skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the core dogma of "believe specific claims of fact because they were written down in one text and not another" is bad epistemology no matter how you cut it.

My understanding of Catholicism comes from outside of it, but this isn't how I understand Catholic epistemology—this sounds more like Sola Scriptura, which is a Protestant doctrine and emphatically not a Catholic one.

Since I'm not a Catholic, I'm going to link out to an explanation from people who are [0]:

> The living magisterium, therefore, makes extensive use of documents of the past, but it does so while judging and interpreting, gladly finding in them its present thought, but likewise, when needful, distinguishing its present thought from what is traditional only in appearance. It is revealed truth always living in the mind of the Church, or, if it is preferred, the present thought of the Church in continuity with her traditional thought, which is for it the final criterion, according to which the living magisterium adopts as true or rejects as false the often obscure and confused formulas which occur in the monuments of the past. Thus are explained both her respect for the writings of the Fathers of the Church and her supreme independence towards those writings; she judges them more than she is judged by them.

So the epistemological problem to resolve is not why these particular documents, it's why this particular organization? Not why do I trust what's written here but not there—the answer to that is because the Church says so—but why do I trust this Church?

Not being a Catholic, I can't really answer that question, but I do think it's important to approach the Catholic question on its own terms rather than Protestant terms.

[0] https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/tradition-and-living-m...
If they went through the trouble of printing fraudulent cards, why would they print the actual date?
Having worked in both public and private sector, what is written here is largely true. And it is only the tips of the iceberg.

But privatising everything isn't going to solve it. Relying on Government also tends to be 2-10x more expensive. In theory if you have an effective government like Singapore than everything would be great. Unfortunately that is the outliner not the norm.
Stablecoins are risky because companies like Tether work offshore and don't submit to full audits. There is no guarantee your money won't disappear and no government bail out.

In some sense Bitcoin may be safer although it has volatility risk and is essentially a negative sum game requiring the "tithe" that is mining to keep being paid. So pick your poison.

If Karsa can provide effective a deposit guarantee that would be good. You may be able to sell that risk to the markets. It would be a great way for the Tether folks to extract value from developing economies and VCs!

Why not just... be a bank for them?

Hope you pivot or fail. If you stick and succeed then a lot of working class wealth will be at dire risk.
Localwriter: A LibreOffice Writer extension for local generative AI
> Converting to UTC is lossy

How so? UTC is a constant point in time. The difficulty lies in representing the value correctly, but the point in time is unchanged.

Unlike what sibling comment mentioned, if an appointment is scheduled at 1739287704987, the value will be the same regardless of where and when it's accessed from.
They buy it through scale ai
Using AI for code has its detractors but can be a great resource
> The rest of us peasants tends to recombine previously solved problems into to novel solutions to solve business needs, and that works rather well with LLMs.

You took the words right out of my mouth! I wrote a draft reply to OP (but discarded it) with similar thoughts -- roughly: I work on CRUD apps, and so do most other devs; LLMs are a terrific fit for this subject matter.
The whole point is that bwrx-3000 is actually cost competitive.
Well, ring me up when "Linux HPC" and "OSS" becomes a majority-government contractor, and I'll switch to rack Mac Pros.
FYI, The Document Foundation has [a recent blog post](https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/01/16/localwri...) highlighting a generative AI extension intended for LibreOffice.
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I'd record the audio and pass it through an LLM after the call. Another option would be a TTS and convert your audio to text live and then a little script to pass it in every so often
Yeah, nothing says “order and rules” like revoking and then reinstating all federal grants over the course of what, a day or two? Less?

The order of things is that the GOP breaks everything, Democrats fix it all and get blamed for the painful process of fixing things and the sub optimality of the result, which the GOP has fought tooth and nail to remain sub-optimal because that helps their narrative and sub-optimal government enables them to win elections.

Then the GOP gets to run things again, breaks things senselessly, and we rinse and repeat.

Turns out electing people to government who think the government is the problem is a bad idea: they work to prove that their position is correct by actively breaking the government, thus can argue that they should remain in power because the government is “broken”.

“We are all trying to find the person who did this” meme. But with real human suffering.
Google Sees Iran and China, Russia, North Korea Phishing, Scripting with Gemini
I'd argue the opposite: APIs should publish all datetimes as UTC timestamps and only the client should be involved in presenting datetimes in the way best suited to the user experience.

