skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is the principle attributed to Houdini

Houdini died from a rather trivial stunt he performed many times before. A hit to the abdomen before he could flex his muscles most likely ruptured his appendix. Keaton died of lung cancer well past the end of his fame.

You can manage the danger of stunts, you can reduce it and prepare for anything that could go wrong. You can never completely avoid it and sometimes a single error is all it takes.
> why this isn't considered anti-competitive behavior

Considered by who? Setting aside the 2021-2024 Lina Khan anomaly, the US Federal government has not enforced anti-trust law for decades, and the States do not have enough power to create their own anti-trust laws. We also just elected an extremely big-tech-friendly government, so that won't be changing for the foreseeable future.
> A few months ago the local theatre was playing Sherlock Jr. with a live band

AFI in Silver Spring?
Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes
The Saga of Elon Musk's Path of Exile Account
It might have an appropriate pessimism but it absolutely endorses fully fledged communism in an uninformed college-bro way (as the other commenter noted, akin to chapo trap house).

>It'd be like checking out the new Mel Gibson film and being annoyed that it comes across as having a conservative Catholic ideology

Yes, but I know Mel is a catholic, I knew nothing of ZA/UM beforehand, I wonder if all of its spiritual successors will be tainted in the same way, if so I'll know for the future that their games aren't for me.
This is why the electric bicycle is so popular.
> would you have said the same thing if he misidentified, say, Germans for French?

In a context like this? Yes. I struggle to think of a phrase that bears the same relation to France or Germany, but can't think I'd care more. (I think I heard once that the "let them eat cake" princess was actually in Spain rather than France? But no-one cares)
Python 3.14 Pre-Release
Here's the first hit on a quick quack from the Duck:

https://www.wikihow.com/Spot-High-Quality-Clothing
same here, was having a hard time finding appropriate words.
i guess serving our country came with some fine print that we never got the chance to read.

but how could a vietnam war veteran possibly consent to having their records accessible to the entire world via the internet?
> But that's the thing, the US isn't banning TikTok, the US is forcing Bytedance to divest its majority control

To me this is indistinguishable from a ban, and I suspect the same is true for many of the politicians who actually voted for this. The semantic difference you bring up is irrelevant to most people.
Enjoy it! One of my favorite games of the past couple years. Loved it
I prefer to cut the connectors off with savage vengeance before tossing the faulty cable ;-)
I didn't know twitch uses IRC, though I wouldn't categorize in the same box as traditional channels and networks either. I mean, the protocol might be the same, but it clearly is used in an entirely different context.
> It's good to interrogate the wallpaper of colonialism

Complaining of colonialism in the context of WW2 and implying, if I'm reading you right, that the West is the bad guy is quite ironic.

This was a war against arguably the most depraved, murderous colonial empire that's ever existed, or at best second only to their Nazi allies.

> I think Orwell was on the right track to say "never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print."

It's an idiom that perfectly encapsulates a specific phenomenon. Compared to many current clichés, I've hardly ever seen it misapplied.
Only if you're using a model trained on them
I'm not particularly passionate about arguing the exact details of "unit" versus "integration" testing, let alone breaking down the granularity beyond that as some do, but I am passionate that they need to be fast, and this is why. By that, I mean, it is a perfectly viable use of engineering time to make changes that deliberately make running the tests faster.

A lot of slow tests are slow because nobody has even tried to speed them up. They just wrote something that worked, probably literally years ago, that does something horrible like fully build a docker container and fully initialize a complicated database and fully do an install of the system and starts processes for everything and liberally uses "sleep"-based concurrency control and so on and so forth, which was fine when you were doing that 5 times but becomes a problem when you're trying to run it hundreds of times, and that's a problem, because we really ought to be running it hundreds of thousands or millions of times.

