skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prompt Battle: Sam vs. Elon [video]
Probably not the best place for here, but I thought it was hilarious and everyone here will get the jokes.
That's neat, thanks!
The evidence comes in the form of continued support after each incident of hypocrisy, lying, etc

Why would someone say they blindly follow someone when that's bad?
> I happily claim to practise the religion of St. Anthony, since our intellects adhere to the same thing

Well, and me too. But also you should read the book I mentioned. I'm not qualified to summarize it but others have. It has been extremely valuable to my spiritual life.
> what was the last collider worth building?...It's perfectly rational and intellectually honest to say "whichever one gave us something that got commercialized / helped people / etc."

It seems like the LHC wouldn't pass this test? In which case, continuing down the path wouldn't make sense under this criteria.
Yep. I just want strict yaml:

anything encased in quotes is a string, anything not is not a string (bool, int or float)
We had this issue many years ago when people from Norway couldn't sign up. Took us a while to figure out
>Maybe Trump doesn't want globalisation,

Strange of him to renegotiate NAFTA in his first term then
Yeah, but at that point your pee is beer.
Kind of and I've certainly used systems like that before but in practice it's not really a massive improvement. Sometimes it's even a tad annoying having another layer of indirection.
Fwiw just tried the WordPress AI web builder it sucks
Yes but your project won't be sustainable without funding.

Unless you're already financially independent, won't be able to find the time to maintain it after some time.

Don't be fooled, somebody else will benefit from your work. Open source is for privileged fools who don't understand reality or human nature.

If you get into it with the mindset that it's for fun, you won't see it the same way in 10 years... Good chance you will be disgusted by the whole scheme. I have seen horrors which destroyed all illusions I had about the subject.

Almost nobody in open source nowadays really cares about code quality or engineering excellence. So it fails on that front too. It's a pointless status game. Only big corporate projects get any exposure nowadays. The others can't form communities.
If I were to recommend one to someone today, I might pick RooCode. I'd suggest checking out boomerang mode and RooFlow on GitHub.

Here are some others that I've tried and could recommend, in no particular order:

- https://github.com/ai-christianson/RA.Aid

- https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code

- https://github.com/block/goose

- https://github.com/hotovo/aider-desk

I've also created a few "agents" to do specific tasks using Probe[0] as an MCP server, although I'm sure you could create a full-fledged agent with it if you wanted to.

[0] https://github.com/buger/probe
FYI, Netflix will release a similar concept soon.
I gave this a tough test, specifically generating a quiz about the video game football manager, and it failed quite badly.

It would either give 3 absurd/joke answers and one good correct one. Or give 3/4 correct answers and then insist that only one of them was correct and the others were wrong.

It's probably only accurate to specific topics and still requires alot of human validation and input. To me that makes it not that better than asking an AI for suggestions conversationally. Probably worse since you can make more progress and adjustments conversationally.
argh, just have the back wall recede away from you as it gets lower. tilt it the other way. you could even use a curve.
At my employer we have an emergency location (glorified office) that we basically never operate out of except one afternoon a quarter to prove we can. The documentation about how to operate out of that site includes a warning to that effect.

Edit: Now that I think about it building has been remodeled so I should really have someone confirm if the warning is still valid.
All over. There are multiple indoor ranges in almost every state.

It’s hard to have an outdoor gun range in an urban environment!
> When I reach those, I’d expect them to pay the remainder.

They won't. "Out of pocket maximum" means something completely different to the insurance company than it does to any normal person.

Out of every dollar you pay out of pocket, the insurance company will decide how much they feel like counting it. Might be the full dollar, or some pennies, or nothing.

You might have paid $20K out of pocket in a year, but the insurance company will say you've only paid $1000 because just because. Good luck reaching that "out of pocket maximum".

Source: I've been there.
> This makes it much more expensive for them to scrape because they have to run full web browsers instead of limited headless browsers without full Javascript support like they currently do. There's empirical proof that this works.

