skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading about someone simply adding legal texts to git. This is pretty much useless. I think that people who do this never saw a commercial legal database (or how it is called).

What one usually need, is for example, to have cross-references, i.e. when a law contains phrase like "the certification is issued by a relevant authority", you want to have the "relevant authority" wrapped in a hyperlink pointing to an government order that designates that authority. Also, you typically want to have links to court cases related to some paragraph near it etc. If some change is planned to the law you want to have a note in the text like "this is going to change on September, 1", etc.

Given that many countries have local laws, you might want to be able to filter by a place.

Github might be used for storing raw documents as some weird kind of a database, but it is useless for actually trying to find out the answers to legal questions.

To make an analogy, reading laws on Github is like reading source code without syntax highlighting and navigation.
Seems like it’d be a good application for Bluetooth.
Order–disorder transition in multidirectional crowds
I was replying to GP.

You could certainly replace bash and traditional Unix shells with something else. My favorite attempt is scsh (though mainly for the "acknowledgements" section of its reference manual.)

But I'm in favor of a Unix/Linux command shell and scripting language that has type and taint checking for command arguments, and which differentiates between code and data. Typed data pipes could be nice as well.

However, Unix/Linux isn't (yet) designed for those features. For example exec() doesn't type check command arguments.
I was hoping GEB would pop up in this convo somewhere!

I’ve read halfway through like three times. I wish I had a better math background so I could understand the incompleteness theorem. Seems like it’s pretty central to his ideas, but I can’t quite wrap my head around it.

Someday I’ll get all the way through!
Every time I visit this site, I have to zoom out, and the low contrast is still killing my eyes.
The reply UX is frustrating—I don’t want to disrupt the reading flow by being redirected to a separate reply page.
Can’t I just reply directly under a comment without leaving the page?
I’m not asking for anything fancy, but at least aim for something like Reddit’s style.
Code I slaved over and expended all my effort - gone when the startup collapsed.

Half-assed solution I threw together as an intern in 1999? Still operating and foundational to this day.

Ah, well.
Rugix 0.8 Released
Debian-based embedded Linux for ARM, AMD, Raspberry Pi, and VM with OTA upgrades.

* Atomic A/B system updates with popular bootloaders out of the box.

* Streaming updates as well as adaptive delta updates out of the box.

* Builtin cryptographic integrity checks before installing anything anywhere.

* Supports any update scenario, including non-A/B updates and incremental updates.

* Supports any bootloader and boot process through custom boot flows.

* Robust state management mechanism inspired by container-based architectures.

* Integrates well with different fleet management solutions (avoids vendor lock-in).

* Provides powerful interfaces to built your own update workflow upon.

https://github.com/silitics/rugix
Yes. The article gets into this, but buried pretty deep below the fold. Disappointing.
It's worth noting that (AFAIK) it's not a standardized test. The gym I go to doesn't let you tie your own knots on topropes and they're already inserted into a Grigri (not sure what the lead climbers use, but that's separate).
The existence of 230 propping up and effectively subsidizing centralized systems actually is in a non trivial manner. A centralized system with a single giant point of failure is always going to be cheaper and/or easier for users, so as long as we provide ways to bail out or otherwise provide immunity to centralized platforms of all forms we actively erode the ability to ever have decentralized systems. You don't need 230 to build any of these things... maybe you did in the 90s, but technology has long since advanced, and we would be better off phasing out this crutch.
I’m quite NT and I tried Magic Todo and was impressed. This is really a great application of the tech.
Search Engine Driven Niche and Ideas Hunter – SearchHunter
Ubiquiti is software defined networking, so it needs software to configure it.
We're Still Not Done with Jesus
The competition isn't self-hosting. If you can just pick a capable model from any provider inference just turns into a infrastructure/PaaS game -> The majority of the profits will be captured by the cloud providers.
Yes. I am using a mcp that provides Claude desktop file editing and terminal tools to work like Claude code but using my pro subscription instead of pay per use expensive API
A good heuristic test of correlation vs causation in headlines: flip the dependent and independent variable and see which explanation sounds more reasonable.

Heavy llm chat usage leads to loneliness | or | Loneliness leads to heavy chat usage.

To my eye the second seems far more likely than the first.
> MVPs generally are not good for submarine warfare.

I've heard enough stories that makes me feel like there are plenty of examples of the PoC rushed to production level experiences with various military equipment.
Amazon reached the same conclusion and widely prefer dynamodb for this reason
Isn’t that a different concern?
Never believe that any tool is good or bad. That's always going to be a generalization, and therefore wrong. Learn as many tools as possible, and know which use cases they're good at and which use cases they're bad at. If someone implies the tool is bad for all use cases, know that we all live in our own bubbles and are ignorant about the plethora of other use cases that exist in the world.
I'm a senior citizen and I use it sometimes to explain what is happening to me as I age. For example, I noticed myself doing "excessive rumination" about the long gone past, which I attributed to the near-dystopian nightmare I am living through in the U.S. presently.

