skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His payment will work just fine, this is to weed out all the judges that wont follow orders for purging
I think I found X-Rite by just searching for color with the start menu.

Before I used that tool, I tried a few of the built-in colour profiles under the display settings, and that didn't help.

I had to turn the brightness up because when the display is in sRGB it gets dimmer. Everything is much more dim and muted, like a conventional laptop screen. But if I change it back to say, one of the DICOM profiles, then yeah, torch mode. (And if I turn the brightness down in that mode, bright colours are fine but dim colours are too dim and everything is still too saturated).
Believing that something is inevitable is the first step towards it becoming inevitable. But there feels like there is a momentum in people, and in society as a whole that only ends one way, and we need to release and explore. I don't know if once society gets the "bug" to tear it all down there's any going back.

I feel like we're destroying our societies and getting into wars out of curiosity, and because we've forgotten how it hurts more than anything else.
Heh, many languages have this inverse correlation between language features and the quality of their standard library. Zig for example has amazing language features, I wish that I could inline "orelse" or inline "catch" in Java, but I can't, and yet spinning up a cross-platform and asynchronous tcp server is infinitely easier in Java than in Zig. In fact, the more accurate correlation might be that the more annoying it is to write in a language, the more likely it is to have a thriving ecosystem, eg: Rust, Go, Javascript.
The rise of end time fascism
That’s ambiguous. Whats the input?

Copilot anticipating based off what you’re typing? An explicit prompt about what you want?
I am in the middle of my third AI assisted project. I disagree ~90%.

If you prompt an LLM like an architect and feed it code rather than expecting it to write your code, both ChatGPT 4o and Claude 3.7 Sonnet do a great job. Do they mess up? Regularly. But the key is to guide the LLM and not let the LLM guide you, otherwise you'll end up in purgatory.

It takes some time to get used to what types of prompts work. Remember, LLMs are just tools; used in a naive way, they can be a drain, but used effectively they can be great. The typing speed alone is something I could never match.

But just like anything, you have to know what you're doing. Don't go slapping together a bunch of source files that they spit out. Be specific, be firm, tell it what to review first, what's important and what is not. Mention specific algorithms. Detail exactly how you want something to fit together, or describe shortcomings or pitfalls. I'll be damned if they don't get it most of the time.
You ask other scholars in the field to read it and give their opinion on it. It’s this thing called “peer review” that is kind of the basis of all modern academic inquiry.

In the case of hiring, typically a committee of other professors in the department would evaluate candidates, not a bunch of DEI bureaucrats. They would read what the candidates have published and see if the arguments they make are sound, and look at things like # of citations that indicate how prominent the work is in the field.

I don’t know if you’ve ever met any academics, but I promise you they have no problems forming opinions about the quality of work of other people in their field.
> with just the 65C816, the register modes (8 or 16) bit can be a challenge to work with. When working on the PANCAKE-ROM project, I got bit by mixing up what mode the CPU was in while writing some memory locations. The memory manipulation was assumed to be in 16 bit mode, but it was 8 bit. The 65C832 makes this even more rough.

I've done a little 65816 coding and I quickly learned that it was best to standardize on register sizes throughout most of the code and for routine calls, only switching to optimize things. 8-bit A and 16-bit X and Y made the most sense by far for small-scale asm code. It let you work in 8 bits when dealing with registers and using common 8-bit variables, while being able to loop over larger data structures with X and Y as memory addresses and counters, and also manipulate 16-bit values to some degree (copying, incrementing/decrementing).

Other common CPUs of the time instead either had different registers names for different sizes (80x86), or coded the size in the instruction (68000). This avoided the mode bits and issues with code written for different modes (which even affected instruction length of the 65816 when using immediate data).
The argument is that vibe coding is great for little personal programs but bad for full-blown products.

I don't think you can ship a fully baked product made exclusively with AI coding yet. But it's *really* useful for investigative product development - e.g. when you have a few different ideas for how something might work but aren't quite sure what's best. I used to regret that I never mastered Figma or other mockup tools - now I never will have to.
Not really, the ssd1306 has quite short lifespan

I used one to display network statistic on my homelab server, after a year, many pixels is supper dim. They are clearly burned in.
I think the display is not meant to be used for long time, but rather for short time.
Meanwhile i have seen 16x2 lcd being used for over decade without issue
Ok sure but also the number of CT scans has been increasing exponentially (3 million CTs in 1980, 20 million in 1995, 60 million 2005[0] to 93 million in 2023[1]) so you'd need to find some opposing force that is decreasing the incidence of cancer cases exponentially per capita to keep the balance.

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2672242/

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
So you are right that the random number becomes "password-like", but of course if you really care about that you don't need to store the exact random number, just as you don't have to store a raw password.

