skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if both sides are genocidal, there's no choice where your life gets better

As I said, stupid and selfish. Not seeing the difference between bombing and explicit ethnic cleansing and relocation for the people in Gaza is modern Sykes-Picot.

Note that I’m fine with that person not voting. (Almost prefer it.) It’s wild, though, to pretend it furthered the interests of the people they pretend to hold dear, versus some personal moral purity they’d prefer to preach about online.

> i did vote socialist/green

This is fine, even admirable, if you’re not in a swing state. If you’re in a swing state, you de facto voted for Trump and the destruction of both Gaza and the dream of a Palestinian nation-state.

> if liberals want to win elections, they need to start offering a vision of a better future

Sure. And never mention Israel or Palestine again, because I no longer have any desire to engage with the US elements of those movements who are, on both sides, adamant about redrawing foreign borders in respect of countries and cultures they have no direct relation to nor experience with.
Ask HN: Modern Tech Stack for Manufacturing?
It's almost a truism that software built for software engineers is best-in-class. Think linear.app or whatever.

Next best is that software that software engineers can image using or have been exposed to. So, software to book hair salon appointments. CRMs. Stripe.

Unfortunately, manufacturing (10% of US GDP) belongs to the third category of software: software that software engineers don't know exists and can't imagine using.

Is anyone working on modern, cloud-based, manufacturing software?

Ideally:

- Works for small, lean projects

- Web-based

- No "Call us" pricing page

- Uses manufacturing terminology (ie, "issues" have pretty specific meanings in mfg! We don't talk about "bugs!")
I welcome the new library!
I have used a RadiaCode 103g for more than a month. I also have a more conventional NaI:Tl 5cmX5cm scintillator+PMT in my basement with 95 lbs of lead shielding (as lead shot). I'm painfully familiar with detector drift and recalibrations required with conventional (amateur) detectors. In my opinion the RCs are game changing: their calibration ranges from good to excellent, in that I can import a spectrum into the (exceptionally useful free Sandia National Labs) tool InterSpec, extremely quickly identify peaks and the relevant radionuclides. The RC is very compact with a well-defined detector volume (because it IS relatively small). If there is a weakness, it is that it's mostly targeted toward running on a smartphone and support for iOS vs. Android has lagged a bit, though very recently an excellent update has appeared for iOS. I have tested in on a variety of spectra (137Cs, 232Th, 60Co, 133Ba) and for long background counts and am quite happy with the resolution and stability.
I have yet to use its interface to GPS data (I already have a bGeigie Nano built from a Safecast kit). Its impact is that almost everything one might like--count rates, dose rates and net dose, data logging, and GPS interface is all there in a sub pocket-size unit.
Something of an alternative to log4j, yes. On every project I've worked on, the vast majority of logs are useless. They're either too verbose, or not verbose enough. It's never clear who they're meant for. Log levels are very hard to get right. Is this really a warning? Or an error? Should someone do something? And when?

So I'm experimenting with ways of making it easier to write useful logs.
Making Claude 3.7 Sonnet Think in Unicode and reason semi-symbolically [video]
I'm a bit of a madman for this. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is out now with an extended thinking mode, but it still only thinks in plain text.

So... I added a symbolic layer to the reasoning process with a Unicode Thinking Protocol that buckets different styles of thinking into different "fonts" like and and .

There are four buckets:

INITIAL THOUGHTS⠀⇢ (Mathematical Italic)⠀⇢ Example: ℎ ...⠀⇢ First impressions, problem framing, initial approaches

KEY DEDUCTIONS⠀⇢ (Mathematical Bold)⠀⇢ Example: ...⠀⇢ Critical insights, important patterns, main conclusions

UNCERTAINTY⠀⇢ (Mathematical Fraktur)⠀⇢ Example: ...⠀⇢ Expressions of uncertainty, alternatives, limitations

CONCLUSIONS⠀⇢ (Mathematical Script)⠀⇢ Example: ...⠀⇢ Final syntheses and preparation for response

Pros: Makes sequential thinking more explicit by mapping modes to unicode styles. Also, potentially lets the model access different / novel latent space when generating responses because it's not thinking in plain text anymore.

