skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that’s one beautiful aspect of the scene in Schindlers list when they are agonizing over the list of names in tedious detail. It’s rare that this kind of work is dramatized without altering its quotidien nature.
It is but Microsoft still does this and has a publicly announced program that they’ve bragged about which discriminates against suppliers based on race and gender.
Yeah I knew someone was gonna ask. The trouble is a lot of people use ⊂ to mean ⊆. So I would've gotten a comment correcting me on that instead.
There is no point classifying an EV as Gavin an automatic transmission, you mostly don’t use gears (maybe to go reverse? But you could run the motor backwards). I would be surprised if hydrogen fuel cell cars had transmissions as well.
Gift link shared by author on social: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/america...
I didn't get that point at all, I thought it was more about how elders in society exploit the young, which is doubly true in a country like Japan with its poor birth rates
This is a two-part problem.

1) You can fingerprint devices using CSS

2) You can make server calls using CSS to exfiltrate the client-side data

Stopping (2) would limit the utility of (1).
Took me way too long that PoC doesn't refer to proof-of-concept.
And of course pi = 22/7! ;)
I dont even know how to react to this comment :)

... thank you!?
>Sure, like women getting educated, working, and having equal rights?

That only took a few thousand years and still isn't really there yet.
DEI has ruined many people's careers and lives. I'm not sure I can recover.
It's finicky and picky, very dependent on the tree sitter grammar but when it works, it's magical.
Ask HN: Does Attention (from LLMs) work well on any other data types?
Just wondering if theres any other research out there of applying the attention mechanism from large language models to any other data types (spitballing but like weather data, or IoT data, etc). If there is research on it, would you mind providing a few citations?
Right because the BMW i8's engine is mounted in front of the rear axle. You access it through the trunk, not the hood.

That said, this is a concept car. It doesn't have to be practical.
Have you never noticed that you were left out of an important conversation, without hearing the conversation itself?
How else could they get to know that if the whole topic is taboo?
Maincard
As someone on the sidelines of robotics who generally feels everything getting disrupted and at the precipice of major change, it's really helpful to have a clearer understanding of the actual challenge and how close we are to solving it. Anything that helps me make more accurate predictions will help me make better decisions about what problems I should be trying to solve and what skills I should be trying to develop.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42620001
> Otherwise, the very first commit should be removing all the personally identifiable information and other telemetry sent back to Matt's personal website

This is one of the things I removed in our WordPress fork. I found it horrifying to learn that an open source software does such a user-hostile thing, and wondered why nobody but me objects.
India's digital payments strategy is cutting out Visa and Mastercard
That's what the peak was a couple of years ago or so.
On the other hand, the most interesting discussions to be had are the ones where the opponent disagees with you.

As this is hard for many people i learn to completely ignore any part that is not of interest.

The funniest instance was an infuriated coworker calling me names, ready to fight me. He must have raged on fir 10 whole minutes while i calmly looked at him without expession. After his rage my conclusion was that he was right and calmly told him he was, next shift we will do it the way you've described. If he was wrong i would just say NO.

Made a good friend that day :)
Tau. cf vihart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7vhMMXagQ&t=0s
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42647606
interesting library, i think i'll try it.
More than 10 years and the only major things are nebulous sexual harassment concern (without any details, of course), booze and “guys”. Remarkable achievement for DEI crowd.

What a sad story, you can’t say “courage”, “allyship” anymore and get a promotion!
I'm running LineageOS, rooted, with MicroG' Safetynet emulation (of sorts?). So a build signed with userdebug keys.

Some banking apps just work - two with warning on first launch, and one just doesn't care at all.

Two refuse to run and I have an old unrooted phone for them.
Resulting in me being a good customer of those three banks that are not fussy.

So try and see, perhaps things just work!
I Switched to Hugo from a Hand-Coded Website
How to start your own country?
Meta, maybe Zuck specifically, always seemed liked a pandering company trying to follow the social meta. VR gets popular, Meta goes all in. Twitter “dies”, Meta swoops in with Threads. Snapchat stories, FB stories. TikTok, FB shorts. Musk getting close to Trump, Zuck trying to get close. People say he’s a robot? Hey, he now has a chain, does jujitsu, and has a broccoli haircut. Puts Dana White on the board and does JRE. Now he’s removing fact checking and DEI as the left is losing power. It’s like Zuck just wants to be recognized as a cool kid in the group, but is clearly trying too hard. The last cool thing FB did was marketplace and then all the way back to timeline feature.
7thaccount is a great HN user. I don't believe they're astroturfing. I do believe you meant this sincerely though.
No matter what Trump tried to do, I think that winning the popular vote and election is the highest form of democratic legitimacy. Xi was not elected by the people, and the party's election of their head of party was not fair (there is coercion); that's why some people say that he is an autocrat. A government cannot be autocratic when its head-of-state is decided by an election that is quite representative. If the US were an autocratic government, the election would be meaningless, and Biden would be naming his successor. Which is not presently the case.

