skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38565502

What he said.
12 Volts is 12 Watts per Amp.

48 Volts is 48 Watts per Amp.
Isn't that the point of the article though? That they run everything on 48V?
One of the things that's likely affecting male mental health is the loss of the traditional male identity. For better or worse, "being a man" was something men chose to do and as a result they overcame whatever they needed to.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who was somehow very smart in most things so school was boring, and the things I'm not intrinsically good at are very very hard to learn and practice. So it made for an attitude of quickly judging whether something was worth my time or not, and led me to a lot of laziness and escapism.

Pile on childhood trauma stuff and the escapism was all that kept me going at times. I still have an "ignore it and it will go away" reflex for any negative emotion, so it was a survival mechanism that served me when I was young, but is no longer needed.

Some people can't or won't grow out of their mental crutches and just barely get by for much of their lives. The prevalence of rising mental health issues in general bodes poorly for society, and if people aren't trying to do hard things because they can't this will only get worse.
So what did Broadcom actually get out of acquiring VMWare?
Yes, that was the topic of the article. I am just dubious that a location that got a lot of lightning could be selected for, though lightning is not uniform across the globe. But it's a rather crude factor and hard to defend against on a micro scale!
GotHub: An LLM-Native Interactive Programming Environment
Are you a developer? Do you use ChatGPT or other generative AI models? Checkout GotHub! It's an LLM-native interactive programming environment.
Fast Buffer-to-String Conversion in JavaScript with a Lookup Table
as always I wonder about (re?) posts of such old content, but given the algorithm in question itself is such a relic, maybe it’s fine

Adding my two cents, this is a really great little algo that I personally have implemented for the fun of it many times as a means of comparing languages to one another, really just for my own benefit. the kotlin instantiation was my fave thus far but I am overdue to revisit this in things like mojo and zig, so big +1
> Basically anything that happens on Twitter at this point is pretty much not family friendly

Dunno which bit of twitter you're on, but my corner has been family friendly pretty much forever.
They have introduced 30km/h limits in my city center (Christchurch, New Zealand). Also introduced synchronized lights to reduce traffic speed. Plus techniques to take traffic away from city center. And reducing parking.

Traffic is now far more congested - as must have been expected by the planners. And people are avoiding going to the city center for shopping/meals/etcetera.

AFAIK the planners do not measure outcomes: intention of changes is A/B/C but do they measure that A/B/C occurred?

I think one major aim is reducing the number of cars hitting cyclists and pedestrians. No idea whether that is being achieved.

The one council planner I know is a cycling nut! It is "interesting" watching the results of expensive cycling upgrades. On a per cycling trip basis (per person using the upgrades), the changes appear to me to be hidiously overpriced. Let's see how it pans out over the decades. I cycled to work every day for a while through the city center so I do understand some of the needs.
Valve is worth around 7.7 billion and from the best I can find, it doesn’t have a quarter of the gaming market. How much power could they yield
Make no mistake–AI is owned by Big Tech
I once read about a professor who had made it his career studying Romeo & Juliet. He knew everything there was to know about it.

He said he'd trade all that knowledge to see the play again for the first time.
Nope. I was android user for 13 years. Just bored of switching between multiple android phones and bought iPhone. Not that I particularly like it, but I appreciate some effort on Apple’s part for privacy and security.
In the past there were periods of billions of years at a stretch with not much else going on that single celled organisms being zapped by lightning. You'd think that in those conditions it happened and probably frequently enough to make a difference.

For multi-cellular organisms the picture is completely different and it likely wouldn't matter nearly as much.
"Indeed, many startups simply license and rebrand AI models created and sold by these tech giants or their partner startups. This is because large tech firms have accrued significant advantages over the past decade. Thanks to platform dominance and the self-reinforcing properties of the surveillance business model, they own and control the ingredients necessary to develop and deploy large-scale AI."

Amen.
I had a similar experience with replaceable batteries (1) expensive on the one hand, but at the same time (2) unavailable.

I think batteries are the main consumable of a phone. It seems to me there should be an after-market of smaller batteries, and a set of universal power adapters (like you get with power supplies), and shims to fit it securely within the phone.

But I haven't seen this, so either people prefer to upgrade (demand) or manufacturers successfully made it too hard (supply).
The line is probably "Elon was an asshole about everything in general" while Zuck is way more low profile. Clearly it isn't just an idealogical dispute or they would suspend from Meta too.
With totally uncontrolled bus capacitance and inductance, sure.

