skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curated answers are not the same sort of answer I am talking about. In no way are answers generated by openAI really curated ( barring some political drama ).

Google understands that people want answers, and thus why they implemented answers.

A big problem for Google is I don’t think their revenue model works well with actual answers. Nobody cares about going to the site any more. In fact I am sure there were many talks internally at Google limiting what sort of answers they do provide that would result in less clicks on links.

Ad driven search as we know it is dead. For pay chat bots have a good chance of replacing ad driven speech.

SEO is effectively dead with AI chat system, thus again putting googles future in jeopardy.

Googles executives need to decide if they are going to be blockbuster, Redbox or Netflix, time is running out.
Some of the people who have done the worst things in history have been well put together people. The man who is ruthless and puts himself before everything oftentimes ends up successful, wealthy, and with plenty of resources to take care of himself and the people he chooses. Does that make him a good person?

One of the most important, time-tested values is one of responsibility and honor. That means doing the right thing with the power that you do have, both by yourself and by others, even if it hurts you. We each are responsible for the environment (natural and man-made) that we inhabit, and to that extent it is our duty to help others and ourselves.

We have been given many, many resources at our disposal, and we bear the responsibility to use them well. Too often in our society we shirk that responsibility with the excuse "well, its not our problem".
Seems like a “lithium fire box” or perhaps fireproof bag capable of containing lithium fires and smothering them would become standard on planes. Most personal electronics are fairly small as well.
I love "wee" for a color choice, lol!
His old website: https://web.archive.org/web/20240415075438/https://homes.lud...

An app he wrote: https://web.archive.org/web/20240304061200/https://sit.luddy...
or https://web.archive.org/web/20240727022112/https://homes.lud...

A news (probably PR) article about it: https://web.archive.org/web/20220622001223/https://www.compu...

None of these sites is available any more. This looks suspicious, even given the regular bit rot of American college servers. The app is supposedly downloadable at https://apkcombo.com/app-guardian/edu.iub.seclab.appguardian... . Anyone around with a disassembler and too much time?
I built a machine learning library [1] (similar to PyTorch's API) entirely from scratch using only Python and NumPy. It was inspired by Andrej Karpathy's Micrograd project [2]. I slowly added more functionality and evolved it into a fully functional ML library that can build and train classical CNNs [3] to even a toy GPT-2 [4].

I wanted to understand how models learn, like literally bridging the gap between mathematical formulas and high-level API calls. I feel like, as a beginner in machine learning, it's important to strip away the abstractions and understand how these libraries work from the ground up before leveraging these "high-level" libraries such as PyTorch and Tensorflow. Oh I also wrote a blog post [5] on the journey.

[1] https://github.com/workofart/ml-by-hand

[2] https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd

[3] https://github.com/workofart/ml-by-hand/blob/main/examples/c...

[4] https://github.com/workofart/ml-by-hand/blob/main/examples/g...

[5] https://www.henrypan.com/blog/2025-02-06-ml-by-hand/
Probably the same thing that happened to all those people the US incorrectly labeled as terrorists and sent to Guantanamo bay. They spend a few years getting raped, drugged and tortured and then they either die or get paid to shut up.

And then the Americans will celebrate solving their made up problem.
Only if he has a time machine -- the OP article was written in 2012.
Western countries are fundamentally confused about how democracy works, and they actively harm developing countries in their ignorance. Democracy in modern Europe was preceded by centuries of "the divine right of kings." European countries had functional states long before they had democracies.

But the west today tries to build democracy in countries that lack any state to begin with (e.g. Afghanistan) or in countries where they have destroyed the state (Iraq, Syria). They hassle or intervene in developing countries with authoritarian governments (e.g. Bangladesh, Philippines, etc.) while overlooking their own histories.
fluoridated water drastically reduces dental cavities and has no evidence of being dangerous.
Notably the 16” MacBook Pro (every model since 2019) goes right up to the 100 Wh limit.
If anyone from MAME is here, please review my PR to make vector dots round: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/pull/13116
This is remarkably adorable :)

Check the tooth colours in dark mode though, "white" is very much not white (it's black).
Please don't blabber nonsense speculation. There are plenty of academic researchers that study AI safety and security and who all publish their work and code in open-access venues and preprint repositories.
I was thinking the same thing. I've had loads of issues over the years when I have an archived EXE that gets angry about a missing DLL.

Likewise, as the author states, there's nothing intrinsic to Linux that makes it have binary compatibility issues. If this is a problem you face, and you're considering making a distro that runs EXEs by default through an emulation layer, you are probably much better off just using Alpine or one of the many other musl-based distros.
I have no idea on the claims here, but there is one method for extracting work from the magnetic field that I very much enjoy.

