skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think SWE's have a serious blind spot here. I use the (rough) analogy of bowling to help illustrate this.

People need to knock over pins in the bowling lane. SWE's are the pro bowlers who can (usually) throw pretty cleans shots to knock over pins. Now bumpers have been invented (LLMs) and regular folks who only have the faintest idea of how to roll a ball are knocking over pins. To the pro's these bumpers are all manner of bad and useless. To the laymen, they are an absolute revolution.

I can tell you, with a straight face, the my (non-tech) company has already forgone hiring a pro bowler in at least four instances now because of these bumpers. Just last week we skipped on a $1k/mo CAD SaaS because Claude was able to build the needed narrow-scope tooling in 10 minutes.

I'm sure a pro could come in and make that python program 3x as fast and use 60% less memory. But the fact of the matter is that we paid Anthropic $20, and spent 10 minutes to get a working niche manufacturing file interpreter/editor/converter.

LLM's are finally bridging the language barrier between computers and humans. Right now the tech exists to make this even more widespread, it's just a matter of time before someone creates a tech-illiterate IDE that users can paste AI generated code into and functioning programs come out the other side. No need to ever even see a terminal or command line. I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't already in the works.

"Hey Google, create an app that allows me to take a picture of a house plant, and then allows me to verbally make entries into a diary about that plant" Sure thing! Give me 3 minutes and the app will be on your homescreen and shareable .apk in your documents folder! I'll also cancel the $9.99/mo app that does the same thing for you. (ok probably not this part but you get the idea.)
Personal Narratives Empower the Disinclined to Engage in Political Discussions
Agreed, it’s a trade off between an easy solution vs more complexity but with better reliability.
Ask HN: How do I deal with a cease and desist notice for my open HW project?
Hi HN,

I've been working on an open-source hardware project for years, but the hosting site where I posted the documentation received a cease and desist notice to remove it. Strangely, they didn’t contact me directly. I'm nearing the end of the project and planning to sell the device, but now I'm concerned about legal risks.

An IP lawyer told me even a basic patent review would cost thousands, which is out of my budget. My research suggests many of these threats are intimidation tactics, but it feels different when you're the target.

I'm looking for advice from those who’ve dealt with similar HW-related legal issues. I see three options:

Abandon the project (losing years of work and money)
Pivot, but risk another dispute (everything seems patented)
Call their bluff and hope they don’t sue

Am I thinking about this clearly? Thank you.
Vertical scaling this language also gets into painful territory quite often, I’ve had to workaround this problem before but never with a thing that felt like this: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/blob/main/syncs/shard...
Has anyone been able to find the open source part?

Is the software open source? The hardware? I’m not seeing anything other than a claim that it’s open source.
I've been interested in the Mandelbrot set for years, and years ago on the Amiga, I calculated hundreds of frames off line for a zoom along a path of a Julia-ish set and stored on the harddisk and played back in realtime.

Until seeing this website, I'd never even considered what different exponents might do to the image, and was pleased to find a nice logical pattern from changing it, even if the higher exponents don't necessarily have as much interesting stuff going on as you zoom in.
Bluehost owner is moving to Oracle Cloud
Branded searches. You can run a Instagram or TikTok sweepstakes tell people to search for the company name and tell Google to not autocorrect, tweet and share. Give away something to multiple winners to entice people to participate. If you don’t have a big following, pay a creator with a large following to do it.
What about a standalone executable that just offered the ability to install itself without having a dedicated separate installer?
We need to stop lying about what makes lost boys such easy marks for cons
The advice when such questions are asked is almost always to get a lawyer. But maybe if you think it is a frivolous lawsuit you can reach out to the EFF for help?
Isn't the orb spider really inefficient?

What if one specific mutation of orb spider is really nice but he was killed and its "member" is in a single female orb spider limiting the greatness of a good mutation I suppose which can feel counter to evolution to me I suppose.
I've visited Chan Chan during my honeymoon last year, it's impressive! All Peru is impressive, north to south. Highly recommended!
What I think they will do is just prevent you from registering? You want to register? Disable the flag.

The same as with the "do not accept". If you do not, they will nag you endlessly until you finally do allow the cookies.

I mean, we just can't win :(
I don't see why this would be considered cringe. The author created a fun project, shared it with us as open-source and is simply asking for voluntary donations, only if you're willing to contribute. No one is forcing you to donate.

If an aspiring developer cannot create fun projects and look for some support within the hacker community, what are we all even doing here?
Deepseek is funded by a hedge fund so it doesn’t really apply
I think calling my comment a strawman is a little unfair given the way he wrote it seemed pretty unequivocal at first. Once they clarified their stance I understood it better and was perfectly fine accepting that’s not what they meant.
Game theory.

