skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't an inherit issue with LLMs. You just need to set up some prompts that you can default to for different use cases. For example, you could set one up that is told to only provide the function arguments, and return value.
They are objectively in a worse financial position.

I wasn't getting advertisements for female sex toys (I'm male) on Twitter before Musk took over. That's a long way to fall.
Abstraction layers are hard and have bugs. We should probably figure out a way to reduce the number of abstraction layers. Maybe instead of running the software in a virtual machine with an OS abstraction layer (which is itself a shitty OS), it could compile directly to machine-language instructions and interact with your real OS. You could download this once and run it many times.
Valid point, but Twitter's development post acquisition stalled and the company was massively devalued, so I'm not sure that can be considered a positive case.
years ago the daily wtf had a challenge for writing the worst calculator app. my submission maintained calculation state by emitting it's own source code, recompiling and running the new executable.
Feds consumed <5% GDP during most non-war time between civil war and WW1. During which time standard of living and economy rose about as much during the post WW2 period of massively growing government and regulation.

It's hard to take these apocalyptic premonitions about federal government reduction seriously.
Great question!

The key difference lies not in whether VAT or sales tax is applied to exports, but in how VAT-based economies structure taxation throughout production versus how the US does.

The imbalance exists not because VAT is unfair. It exists because the US system does not have a VAT that can be “discounted” and therefore US exporters end up paying more and baking the cost into their products. Consumer ends up paying more on the other EU end.

In VAT systems, businesses prepay taxes at every stage, then receive a full refund on export, removing embedded costs. I think I said that? There is no equivalent mechanism on the US side.
I may be utterly wrong, but I understand from Swedish friends (I lived in Stockholm for a year, something more than ten years ago) that the problem is fairly recent, and comes from Government deciding to take in large numbers of refugees from middle east (Iraq, Kurds, etc).

The Government did the right thing, in terms of sharing the burden, plenty of locals don't like it at all, and in practical terms they make some good arguments.
Musk himself has received billions in social security in the form of subsidies, government contracts and stock market rallies fueled by nepotism.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/20/business/elon-musk-wealth...

Where will the money he purportedly saves in the bureaucracies go? Will houses be built for the Appalachian voters that were oh so important before the election?

Will it be use to subsidize another telemedicine scam for all-in podcast members, who are also on Megyn Kelly's show now?
You're right it's not a startup. It's an organization in a town that voted 90%+ in favor of keeping their jobs, not being prosecuted, or some kind of "threat to democracy".

You can't run an organization if the ground troops are resistant to executing the vision of leadership
There are some hints toward this, like with recent reporting
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-gop-panel-ap...

> Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., said she has expressed “concerns” to leaders about the prospect of steep spending cuts and told reporters that, before she agrees to vote for the budget resolution, she wants “better clarity” about the next stage — especially when it comes to cuts. “$4.5 trillion doesn’t leave a lot of room for the president’s priorities,” Malliotakis said

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Also, why else would you directly reclaim funds as the executive? As a party, if you wanted to correct spending, you would do it in a budget. As the executive, if you wanted to get money without congressional approval, you would reclaim money that has already been appropriated. There are other ways (emergency orders), but they might not be popular with the party or a target voting base (in this case, more net spending).
Well the 89 is a CAS in disguise most of the time which is mentioned in passing in the article.

But, I agree I almost never want the full power of Mathematica/sage initially but quickly become annoyed with calc apps. The 89 and hp prime//50 have just enough to solve anything where I wouldn’t rather just use a full programming language.
While we're already breaking the HN guidelines—"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats"—let me just say that the scrolljacking on this article is awful.
> I would actually say the opposite in modern languages like Rust. Assertions are a sign you have failed to encode requirements in the type system.

Maybe. You still shouldn't write unsafe code without asserts.
So the crypto currency people who support Trump aren't progressive or does it only count as the progress is in a direction you like? If this is an unprecedented constitutional crisis as so many keep claiming, how is that 'conservative'?

The 'left' isn't a rigorously defined term, so it is pretty hard to make a tautological argument like you are implying.
> The DOM API is defined as a JavaScript API.

It's defined via WebIDL (https://webidl.spec.whatwg.org/) which is theoretically language agnostic, but practically speaking the primary implementation target is JavaScript.
Damn! I know nothing about AD and while reading these comments you mentioned sleep tech. I didn’t understand the connection or what amyloid hypothesis even was, so looked it up.

As someone who’s on < 4 hours of sleep a day with at least one day for 36 hours straight awake a week, umm… should I be worried?
So missed shots are boring? I think most people would go the opposite way, wanting defenses to be more empowered and 3 pointers harder to make.
Looks really useful! What's the advantage of having this done locally, aside from being free and not requiring a subscription?
I find that much of the time I want WolframAlpha for when basic arithmetic, because I like the way it tracks and converts units. It's such a simple way to check that my calculation isn't completely off base. If I forget to square something or I multiply when I meant to divide I get an obviously wrong answer.