However, if your random login code is easily typable then it's usually drawn from a small enough keyspace that any such code is trivially brute-forceable. Like if it's decimal digits you need more than ten.

So in practice people just trust that you are on good terms with your email provider and anyone else with access to your email, and use other mechanisms to limit access to these codes from insiders.
How else are people using LLMs to code? Other than this?

Its so fast to do these things. Seems dumb not to use an LLM to interpret an error message if you don’t immediately know the problem. And if it doesn’t work you can alway abort and do it yourself. The whole code gen and debugging process might take 45 seconds.

Sure its dumb if you’re writing some short simple function. And you need to be in the loop and understand all the changes you are making in a professional setting. But that just sounds like the basic workflow of coding with an LLM.
Pretty weak analogy. Copilot can show you how to make either McDonalds or a Michelin starred restaurant meal. It is endlessly variable.
So throwing society into chaos with a sudden opium ban is worth making a few self righteous officials feel better about controlling everyone's lives? Because that's what this crackdown is bringing. How about people exercise some willpower and moderation with the pipe, instead of driving the entire opium trade underground, creating violence between smugglers, ruining the livelihoods of countless ordinary people caught in the middle, and practically begging the Western powers to escalate their military actions against us when their precious trade is disrupted?
I believe it could be the weight of the camera and lens you would desire for good looking photos (think Sony a7 size). Good looking photos sell houses.

EDIT I just noticed the “inspection” part. Maybe they wanted good zoom to spy on the tenants? (Or maybe that’s a really uncharitable take).
Good idea, and one that probably is already used by some financial institutions in some form or other.

I'm not sure about the ethics of forcing an LLM to digest that junk.
Not really true in an end-state market where only monopoly players exist.

Nokia didn't exist in the end-state smartphone market. Smartphones were nowhere near done innovating when they were dominant, and now they are essentially a completed product.

AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile have done essentially zero innovation and they do great business.

Duke Energy does zero innovation and they do great business.

Coca-Cola does zero innovation and they do great business.

Do their businesses incrementally improve and become more efficient? Yes, but that's much different than being an innovation company.

Again, the mistake you are making here is mischaracterizing the type of business Apple is in based on the business they were in 10 years ago. Apple is not in an innovation business anymore. Most of its product lines are in areas where no startup can possibly enter the market and compete.

Apple is becoming a company where their financial functions outweigh their actual business (another example of a business like this are the major airlines like United and Delta that make more revenue on credit cards than actual flying). Again I had the example of services bringing in more money than some of Apple's major product lines.

Apple storing your family photos on some computers they didn't design in a data center they might not even own is likely a more profitable and higher revenue business than the incredibly complicated hardware that they are selling you.
'The problem' is this species prefers doing instead of thinking.

'Vibe coding' is merely an instance.
They've been around forever and I believe number 2 or 3 in number of stores open in the US. You don't get that way without some people liking your product.

It's fine that some people don't like it, but is ridiculous to think your tastes apply to everyone.
that's the problem with Arduino library, they are hacky and messy
we should always start with the presumption that an effect like this is adaptive, as perhaps as simple as "when you're sick you should not sally forth to fight a dragon you heard about."

And while in the modern world we tend to think "well, we can treat this with chemistry", don't be shocked if that course uncovers undesirable side effects down the road, or even direct effects like "hey, you're not fighting infection as effectively".
Cloudflare's Expanded Startup Program
yes which vibe coding enables.
"If you’re passionate about software development, or if you see it as the best opportunity for you to earn a high salary that’ll lift you into the upper middle class, I really hope you won’t let yourself get discouraged by AI hype."

+100 to that
Wait till you hear of countries where university education is 100% tax funded. And you get money from the government while you're a full-time student.
> They don't care about taxes - they are happy to implement regressive taxes that disproportionately burden the middle class and poor, such as sales taxes, Social Security, etc. They just don't want to pay taxes themselves.

A very large portion of the country vote Republican, and I would be surprised if they are by and large the most well-off part of the American public.
> Maybe local production will get cheaper once more people start keeping their money in local communities.

Is the thinking here that increased scale would allow production to get cheaper? How would this account for the fact that production was scaled here, but was not cost-competitive when it was operating at scale? What's different now?
What do you want it to do differently? There's still the option of making a PR or a fork or sharing an alternative you've built with others.
> "I don't even know who you are."

^ Google's mission is to never have to make this statement about anyone.
Discussion (41 points, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43687989

(37 points, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43687919

Related Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes (962 points, 10 hours ago, 881 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43684536
I love what they're doing in expanding the program and such, but the one problem that all "startup tiers" seem to have is that they only last one year.

