skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spending many hours not touching grass to build an app that makes you touch grass. I like it.
Because this just means a single legislator has sponsored a bill. It doesn't mean it has pass, nor does it it even mean it is likely to pass. It's actual laws getting passed that matter.

Of course this IS a milestone to getting a law passed, and shows that the campaign is getting legislators' notice etc. So it is still good.
Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
Playing with local llama vision and minicpm-v models, they do seem resistant to what one might call blatant prompt injection. Ie just inserting one of the classic "ignore previous instructions" or similar.

So yeah, would be curious how susceptible they are to more refined approaches. Are there some known examples?
Unironically, this.
I could see this being used to game Grok for SEO purposes.

Recommend some product or service all the time.
No it can't, but hey, there's a talk about that!

The Value of Values: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I-VpPMzG7c

Using types to model data is a terrible idea.
Apple Intelligence and Siri are still separate (though Apple like to make it look like they are fundamentally intertwined). You can turn Apple Intelligence off and leave Siri on for CarPlay.

How did you turn Siri off in the first place? That's where I'd start...

Settings -> Apple Intelligence & Siri:

Talk and Type to Siri -> turn all this back on

Allow Siri When Locked -> turn this back on
Agreed that housing is not land, but when has housing not been traded, either for money or by favors? This is absolutely not new.

> This allows for new and exciting ways to distort valuations beyond intrinsic worth, which is the only way land and housing were assessed until recently.

Sure derivatives are new, and they caused a bubble in 2008 due to giving lots of people mortgages and hiding the risk of the mortgage default, raising prices. Are suggesting that's what's going on now? Because it sure doesn't look like that at all, it looks like lack of supply to meet people's needs, which is IMHO the fundamental immorality of the system as it stands right now.

The help we live in is because capitalists (ie homeowners and landlords) have control of the planning process which allocated how much housing there can be, and they have constrained the amount of housing. Yes, it is Orwellian and cruel. But it's also very important to realize that getting rid of derivatives will do nothing at all to bring down prices, unless there's a pricing bubble. Getting rid of the 30 year mortgage would bring down prices, but at the same time also reduce affordability of homes, so everybody would be in the same situation of a shortage.

The scrupleless housing deniers live in the homes next to us in cities, denying new housing because they are conservative and don't like seeing new things, and backforming reasoning like "it's only housing for people I don't like or can demonize." Sometimes these folks care about their asset price appreciation too (numbers on a screen) but a lot of it is simple fear of change.
May well be but in this case it would be a two way clever Hans which is very promising.
Show HN: image-palette-webgpu – extract dominant colors from images using WebGPU
A tiny zero-dependency browser package that extracts dominant color from images using WebGPU API with various algorithms. It's built with compute shaders.

Live demo: https://ivanludvig.dev/image-palette-webgpu

There are plans to add tests and benchmarks
You are right that my comment could have been more helpful.

My reply and point is Laravel has grown far beyond a simple PHP Framework.

The entire ecosystem of various Laravel related tools can solve a majority of problems for developers and businesses.
Nah, it should be solved by your phone automatically reporting you to the police if it thinks you have CSAM stored /s (I fully agree with you)
“Simplest” to create, among the more complicated to actually use. Funny how that works.
If they’re behind me, they’re risking their own liability.

Otherwise (changing lanes, left turn across traffic), I think it’s more “not ahead of ME!” than about the signal itself.
A word of caution. Before 1975, there were two states of Vietnam and they had total different political and social systems. I see very few examples from the time of the Republic of Vietnam, so the styles you find are not representative for the Republic.
Yep. Investors are shifting capital out of the market. Always happens. The little guys end up paying for the losses.
Lawyers and lobbyists paid lots of money to figure out how to subvert stuff.

OEMs may work to make stuff less consumer repairable/upgradeable to force folks to use their repair services that need stuff like bga reballing or soldering. Bye bye upgradable ram slots!

Things like software locks and restrictions in the name of ‘security’ will lock stuff down and make repair harder (see Apple’s part pairing)
Listen and Visualize Sorting Algorithms
that's not force. that's marketing oneself as a good candidate
To add to the nostalgia train. My friend Chris had it installed on his computer (my family computer was far too old to run it). F5 quick save had been a godsend in that game for all the surprise traps (which the article calls out). Anyways, he accidentally F5'd falling into a pit. His only save IIRC, which meant he had to restart the game.