Plus of course not having to do even more arithmetic when one site gives me kilograms and another gives me ounces.
The thing is this feeling always happens to be “stop things right at the point that I grew up in”. The Amish felt similarly in the 1800s which is why they cut their beards in a way so as not to be confused with Continental soldiers despite there no longer being Continental soldiers.

If everything else falls apart the Amish will be out in the middle of nowhere doing their thing. If you want to see what it looks like to stop the clock, go talk with them. They’ll happily have a chat with you if you buy some furniture from them.

Heck, my friend was Amish for most of his childhood. Then his parents pulled him out of it. Then he fell in with the wrong crowd and struggled with heroin addiction for several years before getting clean. And that’s a far, far smaller cultural shock than an uncontacted tribe. Sometimes he says he wishes he could go back.
lol, there are “managers” making 40k a year (with 3 people reporting to them) that have huge egos. It isn’t surprising that world’s richest man child has the ego to match his wealth.

Something wrong with society as a whole. People being cruel to each other for no reason, people can’t think/plan beyond the current quarter etc. Everywhere I look, people seem stressed, and they lash out in whatever way they can. Seems like a much bigger problem than Trump/Musk, though they are a big contributor to society’s stress for sure
I suspect nobody made xxx vlc plug-in because compiling it is far too hard.

I tried to make a joystick controller for a particular use case on one platform (Linux) and I gave up.

VLC solves a hard problem. Supporting lots of different libs, versions, platforms, hardware and on top of that licensing issues.
Despite Musk's whining about the FAA, SpaceX is not facing any difficulties getting its rockets launched from land, so there's no reason, at this point, to add something else with the potential to slow things down.

It did not even want to build a proper launchpad at Boca Chica, which did not work out so well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43032759 ("Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement (bbc.com)", 12 comments)
> It’s really all just a bunch of petty vendettas and looting.

Yeah. The technical term for that is "arbitrary". It isn't ideologically motivated; it is based on some dude's opinions based on who-knows-what internal dialogue. Although this financial features on Twitter sounds like a pretty good idea and I'd like to see it in the wild.
Same here, except I use an HP48 emulator because TI sucks and HP rocks.
This is my preferred answer. Bring back physicality into the sport, especially on defense. There are moving screens on every play, and yet a defender can stand and get jumped into resulting in free throws.
You're not paying any at all. Arxiv did not refuse to take it down. Arxiv did take it down even though they had no obligation to do so. Also, anyone can claim anything online, and it's the timing of papers that ultimately matters.
What a coincidence! At the end of last year, I had uveitis for the second time, and my eye doctor advised me to investigate whether I have an autoimmune disorder. Two weeks ago, I underwent a blood test, but all my values came back normal. It was only after researching the HLA-B27 antigen online and discussing it with my doctor that I was able to persuade him to test me for it. Initially, he was reluctant, as he saw no reason to do so. Now, I have another blood test scheduled in three months, where I will finally find out if I have it.
Don' let the door hit you on the way out i guess. I mean it sounds mean but the scene can do with less toxic types like this, who try to bully people who know better, in order to get their way. Even worse in this case since he actually tried to create a social media shit-storm against those he disagreed with.

He even has defenders calling for yet more CoCs in order to better "deal with" people who "get in the way." It doesn't get much more toxic than that.
Sometimes that was pretty useful though; you could infer a lot about the system's state by listening to the faint hints of bus activity!
I don't keep track of this sort of thing in detail but I usually figure a month-long trip ends up running about $10K. Sometimes probably a bit more, sometimes a bit less. Where that money goes will vary depending on the type of trip. In cities, I usually stay somewhere nice but not top-end which I find doesn't buy me a lot incrementally. Don't usually fly business unless I use miles for part of it.

No illusions this is penniless student budgeting but it suits me.
This isn’t my area of expertise, but it sounds like the core innovation is that one compute worker can handle multiple requests like a traditional server would, but they’ll scale down a lot faster than you’d get with an EC2 instance for example.

Is that right?
Neither of us really know Twitter's financial position, given it's now private.

The rumours I'm hearing are that EBITDA is now above pre-acquistion. The fact that debt is trading hands without a haircut suggests that's probably accurate.

There was a lot of waste at Twitter. Given that headcount was cut by 80%, and advertisers are returning, I'd suggest it's doing fine.
This is a great question from a novice basketball watcher. What's with the downvotes?
Well yes, but even the Renault Zoe at 3,236lbs is much heavier than the Renault Clio (2,161–2,361lbs) it is based on.

