skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had no idea Vim had a terminal mode with ':ter|:terminal'! Definitely something I'll look into to improve my own Vim + Git workflow. I've usually just moved Vim to the background with Ctrl+Z, done my committing, and then moved Vim back to the foreground with 'fg'.
They mention technical reasons like avoiding screen burn-in.
The SQL standard uses double quotes.
HN on USian real estate / urban development: this experiment has been running for two weeks and it's fine.

Also HN on USian real estate / urban development: everyone prefers this district developed two hundred years ago, because it was not fine.
Nothing, I still get random notifications from folks that sadly aren't around anylonger, but no one has disabled their social accounts.
I'm all for claiming these things are soft sciences but they still claim to be sciences. Demographics, sociology, anthropology.

Sometimes I can't tell when people are pulling chains, so in the interest of charity ^
Cross compilers have solved this use case for pretty much any language with enough demand.

Meanwhile you won't have much luck running Eclipse or any other large Java program on your custom OS or hardware platform if you just port the JRE.
I can't even tell what you're arguing for or against. Every comment seems to defeat itself. I am not trying to be inflammatory, but your statements honestly don't seem to stem from anything other than "think about it bro" and ignorance.
I think it's not supposed to be a pilot hole, but a hole to put a partially-threaded screw through.
That holds for shopping and recreational areas.

In residential areas it does not work so well.

The backbone of society is provided by moderately paid people: Health workers, construction workers, police officers, factory workers.

We must enable these people to get to work. The solution so far was: enable them to own a car.

We can choose to let the market handle that: people probably will negotiate for higher salaries if cost of living goes up, higher salaries will drive prices and the spiral continues.
Looks like an admirable effort, although I assume this is all happening too quickly for them to put out a list of what is actually disappearing. It'll be an interesting topic to revisit in a few months.
Apple Vision Pro: 1 Year Later
OpenAI says Musk's takeover bid contradicts his lawsuit against it
There has been quite some research on finding, in layman's terms, where the difficult instances of an NP-complete problem are.

What it comes down to is that there are phase transitions in computational systems that depend on how constrained the problem is.

Consider a sudoku puzzle. If the board is almost empty of numbers then it's easy to solve. If the board is almost full of numbers it's easy to solve. But there's some critical amount of numbers filled in (say half of them) that makes the sudoko most difficult to solve. That's where the phase transition is.

The notion of a phase transition comes from thermodynamics where ice becomes water becomes gas.

Here's an early paper on phase transition is AI.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0004370287...

Here's a later one on phase transitions for the satisfiability problem (SAT).

https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/MY_DAI_OLD_FTP/rp679.pdf
Court Decides That Use of Copyrighted Works in AI Training Is Not Fair Use
> resulting in one of the contributors eventually quitting over loss of faith in the kernel development process.

Let's be honest and call it what it was: "flamed himself into a temper tantrum".

The sad thing is that exactly this outcome of demanding more clear policy was the clear and better alternative to flamewar'ing from the get-go. Did the flames help get there? Not sure, maybe, but I don't think so, and they did cost a lot of people all around a lot of time, emotional energy and grey hair.

btw: I'm vocal about this because I'm a maintainer (not on the Linux kernel). Establishing a practice of people flaming and throwing temper tantrums in Linux kernel maintenance would absolutely simmer down into other projects. This can't and mustn't be how we work. Especially since maintenance resources are spread thin enough & overloaded already (a lot of commercial entities care only about shipping features, not doing grunt maintenance and bugfixes.)
Typecasting and Viewport Transitions in CSS with tan(atan2())
Who cares? How much time are you going to lose from that? Like, 0.15s every time you read a date. Big woop.
Those fat runtimes are part of the portability lie. Runs everywere ... where the runtime is installed.

You can make the same argument for any compiled language if you call QEMU your runtime.

And this isn't just theoretical. Games written in compiled languages know to bundle all their dependencies. Games written in Java often expect you to have a JRE. And more often than not "a JRE" means the official Sun JRE (maybe even a specific version range) because too many Java applications use non-portable interfaces.
The issue is not the literal dirt. Dirt is fine. The issues are the pesticides and industrial contamination like whatever's on the floor of the packing plant or grocery store.
> She'd say weird country sayings I learned from my own Dad, like 'kneehigh to a cricket.'

It's also fun when it happens in the other direction: child invents a totally new word, parents think it's funny and copy it, it becomes a word used only within that family, but perhaps it stays around long enough for some of the grandchildren to pick it up. But everyone has to pay attention not to use it outside the home because outsiders would be very confused by it. We have a few words like that.
> They've basically told China, "Please, take the loyal market we've built up these past 40 years. We don't need or want it. We want to die."

It is more complicated than that.

The Chinese government in the last decade made the life of foreign automotive brand un-manageable. Most of them (outside of the luxury market) are now getting out.

