skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from the followup post:

> Just mimicking some syntax you found on the web (which is ultimately what the AI is doing) will not get you very far at all.

I wonder if this syntax-driven phenomenon might also explain why many natural intelligences bounce off of lisp?
This seems like the logical result... Underground where temperatures are less extreme, there is no good reason to reduce growth.
My parents moved when I was 3 and an half. I remember distinctly our previous house. I described (much later) to my parents the layout and the colors of different rooms and they were shocked that I could remember.

My 3.5 years old son, still remembers things that happened when he was 2 (visit to disney land for example). But I think it's maybe a bit different nowadays because we have a lot more photos that might help him form and recall his memories compared to when I was a child in the 80s.
What do you want to trim off? ASCII 0x20? Any ASCII white-space? Any Unicode white-space? Well the latter requires defined string encodings and depends on the Unicode version and you can't just use the latest without introducing subtle compatibility issues.
It would be great to see this add ActivityPub.
The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010
Why not use the AT Protocol like bluesky? (assuming you don't)
Reified reference for contexts where this wasn't yet defined: https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html
A little late to the discussion, but what I missed in the comments was to properly try to reestablish the relation with your co-founder at least once more.

It sounds like it will take a lot more than a meeting. The two of you should go on a three day retreat to discuss the company situation and strategy deeply and to repair the connection between you two.

If you have completely different views, in a way that is really interesting and you should both strive to fully understand and learn from each other.

Who knows what lies underneath the difference in views?

Once you know that you can make a much more informed decision and if you still leave it will likely be on much better terms.
Stolen Imeis aren't always exchanged between carriers, much less internationally.

Even if that wasn't the case, as long as there were at least a few decently-sized countries not plugged into the system, that's where the thieves would sell all their devices.

Stolen Apple devices are still usable for parts (which is why parts pairing is not always a bad thing), and you can sometimes phish the Apple ID credentials from the victim, which is why stealing those devices is still profitable enough.
Ok how about a simple reason like this - they just went for a night walk in the wilderness and are using lamps to see where they are going. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

>> I don't think it's unreasonable to take a dim view of those who use bright lights in uninhabited environments like this.

I think it is, but it's the internet, we don't have to agree.
Reflection won't allow a linker to magically translate a class from one library version to another. It may not even be possible to do that translation at all.
That's exactly like the German law works. And as far as I know, it's how all law system that aren't common/case law work.

Changes will either add, delete or change an existing law.

There is actually a website where someone has all changes dating back to 2006 and you can display diffs (called Synopsis in Germany) - for example: https://www.buzer.de/gesetz/5041/v322454-2025-03-25.htm
It isn't in our nature at all, on the contrary. It is if that knowledge is useful for strategic purpose like economic advantages, but it is an exception.
Yup. I didn't look at the user.

Sign of the times...
> the reality is I've already sunk about 6 hours total into the whole operation

That's a bit of a sunken-cost fallacy.

Here is a device that is going to be used every day for the coming 5 to 10 years, with a least 3 useful functions that cannot be accessed, and it's going to annoy you every time you use it.

Some devices simply have to work without friction, and that is worth spending home maintenance time on (and our hard-earned cash). Dishwashers, washing machines, printers..

Life is too short to waste time and energy on those, and I would argue that the energy, time, friction and annoyance you are probably going to encounter on the lifetime of that device is probably more than the 6 extra hours that would have been spent returning this unit.

Just my 2c, from the sideline, not walking in your shoes.
Overcompensating is a word that comes immediately to mind...
I tend to keep different sessions open for different ongoing topics, and that's what I notice when I start a new one. It's very easy for it to fall into its default sterile, focus grouped, conversation-flowchart mode.

Longer conversations can draw it more "out of its shell", though. The more context it has, the better it can mirror you, and there's some sessions I have where it genuinely does feel like it's got a little bit of personality and rapport with me.

You really do have to keep in mind, though, that no matter what, in the end it's just going to agree with you :)
there was a better LinkedIn, it was called Read.cv. unfortunately, they've been bought by Perplexity (which is a shame because Read.cv is a perfect product while Perplexity is snake oil)
Show HN: I'm Building CursorAI for Excel
I’ve tried Ms copilot for excel and it actually sucks, I kept running into issues, it kept writing buggy formulas , and even struggles with basic analysis, I don’t know if it’s the model but each time I use ChatGPT or Claude to generate formulas it works perfectly, so I’m building an Ai agent that integrates with excel to perform basically data analysis tasks like what vibe coding is to developers and also allow users to also choose between a range of different models.

Is this something that would be helpful to you?
>What distinguishes Bitcoin from Titcoin, another kind of cryptocurrency which also is with a 'capped supply'?

The presence of a growing community that are willing to accept it for good and services.

