skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That page ranks individual test run, so the top ranking are filled with outliers of internal system or crazily overclocked liquid cooled behemoth. When a CPU has appeared in sufficiently many test runs, the aggregate result, which is more representative of the real performance, will appear on https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks.

The i9-14900K and M3 actually haven't appeared in the official chart, but you can search for them as they already have thousands of test runs[0][1]. Both of them score around 3100 in single core, and around 21000 in multicore (for the M3 Max).

[0]: https://browser.geekbench.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=i9-149...
[1]: https://browser.geekbench.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=mac15
That site is like setting browser zoom level to 500%, but without nice large text sizes. Ugh.
What recent podcasts? Can you link to some?
10 minutes in ice cold water?
i don’t understand why c++ and other languages are labeled that way.
Are we reading the same article? There is zero concern for syntax.

The first point is literally what you said. Write functions with clear interfaces. If your function doesn't handle None, make its argument type reflect that (Walrus instead of Option<Walrus>).

The second point is about performance. Hoist branches out of loops, and process batches so any constant cost is amortized over the batch. Is that even controversial?

> the author makes an effort to give their functions names such as "frobnicate"

Yes, and that's good, because it keeps the focus on his actual points rather than the minutiae of a contrived example.
Being in a bigger car than everyone else makes you safer, but that gets largely nullified if everyone is in a bigger car.

That leads to an arms race with no benefit to anyone and massive costs. A prime example of when government should step in.
What is the red circular diagram on the upper left? I watched a physics lecture that I understood nothing of in which the lecturer drew a similar diagram on the blackboard.
My rule of thumb is: if the type system doesn't prevent an invalid value, it's your responsibility to prevent it at run-time.

I've been writing a lot of T-SQL lately, which doesn't let you declare a parameter or variable as NOT NULL. So it's a good idea to check for NULLs as early as reasonable - usually at the top of the stored procedure (for parameters). Otherwise, a NULL might propagate unexpectedly deep into the call hierarchy and cause less-than-obvious problems.

Fortunately, the data in the table can be declared as NOT NULL, so these kinds of bugs will usually not corrupt the data, but catching them as early as possible makes life easier. However, if there is piece of logic that writes something to the database depending on the value of some parameter, and that parameter is unexpectedly NULL, that might lead to a wrong thing being written, or a necessary thing not being written at all, effectively corrupting the data.

So, defensive programming all the way, baby!
OpenAI's prompts are pretty well documented, you can find them here: https://github.com/spdustin/ChatGPT-AutoExpert/blob/main/_sy...
Teeny teeny computers like the old MacBook Air. Mind you, I’m a workaholic and enjoy work. Buying computers that are usable but are so small you don’t mind carrying them around all day is a giant productivity hack. You can work on the bus, when your doctor runs late, etc.
> Fifteen years later and I still can't fucking find anything

Of course people can't. That ribbon was a shite idea 15 years ago, and still is.

A textual menu is, by sheer necessity, hierarchical. Hierarchy imposes order. Text menus also aren't subject to the ever-shifting ideas of design-guru's idea of what X means in the form of a picture, making it, also by necessity, descriptive.

Descriptiveness and order mean discoverability.
My claim is that the conspiracy theory that you shared here and which is based upon that scanned document is just that. A conspiracy theory.

I never said there were no anti-nuclear movement.

There are many and in every country they have their own reasons and are more or less influential. For example: there hasn't been a anti-nuclear movement as influential as it was in Germany. This is why Germany was able to replace nuclear with renewables and push it's development for the whole planet. However, no German politician participated in your conspiracy.

Your pitiful attempt at derailing only say something about yourself.
> I think you're lying and/or stupid

> You don't seem to know very much

Whoa. You can't attack another user like that here, no matter how wrong they are or you feel they are. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting to HN, we'd appreciate it.

I realize that other comments in this thread were also bad, but this one stands out as particularly personal. That's not cool.
Really don't encourage using an external service to use imessage. Giving your apple credentials and also the dependency on Sim cards to make it stable is just trouble waiting to happen.

To this day, the best solution for imessage on Android is BlueBubbles or Airmessage. I use both for redundancy. It does require having my Sim in an iPhone, and having a Mac, for everything to be bulletproof.

I don't recommend it to people who aren't technical, but it's helped me with my dating life to have blue messages...
Wow. I can barely make a rectangle in Blender.

This person, especially given their age, is extremely talented!
Wow, you sure owned them ...

Could we just not make these kind of comments? They aren't useful.
How could they work on fixing that? iMessage currently requires a cell phone to activate a number on the iMessage network. Are you saying they're partnering with Apple to change this? Are they going to sim clone your number?
There's so much social media skepticism that burns what happens online, that sweepingly categorizes all the effort as bad or pointless or negative.

And yeah, so much is whatever.

