skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Meta Prepares for Layoffs on Monday

Is surveillance capitalism not profitable anymore? Or are data brokers no more interested how one sleeps or what he eats ?
No. That would give the president the power of a king, something the founding fathers tried hard not to do.
Lane here, I wa so excited that I got to record with Ben, his and Shiva's 2020ish videos hit me soooo hard when they dropped. I think Krazam is pretty popular around here so figured I'd share.
Hello HackerNews!

After winning the lowrezjam last year for an open-source beat'em up game I created in a week, I received quite a few requests to create a tutorial to help others build similar games. What started off as a small tutorial in November became a two-months intensive labor to stitch together a full cohesive 10-hour course spread over 20 episodes of 30 mins each. I released the entire series on youtube this weekend, hoping it would be helpful to any beginner / intermediate wanting to learn Godot or better understand how these games were made in the past.

Episode 1/20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5i42mZTO4M

Play-test the game (the jam entry was made in Unity): https://gadgaming.itch.io/baba-yaga

Cheers!
I think that strongly underestimates the impact LLMs, especially reasoning models, have on how code is written today.
Software engineering does not help Instagram posts, but does help hacking video games, for example.
It may be possible to come up with something like an analog version of Markov chains. As you turn a crank words keep sounding out based on probability.
I don't think you understand how much contracting and paperwork goes into any kind of government purchase.

I've flirted with government contracts before, and I've worked with large information-as-a-service providers before. So I understand the value of niche information providers. I'm not a policy guy, so I don't know what kind of information a policy-heavy government group needs, but it sounds like a completely plausible service to me.

Given the Occam's Razor between "government bureaucracy-levels of contracting and oversight required to do any purchase still resulted in a corrupt money-handoff" and "Elon's got a tendancy towards theatrics and smearing the political opposition, so he's using this to tickle people's amygdala and move on before people look too closely at it", I'm going with the latter.

Prove to me that the niche job functions of the people who purchased this didn't actually require any of this information using the mounds of contracting paperwork that surely exist, or just admit that proving it was never the point and it was all about outrage theatrics before people bothered to do the actual work of looking into this.
It is not theft in the property sense, but it is theft of labor.

If a company interviewed me, had me solve a problem, didn't hire me or pay me in any way and then used the code I wrote in their production software, that would be theft.

That is the equivalent of what authors claiming they wrote AI books are doing. That they've fooled themselves into thinking the computer "wrote" the book, erasing all the humans whose labor they've appropriated, in my opinion makes it worse, not better. They are lying to the reader and themselves, and both are bad.
Thank you! Glad to hear it. Hope you enjoy blogging.
That’s because you’ve been lied to.
“Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good” - how much of Rust’s success comes from the fact that it started from a C-like base?

Doing it differently might end up with a better result from a purist viewpoint, but I’d wager that adoption would have been far worse.
Well, there's this, which comes close:
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Art+and+Craft+of+Problem+Sol...

Most of the math competitions people are working on are high school math competitions - these have problems from a relatively small set of mathematics, so that high school students can reasonably know the appropriate background.
To add on, different yeasts also vary in their ability to metabolize carbohydrates. In general, a wine yeast will be less able to metabolize complicated carbohydrates than a beer yeast. Beer yeast tends to be more sensitive than wine to alcohol levels. More importantly, it's possible Rwanda lacks any serious brewer's yeast industry that is suitable. Kveik may be able to ferment at both 37C and up to 16% ABV but that's definitely an unusual trait in a yeast and I would not be surprised if they resulting wine was... funky.
I'd love to get a credible historical source saying that the conflict for that territory started around 1982 and before that there were just UK nationals casually settling there because... the weather was nice?

I'll be waiting here.
And to think that they do it because the sound of running water seems to irritate them. Maybe it's time we start hiring for irritability instead of passion. XD
I think you don't know much about beavers?

It's a bit tricky to get beavers to build dams where humans want them, but this story is about beavers that did exactly that. It doesn't scale, but it worked here. No irony needed.

Once built, a good dam is a good dam. Beavers don't build bad dams. They do, however, ravage the local forest.

But beavers are better dam maintainers than humans are. More reliable and less expensive.

