skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really hasn’t been particularly peaceful.

The last dictatorship was in the 1970s? The last World War the 40s? The US might have had a civil war but it went in and came out the other side with the same borders, government, and constitution. Still going strong since the 18th century.
https://archive.is/8IQPT
It worked really well. That Honeywell thing let the temperature cycle over maybe a 2º C range. I was sampling the thermistor 100 times in about 1/10th of a second (analogRead() on Arduino) and then doing exponential averaging each second with a 32 second time constant (i.e. `temp = temp - (temp >> 5) + new_reading`) and averaging and getting a nice stable temperature reading that moved smoothly in 0.01º C increments. Turning the heater on and off at maximum every 30 seconds the room temp usually stayed within ±0.03 C of the set temperature -- not precise on an absolute scale but detecting and correcting small changes accurately.

I was actually thinking of trying to make a product, especially once Flick Electric started up with electricity prices changing every 30 minutes based on the wholesale rate plus a 2c margin. You could (still can) get the current 30 minute wholesale price at your local substation from electricityinfo.co.nz with a simple http query, so you can build something to make intelligent decisions.

But then I got a job overseas and dropped the project...
NCC Group fired me with no notice, no severance, and no stated cause. PIPs exist; that doesn't mean you have to use them.
Show HN: Bionic Reading® Fonts
For developers, and publishers on desktop, apps, games, web, eBooks, servers, ads, and more.
Mercantilism is certainly what we have today, with much of the world exporting to one perennial importer. Perhaps Trump means to reverse that state of affairs (i.e., make the U.S. mercantilist), which I surmise from your comment that you think would be bad (certainly I think it would be bad!), or perhaps he means to not have mercantilism at all, which I surmise you think would be good.
"There was no "transfer" of wealth from the poor people to the wealthy (there couldn't have been, because they, being poor, didn't have wealth)."

You're ignoring value created through labor. The poor may not have wealth but they have their labor to sell on the open market. The returns on that exchange have been steadily declining since the post-war period thanks to flat wages and inflation. Meanwhile increases in productivity (as demonstrated by increases in GDP) by definition have to go somewhere. Since it isn't going into working folks savings accounts then it's accumulating somewhere. Also worth considering, the middle class has been declining for the last 40 years.
Congrats TS. You deserve this.
This is exactly correct, LLMs did scale with huge data, symbolic AI did not. So why? One of the things I periodically ask people working on LLMs is "what does a 'parameter' represent? The simplistic answer is 'it's a weight in a neural net node' but that doesn't much closer. Consider something like a bloom filter where a '0' bit represents the nth bit of all hashes of strings this filter has not seen. I would be interested in reading a paper that does a good job of explaining what a parameter ends up representing in an LLM model.[1]

I suspect that McCarthy was on to something with the context thing. Organic intelligence certainly fails in creative ways without context it would not be disqualifying to have AI fail in similarly spectacular ways.

[1] I made a bit of progress on this considering it to be the permeability for progress such that the higher the weight the easier it was to 'pass thorough' this particular neuron but the cyclic nature of the graph makes a purely topological explanation pretty obtuse :-).
MP3CUT
I understand the cynicism. But this is counter productive. Any venture has to have a finance angle. They are not missionaries.
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete research in response to state laws
CLRS

(Serious comment! It's "the" algorithms book).
A pragmatic perspective on Go software design
I agree there's a big difference between individuals and states economically. And I understand why Louis (do you mean XIV?), in the absence any modern economic theory, pursued mercantilism.

But if Louis had known modern economic theory, it would have been ridiculous. He would know that the wealthiest, most powerful nations ever on Earth - universally, with no others competing - were built on free trade.
Uh I work for an enterprise of tens of thousands of users and $18 a month is not nothing for us. In fact considering the discounts we get at our size that would be so high we'd never consider it.

We don't even use windows enterprise for the same reason, we have legacy office 365 plans and lifetime windows licenses without the M365 addons because it saves is a few bucks per head. At our size, a few bucks a head quickly add up to millions per year. Microsoft keeps trying to dissuade us and they even pretend office 365 plans don't exist anymore ("office 365 is now microsoft 365") but they do: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/off... . The same with their Copilot stuff. 30$ is a non starter. Our users want it but nope (and we did a trial in one big team and only 10% actually bothered to use it after the first month so I think it's more the idea of it that want rather than the actual product)

We don't use Tailscale but $6 would be feasible where $18 would be a complete nonstarter.

In fact our company is a lot more cost conscious than I am as a consumer.
Show HN: My mom was unimpressed with my blog. What do you think?
I recently launched my personal tech blog and proudly showed it to my mom. Her response? "It's... fine." Now I need your brutally honest feedback!

