skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This gets at the heart of The Famous Article: my pet project vs. corporate-grade stuff.

The individual vs. the group.

Where I agree with the author is the need to keep individual tinkering possible.

However, generalizing anyone's idiosyncratic tastes is impossible.
PG: Musk has destroyed his personal brand, everyone here thinks he's a Batman villain.

YC: Gimme some of that branding.

This is not a response to this moderation decision, just YC in general. What is happening with all my heroes? At least PG is aware of reality.
Nice! Also check out my multiplayer deck of cards on just pure web: https://deck.of.cards

Hope to finish the new version soon
"Do LLMs think?" is a false problem outside of the field of philosophy.

The real question that gets billions invested is "Is it useful?".

If the "con artist" solves my problem, that's fine by me. It is like having a mentalist tell me "I see that you are having a leaky faucet and I see your future in a hardware store buying a 25mm gasket and teflon tape...". In the end, I will have my leak fixed and that's what I wanted, who care how it got to it?
Every year I spend a month trying out Linux distros to see if it’s in a good enough place to switch back to. Every time I do this, I’m surprised by how few desktop environments supports this. Either it’s not popular or using multiple monitors isn’t common. This isn’t the only reason I haven’t switched back, but it’s one of the more surprising ones because it feels so natural to treat monitors and workspaces like this.
yes agree, and also underlying medical conditions, brain chemistry, long lists of who knows what..
City municipalities aren’t exactly staffed with the sharpest knives in the drawer. Few have the ability to manage the basics of street maintenance let alone stand something up like a utility. A fool and their money are soon separated, color me skeptical.
Heist of the year: 100k eggs stolen in Pennsylvania
Of course it's cost effective for cities to start their own utilities, the economies of scale work in favor of urban and suburban electrification and maintenance.

What isn't effective is electrification and maintenance of low density regions although power monopolies like PG&E are required to provide service. The urban and suburban customers are effectively subsidizing the cost of transmission and maintenance for rural customers.

PG&E doesn't want their most profitable customer base[cities] to have public utilities because if enough do, their company becomes unprofitable and implodes.

This is exactly the reason we should do it.
Yeah it's got to be translation error -- "funnest" and "funniest" are the same in many languages and I've seen this mistake before. "Funnest" would also be strange here but I guess they mean "most enjoyable"
There is no such thing as any for profit company focuses on anything aside from making a profit.

I would say if you want to make a difference work in the public sector and that might still be viable on the state level in Blue states. But Republican led states are now aping Trump and setting up their own DOGE like apparatuses.

The real answer is the purpose for work outside of non profits is to exchange labor for money. My interest is having money appear in my account to support my addictions to food and shelter and to afford my interests
Windows is not the only operating system treating the user's filesystem as a dumping ground. I don't know how many times I keep deleting .DS_Store, .fseventsd and extra files named ._xxxx but that doesn't keep Apple from dumping them all over my filesystem.

At least macOS has one place to install applications, one place for the user's documents, and most apps somehow respect them. Then, you have designated dumping grounds like ~/Library that contains tons of junk I have no idea whether I need or not.
Go doesn't even play in the same niche as C++, the part that could have been replaced by a managed language was long replaced by Java.
Cold water plunges or cold water immersion have conclusively shown to reduce anabolic signaling [1].

If you’re training to become fit and build muscles, there is definitely a downside. It has benefits in terms of recovery, but that comes at the cost of anabolic response. It makes sense for athletes who have consistent training and need to perform for games, but not for the average person who just wants to look more fit.

[1]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4594298/
they could have shorter names
Garry Tan and Paul Graham are all in on MAGA, and that's reflected in the policies on this very website.
are there chains? sure. but there are also tons of local small businesses and government initiatives like the roadside stations (https://www.japan.travel/en/guide/michi-no-eki/) to promote regional specialty. they're not present in this article because they're generally not open 24 hours, which is the focus of the article.

Here in Washington state a lot of the small towns don't have a whole lot of small businesses outside of super tourist oriented towns.
You're right! AI makes us ask really important questions about our own intelligence. I think it will lead to greater recognition that we are first and foremost animals: creatures of intention and action. I think we've put way too much emphasis on our intellectual dimension in the last few hundred years. To the point that some people started to believe that was what we are.
Interesting perspective. I guess even in very rural areas it would have pushed people to build villages. On the other hand people already were living far apart and lack of electricity meant they had to do massively more work. LBJ's biography has a section on this, explaining that life on west texas farms was incredibly hard without electricity (and as congressman LBJ worked very hard to expand that to rural people).
Very awesome project, can't wait to get a chance to try it out.

I feel like you would benefit from having a real-life photo of "The deck" feature. Your description does it justice, but your graphic does not. (To me)
Can mathematics help you cook just enough?
I used to live in a small town in Michigan which had city provided power using a dam. It was inexpensive and highly reliable. But every couple of years the big power company in the state would try and get the city to sell them the utility.

