skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I calculated the "cost per dollar" of all of the offerings on the website at the moment.

The best "deal" is the most expensive – $100 x 16 for $1,860, at $1.16 per dollar.
The worst deal is the cheapest – $1 x 5 for $18.50, at $3.70 per dollar.

Sheet here - corrections welcome:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Nb_WLW_WxOYSUS12fslf...
A big reason driving the collapse of the Canadian dollar is the incumbent government's climate change policy. Since being elected to power, the government has regulated, stalled and effectively defunded the fossil fuel industry, accounting for approx. 22-30% of Canada's GDP. That loss of revenue is felt in the dollar exchange.
> It turns out real life is far more messy than a 30-60 minute tv drama.

But at the end of the day, they jury is asked to decide if an accusation is true "beyond a reasonable doubt".
>That digital clock does show seconds

It most certainly does not.

I see HH:MM, temperature in Celsius, humidity in percent, alarm status, alarm time, day of the week, and DD/MM. None of those are seconds. It is a truncating digital clock that rounds down.

>the London clock has its minute hand in between minute mark - showing progres between minute mark if you look closely.

"If you look closely" isn't really how analog clocks work in practice. Without a second hand, the limits of human vision prevent us from fully calculating the time between minutes, as each second only represents a 0.1° change in angle of the minute hand, and most mechanical analog clocks aren't designed for the minute hand to move perfectly linearly between minutes.
I value the hard stance on stability and backwards compatibility over the constant churn that some JS libraries/frameworks have. I understand the need both approaches, but this is a breath of fresh air.

I also happen to think that most web apps have no business being so complex, and that too much work goes into dealing with the added complexity of running SPAs where an SPA is not needed.
Hey HN,

I am a 17 yr old entrepreneur

After 3 tries and failing, I finally created this product.

I used the cursor as the code editor.

But this thing was super fun since I learned a lot of new things.

Thanks.
It's quite clear what the limits are for protests in Ottawa. There are dozens to hundreds of protesters in Ottawa continuously. There are regularly protests of thousands of people. If you want to block the road, you get a parade permit which is easy to get. You can shout as long as you want, but if you use an amplifier the police will eventually take it away from you. You can carry obnoxious signs. Blocked roads because of protests are an annoying fact of life in Ottawa. But you shrug and move on, it's a cost of living/working in downtown Ottawa. I've never seen a protest block the road for more than 4 hours.
I’m very grateful for how htmx by focussing on a very specific part of “interactive JavaScript on the page” was able to shift a whole bunch of similar JavaScript actions into an elegant abstraction that rested so neatly on all the existing work that had/has gone into developing html. And even for having the clarity to name it as such.

In a way it’s a bit of a lesson in managing complexity, rather than seek to be “the next JavaScript framework to replace all the others with its theory of the universe”, it instead carved off a smaller slice and said these Thich are related, we’re just for dealing with these thing, nothing more.

In one swoop a whole raft of manual developer programming workload was packed up with a new easier to understand abstraction.

Kudos to the team, I’m grateful for the considered way you’ve developed this tool for the rest of us.
Even people charged with actual violent crimes still have access to their money. Funds seizure is a while other level of fucked up.
> I'm not on the pulse of Canadian politics, so I don't really know what sins or political circumstances have led Trudeau to this point, or if he has any redeeming qualities. Personally, I'm glad to see him gone.

This seems like a pretty big conclusion to reach based on one article and one topic, no? Especially when you, in the same sentence, also recognize that you don't follow Canadian politics?
Well it depends on the interval. Taken to the limit, this would be a very nerdy way to rediscover calculus.
Quicken for Mac is also very nice as a native app and one time purchase.
Such an odd anecdote given that it wasn't that long ago Igor Kenk was the king of bike theft in Toronto.
What were the general public's opinion of the protests?

Also how 'dangerous' was the convoy perceived to be?

Were the actions of the Government deemed to be overreach?
But then she would be irritated. And we can’t have that. /s
I have migrated from Canada to the USA and my metrics for wealth, ease of mind, actually working while at work, outgoingness, etc instantly improved. I don't plan on ever going back. I feel chagrin at seeing Canada fail. I'm glad to see Justin Trudeau pressured out, I know there won't be meaningful change associated with the decision, but I have hope.
Indeed, a hybrid approach seems better.
That's actually bad for the economy. Canadian companies benefit from the lower dollar as goods are often sold in USD, but wages are paid in CAD. 0.75 to 0.8 is the historical benchmark for the exchange rate.
I disagree.

I've used it for things like "regardless of where you are on the page, tab n times and shift tab n times leaves you on the original item".

