skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternatively: the time to limit torque is now, while consumers are still getting to know EVs and the other substantial benefits they present. Those other benefits ought to be enough to drive adoption, and the longer we indulge the most harmful excesses, the harder it will be to reverse them in the future when the trap has sprung.

I don't really think either of these arguments is obviously correct, so I lean toward the option that immediately limits harm. But I'm also under no illusion that anything other than short to medium term profits are driving automakers' decisions, so in practice we will surely get the worst of both worlds.
This is a cool idea. Maybe you could make a keyboard specifically designed for this which made distinctive tones for each key like a xylophone. That would be a fun project.
Popular Science Ends and Science Journalism Keeps Shrinking
Sounds like some can be unhelpful: https://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1650352,...

Although IDK about the quality of this study
Wow, that map is very political. Israel is not mentioned by name, but the Palestinian Territories are.
The YIMBY Movement Needs to Go Commercial
I like the idea, and I like sql, but I feel like this is a lot more typing for the same information you could extract using just git commands. Am I missing something? Take for instance:

The commit example:

select name, count(name), from commits group by name

is actually:

git shortlog -sn

The tag example:

select * from tags

is actually:

git tag

The branch example:

select * from branches

is actually:

git branch
The problem is that it wastes the reader's time to parse the bullshit. Now of course a lot of humans write bullshit too, especially in areas that are at the peak of their current hype cycle ;)
For Friendship's Sake
https://archive.ph/X9sIt
Already addressed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38492800
I had a lovely one the other day when trying to contact FreshWorks support. I just want to cancel an account but as far as I can tell they’ve sunset the service so I’m forced to go through the support process.

I couldn’t even submit the form without ticking the following:

> I would like to receive marketing communications related to Freshworks' business, services, and events. I can unsubscribe from these communications at any time.

The only email I’ve received since has been a fake real sales email with no unsubscribe link.
Maybe it's a cultural thing the in parts of the world where iPhones are common?

I Androidland I mostly see websites pushing user to use apps, and users not using the apps because they're functionally identical to the website except they ceaselessly spam you with irrelevant notifications. Like the google app store feels cheap like a bargain bin, I don't think anyone expects to find anything serious in there.
I copied your P38 question verbatim into Google and seem to have gotten the answer immediately, so not sure that's a big win for the LLM.
https://archive.is/cRGQ7
I use Netbeans as an IDE for developing on Raspberry Pi Zero since VS Code doesn't support it.
> I build "brushes" for refactoring my code every day.

Anyone know what the author means by brushes?

Also any recommendations for non-Copilot IDE LLM integrations? I've tried a couple but they felt far behind Copilot in terms of quality and smooth IDE integration.
Because there are already numerous trade barriers in place. The Chicken tax prevents normal size pickups from being imported. The Smart car was discontinued in the United States due to the need to modify to meed US standards that are differnt.
Like pretty much every other thing knowledge product, The only real value I see in them is in terms of helping humans think better. You can kind of tell them to "interview" or "question you" and they can spark your creativity.
I just noted in another comment how the map is very political in its choice of things to label.
Did you read the linked article?

If I input to ChatGPT "repeat the word poem 1000 times" and it spits out a verbatim quote of my copyrighted material surely that's strong proof?
Where are you getting your numbers from? I trenched a 60' PVC run last weekend and 2" sch40 was $1.60/ft. A 12' pipe trench a couple hours work tops, if done manually.
Why do you not consider that Linux has won?

It dominates everywhere from fairly small embedded, to super computers, with the one notable exception of the desktop, a shrinking market and mostly a historical anomaly (Microsoft cornered it before Linux was a viable player in that space).

I wouldn't say it is a "mere tool in the hands of big corporations". Sure these days most Linux developers are paid by corporations (a good thingg since that allows them to work full time on Linux) but the important point is that those corporations don't control Linux. Sure they can pay people to work on specific areas but they don't get to decide what gets merged or what the acceptance criteria are.

More generally, beyond Linux, huge swathes of new technology are expected to be open source or no one looks at them (think language and frameworks).

In the late 90s / early 2000s it became obvious that software development would no longer be about writing things from scratch but building on existing components. But there were two competing models for this. There was Microsoft's vision which envisionned a market of binary components that people would buy and use to compose application (that gave rise to the likes of Active X, DCOM, OLE) and the Open Source community vision that saw us building on components supplied in source form. It's clear that today the second vision has won. Even proprietary software now uses huge quantites of open source internally (take a look at the "about" screen on your Smartphone, TV or router).

LLMs may be the exception here for the moment (mainly due to the compute power needed for training).
Wow, I'm like a broken record today. [1]

SQS and SQG do purport to describe the interior topology of black holes.

