skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This game seems like it shouldn't work playing one-off games with no money on the line. How do you win in that context - by ending up with the most money at the end of the game? That would change the gameplay very significantly - a strategy that has you end with $1000 one time in three and 0 the rest should be favoured over one where you end up with $300 every time.

Poker solves this with poker tournaments: everyone starts with say $10,000 in play money and plays until one player wins it all. Backgammon solves it with match play: two players play first to say 7 points. In both cases, additional complexity is introduced to the game as optimal strategy changes depending on the size of the bets relative to the players' stacks or the number of points remaining.

Backgammon is just about playable as a one-off without a cube, though not by serious players. A single hand of poker without wagering makes no sense at all. Figgie seems closer to poker than backgammon, based on my reading. But it's being presented as a game to play one-off with bots or strangers. What am I missing?
Hah, maybe Ted Ts'o is a savvier political operator than I took him for. Invoking a seemingly innocuous (to the mainstream) phrase with heavy undercurrents (to a minority) just to trigger their ire and making them seem unreasonable to any outsider is a great strategy if you have as yet been unsuccessful refuting the central arguments for Rust in the kernel on technical grounds.
lol ;).

But seriously, in 13 years living here, only one guy tried to pick pocket me.
But "those circles" is not "the entire Linux community", and it's unreasonable to expect the entire community to keep up with a small circle's latest slurs.

For most of the US for most of history, "the thin blue line" has been an unequivocally positive phrase describing people who stand up for what's right and protect against chaos. Whether we should have seen it that way is irrelevant to the question of whether we can reasonably expect an average Linux kernel maintainer to both be aware that some people take offense at it and adjust their language accordingly.

This kind of language policing is inherently discriminatory against older people who spent their early lives immersed in mythology surrounding police and haven't been exposed to the cultural shift, not to mention against people who live outside the US, were exposed to US media, but can't be bothered to keep track of US politics.
>Why do I keep banging on about this? Because we’ve reached an especially toxic phase in the history of AI ... We’re in the “pump” phase of an industry-wide pump-and-dump.

That kind of assumes AI is bad, being hyped and it will all crash, however AI performance is not constant - as many commenters here have noted the article example from a year ago works ok now, and in the following years AI will keep improving.
Weight sharing is the inverse of MoE
Only if you let it. None of that is your problem - just consume the task queue.

Unless of course you're in a leadership role, in which case it's going to be priority #1,000 in 99.9% of cases.
So? The problem with the police using it for its historic meaning is that they are ostensibly not a military force but they act like one; using the phrase makes it almost explicit. Why is it bad if these open source maintainers use it, presuming they meant this “hold the battle line” meaning?
I just wanted to try whether the chaptcha was for US people as well, all in all I just wanted to see how easy (or not easy) it would have been to do so.

Honestly, I was more curious than other things. Unfortunately, I do not believe that people could actually make a dent on doge even if things like what I were talking about were adopted by the large public

Aside from raising public awareness on the topic, I would have done nothing else. But, well, it's not feasible so I just abandoned it whole

As weird as it might seem, I never sent any data to doge, it was all done locally
This is just fluff. I can read about something and understand it. I don't need have died in a car crash to know I most certainly don't want to be in one. Until we do actually know how intelligence emerges in the brain it makes zero sense to compare any AI to it.
This is a nice post; a few comments:

* TeX's boxes-and-glue-and-penalties model is remarkably simple and flexible, as the author says. I've long been planning to write a post about this; the Knuth–Plass paper has some beautiful examples of how much you can cleverly achieve with such simple primitives. Really a model of elegance.

* This simplicity allows some ingenious solutions. With TeX (especially LuaTeX) one can do things that require knowledge of where on what page a paragraph is on: see for example this "demo" of mine: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/403353 — of course one is fighting the system to some extent, but it is possible.

* Of the three “Challenges” it discusses, the first two “Varying container width” and “Side-floating elements” are both examples of things that are possible in TeX with caveats (parshape and wrapfig), but currently not possible in Typst — would be nice to see those limitations removed in Typst in a clean way.

* In the TeX world, note that there is Martin Ruckert's ongoing HINT project, which moves some of the TeX layout to the client (custom viewer), and thus supports arbitrarily varying widths (really cool to read a hint "book" on a phone): https://hint.userweb.mwn.de/#:~:text=TEX-,HINT,-%2C%20follow... (demo videos here: https://hint.userweb.mwn.de/hint/video/ and articles in TUGboat: https://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/listauthor.html#Ruckert,Mar... )

On the whole, happy to see this post and that more attention is getting paid to text layout.
From my experience, there are tons of interesting places in my country that hardly get talked about online outside of my native language. You won’t really find them on the SEO-boosted travel blogs that google likes to return either. I feel like this is where AI could actually be useful.
Not NVIDIA; fly.io reimplemented the parts that CH didn't already have. I know that CH is developed on GitHub but I don't know whether the changes are public or in-house.

