skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one, and let me repeat that, no one "gets" linear algebra, differential equations, or frequency domain on the first pass. It takes years to absorb and multiple passes...

I don't understand the point of this comment. On the one hand you're trying to encourage people by saying "don't feel bad you didn't get it the first time" but then you throw a mountain more work/terms/books at them? You think it's encouraging to a student to hear that if they didn't succeed in this robotics class because the LA coverage wasn't great ...... they should go take quantum computing, control theory, abstract algebra classes?
Some feedback:

* More screenshots/use cases.

* Information about who you are/why it's called Kate's App. I think that especially for single/small dev teams, this can really help build trust and interest.

* Said elsewhere, but a publicly available privacy policy. Also not seeing any after signing up. Big red flag.

* IMO, don't have usernames AND emails at sign up. Choose one.

* Needs padding on either side. Other formatting issues too, but that was the most glaring one.
Densifying can allow individual homeowners to gain wealth while housing as a whole becomes cheaper. Single family home values can increase due to the land under them at the same time as condo values go down if we just stop building single family homes and build condos instead.
> because they will be forced by law to comply.

Which means the program will have zero value outside of federal purchasing offices. They will not evaluate the criteria or care about the reality of the offering, they'll see the sticker, and know it's "default approved."

Is this a good outcome?

> mitigate risk

A sticker cannot do this.
Yes that's true!

You should look around on /r/homelab there are some nice low power consumption builds there, for example this one

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1935nar/homelab_na...
> The OP has a good criticism of why this is a bad idea.

They simply assert "twiddling a run-time variable for debugging in your staging environment can propagate straight into a bug on production".

As-if straight into production without re-testing.

> Source control? What's that?

"ENVY/Manager augments this model by providing configuration management and version control facilities. All code is stored in a central database rather than in files associated with a particular image. Developers are continuously connected to this database; therefore changes are immediately visible to all developers."

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope...

~

1992 Product Review: Object Technology’s ENVY Developer

http://archive.esug.org/HistoricalDocuments/TheSmalltalkRepo...
Show HN: vnsh - digital dead-drops for sharing secrets (and memes)
I've always found the concept of dead-drops cool, and figured I could make them accessible to anyone! Securely upload any small text or image content, and share the URL to anyone.

Once someone clicks it, they get to see what you uploaded, but the content is simultaneously deleted from the cloud and becomes inaccessible to anyone else.

More features coming soon!

(Also, this is my first HN post!)
I had been familiar with the title phrase for many years, particularly through its association with industrial music, but did not know there was a whole poem attached to it until I saw it printed up in a little display on the counter of a pop-up cyberpunk ramen bar at a local Burning Man-affiliated festival.
I'm not sure it's even good though... the input doesn't need to come from a user. I have an "agent" which listens for an event in financial markets and then goes and does some stuff.

In practice the current usage of "agent" is just: a program which does a task and uses an LLM somewhere to help make a decision as to what to do and maybe uses an LLM to help do it.
I completely agree. I once took Ambien on a flight from San Fran -> London, but I didn't sleep. I suffered from crazy short term amnesia by the time I got to the other end, walking towards the Hilton just outside the airport in that long tunnel... I kept forgetting where I was and why I was there and then I'd snap back to reality. To the alarm of a friend that was supposed to be picking me up, I simply checked into the Hilton. What happened on the flight was another story altogether. I think I was repeatedly telling the attendants that I'd taken Ambien, they ended up shifting me to first class. Looking back, it was fun for reasons I won't talk about here - but belongs strongly in the recreational category. Sitter required.
Just a wikipedia definition of slumlord
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slumlord#Operation
One recent deadman switch info release system:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42647872

When I'm gone (Fraser) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6943602-when-i-m-gone

Read this when I'm dead (Presley) https://www.amazon.com/Read-This-When-Im-Dead/dp/0988342553

Humberto Cruz, "A family records organizer", in the Boston Globe, 2007 ---- https://archive.is/SjTWI
"In essence, "Read This If I Am Dead" is a living, loving, and constantly evolving little book I write for my family. You can do the same..."
There's default behaviour but you probably shouldn't make up titles for articles, like the site docs ask you not to.
It absolutely matters. Every Watt of energy that doesn't become torque at a rotational velocity is just heat.

Contact seals work by contact and friction, friction generates heat proportional to linear velocity and linear velocity goes up proportionally with radius.

The motors I designed were intended for food production washdown areas, and if I were designing large motors for use in road environments, I would use a lot of similar methods, including high quality contact seals.

Teflon seals would probably have the required capabilities, but they will get destroyed by dust and grit. Nitrile seals would do it too with the detraction of a huge power loss at the seal. I wouldn't trust a plain labyrinth seal to do the job.
If something is "never added" it serves the same purpose as removal. Even more so -- there is no evidence and none was ever available. I assume I don't need to connect the dots here.