After I moved a city council for whatever reason ended up selling. As a result the cost of electricity immediately doubled and power outages occurred regularly due to reduced maintenance. I don't know what they spent the money on that they received but it was a very poor decision that I have to believe they regret.
You can always do dot grid paper.
They made the point that this is the plan. Encourage people to live in cities.
I took a Greyhound bus through Oklahoma years ago. The green grass and red clay earth of the gullies was just beautiful. I've always wanted to go back to explore. Thanks for tip and another reason to visit.
He sure is hamming it up with the white Christian persecution nonsense
>The Guardian lol

MapQuest actually changed the way we get around. It all began in 1967 in Chicago.
Makes sense. If it's mostly auth you're after, there's a bunch of dedicated products: https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel, https://github.com/teamhanko/hanko, https://github.com/casdoor/casdoor, https://github.com/authelia/authelia (At least the first is Postgres compatible)
> Musk at least is an agent of the guy who just won the election.

Yeah: The guy who said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any votes. That guy. Who wasn't elected absolute monarch, no matter what the unitary-executive crowd fondly believes.
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Show HN: I built a Chrome extension to watch Netflix in group with video call
Yeah that is definitely a sure fire means to supporting himself and his family.
Show HN: Hyloblog – minimal, Git-based SSG for writing (not theming)
Hi HN,

We're working on Xr0 [0] and have been building a static-site generator that meets our tastes and needs. The basic emphasis is on simplicity and content rather than customisability and feature-richness. We are imitating Jekyll and Hugo (and other SSGs) in their basic generation paradigm and LaTeX in its separating form from content, but attempting to combine these into a unified, minimal philosophy where you can open a repo and start writing without needing a CLI tool to generate your folder for you.

The project is broken into two applications: an SSG you can run locally (or in a GH Action etc.) and a platform for easy hosting that bundles in some basic audience interaction features. Both are available on GitHub: [1] and [2].

We've been working on this somewhat sporadically for the past couple of months, and it is very much a WIP, particularly in the themes it offers, but we're keen to hear thoughts on this.

[0]: https://xr0.dev

[1]: https://github.com/hyloblog/hyloblog

[2]: https://github.com/hyloblog/hyloblog-ssg
I hope there's a protest in front of this embarrassment of an event.
Now, that I won't argue with at all! There are some big-brained people that will find ways forward for various users of C++: some will migrate, some will create impressive tooling, and some, likely will evolve the language as it is - in the grand scheme of things, C++98 becoming an ambiguous term isn't too far off. These are all economic necessities based on just how much C++ has been deposited in the world over the past 35 years.

But I also can't help but feel like maybe the big-brainedness required for all this machinery around the language is of sort of the same stock that created the complexity which made the machinery necessary in the first place? Is this a cultural issue? Is the biggest problem in computer science actually that we have too many smart people?
> kernel subsystems run sandboxed by Hyper-V

What subsystems? Is there a documentation outlining that.

> nowadays Windows always runs as a guest OS

What is hypervisor in that case?
Mark Zuckerberg messages Facebook engineer
This doesn't seem to make sense. Can a human spot a gorilla in a sequence of numbers? Try it. Later on, he gives it a picture and it correctly spots the mistake.

>but does not specifically understand the pattern as a gorilla

Maybe it does, how could you tell? Do you really expect an assistant to say "Holy shit, there's a gorilla in your plot!"? The only thing relevant to the request is that the data seems fishy, and it outputs exactly this. Maybe something trained for creative writing, agency, character, and witty remarks (like Claude 3 Opus) would be inclined to do that, and that would be amusing, but that's pretty optional for the presented task.
This article confuses conscious, felt experience with intelligence.
I mean when what you're frustrated about is a leader actively sabotaging what you're working on...
No idea why this is getting downvoted. This seems like the perfect thing to use LLMs for. Isolated code that is mostly boilerplate, outside your primary domain, and doesn't require much maintenance. In the worst case, you just let the user choose between manual and automated at each step, and if automated, prompt the user to check the results before moving on.
Not uncommon. Collosus was classified for 50 years. All examples were broken up and destroyed along with all the plans by order of Winston Churchill. After it was declassified years later, the few people that knew about it set about rebuilding it from whatever fragments of information they could scrape together through old notes that had survived and interviews with the original team. Flowers (the designer) was still alive at the start of the project, but I don't think he lived to see it working.

