skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is remarkable. I tried to replay U7 over the pandemic and it was just too clunky, even with Exult. This looks like it addresses my issues while perserving the original aesthetic.

AI voice acting on-the-fly from in-game text would be slick.

Tangent - Do any games let you set a speed multiplier for in-game speech? I'd love to run dialog at 1.5x like I do for podcasts.
> but what to do with the cloud specific apps (Azure functions etc.)?

Don't build them. Vendor lock-in is a real problem: even if there are no political issues, it's a business risk because they can charge you whatever they want.

Also, the cost of migrating off these things is usually overestimated. It's an HTTP request, for crying out loud.
I just like how the cursor looks. I'd never buy a mac but I can admit the icons and design look nice.
Now they just need to build a decent car.
Dude you seriously need to go out in the real world and try to understand how things work.

Complaining on the Internet never does anything. Zero.
I don't believe it's comparable. Yes, we've used algorithms to find "weird shapes that work" for a long time, but they've always been very testable. AI is being used for more complex constructs that have exponentially-exponentially greater testable surface area (like programs and microarch).
I wonder how that differs from the sibling post with the exact same prompt? https://x.com/i/grok/share/fov27TB0Zn9jH5ZYIV70nTqN2

Is there some entropy or randomness at play here? Or some sort of RAG? Even if it was RAG, the "reasoning" is very different and doesn't mention the clear censorship in the initial prompt that the one I linked mentions.
Neat. Too bad nobody remembers C8 Medisensors! They went under more than a decade ago, and it's too bad that they didn't leave a lasting cultural or digital footprint. They did ship a raman-based CGM:

https://www.diabetesincontrol.com/c8-medisensors/
Lots of good conversation here; I'd argue this isn't a better approach, but different and in many circumstances one of the few ways to get anything done. I put it in the "ask for forgiveness" bucket, but done responsibly. Sometimes it's actually the nicest thing to do, because busy people who don't care enough to step up get to avoid (yet another) distraction. It helps calibrate how much someone really cares, as it takes some energy to provide input vs. just objecting out of principle or as a default position.
While there are classes of grants with different levels of funding, the grants are generally considered on their own merits and not based on how much overhead a the recipients institution would charge. Thats a side negotiation.
Years of listening to C-SPAN have taught me the value of declaring what I intend to do and then proceeding "without objection." [1]

(I'm still waiting to "yield myself such time as I may consume.")

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unanimous_consent
The UK is not a part of the EU.

I also recognize the potential for legal action or criminal charges. Those are great opportunities to fight these tyrants in one of the few battlefields available to us.

As Martin Luther King, Jr. said:

"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law."

Now, it may be that Lobsters simply doesn't have the highest respect for the law, or perhaps they value their community's survival over leading by principle and securing a bright future for posterity. Short-sighted thinking, but I understand the motivation.

My comment is a call for people to consider their priorities with respect to the world we leave behind us. Taking the easy way out and avoiding conflict with an encroaching global authoritarian movement is not going to fix anything, and contributes toward an ever-darker future.

This is not a jab at Lobster, and I am glad to see them at least trying something before simply geoblocking the UK. But what if geoblocking isn't enough? What if knowing a VPN-enabled user is from the UK but not banning them is still grounds for a lawsuit or criminal charges?[0] What if more countries join in?

[0] This leads to the ironic outcome that the UK becomes less represented in the next generation of online discourse and slides further into backwater obscurity, despite being home to such rich culture and academia.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43149883
Trump is just openly saying what the previous governments have covertly been doing: Spying on their allies and enemies alike. Since the Snowden revelations we know that the US is spying on everyone. Not just citizens, but governments, allied politicians, just everyone. After the revelations there was a moment of shock in Europe. But eventually newspapers and magazines wrote less and less about it. The reality is: There‘s five eyes and Israel, and then there’s the rest of the world. And the world should start distancing itself from these malicious actors.
Haven't you heard of FATCA and other similar local US laws which impact institutions everywhere in the world?
From the AP article:

> about 200 Chinese citizens “suspected of involvement in fraud” were flown to an airport in the city of Nanjing, China’s official Xinhua news agency said.
And that's fine. IQ tests aren't designed to be comprehensive (and rightly so).
ETH is supposed to be an electronic contracts market.. Is everyone who writes a contract from now on going to include code to block using these coins as collateral? If there's no consensus to interfere with the transaction, I assume people will watch the coins in motion and extend a larger map of tainted accounts and coins, yet be unable to interfere in many algorithm decided actions.
Totally understand that JSX and React-like frameworks aren't for everyone.

I have worked on several DAG frameworks (such as Pulumi), and JSX turns out to be a happy medium between declarative and easy to read, and dynamic allowing you to drop into plain JS, use for loops, if/else, etc. GenSX components are just plain functions and can be called as such when it makes sense!

