skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a very productive very lazy developer. In younger years I used to stay up for three days straight programming or working out some infrastructure crisis (catching occasional cat naps on server room floors, meow.)

You must pace yourself. Dividing work by cognitive load helps. Intellectual work in the early hours, casual work in between, and finally “talk to people time.”

What you will eventually find, is that thought productivity ratios are non-linear. You will become a superior problem solver with the realization that more work does not mean proportionally more productivity. Quite the opposite.

Lazy programmer predictive modeling will foresee purpose and economy, eventually finding the least amount of work necessary for producing the most necessary results.

Our strengths and weaknesses are all different. I tend to “see the solution“ in the first fifteen minutes thinking about a problem, even when the technical implementation takes weeks or months of implementation drudgery.

Don’t burn yourself out. Let more work happen as background processing, practice conservation of intellectual time. Do not over caffeinate. Take exercise breaks (yes you nerds.) Eat properly.

TBH, going through ten years of grind may well be intrinsically necessary in cultivating strategic foresight.

The only thing wrong with you are your expectations.
>That's a broad brush you're painting with, amigo. As a 49yo father w/ two teen daughters (17 and 15), I've been surprised and delighted at the strong bonds I have w/ each of them (esp. my 17yo). We "hang out", and seek each others' company, to our mutual enjoyment -- it's absolutely nothing like my relationship w/ my own parents at their age.

This is not the norm though. I wonder why people think countering something with an individual experience that's clearly distinct from the norm is a counter? It's not. His generalization is correct, your counter isn't evidence against it.

Part of the reason for the generational gap isn't just because of different culture. But it's also because where kids and adults are all day. Adults are at work, kids are at school. So the social connections, hierarchy and the dynamics are all completely different universes.

A lot of kids don't give a shit about grades because often that's not part of the social hierarchy at school. Money isn't even that huge either. It's when they get out of school all the rules change. That's why there's always this younger generational gap between teens and adults but less of a gap between say 20s and 30s.
I think the endgame of drone warfare is tiny tiny drones (ie. 10 grams, $5) that are made by the billions.

Each drone can't do much, but together they can overwhelm any defence and get into every house and hold a virtual gun to the head of every citizen of an enemy
nation at once.
So it sounds like you are looking at an Entity Component System as applied to a DB for data modeling. Thanks for taking the time to explain. I do agree it's a valid approach that has many benefits - However, I do disagree that it is a strictly better approach.

I've been around a decent while and have seen a lot of tech, and it's a trade-off that has come about in many different forms. It's static typing vs dynamic typing, it's fixed schema vs flexible schema, it's compile-time checks vs run-time checks. It's SQL vs NOSQL. Overall it gives a lot of flexibility in that any entity can take on any behavior with minimal changes; however it also comes with the flip side of it being harder to catch modeling errors. It's the same argument of "make impossible states unrepresentable" vs "constraints should be enforced in the app along with business logic". It's also Typescript vs Javascript. But there isn't a true winner in approach. Typescript beats JS in my book, but dynamically typed Clojure is also a great language. It's "is-a" [1] vs "has-a"[2] relationships and it's squarely in the "has-a" approach which I (and most people) feel is the better approach. So again, no clear winner in approach.

I do think it's going to continue to gain steam and more people will adopt it simply because ECS is popular. I also think down the line people will realize it has similar / the same short-comings as NoSQL and will re-adopt relational for its benefits.

If you are thinking of writing a blog, it never hurts, that said there was a post to HN just a week or two ago of someone discussing the approach. They were making a different point, but their underlying assumption was the same. Namely: "You can due ECS in a DB and benefit from it." Note though that they also called out the trade-off of "normal" ECS and how you lose mode enforced / constraint checking. (Their improvement was to go to DB approach, although that doesn't solve it). If you hadn't seen it, you might want to check it out [3]. And if you squint ECS (or ECA) I believe is the non-OOP version of mixins. If you haven't done any reading about that it might be of interest [4].

