skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Artists don’t sample because they’re unable to perform elements of a track.

They sample because they hear an element of one track and go “that’s awesome, I want to use that creatively but in a different way”.

To that end, most of the samples you’ll hear are pretty simple to reproduce. And sometimes artists don’t get the license to use the sample so they are forced to reproduce (this happens a lot more with vocal samples from what I’m aware)
Error message usefulness is not a strict requirement of type systems.
Text, just an ordered list of steps
Game layoffs slow down faster than expected in 2025
They do need protein. Nectar is an extra and easy source of energy. And my wife is the kind of person who wants to play with her pets, no matter the species. The Q-tip was the only thing I agreed to, because I didn't want to terrify the spider by picking it up. For sustenance, we gave them meal worms, crickets (their size or smaller), and sliced fruit. Not sure if they drank much fruit juice, but it kept the crickets happy.
thanks a lot :) yes my friend and I are designing the categories and the words manually with a tiny bit of help from AI tools but you can't fully trust them as they try to sneak in 6 and 4 letter words
> The claim that 'austerity' resulted in the Great Depression is nonsense

It literally did. Austerity (forced by the Gold Standard) was the only reason for the severity of the Great Depression. And it was ended by expansionist policies in the US and the Nazi Germany.

> The reality is, no matter if the German government had increased or decreased spending, the Great Depression was bigger then Germany and would have impacted Germany either way.

The UK did not do austerity, and the 1929 downturn did not affect them as strongly. They had a 5% GDP drop, compared to almost 30% in the US, and 16% in Germany.

> The countries that left the gold standard early were more successful then those that left later.

Indeed. And the gold standard basically required the countries to practice the austerity.
You should go back and read what I actually wrote. It seems like you just picked random sets of words and responded to them out of context of what I was saying.
for me traveling was always a means to get to specific places, or rather to meet specific people. when i was younger i traveled on a bike without a goal or with the goal to find interesting people in the places i went to, and sometimes the destination of the next day was defined by the people i met. being on a bike meant that i was slower and had less freedom to make detours, but i did manage to spend two weeks biking around in luxembourg, which is a rather small country that i could have crossed in a day.

as i got older i focused on places where i already had contacts or where i could find someone through couchsurfing websites ahead of time. i never considered going to places where i could not make these contacts. the goal was to stay in those places and learn about the life of the people. the scenery on the way in between was just a bonus.
No, even USB 1 is a ridiculously complex networking protocol stack running on top of that half-duplex serial line.
> I just don’t buy this argument as a reason people don’t want EVs.

These descriptions are unrealistic to our experience. We're on our third EV, so plenty of experience with this. It's always a pain to go anywhere outside a small area. Just this week my partner needed to go to a nearby city 2hrs away. Round trip too long for the EV. Luckily my office is halway there and has chargers, so stopped by for 2.5hrs to top up the batteries. That's a longer refueling stop than the whole trip. Faster chargers exist but they are few and far between, usually broken or taken, so finding one is an exercise in frustration.

> You can install a charger at home, even a very slow one that doesn’t need a special circuit, and always have a full battery in the morning.

It takes us three days to fill up the car at home if it gets really low, not having a special circuit. So if the car was used yesterday it won't be full this morning.

The only way this works at all is because my partner normally only needs to commute about 30 minutes and only twice a week.
Commented elsewhere, sorry should have clarified. Just a bit of text, mostly a bit of context of the requirements, potential edge cases and then an ordered list of steps
Could you share an example of a workflow using the built in feature to run tests in Vim?
Can Trump replace income taxes with tariffs?
What you said is always true, and was /less/ true during that period (because unemployment was down), so it doesn't make sense that people answered this way more often. They were just wrong.
I don't think they considered the terrible state of WASM in Go to be a challenge.

But then again, we've already concluded it was a short-sighted decision.
I think this is a bit of an unfair comparison

We could say better hair leads to better self expression, confidence, etc even if we say its purely an ego/vanity source (which i’d argue, isn’t necessarily the case but for sake of argument lets say it is)

Ad placement algorithms don’t lead to a person’s well being increasing, outside shareholders/business owners which is tied to monetary gain.

perhaps you could say better ad placement for XYZ ad that promotes ABC net positive outcome means the work is positive, but i don’t see the inverse case with hair growth research that has high a magnitude of net negative outcomes on society as ad placement may have beyond:

1. Everyone gets better hair, so a lack of hair means societal pressure to conform

2. The treatment/therapy is patented, and prohibitively expensive where only the elite income brackets can afford it

To say more concisely, theres much more potential for an ad placement algorithm that hyper performs to be net negative on society than a hair treatment that hyper performs to be a net negative on society
while I appreciate the spirit of optimism here, I think it's equally important to recognize that blind trust in human resilience has often left us flat-footed. we've all seen time and again that things we once thought unthinkable: mass surveillance, algorithmic manipulation, ecological collapse, genocide, wars, all these things can and do happen, often because we assumed our better natures would prevail.