I've lived in an area where beaver dams created the ponds on either side of a long road. If the dams failed, the (dirt) road could be washed out. In huge water events, the only dams that failed were the man-made ones. Even if they failed equally, the beaver dams would win for lower cost.
When I first saw this, I thought it was attempting to be its own engine, and thus subject to becoming a verb: no longer "just google it" but rather "just fuck it"

However, having thought about this further I now wonder what the range is of curse words that Google exempts from ad placement. The 7 words you can't say on TV? Or do the advertisers themselves choose the opt-out words?
Since Karabiner is Mac only: does the system setting to use the f keys as function keys not work for these keyboards: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-keyboard-functi...?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42968342
Pretty clear the answer is the hi-tech industry.
But can it also provide instructions to set the universal constants at the start so the universe evolves the desired result?
Interestingly, some research indicates around ¼ of coma patients may be conscious. Patients even held 2-way conversations using an fMRI scanner!

https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/comas-conscious-...
And we're about to see the next step of the fascist takeover plan:

Replace the judges who go against them.
I imagine many ~son names are Scandinavian imports. Scandinavian surnames, until quite recently, were formed from the (usually) paternal forename. Iceland still continues this tradition to this day, e.g. Björk Guðmundsdóttir (daughter of Guðmundur).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_name
!!!

glad it's useful!

and yeah, surprising how much better it makes the SERPs lol
Show HN: News Aggregator for the Netherlands
I developed this Dutch news aggregator out of my own necessity for local news in English. Hope someone else finds it useful.
I better buy some shares in them!
haha yw!

thanks for checking it out :)
Shamelessly Plugging my own videos on Linear Programs and Meta-heuristic Algorithms to solve Linear Assignment Problems.

The Linear Assignment Problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMJpCnocmGk

Simulated Annealing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21EDdFVMz8I

Genetic Algorithms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm4qGteDlZE

Ant Colony Optimization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm4qGteDlZE

Whenever I find some mythical free time I'd like to add a video about Constraint Satisfaction, but in the mean time here's my full lecture on CSP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5tPsbOvkmU

When we think about Explainable AI, we're looking for a "reason the AI made a decision". LLMs are using text prediction to make their decisions, but more traditional AIs use a different heuristic for their selection process. Many of these methodologies are still in use today and get the job done quite well. The "explanation" for these AIs is a (hopefully) intuitive method inspired by other natural phenomena that occurs in the world (like evolution, blacksmithing, literally how ants move).

If however you're looking for AI to explain the "why" element, I will admit that is where the traditional algorithms struggle, but I would add that LLMs aren't much more informative. Its reflection is going to be by guessing what the next right word to say is, which isn't any better or worse than the other models in terms of explainability.
How Your Thinking Changes at 60
No, you're not understanding. Amongst all people that are not having children there are two subsets - those that plan to never have children, and those that are unsure or plan to have children - just not right now. Those numbers Pew is publishing are only from the former. This is what I meant by saying that their headline is most aptly stated as, "[a very slight majority of] people who don't plan to ever have kids say they don't want to have kids."

This is essentially what p-hacking is. By organizing variables in a certain way, you can create statistically significant results to say basically whatever you want them to say. A huge tell-tale sign of p-hacking is constraining one's sample in ways that don't really make sense and/or are likely to be misleading. The thing we were discussing is 'why people aren't having kids.' This is very different than why 'people who don't plan to ever have kids aren't having kids.'
That’s great.

What does the infosec industry have to do with DOGE?
Sales GPT
What parts have you heard from them? I'm curious what they'd add or change to this article/this retelling
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Astronomers Discover Quipu, the Universe's Largest Structure
Yes, I value simplicity and the interactivity offered by basic HTML and CSS is sufficient for my use case :)
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well, there's one.
You could translate the units and then also translate separately the error bands (assuming +/- 100 km). But “2237 mi/hr +- 62 mph” sounds pretty silly.
> English is as algorithmic as math

Ain't no way!

This "illogical" double negative shows how English is not at all like algebra. English is not a set of formal rules - there is no formal authority on the language. The rules that exist are derived from how English is commonly used - descriptive rather than prescriptive. This is why dictionaries are constantly adding new (sometimes annoying) words, and the Chicago Manual of Style is on its 18th version. For example, I was taught that "they" could never describe a singular person, and one should assume "he", "she" or "the suspect". Not so anymore [1]. The language, its constructs, and implicit rules are always changing, regardless (and irregardless[2]) of how you criticize those that speak it.

[1] https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/help-tools/what-s-new.h...
[2] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/irreg...
How the quick high of 'fast-food gambling' ensnared young men
The SPARK Ada tools detect this as an error, but not the free Ada compiler.

This should have also been detected as an error by the normal Ada compiler, but I assume that this is avoided in order to enforce market segmentation.

Those who are not happy with the reduced error detection abilities of the free Ada GNAT compiler are expected to pay for SPARK.