But thanks for sharing your thinking and yes I do agree it's a valid approach for design - just as with anything make sure you know the tradeoffs (what you gain and what it costs).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is-a
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Has-a
3. https://spacetimedb.com/blog/databases-and-data-oriented-des...
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixin
>the collapse of Twitter—now X—under Elon Musk

Huh? X traffic is up 22% year over year:

https://x.com/xDaily/status/1736737544597840353?s=20
It's a mini Rubber-Tyre Metro for cargo. Low RoW maintenance (I think), high vehicle maintenance/wear, high energy usage.

The challenge to me: "just put it underground" isn't nearly as easy as people seem to think. There's a lot of people-placed stuff underground, and the companies doing it have likely been around longer than you, are pretty regulated, and nobody is going to want to change any of that for your Sandwich Delivering Subway. Especially because it is limited in purpose (cargo delivery, and fairly small cargo at that.)

Then there's all the shit that's in the ground not from humans. Roots. Boulders. Water. It's really fucking expensive to dig or tunnel, and there's no way delivering sandwiches and amazon packages is going to pay enough for it.

Assuming all that works out, there's still the matter of energy efficiency (which is terrible for RTM), speed, and capacity. I'm sure they can scale the "train" up to at least a few containers particularly if the container 'cars' are self-powered but non-rail vehicles use a lot of power. That means heat, not just the expense of the the power and hassle of either storing or transmitting it.

This does solve the main problem with pneumatic systems - even more tightly constrained cargo size limitations and massive power consumption.

Frankly, the Dutch are giggling at all this, I'm sure, because "just build a protected bike lane or shared-use path" is a much cheaper, easier, multi-benefit idea. Then not only can people get their sandwiches and packages delivered via a guy on a bike in a very energy-efficient way (a cargo bike uses about a tenth of the electricity even the best EV cars do), but they can safely bike to/from their office complex or home to other places. You've got something emergency vehicles can use in a pinch, too.
If a model generates video in the woods but there is no-one that can see it, does it really generate video?

Seriously, I'm sure it's awesome creating all the papers but the real test is making it possible for people to use the things. Google seems to be massively failing at that.
I dunno, seems like this scenario could easily devolve into some sort of Lord of the Flies mob rule situation.
Prejudice is a true danger, but the things I discribed here is about a trend I observe in hindsight and does in no way inform my teaching (except maybe that I try hard to create a climate in which also silent people dare to to talk).

And it being a trend means there have been all kind of outliers on all sides and into all directions.
Why bring "model parameters ... on demand to DRAM"? Maybe it is better to move LLM processing right unto flash controller chip... (after adding bfloat16 and matrix multiplication support into controller circuitry)
There was also a throwaway comment about experts:

"Mixture of Experts (Yiet al., 2023) have a sparse structure in their feed forward layer. This property can be used to combine with our method for enabling larger MoEs on device."

Assuming this implementation would allow for running Mixtral 8x7b on a 16Gb M1, I'm happy.
The article says they travelled 1044km on a livestream, with 3% battery left, not CLTC?
Airbnb fined $30M for misleading Australian travelers with USD prices
Is this purely for marketing reasons? Why would any driver need to know someone else is using auto-pilot?
Great writing piece, thank you for submitting!
I guess you’re right as another comment mention headline… I did not got it right: I assumed we’re talking about the articled, not only the title. May you point out why your original comment is about the headline and not the topic itself? Me and my English skills will be grateful.
My knowledge is about a decade out of date but at least circa ~2010 about 1/4 of retail theft originated from employees. External theft was definitely had the largest share of losses.
I never said intercity rail in the US only makes sense in the Northeast Corridor. I think it makes the most sense there but there might be other viable routes. I even mentioned Brightline as another example.
There could be a ping / traceroute service the ping and trace route commands connect to.