The female benefits from a meal.

The male benefits via procreation.

A different choice by either party would be suboptimal.
For the vast majority of scenes in games, the best balance of performance and quality is precomputed visibility, lighting and reflections in static levels with hand-made model LoDs. The old Quake/Half-Life bsp/vis/rad combo. This is unwieldy for large streaming levels (e.g. open world games) and breaks down completely for highly dynamic scenes. You wouldn't want to build Minecraft in Source Engine[0].

However, that's not what's driving raytracing.

The vast majority of game development is "content pipeline" - i.e. churning out lots of stuff - and engine and graphics tech is built around removing roadblocks to that content pipeline, rather than presenting the graphics card with an efficient set of draw commands. e.g. LoDs demand artists spend extra time building the same model multiple times; precomputed lighting demands the level designer wait longer between iterations. That goes against the content pipeline.

Raytracing is Nvidia promising game and engine developers that they can just forget about lighting and delegate that entirely to the GPU at run time, at the cost of running like garbage on anything that isn't Nvidia. It's entirely impractical[1] to fully raytrace a game at runtime, but that doesn't matter if people are paying $$$ for roided out space heater graphics cards just for slightly nicer lighting.

[0] That one scene in The Stanley Parable notwithstanding

[1] Unless you happen to have a game that takes place entirely in a hall of mirrors
Eh, I’ll go ahead and trust that life is about as long as it needs to be. Any “things of note” apart from genuinely helping someone else out on their journey when you had a shot is totally irrelevant from the broader perspective.
My god there’s a lot of negativity here. Nice work! I’ve been looking for something like this for a very small test I’m running of a mobile app. It’s honestly surprising that there are so few offerings in this space
> It seems that you think that because you are a 'legal immigrant' or descendant of such that you are somehow better or more proper than an illegal immigrant. This is funny because the people you vote for only see that distinction as a temporary item on their checklist. That's how they got you to vote them into power. Now that they are in power and once they are done with the items higher on their to do list (and which they need in order to further consolidate their power) they are going to move down the list. And one of those items includes you: people of color in general, and with 'of color' I mean even slightly non-white. This includes you, your parents and your children. Especially educated people of color who could conceivably put up a solid defense. And their extended family is on that same list because they too do not pass the purity test.

So if last year a person votes for JD Vance to be VP, you are saying they voted for someone who is secretly planning to harm his own wife and kids? And if next year someone votes for Vivek Ramaswamy to be Governor of Ohio, you are saying they are voting for someone who’s secretly planning to harm not just his wife and kids, but also himself?

Trump has endorsed many “even slightly non-white people”, from Ramaswamy to be Governor of Ohio, to Mehmet Oz’s unsuccessful campaign to become Senator for Pennsylvania and Herschel Walker’s (also unsuccessful) campaign to be Senator for Georgia. He’s also nominated Walker to be Ambassador to the Bahamas, installed Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, Lori Chavez-DeRemer as Secretary of Labor, Scott Turner as Secretary of HUD… but you’re saying that elevating them to high office is all part of Trump’s grand plan to harm them?
CPS agents didn't come in guns ablaze (that aren't armed). It's a simple investigation and interview with the parents.

It's quite literally the same thing as a cop checking up on someone for a reported domestic disturbance.

It's not as instant jail sentence or separation of parents from their kids.

Like I said, those are literally tools of last resort. Things have to be really bad. Like, for example, a kid that shows up with bruises and stories of violence from the parents won't instantly be removed. That's how far CPS bends over to avoid family separation. The research is pretty clear that family separation is about the worst thing you can do to a kid. That's why instead CPS generally will deploy things like mandatory therapy (if that). Or life skills lessons. And that's assuming they see major problems at the initial interview. If it's a false claim the actual most likely thing that will happen is they'll show up and say "looks like a false claim" and leave, probably ignoring future reports.

It's actually wild to me how anti-cps people are.
That allows chat. Can go the hearthstone model where all you can say is “hi” and “good job”. Letting randos talks just is going to lead to bad times w kids.
There's no need for implications of deals between nvidia and game developers in smoke filled rooms. It's pretty straightforward: raytracing means less work for developers, because they don't have to manually place lights to make things look "right". Plus, they can harp about how it looks "realistic". It's not any different than the explosion of electron apps (and similar technologies making apps using html/js), which might be fast to develop, but are bloated and feel non-native. But it's not like there's an electron corp, giving out "electronbux" to push app developers to use electron.
Oh a rock rolling down a hill is, well, navigating the physical world. Is it well, solving physics problem?
> https://www.gibney.org/a_syntax_for_self-tracking

Loved reading this as I have been on a similar self tracking journey of my own.

