skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And geoencoding on especially phone photos makes manual metadata entry less important. I still there’s value to culling redundant and bad photos.
Lol, I see in the responses that ppl cannot recognize a joke.
Most models do pretty well with keeping state in XML if you ask them to. You could extend it to <secret><content>[...]</content><secret_from>P1</secret_from><shared_with>P2, P3</shared_with></secret>. Or tell the model that it can use <secret> tags with xml content and just let it develop a schema on the fly.

At that point, I would love to also see sub-benchmarks how each models's score is affected by being given a schema vs having it make one up, and if the model does better with state in text vs xml vs json. Those don't tell you which model is best, but they are very useful to know for actually using them.
Serial incompetence without regard for due caution is indistinguishable from malice. Don't cut yourself with that rust old Hanlon's razor.
1) I never said ‘far left’. I just said left.

2) That’s just fantasy near as I can tell. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_Sta...] has many, many references of folks calling themselves and their own party ‘left’ or ‘center-left’.

It’s very common. As is ‘liberal’ and ‘progressive’.

3) I’ve never seen anyone on that side of the aisle calling themselves ‘right’, ‘conservative’, etc.

So who is just imagining things?

And the underlying problem is that - like is typical when dealing with effective narcissists - the reason this is the case is because of the reality distortion and manipulation being done by the guilty party.

They pre-poison the well, so in order to respond effectively the opposition has to be ‘the bad guy’, which exposes them to attack, because now the narcissist has ‘proof’ that the opposition is the actual bad guys. It’s evil genius really.

It’s why the only actually effective way to deal with narcissists is either 1) ignoring them (can’t do that and survive when the narcissist has power - which is why they tend to be power seeking), or 2) applied consequences, aka usually violence.
Like all things RL, it is 99.9% about engineering the environment and rewards. As one of the authors stated elsewhere here, there is a reward for completing each of 12 steps necessary to find diamonds.

Mostly I'm tired of RL work being oversold by its authors and proponents by anthropomorphizing its behaviors. All while this "agent" cannot reliably learn to hold down a button, literally the most basic interaction of the game.
Could be, but the game play doesn't encourage me to continue.

Again, the first time I went to the store I could max out with everything, so there wasn't the accumulative build-up, or decision to prioritize one purchase strategy over another.

There wasn't any sign there would be new things to buy which I couldn't yet afford.

There was no hint that future game play would be anything other than clicking madly, with no need to conserve or focus resource use.

Part of Missile Command is to wait until just the right point so a single missile can do a chain reaction to take out several incoming warheads; to watch if your strategy was effective, not simply twitch-fire; and even the slow dread of watching an incoming warhead come towards a city after you've depleted your missile supply.

Here's an example from the novelization of WarGames, from https://archive.org/details/wargames00davi/page/n45/mode/2up... :

> David Lightman hovered over the controls of the Atari Missile Command tucked neatly between the Frogger machine and the Zaxxon game. ...

> Goddamned Smart Bombs! he thought as a white buzzing blip snuck through his latest volley of shots and headed for one of his six cities at the bottom of the screen. He spun the control ball, stitched a neat three-X line just below the descending bomb with the cursor, and watched with immense satisfaction as his missiles streaked white lines to their targets, blowing the bomb right out of the phosphor-dot sky.

I didn't get the same sense of satisfaction playing this version.
Well, I left academia 20 years ago, because of the perceived corruption and selfishness. I guess you just need to be lucky, no matter where you go.

Good luck anyways, I hope better times are on the horizon.
What are you looking for in particular? The model is geared towards slow, sustainable growth. And that growth might also not need to exceed a certain level. So you're unlikely to hear about many of them. Not all are in tech or software, many are focused on German-only (or DACH region) research, industrial development, etc. I think that's fine.
Lol. Apple's war on GPL 3 again. Same reason they replaced bash with zsh.

I'm glad I'm no longer using their stuff.