Cons: Token consumption is HIGH, output is slow. Don't use this via API.

The Github repo is here: https://github.com/elsheppo/unicode-thinking-claude. This was inspired by "Thinking Claude" and a lot of explorations into symbolic reasoning methods, such as SynthLang.

Initially I wanted to fine-tune an LLM to speak in Unicode, but this proved to be a much quicker way to see the idea in action.

Full deep dive: https://www.shepbryan.com/blog/unicode-thinking-claude-3-7-s...
so you implemented some sort of machine learning?
Teslas turn on the brake lights when regeneratively braking.
Here's a whimsical site I made a few years ago. You can look up grasses and other lifeforms and see how they are related.

https://sol.vandenoever.info/?lang=en,nl&uids=119845,135774,...
It seems to be slowing down actually. Last year was wild until around llama 3. The latest improvements are relatively small. Even the reasoning models are a small improvement over explicit planning with agents that we could already do before - it's just nicely wrapped and slightly tuned for that purpose. Deepseek did some serious efficiency improvements, but not so much user-visible things.

So I'd say that the AI race is starting to plateau a bit recently.
LOL we may need to update the title of this post, half the top level comments right now are assuming the study confirmed the hypothesis.

> With a mighty Pearson's correlation of 0.091, the data indicates that this could

> be true! If you ignore the fact that the correlation is so weak that calling it 'statistically

> insignificant' would be quite generous.
Indeed, but I believe that flaw was deliberately inserted in our constitutions, way back when it was first written. The lack of democracy in our economic processes allows for rampant wealth and power accumulation which invariably leads to discontent.

I do not believe that we humans are inherently greedy, no more than I believe we are inherently evil. I won't claim to know what the solution is, but our system needs to somehow stop rewarding greed and other anti-social behaviors.
False memories of fabricated political events (2013)
Multiple countries have bases in Antarctica, so it seems unlikely that a spacecraft-sized addition to the 50 acre McMurdo station is the proverbial straw on the camel’s back for a continent’s environment. Reusing human waste shouldn’t be a problem, either, since the proposals are to use that as fertilizer - it’s awfully expensive not to use everything that you shipped between planets!

And, yes, I linked to a best-selling popular science book at the level of the conversation here. I should note that the book has two authors, and the first one isn’t the illustrator but the professional biologist. You’re welcome to provide dissenting views if you want, I’m sure they wouldn’t claim to be the last word on the topic.
The PHP community in particular seems to gravitate toward these specialized hosts I have noticed.

Symfony had their own cloud, which I believe got snapped up by another niche cloud provider that was their actual IaaS platform anyway.

There's also the wordpress specific hosts, and many other platforms like this.

I'm not against or for it, per se, thats for people who are looking at the services to decide whats worth it, but I am not surprised its something being built.
... I had been called out by it hard, lmao. Painfully accurate.
One of the things I remember from my PhD work is that you can do a stupendous number of FLOPs on floating point numbers in the time it takes to serialize/deserialize them to ASCII.
OP found no correlation
Similar here, there are gotchas though. Some versions ago they've changed their query optimization engine - some of our "slow aggregations" become "unresponsive aggregations" because suboptimal indexes were suddenly used. We had to use hints to force proper indexing. Their columnar db offering is quite bad - I'd say if there's need for analytical functionality, its better to go with a different db. Oplog changes format - and although its expected, it still hurts me every now and then when I need to check something. Similarly at some point they've changed how nested arrays are updated in changestream, which has broken our auditing (its not recommended to use changestream for auditing, we still did ;) ). We've started using NVM instances for some of our more heavily used clusters. Well it turned out recovery of an NVM cluster is much much slower than a standard cluster. But all in all I really like mongodb, if there are no relations - its a good choice. Its also good for prototyping.
You're probably thinking of the kings quest games I-IV. KQ V which came out the same year as Monkey Island had pretty impressive hand drawn graphics, and King's Quest VI is absolutely outstanding.
Money big pile. Money in pile used to pay for everything and thing A. Now less money going into pile. Pile will disappear if they keep paying for thing A. Losing thing A painful but optional for now. Pile disappear very very bad, will not be able to pay for anything.

