skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is that same exchange with paid Kagi Assistant using Claude 3.5 Haiku:

Me: Who is Trump's paternal grandpa?

Based on the available information, Frederick Trump is Donald Trump's paternal grandfather. Here are some key details about him:

Born as Friedrich Trump on March 14, 1869, in Kallstadt, Germany (then part of the Kingdom of Bavaria).

He immigrated to the United States in 1885.

He was a German-American businessman who amassed considerable wealth during the Klondike Gold Rush by running a restaurant and brothel for miners.

In 1901, he returned to Kallstadt and married Elizabeth Christ the following year.

He is considered the patriarch of the Trump family.

He passed away on May 30, 1918.

Interestingly, the Trump last name has been recorded in Kallstadt since the 18th century, and Frederick Trump is credited with being the founder of the family's initial fortune.

Me: Who is Trump's maternal grandpa?

Based on the provided information, Malcolm MacLeod (also spelled Calum MacLeod) is Donald Trump's maternal grandfather. He was born on December 27, 1866, in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland

While the information provided is limited, it confirms his identity and place of birth. Unfortunately, the passage does not provide additional details about his life or occupation.

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That looks pretty good to me. Of course Kagi's strategy seems to be to retrieve search results first and then bias the LLM with those results. The LLM then parses, distills, and contextualizes the answer in a succinct and easily-consumable manner. In my opinion this is The Way to go about doing it at the moment.
It just litters perfectly reasonable python code with async/await. Maybe they are preparing for something we don't know, like a parallel async executor which can be set up to use native threads without changing code and somehow protects you if it detects shared state.
SA is still around.
Ah, but does relativity count as classical physics?
Yup, B-all.

He hit all the goals so I know the relapse chances are vanishingly small.

Doesn’t change my anxiety though.
Not really, but there's a long history of media that puts police on a pedestal in a fight against darkness.

The more cynical would call it propaganda, but I think there's more to it than that: it dates back to old westerns and draws from a rich history of hero literature. The police became a subject of that pre-existing tradition.
As someone with absolutely no knowledge of speedrunning community norms, it’s very interesting to see how a practice that is fundamentally about exploiting generally unintended mechanisms within a system design still develops its own notion of ethics, legitimate and illegitimate exploits, etc. Not that different than something like the Astros technology-assisted sign-stealing scandal (as opposed to legitimate sign-stealing) against the Dodgers in the ‘17 WS, at least from the perspective of needing to identify the lines between fair play and illegitimate advantage.

Edit: children have helped point out the precise notion of ethics - no exploit is unethical on its face, so long as it is disclosed, which allows the speedrun to be correctly classified and compared to others in its class.
I never understood why the fuck you would let a company dominate your content. Something like /r/buildapc is just Tom’s Hardware.

We didn’t realize we gave up being owners.
Sadly the old folks with power started out as gullible youngsters too, and the cycle shows no sign of stopping.
https://archive.ph/pbrkc
Both involve coming to other people’s system and making sense of them as an outsider.
What is really cool about this is that my attention span is kept after reading the summary.

Like the following video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JBkAKCJJuFQ

I am not getting emotionally invested to the point of losing the end focus of the speaker. Actually now I am looking forward to it.
also covered by Abyssoft in video format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_1su-dOUNw
Why are the Rust people so dramatic?
Never had a problem with the CSI plugin, I had problems with the Ceph cluster itself. No, I wouldn't call Ceph part of Kubernetes.

You definitely can run Kubernetes without running Ceph or any storage system, and you already rely on a distributed storage system if you use the cloud whether you use Kubernetes or not. So I wouldn't count this as added complexity from Kubernetes.
I agree, I've actually had to use the NHS before (broke my arm while in the UK) and it was fine. I've also extensively used the German health care system, and it likewise has it's fault but is, overall, fine.