The best argument I can give for your statement is that the present US population democratically chooses as their head-of-state a person who would like the government to be more autocratic, or have authoritarian personalities, or are strongmen; between Chávez, Marcos, Duterte, Modi, and Bolsonaro, among others, you will be able to find instances where strongmen with great popular support are elected in sufficiently fair and free elections. I still consider they reflect the will of the people, even as some regard that the people suffer for that choice.

In which case, my original point still stands; I still think you want companies to want to cooperate with governmental leadership in a well-functioning democracy, and you have misidentified where dysfunction lies (if there is dysfunction) by thinking that for things to be arranged otherwise would be democratic.
Just about every widely used software. Especially from Big Tech.
My daughter has a mild astigmatism (enough to where she needs to wear contacts) and can do the magic eyes very quickly… but maybe that’s only when she’s wearing contacts
Without looking it up, I think that's right, but... that's just kind of inevitable with hash tables. Unless you have a small number of keys and get very lucky, it's exceedingly likely that you'll have multiple keys in the same bucket, and you'll have to use whatever language's `__eq__` equivalent mechanism.

A mitigating factor is that dict keys have to be hashable, which implies immutability, which generally implies a small number of native, fast types like str, numbers, or simple data structures like tuples. You could have some frozendict monstrosity as keys, but 1) that's not something you see often, and 2) don't do that. It you must, define a fast __eq__. For example, an object mapping to a database row might look like:

def __eq__(self, other):
if self.pk != other.pk:
return False # Fail quickly
# If that's true, only then do a deep comparison
return self.tuple_of_values == other.tuple_of_values

But again, that's just not really something that's done.
Turns out the whole "culture" thing was made up. You just do what is best for your business.
It’s like a variant of Pournelles Law.
Congrats to the authors for a thoughtful work! I have been thinking and working on related ideas for a few months now but did not yet spent commensurate compute on them and might have gone in a different direction; this work certainly helps create better baselines along the way of making better use of decoder transformer architectures. Please keep it coming!
It's worth noting that modern multimodal models are not confused by the cat image. For example, Claude 3.5 Sonnet says:

> This image shows two cats cuddling or sleeping together on what appears to be a blue fabric surface, possibly a blanket or bedspread. One cat appears to be black while the other is white with pink ears. They're lying close together, suggesting they're comfortable with each other. The composition is quite sweet and peaceful, capturing a tender moment between these feline companions.
The Day Fighter role
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_fighter was viable for many decades and is still common in many non- first world countries. He invented the concept of maintaining low drag during high-G maneuvers.
Definitely IP geolocation.
My position as a russian, if you want something (resources, gas pipeline, whatever) you make a better offer than the other guy. it is called diplomacy, such a new concept. You attack = you are unilaterally at fault.

I heard so many times how ukraine "invited the attack" by behaving in ways russia didn't like. Tbh I feel like anyone who says that is a potential domestic abuser.

While Kagi is not good enough for an advanced user I see no problem buying it for a tech illiterate relative. But that is assuming Kagi doesn't literally pay in some form to Yandex for using their search
I'd very much count employee-owned businesses as corporations. In certain jurisdictions they may or may not meet the legal definition of a corporation but that feels like semantics.
RISC-V in AI and HPC
Shouts to msgspec - i havent had a project without it in awhile.
Anecdotally, people cite high abv alcohol consumption for having a preserving effect on living body. I imagine it being like a variety of chemotherapy. By that I mean specifically not drinking a mixed drinks, but drinking nothing but straight vodka and water for a whole day or multiple, while maybe eating some pickles. It shifts body metabolism from sugars and fats to mostly alcohol and protein. It's not as tough as it sounds, given that, again anecdotally, many Slavic and Finnish people do so casually.
If I had a nickel for every time I have seen a Makefile straight up copied from other projects and modified to "work" while leaving completely unrelated unnecessary build steps and targets in place.

It's a major pet peeve of mine.
I would love to be able to cure the problem of people being mean on the internet.

I think it's a million dollar idea, if it's possible.

I think it can be done, but it seems that incivility is seen as more profitable, or something?

Twitter Japan, for example, is known for being fairly civil. I think even Elon Musk, at one point, said that Twitter Japan was a model for all of Twitter. Go Elon!

Then Elon took over and actively, it seems to me, promoted incivility. I think he figured that making Twitter, now X, more controversial would promote engagement. But Twitter Japan showed that people could engage civilly and didn't need controversy to promote engagement.

I suspect had Elon chose to make Twitter/X more like Twitter Japan, he wouldn't have lost his advertisers (which apparently were a major percentage of revenue).

