skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That door is getting replaced.

Sure. If there was another place to buy a better door at. But if that door manufacturer's the only one that makes doors, if the door installer and door technicians all tell you that they can't or won't make another door for you, then you just deal. Maybe crank up the prices a bit to try to mitigate your 10% shortfalls.

The place where a business looks at that problem and sees money being left on the table that it can't live without and that it has no other way of making up for... that is a very narrow stretch, and only very marginal businesses live there.
> Do they suddenly stop being natural laws once Lagrangian mechanics is discovered?

Not my question to answer, I think that lies in philosophical questions about what is a "law".

I see useful abstractions all the way down. The linked Asimov essay covers this nicely.
It’s a completely different situation compared to Python.

With Scala 2.13/Scala 3 they both compile down to an intermediate format called TASTy which allows binary code to be shared. You don’t get the same binary incompatibilities you do with other languages.
Please, does this make it possible for me to send an email from Outlook to GMail encrypted using US government PKI?
Steam Ram? Mechanical Ewe? Atomic Goat?
I was thinking it would just use a local copy through LM Studio or Ollama. Wouldn’t that work?
I grew up with a semi-perpetual stew (the stove was turned off at night) called pepperpot. I don't remember a recipe, but I remember beef, bones, chili peppers and an extract from cassava root (cassareep) that is a natural preservative.

Haven't had it in decades, but ISTR that it was mostly done at Christmas time and usually was cooked for about two weeks.

[edit]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyanese_pepperpot
Nothing in any of your comments indicates that you are using an obfuscated connection to search Google at all. In that case there is little difference to using Google signed in or not, you are still trackable across numerous devices and your searches are correlated. So being signed into kagi has little difference besides them now being less incentivized to sell your information or track you in any manner.
Then you get burglars in your shop instead of legitimate customers.

User Agents look the way they do because this is a recurring issue.

A browser without network effects gets blocked, they look for a way to bypass the blocking, then they become mainstream and now the de-facto UA is larger than before.
Sources? Or are you just knowingly spreading false and defamatory claims?
I share this feeling every time a popup asks me to accept coookies for a website and its 1243 "trusted partners" — which, in this context, feels like a Ghengis Khan scale harem rather than any sane business relationship.
Sad to hear! I noticed that some are available through the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/Hexaflexagons
Indeed. And this is an interesting counterpoint to the idea that higher income (always) confers status. Because the corporate jobs will typically be higher paid but lower status.
This is really neat. I posted an animated GIF screenshot here https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/6/sqlite-page-explorer/
Surely a side project. It is actually really good too.

There is quite a problem with creativity being stifled by the infinite possibilities of a modern DAW.

Everything feels super fast and responsive on it too. I am going to spend a good amount of time in this.

Helio is a desktop app that is down this line but more complicated and not as easy to use. This just all makes sense if you know how a piano roll is going to work.
If you had a real super-AGI it could directly interact with any computer program by injecting itself into the process.

It is possible for an human to inject features into notepad.exe without having access to the source code (I learn that in cracking tutorials from +HCU almost 30years ago...) it should be possible for an AI to do so.
So 0 and 1 are connected to the 6510 I/O data direction and I/O data register, but there is still RAM there too. Seems the 6510 won't issue write signals to the bus for addresses 0 and 1, but the VIC can see them and it's readable through sprite collisions.
Probably their company "AgentSea"?
Very cool! Based on the video you're also doing some hierarchical subdivisions?
> But if my computer can quickly realize that I'm deleting every odd-numbered page of a PDF, or renaming every file to add a prefix, or following each link on a website and saving an image... and then just instantly automate the next 100 times... that's going to be huge!

The first two tasks could be easily done by asking ChatGPT to write a script for you. Scraping a website can be a bit more tricky. Still, I don't see why you have to rely on "computer use" for these tasks -- there are much more efficient and reliable approaches to the tasks.
We've banned this account. If you keep creating accounts to break HN's rules with, it will get your main account(s) banned as well, so please stop doing this.
The Marko Elez named in this article ended up resigning.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-po... (gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-po...)

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966412
> most services don't use your data for training

This is a claim that really irks me (when companies make it). It’s a non-denial denial. “We don’t train on user data” is NOT the same as:

- We don’t retain user data

- We don’t share user data with business partners

- We don’t mine user data for business ideas or ways to compete with our users’ products

- Etc.
It's not just that the 'badlines' steal 40 cycles. They steal a solid block of 40 cycles that cover most of the screen, from end of hblank until just before the right border starts. This blog post [1] has a nice interactive demo showing badline timings.

During a badline it's simply impossible write to the VIC-II's registers during the left border. Though, this seems to indicate it's still possible to open the right border during a bad line, but it's a 1 cycle window (maybe 2).

