skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really resonate with this sentiment and want to share a similar story.

Where I live, supermarkets have a reception where you can leave your belongings while you're shopping. The employee in charge gives you a numbered card that matches the drawer in which they stored your things (all of this is handled by the employee) and off you go. No keys or anything, only a drawer with a card.

A few months ago I left my backpack at a one of these. 20 minutes later, as I was about to leave, I went to return the card in order to retrieve my stuff and to my surprise they gave me someone else's backpack.

I kindly asked what happened and after the manager had gone to check the CCTV footage they told me they gave my backpack to another customer. The problem? The numbered card didn't match the drawer and no one had realised. And there I was with the stranger's backpack and no way to contact him.

I agreed to wait until this man came back to return my stuff so we could switch backpacks (he had to; his work ID was on his backpack). I went home, told my family what happened, and they asked me what I told the supermarket staff. "Nothing, I'm just gonna wait" I said, and they rambled on about how I should have yelled at them and made a scene and maybe even made them fire the employee that grabbed my backpack.

I didn't do any of that because I precisely didn't want them to fire the poor minimum wage worker. Besides, I understood all of this happened because the system of numbered card/open drawer is completely broken. It wasn't relly the employee's fault; although it was his mistake not checking the numbers not matching. Yelling wouldn't have fixed anything.

I got my backpack back the next morning. No one was fired. The supermarket manager didn't even apologize for the inconvenience though, but ok.

Be kind.
This cable is letting me run it at 60Hz from my MBP: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4DB8MLL
Lots of government websites are extremely sketchy and redirect you to a sketchy payment gateway, often the payment gateway is on some weird domain.

If I make a payment using my visa card, how is it that I'm not just redirected to visa.com, and that's the only place I enter card credentials?
Like how OpenID works.

I'm sure there are reasons, probably legacy reasons :)

But it's still weird that payment uses a third-party domain I can't verify. Often called something sketchy.
"Is this about optimized code in terms of cpu cache aligned instruction pipelines etc?"

That is what I would assume, but so far I did not found a reason explaining the limit. Might also just be like it, because the author likes it like it.
They could draw from Doritos: Dell Extreme? Or!
Dell Venti, Dell Grande, Dell Tall?
Dell Regular, Dell Plus, Dell Super, Dell Diesel. Dell medium, large, extra large. Dell Regular, Dell Footlong. Dell A, Dell AA, Dell AAA. Dell Basic, Dell Prime, Dell Plus.
> Community notes are just opinions of random people on internet

It's much more complicated than that. Here's the white paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.15723
> I swapped "weakness" for "dishonesty,"

But both of those are unnecessarily uncharitable readings. Country style is neither weak nor dishonest, it's just different. A lot of country-style people consider city-style to be "rude" but it's not, it's just more efficient than they're used to.
To be clear the EU did a lot with 2FA requirements for online payments.
Given your comment, you may like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_tweezers
tbh, if you're working on bing you probably don't really care about the work
I'm starting to believe there is an external force that drives down the quality of game engines over time. In most tech, the things that catch on are the things that
are the easiest to develop curriculum for. The shape of a node-based editor like Unity is uniquely suited to explaining over a number of classes. (Source: I had to learn Unity at my University) On the other hand, an engine like raylib can be grokked in an afternoon, so a university-level raylib class wouldn't work. So you have all these amateur game developers and programmers coming out of diploma mills, and all they know is Unity/Unreal, so companies hire Unity/Unreal, so universities teach it, etc. See also: Java being popular. Then of course, all these companies have wildly different needs for their Unity projects, so Unity, being a for-profit company that serves its customers and not a single disgruntled programmer, has to conform their engine. So you end up with 'turbobloat.' (amazing term, btw)

The Half-Life and Morrowind engines are in a unique situation where they're put together by enthusiastic programmers who are paid to develop stuff they think is cool. You end up with minimal engines and great tech, suited to the needs of professional game developers.

