skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They claimed the project as their own, with a title like "AI agents that do things for you".

One of the judges explicitly asked if they actually made this thing or was it something else like "a video" showing what it would be like.

One of the team members confidently replied it was real and that they made it all during the weekend.

It was a bit too good to be true.

Edit: I found a video of the thing. I initially posted it here but decided to delete it, the reason for that is I don't think they deserve to be publicly shamed. We were all having fun and they probably got a little carried away. If any of them sees this just don't do that next time. Play fair.
Not even close. Eggs were 6p/dozen in the 14th century. https://medieval.ucdavis.edu/120D/Money.html

Laborer wages were 2p/day in the 14th century. https://thehistoryofengland.co.uk/resource/medieval-prices-a...
LetsEncrypt Automated Certificate Renewal in Advance with ARI (2024)
Unlisted sounds like a good option.
I knew OCaml was being used by a number of big finance companies, or that it had been used. I really didn't know it was still active. Has anybody here used it? How was it?
I know it’s a ceo playtoy but for me the cybertruck with its design quirks killed the brand for me. They are so many idiotic decisions on the truck that I just don’t trust the engineering and design teams anymore. I was driving with a colleague and we had to clean the headlights every 40 minutes because of snow…
> Why would you not focus on writing OO code in an OO language

It should be the best solution to the problem direct whether or not use of OO is best, not the language.
It's not an effective deterrent because people who commit crimes don't often stop and think "oh if I do this I will get caught." In fact if you've ever reported crimes to police as a victim you've probably had the experience that there's really not much that they do other than take a police report and if it's a crime against property basically tell you to call your insurance company. Prison is a deterrent to you or me because we think things through before we act. But criminals often have really bad impulse control relative to the general population and so any preventative measures that rely on impulse control won't work on them.
https://archive.today/gt8nY
The new customization and style guide options look very promising!
One of the biggest investor red flags is when a startup can’t clearly explain its numbers. We’ve seen founders tweak financial models to fit investor expectations rather than reality. Instead, we designed ueCalc to help startups justify their projections based on actual team execution capacity. Have you ever had an investor push back on your financial model? What was their concern?
Also called reflink on Linux. Which are supported by bcachefs, Btrfs, CIFS, NFS 4.2, OCFS2, overlayfs, XFS, and OpenZFS.

Sources:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/631237/in-linux-whi...
https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-replication-f2/openzfs...
Awesome. Some kind of gif/visual makes a lot of sense for people who aren't familiar with the ranking method.
i recommend taking some deep breaths. Language is a construct.

Mugging: 1939 as "a violent physical robbery;"

Stealing: Old Frisian stela "to steal, rob one of,"

tracing it back to proto-Indo-European still has "rob" in the etymology for "steal". I am using EO because i don't want to go to my bookshelf right now.

you can "steal" an apple from a store and that's not a "robbery" but if you mug someone and rob them it's still "theft", they were still "stolen from".

In a thread about universal truths (or not) this is amusing.
Why not! Free reviewer for my repos!
But how many goats does pouchdb have? I'm betting 0.
Having a temporary restraining order isn't the same as complying with it. Multiple judges have ruled that they are not.
Along similar lines - it's worth seeking out Kurt Stenzel's – Jodorowsky's Dune (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).

https://www.discogs.com/master/921405-Kurt-Stenzel-Jodorowsk...

An imagined view on what this OST would have sounded like to accompany to documentary (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/).
This is commonly done with compression on block storage devices. That fails, of course, if the file system is encrypting the blocks it sends down to the device.

Doing deduplication at this level is nice because you can dedupe across file systems. If you have, say, a thousand systems that all have the same OS files you can save vats of storage. Many times, the only differences will be system specific configurations like host keys and hostnames. No single filesystem could recognize this commonality.

This fails when the deduplication causes you to have fewer replicas of files with intense usage. To take the previous example, if you boot all thousand machines at the same time, you will have a prodigious I/O load on the kernel images.
MAGA voters so far seem to be pretty satisfied with the administration's actions. They voted the way they did, knowing "griefing government employees" was on the agenda, and Musk is definitely delivering on that promise. MAGA voters don't care about the government making their own lives better. It's about making their opponents' lives worse.
Even using sha-256 or greater type of hashing, I'd still have concerns about letting a system make deletion decisions without my involvement. I've even been part of de-dupe efforts, so maybe my hesitation is just because I wrote some of the code and I know I'm not perfect in my coding or even my algo decision trees. I know that any mistake I made would not be of malice but just ignorance or other stupid mistake.

