skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The widening of the pool of drafts doesn't work because it is not fun. When you find something that works you want to use it as much as possible because as the player all I want to see is the numbers get higher and higher. This is where the fun is. Most of the additional drafts aren't fun. Some I never use. When I play I don't even care about the forces that make it harder at the start anymore because most of the gameplay comes from what cards show which is heavy random number generator. There should be a continue play button when you fail the run though just so you can keep playing and see the numbers go higher and higher.
I don't think this is true? He has a neurological disease called Spasmodic dysphonia.

I can't find anything about this being related to a flu vaccine.
What's the difference between a delta island & a bifurcation island?
Confirming from South America
Just wanted to say Caelean is such a cool name.

Is it “kay-leen” or “kay-lee-an”
speed, stability, reliability
I meant the hacker(s)
Quintrophy1x – A Quantum-Proof Cipher That Leaves AES-256-GCM in the Dust
Who defines “controversy,” then? If a topic has wide consensus but some think tank invests millions into propagating a contrary opinion, do they deserve 50% of the article?
Quaternions can be useful in robotics when you're trying to perform trajectory planning or any kind of rotation control. Quaternions provide a continuous space where every point represents a rotation, unlike rotation matrices, which exist in a much harder space to explore since most matrices do not represent pure rotations. If you have algorithms for example trying slerp between rotations, or find a path from one rotation to another under some constraint, or sample rotations near the current rotation, then the space of quaternions is a much more practical space to work in.
With a 512-bit key and 16 rounds operating on 128-byte blocks, Quintrophy1x integrates dynamic substitution, key-driven permutations, fractional bit mixing, and inter-block diffusion to create a quantum-proof cipher that's stronger than AES-256-GCM.
Our current approach is to not fund adequately support our citizens and if you’re poor, good luck.

The public, thus far, is generally ok with this. They’d be even more okay shipping them to underfunded camps where they are even more out of sight out of mind.
I did something similar to this at my company. I made a little executable that runs on the command line you can easily plug new functionality into using C#. I did it out of frustration at not having good command line tools. Tons of folks use it now and I’d do it again anywhere I go that doesn’t have something similar.
I get the appeal, but without strong typing it's a no-go in my book. Get me an elixir with proper types and we can talk.
we could encode it into true solid state form, maybe in the form of a giant rectangular monolith, and bury it...
Because the ad tech is one helluva drug!

The people who voted Trump and don't wear the paraphernalia occasionally check news and from what I can tell aren't regularly doomscrolling. They'll probably get disagreeable if you talk politics with them. But in general daily interactions, they are polite and helpful. (Not to say I agree with their vote-- you're just asking about their temperament.)

But to a person the diehards I've met seem to be plugged in for a good portion of the day to their devices for outrage porn doomscrolling and posting incrementally angrier content.

Digression-- One time I looked up a Bill Burr bit about sandwiches on Youtube. For weeks it recommended manosphere bullshit and white-supremacist-adjacent conspiracy theory content.

MAGA is just one of the set of social media users who, for various reasons, clicked their way down those recommendation rabbitholes.

I'd bet there are at least a dozen devs reading this who could find the exact commit that Youtube began sending a predictable portion of their userbase down radicalization rabbit holes like these. Perhaps some time in the future there will be a memorial where that diff is etched in a large slab of stone.
I feel this is where uv's PEP 723 support of inline dependencies in a single-file Python script shines.

Just use something like this as a shebang, and you can have your cake and eat it too!

#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run

previous HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43097006
I remember when Alexa in a household appliances (e.g., microwaves) and nearly burned people's houses down. This should be interesting.
Not in the sense of flow of execution. But you'd explicitly fire off an event, no? COME FROM is registering invisible triggers at arbitrary locations.
> they often are confidently wrong.

