skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OP example is clearly wrong, but this doesn't sound right either. The point of dithering is eg, if you have a pixel value of .5, to recreate the brightness of that with black and white pixels. The naive approach would do that with one black and one white pixel. But depending on how the display usually renders .5, then it might be better to replicate it with, say, 2 white pixels and 3 black pixels.
Aaron Swartz, cofounder of Reddit and inventor of RSS and Markdown, was hounded to death by an overzealous prosecutor for downloading articles from JSTOR, with the intent to learn from them. He was charged with over a million dollars in fines and could have faced 35 years in prison.

He and Sam Altman were in the same YC class. OpenAI is doing the same thing at a larger scale, and their technology actually reproduces and distributes copyrighted material. It's shameful that they are making claims that they aren't infringing creator's rights when they have scraped the entire internet.

https://flaminghydra.com/sam-altman-and-aaron-swartz-saw-the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
Making Google Play the best place to grow PC games
The Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant was built between 1973 and 1984 by the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO) at a cost of approximately $6 billion. It was never put into use and was fully torn down in 1994. It stands as one of the most expensive industrial projects ever completed but never used for its intended purpose.
There's also a hybrid approach: generate electricity and also reuse heat for centralised heating. This can reach 60% efficiency as far as I remember but might require building plants closer to heat consumers.
He is not, but the extreme right likes to demonize him so they can use his name as a smear but claim they’re not anti-Semitic.
Chinese AI must implement socialist values by law, but law is a much more fluid fuzzy thing in China than in the USA (although the USA seems to be moving away from rule of law recently).
Nailed it. To disinter-mediate the monopoly vertical, you must source locally, and work together to ensure that local supply remains operational. You "step out" of the capture.
Just noticed that this is what you suggested :-)
Understood. Thanks for clarifying.

Yeah, I've been in the game for "a while" myself. The example you gave with garbage collection reminds me of stories I've heard about Assembly language programmers back in the day, declaring that devs who use high level languages (like C) don't really know how to write good code.

There's probably something to that, but it does beg the question "what's the right tradeoff?" Not only do we not have to deal with memory management, but also data structures and common algorithms, etc. I do think understanding those things made me a better coder, but perhaps progressively less meaningfully so, as time marched on and the lower level stuff was abstracted away by more and more layers on our move up stack to solve harder problems.

So, the emphasis on writing code from scratch lessened over the years, and development became more about integrating other people's code (frameworks, libraries, API's, etc). So, I think that kind of teed up this AI approach to writing code, in that it's just more code to integrate that you didn't write.

But, it is qualitatively different from the "natural progression", in that they're not writing code at all. In that way it feels like the last stop on the coding continuum. I suppose that makes sense, since we're told that we soon won't need human coders at all.
It is an organization of 6. 4 of which are guests (so would likely not incur a charge without asking, or at least mentioning it). But the theory somebody clicked by accident is pretty good.

I think of this more as pushing back a bit and warning others.
うな重が食い逃げした doesn't make sense at all. It literally only means that eel over rice itself ate something and fled away.

I think GP meant うな重は食い逃げした. This sentence can be interpreted as the same as above or "[the person] ate eel over rice [but not other dishes] and fled away".
Technically LaLiga is only allowed to sue because the gov created aggressive IP/piracy rules, such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_Sinde

They were given those powers in court over Cloudflare via the Spanish government, with some help via a pressure campaign by US gov to protect US copyright globally.
If there was a viable competitor, then it wouldn’t matter so much if it was blocked or not…
> Your "1 in a million" comment on durability is certainly too pessimistic once you consider the briefness of the downtime before a new server comes in and re-replicates everything, right?

Absolutely. Our actual durability is far, far, far higher than this. We believe that nobody should ever worry about losing their data, and thats the peace of mind we provide.
Show HN: Tinygym: RL in Tinygrad
Hi there, the repo speaks for itself.
Feedback & questions are welcome
Streisand effect going to happen here. Local bookstore was just talking about this ruling this morning.
OpenAI calls DeepSeek 'state-controlled,' calls for bans
it s not such a massive thing as it used to

but football teams often have political connections and thus easy access to do such things
OP Here, I'll try drawing all non-redundant lines, see if it feels better. UPDATE: done. give it a shot.
Optical widefield nuclear magnetic resonance microscopy
thanks for clarifying. yes such people exist and they are a nuisance to deal with.
Find somewhere else that better values the less quantifiable ways you contribute?
I feel that "category error" means "I think that the definitions you use or imply are wrong, but I can't/won't elaborate."

LLMs aren't coffee makers. They were trained on internet-worth of human data. They have procedures to imitate all kinds of personalities. RLHF moves the network towards a specific imitated personalty (a helpful assistant, usually).

