skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The motherboard on my old Intel 4790K would only go into the BIOS with a keypress from a PS/2 keyboard, not from a USB one... That computer is still in service, a friend uses it for general browsing, etc. When I gave it to him, I gave him the 3 purple keyboard adapters I had and an explanation to keep track of them.

I couldn't get one anywhere locally, even at Fry's Electronics at the time before they closed (man that place was a ghost town towards the end). I don't know if the keyboard adapters were the same as the mouse adapters, but I do remember that some would work with some devices and not others.
Guy whose blog doesn't allow comments whines about not showing up on a comments site.
This.

In New Zealand the only accessible way for the moderately wealthy to save is property (a failed financial system)

So there is a proliferation of "mum and dad" landlords who have huge political power, two "investment" properties, and they make life hell and insecure for renters

I rented until I was in my forties, and that is what it was like. They are not all bad, but many cannot believe that their tennents own their home, if not the property it is in. A landlord can not "drop by" for any reason, legally, but most importantly, morally

Being a landlord should be a business. Nobody should have tenants in an "investment" property. It is a conflict of interest and a power imbalance that immiserates the tenants

On top of that the poorest 60% are handing over the lion's share of their income to the richest 15%

So much needs to change....
The carrot, which is massive fame, is not present when it's just a psychologist.
Billions of people all over this planet take trips every day without the use of personal private automobiles.

It's fascinating how, to me, my comment was very clearly "don't use a car if you care about privacy" but that interpretation didn't even occur to you. Car dependency runs deep.
By the LLM team (Grok team, in this case). I don't mean for the LLM to be sentient enough to know it doesn't know the answer, I mean for the LLM to identify what is being asked of it, and checking to see if that's something on the 'blacklist of actions I cannot do yet', said list maintained by humans, before replying.

No different than when asking ChatGPT to generate images or videos or whatever before it could, it would just tell you it was unable to.
C and C++ prioritize performance over correctness (2023)
I'm a neurodivergent coder and have always been a "code by reference" person, so I will have API docs up even if I've done a thing 100 times. The context helps me get into the mindset of what I'm doing, and has helped me be productive.

This fails when people expect rote memorization like in coding interviews, but it works well when I'm actually working through problems in a company - I have a set of references up and available, usually of the internal codebase. I use AI as an advanced reference primarily so I haven't had the problem as stated here yet!

I think a lot of folks are finding that via AI they're switching over to the way that I do code, without the benefits of internal thinking structure I've had to come up with over time to manage it. I try to think of whatever I'm doing in a sort of scaffold, and then change my focus into the details. If you lose your ability to zoom in or out on layers of abstraction (because you don't understand whats happening in detail), that's when you need to spend time diving in.

You can't just sit back all the time like a farmer who's got a machine to plow and tend to all the fields, you need to be doing QA and making sure its doing what it says its doing. If you're letting it handle what the scaffold is, you know even less.

You decide which if any mental models you outsource to AI. You decide what you manage, and whats important for you to manage. Don't let short term productivity gains hobble your ability to zoom in!
GP is presumably asking what their plans are once the service gets popular, runs into the ratelinit, and cannot send any notifications at all (or with significant delays) to the clients.
> I'd love to rent out my current home

Sell it
Impromptu Disaster Recovery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_bobble
AI may help us cure diseases – and usher in a new golden age of medicine
This is wrong or at least misleading in a couple of ways:

A* is not limited to point-to-point, it also handles point-to-set-of-points just fine (you just might have to reverse the direction you're thinking in). Although this is most often used for "we only need a path to one of them", it's still faster even if you need a path to all of them due to merging. Visiting all points (as BFS does) on the graph is rarely what you actually want (though admittedly, if you're able to throw away the grid it becomes more likely; like the article, I do find people use grids far too often).

BFS works just fine with variable edge weights, you just have to use a priority queue instead of a plain queue for the next set of nodes to be visited.
The only reason anyone uses Windows anymore is for gaming, and that's quickly being vaporized. Yes many corporates still use it, but they HAVE an alternative which is the mac ecosystem.
What stops you from using it today? A wiki claims it is just 3 commands and IP configuration:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ad-hoc_networking#Manual_me...
I still had my DEC LK201 hooked up on my main home linux desktop until a few years ago. Haha. I don't know why, but I liked the key layout.
Invention Turns Plastic Waste into Home Energy – No Solar Panels Needed
> Lieracy surveys aren't as rigorous; likely 5% to 20% drop from reported numbers: https://www.dataforindia.com/measuring-literacy/

This is very well studied in sociology and anthropology and has been for many decades. Kerala is a major case study in many fields because of this.
Etc is also an abbreviation of et cetera. Only Americans put pointless dots everywhere.