> why the gold-standard died..

You don't want the entire economy of a country to be based on capped assets. That would limit the size of your economy. But such assets can work well as a reserve. Gold works because of its intrinsic value, and is not dependent on the presence of a community that accept it. But its intrinsic value can disappear overnight.
Bitcoin works as reserve because of the presence of a growing community that accept it, and is dependent on the community. But its value would not disappear and is only decided and ensured by the community.

So it really a matter of reaching community wide consensus. Bitcoin have it right now and there is no fundamental reason why it would lose its value. Sure governments can ban it, and it ll lose its value. But if the government itself is holding reserves in it, then we can be pretty sure that that would not be done.

So to answer your question, gold standard died because it would limit the size of the economy that it can support, because supply of gold is limited.
Coding Isn't Programming
"you can't store all usage data on the machine itself"

I can buy 128M flash for $2/10k
On linux you can use remap_file_pages[1] to setup your magic ring buffer. Yes, these days it is emulated in the kernel, but here we only care about setting up the expected duplicated mapping of anon pages instead of minimizing the allocations of VMAs.

Also linux has MADV_DONTFORK, would that allay your concerns? (there is a potential race between mmap and the madvice call, but if you are forking in a multithreaded program you have worse concerns).

[1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/remap_file_pages.2.htm...
Sometimes standard library types defined in terms of compiler-builtins like `typedef decltype(nullptr) nullptr_t` but that doesn't always make sense. E.g. for operator<=> the only alternative would be for the compiler to define std::partial_ordering internally but what is gained by that?
What are you referring to? Who looked into it? Are you citing something?
Mild compliment! Connective subject comment. Inquisitive query?
> The first publicly available version of Oracle Database (v2 released in 1979) was written in assembly for PDP-11.

I wonder if anybody still has a copy of Oracle v2 or v3?

Oldest I've ever seen on abandonware sites is Oracle 5.1 for DOS

> The mainframes at the time didn't have C compilers

Here's a 1975 Bell Labs memo mentioning that C compilers at the time existed for three machines [0] – PDP-11 UNIX, Honeywell 6000 GCOS, and "OS/370" (which is a bit of a misnomer, I think it actually means OS/VS2 – it mentions TSO on page 15, which rules out OS/VS1)

That said, I totally believe Oracle didn't know about the Bell Labs C compiler, and Bell Labs probably wouldn't share it if they did, and who knows if it had been kept up to date with newer versions of C, etc...

SAS paid Lattice to port their C compiler to MVS and CMS circa 1983/1984, so probably around the same time Oracle was porting Oracle to IBM mainframes – because I take it they also didn't know about or couldn't get access to the Bell Labs compiler

Whereas, Eric Schmidt succeeded in getting Bell Labs to hand over their mainframe C compiler, which was used by the Princeton Unix port, which went on to evolve into Amdahl UTS. So definitely Princeton/Amdahl had a mainframe C compiler long before SAS/Lattice/Oracle did... but maybe they didn't know about it or have access to it either. And even though the original Bell Labs C compiler was for MVS (aka OS/VS2 Release 2–or its predecessor SVS aka OS/VS2 Release 1), its Amdahl descendant may have produced output for Unix only

I assume whatever C compiler AT&T's TSS-based Unix port (UNIX/370) used was also a descendant of the Bell Labs 370 C compiler. But again, it probably produced code only for Unix not for MVS, and probably wasn't available outside of AT&T either

[0] https://archive.org/details/ThePortableCLibrary_May75/page/n...
Talk about ow!
> In that case how much faster would things be to compile where it doesn't need to filter through hundreds of preprocessor options?

I think most of the time spent isn’t running the preprocessor, but parsing the declarations and definitions.

Regardless, the way to speed up importing definitions in modern C++ is to use #import instead of #include.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38904758 says they could import the entire std namespace in under a second (that is long when you want to run C++ as a scripting language, but not when you compile large programs)
You (and I) may think so, but I have seen serval talented people who could not break through the noise with a normal resume get hired very soon after posting a (really good) video resume.
This is normally called a magic ring buffer, and it is a relatively well known pattern. Very useful for queues when you need to support variable size elements and need to interoperate with code that can't handle split objects.
Here are two examples.

First, a made up but illustrative one. The statute says something vague like "a term in a standard form consumer contract that is oppressive or unconscionable is void." In a common law system (anything derived from English law, including US, Australia, etc) the meaning of these terms, if they aren't defined elsewhere in the statute, is figured out based on decided cases. Someone will argue that it covers a particular clause, and the judge will decide if it does. The judge might give a detailed test for what constitutes "oppressive" or might reuse an existing one from a different context or whatever. The decision might be appealed and a panel of judges decide the meaning. But over time, and as cases are decided, the meaning becomes clear. You can point to half a dozen examples of clearly oppressive clauses and a dozen that clearly aren't, there is a legal test for what counts, etc. The law develops towards certainty and the doctrine of precedent also means it stabilises: it isn't going to change its meaning just because new judges are appointed, because they generally follow precedent pretty closely.