This seems like something that sits in between a raylib and a Unity. I haven't used it, but I worry that it's doesn't do enough to appeal to amateur programmers, but it does too much to appeal to the kind of programmer who wants a smaller engine. I could be very wrong though, I hope to be very wrong. Seems like the performance here is very nice and it's very well put together. There's definitely a wave of developers coming out frustrated from Unity right now. As the nostalgia cycle moves to the 2000's, there's a very real demand to play and create games that are no more graphically complex than Half-Life 2.

Anyway, great project. Great web design. Documentation is written in a nice voice.
You're sniffing out the fact that I didn't have an exact application in mind when I wrote my earlier posts, lol. But yes, you are correct on this front.

The more I post on this subject, the more I'm "backwardsly-targetting" a solar-powered MPPT circuit.

Maximum Power Point Tracking circuits improve your solar-panel's efficiency by changing the current (through the use of a buck-boost converter, changing the voltage-and-current downstream). Or maybe you have excess current sunk ionto a battery of some kind. Either way, you have some kind of configurable-load and can therefore maximize the solar panel's Voltage/Current curve characteristics to seemingly magic energy out of nothingness.

If it costs you 250mW to just *sense* the current and run the calculations, it becomes much harder to justify the small gains of any MPPT circuitry.

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But yes, I'm changing the target application to suit my argument style. Apologies on that but I think you can forgive me on this!! The point of MPPT is to magic more energy out of nearly nothingness so efficiency is of great concern here!
Yes (any more detail would be telling), ahead of time even, but my point is that we're mimicking the governments numbers not actually estimating a "true" value.
Ah yeah, if lazy Americans would just try harder, they’d be richer.
Community notes and enforcement might help meta in the long run as being a step into more organically managed content that can scale better than simple moderation.

I have my serious gripes with how Instagram currently manages reports. I've recently reported a clear racist post promoted to me on Instagram that did not get removed or acted on. They seem to go the route of "block it so you cannot see the user anymore but let everyone else see it".

So as far as I can tell the only thing that Instagram actually moderate at the moment are gore and nudity, regardless of context. So barely dressed sexualised thirst traps are ok, black and white blurred nipples are not, everything else is a-ok.
It’s not realistic, or IMO necessary, to put more into it than the original claim does, besides bringing actual sources to the table.

If the original claim is that crime is really up but it doesn’t show in the official figures because of subtle factors X Y and Z, then sure, a fact check saying this is wrong needs to dive in and explain why those factors don’t account for it.

But if it’s just “crime is up 87% since Biden took office” then “actually, crime is down N% in that period, see link from relevant stats agency here” is fine.

The latter is about a million times more common.
Honestly whatever the hell Google offers at this point has been disguising itself as google search for years. It sure as shit is not what people expect from google.
The problem is "a thing is a thing" only gets you those exact things with those exact thing-behaviors.

Sharing behaviors or making things look or act like a little bit like this other thing becomes an absolute nightmare, if not out right impossible, with "a thing is a thing."

There's a reason graph based systems or ECS is basically the corner stone of every modern engine. Because it works and is necessary.
not sure but every post on this top comment is always something about that phrase

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42246739
Bing lets me search even though I block their cookies, trackers, etc. Google doesn't. If I even wanted to use Google I'd have to go through the hassle of whitelisting their crap, and for what?
Walking Ripples
hi retard, good post :)
40-series water blocks can even be single slot: https://shop.alphacool.com/en/shop/gpu-water-cooling/nvidia/...
soon you'll need to plug your PC into the 240 V dryer outlet lmao

(with the suggested 1000 W PSU for the current gen, it's quite conceivable that at this rate of increase soon we'll run into the maximum of around 1600 W from a typical 110 V outlet on a 15 A circuit)
Gaming aside, 4K is desirable even on <30" displays, and honestly I wouldn't mind a little bit more pixel density there to get it to true "retina" resolution. 6K might be a sweet spot?