Heavier weight alone however doesn't necessarily cause more tire wear though. The Toyota Prius came with hard-compound tires (good for low fuel consumption and high mileage, not for racing).
I wonder if they trained the systems on the times when theyre lowered?
One difficult thing about it is that concrete weathers in a way which is, let's say, not conventionally attractive. The architects produce mockups where the walls are wide expanses of pure pale gray, but rarely do a second mockup where everything is covered in dark grimy streaks. This museum's patterns of perforations distract from the weathering rather well.
Ask HN: I'm a software developer with 3 years of runway. What do I build?
I quit my job 6 months ago because my family of four travels a lot and bosses couldn't handle me working async (although I delivered very well).

I'm also kind of tired of working for someone else. I did SEO for 10 years very profitably and it was a dream life.

I was going to take at least one year off to take care of my health and my little one (she's 3) but as my wife correctly pointed out, I go crazy when I don't do something that exercises my brain.

Lost 30 pounds, and been doing a lot of hiking, sports, salsa, which is great, but it's not enough. Finally I understand why rich people seldom retire.

I'm reasonably productive (big fan of Cal Newport, Deep Work, Slow Productivity).

The dream is to have a profitable SaaS but it's been overwhelming to see the amount of stuff out there.

My strengths are FE and I can handle design and marketing reasonably okay. Don't want to brag but likely 90 or 95% top talent doing FE , based on the CTOs and investors we used to work with. I was Eng Manager at some point but hated the endless meetings.

I'm also over the fence with everything related to AI (I think it's powerful, but it's a double-edged sword to build in such a competitive industry that I don't find that enticing and I am not too knowledgeable of).

What would you do in my position if you had 3 years of runway?

That's if we continue spending as we are now (very comfortable living), but it could be extended to 4-5 years if we decide to live a bit on a tighter budget, provided I find a mission on what to build or do.

I know myself, and by the time I only have 1 year of runway I'm going to start stressing out. So I have some time.

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EDIT: My ideas so far.

1) Try a few micro SaaS ideas. Fail a lot and figure it out. FAFO.

2) Grow my socials so I have a bigger network. It's going well but I'm just not a big fan of all the shallow work.

3) Try one or two BIG SaaS ideas. Slow and steady, focus on quality. Very enjoyable but the risk of failing miserably haunts me.

4) Work on open source projects. I have a few that I started and have a tiny bit of traction. If nothing can be done for profit, use it as leverage to find a great job in the future and learn a ton
Rust lacks major financial backers for the tooling ecosystem. This leads to a huge number of ambitious projects which are abandoned when folks get bored.
Well, that commenter seems to have chosen it as their single pet peeve against Jellyfin.
Russia's Side Quest to Dominate Africa: Hijack a Videogame
It was far behind. That's what I kept hearing on the Internet until maybe a couple weeks ago, and it didn't seem like a controversial view. Not that I cared much - I couldn't access it anyway because I am in the EU, which is my main point here: it seems that they've improved recently, but at that point, hardly anyone here paid it any attention.

Now, as we can finally access it, Google has a chance to get back into the race.
OPs numbers are weird. Marocco should get you great accommodation for a tenth, not a third.
This is essentially a bug in React VDOM which blindly assumes it is the only one updating DOM nodes. Imho, it's long overdue to remove VDOM from react as other renderes have shown that it's not needed for performance.
Software switching monitor input using DDC on macOS and Windows (2024)
Though Photopea is already an online Photoshop clone and sounds a bit similar?

(It’s also pretty decent. My usual go to for stuff I can’t justify spinning up an Adobe VM for…)
AI Kungfu Video Generator
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russias-side-quest-to-domin...
I saw this on here from the prolific simonw: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/claude-hacker-news-themes
I have not used any google products for years. Since 2005.

For a non business users there really is no need to use them when there are, in my opinion, better open source alternatives.

The only product I do use is the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) for my phones.
It'd be interesting to see how this research could be used in real-time to guide emergency response teams or adjust crowd flow during large-scale events
Site lets you spy on people. Are you one of them?
This is inflammatory and myopic.

The reason Rust and Go tooling is getting popular is because they are appropriate for the job.

C and C++ are riddled with footguns and non-ideal for this kind of tooling, Ruby and Python provide only disadvantages compared to current JS tools, Haskell and OCaml are good but too niche. And so on.

And the reason Rust and Go are getting usage in WASM is because they have a good WASM story. They are static, compiled and born at the right time. Other than C and C++, they're the only ones that put the effort.

The reason people are making projects in Rust and Go is because they are accessible to those people. For me both hit a sweet spot that none of the languages above do.
Too bad Kissinger is dead. The future US-Russia and China-EU alliances are too obvious for everyone that wants to pay attention. This is the reason why US is offering such a generous terms for Russia in Ukraine. Not unlike Great Britain and Russia persian deal.
Sure, but you’re always going to get better results by actively looking for the good solution rather than building something and hoping it’s right. (building a prototype is one tool in your toolbox)

We as developers are tasked with figuring out what the problem is, especially in cases where the client is wrong about their assumptions
You need the final implementation before taking the final snapshot but you can write the entire test up front (given/when). The snapshot artefact is generated not written (often in a different file entirely), so Id argue it still fits the definition cleanly.