I would love to work on a project where we had so many well-optimized automated tests that despite their speed they were still a problem for building. I'm sure there's a few out there, but I doubt it's many.
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch
This is a straight advertisement, it's bizarre that no one seems to know or care.
>The problem is that 90% of people unlocking their phones will either be for piracy (against the company’s interests), or against the customer's own interests (stalkerware, data extraction, sale of stolen devices).

The first point is irrelevant once I've bought a thing. Once I own a thing it is mine to do with what I want, and the company's interests ought to be irrelevant. As for your second point, that is mitigated by making the process sufficiently annoying (eg. hiding it in the developer menu).
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> How can Europe continue to exist like this.

By continuing its place as an economic zone for tourism and refugee resettlement.
I think you're confusing training and inference. During training there are things like initialization, data shuffling and dropout that depend on random numbers. At inference time these don't apply.
People (mistakenly, I believe) thought that "master branch" was derived from the disk and database "master"/"slave" metaphor, which had started being eliminated years earlier. "Master branch" was also a fairly recent coinage (within my career) limited to a few specific tools, so changing it wasn't moving mountains.
Why are you singling Singapore? It's not a particularly close ally. It's like Switzerland, neutral.
> NPT violations (same with India)

Just a small correction.

India is not a signatory to NPT. There's no violation.
I think it's fair enough to ban apps that resemble the aesthetics of gambling
Or, you know, maybe your interpretation of what they said is incorrect?

It's quite obvious to me that the original poster was confused about what the end of the article meant and trying to communicate that the explanation they got made sense.

It's also quite obvious to me that they don't think the updated policy about using slurs being okay makes sense.

> Then proceeded to get downvoted to oblivion because there’s apparently a large subset of folks who think calling homosexuality a mental disorder is a perfectly normal thing to do.

If you are receving massive downvotes, instead of insisting on your interpretation being the only correct one, maybe you can try to critically analyze your interpretation and see if there is another way to interpret what was said, instead of doubling down and believing that HN is the last bastion of LGBTQ hate.
It got flagged to death. 50+ upvotes, 6 comments, but flag killed.

I mean, I kind of understand: The discussion is going to turn into the kind of thing that HN tries to avoid. And yet, "moralities" driving things we can't talk about is the point of the essay, so it's really ironic to have it flag killed here.

Off topic: We used to be able to vouch for flagged posts, and we can't seem to do that any more. That means that flag killing is uncorrectable - if users decide that it's inappropriate, their only recourse is to email dang. That seems to me to be a step backward - let the user base correct the overreach of others in the user base.
> VS Code managed to by-pass the qualitiy and amount of extensions/plugins in a fraction of time Emacs took decades.

I get the impression that the VSCode has a rather fractured, limited, malware-infested[1][2], JavaScript-churn inundated plugin ecosystem. You have lots of choice, but I'm would be just as hesitant using a random extension as I would downloading some random executable and running it. On the other hand, I'm genuinely surprised (in a good way) how OCD some Emacs users are with the code I publish to MELPA.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07479
[2] https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/visual-studio-code-has-mali...
I, for one, am excited to see what Mr. Musk and his 'hardcore' engineers have come up with.
Why can't they just take a class on shell scripting? The whole point of computer science is to automate things, because that's what gives you leverage. If you don't care about understanding computer science, at least skip to the point and enjoy the fruits. We've been using the UNIX shell for 50 years. It's not going anywhere.
It took me about a half dozen tries for it to click with me, but I unfortunately have no idea what it was that caused things to click. I felt like I was banging my head over and over against a wall until I wasn't. It seems like it's one of those high effort, high reward things, but I can't figure out what the effort is.
That’s interesting. They obviously see it as a legitimate strategic threat.
Why do you exclude the Abrahamic religions? They have plenty of magical thinking. When we were in college, I remember my best friend explaining that he blesses his food to prevent food poisoning, for example. I was raised Baptist, and my parents attribute pretty much any good fortune for our family to divine intervention, to this day. I know Catholics who can instantly name the patron saint who can be asked to intercede on just about any topic.
you can with dosbox/pcem or something similar (dont think modern xen handles 16bit virtualization) -- but you can definitely run Windows 2000 in a VM on Qubes, but the windows tools are not supported on anything under 7
I had a boss who used to say that her job was to be a crap umbrella, so that the engineers under her could focus on their actual jobs.
TDD as Ground Truth: Anchoring AI Development
We've heard of the OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act).