They enforces rules that are clearly designed for IP leaks and takeover.
For instance: For every vehicule sold in China by Toyota and others, the source of the software need to be sent to the Chinese authorities.

This is not a market that the Japanese want to stay in: They know they are playing against someone that cheats with the rules.
Pascal, farad, joule aren't base units, they are derived units.

Ideally, the base units should be prefixless. Except for kilogram, they all are.

Imagine a system exactly the same as SI, except instead of the kilogram, it had the kram, where 1 kram = 1 kilogram... then the gram would be the millikram, the milligram would become microkram, the microgram would become the nanokram, etc... if you were starting from scratch, without any historical baggage, wouldn't such a system be superior? But of course, we aren't starting without historical baggage – almost everybody knows what a kilogram is, kram is a word I just now made up.

I think some derived units being "poorly proportioned" is inevitable given the physics we have.
And in Germany we are still debating if Syria is safe enough to send asylum seekers back there :D
OpenAI Set to Launch GPT-4.5, GPT-5 Soon, Says Altman
I love threads like this

One person going "X doesn't happen in Y" is almost always followed by someone saying the exact opposite, solidifying the fact that we all live in our own bubbles, often experiencing the same things in completely different ways

Kind of reminds me of when you buy a certain car, you are suddenly primed to see that same car model everywhere, while before you weren't aware of them at all.
Head Games – a humiliating list of all the ways your brain can deceive you
Lots of laptops marketed as AI powered but have lower CPU speeds and total ram?
A prime pair that’s easily factorable
> “But the bus service isn’t good!” That’s because no one uses the bus, if there’s demand, supply will be added. The biggest determinant of transit use is the availability of parking.

Public transport is not some enterprise, but rather public service. It's literally in the name. You flip the chicken and egg problem around with corporate bs: make public transport usable and use will skyrocket.
It's Turing complete, it can simulate anything any other Turing equivalent machine (e.g. a PC) can.
I didn't mention race in the post, but culture. I think culture has a significant effect on a person, and to prove my point, I'd refer to the book The Culture Map, which was a revelation for me and explained a lot of things I had noticed while working in a multicultural environment. Genetic factors typically account for about 50% of individual differences in traits like personality, cognition, and psychopathology, leaving the other 50% to environmental influences.
When posting snark it's always wise to make sure your post doesn't have any embarrassing grammatical mistakes or spelling errors.
> what kind of default is that?

The Microsoft kind
The one written in Rust, obv.
Given the upvotes this topic got, it clearly sparks some intellectual curiosity.

But you can see other comments in this thread about how pro-Trump posts, while being rare, are not flagged.
As other commenter said, prob has more to do with growth of computing in the developing world. Very little labor now that can't be done by someone living in a country where breakfast costs less than 25 cents. I mean, theoretically at least. Most of those people probably aren't learning from professors who spend their whole day teaching and doing research, and that kind of activity can only be supported by a relatively wealthy society. But, the internet has also democratized a lot of that activity. Well, its complicated either way.
Yeah that's right, there are no known cryptosystems whose security is based on the difficulty of solving an NP-hard problem. It's not known even in theory whether P != NP implies that one-way functions exist: for example, it might be that all NP problems are easy on average, or that there are problems that are hard on average but that you can't sample the problems and their solution at the same time.

(And this is even with the simplification that polytime = practical and not-polytime = infeasible.)
Toyota has plug in hybrids from which I am guessing they would remove the ICE when they feel necessary. The rest of Japanese automakers might not make it. You have to understand that America has practically banned Chinese cars from entering the market and ICE is still big going forward in America.
The fanboys (bots?) come crawling out of the woodwork whenever someone posts non-positive stories related to the first buddy of the United States.
Texas county approves holding election to make SpaceX's Starbase its own city
It took me some time to understand you meant it came from memetic
> You do not object to premise, only to granularity of defining environment geographically.

Correct. I just picked those two because of stark differences of two well known areas close to each other. But it can go down to even neighborhood, or even street in said neighborhood.

Sorry if my rambling seems confusing. I'm not against the idea that environment affects children. I'm against broad brush stroke categorization about how different countries behave.
Plenty of ways to keep my immune system updated providing myself scratches and cuts while mountain biking / trail running, let alone eating snacks while on the trail with my hands absolutely not clean, or by simply breathing in a forest.

But ingesting the black residue from exposure to diesel smoke while in transport is not for me, thanks. Feel free to train your immune system to dispatch tar.
Could you expend on the parrallel you see with Sony ?

