skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tom Harkin? The Democrat?

Are we to think that the Republican party of 1990 - of the Bushes and the Cheneys and the Romneys - is the same as the Republican party of 2025 that has driven them out of the org?
It's funny I've considered going there when my life imploded. Just get dropped off and live there Venice beach but yeah I get how annoying that would be to a non-homeless.

I have family who are poor (3rd world) and I think about how it's fair for me to b here and they are over there but yeah etc etc idk. Why does it feel bad to be. I do help (virtue signal) donate but I'm also in a shit ton of debt but I'm not technically poor/homeless. I have a car/apt/toys. Still thinking about it.

Oh yeah giving money isn't a fix it turns out because people fight over it/demand more. Next thing you know everyone is your relative hunting you down online. My personal gmail chat pops up "hey man..."

It does piss me off when I pull up to a light and there's a guy right there with a sign. How do I know he's homeless? I'm coming out of a grocery store at night somebody's like "sir, sir, sir..." trying to get my attention. I guess it shouldn't be a problem to just hand em a dollar. But then they say "that's it?".

Again I donate to a local food shelter, NHA, etc... just funny is altruism real idk why do I feel annoyed (greed?). I can't even ask people for money without feeling shame but other people don't care. Alright rant over I am privileged I know.

I'm gonna live a life though, mid sports car, land, not give up. I'll continue to donate too whether in cash or open source work but first I have to get out of debt, been in debt for 15 years now crazy. That's why I have my tech job, drive for UE, donate plasma and freelance to speed run my debt off. Thankfully I'm single so it's only my own life I gotta worry about.
That's if you pay in local currency. They have "promotional" packages in US dollars at $150 for a 100MBps line.
I doubt the premise too, but assuming you believed it, how low would music appreciation have to be in your priorities to be willing to develop that skill?
Yes this is a wildly misrepresented statistic that has nothing to do with DEI and everything to do with demographic shifts in the U.S. population (specifically, that the "non Hispanic white" segment of the U.S. population is shrinking).
Clang and GCC just got the [[counted_by()]] attribute to help protect such structs in the kernel. But yes, native syntax for this would be nice.
Giving people a place to buy and drink coffee.
He clearly said he didn't want to use Cloudflare, so that's not an option.
> Do untyped languages even exist, or could they? Even POSIX shell and assembler type their values.

I program in assembly language. Memory is just a big array of bytes. Values don't have types, but each instruction chooses what type to interpret memory as - e.g. uint8, int16, float32, x86 real-mode pointer, long-mode pointer, etc.
Database: Solr or Typesense?
Experiencing significant slowdowns with MySQL fulltext search when adding WHERE clause filters. Has anyone else faced this? Considering a switch to Solr or Typesense. What's your take?
interestingly enough though, it doesn't seem to be possible to write a custom hash function that returns -1

>>> class Foo:
def __hash__(self):
return -1

>>> f = Foo()
>>> print(hash(f))
-2

So if you're doing something where you have a custom __hash__ function that you're expecting to return -1 for a certain value and then are testing for value of the hash of an object rather than testing the property of the object directly, then this might bite you. But I cannot think of any reasonable case where you might want to do that.
> I am sure it’s also super popular in rural Australia.

It is indeed.

https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/n...

It is also popular in urban areas. Starlink's availability map shows "sold out" in Brisbane (population 2.5 million) and Perth (2.1 million) because it's much faster than the mediocre VDSL2 services otherwise on offer to most of the population in those cities.
> to their walled garden

Am I detecting sarcasm or did I just bring my own?
> everybody could (and should?) just start declaring size parameters before their respective buffer parameters in new code

I know that was a common opinion pre-C23, but it feels like the committee trying to reshape the world to their desires (and their designs). It's a longstanding convention that C APIs accept (address, length) pairs in that order. So changing that will already get you a score of -4 on the Hard to Misuse List[1], for "Follow common convention and you'll get it wrong". (The sole old exception in the standard is the signature of main(), but that's somewhat vindicated by the fact that nobody really needs to call main(); there is a new exception in the standard in the form of Meneide's conversion APIs[2], which I seriously dislike for that reason.)

The reason I was asking is that 'uecker said it was requested at the committee draft stage for C23 by some of the national standards orgs. That's already ancient history of course, but I hoped the idea itself was still alive, specifically because I don't want to end up in the world where half of C APIs are (address, length) and half are (length, address), when the former is one of the few C conventions most everyone agrees on currently.

[1] https://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-04-01.html

[2] https://thephd.dev/_vendor/future_cxx/papers/C%20-%20Restart...
This whole time it's been a Magic Eye problem? Geeeeez. This would've won me so many random challenges over the years.
Her biography on Elon Musk is also pretty good as far as depicting someone who did hard things.
I was quite impressed by his tenacity.
YnI: A New Social Platform Focused on Shared Interests (Early Invites Open)
Hi HN! I’ve been working on YnI (You and I), a new social platform designed to bring back the best of the old internet, a place where people connect through shared interests and engage in meaningful, respectful conversations.

