skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And we only had ASM for microcontrollers in 1990! (Or mostly, I think C PICs didn't arrive till later). And the tooling was terrible!

I don't hate those languages or think they shouldn't be used, but I don't know how to use them and I already know Python, so if I can easily do MicroPython on a microcontroller, I welcome it :D
Dedicated presentation GitHub repository: https://github.com/antononcube/SimplifiedMachineLearningWork...
This is the money that is supposed to trickle down. They are keeping it to themselves. Even more damning with data extending back to 1980.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1FIED
> no requirement to have your common access card to get into a Signal group, there's no check for appropriate clearance enforced by Signal, so it's fundamentally unsuited to handling military information

It's also running on a device that's had who knows what websites visited on it today.
Famous in IBM 360 assembly language, in particular these were used for building code based on data schemas in CICS [1] applications which were remarkably similar to 2000-era cgi-bin applications in that you drew forms on 3270 terminals [2] and instead of sending a character for each keystroke like the typical minicomputer terminal, users would hit a button to submit the form, like an HTML form, and the application mostly shuttled data between forms and the database.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICS

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3270
But that still requires installing their app on a mobile device, and that app will still have invasive access to data and internet, etc. If we have to have an "app" I'd much rather it be a built-in web server (despite the inevitable security decay) that serves up a local-only web interface. Best scenario though is to just give me hardware controls and a simple display :-)
If a static blob of numbers can "feel" things, it would be a straightforward argument for panpsychism, which means the idea that consciousness is a universal property of all systems or of mass-energy itself. It would mean that consciousness and life are orthogonal phenomena, and as soon as you entertain the idea that non-living systems can be conscious it becomes hard or impossible to draw a line anywhere.

Personally I think this is just self-delusion. We have machines that can produce patterns of language that resemble what humans might produce when uncomfortable or in pain. That doesn't mean they're uncomfortable or in pain.

If they were more "alive" -- self-modifying, dynamic, exhibiting self-directed behaviors, I'd be more open to the idea that there is actual sentience here. How can something static and unchanging experience anything?

I also have a very low opinion of "rationalism" and its offshoots as a school of thought. One of its defining characteristics seems to be to make a bold assertion, conclude that it sounds right and therefore is right, and then proceed as if it is correct without looking back, and to do this repeatedly and brazenly to build floating castles in the sky. Another is what I call intellectual edgelording, "argumentum ad edgeium," a fetishism for heterodoxy as a value in itself. "I assert that I am high IQ and edgy therefore I am right."

There are some really fascinating philosophical questions here, but I don't trust "rationalists" to produce much in the way of useful answers.
_C_elerity?
Relatively minor side point, but still: for people who chastise "European freeloading", it's interesting to note that none of Signal group's members' usernames have the badge Signal gives users who pay for the service. Users like me, from Europe. Sure, they might all be paying but have opted out, but let's be honest that's unlikely.
You clearly haven’t used Svelte. React is the most convoluted pile of bad abstractions of all of the big frameworks.
Thank you very much for sharing this project. After digging around, I found this blog post of yours to be the most insightful into the technical details about the search engine, https://blog.searchmysite.net/posts/searchmysite.net-buildin...
How can you know what you want if the hedonic treadmill prevents one from appreciating what they already have?
Not the GP, but I have a RX 7700S running Ubuntu and I cannot for the life of me get ROCm to play nice with my GPU. I tried all sorts of env vars but I keep getting seg faults when I try to run PyTorch. Or it just ends up running on my CPU
I have been wearing barefoot shoes for walking and felt better, no more pain in the knee, but outside of my personal experience, I haven't been able to find convincing studies on the benefits of barefoot shoes. Does anyone know any links about that ?
I've commented here before that it is obvious to me that gmail makes no effort to combat spam anymore given that unsubscribe links are legally required and generally present for spam in the US and are an obvious heuristic that aren't used. I would expect basically any trained filter to pick up on it, so my assumption is that they actually intentionally have rules to allow spam.