Honestly, I wonder what people want or mean when they say a "health care system is amazing" -- I don't know if there is one that is such, and perhaps that's an antipattern if it is?
Isn't React mainly a project from Meta?
Color me surprised. But good on them!
The simple solution is to stop buying eBooks from Amazon. Pirate all of your epubs and PDFs so you will always have an offline backup.

If you enjoyed the book buy a hard copy for a friend, relative, book club, etc from a local book store. Amazon doesn't need your money anymore.
A list of "woke" mathematics grant proposals uncovered by Cruz-led investigation
Random question, but how consistent should you expect to get pings to be over consumer internet to something like google? Single-digit ms variance? Few ms? 10's of ms? Always kind of curious for trying to optimize my network setup at home.
They are connected and as such influence each other. This creates non-trivial evolution which contains what may be called “continuous tipping points” that heavily depend on the past and also create a whole worlds of futures in the tipping vicinity. Ofc that is just a discrete analogy, because it’s all continuous and it works for any situation. You may see it as tipping points at infinitely many discrete calculations.
Coshaco connects companies with talents through a matching algorithm
Aside, this website is so nostalgic. Perfectly captures the 90s.
So is there still an officially recommended way to create a simple static react web page without big fullstack frameworks now?
It does give some insight into what you seek, at least. For example, “We ﬁnd that for smallern≲262144, JesseSort is slower than Python’s default sort.”

I’d like to see a much larger n but the charts in the research paper aren’t really selling JesseSort. I think as more and more “sorts” come out, they all get more niche. JesseSort might be good for a particular dataset size and ordering/randomness but from what I see, we shouldn’t be replacing the default Python sorting algorithm.
Interesting, thanks for the information. However, unfortunately, no way I'll be sending my personal notebooks to a service which I don't know what's going to do with them in the long term. However, I might use it for the publicly available information.

Thanks again.
I see you just skipped to responding to the end of the comment chain instead of reading it. Common mistake. Here is what you missed,

>If the big initial cost is rolled into home construction it would be less daunting and more normal. So I expect newer homes to adopt heat pumps in cold areas but with little adoption in existing homes.
You don’t even own ebooks on Amazon. You own a license that is set to expire and can be revoked at anytime.
It’s the sweatpants-at-work of sports
Kind 0.27.0: containerd v2 and Kubernetes 1.32
There is a growing number of companys and agencies looking at banning AI, whatchamcallit, due to the increasing number of issues around eronious stuff causing liability, of the scary kind.

What is bieng passed off as journalism does nothing to give confidence in "AI" or its minders.

And behind the sceens it is easy to imagine that actual conciensous humans biengs are out competed by there "enhanced" co-workers, and just walking out to seek better compensation, or at least find work in a profesional environment, sorry, sorry, an environment that suits there "legacy" skill set.
or Russia crumbles from within.. it happened bwfore
Mind you, we're having this conversation on a link aggregator site owned by a company...

Reddit is convenient. It's literally all your interests in one place. And for some interests, it's the best place to go.

Most people don't care who owns the platform. Someone always will. It's as abstract as someone telling them that they shouldn't be letting Apple or Microsoft control their OS. To a regular person, the "Linux alternative" isn't freedom, it's letting Canonical run the show.
Thanks for the reference to the video. I watched it a few weeks ago and was befuddled by it. How can the ball just randomly start rolling in a random direction? It seemed to me that an obvious explanation would be that there is air flow in the environment and with the ball balanced in an unstable position that some air movement would easily nudge the ball off balance. I understand the diff eq of motion with the singularity but it seems to me that a ball balanced at the apex of any radially symmetric convex surface would eventually commence rolling, due to fluctuations in the air flow.
The way I think about it is this: any individual engineer (or any individual team) has a limited complexity budget (in other words, how much can you fit in your meat brain). How you spend it is a strategic decision. Depending on your project, you may not want to waste it on infra so you can fit a lot of business logic complexity.
So, the speedrun author claimed it was RNG-edited, but it was level edited instead? The author could easily refute that by providing the RNG seed. I think every run that claims to be RNG-edited should post RNG seed for verification. If the author claimed that the run was unedited and it was 'just luck', I'm surprised that anyone believed him in the first place.
Loud grunting is not pervasive in tennis, especially not in amateur tennis. You may hear it more in professional tennis, because it's a specific offensive technique that seemed to have originated from famous trainer Nick Bolletteri, a number of whose students such as Monica Seles and Maria Sharapova were among the loudest grunters on the pro tours. Many consider the exaggerated grunting to be a form of cheating and wish that the existing tennis "hindrance" rule were called against it much more often in professional matches.
That's a great point about how using the models may actually just be revealing our own incompetence, not causing it.