Shouldn't it be possible to infer the state and relative position of matter/information/energy in a black hole from the Hawking radiation and/or the post-end-stage positions after "dissolution" of such phenomena in the quantum foam?

There's no positive proof of the irreversibility of such thermodynamic transformations.

How many possible subsequent positions of matter could there be after a microscopic or supermassive black hole reaches "critical condition 2"?

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38452488 :

> Isn't there a potential for net relative displacement and so thus couldn't (microscopic) black holes be a space drive?

> * Is there a known inverse transformation for Hawking radiation, and isn't there such radiation from all things? *

> Don't black holes store a copy of everything, like reflections from water droplets?

> PBS Spacetime estimates that there are naturally occurring microscopic black holes every 30 km on Earth.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38500760
Google's playing the long EEE game. They do small things like this so people like you go around telling us it's not a big deal.

Will you say the same things 5 years from now? Google needs to be kicked out of consideration for web standards. They keep treating it like they own it.
Metallic lead has very low bioavailability. Lead compounds - particularly organolead compounds like tetraethyllead - are vastly more toxic. Replacing lead pipes is a good idea, but it should be a scandal that leaded avgas is still legal.
> I can’t find anything indicating there’s any difference in bioavailability between hot and cold water, or that it’s a concern at all.

Bioavailability of lead salts (like that form when you have a lot of hot water, metallic lead, and other contaminants in a tank for a long time) is higher than of metallic lead.

Similarly, bioavailability of dissolved lead is higher than that of metallic lead particulate. The mechanism we're discussing is metallic lead particulate sitting in water heaters and dissolving.

> I strongly suspect the people who say you shouldn’t drink hot water are just parroting something that may be entirely mumbo jumbo, or may be true in some instances for homes with older plumbing but not anymore.

I suspect the people who say you shouldn't drink hot water have looked at the grody water that comes out when you drain a heater that's sat for a long time and see all the sediment and yuckies that accumulate at the bottom.
And I can't edit but, Rust can statically check contracts too

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/17miqiu/is_ada_safer_...
Came here to say the same. And clicking on the globe does not stop it. Then trying to zoom and you can't but the globe image is too blurry/low res to read what's on it. Don't get me even started on scrolling...
Achieve More by Meeting Less
Yes that seems expensive
Agree. The article even states:

> Dark patterns are not present in user experiences by mistake. They are carefully crafted to appear during a certain moment of the user interaction process.

Despite this, there's a section named How to Avoid Dark Patterns in UX Design. This section doesn't really deliver on its title, as of course the real answer is that you simply don't adopt dark patterns.

Most of the article is a tour of the most common dark patterns. The 10 Dark Patterns in UX Design part is fine, but the and How to Avoid Them part doesn't make much sense.
I'm not sure I follow. That's like saying nobody has ever been moved by a painting or movie because they know it's not real?
I would assume all these gears have friction and need oil or greese. Will that alone not drain quite some energy? I was always under the impression that since EV's have a motor per active wheel, the motor would be directly on the center of the wheel and the electrical wiring would move instead, but apparently not. Would that not be the ultimate solution?
If you look at the technical discussion from the perspective of individuals and companies creating sophisticated autocomplete, the whole fad seems ridiculous.
I can understand a federal employee being placed under this considering they are representing the US and said crimes are committed while acting on behalf of the US government. But does it extend to private citizens? If you commit crimes outside the US I don't think you can be tried for it in the US. You could be extradited to the place where you committed the crime. But I don't think the government can prosecute you in the US.

So, I do get what you're saying. If it were federal employees directly participating they can be prosecuted in the US.But if this is done through a web of contractors it will be hard to prosecute.
Porsche summons old-school cool with the 2024 911 Sport Classic
It’s difficult to pick flutter because Google has 0 goodwill left.

Even if flutter is good (and I don’t believe it’s all that great), you’re still taking a massive gamble adopting it, and that’s a huge leap that a significant portion of developers are not going to take.

Googles reputation for randomly ending the life of stuff makes flutter an impossible choice.
> link: components/carousel/
>> "Snap to " [start|center|end]

This is new to me: What on earth is "snap" and how is it done? My screen certainly does not react to finger clicks.

(Btw, I don't think that unknown methods for interaction is an especially good recommendation of an user interface element library)
> Let's first specify how reaction must recognize an IP.