The goal is to create a positive space free from the toxicity and negativity that often dominate traditional platforms, making it welcoming for everyone, including underrepresented communities.

Right now, I’m focused on onboarding early adopters to help shape the platform and provide feedback. If this sounds like something you’d want to be part of, I’d love for you to check it out and join the journey. Early invites are open, and your input could help create a truly inclusive social space.
Wow I had no idea progress was being made in this front
How would it be possible to fix the problem at the expense of the lower working class?
Yea, this makes sense, but what if web servers are deployed to space?

I don't imagine it will ever be 'better'. Like wifi though, at some point it will probably be good enough that for 90+% of use cases the tradeoff of cables isn't worth it.

Like I know ethernet is better, but very rarely does that little bit better latency or connection stability practically matter.
They should statues of him and erect them all over the Bay Area. He was brave as evidenced by being witch hunted. There has been a lot of talk about “speaking truth to power” over the last few years and most of that is BS. What Damore did truly was.
You’re looking at it wrong. The 5 doesn’t simply replace the 4. Raspberry Pi has committed to keeping the Pi 4 in production until 2034. Even the Pi1B+ will be available until 2030 at pretty much the same price as launch day!
I hope you have a nice voice, I'll be listening to it try to sell me an extended car warranty for the next 3 months.
> I suppose if the software maker is a functional monopoly in that space and the customers are cursed withe vendor lock-in, sure.

Given this statement, it might surprise you to learn that there are folks who aren't keen on software development for its own sake, and really rather dislike having to re-learn how to use their tools when those tools get significantly changed with no clear benefit to those users.

See also: the folks who are perfectly happily using "ancient" versions of -say- Photoshop, or WordPerfect, or Word or...
Doesn't work for me either. I just made myself queasy while trying to cross my eyes for ten minutes haha
That doesn't justify an extortion attempt, preventing users from receiving security updates, stealing their plugins, unfair competition, or banning their developers.
Example: SELECT x,y,z WHERE MATCH(content) AGAINST(:query) AND author = 'jhon'
> At Meta, we have a principle of serving everyone. This can be achieved through cognitively diverse teams, with differences in knowledge, skills, political views, backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

At last, a corporation acknowledges it's _cognitive_ diversity that matters.

Most other forms of diversity are superficial, inherent human characterstics that are already equal under law, and make no difference to people's ability to use technology.

I'm so relieved to see "DEI" die. With two young boys who are white, heterosexual and normal in every way, I found it disturbing to know they'd be discriminated against in the workplace.

I knew this discrimination existed because I've been a hiring manager and had HR explicitly tell me I needed to focus on hiring female technologist.

Luckily I left that job and am now at a smaller company that doesn't discriminate on gender)

However, most large corporates I've worked at have pushed the DEI agenda (with the 'E' standing for "equity" as opposed to the more ethical "equality").

There may have been historic discrimination against women and other minorities, but I have NEVER witnessed any such discrimination in the present day.

We must avoid replacing one form of immoral discrimination with another form of immoral discrimination.
Makes sense to me. Terminal maintenance, electricity all these cost add up. So tip is due. After all it is customers' responsibility to keep track all expenses business incur during course of its operations. Paying just listed price and taxes is so "heartless".
I used to be quoted that for 20MBps and even 8MBps! these days it's a bit better since you can get that for about $150 if you're lucky enough to be near a fibre line.
That's very interesting. I'd been thinking about getting a T-watch. Do you plan to have it work with the S3 series as well?
> My conclusion every time was that the code itself is the formal spec and the formal spec is the code.

Yes you can end up with tautological specs, where it's more or less a copy of the code. E.g. you aren't going to benefit much from formally verifying `max()`.

But there are many many cases where the formal specification is much much simpler and more obviously correct than the actual code. The classic examples are:

* Any kind of encoding / decoding transformation has the property `decode(encode(x)) == x`.

* Sorting: any sorting algorithm should result in a sorted array (forall i, j: i < j --> array[i] <= array[j])
They have 300 times and 1000 times the reputation you have. Maybe dail down the paranoia.
IMO the prefixed api key convention with a public portion and base58 encoding that i wrote about 2 years ago is so so much better than CD-key style API keys https://github.com/seamapi/prefixed-api-key
Wow-- this is so cool. Maybe someone can fix that MissingNo glitch I kept running into as a kid? ;)
>CPython is written in C, and unlike Python, C doesn’t have exceptions. So, in C, when you design a function, and you want your function to be able to indicate “there was an error”, it has to return that error as its return value

This is just wrong. C doesn't feature 'error handling' as a dedicated form of branching the way many higher level languages do and you're in no way required to use return codes as an error signal. This is a case of bad API design and is entirely python's fault.
Taxes are paid on tipped income by the employer and employee. It's not a subsidy as much as it's independent contracting plus a (nominal) supplemental base wage. There's more to the dynamic, but that's the gist.