Can you maybe see past a decade and see how it might be even more twisted and perverted if they lose the endowment entirely?

University exist for over 200 years. 200 years very long time. University want to exist 200 years from now.
This is great, OP. For someone like me who is addicted to my phone in the house, it would be nice if there was some arbitrary object at the opposite side of the house I could touch to trigger this.

Anybody here know an Android equivalent of this?
OP found no correlation between railway proximity and quality
Underscore prefix in a label has conferred a meaning of private or reserved in the C programming language since at least Unix Version 6 in 1975, which had underscores to denote system level functions and variables. MUMPS in 1966 reserved a % prefix to indicate system variables and routines, so a convention of using a non-alphanumeric character to distinguish scope has been around about as long as ASCII has been the dominant standard for text.
It's an interesting idea. But I like to think if they owned equipment like that, they'd already be on the side of right-to-repair. Farmers are smart businessmen and this is an obviously needless extra cost.

But for the non-farmers, perhaps it'd really sway tribal mindsets to understand people "similar to them" (more so than elite techies...) benefit too.
I will respond by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology) myself.

Do Medicare and Medicaid exist without businesses? I'm from New Zealand and our society causes problems for our socialised healthcare.

Businesses are symbionts: productive societies accept some costs from businesses so long as the society get more gains.

Why do you look at money as though that is all that matters?

Who measures the benefits we get from modern society?

Finding downsides and complaining about them is too easy. Looking for upsides is less popular.

Every poor person I've met avoids taxes.
Appreciate you engaging with people here.

I think the key difference between Directus and Sentry is that the restrictions Sentry put in place are directed at folks who want to build and sell their own error reporting service to software companies (and obviously commercially exploit the work they have done). In the same way that Redis went down the route of SSPL with the aim of impacting cloud services with their own Memorystore product that just resold Redis. That meant that most users were unaffected and your 10-person company using Redis as a cache to power their website could continue to do so. We continue to self-host Sentry and we're incredibly grateful that that's something we do have the option to do.

I don't have much of an issue with companies taking that approach. I actually genuinely wouldn't have an issue with an AGPL Directus, or SSPL (and releasing all of the plugins we developed internally). But that's not where Directus ended up and so we'll eventually either move to something written internally or an alternative that actually is FOSS.

> With an delayed-open-source-license w/ a usage grant that allows all the community members that historically contributed to use it for free, we found a balance between keeping it as open source as possible, while making sure large companies that make a lot of money using it are required to contribute back.

I do want to reiterate that a specific "total revenue"/"total funding" figure != "making a lot of money" and I don't think your license captures this nuance at all, today.
do you have any concept of what they were doing in Gaza? 85% of schools bombed/damaged, almost every hospital destroyed, tens of millions of tons of rubble, Trump said 1.7-1.8M remaining (meaning 400-500k dead). this is a holocaust. Democrats are not doing an "innocent war". They are hiterites with a smile on their face. The Republicans are hitlerites with a frown. Sometimes vice versa depending on the situation.

I voted in PA. You guys want my vote? appeal to me and people like me.
Bell's Spaceship Paradox
Do we know when they plan to test orbital refueling? Launching a 2nd Starship to exchange fuel between them in orbit?

It looks like this is a repeat of flight 7’s mission of testing payload launch capabilities, specifically the type of starlinks starship is partly designed to handle.
OSS coding agent RA.Aid v0.14.3 released with Sonnet 3.7 support
We just shipped v0.14.3 of RA.Aid with Sonnet 3.7 support. So far, the performance is significantly better, although 3.7 can choose to take more steps to solve problems than 3.5 did.

With the release of Claude Code, we feel it's a particularly important time to have a completely FOSS and open model compatible coding agent.

