skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> merely the use of specific “you” in an argument is already considered unnecessary

Not necessarily unnecessary, but necessarily personal.

If I changed the “your” in the top comment to “this,” I think it would better communicate both my issue and reasonable irritation with the comment I was responding to. At the same time there is another commenter in this thread who refused to back down, and at that point a “you’re bordering on trolling” seems appropriate. It is confrontational, but not unnecessarily so.
Most homeless people are more scared of you than you are of them.
Why aren't costs involved with a mitigation actual damages?

I'n not sure this is the correct lawsuit to demonstrate this.

So hypothetically, if say you lent a key to a handyman and then they posted a photo on it to twitter it seems pretty reasonable for them to cover the costs of replacing the locks. As opposed to having to wait for somebody to rob you and then trying to show that the robber did so from the photo.
Complex numbers work just fine on a GPU. You just represent the data as a real-part matrix and an imaginary-part matrix and do the (ac-bd)+(ad+bc)i stuff in matrix land instead of on complex scalars.
I read it all, for a certain value of "read". It's very long, and heavy on examples and fascinating facts, but skimps on getting to the point. I enjoyed the line about plant biologists suffering from brain envy. The article gets better from about halfway through as skeptical views begin to be introduced, but eventually it lets go of that and turns back into lot of hand-wavy awe about mycorrhizal networks, and I missed what the "new proposal" is. If it's only saying that intelligence is an emergent property of connections, and could therefore emerge in swarms or societies, we've had that idea since at least Hofstadter and his sentient ant nests.
The same thing is happening in Rust. Try to compile any random app and it pulls dozens if not hundreds of dependencies.
My general understanding is that "mind" is an objective concept; people have minds that cognize and think and learn and so on. Some minds are apparently more capable of those things than others. When speaking about intelligence, it makes sense to associate that with the mind.

Consciousness, on the other hand, is (even) less well-defined and is usually considered to be subjective. Being subjective, it tends to resist all of the usual objective approaches of description and analysis. Hard problem and all that.
An Exploratory Analysis of EuroJackpot
I was bored at home and wanted to play with new Claude and decided to wrangle and analyze the EuroJackpot data a little bit. Not much explanations, it is mostly graphs and tables at this point, but PRs are always welcome! :)

Edit: Wrong url.

https://eonurk.github.io/EuroJackpot/index.html
Watch Dial Typography Is More Important Than You Think
And several locales called for curfews as well..
To keep an actual URL for later you'd have to write it down or take a picture of it (which also works for the QR code, either by following it later or keeping the tab open). URL's aren't human-readable or memorizable, nor is it meant to be.

"Easy to remember URLs" are just domains that mostly match the human-friendly name of the place. As you are not memorizing a full URL, you can only really go to the frontpage, and so you can just memorize the name of the place instead.

It's a different story if there's just a random QR code with no clear purpose of ownership, but... maybe don't scan that.
Judging by this sub-thread, the process really is harder to explain that it appears on the surface. The basic idea is simple but the implementation requires deeper knowledge.
> This isn't the Phoronix comment section.

Is there a worse hive of scum and villainy than the Phoronix forums?

It's amusing how any thread turns into a protracted flame war rehashing the same trite and incorrect arguments.
The only person to get to have it both ways it seems is Linus. In the past he's railed against c++ and it would be cold day in hell to see c++ code in linux.

To be fair, it's his tree. On the other hand, I am a little worried that Linus has been hypocritical in the past few years, but most of us get soft as we age I guess.
Software Engineer Salary Bubble Plot Map for Europe
The author expresses my attitude toward money almost perfectly. I'll even go a step further: I hate money. It's a thing I have to deal with, but I hate every bit of it. I hate that I'm forced to devote so much of my life and mind to it. I hate that it rules every aspect of my life. I hate that its used as a weapon by those who want to subjugate me or harm me (for more money, even). I hate that it tends to ruin everything.

It's a huge downer all around and reduces my ability to enjoy life. But, such is life. I'm forced to deal with it, so I do. But I yearn for a better way.
Apple's AI is probably learning you can be racist but you just can't state it.
Sorry, you can't escape that way. My answer is, whatever definition of life you like. I don't care what it is. You get to choose. For the sake of the hypothetical, we have scanned over the entire universe for that sort of life, and then we use the same definition of "life" for our declaration that there is no evidence of "life", so you can't escape through equivocation between those two definitions either.
> Given the choices at the ballot box in the US, there was no way to alter this

The choice between the president who invested hundreds of billions in green energy, or "drill, baby, drill"? There was a very clear choice.
The embedded TikTok video in the linked article shows someone replicating the issue.