It helps pilots observe, decide and act faster. It helps businesses execute decisions more rapidly. In software engineering, this concept has long existed in the form of Test-Driven Development (TDD).

Today, TDD isn't just a best practice—it's become a critical framework for AI-assisted development. The reasoning is simple: you can't move fast if you can't verify outcomes quickly.
When I read about Gauss basically inventing Arithmetic Progression at seven years old it gives me similar vibes. What led him to see a different way in adding the numbers 1 to 100? Surely he could have visualized it on his own in an abstract manner, but I tend to wonder if he had a similar enlightening experience like yours.
This is a perfectly legit application of copyright law/brand protection, and I'm no fan of either. The Tube map is copyrighted work that requires a license to be used, even on a free service. The fellow should have stuck to normal OSM overlays, and none of this would have happened.

What is controversial about this?
It's an informal guess, I don't know if there are any accurate estimates.
pet peeve: the notice from google says "including simulated gambling" so to rephrase that as "they say it's gambling" is annoying
"Modern" can refer to more things than just "pretty" web design. If you reject things based purely on visual impression (especially technical communities), you'd miss out on lots of great things, Hacker News being a very relevant example :)

Why they call it "modern" is outlined in the very first paragraph:

> Originally started in 2006, inspired by the now defunct SearchIRC [...] Our goal is to bring awareness to IRC, help modernize the IRC platform and prove that IRC is not dead
> One day our ancestors will look back on this time

"You see, capitalism was indeed a necessary and inevitable bootstrapping phase of human development. Even Marx agreed this was the case. However, by the 21st century, generations had been indoctrinated to an extent that left them assuming capitalism was an unalterable and fundamental law of nature, instead of the global existential threat it had evolved into by its late stages."
Great read... thanks!

"And given the lack of access to the Internet, I couldn’t figure out what else to do with Linux.."

The 'good old days' of learning a computer without the internet. You had books or, in my case, my dads university books... oh and I had Microsoft Encarta. LOL.

While I am responsible avoiding the distractions of the internet, I still prefer disconnect from the internet at times. Sure, it has its powers with quick searching for answers but when you learn by doing (rather than copying/pasting) it releases great vibes to the mind - and what you learn sticks!

I can picture teenagers today trying to learn but end up doom-scrolling on tiktok or other... or distracted by other "content" that is easily accessibly than ever. A Windows 3.1 or 95 computer was as good to whats installed.

Todays computers have the same thing, but everything else the internet throws at you. Its easy to lose track, even for people in their 40s today.
O texto apresenta bem a proposta da ferramenta, destacando uma experiência pessoal relevante e os benefícios para o usuário. No entanto, poderia ser mais direto em algumas partes e reforçar a chamada à ação para engajar mais o público.
There Are Two Wolves in Healthcare Technology
I wrote this in response to the HN thread about NCCN guidelines being stuck in PDFs.
I watched the video first lecture in the MIT course on which Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is based and it explains "computer science is not a science and is only incidentally to do with computers" and goes on to compare the relationship between CS and programming to that between geometry (which means "earth measurement") and surveying.
I don't think of this in terms of "causes of homelessness". These are different categories.

The "visible" homeless, ironically, are extremely difficult to measure. They often don't carry or won't present identification, they often have no family or support structure, they often make little to no attempt to use services.

The "invisible" homeless are the opposite, and can be easily measured, because they have all of those things.

