skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm listening to Unruly by David Mitchell at the moment which chronicles England's monarchs (I really recommend it). The "glorious past" myth seems to be a key part of forming, legitimising and maintaining an empire, whether that past is completely mythological like King Arthur or somewhat historical like the Roman empire.
The clear-headed perspective would be to assume that a YouTube channel could disappear at any minute and there is little recourse unless an attorney is hired. It's their ball and their game. What rule that does not exist today could exist tomorrow.
Right, this system of government is obviously not working very well at representing the will of the people currently, nor has it ever.

You can debate why turnout is so low in this country for something so high stakes. The obvious things to reach for are the electoral college (where votes simply don't matter unless you live in a swing state) and the two party "system" (where you have to vote for an omnibus which will definitely have things you disagree with).

But it's just plain rotten. The only people this seems to work for consistently are the wealthy.
I’m sure you could do N64 style graphics at 120Hz on an iGPU with modern hardware, hahaha. I wonder if that would be a good option for competitive shooters.

I don’t really mind low frame rates, but latency is often noticeable and annoying. I often wonder if high frame rates are papering over some latency problems in modern engines. Buffering frames or something like that.
Show HN: AI that generate flashcards for langages
Worked on this for few weeks, while learning Korean i used both chatgpt and other flashcards app out there during my learning. so i thought of merging these two in a single app to learn more effectively and have everything in the same place

Few features that i like are memory to ensure no duplicate and context handling as well as tone options for specific generation

hope you find this useful, comments and ideas are welcome!
Look up Clarence Bass [0]

You can stay impressively fit well into your 80s :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Bass
Now that the majority of their revenue is from data centers instead of Windows gaming PCs, you'd think their relationship with Linux should improve or already has.
he OSM Foundation has recently received investment from the Sovereign Tech Fund to ensure the stability, growth and modernization of OpenStreetMap’s core software. In this context we are looking for a OSM core software development facilitator who will help the growing team of developers of the OpenStreetMap core software to coordinate and organise their work.
Both autocomplete and chat are half-way UX solutions. Really what I need is some kind of mix of in-place chat with completion.

For context, very often I have to put some comment before the line for completion to set an expectation context.

Instead editor should allow me to influence completion with some kind of in-place suggestion input available under keyboard shortcut. Then I could type what I want into such input and when I hit Enter or Tab the completion proposal appears. Even better if it would let me undo/modify such input, and have shortcuts like "show me different option", "go back to previous".
I'm tempted to screenshot and share this comment on Bluesky, but I have reservations.
I am very late to the party but the first exercise you are mentioning is popular in my district in South India. It is done by elders to relatively young people with stomach issues, vomiting etc. In Tamil, it is called "Rubbing the intestine". My grandma used to do that to me when I was a kid. I had always assumed it was a superstitious pseudo-xxx stuff. I am humbled and amazed by the fact that the same procedure was rediscovered by someone from the other part of the world years later.
Depends. My country doesn't moderate social networks in any way. Instead, it profiles people. Nationals who are not behaving get called, foreigners are turned in the border.

As expected, our posts are complying, you would think we live in Switzerland
AI Code Review Tools
> but from public perception perspective, california is biased

The public perception pushed by whom, specifically?
Reference cards make up the vast minority of cards for a specific generation though. I looked for numbers and could not find them but they tend to be the Goldilocks of cards if you can grab one because they sell at msrp IIRC.
Yeah is fast and cheap because the BSP tree is created after the level mapped out. It's also why "Will it run DOOM?!" is a thing.

For further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_engine#Binary_space_parti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_space_partitioning#Appl...
The company isn’t organized to do that. It’s a handful of 40 year olds holding a carrot on a stick in front of 20-30 year olds. The leadership doesn’t actually direct any product development so it’s just meetings and chaos.
Do you have experience with snapshot tests? If not, you should try it out for a bit and see what we mean, you'll quickly run into the situation we described.

If you introduce a new feature and have a new button on the page, for example, the snapshot test will fail (by necessity, you're changing what's on the page) because the snapshot doesn't match the current version with the new button, for example. So, what you have to do is regenerate the snapshot (regenerating it will always make it pass).

The problem is in my experience, that these kind of tests are massively unreliable. So you either fiddle with tolerances (most testing libraries let you set a threshold for what constitutes a failure in a snapshot) a lot, or you manually have to hunt down and pixel peek at what might've happened.

As an example of what usually happens is that, at some middle step of the test an assert fails because some new code causes things to render slightly out-of-order or delayed in some way. Ultimately the final product is good and if it was an intelligent system it would give it a pass. The unit tests pass. Even the integration and E2E tests pass, but the snapshot tests fail because something changed. The chance that this test failure is a false positive is much, much higher than the chance of it being a legitimate failure, but let's assume it's legitimate like the good citizens we are and try to hunt it down.

