hydrants ran dry in the Palisades. Increased LAFD funding isn't going to change anything about that. This isn't even getting into whether it's reasonable for a municipal government to be prepared to battle a wildfire enveloping an entire region. I don't think there's a city in the United States that could take that on.
Related: CARTE-AI, which can also deal with multiple tables.

https://soda-inria.github.io/carte/
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.16785

The paper includes a comparison to TabPFN v1 (among others), noting the lack of categorical & missing values handling which v2 now seems to have. Would be curious to see an updated comparison.
Many of the RUM solutions don’t collect personal data or use fingerprinting

Yes they see the visitors IP address (but often don’t store it), they’ll often drop a cookie so pages can be tied together as a session but generally they’re bot interested in tracking people across sites or long time periods
Possibly because it's a homepage for a for-profit business, making it look like you're trying to advertise or SEO. There are a lot of spam submissions to HN these days.

Create a similar page that doesn't contain any commercial content and follow the guidelines for Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) and you might get more interest from HN readers.
No. Whether you charge large or small interest, you never want your debtor to go bankrupt, because it means cessation of the interest payments.
I dont either, but this can be mitigated by adding guard rails (strictly validating input), double checking actions with the user and using it for tasks where a mistake isnt world ending.

Even then mistakes can slip through, but it could still be more reliable than a visual UI.

There are lots of horrible web UIs i would LOVE to replace with a conversational LLM agent. No #1 is jira and so is no #2 and #3.
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Technical breakdown of open source voice assist
>What seems like a ton of consensus at cruising altitude is actually much more divisive as you approach ground level.

I think there's a sense in which that's true (I've especially heard it with respect to the foundations of maths), but I worry about that way of thinking. There absolutely are places where we have consensus, even on subjects of extreme complexity. And the fact that we really do have consensus can be one of the things that's most important to understand. I don't want people doubting our knowledge that, say, too much sugar is bad, that sunscreen is good, that vaccines are real and so on.

A lot of what passes for nuanced decoding of the social and institutional contexts where science really happens, looks to outsiders like "yeah, so everything's fake!"

And when the job of communicating these nuances falls into the hands of people who don't think it's important to draw that distinction, I think that contributes to an erroneous loss of faith in institutional knowledge.