skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it would be reasonable to offer sellers a sliding scale to trade off their salary and commission rate over, say, ten graduations. Then let them choose whatever scale they want, maybe with some rules about how they can change it etc to prevent high frequency minmaxing.
you should have gotten an A for being a real engineer
Would like to try it out but I’m not receiving the verification code on my UK number.
It was vaguely interesting to watch Steve Sailer do some revisionist musicology in the comments.
> Curious if any superfans think it would be better experienced as the original in an emulator or similar.

(superfan checking in) -- I still believe the definitive release is the original `realMyst (2000)` (Sunsoft). https://archive.guildofarchivists.org/wiki/RealMyst . If you only ever play one version, that's the one to play. GOG maintains a beautiful version of this (that works well even on modern Windows), but Cyan de-listed it from GOG a while back, so you can't technically buy fresh copies anymore.

Don't mistake this for "Real Myst: Masterpiece Edition", which is (sorry Cyan), not very good. They imported the old assets into Unity for the re-release, and then did some random texture/asset swaps, the lighting and mood didn't survive the import and is all randomly weird -- strongly recommend ignoring this one.

The original release is good if you want the original experience - https://www.gog.com/en/game/myst_masterpiece_edition

And the new Myst (2021/VR, Unreal Engine) release is wonderful and beautiful, but is more of a re-make to modern gaming sensibilities.
Ask HN: Does documentation for programming languages matter anymore?
So does documentation for programming languages matter anymore (at a the lower levels)? Sure if a programming language has better documentation the LLM can understand it better and give better suggestions but on a personal level if I'm learning a language any decent LLM should be enough right?
> but worse in every conceivable way

I always had an issue with that sentence (and I heard it a lot).
Why would experienced software developers always come with a solution worse in "every conceivable way" when implementing logic answering a problem they're having, which would have the huge advantage of being tailored for their own needs?

I'm more of a library developer than an application one but I've seen that many JS webdevs have an aversion toward trying things themselves - instead always going for the most huge/"starred" dependency when they can. I'm not sure the impact of this philosophy is always better for a project's health than the total opposite where you would just re-invent your own wheel.

I do have seen multiple attempts at doing a specific homemade architecture that worked out well for some applications with very specific needs even 10 years later (For example I'm thinking about a 500k+ LOC JS webapp - not intended to be accessed on a desktop browser, but that's not the only successful long-lived JS project I know with their own archi).
And I guess a lot of webapps do have their own specific needs where the "default framework" solution leads to some inefficiencies or hard-to-maintain / understand mess.
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Syntax is so much less important that semantics that it isn’t even really worth talking about in my opinion
Haven't they already reinterpreted "two terms" to mean "two consecutive terms" anyway?

When you have your own Supreme Court it's easy. The next step will be to declare that two consecutive terms is actually just one long term, and so on. Every dictator does something like this - not always the exact thing, but something like it, some flimsy excuse and if everyone goes along with the excuse, they gain power.
> F# is where the language designers can push the boundaries

It really isn't, not anymore. F# now evolves conservatively, just trying to remove warts and keep up with C# interop.

And even then some C# features were considered too complex/powerful to implement (e.g. variance, scoped refs) or implemented in weaker, incompatible ways when C#'s design is considered messy (e.g. F#'s non-nullable constraints disallow value-types, which breaks for some generic methods written in C#, sadly even part of the System libs).
"Software simulations" is a working title but it is sort of a new kind of thing we're trying to do and describe - definitely room to improve.

Our goal is to simulate every function and aspect of your application and in doing so provides both a test suite and demonstration artifacts. it's akin to an intelligent, semantically aware fuzzer that is creating both good and bad results (vs. a fuzzer just creating bad results with the intent of breaking things).

It is connected to your code via a GitHub app with read permissions and the ability to comment on PRs when analysis happens.

Let me know if this helps (or doesn't!). I think it's a little different from what you're envisioning but you're not far off.
fyi Zoom link requires passcode to join, so you probably won't get too many folks. (e: or I'm failing a reading check ;-))
:)

I’m legit trying to figure out who your calling the petty tyrant flexing their power:
- The principal which let off with a warning
- The other kid, popping circuit breakers
- Or you, ‘corrupting’ other young minds :)
This is what you get when you buy security as an add-on product
Actually komi in go solves the problem that black won nearly all the even games between strong players, except when white was an exceptionally strong player.

