skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Came to this thread to mention Belphagor.

Saw the beast in person in Kraków. Was inspired enough to dedicate a poem to it:

O the forgotten craft of yore!
To darkest arts I turn once more.
With new and oldest runes combined,
I'll birth the only of its kind:

Four-winged beast from depth of hell
By breath of fire be propel'd!
The cyclops eye, rise in my field!
With venom be your biceps filled!

From skies you'll pour death and gore—
I summon thee, o BELPHEGOR!

...Thus quoth der Polen:

Nevermore .
> Why does an oven need a computer in the first place?

What do you mean? What else is going to control the temperature, display, timer, etc.? I’m pretty sure my oven from 25 years ago had what I would call a “computer”.
Why is it "exceptionally stupid"? sscanf is basically a slighlty more primitive regex engine than e.g. PCRE and I suspect it would work about as fast (if it weren't for that silly strlen() call) — and there are lexers that are basically just a loop with a match() call in it with

(?P<NUMBER>?\d+(\.\d*)?)|(?P<ASSIGN>:=)|(?P<SEMI>;)|(?P<ID>[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)|(?P<ARITH>[-+*/])|(?P<NEWLINE>\n)|(?P<WHITESPACE>[ \t\r]+)|(?P<MISMATCH>.)

as the pattern or something like that over the input string, and that is not generally considered to be a stupid way to write a lexer. Why would sscanf be?
Honda debuts new global EV series, Honda Zero, coming in 2026
related question to @Jemaclus above - why is C++ the popular language for gamedev? not C# or some other higher level language. is it only for when you're working on console games or does it also matter on desktop games?
If you don't need the notifications when you aren't home, then there's no reason why it needs to talk to the internet. You could still get the notifications just using a local LAN connection.
How the Post Office's Horizon system failed: a technical breakdown
Do you think it is better to buy a plane that potentially going to be grounded than wait?
Yes, but it's very hard to get fish to use them. Some species are almost completely blocked even if there is a ladder.
Sure it is bytecode but runs in the browser. That's the magic bit. Clients don't have to install .net, java, etc. And because it can be a target for some compiled languages, we can play cool games built in C and such in the browser.

It also has this property that it makes for very cool demos. It may be useful or not in larger production environments, but it's hard to deny that it looks cool when being showed off. The danger is when someone in charge becomes enamored by it and now the whole 20 person team is spending the next two years rewriting a production system in it.
I'm sorry, but I think it's pretty neat and cute! Ugly is in the eye of the beholder.

I would however put it in the, "Are you sure this isn't Photoshopped?" category of planes.
A Neovim plugin for fluent coding using language models
In italian "La vita è un calvario", in french "La vie est une calvaire" and in spanish "La vida es un calvario" they all mean "Life is an ordeal" or "Life is a torture". May be the context of the topic plays a role here much more that the geography location.
This has always been the death of any attempt I make at using NixOS. The first time I tried over a decade ago I think it was VMWare Workstation, then CLion or some other Jetbrains package a few years later - things that aren't particularly esoteric to linux users. Completely opposite the experience that I've had with ArchLinux.

Maybe I should give it another shot if ChatGPT can provide better guidance than reading a dozen blog posts, 11 of which are out of date.
Are you basing that on two phones you owned? Is there data out there?
Was that the intraday high? I'm not seeing anything that high on the google stock chart for INTC, but I can't seem to zoom in on that particular section of time to see if there was a small spike.
I suspect you responded to the wrong parent.
He is a founder. Someone should finally correct that wikipedia article with better sources and its wording as people get confused over and over that passage.
Space heating/cooling, along with water heating, are the overwhelming majority of household energy use. In fact, in a heating-dominated climate there isn't much of win from having efficient lights and appliances, because the space-heating system has to make up for the energy not wasted by the lights/appliances.

So it's unusual ("unique" is a high bar) in that it's one of the largest privately-owned energy-consuming devices where existing technology can result in substantial energy savings and emission reductions.
What Is Decentralization?
Facebook.

Facebook Shops, Facebook Marketplace, Facebook Gaming, Facebook Dating, Facebook Pay (sorry, Meta Pay), Facebook This, Facebook That. All in one app. (I think, I don't actually use Facebook.)
It'd be more interesting if its not conscious as then humans would still be useful as uploaded consciousness agents to guide the machines.
I am with you on the necessity of it, but some people are indeed motivated by gamifying things (just look at Smart watches and fitness trackers). If that works for people to be healthier, that’s great.
My washing machine beeps when the load is complete; I think it continues to beep every few minutes for half an hour or more.

There's a simple delay-start button too.

Since it's necessary to be at the machine to load or unload clothes, I think the only possibly gain from a network would be rescheduling a delayed start earlier/later/not-at-all.
This made me think... it would be awesome to build for my parents a picture frame that could show family photos, and was integrated with an LLM, such that e.g. my mother could say "now I want to see a photo of us during last years's vacations in Italy" or where a given person appeared, or things like that.