Blog URL: https://simonaking.com

Github: https://github.com/SimonAKing/HomePage

PS: Every visitor gets my mom one step closer to understanding what I actually do for a living!
No, it has the same number of branches as a switch inside. The only difference is that computed goto switches miss the initial range check. And proper switch implementations by a better compiler would be more optimizable. But we are waiting more than 20 years for that already. Sparse switch dispatch tables are also compiled horribly.
What about QA, code review, documentation,...?
Very impressive, it could allow for closed-cycle systems to replenish the soil that normally requires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation
Hold on, I've got a great pitch for an AI startup...
Sounds interesting, could you add some video demo?
The best programmers I know
Delmore's Gift
I think colors, or even shades of grey for accessibility, would be better for non-coders. Maybe even just put the current bracket in bold.
You should look into real estate investment performance.
Tax goods. Tax services. Tax capital flows.

It has its own logic. The EU is looking to do the same.
> Protecting Africa's children from extreme risk

... when the pharma companies is infecting their mothers and fathers in the name of science.
It can even export as Mermaid? That's awesome. I could see that being super useful as a way to take a db schema and turn it into a chart for a github readme. Definitely bookmarking this.

Btw, the SQL import doesn't seem to work for an sqlite `.schema` dump; it breaks on the PRIMARY KEY here:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS "__EFMigrationsHistory" (
"MigrationId" TEXT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT "PK___EFMigrationsHistory" PRIMARY KEY,
"ProductVersion" TEXT NOT NULL
);

(This is the standard migrations table that Entity Framework creates.)

W/r/t monetization, you should know there's a really powerful flowchart tool called draw.io that's already free. It's not tailored specifically towards databases the way yours is, but it can make similar graphs, so if you go too hard on monetizing you might cause people to just use that instead. Maybe there are some more B2B-oriented extensions or db integrations, or maybe a team collaboration feature you could add without compromising the core tool.
I studied Materials Engineering. Similar experience.

Carnot, Thompson, Clausius, Gibbs, Rankine, Boltzman etc all made big historical contributions to modern understanding of Thermodynamics.

And for Fluid Dynamics: Euler, Bernoulli, Mach, Stokes and so on.

And if you are looking for someone more modern I'd say Ergun (Packed bed's, Fluidized Bed Reactors etc).

All builds upon "steam science"
MySQL logical replication isn’t quite foolproof but it’s vastly easier than anything PostgreSQL offers out of the box. (I hope I’m wrong!)
The entire launch feels like a cash grab. $80 for game downloads?
How does that support protectionism? For one thing, it involves imports and exports, which requires trading partners who will want to sell you things too.

Maybe the argument for colonialism? Regardless, countries that largely operate without protectionism or colonialism have become the wealthiest in the history of the world, without any real competition. There's not much argument remaining.
but time is everything. Those are not consumer-facing solutions. Meanwhile everyone around me uses Revolut (a UK company)
Disagree. many old features have been dropped. The blink tag, for example.
No they mean that a family member in the US gives them some of their own money, but records it to a family ledger. At some other point funds or value will be transferred, but it isn't transferred within the family for every payment.

Similar to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
>You can't have a secure sandbox on your workstation without a secure supply chain.

Yes, you can as they are independent things.

>Maybe you mean sandboxes like secure enclaves.

No I mean sandbox as in applications are sandboxed from the rest of the system. If you just run an application it shouldn't be able to encrypt all of your files. The OS should protect the rest of the system from potentially badly behaving applications.

>but if I compromise the CI/CD system to compile all binaries with a non-random RNG, then I can undermine any cryptography you use, and can re-create any sessions keys or secrets you can

In practice this is a much rarer kind of an attack. Investing a ton in strengthening the front door is meaningless when the backdoor is completely open. Attackers will attack the weakest link.

>Qubes has the best sandboxing solution of any workstation OS

Qubes only offers sandboxing between qubes.questions. There isn't sandboxing within a qube.

>proving your artifacts faithfully came from the easily reviewable sources.

Okay, but as mentioned previously those sources could have vulnerabilities or be malicous. Or users could run other software they have downloaded separately or via a curl | sh.
> an app that allows users to count calories by submitting photographs of their food, and which he claims already earns $30 million in annual recurring revenue.

Not sure scam app that is pretty much guaranteed to give you wrong number is a good opening example. Yes, it shows some technical prices and willingness to promiss what you can't do ... but is not something that should weight into your college application.
they do physically print the money (at some cost) . And they can easily generate revenue from a payments system, if they want to (which they will at some point, of course)
All my friends just use PayID/phone number or email instead of the bank deets.