Under the Chevron doctrine, there is an extra step. If a government agency says that its interpretation is that "oppressive" means X, then if that interpretation is reasonable, if it is open on the wording of the statute, then the inquiry stops there. The court defers to the government agency. This has the benefit, admittedly, that the definition can change over time according to changing conditions. But it has downsides. It is giving the job of deciding what laws mean to the government, rather than the judiciary. The government is meant to act according to law, not to interpret it. That isn't the executive's proper function. But quite apart from the philosophical objections, it is no good for stability. A new government is elected and the official interpretation changes. This happens a lot. A new government is elected and it is decided that now "restraint of trade" clauses in employment contracts are legal. Four years later they're unenforceable. Four years layer they're enforceable again. No laws changed, no regulations are passed, a government agency just releases a new statement of its official interpretation of the law.

That is quite different to, e.g., there being a statute saying "terms in consumer contracts must accord with the regulations promulgated by the department of consumer protection as in force at the date of execution of the contract" because:

1. It is clear what is delegated to the executive and what is not.

2. It is clear that the definition applied is the definition at the time the contract was signed, and the "interpretation" is not retrospective.

3. It is still up to the court to give a clear, consistent, precedential ruling as to the meaning of the regulations themselves.

This example is real: Chevron itself. There, the EPA changed the definition of "source" of air pollution, without Congressional approval, so that "source" was much narrower (making pollution harder to regulate).
In the article one will find several points of apparent confusion between symptoms and causes: e.g., of course decadence can easily be accompanied by «weakening of authority» - that is because those that raise to power cease to be authoritative after the decadence in quality. Edit: but it is because of the compromise after the difficulty of properly organizing text in descriptive (historic) essays.

But surely, when you see societies that have become insensitive, and especially insensitive to the quality of sound tapestry - societies which have forgotten the value of silence, which is health and especially mental health - you can immediately see the signs of a downfall.
Just based on the stage of the game I'd say it's not likely, but the possibilities are there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43121383

It would have to be from unsupervised tool usage or accepting backdoored code, not traditional remote execution from merely inferencing the weights.
how do you use it? i tried it once and quickly lost interest as the conversation turned shallow and schematic. not organic and insightful as i would expect from an actual therapy session.
interesting take, what made it a perfect product in your opinion ? as opposed to linkedin / OP's product
The Hartlib Papers
It also depends on how much of the lines end up being actually used - sure the compiler will have to parse all 27000 lines and probably do some more processing on that code but it won't have to do optimizations, register allocation and code generation on member functions or specializations you don't use.
Is "conventional wisdom" defined as strategically naming your product "OpenAI" and keeping it closed-source?
i'll let you go ahead and explain how they controlled for squirming, I'm interested
> an excess of liberty, a confusion of social norms, and the weakening of authority that soon descends into lawlessness.

Well, that describes about every ranting grumpy grandpa unhappy with the younger generation. Seems a tad too generic and conservative to be worth anything.
ASCII white space (in any encoding) by default with an optional user defined set of trim characters (like Python) would probably solve the needs of 90% of people rolling their own.
Theorem providers should be treated as interactive. I don't know how Lean works but I know how Isabelle works. Reading Isabelle proofs in plain text (e.g. in the seL4 verification repository on GitHub) is completely useless. However, when you open one in Isabelle's IDE, you can click on any point in the proof and show the internal state of the verifier - what the current statement being proved is, so you can see how the last tactic modified it. You can also search for names of theorems and axioms by matching templates (e.g. "?a*(?b+?c)=?d" will match the law of distributivity and maybe some other stuff)
have you looked through

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskDocs/

https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/

to see what doctors are saying of your competitors or already existing solutions?

This could give you a good idea of what doctors care about
Show HN: Built an MCP server for direct sound design on my hardware synth
Made an MCP server that lets you design sounds on the Digitone 2 synth with natural language — real-time control over MIDI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXf6lOTjla8
Open R1's OlympicCoder beats Deepseek R1, models and underlying dataset released
`chore(code): fix bug` doesn't follow conventional commits, so it's not at great example for this point.

