skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious why this was submitted. Is it because of the politics around Trump and Greenland? It looks like belter also submitted this a couple months ago but no comments are present in that discussion.
In science, we're required to take a default deny approach. The scientific method treats everything as wrong or a lie by default. Then, a combination of independent review and replication add confidence to the claims. Assuming you trust that person.

Later on, media reported pervasive problems in reviewer independence (especially drug studies), statistical claims (especially p hacking), and replication ("replication crisis"). So, we now have more reason to not trust scientific claims without independent replication. That's double true for statistical claims.

If I read one, I say "maybe true, maybe not." At least brings me above a random guess in a belief on that topic. If they're highly biased, I ignore their claims on that topic entirely since cherry-picking evidence is so common. Certain sources have enough independent betting or positive outcomes to trust by default in a probabilistic sense. A person whose chips work is fairly trustworthy on basic, chip design and their own product designs. I default on believing their essential claims but know they might be disproven later.

That's how empiricism works. Anyone doing less is probably using some combo of faith, testimony, logic, or feelings. They can also dress these up with scientific language or mathematical formulas, too. But was it rigorously reviewed by someone who doubted everything about it? Often not for statistical or scientific-sounding claims.
> I'm good with that

Sure. Not everyone is comfortable making that choice for everyone who might get in their car with them or pedestrian in their vicinity. For them, buying a newer car whose telemetry can be torn out is the realistic alternative to sucking it up.
Coming in PostgreSQL 18 – Removing null array elements
Here's a small patch that addresses a very common question in Postgres:
"How do I remove nulls from a jsonb array?"
I don't know who that is... I went to Kent State.
But you still need to buy the sheet music first, all the AI Labs used pirated materials to learn from.

There's two angles to the lawsuits that are getting confused - the largest one from the book publishers (Sarah Silverman et al) attacked from the angle that the models could reproduce copyrighted information. This was pretty easily quelled / RHLF'd out (used to be that if ChatGPT started producing lyrics a supervisor/censor would just cut off it's response early - tried it now and ChatGPT.com is now more eloquent, "Sorry, I can't provide the full lyrics to "Strawberry Fields Forever" as they are copyrighted. However, I can summarize the song or discuss its themes, meaning, and history if you're interested!")

But there's also the angle of "why does OpenAI have Sarah Silverman's book on their hard drive if they never paid her for it? This is the lawsuit against Meta regarding books3 and torrenting, seems like they're getting away with the "we never redistributed/seeded!" but it's unclear to me why this is a defense against copyright infringement.
Anything is better than cursed yaml
The modern day tech career required two things to exist. A PC in every persons home/pocket and a connection to the internet.

Both of those things came together in the mid/late 90's and gave birth the the modern day tech career. Since then the modern day tech career has changed very little if at all.

Anything before that was not even comparable. Mostly academic researchers and labs.
Try keeping in touch by email. I send out a message every new years or two.
Local AI-embedded Website that analyze latest financial news
I really don't understand the 4th level. Is it much easier on a touch screen? With a mouse I can't seem to intuitively set off a rocket or whatever that can get the cascading falling balls!
Or unconditional surrender
You can post openings in the monthly threads for this but they're otherwise offtopic on the rest of HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
Caching Things in the Database with Solid Cache
I think regular sudoku is fun.
Thanks for the comment and I'm sorry for the late response. HackerNews is bad in that you get no notifications. I agree and I updated the form, although I suspect no one will see it now :-)
I'm responding specifically to this sentence:

> It's shameful that they are making claims that they aren't infringing creator's rights when they have scraped the entire internet.

Scraping the Internet is generally very different from piracy. You are given a limited right to that data when you access it, and you can make local copies. if further use does something sufficiently non-copying, then creator rights aren't being infringed.
> the problem is, companies want to or required to discriminate based on origin and residency status

no, the problem is that the person / north korean team who is deepfaking a fake persona to get a job, is not going to... do a good job at the job?
Remote Timing Attacks are Practical (2005) [pdf]
> I've been advocating for SQLite+NVMe for a while now.

Why SQLite instead of a traditional client-server database like Postgres? Maybe it's a smidge faster on a single host, but you're just making it harder for yourself the moment you have 2 webservers instead of 1, and both need to write to the database.

> Latency is king in all performance matters.

This seems misleading. First of all, your performance doesn't matter if you don't have consistency, which is what you now have to figure out the moment you have multiple webservers. And secondly, database latency is generally miniscule compared to internet round-trip latency, which itself is miniscule compared to the "latency" of waiting for all page assets to load like images and code libraries.

> Especially in those where items must be processed serially.

