skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Technically, I did find two significant results.

The problem is that he is comparing two very different things, the level when he took the pill and the level one hour after that. So it's not surprising that they are different. Let's imagine a very very very stupid experiment, where the problem is more obvious.

Does Coca Cola or Pepsi improve luck? N=1000000, double blind randomized controlled trial.

1) Each subject flips a coin. tail=0, head=1.

2) They drink a glas of soda, 50% Coke or 50% Pepsi, that is served in a hidden place and nor the subject or the experimenter know which one.

3) They roll a dice (an usual one, D6)

Results:

* Average before Coke = 0.5002

* Average after Coke = 3.5005

* Average before Pepsi = 0.5004

* Average after Pepsi = 3.5003

So the conclusion is that Coke improves the average (p<1E-a-lot) and Pepsi improves the average (p<1E-a-lot). Both are "technically" statistically significant (but it's caused by a horrible experiment design).

Unsurprisingly, the difference in the average after drinking Coke or Pepsi is not statistically significant (p<.something).

(I'm too lazy to run a simulation now, but it's not difficult to get realistic averages and p values.)

In conclusion, the useful result is the comparison of the anxiety after taking both drugs, not the difference of before and after taking them.

As the article says:

>> So I propose a new rule: Blind trial or GTFO.
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They said “in other languages with classes”. They are comparing to a common code review but/gripe in other languages besides Go.
Yeah, that makes sense as well. The french ads come to me in waves and I can see lazy advertisers just "targeting quebec" or "all french regions" for the french runs.
The behavior will continue until a negative stimulus is introduced.

Which seems to be hard seeing as how the Russian government is good at convincing people (mainly their own, Europe's elite, and members of the Republican Party in the US) that it's okay to do what they do.
Depending on where 'here' is, an intersection could be a roundabout which you would slow on approach.
Dolphin Progress Release 2503
Unless the obstruction is a faraday cage it is not going to matter in the least bit for shortwave.
There are parallels between Leon Skum and Marcus Licinius Crassus. When a government fails to meet the needs of its citizenry and instead merely extracts value from, and abuses them, they become far less willing to be a part of it.
Who else is making games with LLMs? Is there a good round up anywhere?
castxml (https://github.com/CastXML/CastXML) may be what you want. It uses the Clang front-end to output an XML representation of a C or C++ parse tree. It is then possible to turn this into what you want. I've used it and seen it used to generate code to do endianess conversion of structures from headers, or RPC code generation for example.

It can be used from Python through pygccxml (https://github.com/CastXML/pygccxml). The name comes from a previous instance, gccxml, based on the GCC front-end.

Both castxml and pygccxml are packaged in Debian and Ubuntu.
Yes, why not?

The "problem" I have is that they will pretend to compete on price with what Amazon has to offer, except that they will then slap you with a shipping fee which bumps the price up by 10%, compared to the Amazon offer that will ship for free (above a certain price).

And that I find simply disingenuous.
> "support local farmers!". ME: "but the price difference is almost double form Kaufland/Lidl/Carrefour/etc for the same thing!"

But it isn't the same thing. Locally grown food tends to taste much better and have higher nutritional value.

Plus, something I didn't expect when I started buying most of my food from my local farmer's market-- these farmers are like friends. Every meal I sit down to eat, I have a direct connection to it's source. Of course I go to "grocery stores" for staples, and it always feels so weird, empty, fake.
Even with all that being true, it still makes it a better choice than Chrome imo. Also, you can always use a FF fork like Zen (my choice), LibreWolf or Waterfox.
What a braindead take/ask... Government employees names and gov emails are public information.

The reason they are banned on X is because they annoyed emperor Elon, nothing to do with TOS violations.
Pug has been pretty complete for quite a while, there just isn't that big of a potential for insecurity for something that becomes vue's html/jsx at build time and 99% of run time threats is basically that the dev sent unsanitized use input to v-html instead of v-text.

The main problem with pug is that, AFAIK, vue is the only modern webframework with stable support for it.
Yes. He's cutting funding and is threatening to leave NATO. He's made it clear the US is not going to continue funding the defense budgets of Europe.
This was a well-written article, I appreciate the simple journalism on display. A reporter dedicating themselves to an area, showing up faithfully and reporting their observations without bias or personal commentary. What else could we ask for? I read it on the AP app and appreciated still having a source for this kind of thing.
Show HN: I vibe coded this 3D space meteor shooting web game in 3 days
I was inspired by Pieter Levels's flying airplane game and was a bit bored so I tried my hand at vibe coding a game. And ended up with a game which I myself quite enjoy playing.