When you see numbers trying to measure homeless people, it will almost always be the "invisible" homeless. Sending people out with clickers to count the homeless people on the street is nearly impossible, so the best we can do is various sampling approaches with huge margins of error.
Wow, he sure can write! Proudhon literally wrote "property is theft" (see my other comments).
Make sure through pure logic that you have correctly identified the Root Cause. Don't fix other probable causes. This is very important.
But not to ban games running on actual gambling? As long as FIFA still has lootboxes it's hypocritical.
You seem to think I was claiming things I weren't. Specifically, I didn't claim it often reproduced precisely _copyrighted_ content. There are some bolt-ons (RL/alignment) that make this reproduction less common. That's irrelevant for the part of the conversation here though which is about LLM's intrinsic capability of reproducing some training material precisely.

> They emphasised "often", and quoted you also saying "_preciesely_".

1st shot out of 1 is a strong sign I wasn't lucky unless you accuse me of lying.

The reproduction is precise up to "Brittish" which is thousands of characters.

I never It's only about the _ability_ to reproduce, not whether this has been aligned away or not.

What you're showing is alignment to not reproduce, not inability to not reproduce. I picked the declaration of independence on purpose to show the capability.
Is it because it's lacking huge empty spaces (looks like HN)?
My wish is that those of us sick of the hype would start calling it ChadGPT, to give it the respect that it deserves!
Protecting minors online doesn't have to compromise privacy
I agree that the article was really interesting and useful in fleshing the origins out into a full human story rather than a single cute anecdote, but what the article describes doesn't really change Feinman's story, it just adds to it.

Cargo cults exist(ed), and like most religious systems throughout history they hinged on a belief that performing certain rituals would have effects on the real world. Some of them did, in fact, see the trappings of the European colonizers as a form of ritual and attempt to recreate the techno-rituals by creating effigies of the European technology.

Nothing in that story is fundamentally disagreed with in TFA. So while it's really helpful to be able to give more life to a previously glib anecdote, the metaphor is still very apt.

The main takeaway for me is that cargo cults were really not any different than most polytheistic religions (and therefore most religions) throughout history in viewing ritual as essentially a technology through which to access good things [0]. But I'm afraid that any new term derived from that insight would be even more problematic for trying to distill an even larger swath of human experience into a single phrase.

[0] See Bret Devereaux's Practical Polytheism series: https://acoup.blog/2019/10/25/collections-practical-polythei...
US imposes export controls on chips for AI to counter China
Biden's sweeping new AI export controls cover most of the world
...but with manually running autoinstrumentation in the post fork hook.

I guess there is a lot of undocumented magic in OTel...
People should be advocating for their own values and morals. To be an ethical person is to understand your values and do the work to apply them in your everyday life.
> Would you prefer for your technologically illiterate relatives (think grandparents/etc getting their first computing device):

Ah, the good old "think of the grandma".
HN's version of "think of the children". And just like the conservative pearl clutchers, I don't think there's much sincerity in those thoughts. You are more afraid of the possibility that there would be less users to squeeze through adtech and crapware sold on appstores. Most HNers make a living from making the world an even worse place.

There's a lot of devs here very happy to have a captive audience of people too ignorant to know better, either exposing their eyeballs to constant onslaught of ads on "free" apps, or paying for really basic functionality.

I will never forget that show HN post that talked about selling a clone of Handbrake, a program that exists just to set a few flags on FFMPEG, and making a living out of it, because the Apple audience has been brainwashed to take out their wallet for the dumbest of things.

Ah, there it is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39987579

The average HNer.

The average value add of people constantly bemoaning the idea that there could be regulations to stop them from enslaving new generations to tech is lower than that of scammers.
GR-WiFi: A GNU Radio Based WiFi Platform
Because of companies like Novo Nordisk, Ikea and so on? Almost all lists of new start ups look stupid, in the US as well as Europe. If anything the ideas often look even more delusional in the US.
> Also being european you are usually used to be able to swear quite easily at work. What we perceive from the US culture that comes to us through movies/series would make us think it would be the same in the USA. However it is the opposite. People swear a lot less at work in the USA in my experience. At least online.

