skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Shiloh Garcia was notified by her bank this month that her credit score had dropped from 720 to 620. She discovered she was more than 90 days delinquent on payments for her $16,000 in student loans, which she had thought were still suspended.
Her mortgage broker estimated the lower score would add $400 to the monthly payment for the new home she wanted to buy.

So much doesn't make sense.

If you're trying to buy a house, you really should be on top of all your payments. Student loans in particular are extremely forgiving, you can probably get away with only paying once every 60 days just to make sure it doesn't default .

Why are you buying a house if you're not trying to handle your $16,000 in outstanding student loan debt. She probably has to make a larger down payment to move in ?!
This is pretty cool.

The title here is incorrect; this is not tomography (and the OP doesn't claim it is). The article mentions tomography but what's happening here is individual measurements.

Tomography is also pretty cool, although the math is pretty painful (Terry Tao has papers on it)
> I challenge anyone to question the honesty and my technical integrity on this matter,” Malaska posted Wednesday. “I am working without biases for the safety of people that fly.”

Give him the benefit of the doubt and say he's not corrupt. Unconscious bias is a thing.

Where's the transparency? Why wasn't starlink involved in the first place and only after this government take over happened.
Ugh. I didn't know that. They should moderate that away.

I have no issue with erotic content at all (for which they do actually ban people!) but all this cruelty and violence has no place there.
> The source of the GUI application is untrusted, or its safety is uncertain.

Afaik Docker doesn't promise security
Thirding this recommendation, Fortune's Favor solitaire and Shenzen solitaire from this collection are some of my favorite variants ever. Either of them would be worth the price of admission alone.
Calipso: Conic Augmented Lagrangian Interior-Point SOlver
So e.g. when I get an interactive shell from vim, for example, or an IDE it will execute .bashrc which can blow away settings I want for building.
Show HN: A game server built with Deno KV
I built a game server with Deno KV.

Feedback appreciated.
Ask HN: Who should decide when to ship?
Brian Chesky (Airbnb CEO) says he reviews everything before it goes out the door (I'm sure that's still at a high level).

Product managers are the defacto but they can often always want one more feature before it's "just right" and, therefore, be slow to ship.

Technology leaders know the features intimately well and if they're ready for use but are typically abstracted from the customer.

Who is the person best situated and with the right mentality to say "ship it"?
From "hot blonde" to "stepsis": porn titles over time
An Intro to Gaussian Splats
Mozilla's messaging for the last few months has really reminded me of the old anti-smoking ads from the 2000s. Technically performing their responsibility, but actually extremely obnoxious because the people behind the funding didn't agree with its existence and actively degraded it for their own survival.
there's nothing wrong with the trades, if you don't mind working with your hands. i've been working as a electrician for the past couple of years, and it allows you to work at various places while the work is never really same, and you're not sitting on your ass for hours on end. it's definitely not for everybody.
This may be a stupid question, but is this thing emitting anything or is it simply a passive detector? I’m mainly worried about any potential health risks.
Yes I'm really surprised and scared to see how much people actually like being consumed by anger and hate. We see the same in the Netherlands now since the radical right party came to power.

I've tried to 'disarm' this in some of my ex-friends with actual facts to show that they've been duped into many of their sources of anger. But it's like they don't want to know. Like you say, they want to hold on to it.

I don't see them anymore because I can't deal with that negativity.
I am 61 and still working at a tech startup. I love startups. I do not have to work any more (not wealthy due to an exit, but I have enough with normal savings and investments to stop now.) In my line of work (not an engineer, but engineer adjacent, lol) it is unusual for someone my age to be employed- it's a young person's game. But I am fortunate because I have attributes that many lack, including extreme tolerance for ambiguity (at work, not at life.)

I work because I like it. I like being around smart people doing smart things. But in a couple of years, I will stop working and just spend time lifting weights, practicing bjj and painting.
That's good data, but: is the reduction in vulns because Rust is safer, or is it because vuln researchers assume it's safer and so choose to look for vulns in C/C++ code because it's what they're familiar with?

It's hard to say.
> but the biggest giveaway is how he says we should move away from quaternions

I'm sorry I must have missed that part. Can you point me to where did he say this?
His role as Royal Tenenbaum is among my favourite characters in all of film. RIP
I am so appalled every time I ask a group of devs and get the same answer that I’ve just stopped asking. How many of you took a distributed programming class in college? And it turns out yet again that not only am I the only one, but that none of them recollect it even being in the course catalog.

For me it was a required elective (you must take at least one of these 2-3 classes). And I went to college while web browsers were being invented.

