skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's as much simulated gambling as Balatro is
I mean, you can connect to twitch using a standard IRC client. And it works equally well, better in some respects, as the browser chat has become a sluggish mess. There are stand-alone twitch chat clients now which support all its extra bling, but AFAIK they are just glorified IRC clients.
While more history is always good, I confess that I'm not much moved by the fact that the catch-phrase "cargo cult" missed context. Almost every phrase derived from history misses context. That's how languages work.

The real reason to stop using the catch-phrase is that it no longer has much power. When Feynman used it, it grabbed people's attention. It was a way of saying "this is religion, not science". But endless repetition has diluted its effect. Better to just say "practices based on tradition or faith rather than understanding and demonstrated efficacy tend to under-perform", or something in that vein.

Or think up a new metaphor. Overused metaphors stop being effective.
pdfdoom: Doom in a PDF (as ASCII art)
A-nexia, does it mean "lack of connectivity"? Great name for a cloud provider :)
Do you think government is best at directing charitable money?

Personally I think the best use of such a fortune, 100bn say, it to invest $1m into $1m high potential new small businesses and startups.

That would create the most wealth for the most people.

You could even decide to pick one poor country with reasonable governance, and use 10 percent of the money for oversight and assessing merits of which business proposals to fund.

Imagine a million new businesses across Africa, or across India or across countries like Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines each got funded with 1m usd.

Imagine how many jobs would be created, how much long term economic impact there would be.

Even assuming 80 percent of the funded businesses fail, 200,000 successful new businesses, plus another 800k entrepreneurs who all learned a valuable lesson and gained a ton of experience.
> it is policy.

So address the policy implications of the rest of my points and don't get hung up on the consistency issue. I agreed no points to google for that.
I think the article actually goes into detail why a rewrite does cause these things. The reasons matter.
> privacy-centric solutions are out there and relatively easy to find

Really? Please name them. Over the past 10 or 15 years, I've never seen anything other than the iPhone/Android or Mac/Windows duopoly for sale in any retail store. I've never seen any advertising for other than those duopolies. The HN crowd may be aware of obscure options, but for the vast majority of consumers, they don't exist. And since we as developers make money catering to the vast majority of consumers, we're kind of stuck with the duopoly too, at least as far as our work is concerned.
The patent on changing volume for more than one speaker at a time? That was such bullshit. The software changes forced by the ITC ruling forced Google to basically break speaker groups.

Not a surprise that might have resulted in some frayed business relationships.
balatro is fighting to keep the 3+ rating it was originally assigned.
Yes, and rock and roll is the devil’s music.
Unfortunately we have to detect nested sessions too! When doing sudo -i, the $SSH env var can't be retrieve and we have to browse through the process tree and look for sshd.
And we need fancy printing with colors too!
Show HN: Local first, private and secure voice dictation powered by Apple's MLX
> "already promised to allow an independence vote"

Exactly, an _independence_ vote.
Halloy – Sleek cross-platform IRC GUI client
The VA worked to confirm that everyone in this dataset is deceased, in order to satisfy the judge’s order, and produced an internal document about how they did it — which we then FOIAed and posted online too. (It’s up on the site, next to the legal paperwork.) The veterans and their SSNs are believed to have been deceased prior to mid-2020, checked by the VA’s internal datasets as well as public data sets such as the SSDMF. And SSNs of deceased people are *not private*, since they are never reused. The Social Security Administration also makes copies of all deceased peoples’ original SS-5 applications available to the public under FOIA.
A good start is to avoid giving them a smartphone until they're in high school. And once they have a smartphone require them to get permission from you before installing any social media apps, with consequences if they don't follow the rules (take the phone away). Make the consequences known up front, rather than reactive so they know the guidelines regarding their phone use.