It would be quite a bit of work, though! Something to add to the pile of personal projects that never seems to progress :-)
I hate this argument that “most web apps don’t need that kind of performance.” For one thing, with responsive apps that are the norm it wouldn’t be surprising for a session to begin with multiple requests or to even have multiple requests per second. At that point all it takes is a few hundred active users to hit that 1k limit.

But even leaving that aside, you never know when your application will be linked somewhere or go semi-viral and not being able to serve 1000 users is all it takes for your app to go down and your one shot at a successful company to die a sad death.
I write SPAs in VueJS, but even with the vue devtools available, I still find myself using console.log so that I don't have to keep drilling down into a very deep component tree every time the page reloads. Plus, the console lets me scroll back and read the history of changes, something I'd only get in the devtools if I threw every bit of local state into pinia. The devtools come in handy from time to time, but the DX is just not there yet, and I doubt it ever will be.
This reminds me of httrack(https://www.httrack.com/), I love this!
> It isn't sending my browsing history to Google

For obvious reasons, I don't think Google is devoting any resources to optimizing the experience of navigating to google.com for people who don't want any history generated on their use of google.com.

I agree with you that the other features listed are positives, but they don't appear to be positive enough to push use of Firefox psst Safari, Chrome, or Edge numbers.
I feel like there are a couple different points -

* The immutability, lambda architecture points I agree with. I think the separation of the immutable log from the views is important. Databases are frequently used in ways that go against these principles.

* I am not sold that being unable to express the domain model correctly is really a fair criticism of databases. Most businesses in my experience have a domain that is modeled pretty well in a relational DB. I haven't seen a better general solution yet, though I haven't checked out Rama.

At the low end of the scale, there are a lot of companies (or projects) for which the entire dataset fits in a single managed Postgres instance, without any DBA or scalability needs. They still suffer from complexity due to mutable state, but the architectural separation of source of truth vs "views" can be implemented inside the one database, using an append only table and materialized views. There are some kinds of data that are poorly modeled this way (e.g images) but many kinds that work well.

So I don't really view the architectural ideas as repudiating databases in general, more as repudiating a mutable approach to data management.
I have an app install on my phone for my Siemens dish washing machine.

Things that are genuinely useful about it:

- It tells me when a cycle has finished.

- It keeps count of used tablets and I can customize the count at which it reminds me that I need to get new ones.

- It tells me when I should do a "cleaning cycle", i.e. that I should run an empty load in "Machine Care" mode to avoid it starting to get odours. However, a bit annoying about this it only tells me as I turn on the dishwasher, i.e. just as I've finished loading it and am about to run it, it would be much better if it told me at the end of the previous cycle.

- I can schedule a cycle to begin/end at a particular time.

Mildly useful:

- I can see how much time is left of the cycle (it's a built-in unit meaning I can't see any display without opening it).

- From the app I can choose to "pause" the cycle for a little, this could be useful when watching TV or doing some other activity where you want quiet until later.

- I can use the app to select the desired mode and begin a cycle, however, this is only barely useful as I can't use the app until I press the power button on the dishwasher (however, not that relevant since if there's no tablet insert, there is no way it could possibly be started remotely anyway).

If there is no significant extra cost, I would like my next clothes washing machine to be able to send me a push notification when its cycle is done.

A smart oven would also potentially be nice in that you can remotely turn on the oven from a place like your office or at a particular time so that it's already heated by the time you get home, or you can tell it turn off after a timer.

I would definitely prefer if it was an open platform, but in truth, as a founder in small startup who also has young kids, I don't have the time right now to work out how to set up custom automations.
what if the cat’s inside?
This has been the stock recommendation for learning fragment shaders for as long as ive been interested in them (~5 years), and has gotten no closer to completion in that time I think. Sign of the quality of the stuff that is there that it still gets recommended I guess.
> What does OpenAI want the system to do that requires copyrighted content? The universe of material out of copyright is extremely large

And extremely out of date given the ridiculous lengths that copyright lasts.

If you want a system that synthesizes recent information, you need to train on copyrighted material.
> I'd contact your favorite airlines and demand that they retire their MAX planes

This isn't happening. Demand would swell well before price cuts made those planes uneconomical.
I don’t really think this is true anymore.

When a doctor messes up, their patient gets hurt. When we mess up, millions get inconvenienced. You can’t really say one is worse than the other. Take Twitter for example. You could say “so what, people can’t tweet for a while” but among those millions of users are a couple (like the Japanese tsunami twitter account) where lives can be lost if your service doesn’t perform adequately.

