skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you seen the 'latency' of the average driver on the road these days?

Most people appear to take about 2 seconds to respond to any change in conditions.
Different proposal:

Let's say we have 2 Linux machines. Identical hardware, identical libs.

I'd like to run a simple program on one machine, and then during mid-calculation, would like to transfer the running program to the other machine.

Is this doable?
> Such an infraction is normally considered minor, punishable with a fine of up to $500.

I'm also wondering how you are supposed to declare something like this. They don't pass out those customs forms on flights from Europe anymore, you just go through immigration and the officer asks whatever questions they feel like. In my case the only question was "did you buy anything".
The marginal cost to serve you more videos is real, but it’s negligible compared to the fixed costs or cost of people not re-subscribing. So I assume that people at Netflix were optimizing for usage/engagement just like the ad driven services as a proxy for subscribe rate.
Ok, maybe a more accurate statement would be that the ratio of goofy shit to angst-generating bullshit was much higher in 2008. Maybe it was 70/30 in favor of goofy shit and now it's 1/99 in favor of bullshit. We had Facebook and Twitter back then, but neither had been weaponized against us yet. Both had a very different flavor than they have today.
> Every useful program ever written takes inputs and produces outputs. The interesting part is what you actually do in the middle to transforms inputs -> outputs. And that can be entirely functional.

My work needs pseudorandom numbers throughout the big middle, for example, drawing samples from probability distributions and running randomized algorithms. That's pretty messy in a FP setting, particularly when the PRNGs get generated within deeply nested libraries.
Results of the 2023 International Planning Competition
A lot of Veblen goods are kinda "unpleasant but striking". I mean just look at recent BMW design.
What you are describing is explained beautifully in "The Tyranny of the Marginal User" essay that got a lot of commentary on HN previously, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37509507.

My favorite quote ("Marl" is the hypothetical name for the marginal user):

> Marl’s tolerance for user interface complexity is zero. As far as you can tell he only has one working thumb, and the only thing that thumb can do is flick upwards in a repetitive, zombielike scrolling motion.
Be glad your kids have such healthy instincts. I keep being amazed how kids see through the BS that adults fall for.
Greatest amp ever, if you ask me.
I have a Thinkpad Yoga 260. I disable the keyboard in "tablet mode" and use plasma-mobile for better touchscreen UX. It's a tolerable experience this way, but it's nowhere near as polished as a mainstream tablet or smartphone.
How about some A.I. news that's not neural networks and is also useful to businesses? Or just something different?

Planning software is a classic use of A.I. to solve problems. They come up with improvements to both the tools and benchmarks every year. This article summarizes recent improvements.

Far as useful for business, I'd like to see a survey of those, especially open source. The last one I read about was Optaplanner:

https://www.optaplanner.org/
They didn't shut down Parse though. You just had to self-host it. But somehow when Big Tech drops support for anything, people just migrate out of it for no reason and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Like Flutter careers are completely dead in the water now. One of my businesses has been running on Parse Server for half a decade and there's still updates on Parse. And despite being "dead", I still find Parse easier to code with than Firebase, though Supabase is now the favored option.
> Another factor is how these logos are created. Important corporate decisions involve many stakeholders. The result is often the safest, most inoffensive option, the average of everyone's opinions. In design meetings at AI companies, conversations probably sound like:

> ...

> No single person suggests making a logo that resembles an anus, but when everyone's feedback gets incorporated, that's what often emerges. Risk aversion in corporate environments naturally pushes designs toward familiar, "safe" territory, which apparently means anatomical openings.

There's hope! If you're a stakeholder in a logo design meeting, be sure point out the circular proposals look like anuses.

Also I hate all those "bold, sans-seif" logos. What they hell are they thinking? Those companies should just all change their name to "Company," too.
I'm similarly curious why not just use Alpine or Void rootfs if container size is important?
its because they are exposed to the internet and left-leaning culture from their schools, i highly doubt that is their first exposure reaction.
Wait are you telling me that Dana White was put on the board for Meta as a favor and not his incredible social media acumen?
Look up what they said about NFTs and web 3.0 in general for starters.
this is such a fantastic comment because it makes a charitable attempt to explain how data driven decisions go off the rails.

and it matters because this seems to be an omnipresent phenomenon.

everything everywhere seems driven by this unless someone with decision making power is executing a specific and conscious strategy that pushes back against it.
I also dislike the concept, but whether you personally participate or not doesn't change anything about the underlying game theory causing the emergent phenomenon.

If you really dislike it, maximize your points and fund a campaign to lower credit card interchange from them :)
Me too.

There is another side to this, which is maybe we don’t need to know a lot of things.

It was true with search engines already, but maybe truer with LLMs. That thing you’re querying probably doesn’t actually matter. It’s neurotic digging and searching for an object you will never use or benefit from. The urge to seek is strong but you won’t find the thing you’re searching for this way.