And yes I would need a complete implementation obviously.
Germany are also very risk averse. So we need such programs even just to counter this risk aversion.
Maybe the ones I meant are for NRW (Nordrhein-Westfalen) only:

- https://www.xn--grndungsstipendium-n6b.nrw/

- https://www.foerderdatenbank.de/FDB/Content/DE/Foerderprogra...
Forget About Infrastructure
How Dairy Robots Are Changing Work for Cows (and Farmers)
> Government workers can take far more pride in being public servants than they would peeing in a bottle for amazon. It's no surprise there is less turnover.

See, this is where you're losing me. One the one hand you are arguing that part of what makes working for the government desirable is the job itself / the work being done (which sounds good to me), but then you are immediately conflating that with a reputation for being a "stable employer" (read: not firing people when maybe you should), which is not how I want my tax dollars to be used.

I don't want the federal government to be a jobs program that keeps people on payroll just because it "isn't worried about profits". Profits aren't my concern, spending is, and the federal government should absolutely be worried about spending, because money doesn't grow on trees. I want the federal government to be exactly as big as it needs to be in order to deliver on the democratically decided goals of the American people.

If we can't attract the right talent to run the government, we should either scale back our federal ambitions or we should pay more up front.
Another visual that may be useful is imagine being stuck between two portals squeezed close together.
Stub application for newly created Cloud Run services
In "keyboard" mode, you need something to tap on, but it can be the mousepad on your desk, your opposite arm, the underside of your dining room table, the side of your thigh while walking, the handlebars of your bike, etc.

There are also "air gestures" (Smart TV control, air mouse, and media control modes) that don't require a surface. (By the way, there are recent updates in this department that leave out the Tap Strap).

I'm not into gaming, VR sets or the like at all, so I can't say how good or bad these are for that sort of thing, but that market seems to be the main focus and direction the company is taking these days.
Everything is a balance. IMHO, the "identifiers should be short" "functions should be short" and such are knee-jerk reactions to overly long things that are common in some other languages (looking at you, Java). Like the practice of indicating the type, pointer, etc. Stuff ike `pWcharInputBuffer` and such.

There is a balance between `*p` and `inputPointerToMiddleOfBufferThatFrobnicates`.
Who talked about survival? If you think that anything other than becoming as rich as Mark Zuckerberg is "survival", then you're in for a treat.
> The backlog there is pretty insane even while finishing upwards of 150 ebooks per month

Isn't the backlog there mostly in the post-processing step, though? To the point where they're taking finished texts and running them again through the page-by-page proofreading in hope of fishing out more OCR typos and improving the format markup?

You can also contribute at Wikisource if you prefer, that doesn't really have a post-processing step and has much less of a fixed pipeline. (There are explicit "proofreading" and "verification" steps per page, but not much beyond that.)
Never roll your own deserialization :)
No. SQLite is public domain. Public domain is free software.[1]

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#PublicDomain
These ideas are great, but I don't understand how the whole Smalltalk approach can fit into modern development environments of multiple engineers working on a project, client-server architectures, or even large codebases - TDD helps, but high level of dynamism without typechecking can't be reliable in my experience.

The ability to fix things on the fly and have the whole system as your ide/debugger is nice, but that's not very practical for the end user.
it seems a little bit dubious to me. You can't beat the Arrhenius Law, not in Electrochemistry, anyhow. The ion mobility would be very very low, you'd have to rely that the temperature in the battery itself is above 0°C
I do like the idea in general and feel there's a lot of room for improvement between the (VC / bootstrapping) extremes.

However, the middle path from the article presumes the existence of VCs willing to join you on that path. The article waves this away with:

> angel investors are generally more open to a 2-3x ROI

For a $1M round you'd need to find 10-20 such angels (assuming $50k-$100k average check size) willing to accept small upside, for which you'll have convince them there's commensurately smaller risk. This will probably mean you have some revenue and some sense of where PMF might lay or some kind of brand/pedigree.