I agree that "unit test"/"integration test" as a definition sucks horribly and leads to people talking past each other, but I think with TDD the main issue is that lots of people have developed a fixed and narrow idea of the kind of test you are "supposed" to write with it which makes the process miserable if the type of code doesnt fit that type of test.

The whole idea of a unit test being "the" kind of "default" test and being "tests a class/method as a unit" definitely needs to die.
Kinetic energy increases with the square of the velocity, so in a head-on collision everything not buckled on the back seat becomes a missile heading towards the passenger seats. Even a bag with a laptop is dangerous and you should put it in the foot compartment. And that's like 3kg while an average person will weigh around 70kg.
Instead of $650 there’s always the AirBnB and living on less than $100 a day. When I backpacked I was spending probably $1000 a month. I recommend trying both.
You can look back to the original Futurist manifesto which took the glorification of power through technology and turned it into the original Fascist movement.
Tech Continues to Be Political
Not really. By default allocators will panic if there isn't physical memory available. Recursive functions can cause panic at certain depth. Code generated by macros isn't very visible for the developers and recursive macros are very common. Return types are checked only if the developer adds #[must_use].

You can overcome lot if you invest a lot for type system, but that depends on the developer.
As the article describes, he is a public policy expert with long experience running Medicaid programs, which is precisely why the city wants him.
But if anything, this study at least shows that we're getting closer to understanding and managing the dangers of large, dense crowds in a way that can actually be applied
The issue boils down more to consolidation of interest, and 'historical' thinking by people who can't be assed to understand how the market actually works.

Nasdaq and NYSE have significant volumes because people think they have significant volumes (as circular as that reasoning is). There are entire entities on the fund/investment management side of the industry that are content to do their entire risk adjustment (meaning, trading) in the closing auction, and the dominant closing auction is on the primary listing exchange (just because...well, as I highlighted above).

There was a brief period in the mid aughts when Nasdaq (through the INET and BRUT acquisitions) and BATS were able to compete with the more dominant NYSE due to monstrous discrepancies in system performance, but as all of the markets evolved over the last 15-20 years they are all (at least as far as the vast majority of market participants are concerned) effectively identical in pure technical performance.
You still get that, players take less to win.
I don't think appealing to the gilded age can be taken seriously.

See for instance: https://www.investopedia.com/gilded-age-7692919
I can’t say if you’re serious or just trolling. It is beyond stupid to compare government institutions with private sector.

Let’s say (just for discussion purposes) that some government agency (USAID, for example) is wasting 100% of their budget on parties (again, just for discussion purposes). What is the right way to fix it? Step one - you hire an auditor and collect proof of any misconduct or wrongdoing. Step 2 - find out the people who did wrong. Ask for an explanation. Show the public your proof. And so on.

You don’t shut down departments without a shred of evidence, overnight. It is just cruel and stupid. But then, cruelty seems to be the point here.

You don’t set fire to your entire face because you got a pimple on your nose. You just treat the pimple
In the 90s/00s? Which event was that?
Even that makes no sense. Turning methane in electrical power is about 60% efficient in combined cycle plants. Electrolysers are at least 50% efficient. Where is this 10x coming from?
I don’t understand how so many people perceive the world this way. I work with a top tier of people but also have a couple of duds in my 85 person org. We would definitely be a better company if we got rid of 10 people. Some people are a net negative and eat up important resources who should be spending their time doing things that provide more value versus trying to help the duds.

What am I missing here? Can someone please help me understand the other side aside from taking away peoples livelihood = bad and rich people want all the money for themselves
Yeah, $650 per night in Morocco is staying in La Mamounia, famous mingling place of world leaders and celebrities with a Paul McCartney song named after it...

You can stay in quite a nice palace for a lot less than that
Funny how people nitpick. At the end of the day, jellyfin is free to use, ad free, has more config options than we need, and it does an outstanding job.
I switched from Kodi, Plex, then Emby years ago. No reason to look back.
I really appreciated this line on the Vaticans' thoughts on AI:

The twentieth-century philosopher Nicholas Berdyaev observed that people often blame machines for personal and social problems; however, “this only humiliates man and does not correspond to his dignity,” for “it is unworthy to transfer responsibility from man to a machine.”
I’m not particularly happy to read about researchers intentionally causing distress to animals in order to study the response but the documentation of their research is a few grades above “obviously it’s distressed”. The point is to be able to determine whether they are feeling stress in situations that don’t have such obvious stressors.
Thomson Reuters vs. Ross Intelligence implies the LLM was 'non-generative'