So, you go through the snapshots, 1-by-1, setting breakpoints where you think things might break - note that this process by itself is painful, slow and manual, and often running snapshot tests on your local machine can break things because things get rendered differently than how they would in CI, which leads to an extra set of headaches - What happens here is that you're testing an imperfect reflection of what the actual underlying app is, though, because a lot or most of it will be mocked/hoisted/whatever. So sifting through what is a potential breakage, and what is just the quirk of the snapshot test is basically a gamble at best. You spin up the app locally and see that nothing looks out of the ordinary. No errors to be seen. Things look and behave as they should. You have your other tests, and they all pass. So, you chalk it up to a false positive, regen the snapshots, and go on with your day.

The next day you add some other thing to the page. Uh oh, snapshots fail again!

Rinse and repeat like this, and after the 50th time sitting there waiting for the snapshot to be captured, you decide there are better ways to spend your limited time on this mortal plain and just say "Fuck it, this one's probably a false positive as well" after taking a 2 minute look at the page locally before hitting the repacture command again.

I legitimately don't think I've ever actually seen a non-false positive snapshot test failure, to be honest.
USB-C has obfuscated things but I was hoping the following would work:

Buy a Y-cable from Ali Express that has USB-C male to plug into the phone, and both USB-C female and USB-A female sockets. Plug keyboard into the USB-A and the charger into USB-C.

But it doesn't work, and I suspect it's a software limitation at least on my phone (Moto G Play 2023). If the charger is plugged in first, the phone will charge but not use the keyboard. If the keyboard is plugged in first, the phone will use it, but not charge. I think the wires are there to make it all work, but the phone's OS just doesn't support this scenario. Pity.

Needless to say documentation is nonexistent so I don't actually know what's in the cable. For all I know, the two female sockets are just connected in parallel.
Couple of different things I've tried that I've had pretty good luck with. Either just giving it a picture of something similar and saying "I want my layout to look like this". You can give it your code and tell it something like "I want the text in Box A to line up with XYZ" or something similar.

I treat it as if I'm speaking with the world's foremost expert on CSS and most of the time it's spot on.
See also:

- Mark Zuckerberg: Fact-checking on Meta is too "politically biased" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42622147

- It's time to get back to our roots around free expression https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42622082

- More speech and fewer mistakes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42621627
> I assume you're talking about auto-pilot?

Full Self Driving. Tesla doesn't charge extra for Autopilot.
Personal Liability Concerns Impact 70% of Cybersecurity Leaders
Oh, please. I've generated many, many images. They are not hard to spot.
2kW is literally the output of my patio heater haha
This is supply and demand at work. NVIDIA has to choose to either sell consumer or high end and they can reserve so much resources from TSMC. Also, Apple has outsold hardware before or it has high demand when it releases but for NVIDIA they have nearly constant purchases throughout the year from enterprise and also during consumer product launches.
So why bother securing anything at all if not willing to secure the raisons d'être? Doesn’t that suggest that these companies are trivial entities?
Nvidia also doesn't make the "core" (i.e. the actual chip). TSMC and Samsung make those. Nvidia designs the chip and (usually) creates a reference PCB to show how to make an actual working GPU using that chip you got from e.g. TSMC. Sometimes (especially in more recent years) they also sell that design as "founders" edition. But they don't sell most of their hardware directly to average consumers. Of course they also provide drivers to interface with their chips and tons of libraries for parallel computing that makes the most of their design.

Most people don't realize that Nvidia is much more of a software company than a hardware company. CUDA in particular is like 90% of the reason why they are where they are while AMD and Intel struggle to keep up.
Do you live somewhat near a Microcenter? They'll likely have these as in-store pick up only, no online reservations, 1 per customer. Recently got a 9800X3D CPU from them, its nice they're trying to prevent scalping.
Small binaries can improve performance, it's not just data that needs caching.
> No tyranny can ever truly take hold in societies where information flows freely and generously.

Plenty of tyranny can take hold in societies which can no longer distinguish between information and effluent.
> Then I decided I'd screwed up my design sketch by requiring one of the opamps to sink significant current very close to the negative rail, which is something even "rail-to-rail" opamps can't do; I was planning to use millivolts from ground to represent measured nanoamps.

Get an OpAmp specifically designed for current sense applications.

OpAmps for current sense applications have high accuracy near 0 Volts and Vos measured in single digit microvolts.

Oh, you WILL lose bandwidth with these designs. So make sure you are allowed to be much much slower.
Either way, the sustained output is ridiculous. These racers go harder than me on my gravel bike, fully self supported, often on rough tracks, for 20ish hours a day, day after day.