If you do not think Elon could be controlling the moderation of his own account then you are either hopelessly naive or responding in bad faith. Either way, I will not be responding again.
> I have to tell my parents to stop reading

As a researcher myself, I really dislike that this is even a thing. I constantly have friends send me articles asking what I think about things (frequently the answer is "I have no idea" and/or "the paper says something different").

I'm livid about this because this erodes public trust in science. Worse, people don't see that connection...

I don't understand how major news publications can't be bothered to actually reach out to authors. Or how universities themselves will do that and embellish work. I get that it's "only a little" embellishment, but it's not a slippery slope considering how often we see that compound (and how it is an excuse rather than acting in good faith). The truth is that the public does not understand the difference in the confidence levels of scientists for things like "anthropomorphic climate change" vs "drinking wine and eating chocolate is healthy for you." To them, it's just "scientists" who are some conglomerate. It is so pervasive that I can talk to my parents about something things I have domain expertise and written papers on and they believe scientists are making tons of money over this while I was struggling with student debt. I have to explain when I worked at a national lab isn't full of rich people[0]. There's a lot of easier ways to make money... And my parents, each, made more than any of the scientists I knew...

[0] People I know that have jumped ship and moved from lab to industry 2x-3x their salary (these are people with PhDs btw).

https://www.levels.fyi/companies/oak-ridge-national-laborato...

https://www.levels.fyi/companies/lawrence-livermore-national...

[Side note]: I wish we were able to be more honest in papers too. But I have lots of issues with the review system and the biggest is probably that no one wants to actually make any meaningful changes despite constant failure in the process and widespread frustration.
Standard Model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model

Mathematical formulation of the Standard Model:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_formulation_of_th...

Physics beyond the Standard Model:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_beyond_the_Standard_Mo...

Story of the LaTeX representation of the standard model, from a comment re: "The deconstructed Standard Model equation" (2016):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41753471#41772385

Can manim work with sympy expressions?

A standard model demo video could vary each (or a few) highlighted variables and visualize the [geometric,] impact/sensitivity of each
Why did you assume they are burning trash instead of log fires? What was the primary fuel for cooking and heating for poor people in the part of Africa you got your PPL?
> on Apple platforms, you’ll have NSUserDefaults (objc) and UserDefaults.myVar (Swift). It works just like the author wishes.

You could write something similar to NSUserDefaults in any language for any computing environment, but that's not what the author is talking about. He is talking about the same basic concept, yes, but where it exists within in the language itself, not something implemented on top.
> "LLM as UI" seems to be something hanging pretty low on the tree of opportunity.

Yes if you want to annoy your users and deliberately put roadblocks to make progress on a task. Exhibit A: customer support. They put the LLM in between to waste your time. It’s not even a secret.

> Why spent months struggling with complex admin dashboard layouts

You can throw something together, and even auto generate forms based on an API spec. People don’t do this too often because the UX is insufficient even for many internal/domain expert support applications. But you could and it would be deterministic, unlike an LLM. If the API surface is simple, you can make it manually with html & css quickly.

Overuse of web frameworks has completely different causes than ”I need a functional thing” and thus it cannot be solved with a different layer of tech like LLMs, NFTs or big data.
Certificate Profile Selection (Let's Encrypt)
That's not the only time it is weird. There's even a whole book by one of the pioneers of the relational DB model, Date's "Database Technology: Nulls Considered Harmful" [1], covering many of the ways it is weird.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Database-Technology-Nulls-Considered-...
I was considering doing exactly that ahah. We should connect to share our hacks and pains. One could project would be to run wasm4 games because, yes, pdfium and pdf.js can run webassembly.
> I don’t know what eggs production you consider ethical. In my country, the best quality eggs you can fin in the supermarkets comes from chickens that were born in the exact same factory farms as factory chickens In the case of personal backyard poultry it really depends what’s your ethical stance. I often see people that have them in a cage not so big, with no grass (chickens destroy the grass!), no trees, etc… that’s better that a factory but it’s still a miserable cage life. When I go in a farmers market and see someone selling "fallibly farms backyard eggs" I have no way to asses how they live.

Many jurisdictions have well defined categories. In BC for instance [1], free range and organic ensure the animals get to spend a significant amount of time outdoors.

Where I live there are small farms you can observe and buy eggs from directly. It's totally possible it just takes some looking into and some effort.

[1] https://bcegg.com/eggs-101/egg-labels-101/
I've been working with a friend for the past 3 months to this new search engine experience. Basically it gives dorking an UI and integrate AI to analyze semantically the content. The platform is still in beta and we are improving day by day, now we just would like to acquire as much feedbacks as possible to launch a useful V1 for all the community

Our core policy is to run a search engine without relying on ads and instead showing organic content that users actually want
How about having a skin pocket made in the
same location so you could pull it in and out
upgrade / remove
He's targeting ANSI C, C89. Flexible array members are not supported officially until C99. 26 years later, it's time to stop clinging to outdated standards and crusty tooling. Even Linux had to read the room and adopt C11.