I asked ChatGPT about it and it said, no, excessive rumination is a problem for many people as they age due to various factors. Then it suggested some remedies, which is very good for my mental health.
I think the question of whether any ancient society was (as a whole) opposed to slavery is a valid one.
What TV? I ended up getting a cheap Sceptre since it didn't have any smart nonsense. Not the greatest picture in the world but that's okay
No, we pay far more attention to people acting weirdly because it's interesting. 99% of CCTV footage will be uneventful and normal.
Tom Murphy over at Do The Math[1] argues that we would not be able to reboot modernity after an apocalypse.
The short version of his argument is that we long ago mined/drilled/farmed/harvested the easy resources that can be gotten with pre-industrial technology. The raw materials we are extracting today require modern methods and materials.
We can't bootstrap ourselves from human and animal muscle power back to industrial capacity because it is inadequate to the task.

We might have the theoretical knowledge to do it,
but we'd be unable to build out the infrastructure.

And no, scavenging won't solve it because the energy and technology required to recover the raw materials again requires industrial processes and materials we won't have the ability to harness.

1 https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/
> can be tracked online for transparency

Government and officials will fight to the teeth to avoid accountability and transparency because that's where the money and power is.
Technically yes, but you can see below that there are several comments about exactly this, i.e. adding raw legal texts into git.
That’s now what he’s talking about. He is talking about a history of the edits laws in the process of becoming law.
Did ChatGPT write this? What was the prompt?
H.I. Sutton did a great video [1] about it that also explains how it was beneficial due to the way enemy submarines had to estimate speed and heading and could get fooled.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw7vq_YD6JM
Nice. I kinda wish they went all the way and modified the commit details to have the actual authoring dates for each amendment/etc. Anyone know how well git plays with pre-epoch timestamps?
Once it's at this level of prevalence, can it really be considered neurologically atypical?

The broader point that's often missed is that this is a naturally occurring and common phenotype that doesn't gel well with office-work culture and the modern regimented schooling system, forcing people to sit for unnaturally long times focusing on anxiety-inducing problem solving all day. It's not normal, and it's a recipe for burnout, and our only answer, is not to change the system, but to try and medicate it away, with sometimes devastating consequences.
So it was a race to the bottom
In terms of a threat-risk analysis, the need of a physical microphone nearby i imagine more than makes up for the risk of an adversary knowing your water quality and electrical consumption as measured by your washer in almost everyones lives atleast..
Wait, where is General Tso's Chicken?

My wife is from a small town just 50 km southeast of Nanjing, that is now folded into Nanjing proper, with metro and all. The town's language has nothing to do with Nanjing, they cannot understand each other at all. The town's cuisine is completely different, there's no duck at all, no similarities besides focus on rice as a staple.

I applaud the author of the article. Living and traveling China for 13 years drove me to understand that, to me, there's really no "X Chinese Cuisines", every little town has something unique and some cooking methods that are totally different from the next little town. Same with the language.

It's a shame that it's now being destroyed.
He has a point. I thought about including this point into my original post but hesitated because I didn't really know how hard/easy to mine resources nowadays.

Optimistically, it might not be a blocking issue, because the much smaller population does not need that much resources. But we need to make some calculations. And I'm sure it's going to be very tough for countries that lack resources.
DeepSeek-V3-0324 released, 641GB, MIT licensed, >20tok/SEC on $<10k hardware
I sort of disagree. KV databases are so fundamental, that they are considered one of the most foundational tech to any advanced database management system.

Think of KV databases as a persistent associative mapping/hash map that needs to store data in a safe and secure way, then we can build advanced stuff on top of it. Take TiDB for example, it is a distributed database based on MySQL (its own query language can be considered as a subset of MySQL), but actually most of the heavylifting is handled by TiKV, which is a distributed KV datastore with Raft distributed consensus.

And then SurrealDB also leveraged TiKV to build their own graph-document hybrid database product...as one of the data transport. P.S.: used to be a contributor for SurrealDB.
I'm hearing a lot of excuses and a pointed lack of actual decentralized/disintermediated systems.
I never used ChatGPT as a therapist, but it was able to identify the specific mental health issues I had, and I used that information to find self-help books just on that topic. Meanwhile, a therapist with whom I had online sessions with really just worked with me on generic anxiety issues.

I tried another episode I had a few years ago, and ChatGPT was able to provide specific and correct advice. What happened back then was that a therapist misdiagnosed my issue and thought I was going to harm other people and alerted the police. That was a horrifying experience. Only later a specialist understood the issue and provide proper care.