While claude certainly didn't one shot this, if you're a web developer and have no experience in game dev, building a game like this is definitely possible, if not easy, with the current capabilities of vibe coding.

That being said experienced game devs certainly have an edge, and its still very worth it to learn how to code and build games.

I welcome all feedback and feature requests for my game, I'm committed to making it much better for all who enjoy it. Its currently very basic and supports only desktop screens as of now. Support for mobile and tablet screens is in the pipeline.
As a layman in this field, I have no idea the contact it significance of this work. Can someone better informed inform us?
"Europe has benefited a lot from not having to pour tons of money into defense spending."

I'd say spending so much on American weapons has hurt it's own domestic capabilities if anything.
Investors Want a Piece of DeepSeek. Its Founder Says Not Now
Oh neat! I have a Newscale micro motor demo kit from years ago, and I wondered if they were ever successful in the market. But that hip-gyrating Micro USM action sure looks familiar.
From GoogleNest through a reddit channel:

Hey all,

We're aware of an emerging issue impacting Chromecast 2nd gen and Chromecast Audio devices and are working on a fix. Do not factory reset your device - we will keep you all updated when the fix rolls out. If you have already factory reset your device, we will provide instructions to set your device back up as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.
> Although I would bet money on there being a few years left and AGI is achieved.

Yeah? I'll take you up on that offer. $100AUD AGI won't happen this decade.
The a-hole convention here disapproves of such leniency.
It's Krause, he's one of the biggest researchers in the field. At least based on the other work of his I've read, he's a good writer too. This ought to be a worth while read.
Coinverter – A Simple Currency Conversion App Built with ReactJS
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Check out the live version: coinverter.pt
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Would love any feedback or suggestions to improve the app. Thanks for checking it out!
In what languages can you do that that is not assembly though? The higher level the language is, the "worse" or difficult it gets, perhaps I am not following the thread right.
Having a global investment portfolio and probably several doomsday bunkers also helps to be indifferent about it all.
I'm going to paste in the xkcd transcript here, just so we're on the same page.

> Public Service Announcement: The Right to Free Speech means the government can't arrest you for what you say. It doesn't mean that anyone else has to listen to your bullshit, or host you while you share it. The 1st Amendment doesn't shield you from criticism or consequences. If you're yelled at, boycotted, have your show canceled, or get banned from an Internet community, your free speech rights aren't being violated. It's just that the people listening think you're an asshole, and they're showing you the door.

If we don't like someone, we don't need to support them right? If I'm right wing, and I don't like Taylor Swift's views on politics, I don't need to support her. More than that, there's nothing wrong with me telling my friends "guys, don't go to her concerts, she's a terrible person." This is fine! It is completely ok! Taylor Swift might be in dire financial straits because we don't give her our money, but that's the consequence of her sharing views that her fans don't.

Of course in an ideal world we separate the art from the artist etc, but we don't need to. It's part of our right to free speech to associate only with those we want to.

And certainly let's not try to set up a false equivalence between boycotting (or "cancelling") Swift with the Federal Government penalising lawyers for doing their jobs. Anyone entering a thread about Trump weaponising the government talking about "muh cancel culture did it first", that's a low quality contribution that only empowers Trump and his lackeys.
The graphics are amazing. Congrats for the work!
Apparently they don't discuss language models at all.
> Unless you're one of the wealthy you're talking about (which would be odd to say the least), no one is asking you to pay for government services for somewhere between dozens to thousands of your fellow citizens who pay approximately $0 federal income tax on average, so it's not the same.

Really? You think I don't pay for services I don't use?

> Hint: it's not actually your company. Those people actually employ you.

Do they? What do they know of the company? If I asked the beneficiary of a pension fund what the company does and where it was headquartered, would they know?

> Confiscatory tax rates are counterproductive, other than making the envious far left feel better about themselves.

It's not far left to want general stability in your society. People with too much money and a government with too much debt are destabilizing forces.

The world is literally filled with examples of how this works, if you'd stop pretending that the current system in the US is working.
I know a tiny bit about this regarding the UK but no other country in Europe:

My mental shortcut has always been "The US never inherited debtor's prison." Historically in the UK at least, getting into a situation where your debts can't be honored was utterly ruinous (this has improved IIUC). In the US, there are strict upper bounds on how much sway creditors can have over you. One could imagine this would result in a chillier credit market when creditors have fewer protections, but ironically, this makes it easier to get credit in the US because creditors don't have another option. Interest on a successful venture is still the quickest path to making one's money grow, so even knowing the debtor could walk away and the worst that would happen is "bankruptcy followed by a judge telling you you get pennies on the dollar of your investment", people still put up the money.

The most obvious example of how failure to pay debt in the US isn't personally ruinous is probably that our current President has filed bankruptcy six times.