You should be avoiding serial database queries as much as possible in the first place. You should be using joins whenever possible instead of separate queries, and whenever not possible you should be issuing queries asynchronously at once as much as possible, so they execute in parallel.
I end up going to the torch website and they have a nice little UI I can click what I have and it gives me the pip line to use.
Tiny renderer or how OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code
Tends to infinity != infinity. Also, the fundamental theory of calculus requires a continuous function.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_calculu...
That's cool! I've heard similar nice words from other people who had him as a professor, advisor, etc.
> what's the advantage of rewriting large swathes of critical OS infra that already works fine?

If you don't get it, then, it's not for you.

The reality -- the project became a way for new Rust devs to get their first Github commit. It became popular. MIT/Apache 2 is the default for new Rust projects.

But I think you need to also consider the downside risk. Because I don't see one. uutils are valuable only because they exactly replicate the GNU version. You'll always have GNU!
where does one find such a company?
Getting Started with Compilers
sorry, forgot the /s.
A bit earlier I think. Most businesses had PCs and LANs by the late 80s. I specialized in Netware and PC repair in the early 90s. Some graphics/desktop publishing on the side for fun.
Is this the same author who wrote Win32 API books?
if only more companies virtue signaled like this!
Government shutdown looms as DOGE cuts spending
Well, currently exponentiation has a superscript exponent to the right of the base, and logs have a subscript base to the left of the exponent. They're already very similar to your example, but they also include the word "log".
Right. And the same with electrical energy transmission for the purpose of delivering heat compared vs steam infrastructure.
Manus seems to really improve upon existing models by giving them good tooling to use.

Maybe the foundational companies follow suit and make startups like this obsolete?

It makes we wonder now if what we really have is a creativity deficit.
Paper Review: Relational Recurrent Neural Networks
> One tricky constraint is that a "simple URL" isn't big enough to hold a full-entropy encryption key.

If you trust the server not to MITM you, then you don't need the encryption key in the URL. The URL only needs to be long enough so it cannot be guessed by an attacker, 64 bits should be plenty. Once the peers connect to the common URL, they can generate an arbitrarily large key by performing ECDH through the server. (This is where you assume that the server is not doing MITM.)
where do you find those recruiters?
Is that different from other software? You have to copy the hardware or use emulation no matter what.
> That and danans 'one thing' seems rather simplistic / reductive

OK. Let's add some things. Free public schools, subsidized public universities, subsidized public vocational colleges, Medicare. All can be funded if we reverse the tens of trillions of wealth that we have channeled upwards with tax cuts for the wealthy and cut taxes for the working class.
Baked-in Brilliance: Reranking Meets RL with mxbai-rerank-v2
Thank you for the info! Do you have any good references on this for those who want to learn more?
I think what you are going to see if the use of rescission packages happen next. These are much easier to pass with a simple majority.
Leaving aside the broader discussion...

You cannot legally photocopy copy an entire book even if you own a physical copy.

Internet people say you can, but there's no actual legal argument or case law to support that.
Steam is Carrington event resistant not electric system.
Thanks Chatgpt
Just like when people complain about OpenAI's ill practices then they use it the most
> I imagine you are capable of appreciating the difference.

I imagine you appreciate the difference between what you are saying now and what you originally wrote, which was:

> It seems incredibly unlikely on what basis? Your complete lack of legal expertise and any insight into legal practice?

This is not assuming good faith. I know that you know that because you would never get away with this kind of disingenuous behavior on the basis that "I'm a New Yawker" when dealing with an opposing counsel. You're capable of regulating your behavior; you're choosing not to.

> The one where you completely ignored everything I wrote and then quoted the judge.

You were making the claim that these suits were not punitive. I contested that idea by pointing to the RIAA's history of engaging in punitive lawsuits. You then stated:

> There's pretty much no way any court ever gives any copyright holder the maximum amount allowed under statutory damages, which is only trebled to the possibility of $150k when the infringement was willful. I love Weird Al, but I don't go to him for legal advice or analysis!

This dismissed both the point that I was making and implied that the entire basis of my understanding was based on a song by Weird Al. I did not provide a more substantive reply because yours was not substantive and just obnoxious.

> We are direct because it is more respectful to someone to be honest with them than to lie to their face with a smile.

You've been rhetorically asking "What's your point?" the whole time we've been having this discussion even when I've stated my position plainly. You did it in this post. This isn't being direct or respectful, it's obvious from how you've been speaking (and how you've interacted with others in the thread) that you aren't a respectful person, and now you're leaning into "This is part of my culture," to try to evade the issue that you are being abrasive and obnoxious, and are now insisting that I'm the one being rude to you.

> Sure, clients can do what they want to. That doesn't make the attorney's advice and/or work not malpractice if the attorney didn't advise against it, so what's your point?