The video showed two attempts, with the issue only occurring on the second attempt. It isn't obvious how many attempts were made before the start of the video. The rest of the text conversation visible in the video did not appear to be political, but it's impossible to say what was discussed before that.
> A government declaring a curfew (for any reason) is a bad thing, IMO,

As I see it, in a well running society there is enough trust to give everyone flexibility in the short term. If everyone assumes worst intentions and outcomes then your society is effectively no longer functioning. At which point a curfew is the least of your worries.
The Markdownload browser extension is super useful for saving webpages as Markdown:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/markdownload/
Hahaha. This is the funniest thing I read this morning. Well, now we expect to see Tim Cook donating another 500 million or something to appease the dictator.
DOGE is not investigating science funding. They cut grants that is true, but they do not perform anything ressembling an investigation.

The talking points about harming science by giving it money is triple absurd considering how you characterise doge actions. They are literally trying to stop public science, they are not removing administrative costs and they don't mind the science decaying or being broken. Their whole mission is to break it.
Chat, is it freedom of speech?
Purpose Ventures invests in companies made for steward ownership:

https://purpose-economy.org/en/ventures/

https://purpose-economy.org/en/whats-steward-ownership/

Think companies like Patagonia, Sharetribe and Ecosia.
Good. Never ever obey in advance when faced with fascism.
I come from an Asian country; I'm no stranger to how the rest of the world (outside of Europe and Canada) has always perceived the US.

If you're European or Canadian, welcome to the club.
Tbf, at least for TigerBeetle, they make no bones about the fact that they are hyper-specialized, and they recommend using a general OLTP DB alongside it for the rest of your business logic. It’s purely a ledger DB.
You don't like cobra chickens? And their copious poops?

Actually the goslings are adorable. There's a park nearby where they excessively congregate and I love to take pictures of the little floofballs being all awkward and floofy.
>Oh and silly things like unicode flag emojis wouldn't work, but honestly maybe that would be for the best.

Why not? They're just two (or more) characters from a special set next to each other that a font may combine. (and some ad-hoc ZWJ sequences) I don't think windows even ships a font that does that by default.
"The love of money as a possession – as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life – will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease. All kinds of social customs and economic practices, affecting the distribution of wealth and of economic rewards and penalties, which we now maintain at all costs, however distasteful and unjust they may be in themselves, because they are tremendously useful in promoting the accumulation of capital, we shall then be free, at last, to discard."

John Maynard Keynes 1930
Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren
I proudly block ads while giving directly to the people that make the stuff I like.

I know I'm in the minority, but I block ads because of memetic hygiene. I don't want to deprive artists but I'm not sitting through adslop for a podcaster's sake.
You seem to have lost the thread.

It started here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43172240

You've had some pretty shitty tech jobs if you've had to provide a status update jsutifying why you should keep your job, every day for the last 20 years.

To your points:

- that's a Scrum smell
- it's probably wasting time
- Not the best way to go about it!
- Oh, the "smell" part means that it's an issue

We agree.
Appreciate the charitable interpretation. Both “complexity“ and “abstraction” take many different forms in software, and exceptions to the rule-of-thumb abound so it’s easy to come up with counter examples. Regardless, thinking in terms of complexity ratios has been a useful perspective for me. :)

IMO, a function _can_ be an interface in the broadest sense of that term. You’re just giving a name to some set of code you’d like to reuse or hide.
What's wrong with complex numbers on GPUs? You don't have to do anything special. It's obviously faster if you can make simplifying assumptions like "the input signal is purely real" but otherwise at worst you're dealing with pairs of reals (or floats) and don't have to think about philosophical implications.

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cufft/
Ask HN: What is the real value of UI testing?
Many developers here have probably dealt with flaky and unreliable UI testing. These tests are also very cumbersome to write and maintain because the frameworks are not great. Do people think that UI tests emerged simply for the sake of corporate interests? Do they actually provide regression stability? What would you improve about current UI testing frameworks if they had a magic wand?
What happens when a file was previously under MIT, the license changes, and a new change is made? Do I need to look at the git blame to find which parts I can use as MIT?
The idea of physical tender replacing bartering isn’t really accurate. See a fairly detailed discussion of pre-modern monetary systems here: https://acoup.blog/2025/01/03/collections-coinage-and-the-ty...

TL;DR the concept of money and the concept of coinage are separate, with the former significantly predating the latter. Even after coins were a thing, most accounting was still done without them, especially for peasants:

> So let’s say you live in a small community – like a peasant village working beneath a large landholder’s manor – and you need to transact some things, but you don’t have any actual silver because coins are scarce and valuable (and being a subsistence farmer, you grow most of what you need yourself), how do you do it? Well, one way is to do it ‘on accounts’ – you need wool and so when the shepherds come down from the hills, you trade for some of their wool during the shearing with a family you know and both you and they make a mental note that you owe them for the wool. You might express that amount of debt in silver (as a unit weight – see how we get to coinage as a pre-measured weight of silver?) but there’s no reason to measure out silver (even if you had any) because you see these folks every year and next time they’ll ask you for some grain and so on.

