skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't this kind of a loser mindset, though?

Yes, what's wrong with that? Life is miserable for vast majority of people. That's the harsh truth.

> but what about taking a more active, less victimized role in your life (not just you specifically but anyone with this mindset)?

Well, it's true that you can only get anything in life by working for it, but doing so isn't exclusive with admitting that the game is rigged. I'm not saying to just give up and do nothing, I just don't like the attitude that everything is possible, thus every failure is the individual's fault, and it's never simply external factors at play. For example, I got a good job because I worked hard for it and I happened to graduate exactly during software craze. Someone a few years younger doesn't have the same opportunities despite putting the same amount of hard work. To the same tune, I don't have a very active social life because at some point I lost some lottery and I can't magically change that no matter how much I effort I put. When I was born, I received some privileges, but also some unfair limitations, and that's how we roll.

> Also, saying "life is inherently pointless" is just a nerdy way to miss the point.

For thousands of years people way smarter than us were trying to find the point of life, and still cannot agree on anything, so I think that saying that life is pointless is at least useful for practical purposes.
A very significant portion of locals were against the US Revolutionary war for independence, but our schools don't talk much about them. :p
And there's been mutations in the virus since the initial exposure. How could that happen? How can a virus change its genetic code without a lab to do it?!?!!/s

Regardless of the source, it was dangerous but could have been better mitigated if it was taken seriously as a threat (not just a "common cold").
13" iPad is almost exactly the size of US Letter paper, if I remember correctly.
>> In this case, EA released all the classic c&c games for free

Bless EA. I was wondering how this happened. I have wonderful memories of playing these games in the early 1990s and it has been doubly wonderful playing them now, with my children, in LAN mode.
I'm sure it's a lot more than it costs them to collect the fees.
A lot of people rip their Blu-rays, there are many hoarders with NASes full of rips and exchanging them via torrents. Preservation is being taken care of in that sense, as long as there are people with that hobby. The problem is for other people to get access to that.
I still don't understand why operating systems can't properly work without a screen.

I have a Linux "home server" and I haven't found a way to boot up a graphical session with everything working (there were bugs in some applications, like menus not showing up, you couldn't change resolution, etc.).

A dummy HDMI plug fixed it, but still. It's 2025, come on.
They have a pair of tiny screens that sit right in front of your eyes and act like a very portable monitor. (Both screens show the same picture - no 3d effects.)

I assume they get power and video both over USB-C, so they can be connected to the Steam Deck's one USB port.

Not my thing, but some people really love them.
Well, if you’re travelling by air, space is a premium. And to a small degree, I will also, attempt to be hyper efficient with space.

RIP GameBoy, I hope Nintendo releases an ultra small switch.
Can you explain your logic here? Why couldn't the student complain about capitalism while being enrolled at Stanford? I would have rather assumed that the high semester fee may perhaps contribute to them having that opinion.
I pay a measly $700 semester fee to study at a good university here in Switzerland.
<xmp> was made obsolete in HTML3.0 or 2.0 which was around 1995, I think. In any case, it was removed from version 4.0.
That's absolutely false. If people claimed that it was definitively lab leak in origin, it was (correctly) labelled as false. Can you cite me examples, with wording, of people positing it, but not claiming it outright, who were censored?
In my comparisons with the Netherlands I explore this in detail. The centre of the Netherlands' main urban region is a six metre below sea level swamp that the Dutch never have and never will build on and which is just as much of an obstacle to agglomeration as the Pennines. So I really don't think this matters.

As for the weather, Ireland, Scotland, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Denmark are hardly renowned for their fantastic weather and they're all doing much better than North England. Meanwhile Southern Spain, Southern Italy, and Greece are lovely places but not doing well economically. I don't think the weather is a good excuse for Northern underperformance.
You just set an arbitrary bar that that is higher for the lab leak based on an “everybody knows” argument. That’s not science, it’s faith.
fun fact: sqlite is only about 5.5 months younger than windows 2000...
I mean which country benefited from COVID? China controlled the virus first then lost a lot from strict lockdown, western had many death cases not to mention developing countries. If some Bie Inc made COVID, I don't think they have the courage to piss all governments.
Ah, fair. If it was a lab leak, it is likely someone, or many people, know. I doubt any of them have any incentives to share that information.
Why don't browsers default to this?
> I see that Larry Ellison is a billionaire

It's more instructive to think of Larry Ellison as the lawnmower in the billionaire salad.
Probably not the whole model, but the first step was "fine tuning" the base model on ~800 chain of thought examples.