(Note: I am speaking broadly and about non-medical debt. Medical debt in the US is ruinous for several significant reasons. But that's generally a non-overlapping concern to most tech-company funding).
Excellent news! Europe obviously has good reasons to try and remove reliance on US tech/goods right now, but even ignoring this, it's really positive that the small world of search indexes is growing.

It's probably not controversial to say that search has stagnated a little lately, hopeful more competition will improve things for everyone.
so useful, thx
> It is very straightforward indeed, but it is still not mapping primitive
> operations to direct machine code, but it is forwarding to out-of-line code.
> Same as operator overloading in other languages.

I am not claiming that C is a collection of assembler macros. There is no expectation that a C compiler emit machine code that has exact 1:1 correspondence with the input source code.

> Same as operator overloading in other languages.

The lack of operator overloading, and other hidden complex control flow, is the reason that someone can read C code and have a pretty good idea of what it compiles to.

> That's just a symptom of allowing the compiler to inline the add code,
> otherwise the generated code is as straightforward:

No, that's just moving the instructions around. You've still got dynamic allocation and stack-unwinding being generated for a line that doesn't have any sign of entering a complex control flow graph.
I'd be very surprised if there's not at least a debug port onboard.
European here.

To be frank, it’s more about the rest of the ”west” updating our list of friendly countries. It is the US that has chosen to take an ever more adversarial position lately, pretty much worsening daily.

The trust among the rest of the west feels like it instead is strengthening. I interpret both ”buy European” and ”buy Canadian” as more of ”don’t buy from USA” with a thin layer of politeness.
I'm a self-branded hacker so I'll share my motivation:

Shit. Works.

This is critical. I can focus on my actual task at hand, rather than fiddling with the system.

Some perspective: I've been on Debian for 15 years, and I still hold it in very high regard for servers. I'm also an occasional Alpine & OpenBSD user; and Windows for games. I've tried Ubuntu, couldn't stop it from getting in my way. Before you suggest Fedora, Arch, NixOS, whatever: I'm done distro-hopping. The experience is about equal everywhere. No amount of "choice" beats thoughtful design, accessibility, and vertical integration.
Claude 3.7 basically one-shot a multiplayer game's server-authority rollback netcode with client-side prediction and interpolation.

I spent months of my life in my 20s trying to build a non-janky implementation of that and failed which was really demoralizing.

Over the last couple weekends I got farther than I was able to get in weeks or months. And when I get stumped, I have the confidence of being able to rubber-duck my way through it with an LLM if it can't outright fix it itself.

Though I also often wonder how much time I have left professionally in software. I try not to think about that. :D
> If you spent the last decade being fundamentally wrong about the gravest threats to speech in America, these are clever ways to rewrite history to give the impression that you were right all along.

Funnily enough the author here is attempting revisionist history himself by claiming that his side's prior misdeeds were justified all along because of the overreaction of the opposing extreme once they came into power. Instead, i would argue that opposing extremists (the left author who appears to be a denialist for leftist problems, and also trumpers on the opposite extreme) are symbiotic, actually propping eachother up in the long term and indeed, contributing to the problem.

I think he anticipated this argument which is why he wrote this block of text like a "No really, we were justified censoring and discriminating against people all those years, look what happened see!" as if he wasn't part of the cause. Sorry, not buying such a weak argument.

Trump et al wouldn't be able to make such weak free speech arguments work either if their opposition hadn't been using their power for a decade to censor everyone they disagree with in a historic purity spiral. Free speech matters. Neither authoritarian left or authoritarian right are good stewards of it. This is not news. But the left handed trump this point on a silver platter.
I'm in Denmark, in a midsize town, but I also lived in a larger city, neither places are having a package dropped on your door step an issue. I do that all the time, if I don't feel like stopping by the package pick up place on my way home. There are absolutely neighbourhoods where I would never pick that options, like certain apartment blocks. Pretty much anywhere with single family houses is fine (in my area). The majority of apartment complexes is also perfect safe, though my sister-in-law did get 25kg of dog food delivered to the apartment below her by mistake and never got the bag back.
Show HN: How to collect personal productivity data without sharing with anyone?
I think we’ll need a GUI for the models to democratize interpretability and let even gamers explore them. Basically to train another model, that will take the LLM and convert it into 3D shapes and put them in some 3D world that is understandable for humans.

Simpler example: represent an LLM as a green field with objects, where humans are the only agents:

You stand near a monkey, see chewing mouth nearby, go there (your prompt now is “monkey chews”), close by you see an arrow pointing at a banana, father away an arrow points at an apple, very far away at the horizon an arrow points at a tire (monkeys rarely chew tires).