Only when they can also dismissively sneer at a marketing person will they be truly ready to replace programmers.
Also, it always had a material performance impact. People write C++, and to a lesser extent C, because they really, really care about performance. If they didn’t care about performance there are easier languages to use.
My Spanish is such that if I'm reciting a prepared script, it'll go fine until I try to read numbers as digits. So if I was preparing a script for myself I'd write them all out in words.
It seems like the results will be somewhat predictable: the impact flu has every year is variable, with some years being incredibly bad and some being not that bad. Part of that is attributed to the vaccine rate, and how effective the vaccine is (this meeting is key to decision making about our expectations and how to make an effective vaccine), and part is simply random (based on too many correlated values, preventing good estimates of causation).

If this meeting is cancelled, we would expect the vaccine to be less effective and would see greater impact (simply because it wasn't tailored to the be the most likely effective vaccine), but due to all the variables I mentioned it could even appear that "things got better after we did this" (post hoc ergo propter hoc).

There is no steel man here, RFK just wants to demonstrate that his beliefs about viruses are true. We may or may not get enough unambiguous data to make conclusions about his beliefs in a year or two, but given the concomitant reduction in the effectiveness of the CDC due to Trump policies, and the sycophantic nature of the people being placed into leadership roles, we may simply never know because the data would not be collected, or the research not funded, or the publications retracted.

Or RFK could somehow be right and we see a huge magic increase in public health across the country (not seen in other countries that keep vaccination). I am not aware of very many scientists who believe this will happen.
My kid calls a 'Cowboy' at (833) 760-1978. Weird bedtime hack
Bedtime was chaos. Then I made AI versions of my kid’s favorite characters to tell him stories. Now he calls a Cowboy (833-760-1978) or Barbie (833-674-2491) before bed. It’s bizarrely effective. Anyone else has tried some random bedtime hack with AI that actually worked? Or am I the only desperate parent making phone agents for his kids?
There was rioting in many major cities and it was absolutely appropriate to call in the national guard to put a stop to it. My family didn’t leave Bangladesh to put up with third-world behavior like that.
This sort of rhetoric might've worked pre-Presidency but you would have to be either deliberately ignorant or outright agree with some of the hateful rhetoric of the president. Things like depriving transgender individuals of their basic rights, moving to denaturalize citizens, the white house posting illegal immigration deportation ASMR [1] and many, many more.

[1] https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1891922058415603980
Whether or not it will ever see the light of day (and what use case it will actually solve) is another question, but it’s basically confirmed that Apple is in fact working on this!

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/08/19/apple-robot-spotted-in-...
YouTube Star MrBeast Is Raising Money at a $5B Valuation
No, he claims that’s what caused it some years after being diagnosed.
The Magically Changing Errno
> It has nothing to do with US Citizens

How do you decide who is a US Citizen?
I don't think he's ever said this. As usual, providing a few citations we can follow would greatly help your case.
In addition to the other answers, to drive multiple APs.
That would be https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1889062581848944961, which I agree was community noted before he intervened to remove it.
I assumed owning a newspaper is some sort of billionaire trophy. I haven't read newspaper in like 30 years and I can't imagine why I ever would in the future. Same goes for the digital properties. If you are actually paying attention to any particular issue it's pretty clear how nonsensical most reporting is. How badly do you need to be misinformed?
HN's going to need a windscreen cleaner and a bucket if 3blue1brown and Terence Tao ever collaborate on using adaptive Kalman filters for optimal paths in Quaternion spaces.
Quoting the article:

"Designed by North Macedonian architect Janko Konstantinov"

Confusingly, the demonym for people from North Macedonia is still accepted to be just Macedonian.
Oh I agree. The Erlang/Elixir ecosystem is in danger of Rust inventing a BEAM-like runtime and making it irrelevant.
The difference between C++ and Rust is more akin to the difference between a standard pencil and a mechanical pencil lol. Also:

>In a similar vein, there's no inherent reason to use a calculator over doing calculations on paper.

