skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Germany regulated all scooters a few years back (with additional local rules for rentals).

That means some required safety features, mandatory insurance, minimum driver age and rules about what part of the road you can use.

It seems to work quite well in practice, however, I question the economic viability of the business model.

In my ~80k inhabitants, touristy city I see them rarely used and the few times I took one they seemed quite expensive.

Bird already left the again.
There's something about this that gives the impression of an ISA that was developed in simulation without any real regard for hardware and then just tossed over the wall to be realized in silicon. I'm particularly baffled by instructions not being byte-aligned. Is there any successful processor that takes this "stream of bits" approach?
One definite advantage of the QR code compared to the barcode is that the QR code can be read much more quickly with an inexpensive camera.
What do you mean by "the entire VM crashing"? The JVM is no more susceptible to crashes than BEAM.

BTW, my point is that can now be a very good platform for Erlang/OTP. Its performance will allow Erlang/Elixir programs to reduce their reliance on native code and to handle higher loads.
Just bought an asus machine for work and Ive had the same experience as the author.
Gpedit isn’t available on the home edition and you’re plagued with notifications, tabloids, apps that should be mobile apps and I would argue, ironically, have no place in a home.

I cant be bothered to upgrade to pro or linux as the machine is just a host for vmware horizons but lets see when the first major update happens.
I was thinking about this yesterday after reading a lot about Kay’s Dynabook & watching him speak about it a lot. I think the author is spot-on about windows being a terrible environment for kids. Same with the iPad, sadly. The iPad is sort of close to Kay’s vision of the Dynabook, but obviously too locked down to allow the necessary creativity.

I think some sort of single-board computer running whatever flavour of Linux should do quite well for kids. When they get into gaming, you can help them do a custom build and have something like Manjaro on it. I’m sure Valve’s proton work will be able to handle anything by that time (referring to the author’s ten-year-old child).

I grew up with windows. Started with win95, then I got my dad’s old HP laptop running XP. The damn thing weighed about 10kg. Went on to vista, then built my own pc at about 15, running win7. I think that was about the last windows computer I used full-time. My parents bought me a nice MacBook Pro in 2011 when I was 16. The relative ‘elegance’ of OSX and the hardware made a big impression on me. Windows, by comparison, felt as though it was half-baked and not well crafted. It’s vague, but that’s all I understood as a kid.

I was lucky for this revelation. With win10 and 11, it just got worse and worse, and today windows is spyware as far as I’m concerned. I have a modest build running win10 for playing TF2, but that’s all I can bear using that system for. All other gaming is done on the Steam Deck.

Full computing history out of the way, I definitely agree with the author. Modern windows is a cesspool and such a bad place for kids. Better off getting them a SBC or an apple machine.
Great analogy & breakdown.

My go-to explanation is to think of ChatGPT like a really intelligent friend who's always available to help you out – but they're also super autistic, and you need to learn the best way to interact with them over time.
For me, it's disambiguation. Of course, in many jobs, drilling down to the real ask, the requirements, is a big part of the work that needs done.

If I'm given a clear "this is how you'll know you're done", I can often figure out how to get there and fly through my work. But give me "we think we might want to do this, get started" and I'm exhausted before I even start.
I can't tell you how relieved I was when Windows Update pronounced my gaming desktop as not cool enough for Windows 11.
If they wanted to remove that option, they would have done it as part of the Apple Silicon transition. Apple might have its issues (App Store, Right to Repair, etc), but they seem quite set on not locking down the Mac.
I can see that

It practically requires people to play devil’s advocate to anything I observe about the cayman islands

But the article also contributed to that, it acts like its a big mystery when the reality is that academic research groups could just never get enough money to dry run forming a hedge fund in the cayman islands and say “oooh I get it”

now they finally did some research and realize this is the worst kept secret, everyone is using the Cayman Islands already for a multitude of reasons that have nothing to do with hiding anything from tax revenues
The essay is long and complicated so I'm not sure how much of it you read closely, but it specifically addresses this distinction between the simulator and the simulacrum.

In the analogy of the essay, your argument would be like saying that reality cannot be simply the application of quantum physics, because you are allowed to make new rules like Calvinball within reality which are different from the rules of quantum physics.
He can make the same criticism of Internet searches as he does of GPT: you shouldn't trust them until you validate them.

I find that GPT's answers are for the most part more reliable the searches, specifically today's searches. In the last 12 months, search results have become so spammy with AI generated pages (oh the irony), that it's hard to find reliable answers.

So like search, I look at GPT's answers with a grain of salt and validate them, but these days I use GPT all day every day and search rarely.
To be fair, I use it a lot because I have a GPT CLI that works just the way I want it to, since I wrote it :-).
https://github.com/drorm/gish
OP is (trying to) findthewords.
Weird, I just ran some benchmarks with bun a few days ago for my own purposes, and I concluded that their marketing slogan was bs and Node was faster.

