skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cant imagine how much it would cost per print. I doubt anyone would be willing to pay 5–10$ for the first page. It’s cheaper to drive to a print shop or send your pdf to a printing service and receive hard copies by mail.
If you hard-code effective learned distributions from a trained model, I suppose that could be described as an 'AI algorithm', even though the final output is a flat algorithm.
I pay for Rewind, and honestly, it’s one of the best investments I've made in software. After each Zoom meeting, I receive a summary of everything discussed, including action items to add to my to-do list. Every Monday, I also ask it to remind me of what I accomplished the previous week to help me prepare for my 1:1 meeting. Everything is recorded locally, allowing me to search for anything I did earlier in the day quickly.
Dick bar often breaks hash links as well. You click a link that scrolls you to a section, but you can't see the first few lines of it.
An annoying person with a terrible idea is a powerful force at a tech company.

Nobody wants to deal with them, so they just kinda get what they want as long as they are mostly harmless.
If it's a fine, it probably goes to the United States Treasury or the SEC's budget. I also wouldn't be surprised if the settlement was not fully paid.
Well… yes. Looking at the article, it satisfies the MVP requirements for getting grant funding. A bar GlucoWatch cleared more than two decades ago, though it could never quite clear the bar of clinical viability.

Theranos also had an MVP in this sense :)
> and microcontrollers, which process the radar signals using artificial intelligence algorithms

So glad we've rebranded primitive ML and basic control mechanisms as AI.
If you want to switch the license on a software project away from GPL, that is possible. All old versions were and will remain GPL. Any new versions can stop being GPL as long as all copyright holders agree to let this happen.

You cannot use the GPL license to allow publishing this new version. But you can use permission by all copyright holders as an exception.
$200 million in inauguration "gifts" already. [0]

One can only speculate whether "donations" will "encourage" exemption from tariffs, or from onerous regulations like basic computer, crypto and telco security.

Blame is easy. Security is damn hard work.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/us/politics/trump-inaugur...
If I understood correctly, you're effectively saying that the priority of a software engineer is the success of the business, and that their value is directly correlated to the amount of value they add to the business, and that it's on them to prove and justify this.

The main concept for me is how software engineering is a vehicle for increasing value to any business, since it's about information technology, which is based on automation.

> In a way, it's inconsistent of you to be concerned that any of these problems is going to cost the business money.

I don't see this as inconsistent because an engineer's value to the company should be implicit by the definition of the role.

I guess this is where my disconnect is. I don't see engineering like any other role, i.e. management. I see it as something that should inherently add value if done properly because of its very nature. This may sound like I'm glorifying engineering over other roles, but we're now talking about the possibility of AGI and *replacing* engineers with software made by other engineers, so there's something inherently different about it.

The original context of this was 10x engineers, and how they need to add value to the company, but what better way than to leverage the limitless automation of software to do so (as oppose to having them worry about the direction and details of the business)?
In practice, number 1 really never happens in Sweden. Sure, there are people looking for bottles in public trashcans, but they are not exclusively homeless nor do they leave a mess behind after collecting any potential recyclables from the cans. Private trashcans don't really contain recyclables as everyone collects what containers they buy and redeem them at the store when going to buy groceries. Number 2 doesn't happen either because the bottles have to have barcodes that actually grant the reward, which foreign containers do not.
Extensions are already there: ubo, stylebot. We just have to invent a way to share user-rule snippets across these. There will always be a gray zone between trusted adblock lists included by default and some preferential things.
Yeah I don't believe the will run ads on the API.
An interesting connection between combinatorial optimization and differential geometry. And some Pytorch too, because when all you have is a hammer..

I built most of this one year ago, but only now managed to write it up. I enjoyed the change of pace of a pure speculative experiment (with some deep connections to a bunch of interesting theory and applications), and I hope you will enjoy reading about it too.
I know it won’t be popular, but I would honestly love to have a social network that’s purely just what my friends/family post. No suggested content, no algorithmic feed, no reacting to posts. Just purely whatever they post and ability to leave a comment.
I am responding to the use of the word "slower" in the comment at the top. I am in the relevant age group (are you??), and my brain is definitely *SLOWER*. Brain speed - that is the only thing I'm discussing here.

Does that make me a worse person or a worse employee or a candidate for euthanasia? No, I never said or even suggested it did. I'm not sure why you are moving the goalpost and talking about your friend's wonderful life, his stock options, sex life, etc. Good for him, but it's got nothing to do with AGE SLOWS DOWN OUR BRAINS.
Another: "Related" interstitial elements scattered within an article.

Fucking NPR now has ~2--6 "Related" links between paragraphs of a story. I frequently read the site via w3m, and yes, will load the rendered buffer in vim (<esc>-e) to delete those when reading an article.

