skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You can _reason_ about a function from its declaration if it has a clear logical purpose, is well named, and has well named parameters.

I think "reason" in gp's context is "compile-time reasoning" as in the compiler's deterministic algorithm to parse the code and assign properties etc. This has downstream effects with generating compiler errors, etc.

It's not about the human programmer's ability to reason so any "improved naming" of function names or parameters still won't help the compiler out because it's still just an arbitrary "symbol" in the eyes of the parser.
This is a good example of a sensationalist post title.
'With nearly half of the women in the US never reaching their maternity goals, there is an urgent need for innovation' - did they just describe having children like a KPI?
>GPU databases are niche products with severe limitations.

today. For the reasons like i mentioned.

>GPUs are fast at massively parallel math problems, they anren’t useful for all tasks.

GPU are fast at massively parallel tasks. Their memory bandwidth is 10x of that of the CPU for example. So, typical database operations, massively parallel in nature like join or filter, would run about that faster.

Majority of computing can be parallelized and thus benefit from being executed on GPU (with unified memory of the practically usable for enterprise sizes like 128GB).
> Just look at for example Elon Musk and imagine if there were no need for physical pregnancy which i think is the major limiting factor here.

I agree that is a very likely outcome. We've seen that behaviour before in history, e.g. the Ottoman Imperial Harem contained a minimum of several hundred women at its peak. We would almost certainly see it again. Remember, though, that those children still need to be cared for after birth, and that requires humans.
I’m using ChatGPT4o to convert a C# project to C++. Any recommendation on what Ollama model I could use instead?
This is, at least for now, a relatively small market. Illumina acquired the company manufacturing these chips for $100M. Analysis of a genome in the cloud generally costs below $10 on general purpose hardware.

It is of course possible that these chips enable analyses that are currently not possible/prohibited by cost, but at least for now, this will not be the limiting factor for genomics, but cost of sequencing (which is currently $400-500 per genome)
> competing against two Disney/Pixar blockbusters (“Inside Out 2” and “Moana 2”)

The sad state Hollywood finds itself in.
In my experience, social pressure to have children is such a ubiquitous experience that it's difficult for me to think it doesn't have an effect. I wonder how this might vary between men & women
This is a laughably bad analogy, so bad that I suspect you’re being disingenuous.
A good step in right direction!
Six Sins of Platform Teams
> By some estimates, the Roman empire amounted to more than 80 million people at its peak, meaning that about a quarter of the world’s population could have been exposed to the lead pollution generated by mining and smelting. The effects of lead poisoning can be so severe that scholars have debated whether it contributed to the fall of the empire.

I wonder what will happen to current empires from micro- and nano-plastics, PFAS, airpolution, as well as harmful yet popular habits like doomscrolling and games addictions.
Who knows. This was 30 years ago and I'n not up on the latest. His family history though say he was susceptable
Lung function and dust in climbing halls: two pilot studies [pdf]
I fear people in general because I have social anxiety
I turn 49 tomorrow, and my kid’s next birthday will be her 11th. I have a lot more spending on her ahead!
Worse the parent says 2-3 μg/dL or 20-30 μg/L right?
This is not only a chess engine, it's a computer and an assembly language, built in only using Regexp
Getting rich already means you have a higher drive from greed, allowing greedy people in positions of power doesn't mean it makes them less corruptible just that the corruption is on a higher level and degree. Instead of an official taking a bribe on a briefcase full of cash there are layers of indirection, contracts between companies, some kind of trust somewhere that benefits from it, someone gets employed in a position of power like the board of some company, etc.