React's component model is well understood by developers, and easy to build tooling on top of. Components are reusable by default since they're functional, which opens the door to an OSS community to share useful building blocks.

Full discloser, I'm Evan (the founder) and welcome any feedback you have as we're building. Sorry for the late response, I didn't notice this got posted.
It's a side negotiation that, as I understand, happens through a different process, set down by law. But there's still a process, and contracts have been made by the parties involved, and there's a legally mandated timeline for renegotiating those contracts that is not being followed.

You are right that it is different from how the private sector operates. The private sector does not even let you think about negotiating either their overhead or profit margin.
Have you tried the Pop_OS theme? I think it looks good.
I like your balanced & nuanced approach; unfortuntaley it's unlikely to make a viral blog entry or tweet :(
This is very relevant w.r.t. HN being LLM-related and to the current political climate. It is also easily verifiable as a few X/Grok links on this thread show. Why is it flagged?
Unfortunately, all of the labor market arbitrageurs went away, and now we're stuck in this weird economy where women get paid 83¢ on the dollar for identical work performance, in an economy that is deeply entrenched in boundless corporate greed, and yet no major companies appear to have effectively capitalized on the free, automatic, statistically-guaranteed 17% ROI that's just sitting on the table by replacing men with women. I guess our laws against unlawful gender discrimination in hiring must be so strict that no large companies have ever been able to do it at scale without getting caught and fined, no? How else do you explain for-profit companies turning away free money?
Is it me, or is brave more of a cryptocurrency platform that pretends to be a browser?

A lot of people don't really like the toxic discussions that crypto usually tends to devolve in. So it makes sense to block the browser if you don't want those people on your server.
Its comedic to hear that the left is the party of hate. Yes, up is down, down is up. War is peace. All that. Sure man, sure.

I somewhat agree that there's a totally out of touch disconnected sort that is bothered by being part of the body electorate, that doesn't take seriously a civic duty: would rather not pay attention, who doesn't like the conflict. I doubt your biased lopsided anecdata, doubt know many centrists changing their vote. But as the grossly unpopular & despised Project 2025 that Trump disavowed steamrolls this nation & as algorithmic AI run systems perhaps start being used by the state to mechanize programmed bias, well, those folks will be impacted deeply, and saddened, and it's unfortunate they were left slumbering & derelict from their civic duty to pay real attention, or to tune into something besides Fox News or Newsmax earlier.
> It’s putting in place proper regulations to preserve privacy and security

That ship sailed so long ago. Not only because national security demanded warrantless backdoors, but because our companies now control regulation. If Tim Cook or Elon Musk take issue with some pesky demands for open architecture or security audits, they complain to Trump and resolve it via EO. Any protest is already quashed. Phone owners who don't actively resist hold no leverage against their OEM.

Stuff like F-Droid and PostmarketOS is the solution to this particular problem - people just don't want to admit it. It's easier to give up essential liberty, purchase temporary safety, and demand that you deserve security along with it too. Too few people realize that personal freedom is a necessary precondition to personal safety.
I'm not aware of any efforts to reduce law enforcement in the DOGE effort or within this administration. Quite the opposite, in fact.

I agree that republicans, probably more than democrats, like to hide behind "free market" to protect their donors from anti-trust, but it's certainly a both-sides problem. I do believe MAGA conservatives are less aligned with traditional republicans / neocons than most believe, as evidenced by the fractures within the GOP over the past three election cycles. But overall I do think you and I are on the same page.
The "classic" view is based on the votes from old accounts, and might have fewer political stories: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic

Or maybe "pool" or one of the others:

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
Just as expected from Musk and his clique: free speech for me but not for thee
In mathematical training you learn how to prove the other proofs yourself.

It's not an #include <proof> kind of thing, someone else wrote the proof already and you should believe the proof is right. No, you need to understand the other proofs and be able to write them yourself.

I agree with you the mindsets should be closer, and in an ideal sense, CS is a part of Mathematics.

I mention this strong contrast, because I studied pure mathematics and I studied software engineering, and the mindsets are very different. Engineering is about results with a focus on not reinventing the wheel.
I just updated my Vivaldi browser, and here is the new icon for "home page":

https://ibb.co/0RXBmf46

It's a flabby pentagon with slightly rounded corners and a short horizontal line in the lower middle. I guess the old familiar house shape wasn't modern enough? So is this what modern houses look like, wider at the top than the bottom? The line, presumably, represents a door, in a stylish, minimal, modern way.
eBay sold Marktplaats in 2015: https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marktplaats.nl
From the article:

> People also fool themselves that special keys and “servers in the EU” will get you “a safe space” within the American cloud. It won’t.