I'd also argue that presenting dates in ~0KB of javascript is better and less error-prone than several KB of javascript - it also allows users to see dates in non-Gregorian calendars when they prefer.
Not sure if the admin added it after this or not - but it’s listed for January 14, 2025.
I was taught in college that when a result defies the laws of physics, you did something wrong. It isn't necessary to know exactly what went wrong, but there's a mistake there.

When someone asserts that the Law of Supply & Demand doesn't apply, they are wrong. I've pointed out the particular error many times to people who asserted such things.

A typical one is rent control. Another is laws against price gouging.

A corollary is TANSTAAFL - There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. You can bank on it.

You'd be justified in assuming I'm arrogant about this. I am. But I have an awful lot of experience with it.

> Such that I'm not really clear how trying to pull that one in is anything other than sophistry?

Look into predictions Einstein made about gravity. Not only was he correct, he was as correct as measurements could measure it. All attempts at finding exceptions to it have failed.
Some of it is scalping. Buy product that's not going to be reprinted and sell it for more soon after. Pokemon generally will reprint big sets as needed though so it's less of an issue.
Sure, but no matter how many async request you accept you still only have 50k items available. You also presumably take people's money, having them input their personal and card information so not waiting for real response means what? Thank you for your money and the data, we'll be in touch soon; pinky promise?
Wasn't lobster eating supposed to be a cruel punishment?

Apparently it was fancy already in the Netherlands.
The GSMArena search does let you filter by bands, though I can imagine that getting tedious.
And steal the ip from your startup and then go public.
LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman, the Only Way to Deal with Info Overload Is AI
There's plenty of historical evidence for this, too, in country after country. Even in Roman times.
Ask HN: Is it ironic that OpenAI says DeepSeek used its work without permission?
Should they also join Trump Social to "fight the power"

I think a better strategy is to make the old guard social media companies irrelevant. Rebuild everything on protocols that support real user choice and competition
This is good start, i guess to make it more helpful, you can also do a pre configured builds so folks who just want to check the overal price can do that.

Also , why not do it for more things? like cellphones are hot on ebay, and i would love to use this kinda of a tool
Google didn't announce anything. That's a message from a customer support rep to a single individual.
Great, this will be very handy for Just Use Postgres crowds [1], [2].

Just wondering what's the main different between Mathesar with NocoDB and Baserow?

Is Mathesar planning to become Airtable open source alternative as well?

[1] Just use Postgres for everything (430 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33934139

[2] Just Use Postgres!

https://www.manning.com/books/just-use-postgres
Super exciting development in the world of medicine, but the price tag is really steep. Starting at US$15.50 per pill, and you're supposed to take two pills at a time. Many will opt for cheaper options.

Disclaimer: I'm Canadian with extended insurance, so I have little perspective on drug prices.
This has been the dumbest conversation I've ever had on HN.

I fully understand you need to a phone that accepts text messages. You don't seem to understand that phones that can accept text messages existed long before smartphones, you can still buy them, and they aren't the same thing.
sure! and in many situations, a new technology or company or whatever is a kind of systemic change. For instance, right now I'm accessing this website via VPN in a place where hacker news is blocked. That's both a technological solution and a political change.

The OP comment is about how it's dystopian to seek technological/financial solutions to political problems. I think that attitude is misguided.
Right; we can visit for 6 months.
Other than their federal jurisdiction, what separates them, structurally, from any other flawed LEA and makes then incorruptible? (And, where the hell do you live?)
The chips used themselves for sound are perfectly fine. It’s pretty much all Realtek codecs on any motherboard. And even on the sound blaster cards. The only difference between onboard and dedicated cards is a bit more thought and care is put into shielding and external component selection, which can have a pretty big effect on performance. That tends to be the big difference between onboard and dedicated cards. Nobody hears the difference between 16 bit 48khz and 24 bit 96/192khz anyways. But bad component placement or selection can add noise, THD+N, and other problems.
Not really, but there's basically no path of recourse for OpenAI no matter how you frame it. They could accuse DeepSeek of sanctions violation or IP theft, but nobody in China is going to prosecute them.

I don't even think DeepSeek is that big of a deal, but it's pretty clear that this is a diversion on OpenAI's behalf to try and emphasize their own importance. Their desperation is humiliating enough, the irony almost doesn't even register relative to the myriad other ways OpenAI has disappointed and betrayed American customers.
> The combined sales across all auction websites likely exceeds $10M. Individual cards were selling between four to six figures, based on the variant and the popularity of the Pokemon.