But man, we each carry a little light. And these records, these pasts, they - to me - mean something. Code commits or comments; they are some kind of testament

I forget what it was but yesterday I think there was a nice submission where the author was saying even lack of evidence or failing is evidence. They were saying that just because theirnefforts didn't pan out as expected, doesn't mean they aren't informative pieces. Letting time in, letting us figure out long terms what values & lessons there are... I think that respectful & aweful ability to regard each other without moving to ill judgement is enormous.

When people are gone it just becomes so obvious how much the world loses from that active actor trailing off.
I took 1000mg of amoxicillin twice a day for about 6 months. I was terrified that it would destroy my gut flora and I would contract cdiff but in the end I didn't notice any adverse effects. Many people take yogurt with antibiotics but I didn't do that nor take probiotics.

Walking out of the pharmacy with 8 boxes of antibiotics at a time was a fun experience. I can't remember but in Australia I think it was less than $5 a box without insurance.
The Sage of Serenity – A guide for relaxation and meditation
This is how it should be. Drive dangerously? Get summoned appropriately. Instead, in the US, it's up to the states, and many states choose to do nothing or reverse course to play politics (like how TX got rid of, or turned off, their red light cameras a few years ago)
I’m curious about your region and your social circle (genuine question, not provocative).

Absolutely zero of my contacts use signal. Some use element. Zero use iMessage. Almost 100% use WhatsApp.

I’m in Europe, middle class, family with kids, both parents working here.
There's also potential IP issues.
I think this is what courts have found so far, AI generated outputs from just a prompt aren't copyrightable. I think it's still an open (legal) question about whether they can train on copyrighted inputs.
You're making a couple of extremely common misconceptions here. Look more into 'biological immortality' and you'll find the examples range from plainly false, to controversial and almost certainly false. For instance lobsters are one of the most typically cited (largely because the other stuff is microscopic), but it's about as true the old 'humans only use 10% of our brains' stuff:

"Lobsters grow by moulting which requires considerable energy, and the larger the shell the more energy is required.[28] Eventually, the lobster will die from exhaustion during a moult. Older lobsters are also known to stop moulting, which means that the shell will eventually become damaged, infected, or fall apart and they die.[29] The European lobster has an average life span of 31 years for males and 54 years for females." [1]

As for evolution, we all learn about Darwin's finches, and so people think of it in terms of things like a bird gradually evolving a more adaptive beak for what's available on an island. But natural selection and evolution is not about evolving your body to fit your environment, unless that would provide a benefit to fertility. If there was endless food on the Galapagos islands for said finches, then said beak would provide 0 fertility benefit and would not, in any way, be evolutionarily selected for.

The reason we, as a species, exist today is because higher intelligence enabled higher successful fertility rates. It's not because intelligence is inherently better. So, for instance, if it turns out that lower intelligence, in modern times, is more productive for fertility when we as a species will gradually become less intelligent. All evolution cares about is fertility, and whatever it takes to achieve it.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality#Lobster...
Some of the biggest misanthropes, bigots etc. I interacted with online live in remote villages or even precisely like described, in a house in middle of nature. They never even lived in a big city but they think it's bad, streets are full of shit, every other person you see is a criminal or swindler (and don't even mention immigrants) and so on.

The mistake of the author is thinking wilderness is required for solitude and being in a big city is not. Can't you be equally or more alone in a city? If I had enough interaction I can stay in my apartment or go for a walk in the nature nearby and nothing requires me to talk to anyone. After a while I want to get out meet a friend or just talk to a colleague again.

(But if you meet another person while alone in the middle of wilderness, try not talking to them... you may easily be considered rude even if you really just need a breather)

The author calls himself a "man of compassion" but the phrasing of this article says "I'm full of myself".
Would be nice to add this to Ventoy
How much does livestock eating antibiotics really affect the problem of resistant bacteria infecting humans?

Farmers don't use antibiotics for fun. It increases meat production by 5-10%. So expect meat prices to go up by about that amount if the practice gets banned.
To be super cheeky:

wget https://bellard.org/pi/pi2700e9/tpi-0.9-linux.tar.gz
tar xvf tpi-0.9-linux.tar.gz
time ./tpi -T 8 -o pi.txt 1M
real 0m0.176s
user 0m0.500s
sys 0m0.049s
AI right now is hardly a sentient mind we are depriving experience from.
Curious about what ChatGPT might have to say on this issue, I asked it:

https://www.gally.net/temp/20231116languageandai/index.html
Cloud and SaaS. It is all about constantly mutating interfaces, underlying concepts and resources.
From wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Motor_Cars):

> Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited is a British luxury automobile maker which has operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of BMW AG since 2003

...