I found a bug in our tv ui library which was actually a bug in the spec. Regardless of how you built the ui, if you press a direction and focus moves, pressing the opposite direction takes you back - but we had another rule that broke this. We had tests for both, and it was only when I made the general test (for all ui, items in it and directions) it found the inconsistency.

It was also pretty easy to write.

I've also found issues around text processing due to lowercasing not always resulting in the same length string and more. I found a bug demoing pbt for a contact gig I was going for that was around some versioning.

To be honest I've never implemented it, even for a demo, and not found a bug.
The key to largeco success is to understand that when you own a certain area, especially if it's an area that will generate opinions or a visibility boost, you will need to manage your full stack, not just the code you write. Code access, PR acceptability requirements, roadmap, triaged backlog, and communication upwards, downwards, and sideways.

If you're not doing that work, either someone else is going to do it or it'll cause issues down the road. Look at it this way: you can either be grateful that so many folks are wanting to help you in your effort and coordinate that effort, or you can stick to the code and complain that someone else is trying to steal your credit.

All of this hinges entirely on your direct manager (and to an extent their manager) being an actually good manager, and not a microcontroller, pass-the-buck-er, or an empty chair.
The people who created ChatGPT have very fancy educations. Do you think any of them didn’t have or didn’t do homework?
>They meet the specs of the U.S. government, so by law, these are legal tender.

That's not how it works. North Korea is great at producing dollars that "meet the specs" but they are still counterfeit.

The US dollar is not an open standard. Valid US currency is only produced by the mint. If you do something to a valid US dollar, it might still stay a valid US dollar, but that's not because they still "meet the specs".

Meanwhile the law says

>“whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.” 18 U.S.C. § 333.
I bought a sheet of $2 bills and tried to cut them myself with scissors first. My wife took one look at my handiwork and said "Well, you're going to jail."
1997 would have been an ideal year for this to happen (except for the sound engine): https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/blob/a77dfb96cb91780ca33...
I learned typing on an IBM Selectric, my parents made me take a typing course before they would buy a computer. White-out or correction tape was how we fixed typos (or just didn't make them). If you were smart you wrote your words out longhand before typing them; you didn't "think" while typing.

The early computerized typewriters kinda sucked - you could do line level edits but the print quality was dot matrix or worse.
I am a centrist. There have been a ton of studies on various sides of the spectrum highlighting issues with FPTP as a system.

Its not they disagree with _me_, they disagree with the overall state of political science and its years of research into the outcomes of systems, not just what people "want"
Many LLM's already have that information, and will tell you if you jailbreak it or use an abliterated model.
Has anyone ever wondered why in the US the week starts on Sunday, but in Europe and Asia it starts on Monday?
Needs a URL preview btw
When Marc said this quote, the undercurrent was "We are taking control." This aligns with what the write describes. The goal is to maximize economic gains while providing as little as possible using automation and technology.

Edit: economic gains == wealth == control for the purposes of this discussion imho.
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If true, the child may simply be experimenting with ChatGPT as we all have.

The process described sounds like it is a lot more work than just answering the questions using knowledge.
Hahaha yeah! Me too! Good thing I escaped that!

Now back to my coding job, I really have to focus and push enough of these buttons or I’ll get fired and won’t get my pay
I'm close to someone who teaches at a university, and they're making heavy use of in-room essays written in blue books. This ensures that the work is purely the students, but I think it also has the side-effect that the grader is also working manually.

I kinda think maybe at earlier levels, most homework should be moved into the classroom and done on paper anyway? What's the point of homework if they're not going to do it themselves and they're not going to learn? So just push that back into the classroom and don't try to take up their time out of school needlessly.
Maybe he was stupid to the point of just being naive.
It always is this. Same reason the CAD was at parity during the financial crisis.
Public schools here in suburban Boston MA still teach analog first.
Consumer-grade routers on puny power supplies (2024)
> When I say or hear 11:30, I assume it can be within 11:30:00 and 11:30:59.

And if you cared about seconds-precision, you would assume 11:30:30, and thus your error would average the same 15s.

The difference is that when you observe a minute change, you know that's exactly at zero seconds (instead of 30 — or 31 if you apply the same rounding rule to seconds).

It is fair to ask a question if rounding would be more useful (nope), but the entire article is incoherent and speaks mostly of the author's confusion.
Mostly partisan propaganda. The "Canada is broken" slogan is by no means organic; it is a carefully executed propaganda piece. The conservative leader is very good with punch lines and communication in general (and is maybe a bit too proud of it - e.g. he has a "Justinflation" plaque in his office; a term that he coined).

