skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wish people would stop evaluating a model's coding capability with one-shots.

The vast majority of coding energy is what comes next.

Even today, sonnet-3.5 is still the best "existing code base" model. Which is gratifying (to Anthropic) and/or alarming to everyone else
I wonder why in the age of github and gitlab some opensource projects still use SourceForge
You've read more than those leaders and constituents
Astro, netlify (in a process to move to a VPS), neovim
And yet here we are, discussing this in a threaded conversation.
Violence cartels that have amassed more power than militaries (go to tiktok and see for yourself, they are literally flashing their attack helicopters, military grade weapons and armored vehicles) will use violence to control the flow of any commodity and asset.

Avocados are not the problem. The cartels will get their cut one way or the other.
Trump has
I just presumed it was guy on guy.

Modern sexuality might mean that avoiding the opposite sex is off little help. Instead you need to know how to avoid manipulative sociopaths - which takes years of experience to learn (and perhaps after you learn the skills you decide to join them).
I don't think anyone is investing that kind of money without doing basic DD.
I found the best way was to use the lessons and then the riff repeater on songs you want to learn, turn on all notes and slow down the speed until you can play a section. Then increase the speed or add a section.
So do the galaxies rotate clockwise, or did we make clocks that rotate in the direction the galaxies choose? :)
Those too many people are naive if they think Trump operates within 'the norms'. The first term showed us he doesn't, I don't understand why everyone would have thought differently. Did everyone's memory get fried during the pandemic?
> My ideal OS would be something like NixOS, but on FreeBSD and with better language than Nix.

Something nicer than nix would be nice, but otherwise perhaps keep an eye on https://github.com/nixos-bsd/nixbsd
Does it mean after I successfully trained the Open Source Model, I don't need OpenAI anymore?
It doesn't have to be thankless - some projects award bounties or contract their contributors (see https://algora.io). Similarly OP could compensate the maintainers for their help updating the software.
> nobody - nobody in 2025, at least - should claim to understand them well

I’m highly suspicious of this claim as the models are not something that we found on an alien computer. I may accept that nobody has found how to extract an actual usable logic out of the numbers soup that is the actual model, but we know the logic of the interactions that happen.
I will watch the Youtube guy you're talking about, but I did listen to a many episode podcast with the writer/director discussing the books of direct, personal interviews that were documented after the incident.

Most of the major events depicted in the show are things I recall having been reported previously.

I thought many of the workers in the plant, the first responders, etc were portrayed as heroes and most at least quite sympathetically.
> If I still need to use my adblocker why bother to sign up?

Personally I don’t disable my ad blocker, ever. Regardless of whether I subscribe or not, or whether the website is ad free with a subscription. I give them (a bit of) money because I support them, not to avoid ads. The ad infestation is a battle we lost a while ago, now we can only make do.

> I have the same thing with YouTube.

Same, except that I am not giving (willingly) a cent to Google, ever. They mine me enough already.
The decriminalization law Oregon passed was harsher on dealers. Only small amounts in your possession were decriminalized.
US is saving money from funds that is used for education and science, instead of war. they're spending a lot of money for Israel and its war in Gaza. No one questions that money. it is insane
I built a free app using neuroscience to help focus – maybe it'll help you too
A few months ago, I stumbled on a Huberman Lab episode about ADHD. He shared a deceptively simple exercise called “Elevated Vision” — a research-backed method to train focus by balancing central attention and peripheral awareness.

The concept is really simple:

- Stare at a central object → Keep your gaze locked on it →
→ Mentally note everything in your periphery without shifting focus.

But here's the problem: practicing this IRL is HARD. Your brain fights distractions, your eyes cheat, and I had to give up after 10 seconds the first time.

So I built Centrate: a free, science-backed web app that gamifies Huberman’s technique. No subscriptions. No ads. Just focus training that works.

How It Works:
Open Centrate on your phone → Focus on the central orb (no cheating!) → New objects appear in your periphery automatically → You should notice them and tap — without moving your eyes

Longer streaks = harder challenges

It’s like lifting weights for your attention span.

In a world of infinite scroll, Centrate teaches your brain to choose focus over distraction. If you find it challenging to focus, this app could help you as well.

Try It Yourself
https://centrate.app

Pro tip: Do 3-minute sessions daily. After a week, you’ll catch yourself resisting distractions without trying.

Please share your thoughts!
The Guardian feels like the last good normal newspaper at this point. Great book and movie reviews, normal detailed circa 2005 coverage, and none of the NYT’s wierd if we didn’t break the story we won’t talk about it.
> Why is a seven-note scale called "diatonic" anyway

The prefix of "diatonic" is "dia" ("through"), not "di" ("two"), but nobody really knows what exactly its origin (διάτονος, "diátonos") was supposed to mean[1]: it's probably either something like "through the tones" or "stretched out tones".