optimism without vigilance isn't hope, it's complacency. imagination doesn't just need space to flourish; it needs friction, scrutiny, and an honest reckoning with the systems that quietly shape or suppress it, and some prompt on an image/music/poetry LLM isn't going to do that for you.
we design them ourselves a bit of a manual process but quite fun
If you're a fan of both Daft Punk and the 80s City Pop genre and if you were around when City Pop was rising in 2019 then you could have listened to the mashup "Something about Plastic Love"[1]. Beautiful blend. The original got taken down - and second grade recreations remain.

Also Plastic Love is the best Pop song if you go by Vice[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOTlyCZmVa8
[2] https://www.vice.com/en/article/mariya-takeuchi-plastic-love...
that's a great point! thanks a lot
NYT/WSJ/FT are more propagandistic then we are aware of. Just observe the developments in the Middle East, watch the language used, the euphemisms, compare that to their language when it comes to Russian aggression. It is very clear that our western media is manufacturing more consent then writing in an objective neutral language.
Pattern matching leads to compression- once you identified a pattern you can compress the original information by some amount by replacing it with the identified pattern. Patterns are symbols of the information that was there originally; so manipulating patterns is the same as manipulating symbols. Compressing information by finding hidden connections, then operating on abstract representations of the original information, reorganising this information according to other patterns... this sounds a lot like intelligence.
You're extrapolating from the Daisy incident to doubt of their previous reporting. And believe that the Daisy incident merits responding by holding TAL to a newly escalated standard for verification. From this most recent comment of yours, you seem comfortable with "doubting the reliability of earlier TAL stories" as a position you view to be not an over correction. I think you're underestimating how an extreme a position that is, and kind of equivocating between ordinary skepticism and doubting the veracity of their previous stories.

You're right that I believe TAL's stories are generally reliable, that I believe doubting them is an over-correction in the wrong direction.

I also don't think I agree that it's simply a matter of checking or not checking because I believe the vast body of work that's been free from error, although exposed to the same conditions of public scrutiny that could have revealed error in just the same way as with the Daisy story, is part of the body of evidence that actively testifies in favor of TAL. And I do think if there was more of a rocky track record, or if there proves to be more of one in the future, it absolutely could merit spot checking. And as I've said twice now already, I've given the example of Stephen Glass as a case where that skepticism was warranted.

You seem to be implying that I have a categorical opposition to spot checking which couldn't be further from the truth. I just don't think it's warranted in this instance, because it's not a reasonable extrapolation from what happened with the Daisy story.
It's not 'protesting' to blackball someone from a job. It's that you defined speech in your own way, and are resisting taking a step back and thinking about freedom of speech as an abstract principle or tenet.
I’m not much of a puzzler, I like a crossword or a sudoku and that’s all really - but I didn’t understand what I was meant to do?

Edit; oh ok I get it now..

It could be fun but now I know what to do it’s not very challenging. The speed is more determined by the speed I can type that the words. Maybe one letter longer?
Hmm, on thinking about it further, I guess I was pretty comprehensively wrong. Thank you.
Hm,, doesn't mention Amdahl's Law applied to parallelisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law#Parallel_progra...

Which tl;dr is that if only 50% of the whole process can be parallelised, then even if you parallelise that portion as much as you can, you'll get a < 2x speedup. If only 10% can be parallelised, then you're limited to a 1.1x speedup by parallelising it.
Nature is exploring ways for next extinction. It tried nuke piles, but somehow they were just sitting there. Next, it is trying out AI. Nature tricks humans into advancing in ways that are not really needed for them and not compatible with their natural evolution. Nature is applying competition internal to a race that can produce things that are completely unnecessary for the survival of the race, but necessary for its extinction.

Goat: Hey human, why are you creating AI?

Human: Because I can. And I can boast of my greatness. I can use it for money. I can weaponize and us it to dominate and control other humans.

Goat: Why you need all that?

Human: If I don't do it, others will do it and they will dominate me and take away all my stuff. It is not fair.

Goat: So it looks like who-owns-what issue. Did you try not owning stuff?