Improved speed and reduced mental overhead are the main reasons people use calculators, not accuracy. This is because you can use any tool such as a calculator (or programming language) incorrectly.

I used to hear that the difficulty of relating CPU instructions to lines of C++ was the reason it wasn't suitable for the kernel. Now, all that has gone out the window (as Rust is definitely no simpler than C++), and they're making changes to the Rust language to suit the kernel application (as opposed to using something tried and true). It's a bad idea, but I expect it to be carried out to the point of absurdity.
See Scott Aaronson's rebuttal to IIT: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=1799
You might find that ironic or you might try to figure out why they are commenting here not somewhere else. You won't be able to replicate it on a single blog. But any attempt to bring back blogs as a viable choice for others will need to replicate what hn, Facebook, Twitter already do and improve upon it.
> Why is that a difficult question to answer? Nearly all adults have Star ID driver licenses that are basically as good as passports for that very purpose.

I have such a driver's license; it did not require me to "prove citizenship."

> Required documentation is consistent and easily acquired.

It's relatively easy for me to prove I was born in the US (birth certificate), but one of my parents was born at home and the other was born at a hospital that no longer exists -- if I can't prove citizenship based on my birth certificate, please tell me how exactly I can prove it?

> You're just angry and emotional.

One of us certainly is.
Well, “think of the other points as (fixed point) + (small perturbation) and reduce your work to handling the perturbation” is literally how modern economic models (DSGE) are studied and then used for public policy.
Lol. I also used AI with ChatGPT to generate stories
Maybe add Chimera as well?

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.06925
No shortage in Seattle. About $8/dozen which is about double normal.
4get – Proxy Search Engine
Yeah I relate to this too. I often head into something not knowing what to do, taking the naive approach, realizing there's some patterns I can tool out and simplify, and refine my process. Basically just chewing through the problem. Frankly I've never met a project I couldn't finish. Since I'm not really that talented, it's the thing that gives me the confidence to tackle something.
I studied "Mathematics and Computation" there in 89-92 because they seemed to think that "computation" was a fad that was probably going away, so you couldn't let people study just "Computation".

There was a certain amount of formal methods, but only in a perfunctory manner, as if to satisfy an inconvenient requirement. Some functional programming, but in an extremely shallow way. Overall, I did not learn a single useful thing in 3 years.

I followed this up with Ph.D. in Computer Science somewhere else, which was also a complete waste of time.
> Age discrimination has been one of the few successful discrimination based lawsuits that have been brought against companies in the tech world.

Rarely. A quick search indicates that only 3% of older employees file complaints, and, out of that, less than 1% result in lawsuits.

And that is pertaining to people who are already employed somewhere. What we are talking about here is finding a job. In that case the situation is likely far worse and also likely unknowable (in terms of stats).

This is why I say it feels like society discards you as useless after a certain fuzzy point in time.

This has to be a cultural change over time. I say this because, as a young engineer, I wanted to work with older, more experienced, engineers. In fact, I seriously benefitted from many mentors who were ten to twenty years older than me --lessons that have stayed with me to this day.

Not so today. I have been at companies where you might as well be at a college campus. I'll name one: SpaceX. I don't know the stats, but I remember going through there and thinking that the ratio of 20-somethings to older engineers has to be in a range between 50:1 and 100:1. The only way that happens is if you actively reject older candidates. I cannot dispute their success rate and what they have accomplished. I am just using this as a real example of just how bad it can be out there for older technologists.

Note that I am not proposing forced diversity of any kind. I think that is wrong. However, work and opportunities should be available based on experience, merit and capabilities and not at the exclusion of older candidates because they are not frat boys.

Once again, I will point at least one finger squarely at YC. I think they blatantly practice age discrimination. There is no fucking way older, experienced and capable engineers and scientists cannot innovate and launch successful startups. There's so much talent and potential out there being discarded. And, of course, there is no such thing as filing a lawsuit against an investor for age discrimination.