It's funny because I grew up in a very corrupt country (Brazil), nowadays when I compare the corruption I saw there with developed countries I've lived at the main difference is how brazen and shameless it is in Brazil while in developed places it has more layers to be stuffed into, and veneers attached to it to hide it away.
To add to this discussion is useful the video or eevlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq1DMWtjL2U

where Dave discusses the "Jelly bean" op amps
Cascading Spy Sheets: Exploiting the Complexity of Modern CSS for Fingerprinting
Might work for a small project, but a nightmare for medium to large projects. Imagine Microsoft tests their Outlook (web app) like that.
Clocks show the time that is _passed/past_, that's the point. Hence flooring is correct approach.

Even when you involve physics, you are seeing the nanosecond past. Not the actual time. (The time that takes light to travel from clock to your eyes, then your brain's processing delay via neurons etc.)

Even the thought of being late is the same way. If something starts at 13:00 and you are not already there when it is 13:00:00.000, you are -by definition- late.
A 43% increase and the state of affairs in Canada is far worse now, including that he doubled Canada's debt to over $1.2 trillion - so now our interest payments are also huge, far less money every day going to social services because it's instead just paying interest on the debt.
In Germany it will not be released before March this year. This is a bit confusing, but maybe they are actually rerendering it before the release on this relatively big market.
Useful for identifying the myriad of esp32* variants out there
I elaborated on parametricity in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42621239

There are many ways one can reason about functions, and I think all of us use multiple methods. Parametricity provides one way to do so. One nice feature is that its supported by the programming language, unlike, say, names.
Is that really true? That IQ is often not related to capacity to do valuable intellectual work in the modern world?
Creator of Query Fast here, thanks so much for checking it out! I first launched at the end of November, so it’s still quite early in the journey. Surprisingly, a company recently reached out about acquiring the product, but for now, I’m curious to see where this leads. A few companies have already started using it—currently for free—since I’m still experimenting and not ready to monetize yet.

If you’d like to give it a try and share feedback, I’m happy to help you get set up at no cost!

I’d love to hear about what works well, what’s confusing, or any features you’d like to see. Since it’s just me building this right now, every piece of feedback goes a long way toward helping me improve.
What's truly astounding is that almost everything that we consider to be "civilization" developed over the past 10,000 years or so. The historical turning point was the move from the wandering hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture and permanent human settlements. Before agriculture, the life of humans wasn't a lot different from any other animals, despite the tools.
Since all these AI products just put together things they pull from elsewhere, I'm wondering if, eventually, there could be legal issues involving software products put together using such things.
Thanks for sharing.

I am curious: how low maintenance is this?

Is this something that can be hosted for long periods of time without security interventions and updates?

Is it fire and forget?
> Getting unintentionally pregnant is not a common event in my circles.

Bingo^, especially the “in my circles.” The catch of course is that people have little to zero control over which circles they’re born and raised into, thus creating a vicious cycle.

Good job avoiding a bad outcome, but in the same way it was easy for you due to the circles you arrived on earth in, it’s hard for others due to the circles they arrived on earth in.

This is all true even with high degree of agency. Taking two people with the same degree of agency, one born into or closer to certain norms will have an easier time than one born outside of or further away from those norms.
'WithdrarXiv' database of 14,000 retracted preprints launches
Whoever owns the problem, owns the benefits of applying AI, not those who train the model, not those who host it. The only moat is to own the problem. AIs will be easily commoditised.
i agree that excluding the test data generation from the test should have been required. additionally, the original task should have been formulated much more general, i.e:

Given a function that takes a list of n random integers between x and y,
find the difference between the smallest and the largest numbers whose digits sum up to m.

then define the parameter values for testing and performance evaluation. that should have prevented at least some of the proposed compile time optimizations.

edit: i'm aware though that the performance characteristics might be very different depending on the value of "n", especially when it comes to multithreading, so there should be a clause for that (e.g. n usually > 1m).
As of today,

2038 Epochalyspe countdown:

13 years, 11 days, 16 hours, 28 minutes
Come to believe, only. But the arguments for and against are pretty clearly laid out each time there is an election (and of course any other time like https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/voter-turnout-database/...)