A magnetorquer is an attitude control system on a satellite that runs on electricity. Run the electricity through an electromagnet. The magnet couples to Earth's magnetic field and turns the satellite, like a compass needle.
I think of myself as relatively laid back, but these rules don’t seem that bad to me, maybe it depends on age? I probably wouldn’t let my <10 year old destroy a book, certainly not from poor impulse control, but I’d probably let me teen due so, particularly for an art project. And hitting people? It may not be totally abnormal to experience a little aggression, but I don’t really think it’s a parents place to let it go either.
Hispaniola is the most excellent way to remove environmental factors explanations.
How much velocity loss would be needed for an impact on the environment, or on some humans someplace?
It is not interactive because the professor has demonstrated mastery of the subject matter and thoughts, ideas and suggestions of the students are an order of magnitude less of less value than that of the professors.

Some subjects are conducive to the Socratic method but hard sciences and mathematics for instance are not. Ultimately you are trying to speedrun 500 years or so of discovery and research and while motivating problems often help, sometimes you just need to read the book, listen to the lectures and put in some effort.
My parents run linux because mom likes coupon websites and I can't repair the thing every week
It exactly matches the meme where people use LLMs to expand some bullet points to a full document, and then other people use LLMs to convert a full document to some bullet points.

I think it's impossible to tell who is telling any kind of truth online, or who is just "vibe posting"
I'm learning FreeCAD and 3D printing. My goals are to be able to print involute gears, and eventually various mechanical arithmetic devices, leading up to a mechanical version of my BitGrid. Also, I want to make an Armstrong shaper.

A friend gifted me a large box of semiconductors, and I'll be testing 7400 and 4000 series chips for the next week once my T48 EPROM Burner/IC tester shows up.
> Having to take notes because they are not provided, rather than getting value from a lecture due to interactive participation sounds like a waste of time. This sounds exactly like the type of lecture I would have skipped.

Erm, a philosophy "lecture" is generally more like a discussion session. The value isn't in the "lecture notes"; the value is in the discussion going around the room.

The goal is to personally develop an informed opinion on nebulous concepts.

In the best ones, your opinion is in opposition, and you have to argue that yours is correct. And you have to examine your axioms to see which ones you disagree on. You read authors like Socrates and Aristotle not to be memorized as authoritative, but to understand where their arguments were strong and, more importantly, where they were faulty.

The primary value is in exercising your mind. You can't do that for "discussion" classes unless you attend the lectures.

Although, every student having 4+ missed classes (he said 2 weeks not 2 lectures) for a discussion-based subject really is kind of unreasonable.

Side note: Being an engineer in a class with philosophy majors was fascinating--the sheer amount of misunderstanding about basic science (let alone quantum mechanics) was staggering. It also opens your eyes about what you can and cannot take for granted.
I'm confused with your comment, because you start here:

> If you're lucky (and I was) at some point you understand that it's not about the material, it's about the process.

> Research, assimilate, question, formulate, communicate.

But then follow that with:

> Alas a large number of folks will leave college and never grasp the real value of why they were there. That's OK. The world needs workers.

Like... I guess it depends what precisely you mean by "workers" but in my mind at least, if we're thinking similarly, that would be white-collar office workers. And what you describe in the previous quoted section is, IMHO, a perfectly reasonable breakdown of what college is preparing them to do. But then the subsequent line feels like a criticism of the output of that.
Having the MD file and the website open side by side and being able to see immediate updates as you write is valuable.
In order to do this the compiler needs to know what the previous compilation did so that it can apply these changes purely to things that changed between then and now.
Which doesn't seem impossible, but does seem like an interesting problem to solve.
You can do this on Android as well (manufacturer results may vary...)

This is on Android 14, but I initially turned it on in an earlier version:
1. unlock the Developer options (you can search this; depends on OS version)
2. in Developer options, scroll down to "simulate color space", choose grayscale
3. back to main settings --> Accessibility --> advanced, there is an "accessibility button" option
4. set that to "color correction"

Now I have a small icon (looks like a person) that I can use to toggle monochrome. Indeed it was someone I heard on a train who had this turned on for iPhone as described above for the same reason ("lowers the dopamine response", he explained to the conductor) that intrigued me into looking into it

Samsung also has a decent automation infrastructure ("modes and routines"), so I set that up to automatically disable the color correction / grayscale in certain apps (camera, photos, maps, etc.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43526555
> I know that parents have sheltered their children to varying degrees throughout history but now it seems way more extreme than it's ever been before.

This seems like an upper class issue, and the upper classes (especially aristocracy) have always carefully sheltered their children from the real world. Most parents, myself included, do not have the time to contemplate such questions. They are too busy improvising their way through raising a child.
Germany and Japan had highly functional states for centuries--in the case of Japan, over a millennium--before the allies installed democracy. Not only that, those places had cultures that had long internalized administration and rule of law even if people couldn't vote on those systems.
even the design of the website looks like it should for a funeral home
> In case you're not aware, wine prefixes each use their own settings, but are not isolated from one another.