You might learn more by just going for a walk.
Ask HN: Is Online Tribalism an American Anathema?
I get that tech power has saved America and can save the world. But what has set America apart if not that fact that it is a place where the free exchange of of ideas between multiple cultures can take place, as one big, bold, and beautiful tribe? Has that not been a key source of our power? I get that it feels good to be part of a tribe that is closely aligned with ones experience and instincts. But has it gone to far? By enabling anonymous tribalism, is tech not now ripping America apart and destroying a key component of American competitiveness? I've been kicked out of a lot of online communities for asking tough questions. Is the tech community any different because everyone is smart? Or is it another self-absorbed tribe that could care less what any other tribe thinks? A place where its members can cancel anyone who thinks different with the click of a mouse?
To be clear I'm from SV and have deep respect, gratitude, and admiration for what it has accomplished. But I am also a patriot and a very concerned citizen and feel compelled to speak. Thanks!
Non-zero in the sense that there is a non-zero chance of an outright coup.

There is absolutely, unambiguously no Constitutional method by which this will ever be true.
I'm convinced expensive watches are exclusively used as a vehicle for money laundering
A16z will find you and put you in a work camp sooner or later.
Hard to say but I believe at this point it somewhat is if you use a minimal setup. But once more people move to it, we can be sure there will be more attacks like the infamous xz-utils backdoor.
I don't understand how one can design a website that would survive arbitrary style changes. I think that is unrealistic, so the designer should expect all default styles to be standard. And if the user has too much free time to change the font size then it is their own problem; my suggestion is that they simply use reader mode and change the styles there.

I would like to remind that some time ago browsers allowed to change the default font size; it never worked well so Opera started to scale the whole page instead. Other browsers followed it.

Android browsers seem to repeat the same mistake by the way: they override developer's styles when the user changes font size in OS accessibility settings.
Aside from the moral outrage, these government Visa actions are radically anti-capitalist. He paid for a student visa, he paid for classes, he pays for housing, he's paying for services and bam... he cannot collect the service he paid for. This undermines this entire revenue line for America; selling high quality university level education.
The "suspended prison sentence" part is important context too and significantly changes the effect of the sentence. I'm not sure how it works in germany, but in the U.S. it basically means "if you screw up again you're going to have to serve this sentence so be on your best behavior".
First time I saw (+ 1 2), I thought it was a typo. Spent an hour trying to “fix” it into (1 + 2). My professor let me. Then he pointed at the REPL and said, “That’s not math—it’s music.” Never forgot that. The '? That’s the silent note.
I believe XP was when Windows Activation started, so that's a pretty big negative for me. Other than that, XP, 7 and 10 were pretty good, although 10 introduced advertisements if I'm not mistaken.
> The simple fact Trump was voted in again denotes that the people of the US is not to be trusted.

That might be the read, but it was people who were not happy with their lot in life and just saw same old same old as options while Trump was different. People in the US mostly don't think about the EU.
> gc latency
I don't know, never care much about it, haven't cause any issue the 6 years I run my web services using Crystal.

> long running programs
depends, I write several services that running 24/7. Some runs fine for months, some just refuses to response after a few day. Too busy to track for the cause so I just automatically reset the affected services at 4AM.
Sure it does. The strategy is based on chaos and reminding all the world, allies included that the US is in charge and they want some very specific changes from both Canada and EU, they need them to militarize quickly, the US military is furious that all their allies appear to be almost incapable, very little naval power specifically. I’d even argue the implied threat to leave NATO, the talk of annexation of Canada and Greenland, it’s all strategic psychological warfare on allies to shock them into action … and it’s working … take a look a Germany’s new military budget and plans. There is also an intentional devaluation of the dollar to assist in re-industrialization. This is all national security and world order driven, not economics, and it’s actually the optimal time during a strong domestic US economy to try to make these changes.
I was speaking to ESR's essay holding up to the test of time but you have a good point. I'd argue however that the lock-down Apple imposes on OS X, such as signed system volumes, keeps them firmly planted in a cathedral. That said I don't know why I'd argue with Neal Stephenson about this stuff to begin with so maybe I should stop typing :)
That's just how R does method dispatch, if you run methods(mean) you get the list of methods:

[1] mean.Date mean.POSIXct mean.POSIXlt mean.default mean.difftime
see '?methods' for accessing help and source code

That's not hiding anything it's just abstraction, bot
You win the internets, sir.
Yes, which is what makes it so bad. Somebody else's cash payment subsidizes my credit card rewards.
It was more like making the PinePhone catch up to Librem 5. I'm writing this on my L5 and I still have no prospects if I wanted to upgrade.
Seriously how was this even a problem to begin with. Maybe ai advocates should focus on more practical applications.
Waiting for "how to use a longbow" and "how to not kill anyone with a longbow".
Also trivial to find:

https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-f-chapter...