I don't know if it's oversensitisation or progressive cognitive decline, but even quite modest distracting cruft is increasingly intolerable.

If you truly have related stories, pile them at the end of the article, and put in some goddamned microcontent (title, description, publication date) for the article.

As I've mentioned previously, my "cnn-sanify" script which strips story links and headlines from CNN's own "lite" page, and restructures those into section-organised, time-sorted presentation. Mostly for reading from the shell, though I can dump the rendered file locally and read it in a GUI browser as well.

See: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42535359>

My biggest disappointment: CNN's article selection is pretty poor. I'd recently checked against 719 stories collected since ~18 December 2024, and of the 111 "US" stories, 54% are relatively mundane crime. Substantive stories are the exception.

(The sense that few of the headlines really were significant was a large part of why I'd written the organisation script in the first place.)
I dislike the name "ink" for a plastic or resin compound with which we are going to saturate regions of our bodies.
It reminds me of George Carlin talking about euphemisms.
I think you have it backwards.

The companies trust and are adopting AI now.

Though it might take some time for AI to be develop that can live up to those expectations.
Or maybe just a signal processor is being rebranded as AI.

Soon a Fast Fourier Transform will be rebranded as AI as well.
the rather famous quote of course has one point to it - that is those laws mentioned are ones only the poor have any interest in doing, although both rich and poor share the capability of it.

Thus the correct response is not to talk about killing, which is something both the rich and poor have an interest in doing as well as sharing capability, and are often caught doing, but rather:

The law in its majestic equality forbids rich and poor alike from insider trading, or dumping hazardous materials into downstream waters from their factories.

This, rhetorically speaking, would seem to counter the original quote nicely, in showing that the law of course prevents Rich and poor alike in doing things that they have interests in doing, but no poor person is insider trading or dumping hazardous materials from their factories, because the definition of poor includes that they cannot be doing these things.

The thing of course is that the poor may have an interest in insider trading but lack the capacity, whereas everybody has the capacity to sleep under bridges but only the poor really seem to have an interest in it, and really they only have that interest because they are poor.

Which leads me to the following conclusion:

The interests of the poor are forbidden. The capacities of the rich are regulated.
If you do it that way, the garbage contaminates everything else, making recycling much more difficult or impossible. Especially for paper and cardboard, which is very recyclable.
I hear you, but even big tech companies give mid-career job candidates "tests" that heavily involve the speed of basic calculation. Doing the job is not the issue, and I agree with you about "working smarter." Getting the job can be an issue.
So it's okay if the FSF does it but not anybody else?
IIRC (as a fellow spacebar aficionado) position:fixed breaks spacebar scrolling but position:sticky generally doesn’t.
Wouldn't it make more sense to assume the opposite? That the ad campaigns are a reflection of what product details generate the most ongoing interest in the product? Otherwise you're left with the premise that the ad creates the interest in which case the topic (camera power) is largely coincidental.
This is usually a misunderstanding of permissive licenses.

You can't change the license of the code, even if that license is permissive enough for the code to be incorporated in proprietary works.

I mean, often this doesn't really matter because, unlike with GPL, publishers are not required to give you the source-code. But it matters when that source-code gets republished, say, under a source-available license, after having been under MIT/BSD/APL2, in which case, that's illegal, unless the company owns the copyright to do so.

As an example — if you have a file with a copyright header saying the code is licensed under a permissive license, you can't just change that header to a different license. There's even a famous case about it: https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070913014315

It all comes down to copyright. If you copy a piece of code that's not trivial, even if the license allows you to copy and reuse that piece of code, you're not suddenly the copyright owner of that code. Permissive licenses are permissive, but they do have restrictions, and most importantly, with copyrighted works, excluding the fair use cases that depend on legislation, you can only do what the license allows you to.

So, no, code licensed under permissive licenses can't be re-licensed as proprietary, even if it can be incorporated in proprietary works. And this is often a useful distinction to make, as I can think of several re-licensed projects under source-available licenses that couldn't have been re-licensed without copyright assignments.
This all sounds exciting, and good luck to all researchers earnestly working on it. If RF blood content diagnostics become possible, blood glucose sensing would be just the start.

But as for this guy and his invention, don’t forget that in clinical setting, Theranos has shown more evidence of their product working. And GlucoWatch, a similar idea two decades ago, was FDA-approved and made it to market though still wasn’t clinically useful due to poor accuracy. Then, I’m not even talking about the charlatan cottage industry around glucose sensing watches, nor am I talking about how CGMs are a (generally) solved problem in diabetes.