> The Rolls-Royce Motor Cars subsidiary of BMW AG has no direct relationship to Rolls-Royce-branded vehicles produced before 2003, other than having briefly supplied components and engines. The Bentley Motors Limited subsidiary of Volkswagen AG is the direct successor to Rolls-Royce Motors and various other predecessor entities that produced Rolls-Royce and Bentley branded cars between the foundation of each company and 2003, when the BMW-controlled entity started producing cars under the Rolls-Royce brand.

The "actual" Rolls-Royce company with a lineage going back to the beginning of the brand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Holdings ) has exited the car business, and nowadays makes jet engines, gas turbines, and nuclear reactors.
>Apple implementing RCS messages should allow anyone to build a messaging app that will be able to integrate directly with iMessage.

Anyone is a weird way of spelling Google and Apple. Neither Android nor iOS let anyone make an app that can do RCS.
Project Catapult as other comments have spoken about, and the newly announced Azure Boost has FPGAs on board too.
> So if I pushed back on the notion that my identity is a "malignant, parasitic-like condition to which 'white' people have a particular susceptibility" [1], by e.g. stating it is merely "okay", that would be racist?

If you push back on it /using far right slogans/ of course it's racist.

> When they see we're not resisting, they'll tone down the rhetoric until we all get along. Because that's what has been happening so far - as we get closer to equality, the rhetoric is becoming milder and milder, right?

The problems that you think you have - that you're not allowed to express yourself in terms of far right slogans - are fucking pathetic and you should be ashamed of yourself for pursuing them. You have been clearly been given a life of privilege, because people who experience poverty or racism don't pick such cringeworthy fights, divorced from the suffering and problems of the real world.
A 48 year old who lived with his parents and died in his sleep without his father expressing extreme shock and trauma? I'm guessing his weight was not really the issue.
That's where you give him a pass since he's 16 years old doing this in his spare time
Visual Studio (not VSCode) is a case study in how to sprawl across different menus and require menu hunts to find what you want.
From Quora

"Each eye has 137 million rods and cones. If we assume 8 bits per pixel and 60 frames per second for 2.5 billion seconds, then the total information from both eyes is 3.3 x 10^20 bits, or about 40 exabytes (40 million terabytes).

More realistically, the retina does not transmit pixels directly to the brain. Instead, it detects low level features such as center-surround contrast and movement. Each optic nerve contains about 1 million fibers. We can't see events lasting less than about 0.1 seconds, so let us assume an information rate of 10 bits per second per nerve fiber. This is a total of 10^6 fibers x 2 optic nerves x 10 bits per second x 2.5 x 10^9 seconds = 5 x 10^16 bits, or 6 petabytes. This represents a lossy compression ratio of 6600 to 1.

The brain's visual cortex compresses this data further by detecting a hierarchy of increasingly complex shapes such as edges, lines, angles, characters, shapes, and objects such as faces. In a 1986 study in which people were asked to learn and recall thousands of pictures, Tom Landauer estimated that human long term memory is on the order of 10^9 bits, or 1 bit per second. If we assume that 40% of our long term memory is visual (in proportion to the size of the visual cortex), then it suggests that the retina and brain compress visual data at a rate of (3.3 x 10^20 / 4 x 10^8) = 825 billion to 1."

https://qr.ae/pKofqQ
> Typical Baltic attitude

Nationalistic swipes are not welcome here, regardless of which nations you have a problem with. We ban accounts that post like this (and you have a long history of posting like this), so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Spoiler: it's a rowing boat with the shape of Bezos' face. Pretty impressive
They do, chatGPT returns a list of tools it wants (this the right term?) to call and the arguments to call it with.

Up to the developer to map the args to the function and give the result back in the message history.
Whoa, you can't post slurs or attacks like this to HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do it again.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Never heard of `execution`, great tip. Is there some big caveat or just generally unknown?
I think this is a worthwhile post just as a kind of memento mori to the rest of us.
I agree, absolutely phenomenal post-processing and effects, but the core animation maybe has room for improvement. Could have been a stylistic choice indeed, but, I don't think so. I mean at age 16 it's not like they have anywhere to go but up lol so it's hard to be too critical of that. I certainly couldn't have done this.

On that note though I was watching the recent world of Warcraft cinematic they just put out and while obviously phenomenal and gorgeous and state of the art, it made me realize that the biggest tell for me for something being computer rendered is always physics animations. Things always seem to move just a bit too smoothly or consistently, or slowly. I think it just has to be that way because if something is 24fps you have to make it visible for a couple frames so as to demonstrate a movement, I remember reading in an animation book about how animating something "realistically" isn't a good idea because it just won't look good because of the nature of how it's presented (at a certain framerate, framing, aspect ratio, etc).
You can't disprove your existence, I'm pretty sure that does not make any sense. "I think therefore I am." No need for free will of any type there, and a currently existing computer could probably do the same thing.
If you are an Apple user, make sure you set up a Legacy Contact for your iCloud account. You can also optionally choose to allow access to your computer with your iCloud credentials, which will give your next of kin access to it.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212360
> Typical Russian attitude

Nationalistic swipes are not welcome here, regardless of which nations you have a problem with. We ban accounts that post like this, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Actually, it wouldn't, kerosene and diesel are pretty similar, so it would not be surprising if a diesel car engine can run on SAF.

