skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you want to be cool you’d have a proper watch that every single other person doesn’t have

That would be me. I like my mechanical watches. But it doesn't make me any more or less cool than majority of people around me with Apple Watches on. Nobody really notices or gives a crap.
Yes they are achievable, but UX from normal users POV is horrible nor it's something that most people want. If it's on my smartphone then it should also work anywhere in the world. User doesn't really car how it's achieved, but it needs to be bulletproof.
from his profile, if anyone is looking for where that came from
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/study-f...
Cable company "Customer Premises Equipment" normally has provisioning capabilities built in, so that they can be controlled/reconfigured/reset from the upstream provider. You could probably call Spectrum and they can reset for you.

The reason they do all of this is exactly because of the scenario you ran into: people are always forgetting their logins -- and back when modems/routers didn't have remote provisioning, they spent a lot of time and money sending technicians out to physically reset people's equipment.
The Wrights demonstrated what was needed to fly, and there's no evidence the pretenders had solved those problems.

For example, they had flat propellors without an airfoil. This means they needed nearly twice the power. Their engines would have been twice as heavy, too. They didn't have useful flight controls. Their wings looked smaller than the Flyer's.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The Wrights had every bit of evidence needed. None of the others did.
> Try buy a TV without smart features.

Easy. Just buy a dumb monitor. Why do you even need the TV tuner?
I guess I don't understand the point of your argument, if even the administration admits that this conversation was genuine? Please avoid the ad hominem attacks.
Probably openai will be >60% in three months if not immediately with these $1000/question level compute (which is the way tbh we should throw compute whenever possible that's the main advantage of silicon intelligence)
True, it’s all machine language in the end. But could you imagine brute forcing UI elements and all, every single time? Maybe eventually.
I got most of the way to a PhD and only saw y-dot in one differential equations course.
Return and replace. Which counting installation costs approaches the value of the dishwasher.
You’re shifting the goalposts again. You not liking them doesn’t mean that they’re unconstitutional, it means you have a problem with how Congress has exercised its constitutional authority.
It's the same story by the way HN dupery works.
This is one of the cooler features of Apple Vision Pro, it does such good beamforming for the wearer's mouth that someone could be screaming next to you or blasting music, and other parties on Zoom or FaceTime will not hear them.
You must've not sat with the old people watching the talking heads all day. Goldberg was ubiquitous. Per the wiki:

Glenn Greenwald called Goldberg "one of the leading media cheerleaders for the attack on Iraq," saying Goldberg had "compiled a record of humiliating falsehood-dissemination in the run-up to the war that rivaled Judy Miller's both in terms of recklessness and destructive impact".

Greenwald's assessment harmonizes with personal experience.
Their own admission that intelligence is a meaningless metric without bound on compute is one of the main reasons AI will overpower human intelligence soon. Simple scaling is very effective.
It's been acknowledged by the government that this happened. They aren't denying anything, and are saying it was just a mistake. From WSJ:

> House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) dismissed questions about whether Waltz should face consequences for discussing the Yemen operation on an unclassified chat group that included a journalist. “Clearly I think the administration has acknowledged it was a mistake and they’ll tighten up and make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-us-war-...
Right, my point is, it's not in fact a small group of people.
I don't see any frog.
It does have low fuel warning although I don't think my car actually enabled it.
You can search on your route with carplay but the experience is significantly worse than doing it from your phone (and it nanny state disables using your phone navigation - you have to use the carplay UI). I don't think it integrates with gas tank status.
I always felt bad for Buzz Aldrin. He landed on the moon at the same moment Armstrong did. But Armstrong was "first".
https://seia.org/research-resources/solar-market-insight-rep...
The author mentioned Unity in the README, but every other game engine I know requires NativeAOT support. I hope it doesn't run into the limitations of NativeAOT otherwise it's just Unity-only.
The Wrights' achievement is powered, controlled flight.
As far as I know Apple doesn't charge car companies to use carplay?
The last time I looked into this, which was admittedly a long time ago, message-id wasn’t used by all clients for deduping and you had to assume that it wouldn’t be, so you had to include manual deduping information—-order number etc…
Impressive! Congrats on launching.
Just use common sense, assume all aerosols are toxic, then temper your concerns by remembering the frequency of your exposure to that toxin, and compare it mentally to how much garbage we inhale walking around the average city.
Also a box to run desktop Linux and Windows on Android mobile devices.
A Mach that is neutered WRT it's microkernel architecture.
Discussion (725 points, 9 hours ago, 223 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43462783
It's annoying, but it's not a paywall.

