MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WalterBright | 2025-04-19 00:00:53+00:00
Here's that TECO macro (have fun!):

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Obviously, the TECO programming language was a challenge to understand. Mitigating this is it needed to be extremely compact, as it was used on a 64Kb PDP-11.
by xp84 | 2025-04-19 00:01:38+00:00
> Suburbs don't need to be car-dependent

Probably true, but unless you have infinite money, building enough housing with expensive rail infrastructure is pretty tough. We can only manage truly world-class(ish) transit in (parts of) one city, NYC, and plenty of people still routinely choose to move out of Manhattan upon having kids instead of staying, either because they can't afford enough space to reasonably make a go of it, or because it's so much easier to do the car-dependent suburb. So, the people themselves are choosing it. Whatever anyone thinks of it, there is plenty of evidence that a lot of people who have a choice choose something other than the urban walkable deal.

PS: Don't come at me please, I loved living in a big urban city, but moved out because I refused to choose only one of: big enough home, safe neighborhood, decent schools, reasonable commute distance. And honestly to stay in the urban core where I used to live, only "commute distance" was even available.
by tiltowait | 2025-04-19 00:02:28+00:00
I've subscribed to Kagi for 2 years and subscribed to Perplexity for 2 months. I liked Perplexity a lot—in particular, I think its search AI search is faster and maybe a little better than Kagi's. But the lack of standard search and not being able to do non-search AI work led me to drop it and just keep Kagi. And then Kagi released Ki, their multi-step assistant, which is close to as good.
by the_snooze | 2025-04-19 00:03:22+00:00
With all the money, research, and hype going into these LLM systems over the past few years, I can't help but ask: if I still can't rely on them for simple easy-to-check use cases for which there's a lot of good training data out there (e.g., sports trivia [1]), isn't it deeply irresponsible to use them for any non-toy application?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43669364
by xbmcuser | 2025-04-19 00:03:25+00:00
He is wrong on the price of electricity by a factor of 100. The LCOE of solar and Bess is below cost of coal in China already ie around $0.04-0.05/kwh. Recently UAE signed a contract for 1 Gwh 24 hour solar and BESS supply for 10 years at around $6 billion which is approximately $0.07/kwh but after 10 years the solar and batteries will still be working at 85-90% capacity cost 0.

I cant say about planes but as far as ocean freight shipping goes we are very close to the tipping point. Battery prices have already reached a point where it is cheaper to go battery electric for small voyages.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-022-01065-y
by EasyMark | 2025-04-19 00:04:12+00:00
the bottom line profit is your primary guideline if you are succeeding. Profits have been great for most companies for quite a while now. WFH works in most cases. The current push to end it, is simply a fad amongst CEOs because it's popular, not because it is proven or has merit. If you are in a construction crew, obviously you can't work from home. If you work in an office and mostly on your own "stuff" you can work from home and work more productively without all the office distractions and negative energy.
by Panzer04 | 2025-04-19 00:04:19+00:00
What do you mean? Virtually no one is arguing that marine or air is viable given current tech.

The article author though demonstrates some clear lack of understanding about more viable tech though, given his absurd assertion about the profitability of EV scooter companies. Ground-based EVs like cars and ebikes are clearly here to stay and are going to replace almost all fossil-fueld based equivalents.
by xp84 | 2025-04-19 00:05:15+00:00
You can only have beautiful, clean and safe cities if you're willing to forbid people - who can walk in from anywhere at any time no matter how much you subsidize yesterday's batch with free housing - from making them ugly, dirty, and unsafe, and SF doesn't have the heart to make anybody do anything. They used to halfheartedly try to go through the motions, and for about 10 years now, they have given up even that.
by drjasonharrison | 2025-04-19 00:05:30+00:00
https://time.com/archive/6712646/shipping-the-cement-is-in-t...

TIME

July 4, 1988 12:00 AM EDT

What is the cheapest way to get 6,000 concrete blocks and 4,600 bags of cement to a remote Eskimo village? Answer: mail them. Sam Krogstad, a construction supplier in Anchorage, is sending the individually addressed blocks (postage: $4.33 each) and bags ($4.27) about 700 miles north to Wainwright, where they will be used to build a small harbor on the Arctic Ocean. Krogstad’s bill for stamps will be about $45,000, less than what other shippers would charge.

The Postal Service is not pleased about the shipment, which will cost about $180,000 to deliver by truck and plane. But the agency can find nothing illegal about Krogstad’s parcels, which weigh a few pounds less than the 70- lb. maximum for regular mail.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-04-19 00:05:52+00:00
I was a TECO user on RSX-11M, then switched to FINE (Fine Is Not EMACS :-)) on Top 10 & 20. When I started at Sun I started using vi but on the Amiga I continued to use MicroEMACS which felt a bit like FINE[1]. After Sun I pretty much stuck to vi because it was so much faster over a remote X11 connection than EMACS was.

