skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are just lazy. Quick, lets hire/import people, who have no protections, experience or other obligations, who will feel lucky just for being able to work for us.
Serve... for dinner!
This is amazing fun!
The Web Site for A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

https://500songs.com/
The Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, this year, used Cheney on the campaign trail. When Trump called her ‘war hawk’, rather than trying to defend that very legitimate condemnation, they attacked it as anti-woman.

I think where I disagree with rayiner is that I believe she _was_ toxic. Her endorsement is certainly one of my grievances with the party, as a Democratic voter, and we saw the big tent collapse because of, in part, the current hawkishness of that part of the leadership.
I just looked in the Corpus Diacrónico del Español

https://corpus.rae.es/cordenet.html

and it found 33 hits for "phisica" and 99 for "phisico", mostly from the 1490s. Now some of these can be deceptive, like a few are from a bilingual Spanish-Latin book and occur in the Latin portions rather than the Spanish portions, but it seems like some authors in the 1400s wrote "ph" in some Spanish words, at least when they knew the Latin or Greek etymologies.

I don't know when the Iberian languages first got their more phonetic orthographies, especially suppressing that h (that was originally in Latin digraphs used to transliterate Greek letters θ, φ, χ).

Edit: There are also about two dozen hits for physico/physica, interestingly more from the 1700s rather than 1400s.
Yes, I'm aware of this. It's a cool idea, but there are some big problems with this too.
I wrote a chat app built around mistrust for LLM responses. You can see an example here:

https://beta.gitsense.com/?chat=ed907b02-4f03-477f-a5e4-ce9a...

If you click on the Evaluation links, you can see how you can use multiple LLMs to validate LLM response. The evaluation of the accurate response is interesting since Llama 3.3 was the most critical.

https://beta.gitsense.com/?chat=fdfb053d-f0e2-4346-bdfc-7305...

At this point, you would ask Llama to explain why the response was not 100% which you can use to cross reference other LLMs or to do your own research.
The first few paragraphs of this article suggest the structure is not "here's a well-reasoned economic argument for why ad taxes are utile", but "I hate Google and similar companies, so we should screw them over with punitive targeted taxes".
Countries who butter up Trump and do anything he says.
> an arduous screening process to acquire and deploy compute

That right there is more unlikely than crypto becoming a credible threat to the banking establishment.

If you want to see a lot of dead bodies of rich people in the street, tell the rest of the world they can't have their smartphone and laptop and Xbox and Playstation.

That's a great way to get yourself killed.
"if it ends up spending enough money on its new contract with OpenAI to provide AI services to iPhone users"

John Gruber says neither Apple nor OpenAI are paying for that deal: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/06/13/gurman-openai-a...
Check out the hackernews sub on rdrama.net
I think you have completely forgotten what it is like to be a beginner at chess if you think that someone who has just learned the rules of the game would be able to identify that the best move is to underpromote a pawn to force a draw.
Apple was already dabbling in planned obsolesce.
> The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.

I assume it's being tracked elsewhere. But not here.
This sounds like a question for Munroe’s What If. My completely uninformed guess is that it would take many rockets to make a sufficiently-large splash.
Is this text AI-generated?
Gain of function research in a lab you can't (and more damningly won't) prove had adequate precautions is bad regardless of the source of Covid or the utility of the research. We should be taking it as a wake up call to make sure standards are appropriate and the institutions to make sure those standards are met are strong.
Why Are There So Many Abandoned Military Bases in the Bay Area?
Part 2:

Surprising Ways Former Bay Area Military Bases Are Transforming (and Why It Takes So Long)

https://www.kqed.org/news/12023708/surprising-ways-former-ba...
Isn't this practically an American election tradition at this point? The designated Republican at the DNC, and Democrat at the RNC?
Another (new?) free open model to try this weekend
I didn't see any previous posts about the public facing website. Sorry if it's old news.

I'm pretty toast right now from trying to catch up on DeepSeek. Plus, I don't have the expertise, frankly.
I welcome the thoughts from the many, many people more knowledgeable than I am.
From the FAQ (https://chimera-linux.org/docs/faq#what-about-chimeraos)

“The system also has no relation to ChimeraOS, besides the unfortunate name similarity. ChimeraOS used to be called GamerOS and renamed itself to ChimeraOS later; however, at this point Chimera Linux was already in public development with its name in place.”
Why should I quit? Fire me if you really think I underperform. You don't know? Oh well..
Because most places never needed kubernetes but used it to put their technical debt on a credit line. So what do you do when they try to collect? Well you just take out another loan to pay off the first one.
> Did we not watch the same movie?