(It's far from the only reason states don't use compulsory voting, I should say. There are many reasons both to have compulsory voting, and many arguments against. But the fact I was trying to point to was that the vast majority of countries don't use mandatory voting - because, one must assume, they feel the cons outweigh the pros)
It's a parody by someone who seems to own the Enron "brand" now.

The Enron name is now owned by the "Birds Aren't Real" authors [1]. So it's safe to say this is a joke.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2025/01/06/enr...
That's generally true. I remember that back then technological advancement was seen as a force for good and freedom. It was difficult to argue against this idea, in the context of the time, even if there were dissonant voices and even when you looked at things critically, you could see cracks on the surface.

People wanting to go back to a simpler, smaller internet -to this mythical prelapsarian era - are in my opinion just nostalgic about how things felt back then. But there is no going back, tragically.
Good point, when you look at your watch your thought should be “3:15 has passed” or “3:15:40 has passed”. One is more precise but if you think of it as a time that has already passed you can budget accordingly. 3:15 tells you that 3:15:00 has definitely passed and as much as 3:15:59 might have passed.
I do this before most purchases. I have most of my money in a savings account, and only what I want to spend on the card itself – mostly so that if it’s stolen, I don’t lose a lot of money. Not sure if this helps me spend less, though!
In case you're curious, I googled. It runs this thing called "DGX OS":

"DGX OS 6 Features
The following are the key features of DGX OS Release 6:

Based on Ubuntu 22.04 with the latest long-term Linux kernel version 5.15 for the recent hardware and security updates and updates to software packages, such as Python and GCC.

Includes the NVIDIA-optimized Linux kernel, which supports GPU Direct Storage (GDS) without additional patches.

Provides access to all NVIDIA GPU driver branches and CUDA toolkit versions.

Uses the Ubuntu OFED by default with the option to install NVIDIA OFED for additional features.

Supports Secure Boot (requires Ubuntu OFED).

Supports DGX H100/H200."
This was my second thought; while we don’t have full performance data, it’s probably a bad day for tinybox.
That number definitely needs some clarification. My guess is that if a single page uses jQuery on a domain, it counts, even though very little of the functionality depends on it. For a large organization with decades of legacy content, it's not hard to imagine jQuery is still used here and there.
> Buying a second house...

I hear this so the time from people who have never owned a home. It's partly true, but not as good if a deal as you think. True that you don't have to pay capital gains taxes when you sell, but that's true of 401ks when taking distributions.

As for HELOC loans, well that's more debit in to of your mortgage. You could get that from an SBLOC from your brokerage account, and under some circumstances, from a 401k. Again this is all more debit, and you don't want that unless you are desperate.

Finally, owning a home does not protect you from increasing housing costs. Increasing property values will increase your taxes and insurance every year, just like a rent increase. Maintenance costs will hit you like a hammer. In the end you pa thousands to maintain your home every year. The only reason to buy a house is to capture a small percentage of the over all cost in equity. But it takes about a decade before that saves money over renting.

All these people complaining about not being able to afford a home don't even have savings. First, get a few months of savings, then max out your 401k or open a brokerage account, then consider buying a house if you think you'll live there for a year.

>What is they want to give themselves a better life

That's not always possible. If you immigrate at the age of 50 and you're very poor, it might be too late. Still, many people will simply benefit from living in a more stable nation.

>All tvs are flat screen now

It was true in 2000 and it's true now. maybe I should have said 4k tvs? it makes no difference.
????? What does any of what you wrote have to do with social mobility statistics? They don’t measure number of businesses or opera attendance when determining movement from bottom quintile of income to top quintile.
Hmmm, I could imagine microplastics, PFAS, artificial dies, excessive and unhealthy amounts of sugar would all have a deleterious effect on IQ. Perhaps even specifically pre frontal cortex, etc.

