skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People buy used houses all the time, at least in major cities. They just properly recognize that the value of the house goes to zero after ~40 years, but the land it's on retains (or even gains) value.

Honestly, I don't see how this is that much different than America: in the richest cities there, people frequently buy up some shitty old 1950s house on valuable land, tear down the house, and build a bigger and nicer one. Of course, a bunch of the elderly neighbors whine and complain about how the shitty old 50s house had "character"...
Does DOJ have jurisdiction over China's national police, since they are not actually located in the US? It seems like any judgment would be hard to enforce, at best.

Regardless, it's interesting to see what led to Zoom [1,2] shutting down Tiananmen Square/June Fourth remembrance Zoom conferences and providing user information to government officials, and to a harassment campaign on Twitter (though presumably the latter is still blocked in China?)

[1] https://blog.zoom.us/our-perspective-on-the-doj-complaint/

[2] https://blog.zoom.us/improving-our-policies-as-we-continue-t...
This only makes sense if you use "IQ" ignoring the actual definition of "IQ", in which case it's silly to use numbers in your post to make it look technical.

IQ 1. can't be compared against generations of IQ tests 2. supposedly doesn't test education (of course, it actually does) 3. isn't real.
For new reactors, we could put an abundant source of water inside the building, like NuScale is planning.

There are also high temperature reactor designs that use air cooling.
Links have two problems: (1) they carry you away into a different context and (2) they rot.

So, to bring something to attention, you need to both quote enough and provide a link.

For one's own archival purposes, it makes sense to locally store a copy if any important enough web page. No, that text or image is not guaranteed to be there tomorrow.
> This begs the question the video is trying to answer. Imagine you have no experience or knowledge of what electricity is or how it works. Then you learn the bare basics. You might have this same question, "how does it 'know' which path has the least resistance?"

You're still saying "path of least resistance" though.

A very important part of the answer is that it doesn't find it. All paths carry electricity.

So "take all paths" isn't begging the question, it's correcting the question, and "weighted by resistance" isn't begging the question, it's giving a pretty easy answer to anyone that understands the concept of "resistance" in a non-electrical sense that some paths let things through more easily than others.

And if you have a bunch of stubs, the electricity does go onto them. It just gets stuck at the end.
usually only happens if the user is baiting the AI to generate such code, or the scenario is so simple that there's basically no other way to code it.
Hash collisions exist.
Germany is part of the broader European grid, and solar/wind is backed by interconnections to hydro etc etc.

I was just listening to a podcast on battery storage and apparently continental Europe is behind on grid-scale battery installations because the power market design isn’t there to support it yet (as compared to the UK, the USA and particularly the Texas grid, and Australia).

Germany is apparently doing pretty well on “behind the meter” home battery storage, and to be honest as long as there’s storage in the system it’s OK to do it with either 100,000 10kWh home batteries or a gigawatt-hour in a single grid battery facility.

Batteries don’t make a lot of sense for long-duration storage however; for seasonal storage you want some other technology (hydro, hydrogen, demand management etc).
Eleanor and Fake Elaneanor would disagree, although that was time of death.
I only saw him mentioned with regard to the Wright brothers.
IMHO we should be boycotting all chromium-based browsers. Use Firefox or Safari (if on MacOS) as your daily driver.
True, however as someone who lives in Australia, it's refreshing to have a link that doesnt have its origin in the title not be the US.
Don't mistake anti-hype with anti-innovation. Folks at HN are wary of people who promise long and deliver short.
They just added ChatGPT? That's the last thing they would do in 6 months is kill a new potential interface for it.
Nevermind. They're still getting the federal subsidies plus whatever tax deferral / forgiveness they negotiated with Texas.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/vw-rivian-nissan-bmw-lose-140...
Why don’t more people live close to friends?
>A while back I looked at how I would score on their "points based" immigration calculator thing.
>It wasn't good at all.

So I take it you don't have a college degree or work in the software field like most people here.

It's true: if you have no skills and work as a barista or janitor, Japan isn't very interested in having you immigrate here. If you're a skilled tech professional, however, it's the easiest country in the world to immigrate to. Experienced software engineers can easily score 70-80 points. With 80, you can apply for permanent residence in 1 year.
Your reasoning logic, applied consistently, would consider almost everything we have today dystopian. For example:

"Using the Hindu-Arabic numeral system instead of the Roman numeral system is the most dystopian thing I've heard about in a while. Prison Planet Earth, where everyone is uniquely identified by a number, perhaps surgically implanted on an RFID tag? How much compute resource would be needed to create an AI minder for each and every human on top of that, constantly updating their social credit score on a daily basis?"

It's the slippery slope argument taken to an extreme. The way to fight the slippery slope fallacy is to fight against the things that may be dystopian/bad. Not argue that anything that is good/neutral is bad because it may potentially make some minor dystopian/bad outcome slightly more likely. If you do want to make such an argument, then you have to weigh the pros vs the cons.