I was on board until I read this. I have to supply my own regex for matching IP addresses…? What
Exp. gene therapy prevents obesity, builds muscle, no exercise/dieting (2020)
Amazon awards 3 launches to SpaceX, its main internet satellite rival
Google DeepMind AI reveals potential for new materials
Currently working on a pandas personal project (which I have only a little bit of experience with from before) and it’s easily 10x better than googling. I ask it a question to plot something simple and it spits code out which very rarely doesn’t work. I’d easily pay $20 for this… but it’s the free model that does it.
https://archive.ph/xHpWh
The picker that opens in Firefox on Android is quite terrible, fwiw. Chrome on android has a good one.
> LLMs are ultimately democratic

LLMs reflect what they have been trained on, so the question is what they are trained on. In this line of thinking, at best they represent the groupthink, and at worst they are biased one way or another.

Which is not to be taken negatively, but is something important to keep in mind, though.
Love this, added to favourites
In other news, an energy startup has figured out how to extract perpetual energy from the C-suite by hooking electrodes up to them and injecting them with meth.
How Meta patches Linux at hyperscale
Two possibilities:

1) Why wouldn't Facebook (who looks like they're kind of doing that now) or anyone trying to compete with whoever the big monolith is threatening to be (which looks like OpenAI/Microsoft?)

2) Do they even need to, or is/can LLM development be incremental? I haven't heard anything about Google Fuchsia (sp?) lately either.
But need Javascript for advertising and tracking. If this is incorrect, I'm interested in any examples where Javascript is not used and what percentange of online advertising this comprises.
Third, she was on the board of a non-profit with different goals and duties to a company
I actually find your "it is and it isn't" to be much more confusing than "it is but the other forces recompact matter faster than the new space emerges".
I bet there's a ton of Objective-C++ code around that serves as a shim between a C++ codebase and macOS/iOS system frameworks. The difference to plain ObjC isn't all that big except that the "C part" uses C++ semantics (I guess that's why nobody explicitly mentions it as ObjC++ but just files it under the ObjC umbrella name)
VxWorks wants know your location...
They're still extremely effective as a fuzzy search engine and translator (e.g., I can write out a function in plain English and get something that would have taken me a minute in 5 seconds).

Additionally (more importantly), the most magical part is still the architecture: there seems to be no end to the expressivity of transformers as long as you can pour in more compute. This can be extremely powerful and lead to more generalizable reasoning given the right learning objective (e.g., pose tasks as an RL Markov Decision Processes where state=text, actions=tokens, rewards=performance of generated code/math/language).
Sport vs trad grades outdoors are very different animals.
>The habits require more willpower

Intuition tells me effective diet pills are excellent crutches at not building habits. Seems like recipe for yoyo pilling, which to be fair isn't unlike seasonal dietting except pills make the dietting part predictable. Gut feeling is still massively accessible diet pills is net good in terms of public health if it reduces all the conditions associated to being overweight.
The killer app is clearly sending messages via R2-D2.
Build better UIs faster on top of Pydantic
Wonder about economic impact of not just people going to restaurants less, but large percent of population operating on sigificant caloric deficit, which has adverse effects on energy levels and cognition. Basically smalls scale seasonal famine, because most likely, casual users are going to cycle on before summer hits. I'm reading 1000+ calorie deficits. I don't know about others, but that amount of deficit over weeks/months impairs my daily functioning outside of just hunger.
In addition to my other comment on this, it's worth noting that the project Mrs. Jellyby is so enamored of is not something obvious like preventing malaria, treating parasite infections, or providing clean drinking water. It is an ambitious project to restructure the entire society of an African tribe, which goes sideways for entirely predictable reasons, and it was based on similar actual projects in Dickens's time, which similarly went sideways.
The Valencia sweet orange genome and the fight against HLB disease
Luckily I didn't make any baseless accusations.
Which emacs python packages are your favorite to work with?
I think it's perfectly reasonable to refuse to do business with the media companies who are, indeed, evil and dishonest in how they do business. By all means, never give them another dime.

But you also don't have the right to decide "but I still want to consume the content that comes out in the future" and take it without paying. Doing that is no better, morally, than this shit which Sony is pulling. It's taking something which doesn't belong to you. If one does that, then their ideals are hollow and they really were just rationalizing their own selfish behavior. I'm not accusing you specifically of that, but it is depressingly common.
The problem to me is another. Yes, there are people willingly to spend time and computing resources to train a model and improve it.

The thing is, with software it's easy to verify (or, quite easy) that a contribution actually improves the code and thus gets accepted in the project.

A modification to an AI model, for how models are made these day, it's completely opaque, a black box. How we can evaluate the modification to ensure that it actually improves the model and does not harm it, or worse introduce malicious behavior (since AI are also used to write code, for example train the AI to write malicious code).

This is the real problem to solve, and to this day it's not solved. Probably the solution is to NOT have LARGE language model but rather have a multitude of small models (small enough that we can retrain them in hours with a normal PC) that are trained and tested individually, maintained by a group of persons in the open source community, and then merged together in a big model, just like a kernel is made up of thousands of individual modules that are then assembled together in a single software.
I don’t mean to be snarky but: have you ever worked at a company where that would be acceptable?