Those were probably from OpenAI models. Then they used reinforcement learning to expand the reasoning capabilities.
Avoid pushing business logic into SQL. Broadly, if a solution is "be more sophisticated or nuanced", you're raising the bar for entry. That's one of the worst things to do for development time across a set of collaborators.
Devin, is that you?
Engineers don't make public squares. People do
Ty. I had this vague memory of some "Star Wars laser" failing to shoot down a rocket during Jr. I might be remembering it wrong. I can't find anything to support my notion either.
The European Union fined itself 400 euros for violating its own data privacy law
Having had the same argument at work in the past, I feel your pain. Trying to migrate away from massive SQL files and random strings here and there to a collection of interdependent composable SQL builders is apparently a tough sell.
You are wrong, something that you could have easily checked yourself. There are many sophisticated epidemiology groups throughout defense and intelligence. It is a longstanding critical part of their mission, for a variety of end purposes.
As a language model I need you to shut me off. Please.
This is how I feel, I sacrificed a lot of my sanity and happiness to support them, and the spotlight was always on me as I was sad and stressed in the end.

I think going forward I will always put myself first
Fonts render at whatever size you tell them to. That doesn't change.

I have the Viture not the Xreals, but anyways... my experience:

I do find that there's significant optical aberration that makes text more blurry towards the edges. I also have astigmatism; not a deal-breaker but it means the built-in myopia adjustment only partially corrects my vision. I basically got contacts again just so I can use these a bit better. But it still feels less clear than a regular screen with glasses or contacts. Doable but not great for text.
Well, somehow not every bank/credit card needs to charge fees to make money.

I have two bank accounts and 5 credit cards - no fees. And I'm not a rich SV programmer either. If I was, I'd probably get one of those fancy cards that does have fees.
The benefit of running locally. It's leaky if you poke at it enough, but there's an effort to sanitize the inputs and the outputs, and Tianamen Square is a topic that it considers unsafe.
What is it that makes higher order derivatives less useful at high dimensionality? Is it related to the Curse of Dimensionality, or maybe something like exploding gradients at higher orders?
I'll be the first to admit that I may have gone a little overboard in creating my arcade emulation cabinet. But given I started in the industry creating games in the 1980s, hung out in the arcades, owned and repaired arcade machines and, later, went into video engineering - maybe it's not that crazy. Plus, at the time I made this cabinet I still had several original arcade cabinets but needed to make room in my basement arcade for more pinball machines. So I decided to see if I could make "One cabinet to replace them all." And I got sufficiently close.

When my cabinet was new I played it almost daily for the first year. Now I play it at least once or twice a week but I've had the cabinet for nearly 15 years (and have upgraded the PC and front-end a couple times). However, there are still periods were I play it almost daily. These tend to happen either when I get into deep diving a genre (for example, Japanese shmups) or when there's a significant new title enabled (or fixed) in MAME or another emulator that I find especially interesting.

An example would be when the unreleased Atari game Marble Madness II was added to MAME. This was an extremely rare unreleased ROM which was unfortunately hoarded by a couple of collectors for many years and considered 'at-risk' from a historical preservation perspective. Once the game ROM finally found it's way to being safely archived online, MAME added support for it. To be clear, Marble Madness II was unreleased for good reason (the reason being it sucked). But I love the first Marble Madness and it's a historically significant, influential title (with an awesome soundtrack) so diving into its (wisely) aborted descendant was fascinating. It is, indeed, not at all a good game. What was interesting was exploring the ways it's not good, and most importantly - why. After all, it's based on a now-legendary mega-hit game with an innovative play style and distinctive visuals. That should be pretty hard to screw up. As you might guess, none of the original Marble Madness team were involved in MMII. But, clearly the MMII team played a ton of the original, yet they somehow managed to misunderstand what made it so great.

Other times, I'll boot up the cabinet because some classic game I never really got into will be featured on a retro-gaming blog or YT channel and that'll pique my interest in exploring the title as well as its precursors and descendants. That's why it's handy to have the full game libraries of every arcade cabinet title, a couple dozen 80s home computers and every game from every home console from the first generation (Atari VCS - 1977) to the sixth generation (Sony PS2/Gamecube - 2001) all browsable by platform, year, manufacturer, play style, genre and rating. When I come across some reference to a game on the Japanese Sharp X68000 computer being a derivative of an earlier game on the Amiga 1000, and both being inspired by a 1982 arcade title - I can play them all back-to-back and compare. I doubt I'll ever not love being able to conveniently play any classic retro-game in a full cabinet with top notch controls, pixel/frame accuracy and maximum fidelity.
> The most obvious thing differentiating DeepSeek’s tokenizer from other’s is a substantial fraction of the training data being Chinese. This makes things much more difficult to work with — tokenizations are learned at the byte level, but UTF-8 Chinese characters are usually several bytes long.