I work in financial services — if my bug causes a million people to lose money, what percentage of that million were on the border of suicide and my bug tipped them over the edge? Even if that number is 0.1 person / 1 million that means I can commit 10 such bugs in my lifetime before I’ve statistically taken a life.

Not saying this line of thinking is right or healthy, but it’s just not as black and white as “doctor can kill people, we can’t”.
Same. I initially started with Guix, because I'm a Lisp hacker at heart, but once I learned about nix-darwin I jumped ship and there was no going back ;)

Keeping my NixOS machine on my desk and Macbook in sync seamlessly is also super cool.
ColorizeDiffusion: Adjustable Sketch Colorization with Reference Image and Text
Show HN: QuestMind | AI Shrink / Coach
Built this guy to have somebody to talk to as a displaced person. Now thinking about transforming this into a service to help those in need of urgent and basic coaching / psychological assistance.
♬ ♬ "Now we are jaunty gentlemen, Why should we ever work again?"
> It was through the Mongol Empire, Harl writes, that papermaking, block printing, and gunpowder moved from the East to the West, hastening the spread of knowledge and catalyzing Europe’s conquest of the seas.

What is interesting is that this East to West movement of gunpowder is what did in the horse archers. Previously it was very hard to counter horse archers. Gunpowder based artillery and muskets were a perfect counter to the horse archer. Bullets and cannonballs can go faster than a horse, and it is fairly easy to train masses of soldiers to use them thus giving advantage to the centenary civilizations who had both the population and manufacturing ability to be able to exploit gunpowder weapons.
Thank you! Yes, absolutely :D
They were not indiscriminate in the murders. The leaders are always given a choice of paying tribute before hand. And they do stay true to their word if tributes were paid. It’s one of the major reasons why the mongol empire was so successful.
Must make my videos private for 90 days or risk a permanent YouTube ban
I manually add mine to Apple Health. That way I can immediately record readings from doctor visits or such and I am a fan of their trend tracking and notifications. Weight too.
> In Oracle RAC your cluster is up and running even if just one engine is still alive

So it's not consistent in the CAP Theorem sense. Comparing it with other databases that don't lose writes and don't have split brain issues makes no sense
> "True Crime" as a genre is littered with unscrupulous hosts. But not all of it is in the gutter. In fact, some of it produces a public good.

True crime has a similar problem to, say, commerical fishing. Some of the early stuff was quite good, because the first shows to do it had their pick of complex and narratively satisfying events to be based on. But once the low-hanging fruit was plucked, subsequent shows had no choice but to begin trawling, in the same way that fishermen do when populations run thin. The demand for true crime has considerably outpaced the supply, and hence why newer shows essentially can't not be bad and dangerous: they have to either invent predators out of thin air or otherwise make mountains out of molehills.

There needs to be like a 30-year moratorium on true crime, to let the "fish stocks" replenish.
I am looking to do same! What do you mean by planning performance? How bad is it?
i'm not 100% sold on the automation that airbus provides. true that when all the sensors are working well it's fine and probably safer than boeing's methodology. however, when things go south there are something like 5 different layers of degraded "laws" of flight that have different levels of protection and can make what is an already cloudy situation even more stressful and dangerous. coupled with the blended control that each stick has can and has caused disasters before. with boeing the pilot flys the plane and there is less automation outside of the standard autopilot systems found on both methodologies.
In Chrome 120 I still get:

TypeError: WebAssembly objects are opaque

When trying to read/write WASM-GC objects in JS.
stderr in C is actually stderr in unix, "file handle" 2 which is an integer 2, and is a "property" of a unix process.

C implementations on non-unix platforms do attempt to simulate the "meaning" of file handles, especially 0, 1 and 2, on non-unix systems

the term "file descriptor" tends to be used to describe FILE structs which are a software layer on top of file handles—which include buffering to improve efficiency in some circumstances and mask the difference between a character stream and a block device—and FILE descriptors are a property of userspace software
Not many corporations do user research. Architects and developers should be attending these sessions.

Seeing with your own eyes, how average user of the system interacts with it is sobering for many. Sometimes it leads to fundamental changes in thinking and has overall positive effect on the product.
Visualizing the Size and Scale of Cells
Interestingly, there are PC motherboards using PS5/Xbox SoCs that can run Windows so there must be decent PC compatibility in the SoC even if the consoles don't use it.
This blog post is one of the best ones I've seen on Nix tbh. Brings a lot of clarity on things people are often confused about ("What is a flake?" "What is a module?"). Hoping it doesn't get drowned in the SEO for people
It's a shame that it took a TV drama to make this important politically. The people responsible for this sent people to jail, destroyed their lives, extorted money from them and sent them bankrupt, and it did it to hundreds of people.