If you give it a try, we're really interested to hear any feedback you may have.
While we have no clue if we will be able to do it, we have added this to our feature list. We will try, and likely fail :)
Just started playing with the command-line tool. First reaction (after using it for 5 minutes): I've been using `aider` as a daily driver, with Claude 3.5, for a while now. One of the things I appreciate about aider is that it tells you how much each query cost, and what your total cost is this session. This makes it low-key easy to keep tabs on the cost of what I'm doing. Any chance you could add that to claude-code?

I'd also love to have it in a language that can be compiled, like golang or rust, but I recognize a rewrite might be more effort than it's worth. (Although maybe less with claude code to help you?)

EDIT: OK, 10 minutes in, and it seems to have major issues doing basic patches to my Golang code; the most recent thing it did was add a line with incorrect indentation, then try three times to update it with the correct indentation, getting "String to replace not found in file" each time. Aider with claude 3.5 does this really well -- not sure what the counfounding issue is here, but might be worth taking a look at their prompt & patch format to see how they do it.
I was given a "copy" about ten years ago. It came in a lucite box. I brought it home on the subway, and when I took off my pants later that night I found a horizontal line of bruises across my thighs.

As of a couple years ago there’s a gallery around Seattle’s Pike Place market that displays various photographs from the series.
* runtime-statics i.e. DevOps-view.. like what runs on which machine - maybe derived from container-descriptions? also bi-directional
Yep. Can you imagine showing up at your job totally ignorant of what you're implementing... and that's A-OK?

Just realized that I likened Congress to Severance.
We need more projects working with Philips Hue integration... This is sick
That's fine, you have the right to vote third-party, but are you saying aren't sympathetic to the other issues that Trump is raising?

I am not sure I loved Kamala's stance on Palestine, but I thought that Trump's tariff policies were stupid, his anti-immigrant and anti-trans rhetoric was harmful, and virtually every single stupid thing that the Diablo cheater has done with DOGE (and said he would do before the election, to be clear) seemed short-sighted-at-best and malicious-at-worst. It can be difficult to tell since both Trump and Musk are supremely stupid people who depend on hubris to fail upwards their entire lives, but regardless it seemed pretty bad to me, and it seemed like the totality of it indicated that Kamala would have been fine.

Obviously there's nothing wrong with voting on a single issue, if you think Palestine is more important than all the stuff I listed then that's fair enough and I'm actually fine with people voting third party. The way I see it though, the only person who is going to do exactly what I want, politically speaking, is me, and I'm not running. No matter who I vote for, as a result, is going to inherently be a compromise on something. I have to vote for the person that I think will do the least amount of damage and/or try and prevent the person who is going to do the most from getting in power.

I felt like a vote for a candidate that had a shot at winning was better than one that didn't, even though I tend to actually be a bit closer-aligned with the green party.
Yes a million times. For all the rhetoric about authoritarians, the Democrats never seem to want regin in Executive power when they are they majority. It is like a game of chicken where America winds up with a populist dictator from either the left or right.
It's actually cheaper to own a MacBook Air for things that need to work 100%, like a coding interview, and then a secondary laptop when you're playing video games or making music .

That's basically what I do now, my old M1 MacBook air is more than good enough for LeetCode and I'm more or less know it's never going to fail.
Doing up houses, doing electrics for houses in the town and making wooden doors. I do it for fun, but the latter two would make me bank; there is a massive shortage, most people suck and even when paid well they don't turn up anyway as someone pays more.
"You were using 'I don't understand these valuations' before it was cool - the original valuation skeptic hipster of Hacker News" -
“Also, remember that the word is pronounced like it is spelled.”
sounds like freewrite but in name imho

https://getfreewrite.com/
LLMs are "just" a new programming language
While It is true that LLMs operate as statistical predictors - merely determining the most probable next element in a sequence of tokens - this understanding fails to capture the profound implications of their capabilities. More importantly, it fails to explain the mechanism that has produced a myriad of unexpected properties arising from semantic text prediction.
> 85% of schools bombed/damaged, almost every hospital destroyed, tens of millions of tons of rubble, Trump said 1.7-1.8M remaining

How do you think those 2mm remaining would prefer the future to go? Razed, relocated and—let’s be honest—in all likelihood ersatz enslaved somewhere in Central Asia or Africa? Safe in the knowledge someone in America made this choice for them with a false equivalence between living on their land to fight another day and being dissolved as a nation?

