skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answer to most of these modern problems are all the same.

Put the computer down and go outside, it's that easy.
When i went through the diagnoses process I was informed that this condition truly exists in a spectrum and what may be a minor dot point to your life one day can later shift into something more disruptive (or nothing at all). You should see someone if those naps start multiplying
Not sure if this is free labor or a means to source candidates.
Not necessary. But, still, my work laptop from 2020 has 32Gb of memory. So, not that implausible.
Yes, being imprisoned with a large group of children was extremely painful to some of us.
For the same reason that "FAX" is still used in the medical world for transmitting records electronically. Because that's how its always been done, and no one questions the "how its always been done" method.
The contents of the article are irrelevant beyond the fact that SK says the recorder was damaged.

I’m not asserting collusion, but they easily could have sabotaged it before sending it to the US. If the US finds sabotage on the recorder, it becomes a political decision whether to release this information against an ally.

This is well within the realm of realpolitik international political brinksmanship, no tin foil hat required.
I think a lot of conspiracies people have are out in the open, it’s just that they are hidden behind articles that take 30 minutes to read and understand.
A foundation model of transcription across human cell types
It’s not a hard squint.

If these countries were our allies the answer would be “I have no idea why you would even be thinking that question”, not “we won’t rule anything out”.
"with a force proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the square of their distances" ... if you ask me why, it's because "uh, they just do that?""

To be fair, that is somewhat the current scientific consensus on gravity. It just is. We can meassure it and determine a general constant and calculate with it (and even though some people claim to have understood way more, it is highly debated terrain as far as I know)

And in general, I was actually arguing with flat earthers recently a lot, I even met a flat earther in real life. It is an interesting intellectual challenge debating them. Basically rebasing all the physical theory I have. (Main summary is, they have a high ego, but lack understanding of everything and make up for it with make believe.)

If I found a school one day, one of the lessons will be the teacher telling the students: "The earth is flat! Proof me otherwise." Or more advanced, model a flat earth on a computer. Flat earthers try that for real - it gets weird very quickly, so much that I could not believe anyone taking it serious and it all is just satire. But they are for real (but with a very different concept of reality).
i don't understand the issues with the github account. they tried to supersede the ownership of the organization by declaring the owner dead which would have deactivated the account. but if the family has full access to the account, couldn't they just assign a new owner to the organization?
My brother has narcolepsy. It is interesting how it presents itself in different people. I have never seen my brother fall asleep while occupied with something (walking, talking...) but I have seen him fall asleep so many times when he is not.
The moment he gets in a car and it starts driving he falls asleep and very deeply. He would fall asleep in class all the time. The first time i really saw his narcolepsy expressed was during a daytime dinner. He had just had a big meal and while we were all sitting and talking, he just kinda nodded off.

The sad part is he has felt quite embarrassed by all this growing up. These are not dangerous situations, but it just feels awkward for a teenager. He also talks and walk in his sleep. Even worse is that no one believed him when he suggested he might have narcolepsy. Our mom is a doctor but figured he was just tired like all young, growing boys. It took a brain scan to get it sorted.

He's been prescribed Ritalin or something similar, but manages without.
> And like you said, if the wildest claims hold true, all programmers are our of a job by the end of 2026 anyway, with all other jobs following over the course of a few years. There's too many variables to predict what would happen in such a scenario, so probably best to deal with it if it happens.

So much this. AGI is the equivalent of a nuclear apocalypse in many ways—it's unlikely, not unlikely enough for comfort, but also totally not worth preparing for because there's basically no way to predict what preparations would actually be helpful, nor is it obvious that you'd even want to survive it if it happened.

The expected value of prepping for it isn't worth the investment, so it's better to do what most of us already do for nuclear war and pretty much pretend it won't happen.
LZ77 compression/decompression in pure Bash using hashmaps:

https://github.com/faragon/lzb/blob/master/lzb
I have the same thoughts about the approach, and I'm actually working (on the back burner) a similar thing. It's a harman kardon "smart" speaker with a similar design where the brains are on a separate daughterboard and that's now fried.

I've already figured out the control signals and have designed a new daugterboard with an ESP32 to drive the I2S output. I just need to figure out how to downmix the audio to mono and to DSP the L/R channels into tweeter/bass outputs, or to find some code already out there that does this. Any help/pointers here would be appreciated!
I do agree with you. People need to band up with one another and work this out together. In the mean time though, most people are already in a situation where its far too late unless they can shake their situation and start new somewhere else.

I think anyone who has turned on the news in the last 9 years, what technologies and companies are trending, can predict which way things are going to go. Again though, we all need to come together for that too...
I wrote one before I read the article to see if I would hit the bug and yep, I wrote it the safer way.