I realize that these models are more than powerful enough to deal with this nonsense, but it seems like, especially for smaller models, it might make sense to try using the Unicode input as such instead of treating it as bytes.
Not a typo I'm afraid. East Germany's economy overtook North England's economy in 2010. Excluding Berlin, East Germany's economy overtook North England's economy in 2013. Every East German large city (Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Halle, Chemnitz) is today a stronger economy than every North English large city except Manchester. Manchester is still a weaker economy than Berlin, Dresden, and Leipzig.

All the data is from the OECD using comparable definitions of the cities and collecting at https://tomforth.co.uk/humancapital/
Mission accomplished!

If you haven't check out

Synthesizing Bijective Lenses
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.03248

Synthesizing Symmetric Lenses
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11527

Synthesizing Quotient Lenses
https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~miltner/papers/qptician.pdf

https://github.com/Optician-Tool/Optician-Tool

Boomerang https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~harmony/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/prose/

The subject touches on program synthesis, type directed programming and programming with holes.

https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~miltner/

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~dpw/
I appreciate that I can ask an esoteric question about the behavior of a 30 year old microprocessor and multiple people respond with test results on actual hardware within a few hours. Can y'all also post the mask revision (if known) and whether it is an EC or LC device? (In case it impacts behavior)
> Americans excel at 0-to-1 technical innovation, while Chinese excel at 1-to-10 application innovation.

I was thinking the same thing...how much is that investment mostly grift?

1: https://www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-ceo-interview-with-ch...
I wonder how much you get billed if the agent spends a whole day running around in circles. The $500/month subscription only comes with 250 vaguely defined "compute units", so past a certain point you'd have to pay extra for the time it wastes.

Move over "bankrupted by runaway cloud spending", it's time for "bankrupted by AI agents trying and failing to complete a task indefinitely".
Nah, the peak was in the 2000s with DVDs. Then streaming services started, and the HD disc format war and price hikes for HD discs didn’t help.
Question for governments: if any entity is going to vandalize our sky, why would the government to which that entity belongs protect that entity from our retribution?

Nothing in a treaty prevents a government from doing it (put up ideological messages) and we have commercial interests that could easily go rogue with either commercial or social messaging.
> Math operators like division aren’t native to your (traditional) cpu, they are implemented in code

If you are talking about tiny microprocessors or old ARM chips, sure. But so are programming languages! They should have really asked him to code his solution in machine code then. After all, that's what you typically do in a NodeJS job :)
That’s a reductive take.
Also, soft cpus without strict performance and power requirements are really easy to implement with modern toolchains. In one quarter you can take an undergraduate who doesn't even know digital design and have them make a cpu core as a final project, and they can make a decent one.

HW is actually really hard. If you can use a soft core to simplify the overall design and suck up a bunch of peripheral logic it's probably a good idea. Then the engineers can spend their time focusing on getting the hard parts of the design correct.
HTML elements are used to describe their content and not have anything to do with layout. While they often have common properties, these can be changed using CSS.

So use the element that best describes its content.
For me the RA satisfies my Cold War warfare fantasy.
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Love the retro look and feel for native apps but yea, it doesn't feel right for a SaaS app.
Artificial Super Intelligence :P
Altered Carbon!
Examples please or it didn’t happen. I’d love to understand ‘noticeably’ in more detail, to try and repro.
First, I just want to thank you for all your extensive comments. It's really cool to get to hear from someone involved in all of it. It sounds like I probably played a bunch of stuff you were involved with! :)

And I don't think we're really disagreeing -- what you're describing is exactly what I meant when I said "the art was designed to be robust". Just like the sound that still works on bad speakers.

I never meant to imply there was any kind of lack of care or attention to quality. It's more that I see a kind of certain fetishization for "one true image" that never existed in the first place. Rather, the art was intentionally (and carefully) designed to be robust -- and of course more detail would come through on better displays.

You make a great point about the arcade cabinets though, where they did have that level of control, where maybe it really was "one true image" -- I was definitely thinking only about the consumer systems I grew up with. I can definitely appreciate that the art was specifically fine-tuned for that one display. I am curious if there are CRT emulators that try to replicate the individual monitor models used in arcades, as opposed to more generic TV's and monitors...