And whatever you do DO NOT give your child a handheld device (tablet or smartphone) before they're in high school. My wife and I are seeing parents give their two year olds a tablet which is absolutely detrimental to their development.
What would your response be if Russia paid each US citizen $1mmm to vote for allowing it to annex Alaska?
I went through similar crap with University of Texas at Austin when I wrote Classgrabber around 2002. Universities are pathetic when it comes to this stuff. If a CS student (or any student) does anything to show how incompetent their own staff is, they go berserk. And they still have the balls to ask me for alum money every year.
Probably why Zuck is getting all cozy with the incoming administration - to see to it that something like this won't happen.
Huh? Sonos has done lots wrong lately, but the Sonos One does natively support Airplay 2, was in stores for over 7 years, and still works with the current Sonos software as well as, uh, anything does these days. Perhaps you're thinking of something else?
People can and do live in Phoenix. Yes it’s unpleasantly hot, but anyone who claims it’s unfit for human habitation is exaggerating.
My son went to Northeastern ('19) and now designs programming languages and can program skillfully in ANY language. I'm glad he went to Northeastern before this announced change. I feel my money spent at Northeastern was well worth it, not because it made him employable (it did), but because it gave him critical thinking and research skills. It would be sad if too many future Northeastern grads were limited to programming in Python or whatever the mainstream language of the decade is. "Batteries included" Python is great for the workforce but it may weaken basic development skills of undergrads. I'm glad I grew up in an era (1970-80s) when what mattered was sitting down with a manual or book and picking up a language in a weekend and, working with your friends, mastering it in a few weeks or months. A favorite memory that still astonishes me: in 1983 Andy Sudduth, one of my roommates and soon Olympic rowing medalist, built his own computer (a Heathkit), and with a paper due the next day, I offered to lend him my Kaypro-II so he could use WordStar. He said, "Thanks, but I'm going to put my own operating system on it [which he developed in his OS course], then I'm going to use my own full-screen editor I wrote, and then I'm going to write my paper using that editor." "You're going to do all that by tomorrow?", I asked. "Yes." And HE DID IT.
Do humans ever get overconfident and slack off and lose to opponents who work more diligently? Why, yes, humans do do that and that’s what the story is about.

I think maybe you don’t understand fables, or possibly stories in general.
But you haven't presented a first-principles argument for why that perspective is valid, other than saying that you can see a difference.
Or nixpkgs :-)
Note that China emits a lot less than the US or Canada calculated per capita (from that same page).
Or just host it in a country that doesn't care about UK law.
Yes it is, potentially. Where I live (and grew up) the only game played with these type of cards is Poker, and we didn't exactly play Poker growing up - so all our local games use a different deck of card. And in other not-too-distant regions they use yet another deck or two.

This might be the "worldwide standard" but that doesn't mean anything.
I've completely let both my Google Play and App store accounts expire.

Google Play now wants a lot of personal information to upload stuff, and demands constant updates.

For what?

3 people to download it ?

All hands are going to be open source from here on out. If I feel like it I might set up a GitHub pipeline to build an APK, but I'm not playing this game with Google anymore.

Apple is even worse because they can reject your app from random reasons, and charge you $100 a year even if you're not publishing new stuff.
VideoRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation over Video Corpus
Fireblocks Black Box Security Review [pdf]
Please cite the statistics on the volume of bank account draining before you claim that it happens "at scale".
“Why can’t China give each person in Guam $1 million to vote for independence and then ratify joining PRC, what’s stopping this”

Expansionism is bad. The suggestion to manipulate the population against their normal wishes by supplying them with helicopter money is depraved.
However, the map layout is data, not branding. If your service has to alter the layout, it's more confusing to the passengers who TfL should be thinking about.
This isn't about privacy. Not directly anyway. This is about your right to have control of your own property.

You make a fair point though; the case does need to be made as to why this is a market failure and not just consumer choice working as expected. Why _do_ consumers tolerate manufacturers retaining ultimate control of consumer's property after the sale? It certainly doesn't seem to be that important to them. Maybe greater awareness of the issue would help somewhat?
If there were a multi-billion dollar industry of scammers always trying to trick them into taking the screws out of things so they could steal from them, then no I probably wouldn't buy them anything with visible screws.
IIRC Sonos emerged as a tool to allow you to access all of your music, from different speakers throughout your house.

I might be glossing over some details but isn't this problem largely solved by other products almost everyone has now? Any cloud music service, a smart phone, and some bluetooth speakers?

In my entire social network, I know of one person who has all of his music stored locally and who cares about the quality of bluetooth vs wifi transmission, which seem to be the key reasons someone would want a Sonos solution.
There's a good chance that if that if Microsoft doesn't act soon enough, and a lot more devices running Steam OS are released, Proton might become the de-facto platform against which many new games are developed, and which engines target.

At that point, there is nothing Microsoft can do.
Denmark was first neutral, and then occupied by the Germans during WWII. This is not what people would typically consider "part of the Third Reich", unless one would also consider Switzerland or Belgium to have been.
In Europe, Tintin is under copyright until 2053 (death + 70 years).

And the rightsholders (Tintinimaginatio, previously Moulinsart) are very aggressive about it, even more so than Disney. They don't have the lobbying power of Disney, but they are going to do everything in their power to protect and possibly overstep their rights. It includes using trademark laws and publishing new Tintin adventures against the will of the original author as an attempt to renew their copyright.
My response is that Russia does not have $733 billion to throw at that project, but the US has $75 billion to do it in Greenland.
What do you think? (I don't mean that in a snarky way.) Based on how LLMs work, I can't see how that would not be the case.

But in my experience there are nuances to this. It's less about "good" vs "bad"/"sloppy" code and more about discernable. If it's discernably sloppy (i.e. the type of sloppy a beginning programmer might do which is familiar to all of us) I would say that's better than opaque "good" code (good really only meaning functional).