The big benefit is really Osko internally, which is what makes the payment instant (except for stupid CommBank)
I feel like, in a day to day sense, my phone is more useful for chat and email than phoning people. I think a minimum phone that suited me would be closer to a pager.
Win32 says hi. I know a lot of folks here don't like Microsoft, but it is the one API that refuses to die.
There is no independent component of a country. It is very naive to claim so.

https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/por-decisao-de-moraes-...

What kind of non-authoritarian country arrests people for merely cursing at politicians on twitter?

Moreover, what kind of non-authoritarian country issues hundreds of thousands of rulings by its Supreme Court?

The Brazilian Supreme Court is an unelected entity that has complete control over the country, and firmly issues unappealable censorship arrests.

There is absolutely nothing this tyrannical in almost any western democracy, sans the UK.
> it’s part of the current cultural trend

Is it, or it's just a niche just like people who write 5 digit years, putting a 0 in front?

It's still very rare to encounter any of those.
> Some of the clues are confusing due to inconsistent punctuation.

> The first line uses a comma, the second line uses "or", the third and fourth lines don't have any punctuation at all, so the sentences make no sense.

... There is no inconsistency there. The 'or' and the comma in lines 1 and 2 are not parallel to each other; they're doing different things. Neither could be replaced by the other without changing the meaning of the clue.

Similarly, in line three, nothing in it could be replaced by a comma or by a disjunction. (But, and I want to emphasize this, line 2 doesn't even contain a disjunction; you appear to have misunderstood all of the clues.)

Line four is a bit different in that it contains a grammatical mistake. It should say [rocks that when added to soda will NOT cause your stomach to explode]. Other than that... it's a fourth style of clue. It isn't comparable to the other three, and there's still no inconsistency.

What do you imagine would add "consistency" to these clues? #s 1, 2, and 4 could be unified like so:

[to ____fish, to lure someone in using a fake internet persona]
[____ or cut bait, common idiom]
[____ rocks, rocks that when added to soda will NOT cause your stomach to explode]

But clue 3 can't be rendered in this style; the closest you can come is [pay ____, taking one of these is a bummer], and the parenthetical isn't really the same as it is for the other three.
This feels like AI deniers grasping at straws. You have to prove the claim that "friendly" models do better in head to head user ratings. You also have to adequately define your claim which hasn't been done. And then you have to prove that by whatever definition of "friendliness" you've constructed made a significant difference in the benchmark.

What I suspect will happen is that someone will just tell the LLM to "be curt" that may cause it's score to drop and people will unthinkingly take that to mean the above nonsensical claims are true.
>I would be interested in reading a paper that does a good job of explaining what a parameter ends up representing in an LLM model.

https://distill.pub/2020/circuits/
https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...
I agree, closure capturing has been rather confusing.

Fun fact is, the behavior used to be what the author expected: |thing| thing.field would capture the entire thing, not just the field.

This also used to be really annoying, so they changed it.

The 2021 Rust edition introduced partial capturing [1]. This greatly increased ergonomics, but it seems it has a hidden cost too. Unfortunate.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/rust-2021/disjoint-c...
The orange site discusses the article in the first footnote here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43573507
FYI, a very compact Prolog version of the Zebra/Einstein puzzle can be loaded into the editor for execution using "Load example" on [1].

[1]: https://quantumprolog.sgml.net/browser-demo/browser-demo.htm...
Google says all upcoming Google TV remotes will have a 'Free TV' button
It’s interesting you brought up scabs because other than a local service economy, the entire concept of a union can’t exist in a globalized economy. Companies will simply pay labor overseas in countries where organized labor is illegal.
> On Tuesday the Commerce Department announced it was ending nearly $4 million to Princeton for programs it said exaggerated climate threats and contributed to “climate anxiety” among young people.

More like climate anxiety among energy execs; that statement is some pretty wicked doublespeak.
reminds me of this movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Fastest_Indian

based on the life of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Munro

quite remarkable actually, and a damn good movie.
> this one failed you but was a near enough miss that you couldn't see it. What you were really looking for is the Red Queen

GP was looking for a specific term that they had heard before. It was co-/evolutionary arms race, and ChatGPT guessed it correctly.

Also GPT-4o elaborated the answer (for me at least) with things like:

> However, the specific kind of equilibrium you're referring to—where neither side ever fully "wins", and both are locked in a continuous cycle of adaptation and counter-adaptation—is also captured in the idea of a “Red Queen dynamic”.

