skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm so tired of lazy "both sides" dismissals. It's a boring position to take at this point and only reflects lack of care to research, empathize, and dig into society.

Just admit your apathy and say You don't care about society. Don't assume everyone subscribes to your world view.
Good job, engrossed me for about 20 mins (quite rare).
Yes. It's one of few places where people are interested in technology and business.
I was going to reply to point that out. I'm not surprised you're the one to point it out first!
The man is a walking parable for Chesterton’s Fence.
If I had to describe Quaternions to someone I would first try to explain a Plane (Ax + By + Cz + D = 0) to them. ABC being a (normal) direction that the Plane is pointed towards and D being the distance from the origin.

A Quaternion from what I believe is just the same but instead of distance it just encodes the rotation around that direction as a fixed axis. (Instead the angle stored is half etc).

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not a math-heavy person.
Claude already does all those things.

Also, Claude is already so good at coding, that anyone could clone your "MyCoder" in less than a day. Which makes sense, given you yourself made it using Claude.

Basically, any dev with a small amount of experience can make their own coding software now, without much issue, because the AI tools are so good.

So why should anyone use "MyCoder"?
“Add multiplayer” is of course the annoying request that every game maker always gets, but since you’ve already done it for v2–how hard do you think it would be to combine the multiplayer and the “survivors” type system?

Anyway, fun game. I liked that the perks slowly seemed to ramp up from small tweaks to total game changers as I accumulated/unlocked them.
Claude and Alexa+
Then why should end users expect anything? Microsoft is already paying for developpers.
> might surprise burn your tongue half an hour later.

A *good* vacuum-insulated bottle should be able to do this 90 minutes later. I have some non expensive ones that will keep my tea hot for over 10hrs. Not warm, I mean hot. Even a cheap $10 thermos brand thermos will do at least 6 hrs. They even frequently have cups as caps. I'm sensitive to heat and always need 5 minutes after pouring it into the cup, hours after making my tea.

We're so good at keeping liquids hot it's crazy. If you can't either drink your liquid in 10 hrs or get to a microwave within that time, you're looking for a pretty niche product and a self heating bottle isn't it.
The CI predictive thermometer actually does one better than the time@temp method for food safety. It integrates the temperature with respect to time (a method it calls SafeCook) and it does so with its estimate of the core temperature (based on which of the 8 sensors shows the slowest responding temp curve).

The previous comment about it being a cooking thermometer for nerds is bang on! I dunno how much it really helps improve my cooking but it gives me an incredible feeling of being in control! I love it!
> so we can forgive CL for this

The 1962 dated Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual already describes a 0 based array feature. Lisp was clearly one of the historic instigators of zero based array, rather than just playing along.
This is a local only version: https://www.jollamind2.com/
Because quaternions are awesome? :) it definitely feels like a discovery when you learn about them first.
Yeah, my father is an electrician who does industrial work (non-union, but co-owns his business) and I was out-earning him by the time I was 21. Even though he made some good investment decisions, such as owning the building his company leases, based on info from my mom, I have amassed 2x the net worth in half the time.

I think people often conflate "being a <trade>" with "owning a <trade> business." A W-2 electrician earns a median salary of $62k in the USA. A guy who runs a business as an electrician might bill out $250k a year for his work, but he'll have to pay expenses like insurance, vehicles, gas, tools/tec, FICA, taxes, rent, on call services, and probably salaries for his assistants (which may include an unpaid secret assistant like a spouse who coordinates appointments). So their take home isn't nearly that much.
Congratulations! The game looks amazing—its quality is truly impressive.

I'm currently feeling burned out. I have an app idea and a prototype that I believe could turn into a viable project to support myself. However, I don't have the courage to quit my job—I’m afraid of the anxiety that comes with paying rent and insurance without a steady paycheck. I do have some savings to sustain me for a while, but I'm unsure if taking a break to recharge, learn new things, and build something I'm passionate about (which could potentially become profitable) is a good idea? I'm also worried about how a long gap on my resume might be perceived when I look for a job in the future.

I'm also interested in making video games, but I often get discouraged by the sheer amount of artwork required—something I struggle to handle and afford. How did you manage the artwork side of your project?
In a cave, with a box of scraps!
Taking the reductio ad absurdum, the program itself perfectly specifies its own behavior. Yet it's hardly something I'd point to as a holy grail. We want programs that do what we want them to, which is generally a human construct rather than a technical one. (And you'd better hope that two different people don't expect the program to do two different things in the same situation!)
Paired with Home Assistant and the Hue emulator, Alexa gets a lot more useful as you become able to expose to her whatever crazy script you'd like her to toggle via voice
See also: the AI Plays Pokemon project that went megaviral a year or so ago, using CNNs and RL instead of LLMs: https://github.com/PWhiddy/PokemonRedExperiments

> I believe that Claude Plays Pokemon isn't doing any of the memory parsing I spent a ton of time, they are just streaming the memory directly to Claude 3.7 and it is figuring it out

It is implied they are using structured Pokemon data from the LLM and saving it as a knowledge base. That is the only way they can get live Pokemon party data to display in the UI: https://www.twitch.tv/claudeplayspokemon

The AI Plays Pokemon project above does note some of the memory addresses where that data is contained, since it used that data to calculate the reward for the PPO.
At times, it can be. But the transfer of rights to the WFP was made as being about the community, and not allowing any commercial organization to have rights to that app ecosystem.