Also used PFE32 for a while on the Amiga, sad that the source for that never made it out.

[1] I still have Craig Finseth's thesis "A Cookbook for an Emacs" which talks about designing FINE.
by tmnvix | 2025-04-19 00:05:53+00:00
It's not so simple in my opinion.

Where I live the ratio of dwellings to households has increased during the three decade long property price boom.

The most significant cause in my opinion is the financialisation of housing, fueled by three decades of ever decreasing interest rates allowing those with capital to use leverage to accumulate more (often removing them from the stock of permanent housing).

Higher interest rates are the catalyst that solves this problem.
by onecommentman | 2025-04-19 00:05:59+00:00
Impossibly expensive?

“The price tag: about $90 billion in today’s dollars, just for capital costs.” To save (their words) Texas water supply, a State with a population of 30 million people.

A passenger rail system between LA and San Francisco. “The latest estimate for San Francisco to Los Angeles is $106 billion — more than three times the original cost estimate.”

https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-transportati...

To potentially serve 30 Million “riders” annually with a rail transit service,. So 100 Thousand riders/day? Three tenths of a percent of all Californians? On a corridor that already has auto, bus and air options? Where’s the salvation here?

https://hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-Draft-Bus...

If the Texas plan is impossibly expensive, where does that leave the California high-speed rail plan?

Nuclear is a bit silly. Solar/wind is perfect…you really don’t care exactly when the water moves.
by taylodl | 2025-04-19 00:06:14+00:00
Firing Fed Chair Powell would be a highly destabilizing move, drastically increasing the perceived political risk of investing in U.S. Treasuries. The resulting pullback in foreign investment would place immense pressure on the U.S. government's ability to fund its operations, demanding much higher interest rates to attract any investment. Since Trump is expected to demand interest rates to be lowered, it's unlikely the U.S. government will receive the funding they need to continue operations.
by the_gipsy | 2025-04-19 00:07:11+00:00
Yes, for me it sounds very foreign, to not to have it.

I almost constantly have fragments of scenes playing out, when I'm not doing something that requires concentration. Either myself telling something, ar asking, at someone or myself. Sometimes reversed. As I said, I think it's mostly fragments, or there is some kind of "fast forward" where the conclusion is articulated prematurely, and I suppose the exercise has reached its purpose.

You have good weekend and holidays too!
by pfdietz | 2025-04-19 00:07:18+00:00
I don't see how that can possibly be correct, at least for commercial airliners.

An airliner will use maximum power at takeoff, somewhat less for climbing, and much less during cruise. The figure I see is takeoff fuel consumption/hour is like 3x cruise fuel consumption/hour. Power needed will also decline as fuel is burned off, since the required lift goes down.
by alpaca128 | 2025-04-19 00:07:40+00:00
An animated indicator by itself shows absolutely nothing other than the fact that animations are working.

I have seen animated indicators running forever with no progress so often that I usually assume something went wrong as soon as I see one for more than a couple seconds. Animated spinners are the most fundamental UI element of bloated software that barely works.

Just show the 1% or whatever else that tells the user it's not stuck.
by loeg | 2025-04-19 00:08:20+00:00
> least of all no STL

That's certainly a restricted dialect of C++.

> I find it a bit amusing to call a 250 MHz STM32H5 MCU a constrained micro environment, if anything it's a bit overkill for what we need.

I took an "embedded" systems class in college 15+ years ago that targeted a 32-bit ARM with megabytes of ram, so using these kBs of RAM micros in 2025 definitely feels like a constrained environment to me. The platforms I work on with C++ professionally have, ya know, hundreds of gigabytes of RAM (and our application gets ~100% of it).
by Panzer04 | 2025-04-19 00:08:33+00:00
You've not actually addressed the cost points he makes. You seem to bediscounting the sheer cost effectiveness of renewable power because if an ideological opposition to it.

The wonderful thing about looking at how much something actually costs is you don't need to do all the work yourself - just look at the expense of the inputs and calculate your output. Solar panel electricity is absurdly cheap.

In any case it's obvious that current direct electrification is not feasible using current battery tech, so alternatives need to be explored. Unless we find a battery tech with 10x energy density batteries aren't likely to be viable in the air.
by tzs | 2025-04-19 00:09:06+00:00
> That is all a bunch of hogwash. Most people can get ID for like $20 from their state

There's also the cost of finding and getting copies of supporting documents, which are often in another state (e.g., the state you were born in, not the state you now live in). Records for many older Americans have not been digitized or even centralized so if your family moved when you were very young you may have to search the physical records in multiple counties to find yours.