It works in the short term, but the more people that use it, the more likely that scrapers start running full browsers.
Good, maybe Youtube will finally recommend something to me I actually want to watch.
Would one of those computer in a keyboard set ups work, like the rapsberry pi one?
I thought we knew this already. The age old advice is to not grocery shop while hungry because you'll buy junk food. It's also why free lunch in schools correlates with better grades because kids can't focus properly when hungry.
The whole “build a city without a lot of rules” just seems like a path to learning why those rules are there.
> Britain’s MPs back powers to take control of British Steel
Dramatic intervention follows tense standoff with Chinese firm Jingye, British Steel’s owner

This reminds me of the kind of thing third world countries used to do to Britain. It’s worth learning from how Britain allowed this inversion to happen.
I like to throw sports trivia at AI systems to see how well they do on something that's low-stakes and very well-documented. Here's one question Wiyomi generated for me just now about college football:

> What coaching change occurred at USC during the 2010-2011 offseason?

> A. Lane Kiffin left for the Oakland Raiders, and Steve Sarkisian took over

> B. Pete Caroll left for the Seattle Seahawks, and Lane Kiffin took over

> C. Steve Sarkisian left for Washington, and Lane Kiffin took over

> D. Lane Kiffin was fired, and Steve Sarkisian took over

I chose B because I knew that to be true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane_Kiffin#USC_Trojans

Wiyomi said I was wrong, and that D is the correct answer:

> Lane Kiffin was fired as USC's head coach after the 2010 season, and Steve Sarkisian, who had been the offensive coordinator, took over as the interim head coach before being officially named head coach.

Lane Kiffin's tenure at USC lasted from 2010 to 2013. If I can't rely on these AI systems for the simplest low-stakes tasks, what good are they for?
I thought this was a solved problem?

https://blog.siggraph.org/2021/02/a-look-back-at-past-emergi...
Past discussions:

2024 (66 points, 40 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40903024

2022 (141 points, 67 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30598026

2020 (438 points, 147 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24867103

2019 (948 points, 261 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20411154
> I became less hands-on over time, focusing on building teams and standards and leading architecturally at a high-level.

In 2020, during peak pandemic, we had to organize clases for a team of 500 profesores and teacher assistants. One day, I expend a whole morning replaying emails about a moodel server and an email server that we didn't control. It was useful, but after a whole morning of "bureaucracy" I really had to stop and do some "real" work, Whatever, write a midterm or think about a research item that has no hope of success. I remember the pain.

Back to your problem ...

Sorry that I can't help, but my general recommendation is to read whateverpatio11 wrote about that https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/ Perhaps https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/17/ramit-sethi-and-patrick... and https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/21/ramit-sethi-and-patrick...
You say it's wrong but then don't do your working properly. The $1656 isn't going to the insurer. Read the article.
But lead pellets don’t leech lead?
Isn’t yaml a strict superset of JSON? Any compliant YAML parser should be able to ingest a JSON document.
Should people wear buttons that indicate interests?
Even "read a book in a coffeehouse" doesn't work if the other patrons have to scoot below the table to read the cover.
Backblaze stopped for many Mac users on March 13
Any particularly good ones?
"Bernard, I have served eleven governments in the past thirty years. If I had believed in all their policies, I would have been passionately committed to keeping out of the Common Market, and passionately committed to going into it. I would have been utterly convinced of the rightness of nationalising steel. And of denationalising it and renationalising it. On capital punishment, I'd have been a fervent retentionist and an ardent abolitionist. I would've been a Keynesian and a Friedmanite, a grammar school preserver and destroyer, a nationalisation freak and a privatisation maniac; but above all, I would have been a stark, staring, raving schizophrenic." - Sir Humphrey Appleby
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> Configuration files for programs. These tend to be short.