That said, the slowness of QEMU's startup is always exaggerated. Whatever they did with CH they could have done with QEMU.
I can’t think enough how amazing it is: so much time invested in a 20 years old console without any money reward!

PSP was so great that just seeing the screenshot of the WiFi networks trigger in me a nostalgic tear :’)
I think this if taken too far sounds a lot like work.

One of my favorite trips involved planning as far as a train trip and booking a hostel. But beyond that my group basically blew off every plan we had and hung around the hostel because they had a really nice free pool table and really good cheap food and booze.

That is probably one of my top three trips of my life. I find my memories compressed because it was basically 5 days of Groundhog Day but it was a great time.

Making a daily log sounds miserable to me but then again I strongly dislike journaling.

Then again the phenomenon you bring up might contribute to what people love about Disney World so much. You have to do a lot of planning to get a lot out of it, and therefore you remember everything you did clearly because so much time was spent planning. I think I could tell you every restaurant I went to on my last trip since I had to fight for reservations and I was setting each day’s plan months ahead of time.
You're reading the wrong non-fiction books then. Find books that are closer to academia than whatever you find in the non-fiction shelf of an airport bookstore.
Ask HN: How do non-developers use AI when building software?
As a developer there are mature tools such as Github Co-pilot and Cursor. I wonder though, which tools do you use as a designer, project manager, analyst, ...?
Interesting! No surprise, I hated ROWER too.

I don't know why, but words with an agentic suffix just seem.... Cheaper to me. It's like I want Wordle to be better than that so I don't guess them. Maybe it's the same for others.
We have forgotten so much, and we're going to suffer incredibly for it.

https://archive.is/g6ElI

https://graphics.social/@metin/113865450624948092
It probably also depends on whether you trust the AI. I don't, at all. So, I'm often critically thinking about whatever nonsense it spews out.
I guess next time I should ask my personal assistant to arrange it all for me.
Optimistic of you to assume those who are setting up a regime of unchecked power will simply give it up in 4 years.
The solution for our real 3d-space looks probably a lot different: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/246914/sofa-in-a-snaky-3d...
When I had a DS Lite when I was younger, it was annoying to me that I couldn't connect to the Wi-Fi at home. (IIRC) It only had WEP, instead of WPA(2?).
Some more details: https://cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2025/02/geoparquet-2.0-going...
They saw how much Apple was making from their customers.
I live in 36 since 15 years or so. Wasn't as lucky as you :)
> Has your mind ever held a system so complex, it wouldn't fit in two million tokens? My hasn't.

This is one of those things which superficially seems like a slam-dunk gotcha, but isn't.

Yes, correct, I can't do that.

Unfortunately, my experience with LLMs is that they can't really pay attention to all the things in the context window either.

Even a mere 5,613 tokens[0] had it getting confused.

If any AI could really do two million tokens with perfect recall of the problem, that would indeed be wildly super-human. Even just having a 6k tokens worth of custom instructions that are applied consistently to an ongoing data stream — which I bet could be done with the right scaffolding on the API of better models, even if not a naïve use of chat UIs — is superhuman. That kind of ongoing focus and persistence would still be superhuman even when the quality of the result is "ok, not great, just ok", owing to how "human doing same thing for 4 hours" is much worse than "freshly rested human begins work for the day".

I don't know where the boundary really is, though, where it becomes superhuman on any axis[1]. The failure mode I'm describing here reminds me of art lessons towards the end of my time at school, where the teacher had to remind people that accurate still-life studies required you to keep looking again and again at the material, not just once when you started and then filling in the details entirely from your imagination.

[0] I tried using it to translate this Wikipedia page to English, and it was hallucinating plausible but false things by the time it got to the timeline: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Döberitzer_Heide

Here's the chat link, even repeated prompting didn't work for the timeline: https://chatgpt.com/share/67b08f40-2cb8-8011-acd8-fc5b9d6fa8...

Tried it again while writing this to see if current models are any better, this time the same prompt when to the canvas editor, it didn't complete the translation, when I replied "continue" it replaced the attempted first half with a non-translated German wikipedia article that was essentially unrelated: https://chatgpt.com/canvas/shared/67b091d021088191bd9e0ca7c3...

[1] and there are many different aspects of intelligence.

Consider the converse: if it was a fundamental requirement of the nature of intelligence that all aspects of human intelligence correlate well with each other, then chess AI could only have beat world champions like Kasparov in the same year that Go AI beat those like Lee Sedol.
But… isn’t the AI going to parrot those travel blogs?
Hey, do you like reproducible builds? I'm doing some more patches this year...
especially the core packages are getting in good shape now. The others have 1-2% packages with issues left.
You read something and understand it only if you have had analogous experiences. A person from the 16th century would not be able to understand what the words "Call me on FaceTime" means because they have never had an experience of using a smartphone.