> Even if I accept it, the answer is not to lower standards. It is to actually help these people get the ID that they need.

Obviously, but the same people passing voter ID laws are also making it harder for people to get ID. They reduce the number of offices that issue IDs, with the reductions disproportionately being in districts that tend to not vote for the people who are passing those laws. They say it is because those districts have much lower drivers per capita so don't need as many DMVs (which are usually the offices that deal with ID).

In the offices that remain they'll reduce the hours in which IDs are issued, getting rid of evening and weekend hours. For many poor people that can mean a full day of lost work to go try to get an ID, and many cannot afford that. Besides the loss of a day's pay these places often have terrible public transit so they are looking at an expensive ride on commercial transportation.

For people in low income jobs these barriers can be huge.

> Anything else permits rampant fraud

Then how come no one has been able to actually find evidence of such fraud? No matter how well funded the search they all come up empty.

> Go try to open a bank account or cash a check without ID. Everyone will tell you GTFO if you don't have the same type of ID needed to vote

23% of people earning under $25k/year do not have bank accounts but manage just fine. On that comment I gave you early with all the links to research that you ignored, someone asked how people live without ID and I posted a response there covering some of the ways they get buy.
by CalChris | 2025-04-19 00:10:41+00:00
Ugh. The slot theory lives on. The physics textbook still used at Berkeley, Giancoli, used the slot effect as an example despite … Gentry being a Berkeley grad. I sent a letter. I never got a response. However, the latest edition deleted the slot example and instead uses the Bernoulli principle yet stops short of Runge Kutta circulation.
by wiml | 2025-04-19 00:10:57+00:00
Here's a survey article from the late 80s which should have a rich references section for you:

Ghiorse & Wilson, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2164(08)70206-5

I think there are two strands: petroleum companies have long been interested in any connection between deep biology and oil; and I think around that time people found microbes in a few sterile-seeming aquifers.
by Nifty3929 | 2025-04-19 00:11:20+00:00
Yes, of course, and that's why it's best not to put the important information into and image. Of course, many senders do this anyway, but at least it requires them to send me an image. No different really than sending me a link to the important information as I mentioned in my post.

But let's not make this even easier or default please. It's bad enough as-is.

A nice improvement would be for prominent clients like gmail to default to NOT display images. This would force bulk-senders (including legitimate ones) to stop putting the important info in images most of the time.

Ditto with links - maybe the clients should stop making them clickable, forcing the user to copy-paste the link. Not sure about this one...
by the_gipsy | 2025-04-19 00:11:59+00:00
Well, you added a tone there, removed the preventive apology, and added some kind of insult at the end. So I'm not interested in your conversation at all. I've made myself clear. You can go and revisit the other comments to find out about the other side too - you seem to not have understood what "inner monologue" is for most people, by what you are saying.
by mcdeltat | 2025-04-19 00:12:05+00:00
It does need some explanation and sectioning in between the readme and code comments, for the purpose of readability. I started reading the C++ source and wasn't sure what was happening, then realised the file is humongous and stopped. Perhaps splitting it into separate files with individual explanations would help. Also worth keeping in mind that with complex or intricate code, no one has any idea what you're doing unless you explicitly tell them.

I used such a structure in a benchmark suite https://github.com/MC-DeltaT/cpu-performance-demos
by esafak | 2025-04-19 00:12:21+00:00
"[Hallucinations] don't form from out-of-distribution samples — they arise due to spurious attractor states on the Energy Landscape. In other words, 'noisy bumps' in the loss. So in the physics approach, to characterize the training error, we ask how sensitive is the free energy to noise. This is why in statistical physics, the training and generalization errors are not defined distributionally. That is, we don't define them using a training set and a test set. Instead, the errors are found by using the free energy as a generating function and taking the appropriate partial derivative."

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/charlesmartin14_talktochuck-t...
by wewewedxfgdf | 2025-04-19 00:13:26+00:00
Sure there's plenty of hype. But its justified to some extent at least. LLMs are one of the biggest advances in technology in human history. In computing the big ones are:

* creation of computers

* personal computers

* the Internet and world wide web

* LLMs

So the hype is at some level entirely warranted - its a revolutionary technology with real impact. As opposed to for example the hype around crypto or NFTs or blockchain or garbage like that.
by crgwbr | 2025-04-19 00:14:13+00:00
Luxury. My washer and dryer both display numbers the appear to be minutes remaining, but do not tick down with any discernible relation to time. They start around 55, then over the course of 90 minutes decrement down to 10 in random steps. Then it hangs at 10 for another 10-20 mins, then eventually goes to 0 and shuts off. Are these supposed to be minutes? Is there any reason for their disconnection from the passage of time? Who knows? The manual certainly doesn’t say.
by mrandish | 2025-04-19 00:15:33+00:00
> Around 2000 we were already using normal x86 machines in the offices and homes.