I get emails that literally say "This is an email advertisement". These are presumably being blasted out to tons of mailboxes. How does a model not notice this?
$99/yr is infinitely more expensive than $0.

Again, the raw materials have been paid for (my time, my hardware). Windows, Android and Linux have managed to keep the lights on without charging a bullshit fee for the privilege of deigning to let me run a lowly app on their exalted platforms.
When I started using bigquery almost 10 years ago, it was obvious from the documentation and running queries in the console that LIMIT does not change the price of the query since it doesn't change the data that needs to be scanned.

The user even highlights numerous places in the documentation and hints in the UI which communicate BQ pricing model... so it's interesting they decide to post that it's hidden or dark pattern.

Bigquery has a feature in pre-release stage which will be useful for a limit-like experience while incurring much lower cost.

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/table-sampling
> Creators have a natural right to copyright protection of their works.

Can you point to something in our nature that grants us that right? As opposed to just being a social construct?
Everything was patent encumbered to some extent, it was just a question of how you read the patents. I worked at AT&T Labs in the early days (they were also some of the inventors) and I remember being invited to Sony Music studios in Japan around 1999/2000, where the head of their studio business let us do a “dance off” between AAC and the proprietary Sony ATRAC3 codec at similar bitrates. Using AAC was a pretty obvious win vs. most of the alternatives out there around the time iTunes launched.
Trump's dad lived to 93.
United Airlines plane turns around after pilot forgets passport
Show HN: AIHubMatrix – Control fine-grained conversation context with any LLM
https://www.aihubmatrix.com
Ok - cool. He's acting political within the bounds of precedence and a liberal democracy. It still doesn't meet the definition of fascism. Wake me up when he bans political parties, centralized power to the federal government, installs political officers in the public and private sectors, and bans capitalism.

You may not like it - but his constituents elected him to defund, or try to (congress is really the only people who can), those politically bias programs. This is how democracy works.
Yeah, but at least in Germany they are a textual description of a diff, not something I can use in a standard diff viewer.
Does writing software with an LLM not make me a software engineer?
The replies on LinkedIn are are quick to point out everything they did wrong.
Not just "in this singular case". I don't think Ford's assembly lines needed uniquely skilled people; most assembly line work would be the same, with the same calculus.

And the calculus was not just "the most skilled workers". It was also "diminishing returns".
I have a lot of sympathy for GCP users. There are so many stories of surprise and unpredictable billing.

All the cloud providers have foot-guns for the unwary or not-yet-bitten.

Although I use GCP all the time, were I to set something up for a friend I would not turn to GCP because of the fear of expensive oopsies.

E.g. I wish there were project and per-query options to limit max slot hours and max bytes scanned per query etc.

I regularly run really big queries in BQ that can take 10x the slots on some runs just because of 'BQ weather' and slot contention.
I get what you mean but calculus and algebra are quite distinct branches of mathematics..
I think whether those atoms are arranged into something sentient or not is an important distinction.

No, I can't define a clean line where that sentience occurs. Hence my being uncomfortable.
There's quite a few tools in the education sector for using AI to generate educational materials such as slides, quizzes, etc.

- TeachMateAI

- Magic School AI

- Brisk Teaching

If I were you I'd focus on the "interactive activities" part to try to distinguish your tool - stuff like word jumbles, word search, crosswords, fill-ins, etc.

I worked as an ESL teacher for years overseas and many schools expect their teachers to craft their own activities/worksheets/games/etc. I could possibly see this having value in that area as well.

EDIT: A lot of recommendations in the thread around using this to craft employee training materials. Given how crowded the education sector is, it might be worth exploring this space more than K-12.
Yes. Sorry, I edited my comment for brevity. The episode about Tornado Cash was the one I pulled the plug on Darknet Diaries. His suddenly very opinionated take just did not jive with reality, and considering it is targeted at laypeople I wasn’t a fan of that.
Yes, there are people like that. Their numbers are greater than zero, but not much more.