You certainly don't know what it means to die. But you know what "car" is and "crash" is because you have had (and maybe witnessed) analogous physical experiences.
It probably wouldn't be bad (or at least as bad) if they used the original which isn't tied to the politics of policing. The “thin red line” inspired the “thin blue line”, but they are distinct sayings with different denotation and connotation.
i’m surprised they published this with how much they are invested in ai…
Wow, that’s sad about Max Chiswick.

I was reading about him and his peculiar approach to eating only a couple of months ago.

May his work on poker live on.
I was doing the same around that time :) but if we are talking second half of '00s as the GP was implying, then it's Mandriva.
> False dichotomy. There's no reason we can't have both.

I'd kinda want to argue with that - it is true, but we don't live in vacuum. Most programmers (me included, don't worry) aren't that skilled, and after work not everyone will want to study more. This is something that could be resolved by changing cultural focus, but like other things involving people, it's easier to change the system/procedures than habits.
I feel like with sleep mode on the DS, PSP and later handhelds that became mostly moot anyways. There are still great OG Game Boy games I probably wouldn't want to play in the grocery store line (e.g., Link's Awakening) but with sleep mode it doesn't really matter. You just stop whenever, pick up whenever. Arguably the PSP suffered from not going all in on console style gaming with just a single analog stick. SO many games on there suffered from that.

The PSP was definitely more complicated, and perhaps more fragile but it felt incredibly futuristic in early 2005. Graphics basically as good as my home PS2, you could watch really high quality movies, music on the go, browse the web.
AI can program, but not engineer. Even then, you eventually reach a point in the project where it is too complex for AI to even do snippets; especially if you are pioneering something new that has never been done before.

A sprinter is unlikely to win a marathon, and that is what using AI to program is like. By the time you have to take over, you have a huge learning curve ahead of you as you can lean on the AI less and less.

If you're doing something boring/boiler-plate, yeah, AI is helpful I guess.
increasingly small is right. i'm definitely part of that former group but sadly more and more these days i just feel dumb for being this way. it usually just means that i'm less productive than my colleagues in practice as i'm spending time figuring out how things work while everybody else is pushing commits. maybe if we were put in a hypothetical locked room with no internet access i'd have a slightly easier time than them but that's not helpful to anybody.

once upon a time i could have said that it's better this way and that everybody will be thankful when i'm the only person who can fix something, but at this point that isn't really true when anybody can just get an LLM to walk them through it if they need to understand what's going on under the hood. really i'm just a nerd and i need to understand if i want to sleep at night lol.
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If a study comes out which demonstrates to high confidence that some extremely horrible outcome is certain with this technology, would any changes be made? Would we tell OpenAI to close shop? I don't think, with the way our society and politics is set up, we would be able to deal with this. There's too much money, ego, and general inertia at play to change course.
This is sad and a little depressing
Knowing which direction you are facing is an obsolete skill?

I don’t think you’ve been paying attention.

You’ve been watching too many Ted talks or something
Sam Altman: How I use AI in my own everyday life–it's great for 'boring' tasks
Tuning Postgres for Analytics [video]
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
This is the only reason people are on LunkedIn. It's terrible, but somehow successful for finding work.
Show HN: I Built a Reddit-style Bluesky client – still rough, but open to ideas
I’ve been messing around with Bluesky for a while, and one thing I really missed was a proper way to browse discussions in a structured, Reddit-like way specially myself being daily reddit user. So, I ended up building a Reddit-like client for Bluesky that scratches that itch: Threadsky.app

It pulls in trending topics, lets you explore conversations with a threaded view (so no more getting lost in replies), and even allows users to create channels with customizations, basically, like subreddits but on Bluesky.

That said, this is still pretty barebones, and there’s a lot to improve. I really need feedback from actual users to shape where this goes next. Some planned features include markdown support, longer posts, and better mod tools for communities.

For privacy-conscious folks: Only details about channel customizations are stored on our servers. Everything else remains securely stored on your own PDS (Personal Data Server), just like the rest of Bluesky.

Also, I’m planning to open-source the project once I’ve polished things up a bit more.

Would love to hear your thoughts on what’s missing and what would make this actually useful?
If it’s not talked about much, it won’t be in the training dataset much
Why? It wouldn’t surprise me at all if critical thinking is overapplied in most roles or poorly executed.

There are many use cases where people not following a process and thinking they know better is an issue.
bookshop.org is basically a website for ingram distribution, the primary distribution company for indies. all the bookselling members get a commission for all sales on the platform, so it is very beneficial to the participating bookstores. bookshop.org exists separately from a lot of stores ecommerce website, though the bigger stores don't always participate in bookshop because they fear it will take away from their ecommerce sales. it's more aimed towards smaller stores who can't afford the time or money for a good ecommerce store, but also, i'm assuming trying to compete with amazon seo which would ultimately support indies since they split commissions from all the sales.