These things predict tokens. So when you use them, help them increase their chances of predicting the thing you want. Good comments on code, good function names, explain what you don't know, etc. etc. The same things you would ideally do if working with another person on a codebase.
> It was September 2023 and my CEO was asking me a question.
> “How are you measuring productivity?”

This is sort of like your girlfriend asking you "how much do you love me". Except if you answer wrong, it's still more likely that your girlfriend will stay with you than that you'll keep your VP of engineering job.
Nope, other side of the world
The biggest thing that sets Balatro apart as not gambling to me is you never bet anything of any value. Anything you do only affects that individual <1h run. No money involved, no long term items, literally just fake chips and fake dollars for that specific run, and when you win/quit/lose you're back to the same position you started at.
It's not leftist dogma. Leftists aren't capitalists, friend. Hard to argue the government and economy are post capitalist.

And most leftists I know absolutely hate performative progressivism. Dems are widely mocked in leftist circles for doing stunts but not doing anything to help. Like Pelosi wearing Kente cloth while doing nothing to aid African people.

So please, you might actually have people who agree with you in the leftist camp, stop bundling us with the Dems.
Is sending Factorio to competitors' engineers a cost-effective means of sabotage
Hard to make that work when all your competitors have VC funding. More generally, this will normally make your unit economics look worse, which can limit your valuation.

Obviously, in the real (non-VC) world, price wars are a great strategy if you can provide the service more cheaply.
I think you missed that that is what the posted article did.
Thanks.

While the primary meaning of 'marcher' is 'to walk', it can be used for machines and vehicles indeed. 'Rouler' is for vehicles only. Interestingly in English the verb 'to run' is used, suggesting higher speed.

The expression “to work better” is quite common but I don't remember seeing “to work less well”. And as I was taught that « plus grand » translates to “taller” but « moins grand » to “not as tall as”, I expected something more involved.
If I understand correctly, there's a fringe book from 2005 about uniting the world under a single religion led by the "Prince Monk." The article attempts to frame this as the official Kremlin playbook without giving any substantial evidence (other than "some ideas seem to be aligned with Kremlin's"). It also includes speculative filler about Xi Jinping, Trump and Musk, who weren't politically relevant when the book was written. The article, just like the book, reads like a piece of speculative fiction full of wishful thinking.
For the recruiters, a really good way to tell if you are being LLM'd is to put a little special watermarking sauce in your LinkedIn profile current company/position. For example, if you are a database engineer at some specific government agency, in the current position, you'd put something like "DB Engineer" at "Government". A quality recruiter will dig more, maybe look at your actual resume you have linked from your static site or whatever and come up with a good greeting in an email. A bot/LLM will simply insert that generic text into the direct message or email - "your position at government".

One can even go as far as entering something with even more of a watermark. An example: Adding more spaces in the role, like "DB Engineer" with two spaces instead of one. Using the Alt + (Numpad 255) unicode instead of a regular space is a bonus here.

Doesn't always work, but anecdotally I've noticed it will more often than not in differentiating automated garbage.
I do not like the new app, its so sluggish. And I really hate that they killed support for the previous app after the shitty launch. I have about 8 sonos devices here and was in the progress of upgrading my oldest ones. That stopped and i will not buy new products until they fix their shitty app or revert back. Its not much, but nothing else I can do (except send support requests whenever something does not work to drive up their metrics).
Do we need trucks transporting tons of sugary water all over the place?

Do we need to smelt energy intensive aluminium for useless trinkets and gadgets?

Do we need to work energy intensive steel for useless trinkets and gadgets?

Do we need disposables vapes?

Do we need the flood of useless junk on Amazon and Alibaba that breaks after a couple of uses?

Do we need fast-food places selling meat?

Do we need fast-food?

Do we need fast fashion?

Do we need all the ultra-processed foods like crisps, candies, cookies, etc.?

etc etc etc
Show HN: LS Note – Plain text notes in local storage
Hello HN!

I'd like to share a simple web app where you can make quick plain text edits or take temporary notes.

It's offline first. Notes are stored in browser's local storage.

The source code can be found here:
https://github.com/starikovs/ls-note/

I’d love to get your thoughts and ideas for improvement!
> Unfortunately, there's a method to his pronouncements.

Am I missing some alternate definition of "method" which is actually explored by this article? I was hoping for some (even speculative) explanation for why territorial expansion has suddenly entered the American zeitgeist...
Additionally regardless of formal "powers", no legitimate leader in any democratic govt wants to be seen "giving orders" to police forces -- that's entirely outside of democratic norms.

