skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like it stems from a 2019 philosophy article written by Perry Zurn, titled "Busybody, Hunter, Dancer: Three Historical Modes of Curiosity."

Zurn does write "At their most basic level, a busybody is someone who is curious about other people's business," but develops the concept a bit further. Zurn says "The busybody's ideational sphere, for example, is characterized by quick associations, discrete pieces of information, and loose knowledge webs. They are interested in conceptual rarities: whatever lies outside of their knowledge grids."

Whereas the research article Zhou et al. (2024) states "Hunters build tight, constrained networks whereas busybodies build loose, broad networks." So it seems their conception of busybody roughly matches Zurn's description.

See the methods section https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn3268#sec-4 , for a description of how Zhou et al. (2014) aggregate graph theoretic metrics to define "busybody" and "hunter" styles of navigating Wikipedia.
Those sound like basic LLM workflows with nothing agentic about it.
Well I used to think 64 bits would be enough forever basically, I guess that's why I was a little shocked that it actually might become insufficient at some point even if its far off.
I also find the conclusions odd. Could it be that for the rich people, Wikipedia is just entertainment, whereas people in poorer countries actually seek to understand a topic in order to solve a problem?
I've never regretted my education and only wanted more.

> response to concerns about children’s mental health and a shortage of teachers.

Ha! Getting educated is so bad for children, and how insufferable an extra day among their peers must be! Disgusting!
For one, PHP doesn't require bundlers to work, nor does it require compilers, transpilers, watchers or whatever. You just save your code in your editor of choice and that's it.
> What prevents other countries from using these other systems?

Nothing.

Nothing also prevents other countries from using China's BeiDou GNSS or their eLoran network.
Not to mention bools, bitarrays, error codes...
Removing gay apps from electronics and automobiles.

The future!
Sure, if you live in a country with submodern infrastructure, doesn't produce enriched wheat, or cannot afford to buy an iodine supplement, you are probably right.

However 1 cup of milk has more iodine than 1/4 teaspoon of iodized salt, 1 egg has half as much, and two slices of enriched wheat bread has three times as much.

Also, a typical kelp supplement has way more than the RDV, in a single pill.
I think you’re off by a decade or so.

Common consumer laptops had 2-4 GB of RAM in 2006.

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook...
> To fix the situation, Kate's App needs to certify that their app is compliant and provide an official agreement for providers. Otherwise healthcare providers should stay away, and this app would only be useful for friends and family members.

The OP mentions this is for family members and specifically excludes medical providers from the intended audience.

> This is not a clinic portal, and is not associated with any insurance or medical providers.

It seems the target audience is multiple family members involved in coordinating a loved one's care.
If you flip the "private" flag it would change the infohash of the torrent. The "private" flag is part of the info block in the torrent file's data. With an infohash mismatch between the two peers no download would happen.

Obviously after a non-compliant party to the transfer has fully downloaded the file(s) it can do whatever it wants with it afterwards… flip any flags and share via DHT, etc.

I recently shared some —more or less— private data to someone else via BitTorrent. We just used DHT for convenience. It took like 15 minutes for other random peers to pop into the transfer. All of those random peers just fetched the meta data. And indeed, a check on btdig confirmed the whole metadata (file names, file sizes, etc.) leaked. So there's a lot of DHT network scanning going on for sure. It was rather fascinating. No actual data was downloaded/leaked at least.
Will this be visible in the Southern hemisphere?
FixScript, an Extensible Scripting Language
Would be cool if it calculated the mass of various propellants required to provide the necessary energy :)
Perfect exemple of what op is asking. This is just a demo. What problems does it solve for you or your clients so that you make money ?
For all the folks championing how awesome PHP is in this thread, one would surely hope it has rfc3339 aware date parsing, no? But I guess that <https://www.php.net/manual-lookup.php?pattern=rfc%203339&sco...> and <https://www.php.net/manual-lookup.php?pattern=iso8601&scope=...> both being :shruggle: doesn't do it any favors. However, it seems it is just a search stupidity because https://www.php.net/manual/en/datetimeimmutable.createfromfo...

I do love this, since it 100% squares with my mental model of PHP's approach to life: you're holding it wrong https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-parse-from-forma...
James Thomson on the Origins of the macOS Dock
Dietary fat isn't actually bad for you in reasonable amounts. It's the overindulgence of carbs, which turns into body fat.

Also the Japanese diet is interesting. It's actually not low-calorie pound-per-pound, but the portion sizes are much smaller. The Japanese just eat less than Americans.