I've stated this plainly three times and you haven't listened so you can read the thread again or I'll take it as a concession that you have no point to make.

> The statutory damages is a red herring being obsessed over by you because you lack the faculties to otherwise make your point, which isn't served by highlighting the completely normal practice of claiming all the available statutory damages in a pleading.

You are the one fixating on it. Even if we ignore the Limewire case, you still haven't addressed the years and millions of dollars the RIAA spent suing individual pirates at a net loss.
Oh, this one is one of my favorites. If you time it right, you can get all six with a slingshot of the right speed.
That's a bad thing in this case. I don't want website blocking to be easier.
I take the contrary view.

What part of fair use pertains to making a physical copy of the complete work?
I'm sorry, but the existence of the forum, specially the newbie section is living proof that that is not the case.
I adore it. If you like fantasy and also enjoy Jane Austen (and her kind of humour) then give it a whirl.

But get it in paperback so the footnote-flipping doesn't drive you mad!
No, they should pay. The solution is not to make everything free, but cost the market rate. Somebody made these things; pay them.
Function Calling Guide: Google DeepMind Gemini 2.0 Flash
Can't help but comment that the song Honey Bee by Tom Petty is an absolute banger as well.
The register and ars technica have essentially the same relation to truth as the onion.
Also in spreadsheet you can do proper computation, reference other values, make VLOOKUPs. So much better than YAML where the entire ecosystem seems to pretend there isn't a need for abstraction in configs.
I'm curious about the 10x via implementation in Go - couldn't it have been realized otherwise? Finding the hotspots, reimplementing them using better algorithms, if necessary move a few critical paths to native etc. Or even improving the JIT itself which might benefit all programs. Just wondering because I wouldn't think that the JIT-overhead was that much that you could gain 10x just reimplementing in Go (or C, assembly etc)... that is something I would only have expected if going from an interpreted context.
Customers on Older T-Mobile Plans Are Getting a Price Increase
It's not that there's no correlation. It's that there's many, MANY other reasons before you get even close to "oh yeah, and then we invented the steam engine"
Have you tried HTMX?
Your hypothetical involved Coca-Cola directing the service cutoff. It doesn't sound like that was real.
According to the very article you linked, that’s none of them. I’ll consider buying a newer car eventually, but only if I can physically disconnect the modem.
1qq
Apparently it's a for-profit prison.

https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/never-seen-anything-s...
It's not a bluff, though. A bluff would have been making threats and then not invading Ukraine.

But Russia invaded Ukraine. They've been at war for three years. Putin is entirely prepared to continue. There's no bluff here. Putin is being entirely serious about his conditions to end the war peacefully, because if he doesn't get them he has zero problems with continuing the war to try to get what he wants by force.
Show HN: A collection of the best product onboarding examples
Hey HN!

Wanted to share this collection of 30+ top onboarding flows across SaaS and consumer that I made. Hoping this can help inspire you when you build your next registration flow.

Some examples:

- Dropbox new user onboarding: https://www.productonboarding.com/examples/dropbox-new-user-...

- Notion new user onboarding: https://www.productonboarding.com/examples/notion-signup-for...

- Super onboarding form: https://www.productonboarding.com/examples/super-new-user-on...

Let me know if there are any cool examples I missed :)
Yeah, it's definitely a separate set of skills, and probably not one that typically fits personality-wise with the typical computer guru set. I was self-employed for a couple decades, and while I usually didn't go hungry because it paid well when I was working, the work that walked in the door on its own never got me ahead either.

No one's fault but my own, but I should have realized a lot sooner that real success would require a lot more proactive "sales" effort; and that if I wasn't willing to do that, I needed to go work for someone else a lot sooner than I finally did.
Anthropic CEO: All code will be AI generated within 12 months
Trump has ultimate power in the administration. You are either dumb or blind if you cannot see that Trump is running the executive branch like a mob family. Kiss the leader, show him respect, and he will do things for you. Betray him, ignore him, or go behind his back and you will be squashed.

People might think this is a partisan statement, but it's not. It's simply how he is operating. Want power? Want to get things done? Kiss his feet. You saw all the tech boys line up at his inauguration. You saw him tell Zelenskyy "Thank me". Elon might have power, but he is also on a leash.
Yaml is more cursed. This is great.
> float is just the 32-bit unsigned integers as binary fractions

Note that float and double are a bit particular because they can use different registers! But yeah, when stored in memory they are the same 32/63 bit integers.
You think it's possible for a bucket to contain a negative amount of water?