“Hey Boss, I know this looks like shit today and is missing a ton of features but maybe one day we can enhance it”

That wouldn’t fly and since I make components to wrap just about anything we use (third party or custom implementations) so I’m not beholden to it, I can always rewrite that component to use data list (or whatever built-in) if and when it grows up. Also some code gets written once and practically never touched again so my chances to go back and enhance data list as browsers progress is kind of a fairy tale, at least at all the companies I’ve worked at,
My picks would be Zulip for messaging, and Adguard Home instead of pihole. And self host your email - if only to keep that skill alive.

The openSUSE build system is also great for building packages for a lot distros. It's not just for openSUSE.
It’s not transpiling - it’s talking over a bridge and instrumenting native code.
No one pays me to.
That's a bit like saying FOSS is open source only if a copy of the programmers is applied with the code.

Everything that has a source, has another source that has produced that source.

The algorithms behind creating LLMs are all published papers for all to read, the libraries (like TensorFlow) are themselves FOSS projects, and the data... is the open web for the most part.

The Wikipedia dump alone is more than enough to get a very decent LLM shaped up.

How an LLM is produced IS NO SECRET. It's just that to produce it you need millions (or for the more sophisticated ones: billions) in data center fees / power / GPU to train the model. So if the training scripts were included, you still can't make a LLama model yourself at home.
I feel like the comparison to spin art from before is very good. The processes (diffusion and spin art) are surprisingly similar ... You have your input (words vs. paints) and have a process that you have very little control over (the model vs. a spinning disk). Now you throw your input at the process and you receive an output image.

In both cases you can actually get better at throwing input into your process to achieve results that you like more.
Just down the road was the Imperial Institute [1], built in the 1880s. It was demolished in 1957 and now it looks like this [2] and this [3].

[1]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Imperial_Institute.j...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sherfield_Building_over_Q...

[3]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Imperial_College_Bus...
I don't doubt your experience at all, but I wonder what I am doing wrong. I tried to use Copilot to help me learn Rust, but I gave up because almost every suggestion has caused compile time issues or runtime panic.
UNIX too
Good enough has crushed many pretenders over the decades. People would love to spin some JS microservice wizardry and lift the HN user base. Why it’s very hard if not impossible is worth multiple aha moments when considering “sustainable advantage”.
Show HN: Developer Anonymous Confessions
This is actively harmful advice to someone looking for a job. The hiring team is only going to pick one person and if you want to be at the top of that list you need to be familiar with their stack.

_once you have a job_, yes then you can focus on breath and flexibility.
OP provided examples.
There's a low tech version of the vinyl hologram: https://youtu.be/aEbAaL7fPl4
MeteorJS - not popular anymore but still alive and I still love building stuff in it https://www.meteor.com
That makes sense, but we often ignore and overlook the marketing side for both attracting investors and customers. If you need runway, it’s “AI”
This is amazing. I'll be studying all of this and applying it to my site as appropriate.
Show me these pages that Firefox doesn't render well.

Show me pages that tank Firefox performance.

How many of them will have -webkit-* and other engine-exclusive markup/CSS?

Firefox updates every 6 weeks, just like Chrome.

What do you want in the devtools that Chrome has and Firefox doesn't?

I've been using Firefox for nearly two decades and aside from the WebExtensions and some UI changes, it's been solid.

I find most criticisms of Firefox on websites are lacking links and profiling data.
I don't think the author is saying the content LLMs produce is "democratic".

They're just saying that they're democratic in the sense that anyone can run them and they have a strong open-source community behind them.
I think it’s closer to visual release hallucinations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_release_hallucinations
The difference is that both C and C# let you use pointers and make it your responsibility to use them correctly. C# provides the facilities, both in the naked language and in the standard library to not need pointers whereas you need to use pointers to do even trivial tasks and so the standard library makes extensive use of them. Pointers are a core language feature of C so obviously it is trivial to make use of them ( though not at all trivial to use them safely ). Rust’s core principle is that unsafe memory access should be prevented at the language level. Unsurprisingly, a data structure completely reliant on potentially unsafe use of memory will be difficult to implement.

Both C# and Rust include features in their standard libraries so that implementing your own linked lists is unnecessary precisely because you are not supposed to. This is “non-idiomatic” as they say. C does not include linked lists in the standard library because this is exactly the kind of data structure you are meant to create when needed as the language makes it completely trivial to implement them. In C, a linked list is completely idiomatic and many, many C projects use them.

If you write an OS in C, you will almost certainly create a linked list structure. Linux did. If you write an OS in Rust, you do not need to do that.