It has also a surprisingly small amount of greens. There is usually a pickled vegetable dish on the side, but that's it.
Seems pretty clean to me? Do you mean the current state of affairs is a mess?
> The need to try to sow conflict between “patriarchy” and “xetriarchy” by depicting one style of curiosity as more virtuous than the other

Did you understood that one method was better than the other? To me it's just different way of using Wikipedia. I'm more of a busybody myself, but I can do hyperfocused dive ('hunter', which to me seems more positive) on specific subjects when needed. I often go out of Wikipedia in that case though (I use it to find links mostly)
Rust-based server for R applications
Matt posted a blog late last night about blocking Joost de Valk, Karim Marucchi, Se Reed, Heather Burns, and Morten Rand-Hendriksen on Wordpress.org. It's precisely because they disagree with Matt's leadership.

https://wordpress.org/news/2025/01/jkpress/
Nice project. I would appreciate putting some common content in the demo, such as videos, dropdowns, large amount of text and large size text to show how they can be handled.

Also is there a version without window chrome, just panes?
I don't remember it being difficult to implement a COM interface. DCOM, OTOH, was another level of hell.
It's a minor thing but I would remove the jQuery dependency. You're not doing much with that plain javascript couldn't do just as well if not better. Plain JS has come a long way since jQuery first came out.
At the same time, but all the planets will be upside-down.
There were a ton of Jewish gangs in New York: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish-American_organized_cr...

Also your example of white nazi gangs in prison: they exist for the same reason- people need to band together to survive
I enjoy it quite a lot :shrug:

Bash itself isn't a very big language, so I wouldn't call it "impossible to memorize".
Finland is a model of 1) good land use policy (Anna Haila's study of Singapore is also fantastic for understanding this), 2) excellent efficiency of organization and design in social housing (they run competitions and stamp out winning designs many times, getting economies of scale), and 3) understanding market economies and using the buying power of a large builder to be ruthlessly efficient in construction, 4) somewhat sane permitting processes and allocation of resources to social housing builds.

4 and to a lesser extent 3 above are the biggest differences with the non-profits that build below-market-rate housing in California. In California, the non-profits must fight like hell to get any permission to build, and that process can easily take years upon years, with uncertain delays along the entire process. In the meantime, funds that might go to the project will have deadlines on them, and any project will actually be assembled from a large and diverse set of sources that vary from grants, to loans, to LIHTC tax credits. And for the funding that comes from an application process to other organizations.

All this means that the entire build must be 100% subservient to the needs of getting local build approval and funding gathered all at the same time. Any project that focuses on minimizing costs is going to fail because the other parts are so hard to pull together.

IMHO there should be changes to local approval such that when plans are submitted, the city has 90 days to give final approval or rejection, with zero, absolutely zero extensions. And if the city rejects projects that follow the rules, or takes longer than 90 days, then that city loses any control over permitting for a year and a disinterested state board takes over, with the city paying the state for that cost.
sometimes when sleeping or falling asleep i "wake up" or so. Basically im awake but i start having hallucinations about my surroundings, kind of like the description of sleep paralysis but i can move. I only have experienced sleep paralysis twice in my life so i wouldn't really know.

But hallucinations while semi sleep are wild, idk if it is normal, i haven't really considered before
MIT students decode the science behind the perfect cup
Yeah, but did BASIC have an SSL library?

The bar for "basic" programming these days is much higher in many cases.
(not the parent)

Make is - at its core - a tool for expressing and running short shell-scripts ("recipes", in Make parlance) with optional dependency relationships between each other.

Why would I want to spread out my build logic across a bunch of shell scripts that I have to stitch together, when Make is a nicely integrated solution to this exact problem?
It's written in C++ and .NET Framework. VS is mostly an exception anyway. I much prefer to use VS Code + Rider instead. Your comments leave me with impression that you are not interested in understanding the performance profile of .NET and are looking to engage in a language flamewar instead.

Edit: I stand corrected, based on reply in a sibling comment most of the perception stems from how .NET Framework works. Understandable.
"Sustainability is non-negotiable!" was my favorite platitude from their website at that time. As Sonos needlessly condemned 6 year old speakers to the landfill.
There’s tension between what is best for the company and what is most fair to applicants. I acknowledge that, but think that the onus should be on (large) companies to figure out a better interview process.

I don’t see why references have to come from current (or past) employees. Colleges don’t make you get referred by alumni, but they do require letters of reference (usually).

On a related note, it’s amusing to me when white men in tech on Reddit get mad about Indian men preferentially hiring other Indian men from their community. I assume that many of these same white men don’t see any problem when they preferentially hire their own friends using the rationale that you gave.
With water changes, single water pump can now power 100+ heat exchangers.
Supply chain security with mise and asdf plugins
Wasn’t typescript created to fix this problem for JS?
“Agents” are the new “middleware” / “workflow automation”.

What’s old is new again.