I know I need to be very careful about ChatGPT's output, so I do try to understand what it says, and seek professional help when necessary. However, very seriously, in many cases ChatGPT provides better care than a less experienced, apathetic therapist you find online.
Everyone's "working" on it.
Nobody is saying that being a farmer is a magical key to physical fitness. We're saying that farming, no matter how hard you try to take care of your body, will be hard on your body in ways that office work simply isn't. If you're working in an office you can choose to exercise and eat right, you can choose to practice good posture and take breaks. But as a farmer you can't choose to not do hard physical labor all day long.
I would be interested in retention stats for these companionship chatbots. The novelty factor is powerful and addictive, but it fades fast. There is a reason all of these bots gamify everything. The most concerning thing is all these bots are already trying to be as addictive as possible. They are built to exploit the users loneliness. They don’t cause it, they devour it.
I used to look at ADHD with scepticism until I met someone who it to a debilitating level. Shared a room with them once at a conference and seeing them in the morning before taking their pills was eye-opening. They were trying to have about 10 conversations at once, switching between them from sentence-to-sentence, every time they sat down to do something they instantly sprang up and started doing something else before springing up and switching yet again to something else, it was exhausting for me and I was just watching.

Whether I believe that the number of people who actually get diagnosed with ADHD is correct, especially in places that have medical systems and cultures like the USA, I’m not sure, but certainly I now see how for some people it can be completely disabling.
A population without the Haber-Bosch process would be much smaller.
I do care! I'm just not feeling especially self-righteous about it. I can reliably report how the site works, without composing Rage Against The Machine lyrics in the process.
Thanks again for your thoughtful questions.
If you’re interested in a broader view of the underlying ideas and related work, I’d be happy to invite you to take a look at my ORCID page:

https://orcid.org/0009-0009-6929-5875

There, you’ll find linked projects, publications, and datasets related to the unified framework I mentioned — including earlier work on DHUT (Deterministic Holographic Universe Theory), deterministic prime modeling, and fluid dynamics applications.

I truly welcome feedback, critiques, or questions on any aspect — and I believe open scientific dialogue is essential, especially when the claims are ambitious.

Looking forward to your thoughts!
This is a perfect example of "normalization of deviance".
He's using Semantic versioning/s
Honestly though, why not just take the existing SQL standard and trim it down then?
I don't have a subscription, but will still visit the library sometimes to skim the odd article. CR's problem is...what? They still tailor content to a magazine article size (online content is updated more, but not necessarily deeper), but the magazine today is miniscule due to printing costs? And they really don't have the resources for proper longevity testing?

I believe they still have a letters column, or failing that, an email address. Would highly suggested the OP contact them and complain how they missed the mark.
There's a book about this! Lewis Dartnell's "The Knowledge". I'm not saying it's actually a real answer, but it's fun in a sort of mental Dwarf Fortress kind of way.
There is always some middle ground that makes sense with things like this and i'm sure there are exceptions like there are to any rule but i'm just trying to dream a little bigger...

at the same time point out that people love to apply the idea of physical objects to a digital world and I wish they would just stop trying to put the square peg in the round hole.
Sounds similar but not the same as social media.
It seems like the term "race" comes from "arms race".

Perhaps the future of Silicon Valley is to be the home of defense contractors.

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/SiliconValle...
But we have landfills which are full of great raw materials. I would argue that it is easier to collect steel from a landfill than from a mine during the industrial revolution.
There's a lot of correct feedback about why this is not an amazing start for something starting as a marketplace for talent.

This could be a beautiful start for a Linkedin alternative focused on freelancers, entrepreneurs, etc. Maybe even people in specific industries whose Linkedin currently does more than get them their next job (sales comes to mind, but also folks who work at design agencies and need to get clients, and have a profile they attach somewhere in the about us section).
Are those thousands of pages made public at the time?
I don't think that's quite right.

I think some combination of having "Trump" in the title and theatlantic.com as the host and possibly something specific to the submitter penalized it so that it never hit the front page. Since hckrnews.com only shows articles that hit the front, it's not on there.

I'm only guessing, but see the graph here: https://hnrankings.info/43462783/. It doesn't show the clear drop that you'd expect with flags or flamewar, and doesn't appear to ever crack #59. If anything, it looks like it rose sharply when penalties were removed.
Hard challenge, as pain is a subjective definition and you can't intellectually comprehend it until you're in it.

I got the scale 10 questions before I had a badly herniated disc and never knew what to say.

Now I can tell you that a 10 is when you're begging for mercy. Hearing yourself whimpering. Having panic from making another move, another step.

To be clear, it is not just the amount of pain itself - it's also a function of duration and consistency. Once pain always fires, in any position, and no remedy (besides a Fentanyl infusion) provides even temporary pause, you get in a spiral that kills quite a lot of people.