But when you're using the same bus for Comms you need to have control of high frequency spikes, and low frequency spikes are easily handled by a bidirectional DC/DC. Therefore I could imagine peak to peak ripple on this bus to never exceed 1 volt.
You can use chemicals too.
I'm blocked too. Why would they block Indian IPs?
You are not alone. A lot people struggle with this. Truth is the person is irrelevant, what matters is what they wrote or said or did. If Putin writes something intelligent and Churchill wrote something stupid that’s all you have. A stupid text and an intelligent text. No need to get excited. That way you can also endure both kinds of texts originating from a single person without being disappointed.

And no worries, once you can detach the work from the creator you are qualified to judge the work. Automatically. :)
The difference between “Hey, figure out a game based on what you see right now” vs “here is a description of a game with the only too possible outcomes as examples” cannot be explained by the disclaimer.
I used to play a trumpet for years. I had no talent for it, which is why I gave it up. But I know what they sound like.
The associations of long-term physical activity with all-cause mortality
Training generative ML tools is qualitatively different from showing on website, even if both are technically “derivative works”, so this is a massive bait-and-switch. Is it the first time something is acceptable by the letter of pre-existing law but not the spirit?
That's because Java has "java.util.concurrent" which kicks everybody's ass at concurrent programming.

Seriously. Any of the GC languages would be several orders of magnitude better simply by doing nothing but copying "java.util.concurrent" into their language.
Fiction:

- "The Dark Forest" by Liu Cixin and the whole Three Body Problem/Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. Truly massive, grand SciFi. Would recommend 10/10. [HN]

- "Anna Karenina" by Tolstoy. Made me face deeper parts of my mind. Attempted to answer some questions I had. Great story. Huge book. Historical fiction is something I like across languages.

- "Candide" by Voltaire. Genuinely fun and entertaining, besides it being- you know- Voltaire.

- "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson. Very good story, world buulding, nice technology. Great thinking by the author.

Non Fiction:

- "Fermat's Last Theorem" by Simon Singh. Was very happy to see a Popular Math book where there are so many Popular Science books. Great book. Goes over FMT's solving history, with many many fun anecdotes, short biographies, etc. Truly enjoyable to read.

- "Code Book" by Simon Singh. Genuinely fun and learned a lot. Cryptography's history, progress, and so much more. [HN]

Self-Help:

- "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig. Truly marvelous book and nice to read. This book requires the reader to be of certain kind attaining a certain level. Without that, this book will seem a fluff and overrated hugely. Fundamentally changed my thinking. [HN]

- "Four Thousand Weeks" by Oliver Bourkeman. Thought this was about saner time management with some wisdom. But was much deeper than that. Will recommend.

Bengali:

- "Abhajaner Mahabharat" by Mahbub Lilen. A fun and serious retelling of the Mahabharata. Goes deep, too. Really fun to read.

- "Khana Mihirer Dhipi" by Bani Basu. An account of feminism in the light of female-dominated inner part of Bengali elite households- and that in the light of female dominated, fully maternalistic hunter-gatherers of early human history. Very thought provoking and unique.

[HN]- chose primarily because recommendation in some past HN threads.

Read 23 so far. Target is 25. Currently reading Snow Crash and Exhalation.
Who is gonna use these heavily moderated generators?. You cant even generate a nipple or a famous person. There is almost no control or finetuning.
There are zillion of checkpoints, loras, controlnets and ipadapters out there to get almost anything with sd. No filters. You can literally generate whatever you like.
> I've always found it interesting HN is so focused on Georgism given it's leanings. It works out fine for hyper capitalists

That seems pretty much right on target for HN.
It was never worth it to retool for decades?

Or was there a pathological lock-in between suppliers and manufacturers that prevented even the most obvious innovations from happening if they required any amount of coordination?
I have no idea what this comment means because this is exactly how it works in the US as well.
South Park is poking fun at the industry, but it's humor. It doesn't tell you what the problem is. I only mentioned it because it's a good related episode :)

My point is not about pretending problems don't exist. It's about focusing on encouraging people rather than focusing on claiming who they are.
Yes, with filters supplied by Instagram, so they would still have the original camera images.
Hm... app for a tablet?
> “What this advertising boycott is going to do, it’s going to kill the company,” Musk candidly said.

I'm not sure Musk which company Musk's referring to here...
I think it’s this one: https://www.tor.com/2017/08/01/tolkiens-map-and-the-messed-u...

I just read it because I’m thinking about writing a crossover fanfic between Tolkien and Sailor Moon set at the end of the Fourth Age/Silver Millennium, and I need to figure out the geography. I’ve mainly settled on throwing out Tolkien’s map, drinking a long draught of Graham Hancock kool-aid, and setting the thing in the Younger Dryas. (The core conceit: Eärendil’s silmaril === Usagi’s silver crystal.)
Ask HN: Why is it so hard to make value for people in desktop/digital realm?
like i can sell oranges or tamales on the street people will buy. its just easier to make product although not seamlessly scalable like digital i can just fullfill a need faster. meow idk
> assuming 32 bit ints

That's really not a valid assumption. There are 16 bit int platforms, I've worked on them. It's not even that uncommon.