Hence the original 4.5 points komi about 100 years ago. The half point is the part that turns a draw into a win for white, that starts playing after black. But it's not strictly necessary: we could state in the rules that white wins draws.

Black started playing less conservatively and komi was soon adjusted to 5.5 points. It became 6.5 points at the turn of the century. It's 7.5 with Chinese and area rules.

This variant of chess seems to me potentially unfair to the player that gets a bad starting position, one that loses most games or that could even be winning but only with a narrow and difficult path to find. It could work in a tournament if all players have to play all the initial configurations.
In thnk
Implant-derived metals found in cerebrospinal fluid
You should help create a startup that makes a Lisp chip and help resurrect Lisp Machines. They can help bring true power to AI via their symbolic AI, everything in the system being Lisp code, and thus extensible, and more.
People who laugh at innocents getting punished are exactly the same as those who slice up animals for fun. Bukele pretends to be a savior, but he's a monster.
"Able to be replicable" is a far cry from being practically replicable.

We are unable to get two biologically identical (or at least extremely close) brains of identical twins to develop in the same way, let alone two distinct brains, or a simulated version of a brain.

The claim is potentially equivalent to a claim that since universe is theoretically computable, we'll eventually be able to simulate it.
Once swapped the system disc of a netware server live. Can't remember why exactly, I think it stared to count bad sectors as we watched and we needed to keep it alive copying the data to the new, to-be system disk. Then we made sure, nobody was logged in, it was about midnight, hit Alt-LeftShift-RightShift-Esc and while Netware paused in the kernel debugger, swapped the disks. Continued the debugger and - it worked :)
What if the concept of art was like a gun?
> Nice try. We are not at war with these countries and not even close to it either. Trump is the most non-interventionist president of the last few decades. This is an empirical and historical fact.

Trump has only been in office for two months. He's clearly threatening to take intervention to never before seen levels.

> Obama in Executive Order 13576 ...

Obama's executive order and actions were within the rule of law, "By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America". Very many of Trump's are not; Trump openly challenges and disregards any limit from law or the courts.

> [DEI/ESG:] Yes which is great - this is an example of reducing the size and scope of government.

It doesn't matter if you think it's great. It's stopping private organizations from doing what they choose - that is government using its power to compel behavior.

> There is a literally an EO on preventing online censorship

Human rights - freedom - is universal or it's nothing. It's just Trump protecting his friends and persecuting his enemies - the opposite of freedom.

They are arresting people in the street and deporting them for speech, forcing schools to censor students and faculty, forcing leaders of business and journalism to avoid criticism and even to support him - as just one example, look at the law firms he is extorting for representing parties critical of him.

It's also oppressive to force private companies - social media companies - to adopt policies Trump prefers, including about moderation.
> scepticism of the validity of learning institutions

Can confirm, this is solidly wedged into my opinions now. There were a lot of other experiences after this to compound that feeling.

In High School, I started looking aggressively for a less traditional path and fortunately found one. It really saved me, because I was forced back into the traditional environment in Senior year of high school, and my grades tanked from top-of-class to "you might need summer school to graduate" level

Things got a lot better in college, because that experience (among others) helped me effectively navigate the institution, jump directly into more advanced coursework, and earn more freedom to study things that were interesting to me.

I did get a job in my field out of college. So, my college pedigree was useful practically (though not really any knowledge I got there). But, I'm self-taught dev now, which is an amazing fit for my experience and attitude.
I also found this surprising! I think a lot of UIs are sort of still just riffs on ChatGPT type products but with some exceptions/improvements (v0 stood out here).
FUSE File-Systems to Support Much Longer Filenames with Linux 6.15
When the universe is born, at t=0, supposedly all the particles were entangled. Sheeps are no exception, although they are macroscopic.
we're definitely under heavy load right now - might be hitting some rate limits. can you try again now? if it still doesn't work, hit me up at dli@asim.sh or on our discord https://www.asim.sh/discord and i'll get you sorted!
Apple backports zero-day patches to older iPhones and Macs
I would love to hear some of your examples, if only to reinforce your lesson to myself.
Executing 60kb of JS can take between 0s and infinity. You can't summarise it like this.
Technology has changed for sure. Is our usage of human capital any better as a whole? Probably not. So many BS jobs out there.
I get that the trenchcoat needs to be well designed and tested, but I am still flat out amazed that you both agree with “meh, most battery packs are made up of rechargeable domestic batteries you find in a kids toy”