The problem isn't sneaky backdoors, the problem is that the King of America can order Google to shut that thing down and Google will have no choice but to comply.
Mask programmable ROM could be used only by the companies whose production of computers had grown enough to make them worthwhile.

Moreover, in the beginning Intel was also the main producer of mask-programmable ROMs, which were launched at the same time with the corresponding EPROM, with the 23xx mask-programmable ROMs corresponding to the 27xx EPROMs.

All these part numbers belonged to a system used by Intel, where the first digit was "1" for PMOS, "2" for NMOS and "3" for bipolar, with the second digit being the kind of IC, e.g. 21xx for RAM, 23xx for mask-programmable ROM, 27xx for UV-EPROMs and 28xx for electrically-erasable PROMs.

Other manufacturers have started the production of memories after a delay of a few years and most of them have made memories compatible with those introduced by Intel and they have kept the 23xx and 27xx Intel part numbers.
42% of eligible Americans did not vote. That's the number I've seen bantered about everywhere in the last months. Whether they went to college or not, I don't know, but I would argue that critical thinking skills in that 42% are pretty much nonexistent. To think, of all cycles of POTUS elections, this is one to sit out is just mind boggling.

Note I didn't criticize either group that voted for or against POTUS. That's another discussion.
Direct costs, not indirect. Grad students and techs don't see that money, unless in rare instances for a grad student the grant funding is suddenly cut off for one reason or another (private grants or some sequester by the NIH)
Is perfect efficiency really desirable, when increase in efficiency often results in increase in brittleness?
Great, it should integrate perfectly with GNOME then!
Yet i see nothing changed since last he was criticized.
Just low effort attempt.
Show HN: Jq-Like Tool for Markdown
There have been a few times I wanted the ability to select some text out of a Markdown doc. For example, a GitHub CI check to ensure that PRs / issues / etc are properly formatted.

This can be done to some extent with regex, but those expressions are brittle and hard to read or edit later. mdq uses a familiar pipe syntax to navigate the Markdown in a structured way.

It's in 0.x because I don't want to fully commit to the syntax being stable, in case real-world testing shows that the syntax needs tweaking. But I think the project is in a pretty good spot overall, and would be interested in feedback!
Even more comically evil. Like just why dude, this doesn’t help anyone except your oligarch buddies.
As a guy I found this article oddly riveting — the author seems super cool for being so candid. But the “pee slowly” thing had me coming to the comments to learn more: is this something ladies can typically do?
Any physical lock can be manipulated, even the particularly high-security ones. But in practice, most locks are not even challenged because doing so requires actually walking up to the lock and trying. You can't try every physical lock in existence; but you can try every digital lock. So the effects of, say, an encryption backdoor key compromise would be far greater and far more immediate than, say, the compromise of the Travel Sentry master keys.
The story goes, at least a few people don't like hearing about Musk so often, and so we need to let all news about the rapid strip-mining of our government and economy be flagged without question.

The capital class are set to receive trillions in tax breaks off the gutting of things like Medicaid and foreign aid to the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world. The CEO of YC and Paul Graham are cheer-leading the provably racist and inexperienced DOGE team. That dozens of stories about their incredibly damaging antics are being flagged on HN is purely for the good of us tech peasants, and nothing to do with the massive tax breaks for billionaires.

Remember, dang wants us all to know that these flags are for the good of the community, and by our own hand. All the flaggers of these stories that he's seen are 'legit'. No you can't look at the logs.

And no, you can't make a thread to discuss this without it getting flagged; how dare you even ask that. Now let Musk reverse Robin Hood those trillions in peace, and stop trying to rile up the tech-peasantry.
My perspective is that the goal of JSX isn't to make XML "elegant" but to offer a way to dynamically build more complex trees and even DAGs programmatically. Best of both worlds between declarative and easy to read, and expressive via dropping into plain JS.

(I'm Evan - the founder of GenSX, and always open to feedback if you have any!)
I suspect that Trump will have a very negative impact on US tech companies.
you're making a value judgement about people pre-emptively; this feels like a big mistake. I'd suggest you 1. explain what you want to do and why, 2. include relevant context, 3. how others can contribute and provide feedback. YOU may want to do something, but should be motivated by the US.

Every time you send a message like this it's a chance to convert someone to your cause. Don't waste it!
The actual results of AIs in the last fews aren't matching the scale of investment or hype. That isn't to say there haven't been useful results, but overall investors aren't making a return on their investments (and there is no prospect of that in the short term) and at some point they'll lose patience and find something else to invest in.

> Do you have some secret insights into the mechanisms of general intelligence that you aren't sharing with the class?