Woah, I had no idea Pokemon cards could be so valuable (obviously I don't know much about Pokemon other than my kids use to play with them)
What LLM did you connect it to? Also, are you using desktop or CLI?

There is a Block OSS Discord you can join to connect with folks to troubleshoot it (or just report something not working on the GitHub repo)
No, it's really not a strict improvement. A meaningless name like `v2` does at least convey that you, as the analyst, haven't understood the role of the variable well enough to rename it to something more fitting to its inferred purpose. If the LLM comes up with an "informative" variable name that is not very well-suited towards what it actually does, the name can waste your time by misleading you as to the role of the variable.
I'm not Catholic, and I share your distrust of religious institutions. So with that disclaimer, I think my answer would be that God chooses, at times, to teach us things in a "small enough" way that we can understand them.

For example, consider when the Bible gives concrete statements about what God wants us to do or not to, or when Jesus uses analogies and parables. Do we necessarily get the full picture? No, and there's a lot about the Christian life that one only learns through experience. One of those things IMO is that some questions have unknowable answers. E.g. "why did this particular tragedy occur?", or perhaps more fundamentally, "how could a holy and perfect God ever show mercy to us imperfect humans?". Or maybe even more directly to the thrust of your comment, "how could we ever hope to understand anything about God?".

Something else that comes to mind is that God became human Himself, and I imagine that—at least in part—this would be to allow us to understand Him better. Through Jesus' life, we got to see what it would look like for God to live a human life. (Admittedly, the question then becomes, how does God become man in the first place, which I have to categorize under "questions with unknowable answers".)

Finally, the Bible often talks about the Holy Spirit helping Christians to understand "spiritual" things. That is to say, it's not quite a matter of us trying to reach logical conclusions on our own, since—as you say—that wouldn't be possible for a God that's beyond our limits of comprehension. Rather, we get some supernatural help in the matter.

Maybe the tl;dr is that, just because we can't understand everything (or maybe even most things) about a God that is fundamentally greater than us in every way, doesn't imply that we can't understand anything.
Show HN: 1M+ animated GPU sprites in JavaScript
We added a new feature to our open-source HTML5 game engine today that allows you to create Sprite GPU Layers.

These pack together simple JS object definitions onto the GPU and renders them using a custom vertex shader. This skips all CPU computation and GPU upload operations, resulting in vastly increased performance. For objects that don't need to be updated by input, physics, or other interactive behaviors, we found it to be a great solution.

In testing, we've easily managed to blast millions of sprites around on moderate desktop-grade GPUs. Indeed, we hit the fill rate limitation of the GPU far sooner than we hit any other type of limitation. But as with all hardware-related things, ymmv. Frankly, we'd love to get our hands on a 5090 to see what we could do.

The link includes 4 demos to play with, and the full source is on GitHub and npm under the MIT license.
I've been using iPulse (https://ipulseapp.com/) for about twenty years now. It gets consistent compliments and questions from shoulder-surfers because it looks great, and it doesn't take much screen real estate. No affiliation, strong recommendation.
There is a lot more information and background for the layperson in the NYT article. But free sources should also be included for those without a subscription.
As defrost said, having goggles would be normal (probably even required by local unit policy) for any night flight. Whether they are helpful or harmful will vary with conditions so, yeah, when transiting through a dense urban area with lots of ambient light you might actually flip them up (i.e. out of the way, above your line of sight) to see better.

Also as defrost said, nobody can know right now if they were actually in-use at the time of the incident. We have to wait for cockpit voice recordings.

Anyway, it's not really significant, though. I think Secretary Hegseth mentioned it because a portion of the public will equate "flying with night vision" to "flying in daylight" (even though it's not even close), so the DoD was taking all appropriate measures to be safe. Or he was just told that the crew was doing a "goggle reset" flight (because crew members need to log at least one hour of flight time with goggles every 60 days to stay current), and he jumped to a conclusion.
I see what you're getting at: situations in which the compiler trusts that the location has not changed, but needs to re-load it because the cached value is not available. When the location is reloaded, the security test (like a bounds check) is not re-applied to it, yet the value being trusted is not the one that had been checked.

This is not exactly an optimization though, in the sense that it will mess up even thoroughly unoptimized code (with more likelihood, due to caching optimizations being absent).

So that is to say, even the generation of basic unoptimized intermediate code for a language construct relies on assumptions like that certain quantities will not spontaneously deviate from their last stored value.

