skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two friends in Europe now who were going to send their kids to American universities in the next couple years. Both decided not to based on current events.
interesting, you mean they are less obscure?
I figured that out just from playing Tombstone City. It's the first paired cactus by scanning the board in reading order (each row from the top, left-to-right.) (You mean a cactus that turns into a monster, not a tumbleweed.) And yes, once you know that, the game is pretty easy when you can anticipate every threat. I remember being able to go for at least a couple hours in one game; don't remember if I ever rolled it over or got bored before that.
And horribly outdated and poorly built single-family homes for the most part...
It's really hard to tell to what extent I've developed techniques for dealing with limited working memory. I certainly don't use things like mnemonics or other common memory techniques you commonly hear about. Unlike most anyone else I know, note taking with a pen or pencil seems to actively reduce my working memory. If I hyperfocus, I can memorize decently long sequences of meaningless numbers, but it requires what I suspect is a lot more effort than it does for other people (I score about average on working memory, and that's very much how it feels it's going to go during the testing). Hyperfocus can compensate, but you pay a heavy price for it.

My working memory is also hopeless with context switching. If I'm juggling three contexts at once, odds are I will lose working memory of all three (or was it four? ;-).

When I look back at my life, I've absolutely had to compensate for all that, but most of the "compensation" is just acknowledging the limitations. Memorizing dates and times just isn't going to happen (add time blindness compounds the problem), names of people & places are going to be impossible, etc. The closest thing I have to a compensation technique is the crutch that is hyperfocus.

However, when it comes to information (i.e. data that has some kind of meaning), I seem to be able to do much better than most, to the point where people often remind me that I need to consider that everyone else isn't able to keep all that context in their head at once. I can't speed read, but I can digest material with complex subject matter, analyze complex problems, etc. just faster and seemingly more easily than a lot of people. Some of that is likely due to other factors, but working memory is definitely an asset.
They didn’t. They used PTX, which is what CUDA C++ compiles down to, but which is part of the CUDA toolchain. All major players have needed to do this because the intrinsics for the latest accelerators are not actually exposed in the C++ API, which means using them requires inline PTX at the very minimum.
I noticed this parallel too. At least the US has the option for some sort of change in two and then four years.
This. IRS data isn’t protected because it’s classified. It’s protected because of confidentiality enforced by laws passed by Congress (the Tax reform act I believe)

(and the fact that the executive branch can be sued out of their pants for civil damages).
The real reason isn't bandwidth cost, it's visibility in the algorithm. You want a game trailer on your site: you can host it at a better bit rate for a great experience or use a competitor to. But if you do that, you get less views and thus less recommendations in the YouTube algorithm on your version posted there. So you out in a YouTube embed instead.

Same with steam or other dominate online stores with recommendation algorithms: you can market your game with ads linking a store with a lower cut. Less sales and views on steam from that means you don't take off in their algorithm. Game flops. Buy ads pointing to steam store and it would have kicked off the self stoking cycle and done well in this hypothetical. The other store can't compete with rate alone even in cases where you are driving the traffic, because you are giving up driving even more traffic at at the other store through the augmentation of the algorithm.
the billionaires have a lot of money as individual anomalies, but most wealth is generated by corporations that must pay market rates for labor or else they will get undercut by other businesses; labor is never cheap. Thus, those at the upper-echelons of the working-class--managers, senior engineers, etc.--as a class, hold the most significant stores of wealth in the US, perhaps far more than all the billionaires put together. I think about 10% of US workers make between $150-$300k a year, so multiply that number by twenty million--something like 2 trillion dollars just in one class alone. Billionaires cannot possibly account for the vast majority of GDP.

Let's not forget that in the last 10 years the US has added approx 12 trillion dollars to its GDP which far outpaces inflation in that same period, meaning absolute wealth in the US has increased remarkably--and, yes, the majority of that wealth is paid out to workers who make up the largest class in the country.
That's the endgame I see.

Oligarchy. Kleptocracy. Morons cheering because they're deluded enough to believe that the definition of "pork" is when the government transfers money directly to lower and middle class via paychecks.

Congress will authorize contractors to do these jobs instead. We get back privatized versions of the old government services at a higher price, and the money goes into the bank accounts of the rich.

I'd like to read the CBO report on what this shit will actually cost over ten years.
> The best way to avoid capture is via law / regulation. There should be term limits, campaign finance reform, more regulation against lobbyists and the revolving door, etc. We can't have Citizens United then wonder how capture happened. And, no amount of instability will address that.