When Cloud this and Cloud that started every university should have added it to the program. What the fuck is going on with colleges?
You're vigorously defending your opinion on LLMs after never having used one?

I think you've made my point
Oh it can.
> ... scientists have discovered that his brain was preserved when it turned to glass in an extremely hot cloud of ash.

> The pea-sized chunks of black glass were found inside the skull of the victim, aged about 20, who died when the volcano erupted in 79 AD near modern-day Naples.

> ... a cloud of ash as hot as 510C enveloped the brain ...

I don't think I'd use the word "preserved" to describe there being a few glassy cinders left over, after someone's brain was incinerated.
Because the attack surface is smaller and more difficult to extract value out of. I think it’s been shown time and time again the more motivated your attacker the more difficult it is to defend and very visible popular platforms see more attacks. NPM and MS represent drastically larger platforms.
I believe the best comparison is a product like Perplexity and the functionality of Deep Research.
Without venture capital? Yes. Without $20? Probably not. $20 subscription doesn't need to cover costs of most active user. It needs to cover the cost of the average user (assuming you don't want to put any cash into it yourself...but if that's the case, maybe you don't believe in this idea enough?).
+1, I would be interested.

I think you should check out the Light Table kickstarter[0] which originally had a similar premise to yours, and raised several hundred thousand dollars. I personally put in $50 to be in the beta, and that was almost 15 years ago.

I think you would get a lot of takers if you could make a convincing demo.

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table
Seems like an interesting application of AI. Going to be obvious to many, in hindsight. Having run a business in the trades, I used to receive 5-10 emails a day from companies offering estimation services. Clearly there is a need in the market.

It looks like your launch is opening this up to the general public - why not niche down to GCs? Maybe the launch is focused on simply gathering more blueprint data to feed your models?
Saying that unsafe is a benefit is backwards, I think. Unsafe is the compromise Rust made to achieve its other goals, but of course Rust would be better if there was some way of doing things without unsafe.
Didn't know about that. Thanks!
> This work was supported in part by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) under grants CNS-2304720, CNS-2310322, CNS-2309550, and CNS-2309477

Good old days.
Most people in the US have not encountered the 'left'. Democrats, do have progressive wing but in general they are center-right/right while Republicans are far-right at this point. (Even ignoring the Nazi salutes at Republican rallies).
Yes, there’s research showing that models’ self-assessment of probabilities (when you ask them via prompting) don’t even match the same models’ actual probabilities, in cases where you can measure the probabilities directly (e.g. by looking at the logits): https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13264
Worker productivity up 1.4% with generative AI
And yet there are embedded systems running JavaScript and Python.
This is outside my area of expertise, but the post sounds like it’s asking for “choreographic programming”, where you can write an algorithm in a single function while reasoning explicitly about how it gets distributed:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choreographic_programming

I’m curious to what extent the work in that area meets the need.
Why would people who are good at [scarce, valuable skill] and get paid [many bananas] to practice it want to even imagine a world where that skill is now redundant? ;-)
I find the tip of a butter knife, or other blunt-ish table knife, to work better.
Two things:

Distributed systems are difficult to reason about.

Computer hardware today is very powerful.

There is a yo-yo process in our industry over the last 50 years between centralization and distribution. We necessarily distribute when we hit the limits of what centralization can accomplish because in general centralization is easier to reason about.

When we hit those junctures, there's a flush of effort into distributed systems. The last major example of this I can think of was the 2000-2010 period, when MapReduce, "NoSQL" databases, Google's massive arrays of supposedly identical commodity grey boxes (not the case anymore), the High Scalability blog, etc. were the flavour of the time.

But then, frankly, mass adoption of SSDs, much more powerful computers, etc. made a lot of those things less necessary. The stuff that most people are doing doesn't require a high level of distributed systems sophistication.

Distributed systems are an interesting intellectual puzzle. But they should be a means to an end not an end in themselves.
The future of MCP in agentic environments?
I just wanted to chat here real quick with anyone interested in this. I am a founder of kallro.com (unlaunched) and we are using MCP throughout our product. I was wondering what the future of mcp might look like in y'alls eyes and get some outside opinons on it. What might talent look like and are any new grads here intersted in learning it for future jobs?
> Large companies definitely don’t try to prohibit you from telling people you worked there.

no, thats not what I said.

Large companies that pay generous severance generally want a non disparagement agreement in return. This means that yes you can say you worked there, you might even be able to say what department you worked in.

What you can't say is that you worked on x,y or z, your opinion on the company direction or anything else that might be related to the company or is actions.

If you even speak of this NDA/non disparagement agreement to anyone other than the listed highly limited number of people, you'll have to pay back all the severance, plus legal costs.