Which would then imply that you don't need a display as big as 83" to see the benefits from 8K. Still, we're talking about very large panels here, of the kind that wouldn't even fit many computer desks, so yeah...
Study Links Diabetes and Heart Disease Cases to Sugary Drinks
Clegg left a few days ago, and the Oversight Board issued a statement which sounds like they were in the dark:

> “We look forward to working with Meta in the coming weeks to understand the changes in greater detail, ensuring its new approach can be as effective and speech-friendly as possible.” [1]

So is it possible this was only announced recently. It might have been "in the works" in the C-suite for a bit longer, but there doesn't seem to be any evidence it was widely known before very recently.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/07/meta-face...
Serving size is 1.5 cups. Regardless of how much people eat, it's still only 3% added sugar.
It's illegal to "possess burglary tools with the intent to commit a burglary". Why that it is I am not sure, you would think it would just be evidence of intending to commit the actual crime. Maybe it is like a notion of pre-medition and professionalism or an excuse to grab people before the act. Though as far as I know there's no "possessing murder weapons with intent to murder" charge: just attempted murder and degrees of murder.
Entirely changing the format of the results page based on a keyword match for a competitor is very much deception. Although they've been doing similar for years when you search for Chrome as the very first thing you do on a new install and there the entire screen is basically full of tricks to try to make you stay on Edge and pushing the actual search results down so far you need to scroll. I guess they've got away with that a long time, they probably don't think anyone will care.

It all feels a bit like the "I'm feeling lucky" button from years ago on Google when it was kind of the default choice for everyone because back then Google actually cared about putting the most useful page at the very top...

Remember when one of the best tricks was searching "French military victories" and pressing "I'm feeling lucky" took you to a page that looked exactly like the google results but said "No results found, maybe you meant 'French military defeats'". Classic stuff!
I totally agree, but the person to whom I was replying probably does not.
The only other search query I have found that provides a similar "spoofed Google" look is https://www.bing.com/search?q=yandex.
Unsplash is part of Getty Images.

From 2021: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26634113)
I agree that its possible but it seems to be the authors trying to cast a wide net via hypotheticals. Its easy to say its possible - but without any evidence its heresay, and within a paper like this its about trying to show the widest and broadest potential wage suppression possible.

It seems sloppy to me to be honest.
Those with a lot of introspection can do this, and it can be a benefit to yourself and others when used correctly.

In my opinion, you were dumb for doing that, but I can't say I haven't done something similar. Given my experience, I wouldn't do this again.

My experience involved a crazed homeowner in their 40s shooting at me standing on the public sidewalk for taking pictures of the neighborhood for a realtor, this was around 2009. They thought I worked for their mortgage lender who was foreclosing.

The wood fence took most of the damage, but there were kids playing in the paved cul-de-sac right behind where I was standing. No serious injuries, thankfully, and the police confiscated the firearm. I didn't press charges, because I empathized as my family had people who lost their entire retirements in the fallout from the market and that was real fresh.

I would press charges today having had that experience (and others). Very few people change themselves unless they are forced to through isolated introspection or negative circumstance. Being young, or stupid, or a victim, isn't a defensible justification. Its letting them off the hook for their actions without consequence.
true regex search of the internet is a "more compute than on all of earth" type problem.

They could at least get closer tho...
Very cool! What kind of prompts/methods have you found effective for getting clear backgrounds?
I only use olive oil or algal oil, and noticed a significant improvement after the switch.

I deliberately tried my best to isolate that variable, but obviously some other changes are downstream from that decision.

I don't think I could ever go back - I feel more clear headed, have begun losing the last stubborn 10-15 lbs which I have always found to be a challenge, and my skin has improved.

YMMV, but to me the results are plainly obvious.
> If it's 11:55, you would usually mentally subtract and conclude: the meeting is in 5 minutes. That's how I always do it myself anyway

And if you showed up to the meeting in exactly 5 minutes, you’d be on time!
I read the Nvidia units are 250 Tflops vs the M4 Pro 27 Tflops. If they perform as advertised i'm in for two.
I don’t know if that’s true. SV culture has always been a very big tension between monied military-industrial types and (eventually also monied) antiwar hippies.