I just assumed there was … special stuff in there
We will be hanging out in HN to answer any questions.
Papers please, citizen.
Get a modern version with higher-resolution graphics, better color, and other playability improvements. Masterpiece Edition is my favorite version I've played. I think there are a couple of even newer versions; I don't know how they compare.

I wasn't a fan of RealMyst. The game's environment wasn't originally designed for the player being able to wander freely, so it doesn't really add much to the game and even detracts from it in some respects.
It's actually sort of the other way round. C# has hardcoded syntax for async/await. F#'s syntax for async/await is a fully-general user-accessible mechanism.
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Some sort of out-of-this-world placenta there.
1. I love this site haha. 2. I'll need to try this, ty for the suggestion!
create a brain... and make it play doom?

https://youtu.be/bEXefdbQDjw
Yes, absolutely! You can manually edit the generated flow afterward!
And thanks so much for joining the waitlist! We’ll let you know as soon as the beta goes live.
Many have written about Gavrilo Princip’s trip to the cafe - if the sandwich has sufficient intrigue and scandal around it, people will write (and read) about it.
That is why you sort them.

Some recent research into that:
https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/20...

You can also consider maintaining packs together to avoid complicated disassembling processes.
Why is spending everything before you die a perverse incentive?
Hi teleforce, thanks! Your project sounds very interesting as well.

That actually reminds me, at one point, a researcher suggested looking into geophone or fiber optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) data that oil companies sometimes collect in Alaska, potentially for tracking animal movements or impacts, but I never got the chance to follow up. Connecting seismic activity data (like yours) with potential effects on animal vocalizations or behaviour observed in acoustic recordings would be an interesting research direction!

Regarding data access:

Our labeled dataset (EDANSA, focused on specific sound events) is public here: https://zenodo.org/records/6824272. We will be releasing an updated version with more samples soon.

We are also actively working on releasing the raw, continuous audio recordings. These will eventually be published via the Arctic Data Center (arcticdata.io). If you'd like, feel free to send me an email (address should be in my profile), and I can ping you when that happens.

Separately, we have an open-source model (with updates coming) trained on EDANSA for predicting various animal sounds and human-generated noise. Let me know if you'd ever be interested in discussing whether running that model on other types of non-stationary sound data you might have access to could be useful or yield interesting comparisons.
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My sad brain keeps insisting this headline contains the phrase "thousand year old laptop batteries", which said brain also assures me is impossible.
The solution there is to take vouching rights away from the accounts that are vouching for bad comments.

But what were these comments that you're referring to? If they're as bad as you say, I need to see them.
Our labeled dataset (EDANSA, focused on specific sound events) is public here: https://zenodo.org/records/6824272. We will be releasing an updated version with more samples soon.

We are also actively working on releasing the raw, continuous audio recordings. These will eventually be published via the Arctic Data Center (arcticdata.io). If you'd like, feel free to send me an email (address should be in my profile), and I can ping you when that happens.
Lmao my entire undergraduate physics program is still entirely labview instruments.
Is this also why unpkg has been up and down all morning?
Nobel prize, quick!
Yes. The core algorithm is like 20 lines of code in the run_algorithm() function. But to make it easier to use, to handle different types of input, and report/query output, etc. take much more. This is the difference between an idea and a product in a loose sense. It gives purpose to my learning process anyway.
Does USB-PD mean USB power distribution ?

And yeah - some LEDs and a usb wire around the ceiling solves lighting a house more sensibly than a three-phase converter under the stairs and enough power going through a light switch to kill me …
Curious: have you benchmarked it against any similar tools in other languages (like Go or Rust) for comparison?
>It's a really fascinating perspective on WWII and how crap Monty was at being a general; he was reading the Germans' messages and still couldn't defeat Rommel.