So OP might want to tell you about their time, but they don't want to because it'll cost them a house worth of cash.
The second paragraph of the conclusion: "Nor should we be trying to make everything look more like complex numbers and quaternions. Those are already weird and confusing; we should be moving away from them!"

It's also implicit in the thing he says throughout: "bivectors and trivectors are good, but there's no reason to add a scalar to a bivector or a trivector to a 1-vector, nor is there a reason to multiply such objects". A quaternion is a scalar and a bivector added together!
I prefer lord macho
That stuff is pretty much just egg white and food coloring. Nowadays they sell undyed egg white in cartons alongside it because the trend has shifted to high protein diets.
I'm not clear what the proposal here is? It specifically eschews tooling as a driver in the solution, but why? Wouldn't tooling be one of the most likely areas to get solid progress, as you could make tooling and point it at existing products.

Would be interesting to see comparisons to other domains. Surely you could look at things like water processing plants to see how they build and maintain massive structures that do coordinated work between parts of it? Power generation plants. Assembly factories. Do we not have good artifacts for how these things are designed and reasoned about?
Economics of LLMs are more complicated than that. It depends entirely on use cases, token use efficiency, and limits (if any) on usage, since if usage is uncapped some users will create negative revenue.
Thanks! And that is a great resource.
Hey, thank you for taking time to write such a detailed feedback! Really appreciate this.

The automations are just for that, in automations admin tab you can create rules like email has text `@google.com`, `ceo@xyz.com`.
If true you can apply certain actions like set SLA, assign to a specific agent, etc.

You're right this SLA system is not flexible enough, I will work on improving this feature.

Regarding the "FRD Overdue" and "RD Overdue" labels, they show when the First Response Deadline or Resolution Deadline for a ticket has passed. Yes adding some hover text makes sense.

Maybe the https://libredesk.io/docs page needs a concepts section.

Again thank you for the feedback.
I disagree, at least in this specific context. With Laravel Cloud you build a standard Laravel application which can be deployed anywhere, then use the service to handle DevOps for you. Because it doesn't include any unique services of its own, you can always decide to hire a DevOps team and run all the required services yourself.

You're totally correct in scenarios where you need to build your project around the service, but this service is specifically a DevOps shortcut with no lock-in.

Should your Fortune 500 company use this? Maybe not. Should a one-man dev shop use this? Quite possibly - you pay for the convenience, but it frees up more time to improve your application.
A love letter to Opera Mini
I think the underlying premise of Cloud is:

Pay a 100% premium on compute resources in order to pretend the 8 Fallacies of Distributed Computing don’t exist.

I sat out the beginning of Cloud and was shocked at how completely absent they are from conversations within the space. When the hangover hits it’ll be ugly. The Devil always gets his due.
Expert Parallelism Load Balancer
It uses the muons that you are naturally being bombarded with!
What is TypeScript? An overview for JavaScript programmers
Gambling on a contest
I'm not sure what you think of as "official", but it's been in nixpkgs for years at least. You can also take a look at what it's doing. The librewolf repo itself is basically a collection of generally small patches. Mostly you've got patches to change branding and remove antifeatures, plus fixes like preventing pages from detecting you've opened devtools and enabling JXL support.
That's okay though! We can just make LLMs grasp it!
You caught me! That's what my next post is about :)
We already new that TS types are Turing complete so it's more of demonstration than a proof.
Curious why you're going off of blueprints instead of BIM?

The benefit of estimating quantities and cost cycles in with pre-con and business development, the artifacts during the pre-con design phase tend to be different than the takeoff artifacts which are often transformed through BIM.

Did you learn something to the contrary? Or are you purposely targeting smaller firms and projects that don't use Bim and maybe won't for a long time?
> I have added more details in the notes at the end of the article to explain how I found God, but for now, just have faith that I did.
No, he said he doesn't play them AFTER they release. But he plays them constantly when they're in development. One of the difficulty rules at FromSoft is that each boss and area has to be beatable by Miyazaki (which he said is a good baseline, because he likes challenge but doesn't consider himself good at games).
If what you're interested in is an "everything must be Rust" vs. "everything must be C++" knock-down drag-out, I'm not interested.
Who is your market? In my area takeoffs are done by lumber yards, it's just a service they provide in order to win the business. So you are going to be selling B2B into a market that is very slow and resistant to change. I imagine many are using some software for their process but I've never seen it.

On the other side, architects are using Revit more and more and takeoffs like square footage of flooring are accurate and take no time at all. That's another industry slow to change and that used to take more effort so many architects aren't providing that information to their clients, but technically there's nothing preventing it. There's a bit more hand waving when it comes to calculating number of studs etc, but that is pretty straightforward as well.