Casting in this scenario is simply incorrect. The correct thing to do is to use the formatting macros e.g. PRIuFAST16. Which noone ever does because it's gross and most developers don't actually care about portability.
So last time I saw this discussed on HN [1], people said there were tape backups of all these files and that they would be fully recovered. Some people said they worked adjacent to this tape backup system. I'm inclined to believe they weren't lying and that the tape backup system does exist.

So why weren't they able to recover from tape? Is the tape backup more limited than people reported, and this data wasn't backed up? Was it just too difficult and expensive to scan the tapes and decide which was the canonical version of each file?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38427864
The only way this model would work is if specs are completely open, there is optional certification/audit for parts and third parties are encouraged to freely compete selling the parts.
I use a similar product, LEF Florassist Oral

https://www.lifeextension.com/vitamins-supplements/item02120...

That has BLIS M18™ and Immuno-LP20®

BLIS M18: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9012604/

I have not noticed any difference.
They haven't put in any road diets in Seattle and the cops aren't enforcing traffic laws so everyone just drives the way they used to. So you've got 25 mph limits on 4-lane stroads with no pedestrian traffic (like literally no sidewalks in one case I can think of) and everyone does 45 mph.

It looks like they're going to start using speed cameras now instead of police enforcement (they certainly don't want to use police enforcement here, that would clearly turn out badly). They're trialing "racing cameras" to supposedly catch the kids drag racing at night, but it is obviously a way to introduce enforcement of the 25 mph limits without doing road redesign and to generate revenue.

The result is pretty obviously going to be regressive taxation, because Seattle/Washington State runs everything via regressive taxation. So the traffic cameras are not being setup on W Seattle Bridge to catch white collar people commuting to the office, but are put on W Marginal Way which are going to catch blue collar workers.

I'm just waiting for liberal Seattle to wake up one morning and realize the DOT is funding their bike lanes by regressive taxation through traffic camera enforcement, falling on the lower class and minorities, and see if their heads explode or not.

There's a way to do it right like Amsterdam where they've already built all the infrastructure and done all the road diets, we're doing it the ass-backwards way by dropping the speed limits and setting up traffic cameras.
Laser etching doesn't come off with acetone (and is usually much harder to read, being more like embossing than printing). That's silkscreened ink.
Analog pushing back against "fuck it, let's use an RFSoC" ?
You mean virtue signalling one thing, whilst actively and simultaneously doing the opposite by supporting known malicious platforms?
There's actually still plenty of insane things about None in Python. https://peps.python.org/pep-0661/ is a great example of that.

> Sibling comments mentioned Option types, which are assumed the currently best approach

Option types are actually just the tip of the iceberg though. The real power is in languages that support algebraic data types. Option is just one common example, used to distinguish between just Some and None, but it's reasonable to have an enum with other states, each optionally with its own associated data.
The main buzz of Twitter is adult content (not perverse, just for adults). So there aren't really any kids to advertise to on the platform and basically anything can show up in the algorithmic feeds.
World of Goo 2
The take things apart has become obfuscated by modern technology design. Most devices these days just drop one of a dozen chips into a circuit board as it's brains. Program it, and then ship it. More or less black boxing the device. It's one of the reasons the supply chain hit a lot of tech hard, those few chips were low cost and plentiful ... Until the knock on effects of the supply chain issues happened and they weren't as profitable to make compared to the high prices chips companies like auto manufacturers were bulk ordering for a premium.

Fascinating few years, a whole generation of designs rendered unusable - complete designs trying to be reworked for the chips they could get a hold of.
Only if they took advantage of non-public info. Cashing out after a price jump due to a public announcement is fine.
You can get a phone number in almost every country relatively cheaply. I used one of such service (I think it was Numero or something) to order from CVS because I live in Europe and they need an American phone number (and American bank card, but that’s another story).
Who else's money would you be using? Strange comment.
Ironically, related to this article, the original Furby has a 6502-derived core. Its source code was released a few years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17751599
Capitalism ftw.
Plastistone: An emerging type of sedimentary rock
r-r-r-ruby and the jets
Could it be that they are mandated by law, like the French banking sector for credit scoring, to use an interpretable method?
Here are few Linux, Kernel, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian
Yep, capitalism as usual, working as intended.
Also IBM put a listing of the BIOS ROM in the PC technical reference manual so none of this was necessary to begin with.
PKD is a strange choice to quote about reality! Much of his fiction is about exploring unreal situations: that reflects a little on reality but he usually cares more about the story than hard sci-fi. E.g.:

So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. It is my job to create universes, as the basis of one novel after another. And I have to build them in such a way that they do not fall apart two days later. Or at least that is what my editors hope. However, I will reveal a secret to you: I like to build universes which do fall apart. I like to see them come unglued, and I like to see how the characters in the novels cope with this problem. I have a secret love of chaos.

https://urbigenous.net/library/how_to_build.html

Of course, I'm unsure whether Ayn Rand is a shining example of rational thinking either!

https://www.scifiblog.org/2023/03/philip-k-dicks-intriguing-...
Adult are usually the ones buying the movie tickets, toys, and other merchandise.

And also, there's this: https://www.thestreet.com/investing/disney-has-a-plan-to-tar...
Apple Aims to Make a Quarter of the iPhones in India
I'm not sure if they cut me off for generating too many images or because of the content of my images. Everything is now giving the response "This image can't be generated. Please try something else."

This only started after I put in the prompt manbearpig did 9/11. It was ok with some really weird stuff though
First seen timestamp instead.
> LLM would act as the only person/thing making a refund judgement based on only user input?

> Easy answer is two LLMs.

I think the easier answer is add a human to the loop. Instead of employees having to reply to customer emails themselves... the LLM drafts a reply, which the employee then has to review, with the opportunity to modify it before sending, or choose not to send it all.

Reviewing proposed replies from an LLM is still likely to be less work than writing the reply by hand, so the employee can get through more emails than they would with manual replying. It may also have other benefits, such as a more consistent communication style.

Even if the customer commits a prompt injection attack, hopefully the employee notices it and refuses to send that reply.
> Tesla pushing for a new 48V standard. That’s super smart

48V is a dangerous voltage. Better not touch any wire.
I've skimmed the article, it's gunnuh take me a while to read it so that I can respond properly. In case I don't get around to it, thanks for the article. It's an interesting perspective.
To me that difference doesn't really matter. At the very least they should have educated themselves, and then provided links to resources to allow people to understand if they didn't feel comfortable explaining it directly.
I agreed until the last bit. Waymo is making continuous progress and is years ahead of everyone else. Tesla is not catching up and won't beat anyone. Tesla plateaued years ago and has no clue how to improve further. Their Partial Self Driving app has never been anywhere near reliable.
Like in a PC?
That's a very interesting observation that deserves much more thought that I can give in a quick reply.

But I think one major issue is that we're living through an obvious inflection point in history. When the US was competing against the USSR, we achieved numerous objectively incredible things. For but one example, we went from having never put a single man in orbit in 1962, to putting a man on the Moon, in 7 years! In modern times, with modern tech and knowledge, we struggle to replicate what was done 60 years ago.

And so I am exceptionally critical of our systems in modern times, but also look at them with glowing fondness at what they have achieved in the past. But socially we rarely distinguish between the two - Democracy is Democracy. And so this can appear to be cognitive dissonance when one loathes 'current democracy' yet holds dear 'classical democracy.' And I think many people also feel similarly, even if they may not actually even realize it.

But back to the inflection point, for the past ~80 years, and especially the past 30, the US has reigned relatively supreme owing to a large technological edge driving a large economic edge. But now China is equalizing technologically which is also driving their economy upward. It's already the largest in the world PPP adjusted, and will soon enough also be the largest in nominal terms as well. A country of 340 million simply will never be able to compete against a country of 1.4 billion. So they are set to become the world hegemon.

What will that mean? Well historically they've always been relatively insular, even when going through periods of great power, and I don't really expect that to change. In the early 15th century they were, by far, the greatest maritime power yet one does not find Chinese colonies in the Americas, India, Africa, or pretty much anywhere. But on the other hand, I think this change does scare many people, because what if China becomes the new US and just starts trying to put its tendrils into everything and turn everywhere into little clones of the Chinese political system?

And fear is a such a strong driver of irrationality, the same reason people continually vote for people they don't like. I think this fear tends to cause a sort of rally around the flag effect, where people can see that this flag is one they scarcely recognize, let alone truly love, yet it looks far less scary than the one they don't know at all. Drive that fear of the unknown into people, which our political types thrive at, and the people will come racing back, not entirely dissimilar to a woman in an abusive relationship.

I still feel this is not even scratching the surface, but it's at least a first effort! It's such an interesting question that one could easily write several books on the topic. And in the future, people looking back, probably will do exactly that!
There's fake as in "not genuine but similar functionality" and then there's fake as in "not even trying to be functional".
So basically Middle-earth’s version of Austrians and Australians.