There are problems and people want them fixed. That is always the case. In a short couple of years Canada will suddenly not be broken anymore, as everyone will forget the slogan. Then in a few more years the next opposition will decry how awful things are, etc. It is all very predictable and clear.
Anyone who has done timer or countdown-based work has to think the opposite. Whether that's sports or event production, rocket launches, or so on. You're not thinking about the time you've past/expended. You're thinking of the time you still have left. "Two minutes left in game." "We're live in 30 seconds" etc.
Siri broke me, so I built my own
She’s like that one coworker who never listens but thinks she’s helpful.
So, I snapped and made my own AI assistant—StarCy. She’s superhuman-like, actually understands me (take notes, Siri), and feels like chatting with a friend, not a robot.
If you’re done with Siri too, maybe build your own—seriously therapeutic. Or, hit me up if you wanna borrow mine.
What’s Siri done to drive you nuts? Share your pain.
Don't leave out the SNC-Lavalin ethics breaches!
Looks very interesting. I played around with (dependently) typed combinatory logic a while ago, using a system called "illative combinatory logic" http://www.chriswarbo.net/blog/2012-12-01-typed_combinators.... and I agree that's it's hard to actually use ;)

I was approaching typed combinator expressions as a target for AI systems (this predated transformers; I was thinking more like genetic programming, inductive programming, etc.), but in order to trust the results it would need to be free from paradoxes (like Type : Type).
> proposed amendment that passed the House but failed in the Senate

Yes. Read the history of its support. If Nixon’s SCOTUS pick hadn’t been tanked the amendment would have likely passed.

> If 3/4 of the states were going to pass an amendment then why wouldn't 2/3 call for a convention of the states?

One of these is more drastic than the other.
pdf version, slightly better formatted: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-24-138A1.pdf
Wow, TIL. Looks like a fairly recent feature, though (at least in certain browsers).
> I'm pretty sure if an LLM creates Paul's Boutique 2.0 in 2025 using incredible number of samples, then someone cannot sell it (or use it in a YouTube video) without first licensing those samples. I doubt very much someone could just "hide behind" an LLM and claim, "Oh, it is original, but derivative, work, created by an LLM." I doubt courts would allow that.

This isn’t how LLM’s work though. Samples are just that, literal samples that are copied from one work to another verbatim. LLM’s use training data to construct a predictive model of which tokens follow each other. You probably could get an LLM to use samples deliberately if you wanted to, but this isn’t how they typically work.

Regardless, at that point you’re just evaluating the claim of copyright infringement based on the nature of the work itself, which is exactly what I’m advocating, versus presuming that all LLM output is necessarily copyright infringement if any copyrighted material was used in training.
I think the book with the human in the Chinese Room represents the AI.
That’s why you don’t create a passkey for the service that manages your credentials.

Use a pair of yubikeys.

BTW, all major email providers have a flow to allow you to recover access to your account.

When you enable passkeys it doesn’t suddenly deactivate every other way of logging in.
> Next time you revolutionize an entire field and build a multi-billion company in the process you can come back to criticize him

It doesn't really work like that. Critism is valid regardless of whether someone else has a billion dollar company or not.

Now maybe, calling him "full retard" is a bit much.

But Open AI does have a history of hyping their tech too much. Like remember the whole scare of "oh we are so afraid that we cant release this model, it is so dangerous" and then it gets released and its a chatbot.
Related Japan pharma startup to begin human trials of tooth regrowth drug in 2024 (260 points, 2023, 88 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37638956
I don't remember a protestor shot by cops in the US? Searching, I see something happened in Atlanta?

And I remember a few motorist incidents, but numerous? Certainly more than I would prefer.
In the past maybe. Now that all managers are 'working managers' and treated as a manager and an addition human work unit I'm not so sure. Corporations don't normally replaced the fired manager with an additional human work unit and just expect the team to absorb one more HWU worth of work with the smaller headcount.
This could be a good allegory for sampling intervals. I’m forever having to explain to people that if they are looking at data every 60 seconds they can take a lot longer to notice a problem than common sense would suggest. Your new information shows up on average 30 seconds late and up to 59.99999 seconds late. If you’re trying to compare the last two samples to detect a problem then you’re going to see it up to 2 minutes after it already started, since it could start 1 ms after the first sample. Particularly in systems where multiple actors are using periodic actions.
It's not a startup vs large company problem but a DNA/company culture thing. I've been at 50 person startups that implemented okrs like Meta or Google.
> and less-than-joking threats of annexation

If Poilievre gets elected, will he willingly join the USA? It seems that the world is more and more aligned by political spectrum rather than national allegiance.
I was trying to keep the point simple, but realistically I'm not advocating for complete chaos, there will probably still have to be allocations, ie "Please don't key up your baofeng in the middle of a cell channel". Equipment will probably always be band specific to an extent, the bands are just widening with technological progress.

The issue is that spectrum auctions are probably the least efficient and equitable way of distributing allocations available. There isn't a standard unit conversion between utility in dollars and bandwidth in Hz. There are individuals with enough money that they could buy their own national spectrum allocations just for their personal use alone.