For security the user the service runs under should not have full root, but only CAP_NET_RAW.

systemd even lets you make services that start up when recieving a message over dbus so you can avoid always having the service always running.
> Instead of using suction, which can be unreliable, Pipedream uses electricity to run a small battery-powered autonomous vehicle

This.. has to be a joke? Surely they don't believe a "battery-powered autonomous vehicle" is more reliable than a pneumatic tube network?
I don't see the point of this. Why wouldn't you just use Firefox instead?

Chrome is malware.
At first I was like "good luck getting humans to back out orderly" then I remembered these were autonomous and can just get ordered to go back.
what happened with these VESA "2d accelerated" API that was on every SVGA card in the middle of the 90s ? They make a huge difference and was well supported on Windows and X11
The cost of a package locker would pale in comparison to the cost of digging or boring the underground line.
But the level of damage can be reduced by language choice
Ask HN: Reddit died, nothing took its place. What will happen when HN dies?
Reading the post from the Atlantic about the Internet becoming so large even viral things happen only in its corners and never reach most users (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38697227), I was wondering what will happen to this place once it is on its last legs.

Reddit, once the frontpage of the Internet, has shot itself in the foot and feels more and more a hollow place, after a long decline from its brilliant heydays. Nothing has replaced it for me as there is nothing that feels like it nowadays. We are too spread out.

The day HN dies, we will be even more spread out. We will probably never find a decent replacement for it. And for many of us, this is the last bastion of pre-recommendation algorithm social spaces. Where it still feels somewhat human in its sprawl. Even if it's far too early to say, where will we hang out?
Semantic Kernel v1.0.1
The Semantic Kernel team published V1.0.1 of Semantic Kernel for C#. With V1, C# developers now have a solid foundation to build AI agents for their AI-powered applications
They just are not allowed follow policy designed to eventually kill people. Seems reasonable to me... And the ATC knew that plane with that policy was coming and were not prepared to create sufficient slot for safe landing instead of their unsafe one.
I don't know about theft, but I go to lots of stores and feel no safety threat, and have experienced no safety threat. I can't remember if I've ever seen or experienced anything threatening.
> AMD cards + ROCm are used in top supercomputers for (non-deep learning) HPC. Why is this the case?

Public bidding processes are different and much more reliant solely on price. As such you can expect them to pick different choices than the private market.

This can end up picking outright duds (see Aurora)
At first I thought "bleh, HN is powered with jQuery?" but actually no: $ and vis are one-liner functions defined above vote.
I'm not really sure I see the difference. The point is the experience and how much it costs, whether or not you pay that cost financially or through DIY. And as the previous poster points out, you can get great and life-changing experiences for very little money.

I think what's interesting here is that that's not so true for things. For example, I'm looking into custom ergo keyboards at the moment, and there's lots of off-the-shelf options, but there's also lots of DIY options where you print and solder lots of parts yourself. DIY keyboards tend to be cheaper, but not usually by very much, because fundamentally, the cost of the product is driven by the cost of its constituent parts.

Fundamentally, both things and experiences are driven by supply and demand. Rare experiences that have a low supply but high demand are naturally going to be expensive, just like rare or hard-to-manufacture things. Experiences that can be found everywhere - like throwing a ball around with friends or family - are cheap, just like many common things are.

That said, my intuition would be that the cheapest experiences are pretty much always cheaper than the cheapest things, and the most expensive things (e.g. one-of-a-kind art, rare objects, etc) are generally more expensive than the most expensive experiences.
That's why there's are exemptions to copyright for interoperability reasons. You can't hide behind copyrights (or trademarks) solely to exclude competitors. (I believe Beeper uses this library solely for registration, not normal operation.) Such tactics have lost in court multiple times.
Ask HN: Who needs holiday help? (Follow up thread)
Hi all, I wanted to make sure that, ahead of Christmas and New Years, that everyone on HN who needs help (whether that’s affording a Christmas Day dinner or with longer term needs) is able to communicate such. I will be inaccessible from the 27th of December onwards for ten days, so I want to make sure I’m able to fulfill all/the majority of requests prior to then.