That press release was made the very same day as the WFP then silently granting back exclusive rights to Automattic.

The WFP has never, until this court case, acknowledged that any org has such commercial rights, let alone "irrevocable, exclusive and universal" rights. For the best part of a decade.

Matt may not have been under oath but the announcement on behalf of WPF was entirely factually inaccurate, because a commercial organization absolutely did and would have those rights over "WordPress". And he can't even claim ignorance, because he was the one granting those rights, that same day.
most stereograms are designed to look correct when you cross your eyes

This is how I look at stereograms (looking nearer than the page), but at least some of the images on this page seem like they're designed for the other way around (looking in the distance, beyond the page).

This one looks weird when I look at it cross eyed, but fine when I look at the other way.

https://moultano.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/17...
With a forest of extension cables? Or are you talking about powerizing the existing sockets (V2H)?
Yeah. They don't care what you do outside of work until you're salaried. But that goes away too once you're paid to "supervise" instead of work. It's a weird valley.
Media Use by Kids Zero to Eight
Who actually wants this garbage?
I would say for single professional you'll find 5-8 below average and max 2 average handymen. The entry barrier is very low and pay ridiculously high. Some examples: stairs were installed and all the cables extended in very amateurish way, but the main grounding cable was cut. Stairs never properly mounted, rather hanging in place by accident. Every extension of wiring ever done is also bad joke. Some original wiring was never replaced. Tiles in one bathroom are bad joke, the lines in the corners are at least by one inch off. Water lines installed destroying half of the brick wall. Lintels basically hanging in the air. 3 glass windows were drilled through to install manual blinds. Nothing dramatic, everything is repairable, but everything was done to make some quick money and must be re-done proper way. Destroyed wall parts rebuilt, proper lintels installed, whole electrical system renewed (I am electrician too).

The single scary thing is the roof. I fall, I die (best case). So I will hire professionals for it.

Edit: some numbers. A guy plastered whole house inside and outside. Took 18000€ in cash and wrote a bill for another 18000€. That’s 5-6 months engineer’s salary. Plastering took 3 weeks. I had many offers for week’s task asking my whole monthly salary in cash. This kind of money attracts not only artisans, but also all possible scammers.
A simple short human-readable text url that a human can say and remember is not going to have a bunch of ".php?q=trackingcode&..." nonsense (though of course other trackers like cookies may still exist).

I don't know why the parent is getting downvoted...they bring a up very good point that hidden inside these QR codes are a bunch of tracking bits and the QR's ability to include tracking stuff may sadly be a significant reason why we see QRs way too much.
We all make the calculation whether it is worth it and for me it is worth it. I'm not a head of state or someone with great secrets to keep. Alexa just hears me talk a lot about Elden Ring or whether we need to buy milk. I'm just a normal guy talking to his girlfriend and for me it is worth it. I completely respect the opposite view though. For me the pros outweigh the cons. I have good reason to believe that they are being truthful when they say it only hears me talk when I give the wake word.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11899217/Murderer-j...

I think you would have a lot more cases than this if it heard you at all times. It seems the police only have access to the times the word Alexa was used.
flashbacks to slashdot
The problem with using base10 is that it cannot encode a URL. Alphanumeric is the simplest QR code encoding mode that can encode a URL.

Also, when I do the math alphanumeric is the most efficient QR mode, although just barely.
I go back and forth on my opinion for this one. You wouldn’t necessarily want a mechanic or engineer to drive a race car, for example.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43181521
>Whereas my smartphone is always in my pocket, and therefore always useful.

Sure. Now how long does it take you? Take that phone out of your pocket, unlock it, open the lights app, skip past whatever update/ad/welcome screen, find the correct light button and press it. Anything on a smartphone takes substantially longer than a physical button.

Not to mention that the physical button tends to be more reliable at doing what it's supposed to. People still buy alarm clocks and then put their phone next to it at night.
I can understand the frustration, but I think there are legitimate reasons to run this remotely.

Tach is an installable Python package, shipping a full web app would have to come in a separate form factor and has significant maintenance implications. Given we are explicit about the remote app before anything is sent, require explicit opt-in, and we provide usable alternatives locally, we prioritize shipping a useful graph experience that is immediately usable.