I am curious about your thoughts on mobile support? Specifically, have you implemented anything to make adding/editing events while away from your computer easier? Or perhaps you feel it is not important for your use case?

Personally, I've found that being able to log an event in an instant, or just on a whim, is invaluable for capturing the sort of data I care about tracking the most (like what I just ate or my mood), and I find too much friction causes many events simply go unlogged as they almost always feel too unimportant or mundane in retrospect to keep a mental note of and track later.

I started out with a text file system similar to yours but I've since begrudgingly resorted to google forms for most of my tracking needs. It's nice that I can arbitrarily add and remove fields while still keeping everything relatively structured and parseable, and it does have (albeit inferior) revision history. But I dislike not having ownership and control over where my data is stored and absolutely *dread* waiting for the form to load every time I want to log an event, especially on mobile.
> Three-quarters of all people in extreme poverty live in Sub-Saharan Africa or in fragile and conflict-affected countries.

The people in extreme poverty are not the people you are making the argument for. Changing your consumption isn't going to do a thing for sub Saharan Africa and latin America, as a matter of fact increasing consumption of goods from those countries will improve their quality of life.

If you are ever in South Africa contact me, really. I'll take you to those people in povery, tell them yourself how you think Americans spending less money is going to change their lives in any way.

You will probably find some peoplewho are just trying their best to make it through the day. You will also find a lot of their lack of wealth comes from a lack of education.

You want to make a lasting difference, stop donating to feel good charities or animals or nonsense. Find an organisation that is focussed on improving education in these areas and donate to that.

Because nothing kills corrupt governments quite like an educated voting base.
Most people should be very uncomfortable giving a random gig economy worker access to their personal email accounts that act as fallback authentication for everything in their lives.

The fact that our AI systems have this level of trustworthiness is a big problem for harnessing their potential, since you want them to be a lot more trustworthy.

But AI is even worse, it has no sense for when things are weird and it is under attack. If you sent a hundred messages to a human trying slight variations of tricks on them, they would know something was wrong and they were under attack, but an AI would not.
Science Cuts Have Thrown the Research World into Chaos
Cannibalism is legitimate in the wild.

However, as you suggest it’s not necessarily a mating thing.

If the animal is hungry and there is a food source (and no reason to do anything else), the pro-survival option is chosen.
GitHub has long been bad at notifying me of anything. It’s usually nonstop spam from every repo I've ever interacted with. I wish they’d figure out how to filter down the noise to important notifications.
The Amiga 1000 (that came before the 500) didn't have the "kickstart" in ROM, so you needed a kickstart disk for the 1000.

The Amiga 500 and later had the kickstart in ROM and many of us would mod our Amiga 500 so that we could use a switch to select between kickstart 1.2 or 1.3.

But even on the Amiga 500, that still wasn't a UI from ROM: you had to use the "workbench" disk to get the UI.
Hitman, GTA, both of which use a non-raytraced implementation. More to the point, lack of mirrors doesn't impact the gameplay. It's something that's trotted out as a nice gimmick, 99% of the time it's not there, and you don't really notice that it's missing.
Oh for sure, but as Eurogames go, those are still two of the most basic. My wife is so sick of Catan she's refused to play it for over a decade.
Love it. We just need to add pipes/bars | between | things | because we’ve done so much. Don’t forget “ex-stupid company, ex-failed company” and etc. for added cringe!
Not true. The proof depends on continuous loops and non-invertible functions.

It's significantly related to Riemann surfaces.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3349111/where-exact...

https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/lg5/394/ArnoldQuintic.p...

https://projecteuclid.org/journals/topological-methods-in-no...
Michael Tremante here. I'd like to address some points openly as I'm personally mentioned in the forum. I reached out to the Pale Moon community on behalf of the team to try and resolve the issue with the Pale Moon browser.

- We sent our standard NDA to speed things up. I explicitly said in the message that it may not be required, but in the interest of moving fast we sent it to them so they could review it just in case

- We are committed to making our challenge system work on all browsers by clearly documenting what APIs need to be supported. For example, part of the issue with Pale Moon, is that it does not support CSPs correctly

- Notwithstanding the above, to resolve the issue quickly we are willing to lower some of our checks if and only if, we find the right approach. Of course this would introduce some security issues that bot developers may quickly leverage

- Contrary to what many have said in this forum, our challenge has no logic that relies on the user agent strings. We rely on browser APIs. We don't have any special checks for any specific browser

- To address this longer term, we are discussing internally a program for browser developers to have a direct channel with our team and we hope to have something to share soon with the browser developer community

I am happy to answer any constructive questions.
We use Mattermost at work, and apart from the mobile app being a bit shit, and search being kind of useless, it's easily as good as Slack. In some ways it's better, e.g. you can use proper Markdown in messages instead of Slack's Mrkdwn abomination that doesn't even allow links.