However, I did it again with this example and Bun is indeed significantly faster

- 15.1k inserts/s with `uuid` and `Date.toUTCString()`

- 20k inserts/s with faking uuid and date (generated unique strings)

Bun is now scientifically at the Rust level of Web Scale, which is pretty crazy. I wonder how they do that, because it's still just v8 under the hood? Mayhaps their sqlite driver is faster.
I think the issue is that people walking by knock them over, moreso than the kickstands not working.

If you live in Berkeley (and many other cities), there's an added backdrop of anger at "big tech" that many non-tech workers have, so many people will kick or knock them over (I've seen this). I've also heard of people taking these (and bikeshare bikes) and throwing them in the ocean/lake/etc.
Yes but right now there is 100% of the users using the one algorithm (or chronological). If one doesn't know what percentage or which people are using which algorithm, it becomes harder to know which ones to try to hack to have the biggest result.
It's a bit worse. While Group policy requires at least the pro version of windows , many of group policy settings for disabling this junk only work in enterprise and educational versions of windows.
I have one of these jobs currently.

It is a nightmare for me, and I do somewhat regret taking the contract even with the sizable hourly rate.

In my eyes, programming makes sense. Even if I introduce bugs, I can sooner or later track down the issue, facepalm, resolve it, and move on with my day, with some semblance of accomplishment and lessons learned.

My prompt engineering work offers no such rewards, and is a total time-suck. This is because, as another commenter wrote here, it is "throwing shit at the wall and hoping it sticks."

While you can treat it as a scientific endeavor, testing hypotheses against a black box, you will never find a prompt that works consistently, even with a low temperature, solely because these models were not built to give consistent results. There is no end-all solution, there is no "correct prompt."

Companies employing prompt engineers are looking for such consistency. Prompt engineers are therefore stuck in a system where they simply cannot succeed. They can hope and pray that the testing done by managers produces fruitful results upon every test, but the results are, for all intents and purposes, random.
Funny you should say that, I recently started to use it to push through the tedium. Nothing critical, nothing IP revealing, no copy-pasting - just "Ok, how do I do X using technology Y", or "Write me a function that does X with Y".

Changing the problem from having to figure the simple but tedious thing myself, to having to review someone else's solution, is like switching to a less obstructed track. > 50% of the time, ChatGPT is wrong in some way. But it's also close enough, and/or mentions some magic phrase or a hitherto unknown to me library function, that it's both interesting and motivating.
I understand (1) but how does (2) happen? If you don’t trust it can’t you just have a kill switch that needs to be updated daily otherwise the thing turns off? How would software be able to alter the hardware it runs on such that it can guarantee itself an endless supply of power?
Yep, undefined behavior is unsafe, C in general is unsafe. There are plenty of languages that are safe, though a little bit rusty like ADA, use one of these if you want safe code.

If you still want to use C, for example for compatibility reasons and want to make it safer, assert isn't going away (unless you set NDEBUG). Preconditions are not "inevitably violated", there are ways of making sure they aren't, and I think an explicit "unreachable()" can help tools that are designed for that purpose.

Should you profile first before using unreachable() for optimization purposes? Maybe, but the important part is that now, you have a way of clearly and effectively tell the compiler what you know will never happen so that it can optimize accordingly, whether it is before or after profiling.

Compilers usually do a great job at optimization, but there are often some edge cases the compiler have to take into account in order to generate code that complies with the C standard, and it can have an impact on performance. unreachable() is one way to tell the compiler "please forget about the edge case, I know it won't happen anyways", the best part is that it is explicit, no obscure tricks here.

Side note about profilers: no matter what your strategy is with regards to optimization, I think profilers are essential tools that don't get enough attention. People talk a lot about linting, coverage and unit tests, but profilers are not to be left out. They are not just tools that tell you where not to optimize your code, they can also find bugs, mostly performance bugs, but not only.
As someone who comes here expecting a source of fresh high-quality content, it saddens me to see reddit style reposts on the top of the page.
It would be interesting to setup a sort of “quiz” about the US for Europeans and vice versa for Americans, I bet both would get those political points vastly wrong (eg, they’d think abortion laws way stricter or lax than they actually are, same with guns, etc). Most of what you know about other places comes from the media depicting it.
I've used 11. 7 is the last good version.
Making 3D printers available to people with less money is quite a contribution if you ask me.
The biggest friction is not the app, but rather needing to leave home carrying a bike helmet every day on the off chance that you want to use one of these scooters. I don't even ride a bike without a helmet and these scooters are much more dangerous than a bike (small wheels far below the rider's center of mass, inherently dangerous.) The market for helmet-less scooter rides anywhere, let alone on hard surfaced streets with traffic, is limited to people with death wishes.
> stayed on 10 and am avoiding upgrading

It still tries to move you to 11, big You Have Free Upgrade window on startup. I declined maybe 4 times already. It still shows.