For me, that is the most readable way to do it because it lines up both conceptually and visually with how I'm thinking of the problem.
Ha! The first one is one of my favourite random images I’ve used as a test image for 10 years now carried between various laptops and PCs. Wonderful to see the full collection here.
I mean, it's a speaker in a box, so you could also just snip the speaker wires, ditch the circuit board, solder some extension wires, and plug it into an external audio amplifier box of your choice.

If you go that route you don't really need much EE knowledge.

(This is also only if you already have this box and want to reuse it. Otherwise I would just go to your next neighborhood garage sale and pick up some good speakers for $10)
StratoSoar Glider Flies Itself from High Altitude – Made by 14 Y.o
>praising the Lovable team for their incident response

For 8 hours, no one is aware the service is down. It then takes ~3 more days to fix it. One of their first decisions is to 'make as much noise as possible on social media' (?), and every step seems to create additional problems (corrupt repos etc.) Nothing appears to be well thought out, the blog post reads like they weren't ready for this at all, panicked and chaotic decisions without understanding the tech stack on a deeper level (race conditions, rate limits etc.) Not a lot of confidence in the team behind a project that looks like nothing more than a glue between an LLM and a storage backend.
It isn’t as fun to speculate about fanciful and silly world ending mechanisms like planetary alignment, when we’re actually locking in a bunch of ecologically devastation by boring processes like… status quo bias and failures to coordinate.

It’d be cool as hell if we were destroyed by some grand universal conspiracy. Instead, we’re doomed by the same force that makes the office lunch group unable to gather consensus around anything other than cheese pizza.
> this is a funny statement considering wages in finland vs real estate prices. ive been told by a top 5% income finn that buying a house is not really possible for most people there currently. you can only inherit. the wages are lower, the taxes much higher, and real estate more expensive.

Income is lower but actually taxes are fairly similar in the lower income brackets thanks to progressive taxation (and I'm not too concerned about the top earners starving). Buying a home in Helsinki – which is the only place in Finland where real estate prices are actually a problem – takes about 9 year median income, quite similar to cities in the US. Outside the Helsinki metropolitan area real estate prices are not bad at all. Either way if you're top 5% income you can easily afford to buy a house.

> of course you probably mean the technical "affordable housing" definition which just means housing for anyone making under median area income. the money to fund these things comes from somewhere, and it seems to typically always be the middle class.

Abundance of apartments affects prices for everyone including the middle class. The only ones not benefiting from affordable housing are (literal) rent-seekers, the people and companies owning real estate purely as an investment.
VictoriaLogs is similar, but a nice improvement over Loki
AI-Powered Search: Context Is King, but Your RAG System Ignores Two-Thirds of It
Your local community implemented a thing poorly, hence nobody should ever attempt to improve anything? You spend a lot of time accusing others of dishonesty and condescending, but your own comments read much more in that spirit.

Housing support with social services on the side can be done well enough to help some fraction of the drug-using homeless recover. Some fraction may remain drug addicted, but now have a safe space, which is also an improvement. Some fraction may have lasting mental illnesses they struggle with, but even then a safe space for that struggle improves both the prognosis and the surrounding community.
Apple always seems to design services the way a privacy-obsessed nerd would, (if you forced said privacy nerd to design a P2P tracking network).

It's like, "oh, you want all your photos to be searchable, like 'dogs' or 'Eiffel tower'? Fine, we'll create an on-device embedding of each photo, use homomorphic encryption so you can share it with us and we can match it to its contents without even knowing what they are, then we'll send that back to your device for storage. Oh, and we'll use a relay so we don't even see your IP address while doing this, not that it matters since we can't decrypt the content anyway." It's pretty wild, like they could have easily skipped all this and only a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of users would even know or care.

In fact, I was pretty annoyed that the news story from the above example was "Apple is looking at all your photos and violating your privacy", since they spent so much effort doing it the right way, in a way that respects your privacy, it makes it less likely they will bother going through the effort again

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/apple_enhanced_visual...
Thank you, that was really helpful in correcting my understanding.
> Just because you haven't bothered to look up what it means

I also didn't bother to look up the meanings of equality, fairness or diversity. But those words are fairly straightforward and one learns them when one learns English.

"Equity" is one where the implied usage in corporate settings is pretty confusing given the standard meaning (see next para) of that word. So if my corporate bosses and HR are going to use that word, it is on them to educate and address the confusion of the audience.