That's a great point!

I'm aware, which is why recommend instead that wine apps should each be run under a different userid: I don't want any given app to have access to anything that it doesn't absolutely need

> This would help somewhat, assuming you don't run them all in one user's X session

When I start a given wine app, the script starting it allows this user id to render on my Xwayland

It is not as secure as running each on its own X session, but wayland compositors can offer more isolation as needed.
Thanks a lot. That makes total sense!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43522519
"I searched bing for you and here's the link to Word on the web"
Can we put energy in to speed it up?

That way a day can be 24 hours exactly instead of 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4 seconds, etc...
A modern SQL client for web devs. Deeply integrated with your workflow (vscode, drizzle, supabase, etc), a nicer more schema-aware GUI (think Airtable), and smarter ways to save queries and export/share them.

A lot planned, not much built. Just started so follow along if it sounds useful! Also see my prior thoughts on the topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41286912

Sqratch - https://github.com/jkcorrea/sqratch
A little context for those who weren't aware: tooth-stealing ferrets are an ongoing, serious problem in Britain.
The scenario everyone here is hoping for, that he was absconded in the middle of the night in a red, white, and blue painted Cybertruck by men in suits and sunglasses, is also the least likely to have happened.
> It’s not clear from that description how it differs from interface inheritance in OOP.

Remember, when people talk about "OOP" what they're actually talking about is Java EE 6.
Using blockchain, quantum random s and comp. irreducability to refute Idealism [pdf]
Idealism, the idea that reality is all created by conscious thought, has always bothered me.

I recently had a "passionate" dinner party debate with some friends and thought I'd formalize my ideas in the attached draft paper.

Could quantum randomness and computationally irreducible tasks, verified across adversarial networks and recorded on a blockchain, disprove it?

This paper puts forth an experiment. And faking it in a ‘mind-only’ world gets ludicrously improbable. Even simulation arguments don't hold water and, to me, external reality wins, hands down.

If any of you have opinions about this, I'd be curious what you think.
> no one is being killed or tortured or even kidnapped here.

Maybe not but the vibe feels more like open source being gunpoint.

"Upload documents or else"
I've seen this opinion before but disagree with it. There are maybe five names to learn. They relate to the actual concepts, allowing you to expand your knowledge.
What happens when you are no longer the darling. And PMs need to ship something new to get noticed, so they screw it all up
We did this with our kids, now college freshman and high school junior, and it was absolutely worth it. In middle school we established "screen break" from Friday night to Saturday afternoon. It was challenging at first but they came to love it. We've had many conversations and read many books on those breaks (and still do). Advice to new parents: keep them off screens as long as possible, and then build in and enforce breaks that become a part of your family routine. Chances are they will end up noticeably different from other kids.
Documentation is hard to do accurately when someone illegally immigrates with no documents.
The fundamental idea behind web3 was decentralization. Of course the blockchain was seen as the primary method to drive that decentralization. Mainly so people could drive up the valuation of their crypto currencies.

Cryptocurrencies themselves could also serve as a example of a grain of success for web3.
Will if run on latest NixOS?
Taiwan, Philippines, Egypt, South Korea. Arguably India, but there was so much bad mixed with the good.

The Caribbean is a special case though where there are lots of miraculous turnarounds because tourism is so lucrative.
Calling Chernobyl a minor accident is insane. We are lucky it wasn’t worse but even then most of Europes forests are still polluted from the fallout. People directly killed during the incident is not a great indicator of incident severity when we're talking about environmental pollutants.

Nobody died from installing asbestos insulation yet here we are.
Its really distressing that there's seemingly zero enforcement over the incredible campaign of lies Musk has used to sell Tesla and SpaceX, HyperLoop, and others.

Musk was claiming Cybertruck had a million preorders! A million! Yet there are ~50k sales, a 20:1 ratio. https://www.wired.com/story/where-did-the-one-million-people...

Musk keeps getting away with dumping the investors, with saying whatever crazy shit he wants. And so far, the market regulators havent once bothered to care.

Meanwhile, National Labor Board has been investigating Tesla for firing employees who complained online about sexually despairing comments. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has investigating Tesla factories for racism including slurs, racist graffiti, and nooses. uS Transportation Board has been investigating accidents caused by Actually Smart Summons and self driving modes. FAA has been investigating illegal rocket launches in Florida, & reviewing requests to turn the once experimental star base launch site into a much busier production site. CFPB would have been involved in regulating X's move to become a banking app. FEC has been investigating Musk offering $1M/day to voters who sign up for his PAC. SEC has been investigating failure to give timely notice in the Twitter acquisition, costing investors billions. EPA has been investigating multiple Tesla sites (very) improperly disposing of hazardous waste. All agencies have recent seen cuts from Musk's DOGE, with many of these investigators forced out. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-03-27/elon-musk-...
Maybe I'm missing something, but what is painful to set up with C toolchains? On almost every *nix, (g)cc, vi(m) and make are enough to be dangerously productive. Sure, you can overcomplicate stuff with modern IDEs and IDE-like tools, but that is out of the realm of the usual C toolchain.
TLDR: Orion browser.
Ooh! Perfect opportunity to ask a question I’ve definitely not spent an inordinate amount of time wondering about without bothering to look for an answer!