This is where I use YAML and it shines there. IMO easier to read and write by hand than JSON, and short sweet config files don't have the various problems people run into with YAML. It's great.
VBS isn't even the same idea as a full blown VM in a type 1 or 2 hypervisor. I'm not sure why you're attempting to make the comparison.
I reach my out-of-pocket maximum, every year. The rest of the year, we pay no more copays.
My view on open source software and monetization thereof has changed a lot between when I was in my twenties and today when I’m in my fifties.

In the 90s, as a young man, my primary concern was paying bills. Now, I’ve kind of reached the point where I just don’t care. My most-used code¹ is released under the most permissive license possible. I have a github sponsor link which earned me in the low two figures last year and nothing so far this year. I treat any money as a pure bonus and just don’t worry about it.

⸻

1. finl_unicode, a Rust crate for character code identification and grapheme segmentation: https://github.com/dahosek/finl_unicode
> and many of us went to standing at the regular toilets.

Did it occur to "some of you" that _sitting_ on a regular toilet might also be a viable option?

Asking for a friend.
So you’re saying Greenland and Canada have nothing to worry about?
Think of the quads!
The question that is in everybody's head: How long until he changes his mind on that too?
What direction do you use that from?
A lot of this is modern safety features. Crumple zones and stronger roofs add weight, more weight implies bigger engines, bigger engines require stronger frames, soon the average car is two tons. Volvo S60, Mercedes C class and Audi S4 are also a similar size and weight. The makes from the US and Japan are a little lighter but not dramatically lighter and their safety ratings are also a little worse.
> Around 1 million liters (264,172 gallons) of urine are spilled onto the floor and walls of public restrooms each day in the U.S.

Each day?! 165 million males in the USA. So, 16.5 males on average are peeing enough on the walls and floors that if it was collected it would be an entire liter? That seems unlikely.

What percentage of that 16.5 is not using public restrooms? What percentage is babies in diapers? Even if the number was as high as half, 8 men leaving behind a collective 1 liter seems way too high.
I agree. The urine on floor is because people are generally less careful in public toilet when aiming, peeing, fully draining, and flicking.

When we're outside, we are generally more in rush. We had to 'hold in' longer before peeing because of line. It's unfamiliar setting with weirdly shaped urinal.

And in some parts of Europe, urinals are installed so god damn high, I almost have to tip toe and pee into the the air in projectile.
Xreal lets you return devices for 30 days. You could try one basically for the cost of return shipping.
Even those dont solve the drip problem. The only solution is the ones with the grate you stand on.
Does certified organic protect against lead?
Consulting is the way to make money from specialized tools and code that you can't or don't want to turn into market commodity. Make sure you charge for the value you deliver to your clients, not the time it takes you to run your tools for them. Look into value-based consulting, e.g. the book "Value-Based Fees" by Alan Weiss. I've been doing this with my own tools and tailored code for a good decade, sometimes pulling in multiple 6-figure projects in a year. Good luck!
Seems like the thing that actually makes this all work is the built in battery on the mini PC. Without it, accidentally unplugging the power bank would be a big problem.
why are you assuming it was trumps idea
CC-BY-NC-SA allows you to ban commercial use as well, if you really don't want downstream people using your stuff commercially.
My point is that hot swappable battery packs have benefits that outweigh the cost of the connectors for the people that have a use case that needs them, as the grandparent referred to in Thinkpads. Not everyone fits in the constraints of design space chosen for a given product. There's a reason virtually every modern computer has a means of adding expansion devices.

Making a high voltage connector is well understood problem space. Every electrical engineer knows how to deal with ramping up current when a power supply is plugged in or turned on (inrush current specifications are most definitely a thing), and the entire electric grid is based on sizing, insulating, spacing and switching conductors appropriately for the voltage and current being used. Moreover, high voltage battery packs tend to have switches / contactors on the battery pack that keep the high voltage off until the connection is securely made and enabled, hence why even Telsas require a functioning low voltage battery to start the system.