[1] https://nurpax.github.io/posts/2018-06-19-bintris-on-c64-par...
We have more than a quarter of a century of the normalization of zero privacy, and this is obviously anti Chinese AI company propaganda because the reality is that RTB is so bad that the security concerns are simply not new so why should people to even care?

Google, Meta, Microsoft and other RTB firms send RTB data about people in the U.S. to Russia and China and anyone else who signs up...many people don't see the difference. In fact for many people, the CCP having your data is far less of a risk vector than the thousands of others who get your data every single time you hit a webpage, visit the local store etc...

When Google, Meta, Microsoft etc... are selling your data thousands of times a day, and companies aggregate that to sell even sensitive information completely based on even national security sensitive categories.

https://www.iccl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Americas-hidd...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/online-behavioral-ads-...
doesn't it seem like these models are getting to the point where even conceiving their training and development is less and less possible for the general public?

I mean, we already knew only a handful of companies with capital could train them, but at least the principles, algorithms, etc. were accessible to individuals who wanted to create their own - much simpler - models.

it seems that era is quickly ending, and we are entering the era of truly "magic" AI models that no one knows how they work because companies keep their secret sauces...
I bought my Tesla in 2014 and have 100k miles of free super charging behind. total number of non-Tesla’s I have seen in 11 years charging - exactly two
Making Reactive Datatypes in 200 lines of Nim
I will always pronounce "DOGE" as "doggy" because it'd infuriate manchild Musk.

It's extremely telling that Republicans are blocking the subpoenaing of Musk. They're basically saying that asking questions is a Bad Thing™, and that we should just trust our new overlords and let them do whatever they want.

What other reason could there be for not wanting people to ask questions and get answers about what DOGGY is doing?
Yes, I'm familiar with that! It was created by the OTI team in Canada, which was acquired by IBM. I think some of them are still around, working on IBM's OpenJ9 java implementation. They reach out to me now and then on libffi-related issues.
> Eh? Biden, a Democrat, was President during the time of that judgement.

Sorry, bad typing. The judgement was for the ex-president while Biden was in office and my point was that the spread might have been different if the case was against a Democrat.

I agree about your line between bias and opinion, and I might have my own biases telling me when an opinion is a bias. However the judge for life thing we have here is not good for anybody.
Can you modify this to listen to a signal (e.g. SIGUSR) instead, for triggering the REPL?
Optical Approach Creates Fast-Switching Spintronics
Do these services respect norobot manifests? Isn't this all kinda... illegal...? Or at least non-consensual?
The goal of an online community is to be a space where people interact, so banning someone from interacting is a failure to succeed at the goal, but so is allowing someone to remain to the point where others choose to leave voluntarily.

The angst comes from the grey area between “do nothing” and “ban forever”. How does one strike a balance between the health of the overall community against the need of the individual to be able to take risks and make mistakes? A simple binary doesn’t cut it.
> > "My youngest told me what oobleck is the other day. It is something which can behave like a solid or a liquid. I couldn't believe my seven year old taught me that."

≥ That sounds exactly like the kind of thing that you might learn from a seven-year-old.

Is it just me, or is it also wrong? Oobleck is some YouTuber word that attracts child viewers, before that it was called a non-newtonian liquid.
OK. RTFM. You already did! Wonderful.
I use ZIO (https://zio.dev) and nothing really like it exists on any platform.

You can wrap any computation in a single ZIO object e.g. normal, callback, future, promise etc. Which you can then chain together in different ways e.g. run them in parallel, sequentially, race them against each other and kill the loser, schedule in elaborate ways, run with a timeout and then run another if it’s exceeded etc.

And it will execute this either using normal or virtual threads i.e. fibers without locks so it’s extremely fast.

But the incredible part is that it does all of this whilst seamlessly handling every type of error. Which if you’ve ever written complex concurrent code is extremely hard to get right.
Not the first product category you think of when it comes to AI consumer hardware but how about smart glasses (eg. Meta Raybans). Extrapolating to the future, AR glasses are probably going to be heavily dependent on AI.
It's more than just going down to 80%. After a while the battery will essentially fail entirely and not hold a charge, or swell up and push around other components of the computer, and it becomes a fire hazard.

I have an M1 MBP and I use it 95% of the time at my desk. I use Al Dente, and if I'm going to be using it away from my desk or I'm going on a trip, I'll just click the button to fully charge it. Even if I forget, the battery life is good enough that 80% is usually enough.
clojure's multi-arity addresses this to some extent but pattern matching like we know it in Haskell is very weak in Lisps...
> indexed addressing

Ok, this time I have a proper benchmark.

The XuanTie C910 core supports a custom extension with indexed loads [0] and I got my access to a MILK-V Pioneer server with that CPU working again.

As a quick benchmark I used a self compile of the chibicc C compiler: https://godbolt.org/z/4MMxsEarE

Measuring with the equivalent of rv64gcb and rv64gcb_xtheadmemidx, the xtheadmemidx variant ended up about 0.3% faster on the same core.