So things close by are more likely tokens, things far away are less likely, you see all of them at once (maybe you’re on top of a hill to see farther). This way we can make a form of static place AI, where humans are the only agents
That hardly works. Though from my limited experiments, claude's models are better at this than OpenAIs. OpenAI will, quite often, come with suggestions that are literal translations of "anglicist" phrases.

Such as "Ik hoop dat deze email u gezond vindt" (I hope this email finds you well), which is so wrong that not even "simple" translation tools would suggest this.

Seeing that OpenAIs models can (could? This is from a large test we did months ago) not even use proper localized phrases but uses American ones, I highly doubt it can or will respond by refusing answers when it has none based on the training data.
It's an age-related issue because ageism is deeply ingrained in the tech industry making it difficult for older engineers to find opportunities.

They are are more likely to set strong boundaries, demand fair compensation, and expect strong leadership. They are less willing to work nights and weekends, accept subpar pay, or tolerate workplace abuse, unlike younger, less experienced employees who may be more naive or eager to conform.
Hard disagree. For me, "support local" means paying a little more for goods that are 10x better instead of commoditized crap fully optimized for enshitification.
For C users. And C++ users:

In C++ we can declare variable in the while or if statement:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/while

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/if

It's value is the value of the decision. This is not possible with C [1].

Since C++17 the if condition can contain an initializer:
Ctrl+F if statements with initializer

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/if

Which sounds like the same? Now you can declare a variable and it value is not directly evaluated, you also can compare it in a condition. I think both are neat features of C++, without adding complexity.

[1] Also not possible with Java.
That's definitely true and nice! I can't deny that, its just, there's a lot of counterfeit items and weird issues on Amazon these days. I guess I miss when they were able to sell goods for less.
> they detect daily Earth rotation

This is the principle gyrocompasses work on; when left running for a while they align themselves with true north; the axis of Earths rotation.
https://godbolt.org/z/r39jK1ddv

It increments, then decrements with -O0 though.

I do not see the issue still, as the behavior is expected with -O0; increments then decrements.
Housing is a fundamental human right.

Corporations should not be allowed to buy or hold large amounts of residential property or zoned housing land. They create artificial scarcity by holding it back, driving up prices purely for profit.

A less direct but still effective approach is to restrict residential property purchases to citizens. This helps prevent international hedge funds and (sovereign) wealth-funds from monopolizing the housing market.

Some of the most affordable housing markets in the world, such as Austria, implement these policies—alongside strong state-led housing initiatives.
> I have noticed that I am no longer scared that a project will be too big or too complex for me,

That's still a valid worry. At best, you can do larger projects on your own than before.

> or that a project will use a technology or programming language I don’t know.

Was that ever a worry? I've always considered it an opportunity for self improvement.
It’s like you’re saying, „get a Raspberry Pi instead of an iPhone, it can do the same things!“

Go is Turing complete, sure it can do all things Laravel can. But the whole point is that with a proper full-Stack framework, you’ll get everything in a single, maintained, tested, streamlined, coherent, and documented bundle.
I’d argue most of the cost of scare housing is supply limits imposed by ridiculous over regulation of new construction. It’s not like we forgot how to build houses and apartments we just aren’t allowed to.
I think the author provides an interesting perspective to the AI hype, however, I think he is really downplaying the effectiveness of what you can do with the current models we have.

If you've been using LLMs effectively to build agents or AI-driven workflows you understand the true power of what these models can do. So in some ways the author is being a little selective with his confirmation bias.

I promise you that if you do your due diligence in exploring the horizon of what LLMs can do you will understand what I'm saying. If ya'll want a more detailed post I can get into the AI systems I have been building. Don't sleep on AI.
These days, from a Canadian perspective, non-US is already good enough.

Yeah, China sucks. But the US sucks even more.
What if they want to add Face ID to the Mac but have the camera light not illuminate for that internal function, since that can also be developed securely so that nothing in user space can access the camera during that query.
Who are these allies you speak of? Mexico has been facilitating an invasion and I don’t really care about the drugs - people should have the right to do what they want - but that too has been killing too many Americans. Or Canada who has been tariffing our goods and then when invited to actually join the team… rebuffs our welcome with disdain?!

Also, I’m not really a big fan of the US’s military-industrial complex. They should be put in check.

The thing is you’re very confident in things you do not know. It’s much better to just not know. If you don’t understand, then maybe the other guy isn’t wrong… maybe you just don’t understand and that’s okay.
> Sounds like a way to port an old Windows Forms app to mac and linux.

Mono only supports up to Winforms 2.0. It's typically not been great on porting Windows UI support in the very few places it even exists.

https://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/winforms/