On the contrary. We tried to reform and improve the system through the normal channels for decades. We failed. The system is evidently already captured and something a little more radical is warranted.
"Renewables (or, at least, PV) are bad because they won't work after a K/Pg-level asteroid impact."
That's my take too. The tech barons are all remarkably stupid and think that if they destroy the federal government they'll be able to swoop in and take everything, but the end result is 50 individual governments that stop paying dues to the feds, many of which are going to be far more hostile to said tech barons.

They're not even smart enough to properly pay off and maintain the military so they could try and enforce the oligarchy.
Yeah, I feel like you need an abnormally strong network to just wing it in consulting?
It supports cookies, so generally yes. Anti-bot measures may block it, so you may need to get creative.
I guess this is the response that some expected from Linus alongside his criticism of Hector Martin's brigading.
I believe you're still within the edit timer for that comment, please help reduce the spread of misinformation.
This is absolutely the desired default behaviour for ctrl+F in a browser. e.g. I frequently read French, and don't normally want to have to put in accents in my search term when I'm searching text for a word containing an accent.

Firefox has a "Match Diacritics" checkbox right next to the "Match Case" box when you ctrl+F so you can configure as desired.
> but at the same time it is sort of weird since it technically is not the same name without the circumflex, right?

Assuming you have a "standard" keyboard, it's not weird at all for your browser to match the diacritic when you type the non-diacritic character since presumably the diacritic would be difficult to type. Firefox's search feature even has a [_] Match Diacritics checkbox which you can enable or disable.
Are you talking about me? Click parent a few times. I've brought back fresh nonsense just for you.
We haven't governed ourselves with an executive-branch-led bureaucracy for 150 years. It's been about 70-80 years total. This model started with FDR and was really expanded in the 60's and 70's. The US existed for most of its lifetime without a permanent bureaucracy. The system you are talking about as the one that has worked forever is much younger and much less stable than you think.
I have definitely done such things out of pettiness. Sometimes people just attract your attention as deserving of an attempt to humble them. I hope people will humble me as well when my vociferousness outstrips my talent. It's good to be sent directly back to home every now and then.
I was a huge matrix user, had converted "most" of my family and extended family to join matrix to be able to talk to me and it was generally a fine experience. Not great, just fine.

But.... then the government imposed a ban and I continued to use it and last year the police knocked on my door with an Armada thinking me and my family were hosting some "terrorist". My.family forced me to cut ties to matrix then and there.
This is why the voluntary weakening of America's position in NATO is so wild. The US has so much power over Europe and the whole world through this. Everyone will (for better or worse) do whatever we want. And they even spend tons of money at US defense companies. Just look at Rheinmetall's stock price to see what the market thinks of this. Germany, UK, and France will all re-militarize without the US.

If Trump sets in motion a series of events that cause the world to switch to a different reserve currency, a lot of Americans are going to realize how good we had it. American hegemony may not be great for the world, but it sure is great for Americans.

There's a meme going around of Xi Jinping just sitting back and letting Trump dismantle the US himself. Except that it's not a joke, it's reality.
the kernel should use bazel /s?
Edited. Fortunately C# (like Java) fixes what Prof. Kernighan praises about C - unbounded pointers/arrays/strings. At the expense of unpredictable performance due to garbage collection. C# and Java (and JavaScript) retain C-like syntax, but their underpinnings/VMs were heavily influenced by Self and Smalltalk. (Note Pascal also pioneered bytecode compilers.)
Apple Unveils New Lower-Priced iPhone with A.I. Features
I assume they meant "an accelerator device that plugs into a USB port"
If it means anything, this whole exchange, both in the humor of it and the fantastic display of humanity at the end of it, made me laugh, and then smile.

I appreciate this thread.
Long-Context GRPO
Damn two of those would have fooled me too if I wasn't looking too carefully.. the one like the one with the old lady and her cake and the kittens one.
(2019) Porphyromonas gingivalis https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18989630
Why doesn't that count as market manipulation / insider knowledge? Genuinely asking, I thought the U.S. prosecuted any position based on non-public knowledge (such as the upcoming release of a competing product).
Interesting you put perplexity in there
Heh, you actually highlight a funny frustration from my time there: TLES technically has a capital "S" too, but it's basically always discussed in the plural -- so I would very frequently forget to capitalize the "S" to the veterans' chagrin. Clearly, I haven't shaken the habit!

In hindsight, I guess it's the industry's fault for not pronouncing it "Tee Ell Eee Esses"...