Thanks to our previous thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38492378) I was able to distribute nearly $30,000 in support to those who needed it.

Unfortunately, this year the requests were not only far more numerous than in year’s past but also much more significant in the amounts asked. Given this, I kindly request that if you’re asking for support, that you do two things:

1. Make sure that the request is necessary. We had some asks for things like children’s college funds for kids who are 1-2 years old. While this is a worthy investment, it is somewhat outside the scope of this particular support programme.

2. Keep your request to $1,000 or less. Last year, the vast majority of funding requests were under $100. This year, a good 25%+ of all requests were over $1000 and we had a decent number (2-3%) over $10,000. While I did my best to finance the larger requests, please remember that I can have a greater impact the larger the number of people I can support. This cap might be overridden in truly extenuating circumstances but I want to encourage people to ask for what they truly need.

Finally, please post in this thread once your support request has been filled. I want to avoid the otherwise-inevitable double funding that seems to happen when fulfillments are not noted.

Once again, thank you to this wonderful community for all you’ve done for me and others. I truly hope that this is a small way in which I can begin to repay my karmic debt.

- alexander

EDIT: if you DID not receive a response from me (I got well over 300 emails) please send me a NEW email with your request.

please include:

1. total needed
2. name + address
3. how to pay (preferred methods are, in order of preference, cashapp, bank transfer (wise, wire, ACH, etc), PayPal, crypto)
They decided that they don't want to be part of preventable accident.
No one’s fundamentally obligated to impose repercussions on you for such speech, and the first amendment protects those that choose to publish your speech from any government repercussion.
Probably because changing the software to use a different read pattern is doable in a few weeks/months on your existing systems, and changing anything in the flash controller is a wicked project probably only available to hardware manufacturers, and which will take months to years given the immensely slower hardware iteration cycles (even if it's "just" firmware changes).
That comraderie used to be everyday life. The atomization that capitalism makes inevitable is the most agonizing pain for a reason.
Hilarious. How do they morally justify doing this? Must be all these "oppression" theories they now teach in schools.
i've seen that happen time and time again in my decades on the net; I have faith that good discourse will find a new place again once it has left here..

but it hasn't left yet, so let's enjoy the conversation while we have it and worry about the next clubhouse when the time comes.
I reviewed the guidelines here again before posting this and it meets them. This is really a huge, and rare, and thus historic event for the U.S. and State governance.

If I recall correctly there are several other States that have been pondering keeping Trump off their ballots as well. All those States have had laws that cover this for a very long time, but as far as I know none have ever exercised them to keep a Presidential candidate off their ballots.
Video games make way more money then Hollywood. I mean not to be insulting but it's like asking the question are movies actually entertaining?

There's also many different genres of video games like there are movies and each genre scratches a different itch. The itch you're describing is sort of a "leveling up" goal oriented genre.

That's not the only genre. For example what's the purpose of VR? How does it help with "leveling up" or getting to the next "campaign"? The whole point of VR is immersion.

Too many people view gaming from a biased corner from their own little niche interest without realizing how big the industry is.
You send a recovery vehicle down the line to fetch it, capable of hooking it, and strong enough to tow/ drag it to an exit point or service "vault" just like "vaults" on underground tunnels for power, data, gas, etc. The tow vehicle basically just needs to weigh enough.

Or you send a human down the line on a platform with wheels. The tunnel would have to be at least as high as those crates and at least twice as wide.

There are far bigger challenges here, like the absolutely massive cost of digging / boring the tunnel and trying to amortize that over what you're delivering. You have to move a fuckton of Big Macs to have this make financial sense, and your competitors include "a guy on an electric bike making tips who uses a few KWhr of electricity over an 8-10 hour shift."