A C11 implementation could go one step further and use _Alignas(max_align_t) to keep the pool array aligned with no manual effort. The double allocation does this implicitly.
Microsoft contributes $1M to Trump's inauguration fund
I’m kind of embarrassed at this level of corruption.
I didn't have to, my college provided fairly functional class scheduling systems. It had integrated wait lists, so you could just sign up and hope someone else drops if needed, and occasionally you could just have the professor add another slot (the college didn't mind the free extra money).

I had this in a state school that isn't even our state's premier state school, and we are not a state known for computer science or anything, why do all these supposedly premier institutions not offer it?
How many of those companies that know your name will pay you straight out of college $160K-$200K and up to $400K-$500k+ within 5-7 years?

the days of $160-200k out of college are slowly but surely coming to end (try to find some right now and see how many there are compared to say few years ago). Hard to compare but I started in 1999 at $117k which is “there” inflation-adjusted but overall I would say it is not easy starting in that range. $400k-$500k in 5-7 in definitely achievable, little bit of brain and little bit of luck.
I don't think this works if your files are modules.

Let's stop here, it doesn't seem like we understand each other.
It's more like all of us have houses that release toxic fumes in fires. It's in the basic building material and furnishings.

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/as-global-fire-risk-rises-...
> I think the goldilocks path is to make the user the agent and use the LLM simply as their UI/UX for working with the system

That's a funny definition to me, because doing so would mean the LLM is the agent, if you use the classic definition for "user-agent" (as in what browsers are). You're basically inverting that meaning :)
Very interesting challenge. May need a slightly different tech. Stay tuned :-)
> paths longer than 260 characters (if you add a "\\?\" prefix or set you manifest correctly)

A long ago released build of Windows 10 did this automatically so no need for adjustments anymore, 32k is the max....

...except for Office! It can't handle long paths. But Office has always been hacky (the title bar, for example).
You have to allocate the size for m and n, because C arrays decay bare pointers.

But it seems to work, which I didn't expect[0]. It also seems like you have to de-reference it to use it which is weird.

[0]https://onlinegdb.com/HwX-WTL5t
Is this swap recognised by the uni administration? I mean, after the swap, are you officially enrolled in class B?
DigitalOcean also had a strategy of going after the little guys/early phases of companies with their 5$ offering and lots of good free material/tutorials.
No, Many of those in india will eat Chicken - but not beef. The view of seeing most as either "meat eaters" or "vegetarians" or "vegans" is very "eurocentric"
Me too!

How fascinating to know the title came from a poem.
So he burned investor money to provide consumers cheap and plentiful access to movies? As far as I'm concerned, this guy is a modern day Robinhood.
Writing is an interesting process, it seems different for everyone. There are lots of tools and techniques so that is not a surprise.
For me sometimes it's putting together LEGOs, other times it's crafting a puzzle or panning for gold.
And a rare few times its felt like hooking into the great creative currents of the universe to bring something to fruition.
I'll add a prominent privacy policy and terms of use. Thanks!
It baffles me that enterprises still choose Ivanti as their security solution 2025
Maybe the temporary foreign worker living in economic servitude to the farm that guarantees their job. /s

For many, perfect is the enemy of the good. Either you remove all suffering or you're a hypocrite. Meanwhile us that genuinely care about our impact on the environment make incremental changes to reduce our negative impact.
https://archive.ph/2025.01.07-220651/https://www.ft.com/cont...
I believe it's a Google thing, which i have turned off because i don't need every call being sent to them for a minor convenience
gen x in tech are some of the wealthiest people in the world. y'all are the new kings.

i graduated high school during the great financial crisis. i remember being near done with college at the university of mississippi when i visited birmingham, alabama and walked through the occupy encampments. i didn't make enough money to contribute to retirement savings til 2019 when i was in my late 20s. your generation has experienced unprecedented stock market gains over your peak earning years. i'm not hopeful that these gains will continue through my peak earning years therefore i prioritize finding creative ways to generate income before it's too late after being complacent with my fat ass tech paycheck sitting at my standup desk and drinking my kombucha with the wool over my eyes while the ai writes my code.
> Which is pretty insane because these two numbers are not supposed to be related

Not really, there is Euler's identity: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_identity
mayo zambada
Neat! Sadly doesn't work in Evince.
cosign, this story is outrageous, it is Lawyer Time, Now. The university is completely out of line and this has all the makings of a disastrous outcome the way they are operating
The Linux Foundation launches an initiative to support open-source browsers
This is usually the way, but still, it's often more difficult than answering when they call
Microsoft preps for a year of enterprise-impacting M365 retirements
The distinction is that not all formal logic systems are Boolean. Meaning that it is nonsensical and confusing to use "Boolean" as a generic synonym for "truth value" in the same way that it's nonsensical to use "Pantone" as a generic synonym for "color value", including when the specific kind of color value you're talking about is CMYK or HSV and definitely not Pantone.
In think they said even $6 per month per user was a bum deal next to $65/year flat for unlimited.
I'm not a lawyer so I can give a little bit of legal advice, but... yeah get a lawyer.