It’s well-documented in SV’s military history, as well as recently, where Apple wasn’t involved in FAA702 illegal spying on americans (PRISM) until after the famously anti-establishment Jobs died.

The SV culture seems to have shifted a bit rightward (as has the whole country, tbh) but the tension is still there, and the social conflict remains (although I think there are other factors, not the least of which is the skill and grace of @dang, that keep people on the better side of their behaviors here).
Hackers Claim Breach of Location Data Giant, Threaten to Leak Data
> This is obviously more about politics than it is about building misinformation-free social networks.

Why is this "obvious"?

It is obvious to me that "fact checking" by media was and is nothing of the sort.
LLMs are bad at derm, unless you give them a textual description
I've not seen any examples of the "official" fact-checkers being wrong; have you?
Distillery
But could you actually get any money from suing Wikipedia? They would just deflect blame to volunteer editors.

Why do you think facebook is ending fact-checkers now? Editors are hired by facebook, facebook is the publisher. If facebook publishes "fact" and people get harmed as result, Facebook gets sued to bankruptcy. There is no protection from government anymore!
This sounds like category error to me. LLMs output string completions. Humans should judge the set of outputs to be representative of what humans would write. All humans, not biased to the subset of liberal humans.

The bias is thinking the liberal ideas are correct ideas.
> It was cheaper to hire a photographer to get the pictures you want, rather than license them from Getty.

And how much time would that take? People who are using these services need the photo NOW, and paying a few hundred dollars for licensing is perfectly acceptable for companies when the alternative is missing a publishing deadline or accidentally infringing on someone's copyright.
I'm referring to the organisations that anoint themselves as arbiters of truth rather than just Facebook but I suppose the point almost stands
Not sure exactly, but they mentioned linking to together with ConnectX, which could be ethernet or IB. No idea on the speed though.
Mouse-over over the chart is broken (scrollbar shown and hidden again and again).
I believe you dont need to set x-overflow-auto on the div where the scrollbars appear.
Far less than the time saved had they received Google's results instead of Bing's inferior ones.
How is that relevant here? Most settlements happen in civil cases, where there is no right to a lawyer, much less a good one. Otherwise, I don’t know what you could mean.
Nearly anyone who you ask will say you should count someone who has no income and can’t find a job as unemployed for the numbers, otherwise type ignoring problems. What if you have 10% of your population that can’t find a job and gives up to live on the streets due to loss of hope? Do you just not count them as unemployed? That’s stupid. Your rapid fire set of questions carefully worded to sound reasonable is just a way for you to avoid the crux of my argument that government numbers for unemployed are low due to the twisted definition they use.

Tell me why they shouldn’t count the hopeless as unemployed?
I've seen designs that use a Chopper Op-Amp to actually auto-zero a power-OpAmp, effectively transferring the low Vos characteristics to a different OpAmp with completely different characteristics.
Well first you've got to define what is meant by "facts". Most people presume the word refers to some kind of community consensus, and then they immediately gatekeep what counts as the "community" among which the consensus is shared.

However the basis for fact is precisely predictive power, so it's actually more like the battle between science and superstition. Information that can directly empower a person is not necessarily information that will help them to feel more comfortable or confirm their biases.
Except you once again substituted race, the topic of conversation, with something else. We're not discussing the differences between species. We're discussing racist beliefs which are testable, falsifiable, and have been proven incorrect. The mental gymnastics you're performing to claim a relativist position about RACISIM is very telling.
kuvasz-streamer batches updates in a single timed transaction (1 second for example). This is independent of the source transaction.