And it's very hard to see how a word problem to illustrate the Birthday Paradox comes anywhere close to the bad outweighing any possible benefit from it.
I went out looking for how much the enterprise (or business) version would cost as I expected those versions would (hopefully) have all this crap removed. Am I wrong in finding you can no longer just buy the enterprise or business version? They want you to either buy a device with it on it or contact their sales rep? Maybe this has always been the casse and I never noticed because most previous versions didn't have this crap on it. Very disappointing.
I fully agree that this is a big issue, but I also think that an average user does not care at all. It just matches all other software and of course the web (if you ever access it without an adblock).

I love my Xbox but damn that thing is full of ads. From the first second you turn it on and see the dashboard you are bombarded with ads. This is just the Microsoft way of creating UX/UI.
As far as investor buzz is concerned, Microsoft has a lot of positive sentiment compared to Google.

Perhaps ironically it’s because Google’s search tailors it’s results to show me those results that paint MSFT in a positive light.

I can also see Generative AI providing some real amazing features with near OS level integration. Imagine being able to quickly draft business emails from your mobile device?

I don’t think Apple will have anything that amazing anytime soon so us iOS users will be stuck with using 3rd party apps, but I could see Samsung trying to distinguish their handsets with additional software capabilities not found in Android.
yeah that liquid metal press thing (giga-press) they had built for it is a.effing.mazing...
But yet it can understand a json data schema from example and write javascript to interact with a library that I fed it and asked it to understand. Yes, I know its limitations, but it can also surprise me.
> Let’s hedge our bets here.

Bets are already hedged intrinsically. The data is clear, nuclear is the safest, cleanest, lowest-carbon and most reliable form of energy we have. [1]

There's far worse than slighly warm clean water going into Lake Michigan.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
A lot of people/companies have painted themselves into corners where they made everything free for years then later they decided that they needed to make money. But now they can't turn on any business models that actually work because they irrevocably gave away everything. So people are trying to find the least-bad business model and it isn't pretty. These people are not mean; they're just desperate.

Having said that, it's rude to break existing packages. Let it stagnate and put the updates in a different package if you want, but don't deliberately break something that used to work.
A lot of these Chinese ops are using US citizens to commit these acts.

That's enough reason.
2^63 allows giving each of the 8 billion people on earth over a billion numbers each with no repeats. 19 digits is plenty, since it only takes 10 digits to count all the people.
This is relatively mild, by historical standards. Flee while you still can:

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-in...

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/amd64/iso...
I went with SecureCRT because it had its own well-done terminal emulator back in the mid-1990s when I started using it. It's evolved nicely ever since.
Download the installer and run it. That is it.
> in a swirley

What does this even mean?
Sorry, can't agree with this. The one time a customer support team actually dialed me up to solve a technical issue was with AWS. Support for billing issues was done in roughly 15 minutes after initial report. Support with free credits was done after a perfunctory 10 minute phone call. For a hacked account, account access was restored in 30 minutes, from escalation of the complaint down to resolution.

Imagine getting that kind of support from any of the competition. GCP support was laughably inadequate (apparently they have separate support for Firebase and GCP, and GCP can't support for Firebase), while Azure support is exactly as you describe - great for enterprise, sucks for basic support. As for the innumerable AWS "startup" competitors like Digital Ocean , Fly.io or Render, support ranges from condescending to non-existent. In one of the above cases, support tickets were so backlogged, I was giving support hints to guys stuck on issues for days.
Pets aren't that bad if your pets are a few elephants.
What about the human reinforcement part of it?
I'm down! Moving to LA in a couple months!
The Birthday Paradox and Microsoft GUIDs or How I use Mathematica to Reassure Myself to Go Back to Sleep at Nights: https://www.atriumtech.com/pongskorn/birthdayparadox/birthda...
I'm not sure why a video of a 60's TV show would be useful when you're trying to get an explanation of command line options for common posix commands. But you do you.
They're just importing nuclear from France now.

Solar or wind plus storage is significantly more expensive than conventional nuclear and worse for the environment. [1]

[1] https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(19)30300-9
In other words, "this approach is getting to expensive for us and we need to control the narrative for our model sizes going down".

Most increases in Imagenet etc scores came from bigger models. "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data" has aged very well. It seems very convenient for OpenAI that this trend should be over a few months after their "eye-wateringly expensive" comment.
PowerShell with ODBC to Interact with PostgreSQL
That's a bald-faced lie. Anyone can apply after 5 years and it's not that hard. I know people who are naturalized here.
Huh, do you have a source for the EU issue?
Diocletian retired from emperoring to his pride and joy, growing cabbages, and refused folks' urgings to take the throne again.
the joke was that you never get to see the crash.
I would call this an example of lazy journalism at best.