Nature: Shut up goat. I'm trying to do a big reset here.
Very nice! One confusing prompt is “not a valid word” when the word is actually valid, it’s just not the word you are looking for.
Writing apps I used to start and finish my book
I used to use one but when I started working on ads it felt hypocritical. I want to support the sites that I use, especially those that don't paywall content. I don't work on ads anymore but have stuck with it.
True, but confirmation bias is a bitch. Without the willingness to change one's mind when presented with compelling evidence, such fact-checking borders on harmful.
thanks a lot for the feedback and totally agree
But could they? Don't they all have unavoidable loopholes to avoid paying?
I don't recall any groups using Vignette at AOL during that time. It may be that one of the acquisitions used it prior to being acquired, but again, I never heard about it.
It's already good at making human written code human readable, not yet refactoring huge complex stuff but helping you read and navigate it.
Why Prompt Engineering Is Legitimate Engineering: A Case for the Skeptics
Apple uses its software to sell its hardware. That's why iMessage for Android never happened. Apple would need to see the world differently for this to happen. It'd be about as big as when as when Microsoft halfway embraced Linux with WSL and .NET for Linux.
If there's lack of a better phrasing, I would rename "true" value as "maximum extraction" value.
Honest question, do you think this will lead to more work for “hands-on” programmers to fix errors, or this could just be the early stages of agenic coding becoming better and more akin to the best (or close to it) “hands-on” programmer?

Or a different outcome
"Corporate designs" is technically accurate, but more specifically he primarily makes logotypes for heavy metal bands and other musical acts. A very cool, inspired pursuit.
> It would be a long time until Swift is even remotely ready for something like this and I don’t feel there is a burning need to have “yet another wasm platform”.

I mean, well, it actually already exists? It's been around for a long time and works pretty great, with multithreading, access to JS objects, etc. The author of the linked thread topic is the original author of it.

https://swiftwasm.org/
Obsidian or Ironhand with TWBT
It cuts both ways.

Cryptic Crosswords are almost impenetrable from the US as they're so deep in UK specific words, spellings, and trivia.
Trump put tariffs on everywhere, including an island with no humans separately to the country which owns that island.

And from previous statements, Trump's idea of "anti-US tariff" seems to include the EU's VAT, which is sales tax that everyone including local supplies pays.

So while some of that might be cherry picking, the reasoning overall is obvious nonsense, which is worse.
I would prefer if less plurals were used. Every word in my puzzle ended with an 's' as a plural.
So the US is going to screw over every country on the planet because they might be used as loop hole? All to solve an imaginary problem?
For those unfamiliar, this is similar to taking a codebase and processing it with a tool like gitingest, which transforms the entire repository into a format suitable for LLMs, eabling contextual convos and queries about the code. The additional component here is the integration of the MCP protocol, allowing any compliant model to interact with the provided MCP server and dynamically query the codebase to answer questions in real time.

Not sold on MCP being the right paradigm (we'll see), but had a lot of fun building an MCP server recently using https://github.com/tadata-org/fastapi_mcp to quickly get up and running and be able to call to it from Cursor.
Very cool integration of neovim with pytest! I also am using neovim with python integration for my hobby project, vimgolf.ai , where I try to teach vim motions to those who haven't used vim. Only two levels so far, but hoping to increase that count in the near future.
I'd certainly appreciate again having long hair to run fingers through while thinking...
You lost me once you compared an alternative technological solution to racism.
Fascinated by spiders and insects growing up in Upstate NY - the largest jumping spider there gets 20mm long. Their eyesight and reflexes are fast enough to stalk a landed house fly and catch it on its takeoff.

Still feel comfortable today in a deep squat from those days long ago.
When I wrote code in Pascal, C, and BASIC, engineers who wrote assembler code looked down upon these higher level languages. Now, I argue that prompt engineering is real engineering.
The Panicked Voice on the Phone Sounded Like Her Daughter. It Wasn't
Show HN: An open source tool to generate contour map landscapes in real-time
This is a free web tool to create procedural terrain textures in real-time in the browser.

How this works: a bunch of 3D spheres (meta-balls) are drawn on the canvas. They float around and combine with others based on distance. Then, 2D cross-sections are drawn using a Marching Squares algorithm. This ends up producing a terrain contour aesthtetic.

Use the controls at the top-right to set animation speed, size, level of complexity, rotation, colours, and more.

Use the buttons at the bottom-right to randomize the output, and export as image or mp4 video.

This tool is completely free and open source (MIT license). You're welcome to use it however you wish!

This project is coded using vanilla Javascript, HTML5 canvas, and CSS.

Github repo: https://github.com/collidingScopes/curious-contours

Any suggestions, feedback, or pull requests would be much appreciated!

I hope the game dev / procedural generation community finds this useful in some way :)
https://archive.ph/R3AYI
I'd file this under "you can please some of the people, some of the time." If you get those kinds of questions, or if you get questions that indicate some of your potential user community doesn't understand that Ferron is a web server or what a web server is, I personally wouldn't worry too much about it.
Except differences run much deeper than that. For example, the amount of characters supported. Many fonts don’t support anything other than ASCII, some support both Latin and CJK. Ligatures, how many weights it has, there are a myriad of technical reasons to pick one font over another.