Dictionary definitions of equity: "the quality of being fair and impartial", "the value of the shares issued by a company". Assuming it's the former, what does my HR even mean when they say we should be "fair and impartial"? On the one hand, that's a given, like saying "we should obey all the laws". On the other hand, if we are not being fair and impartial, then HR should lay out specific ways in which we are not and also the specific remedies.
Mint: The programming language for writing single page applications
It's the risk. Marriage is a risk, having children is risk, all commitments are risk. Any deviations, randomness and failures are prohibitively dangerous. Where does this risk come from? mostly from laws.
I am that someone else because I seldom edit the makefiles and I forget things. That's why I try to trim unused targets and recipes and I try to keep it documented.

In the end it is no different from any code that's suffered from 10 years of tuning and it can get ugly. Maybe Make is even somewhat worse in this respect, but then again it does not need to be changed often.
I’m still sad there’s such an aversion to parens

Edn is a lovely config language that checks most of the authors boxes, while still being “composable”
And if you don’t need more than 32 GB of heap space, the JVM also gives you the ability to reduce reference sizes to 32 bits, with compressed references. (Due to alignment requirements, the lower 3 bits of a pointer are zero and hence do not need to be stored, which effectively gives you a 35-bit address space.) Of course, the presence of object headers counteracts this to a certain extent.
Did you use https://github.com/patrick-kidger/diffrax ?

JAX Talk: Diffrax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy5Jw8hNiAQ
Yea but your immediate manager can easily set a person up for complete failure and broadcast only the failings. I've seen it happen to different people on many occasions. Basically the old "balance these 12 things 1 of them, the 1 you drop will end up being me and my buddy bosses most important item and the other 11 are worthless". Or "no need to attend that meeting" and if you don't show oh boy strike one. Positions of influence are super easy to game.
No, because Apple doesn't have the private key of the account holder, and so can't see which rotating codes are associated with that account holder since it's all encrypted.
> what this ever-popular narrative misses out is that the banks were motivated to make these loans because someone else - FMAC and FMAE - guaranteed them.

I don't think the popular narrative misses this point at all. That's key to the lesson that socialists and leftists got from 2008 (and what probably created quite a few socialists as well): Capitalism is compelled to exploit social resources, irrespective of and ultimately to the determent of the public good.
I use it more often and also start with copy-paste header, that includes:

* all packages needed for my language (fontenc, babel, local typography package)
* typical graphicx/fancyhdr/hyperref/geometry packages that are almost always needed
* a set of useful symbol and name definitions for my field

If you are not writing math or pure text in English only LaTeX is batteries not included.
Do you mean that the language would either halt or throw an exception due to overflow on "high+low"?
Why hasn't shell scripting evolved? It's god-awful.
It's not a "scam", the protocols and clients are 100% scrutable. Not sure why you used that word.
I'm unsure what you're referring to here -- Zig doesn't have any runtime, it doesn't even depend on libc.

The only thing I can think of that you might be referring to is compiler-rt: if so, this is a thing in C too! It's just a small collection of implementations for operations the code generator wants to call into (e.g. memset, arithmetic for integers larger than CPU word size). Clang uses compiler-rt when compiling C code, and GCC's equivalent is libgcc. Nonetheless, Zig lets you disable it using `-fno-compiler-rt`, in which case you'll need to provide the relevant symbols yourself somehow.
Show HN: Can AI write human like LinkedIn posts?
I got exact this question 3 months back. Then I went to research but the options were really bad and sounded literally like robot using words like game-changer and revolutionize. It's very bad! Then I put together super viral LinkedIn posts of big LinkedIn creators like Justin Welsh and I fine-tuned gpt-4o-mini on them and it was super cool.

I'm Rebal and I kept using this kind of invention of mine for about 3 months on Linkedin and got 1,000 followers.

From very long I belive LinkedIn is cringe and so is writing on it. Like all that toxic thought leadership.

But now I just give this tool my Idea and I get a furnished LinkedIn posts.

I won't promise it is super viral but it's above average and posts are human like and authentic.

I try my best that AI model uses as much words from context to match writing styles. apart from that its cool.

Try it out it's free! :)
This is so hard! It leads to poor products/the loudest voice wins. Rarely is there a coherent long-term vision. Even at the benefit of the single participant/employee
What’s your accent/dialect?
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system."

– John Gall (1975) Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall's_law
Right, with 64-bit ints things are a lot nicer. Though you can still run into some issues on "generate this much data" tasks as opposed to "operate over existing data of this size", though perhaps less exploitably so.
Because it sieves for those who don't give a damn about whatever values lead the previous generation to forfeit their seat. Are we not just climbing an old argument?
Send applications that are identical save for identifying characteristics (e.g. names, ethnic extracurriculars) and observe of there are disparities in call back rates. Or anonymize applications and observe if the rates change.