> All the functionality should be in the device itself, and require no sign-up or ongoing relationship with the company to use it.

For a dishwasher yes, but I don't agree with that as a blanket statement. There are cloud connected devices that I really like. e.g. I like to run my Roomba on-demand after I leave my house, and I think that's an entirely reasonable use case.

Many other devices are useful away from home as well, which would all require internet connectivity. e.g. security systems, cameras, etc.
The removal of 230 would basically require aggressive censorship of content via moderation, not enable "Free speech". If you're unhappy with the level of moderation you've witnessed, removing 230 would not prevent "Ideologues" across the political spectrum from "very biased moderation". It would guarantee the most litigious or powerful ideologues wins.
There's this strain of navel gazing on this size where people think that they talk about productive shit and this is somehow a better site than other social media sites because 'we don't talk about politics or celebrities, we talk about curiousity!'

But people on HN upvote and argue about California zoning laws or San Francisco drug policy here, AI policies from the US federal government or the DMA from the EU. Or the SLS rocket. It's all politics.

Sam Altman and PG are the celebrities here, not the Kardashians and people never stop talking about poops on San Francisco streets as if this is an important issue for the US or international community of the site.

'political' is just used as a euphemism for 'taboo' and there are many unspoken taboos about what is talked and not talked about here.
people seem to discount how hard (read: expensive) it is to develop local-first software

How hard and how expensive is it? It used to just be called "software" for four decades and literally everything was made this way up until a few years ago so I think the evidence is against you on this one.
A better question is:

Have any of these topics managed to be censored via flagging?

They are all still present, a good many are still active .. you seem to equate "not on front page" with "censored".

See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments

https://news.ycombinator.com/active

and (for example DOGE, last month): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...
I agree. I'm remarking positively, not normatively.
The cool thing about people showing off their webdev skills is that the portfolio site itself is the demo. I know this isn't a portfolio site but it reminds me of my webdev friend's sites. I love when people push web navigation to its limit
Funny how there is always someone who posts "you do X, and you will fail", and then follow up with "you will get hurt and/or hurt others" and then "we will punish you for trying". Like they work for the corporation, to spread the message of hopelessness. Embrace the tyranny of fate!

Maybe someone who is skillful enough to be able to DIY a micro-controller will also think about these issues and deal with them too? Or is that too hard to imagine?
Getting 500 karma is a trivial task and not some tiny group. Are there any HN regulars (that don't just lurk) that don't have that much karma?

The point is a flag has higher weight than an upvote, and it's easy to get the ability to flag posts.
Yea placebo is probably the wrong word here. And I agree with you. Often just recognizing something removes it's power. I'm glad the commenter experienced the change they did. Just makes me wonder in this case, the root of it seems like self acceptance - a major theme in (at least my own) therapy. Perhaps a label is a powerful shortcut.
If the majority are divergent, then what are they divergent from?
Only 7 of 50 states ban forced labor. Seems pretty common to me.
I wouldn't really classify C# as a scripting language even if some of those engines say it is. The main criteria (IMO) of a scripting language is to be easily embeddable and C# is not.
What? What are you saying was a false flag?
Lisp could be simple... but there's a lot of reasons it isn't.

It uses a different memory model than current hardware, which is optimized for C. While I don't know what goes on under SBCL's hood, the simpler Lisps I'm familiar with usually have a chunk of space for cons cells and a chunk of "vector" space kinda like a heap.

Lisp follows s-expression rules... except when it doesn't. Special forms, macros, and fexprs can basically do anything, and it's up to the programmer to know when sexpr syntax applies and when it doesn't.

Lisp offers simple primitives, but often also very complex functionality as part of the language. Just look at all the crazy stuff that's available in the COMMON-LISP package, for instance. This isn't really all that different than most high level languages, but no one would consider those "simple" either.

Lisp has a habit of using "unusual" practices. Consider Sceme's continuations and use of recursion, for example. Some of those - like first-class functions - have worked their way into modern languages, but image how they would have seemed to a Pascal programmer in 1990.

Finally, Lisp's compiler is way out there. Being able to recompile individual functions during execution is just plain nuts (in a good way). But it's also the reason you have EVAL-WHEN.