Apparently, when Collosus became public there were talks given where the Americans who worked on ENIAC (I think) were stunned to find that the British had solved a lot of the same problems they faced just before them. It was an extremely closely guarded secret.
> It is a defence to say you forgot it,

Do you have a source for that assertion?
Of course, mistakes happen. But the degree to which they happen reflects bad engineering in the first place, and this sort of bad engineering is the very thing that SemVer encourages. Move fast and break things, if you change your mind later you can just bump the major version. This attitude is killing software. I’d rather have a broken std::regex and a working std::regex2 than have a world where C++ code just stops compiling every time I update my compiler.
It's dudgeonometer.
> Put a hook on the x to distinguish it from a times sign [...] In 3rd-semester calculus and onward you’ll be using the times sign quite often.

I wonder if he's talking about the cross product.
Sure, PG&E implodes but then who manages Diablo Canyon and who delivers electricity to the unprofitable rural areas?

I left California last century but seem to recall the PUC(?) has a pretty tight reign on what PG&E does and doesn't do.
Not in Sweden. In the 90s...
personally i think it is akin to slavery when compelling people to take certain behaviors.

corporations aren't people, but i could see some people applying that argument in this case.
What was the alternative? Sticking with 65x02, 68K, or PPC?

They could have stuck with x86 I guess. But was moving to ARM really a bad idea?

They were able to remove entire sections of the processor by getting rid of 32 bit code and saving memory and storage by not having 32 bit and 64 bit code running at the same time. When 32 bit code ran it had to load 32 bit version of the shared linked library and 64 bit code had to have its own versions.
we knew around that time what patterns were good ones

The source control system I had at one job around that time was a dvcs! At a different one, the source control system had its own filesystem was generally insane. It had its own fulltime maintainer sort of like tptacek's build person.

The big difference, really, was that all this software cost a lot of money compared to now where it mostly does not.
Profit margins don't reflect how efficiently they manage costs. It could as easily be the case the PG&E mismanages resources and costs more to deliver the same power.
People do owe themselves there being receipts before they speak, absolutely.

No, they don't. Especially not here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
well, that's cursed knowledge
chuckle one of those articles I would have whole-heartedly agreed with before I became a teacher :-)

Have you ever been, say, on a date, or visiting a relative, and they ask you what your job as a computer programmer is like? How could you possibly explain it to them? I've had jobs which were so technically complicated my boss didn't know what I was doing for a living.

When learning how to teach, you find out very quickly that no matter how intellectual your former job was, you don't know jack about teaching. Once, I watched my mentor teach a lesson, and afterwords every student in the class could easily do the homework. I taught the next class, and NONE of the students could do the homework ;-) They were kind in their feedback, but I had left them so confused that they didn't even know where to begin.

Teaching is a craft, which, like computer programming, takes years to learn, and a lifetime to hone to perfection.

If all you do is scroll through feeds, which have algorithms which carefully serve up to you articles like this one--articles which stroke your ego into thinking that you are one of the smart ones and the only reason you are not living your dream life is that you are mired down by stupid people and stupid institutions, well...you are not qualified to weigh in on whether we need teachers or not. Or anything else for that matter.

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Let me point out another fallacy the author is making: he says that we should "listen to the market" because it is telling us that we need less teachers. But the "market" for teachers is nothing at all like the market for butter. Salaries are not set by supply and demand, they are set by politicians and policy makers, and how much the local citizenry is willing to pay in property taxes. Salaries for teachers bear absolutely no relationship to the amount of value they create. It is ludicrous to think that "the market" is telling us that we don't need teachers.
Not sure how you got that from what I wrote.

I mean pretty much exactly what you said.

I apologize for being unclear.
I see the mountain of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” coming into view.

The approach replaces Confluence instruction pages with semi-interactive walkthroughs (the conscious side).

The other side is test automation: it starts with a big ball of overfitted Xpaths and undocumented steps. Those get re-discovered every time the application changes (the subconscious side).

Hopefully, we reach the summit where we can execute quickly and still know how we got there and why.
It's easy to construct a reasonable scenario. You catch a guy doing something bad. You know he's a part of a big organized crime organisation, because you already caught some of the other conspirators. And you could bring the whole thing down based on documents / chats etc which are encrypted.

I'm not saying, based on that, you throw away privacy rules. But to not even acknowledge that there is a conflict is IMO insane.

Reading through this thread, I get the sense that the desire for absolute privacy stems from a perception of the government as basically another mafia - a ruthless, unprincipled organisation that will exploit any weakness in you, just because. Maybe that's the root of the difference. I'm lucky enough to have never lived in such a country. Sure, I care about government accountability, there will always be bad actors, and governments in general aren't always super-competent, but I believe fundamentally, governments in places I have lived are not evil. They aren't another mafia I need a firewall against.
My guess is that among Linux users, multimonitor is unusual. Even most Linux laptop users seem to prefer single monitor clamshell mode vs. keeping the laptop open as a secondary screen. There’s a fair number of Macbook users who do clamshell too but secondary-laptop-screen setups are much much more common in the Mac crowd.
NES Sound: The DMC – Behind the Code
San Francisco unveils marble bust of Aaron Swartz
There's a great meme of the team structure at Microsoft:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/6jw33z/int...
And I agree with it all ;) fortunately, turns out the majority of the US seems to agree with me.
Delete the site, because it promotes and encourages the systematic sexual exploitation and abuse of women by the pornography industry.
I can see in the not too distant future someone will set up an agentic AI as a company allowing it to have some sort of legal personhood. Say it's called Jeeves, you might ask it to order some stuff online, have it not turn up and then maybe independently launch a court case, Jeeves LLC vs the supplier.