I think that the main reason why the use of Ada has remained restricted is that even today having access to complete Ada development tools is expensive, even if the free GNAT tools are enough when you do not need the better error detection provided by the paid tools.
If I tap and hold the scrollbar on my iPhone and scroll around, I’m looking at a blank page the whole time because the virtual list is waiting for me to finish.
I agree with you that the courts job is to decide what our legitimate powers to be exercised. I do take exception with the statement that it is only in the last few days people have been pushing to remove judicial restraint. This has been a common refrain for many years now. Those that disagree with the court's decision criticize the court's for judicial overreach. This is regardless of political persuasion.

I have seen people from all political parties argue for the "benevolent dictator" setup. We have seen presidents prior to this one issue executive orders that they themselves believed were unconstitutional. We have also seen prior presidents and bureaucrats blatantly ignore the court's decisions. So this is not new it's More of an optics thing on what you support and what you do not support.
Here's a really interesting sort-of-blog about a trip across the Indian Ocean in 2002. Kerguellen Island is one of the stops. https://www.farvoyager.com/siov/
This is a good list of don'ts, but it would be more helpful to have a list of do's and some examples.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna's_Archive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pile_(dataset)
I listened to the accompanying podcast, it was so engrossing and the narrative was so compelling I binged the entire 8 episodes. It starts out with a bank in Kansas whose CEO had burned $47 million USD on a crypto scam. A woman, who by all estimations, was a smart, competent, self-directed adult was scammed out of $150K, not just her own money, but borrowed from her family, and took out a loan for $35K at a ruinous interest rate of 26%. There's a whole lawless world and physical cities operating these scams. When I hear the victims' account of how they were scammed, I was just beyond belief because their actions were so far out from the norm. They themselves acknowledge this when they recount their actions in hindsight.

Just like people who ask, how can you forget your baby/pet in the backseat of a car. It sounds outlandish but it happens, to all kinds of smart people. How can you give ten thousand dollars to someone on the internet, who you've chatted with but never met? And yet it happens and continues to happen. My takeaway of the comment elements for victims: loneliness (and neediness) and a tiny big of greed. This is not a condemnation, we are all greedy in some dimension. The scammers were successful because they presented a picture of readily available affluence, everyone is swimming in it, it seems so easy, why not me. Another vector of why social media is poison. I found this series fascinating!

Kansas banker sentenced to prison
https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/crime/2024/08/20/kansas-...

Shwe Kokko
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04nx1vnw17o

Thailand Cuts Electricity to Scam Sanctuaries Across Myanmar Border
https://thediplomat.com/2025/02/thailand-cuts-electricity-to...

What is a pig-butchering scam
https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-pig-butchering-scam/

HN threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41314542

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42971059

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778486
I am saying they are choosing to operate inside a failure mode, not that they are doing so accidentally.
Incredible how low usage is among lawyers. Does anyone have any intuition on why?
I am just asking if there is a way around it. I know CORS is in palce due to browser sending cookie and auth info by default with HTTP requests. other poster mentioned that fetch does have this behavior, but I have not seen if such requests will be blocked by CORS or not
could be a fun nsfw experiment haha
Yeah, exactly: I argue that a global backwards-only branch used to implement loops by checking all lanes for an "end" state is not actually a "real" branch.

It's a semantic argument, but IMHO an important one. Way, way too many users of GPUs don't understand how the code generation actually works, leading to articles like this one. Ambiguous use of terms like "branch" are the problem.
> 30C is pretty hot for room temperature.

Depends on the room. We take (for HW engineering tests) a value of 25°C +/- 5°K. Reflects the reality during summer with AC at max speed or with window open.
I'm really not going to keep arguing about this. I know how statistics work. The studies are clearly biased and make absurd conclusions, and I've listed about ten different problems with them - the foremost being that "ad blocker" is never defined anywhere.

The idea that the number of people using an ad blocker is equivalent to the number of people that drink coffee every morning, subscribe to Netflix, or have a pet makes no sense whatsoever, and if that were the case, you'd see vastly more discussion and general awareness of the concept.
Do you know any nice copilots working in the terminal?

"remembering exact commands" (vide https://xkcd.com/1168/) and "getting context for a given instruction" are precisely things at which LLMs excel.
I don't think the constant news cycles covering each and every dime that USAID misused is indicative of a lack of transparency. I think given just a little more time, DOGE could uncover (and reveal to the American people) a lot more than 50 billion of waste and corruption.

As for the oversight requirement, it is fully and completely satisfied by:
1.) A guy who has the technical acumen, drive, and attention to detail to catch a rocket out of mid air with chopsticks.
2.) A man who won a presidential election twice (and could possibly have been 3 times if the Hunter Biden laptop story wasn't corruptly and improperly squashed).