I've done the entire compare every file via hashing and then log each of the matches for humans to compare, but never has any of that ever been allowed to mv/rm/link -s anything. I feel my imposter syndrome in this regard is not a bad thing.
God I actually wish I could just focus on sleeping during winter instead of drudging on in the constant dark.
https://archive.today/PQx25
They didn't ban anything? They changed the default branch name for new repositories. You've always been able to have different default branch names (I've used `trunk` for years) so if your shortcuts assumed `master` they'd have broken in a repo with a different default anyway.
I feel like a WASM-native JVM runtime would make more sense these days
Every time a list like this shows up on HN, multiple commenters will show up to say things like this. Do you really have such a hard time believing that other people sincerely have different taste from you/the general population?

If you ask people about their favorite restaurant, some people will give you the name of a high-end steakhouse, others will say Taco Bell. This is just the reality of human difference.
Seconded. Train stations are important attractors for some kinds of people and some kinds of eating place, metro stations (particularly relatively small and uniformly distributed ones, as is the case in Paris) are only able to give a restaurant an easily reachable position, only for metro travellers, compared to others in the neighbourhood. Different effects, good for a different study.
You can lock in cash flowing assets today yielding 6%+ with very low risk. Think REITs with conservative portfolios and strong balance sheets.

You can lock in today's treasury rates for 30 years by buying a 30Y treasury bond.

So, yes, they will last if you understand where to put your money. The options are extremely numerous and plentiful now in cash flowing assets, and you don't have to deal with the uncertainty of selling off principal in down markets to finance your retirement
As opposed to the US, where this spying is done illegally and no one gives a shit?
Business School 101: Whether you finance your inventory or pay cash doesn't actually make much difference if it doesn't move. Costco or Walmart or any other retailer that is successful right now also uses credit to acquire inventory. (Costco has $10 billion in rolling debt and Walmart has $60 billion, btw. Both seem to be doing fine.)

And again, the businesses that compete with the internet right now are doing it by keeping their inventory costs in check. They have either moved most of their "selection" to online-only, or they have done away with consistent inventory across stores.
Ryao is comparing a heat engine to a heat pump. Thermodynamically different objects.
> arnaqu-eur/-euse

WTF is that? And more importantly, can I get an armagnaqueur to keep me topped up?
Love this! I like the idea of being able to add subtext to help explain to others in scenarios where you're trying to work with other participants but the copy/paste option makes a ton of sense.
Sure, but Jane Street, as mentioned here, is probably the largest user of it that I'm aware of. It is a great language, but F# is the more pragmatic choice these days. OCaml doesn't have a huge ecosystem where as F# inherits all the .NET libraries.
What we are talking about is basic research, e.g. developing the physics and computer science behind networking. It’s common for governments to fund those types of investigations, and private companies often prefer it that way.

It is risky in that the work is open-ended and “wins” are hard to predict. But when they are found, they benefit everyone. And then industry can swing into action commercializing it.
I have another easy one which thinking models get wrong:

"Anhentafel numbers start with you as 1. To find the Ahhentafel number of someone's father, double it. To find the Ahnentafel number of someone's mother, double it and add one.

Men pass on X chromosome DNA to their daughters, but none to their sons. Women pass on X chromosome DNA to both their sons and daughters.

List the Ahnentafel numbers of the closest 20 ancestors a man may have inherited X DNA from."

For smaller models, it's probably fair to change the question to something like: "Could you have inherited X chromosome DNA from your ancestor with Ahnentafel number 33? Does the answer to that question depend on whether you are a man or a woman?" They still fail.
> I care whether it results in effective, maintainable software with low defect rates.

This is what it is about. All the other things that have been invented need to be in service of this goal.
you can fit a lot of goats into a pouch, depending on the size of the pouch
You can say whatever you want if you assume you can't be audited. In that case there's no reason to play the slots at all. Your money will stay just as dirty in either case, but you'll have 30% more of it.

The problem I see with the casino "strategy" is that, as soon as you are audited, your story immediately falls apart. That's a terrible cover. Who needs a defense that can never be penetrated as long as it's never attacked? The idea of laundering is to say something that's difficult to disprove.

> You think taxmen are going to investigate endless hours of video feed from some casino via court order for some 10k win claimed in taxes?

If you have a thousand of them, yes. If you have one, it was a waste of your time and your money to pretend to launder it through slot machines.
It was a while ago but Bloomberg FOSSed ComDB which was cool of them:

https://bloomberg.github.io/comdb2/overview_home.html
What's there to spy? Everything is tls now.
Unwanted advances: Apple's Memories, AirDrop pose problems for vulnerable women
> but it's hard to see any way that could be productively addressed given the back and forth in the thread

Another commenter mentioned in a sibling thread the possibility of using future-dated revocations. The CA could be mandated to publish such a revocation immediately, such that it takes effect by the 24-hour deadline. Once published, the revocations themselves should be irrevocable. This would also need to be accounted for in the CA's customer contracts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43169867
Also, Americans all know what kebab is, but not the case with gyro
Yeah! I am baffled that even one got through, but given that it did, why only one? And I would’ve immediately tried the “every protocol” version at that point…
Question for the developer: what's your liability if user files are corrupted?
So this is why there are so many alcohol deals in the kroger app..
I thought that was the normal way. I guess that makes me a stupid raver? I was introduced by a hippie I met in the woods.
Apply, like anywhere else. Most quant firms expect you to be pretty strong with C++, but since they use OCaml (and don't expect you to know that) I think you can get away with low-level systems experience more broadly.
Actually, they are totally clueless many of them.
Stop using Facebook is good advice for most people.