That's baked into the code generation template for the construct that someone may well have written by hand. If it is optimization, it is that coder's optimization.

The intermediate code for a checked array access, though, should be indicating that the value of the indexing expression is to be moved into a temporary register. The code which checks the value and performs the access refers to that temporary register. Only if the storage for the temporary registers (the storage to which they are translated by the back end) changes randomly would there be a problem.
Like if some dynamically allocated location is used as an array index, e,g. array[foo.i] where foo is a reference to something heap allocated, the compiler cannot emit code which checks the range of foo.i, and then again refers to foo.i in the access. It has to evaluate foo.i to an abstract temporary, and refer to that. In the generated target code, that will be a machine register, or a location on the stack. If the machine register or stack are flaky, all bets are off, sure. But we have been talking about memory that is only flaky until it is written to. The temporary in question is written to!
This sounds fantastic. It is also worth remembering they also told us oxycodone was non habit forming. But hey, let's be cautiously optimistic.
> And OP did not say what institutions he deems untrustwordy.

In context I think it is fairly clear what OP meant - big tech and the traditional media sources like newspapers, corporate news and radio.

Although if you hear "untrustworthy institutions" and the groups that sprig to mind are the CDC and FEMA, maybe someone should work on making them more trustworthy too.
If it means staying away from addiction, I'll pay it. Opiods would scare me if I ever needed that level of pain treatment.
So the US has the moral right to install a western style gov into other countries?

How many times do we have to go down this road, tear apart countries, fuck them up more, and leave with everything in worse shape than before?

The US does not have the right to interfere and has proven over and over again that it will do all of the wrong things while trying to force other people with different ways of living and thinking to behave in a western way.
A really fascinating detail from the article: apparently, the Soviet Union had a CDC installation as well...

> In Leningrad, APL users grouped around the Scientific Research Computing Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences, in which a Cyber 172 computer was installed. This group used APL for the purposes of economic planning

It looks like CDC was the beneficiary of a Nixon-era thaw and commercial exchange with the Soviet Union. I wonder who else benefitted from this era.

https://philipps-welt.info/CDC_History/CDC%20history%20sovie...
It's "The Game of Black and White" per The Book by Alan Watts. It goes all the way down to raw mass--the proportion of matter and anti-matter should have been exactly 50/50. But for some reason there was just a little more of the one...
Effort to "roll up" the org, starting with as many bottom-level people as possible?
One thing that keeps on giving for me me is being able to watch some random youtube video like its nothing. I can click on a random 200 view video from 12 years ago and scrub through it basically no latency. Thinking about how every little packet goes up and down the stack and around the world... The whole infrastructure to make it so seamless.

Meanwhile watching a video from an external drive or my wired SMB NAS fails half the time :|
TIL you can show useful stats with 'Activity Monitor.app' right in the dock by right clicking the icon and selecting from the 'Dock Icon' menu item. Thanks!
What I don’t like about this kind of “moral” analysis is you are basically reacting to negative branding. do you make a utilitarian analysis of the impact of your employer or other products you use? I don’t think you do, it’s just they may not have the same “bad guy” labels.
> So the US has the moral right to install a western style gov into other countries?

Sometimes, yes. A more powerful entity has a moral right to act to stop cruelty and abuse if they can.

I think acting to dismantle the Taliban, for example, is completely justifiable morally.
> I can say from experience that it doesn't.

No, I don't think you can say that. If you're getting daily notifications about being out of date, then you clearly haven't gotten the update yet. There are two possibilities: (1) You have rebooted. In this case, the dev option must have worked, because you rebooted and didn't get the update, exactly what the dev option promised. (2) You haven't rebooted. In this case, the dev option doesn't apply, because it specifically refers to what happens after you reboot.
somewhat related: "IMG_0416" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42102506
Is it merely preferential, then?
We don't know because we're not in the government to be best buds with Crown Prince Bonesaw
IMO the main thing going for Sublime was performance, since VScode lacks in that area. Unfortunately, Zed now exists and I see no reason to use Sublime other than habit/specific use cases.
Unlikely; the pilots are (correctly) following the approach controller's direction. It's approach's responsibility to keep them clear of other traffic. Also they just got handed a different runway to land on that's a lot shorter and in one of the more complex airspaces of the planet; they're busy.
That's fine and dandy, and I agree. But it's still illegal to provide means to circumvent the law. Well, depends on the country and enforcement I guess. It's pretty hard to do so.