[0] https://github.com/XUANTIE-RV/thead-extension-spec/blob/mast...
My take is that we actually need more efficiency in government, and from a technology standpoint, they might have some good ideas.

I have a very pro-technology worldview. I'm independent leaning left but I thought that Democrats have been extreme, wasteful and untrustworthy in their own ways.

It's very unfortunate that this stuff like efficiency and technology integration is now associated so closely with neo-Nazis. Maybe I just didn't want to believe it. But when Musk did those Hitler salutes, I had to accept a new reality.

I don't think cutting programs or screwing up code is our main worry. The Secretary of Defense is literally an alcoholic neo-Nazi Crusader who talks about almost nothing besides getting rid of affirmative action and how evil Muslims are.

I am scared that they will actually try to deport millions of people, there could be massive detainment camps that become concentration camps. You only need a lack of food and one or two really serious neo-Nazis for that to become a death camp.

I am also afraid that they might trigger WWIII, fully fueled by racial hatred and dehumanization of Chinese people.

I am almost scared to write posts like this because who knows if they will start hunting down people from the internet.
That is why open source and local hostable models are so important. The privacy considerations are what are paramount, not just the ability to have unlimited token generation.
I wish that made no sense. But instead we get dark synergy…

Cruelty is the point.

Chaos is the point.

Stupidity is the point.

Lies are the point.

Racism/anti-“different” (including different ideas) is the point.

Impunity is the point.

Destruction is the point.

What they have in common are in-our-face demonstrations of centralizing power, designed to encourage their base vicariously while stealing their lunch.

And discourage, silence, excommunicate, dis-home and dis-connect any competent detractors in any branch of government or appropriately hard news.

They know the value of cutting the cost of everything, with no concept of the loss of value sans anything.
It doesn't matter if libraries rely on macros because 1) you only depend on their compiled output and 2) you can use Scala 2.13 code from Scala 3. That said, the vast majority of the open source ecosystem has Scala 3 releases by now.
Ok, I think enough is enough and have banned this account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40660693 (June 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39099968 (Jan 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38921687 (Jan 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25830600 (Jan 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22746689 (April 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21068892 (Sept 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20308569 (June 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20157648 (June 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16782569 (April 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16719891 (March 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16691736 (March 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14973671 (Aug 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13952958 (March 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13199347 (Dec 2016)
Right. As I said in the other thread attached to GP, Google is actually hacking RCS in a non-standard way to make you work. Apple can't do that, and the RCS standard is basically half done, so it absolutely sucks on any devices that have to use the standard rather than Google's implementation.
> See also:
> Ship of Theseus

I'm often interested in the use of "See also" in Wikipedia articles to bring in related topics that may not be obviously related to a naive reader, without directly addressing the relation in the article. I feel like it's an idiom that has developed over time, although I wouldn't be surprised to see similar things in card catalogues.

It's interesting to me because an encyclopedia generally spells everything out for you -- that's it's purpose, to explicitly explain things. The "tangentially-related See Also," on the other hand, demands that the connection be made in the mind of the reader, without explaining the connection explicitly.
A) Thanks for sharing your OSS with the world!!

B) I'm also a little confused. Surely that domain cost(s) $$$ -- why not go with a cute "us" branding rather than "U.S."? Unless you're looking to sell in other countries where maybe U.S. expertise is a selling point, this definitely comes across like you're pretending to be part of the government.

EDIT: For comparison, we.ai costs $500,000/y (!!!)

EDIT2: It looks like you're positioning yourself as a defense/govt contractor, thus the branding? That's certainly cool, but IMHO, if I were you and owned that domain, I'd offer it to Palantir for $$$$$ and just go with your second choice. They're currently starting in on a whole genocide/global war thing, so they have cash to burn!
Julia for R Users
Think more along the lines of exploits that allow turning off a power grid, spinning a centrifuge too fast, or releasing a dam.
Problem is he’s a full time academic.

So he doesn’t care if this amazing feature he’s invented has no IDE support.

Or if the Scala tooling ecosystem is so ridiculously poor.
Fascinating! Thanks! I figured someone here would know modern practice.

I was flummoxed the other day when I talked with someone who was a content equity trader -- I didn't even realize that class of finance existed.
Perhaps your "small feature" isn't seen to benefit many other users. You could look at the other changes that are being made to see what features are given priority.

You claim to have only recently started coding as a hobby. It might be possible that your coding doesn't conform to accepted practices by the maintainer.

Chalk it up to experience and move on. In the scheme of things it's a minor hiccup.
That these concerns are being dismissed as partisan shows how far through the looking glass we truly are. Either _the party of law and order_ doesn't understand how risky this activity is, doesn't care or both -- any of which are _extremely_ troubling. We should also all be sure to keep this in mind next time they're crying crocodile tears about TikTok or DeepSeek.