There are also certain use-cases that are likely best served by putting battery packs in a trailer. Take the trucking industry: going by the charging requirements of a Tesla semi (1MW for 30 minutes), replicating your typical truck stop turns into a huge problem for the grid -- you'd need upwards of 50MW of charging capacity to replicate the flow of diesel coming out of a bank of 10 fuel pumps (sorry, I ran the thought experiment on that one back when specs were first released). Having a battery pack attached to the trailer that gets charged at a more leisurely rate at the warehouse while it is unloaded and re-loaded over a couple of hours is far more scalable than charging the truck in a few minutes at a truck stop. Charging overnight while the driver sleeps is fine, but getting the 8-12 hours of runtime for a workday in a semi is a heck of a lot of battery.

The dangers can be mitigated -- that's the entire raison d'etre of the electrical engineering discipline! Otherwise you wouldn't be able to safely charge an electric car at a 350kW rate these days at charging stations all over the world with a connector that is deemed safe to be handled by random humans. It's not like the software industry where we throw half baked shit at the wall and see what sticks when users encounter it by running an A / B test in production....
I think you’d want to compare the “other deltas” when rendered on a crappy CGA monitor. I’m not sure they’d be much better than the house.
I think you mean 165, not 16.5?

But probably, what, only 50m use public restrooms, but some use multiple times, so 150 uses / liter seems reasonable.

That's under 10ml of spray / spill per use, which is maybe a little high but not too crazy? I've seen some pretty bad spill results at work...
Humans are served by bots. Any bot requesting traffic is doing so on behalf of a human somewhere.

What is the problem with bots asking for traffic, exactly?

Context of my perspective: I am a contractor for a team that hosts thousands of websites on a Kubernetes cluster. All of the websites are on a storage cluster (combination of ZFS and Ceph) with SATA and NVMe SSDs. The machines in the storage cluster and also the machines the web endpoints run on have tons of RAM.

We see a lot of traffic from what are obviously scraping bots. They haven't caused any problems.
I have repeatedly heard from people who work in physics research that she's optimized her content for maximum rage/anger/emotional response rather than accuracy, particularly as of late. The tidbits of truth and warranted skepticism lend the rest of it undue credibility. Sadly, good science reporting doesn't get the advertising revenue that manufactured-scandal tabloid-style reporting does. I think her critical perspective can be useful, but it's important to keep in mind while considering it that you're being presented a warped telling of reality.
For anyone who is using creatively using JS to create SVG dynamically and looking for work, DM me!
I liked this "everyone's invited" one,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33780725
(start a regular weekly meetup)
Is GPU assembly an actually in-demand skill?
If you consider bar restrooms, that is probably skewing the average higher…
Are you asking for LTS releases? https://ferrocene.dev/en/
> A couple months ago it felt like people were sure that Google completely fucked it up for themselves

Hey it's me!
You are 100% spot on in this analysis. Thank you for summarizing it so well.
I can´t read the text that appears inside the board. The font is too small.
Although originally the character Δ began life as 𐤃 (named dalet, meaning door) so it should be a door, not a house (he says with a wink) and that β should be the house (from 𐤁‎, bet, meaning house).
Wish they had said something about open sourcing their SDK.

They mentioned Leptos as an inspiration but this is clearly very different and has a lot of interesting features.
Do a web search for rdrand and systemd.
I have used a similar setup for a couple of years now; just plug the glasses into my phone.
brother if you can’t drink three pints and still keep it in a urinal, you shouldn’t be drinking three pints.

urinals are not small targets.
Clothing. A lot of apparel and accessory retailers have significant portions of their items produced in China.
Those actions are usually celebrated as anti colonialist. I guess we’ll do the same now, right guys? Right?
Every time I tried to listen to her she was peddling a book. Her stick is it to criticize current research, first in her field (where the mainstream seem to disagree with her), but now in more and more fields of physics/science. She clearly has an agenda.
I was bit confused why this was notable, but the Pixel 9a just released Thursday. So this is an incredibly fast turnaround for a community OS.
This has been the best TIL moment for me on HN.

Thanks, man, I am now in the rabbit hole of reading up.