The federal govt sets standards and expectations and framework for the RCMP. It should not, and does not (hopefully), tell them what to do on specific case files.
AirPlay is as about as good as it gets I think. It’s been thoroughly reverse engineered so there’s lots of open source tools for it and it’s cheap to add speakers since used AirPort Expresses are still supported AirPlay targets.
it is extremely disconcerting to me how quickly the concept of the US using pressure or force to make an ally cut it's own country in half and make people US subjects is just a normal thing to see discussed.

trump and his sociopathic outriders are a cancer on us all and refusing to normalise all this garbage is one thing we can personally do against them.
Could provinces do it? They are not strictly republics - they still each have a lieutenant governor, appointed by the governor general and act as the King’s representative. Passage of legislation still requires royal assent.
Also node the 52,000 visual novels at https://vndb.org/v .
I created this tool first of all for myself, 2 main reasons why I need it:

1. I often create temporary notes in my main Notes app, which quickly becomes cluttered with temp stuff

2. I sometimes struggle with editing plain text without any formatting, especially on mobile devices

I hope others find it useful as well!
San Francisco has an underground emergency water supply: How reliable is it? [video]
Yea, the "analyze and explain but no code yet" approach works well. Let's me audit its approach beforehand.
AI's Uneven Arrival
What if the population of Alaska was smaller?
We don't have that authority.
It's even worse now with the P9 series.

They require hardware certification for the Pixel Screenshots app... and for anything that uses Gemini Nano (Call recorder summary, weather, pixel screenshots, etc).
It’s not strange if you think how the worth of the images have plummeted down to zero, both emotionally and monetarily, in the last few years. I’m not an artist, nor directly in AI field, but it is weird how I have zero emotional response to any image I see, because I think it might be AI generated.
So I like this idea of barrels and ammunition [video]
I like your comment.

But let's take for example JupyterNoteBook. It's nice but not as good Knuth's stuff. Why ? Because the notebook forces you to follow the evaluation order whereas Knuth allows you follow your ideas order. Now for the rest, Jupyter is simply much better. But fundamentally, JNB can't match Knuth's LP flexibility.

So I'd say that JupyterNotebooks are really nice to explain a recipe but LP is better at explaining ideas (more like algorithms).

However, usually algorithms presentations have more to do with ideas, concepts. And thus, one may wonder if even bothering writing an LP document is necessary since the core ideas don't actually need code to be explained).

So-so... :-)
> Balatro having an 18+ age rating is insane.

PEGI can't even make their minds up, I believe it was originally given an 18+ rating, which was amended to 3+ when the publisher appealed, and then it was amended back to 18+ unprompted.
CustomGPTs have write access to change their name and icon. OpenAI has a memory feature which persists between chat sessions. What are you talking about?
The assumption that hierarchical organizations are inevitable blinds us to more effective ways of organizing. When we look at companies today, their feudal-like structure means CEO decisions naturally have outsized impact - but this is a product of the system, not inherent necessity.

Take Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp under Zuckerberg. While these proved strategically valuable, framing them as evidence of unique CEO insight misses a crucial point: Many others in the organization likely would have made similar choices given the same position and information. The success stems more from the concentrated decision-making power than from individual brilliance.
What's fascinating is how we conflate organizational structure with individual capability. When good outcomes emerge from hierarchical systems, we rush to credit the person at the top rather than examining how the structure itself shapes and amplifies their decisions. This creates a self-reinforcing cycle: hierarchical success is used to justify more hierarchy.

But imagine if we distributed decision-making power more broadly, tapping into the collective intelligence and diverse perspectives of entire organizations. Research on collective intelligence and successful worker cooperatives suggests groups often make better decisions than individuals, especially on complex issues. Companies like Valve and Morning Star have demonstrated that flat organizations can be both innovative and profitable.
The real opportunity lies in reimagining organizational structures that harness our full human potential - not just that of a select few at the top. By questioning our assumptions about hierarchy, we open ourselves to discovering more dynamic, equitable, and effective ways of working together.
I used to do everything in WEB/CWEB back in the 80s/90s. My biggest difference from Knuth was that I always started with an outline of the program as my first section (or perhaps second after an introductory section talking about what the program was meant to do). This made sense both from an expository standpoint and from a development standpoint as I could then assemble the program piecewise by filling in the sections that I had outlined at the beginning and generally each block of code fit on a single page with its documentation.

Problems I ran into were (a) for Pascal WEB, it was hard to get away from Knuth’s string pool–based handling of strings which I didn’t especially love and (2) for CWEB, it made sense to have both the .c and .h files specified in the .cweb file, but this meant that a lot of the efficiencies of make, such as they are, would be broken since the .h file would get updated everytime I updated the .c file forcing recompilation of other chunks of the code even though there were no actual changes. Perhaps a more intelligent version of ctangle which could screw with modification dates of files based on whether the code was actually changed would have helped, but…

That said, the weave output of TeX and Metafont does provide amazing documentation of the internals of how those programs work and they make for excellent reading. Alas, that sort of thing is hard to justify in contemporary business contexts.