Though that goes against Europe hitting the decline earlier than the US which leads in sugars and unhealthy foods.
I wonder how well a system would work if it had compulsory voting, but there was always a 'none of the above' option on the ballet. If 'none of the above' gets the most votes or above a certain threshold, the current candidates are disqualified and another election is called with new ones.
Were you able to connect IR LEDs to an official Pi NOIR camera and which ones do you recommend?
Resize vertically to break all limits.
This is a good one. I read it twice just to experience the 70-80s development atmosphere. The daughter of Tom West did complain on Reddit a few years ago that Tom neglected them during the period, but I still admire such personality. The same admiration goes to David Cutler in "Showstopper".
> Source?

https://pressbooks.pub/psycholinguisticsfall2017section2/cha...

> I’ve never heard of babies learning English or French or whatever in utero.

Don’t expect a baby jumping out and saying “a lovely day to all. What are your further plans for the rest of the evening Mother?”

It is more like that structures in the baby’s brain get subtly influenced to better pay attention to certain sounds while paying less attention to others. This is the theory at least. There is some experimental evidence mentioned in the link, but i haven’t reviewed all of it.
The app offers more options for customizing the title, colors, and adding a call-to-action button, enabling people to interact with the bar/banner. It automatically generates the HTML and CSS, so you only need to copy and paste it.
I find Bezos' statement to be a bit oversimplified. For example Temu (and virtually every other Chinese E commerce) wipes the floor with price and selection. Costco is cheaper than Walmart. Yet Amazon is vastly larger than both.
It's been 2025 for 6 months already...
With all due respect, it does not look like you have looked at any of this earnestly. First of all, the results are not marginally significant. In every variant of the analysis, the results are significant at the p < 0.001 level. This is not modelling, this is data analysis. "Validated" doesn't really make sense in this context.

Methodologically this is bog standard econometrics. The quality of the dataset is as good as any used in economics, all you have done is cited their own transparent disclosure of the limitations. You can now say that we should never look at any economic data to make any analysis, but that would be a rather extreme position to take. Much much worse papers have had disproportionate policy impacts [1]. These papers are taken very seriously by every major relevant institution.

If the data is low quality, and you still obtain a strong signal, that shows the result is robust, unless the data errors can be expected to be correlated with the drivers. And this is where this analysis is a lot simpler and more robust than standard econometrics: The economy doesn't influence the weather. Common drivers are conceivable, but the panel regression controls for both regional and temporal background rates. At this point it is very difficult to conceive of common drivers that would not be controlled for here.

Finally: "One of the most depressing conclusions I reached when studying this topic a few years ago was that we don't really know if the world is getting warmer or not."

If your conclusion is contrary to that of _every_ scientist who studies this for a living, you should consider the hypothesis that the problem is with your reasoning/analysis and not with everyone else.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt
From the outside, it sounds like the American Dream is one of the things that led them to where they are.
Really appreciate the reply. Thanks.
> Seriously? Cloning Amazon is not equivalent to cloning a frontend...

A frontend isn't a business, something that a good number of startups forget.

What I mean is that card payment, shipping, inventory management and sourcing are trivial compared to when amazon started.
I totally buy that for a commercial kitchen particularly going to the lengths in the sibling article but at home you're usually cooking a bunch of stuff and in general will be taking longer.

Also the vast majority of that time is fire and forget since it's just doing its thing in the oven. Yesterday for example I made fish and chips for my family of four and made chips peeled, cut, par-boiled and twice fried in as long as it took to prep and cook the fish, make a salad and heat up some baked beans. Which is a heck of a lot more active than the easiest way to do it but hardly this huge time sink.

I suspect choice at home is more expectations and lifestyle related.
From bad to worse. Meta is probably one of the single largest funders of fact checking. Now that appears to be coming to an end. Third parties will no longer be able to flag misinfo on FB, Instagram or Threads in the US.