Let’s wait for some clinical trials of the applied blood glucose sensing before we pop the champagne? It quite likely won’t happen, welcome as that invention would be.
I know someone who was (in my opinion, clearly) taken in to the witness protection program. That’s the only time I’ve seen every trace of a person disappear. Yes, there are a few stray dangling references to that person in a few documents I found. But if their life is legitimately threatened by an adversary, I can be sympathetic to having the records expunged.
Wasn’t ML always considered AI?
I really enjoyed your faces example! I’ll have to look at the rest of the video soon, but it’s so cool what you can do with a little imagination and ingenuity!
In what dystopian world did they think this was what their customers want? Oh right I forgot the end user is not their customer.
Never going to happen. People already hate paper straws. No one is going to look at the current replacements and say "Yeah life was better after that" besides activists.
Sure but as a server operator, who cares? I already have zero trust in the client and it's not my job to punish the user for not being secure enough. If they get pwned, that's their problem.

Unless I'm at work where there's compliance checkboxes to disallow old SSL versions I'll take whatever you have.
Yeah, after doing some research I realised that he isn't some crank and actually has done a lot of relevant work in logic. I still don't think that justifies writing in a deliberately obtuse style, but I guess he can do whatever he wants.
> we may see a socioeconomic pressure towards remaining pivot-ready by constantly broadening one's capabilities...

If this isn't already a line out of a dystopic speculative fiction short story someone should crib it for that purpose.
You may be right on the majority, but its still working on some https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2023/08/17/uc-berkeley-crime...
Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets
The level of ignorance of some people here is astonishing.
Agents Whitepaper
Why should web browsers treat http like a bug? Many sites don’t need https.
English speaking countries are always popular to move to.
What's myopic about it? That's what your brain has evolved to do over hundred thousands on years and we fucked it up in two generations...

Depression skyrocketed since social medias were introduced, I very much doubt adding bots to the equation solves anything. You'd be treating the symptoms, not the cause

And again, you're not going to cure obesity by eating plastic apples
Except AI has always meant quite primitive things.

AI predates C. Actually AI predates lisp:

> IPL was used to implement several early artificial intelligence programs, also by the same authors: the Logic Theorist (1956), the General Problem Solver (1957), and their computer chess program NSS (1958).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Processing_Langu...
Using LLMs to make sense of chat data without compromising user privacy
You get it. That's exactly what I'm referring to.

But - moving values between registers (or between a register and the stack) is crazy fast anyway. I'd love to see some benchmarks showing how much of a difference this optimisation would make in practice.

It's fast, but the instructions still occupy space in caches, memory, and decoders; space that could've been used for other more valuable instructions. The problem is that the typical microbenchmarks don't show this sort of inefficiency (and on the other hand makes questionable-at-large options like loop unrolling seem great), because they're too small to see the effects of the waste.
> X (simplifying a bit) "started" at Sun, running on PowerPC boxen.

It didn’t. The X Windows system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System) started at MIT and is from 1984, PowerPC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC) from 1992.
Nubank leads $250M round in African digital bank Tyme at $1.5B valuation
Does this work? Which paid platform doesn’t eventually start showing ads to paid users?
But that stuff is usually not x86.
A strange thing to say about a discussion forum, whose essential purpose is the discussing of things. There is absolutely social value in understanding what people are willing to pay for things. And if it’s cost me more than $10 to present my view, well let’s just call that a donation. You’re welcome.

And people spend a tremendous amount of time discussing the price of essential goods like groceries. Economists go bananas of it. Especially in some regions with a cost of living crisis. What a strange example to make.
Again I think you might need to educate yourself on Canadian history.

The French that founded Quebec where here predated the English that eventually founded the county of Upper / Lower Canada... You might have a misunderstanding of what the term immigrant means.
Maybe you are expecting too much? I use copilot and similar tools to write simple code where I know exactly what should be done, I've just forgot the details. Like "Using Plotly and Python write a stacked bar chart where each stack contains three elements. Place the figure legend in the top left corner."
Sounds optimal for microservices.
Very cool! I did a similar project last year. Really like how your result looks with the lighting setting on.

The most interesting results I got were from having multiple "variants" and giving each variant parameters for their attraction to agents of their own/other type. Implementation-wise it was a variant tag for each agent and a matrix of attraction coefficients as a uniform. Playing with the params resulted in interesting behaviors, like one variant chasing another around while they both try to avoid a third.

If you're looking for an addition to this project, I'd recommend giving it a try!
Epson still makes a two color impact printer as well in this form factor.

https://epson.com/For-Work/POS-System-Devices/POS-Printers/T...

I'd be very interested in a "supply your own printer" version of this as well - either using these two color printers or thermal.