The second meaning is closer to the modern definition we have for diatonic: the 7 (out of 12) notes are selected to be as stretched out as possible in the octave, that is, each adjacent note is either 1 or 2 semitones apart, and the two 1-semitone-apart pairs are as far as possible from each other (note that the second requirement excludes e.g. the ascending melodic minor[2] from being considered diatonic, even though it has 7 notes).

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/diatonic

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_minor_scale
Conservative leaning newspapers weren't always total dogshit and good reporting is good reporting, regardless of ideology. This is a belief that you don't seem to share, given you make out ideology to be the problem as opposed to the quality of the journalism itself. Very shallow thinking and it's a perfect exemplification of poor media literacy.
> With a well-organized kitchen an experienced chef (or even a skilled home cook) can cook a very complicated dish very efficiently when they know where all of the utensils are so that they don't need to go hunting for everything.

Even I can make a breakfast without looking in my kitchen, because I know where all the needed stuff is :)

On another topic, it doesn't have to look well organized. My home office looks like a bomb exploded in it, but I know exactly where everything is.

> I REALLY miss using Mac OS 9 (and earlier).

I was late to the Mac party, about the Snow Leopard days. I definitely remember that back then OS X applications weren't allowed to steal focus from what I had in the foreground. These days every idiotic splash screen steals my typing.
> So these tech tubers were only really upset that Honey was stealing from /them/, they don't give a fuck about their viewers.

Ironically, this is the reason LinusTechTips never did an expose video on this back when they originally learned about Honey doing this years ago - they thought "this only affects us, if we do a video on it the viewers will be like - who cares about your bottom line?"

And now on the contrary, LTT viewers are FURIOUS that they didn't expose it and flaming them in the comments of every tangentially related video...
Instead of simply praising KOReader, let me add that it is also incredibly hackable. The vast majority of KOReader is written in Lua, and adding your own feature is usually not that hard. I added support for Kobo natural light a few years ago, and found the code base to be very understandable and nice to work with.
Not journalism but I think Ikea and Rolex are owned by some trusts, too.
Conversate: Video Call Your AI Family
Thanks HN, for helping me force Vineet's hand into accepting that the app is worthy of being used by not-Vineet.

He demo'd Captrice last week, to a bunch of friends here in Bangalore. And I knew he was going straight to the "infinite bikeshed", based on his tepid answers to questions like "Wow this is cool! So... Launch, when?".

Plus, you made m'dude earn his "First Internet Dollar". To whomever did the "buy me a coffee" thing... you're awesome! There is a stark psychological "before/after" of earning your F.I.D. Now he can't ever go back.

As someone stuck in his own Infinite Bikeshed, I take heart from this event, and hope to follow in his footsteps sooner than later :)
My personal blog is -

https://rxjourney.com.ng

I self host because I love writing code. It's inspired by Medium. It was built with Django and Svelte. I could have written the whole thing with Django but I wanted to learn Svelte, and I had plans of making it bigger and more interactive initially.

It's hosted on Render.
But the crunchy bits on the outside are cheese mites, not crystals. (Seriously.)
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83. (paraphrasing Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, University of Toronto Computing Services (UTCS) circa 1985)
“I’m a mathematician and therefore biased, but this result literally blows my mind,” Fry wrote. “Have three months to find somewhere to live? Reject everything in the first month and then pick the next house that comes along that is your favorite so far. Hiring an assistant? Reject the first 37 percent of candidates and then give the job to the next one who you prefer above all others.”

...except that the starting conditions are that you have n candidates/options for a decision, you consider in random order, and then you have o accept or reject each one before examining the next, plus no backtracks.

How often do these conditions obtain in real life? If you're dating, it's unlikely you know what your total number of future partners will be - even if you're religious and just want to be with one person for ever, you necessarily conceive of courting more than one person (since you might be rejected by them). For hiring for a job or purchasing a house, why would you make a final decision on each candidate before looking at any others?

The math is interesting and this is surely a useful heuristic for some situations, but (like much pop-math writing) the effort to make it cool and relevant backfires because the constraints seem arbitrary and divorced from real world experience.
>That's some nice story, not relevant facts.

My response is on topic for the comment it responds.
But in case someone else fails to understand the message,
the rules are added because someone made something bad intentionally or now,

so can you guess why the companies were forced to add "Unsubscribe" in their emails? do you think someone imagined this rule for no reason ?
False sharing is an absolutely classic Concurrency 101 lesson, nothing remarkable about it.
That immediately reminded me of George Constanza suggesting Yankees players should wear cotton at the ballpark to improve their performance.
It's hardly a condemnation... They reiterated that they consider the accusations to be very serious, and are not casting doubt or whether the decision is unjust. They do emit doubts about the timing of it, but for political gains.