Overwhelmingly though, people are romanticizing an existence where the only contact they have with it is through a conduit of financial security and drive by experience. They like hiking and once did an Air bnb experience weekend on a farm.
Foie Gras That Skips the Force-Feeding Is Developed by Physicists
+1 for "food physicist" alone.
FoundationDB supports referential integrity and indexes in a layer on top of the key value store.

https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/layer-concept.html
How is this C++? This is cpp (c preprocessor)
Evidently, that $44 billion valuation didn't stick long enough for the most recent investment round, in which Elon and some tiny investor group I've never heard of and isn't an actual VC invested $1 billion at a $32 billion valuation.

Considering that was probably all Elon's money, he could've priced the round any way he wanted.
I would get out of the investment at the best possible price. Imagine you think your shares are worth $5 million right now, but you could only get out at $3 million. If you were not invested in this company, would you take $3 million cash right now and buy into half the company at a deep discount? If you really think there might be an 8 or 9 figure exit in the future, sell 90% of your investment and keep 10% as an option. Staying invested with shares heading to zero makes no sense to me.
> Man has bigger ambitions. Teslas were just a stepping stone

His Tesla stock is personally levered. I don't know at what point he gets margin called, but a sharp drawdown in Tesla's stock price could force him to sell stock in his crown jewel, SpaceX. (Or just extract money from it somehow. Either way, diminish it.)
They're cartonishly evil. What they did to you is psychopathic. Anyway, not strange from those spies who make money from killing people.
> I am very rarely stuck on hard problems like I was 3+ years ago.

I am stuck on easy problems. Either bugs that are obvious afterwards or cooperation problems. Almost never hard problems.
In some countries it's common, in others it's not.

Stripe has a list of what they support: https://stripe.com/en-dk/pricing/local-payment-methods
That's an improvement, but the requirement to use an app is still a serious problem, even if it never phones home. Everything should be able to be done on the appliance itself. Installing an app should never be a requirement.
Not hired, as I didn't pursue it further, but I've been offered a job from contributing to a relatively popular but dying open source project some years ago.
It works alright on VC++ and clang/CMake/ninja.

The main issue is VS where the EDG frontend still hasn't been properly updated, and clang/cmake can't handle header units.

GCC is lagging behind, and everyone else is anyway mostly catching up to C++17.

For my hobby coding, I am mostly doing C++23 on VC++, so it is modules all the way.

At work, it is still C++17 land on native libraries for managed languages.
yeah, we have alkaline expansive clay, so moisture retention was an objective. I added the nitrogen to offset the fact that fresh wood chips tend to be a nitrogen sink rather than a source.

I theorize that thermal protection and moisture retention together have kept those plants happier.
I don’t think I follow, do you mind giving a concrete example?
AI that initiates conversations with your users when it matters
We've built a system that inverts the traditional LLM interaction model. Instead of waiting for users to reach out, our AI proactively engages them at critical moments based on behavioral signals.
Some examples:

When a user adds items to cart but hesitates to purchase, the AI initiates a conversation to understand and address concerns
If someone exhibits frustrated navigation patterns (rapidly clicking back/forth), the AI reaches out to offer assistance
When usage patterns indicate readiness for premium features, the AI starts a contextual discussion about upgrading

The core idea is transforming YC's "talk to your users" directive into a scalable system. Rather than missing key opportunities for feedback or waiting for users to report issues, the AI identifies critical moments and initiates meaningful conversations automatically.
We're launching a beta for both early-stage startups (to accelerate finding product-market fit) and growth-stage companies (to optimize conversion and reduce churn at scale).
Would love feedback from the HN community on both the approach and implementation.
The point to sending the spam is to enable further crime. Do you really think they don't stand to profit from what they promote? Spam is a business like any other, they aren't going to magically disappear just because their advertising costs suddenly become non-zero. Just like how they found ways of shifting the costs of hosting mail servers onto others, they will find ways of shifting the costs of any "email postage" scheme onto others.
Goodbye Loom, hello Supercut!