I suspect there isnt a ton of money to be made in selling printers, but rather the aggregation services needed to drive it. Let people buy a commodity printers, or a variety of them - if you use CUPS as an abstraction layer, you can basically run anything, and the CUPS turns the actual output device into an abstraction.
Fair enough! I must say you would be very surprised how much Canada has changed in the last 8 - 10 years. Its pretty astonishing
Remarkable interview.

It's amazing that she wrote the Mac documentation without actually having access to a working development system.

I also like the idea that writers should be embedded in the software group.

The "joy and excitement" and camaraderie of the Mac group is interesting as well, as a key to its success.

Interesting that the Mac group worked in one room.

Surprising that (pre-ADA) she could legally be fired from NeXT for having an RSI disability.

And that Jobs fired her again (as part of shutting down Apple's technical journal, presumably to cut costs) after he returned to Apple.
I clicked the link thinking I would see some Myst imagery. Nope. Very disappointed.
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/12/10/feed/
> Oral thermometers are fairly accurate
Doesn’t declarative programming and by extension functional programming adhere more to the ethos of ‘Programming as Theory Building’ ?

I recently started building mobile apps using Flutter after a decade of developing apps using imperative programming languages and I’m really in love with the declarative nature of flutter.

Similarly for web development, I always loved HTML and so HTMX has been a boon for me. I’m using Go for backend, but I’ve been thinking whether I should move on to a proper functional programming language like Elixir with Phoenix since I’m liking declarative programming very much?
Build something ambitious as a personal project. You learn systems design from successfully refactoring complex systems into simple systems. That’s it. Through a lot of practice you will just have a vision for it that you can easily talk through. That vision occurs because through practice you learn what the pain points are and what the low hanging fruit is. You also learn from this that software which scales well only does so because other unrelated things were executed well.

In my case I learned a collection of tiny things contribute to application performance improvements more than any single big thing. That in combination with very fast test automation allowed me to do very big changes on personal projects in 2-4 hours at very low risk while much smaller efforts at work were taking me more than 2 weeks at substantially greater risk. I had learned good systems design and by learning to build more simple architecture the flow control became very short.
I’m not. I’m pushing back against folk that forget not everyone thinks the same as them. That “$5 is practically nothing” reads like a statement of fact, which is obviously ridiculous depending on where you’re from.

And yes, it definitely has a “let them eat cake” vibe which is absolutely worth a push back.
Is there a way to do anything in chrome now? It became your personal google port and will soon disable any content-modification for the sake of your adsecurity and prinvadcy.
> In this scenario is it OK that every previous owner, distributer, retailer, had the ability to add to, or change, the code in the TV?

...yes? If you own something, you can modify it. That's certainly better than a world where the vendor can put in spyware and the user can't fix it.

> Today I have "limited trust". I have to assume Samsung is gleaning at least some data from my TV. But I'm reasonably sure it doesn't have malware on it.

And how would you distinguish their behavior to date from "malware"?

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/samsungs-war...

https://www.techhive.com/article/2881944/samsungs-latest-sma...
>Maybe without the government forcing the manufacturers to go through 3rd party dealerships, they would still use them, but how about removing the laws and see?

I actually read a pretty good reason not to remove these laws a while ago (and it is tangential to the argument about pricing that I made a while ago): It is impossible for independent resellers to compete with the manufacturer. This actually happened with Teslas: when Tesla dramatically lowered its prices to get more money, it effectively destroyed the used market and took money out of the pockets of anyone else who had used (or even basically new) inventory.

This kind of thing happens with other products too. For example, you usually can't buy a book from a publisher for less than the list price, because they don't want to undercut their distributors who are incurring significant costs to stock the books for them. (I think Amazon also requires companies that sell on Amazon to not undercut them by selling for cheaper elsewhere, despite the fact that their fees are high in some cases and they can even sell stuff for a loss.) I think the equivalent courtesy for car dealers would be that the manufacturer would be forced to pick a price and stick to it, at least at the wholesale level. That way, any independent dealer who does buy inventory can be assured that they won't face huge losses if the prices are cut upstream.

Finally I guess there is the question: do we really need the independent dealers, if the risk is all about the manufacturer cutting prices? We do, because these dealers make the market more efficient. That competition means you can shop for the best price or time window when buying or selling, without using Craigslist or classified ads. Dramatic decreases in price also affect owners and finance companies (in case of default). If the manufacturer can just decide "Hey we need to pump out a Porsche for everyone in the world" then they won't be worth what the original buyers paid, and they might walk away from the loan to buy a new one for half the price.
To be fair I’m in tech and I’m always baffled at people throwing £10 a month at subscriptions for things like productivity tools that seem to offer little real benefit.