Mélenchon's strategy has been for a while to get voters from both the ghettos and from Le Pen's pool of supposedly unhappy but not racist voters. That's again what they're doing here: painting themselves as more respectable [0] than the far right while shitting on Macron / the current establishment.

[0] As opposed to the far right, their ranks aren't filled with people who have been convicted for antisemitism, and the sheer amount of fraud cases in there also speaks for itself...
Yes, all accredited institutions are required to have one as part of their Computer Science curriculum.
That agency was created by an act of congress. These people hate America and our constitution.
That’s interesting! When you are referring to density, are you referring to average density within the event horizon? Isn’t most (effectively all) matter concentrated in the singularity? Would love to hear you elaborate on this thought further.
It’s a cartel, and as with most commercial cartels, it’s enabled by government enforcement.
Good reporting is not skewed by ideology.

Good reporting is presenting facts about all sides.

Good reporting is not about demonizing your perceived enemies while excessively praising your idols.
Good thing win95 came out soon after and filled everyone’s coffers from new equipment buying
> And by being unethical and double dipping you're setting a great example for your customers who won't feel bad about being unethical themselves and just blocking and bypassing all your monetisation.

I don’t disagree with the message wholesale, but blocking ads is not unethical. It’s a vital defense mechanism against outright malicious actors or the excesses of the attention economy. There is no opt-out or alternative, and there is no consent.
Why oh why is it that the pull of clickbait is so strong, even at bbc.com, that the word "dissuasion" does not get used? This is a bit criminal as many influencers and shills are then painting the reasonable people working to ensure a war is not possible because it is disssuaded, as being the unreasonable ones who want violence.
Every empire has fallen the same way - spending money on wars and games.
That Trump and Musk have not been arrested yet, or at least impeached, for grossly violating the constitution shows that the USA has turned into a fascist state by the congress and the senate.
Not an April fool's joke btw!
"Everyone Else Must Fail" is a good read.
> Your framing of a compiler exploiting UB in programs to gain performance, has an undeserved negative connotation. The fact is, programs are mathematical structures/arguments, and if any single step in the program code or execution is wrong, no matter how small, it can render the whole program invalid.

You're failing to understand the problem domain, and consequently you're oblivious to how UB is actually a solution to problems.

There are two sides to UB: the one which is associated with erroneous programs, because clueless developers unwittingly do things that the standards explicitly states that lead to unknown and unpredictable behavior, and the one which leads to valid programs, because developers knowingly adopted an implementation that specifies exactly what behavior they should expect from doing things that the standards specify as UB.

Somehow, those who mindlessly criticize UB only parrot the simplistic take on UB, the "nasal demons" blurb. They don't even stop to think about what is undefined behavior and why would a programming language specification purposely leave specific behavior as undefined instead of unspecified or even implementation-defined. They do not understand what they are discussing and don't invest any moment trying to understand why things are the way they are, and what problems are solved by them. The just parrot cliches.
LinusTechTips recently did a video on their revenue sources: 55% from merch, 21% from video sponsors, 12% from YouTube AdSense, 7% from their own video platform, and only 3% from affiliate links.

I guess for creators with a much smaller merch business, affiliate links would be twice as big a portion.
Guardian is a drop in the ocean. Printed press died and website journalism will follow soon.

Social media is the new journalism.
Israel and its *genocide in Gaza, according to Amnesty International[1]. Let's call it like it is, so that the funding may be stopped sooner rather than later.

[1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-inter...

edit: To those who disagree, do feel free to explain why. Being against genocide is apolitical, for any reasonable definition of the word. I promise you cannot guess at my voting patterns from this opinion of mine.
I've purchased a lot of mine from Kobo. There's also Standard Ebooks if you want free, high-quality reproductions of public domain works.
I’m not sure why, but so many guitarists I’ve met who learned from YouTube are bad. I’m not sure why, maybe they are replacing watching with practice? No custom feedback from real musicians who hear you play? YouTubers are motivated to overcomplicate things so you keep watching more videos? I’m not sure.

It may also be the context, I play original, improvisational music with people/in front of an audience and YouTube may be particularly bad at preparing people for this.
There's nothing racist about what he said. It's not racist, or even particularly impolite, to nicely ask someone "hey, I noticed you have x name, are you from $country by any chance?"
> actual man pages

What is wrong with Linux man pages?
It's the last place you will ever see MAGA/Trump Supporters.

Today, I received an email from Brandon Gill about his mission to defund NPR, a radical left-leaning outlet poisoning America's minds. There were some additional things in that email that made no difference in Americans' lives.