If you are at an enterprise that cannot tolerate this, then you can use a local viewer with either GraphViz DOT format or Mermaid which is generated by using `tach show` or `tach show --mermaid` respectively.
This is like being confused if The Atlantic had an article about the west coast, only to believe the question of topicality for the publication's article was resolved when the article mentioned the east coast.
I don't think Gorbachev was trying to be precise on that moment. It is, however, a failure of the project that such "New Soviet Man" was not created, and it makes me ask myself what environment would be to create a person with these attitudes.
Amazon puts sponsored product listings in the search results. The more you search without finding the product you want, the more ad impressions are generated.
I suggested that the WPF-Automattic relationship was “the norm”, and you countered with a post where Drupal describes itself as “unique and groundbreaking within the Open Source community”. While Drupal might be better (or worse), this post doesn’t disagree with my message.
pure word salad.. i want these drugs where can i get some?
Yep, same here. Discovered I was stereoblind quite late as well as I thought it was the norm and my brain just got used to it.
Fair, but the above comment is about general population. The percentage of people that’s actively against it in the real world is negligible. Like where do you cut the line? Is Siri/Google Assistant ok on your phone? What about every newer BMW nowadays coming with its own assistant? Samsung TVs? Nest/Ecobee products? I could go on, and I haven’t met a person who owns has 0 devices with voice assistants in years.
It’s nuanced. Google has shown that legacy C/C++ code is fairly stable in terms of memory safety bugs. That and the effort and risks involved means that existing C/C++ code is unlikely to be replaced wholesale. But that also means that switching new development to Rust has an outsized effect on preventing new bugs. So expect old code to stick around, but new code to be written in Rust with interoperability with the old code.
Looking for places that are good for small team off/onsites for companies that work remotely is a good solution to this problem. In general more of those spaces would help those groups too!
Semaphore CI is now open-source
Post owner Bezos announces shift in opinions section
Government and healthcare workers have been using AI for notes for over a year in Louisiana; an additional anecdote to sibling.
Mozilla Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox
4096 tokens is pretty short by today's standards for transformers too.
Dataflow Execution in GPU
I think there are giant weak spots in the product offerings of social media companies that provides opportunities for regional alternatives to win. For example, imagine an utterly transparent social media website with low operating costs that could offer services to a region at minimal or subsidized cost.

I don't think social media requires or should be world-scale. I think its hubris to think Facebook etc are meaningfully connecting us to individuals around the world when our social graphs our overwhelmingly local and sequestered.

Finally, because nobody ever asks this question before they build it, there is a potential for regional networks to be more harmful - for example in a region with active genocide you could see regional networks aggravate that harm more then the US tech companies do.

It's a tough nut to crack but I don't think it compares to the hardest challenges humanity has already conquered.
>Protests tend to fizzle and die after the social influencers (online news) moves onto something else.

it's a good thing Elon is addicted to the limelight and won't let them move on. Makes his eventual downfall faster.

> its a very, very long way to go before the protesting hits him where it actually counts.

What counts if not the one thing he brags about. I'm sure the first blow to his ego is no longer being the richest person on the planet. Well, 2nd blow. Getting ratio'd on his own platform was probably the first stone cast.
I had to pull everyone I could into newly created Gchat "Spaces" (Did anyone else just discover that even existed? I didn't know about it) -- though it's hard to get the message out to go there when normally that's the kind of thing I'd tag @channel in #general.

And my other go-to communication method is grabbing people's phone numbers from their slack profile. D'oh!
Google Cuts Employees in Cloud Division
It seems like Matt was telling the truth, but not the whole truth, which is probably more than he was legally required to do.
That's probably it, the FCC won't let you sell a device that has a user-accessible method to violate wireless regulations. At most, they could release the source code but not the signing keys so end-users could inspect but not change the firmware.
A great source for stereo pairs is NOAA's aerial imagery data, consisting of various snapshots along an airplane's trajectory. For example here is a stereo pair of Desecheo Island:

https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/aerialphotodb/u...

https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/aerialphotodb/u...

EDIT it can be tedious to discover such pairs. If only there were a tool...
when they see it, they will believe it!
> Zero hours contracts are likely the unintended consequence

That's hard to believe. It's such an obvious outcome.
Space goats.
Per my comment on another message, it seems like Matt was telling the truth, but not the whole truth, which is probably more than he was legally required to do.
I think your timeline is at best optimistic. I would personally like to see fixed land based fusion power work before we start trying to build them into moving vessels.