All that said, I haven't invested microcontroller Lisps. There may be one or more of those that would qualify as "simple."
Alright, then quantum chemistry simulations. It's very common in the field to have algorithms with known error bounds given a certain floating point size and to choose a size amenable to the scale of simulation you intend to attempt. If some of your computations are at half precision, the results are hosed.
I had sort of the opposite situation. I needed a new washer and all the top rated ones according to Consumer Reports included WiFi. I asked at Home Depot if the one I was thinking of getting, an LG WM3400CW, required me to actually use the WiFi and they said no.

I used it for a few weeks without ever even trying to set up WiFi and everything was fine.

Then I found at that when you set up an LG washer for WiFi you can get reports in the app of water and energy use. I'd actually like that, so decided to give it WiFi access.

I then found out that the WM3400CW does in fact not have WiFi. I think it might be the only current LG washing machine that does not have WiFi.

I suspect that Consumer Reports got confused because it does have LG's "Smart Diagnosis" feature, which gives you diagnostic reports in the LG app.

The way "Smart Diagnosis" in the app works with the WM3400CW is that the washing machine sends the data to the app acoustically. Press the button sequence to start a diagnosis on the washing machine and it sounds very similar to an old analog modem. The app listens to that with your phone's microphone.
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Could you post a model number or something?
Could you please tell AMD that it is a major competitive advantage for Nvidia that they keep doing driver updates for cards for many many years after they were released and even very old cards still get current drivers.

AMD just drops your card within a few years it seems like and drops your card from the current releases. Makes me favor Nvidia.
There is someone with the same initials, not with the same name. I saw someone else point out a potential candidate here but I don't recall the exact name.
9.9 is larger than 9.11. This right here is the perfect example of the dunning-kruger effect.

Maybe try rephrase your question to "which version came later, 9.9 or 9.11".
I would be shocked if anyone came up with a new argument about this dynamic, which has been argued about since the earliest days of the site.
I personally absolutely loved the Stanley Parable demo and then the game. For me, the magic was a constant sense of disbelief that the game would let me do that. Like early on, I managed to clip out of the window and found myself outside... only for the narrator to berate me about it. I spent most of the game in a competition with the game itself, where I would try to outsmart it, and it would (almost always) turn around and have planned for that contingency already. I had hours and hours of downright glee playing it.

The remastered version didn't really hit for me though. It had a huge amount of new content, but I wasn't there for the content. I don't think it could create the same magic, because I had had a few years to digest the experience. I understood the game, and so the game could not create the same "there's no way that X will happen" kind of moments because of course it would, that was the whole point of the game.
That's really orthoganal to the question of "are stem cell clinics in Mexico a scam?"

Is there too much regulation in medicine? Could be. There's certainly regulatory capture evident in many parts of many economies.
I wrote the original Python version & later migrated it to Lua. These days it's mostly maintained by @deathbeam on GitHub. Happy to answer any questions.

I've been pretty happy using it and it's much more convenient than any web interface. It's also free (even more so for students) and provides all the best models like Deepseek, Claude 3.7, and o3 out of the box
Right, again, my point: the cohort of people who can be flagging these articles is quite large. It's not a small number of gatekeeping old-timers.
These stories have been on the front page multiple times, yes.

You're entitled to dislike these topics and to flag them. And I'm entitled to think you're actively making HN worse with your gatekeeping.

I like these topics just fine. I don't particularly like them filling up HN because HN is pretty bad at them and it's bad at them in a pointedly tedious, repetitive way. "pointedly tedious and repetitive" is the most offtopic thing on HN. But for any story you feel should get more exposure, you can email the site mods and make the case for it. This happens all the time.

And yes, I absolutely 100% would prefer contentious "go fuck yourself" arguments on politics

Well, as you say, you're entitled to prefer that but that's not the sort of messageboard this is. But again, you can make the case for changing that but it seems pretty uphill. Yelly messageboards are a dime a dozen and many HN participants are here because this one is slightly less yelly.
Oh, I agree with you. Removing 230 would practically mean either turning your forum into 4chan or becoming a newspaper. Section 230 just enables the exact behavior that OP was complaining about.
I mean, I expect the actual approved governmental secure messaging apps would make it much harder to accidentally add a journalist to the thread, so I don’t know if this is a Signal problem per se.
dang has admitted that flagging carries more weight than voting, we just don't know what the weighing is.
Sure, sounds right.
Whether you classify C# as a scripting language isn't really important though. In Unity and other engines C# is the 'language you write game scripts with', which has nothing to do with whether C# falls into the woefully vague and borderline useless category of "scripting language".
Unfortunately in practice I've found it sounds not great.
My argument isn't about 'political' at all, neither are the public moderator's main arguments.
I'll tell you the new argument about this dynamic -- the US is tanking hard and the influence of sites like HN is going to wane and will inevitably be replaced by European sites.