Do not underestimate the value of YC brand and being able to present on Demo Day gives you. A random Jane from Ohio building her tech company would have a lot harder time finding those 10-20 angels, to put it mildly. I'd be more careful when extrapolating path-dependent success into a general strategy.

That said, my gut feeling is there's room for the next Paul Graham to fill that space - somehow.
These things do work and created a few unicorns here in Malaysia.

The catch is that they're usually very bureaucratic as it's public funds, and the more corruption, the more rules there are. Someone might say, come in from New Zealand to get a grant, then the condition becomes "must be 51% locally owned". A conglomerate creates a sister company to get the grant and then it becomes, "parent company must be less than 3 years old and have under $500k revenue". The rules just keep stacking on until agile is basically banned lol

Companies funded this way were actually one of my income sources when I was freelancing, but sadly most don't continue on unless there's a Series B later on.
You still need the 25k to register a LLC or whatever the acronym is in Germany, right?
Darth Vaders definition of the peace is something like the one Putin has or Nazi had. In the Nazi plan, once they conquer everything, there will be peace and prosperity.

It is NOT the same thing.
I have no words. this is just… so sad.
>> imagine a world without advertising

> I can't because a world with magic and world peace is more realistic and believable.

What? I have world peace on my devices right now with the help of Ublock Origin.

If my county bans billboards, as the county next to me have, I will see no ads except for on paper I choose to.
Strange, I've always thought about GPLv3 as of an upgrade (i.e. better license) to GPLv2
If you want the latest version of everything you are looking for Debian Unstable
From the article:

> The openrsync command line tool is compatible with rsync, but as noted in the documentation openrsync accepts only a subset of rsync’s command line arguments.
Ada has built-in constructs for concurrency, with contracts, and there is formal verification in a subset of Ada named SPARK, so Ada / SPARK is pretty good.
Bluesky's Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
Structural changes for +48-89% throughput in a Rust web service
The Dire Wolf Is Back
We can more limited variants of the dark mirror ideology though. For example, we can imagine someone who believes all the tenets of Marxian Communism and uses the analysis to maximize his own advantage, so that he if he is a large property owner ends up doing all the things that Marxists expect large property owners to do-- perhaps he even pushes a liberal ideology in public, but this kind of limited-dark-Marxism in private.

I think the dark liberalism of this essay is a real ideology commonly held by marginal dictators, think Lukashenko. I also don't think this kind of limited-dark-Marxism is unusual.
Characterizing finding diamonds as "mastering" Minecraft is extremely silly. Tantamount to saying "AI masters Chess: Captures a pawn." Getting diamonds is not even close to the hardest challenge in the game, but most readers of Nature probably don't have much experience playing Minecraft so the title is actually misleading, not harmless exaggeration.
Hillary also had her phones destroyed (by hammer) so that those messages couldn't be saved for the record, much like Signal was set to destroy messages so they couldn't be saved.
Over the past 15-20 years I've used both Sonys, Canons and Nikons, and I absolutely feel that Nikon puts a lot more effort, with much better results, into the usability of their pro/prosumer cameras - and, really, even their $500-$1000 consumer range - both in terms of the on-display UI and the ergonomics and handling of the actual camera.

What always stood out most for me compared to Canon was Nikon's larger viewfinders, letting you commit to actual photography rather than being stuck with a feeling of peeping through a keyhole, and placement of buttons on the camera body allowing for maintained control of the most necessary functions (shutter speed, aperture and even ISO) without having to change your grip or move the camera away from your face.
The problem with that is that what you might find important or beautiful changes with time.

That random photo of your messy living room might be trash right now, but beloved in 20 years when you want to remember your old home.
I wonder how well humans would do in this chart.
They dont have alternate sources of heat now. 80% comes from national grid. When that fails in midwinter, folks die.