That is the selfishness. That is the holier-than-thou imperial mindset; what matters is how one is portrayed and gets to think about oneself, not how the people one uses as puppets fare. (Sykes and Picot’s supporters thought they were helping, too!)
No. Trump got a 49.8% plurality of the vote was the second time around. The first time around he only got 46.1% to Hillary Clinton's 48.2% (not even a plurality -- yay electoral college). He did not win a majority in either of his wins, and a plurality only the second time. Amazing what you can do with a $44 billion propaganda platform and another quarter billion in usable funds.
If you do `/cost` it will tell you how much you've spent during that session so far.
<think> </think> QwQ-Max-Preview
I eventually stumbled upon the Federal Register, which has some documents that talk about this, both re: SpaceX and Boeing at Vandenberg.

Boeing, probably related to the pictures on the internet: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2006/06/26/E6-1004...

SpaceX, related to the landings: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/15/2018-24...

I don't know exactly how often who puts headphones on seals yet, but it sounds like as part of operating at Vandenberg, it's routine to "haul out" (by which I assume they mean, capture and remove, releasing some time/distance away) harbor seals, so they aren't in the way; it sounds like they also (sometimes? always?) perform some amount of monitoring activities on the seals, since you've already got them captured.

Also, all of this activity is apparently termed "Level B harassment".
I think of MS-DOS mostly as the ultimate fantasy console. It is sad that the only way to write something once and not have to maintain it to keep up with breaking dependencies all the time is to target a dead platform.

But I never had any compatibility issues with FreeDOS? It seems like a good implementation of DOS. I mostly use DOSBox-X, but I use FreeDOS now and then as well. It is the only DOS I would consider running on hardware.

BTW did anyone else notice that Microsoft included almost a complete 1988 vintage 16-bit DOS toolchain in their MIT-licensed MS-DOS repo? It has Microsoft C 5.1, MASM 5.1, Make, and several other tools, plus libraries and include-files. All of it in less than 3 MB.

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/tree/main/v4.0/src/TOOLS
From a small inspection... I suppose not. You go there, you see some big piles of gold, you weigh a few random bricks to be sure, and then you give a thumbs up.

Or you can send in vast hordes of inspectors, continually hounding everybody in the vicinity, and tout every single thing you don't understand as if it's evidence of a vast conspiracy. You can confuse the situation, crash the dollar, and profit.
We the taxpayers gave the telcos hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars to bring this to everyone, and they... just blew it off and kept the money: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...
hi! You can do /cost at any time to see what the current session has cost
That would get around memory limitations but I still think that would be slow.
The more generally interesting a topic is the more likely a HN user is to read the article. A study.
And the US has over 3000 counties, many of which are comparable in size and population to those states; compare apples to apples
In the big '25? Nixpkgs is the New Way.
> Virtually nobody uses Mastodon

You may want to look around you...
Last 20 years... Fast GPS lock in the palm of your hand, Solar panel prices, covid vaccins, safer cars, electric bike prices, nutrition labels on food, VR for psychological treatments, practical video conferencing(work from home), laptops with comfortable screen.
Who is most likely to be against this? NADA most of all maybe? They seem to be the most anti-consumer and (rightfully to them) propping up their member dealers.
I bet you could examine the keypad for wear. The worn keys (or the shiny ones) are the ones for the code.

In the days before cell phones, a burglar alarm would dial the alarm company. The phone company likes to install the phone box on the outside of the building. The alarm is defeated by an axe to the cable going in the box.

I had a fight with the phone company at my house, as I wanted the box on the inside rather than the outside. They finally agreed on the condition that I maintain the wire to the box.

These days, of course, the alarms use wifi or a cell phone to call the alarm company.