Im totally a MacOS fan, i use Linux daily but only for my servers. Windows in on my gaming PC.
You said it’s not just a tax blocker. Yet your explanation only explains how it is a tax blocker.
The glide actually cause problems with shoved food into my gums that only the dentist was able to remove later.

It’s amazing when you look at this measure it says that Glide has 240k ppm (24% of entire product mass) was organic flourine!!

https://www.mamavation.com/beauty/toxic-pfas-dental-floss-to...
Fun story: TouchPal, the default keyboard on my old HTC phone, was loaded with malware.

But nobody found out till HTC stopped supporting it, so it just... stayed there, uninstallable because its a system app, unless you removed it with adb.

Point being that this is probably the tip of an iceberg. Datamining Android malware isnt always so easy to find.
If your home improvement store reintroduced lead and asbestos into the products they sell today, and then created a new premium product line without them, would you pony up for the latter, or would you take your business elsewhere?
Yeah they do. It started with Windows 10. It’s one of the reasons I moved over to Linux for gaming last year (I have been using Linux for work for years)
I always loved the useless utilities competitions. Me and a Buddy made one for measuring your foot size by entering yours monitors size and dpi, putting your foot on the monitor and then adjusting a bottom and top line and then would tell you your shoe number.
Marketing from who? This really isn't apple's style and doesn't much benefit them, and I can't think of any other company that would be motivated.
It's macro substitution on crafted templatized prompts at best. Calling it engineering dilutes the term either further than it already is. (Looking at you Salesforce "Engineer").
> How do you trust a system (or its manufacturer) if you can't even know if those settings, which you deliberately chose, persist?

you'll want the kid to be able to reinstall from scratch as a list ditch "fix" for whatever they "broke" and learning to spot deceptively hidden/chosen defaults is a requisite for effectively using windows - the os installer is obligated to give you a crash course
Microsoft has basically become a hostile software company. All of this aggressive and constant insistence to use their stuff just so that some line on some VP’s graph goes up.

This is what we get when incentives are misaligned.
Call your local hardware store and ask them how much a utility sink costs.
Simplify your daily tasks without ChatGPT without leaving your favorite sites
GPTify is an AI tool that simplifies your daily tasks without leaving your favorite sites. It offers predefined commands like gen:, para:, and summarize:, making it easy to generate text, paragraphs, and summaries. You can also customize commands to fit your specific needs.
There are a small number of organisms that get their energy ultimately from mineral sources and a few cases of an organism getting some energy from something similar to photosynthesis from local radioactive sources but the vast majority of energy used by living things by a wide margin comes from solar radiation.

Unless your food chain contains a significant number of extremophiles (like something eating near hydrothermal vents), essentially everything can be traced back to photosynthesis.
as a general windows fan, I also hate windows 11. I upgraded my 11 to windows 10, and if windows 12 doesn't resolve this horrible apple/android copy cat nonsense, I will regrettably move to Linux full time. I run kde on hardware for my work computer as the only os on the device for over 2 years now. I still use windows 10 at home for personal computing. kde based Debian is good, better than osx and windows 11 for sure, but I just can't swallow it as my only os for entertainment, it just isn't there yet.
Not everyone wants to buy an OS upgrade for their work to not get removed.
I'd say though that not all stimulants necessarily mess with sleep. I've been mostly using methylphenidate and it only messes with ability to fall asleep for the few first days when I'm back after a break. I do not have ADHD however, at least according to diagnostic tests. I have had depression and anxiety diagnosis though.
And, with that, we’re back to pre-LLM chatbot design: intent classification, entity extraction, business logic, return a result. Only the whole process rests on a more rickety foundation. It’s also bloated and slow, querying an LLM over and over for these things. I’m starting to see some parallels to modern JavaScript and SPAs. ;-)
The idea that he's buying new laptops every few months rather discredits this article.

I agree that statement in the article was completely ridiculous.

The overarching point though of the over-commercialization of Windows stands as completely legitimate. I've used Windows (and modems) a decade longer than the the OP, have been a fairly strong supporter of Windows but I've about had enough myself.

Microsoft isn't alone in this - Google's constant whining about not using Chrome on their web properties is just as pathetic.