This is all stuff you learn in school. Punctuation isn't obscure or niche. You may not have learnt about semicolons or em dashes in school but you should have and I did. As did anyone that has ever read a novel. There are two semicolons on the first page of the first Harry Potter book, a novel read by approximately every child of my generation. There are loads of examples of the proper use of dashes and other "obscure" punctuation marks in any professionally typeset text.
Why hasn't AI taken your job yet?
> XML is now niche technology, but it's a bigger niche than you might think, and it's not going to go away any time soon.

When you consider that .docx, .pptx, and .xlsx files are zipped XML archives, "niche" seems a misnomer.
Thanks for sharing this. I was heavily involved in graduate physics when I was in school, and was very worried about what direction shed take after the first big viral vid "telling her story." I wasn't sure it was well understood, or even understood at all, how blinkered her...viewpoint?...was.
Swiftly 1.0
They could develop ALSO their protocol and offer both.

I don't recognise Apple as the proponent of the new open standards. They didn't offer lightning to everyone, hell, even to make the lightning cable I'd have to pay a heavy licensing fee.

Apple is not open and proponent of the common standards, hence they must be forced to adapt open standards in the name of interoperability.

Personally I'd prefer lightning port on my phone instead of this stupid and fragile USB-c, bit since Apple wasn't interested in opening their standard.
Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds
> Not to mention, the article doesn’t mention how many of these scientists are foreign origin

Actually, I think that's the point. Since WWII, a significant portion of the scientific talent in the U.S. has come from abroad and have made great contributions to our innovation, wealth, and global stature.

Now, these scientists are leaving, and as a result we can expect far fewer to come in the future.

This is a big deal. Countries around the world have envied the U.S. for its ability to attract the best talent. The current administration has jeopardized this critical advantage in a matter of weeks. Mark my words, we won't regain it in our lifetimes.
Nah, the controlled media ecosystem (THAT THEY OPT INTO) and controlled narrative is too strong. They will absolutely suffer and starve and die before admitting that they were tricked or that maybe the democrats aren't the problem. The same people who are freaking out about the deficit and insisted we couldn't send $100 billion worth of scrap hardware to Ukraine are having zero problems eating up this admin blowing up people in the desert again and were perfectly willing to vote for Bush Jr's second term after it was obvious the middle east wars were outright fraudulent and illegal, while calling you an unpatriotic anti-american asshole for daring to criticize him.

They will absolutely, unflinchingly, uncritically buy "It's the democrats fault" for the reason they can't afford rent.
Stop worrying and read the article, it contains the answer.
> If it makes data up, then it is worthless for all implementations.

Not true. It's only worthless for the things you can't easily verify. If you have a test for a function and ask an LLM to generate the function, it's very easy to say whether it succeeded or not.

In some cases, just being able to generate the function with the right types will mostly mean the LLM's solution is correct. Want a `List(Maybe a) -> Maybe(List(a))`? There's a very good chance a LLM will either write the right function or fail the type check.
There are at least 5:

https://www.xmlprague.cz/
https://www.balisage.net/
https://declarative.amsterdam/
https://markupuk.org/
https://xmlsummerschool.org/
Is This Sex Offender Map in Japan Legal?
Combined with the demo phone being at zero battery, I'm getting a lot of "early April Fools" energy off of this one.
Every civil liberties infringement (e.g., warrantless search and seizure) comes in very handy for solving crimes. That's why the constitution specifically places limit on it, because you have to balance that with the loss of liberty.
A* is also importantly different for what the ordering of the priority queue is. Dijkstra's algorithm is just BFS with a priority queue, but the lack of heuristic in the comparison key keeps it clearly breadth-first.
Rent controls work in many cities around the world

A simple cap on rent does not work, true. But comprehensive policies to keep rent down and local people housed, can work
You're not thinking like a bureaucracy.

Suppose you have a system of cameras operated by the various localities. The localities are all storing the data. Then there is a central system that can query all the local systems but doesn't itself store any of the data.

The department issuing traffic citations requests an automated daily report showing every vehicle observed at multiple locations where the two sightings imply an average speed between 55MPH and 170MPH. Then the citations department takes the report and issues a citation to anyone where there is no route between those two points that allows the calculated average speed without exceeding the speed limit.

The report isn't automatically generated if the average speed was calculated to be 490MPH because cars don't go that fast so issuing a citation would trivially allow it to be challenged as a data irregularity, and the report is requested by the department issuing speeding citations rather than the one (if any) investigating data irregularities.

Now you get a ticket for doing an average speed of 87MPH along a route where the speed limit never exceeded 55MPH. You claim it's a data irregularity (cloned plate), but that's a possible speed, because the automated report didn't include the impossible speeds.

There may have also been sightings that would have implied an average speed of 490MPH, but that report was never requested so it doesn't exist. The bureaucracy comes up with some excuse for why you can't run your own reports that don't already exist. You could request the raw data and then do the calculations yourself, but then you have to make a thousand requests to each individual locality, which is purposely too much trouble for most people to bother, and even then there is no guarantee that the person who cloned your plate was spotted in a location that would have produced an impossibly high speed.
You're kind of moving the goalposts.