Says Grok:

Based on the most recent available data and Helen’s stated plans, here’s an estimate of Helsinki’s current energy sources as of April 7, 2025, expressed in approximate percentages:

Nuclear Power: Around 30-35%. Helen relies heavily on nuclear energy procured from external sources like the Olkiluoto power plant. Nuclear power forms a significant part of Finland’s electricity mix (38.1% nationally in 2024), and Helsinki’s supply reflects this stable, carbon-free source.

Wind Power: Approximately 20-25%. Wind has surged in Finland, contributing 23.9% to national electricity in 2024, and Helen has emphasized replacing coal with wind energy. Helsinki benefits from this growing capacity through purchases and partnerships.

Hydropower: Roughly 15-20%. Hydropower, contributing 16.6% nationally in 2024, is another key source for Helen, sourced from rivers like Kemijoki and Kymijoki outside Helsinki.

Biofuels and Biomass: About 15-20%. Wood-based fuels and biomass are critical for district heating, which serves over 90% of Helsinki’s homes. In 2017, wood and residues made up 30% of district heating nationally, and Helsinki continues to use these renewable sources, though exact local percentages have shifted with coal’s exit.
But how will I know that I'm just 500 miles from South of the Border? Or 250 miles from the next Buc-ee's? Or be reminded not to diddle my daughter[1]?

[1] https://imgur.com/MaaS5ua
Someone investing $1M for 10% might better off buy gold or a property.

It sounds good for me as a founder, but from investor point of view, this is pointless. Why taking a huge risk for 10%?
It's an upgrade for us, yes. But not for the companies that want to pretend they're doing FOSS. Like Apple these days.

They had a good run where they really were open, like when they created OpenCL and Darwin was kept up to date. However these days most of their APIs are closed and Darwin is always lagging behind. Not that anyone actually uses that anyway, but still..
No that's for a full GmbH. You can start with an "UG", which realistically needs maybe 1500 EUR to get registered and up and running. Then, a certain percentage of the profit is contributed towards the 25k (of which in turn only 12.5k have to be deposited in cash) each financial year. If the threshold is met, you can convert from UG to GmbH.
I was curious, so checked - $500,000 in VOO 5 years ago would have been 1.18 million today - already accounting for the crash so far. The market would need to crash an additional 60% starting with the next open to get you back to your $500,000 break even. Maybe this will happen, but that's quite a fall.
Entrepreneurial success they definitely have, it's just not in-your-face tech/digital stuff, it's lots of Mittelstand companies focusing on niches, like in high-precision machines that are then used for precision manufacturing (optical lenses, chemistry reactors, etc.).

What gives is that it isn't a primarily marketing-driven consumer-facing entrepreneurship so you don't hear about Peter Huber Kältemaschinenbau, or Rational AG-like companies[0].

[0] https://www.chargeurs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/The-Bes...
Yeah, and that was not the only odd limit. 64K limit on fieldnames in the entire app was my favorite weird one. At one point there were docs online of all the various limits in Domino, and you had to work around them all.

This is also why I say there are few people who know Domino well enough to run it today - even in its heydey there was some mad science to do large apps on it, knowing not only all the quirks but how to work around them.
Fujifilm is no better haha, they're on their third (I think) mobile app this time for X-Series camera control, and it's still terrible.'

Amusingly, their Instax control app is actually pretty good!
Yes, it's mind-bogglingly difficult and complicated.
Thats ridiculous. His SAT scores puts him in the top 2 percent
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/only-fools-think-elon-is-incom...
Presumably you'd want to see that such initiatives are increasing the number of sustainable businesses created, per capita. Is that the case?

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EDIT: Some quick searching indicates that the startup rate (per capita) in Germany is about 1.1%, while the USA is 1.5%. Not a huge difference, but the USA doesn't have any of those initiatives afaik.