That said, there are ways to maintain efficiency. TDMA can still be implemented in a distributed fashion using GPS or device collaboration, we just didn't do it with wifi because it would have been cost prohibitive 20 years ago.

For the sake of argument, a naive approach would be to generate a UTM grid square based on a fraction of some maximum reasonable wifi footprint, then the system in that grid would get a frequency allocation, and everything within that grid would time sync and TDMA on that frequency. Neighboring cells would get a different frequency and devices 2-3 cells over could start reusing frequencies. Obviously this doesn't work in an apartment high-rise but that's fixable.
Calculators are deterministic. I'd be super upset if my sister was using a calculator that can hallucinate and trusting the output.
Gravity's existence isn't open for debate, that doesn't mean there isn't more to learn about it.

The studied and understood outcomes of FPTP systems in the real world have all shown similar issues trending towards 2 party systems, being susceptible to vote splitting on one side of the spectrum and leading to 'strategic' instead of 'idealistic' voting.

There are worse systems by far, and better systems. Ignoring the bad because you can think of a single worse system is ignoring reality.
Screen readers might help. LLMs too.
Neither WordPerfect nor WordStar even connected for me. No disrespect for anyone for whom they did.

Never really loved Word for Windows to be honest, though I used it a lot over the years. Though liked the DOS version.
He ordered the finance minister to walk the metaphorical plank and she did not acquiesce
~43% of the internet runs on WordPress[1] while ~75% of the internet uses jQuery[2], so even if you took out every website that used jQuery due to being built on WordPress, the number of websites using jQuery would be over six times higher than the number of sites built using react.

[1] - https://colorlib.com/wp/wordpress-statistics/

[2] - https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/javascript_library
The Police Chief lost his job over it. What other consequences would you think appropriate?
The comment I responded to sounded like a threat. If that wasn’t your intention it may benefit from being reworded.
*> You realize there were other systems besides PC and Mac?*

Yep, I do. I was an Atari ST, then Amiga user until long past when those platforms were considered alive. :-)

But in terms of influence, MacWrite had more (eg. Microsoft Word for Mac).

For general consumer use, I found MacWrite much better than Signum. But I can see your point in terms of academics and non-English speakers.

BTW, if anyone's curious, I believe the actual first WYSIWYG word processor was probably Bravo[1]. And Bravo somewhat influenced MacWrite.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravo_(editor)
This smelled like one of those things where they've applied a certain behavior to an entire class of widget for consistency's sake, and TextEdit just happens to use that widget. If so, it'd be controlled at the system settings level.

Sure enough: System Settings -> Keyboard -> (under the "text input" area) Edit... (button next to your primary keyboard language) -> toggle "Show Inline Predictive Text"

If you want to easily switch between having it and not, I bet you can set a second keyboard with the same language but a different setting there and use the quick keyboard switcher widget/shortcuts (I did not try this, though). Or there's probably a way to shortcut it with AppleScript or some other automation thingy with ten minutes of effort (mostly googling).
But the example functionality is backspacing, which of course in no way requires a GUI. You could just as easily cite AtariWriter or Bank Street Writer, which came out before WordPerfect.
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So your only change would be needing to store a recovery code instead of the password.
Then why not build solutions to congestion if that's the problem? If you had all APs adjust their power based on the other networks in range, then you could dynamically reduce power output to reduce congestion. If your AP knows you're in a congested area, then it could adjust its behavior accordingly - reduce power, select the least used channel, etc.
For iPhone?
A lot of the lack of coordination devolves into cost center arbitrage as well. Often intentional.

I once worked at a shop that outsourced their datacenter to such a low cost bidder, that simple RAID disk replacements would be delayed for weeks and in a couple cases caused complete loss of a RAID array due to cascading drive failures.

Of course the datacenter guy got to point to his OKR for reducing operating costs. Meanwhile the "Big Data" team using their services was saddled with their losing days worth of highly paid engineers time as we chased tickets, dealt with data recovery, etc.

I'm now sat in the "final customer" internal seat and seeing it from the outside. IT brought us their new years plan to decommission some stuff I use, when I prodded a bit, they admitted was basically a cost allocation problem.

They were pushing the responsibility onto users like me, because they weren't good at allocating costs. No argument that it was more efficient or a good use of their customers time/resources. Simply that they hadn't gotten around to implementing metering so why not just stop offering the service entirely...
I feel this article makes the same mistake many technical articles make.

What does it do? After reading a large chunk of the article, I have no idea. No, wait it "enables behavior".

Maybe it's only relevant to people that are already familiar with it. But it would seem that a hacker news front page would be a great opportunity to let more people know about your product.