The question in not "do they have it", but "how close the imitation to the real thing given the limitations of LLMs".
The problem is that no commonly-used symmetric cipher has been studied nearly as heavily with larger keys. 128 bits for a symmetric cipher is enough for all practical purposes barring a cryptographic break, and it gives the best performance. Their constructions aren't so trivial that you can just extend the existing study to larger key sizes mechanically. Using larger key sizes basically means using new ciphers. Unstudied ciphers.

It's much more conservative on your novelty budget to use a well-studied 128-bit cipher along with a well-studied key derivation function. In cryptography, you really should be as conservative as possible with your novelty budget.
> When a soccer team wins they don't get to ascend to power and leverage the state against their enemies.

I mean, FIFA is corrupt as hell and there's been plenty of documented cases of other social ills caused by European soccer fandom, but okay.
Interesting idea, but for clarity the cells need to be smoothed to ensure each cell edge has a minimum length.

eg. In the example image the top-left cluster has a given 9, where the orange line marking the run goes out to the right at what to me looks like a corner.
I think we are beyond the "theory" phase by now. Just yesterday I saw the president of a country advertising the products of a private company (Trump making an obvious marketing ploy for Tesla).

How can this ever be acceptable?
In 2010 a group of world class kayakers were attempting a first run of a section of whitewater in Africa. Just paddling along on a quiet section and quickly one was taken under never to be seen again.
https://www.unilad.com/news/kayakers-catch-moment-friends-ki...
He expects to be able to bully the entire world and have no repercussions
> It briefly existed in the few decades following WW2, but we have torn down much of the ideology and social infrastructure that made that possible.

No. Post-WWII America experienced a period of economic tailwinds that will likely never exist again.

Europe and Asia were in shambles after the war - bombed out, destroyed, male populations decimated - just as America was growing to peak industrial strength. America had a population boom, everything was cheap, and everyone was buying American goods. America had everything it needed - cheap resources, cheap land, abundant labor, and a totally captive worldwide market. No country has ever had every single variable flipped in their favor to such an outsized degree.

As we reached the 70's - 90's, we started to outsource. Our labor had become more expensive, but we offset this with cheap imported goods. We were still extremely and unilaterally wealthy.

Post China WTO, the wealth of America has been spent and "averaged out" over dozens of post-industrial economies. The market is so much larger than it was back then, and America doesn't possess hegemonic, unilateral economic power. Moreover, American industrial power has waned. The thing we had going for us - the American knowledge worker and the almighty power of the American consumer - was being met with increasing competition from everywhere.

The industrialization "algorithm" continues on: India, Vietnam, Mexico. Every country that industrializes and leverages cheap labor can grow into a powerhouse in just a single generation.

There are a lot of countries within spitting distance of America, especially if you group them together into blocs. The American consumer economy isn't so unique anymore, and we certainly haven't been producing our own goods for a long time.

So the wealth of the Baby Boomers and their incredible economic tailwinds will not be felt again unless there's some wildly new disruption to the economic order. (AGI and automated manufacturing, maybe?)

The reality is that the American middle class will shrink and people will have to work harder. The American market doesn't have magical superiority anymore.
If you want to get to Director-level at a large tech company...it's a pretty binary process, you either strike gold on a high business impact project OR you follow the algorithm that's in the career guide and have people who can document and attest to the impact at the level.

Striking gold is a low probability medium impact event. Following the algorithm is a low probability low impact event...because you make lots of trade-offs on quality of life, generalizable skills, and personal goals. There's also lots of competition along the way. So it just depends on which game you want to play.

If you have any semblance of personal goals/interests you need to stop worrying about following someone else's career advancement algorithm and maybe consider adapting it to incorporate your own heuristics. This is where I've settled in my approach to career goals. But it's highly specific to where you are at with other parts of your life.
Life is short and Aaron received a fraction of that. One can only imagine what would've been had Aaron received more time.
Independent contractor here. Admittedly, it's not for everybody. But once you've built up a base of clients who need your services regularly, you don't need to keep seeking more, at least not at nearly the same rate. Also, word of mouth will keep people coming to you. The reality is that I almost never have to sell myself. But I've been doing this for decades, and YMMV.

Of course, your ability to do this will be somewhat dependent on your stomach for communicating with strangers who come your way.
> Programming should be just a means to an end, not the end itself.

That's just, like, your opinion man.

I know for a fact that I didn't study to be a software engineer just so I could end up wrangling LLMs trained on stolen code into writing crappy code for me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause
Just because some people are deprived of it doesn't mean it shouldn't be a right. And the fact that some of these communities don't even have time to consider it a priority when they're also deprived of other basic rights doesn't mean that it isn't also a basic right. It's not a fairy tale to expect basic human rights. The entire world could be connected if that's what powerful people wanted.