"My team and I are proud to share with the world something special we've been working hard on. We are finally ready to launch the Torture Nexus, inspired by the unforgettable technology in the classic scifi novel 'Don't create the Torture Nexus'"
> The only hardware I know for sure is lacking is stuff like Stream Decks, but that kind of hardware is difficult to generalise for.

I know that Georges Stavracas has been working on a controller for the Elgato devices for a while (https://flathub.org/apps/com.feaneron.Boatswain) though it needs direct access to the devices instead of through some generic driver (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/boatswain#udev-rules).
I’m not sure where I heard this phrase but I love it so much: being a dictator is like riding a wolf by the ears, the only thing more terrifying than continuing to hold on is letting go.
> announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid, designated 2018 CN41

Can someone explain why in 2025 they discover an asteroid which gets designated as "2018" and then they delete it when it turns out that it was an object launched in space precisely in 2018?
Last time I tried it (maybe 20 years ago?) there were fidelity issues (documents didn't display exactly identical to authentic Word), and some differences in minor features.

I should probably give it another whirl, although I'm really happy with 2003.
Normally I balk when commenters go “well they you’re the perfect person to go do it!”, but actually… this is the kind of thing that sounds like it could be a fun project if you’re legit interested. The necessary datasets are likely not hard to gather and collate, a lot of it is probably on places like Project Gutenberg or can be gleaned through OCR of images downloaded from various publicly available archives.

Granted, you’d need to spend about a year on this and for a lot of that time your graphics card (and possibly whole computer) would be unusable, but then if the results were compelling you’d get a cool 15 minutes of internet fame when you posted your results.
Seconded. Really a sane, decent UI for an office suite and works very well.
Really cool framework! (chainlit)

I was thinking of building something similar (generic interface for calling tools, seeing the results, maybe with multiple agents) - does it support multiple agents?
Fortunately, sane assembly didn't die with 68k falling out of favor.

MIPS carried the flag, and now RISC-V is even more readable.

The dusk of x86 era is nigh.
I think it's important to remark that this "could" help solve part of the problems associated with Generative AI. It could also, without many new laws and regulations, be used to create many new problems unique to generative AI.
Personal attacks are not allowed here and we ban accounts that post them, so please don't do that.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
> Everybody will have to trust the service to be honest about not issuing sockpuppet identities. How would you prove that you aren't?

Because that is the whole point of my service? It really feels like you're just trying to come up with ways that this won't work in very special and rare circumstances, where those really don't matter in practice for a social network (which let's face it, isn't a life or death service). It's all about upping the barrier to entry for casual users that would create hundreds of alt accounts to troll/spam people with.
>The banks and gov brought the hammer down on crypto because it was a legitimate threat to the banking cabal which runs the American Empire.

Price instability, confiscatory and variable transaction fees, several high profile frauds -- including in a so-called "stable coin".

Crypto is its own worst enemy. Not the government.
The Soviets put the men. The Americans put the materiel.

Stalin thought he would’ve lost if it wasn’t for Lend Lease.
The transaction is balanced in isolation, but the initial part (actually giving the money) is allowed to be negative for the bank as long as they're within their leverage ratio.

So yes, as a whole the bank gives money from thin air.
Would you mind writing down some of the exciting new Excel features? I am asking as an Excel user that 5 years ago used to love this tool (so much so that I would have paid for Excel if my employers did not provide it for free). Excel 2010 was peak Excel for me.

PS. Nobody I know uses Excel's Turing-complete Lambda-calculus. None of my former colleagues in Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Investor Relations, FP&A use it.
So there would be thirty or so in your class, another thirty in the class below and another thirty in the class above. I am sure you were a noisy bunch, particularly at playtime, much to the annoyance of other residents of the street.

Now compare that annoyance level to that of the ninety or so special people on Concorde, or, more correctly, 'a' Concorde plane. You were thirty miles west of Heathrow, but I can remember being in South London and having to stop conversation for a few minutes for that stupid plane to screech overhead. Nowadays I learn that those were good times, to have that noise from miles away, making it impossible to hear the person next to me.

Until Concorde was some tens of thousands of feet in the air, cruising sub-sonically, that stupid plane was ruining everyone's day. All for what, Tony Benn's ego, 'jobs' and being best buddies with the old enemy - the French.

The need to be best buddies with the French was moot, after WW1 and WW2 it was clear that the UK and France were allies, at least in Europe.

We were lucky that the USA were a bit passive-aggressive when it came to Concorde, people would have had that thing fly supersonic but it wasn't in the economic interests of Washington (DC and the state) to have that.

Highlight of Concorde's career was Live Aid, bringing Phil Collins et al from the USA to Wembley so they could play both sides of the Atlantic, at the same event.