Just wondering what actually moves the needle and how to better create a society that is entrepreneurial, and not just in a "billion dollar social media unicorn" kinda way, but businesses that provide actual tangible value. Definitely recognize that the "quality" of businesses being started in Germany could be higher, but I think you actually need to measure these things and understand what interventions actually make a difference. It is a similar issue with UBI in general: while it sounds nice and might be necessary if our "AI is the future" overlords get their way, you do actually need to back up the promise of "UBI will unlock human creativity" with some amount of hard data, imo.
> they’re more free to lock down macOS from running your own code on it in the future, without worrying about having to rip out all the gpl3 code when it happens. Better to just not build on it in the first place.

That's actually quite scary what you wrote there.

That's also even more scary to me, as I am really watchful for such restrictions which can IMO happen in current OSes any
time now ...
It's very surprising to me that this needs to be said - but maybe that's because I've mostly worked in, let's say, 'resource constrained' environments. You focus on the stuff that keeps the money coming, or people start losing their jobs.
Apple no longer ships bash 2. They moved to zsh also a few years ago.

The reason was the same as here: bash moved to GPL v3.
You need 25k€ to register a GmbH, but you can nowadays register a UG which only requires 1€ and can later be converted to a GmbH
Oh, absolutely, I try to remind people that even starting this group chat was criminal, because it's an attempt to break public records laws.
One of the bad people we've investigated has placed us on a blacklist
The article says an email including Goldberg’s signature block was copied and pasted into a text message from Hughes.
First thing anyone doing dev on MacOS should do is install brew. Second is use brew to install the coreutils and bash packages to get a linux-compatiable gnu environment.
They will, we just need meatspace people to become dumber and more predictable. Making huge strides on that front, actually. (In no small part due to LLMs themselves, yeah.)
Yes, fully agreed. However, the way the companies currently approach this - catering for the ever-reducing niche, will end up killing the DLSRs over time. They just don't offer enough over phones, and the UX/SW being so crappy alienates the potential new userbase completely.
The "no free lunch" theorem. You can't start from scratch and expect your program to repeat 4 billion years of evolution collecting inductive biases useful in our corner of our Universe in a matter of hours[1].

While it's possible to bake in this particular inductive bias (repetitive actions might be useful), they decided not to (it's just not that interesting).

[1] And you certainly can't reproduce the observation selection effect in a laboratory. That is the thing that makes it possible to overcome the "no free lunch" theorem: our existence and intelligence are conditional on evolution being possible and finding the right biases.

We have to bake in inductive biases to get results. We have to incentivize behaviors useful (or interesting) to us to get useful results instead of generic exploration.
Loss of trust and finding other sources for the things they used to buy from the US, perhaps even producing those things themselves and becoming a new competitor the US didn't have before.
Three out of four aren't even companies. SUNET is the Swedish NREN, NetNod is a non-profit that manages Internet infrastructure services (like DNS and NTP) in Sweden, IIS is the non-profit that manages the Swedish TLDs.
Show HN: SQL Noir – A detective game where you learn SQL by solving crimes
I posted about SQL Noir a while ago — it’s an open-source game that teaches SQL through narrative-driven investigations. You act as a detective solving crimes by writing real SQL queries against actual databases.

Since then, I’ve added 2 new cases (now 6 in total), improved the UX, and fixed a bunch of early issues thanks to community feedback.

It’s still 100% free and open source. Would love feedback on the new cases, or ideas for future mysteries.
> Could such bugs be avoided in C using the right tools and strategies

"right tools and strategies" is very open-ended, almost tautological — if you didn't catch the bug, then obviously you haven't used the right tools and the right strategies! In reality, the tools and strategies have flaws and limitations that turn such problem into "yes but actually no".

Static analysis of C code has fundamental limits, so there are bugs it can't find, and there are non-trivial bugs that it can't find without also finding false positives. False positives make developers needlessly tweak code that was correct, and leads to fatigue that makes them downplay and ignore the reports.
The more reliable tools require catching problems at run-time, but problems like double-free often happen only in rare code paths that are hard to test for, and fuzzers can't reach all code either.
I would argue that POSIX is long dead. The real standard is Linux (GNU) compatibility and has been for a while now.
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