He did defeat Rommel though, didn't he?
If you would enjoy loosely related fiction, Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon is an option I would personally recommend. You must have some tolerance for his particular style and content…
Google said (AI result):

Soldering a lead to a germanium crystal typically involves using a gold-germanium solder alloy (like 88% gold, 12% germanium) due to its compatibility and good bonding properties

Also one of the search results implied etching first could help remove germanium oxide and used a different solder: https://www.researchgate.net/post/How-to-solder-germanium-wa...

Plus you'd need to decide how to get a good thermal connection to set the temperature of the crystal - maybe via one big lead?

Being in the future makes some things simpler?

The little experience I've had with lab physicists showed they needed a good ability to build, debug and maintain their own equipment. You can't always rely on technicians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_T%C3%A4ht

https://blog.cerowrt.org/

https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/bloat/2025-April/018...
This is not CF WAF's first rodeo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20421538

Cementing its track record as a product that mostly doesn't do anything except for occasionally break the internet here and there to keep things fun and interesting.
Pretentious.
(Humans and AI Agents) vs. March Madness
social conditions are deteriorating so people are reaching for alternative explanations. you want people to reach for true history? then you have to show them true history will benefit them. fortunately, there is a way to do this, but powerful people hate it and prefer patriotic history and disciplined workforces instead. then they blame minorities for the problems they cause.
Agreed, it is well worth visiting both.
I don't think the purpose of documentation is to explain the what, but the why.

As an example, in a device driver project, we need to send no-ops to the hardware to slow it down, in order to alleviate a hardware overheating issue.

Can AI or even human realize the reason by looking at no-ops?
Hm this reminds me that the Python stdlib has grown a module for topological sorting fo a graph:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/graphlib.html

I haven't used it yet, I'd be curious if anyone has
Still in use in many places for some ungodly reason.

At my previous job they had been using Notes since the company was founded in the early 90’s, meaning they lived through it being Lotus Notes, then IBM Notes and now HCL Notes.

Everything was deeply entrenched - email, warehouse inventory, ERP system, all documentation made in the entire company… just everything.

And this is for a scandinavian company manufacturing high tech devices for telecom and aviation, among other things.

It was… an interesting nightmare, constantly got in the way of any sort of productivity. Definitely contributed to me leaving early
Really cool project, the privacy-first angle and self-hosted design are a huge plus. Curious: have you run into any rate limits or session issues with the whatsmeow API, especially when used continuously by agents?
Why teacher workload is hard to control
Full title: Millions of bees have died this year. It's "the worst bee loss in recorded history," one beekeeper says.
That's good to know. I'm not making use of this assumption, but the purego package (came from ebitengine) does. It looks like they're aware of HostLayout [1] but I'm not sure how many other people have gotten the memo (HostLayout didn't exist before Go 1.23).

[1]: https://github.com/ebitengine/purego/issues/259
I find in old games, the relatively dated graphics detract from the gameplay - even if they were very advanced for their era. The Zen of Myst is in the mystery (duh), in playing a game where you don't even know the rules or the objective, exploring, guessing, observing, being curious, immersed in a misty riddle.

I think better graphics would only refine that, rather than detract from it.
> Generating dependence-free subsets for parallel processing.

Unsure how this is defined (*) but graph cutting approaches to concurrent task scheduling is both pessimistic (poor utilization of available resources) and (iirc) NP-hard, so you pay an big cost upfront.

On the other hand, if you know the indegree/outdegree of each node at the time they are visited (meaning the graph is static) you can run Kahn's algorithm concurrently and put each node into a shared work queue. You can optimize that further by having per-thread work queues and stealing between them. Depending on what the nodes represent there are even more optimizations and heuristics, concurrent task scheduling is a hard problem.

* imagine the graph

(a, b)
(a, c)
(b, d)
(c, d)

Is it possible to get nodes b and c in parallel "subsets" in your library?
AGI might end up being misaligned. But the first alignment problem:
Humans are misaligned