I do know that "natural intelligence" (as found in the brains of humans and other animals) uses orders of magnitude more computing power than even our largest compute clusters, that such intelligences have been trained over millennia, (and in the case of humans, each instance is incrementally refined over the course of 10+ years), and that even those intelligences are not as good as classical computers at some tasks (people make mistakes, and a hypothetical AGI likely would too).

Perhaps we'll find some secret that allows us to shortcut that, but I suspect the idea that such a discovery is just around corner is just hubris.
'considering you don't find it important' feels a bit too judgemental.

In such case why not just ask: 'Since [reason x] I propose to do y. Please let me know if I should proceed.

If they don't find it important enough to answer, you can just follow your own good judgement, backed with a papertrail.

Still personally I find all above tactics a bit pedantic and not enough to the point... often I just communicate what I am doing and what my next intended steps are, in standups and followup meetings. Or in-between, I just send mails with stakeholders in copy. I will hear it soon enough if someone does not find it a good idea or has a better idea.
they’re waiting for you Lokimedes, in the the chamberrr
> Since when is it required that all the money in a budget be spent

Since Congress passed The Constitution's Appropriations Clause and the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act (ICA) in 1974.

Because otherwise, the executive could just unilaterally shut down any part of the government at any time. Or siphon money from one department to another.

Which it can't by design, since congress controls the purse.

There's a process outlined in that act, under which the executive can report to Congress that it is reducing spending, and Congress must approve that reduction in order for it to take effect. That is the law of the land. The law is being broken.

If you don't like the budget, there is one governing body that can do something about it in this country. The legislature. They control spending, just like putting people in prison is controlled by the judiciary.

Strangely, all the people grousing about executive overreaches are dead silent on all this.

The sin has never been executive overreach, the sin was always an executive they did not control.
Small forums run as hobby projects need to require little-to-no investment of time and money, or the ROI quickly goes negative and they just shut down instead.

A little while back there was the story [0] of a Mastodon admin who hated CloudFlare and its centralized protection, but found that he had no choice but to sign up for it anyway because a disgruntled user kept launching DDoS attacks and he had no other way to keep his instance online. A bunch of people here and elsewhere kept unhelpfully replying that, “you don’t need CloudFlare, you could just do [incredibly convoluted and time-consuming solution] instead”, and all of those people were missing the point: CloudFlare is “set it and forget it”, which is a non-negotiable requirement for anything which is run as a hobby instead of a full-time job.

It’s the same with this UK law: yes, you could spend weeks of your life learning the intricacies of laws in some other country, or you could just block them and be done with it. Businesses which might need revenue from UK users will do the former, but if I’m running a site out of my own time and money, I’ll do the latter. And I don’t want hobby sites to have to disappear: the Internet is commercialized enough as it is, and regulating passion projects out of existence would kill the last remaining independent scraps.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21719793
Misinformation and censorship will continue until the free speech improves.
It's not the technology, it's the US Cloud Act which has slowed a lot of it down.

Very few actually qualified and capable techies here trust any of the US-based cloud providers.
Thanks Two4
If it costs billions then that is what it costs.
thank you such a useful / insightful set of thoughts!
I am no fan of Brave, but where is the logic here? Just because someone uses Brave, they will engage in toxic discussions on crypto? Am I missing something?
In the mid 2000's, I loved trying different themes. These days I just take whatever is the default for Gnome, which is remarkably sane, usually more comfortable than a Mac, and consistent.

Some themes solve real problems, especially for the visually impaired, but that's not the norm. It's a fun work of art, but the utility is always limited. More often than I like to admit, I was left with a broken desktop after attempting to uninstall a theme that didn't work well enough (or at all), and that couldn't be fixed by installing another on top of it.

There are more pressing issues in Gnome than to provide a stable theme API.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43124902
Clarifying that it’s the output of an LLM is responsible.

Though LLMs are really good at anything related to plain LeetCode problems. There has been so much written about the standard LeetCode problems across so many websites that it’s all heavily represented in training sets.
Two points:

First, there are not necessarily increased margins, the margins may stay the same or even decrease. Some companies may choose to keep their margins the same, in which case profit would increase.

But importantly your _profit_ will not decrease, you'll defend that as the seller even if that means your margins decrease.

Second, small companies are _more_ sensitive to taxes (costs), not less sensitive. Existing, large players are better able to absorb costs _and_ command stronger pricing power relative to new entrants to the market.

But overall, your view of the "market" just doesn't play out in reality. You can go look at any industry that encountered tariffs in Trump's first term, you may also look at any consolidated market in the last twenty years. Market power has been heavily concentrated, regulatory capture has gone up, and the result is that markets aren't working as you may expect.
I think you meant "FastPath"? - an alternative error correction scheme for DSL connections.