Internet should not be a luxury in any community. That is against the ethos of the web, which should be free, open and accessible. Your comment is needlessly patronizing and dismissive without actually presenting any evidence that the internet shouldn't be considered essential for any modern community.
OP Here, I'm gonna try drawing all non-redundant lines to see if it improves the feel. UPDATE: done.

I will say that it took time for me to develop an intuition for where to focus solving efforts. I think if people spend a little time with it you wont have to click around as much to know where the next break in is.
it’s a secret
There's an interesting lecture about the New York city steam heating system by Dan Holohan at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nkgM0qCy5o4
So for you convenience is more important than supporting alternatives to the duopoly. I can understand that for sure, however keep in mind that duopoly is dangerous to the free market and its users in the long term. (See this: https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/). I do suffer from the lack of some features.
Nvidia claims it shipped twice as many RTX 50 GPUs at launch compared to RTX 40
> It worked for Germany in WWII until...

they took on the Russians
Lying about the true cost of software and taking credit for your employees work is the basis for consulting. Some might term these as Profit, and Reputation. But that's sales for you.
We work harder than people at any other point in history, despite all our technological advances. What makes you think AI will be different?
Forget AI – WhatsApp planning a simple feature that could be most useful upgrade
that's it man. I'm going back to linux. I wish this whole nightmare with Asahi didn't just happen...
eh they'll all get pardons anyways at some point, right-wing nuts now and left-wing nuts in a few years :)
that's nice! My house is 100% solar powered and 90% covered by a 90KHW battery system that I use both as a backup if there is an outage and also daily to power the house when there is no sun to produce electricity.

The other 10% is my garage where all my equipment is stored, so I want a smaller 20-25KWH battery system for it.
But why does the company have too much power?

Because there's a lot of money at stake surrounding soccer in Europe.
I have no idea how to use your app. It just shows 4 pictures and asks me to choose one. No. I refuse to play a challenge that is not explained wtf am i doing.
Links to many interesting demos. https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/glsl.html
So it's been a week. I have not noticed any issues with Firefox. I didn't even adjust this setting.

Everything is a lot smoother now than it was about 3-4 years when I last tried, even with the same hardware.

Happily using Firefox as my daily browser now.
yes, that improvement was implied but not explicitly spelled out under future work. I'll update to clarify.
I've been advocating for SQLite+NVMe for a while now. For me it is a new kind of pattern you can apply to get much further into trouble than usual. In some cases, you might actually make it out to the other side without needing to scale horizontally.

Latency is king in all performance matters. Especially in those where items must be processed serially. Running SQLite on NVMe provides a latency advantage that no other provider can offer. I don't think running in memory is even a substantial uplift over NVMe persistence for most real world use cases.
That article is heavily slanted, while providing the facts hidden in the text: Starlink was never enabled in Sevastopol. Musk simply denied an informal request to enable it to be used in a first strike, and deferred that decision to the DoD, which he contacted.

Which is the correct thing to do when random people ask private companies to go to war.
“Pessimists are often right, optimists are often happy and wealthy.”
The market for creative works breaks down as follows. You have pay-in-advance arrangements such as patronage, commissioning, and so on. Those have been around forever. And then you have pay-if-you-want-it arrangements which only make economic sense because we have laws that grant monopolies to the creators of the work over the market for copies of that work.

The first arrangement is very clearly a labor arrangement; but the second one is a deliberate attempt to force artists to act like capitalists. More importantly, because art is now acting like capital, it provides an obvious economic instinct to centralize[0]. So you get industrialized artistic production under the banner of publishing companies, whose business model is to buy out the copyright to new creative works and then exploit them.

What AI art does is transfer money from the labor side of art to the capital side of art. The MAFIAA[1] wants AI art to exist because it means they can stop paying artists but still make royalties off selling licenses to the AI companies. This increases their profit margins. Meanwhile, the journalists can't sell you old news; they need to spend lots of time and money gathering it every day. That business model only works in a world where writers are scarce, not just the writing itself being artificially scarce.

[0] We can see this with cryptocurrency, which is laughably centralized despite being a deliberate attempt to decentralize money.

[1] Music and Film Industry Association of America, a hypothetical merger of the RIAA and MPAA from a satirical news article
>> that's progress, not a problem.

It's a tradeoff. What we call progress is actually a tradeoff for what we value and prioritize more. It necessarily doesn't have to be good - just a state of the world we create.
I think it would, though there is a risk it'd be too cluttered visibly. But it does add the option of printing which is nice.