I should note that the product of zero and infinity being an indeterminate form is actually a result about the product of an infinitesimal (of small but indefinite magnitude) and an infinite value. If when you say "zero", you actually mean "zero", there is no ambiguity: zero is more infinitesimal than any infinite value is infinite, and the product of zero with anything, including an infinitely large value, is zero.
Introduction to Sequence Modeling with Transformers
Or you know.. talk to users and understand their needs (discovery) then design solutions based off that understanding and iterate on designs with usability testing with said users until it feels like magic to them using it the first time, smooth and seamless flows across use cases with good copy and accessibility.
Ahh yes, everyone's looking to hire/promote DEI candidates right now in the US. They have all the power, unlike straight men who are just having a dickens of a time specifically because of their identity.
I'm struggling to understand how what I quoted could be taken any other way.
Ye it is a strange genre. Stardew Valley seems to have way better graphics than say Jack Jazz Rabbit and Red Alert.

Also many retro looking games adds pixel effects that weren't there on crt:s. Games of that era were quite smooth looking.
Yes. https://www.lostartoflogarithms.com/author/
Or: Why it makes sense for wealthier nations to help others _also_ be wealthy

One has to wonder if 1/2 the US military budget spent building universities and hospitals in central america, africa and the middle east couldn't massively reduce the unrest and poverty in those places, allow people to raise their families in peace, and eliminate illegal immigration.

The fact that the richest person on the planet is dismembering the US infrastructure for his own benefit is such a striking example of the idiot wealthy.

Flying billionaires to a resort on Mars? Stupidest idea ever...

Try eliminating poverty, hunger and childhood diseases elon. Then you'll have actually accomplished something...
I think something about distributed storage which is not appreciated in this article:

1. Some systems do not support replication out of the box. Sure your cassandra cluster and mysql can do master slave replication, but lots of systems cannot.

2. Your life becomes much harder with NVME storage in cloud as you need to respect maintenance intervals and cloud initiated drains. If you do not hook into those system and drain your data to a different node, the data goes poof. Separating storage from compute allows the cloud operator to drain and move around compute as needed and since the data is independent from the compute — and the cloud operator manages that data system and draining for that system as well — the operator can manage workload placements without the customer needing to be involved.
I'm doing my last engagement on toptal rn as well. Will quit after. The company I m working for is awesome but toptal part not so much anymore. From staff to FUD. They cut down my rate to 1/3 of what I used to charge few years back. (They still bill client 2x what I get, of course).
>Aaron Swartz downloaded a lot of stuff.

A tiny fraction compared to the 80+ terabytes Facebook downloaded.

>Did he publish the stuff too?

No.

> Not sure if it’s worth a violation .

Exactly.
You mean there's nothing the White House can do under the rule of law. There's plenty the White House can do under the color of law.
> and the drag-pull mechanism doesnt really work

Doesn't work for me at all on both Firefox and Chrome (latest versions for both) on MacOS using the touch pad. I can't get past that screen on my laptop. Had to open it up on my phone to see what comes after.

Otherwise it's a fun challenging game
Browse No More
Pretty sure I broke a VIC-20 or two doing something like this.
Moat is an Orwellian word and we should reject words that contain a conceptual metaphor that is convenient for abusing power.

"Building a moat" frames anti-competitive behavior as a defense rather than an assault on the free market by implying that monopolistic behavior is a survival strategy rather than an attempt to dominate the market and coerce customers.

"We need to build a moat" is much more agreeable to tell employees than "we need to be more anti-competitive."
Love it. The scoring is a bit tough though; I gained 18k/50k points but yet beat 72% of people.
> I don't understand the logic of it being a computer so suddenly now it's wrong and bad

My answer to this is one I've written already before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42720749
Post-Covid inflammatory shock in children traced to Epstein-Barr virus
very fun!

Two small comments - if I know the precise year it is kinda hard to seek, especially at the ends of the scale. Maybe if you could hold the button to go faster?

And the text overlay on the map at the end mostly prevents me scrolling it (and seeing where the correct place was)
the GOP: "states' rights! states' rights!!"

also the GOP: "not those rights! only the rights we want to share"
Not only would the musician have to buy the sheet music first, but if they were going to perform that piece for profit at an event or on an album they'd need a license of some sort.

This whole mess seems to be another case of "if I can dance around the law fast enough, big enough, and with enough grey areas then I can get away with it".
Small discussion on the source-tweet (6 points, 2 days ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43335829
We are working on a platform that lets you measure this stuff with pretty high precision in real time.

You can check out our sandbox here:

https://yeet.cx/play
Yes, and they found ways to avoid 99.99% of power consumptions by moving away from proof of work, which most of the blockchains use today. But the hate remained.
Deregulation Is Coming from the FCC
On my phone, I've got 566 hours logged in 7700 games. I think it's fun :)