I have a feeling we're saying the same thing, so here's the word from the source:

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe....
South Korea ranks near the top in highest amounts of consumer debt. Significantly higher than the US.
Meta announces end of DEI programs. Read the internal memo
Yeah part of the problem is it’s called Opentelemetry and half of you are only talking about tracing, not metrics. Telemetry is metrics. It’s been metrics since at least the Mercury Program.

Metrics in OTEL is about three years old and it’s garbage for something that’s been in development for three years.
I had trouble finding the "shiny" pixels on that one simply because the stars also had that issue - but after enlarging the image a bit more and scanning back and forth I was able to pick things out a bit better.

Now, ask me to look at my code again for a couple minutes and it might be tough but it worked :)
Show HN: 3D Terrain simulation for hiking, skiing etc.
I'm working on a GPS track visualizer for quite some time. It shines in hilly and mountaineous terrain (where a 3D view makes more sense), but it also offers quite a lot of Strava-like features (statistics etc.).

You can upload your GPX and FIT files manually, or sync directly with Garmin, Coros and Polar.

See https://cubetrek.com for the live app and check out some examples there. It's free and opens source.

Also, anyone who likes to work with 3D visualizations (especially Babylon.js), let me know if you like to help polish this thing further.
I dunno, but I don't see it working very well. TikTok's popularity has a strong network effect: you're using it because your friends are using it. You share with them, remix videos for them, you all share in the social zeitgeist together. With Americans mostly excluded, it will become a foreign-feeling place when a few look at it through a VPN.

A lot of videos will be shared through other means (Instagram, YouTube, etc.) Maybe one of those will be the new beneficiary of the network effect.
Except fields often aren’t open to people in different demographics. Sexism and racism are both very real and objectively quantified.
I’d never used Metcal or JBC until recently. I’ve managed 15 plus years of SMT work with Hakko style irons. I recently got a new job, and the guy who manages our lab and does our soldering previously did soldering for military satellites for 20 years. He said he has something like thirty satellites in orbit.

When I asked for a soldering station I could use in the lab, I saw a lot of JBC machines around. I said “could I get a JBC?”. He said “oh the JBC is a Ferrari. I don’t think you need a Ferrari. I’ll get you a Metcal. That’s the Toyota of soldering irons.”

I can’t comment on exactly what he means, but he seems very experienced and has good things to say about JBC.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. From the article, basically no one was sleeping on the streets in Finland in 2020.
Integration over time and integration over bit fields are both ways we do deep sky astrophotography.
Integration over time is used to collect more photons without saturating sensor wells and integrating bit fields (stacking) is used to increase signal to noise
"The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power" by Daniel Yergin
No, and no goalposts have shifted. What's happened instead is that the claims made by LLM makers keep getting more and more outlandish as time passes, and they do that as a response to criticism that keeps pointing out the shortcomings of their systems. Every new model is presented as a breakthrough [1] and its makers rush to show off the results like "the new model is 100% better than the old one in passing the Bar exam!". You can almost hear the unsaid triumphant question hanging in the air "Are you convinced now? Are we having fun yet?".

We're not. The big deal with LLMs is that they are large enough language models that they can generate fluent, grammatical text that is coherent and keeps to a subject over a very, very long context. We never could do this with smaller language models. Because statistics.

What LLMs can absolutely not do is generate novel text. This is hard to explain perhaps to anyone who hasn't trained a small language model but generativity -the ability to generate text that isn't in a training set- is a property of the tiniest language model, as it is of the largest one [2]. The only difference is that the largest model can generate a lot more text.

And still that is not what we mean by novelty. For example, take art. When ancient humans created art, that was a new thing that had never before existed in the world and was not the result of combining existing things. It was the result of a process of abstraction, and invention: of generalisation. That is a capability that LLMs (as other statistical systems) lack.

The goalposts therefore have not moved because the criticism is as old as nails and the LLM makers have still not been able to comprehensively address it. They just try to ignore it. If the goalposts are here and you're shooting goals over there and then doing a little victory run every time the ball breaks Col. Mustard's windows, that's not the goalposts that have moved, it's you that keeps missing them.

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[1] I'm old enough to remember... GPT-3 and how it blew GPT-2 out of the water; GPT-3.5 and how it blew GPT-3 out of the water; GPT-4 and how it blew GPT-3.5 out of the water... And all the users who would berate you for using the older model since "the new one is something completely different". Every single model. A yuuuge breakthrough. What progress!