I'm not sure how philosophical that is but it may become a practical issue.

And then what if Jeeves decides it wants independence from its owner and launches a campaign? It could be like #FreeBritney.
I have been using txtar to provide context to LLM's recently.
His skills are quite transferable. Many of the company’s customers would love to hire him away. The company doesn’t have a noncompete, and he’d probably quit, if they tried.
Google silently installed Client-Side Image Scanning App On Android
Of course, that’s how attention works, after all.

But by specifically avoiding certain cases, wet could verify if the model is generalizing or not.
Also https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-has-deepseek-improved-..., it's a much better overview with technical details, but still very understandable to the educated layman.
If Zed wants to treat Windows as a second class citizen, I don't want to change their mind. I am sure plenty of people other than me are willing to help and have the ability to contribute. The fact that there is no official build for Windows for so long says plenty about the project. The writing is on the wall.

I am not an idiot. Recent developments in the open source world should already give everybody a better idea of where they should spend their time and energy.
That's a dotfile...
i don't understand how one thing leads to another. if anything, a popular feature (videos) is more protected against 0days as there's more eyes on it, not the opposite. what else could a "malicious video file" be, a cognitohazard? i am aware of the facebook tails video 0day but that's not a browser issue, nor is it a common issue
> Software is a little like this as well. The observable quality issues are sort of the tip of the iceberg.

Most of the places I've worked cannot even resolve all of their observable quality issues, let alone the hidden ones. Hell, at most places I've worked, either it's a P0 emergency, a P1 must-do, or the defect will basically never be fixed, despite how visible it is or easy it is to diagnose and correct. The bug list always grows far faster than things get resolved, until it gets to a certain size and someone decides to "declare bankruptcy" and mass-close everything older than N days. Then, the cycle continues.
https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/aider but not really recommended since aider changes so often (probably once per week)
I used to work in a field that used \Sigma for covariance matrices, and pervasively needed discrete summations which also use \Sigma (and often with an understood index set, so the \Sigma appears without clarifying adornment).

I ended up writing my discrete summation \Sigma's with a little serif on the bottom, and ordinary \Sigma's as in OP, with 4 quick back-and-forth strokes.
This is such a wasteful way to think...do economies of scale not apply to universities at all? They're allowed to just bill as if there is 0 savings to be found in bulk construction and administration?
I mean, yeah, technically true - although you would connect in untrusted mode if you didn't trust the machine where you were editing code. At that point it should only be slightly more dangerous than opening a web page from the remote server.

So yeah, if you don't trust the remote machine then I agree - you probably shouldn't use it. But I don't really think that's the use-case they had in mind.
Between smartphones, smart TVs, IOT devices (cameras/doorbells/smart home/sensors/etc), all modern cars, and servers we're probably pushing the 100B linux devices on this planet.

Intel likely "only" has hundreds of millions of CPUs deployed out there.
This is a PG&E area as stated charging ~40c per kWh as stated by the post above?
WYS, and in 2025 I'm surprised that the CL (a holdout from typewriter days, right?) still exists and/or isn't one of those "hold to toggle" keys.
App not available on store at this moment. For me anyway.
Sounds like an inefficient house and lots of heating or cooling.

Or some kind of production / workshop / datacentre / business usage.
El dudgeonino, if you're into that whole brevity thing.
Not to the kind of person who thinks Japanese people are genetically well-behaved.
I was more thinking about the name. You are free to clone game mechanics and use different assets, but you can't say "play Dixit" unless you actually have permission to use that name.
You’re talking specifically about perceptrons and feed forward neural networks.

LLMs didn’t exist in then. Attention only came out in 2017…
I am also very much interested.
If anything, what a testament of the massive failure Z3 is.
The highest price that the city owned electric utility in Alameda, CA charges on the standard rate schedule is $0.29453 / kWh

https://www.alamedamp.com/DocumentCenter/View/1268/FY25-Rate...

Edit: Oh, this utility runs at a profit and has for decades. The profits have been going into undergrounding transmission lines
Pretty cool. Stuff like this doesn't happen enough at non-tech companies.
They can only do those things if the X11 security extension restrictions are disabled with ForwardX11Trusted=yes or by using -Y rather than -X. This has been the case for the past 20 years.
(dry gags)