Maybe it's a quantity over quality issue. What if we're actually doing more of the thing - or at least we're guiding the process - than we would have if LLMs weren't available, which enables us to become better at recognizing how LLMs are actually beneficial for the task.

I remember the story of the two groups of pottery students, one tasked with making as many pots as possible, and the other with making one perfect pot. At the end of the day, the quantity group's pots were also higher quality than the quality group's single pot, simply because they had far more practice.

I know I code more with LLMs than I did before.
This perfectly captures my thoughts about the situation.

I don't know why they're so resistant to do treat SPAs as a completely valid way to use React in 2025. The majority of devs still use React primarily as a SPA. Recent State of React has it at 85% for SPA and 63% for SSR (1). Probably they know their answer is unpopular and thus we get a lot of deflection and phrases like "you should only consider a SPA if you have unusual constraints" whatever that's suppose to mean.

I've said it before, but changes don't happen when random devs like me complain, because I'm easy to ignore. So I really appreciate you specifically bringing this topic up, it really helps to get things going.

1. https://2024.stateofreact.com/en-US/usage/
These are just excuses for why people won't bother.

In reality, only mass behavioral change by individuals will make a difference. There is no political change without mass individual behavioral change. There is no pressure on the rich or corporations without the masses giving a crap.

Your excuses are exactly the message corporations and the rich love to hear because it means their propaganda is working.
Well it had a good run I guess. Frontend churn is so fast.
Intuitively, it seems to me that those examples of classical "non-determinism" are radically different from the quantum ones, in the sense that quantum physics theorize non-determinism, while those situations are merely "left out" by classical theory. (I'm not a physicist, if any one reads this, I'd like to know what they think :)

By "left out", I mean that there are multiple solutions to the equations of motion which are compatible with the initial values of the situation.

I guess this could also explain why there is such an association in this thread between non-determinism and non-predictability ?
Link directly to Kernighan’s law in the repo:
https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws#kernighans-law
I know it was a long essay and I skimmed most of it myself. But the author definitely mentions this and even has a picture from the 1895 book you linked to.
Small errors in position/velocity are amplified exponentially at each collision. Air molecules collide on average about once every 200 picoseconds. So, an error of one part in 10^1000 will build up to an O(1) difference in about O(log 10^1000) collisions, or maybe ~1 microsecond (the "less than a millisecond" claim was being very conservative.)

It's a testament to the power of exponential growth.
Voting for either Kang or Kodos does not mean that you agree with whoever you voted for. And not voting does not mean that you do not care at all about the issues.
Oh good, they noticed the effect too. It's almost as if many people experience the effect, but somehow to you it's impossible for any humans to be able to take advantage of the effect at lower field strengths.

When you walk up to the machine it's not turned on. Then non-participants go to the small enclosed control room and then the magnet is activated. Every time you respond you reveal how little you know about MRI and weaken your case. You should stop while you are behind.

Also, you should lookup faraday cage. They're like magic to someone who has never heard of them, and they're used in MRI control rooms.

I feel sorry for your apparent inability to accept you might be ignorant about anything. I hope you grow out of it one day. Enjoy your weekend, I won't be responding again.
The Feds Push for WebAssembly Security over eBPF
CSI and CNI do about as much magic as `docker volume` and `docker network`.