Microsoft, you're worth $2.15 trillion. You are violating your fiduciary duty to shareholders by prioritizing extremely short-term revenue gains over long term viability of the platform. You are jeopardizing that long term viability of the platform by annoying and spying on your user base so you can make pennies from them. It is a veritable "kill the goose that lays the golden eggs" situation.
The Navajo and Lakota are nations.
20 years ago windows cost me more time than linux, from what I hear it’s not got any cheaper
Solution: use nitter. No suggested tweets, no bullshit, just the thread.

https://nitter.net/0xDesigner/status/1642554817590566915
Sounds like hell. They will quickly be turned away from Linux and want something simpler. Yak-shaving in lieu of work sounds cool, but it sucks when you really need to do stuff other than dick around in the terminal.
>Why shouldn’t people be allowed to choose what they spend their money and time on?

this marketiziation and individualism is as much a product of Anglosphere culture as the English language itself. It's kind of hilarious to demand that the only legitimate way for Italy to defend its culture is in the most American way possible, through the ideology of 'the customer is king'.

There's nothing strange about a society collectively, through governance, deciding how a nation's culture should be shaped, what an appropriate way of life is. It's how most societies on this planet operate.
Using the code from the repo, I got this on a standard Dell XPS laptop, running Ubuntu 20.04.1 with ext4 on an NVMe:

$ cargo run --release -- -c 100 -i 100000
...
Inserting 100000 records. concurrency: 100
Time elapsed to insert 100000 records: 7.939734809s (12594.88 inserts/s)
For good or for bad, what “society” wants doesn’t really matter. People onboard through extremely difficult and regulated processes to blockchain applications because their desire for the products is stronger than the blockages. Sure you can minimize that as a pittance but it doesn’t change the reality of desire.
Scheduled communication is far easier to handle than random interruptions.

If your target is to get update every hour you just dedicate a person during incident to communicate with the "outside" and make rest of the team post the updates on shared chat, which you want anyway if you don't want people to get on eachother's toes
Now it’s “ Prompt Engineer 20 ans d'expérience”.

They seem pretty determined to find that one candidate.
From this (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965261...), they estimate a scaled up process requiring ~50kg of hydrogen to generate 1000kg of steel (which would be about 1500kg of iron ore).

50kg of hydrogen should be equivalent to like ~600kg of ammonia (if I did my math right). So there's a substantial mass difference in one way shipping of 600kg of ammonia versus two way shipping of ~1000kg of solids to consider. In addition, since the tanker is empty on the return trip, if we were willing to play the travel time game, we could reduce tanker return speeds to try to compensate for running faster while carrying.

So I don't think it's completely cut and dry that shipping the iron ore/steel makes more sense.
______ has Died vs. Thank God for _____
Is there any chance HN can get on the front foot and instead of waiting for someone to die, we honor our "heros" while they're still alive?
Same exact experience here
For a long time I had Linux in Dual boot, cursing at how unfortunate it was that I couldn't really play games there. Even games that had Linux builds often had those as afterthoughts, with bugs not present in the main windows version.

Now I can just play the Windows version through Proton. I hope that if Linux gains traction Proton becomes unnecessary, but I'm happy that Proton came as far as it is. Honestly, to play old Windows games it is probably better than Windows.

A few games required some minor tinkering to work, but have been pretty smooth here. If you enjoy playing the latest AAA (that probably takes a while until it gets supported), I would say that you'd better stay on Windows. Otherwise, Linux is more than a viable alternative right now.
Hey, Caymanian here! This is interesting reading, but I feel like it misses the point.

I know a lot of people in the finance & professional services here, and I think what's missing from this analysis is how Cayman bends over backwards to make it _easy_ to do business here (especial finance).

It's tax neutral but fully transparent to and compliant with UK, US, EU, and Singaporean (as well as many others). This means if you're operating a hedge fund (as an example) with high net worth clients and private investments globally you're generally able to hugely minimize the amount of paperwork to not be double-taxed. It also lets you run financial instruments which might be subject to tax while operating, rather than when earnings are captured and released. And yet, it does that without being on any global watch lists.

Financial courts here move _fast_, often ruling and concluding in weeks. And precedents are generally British Common Law (unless improved by Cayman). Starting a company is easy, and fees cover pretty good support. I have a Caymanian company, and when I had a question recently about identification regulations on non-voting shareholders I could call a number and get both a quick answer and great advice from a human being.

It's worth noting that Cayman has virtually no Crypto because of the above. We've actually tried, but no significant crypto company has been willing to subject itself to the relatively lightweight regulations. The biggest crypto startup on the island is a crypto regulatory compliance tooling company, which says a lot.

Anyhow, I'm not a lawyer or accountant, butt AMA I guess if anyone is curious about my home! :)

(It's also an amazing place to live, I love it here. Hard to recommend though because residency is notoriously hard to get if you're eligible through ancestry.)
https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/20/gctuning/available...

https://youtu.be/OhPGN2Av44E

https://youtu.be/bLJJ3CY1aE8
Yeah, life is messy. It’s part of why it is so hard to define what a living thing is. I think of the world as a giant soup of stuff that eats each other. It’s strange to me that humans think they are above any of it. Really, we are right in the middle of it all! :)