You went from "Images should above all never be funny," to "You get this jarring tonal whiplash when you add funny images to an otherwise serious text."

Yeah, if a post's text is 100% serious, then yes it would be jarring to insert funny images. Nobody's suggesting you do that, though.

>It also appears insecure and juvenile, as though you're not fully confident that what you are saying will stand on its own without attempts at comedy, and ironically raises questions about the age and experience of the author.

This comes across to me as strangely judgmental and narrow-minded about what good technical writing is.

Joel Spolsky is, in my opinion, the best software blogger of all time. His posts often integrated humor, and I think it definitely heightened rather than detracted from his writing.

Look at the bloggers who are most popular on HN: Paul Graham, Julia Evans, Simon Willison, Rachel Kroll, Terence Eden. All of them often use a lighthearted style and integrate humor, often with humorous images as well.
East Asia isn't on Whatsapp. In most of South-East Asia it's also not the #1. That makes for ~2 billion people.
What's the specific risk factor you are worried about? Are you worried about someone on the internet intercepting the feed of your baby sleeping? Or someone you know? What are you worried people are going to do with it?

There are a lot of secure camera options, but if you also don't trust the babysitter then you need more security than just E2E encryption.
It's a fantastic way to bring up new hardware at the bare metal layer and do nontrivial things. But unless you're Jeff Raskin or something, building out, say, a word processor or something of similar complexity is a bit more daunting.
I just bought one of these... from Amazon. Now I'm wondering if I got the real thing or some cheap knockoff created specifically for Amazon. I paid only $30 for my jeans!
yeah, this is exactly my point haha. these are not at all the same
> What specifically was impossible 5 years ago that llms can do

> It's so self-evident, that I don't know how to take the request for examples seriously

Do you see why people are hesitant to believe people with outrageous claims and no examples
> our own intelligence

this doesn't make any more sense than calling LLMs "intelligence". There is no "our intelligence" beyond a concept or an idea that you or someone else may have about the collective, which is an abstraction.

What we do each have our own intelligence, and that intelligence is and likely always be, no matter how science progresses, ineffable. So my point is you can't say your made up/ill defined concept is any realer than any other made up/ill defined concept.
I love the ngspice integration in kicad it has gotten really good since kicad 7 or 8.
Here's what I'm hearing:

How would you design a Forth interpreter to encourage more people to solve actual problems with it? :)
So this uses https://github.com/wakatime/wakatime-cli under the hood. Is there any way to make wakatime-cli store all data locally in a file (like sqlite or csv)?
'You're His Property': How One Sheriff Used Inmate Labor on His Family Farm
That "rule" is the rule in America but not elsewhere. Please break it. It is stupid.
No, a Quantum RNG does not solve the issue that people use an API for insecure random numbers when they should use one for secure random numbers.

Every OS already has a secure RNG API. That's a solved problem.
Who looks down on the Real Book?
I can’t say this with certainty, but I have some reason to suspect I might be partially to blame for this fun fact!

A couple years ago, I stumbled on a discussion considering deprecation/removal of XSLT support in Chrome. At some point in the discussion, they mentioned observing a notable uptick in usage—enough of an uptick (from a baseline of approximately zero) that they backed out.

The timing was closely correlated with work I’d done to adapt a library, which originally used XSLT via native Node extensions, to browser XSLT APIs. The project isn’t especially “popular” in the colloquial sense of the term, but it does have a substantial niche user base. I’m not sure how much uptake the browser adaptation of this library has had since, but some quick napkin math suggested it was at least plausible that the uptick in usage they saw might have been the onslaught of automated testing I used to validate the change while I was working on it.
UN Database WIPO Alert Helps to Facilitate Globalized Pirate Site Blocking
Ask HN: Can I hack my job search with inbound leads?
I have been thinking about changing jobs for a while now but the process can be quite a slog. I have an idea that by getting my website in front of the right people at the right time I can cut through a lot of back and forth emails and get on the phone with the hiring manager and see if there is a fit.

I am trying out a new form for my personal website where I market how I work instead of things I've built or writing a book about myself. https://jakegaylor.com.

Have you tried to get inbound leads to your job search? How'd it go?
For me, a problem with a general row of undifferentiated controls is it is hard to distinguish between them in a performance context. I like it when the filter cutoff knob (say) is bigger, because then I easily know that's the one I'm going to be twisting.
This is absolutely 100% backwards. Minsk 2 agreement was needed because Minsk 1 fell apart because Russia violated it. They also violated Minsk 2 agreement. Russia also had the audacity to claim the agreements didn't apply to them but to their warlord puppet states in part of Luhansk and Donestk.