Then at the other end of the spectrum there are lots of people who go quite slow, but for months. I'm not sure which is more impressive; both show tremendous grit but in different ways.
Survivors bias though. It's hard to name all the companies that failed in the dot com bust, but even among the ones that made it through, because they're not around any more, they're harder to remember than the winners. But MCI, Palm, RIM, Nortel, Compaq, Pets.com, Webvan all failed and went to zero. There's an uncountable number of ICOs and NFTs that ended up nowhere. SVB isn't exactly an tech stock but they were strongly connected to it and they failed.
It's possible. I haven't had a system completely destroyed by Nvidia in the last few years, but I've been assuming that's because I've gotten in the habit of just not touching it once I get it working...
We shall wait for real world benchmarks to address the raster performance increase.

The bold claim "5070 is like a 4090 at 549$" is quite different if we factor in that it's basically in DLSS only.
OptView2: Inspect missed optimizations by LLVM Clang
Here's [0] a muuuuch more balanced overview of the situation, the day after the ambassador bridge was opened.

[0] https://youtu.be/f7YIpSWqT0s?si=0DdPECPkBcU1AKKj
Masters of Doom is quite good about John Carmack and the creation of id Software.
This is just shaping the actions of claude in a way that I'm 100% sure direct prompting could do, but would deprive us of claiming any "emergent" "self-aware" behavior, ergo it's shadow puppetry.

Even if it were able to engage in continuing action, it would be no more "self-directing" than the Morris Worm, that no one claimed was self-aware. It's just doing what it's programmed to do, only the programming is made less obviously directive, and credit is shifted to the computer system.

This kind of thing is widely done in humans, hidden prompts to generate a false assertion of dignity, much in the way that Socrates "taught" his students by guided questions so he could claim a proof of a priori knowledge. Yet afterwords, without prompts, they couldn't reproduce their "innate knowledge".

A sham.
I think there's probably life out there but once they ditch the shackles of religion they're overcome with ennui and they just end up whiling their time away on their celestial couches in VR with their AI life partners.

I mean, if interstellar travel requires practically infinite energy OR time, what's the point? You're not going to spend a solar system's worth of resources to go mine a planet. And if you've already figured out what's out there, nobody is going to sign up for living on a thousand year generation ship cruising the cosmos hoping you don't get annihilated by running into interstellar litter at near light speed.

If there's life out there, they're probably just sending probes. And if they're sending self-replicating swarms out into the cosmos (why?), you probably don't figure it out until it's too late and they show up and swiftly sterilize your planet.
RAW is minimally processed data,
but it's still processed.
Also, it has a wider dynamic range than the 12 stops a human eye can produce within a given scene.
The ability of the iris to change size and the brain's ability to process what the eye sees gives the impression of a wider dynamic range.
In short, no image, with no process, accurately represents how the eye sees a scene.
Nvidia Makes Cosmos World Foundation Models Openly Available
The equal sign is a required character for anything base64 encoded, which includes some things you’d expect to be in a config file, like ssh public keys and x509 certs.
Fiber techs have "talk sets" which are just little voice intercoms that you plug into an unused fiber in the bundle, so you can yammer back and forth between manholes/closets/whatever. I'm not sure whether they're even digital; it's been a while since I played with a pair.
TypeScript on the strictest settings + aggressive ESLint rules is incredibly strict and a fantastic target for AI code. It's a good practice to have the CI/CD server reject code that fails ESLint anyway.
Thank you!

Btw, I notice only now that the link that was supposed to explain my question better is completely wrong.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42589014

(But you still provided much needed clarification).
This goes at a significant premium for on average OEM parts that are subpar. Buying individually yields much better results and these days it's less of a hassle than it used to.
Interest.

"oh, X sounds cool, let's try that!"

Of course, I should clarify that I generally have multiple side-projects going on at any given time. If I'm not getting paid for it, I let myself do whatever I feel like doing that day ^^
Farmville style games underwent similar explosive estimates of growth, up until they collapsed.

Much of the growth in gaming of late has come from exploitive dark patterns, and those dark patterns eventually stop working because users become immune to them.
Check out the reviews on Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195888801-why-machines-l...

(Far better than Amazon's.)
Apple locks users in with software/services. nVidia locks in add-in board manufacturers with exclusive arrangements and partner programs that tie access to chips to contracts that prioritize nVidia. It happens upstream of the consumer. It's always a matter of degree with this stuff as to where it becomes anti-trust, but in this case it's overt enough for governments to take notice.
You are not considered “unemployed” by the government if you are not actively seeking work.

The official definition as far as the BLS.

http://www.mississippi.edu/urc/downloads/econ101-01_151118.p...

> Finally, other individuals who are not working or seeking work for pay or profit are not included in the labor force.