Anybody who is a healthcare provider, anybody who gets paid to do anything that smells even a little bit like health care shouldn't touch this with a ten foot pole. They shouldn't look at it or touch it or think about it very intensely.

If you don't want to be in violation, don't receive medical information, don't store it, don't advertise that you handle it in any way.

Good advice:

- don't do anything at all that suggests that you will handle anything that even slightly hints it is storing, transmitting, or in any way touching healthcare information without being HIPAA compliant.

- especially don't do this as a side project, have a corporate structure with a very solid liability shield and don't do anything to pierce the veil

- do you want to avoid a 5,6, or 7 digit liability? Do everything you can to appear to be trying in good faith to follow the law and comply with regulations. Do things. Keep records of doing those things.

- even if you're _not_ required to, look up and follow the regulations, better yet, actually be HIPAA compliant even if it's not required. Many of these things you should be doing anyway even in very different fields.

- for God's sake get a lawyer and don't ask for advice on the Internet. Pay for the time for someone to sign off on what you do and whether or not you're inside the law
I mean, the link is to ableton.com, the most popular professional music production software. You're not the target audience if you haven't heard of it.
Lying to Ourselves About a Climate Disaster
Love it. I also really enjoyed the book "First You Write a Sentence" by Joe Moran

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/607260/first-you-wr...
A Review of Graph Neural Networks
They complain about this. Then go on to list one of their own works as "inspired by Hotel Plaza in New York". this feels similar?
It's worse than that.

At all times, every single one of the billions of participants acts like a bureaucrat, delaying response until it's unavoidable and then resting afterwards at least half the time. If only we could cut through the bureaucracy!

Neuronal activities:

- Action potential initiation: 0.2-0.5ms

- Action potential duration: ~1-2ms

- Relative refractory period: ~2-4ms

- Total cycle time until fully ready: ~5-7ms
Yeah, same for an Aussie Amiga group in '88 - wholesale piracy, everyone running XCOPY - looking through each other's disk-boxes and copying. I remember seeing ads in the local paper for software at $2 per disk, send SAE for free calalogue. The pirate scene for the Amiga back in those days was huge. We even had a local group that traded on an international scale, hooking everyone up with the big groups in Europe. Fun times for sure!
If you look at all the green, you'll notice the fires are in the equatorial rainforest that runs along the equator. Fire is a quick, non-mechanical way to clear land of vegetation for farming or other uses.

Additionally, in a rainforest, wood is a cheap and easily available source of fuel for day to day household energy needs in areas that are rural, remote and with no electrical services.
>but wages are like 50x that these days

How is that even comparable? Said wage earners aren't even getting to choose which tool they use; let alone those two expenses being remotely comparable in qualitative terms.
I use MyChart. It's a great way for your doctor and clinic to communicate with you.

It's not a place where I'm going to store contact information for all my doctors, or appointments for doctors that aren't at that clinic, or all my prescriptions and all the pharmacies.

When your daughter is reacting badly to her new chemotherapy, and running fevers and throwing up, and somebody needs to call her palliative care specialist and it needs to be you, not her, then where will you find the specialist's phone number?

I hope you'll never be there, but if you are, I think you'll understand.
It’s unfortunate that Claude can’t provide references, but it plausibly suggests that the indigenous population actively managed forests in a radius around their population centers, not the entire land area. So the current larger population doesn’t make the task easier, since the size of the task scales with the population size. Superior technology should certainly make it easier, though. Probably a matter of lack of political will, and bureaucratic inefficiency.
It was a blessing for a defensive war. Serbians didn't "go" anywhere to attack Austrians. It was the other way around. But I guess you already know that. Why did you choose to write "to go kill" when they didn't go anywhere?
> if you drink soy, almond or worse ricemilk you're actually doing something worse for the climate/environment

In what way? Data seems to suggest otherwise but maybe I'm misunderstanding

https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impact-milks
Which is also the root of the word 'government', so a government agent is doubly cybernetic in a sense
From the headline, you wouldn't know that they stopped the car about 15 seconds after he was connected to the remote assistance.
I think Gian-Carlo Rota would disagree with you. See Section 7 of

https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/lg5/Rota.pdf
That makes a lot of sense! Thanks for pointing that out.