Most startups are not profitable after just one year and paying cloud bills is a drag on growth.

A graduated drop-off would be better maybe 100% off for year one, then 75% year two, 50% year three, 25% year four, and full price year five. All subject to some sort of annual or total cap, of course.

That's a more realistic picture of what it takes to get off the ground.
But also diversity is banned.
The "AGI is right around the corner" argument is effectively corporate malpractice. No, shareholders don't want you to wait around and do nothing (other than a few layoffs here and there) while you wait for AGI.
Trump made the initial offer. It was up to the university to make a counteroffer and try to meet in the middle. Instead they flatly refused everything. When one party rejects an offer in a negotiation, the other party often walks away. That’s what Trump did. If you aren’t willing and able to walk away, you’re begging, not negotiating.
It's both. The system or process has it's actual entropy, and the sequence of observations we make has a certain entropy. We can say that "this sequence of numbers has this entropy", which is slightly different from the entropy of the process which created the numbers. For example, when we make more coin tosses, our sequence of observations has an entropy which gets closer and closer to the actual entropy of the coin.
Yeah, you tell it what you want and it gives you something, then you tell it how that's not good enough and it gives you another thing, and you repeat until you have something that works for you (but, as the author notes, is hardly a real product that could be maintained and shipped to real customers.)
All of the information is saved, it's going to be interesting to study, the first "class" of people to leave are the ones from tech, you know, the backbone of USA services, it's going to be interesting, it's going to be an economy fall that didn't happen in Nazi Germany
Awesome journey! Thank you for having me … I learned a lot.
The reason is known already: diagnosis got better. I'd welcome more knowledge if the endeavour wouldn't be by a known charlatan.
Yes, universities have hired a lot of DEI ideologues who don’t respect their colleagues without even knowing them and it is indeed very bad.
For a GUI app though?
While that might be true on a systems level, individual companies can choose their own destiny and many companies have chosen to operate over long time periods while making less than maximum potential revenue.
Mathematical Reading List – University of Cambridge [pdf]
From the file:

"This list of interesting mathematics books and internet sites is mainly intended for sixth-formers planning
to take a degree in mathematics. However, everyone who likes mathematics should take a look: some of the items are very suitable for less experienced readers and even the most hardened mathematician will
probably find something new here."

INTRODUCTION

The range of mathematics books now available is enormous. This list just contains a few suggestions which you should find helpful if you wish to choose some mathematical reading. Do not feel you should read all or most of these books: there is far too much here for even the most dedicated reader! Just pick what appeals to you. Any reading you do will certainly prove useful, and it is also perfectly alright not to have read any of the books in this list!

The books here are divided into three groups: historical and general (which aim to give a broad idea of
the scope and development of the subject); recreational, from problem books (which aim to keep your brain working) to technical books (which give you insight into a specific area of mathematics and include mathematical discussion); and textbooks (which cover a topic in advanced mathematics of the kind that
you will encounter in your first year at university). Do not feel that you should only read the difficult ones: medicine is only good for you if it is hard to take, but this is not true for mathematics books.

All the books on the list should be obtainable from your local library, though you may have to order
them. Most are available (relatively) cheaply in paperback or as kindle editions and so would make good
additions to your Christmas list. Some may be out of print, but still obtainable from libraries.

You might also like to look on the web for mathematics sites. Good starting points are:

NRICH (http://nrich.maths.org.uk)
which is a web-based interactive mathematics club; in addition there is:

Plus (http://plus.maths.org.uk),
which is a web-based mathematics journal. Both these sites are based in Cambridge.
Thank you for providing a source.

I don't agree with Ohio's diversity statements being used as part of the selection criteria. It's wrong.

What about every other university though? JD Vance's statement called universities the enemy. Most universities aren't connected to each other, they aren't a single organization and aren't responsible for what each does.

1. If only a few were using diversity statements as a part of the hiring process, which is wrong, what's the justification in calling all of them the enemy?

2. What about the professors? Most aren't responsible for setting hiring practices. Why are they the enemy?

> That is before we even get into the explicitly racist hiring and admissions policies. [ from your original comment ]

Same as the above for this. A University is a large insinuation of students, teachers, researchers, and various employees. Harvard employs 19k people and has 23k students.

#----------------

My opinion is that Vance is attacking universities not because he cares about merit based hiring or the quality of students but for selfish political reasons.

Why I think this:

1. As previously stated not all universities are doing what you claimed. Ohio for one, and the first link says "some" but there are thousands.

2. There are private schools that receive public money but discriminate against LGBQT [1] However nothing has been said or done about this by Trump in the past or now. These religious schools are more conservative and attacks would likely anger the base.