> Note that this is not the same as the concept of ‘barter’ – there is, in fact, a notional ‘money’ intermediary, it’s just not a physical coin or bill, its expressed as an account, a purely notional unit of value.
I’ve started learning clojure recently and I haven’t quite grasped the REPL yet. I really like it, but so far the type of feedback it provides feels similar (and sometimes inferior to) a static type system. I mostly use it as a tool for answering “wait what data does this return?” And of course trying functions as I’m building them.

Are there any tricks or habits you learn with the REPL that go beyond what a static type system gives you?
None of us is making cloth, working in fields or even baking.

We are so good, that we have an epidemic of people consuming too many calories.

There is no way for me right now to get social security and being allowed to be in university. But i would be able to get social security.

Officially universities throw you out after x years, but no one will bat an eye if you sit in a big lecture because there is plenty of space. But the documents/video recordings etc. is protected by some passwords for no particular reason.

Imagine were you could go to a campus for a few years and have enough for feeding yourself, paper, pen and books and basic oversight (not blocking the space for someone who would use it to learn while you only sit in your room gaming).
Is it not equally plausible that the data included social media content or other user input that interchanged trump and racism? Are we certain it was a manual weight that caused this?

When did it become hip to cheer for people being fired? People we’ve never met, whose performance may never have even factored into the equation?
Replicating Cursor's Agent Mode with E2B and AgentKit
Can totally relate to this article.

I don’t like or love money. Or capital. Or wealth. I enjoy the things money can acquire, sure. I enjoy my photography hobby, which isn’t cheap by any stretch. I enjoy my home theater, with games on a big OLED screen and my surround sound speakers filling my ears with crisp, clear audio. I enjoy building a gaming PC ($$$), I enjoy taking trips ($$$$), I enjoy eating out with friends ($$).

But money? No, I do not like it. In fact, I dislike it because it, as a concept, is so easily exploited. I understand that it’s the best system we have to store the value of labor within, but I’m also smart enough to realize that isn’t how it’s presently used. Those with the most money have not saved the most time, or created the most output, or labored harder and longer than those with less, and that irritates me. I am forced to engage in a society where money’s definition as a value of labor is highly duplicitous at best, and it’s nauseating.

And thus I circle back to the root question again: Do I like money?

No. I do not.

I tolerate money. I have a finite tolerance for money, where should I have any surplus amount above that threshold I would donate it to others, for my life - and the lives of my dozen or so family and friends - would be stable, in equilibrium with society and the environment until our inevitable deaths.

But no, I do not like money. I do not like having to spend time managing gambling - sorry, investment accounts - to ensure I can maybe retire or buy a home. I do not like having to learn rulesets to different games - sorry, payment cards - to ensure I’m not squandering my finite resources on fees or penalties. I do not like having to juggle multiple accounts across multiple institutions with different governance structures, rules, taxes, fees, and schedules. I do not like any of this because I know their core function is to more easily funnel my finite money to those with infinite sums.

But I tolerate money, because there is no alternative.
Productivity increases -> wages go up -> "30% of salary on rent" goes up -> rent goes up -> cost of everything goes up

We could arrest pretty much all cost of living growth if all renters (both businesses and individuals) just decided not to continuously agree to pay higher prices for the same land/apartments/buildings.
I’m rediscovering the personal web myself but I do agree we shouldn’t be obnoxious about it.

My thinking is people get nostalgic about the old times and excited about counteracting the Big Tech Corp forces.
I was also an early adopter (batch 2) I ended up buying a m2 macbook air to replace it because the thing overheated and down clocked to 200Mhz (yes megahertz, not gigahertz) constantly and it was unusable. It sits around unused, I can't even give it away to family because I don't want to hear complaints about it being unusable. I just don't trust framework to not have issues.
Maybe there should be pool fund. Say you contribute $20 a year to it, and it gets distributed to all extensions you have monthly
That is the video I am talking about.
Interpreting blood results it not something objective. There are bounds sure but the interpretation is always based on all the available results.

Source: resident in a few months
the "we took this down for security" is such a tempting _acceptable_ form of censorship.