(Which is also why Salesforce is going big on agents. They acquired Mulesoft 8-years ago and agents are the next evolution of middleware)
> They did not invent UNIX but they try harder

I fear that this reference to an old Avis advertising slogan may be lost to a modern audience.
Aaron Swartz left us 12 years ago
especially for an order book...
Do people still use Ocelot? I have no idea.
This is what OP is explicitly not asking for—it's just a demo of a theoretical case, Temporal showing how a company that's hyped up on AI agents could use your platform to do agent-y things.

OP wants to know if anyone is actually using this stuff productively, not if anyone has tech demos. We've all seen more than enough tech demos.
Although I'm not sure that's true in general outside of bad areas of cities--which do also exist in other developed countries. Maybe some rural areas are iffy but many inexpensive ones are really not.
if you need tools it just means the code is sub-par
Ships are far more isolated than land crews, and direction-finding is much harder at sea than on land. If you're part of an organization that cares where you are and wants you back, you are pretty easy to find your general location venture off on a land journey and get stuck. A single human might be hard to find under a rock or snow, but an army unit that wants to fund is easy to spot.
That’s meta. Literally.

Edit: Sorry. This was based on the false assumption that this was research by Meta, Inc..
Fwiw, I agree. I also pull down the branch under review in parallel to the web code review. You’d (probably) not be surprised by the number of times I’ve done this and the code doesn’t even build.
That example isn't what OP is talking about, because it's obvious what the type of p is because it's on the same line:

auto p = std::make_shared<T>();

whereas the following isn't clear and isn't necessarily correct without looking up what the return type of foo() actually is:

auto p = foo();
Study makes a mistake by automatically equating functional societies with gender equality
I do not look forward to the future where common software requires exabytes of memory.
Why Your AI SaaS Needs Two Models, Not One
Encryption. For example, GPS's P(Y) code is encrypted and only for military use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System
I developed my first game as an indie
I finally finished a project I've been working on for the last few months and I wanted to share it. I made a space-themed tower defence game for iOS called Starz Defence. The game is very new at the moment, so it would be really important for me to get your opinions about the game.

The game is set in the Andorex galaxy. The aim is to clear the planets from enemies and liberate them. Each planet has different enemies and of course bosses. I also want to mention the following because these things bother me a lot as a player. There is no forced advertisement. You can play offline, so you don't need to be connected to the internet. And the game is free. If you try it and comment, especially if you can tell me what works and what doesn't, I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance!
AFAIK, the limitations are just some (not all) reflection API is missing, and trimming can cause problems. That’s pretty much about it. Obviously it’s a problem if you need those, but I wouldn’t call it “many limitations”.
Ask HN: Language combines benefits of Lisp and Rust but isn't just Lisp in Rust?
Can you imagine the makefile was made by someone else and you are now suddenly confronted with the result of 10 years of tuning.
I’m a pm, today I built a working mockup with windsurf (golang + wails + vuejs +duckd). Windsurf uses codeium, branded as the first agentic IDE.

Your requirements will improve, not sure if in the long I still need developers to build the actual software.

The development process with windsurf is a bit like throwing a dice, hoping for a 6. A lot of trial and error, but if you check the git log, you see about 15 minutes between commit per feature request. Windsurf does a good job to summarize the entire feature request chat into a short git commit message. Every git commit reads like a user story.
Earth in the picture is scaled to roughly 300,000 feet per pixel; Earth's surface and both flying altitudes would be the same pixel if drawn to scale.

(~42M feet diameter shown in ~134 pixels).
Decompilation is primarily intended to be consumed by humans, I.e. to make the assembly more understandable because it’s written in functions, ifs, and for loops; it’ll likely not compile at all and if it does not to the original firmware. I don’t believe it’s typically an explicit goal of decompilation to be that high fidelity (ie allow recompilation). It’s probably possible to hack the source to compile to byte-for-byte the same firmware if desired with a little patience.

Other than that, you’d be right :-)
Enabling Neural Rendering in DirectX: Cooperative Vector Support Coming Soon
Is there any data out there that reflects this? That’s really interesting
This is a demo. OP is asking for examples of usage in production, where the agent is actually doing work.