I was under the impression it mostly failed because of how bad it was at software, and the strategy tax hitting them heavily as their ecosystem was penalized by that weakness, so I'd be glad to hear a different take.
Cellular automata in general can exhibit chaos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30
All Tesla's global sales cars are due for replacement, and none are in the offing. Tesla are circling the drain, fast, and are very unlikely to be around in their current form in 5-10 years time - the replacement product they'd need to survive takes too long to develop and should have already started, but hasn't. Best case for them IMHO is that someone spots a key asset they own (IMHO most likely the supercharger network) and buys them for that, but the stock price is currently wildly overinflated which prevents it. One day, that bubble will burst.

TBH if I were on Tesla's board I'd be pushing for a stock-funded takeover of a company that has an actual plan and ability to deliver it. Merge with (say) Stellantis and they'd have a survival plan.
> the nature of the world is eat or be eaten

The nature of the world is at our finger tips, we are the dominant species here. Unfortunately we are still apes.

The enforcement of cooperation into a society does not always require a sanctioning body. Seeing it from a skynet-military perspective is one sided but unfortunately a consequence of poppers tolerance paradox. If you uphold (eg. pacifistic or tolerant) ideals, that require cooperation of others, you cannot tolerate opposition or you might loose your ideal.

That said, common sense can be a tool to achive the same. Just look at the common and hopefully continuous ostracism of nuclear weapons.

IMO its a matter of zeitgeist and education too and un/fortunately, AI hits right in that spot.
> if you had to use the legal system to merely get what you were owed, it was a net negative economically, right?

It depends how you anchor things. If you anchor to the amount you expected to recover assuming a hypothetical alternate reality where the landlord returns the amount of bond money you are lawfully owed, then it may feel as a net negative.

If you reframe the situation conditioned on observing the realised reality -- featuring a landlord who is not behaving as they are "ought" to, but are actually deducting BS charges, a more useful anchor would be to compare against the benchmark of "how much could you reasonably expect to recover, given the actual reality we're observed to be in, by the next best alternative to using the legal system".

One simple alternative to the legal system is to do nothing and let it go, resulting in recovery of 0% of the disputed value. Another alternative could be engaging a collection agency, who might be willing to buy the debt at a significant mark down from face value, in exchange for accepting the risk that they may not be able to collect. Yet another alternative could be a DIY approach where you get a bunch of mates with baseball bats to advocate on your behalf.

Recovering 20% of a debt net legal expenses through the legal system is a huge improvement over recovering 0% of a debt if the alternative is doing nothing and accepting 0% recovery.
New DOGE site update breaks down government jobs by salary/age/headcount
Yes. You are absolutely responsible for killing animals if you eat meat.
> The word "young" doesn't even appear in the article, so not sure what you're talking about.

The title of the post we're both commenting on, which reads: "Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids". I was assuming that the title was oddly editorialized, but it's also not that uncommon for articles to change their titles too so it's possible that posting guidelines were followed and it was the article itself that specified "young parents" at some point. Considering the age of the article though, I kind of doubt it.
His argument is of the form "if we get a Thing(s) with these properties you most likely get these outcomes for these reasons". He avoids over and over again making specific timeline claims or stating how likely an extrapolation of current systems could become a Thing with those proporties.

Each individual bit of the puzzle (such as the orthogonaly thesis or human value complexity and category decoherence at high power) seems sound, problem is the entire argument-counterargument tree is hundreds of thousands of words, scattered about in many places.
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> kids are being raised like pets or fun game partners

Does that mean they are neglected or that they are spoon fed everything?
Tesla will however happily hold a press conference and use that data to imply you weren’t paying attention in a fatal accident, as happened a few years ago. Tesla: “our vehicle telemetry indicates the driver wasn’t paying attention, and in fact the vehicle had warned him of this”.

Reality: the driver had tripped -one- intention warning, and that was -eighteen minutes- before the crash. That part only came out after the NHTSA got involved, though…
I think this was the clickbaity intention behind the title
You can drill down by clicking on an agency grouping at the bottom of the page. There's also a breakdown (without the ability to drill down) of regulations vs laws by year. https://doge.gov/regulations
There are huge variations within a country, but they are far smaller than variations between countries.

It seems to be to be a common failing in the west to underestimate just how big differences are between themselves and other cultures. The two cultures I have lived in, despite being Britain and one of its former colonies (and therefore partially anglophone, similar political system, lots of other influences) are quite substation, and noticeable even in the (heavily westernised) circles I socialise in there. The differences would be even bigger if you compare to an East Asian culture like Japan.

Things that are regarded as fundamental concepts, or universal values are often not share (some values are pretty much human, some are not).
I understand what you mean-- I was just curious about why we could not just stick with gram-meter-second (since we have a bunch of "poorly proportioned" derived units anyway)...
And when you are a bi-lingual family, you can bring that to the Nth power :)
Same.

Since Claude 3.5 Sonnet has been released I've been building a lot of "microservices" that are just useful to me, or Chrome Extensions that I've seen that I just recreated using Cursor. Awesome learning experience and now I can customize them as needed.
It is easier to claim "everything functions better then before" if you destroyed data about how to worked before and have under control what is said about now.
For Windows only.
When Does an API Become a DSL?
Not really sure what to say to this. It's a screenshot (from the tech-bro-in-chief no less) of a ChatGPT response, no prompt included. We are discussing a current event.