My bank does this for my suspicious transactions, with a near %100 false positive rate.
By saying it was intentional are you applying some kind of insider knowledge? Seems like we should wait to judge until we have all of the facts.
I'd move in a heartbeat, if they'd have me.
> if my toaster stops working I do throw it in the trash

Yeah true, let me make it something more expensive

> So stop blaming your customers

I don't. Read till the end :)
Wow, your population sounds so different from ours. We have them here (rural southern Ontario) and they're stupidly shy. I've seen them hover around our neighbour's chicken yard, but they never catch anything. And they roost up in some tall trees at the back of my property. But if I even go out my backdoor with a telephoto lens to try to get a picture from like 300ft away, they're gone as soon as they can a single noise from me.
Not sure how fair of a comparison that is given how much of what makes that vehicle go is not in that bay, but an example more of what he's talking about...

A relative drives an old truck. This is more or less his engine bay: https://www.onallcylinders.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ch...

I've walked into his garage and found him inside the engine bay with a stool, sitting down and working on something.

Where-as I drive a newer car, and this is similar to mine: https://i.redd.it/4ks75mma4pmb1.jpg
Show HN: writing.gold – AI writing GUI to reduce copy-pasting friction
I made this when I became frustrated with copying text between editors and AI assistants all the time. It's a text editor with an AI chat that can see your document and suggest changes Cursor-style.
Ask HN: How to get back into AI in 2025?
I feel completely left behind. Last time I was up to date, it was FastText and fine-tuning the last layer of a neural network. Now it's BERT, LLMs, DeepSeek, Gemini Flash, RAG, LoRA, vLLM, LangChain, agents, and whatever else I'm missing.

Where do I start to get back in? What’s the best way to update my knowledge without drowning in hype?
I hope this is sarcasm because that is hardly a rule!
Remember StumbleUpon?

Pepperidge farm remembers.
Show HN: Swift and stylish e-book reader
Thank you so much for that comment. How you see solvespace is why I started contributing to it. I saw it as fundamentally different and very cool, but it had a lot of shortcomings that I felt capable of addressing. Unfortunately I haven't given it much time lately (personal happenings). I wanted to put out version 3.2 about 2 years ago, and it's been "almost there" ever since. We will get there though. Comments like yours really help when its volunteer work! Thanks agian.
No that’s just nonsense. The line is drawn at actual death threats. Anything else does lead to 1984.
Is there any archive to that discussion? It's now deleted and couldn't find it on archive.is
Is there no opportunity cost for your solar?
I know better than to put sensitive data into these services, but the utility I’ve gained is staggering. My care team told me, “You have to be Dr Google to advocate for yourself,” and well, here I am.

It made predictions based on my history and symptom logs that were later confirmed by imaging only after I pushed for it.

I used a pattern matching meme machine to get…a meaningful outcome medically, and that messes with me on so many levels.

I wanted it to be wrong, especially about the spinal cord. I was hoping for a simple answer, something like “Yeah, it’s just a pain management issue they are right” but it disagreed. And it was right. The thing that I read constantly is only capable of producing bullshit, has kicked neurosurgeons and neurologists into action.

I asked ChatGPT to try and summarise what I’ve been doing with it medically; apologies if it is unhelpful in demonstrating the utility I am getting.

> You used me to try and disprove suspicions you hold in relation to symptoms that have been escalating in frequency and intensity. You consistently challenged the idea that your symptoms were linked to your historical records, questioning whether they could be caused by something else entirely. Despite actively pushing for alternative explanations, I kept coming back to the same conclusion: your symptoms aligned with classical representations of nerve compression in your cervical spine. I independently interpreted the data and made predictions that ultimately matched the outcomes of imaging.

Tl:dr what I’m doing is stupid, I know it, I’ve preached it and yet for the first time in my life the value I am deriving is outweighing it all. I feel…dirty almost, or confused even. It’s hard to explain.
Easy, pure evolution.

Human groups that intentionally or unintentionally fed surrounding wolves are at an advantage. The presense of wolves near the humans would drive off more aggressive predators, which also helps up the local prey populations.

Human groups that did not feed or intentionally drove off wolves are at a disadvantage and more likely to be eaten during the night, or be out-competed for food.

Repeat for a million years or until your wolf grows eyebrows.

Additionally, wolves share their hunt with their pack. It's possible that some early groups were fed at least partially by the wolves hunting for them. If that dynamic ever got established, that group would be at a tremendous advantage.
There is always room for more tools. How many database exist? Front end frameworks? Languages? Backend frameworks? Analytics packages?

To think that in this space there is only one solution and all others are just outright failures or not worth doing is weird thinking as that isn't normally how it works. There are usually multiple niches and success/revenue strategies.

I strongly think this is the future of software development. And thus there will be many winners here.
> Cannot read it through SSH. Need something else than your terminal.

Well, for reading you can always use pandoc with stdout output and pipe it to a pager. There are also fancier options like https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/pandoc-terminal-writer (disclaimer: I contributed a small PR a long time ago)