> While independent bookstores may benefit from an increased online presence in the short term, I'm left asking the question: what is preventing Bookshop.org from capturing their customers, decreasing commissions, and even blocking those links to the store's actual independent online presence in the medium to long term?

trust. it was started by somebody whose career demonstrated they are committed to supporting indies and literature. if you've been around booksellers, then you know how important this trust is. the booksellers are also very loud and opinionated so the company will know if they are making wrong decisions. the stores feel like they have somewhat of an ownership to bookshop (though not legally).

you might say, "well trust can be broken" and you're right but we're talking about a niche industry with a limited market size, and no potential for world domination/incentive to break the trust. i know it's crazy but some folks still do business like that. the platform's success depends on the relationship with the booksellers, so what happens when they break that trust?

before this, indies didn't have much helping them online except custom ecommerce stores that some stores can't afford and are generally not good software imo. bookshop.org is hardly competing with amazon here. there is no huge market capture they're after. they're just trying to help bookstores stay alive and compete.

source, i made ecommerce software for independent bookstores: https://bookhead.net

(edits for pre-coffee typos)
Last time I used ChatGPT to plan my trip it was a disaster. There’s something about the overly optimistic attitude that paints everything and everywhere as great, when the fact is, as a traveler, a lot of places are absolutely garbage or just too bizarre for words.

On ChatGPT’s advice, I ended up checked into a hotel on the grounds of a United Methodist Encampment, complete with check in/out stations manned by angry boomers. Really didn’t see that one coming!
My take on Cursor AI after using it at least 5 times a day
> Nope, the Bindel incident was in 2019. Here (God help me) is GB news saying the same thing: https://www.gbnews.com/news/feminist-writer-julie-bindel-tra... There's also a Times article behind a paywall that I think confirms it.

Fair enough, appreciate the clarification.

> The Pearson incident happened more recently but had nothing to do with trans issues

It's still what can be described as thought policing. As I keep saying this is part of a trend in your country. How many incidents would it take for you to concede that? These types of examples you are working to dismiss are flat out not happening in other western countries.

> The Police just logged someone's report of one of his tweets under a specifically non-criminal category. They're required to do this because someone reported the tweet and they have to keep a record of that.

That's still very much a problem. Now we have thought cataloging for use against people later on. His tweet was logged as a 'hate incident' - that's not nothing.

> The freespeechunion article similarly seems to be about cases where the police have correctly recorded someone's complaint and then correctly done nothing about it

They are logging incidents as 'hate incidents', again, that's not nothing.

And the fact the the police are involved at all and showing up to talk to people who shared their thoughts is the problem here. The fact that no action was taking is basically completely irrelevant to the problem of people being intimidated by cops for sharing thoughts, and yes, cops showing up is enough to count as intimidation.

"In Warwickshire, a suspect was recorded by the force for refusing to shake a person’s hand,"

That should be completely unacceptable and you should agree that that alone is Orwellian or uncomfortably close to it.

And it's not like there are not still more incidents. Gender critical feminists moved to their own platforms but still report such issues - not every issue gets a newspaper story (and I see a lot of these posts which is why I've said there were at least 20 incidents), but given 13,200 incidents were logged in the year from June 2023 to June 2024 and 25% of those were wrongly recorded, that seems like a lot of unnecessary intimidation and intrusion.
Not perfect, but Kagi is quite Google in this regard.
Korean High School Lunch Trays
The critical thinking part of me loves seeing takes like this, which immediately rev it up and get it to wonder whether its immediate reaction is really correct. Thank you.
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I think it's pretty obvious that historical accuracy is not the motivation for this change.
It seems many of them, at least, will be DRM'd. The big question IMO is what DRM they will use, as some is pretty easy to strip using Calibre whereas other DRM is more difficult or perhaps even (currently) impossible.
Bookfinder is owned by Amazon.
Show HN: Synergetica – A Modern, End-to-End Genetic Circuit Design Desktop App
We’ve built Synergetica, an open-source desktop app for end-to-end genetic circuit design. It supports node-based or code-based editing, interactive simulations, and automated DNA sequence generation.

You can find the repo and docs here:

- GitHub: https://github.com/khokao/synergetica

- Docs: https://khokao.github.io/synergetica/
> It’s the same old story. New tool comes along, people freak out about what we’re “losing.” But they’re missing the point. It’s never about losing skills, it’s about shifting them. And usually, the shift is upwards.

Except for that widespread feeling of hopelessness, alienation, powerlessness, lack of motivation, and lack of ambition. Almost as if not learning any human skills, and relying solely on technology for everything might have some second-order effects.