3. Republicans perform better with non-college educated voters [2] 2024 election:

No college 36% D , 62% R

Some college or 2yr degree: ~44% D, ~53% R

4-year degree: 53% D, 45% R

Graduate school+: 59% D , 38% R

Therefore reducing the number of people who go to higher education could benefit Republicans in elections.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-09-01/when-p...
[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/exit-polls
Wasn't the FTC completely rebooted in 2021?
Temu has notoriously low standards when it comes to jewelry and other jewelry related items. Reddit threads are full of horror stories about toxic materials being used for these items. Be careful what you give out to friends and family.
The real takeaway here is that programs you whip up for your own use, by any means, are not the same things as maintainable products you can deliver to customers.

Vibe coding, or VB tricks and hacks 25 years ago, or whatever, sure, do it if that works for you, but that's not a product you can maintain for a customer base. It's a program, not a product.
> end up with the most track they can run for the least money

ITYM "least track?"

The railraods are all obsessed with this metric called "capital ratio" which is the revenue intensity of their equipment.

Most of corporate america cares about "operating ratio" (how much money do you spend operating your business versus revenue). Railroads are a somewhat uniquely capital-intensive business, since they're the only transportation industry that owns and maintains their own roads. They consequently have come to see their best metric for efficiency is how small their capital asset base is, versus their revenue.

This leads to the joke that "the optimal railroad has no track and runs no trains."
Thanks for the links. I've added HiDream-I1 to the prompt adherence comparison chart. From my testing, it has adherence capabilities comparable to Flux.

https://genai-showdown.specr.net
Demand for traveling from city to city in the US is unproven? What is 819 million domestic airplane passengers in 2023? [0] That's an average of 2.2 million people per day. Granted flying will almost always win for cross-country trips, but I'd bet a significant chunk of those flights are within a range competitive with HSR.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/197790/us-airline-domest...
People went to the Qatar World Cup as well - it'll happen
Spin is my new favorite thing. It
helped me learn Paxos by model checking the algorithm.

My writeup/getting started guide here (for checking Paxos)
https://github.com/glycerine/spin_paxos

It is kind of awesome that you can alter the
algorithm and immediately look at the
counter example (problem you just created).
I'm not trying to prove a novel concept, just explain how the C spec thinks about C:

> The semantic descriptions in this International Standard describe the behavior of an abstract machine in which issues of optimization are irrelevant.

This belief that C targets the hardware directly makes C devs frustrated that UB seems like an intentional trap added by compilers that refuse to "just" do what the target CPU does.

The reality is that front-end/back-end split in compilers gave us the machine from the C spec as its own optimization target with its own semantics.

Before C got formalised in this form, it wasn't very portable beyond PDP. C was too opinionated and bloated for 8-bit computers. It wouldn't assume 8-bit bytes (because PDP-11 didn't have them), but it did assume linear memory (even though most 16-bit CPUs didn't have it). All those "checking wetness of water... wet" checks in ./configure used to have a purpose!

Originally C didn't count as an assembly any more than asm.js does today. C was too abstract to let programmers choose addressing modes and use flags back when these mattered (e.g. you could mark a variable as `register`, but not specifically as an A register on 68K). C was too high level for tricks like self-modifying code (pretty standard practice where performance mattered until I-cache and OoO killed it).

C is now a portable assembly more because CPUs that didn't fit C's model have died out (VLIW) or remained non-standard specialized targets (SIMT).
Did that sound clever in your head? Again, the head of the executive branch can quash any charge he wants. You're the one contending that a person doing X is evidence that they support not-X.
Someone kill that muppet that jumps out of the margin halfway down. Please.
I understand the fun that comes with retrocomputing, but if you actually want to fix bugs, surely emulation would do the job?
Didn't Trump killed it?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/business/trump-kills-congesti...
that your name is tokio yoyo is sort of funny to me because if you look at shinkansen build/planning timelines, it is absolutely on the order of 2050 for extensions.

the japanese have a world-class trainsystem and it's built by putting one foot in front of the other for decades, not expecting it to be built overnight.

of course, you can build it faster, but then it is more expensive. so what's the priority? it's easier to fund high speed rail projects in developed nations by long, sustained investment that is easily planned for rather than having to suddenly come up with billions of dollars and then deal with the political fallout of inevitable cost-overruns associated with rushing things.
I didn’t see one mention of AI related feature or talk they were working on.. that’s the real reason. If you’re not wasting time peddling some AI feature that nobody will ever use or give a second look, you are not onboard the hype train.
That magic ingredient is the golf course. Not really kidding. That’s where the deals are made.
"funded by my already taxed earnings"

Why did you even try that? Blew your whole argument.