Looking at your example puzzle with all lines visible; the 8742 line in the top right and 896 in the bottom right are both redundant (second one doubly so since it's all givens). Maybe 50% of the two-cell lines are redundant and 33% of the 3-cell; so it might be manageable?
Cogeneration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogeneration
I actually like this. I've dealt with several situation where AI pretends to find a solution or has a false positive because it lacks correct information inside or outside itself. I think this is a fine idea, so long as it's opt-in
I wonder how these „web developers“ react, if they discover secret sauces like SSE, the „disabled“ attribute of <input> elements and SSI (server side includes)

I‘d love to be in the same room, when they edit their packages.json, spin up Docker just to create a basic CRUD form

LOL
AI is not designing good? How? The tech bros hate artistic minded people.

They hate design because it is the engine of growth and change. Tech bros like sameness and libraries. They love "design patterns".

But change is inevitable and design is not in the colors, fonts, whitespace.

Design is human centered practice for solving not only functional tasks but emotional. And for this there is no Tailwind, React, AI solution, or design patterns template.

PS: I am a designer and frontend engineer with 20+ years practice with my own company and plethora of delivered solutions for my clients. The divide between engineers and designers is the most persistent thing that I have seen in my life.

It is beyond my understanding.
This was the trend which drove me away. I didn't like being effectively forced to "upgrade" to new versions of the OS which changed things around seemingly just for the sake of changing them, pushed me harder toward doing things Apple's way using Apple's services whether I liked it or not, and introduced new limitations on what I could do with a machine that increasingly did not feel like it was actually my computer anymore.

Meanwhile, my clunky old Thinkpad running Linux just kept on getting the job done, enabling me to do whatever I felt like doing... and one day I realized I'd accidentally become a full-time Linux user, because I'd never gotten around to unpacking the Mac after I'd moved.
The Foundation series is arguably that, but you only find out in book 14 or so.
Agreed, normally I wouldn't even hear about a gossipy book like this but now I'm curious. Their actions are driving visibility through the roof.
Related on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43349214 (where it might be better to post this link)
Pretty cool, how did you come about to start this as a hobby?
i have this quote from him in some mail from 2008:

Software obeys the laws of the physics of people.
Metal looks super cool, however at my last job when we tried using instance local SSD's on GCP, there were serious reliability issues (e.g. blocks on the device losing data). Has this situation changed? What machine types are you using?

Our workaround was this: https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-supercharges-network-di...
Only when you're trying to sell bullshit. If I can actually solve someone's problem, and they don't mind my price, then we're helping solve each other's problems and everyone benefits!

Where things get sleezy is when you're competing with applicants that will bullshit, so you have to bullshit as well just to keep up, or when customers have unrealistic expectations and waste your time.
Nice game!! Well done I think.
And another nice example of how AI and generative art can help learn in an interactive way. Event though some pictures are missleading. I guessed the one was the end of rome while it was istanbul. But the pictures looked nothing like ottoman architecture and only like roman one. But overall very nice idea!!
Wouldn't just building a CANDU reactor be more effective? They produce both power and tritium.
so confused by this one. C is the most free to build systems and abstractions. it doesnt lock you down into any paradigm so you can build your own....

you can abstract away perfectly fine low level details and use your own high level constructs to build what you want in a memory safe way...

high level daya objects?

sure it doesnt have garbage collection, so it motivates you not to leave garbage laying around for some slow background process to collect.

actually you can build this in C you just do not want to...

you can give all your objects reference counters and build abstractions to use that, you can implement 'smart pointers' if u want, and have threads do garbage collection if u want... why not? what exactly is stopping you?

maybe its less convenient to go that route. but impossible? nope.

connect GDB to your c++ program and see how it works... its not like c++ suddenly doesnt become machine code. and c translates perfectly fine to machine code...
> And sure, it’s possible …

Because anecdote. We can only know when the thing is designed as an experiment.

(All credit to who-so-ever is working to write improved versions.)
DeepSeek/whoever training on OpenAI outputs is ... bad.

OpenAI training on every content creator's outputs is ... good.
Teenagers Say Girls Are Equal to Boys in School, or Are Ahead
Same same. After using tape for the longest time, 1541 changed my life!
Ah yes, back when browsers were actually user agents.
Athens's oldest coins reveal an ancient, widespread silver trade
http://www.bidstonlighthouse.org.uk/fifty-years-after/

Childhood memory: waiting for the gun to be fired.
Mars Rover captured a TicTac on camera
I did not read more than the lead in the article and probably should have given that I'm going to comment, but I feel like I have the gist of it. "Democrats are doing nothing to stop Trump and Musk" Assuming I'm correct about that summary...

I feel like the Democrats actually have a strategy, one that recognizes they have no control over the House, a filibuster at best in the Senate, and no one can constrain Musk or Trump. Their plan (for better or worse) seems to be to give federal Republicans all the rope they need to hang themselves. I'm guessing the hope being that people see what they actually voted for and won't do it again.