I am sure that people that went on a 'jolly' on Concorde for that special anniversary had their money's worth and a time to remember, but most people on that plane were pointless wealthy people that lacked purpose. In the bigger scheme of things, not one single flight of that plane was really important, even if Joan Collins was aboard. Your playtime, somewhere near where The Office was filmed, was far more important, in the bigger scheme of things.
They aren't Open Source, so I would not expect them to be supported. The point of this project appears to be to keep full control of your intelligence pipeline.
might work for say post the 1800's in literate countries, but for e.g. Rome our sources are so sparse and so far removed from the time they're writing about that it would be worse than nothing.
> fiscally sustainable savings

Buy gold bullion, rent a bank safe deposit box, store it there. I suspect this is what comes closest to that, as of now. (Sigh.)
I'll start on a slight tangent, but it may well be the solution to your problem.

Earlier this month I received a price increase email from Microsoft for Office 365 - to the tune of a 46% increase.

Not too keen on this I went to their website to check to see if there was a cheaper plan, and it turns out there is. You can "downgrade" to a Copilot-free version of Office 365, and this also does away with that absurd 46% increase.

So you get to remove Copilot -and- dodge another year of price increases.

Mini edit: Microsoft have started rolling out a "Turn off Copilot" options in the settings, I have it now in Word, but not in Powerpoint or Excel.
aws glue/athena has the most absurd setup process. duckdb and clickhouse is “select * from s3(…)”
AI Revolution: Why This Is the Best Time to Start a Startup [video]
Does this foundation work with people within the country to take action? If so, how does that work given the likely murder of Navalny, prosecution of his lawyers, and other historical incidents? Won’t people be afraid to speak on this issue? Is it possible to achieve democracy without local action and only external action?
Your account has unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly. (Another example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42818990.) We ban accounts that do this, and we've warned you multiple times before.

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If this keeps up we're going to end up banning you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this, we'd appreciate it.
I wonder where you read that because it sounds like a very flat earther thing to say.
> I think we will eventually all need to join social networks that are guaranteed to be composed of real humans, and for that we'll need a way to prove someone is a real human.

Why discriminate?
Not to mention that one of the things experienced people learn is that vendor code is hot flaming garbage and must never be trusted. Writing a Rust implementation based on vendor code is like building a skyscraper on a landfill. Don't do that. If you have to do that, tread bloody carefully!

I am more on the hardware side these days, but Nordic's hardware docs are pretty crap. As in, they're pretty, and they're crap. (The prettiness lulls people, especially managers, into a false sense of confidence. Don't fall for the trap!) There are obvious poor choices in there, and if you call FAEs out on them, they say to just follow the docs. Experienced engineers should not follow the docs.

I can't see their software side being any better.
> Generally speaking flight time is less than half of the total door-to-door time of air travel.

Maybe for domestic flights but for international flights (especially if you live in Australia) it would improve the flying experience. I've noticed a big difference on my body when flying 8hr vs 12hrs.

It may not seem like a big difference but those extra 4hrs put a massive strain on your body and mind.
Future "free" LLM models will recommend advertisers products
Are there any successful models that weren't trained with RLHF, or using a system with RLHF. I'm curious if this could be done without a fine tune step that would't meaningfully bias this.
I find it shocking how many otherwise intelligent people drank the kool-aid and believed that businesses have some mission bigger than making money, and salesmen tell the truth rather than whatever almost-lie gets the deal done. On top of that, it is very amusing to see people throw tantrums over being reminded that there exists a world and culture outside of their own bubble. The ignorance of California's upper-middle-class just couldn't last forever, and it had to come crashing down at some point.
The war won’t last very long and Putin will probably be one of the few people who survive.
Trains are worse. I found a New York Central timetable from the 1930s. The morning train I take from Albany to NYC is 7 minutes longer (although it now goes to Penn station.
IMO that’s not a zombie because it has an expiration date (when the money raised runs out).

A proper zombie is a lifestyle company without the lifestyle — enough revenue to maintain an eternal startup crunch and trying to make a product work, but without the resources to actually grow. Doesn’t die, doesn’t quite live.
That is interesting. Any idea of why that is?
Fortunately, today we've got pointer masking.

(ARM and RISC-V do, anyway)
The numbers presented in the article (~1 additional frame of latency on Wayland) are from someone using GNOME with the Mutter compositor. This means that neither the X11 or Wayland session has screen tearing. I imagine the X11 input latency numbers would go down by around half a frame on average if the author was using a different window manager without a compositor.
This is not what Wayland does, it is what a particular display server with Wayland support decided to do.

Second, just to be clear, this only discusses mouse cursors on the desktop - not the content of windows, and in particular not games even if they have cursors. Just the white cursor you browse the Web with.