I wish they would improve search though; it's kind of a critical feature in a company.
Sure, feel free to send an email to the email in my profile
Thanks. I've considered the EFF, but their criteria for taking on cases prioritizes cases that have a broad impact on the internet and privacy. I guess emailing them couldn't hurt. Maybe I could consider getting investments to fund the legal costs.
Name them like clothing sizes: XXLLM, XLLM, LLM, MLM, SLM, XSLM XXSLM.
Exactly. It helps avoid decision paralysis and bikeshedding. And eventually once those hub notes become well-defined, it would be easier to shift to a more serious system.
I think the #installation section of the README needs to be updated.

https://github.com/LukeDunsMoto/BioCringe?tab=readme-ov-file...

Either that or the python file and its requirements.txt are missing
The product isn’t released yet. I would hazard a guess that the source will come after the device is officially available
The native keyboard shortcuts
Intelligence can not be a commodity, because complexity is infinite. By definition the top 1% in understanding complexity are the top 1% in intelligence.
People join wrong companies all the time and quit in less than a year. Same goes for companies, plenty of people get laid off during their first year. It sucks but it also gives us more liquid labor market where employees and employers know that they can get out of bad relationships easily. (And it usually favors employers)

One or two stints like that are not a problem. Nor is gap in resume should be an issue. (Yes some old school managers want perfect resume but many more understand that people now take time off to explore other interests, travel, start their own ventures etc)
I'm intrigued by the decision to call it "Docs".

In any other circumstance it would be a clear trademark infringement on Google Docs. It's literally the same product with the same name, it has an extremely similar logo and almost exactly the same typeface in its logo.

But since this is a government project between France and Germany, maybe governments are allowed to ignore trademarks? Or Google wants to stay on their good side because of all the fines, so the last thing it's going to do is sue them for trademark infringement?

I've never seen a legal situation like this before.
What's the difference between this and like https://canny.io/ ?
Scamming scammers with AI callbot [video]
I’m really fond of the way macOS does this, which is to stick this information in the executable.

Back in the day, this worked via a flag in the metadata for each file. When you got a new executable, the flag was unset. The OS would see a file with an unset flag, ask “Is this an executable? What files can it open?” and then add this information to a database called the desktop database.

This is why file associations work on a Mac without an installer, and without writing any code (you just have to write the code for “open file in response to OS request”).
> Coasting is exactly how I'd describe increase revenue by 6x in 10 years. "Coasting."

Again: inertia and network-effect.

> It's a massive success as a company.

Undoubtedly. And they appear to be great at not failing. Like any bureaucracy, that works until it doesn't. What new markets have they created or taken over in the past 10 years?
Still not clear to me what it is. Only the features it has, without knowing what it is.

Like, imagine a page that only said "SuperTransport -- 0 to 100 in 5 seconds", but it is not clear for the reader if it is a car or a horse or a plane or a parcel service...

... and the reader has to go and guess "hmm, guess due to the acceleration it is probably a car or a motorbike -- wonder of it is for sale or for rent?".

Just put "fast on premise key/value database" in the big font that was there -- if that is what it is. That is purely a guess from me, no idea if that is what it is.
The candle that burns twice as bright only burns half as long.
Do you think it would have been a better deal if America was still reliant on Putin for access to space?
What you built is a dialog, not a modal.

The fundamental difference is a dialog isn’t forced to be addressed by the user at any time, and lacks the alert dialog[0] role, at least I don’t see any of this in the example code.

I know this seems like pedantic criticism however my hope is to spread some information about the (very real) differences between a dialog and a modal, even though the dialog API doesn’t do a good enough job distinguishing this

[0]: The alertdialog role is to be used on modal alert dialogs that interrupt a user's workflow to communicate an important message and require a response
> Those are physics problems that animals, including humans, know how to solve

No, those are problems that animals and humans solve, not know how to solve. I'm not the greatest expert of biochemistry that ever lived because of what goes on in my cells.

Now, I understand perfectly well the argument that "even small animals do things that our machines cannot do". That's been indisputably true for a long time. Today, it seems that the be more a matter of embodiment and speed of processing rather than a level of intelligence out of our reach. We already have machines that understand natural language perfectly well and display higher cognitive abilities than any other animal- including abstract reasoning, creating and understanding metaphors, following detailed instructions, writing fiction, etc.