I just emailed my representative (Mike Lawler) and I suggest everyone who's concerned about this activity and capable of offering compelling insights into why this activity (active data breach) is so concerning do the same. Perhaps they're somehow blissfully unaware of the security implications of these folks accessing data (it's only read-only access, though, so don't worry! /s), copying it to ... wherever?, running it through ChatGPT or tinkering in production on critical Cobol systems is and we can enlighten them.
I wasn't aware of that tidbit with HSV and Alzheimer's, always nice to learn something new. Thanks for mentioning this.
We aren't there yet. These people are not anti-regulation, they are anti-regulation that prevents them from making the most money so for the time being they will gut the environment and other safety regulations. We haven't gotten to the mass regulatory capture part that shuts out competitors yet.
No, you aren't understanding the point.

The point is to make something stripped down compared to Reaper. The problem with modern DAW software is you end up getting lost in the infinite possibilities.

It is counter intuitive but constraints are a known aid to creativity.

If you want to write notes, this is the way to do it. Otherwise you get lost picking effect,synths, samples , on and on and on.

The idea would be to write the notes then you take the midi into something like Reaper.

If the author reads this what it really just needs is a microtuning import for scala scl files. There is absolutely nothing that can do this easily for non 12 tet music and just have the notes in front of you without much else.
Here's a simple screen waster I wrote with WebGPU and cannabis -- I mean canvas:

https://stashbox.live/
> Humans create new, spontaneous thoughts.

The compatibility of determinism and freedom of will is still controversially debated. There is a good chance that Humans don’t „create“.

> There’s no deliberation behind AI, just statistical probabilities. There’s no new or spontaneous thoughts, at most pseudorandomness introduced by the author of the model interface.

You can say exactly the same about deterministic humans since it is often argued that the randomness of thermodynamic or quantum mechanical processes is irrelevant to the question of whether free will is possible. This is justified by the fact that our concept of freedom means a decision that is self-determined by reasons and not a sequence of events determined by chance.
There might be but instead of thinking about it as a binary, think about it as a continuous conviction curve. Ask yourself, if this idea is true, what's the smallest testable prediction you can make? It can mean running a small experiment that doesn't give you statistical significance or would pass scientific scrutiny, but can be a gating function for a slightly more sophisticated experiment. And then you rinse and repeat until you prove/disprove the idea.
The good fight was already lost when Apple didn't lift a finger to help. No documentation, no driver code, just an open-enough iBoot interface to flash some code onto. Valiant programmers can take a hack like that pretty far, but at some point they have to ask what they're fighting for. Is Asahi interested in adapting to the norms of the Linux kernel, or do they insist on bending the Linux kernel to meet them?

I understand their exhaustion, but aiming their frustrations at Linus for having an entirely level-headed response shows that they can't read the room. This is the Linux project, you're going to have problems merging enormous codebases that reverse-engineer poorly understood hardware. I support Rust in the Linux kernel, but this is the kind of envoy that will spoil the effort.
I went with SIGINT because it's more fun to press ctrl-c than to pgrep and kill. If you'd rather use SIGUSR1, just change SIGINT to SIGUSR1 line 654.
How important is it that the reasoning takes place in another thread versus just chain-of-thought in the same thread? I feel like it makes a difference, but I have no evidence.
Try it. I predict you'll be right less often than you'd like, but probably more often than the median popular, it's just you need some way to track how often _other_ people are right as well.
I built a game then realized it's banned by Spotify
I regularly do large changes on many millions of lines legacy code bases with no unit tests. It can be done it just requires a lot of work. The only factor that matters is do we need to do this, the rest not so much
Ask HN: Is there any appetite for the return of "lickable" UIs?
Is there any appetite for the return of "lickable" UIs? I miss the colors, contrast, polish, and shine of [Mac OS 10.3](https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/macosx103) in particular. I find it all so beautiful—it was one of the major things that drew me to Mac OS. I also found it easier to use; there was no mystery about what was a button or where the scroll bar was.
Yeah the tab completion is so much better than copilot 3 months ago (which is when I switched to cursor 100%) it isn't even funny. Copilot was getting less useful as the time went by - I guess they wanted to make it cheaper and dropped the ball on quality. Cursor OTOH sometimes reads minds.
LOL. I've always been a "the 'best before' date is a vague suggestion for anything other than dairy products" type.

I just made soup from a bag of a bean mix that I know is definitely more than 10 years old.
Your first paragraph is spot on. Your second has no follow up analysis. It's interesting that you say greed (i.e. self interest) has made the world a better place and then tacitly admit that what you mean by that is a better place for you. I don't think any of the truly important advances of the last hundred years came about by harnessing greed, quite the opposite in fact.