The people responsible should be in jail
Just bought that, thank you.
> And finally: It goes beyond my comprehension that someone would decide to build a version of the voice recorder specifically for the US that only stores 2 hours of voice, while the international version of the same plane stores 25. What kind of cost reduction per unit is that, $1 per airplane? Having two different models to "certify", produce and warehouse just to save a dollar or something per unit does not sound like any sane business decision.

pilots unions strongly fight against this for privacy reasons is why.
> But the root cause was bugs. So many bugs.

I disagree, these were not the root cause of this scandal. Bugs happen and even if those ones might fall below expected standards, trying to pin the 'blame' on them might be perceived as deflecting from the real culprits. The scandal here is how the technical issues were handled.
It's cheap to post stuff within EU. So maybe it's just the pricing in the North America being a problem?
LLM-first phone, but LLM not run locally? I can't accept that.
True, but, 1. Musk is vocally anti-liberal (or really, vocally anti-things-associated-with-liberals, and vocally anti-other-things too), and 2. He expresses it in an antagonistic/mocking way.

Those two things combined are enough that it is reasonable to criticize him when a bias appears to occur. Of course, critics must be careful not to be too unreasonable. But such behavior as his is antithetical to big trust-based systems (e.g. moderation of large, entrenched social platforms), so it's important to criticize people in his position for commiting his behaviors, and to be critical/suspicious of moderation under his purview when there's a question of bias (this is the same criticism the right made, in not so many words, of pre-Musk Twitter, and which I don't think was totally unreasonable then either, though I do think the circumstances are far from perfect mirrors of each other).
Learning new languages may be component of it, but I think more generally, different languages are suitable for different problems and different developers. Being free to use the most suitable or preferred tool for a task is undoubtedly desirable, rather than having JavaScript as the only option.

And, while more of a personal opinion, JavaScript is not a well designed language - permanently shackling the web to it prevents progress forward.
Care to share some examples?

There are some good investigative journalists in my country, but that is about it. I have seen very close (family member) how even the excellent investigative journalists have difficulties, because they are making power structures uncomfortable, and media ownership is too close to the power structures.

In my country, there is even a platform for deep and slow journalism, but the content is crap, because even when journalists get the resources to do quality journalism, they are no longer able to do it. It appears to me that they are so used to pushing agendas, that the only kind of journalism they can do is agenda journalism.
> I wouldn't consider myself responsible at all if my taxi happened to be the first 2025 Toyota Camry that spontaneously combusted from some design flaw.

Not that it is relevant to the overall relevance to the aviation argument here, but just in regards to cars in the US -- you often would be held liable for that, depending on which specific liability we are talking about, what the damages are, and in which jurisdiction you are operating in.
I think there's also a lot of engineers with a, shall we say, hands off attitude about ethics and the downstream effects of the software they are writing. Like it's "Boss told me to do it" or "Boss told me not to do it" and that's the end of the ethical quandary! Software engineers need to take at least partial responsibility for the code they are physically typing in and causing to come into existence. If that software is going to fail and cause harm to people, it's literally your job and responsibility as a professional engineer to raise that concern and stop it from shipping.

A lot of software teams have too much of a "JIRA ticket is closed, so my work here is done" attitude.
All that needs is for someone to demonstrate the viability of AGI in those circumstances.

Is all that holds back AGI the volume of data?

If so, how much data is needed?
This is basically what the Arm SBSA does (UEFI + ACPI) and essentially how all arm64 (and arm32) devices that support Windows work. SBSA doesn't solve the dismal lack of drivers for hardware in consumer devices, though, so just because there are arm64 devices that can be booted with UEFI+ACPI doesn't mean they "just work" like we expect amd64 machines to.
If you decide to do that, make sure you use something rated to handle that kind of load. The cheaper ones really aren't meant for more than switching on and off some lights.
IANAPGD (I Am Not A Professional Game Dev) but,

Unreal Engine uses C++. You have boost, SDL, Ogre3D, Irrlicht, EnTT, ImGui, etc... aka: C++ has a good ecosystem for gamedev.

The "Zero Cost Abstraction" philosophy of C++ makes it easier to squeeze out the performance you want.

Unity (and recently Godot 4) uses C# but they are still relatively young in the field. We were making games long before those :)

I would not say it's "THE" popular language, but it does have an history.
That's why Supreme Court justices can't be removed - to resist the quick changing whims of the public.

We're almost 250 years old. Hopefully some things have changed in our society and culture to cause a change in the legal system.
An anecdote. I craft a hand written, deliberate technical blog and publish monthly. Google tanked my impressions from 3k/ month to 300 last year. I still churn it out though, I just know people won't find me through search any more.
Added licenses, thanks!
How this made? Still with lithography?
If you're in the UK the best equivalent I know of is Duxford: https://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-duxford
Slow Productivity - where you work at your own pace, focusing on quality, - would be the antidote to burnout that we all need.

Do less!
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt Is Working on a Secret Military Drone Project