There is no perfect font, just like there is no perfect framework. You pick what suits you or makes sense for your project. Sometimes you don’t understand your requirements until you try to use something.

> I don't need or want my everyday use font to "affect" me, or to "make impact"

And being aware of the details is the best way to avoid that.
Mobile Text Alerts for Gmail
> The position I have taken is, I have already seen reports of countries that are willing to negotiate, and it's a good guess that Trump will ask them to buy more American stuff, and some of them will be able to.

And those that cannot? That are too poor to 'correct' the 'problem' of trade imbalances? Sucks to be them?
The seat is formally unfilled, so the vice chairman Christopher Grady (appointed by Biden) is the current acting chairman. You may be thinking of Dan Caine, who Trump nominated for the position but hasn't yet been confirmed.
You: Vague over-exaggerated unsubstantiated claims without even being able to say what decade you're referring to.

Also you: "Why are you making stuff up."

I lived through this entire time. You're right you don't work for me but if you're going to make wild claims you should back them up or not continue to post misinformation as fact.

I guarantee to you that there was never any government action (or even proposed action) against Microsoft for Office.
Stealth Bomber in a Grass Field on Google Earth
> I think we exist to bring new things into existence. If you ask me, to the extent there is a meaning of life, that’s it. We exist to create. It lights us up in a way nothing else does, putting something new into our world—and in doing so, fundamentally changing it, in whatever way, however big or small.

I find this a rather strange, limited way of looking at our existence.

I believe there is joy in creating. I believe there is joy in just spending time with the people you love. I believe there is joy in exploring new places, people, ideas. I believe there is joy in being still and present.

We are always looking for some singular, defining thing in our lives. What does it all mean. It has to be for something.

But I disagree. It doesn't have to be for anything. It's enough to just do what brings you joy, to evolve and change, to treat others in kindness. The rest is just personal preferences.
Same

Spurs
Hawks
Kings
Pawns
As they're the name of US professional sports teams, that's the official name of the teams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Hawks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Lions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio_Spurs

Previous puzzles don't have many plurals, but its the correct choice for this puzzle.
I'm reminded of the multiple projects to restore the American Chestnut.

Unlike the mammoth, people generally seem to agree that it's a good idea to bring these majestic wonders back to their range, but with multiple options available after decades of work, last I checked stakeholders couldn't agree on the best way to do it.

This hybridization approach seemingly would draw the same sorts of debates, even if the more obvious ethical ramifications weren't there. We're talking about a human-created species that is neither mammoth nor elephant, but something in-between, with trade-offs comprising value judgements and other details that are not fully understood.
> every electric outlet which can provide 2500watts ( 110v x 25A )

110v outlets are usually 15amp
Trade deficits do not make a country poorer
Roombas are incompatible with good taste (otherwise known as Persian or oriental woven rugs with tassles)
My 1979 trip to Oxford and London
The obvious answer of course is that to be "cybersecurity specialist/expert", you have to be a hardcore hacker in its original meaning: to be a person who understands what things actually are (behave), not what people say they are (behave).

In my opinion, cybersec/infosec expertise/mindset should be always-on on everybody at 2025. Starting from scammers calling/messaging, to malware/spyware on devices, social engineering, physical security, people security/trustworthyness, trust/auth/integrity/encryption/backups/certs/audit-trail etc... Everything. One needs to know if one is hacked already ("Reflections on Trusting Trust.pdf"), and one needs to know when one is hacked (tripwire). And knowing what is/are your weakest link(s), because it usually defines the strength of your defences.
Oh, maybe he was talking about having multiple CPUs on the same piece of silicon? That seems like a more plausible explanation for the dates (which are still somewhat wrong, as you point out), but its connection to software optimization strategies seems tenuous at best. The software can't really find out if the other CPU is on a separate die unless the hardware chooses to tell it.
I can find oddities like this in all languages. Arguably C and C++ have more warts, particularly C++ where I always hear people talk about how it’s only reasonable to use a small subset of the language. Also how C/C++ compilers don’t all support the same features of the purported language they compile.

I won’t argue that JS doesn’t have warts - it does and if it wasn’t for backward compatibility I imagine they’d have been removed from the language - but the entries on that website are quite small compared to others - like C and C++ - that I can think of
I suppose I hadn’t discovered that! I set this up back in 2002, well before the iPhone and push notifications.

It’s worked for decades, and I haven’t needed to look for a different solution until now.

Thanks for the tip!
I built an open source Computer-use framework that uses Local LLMs with Ollama
We just launched stable support for local LLM models with Ollama in Agent today - our Computer-use agent framework on macOS. Repo here: https://github.com/trycua/cua

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Cars are even more expensive to run. However nobody counts that cost while they see the cost of a ticket.