On my end, once I understood this reality I chose to exit the race and run my own business. Here I get to use my skills and experience to plot my own future, with the help of those who join me. And I most definitely appreciate the value of experience. There's nothing better than working with people who are better than you are and bring enough insight and experience to the table to help you steer clear of a long list of things you should not do.
"the right didn't make this stuff up".

The best lies contain enough truth to seem credible.

I could run a newspaper that only reported crimes committed by people named Steve. Even if it was 100% true, it would give the impression that people named Steve are a threat. I know this is silly, but imagine a racial/ethnic/religious group instead. One can lie by what is not reported as much as by what is reported. Here is an example.

Remember the Clinton email scandal? She deleted 30K emails that she said were person, not job-related. I can understand why people who despise her think there must be terrible secrets in there. That is the truth part. Some news organizations and politicians pushed this story daily for years and dragged into congress to repeat testimony about it demanded that this was a terrible crime and she should be locked up. But those same people didn't say a peep when it was found out that the Bush WH had routed 22M emails through the RNC email servers using non-.gov addresses as a means of avoiding the legal requirement to retain records. [1]

I would be willing to bet my life savings that Fox et al reported on the Clinton email story at least 100x as much as on the Bush story. I'd be willing to bet the same amount of money that the average Fox viewer has no recollection of the Bush story because they probably never heard it or it was too fleeting. I'd be willing to be a large amount of money that people who watched CNN/ABC/CBS/NBC or read the WaPo or NYT also have far less awareness of the Bush email scandal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controv...
Use every sale period available to you and not as weekly sales. Make custom 14 day sales.

Add steam cards to the game asap. You should start doing this right after reading this comment really.

Also you should lobby steam for a daily deal sometime next month. If they say yes you should set that daily deal for the day the summer sale ends if you can.

Also you should push raw fury to do a publisher sale, those can really generate a lot of money.

I've been managing games on Steam for a long time and doing stuff like what I said will have a very large impact on your long tail revenue. I'm the game director of Kingmakers.

Also you should really have some kind of DLC asap, even if it is small or like an art book even. You are just leaving money on the table because there are gamers with lots of money on steam who just buy all the dlc when they buy games.
That doesn't address existing codebases. Neither the Linux kernel nor the Chromium project is going to replace all its memory-unsafe code, so there are design challenges that need to be solved that are more complicated than "these memory-safe languages are available for your problem domain".
That’s not very common either. I’ve never signed anything like that in 20 years in the industry (worked everywhere from tiny startups to very large tech companies).

In the case where your company does have a policy that that prohibits you from discussing the nature of your work, it’s likely completely unenforceable beyond them firing firing you.

The prohibition from teaching or blogging is definitely unenforceable.
> That's exactly the kind of thing that the boosters of all those previous efforts said. But somehow it never quite worked out.

No, they really didn't. Let's review some of the big cases.

- SafeC: not based on a mainstream C compiler, so can't handle gcc/clang extensions (Fil-C can). Had no story for threads or shared memory (Fil-C does). Hence, not really compatible.

- CCured: incompatible (cannot compile C code with it without making changes, or running their tool that tries to automate the changes - but even then, common C idioms like unions don't quite work). Didn't use a major C compiler,

- SoftBound: not totally memory safe (no attempt to provide safety for linking or function calls). But at least it's highly compatible.

I can list more examples. Fil-C is the first to get both compatibility and safety right.
I could be mistaken but I think parent is referring to computer literacy as the interest in tinkering with and/or programming computers, not just using them to write school papers.