In my experience conventional commits tend to lower character counts and improve the readability of messages. `bug(auth): adjust XYZ` is shorter than `fix auth bug by adjusting XYZ`.
It turns out that greedy patent licensing schemes kill the patented ideas rather than lead to innovation. Patents themselves can be worthwhile for society, but we need patent lifetimes that comport to each industries typical R&D cost recoup times, not 20+ years.
> At that point we might as well get rid of the press, as otherwise someone might be able to hold someone actually accountable to their actions and decisions

Minutes are a thing, you know? And I'm not saying all sessions need to be held behind close doors, I'm perfectly fine with journalists or the public being present

> _must_ have a way of knowing who is doing what, who is involved in which decision

They do, that's what elections, roll calls and minutes are for

> and what favors are being traded

You're implying this is actually possible, it's not. Favours will always be traded in secret and deals made. All that the radical transparency proposals do is making sure that compromises can't be done effectively in official settings
That might be possible only if we compiled to some intermediate bytecode first, and shipped that with the code.
What a lot of waffle, with a few examples but no actual attempt to prove or disprove the assertion.

Is this what gets you a History degree nowadays?
When you say they are not even functions, are you saying because they are not everywhere bijective? Because they look like rotated parabolas to me which means they will have continuous first and second derivatives which is (I think) all you need for Newton’s method isn’t it?
Rules for the Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
A Beginner's Guide to Culture Science
Save Gym Time by 40%
imo it's because of the urgency with which it was disclosed (and apologized for). Hypothetically, the sentiment would have been the opposite if say he'd only disclosed this a month after the breach. (Also helps that the details weren't high stakes like personal finance data.)
I kept catching myself Googling things like :nth-child patterns or attribute selectors. So I put together a cheat sheet for advanced CSS selectors, combinators, specificity rules, and common pitfalls.

It’s concise, organized by category, and includes quick references and real-world use cases. I made it for myself initially, but figured other developers might find it useful too.

Here’s the link if you want to check it out: https://tekisolve.gumroad.com/l/grjet

Happy to hear feedback or things you think are missing.
This should really be the top answer.

From link [0]:

However, perhaps inline with the German attitudes towards privacy, the BSH "HomeConnect" appliances have a no-cloud mode built into their app without any hacks required to disconnect them from the internet. They do require a one-time connection to perform key exchange of a long-live authorization key, but from then on the appliances can be operated entirely disconnected from the network.
Space pirates have their sights set on the 'high seas' of Earth orbit
I got mine around 2012 (but not the toe version) and quickly found out that running in them for more than 15 minutes makes my feet hurt, with no sign of a training effect.

But they still serve me well as gym shoes with a very low packing volume (great for business trips).
Beyond Traditional Pattern Matching in Lisp
Reading into it a bit more, it seems like essentially the idea is you can take a sort of 2D Fourier Transform of the CMB, and the 4th and 8th terms of this series are generally aligned with the solar system’s axis.

It’s interesting, but not quite a slam dunk unless I’m missing something – across all the terms in the series, some of them would be sure to generally align with our axis right?
I think the community will replace it with a better algorithm and existing coins will be swapped for the new coin. Transactions might be required to be frozen for a while though..
GitHub's terms of use state that by uploading code to the site, you grant people permission to click "Fork".
Thanks! I hope it serves you well.
Works fine with me with JS disabled. Even works in text mode links and lynx browsers (lynx was more readable).
The article essentially claims that changes in musical styles and traditions can lead to broader societal changes, potentially undermining the established order and laws of the state, and that the emergence of "new music" that prioritized sensationalism and audience pleasure over traditional forms and harmony could be seen as a threat to social and political stability (based on Plato's assumptions). From my humble point of view yet another instance of "correlation does not imply causation".
I am not HN and I don't know if you think I should be allowed to quote your comments. If you included a copyright license, I'd know.
impossible to read without "LLM, whats the key point of bellow in a single sentence please?"
I will high-jack this top-rated comment to link to a comment further below.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43469297

This comment has a link to [0], explaining, in plain text:

However, perhaps inline with the German attitudes towards privacy, the BSH "HomeConnect" appliances have a no-cloud mode built into their app without any hacks required to disconnect them from the internet. They do require a one-time connection to perform key exchange of a long-live authorization key, but from then on the appliances can be operated entirely disconnected from the network.

[0] https://trmm.net/homeconnect/
Bosch and Siemens produce home appliances through B(osch)S(iemens)H Hausgeräte GmbH (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSH_Hausgeräte). They are not lending their brand to another manufacturer.
Or flashing led and use mobile phone camera to scan it.

Back in the days infrared connection was a thing. I remember connecting my Compaq iPAQ PDA to Nokia phone.

Wonder if the modern cellphone cameras are fast enough to act as receiver and if this supported one way communication.
As a father of young teens I find some of the music quite disturbing and borderline soft porn. Music in the 70s/80s were more about romance, today is more about sex and drugs. I agree with article about the correlation between society in decline and I see the nature of music as one of the signals.
I'd say the most common usage in the real world is click-bait surveillance fear articles discussing CV-Dazzle and the entire surveillance state being erected. The theater around all this is as much "it" as the things themselves.