> You could refer to this as:
* Red Queen dynamics in plant-insect coevolution
* A coevolutionary arms race reaching a dynamic equilibrium
* Or even evolutionary stable strategies (ESS) applied to plant-herbivore interactions, though ESS is more game-theory focused.
> the first, experimental window compositors for X11 showed up around 2006

Although Apple already started using compositing in 2002 with Quartz Extreme in Mac OS X 10.2, which also had X11 support.
Are you worried about the power the central bank has?

What if they deny service to or apprehend the assets of people they politically dislike? Also couldn't they crush any hope of anyone's profitable business? Could a person or business function without it? What about in ten years?

What if they track people by their transaction and built profiles of them? They could essentially make it too dangerous to do business to people who are disliked.
> I could only assume that someone making this mistake is either doing so to intentionally misrepresent Postgres FTS, or because they haven't read the basic documentation.

vibe sysadminning, bro
To give some reference, using stripe you pay 2-3% for credit card payments and PayPal charges you ~5% of the transaction amount. Apple store and Steam take 30%. So honestly 1% sounds like a great deal.
I just this past weekend was looking into setting up a personal networking solution- and looked hard at TailScale and their competitors. I do not like- that Tailscale has chosen to only allow SSO sign-in - as that forces one to have a Microsoft,Github[MS], Google, or Apple account- and I presume that leaves one at the mercy of those companies for the free option.

I will probably eventually cave and use my main account from one of those companies since creating true secondary accounts can be difficult(they end up tied back to your main account on the backend usually, So if something happens to one or the company does something- it'll affect everything and building separation is not easy.) - But I dislike that sort of design.
> That is indeed true. But we do have classic fuzzy logic, and it can be used to answer these questions. E.g. a "stool" maybe a "chair", but "automobile" is definitely not.

I’m not convinced that classical fuzzy logic will ever solve this - at least not if every concept needs to be explicitly programmed in. What a “chair” is sort of subtly changes at a furniture store and at a campsite. Are you going to have someone explicitly, manually program all of those nuances in? No way! And without that subtlety, you aren’t going to end up with a system that’s as smart as chatgpt. Challenge me on this if you like, but we can play this game with just about any word you can name - more or less everything except for pure mathematics.

And by the way, modern ML approaches understand all of those nuances just fine. It’s not clear to me what value - if any - symbolic logic / expert systems provide that chatgpt isn’t perfectly capable of learning on its own already.
> By 2006 they had their own Oracle Enterprise Linux distribution.

By putting their name on Red Hat’s hard work and reputation.
MRR proof because who trusts a random guy on the internet: https://imgur.com/a/NdybW3R
I never heard of them, hmm. Apache doing great work here.
Everyone can produce _something_ they have written. Yes there are people who literally clock in at work and code 8-5 for 10 years and never touched a hobby project or contributed to an OSS project. And you might not want to filter that group out completely. But if I was in that group and I was considering switching jobs, I'd definitely make sure I had some of that proprietary code stashed away so I could show a potential future employer. Yes you won't be allowed to do that. And it would be understandable if in some cases (like you work as a defense contractor) it's completely impossible. But for most people it should be possible to show something.
My main concern with AI is that in a capitalist society, wealth is being transferred to companies training these models rather than the artists who have defined an iconic style. There's no doubt that AI is useful and can make many people's lives better, easier, more efficient, however without properly compensating artists who made the training data we're simply widening the wealth gap further.
You can go searching for competitors to use though.
These kind of games rely on custom keyboards. Using the native control would be a lot more difficult.
You'd more than notice if your water was bad enough to develop enough harmful microorganisms to be bad for you (this goes for drinking water, not random wilderness water of course. always filter and boil that)
You are probably thinking of Louis the XIV[0] (not Louis the XVI)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_mercantilism
You're the second person to mention markets to me in this context. Explains a lot, honestly.
I'm all for weakening regulations, but not when doing so would strengthen the regulation of copyright.
How LLMs Think [video]
Here's a video in which Sabine discusses recent research from Anthropic on how LLMs think. My conclusion differs: by understanding this tech researchers can improve it and overcome its limitations.
I remember when sun came out with java in the mid 90's.

I was always dumbfounded this "scripting" language, from Sun, didn't let you write code like:

#!/usr/bin/java
...

I suspect lots of unix (linux) would be different if this had happened.
This is not true. You can run Tailscale with a custom self hosted OIDC provider such as Authelia.

https://tailscale.com/kb/1240/sso-custom-oidc
Or go searching for the competition who've currently only got a small footprint and perhaps not yet fully fleshed out product, and use them.
It makes it possible to approximate k-nearest neighbor vector search without having to calculate cosine similarity, dot product or euclidean distance for all stored vectors on the fly.
Algorithms as well. Python is close to pseudocode, which makes it a perfect fit.