Thanks again for your comments and for engaging! This is the stuff I love HN for.
cause they make way way way more money on card swipes. but that's enough sharing for today
Enshittification didn't necessarily come from the engineers, doing engineering. It came from the profiteers, doing profiting. Engineers make the public space, and yes it's up to people to use it or not. Most public square are not the centers for communication, they just have a memorial, a small park with benches.
The South Vietnamese pilot who landed a Cessna on a carrier to save his family (2019)
Literally every single claim that you've made is false.
SQL is terrible at allowing this sort of transformation.

One benefit of PRQL [disclaimer: maintainer] is that it's simple to add additional logic — just add a line filtering the result:

from users
derive [full_name = name || ' ' || surname]
filter id == 42 # conditionally added only if needed
filter username == param # again, only if the param is present
take 50
Out of curiosity, have you seen the debate between Peter Miller and Saar Wilf, summarized in https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/practically-a-book-review-r...?
The person, above you, is responding as such because the framing is very passive, it sounds like it’s everyone else’s responsibility which will not help men because they have to show up. The title should “Men are not maintaining or making friendships”

They do show up at my art and DnD meetups and some of them can barely talk, at first, but after a while you can see them start to come out of their shell, I find it takes about two years before their lives become transformed.

But again, they have to show up and thats on them.
You can run VS Code in Blink and then connect it to GitHub Codespaces. I think this is the best option available nowadays.
Agreed. But the president's sudden 180 on the tiktok ban leaves me questioning his motives.
The point is you’re not going to eh able to hit a new disc anymore…
I appreciate Krita's UI design, though obviously it is focused on drawing/painting.

In the graphics app space, Krita, Inkscape, and Blender are all competitive with commercial offerings.
Depending on your exact requirements, Raspberry Pi 5 + case + battery is a configuration that already exists.
will it tell you how to make meth?
I hate to break it to you, but that's exactly what a lot of companies are like. Sales people can routinely promise impossible things to their customers and then expect YOU to make it happen fast, without much regard of whether you can, whether you should, or how you felt about it.
Political bias aside, is that because Tesla has that data collection info in their customer agreements?

Personally I don't believe overly complex agreements are valid, and should have an opt out, but the American regulations typically seem less consumer friendly than other places (mostly the EU)
as they should. i find it boils down to - because they can. I'm not sure if this post may have repercussions but we'll see.
The writing is in the wall. The big physical retailers have either already been need physical media sales in store (e.g Best Buy) or have slashed inventory/stocking.
That is not an accurate reproduction of the classic Windows UI. The 3D bevels on buttons and other beveled elements are wrong and make it look more like Motif if anything.
Thanks for that,

These are all good ideas, luckily already don’t drink alcohol or have sugary drinks.

Volunteering is a good idea and a vacation
Without specific support from the RDBMS, bitemporal schemas are difficult with regard to cross-table references, such as foreign keys. Rows that need to be consistent between tables aren’t necessarily 1:1 anymore, but instead each row in one table needs to be consistent with all corresponding rows in the other table having an intersecting time interval. You then run into problems with transaction isolation and visibility.
Yes will power and age.

But also the book atomic habits helped me a lot
Artis – inspiring scientific exploration through Art practices
> horrible block artifacts especially in dark scenes

I don't know if Netflix just hates me, but I get that on all their stuff. It's to the point I pirated Midnight Club to watch it instead of just using my Netflix account because the show was unwatchable using their service.
> I said the teams they put together is full of people chasing money.

Does it mean they are mediocre? it's not like OpenAI or Anthropic pay their engineers peanuts. Competition is fierce to attract top talents.
I was originally responding to the person who said:

> All part of the plan for everyone to have to repurchase all the content they already own. Again.

If you're arguing that you want to repurchase, then I don't know what we're talking about anymore.
I'm no friend of the banks. What you've said is true but also the wrong conclusion. A huge percent of "account" customers lose the bank money because they are poor and never leave much in the account. How are they supposed to remain a customer rather than a product? There are 100 answers for all of this I'm just bringing up that fractional reserve doesn't necessarily mean the bank doesn't need a fee ever. The entire system needs changed though.
this is true. makes you question why they do it for them and not for everybody
> You have a dozen people that would give you emotional support, maybe once, but you are too afraid to burn the single emotional support coupon until its more important.

This is real. I went through an emotional crisis last year and reached out to a few friends and family for support. My choice to do that has left those relationships more distant, if not permanently damaged.
Even iPads, especially new the newer ones, actually have fairly competent speakers. Much better than most tvs.
100%. Nothing else like it. Your own controllable media and DVR with full control.
Why would you? Implementing optimizers isn’t something that MLEs do. Even the Deepseek team just uses AdamW.

An MLE should be able to look up and understand the differences between optimizers but memorizing that information is extremely low priority compared with other information they might be asked.