It's really hard to compete against massively subsidized public infrastructure (roads and ICE vehicles) when you're not subsidized at all.
Since we are discussing wave equations in a computer science-related forum:

What is the 'best' algorithm for a discrete 1D (or n-D) wave simulation? With 'best' I mean simple but as realistic and stable as possible. The algorithm should operate on a 1 dimensional (or n dimensional) array of floats.

Are there textbooks for this or related stuff?
This is just another instance of the long set of Shittification and Shrinkflation happening everywhere, brought about by us holding our collective heads in the sand over the real rate of inflation. I'd bet it's a lot more than the official numbers.
That stuff has been obsolete for quite a while as the general 3D capabilities are more than enough to saturate all the GPU's memory bandwidth.
Chrome Reaper...

CReaper.
They have an API now actually too. I’ve been working on a Hacker News cross platform app on the side as an excuse to try out compose multi platform and kotlin on iOS.
Maybe at some point the NSA will let us download them all!
Brave's shields against ad & tracking inserts seem to help against many of the cycle-stealers that affect standard Chrome… except for the occasional times where they perhaps trigger cycle-consumptive bugs by breaking assumptions of remaining JS.

I'd really prefer a browser to give a good estimate of an individual tab's perceptible load/contribution-to-lag – via some blended measure of CPU/interrupts/wakes/events – and give me a ranked, stable view of offenders, with an easy kill/reload/'nice' control.

The Chrome et al 'Task
Manager' has only scraps of what's needed - with its noisy, jumpy process-centric view that hides obscures the load of individual tabs, offers only process kills rather than per-tab management, and often foregrounds internal processes that the user can hardly do anything about (or map to the truly-responsible web content).
Ah, in that regard I fully agree with you.

Oberon did it for me, then given my interests, computer archeology in alternative computing models, most of which failed more due to human reasons than technical ones.

Although maybe having started with Timex 2068 BASIC/Z80, Turbo Basic, Turbo Pascal, having done Clipper as well, also tainted me in what to expect in regards to productivity.
I've run some tests and FastLED works well enough to drive matrix displays.

Note that you don't have to run Linux, you can just stick to the Arduino eco-system, which is far more limited than what a full Linux environment would offer you, the Pi Pico is cheap for what it does and gives you an option with lots of memory in the footprint of the smaller Arduino's.
Yep. That was the point I was making. Much like OpenGL, writing OpenCL is absolutely miserable so people just stuck with less portable alternatives that didn't write like pulling teeth.
Show HN: A Website to Turn Your Apple Notes into Blogs
Hi HN,
I’m an indie hacker who quit my job as a software engineer at Microsoft in early October to start my own business.
Like many others, I really like Apple Notes. I got inspired by https://montaigne.io, a service that creates websites, blogs, or portfolios using Apple Notes. I liked the idea, but the websites looked too plain for me. So, the first product I shipped after quitting is https://quotion.co – a website that turns your Apple Notes into beautiful blogs.
The best part? You get custom domain, customizable branding and web analytics for free, while Montaigne charges $12 per month.
I hope Quotion will be as helpful to you as it has been for me. Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback.

Qing
What you are describing are the standard protections of trademarks (brand protection). You get those if you do not waive your trademarks which is the default.

The Tesla patent pledge requires everybody to explicitly grant Tesla, and only Tesla, the right to violate their trademarks (and all other IP) freely without repercussion. Tesla is not “protecting” themselves with that clause, they are giving themselves a unlimited malfeasance license.

This is a “oh by the way, I am allowed to unilaterally steal all your stuff” clause. There is zero justifiable reason for such wording. They can just not give themselves that additional power.

If they had even the slightest intention of a fair pledge they would have only needed to have clause (ii). They deliberately chose not to. Their patent pledge is a disgrace.
`s6-sudo` [1] is an alternative that does exactly this: connects to a running privileged daemon and asks it to execute a command.

[1]: https://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-sudo.html
Try Commodore The Inside Story (book) for more depressing knowledge.

Management just didn't let their engineers/architects get things done.