In that same context, did you read the article about how diplomats were "convincing" the Mexican government to not use open source over Microsoft?

It sure sounds like the same strategy.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/1013776/
> 4 years in JavaScript land is actually pretty long

For non-JS developers to get a sense of how long this is, companies have probably migrated from React to Vue to Svelte to Solid and then back to React in this time.
On my M-series Mac devices, I get a warning for missing executable when trying to launch after installing. I've had Steam re-verify its payload files with the same result on two different systems. Any ideas?
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back
Floating point math strikes again.
One reasons Prot himself was able to become a bonafide Emacs Guru in just a few years is because he's the kind of person who reads manuals. He speaks highly of the included docs, and often credits them for his knowledge.
Exponential backoff!
Why doesn’t Dyson create a vacuum urinal? We could use that for space stations anyway.
"Annual, billed monthly" is the deception. That's not a common thing and most users just see it as normal month-to-month billing. Annual billing still having a discount just adds to the confusion.
Benzinga has probably 40 writers or so. And they do syndicate out to other platforms. They also sell their real-time web traffic and ticker attribution data to hedge funds who will trade on the info.
My father says "I feel like I hired an able assistant" regarding LLMs.
May be it's the angle, but it looks a little too closer to a toilet bowl than a urinal.

Occasional spills are probably easier to manage compared to a misunderstanding over it's purpose.
That immediately brings back memories (or more feelings) of playing [0]. It was, for a while, the only game my father had installed on his luggable, so I played it a lot as a small kid. I also think a did learn a lot of English from it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Adventure
Sorry for being vague. I was trying to point out that the first phase of the revolution (“the Revolution of 1789”) was basically a liberal aristocratic revolution not unlike the American Revolution. The radical egalitarians that orchestrated the Terror didn’t seize power until a few years later.
There’s a certain amount of “it just is” when it comes to non-textual characters. I remember being interviewed by a reporter from The Wall Street Journal about the claim that Wingdings had an antisemitic message secretly encoded in it because NYC output as the sequence skull and crossbones-star of David-thumbs up, but the choice of where those characters were encoded is purely a consequence of grouping similarly themed characters together (so, e.g., the star of David comes in the midst of a sequence of religious symbols).
QR code 'quishing' scams up 14-fold in five years
I also imagine this is maximum negative sentiment.

I follow the Chinese economy pretty closely and I just can't imagine 2025 passes without a deal.

Of course, neither Trump or Xi were going to back down here before a big meeting. I don't see how this is sustainable on any real time frame though for either economy.

Some people seem to be framing this as some kind of win for China. That is crazy. Chinese stocks had been in the toilet for a while, got a slight bump and that was mostly erased last week. I am far more confident in my US bets than China bets here.
If only folks at Google’s Bayview Campus could learn to not piss all over the single occupancy bathroom’s toilet seats..
At the University of Oregon grad students are paid a minimum rate of $24 per hour plus full tuition, fees, and health insurance. They are limited to .49 FTE though. Overhead pays for facilities rent, computers, and payroll plus administrative costs like grant proposals, human subjects regulations and tracking adherence to all of the federal regulations on grants. 15% wouldn’t even cover the facilities (electrical costs, equipment maintenance, etc.) The Principal Investigators salaries are usually the highest expense, at .20 FTE for someone who can make upwards of $150,000 a year not including retirement, health insurance, etc.
Are there no cases where well-formed JSON could be subject to the problems covered in the article, when parsed by a compliant YAML parser? I'm asking because I know nothing about YAML and not much more about JSON.
Your bravery is inspiring.
https://www.scratchapixel.com

https://www.youtube.com/c/acerola_t

https://www.shadertoy.com

https://google.github.io/tour-of-wgsl/
Instead of coming to Trump for pledges of political loyalty those companies should instead come to Europe to be able to make business again freely.
Lf – Terminal File Manager
A alternative, but only for timing and as GPS supplement. Unless you’re in a place where you can pick up 4 ATSC transmitters at different locations you won’t get position or navigation with it.