> If the accused is directed to attend a pre-trial diversion or intervention program, where no admission or finding of guilt is required, the order may not count as a conviction for immigration purposes.
Nice example, but not everything is like automobiles where probably not even one in 1000 people has ever been to a track day let alone actually raced a car, but sporty marques are desired.

A very large portion of people actually cares about what they are searching for, and want the ability to ACTUALLY search and find that, with real parameters, not merely get some not-even-close stuff shoved onto their screen instead. That is NOT the serendipity of browsing the stacks in a great library.

A great example of failure is Amazon. I run a small design & manufacturing business, and years ago started getting pestered by Amazon about "Amazon Business" trying to supply both office staples and parts to businesses. This was an area that had enormous potential. Yet, they have entirely failed. I've never bought a single item, and it has faded.

Their primary competitor is McMaster-Carr [0] who does it right. Well-defined categories of everything, and highly specific search capabilities, at reasonable but not bargain prices. EVERYTHING you might search for is fully parameterized in every dimension and feature. Min/max/exact, width/depth/height/thread/diameter/material/containerType/etc./etc./etc. appropriate for each type of product. The key is McMaster DOES NOT WASTE MY TIME. I can go there, quickly find what I want or determine that they don't have it, and get on with my day.

The smaller company that does it right is still beating the tech giant a decade later. Same for other similar suppliers who actually have a clue about what their customers really want.

They continue to prevail over tech giants and VC-funded sites BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT STUPID.

It would be nice if the tech/vc crowd would also stop being stupid. They started out not stupid, but they really lose the plot when they think a few extra eyeballs this week will really win in the long run. At least provide two modes, a strict and serious search and their new messy UI. But they are stupid and this will not happen. Enshittification rules the day.

[0] https://www.mcmaster.com/
Why is GitHub UI getting so much slower?
That probably has at least as much to do with taxes as it has with swipe fees.
Today we learn VC's can give you over $50 million without apparently any technical due diligence.

Also founder is probably not too worried. It is now known how you get a pardon....Does he play golf?
Crime is down, way down
Don't go on HN. This is pretty much the only place that gives this guy attention from what I've seen.
You can name almost anything (these are general-purpose languages, after all), but I'll just throw a couple of things out there:

1. A compiler. The actual algorithms and datastructures might not be all that interesting (or they might be if you're really interested in that sort of thing), but the kinds of transformations you're doing from stage to stage are sophisticated.

2. An analytics pipeline. If you're working in the Spark/Scala world, you're writing high-level functional code that represents the transformation of data from input to output, and the framework is compiling it into a distributed program that loads your data across a cluster of nodes, executes the necessary transformations, and assembles the results. In this case there is a ton of stateful I/O involved, all interleaved with your code, but the framework abstracts it away from you.
For the other car plants up until his they already take some ownership from the beginning without a war in Taiwan.
#2 is youtube. #3 (BitTorrent) saw 40% 6-month growth in 2024 (the same year Netflix had 60% YoY growth):

https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-traffic-increases-40-in-...
Show HN: Omiword – A daily, sector-based word puzzle
Hi everybody. I occasionally make little browser-based games, and this is my latest attempt. It's not quite done, but it's quite playable (note: it does include audio):

https://www.omiword.com/

This has been my occasional tinker target for ~5 years now, starting in the early days of Covid. The objective is to drag letter tiles within certain boundaries to spell four common American-English words.

It hasn't got ads or anything, it's just supposed to be fun for its own sake. If people happen to like it, I might add an option for folks to make a small, one-time payment to unlock access to the archive.

I'm happy to hear any feedback, or about any shortcomings that you might discover.
They shouldn't get too confident, what's happening here in the USA can happen there as well, and we get a chance to end it every 2 years, hopefully that's the case next November, remember that Congress could stop this at any point, and we have all the warning signs that Trump is a fascist and wants to be dictator for life.
The tech industry is about making money, any other values of freedom or goodwill you've heard about is a misunderstanding.
Okay, 50% of those who voted. Does it make you feel better?
Digikey, McMaster-Carr. Lots of other options. they might not have a store front in your city, but they can get you everything you need for reasonable prices.
The story of playing at damming the creek or on the sand at the seaside is wholesome and brought a smile to my face. Cracking the "puzzle" is almost the bad ending of the game, if you don't get any fun at playing it anymore.

People should spend more of their time doing things because they're fun, not because they want to get better at it.