I too am quite fearful of the fact that I know zero kids under the age of 15 who have any interest in learning how computers work, despite being completely surrounded by them since age 8 or 9 (via school-issued Chromebooks).
Called the number. Cowboy is kinda fun.
I find (after a verrrrry long time of arguing with people on the internet), when somebody acts as obtuse as the person you're replying to, they really aren't ignorant, they're trolling, or looking for an emotional argument. One of the common tells is making an obtuse statement that's fairly vague (to draw out responses) and then writing long replies to those that show much more cynicism/disingenous, which provoke people further, followed by "see! this is just an example of how deluded the people who disagree with me are!"
That (or, more broadly, memory lifecycle bugs) would be my guess too.
Yes - the strategy is to get the people who care about doing what’s right to fight amongst themselves.

Then the people who care only about money and power can divide and conquer.
The primary issue with LLMs is hallucination, which can lead to incorrect data and flawed business decisions.

For example, Llamaparse(https://docs.llamaindex.ai/en/stable/llama_cloud/llama_parse...) uses LLMs for PDF text extraction but faces hallucination problems. See this issue for more details: https://github.com/run-llama/llama_parse/issues/420.

For those interested, try LLMWhisperer(https://unstract.com/llmwhisperer/) for OCR. It avoids LLMs, eliminates hallucination issues, and preserves the input document layout for better context.

Examples of extracting complex layout:

https://imgur.com/a/YQMkLpA

https://imgur.com/a/NlZOrtX

https://imgur.com/a/htIm6cf
One's observations of one's own agency is really the only thing one can be assured of. And this is where these arguments that seek to reduce intelligence to purely mechanistic processes breaks down. For sure, everything the article is saying is true, and indeed, the system could be classified as intelligent, but this is a wholly different question from 'agency' or 'free will'. Even exceptionally dumb people have free will, and exceptionally intelligent computers (ChatGPT, DeepSeek, et al) have no free agency.
I wonder if I worked with you. I was a compiler guy myself.
Can you cite this claim?
Why would you need to raise taxes on everyone in that scenario? That's not clear.
> Kyle M. K., a talent-strategy adviser at Indeed, told me. “Survive Until ’25” became an unofficial rallying cry for businesses across the country.

All kinds of business? AFAIK that saying is/was specific to commercial real-estate, where nobody wants to admit that the valuation of the property might have gone down, and they're trying to delay and obscure it for long enough that they can pretend it never happened.
Kind of skeptical since you also provide a “confidence” value, which has to be entirely made up.

Do you have an example that isn’t a sample drivers license? Something that is unlikely to have appeared in an LLM’s training data?
Operation PX WW2
It’s easier to do in some languages than in others. I write all my scripts in Python for Python projects and in Go for Go projects. Then, the scripts are called from Make targets.

But doing it in Kotlin is pushing it too far in my book. Kotlin compilation is slow, and running the scripts is nowhere near as ergonomic as running python -m script or go run script.go.

I prefer using a Makefile over creating a CLI. Adding and removing Make targets is trivial and doesn’t require me to fiddle with CLI entry point code. But Make syntax is fugly, so I keep the targets lean, and they mostly just invoke the scripts.
For me the only way I see improvement is if I take my own health into my own hands based on my own informed research and data and trust doctors less that are just trying to get you in and out and overbill. It sucks, but, there are certain things you can spend your whole life trying to get help for and fail anyway due to the realities of the US healthcare system (where I am).
> Everyone but the most well off living conditions continue to decline.

This is objectively false.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

> Instead of the obvious problem that Inequality is rising

I'm old enough to remember when progs all shrieked that poverty was the big scary problem. Capitalism solved that with minimal expense. You know that scary 15% in poverty figure you hear during election season? That's based on census income data, which excludes ~90% of all welfare programs, even CASH programs like refundable tax credits!

So with poverty overwhelmingly sorted, they've moved on to inequality! But even calculations of income inequality are doped up--high earners incomes are counted BEFORE taxes, and low earners BEFORE benefits. Keep that in mind whenever progs advocate for more welfare spending--even if you give it to them, they won't count it! They exclude it from the very calculations which they use as evidence of the need for ever more spending!
I always thought it was about the Hotel California in Todos Santos, México.