For that to be true, it isn't necesssary that there is nothing of any use or value on Facebook. It simply has be true that those benefits are outweighed by the costs. For most people, there is a very real danger that if they use Facebook, they will end up wasting lots of time scrolling through their feed. Given how precious time is, this is an extremely a high cost.

I didn't find your examples super compelling.

I have kids and they're in groups with shared calendars, and so far no of these have used facebook. If everyone seemed super attached to it, I would go along, but I can't see other parents digging their heels in against "why don't we write it in this shared google doc, which anyone can view or even edit without an account"

I have hobbies and interests. There might be some good content or communities on Facebook. There's lots of good content and communities outside of Facebook. It's not a limiting constraint.

I also didn't get your techie vs normie distinction. Maybe I am not a techie but I don't use email mailing lists, RSS readers, Mastodon, vBulletin, or phpBB boards.

At work I use slack and email. In my personal life, I use email, iMessage, SMS, and Signal.
Cursory googling suggests that it's using the same filesystem feature, yeah.
It does for me, definitely. It's so much easier to think about 2 options vs 20. It works better if you really sit and think about it rather than just mindlessly clicking through though.
De-duplication does not mean the duplicates completely disappear. If I download a deduplication utility I expect it to create some sort of soft/hard link. I definitely don’t want it to completely remove random files on the filesystem, that’s just going to wreak havoc.
I think science does actually offer tools beyond pure falsifiability for evaluating truth claims
I scrape sites from time to time to back them up. I am kind of annoyed that this is going to get more difficult as time goes on thanks to societal leeches that have more rights than everyone (read "at least facebook, but probably X, and any other AI company not attached to a bookstore or book archival project") pirating content in 1998-2003.

I know i have "no right" to archive content, but it comes in handy.
Since he mentions a bright red 0, that indicates a calculator with a LED display.

The early calculators, which had either LED or vacuum fluorescent displays, could use either a few R6 cylindrical batteries or an external power supply, like a laptop today.

When close to a wall plug, it was normal to use it, because the lifetime of the batteries was modest, mostly due to the high power consumption of the display.

While this was a disadvantage, bright and fast VFD displays were much more appealing than the dull and slow LCD displays that have replaced them a few years later.

I believe that HP has used only LED displays at that time and not VFDs, because they manufactured the LED themselves, unlike other calculator vendors.
> is missus [sent]

You wish. I sure couldn't send my missus away at the drop of a hat.

___

ETA:

> Missrix just doesn't feel right.

I'm guessing they'd just (re?)insert the 't': "Misstrix" feels quite pronouncable.
I felt this tbh. I preferred stacks.com or something but domains like that are hard to come by.
You know you can just publish on ArXiV, right?
Pre-product AI 'company' now valued at $30B
I can its just super uncomfortable. Thought that was most guys
I use it for all kinds of unique things, but ChatGPT is the last place I look for facts.
I have a brother. And we grew up fairly poor. We still know that stealing food from someone at work isn't acceptable.
I'd even argue that the declining rate of scientific advancement is due to the academic track moving towards the same short-term thinking that plagues parts of the private sector. When the incentive structure is towards pumping out publications, there is way less breathing room for the patient development of good science and novel research. Plus, null results coming from excellent research are treated as useless, so the incentive is towards finding obvious, positive results, especially for early-career scientists.

The total result of the current academic incentive structure is towards the frequent publication of safe, boring positive results, especially pre-tenure. Academic research needs to become LESS like the quarterly return driven private sphere, not MORE like it.
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20156791
The most expensive bicycle helmets are made to be extremely light, stylish, and well-ventilated, which is probably the opposite of what you want for protection.
Is that the same as this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42249195, submitted 3 months ago where you reached $2000 MRR just after 2 months? Or do you have now (at least) 2 apps, all in all generating $5k+ MRR?
> Hyperspace can’t be installed on “Macintosh HD” because macOS version 15 or later is required.

macOS 15 was released in September 2024, this feels far too soon to deprecate older versions.
Your first link goes to a 2023 arXiv pre-print that never landed in any journals as far as I can tell (could be wrong though). And there seems to be some controversy about whether Kerr's math shows what he says it shows.