Supercut is the fastest and easiest way to share my screen. Really slick user experience and the output is fantastic.
The How I Built This episodes with Max Levchin are a good listen.

https://wondery.com/shows/how-i-built-this/episode/10386-pay...

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/affirm-max-levchin-par...
Querying a partitioned table only works if you also filter on the partition key, so you can still footgun with a LIMIT if not aware of it.
I am grateful for GCP's quotas that help us prevent similar own-goals.

While this specific error is something we know to avoid, I'm sure quotas have helped us avoid the pain of other errors. So I'm somewhat sympathetic.

I think it's important to read the language of and judgements in the post in the context of someone who just got a large unexpected bill (expensive lesson).
The 'short version' is very well written and to the point. (I didn't read the long version, so my lack of comment on that isn't a criticism of it)
> In the US, only the poorest of the poor don't have shelter, and even they mostly have food.

Me+kids spent a decade in hunger-level poverty while staying housed. We usually got basic living expenses covered and what was left over might buy a bag of white rice - but not always.

Our situation was far from uncommon.
“Musk accuses Trump impeachment witness of ‘treason’ and calls for ‘appropriate penalty’” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

Yep, so liberal, doesn’t sound like a fascist even a little.
(I see that "eidophor" is fixed.)
Yes, the author of the fucking article was the first to acknowledge that. There's a lengthy section on it. It starts with this relevant statement: "Tesla fans are holding on to the idea that this is not a real problem because it is mostly due to the Model Y changeover"... and continues "but that’s simply not true."
Big query has an interesting pricing and I do kinda like it. You pay for data in, while processing is basically free.

I don’t know the query they used, but limit can limit data scanned.

It’s been a long time since I used BQ, but I remember their query optimizer not being particularly advanced, so you had to be really careful where you put the limit.
FYI you can "vouch" for dead comments if you have enough karma. But in general, if a comment is dead it is a sign that it is not worth engaging with it.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ea/Elon_Musk_ges...
Oh I see. My apologies, my assumption was that you had wrote the tweet.
Yeah, Ethan Mollick commented that BlueSky has an anti-AI bias which is difficult to overcome

https://bsky.app/profile/emollick.bsky.social/post/3lku5ei5l...
Good ones are expensive to create and turns out there isn’t that much money in it. It wasn’t clear this was the case early on when HTML5 came out and really enabled these experiences. But after you make a few and realize how much goes into creating them, and how hard it is to extract value from them, it doesn’t make that much sense.

Also, that us election needle from 2016 really turned a lot of people off of to the whole genre, I think.
> Because I know I am definitely guilty of that, I can swear I remember bits from my family's trip to Pompeii when I Was 2 years old, not much but little bits here and there, and only when I was older I noticed that what I remember is suspiciously similar to what my mum has in the family album from that trip(which I most likely would have seen as a child too).

Maybe in a sense, both are true? When you saw the photos as a child, you did remember them then, but that's what reinforced those memories enough that you now remember them?

Similar to 'remembering that you remembered X', even though you don't directly remember X now.
He's an asshole. So was Steve Jobs. We're better off with brilliant assholes devoting themselves to industry than politics.
The RX 7700S is gfx1102. Please see my reply in the thread on the RX 7600, as it is applicable to you too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43465281
WebRTC for the Curious [pdf]
For a Basque speaker as me, m was ideal because malda in Basque means... slope :)
The takeaway I've got from this thread is to never buy anything expensive or hard to uninstall unless you read the user manual first to suss out these sorts of landmines.
LiFePo are really heavy though, too heavy for practicality for bikes.