Is maths in British English plural? Like, should that be “the maths say”?
Cursor has gone to the next level with Gemini 2.5. The reasons it gives for what it’s doing are well thought through and far more in context.

Gemini seems to now advise you when you’re telling it to do something that may not make sense - first time I’ve really seen a non-Yes Man LLM. It’s more like a Yes-but-are-you-sure man.
Still working on my software project for live music production [1]. At the moment, it only creates, forwards, and records MIDI note events, so it can't produce audio on its own. It has to be connected to external or virtual MIDI devices that can create sound. Turns out this is too much of a hassle and kind of a deal-breaker for most people (and to be fair, it is a hassle), so now I'm working on adding VST hosting support directly inside the app. If you're not familiar, VST (Steinberg Virtual Studio Technology) is pretty much the industry standard plugin system that most DAWs support. Different VSTs can create and filter audio data, and in a hosted context audio data can be sent between VST instances before going out to the speakers.

It's been tricky but interesting. VST plugins are basically packaged as DLL files of Windows COM(-ish) objects. Despite primarily being a Windows dev myself, I never worked directly with COM libraries or objects before. My app is written in C#, and .NET does have built-in "COM Interop" support, so it is possible. A few years ago, .NET added a new COM Interop Source Generator system [2, 3], and I'm trying to get it working with that. So far I've been making some progress, but it's still a lot of tedious work to setup.

(There are libraries/packages out there that implement VST in .NET already, but they mostly focus on plugin creation while I only need hosting. They're a lot heavier and more capable than I need. They also didn't use the newer Source Generator approach, so I figured I'd give it a shot myself.)

1. https://www.pulselyre.com/

2. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/native-int...

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZd1SGd7dSU
I understand all this, no objections at all, I just wonder if the easier thing to do here is to write the blog posts in HTML and drop them in a folder for a web server, the same way I learned to do websites 25 years ago. What's making this complicated is the Markdown and if you want something lightweight, Markdown doesn't pull its weight.
Six new ancient date trees
You're burying the lede, which is that "stable political and economic institutions" are that way because of the people. Not just the people in the institutions, but the people served by the institutions. Try reading the constitutions of some of these dysfunctional places sometime--there's nothing wrong with the words on the paper.

So your point about whether "you are lucky enough to get such a stable system" is inaccurate. It's not luck. People created those systems. You can even see how that processed happened, deliberately, in recent history in places like Singapore.
Not only is that whole different set of claims from "The FBI does not deal with immigration action," but the new set of claims are also incorrect, which you can see from the links I've already provided.
I really wanted to agree with your comment, but what I read looks like gibberish.

There were 8 million "contacts" with migrants from 2021-2024. That's not a number of immigrants. It's bizarre to believe 3% of the population immigrated in that time. Total US population growth including ALL immigration is ~5 million over those years. Note that from 2017-2020 population growth including immigration was almost 6 million. Who's fault was that?

It's also bizarre to cite a Venezuelan dictator's own made up crime statistics as support, but if you did then then crime fell most from 2017-2020. Remember that Fox News is self-admittedly primarily an entertainment channel, on par with the Daily Show comedy.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/984669/homicide-rate-ven...

But the last point stands. I'd rather be a nation of laws and facts than autocratic criminality.
The question is not asking about Dostoevsky's views, it's asking about the views of a character in one of Dostoevsky's novels. The character's views are written down in the book.

Since answering the question without reading the book remains problematic, and apparently telepathy isn't your strong point, you would probably have to fall back on your reading comprehension skills to make progress, although the author also suggests using AI if that's too time consuming.
I dove into using LLMs together with MCP servers for the first time this weekend. Absolutely incredible.

In addition to the code assistant, I configured a Grafana's MCP server with Cline, so that I can chat with an LLM while having real-time metrics and logs.

For context, I self host grafana in addition to a bunch of services on a raspberry pi. Simple prompts such as "why has CPU been increasing this week?" resulted in a deep analysis of logs/metrics that uncovered correlations I had never been aware of.

Incredible. I can only imagine what this will all look like in a few years
I've been working on extending Postgres to run on top of FoundationDB, effectively turning Postgres into a distributed database with all the modern features one would expect. Hoping to release an initial version for people to try out very soon!
The Carbon Bankroll 2.0 [pdf] (2024)