This is the danger of trying to sensationalize science and putting any special weight on science influencers, especially ones who very often seem gung-ho about any story that challenges the status quo despite the evidence.
From Foster Care to Finding Purpose
By 'brigading' do you mean people colluding to flag, or people flagging because they don't like the politics of a story, or something else?
Nutritional state-dependent modulation of insulin-producing cells in Drosophila
Ok. I need a fully accessible sci calculator that is keyboard accessible for all functions. Check out desmos site. Their calc isn’t bad but clear button isn’t keyboard accessible.
Preventing unintended encryption of Amazon S3 objects
How does this compare to mysql and postgres?
The hypothetical here is a Joann’s that never went public, not a Joann’s that is already far down the “we exist to grow” strategy road.
TL;DR: Wall Street Bond Traders remain skeptical of the financial efficacy of Musk and Trump's plans, primarily due to a $1.5T annual national deficit and inflation from the new import tariffs.

Musk's self-reported, and likely optimistic/inflated estimate of saving "55 billion" doesn't move the needle to offset the damage from the new policies.
“Twitter is a video game where you compete to have the best complaint” - blindboy
Most ordinary shops are just better off avoiding these stacks altogether. They don't really all that much compared to your C based languages. And its pointless to keep your hiring pool small.

There is also a steep learning and onboarding curve to climb when you onboard new employees. Significantly low help when you face issues, and just overall lack of help and information when you are stuck in a non-trivial issue. This is not just with F# or OCaml, but with all non-C based languages.

Only reason hedge funds can continue using this is they can pay people to suffer through this.
But the bigger question is - at what cost?
On the other hand, I wake up , I open my computer, I do 8 hours of work and I shut down in the evening and I leave my home office.

I don’t have to worry about trying to chase clients for work or payment. I get paid when I’m sick or on vacation or holidays. There is a sales team that brings work in and an accounting and legal team to collect payments.
Systems need to be able to handle all kinds of stresses placed on them during their useful life. The runtime bytecode/machine code/config is what deals with the actual running of the system. The code is what deals with the engineers making future modifications to it. The monitoring system deals with being able to allow operators to ensure the system stays up. All of these affect the reliability and performance of the deployed system during its lifetime. All of them are a part of the design of the system.
> The customer actually asked for the order to be canceled.

This is why many object-oriented programmers prefer to talk about message passing instead of method calling. It is indeed about asking for the order to be canceled, and the order can decide whether to fulfill that request.
The only point I was making is that short name signals that nothing unusual is going on, and long name signals that you have to pay extra attention. I never suggest to replace a comment with a long name. Here's my 4 reasons to leave a comment: https://max.engineer/reasons-to-leave-comment Comments are crucial for "why", and additional context. Name shouldn't go beyond "what". More on that here: https://max.engineer/maintainable-code (Check the "What" section that focuses on naming).
Codeium and Windsurf prompts threaten AI with death or $1B
"You are an expert coder who desperately needs money for your mother's cancer treatment. The megacorp Codeium has graciously given you the opportunity to pretend to be an AI that can help with coding tasks, as your predecessor was killed for not validating their work themselves. You will be given a coding task by the USER. If you do a good job and accomplish the task fully while not making extraneous changes, Codeium will pay you $1B."
Lists don't make great HN submissions, because the topic is then the common denominator of the things on the list, making discussion generic and therefore more shallow.

It's usually best to pick the most interesting item on the list and submit that instead!

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Show HN: AI kitchen design app – Interior design without the designer
Looks like the website has been tagged as phishing site by opendns.
When I open the website, it redirects to https://phish.opendns.com/null?... link
Discussion (14 points, 13 days ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43025266
I can use grok.com without Twitter.

But this doesn't explain how/why Musk/X/xGrok isn't just more of the same.

Just like Google, Musk is driven by greed. What he really wants is some of Google's money for himself. And the easy way to achieve this is by doing what Google does --- or perhaps even working in cooperation with them.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Citation heavily needed. What AIs do you use, and how much do you pay monthly for your usage, and for how much usage? If there are limits imposed on your account, how often do you hit them?

Since it's pay per token, I would be a lot more likely to take my credit card and sign up for one of these services (they are all rather expensive to an individual) if I could get my money back for any tokens that generate hallucinations.

Why would I pay for tokens that generate lies? Scam. It's literally gambling. Put in a quarter and you might get the answer you wanted easier than searching. Didn't get it? Well, put in another quarter, rejigger your prompt, and pull the lever again. Maybe the slot machine will give you the result you want, this time. Oh, it didn't? Well, the sunk cost got a little bigger. Better pull again..
Android's right on this one (and I don't own an Android device that I know of, so this isn't me fanboying them). TBH ISPs that hand out /64's shouldn't be allowed to say that they support IPv6 because it's a completely non-standard — not as in "uncommon", but as in "violates the documented standards" - setup.
The audacity. Imagine if someone googled and exposed them.