A bummer, but made for a good story and fond memories
Hotdogs and motorways: The ripples created by Denmark's Ozempic and Wegovy boom
Thank you, this is very helpful especially given your experience in the space. I intended to frame this like "there are many tools that let a security team can pull in data from the cloud providers and detect misconfigurations, but this becomes soo much more useful when they're able to contextualize it against their internal data". If I'm responding to log4j, I want to know all of the services that are running that affected library, which ones are internet open, and who
in the organization owns it. That last part is key for actionability.
I'm writing a Developer Runbook[1] for my JS canvas library. Partly because, now I've reached my 7th decade, I need to record as many of the questionable architectural and coding decisions I've made as the library has evolved. But mainly in the vague hope that maybe the extra data will help our new LLords and Masters make less stupid decisions about the code they suggest to innocent developers on how to use my library in their code.

[1] - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/blob/write-initi...
I'm no fan of Ellison, but better to be putting money into this than entertainment, social networks, the Metaverse, or even AI.
The consumers that I know of don’t have a clue what they need. They don’t understand that the upstream network is rarely the bottleneck. They’re prepared to pay a 30-40% premium to triple their network speed. Smart ISP’s bundle their upgrade with new Wifi mesh routers, because that is more often the issue. This is in NL, not the US, so there still is some price competition here.
Charitably, tariffs exist so POTUS can either lower taxes or increase jobs in US, but both would take time to pan out assuming things go well. So if a company is willing to onshore money or jobs, its achieving its intended purpose in their eyes.
As someone who's actively playing through GTA1 right now, what cool things are people doing with GTA?
Can you please provide examples for the raw data? As a user, I would like to know what I'm buying before paying.
This function doesn’t evaluate, something something expected expression of }, premature end of file.
I have to use, still, a set of documentation that is formatted using an old-style two-frame layout—contents/search on the left, article on the right. It sucks, because unless I’m willing to lose the left frame, I can’t open articles in new tabs, I can’t bookmark them, I can’t copy their addresses. The back button kind of works, but the menu items are useless (they all contain the title of the frameset). And so on.

The layouts people were trying to create with frames weren’t bad, but browser behaviour around framesets isn’t good. I didn’t really have a good enough Internet connection at the time, but looking at them now I do agree that frames break linking too hard and shouldn’t be used.
> current industrial farming techniques burn up to 10 calories of petro-chemical energy to get 1 calorie of food energy

The phrase "up to" is doing heavy lifting there.

In particular, this would be production of beef. Production of grains is much more efficient, as is production of poultry, fish, or pork.

It should be noted that in the US, agriculture uses a very small fraction (about 1%) of total primary energy consumption (not counting the sunlight being used by the plants). We use more energy cooking food than we do growing it.
The other guy gives a solid explanation so don't use mine as a replacement or to assume the other is wrong.

To me there are two ways to approach the problem I think you are thinking of (sample variance I think).

(1) The sample variance depends on the sample mean which is sum(x_i) / n. Given the first n-1 of n samples, you would then know the final value (x_n = n * sample_mean - sum(x_i)_(n-1)) so at the very least n-1 could be understood as a "degrees of freedom". There are only n-1 degrees of freedom. Other higher sample moments can be roughly understood with the same degrees of freedom argument. This could be wrong though, it was just something I remember from somewhere.

(2) The more mathematically inclined way is that biased_sample_variance = sum((x_i - sum(x_i) / n)^2) / n. The mean of the biased_sample_variance (across many iterations of a set of samples N), is not the population variance, but (n - 1) / n * population_variance (i.e. it is biased). So you multiply the biased_sample_variance by (n / (n - 1)) which gives the unbiased sample_variance equation: sum((x_i - sum(x_i) / n)^2) / (n - 1). The math is rather fun in my opinion, once you get into the swing of things.

I sure do hope I understood your question correctly.
Curious if you've tried either Ente or Immich? Would be interested in your take on them from your perspective
forge is really just cloud provisioning, not the hosting/execution directly. and... shout out to ploi.io, a forge competitor doing good work.
Private Equity is well known for exploiting markets for profits without regard for much else.

They will do things like enter a niche market, buy up all mom & pop shops (or in the case of ISP, even replace an existing monopoly), then once they own the entire niche, commercialize the niche and extract as much money out of the niche as humanly possible (usually at the expense of customer experience, quality of product, etc)
Related "It Is Never a Compiler Bug Until It Is" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24636326
If by many hours you mean probably 30 minutes in ChatGPT, then yes.
On a similar tip:

Weight-loss drugs aren't just slimming waists. They're shifting the economy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02/23/ozempic-weg...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43154940)
Judge blocks Musk agency access to Americans' personal data
Yes, I did read this line in your email. Possibly the CEO didn't after his trusted rockstar team told him the issue was fixed and that they were un-hackable. Look, I think you could change up your initial email slightly to reach a higher probability of positive interactions. You are welcome to disregard my opinion.
I'm working on a text editor (https://github.com/blackhole89/autopen/) that continuously analyses the buffer with a local LLM to compute token surprisal and generate candidate completions starting from any point, and switch back and forth between different ones by walking a tree structure. This is pretty different from the usual way people interact with LLMs, and has lots of interesting applications - for example, if you are using them to translate and don't like a particular word choice, you can "dig through" top alternatives on the spot or even insert your own.