India is a subcontinent. Not just in geography, but also in its systems. You will find a wide variety in the developmental stage each state is in - almost like different countries of a continent. The southern states (esp Tamil Nadu) went through this phase of engineering colleges mushrooming a decade or two ago which led to very similar situations. Now some of the colleges can’t find a single student to join their courses and are being shuttered.

It didn’t create an unemployable generation. It caused an expansion in accessibility causing a surge in quantity and then caused a contraction as emphasis shifted to quality. The same is happening in the northern states now which have lagging indicators of education compared to the southern ones.

States which have underinvested in education are now waking up to difference in outcomes and are trying to play catch up. The New Education Policy that the article mentions while sets benchmarks for education that are aspirational for some states, for some it’s actually a step down from their current state or trajectory. A cursory search about would it show it has a its own set of controversies because of that. This is again due to the vastness of the country. Trying to fit a single solution always is suboptimal.
Yikes. Yeah. Went on ebay thinking they couldn't possibly be THAT expensive. I was wrong. I wonder if there's a market for a $200 VT420 clone built with a FPGA that has a USB connection for a keyboard and a HDMI connector for a monitor?
Because if the bot can do it I can just put it in a while loop with the terminal.
I’d just assign an incremental number 9 digits
It should have been built closer to St. Joe or South Haven to provide district heating as wasting the heat is an argument for keeping it shut. But, never would have happened with the Greenpeace scare tactics.
Others might pursue a smaller model that works as well as a larger model. If that can be done, whoever does it can very effectively compete on price/performance.

It seems that to assume otherwise (the only way to improve is to get bigger) is to assume that OpenAI already has found the optimal architecture. That seems unlikely.
do this on a slab epoxy table after you fix the orientation (it's flipped). omg would that be beautiful.
> I'm a member of a large California based credit union and while the low/no fees are nice, their general incompetence is awful.

Some banks have general incompetence, as well.

I'm a member of a mid-sized California based credit union, and their customer service and competence are fabulous.
Knowing apple, this sounds like a dark pattern.
Probably because those provided subpar user experience.

Pure speculation—MSFT probably nailed the demo and impressed Samsung execs.
Apple is only trying to open up how the apps can be distributed to the phone. It’s not removing restrictions around how an app tuns on the phone. From what I guess (reading around so far) these apps might as well have it tougher because the sandbox for these could be more restrictive.

However there could be things like — e.g. TrueCaller might refuse to work without contact permission and call log etc (just like on Android; on iOS it works just fine) but when side-loaded these could demand all those permissions to run. Well that is something we may have to see how such changes pan out.
Can’t access the website, so don’t know what crap we are talking about, but Windows Pro for Workstations, which anyone can purchase, doesn’t have any third party crap installed. Only some MS crap. Much less overall.
Sounds like the PIAT in A Bridge Too Far. It clearly needs to go faster.
The OP may appreciate Harold Washington's distillation of the above sentiment about Richard Daley - "I'm not glad he's dead but I'm glad he's gone" (also used by Richard Stallman about Steve Jobs)
technically they've added an electric option, and postponed the gas option indefinitely. Part of the reason it isn't popular enough is that there isn't enough demand. The gas option could use an opposed piston for even better fuel economy than 84mpg.
There are also: Ekioh Flow, Servo.
nom is amazing, especially because it's so incredibly versatile. If I had one complaint, it's that I find it challenging due to how versatile it is. You can choose between different error types and input types and etc. It seems to work best if you use &[u8] as the input, otherwise things can get very tricky.

That said, for purely binary formats, I strongly recommend folks check out Kaitai Struct if they haven't already, just because I think the concept is really solid. I found out about Kaitai Struct because I accidentally did something fairly similar that was Go-specific (go-restruct) and someone else pointed out Kaitai to me.

Parsing file formats was never super awful, but I'm glad that the ergonomics of writing fast, robust parsers has improved to the point where it's a superior experience in some regards to the tried and true but fairly unportable "dump structures from memory" approach that seemed to be popular when I was younger.

Tangentially in this category, I think Wuffs is quite compelling too.
20 words in their first year? That’s insane. Granted I haven’t been in the US system for 20 odd years, but I believe we easily learned 100-150 in our first year here.
I mean as in a tool that streamlines money laundering and sanctions evasion.

The underlying math/science is beside the point. The service tornado cash is ran on physical hardware owned by physical human beings who can be placed in handcuffs.
While I'm sure there are some DJIs being used for recon, my understanding of the situation is that the overwhelming majority of drones used as guidance / delivery systems for munitions are hobbyist style DIY fpv drones. They are less expensive, have significantly higher payload carry capability and can be constructed from more generally available and interchangeable components[1][2][3]

For these types of drones all the consumer and FOSS control links are unencrypted and critically vulnerable to frequency hopping hijacking attacks [4]

The video and control for all of these systems (including DJI) can be disrupted by jamming consumer and hobbyist frequencies; 300-975mhz, 2.4ghz, and 5.8ghz.