Source: I'm funemployed as a drafter for a local architect after 25 years in software.
Is that still true? Fox, WSJ, Politico, Washington Post etc. - so many are taking on conservativism. Even 'moderate liberals' are becoming 'conservative-lite', to show how open minded they are and bring people together.
Definitely a problem, but I think there's always a gap here. What are colleges optimizing for with computer science programs? I would wager there is an incentive problem at the core which is causing these gaps to occur.
Our focus is currently on servicing suppliers and GCs. Our models would need labels to train, so we have to source our own data.
Ooh, that's my post!

Feel free to ask any questions, or let me know if I got anything wrong. The post is mostly me trying to figure out how Jujutsu works by working through the code, so I might have missed something obvious or made a mistake somewhere.
I love this, it seems like 90% of the YC AI startups are geared towards selling to devs. There's so much value to be had finding where AI is relevant in the broader parts of the economy, especially something like construction.
Sure. My rate is in my profile. Is there an email I can invoice?
> The above is just locker room talk which probably 90% of American men have participated in.

I've found that sort of talk is vanishingly rare. It probably depends on what your particular social circle is like, though.
For folks looking - The pdf you can find/buy has the math correctly rendered

https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Foundations-Mathematics-Cam...
That background may have informed Hackman's portrayal of a military character in ''Bat*21'', a suspenseful film set during the Vietnam War based on the real escape of USAF Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton after being shot down.
You can own apartments too. I assume the logic is pretty much the same either way.
I'm curious whether it changed in the last two hours, but now it sounds a lot less clear. Also, it sheds some light of how people at Mozilla currently think about it (so much so that I'm guessing the text will change again):

> Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about “selling data“), and we don’t buy data about you. Since we strive for transparency, and the LEGAL definition of “sale of data“ is extremely broad in some places, we’ve had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love. We still put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share with our partners (which we need to do to make Firefox commercially viable) is stripped of any identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like OHTTP).

*Update:* Here's the version from Feb 6 that says exactly what the parent comment posted: https://web.archive.org/web/20250206184553/https://www.mozil...
I really wish BIM took off more, unfortunately most suppliers and GCs are still using blueprints (but at least have moved off paper).
That’s comical considering CNN is the same network that promoted and pushed all of the Trump hoax stories. They also claimed Biden was mentally fit up until that lie was also exposed. CNN has no credibility in the news space.
Funny you should mention both RSS and BlueSky/Mastodon as a return to the web, since Dave Winer (who pioneered RSS) has written about how BlueSky/Mastodon etc. are very much NOT the web. http://scripting.com/2024/12/21.html

> Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon are the IBM, Microsoft and Apple of 2024. It's ridiculous if they think this is a web.
Reality is independent of experience and opinions - that's the point. 'Leftist' opinions match reality better - e.g., climate change, Ukraine, vaccines, crime, etc. etc.
1. Reddit is NOT open about media manipulation. At all. And, no offense, but the idea that even most people can get quality news from that website is ridiculous. For example, the narratives around the reality of the situation on the Ukrainian frontlines are completely and totally wrong on that site. I had to go to Ukrainian media and military sources through Substack and elsewhere to get a non-propagandized sense of things. If you got your news from Reddit, you’d be completely and totally wrong. And I see this in the real world all the time: woefully misinformed people literally repeating word for word arguments they read on Reddit instead of distilling information from a myriad of reliable sources into independent and realistic viewpoints.

2. Again, the situation that we’re in is not natural, it is a reality that was created by political and ideological extremists. You’re talking about insane levels of media corruption as if it is a natural and unavoidable phenomenon, but it’s not. We can change it.
> It says something about society that asks people to work well beyond their retirement age.

I dont think that's what's going on here. If you click on OP's profile you'll see that he's written a bunch of books. He also mentions Common Lisp and Racket, not exactly go to languages for soul-less corporations. My take is he's doing it for the love of the craft.

I aspire to do this too when I'm at that age. I've been through a few career iterations with the only constant being is that I love to make things.
There’s a lot potential still since most companies haven’t adopted these technologies yet. The market pricing these productivity gains may actually be correct.

> A 2024 working paper by Kathryn Bonney and others found that only 5.4% of firms had formally adopted generative AI as of February 2024. While firms’ adoption may increase over time, it still lags far behind, suggesting that worker adoption remains mostly informal. Thus, we emphasize that these potential productivity gains from generative AI may not immediately appear in productivity statistics, at least for now.
Automated Programmatic SEO Tool for Busy Founders
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Painpoints are clear to me:
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