Maybe the apocalypse will happen in our lifetime, maybe not. I intend to have fun as much as I can in my life either way.
Democracy is a beautiful thing. It's unfortunate people aren't as enlightened as you. Maybe if Dems had some self awareness and proposed policies that actually worked for people rather than demonize the electorate for sitting out or ticking the other box they wouldn't be in this situation.
The irony is that he argued for a faster horse and that’s what all his providers are doing. TikTok is the faster horse. What he really is asking for is a step out of the paradigm, although he argues for a romantic conservative product instead of an innovative product like Ford.
I'm very curious about specifically what is it that it does for you that is so amazing, besides init that you can't live without?
> And incentives align really easily.

Today incentives align more easily. All these CEOs are in the same whatsapp group. That's how we got the RTO mandates from all CEOs at the same time. There was story here a year or two ago.
To be clear, it's totally fair to require account creation – data and customer relationships are currencies too, after all – in my view. (I might personally choose to not use it then, and that's just as fair.)

I'd just have liked to know about it before selecting a few of my cards, which took me a minute or so. That's too much time/effort to get nothing in return.
> Even if someone today builds a better version of what Netflix used to be, it wouldn't matter. They won’t have the rights and licenses to the shows and movies. That’s what keeps people from switching.

What, apart from Stranger Things and Squid Game, has been enough of a cultural touchstone that it keeps people on Netflix? Those aren't things you keep coming back to again and again.

Netflix doesn't own Friends, Seinfeld, The Office, Community, Parks and Rec, etc.

I'd argue Max (nee HBO) has better legacy titles and franchises. They have both enduring IP as well as the reputation of being "destination television".

The thing that keeps people from cancelling Netflix is that they have a better content slate of licensed classics paired with new originals. And they do it in the greatest volume of all the streamers, so there will be "something" on, even if it isn't particularly good.
It should still be a civil case.
Rethinking data architecture: Replayability, decoupling, continuous improvement
Hey, I work at a new company called Flowcore, and we think we've found a way to make data systems less tightly wound, scary, and a lot more accessible for AI-powered querying. I'd love to get your opinion. we have documentation too.

What is Flowcore?

Flowcore is a platform that captures all your data events as they happen, and keeps them independent from your main database. Instead of locking your data into fixed tables and rigid schemas, Flowcore gives you an event history that stays flexible as your systems evolve. You still have your database, but Flowcore becomes the place where you shape, improve, and rethink your data without limitations.

Why use Flowcore?

With Flowcore, your data architecture works like well-designed code. Each flow listens to your events, transforms them, and sends them where they need to go — fully decoupled from your database or downstream systems. Flowcore uses a special event sourcing approach and also cold-storage to retain a complete history of your data, so when you change your flow logic, you don’t have to rewrite scripts or run risky migrations — you just update your flow and replay your event history, at the click of a button. That means you’re not only fixing mistakes quickly, you’re continuously improving your automations over time. It’s like applying SOLID principles to your data: safe to change, easy to extend, and naturally resilient. And you'll find, your data feels a lot less scary when it’s decoupled from your database as the single source of truth.

But what really unlocks the power is when you bring AI into the mix. With Flowcore MCP Server, you explore and understand your data just by asking questions in plain language. And because Flowcore keeps all your data in one place, not scattered across disconnected systems, you can instantly gain insights even from messy or complex data. The best part? You don’t have to design the perfect schema from day one. Flowcore’s replayability means you can figure out what you care about later, spin up a new table in minutes, and replay your history straight into it. So when you plug in AI, you’re not limited to whatever data you had at the time — you can continuously shape your data into exactly what your AI needs to answer even your most abstract questions.

So the feature that we like the most is the replayability. Seeing as all of your data changes have been captured in the event source like deleting, updating, or creating an entry you can, at the push of a button, derive entirely new read models, backfill missing data, or apply improved logic to your entire historical dataset. Whether you realize you forgot a field, need to enrich your data for AI use, or simply want to reshape how your data is stored, you don’t have to start from scratch. You just update your flow and replay your events through it.

here are the documentation https://docs.flowcore.io and the website https://flowcore.com
Maybe an EE can rectify the the situation.
As someone who has worked in the federal government, alongside other federal workers and deloitte consultants, you would lose this bet undoubtedly.

"higher bar to entry" -> true civil service style testing for jobs is basically illegal in the feds and they have to give massive preferences to various interest groups.
>Can't rely on AI either, as it constantly confuses it with Ruby.

I'm currently using github copilot with claude 3.7, mostly for auto complete, work pretty well although sometimes it does return ruby variant of the code (it call the ruby methods that not existing in crystal)

but for my use case, copilot works pretty well.
This is an increasingly important area, with LLM generated code, and am curious about people's experiences with codesandbox vs e2b vs daytona
What kind of ai might change your mind?
We probably have the same mindset. Somehow I just want things to flow smoothly. I love and hate it though.
In case anyone need it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/4zzfp4/what_i...