People outside of the bay area and outside of the US are tired of this crap.
Even Unity games compile AOT via IL2CPP. It's optional on PC/macOS but required for most other platforms. The only real reason games may not build with it enabled is if they want to allow modding via IL decompilation.
Creativity and Context
From the title, I expected anything but the heatmap to be honest!
You are the only person discussing “launching an application” in this thread.
So then it's not an equal flagging vs equal upvoting, it's fewer flags by fewer people being able to derail a post off the front page which may have been upvoted by 10x or 100x as many people as flagged it.

The fact that it's easy to get the ability to flag just makes it easier to abuse by people who want to censor certain topics.
A bit late to add to the discussion, but a couple things of note:

1. Foster died in 2020 (he tested positive for Covid at the time of his death, but it’s unclear whether that was the cause).

2. The promised second volume to the bones is available now.

3. There is a third volume coming out in August.
Sail's MCP Server: Spark Analytics for LLM Agents
Don't threaten me with a good time! I'd love it if there were more places like HN. I like Lobsters, but it's too insular. Start Euro-HN!

I think Dan is an amazing moderator, one of the all-time greats, but there are lots of different moderation arrangements that can work, and different goals for forums to have. What I like are forums! Not just this forum.
Cloudflare incident on March 21, 2025
Are you aware that OpenAI brazenly lied and went back on its word about its corporate structure, board governance, and for-profit status, and of the opinion that your data sharing agreement is different and less likely to be ignored? Or are you at step zero where you aren’t considering malfeasance as a possibility at all?
I struggle to see any difference other than self-imposed one. Things like function calling, pattern matching, loop, try-catch, OOP, traits,... are all patterns that occur often enough someone decided to include some into a language. Same with common data structures and associated operations, but they go into the standard library instead as they are more operational (manipulate data) instead of (notational?) (direct the operation). But it's all execution in the end, just that it's more useful to manipulate the higher level constructs instead of opcodes and bits.

Less flexibility yes, but a huge improvement in usefulness and productivity.
Lol, well I guess we've a achieved the functional equivalent of AGI, at least for you. Please don't delete your comment.
With the Sail MCP server, data analytics in Spark is possible for both LLM agents and humans!

Github:
https://github.com/lakehq/sail/
The use of it by the Catholic Church means its vocabulary continues to expand. After all, it’s necessary to speak of the modern world in church documents whose official version will be in Latin.
Whew, I was hoping there’d be a second LinkedIn at some point. Surely it will not be very quickly ruined by influencers like everything else, ever.
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I’d love to hear your thoughts! Does this solve a problem you’ve had? What would make it more useful for you?
jschoe's post is actually a Turing test for us. :)

(just kidding jschoe)
+1 to Deepseek

-1 to humanity
It's worked this way for 1,492 years (in Internet years) and mostly for the best. When stories get flagged inappropriately, you email Dan, and he usually fixes it. Seems good to me.

Because it's very longstanding precedent, you're going to have to do more than just notice it out loud for the first time to change it.

For what it's worth, I didn't just not flag this story, or even just upvote it; I submitted it (and was beaten to the punch). It's a good HN story! But I can absolutely understand why the Trump-Story-Flaggers would have reflexively flagged this story. These threads are incredibly tedious and corrosive to the community.
It exists. The "commits" to the legal code is published in a government gazette: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_gazette The current laws are just the tip of the main branch. In theory you could run a git blame and find out exactly which update inserted which specific words into the code. There is even branches in case of state succession, like the breakup of the USSR.
The Vatican publishes a newspaper which, among other things, has a sports page, written in Latin.
Unfortunately, it's a "bobble", politican topics always cause emotions and annoying, a lot of (if not the most) peoples when see this kind of discussion mostly don't read them for peace of mind.

My wife when is bored, usually, reading twitter and after 15min I'm hearing her crying how people are cruel for animals, but she doing that herself everytime.

The best what you can do is temporary cut off yourself from "bubble", but basing on how intesive news was last time it can be hard.

Human under emotions doesn't thing clear.
Yeah, I'd need to ask my dad, but we got the Amstrad around '86 or '87 maybe, then a Nokia branded(weird, I know) 386sx/16 with 4MB, maybe around '90/'92, then a generic clone with a Pentium 120 and and magnificent Sound Blaster AWE32 around 96.
Previously - different source (157 points, 5 months ago, 153 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41780387