The largest proportion of the complaints from media outlets come from defunded operations. Its in everyone's fiscal best interest for these audits to continue, and for them to be completed by people completely outside of the government's patronage (grant and funding) networks.
K8s vs. DeepSeek: When Production Chaos Met AI Promises
The USPS isn't subsidized with money, but it has a lot of special treatment legally. Things like "the inside of your mailbox becomes federal property" and the office of the postmaster general come to mind.

Other than that, as you said, the USPS is supposed to earn enough to pay for itself, which means that mail in cities tends to subsidize rural services.
What point of “there is a lot of overlap” is difficult to understand? These people are often in many of the same channels because of how easy it is to stay involved through the likes of discord. Krebs didn’t have to go through much effort and neither did the links I posted.

764 also splintered from a nazi group 09V. Don’t downplay them.

Side note, you might want to reassess some of your views that have you pushing the same sort of propaganda that these groups do.
hmm - still feel autistic on psilocybin and other tryptamines but more aware (and it works like a reset switch), however I've never felt as normal (or more like the people around me) as I did that first summer I binged mdma - when I managed to stay awake that is...
First, distract target...
Be careful, "any" is a strong word in this context. Interestingly enough, I actually use PDF as the "hello world" for kicking the tires on any such file format descriptor I find because PDF is such a crazypants specification. Thus, if the descriptor language is able to accurately capture the layout of a PDF, it's obviously well thought out.

I haven't had a lot of luck thus far, except ones which allow escaping out of declarative mode over into "and then run this code"
Are this in Nixpkgs? I hope so!

I really want to get game developers using Nix. That is a large reason why I am working on the Windows port!
Very nicely done. I don’t do Apple development anymore but this is nice to know there is a good alternative to xcode.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/memo...

Also, why is your history all Musk'd?
I wrote a little paragraph explaining why I like Brave Search but accidentally closed the tab.

But, give it a try. It does have AI summaries (I find them quite helpful) but you can easily turn it off in settings if you don't like/want them.

https://search.brave.com/help/ai

Alternately, give the udm14 trick a try.

https://udm14.com/
The primary concern is usually over the masking you’re talking about, the issue being simply that you’re proportionally cutting down the number of threads doing useful work. Using Nvidia terminology, if only one thread in a warp is active during a branch, the GPU throughput is 32x slower than it could be with a full warp.

Not all GPU branches are compiled in a straight line without jumps, so branching on a GPU does sometimes share the same instruction cache churn that the CPU has. That might be less of a big deal than thread masking, but GPU stalls still take dozens of cycles. And GPUs waiting on memory loads, whether it’s to fill the icache or anything else, are up to 32x more costly than CPU stalls, since all threads in the warp stall.

Loops are just normal branches, if they’re not unrolled. The biggest question with a loop is will all threads repeat the same number of times, because if not, the threads that exit the loop have to wait until the last thread is done. You can imagine what that might do for perf if there’s a small number of long-tail threads.
> If I write a program, then obfuscate it and then release the obfuscated code under an open source license, would you consider it open source(I would)?

I wouldn't. Most definitions of open source say something like "in the form used for editing". You can release a built binary under an unrestrictive license, but that does not mean that you've opened the source. It's literally the plain meaning of the words: the source, as in where the thing comes from, needs to be open for it be meaningful.
> Once consolidation shrinks the number of players down to a handful or less, that's when competition and innovation are stifled.

Yeah, and ads is the main mechanism why. Ban ads of carbonated drinks, and pepsi/coca cola will become no different from any other manufacturer of that stuff. They do have economy of scale for their advantage, but I don’t think it will help them much. The price/weight ratio of their product is rather low, and technically pipes are way more efficient at moving water than semitrailers.

Without marketing, it would make economic sense to produce these drinks locally at smaller scale. An example of similar commodity (in terms of the price/weight ratio) unaffected by ads is concrete. Roughly speaking, there’re 100 coca cola bottling facilities in US, versus 2000 concrete plants.
Lawyers are selected for critical thinking skills and they aren't vulnerable to AI hype the way relatively poorly educated computer guys are.
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"people in the ziggurats exert control on people"
I only use LLMs to resolve trivial disputes about pedestrian scientific concepts. I haven’t stopped using search engines, I just stop hoping they’ll produce convenient answers in certain contexts - like the aforementioned quick resolution dispute about topics in which both my interlocutor and I are amateurs. But when I’m doing serious work I know I can’t trust an LLM so I don’t use them for anything truly meaningful
Likewise there are several patronymic surnames from the Welsh “ap <father’s name> (son of) that have ended up as new surnames retained the “ap” in several cases, mainly in reduced form at the start of the surname, as in Upjohn (from ap John), Powell (from ap Hywel), Price (from ap Rhys), Pritchard (from ap Richard), and Bowen (from ab Owen).
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Because LLMs make things up and the lawyer is liable for using that made up information.