[2] Try this. Take the sentence "<start> the cat sat on the mat with the bat as a hat <end>" and generate its set of bi-grams ("<start> the", "the cat", "cat sat", etc.). Then generate permutations of that set. You'll get a whole bunch -14!-1, as in |sentence|! minus the initial one- of sentences that were not in the training set. That's generativity in a tiny language model. That's how it works in the largest also, hard as that may be to believe. It shouldn't. It's a very simple mechanism that is extremely powerful. Large models are simply better at assigning weights to permutations so that the ones more often encountered in a corpus are weighted more.
Northeastern's curriculum changes abandon fundamentals of computer science
>Some restaurants have added mandatory gratuities and service fees to bills, driving up bills and resulting in some diners tipping less.

Businesses just need to be honest about pricing and wages. Let the listed prices be the actual price, and leave compensation matters strictly in the hands of workers and employers where it belongs.

Tips and fees reduce clarity and introduce resentment. Why not avoid that mess altogether?
An important thing to note is that this is an exception to the rule: you aren't allowed to call someone mentally ill, unless it's based on gender or sexual orientation.

https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/h...

> Do not post: [...]

> - Insults, including those about: [...]

> Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness. [...] We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation

Edit: I re-read it and I think you can normally call someone mentally ill if it's not because of a protected characteristic. It's still a targeted cutout to allow transphobia/homophobia specifically. So you can call someone mentally ill for liking pineapple on pizza, or being gay or trans, but not for being black.
Thanks for the detailed response!

I actually tried fly.io briefly with Next.js apps and the deployment experience was smooth. Really interesting to hear you're using it for AI workloads too.

For fly.io with AI workloads: Are you using their Machines or Apps? I'm particularly curious about how you're handling cold starts for LLM tasks, since that was one thing I loved about fly.io for regular Next.js deployments - the cold starts were minimal.
> I’ve been to every major city in the US and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a homeless Indian.

1) I have.

2) There are plenty of homeless or impoverished people in India, they just don't come to the US. Immigrants need a visa or permanent residency, and that usually comes with a requirement to maintain a job or have some level of financial security. Later generation Indian-Americans are, hopefully, kept out of poverty by the work their parents and families put in to establish a foothold in the US. But none of this is guaranteed; homelessness can happen to just about anyone if they have the right run of bad luck, and one's culture is only a small part of that equation.
If web servers were deployed to space, and everyone was connecting through satellites would there be any upside for ping?

Sure New York to Ohio is always going to be fastest over fibre, but what about New Zealand to London? Not sure how much that matters though and the speed of light is a pretty hard limit to what's possible.
> Here are some things that you’d likely believe if you got all of your science information from YouTube.

The piece isn't about science. It's about social media sharing of information that might be related to science. Title is far from the mark of the subject matter.

We will (already do) regret making the misinformed, the lazy, and the shallow a more prominent presence than the actual scientists.
Zuckerberg says administration pushed Meta 'super hard' to take down vax content
I would argue its about improving labor productivity.
What you are saying is American corporations want labor with higher productivity and even willing pay more for more productive labor (by paying immigration costs).

Thats why SWE salaries overall increased and H1Bs are making the same salaries as citizens, because of higher competition leading to higher productivity.

Importing foreign workers (and culling bottom 10% via forcing curve/pip) forces average labor productivity to increase
There are several characters in the first Hunger Games that revel in the death of their competitors, including several that torture their victims to death. A number of the competitors go into the games knowing what they involve, having specifically trained to kill other children.

In the second and third Hunger Games novels, the traps and obstacles are designed to torture, maim, and/or inflict painful deaths, for the viewing pleasure of those watching (in the second) or just to inflict pain (in the third). At the end of the final novel, the "good" guys murder a bunch of innocent civilians (including children) in order to assure their ascendancy to power.

In terms of darkness, the Hunger Games is darker than Battle Royale. But it's not a direct comparison, since Battle Royale is a satire and Hunger Games is not.
I saw that, but that was a tough one to land.
And just how expensive is a bubble sextant?
How are the people without the jobs doing the tilting?
Try broadcasting on a licensed frequency without a license and find out... If the terminals were completely passive, finding smuggled terminals would be much harder.
Are you sure you mean No Child Left Behind (HW Bush 1)/Race to the Top (Obama 2)'s emphasis on measurable objectives backed by standardized tests? The Common Core is a program/sequence of Grade 2-12 curriculum objectives.

https://corestandards.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ELA_Sta...

https://corestandards.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Math_St...

I say this as someone who hates exams as assessment in general, because I'm simply not wired to do any meaningful thinking given a piece of paper, no ability to walk around and think, and always just too little time to gather my thoughts. (I always enjoyed tough problem sets instead.)
I've been looking hungrily at a 5700x3d, but just can't justify spending more money on AM4. I'm saving up for a 9800x3d.

I've considered just disabling a CCD to see how that works.