Equality of outcome is absolutely not a measure that ensures nondiscrimination. An extreme example, but imagine if we instituted a policy mandating equal outcomes in murder convictions with respect to gender. Would that make the justice system fairer?
Almost 40 years after the creation of Daubechies wavelets, I know we should wait a bit before awarding people since we can't always know in advance what would stick as important and what would just be temporary hype, but 40 years is too much IMHO…
Vulgarly unrelated to the subject — is anyone able to get a scrollbar to appear on this page on mobile? I kept reading and was completely unable to tell how long of a time commitment this read will be and whether I should continue or read it later.

How did we manage to lose perfectly good scrollbars in this race for colonization of mars and AI singularity?
Except when there's no seeds. Usenet seems to have solved this many moons ago.
The biobattery that needs to be fed: Electric fungi
A design philosophy called "Progressive Disclosure" tries to tackle this problem, where a tool is supposed to present a minimal set of functionality initially to allow a user to be productive without being an expert and progressively "reveal" more complex features as the user becomes more familiar with the tool and attempts to do more complex things.

I've heard the programming language Swift followed this philosophy during development, though I've never written any Swift code to know how well it worked out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_disclosure
Hello HN community,

I hope you're doing great. Would love to have your feedback on the product.

If you post on it using LinkedIn, don't forget to mention me, Rebal Hassan, or just the website.

Thanks :)
In theory, yes. Consider the case where the prompt includes considerable amoounts of (proprietary) source code.
> To be fair, that is somewhat the current scientific consensus on gravity. It just is. We can meassure it and determine a general constant and calculate with it (and even though some people claim to have understood way more, it is highly debated terrain as far as I know)

Sure, and if we come up with some fancy unified theory, and ask "why" once more, the answer will still be "uh, because they do?."

> But they are for real (but with a very different concept of reality).

We think ourselves so advanced. I wonder what big counterfactual scientists believed in the 1900s and 2000s will be laughed at a few hundred years from now.

And, of course, some of that will be libel; e.g. that we thought the world was flat "just like Christopher Columbus's compatriots" [who didn't].
There’s a thorough explanation of the history of the poem and the research that went into rediscovering the author of the poem and [re?]producing the ‘final’ version presented in the article - scroll down to after the poem.

The conclusion is that “This version is essentially the author's own final text, as also published by New River Project in 1993” (so ‘1922’ in the page title and link text is arguably wrong, or at least misleading).
I'd hate to be that poor little bastard, having to run 200 bullshit instructions for each useful one.

I'd probably just output a middle finger somewhere and halt forever.
Does that align all gravity creating a massive solar flare?
Don't forget to share the link ;)
Yeah, m4 is powerful in its way, and has an extraordinary strength-to-weight ratio (check out the implementation in Software Tools in Pascal) but ultimately I think it turned out to be a mistake. Make, by contrast, turned out to be a good idea despite its flaws.
The large/small Magellanic Clouds are further away than the planets and yet are only visible in the souther hemisphere. The difference here is that the planets are all on the same ecliptic path.
Lazy enumeration can also save memory, because you aren’t storing entire collections during intermediate steps, and it works with infinite/unknown size collections. Such as streaming data.

Some examples:

I wrote a utility gem a while ago that lets you lazily intersect, union, etc various potentially infinite streams of data. https://github.com/maxim/enum_utils/

I also used lazy enumeration for traversing the wordmap in my no-RAM static storage gem. https://github.com/maxim/wordmap/
I've heard this is the general case, but is it proven that a prompt can always be recovered? I'm thinking particularly of cases where the LLM supports very large prompts, on the order of millions of tokens.

It would be interesting to see if there is a way to bake in the prompt with the weights which may also be a valuable performance improvement, in addition to obscuring the prompt.
They hopped call with AWS Suport folks about their use of S3 and yet this happened:

“ 17:00: While rewriting the migration we find other issues since S3 allows multiple concurrent writes to the same project. This is a race condition that would have been prevented by Github since it handles out of sync commits thanks to it being an actual git repository. On Github, if a pushed head already exists as a commit it won’t overwrite a newer head, but there are no controls like this in S3. The impact mostly seems to be for new projects.”

That is a relatively well known failure pattern with git on s3 and it’s a shame the s3 representatives weren’t aware or there isn’t a knowledge base to tap into. I have found with AWS you have to get beyond the first level of support to have any chance of having a meaningful conversation.

When it comes to user data, you have to be extremely careful, so I was surprised on X how quickly they were moving things off of GitHub in a relatively celebratory manner. They had a ton of attention from this incident so I guess they wanted to recover as fast as possible versus being sure they couldn’t lose user data (and to be fair it seems like it was all recoverable). Still should be careful as their service becomes more popular and important.
Civilian police oversight in Florida crumbles after new law kicks in
Wasn't there some kind of plan to integrate it in Strava?