People act like their web framework and SQL connection pooler and stuff are so simple, while Kubernetes is complex and totally inscrutable for mortals, and I don't get it. It has a couple of moving parts, but it is probably simpler overall than SystemD.
we had talks.we had inky stained papers.we had concessions. we had all that, yet here we are. how many of these talks do you want to have?
I can create tagged unions in literally any language not just C++ including Assembly. Rust having syntactic and compiler checked support for them as a foundational part of the language is a material difference in the design that differs fundamentally from C++. So the the point still stands.
On the topic of speedrunning, DwangoAC is a name that stands out. He’s represented (possibly led but I’m not familiar) the TAS Block team for Games Done Quick events in the past (not sure about events since 2018 since I did not watch them) and they’ve put together some impressive work.

My favorite was publicly declaring that all PS2 replay files for Super Monkey Ball 2 can’t be trusted after a public demonstration as to why. Closely followed by Brain Age shenanigans. Interesting but not surprising to see the name on this story as well.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-0eM0413N8w (SMB2, declaration near the end after the run)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=uXFiKuK5M30 (Brain Age)
> I feel all this sentiment against "frontend complexity" is essentially non-frontend developers wanting cool, highly interactive web apps for their backend and getting bummed when they discover it's hard, specialized work.

Maybe it is hard and specialised, but from the viewpoint of someone who just wants to deliver an app, exactly what would I need a client side router for? Or a virtual DOM?

Until I am in need of an interface that has the needs of Facebook, I need convincing that these things are adding value.

> But if you don't need that complexity because you just need the browser's lower-interactivity presentation layer

That's sufficient for 999 out of every 1000 web apps. In practice I see the opposite ratio.

Just this past month I yanked out the entire reacy front end from a project and replaced it, functionally, with plain html, js and CDs and the junior tasked with working on it was able to iterate much faster than he had been doing before.

At a previous larger contract I just kept the react and powered through, but I kept having the team run into problems because like it or not, the cognitive burden of react very often outweighs any benefits it brings.
No worries, mainstream media goes fast, and they rarely fix errors (they might have even had AI write most of this to get the clicks).
Stochastic does not mean undeteministc. It means that tiny perturbations to initial conditions lead to huge differences in time evolution.

See this gif for example https://gereshes.com/2019/02/18/chaos-and-the-double-pendulu...
I have your same knowledge but what you mention seems pretty normal and even human, no? You exploit some difficult to exploit bugs and you don't want easy tricks to be used instead.

Although following this logic I don't fully understand why TAS are allowed.
Eigen Compiler Suite
Or you could learn to use an LLM for what is it good at so that it actually saves you time (arguing with an LLM for a long time a sure sign of not having a lot of experience with this tool..)
This reminds me of how I got my first job in trading.

They had all the candidates going around doing various gimmicks like mental arithmetic. But one of the things we had to do was a trading game where you had to get a set of some commodity by trading your cards with other candidates. So just a screaming pit of kids trying to declare what they wanted to swap for.

I got dealt a ridiculously good hand, and all I had to do was wait for a couple of people to give me the missing two or three cards.

Once I started, poker was the game the bosses had us play. It seemed like a 10 quid subsidy from the head trader every day, I just had to wait around until he decided he'd played enough and went all in on what was always a crappy hand.

That essay about why poker probably isn't the best game for traders is pretty good btw. But there was a golden age of online poker going on at the time, and you could sit there with 5 tables open if you wanted.

I like the design of the game, having looked at it superficially. It's basically a market for cards, with what seems like a goal for collecting the right suit.
Fossil fuels carry an environmental debt that you won't be repaying. Perpetuating the use of fossil fuels is basically saying "fuck you" to the next generation.

Same goes for beef consumption, plastic consumption, etc. We pay artificially reduced prices now while saddling the next generation with the debt of our selfishness.