Anyway, what you refer to is the legacy drm interface that was replaced by the atomic one. The legacy interface is very broken and does not expose new hardware features, but it did indeed handle cursors as its own magical entity.

The atomic API does support tearing updates, but cursor updates are currently rejected in that path as drivers are not ready for that, and at the same time, current consensus is that tearing is toggled on when a particular fullscreen game demands it, and games composite any cursors in their own render pass so they're unaffected. Drivers will probably support this eventually, but it's not meant to be a general solution.

The legacy API could let some hardware swap the cursor position mid-scanout, possibly tearing the cursor, but just because the call is made mid-scanout does not mean that the driver or hardware would do it.

> but it does add an average of 1 more frame latency

If you commit just in time (display servers aim to commit as late as possible), then the delay between the commit and a tearing update made just before the pixels were pushed is dependent on the cursor position - if the cursor is at the first line shown, it makes no difference, if on the last shown, it'll be almost a frame newer.

Averaging cursor positions mean half a frame of extra latency, but with a steady sampling rate instead of rolling shutter.

Proper commit timing is usually the proper solution, and more importantly helps every other aspect of content delivery as well.
Been out of the loop for while, anything exciting?
More likely we would send a team of robots there that would do the trip both ways automatically.

Towing such big asteroid sounds very risky (for the stability of our own planet and of the moon) and expensive, way more than just sending robots.
Wage theft always starts with labor law compliance. They didn't take the required break on their shift...better adjust the hours to be compliant. Now it's normalized and rationalized. Each employee has to make a stink to address the theft and are dismissed without a second thought. I used to work blue collar service industry and saw this happen in nearly every company where I worked. There is no union or personal agency. The individual worker is discarded at the first sign of legal friction.

I worked a job where every person worked 63 hours a week standard at $7.50 an hour. We would have a lunch break where one person would go fetch lunch and bring it back each day. We would all meet in the break room and scarf down our food in a few minutes and get back on the floor. We literally clocked this on time cards. We might take up to fifteen minutes to eat but accounting would adjust it to 30 minutes every time. No consultation, warnings or notices of any kind. The timecard was gone at the end of each week so you had no record of your actual punches.
Remember the Hindenburg.
Custom AI Developer Tools: The Return of Malleable Software
> but it seems like some authors in the 1400s wrote "ph" in some Spanish words, at least when they knew the Latin or Greek etymologies.

You know, that might be analogous to Spanish speakers familiar with English writing "tweet" in Spanish text, while being ignorant that RAE added "tuit"[1] to the language, which is more in-line with general language rules. IDK if any Spanish speaker has ever written "tuit" in real life.

[1] https://dle.rae.es/tuit?m=form
"The user is on a Linux armv81 platform but using Chrome on an Android device—that's odd because Android usually runs on Linux-based kernels, but the specific armv81 might be a typo or uncommon."

Unimpressive, it's a current Samsung. And I'm in London not Leistershire
> For trains, you would be hard pressed to find a route that is not significantly slower today than 60 years ago.

It took 64 years (until 1997) to again reach the 1933 speed of the Flying Hamburger [0] - 138 minutes from Hamburg to Berlin. Trains today need about 115 minutes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRG_Class_SVT_877
No one should be ashamed of being rich.

What grates me is that these people have ginormous amounts of FU money and don’t exercise it. They just horde it and be more sociopathic.
If you have a 2-track line, you can close one of the tracks for maintenance on weekday nights when frequency doesn't need to be very high. That's how Copenhagen does it.
> It has been extremely instructive to watch the worlds richest people line up to kiss the ring of the new administration.

Definitely instructive, but I think also important is how it recharacterizes the past. We should not assume that "kissing the ring" is new starting with this administration. Instead, it's probably fairer to conclude that rich successful tech companies will almost always adopt whatever stance they think will be most to their benefit. It's generally safer to presume that their actions are based on exigency rather than deeply held beliefs.
A tool for creating custom UI/web color palettes that have accessible color contrast:

https://www.inclusivecolors.com/
It’s partially because my articles often sit in draft for a while. Then while editing I have another thought that spins off into a separate article, which then gets posted in quick succession.
"Universal"
He should and will leave. I don’t need to be in the street because he left last time too. It’s a ridiculous whataboutism.
Should have named the company "To Serve Humanity".

Klaatu, barada nikto.
My first one just said:

Bravo, London

But my second one was funny. But I feel like we are maybe overlooking the significance: is DeepSeek actually funny? Does humor travel with reasoning?
If there isn’t sufficient competition for commercial banks, I think they should just be regulated as privately owned utilities for the public good or just be made into a public agency. What is the point of outsourcing this service to private industry if there is no working market dynamic?
Inflation, and especially controlled inflation, is much easier with fiat money. Most governments see it as an extremely valuable tool.