As an attempt at a response, the UK is not party to the "EU AI Act" or the "DMA/DSA", we left before they were passed as law in the EU. The UK has its own "Digital Markets Act", but it is not an EU regulation. The GDPR is an inherited EU regulation.

The AI summit was French led, to get a global consensus on what sort of AI protections should be in place it looks like. The declaration was specific to this summit.

So, nothing to do with the EU, not a regulation.
Once upon a time, when people in the tech circle mentioned DS, what came to mind was a lively “little dolphin” - Apache DolphinScheduler (abbreviated as DS). This distributed task scheduling system, born in 2019, was once the “dream job” for big data engineers with its visual DAG interface, multi-tenancy support, and deep integration with the Hadoop/Spark ecosystem. However, the wheels of fate began to spin rapidly in early 2025: Hangzhou AI company DeepSeek (Deep Quest) burst onto the scene with its inference model R1 and open-source large model V3, touting “low cost and high performance.” Not only did it sweep the capital market, but it also redefined the acronym “DS” overnight - from now on, “DS” was no longer a scheduling tool but the “new darling” of the AI circle.
It's a bad design for that anyway. It should show me info about what I'm signing on a little display. That would also make it easier to see it needs a touch.

But yeah like someone said below, many actions like github pull would need it. I just want something that makes it easier to see it's waiting for me.
> How exactly is it satirical?

Without wishing to cause offence..... Americans are rather well known for an inability to spot the satire and sarcasm that pervades our conversation here in Blighty.
I am most excited about the new tool flag so I can get rid of ugly tools.go.
I'd have to find a copy to see if it cites its source but paraphrased I've heard it:

> People mechanically can have kids, physically, before they're mentally able to take care of them. The [village] elders would raise and teach the children while the adolescents worked at things adolescents do better than elders

So "it takes a village" used to be literal, and as we in this part of the west started to isolate and nuclear family the whole idea that the elders should have plurality input to the neuroplasticity kinda went wayside.

I spent a lot of time with my grandparents. They all died when I was young but my sister was younger yet. I moved all our kids to be within 15 minutes of their living grandparents. They werent teens when we got here. My youngest spends 3/7th of their time at grandma's house.

I'll let you know how all this works in like 30 years.

I think a large, maybe even the main part of why community of family and close friends raising children together works: humans are uniquely motivated by shame and pride, and having that many eyes on you leads to quick corrections before bad habits take root.

There's arguments about in groups and globalization and if it's better to amalgamate and if so, community based child raising has gotta go. Please do not ask me to spell this out as I won't be.
Your comment is misinformed, you are unfamiliar with the UK context here, but even if your comment would be correct, 200/6 = 33 EUR that would most definitely plug that black hole, however that is not what the comment is about, please look at the actual context before commenting.
> Instead, cryptography needs problems that are hard in the average case, like the RSA problem, the discrete logarithm for elliptic curves, and the shortest vector problem for lattices. We don’t technically know whether these are NP-complete

But we do know that the shortest vector problem is NP-hard (in Linf norm), and so is its decision version [1]. We don't have a reduction in the other direction, but we know that SVP is as-hard-as-NP-complete-or-harder.

This goes against the general argument of the article, but only weakly so, because I think lattice-based systems are less broadly deployed than elliptic curves or factoring (not a crypto person, though).

[1] H. Bennett, "The Complexity of the Shortest Vector Problem.", 2022 https://simons.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/docs/21271/s...
It looks like you're rejecting every concept of averages, or probabilities, or statistics, or generalization because you feel slighted by the resulting comparison.

When considering the US as a whole then Loudoun county will get the appropriate weight in the resulting number. If you zoom out to see the map of the world and no longer see your street, it doesn't mean the map is wrong. It's perfect for the purpose of visualizing the world.

I'll bet you're fine with "the US people are richer than the Burundi" or "Dutch people are taller than US people". These also don't tell you anything about the short Dutch people or ultra-poor in the US. But you accept them because you don't feel slighted by them.

Or else you reject the premise because you zoomed in on a place which is not right on that average so the whole concept gets thrown out the window.
The government share of GDP is a silly thing to care about.

The important questions are:

1. What services do voters want (enough to pay for)

2. How can we meet that need at the lowest cost

The first has a broad range of valid answers, the second is something that everyone ignored until DOGE
"Poor" isn't needed here. If the kid has siblings, or the family has an "opportunistic" dog, or the kid has spent time in a daycare where treats are sometimes grabbed, or ...

Or the kid is getting bored by the stupid researcher and her stupid test, and is trying to get it over with as fast as he can.