As with any information coming from active modern war zones, the incidence of misinformation, disinformation and propaganda will be high.

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2023/03/24/russia...

[2]https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2023/03/24/...

[3]https://dronedj.com/2023/03/01/ukraine-reportedly-assembles-...

[4]https://www.vox.com/2016/10/28/13406082/hackers-control-cons...
There’s more to that story than meets the eye. The other tests and sledgehammer hits to the door may have weakened the glass. Either way it’s more than my car will handle now.
OK, how about this procedure:

1. Give the first person who asks the number 0000000000000000001.

2. Give the next person the previous person's number plus one.

3. Repeat.

The drawing-from-an-urn randomization or hashing is unnecessary if you just start with 8 billion or more numbers.
I don't normally comment in threads, but I really empathized with your post.

> Maybe I did actually deserve to be yelled at.

Almost certainly not. Even when someone has done a bad job and it causes frustration, yelling doesn't solve the problem; it typically only makes things worse for all parties.

You have value outside of your job. Believing and remembering that can help make the challenges at work less depressive. That's often lost on a forum like this where technical prowess is highly valued.

> I don't know if I even like software anymore

That's fine. Some people might consider that impeccable timing before an LLM replaces our software jobs anyways. If you've succeeded in software to any degree, you've probably learned how to learn. I bet you can do it again in a different field.

> I'm working on somehow getting a new job

I run a small company - link in profile. We make high performance CAD software in C. Reach out if you're interested or just need someone to talk to.
To answer the people asking when GPT5 is coming out, probably.
He did a lot of plowing.
Vice has its origins in Montreal in the 90s IIRC
The best healthcare system is the one available to most people, period.

And you’re right, Brazil’s is not even remotely comparable to the US. It’s universal, completely unrestricted and covers continental distances for over 200 million people. It’s not only free, but a fundamental right guaranteed by the country’s constitution.

If one has a serious disease like cancer and is not a millionaire, guess where there’s a greater chance of survival.

Also, when large scale sanitary solutions must be applied, like, you know, during a pandemic, wouldn’t it nice to have a way to reach millions of people other than improvising mass vaccination campaigns in stadiums and fairgrounds?
Why is HN removing numerals at the begin of a title? Second time I’ve seen it today.
Building factories and qualification testing is literal progress.

Starlink has global availability right now though a laser backed network. The only place you can’t get it are overloaded cells and countries that have not given landing rights.

I’m sorry for your anecdotal issue, but the system has over a million users so I think it’s fine. Starships first use will be to put up the 2nd gen network.

It’s funny how people cry about high speed low latency internet in remote places that wasn’t even possible a few years ago.
It's possible that this effect washes out as data increases, but researchers have shown that for smaller data set sizes average quality has a large impact on model output.
Apparently Sonic Hedgehog can be responsible for brain tumours in small children: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/childrens-canc...

I don't mind cutesy naming conventions most of the time, but this must make for some rather unfortunate conversations between Doctors and parents.
I looove this

My favorite Spotify genre for awhile has been "Wattswave," which is Alan watts lectures over chill/expansive ambient music
That's a great idea! I do have a blog that I'm eventually going to re-invigorate with malware reverse engineering and probably some ransomware negotiation content.

Here's the site, although there's nothing relevant to this stuff on there yet:

https://neodymiumphi.sh
There is a bill in the Louisiana Senate to end tenure at state schools. I am not sure quality faculty are going to hang around after that passes.
Honestly, I am not convinced and sense a bit of fear in the blog post. Is SO going to be obsolete?
If you give me $100 I will put you first in line for my new electric "xracy-truck" when it launches in 2027. We have a perfect track record of hitting our target deliveries for all of our projects.

NOTE: You aren't actually getting the truck, I'm just giving you a spot in line to buy the truck. The truck still costs $80k
Ignition – AI Powered Writing in your pocket
We haven't met in person, but hi! Part of why I own a sedan rather than an SUV (although not the only reason) is safety of others. It's also part of why I avoided car ownership for many years!

I'd prefer that this safety consideration be handled via regulation, though. I'd love to see cars that recklessly endanger the lives of those outside the car banned, limited, or taxed.
German has among the highest electricity prices in the world. This is not a success story:
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/electricity_prices/#:~:te....
> Yes, we all hate their support structure (it goes through SADA)

SADA (and their competitor DoIT) are just resellers. Support doesn't inherently go through them. That's a decision your company makes. It's generally not a great decision either, in my opinion, as those resellers add a lot of opacity between you and your cloud provider. Google recommends them because it's easier for them.