That being said, it's by no means a given, modern diesel engines are highly optimized and might have trouble with kerosene/SAF, especially given the different lubrication qualitities. Old diesel engines, however, should be fine, they can run on pretty much anything.
To go along the same line of thought, too many think about the beatuy of the flower, instead of the whole florest.

The amount of hours occasionally wasted discussing this in PR, that add zero value to what the customer actually cares, e.g. does pressing the button print or not their monthly invoice.

Sure there is a balance to be had between completly unmaintainable code, and a piece of art to expose in the Louvre, however too many focus on the latter, instead of what is the customer getting out of their beautiful flower.
Thanks for your detailed write ups!
That's too bad. Human progress is more important.
> How much does livestock eating antibiotics really affect the problem of resistant bacteria infecting humans?

Bacteria transfer genes from one species to another, so an innovative new genetic mutation that allows one kind of bacteria to shrug off antibiotics more effectively won't stay only in that species of bacteria or only on that farm.

> Horizontal gene transfer is the movement of genetic information between organisms, a process that includes the spread of antibiotic resistance genes among bacteria, fueling pathogen evolution.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4536854/
Firebase seems a case in point. You have to do all this weird Google cloud shit to get something basic working. I posit that using Firebase is more complicated at the outset than installing an ORM and using postgres. And being nosql it gets worse from that point on. So it’s raison detre of making it easy to build apps is lost.
> it is the exact kind of architectural choice you're saying one should decide on.

While I can't speak to what the OP had in mind, architectural concerns are definitely not inside a function. Even connecting individual functions/procedures barely registers at the smallest, most granular scale of architecture.

Of course, our programming languages for the most part don't let us express architectural concerns...so here we are.
I've often thought about this for media like this and iRobot and etc, and I think it kinda makes sense in terms of creating an all-purpose machine for helping. Economies of scale, maybe licensing or advertising or some other way of subsidization scheme, or maybe the things are rented, who knows, but I can think of some justifications for how humanoid robots would make sense in a dystopian cyberpunk world. Maybe the mochi stall rents them just for a couple hours during busy hours and then a car mechanic rents them for a different time, and the robot can complete both tasks or something?
> ...our commitment to becoming a net-zero company by 2050...

So, I'm building a bridge. Should be done in 2050. Any investors interested?
Car engines run on diesel? Is this something most people ever encounter?
Iowa soil and climate is amazing for growing stuff. Some years it's not necessary to water at all, the rain provides and the soil stays naturally moist much longer than other places. Most farms in Iowa have no irrigation at all. As my farmer friend with 750+ acres says, "God provides".
Very personal opinion, but I think the image is overcomplicated. Fedora base + systemd + sshd + application? This can surely be smushed down to being a go-krazy image. I guess then, you'd have to rewrite in go, and device support would be an issue
The dessert that's being made here is something like Mitarashi Dango, sweet syrup covering dumpling balls made of mochi. Traditionally, you make mochi by taking rice and smashing it with a hammer. In theory, this helps make it fluffy. This process is called "Mochitsuki" and it's one of those traditional cultural things, probably intentionally chosen so you get a cool juxtaposition of a robot doing an old traditional thing. It looks like this: https://youtu.be/4lqiBFbf6rc?si=ARkTbrMcAVy7XZxx&t=20
"Solitude is in the mind of man. One might be in the thick of the world and maintain serenity of mind; such a one is in solitude. Another may stay in a forest, but still be unable to control his mind. He cannot be said to be in solitude. Solitude is a function of the mind. A man attached to desire cannot get solitude wherever he may be; a detached man is always in solitude."

― Ramana Maharshi
The author probably counts these as indirect effects, as it is the collision of the α particles with zinc sulfide, and not a direct effect of radiation like Cherenkov.
What really is sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)? Is it one thing?
Hi, we had other entries from teenagers with similar skills, so Euan's work is not an outlier:

https://younganimator.uk/winner/1699875806584x29956216420210...
(Jeremiah, Aged 14)

https://younganimator.uk/winner/1668441140134x35615750206437...
(Nishaan, Aged 17)
Or maybe, if lucky to be on a market where there are more jobs than developers, avoid the companies that think they are the next Google on their interview process.

Naturally one should have a base knowledge of data structures and algorithms complexity, to the point relevant to the job, and naturally knowing which book to open when needed.
If it's hard paywalled, it's not allowed.

Detecting these things is another matter. We don't know how to write code to do that, and it's impossible to keep track of manually. Even for a given site it's different for different regions, different users, etc.