> BLS considers the unemployed as those individuals without a job who have looked for
one in the past four weeks and are available to work. Looking for work involves an individual taking some action to obtain a job, such as completing an application, sending out a resume,contacting an employment center, etc. Individuals who have been temporarily laid off are
considered unemployed regardless if they have looked for work in the last four week
The post is about CS grads from Berkeley, which is not known to be a GPA mill.
Are you sure we're talking about the same Lex?
I read your question and thought to myself "why is it so hard to buy a Steamdeck"? Available only in like 10 countries. Seems like the opposite problem, Valve doesn't use resellers but they can't handle international manufacturing/shipping themselves? At least I can get a Nvidia GPU anytime I want from Amazon, BestBuy or whatever.
Show HN: Track your progress reading Paul Graham's essays
hi everyone!

when I was in college, I used to read one PG essay per day to learn about startups.

at the time, I wished there was a way to keep track of my progress.

years later, and after doing YC, I’m still re-reading his essays - so over the holidays I built an app to help keep my own progress.

it lets you mark essays as done, bookmark favorites, and sort by reading time.

built with [bolt.new](http://bolt.new) (zero affiliation) so the whole thing took a couple of hours.

and uses the bolt defaults of a supabase backend and hosted on netlify.

it’s a pretty limited app but hopefully helpful for some and planning to always be free.
It's a bad look for Lex Fridman but at least Zelenskyy comes comes out looking pretty good.

It's funny that Lex hasn't sensed the shifting tides, with Putin turning down Trump's plan and Trump becoming ever more pro-Ukrainian.

Apart from that it's interesting to see the difference between Lex and Zelenskyy. They're similar ages, both Jewish, both have Ukrainian roots, both speak Russian. But Lex's family left at a time when Ukrainians and Russians had positive relations and basically missed the separate development of the two nations through the last 30 years (and apparently has been completely asleep through the last 10 years).
You can post this in the monthly hiring threads at the beginning of each month

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

Job postings are otherwise offtopic on HN.
Is anyone here using Zig for audio plugin development? It seems like a good candidate as an alternative to C++ but lacks the ecosystem (like JUCE). Are there any ongoing efforts to bring DSP/audio plugin development to Zig?
I'm pretty frugal, but my first thought is to get two to run 405B models. Building out 128GB of VRAM isn't easy, and will likely cost twice this.
$3k for a 128GB standalone is quite favorable pricing considering the next best option at home is going to be a 32GB 5090 at $2k for the card alone, so probably $3k when you’re done building a rig around it.
this is a really intelligent way to reframe unsolicited criticism, thanks for sharing it :)
I have always held Getty at a much higher level than Shutterstock.
I find this a bit sad.
I don't understand the use case. Shoud I search the name of my friend weekly just in case?
There is a long history but the short of it is, before Section 230, platforms that moderated user content faced potential liability. Oakmont v. Prodigy[1] is a case where Prodigy was held liable for defamatory posts due to its moderation efforts. However, in Cubby v. CompuServe[2], the court ruled that platforms without active moderation, CompuServe were not liable for user-generated content because they were just hosting with no active involvement. Section 230 protected platforms from liability for user content, allowing them to moderate in good faith without being held responsible for all harmful material if they weren't able to moderate everything.

I believe Elon and Trump, being the internet's biggest liars, have the goal to remove Section 230 making moderating online more or less a crime that will open you to litigation and allow them and all of their followers to spread lies not only unchecked but with the threat of punishment if a company, like Blue Sky, were to try to moderate them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton_Oakmont,_Inc._v._Prod....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubby,_Inc._v._CompuServe_Inc.
>For example they'll cancel late night bus service because very few people use it. Except that the people who do, are people who occasionally are forced to stay late at their job and rely on the bus running late. Once it's cancelled they have to drive to work every single day since they're not sure they won't be stranded. The 3-4 bus rides a month they used to take are exchanged for 22 private car trips because you cut back service.

That's a cute anecdote but is there any empirical evidence behind this? I'd imagine the people who commute downtown, stay late often enough that this is a concern, is willing to take the bus even though they have a car and can otherwise afford daily commute downtown (gas/parking), but at the same time can't pay for an uber on those late nights, is approximately zero.
You don't know the amout of magic that goes behind the scenes in python and php with the __ functions. I think zig's approach is refreshing. Being able to follow the code trumps the seconds wasted typing the extra code.
Show HN: HipScript – Run CUDA in the browser with WebAssembly and WebGPU
CUDA is NVIDIA's language for GPU programming, allowing you to mix write CPU and GPU code in C++ in one file. By chaining a few projects that compile CUDA to OpenCL, then Vulkan, then WebGPU, you can experiment with this GPGPU language on any hardware.
The Lessons from Kodak's Decline [pdf]