Sometimes called Chronic Pain, it is easily dismissed but so damn hard to comprehend until you experience it. Like Tinnitus, just with the rawest brain signal that triggers fight or flight.

Coming back to measuring pain - that time axis is critical.
Once the manufacturer decides to add remote controls, its not clear to me a better solution currently exists.

AFAIK Android gives you some freedom wrt notifications, but Apple demands all notifications go through a service.

This is all before we talk about the support nightmare of average people not understanding why they can't connect to their dishwasher when away from home, or what the proper security model should be.
> ALTER TABLE or CREATE TABLE

Fundamentally this isn't a theoretical limitation of the relational model, instead it is a historical artefact that "doesn't have to be that way".

Systems like Kubernetes or Azure Resource Manager show how this ought to have been implemented: Declarative resource definitions via an API with idempotency as a core paradigm.

I.e.: Instead of the web developer having to figure out the delta change between two schema versions, they should just "declare" that they want some specific schema. This could happen with every code deployment, with most such changes doing nothing. If the schema does change, then it's up to the database engine to figure out how to make it happen, much like how a Kubernetes cluster reconciles the cluster state with a deployment definition.

KV stores become popular because they do this implicitly, with no explicit schema at all.

Relational databases (or even KV stores!) could instead use an explicit schema with automatic reconciliation instead of manual delta changes implemented by developers.

TL;DR: The tooling is bad. KV is an over-reaction to this, but instead we just needed better tools.
I spent way too long figuring this one out, so this is what I got:

An improvement on [1], which I vaguely remember using with pen and paper to find minimums of differentiable functions. The original algorithm runs "on a loop" (iteratively) and utilizes the first and second order derivative of a function (f', f''). From the article:

> Newton did it for degree 2. He did that because nobody knew how to minimize higher-order polynomials

The improved version looks a lot more complex but seems to sacrifice simplicity to converge faster to the minimum when implemented as a program.

Trivia: a "single loop" of the Newthon method is famously used in Quake's Fast InvSqrt() implementation [2].

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1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_method

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Newto...
I'm the developer of Juniper, a functional reactive programming language for the Arduino. It's very possible to run high level code on small devices. This even includes things like closures, which Juniper allocates on the stack!

https://www.juniper-lang.org/
Still unconvinced. You really don't need anything beyond a static site to effectively share information.

Another point you're missing is that there's a 3rd group of people sharing content: experts who are there to establish their expertise. Small companies and individuals generate the highest quality content these days. I work on a blog for our SAAS company and it has been a great success in terms of organic growth (even people coming from LLMs) and to simply establish authority and signal expertise in the field. I can imagine a future where this is majority of expert content on the web and it seems quite sustainable imo.
Hmm... maybe that is why, earliest chatbot carried a "therapist" tag.

https://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/eliza.html
Check out the Phil Gingery series of books. He discusses how to build a lathe using scrap metal and sand (starting with a foundry). From there it’s all magnitude.
Need more Doug Jacksons (SV Seeker) in this world.

Safety third.
Not him, but I did play it to the end, and it didn't "strike me". By the end, I was finding it more of a chore than a story I could enjoy, although I was a bit annoyed from thinking it would be more interactive (I remember some article I saw about it talking about how it explored the story through a series of games, but the final product doesn't really have any actual games).
Hmm, I would have thought we could use wood fires to get to wood pellet steam engines and from there we could work our way up.
White House Says Gold Reserves May Be Used to Purchase Bitcoin
They bricked my LG v35, and I never got a dime back. Simply because, even though I purchased the phone through them, after I lent it to a friend, they couldn't... proved I owned it anymore. Despite, me having it in my possession, my friend telling them they just borrowed it, and you know, I literally purchased it through Google for their Fi Service. When I asked to speak to a manager, they told me there was nobody senior to them (an obvious farce and outright lie).

Thanks jackasses!
I did put licence = "Apache-2.0" in the Cargo.toml but Partly is okay with it being MIT. Update the repo to explicitly add the license text now. Thanks for the call out
There is a manga/anime about this: doctor stone.

For the knowledge preservation, I guess that a copy of deepseek has most of the required information. But, it would be hard to run it in a primitive world.
And how many laws have they passed? Apparently it's not so easy, is it...

Congress hasn't really been functional in decades
Oh hey Lasher! Totally wasn't expecting to see you here! Aardwolf is what got me into lua programming (and to some degree programming itself), albeit via client scripting. I do dream of building a cool area with crazy mobprogs one day, but I can never come up with good ideas.
Yup. A little more detail on the overheating part in particular is here: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/speakersafetyd
https://archive.ph/CrwBy
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/307526/20240916/chinese-r...