It's also not really what people are promising with "agentic" because there's a human prompting and assisting it the entire time.
If you accept 2^32, then code using 32-bit ints is definitely broken on it and thus the OP question of the issue on half that is irrelevant. Which is my point - widening the acceptable input range from 2^31 to 2^32 (or in the case of signed integers, from 2^30 to 2^31; give or take 1 of course) just "fixes" one small case of the actual core issue of nearly any arithmetic anywhere being wrong if you don't explicitly constrain input sizes.
> Battery backup being introduced in 2010 as a requirement is absolutely insane

I welcome the formation of your company selling already-certified batteries that will not damage anything around them (like the precious recorded data) if they go from 500 to 0 in no seconds flat, are subjected to pressures of a few kilometers of water, or to a post-crash fire.
corporations are functionally psychopaths. they will say whatever you need to hear to spend money and they will do whatever it takes to maximise profit, even when it goes contrary to what they have said.
> I just know that it can be corrosive for people in that position

The reverse is also true: it can be corrosive for the people on the other side of that equation. Of course the 3rd generation "foreign" descendant had no choice on where to be born, but you can imagine that for the generation of the "natives" that took in the immigrants, it might have felt strange to see among their community people that looked different, spoke a different language, and had different cultural customs. It's hard not to think that this was corrosive to the social fabric, especially for the people who didn't feel that they had agreed to that particular change in the social contract.

> your parents have been born in Korea but you still aren’t seen as part of the country

Some immigrant groups don't integrate very well, even after generations. Naturally, it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem; do the immigrants not integrate because the natives reject them, or do the natives reject them because the immigrants don't integrate?

As an immigrant myself, I believe the onus is on the immigrant to integrate, and to raise one's children to be even further integrated. Again, it sucks for those who had no choice but to be born in a country as the descendants of immigrants, who nevertheless get judged as an immigrant unwilling to integrate; but that's not a problem particular to immigration. It always sucks to be judged not as an individual but as a member of a group.

We should all strive to judge people by who they are and not what group they belong to, which I suppose was your overall message; but I just want to point out that everything is a two-way street.
Return that crap and buy something like Audio Pro speakers instead
> Spite-driven development

Lol, excellent. Couldn't describe myself in a more succinct way even if I tried for a decade.
> The bug is in this line:

> In Programming Pearls Bentley says that the analogous line "sets m to the average of l and u, truncated down to the nearest integer." On the face of it, this assertion might appear correct, but it fails for large values of the int variables low and high. Specifically, it fails if the sum of low and high is greater than the maximum positive int value (231 - 1). The sum overflows to a negative value, and the value stays negative when divided by two. In C this causes an array index out of bounds with unpredictable results. In Java, it throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.

At some point we have to draw an arbitrary line. Even an "arbitrary precision" calculation is bounded by system memory.

"bug" is not well-defined, or perhaps "bug" is more of a continuous label as opposed to discrete.
Sorry, I was thinking if Forbes online.
I think the primary point is that until the 20th century, most people did not ever have a choice. Communal living was the only primary successful strategy for survival, so we are fairly hardwired for that environment. In that environment occasional solitude was probably a benefit.

It’s like the physical exercise which until the 20th century was just a part of everyone’s life. We sought relief from it whenever possible, but that wasn’t often possible. But in modern life we can go weeks without much physical exertion. And we know the consequences of that.
You're getting down-voted, but I have a feeling you're on to something. Nigerian princes need to do lots of 1:1 messaging. On social media, you can make a small number of messages and collect a set to work off of in one channel or another. The scams you run are different, and maybe there really are vitamins in the pills you sell.
It is /bæd/ vs /meɪd/
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/bade
How about https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/enabling-neural-rende...

It's almost like some of us actually understand what's coming and aren't just being offensive asses.
> If you thought it was about raves, why say night clubs?

Because the post is about raves. I responded to a comment about nightclubs in a post about raves, its implied then they're talking about raves in nightclubs, what else would they be talking about?

> (In North America at least) A night club is a particular kind of venue, it's not just a location. It's very distinct from a rave, and they have very different cultures. It's confusing when you conflate the two.

What the hell are you talking about, raves happen in nightclubs all the time (all over the US too). You are just making up your own definitions now.
I'm pretty sure the threatened invasions are just distractions to change the conversation from the H1B debacle.

If for no other reason than Canada is a country a lot of Americans actually care about (many have relatives there), and without a formal declaration of war congress could step in at any time and declare the whole thing illegal, enabling the military to refuse orders relevant to the invasion.

But as an American who has been a little sick of Europe mooching off of our military overwatch (see various European nations running out of bombs during the Libya campaign), I'm all for an independent European military command with independent capacity. The Cold War is over, the Russian tank hordes that once threatened to roll across Western Europe haven't managed to roll halfway across Ukraine with even reluctant, intermittent, indirect western support. We don't need to be under some monolithic military command anymore, Europe does not (or at least should not) need US strategic overwatch to fend off Russia.

As for the "European militarization has historically led to world wars" argument, the UK, France, and Russia all have nukes. Germany could probably build a few in a long weekend if sufficiently motivated. We aren't going to see a WWI or WWII rematch unless the AI "revolution" actually turns out to be more than smoke and mirrors for dumb money and enables perfect missile defense or something.

So yeah, please get an ex-US NATO off the ground so we can focus on China.