This is not good imho.
NY is probably the only city where this could work because it’s the only proper American city that has a real metro system. Every other city will require major upgrades to have modern public transportation, and the density isn’t there in most American cities that were designed around the car.
Show HN: Galaxybrain.com – a JSON-based knowledge system
Hi HN,

I’d like to share a project I’ve been working on called GalaxyBrain. It’s a tool for organizing information.

Key features:
Embeddable dynamic metadata: as you type, metadata is generated in the background. This metadata can be accessed and embedded directly into the page.

Light programming concepts built in: you can add custom values (think variables) to any page, then reference those values across different pages to build dynamic relationships.

Metadata can be chained together: referencing values on other pages, or by using a formula. Updates to anything flow through the entire system (like a spreadsheet).

It runs on local JSON files: plan is to offer a hosted version, with structured end points for everything so you can use it as a datastore. If you host the json files locally it will be free forever.

I use it to build a model of my life. Everything I care about has a page, each with its own dynamic metadata that updates in real time as things change within the system. Each page acts like a little dashboard for that thing.

The app is pretty sprawling, and there's still some bugs on the fringes. I'm onboarding people slowly and fixing bugs as they come up. I wanted to share it early to get feedback and see if I was onto something.

Demo link: https://galaxybrain.com
> Getting rich already means you have a higher drive from greed

I know tons of people who work at NVidia for whom this isn’t true. They love working on hardware and suddenly we’re worth 8 figures because of the rise of the stock.
Building Ultra Long Range Toslink
> Fiche bliain ag fás,

> Fiche bliain faoi bhláth,

> Fiche bliain ag meath

> Agus fiche bliain gur cuma ann no as.

"Twenty years growing,

Twenty years in bloom,

Twenty years in decline,

And twenty years when it makes no difference if you're there or gone."
Open WebUI, SillyTavern, and other frontends can access any OpenAI-compatible server, and on Nvidia cards you have a wealth of options that will run one of those servers for you: llama.cpp (or the Ollama wrapper), of course, but also the faster vLLM and SGLang inference engines. Buy one of these, slap SGLang or vLLM on it, and point your devices at your machine's local IP address.

I'm mildly skeptical about performance here: they aren't saying what the memory bandwidth is, and that'll have a major impact on tokens-per-second. If it's anywhere close to the 4090, or even the M2 Ultra, 128GB of Nvidia is a steal at $3k. Getting that amount of VRAM on anything non-Apple used to be tens of thousands of dollars.

(They're also mentioning running the large models at Q4, which will definitely hurt the model's intelligence vs FP8 or BF16. But most people running models on Macs runs them at Q4, so I guess it's a valid comparison. You can at least run a 70B at FP8 on one of these even with fairly large context size, which I think will be the sweet spot.)
“Hygiene” in the context of macro systems refers to the user’s code and the macro’s inserted code being unable to capture each other’s variables (either at all or without explicit action on part of the macro author). If, say, you’re writing a macro and your generated code declares a variable called ‘x’ for its own purposes, you most probably don’t want that variable to interfere with a chunk of user’s code you received that uses an ‘x’ from an enclosing scope, even if naïvely the user’s ‘x’ is shadowed by the macro’s ‘x’ at the insertion point of the chunk.

It’s possible but tedious and error-prone to avoid this problem by hand by generating unique identifier names for all macro-defined runtime variables (this usually goes by the Lisp name GENSYM). But what you actually want, arguably, is an extended notion of lexical scope where it also applies to the macro’s text and macro user’s program as written instead of the macroexpanded output, so the macro’s and user’s variables can’t interfere with each other simply because they appear in completely different places of the program—again, as written, not as macroexpanded. That’s possible to implement, and many Scheme implementations do it for example, but it’s tricky. And it becomes less clear-cut what this even means when the macro is allowed to peer into the user’s code and change pieces inside.

(Sorry for the lack of examples; I don’t know enough to write one in Zig, and I’m not sure giving one in Scheme would be helpful.)