But the past is history, and Twitter/X is what it is, and is likely to stay that way I think.
is that how long it takes before a newborn is given their SSN?
At my work I've noticed another contributing factor: tools/systems that devs need to interact with at some point, but otherwise provide little perceived value to learn day-to-day.

Example is build system and CI configuration. We absolutely need these but devs don't think they should be expected to deal with them day to day. CI is perceived as a system that should be "set and forget", like yeah we need it but really I have to learn all this just to build the app? Devs expect it to "just work" and if there are complexities then another team (AKA my role) deals with that. As a result, any time devs interact with the system, there's a high motivation to copy from the last working setup and move on with their day to the "real" work.

The best solution I see is meet the devs halfway. Provide them with tooling that is appropriate simple/complex for the task, provide documentation, minimise belief in "magic". Tools like Make kinda fail here because they are too complex and black-box-like.
“Reactionary” is a pejorative and not an argument.
Newer temporal rendering techniques result in lower quality frames and output when the prevailing art style of the game is not one that is photorealistic.

There's a lot of "smearing" as a result. It's not just you, it's how newer rendering techniques in the Unreal Engine end up being perceived by most people.
How async/await works in Python (2021)
Even if the math of the arc length was correct (and you don't need to be a math professor to figure out it isn't) there's another logic misstep.

Implied in the caption is that the speed is the same at all heights (given that an increase in distance is implied as an increase in time.)

This is again obvious nonsense - speed is a function of thrust versus drag, and it's safe to say that both of those are affected by air density.

It becomes even less true once one gets to space. There height is a function of speed which means that to "catch up" something in front of you, you need to slow down.
Alias, cmake effect.
Theft is the wrong term, it implies that the original is no longer available. It's copyright infringement at best, and possibly fair use depending on jurisdiction. It wasn't theft when the RIAA went on a lawsuit spree against mp3 copying, and it isn't theft now.
LLMs debate with each other, until one gives up
can we benchmark llms by making them debate each other?
will they know when to give up?
will o1 win all other llms?

i built this simple cli tool to try this out

more deets: https://x.com/gabrielchua_/status/1877955843918016835?s=46&t...
Martin Mars by Coulson Aviation
> SQL is the FORTRAN of relational programming languages

and what is an alternative to sql ... quel?
Why would you compare hate comment posted online to murder?
Given how tightly beam formed starlink dishes are I wonder how easy they are to locate from any distance outside their transmission vector
>The massive air tanker was built as a transport plane for the U.S. Navy in 1946, and is one of the largest fixed-wing water bombers in the world, with a capacity to carry more than 27,000 litres of water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j674q7lMDi0
We're obviously not putting the master branch in charge of exploiting a bunch of slave branches.

And "a man" doesn't refer to mankind/humankind.
Toodle Studio
I referred to those as generic/conceptual terms. Each class has it superstar object.
anyone can hide and claim they have no money, better to provide housing to good students with good job. We can call it I don't know, "credit score" or something like that.
I have observed the Makefile effect many times for LaTeX documents. Most researchers I worked with had a LaTeX file full of macros that they have been carrying from project to project for years. These were often inherited from more senior researchers, and were hammered into heavily-modified forks of article templates used in their field or thesis templates used at their institution.
there's an online version: https://www.cuttle.cards/
Good points in general.

On the other hand, there are cases where (beneficial/desired) verbosity prompts copy-paste and tweaking - not due to complexity but from some form of scale or size of the input.

In many cases this is a sign of something that should be dynamic data (put it in a db instead of conf) but that's not always the case and worth the tradeoff in the moment.
Your comment is too brief for me to figure out what you mean by it.
Reactionary is a pejorative usually used by Marxists, and implies drawing one side into their false us-vs-them dichotomy where the "them" has a "fair game doctrine" applied to them. Usually other epithets soon follow: racist, criminal, etc.

Not only is it not, as you note, an argument, it's a pejorative label designed to discount and demonize the opponent. It's also likely to be used by someone in a political cult (or "high demand new political movement" if you prefer).

George Orwell had a really fun article on "Politics and the English Language" which goes into some detail on the controlling nature of such language and the people who use it.
what another open source you can recommend ?
SteamOS Is Here
or just bribe the person who is assigning flats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v7eSQJWxc4, because this system was already tried.
I wanted a wider view of the trend, and it looks to me like after the covid dip the US is still not back at the 2000s level of participation.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU01300026

In tech it might be a different story, but all I've seen where the stats decrease until 2020, and haven't seen much data covering the recent years. Was there any significant increase above what the other fields have seen ?
amazon's internal build tool experiences this same phenomena. engineers are hired based on their leetcode ability; which means the average engineer has gaps in their infrastructure and config tool knowledge/skillset. until the industrys hiring practices shift, this trend will continue.
I'm thinking it's likely the number of supported colors and integer vs floating point precision.