I have seen a significant increase in performance with this feature.
> for most of the '90s RS-232-ish serial and its awkward sibling the parallel port were the norm for external peripheral

The parallel port was a nice way to have GPIOs in a computer back then. A bit like the GPIOs in today's SBCs, but more rudimentary.
That was back when everyone was trying to make a "portal" to compete with AOL. It seems like browsers are headed down the same path now with replacing the simple search box new tab page with the same stuff the portals had.
Is there a nice way to handle the idea that a creature might have a better or worse memory or ability to build a model of the environment? That seems like it would be an interesting dimension to add to a creature.
This is a chicken and egg thing, though - people don't play at 4K because it requires spending a lot of $$$ on top-of-the-line GPU, not because they don't want to.
it is absurdly easy to get a 5090 on launch. ive gotten their flagship from their website FE every single launch without fail. from 2080 to 3090 to 4090
I found this link on here like six months ago and my life hasn't been the same since.
>rejected

No, neither PRC or PH positions were "rejected" or "endorsed" because there hasn't been actual legal hearing of the case, in courts with UN/UNCLOS jurisdiction. There's nothing to reject. PCA ruling is not conducted by any official "UNCLOS tribunal". It's done by cosplay PCA UNCLOS tribunal whose determination the UN has not taken position in, which is a polite way of saying it's not legal UN law, aka it's not valid UNCLOS determination. All proponents of PCA ruling has to do is find one formal UN endorsement of their position against PRC, but it does not exist, hence it's not (UN) international law, at least UNCLOS which operates under UN. Regardless, PRC is not subject to optional UNCLOS arbituation clause, they are however subject to UNCLOS ruling via ICJ/ITLOS... until ICJ/ITLOS rules against PRC, which neither have... PRC in UNCLOS compliance. PRC legally can't be non compliant until UN says it is, and UN hasn't.

>justified

Sure, but not every reunification has as strong (international) legal precedence as PRC... i.e. Chinese territory treated as one country at UN, lack of formal armistice/ratification (legal) ending of the civil war. Hence PRC-TW is legally on ongoing civil war, over legally one country. Hence me saying UN reality has PRC bias. Of course ultimately international laws is not going to prevent PRC from reunifying, but merely point out that PRC can "legitimately" fight TW, it wouldn't be "aggression" it would be domestic "defensive" action.

>Taiwan must do

The TW that's thoroughly infiltrated by PRC espionage? If PRC is all over US networks, how entrenched do you think they were/are in TWs. Half the reason US pressured to coerce TW into giving up nuclear program is because PRC intelligence was already in TW, and if US didn't take action PRC would. Unless TW nuclear turnkey is faster than PRC hypersonics (7 minutes to any point in island) they won't be able to build credible nuclear deterence, not that nuclear has deterred PRC before (see how she fought with essentailly every NPT nuclear state over issues less important than TW). It's pretty clear what PRC must do reunify, and let's be honest she's actually doing it with gusto while TW is not.
What issues are you encountering?

I’d really like a way to have my PC in one room and use it on any TV. I know Steam Link exists but it’s a bit clunky.
Disclaimer - I used to work on Bing like... 8 years ago.

There's probably some debate around whether this is nefarious or genius, but I'd lead towards the later. "google" has always been one of the number one search terms, and the amount of people who would open chrome, search for google in the address bar, then open google in the google search results, then do their search, was wild. There's a very large percentage of less technical people who aren't looking for Google, they're looking for search, and in their mind the two are the same.

They likely don't care what search engine they're using, so I suspect this actually captures a very large amount of search volume, while still solving the intent of the user.
Absolutely they should, and when I worked there that was known as "protecting voice", that content has always been explicitly allowed because it is free expression, even if reading it can be difficult for some people. The same with someone posting images of healed scars because they've been overcoming their self harm.

The content I'm talking about is graphic photos of suicide and self injury, fresh, blood soaked cuts, bodies hanging, graphic depictions of eating disorder (that goes beyond "thinspo", which is more borderline, and so downranked and not recommended rather than removed).

It's the latter that we believed (based on the advice of experts who we relied on for guidance) is harmful when consumed in large quantities.