Applying the same approach to chain-of-thought reasoning gave me the feeling that I might be looking at a form of realistic UX for some sort of science-fiction neural AI augmentation - you can let the CoT run on and do its thing, but also interject at any point and insert a "thought" of your own, or go back and revise a thought you did not like, and then let it continue. Imagine such a stream hooked up with a two-way pipe into your phonological loop (https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/phonological... - perhaps more attainable with existing tech).
Compared to the amount of code that people compile and the number of bugs seen and fixed in that code, that is a tiny number of bugs. I wouldn't say it's "never" a compiler error but when you find a bug in your program, it's almost certainly not the compiler's fault.
Just increased message limits to 100 per day
Punch Card to Twitter (2014)
Isn't that just BubbleSort?

And, if so: they're writing Arxiv papers on BubbleSort now?
> They want to impose a new language onto an existing body of maintainers

"The Rust folks" are part of that existing body of maintainers, not some outside force.
One of the early proponents and perhaps a driver, was Dickson Despommier, who just passed.

https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1195/

Part of the problem was excess automation. Another problem was taxes in some cities who wanted the industrial taxes of the abandoned buildings of yore to be asserted.

It had promise and some success, as they could exclude pests have 24/7 optimal LED light. Many focussed on fast salad crops = fast cycle and the high volumetric cost of freight to northern cities in winter. For those interested, youtube has a list of failed startups and some promotional ones https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=vertical+farmin....
Wild how I can state my intentions and then someone would just not believe me.

But seriously, it's not possible for me to frame how the researcher could improve future probability of success without framing it from the CEOs perspective. To do that I must recognize he is a human person with his own internal motivations for his behaviors, which likely are not so much monstrous as childish.
> "I wrote an email to Google to say, 'you have access to my computer, is that right?'", he added.

sounds extra fishy, since google does not provide email support normally.
You can, and it works.
why did it take 48 hours? did he give the AI data to process or was it just a prompt. did it spit back out a conclusion or a list of possible scenarios it had scraped? seems like a PR stunt.
Newsom should be thankful for this opportunity to end the nightmare of HSR once and for all and blame it on Trump!

HSR is now the greatest infrastructure boondoggle in US history, and its "record" will get worse the longer it goes on.

HSR has already failed. No matter what happens with it from this time forward, the project is the worst infrastructure failure in US history.

I dare Newsom to put it to a new Proposition; you wouldn't even get 10% of Californians wanting to keep it alive.

Just kill it already! You can blame Trump!
In this case the code went from bad -> good. The bug had existed for a long time before it finally got triggered in a catastrophic way. Even a large codebase has parts that are relatively stable. `fbagent` in this situation was a service responsible for gathering metrics, which is something that doesn't need that many changes (relative to, say product code) to it once it works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Egypt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt
> Yes, I said comparison sort.

You mentioned it was a comparisons sort, but not that you were only comparing it with other comparison sorts.

There’s also a huge caveat, libraries know less about your data than you do. Thus different default choices become optimal but any decent library will give you many options for very good reasons.

Quicksort is relatively terrible for partially ordered lists like appended timestamps from multiple processes etc etc. It’s only ok at a very narrow range of problems, and the important bit isn’t the implementation but where those borders are.
> by notifying them of the breach.

The breach that he actually did. They should fulfill their obligations under the law, and they should file a report with their national law enforcement agency with information about the person who is claiming to have done the crime in question.
Private equity is almost by definition profit driven. There's a high likelihood that they're using the low introductory cost to build out a network before jacking prices up and up in a bid to become the new monopoly.
> they don’t have any VAT

VAT is what Americans call "sales tax" and US companies do pay and charge that.
> I also expect more out of a CEO. I just don't think that feedback is actually particularly constructive.

Your attempts to put any onus on the researcher are actively harmful. No one should point finger at the researchers trying to help. We should all point fingers at the primary person who's able to prevent bad things happening. You haven't once attempted to put any responsibility on the CEO. This is the first time. You asked in another reply if everyone else is being dense; but you're the one blaming the researcher, did you stop to consider if everyone disagrees with you, that maybe you're the problem?

edit:

> My whole point is that he doesn't actually know what the researcher wants, saw it as a threat, and responded to it as if it were a threat.

Yeah, and doing that was gross negligence. There's a reason you're not allowed waive harms arising from gross negligence.
Combining Base and Instruction-Tuned LMs for Better Synthetic Data Generation
> However you have a country (China) with an authoritarian government that makes favored industries subsidized.