You'll notice that quake textures are very similar to PS1 textures in that they are pixelated and use a limited number of colors, whereas N64 textures have more of a smooth gradient.

Likely also there are differences in the lighting systems as well. This is why I think people compare Quake II or even Quake III Arena to UE1. The OG quake really was a hack just to be the first that did 6 degrees of freedom textured 3D graphics on a PC, which I think they were the first for those exact constraints. My history is a little fuzzy, SEGA certainly had them beat by multiple years on arcade boards but those were all custom, and other games that had 6 degrees of freedom were not textured. It was a busy time !
(green) hydrogen fuel cells have much worse energy efficiency than batteries.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hydrogen-ladder-version-50-mi...
I think there is a bit of nuance to this. The UK also has about 500 or so homeless people per 100000 inabitants. In the US the number of people in prisons is about that number per 100K. On top of their huge homeless problem.

There is the brutal reality that the climate in Finland and being homeless are not a great combination in the winter. And the summers are short. Getting people off the streets saves lives. If it's -20 during the night you can either lock people up or collect their corpses in the morning. Most people will seek shelter by themselves or not reject shelter when it is offered to them. But people with serious psychiatric issues, that are maybe a bit self destructive and under the influence of alcohol or drugs are going to have trouble doing rational things. So, yes, Finland does the pragmatic thing here. I don't have good statistics on this but I bet there are more than few corpses being collected in the US and the UK on a yearly basis.

I've lived in Finland for a few years. It's a friendly place that is mostly safe and nice to be. There's a level of pragmatism and compassion with much of what they do that other countries could learn from. Including the business of incarcerating people. The US and UK are maybe a bit lacking with that. Finland has prisons and psychiatric wards (not the same thing) of course. But people don't stay in those endlessly. Prison sentences are generally short, and rehabilitation is something they put a lot of effort on. Most crime there relates to people doing stupid shit because they are drunk, mentally ill, etc. The solution usually includes addressing those issues after they serve their shortish prison terms. And with some level of success.
Write down the argument for later and test it's hypothesis during the day?
> At it's core an LLM is a sort of "situation specific simulation engine." You setup a scenario, and it then plays it out with it's own internal model of the situation, trained on predicting text in a huge variety of situations. This includes accurate real world models of, e.g. physical systems and processes, that are not going to be accessed or used by all prompts, that don't correctly instruct it to do so.

This idea of LLMs doing simulations of the physical world I've never heard before. In fact a transformer model cannot do this. Do you have a source?
I think LaTeX is the poster child of this. Nobody writes a LaTeX preamble from scratch, you always copy your previous document and tweak it.
Finally

Hopefully this means my company of 16 developers, all of whom are white and male, stops getting accused of being racist because ignorant people on the internet don't realise we are English and there are no black developers within 80 miles
Old IBM mainframe scripting in JCL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Control_Language (so "OS JCL" now, I suppose) used to have a terrible reputation for this, but I've never actually touched the stuff myself.
We can't really formalise what theorems humans would care about, so I'm afraid this is hard to answer rigorously.

But there are some theorems many people care about and they don't have any known short proofs (e.g. Fermat's Last Theorem).
A great video from Invisible People on the topic: "Finland Solved Homelessness: Here's How (Spoiler: It's More Than Housing First)" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jt_6PBnCJE
Possibly this?

iOS Developers targeted with lawsuits for using Apple’s in-app purchases

https://thenextweb.com/news/ios-developers-targeted-with-law...
I guess the pettiness can continue to reach new lows
Manage Risks, Not Methods
This only ever happens when protesting those with fairly little power, very lower middle management, and those in actual power don't care.

It's also become less and less common over time, as the focus on next quarter shareholder returns and hoarding of wealth even when past the point of ever being able to spend it all has increased every single year for decades. And this focus overrules everything else.

Syria had plenty of peaceful protests against Assad. Russia against Putin. China aginst the CCP. The participants generally aren't doing very well. Hong Kong had enormous, mass protests. Georgia (the country) has had big ones recently.

Occupy Wall Street was big and peaceful. What did that accomplish again? Everything they protested against has only intensified.
> Plenty of good software is written in bad (or ill-fitted) languages, and vice versa.

That's because you mention VB6 as a language. VB6 is not about the language, but about the platform and vertical integration; from the IDE to the app to the distribution.

It was magical that dropping a telephony component into a form enabled the form to make phone calls. Or you could drag-drop a Web Browser component, and have a browser inside your app. Or a database component, and a thousand other things. Few of these required reading the docs.

There are many apps that can be written (and deployed!) faster in legacy VB than with anything available today.
I always love a story of impressive software written in “underdog” languages and not hype Go, Rust, Zig etc.