In the US it's generally considered rude or "uncouth" to swear in the workplace, unless it's in a private conversation with another coworker who's okay with it.
That is pretty dangerous position to take. “That much” is a very vague line.

It is more true that more kids turn out to be fine when their parents care, than when they don’t.
The author seems to miss that many people don't write their lisp (or their game, or their code-golfing one-liner, or their befunge program) for it to be used, they write it because they enjoy writing a lisp.

As for those who believe their language of choice can actually become mainstream, it's a long, soul-crushing and miserable road.
Your second paragraph is very well said. Made me chuckle but also lament.
I find this absolutely hilarious.
That's the violation. Same reason Israel isn't included despite being a major NATO+ member.

Just because you aren't a party to an agreement doesn't mean you aren't in violation of it.
The output "token"

Yes, you can sample deterministically, but that's some combination of computationally intractable and only useful on a small subset of problems. The black box outputting a non-deterministic token is a close enough approximation for most people.
I appreciate the reply, I'll read through the links.
I've played a railroad game that felt reminiscent of RRT, but after a while it just felt tedious, more like a slow incremental game than a decent train game.
Fighting against the plight that is the unbridled gambling put in front of large swathes of people with no grasp on math is treated as innocence. It will cost us so much as a society, so, so much more that the small short term profits it brings. For shame.
> distracted us from dealing with the real issues
Strongly agree with this. (And this kind of moral licensing in general. Ooh, well done for switching your toilet paper to an eco friendly version you were marketed on instagram, but why haven't you changed anything else in your life that matters).

But also, small things do have to change. If nothing changes, the status quo remains, and the status quo is stacked against many people. (Because of gender, race, culture, wealth, location, etc). It's easy to say "focus on the big things" but the small things can change along the way too.
Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ui4h0J1mIQ
I mean, if that’s true I imagine they also don’t have much to do with the colors “black” or “white” either, right? Language changes all the time. I think for most software folks, who aren’t dealing with set theory, allowlist and denylist work pretty well. That’s been my experience, anyway.
And for something between Ticket to ride and 18XX games you can try Age of steam - this is a lot better for when you really feel the need to build some railroads and just move stuff and not to have to learn how stock exchange works.
To own the trademark and defend it means having to proactively find and fight violations. So, nope.

How is the trademark holder supposed to know who they are dealing with? Because they said so? Well, in that case I know a Nigerian prince who would like to send you some money…
Dont get me wrong, it's a ridiculous thing to write or say.

But unfortunately we exist in a ridiculous timeline.
Evil Models and Exploits: When AI Becomes the Attacker
Of Course You Know What "Woke" Means
Posted in response to PG's [flagged] [dead] "The Origins of Wokeness" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683184)
Woah, not even age-restrict them, outright ban them? Personally, I think it is ridiculous that a game like Balatro is considered to "resemble gambling" if a game like Solitaire, Minesweeper, or Pac-Man is not. A game that involves risking virtual (or actual) money on a minimally semi-random outcome can be classed as "resembling gambling", for sure. Nothing else should.
WHAT? TAB COMPLETION? YOU CANT BE SERIOUS.

Just joking. But yeah, Space completion is definitely a thing. Also triggering suggestions is often Ctrl+Space
If someone hacks 1Password, they get an encrypted vault. 1Password has no access to my passwords. There is no recovery mechanism without the encryption keys or a device on the account.
Come on. You can’t honestly tell me that “folks” or “y’all” are signs of language policing. I think many Southerners would vehemently disagree with you.
Give Your Android Phone a Minimalist Reset for 2025
They're trusted enough to purchase F-35s.
Infecting Generative AI with Viruses
Microsoft testing 45 percent M365 price hikes in Asia