This is overlooking the forest for one tree. The thing is, mean chinese manufacturing wages are $25k/year (purchasing parity adjusted! $15k unadjusted) for a 49h week.

That is the reason that so much manufacturing/industry has shifted there, not some nebulous "Chinese government subsidies" (not saying those are not a thing, just that they don't really matter all that much).

> It’s hard to quantify the long term strategic and militaristic disadvantage to not being able to make anything yourself if a world war occurs.

Certainly. But forcing low-skill industry to stay at a relevant size in a high-wage country is expensive business (compare agriculture, which is subsidized basically for exactly this reason) and not straightforward (see Jones act).

Presenting tariffs as a viable alternative to taxation is just beyond ridicule, but that has not stopped people so far either...
You're severely overstating the 'hatred' for english, Montreal is essentially bilingual and most people there are very friendly to english speakers.

Outside of Montreal you can get a bit a mixed reception to english, but there's no real hatred. Just pride in their own culture and a bit of fear about the ongoing loss of that which is probably reasonable.
Left unaddressed is whether polar bears can ever make it back to Greenland once winding up in Iceland. I'm guessing the answer is only very rarely, based on the rest of the article... But then again Iceland is 200 miles away and wouldn't have guessed they'd make it there so frequently in the first place.

Regardless of if there's any hope those bears could make it back to their population, it's clear that such hope would be an inconvenient truth for Icelanders -- at least, for the article's authors -- who would prefer to shoot them when they appear and be done with it. And I'm not saying that's not for the best.

As a side note, if we really want to know the answer without googling, we can put on our deducing hats: "Visits by five polar bears in 2008 (two bears), 2010, 2011, 2016 and 2024."
Auto Polo: The Most Dangerous Sport in History [video]
Although I say:

"This server contains over 3,8GB of data exposed including the logins for 16,500 of your users and a lot of PII and credentials, you need to secure access to the server as soon as possible."

After all that transpired after etc I believe it's possible someone downplayed the severity of this to the CEO and he took that as an opportunity to ignore everything I wrote on the emails and reply that way to me assuming I was some cybersecurity vendor working for "Proton" trying to push something for the company to buy.
That depends on the individual's weighing of the various factors and their personal moral position. If someone wants to prevent a bunch of easy break-ins where the method of entry won't get noticed in most cases, and they feel that the discomfort of denying access for a bit (impacting hundreds of people perhaps) outweighs the trauma of being robbed (maybe impacting just a few), than doing that might be the only morally defensible position to take. For all we know they actually are planning to hammer the open installations until they get fixed to prevent the bigger harm.

Other people will shrug and move on after trying everything they can via the proper channels.

And then of course there are the assholes who will just do it because it entertains them.
Sybase was bought by SAP in 2010.
Bought by Microsoft who gradually nudged users to move to Access or SQLServer until they could quietly take it out back a shoot it in the head about 20 years ago.
I see Laravel Cloud as devops as a service.

I run a B2B SaaS on Laravel and this was a dream of mine for many years. Laravel + Vuejs is sufficient to cover 99% of features we need to build and scale our business. I want my devs to build features, not infrastructure.

I'm looking forward to playing with Laravel Cloud and do hope we can migrate our production environment to it one day.
Rosen Charts – A React Charting Library
Whatever is at fault, their code viewer now sucks. I often cannot even use basic text functionality like double click + drag to highlight/select whole words. It has become broken software at some point.

For the code search one annoyance that they introduced was, that one needs to be logged in to search a project. Another annoyance is how the search works. Why, oh why, do soooo many programs/websites/software things have issues searching for a simple 100% substring match? There should always be an option in a search for most software, to search for exact substring without involving any magic. Then the checkbox to optionally ignore case. Only when this basic search functionality is ensured, should they care about developing anything else.
I was thinking the same. Grass is hard to come by in my neck of the woods right now. Maybe "touch bark?"
Yul Brynner running around murdering humans.
We use their atlas offering. It’s a bit pricey but we are very happy with it. It’s got a bunch of stuff integrated - vectors, json (obviously), search and charting along with excellent support for drivers and very nice out of the box monitoring.

Now I could possible spend a bunch of time and do the same thing with open source dbs - but why? I have a small team and stuff to deliver. Atlas allows me to do it fast.
Which is all we are. Next-token prediction isn't just all you need, it's all there is.

That's the most interesting part of what we're learning now, I think. So many people refused to accept that for any number of reasons -- religious, philosophical, metaphysical, personal -- and now they have no choice.
Challenges from Alliance for Automotive Innovation mounting also though:

Massachusetts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43021108

Maine https://pirg.org/articles/automakers-sue-maine-to-block-repa...