Your claim that the shipping industry is "desperate to decarbonize" also needs a citation. From what I've seen shippers top three concerns are "how to minimize costs", "how to reduce costs", and "how to save money". Can you make this system cheaper to operate than heavy fuel oil? If not it is unlikely to gain traction.
Dumb layperson question: my understanding of confined plasma fusion from a while ago was that the energy flux across the enclosing boundary can not be handled by known materials without melting down. Is this still true? Not sure if you can share but would be curious to know what the "bottleneck" material is in your design as far as withstanding high temperatures/other extreme conditions goes.
Yes, the ones at the bottom, in the "Parallel View" section are designed to be viewed the other way.
One item on the rather long list of dietary advice/findings that have turned out to be wrong or overstated. Looking back at what we've been told would kill us, the older you get, the less you actually trust in the latest "findings". A local cabarettist had a 10 minute piece about this already 15 years ago. It seems, most dietary advice holds roughly 10 years, until someone else publishes another "study" and the press picks up on it to "entertain" the masses. Remember spinace and its supposed iron content? Or the milk industry doing an ad compaign (for decades!) to promote milk for school kids? The former was a misplaced comma, IIRC. And the latter was a blatant attempt to sell more product.
Yeah that’s obvious and probably good. You’re trying to make a machine that reliably adds employees to your company in a way that minimizes nepotism or corruption.

Faced with the immutable fact that the chief executive cannot watch everything, that there will be pockets within the organization where people will sell access to a $300k job, and where others will hire from their family, their tribe, or so on: you make a system that is meant to prove some minimum standard while constraining your interviewers.

One thing that is not immediately obvious is that the Big Tech hiring process is to constrain your hiring team in who they bring on.

Startup executives are close to the road so they can tell if the rubber’s good much more easily.

The hiring process is designed around the constraint of executive attention. As are most things in firms.
I was thinking iframe. Either way, if you're OK with embedding it, I think I will. Thanks!
Exactly. Exploiting the structure of the matrix (e.g., it is well approximated by a circulant matrix) is natural if there is structure to exploit. If everything in the preprint holds up, that might suggest some symmetries (e.g., approximate stationarity in time) in the data at hand.
Fun fact: this is very similar to how Smalltalk works. Instead of storing source code as text on disk, it only stores the compiled representation as a frozen VM. Using introspection, you can still find all of the live classes/methods/variables. Is this the best way to build applications? Almost assuredly not. But it does make for an interesting learning environment, which seems in line with what this project is, too.
I didn't say it in the prior comment, but this is what I'm hoping for and that people end up caring enough so that this option "wins." Evidence suggests people will take the cheaper option, though, even if all of their info ends up in the hands of advertisers or something far more nefarious.

You mention Apple... I feel like, of the megacorps, they're the most likely to do something like that. Then between the phone, AirPods, HomePod (tethered to the phone I guess or a newer version of the hardware), and your car with CarPlay, the hardware already exists and so someone will build a privacy-focused LLM that Apple could plug into. At least Apple could justify that by being the hardware interface between the LLM and the user if they can't build their own effective LLM (seems unlikely they'll be able to do that given track record).

If I were really crazy I'd say Apple could buy Anthropic (right right they don't do big acquisitions) and turn it into their privacy-focused LLM.

Now to read your blog post...
A cartoon:

To form a coherent idea you need to coordinate a lot of tokens. In other words, ideas are long-distance correlations between tokens. Ideas are the long-wavelength features of streams of tokens.

Is it exactly right? No. But as a cartoon it can motivate exploring an idea like this.
The transmission company that triggered this claims a safety mechanism misfired, taking down the main and backup lines. After this 200km section shut down it triggered cascading failures. I heard on the radio that one substation exploded, but didn't find news about it[^1].

Power was partially restored within 44 minutes, but it was more like 2-6hrs before it was back and stable depending on the area.

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I'm not too mad at the initial outage, this kind of thing happens, but I'm ashamed of how many emergency contingencies didn't work great. In Chile we kind of expect a natural disaster to take down power or communications in a large area without much warning due to earthquakes.
For instance power is meant to go down locally after a ~7 M_{W} earthquake as a safety feature, so it's going to go down even if it's no one's fault, but the protocols and safety nets didn't work great. Traffic was a mess in cities, particularly Santiago which heavily relies on the subway to get people around, some critical infrastructure had no backup power (Mobile antennas, few Hospitals).
Some people reacted poorly IMO, many went to fill up their gas tanks when it made absolutely no sense to me. I guess we really need solar to spread more so people don't even think about using their cars to charge their phones.

I'm also annoyed that most modern cellphones have no AM/FM receivers. Mobile coverage and networks are good, but they stands no chance if everyone suddenly tries to use them.

[^1]: I guess a mix of a power surge together with high temperatures triggered this. I've seen a small transformer explode as it got shorted and light up the cooling oil.
Couldn't you test it by either isolating an existing region and try to blackstart that particular region, intentionally out of phase with the main grid, and then try to synchronize and connect.

Black-start-region and join-regions should be enough to get a whole grid going?