More recent negotiations fell apart largely because Russia would not agree to reasonable measures and could not be trusted to even the measures they claimed they might agree to.

Even that ignores the fact that this was not needed at all if Russia hadn't invaded Ukraine in 2014(which was against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%E2%80%93Ukrainian_Frie... where they agreed to Ukranian sovereignty and borders).
Thanks. I'm torn on a response. On the one hand, HN was always bad at reading between the lines - even quite broad lines. On the other hand, maybe I'm just not as funny as I think I am, and that's what they're downvoting.
In upstate NY there is a huge controversy over "burn barrels". Some of my neighbors who some might call "rednecks" like burning plastic and other waste but I sure hate walking by when they do it.

Companies like Exxon Mobil have a hard time convincing regulators that it is OK for them to burn plastic

https://www.propublica.org/article/exxonmobil-plastics-recyc...

and other high tech solutions run into trouble

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification

Low-tech incineration of waste during the "Global War on Terror" is blamed for disabling complications in US Veterans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_pit
> famous FOSS photos, 2fa

Ente photos I assume
> before the page cache is flushed to disk

And if yank the cord before the package is fully unpacked? Wouldn't that just be the same problem? Solving that problem involves simply unpacking to a temporary location first, verifying all the files were extracted correctly, and then renaming them into existence. Which actually solves both problems.

Package management is stuck in a 1990s idea of "efficiency" which is entirely unwarranted. I have more than enough hard drive space to install the distribution several times over. Stop trying to be clever.
> The name is also off-putting: juxtaposing super and hyper sounds silly. The etymology makes sense, even if it sounds funny. Piet Hein used the prefix super– to refer to increasing the exponent from the usual value of 2. Its unfortunate that hyperbola begins with a root that is similar to super.

How about just "superbola"? :-)
My fear is: in the absence of verifiable economic data, it’s human to see relationships between two flappy variables as their closer, more rationally-related indicators rot away. Is IBM behaving like they have full access to the good numbers? How can you tell? Like politics, will a large minority simply rely heaviest on faith and other emotions while a small majority ask for proof?
Religion is a cultural and historical construction and part of our life. There are constructions such as churches that are part if a country history.

The state supports, say, history teaching so religious artefacts should be partly financed by the state.

Which ones is the question.

Note: I am French, profoundly atheist and actively anti religion. But I love yhe culture and thus the history of my country.
No matter how hard I try, I cannot make two pairs of jeans that are identical.

Same pattern, same denim, same person making them (me), they don't fit/feel the same.

Consistent results when using fabric is hard. Also keep in mind that good denim is practically sheet metal in comparison to most fabrics, so on one hand easier to get consistent results, but on the other hand, even small differences are more noticeable than something lighter or (god forbid) stretchy.

You cannot just engineer your way out of some of the challenges inherit in garment construction (trust me, Ive tried).
It's actually pretty interesting that this shows that Google is quite secure, I feel like most companies would not fare nearly as well.
hyperboloid, my day is ruined

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperboloid
I haven't gone to that site in a long time, but back when I did work that was related to its content, it was somewhere between useless and actively bad. From reading this thread, it seems to have improved since, but it has a tarnished reputation. I use Kagi, and if w3schools had come up in a search I'd likely have set it to block before even considering clicking the link; it's got a tarnished reputation.
We should, but we don't.

People want the news now. They don't want to wait for it to be peer reviewed, or even cursorily checked. There is an infinite maw for information, and it has already consumed every single known fact.

If you want science, you'll wait a month, because it's not actually urgent. These species waited hundreds of millions of years and it'll still be there in a few weeks.

If you want entertainment, you want it right this instant. And that's what LiveScience exists to do.

So you really should have stopped reading as soon as you saw the URL.
Bangalore today is a shadow compared to the Garden City it once was.

For outsiders not in the know, Bangalore was famous for its beautiful lakes and the lush greenery around them. It was absolutely something else, finding these beautiful water bodies smack in the middle of what is supposed to be a major city. The weather was cool, almost like a warm European summer (which is extremely cool by Indian standards).

Then they got greedy, drained the lakes, built real estate and office properties on them and now Bangalore is an unbearable cesspit just like any other Indian city. Bad weather, bad traffic and a shit scenery.

I still have some photos of my visits to Bangalore in my childhood a couple of decades back, and the visual contrast between past and present is so stark. Of course, locals love to resent the regression of the city, but they also love their coin.
https://archive.today/gqEpW
Pop the popcorn and enjoy the show. This is a boxing match between lawyers. Now we're at the pre-fight hype stage.
> But if that has parameters they've set to max because they really want that delicious revenue, why not detect cloned plates and charge those people more than the tickets?

The plate is registered to the victim whose plate was cloned. The identity of the perpetrator who cloned the plate isn't known, so how do you issue them a citation?