Pay now or they pay later.
I always ask if I can transcribe using an AI tool regardless of jurisdiction. Not sure what the other commenter’s intentions were but just throwing my two cents in.

I prefer non-bot transcription tools solely because they’re not a nuisance during the meeting — they take up valuable screen real estate and provide no input during the meeting so I’d rather them be invisible.
That is fine by me. What benefit have we gotten from these Unicorn other than enriching the founders and lenders.

I have seen no real benefit from Silicon Valley for decades. Seems at this point, Silicon Valley is acting kind of like a Ponzi Scheme.
What did they call their algorithms before they passed away?
Premature optimization may hit them hard. Overengineering is imo usually the bigger technical debt and a huge upfront cost as well. Well-thought out plans tend to become a sunken cost fallacy. Making room for changes is hard enough in XP like ways of working. When you have to tell your manager that half a year of careful plans and engineering can be thrown away, because of the new requirements, which emerge from late entry to market, you look like a clown. Plans and complexity usually introduce more risk than less.
Issue with that is that some writings are not word based. People use acronyms, temporal, personalized, industrial jargon, and global ones. Beginning of the year, there where some HN posts about moving from dictionary word to character encoding for LLMs, because of the very varying nature in writing.

Even I used symbols for different means in a shorthand form when constructing an idea.

I see it the same way laws are. Their word definitions are anchored in time from the common dictionaries of the era. Grammar, spelling, and means all change through time. LLMs would require time scoped information to properly parse content from 1400 vs 1900. LLM would be for trying to take meaning out of the content versus retaining the works.

Character based OCR ignores the rules, spelling, and meaning of words and provides what most likely there. This retains any spelling and grammar error that are true positives or false positives, based on the rules of their day.
Uber sues DoorDash, alleging anti-competitive tactics
Here's how I think about it:

For any dome-like shape, you can start a marble at the bottom and roll it up with some initial speed. If you roll it with insufficient initial speed it'll turn around and come back down. If you roll it too hard, it'll overshoot the peak. By continuity, there must exist some initial condition where it stops at the top.

Now, here's the thing that makes Norton's dome special: For a typical dome shape it'll take an infinite amount of time before that marble stops at the top. If you plot the position as a function of time it'll have some type of sigmoid-like shape. However, for the special case of Norton's dome, you can make it settle at the top in a finite amount of time where it'll sit for the rest of eternity. In other words, if you plot the position as a function of time, there will be some critical time after which its position is constant.

Now, the clever thing to do now is to realize that Newton's laws are time reversal symmetric which means that any motion forward in time could equally well happen backwards in time.

So, you're allowed to take any position plot and flip it horizontally; this is also going to be a valid trajectory.

For any typical dome shape this is not a problem. For a typical dome shape you have a sigmoid-like solution which, when flipped, is still sigmoid shaped. In particular this means that there is no finite time at which you can place the marble at the top of the dome and have it roll off. At any finite time, the marble will be slightly off the top and have a small nonzero speed.

Norton's dome is different. If you flip its trajectory horizontally you'll see that there are many moments in time where you can start the marble at the top to have it abruptly start rolling off the top at some later time. This is the paradox. You can choose to have it sit at the top for one second and then start rolling or sit at the top for one minute and then start rolling.

Unlike other domes, Norton's dome seems to violate our intuition for how initial conditions work. In all cases the marble starts at the top with zero initial speed and yet falls off the top att different moments.
This renders my kindle gen 2 useless, as its only connectivity is/was via cellular network which doesn’t work anymore (2g or something). I’ve been having to download and then transfer via usb for years.
And bookshop.org has already sent 36+ million to indie bookstores. It also removes the cost of trying to run an online bookstore of any kind.

Hopefully, they are headed to audio books next.
I would only call this a thought experiment. We are yet to encounter a physical Norton's Dome: it probably doesn't exist in nature.