Let's hope that sodium-ion can fill that niche.
And the argument is that software engineering is quite distinct from coding.
It's trained as if it has a utility function -- isn't that a bit like pleasure and pain?
That was a lot more than a secure messaging app. It was an entire Android-based operating system, preinstalled on physical devices.

It was originally created by a private company, that went a bit too far in marketing it to criminals. Undercover agents asked the CEO "How do I use this to prevent the police from monitoring my drug smuggling", and he answered the question.

In order to keep the feds from throwing them in prison, the remaining execs needed to provide names, and what better way than to compromise the phone and market it to criminals?

Around the same time, law enforcement cracked a more popular custom phone used by criminals, so gangs started looking elsewhere. And the FBI was waiting for them.

It was an insane operation. It was being run from a local FBI office (San Diego), not headquarters. A bunch of low level agents.

But it provided massive police intelligence around the world.

It also screwed over a lot of the contractors who worked on it. The Android developers who designed the phone are now on organized crime's radar, even though they thought they were just making a secure phone.
I was pleasantly surprised by a brand I'd never heard of called Whitin. The ones I got[0] have a wide toe box and claim to be zero drop (I'm far from an expert on judging this). My criteria was a new minimal-ish running shoe, that would also look okay for casual wear with shorts, and cost less than $100 because I'm cheap :D

[0] https://amzn.to/4iG2eAV
Wouldn't people who knew their tools perfectly well not even use a cloud service like BigQuery? At the level you expect them to use the tool, they could have created a big query engine themselves. Isn't the whole point of these tools is to make things easier?
Activeloop (YC S18) Is Hiring Senior Python Back End and AI Search Engineers
It's the algorithm, not any "side." The algorithm amplifies the divisive, triggering, and absurd, because trash maximizes engagement.
> Spacex is more important for him

Starlink's international prospects are getting trashed. Meanwhile, its competitors have basically free money from foreign governments to compete with SpaceX.
"As for c, that is the speed of light in vacuum, and if you ask why c, the answer is that it is the initial letter of celeritas, the Latin word meaning speed."

Isaac Asimov in "C for Celeritas (1959)"

'https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLig...
If you ignore biology and psychology. That's the problem with this sort of reductionism. It's the higher level emergent stuff that makes a difference. Anyway, fields are more fundamental than atoms.
I'm using something very similar, except incoming messages from never-seen-before senders are greylisted instead:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting_(email)

95% of spammers never retry.
Farming is HUGELY automated, its not automation that is the problem, it is people outside of farming thinking they can improve processes without FIRST understanding what they are doing.

For example, vertical farming aims replace the SUN with LED lights. The "garden bot" aims to replace rain and watching the weather with a watering robot. These are not the things plants "want".
I have some sympathy for people who are blindsided by surprising difference between a new tool and their old one.

This post is not eliciting sympathy. They're data consultants, who don't understand a very basic and fundamental aspect of the tool that they're using and recommending. If you're a consultant you have a responsibility to RTFM, and the docs are clear that LIMIT doesn't prune queries in BigQuery. And, also, the interface tells you explicitly how much data you're gonna query before you run it.

This post is also blaming Google rather than accepting their own part in this folly, and event admits the docs are clear on this matter. Cost-control in BigQuery is not difficult. One of the tradeoffs of BQ's design is that it must be configred explicitly, there's no "smart" or "automatic" query pruning, but that also makes it easier to guarantee and predict cost over time as new data arrives.
Musk's operational involvement in PayPal was 4 months (though he remained on the Board for a while, IIRC).

He didn't create it, it was a (pre-release) working thing when his company (which was failing at building an online bank) merged. He was made CEO, and spent his tenure trying to throw away the working app because it was Java on Solaris for ASP because that's what he knew.

Four months in, he gets married. The BoD attends his wedding on the Saturday, and on the Monday morning when he leaves for his honeymoon, they fire him in absentia. Not "other priorities", "family time", but "fired on your honeymoon".

Since then, most of Musk's "contribution" to PayPal has been cashing the dividend checks.