Yes, I assumed so but figured if Poland had homegrown 8-bit micros in the mid-80s similar to the Galaksija in Yugoslavia or the rare Pecom 64 (of which I have one in my collection!), that they might still be in original owners hands in 2000 instead of museums.

> Country itself changed in last 20 years and if you haven't seen it again in that time, you should return

It was lovely when I visited but there were still some signs of the old soviet era lingering. I'm sure with the economic growth since then it's remarkably different today. I hope to see it someday!
by arp242 | 2025-04-19 00:15:58+00:00
Good grief that issue is a clusterfuck of bozos.

Sometimes I wish there was a GitHub with entry exam. "A library you use has a bug, you find a find a 3 month old bug report for your exact issue. Do you 1) add a comment with "me too", 2) express your frustration this issue hasn't been fixed yet, 3) demand the maintainers fix it as soon as possible as it's causing issues for you, or 4) do nothing".

Only half joking.
by Nifty3929 | 2025-04-19 00:16:24+00:00
I hate these EU requirements. They do nothing to help real users, and really make everything worse. Like, is it helpful that every single website now has an added banner that we have to click, but which still nobody reads and doesn't really help anything? All to avoid cookies, which are not really the source of the problem these laws were meant to address? ARRRGHHH!

As far as the file size - does that critically important message need to be embedded in a 10MB PDF? Maybe we should go back to 50k limits and force them to put that one-liner in plain text in the email. ARRRGHHH!

And get off my lawn! ARRRGHHH
by Alupis | 2025-04-19 00:17:21+00:00
A company's profits can remain high even while operating very inefficiently.

You seem to have strong opinions on WFH. Find a job that agrees and allows this. If your current employer requires RTO, well.. they're paying you to be in the office so show up and stop the conspiracy theories.

It's objectively vastly more expensive to operate an office building or buildings. No organization is going to decide to incur the significant expenses and liabilities associated with operating facilities with people in them if they don't need to. Very little logic supports your claims, especially regarding the "CEO" and "fad" points you are attempting to make.
by onecommentman | 2025-04-19 00:17:59+00:00
“Nobody made a cent selling people what they need. You have to sell them what they want.” — somebody somewhere. If people in a free society, or any society, don’t want to change, generally they have several very good reasons why, based on painful past experiences. Do you have even more good reasons why they should change, based on evidence even more persuasive that lived experience? I’m guessing not, if you’re asking random Internet people.
by djrj477dhsnv | 2025-04-19 00:19:07+00:00
> It is not reasonable to hold someone accountable for doing something illegal in 2020 that was only determined to be illegal in 2025.

Tell that to a financial regulator and see where it gets you. That's how it works for everyone else. Just because a law hasn't been clarified yet doesn't stop it from being applied to your past actions after courts have clarified it.
by cafed00d | 2025-04-19 00:21:05+00:00
To me, AI hype seems to be the most tangible/real hype in a decade.

Ever since mobile & cloud era at their peaks in 2012 or 2014, we’ve had Crypto, AR, VR, and now AI.

I have some pocket change bitcoin, ethereum, played around for 2 minutes on my dust-gathering Oculus & Vision Pro; but man, oh man! Am I hooked to ChatGpt or what!

It’s truly remarkably useful!

You just can’t get this type of thing in one click before.

For example, here’s my latest engineering productivity boosting query: “when using a cfg file on the cmd line what does "@" as a prefix do?”
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-19 00:21:12+00:00
> I've seen tons of people on camera (another thing some management likes to "encourage" by mandate) who are working out of bedrooms, closets, or other makeshift rooms in their house. This is just _asking_ for a constant barrage of distractions.

At home, there have never been more than three other people in my house, when I’m “at work” with my door closed, they knew not to bother me. At work in an office there are constant distractions.

As far as “tech sales”. I’ve lead my share of complex cloud tech projects from discovery, customer acceptance to leading the delivery - all remotely. Yes sometimes I had to travel to the client’s site. But I haven’t needed to be in the office with the people on my team (who were sometimes in another country).

My coworkers are just that my coworkers. At work, “I’m taking a step back to look at things from the thousand foot few”, “taking things to the parking lot”, and “adding on to what Becky said”. I’m a completely different person at home. At the end of the day, my “friends” at work are not interested in keeping their jobs. I go to work to make money - not friends.

I’ve worked for two companies remotely since 2020 - Amazon and now a much smaller company. They both had excellent onboarding procedures. While AWS wasn’t “remote first”, my department (Professional Services) was as is my current company. Both had “onboarding buddies” and Amazon had a list of people you should set up 1x1’s with an instructions for the relevant internal systems you should use.