JC, it's a radio station that Republicans don't even listen to. It's like he thinks 50% of Americans don't deserve any representation. I'm not even a Democrat, and I find it insane. I can only imagine it is an attempt to deflect attention away from his constituents' real issues. Show them something shiny, and maybe they will forget what matters.

The Republican folks in Congress are pathetic. They're a bunch of freaks.

Disclaimer: Republican turned Independent.
Dynamic Pipelines with Bazel and Buildkite
I use a from-scratch python script that generates a bunch of html files which are pushed to GitHub pages
This might have been a viable argument a decade ago because these rules were implicit and not explicit. But as of 2022 they've become explicit. [1] IQ is distributed dramatically differently in different groups, which makes it difficult to meaningfully study in the US because, as Nature now puts it, "Although academic freedom is fundamental, it is not unbounded... Science has for too long been complicit in perpetuating structural inequalities and discrimination in society..."

This is why meaningful studies on IQ are basically dead in the US and similarly why we were one of last countries to confirm the absolutely critical reversal of the Flynn Effect. I think the political tide started to turn really hard after the decades long Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study ended up definitively proving the opposite of what it intended. [2]

[1] - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01443-2

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Transracial_Adoption...
At some point we have to trust the electorate whether we like it or not, or democracy is impossible. If the populace is easily brainwashed by the media to believe in the innocence of a corrupt and extremist candidate they could just as easily be brainwashed on any issue or candidate so what's the point of letting them vote at all?

> Usually these people are friendly to capital as well, and the opposition are the "little people"

Don't know if this is actually true, I assume capitalists generally prefer stable market-oriented politicians and not far-right kleptocrats in favor of protectionist trade wars. And plenty of wealthy people value democracy for its own sake, Kamala outraised Trump in the 2024 election for example.

Also I doubt traditional media spend plays as large a role in a nationwide contest with a lot of eyes, if I recall during Trump's 2016 primary candidacy Fox News tried to go against him but was rebuked by their own viewers (who fell in love with him on social media) and forced to bend the knee.

Cults of personalities are more dangerous than other types of brainwashing though, and the right level of protection from the state here should be other checks and balances on the office's powers.
...right, yes, servers. I've certainly never accidentally forgotten to reboot a laptop on cheap commodity hardware for a few months. Slightly more than a few months. Look, it got rebooted eventually, okay?
> Humans make mistakes all the time and we happily pay for those by the hour as long as the mistakes stay within an acceptable threshold.

We don't, however, continue to pay for the same person who keeps making the same mistakes and doesn't learn from them. Which is what happens with LLMs.
Jesus. I remember libertarians saying “I want to get rid of X and Y, but obviously not libraries.”

In other words we are now living in the most extremist libertarian fantasy.
> If you get the hang of it and start giving your LLMs small, sizable chunks of work, and validating the results, it's just less mentally draining than to do it by hand. You start thinking in much higher-level terms, like interfaces, abstraction layers, and mini-tests, and the AI breeze through the boring work of whether it should be a "for", "while" or "foreach".

Isn’t that the proper programming state of mind? I think about keywords the same amount of time a pianist think about the keys when playing. Especially with vim where I can edit larger units reliably, so I don’t have to follow the cursor with my eyes, and can navigate using my mental map.
> I don't understand how DOGE is really saving money.

Because it isn't. I think it's basically a purge of the "deep state," and maybe some other things irksome to libertarians.
So what ARE you saying?

Keep it concise and to the point. Make it worthwhile.
> satisfy all the people lying to themselves that one day they'll actually modify that ui folder.

What I'm saying - they're not lying to themselves that they'll do that. They've never even considered it as being something to potentially do! They consider it as a package to use as-is. "A re-design later on? Who knows, by that time we'll have people who know their UI stuff, they'll figure it out. Whether that will be based on shadcn? Who cares, not important." I bet the premise that all these people are using shadcn with the idea of some day modifying it just isn't the most common reality.
Oh dang, the policy discriminates against frozen avocados? Maybe just a filler word.
Ask HN: How to earn wealth in age of LLMs from third world country?
I want to be wealthy > $20M with abundant time to work on side projects and hobbies.

Is it feasible for anyone in this economy to accumulate wealth without network?

With uprising of LLMs and AIs, my technical skills are becoming moot. Without any networks, it feels like climbing a mountain without any directions.
There was executive order that no federal institution can hire layers from a company that sued Teump. And no federal institution can hire a company that do business with the hated law company either. And he removed their security clearance.

So, that is it works. By threat and ability to destroy you, legally or not. Same as everything else - if you have power to harm and no stops, you can blackmail.