EDIT: And I appreciate the explanation, personally! That's the best part of HN. To be clear to passers-by, a TLES is a string of characters that describes the orbit of a single satellite (artificial or otherwise) based on its position & momentum at some given start second. They have to be updated pretty frequently to account for gradual stochastic drift, which is both an interesting technical problem and a compelling philosophical metaphor.
a very small amount of US dollars paid out to these people could be considered a "significant" amount of income when converted to those lower cost of living places.
sometimes things just become the thing to use from momentum. I've personally never been that picky about languages. I code in whatever they pay me to code in. I still code most of my personal projects in c++ and python though.
There's a saddening effect that this kind of garbage foists onto society, and onto individual humans, that costs drastically more than the money the content itself scrapes up. On a societal level, you have the net effect of millions of individuals being duped into throwing their empathy at something absurdly false. That is a recipe for wild and random backlashes as people become convinced that the world is something it isn't. On an individual level, liking some fake bullshit, then realizing it's fake, causes people to feel humiliated. Ultimately, being humiliated by giving away your empathy to the wrong subject causes people to become angry and reject their natural empathy towards legitimate other people, having been fooled so many times already.

Maybe a better way of saying this is: Bad currency drives out good. And if the currency is empathy and sympathy itself, then we are racing toward a society that will no longer be able to cast itself into anyone else's shoes.
This is really cool, nice work!

Something I’ve been looking for for a while is an interactive view of SF from above - I think it’d be cool to experience the verticality of SF and see how all the different hills relate to each other (and gmaps/earth just isn't cutting it).

this is actually pretty good for around the panhandle, but if anyone is aware of something like that for the whole city please let me know!
I legally changed my name to drop the hyphen. I kept an accented character, but don't use it for legal documents or plane tickets.
In many cases it's not just one job. NIH grant funding, for example, remains frozen with no explanation of when it's going to restart. If I were in biomedical research I'd definitely be looking for options in other countries rather than rolling the dice on a potential 4 year pause in my career.
Caddy also has try_files. But it's implemented differently.
This is genuinely terrifying to think about. All the ones that are really important are correct, right...? Like medical systems and financial systems and legal and..
YCombinator is probably involved in this stuff to some degree; Peter Thiel was part of of yc for a while and Garry Tan has been pushing stuff closer to Thiel/Moldbug's ideology in SF and worked for Palantir.
I do not envy Linus position, but he had too much trust on others to see things in a constructive way. The tenet of his argument is that you can't at the same time say that you do not care about something, and then turn around and dictate how that something is done. Have your cake and eat it too seems to be the analogy here.

It was pretty clear and something that was repeated ad nauseam that Rust side can be broken with C patches, that Rust devs will deal with it. C developers do not have to worry about how their changes affect the Rust side of things. That for Linus is sufficient to create a separation of concerns between C developers that do not want to touch Rust and those that do.
Microsoft's new AI agent can control software and robots
Source? Alphabet’s 10-K does not account for all of YouTube’s expenses as is if it were a standalone business. It doesn’t even seem possible.
I don't understand this sepia tint reference. What joke am I missing?
Did they mark it as spam or as suspicious?

OP said it was marked as suspicious. Spam and suspicious are not the same thing.

It is entirely understandable that they might have marked something as suspicious. Compromised email accounts from known senders are a super popular way to scam people.
If it's not a public road, you can do this kind of thing

And I mean, if you really want self-driving cars, then yes this is the least they could do
The Engineer's Onboarding: Advice for New Hires
Why does the author use `initialize` for a function name in the source code? I question their purity of intentions!
I'm more concerned about the members of congress and senate that became multimillionares on a $174k/year salary.
> The EO contradicts the Constitution by declaring that agencies must refer to the President and the Attorney General for all interpretations of the law.

It doesn't say that. It says that agencies must follow interpretations published by the President and the Attorney General and may not publish contradictory interpretations. And even if it did say that, how would that contradict the constitution - which says nothing about who is supposed to interpret the law and charges the President, and only the president, with ensuring the laws are faithfully executed?
> There's a meme going around of Xi Jinping just sitting back and letting Trump dismantle the US himself. Except that it's not a joke, it's reality.

I wonder if the liberals had it wrong: that Trump isn’t beholden to Russia, but to China instead. The goal s to destroy America’s credibility by bullying our allies even more than our supposed non-allies. He wanted to tariff Mexico and Canada at 25% but China only 10%. I see the end of his term with China replacing the USA as the premiere super power, they already are rapidly catching up with key investments in green energy, Eavs, AI, automation, drones, etc…they have things the world wants to buy while we have…bluster, bullying, and nothing else really appealing (buy our manufacturing output that costs 2X and is half as good!).